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VOL. 11
XEWXAX, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCT. 21, 1S65.
[NO. 7.
From th N. V. Nows.
llosby and his Mea.
John Singleton Mosby is the son of be at the Court IIous
• Alfred 1>. Mosby'former!v of Albermarle
County, \ a. lie is * hie maternal grand-
;son oi’ Jas. MeLaurinc, Sen., late of i‘o-
wltatan County, Ya. 1 iis mother was
Miss \ irginia J. MeLaurinc.
lie was horn in Powhatan County, Ya.,
; on the the Gth of December, 1833, and
|
educated at the university of Virginia.
When quite a young m m he was married
was great, fur Brig. G n. Stoughton and place, but time was wanting,and the band
other officers'of high rank w re known to incumbered by three tiiuesas many horses
ascertain what her sympathies were du
|and prisoners as it numbered men.
Speech of Hon. Jeremiah S. Black.
In a speech delivered at Williamsport, r ; n g the war." But they take an invento-
The Pa. v Judgc Black expresses himself as ry of her furniture, value her live stoek,
follows on Thud. Stevens’ proposition to count Iter spoons, examine her dresses,
The night of Sunday, March 8, was prisoners, thirty-five in number ; Bri . ,
, . , ... : K II Stuu-diton, Baron K Worden- confiscate all ot the land in the South.— : and tf their value can be figured up to ten
chosen as !avorab;e to the Tfxpeaiaon.— ^ ^ o ’ i ...... . , . _1 n r
for i)is!nts.-i
?i\ mouths—for Disiusssiou from Guardian- to tlie daughter of tlie lion, Ikvcrly
Eilip.
* nips for t lie foreclosure* of Mortgage? must
be p .bli-iifcd monthly fur four mouths—for
,-i 'di-liiug lost pup'urs, for ttie full space of
,! :r , i iijont!:S—for compelling titl.-s from F\-
ccutois. or Administrators, where bond has
been given by the deceased, for the full
of three months.
t' .blications will always be continued ar-
cor.iogto these, the legal requirements, un- immediately gave U|
J,•.s otherwise ordered, at the following
RATES.
Sherin's Sales per Uvy often lines or less.-t '1 5a
Clarke, late United States Minister to
Central America. At the oninienceindnt
of hostillities between the North and
South, Mosby resided at Bristol Washing-
e ton County, Ya., where Tic was successful -
"y engaged in the practice of law. lie
his profession and
s lav
The v earner was it.famous
| dark as pitch, and it was raining steadily.
With a detachment of twenty-nine men,
including the deserter, who acted as guide,
Mosby set out on his raid.
Advancing through the woods, pierced
with devious and uncertain paths only,
which the dense darkness scarcely ena
bled them to follow, the partisan and L:s
iittle band filially struck the Warrenton
road, between Ceutrevi le and Fairfax, at
! a point about midway between the two
! places. One danger had thus been avoid-
j ed—a challenge from parties of cavalry
j on the Little River road, or discovery by
the ni.rht v'fb a" Ai^traiii, aid-de-camp to Colonel ; He a ' s ° gives his views on the question of thousand dollars, they cease to be heirs
Wvndham ; C-ptain A. Barker, Fifth
New York Cavalry, Col. W’s Assistant
by virtue of Abolition arithmetic. Or
negro suffrage.
“ But the Abolition party proper is they send a surveyor out, with compass
Adjutant General ; thirty prisoners, chief- ; against us as a uuit. The man who leads au j chain, to measure her land, and if, by
lv of the Eighteenth Pennsylvania and them in Congress, and out of doors, as he j aD y means, he can run in two hundred
First Ohio Cavalry, and the telegraph
operator. These were placed on the cap
tured horses, and the band set out in si
lence on their return. He had penetra
ted the very heart of the enemy’s posi
tion ; captured the : r pickets seized their
officers in bod; bore off their horses,
laughed at and befooled and outwitted j applause; it has been echoed back al
has always led whatever party he belong- aC res, the investigation is ended. She
ed to, expresses his will and they must, n, a y i a k e her children and go into exile,
obey his dictation. lie propouuded his
doctrine, the other day in a State Conven.
tion and not a mdn was found to resist
him; lie announced it elsewhere, and it
was received by'his followers with ui iver-
SlieriB .- .iloi tgnge ::
Tax (’ollcctur’s Sale:
Cilaiinns for letters
<'itaiions for letters
fa. rales, per levy
per lew..
of Adiiiini.-trai
(iuar.liunslii j
n.
10
C 00
0 0
Notice of application for dismission from
Administration
Notice c» application for dismission f:om
Onardiatrsbip,
Application to sell land
Notice to Debtors and creditors .........
Sale of Land, persijure,
.‘tales of peri liable property, 10 days. ..
INiray Notices, sixty days,
l'liieclt. are of Mortgage, per square,....
For man advertising Ids wife, in advance 10 o.i
Meninges ami Death? 1 00
enterd the urtny as a private, bccomtu .. ,
, . " . tne force posted at Cenfrevflle. J nat
member of a company vatseuTn \\ asu ng- j , 1 . , . p r , t
ton County and commanded by Capta : n
Jones—afterward General Jones—in which
position he served twelve mo:
the promotion of Captain Jones
Colom leyjuf the E!eveiith"\’irginia Cav-
"ie
them completely; ami had not lost a mar. ! r ‘‘ aJ y b >’ 1»' 5 disciples in Massachusetts.
place was now iu the rear. Fairfax Court
ilou-e was still f>ur miles distant, and
girded by cavalry and infantry. Every
ills. Upon ,
, approach was guarded, and the attempt to
to the 11 , , ,
but
in the enterprise.
Late Confederate Generals.
The Jackson Mississippian states that
Maj. Gen. Loritig is now in that city with
if she can manage to travel without money;
if not, she can starve.
Of course I do not pretend to find any
words in the English language which will
characterize the morality of this measure.
It is simply a proposal to organize and
maintain a band of men to violate the
The utterances of Stevens are the deliver- s ; xt jj commandment—to plunder a de-
ances of this party. Let us see what they
propose.
There cau be no doubt that their in
terests as mere partisans are wholy ad-
thc intent to come to New Orleans and verse to the peace of the country. Their
airy, Mosby was chosen as adjutant. 1
! continued in this position but a
time; for, upon the reorganization o
4 ! regiment, from some cause the Colonel
50 '
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“S-0IU3 Day.”
Yen smooth ihe tangles from my hair
With gentle touch a:.il tendvrest e t c,
And count the years ere you shall mark,
Height silver threads among the dark—
Hmiling the while to hear uie say,
‘•You'll think of this again some day,
Sonic day I ”
i do not score the power of Time,
Nor count on years of fadeless prime,
’But no white gleams will ever shine
Among these liravv lock:, ot mine
Will anger with these-glossy hands,
When you shall weave my last crown
Of these ihick braiding-s, long and bro:
Jlul you .will -co no touch ofgr.iy
Adown their shining length that day—
, Some da
was thrown out, and, consequently, bis
adjutant relieved from duty. Mi.sby was
then chosen by Genera! J. E. B. Stuart as
n sort of independdent scout.
lie first attracted public attention w hen
Gen. Joseph E. Johnson, then in com
maud of liie army at Manasas. fell back.
On this occ-assion, desiring to ascertain
> ,i .i „ .. <■ M,.r<>,i>.._ dered immediatley, were taken
whether the movements ot Ale*, telutn wat
a feint or if he really intended to march
his army to the Feni' sula, Gen. Johnson
dispatched Mosby to gain the desired in
formation. Taking five men, Mushy w.ut
in the rear of McClellan's army where he
Ay, litiigi:
as gaiiy :
is you may,
remained several days, spending his time j
You'll l!ii
ak of this
again, some day,
'in converse with the Federal soldiers,;
Some ila\ !
4
from whom he gained ail necessary infor
Funic clay
! I shall
lot feel, as now,
mation, and then safely made his way
Your soft
hands un
ve aliont my l.row,—
back to Gen. Johnston’s headquarters. i
i thall
iOt Sliollt
your light command?,
During the Summer of 1834, Mosby
A, J ,,
;\v the lu:
gbr.ti'U thro' my hands ;
was-sent from Hanover Court House on
1 -hall t)l
sih til mu
obey,.-—
amission to Gen Jonston, who was then
A - i! you
-you nil;
not laugh that .lay ;
on the upper RnniJan. lie was the bear-j
-
Some day!
or of an oral communication, and as the i
1 111
>w It) .g y
oi loving hands
route was dangerous, had no papers about
enter the place seemed desperat
Moshy determined to essay it.
Making a detour to the right, and leav- i
j lc -! ing the enemy's cauip far to his left, he j
stiuck into the road leading from Fairfax,
southward to the railroad, This avenue j
was guarded like the rest but by a picket |
only, and Mosby knew thoroughly how to
deal with pickets. Before the sleepy and
unsuspicious Fcderals were aware of their j
danger, they found pistols presented to I
their heads, with the option of surrender
or death presnted to them.. Theysurren- ;
charge j
and without further ceremony, Mosby and
his band entered the town. The lateness |
of the hour compelled him to make his
dispositions rapidly and enjoining
pletc silence, he set to work in earnest. 1
The small hand was divided into detach
ments, with special duties assigned to,
each. Two or three of these detachments ;
engage in mercantile pursuits.
Gen. Gardner, we notice, lias "taken up a
his residence here, and gone into business, 1
along with Gen. Bragg, who was chief of!
staff to Kirby Smith.
The Richmond papers intimate
Gen. Joe Johnston will Fcceive the ap
pointment of president of one ot the
principal railroads companies .in Alabama
or Georgia.
Gen. Ilardee was ihe recipient, iu Mo
bile tlie other day, of a handsome compli
ment in the shape of a dinner, tendered
him by several of the U. S. Army officers
oti duty at that post.
Gen. Longstreet, who arrived in Mo
bile a few days ago, has been pardoned
com- b A' tbe President. *
Gen. Lee will enter upon his duties as
President of Washington College, Ya., in
a few days
Jubal Early is an applicant for pardon.
were sent to the public stable*, where the j Fr01£ * hat '‘ e£ee in the P n P crs llis friends
fine horses of the General and his staff j apprehend Jubal won’t get out of his
crape as soon as he desires.
Gen. Forrest is reported by one of our
\ I)0 -] ler t0 Colonel exchanges- to be managing a saw-mill
somewhere in the interior of Mississippi.
Gen. Stewart who commanded a corps
t 0 in Hood’s army, we are informed, designs
officers were kept. Another party was ,
sent to Gen. Wyndhani’s headquarters to j
take him prisoner.
Johnson’s with simil r orders. Taking
six men with him, Mosby, who proceeded
upon sure information, went stra;
>ht
And while v>
Fjioii the lip.-
You'll take
■nr tears arc fi.lli ig hot
; u liicli answer not,
from thosconetreasarcd tress,
And leave the rest to silentness
lleiiitmberir.g that 1 used to say,
‘•You'll think of this a j ■
some
Some
A Botxpg’ IJ other.
Ba-a-a i ” shrieks a half naked
of about cigh'eeti months old.
me
matter with mamma’s
“ What
tlnveet little ducky ? ”
mother while she presses it to her bosom,
ntul the young sarpint’ in return digs his
unwashed talons in her face.
“ Ha, den, missis 1 knows what littla .
masse Jim wants now,” exclaims the
cherub’s negro nurse.
“'Well, \mi black hussy! why don't
vott tell me then? and the infuriated
mother gives the servant a douse in the.
chops with her shoe.
“ Why, he wants to put his foot in that
thar pan ob gravy whats coolin’ on etc
liarf,” whimpers the biaekey:
“ Well, why don’t you bring it lie-re,
you aggravating nigger?” demands the
mother of the bawling youngster,
Dinah brings thc'gravy, and little Jim
•puts his feet in the pan, dashing the milk
warm grease about his thweet. jilutnpy
little shanks to the infinite amusemeut of
his mother, who tenderly exclaims :
j)id motntnou's yittle Dimtny want to
put his teeny-weeny ibotseys in the gravy?
it shall paddle waddle in the pm as
much as it ehoosey-wooscys ; and then it
shall have its pooty red frocky wocky on,
and go and see its papy yappy.’
A Western pettifogger once broke forth
in the following indignant strain :
>ir. we’re enough for ye, the hull of
ye. Me and my client can't never be in
timidated nor tyranized over; main that.
And. sir. just so sure as this court sine.-
against us, wo il Ule a writ ot progan ■ r,
sir; and we ’ — (
him except a brief note to serve as a
voucher ol his identity and reliability.—
Wi.h tliis note he proceeded on his jour
ney, and, stopping at Beaver Dam station,
on the Yirginia Central Railroad, to res
and feed bis horse, was, while quietly
tin
ed and bagged by. a detachment of the
enemy’s cavalry. Now, to be caught thus
napping, in an unguarded moment, was
gall and wormwood to the brave scout.—
lie had deceived and outwitted the enemy
so often, had escaped from their clutches
so regularly up to that time, that to find
himself surprised filled him with internal
rago. From that moment h:s?'sentiments
the headquarters of Brigadier General ' coming to New Orleans to practice ftw.
Gen. Maarudcr is reported to be in
Stoughton, a Vermonter, and terrific
of Mars, a graduate of West Point, and a | Germany, with his family.
suppress-the rebelHon-in-ninety-days’inan. j
He had just been assigned to the command f
. Y of tile post, and much was expected from
- . i a brigadier of such ardor and good to the
n the platform at the depot, surplus- r ^
service.
“Twas midnight in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece her knee in supplianec bent
Should tremble at his power.’’
Mosbv entered
Gen. John G. Walker is in England—
it is reported.
Kirby Smith, at last dates, was at Mat-
atizus in bad health.
Gen. Hindman is practicing law in
Mexico.
Wc catch a glimpse now and then, on
the street, of several other officers, who
prosperity as a political organization has
always depended, and does now depend,
ou the amount of exasperation and ill-
blood which they can keep up between
the sections. They know and they ex-
that P rcssl >’ a J»‘i ttbat rite entire harmony and
uuion of the States, no matter on what
terms it might be accomplished, would
meet any calamity rather than face the
horrors of perfect peace, Decause in time
of perfect peace they could not exist as
a party any more than the functions of
animal life could go on under an exhaust
ed receiver. They arc, therefore, very
sincere and devout when they pray God
that the Union may not be restored, and
now, since slavery is abolished, they are
as industrious as ever in finding •ether
causes of quarrel.
They propose to bold the Southern
States in absolute bondage They would
not govern them at all, for government
implies law of some kind. The Southern
people are to he disposed of without the
slightest reference to the Constitution,
or to any law, State or national. They
must have no voice in the regulation of
their Federal duties or in the administra
tion of their local attars. When they
laid down their arms, it is to be deemed
and taken that they submitted not to the
Government of the United States that
is, to the Constitution and laws—but to
the mere will of the dominant party in the
North. They shall have no representa
tion in Congress, and no vote for Presi
dent. They are not only to be denied all
political privileges, but their natural right
to life and property, which the Declara
tion of Independence declares to be' in
alienable, will also be taken from them
With regard to life, Mr. Stevens says he
has not yet made up his mind how many
its aff. ctionate t0W:irJ thc cncil, - v 5ncrca ' c<1 ,n . ,nU>nsU ' V ’ ward the bed, iu the dark, the parlisa
held the rank of Brigadier or Major Gen
his chamber without j n ^] 1C ] a * c Confederate Army, who are , are to die, but when he does come to a
ceronsenv, and found him reposing in all i, ;in ] a t work nowat one or another branch '< conclusion on that subject we may expect
the dignity and gravity of a Brigadier 0 f business. The majority of them are I the slaughter to begin. What form it
old residents, either *>f the city or th
State.
iteneral Commanding, whose person and
slumbers are saerefl. Making his way to
They had been all along decidedly un- j
■ friendly. Now they were bitter. They
, took him away with them, searched him,
! and filched his credentials and published; u .- a,ia
them as an item of interest in the North-;
j evn papers, and immured the partisan in i
I the (did Capitol. In due course of time'
he w s exchanged an* returned with a ;
new Satchel and an increase of affection
I tor hi* enemies, lie laughed at his mis- j
| fortunes, but set down the account to the
credit of the enemy, to be settled at a
more conv< uient opportunity.
Previous to the 8’th uf March, It?G3,
Col. Moshy had put himself to much j
trouble to discover the strength and posi
tion of the enemy in Fairfax County, with
the design of making a raid in that diive-
tion. .Aside from his own efforts, a de
serter from the Filth New Fora. Lav airy,
who afterward became very distinguished
in the Command, aud was subsequently
killed, was instrumental in getting the
following information i On the Little Riv
er Turnpike, at Germantown, a tniie or
two ffioiii Fairfax Court ilouse. were three
regiments cf thc enemy’s cavalry com
manded by Col. \\ yndhaui, Acting Brig
adier General, with his headquarters at
the Court House. Y> it Inn a few hun
dred yards of the town were tw3 infantry
regiments. In the vicinity of Fairfax
Station, about two miies off, an infantry
brigade was encamped,and at Ceutieviilc
there «a' another infantry brigade, .v.ltli
hook him suddenly by the shoulder.
“Who is that?” growled thc sleepy
i Hon. William B. Astor works like a
man for his “ victuals aud clothes” will
be seen from the following paragraph,
taken trom a New York par>er:
No bank clerk on the salary of a thou-
“ Do vou know who I am.?” cried the sand dollars a year goes to his hank as
bri** - .; setting up in the bed with a scowl, regularly, or works as rnauy hours as \\ ut.
“ Get up quick, l want you,
dec! Mosby.
resnon-
• I’ll have vou arrested, 8ir.”
torled
wilFtake wc are not told, except that thc
! victims arc not to have a judicial trial—
! that is scouted as a mere absurdity —
1 Those who are spared will be monuments
of mercy, and those who arc killed are to
be killed because they have no right to
their lives. As to the right of property,
that is clean entirely out of the question,
and is not acknowledged for a moment.—
The Chancellor of their Exchequer has
actually sat down aud calculated how
much of their lands and goods he will
1>. Astor who counts up his forty millions.
His little one story office a step or two
front Broadway, on Piiuce street, and its take, and what the value of them will be.
iron bars make it resemble a police pr!s- He cyphers it up to three thousand mil-
ou, is the den where he performs his daily lions of dollars ! All this property is to
toil, and cut qf his wraith anil labor gets be taken without reference to the person-
only “ his victuals and clothes.” lie at- al guilt or innocent of the indtviual own-
Tliat is palpable on the face of the
i4 Do you know who I am ?
M osby.
*• Who are you ? ”
Did you ever hear of Mosby ? ”
“ Yes ! Tell me, have you caught the
rascal ? ”
« Xo • but he has caught you!” And tends personally to alt his business, knows : ers
Mosby chuckled. every dollar of rent or income that is to ! proposition itself. A man who owns two
“ What docs all this mean,Sir?” cried i become due, pays every dollar, makes his hundred acres of land, or has personal
thc furious brigadier. . j entries in his own hanfl, and obliges his property worth ten thousand dollars,
“ It means, Sir,” Mosby replied coolly, i subordinates to come to him l'or informa-! shall he stripped of his all, but his neigh
« t h a t Stuart’s Cavalry have possession of tion while he does not go to them. He \ bor, who has less, may keep what he has,
this place, and you are tny prisomr
up and cou.e along, or you are a dead „ . ,
man " closely absorbed in business until five cent, but that is not the quest on; the
The general groaned in anguish of soul, j o’clock. lie rarely takes exercise, and value of their respective estates is the
but was compelled to obey, and tbe parti- | finds his pleasure in the closest attention only inquiry that is made. W by this
san mounted, and placed him under guard | to business. A friend of mine rode to distinction? I declare I don t know, un-
His staff and escort were captured without Washington with him in the same car less it be that one is worth robbing, and
difficulty, but two ot the former, owing to I from New York, lie neither spoke nor the other is not. " 1
Get j generally comes dowu in the omnibus at and may be guilty, and the other inr»o-
ati early hour in the day and remains cent, or both may be guilty, or both irnio
Women and children.
fens^less people in a time of profound
peace under the patronage of the Federal
Government. When you recollect by
whom and how this proposition is made,
it becomes a melanuholly evidence of the
extent to which a people can be demoral
ized by civil war. It is advocated in pub
lic by men who are seeking the favor of
thc people, and paraded as a fundamental
article in the creed of a political party.—
No doubt they think they can gain a pop
ularity and win votes by it. If they do,
they must believe the public iBorals*"to be
tiioroughly debauched.
This comes of making a saint out of
John Brown. President Johnson, in a
speech which he made in 1860, said in
substance (l do not propose to give his
words) that the character of a people
might be learned from the gods they
adored; The Abolitionists worshiped a
thief, and the worshipers would, of neces
sity, be the imitators of his moral quali
ties. They have got on more rapidly thaD
thc President thought they would.—
Brown concealed his designs or cautiously
whispered them into the ear of his accom
plices; but his present disciples unhesi
tatingly avow their intention to imitate
him on a. scale so grand that his thefts
seem mere petty larceny by comparison
The legal theory on which their scheme
is based, is as absurdly false as thc scheme
itself is indecent aud shameless. They
do not stupify themselves by assertin
that they find any warrant for it in the
Constitution. Nor do they get it in the
war power ; for that power, according to
their own loose definition of it, is ground
ed by military necessity, and m ist cease
of course when the war ceases. But they
allege that the Southern States went le
gally out of the Union, have been out
ever since, and are out now, and must stay
out notwithstanding all chat was expended
in trying to keep them in. Theyarecon-
qured aliens. The attitude of the North
ern and Southern States toward one an
other is in their view no other than that
of two separate countries, between whom
there has been a war; thc more powerful
having invaded thc weaker and beaten its
defenders. Now admit all this to be true,
does it follow, as they say it does, that the
inhabitants ol the conquered teritory have
lost all their rights of private property?
May they be plundered after the war is
over? No; by the law of nature, by the
law of nation.-, by the public law of thc
world ; the private property of the con
quered people is as sacred as it was be
fore ; the laws that protect it arc undis
turbed ; and whosoever steals it commits
precisely the same crime that he would be
guilty of if no war had ever been made.
It is thc first duty of the conquering party
to provide for the security of this right,
and it is tbe universal practice of all civ
ilized and Christian countries to do so :
you cannot find an example to the con
trary without going back to the depths
of barbarism. No nation can now make
war upon another, subdue it, and after it
is disarmed and powerless, deliver the in
habitants to be sucked and pillaged, with
out bringing upon thc bead of the offen
der the execrations of the whole earth.
Even in time of open and fragrant war,
private property is held to be sacred.
One belligerent party may take the pub
lic property of tbe other, to cripple the
d hardly moved Mr. Stevens says, may be driven into exile, commerce of an enemy ; F'vate property
That they may, and robbed into may also be taken as a lawful prize, it
An orphan six months old,, found on the high seas. But n> buc
the darkness and contusion; made their j ^ot out of his seat, an
eictne. The other parties were loss sue- trom Jersey City to Washington. lie | Aye!
ces-ful Wyndham had gone to usually leaves his office at five o’clock, the bargain.
Wa«h?U"tou, but his A. A. G. and aid-de- and walks slowly up Broadway to Lalay- if it comes within this rule, will not^ be prize
camp were made prisoners. Col. Johnson J ate place.
Here he was inter- eavalry and artillery. Thus the way to
having received notice, cf the presence j heavily
Jed in makin
lie is over six feet high, very ! spared—they may take the clothes off its
built, with a decided .German little body, and tbe spoon it is fed with.j vaded ^ err-tor J^
taken when war is raging, it wot
be a most an pardonable atrocity to U»o
it afterward.
There are bat two instances in modern
history where a government has in time
of war deliberately ordered the destruc
tion or capture of private property thro’-
out a large district; one was the order
given by Lourois, the French Minister
under Louis XIV., to devastate the Pala
tinate; the other was the case of oar
— j«own Government, when Gen. Sheridan
was directed to make the Valley of the
Shenandoah a desert waste. The excuao
given for both these acts was that th®
governments committing them gained
thereby certain military advantages which
otherwise they could not have had. I do
not believe it will be accepted by either
God or man, though it may be Borne palli
ation of the horrible cruelty inflicted.—
But thc Abolitionists propose to issue
their order without a military reason of
any kind, in a tiqne ot profound peace,
to organize a regular system of pillage
over a country nearly as large as all Eu
rope. If it were carried out as proposzd
the blackest national crime that history
has yet recorded would look beside this
one like au act of white-robed innocenee.
But apart from all moral considerations,
what does it promise as a mere matter of
policy? Wlfat will we gain by it in
money to compensate for tha loss of na
tional character ? The amount to bo
plundered ia three thousand milliona of
dollars. To maintain the necessary num
ber of agents and an army large enough
to back them would probably cost about
one thousand millions per annum. Mr.
Stevens does not propose to reduce the
public expenses below five hundred mil
lions. Even accotding to his own account
the sum received will be spent in six years.
But the expenses would really be twice
as great, and the returns of plunder would
be little or nothing. You can easily see
how cheating would be done both ways.
The property of the Southern people
could not be handed over to the Treasury
in kind. The lands and horses and fattle
and other goods must be sold and convert
ed into money or greenbacks. What
man is silly anough to believe that this
would be honestly done ? Only two day*
ago a case came to my knowledge in which
plantation in Louisiana had been
sold on account of the United States for
nine thousend dollars ; it was known to
be worth three hundred and fifty thou
sand as well as one dollar is worth anoth
er. About two and a half per cent, of its
value went to the public use and the bal
ance into the pockets of the agents that
managed the affair. You all know how
an Abolition general took sixty thousand
dollars in gold and pretended that he had
taken it for the United States—but the
Treasury never saw a cent of it. That
same general is a violent and noisy sup
porter of Mr. Steven's plan, and would
probably be employed carrying it out.—
I could not enumerate, and non# of us
can conceive, the ten thousand devices
that would bo amployed to put this prop
erty into the possession of private parties,
without cost to them. Who would bid
fur it? Not Southern men; for they are
to be impoverished utterly, and even if
they could command the means of pur
chasing back their own property, they
cculd not hold it, for those who took it
the first time might take it again. The
greedy speculators would flock there like
vultures and make themselves a close cor
poration. If the agents of the Govern
ment were as honest as Arutides they
could not get a mark of their wares. But
would not the agents send home the
watches, jewelry, paintings, pianoe and
other portable property without account
ing for it ? And would they not be iu
partnership with the bidders, and in com
bination with one another to reduce the
price of everything that was sold? Would
not general corruption and dishonesty be
the neccessary outgrowth of the principle
which lies at the foundation of the whole
measure ? When one party employs an
other to rob a third onr, how can the
agent be expected to understand tbe mor
al difference between keeping the proceed#
himself and handing them over to hi#
principal? There is no difference When
the property is onee taken from the true
owner, one man has as good right to it au
another. _ 1
Of the three thousand milliona which
Mr. Stevens proposes to take, nobody hot
a simpleton would expect to see five per
cent, come into the Treasury. In a single
year, an honest and fair equal system of
taxation would get twice that amount out
of the Southern States, and the goose
which lays that golden egg would still be
alive.
Bat we must give the South the bene
fit of a legal government for another
reason far more weighty than any consid
eration of pecuniary interest. If justice,
according to law, be not administered to
them, we cannot have it either. If they
can be made on land, the goods or
lands of the people found within the ln-
not to be taken for the : are to be mere slaves, we cannot possibly
rupted. by the counsel, who wanted to . Fairi-x LYurt llou.se,"the poiut which the
know what he meant by a writ of progan- Colonel do Ted to reach, seemed com-
Meati? whv, sir, a writ of pro- pleiely blocked up.
* jt s a Wal, The •• situation would have appeareu ;
the' exact word, desperate to.almost any one, however ad ;
c ,f venturous; but danger and adventure had J
attract’; t.s for M -by, ana t!* temptation ble commissary
his 1 look itnall hazy eves as if he was Laif Why? Not becanse-dhe child has com- mere purpose of gam
no toox. smalt nazy eves »» * J . . . , i, aT , en9 to violated on one excuse or another, such as
I asleep, head round as a pumpkin, and nutted any sin, but became it hapen *
tier.) ‘
gander is a-
1 don't remember now
but it’s what wi 1 knock thunxor out
\ouf one liorsv court, any how.
of the patty, succee
escape.
It was now half-past three in the inorn-, about as destitute of hair,
in-—barely time left him to get out of ! ingly hospitable, aud in
Hues before daylight, and gives a dinner to hi- friends weekly, at the temptation to appropriate H.
I which the rich st Viands on services of pose
the enemy s
none was to be lost.
He had intended to destroy the valua j gmd and silver are
mi sutlers’ store? jn the ' servants to bis guc
This rul# is often | be free. Mr. Seward and Mr. Lincoln,
j in the canvass of 1860, and hefor# it,
„ - , . . , ./r T^rr^DertrS^uch the "necessity of taking supplies, the dif-; repeatedly said that African slavery must
Yn/thaTtbe*Abolitionist, cannot forego ficult, of nalraiing troop., or tke right > sboli.b«d in the South or Mt.bh.hed
lue th.t ad " ■ o( rru|bdon Bllt , he , tTJ ,b.t in the Jiorth-the State, muat be ell
aTidow’to" become* the object if ,p.lo 3 iee are cede prove, what th. mom ' .lore or all free. ThU ..id cacero.
hThTried IheTr delicate attention,. The, do no. 0. the worid i, eooceroiog the * If log
p ' .... "to it be true that private property cannot be (Continued on ronrtn A aye.]
the “ season
■ inquire irtto her history even so far as