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liS»AT .HUB-MAG, BAUCH 15.
Hard to Please.— One of the strong
i.jints in tt»e petition from the Georgia
negroes, recently presented to the Sen
atw Revels, was that they are not al-
j‘ we d to vote freely. Some of them
", ;tt ,j a .s many as ten times at the last
e'-etion, and would have voted oftener
; l tije day had been longer.
VV'a learn that the Auburn Male Col
e,e building came near being burned
Tuesday of last week. The fire was
fortunately checked before it got much
W ay. This would have been a
loss. It is one ot the hardsom
(,s s cbool edifices in the State.
The B-mau ot Statistics will present
iu the next monthly report a table show
,jg the averages of prices paid the labor
iug Classes iu the different countries of
Europe. Reports Irom Germany show
that in the trades the wages ot w-ikuitn
tli uge from 1C to <l4 cents pel day, and
oi woUii n id to 14 cents.
Violent bioliM.—There was a pretty
livavy stilt m Saturday night. It was
lea not much iu Columbus, though iu
the country, in several quarters, trees
w m blown down. South of this place
i' is reported bj several farmers to have
been heaviest. Sunday was bright and
cool.
Tqk Templars — The order is flour
ishing. Four members joined the last
Friday night, and six more have made
application to become members next
Friday. The temperance cause is ex
tending its influence considerably in
this city.
Horrible Affair in Harris Coun
tt—A Negro Rons a House and Mur
ders a Child—The Perpetrator
Caught.— On Sunday occurred one of
those horrible tragedies, the mention of
which makes the blood run cold. The
details are about as follows :
Mr. Wm. A. Boswell lives near Wa
vcrly Hall, in Harris county, nineteen
miles from Columbus. He had a little
boy about thirteen years of age. When
John Robinson’s circus was going from
here to Hamilton, a negro about nine
teen years of age, by careless driving,
broke one of the wheels of a wagon,
which bore a portion of the animals, for
which he was severely whipped and dis
charged from the company. This hap
pened near Mr. Boswell’s place. Need
ing hands, he employed the negro on
the 17th of February. The colored man
had behaved himself very well since as a
laborer.
On Sunday, Mr. B. with his family
went, visiting after dinner, and left be
bind his little boy and this negro. All
returned about 3 p. m., when they found
the house ransacked from one end to
the other. The child was discovered
lying dead on the floor of the hen house,
with a hole made by a pistol ball through
hia head. The weapon had been fired
so close that his hat was singed by the
burning powder. The negro was gone.
There was no luouej- or voiuaoie porta
bles in the house to move, but a pistol
had been stolen. The supposition wsb
that the negro had robbed the house and
been discovered by the boy, whom he
had killed to prevent his telling.
Pursuit was at once made after the
negro. Three men, from the neighbor,
hood thought they had tracked him yes
terday morning to this city, that he was
ahead of them only fifteen minutes, that
ha was in a store which they passed,
and that he had afterwards crossed the
new bridge into Alabama. The.parties
went over there in pursuit, but were re
called by a messenger stating that the
murderer had been found within five
miles of the scene of the tragedy, where
he then was in custody. Since, we have
heard nothing.
A sad lesson is taught not to hire
strange negroes and leave children and
uroj ; r.y in their care.
Q > ;e a mania rages in many of the
large cities, which first broke out in
New York some three or four weeks
ago, among small dealers, whisky shops
iu particular, to pay silver change to
their customers. This subtifuge, which
doubtless was intended by its origina
tors as an extra inducement to draw
custom, baa been taken seriously by
many respectable presses of the country
as an evidence of the near approach of
the day of an early general resumption
of specie payments. There never was
:t c; cater mistake. Silver having de
predated, for temporary cause, to a
point that takes only about one dollar
-.! five cents iu currency to buy one
r in silver, the device became a
ac, especially where the com
o i y is sold at an inflated price—
w ' ley drinks especially. A few mouths
vyi'!; ally satisfy our people of the falicy
i.f lUe idea. The day of specie pay
mans, without a change iu the policy
of Congress which requires the duties
on imports to be paid in gold, is very
distant. Whilst the Government makes
a distinction the citizen will be apt to
follow the example.
Thu President and Directors of the
Montgomery and Troy Railroad Com
p»uy, have applied to the Court ot Coun
ty Commissioners of Montgomery, tor
a county subscription of three hundred
thousand dollars, to that road. The
law requires the Commissioners,on such
applications, to order an election to test
the approbation of the people ol the
county to the subscription. The feel
ing in that county is high at this time
tor the road, and the subscription will
doubtless be approved by a large ma
jority.
One of the most daring bank robberies
on record occurred in Pittsburg on the
10th iust. About half past twelve o’clock
ia the afteruoon three nieu in a buggy
drove up to the Farmers and Mechanics
Bank of Birmingham. Two of the men
entered the bank, one of whom knocked
down the Cashier who was the only
employee of the bank present, whilo
the other went behind the counter and
seized all the money in the desk, a mount
ing to twenty thousand dollars, placed
the money in a basket and ran off. A
erowd collected, and pursued them,
catching two of them and secured the
money.
The work on the Bainbridge, Cuth
kert and Columbus Railroad, is pro
grassing rapidly. We are informed that
l de grading is completed nearly half
way to Colquitt. Maj. Bruton, the
- resident, informs us that he has
Paid up for the work already done, and
authorizes us to say, that if any one has
any claim against the road, all he has
10 do is to present it, and it will be
promptly paid.— BainWidg* 4-rgvt.
VOL. XII.
Mary E. Walker, tbe Pseudo Doc.
tress.
To this individual we have once be
| fore alluded, and would not do so again,
believing that the public feel as little
interest in her as we do, but for the
closing paragraph of the following ex
| tract:
The New York Medical Journal for
May, 1867, contains a letter from Dr. R.
Bartholow, U. 8. A., which is rather
! severe on that female disciple of Escu
lapius, Dr. Mary E. Walker, who for
some weeks past has been a sojourner
in this city. The writer’s first observa
tion of the female doctor was made at
the Lincoln General Hospital, Wash
ington, into which she found admittance
‘in some pretended inspectoral capaci
ty, armed with a pass from Secretary
Stanton.” His next encounter with
Miss Walker was at Chattanooga, to
which point she had been sent by the
War Department. She demanded em
ployment as a medical officer, and, on
examination by a medical board, it was
“unanimously reported that she had no
more medical knowledge than any ordi
nary housewife, and was entirely unfit
tor the position claimed. She had never
been, so far as the board could learn,
within the walls of a medical college or
hospital for the purpose of obtaining a
medical education. Eventually she was
assigned to a hospital as nurse, but be
fore she entered on her duties an order
came from Department Headquarters
sending her to theextreme front, where,
one day, as she was riding alone, she
was captured and forwarded to Rich
mond. Dr. 8., in closing his narra
tion, adds: “It appeared subsequently
that this was the design She was in
tended as a spy, and went forward to
he captured. It was supposed that her
sex and profession would procure her
greater liberties and wider opportuni
ties for observation than were at all
possible to other prisoners. The medi
cal staff of the army was made the blind j
for the execution of this profound piece !
of strategy by the War Office.”
We are happy to state that this beau
tiful and original stratagem was a com
plete failure, to the very intense disgust
of Doctresa Walker and the able strate
gists who thus, with a vile instrument, i
sought to prostitute the cause of hu
manity. Surgeons of the United States
army were not regarded as combatants,
but as humanitarians, whose functions
were wholly professional; and so, when
demeaning themselves properly, were
always treated with consideration by
officers inte whose hands they happen
ed to fall.
This woman was captured by scouts
belonging to Gen. Wheeler’s cavalry
command, and brought to him at his
headquarters, then at Tunnel Hill, Ga.
Gen. Wheeler, with his usual shrewd
ness, saw through the whole affair in an
instant, and so expressed himself to his
staff officers, but not to the prisoner.
She was given a private room in the
building occupied as headquarters, and
a sentinel placed in the passage way
leading to it. The prisoner was vehe
ment in her protestations at such restric
tions upon her; talked loud and long
about making prisoners of women, &c.
Demanded to be paroled, exchanged, or
released. Her demands were met with
a courteous but firm refusal. She was
treated with delicacy and the courtesy
due a woman, but did not seem to ap
preciate it.
After only a few hours delay she was
sent to Gen. Johnson’s headquarters at
Willi G cu. Whwolci'd obotcuicut.
Gen. Johnson forwarded her to Rich
mond, and from there she was sent into
the Federal lines. So failed this mag
nificent bit of strategy.
The Greenville Mountaneer, the orig
inator of the statement respecting the
repeal of the charter of the portion of
the Air Line Rail Road in South Caro
lina, says it obtained the information
from the Columbia papers. It is pleas
ed to learn that the statement wa3 in
correct. It says the bill was defeated
on its third reading in the Senate just
before the adjournment.
We have heard it related that the bill
originated under the influence of a high
negro dignitary. The carpetbag negro
Senator Wright, who it will be recol
lected, was elected by the South Caro
lina Legislature, to a seat on the Su
preme Court Bench of that State
was the originator of the bill. Mr.
Foman, the President of the Air Line
road, and who is also the President of
the road leading Eastward from Char'
lotte, does not permit negroes, no mat
ter what their station in life, to travel
in the cars on his road, occupied by
whites. In traveling eastward on an oc
casion not far back, the afore said
“Hon. Mr. Wright,” took a seat in the
car among the whites, and was soon
ousted by the conductor and made to
take a position in the car allotted the
people of color. This rankled in the
bosom of the “Hon. Mr. Wright,” and
finally culminated in this effort of re
venge. How much like a mean negro.
The Income Tax Law Repealed.—
There is a serious misapprehension,
(says the New York Herald,) in the
public mind in relation to the income
tax. Petitions are beiDg sent to Wash
ington for the repeal of the law. It
should be distinctly understood that the
income tax law was repealed by limita
tion on the 31st day of December, 1860.
The tax now being assessed is for the
year 1869. After it is paid no other in
come tax can be collected or assessed
without the enactment of an entirely
new law, which is not likely to be
brought about. The repeal of the old
law is final and unconditional. It takes
effect as soon as the tax for 1869 is paid.
A Bill passed the House under the pre
vious question gag rule a few days ago,
providing for the assessment and collec
tion of an iucorne tax for one year only,
(1870,) but it met with disastrous defeat
in the Senate. It is not at all likely
that Congress will put such a needless
burden upon the people again in face of
the unanimous protest of the entire press
of the country. The occasion that called
for it has passed away forever. Let us
have no more income tax laws.
The Talladega Reporter, in an article
! giving an account of the recent confer
ence of the commission sent from that
| town and county, with the Directors of
the Savannah and Memphis Road, says:
Our delegation met with a very cor
j dial reception from the Board and from
tlio citizens ot Opelika. Each ot the
delegates had an attentive hearing be
: fore the Board of Directors and the ar
guments in favor ot locating the road so
as to intersect the Selma, Rome ana
Dalton road at the town of Talladega,
were fully and forcibly presented. Ihe
corps of Engineers now engaged in run
ning an experimental line on the old
j survey to Childersburg will reach this
place about the 20th instant, and wili
proceed at once to run a line from this
place to Dadeville. Our delegates fee!
greatly encouraged and belieffe that
with proper effort there will be no difli
I culty in securing the location of the
road on this .line. Messrs. Martin and
Plowman who passed over the proposed
route find the people of Clay fully alive
to the importance of securing this val
uable road. We hope to see the people
of our town and county wide awake to
this important question and ready to
give united support to every movement
necessary to secure this valuable con
nection. _
John B Habersham was elected May
or of Brunswick at the recent election.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
It is an every day complaint in the
mouth of many, that though gold has
! B°uß down to a nominal premium,
prices for every article of consumption
J for man and beast keeps up at inflated
prices. This, to us, is not unnatural.
Gold long since ceased to be money, or
the representative of money value, in
! this country. Like corn, cotton, meat,
suger, mules, &c., it is a commodity
with us, and its price, like other
commodities, is regulated by supply and
demand, and especially by demand.
Just at this time the demand for its use
as money, being to a limited extent, it
has declined in price. Gold is never
scarce, but the demand for it, at times,
is. Such is the case ju9t now ; there
fore its decline. Just wait, however,
until there is no cotton to pay the bal
ances between this country and Europe,
and gold, in comparison with our cur
rency, will be high enough to satisfy
every one. t
It is the direction given to the agri
cultural interests in the cotton States
that is at fault with us. The grea l
prevailing disposition to plant cotton to
the neglect of provision crops, is what
is the matter ; and until a change takes
place in this respect, provisions will
continue high, regardless of the price of
gold. This too, is what is the matter
with cotton. The legitimate cause of
its decline is not the decline in gold,
but because of the over supply made
from large planting, to the neglect of
provision crops. It has acted like a
two edged sword—while it has put
itself down, it has put gold down also.
Its plentifulness has taken the place of
gold, as currency, in paying the bal
ances between the United States and
Europe. We have effected only one
thing in the over planting of cotton, and
that is the cheapening of cotton goods,
which all must know is a poor compen
sation to the planter for increase of
prices on every other article of consump
tion.
The question more properly should
be asked—when will the cultivators of i
the soil in the Cotton States, learn wis
dom ? We fear the youngest inhabitant
will not live to see that day.
No people on the face of God’s green
earth can be so prosperous, and occupy
so independent a position, pecuniarily,
as those of the cotton States, if they
would will it. They have a climate
which permits out-door work to be done
every day in the year. They have a
soil adapted to the bountiful yieid with
a little stimulating, of every article re
quired for the subsistence, comfort, and
luxury, of man and beast. They, in
addition, occupy the only spot that
gives an abundant yield of the fleecy
staple to compensate the laborer for the
sweat of his brow. Yet, with all these
advantages, what is the condition of
these peopte ? Poverty stricken. And
why? Bacause of their attempts to
pervert the order of things common
sense teaches—to produce cotton to the
neglect of all other necessaries, to say
nothing of the luxuries of life.
Instead of the agricultural class being
borrowers of money and beggars for
credit from the merchant class as they
are, they should be the money lenders,
and would De were they to V u ‘° uo tnuir
vocation to its legitimate purposes and
ends—make their own supplies to sup
port and stock the farm, and put only
the remainder of the land they can well
cultivate, in cotton. This course would
always ensure good compensating prices
for the cotton that would be made,
whilst the yield from this source would
almost be a clear profit. It is useless,
however, to advise planters—they know
it all, and we fear the youngest child
now among us, will not live to see them
convinced of the folly of their present
suicidal policy. _ _
Supreme Court Diclsion—Captured
and Abandoned Property.
In the United States Supreme Court,
on Monday, decisions were announced
in the case of the United States vs. Nel
son Anderson, and there are three other
similar cases, all appeals trom the Court
of Claims.
These were actions brought to recov
er the proceeds of captured and aban
doned property under the third section
of the act of March 13th, 1863. The
act provides that any person claiming
to have been the owner of such property
may at any time, within two years after
the suppression of the rebellion, prefer
his claim to the proceeds in the Court
of Claims, and on proof of ownership
and of loyalty, the residue shall be paid
over to the claimant after deduction of
expenses attending the disposition of
the property.
The Government urged before the
court below that the actions were not
brought within two years from the time
of the suppression of the rebellion in the
several localities where the claimants
resided, and that such a limitation was
the intention of the act; also that the
Court of Claims could not determine
the amount of the net proceeds of cotton
and give judgment for a specified sum.
Both objections were overruled, and
judgment given for the claimants. Ihe
Government appeals to this court where
the judgment below is now affirmed,
Mr. Justice Davis delivering the opin
ion.
The court says, in substance, that it
cannot be supposed that this act was
intended to operate specially in respect
to localities and the date of the suppres
sion of the rebellion therein, but it must
be considered to refer to the date of the
rebellion throughout the country, and
to apply generally to all sections; also
that it could not have been the intention
of Congress to leave that question to be
determined by the people themselves,
or that the people were bound to take
notice of the date of the suppression of
the rebellion whenever it occurred, and
to govern themsives accordingly in re
gard to these claims and all other mat-
Some official mode of determining the
question must be considered to have
been contemplated by Congress. Ac
cordingly Congress, by the act of March
2d, 1867, recognized the 20th of August,
1866, as the time of the close of the re
bellion, the date of Jthe proclamation of
the President, and that date is to be re
garded for all purposes of litigation as
the day on which the rebellion ceased.
The objection that the Court of Claims
could not determine the amount of the
proceed and give judgment tor a specific
sum, could not be maintained without
holding that that court was a mere com
mission, which this court declined to
assert.
A Boston “bureau of charity” has
furnished two apartments for the use of
ladies living or boarding alone, who
have no facilities for mental or social
enjoyment during their leisure evenings.
The rooms have plenty of pictures, a
well-funished book-case, and “small
tables for various games.” These rooms
are open every evening except Sundays.
Entertainments are had nightly in our
city, in the way of class meetings, pray
er meetings,and preaching. What do our
ministers think of the calling them ope
ras or masquerades, they might get a
congregation by this means, and do a
great deal of good. While there isnot
much in a name, it will draw a crowded
house.
Trains have commenced running
daily over the Savannah and Charles
1 ton Railroad.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAKCH 22,1870.
TELEGRAPHIC.
By Telegraph from Europe.
Cairo, March 14.—New fortifications
commenced in the harbor of Alexandria.
Paris, March 14.—A dispatch from
Rome states six hundred ten votes now
i sure for infallibility.
Small Pox prevails in different quar
i ters of Paris.
i London, March 14. An Irish bill
pending, which gives the Lord Lieuten
ant extraordinary powers in turbulent
diplomats.
Madrid, March 14.—The first fire
between Duke Montpenser aud Prince
Henri Deßourbon, at twelve paces, was
j harmless. The combatants then ap
proached to within seven paces, when
the Prince fired and missed, and receiv
ing the Duke’s bullet in his head, died
instantly. The Prince being poor, the
Duke will provide for his family.
Cause of the duel, damaging letters
written by the Prince to the Duke’s
friends. The Prince was a cousin to
the Duke’s wife, and brother to Isabel
la’s husband.
From Wnsblngtou.
Washington, March 14.—Senate—
Sumner, in personal explanation, said j
Prim had made no proposition for the j
sale of Cuba.
In the Supreme Court, Strong seated,
vice Grier resigned. Chase decided in
the Grapeshot case that the Lincoln j
provisional courts in Louisiana and
elsewhere were legal tribunals.
House—Regular call unimportant.
An order from the War Department
directs officers on reconstruction duty
in Mississippi to repair to their homes
on indefinite leave.
Revenue 750,000.
A resolution of censure will be reported
against Butler, of Tennessee, for cadet
ship irregularities.
Fish was before the Foreign Affairs
Committee on Cuba.
No vote taken on the banks resolu- [
tion.
Gov. Holden asks for troops in Ala- I
mance county, N. C., which he reported j
in insurrection.
Abbott and Pool support the applica
tion of the naval appropriation bill, !
givingjPensacola five thoo<and and Nor- !
folk eleven thousand.
Senate rejected Wm. Leahy, Assessor j
Bth Virginia District.
The Supreme Court continued the j
cotton taxes to next term for further ;
argument. The cases of Sanders and i
Farrington, and one other case involv- i
ing the constitutionality of the cotton I
tax, were continued and assigned for
re-argument on the second day of next
term.
The following was received to day !
by two Senators :
"Savannah, Ga., March 13, 1870.
The passage of Bingham’s amendment
in the House has set the worst elements
in society wild, uud now the cry of a
damned republican is shouted after a
man as terrific as ever the cry of a
damned abolitionist was before the
war.”
Neither Mr. Conant or myself have
ever had anything to do with the poli
tics of Georgia, nor do we desire to
nave. We are here engaged in a great
enterprise—spending millions of North
ern money in building railroads in
Georgia, but this seems to be no pro
tection to us. Any man disposed to
get rid of us has only to charge us with
political jptirposes to rob
us of all sympathy, protection or sup
port from the community or authori
ties. I earnestly invoke your influence
with Governor Bullock and with Con- j
gress to see us and others like us pro
tected. I Signed] W. L. Averv.
Senate—Sumner introduced a bill to
strengthen the legal reserves of national
banks and the resumption of specie
payments January Ist, 1871.
Georgia was resumed. Morton of
sered an amendment repealing the law
forbidding the organization of the
Georgia militia.
The general tax bill was discussed
by Trumbull to executive session.
Adjourned.
House—Under the regular call, the
bill to construct the Cape Girandeau
and Missouri railroads; to abolish
female clerkships in the departments.
A resolution looking to the material
reduction of the tariff and internal rev
enue received only 27 votes.
A resolution giving Mrs. Stanton a |
year’s salary passed.
House resumed the deficiency appro
priation bill.
From Slew Orleans.
New Orleans, March 14.—Evening
papers publish the following :
“Brownsville, March 7.—A fight oc
curred between Gen. Rejules, and Gov.
Cadena, commanding the revolutionists, J
near Cornelia Hill. Cadena was defeat
ed with great lo#s. Rejules took ten
thousand prisoners, including many ■
officers. Cadena is hemmed in, and has j
to beat Rejules or lose his army.
From Nebraska.
North Platte, March 14.—Two ruf
fians were hanged by a mob last night.
Omaha, March 12.—The mixed jury |
in the murder case still hang. The wo- I
men look pale and fatigued. This is
the third night of starving them into a
verdict.
Lawrence, Kansas, March 14.—Im
migation unprecedented.
Cattle are coming eastward from j
Colorado. Ten thousand are at Kit !
Carson, awaiting transportation to Lar- j
amie.
Jury in the Howie murder case re
turned a verdict of manslaughter in the j
first degree. The lady jurors were much ;
fatigued.
From Virginia
Richmond, March 14.—A bill exact
ing the 14th Amendment oath from
State officers passed the Legislature.
John G Williams, lawyer, is dead.
From New York.
New York, March 14.—A terrible
snow storm extended from the Atlantic
to the Mississippi, north of the Ohio
river crushing many buildings and de
layed travel.
From Mississippi.
Jackson, March 14 Yerger escaped
yesterday. _
Judge Carpenter decided a few days
ago in a suit brought in the court in
Charleston, 8. C., over which he pre
| sides, that a note drawn payable iix
months after a treaty of peace between
the United States and Confederate States
I of America could not be collected, as no
peace had been declared between those
Governments. Exceptions have been
taken to this ruling, on the ground that
the close of hostilities was a vitual dec
laration of peace, even though ono of the
’ contending power* ceased to «Ut.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
'the Philosophy of tbe Vote on the
Bingham Amendment.
The. Radicals here clamor furiously
against the Bingham Amendment, be
i cause it interferes with their scheme of
stealing from the people the right of an
election. They are afraid to go be-
free people, and would juggle a
new lease of power against their own
Constitution.
But the body of the Northern Kepub
, licans shrink in shame from the out
rage. The majority of the press North
: are against it.
The St. Louis Democrat, an extreme
Radical paper, thus talks about the bill
without Bingham’s Amendment:
The object was to continue in power
a set of men who were not willing to go
before the people for re-election, and
the fact that those men are Republicans
ought not to prevent anybody from re
alizing that the measure was one of
purely partisan legislation. If Georgia
is fit tor self-government at all, then no
man or party has any business to hold
power there unless by votes of the peo
-1 pie under the laws of the State, aud if
| Congress does not deem it safe to give
to Georgia self government in its broad
est sense, it has no other decent remedy
except to put the community under mil
itary power and keep it there. The
fact that General Butler and his com
mittee have never proposed the latter
course shows that they know it will be
impossible to sustain before the country
the claim that Georgia is not fit for self
government. The successive measures
of reconstruction devised for that State
have all been shaped in some degree to
give the power to certain men or a cer
tain party, instead of flatly denying the
fitness of the State to govern itself, and
have been so far in violation of the prin
ciples which we think ought to govern
ail such legislation. The Republican
party cannot afford to use its national
power to legislate its friends into office
in any State.
It further says Bingham and Farns
worth have saved the party from dis
grace. The Democrat then gives the
tollowing table, with comments.
The division of Republican votes for
and against Bingham’s amendment was
as follows.
Aye. No,
Alabama 4
Arkansas 2
Florida 1
Mississippi —3
Missouri 1 5
North Carolina 2 3
South Carolina 2
Tennessee 1 7
Virginia 1 1
West Virginia 2
California 2
Connecticut 3
Illinois 10
Indiana 6 2
lowa 33
Kansas 1
Maine 1 1
Massachusetts 3 6
Michigan 33
Minnesota.... 1
Nebraska 1
New Jersey 1 1
New York 7 5
Ohio .10 3
Pennsylvania 1 14
Rhode Island 1$
Vermont 2
Wisconsin 1 4
*— j
(53 71
From Northern States only 48 mem
bers voted against the amendment, of j
whom 25 were from Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin. But 56
Republicans from Northern States voted
for the amendment. From States for
merly slaveholdiDg, only 7 Republicans j
voted tor the amendment, while 28 j
voted against it. Thus G 2 of the 71
votes for Butler’s bill came from South j
era States, Pennsylvania, Massachu- .
setts and Wisconsin, while a clear ma
jorlty or all me ItupuDiiuaus Uuiu me j
North went against. We do not think j
the meaning of these figures can be
mistaken. They mean that the meas
ures which Republicans from the South '
demand are not supported by a majority j
of the Republicans at the North, while j
they are opposed by all the Democrats.
The Democrat goes more closely into
the vote, and shows by personal proof
that the brain and backbone of the Re
publicans were against Butler. It also
explains for the heavy Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts opposition to the
Bingham Amendment as being a tariff
trade with the Southern members, who
voted, all but seven, for the wrong.
The Chicago Tribune, another lend
ing Radical paper, thus discourses:
Alter once remanding the State to its
provisional form —after seeing the old '
Legislature reassembled, the colored !
members restored to seals in that body, j
the members who could not take the
test oath expelled, it is now proposed i
by General Butler to tide the State over
the next election under its present offi
cers so as to secure two years more of ;
so-called Republican ascendancy. On
behalf of the Republican party, we ob
ject to any such dirty proceeding. If
the people of Georgia want Republican
officers, let them elect them. We have
now arrived at a stage in the work of
reconstruction where the past is abso
lutely irreversible. The 15th Amend
ment will be proclaimed as soon as the
provisional governments voting for it—
Georgia and Texas—are readmitted. j
Not only is liberty insecure, but uni
versal suffrage will be thereby made se
cure. This obtained, the warrant for j
holding any Southern State in shackles,
and the further enslavement of these
States by Congress becomes a wrong ;
and an outrage, as promptly to be re- j
sented and guarded against by the whole ]
power of the country as the further en
slavement of the African portion of
their citizens. Individual rights being
secure, and the sovereignty of the na
tion being undisputed, State rights must
now come in for their proper share of
protection. We hope Congress will |
recognise this fact by admitting Georgia i
promptly without limitations. No pal
try shackles they can impose upon the !
action of her people will serve the cause |
of equal rights at all, especially when
they would thereby delay the admission
of the State and the proclamation of
universal suffrage, which will be made
as soon as Georgia and Texas are ad
mitted, and not before.
Terrific Hurricane at Tuskeoee.
—A letter to the Montgomery Adver
tiser give an account of a most terrific
hurricane which occurred at Tuskegee,
Ala., on the 12th instant. The writer
says:
About ten o’clock in the morning the
heavens began to darken and grow
blacker and blacker, until about eleven
the wind rose into the wild fury of a
hurricane, sweeping everything before
it. The storm came at first from the
South East, and then veered round to
the west, and raged with terrific power.
The clouds seemed to fall upon ground,
and to writhe and toss like a whirl
wind, aud although it raged only a tew
minuted, it did very great damage to
our beautiful town.. Fences were blown
down everywhere, scarcely a place leit
with perfect fencing—trees were uproot
ed and thrown across sidewalks, streets
and houses—and several outhouses were
ontirely destroyed, while many others
were greatly injured. Several of our
business houses w ere robbed of their tin
roofs, and trees decorated with the same.
Bilbro’s brick building, Bank building,
Masonic building, East Alabama Fe
male College, Mr. Varner’s residence,
and some others were more or less com
pletely unroofed. The Baptist church
steeple was also robbed of its oraments
and weatbervane. Circuit Court was in
session, and many horses of visitors
ran affrighted through the streets doing
some damage to buggies, etc. But
strange to say, though wreck and ruin
are seen everywhere in the town, yet
no one was killed or serionsly injured.
Dogs can’t sing Old Hundred,but they
can howl like sixty.
Unlawful pharmacy—compounding
felony.
Giant eoafectlonary—rock candy.
Sat Lorenjfood b.t Written hi* Cir
cular and here It I*.
783 Carondelet Street. 1
Nu Orieens, October the Ist 1869. f
Deer Sur :—At the epenin ov the biz
ness season. I don’t think hits fur from
out er the way fer to send you a Price
Current an’ my keered. Uvry body
else iz a doin uv it, an my circular iz az
good az euuy body else’s fur enny pur
poses you ken put it to.
Hit is a valerable docyment (that is,
the printed part with the Aggers,) an
orter bo put away keerfully. Es it tells
you more’n you wanter know hit’lkeep
ontwell you change ure mind.
I don’t charge you nuthin fer hit,
altho it’s got up holy regardless, ez they
say, an is az good az a almanac fer to
have in the house.
I reckon you kin bleeve all hit says.
Most everybody swallersit on trust an’
files hit away evry year “fer reference,”
an’ that boys grows up an’ uses ’em
principally fer cigar lites an sich.
Hits my bounding duty to tell you
wat I think ’bout cotton an’ craps.
From my large an’ tremenjous corres
pondence comprisin’ the variability of
all the ramifications an’ postal arrange
ments consekent upon juxtaposition
with an intelligent planter in every
county whar a lock of cotton grows. I
kin koufidently swar thar won’t be the
cotton made this year that thar was in
sixty one, and the crap’l be short.
That’s so, an’ if hit aint, mebbe hits
jest ez wel to talk so enny how.
Bes time to sell, is jest ez soon ez you
kin get yer crap intar my hands, regard-!
less of the price of trade—don’t stan’
on extry expense, but hurry hit forward.
I hev my private reasons for advisin’
so, an’ besides these English fellers
begin ter think the worms and cholery
and the freedmen’s buro hez cut down
the crap to bout a million bales shore
enuff,
Time June comes, them quiet cusses
down in the back swamps and out on
the aig of nowhar, will find an extry
half a million bails, shore, an’ then away
goes prices. Then my correspondence
in Egypt, Arabian Petrea, an’ other
various pints in India, writes me the
cotton thar is powerful promisiug for a
big crap.
Them fellers is got ns on the cotton
question, lessen we can get a branch of
the freedmen’s buro started in their :
seeshun. Hits all our salvation at this 1
stage of the game, and the only way to
choke them off and spile thar compe
tition.
Sen dowu yer cotton fust thing arter
hits ginued and bailed.
A long experience in the bizuess tells
me hits a pore way of selling a planta
tion-sending it down by retail mixed
up iu the cotton lint. The cotton, some
how, sells better without the sand and
dust, but thars no disputing the heft of
the sand.
Your ordder for supplies shall have
my personal attention. If hits jest as
convenient, hit wouldn’t be remiss to
to send the cash along with ’em mebbe
you’d git at the goods a leetle mite
quicker that a way. These traders here
gin me 2 and a half per cent, and extrys
on what I buy—which is kind of them,
and no money lost 2 you, but they most
ly wants thar money ’fore the inks dry
ou the bill.
The talk is that some of these chaps
in the commission line ain’t going ter
last long. Worms an the freedmen’s
buro is things some ’em’s deeper inter
ested in than commissions on sails, an’
hit makes folks in the trading line per
tickler. The banks don’t keer, but they
kin stand it.
Be keerlul you sen’ yer cotton 2. Et
you wauter make a dead shore thing of
it and fer get the biggest dollar hit will
fetch an’ not sacrificed on the fust offer,
send it 2 me. I’m the tardinest man
j-ni) pr nr Qpod, tihurp a a a briar aud boon
»b a nuter gender mink. Having an
immonse capital, unbounding credit,
long experience, a big offic, abel corre
spondence in all the cities of the world,
a private understanding with the man
az runs the telegraph to Europe, and
boarding in the same house with a cot
ton brokers clerk, I ken give you all the
satisfaction you want.
Ez I spekilate iu cotton, planter’s
craps will hev a grate advantage in be
ing sold long o’ my cotton, perticler as
I never loss money on these side trades.
My young man keeps a “average ac
count,” which he says keeps the differ
ent intrusts straight an’ kivers euny
differences in classin’ a list of cotton.
My Confederith frens is invited g
stand up 2 me. I fit, fit, bled—and had
the measles in the “Lost Cause” along
with them, and my wife tells me she
thinks them measles done me a great
power of injury fer life.
New comers is requested to remember
I am what they call reconstructed and
harmonized.
I shall make it 2 my intrust 2 do your
bizuess for you. Efyou dont bleeve it,
try mo.
Yours, on the squar,
But Lovengood.
Note bene pertikler —Don’t be in a
hurry 2 put the preceeds of your truck
inter gold at these raskilly high prices. !
Hits a swindle on the planter fer ’em to i
charge wat they do fer gold. Hit’s ;
boun 2 go down and I look fer gold to
touch bottom ’bout the last of the sea- i
son. I’ll pay your intrust on it twell
then.
Es thar’s been enny revivals in Mason
ry, in your seekshun I would like for to
hear about hit.— New Orleans , Crescent ,
Oct. 2nd.
Fashionable Marriage. —The great
event of the season with the Hebrew
inhabitants of the East side of town i
was the marriage of Mr. J. Bernstein, a '
wealthy resident of Mount Vernon, to !
Miss Sarah Kohn, of this city. The
ceremony, which was a most interest
ing and splendid affair, took place yes
terday in the Tabernacle in Henry
street, near Market, and was performed
by Rabbi Slraisant, who has just return
ed from Europe, the Rev. Mr. Lowen
tnal officiating as Schazen.
The bride, accompanied by a number
of attendant maids, was led „o the read
ing desk by the bridegroom. The
Schazen the delivered the customary
address, after which Rabbi Slraisant ad
dressed the couple, and after the cus- j
tomary Mosaic ceremonial of presenting
the wine to them, and the crushing of
the wine glass, they were then declared
man and wife.
The whole party then drove from the
Tabernacle to Pythagoras Hall, which
was elegantly decorated, and where a
large number of the friends of both fami
lies were to receive them. The street
outside the ball room was crowded with
carriages depositing their charges, and
about three in the afternoon dancing
was commenced, and continued until
long after midnight. The dining and
supper room was brilliantly lighted, and
accommodations being made for upward
of three hundred guests.
The bride, Miss Sarah Kobn, a beau
tiful girl, wore a lavender colored moire
antique dress. Her jet black hair was
taetetuliy uruauiented, and trom it hung
a long, rich lace veil; her sister, also
very pretty, was dressed in purple silk,
with white lace trimmings, and another
sister wore a rich, white silk dress, be
neath a pink lace skirt. The mother of
the bride wore a plain moire antique
dress, which was partially covered by
a white lace shawl. Miss Sarah Abra
hams, a handsome girl and a good dan
cer, was dressed in a green silk robe
and white lace trimmingß, with a mag
nifleient head dress. The two Miss
: Bernsteins, both handsome and lively,
wore wLite satiu dresses, trimmed with
i blue satin.
One thing remarkable about this ele
gant wedding was the few diamonds
worn by the ladies, though many of
I them bnlong to the wealthiest Hebrew
families in New York. The gentleman,
however, sported some brilliant gem .
Among the most prominent or tnem
were Mr. Bernstein, brother of the bride
groom, Jacob Kobn, Lewis Abrahams,
Joseph Micholas, and a host of others
—New York Sun, March 9.
Making light of misfortune—throwing
a poor poet’s verses into the Are.
HISTORY REPEATS IISELF.
1860 repeated 1850 so far as South
ern economy was concerned, and there
j is some reason to fear that 1870 will De
! found, in this respect, a too servile irn
| itaticn of 1860. In 1860 Mississippi
raised 1,200,000 bales oi cotton, worth
$38,000,000, while Massachusetts, in
j the same year, imported and maculae
j tured 816,665 bales, realizing $36,500,
| 000—or nearly as much as Mississippi I
| made out of almost four times the wrne 1
I number of bales. If Massachusetts had
wrought up all the cotton raised by
Mississippi she would have realized
$144,900,000, which, deducting the iost
: of the raw material, a gross pn fuof
$105,900,000. But the whole nop of
Mississippi and of the South was uu.uu
factured somewhere, and paid to those j
who did the work about three or lour
times as much as the raw material paid ■
j to the producers.
j This reminds us of a statement made
; in Gee’s work on Trade, puolisiied in
| London in 1750. The author pleads for
i the prohibition of manufacturing iu the
.British American colonies; urges the
mother country always to keep a watch
| ful eye over the colonies to restrain
them from making anything for them
selves which they could buy in Eng
land ; urges that “all negroes he pro
hibited from weaving either limn or
woolen, or spinning or combing wool,
or working at any manufacture of iron,
further than making it into pig or bar
iron and “that they should not be
permitted to make hats, or stockings, or
leather of any kind,” etc.
In giving the reasons for these prohi- j
bitions, the writer of 1750 sayb : “If
we examine into the circumstances of
the inhabitants of our plantations, and
our own, it will appear that not one
fourth of their product redounds to their
own profit, for out of all that comes
here they only carry back clothing and
other accommodations for their families,
all of which 13 of the merchandise aud
manufacture of this kingdom.”
The one-fourth which the planters
got out of the proceeds of their labor in
1850, had not, as will be seen, by the
contrast just given between Massachu
setts, increased in 1860.
There is another resemblance between
the condition of the planters in 1750
and 1860. A writer in the XIX Oentu
ry, a Southern magazine, published at
Charleston, says: "The commercial
cities of New Orleans and New York
representing the manufacturing interest,
“virtually owned the States of Missis
sippi and Louisiana,” in 1860.
Gee, in the work of 1750, already |
quoted, says: “All these advantages
we receive by the plantations, besides
the mortgages on the planters’ estates 1
and the high interest they pay us, !
which is very considerable.”
At one time, years ago, the planters
got from England $40,000,000 for 100,
000,000 pounds of cotton; in about 30 j
years from that time the planters were 1
raising 596,000,000 pounds of cotton 1
for $55,400,000. Tbe amount of cotton
exported to England had nearly sextu- j
pled, while the money received lor it !
had not come near being doubled. J
And in order to give England this I
advantage, the planters paid expenses j
of transportation, etc., more than I
enough every year to buy the machinery !
necessary to work up their crop at home.
Years make no diff-rence in this mat- j
ter. The policy worked in 1860 just as \
it did in 1750, and it works in 1870 just
as it worked iu 1750 and 1860.
A Vexed question Settled, i. *>. in a
Man uni Hound to Support tils
Wife’s Mlu-rolka.
In Montgomery avenue, Hudson city, |
lives a mau named Frederick Hartwig
and his wife. This pair have been in a
state of perpetual discord for several
weeks pas t. Yesterday morning officer ,
Tahn was proceeding to his home about
live o’clock, having made all his rounds j
for the night, when he happened to pass
Hartwig’s door. Mrs. Hartwig popped
her head out of the window and called j
on the officer to go in and stay with her \
for protection, as she feared bodily inju
ry at the hands of her husband, the
first part of the proposition was regarded !
as a good joke, and for the rest he ad- !
vised her as to the proper course to |
pursue. She made affidavit before Re- ‘
cordes Aldridge, who issued a warrant,
and while the Recorder was sitting in
court Fred was brought in. He took a
seat beside the officer and awaited his
turn. At length the Recorder, adjust
ing his spectacles, called up Fred and
informed him that he wascharged with
refusing to support his wife. The tol
lowing coloquy thereupon took place ;
“Shudge, must I support mine vise?”
“Why, certainly.”
“Veil, I say so too. Now, Shudge, j
must I support mine vise’s father and j
mother, and every tarn dirty loafer of a
brother what comes along ?”
“Decidedly not. You are not called
upon to do anything of the kind.”
Here the wife, who had been a silent
spectator, broke in and informed the Re
corder that her husband threatened to
put her out of the house, and that she
was afraid he would take her life. Fred j
cut her statement short by giving this
explanation : “Now you stop ; say no
more. Shudge, die woman what’s mine
vise says to me, ‘Fred, you don’t put my
brother and sister out; if you do, Igo
too;’ and 1 says, veil den go and pe tam;
and I shuts de door and keeps de key.”
“Oh, Shudge,” interrupted the wife,
"he calls iny brother a tam loafer ; now
shoost hear what Fred done last night,” j
and she was relating the details of an
affair in which a slop pail, scrubbing
brush and other curious subjects occu
pied a prominent part, when she was
reprimanded by Seargent Sweeny, who
told her she must avoid such indecent
language. The reprimand she mistook
for a doubt; as to the truth of her state
ment, and she proposed to bring the
pail before the court in order to prove
the truth of her statement. ,
The Recorder finally disposed of the 1
case by discharging Fred, who pledges
himself to keep all his wife’s relatives i
away from the house, now that the ques- :
tion is settled as to his obligations in that
quarte _
Madame De Stael said, “If I were
mistress of fifty languages, I would
think in the deep German, converse in
the gay French, write in the copious
English, sing in the majestic Spanish,
deliver in the noble Greek, and make
love in the soft Italian.”
Washington women attend six parties
in one night, and sigh for more, al
though they don’t amount to a cipher.
And hoiv they sleep the next day.
More than a dozen women in Ilinois
are telling around about how they could
have married Grant if they had wanted
to. There were sensible girls iu those
days.
Civil marriages have only recently
been mads obligatory in the Grant,
Duchy of Baden. At Brucheal the first
bridal pair who were married under the
regime of the new law were insulted by
the populace, excited by some fanatical
priests. But iu other parts of thecoun
try the new law has given rise to no
disorder- wliafi v i
A Sunday - teller in New
London Conn ,abked » utile boy what he
would do, if, on the way to Sunday
school the devil should whisper in his
ear, and try to get him off to some bad
place. The boy drew himself up to
bis full height, and said, I should say
i to him, Shoo, fly, don’t bodder me.
i This brought the house down.
A woman in Hampton, New Hamp
shire, had a sixty five pound tumor re
moved from her body some time since.
) gffice the operation was performed she
has recovered her health, acquired a
new head of hair, and grown anew set
of finger nails.
The woman who undertook to scour
the woods has abandoned the job, ow
ing to the high price of soap. The last
that was heard of her she was skim
ming the sea.
A vivid idea of the weakness of chick
-1 en soup,was conveyed in a wag’s query
I to hi* wife at dinner, ‘Can’t you coax
: that chicken to wade through thl* »oup
■ onae more.
NO. 2.
UEIMSTATK THE CONSTITUTION.
Speech of John. Quincy Adams before
the Constitutional Club oj Boston —
How the Democratic Party will yet
save the Country.
[Correspondence ortho World ]
Boston, Feb. 23.
Tbe Constitutional Club, last evening,
celebrated its sixth anniversary, at the
United States Hotel, and seldom, it
ever, has there been in Boston a better
banquet, or four hours of keener en
joyment. Over a hundred members
were present, including John Quincy
Adams, the Rev. Dr. Bolles and J. S.
Fay. Speecues were delivered by John
Quincy Adams, George Lunt and Major
Snurtliff. The following is the
SPEECH OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
With the war of secession, gentle
men, we have no occasion to deal. It
has passed into history. But there is
one result of it with Which it is pie em
inently necessary that we should deal.
At that time, when the cannon were
fired at Fort Sumter, the people ol mo
North “as one man" ducked to the
capitoi to detenu the constitution and
the Union. That was the impulse
Which carried them through in tbe first
place. They flocked into the Capitol,
iorgetling lor a lime all constitutional
rlgiua, all the original purposes lor
which the building bad been erected;
not naturally, gentlemen, tUcy turned
it into the purpose of a fortress and a
defence. 1 fiey caked upon the wai
power ot the constitution, and they said,
“So long us this insurrection exists we
will use the constitution, we will use
the Capitol as a lortress; aud from it
shall issue the great prerogative of gov
ernment until this thing has passed
away from us.”
Alter arms had been laid down, long
after the angry and warlike peopte who
took up those arms had surrendered,
had agreed that they were beaten, had
said there should be.no more war, the
politicians of a party in this country
took possession of that citidel of our
freedom, aud have abused it from that
day to this, not as a defence of the eon
stitution but as a simple emolument
tor their own advantages. What has
been the result? Where do we stand
to day? I mean to say, and I say it
with a sense oi responsibility, that to
day there is nothing of the old consti
tution of our iaiUer3 a ,left to us except
what was always understood and be
lieved by them to be a mere incident
of constitutional power, and that is
this war power. (Applause.). That is
what wo are living under. That is
the thing under which the present Con
stitution of tho United States has been
built, for do not imagine for a moment
when I speak ot the Constitution oi
tbe United Slates, that I design to be
understood as speaking of the constitu
tion of our fathers left to us—by no
manner of means. The old constitu
tional edifice of the lathers was built
of the white marble of the States, which
they brought together voluntarily as a
woik of love, and piled up there 011 c
by one, each iu pride and delight add
ing stone after stone to tho beautilul
and symmetrical edifice under which
we all live. (Applause.) But what is the
thing which now we see there in Wash
ington ? Is that built of those stones ?
Is that put together ot any such bands
as those which cemented the Capitol ?
Why, gentlemen, it is built of the vol
canic lava, hot yet from the results oi
the outpouring ot the mount (applause),
and it is clamped together by groat
bands of black, rusted, iron fetters.
(Applause.) It’s no such edifice at all;
and now we have in tho Presidential
chair a man who, when he swears to
protect and defend and preserve the
constitution, seems to think that this
I is the constitution which he swearß to
1 preserve.
Now, my friends, wiiat is me course
for us to pursue ? What are we to do
in the face of the fact that we see a
dispatch coming over the wires from the
State of Georgia, which, even under
Radicals ideas, has been long ago in the
Union, saying that the Legislature has
met, aud that certain gentlemen have
been turned out of their seats for disa
bility, certain others for being illegally
elected, and certain others ior certain
other things too numerous to mention ?
Why, gentlemen, why ? Because the
people of the State of Georgia believed
they ought not to be there ? Because
the members of their own body have
passed upon that question, and decided
that they were not legalJy elected?
Why, gentlemen, you are old-lashiouod.
You are going back to the early days ot
the republic. No. Because Allred J.
Terry, Major General, says they shan’t
go into the Legislature. (Applause.)
That, gentlemen, is the constitution uu
der which we live. What, as 1 said
bes ore, is the policy to be put sued 1 It
seems to me, I confess, that there is
but one. I don’t know what the other
gentlemen may think, but after care
fully covering the whole ground as well
as I could, 1 am persuaded that there
is no hope in the men who have done
these things, no hope whatever. They
have actually brought things to such a
pass that it is now good constitutional
law that a State may be dragooned in
amending the Constitution of the U. S.
A State may be required by the force
of the bayonet, or by such other forces
as they may piea9e to exert, to give its
free consent. (Laughter.) Gentle
men, the other day, there was a propo
sition made in our Legislature by a
very admirable gentleman, a colored
gentleman by the name of Ruffian, to
fire a hundred guns on the common in
honor of the passage of the Fifteenth
Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment is about
to be proclaimed by the President oi
the United States as a part of its con
stitution. I was only sorry that I was ,
not in the Legislature to propose as an I
amendment to it, that the United States
be humbly solicited to allow the State
of Massachussetts to fire that salute
from Fort Warren, and that the guns
might bo shotted in order to show the
process by which the amendment lias
been carried. (Loud aud continued
applasuso.) It has occurred to me, hav
ing no confidence that the dominanat
party will ever amend their*ways, that
there is but one way out of our diflleul
ties. The difficulty now is not to de
fend the Constitution of the United
States. We are not placed in the posi
tions of Andrew Jackson and Daniel
Webster. We have got to reinstate the
Constitution of the United States.
(Applause.) And, gentlemen, wo have
no bold leader like Andrew Jackson;
we have no gigantic pleader like Dan
iel Webster to lead us in these days.
We can rely ouly upon ourselves, tire
rank and file, the men who are here be
fore me aud others like them. You re
member the great and beloved General
Banks, who, when he swayed, as nc
did once, you know, the sceptre of the ;
Old Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
among his other beneficent and happy
acts, made the humble individual who
addresses you a trial justice for the
county of Norfolk. ( Laughter.) One
of my first acts as a trial justice was
to issue a warrant, and I sat one day,
with judicial impatience, awaiting the
culprit. He was brought in—a magnifi
cent, handsome, six foot Irishman. He
had, very apparently, been on a “tare,”
but still his personal appearance
was eminently prepossessing, at least to
me, and I asked him to sit down.
I heard with great patience the evi
dence for the prosecution, which was
tolerably clear, that my friend, in the
exercise of his convival ex'incts, had
capsized the gentleman with whom ho
waß drinking and had thrown him upon
a stove, which was hot, and had con
siderably injured his personal appear
ance thereby. (Laughter.) I heard
the evidence, as I say, and then, as in
the duty of a justice, I turned to my
handsome defendant, and, said I:
“Patrick, you hear this evidence
against yon. Have you anything to
say ?” He gathered himself up from
bis seat, raised himself to his full stat
ure, swelled out his chest, squared him
self carefully on his feet, and began :
! “May it please your honor,” said he,
; “I have something to say why 80nt ®“ < j e
should not bs passed upon me. tis
true I had been drinking, but not to
! success, and thin accidentally me leg
flew up and came in contbract with me
other man, and he fell down and hurl
ed himseli, and that is all I know about
it, your honor” (Laughter.) I con
fess, gentlemen, that the plea of tho
defendant made a very strong impres
j sion upon the Court, but what I want
| now is to make a very strong impres
sion upon you. A toast I will propose
!to you is “success.” Now, I proposo
that the Democracy shall so train and
propose itself by all fair political meth
ods, that at the next Presidential elec
tion the leg of the Democractlc party
| shall fly up and “come in comhraet”
with tho Republican party, and they
shall fall down and hurt themselves, so
that no medicine, nor any power,
will ever make them whole again
(Continued laughter and applause.)
THE CATAHOULA VENDETTA
Last Act in the Tragedy—Full Partic
| ulars.
A contemporary having given 50U11
particulars oi the Black river veuueua,
| and tuo escape ot the younger Junes,
, alter the murder ot ins lather aud Droth
cr, duty to lire public compels ua to fur
| uisfi information, which bus been iu tbe
office of tbe Times since Saturday, and
!up to tiiis lime, tor obvious reasons, gas
1 been suppressed, she gentleman ai
j luded to, a youth ol nineteen, reaeti
|od this city at a late hour Friday
I night or early Saturday morning, on
I board the steamer Mayflower, atier one
! of the most extraordinary escapes that
I perhaps has ever been recorded iu eituei
rt'munce or history.
I Immediately upon Ins at rival bo
j sought a retugo iu the Third District,
| but shortly atterwards he was removed
! to another portion oi the city, where he
I tins siuce remained under a strong po
i lice guard.
! From those who have conversed with
him freely, we learn lire following Ue
i tals of oue of the most horrible ouiragea
tLat bus ever blackened the criminal
1 record of Louisiana.
The story of Sunday evening, Feb
ruary 27th, has already been partially
j told. While iu the custody ot Sheriff
Ballard, aud iu the company ot Mr
Elijah B. Cotton aud several ladies, tho
house the three then occupied, near
Harrisonburg, wa9 completely' surround
ed by uu armed mob, who, kuockiug ai
ttie door, first demanded to see tho
sheriff.
Mr. Ballard, making his appearance,
lie was in a manner fur from violent,
but at the same time with the utmost
firmness, that it was necessary for him
and every other inmate, excepting the
three Joneses, to at once leave the prem
isos. Upon his making some demurer,
the order Was repeated moro pertmplo
l ily aud iu his closing remarks the lead
er stated the house would be burned in
the course of a few' minutes. There
seemed no alternative, and all the in
mates, except the three victims, quietly
left. The house is a two story’ building,
with Btaira leading irom the rear to the
second floor. Coi. Jones and his sons
were on the ground floor, and alter the
departure of the other inmates, the doors
were clearly tastened.
When the contest commenced, the
three were in a front room. The father,
standing near a bedstead, rested bis
wounded left arm on it, and in his right
hand held a revolver pointed at the por
tab The second eon stood immediately
in rear, with two revolvers pointed in
tho same direction. The third sou (the
oue who is now in the city) was still
further back armed with oue revolver.
In the brief parley the young brother
had urged tho unhappy lii.Uo garrison
to take a station up-stairs, hut the other
two insisted that if fire was used that
course would only lead to certain de
struction, aud that as death was appar
ently inevitable all bad best meet it
boldly. Tbe youth however did not
seem disposed to give up all hope, aud
before the assault had fairly commenced,
he retreated through a rear room, iu
the direction of the stair ease. About
tho time he had placed his loot ou the
first step, there came a terrific banging
at tbe door, apparently with an axe.
Hurrying up, he was startled with a
crash; the door had fallen, and the hor
ror which followed rivaled terrors ot
hell itself. A dozen shots in quick suc
cession, a fiendish yell, the groan ol a
dying man, and the tramp oi heavy foot
stops. Men, like wild beast, maddened
at the sight of blood, rushed in oil direc
tions. The older son, desperately
wounded tottered out to the garden in
the rear, only to have the remnant of
life shot out of him by a wreteh. )revol
ver in hand), who stood over him as ha
lay gasping on the ground.
The work of carnage was of short
duration; ten miDUtes completed the
butchery below, and then a rush was
made for tho upper story for the one
more victim, a beardless boy, who re
mained for their hungry bullets. To
leap to the ground and certain death,
or present his breast to the now ascend
ing assassins, was tho thought of an
instant. While the assailants were yet
on the stairs, heconcluded to do neither
and sprang through a front window
where, grasping a ledge formed under
tho sill, he swung himself out and hung
suspended—blood below, blood-thirsty
enemies above. How long ho remain
ed there Is better told by his hands cov
ered with blisters, and so bruised and
strained that even now they are nearly
useless. The room was speedily filled
with men.
Torches were thrust out almost over
his head, but thanks to their blinding
glare, the victim hung unseen. They
evidently believed he had escaped
Parties wore even sent $0 the river, but
after a stay of perhaps fifteen minutes,
the scene of horror was deserted.
The danger for tho moment over, the
youth swung himself back intothe room,
and for a time lay completely overcome
by exhaustion. Then came tbe sad office
ot viewing the bloody corpses ot the
only two he claimed akin within
thousands of miles. Col. Jones lay
where he had stood, pierced by four bul
lets. He had evidently died instantly,
receiving every wound from the Irunt
The son lay in the garden, also quite
dead.
Remaining perhaps au hour on the
tragic ground, the boy ereei ing softly
to the river, procured a pirogue, and
slowly floated down stream to a lower
landing, Slinking on hoard the steamei
Mayflower, he found himself in thu
midst of his enemies, fifteen of them,
armed with shot guns.
VVUjle standing in bewilderment, one
man, worthy of the name, we wish we
dared give it, touched him, and the two
walked toward the engine room. He
*.vas quickly directed to the hold, a cou
pie ol bales of cotton were carelessly
rolled over the hatch, and the escape
was accomplished. The party left the
boat in squads of three and four on the
way down the river. It is not certain
that ali left. It is not certain that some
are not here now ; that two of them did
not, on Saturday night, drive to his ret
ago iu a carriage. He .s surrounded
however by a circle fiercer than Greek
fire Should they penetrate it, ’twill he
at the risk of life.—JY. O. Times.
A $ 10,000 Robbery on the Central
Railroad.—A gentleman from Savan
uah, Mr. E. Zacharias, who reached
this’ city yesterday morning, reports
1 having his pocket picked on the train,
Thursday night, of $9,611 in United
i States currency aud a draft for S6BO on
!I. L. Falk & Cos. Mr. Zacharias left
Savannah on Thursday night for this
city, and when about forty or fifty miles
from the former city, being overcome
by a drowsy feeling, felhnto a profound
slumber, from which he did not awake
until within a few miles of Augusta
yesterday morning. On awaking, ho
felt for his money, but only to discover
, that some wary pickpocket had made
way with it. Mr. Zacharias is tin hie
i to trace his loss with any degree of cer
tainty, but some suspicion attaches to a
, couple of genteelly dressed young men,
apparently about twenty and twenty
three years of age, who occupied seats
immediately in roar of Mm when he lett
Savannah* and are supposed to have
i left the train at Milieu, or to have
gone to Macon, as nothing was discov
} erod of them on the arrival of the Cen
tral Railroad train here at three o'clock
| yesterday morniDg. The following are
the reported denomination of the hm 9
stolen: Four SI,OOO bills ; four of $500;
six or eight of SIOO, and the remainder
In sto’s and ss’s .-Augutta Contitiu
tionaliit.
Springfield, Ohio, has a type
(Watts by name) whose Trends c.aim
can set twenty nine hundred ems p
: hour. He has conscientious
against receiving more th* ll
per thousands ems fox eomposhion.