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About The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1866-1868 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1867)
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STKWAKI', attoknev at law, Cuthbcrt, ndolph Cos., On,, All l.u*iuess en'rustcd to his cate will be faithfully attended to. June 1 E. L. DOUGLASS, Attorney at Laiv, June 1 CVTItRERT, G»i. J. E. HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTORNEY ATLAW, •Morgan, Calhoun Cos., Ga., Will practice in all the Courts of the South western and PaiaulaCircuiis, June 1 E. H. SHACKELFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, j CAIHILI.A, Mitchell Cos., «a., AGENT far purchase and sale o LAND. June 1,1806. DR. S. G. ROBERSON, SURGEON DENTIST m.7* VUthberl, Georgia. J C li. MARTIN GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT AN!) exchange: dealer, E CF*t CL.t : : .tlabaina Represents a paid Capital in A No. 1 Companies, of 023,000,000. Takes (Eire, Inland, River, Marine, Life, and Acci dent risks. Losses promptly adjusted and paid. »pr 27-lv. MROV BftOWK, TUOS. H. STETART. DROWN & STEWART, Ware H°usp and JDDJVMSCION MERCHANTS, at Sharp & Brown's old stand, GEORGIA. We are determinedito uae our utmost en deavors to give entire satisfaction to all who jm»y favor us with thefr patronage * and as far as possible to be to tkent. In this depart ment, (what we bare often felt, and what eve ry planter mu«t feel that he need.) p*-t and erliahle friends. That we may be better ena bled to carry out this design, wa have secured aa businea* agent ( the well known and reliable Capt. John A. Ful'on. "A just balance," is our motto. Jfarcb 8 1067. W, R A- N. M, THORNTON Praptioal DentistN, /M »r*so.v, G,t. tv OSes in Harden's new building, West Bide, Depot Street. Dec. 14 , wii7iu sellT C'URNITURF, Buggies and Rockeways at J- Coat for the Cash, as I wish to close Put that branch of my business. April Jhh, 1867-lm K. B LOYLESS. 1 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.
