THE WEEKLY OONSTITUTIOHALIST
WEDNESDAY MORNING. DEC. 26, 1860.
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CHRISTMAS!
What charms in the very sound to old and
young! Christmas! merry Christmas! Let
us Jor the day forget all, save that it is Christ
mas. It is true the thoughtful reader will re
vert to the past and note the changes which
have occurred since the Christinas days of
youth and childhood—of the five returns of
this anniversary of the birth of the Prince of
Peace, when it was so bard to hear the song
of the angeV in the midst of the r oar of
artillery ; so hard to be merry at home,
when fathers and brothers were exposed to
the rigors of the camp and field, even
perchance engaged in the deadly conflict
of arms. Our anthems seemed discoidant as
they rose in jubilant strains, and the feeling
was that sack-cloth and ashes, or the iron
panoply, became us more than lestivc robes.
Households had no heart for the exchange of
smiles and “ merry greetings,” for many were
the households which were fugitives from the
hearth around which they had gathered to pre
sent and receive the customary gilts of the sea
son. Sadly their hearts turned, and in spirit
they saw the doserted homestead, or it may be,
those halls which were wont to resound with
the merry mirth of innocent childhood, occu
pied by a foreign roidiefy, and made hideous
.with bacehanaliau song and revelry.
The stern realities which wo were then facing
forbade all mirth, even the mirth of grateful
praise, and it was custom only which “kept
Christmas,” for the soul wandered far away.
But now we have pence—that is, a cessation
of armed combats. On all the soil of this coun
try there nowhere stands two nrmios of men
prepared to shed the blood of fellow men—men
speaking the same tongue, worshipping the
same God, and advocating, as they thought, the
same political principles. Is there not in this
fact, abundant cause for joy ? True, those who
claim to be a law unto us, seem to be governed
by n spirit not In consonance with the teachings
of Him ‘‘horn of the Virgin Mary.” Let us
hope, now, that for a time, they of the law
making power arc seeking, in the sacred pre
cincts of their homos, the enjoyments of this
holy season, there may come into thoir hearts
something of the spirit of pence and “good will
to men," suggested by the observance of these
holy days.
Then let us, dear friends df the Constitu
tionalist, in hope to day raise the sacred song
with cheerful voice—“l.o ! the Prince of Peace
is come.” Let us lift to heaven, in this night of
our doubt, the unpresuroptuons eye, and dis
cern the “ Star in the East, the horizon adorn
ing let our ears forgot the reverberations of
deadly cannon, and hear the voices of the an
gels singing “ Glory to God in the highest, on
earth peace, good will toward men,” and hear
ing, this let us follow it ns the word of com
mand from our Great Captain. While we wor
ship with the lips, let us remember that hence
forth wc must labor. The waste places are to be
built up. We must feed the hungry and clothe
the naked. Those who were 1 itcly our bondsmen
still are among us and good will must be prac
ticed toward them. In short, let ns study those
things which make tor peace; not the treacherous
peace of compromise and corrupt bargaining ;
not the cowardly pence that risks the future to
short-sighted craving for present case ; not
such a peaco ; but the true peace, which comes
by obeying the Immutable laws of justice and
putting our feet firmly on the rock of the Con
stitution. If such a peace shall prevail, we may
come together with our victors and unite in a
fellowship and a prosperity such as the world
has never been blessed with since the morning
stars sang together over this planet, fresh from
the hands of its Maker.
Now, while the chimes are riglng throughou
Christendom, to commemorate that woudrous
birth in Bethlehem—as the organ peals its most
joyous and grandest tones—as myriads of
voices, in Heaven and Earth, join the grand
chorus, we wish >Viu all
"A MERRY CHRISTMAS,"
and unite in singing “ Glory to God in the
highest, on earth peace, good will to men.”
* THE MILK IN_THE OOOOANUT.
Wc read in yesterday’s Washington telegrams
that: “The colored citizens of the District of
Columbia are holding private meetings to ar
range tor'votlng at municipal election and to
consider other matters in that connection.”
“The Republican Association,at their meeting
last night, passed a resolution declaring that in
its judgment the organization of auxiliaries to
this society, composed exclusively of colored
persons, is neither expedient as a matter of poli
cy nor consistent with Republican principles,
which made no distinction ou account of race
or color.” *
By which is meant that colored folks are to
receive tranchlsc but likewise suffer manipula
tion. The Radicals only love the negro as a
machine for party purposes. Wc predict that
when he survives his usefulness in this respect
aud refuses to obey dictation, he will receive
from his dearly beloved friends more kicks than
half peuec.
PUTTING THEM TO THEIR TRUMPS.
It is comparatively easy to demolish; it is
exceedingly difficult to reboild. Bvron has
tersely expressed this thought in Childe Harold,
in which, speaking of the rise and decline of
Grecian Republicanism, be writes :
“ A thousand years scarce serve to form a State—
An hour may lay It in the dust.
The result ol many centuries seemed to have
concentrated in the Constitution of the United
States and the government it put in motion.
No people ever started on the road to lame and
fortune with such glorious prospects ; the statue
of true freedom was never before built upon
such grand foundations, seeming to mock with
endurance the everlasting bills. Orators and
poets vied with one another in laudation of this
great land which promised to be the heir of all
the wisdom, tranquility and power of all past
ages. And yet how suddenly has this mighty
fabric been demolished. With the example o i
Greece, it has lost more than Grecian liberty ;
with the warning of Rome, it has been brought
to more than Roman debauchery. The archi
tecture of a thousand years has crumbled al
most in an hour. Faction has been the bane
of this Republic as it was of Republics in the
olden time. In fact, allowing for the difference
between a toga and swallow-tail coat, the same
dangers to liberty existed, years before Christ,
that now prevail, modified only as to manner,
but containing the original germ of evil. —
It would not be difficult to match Thad Ste
vens with some anarch who dwelt by the Nile,
the Tiber or Eurotas, and, several thousand
years hence, when Pennsylvania shall have be
come as romantic as Egypt, Hellas or Italy, a
future Wilkie Collins or Bulwer will niche
him in the pantheon of fume alongside.of Ul
pius, Akbaces or Cataline. Through the
mists of time he will loom up like the spectre
of the Brocken and to the bewilderment of
travelers journeying, adown the precipitate
paths of history.' When Autemus Ward's re
mains arc dug up as the classics of a fossil
civilization, the Hon. Tiiaddeus Stevens will
have his appointed place on the living record
as one who, without the genius or purity of
Washington or Jefferson, contrived to abol
ish in a moment the work of laborious
days which antiquity had giv-m unfinished to
their hands. Verily, one might believe in me
tempsychosis and yet not be read out of church;
for men arc reduplicated so strangely, after tre
mendous intervals, and this reduplication,
though ever-recurring, continues the same un
failing marvel.
Passing Irom the consideration of what has
been or is to be in romance, let us glance, for a
moment, at the uncouth reality of the present.
We have frequently advised that the entire
responsibility of reconstructing the Govern
ment be given to those who have so effectually
disorganized it. This will put them, to use a
vulgar but forcible expression, to their trumps ;
for they must perforce do something effectual
or die the death they so much dread. The late
elections were carried by the Radicals through
fraud and deception. New Jersey elected
Radicals who avowed the Johnson policy. Im
mediately after the election, they turned square
against the President. The North generally
voted for Radicals, believing that the Constitu
tional Amendment was to be the final test and
covenant. Iniquitous and unpalatable as that
was to the TSoutli, it at least proved that the
Northern people were anxious for some basis
of compromise and would be satisfied with
this. The people, however, were deluded; and,
although Messrs. Wade and Sherman agree to
stand by such terms, Mr. Sumner and the all
pervading New England brain-influence deny
its efficacy. With severe lettiug alone such
differences would grow into disintegration.
It behooves us, and likewise the Conservative
people of the North, to permit the Radical
party to play their game as they will. One
thing is certain, they must eventually weary
the country with their ill-doing and compel
reaction ; if not, the country is not worth sav
ing and ought to go to the dogs as fast as pos
sible.
Mr. Stevens, whom wc admire for some
reasons already given, after defeuding the trea
son of Mr. Davis with deadly favor, has
brought forward another sensation in the
shape of a bill to reorganize the State Govern
ment of North Carolina. This bill provides
that, on the 20th of May next “ there shall as
semble at the State House, in the city of Ra
leigh, a convention of the loyal citizens of the
district formerly comprising the State of North
Carolina, composed of one hundred and twen
ty delegates.” Each county “ shall be entitled
to send to said convention the same number of
delegates that it was entitled to send members
to the House of Commons of the State ol
North Carolina, prior to the 20th ol May, 1861,
and a majority of the delegates elected to said
convention shall constitute a quorum and be
invested with the sovereign power of the peo
ple of the district to frame a State constitution,
which shall be submitted to the Congress of
the Uuited States for approval, modification or
rejection, preparatory to the re-establishment
of the said State and the reinvesting its loyal
citizens with all the rights, privileges and im
munities appertaining to the citizens of the
other States of the Union.” All male, adult
residents of the State arc to be permitted to
vote “without distinction of race or color, who
eau read or write, or may own in fee real estate
of the assessed value of one hundred dollars
or more.”
The following oath Is provided for delegates :
“ 1 do solemnly swear, on the Holy Evangelists
of the Almighty God, (or affirm, as the case may
be), that on the 4th day of March, 1864, and at
all times thereafter, I would willingly have com
plied with the requirements of the proclama
tion ol the President of the Uuited States, issu
ed on the Bth day of December, 1563, had a safe
opportunity of doing so been afforded me. That
on the said 4th day of March, 1864, ’ and at air
times thereafter, I was opposed to the continu
ance ol the rebellion and to the establishment
of the so-called Confederate Government, and
voluntarily gave no aid or encouragement
thereto, but earnestly desired the success of the
Union and the suppression of all armed resis
tance to the Government of the United States;
and that I will henceforth faithfully support the
Constitution of the Uuited States, and the union
of the States thereunder.” The election is to
be conducted after a novel fashion. The fifth
section enacts “ that it shall be the duty of the
President of the United States to direct and
require the United States Marshal for the Dis
trict ol North Carolina to appoint for each
county in said district one Deputy Marshal;
and the Deputy Marshals so appointed shall,
each in bis respective county, appoint keepers
and inspectors of polls, and the necessary as
sistants, and on the Ist day of May, 1867, the
said Deputy Marshals shall each open polls in
tlicir respective counties for the election of
delegates to said Convention.”
To prevent the possibility of dodging, it is
ordered that :
“ Any person who shall be appointed Deputy
Marshal, or inspector or keeper of the polls, as
aforesaid, and who shall refuse or neglect to
perform the duties required of them under this
act, shali be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof before the United States Cir
cuit Court, held in the District of North Caro
lina, shall be find such sum or imprisoned for
such time as the Court, in its discretion, shall
fix.” The present State Government is to be
dissolved at such time as the Convention may
provide, and the President is “ authorized, and
it shall be his duty, so to dispose and employ
the military and naval forces of the United
States, from time to tifne, and in such places,
as to enforce the prompt and efficient execution
of the provisions of this act, and to preserve
peace and order, and obedience to the laws of
the United States, in the said district, formerly
comprising the State of North Carolina.”
We learn, from authoritative sources, that this
Holdenitish measure meets with the approba
tion of the Radical party, and is by no means
as great a joke as it appears. The Washington
Chronicle, once more the organ of Mr. Stevens’
declares that it •* has made a favorable impres
sion of every loyal mind,” which is tantamount
to saying that Thad.’s whip has brought Con
gress, which represents “ every loyal mind ” to
the point of acquiescence. The Chronicle fur
ther declares :
“ We are clearly of the opinion that the loy
alists of North Carolina will need the vote of
every black man in the State in order to enable
them to overcome the rebel vote, and we know
that the gentleman who framed the bill will ac
quiesce cheerfully in any change which Con
gress may sec proper to make in this feature
of it.”
When such a measure is seriously proposed
as one of reorganization, contravening, as it
does, every principle of liberty bequeathed us
by our forefathers and sealed by solemn com
pacts, are we not right in presuming that the
Radical party is “put to its trumps” and that
they have all the knaves in the pack ? The pa
tient American camel is strong-backed, but the
feathers are being piled upon it groaningly.
Very soon the back must break or the tortured
animal become recalcitrant. Which shall it
be ? The North must determine ; we are not
willing participators. It is just as well for the
North to think, when eating her Christmas
pudding, if a very big spicier is not concealed
therein—if in periling and destroying the liber
ties of the South she has not quelled her own.
EXPLANATORY.
We have received from our late correspon
dent at Milledgeville a lengthened communica
tion, the publication of which is respectfully
declined. It is objected to on account of
strong personalities no less than for want of
space.
Injustice, however, to our correspondent
and worthy friend, we have to state that with
his first report, he wrote a letter, marked pri
vate, containing some purely business items
and the following paragraph :
“ Milledgeville, Nov. 5,1866.
Mr. Stockton —Dear Sir: I have attended
nearly every session here for the last twenty
years, but never saw such dull times before.
I hardly realize that we have a Legislature here,
every thing is so quiet, dull and stupid. I have
visited the various members and tried to get
something from them, but up to the present
time they all appear “ at sea wifhout rudder or
compass.” The people need much at this time
a Miller or a Jenkins in the Senate and House.
With such men there would be some plan or
policy marked out—but there is no ruling, con
trolling or directing mind here, and hence one
can get no index at present as to what will be
done.”
This paragraph was allowed to appear as an
accompaniment of the regular report, and, al
though our eorresponden l did not authorize its
publicity, -we were held blameless in a subse
quent communication.
Now* that the Legislature has adjourned and
its members gone back to domestic life, we
deem it impolitic and unwise to open our
columns to scathing criticism which can dc>
no possible good, but, on the contrary, only
engender bad blood and individual recrimina
tion. With Dr. Caset’s card we consider the
matter closed, and trust that our correspond
ent will acknowledge the wisdom and discre
tion ofth’B decision.
MUD.
Mr. Raymond is delighted at the fact that
Messrs. Wade and Sherman avow their deter
mination to “stick by their bargain,” i. e. by
the Constitutional Amendment. After quoting'
their remarks with a brave flourish of italics,
he says:
“ What more conclusive testimony could be
required? What clearer proof of the intent
with which the Amendment was adopted by
Congress, and fidelity with which the most in
fluential leaders of the majority in Congress
arc prepared to adhere to the terms proposed?”
When the address of the Philadelphia Con
vention reached the South everybody used just
such words with regard to it. Where is the ad
dress—and where oh ! where is the author ol it?
The Kino of the Tonga Islands.— The
Commercial Bulletin reports the King of the
Tontra Islands’ speech, at his reception iu New
York, as follows :
Plehn tee ulrum anlotz to drink, boolee fttryu
bnh lee furyu. Pipezen toob ac oren suth en
toete, boole Inryn, bull le furyu.
A Tax on Bachelors.— ln Elizabeth, New
Jersey, it is said the single men are assessed one
dollar more poll tax than the married ones ;
upon which an exchange spitefully remarks that
it has no doubt they pay it cheerfully, “as a
tax on luxuries.”
TWO SURPRISES.
When the New' York Tribune staitled the
United States with a special telegram concern
ing the, so-called, fatal illness of the Emperor
Napoleon, daily journals commenced prophe
sying the demolition t f the Papacy. Some
thought Pio Nono had better go to Jerusalem
and Bennett imagined him blessing the pro
vent of Washington Heights and advertising
only in the Herald. Not one journal, to our
knowledge, had any faith in his stability, and
insurance companies would rather have risked
the contents of a junk shop than the treasures
of the Vatican. Somehow,we did not credit the
demise of the great Emperor at the predicted
time, and ventured the assertion that, even if it
were borne out by revolving days, the regency
of Eugenie would be favorable to the Pontiff’s
security. Napoleon concluded to cumber the
earth, a breathing man, in spite of the Tribune,
and so the great drama, like the great meteoric
shower, was postponed but not abandoned.
Failiug to kill Napoleon and dethrone the
Pope by the Imperial fall, a fresh prophesy j
was indulged in. He was doomed, once more,
when the time should have arrived for the
evacuation of Rome by the French gar
rison and the advance of the Italian King
from Venice. A sanguinary upheaval was pie
t ured for Rome and already the correspondents
were pointiug their pens for graphic paragraphs
illustrative of a flight of Cardinals and the sack
of St. Peter’s. We must confess that the case
looked truly forlorn for Pio Nono and his
shrunken territorial possessions. But, behold
how the sagacity of man is mocked by a few
plain facts. Napoleon did not die. The Pope
remained. The French tri-color was hauled
down from the rampart of San Angelo and the
Gauls went home. But the Pope remaiued.
Victor Emmanuel, alter accomplishing the
vow' to his dead father, and, grander than Fa
liero, wedding the sea in triumph, returned to
Turiu. But the Pope remained. The Italian
Parliament assembled and listened to a speech
from the throne. That speech, far from aiming
to overturn the insignificant realm of the ven
erable Pope, to the astonishment of the pro
phets, recotnmended that his independence be
maintained and recognized. The houses of
Parliament received the royal address with ap
probation. And the Pope remains.
It may be, nay we doubt not Jhat, in the tide
of time, it will be in the power of man to abol
ish the temporal power of the Pope. Before
this epoch, the Pope has been a fugitive aud a
prisoner, and Rome given over to a foreign as
it may yet be to native soldiery. But, some
how, the Papacy has contrived to outlive con
querors and dynasties and a stubborn Protes
tant like Macaulay can be referred to as an
authority for its tenacity of life and probable
endurance.
What is here written is the fruit of no secta
rian bias but a statement Os curious facts. Not
one single prediction has been ratified, though
every filing looked so promisingly and we, who
in the community of the unfortunate can afford
to sympathize with the persecuted, may read in
these brief paragraphs how human propositions
are not always the same as the dispositions of
God.
If this remarkable phase of contemporaneous
history is not sufficiently astonishing to the
pessimist, let us change the scene, but not the
instrument.
A few weeks ago, the Emperor Maximilian
was, if any thing, more deeply whelmed iu
tribulation than the Pope. Very few saw any
hope for him aud, humauly speaking, hi3 case
was desperate indeed. Deserted by Napoleon,
brow-beaten by tlye United States and insulted
by one of its accidental military autocrats, who
never in all his life showed half the breeding
and true blood of the Hapsburg Prince ; con
spired against at home and abroad ; menaced
by foes within and without; stung almost to
maduess by venal and lying scribblers; heart
stricken at the melancholy fate of a devoted
consort. Such were the surroundings of this
sorely afflicted potentate, and faith in his star and
fortune was not so considerable as a mustard
seed. But, lo !, as with the wand of a magician,
tlxe leaden sky has had a seasou of sunburst, and
the trampled Prince a resurrection as if from
the dead. The army of the Rio Grande has
been discovered to be not champions of the
Monroe doctrine and Republican excellence,
but of sundry monopolies, concocted
by Juarez and jobbed at New York. The
mission of Messrs. Sherman and Campbell,
which was to have accomplished wonders, fail
ed. Strictly speaking, it did work wonders,
but only on the wrong side of the national line.
Mexicans do not love Maximilian, hut prefer
him to the Americans of the North. Hence,
the interference of the United States has only
consolidated all classes in favor of the Haps
burg as against American aggression, and
the Emperor stands this day, more puis
sant and glorious than he could have schemed
for himself. The Church party, representing
the wealth, population and refinement of Mexi
co, sustains him through the double motive of
interest aud sentiment. His fortitude and sor
rows have borne unexpected blossom, and,
without a foreign war or an armed protecto
rate, we do not see how the United States can
hope to realize the gorgeous bribes of Juarez.
Behold two strikisg scenes in the world’s
present history, which teach ns to falter not
and never despair. Vicissitudes may still over
take the Pope and the Mexican Emperor ; but
at this time, they both remain in attitudes of
novel and unexpected majesty, and the cunning
hand of mere material power has been enfee
bled by jts own brute r effort.
The following is the proclamation of Politi
cal Prefect D. Bureau, the highest representa
tive of the Emperor at Vera Cruz :
proclamation.
“ Ceracruzanos : One of tie most fortuitous
events for all true Mexicans has just taken
place in the nation.
“ His Majesty the Etnperor, who has already
made so many sacrifices for the welfare and
happiness of our country', has now given us
the last proof of regard which we merit.
“ When oppressed by those natural senti
ments with which he was struggling, aud which
still remain in all their loree, on account of the
indisposition of our dear sovereign, his august
and noble wife, it may have been' for
a moment, that he would temporarily leave the
country, in devotion to the sacred duty of ren
dering to his meritorious consort that care
which she so much needs in her present deli
cate condition. Yet she ! ‘
himself for us ; defers his dutv a
which his honor as a rule Mays U non hV°
in these critical moments, which and
through the country, solemnly
will continue his aid, and tight h
even to shedding the last drop of hfo
defense of the nation. P 18 bloo<J to
“ Veracr'izanos: Lit us congratulate „
selves, let us give thanks to Providence for h Ur '
ing saved the Integrity of our country , ;
with all the strength of onr hearts ??
the day of the resurrection of onr’ nation r li!
sxss? e '° om in >•
“ The Superior Political Prefect •
“Vera Cruz, Dec. 3, 1866. D. Bureau „
Those are noble words, though the greed an'
rapacity of man bring them, for a° time to
naught. Think what we may of imperialism
and princes, no man of soul can speak of Mai
imilian save in knightly terms, and all m „ 5 ,
reverence the heroic and devoted courage of his
ehivalric and undaunted spirit. Let ns be
equally true and equally aspiring. His wife U
dying afar, but he sacrifices even her forthe
country of his adoption. Our children sleep
afar on'bloody battle fields and their relics arc
harrowed by the ploughs of Gettysburg. But
our country remains ; it is our country still
We must love the soil we have tilled and the
landscape which made our infancy delightful
We want no emulators of Poe’s dismal ba!
lad. Onr souls should not be buried in the
shadow of the Raven* but lifted to the blessed
sun which makes the shadow but an unsub
stantial woe, consoled with the brightness that
suffers it to stay.
CORPOREAL
Flogging has been revived in the British
army and “boys in blue” are bucked, gagged
and tied up by the thumbs. And yet, General
Sickles makes moan over the North Carolina
law which inflicts stripes upon delinquents and
Senator Wilson, under date of the 20th inst.
“ Offered a joint resolution directing the Presi
dent to instruct officers of the army and navy
and of the Freedmcn’s, Bureau to prevent and
prohibit the infliction of corporal punishment
for crimes aud misdemeanors in lately rebellious
States until their civil governments shall have
been reorganized and ratified by Congress."
The Statement- of Marie on which Surratt
was Arrested.
The foreign news by the cable stated that the
man who gave the information which led to
the arrest of Surratt is a French Canadian
named St. Marie. He was formerly a Union
soldier, and afterwards served in the Papa!
Zouaves. Both he and Surratt, it is alleged,
were in love with the same lady in Washington,
and St. Marie betrayed Surratt through jeal
ousy. The following is said to be the affidavit
of St. Marie, on which Surratt was first arrest
ed while serving as a Papal Zouave :
“ 1 was living iu Maryland, at a small village
called Eliangowan, or little Texas, about twen
ty-five or thirty miles from Baltimore, where I
was engaged as teacher for a period of about
five months. I there and then got acquainted
with Lewis J. Weichman and John H. Surratt,
who came to that locality to pay a visit to the
parish priest. At that first interview a great
deal was said about the war and slavery, the
sentiments expressed by these two individuals
being more than secessionist. In the course of 1
the conversation I remember Surratt to have
said that President Lincoln would certainly
pay for all the men that were slaiu during the
war. About a mouth after I removed to Wash
ington, at the instigation of Weichman, and
got a situation as tutor , where he washim
sell engaged. Surratt visited us weekly, and he
once offered to send me South, but I declined,
I did uot remain more than a month at
Washington, not being able to agree with
Weichman, and enlisted in the army of the
North, as stated in my first statement in writ
ing to General King. I have met Surratt iu
Italy, at a small town called Velletlri. He is
known tinder the name ol John Watson. I
recognized him before he had made himselt
known to me, and told him privately, ‘ You
are John Surratt, the person I have kuowu in
Maryland.’ He acknowledged he was, and beg
ged of me to keep the thing secret. After
some conversation, we spoke of the unfortunate
affair of the assassination of President Lincoln
and these are his words : ‘Damn the Yankees,
they have killed my mother. But I have done
them as much harm as I could. We have kill
ed Lincoln, the niggers’ friend.’ He then said,
speaking of his mother. ‘ Had it not been for
me and that coward, Weichman, my mother
would be living now. It was fear made him
him speak; had he kept his tougue, there was
no danger for him. But if ever I return to
America and tneet him elsewhere, I shall kill
him.’ He then said he was in the secret ser
vice of the South, and Weichman, who was m
some department there, used to steal copies ol
the dispatches and forward them to him and
thence to Richmond. Speaking of the mur
der, he said they had acted under the orders ot
men who are not yet known,some of whom are
still in New York and others in Loudon. lam
aware that money is sent him yet from London-
When 1 left Canada, he said, 1 had but little
money, but I had a letter for a party in London.
I was in disguise, with .dyed hair and fame
beard ; that party sent me to a hotel, where ne
told me to remain till I would hear from mm ;
after a few weeks he came aud proposed to me
to go (o Spain, but I declined, and asked to go
to Paris. He gave him seventy pounds, with a
letter of introduction to a party there, who
sent him to Rome, where be joined the Zouaves.
He says he got money in Rome at any time,
believe that he is protected by the clergy, ana
that the murder was the result of a deep lam
plot, not only against the life of President
Lincoln, but against the existence of the repim
lie, as we are aware that the priesthood an
royalty are, and always have been, opposed t
liberty. That such men as Surratt, B 00 “b
Weichman and others, should, of their ownac
coi and, plan and execute the infernal plot worn
resulted in the death of President Lincoln,
impossible. There are others behind the cu -
tain who have to make these scoundrels act.
have also asked him if he knew Jefferson Bans.
He said not, but that he had acted under i
-of persons under his
orders. Being asked it Jeff. Davis had a }
thing to do with the assination, he said : a
not going to tell yon.’ My impression is i
he brought the order from Richmond, a»
was in the habit of going there ee f *Y' h
must have wished the others to do it, for f
the event took place he told me he was in 1
York, prepared to fly as soon as the deed
done. He says he does not regret what
taken place, and that he will visit New f° r
a year or two, as there is a heavy shippm?
there who had much to do with the Son.b, 1
he is surprised that they have not been -
pected. This is the exact truth of what lan
about Surratt. More I could not. ar , n ’, h . r ]
afraid to awaken his suspicions, and m rlu
do not say.”
A Frenchman has invented an all.'nun-„v,,,hi
he calculates is capable of killing off the in
tants of the earth in about fourteen years.
A female operator was discharged because* *
refused to take the word “damn m a teieg
phic message she was receiving.
It is stated that the magnificent school fa®
of Wisconsin has disappeared and has no e
ence except as an accountant’s fiction.
