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THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
Vol. 11.
THE WIHH TRIAL.
We insert the ft llowiDg important and
interesting statement, advanced proof
sheets (1 which we have received from
Mr. Schade :
To the American People :
lutcndirg to leave the United Sates
for some time I feel it my duty belo o j
I w'art to fulfill in part a promise which j
a few hours before his death, 1 gave to I
my u firtunate client, Captain WirZ, I
who wag rxicutcd at, Washington on
the tenth day of November, 1805.
Protesting up tho last moment his inno
conre of those tuon-trous crimes wiih
which he was charged, ho received my
word that, having failed to suvo him
from a felon’s doom, I would, as long
as I lived, do everything in my power
to clear his memory. I did that the
more readily, as I was then already
peifectly convinced that he suffered
wrongfully. Hince that time his un
fortunate childrcr, both here and in
Europe, have constantly implo.ed me
to wip out tho terrible stains which
now cover the namo of their father.
Though timt s do not seem propitious fjr
obtaining full justice, yet considering,
that man is mortal, I will, before enter
; ing on a perilous voyage, perform ntv
| duty to those innocent orphans and my
! self.
' I will give a brief statement of the
causes which led to the arrest and exe
cution ofCuptain Wi a In Apri*, 1865,
, President Johnson issued a proeluuaa-
J tion staling, from evidtneo in the posses
sion of the ‘Bureau of Military Justice,
it appeared that Jefferson Davis was im
plicated in the a.- s issination of Abraham
: Lincoln, and for that reason tho Presi
dent offered a reward of SIOO,OOO for
the capture of the then fugative ex-
Prosident of the Southern C tnfederacy.
! That testim my has since been fouud to
j be entirely false and a mere fabrication,
land tho suborned C mover is now under
sentence iu the j til of this city, and two
perjurors, whom tho suborned, having
i turned State evidence against hi n,
whilest the individual, by whom Cono
ver was suborned, has not yet been
brought to justice.
Certain high and influential enemies
of Jefferson Davis, cither then already
aware of the character of the testimony
of these witneses, or not thinking their
j testimony quite euffieiant to hang Ji ff.
D vis, expected to fi: cl the wanting
nta'erial in the terrible mr rta’ity of Un
ion prisoners at Aidcrsonville. Orders
weie i>suod acc> rdingly to arrest a sub
tilt'rtt officer, Capt.-in Witx, a poor,
friendless and w. llnded prisoner of war
(he being included io the surrender of
General J hnston ) and besides, a for
eigner by birth. Oo the 7h 1 f May he
was placed in the Old Capitol Prison at
W i-hington, and that part of the North
ein press was busily engagetfin forming
the ut.f irtur.ate man in the eyes of the
Northern people into such a mmster
that it bio me alran-t impossible for
him 'o obtain coutsul. Even his c tin
tryman, the Swiss Consul General, pub
; li«ly re used to accept money to defaay
the expenses of the trial! He was
deemed bes re he was beard—an 1 even
the perm'ssion to be beard accjrdiog to
law vra- deulid him. To increase the
excitement and give eclat to the profed
ing, and to inti .me still int re the p üb
lic mind, the trial took plsco under tho
very d< mj of the eapitol of the nation.
A miiit try commission, presided over
by one ol the most arbitrary and despot
ic generals in the country, was formed,
atsl tfcc paroled prisoner of war, Lis
wounds still open, and so feeble that be
had to recline during the trial on a sofa
carried before the same flow that tri
al was conducted tho whole we rid knows.
’The enemies of generosity and human
ity believed it then to be a sure tbiDg to
get Jeff Davis.
Therefore, the first eba-ge was that,
of conspiracy of Wii2, Jefferson DtVis
Seddon, Howell Cobb, It B Winder,
and a number ot others, to kill the Un
ion prisoners. The trial lasted for
three months ; but fortunately for the
blO dtkirsty instigators, not a particle
of evidence was produced showmg the
existence of such a conspiracy) yes Cap
tain Wirz was found guilty of that
charge! Having thus failed another
effort was made. Oa the night befo.e
the execution of the prisoner a telegram
was sent to the Northern press from
this ctity, stating that Wirz had made
important disclosures to General L. C.
Baker, the well known detective, impli
cating Jeff Davis, and that the confcss
, ion would probably be given to the pub
lic. On the same evening some parties
came to tho confessor of Wirz, Rev.
Father Boyle, and also to me, one of
them informed me th-t a high Cabine't
officer wished to assure Wirz that if he
would implicate Jefferson Davis with
the atrocities committed at Anderson
ville hi? sentence would be commu ed.
He, the messenger, or whoever he was,
requested me to inform Wirz of this.
In preseneo of Father Boyle, I told
Wirz next morning what had happened.
The Captain simply and quietly repli
ed : “Mr Schade, you know that I have
always told you that I do not know any
thingabout Jiffe/son Davis. lie hail
no connection to me as to what
was dono at Andersonville. If I knew
anything cf him I would not become a
traitor against him or anybody else, even
to save try life.'* He likewise denied
that he had made ary statement to Gen
eral Baker. Thus ended tho attempt to
suborn Capt. Wirz against Jeff Davis.
That alone shows what a man he was.
How many of bis defamers would have
done the same? With bis wounded
arm in a sling the poor paroled priso
ner mounted, two hours later, the scaf
fold. His last words were that he died
innocent —and so he did. The tenth
day of November, 1865, will indeed be a
black stain on the American history.
To weaken the eff et of bis decla
ration of innoceose, and cf the noble
OA.., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1807.
manner in which Wirz died, a telegram |
was manufactured here and sent North, I
staling'baton the 27th day of October,
Mrs. Wirz (who actually was 900 miles
on that day away from Washington,)
had been prevented by that Stantonian
deus ex machioa, Gen. L. C. Baker,
from poisonlug her husband ! Thus, on
tbe same' day, when the unfortunate
family lost their husband and father,'a
ciwardly and and atrocious attempt
war made to blatken their character al
so. On the next day I branded .the
whole ns an intamous lie, and since then
t never have beard <1 il again; though
it emiuated from a Brigadier Geueril of
the United Slates army.
All thoso who were charged with
having conspired with Capt. Wirz have
been released, except Jt fferson DavD,
tbe prisoner of tho American “Castle
Chillon.’’ Capt. Winder was let off
without a trial, and if any of the others
have been tried, which 1 do not know,
certainly none of them have been hung.
As Capt. Wirz could riot conspir- »J'>n<\
nobody will now, in view of that impor
tant fac', consider him guilty of that
charge. So much, thoD, for charge
No. 1.
As to charge No. 11, to wit; Mur
der, in violati jn of the laws and customs
of war, I do not hesitate to declare
what about 145, out 160, witnesses on
both sides declared duriug the tri; 1 that
Capt. Witz never murdered or killed
any Union prisoner* with his own hands
or otherwise. All those witnesses
(about twelve to fifteen) who testified
that they saw Captain Witz kill a priso
ner have sworn falsely ; abundant proofs
of that assertion being in existence.
The hands of Cap'ain Wirz are clear of
the blood of prisoners of war. He would
certainly have at least iutimated to
me a knowledge of the alleged mu'ders
with which he was charged, la most
all cases no names of the allcdged mur
dered men could be giv«D, and where it
was done, no such per.-ons could be iden
tified. The terrible seme in court, when
be was confronted with one of the wit—
ncssc I ', and the latti r insisted that Witz
was the man who kill J a certaiu Un
ion prisoner, which iritated the prisoner
so much that be ilurost faiuled, will
still be remembered. That man (Gray)
swore falsely , and Go l alone knowswh it
the poor innocent, pri-oner stiff, rid at
that moment! The scene was depicted
and illustrated in the Nirthern newspa
pers as if Wiiz had broken down on ac
count of his guilt. Seldom has a mor
tal suff.red mole than that friendles and
1 rsaken man.
Fearing lest this communication will
lie too long. 1 wi 1 merely speak ol the
principal and most intelligent of thoso
talse wi nesses who testified to in li
vidual murder in the part of Captain
Witz Upon his testimony the Judge
Advocate, in his final argument, btid
fmrtfuulur stress on account of his in—
tel igeiice. This witness prepared al
so pietunsof the alleged cruellies ot
W-trz, which were (landed ,o the com
mission and are now c n record, copies
of ivh ch appeared at the time in
Northern illustrated papers. lie
swore that his name was Felix do la
Baame, and represented himself as a
Frenchman and a grand t epl ew of
Marquis de Layfayctte After having
so well tc t tied hi and sw< ri. wi h so much
z-al he received a recommendation,
signed by die membeis of the et fPmis
ston. On the eleventh day of October,
before the taking of the testimony was
concluded, he was appointed to a clerk
ship in the Department of the Interior.
This occurred whilst one of tho wit
nesses for the defence (Duncan) was
arrested in open court, and placed in
prison before he had testified. Alter
the execution of Captian W i:z tome of
the Germans of Washington recog
nized in tie la Baurne a deserter from
the 7th New York (Steuben) regi
ment, wheso name was not do la
Baurne, but Felix o>ser, a native ol
Saxoney. They went to Secretary
Har a ; j and 1 e dismissed tho imposter
and important witness in the Wirz tri '
al on the 21st of November, eleven
days aft r tho execution. Nobody
who is acquainted wt h the Conover
testimony, io consequence of which the
President of the United States was
falsely induced to place a reward of
§IOO,OOO upon the head of an inno
cent man, will be as'enished at the
above disclosures of the character of
testimony before military commissions.
So much for chargeNNio i 11.
If from twelve to fifteen witnesses
coul Ibe found who were willing to
testify to so many acts of murder on
the part of Wirz, there must certainly
have beon no lack of such w!.o wire
willing to swear to rn'nor offenses,—
.Such was the unnatural state of pub
lic miad against the prisoner at that
time, that such men regarded them
selves, and were regarded as heroes,
after having tes ified in the manner
above described; whilst, on the other
hand, ttie witnesses for the defense
were intimidated, particularly after
one of them had been arressted.
13ut who is responsible f r the many
lives that were hat at And rsonville,
anil in Southern prisons? That ques
tion has not fully been settled, but his
tory will tell on whose heads the guilt
for those aacrified hecatombs of human
beings is 10 be placed. It was cer
tainly not the fault of poor Captain
Wirz, when in consequence of medi
cines having been declared contraband
of war by the North the Union prison
ers died for the want of the same.—
Ueiw often have we read durirg the
war, that ladies, going South had 1 een
ar re ted and p aced in the Old Capitol
Prison by the Union authorities, be
cause some quinine, or other medicines
had been found concealed in the : r pet
ticoats ! Our navy prevented the in*
gross of medical stores from the sea
side, aDd our troops repeatedly de
stroyed drug stores, and eve» the sup
plies of private physicians in the
tJouth. Thus, tho scarcity of ntedi
cincs b(<! into general all over the
South. Surgeon J. C. Pilot writes,
September 6, 1864, from Ahdorson
ville, (this letter was produced by tho
Judge Advocate in the Wirz trial.)
•‘We have but little more than the
indigenous barks and roots with which
to treat tho numerous forms of disease
to which our attention is daily ca led.
For tho treatment of wounds, ulcers,
etc., wo have literally nothing, except
Water. Our wards, some of them, are
wild with gangrene, and wo are com
pelled to fold our arms and look qui
etly upon its ravages, not even having
stimulants to support the system un
der its depressing influence ; the artic
le being *o limited in supp'y that it
cart only be issued for cases under the
knife.
That provisions in tho South Wore
scarce will astonish nobody, when it is
remembered how the war was curried
on. Gen Sheridan boasted in hisoffi
"”*! rep,,r* thijt in tb? Bheptutdoah
Valley alone, he burned two thousand
bams tilled with wheat and corn, and
all the mills in the whole tract of coun
try ; that he destroyed all the factories
of cloth, and killed or drove otf every
animal, even to the poultry, that could
contribute to human sustenance. And
those desolations were repeated in dis
ferent parts, of the South, and that so
thoroughly, that lust month, two years
after the end of the war, Congress had
’to appropriate a million of dollars, to
save tho peop'e of those regions from
actual staivation. The destruction of
railroads and other means of transpor
tation, by which food could be suppli
ed by abundant districts to those
without it, increased the difficulties
in givirig sufficient food to our prison
ers.
The Confed rate authorities aware
of their inability to sustain their pris
oners, info, med the Northern agents
of the great mortality, and urgently
reqrested that tho prisoners shou'd be
exchanged, even without regard to
the surplus which the Confederates had
on the exchange rolls from former ex
changes, that is, man for man. But
our War Department did not consent
to an exchange. They did not want
to “exchange skeletons for healthy
men.” Finally, when all hopes of px
change were gone, Col. Ould, tbe Con
federate Commissioner, offered early
in August, 1865, to deliver up all the
Federal rick and wounded, without re
quiring an equivalent in return, and
p edged that the number Would
amount to ten or fifteen thousand, and
if it did not, he would make up that
number with well men. Although this
offer was made in August; tho trans
portation was not sent for them (to
Savannah) until 14 ccitiber, although
he urged and Implored (to use his own
words) that has‘e should be made.—
During that very period the most of
the deaths at Anderennv He oceurrel
Congressman Covode, who lost two
sons in Southern prisons, will do well
if he inquires who those “skeletons’’
were winch the Hon Secretary of
War did not want to exchange for
healthy men. If he does, he w ill here
after be perhaps less bitier against the
people of tho South.
But the North treated her Southern
prisoners so well tnut she should lift
up her hands, end cty “anathema”
over the South. Mr Stanton reports
to Congress, July 16, 1860, tlr.t of
Southern prisoners there ciied in the
Nor h 26,436. and of the Northern
prisoners in the South 22,576. What
a fearful record! Over 26 000 < f pris
oners dying in the ttiidst Os p’enty 1 —
Mr. S'anton gives the tota number of
prisoners in the North at 220,000, and
in the South at 126,940. Suppose this
to be correct, though this statement
comes certainly from no impattial
source, there died, of prisoners in the
S ulh, without medicines and provis
ions, the fifth part, and in the North,
with rredicines and prevt-ions '.he
eighth part But in tho number of
Southern prisoners in the North ate
probably included the paroled prison
ers of Lee’s, Johnston’s and
Smith's armies, who neveh entered a
Northern prison. If that be so tho
mortality of Southern prisoners in the
North will be even greater than that
of tho Federal prisoners in the Sou h !
We u cd justly to proclaim in former
Jays that ours was “the land of the free
and tho home of the brave.” But,
when one half of the country is shroud
>din a de potism, which now only
iiuils a parallel in Russian Poland,
and when our generals and soldiers
quietly pi rmit that their former adver
saries in arms sha'l be treated worse
than the Helots of old, brave soldiers
though they may be, w ho, when the
forces and resources of both sections
were more equal, have not seldunseen
the backs of our best generals, tot to
speak of such as Butler and consorts,
then we may well question whether
the “star spangled banner still waves
ov\r the land of the free and the home
of the brave.’’ A noblo and bravo
soldier Dever permits t is antagonist to
bo calumniated and trampled upon af
ter an bonoraole surrender. Besides,
notwithstanding, the decision of the
highest legal tribunal in the land tnat
military commissions are unconstitu
tional ; the earnest and able protesta
tions of President Johnson, and the
sad results of mi itary commissions,
yet such military con m ssions t re again
established by recent legislation of
Congress all over the suffering and
starving S. uth
History is jt st, and as Mr. Lincoln
used to say, we cannot escape nistury.
Puritanical hypocrisy, self adulation
and self glorification will no' save those
enemies ofliberty from their just pun
isbment.
Not even a ekrisiian burial of the I
remains of Captain Wire has teen al- 1
lowed by Secretary Stanton. They
still lie, side by side with those of oth
er und acknowledged victims of mili
tary coinnit sions, the unfortunate Mrs
Surratt, in the yard of the former jail
in this city.
If anybody should desire to reply
to this, I politely beg that it may bo
d.ine before the Ist of May next, os
then I shall leave the country to return
in the fall. Alter that day letter* wi 1
reach me in care of tho American [.eg
ation, or Mr. Benedetto Bolzani, Leip
zig street No. 38, Berlin, Prussia.
Louts Schadb, Attorney at Law.
Washington, April 4, 1866.
[From The Weekly Romanciat.J
Tho ISarbcr’* Ghost.
In the olden time there dwelt in Lu
beck a merchant of the name of Lin
derman; who was so rich that he cov
ered the sitting rooms of hie house
with a coat of silver dollars H s
neighbors found fault w ith this extrav
agant display, but they could not hin
der the effect of this undorhable proof
of wealth upou its owner's credit; and
Linderman was so satisfied with the
interest obtained from his dormant
capital of dollars that ho laughed at
all the wise sayings ol the envious bus
it.ess men of Lubeck.
But Linderimui ol Lubeck died in a
fit of apoplexy, and his only child,
Herman, suec >eded to his business
and riches. Both father and son were
financi ; rs, but tbe first excelled in the
accumulation, the last in the distribu
tion of wealth ; so the business was
neglected, and the money flowed
away through so many channels that
the current at last svept through
every twin iu the house and the floor
ing of dollars had to be replaced with
marble.
Now although tho bright and polish
ed marbe, in its largo squares, looked
much better than the d.ngy littlfi cir
cles of tarnished silver, the breaking
up of the flooring broke tho charm
which joined wealth with tho namo cf
Herman ; his credit fled v ilh his dol
lars ; his creditors picked them up, and
the house of Lindermah & Son pa-sed
into a stranger’s hands.
When Herman was in tho very
depth of despair, seated in the garret
in a Wretched neighborhood, ho, one
morning, saw at the lattice window of
an attic, on the opposite side of the al
ley, a pair of the darkest and bright
est eyes io all Lubeck; an 1 the pretti
est. hands in the town lifted the load
of woe from off his heart, as it water
ed the flowers which clustered around
the fair girl at the window like a beau
tiful frame to a beautiful picture;
However, the mother of Maigaret,
vvtio was of good parentage an 1 es
tate, though now reduced by misfor
tune to work w ith her rteedle, deemed
the prodigal son, though a proper man
in other respects, ill fitted to retrieve
the fortunes of tier darling g'fli au d
the latter being a dutiful child, love
soon taught Herman that, to speed in
his wooing rind wedding ho must re
trieve his fortunes ; so he set himself
to work to hunt up theroglected debts
due his father, and in a lew days he
sturted lor llantbu'g in search of the
means to begin tho world anew.
But, alas ! Berman found the mem
ories of his father’s debtors more
treacherous Utah the ink cf his ledg
ers Few recollected eVen the name
or the house, and those who did, re
membered clearly, after cudulg'l ng
their brains, that all their accounts
were settled in fill ; and to wind up,
one Hamburger, wiser than his breth
ren, brought a much larger demand
against the estate of Linderman and
arrested Herman fur the balance.
Three weeks of prison life induced
the son to agree readily to thopropos
al of one of Lis father’s supposed debt
ors, a humane man, who took jiity on
the successor ol his old correspondent
and offered to release him on the
reasonable condition of his quitting
Hamburg immediately and ft fcVtr, a
wiser and a better man.
So Herman traVe'ed homeward, not
as the happy turn to their homes, but
heart-stri ken with despair, and jour
neying forward he reached a vil'age
inn, where his woe begone appearance
of both mind and body was reckoned
up by the host, who, with the usual
truthfullness and generous hospitality
of his class when customers’ funds tire
at zero, told him that there Was not a
crust to eat or a corner so lie down in
at his house.
“But,” said the landlord “if thou
hast a mind for a supper, a bed, and
a purse of money to boot, go to the
bat on's old cast e.”
“And what should turn mv mind
from three things so good ?’’ question
ed Herman.
“A ghost! my friend,’’ said mine
host.
Then Herman, having (oo little to
hope from anybody to be afraid < f no
body, accepted the offer, and tho land
lord, procuring a basket cf provision
from a tenant (as he veraciously said)
of the ow ner of the castie, led the wav
,to the gray and silent building, and
locked the stranger in.
Herman fared sump uously on the
dainties which had been provided fur
him, and long before the fashionable
hours of ghosts bo was fast asleep ;
but the castle clock, booming tho h ur
of midnight, recalled him from the
land of Nod; and the sound of a
heavy footstep, drawing nearer and
nearer, undo him sit ho t upright in
his led.
After a few moments of awful sus
pense the door, with the natural re
pugnance of all doors to look a ghost
firmly in the face, flew open, and in
slalked a tall, gaunt figure. His head
and face wen covered with hair. lie
was habited as barbers were, and hs
had in bis hands the various tools of
No. 13.
| his calling.
Slowly he motioned Herman to al
J chair, who, too stricken hy fear to re
sist, mechanically obeyed ; and the fig
ure, with a mo*t supernatural celerity,
disjKtßaossed him in a few seconds of
each particular hair upon his head and
face, leaving him as bare as a chick
just crept from its shell.
The ghost, after a decent pause,
sighed deeply, retreated toward the
door, sighed again, placed hi* hand
upon its heart in the most •untimsntal
of all p r ssiblo ntaneers, and was about
to withdraw when Herman, who
thought that one good turn deserves
another, invited the figure to a chair
—an invitation which wan obeyed.
Then first the spectre found a tongue.
‘Herman, ’* quoth he—for your verita
ble ghost is quicker than a villsgo gos
sip in di-cuverirg everybody’s name
and business—‘thou hast dissolved the
charm which kept too here, and I will
not be ungrateful. Ouce I was tbe
obedient slave of a wicked master of
this castle, who atuusod himself with
shaviog such Innocent travelers and
blessed pilgrims as resorted hither be
foro there was au inn iu tho village j
but at lengh the curso of one good and
grave man clung to me, and I was doom
ed to walk the castle with a growing
beard, until someone should, of bis own
tree will, perform for me tho office thou
hast done.’’
“I am now released, and hie tbee home
merrily : enter thy father’*’ garden at
midnight when the moon is at tbe full
and dig where falls tho broad shadow of
the apple tree. Thou wilt there find a
chest of money which thy father hid
away for su h a day as this, but of whibh
from his sudden death; he failed to tell
thee.
Sweetly did iLrman tlfeep through
the remnant of the night, and the morn
ing was far advancod when tho voice
of mine host awakened him.
Now tbe landlord had scarcely ex
pected to fiud the least vestage of the
stranger, tho village philosophy in re
spect to ghest beiug that the main ob
jectof tho dead was to spirit away the
ltving; so when Herman popped his
head out of the window, wrapped in a
sheet, be sang out with surprise : ‘Oh,
oh, good sir! how did you relish your
supper last night ?’
‘First rate,’ said Herman. ‘After
earing and taking a sneeze, 1 found
out tho mystery of this haunted castlo.
Now awav with thee to its master; tell
him I would fain tarry here for three
months, hut at tho end of that time I
will leave the place, taking with me the
ghost in my tobacco box.’
The landlord bowed his head before
the power of the ghos'-’.ajcr, and all
was done as he wishrd. When Herman
returned to Rebeck, ho secretly remov
ed; by little abd little, his father's stock
of bur ed dollars, and; taught by expe
rience, gradually embarked them in bu
siness, proposed much, and married
Margare';
Thus Herman became an honored
merchant, aud Margaret a loving wife.
They had a large family, and, as per
usual, lived happy ever after—tnanks
to the Barber's Ghost.
tVlfkt lint Sunday School Does
I. U employs the best men and wo
men in the commuuity for teachers.
2 It furnishes a circulatiag library ;
so that every pupil can have fifty books
to read each year;
3. It gives newspapers to the pupils,
with mauy excel ent little stories.
4. It teaches the young to siug, and
furnishes tingmg bioks to those Who
need them.
5. It gives onSe a year a delightful
j ionic, or excursion, or celebration, to
the Sunday school scholar*;
0. It i.irs its annual c inventions With
processions, bands of music, with elo
quent speeches or lecture*; aud fills the
largest churches with 11 iwers, songs
arid happiness.
7- Those children u who cannot read,
it teaches to read.
8. It ( flora prucs in the 9hape cf
Bible 8 , Testaments, and other good
hooks, medals or picture cards.
9. If the pupils arc Bick, the good Sun
day school (either cr suptriufendents
visit them.
10. It gives fifty lessons a year in
that book .of books, the Bible.
11. trains the ebihiren in the prac
tice of 1 cmvolcnce, love; obedience to pa
rents, truthfulness, kindness to one an
other aud purity of languago.
12. It sbeks to lead them to love Je
sus and walk in the path of wisdom.
13. It teaches them the golden rule—
do uuto otheis as they would have oth
ers do unto them.
A Case; or vjanueu — i’ho Nitohi z
Democrat reports the cure of a ca.-e of
cancer in that city. It says:
For s une time there has been going
the rounds of the press a recipe for cur
ing cancers, by tha use of a plaster of
chloride of z'dc, blood roots, and wheat
fl >ur, said to have beou discovered by
Dr. Foil, of L mdaP, some eight or ten
years ago. It has been tried in tbi,
city, in the case if a child who had a
cancer on her lip, and so far the success
semis perfect. The tumor, about the
size aud shape es a pecan, has some ou*
and process of healing has gone on rap
idly and healthily. We w.ll take note
of the progress of the case, aud will re
port its final success or failure. The
only point yet to be determined is,
Whether the cure is s> complete that
the cancer shall not return.
A long time ag",- a little boy twelve
years eld, on his way to Vermont, stop
ped at a country tavern and paid fir bis
lodging aud breakfast by sawing wood,
instead of asking it as a gilt. Fifty
yeirs later the same boy passed the
same little inn as George Peabody, the
banker, whose name is the synonim of
magnificent charities—the honored of
two hemispheres.
Tie FreedumH’s Complalal.
A FA ROOT.
I ant dying, Andy dying,
Corn and Bacon will not last I
And the dark Platonian ibado#*
Oalbrr on (be csettiog blaat,
Lane rations (6 aopport me.
Not working order* I—bow this* ear;
Listen to tire Free dates'* secret*,
Rot for tbee alone to bear.
Though overseers and the driver
Raise on high tbe Task no more.
Though Abe Linkunt's proclamation
Land! me rate oo freedom's shore,
Though no irons new surround Me,
To make me do that white man’s will *
Yet I'm Sick, and faint, and hungry,—
And there’s nothing left to steal 1
Let no Southern servile minions
Mock the lion thus laid low,
Twas no foemah’s hand that failed htntf
’T*ss the Bureau deatt the bloat T
Bear; the n , pillowed on hb bosom,
Ere too late this freedman say,
“Give me rations, give me franchise^
Ere tbe hle-lide edds away.”
Hark ye, Howard tell the rabble,
Who demand that I should awes',
•That my noble spouse, poor Mash,
Weeping in her lone retreat,
Has had dreams—the gods bate toMhff
Altars, angers, circling Iking*,
That our blood with yaukees mingled,
Yet shall mtunt tbe throne of kings !*
As for *ll those freedmen mockers,
Home and foreigh, rank and file,
Light their path to Stygian horrors
With the splendor of thy smile ;
Give the freedmen crowns aud arches,
Let their brows the laurels twine )
1 can scorn all labor contracts,
Triumphing iu love like thine I
Yes, I’m dying Andy, dying,
Hark 1 tbe insuhiug Provost’s Cry ;
They are coming—quick, my falchion (
Let me front them ere I die.
Now no more ’mid desolation
Shall my name contention stvell,
Phillips, Suttiner— dfevil take ye i
Urowolow ! Beacher 1 Chase l Farewell i
■
Fnn, Fac* and Fancy.
Blind Tom is to appear at Faria dn-»
ring tho great Exhibition.
It is said that there are at least 20,
000 children in Philadelphia who da
not attend school.
Sunday news crying is to be abolish
ed in Troy, N. Y. Tho papers, how
ever, will still be sold.
The New York Sun figurw up tho
amount spent for fruit in that citjr every
year, at §0,982;500.
A manufactory at New Haven, Con*
neoticuf, turns out annually not lass
than 180,000,000 fish hooks.
To prevent dogs from going mad—
cut est their tails just behind their ears*
Tho proportion of bichelors dying in
Scotland is double that of married men,
according to BtatD'ical returns. That *
bad for the bachelors;
A ettiien of Chicago, named Hin-*
sholfeneetertlovananafanananelfwolfeit
Stein, fell down staifs a few days sinca
and broke his —name in three pieces.
An idea of the manufac
ture of icecream is, that it is usually
baked in a remarkably cold oven.
In England four-fifths of the work
of the postoffioc* and telegraph* is done
by women, and they sell two-thirds or
more of the beer find liquors;
A Knowing Bgy.— “Vou want a flog
ging, that’s what you do,’ said a pa*
rent to his uttruly soft. “I know it dad ;
but I'll try abd get along without it,”
returned the boy.
fiAcfeßtTtNtJ“l hate to bear peo*
pie talking behind one’s back, - ’ as the
robber said, when theoonstable was chas*
ing him, and crying “Stop Tbief I”
Some women paint their faces, and
then weep because it doesn’t make them
beautiful; They raise 4 hue—and
cry.
Punch humanely hopes it will not be
necessary ao suspend the corpus 4s well
as the habeas in Ireland;
The lady wearing the largest watef;
fall is considered the Niagara of fashion*
The Earl of Rhaftsbury wants the
Church of Ehgland abolished if tbd
Church of England does ndt abolish
Rituaß-m.
To Catch Mie« —On going to be<l
put crumbs of cheese in your mouth,
and lie with it open ; and when »
mouse’s whiskers tickle your throat
bite;
A young girl *ho had become tired
of single bh ssedness, wrote to her true
iwain as follows :
‘ Deer Gim, cum rite off es yu air
cummin at awl. Ed Ceilings is irsist*
in that 1 shall hav him, an he bugs an
kisses me so that I can fc
holed owt much longer but will hav 2
kave m.
Betzry.
Medical —Wo have just been fir*
nished by amcdicul friend now in the
Southwestern part ol the State; with tha
following prescription, which we publish
for the bent fit of our medical friends, as
we doubt whether they have eter seett
it:
BACKWOODS PRESCRIPTION tOR FAHA B
LYSIS.
R —2 bull frogs.
2 handfuls of fishing Wormei
J lb red peeper,
lib. hog’s lard.
Boil together and use aa an oint->
a Bit. —Warranted to cure.
A terrier dog was sold at public hi
Petersburg Wednesday, by the sheriff*
to satisfy an execution in bto band. *•
brought twenty-three dollar*. This in
is piobably the first prooeedmg if the
kind in Virginia.
The Winchester [Tenn.J Journal
nominates for Gove »< r ‘any reepettabin
man” instead ** '-"lop.