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THE ATLANTA WBlF.ir r.T SUN, FOB THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 2, 1872.
dy to exercise Executive clemency in
TI^E Kl-KUX PH1SONEK8 ASD MR
STEPHENS’ PETITION IN THEIR
BEHILV ONCE MORE.
Tlie Attorney General’* Reply.
"We have just now (Tuesday morning,
the 24th September,) received by mail
the reply of Mr. Attorney General Wil
liams, to the Petition of Mr. Stephens,
referred to above; and which was pub
lished in The Sun on the 23d instant;
with) such comments as we deemed pro-
per to make before receiving this reply.
We, therefore, hasten to give this re
ply to our readers. It will be found in
another column on this page.
What caused the delay in the trans
mission of this paper, we cannot im
agine. By Postmark, it was duly mailed
at Washington, D. C., on the 17th inst.,
and ought to have reached us by the
19th or 20th, at fartherest.
We have now no time to comment
upon the Attorns* General’s reply to
our appeal, further than tp say, that it
does not appear to us from our hasty
perusal of it, that he in anyway, denies,
or attempts to controvert what we stated
to be our understanding of the facts of
the case, in the strong view we prsented
to the President.
The Attorney-General says he has "not
examined the cases with particular refer
ence to the time when the offenses were com
mitted,” &c., but argues that the parlies
were at least constructively guilty. On
that point we waived all discussion, in
on* letter to the President.
We here leave this subject for the pres
ent, hoping that upon a further review
of the whole matter, Executive clemency
will yet be extended to these unfor
tunate sufferers. A. H. S. «
all cases in the most liberal manner,
Tne cases'-of those who are in prison will
be examined in due time, and to such
as are found to have been the ignorant
dupes and victims of designing men, as
is alleged to be true in soide cases, it is
probable that a pardon will be granted;
but the charge that some of these con
victs have been guilty of shocking bar
barities, and in some instances murder,
renders it necessary to make a separate
investigation and decision in each case.
Very respectfully,
Geo. H. Williams,
, - Attorney General.
Influential.
NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from Iranfcoe.
Reply of tno Attorney General to the Pe
tition of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens,
' Addressed to the President, Ask
ing the Pardon of the Ks-Elnx
Prisoners.
Department of Justice,
..Washington, September 16,1872.
Alexander H. Stephens, Esq., Crawford-
ville, Oa.:
Sir—I have received your letter of the
6th ultimo, addressed to the President,
and by him referred to me, in which you
ask that a pardon maybe granted to “all
of those prisoners now suffering in peni
tentiaries under sentence of courts in
several States of the Union for violation
of the act of Congress generally known
as the Ku-Klnx Act, or for violation of
the Enforcement Acts of Congress under
prosecutions founded upon the last-
named Act.”
you represent that you are “ not ac
quainted in the slightest degree
with the nature or character of
the charges brought against them,
nor with the facts upon whica the con
viction of a single one of them was
founded.”
Tour application seems to be based
chiefly upon an impression that all the
convictions rest upon prosecutions for
offenses committed before the passage of
the Ku-Klux Act; to which you subjoin,
as additional considerations, that some
of 1 the parties are old and infirm and
have suffering families, together with an
opinion that the purposes of the Gov
ernment have been accomplished, and
that no one has aDy serious apprehen
sions of any further disturbances.
I have not examined the cases
with particular reference to the time
when the offenses were committed,
but as most, if not all, the convictions
wel*e for conspiracies which are con
tinuing crimes, I take it for granted that
the parties convicted were found guilty
either of entering into conspiracies after
the passage of the act, or participation
after that time in conspiracies previously
formed.
I am duly sensible of the sufferings
produced by tho imprisonment of the
persons upon whose behalf you appeal
for'clemency, and sympathize with their
families and friends; but the guilt of
some of the parties is so great and so
clear that I cannot, with a due regard
for the administration of the law, recom
mend them, as you desire, for an indis
criminate pardon.
Contrary to your opinion, well in
formed persons in those localities where
tho Ku-Klux organizations are said to
exist, inform me that they have grave
apprehensions that other disturbances
will occur; especially, if there is less
vigor than Heretofore by the Government
in the punishment of lawlessness and
crime.
Sometime since the attention of the
President was called to those prisoners
f rom the Southern States confined in the
Albany Penitentiary, and a reliable offi
cer was forthwith dispatched to examine
their cases, and his report thereon
was, in some respects, favorable;
but as soon as the first fact was
known, certain journals circulating
among those most likely to be affected
by such representations, declared that
the sole object of the President’s action
was to influence votes in the approach
ing election, and more than intimated
that Ku-Klux outrages hereafter would
go unwhiped of justice..
I can assure you that the Acts of Con
gress in question, impose upon the Pre
sident an unpleasant duly, and one which
he would, if consistent with his official
obligations, gladly avoid, and I know it
would afford him great satisfaction if the
Ku-Klux and other similar associations
would disband themselves, and, instead
ot cultivating the passions of hatred and
revenge, cultivate peace and good feel*
ing among all classes of the comunity.
am happy to learn, as I do from
tohous sources, that crimes by the Ku-
Klux are less flagrant than heretofore; m
consequence of which there is a growing
feeling of security among peaceable citi-
zens; and this improved condition of
things I think is due to aproper enforoe-
- v r 'ant of the law, and while I am
f nd to say that so long as these crimes
' *!v the offenders will be prosecu
te*; "U possible promptitude and
New Obleans, Sept. 20, 1872.
To the Editors of The Atlanta Sun:
Gentlemen: It is some tune since I
have written to you from "the queen
city.” I have not been dead, which has
been affirmed of some living and immor
tal issues, but only observing the course
of events—a simple looker-on in Venice.
Had I entered into the conflict or our
multiform parties, my epitaph might, by
this time have been written, but I have
kept out of the maelstrom which has en
gulfed some, and am still floating on the
billows with a plank under me. Let me,
in the first place, congratulate, you and
the Democratic party of Georgia, always
“unterrified”in the worst tifne, and your
noble leader, Alexander H. Stephens, on
the manly and consistent course which,
in these troublesome days, you have pur
sued. The voice has reached my ears
from Georgia, which was once heard in
a moment of imminent peril to our lib
erties, “Don’t give up the ship!” I
was glad to hear it, and was inspired to
make some efforts, however hopeless,
even in Louisiana. - * -
There is a streak of light here in the
East. There has been what is called “ a
fusion of parties ” in Louisiana. Dem
ocrats, Reformers, Liberals and some
Republicans have recently joined hands
and are determined to make a long pull,
a strong pull, and a.pull altogether. We
have a mixed ticket for State officers—a
Democratic candidate for Governor who
holds on to the old doctrine of the self-
government of indepenuent States; a
Democratic candidate for Attorney-Gen
eral, who is at once eloquent, able and
reliable; and a Democratic candidate for
State Superintendent of Education, who
is not only an accomplished scholar, bnt
was trained in tbe orthodox school of
Thomas Jefferson, and (what you will
own iB one of his highest recommenda
tions,) reads, he tells me, the Atlanta
Sun every day of his life, and could as
readily dispense with his tea, his bread
and his butter, as with your uncompro
mising journal.
The telegraph is more rapid than the
mail, and you will have seen, ere this
missive reaches yon, the astounding
news of an unsuccessful game just played
on the political chess-board to revolu
tionize the government of this State,
and give Radicalism - the ascendancy.
The unprincipled Warmoth (to give the
devil his due) outgeneraled Belial,
Molock and the rest of his crew, on this
occasion, and tbe State breathes again.
IVANHOE.
Swayze, of the American. Union, which
was and is the most intensely Radical
paper ever published in Georgia, and the
first editor who declared for Greeley and
hoisted his name, claimp to have convert
ed several Democratic papers in Georgia
to his faith, aud that his paper has ex
erted a very wide influence, thus:
He quotes a long string of paragraphs
from Democratic papers in Georgia
which made a point against Greeley be
cause Swayze had taken nim up. These
samples:
**Swaya«,of th# Macon American Union, la the only
editor in Georgia who haa ran np the Greeley flag.”
LaGrange Reporter, June 7.
“ With tne exception of Swayze’a paper, the Con
stitutionalist of Angusta, ia the only paper in. Geor
gia which haa hoisted Greeley’s name.”—Atlanta
Sun, June 9 th \ •
f* Swayze, of the Macon American Union, is the
only editor in Georgia who has ran np the Greeley
flag.”-- Savannah Republican, June 9th. 4
Swayze says that all those Democratic
papers which thus taunted Greeley with
Swuyze’s support, are now supporting
Graeley and Brown except The Atlanta
Son, and adds: “Blood will tell,” and so
wii< a good newspaper. Look at the
good accomplished by the Union 1 The
State of Georgia is now almost a unit
•or Greeley and Brown, and this great
work was inaugurated and pushed to suc
cess by the Union."
“Silurian” goes on and tells of the
good old times when neighbors were len
ders, and then says:
"But this eort of acoomm odition totally di**ppe»r*
from a neighborhood in which • bank is located,
and the people all seem to be turned into borrow
ers. Thin is readily accounted for. Money easily
taken np at the bank, hae been warted in superflui
ties, or at least expendsd for things which might
h*Te been dose without, until the cash was earned
to pay for them.”
“Until” the cash is “earned” to pay
“for them” Bhouldbe the motto of every
agriculturalist; for in such a course of ao-
tion lies his only chance of success.
The true principles that should govern
mankind r-whether as agriculturists,
merchants, politicians, or in any other
calling—will never be found with those
who say “burv the past.”
If we would only heed the past and
read its lessons of warning there could
be no unconquerable trouble from the
future. Junius.
FORRESTER.
The Nathan Murder.’
nsl to St. Louis. Forrester’s real name is Billy
Browne, by which be was known when he made his
pearance in this city, in the winter of 1861 and
1865. He haa been operating in New Orleans and
various lower river town*, finally working up aa far
as Memphis. That winter a certain turn in the
chances of war made it convenient for Browne and
a mob of pals, among whom were Jeff. Davis, Frank
Gurley and Harry Travere, to come North. They
remained, in St. Louis some time, the detectives
keeping a sharp watch on them and pre
venting them from doing any mischief.
Finally Davis, Gurley, Travers and two
othe» of similar character, known as Frank WeUs
and Bob Black, were arrested here by the detec
tives on a telegram from General Hillyer, then Vro-
voet-Marehal at Memphis. It appeared that just be
fore the gang left Memphis they had murdered a
planter who had come to the city to seU his cotton,
a u. j V1..4 ia rukA in «a1,1 T’V*a
wewisanjyjjj j
cornin’ 1 ”
The appeal wag fruitless, for s
hit at an unpopular city fractionary hS
set the -audience in a roar in whteh S
other sounds were lost. Waiting some
moments longer, thereatlegg Caff thru,a
ing his visage from hia under crivor ^I
full three-quarter view this time,
charged upon the singer with
words, but with a much, more emphatic
Three Grant orators from Augusta
(two colored—J. F. Quarles and Edwin
Belcher; one white—Geo. S. Fisher) ap
pointed Friday last for a “grand rouse-
ment” at Crawfordville—themselves to
be the speakers. It was about such a
dead-flat failure as the (Grand Greeley
worship and offering of sacrifice and
burnt offerings by the devotees of the
Baal of Chappa-whats-you-call-it, in the
great Greeley temple in this city a few
days, who were to be assembled from all
parts of the State.
Only fifty-five were present—about
one-third being women and children—all
were colored except a few boys who went
out to witness the chagrin of the speak
ers.
The simple truth is, most of the col
ored people of Taliferro county have,
of late years, voted with the white peo
ple of that county; but they very specially
have no inclination to listen to speeches
of peripaletio politicians.
A. B. Simms and W. F. Davis have
been nominated for the Legislature in
Newton county.
T promptitude and
th* £?t ^dn«h> o: hesitation in adding
flay, t ^ * --^ypent is satisfied that
' 4euoe has
Political Note*.
[Communicated.’
The Georgia Democracy ant Principle.
It has ever been the proud boast of the
Georgia Democracy that principle was
the paramount consideration in shaping
its action.
Especially have they stood firmly by
the grand fundamental doctrines of the
party, during the trying days thro’which
we have passed since the war. Violence,
fraud and bribery have, each in turn,
been directed against their integrity; and
each has fallen harmless from the tried
armor of Democratic truth.
The open assaults of Radicalism have
been hurled back with overwhelming
scorn; and the moreinsiduons approach
es of the New Departure heresy met
with a stern repulse at the hands of the
incorruptible Democratic masses of Geor
gia. Such, in brief, is the record made
in the recent past by the party in this
State.
Georgians, look at it! Is it not a glo
rious record? Does it not present a
spectacle of devotion to principle—of
resolute defense of right,of which you may
well be proud ? Georgians who love the
good name of oar dear old State (and
who of us does not) are you willing to
mar this noble record of consistent bat
tling for constitutional rights by an abject
and inexcusable surrender to the enemy ?
Democr* ts who have manfully resisted
Radicalism in every shape for sev
en trying years will you. now suc
cumb to the centralizing doctrines and
Radical principles of Horace Greeley ?
Will you consent to indorse and fix upon
the country, by your vote, tne vile heresies
which Horace Greeley advocates and his
platform proclaims ? God forbid !
FellOw-citizeLS, rather let us endure
four years more of Grant, elected by
others, than sanction Radicalism and
Centralism, by voting for Greeley.
Let no false plea of a “choice of evils”
induce you to support the man and the
principles you abhor. Let no specious
cry of ‘‘anybody to DeatGrant,’’lureyou
from Democratic integrity. The Greeley
men may think of it as they please, but
the fact exists; a vote for their candidate
is an endorsement of all his Radical prin
ciples, for . if he be elected by their votes
he will, to the extent of hia power, carry
them out. / Georgian.
»-*-4
Startling Evidence of Identity!
The Sensation of the Day !
Forrester’s Wife In Memphis.
Our readers no uoubt recoil sot the
most atrpoious murder of Benjamin Na
than,a wealthy Jewish gentleman of New
York city, which took place on the 28th
July, 1870, in his own house at might,
under circumstances of peculiar boldness
and brutality, and how the whole conn-
try was horrified by the dreadful account
of it, and the great interest which tne
public from one end of the country to
the other, has felt in the matter from
that da* till now, on account of the mys
tery whioh shrowded the hellish deed,
and the chase which the detectives of
New York, and the police of numerous
cities of the Union have given the sup
posed murderer, and his recent capture.
A preliminary examination is now going
on in New York. On the 18th inst. Miss
Ann Keenan,a music teacher, was exam
ined in the Court of Speoial Sessions.
She testified that— ,
Communicate fl.]
“Tlie Agriculturalists.”
The political tricksters 1 of New York
did all they canid to put Charles O’Conor
in a position where the influence of his
great name and fame would be against
the JeffersonianDemocracyof the Union.
He was offered the Governorship of the
State upon his own terms, and then the
Mayoralty of the city of New York, by
those who are interested in killing the
Democratic party, and burying its prin
ciples forever; but he is not an office
seeker, and will not make terms with his
principles for the sake of an office.
Editors Sun:— Although ’tis said by
the wise men (?) of this anomalistic age,
that “we must bury the past,” because
all that has happened belongs to “the
silurian period”—yet I think it best to
be guided by Patrick Henry’s “lamp”—
for i am a firm believer in this adage,
that fools, never consulting experience,
base all of their hopes, or expectations,
on the untried future, and’reip a harvest
of disappointments from their
castles in the air.
Now, I do not intend to apply what I
have just said to all agriculturalists, for
there are some exceptions; but it is true
of all those politicians who forsake prin
ciple for policy.
Taken from the simrian period, some
of as sound sense-as the wise men ever
write, will be found in tne following,
taken from the
: . “SILURIAN BED.”
The New York Herald say Greeley has
gone out West to make agricultural and
industrial orations, and that the people
”It is always with a degree of regret which
amounts to something like horror, that wr see at
tempts made to introduce banking institutions into
a society that is purely or mainly agricultural. These
establishments are useful to merchants and dealers;
often convenient to manufacturers and mechanics;
bat always destructive to farmers and plante rs. We
speak generally. But the exceptions to the latter
are very few indeed. Instance the littering of banks
in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Ohio, and the ex
perience of the bank of Darien, in Georgia, and
others, perhaps, in different States, not just
now recollected. The wide-spread ruin through
the first three States named — the reduction
of thousands cf those who had been substantial
and prosperous farmers, into ruined men, and in
some oases, perhaps, because that they had yielded
to the temptations held ont by banks of getting mon
ey easily—only by signing their names—ought to fur
nish a lesson which no agricultural people should
ever forget. And so it is, and ever wilt be. when
farmers and planters, instead of attending to th*
business of their farms and plantations, are to be
About 20 minutes to 8 o’clock on the evening of
Thursday, July 28,1870,1 was passing on the scuth
side of Twenty-Third street, going west towards
Sixth Avenue, as I was on my way at the time to the
Church of St. Vincent de Paul, I saw a man leaning
over the railing in front of Mr.. Nathan’s house,
looking towards the house. I had an umbrella in
my hand, which touched the sidewalk and made a
noise, and attracted his attention. He turned around
toward me quickly. He had something in his hand,
and it was partly up his 6leeve; it appeared to be
stiff. Seeing mo, he whisked his face in a nervous
manner with his handkerchief, still having the arti
cle mentioned in hia hand, He then turned from
me toward the gate to 'the house, then tinder the
stoop, toward the basement. The article wh‘ch he
had in hi* hand struck the gate when he went in,
and made a noise like iron. , He lookod
pale ; hi* eye* were wild ; I thought
he . might be crazy. I then quickly
passed down the street and did not see him return
from the house. .The next morning I was informed
teat the murder had been committed, and I felt
certain in my mind that the man had something to
do with it. I felt worried and deBired to give in
formation in reference to it. I then told the Rev.
Mr. Lynn all I knew in reference to it, and shortly
afterwards two detective officers called to see me at
No 817 East Twelfth Btreet, where I then resided.—
I went with them to the office of Superintendent
Jourdan, where I also saw the present Superin
tendent of Police, Mr. Kelso, who was in company
with him at the time. 1 related to them what I
have now .stated, particularly describing the man’s
appearance. The man who gives his name as Wil-
li’rm - Forrester I feel morally certain is the same
maul saw in front of Mr. Nathan's house that night,
as above described.
and bad robbed him of $12,000 in gold. The men
were taken back to Memphis by the St. Louis detec
tives, and part of the money was recovered. They
were lodged in the Irving Block aa military prison-
era, but after a time managed to escape. In the
meanwhile, Billy Brown, aiiae Forrreeter, lurked
about in the city maxing ithe saloon of Valentine
Burke on the levee, ana old Broadway saloon
opposite Wash street his headquarters.
Tlie Origin of Negro Minstrelsy.
-long ita line of travel are slakmghanai.
over the white hat.
Keeping a Stiff Upphl-up.—A Gree
ley paper in Pennsylvania,grows jubilant
over the Maine flection. It has a big
picture of a fuH game chanticleer crow
ing out victory with big captions, “Maine
Election l” “Grantism Doomed!”
The editor of that journal is easily en
couraged, and can rejoice upon the slight
est grounds of any man we ever heard
of.
The Co-Education of ™ Sexes.—
The co-education of the sexes is making
headway. Four colleges in New Eng
land, among them the University of
Vermont; Cornell University, in New
York; the Swathmore College, in Penn
sylvania; Oberlin and Antioch Colleges,
in Ohio; the State Universities of In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Kansas, make no distinction on
aooouHtof sex. *».-.<
banks. There is no class of persons more entitled,
perhaps, we may say so well entitled, to accommoda
tions na the cultivators of the soil; but they ought
not to need them, and if they should, those render
ed by banks are wholly unfitted for them.
Merchants, manufacturers, and mechanics,if press
ed by the banks, (and banks sometimes like individ
uals, must semetimas press their customers,) have
a thousand facilities tomeetthir engagements which
agriculturalists have not. To the latter, there is
only one season of the year in which they have
commodities that will command money, and even a*
that, if forced to sell, because the forceing is gene
ral, there is frequently a great reduction in the price
of their articles to be added to the interest paid and
time wasted by ge:ting into bank.
And if their crop should fail, what is to become of
them, having anticipated its proceeds ? They must
be harrassed during a whole year, and become de
pendants—humble dependants, or make some sacri
fices of property out of - their usual way of business
greatly disadvantageous to them as interfering with
their future profits.”
TTTM ADVANCED AGE.
What that Silurian writer would think
of this advanced age ? Could he only
witness the system that governs the ma
jority of the cotton planters of this
country, can be much better imagined
than described; for many of them are
worse than humble dependents—they
are slaves.
'* Miss Keenon was examined and cross-
questioned and give her evidence with
a (dearness and peculiarity whicn made
an impression upon the Court and spec
tators. She was then asked if the man
whom she saw that nigh’t was there in
the Court room, and if she could point
him out. She looked carefully through
the audience and finally fixed her eyes
on Forrester, and said: “that is he—the
man dressed in light clothing at the
same time pointing at him and uttering
her words with confidence. Forrester
was disturbed, smiled grimly, bit his
lips, and a profound sensation was pro
duced in the Court. The 5 examination
was then adjourned till Monday the 23d.
.Not long since we gave an account of
Forrester having been in Savannah —
was arrested there—suspected of being
the Nathan murderer, but by his shrewd
ness and presence of mind, disarmed the
Mayor and police of their suspicion, and
was let off, and of the fact that he was
last seen in Memphis, (before his arrest
in Savannah) having been traced and fol
lowed to that city, from New Orleans,
by the detectives in pursuit of him, bnt
these lost him, and could get no further
trace whatever.
The Memphis Avalanche of the 21st
inst. gives a lengthy account of some of
the Forrester clan, being in flhat city, in
connection with other matters, and men
tions the fact that his wife was left there
by him, and is now in that city.
In October, 1871, a thief named James
Kenny was arrested in the very act of
stealing a valuable pin—a Masonic jewel
belonging to Judge Dixion, and lodged
in jail. While in jail he wrote several
letters to Mr. Athy, Chief of Police, en
deavoring to compromise his case by
peaching” on others—one of which
letters gave particulars of his connection
with Forrester’s stealing, and of his be
coming acquainted with Forrester’s wife,
whose maiden name was Mollie Clemons.
The Avalanche says:
She is a genuine blonde of about 20 years, tnedif
Tim height, stout build and rather pleasing cast o
countenance. About three years ago she married
Forrester, who represented himself as a gambler,
aud she hkd no idea of his real vocation, until one
day she saw him
GOIKG ALOXG THE STREET IX IlieXS.
Then, for the first time, she discovered his charac
ter, but with a woman’s love refused to give him up.
This was in New York, and atter traveling through
the Northern cities they finally came South, going
to Mobile. For about six month* from November,
1870, until the following February, they stopped al
ternately in that city and in New Orleans. In
March. 1371, the police got after her husband so
close that alter coming together to this city they
separated, and since then, with one or two excep
tions, she has not seen him. Being thrown on her
own resources, and feeling a sense of degradation
from betngthe wife of a thief, she entered Melrose’s
and ha* since followed a life of shame. As to any
knowledge of the Schooler robbery or the Nathan
murder, she protests a moBt perfect ignorance.
It appears that Forrester’s real name
is William Browne. The&fc. Lonis Times
thus speaks of him and his career during
the late war:
Thirty-six years ago a young man,
about twenty-live years of age, of com-
commandiug height, six feet full, aud
dressed in scrupulous keeping with the
fashions of the time, might have been
seen sauntering idly along one of princi
pal streets of Cincinnati. To the few
who could claim acquaintance with him
he was known as an actor, playing, at
the time referred to, a short engagement
as light commedian in a theatre of that
city. He does not seem to have at
tained to any noticable degree of emin
ence in his profession, but be bad estab
lished for himself a reputation among
jolly fellows ia a social way. He could
tell a story, sing a song, and dance a
hornpipe, after a style which, however
unequal to complete success on the stage
proved, in private performanoe to select
circles rendered appreciative by acoessory
refreshments, famonsly triumphant al
ways.
He had the merit of aproper apprecia
tion of his own capacity, and his aims
never rose above that capacity, and his
dealings were marked by tact and shrewd
ness. Iu his sphere he was proficient,
and he kept his wits upon the alert for
everything that might be turned to pro
fessional and profitable use.
Thus it was that, as be sauntered along
one of the main thoroughfares of Cin
cinnati, his attention waa suddenly ar
rested by a voice ringing dear, and fall
above the noises of the street, andgiving
utterance, in an unmistakable dialect to
the refrain of a song to this effect:
*• Turn about and wheel about, and do just so,
An’ ebery timel turn about I jump Jim Crow.”
Struck by the peculiarities cf the per
formance, so unique in style, manner,
and character of delivery, the player lis
tened on.
Were not these elements, was the sug
gestion of an instant, which might ad
mit of higher than mere street or stable
yard development? As a national or
race illustration behind the footlights,
might not a black face and “Jim Crow”
tickle the fancy of pit and circle, as well
as the “Sprig of ShiUaleh” and a red
npse? Oat of the suggestion arose the
determination, and so it chanced that
the casual hearing of a song, trolled by a
negro stage-driver, lolling lazily on the
box of his vehicle, gave origin to a school
of music destined t > excel in popularity
all others, and to make the name of the
obsdure actor, W. D. Rice, famous.
As his engagement at Cincinnati had
nearly expired, Rice deemed it expedient
to postpone a public venture in the new-
ly-projected line until the opening of a
fresh engagement should assure him op
portunity to share fairly the' benefit ex
pected to grow out of it. This engage
ment had already been entered into, and
accordingly, shortly after, in the autumn
of 1830, he left Cincinnati for Pittsburg.
: Entering upon duty at the “Old Dru
ry,” Rice proceeded to take up his op
portunity. There was a negro in atten
dance on Griffith’s Hotel, in Wood street,
named Cuff, an exquisite specimen of
his sort, who won a precarious subsist
ence by letting his mouth open as a mark
for boys to pitch pennies into, at three
paces, and by carrying the trunks of
passengers from the steamboats to the
hotels. Cuff was precisely the subject
for Rice’s purpose; slight persuasion in
duced him to accompany the actor to
the theatre, where he was led to the pri
vate entrance, and quietly esconced be
hind the scenes.
After the play, Rice, having shaded
his own countenance to the contraband
hue, ordered Cuff to disrobe, and pro
ceeded to invest himself in the cast-off
apparel. When tne arrangements were
complete, the Bell rang, and Rice, habit
ed in an old coat, forlornly dilapidated,
and a pair of old shoes, composed equal
ly. of patches and places fo.* patches, on
his feet, and wearing a Jcoarse straw hat,
in a melancholy condition of rent and
collapse, over a dense black wig of mat
ted most, waddled into view.
■The extraordinary apparition produced
an instant effect. The crash of peanuts
ceased in the pit, andjthrough the circles
pissed a murmur and a bustle of the
liveliest expectation. The orchestra
opened with a short prelude, and to its
accompaniment Rice began to sing, de
livering the first line by way of introduc
tory recitative:
"Oh, Jam Crow’s come down to town, as you all
must know,
And to turn about an’ wheel about an’ dojis so.
And ebery time be wheel about be Jump Jim Crow.”
•• The recent arreet of the notorious Billy Ferre#-
ter, In the Hast, and his allied complicity in the Na
than murder render el interest eeaae reminiscence*
respecting last visit of the distinguished erimi-
words,
voice:
^ 5ce > must have my cIo’saI
** want me—steamboat com-
The effect was electric. Such thun
ders of applause as followed was never
heard before within the shell of that old
^theatre. With each succeeding couplet
and refrain, the uproar was. renewed,
until presently, when the performer,
gathering courage from the favorable
temper of his audience, ventured to im
provise matter for his distiohs from fa
miiiarly-known local incidents, the de
monstration was deafening.
Now, it happened that Cuff, who mean
while was crouching in deshabille under
concealment of a projecting flat behind
the performer, by some means received
intelligence, at this point, of the near
approach of a steamer to the Mononga-
helaWhaif. Between himself and oth
ers of his own color in the same busi
ness, and especially as regarded a certain
formidable opponent called Ginger, there
existed an active rivality in the baggage-
oarrying business. For Cuff to allow
Ginger the advantage of an undisputed
descent upon the luggage of the approach
ing vessel, would be not only to forfeit
all “considerations” from the passengers,
but, by proving him a laggard in his
calling, to cast a damaging blemish upon
his reputation.
Liberally as he might lend himself to
a friend, it could not be done at that
sacrifice. After a minute or two of fidg
ety waiting for the song to end, Cud’s
patience coaid endure no longer, and,
cautiously hazarding a glimse of his
profile beyond tne edge of the fiat, he
called, in a hurried whisper:
»“ Maeen Rise, must have my close,
Mssa
in’!” —
'A still more snocassfal couplet broach*
_stillmore tempestuous response,wid
the invocation of thebaggafi e-caSr^
unladed «ulm
pbration, and forgetful in the emergency
of every sense of propriety, Cnff, fog
diorous undress as he was, started from
hisplace, rushed upon the stage, and
2?“ npon tha Performer's
shoulder, called out excitedly •
"Massa Rice-Massa Rice I 'gi’me nfo-
: 8 tln 8 8 » Griffif want ’im—steam-
)at comm P u
The incident was the touch that passed
endurance. Pit. aud circles were one
scene of such convulsive merriment that
it was impossible to proceed with tho
performance, and the fall of the curtain
indicated that the entertainment was
ended. ^
Such were the circumstances, authen
tic in every particular, under which the
distinct art of negro minstrelsy was nra
sauted. *
ga\
bbat
THE LATE GENERAL PATTON AN.
DERSON.
Meeting of the Confederate Relief
Sacletjr.
From the Memphis Avalanche, 21st inst
The Confederate Relief and Historical
Association held a meeting last night at
No. 39 Madison street, for the purpose
of taking action in regard to the death
of General Patton Anderson—the Presi
dent, Major W. A. Goodman, in the
chair, and Captain W. G. Barth, Secre
tary pro tern.
On motion, the chair appointed the
following gentlemen a committee to ar
range the details of the funeral of Gene
ral Anderson, and to act as pall-bearers •
Generals N. B. Forrest, W.Y.C. Humes’
M. J. Wright, Wm. M. Browne, G. W,’
Gordon, G. J. Pillow, C. W. Adams, J.
C. Fizer; Colonels T. W. Brown, J. H.
Edmondson, R. F. Looney, and Captain
"W*. fli Barth. The committee will meet
this afternoon, at 3 o’clock, in the office
of the Carolina Life Insurance Company.
The following gentlemen were appoint
ed a committee to draft resolutions ex
pressive of the sense of the Association
at the death of Gen. Anderson: Gen. G-,
W. Gordon, Colonels T. W. Brown, B.
W. Frayser, Captains W. G. Barth and
B. F. White. This committee meets at
the same place that the Committee of
Arrangements does, and immediately af
ter its adjournment.
'It was stated by the Secretary that tbe
family of the deceased desired the funer
al; to take plaoe from the Cumberland
Presbyterian church at half past 10
o’clock to-morrow — Sunday morning.
Rev. Mr. Richardson will conduct the
services. It is expected that the entire
Association and all Confederate soldiers
shali participate in the obsequies.
Notice will be given in to-morrow
mbming’s papers of the time and place
fob them to meet. -:..
The Association then adjourned.
At what age to Marry*
We are glad to be able to answer the
perplexing question . here proposed
through the kindness of the Church Jour
nal, which discussed the point in its last
issue- While special directions are called
fot in individual cases, the opinions of
the Journal are valuable and worthy of
consideration: <
“The state of society,” says the pa-
pbr named, “in which young men marry
as a rule at twenty-one, or shortly after,
is. the state in which tho home vir
tues ; and personal virtues best
flourish. . That state which makes
it impossible for a man to marry “ pru
dently,” until he is thirty-five or forty,
is one which is not admirable nor desira
ble, in any land or among any people,
as the world has had ample testimony.
There are unsavory accompaniments
to 1 this state of things which wo all
understand well enough but about
which we are . too delicate to
say any thing. And those accompani
ments are at this moment roftiBg the
Heart out of American people in certain
sections and certain Stages of life in oar
country, so that were it not for the mass
of. imprudent foreigners, who have a
habit of marrying young * and rearing
families of children, in the tfld-fashioned
healthy way, we might fear the extinc
tion of tne people, as we see the extinc
tion of the business of motherhood aid
fathernood, and know the prevalence of
nwheless horrors in the relation of the
sexes.
The way the Indians complain, aid
what they want, are peculiarly illustrated
in the speech of one A the Sionx chiefs,
whose cognomen is Running Antelope,
at his interviaw with the Secretary of
the Interior in Washington, on the 18th
September. We take the following from
the New York Herald:
BUXSIKG AXTELOPU,
a large, powerful-looking chief, who spoke very ft®*
and in a loud tone, said that now he had shaksa .
hands with the Great Father’s chii fs hi3 heart ww
laughing and he felt good. -He w >nted provisions
for the future, mentioning tha 1 there should
be enough for two hundred years; - as he dM
not expect to die as soon a3 he went home. This
cnief did not neglect to allude to’the poverty
of himself aud his people, and to f ue lands which
he said were his own property and through which
the white man’s roads ran. He did not want any
whites in his country for over tw>. hundred years,
and said he supposed if the "while men who were
building the railroad should get . paper from the
Great Father teUing them to take it up they wouM
do so. This expression met -wiln a simultaneous
grunt of approval from every Ind ian present.
AUeged Vlolutlon. of th.e. Enforcement
Ac*. , , -
Mr.. Julius Kaufman, who figured so
conspicuously at the election precinot,
and by whose interference, it is said, th 0
election for Magistrate was broken Rp»
arrested Saturday afternoon by
Deputy United States Marshal Simmons,
by virtue of a warrant issued out ol
Commissioner Wayne’s office, charging
hipi with a violation of the Enforcement
Act, in interfering with the election. He
was taken before said Commissioner!
when he entered into bonds m the sum
of two thousand dollars, to answer before
the United States District Court-.—^Sa~
vannah News, 8th.