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rhain of Circumstantial Evidence.
A Curious tflaiu <»
o mcbces will out.”
The St. Paul Press of OctoVier 22d, cou
fainsan account of the exhumation of the
remains of I)r- Harcourt, who was interred
therein August, 1885, and the bringing to
light of circumstantial evidence very
strongly reflecting upon George L. Van
gnleu as the murderer. VanSolen is in
prison, and was undergoing examination
at the time. Says the Press:
n Man early hour yesterday afternoon J.
i- Mdlrath, Chief of Police, whose efforts
to secure the complete Identification of the
body has been as untiring as were his ef
forts to apprehend the murderer took a
competent force and proceeded to the cem
etery to find the remains of Dr. llarcourt.
His first step was, however, to find the
man who had interred the body, and[ this
be happily succeeded in doing, so that the
Han't, man who took charge ot the body at
the coroner’s inquest and buried it, assist
ed in Hie resurrection of its remains.
“ Everything necessary being thus pro
vided, the party proceeded to the ceme
tery and to the grave where the body of
Harcourt was buried, when, startling to
relate, they found the headboard gone.—
This however, did not interfere with the
investigation, as the place where the man
was buried was perfectly remembered.
** n was, however, a deep laid scheme,
by which all trace of the whereabouts of
the body were sought to be removed. The
body of the victim had been once con
signed to the river, anew rone tied around
its neck, and that attached to a heavy
weight. But the river would not bide the
guilty secret; its restless waves had borne
the body along and exposed it to view. •
And now the second time hidden from the
eye of man, the murderer would make
concealment still more sure. But to steal
the headboard from this grave alone would
not suffice. It might only point out the
spot still more surely. Ho the headboards
were also removed from the four graves
nearest at each side of it. Whatever
guilty soul would thus hide a murderer’s
secret, the scheme is evident, as the other
graves in the cemetery were undisturbed.
“When the coffin was disinterred and
opened, every eye was intent upon the
result. The remains were mostly decom
posed, but the skeleton and clothing were
in a good state of preservation. The rope
was still around the neck, as when the
body was first found, thus furnishing ad
ditional proof that it was the body taken
from the river.
“An examination oftheskull showed that
the jaw had been broken and shattered as
if by a heavy shot, a number of which had
passed through ihe skull and were lodged
within. Ho that it appears that the dis
figurement of the face, supposed by the
Coroner's jury to be the work of decompo
sition, was in fact the work of the murder
ous deed. .
“On the feet were found two gaiters,with
buckles, etc., corresponding to those shown
in evidence to have been worn by Dr,
Harcourt. A leather legging was upon one
leg, which explains the surmise of the
Coroner’s jury that tlfc deceased had a
boot upon one foot.
“The clothes also correspond with those
worn by Dr. Harcourt. Other important
ami more minute particulars in regard to
tin l body were divulged, hut they are with
held for the present, as well as some very
important evidence in the case.
“Thus the excitement and interest in
this mysterious case grows more intense
as tlie trial proceeds, and as link after link
of evidence is added, of which the finding
of the body of Dr. Harcourt is by no means
the least.”
A gentleman of this city, Mr. Geo. Bab
cock, lias related to us some particulars of
the history of Dr. Harcourt, which are in
teresting at tins time, as both Dr. H. and
Van Helen formerly resided here. It will
he seen that, the chain of circumstances
points to the murderer, and it is curious
how they came to light. Col. Fenn, our
indefatigable chief of police, has been in
vestigating this affair for some time, and
it is chiefly through his endeavors that the
murderer lias been traced and brought lace
to face with justice. Col. Fenn lias a
number of letters and statements of differ
ent parties, setting forth more fully
the facts and circumstances related be
low.
In the spring of 1865, Frank Buck, at
that time employed as transportation
agent for the government, operating be
'\sven Cincinnati and St. Louis, brought
1 Mr. Babcock’s otliee in this city Dr.
1 Dory Harcourt, who informed Mr. 11.
that v.e lnui met his (B.’s) brotiier in Cin*
cnmati, :unl tiiat he (Harcourt) was in
« \v, W i U g bad nothing to eat for t wo
days. Rabcoek was at that time a quar
termaster i n q le arm y i and lie employed
Harcourt as a driver of a team and placed
him under the late General Win. D.
yv ood, who was then in the quartermaster's
department.
1 iareonrt was a manof very slight build,
Rot possessed of great intelligence. In
conversation with him Mr. Babcock ascer
tained that he was a well-educated man
ami a regular Euglish physician, having
graduated at a medical college in London.
Pleased with the address of the stranger,
Mr. Babcock readily consented to become
his surety for a board bill at the corner of
Thirteenth and Olive streets, keeping
Harcourt’s valise in his office.
About three weeks after this meeting
Harcourt asked Babcock to give him a I
letter of recommendation to Dr. Brown,
who kept a drug store at the cornerof
Fifth street and Washington avenue, as
that gentleman had promised him em
v\o\nwnt in his store. The letter was
wnuvo Harcourt was employed as a
i ug cu-ih at a month. Harcourt re
.lint' 'vith\j r Brown but a short time,
>emg c ■'•charged ou suspicion of taking
away some brandy which he said the boy
"* the st ? e had During this time
Harcourt lived upon cheese and crackers
and slept in the store, i n order to save
money to pay the seventeen dollars which
lie owed for board.
Previous to his discharge from the drug I
yore, Harcourt showed Babcock a letter i
from a mail said to be Vau Solen, prouos- I
ing to pay him SI,OOO for going as surgeon i
on an expedition to befitted out at St. Paul
Minnesota, in a short time. Shortly after
b'* discharge from Brown’s, Harcourt told
, -‘bcock of the fact, and said he would
na\> t 0 decline the position ottered him in
tnc expedition, because he had not sutli
cient trails to purchase the necessary out
■t- ffarcock asked him who he was ac
quainted with in the city, and he said he
was know. u t the house of Pike, Kellogg
i, “• , At 1 lat Dine he read a letter from
\ an holeu, urging him to obtain as much
money as posdble and go op to St. Paul
-r he would lost the position ottered him’
Babcock furnished him with $l5O a stock
oi medicines from Pike, Kellogg & Cos., a
double-barreled gut, a carbine, and a ease
'! surgical instruments, taking liis note
lor tlie debt, Thus provided for,'Harcourt
■tarted for Minnesota, and never returned
otter waiting a sufficient time.and liearl
nothing of Harcourt Babcock made
-uquiries about him, aud received a letter
otn Mr b itzwilliams, a o’-erk for Pike,
Kellogg A to, and one from hr. Brown;
im) a letter purporting to be Pom Har-
Ihmesota Wntten fr< ’ m the wildvvood * of
a, r - learned from Dr. Brown
( at Van sole n had sold to Dr. Colemmi
uggist at the corner of Sixtii and \i,,? a ’
swaisrsf
(Georgia Jotimul aiffi Jt.lcsscnacv.
By Rose Ac Burr.
circumstance calculated toarousesuspieion,
and Babcock went to see Coleman, and
found there the identical case of instru
ments that had belonged to Harcourt, and
which Coleman had purchased of Van-
Holen. VanSolen had also brought from
ft. Paula pair of saddlebags which Fitzwil
liams had given to Harcourt.
Dr. Brown stated that after VanSolen
came hack became into his store and stole
four cakes of soap, which he laid down on i
the counter and said, “Here are some of
soap stolen by Harcourt.”
A letter which VanSolen had written to
Harcourt’s mother in England, was re
turned to Mr. Babcock, and it is stated
that no expedition had left St. Paul, and
that he believed Harcourt had gone to
Montana or some other place, and directed
her to address further inquiries to a certain
post office box in Ht. Paul. Here was an
other suspicious circumstance.
After this letter was returned, a letter
was received by Fitzwilliams, signed Mar
ton, but written in theb and of VanSolen,
asking about Harcourt. This also excited
suspicion. On receipt of the letter from
Hareourt’s mother, Babcock went to see
the Chief of police, and acquanted him
with the affair, and Col. Fenn immediate
ly took an interest in it and set to work to
fathom the mystery. This was last sum
mer.
Babcock then went to St. Paul with the
letters and statements, and made inquiries
about VanSolen, aud found that his repu
tation there was not the best, and that he
was suspected of having murdered Dr.
Parker while connected with the arndy as
hospital steward. J. T. Mdlrath, the
chief of police in St. Paul, took the mat
ter in hand, and went to work on the case,
being of the opinion that Harcourt had
been murdered, but the material point
lacking was the corpus delicti—the body
had to be examined. Leaving certain pa
pers in the chiefs hands, Babcock return
ed home.
Hearing that suspicions were aroused
against him, VanSolen left the city, and
was at length arrested by Mcllrath in Chi
cago-
On reaching home, Babcock received a
letter signed by oqp Flint, at Ht. Paul, in
quiring about Harcourt, and directing the
reply to be addressed to the same post
office box before mentioned.
The papers connected with this singular
case are in the hands of Col. Fenn, and
they afford one of the strongest cases of
circumstantial evidence we haveever seen,
especially when it is ascertained beyond
doubt that poor Harcourt was foully mur
dered by someone.
SIXTY-FEET UNDER THE SNOW,
A Graphic Story of Labrador.
In one of the interesting series of papers
on Terre Nova, or Coast Life in New
Foundland, by “Harry Bolinbroke,”
which appears monthly in the Riverside
Magazine, “Skipper Nat” thus tells how
he was snowed up in Labrador:
“ In the fall of ’37, I volunteered to re
main on the Labrador all the winter, be
cause there was a good deal of stuff of one
kind and another that our vessel could not
take away. As there was a small settle
ment further down the coast, I thought I
shouldn’t want for company, although,
indeed, it was a dreary prospect I had be
fore me, and not without considerable
danger. However, when the schooner
put to sea, and I found myself all alone, 1
contrived to make the best of it, aud went
about preparing things for nie loDgwinter.
“ Mv tilt was built under the brow of a
steep hill, not far from the shore; and
with a little fixing up—such as covering
the roof with sods and stopping the seams
with moss—l contrived to make it a snug
little nest enough. Then I had a good
stock of wood, plenty of ammunition, *
Bible and some other books, with a large
supply of provisions. I soon began to like
my Crusoe mode of life, and enjoyed my
self much more than one could suppose. —
Hometimes—just about tea time mostly—a
fit of loneliness would come over me, but
it gradually wore *away, until it seemed
like a dream that ever I had mingled with
my fellow creatures, in a civilized land.—
It took me some weeks to get my hut in
order, my wood cut, my provisions stowed
away and everything put ship-shape, in
comfortable trim against the dreary days
ahead.
“.It was well I didn’t dally in my labor;
for no sooner was I in a condition to face
the winter than he began to face me, and
almost every day he assailed my fort with
wind, frost, aud snow, hail, sleet and rain.
“ About the first week in December it
began to come down in real earnest, and
the wind being low, there was, in two
days, an even fall of some six or eight feet,
which, indeed, was almost level with the
eaves of my house. By hard shoveling I
keep an open path to my well, tiiat gushed
up at the foot of a rock,and, being aspring,
never was much frozen. I thought it a
wise thing, however, to set up a pole, with
a remnant of uti old sail near by, so hat in
case the well were covered up, I should
know just where to search for it.
“Outlie third night of the storm the
snow came down thicker and faster than,
ever, the wind increasing from the north
east —a perfect hurricane. 1 got in a good
supply of water, piled up a roaring tire,
and sat down to listen to the howling
wind, to read my books, smoke my pipe,
mend my togs, and cook my meal —such
being my in-door employments. Some
how, 1 did not feel low-spirited that night.
I couldn’t help thinking of those who
were so far away from me. I felt my utter
loneliness weigli upou me, till 1 actually
began to pity myself, as if 1 was some poor
forlorn creature,cast adrift from the world,
and all its cares and comforts. Tears came
into my eyes, and I almost repented that
T had undertaken to remain at all. How
ever, when I began to consider that the
same God who was watching my loved
ones at home, was also present in my hum
ble abode, amid the storms aud snows and
night; 1 say, when I thought of this, I
gained comfort, and wrapping myself up
111 my blankets, lay down to rest like a
little child that goes to sleep holding its
mother’s finger iu its fist.
“But oh, how the wind roared, and
howled, and whistled! Sometimes a great
gust would come, carrying a shower of
bright sparks up my chimney, and then
howl down as if it was some demon that
wanted to get into my house. Then again
the gale would moau and whine like some
one in pain; orjpaut and shriek, as though
some poor creature were perishing in the
drifts; theu would come a roar like a furi
ous wild beast!
“At length the sounds grew gradually
fainter and fainter; the wind seemed to be
dying away, until at last all was as still
and silent ns the grave, except, it may
be, a low, muffied growl, very, very far
ott.
“I dropped to sleep. How long I slept I
! know not; but when I woke all was dark,
| and mv fire was nearly out. I jumped up,
j laid some splits on the ashes; but there
! was not draught enough to kiudle them,
| and the room was full of smoke. When I
opened the door 1 found one solid wall of
snow filling up the eutire doorway. This,
however, was no more than I expected.
Going back to my fire-place, I looked up
the flue, and the snow seemed to form au
arch over it. Can it be possible, thought
I, that I am buried alive beneath the
snow ?
Taking, my shovel, I dug into the white
I mass that blocked my door; but, after ex
i cavating some five or six feet, no daylight
appeared! It was evident that the tilt was
I many, many feet beneath the surface ; be
! ing situated at the foot of the hill, which
| rose some sixty or seventy feet in the rear.
I I came to the conclusion that from the
! brow of the hill out to perhaps the well, or
| even beyond, was all one solid block of
; snow, which I could not expect to see re
moved for three or four months! To dig
my way out would be difficult, if not im
possible, and certainly somewhat danger
! ous; for, should the tunnel cave in, where
was I? Smothered! To remain idle would
never answer, on the other hand; for my
tire would not burn, but only smolder, and
till the premises with smoke, bad enough
i blind one; and then my stock of water
j would soon be exhausted.
After pondering the matter bver for a
I long time, I resolved at last to risk a tun
! V e ' at a »y late. I thought, as I had no
j difficulty in breathing, and as my lamp
I burned pretty well, that air must come in
tiora some hole or corner, and perhaps the
di ift might not be so high, after all.
tying a string around my waste, and fas
; tening the other end to the staple of the
j door-lock, I commenced to work my way
i along. It was dreadful hard work and no
; mistake—that it was; for, as I could not
j remove the snow, I had to trample it down
aud press it each side, and melt it, aud so
make away with it as best I could. And
then the air was so close and hot that I
was in a hath of perspiration all the while.
Gne night I woke up with the cold shiv
ers ,- and the next day—if I may call it
* XVi * 3 proper sick—a violent cold,
the way I cured myself was to get up and
dig for dear life at the snow tunnel until I
w Gripping wet and as hot as a plum
pudding just out of the pot.
“ In a day or two, I began tohear a faint
roaring sound of wind, and then the light
grew stronger and stronger, which gave
me hopes that I must be coming out. This
caused me to renew my labor with fresh
vigor. At every shovelful almost, the noise
of the wind and the glimmer of light in
creased until, at last, all at once, the top of
the tunnel caved in ; and, after considera
ble struggling and puffing, I came out
ouce more to the blessed light of day!
Shaking the snow from myself, I fottnd it
was as I supposed. There was asnow drift
of sixty feet piled over rny house, from the
brow of theh'll till within a few feetof the
well. J had occasion to rejoice that I had
myself tied to the door post, otherwise I
should never have found my way back,or,
at least, not for a long time. As I said be
fore, there was a settlement down the
coast; as soon as I could, I set oft and got
some men to come and help me dig out
the house. But I can tell you that the
the next year wheu we came back to Lab
rador, there was a good heap of that drift
in the valley still, and, for the matter, it
remained there ail the summer.”
CONDENSED NOVELS! .
BY FRANK “ BRET ” HART.
AFTER CHARLOTTE BRONTK.
The wind howled diSmally without, and
the rain beat furiously against the win
dows. I crept toward him and seated my
self on a low stool beside his chair.
Presently he turned, without seeing me,
and placed his foot absently in ray lap. I
affected not to notice it. But he stared
and looked down.
‘ You here yet, Carrothead ? Ah, I for
get. Do you speak French ?’
‘ Oni, Monsieur .’
1 Taiscz nous,' he said sharply, with sin
gular purity of accent. I complied. The
wind moaned fearfully in the chimney,
and thelight burned dim. I shuedered in
spite of myself. ‘ Ah, you tremble, girl!’
1 It is a fearful night!’
‘Fearful! Call you this fearful? Ha!
ha! lia! Look, you wretched little atom,
look !’and lie dashed forward, and, leap
ing out of the window, stood like a statue
in the pelting storm, with folded arms. He
did not stay long, but in a few minutes re
turned by the way of the hall chimney. I
saw from the way that he wiped his feet
on my dress that he had again forgotten
my presence.
‘ You are a governess. What can you
teach ?’ he asked, suddenly and fiercely
thrusting his face in mine.
‘ Manners !’ I replied calmly.
‘ Ha 1 teach me!’
‘You mistake yourself,’l said, adjusting
my mittens. ‘ Your manners require not
the artificial restraint of society. You are
rsdically polite; this impetuosity and fe
rociousness is simply the sincerity which
is the basis of a proper deportment. Your
instincts are moral; your better nature, I
see, is religious. As Ht. Paul justly re
marks—see chapter, 6,8, 9 and 10—’
He seized a heavy candlestick and threw
it at me. I dodged it submissively, hut
firmly.
‘ Excuse me,’ lie remarked, as his under
jawslowly relaxed, ‘ Excuse me, Mis Mix ;
but I can’t stand St. Paul! Enough—you
are engaged.’
AFTER CUARI.ES LEVER.
In an instant I was engaged with an
entire squadron of cavalry, who endeavored
to surround me. Cutting my way through
them, I advanced boldly upon a battery,
and sabred the gunners before they could
bring theirpieces to bear. Lookingaround,
I saw that I had in fact penetrated the
French center. Before I was well aware
of the locality, I was hailed by a sharp
voice in French :
‘ Come here, sir?”
I obeyed, and advanced to the side of a
little man in a cocked hat.
‘ Has Grouchy come?’
‘ Not yet, sir,’ I replied —for it was the
Emperor.
‘Ha!’ lie said suddenly, bending his
piercing eyes on my uniform —‘ a prison
er ?’
‘ No, sire,’ I said proudly.
‘ A spy ?’
I placed my hand upon my sword, hut a
gesture from the Emperor made me for
bear.
‘ You are brave man,’ he said.
I took my snuff-box from my pocket,
and, taking a pinch,replied by handing it,
with a how, to the Emperor.
His quick eye caught the cipher on the
lid.
‘ What! a D’Euville? Pla! this accounts
for the purity of your accent. Any rela
tion to Roderick D’Euville?’
‘ My father, sire.’
‘He was my schoolfellow at the Eeole
Politecbnique. Embrace me!’ and the
Emperor fell upon my neck in the pre
sence of his entire staff. Then, recover
ing him self, he gently placed in my hand
liisown magnificent snuff-box in exchange
for mine, and, hauging upon my breast
the cross of the Legion of Honor, which
he took from his own, he bade one of his
Marshals conduct me back to my regi
ment.
I was so intoxicated with the honor of
which I had been the recipient, that, on
reaching our lines I uttered a" shout’of joy
and put spurs tb my horse. The intelligent
animal seemed to sympathize with my
feelings, and fairly flew over the ground.
On a rising eminence a few yard,s before
the stood a gray-haired officer, surrounded
by his staff I don’t know what possessed
me, but putting spurs to my horse, I rode
at him boldly, aud with one bound cleared
him horse and all. A shout of indignation
arose from the assembled staff'. I wheeled
suddenly, with the intention of apologiz
ing, but my mare misunderstood me, aud
again dashing forward, once more vaulted
over the head of the officer, this time un
fortunately uncovering him by a vicious
kick of her hoof. ‘Seize him !’ roared the
entire army. I was seized. As the soldiers
led me away, I asked the name of the
gray-haired officer. ‘That s why that’s
the Duke of Wellington.’
The Technicalities of the Turf.—
The “Fat Contributor” gives the following
definitions of the jargon of the turf:
A “ hurdle race” is where a man has
heard all about how it is to come out, aud
therefore knows .just how to bet. If the
horse stumbles and breaks his rider’s neck,
the rider is liable to be discharged.
“ Handicap.”—when the rider is thrown
and his cap saves him from a broken head,
that is a handy cap. It is expected that
the Handy Opera House will cap the cli
max of Opera Houses. That is auother va
riety of handy cap.
A “ steeple chase” is a race to church on
Sunday morning.
“ Sweep stake-'” is where a thief picks
the stakeholder’s pocket, aud makes a
eleau sweep of the stakes. . ,
“ No entrance charge” applies to dead
heads and boys who climb the fence.
The letters “ g c,’ signify gm cocktail;
“ b h,” beer hall; “blk ra,” bilk the man
ager; “b c,” bunch of celery; ‘ ch f,
charge it to Fergerson. I
“Nursery stakes” are tender, cut thin
and well done for the nursery. No other
kind of steaks receive any consideration
fiom the children. , . ia
A “ selling race,” is where everybody is
sold who attends—foot races at the ‘ Kmk
for example. ... ,
“ Premiums of SSOO for all ages, withal
lowance to beaten horses.” This premium
remains the same through all Ages, me
allowance to beaten horses is a small pen
sion allowed to unfortunate equities that
are unmercifully beaten by their mas
ters •
A phrase like the following is mcompre
hensible to many: “Mr. VVm. Parrott
enters b c Jimmy by Moonlight, out of
dam by imp. Lightning.” It means that
Wm. Parrott enters a banking concern
with a “ Jimmy” by moonlight out of his
d—impecuniosity, by lightumg.
Insulting— The Columbia Chronicle
savs • Asa thin man was recently walk
ing up from Grenville depot he hiund
himself pertinaciously followed by a fero
cious “dog.” Not liking the eye of the
beast, the traveller asked a boy what that
hungry looking hound 1
i for? “Can’t say, certain, strauger, was
| the impudent reply of the y oddg * t ® r ;, but
Ii recken he takes you for a none.
Nlaoon, Ra., Wednesday, November 13, 1867.
DOHBV DIFFICULTIES.
A Political Starr.
I am no novelist, and have never aspired
to be, but I claim to be something of a pol
itician.
If there is a loyal maul believe I am
one. I ruude great sacrifices during the
war for my country. I did not go to war
because I could not. My private affairs 1
would not permit it. But if oue person in
the United States of America kept up a '
more galling fire in the rear than any other 1
one, lam the man. I have been the mark j
of the Copperheads. And besides it has j
cost me much domestic trouble.
George Washington Harrison Socrates!
Clay Dobbs (that’s me), unfortunately
married one Amy Amanda Maria Louisa j
Scraggs, and as old Scraggs was a Demo- |
crat, my Amy has been a follower of the i
old reliel sympathizing Copperhead But
ternut, and at times tliecliinate at “ Dobbs,
Cottage” became somewhat tropical. But
L have borne it all like a Christian.
Old Scraggs has always been too fast for
me in argument, but when lie came visit
ing and I held family prayer and got
old reprobate upon his knees, I had -jute ...
say, and you better believe I poure* Vine a.i
and canister into Fort Sumter. /
a beautiful girl and I married lier'lc.i ip*'
I loved her. Some said I married t* >lO2
“Dobbs’ Cottage,” but that is a cop pelt?™ -
lie. It is true her father made us a piimfL.
of the farm and cottage, but what of tLUfo”
It was liis daughter, aud she had a rhj£'’.
!to it. I was master of thesitus'J'"'-
| recently. This suffrage
j me in a very serious difficulty. T ha^
; taken special pains to tantalize Amy about
1 copperheads, butternuts, and sympathiz
ers, but when this suffrage question came
up she gave me fits upon the negro equali
j ty question.
I fended the best I could, hut found the
; position was getting untenable, and so I
declared straight for equality, and went at
it upon general equality principles.
I went my whole length aud declared for
outright equality.
Our people had got patriotic and had ad
mitted the negroes into the public schools,
and I had the honor of moving first in that
important step.
One evening a few' weeks ago I came
home and Amy and I had {i set to on the
equality question. The children had been
; to school that day, and each had a negro
1 next to them. I saw Amy was working
j her wits, the result of which was an an
| nouncement that if the children bad to as
! sociafe with the negroes I should too.
1 regarded the threat as au idle boast,and
thought no more of it.
A few days after this I notified her that
General and his wife would dino
with us. Her eyes sparkled ; I knew there
was mischief brewing. I could foresee
it.
I advised her that the General, his wife
and I would be at the cottage atone. And
sure enough we were.
Aud Amy was prepared for us. She had
prepared an excellent dinner, and met
us at the door to welcome us, announc
ing at the same time that dinner was
ready.
As soon as we were prepared she led the
way to the dinning room, and had a saucy
old negro by the name of Crow with his
wife and the two that were seated next to
our children at school already at the table.
She apologized for her haste in seating her
first guests, assuming that she had con
cluded we were not coming, and then pro
ceeded to formally introduce old Crow and
the Crow family generally to the General
aud wife as brother Crow, sister Crow,
Master Crow and little Miss Crow.
I felt a good deal like crowing some my
self. My legs began to show unmistakable
signs of elasticity. I felt as if I could
heave out any six negroes in the neigh
borhood. But I fully comprehended the
nature of the situation. The General’s
wife was about to explode.
The General, although an earnest Radi
cal, could not suppress his olfactory from
becoming slightly elevated. My Amy was
extremely polite, and chatted away appa -
rently iifone of her happiest moods. Old
Crow sat hack with his thumbs in the arm
holes of his dilapidated old vest, whilst
his wife, with folded arms, was assuming
an air of maiden innocence.
Amy handed the General a seat by the
wench, which filled up that side of the
table, and hurriedly seated the General’s
wife t>y old gumsand ivory. Theu gathering
up the children seated them beside their
school fellows, after which she took her
seat at the head of the table, and requested
me to be seated at the further eud u> wait
upon the guests.
Up to this time I had managed well. But
the General’s wife arose and remarked that
she did not intend to bear the insult far
ther. At tiffs tiie General Hew iuto a
passion, and accused me of purposely ar
rangingan insult. I protested, and accused
Amy, and as I did so old Scraggs stepped
iu. The General remarked, “you old
butternut, you are at the bottom of this.”
My Amy reminded him that that was
her home, and no one should insult her
father there, and ordered him to leave.
The General called her a dirty huzzy
for insulting his wife, and at this old
Scraggs hit him with the knot end of a
butternut limb. I sprang between them to
protect mv guest, when old Crow placed
the General and I upon an equality. In
the melee the weucli assailed the General’s
wife, and the fight became general, Amy
in the meantime expostulating and coun
selling peace.
Finally we all succeeded in resuming
our perpendicular positions hut old Crow,
who was just then the special object of a
charge from the General.
Amy was playing Pocahontas, by lead
ing over the old carcass, aud succeeded in
causing the General tf> retreat.
She then placed her arms around him
and tried to raise him. I blew up. Making
a charge upon old manhood I ruined a
calf skin.
Mrs. Crow patted me on the back with a
chair, whilst the young Crows set up a reg- j
ular down South jubilee. j
Blit I cleaned them out. I did, indeed. !
The last words I heard from old Crow j
were, “ You’re no gemman.”
Scraggs enjoyed it. Amy was exceed
ingly sorry, and could mot comprehend
what had caused the row. The General
aud his wife were offin a flurry.
And I—l was the madest and mutest
Radical in the State.
I pursued after the General to apologize
and explain, and run into old Crow. He
gave me an exhibition of his “ manhood, ’
and seeing I was flanked, I wheeled to re
treat. In my haste 1 encountered the
weneb aud over we went.
I partially recovered aud started on all
fours, when old Crow came to my assist
ance, and by an attack upon the rear ena
bled me to make the fastest time on record.
As I came down the pavement I dis
covered a waving hankerchief. It was
Amy’s.
Scraggs had assumed a belligerent posi
tion, and as I passed him, set Crow to trot
ting in the opposite direction. He made
good time, but nothing in comparison to
what I had done. -
Since wliieh time I have been dubbed
“Dexter” by Amy and her father, and at
the least intimation that I intend to vote
the Radical ticket, Amy insists upon re
hearsing her story of the race between
“ manhood” and Radical. I have par
tially succeeded in reconciling the Gener
al and his wife, but my suggestion to play
j the same joke ou Scraggs and Amy at
home, brought to the General s mind such
Ia vivid recollection of old Crow’s muscu
lar powers, that he concluded that negro
! enualitv would answer for electioneering
I purposes, but was a decidedly dangeroHs
, experi meat by wav of practical jokes. I
I thought so too.— Ohio Statesman.
Wanted to get Better Acquainted.
-A “ playful ” wife in Springfield, Mass-,
sent a note to her husband, recently, wnt
ten in a disguised hand, signed with a
fictitious name, stating that she had o en
seen and admired him, and if he wou <
inform herofa place of meetingshe would
go over to the rooms and they would be
come better acquainted. Husband an
swered the note at once, appointing time
and place of meeting. Both met at
the appointed time and place the lady
heavily vailed, and proceeded to the rooms,
where the vail was removed, and a grand
tableau, not down in the bills, endued.
Assurance made on thepart of hd ;£and
that it was nothing but a joke, and t hat he
knew it was her all the time- ''De is
having a stylish bonnet, new cloak, an
elegant silk dress made
Massachusetts has sent two lads to Gen.
Robert E. Lee’s College.
PAVING THE SIFHT IN GREENBACKS.
HOW CAB IT BE DOHEI
Hou. George H. Pendleton'* S»»eeche*.
The following extract’s from Mr. Pen
dleton's speeches, at Lima and Cleveland, j
embrace the substanceof what was said by
him on the subject of paying the delit in 1
green backs:
From the Lima speech, Aogrust 15th, IM7T. i
KF.DKRATi FINANCES.
The revenues of the Government de- !
rived from taxation in 1886 amounted to i
five hundred and sixty millions of dollars.
ThisXvas a year of peace; the army had |
been reduced ; the navy had«heeu dimin
ished; the vast military movements had
ceased. Yet the expenditure was one hun- !
dred millions more than that of England, i
and oue hundred and eighty millions more
than that of France. Tire greatest expen
diture of Englaud during the Napoleonic
wars, when even Russia was stimulated
L '>y her subsidies —when large armies were
jpie'pt in Spain and on thecontinent—never
•1 Btched one hundred millions of pounds—
five hundred millions of dollars.
,eu laud lias thirty-six thousand millions
I*. tj> "perty as a taxable basis. France has
—Guano thousand millions. The United
iia.....~...have sixteen thousand millions.—
, island; . than two-fiffh® °f the taxable
peopKr.’'7*arip ly more tax
* a tftp years has. ?itela»e ed *fn«» »h*» war
r e“aseff. Two regular sessions —two extra
I sessions 'of Congress—have been held. —
i Has any scheme of economy, has any re
duction of taxes been proposed? On the
contrary has not the only scheme of
finance looked to the increase of the inter
est bearing debt, aud to the increase of
expenditure by the increase of interest?
The public debt bearing interest amounts
to twenty-two hundred millions ; 1 he inter
est reaches one hundred and forty-eight
millions. Wheu the Republican party
came iuto power the debt was only eighty
millions. In five years it has grown so
much, and this notwithstanding the vast
annual revenues. Though the principal
is considerably less, the annual interest is
considerably more than that of Great
Britain ; and the highest reach of Repub
lican statesmanship has been to proposethe
conversion of greenbacks, which pay no
interest, into bonds which pay in gold, aud
thus to increase the number of those who
do not pay taxes, and to increase the bur
dens of those who do.
The amount of unfunded debt has been
estimated at $500,000,000. If it shall be
converted into bonds the interest will
amount to forty-eight millions in gold, aud
this sum will he added to the expenditures.
In the mean time the number of National
banks, will be increased, and the place
of the greenbacks supplied by bank cur
rency.
Our Government pays a higher rate of
interest than any in Europe. Every dol
lar of its indebtedness is to be made to pay
that rate; and no provision whatever is
made for its redemption.
This process should cease instantly.—
These forty-eight millions annually should
be saved. The five twenties should he
paid in greenbacks as they mature, or as
fast as can be done without too great de
rangemeut of the currency. Nearly four
hundred millions of them are deposited by
the hanks as security for their circulation.
These can be redeemed without adding
one dollar to the currency. The interest
on these bonds amounts to twenty-four
millions of dollars annually. Add this
sum to the forty-eight millions above
spoken of, aud we have seventy-two mil
lions in gold. Create this into a sinking
fund, and you can pay the whole debt in
sixteen years, without adding a dollar Jo
your taxes or increasing your circulating
medium.
But the condition of the country could
bear an increase in the currency. The
ravages of war at the South—the destruc
tion of capital there, the loss of houses,
horses, cattle, agricultural implements,
the scarcity of provisions, the enfranchise
ment of the negro, the importance of set
ting the whole population to labor at ouce
—create a demand for more currency.—
Every interest there would be more ad
vanced by the stimulating effect of an en
larged currency, as fast as this increase
could be wisely made the bonds should be
redeemed—the inserest should he reduced
aud the amount thus saved be added to the !
sinking fund.
This is repudiation, I hear somebody say. |
Not at all! The five-twenty bonds are all
payable at the option of the Government
after five years. Their very name shows
it. They are payable by the lawjunder which
they were issued, and according to their
face, in greenbacks. They arenot payable
in gold. The interest is, according to the
provisions of law, and the language of
the coupon, to be paid in gold. Not so
with the principal. The ten forty bonds
authorized by the act of May 3, 1883, are,
by the terms of the law, made payable in
gold. This is the only class of bonds of
that character ; and as I read the last offi
cial statement of Secretary McCulloch,
very few if any of them have been issued.
The Government may then, according to
the term of the law, and of its contracts,
pay the live-twenties in greenbacks at any
time after five years from their issue, and
there is no repudiation in doing so. Os
this class there were outstanding on the
first of August, eleven hundred millions,
and they mature probably in nearly equal
proportion in each of the next live years.
This will not supersede the necessity for
high taxes, for close economy, for contin
uous industry. They areinevitabe. With
them and whatever other plants wisdom
may suggest, the burden will press heavily
n you and your children.
I have shown that the redemption ofthe
bonds will be so gradual, the increase of
the currency so slow, that values will ad"
just themselves and business interests be
come regulated with out that‘shock which
usually attends great changes of financial
policy.
But if it were notso,still thebondsshould
he converted into greenbacks. —They were
sold for greenbacks,it is fitting tney should
he redeemed in the same currency. This
1 policy would save the interest, pay the
debt, and bring upon the duplicate for tax
! ation that immense amount of capital
I which is now exempt.—And these advan
j tages would amply compensate for the
i evils which are predicted.
The debt amounts to one-fifth of the
! property, real and personal, of the whole
country. One-fifth of all the capital ofthe
country is exempt from taxation. Inter
est eats up the substance of the people. —
Exemption from taxation aggravates the
evil. This state of things cannot last. It
oppresses labor it excites deep discontent.
It ought to be relieved by a fair and vol
untary adjustment. It will be relieved at
all events. The bondholder should be
prompt and wise. Tne people already be
lieve this curse is the blight of death ; and
we know by experience w'hat they will do
to “ save the life of the nation.”
fFrom the speech in response to a spranade in
Cleveland, September 18,1867.]
I shall avail myself of this opportunity
to allude to a matter in some sense person
al. It touches the accuracy of an argu
ment which I made a few weeks since, in
relation to the payment of the five-twenty i
bonds of the United States.
I endeavored to show that these bonds
ought to l>e redeemed in legal tender notes
at the earliest moment; that 4 time and ex
perience would indicate how rapidly tbe\
could be redeemed without undue inflation
of the currency. I asserted that by the 1
terms of the laws authorizing the issue of ;
the five-twenties, by the terms of the legal
tender law, and by the terms of the bonds
themselves, ttie Government might legal
ly redeem them with legal tefder notes. ,
The New York Tribune said promptly j
that I had misquoted and misrepresented
the law ; but it so happened that in a day
or two, Senator Sherman, and Mr. Bing
ham both made speeches, at diherein
places probably without concert,and both
asserted that the law undoubtedly was as
I had stated. This silenced the Ji ribune.
But an able and active and influential
newspapers, whose exertions in behalf of,
and whose influence i»,tlte Democratic
party are very great, whose editor always
writes as a gentleman and reasons as a
statesman—l mean the \Vorld—admitted
that I was right as far as I had gone, bu.
asserted that I had overlooked an mipor-
I tant section of the act of February 25,186
—That section provides that the dutip
shall be paid in coin, and that the coin
shall be applied as follows. . ,
“ First To the payment in coin of
the interest on tlie bonds of the United
States.
“ Second. To the purchase or payment
of due per centum on the entire debt of
the United States to be made within each
fiscal j ear after the first day of July, 1887,
which is to be set apart as a sinking fund,
and the interest of which shall be In like
manner applied to the purchase or pay
ment of the public debt, as the Secretary
of the Treasury shall, from time to time,
direct.
“ Think The residue, thereof, shall
be paid iuto the Treasury of the United \
States.”
The World claims tiiat tiffs language in
the second clause constitutes a premise to
pay the principal in coin. I differ with :
the World. The first clause provides, ex-j
pressly, that the interest shall ht; paid in
coin. The second clause contains no such
express provision as to the capital. Mark
the janguage of the second section : “to
the purchase or payment of one per cent of
the entire debt.” If, 'from this language,
an inference can he drawn that the pay
ment was to be made iu coin at par, then,
as the same language applies to the purr
chase, the inference must he drawn that
the purchase was to he made in coin at par.
The purchase or payment was tocotnmehce
during the year between July 1, ISB2, and
July 1, 188$. This law is the first ope au
thorizing the issue of five-twenties. They’
were not redeemable by the Government
before five years. Not one of them, there
fore could he redeemed until after the 2Sth
of February, 1807. The compound inter'
est notes and the seven-thirties were not
yet due, indeed, had not yet been issued
to any extent'. None of the public debt
became due in that year or the next, and
therefore could not be redeemed.
By the the terms oflaw theu the amount
of one per centum must be purchased.—
During the first year gold went steadily
upward reaching, I believe, nearly two
hundred per cent, premium. In a few
mouths the bonds were prepared. You
remember that Jay Cooke was employed
to sell them ; that he made extraordinary
efforts to do so, and that he was well paid
by the government for getting them off at
par in greenbacks. Now, then, if the in
terpretation of the law put upou it by the
World is correct, the extraordinary specta
cle was presented that the Government
was, by law, paying its agents to seli its
bonds at par in greenbacks, and by the
same law was compelled to buy them hack
atthe same time, at par in gold, which
was then worth two hundred per cent, in
greenbacks. It seems to me that I need
only state this result to show that the in
terpretation is wrong. The coin was to be
laid aside ; and when the time came for
purchase it was to be converted into legal
tender notes, and then the purchase to be
made at the market rates. I have before
stated that the legal tender act provides—
you can each read it for yourselves ou the
back of each note —that “ this note shall be
lawful money, and a legal tender in pay
ment of all debts, public and private, ex
cept duties oil imports aud interest on the
public debt.”
Every five-twenty bond was issued after
that act passed, was paid for in legal ten
der notes, and every holder bought with
that provision staring him full in the face.
Can there remain a doubt as to the legali
ty of this mode of payment!?
But it is said that tiffs scheme would in
llate the currency, destroy its value, and
thus, in fact, repudiate the debt. Not at
all! These gentlemen seem to think they
can go to bed at night and in the morning
wake up with all the bonds redeemed,
and in their stead twenty-two hundred
millions of greenbacks. Theyseem to for
get that the process will be necessarily
slow, and that it must be conducted with
skill and caution, and by men whose posi
tion will enable them to guard against any
evil which may he incident to the execu
tion of so great a measure of relief. Let
me state to you the position : We have au
enormous debt. We have a rate of taxa
tion beyond all example oppressive. We
have a system of legal tender notes, and
a system of national banks. I am sorry
we have them. I did not vote for them,
and am not responsible for them. They
are great evils. We ought to get rid of
them. And if they present any means of
assisting usiu getting rid of them we ought
to seize it. The non-interest paying
debt, consisting of greenback and unli
quidated debt, amounts toabouteight hun
dred millions of dollars: Ido not vouch
for the exact accuracy of these figures.—
They are not far wrong. They serve per
' fectly well for illustration. The proposi
i tion of the Republicans is to convert this
j debt into bonds which pay interest in gold.
The interest on those bonds will be forty
eight millions in gold annually. The re
sult will be to increase by that amount the
expenses, to convert active capital into in
active capital, and thus to increase the
number of those who do not pay taxes,
and to increase the burdens of those who
do pay taxes. 1 maintain that this debt
ought not to be so con verted —tli at these for
ty-eight millions in gold should be saved.
There are four hundred millions of these
bonds in the Treasury as security for the
National bank currency. They are repre
sented by a nearly equal amount of hank
notes. They call for twenty-four millions
of dollars in gold annually as interest.
Now 1 maintain tiiat these bonds should
be redeemed in greenbacks. The result
would he that the greenbacks would take
the place of the bank notes, which would
be called in, and that twenty-four million
dollars of interest would be saved. If that
twenty-four million were added to the
forty-eight millions of which I have
spoken, you have seventy-two millions iu
gold annually; and this properly com
pounded would pay the whole debt, prin
cipal and interest, in fifteen years. And
now observe that tiffs far I have not pro
posed to add one dollar to your taxes, or
one dollar to the currency. [Cheers.] This
process of redemption can be pressed as
fast as the business and values ofthe coun
try will bear an expansion of the currency.
lam satisfied that they can bear more
now. lam satisfied that the good to result
will more than compensate for the evils.
How far the expansion may be safely car
ried I connot pretend, with exactness, to
say.
There are men around me whose experi
ence and knowledge of business would ena
ble them to judge. The Secretary of the
Treasury ought to be able to judge. His
*hand is upou thejpulse of the country. He
can feel all the throbbings of the blood in
the arteries. He can tell when it flows
too fast and strong; and then the expan
sion should cease. It is a matter of expe
rience—not past but future experience—
for the condition of the country after the
ravages of the late war enables it to pros
per under a system which would have im
paired it in a time of unbroken peace. All
that I maintain is this: that just as rapid
ly as the prosperous condition of the busi
ness will permit it, the bonds should be
redeemed in greenbacks; for just so fast
will the interest be paid, the taxes be re
duced, and labor relieved from the bur
dens which now so heavily oppress it. —
This is not the appropriate time to go into
more details. If it were, I could show you
that if the current expense of the Govern
ment, including interest, were reduced to
one hundred millions annually, then upon
an additional issue of one hundred mil
lions only of greenbacks, the entire debt
could be paid, and the entire amount of
greenbacks could be called iuaud canceled
in fourteen years.
Our taxation is euorraous. The revenue
in ISG6 was $561,000,000, of which $148,W0,-
000 was money taken from the people's
pocket to pay interest on bonds which
were exemptJrom taxation, ihe Repub
lican candidate for Lieutenant Governor
says that tine Democrats who pay no taxes
must feel badly when they are told about
this. Does he not know that labor pays
all the taxes of the land? Capital is prac
tically exempt from tax, but the laborer
makes the money, and he, in the end, pays
all the taxes, perhaps not to the Treasurer
and Collector, but in the way of provisions
and clothing, and other necessaries pur
chased. Labor pays all the taxes in theend.
The only man who is relieved from taxes
is the mau who holds the gold bearing
bonds. I would not repudiate them. I
would uphold faith to the utmost, hut I
would pav them in the same money that
was given for them : and when they are
paid off, our taxes will come down to SIOO,-
iioo,(k)0, annually, which is five times more
than Andrew Jackson spent.
The Hon. Pompey Smash, the Hon.
Gumbo Pigeonwing and the Hon. Ciesar
Augustus Cuffee, delegates to Pope’s odor
iferous Convention, are on a visit to At
lanta. They report all quiet in their re
spective counties, and “de dam white
trash ’fraid to wink him eye.”
Vol. l*o. 36
CO>nsOATJ«S.
A lUdiral Broadside Auniiist ](,
From the Chicago Tribune. Nov 2. (Radical.)
Mr. Tbaddeus Stevens threatens to re
new bis efforts to secure the coutiscatiou
of tlie property of a certain class in the
South : and we hope that, when he brings
forward his motion, it may l>e promptly
and effectually squelched. The South is
already not only poverty-stricken, but ab
solutely beggared. I.ei onr readers im
agine what the condition of the loyal States
would bo if all onr national Securities,now
iu the haiuk of the people, were made sud
denly worthless ; if the bonds of the indi
vidual Status were reduced in value one
half, and made unsalable at almost any
price; if the bank circulation were caus
ed to suddenly disappear ; if the green-
Itaeks were wiped out likepencil marks.by
a damp sponge ;|if the nineteen-twentietlis
of the manufacturing machinery were de
stroyed; if three-find rths of tlie domestic
animals wore killed off; if half of the
household furniture, conveniences and
utensils ware broken up; if half of tliet
young oienin the somitry were slain ; if
the labor system, such as we liaveenjnyed,
were utterly upturned ; if all public and
private credit were so far destroyed that
no State could borrow a dollar, and 110
man could buy fbr his note a bushel of
corn; if, in aword, out of all our former
wealth nothing but weedy land uud a her
itage of disorder remained—imagine the
loyal States, we say, so reduced, and we
have a picture of what tlie South is to-
If it were possible to add to tlie disabili
ties of a people already so poor in all that
constitutes wealth , if there were no such
thing in the economy of God or man as
the forgiveness of sins, if it were possible,
even, to punish six millions of people by
the imposition of the penalties that may
he lit ted to an individual—what, we ask,
would Mr. Stevens accomplish by the in
corporation of his proposal into law ? Will
he Increase tlie average loyalty ot the peo
ple to the Government of the L'ni ted States
by turning'thein out of the homes in which
they now barely subsist ? Will the pro
ductive industry of tlie South be increased
by new obstacles in tlie way of tilling her
fields? Will harmony between the un
reconciled sections be promoted by this
new and potent cause of estrangement and
hate? No,Mr. Stevens, llo! But suppose tlie
public good and the demands ol justice
made 00 nliscation even remotely justifia
ble, how would we proceed? Who will
buy the property that Mr. Stevens pro
poses that the Alarslial may take? The
negroes have nothing; the whites have
nothing; tiiere is 110 emigration South
ward—in the condition of affairs created
by this measure there could be no emigra
tion. Where, then, is the market for the
confiscated estates? Is there so little land
in this broad country that Northern men
will go South to buyjiroperty that carries
with it an entail of irreconcilable bate and
possibly of blood ? Are Europeans so lav
ish of their lives that they covet homes
that caa beat the most but insecurely held
by perpetual vigilance and the repeating
rifle? Are there any people, anywhere,
who long for the state of society that gen
eral or partial confiscation in the South
would create —for the wayside assassina
tions of intruding landlords, for retaliato
ry measures directed against ejected own
ers, for tlie bitter feuds and animosities
that would eud only in the death or ban
ishment of those who are parties thereto.
Or does the government, stepping out of
its legitimate functions, desire to be the
great landlord and lessor of half the real
estate iu a domain on which an empire
might be founded, having always an ar
my of dependents ready to do its will.
These are only interreogtive suggestions;
but they point out, in .a general way, the
objections that we hold to be valid against
the whole confiscation scheme; and we
are sure they will strike our readers as
forcibly as they have impressed us; and,
having considered them, they will agree
with the ablest thinkers and wisest states
men of our party, that confiscation would
be a cruelty for which no necessity has yet
arisen—for which none will arise.
Cotton Culture. Colton Manufacturers,
ami Cotton Prices.
Tlie New York World is arguing to show
that cotton, at the present prices, is not
paying thecost of growing It figures out
this conclusion by reminding us that tlie
average price of middling cotton before
the war was 11c. per lb., in gold; equal to
10c. iu our present currency ; adding 2 i-2c.
for the Government tax, making 181-2 c.,
while (says the editor) it is perfeciy plain
that the cost of raising cotton has fully
doubled, and that at least 22c. per lb. is
necessary to return to the planter his first
cost. The World adds :
The estimates of the yield of tlie crop
now coming to market vary from 2,400,000
to 2,800,000 bales. But it is coming upon
markets nearly hare, whereas the stock
one year ago was 300,000 bales. We ex
ported last year 1,560,000 hales. It is not
probable that tlie exports this year will
greatly exceed that figure. We have to
replenish our stocks, instead of drawing
from them, and this alone will nearly dis
pose of tlie increased growth. Again, the
lower prices will greatly increase tlie con
sumption. There will be fifty per cent,
more cotton used, with the price at twen
ty cents, than at over forty cents. Cotton
goods at low prices largely take the place
of linens and woolens. It is mixed large
ly in so-called woolens, linen and silk
fabrics, and with the high cost of food,
cotton goods must he taken largely in
place of the finer fabrics. Therefore,
placing the yield at 2,600,000 bales, it is
not stall probable that we shall have more
than 1,600,000 bales to export; if, indeed,
we can spare so much.
Cotton come3 into tlie ports sjlowly. The
Treasury regulations respecting the pay
ment of tlie tax are stated to be the princi
pal cause of the delay in getting the crops
to market. It will be well for the South if
there is some delay. It will serve to re
store confidence, of which there is a mark
ed deficiency. Tlie available shipping of
the ports promised to be fully occupied the
next three mouths in supplying Great
Britian’s more pressing needs for food.—
Consequently with immediate large re
ceipts at the ports, the rates of freights and
exchange wTll be greatly adverse to the in
terest of cotton. New York alone promises
to be able to furnish immediate facilities
for handling cotton. Besides it is probable
that the cotton tax will be reduced to one
cent per pound soon after tlie meeting of
Congress. After January there will be, no
doubt, less difficulty in moving the crop to
the advantage of tlie planter. We are
aware that the Southern cotton growers
are iu but poor condition to carry their
cotton crop, and, of course, It would he im
possible, if our idea were adopted,to carry
it fully into practice.
The wants of Europe for the coming
year will undoubtedly exceed the amount
she has taken duringthe past; and when
it shall be demonstrated that her supply
from America will lie increased but little,
if any, a considerable reaction will un
doubtedly take place in the prices current
in her markets.
Ignorance at a Premium.— The bo
gus delegates who have been elected by j
negroes to misrepresent certain counties
in which they neverset their feet, are for
the most part hypocritical Yankees, who
are endeavoring to squeeze money out of
the people whom they are deceiving, or
vile ignorant wretches of that class of i
Southern white men who are meaner !
than the negroes whom they hope to dupe. |
One of our mo-t intelligent citizens in-'
forms us of a conversation he overheard
between a delegate of the latter description
and another person,on the cars on Sunday.
The delegate was coming to take his seat
in the Military Convention called to frame
an organic Lav%for a million of people. He
contended with his companion that the
Constitulion declared all men to be born
free and equal, acid that the Bible held the
same doctrine, ami was bold enough to of
fer to stake a suit of clothes upon the cor
reetnesa of his Constitutional and theo
logical information on the subject.
He held thatja negro was his equal (of
which the editors of the Mail have no
doubt) but that lie would not sleep with
one. He declared that the rejiort of Con
servative triumphs in California, Ohioaijd
Pennsylvania was a copperhead lie, and
I that he would not believe < Jreeley’s or For
ney’s newspapers because they are copper
head. He was candid to say, however,
that he would believe Beast Butler. Such
a specimen of ignorance represents one of
the richest counties in Alabama.
Montgomery Mail Nov.sth.
I'll AD. STEVE!** Ol* SI’FFBAGB.
Ills Assertion of Concreaoional Power
over the Question* on the Prlnripleo
of the Declaration of Independence.
The venerable “hero of the buck-shot
war” has issued a manifesto “to his
countrymen ”on the subject of suffrage,
the following extracts from which will
show the position he assumes :
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE DKCI.ARA
TION.
“ Before the constitution was amended,
I could not agree with some of my learned
friends that Congress could intermeddle
with State laws relative to the elective
franchise in the United States. After tlie
amendment abolishing slavery I still
doubted, and proposed a constitutional
remedy, on the sth day of December, 1865,
in tlie following words: ‘AH national
* * * laws shall he equally applicable
to ever citizen, and no discrimination
shall bo made on account of race or color.”
Since the adoption of the fourteenth
amendment, however, I have no doubt of
our full power to regulate the elective
franchise, so far as it regards the whole
nation in every State of the Union, which,
when tried, I hope will be so formed as to
t>e beneficial to the nation, just to» every
citizen, and carry out the great design of
tlie framers of the government, according
to their views expressed in the Declui -u
of Independence. * * * * *
OonstituUon of 1759 did not carry
out the principles of government which
were iutended by the fathers when, in
1776, they laid tlie foundation of the gov
ernment on which this nation was to he
built. *******
They contemplated the erection of avast
empire over the whole continent, which,
iu its national character, should be gov
erned by laws of u supreme, unvarying
character. While municipal institutions
might be granted with self control for
convenience, it was never intended that
one-half of this nation should be govern
ed by one set of laws anil tlie other half by
another and conflicting set on the same
subject. *******
Tlie grand idea of those immortal men
was that there were certain rights, privi
leges and immunities which tieiong to
every one who had an immortal soul, none
of which should be taken from him, nor
eould he surrender them in any arrange
ment with society. *****
I am speaking now of the original de
sign of the framers of the Declaration of
Independence, who had determined that
there were certain principles which, to
give perfect liberty, should apply alike to
every mortal beiug. *****
I know that when they came to frame
the constitution, slavery having increased
they were obliged to postpone some of
those universal principles, and to allow in
dividuals and municipalities to violate
them for awhile. I thank God that ne
cessity no longer exists. The lawgivers of
America art* now as free to act as iSamson
when the tire had touched the flax. May
they never again be beguiled by any Con
servative Delilah —sutler their locks to he
shorn and their limbs to be bouud by tho
withes of a twisted constitution. The laws
which were then intended to he universal
must now be made universal. Tlie prin
ciples which were intended to govern the
whole American nationality must now tie
made to cover and control its whole na
tional action throughout this grand em
pire. Towns, corporations and municipal
ities may he allowed their separate organi
zations not Inconsistent therewith, but
must not incorporate any principles iu
conflict with those great rights, privileges
and immunities.
********
SUFFRAGE A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE.
This brings us now directly to the argu
ment by which we prove that the elective
franchise is a right of tlie Declaration, and
not merely a privilege, and is one of the
rights and privileges pronounced by that
instrument to be “ inalienable.” If, asour
fathers declared, "all just government is
derived from the assent of the governed;”
if in Federal republics that assent can be
ascertained ami established only through
the ballott, i follows that to take away that
means of communication is to take away
front the citizen tiis great weapon of de
fence, and reduce him to helpless bondage.
It deprives him of an inalienable right.—
This clearly proves that the elective fran
chise ranks with “ life” and “ liberty” in
its sacred, inalienable character.
But while tlie Declaration clearly proves
wliot the intention then was, the action
of the Convention in framing the Consti
tution of the United States, it seemed to
me, tiarred away, from tlie time being,
some of those inalienable rights, and,in
stigated by the hellish institution of slave
ry, suspended one of the muniments ol
liberty. Having thus shown that the elec
tive franchise is one of the inalienable
rights of man, without which his liberty
cannot be defended, and that it was sus
jiended by tlie arbitrary Constitution of
1789, let us see if that suspension has been
removed, so as to leave our iiands unre
strained in restoring its full vigor, while
still acting under the Constitution. That
right appertains to every citizen. Bui
while this suspension existed the natural
love of despotism induced communities to
Hold that each State might fix the qualifi
cations, rights,and deprivations of its own
citizens.
The fourteenth amendment, nowsohap
pily adopted, settles the whole question,
and places every American citizen on a
perfect equality of rights, so far as ifierely
national rights and questions are concern
ed. It declares that ‘all person born, or
naturalized in the United Slate, ami sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof, arc citizens
ofthe United State, and of the State where
in they reside. No State shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges and immunities of citizens of
the United States: nor shall any person
be deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of Jaw; nor deny any
person within its jurisdictions the equal
protection of the laws.’
If by tiie amended constitution every
American citizen, is entitled to equal priv
ileges witli every oilier American citizen,
ami if every American citizen in any one
of tiie States should be found entitled to
impartial suffrage with every other Amer
ican citizen in any State, then it follows
as an inevitable conclusion that suffrage
thronghout this nation is impartial and
universal, so far as every human being,
withoute regard to race or color, shall be
found concerned, ami so far as It affects
the whole nation,’
Alarm In the South at mi Kipecird Negr
Immrrection.
The prospect of a negro outbreak in the
South, is beginning to excite serious alarm
in official quarters here. Several promi
nent gentlemen from the South have re
cently called upon the President and
represented that the negroes wereundoubt
edly possessed of arms and ammunition
in large quantities. They state that the
blacks were organizing with hostile inten
tions, and contemplated the slaughter of
the defenceless whiles at the first favorable
opportunity. These gentlemen urged tiie
President to increase tiie military force in
the five military districts, and thus by a
timely display of power overawe the dis
affected blacks. Nothing short of this,
they think, will prevent an early uprising
of this half-civilized class and the repeti
tion of all the atrocities of Han Domingo.
One of these gentlemen predicts that the
war of caste will commence before tiie ex
piration of a month, unless the govern
ment adopts strong measures to prevent
! such a calamity. This gentleman declares
i the negroes throughout the South have a
! thorough understanding, and that they
i have even fixed upon the impeachment of
: the President as the proper moment for a
i bloody uprising.
These gloomy forebodings may be only
I the offspring of the natural fears enter
tained by the Southern whites; but I have
reason to ttiink that the government en
tertains tiie most serious apprehensions.
1 The whites are entirely unarmed and de
i fenceless, while the blai-k- have an uhun
-1 dance of offensive weapons, picked up
; from battlefields during tiie war, and since
i purchased by money hoarded away. lam
i informed that scarcely a negro cabin in tlie
! rtouth is without arms enough for four or
fivejiersons. Tiie President will undoubt
edly take steps for the protection of the
I defenceless whites; but should the ne
groes revolt at the present moment, while
the whites are so entirely denuded of all
means of defence, it is no exaggeration to
state that one-third of tiie latter would Ikj
butchered before tiie national forces would
have time to offer effective succor. The
force at present under tiie direction of tiie
; Military Commanders would be entirely
inadequate for such an emergency.
[ Wash, .specialto N. Y. Hera'd, Oct. 2)
What Came of I r.—An amateur hor
ticulturist relates the following as a part
of his experience: J made a box aud tilled
it with mold. In the mold I sowed some
seed, and then placed the box in my win
dow-sill; and what do you think came
up? A policeman ; and told me to take it
down again.