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QUITMAK, OEO.»J|
miOAV, MAY 2«, IH«S.
, .
jtjr New Schf.ch’i.i-By reference to
the notice published in to-day's paper, it
will be aeon that anew schedule for the
running of passenger train* on the At
lantlc and Gulf Railroad, went into oper
ation on Monday last. The present nr
rangenient is a decided improvement on
tile recent night schedule.
tW John Pfrckm.'* New Store.—lt nf
ford* ti* pleasure to announce to pur
friends that Mr. John Purcell ha* remov
ed to hi* new brick store, and received j
one of the finest and most complete
stock* of groceries ever brought to Quit
man. Mr. Purcell need* no reoommen- ■
datum from us : he i* well known, as a ;
clever, industrious and persevering gen-j
tlernnn. He ha* all the "good tilings of j
life," wherewith frail mortality love* to
Indalgc the appetite, that arc usually
kept by grocer* ; and, "iu the rear,” may
lie found the Bar, fitted up in regal style,
supplied with choice liquor*, wines, ales,
JSic ,—whore he may alway* tc found,
rea<ly to arrc»t hunger or slake thirst.
Wo advise all who love good eating and
drinking, admire genuine politeness, and
are desirous of procuring fine bargains,
to go to Pircei.i.’s —and he will never
fail to "help you up the hill !”
I) B, CUimon. & (Jo.—*We do not
wish to appear partial, but it lias ever
been our desire to “ HUidar unto ('wear !
the thing* that are Ciesar’s” ; and with
this sole object in view, having discover
ed the fact that the above named firm are |
the most reliable and clever merchants
iu the town of Quitman—that they are
courteons arid accommodating—that they
keep the most general stock—that their
goods are the very best in the market—
and that they sell as cheap as any one—
we cannot refrain Irym letting the read
era of the Banner into the secret, so that
they may he "posted,” and when they
visit town, know where to go to spend j
their tm ney, and get full value for the
samo. I), B. Carroll & Co’s store is the
place. Remember it, ami tell your neigh ]
bore ol the same.
Pinei> iiv (JoiNcn..—Four young
gentlemen of Qni u an, were "up” before
fjouncil (an institution we thought had
'departed this life’ many weeks ago,) qn
last Monday, for shooting at a target
within the incorporated limits. The plea
advanced, in extenuation, was, that they
believed the ordinance forbidding shoot
rug within the town limits, had been
made null aud void, —as fire arms were
discharged daily iu deiianco of said ordi
nance, and no notice was taken thereof.
The Council, notwithstanding, fined them
•each in the sum of five dollars.
See the card of these gentlemen in
another column.
Important Queries.
The Milleogevtllo Recorder propounds
several important queries : among them
are, Ist, "Can amendments be made to
the Federal Constitution by a provisional
State government, when the State has
not been restored to its former position
and powers TANARUS” 2nd, “ Would its pas
sage of the 14th Constitutional amend
ment, under such circumstances, be bind
ing ?”
Those are. important ideas, and will,
perhaps, at a future day, receive correct
interpretations from the true representa
tives of constitutional government. The
adoption of the amendment by a provi*
tonal legislature, would be equally as
constitutional and bind ng, as tho milita
ry reconstruction of the Southern States
by Congressional enactments.
Important Cliauae.
A dispatch from Washington, on the
18th, says that Cabinet changes are pen
ding, and it is asserted that the new
Cabiuct will tend to harmonise Congress
and tho President-, and that tho Presi
dent will cease obstructing reconstruc- i
tion on the Congressional plan, the pro
gress of events having rendered his own
impossible now, aud the material inter
ests of the South requiring immediate
representation of some kind.
This intelligence is somewhat start
ling, and a number of our cotcuiporarios
express grave doubts as to the reliabili
ty of tho statement. For ourself, we
•re constrained to believe that it is true
—that the President designs abandon- 1
iug bis original policy of reconstruction,
and accepting that of Congress. Os
course by this change of policy he will
stultify all his former pretensions of pa
triotism, and great desire to protect and
defend the Constitution; but it must be
remembered, that this will not be the
first occasional! which Andrew Johnson
"deserted to the enemy.” Such a course
is characteristic of the man.
ftaT Ex-Gov. Joseph K. Brown left
Atlanta on the 18th, for Chicago, as a
delegate to the National Republican Con
volition, which met in that city on the
?ftth for the purpose of nominating a
President aiui Vice President.
Tlie New Slate Coweiimient.
Presuming that the result of the late ]
election, determines the question of a i
new order of things in t c government j
of Georgia, wo look with great inter- ■
est for the legislation to be had, the j
character of the men to bo elevated to
office, and the general policy to be pur
sued by our new raters.
The Executive is clothed with extraor
dinary powers, ami it rests with him, in
a great measure, to restore prosperity to
our State, or to increase the present
gloom, burthens and oppression. If lie
desires to clothe Georgia with her origi
nal prosperity, and make his administra
tion popular and satisfactory to the mass
es, he will, from the hour of irfuogura
tion, know no party, hut the <joo<l of the
j/eojje. And with such laudable desire,
i the high and honorable positions of trust
and responsibility, wiil not be filled by
partisans, but by men of high-toned, in
] tellcetua! capacity, selected from among
! the good and wise—some of whom have
for years, abandoned the arena of pnliti
-1 cal life, and saught repose in retirement, j
—and now have loathing for the modern
scramble of Lilliputians for the spoils ol
office ; iu other words, in the .bestowal
of office, it is hoped that Gov. Bullock
will not make j/olilical opinion a nine p a
non-
I.et the Judges, by all means, be men
of integrity, honest impulses, free hum
immorality of every kind, of sound judg
ment, and fully conversant with consti
tutional law. Let the Solicitors be men
who will do their duty fearlessly and
without favor, partiality, or vindictive-'
■ ness. Let every office within the gilt of
] the Exccu.ive, be filled by men xann xus
'■ pirio —let them be gentlemen of known
: worth, moral integrity, und of tried abil
ity-
j By thus pursuing a statesmanlike pol
(icy—taking for his guide of action, the
| welfare, happiness, and prosperity ot the
people—Gov. Bullock, who will be inau
gurated amid thunders of curses from a
; vast majority of the white population 6(j
I tho State, may close his administration
i amid the plaudits of tens of thousands,
! who will freely award to him, “well done
! good and faithful.”
The following sensible remarks on this
i subject, we find in a sterling democratic
! journal, published at Dalton :
“ It. B. Bullock is elected Governor for
four years to come. Though ho may en-
I tertain opinions, politically, very dis
j tasteful to a large majority of the intel
j ligent white people of the State, yet we,
1 Iu the management of this paper, shall
• make no war upon him for his opinions,
jWe give liitn an open field in which to
| commence his gubernatorial march. Let
him tiring to his irid the age and wisdom
of the State—men of no extreme views
|on either side. Let him counsel with
the moderate, the wise, and the good,
• and prosperity, confidence and security
wifi soon rake the place of the present
; uncertainty, distrust and anticipated dis
! order. Mr. Bullock has a gigantic task
1 before him, if peace, prosperity and con-
I tentment arc soon to fill our borders,
j This, wc presume, he understands. II
j so, ho will divest himself of his personal
j individuality, and he the Governor of the
groat State in wisdom, justice and mud
; oration.”
THE LEGISLATURE.
According to the returns of the late
election, as published in the papers of
the State, it is inferred that the Radicals
• have a decided majority in the Login I a
tine. It may he true ; hut vve are satis
fied that a number of the members elect,
• who are branded " Radicals,” have no
sympathy whatever with the extiemo
| measures of that party. They are con
servative in their opinions, and desirous]
for reconstruction and peace. They fa
vored the ratification of the constitution,
not because they are of opinion that it
is unobjectionable, but for the reason,
they have satisfied themselves, that the
pros nt reconstruction policy of Com*
i gress, and the constitution framed in a •
! cnrdanco therewith, are the best over
tures that will be tendered the people if
this State. Tho Radical party therefore,
have no stronger claim upon many of
the "so-called” ladical members, than
the mere fact, that they were favorable;
to the constitution ; ami for thus excr-i
i cising the right of free born citizens,
they have been read ont of the democrat
ic ranks, by extremists, and proclaimed
to be enemies of the South.
; Under these circumstances, we lmvc
doubts in reference to the Radical party
having a majority in the Legislature, on j
joint ballot ; and its TRUK status will not
1 be ascertained until a test vote has been
I taken.
Newspaper Chance. —The Macon
Telegraph has changed hands, and is
now under the management of -Messrs.
Jose pli Clieby and W. A Reid. Mr. C.
is an old newspaper man, thoroughly
conversant with the business, and one of
the most powerful ami ready writers in
the State, lie is the riginal founder,
wo lie lie vc, of the Telegraph.
The bill admitting several South
ern States, passed the House the other
day with the following proviso : "That
the provision of the seventeenth section
of the Constitution of the State of Geor
gia shall not apply to a debt due to any
person, who during the whole of the time
of the late rebellion was loyal to the
United States and opposed to secession.
IMREACHMENT DEFEATED. j
On last Saturday the High Court of
Impeachment came to tv vote on the j
eleventh article, which, by general con
sent, seems to embrace the gist of the,
entire indictment and the President was
acquited, on that, article, by a vote of
34 to 19. The Senate itself evidently
considers the entire impeachment pro
ceedings at an end, lor immediately sifter
the result of the vote was taken a motion
prevailed, to adjourn until tho 26th
in*t.
The substance of Article eleven is as
follows:
Article XI. That he declared iu, a ;
public speech in Washington, August
18, 1866, that the Thirty-ninth < ongiess
was not a constitutional Congress ol the
United States, but a Congress of part ol
the States; thus denying the validly of
their legislation, except so far as he
choose to approve it; and, in pursuance j
of this declaration, attempted to prevent
the execution of the Teriure-of-Office act,
by unlawfully contriving means of pre
venting Edwin M Stanton from resum
ing the office of Secretary of War, when
the Senate had refused to concur in his
S suspension and also attempted to pie
i vent the execution of the Appropriation
act of March 2, 1861, (as in Article 9);
and also of the act of March the 2, 1867,
] ‘|br the efficient government of the rebel
States;” thuscohruitting a misdemeanor
in office.
This settles the matter. Impeachment
is dead under the present indictment;
and the country should hold in high es
teem i hose few Republican Senators who
stood true to Constitutional liberty in
defiance of threats of personal and polit
ic® injury, and in the face of the most
powerful pressure.
I The Holme of Representatives, lmwcv
cr, appear determined to remove the
President, right or wrong. On the 17th
resolutions were introduced setting the
Impeachment managers ut work again,
no doubt preparatory to preferring fresh
charges?* The preamble reads as fol
lows:
“Whereas, information haw cone to
the Managers which seems to them l
furnish probable cause to believe tba l
improper or corrupt influences have been
us and to influence the du-teiruination <>l
the Senate upon the articles of impeach
ment, exhibited to the Senate by the-
Hotlße of Representatives against the
President of the United States,” etc:
* A CARD.
The undersigned retain thanks to ilieir un
lenotm friends, for the kind (though unasked)
interest manifested in their behalf. \vh*n so un
justly dealt with by the -‘City Authorities.”
They believed the tine assessed against them was
unjust and prompted by malice, and therefore
resolved not to pay the same- -but their frienus
have trustrated their design by paying said line
And although they very milch regret the inter
ference, (which, no doubt, was prompted by
friendship,) they nevertheless hereby extend
to their unknown friends many thanks for Ihe
manifestation of a kindly interest in their wel
fare ; and trust, (it an early day to be able to
discover the kind Samaritans, and make full
restitution. •
We also extend to Col. W. A. I.ane our sin
cere thanks, for his disinterested exertions in
our behalf. This is not the first occasion on
which his noble mind revelled at acta of injus
tice and petty oppression ; nor is jt first in
which he stoodTorth the champion ot Truth and
Justice. May Be live to a ripe old age over
remain a true Counsellor—and, when die he
must, may he go down to tho grave covered
with honors.
In conclusion : We over desire to respect, and
will never tail to aid in the enforcement of the law
when properly administered ; hut htver, no,
never, will wo submit to injustice, for the pur
: pose of satiating petty revenge.
J. TIintMON,
M. C. O'NUITi.
t>. A. MeINTOSII.
J.YB. M. RHODES,
j Quitman, May tilth, 18(18.
( trained like Dogs.
The Pensacola Observer, of a recent
date says that “seven young gentlemen
from Greene connlv, Ala., were prisoners
aboard the Lavaca, which touched at
the wharf yesterday, On their \v ty to the
Dry Tertugas. They were manacled and
chained together, and guarded by sixteen
] bayonet. l ?. They were sentenced by n
] military court, sitting at Selma, to bard
I labor for cite and two years. The hein-
I oils crime for which they were convicted
: as we have understood, was that one of
; the young men struck a "carpet bagger,”
by the name of Hid—a miserable orea
! ture, who is said to have I men expelled
j from the Masonic fraternity and the;
Methodist ministry, for stealing hogs
bom his neighbors. They were all young
men of high respectability and refine-'
ment To see those seven young South
ern gentlemen standing on the deck ot
that steamer chained like dogs, was well ,
calculated to cause the blood to boil and
seethe and the heart to throb with emo
lions which we are compelled to conceal
for fear that an expression of them might
condemn us to a like punishment.”
A late dispatch informs us that Gen.
Meade has pal'd ned the foregoing y ting
men.
On the 7th inst. a cyclone passed over
a portion of Davidson and Williamson
counties, south of Nashville, Tenn- Ils
path was half a mile wide and for some
ten miles houses, trees and fencing on
the route were destroyed. A Mr. Ohtim
bly and one ot bis children were killed
and his wife and three other
children wore badly injured. The;
house they were in was lifted up and ]
carried a distance of 300 yards. Other
buildings in the path of the cych m
were badly injured, but nu other persons
were lost.
Still Another Ffira<lise
A letter from Dr. Powhatan Jordan, in i
the San Antonio Herald, represents the
writer as thinking that he has "at last -
found tlje place.” He writes from Santo
Tomas, Guatemala, in Central America.
The government professes to be a repub
lic. The President holds iiits office for :
life and appoints his sotcessor. All |
political, mil'tary and civil officers, ex- j
cept members of Congress and A ice j
President, are appointed. The exceptions,
are elected by the people. None but a
native Central American can be Pres •
dent ; to all other positions every citizen >
whether of native or foreign birth, is eli
gible. Every owner of land, which ev
ery one may become on going to the
country, is a citizen. Every officeholder ]
has to be wortlija certain amount of prop-;
erty, varying, according to the impor
tance of the office, from $5,000 down. A ,
property qualification of some S2OO or I
S3OO is necessary to enable a person to
vote; and, after the year 1870, every vo-j
ter must 1 e able to read and write.
The Catholic Church is established, j
| but all forms of religion are tolerated. t
The government is very favorable to i
I immigration, amt gives all immigrants
both a town lot as a residence and lands :
for farming Several American fa mi lie* i
| now reside at Santo Tomas. As soon as
the colony has enough settlers, all dis-i
i trict officers will be selected from among !
1 the colonists, and they will he entitled to ;
! representation in Congress. The Doc- j
1 tor aaVr:
My brother in-law and mj'self and all
j the others have plantations of half a]
j league, (about 2.200 acres.) and each o! ;
ns one entuo block (about one acre) in .
this town; the single men have less land
1 ami only one lot in town; each town
j block contains (according to the size, I
I some larger than others') from five to i
j eight lots. These lands we pay nothing
for, exc pt surveying and two or three
and il'ais ollic fees
This is a IV c port; wo have no duties
to pay, no laxe- to pay (except what j
we make ourselves in the corpora ;
tion,) no military or ot - nty, cun enl
tivate the Soil or follow other pmsiiits,
aud everything we make is ours, and the
money is gold or silver no paper of any
sort in the country; all coin passes here,
and American gold is wortli a premium
J in Bulize.
The climate is perpetual spring-every
thing glows and vegetation is perpetu
al.
Every night we use a light blanket,
never use mosquito bars, and can wear
in the daytime linen or light woolen or
flat el clothing. V'e have no snakes,
nor bouse flii s, nor fleas, and no annoy
ances that 1 have seen. I have felt just
before sundown a few gnats, which dis
appeared with the sun and these we only
have a few days, in new clearings.
Cotton, sugar, coffee, cacao, tobacco,
rice corn—two crop's a year—vanilla’ in
dtgo, yams, raniie, Sisal hemp, cocoa
nuts, plantains, bananas, pine apples
oranges, lemons, mangoes, figs, grapi s
i aguacate, cabbage, lettuce, tomaloet.
I potatoes, beans, peas, egg plants melons,
1 etc, are among the productions. Fruits
and vegetal les can be had every day in
tho year; and evoiy day sugar cane can
; be cut and ground:
In the woods, we have a variety of
; game, both large and small, and domes
tic fowls, beef, mutton, Ac, in abiln
i dance; all of which do well and keep fat
j all the year. Hogs thrive and are much
, better than in the States, anil some gen
tlemen here from Louisiana say they
have succeeded in making mneh better
biiCnn fl ap they ever did in the Attaka
pas region of that .State.
I shall plant Ik io, and intend to put in
; cacao or coffee, which iu a few years will
1 give me an income without much troul le
and certain every year. Labor is plenty
i and can be controlled; it is not, of course
as good as slaves, but vastly superior to
j the negroes in the States, or the coolies
i of any place 1 have seen
1 Ido not advise, but 1 wish you would
come out. and judge tor yourselves. I
have made my homo here, and would
I like you to be one among us—also all
and Buy of your friends One thing is
certain, you get a home given to y it.
and with one hour’s work a day you can
i make a go >d living ;no one can ev
er suffer; it is the best poor man’s coifn
,> 1 ever saw, and any ono with indus
try or capital can make money—tho a
monnt of money you make of course de
t pends upon the amount of capitol or in
-1 dustry you invest. If you only plant
i one crop it will be sure and come the soil
i will make it, and then yon have only to
; reap it. A ready market : s found here,
u Belize, in Havana, New Orleans, or
Europe—Else planter deciding to which
j place he will dispose of his crop, accord
ing to the quantity and variety lie may
have to sell.
i am .now stating truths, and not 1
wishing to deceive, as I wish inv tricuds
who may come this wuj extend their
i rrip this far, Hum Balize, (125 miles)
and look brio to locating, and not be du
I ped by Balize spectators, and their em
ployees. 1 rlttnk it is as near Paradise
as any place 1 ever saw or read of. 1
sometimes think old Dr Johnson must
have been here when lie conceived the
Happy Valley he so beautifully describes
in Kassel as.
Joseph Mayo, the M tyor ->t Richmond,
Yu., whom Gen. Selim as recently
. removed, had held the . Lice for (hteeu
years, except during the short interval
a tier the tall oi the city in 1865. He
held the office of i’uplic Prosecutor for
twenty nine years before lie was elected
Mayor, was a member of the City Coun
cil for thirteen years, and served in the
Legislature for four years. He is 73
years old.
A Knoxville paper ot the 13th
announces that Governor Bruwnlow lias ,
received another very severe shock of
paisey, and it is feared that he will not
recover.
News Items.
The Governor elect itj Louisiana
is a very old man, and should he did in
office the Lieutenant Governor, a je!
black negro, will become the Chief Ex
ecutive.
fit sjgr Col. Forney has tendeicd his]
resignation as Secretary of the State, for
the reason that he desires to ct mment
as he pleases on Senators who refuse to]
[ vote fur the conviction of the President.
The question now on the docket
is, whether tfie Georgia Constitution is
now of force. Who knows ?
Eta).,. The Galconda—emigrant ship of
•the Colonization Society—cleared at Sa
vannah on Thursday with four hundred
and forty six colored passengers all ol
whom propose to settle in the negro colo
’ny of Liberia. The emigrants were
chiefly from Savannah aud Columbus
and their vicinities. We wish them a’
pleasant voyage, and comfortable hous
es in the El Dorado of the East.
Xt?).. A soldier on guard at tbc Bar
racks in Atlanta, killed a negro on the
the 16th, the servant of the sutler.
A negro man named Dick, killed!
I his wife near Shorter depot on the Mnut
i gomery A West Point Railroad, Thurs
day morning at 4 o’clock. He split her
! head open with an axe.
Three car loads of Penitentiary
! bi ds were recently detailed to work on
I the Rome and Selma Railroad They
wore striped jackets, chains, and were
branded G. P.
There is a rumor that Gen. Grant
l declines the nomination of the Chicago
Convention unless the platform conforms
]to his views. Doubtful.
ly-aj- The people of Texas have pretty
j generally abandoned tlte culture of ent
j ton and gone to stock-raising. This
year, hides form the principal article ol
1 commerce, ana in order to keep the sop
! ply equal to the demand, they arc killing
I cattle on the prairies for the hides alone
i for which they obtain 12J cents per
; pound m specie. There is a total ab
sence of "greenbacks” in the interior.
1 Mexican specie is tlie circulating medium
On the coast. Currency is taken at 30
cents on a dollar, hut in the interior it is
refused.
BKgr A poor woman in Prussia lias
[ Jatefy Confessed, cn ler death-bed, to
! having committed a fault thirty years
I ago by substituting her own sou fur the
ison of a countess who had been sent to
! her to 1 e noised 'The false count has
: grown up married a rich lady and is lie
iug on the estate while the true qoiiut
; was brought up in poverty and ignorance
! went out to service, married a plebian,
j and has giicn no signs of noble descent.
A battle was f night near Rogers
| villegTcriii., in November-, 18(53, in which
! the Seventh Ohio Cavalry took part. A
few davs ago according to the Greenville
] (Tenn. )New K"a, a plow boy turned up
I in tlte field a belt containig upward of
sl6 000 in greenbacks in a good state
ol preservation.
i ©asf A Western paper proposes John
Morrissey for the Presidency— not be
j caused be is the most fit, uut because lie
! has “lit” the most.
#3B" The story goes that a prominent
: Radical Congressman from Ohio, lost
: thirty three thousand dollars while
j “fighting the tiger” on last week
S.-® 1 - Rev. John \\ . Gi.knn, a pronti
| limit and venerable clergyman of the
] Methodist Church iu Northern Georgia,
I is dead.
| Terrible foittubtons ot Xaturc in Hawaii.
j Mourn I.,*< A.jain in Fierce Fon.Gon- ,t« /,»-
I viCHsc Vcw t'rnter Fenced 7ce Thcnsend
Karth<[uake SM s-Jjcstrvetire Total Wavt
Loss of Life and Property.
San Francisco, May 7.
j The hark Comet, from the Sandwich
i Islands, brings accounts of a terrible vol
ci nil- eruption by Mauna Lua, which be
I gun ils demonstrations on March 27th.
On the 28th one hundred earthquake
: shocks were felt and during the two
] weeks following to April 13tff, two thou
: sand earthquake shocks occurred. At
I Waischina the cart - opened in many
; places and a tidal wave sixty feet high
1 rose over tnc lops of the cocoo trees tor
Ia quarter of a mile inland sweeping hu-
I man beings, bouses, and everything inov
i able before it. A terrible shock prostra
led churches and houses ami killed many
persons. Ia ail one hundred lives were
] lost besides a thousand horses and eut
i tie. The craters vomited fire rocks, and
lava five or six miles long, flowed fb the
sea at the rate of ten miles per hour,
destroying everything before it, and
forming an Island in the sea. _A new
; crater two miles wide opened and throws
: rocks and streams of fire a thousand feet
j high. Streams of lava rolled to the sea.
Atone time the illumination extended
fifty miles at ni. lit. The lava has press
t-d out from the shore a mile. At Wais
einn, three miles from the shore a conical
island rose suddenly emitting a column
,of steam and smoke, while the Kouo
packet was passing spattering mud on
the vessel. The greatest shock occur
! red April 2d.
Prior to tho eruption there was a great
slmwer of ashes and pain ice. During
the great shock the swinging motion ~1
the earth was so dreadlul that no person
Could stand. In the midst of this trem n
d* ns si uck an eruption of red earth pour
ed down the mountain, rushing across
(he plain three miles in three minutes
and then ceased. Then came, the great
tidal wave and then the streams of lava
The villages on the shore were all des
troyed by this wave. The earth opened
under the sea aud reddened the water.
The earth eruption swallowed thirty
persons ad the sea many more. Great
suffering and terror prevailed in the dis
trict and the whole region was affected.
The sloop Live Yankee lias been dis
patched with provisions, Ac., to rescue
aud relieve.
The Ilonolula correspondent of the
Bulletin gives the details sf the vulcan
ic disturbances showing that the earth
quake shocks extended to all the islands
ut Hawaian group ; but- no damage is
known to have occut red except around
Manna Lua.
Numerous extensive landslips accom
panied the other phenomena, destroying;
life and property. The summit and side
lof a hill fifteen [hundred feet in hegiht,
were thrown a thousand feet over the
tops of trees and lauded in the valley be
low. The gasses that issued afterward
destroyed both vegetable and animal
! life. Bottomless fissures opened in the
I mountain’s side. A lava stream flows
I under the ground, breaking out in four
' jets six miles from the sea and tint wing
lava and stones one thousand gnd fifteen
' hundred feet high.
The new island thrown up is four hun
dred feel high and is now joined Jo the
; main land by a stream of lava a mile
wide
A large stream of water has burst
from the mountain where the earth erup-
{ tion occurred. The base of the volcano
is about thirty miles in circumfcjeftce,
1 and is desolated. At leasftialfa mfTßoti
dollars' worth of property is destroyed.
T-lio King of the Sandwich Islands had
i issued a proe’amation lor the relief of
the sufferers. Matty visitors had gone
from Honoluta and will go from Sau
I Francisco.
• The worst is thought to be over, but
j the lava flow continues. It is a g;aud
I spectacle.
1 TROUBLES WITH MEXICO.
Trouble is brewing with Mexico. It is
stated that on the 21st ult., Messrs. Eru
-1 est Seichardt, Ferris H. Potter, Samuel
j B. Kathrihs, James Montgomery, Zaptha
and Rice, American merchants, Who
were promenading one of the principal
.streets iff Monterey, were arrested by a
squad of the city police, hv order of Gov
Davila. They were flung into a vermiti
: ous dungeon which pouts inert about sev
] eritv of the very scum andi dregs of
: Mexican leprous rrun'n ils and vagabonds
and after a night of Itorn rs two of their
] number were ordered to carry tut and
! empty a tub containing the accumula
ted offal of the proceeding twenty-four
j hoars. Th y tiaiuraliy refused to obey
] this beastly order whereupon Ur; jailor
bade a convicted felon to e 'vvbide them,
j and iu executing Ids command he cut
l hiomrli the. gentleman's clothing and
drew Wood,
Fearing that they might lie flogged
to death the gentlemen dismissed their
scruples r.nd performed the menial task.
Then their four companions were forced
!to take liroulns and clean the cell ami
courtyard of the- prison, the degraded
j at.d brutal jailors meantime heaping tipi
on -t.t ein -every epithet of abuse winch
their grovelling brains could conceive.
'The prisoners Imving been taken before
the Aleade, were lined ten dollars each ;
i but this sum they were uliable to pay
on ilio spot their captors having robbed
them before committing them to the dun
goon Mr. Urlrich,'our Consul obtain
ed their release ; but he could get no
further satisfaction.
Gen. Escobedo, who'wns in the city,
was appealed to but be paid no heed,
while the population as the prisoners
were walking to the Jail, shouted, ‘Death
to Americans F A Mexican gentleman
who was promenading with the Aintri
! cans was arrested, but was released at
1 the prison gate He hastened to the
Govonior's palace to see Davila ; but
when he pressed upon that dignity the
release ol the prisoners lie was again
put under arrest and held in the palace
until the following morning. Tlte Amer
‘can Consul lias sent to Secretary Sew
ard a report ot the indigniti-.-
\vn<ii.G-.kLt; ju'rof.r in northern
ARKANSAS.
1 Mnrctcrcd hy Ids U if,'s Paramour -
] n.e Threats of Pth if OUtM Put The Par
j tics all .Xeijrocs.
On im , lay we were callud upon hy
Mr- L. B. Hurst, of Pocahontas, Ark f who
kindly plan- ij us in possession of the par
j ticnlars of one of the nn st deliberate,
! cold-blooded and barb; irons wholesale
massacres ever perpetrated in this bar
barous laud und age.
Mr Hurst informs us that some twelve
•or fourteen miles northwest of Pocahon
las, and on the edge or in the close va
einity of \\ ild Buck, (sometimes called
Little Cypress Fwamn) is a small hamlet
. inhal ited by f ,about fifty families of ne
groes, who have erected themselves huts
and obtain a precarious subsistance by
' pillaging the lien roosts, and smok^-hous
os of the Comiiionity fur miles around
1 These no, roes are ail armed, and the peo
ple are compelled to subrnil lining plun
dered by them because they arc power
less to resist the black marauders, who
a: e under th - leadership of a black man,
who professes to be a preacher, and they
call their village Lincoln, in honor of the
late President .
Tbc leader i,- name John Cochran and
was forrm rly a slave),if late Judge Leon
ard Cochran, of Desha county, Ark. Ite
is unmarried, but has been performing
the duties of a husband towards the
; wife of Wes Babcock, an ex-soldier, who
; about Christmas, discovered the guilty
i connection, and attempted the life of
’Cochran, who shot and ins ’y killed
! him. Cochran then move-.’ IPs’ effects
] from his own hut ‘ . that ofF murdered
: man, and Ifenee forth lived openly with
the woman. Babcock left several chil
dren, and whether their preSt-nce con
stantly reii itided the guilty couple of
i their crime, nr to furnish their mouths
" i h food required more exertion than
r ehian desired to put forth, their death
was resolved upon. Accordingly, on
Sunday, tiie 20th ult., thej took the
children, four in number, one boy and
• three girls, out into tire swamp, about
i two miles from the hamlet, and cut their
thr ats and buried their bodies.
Ibis fiendish deed was witnessed by an
other negro named Ike Martin, who af
ter wiestling with his conscience a num
ber of days, and conquering bis tear (if
i Cochran, wKo wields almost despotic
power of the colony, 'concluded to lodge
information against the murderers. Ae
; c irdingly, on the 3d instant, he appear
ed iu Pucab.’Utas, and divulged the facts
above stated. A history of the affair,
together with that , f numerous depreda
ti ms of the negroes of Lincoln, rvoro
drawn tip arid forwarded to the military
authorities at Memphis. When our in
formant left Tome nothing had been
i heard from Memphis, hut the citizens
j suppose ami hope soldiers would he sent
] out to arrest the guilty parties, and
break up the don of thieves and murder
’ ers at Lincoln-