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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOL. I—NO. 52. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) IB PC HUSHED BY t3. W. MASON & CO., At 1U Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia, tiers: Per Copy Five Cents. Per Hundred $3 80. Per Year 00. ill YB B TIB I N G : Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in sertion : One Dollar for each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morniiigjnvill, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PRINTING every style, neatly and promptly done. The President’s Inaugural.— The editor of Harper’s Weekly (Mr. George W. Curtis,) himself a politician of no small prominence, thus speaks of President Lincoln’s address to the’ nation- on the occasion of taking the oath of office for the second time. There are few'loyal* men but will join heartily in the sentiments here expressed: . The'inaugural address of the President is characteristically simple and solemn. He neither speculates; nor prophesies, nor senti mentalizes. Four years have revealed to every mind the* ghastly truth that the Gov ernment of the United States is st.uggling in a death-grapple with’ slavery; and as anew epoch of the Government opens in civil war, the Chief Magistrate states the vital point of the contest, and invokes God’s blessing upon the effort of the country to linish its work in triumph. With a certain grand and quaint Vigor; unprecedented in modern politics, the President says; “Fondly do we hope, fer vently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may soon pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk,' and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so, still it must be said : ‘The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’ ” We are especially glad that the inaugural does not as the New York Tribune wishes it did, “appeal to the rebels for a cessation of hostilities as pleadingly as its prototype [the first inaugural] urged forbearance from be ginning them.” bueh.a tone should have neither been politic nor bumaue. When the President speaks of “the progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, ” every man is reminded of the peace-history of the last year, and of the terms which liave been constantly repeated, and which are per fectly well known to the rebels and to the world. Those terms are unconditional sub mission to the laws of the United States. We are equally glad that the President in dulges in no observations upon Mexico, Engltmd, France, and things in general. He was taking the oath to continue the work in which his conduct has so satisfied the coun try that he is continued in his office by gen eral assent. With a fine sense of propriety he says, in the gravest and most impressive way, that he accepts the trust and prays for strength to do his duty. And all true Ameri can hearts say, Amen! Vice-President Johnson.— And now, con cerning the Vice-President and the humiliat ing spectacle which on thit day he furnished to the world, shall we speak or keep silent ? Perhaps there exists some good reason why the sad truth should be suppressed, but no such reason have we yet discerned. We can not, therefore, join with our three neighbors, the the Tribune, the Times, and the Evening Post, in pardoning with silence the great dis grace which Andrew Johnsou inflicted that day upon his country. Had the tables been turned, and a similar offense been committed by George H. Pendleton, we can hardly be lieve that these journals would have laid their fingers on their lips in a hush of criti cism. As for ourselves, we trust that we are habitually slow to speak ill of public men, eveu of such as deserve dispraise; and cer tainly, among the many journals which have aforetime been hearty in their kind words of Andrew Johnson, none have been heartier than this sheet; but if such an appearance as he presented during his inauguration is to pass without public rebuke, in these and in other newspaper columa, then there no longer remains to the press any duty of impartial criticism of men in official stations. Once or twice, we have felt it our duty to speak against the excessive use of intoxicating liquors by some of our public men. It may be asked—what is the duty of a public jour nal in such cases ? It seems to us plaiu. . We hold that if a public man is drunken in a private company he is not amenable to comment in the newspapers ; but if he be drunken when acting his part on a pnblic occasion, his offense is against the public, and should never be shielded from just pun ishment of public censure. In the Senate chamber, on the 4th of March, in presence of the Senate, of the House, of the Cabinet, of the Supreme Court, of the diplomatic corps, of the newspaper press, of a gallery ot ladies, and (during part of-the time,) of the President of the United States—and on ao occasion ta be forever historical—the Vice President elect presented himself to take his solemn oath of office in a state of intoxica tion. Not in angar but in sorrow do we chronicle this fact, which we have no just right to suppress. A few weeks ago, the Speaker of the House of Representatives was commanded by a vote of that body to administer a pub lic reprimand to a member who had com mitted a similar offense with less conspicu ous shame. If a member of Congress is to be punished for such an act, shall the Presi dent of the Senate remain unpunished ? Os course, the Senate will choose its own meth od of reaching the case ; a method which, we trust, will be kind, moderate and just.— Hut, meanwhile, it is the plain duty of Mr. Johnson either to apologize for his con duct or to resign his office. In the name of an insulted people, we are compelled to de mand that so great an affront to the dignity of the republic shall be made to bear a fit penalty, atonement and warning.— N. Y. In “yencUm. SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1865. An Important Confiscation Case.— The Supreme Court of the United States, previous to its adjournment, indorsed a decision in the case of the United States, appellants, against Seventy-two bales of Cotton—Elizabeth Al exander, claimant, on appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern Dis trict of Illinois, which had awarded restitu tion of the said cotton. As it involved many interesting interna tional and municipal questions in the law of prizes, perhaps no case has been decided in this country of more importance, in respect to the principles and number of interests af fected by it. In the Spring of 1864, Gen. Banks’ expedi tion went into the Bed River country, the result of which is well known. According to the order of Gen. Hnlleck, appointing Gen. Banks to the command of the Department of the Gulf, one object was to release the cotton and sugar in that part of Louisiana, so that they might find a market. The naval authori ties, acting without orders from Gen. Banks, seized vast amounts of cotton on land, and carried it to Cairo, 111., where they had it labeled as “prize of war.” For the most part, it was owned by private citizens of Louisiana, in no wise connected with the rebel Govern ment. It was seised during the period our army w r as.in possession of the Red. River country. The argument on behalf of the Attorney- General, of the Government, and of Charles Eames, of the City of Washington, for the captors, who based upon six points, in sub stance, as follows: 1. It at the time the cotton was captured, the place was the enemy's country, then the commercial property of the inhabitants, without regard to personal loyalty or disloy alty, was, if found on the high seas liable to to capture and condemnation as prize ot war. 2. But, in the case assumed of the “ene my character” of the country through which Red River lows, then such commercial pro perty is, a fortiori, lawful prize, if captured afloat on Red River by the navy. 3. But if, wholly contrary to our view, Red River was, in the sense of prize law at the time of the capture, merely an internal navigable river of the United States, then the right of capture of the enemy’s commer cial property found afloat on our internal navigable rivers, was elaar and unquestiona ble, and that property, so captured, is lawful prize of war. 4. If, at the time of capture, this cotton was the enemy’s commercial property, and if captured in the enemy’s country by naval forces engaged in belligerent operations,then the capture, though made on land, was law ful, and the property was a lawful prize of war. 5. At the time of this capture the whole region of Louisiana was made the enemy’s country, and the property was the enemy’s commercial property, and the capture was lawfully made, and the property is condemn able as “prize of war,” 6. The “enemy character” of the country is the controlling fact in this cause, and this fact is supported by the action of the Govern ment : hence the conclusion that the decree of the court below should be reversed and the property condemned as “pnze of war.” Wm. M. Springer, Esq., of Springfield, Il linois, also counsel for the claimant, submit ted the following points: 1. Private property on land, is not liable to capture and condemnation as prize of war. 2., To constitute a lawful prize the property must be engaged in an illegal traffic, and taken on the high seas, jure belli, out of the hands of the enemy. 1. That private property in an enemy’s country, is now, as a general rule of war, ex empt from seizure or confiscation, and that the facts in this case show that this cotton does not fall within any of the exceptions to this general rule. 4 The District Courts of the United States sitting in Admiralty,have no prize jurisdiction in cases of seizure of Jfciperty on land; but such courts may try the question of prize or no prize, and must award restitution, if the capture were lawful. 5. The proof having shown that the cap tors marked, when they seized this cotton, some of it with the letters “C. T. A.,’’we contend that this act was a fraud upon the claimant and upon the court, and was, of it self, sufficient to deprive the captors of a prize interest, even it the capture had other wise been lawful- 6. When the United States take possession in this war, of any rebel district, they ac quire no new title, but merely indicate that which previously existed, aud are to do only what is necessary for that purpose. 7. The amnesty oath of allegiance, taken by the claimant in this case, removes from her all legal disabilities growing out of the war, is a full pardon for all political offences, and secures a restoration of all rights of pro perty. except as tQ slaves, and except in pro ty cases, where the rights of thira parties shall have intervened. 4 8. As a mere question of policy, if there were no other questions involved, this court Bhould not recognize the right of land cap tures by naval forces. The Supreme Court, though reversing the decree of the Court below, thought the pro perty should have been turned over to the Treasury officers as captured or abandoned property, under the act of March 12, 1863. This act provides that two years after the war, loyal citizens may establish their claims for restitution before the Court of Claims.. A New Fashion—Brazilian Beetles an® Humming-Bird Flowers. —lu England and France the newest thing in the fashionable world are breast and scarf pin§ and ear rings made out of the bright green and golden beetles from Brazil; and the feather flowers made from the bright plumaged birds from the tropics and from the peculiarly brilliant humming-birds found near Rio Janeiro, Bahia, and on the Amazon. The latter are most beautiful ornament*, and, like the tasteful feather-flowers of Rio Janeiro, are either worn in bonnets or in garlands. The effect of the humming-bird wreaths at night is most wonderful and brilliant, seeming as if the head was adorned with the richest opals. We have heard that Mrs. Agassiz recently received from Rio Janeiro a wreath of flow ers made from the breasts of the ruby-topaz humming-birds, and it required no less than fifty-six of these winged jewels for this pur pose. WILI AND WILINIK. When the charming ballet Giselle was in full vogue, we were all very familiar with Sclavonic spirits called “Wilis,” and were taught to believe that they were the ghosts of young ladies crossed in love, who had found in the tomb not an anodyne, but a stimulus to the ill-humor, natural under the circumstances, and displayed their hatred of the woild in general by tearing to pieces every mortal man who came within their reach. Very kind-hearted Wilis have been known to heal the wounds they have inflicted, and the result of the operation is a ; singular be iug called a “Wilinik.” The Wilmik is an ordinary mortal, who, having been wounded and healed by a Wili, receives from her a root, the possession of which guards him agaiust all deceit, aud secures him a progeny of brave sons and lovely daughters. Assur edly the root does not eujoy a sinecure. Let us look out for a Servian tale or two, in which the Wili plays a part. There was a certain king who had two sons, one just, the other unjust. "When he died, the unjust son said to his brother, “We can not agree, so take the horse and'these three hundred pieces of gold, making togeth er your share in our paternal inheritance, and likewise take yourself off.” Whether this particular act was unjust or not we cannot say, as we had not an opportunity ot looking over the deceased monarch’s accounts ; but we suspect all was not quite fair and above board, inasmuch as the uujust brother avow edly chose “Honesty is the worst poiiey” as the ruliug maxim of his life. Knaves in general try to conceal their idiosyncrasies, but there was no liypocrasy in our unjust man of Servia. He coolly, and even ostenta tiously .said, “I am a rouge, not from any na tural weakness, but because it is my delibe rate conviction that roguery is superior to its opposite.” The righteous brother, whom, for brevity’s sake, we will call “Justus,” had not proceed ed far, when he accidentally encountered the unrighteous one, whom we will call “Injus tus,”andwko saluted him with one oi his usual panegyrics of dishonesty. “Well,” said Justus, “I’ll bet you a hundred gold pieces jliat, in spite of your oft-repeated and somewhat wearisome assertions, honesty is the best policy after all.” “Done,” said ‘the other ; and they then agreed to abide by the decision of the first person they met. As it turned out, a more partial arbiter could not have been selected, for the first person they met was the Evil One himlblf, disguised as a monk, and he, of course, was strongly of opinion that wrong is far better than right. •Two other similar wagers, similarly decided, consumed the rest of poor Justus’s little fortune, and his horse went with it; but so firm was bis conviction of . the superiority of virtue, that lie now offered to stake his eyes on the soundness of his views. Emboldened by his previous successes, In jugtus, without further ado, or seeking any further arbiter, cut out bottyjf Justus's eyes, and th*a Ap pealed to Justus himself whether the very fact of his blindness did not of itself prove the worthlessness of right. The martyr to justice still affirmed without Intending a pun, that “he did not see it,” and instructed his victorious brother to give him a vessel of water wherewith to moisten his lips aud wash his wounds, and to place him under a fir-tree that grew by a certain spring. Injus tus, who, after all, was not without his good points, granted this very modest request, and poor Justus, as in the night-time he sat alone by the spring, heard the Wilis come to bathe in the waters, and then heard one of them say. She’s very ill, is the king’s poor daughter, To such a pas3 has her malady brought her ; But if she could only bathe in this water, She’d get very well, As 1 can tell, And all who are deaf, or dumb, or blind. In these same wnters a cure may find. The cock crew, the Wilis vanished, and Justus, creeping on all fours to the spring arid washing his eyes with the waters, found that the last of the Will’s assertions was, at least, correct, for he saw as well as ever. Nor did he fail to make good use of his sight; he replenished his vessel from the magic stream, and, taking it to the daughter of the king referred to by the Wili, restored her to a condition of robust health. That the prin cess was given to him for a wife, with half the kingdom for her dowry followed as a matter of course. ' Though news did not travel fast in those days, the great prosperity of Jest us became known, in course of time, to his iniquitous brother, who at once shrewdly inferred that it must be a very fine thing to lose one’s sight and sit under the fir-tree. So he cut out his own eyes, took the station formerly occupied by his brother, and presently, like him, heard the Wilis come to bathe: There’s no doubt At all about This fact, that someone overheard What I of these line waters said How they would heal the royal maid— Yes, cv’ry word. We'll look around ns, for I vow 1 think there’s someone list’ning now. cried the Wili, whose information had proved so useful to Justus. And the search, which immediately began, terminated in the cap ture of the hapless listener, who was no sooner caught than he was torn into four pieces. * Once Upon a time a certain man had a dream. He thought that a child, white as snow and with wings on its shoulders* stood before him and said: “Climb up the highest mountain of which thou hast knowledge, and thou wilt find on the summit thereof a lofty fir tree. Beneath this thou wilt perceive a jagged rock, out of which water is running like tears. Dig beneath the rock as many feet as it Is high, and thou wilt come to a round vessel with a golden cover, ailed with coins. When thou hast removed the cover, cast it down and leave it, but the coins thou mayst bear away. Still, mind that thou tell est no one of what thou hast done; or evil may befall thee.” This was pleasant, and apparently profita ble, information, and the man had no sooner received it than hej?roceeded to a spot that answered to the c)®d‘s description, and be gan to dig with all his might and main.— When, however, he had struck the third blow with his pickaxe, he heard a voice A3 of a child, which seemed to proceed from beneath the ground, and imperatiyely com- manded him to desist. So mueh was lie touched that he at once fell down and «ank into a deep sleep, during which he saw again the child of his dream, who said, in a stem voice; “Why didst thou commence thy la bor without crossing thyself as a pious Chris tian ? Had I not been bv, a grievous ill would have befaiien thee. Therefore, now, when thou aiisetb, cross thyself as is meet, and resume they work iu a good spirit.” Strange to say, when the man awoke, he found himself not on the spot where sleep had overtaken him, but in a sunny garden, full of the most beautiful flowers. Never theless he resumed his digging, having first crossed himself, in compliance with the child’s command. While he was shoveling up the earth a light as of sunbeams flashed into his eyes, aud he perceived a dragon asleep on the vessel that contained the trea sure. Thrice did he entreat the monster to depart, but the dragon, waking at the third summons, flatly refused to stir. “The trea -sure,” quoth he, “is neither thine nor mine; but if thou, wilt tell me how many streams spring from this rock I will leave the place, and thou mayest then do as thon wilt.” The required enumeration proved no easy job, and the man, after going from spring to spring, becameV) weary and perplexed that he leaned his head against a tall tree out of pure exhaustion. While he was thus re (los ing he heard a rustling overhead, and, look ing upward, saw a Wili tmd a Wilinik en gaged in hot debate. The Wilinik wanted to Know something which the Wili, who wap manifestly uneasy, was loth to communicate, and at last the latter cried out: “As sure as there are seventy aud seven springs in this mountain I know nothing about it,” So saying, the Wili flew away, but the Wilinik, perceiving the man, told him he might now take the treasure without impediment,which, noticing that the dragon had fled, the man did. The Wilis once manifested a remarkable creative talent. On a broiling summer's day they fashioned a young ; damsel out of some snow which they found at the bottom of a bottomless pit, and no sooner was their work accomplished than the figure was ani mated by tho wind, nurtured by the dew, clothed with leaves by the wood, and decked with the choicest flowers by the meadow. This wonderful girl, who will remind some of the readers of the antique Atlanta, issued a proclamation declaring that she would be come the bride of the first youth who could catch her in a horse-race. Tho first gentle men iu the world, including the Emperor’s Sou, eagerly responded to the summons; and when they were all on the race-course ready to start, the damsel took her place in the midst of them, not on horseback, but stand ing on her feet, aud thus spoke: “Yonder, against the winning post, I have set up a golden apple. The first who takes it shall be my husbadd, but if I reach it before any of you, a sudden death will at once come .upon you all. Think, therefore, what you are about,” The aspirants did think, and they thought it very unlikely that a girl on foot would prove an overmatch for men on horseback, for they were not aware that the snow maid en had little wings under her shoulders.— But they toon fouud that their thoughts had been too hasty, for when they were about halt way on the course they saw their fair antagonist gaining ahead. Still they did not lose courage, but, clapping spurs to their steeds, overtook the girl, who at once pulled a hair from her head and flung it to the ground- A forest immediately sprang up, in which the rideis were lost, but by dmt m perseverance they overcame even that diffi culty, and making their way through the trees, were again on the track of the nimble maiden, who shed a tear, which immediately expanded into a foaming torrent and drown ed the whole party, with the single excep tion of the Emperor’s son, whose horse swam upon the water. Perceiving that the snow maiden was again far ahead, he thrice im plored her, in the name of the Deity, to pro ceed no further. She stood still accordingly, apd placing her on his horse, he swam with her to dry land, and proceeded with her homeward through a mountainous district. When, however, he had reached the highest ummit she was gone. An ambitious youth once made the singu lar vow that he would wed no one but a maiden of imperial race, and as, with all his visionary propensities, ho was of a thorough ly practical disposition, be went boldly up to the emperor and asked the hand of his daughter iu marriage. Now the emperor, as it happened, was of somewhat timi i temper ament, aud though au emphatic “No” was on the tip of his tongue, he preferred to ut ter his refusal in a more < circumlocutionary manner. He therefore said: “I shall only be too happy to give you my daughter if—if— ’’ “Yes ?” asked the youth. “If in the course of, say a week, you will procure me—first, a white horse without speck that has never known bridle.” “Secondly V’ inquired the youth, “Secondly, a sorrel horse with a black head that has never been mounted. Thirdly, a black horse with a white head and white feet that has never been shod.” “Well,” said the youth, “horses are to be got, though a week is a short time.” ' . “Stop, I have not finished,” proceeded the emperor. “Besides the three horses, you must bring as much gold as they all three can carry as a present to my empress. On these conditionss, and no other, I grant you my daughter’s hand. The youth having thanked the. emperor much more heartily than he deserved, took his leave in no cheerful mood; but fortu nately the imperial maiden had overheard all the conversation, and had, moreover, seen the petitioner, who appeared to her the hand somest man in the world. Therefore he was soon comforted by a letter, which the young ]gdy sent him by the bands of a confidential servant, and which commanded him to come to her secretly on the following morning if he desired a successful issue to his suit. While the youth remained awake through the night, reflecting on his good fortune, the maiden, likewise awake, occupied herselt in stealing from her father a magic knife which she gave to her adorer when he came accord ing to appointment, and they both vowed eternal love and fidelity. She then directed PRICE, 5 CENTS him to take a horse which belonged to her and to ride with all speed to the Wilis’ wood, where he would find a certain tripcipitaf hill, and after that a meadow bright with pearls, with horses of the most various colors graz ing upon it. From these horses he was to choose three of the desired colors, and if they proved restive and unwilling to be caught, he was to draw out the. knife so that toe sun might shine upon it, and thus light up all the meadow ; when all the animals would come to him of their own accord. The horses se cured, he was to proceed to the middle of the meadow, where he would find a cypress tree, with a root of brass, boughs oi silver, and leaves of gold. ll From tho root, cut with the magic knife, a torrent of gold coin would fcsue, which would fully enable him to com ply with the emperor’s terms. These minute directions were strictly fol lowed, and tho success of the adventurer was complete. Nay, so greatly wls the king struck with admiration when he saw tho horses arrive laden with the golden treasure, that he could not help asking the suitor what to required in tho shape of dowry ?• “Give me the princess herself and the knife," said the gallant youth, and I will ask no more." So the princess and the knife were given, and all parties were satisfied. The Romance of a Romance.— Tea years ago Dumas published a long story in the feuilletons of a politioal journal. The heroine was represented as a consumptive person who had reached the second stage of the disease —cold sweats, coughs, irritability, fits of wild gaiety Alternating with deep melancholy, and poetic hallucinations.* The entire diagnosis of phthisis was traced with that golden pen which is so ably wielded by the skillful hand of the great novelist. One morning, as he was engaged in putting the finishing touches to bis work, a great per sonage from the court of Louia Philippe was announced, M. le Marquis de —-. “Monsieur," said tho Marquis,***have you finished your great romance ?’’ “Entirely.’’ “And what becomes of the heroine finally ?’’ “You would sip the froth from the new wine, or rather, after the Arab fashion, you would commence reading at the end," “I can give a much more serious reason,” said the visitor, “as a justification of my curiosity." “Ah, well! my poor consumptive dies In the last chapter.” “You must cure her,’’ add the lord," “But the plot is all constructed.” “But you must change it.” “But the denouement is thrilling." • “You must find another.” Dumas looked at his interlocutor with as tonishment. “Why do you wish me to effect the cure of a mere creature of my imagination?” “Because my only daughter experiences the same symptoms which you have describ ed. She has the same disease as your heroine, and if your yopftg girl dies, the reason of my poor child, who traces her own history hi each morning's journal, will be irretrievably blasted.” ' The celebrated novelist pressed the fkther’s hand. He retouched the conclusion of his ro mance, and the heroine was miraculously cured. Five years afterwards Dumas met in the saloon of M. de Montavilet a beautiful wo man, glowing in all thet splendor of Rubens. This charming was the daughter of the Marquis, then married. “She had four children," said the father, in presenting her. “And my book four editions,” replied the novelist! The Sherman and Hampton Correspon dence.—Gen. Sherman has written another letter. Like all the productions of his pen, it is terse, pointed, and incisive. He notifies Gen. Wade Hampton that the mnrder of hie foraging parties must cease, or it wfll be sum marily avenged by the killing of man for man. He insists on his right to forage, but expresses his willingness to abandon it if the authorities will furnish his supplies. The letter concludes with his regret for the bitter ness engendered by the war, bat chargee it on the guilty authors of the rebellion. It is the calm, firm protest of a determined yet beilrvolent leader, who means to protect bie men against assassination. On the other hand. General Hampton’s re ply is full of mson, and v e regre* to say, falsehood. lie thr at n3 a fierce retaliation, denies that Sherman's foragers are killed, in one breath, and in the next bitterly proclaims the wish that the natives would shoot them like wild beasts- He charges Bbermap with firing upon a defenceless city, with burning it to the ground, with firing houses,-outrag ing women, &c. Now, the rebel correspon dents exonerate Sherman from all blame in regard to the the first two charges, and wa have but little doubt that the latter are grosa exaggerations, and that when the wrongs are perpetrated, it is due to the sneaking as sassins who lurk about the premises which are the scene of violence. An Incident of* Inauguration Dat. —One incident of inauguration day attracted much attention. As the clouds rolled away from the heavens and the sun burst forth, there appeared, shining With unusual brilliancy, the planet Venus. It was at once noticed, and the word calling the attention of the multitude to it passed rapidly from mouth to moqth; till before long the entire mass were gazing at the unwonted spectacle. The omen was hailed with joy, and the cry “the star of Eeace! the star of peace !” burst from many ps. May the omen be a true one! A Bull from Gknbral Lee Among Hamp ton’s Horses. —ln his report of Hampton’s alleged victory of the 10th, General Lee say* that he “attacked General Kilpatrick at day light this morning, and drove him from the camp, taking his guns, wagons, many horses,” &c.; and then he says that “the guns and wagons could not be brought off tor want of horses.” This is the old story of the Arkansas lawyer and the iron pet: — “May it please the Court, I submit, in de fence of my client, first, that when ahe,bor rowed the pot in question it wss broken; secondly, that when she returned the pot it was sound; and thirdly, that she never had that pot.”— N U Y. ffemM.