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IMMIGRATION TO MEXICO.
an important letter from capt. m.
F. MAURY.
A COLONIZATION OFFICE IN FULL OPERATION.
Office Colonization i
13 San Juan de Letuan, v
Mexico, February 9,1806. 3
My Bear Sir : I have received your letter
inquiring, like many others, about Mexico,
with the view of making it their home.
You know its geographical features aud the
fame of its mineral wealth. Its soil is of un
surpassed fertility, aud its climate, after you
bec in to ascend the table land, is as delicious
and healthful as the heart of man can desire.
The Emperor is ruling wisely and mildly.
Their Majesties arc beloved by the Imperialists
and respected by all; they move as freely
among the people as the President of the United
States’ever did in days of yore. The Empire is
continually gaining ground. Enterprise is
abroad—many works of internal improvement
are already under way and about to be com
menced. Capital is leaving its hiding places,
and the columns of the newspaper press are
daily, and for months have been filled with the
names of Liberals, who, looking upon the
Empire as a success, and their cause as a fail
ure, have laid down their arms, and are giving
in their adhesion.
Property and life are daily becoming more
secure. As an illustration, the doors of the
house in which Hive are without locks ; nor do
I ever take care even to shut any 4 them be
fore Igo bed. True, there is a patero below,
but the building is an old Convent, inhabited
and frequented by hundreds of people who sire
not barred from each other by any fastenings.
The impressions abroad about Mexico are
very erroneous. With regard to the inquiries
in behalf of our friends who desire to come to
this lovely land, I have to say :
They can find desirable locations in any cli
mate they please, and suitable for the cultiva
tion of any staple they prefer, or the raising of
any kind of stock. As to the most profitable
branch of agricultural industry—that varies
with the locality—the variation depending as
well upon the convenience add circumstances
of the market as upon geographical conditions.
Owing to the want of roads, navigable rivers
and canals, internal transportation is tedious
and expensive, and exportation difficult. Hence,
in one part of the Empire the spectacle lias not
been nnfrequently presented of breadstuff’s at
famine prices, while in a neighboring depart
ment they wore wasting for want of consumers.
The most desirable locations, therefore, for
immigrants who are “ well to do,” (aud this is
the class that must lead the way), are on what
may be called the intertropical belt of Mexico,
within which Cordova and Jalapa are situated.
This is a sort of steppe, or slope, which arises
from the low lands of the coast to the various
climates which are to be found in all intertropi
cal latitudes, at the height of from two thousand
to four thousand feet above the sea. Within
this range the climates are those of perpetual
summer; they are healthy and delightful. 1
These steppes encircle the Empire on the
East, South and West; they overlook the valley
of the Coatzacoaleos and the Gulf of Mexico on
one side, and the Pacific Ocean <m the other,
and abound in garden spots as beautiful as
Eden itself, and as sinful too.
Cordova aud Jalapa are sueli places ; they are
in sight of the sea. The farmer there, and at
many other places, may reap from the same
field two or three crops annually, with an in
crease of three or four hundred fold upon the
seed sown. In the course of the present year a
railway is to be completed from ea li of these
points to Vera Cruz, which will bring them
tairly within the domains of i'ore’g i commerce.
Corn, cotton, coffee, sugar and tobacco all do
well here; but, as a rule, 1 consider coffee, cot
ton and tobacco as the most profitable staples
of'cultivation, because they can best bear trans
portation and stand competition in foreign mar
kets.
Formerly, and before the country began to he
tossed and vexed by revolution, lands in the
neighborhood of these two cities were valued at
from $75 to SIOO per acre.
Many of these splendid haciendas, some of
them large enough to accommodate with ele
gant farms ten times fifty families, were broken
up during the revolution and their owners
compelled to seek safety elsewhere.
They have fallen inf o ruin and decay through
absenteeism, and now that order is restored,
the Empire gaining ground, and internal im
provements encouraged by the wise policy of
the Emperor, these lands are coming into de
mand.
But present owners find themselves too poor
to repair and bring them under cultivation
again. They are for sale, and may be bought
at from $3 to $3 per acre.
These abandoned haciendas (and they are to
be found in all parts of the Empire) are the
places for poor thrifty American farmers to es
tablish themselves. Let them, therefore, send
out their head men to select a place for the
whole settlement, to he followed immediately
by their young men to sow and plant, and build
and repair, and make ready for the old men,
the women and the children and others, to fol
low by the time the lands are ready.
They will find it at first best to establish
themselves in villages, as well as for mutual
convenience, as for protection against the
bands of Intv Ices maruders, who are ever ready
to pounce upon the helpless farmers. Immi
grants should bring with them such mechanics
as are required to satisfy their own wants and
necessities.
Tell those who come to count upon ail the
assistance and every facility and the best infor
mation it is in my power to afford, or within
the province of this office to give.
In the Northern Department the vine flour
ishes well, and the wine is excellent.
On the slopes next to the sea cochineal and
indigo are cultivated, drugs and gums and
spices collected.
The most profitable stock raising are mules,
horses and goats. There is room for profitable
improvement in the breed of horses, cattle and
sheep.
The immigrant is allowed free exercise of
religious worship. It is guaranteed to him
both by an ordinance of the Empire and a dis
pensation of the Pope. He is also entitled, on
entering the country, to a free duty permit
for all of his cattle and effects, and exemption
from all taxation for one year, and from milita
ry conscription for five years. He is allowed
to bring in his arms also, and, with his neigh-
AUGUSTA, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1866.
hors, to form a sedentary militia for their own
defense against robbers, who are daily becom
ing less bold.
But he may not bring in anything for sale,
exchange or barter, without payment of full
duties.
In the rural districts the Indians generally
are honest—indeed, in some parts of the coun
try theft among them is unknown. They are a
gentle and docile race.
Simple in their habits, they are supersiti
tions, entering zealously into all the festivities
and ceremonies of the Church. They seem not
to care to earn more than a dollar or two a
week; and when they have done this, whether
by two or more days of labor, they generally
stop work and frolic till the money is gone,
when they are ready to earn by labor in the
field the next instalment. The Sabbath is not
much observed by them, or the Mexicans gen
erally, except as a day of parade and pleasure.
Asa rule their wages are paid weekly in cash,
and at the rate generally of from 35 to 50 cents
a day, the laborer finding himself.
Silver is the principal circulating medium ;
there are also gold and copper coins, but no
bank notes.
The implements of husbandry are generally
rude, and agriculture by no means in a high
state of improvement. Nevertheless, the In
dians and the mixed classes, of whom there are
about 7,000,000, are skillful laborers in their
way. This mode of husbandry is so much the
better for the display by the European or
American farmer of liis exquisite skiff and of
the virtues of his improved implements, which
last he can bring in duty free.
It is not advisable at present for emigrants
without money to come to Mexico, unless they
come under the auspices of some friend who
can assist them, or under the care of someone
of the various companies for establishing colo
nies that have been recently .incorporated..—
Some of these propose to bring the immigrants
into the country, to furnish them with land, to
establish them on their farms, to subsist them
for a while, and to receive a certain portion of
their crops for the loans advanced for these va
rious services.
Many who have some means and desire to
come in companies to Mexico and establish
themselves on some of these fine, but abandon
ed, haciendas, wish to know where these haci
endas are and their price. Answer. In almost
every part, and at any price, from a few cents to
a few dollars the acre.
Os course, the prices named to me, though
moderate, are the asking prices.
It is best for every such company of emigrants
to send some of their number ahead to select a
place, and bargain for it themselves. Bryant,
from Arkansas, has established a colony in Chi
huahua. Mitchell, of Missouri, another on the
Rio Verde, in the department of San Luis Po
tosi. Terry, of Texas, another in Jalisco. They
rent at first, with the privilege of purchase in
the meantime at a stated price.
Then there is the fine colony of Carlotta, near
Cordova, where the lands were abandoned.
There was a number of haciendas in that neigh
borhood that were indebted for more than they
were worth to the Church, and which, by the
Juarez Government, were confiscated. These
have been ex-appropriated by the Empire, and
applied to the colonization.
These lands are sold to immigrants at $1 per
acre in five equal annual instalments. Gener
als Price and Shelby, of Missouri; Governor
Harris, of Tennessee; Judge Perkins, of Louis
iana; the Rev. Mr. Holman, of Missouri, and a
number of others, have already established
themselves there. They are all highly pleased
with their prospects. By the time the railway
through to Vera Cruz is completed, and the
last instalment falls due, they will have im
proved their farms, when the most staid among
them expect, that these farms will be worth
*lO, S3O, and even SSO the acre. A gentleman
from Louisiana has been there for seven or
eight years. He established a coffee plantation
of 80acres, which is now in good bearing, and
the crop from which last year was valued at
$16,000.
The Cordova coffee sells in the New York
market as Java, and the tobacco equals that of
Cuba, while the sugar has fourteen per cent,
more of saccharine matter than that of Cuba.
It will cost at the rate of some five or six
dollars an acre to clear, enclose and bring these
lands under cultivation. Hence it will be so
much cheaper for those who have little money
to buy a hacienda with ground already cleared,
fences made, and houses, or at least walls of
houses, already erected. All the lands of this
colony are already or will soon be taken up.
Each married man there is allowed six hun
dred and fort}' acres, but it is now generally ad
mitted that one-fourth of that quantity will
probably be quite as much as one family will be
able to cultivate, it is so fertile and wonderful
ly productive.
But to emigrants with a little capital, the
speedy filling up of this colony should not be
disheartening, under the idea that there are no
more good lands and choice spots. There are
better lands than these both about Cordova and
Jalapa which, present owners not being able to
work, are ready to sell on favorable terms.
Agents have been established at various con
venient points to assist emigrants on their ar
rival in the country, by giving them informa
tion and furnishing them with the. necessary
certificates and passports to enable them to
pass the custom houses, to enjoy all the rights,
privileges and exemptions of the Emperor’s
decree.
It has not been as yet practicable to estab
lish agencies ton the Rio Grande, hut as soon as
it may be, one will be stationed at Presidio del
Norte.
At present the following agencies have been
established, viz : L. Orofessa, at Vera Cruz ;
John Perkins, formerly of Louisiana, at Cor
dova; John T. Lux, formerly of Louisiana, at
Monterey; Alonzo Ridley, of California, at
Mazatkm; Captain of Port of Tampico, at Tam
pico ; Captain of Port of San Bias, at San Bias ;
Captain of Port of Matarnoras, at Matamoras ;
M. Ramon de la Vega, President de la Junta de
los Mejores de Colina, at Manzanillo.
I am about to embark for England, expecting
to return to this beautiful laud accompanied by
my family. The office is left in charge of my
son, R. L. Maury, who, during my absence, will
attend to the business of the office. He is earn
est in the cause, and has now in nand a guide
hook for immigrants, which will soon he ready
tor the press.
The'rainy season commences in June and
ends in October. Immigrants should not come
during that time. Yours, truly,
M. F. Maukt,
Imperial Commissioner.
HO! FOR MEXICO.
NOTICE TO EMIGRANTS —THE “TORRES COLONY.”
The Imperial Commissioner of Colonization
is hereby authorized to dispose of 35 (twenty
five) square leagues of land (108,459 acres) ou
my hacienda of Limon, situated on the Pauuca
river, in the Department of Tamaulipas; giving
yratis every alternate section (640 acres) to a
man with a family, and 330 acres to an unmar
ried mao, with a’pre-emption right in each ease
to as much more at $3 the acre.
I will give, algo yratis, land for a town, as
well as for a road, 16 yards wide, traversing the
entire Colony from North to South.
(Signed) J. O. Torres.
Mexico, February 9th, 1866.
Office Col’zation.lß San Juan deLktran, )
Mexico, February 10th, 1866. }
The offer of Mr. Torres is most princely. The
land is situated in the Uuosteca county, on the
mountain border of the tierra calicute. It is
said to be healthy, and is admirably adapted to
the cultivation ot coffee, sugar, cotton, tobacco,
with the whole list of intertropical fruits and
productions. It is also a good stock country,
with an abundance of timber. The Panuco
river is navigable up to it, and boats are run
ning on that stream. Provisions are plenty, but
labor is said not to be very abundant; the usual
price being 37 1-3 cents per day and found.
Those who eotne from any oi' the Gulf ports,
sheuid take shipping direct for Tampico, taking
care not to come later than the first or middle
of May, on account of the rainy season, which
commences in June. Emigrants are advised to
send out their pioneers to examine the land,
select their homesteads, and make ready for
their families to follow.
The Collector of the Port of Tampico is au
thorized to afford them all the facilities, privi
leges and rights granted by the Emperor’s de
cree.
M. F. Maury,
Imperial Commissioner.
Colonization Office, Mexico.
Singular Revelations—A Peep Beneatli
Fashionable Petticoats—Artificial or False
Calves.
The Round Table of last week has an article
calculated to create a great sensation in fashon
able circles as it lays bare what is well calcula
ted to shock the modesty of most beholders.—
It is on the subject of “ Artificial or False
Calves,” manufactured by corset-makers, and
sold by corset-dealers. We present a specimen
of the Round Table's disclosures:
By calves we mean just what the anatomists
mean when they speak of the lower extremities.
We do not know whose ingenuity devised them,
nor when they were first introduced, nor indeed
their method of construction. But that they
were a popular article of apparel with young
ladies, and especially those who made dashing
displays on skates, we have abundant reason to
believe. In fact, several of the prominent cor
set-makers devoted all their energies to the fab
rication of these rare bits of fashionable anat
omy; and, notwithstanding the very rapid
production, thfc supply fell short of the demand.
Os course a good deal of care was taken lest
any prying masculine eyes should penetrate the
mystery, and give publicity to the newly created
market; for this would have had a very injuri
ous effect upon the sale of the article, and the
tantalizing delusion would have been far less
pleasing. But the fact of its existence was soon
and easily transmitted by a sort of maidenly
legerdemain, and all who were desirous of
making sensations by marvelous perfection of
form, knew very well where to supply their
sweet selves With patent calves.
Tliis may be an announcement altogether un
welcome to those ambitious young gentlemen,
who, at street corners, from club windows, and
m the bewildering maze of thhe skating “car
nival,” have fsfft their hearts throb with the. de
licious titillutions of delight at spectacles which
kindly art has quite willingly placed at their
disposal. It can hardly fail to be a disappoint
ment to such to learn that for a very trilling
consideration they might have procured the
abounding source of their happiness, and that,
too, in a very portable and enduring shape, by
a visit to almost any ladies’ furnishing store.—
And if discomfiture should chance to lead to
rage, it may be tiiat an inquiring spirit would
discover yet other remarkable devices for lend
ing enchantment still more alluring as concerns
the “human form divine.” But if they are wise
they will tie satisfied with but one revelation,
and will hereafter devote themselves to studies
less deceptive and far more profitable. If, how
ever, it is a satisfaction to them to continue the
investigation, horrible as the idea may seem, we
should counsel an early visit to one of the very
numerous stores Consecrated to the anatomy of
fashion, which is nothing more nor less than
the sculpture of cords, wires and cotton.
It would doubtless he a matter of interest to
the innocent public to know who the ladies may
he tiiat patronize these entrancing little toys
which call forth the ogling glances of so many
admiring spectators. This is a secret which
only the’corset dealers and the ladies’ bureau
can reveal. We learn, however, that they have
been very popular with the so-ealled “upper
circles,” and It is their surprising success witli
this class that has led to unusual mania for
skating during the past season. The ponds
have been thronged with young ladies as never
before, and not until this writing has the mys
tery been revealed. In fact, the rage of the
season has been these adjustable calves, nor has
the demand fallen off very materially with the
passing away of the skating season. They are
worn by the most fiishionahle, if not the most
respectable, in the daily promenade and at the
weekly social gathering, and, in fact, almost
everywhere. Very nice’ young men stand be
hind counters, all day long, aud sell them to
very nice young ladies in sizes to suit. So it
makes little difference how cadaverous or ill
shaped one may be, even nature is outdone by
the devices of art. What with an investment
or two in false hair, a false bust, plumpers in
the cheeks, and the now thoroughly introduced
patent calves, the most awkward in shape and
unattractive in general appearance may become
really “ charming.” Who does not say that the
world moves 1
Arrival of Americans jn the City of
M exico.— We copy from the Mexico City Times ,
of the 16tli lilt., the following list of Americans,
who arrived there during that week:
Duri»g the past week our city has been alive
with Americans, who, as the warm spring days
come hack, concentrate here beiore going into
final business.
General Shelby and George Young are here
on business connected with their farms at Cor
dova, aud to purchase mules, wagons, plows,
harrows and many other useful and indispensa
ble articles. They speak in the most enthusi
astic terms of Cordova, and say that the colony
is steadily increasingin numbers aud prosperity.
Colonel N. O. Green, Major Gray and Major
Hunter are just from Monterey, looking about
to get well jxisted before locating.
Judge Forter and Captain Dave Terry, from
Guadalajara, visit this city on business.
Colonel Elijah Childs and family, from the
same country, are preparing to go on to Cor
dova and locate.
Also, among the recent arrivals, is the Rev.
Father Carius, a Catholic priest, who served
during the war in the Confederate army of Ten
nessee. His cassock aud gown are worn, aud
he is driven from his flock of soldier comrades,
but the fire of unqueuchable devotion is pure as
the religion he learned at the altar of his faith.
[From the Izmdon 'Hmes.
The Practical Results of Negro Emanci
’ pation.
The sorrows entailed by a single sin were
never more strikingly displayed than in the
case of negro slavery. Emuucipaiiou, which
should lie the final expression of repentance
aud the closing act of redress, is only the first
link in a chain of increasing difficulties. The
Americans ore already finding this out, and it
must be poor encouragement to them to ol»
serve the actual condition to which thirty years
of a similar trial have brought Jamaica. The
übolition of slavery in any country opens anew
question, which, we may say without exaggera
tion, has never yet yet been solved at all. No
experience has shown us how to conduct a
population of liberated blacks to a good social
or political position. In Hayti we see the end
of negro independence; in Jamaica of negro
liberty. The natural desire of all Abolitionists
is to convert the slave into a free laborer—the
equal, In that respect, of a Whiteman. But the
emancipated slave, partly from a natural revul
sion of feeling, and partly from the ineradica
ble instincts of race, has no disposition to be
come a laborer at all. He is incapable of ap
preciating a condition of freedom which leaves
him under as much necessity to work as before.
The question has uniformly been urgued on the
assumption that as free labor cheerfully given
is more productive than forced work, the
services of the blacks, in their new capaci
ty of freedom, would actually be more val
uable than before, so that no derangement
of industrial interests could follow upon
emancipation. This would be true enough
if the negro resembled the European in his
wants or his disposition; but there is no such
analogy between the two. One volunteer is
worth two pressed men, no doubt ; but the
black, when he ceases to be a pressed man, does
not become a volunteer. He will work for
nothing but the necessary satisfaction of his
bodily wants, and as these wants arc on' the
smallest possible scale it follows that of his
own free will he will hardly work at all. We
have seen the problem brought to its practical
end in Jamaica step by step. When the slaves
were first emancipated provisions were enacted
for substituting certain organizations of labor
in the place of slavery, but the negroes rebelled
against this species of compulsion, their white
patrons applauded their conduct, and appren
ticeship, in all its successive forms, was ulti
mately abolished also, as mere “slavery in dis
guise.” From that time tin* blacks were left to
work or play, exactly like white laborers, and
the result was tiiat they were good for nothing
at all. It was only l>y the importation of work
men from foreign countries that the cultivation
of tlie soil could be continued, and it was only
continued, in point of fact, to a very small ex
tent. With the exception of a few plantations
on the seashore the estates went out of cultiva
tion altogether. A result whic hin our econo
mical discussions at home Is only speculatively
contemplated as the effect of a final rupture be
tween capital aud labor did, in Jamaica,
actually occur. Agriculture was given up
altogether. The owners or occupiers ol estates
actually found tiiat a most productive soil in
oue pl' the finest climates in the world would
not repay the cost of farming on the terms of
black labor, and they showed the reality of
their conclusions in the most practical way.—
They let their land go to waste, and the proper
ty aud produce of the soil were lost together.—
Jamaica, at this minute, imports food for its
population, though it is rich enough and fertile
enough to support five times that population
from its own products.
In America we sewn to see the first step ta
ken in a similar career of difficulty and misfor
tune; Emancipation lias come, and is a reality.
Nobody,, even in New England, has any mu -
picion that the people ol the South so much as
dream of the re-establishment of personal sla
very. But the people of the North are not con
tent with this. An active party among them is
already clamoring for additional securities on
tlie negro’s behalf. They are providing, by an
ticipation, against-“slavery in disguise,” though
they cannot tell how to set, about the work.—
On tlie other hand, the officers on tlie spot, who
have got the blacks under their personal ob
servation, mul can discern tlie nature of the
emergency, are proceeding very much in the
fashion of tlie Jamaica Legislature in times past.
The Freedmen’s Bureau —that is to say, the
board charged especially with the protection of
the negro—has issued orders, in the ease of
Georgia, that the negroes, when sufficient wages
are offered, shall make contracts for labor, and
it undertakes lo insure the execution of these
contracts, when duly made, by compelling the
blacks, if necessary, to perforin their word. —
This is the apprentice system, or, rather, It Is
something tar more like actual slavery. It
these orders, which are to he adopted in nil the
States of the South, are correctly described, the
American negro, though he cun no longer he
bought and sold outright, will still he held to
“ involuntary servitude. ” If any Southern
planter by virtue of tendering what hi the eyes
of a magistrate may appear a sufficient sum of
money is to he enabled to carry off any num
ber of Macks to his estate, there to work wheth
er they will or not, tlie “disguise” of slavery
will t>6 very thin indeed. In Jamaica our cob
nists were not even permitted to make con
tracts for labor with black volunteers, or to
bind a negro to continuous work by the terms
of an ordinary apprenticeship. The patrons of
the blacks prescribed every element of coercion
except that arising from tlie wants ol the body
—a stimulus which, in the case before them,
had no existence at all.
We may expect with some confidence that the
Netv Englanders will protest against this official
decree, tout what is to be the alternative 1 With
out coercion in some form or other the negro
will do no regular work. If he can but squat
and sleep, and still keep body and soul togeth
er, that will be his course. At present he can
not quite do so, but lie is assisted for the mo
ment by daily rations of lood doled out to him
by the State. This, however, cannot last, nor
is it very probable that the blacks will beauow
ed in America the peculiar advantage which fell
to their lot in Jamaica. In that Island the en
franchised negro got'it direct benefit from liis
own indolence. When, the cultivation of the
soil was given up as hopeless for want of labor,
and land was allowed to run to waste, the negro
re-entered upon the deserted plantation to squat
and vegetate. The wreck and ruin actually told
in his favor, and re-produced a natural wilder
ness for the use of liis savage nature. But we
do not think the Americans will permit the re
enactment of such scenes in their country—
they cannot afford to lose seven line States of
the Union as Jamaica was lost to us. These
States must do their natural duty in raising pro
duce, paying taxes, and maintaining an indus
trious population* in decent order. Jamaica
told for little in our modern system. It was
not much to us that a few colonists were ruined
or that we got our sugar from Spanish instead of
British plantations,but it is very different With the
Americans and the Southern States. A section
of the extreme Radical party is, indeed, pre
pared to legislate in a way which would make
Virginia or Georgia as like Jamaica as possible.
These rabid politicians are ready to confiscate
tlie estates of their Southern fellow-citizens as
a punishment for their recent rebellion, and then
VOL. 24. NO. 12.
to parcel out the land in small allotments to the
liberated blacks. That would end, no doubt,
in a very accurate reproduction of the fortunes
and fate of Jamaica, but we have not the least
belief that the Americans will ever endure such
a sacrifice. They will reject this alternative, but
they can do so only on condition of embracing
that fVom which our own colonists were rigor
ously debarred. Under some system or other
they must exact Involuntary labor from the ne
gro. Possibly, the actual necessities of life may
iu those countries put that stress upon the
blacks which they escaped in Jamaica, and com
pel them to work for tlielr bread ; but it is more
probable that some regular organization of ne
gro labor will lie substituted for slavery in spite
of the reclamations of New England. The
Government of Washington will hardly consi
der it a desirable thing to lose the whole use of
the South for the next thirty years, and at the
end of that time to find another disruption of
society and an outbreak of blacks as the fruits
of its humanity and forbearance.
Fearful Outrage.— From the Memphis
(Tenn.) Bulletin, of the 10th, we copy the fol
lowing account of an inhuman outrage, com
mitted, near Memphis, on the persons of a
white lady and her infant by negroes:
Between nine and ten o’clock yesterday
rooming a rao.t fiendish and horrible outrage
was perpetrated on the family of Mr. Paine,
who resides about two and a Half miles out on
the new Raleigh road. It appears that Mr.
Paine left his home early in the morning to
endeavor to procure some laborers to work on
his place, and left his wife and two small chil
dren, one four months and the other between
two and three years of age, alone in the house,
with the exception of the negro girl who was
sick. Shortly after his departure two negro
ruffians entered the house and demanded of
Mrs. Paine her money and valuables. Being
frightened by the peremptory manner in which
tlie detnuud was made, she attempted to rush
from the room when tlwy closed the door to
prevent her escape. One of the brutes then
knocked the Infant from her arms and struck
her to the floor, jumped upon her, and left her
bleediug and senseless. In the lncautimo tlie
other ruffian was engaged in ransacking the
premises for what valuables he could ttnd ; tho
older child was also brutally klckod and knock
ed down. The negro girl hearing the disturb
ance rushed in and, seeing her mistress lying
apparently dead upon tho floor In a gore of
blood, wont screaming from the house, where
upon the ruffians fled. Dr. Jones was called in
and found the lady very severely Injured, her
face completely mangled by the heels of the
miscreants, and her body fearfully bruised.—
Although her condition Is critical and exceed
ingly dangerous, it is hoped that she will recov
er. The infant is also very badly injured. Up
to the present there has been no trace discov
ered that would lend to the detection of the
murderous wretches, notwithstanding every
effort has been made to discover the course
they have taken.
A Negro Insults a Lady ani> Attempts
to Siioot a Watchman.— Ycsterdaynftemoon,
os the steamboat Abeona, bound for St. Louis,
and about to leave the wharf, nn affair took
place on board that created a great rival of ex
citement both on the boat and on the levee.
There were several negro soldiers of one of the
regiments lately mustered out here, on board,
and they were somewhat disorderly. Finally,
just, ns everything was ready for the’ bout’s de
parture, one of the negroes, who was some
what intoxicated, went up on tho cabin (leek,
and going to one of the lady passengers, pulled
out, an obscene pietnre of n half-dressed negro
wcnclfcimri held it before the lady, at the same
time making some very blackguard remarks.
The Indy screamed for assistance to liave him
taken away, and tlie watchman of the boat,
who mi name wo did not learn, came to* her re
lict and attempted to make the negro go down
to the lower deck. At this tlie negro pulled
out a revolver and tired at the watcnmaii, dri
ving him away, and then passed down to his
companions on the lower deck. The officers of
the boat at once sent for the police, aud in the
meantime took charge of the negro to keep him
from (lie infuriated mob that gathered on the
boat from the shore, shouting, “kill Idm,”
“ throw him in the river,” Ac. A policeman at
last, came, and on hearing the case, was deter
red from arresting him, fearing the action of the
FrecUlnen’s Bureau in the matter, and there
fore went away. After the policeman had left
the mob, every minute growing stronger, at
once took the law into their hands, and seizing
the negro beat him and threw him Into die river
on the shore side of the boat, giving him a good
ducking. He waded to shore and started off in
a full run for the Freedmen’s Bureau, pursued
by a crowd of hoys, who made the bricks and
stones fly around around him thick and fast.
Tlie mob then searched for the otheiy negroes,
and seizing them threw them one after another
into the river, when they swam to shore only to
fall into the liands of the hoys tha) waited for
them, and chased them, yelling and throwing
bricks at them, towards the Bureau. The va
lises, carpet-sacks, and everything Unit belonged
to them were thrown into the river, aud fell a
prey to the hoys that mingled with the mob on
shore.
It is a matter of surprise that the negroes were
not hurt much worse than they were. They
laid in complaint before Col. Thomassou last
night. —Louisville (Ky.,) Courier, 10 th.
A Rich Man who was Not Ahuameh of
His Grandfather's Business.— Them is in
New York a gentleman of ample fortune,
which he received by inheritance, and who has
never inflicted upon himself an occupation, ex
cept that of sensibly spending and enjoying
liis income. Notwithstanding this he does not
ignore his plebian origin or affect aristocratic
notions, as liis recent selection of a eoat-of
arins for anew carriage, at the urgent request
of his wife, will show. The lady, thinking the
old carriage unfiuihlonablc, got the ready con
sent of her husband fora new one, and was
anxious that the “family” coat-of-arms should
be emblazoned upon its panels. This the hus-,
band consented to, promising to sketch them out
for the,painter when the vehicle was completed
At tiiat time the lady promptly presented
herself for liis sketch of the family arms.
Taking a pen, the, millionaire drew something
resembling a small mound ; by it was stuck a
manure fork, and upon the fork was perched
chanticleer rampant.
“Why, what is this ?” asked madam in amaze
ment.
“This,” said the man of money, “is our fami
ly coat-of-arms. My grandfather made liis
money carting manure in Brooklyn, and invest
ed it in real estate in New York, Now listen
to the explanation ol the amis. This tAound
and fork represent my grandfather’s occupa
tion ; tin: cock perched upon the top of the fork
represents myself, who liave done nothing hut
flap my wings and crow on that dunghill ever
since.”
It is almost unnecessary to state that this de
cidedly original coat-of-arms was never printed
upon the millionaire’s carriage, which has a
plain pannel to this date.