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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE,
JAS. A. WRIGHT, AGENT.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
Titans—Three Dollars a year, io advance
A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.
The Baron Alfred de S., whose mother
now lives in Tonrraine, came to Paris last
winter in ail the pride of title, youth and
fortune. He was soon allured into very
bad company, when he fell in love with an
actress whom he called, in course of time,
Sosie. The baroness, oar young hero’s
mother, did all in her power to put a stop
to the wicked penchants of her son, for a
baron who love* an actress, it is clear, is on
the road to ruin. Her persuasion, advice
and promises were vain ; she told Alfred
that their fortuue was not adequate to his
expenditure, but still the misled youth
took Sosie everywhere ; he had her dressed
up like a doll, and she looked like a doll i
at the races, the opera, aud even in worse
places still.
Sosie liked the life she led, she was very
fond of herself first, and of a little while
pug dog afterwards, but what site enjoyed
above ail things was her elegant open ba
rouche sum; tuously linen with blue satin
and covered with the downiest white rug
in which she and her dog would suug’y
bury them.-elves and drive round the Buis j
behind a fat coachman, sometimes in Al- -
fred's company, sometimes without him, !
as the case might he, hut that did not i
much matter. These were the —I was'
going to say baiony days of life, only I re- ;
member it ail happened last winter.—
These were, therefore, the feverishly loved, j
hitter cold days, though everything was
bright, as seen under icicle and gaslight. j
One morning, a few days before the \
artists’ ball at the Comedie Francabe, So j
sie made Alfred promise her a set of dta- j
inondsj all her theatrical associates w ere
to attend the fete, jjt which she intended
to cicate an immense sensation. Alfred
promised witha sore heart; hut he did pro
mise, for all that, and ordeieJ the dia
monds. Sosie was so deligl ltd that she!
published her j.;y far and Many ,
bUtjpthat was r*jtat-.-jfi<*sre-:
aimed <£. Sb&cywr proclaimed
would not mind ending his days at Chuhy ‘
for her sake. The eve of the bail earn®,]
when, io and behold, the jeweller tent j
word that the diamond necklace could not
he ready for the following day, but that lie
would lend her a splendid set for the occa
sion—in paste. Sosie flew into a passion. ,
Paste, indeed, on her shoulders. (Milk, j
she had besmeared them with nothiug else
for years.) Then she said some very un
feeling things to poor 4^ r ed about the
“acting being good,” aw are that she was
dishonored in the eyes of her friends, and
that there was nothiug left to te done hut
jump from the Pont-neuf into the Seine.
Allred was wounded to the quick. Sosie’s
taunts about the ‘acting,’ as if he had de
ceived her, and the, idea of the Pontueuf
were too much for him.
He seized his hat, which he drew very
low over his eyebrows, and Sosie, seeing j
him seriously annoyed, would have gone
off in a faint if he had not muttered, ‘You
shall have real diamonds, Sosie, cost what
what they t»ay. He drove home, asked
for his mother, and on being told that
she was out, walked into her quiet neat
boudoir. There he paced up and down in
mental anguish, such as the yonng alone
feel. ‘ Sosie bad suspected him —ho who
had borne so much from her, and had nev
er accused her of shortcomings ; hut he
loved her, and the diamonds she should
have. Suddenly he stoped before a quaint
old cabinet in one corner of the room ;
his eyes flashed ; he was conceiving some
project, and no sooner thought of than he
put it in execution, by opening the cabinet
door with a small key which he selected
from a small bunch in bis mother’s work
box, A moment after a wordrous set of
diamonds glistened in bis band3. They
twinkled through his fingers as he hurried
ly slipped them into his breast. Not long
after Ke stood before Sosie. She was all
bloom and smiles. She knew the man she
had tortured with taunts. He was true;
be had promised, and would rather die
than draw his given word back.
“Here they are, Sosie, after all,’ said he,
bitterly smiling.
Sosie jumped for joy, bared her neck,
tried the precious gems on aud looked
queenly.
“They are my mother’s,’said Alfred, ad
miringly.
Soaie’s face beamed as threateningly as a
thunderbolt.
“Your Mother’sl’
“Yes; but she bas lent them to me,’
faltered forth Alfred. ‘You can keep
them till your set is sent home; they are
finer than those I have ordered.'
Sosie’s good looks returned, and on the
night of the ball she told all that the dia
monds were her's.
Towards two o’clock on that eventful
night, when the cotillion was merriest, a
lady in a shawl and black bonnet made
her appearance among the dancers. She
walked straight up to Baron Alfred, whose
eyes were fixed on Sosie.
“Mv son,” said a voice behind him.
lie started and trembled from head to
foot. It was his mother!
“What have you done pith py dia
monds ?” asked she, suddenly.
‘For God’s sake, mother, not here,’ an
swered Alfred, looking fearfully around.
‘Sosie— they are safe— come away.’
“Have you pawned them, Alfred } We
are nearly ruined, you must know. Tell
me where lliey are ; I will redeem them
instantly.”
Just then Sosie stood by his side.
‘•She has them on !” shrieked the mother.
“Oh 1 Aihed, your father's first gift to
me 1”
Alfred seized his mother's arp and
draggej her to his carriage.
The next day when the Baron Alfred
de S.’s servant copiously entered his bed
room, he found his master's corpse across
the bed, and the following is the contents
of a letter from which I copy:
Dearest Mother—Forgive me, I can
never lift up my head again. My dis
grace was public. In the opinion of all I
am a thief. I die repentant.
ALFRED DE S .
The mother's story cannot find room
here; but to this day she accuses herself of
being the cause of her son’s sucieide.
Sosie—and here I loiter; Susie had a pon-r
science—on hearing what had happened,
rushed to the house of death, flung hermit,
at the Bootless’s feet, craved for pardon,
passionately thrust herself into the room
where Alfred wrs laid out, cast the dia
monds on his pillow, w ent home, and al
oightdightedrii chalccal stove find stifled
the futility
VatltFlHf'JHrns hi vnalse, Sosie, too, was
hurried; hut, being an actress, the was not
allowed to test in hallowed ground, and
her remains aio still decaying in the drea
miest part of the cemetery.
OFFICIAL HI3TORY OF THE CAPTURE OF
SURRATT.
CONSUL OENEAL MALE'S REPORT.
Washington, Jan. 8. —The following is
Consul General Halo’s letter iu full rela
tive to tjje arrest of Surratt. It is dated
at Alexandria, Pgrpt, and addressed to
Secretary Seward :
“Agency and Consulate General")
of the United States of Amur i
jca, Alexandria, Egypt, Nov. 27, j
1860. j
“Sir—l have the honor to report that
in consequence of a telegram, received via
Constantinople, from Mr. King, United
States Minister at Rome, and of several
letters received from Mr. Winthrop, Uni
ted States Counsul at Malta, the Mediterra
nean wire being unfortunately broken be
tween Malta and this place, I have arres
ted a man calling himself Walters, dressed
in the uniform of a Zouave, who arrived
at Alexandria on the 23d inst., in the
Steamship Tripoli, from Naples, and who
is beleived to be John Harrison Surratt,
one of the conspirators for the assassina
tion of President Lincoln.
“The telegram and sopte of the letters
having been delayed in the transmission, I
was fortunate in finding the man still in
quarantine atpotig the third-class passen
gers, of whom there is uo list whatever.
It was easy to distinguish him among sev
enty eight of these by his Zouave uniform,
and scarcely less easy by his almost un
mistakable American typo of counte
nance.
“I said to him at once, ‘You are the
man I want, you are.an American?
“He said, ‘Yes, sir. I am,’
“I said, ‘You doubtless know why I
want you. What is your names
“He replied promptly, ‘ Walters.’
“I said, T believe your true name is
Surratt,’ and in arresting him mentioned
my official position as United States Con
sul General.
“The director of quarantine speedily ar
ranged a sufficient escort of soldiers, by
whom the prisoner was conducted to a safe
place within the qua rantine walls. Al
though the walk occupied several minutes,
the prisoner, close at my side, made no re
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, G.-ti FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1867,
mark whatever, displaying neither surprise
nor irritation.
“Arrived at the place prepared, I gave
him the usual magisterial caution that he
was not obliged to say anything, and that
anything he said would be at once taken
down in vsritling.
“He said, ‘I have nothing to say, I want
nothing hut what is right.’
“He declared he had neither passport
nor baggage, nor money, except six francs.
His companions coofitm his. statement in
this respetA- ' They say he came to Naples
a deserter from the Papal army at Rome.
I find that he has no papers and no clothes
but those he is wearing.
“The appearance of the prisoner an
sweared very well the description given of
Surratt t.y the witness Weiehmann, at page
110 of Pittman’s report, officially sept to
me by the Government, aud is accurately
portrayed in the likeness of Surratt on the
frontispiece of the same volume.
“Mr. King am! Mr. Winthrop speqk in
confident terms of the identity ot the Zou
ave Walters with Suratt, and after seeing
the man I have not a ‘shadow of a doubt
of it.
“According to the well established pub
lic law of this place, as the prisoner avow
ed himself an American, and submitted
without objection to arrest by me, on my
statement that I acted for the United Slates,
and especially as he has no paper to sug
gest even a prima facie claim for belong
ing to any other jurisdiction, there is no
other authority which can rightfully inter
sere here with his present •fcastodr, and I
good reason for saying that no at
tempt at interference will be set cn foot by
any jiutbority, whatever pretensious lie
urnr make.
‘Tthe prisoner’s quarantine will expiae
on the 2!flb. He will tlieu be received
into the prison of the local government,
which cordially gives me every assistance.’
Steak Ploughs for the Cultiva
tion of the Snip.—lt is now proposed to
cultivate the soil by steam ploughs- This
does appear like something new ’•
'AhipiK-.l from?H9H|
pLoi.aridnms been landed at the levee W
As the rude mode qf agriculture in years
gone by, lias yielded Io the implements of
invention generally in use, so it is proposed
to supersede these and animal power by
the application of machinery and steam.
It is stated that Mr. John Fowler, of
Leeds, England, in 1836, introduced his
patent steam ploughs. Steel ropes are em
ployed for the moving of the ploughs,
while the engines are stationary, or only
moving along the headlands of tho fields.
Several hundred sets are said to be iu op
eration in England and also it; the Nile
Valley of Egypt.
The New Orleans Crescent says; “We
have the pleasure of announcing that in a
short time this machine will be set in mo
tion near the city in a manner to afford
ample opportunity to planters to te3t its
power and its suitability for the greatest
agricultural region in the world, tho rich
and inexhaustible Valley of the Mississ
ippi” , , ,
“What’s the difference between the late
Sultan of Tuikey and the present Sultan 7
One is the Sultan as was , and the other the
Sultan Az iz.
If you go to a hail in France, abstain
from talking to your partnar; and, if you
are a young lady, do Dot stare “with
effrontery,” but reply civilly when spoken
to.
A late poet rays:
“I gallop up the steeps of fame
To win my lady’a hand.”
Precisely ; he does it to give a gal a pup
(gallop up.)
Mr. Henry C. Belden, a member of the
bar at New Orleans, has Leen committed
for perjury, for swearing falsely that he
had property to the amount of 810,000,
in order so stand for one Cronan. He has
been admitted to bail, the security being
fixed at 8500.
William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor
and W. W. Astor, arid a great many
more rich men, ere in Washington. 'They
are said to be frightened at the extremes
into which the Radicals threaten to plnnge
the country. SoareNew England ship
pers and capitalists.
The people of Chicago, who went into
ecstasies over the supply of pure water
recently introduced into the city from
Lake Michigan, are now puzzling their
brains with the problem of how to get rid
of the dirty water. They are afraid to
turn it into the lake, lest it will return
through the tunnel, so they propose to
send it southward to enrich the Illinois
arms.
EXTRACT.
From advance sheets of “Alexander
1* Jtaihens, in Public and Private,^
& -ijvKtinry Cleveland, Esq.
courage was as undaunted
aa hL Jltfsical was unyielding. He came
home—ynt before the people—neither
asking Sorters nor giving them.
“It A reported to him, that Ire had
been pjlclairaed a traitor to the Soutll, in
a pubwApeech made by one who had held
hign p-iilSh in the State. In a personal
interv. -with this person, he inquired
whether the charge had been made as re
ported;:. and though tho charge was de
nied, and the parties separated in a friendly
manner at the time, yet the words used by
Mi. Stephens on that occasion led to a
subsequent demand upon him for a retrac
tion. lids was refused, and a rencounter
ensued. Mr. Stephens was unnripei), while
his assnlant, who was more than twice his
size and weight, was duly prepared for the
reneo»eter which he sought. Upon the
refusal to fstraqt the words, an assault, was
made upon Mr. Stephens with open knife.
1 his hi? for some lime carried with an
umbrella, receiving several wounds upon
his aims and breast; but his assailant,
rushing upon him with nil his superior
force and weight, threw him upon his
hack. One blow with the knife, aimed at
the heart, would have done its fatal work
hut for the fortunate position of the blade
of the knife. Another blow, on the other
sida, passing between two ribs, severed an
intei.vstslery artery. The strong' man
thc.q with his left hand on the forehead of
his edvereary, and the kuife in his right
hand, said, “Now retraot, or I will
cut your throat!” The reply was,
"NB, never I Cut !”■ A? the knife came,
Mrlbrephcns caught it in his right hand,
and|witll his left seized the right elbow of
hires who wielded it. In this way the
struggle lasted until both parties were on
ibaj' feet again, and others emne to the
rescue. Tho right hand, that, seized the
knt> ns it was aimed nt the throat, was
peW-kly mangled hy.tlio turning and twist
it .*4 tho blade in efforts to get it out of
The hemorrhage from the sever
have icsulleJ in speedy
HHPrTcr the foVfntnttf pieWiictTuf
Caßwifebcock, of the United Stains Army,
whfse skill arrested it.
“The scene occurred in the piazza of
Thompson’s Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, on
the 4th of September, JB4B. Mr. Ste
phens was kid up for several weeks with
these wounds. Tho right hand was thought
to be permanently disabled. The tendons
of several fingers and tho thumb were sev
ered. He could not use the hand at al! for
about twelve months. In the meantime,
he accustomed himself, to write with his
left. But to the permanent injury of the
right, his bad phirogfaphy is now partly
owing.”
BOW THE CABLE 10 WORKED.
The other day a telegrapher, who had
looked into the matter, told me in a few
words how the Atlantic cable is worked,
I had road column nfier column in the
papers in a vain effort to understand how it
was done, and was astonished enough, I
assure you, to see how simple a thing was
tho instrument which talks across the sea.
Imagine a small needle—it weighs only
three—seventeenths of a grain— set so that
either end points to a powerful fixed mag
net. Over this needlo is a board in which
is a small hole, above and behind which is
a blackboard. One end of tho needle, or
rather one magnet, is the positive, and the
other the negative one. The battery is
tajten off’ at one side of tjie ocean by the
action of the magnets themselves when the
operator at the other side is writing. The
batteiy used at either end contains only
three cups; a wonderfully small number
when yon know that it takes a thousand
or more to work the various wires leading
out of No. 145 Broadway, the head office
here. The application of a current from
the battery to the positive magnet at Val
eulia induces an attraction of the needle
by the negative magnet at Hearts Content,
or vice versa. The movement of the nee
dle, however, is so very small that it could
not be detected by the naked eye. A pow
erful magnifier, however, carries the reflec
tion of the motion of the needle through
the hole in the board above, and transfers
it in an enlarged, and with the aid of light,
and enlightcd form to the blackboard.
The alphabet is similar to, though not ex
actly like, the “Morse,” and a motion of
the needle one way implies a dash, or the
other way a dot; of course as many of
each can be made use of as is desirable.
The magnets being equally attractive bold
the needle statiomvry, ■vyben no other influ
ence is applied. Ands'now for the reason
why a small battery works the best. It is
nctxhat a large battery, as has been pop
ularly supposed, would-eat up the conduct
ing wire, but that it would make the mo
tion of the delicate needle too violent, to
use a vulgar pluase, it would be perpetu
ally “wabbling about." The small current
used has no such effect. I have tried to
explain the matter,’in as few words as pos
sible, as I heard it myself, from an eminent
telegrapher, and trust I have made myself
perspicuous to the readers of the Courier.
—Evening Post.
IMPORTANT PUBLICATION.
We are glad to learn that tho National
Publishing Company, 407 Minor street,
Philadelphia, have in press and now near
ly ready for delivery, a history qf the late
war, written by the Hon. 4' e sander H.
Stephens.
There are sow men living so thoroughly
competent in evety way to write a com
plete and truthful narrative of stirring
eveuls of tho late war, as Mr. Stephens.
We are assured that lie has spent -much
time and labor iu preparing this wotk, and.
lias had access to papers and Correspon
dence connected with rha’iiy interesting
features and incidents of onr lato struggle,
which no other writer has ernoyed. Ilia
own private correspondence during the
few yeurs immediately proceeding hostili
ties as well as during their progress, affords
a fund of valuable, material for the comple
lion of snob a work' as he has underta
ken.
Mr. Stephens was also for many years a
prominent actor in tho scenes and legisla
tion which immediately preceded the war,
and knows much of tho secret history of
those stirring events which precipitated
the country into one of the most stupend
ous and sanguinary struggles which has
ever marked the history of the world.
His knowledge of men and measures ac
quired from personal observation aud par
ticipation in the action of tfie Gjovefn
mein, enables him Io biiug beforo the pub
lic many of the secret springs which set in
I mcnion't he meat revolution through which
we have ju»4
The history ot the earlier days o! the
Confederate Government, and particularly
that portion cf its existence as a “Provis
ional Government,” while located at Mont
gomery, has never been given to the pub
lic. Mr. Stephens was in Montgomery as
a delegate to the Provisional Congress
from this State, and took a leading part in
the legislation enacted there. Many ques
tions of immense importance to the then
seceded States were canvassed and acted
upon thou. The Southern public has long
sought a truo record of those days, and
opinions have been formed of tho men and
measures of that period, which doubtless, a
a full, candid and comprehensive statement
of tho actual condition of the country and
the various measures proposed will tend
very much to eolten auil modify.
No other rrinn now living, except, per
haps,Mr. Davis, can give to the world the
true character of the “James River nego
tiations” with Mr. Lincoln, during tho lat
ter part of the war. The people of the
United States, North and South are deeply
-nteresled in haying a full arid complete his
tory of their transactions, and we nre very
confident that in Mr. Stephens’ forthcom
ing book we shall an impartial and strictly
truthful narrative of all that will be of in
terest to the public in relation to these ne
gotiations.
The character of Mr. Stephens’ mind,
his habits of thought, and splendid powers
of analysis, together with Ids great hon
esty and trulit fulness as a statesman, con
spire to point him out as the proper histo
rian of the times in which he acted so con
spicuous ft part. We know his indomita
ble energy and industry, and will be great
ly mistaken if his history does not at once
place blip n) the head of those whose la
bors heretofone in this field of literature
hove given them the highest rank in the
world of letters.
The forthcoming will bo in one volume,
of about eight hundred pages, and will he
issued from the pfess during the coming
year. YVe advise realersand others who
desire to have early copies, to send iu their
orders to the publishes at once, in order
that there may he no delay in securing the
work.
San Francisco is increasing in size with
wonderful rapidity, and a visitor of teu
years ago would hardly know the place
Where ia Butler? Sis Fredrick Bruce
bad all his spoons stolen the other night.—
Prentice.
VOL. I.—N0 r 41,
THE RADICALS AND THE SOUTH -LETTER
FROM HORACE GREEDY.
Some weeks ago, a genntleman from
Jefferson county, Mississippi, addressed a
letter to Horace Greely, asking him, m one
of the leaders of the Republican party,
what the intentions of the party were wit!)
reference to the South. Mr. Greely prompt;
ly replied in the following letter;
Rochester, N. Y.,(Oct. 28, 1866.
Dear Sir : —Your letter finds me
away from home, engaged in our political
canvass. Leaving, with many others, I
roust answer hurriedly :
1. I know of no considerable or influen
ential portion of the people, North orWest,
who expect op desire any general (or other)
confiscation of Southern property. I an)
perfectly acquainted with most Abolition
ists of note — Gerrit Smith, Chsrlps Sum
ner, Governor Chase, & 0., and not one of
them favors a policy qf confiscation,—
Tliad. Stevens and Gen’ Butler may be
exceptions, Gen. Butler being anew con
vert from the Democracy.
2. Even the lax on cotton—though I
think it falls (esgecially) muinly on the
consumers, not the producer—is oertain to
be' taken off very seen. It is sustained
only because of a local rrevenue.
3. I am very sure (hat no Southern
man, who remains quietly at home sud at
tends to his’bnsineas, will ever be troubled
because of his part iu the late rebellion
Assassins and house-fcurnprs m»y some
times be prosecuted, but oftener those who
professud to be Unionists than those who
were Rebels.
4- I think the general prevalent senti
ment of the North was adverse to any ex
action of the South, with regard to polit
ical rights for the blocks, till after the New
Orleans riots effected a decided change, and
I think it pow tjie more prevalent opinion
berg that the better portion of the Southen
whites will never protect the from murder
arid ytrage at the hands of the low-caste
whites, and that the right of suffrage for
the blacks is indispensable to their safe
ly-
5. I think you mislead yourself by a
misuse of perms when you talk of the
“equality of tna whites atjd blacks.’’ Ia
five of the New England States their Con-*
stitutiona and laws make no difference, and
kuows none between whites and blacks,
and yet | think there is far less intercoura
or political intermixture between the whites
and blacks in Boston, for instance, than in
New Orleans.
You do not ask the for advice outside
your questions, yet I ventuere to proffer
this counsel : Let Southern Stoles resolve
to establish and mantain, henceforth, a thor
ough good understanding with the South;
ern blacks. Encourage the latter to hold
conventions and select their best men to
conser witli your best men, resolved that a
perfect good understandino between the
two races ohtsll be had.
I trust there is no more trouble a-hssd ;
but in any case, such nn understanding is
of the gravest consequence to all.
Yours, truly,
Horace Greklj.
Loyalty on Picket. —What the Nas
tiona! Intelligencer says below of Forney’s
Chronicle is equally applicable to the radi
cal p-ess generally :
“The virtqe that is eternally paraded i|
usually and justly considered a spurioul
article. But when itjis trumpeted forth on
all occasions, and when occasions are in
cessantly created for its blatant self-asser
tion, it becomes worse than 4qbious. If it
adds to tbis a perpetual onslaught on the
reputation of others, right-mjpiied men will
not only suspect but despise. The staple
subjects of the Chronicle are, “ot?r loyalty"
and your tteason. Published iu the city
of Washington dqring the tyar, with an in
cessant dread of the consequences of inde
pendent criticism before its eyes, it never
dared utter a word, save of fulsome praise
and servile adulation, even when conscious
that judicious censure would be of service.
Then, as now, it systematically slandered
every individual and press that did not
measure up to its own shameless standard. 1^
Sugar Crop. —Tho New Qrleana
Times says the sugar crop of Louisi
ana will reach 50.00Q' hogsheads,
against 16,009 last year; that only
unusual obstacles will keep it below
100,000 next year, and that the old
average of 450,000 will be restored in
three years.
The ,United Presbyterian Church
have a College at New Wilmington,
Pa. The Rev. Dr. Audley Brown hat
declined the chair of Preaiden^.