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|For tlie Louisville Sunday Democrat.]
A Flay on Flays.
Respectfully Dedicated to Mr. ./. M. Daw
son.
BY MORRIS H. WARNER,
‘Twa.x “A l>ay After the Wedding,” “The Spector
Bridegroom"
Fmiud a “Broken Hword” in “The Double-bedded
Room
Then ‘The Green-eyed Monster,” together with
“Paul Pry,"
Made “Tin- Happy Man”:“Jealous”of “Mazeppa,”
the "French Spy.”
“Two can Ply at that flame,'’ thought the Hun
hand,’, "Bill Tell
f’ll take “The Merry Wives of Windsor" to “X,a
Tour do Ntssle;”
I’ll marry “Little Barefoot” and “T 1 e Bride ol
Latin liiermoer
I'll he a "(in inster” and a “Drunkard,” like "Rorv
O More.”
“is he Jealous?” asked "Fancliou," of“Tlie Pilot ”
“Andy Blake;”
Yes, you see, “ lilies secret” is, she is “The Ladv of
the Luke,”
‘Tis "A Devilish flood Joke,” said the Golden
Farmer,” sohm Shingle;”
lie Is the “Pel 01 the Petticoats,” whelher "Mar
ried or Single.”
“William Tell,” “Your Life’s in Danger,” advised
“Shandy Maguire^”
BeieG’Oool as a Cucumber" when you are “Play
ing with hire;”
“Look Belore you Leap,” but in “Ion” and “Rob
Roy,”
Your "Bride” bought “The Sword” from “Paddy
Miles' Hoy.’
"Dear Evangeline,” “Allow Me to Apologize’, lor
“ file Follies of a N iglit,”
Bill “I Gould nut U. Ip It”— I “’Twas Mr. and Mrs
White ”
By "Ail and Artifice,” during a “Used Up” "Morn
ing Call,”
Showed me “The Sword” in “A Hole iu the
Wall.
“Every Man has llix Faults,” responds “The
Good Little Wile
“All’s Well Unit Kud* Well" ill “The Crinoline
Game of Life."
MORAL.
Hero is “Advice to Husbands,” yes to "Man and
Wife ’—
“All is Fair in Love,” but not in true “Married
Life.”
l.ocisvii.i.ii, July, IS!>7.
A FEARFUL VOlfA'lE.
'S Re Yellow pet cron Gourd of r» I»Ian*ol
t W ar.
[ From the Indiaiiapolis .(ounmi,
A letter received by Colonel Sidney I).
Maxwell, of this eity, from his brother, of
the United States sbiji-of-vvar Jamestown,
recently arrived at San Francisco, gives a
detailed account of the terrible voyage
from Panama, of that plague stricken ves
sel, from which we are permitted to make
a brief summary.
Having for three months suffered feafully
from the yellow fever in the bay of Pana
ma, they received orders in April to pro
ceed to sea, and go as fir northwest as was
necessary to the re-establishment of the
health of the ship’s crew. No orders ever
found a more cheerful response. They
were hailed as the condemned receives the
news of his reprieve. Soon they hojied to
he away from the influence that had
combined to keep the destroyer constantly
in their midst, in this, however, they
were doomed to disappointment. Culm
weather followed, in which the vessel
could make little progress. Then rains
set in, compelling the closing of the
hatches, thus adding to the depression
produced by the intense heat and Hie
infection of the vessel. Oil the first, <>i
May, after nearly a month lmd elapsed,
they were still hut a few ruinates north or
seven degrees north latitude. During this
period, in which the elements seemed
combined against them, tlie fever con
tinued, new cases occurred, and deaths
followed. On the 22d of April there were
two deaths, Alonza Horton, ship’s cook,
and James Mcßcth, ordinary seaman.—
Surgeon D. Bloodgood, Acting Ensign
lieakin Karnes and Corporal George
Bradley, were attacked on the 27th, am!
within a few' hours of each other. Bradley
diction the Ist of May. Theother recovered.
William J. Itoiniuan, carpenter, died,
after a short illness, on the nth of the same
month.
On the 14tliof May they lost their apoth
theoary, Edwaad A.*Smith, a young man
liinteen years of age, and of ungual fidelity
and worth. Not intimidated by the know!
edge of the tact that the disease was
raging upon the ship, he came from the
North and entered upon the discharge oi
his duties with a Christian heroism tiiat
won all hearts.
They now made decided progress to the
northward, being not far from twenty de
grees north latitude. The heat was yet in
tense, but a purer atmosphere greeted them
andrdl felt tiiat they enjoyed the harbin
ger of a permanent change for the better.
From this time the temperature con tin
ued to decline until they reached their
destination. At lirst, the change of air did
not appear to check the progress of the
D -A tin' L““»ii<~-iai effects were not
loi'l Relayed. * I
William Martin, steerage cook, died on
the 2lst of May. This was the lasi death
upon the vessel. The fresh, pure air of
the north, tiiat appeared like winter to
those who had been under a topical sun,
brought about rapid restoration, sickness
diminished and by the Ist of June all on
hoard were convalescent. Forty hours
preceding the sight ot land, they, under a
clear sky, experienced a severe gale tiiat
threatened toswaiup the vessel; but tills
they survived, and on the morning of the
sth of June, after a voyage of sixty-six
days, with joy that was only tempered by
the recollection of the affliction through
which they had passed, they dropped
anchor in the harbor of San Francisco.
Titus closed one of the most appalling
chapters in the history of our navy. For
Jive months their vessel had been a hos
pital, in which was raging one of the most
fearful diseases with which humanity is
afflicted. At Panama for three months si
tropical sun stimulated the disease to
further conquest, while dry scorching
winds fanned the flame that was consum
ing them. Even after theirdeparture.when
they expected early relief, csihn seas and
rainy days followed, to aggravate their
troubles and delav succor. From another
source we learn that of the 101 whites on
hoard, 48 had been afflicted with the fever.
Os the latter number 21 had died, <> of
whom were buried at sea. These figures
can best be appreciated by supposing with
in five months, 20,000 eases of a fearful
• malady in Indianapolis, attended by the
death of nearly VJ»00 persons.
A Mobile Journal is responsible for a
touch nig report of what at least one South
ern woman Fullered by the late war,
though if she were a fair representative
of her sex and Hie part they took in the
lebelliou we should fee! less pity for them
than we do. .
It appears the editor was walking down
Die street and heard, unavoidably, the
following fragment ot what most have
lieen a most interesting conversation “I
set, a great deal by this; it is an old Con
federate fan, the only thig 1 have left to
remember the Confederacy by.” "Ishould
think you had something else.” “Yees,
1 lost both my husbands in the war and
my sweetheart. It nearly killed me.
We take libperty to doubt only the “last
clause.”
Sheridan Puts Negroes into Office.
Thu telegraph informs us that in New
Orleans, out of the new appointments
macU by General Sheridan, two in the
upper and three in H,e lower board are of
mixed blood, one in the lowri’ pure negro,
and the other doubtful ; and that none of
the colon'd appointees belong to the newly
enfranchised, but are free citizens ol the
Hi ate of Louisiana.
Hberhiaii lias ruined his prospects fora
mart vi’s crown aud for the presidency.—
Mr jolutsou will remove him very soon ;
and because ho lias put Sambo iuto cilice
the radical papers and politicians will
complain as little as decency will allow on
account of his removal. Grant and Wade
and Stevens and Stanton need no longer
look upon Slierjdan as a rival in the presi
dential race. Jle lias killed himself. He
thought that all ltadiealdom would re
juice over the act and crown him with
honors. But he will find himself mis
taken. lie it Sheridan.
A Little Matter of Cal lion. — The
Petersburg (Va.) Express wants Mr. Sum
ner, and others of his party who profess mo
much solicitude for the admission of color
ed representatives that their admission
will probably be attended by an annoy
ance which is apprehtendwl from the ad
mission of the whites, vir.; the ugly cus
tom prevailing iu that country of hohlinp
men to personal accountability for iusull
ing lauguage. From the fact of severa
duels having lieen fought by freedmei
since they learned the use of arms, tin
Ex press is of opinion that when the col
ored members from the South are admit
ted, any of the violations of
courtesy, now so common, cannot be trio
upon them w ith impunity.
White Witnesses.— The mouth of thi
man who purifies his teeth with Ho/.odoi
is a witness box, and every time be open
it two rows of gleaming witnesses testis
to its beautifying properties,
Augst 6-lw
tV Uurr.
Foro Burglary.
Ou Mondayeveninga case came up bo
ioie J ustices \l ychcand (burkeon the very
common Chary* of Kbqny, vs Bacon.
1 lie parties weused, were (Jammings
Barlow, and Lindsey Clarke--for burgla
ry on the store if Stephenson and Laney.
*'° save his bacoi to some extent, legally,
not morally, Cla-fie made a full confession
oi the lacts will regard to himself and
Cummings and /f all the minutiae of the
operation. Perh.ps lie was aware that
there was suffiusnt testimony against
them, (which wastlie fact,) find it came
iu as a “dying confession”.
The substance oitlie matter is, that Bar
low discovered a jack door open iu the
rear of Htepliqiisouffc Lane/Vs store, and
being “struck with an idea,” pointed it
out to his friend Clark, that “there was
a trick”—this was Wednesday, and “the
trick” was arranged tin Haturday night,
which cameoll in this wise.
Clarke deposited himself through Ifie
backdoor, behind some bale:, of hay, just
before the Store closed. At the proper
time his friend announced his presence by
sundry taps at the back door— they loaded
themselves with Bacon hams, went oil'
and sold them, and divided the money by
gas light. Returned and took some more.
Barlow was not so fortunate in his last
trip. He went to Bridge Row about half
past ope, ip sell to a holy a*’.'.'" lo
wborn he owed something, as ho was go
ingXo the Indian Springs iu the morning.
Being ordered by 11 te lady, to “go round
the back way,” as she would not receive
“his plunder” that way. In doing this
lie excited the attention of a resident, a
policeman by the name of Jas. K. McMur
ray, who was then oil' duty, who escorted
him and a piece of his Bacon to the guard
house.
An unfortunate witness, one Anderson
Spear was introduced on tin* part of the
defence. He testified that (Jamming's
came to his house alKiut $> o'clock with
some hams, and that be saw Clark after
wards. This “apoloi/y was sufficient.”
The alibi attempted by Kit rani, Aman
da Paul Gordon Jones (who admitted that
tie had played three games of cards with
Barlow that night, and got the credit of
being a good player,) also Lewis Grant,
did not strike the Ciiurt ac< ording to its
intention. The testimony of tiie unfortu
nate witness seemed rather te prevail.
Cummings Barlow and Lindsey Clark,
were committed for burglary -Clarke sim
ply made a confession but not as “states
evidence.”
The articles stolen were, seveu bams,
one shoulder, one coat —pair of shoes and
some other small articles.
The perpetrators of ibis “trick,” are
among the ugliest specimens of their race,
and no one could suspect them of such a
conception. A planter would hardly em
ploy them for tear that their presence
would scare potatoes but of their hills.
Iu connection with the above, the wri
ter will add a remen it-cuuue, that the ,-ide
and rear doors of this store once came very
near costing him the neck and carcass of a
negro, when they wene valuable. A Dutch
man who kept a chc<ty> grocery on Cherry
street "over suaded,” a negro, then em
ployed in the store of Scott & Carhart,
named Keefe, to leave the side door unbar
red. With this facility our negro and
Dutchman entered thfe store several times,
or as often as the “cheap store” needed re
plenishing. He astonished his neighbours
with liis low prices—perhaps excited their
envy audcuriosity, it would lie proper to
say, that at tiiat time large stocks of goods
•were kepi Itm-jand »/< v. boxes <,f e.uiqlies,
tobacco, segais, or a barrel of sugar would
scarcely he missed. At length', detect ion
came by another more honest negro, in
their last raid. Dutchman cleared tor
parts unknown before day light, and left
Keefe and Cato tosutlerfor Ids sins. They
were both well dressed down, but we can
not say that it made either of them wiser I
or better men. Both are still living and
can answer that question, if they see lit.
That concern was during, and at the
close of the war, a large depository of ar
my stores, and the Federal army became
its executors. We would remark, that we
have seen more rascality practiced there,
both by Confederate and Federal Conimis
missaries, than belongs to the lifetime of a
man. How, in what way, and who got
the bacon then, it is unnecessary to speak
of now
The New ISailßrugl J.avy.
The following hints to practitioners are
understood to have been prepared by tlm
New York board of registry ;
First—Make up yotir petition with the
eleven forms of schedules A aud R iu du
plicate; swear to both; file one with the
clerk of 11 in court, and ask to have the case
referred to a register.
Second—At the hour specified in the or
der referringjthe case to a register, appear
before the register to whom the case is as
signed, and make oath before Hi in that
the duplicate petition and schedule on
tile witil the Clerk, and move that it l«;
certified correct in form. This being done,
move i hat the petitioner be declared a
bankrupt. This is done by un order made
by the register, of which lie will give you
a certified eopv. You will then move for
the warrant, Home time Wjil. bc required
to make this out. At the time appointed
call upon the register for the warrant and
take it to the marshal. The marshal will
require satisfactory security for liis fees
and disbursements for the newspaper pub
lications &c., which you will arrange with
him. You have nothing more to do till
the return day of the warrant.
Third —Be very careful tiiat your peti
tion and schedules are written out plain
ly, free from ail erasures, interlineations
or abbreviations. As the whole proceed
ing is strictly statutory, the statute and
rules made under it must be most strictly
complied with.
Fourth—ln case the register refuse to
certify your petition to lie correct in point
of form, you \yill take a certified copy of
the points wherein ymu papers are certifi
ed to he defective, and proceed to prepare
amendments, or an amendmemfed peti
tion, as may he most convenient, in dupli
cate. When this is done, have such
amendments or amended petition, etc.,
sworn to in duplicate ; then apply to the
register upon an afiidavit excusing the er
rors, for an order to amend. Buell order
being allowed, obtain trout tin* register a
certified copy, and tile this with one of the
duplicates with the clerk. Carry the oth
erto the register, who will examine it, and,
if correct, certify it; and you then proceed
as above.
IliiiiN About Work.
Animals at, pas/me,.— Look to the water
supply and see that no animal suffer font
Nolhingbutabsolute starvation pulls them
down in condition faster than thirst. Iu
uf!7 hottest and dryest weather,horses
get little good in the field, unless they
nave thickets and woods to stand in and
get away from the Hies. It is best to stable
horses during the heat of the day, if one
them, and '.turn them out
towards night. Flies are exceedingly au
noynig on damp days, when storms are
ut “uch times horses
should be taken ,n. Give sa lt regularly,
>r keep it in.slieltered troughs, always
l accessible to cattle and sheep atpasture
away from the sea shore,,where, lO to
2( miles inland, it i 8 regarded as unices
bcU .
Sheep should have tlreir noses tarred
rams should be separated from the ewes
' and lambs of suitable age and vigor, wcanl
ed. Iu weaning lambs, put the ewes on
the dryest pastures, but jleave the lambs
where they are accustomed to be, with a
few large weathers for flock leaders. They
should be out of hearing of one another's
call. The ewes should be driven several
evenings into pens and examined, and if
their bags are.tender, caking, or hot, (hey
should be milked.
Milch Oiws need regular feeding with
some green fodder as the pastures get dry ;
yarded, and thus fed in the evening, the
gain in manure, to say nothing of the
mi Ik, pays well for the trouble.
Swine.— Give plenty of green food. If
there are no weeds to pull or mow for them,
tlieu cut clover or grass. The trimmings
along the fences, and sods cut wherever
theoadinary field culture cannot extend,
are excellent. Koine fresh earth, either
upon the root of weeds or in sods is essen
tial to health. Charcoal is very beneficial,
and plenty of fresh water desirable. At
allevciits.the hogs should havodaily a good
drink of pure w ater, no matter how liquid
their usual food, and last, not least, they
should have a dry, clean, lied at all sea
sons.
Wounds upon animals, at this season of
flies and quick putrefaction, need the most
prompt attention. We know no better
application than hot pine lar, (not tiot
enough to burn.) It may be put on alone,
or as a plaster upon apiece of cotton cloth.
Look especially to the heads of rams.
Poultry. —lt is desirable to shorten the
moulting season as much as possible. To
tins end feed well and give range,or green
food, daily. Make the most liberal provis
ion for their dustpatb ; a box witli mixture
of coal and wood as lies, sifted, and kept
where it will never get w«qis bust. Give
tnetn blit? range of stiiTible helms, if possi
ble.
Vpra.— Little good will! be done by plow
ing or hoeing after the first of August.—
Weeds should lie pulled by hand if they
grow large. Let the suckers alone ; they
are often needed for fertilizing the tips of
the ears, if corn is blown down, it is
usually bestjto let it get upas it best can,yet
if I lie field lie entered at once, certainly
w ithin 12 hours, it may lie helped a good
deal. Take care not to crack the stalk bend
it or injure the roots ;ls is often done.
Turnips How early iu the mouth, and
lip to the 10th or loth lieiow latitude in,
putting them in wherever there is ground
not otherwise occupied. A spriuklingof
bone-dust or superphosphate of lime, with
wood ashes, will tell finely upon the crop.
Win at. —Lund intended for winter w heat
will probably need once or twice plowing
and harrowing, and if a good dressing of
line compost can lie applied, all the better.
How at the end of this mouth or lirst of
next. Use the drill. Put wheat ou well
drained or naturally dry laud, if it does
not winter-kill, water in the soil will pie
venf the crop being profitable. Wheat
needs thorough tillage.
Oats.— Harvest before fully ripe, and
thus secure belter straw for feeding, and
equally good grain.
Seed Grain. —The selection should lie
made at harvest time, when the best grain
is allowed toget fully ri)>e betore cutting,
if this is not done, select at once the best
sheaves, have them threshed, and cull out
the best kernels by repeated winnow
ing*.
Stacks.—Tax amine as soon as they have
time to settle, and re-top, thatch or
straighten them up, if necessary, using
braces set against upright planks.
Grass and t'/en > r. — If the object in bung
ing any field under the plow is to get it in
good grass again, it is often best to sow the
seed by itself as soon a- theiandisin prop
er condition. Grain detracts from the
subsequent grass crops. Timothy, orchard
grass, and blue grass may be sown by
themselves in August or September. ('Mi
an abundance of seed, bush it, and roll it
in, with a light dressing of ashes, guano,
or fine compost. Glover may also, be sown
now, but spring sowing is usually pre
ferred. Roll clover seed in gympsum, and
sow both together or separately ; one ton
to ten acres in the common rule.
r ♦ ♦
While Labor on a Southern i’htnliiilnn.
Tiie(Jolutnbus (Mias.) Konlinel gives an
interesting description of a plantation iu
a neighborhood,, vqJrivHi'-Df "iiiircl« will,
white labor. The number of acres cleared’
is about nine hundred, of acres uudeu cul
tivation atwiut six hundred.
There are twenty-one able hands and
seveu or eight youngsters; they cultivate
twenty acres to the hand ; have nineteen
mulesauil three yoke of oxen, together
with a large number of cattle and hogs.—
There are fifty-four men, women and chil
dren on the place to be fed, to whom pro
visions are supplied at cost price. These
fifty-four have lip to the present time,
consumed thirteen hundred bushels of
corn, twenty-six hundred pounds of ba
con and six hundred ]>oundsofpork. They
have had advances of for dry goods
and groceries: and, to the surprise of the
editor, there has not been a gallon ol
whiskey on the place during the whole
year. Great attention is paid to the stock,
not one head of which lias been lost since
the beginning of the season. The quar
ters are not as good as they might lie, liav
ing been occupied last year by. negro
ialxirers. But the dust and the'filth have
been removed, and the well-swept yards
and cleanly floors and fronts proclaim the
presence of white inmates.
Tiie cotton on this model plantation
stands three feet clear, welt limbed, and
apparently full of “squares,” and seems
never to have sulfered from the want of
work. If August be a dry month, twelve
hundred pounds will be gathered to the
acre. Tim corn is equal to any ever grown
in the Green River County, Kentucky,
two large ears to tbe-stalk, the stalks drill
ed closely in four foot rows, and almost as
impenetrable as a cane brake. The sea
son has, so far, lieen entirely favorable,
and the crop, having been properly ami
assiduously worked, when work was
needed, is in tiie best condition possible.
Tim proprietors of tip’s green spot in the
Southern desert had promised their work
ing people a barbecue and a dance as soon
as tiie crops should lie “laid,” and it was
in honor of this occasion that the editor of
the Sentinel made liis journey. The
manor house was tlip locale of the fpsliye
scene, and when our confrere arrived lie
found a large gathering from “Cypress,"
“Noxubee,” “Dancing Rabbit,” and other
euphonious settlements adjacent. AH the
hard-fisted, open-hearted, sterling yeo
manry ofOktibbekacounty that took inter
est in their white brethren were there. With
them decked wives and children. As u
matter of course a goose must be found m
the crowd to cackle a speech, after which
the dinner was sat down toata long table,
stretched beneath an umbrageous grove,
in front of the house, and loaded down
with meats, vegetables and pastry, the
first barbecued in approved style. The
editor must here speak for himself*
b'flie distinctive feature qf the dinner
was the Chicken pies and barbeoued pigs.
In our section of the country pig» and
chickens are a great rarity, owing to the
deadly hostility existing between them
and tile freed men, and we were gratified
to learn upon plantations cultivated by
whites neither the pig nor the chicken
was ever known to bite, and therefore
those creatures are nqt killed unnecessa
rily.’!
After dinner the young folks cleared up
a space near the cabins under some large
oaks, and prepared for a dance. A light
shower had cooled the atmosphere and
everything was favorable for the sport.—
Y e editor leftadosen happy couples! keep
ing time in beautiful evolutions to the
tune that “brought the preacher out of the
loft,” in order to cull more items about
the arrangements of the farm.
He says.that the great advantage that
white labor has over black is, that the
former make better farmers, and the land
is niore valuable every year that is culti
vated than when it lies out or is butchered
up. Wiiite labor is eas(eceontr<(lled, be
cause more intelligent, ami the life is not
worried out of you by careless improvi
dence. You do not have to tell thorn when
to go, or when to quit work, or to follow
them from post to pillar. Saturday is no
more with them than Monday.
Houston Bupeiaior Court. —We learn
that the Superior Court, which was to lie
held on the third Monday in this month
lias been postponed to the next regular
Court; in course
IVlacoit, <ia., Wednesday, A 11, ls« 7.
TjieXJrops.—A gentleman writing us,
saye the .Savannah News & Herald, on
business from stationed No. 17, Al!aritic«&
Gulf Railroad, closes ids letter by say
ing:
‘*Wo have too much rain, which will
materially injure the cotton crop. A gen
tieman told me yesterday (the 2d) he saw
tin- boil worm near ire re, and tiie genuine 1
catterpillar. This unpleasant nows is
creating much uneasiness with the plant
ers hereabouts.”
A friend writing us from Quincy, Fla.,
date Ist inst., says the county is deluged
with water—that it has been raining daily
for nearly a month, which will be injuri
ous to tiie cotton crops. He assures us
that “the corn crons in middle and West
Florida are, abundant, and (odder isheiHg
gathered. The cotton crops are improv
ing notwithstanding the rains, but in
Gadsden and Leon counties it is reported
the catterpillar inis made its appearance."
The F’ernandina, Courier ofThueday last
says:
“The heavy rains of the past ten days
have done considerable damage (i the
crops of East Florida. A great many
planters express fears that the cotton and
fodder will he cut down to a pjetty low
mark. We are now having clear, warm
weather, a continuation of wide i will
probably set things to rights again, fiiort
ly.”
The Bainbrige Georgian of the Ist inst.
says: “We are now having any quantity
of rain—almost every day a regular iighf
woodknot floating, soil-moving Deluge,
and the fodder-pulling season beaii ; upon
ug. tnftcjt oS Hi is very i,.. ossaib miiciy v
lihrse-fecd nihst fief lostor damaged badly.’’
An A|ipf*i tullic I’r. *l(lcnt.
The Memphis ,1 •ntunchc laakesan earn
est appeal to tin* President to arouse from
his lethargy and rescue the country from
(he hands ofthe spoilers, ere it he too late.
We quote the closing portion of rim ar
ticles :
We ask you in the name of our forefath
ers, in the name of departed liberty, iu
the name of a once honored l ’uiislituiion,
and in the name >d sufl eing humanity,
break your chains, re-as ert your place,
drive out the usurpers, re establish Htates,
break down despotism, and be a worthy
successor of Washington and Jackson. —
Yea ; fifteen Htates clothed iu sackcloth,
and covered with ashe-, h-ok to you, ami
with a voice that shakes the continent—
almost wakes the dead - call upon you,
yru -yes, you!— to save them and their
children from hojs-iess, abject slavery. Do
not nay Congress is resporsibfe. There is
no Gongres-. It is a rump, a miserable
radical rump, and we beg you lived not its
mandates. Deposed, you they have, but
they have no right to do the wicked deed.
They were and are viler than midnight
assassins. The blow amie.lat you lias fall
en upon the whole nation, and it reels to
and fro as though in its lus> throes. You
alone can save it. Strike, ami millions will
rise from their death of slavery to anew
and glorious life. Our Saviour said :
“And greater works than these shall they
do.” He had stood by the grave of Laza
rus, and called him from his sleep of death.
We bid you stand with uplifted hands by
the grave of liberty, and bid her rise, and
she will awaken to a glorious life, Stand
by the deep, dark grave of fifteen States,
and command them rise to life and take
their glorious place amid tiiat brilliant
Gonstellatiou which lias shown for eighty
years upon the American -fcy. Do this,
and high as Jackson ; nay. alongside of
Washington, you place ihe name of An
drew Johnson. Fail to do this, and a dark
ness thick and black, will f revet- obscure
a name which might have shown with a
splendor equal to any of the “few ofthe
immortal names that were not born to
die.” Now, Mr. President, we have made
this earnest call u]K)u one whom we loved
to honor in happier days when together
we fought against dark lanterns. Since
the re-establishment of the Avalanche it
has sustained you with unfaltering fideli
ty ; you hav-iid t ruer friend, no firmer
vindicator. Listen to our pleadim;- and
we ask no more. Restore peace and liber
ty, and we are yours forever.
Dougins ou (In SiltiaiGli;
The New York correspondent of the
Louisville Ih uux-.rat gives the following as
tho purport of a conversation with > red.
„ V i
Sotnetiody yesterday asked FredJ
lass (black man) why lie didn’t \rf -v ..
South along with the rest of the Republi
can orators, to help enlighten the minds
ofthe lreedmeii.a- to their political duties,
etc.
“Because,” said Fred., ”1 want to
wait till those mean whiles get through
with their talk, and then I will be
gin. I notice that in all the speechc- !
that Wilson, Kelly, and tin* rest of them
have been making to tiie colored folks at
Richmond, Mobile, N w Orleans, and
other places, nothing i“ ever -aid about
giving the colored men a Vice President
of their own color. But they’ve got to
make that concession to us, and tiiat is
just what 1 am going down Soutu to tell
our folks to insist ujkiii.”
“But, Fred., do you think the Radical
managers will accede to this arrange
ment ?”
“I have no doubt .of it -ir ; none at ail.—
AA endeii Phillips ami Horace Gree'v s::v
they are in fovbr of it and what they say
has got to lie done- They are the men
who run the Republican party along with
old Ben Butler, and whoever would run
with that party must do as they say.”
“But, do you think, if they nominate
Grant for President, that Grant will con
sent to have a darkey on the same ticket
for Vice?"
“Don’t think anything about it, sar.—
Grant only counts one. It i-not fix Grant,
or any other man. to dictate to the people.
We are the people. Grant is hut one of
our servants If In* doesn’t., like his
company, let him resign. Plenty of oth
ers sar, ready to take liis place ; plenty of
others, sar.”
“But, even if they nominate a darkey
for Vice President, what good will that do
you or your race'”’
“Don f talk foolish child. It will do us
a heap of good. In <ie fust place, it will
make a colored man presiding officer of
the Senate, aud then as the President may
die, he may be President of the United
States. That’s my plan of reconstruction,
sar; and until it is adopted and made
successful, sar, the Union will never be
restored, and the country will never have
peace.”
There were other queriesabout to be sub
mitted to the distinguished man and broth
er, butjust at this moment Rev. Dr. Chee
ver came along, and after introducing
Fred toa blushing damsel (whowas hang
ing lovingly on his arm,) the whole party
vanished in the direction of the office of
the Anti-Slavery Standard.
A Hoggish Dutchman.-—A German
tavern keeper in Cincinnati, who enter
tains porkmen, and caters to the taste
both of his countrymen and patrons, had
a roast pig for dinner on Sunday. The
animal—a small one—was served up
whole, and as it was placed on the table
sent forth an appetising and savory smell
that pervaded the dining room ami made
every occupant wish tor a slice, but to the
astonishment of every guest, a hurley,
iiursuted Teutonic pork dealer from the
country sat down opposite the dish and in
continently appropriated the entire roast.
The landlord happened to lie absent, and
good breeding prevented any of the guests
from entering a protest, so Hans made
such a havoc of the dish, and wiped his
lips with such evident relish, that one of
the waiters, with a keener sense of the
fun, approached him, and inquired if he
would liaveanything more. Hans’ beam
ing face brightened in a moment, and he
asked in reply, “ Got any more ov deni
lceitle hogs?”
Mrs. Partington says: For my part I
can’t deceive what on airth edification is
coinin’to. When I was young, if a gal
only understood the rules of distraction,
provision, multiplying, replenishing, and
the common denominator, and knew all
about the rivers and tlieir obituaries ; the
covenants and their dormitories, tho prov
inces and the umpire, they had eddication
enough. But now they have to study bot
tomy, algerbay, and have to demonstrate
suppositions about the sycophants of par
allelagrams, to say nothing of oxhides,
asheads, cowsticks, and abtfuse triangles.
And here the old lady really was so con
fused with the technical names that she
broke down.
lii a into number of the Lynchburg Vir
(jiniftn, we find the following:
A friend who has been residing in the
peninsula for some months past, informs us
hi..t :.b -re are about 3S,»HII> negroes between
Wiiß-.msburg ami Hampton-a distance
of thirty six miles. These people are sus
tained with rations furnished by the gov
ernment, at a cost of S(;•),(MKt “inoutbiy,'
while live cornpaniesof cavalry are rcquir
ed to pulrolo the country to prevent depre
dations. Every ollbrt has been made to
induce a portion of them to remove to
Florida, the ollloers of the government off
ering them free transportation. There is a
standing order of this nature made l*y Gen
eral Armstrong of the Ereeduien’s Bureau,
to convey the men witli their families, to
any point they may select, with the view
of engaging in useful labor. But they
have persistently refused every offerof the
kind and rejected every overture made to
get them employment. Under the provis -
ions of the civil rights hill it is impossible
to do anything contrary to tlieir wishes,
and so they remain huddled within this
limited era and are a heavy tax upon tiie
government. Some of them have taken to
highway robbery, and but for the presence
of a large cavalry force, a residence in that
country would lie intolerable. How long,
we wonder, will the people submit to this
enormous tax to support such idle and
worthies- pets of the Black Republican
party! Verily! Radicalism is a dear ex
periment, taxing the patience and pock
ets of a degree unprecedented in the histo
ry of of any country.
The facts speak for themselves ; setoen
hundred << <t twenty MotMOtsi < tutors taken
'every year from our heavily not! people
to support in idleness twenty thousand ne
groes, who will not accept work when of
fered. And if the (ample sustain the Rad
ical policy, how many more thousand idle
negroes in the Southern Stales will they
be compelled to maintain, to furnish Rad
ical voters ? [Philadelphia Age.
A HoKKinr.i; llis.v t hr— Over Onj:
Hi n'dkku Mi n Buried Alive in a ( ji.u.
Mini:. -The columns of the Eurojiean
German papers are lllled witli the partic
ular;-of one of the greatest disasters that
ever desolated any mining district.
On tiie lirst hi July last the wooden
frame-work of :t thousand five hundred
feet deep pit of a coal mine in the neigh-
Unhood of Mngau, iri Saxony, gave way,
blacking up with an impenetrable mass
of timber and rock the pit at tiie depth of
about three hundred ells form the top. —
At the moment of the disaster one hun
dred and two men, nearly all of them the
supjtorters of large families, were working
at the bottom of the mine. Their provis
ions were only calculated for one day. On
the 4Ut of July, the date of our latest news
by mall, the place where the fallen masses
iiad stopped tiie pit was of such solid
“.tincture that the water was standing on
it many feet high. From all sides tiie
most availing help was offered, hut the,
conviction thatnothiug could bedonesoon
enough to save the unfortunate miners
weakened, as it seems, any energetic ef
forts. They were doomed to die of starva
tion and wml of fresh air. On the -lth of
July, ail attempts to reach the bottom of
the mine by any quick process were aban
doned, and a slow but sure plan was
devised, by which at least the corpses of
the perished could be extracted. Iron
tubes of about two feet in diameter were
to be sunk through the obstruction down
to the bottom of the pit. Among tiie
dead are forty-four married men, one of
whom had a wife and nine livingchijdren.
The scenes at the entrance of the pit are
described as lamentable without a parallel.
One hundred and thirty-seven children
tilled the air with their woeful cries, while
the sujierintendeiit of the mine, to whose
negligence the disaster is ascribed by the
people, could only be saved from being
mobbed by his sudden imprison men
Destructive Conklau.ration. The
Buffalo Express contains a full account of
the great fire on the L&keshore Railroad:
On Saturday night about lu o’clock, a
freight train of forty-six ears, on the Lake
shore Railroad, a (.art of which were laden
with petroleum, met with a serious disas
ter, about three miles from Brovton.one of
the tank ear-taking fire from some un
known cause ami bursting w ith such force
as to throw three or four others from tiie
V't J he concussion wits so great as to
I ;«p| , SKI « U.rf Oi, flo-.W
U;i . ine track and into the gutters, fiood
mg each side for a distauce of a thousand
feet or more. The blazingoil at once spread
along the track, communicating with the
cars laden with casks of crude oil.
i he fire spread with great rapidity along
the tra k on each side for nearly a quarter
of a mile, and until the oil reached the
culvert aid left the road, consumed in jts
wav fences, telegraph poles, and every
other de-tructable article that eame in its
path. Indeed the liquid fire spread with
such rapidity that a shanty occupied by a
pom- woman some distance from the scene
of disaster, was lapped up by the flames
with so little eeremouy that the occupant
barely escaped with her life.
Maximß-ian's Will.—Curio* Testa
mentary Arrangements of the Emperor
and. Em/>n,is.—l have already announced
to you tnat the testamentary executor of
tiie Emperor Maximilian as count Fran
cois Ziehy. I now learn that there is a
second, Count lladdik. Concerning the
will of the Emperor Maximillian and the
Empress Charlotte some infoiillation of a
precise nature has reached me which can
not fail to exci.e the highest interest.—
From what I learn, which, of course I can
not guarantee, although I have it from the
best source, two wills, perfectly analogous,
were drawn up by the Emperor and “Em
press. Each of them, in ease there was
no issue of the marriage, leavas all the
property to the survivor. Tims, Maxi
milian being dead, his fortune, estimated
at from ten to twelve millions of florins,
only calculating his property at Miramar,
Lacroma, and the artistic wealth collected
there, reverts to the Empress Charlotte.—
The will of Maximilian is there to attest it.
But now comes the strange affair, it is
asserted that the Empress CharJotie’s will,
written with her own hand, and which
was carefully locked up in one of the
rooms at Miramar, has suddenly disap
peared, nobody knows how or where, —
From that circumstance it results that,'as
the Empress Charlotte has no will and is
not in a state to make one, seeing the al
most complete absence of her mental facul
ties; all her fortune, including the part
coming from her hand, the Emperor Max
imilian, and which ought in justice, after
her death, to revert to the Austrian impe
rial family, will now legally fall to the roy
al ono of Belgium.
[Vienna (July 10,) Paris Liberte.
The Washington Chronicle announces
in flaming capitals, that there is over ‘two
thousand majority forßrownlow in Mem
phis.’ We know no good reason why
Brownlow did not make the majority live
thousand instead of two. He has disfran
chised the whites by thousands, armed a
set of minions of his, and placed them at
or near the voting places,ami will make up
thfe returns to suit himself. Why, then,
should he he satisfied with small * majori
ties? We suggest that it would be as well
or him to elect himself by fifty or a hun
dred thousand majority.
A lady in Nashville,on mercy bent,was
making a visit to the penitentiary, ami
was permitted to look through the various
wards. In one room she saw tince women
engaged in sewing, and turning to the
keeper, who was showing her about, said
to him in an undertone: “ Dear me! the
viciousest looking women ! ever saw!—
What are they put here for?” “ They are
here,” he replied, “ because I am here ;
they are my wife and daughters, madam!”
But the 11 madam” was travelling out as
fast as possible.
A Prediction. —We want to make a
prediction, says an exchange, which will
soon he verritied or dispelled. It is, that
if the Radicals obtain majorities in the
Conventions about to bo called in the
Southern States, their proceedings will be
so violent and disorderly that the military
authorities will have to interfere and dis
perse or control some of those bodies.—
Such a combination of vindictiveness, sel
fishness and ignorance as characterises t iie
members of the party can never make a
republican constitution or take the guid
ance of a State.
I. I. O. F.
Grand Encampment, I . O. O. F., State
of Georgia, met on Tuesday, August 7, at
Odd Fellows Hall and elected tiie follow
ing officers for the ensuing year :
David Bailey, of No. 1, Savannah, Grand
Chief Patriarch.
John G. Coffin, of No. 2, Augusta, Grand
High Priest.
George N. Nichols, of No. 1. Savannah,
Grand Senior Warder.
James L. (low, of No. 2, Augusta, Grand
Junior Warden.
George R. Barker, of No. 5, Macon,
Grand Secretary.
John W. Burke, ofNo. 5. Macon, Grand
Treasurer.
James L. Han ft, of No. 1, Savannah,
Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge
of Georgia.
Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F. of the State of
Georgia, met at Odd Fellow’s Hal), Wed
nesday, August 8, 1807, and elected tiie
following officers :
Thomas C. Fleming, of No. -35, Atlan
ta, Most Worthy Grand Master.
James Laeklisoo, of No. 3, Savannah,
Right Worthy Deputy Grand Master.
L. A. Burke, of No. 2, Macon, Right
Worthy Grand Master.
George R. Barker, of No. 5, Macon,
Right Worthy Grand Secretary.
John W. Burke, of No. 2, Macon, Right
Worthy Grand Treasurer.
The Grand Lodge is still in Session and
will l>e during the day, (Thursday.)
The Rutland Difficulty.
Tins case is now closed, and we lay a
brief statement of tiie testimony taken ;
on the lust day, before our readers. The
case is a strange one and is involved in
much mystery.
In the first place, six respectable citi
zens are arraigned for tiring into a negro
eongreg .lion who were holding their wor
ship at night. The most positive testimo
ny ol'a large number of negroes is given
to si low that til ewe men were there ; sonic
that-'they saw them firing, and to many
other circumstance.-) : could even swear to
the checks in their clothing and their
guns, when it was only a usual starlight
night: two swore that the "morning star
was up,” at 10 o'clock, and another, that
-he saw these (leople by the moon-light
when there was no moon in the sky.
We will not analyze the testimony as it
will show for itself to be the most confus
ed mass of contradictions absurdities and
perjury over thrown into one concoction.
Five of the six were proved entirely clear
of tiie charges: some not being within
six to eight miles of the place, and In com
pany with several persons of uni mpeachi
ble integrity.
fine, Mr. James Newman, being at home
wa“ held to bail in the sum of two thou
sand dollars to ap(>ear at the next sujierior
Court. A negro man who) stays on his lot
swears that he saw him at home at the
hour the difficulty occurred. This was
the only testimony in his favor, whilst the
innocence of tiie others was made as clear
as tin* noonday sun.
It is proved by negro testimony tiiat
a certain number of guns were fired, ami
by the same testimony, tha( they fired
aitout that number. Why did they carry
double barrel guns and revolvers as an
accompaniment to their worship.
The time has not yoteoine when Heaven
eau lie taken by storm, or the gates of the
nether regions be closed by revolvers and
shot-guns. Did they carry them there to
tight the Devil or force their way to the
better land.
Mirny ulltlien; witHeuai tvor« of t
lowest class of the African species, and if
they showed any iuteiigence, it is that of
vice. Asa sjiecimen of Ihe promiscous
shooting that there occured ; one who had
Ids double-barrel shot-gun, testified that
he tired hut did not aim at any one, and
next time lie shot at a man, but did not
know whether he was black or white.
It is time that all sm-h witnesses should
lie promptly indicted for perjury. The
Penetentary has yet some vacant places
for them.
1 Knew Sin: Would.
Deacon W • was a staid and honest
deacon in one of tiie interior towns of this
State, who had a vein of dry caustic humor
in his composition. The deacon had a
boy of some dozen summers, who was
somewhat inclined to lie a little ugly when
not under tiie parental eye. In school,
especially, John was a source of constant
annoyance to the teacher. One day the
teacher punished him for some misde
meanor, and John went home to enter his
complaint, and told his father that the
mistress had whipped him.
‘ What!’ exclaimed the deacon, elevat
ing his eyebrows, ‘ been whipped?”
* Va-a-as,’ sobbed the boy.
‘ And did you let a woman whip ye?’ j
shouted the old deacon.
‘ Va-a-as. I couldn't help it.’
‘ Well, John, you little rascal, you go to j
school to-morrow, and if Miss under
takes to whip ye again, you just pitch in ;
don’t let a woman whip ye if ye can help
it. Don’t take any stick to strike with,
but ye may strike, scratch, bite and kick
as much as yon have a mind to.’
The next day the boy went to school,
and, emboldened by the permission given
by his father, was soon brought before the
tribunal of violated rules. The teacher
undertook to correct him, ahd lie did as
his father had told him. The result was
that John got a most unmerciful trouncing
and was thoroughly subdued. When lie
went home, he went to his father, cry
ing.
* Well, dad, I got an awful bad licking
to-day.’
‘ What!’ sail! the old deacon, ‘have you
let that old woman whip you again?’
‘ Ya-a-as,’ whimpered Johu. 1 I kicked
her, and struck her, and lit all I could, hut
she lammed meorfully.’
‘ Aha!’ chuekered the humorous old!
deacon, ‘you tanrnl little fool, I knew she i
would, ami she will give you a trouncing
every time she undertakes it, and l advise
you to behave yourself in future.”
John began to have some perception of
his father’s motive, and ever after was a
better and wiser boy.
Union of White and Colored Ma
sons.—The New Orleans Republican says j
that through the energetic labors of Mr.
Eugene Chassaignac, who is the M.\ P.\ !
Hov.-. Ur. - . Com. - , of the Supreme Conn - j
oil of the Accepted Scotch Rite for Louis- i
iana, several colored lodges of that city!
have already fused with tiie white ones,:
and arc now working harmoniously under
the auspices of the Supreme Council ofj
which Mr. Chasaaigmie is the head. The
; Supreme Council lias adopted the follow- j
ing resolutions:
j Whereas, Masonry is essentially pro
; gressive, that it must always be marching
! forward, battling against prejudices, In
; eiilighting the world with great principles |
| ot liberty, equality and fraternity; opened |
j to our MM.-. BB.\ of all nations and races i
\ or colors ;
Be it resolved by the Supreme Council i
of Louisiana, in the name of the sacred
and fundamental principles of our B.\
Order, That all its subordinate lodges be
and arc ordered tocordially and fraternally
receive all duly qualified visiting BB.’.
without any distinction of any race or
5 coins whatever.
Be it further reselved, That the Supreme
Council holds it an lionorr to he the first
Supreme body in the Southern States of
America to accomplish that act of such
emphatic justice,
voi. i,x„ rso.
Affray inßutlands District.
Examination for Commit'meat of Prisoners.
We scarcely know what to call this case,
as it is, and in most res»H:ets, and in its final
adjudication, without precedent. It. is
the first of a family amongst us, to which
we hope that there is “no son nr heir
succeeding.” That the first may he the
last, unless under brighter influences of
the “morning star” or the benign and
softening influences of the moon, “which
monthly changes.” Swear not again by
that moon, Miss Caroline, but swear by
thy own greasy self and we may believe
thee.
Thursday Mokninu j o’clock Aug Btli.
The court convened according to ad
journment—Justices Burnett and .Stubbs
presiding.
Attorneys,Solicitor (Seueral Simmons for
the prosecution, and Hunter, Weems,
and John M. Stubbs for the defense,
After awaiting about an hour the pris
oners arrived under the usual military
escort.
They were Michael Hartly, Harmon
Clark Terrell B. Grace ami Baiiy Heard,
who were arraigned and put on trial at the
same time. Ten colored witnesses were
called on the part of the prosecution) and
sworn.
Vor |be defence several white witnesses
were sworn and a few colored. The coun
sel for the defence announced, that there
were female witnesses which would be
introduced and sworn at the proper time.
Ist Witness—Bill Walker, (negro.) Sun
day night—had left the church 200 yards
—heard firingatthechurch— two men run
past him—they were Mike Hartly auil
Jas. Newman, both had double barrel
shotguns—ordered them to halt, three
times, which they did not do—told them
they need not run—l knew who they were
I then “ pulled down” on them with my
pistol. They then turned and fired at me,
and a hall passed through-the top of my
hat. Armstead Tinley, my brother and
wife and Thos. Walker were with me, I
fired my repeater three times at Newman
and Hartly. Hartly wore checked pants
white stripes ran down them, size of the
check, larger than those on his coat. New
man wore dark clothes, ran within five
steps of him: it was star light: could
“wear positively, that lie could de-erilie
their clothes and guns. They ran last
left the church before they said amen, and
kneeled down to pray.
2d Witness—Armstead Tinley (negro.)
Saw Newman and Hartly run past him:
was one hundred and fifty yards from tiie
church, with Walker and others. They
went by in a “ dog trot they had double
barrel guns ; carried muzzles down—" He
knew it because he seed it.” Walker shot
before me. Newman and Hartly fired,
and I fired my pistol at them. Walker
shot after X< wman and J Tartly stmt. Did
not swear last Friday that Hartly had a
gun, but Newman had.
3d Witness—Harriet Walker, wife of
Wm. Walker, was with Wm. Walker and
others two hundred yards from the church:
two men ran past them in a “ dog trot”
did Dot know who they were or whether
they had arms or not. Walker and Arm
stead hailed them: Walker and Armstead
fired at them before they fired. It was
star light. Was very much alarmed.
4th. Witness—Wm. Thomas negro was
at the meeting .Sunday night: did not see
Hartly or ( ’lark there : saw them there on
Saturday night: were standing by the
fence: distance 40 yards: they asked him
the way to go out to the road. Hartly
lives two miles, Clark on; and a half from
Hi- place of meeting, i Nothing proven
! relative to the case.) (JtjecteTl to by de
fence : must prove a conspiracy formed at
that time: testimony ruled out by Court.
oth. Witness Anderson Singleton:
negro was at the meeting on Sunday nigh t:
beared the shooting. Saw TAnkersly,
Grace and Bally Heard there with guns.
They were going off in the direction of
Gareys when I saw them: left meeting
after that shooting: they were 150 yards
from it. Did not hear Hartly say he would
break up the meeting: two persons told
him so. Saw Tankersiy Grace and Heard
while the thing was going on. Saw
Tankersiy going up a Hill: was fifty yards
a head: I followed him three hundred
yards : saw Heard and Grace until they
got out of his sight (Some discrepancy
was alleged to with regard to his testimo
ny on Friday which is unnecessary to
enumerate.)
6th. \\ itness—Dick Tinsley: was at the
meeting on Saturday night: saw Baiiy
Heard there with a gun, hut did not hear
him say any thing: saw no other white
man : did not know what kind of a gun it
was: lie Was twlmty or thirty steps from
the church, and against a garden fence.
7th Witness—Caroline Highland, negro,
Saw five men ride by in a sweeping
gallop, on Sunday night going towards the
church : said they were going patrolling.
Two of them stopped at Hartly’s gate:
tiie other three went on. She knew Baiiy
Heard’s voice. When they passed by, the
moon ukis shining. Not near enough to
know who they were, except Heard, by
his voice. This was at 9 o’clock. Did not
see them any more.
The Court suspended until 3 o’clock P.
M. On the assembling of the Court, the
Solicitor General withdrew the prosecu
tion against Clarke and Grace, as unsus
ainedby evidence, and an order to that
was sanctioned by the Court.
Bth Witness: Jacob Heard. Michael
Hartly was at my house on Sunday night
the 28fli: came before sunset with Taylor
Rape: staid to supper. I went to bed
about 9 o’clock, woke sometime after
wards, and heard him and Rape convers
ing with my daughters. I live six to six
and a half miles from where the difficulty
effect occurred.
‘JLIi Witness: Taylor Rape: I met Mi
chael Hartly at Goodale's Mills aitout an
hour by sun: went with Him to Jacob
Heard s. Was with him, except for a
few moments, till between 11 and 12o’clock
at night, when I went home.
10th Witness: Joseph il.-anl: Saw M.
liaitly at my lather’s house on the night
°ffhe 2mh Itelweeu lo and II o'clock. I
hud itcon at Pea liill church : Rape was
witli him.
Utli Witness: Mrs. Elizabeth Heard:
M. Hartly was at my house on the night
ot the 28th with Mr. Rape. They were in
conversation with my daughters, i was
up until they left, which was about 11
o’clock.
12th Witness: Miss Mattie Heard:
Michael Hartly was at my Father’s house
on Sunday night the 28th. Mr. Taylor
Rape came with him: they were at sup
per, and staid until about 11 o'clock, and
left together. Baiiy Heard was at home
at dark and went to a neighbors, and she
did not see him again that night. [Some
! sparking issuspicioned on this occasion.]
: 1 lie introduction of new witnesses on
the part of the defence for Hartly was an
! non need by Mr. Weems as closed, and
| those for Baiiy Heard were lutroduced.
13th Witness: Terrell B. Grace; Heard
Anderson Singleton testify this morn
ing : Was not present at the time the
meeting was fired on; was not nearer than
a mile and a half during the day or night.
Went to Mr. Jones’ "and staid there all
night: did not see Baiiy Heard that day
or niglitf Did not hear any threats about
breaking up tiie negro’s meeting or drill
ing.
14th Witness: Chas. Tankersiy : Heard
Anderson Singleton testify : I was not
near the meeting fired on, but passed there
about two o’clock, ami an hour by sun. 1
live threo hundred and fifty or four liun
<1 rod yards from he church: Never told
any one that there Would l»e shooting
.there that night: or Heard or Hartly say
that the meeting or drilling would lie
broken up.
15th Witness: Mack Bowers: Baiiy
Heard came to my house about 9 o’clock :
staid a quarter to Half hour: then went
towards his brothers: wanted me to go
coon hunting next morning: He had no
arms: I live six miles from tho place of
the shootiug.
17th. Witness—James A. Kearny, saw
Baiiy Heard at my brothers house '.bout
9o’clock. It is six miles from the place of
the shooting.
18th. Witness—John Kearny: Baiiy
Heard was at my house about 9 o’clock on
the night of the 28th: wanted lack
Bowers to go coon-hunting on Monday
morning.
19th. Witness—Mrs. Elizabeth Kearny:
Hoard was ai my house about 9 o’clock on
Sunday evening and staid from a quarter
to half an hour.
20th. Witness —Miss Nancy Bowers :
was at her brothers, and testimony tho
same as his and that of Mrs. Kearny.
21tt. Witness —Joseph Heard: Baiiy
Heard-is my brother : he steeps in a small
house near the stable to guard the stock.
I came home between 10 and 11 o’clock,
and woke him up when I “put up my
nag.”
The testimony here closed.
A proporsitiou was made by the Solici
tor to submit the case to the Justiees
without argument, as an alibi was cloarly
proved in both eases (leaving only a small
gap of an hour or two with regard to the
presence of Heard. Col. Weems and the
Solicitor made brief arguments, when the
Justices w ithout hesitation’s at once dis
charged them from tlieir custody.
One Thing Wanting.
A cry of terrific import rang through the
mighty ship—she was sinking. Terror
salon ali faces—surged ujsniall hearts.
But the sturdy and active seamen did
not pause to|wriug their hands In despair.
They hastened to cast oft' the ship's b*>ats,
and to pass over into them food, blankets,
and wine, and many other things necessa
ry to preserve life in a voyage on the sea
in opeu boats, (treat sails were cast down
to be used to protect women and children
from sun, and wind, and storm. Lastly
the all'rigHted passengers were handed
over and safely bestowed in their appoint
ed places. The captain stood bravely at
his post on the sinking vessel until the
last man but himself had deserted her,
and then he too bade farewell to the deck
whereon he had stood as commander. —
The good ship was the captain’s only
home, and that home was settling slowly
beneath his feet, to an ocean grave; what
wonder that there were tears in the stout
man’s eves had a huskiness in his voice
as, on taking his place among his men, he
cried out—
“ Pull away, my boys; give poor Jenny
wide berth* for she will go into her death
struggle in a few moments more!”
What wonder that his heart felt Bad,
thus to part with his vessel; even though
he had no iears about soon making some
safe harbor?
They had good strong boats, able liodied
and courngoua men, plenty of provisions,
drink and clothing; in short, everything
that they needed to make them comforta
ble for weeks, even should it be so long be
fore they reached the land. Even thing !
had they everything that they needed ?
“My God!” cried the captain starting
to his feet, his face white with utter dis
may and Ills strong frame convulsed ; “wo
have forgotten the compass
A faintness fell upon the stoutest heart
as these words were shouted forth ; and
the oars dropped from the hands of the ap
palled mariners; for at the instant in
which they were uttered the ship plunged
forward, and, then struggling and groan
ing sank rom tiie sight of all.
It was too late to repair that loss—that
fatal Joes. And now what availed tlieir
outfit of clothing, water, and provisions?
What but to prolong the agony of know
ing that their probable doom was to be a
slow and agonizing death ? There was no
a sign in the heavens, or on the sea, b>
which these hapiless voyages could direct
tlieir course. A dense fog had obscured
the heavens for many days ; it still hung
damp and heavy about them ; and now it*
chill and gloom struck to their hearts.
They had no compass—they knew not
which way to go ; nor could they tell cer
taiuly that they were not rowing constantly
in a circle, which in all probability they
were doing.
The intention had been to keep together,
and cheer each other by eornpauy ; but it
was not long before one of the three boats
was lost sight of, ami all the shouting and
calling that the men could do never re
united them. This one boat, when its
occupants were nearly starved to dt\ 8,
was found by an American vessel; bin f
the others no word was ever heard. F«>r
want of a compass they had miserably
perished. Any person who lias ever tried
to walk in a direct line upon a moonlight
prairie can have a good idea of how vain
would lie the task of trying to row straight
ahead through a dense fog upon the sea. —
Without doubt, those unfortunate sailors
exhausted themselves with fruti less efforts,
and then perished by famine, or were
whelmed in tiie stormy sea.
And all this woe just because of lacking
one tiling. Is there no meaning in this
dismal story, deeper than anything re
lating to the body ? Is not life a sea? Are
we not all in frail and; open vessels, sailing
over its dangerous and bewildering waves?
have not many of us a rich supply of com
forts for our voyage, but how many of us
have remembered to take our compass?
Oh ! mariner, out on a stormy sea,
A clirat and a compass are offered to
thee;
The fog is around thee, Hie breakers be
fore,
And terror and warning are beard in
their roar.
But one thing is wanting to guide tliee in
peace,
Safe to the fair heaven where dangers
shall cease.
And daily ’tis ottered tliee—turn not aside
From Jesus —thy compass thy chart, and
thy guide.
Red Tape Illustrated. —A Prussian
officer, inspecting a militafy post, found a
sentry leisurely walking bis ls-at before a
dilapidated and empty storehouse. No one
could give him any information as to why
tlio sentinel was then;, except that it was
a “custom of the post.” His curiosity be
ing aroused, lie examined the records of
tiie war office, and in au old report, dated
a hundred and tliirt.v years before, found
that once the door of that storehouse had
been painted, and a guard bad been placed
thereto warn persons of the wet paint. —
The officer in charge was ordered away,
and the storehouse guard liecauie a tradi
tionary and punctually performed duty of
the post. This anecdote is matched by one
that is told of the English serviee. Many
years ago a detachment of tnsqw was or
dered to some out-of-the-way place in In
dia, Hilda requisition was made for clothing
anil medicines for the use of Ihe soldiers.
In a short time the post was broken up,
but as the orders lor supplies had not been
countermanded, they were sent regularly
every year for a good jsirlion of a century,
in perfect oblivion of the fact tiiat the'e
were no troops there to wear uniforms or
take medicines.
♦ ♦ ♦
, From a paper, under date of .Shanghai
Fedruary 17th, we learn that the Masonic
brotherhood in that city are impending one
hundred thousand Mexican dollars for the
erection of a magnificent Temple. The
amount was raised by subscri pt ions among
tin* various Masonic lushes in tiiat (dace
and can be taken as an indication of the
st rength and wealth ot their membership
It is the more gratifying to us from the
tact that the prime movers in the enter
prise aretwo Americans—Brothers t 'lias
!l Barker, of Boston, and \ ernoii Seaman
of Newburgh, New York.
[New York Courier.