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THE IM>EVKM>E\T. err -r.vrsrtr-n v SATURDAY. .II I.) SO, 1*7:5. 3 C. OALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor. Touched the Quick at Last. A letter over (lie signature of E. C. Wade appeal* in the Savannah Morn ing AVtfS of the 23d inst., in which he at tempts by euppresiio fri and euygeetio jam to relievo himself from (lie burthen of a set of fact* that, if hi* conscience is not soared, must weigh heavily upon him. Hia Hist effort i, or rather the effort of the ’writer of his letter, who is n* well know'll here us if lie had written it over his own signature, is to create the impres sion upon the mind of the Administration at Washington that he is a simon pure Radical; that lie is and has I*■< 11 perse cuted ou account of his political faith and his allegiance to the Administration. He says: I expected when I accepted the position 1 now hold under the Oovelament of the United-States that law-breakers of every description, from the midnight, iissassiu down to tlie peddler in lager beer without a license, would rise lip uud sav, “Put tlmt man down." We think it very probable tlmt men ca pable of committing high crimes against State or Federal laws would cry out against all officers who bring them to justice. We have beard no complaint, no cry from the assassin, for there is none lu re, to put him down, and even the poor lager beer nailer is submissive, and utters not a word of complaint. Again he. says, or hia writer says for him: Nor indeed am T at all astonished that a newspaper should lie established in 0111* midst by those people with the open and avowed object by acts of intimidation, thr> iits and violence, of preventing the en forcement of the law* of the United Htate*. | His writer * opinion has undergone u very great change indeed. He once said upon his own responsibility that it was es tablished to pull down the Danner. Now he says, as a mere machine for another, i that it. was done to pull down bis principle, (for whom he writes, uud who owns him in fijc simple, and over his person and ac tions possesses an absolution el tliri ilvm) and prevent the enforcement of the laws of the United States, Both of which opinions were visionary ami foolish. Neither of the puVtieH were regarded of sufficient con sequence in this community to originate such an enterprise. Hut wo saw that, the law was used as a vehicle of oppression, its precept* were prostituted to base pur pose*, and malpractice wan manifested in more than one instance, and the official sustained and his actions vindicated by the Banner, tho only paper then in the place. The wrong-doers were sustained, and the innocent and injured had 110 me dium through which they could vindicate ilieir characters. Hence the necessity for another paper that had the moral courage to do justice to the people and expose of ficial misconduct, uud advocate a just exe cution of the laws. For that, purpose the Inoki’KNWKNT was started, and hero we quote a few paragraphs from our pros pect us: The object and aim of the 1 Nneers'tu:xr will be to vindicate the people’s rights and guard them against the infamy of black mail under the garb of oilieial authority. To officials generally, whether State or National, who faithfully and honestly dis charge their duties in a spirit of humanity and kindness, we will award the highest meed of praise; but the wail of tlm op pressed citizen will be heralded through the columns of the Indi- I'l .wr.s r, with condemnatory editorials of the oppression, and an unreserved denunciation of the op pressor. Men in high places need not expect to escape a just, popular retribution, Their iniquities w ill he held up by the Imh i-km.- knt before the light of truth, that tho populace may see dearly their iniquitous; fermentations. Our effort will be at all time. <. ami under all circnnuiUuiccH, to harmonize local strifes and bickerings, to encourage* kind rela tions between the two races, and as far as practicable, harmonize them upon true Democratic principles. Under no circumstances will the Ism:- I'KNiiKN'r uncharitably personate private individual*. Tho. social relations will be left, undisturbed except it bo bv an effort to elevate and enhance social enjoyment. Our polities will be strictly, rigidly, Democratic, and we will war against tin virus of Radicalism with unmitigated and unrelenting fury, whether it bo personi fied ill u blue cOuted carpet-bagger, or a loathsome, contemptible scalawag to the manor born. To present, facts to the public that clear ly demonstrate fraud and corruption is no intimidation, is no prevention of the exe cution of the laws of the United States. It. has never been the object, of this paper to prevent the execution of the laws, nor to intimidate the said official from the di charge of his official duties: nor is there any grounds to he found in the column* of this paper upon vvhi.h to base an opinion no basely, cowardly and contemptible. Our only object and aim lias been to expose the wrong tlmt we believed had been com mitted by United Slates officials, and to intimidate them from similar sets of op pression and malpractice. It is a just, even a rigid execution of the law that we earnestly advocate. And it is oppression and extortion under pretences of judicial authority that wo oppose and war against, and there isn’t one sentence to be found in our columns that indicates anything else. Now, Mr. Wade, as you nor your writer have no predicate for the assertion that there has been an effort on the part of the iNMsrKXDENT and its friends to iu timi.’uite you from the discharge of your official duties, and prevent the execution of the laws of the United Suites, we un hesitatingly denounce your writ, r, who was y 1 ur mentor and oracle, as a w lifullliar. it is true, Mr. Wilde, he pretended to be a Democrat, ns you did when you tried to got the npmiuaiiou iu the Democratic con vention nt Itlarksheur three y ears ago as the candidate h r Congress, and when you attended the Democratic convention iu (,hiitmn last summer, and accepted the appointment as delegate to the State Democratic Convention at Atlanta. How did you feel hi th" din'e of v liabl uid 1 consistent gentlemen ? Were you a Demo* | ernt then upon principle? If so did the prin ciples change, or did you abandon the principles you then professed to un derstand and love because the intelli ; gent white people of brooks county didn’t j have sufficient confidence in your intclli -1 genet* and integrity to make you their representative in the Ilegislature ? How did it happen that you became so suddenly attached to Radicalism, and suddenly identified yourself with that party, and nt once became tine of its machines of op pression ? Now, Wade, wo will toll you what it proves, that you arc not a man that lias any regard for principle. You know you declared yourself in favor of Greeley in preference to Grant until after the election of Representative last fall, nt which yon were defeated hy a united white j people. Then you became a Grant man. Why was yon a Democrat? Because you knew the principles correct. Why are you a Radical now? Because you are an inconsist ent and un*i liable man in politic*. Y’ou know you said after the election that you would let these people feel your weight. You know you attempted it, and now you complain (when youroppressionsand extor tions are exposed) that a paper was started to intimidate you. Wo frankly confess, sir, that iu tho article* wo have written upon this coat question that our effort is to intimidate you from further oppression, uud practice and extortion. Now, we pro pose to analyze the feeble, evasive and shameful defence, made fur you by your scribbling advocate: You say charges were preferred before yon .against Dee and Drown for a violation of the Enforcement Act. Why didn't, you and your writer have sufficient honor and respect for truth to state who the prosecutor was, and what the parries did that, you adjudged to be a violation of the Enforcement Act before yon issued the warrants for their arrest ? As you carefully evade it we will state it as we did in our last, issue. You had till opportunity to answer it, why didn’t you ? Y’oti would, no doubt, if vve hadn't stated it correctly. Reader, here are the words upon which is based the charge of the vio lation of the Enforcement Act. it was statisl by someone in a crowd that Joseph S. Cummings had said all laws prohibiting the intermarriage of the races ought to be repealed. One of tho accused is reported to have said that such a man ought to be rode 011 a rail, the other said he would help to ride any such man on a rail. Reader, arc you not surprised to learn that this is all. No more could be proven unless it he by perjury. And are you not. surprised that any muti that can read would make such a contemptible ass of himself as to adjudge that a violation of the Enforcement Act ? But to give char acter to these proceedings and to more ef fectually intimidate the accused it, required a combination of Government officials;and |to make it more terrific, Federal soldiers, with muskets and bayonets and forty rounds of cartridges, lmd to lie sent out to arrestor to assist the Deputy Marshal to [arrest, two men for saying an umalgama ! tiouist ought to be rode on a rail, and who ! had never offered the slightest resistance. His letter shows that Brown knew nothing of the charge, nor did liis father or brother until they met tin; Deputy Marshal with his soldier, gun and thirty rounds of car t-ridges. Clinton Blown had gone to Florida on business, not knowing of any charge against him, and it is true his father came to ascertain what was the charge against Ins son, but a* to their say ing to Cotniuißsioner Wade that they had him hid in Thomas county, vve are author ized to say that, it is a willful pervertion#>f the truth; they said no such tiling. But upon the contrary, as soon ms lie returned from his Florida trip he came to town and surrendered himself to the Marshal, waived an investigation, and gave bond. After this he says “Mr. Brown and liis friends went to work to induce him to use his in tlueinv to get these boys out of this bad scrape.” How anxious he is to have it understood that it is a bud scrape. But. what is the necessity of his stating that it was a bad scrape without telling what the facts were upon which it was predicted, so that the people may judge id’ the mag nitude of the offence. All of liis serib- I bliug about these things had nothing to ; do with the question vve were discussing; | they were all. settled upon Mr. Brown’s agreeing (o pay tho eosts, and vve have j been urging them to explain to ns how the eosts amount to such an enormous sum. Why don’t he answer at once, mid show wherein he is entitled to such liberal fees, and show how it i- that he was entitled to thirty dollars in one ease and only twenty in the other; and how it was that Dee, who was arrested without any trouble, bad to pay ('l l !H), and Brown, who they hud to scud their Marshal and armed soldier* to arrest, and who he says acted so rebellious, was only taxed BH2 lb. Now, wo ask him and his scribe to refer us to the book and page that authorizes him to charge thirty dollars for issuing a warrant and taking a bond. Then refer ns to the book and page that authorizes Mr. .V. W. Stone and Marshal to charge eighty-seven dollars in the two cases. What had A. W. Stone done for which he was entitled to a fee? We answer, nothing. What had the Mar shal done ? Nothing. We state that 110th | ing had been done but issuing tho vvar ; rant, making the arrest, and taking the bonds, for which costs lmd been charged. And this was all done at Quitman by E. C. Wade and Joseph S. Cummings, and for that service the law only allows fourteen dollar*. But. ritouc. hud to have some, and Freeman ad to have some, and Wade had to have fifty dollars; and fourteen dollars, the legal fees, was not sufficient to satisfy these hungry officers, so the costs had to bo run up bv sonic sort of compu tation ;o a: to extort from Mr. Brown the repuisito sum for each. Wade had beat the bush, and they had helped to latch and piek the birds, and they felt entitled to some of the feathers. ; and they got them; but they won't tell whv aud for what they charged such : aiuounth, Hi* advice to Mr. Brown is altogether Hupcrihton*. Me is tlm only man here tlmt we know of tlmt has made any effort to get hi* money, and the only offc that is threatening further litigation to give him lesson No. 2, in the matter of mist. If I this isn’t a system of blackmail vve don’t know what the term moans. Now, wo wish it understood that all that I has been published in this paper has bean published upon our own responsibility. We ask no man for a thought, nor for the arrangement of a sentence for us. What ever effect tiic Ijoikpkniixnt lias bad upon public sentiment, we ami we alone are re sponsible. And if our exposition of offl ; rial misconduct bus incensed the people j against the act, vve, cxultingly exclaim it |is a righteous indignation. Ho says, or liis writer says, that Mr. Brown agreed to i pay him for all the trouble he was at, if he would get the matter settled, and upon that promise he went to work. If lie did it upon that principle we unhesitatingly assert that lie, a United Htates officer, was \ bribed to subvert what was, ia liis judg j meat, the ends of justice, for he says it j was a bad scrape. But forold man Brown’s money he was willing to get them out of it if Hb could. Hi* scribbler has utterly l uted to make lor him a satisfactory explii- I nation, and worse than failed in estate ’ lisliing innocence; but Inis absolutely de veloped a crime tlmt we hadn’t thought of—-that of receiving pay for a criminal prosecution tlmt he himself denominates “that bad case.” One more thing vve would like to have | explained: by what authority a United States Commissioner charges fifty dollars for taking an appearance bond iu Colquitt ■county? We wisli it distinctly understood that vve arc not warring against the man or men, for we would not hurt a hair on their unhallowed heads unless provoked, Imt it is their official acts that we make war up on. We, in conclusion, say tlmt there are wrongs patent upon the record, and that they have failed to explain them. And to prevent an investigation of them, they threaten to further enquire into thatK. K. matter, that is, the proposed ride 011 a rail matter. We say, without malice to nuy one, that any man, white or black, that publicly ad vocates the amalgamation of races ought to : be rode 011 a rail, and a very sharp one at that. White wc would regard it as just, we are too merciful to do it. We have | your figures. Tell us vvlmt tho fees were for and vve will dismiss you, so fur os these euses arc concerned. Congress authorized at its last session t llut jhe President should provide out of the ordinary annual appropriations for the maintenance of the United States military cemeteries, for the proper rare and preser ! vatiou and maintenance of the cemetery i or burial ground near the city of Mexico, ill which are interred the remains of offi ! eer* and soldiers of the United States, and i of citizens of tho United States, who fell in the battle or died in and around the city ; jof Mexico, and an officer will soon be sent out to carry out the plan adopted, The Madison Recorder. The first issue of this paper has reached . 11s and we give it a hearty welcome. We | arc gratified to know that Madison has a county paper once more, and hope that the people will sustain it. and that the editor . who touches the pen so modestly and trends upon tho threshold of liis new life so delicately may never regret his under taking. Wc hope he will take a hold I stand for his country, exert his talent to the utmost and tend his energies in pull ! ing down the stronghold of the enemy 1 that has so “paralyzed the energies of the j people and palsied all public spirit”! Friend Stripling, it is no time for neutral ity, with these results of political misrule j.staring you in the face. Political conse quences so disastrous to your country, so destructive to the people’s interest, and so I ! embarrossiug to their social relations and happiness must he met and overcome with ; political weapons. It can bo done, it must be done, it will be done; else the crushed flowers of pleasure and pride that once bloomed in every Floridian’s heart will j never revive and blush again with the freshness of life and beauty. It is true there is no political campaign going on to excite the minds of the people, but the \ hideous deformities of political parties may Vie discovered their corruptions ex posed, and their ranks depleted by the power of logic that enlightens tho masses and revolutionizes public sentiment, and turns the tide of oppression and restores ; the country to health and prosperity. Tlic third page of your paper presents , mournful spectacle to your readers, who knew in former days that once opulent ! people, reveling in tl\p luxuries of that once blessed of all countries, with hearts, as generous and noble as their supplies were bountiful. Who and what was the cause of the miareulous change that has taken place? Are the parties that did it [ in power still? Do the causes that pro- : '■ dueed it still exist? If so, haven’t you a work to do, in connection with all good citizens, to subvert the causes that pro duced such disastrous effects, and restore v our country to tlmt prosperity its noble people so justly merits? Come out, friend Stripling, from the debris of Radical ru ins, unfurl tho old States Rights Demo cratic Banner, though it may bo soiled and blood-stained. Bear it proudly and call upon the people to rally around you and your efforts will be crowned with the happiest success. Fight upon the princi ple that Democracy is truth, and though crushed to earth it is still omnipotent, and will ultimately arise and assert its great | majesty again. There are no v isible lines | dividing us. there is nothing iu nature that j declares that vve are not the same people. Therefore the geographical linen that -des ignate the different commonwealths and . sovereignties, and politically divide us, is no barrier to tho emotions of our hearts and the sympathy of our nature. We | were oue people in the line of battle, one *in the great druggie for Southern inde " penitence, one on the march and in the camp and in tlie marshal tread a* we met the foo One foot-fall echoed tho sound of all. Wo were one in sadness when our cause , was lost, one in weeping when our banner, tattered and torn, wus furled to wave no ! ; more. We are one in the celebration of ! the birth of our chieftains, one in sorrow on the anniversaries of t|je death of our j ! fallen braves, one once in each year in de-. 1 eorating their resting places'. Shall vve j i cease to be oue with the living? Desert j not to the foe, encourage not the enemy j by neutrality, but fight for Democracy— j for freedom—and never give over the strug- - gle. until the mountains shall echo, and the j plains uml valleys, and the wide ocean too, shall reverberate the joyous acclaim of | victory! victory! victory! FLORIDA MATTERS. j The health of Key West is said to Vie | excellent. Peaches in Jacksonville are selling reodi | ly at §1 per peck. Henry Hutchinson has been recently ! appointed Sheriff of Franklin county. They grow large crops of “hen fruit” in ■ and around Jacksonville. Jacksonville complains of too much benzine. Jacksonville bos raised a fine crop of j noxious weeds t&is season. The Florida News offers to do the city 1 printing of Jacksonville at 8250 i>er an num. Capt. W. H. McCormick has been ap pointed to the police force of Jackson ville. Wc learn that everything is now in readiness to commence the 81 John’s bar improvement*. The man of the Florida Nem insinuates that the Mayor of that town is no better then an old grand-mother. They arrest aud imprison a man in Jack sonville for getting drunk. Who ever | heard of such a thing. The Jacksonville Xeos man has just; heard that old John Brown is dead, j Happy man. The boot-blacks of Jacksonville propose to black the "boots of newspaper men by the wholesale, or to contract for tho whole hide. * We are in receipt of the first number of the Madison Recorder. We arc glad to j see that Madison is again ably repre- j seated. Tho editor of the Florida Xetcs is some- j what out of humor in regard to the Pub- ! lie School Fund, and proposes to “go for” the printed report as soon as it makes its j appearance. The Jacksonville Republican Rays: “Mr,, J. H. Iteimer, of St, Augustine, has per fected liis arrangements for enlarging the Florida House, ut that place, during the j present season." A Washington dispatch of the Nth mst, [ s*ays: “It is stated that the defalcation of j Horatio Jenkins, formerly revenue collec tor ill Florida, amounts to about six thou- j sand dollars. The goverment will lose about one thousand five hundred dollars.” The Jacksonville Republican says: “Our milling interests are improving, and all are again ill operation, vve believe. The loss occasioned hy the strike, which prom ised to be quite serious, will soou lie made up. U. 8. Conant has placed Deputy Mar shal Tilibits, ef Tallahassee, “in charge, custody and possession,” of tlie J., P. Sc M. R. R., and all the property, during hia absence nt the North. He has revoked the appointment of G. C. Gibbs, as Depu ty Marshal. All enterprising darltey entered tho rear ' of the store occupied by A. Zac.lia.vius it Cos., j of Jacksonville, the other night and ex tracted 8255 from the money-drawer, but had not proceeded far before be was “taken in out of the wet” by an officer. This from tho Jacksonville Republican: “Dust Saturday, while being towed down the river, the schooner Hattie, Capt. MoClintock, hence for Point Petre, Guad iiloupc, with cargo of lumber, struck twice and commenced leaking 1,500 strokes nn hour. A board of survey recommended that she retuVu to the city for repairs. She is now discharging her cargo, aud will Ik; put apou the railway aud repaired with out delay. She was loaded at Fairchild's mill.” This from the Jacksonville Republican; “We are pleased to learn that tho experi ment in growing cane and other crops, be ing made at Black Point, this year, by C. D. Brigham, Esq., late of Pittsburg, Pa., arc very satisfactory, exceeding bis expectations so far. He has eighteen acres in cane, which has made a very rapid, vigorous grow th, much of it being six to seven feet high. - Tho Advertiser am I Republican says: i Miami- University, Oxford, Ohio, has sus pended, owing to financial embarrassment*. The fact is a warning which ought not to be disregarded. Universities, so-called, which are, in fact, nothing but boarding schools, are scattered all over the land. Western towns, especially, seem tq have a mania for establishing universities just as they have for opera houses, and with no better hope of supporting tlie one than the other. They are comparatively use less in an educational point of view, and nearly always impecunious in a financial. It would be the part of wisdom to make those which we have better rather than to start anew one every time a town is started. A most important piece of political in telligence comes from Washington. It is that Senator Cameron has declared j himself in fav or of General Grant for a third term. STATE GOSSIP. Hawkinsville ho* a string bund and min- ; strei troupe. . Tho death of Mrs. M. L. Davis, of Dooley county, is announced. Homebody is after “Juke, the whisky selling Jew,” of Hawkinsville. The crops along the line of the Htate j Road are reported looking well. A negro boy wo* accidentally drowned in the Savannah river the other day. . § The condition of the cotton crop in ' Burke county has materially improved. Bated wool is selling in Hnwkinsvilhqat 27) cents, and loose wool at 25} cents. A screech owl scared new life into a j Thomaaville man the other day. It is said that the caterpillar has made 1 its appearance in the northwestern section of Glynn county. The steamship Montgomery, wliiofa left j Savannah last Saturday for New York, car ried with her 3,090 watermelons. Mr. R. 11. Howell, of Havannah, died ' at liis residence in that city on the 20th. He hail been an invalid for some time. A certain clerk and one of the M. D's met 011 a plank the other day iu Fort Val ley, and immediately proceeded to play “dog and bear.” An umbrella which had two oxen bitched to it blew out of a wagon a few day* since in Fort Volley and slightly Beared the in- \ habitant*. A negro man at the Atlantic and Gulf 1 Railroad depot in Thomuavilte was caught between two freight cars the other day and slightly injured. David Herring, who keeps a store at King's Ferry, near St. Mary s, was se-j verely stabbed in tlie abdomen a few days since by a man named Martin Geiger. He who can cut a twenty-five pound cholera torpedo without afterwards swear ing at the inconvenience occasioned there by we unhesitatingly pronounce a happy man and a Christian. A colored man by tlie name of James Robertson, living on the farm of Mr. YVm. Collins, near Hawlriuavilte, wus allot at and wounded by some person unknown while sitting iu his cabin a few night* since. Some enterprising individual “lifted” a fine set of single harness, a splendid sad dle, a clock, and a fine •broadcloth coat from the stable of Capt. M. A. Dehoney, of Savannah, one night last week. Mules-in some part* of Georgia make I it a point to let the citizens know when they arrive iu town by laughing at them, and whenc hu*tried by tlieir drivers for: tlieir insolence, they start oft’ aud try to break up yrings. A colored drinkist of the feminine way , of tucking herself into bed, by the name : of Rosa I’olite, got rather too much lieu- ! zinc ahead the other day, and while iu I that condition seated herself upon the j track of the Savannah and Charleston Rail road, near the Fair Grounds, from which she was lifted by the morning passenger train and set so gently down that she died in a few minutes. The Advertiser and Republican of the 19th, ha* this: “Among the cases on tho ; information docket yesterday was that of Mr. Christopher Murphy, charged with erecting a wooden building on Broughtou ; street lane. The decision of the Recorder was that the defendant pay ten dollars per day for the five days which the building has remained up, uud that the building be removed in ten days; in default, that ho pay ten dollars per day as long as the building remains up after said ten days.” i This from tho Thomasville Enterprise . “The crop prospect* in this county were j universally promising, excepting the eater pillar, up to a few days ago. More than an average corn crop has been made; su gar cane and sweet potatoes are promising, and cotton, though considerably behind tlie sciusou, is weeding and fruiting rap idly. But since Saturday the weather has been cool and cloudy and showers fre quent aud copious. Should this continue, caterpillars will become general, cotton will shed and fodder be ruined.” The Fort Valley Mirror says of the crops: “YVe hear encouraging reports of good crops from all quarters. The fanners are in good spirits and it seems that our impoverished people will be peculiarly blessed this season. Our farmers are not much involved, and if uo disaster in the way of freshets, etc., overtakes the crops the people generally will be in a better tiuaucitU condition than they have been since tlie war. YVe firmly lie hove that Houston county will make a sufficiency of corn for home consumption. Sometimes brains and sometimes none. How are we to please that man of the Sea port Appeal ? Ho said he had test liis brains, and wc agreed with him and told him we had discovered the fact some time before. YVe didn’t boast of the discovery —thought everybody else knew it. That created a sensation in the vacuum oe eaaioned by the summer’s heat. In his excitement while dancing with hismonkeys , on his plank across the creek he swore in his wrath that we had brains an eternity of fire couldn’t melt. YVe agreed with him and told him that as his father was the keeper of those regions of heat, we hoped he would excuse us from goins home with him. Now, after two week* hard study he inplyedlv declares that he has recovered his brains, and candor com pells us to agree with him again, and spmpathv constrains ns to condole with him that he Ini* found his own and none better. Now, brother Smith, yon get up an excellent paper, and j we are always pleased when it comes to us. If you will just keep your head cool, quit dancing on that plank by moonlight you will succeed and your paper will be par i excellent. (Letter from the Hew York Son.] The Walworth’s in Washington. YVlieu the civil war commenced Mrs. Walworth took sides with the South. She was a Southern woman, and all her friends were thoroughly enlisted in the cause of the South. She was anxious for her husband to go South and join the Con federate army. He had, however, no dis position to win glory on the gory field of battle, and an opportunity offering he ac cepted u position in the Htate Department under ilr. Howard. His wife followed him to Washington, and here was thrown very paturally in contact with all the active conspiring .Southern spirit*. There were at that tune a number of extraordinary women in YVasbington—who were in con stant communication with the enemy and 1 continually conspiring to obtain important information of the intentions of the Fed eral leaders and of the movement, of the Union armies. The center of this, system of spies was a Mrs. lUie Grenough and a Mrs. Morris. The former was on old resident of Washington, highly connected, intelligent, refined, aud on terms of intimacy with almost every man who had lieen in public life during 'many years. The luttor wus not so highly con nected nor moving in tlie same high so cial circle prior to the war. But she wn* beautiful uud accomplished, a Y’irginiiin by birth, the wife of 11 proud descendant of one of Virginia's most aristocratic fami lies. She bud separated from tills mail after a brief honey-moon spent in Faria, and in more sober times would have beeu quietly tabooed by the very people who now received and patronized her because she was smart, had intercourse with prom-! incut Union people, and the ability and will to ilo aud dare for what they termed tile holy cause of the South.” Mrs. Wal worth, herself a proud Kentucky lady, thoroughly in sympathy with the South, met the little coterie of rebels who sur rounded these two remarkable women. They knew her and the high position of, her husband's family in New York. They encouraged her in her noble devotion to | her native land, slid joined their peraua-1 sinus to hers to induce Walworth to join Beauregard's army, which was then be- , leaguenng Washington. He, although not very enthusiastic in the cause, was per fectly willing to go, provided he could at tain a rank corresponding to his idea* of 1 his own importance. Through Mrs. Mor ris, General Beauregard wua communicat ed with, und in due time an answer was received that Mansfield Tracy Walworth oould have the position of first lieutenant I in the regular army of the Confederate States of America. This was not what YValworth expected. His expectations mounted as high as a Brigadier General ship, while a Colonelcy was the least rank liis vaulting ambition would allow him to j accept Another effort was made by the Greenough-Morris cote no to get him a Colonel's commission, but it was unsuc cessful. The Confederate General replied to their second urgent solicitation that there was au induqssdtion on the part of their sol diers tii serve under officers they did not know personally or by reputation. He, however, suggested that YYulworth could serve the cause of tlie Confederacy in hi* present station more effectually than in the Held. He held a position in the Federal State Department, was trusted, had friends and influence, aifd could be advanced at the same time he could aid tlie cause he j really loved by transmitting through his friends of the coterie all the important diplomatic secrets of the United States Government This was rather more to Walworth's taste than winning renown at the cannon’s moutli. and he determined to act upon Beauregard’s advice. For some time he aud his confederates drove their trade with perfect impunity. He was in this way thrown frequently in the society of Mrs. Morris, and her bewitching ways and bright, piquant face soon captivated him. She was then in the heydoy of her charms a brunette with coal black eyes that dantted and dazzled or flashed and flamed us love aud passion or hate and re venge prompted. Her figure was passing ; good, and her face, though not pretty, was attractive. The nose was rather prominent, • and tho forehead low and slightly reced-! ing, but the extraordinary breadth from temple to temple testified to a good under standing, a well balanced mind and a will: of her own. Rarely, if ever, has any cause enlisted as its devoted, self-sacrificing agent a woman of more resolute courage, of more consummate cunning than Mrs. Morris. Her life was joyless, for all her hopes were recked on a man who either loved not or was not loved. She there fore needed the excitement, the danger of a life like this, and once entered upon it, all the finer sensibilities—the angel part of her natnre—soon disappeared. All the arts and wiles of depraved womanhood came iu their stead, and the end justifying the means, she could coolly plot min and wretchedness for a luippy household in or der to gain her point and serve her em ployer. She had bewitched a young and gallant officer on General Sickle’s staff, and through him obtained the earliest in formation m regard to the movements of the armies. YY ulworth was used also to obtain the secrets of the YYiir ns well as the State Department, and thus all went on swimmingly for a time. His wife was heartily hi accord with him—nay, was rather deeper in the plot and more active aud efficient than he was. One night Stanton’s trusted chief of se cret service, whose equal in the detective line never lived, quietly arrested the cote- j ric of spies and housed them iu the Old Capitol prison. Mrs. Walworth alone was undisturbed. Her husband deserved death, j and had little hope of escaping. He i broke down utterly, and showed bow little j of true manhood there was in him by making puerile confessions to Assistant Secretary YY'atsou, iu w hich he cast all the blame on Mrs. Morris. He had, however, love sufficient and manliness enough to i save his wife—the real author of his mis-! fortunes. The records of the YVar Depart ment will show how he begged for mercy —how he declared it was love for a strange woman, a terrible fascination—that led him to betray his honor aud his country His friends interceded for his life, and Stanton, believing him to be harmless, al lowed him to go free, provided be went to Saratoga and daily reported by letter to the department. His wife learned of the confession he j bad made—made, as I really believe, first; to sgi-e his life, and second to shield her; aud from that hour she ceased to even re spect him. He had been unfaithful and her heart was steeled against him. The domestic troubles grew worse and worse from that forward, until they culminated in the separation. The natural disposition of YValworth to jealousy was also aroused because his brother Clarence was devoted to his wife, and took upon himself to act the part of protector to her und of guardian to her children. His hair-Brained mind was al most overturned, aud hi* passions, unres trained from boyhood, carried liim into the same excesses of threats and vsquir ing w hich, as I have said, he indulged in during his yo ’Ji and early manhood. The dependent position in which he was left by his father's will added to tho flames of wild and unquenchable rage that consumed him. He was without means and without a profession or qualifications for any busi ness employment. The only thing open to him was the life of literary vagabond age. He struggled hard for several year*, but neither reputation nor money was gained thereby. He bad not the talent* requisite for a high order of literary work, and if lie hud there wa* no ca*h demand for it. The Weekly would take blood-and . thunder romances at *0 much per yard, and Carleton & Cos. would pay something for a slightly toned down article. The terrible letters which he wrote to his wife are much id the same strain tR the most of his romancing, and I have no doubt that they were wiitten when the spell was upon him, and that iu his sober moments he wa* heartily ashamed of them. Nobody who ' knew him would ever have thought of fearing the execution of any of his threats. The following letter from a correspond | ent of the Now York World is of special interest at the present time: “The un , iioimcemeut of the death of the sculptor Rowers recalls the circumstance* surround ing the modelling of the Greek Slave. There was an American gentleman of great wealth who hod a beauteous daugh ter, beauteous iu form as iu feature and character; but not content with this treas ure, he added to his household a second wife. Many persons will remember in Paris, about thirty years ago, an old man grieving for the loss ol a faithless wife and a lortune tiiat disappeared with her. Father and daughter, in their poverty and distress, took up a temporary resi dence in Florence, and there met Hiram . Powers. Out of love for the destitute father, whose sufferings from want she hail no minus to relieve, tjje daughter con sented to become the model for the Greek. Slave. Friends uud relations recognize the likeness in the beautiful statue to tho original. But that the lady, who is still living and ia the mother of charming j daughters, may lie recognized, this epi sode could be dwelt upon and the romance ;of her life continued; but it would seem like sacrilege to lift the veil of secrecy ! from an net that wus tlie highest proof of j filial devotion that modest muiden ever gave to her father. The State Department has received a dispatch from Minister Sickles, confirming the statement that the Spanish Government I had issued a decree directing the return of ail sequestered estates in Cuba to tlieir owners. It is held at the State Depart inent that our Government, so soon as it has official knowledge of such degree, will be bound to sec that it is executed, so far as it affects American citizens. Tlie fact that tlie Spanish Government lias not here tofore decreed this return, has been tho main reason assigned by Mr. Fish for not advising the President to adopt more vig orous measures. Tlie number of '■states to be released by this order is about eloveu hundred, and of these so’mo one hundred belong to naturalized American eitizens. One does not read of so terrible a retri bution s that w hich overtook, last week, a murdsriT in Chosshire. Conn. Michael Higgins, a farm laborer, on Saturday nigiit stabbed, fatally, John O’Neil. A search for Higgins being instituted, bis body vNs found in a room in the farm house. He had died of heart disease, su lieriuduced by excitement. Nemesis ar rested, indicted, arranged, tried,convicted, sentenoid and executed him almost simul taneous If hungings are impressive, here wus a denouement of the tragedy which ipon many minds will be more im pressive than forty strangulations. A colored lady raised a difficulty with a white lady, in Fort Y'nllev, on Monday last, atd when tho Marshal attempted to arrest her. she “cussed” him out in the ■ most fashionable maimer. She had a i green-eyed monster in her gizzard as big as a rhinoceros, and was compelled to give ; vent to her “pheelinks” in some way. It costs oily 815 to give a Fort Valley Mar shal a genteel cursing. *. Attexpteii Sricnii!.—YY T e learn, say* the Sawnnnh Xeuo, that a young mn re siding ki the western portion of the city attempted suicide on TnWtday night by cutting liis throat with a knife. He failed in his purpose,’ however, and is now in a fair way to recover, the wound not being of a serious character. The cause, as we are informed, of this attempt, was the refusal of a young lady to accept his proposal of marriige. It ii rumored that Mrs. H. Hill, of Salt Lake City pitched into Mr. A. Hill, her divorced husband, because he came around her house with three roses in his hat, and oomreeneed to “twit" her about her girl hood wildness. She drew a revolver, and the upshot was that Mrs. Hill was fined tea dollars. Butt al. Mcrdek.— A dispatch from YYil ■ Hamsport., Pa., of the23d inst., says: “Isa bella Mcßride, aged seventy, living with j her lmsliand on a farm seven miles from this city, was brutally murdered last night ; by being shot through the head. Her hus- I band, John Mcßride, was knocked down ’ with a club and received seven severe cuts. YYhcn found this afternoon Mcßride was found lying on the floor, weltering in his blood, but living. They were old peo ple, lived alone, and were supposed to have a large sum of money. Thirty thou sand dollars was found in the house. No ! clue to the murderers. An altercation occurred at Sanderson, Fla., on Saturday night, between two col ored men, Adam William* and Paul Stag gem. Staggers accused Williams of an at tempt to rape his daughter, and shot him through the left side. The wound is sup posed to be fatal. The investigation elicit ed evidence that YY’illiams was gnilty. Staggers is in the county jail, heavily ironed, awaiting the result of the investigation. Pishop Morlev was fond ofa joke. Once, when the footman was oat of the way, he ordered tho coachman to fetch some water trim the well, to which the coachman made a grumbling objec tion that his business was to drive, not to run er rands. "Well, then,” said Morley, “bring out the coach and four.set the pitcher inside.ana drive to the well,” a service which was several time* repea ted, to the great amusement of almost the entire village. A Wcstern stock-breeder having a horned colt, tin scientfle men of the region tried to account for it, and come to the conclusion that its horns were due to the influence of the equine-ox.