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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, May 9, 1866.
The Income Tax.
In order that our readers may In; correctly ad-
vised of requirements made U|>on them by the
Internal Revenue law, in relation to incomes, we
lay before them to-day the following valuable
and pertinent condensation of a law which af
fects alike all who are in receipt of iueomes,
North or South:
“It should Ik: remembered by tax payers that
the 1st of May is the time fixed by the Internal
Revenue law for the return of schedules of in
comes to the Assistant Assessors. The amended
law of March 3, 18G5, Is still in force, and it is of-
ficially announced that the assessment of this
year will be made in accordance with its pro-
virions, regardless of any action of Congress on
the new tax bill just reported to the House. The
Senate refuses to concur in the House resolution
providing for an extension of time for two
months, in order to permit the new law to go
into effect. Tax payers, therefore, are required
to furnish their schedules to the Assistant Asses
sors in their respective districts on or before
Tuesday next. The Assessor is under no iegal
obligation to send blank forms; he may do so as
an net of courtesy, but it is the business of tax
payers to find his office, obtain the blanks, fill
them up and return them. In case of neglect or
refusal, the- Assessors are empowered to make
the return and to add a penalty of twenty-five
per cent., or, in case of fraud, to add one hun
dred i>cr cent, to the amount ascertained to be
due.
“The duties on incomes are payable within
sixty days after the return of the schedule to the
Assessor ; that is, on or before the 30th day of
June. The income must be reckoned for the
year ending December 31, 1865, and the tax is 5
per cent, on all sums between $600 and $5,000,
and 10 per cent, on the excess over $5,000. The
deductions permitted arc: 1. The sum of $600
from all incomes ; 2. All national, State, county
and municipal taxes paid within the year, (in
cluding the income tax paid last summer); 3.
The amount paid for rent, or the rental value of
any homestead occupied by the tax-payer or his
family, in his own right or the right of his wife;
<1; The amount paid for usual or ordinary re
pairs, taking the average of the preceding five
years. These are all the deductions that can be
made.
“The income tax is a lien upon property if not
paid within the time fixed by law, and the col
lectors are invested with full powers to take le
gal proceedings for distraint and collection. The
proper observance of the time and manner of
payment will therefore save the tax-payer much
trouble.”
The foregoing we copy from the New York
Post. It is well for our people to note that it
their income tax is not paid within the time
fixed by law, the Collectors are invested with full
powers for distraint and collection.
General Grant.
We are pleased to notice the following endorse
ment, by our able cotemporary, the Augusta
Constitutionalist, of views recently presented by
us concerning what we deemed to be due Lieut.
Gen. Grant, by t he people and press of the South.
In its issue of the 3d instant, that paper says:
“ Our esteemed eotemporarics of the Atlanta
Intelligencer and Columbus Enquirer unite
in an acknowledgment of General Grant’s friend
liness of feeling toward the South. From cer
tain most reliable information, lately put in our
possession, we are induced to believe this kindly
disposition lias not been overrated, and iu that
impression, tender to the lieutenant general our
own sense of his humane and upright bearing.—
To his influence it is, wo learn, that General Lee
was not, by the base machinations of radical
tricksters, made the victim of a hate as cowardly
as it is great. .At the first whisper *of an intent
to annoy that gallant gentleman by proceedings
iu utter derogation of his parole, General Grant,
we are informed, at once stated that were such
atrocity committed, lie would forthwith throw
up a commission that could not then longer iff:
retained without some degree of military dishon
or. Through the person of their general com
manding the pledged faith of these United States
would, by so wilful a perfidy, have been griev
ously broken, mid, though a past uncompromis
ing enemy of that successful captain, we now
take a special pleasure in recording this our tes
timony to Ids soldierly good faith.
“It was said by oue of our cotemporaries above
alluded to, that hardly due justice was rendered
General Grant by llie people of the South, but
we know this mention—based on such irrefragi-
ble evidence—ot his honest demeanor will go
far to correct any deficiency in the rendition of
honor where honor is due. Besides the case of
General Leic, oenerahile et darisimum nomcn, it
is also stated to us that, by a like course of ac-
tiou on the part of the Lieutenant General, Ad
miral Semnics was released from captivity and
the Hon. Clement C. Clay restored to the suppli
cations of a most amiable and devoted wile.
‘General Grant’—says our informant, whose
name, might we mention it, would be recognized
at once as that of a distinguished Georgia patriot
and statesman—‘is not disposed to oppress the
South; on the contrary, he is striving to lighten
her burthen.’ For such generous intention—an
intention that bears for ns a sweet fruition al
ready—the hero of the North may rest assured
he will be held by this people iu kindly esteem.
More, we know, he would not expect; for our
hearts are with that past in which so many ot
our dearest fell before his legions; but on this at
least—a meed prompted by justice and accorded
in all sincerity—lie may confidently rely.”
We also notice in the Huntsville (Ala.) hide-
pendent, a similar endorsement ot our views. The
“Georgia patriot aiul statesman’’ who stated to
our Augusta cotcuiporarv that General Grant “is
not disposed to oppress the South ; on the con
trary, he is striving to lighten her burthen,’’
bears honorable testimony to that officer, who
has indeed done much to insure to him the re
spect and esteem of a people proverbial for the
maintenance of their “good faith.” as well as for
their gratitude.
Tax on American Books.
“Peterson’s Counterfeit Detector" says “in con
sequence of our Internal Revenue's crashing de
mands, which have heaped so many and so heavy
Taxes upon Knowledge, many American pub
lishers have discovered that, what with low
wages and no tax whatever upon paper or any
other material used iu book-making, ii is profita
ble for them to print their books in England, and,
paying no impost duty, sell them in this country.
They can arrange with publishers across the At
lantic to have so many extra impressions struck
off, with the American imprint, and thus save
competition. Congress should repeal this extra
tax at an early day."
Yes, Congress should repeal all tax upoa
Knowledge. Neither should liooks nor the
press Ik* taxed. But Congress will not do what
it ought to do in these ivs|»eets, nor in urauy oth
ers. It ought to exempt the South from the op
erations of the Income Tax for tlie past year, for
Congress is well apprised that it is not in a con
dition to endure this tax, but Congress has not
done so, and we have no good reason to think
that it will do so. Congress, especially the one
now in session, is an exacting body, caring more
for the negro than it does for either knowledge
or the South.
To Savannab Direct.
The first traiu with passengers direct for Sa
vannah left Macon on Saturday morning. The
care connect with the stages at No. 14, and pas
sengers reaclt Savannah at 6:35 next morning.—
The night travel is all by railroad. This will
prove quite a convenience to travelers, both on
the score of time and cx|>enso.
Fall River is building four large cotton fac
tories.
CIv|I Hlfhn How they Work.
The following account of an occurrence at the
national capital which we copy from the Wash
ington City Constitutional Union, shows some of
the workings of the Civil Rights bill at that im
portant point. Had it taken place elsewhere we
would not have noticed it, but inasmuch as it
did occur within sight of the Congress that en
acted the measure of “deliverance and liberty,”
so-called, the parties, too, who were intruded up
on and termed “white trash,” being “abolitionists
of Dr. Sunderland’s church,” we deem notice of
it to lie proper, exemplifying as it does the adage
“whatsoever they may sow, that shall they- reap.’’
Take the incident which we now transfer from
the Washington Union to our columns, with
others that we have noticed as occurring in the
Northern cities, and we tliiuk we may venture
to prophesy it will not be long before a clamor
for the repeal of the obnoxious bill will l>e ln-ard
throughout them, while, in the meantime, there
will i>e a practical nullification of some of its
provisions, in order that the “white trash” of
those cities may l>e permitted to take their omni
bus rides without being so denounced, or other
wise intruded upon by “fat, greasy-looking, two-
hundred ]>ound colored ladies
“Equal Rioirrs.—About noon yesterday, two
fat, greasy-looking, two-hundred pound ‘colored
ladies,’ evidently cooks for some cheap restau
rant, got into oue of the street cars at the Capi
tol, and the seats all being occupied by ladies
and gentlemen, they, the darkey women, began
to turn up their noses, and throw out slurs al>out
‘white trash,’ and finally one of them called:
‘Cornductor—I want you to get us seats, de same
as de oder passinggers— we’se peoples, we ain’t
dogs.’ The conductor politely informed them
that by the time the car got to Four-and-a-lialf
street, there would be seats, as most of the pas
sengers were bound to Dr. Sunderland’s church ;
but for the present there was no room. The
largest negress then shouted, in her warmest
strain, with anger depicted in every lineament of
her countenance, ‘We am iist as good as any
of de white trasli riding in dis here kearc—we
ain’t dogs, and we want seats jist de same as de
white women—and if de white trash was gem-
men, dey would git up and give a lady a seat,
and if I can’t get a scat I’se gwang to git out.—
Mr. Cornductor, stop de keare—stop de keare,
we’se not gwang to ride wid sich trash.’ The
wenches bustled their sweaty and aromatic per
sons out of the car, much to the gratification of
thepassengers bound to Dr. Sunderland’s church.
The last seen of the two wenches, they were
peering down towards the Capitol, tor another
car. Moral.—The equalization of color is no
more relished by the Abolitionists of Dr. Sun
derland’s church, than the most radical anti
negro worshippers in our land. Tiie negroes
will soon learn their position, as water finds its
level.”
Tiie Capture of Mr. Davis.
The Washington City correspondent of the
New York Sun gives the following account of
the capture of Mr. Davis :
“ t It appears from the records in the AVar De
partment, that with tiie exception of the Presi
dent’s proclamation none but verbal orders were
given for the capture ot Jefferson Davis. Major
General Wilson says that Lieut. Colonels Harn-
don and Pritchard are entitled to great credit for
the zeal and activity with which they conducted
the pursuit, and that it is but simple justice to
these officers to remark that they were ignorant
of tiie reward at the time of the capture. Col.
Pritchard says that it was so dark that lie could
not distinguish the uniforms. In the course of
liis narative he says: “ On my return to camp I
was accosted by Davis from among the prisoners,
who asked if I was the officer in command,
and upon my answering him that I was and
aking him what I was to call him, he replied
that I might call him what or whoever I pleased,
when I replied to him that I would call him Da
vie, ami upon a moment’s hesitation he said that
was his name. Then he suddenly drew himself
up with true royal dignity and exclaimed, ‘ I sup
pose you consider it bravery to charge a train of
defenseless women and children, but it is theft
and vandalism.’ Nothing is said in tiie narrative
about his being disguised.”
(Tulted States District Court for Georgia.
Tiie Savannah papers announce t lie arrival in
tiiat city of the Hon. Jolm Erskiue, Judge ot the
United States District Court for Georgia. They
also state that the Judge will open his first court
on to-day, in that city. The older citizens of
Atlanta—those who had the pleasure of know
ing Judge Erskine while he was, like them, a
citizen of iliis place—have ever felt gratified at
his appointment; and they look torward to the
d:iy with mau3 T agreeable anticipations, when
either his official duties, or a desire to visit his
old home, shall call him again to the “ Gate
City.” It was, and still is, their hope and most
earnest wish, that the duties of Iris office will
not deprive Atlanta of his citizenship, nor the-
social circles of our city of the presence of his
most amiable lady ; and, we must not forget, of
ills interesting little daughter.
Item* of News.
The Augusta Chronicle &■ Sentinel says tiie re
cent troubles in Northern Georgia, have been
great 13- overrated and that the measures adopted
will speedily bring them to an end. It has the
best authority for saying that these acts of law
lessness have been exclusively confined to the
few counties which lie on tlie Tennessee border,
and that the parties chiefly implicated are out
laws from our sister State.
These bad men have been run into our limits
to avoid a trial in their own Slate, lor crimes
committed against her laws, and have been able
to induce some of our own people to join them
in their high-handed and infamous acts. The
great body of the citizens iu that section oppose
and deplore their misdeeds as much as we do.—
Indeed, we have high authority for saving that
the good people are very largely in the majority,
and that they would organize a sufficient number
of armed men to ensure order and the observ
ance ot theiaw, but the country is generally poor
and the people not able to leave their crops at
this important juncture to take the field against
these outlaws.
John Mitehel writes to the New A'ork Daily
St irs: “I can see no escape from an European
war, and if it breaks out it will be-tremendous.
It is probable, too, that America would profit by
it, Doth in commerce and iu population. Besides,
there must Ik? several large houses in tiie wooden
leg business in Boston. Also, the eminent crutch
and splint manufactories of Connecticut, whose
business was unreasonably cut short by the too
sudden termination of the American war, just
when they had laid in large stocks of seasoned
hickory, and had their machinery brought to a
high state of perfection, for turning out their
wares with the utmost punctuality, neatness and
dispatch. It is to be hoped they have not taken
down their machinery’, nor chopped up into fire
wood all that hickory; for now. as I seriously
believe, they are going to have a fine foreign
market opened to their enterprise. Legs will be
lively, and splints and crutches in brisk demand.”
ArPALLtNG.—An exchange states that within
a month utter the opening of the New York State
Inebriate Asylum, over fifteen hundred applica
tions were made by wealthy parents for the ad
mission of their daughters, who had contracted
habits of intemperance from the use of wines
and liquors at fashionable parlies.
An exchange suggests that a lady, on putting
ou her corsets, is like a man who drinks to drown
hisgriel, because in so-lacing herself she is get
ting tight!
Tennessee Banks.
Notes of the Bank of Tennessee, are rated in
Nashville at 33; brokers demand 38 and 40.—
The notes of the Planters Bank rate at 63, and
of the Union Bank at To.
Mrs. Jeff. Davis.
AVe see it stated in a telegraphic dispatch that
this lady reached Fortress Monroe on the morn
ing of the 3d instant, on a visit to her imprisoned
husband.
Outrageous Attempt at Murder-Horae*
Stolen.
On Sunday night last one of the most outrage
ous attempts at murder was made by a despe
rate land of thieves, about three and a half
miles from this city, that we have ever been
called upon to notice. Not long since, Colonel F.
AA . Benteen, of the “10th Missouri Cavalry,” aud
recently the Federal Commandant of this Post,
purchased a place on the old McDonough road,
with the view of making it his permanent resi
dence, and had encamped npon it until he could
erect suitable buildings for the accommodation of
his family. A lew nights previous to the out
rageous occurrence which we are now noticing,
the Colonel was joined by his wife, Mrs. Benteen,
who had just arrived from St. Louis. At alnmt
ten o’clock on the night referred to, while tiie
Colonel was in his tent reading, aud Mis. Ben
teen writing to tier St. Louis friends, the firing
of a gun was heard in the vicinity of tiie tent at
an out-house occupied by one of the Colonel’s
domestics who had charge of his horses, then
locked up iu his stables. This shot was tired, it
was soon alter ascertained, at this domestic, or
servant, of the Colonel, by one of the robbers,
and took effect iu two places, the back aud head,
inflicting, however, only slight wounds. Siezing
a pistol, andropening the door of the tent, the
Colonel stept out to take an observation, when
he saw, protected by the trees, three men ap
proaching the tent—two directly in front, the
third iu an obliaue direction. Then lie chal
lenged liiein on their approach by crying out
“who conies there ? ” and no answer beiug given
he tired in the direction of the t\D*— divesting
himself, with much presence of mind, just before
tiring, by throwing them into the bushes near,
of a large stun of money and a valuable watch,
which he had upon his person. This fire was im
mediately returned by the rascals, who succeeded
in severely wounding the Colonel-one shot taking
effect in the right hip and another in the left calf.
Four white men advanced then rapidI3- and made
him a prisoner, demanding his money and what
ever was valuable upon bis person, which, of
course, they searched, taking theretrom a small
deringer, a pocket knife, and the money belt
which had only a minute before been emptied of
its contents. The robbers then demanded ot
Col. B. that he should accompany them to liis
stables and deliver to them his horses, and a fine
saddle which it seems they knew he had. De
fenseless and powerless though lie was, the Col-
MEMTIIIS COBRESPOSDENCE.
Memphis, Texx... May 1,1866.
What pleasing recollections the first of May
recall to our minds. In the happy days that
have passed—alas ! I hope not forever!—for
weeks beforehand preparations were made to cel
ebrate it in an appropriate manner. School
houses were closed, and business of all kinds
suspended, that all might take part in the enjoy
ment caused by a consciousness that, as a people,
there was nothing lacking to make them happy.
It is not so now. The unhappy termination of a
destructive four years’ war has left the .South no
heart for such pleasures. The bare thought of
enjoyment brings to their minds the memory of
their fallen braves—many, yea, thousands iu un
known graves though the>’ be. Noble-hearted
sons of the South! The cause which they so
dearly cherished and sacrificed their lives in de
fense of is lost; but heroes they are nevertheless,
and all that Northern radicals and fanatics can
heap upon us, wilt never make the Southern peo
ple cease honoring them as such.
The 26ih of April is a day long to be remem
bered iu Memphis, aud I trust throughout the
length and breadth of our whole Southern land.
The mere announcement that that day was set
apart that our people, and especially the ladies,
might make a common offering to the memory
of our Confederate dead, called forth, doubtless,
the largest gathering ever seen in this cit3'. By
11 o’clock a. m., plmwood Cemeter3' was filled
to overflowing with men, women and children,
all vieing witli each other in the magnificence and
taste of their bouquets and basketsof flowers, with
which to pay this simple but beautiful tribute to
tiie memory of their departed ones. Not a sin
gle mound beneath whose sods a Confederate
soldier slept was missed’ but all sjssred alike the
attention of our patriotic woihuo. Addresses
were delivered by the Rev. Drs. Ford and Rogers
—two of Memphis’ most distinguished and be
loved divines—and I need scarcely say that they
did full justice to the occasion. A subscription
was started on the grounds to erect a monument,
and there is no doubt it will bejpushed forward
to an early completion.
As it appears to be a general thing throughout
the country, it will be no great disparagement to
say that business is wofully dull in this city.
This falls particularly heavy upon many of our
merchants, who had made no calculation for the
exhaustion of the cotton, and stoppage of the
onel in order to delay the rascals in their robbery, wagon trade, last fall, caused by the opening of
conducted them to the wrong stables, but they
soon discovered the ruse, and directly finding an
axe they proceeded to the stafiles where the
horses were, broke open the doors, and with the
stolen property rode off, taking the old McDo
nough road that crosses “South River.” While
these outrages were being enacted who can im
agine the anguish and terror ot Mrs. Benteen,
then left alone in the tent, powerless to render
any aid to her husband ?
Colonel Benteen thinks that there were only
four men engaged in this desperate outrage, al
though the negro who was shot thinks there
were more in the woods near liy. These men
admitted that they were thieves, come to plan
der, and that at all hazards. Such an outrag
as this has never before been perpetrated in this
vicinity. In audacity and recklessness it exceeds
any we have hitherto been called upon to report.
Coupled with It, others have recently occurred
in this vicinity aud city, which evidence plainly
the existence of a band of horse thieves, than
which Muriel’s clan, in days past, were certainly
neither bolder nor more successful. Our people
must be on the alert and watch for these despe
radoes. They are not citizens, but robbers anil
outlaws; desperately had men whom to ban
upon the nearest tree after the3’ are caught, every
Southern man should teel to he a dutj' lie owe
to his native South and her fair fame. AVho
they are, from whence the3 r come, or whither
they go, we know not. A11 that we do know
and feel is that they will have but “ short shrift’
should they fall either iuto the hands of our an
thorities, or of any portion ot our people. In
either case, tlie3 T will pa3 r the penalty prescribed
by the law—death upon the gallows.
Ever3 r good citizen ot Atlanta, aud of Fulton
Count3 T , deeply s3'mpathises with Colonel Ben
teen and his lady, at the occurrences referred to.
That he will soon recover the property' that has
been stolen from him, is the earnest wish of us
alt. The following description of tiie horses
stolen may serve to aid in their recovery, and
also in the detection of the blood-thirst}' rob
bers.
Oue very fine roan mare, 15£ hands high, uu
shod, with mule foal seven weeks old ; one very
fine roan gelding, 15 hands 1 inch high, blaze in
face, spleudidl}' gaited, trots, paces, racks, &c.
on which horse was a line fair leather military
saddle; oue huge, raw-boned, dark bay geldin
16 hands high, trots weli, has had tail eaten by
mules, but ’tis growing outwell; one gray, near
ly white gelding, 15 hands high, little stiff in
liiud parts, branded U. 8., ou right side of neck
“ 8.”
See advertisement in another column, headed
“Four Hundred Dollars Reward.”
Tiie President and His Cabinet.
By various Northern sources, the position of the
President and his Cabinet, on tiie report of the
Congressional Committee on Reconstruction
thus set down. AVe copy from the New York
Sun which is, in substance, like tflfe others:
It is understod that in the Cabinet meeting, to
day, the President invited an expression of,opin
ion, from the heads of departments, respecting
the propositions reported on Monday last by the
Congressional Committee on Reconstruction. An
interesting and animated discussion is said to
have ensued, in which—it the rumor be true—
Secretary Seward declared himself, in very de
cided and emphatic terms, against the plan of
the Committee and in favor of the immediate
admission of loyal representatives from the late
ly rebellious States. Secretary McCulloch was
as positive as the Secretary of State in bis oppo
sition to the plan recommended by the Commit
tee, and expressed himself as strong in favor of
an immediate consummation of Jhe President’s
restoration policy, by the admission into Congress
of loyal men from the Southern States. Secre
tary Stanton was equally decided in his opposi
tion to the Committee’s a proposition ; he was
for adhering to the policy'which had been agreed
upon and consistently pursued by tbe Adminis
tration, and be was gratified that the President
had brought the subject to the consideration of
tiie Cabinet. Secretary Welles was unequivocal
ly against the Committee’s scheme, and was
earnest in his support ot the President’s policy
comprehending the instant admission into Con
gress of loyal Representatives from the States
lately in rebellion. Secretary Harlan was rather
reticent and expressed no opinion. Postmaster-
General Dennison was in favor of carrying out
the restoration policy' of the President, but press
ed some doubts as to tiie precise time at which
loyal Representatives from the Southern States
should be admitted to seats in Congress. Attor
ney-General Speed was not present at the meet
ing, beiug on a visit to his home ift Kentucky.—
The President was earnest in his opposition to
the report ot the Committee, and declared him
self against all conditions precedent to the ad
mission of loyal Representatives from the South
ern States in the shape of amendments to the
Constitution or by r the passage of laws. He
insisted that under the Constitution no State
could be deprived of its equal suffrage in the
Senate, and that Senators and Representatives
ought to be at once admitted into the respective
Houses, appointed by law and the Constitution.
He was for a rigid adherence to tiie Constitution
as it is, ami remarked that having sustained our-’
selves under it, during a terrible rebellion,
he thought that the Government could be re
stored without a resort to amendments. He re
marked, in general terms, that if the organic
law is to be changed at all, it should be at a time
when all the States, and all the people can par
ticipate in the alteration.
The Southern Cultivator.
We are in receipt of this valuable practical and
scientific monthly journal, published at Athens,
in this State, and edited by Messrs. D. Redmond
and W. N. White. The May number, dbw before
us, is of itself alone, well worth the subscription
price for a twelvemonth, which is only two dol
lars. Iis circulation, however, we are pleased to
notice, is rapidly increasing. With the extension
of mail facilities, it will doubtless attain its former
prosperity. The only agricultural monthly now
published in Georgia, it should be in the hands
of every firmer in the State.
the various railway lines. They have nothing
to hope lor now until next fall, and even then,
bad seed and the late freshets, leaves little doubt
that the cotton crop will fall short of the most
liberal estimates. The spring freshet is now upon
us. The Missouri river is said to be higher than,
it has been since 1844. The Mississippi at this
point has risen twelve inches in forty-eight hours;
it will take but little more to submerge the whole
Arkansas-shore, and this we are to expect, too,
for accounts from all the rivers above represent
them as rising rapidly. Few boats are running.
All the small up-river boats have been compelled
to lay up, being unable to stem the current.
The past season has been Temarkable for the
number of steamboat disasters—mostly explo
sions. The cause is said to be attributable to the
kind- of boiler (tubular) now in use, ;v and several
companies are having them taken out of their
steamers, to be re-placed by the old kind. I
have just learned of the explosion of the Mon
soon, en route from New Orleans to Cincinnati,
with a regiment of soldiers on board, scalding
and killing over two hundred.
The subject of direct railroad connection with
St. Louis is demanding the attention of our lead
ing men. At ii meeting of Ike Chamber of Com
merce, a lew days ago, resolutions were unani
mously adopted setting forth Hie importance of
such a connection, and calling on the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen to make a liberal subscrip
tion. This will be but an^xteusion of tbe Iron
Mountain Railroad, and Twll require but little
effort to secure its completion to this point. The
track of our street railroad is nearly all laid, aud
we expect to experience, in a lew days, some of
Hie inconvenience yon are put to in Atlanta with
your railroad passing through tiie heart of the
city. Street railroads are nuisances, and 1 am
glad to hear of their failure in several of the
smaller Northern cities.
Now that it is a settled fact that the cholera
lias reached this continent, y’ou can hear the
question asked every day, “Will you remain
when the cholera reaches us?” No one seems
to doubt that Memphis can escape. I can see
no preparations muring by the authorities,
though their attention lias been repeatedly called
to it for the past month or two. The health of
the city at present is good. Weather fine, but I
hope I ma}' tie excused for wishing lor some
Georgia water. J. B. L.
From the Salt Lake Vidette, April 4.
Crime In Etah-A “Gentile” Assassinated
in Salt Lake City.
From.time to time daring the past nineteen
years the people have been almost palsied with
the announcement of dark and fearful Crimes
committed within the limits of this territor}'.—
Crimes of the greatest magnitude aud of tiie
blackest character have been perpetrated, and in
no known instance have the guilt}' parties been
brought to the tribunal of justice. Tiie Moun
tain Meadow massacre, the Parish, Potter and
Forbes murders, the assassination of Sergeant
Pike on the main street of Salt Lake City, in
broad daylight, were all committed with an irn
punity and immunity from punishment, having
no parallel elsewhere in the country.
Last Monday evening the community was as
tounded by the intelligence of another (pul assas
sination committed on Theater street, only a few
steps east of Main street. The man who was
assassinated was known throughout Nevada, and
more particularly at Austin aud Reese River, as
one of the best and most reliable citizens of that
State.
A few days ago he was lawfully joined in mar
riage, hv Judge McCurd}', one of tiie Associate
Judges of the United States Courts in and for
this Territory, to a lady of this city, who was
claimed b}' the Mormon leaders as the wife iu
polygamy of a Mormon, now absent on a foreign
mission. This lady, by the sanction of law, and
by the authorit}’ of one of tiie highest legal offi
cers of the Territorj', abandoned the false posi
tion in which she had Ik4ii placed, and legally
joined herself in marriage with Squire Brasstield.
The lady, fearing that efforts would be made to
take her children float iter, caused a writ of ha
beas corpus to be issued from the United States
Court for the purpose of bringing her children
before it and obtaining a decision whether she
was entitled to the. custody of them or not Mr.
Brasstield was in court, with the connsel for him
self and wife, ft was then and there announced
to the court b}' Judge Snow that the case in is
sue involved the legal and constitutional right of
polygamy. Additional time being required, and
by mutual consent of both counsel, the case was
further postponed uutil ten a. in. this niornin^
and the court adjourned. Within half an hour
thereafter Brasstield, when within a few steps of
the hotel where tie resided, and when in com
pany of the United States Marshal, was shot in
the back, and within one hour from the time he
left the court house he was lying on his bed a
dead man, thus adding one more link to the al-
read}' long list of dark and bloody crimes now-
disgracing the history of Utah and yet awaiting
the advent of retributive justice.
AYe cannot clQse this hastily written article
without referring to the publicly expressed opin
ion of certain Mormons in this city that Brass-
field was justly punished by death, and that the
balance ot the Gentiles here would be served in
the same way if the}- were not careful.
Grant’s Visit to Ricumond.—The Herald's
special says General Graut’s visit to Richmond
was marked with many pleasing incidents and
gratifying results.
People flocked to see him in large numbers,
from curiosit}' no doubt, but during his stay he
was called upon respectfully by such persons as
Robert Ould, ex-rebel commissioner for tiie ex
change of prisoners; General Joseph Anderson,
of the Tredegar Iron Works; Mayor Mayo,
Generals Wickham and Henningsen, Judges
Lyons aud Meredith, Hill Carter, Walter Harri
son, and many other influential citizens. The
ladies also called upon Mrs. Grant freely, and
evety one who called manifested becoming feel
ings and sentiments. The railroad company
placed a special ear at liis disposal. The Spotts-
w< m id House assigned him a large suite of rooms;
the Bid lard House offered to do the same, and
evety one vied to contribute to his comfort and
pleasure. He dined once witli General Turner;
temporarily commanding, visited Fort Harrison
and other points of interest, and returned well
pleased with his visit.
From the La Crosse (Wis.) Democrat.
Circulate Democratic Newspapers.
Never since Boston Harbor was made a tea
pot was there so much need of circulating Demo
cratic newspapers as now. Tiie most wicked
element ever in the countty—the most crazy
hunger for place and power—the most unscru
pulous principles ever advanced, are now aboli-
tionizmg the land for the ruin of the people, the
t reating of a desperate and relentless aristoerac}-,
reckless and ignorant. B}' no means in the
world can the heresies of the party now partly
in power be so well and effectually combatted
as ly Democratic newspapers—those defenders
of the people and their rights. It is the dut}' ot
Democrats to make converts—to recover those
who have backsliden and who would return were
the}' shown the evils and iniquities'of the part}'
the}'have joined. Every .“loyal” officer of the
Government—every postmaster—ever}' tax gath
erer, aud they are counted by the thousands—
every crazy minister of the gospel—every seeker
for office is now an agent to distribute documents
striving to prove that negroes are better than
white meu—that excessive and oppressive taxa
tion is better than no taxation—that the poor
men should pay interest on bonds held by the
rich—that extravagance, corruption, trickery,
and dishonest}' are qualifications for office, and
that a great, black, overpowering national debt
is a national blessing.
All these doctrines must be fought down or
tiie country is ruined. Aud the weapons now
are (tens in the hands ot Democratic editors—
more powerful than the sword which failed to in
timidate them. These weapons backed by the
active democracy of the country, will yet redeem
the land and make the desolated spots bud aud
blossom with beauty and contentment. Read
Democratic papers. Circulate them. Subscribe
for them. AVhen you have read yours, exchange
with your neighbor, who takes one from some
other section. Keep a Democratic paper in your
house. Let your children have one to read. Let
the hired man and the apprentice have access to
Democratic truths. AYe do not ask you to sub
scribe for the La Crosse Democrat—for it may be
a little too earnest—more so than your weak
nerves will now bear. It may talk too plain.—
But we do ask you, in deep earnestness, to take
some one or more Democratic newspapers.—
This one may please you. There may be an
item in this one which will arrest the attentfo i
of some poor laboring man, who fought the b ti
tles of his country and is now called to pay his
taxes—to pay his own bounties, and support in
idleness those who are rich and hold United
States bonds—by a Republican Congress made
exempt from taxation. Aid your local papers.
Help those who stand true to the great prin
ciples. Do not tear up a democratic paper. Do
not hide it away. Point out this article and that
article. Place them in the hands of men that
they may have arguments and facts to contradict
the sophistries, falsehoods and pernicious teach
ings of papers edited only for money. If the
people of the country will read only half the
facts we shall, through this paper, present them
the coming year, there will be no more republi
can majorities. Circulate newspapers—not
homoepathic doses—but broadcast over the land
Do not wait till the week before an election and
then spend money for “circulars,” but begin iu
time and put facts in the heads and hearts of
those who have been duped long enough. * One
paper, making its daily or weekly visits to a fam
ily, is worth a ton of electioneering documents
We earnestly ask working, leading democrats
everywhere to take hold of this matter. Pat
ronize your home papers first; then, if you have
money to spare, send for one abroad—one which
is free, fearless, outspoken, and an earnest advo
cate of democracy. Then read and lend, and
tell your neighbor to read and lend. For one.
we intend the coming year, to hail a storm of
facts in the ranks of abolitionism, and let those
squirm who are the sufferers. And we are glad
to notice in all our true democratic exchanges
and they come to us from every State in the Un
ion, a growing disposition to handle the questions
of the day, and to speak of the sins ot the party-
in power in plainer words than ever before.
Democrats, if you love your country, if you care
for the people, circulate democratic papers.
TERRIBLE RIOT IN MEMPHIS.
Five Willies and TUrty Negroes Killed.
Burning of Negro Dwellings, School
Houses aud Churches!
A Nice Brace.
The French people, with all their sharpness
seem to be fully as victimisable as their neigh
bors, and there have lately been half a dozen
marriages contracted, or nearly so, with girls of
honorable families, by clever swindlers, native
and foreign. The first of these was a handsome
and fashionable looking personage, who called
himself the Baron de Laucy, and contrived to
marry a young lady of good family, on whom he
had succeeded in passing himself off as the lin
eal descendant of an old house that boasts of
royal alliances in past days. The Baron, how
ever, had no sooner got possession of liis wife’s
fortune than he began to squander it shamefully;
the remonstrances of his bride were met with
brutal retorts, and one unlucky day, when the
unhappy young Baroness ventured on a represen
tation rather stronger than usual, the Baron went
off into a fury, poured out a torrent of the most
vulgar oaths, and bringing a horsewhip into play
upon the -shoulders of the Baroness, displayed so
peculiar a talent in the use of that instrument
that the latter immediately perceived that her
husband could be no other than a circus-groom,
as, indeed, was abundantly proved in the course
of the investigation which followed this terrible
discovery, when it was ascertained that the fasci
nating Baron was one of tiie grooms of the cir
cus in the Champs Elysees. The hero of the
second of these adventures called himself Prince
Kalimachi, and allowed himself to be supposed
to have arrived in Marseilles from Turkey, on a
diplomatic mission. Struck with the charms of
a young lady of Marseilles, the daughter of a
rich merchant, the Prince pressed his suit, and
was accepted. Preparations for the wedding
were made on a magnificent scale, and the town
was ransacked to furnish a splendid corheiUe for
the bride. A day or two after the one fixed for
the wedding, tiie lady’s brother bethoughAiim
of inquiring after his future brother-in-law at tiie
Turkish embassy in Paris, and learned that no
Prince Kalimachi was known there. Tiie mar
riage was postponed, and a few further inquiries
led to the discovery that the Prince, who had
procured “upon tick” all the splendid things he
had presented to the bride elect, was*a convict
who had escaped from the hulks of Constantino
ple. *A third of the adroit rogues who have been
occupying the attention ot the police and the
public is an English pickpocket named Huirne,
who has actually succeeded in passing himself
off as Prince Etienne-Louis-Charles de Crony-
Chanel, marrying under this title, borrowed from
one of the noblest old liouses of France, a young
lady of good standing, and finding credulous
tradesmen to give-him credit for several months.
But for the debts thus contracted, payment being
at last required, the truth was discovered. The
sharper is in prison, but the unfortunate girl, ac
cording to French law, is none the less his legal
wife.—Boston Post.
Foreign Items.
The steamship Hermann, from Southampton
on the 17th of April, arrived here on Saturday
night, with two days’ later from Europe.
The Africa’s mails also reached the Postoffice
yesterday morning.
The Tarifa arrived on^Sunday, April 15. The
Hemisphere, from New York, arrived at Liver
pool, April 15. The Norfolk, from Australia,
has arrived with £75,000.
The preparations ou board the Great Eastern
for receiving the new Atlantic cable have been
completed, and the storing away of the cable in
the tanks commenced on Saturday' At the end
of June or the beginning of July, the Great
Eastern will commence laying the cable.
The fleet for the coast of North America con
sists of twenty-six ships, aggregating a steam
power equal to 6,680 horses, 443 guns, 32,269
tons, and manned by 5,288 officers and men. The
fleet will shortly be reinforced by the Jason, 17
guns, 1,711 tons, and 275 men ; and tiie Barra-
couta, 6 guns, 300 horse power, 1,053 tons, and
175 men.
A telegram from St. Petersburg announces that
an attempt to assassinate the Emperor of Russia
was made at 4 P. M. on the 16th. The Emperor
Alexander was entering his carriage to take liis
usual drive, when an unknown individual fired
a pistol at him. The ball missed its aim. The
police are investigating the matter.
Another new large iron screw steamer, similar
to the ill-fated London, is believed to have foun
dered, with every soul on board. She was the
Nerbudda, 1,357 tons register, commanded by
Captain Hardy, belonging to the Bombay and
Bengal Steam Shipping Company, and was con
sidered a first-class steamship, having been built
under special survey of Lloyd’s surveyors She
sailed from Liverpool for Bombay on the 18th of
November last, with a crew of aliout fifty hands.
There is no doubt she encountered the lull fury
of those disastrous gales which, from that time
until tiie month of January, swept the Atlantic.
The Montreal Herald of Monday says : “Dr.
Slayter, one of the physicians who volunteered
to attend the cholera patients on the England,
was taken ill on Monday morning, and died of
that disease on Tuesday night. The other Hali
fax medical men, who were in the Quarantine
hulk Pyramus, containing the patients, report
the disease to be * Asiatic cholera in its worst
form.’ Two other doctors, Garrie and Gossip,
were attacked with; the disease, but have recover
ed. Eight of the passengers made their escape
from the Quarantine ship, and it was feared they
might spread the disease. Three casese of chole
ra have been reported at Halifax. Rev. Mr. AIc-
lsaac, a Catholic priest of that city had an at
tack, but at the last dates by mail was recover
ing.”
A negro woman in Tennessee fed her hogs
with her babies.
Dreadful State of Affairs.
AYe give below accounts of the terrible tragedy
in Memphis, which we take from our exchanges
of that city. The Post of May 2d says:
Yesterday, late in the afternoon, a most serious
disturbance occurred in South Memphis. The
cause of the difficulty we could not clearly ascer
tain. One version is that some discharged col
ored soldiers who were drunk, seeing a police
man near by, fell upon him and killed him. The
police, joined bv some citizens, are said then to
have made an indiscriminate attack upon the
negroes in that neighborhood. Another version
is that a Jew peddler was rubbed of bis pack by
the negroes, and that the collision occurred while
the policemen were searching for the goods.
However it may have been brought on, a large
number of negroes were soon exchanging shots
with an equally large bodv ot citizens aud po
licemen. It was estimated that three thousand
citizens were on the ground at one time. The
excitement ran high and spread throughout the
city. The -Sheriff and Mayor called upon the
citizens to arm themselves aud put down the ne
groes. General Stoneman, however, established
a patrol and disarmed the citizens, who w r ere
crowding to the scene of the disturbance. Ne
groes who knew nothing of the riot were, iu sev
eral cases, iu different parts of the city, beaten to
death or shot down in cold blood. The colored
people fled the streets. AYe saw a large crowd
of citizens at the corner ot Jefferson and Main
streets, shooting -at a passing negro. Another
crowd, near by, got bold of a negro buy ot tour-
teen or fifteen, and neail}>it not quite, beat him
to death. It is a wonder that, not more whites
lost their lives by the w ild shooting along the
streets.
Henry Dunn, engineer ot engine number three,
is said to have been killed. Policeman Slatterly
is said to have been wounded, li is reported
that two policemen were killed and several
wounded. It is also reported tiiat fifteen negroes
were killed, and many more bruised and wound
ed. The following arrests of negroes were made
for connection with the disturbance: Jim Posey,
Jim Rashev, Joe Brown, Alfred Turner, Andy,
Mills, Dan Lofton, Peter Johnson, Solomon Pick
ett, a negro who afterwards died. YVe regret to
hear that some of those arrested were, after be
ing taken into custody, nearly beaten to a jelly.
We saw one with liis bead covered with gashes,
bruises and blood, discharged from the station
house, there being no ground of complaint
against him. Let the law be vindicated, and
justice be meted out on whomsoever it may
tall.
The Appeal of May the second has a short ac
count of the outbreak, iu which its origin is thus
stated:
“ The origin ot the fight, as we are informed,
was a disturbance amongst the negro soldiers,
who have just been paid off and were drinking
very freely, who commenced a free fight amongst
themselves. Policeman Carroll and three others
of tiie force w 7 ere standing on the corner of Main
street, and walked toward the rowdy blacks, but
without interfering in any way. After passing
llie bridge on South street, they turned to retrace
their steps, when the negroes commenced brick-
batting the officers, and not content with this,
also fired two or three pistol shots. On this the
officers returned the tire, and the advance of the
negroes was temporarily checked.
From the same paper we clip the correspond
ence between Mayor Park and General Stone-
man, in regard to co-operation on the part of
the military force under the command of the lat
ter :
Mayor’s Office, Citv of Memphis, )
May 1, 1S6G. f
General : There is an uneasiness in the pub
lie mind, growing out of the occurrences of to
day, which would be materially calmed if there
was an assurance of military co-operation with
the civil police in suppressing all disturbances of
the public peace. I should be happy to have it
in my power to give this assurance at once. It
would intimidate the lawless and serve to allay
the apprehensions of the orderly.
I therefore request that you will order a
force of at least two liuudred men, commanded
by discreet officers, to be held ready to co-ope
rate with the constabulary force ot this city, in
case of any further continued lawlessness.
I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, John Park, Mayor.
Headquarters Department of Tennessee, (
Memphis, Teun., May 1, 1866. J
Hon. John Park, Memphis, Tenn :
Dear Sir : I am in receipt of yours of this
instant. In reply I have the honor to inform
you that the small force of regular infantry sta
tioned at the post, in all not more than one hun
dred and fifty strong, will be directed to hold
themselves in readiness to co-operate with the
civil authorities of Memphis, “ in case of further
continued lawlessness.”
This force is in camp in the fort, where you
can communicate wit h the commanding officer in
case you shall find that yon need his assistance
and support. I should prefer tiiat the troops be
called upon only in case of an extreme necessity,
of which you must be the judge.
* I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
(Signed) George Stoneman,
Maj. Gen. Commanding.
The Bulletin, of May 2d, gives the following
highly colored and partisan account of the origin
and progress of the riot:
There were at least half a dozen rumors rela
tive to the origin of the riot, but the real origin
appears to have been as follows: A negro was
driving a wagon along South street afiout the
time referred to above,■which came into collision
with another vehicle of which a young man
(white) was in charge. Words passed between
the pair as to who was to blame for the collision;
and finding that they were unable to settle 4hc
matter by words, an appeal was made to their
whips, which they used most freely over each
other’s shoulders. No one appears to he able to
tell who struck tbe first blow, but this was for
gotten in tiie learful consequences that ensued.
While the altercation was going on, several ne
groes interfered, and the young man was in se
rious danger Of being maltreated, when a police
man fortunately made his appearance at the
scene of action. lie made an attempt to seize
the negro who was using his whip, when a pistol
was leveled at his head. He promptly drew his
revolver, and two other members of the force
came to his assistance. The riot then became
general, negroes flocked to the spot in great num
bers, who commenced firing at the policemen
and at citizens indiscriminately, and one of the
officers fell mortally wounded at the first volley,
being shot through the groin with a bullet from
a pistol in the hands of a negro, who fired while
only a few paces from the unfortunate police
man. The other officers nobly stood their
ground although almost overwhelmed by num
bers.
In a few- minutes, however, they were rein
forced by members of the fire brigade belonging
to No. 2 fire engine, from tbe Shelby street sta
tion. By this time tbe tiring had become gen
eral, and a large crowd had collec ted at the place.
Air. Henry Dunn, engineer of No. 3 steamer,'ac
companied by liis brother firemen, went gal
lantly to the support of the officers, and while
doing all in his power to quell the riot, lie fell
to tiie earth .mortally wounded, being shot
through the head by a negro. The wound was
a fearful one, and the brain protruded front the
aperture made by the bullet. The firemen, who
were armed with liose-keys and revolvers, after
carrying their wounded comrade into an adjacent
drug store, where he received ever}' attention,
but which was of no avail, returned to the sup
port of their comrades and the officers. Alany
citizens from the adjoining streets joined in the
affray, and by well directed volleys several ne
groes, who had taken an early part in the riot,
were slain.
At this time (six o’clock) the riot was at its
bight, and Officers Slattery and Mallon, the only
policemen who had arrived on the ground, had
fallen severely wounded. In the meantime a
message had been dispatched to the police office
for reinforcements, aud fortunately Air. Sheriff
Winters happened to be iu tbe office at the time.
He got into a vehicle and rode down at a rapid
rate to the navy yard, to solicit, from Alajor Gen
eral Stoneman, the General commanding this
district, the assistance of the troops under his
command to quell the riot. Sheriff AVinters
states that General Stoneman replied, when
he made the request of him, that as the citi
zens of Memphis had petitioned to have the
troops removed from the city, they would be
compelled to protect themselves tbe best they
cqpid, as he had no troops at his disposal for tiiat
purpose. The duty having devolved on the
Sheriff to quell the disturbance, he took the most
prompt measures to do so. He returned without
delay to the station, summoned all the policemen
he could procure, and, accompanied by Captain
C. G. Garrett, Chief of Police, the men were
marched to the scene of action. As they moved
along the streets at the “double-quick,” Sheriff
Winters summoned every citizen whom lie met
to take his place in the column, in order that he
might have an efficient posse comitatus to put
down the riot vi et armis if it were necessary. As
they passed along they met many affrighted citi
zens coming into the city for assistance, who re-
ported the mob of negroes to be of the most
formidable dimensions. Sheriff Winters and
Captain Garrett gave orders to their men to be
prepared for any emergency. Revolvers were
got out, and when the officers reached tiie ground
they found the negroes drawn up in almost line
of battle. All, or nearly all, were in uniform,
and each one was armed with a revolver. The
officers were saluted with a volley on their arri
val, which they quickly returned, doing some
good execution. A negro who seemed to act as
the ringleader, fell at the first Are, This caused
a general stampede to be made by tbe negroes,
w'ho were closely pursued by tbe officers, tiring
rapidly. At this juncture, a policeman in pur
suit of a negro who had been an active partici
pant in the affray, observed Judge Leonard on
horseback, and going up to him menacingly, pis
tol in hand, ordered him to go in pursuit of the
colored individual, who was running at a rapid
rate down the street. Judge Leonard immedi
ately went oft in pursuit, but the negro sought
the shelter of a cabin near at band and escaped.
Sheriff AYinters, with his psjsse, then proceed
ed to scour the streets with the men under his
command, and ordered all the negroes to return
to their dwellings, which all did promptly, fear
ful of the consequences if they dared to disobey
the order. The riot, which had attained most
formidable dimensions, was thus promptly quell
ed. While tbe Sheriff' and Captain Garrett were
scouring the streets with their forces, a captain
of the regular army, with a portion of a com
pany belonging to the Sixteenth regiment of re
gulars, arrived on the ground. One or two shots
were tired by the negroes alter the military made
their appearance, but the sight of their fixed
bayonets, and the determined beariug of the
posse comitatus, caused them to fly, without loss
of time, to their dwellings in the vicinity.
The -posse and the military kept possession of
the street till between 8 and 9 o’clock, when they
returned to their quarters. The greatest excite
ment pervaded the city during the entire night,
and the sight of a negro on the street was the
signal to make a sally for him. One negro was
shot in the neighborhood of the Gayoso House,
but not mortally wounded, about 7 o’clock in the
evening. Another received a bullet through the
leg near Court Square. About 9 o’clock, while
a negro was walking along Main street, he got
iuto an altercation with a white man, and drew
a pistol on him. A shot was fired by one of the
by-standers, and the negro rushed along Alain
street at a fearful rate, followed by a large crowd.
Several shots were fired, but tiie negro escaped
with a slight wound.
The Fenians—Head Center Stevens In the
Paris Salons.
[Paris Correspoudeuce Loudon Times.]
If the object of Mr. Stevens, (the Head Center)
in coming to Paris was to attract general atten
tion, to his cause or his person, it lias proved a
failure. Some years back this would, not have
been the case. He would probably have been
the admired of the faubourgs and the favored
guest in democratic banquets. His portrait, or
what purports to be his portrait, appears, indeed,
in the Monde Illustre, in a few shop windows, or
in a kiosk of the Boulevards, and his name lias
been mentioned two or three times iu the chron-
ique of one or two evening papers. But few stop
to look at the portrait, aud few read the gossip.
The French pronounce the word “FeniSii” as
they do “Faineant,” and appear to attach the
same meaning to both. Now, “Faineant” means
a lazy, good-tor-nothing person, aud no French
man is flattered by such a designation. A writer
who declares that he speut some hours in his
company a few evenings ago “at tiie house of an
illustrious academician, who desired to surprise
life guests by the presence ot one who at this mo
ment causes such disgust to the English govern
ment,” thus relates his impression. He says:
“The evening I saw him he was elegantly
dressed, observing, throughout, a modest de
meanor ; waiting to be addressed before speaking
to any one, and answering all questions put to
him in a simple and natural manner. When
asked for details as to liis arrest, his imprison
ment, and his plans, he said: ‘Aly arrest took
place because 1 wished it. For many hours I
knew that tiie police were on my track, and it
was my pleasure to be arrested, in order to pro fc
that I could escape with the greatest case. Wbile
in prison I was treated with the utmost regard.
I wanted tor nothing, and in this respect I can
not too highly praise tiie English government.
But it was absolutely necessary to depart. 1 had
expressed my desire to do so to a person of whom
I was sure, with whom an unexpected circum
stance put me in communication, and the prison
doors, so to speak, stood open to me. I do not
know whether any one meant to stop me, but I
saw around me only accomplices.’ ‘But once
out of prison,’ observed a listener, ‘how did you
manage to leave Ireland ?’ ‘Once out of prison,
I fled to the country. Alouey and a revolver
were given me. I then heard tiiat a large re-
waid ot £40,000 was offered tor me, ami that
any one who discovered me was to bring me to
Dublin, dead or alive. I remained, up to the
time of my getting on board ship, in the coun
try, living during the day in a hut, and going out
at night to reach another. In every place where
I took refuge I was well known. Indeed, I was
expected there. Notwithstanding the large sum
offered by the government for my apprehension,
nobody offered to inform against me; and this
single tact proves that Ireland was at my dispo
sal.’ ‘And now what are your plans ?’ ‘I am
going to America for an army of two hundred
thousand men, #ho are expecting me, and I will
return with them to deliver Ireland, my country,
from the British yoke.’ ”
A Living; Grave.
MAN in a trance—remarkable escape from
A LIVING GRAVE.
The Cleveland Herald relates the following as
occurring in that city:
A young German, recently married to a hand
some lady of very respectable parentage, was
taken suddenly ill at his place of business last
Friday. He was placed in a carriage and taken
to liis residence on Erie street, where he laid in
great agony until Sunday, when the disease so
prostrated his physical powers that he lay mo
tionless upon the bed, while weeping friends sur
rounded the couch. To all appearances he was
dead, and it was so decided. ^
Arrangements were about to be made for the
interment, when the young wife, feeling that she
could not give him up so soon, insisted that the
funeral be postponed until Tuesday morning.
To gratify the woman thus brought so speedily
to mourn the loss of her husband, the funeral
was postponed. The disconsolate wife spent
most of the day on Alonday in the same room
with the corpse, weeping as though her heart
would break, and still clinging to the idea that
he could not be dead.
About twilight on Alonday evening, when ev
erything about the house was perfectly quiet, ex
cept wlieu the stillness was broken by the sighs
of the bereaved widow, there being but few per
sons in tiie room, tbe body seemed to move. It
was but a slight motion, yet sufficient to arrest
the attention of one tearful eye.
When the wife insisted that life was not ex
tinct, tiiat the body did move, her friends became
anxious about her reason and tried to divert her
mind from the sorrowful scene. Two long hours
were spent in conversation, the friends urging
that she was deceived, possibly by the flickering
light, as the shadows it cast might liaye produced
the effect she described to vitality.
The feeling of that little circle of devoted
friends is known only to themselves and Him
whose all-seeing eye visits the intimate recesses
of our hearts. During the conversation all eyes
involuntarily rested upon the habiliments of the
grave and the features of him whom they sup
posed would soon become one ot its occupants.
At the end of the two hours a slight movement
was perceived by all the party. The scene which
followed can never be described.
The wife clung to tiie motionless form of her
husband, alternately weeping and begging Lim
to speak just one word, while the friends wept
for joy, hastened tor a physician, alarmed the
servants by their strange conduct, and presented
a scene of confusion generally. When tiie phy
sician arrived, the friends were assembled about
the living man, suggesting and applying all the
restoratives ever heard or dreamed ot by,any of
the party, while the wife, overwhelmed with
joy, and completely worn out with excessive ex
citement, had swooned away and was tying at
the side of her husband in the same death-like
stillness that had embraced liis form but a few
moments before.
The physician took the necessary steps to re
store the woman anil resuscitate the niun, which
was speedily accomplished in both cases, and, as
we write to-day, the woman is joyous and hap-
py, while the man thinks liis escape from a liv
ing grave one ot the marked features of his life.
Texas Politics.—The following is the prob
able conservative ticket for State officers in
Texas :
For Governor, J. AY. Throckmorton, of Collin.
Lieutenant Governor, G. Washington Jones, of
Bastrop.
Attorney Ganeral, AI. G. Alunson, of Brazoria
Comptroller, W. L. Robards, of Travis.
Treasurer, Mark Royston, of Washington.
Commissioner General Land Office, Stephen
Crosby, of Travis.
Supreme Court, G. F. Moore, of Travis; G. W
Smith, of Colorado; Ed. Coke, of McLennan;
M. P. Hill, of Marshal; Stockton P. Conly of
Cherokee.
The following
ticket:
For Governor, E. M. Pease, of Travis.
Lieutenant Governor, B. H. Epperson, of Red
River.
Attorney General, C. C. Binkley, of Grayson.
Comptroller, James H. Shaw, of Burleson.
Treasurer, Samuel Harris, of Travis.
Commissioner General Land Office, Francis M.
White, of Jackson.
Supreme Court, Wm. E. Jones, ot Bexar- J.
II. Bell, of Williamson; Colbert Caldwell, of
Grimes; Wm. Steadman, of Rusk; Wm. II.
Johnson, of Lamar.
Tiie election takes place on-the first Alonday in
June.—Sew Orleans Times.
A person was boasting that lie had never
spoken the truth. “Then,” added another, “you
have now done it for the first time.”
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