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JOHN H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor.
YV. B. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor.
MRS. MARY E. BRYAN (•) Associate Editor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MAY 18, 1878.
Don’t fail to renew.
Are Tlie.v Id*ss Guilty.—In common
speech we call it suicide when a man cuts short
the period of his life, and language fails in our
effort to express our horror of the deed. But
shall we class those as suicides only who kill
themselves outright? who with drug or knife
snap the slender cord that binds them to earth?
Are not those who persistently follow courses
that can not fail to terminate in premature
death, equally guilty of the sin of self-destruc
tion ? Intemperance in eating and drinking,
shortens for thousands the periods assigned for
them to live. Other habits deleterious to life
contract the three score and ten, into two-thirds,
one-half, and even one-fourth of that time. As
a matter of fact every one who lives in violation
of the rule which nature prescribes for the pre-
servation of health is guilty of suicide.
Tlio Sin «f Eli.—A weak indulgence for
the misdetds of children has been the one great
fault of many a good man besides the venerable
Judge of Israel. Parents are not so blind to the
shortcomings of their off-spring, as we in char
ity are sometimes willing to suppose. They see
the failings aDd bemoan them; but a weak fond
ness closes their lips from thinking and with
holds their hands from correcting, as was the
fact in the case of the aged patriarch. Such in
dulgence is an error as well as a sin. The tem
poral welfare of boys and girls is not advanced
by leaving them to pursue unchecked their own
evil courses. The law requiring obedience to
parents, has attached to it the sanction of a
promise, and the history of all time bears out
the assertion that they who flagrantly disre
gard the wishes of father and mother, rarely
come to a good end.
The Value of Taste. —No intellectual
faculty possessed by woman can do so much to
wards making her home happy as taste. If she
possess this, she can impart to the plainest
abode some charm which endears it to its occu
pants. We sing,
“Be it never so humble there's no place like home,”
and we sing truly if taste giveB attractions to
homely details. But if when the husband
comes from the field, shop or office, he finds
his house at ‘sixes and sevens,’ with filth and
litter everywhere, and nothing in the right
place, he is ready to conclude that though there
may be no place like his home, there are many
places far better. Cultivation of the taste is the
education needed to fit woman to be the presid
ing genius of her household. Of course, we
have no objection to her learning to read Greek
tragedy and to solve poet lines in Euclid'—but
far more important for the happiness of her hus
band and children is the culture of {esthetic fac
ulties which will enable her to give an air of re
finement to everything about her home. *
IMlate’s Question.—At no time in the
world’s history would it have been more puz
zling to answer the question, ‘ What is truth ?”
than it is now. There is scarcely a limit to the
diverse creeds, each of which is claimed by its
adherents as true. In the matter of religion
there is great conflict of opinion, even in the
sect which professes to have an infallible inter
preter of the Divine Decrees. In Metaphysies
men are continually reasoning and speculating,
and though they pile one logical deduction up
on another, they are unable to assert with posi
tive assurance that their conclusions are true.
The man of science, with glass and calcular, is
engaged in weighing the stars and estimating
their movements, arfd with all this, he is unable *
to tell us what is truth. Yet we are surrounded
by truth everywhere; could our finite intellects j
but grasp and appreciate it.
”•2 VouM Xot Help HI.”— 1 This is often
the cry of mere weakness—the plea of one con
scious of wrong-doing and casting about for
some excuse for sin. But it is in many instan
ces more true than they who use it suspect.
Every person’s life is to a large extent controlled
by antecedents which began to operate perhaps
generations before he was born, and which of
course, he could not have directed. Many a
murderer expiates on the gallows not his own
misdeed alone, but the murderous inclinations
of a long life of ancestry. A predisposition to
commit a certain act may be handed down from
sire to son, until odo arises who can not help
committing it Napoleon was wont to call him
self a man of destiny, and so he was; but not
more so, than the humblest soldier in the ranks
of his armies. But the one and the other, was
necessitated by a long train of antecedents to
be such a man as he was, and perhaps to per
form every act that he did.
Public Hangings.—Those who urge that
criminals should be punished publicly in order
te deter others from the commission of crime,
an ignorant of one of the most fnlly established
laws of tbe human mind. Familiarity it has
often been said robs vice of its deformity; so
does it Btrip the most painful spectacles of their
horrors. Terrible as the details of a hanging
may appear to the imagination of any one of re
fined sensibilities, it is a fact that those who
flock to witness such scenes soon learn to enjoy
them. Publicity then shonld be avoided be
cause of the cruelty which it cultivates in the
hearts of the people. Bat worse even than this
is the morbid ambition which it awakens in
some to be a hero in such scenes. The resnlt
is an increase rather than a lessening of crime.
It has been well said that it is the certainty of
punishment and not its horrors which will re
press wrong-doing.
How It Will End.—That the utterance
of Canon Earrer, which has been endorsed by
Mr. Beecher and others on this eide of the wa
ter, will lead to expunging from the creed of
orthodox theology the doctrine of suffering be
yond the grave, we can hardly believe. But it
may, and we believe will, resnlt in driving out
that idea which some preachers take a pleasure
in setting forth—that God, as a merciful Being,
will delight in inflicting endless torments upon
the creatures that He has fashioned and brought
into existence. Snch an idea is derogatory
both to the dignity and benevolence of the Su
preme Being, and had its origin in the stern
bigotry of the human heart. The Deity re
vealed to ns by the Bible, is one of love and
mercy, _who willeth misery to none, bnt who
arrescwill not the sequences of sin. Those
then who choose the way of evil—who make
no effort for a higher and better life—shall enter
the realms of hopeless misery not because God
in his wrath punishes those who disobey Him,
. bnt because such suffering is an inevitable con-
f sequence of sin.
Letters oi'IBiograpllcrs.— 1 The mangled
fragments of letters commonly published in
biographies are generally very stupid. They
are like a table from which all of the choicest
dainties have been selected, and only crusts and
broken meats left. Really the great sharm of a
private letter lies in those parts which are neith
er intended nor fitted for the public eye. We
do not want our correspondent to discuss grave
questions of religion, science or politics in the
majestic style ofRassilasjnor do we care to have
him write us pages on the lighter topics of taste,
fashions and amusements in the pleasant vein
of the Spectator. We want letters full of news
and gossip. Accounts of how people are court
ing and being courted, of how they are running
away to marry, and running away to beep from
marrying; with all the sly and humorous com
ments which these subjects may suggest. But,
of course, if our correspondent becomes in any
way so famous that some ambitious scribbler
thinks he may turn a penny by “doing,him up”
in a book, all these good letters are overhauled,
all that give them life and spice cut short, and
the dull parts taken to swell the volume to re
spectable proportions. Such a Biography re
sembles Hamlet with the Prince omitted.
Great Rogues.—It is worthy of remark
that while tbe newspapers have cried out clam
orously against several men who were de
nounced as stupendous rogues, w T hen the same
men were brought to trial, nothing could be
proved against them, and they were allowed to
go free despite the popular prejudice in their
disfavor. Are we thence to conclude that these
men were innocent; and that the clamor against
them was unjust? Perhaps so, in some instances,
for the people who judge by outward appearances
merely, are very apt to induige in sweeping de
cisions. But there is a more probable explana
tion of the fact. The man who steals very
largely is able to buy off adverse testimony and
adverse judgements. As a rule, gre^t crimin
als are not punished. We send to the chain-
gang the man who steals a sheep or a sack of
corn; but the man who cheats the State or some
corporation out of fifty or a hundred thousand
dollars, displays his ill-gotten wealth with im
punity. Were it proved that a man had gotten
the office of baiiiff or justice of the peace by
bribery and fraud, he might be turned
out and even punished for his malpractices.
But when it is established beyond a cavil that a
man has been inducted into the highest office
of the Nation by acts of high-handed and un
blushing villainy, there is not enough honest
patriotism in the land to haul the usurper from
his false position and punish the bold schemers
who placed him there.
An Inconsistency.—We pray that men
may learn to love each other—that wars may
cease to the end of the earth and that all the
paraphernalia of war may pass away ao^ become
unknown. In such a prayer all must join who
have seen even in imagination the horrors which
hostile armies leave in their track. But scarce
has the prayer passed our lips when we begin
strains of martial glory to tell of the soldier’s
deeds of daring, and to place upon bis brow
chaplets of undying fame. We honor him as
we do no other man. And for what ? Because
he has not feared to risk his own life in the ef
fort to destroy the lives of others. Because he
has been skillful and successful in forcing the
will of others to yield to the hand of might.
Could there be a greater inconsistency between
our prayers and onr laudations? No; peace
and good-will will never prevail on tbe earth so
long as it is held forth that military glory excels
all other fame, and that the soldier’s occupation
is the most honorable which a man can pnrsne.
So long as we reserve onr brightest garlands
and highest praises for the honors of war, will
onr prayers for the prevalence of universal
peace sound like mockings in Heavens’s ears.
Rev, Win. T. Harris, D:D.—This
distinguished divine preached at Trinity Meth
odist chnrch of thi3 city last Wednesday even
ing. His sermon was one of the ablest efforts
the writer ever heard. As an orator, Dr. Harris
certainly has no superior anywhere, either in
pulpit or on the fornm. He is a son of the la
mented G. W. D. Harris, D.D., of the Memphis
Conference, and nephew of ex-Gov. Isham G.
Harris, Tennessee. He is chairman of the del
egation, and confessedly one of the first preach
ers in the South.
The writer does not know that Dr. Harris
oonld be induced to relinquish the pastorate in
his own Conference nnder any circumstances
for any position which his brethren of the Gen
eral Conference might call him, bat certainly
his splendid abilities ought to have the widest
field for their employment
If a change is made in the secretaryship of
the Missionary Society of the churoh, no bet
ter selection coaid possible be made than that
of Dr. W. T. Harris, of the Memphis Confer
ence delegation, for that important place.
Georgia Press Convention—Geor
gia Editors.—Tbe Georgia Press Association
held its annual convention at Gainesville on
the 8th inst—the representatives of the press —
over a hundred in number—many of there ac*
companied by their families, leaving Atlanta in
splendid passenger coaches placed at their dis
posal by the liberal officers of tbe Air Line Rail
Road, and reaching Gaipesville before noon,
where a graceful reception and elegant hospi
talities awaited them at the hands of the citizens.
Some business was transacted that day, and
much pleasant social intercourse enjoyed, and
next morning, the Association having been ten
dered an excursion to any point on tbe road,
chose Toccoa, and were whirled there in rapid
time, across a country whose green beauty of
hill, slope and valley was freshened by recent
showers, and arriving at the quiet and pretty
town of Toccoa, enjoyed a ride to the Falla in
commodious hacks, saw the white wonder of
the loveliest of cascades, sti oiled through the
greenwoods in which the Falls are setlikea pearl
in emerald,and retnrped to Gainesville,fresh for
some afternoon business—transacted (in rather
irregular, and informal, but lively and enter
taining fashion) in the tastefully decorated Li
brary Hall, and a reception in the evening, with
speeches, musio, recitations, etc., and next
morning,good-byeto hospitable and picturesque
Gainesville and back to Atlanta where a sumpt
uous dinner was spread free for the hungry
knights of pen and scissors by Mr. Campbell,
the new proprietor of the Kimball House. After
this, and a stroll around to look at Atlanta lions
the jovial excursionists availed themselves of
Gov. Brown’s generous invitation and took pas
sage on the Stale Road train for a trip to Chatta
nooga and a view from Look Out Mountains, all
arrangements for their comfort being made by
the ex-Governor in his usual princely 3tyle.
The entire excursion was enjoyable—a most
grateful recreation of the Editorial zaind and
body. Travel on the Air Line, with its splen
didly conditioned road and attentive) officers, is
the perfection of rapid and luxurious transit.
Gainesville is- delightful with its picturesque
views, its alroady fanyerns Springs, it&srisp air,
crystal water and pleasant society; To-ocoa, the
village, is pretty and .quiet, and the Falls—a
thing of joy and beauty forever. Tbs trip to
Chattanooga and Lookout is said to have been
equally pleasant, though concerning that, this
deponent does not speak from personal knowl
edge, since cnee back within range of Atlan
ta brick and mortar, our Nemesis reached for us
with remorseless hand, the word ‘copy’ broke
tbe pleasant spell and the mantle of tLs happy
excursionist dropped from our spirit like the
robes of Cinderella.
The representatives of the Georgia Press were
on the whole a sensible and very fair looking
body, presenting the greatest variety of phy
sique and character indications but with a gener
al air of shrewdness, independance and well-to-
do ativeness, at variance with the idea that the
Hard Times has cut short their allowance of
creature comforts, or tkat having occasionally
to tike ducks, beAisf cMilling wheels and'but
termilk in lieu of greer^ack subscriptions has
crashed the bouyant seff-esteew which seems one
of their distinguishing characteristics.
It was entertaining ior a quiet looker on to
sweep the assembled body with curious eye. and
note the physiognomies of the men who have the
directing, if not the creating of public senti
ment and opinion in this which we call the Em.
pire State.
Not a very scholarly or literary looking body
on an average certainly, though sprinkled here
and there were notable exceptions, earnest,
thoughtful faces, or bright, mobile ones, but
may we say it in the face of the favorite
fashion of self-glorification ?—the average was a
little disappointing. Our Georgia editors—speak
ing generally and setting apart the bright ex
ceptions do not seem to magnify their office
in the sense of comprehending its full scope,
appreciating its possibilities, and feeling their
responsibility as leaders of public taste and
opinion. Their range of thought and of reading
seems rather narrow, their conception of jour
nalism circumscribed, and their culture not ex
actly the finest or the broadest, and some of
them seem jnst a little lacking in the modest
self-distrnst of true talent.
There ! we have said it, and are going to get
transfixed by editorial pen-points for doing so,
but really we could not rest until it was “out,’’
like the King’s barber, who was forced by tbe
restive imp within him, to whisper into the
ground his secret concerning the donkey ears of
King Midas.
Not that we would insinuate that this compar
ison applied to the whole or to a part of the
members of the Georgia Press. On the contrary,
it is because their shrewdness, energy and na
tive intelligence impressed us so favorably that
we venture to speak as we do, in order to sug
gest that a zeal for improvement, a higher ap
preciation, and a better understanding of their
profession and a litsieA conscientious exertion to
increase their fitness for it, wonld greatly raise
the average of the Georgia Press.
We hoped that CoL Styles,in addition to his ad
mirable eulogy of the Press, would have given
ns his idea (without doubt a vigorous and com
prehensive one) of journalism as a science,
touching on the duty of an editor to keep pace
with the thought of his age, to acquaint himself
with at least the general features of the world’s
progress in literature, science and arts, to be
not merely a collector of facts, bnt able to de
tect their underlying significance, not merely a
month-piece of the mass, bat an interpreter of
the thoughts, opinions and tastes of the higher
minds among them; to set more store npon clear
ideas of good government than upon flattery or
abase of oertain politicians, more value npon
correct information, npon nsefnl subjects and
good taste about beautiful ones, than npon local
hits or personal flings; though these are very
good in their way and do much to enliven a pa
per, thongh it requires culture and information
to make even politioal squibs, and gossip bright
and epigrammatic.
No small degree of the talent of the Georgia
press—young talent as well as old—is up to all
this, and we took pride in listening to its pos -
sessors—in looking into their thoughtful or the ir
eager, bright faces; and seeing theirhopefnl ev.
ergy, their wholesome ambition, their enthu
siasm about their profession, or their quiet
knowledge of, and attachment to it; feeling that
in snch hands as these the Georgia Press would
indeed be a civilizing power, able to instrnct in
the true, as well as to denounce the false, to
direct and raise the literary and moral tastes of
the mass instead of ‘writing down’ to them, as
some short-sighted Machievellis tell us should
be done for policy’s sake. *
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Tl»e Homan who is lire Truest
Erieml,—When we meet with a woman who
has grown great through suffering, softened
and made more sympathetic to others—we feel
that we are :n the presence of some one who
has been touched with living Sre from the altar
and rendered in part divine. That sweet and
gracious woman who has gone through years of
illness and yet has kept her sympathies fresh
and her heart warm, is she not richer by far for
her trials than if she had been one of those who
are wrapped in the well-being throughout? A
woman of this kind is of infinite value to the
wosld. Her judgment is matured by quiet
thought, and because of her partial removal
from the centre of things. She stands to the
side, more as a spectator than an actor in socie
ty, and is able to see things with more clearness
than those who are blinded by the dust and
smoke of the active turmoil—able to measure
all by a truer standard than can those who stand
so close that small matters become dispropor
tionately great and insignificant ones too grave.
And eke who has withdrawn somewhat from the
world by reason ot sorrow, and who has let
that sorrow ripen her soul, not harden her heart,
how pitifully she can feel for others—but also
how wisely she cau comfort and how clearly ap
portion the amount to be paid to suffering ! She
can console a child thao cries for a pleasure de
nied—the girl that has loved for a few days un
wisely, and declares that her heart is broken
for gocsS and aye in consequence —the man who
has lost all that made life worth having—the
woman who is shipwrecked for time and eter
nity. She knows that each suffers, and has
pympathy and compassion for each; while all
that time of gentle exhoi‘ation and sweetest
sympathy her own woun-. are bleeding, her
own sores smarting.”
These are very hard times and we
need the assistance of every friend of the
paper. Renew your subscription and
seifrl one more subscriber.
A Texas correspondent of the Phrenologica 1
Journal, tells the following story of how a Mr.
Hurley, of Texas; turned his knowledge of cra
nial bumps to good account. Hurley was
known as an examiner of phrenology, and near
the close of the late war he was’taken by certain
politicians to Austin during a session of the
Legislature, and it was made his business there
to measure the integrity of different members,
and report to his employers the sum of money
which, in his estimation, would be sufficient to
buy them over to the advocacy of certain meas
ures. Having reported, his employers—lobby
ists probably—would give him the money and
he would apply it in the direction specified,
buying a man’s vote for three hundred, five
hundred, one thousand, or more dollars, as the
case might demand. The Phrenologist made
this work profitable to himself, as it is said
that he returned home at the close of the ses
sion with a stock of goods worth $20,000. *
A great many subscriptions expired
with No. 150 and we hope every one of
them will be renewed.
The Vatican Tapestries.—Leo XIII.
is about to deserve well of all interested in art
needlework. Hanging on the walls of many of
the 11,000 rooms of the Vatican, into which
strangers cannot penetrate, and hidden away
in numberless cupboards, are an infinite variety
of pieces of ancient tapestry. There are those
saved from the sack of the city in 1527, for
which Raphael made the cartoons; there are
splendid examples of Flemish work of the four
teenth and fifteenth centuries, and any number
of Gobelins, for daring two centuries the French
kings keep up the custom of sending the Pope an
annual present of a piece of tapestry. All these
Leo XIII. has decided shall be gathered togeth
er and placed where they can be seen, arranged
chronologically and formed into a collection
unique of its kind—a new museum, in fact, to
be added to the many the Vatican contains.
Perhaps Leo XIII. unconsciously acquired a
taste for ancient tapestry when, sixty years ago,
he was playing at horses np and down that long
hall hang with arras in the family manor-house
at Carpineto, where he was born.
Washington Star:—“Gentlemen here from
Georgia represent that the re-election of Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens to the next Congress is a
settled fact Hardly any opposition to him has
been doveioped. Senator Hill is not they say,
by any means so popular. He has not been for
given for his opposition to the silver bilL Sen
ator Gordon is represented as being certain of a
re-election, although his intimacy with the ad
ministration has resulted in making some of his
backers dissatisfied.
THE
OLD TABBY HOUSE.
BY GARNET McIVOR.
This popular story has been interrupted by
the illness of the distinguished author, but he
will soon be able to resume it and bring it to
its grand denouement
Mrs. Sothern-Should Her Sex Shield Her?
Mrs. Kate Sothern, of Pickens county, who kill
ed “Miss” Cowart, having been fonnd guilty of
mnrder in the first degree and sentenced to
death, certain members of the press have plead
ed in her behalf that, because she is a woman,
she shonld not be bang—a conclusion which
may be called gallant, but is not jnst; nor is it
one that a woman ought to regard as compli
mentary. That a female shonld be pardoned for
a crime simply because of her sex, as, if to
be a woman were equivalent to being an idiot
or a lunatic is as nDflattering to women as it
is unfair in law. Sex should be no excuse or
shield for crime. A woman who commits a deed
of criminal violence iB as guilty as a man. There
is even less excuse for her, sinee she breaks
through stronger social restraints, and she sins
against gentler hereditary instincts.
So, no indulgence should be asked for Mrs,
Sothern on the ground of her sex, ye) there are
other extenuating circumstances that palliate
her gnilt and should mitigate her punishment.
The slander and abuse she is said to have suffer,
ed at the hands of the woman she killed, would
be thought extenuating in the case of a man.
Moreover, we are informed, that she was epilep
tic, and had had two fits of that nature the night
before the fatal occurrence; also that the attack
was unpremeditated, the knife in her possession,
having been used that night to cut tooth-brushes
for the circle of “dippers” that gather around the
snuff-box on festive occasions among people of
the class to which these belonged; for, contrary
of the romantic impressions that have gone
abroad concerning the affair, the parties seem
to have been uneducated persons in humble
life, Kate Sothern being an uncultured country
girl and the ‘accomplished and coquettish” Miss
Cowart, an ignorant coarse woman about thirty,
with a reputation by no means sans reprr.che,
while the “ball-room” was a “grand saloon” six.
teen feet by eighteen, with two beds in it; facts
which impair the elegant romance of the story—
bnt, as showing the condemned woman to be un
cultivated and likely to resent in a rough man
ner a rival's coarse insult—afford a better extenu
ating circumstance than her sex; while her youth,
the misery she has suffered, her infirmity of the
brain; devotion to her husband and to the little
child, born seven months after the murder,
strongly appeal to our sympathies.
Your paper is discontinued at the ex
piration of the time paid for.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Con. Robert Bonner is still raising the dead
with his pads.
We have been pleased to meet our Georgia
brethren of the quill this week.
The new Directory for Atlanta will be out
this week and will be by far the best ever pub
lished of this city.
Dr. W. J. Land, our distinguished analytical
chemist, will soon begin a series of illustrated
scientific lecture^ in this city. His first will be
delivered on the 28th inst.
We had a pleasant call from J. W. Angier, the
faithful and gentlemanly agent of the Eclectic
Magazine. We can commend this publication
to our readers.
We have a card from Mr. Sidn ey Root, for
merly of this city, but now of New York, stat
ing that he will make Atlanta his residence after
the lGch inst.
A gentleman of this city after taking a charm
ing lady eight miles with a fine turnout seated
her on the river bank at Iceville in sweet antic
ipation of a delightful confab when she opened
up by saying: ‘My dear sir, I have nothing in
the world to talk to you about; and as for your
self, you have but two ideas in your head and I
have had the full bonefit of them as we came out,
so we will hold a Quaker meeting and listen to
the music of the waters,’ It was with some dif
ficulty that the gallant adorer was saved from
the Chattahoochee.
The ameteur Dramatic Association of our city
is preparing a choice bill of fare, to be given
about the 22d of the present month. The rep
utation of the association is established and
we doubt not the forthcoming entertainment
will draw deservingly well.
Dehair’s celebrated composition ‘The Storm,’
as arranged for the piano by the popular duetto
writers, Kunkle Bros., has just been published.
We are in receipt of a copy from the publisher,
Mr. C. D. Benson, of Nashville, Tenn., and
we take pleasure in recommending it to onr
readers.
Do not forget that on the evening of the sev
enteenth of May, the beautiful drama—A
Queen’s Coronation or Titania’s Gift—will be
performed at the Opera House, for the benefit
of the Ladies’ Memorial Association. The piece
consists of a lovely ideal story, told by a suc
cession of finished poems, by arch and grace
ful acting and exquisite tableaux. There are
a great number of performers, each of whom
will be beautifully costumed; the scenic effect
will be fine.
Indians in San Antonio, Texas.
They are still killing and stealing on this side
of the river. They were reported to be about
forty in number, well armed and mounted on
good horses. They were eight days in the coun
try, and no troops nor any person wonld follow
them, all being afraid and not certain of the
nnmber of Indians, who were dividod into sev
eral parties.
STOLEN CHILDREN.
Mr. W. H. Steele, living near Fort Ewell, has
written a most pathetic letter to General Ord,
requesting him to use his influence to recover
the two boys stolen by the Indians, for the re
covery of whom he offers a reward of $500. Mr.
Steele’s letter concludes as follows:
'Please, for the sake of a broken-hearted wo
man and in the interest of onr common human
ity, do what yon can with these Mexican offi
cials, so that the children may be restored.’
General Ord had the letter printed in English
and Spanish, and it will be put in the hands of
all the officers, American and Mexican, on both
sides of the river.
Besides carrying off Mr. Steele’s children, the
raiders murdered his brother and all hie she _
herds, which ie probably the late of the boys