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- IJOOIi fanner. - - Editor. 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-