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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 ttZsmix&W 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