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MACON, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 6. 1865
|y* The German Punch, edited in Berlin, pub
liahaa n coat of arms, drawn by President John
-90- It consists of a pair of open scissors; be
tween the lower parts is a tailor's goose, and be
tween tbe upper parts a thimble, surrounded by
balle of thread instead of cannon balls. And in
Ibe places, of flagstaff's, the scissors are surrounded
with yardsticks, on which are hanging coats and
pantaloons. The whole rests on s platform, deco
rated with American drapery and a shield bearing
tbe motto : “I shall mend tbe torn Union.” Tbe
derloo is a great compliment to equality, and a
aaub on tbe armorial ensigns of retrogressive and
uselees nobility.
Warlike Preparations —From the activity at
tbe Brooklyn Navy-yard, says s New York letter,
one would half imagine we were in the midst oi
war. Two iron clads are in progress, and several
wooden vessels are being repaired. Three frigates
sod one aloop-of war are on the stocks, the keel
of one of them having been laid last week. An
•normous dry dock and a naval store are being
constructed, and the number of men who find
steady employment in tbe Government service is
very Urge. Some uneasy persons imagine that
this preparation is being made in view vt » war
on account of the occupation of Mexico by Maxi
milian. Whether ft be so or otherwise has not
beqp —it public, and the observers have full
liberty to make tbeir own deduction.
More Truth than Poetry.— The New York cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says of
Pbmnix Bank defalcation :
A leading banker said to me thi9 morning:
“Why, sir, you seem astonished at these things.
Better reserve yoorosionishment for more astound
ing developments that are probably yet to come
out. Tbe wonder is not that one man or two men
should thus turn out to be rogues in Wall street,
but that so few of them, participating iu the mad
•peculations of the past two years, have as yet
bees found out." -
ytkaivUrnf- of mortality for England in
tbe yesr 1*63 have just been completed. They
record the death of 213 men and 4*o women reg
u eg years old or upwards when they died.
Twenty-one of these had reached 100 or upwards,
and owe •at Chelsea was 109. Sixty two of the
wotteo bad also oom plated s century of life or
more, and one at Liverpool, in the district of West
Derby, was 112 years old.
It appears, by • tabular statement in the
Sew York World, that the first three years of the
war threw back tbe commerce of tbe Uuited States
jot about as much as it bad been advanced by tbe
preceding ten years of peace. The last year of
tbe war, if its results could bo fairly and folly
stated, would show a much greater proportionate
amount of commercial loss to the country.
The asaociation recently formed amongst
a large class of workingmen in Worcester, with
the object of bringing about * reduction in the
price of meet, has Induced a Wolverhampton
butcher to open an establishment where cheap
•rat could be obtained. Beef end mutton were
sold at about seven pence per pound, sod the
MMsequeoee was that hundreds crowded round
tbe shop.
A aoa of Lira Elliot, of Lincoln, Vt., aged
tea r-in, vu U 1 for a year, and, although haring
a raetftohs appetite, grew emaciated. HU pbvsi
cia&gafe him some medicine that produced nail'
mi and he waa choked by the appearance of a
aaakr, which required, all hie foroe to draw from
U mouth. It was alriped and eighteen in length.
The lad ia better. .. >, .
2P We find th following in an exchange pa
per: M To atart a baulky bone, don’t beat him
>amer«ijhUj with a dray pin, bat fill hie mouth
»*h dirt or grarel from the road aid*, and he’ll
fa.’’ Oar Informant aaya: “The plain philoeepby
af the thing la, U glraa him aomething else to
think about Wt hat# aaan U tried * bnodred
,<•♦», and U haa netar failed.”
JSTk aioguUr judleUWue waa reeeotlj triad
•» the iulit Coart of th* Var, In Frann*. A
fewsg man named o**t*U*u waa aeeoaad of obtain*
aoaplot* aontrol of a young girl by pi#» ni
tKMdam, and oa*d it to bar rain. Ho booatad
•f tie pevar to the Coart, and ©Fared to magno*
**• ihe preaiding judge. Tho Jory gatatha yontb
|tdr# yaara at hard labor.
kith •/ an Old Oitijn —Ur. John Rote, aaya
Ciacioaott Commercial, an eld and n
mmsm
»rsm tbs Mobile AdvsrtiMr sad RegtaUr.]
Lsttor from Bricka.
Mrs. Cam?'* Boarding House, )
4th Slory, >
August 11th, 1865. )
To (tie Editor* of the Advertiser and Regia
ter : A, "
Gentlemen have felt quite uuwel
for several days peat, and thi* morning
sent for n cheap dootor to come up and see
if I did not need * small dose of lied Jacket
Bitters, which, fbr the last ten days, I have
been advised by every plank-fence and dead
wall in the city to “try.” The Doctor,
whose breath itself was strongly impreg
nated with Red. Jacket's, or somebody else**
bitters, felt of my pulse, looked at my
tongue, poked mo in the ribs, and then took
a quart bottle from under the bed, and helc
it up to the light, to see if there was any
thing i* it.. Finding it aibpty, bo set it
back with a look of disgust, audthea turn-,
ing to the table on which lay a large pile of
manuscripts, (I am engaged, aa you are
aware, in writing a history of my 'Military
Career as Acting Assistant Orderly to Brig.
Qen. Jenkinson,) he remarked that the di
agnosis of my Oase . indicated the premoni
tory symptoms of non campus mentis, which
might, if not speedily checked, result in a
violent attack- of cacoesthes scrilendi.
“Why, Doctor," paid I, “you„ frighten
me; you absolutely make my flesh crawl!
Is the derned thing dangerous ?” “Ob,
no,” said he; “not particularly so. Iu
fact, I may say It Is not at all dangerous to
the patient himself; but it is sometimes
fatal to his friends. I've got a touch of it
myself.”
“Is it possible! Why, what iu the world
shall we take ?”
“If you happeq to have fifty cents iu
fractional currency about yon, we'll go down
and take a drink.”
I did happen to have just that amount
about me, and we accordingly went down
and took some of the alo sholic basis of the
R. J. B.'s above referred to —greatly, I
fear, to the disappointment of my washer
woman, whe took out my shirt yesterday—
• Friday, the day 1 usually go to bed to have
it washed—and when she brought it back, I
promised to settle the bill this evening. I
am debarred the privilege.
A DANIEL COMES TO JUDGMENT.
I heard a rather good one the other day
on Smith. Smith was a lawyer up here iu
county, Mississippi. In contradis
tinction to the other Smiths, of whom there
are said to be several in that State, we’ll
call him John Smith.
At a certain session of the Circuit Court
at Blankton, the presiding Judge fined
Smith twenty dollars for some infraction of
tne qjp , violation of some section of
the revised status, I ««n not su p e which.
A day or two after, the Judge, ‘ tninkir g,
perhaps, that from the meeting of the tri
bunal in the morning until the adjournment
at noon was rather too long between drinks,
requested' Smith to take ‘his plaee on the
bench while he stepped otrer the way a mo
ment Smith assumed the ermine with
great dignity, and turning to the Clerk of
tbe Court before the Judge bad fairly get’en
outside the bar; Said/with the gravity of a
Lord Chancellor: “Mr. Clerk, remit that
fine 9 f twenty dollars .entered up the other
day against Mr. Smith. The Court is now
convinced that, in imposing the fine she was
unjust to that gentleman”
GWAWKINS AND THE ST. LOUIS DEMOCRAT.
The following innocent paragraph, from
a recent number of the St. Louis Democrat,
was handed me this morning hv your old
friend Gwawkins:
“We notice, in reading the Southern pa
pers, that a large amount of ink and elo
quence are expended in puffing the late rebel
Generals and the leading Southern traitors
generally, while not oDe word of praise is
bestowed upon tho Generals of the Union
army, or upon the rank and file, whose valor
saved the Republic. Tbe question arises,
whether this is the way in which they in
tend constantly to show their gratitude.”
Gwawkins lives in a rural village up the
country some distance, where he edits a
small newspaper, which is printed with tar
and four penny nails. He is now in the
city, ho tells me, for the purpose of borrow
ing a six months’ supply of your exchanges.
Gwawkins' paper is not renowned cut of his
own neighborhood, I am sorry to say, for
either the variety or the freshness of its
news.
“So far as I am concerned,” said be,
while discussing the above paragraph, “there
hasn’t been much ink and eloquence ex
pended in puffing the late rebel Genorals ;
but; at the same time, I can't see why I
shouldn’t squander a little of both its that
way, for if justice had been done me at
Richmond, I’d have been a late rebel Gen*
eral myself. As it was, I nevbr got above
tho rank of Second* Lieutenant, and even
that position I lost through the subsidized
rascality of a ouc-storjr Marshal
Nor do 1 sing pieaoe to tho Union Generals
for aaving th* Republic, for at tho time the
thiog was done, it etruok mo that thoy had
saved tho wrong one. It may bo that I
ought to fool grateful to tho Generali who
thrashed mo and all my friends within an
inch of our lives, but, in tho langnago of
Mr. A. Ward, <1 don't see it in those
lamp* s' and it's my opioldff, too, that when
the St. Louis Democrat wrote that para,
graph, ho was aither very 'hard up or soap,
5r very drunk We all admire the uti-tm
beauty of the style in which the Union
Generals put us through; we wake no at
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MACON, GKA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1865.
meditated attempt to add insnlt to injury
But enough. Bricks, I’m duoed sorry we
bavenH got money enough to invite etch
other to go *nd take a drink together.”
And alter standing around a while to see
if I wouldn't say that f did have money
enough for that purpose, Gwawkins lighted
my pipe and walked off with it. It was
very evident that it hadn't been half an
hour since he had put himself on the out
side of several drinks, and it is not nay pol
icy to wqooar&ge iatemparate habits in any
body—-more especially when the encourage
meijt has to he given at my own expense.
Gwawkins is a great bore, and has some
very peculiar n >tions about things. I hope
he won’t come .up here any more.
SOLD POR LESS THAN COST.
I was standing quietly on the front steps
of the Custom Home the other '4ay, looking
casually at a beautiful ereature sitting at
one.of the parlor windows of the Battle
Hemfe, and trying to disouvnr whether she
was not an old acquaintance of miue from
the country, when a strange young man
with a limp in his walk, came up and stop
ped near me.
“I'll *wear it’s mighty hot walking for a
lame man to-day,” sail he.
Whether the remark waa addressed to me
or to society at large, J did not think it
worth while to inquire, but simply said iu
reply :
“l should think so, really. May I ask
how you'come to be lame?”
This was an impertinent questi id, I
know; but as he had provoked it, I didn’t
think there could be much harm in it .
“Certainly sir,” said he, “I got hurt, and
very badly, too, in a personal difficulty with
a Northern man name i Meade.'*
“Ah, indeed,” said I.
“Yes, the thing created a good deal of
excitement at the time, and, as an account
of it wis published in all the newspapers,
both North and South, you must have
beard somothingabout it.”
“Not a word, I assure you. When and
where did it happen ?”
“Why, a little over two years ago,” said
he, “at a town in Pennsylvania, called
Gettysburg.”
“Sold again and the money received,”
shouted a newsboy, who was standing by
and beard tbe conversation, but who now
took to bis heels.
“My gallant young friend,” said I, “I
acknowledge tbe corn cheerfully. And
speaking of corn—do you ever drink any
thing?” a’, the same tbr© tossing iny
lead in the direction of tbe nearest drink
ing saloon.
“Very rarely,” was tbe reply, “but when
l do, it is generally about this time of
6»y*‘ J—
“Well,” said I, “as you».., — lu
a Lurry to get to the grocery, I won’t J af , a i n
you any longer.”
And I walked off aud left him.
I shall never cease to regret that tbe
small newsboy didn't stay to hear the end
of it.
Very respectfully,
George Washington Bricks.
lloic to Make Pencil Writing Indellible.
—A correspondent of an agricultural paper
gives the following information, which may
be of service to some of our readers:
“A great many valuable letters and other
writings are written in pencil. This is par
ticular the case with the letters our brave
soldiersseiid home from tbe army. The fol
lowing simple process will make lead pencil
writing or drawing as indellible as if done
wjth ink: Lay the writing a on shallow and sh
and pour skimmed milk upon it. Any
spots not wet at first may have the milk
])laced lightly on them with a feather.
When the paper is wet all over with the
milk, take it up and let the milk drain off
and whip off with a feather the drops which
may collect on the lower edge. Dry it care
fully, and it will be found to be perfectly
indellible. It can not be removed even with
!!ndia rubber. It is an old recipe and a
good one.
Asteroid and Kentucky. —The latest news
in relation to the controversy about a run
ning match between these two celebrated
horses, we find in tbe following item, which
we clip from the last number of the Field,
Turf and Farm:
Mr. Alexander has fully vindicated him
self, He ha 9 proved himself to be the true
and liberal turfman that we ia the outset
him to be. lie believes in his
horse, and i* ready t > match Asteroid n gainst
Kentucky. We have a proposition by tele
graph from him, and it is characterized by a
spirit of liberality aad fairness. He propo
pes a home and home match. The friends
and backers of Kentucky can ask nothing
more. The following is the challenge:
“Lexington, Ky , August 21. 1865
C l. 8. D. Bruce, No. 62 Liberty street,
New York: “I authorize you to match Ast
eroid against Kentucky for ten thousand dol
lars ft side. | | .
XaihvUU and Chattanooga Railroad,—
Passenger trains on the Nashville and Chat*
tanooga railroad, on and after the Slit leit,
will Uavs this oity tor Chattanooga at 8 o'clock
A. M making close eonneotions with trains
for Knoxville, Tennessee, and A*l*nta,
Georgia.
Passenger trains will arrive from Chatta
nooga at 5:15 P. M., in time to connect with
trains on the Louisville and Nashville rail
road for Louisville and ofber points North.
These ehanges will be decidedly an im
ytgipdi I te ihi trtwlikg pabHa-OflMk
Letter from Georgia-
We find the following remarkalrie.letter
going the rounds of the press, and c py it
for the benefit of our Methodist readers. It
_is taken from the New York Christian Ad
vocate and Jouriiilb
The question of r a return of the entire
membership of the M. £ Church South to
the bosom of the M. £. Church is begin
ning to be agitated in this part of Georgia.
Ever since it was definitely ascertained
here that all the Southern States lately in
armed opposition to the Fedeful Onion hac
been surrendered to the national armies,
and especially since the publication of
President Johnson's amnesty proclamation,
I have been . < onvinced of one great fact,
that the institution of slavery in the United
States is destroyed as a necessary result of
the war; that tbe slaves being captured
property, the captor has a perfect right to
proclaim their freedom. This announce
ment by tbe Chief Magistrate of this grand
republic will be ratified by the popular
voice of the entire South.
This is no longer a debatable question;
it has been made by the executive procla
mation a sine qua non of a reconstruction es
civil government in the revolted States.
Yet I would not be understood as as ©rt
ing that this will be unanimously conceded.
There are many proslavery men of tbe old
secession school who are so sadly disap
pointed at the result of the war, and cha
grined at the loss of negro “property,” that
they will not gracefully acquiesce in the
emancipation of the slaves. Take the
oath they must, or disfranchisement, pov
erty, jerHaps expatriation, must be their
lot. Still they are making desperate efforts
in some places to create disaffection among
the mas-es and lead them to a practical
adoption of a most fatal error, that of
swallowing the haled oath with a “mental
reservation” in favor of slavery. Some of
them bolally declare “they will have slave
ry yet.” They endeavor to delnde their
followers with the idea that either the State
Convention vill not abolish it, or that Con
gress, when the Southern representatives
shall again take their seats, will re-estab
ish it, or that the Supreme court will pro
nounce all tbe proclamations in favor of
emancipation and the act amendatory ol tbe
Constitution unconstitutional.
In this manner they are tempting many
ignorant people to embark again in some
sort of opposition to the requirements of
the national authorities. This is getting
iip a great deal of angry and excited feel
ing among ignorant classes, which must, if
persisted in, cause mischief, or at any rate
lead to a prolongation of the military con
trol of the country. Many causes have
recently contributed to excite the feelings
fiSn «ns° 002)21(i..i“
inons recently preached in the Methodist
Church in this place, by the pastor, on
“Slavery and Southern Methodism.”—
While the excitement growing cut of the
new and astounding doctrine then pro
claimed for the first time in a Southern
pulpit by a Southern minister was at its
highest pitch, two rival political meetings
were held in the town, and each adopted
resolutions expressive of their sentiments.
The meeting was really called by the con
servative men of the eciinty, but the old
pro-slavery “secesh” got into the court
house first, nominated a chairman of their
own; appointed a committee, and had their
resolutions adopted before the conserva
tives were ready for action— -all this osten
sibly for the purpose of submitting to the
government as a stern necessity, but in reality
to endeavur to get control of the State
Convention and the future government of
the State. The conservatives then held
their meeting, adopted resolutions favor
able t > the designs of the government,
obtained the approval of the Federal com
mandant of the post, and forwarded them
on to President Johnson. The loyalty of
some of the principal leaders in the disap
pointed party is only from the teeth out
ward ; they hate the national cause as
much as when Joe Johnston confronted
Sherman at Dalton, and in heart they are
as “ rebellious ”a* ever. But the con
servative men are the true lriends of the
government, and their principles are des
tined to triumph throughout the State
As in the State, so also in the Church, we
have pro-slavery men who will never,
under any circumstances, consent to a re
union of the Churches. I have taken iny
position on this subject on the high ground
of providential direction.
1 look upon the institution of slavery as
being stamped by the results of the war
with the signet of God’s disapprobation ;
it is effectually and eternally destroyed.—
Herein God would teach us the lesson that
our church has not been guileless in the
part she has token in upholding the system,
and that she can no longer sustain herself
on the obsolete pro-slavery idea. Already
I regard eleven of our Southern Annual
Conferences by their Geographical poei*
tione, aa well ae their Union tendenciee, ae
loet to the Southern organization. To at
tempt to keep up a separate organization
with tbs remaining thirteen to as sheer
madness and folly ae it would have been in
the tranaMiseUfippi secession armies to
persist in the rebellion, We are therefore
reduced to the necessity of returning to
the bosom of the phuipb, X division of
opinion here is inevitable; some of the min
isters apd many of the member* will go otf
to other denominations. It is feared that
some of the preachers of a certain class
are already working to sell us out to the
Protestant Episcopal Chuivb. But they
can carry off but au inconsiderable num
ber of either ministers or people, and when
• illustration of the principle, “leavinge*nm
! try for country’* gpod.” The church re*
! united, with its vast machinery arid im>
, mense resources, operating upon the mas-es
of a renovated nation, will .exhibit a vitality
and power of expansion never before
known. Bncb I believe to be the mpnitest
destiny of Methodism—earnest Christian
ity—in America. For the sake of a result
*o glorious, I for one am prepared, I trust
in the spirit oi Christian humility, to con
cede everything. lam willing to return
to the M. E. Church as it «, and not as it
in 1844. .A* we have been conquered,
and most return to the Union as it is, and
not as it was in 1860, then, by practically
acknowledging that we were wrong in se
ceding from it, so lam willing to concede
that, as slavery caused the ecclesiastical
division, we were wrong in leaving the
church of oor fathers.
J. H. Caldwell. .
Newnau, July 14. -- -V
Treatment of Prisoners
In discussing tbe question of treatment
of prisoners by Federal and Confederate
authorities, a vital element in fa solution is
the relative ability properly to provide for
them.
We may assume, as admitted, the Fed
eral authority could command the means
comfortably to hqfose, feed, clothe and
guard all prisoner , and that if this were not
done, the reason must be sought elsewhere
than in inability.
The inability of the Confederates prop
erly to house, clothe, feed their prisoners
has stood confessed by the Confederates
and charged upon them by the Federuls,
and, therefore, the mere fact that the Fed
eral prisoners wefe not comfortably pro
vided, is no proof of au iutention on the
Confederacy wilfully to cause suffering by
withholding comforts, blit on the contrary
is only pritna facie evidence that the Fed
eral charge of deficient ability was true.
[f we proceed to judge of the disposition
of the two authorities to mitigate, to wholly
avert suffering by captiv ty, we find an un
broken record of Cotifederate action, cease
ess and importunate in seeking so to ar
range for the disposal of all captured sol
diers as to have no one to endure the ills of
confinement—and subsequently, when all
their propositions to this end had been re
jected, to mitigate as far as possible the
hardships of captivity.
On the part of the Federal authority—
a record wholly at war with a pretense of
purpose to avert captivity, or even to es
sentially mitigate its horrors. A record,
which a cartel contracted to avert alto
gether, during the whole war, tho hardships
of captivity, was unceremoniously and
Cruelly abrogated, and subsequently a per
to
tion made on the Federal side being made
purposely to insure rejection. —New York
News.
Interesting Episode. —An affair oacurred
this morning in ihs barber shop connected
with Willard’s Hotel, that, for the time,
caused more or less excitement, and relative
thereto there were several conflicting stories
afloat, and as far as wc could learn from a
{gentleman who said he witnessed the affair,
it appears that Gen. Rosseau, Member of
Congress elect from Kentucky, and who
served with considerable credit as a General
in the Federal army through the war, w T as
getting shaved by the foreman of the st op,
who has heretofore borne the character of a
genteel and quiet colored man, when by
some accident be out the General’s lip
The General told him to be more careful,
when the barber in a peculiar ton», informed
the General he did not do it intentionally,
when the General again informed him he
would hit him if he spoke to him inso
lently. The barber then jerked the towel
from the General’s neck, and gave him
warning if he hit him he would out the
General’s throat from ear to ear. The Gen
eral an this point rushed to his room for his
IMstols, and when he returned his friends
interposed, as the barber had also obtained
a pistol and threatened to blow the Gen
(lid’s brains out if he entered the shop.
This is as near the truth of the matter as
we could get. ' We endeavored to see the
colored man and get his version of the
affair but he was non est for the time being.
Washington Union.
Order in Reference to Frtedmen. —The fol
lowing order from the Adjutant and In
spector General’s Office, dated July 25, is
published for the benefit of those con
cerned :
To secure equal justice and the same
personal liberty to the freedtnen as to other
citizens and inhabitants, nil orders issued
by post, district, or other commanders,
adopting any system of passes for them, or
subjecting them to any restraints or pun
ishments not imposed on other classes, are
declared void.
Neither whites nor blacks will be re*
strained from seeking employment else*
where when they cannot obtain it at a just
compensation at their homos, and when not
bound by voluntary agreement; n or
they be hindered from traveling fro** place
to place on proper and legitim*® business.
By order of the Secretary ar *
E. I* Townsend,
Assists* Adjutant General.
19* Col. A. P. Wetter, late of the Con
federal* army, has gone to Germany, to
nuke arrangements for a large emigration
movement to Southern Georgia.
f«r Gen, Sickle# ii mentioned a#
Mayer es New York.
A Tan-Wived Man, and tha Consa
, quences.
Last full there appeared in this city one
Frank N. Case, ngeot f«>r a mutual fir*
insurance company, located at Madison,
Wisconsin, lie represented himself aa a
single man, and paid his addresses to the
daughter of an esteemed and intelligent
family, the name of which we omit by
special request. The parents did not £avof
the suit, Case being almost a stranger, uod
his age, nearly forty, was deemed unsuit
able to the young maiden of scarcely
twenty years. However, he succeeded in
winning the girl’s affections, and she.yiew
ing him through the roseate hue of her
girlish love, with her guileless, unsuspect
ing nature, believed him all that her ianey
painted him. The parents being deter
mined to prevent the match, availed them
selves of a temporary absence on the part
of Case to send the girl to frieods at
Strawberry Point, Delaware county, to
get her out of the way. On his return,
Case, by some means, learned her where
abouts, when he immediate’}' sought her.
The r. suit was that the young girl, away
from home and the loviog care which
would have saved her, yielded to the
specious pleading of an artlul villain, and
consented to a clandestine marriage, which
was effected at Delhi, in this State, on the
20th day of April lust.
Soon after the marriage, Case and she
who supposed herself his honored wife,
returned to her parents at this place, who,
seeing that further opposition would be
■ useless, received them kindly and cordially, j
;So matters passed on until a month or six
;weeks ago, when the father of the lady!
was informed by a citizen of this place
that Case hud a wife living iD Wisconsin
at the time of his marriage here. As
might be expected, this intelligence fell
with crushing weight upon a family whose
good name was above reproach, and no
one of whose mem bes had ever suffered
even the shadow of dishonor to fall on
their domestic hearthstone. The father
immediately began investigating the mat
ter, and found the information but too true.
Cautiously he went to work to collect the
evidence, having obtained which, be had
Case arrested the early part of this week.
He had his examination yesterday before
Justice Crosby, J. B. Powers appearing
for the State, and A. F. Brown conducted
the defense.
The facts developed in the examination,
and lefirned from other reliable sources,
f>rove Case to be a villain of the darkest
dye. It is satisfactorily ascertained that he
married not less than live different women
in Vermont and contiguous Stab*®
commencing his career *“ l f» e West. At
one time he was paying his addresses o
.Iftd ¥ Jv ll n , l when at
the advice of Iriends she wrote down to
another part of the Jstato where he hud
been living, for the purpose of inquiring
into his character. The answer returned
was that he had a wife living there, and
two or three children. A happy circum
stance it would have been for the unfor
tunate girl whom he dishonored here had !
she taken the same precaution. Since he
has been W est, Case has married no less
than four other women, and we understand
that at the time of his arrest, he was in
tending to marry the fifth one, a young
lady residing in this State, not a great dis
tance from Cedar Falls. He was arrest
ed of course on the charge of bigamy.
The plea of the defendant was a novel one,
remarkable for its barefaced shamefulness,
its unqualified acknowledgement of heine
ous crime. The defense was his:
In' 1860 Case married one Lenora Cady,
who, he says, deserted him. Shortly af
terward, he married Hannah Sutherland,
the only daughter of a wealthy farmer of
Green county, Wisconsin. Some time af
ter this marriage he procured a divorce
from Lenora Cady. He now claims that
he did not commit bigamy in marrying the
lady in this place, because Hannah was not
his lawful wife, he having married her be
fore he had procured a divorce from Le
nora. He acKnowledged that be had com
mitted bigamy, but it was in Wisconsin
and not in Iowa; therefore the court had
no jurisdiction in the case, and should d;s
charge him from custody. The prosecu
tion offered in evidence a certified copy of
the marriage certificate, show’ing that Case
had been married in legal form to Hannah
Sutherland, and as the murriage with the
lady here was also proved, he clearly stood
convicted of bigamy, and was held to bail
in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for
his appearance at the next term of the Dis
trict Court, in default of which he was
committed to the county jail. There is
no doubt but that Case was divorced from
Lenora, and not until after he had married
Hannah, as he had a certified copy of the
divorce bill in court, but it being not pro
perly authenticated, it was not admitted as
evidence.
It was a scene of thrilling interest when
Case’s last came iuto the court room,
j. 0 o verco«”* wai B^e by her sense of the de*
gradW humiliating position in which
was placed, that her emotions well
nigh overcame her; and she had to be sup
ported by her aged mother, who accompa
nied her. It was well that she was not
obliged to go on the witness-stand, for we
do not believe she could have passed the
terrible ordeal. As soon as the mother
saw Case, she shook her fist at him and ex
claimed, “ Oh, you infamous villain ! If I
had a pistol I wou’d shoot you dead on
the spot,” and the clenched teeth and flash
ing eyes of the injured mother were a guar
antee that she would not hive been slow
to execute her threat, had opportunity of
fered. Cose sat there with a sneering
ftttife on his dark, swarthy fiscs, apparently
Vol. LXIII—No ir>o
e eoucernod of toy one i rsernL—
fhe girl is a noble looking sc * amen of
Womanhood, and those who know her my
th»u *he is as good as tar. I ounztnd m
sxperianosd, sbamaa uoaUsto look beneath
the mask which hid the incarsat on of ev 1,
and feU s victim to the wifek of one who-*
loug experience rendered him enmr * tent
to pursue bis naferiona J rrigM with ear
cess.
P. 9 -Wad as we go to press, tr* fears
•that tbs prison* committed an ad* th •
morning. Last evening, officer demise
placed Case in charge of A. F. Brow
who took the prisoner to bis room u . ...
Jfcs night This morning Brown went t -
braskfeat, leaving the man to bed, ham:
culled, oa be had bees ail night AU»nt
eight o'clock, officer Samoa* got the k
aild went up to take charge of Cm } f
entered the outer office and panaed to the
bedroom, when he dissevered Ca*e La'
iag in the doorway, he harm* taken * *., r
of drawers and tied them ov.m the fTaiertr
and about hie neck. The officer u. n- ?
ately cut him down and eeot Br. >w w ■,.
had in the meantime come in, for a *
cian. Life, however, was extinct, and t
bad panned beyond ail reach of hutr. r
law*, to appear before the tribunal of t e
Moat High. His aelf-destructoo «u a
determined effort, as. when dwoorire: i s
fo* rented upon the floor He m ist ■
drawn op his kneee mud kept the •« . : <>t
bin body upon bis neek until scran- ;u.*t. n
took place, and was ao far gone that he «■ i id
not stand upon his feet. He felt a letter to
his wife in this place, saying that he and -i
the deed through love cf'her, and that h r
father had driven him to the act. Th «
ignominious!/ ended the earthly career of
one who has bleated the happiness of many
a family circle; and as be was detent!
and abhorred while living, no sympathy or
respect will be attached to h» men • r
now that he is dead.—-CVS* Fills (/01m) Os
Metis.
£5" One of the most gratifying ev
of the day was the large
nal secession 1 sts in Memphis, Tenr on U’»*
19th iast, for the purpose of pubii ly av
ing their determination to support
equivocally the Government of the United
States. The assemblage etubriio-d. v\
elusively, men who had labored to jr- -. .
secession and who had actively an 4 tea on*
ly sustained the rebellion from th- U-_r
ning of the war to its close. We reeapdan
among those who participated m tl»« ra
ing a number of the most prominent aa«i
influential citizens of Western Te - j
'CoiMmto mnm, fe
livered speeches in which they warmly ar <1
earueatly renswsd their declaration* u* •
Mikjr 10 toe Union. The foliowicg r> -
lious were unanimously adopted. d!e:ir
and forcibly setting forth the sent anei •
the meeting:
“Resolved , that we recognize the aboi: n
of slavery as an inevitable event—it l* -> /
a dead institution—and we would out re
store it if we could.
"Resole eel, That we do not regret hav 1 _
taken the amnesty oath; that we hav*
faithfully observed it hereafter.
“Rsoohed, That we pledge onr honor and
hearty co-operation in restoration <>f r.vil
law, the maintenance of the United Stat *
Government and the Cocstrtunon tLfr -
aud will do everything in our power to up
hold and continue the tame.”
The loregoing resolution* are a lm.rv
ble, and the manner and circumstance* of
their adoption should gratify the hearts <•:
patriots everywhere. The men who con
stituted the Memphis meeting have |~ •:
the toils and dangers of the recent war
they appreciate the issues that w *-n* -tak
upon it, and now they manfuily
frankly accept the result, with a dr-.cnai
nation to devote themselves bereaf**r t.»
the permanent restoration of the country
We should rejoice to hear of aim .r
ings everywhere throughout the
They would rapidly generate a 1
public sentiment in that section, ai
such extent facilitate the re-eetab - zof
harmony and confidence between th*» two
great sections. Tbo sooner the prop!*' *>f
the South demonstrate their full tan
of the great results of the war, an 1 j *
ceed, io good faith, with the task of re
ration, the sooner will the burdens wl -
now oppress them be removed, and Uu- r
former happiness and prosper.ty be
gained. The secessionists of M**r:,
exhibited the elements of true man
and patriotism in their recent meet-n ' »r
we heartily commend them to the w:
country.— Louise ills Journal.
Fatal Rencontre. —We learn that->n M
day, in a renoontre between two li en 1 .
the name of Strother and Mr. C. 11
at the livery stable of the latter « h f %
Vista, Ga., Mr. B. was lit.* ally stabliedto
death. The Strother** made their escape
and had not been arrested when our in
formant left there. Mr. B. was an estima
ble citizen of Buena Vista, end a brother
to our worthy townsman, D. S. Bu.iock. of
the firm of Bullock X Ratcliffe. —Co mmi t
Sun.
The New York Times save there
is authority for stating that hereafter no
pardons will be delivered to agents and at
torneys. They will be delivered either to
the applicants in person, or (what is r. • re
convenient and less harassing to the Pre«i
dent) will be sent to the applicants by trie
mails from the State Department.
£3T There are more robberies in Wad
street, New York, than there ever were on
Hounslow Heath and in Sherwood Forest