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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, June 13, I see.
DUIrinrhlaenirnt.
In lieu of the original third aection of the Rad
ical Reconstruction programme, as it passed the
House of Representatives of tlieCongTess of the
United States, the Senate adopted the following:
Sec. 3. That no person shall be a Senator or
Representative in Congress, or elector of Presi
dent or Vice-President, or hold any office, civil
or military, under the United States, or under
any State.'who, having previously taken an oath
as a member of any State Legislature, or as an
executive or judicial officer oi any State, to sup
port the Constitution ot the United States, shall
have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against
the same, or given aid and comfort to the ene
mies thereof. But Congress may, hf a vote ol
two-thirds of each House, remove such disability
Commenting upon this section, the Washing
ton City National Intelligencer says:
The number that will lie included in the above
list in a State would be enormous. We could by
a legibility conceive of a high-toned people, un
der some circumstances of overwhelming public
1 iccessity, abnegating lor a time indefeasible rights,
though the mass of them would not expose oth
ere—their peers—or even men of greater years
and honors—to attain for themselves a disreputa
bly procured bad eminence. But this is just
what the people of the late rebel States are asked
to do—/. e., to proscribe a large portion of their
own citizens. They might say to the public ex
ecutioners in Congress, strike the blow as you
please and upon whom you please, but save us
from shooting down our neighbors as felons.
We are not sufficiently familiar with the text
ure of Southern governmental establishments to
know what portion of the people of the several
Suites would lie brought to degradation by the
imagined success of the Senatorial rescript. The
case of Maryland would probably apply to all.
So considered, how many persons in the city of
Baltimore would be proscribed? How many
men are there in that city, for instance, who, be
fore the rebellion, had, in some sort of office, Stale or
national, meant to support the Confutation of the
United States? Some thousands, we imagine.
Including former municipal officers of all kinds,
are there uot several thousand in the State_cl
Maryland who would come under the proscrip
tive axeV What classes would lie included un
dcr the ban V Certainly all who have been Gov
ernors, State executive officials, Senators and
Assemblymen, with their officers; judges, mag
istrutei), sheriffs and their deputies, clerks of
courts, constables, district attorneys, commission
ers of all kinds, assessors, collectors, and perhaps
militia officers.
What is said of Maryland, in the foregoing, is
applicable to Georgia, and every other Southern
State. The number that is disfranchised in every
one of them is truly “ enormous.” The section
might as well have stood ns it was, and the States
left to be cont rolled as was originally intended, by
the//io radicals who inhabit them ; for the section
as it now stands virtually deprives the States of
t he services and counsels of their wisest, most ex
perienced, and best men, in all that pertains to
national offices or national legislation. Under
the section referred to, the Southern States will
not lie represented—men may be elected from
1 he South to Congress, and appointments to of
fice of men hailing from the South, may be made,
but they will necessarily be men with North
ern radical principle*; mere tools in the
hands of the Sumncr-Stevens party. Like the
original third section, the amendment adopted by
the Senate is an outrageous“assault upon civil
liberty ; a measure reflecting disgrace upon those
who adopted, and who would impose it upon the
Southern States. As the National Intelligencer
truly remarks, “ the exactions of the Congres
sional jurists in the Senate, degrade and shame
huuiun uuture itself.”
The Progress or Atlanta.
The well known “ Aristides ” now of the
Augusta Chronicle <& Sentinel, who was recently
in this city, in a letter to that pa|KT, dated the
4tli instant, thus refers to its progress:
My brief stay in Atlanta only affords me time
to endorse all that your corresjmndent, “Warren,’
lias said of the astonishing progress of the place
during the last few months. Much is still doing,
and to be done, to restore the city to its lormer
position. Progress is stamped on every feature
of the city. Some twenty buildings are now
going up, and many more under contract. Trade
just now Ls dull, but all look forward with hope
ful confidence to the fari. A sea of new faces
swell the thoroughfares, among whom I caught
glimpse of a few that were familiar. Adair, Cox,
Leyden, Eddie man, Robson, Bell, and others are
still here, with the \ erdereys, Ziifltnerman, Purse,
and some others from our city, all confident that
Atlanta is and must be the “hub” of the State.—
The last time I was here, just liefore Sherman
commenced shelling out his favors, the shrill
voice of uncle Bill}’ Hill—the Nestor of auction
eers—was singing out from Kile’s corner. It
was “going,” “going,” and the next day lie was
“gone, ’ and Kile’s corner and all the balance of
the corners went soon after. Passing along the
street to-day, what should I hear but the same
clear voice of uncle Billy, at the same old Kile
comer, in a bran new building, “going,” “going,”
as liefore. He is 78 years old—as hale and
vigorous as a man of 4o—working, as he says, to
feed the widowed and orphaned children and
grandchildren which the war has brought to the
paternal roof, and he works with a will and
cheerful good humor, worthy of imitation by the
young and old croakers who crowd our towns
and villages. May this kind old patriarch be
spared to wield his hammer for years, liefore it
shall lie said that he is “gone.”
In no respect is the spirit of enterprise more
marked anil creditable than in the press of the
cit}’. The Intelligencer and New Era, are models
of typographical taste, and are creditable daily
journals in all respects. The Ladies' Home is a
handsome new weekly by Dr. Powell, the first
number of which appeared last week. It is de
signed as an organ for the female talent ol the
South, and the proceeds are to lie devoted to the
erection of a home for invalid ladies—a scheme
long cherished by the philanthropic projector of
this journal, and which w T e sincerely hope he
will lie able to accomplish. Mrs. L. Virginia
French, a lady of national repute, is the editress
of the Home, and the price is five dollars a year.
Ever}’ lady in the South may make good use of
her “pin money,” by dispensing with some little
f ew-gaw’, and subscribing for the Home." Jas.
T. Ells ol your city, is the general agent. Scott's
Monthly is a creditable periodical, published
here, and there Ls nowhere in the country a re
ligious paper superior to the Christian Index and
Southwestern Baptist, of which that eminent
schoior Rev. Dr. H. H. Tucker, is the editor.
The Fenian Attempt and Failure.
Wo were unprepared to hear of the Fenian in
vasion of Canada when the telegraphic wires
first communicated that intelligence to us. It
appeared to ns to be so bold, so hazardous, nay,
so reckless an exploit, fraught with so much ot
certain dangc-r to the “ rank and file ” engaged
in it, and ol imprisonment and death to the lead
ers in the expedition, that w T e could hardly real
ize the truth ot it, until succeeding telegrams
confirmed- and added to the intelligence. It is
all over now, however, and our sad anticipations
have been more than realized. Tlie Fenian lead
ers wlio led the expedition into Canada, surely
were ignorant of the attitude this Government
would be forced to assume in preserving its neu
trality, and in fulfillment of its treaty stipula
tions with Great Britain. If they were not, then
they must have over-estimated their strength,
their resources, and the encouragement they
would receive on the Canadian side. Be this as
it may, we sympathize with their enthusiastic
and deluded followers, and trust that those of
them who may survive and reach their homes,
will profit by the sad lesson the failure of the
rasli expedition has taught them, and learn from
the position -which this government was bound
to assume, and has assumed, and which is em
braced in the following proclamation of the
President and circular of the Attorney General
of the Unired States to the Marshals thereof, how
hopeless such feeblo expeditions must be :
PROCLAMATION BY TITE PRESIDENT.
Whereas, it bus been known to me that certain
evil disposed persons have, within the territory
and jurisdiction ot the United States, began and
set on foot, and have provided and prepared, and
are still engaged in providing and preparing,
means for such military expedition and enter
prise, which expedition and enterprise is to be
carried on from the territory and jurisdiction of
the United States, against the colonies, districts
and people ot British North America, within the
dominion of the United Kiugdomot Great Brit
ain auil Ireland, which said colonies, districts
and people and Kingdom are at peace, and
Whereas, the proceedings aforesaid constitute
a high misdemeanor, forbidden by the laws of na
tions, now, therefore, for the purpose of prevent
ing the carrying out of the unlawful expedition
and enterprise aforesaid, from the territory and
jurisdiction of the United States, and to maintain
the public peace as well as the national honor,
and euforce obedience and respect, to the laws ot
the United States, 1, Andrew Johusau, President
of the United States, admonish and warn all
good citizens ot the United Slates agaiust taking
part, nr in any wise aidiiig or abetting said unlaw
ful proceedings, and I do exhort all judges, mag
istrates, marshals, and officers iu the service of
the United States, to employ all lawful authority
aud power to prevent and defeat the aforesaid
unlawful proceedings, and to arrest and tiring to
justice all persons who may be engaged therein.
And in pursuance to an act of Congress in such
cases wade and provided, I do furthermore au
thorize and empower Major-General G. G. Meade,
commander ot the military district of the Atlan
tic, to employ the land and naval forces of the
United States, and the military thereof, to pre
vent the setting on foot aud earning on of the
expedition and'enterprise aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States to
lie affixed. Done at the city of Washington,
this 6th day of Jane, in the year of our Lord
1866, and of the independence of the United
States the 90tli. (Signedi A Johnson.
By the President, Wm. H. Seward, Secretary
of State.
Attorney Generai.’s Office, Washing
ton, June 6,1866.—By direction ot the President,
you are hereby instructed to cause the arrest of
all prominent,' leading or conspicuous persons
called Fenians, who you may have probable cause
to believe have been or may be guilty ot viola
tion of the neutrality laws ot the United States.
James Speed, Att’y Gen’l.
Bale* of Practice in the County Courts.
Judge Russell, of the County Court of Chat
ham County, recently appointed a committee
composed of members ot the Savannah bar to
report “rules ol practice” for his Court, which
committee reported as follows:
“The undersigned committee appointed hy
your Honor to examine the Law constituting the
County Court, and to determine whether your
Honor can adopt rules to govern the practice of
your court, and if so, what rules we consider ne
cessary ami proper to be adopted, having care
fully examined the subject, respectfully report
that, in their opinion, your Honor is not author
ized to make any rules, nor change or modify
the Rules of Practice of the Superior Court,
which are by law made the rules of your court,
unless specially excepted. The power to make
rules is vested in the Judges of the Superior
Court in convention, and to no others. Whether
any of the Rules of Practice of the Superior
Court are applicable or not, is a question ol law,
to be determined by your Honor when the case
is specially brought before you,”
Engllali aud French Flour.
liuiMirtations of flour from England and France
are being made into the United States. It is
stated that on the 18th ultimo, the American
Consul at Liverpool, wrote as follows:
Some two weeks ago I advised you oi the
shipment from this port to New York, of some
fifteen thousand bushels of wheat. I now have
to inform the Department of State that the City
of Cork, which sails to-morrow, takes as freight,
four hundred and ninety-eight casks of French
wheat flour, valued at one thousand and forty-
six pounds sterling. I think this is the first in
stance of the shipment of French flour from this
port for the United States, and probably the first
time flour has ever been shipped as merchandise
from Europe to America.
It is evident from the foregoing, that the sup
ply ot wheat in England and France is great, and
that neither of them will be a market this year
for Northern or Western flour. Hence the price
of that article must fall. Perhaps, however, the
importations referred to may only be experi
ments—tests of the quality, and whether French
and English flour can compete as to price with
American in the New York market, successfully,
yielding a profit to the millers in those two for
eign countries. Be this as it may, the fact that
a superabundance of wheat has been groWta in
France and England, is evident, and flour must
come down. In the present condition of the
Southern States, this is welcome news, however
unpleasant it may be to holders of the article
wlio have stored it away anticipating higher
prices than it now commands, or to the Western
growers of wheat. The foregoing announce
ment of the American Consul at Liverpool, we
notice also, lias created some sensation in the
West.
Wliat Will Be Bone With the Fenians ?
In the New’ York Express we notice the follow
ing, copied from one of its New York cotempo
raries, which, though it does not fully answer the
query at the head of this notice, presents some
points of interest bearing upon the cases of those
of the Fenians who have been arrested by our
government, and upon the Extradition Treaty,
the stipulations of which demand their arrest:
“ What will be done with them ? We suppose
they will be held until it is seen whether the
British authorities demand their surrender under
the Extradition Treaty. The crimes included in
that treaty are murder, or assault with intent to
commit murder, or piracy, or robbery, or arson,
or forgery, or the utterance of forged papers.
The charge under which these escaped Fenians
will be demanded, if at all, will be either murder
or robbery—murder in taking the life of Cana
dian subjects, or robbery in forcibly seizing their
property. VV hether either charge could be sus
tained is open to doubt. Killing in self-defence"
is not murder; and the Fenians did not fire till
they were first tired upon. Manslaughter is not
included in the treaty. At any rate, it will not
be for the British government, but for the Amer-
can judges, to decide whether these men are lia
ble to rendition under the treaty. They can be
surrendered only after an examination before a
judge, and on his certificate; and the rule laid
down in the treaty lor his guidance, is, that the
surrender shall be made “only upon such evi
dence of criminality as, according to the laws of
the place where the person or fugitive shall be
found, would justify his apprehension and com
mitment if the’offence had been there committed.”
If the British government should not demand
these escaped Fenians, or our judges should de
cide that they are not liable to surrender, they
arc subject to trial aud punishment for the viola
tion of our own laws. Every person engaged in
setting on foot a military expedition within our
territory, "against any prince, or state, or any
colony, district, or people, with whom the United
States are at peace,” is liable to three thousand
dollars flue, and three years’ imprisonment.
Blnnte of Points Bedded by the Supreme
Court ot the State—June Term, 1866.
We are indebted to Col. F. G. Grif.ve, for
the following minutes of points decided by the
Supreme Court of this State, now in sessiou at
MilledgeviHe, during the past week .-
Hii.l i In this ease, the legality of the
vs. levy might lie enquired into on
DeLaunay. ) motion, and an affidavit of illegal
ity was unnecessary.
Gresham j Garnishment could not issue on
/-A'. ^ the 24th of March, 1866, upon affi-
DeLaunay. ) davit made before a Justice of the
Inferior Court, the 2d clause of section 287 ot the
code, having been repealed by an act approved
March 17th, 1866.—Judgment Reversed.
Cothran A Black i That complainant, on a
vs. t- certain day, called on de-
Scanlon. ) fendant and offered to pay
him what the amount of principal and interest
on the note in Confederate money would have
been worth iu specie at the maturity of the note,
upon condition that the defendant would make
titles, <Src., is not a sufficient allegation of tender.
—Judgment Reversed.
Hood & Robinson j The plaintiffs, as a co
ca partnership iu the practice
Ware. j law, sued the defendant for
a fee.
1st. The evidence ot their employment was,
that the answer of the defendant to an action of
divorce brought against him by his wife, was in
tlte hand w riting of one of the plaintiffs, and
was signed by them, in connection with other
counsel, as his attorneys; and that the affidavit
to the truth of the answer which was sworn to
by the defendant before the clerk, was in the
same hand w riting. Held: That the evidence
was sufficient to establish their employment by
the defendant.
2d. The evidence was that the value of their
services was $ 150 or $200, but the verdict of the
jury gave them only $25. Held: That the ver
dict was contrair to evidence, and that a new-
trial should be granted.—Judgment Reversed.
Roll ) The City
rs. J- Council ot
The City Council of Augusta. ) Augusta is
not liable to an action for damages done to real
estate in said city by changes made in the gra
ding of the streets, &c.—Judgment Affirmed.
United States marshal tor Georgia.
In answer to repeated inquiries, we answer that
Mr. Wm. G. Dickson, of Savannah, is the Uni
ted States Marshal for the District of Georgia, and
is now, and has been for some time past, actively
engaged in the discharge of his duties as such.
His address is Savannah.
Northern men as Representatives of T Will Mr. Bavts be Beleased on Ball?
Koitiiieru Constituency. j We trust that Mr. Davis will be released on
Washington, November 21, 1862. ( I b:uL He 18 prepared for, and his counsel have
Dear Sir: Dr. Kennedv, liearer ot this, lias i l,cn >anded Iris trial. This has been denied him,
some apprehensions that Federal officers, not cit-) ani ? no satisfactory reason assigned for the dc-
Louisiana, may bo set up as candidates Rial. Says the Nashiville Union d: American
for Congress'm that State. In my view, there
could be no possible object in such an election.
, We do not particularly need members of Con
gress from those States to eualiie us to get along
with legislation here. What we do want is the
conclusive evidence that respectable citizens of
Louisiana are willing to be members of Congress,
and to swear to support tlie Constitution, and
that other respectable citizens there are willing
to vote for them and send them. To send a par
cel of Northern men here as Representatives, elect
ed, as would be understood, (and perhaps really so)
at the point of the bayonet, would be disgraceful
and outrageous; and were la member of Con
gress here, I would vote against admitting any such
man to a seat. Yours very truly,
A. Lincoln.
non. G. F. Shepley.
Tlie foregoing addressed to tlie Military Gov
ernor of Louisiana by tlie late President Lincoln,
may well teach the radicals of the present Con
gress a lesson. What difference, we would ask
them, is there in using the "power of the bayonet"
to send Northern men to Congress to represent
a Southern constituency, and in using Congres
sional power—which is now as omnipotent as
the bayonet was when President Lincoln
wrote the foregoing letter—to effect the same
end, or what is the same as to results, to
send Southern men to Congress entertaining
radical principles and maintaining the policy of
the Northern Radical party ? We can see none.
Such exercise of power is a 3 “disgraceful and
outrageous” as the late President affirmed the
sending of Northern men to Congress from
Louisiana would be. It amounts to one and the
same thing to send either Northern men to Con
gress, entertaining radical views and opposed of
course to President Johnson’s policy of recon
struction, or to send Southern men there who oc
cupy the same position. Could we vote either
to represent Georgia in Congress, w e would take
tlie former; for he who is
“ Native and to the manor boro "
that w ould consort, with the radicals, rather than
stand by the President in his noble efforts to
save the South from the degraded condition to
w’hich the Sumner-Stevens party would reduce
it, is unfit to lie the representative of any people.
The Southern man with Northern radical princi
ples is more objectionable to our people thau the
Northern man possibly can be. Coerced to send
either to Congress—whether through “the power
of the bayonet,” or Congressional enactment—is
a virtual disfranchisement of t he Southern peo
ple ; and we have no doubt, were Abraham Lin
coln now alive, lie would entertain the same sen
timents and denounce tlie policy, as he did in
the case of Louisiana, in 1802, to lie “disgraeefbl
and outrageous.”
Tlie Trial of Mr. Davit
The following which w’e copy from the New
York Times, is the first effort liefore Judge Un
derwood’s Court at Richmond to bring on the
trial of Mr. Davis. It is the address of Mr. W.
B. Reed, of Philadelphia—one of the leading
counsel engaged to defend the prisoner—who
thus addressed the Court
May it please your Honor, I beg to present my
self, in conjunction with my colleagues, as the
counsel of Jefferson Davis, a prisoner of state at
Fortress Monroe, and under indictment for high
treason in your Honor’s Court. We find in the
records ot your Honor’s Court an indictment
charging Mr. Davis with this high offense, and it
has seemed to us due the cause of justice, due to
this tribunal, due to the feeling of one sort or
another w’hich may be described as chrystalliz
ing around the unfortunate man, that we should
come at tlie very earliest day to this tribunal, and
ask your Honor, or more properly the gentleman
who represents the United States, the simple
question: What is proposed to be done with
this indictment ? Is it to be tried ? Is it—and
this is a question perhaps that I have no right
to ask—is it to be withdrawn, or is it to be sus
pended ? If it is to be tried, may it please your
Honor, speaking for my colleagues and myself,
and for the absent client, I say with emphasis, I
say it with earnestness, that we come here pre
pared instantly to try that case, and we shall ask
no delay at your Honor’s hands further than is
necessary to bring the prisoner to face the Court,
and to enable him under the statute in such cases
made and provided, to examine the bill of indict
ment against him. Is it to be withdrawn ? If
so, justice and humanity seem to us to prompt
that we should know it. Is it to be suspended,
postponed ? If so, may it please the Court, with
all respect to your Honor and the gentleman who
conducts the public business here, your Honor
must understand us as entering our most earnest
protest. We ask a speedy trial on any charge
that may be brought against Mr. Davis, here or
iu any other civil tribunal in the land. We may
be now here representing, may it please the
Court, a dying man. For thirteen months he
has been in prison. The Constitution of the Uni
ted States guarantees not only an impartial trial,
which I am sure he will have, but a speedy trial,
and we have come no slight distance ; we have
come in all sincerity; we have come with all re
spect to your Honor; we have come with strong
sympathies with our client, professional and per
sonal ; we have come here simply to ask that
question. 1 address it to the District Attorney,
or I address it to your Honor, as may be the more
appropriate, What disposition is proposed to be
made with the bill of indictment against Jeffer
son Davis, now pending, for high treason ?
Our readers have already been advised that
neither the government counsel, nor the Court,
were prepared for the trial.
John Row, the Cherokee Chief.
We notice the following paragraph “going the
rounds” of the Northern press:
“John Ross, the Cherokee chief for thirty
years, is dead. He was quite old, and, if we re
member, was a graduate of Dartmouth. Two
or three of his sons and daughters were educa
ted in England, and were likely people.”
Twenty-eight years ago, the last portion of
that powerful Indian tribe inhabiting Georgia
aud Tennessee, known as the “ Cherokees,” re
moved to tlie West. It was a forcible removal
—done by the Government at the point of the
bayonet, General Scott in command of the fed
eral aud volunteer forces of both States engaged
in their removal. The portion of this tribe that
were last removed from this State were known
as tlie “ Ridge Parly,” a party who distrusted
tlie chietlaiu, Ross, and would not accompany
him when some few years before he, at the head
of the great body of the tribe, removed West of
the Mississippi. Ross was well known to the
leading men of this State, and previous to his
removal West, had frequent official intercourse
with them at the capital and elsewhere. He was
a mau of decided ability, well educated, and an
acute diplomatist. Although the principal chief,
even after tlie removal of the whole tribe West,
he did not possess its entire confidence. His
enemies in the tribe were numerous, and their
leaders powerful. Ross’s influence, however,
with the authorities at Washington prepondera
ted, and he managed to retain a supremacy over
the tribe despite all the efforts of his antagonists.
He grew rich off “ the spoils of office,” while bis
people have grown poor. For many years past,
he has resided in New England, making frequent
visits to Washington, and rarefy without being
successful in having some “ claim ” allowed his
tribe, which tended materially to enhance his
own wealth. He was a half-breed, not a full-
blooded Cherokee. There are very many Geor
gians still living who knew this remarkable In
dian chief well. All of them, with whom we
have from rime to time conversed, represent him
as having been the most sagacious and intellect
ual Indians they had ever seen. His last wife
was a New England lady, handsome and accom
plished.
A Shrewd Female Specultor—The Ama
dor (Cal.) Ledger tells the subjoined:
A short time ago a widow lady, residing m a
village not 1,000 miles from here, put her house
up at a raffle, and very soon disposed of the
tickets—all feeling disposed to assist her. Tlie
evening arrived for the raffle to come off, and
the house was won by a gentleman wlio thought
himself most fortunate in obtaining a homestead
so cheap. The next day he applied for posses
sion and a title to the property. What war. his
surprise when he was coolly informed that it was
unnecessary to give any written title to the house
—that there it was, and to take it; and the sooner
the better, as she was anxious to build another
on the spot where it stood. The winner discov
ered that he had drawn an elephant—he had a
house, but no lot.
ol Sunday morning last: “The absence of one
of the Judges is the only reason vouchsafed for it.
Has this Judge dnties to perform elsewhere ? Is
be in feeble health? Is there any substantial
reason why Chief Justice Chase should not have
been at Richmond ? Or was it a merely capri
cious disinclination to go to Richmond in the
proper discharge of his judicial duties? These
questions may be better answered by the Chief
Justice himself than any other, and by history
better than by himself.'’
The queries of our Nashville cotemporary are
pertinent. Why was not the Chief Justice at
Richmond ? Why was not the demand made
for his trial, granted -the prisoner at Fortress
Monroe, whose life, his physicians, appointed by
the Government, declares to be in peril by reason
of his confinement? We trust that tlie Govern
ment will not now hesitate to release him on
bail, and we believe it will do so. Even as we
write we have a press dispatch before us dated
at Washington City, the 10th instant, which
states that “ Horace Greeley and others from
New York are in town,” their “business being
to see Judge Underwood In order to urge upon
him the justice and propriety of admitting Jef
ferson Davis to bail,” and that some Congress
men assert confidently that he will be. This
item will be found in our telegraphic column.—
If then, it is admitted and urged by “ Horace
Greeleyas well as others, that “ justice ” de
mands the release of Mr. Davis upon bail, there
will surely be no longer hesitation on the part of
the Government, little,, it is true, as it regards
Mr. Greeley’s opinions on political questions, to
order bail to be received and the prisoner releas
ed from confinement u^. Fortress Monroe. We
hope soon to record tlte fact that Mr. Davis has
been released.
—>%•>
Financial Independence of the United
State*.
Not long since v££^jg|£erred to what we felt
convinced was bad policy, coming from what
quarter it may, to-wiC efforts ta depreciate the
national currency, theTailing at “greenbacks,”
and prophecies of their soon becoming worth
less as rags. Those who indulged in such work
and such prophecies, were animated by different
motives—some for gain, and some to gratify, we
fear, their spleen. With the former, to reason,
would be absurd. They are speculators upon
the currency apd n gold. To enhance the one
to-day, hy depreciation of the other, and vice
versa the next, is their business, and they follow
it with an industry triffy commendable if direct
ed to any legitimate pursuit. With the latter,
who are impulsive and.splenetic, we may reason,
aud have already done so. We now tell them
that every effort on their part to impair the con
fidence ot the people, North and South, in the
national currency, is, for the public weal, misdi
rected ones, and, where successful, results in loss
to the honest, hard-working, non-speculat ive bill-
holders, and to the advantage only ot, the specu
lators in coin and currency. Especially axe. all
such efforts injurious to the people of the South,
wlio now, more than ever before, in its history,
need capital toaid them in their industrial pur
suits, as well as in all their commercial, manu
facturing and other enterprises. Destroy their
confidence in the national currency, and the pro
gress of the South to her former prosperity will
be' retarded to an extent which those engaged in
that work certainly have not considered.—
There is no better paper currency in the
world, and none better adapted to the wants
and convenience of the people, of busi
nessmen in all their pursuits, than the govern
ment currency. We must place our confidence
in it, or our prosperity will be retarded. We
must, because we ought to. Recently only,
when a financial panielftevailed in England, one
of an alarming natuIM^t was thought that our
national currency—{(^'"greenbacks"—would go
by the board, and a panic such as never prevailed
before iu the United States would follow.
But what has been the result? Says the Boston
Post: “It must mortify England to perceive that
the late banking crash there didn’t shake Brother
Jonathan at all. The fact illustrates the finance
power of this nation—its independence of the old
world. We have resources enough to take care
of ourselves, and we mind no more “the old lady
in Thread Needle street” than we do Parson
Miller’s prophecy about the destruction of the
universe. Our business, our productions, our
enterprise, our courage, our internal wealth, are
financial bulwarks which can be no more de
stroyed by England than the power to control
our natson politically. The late war has taught
us our ability to meet any emergency successful
ly, aad a wise exercise of this ability will render
us as secure against being wrecked by foreign
speculators as it did against foreign enmity du
ring the rebellion.”
The Post is right. “The financial power of the
uation” renders it independent of the Old World.
Its resources are amply sufficient to protect its
currency.
Income Tax on Sales ot" Cotton.
The following which we copy from the New-
nan Herald, embraces official information ot in
terest to all interested in the subject matter referr
ed to—that, is, the income tax on sales of cotton:
Treasury Department. i
Office Internal Revenue, Washington, May 19. j‘
Sir :—Your letter of May 13th addressed to
Hou. Secretary ot the Treasury, in relation to
income from sales of cotton in 1865, has been re
ferred to this office.
I reply,—That there .are numerous instances
in the law where two or more distinct faxes are
imposed upon the same receipts. For instance,
the manufacturer pays a tax on all his products,
and a licence tax for tlie business of manufac
turing, and in addition an income tax on his net
profits. Other examples might he adduced to
show that it is not contrary to the spirit of the
law to impose two or more taxes upon the same
gross receipts.
The payment of the tax of twocents per pound
on cotton, does not therefore relieve the owner
from payment of income tax on his income from
the sale of such cotton. Such tax of two cents
per pound may however be deducted from the
gross income of the year when it was actually
paid. It appears however that you sold your
cotton for the market price less such tax. You
should therefore return as income the price ac
tually received, wihtout further deduction for
such tax.
The law expressly requires all produce of the
estate, sold during tlie year, to be returned as in
come. Therefore the time when such produce
was raised cannot be taken into account.
The amount of produce sold by the farmer
each year, is on an average, equal to the amount
raised for sale, and hence no injustice arises from
this provision of the law. Very respectfully,
D. C. Whitman,
Deputy Commissioner.
To Sara’l. Freeman, Esq., Newnan, Georgia.
A Young Lady Paper Eater.—A young
lady of this city while at school contracted a
bad habit, which she now finds it impossible to
break off—that of chewing paper. Her parents
buy it for her hy the ream, and she consumes on
an average a quire per week, rolling her paper
ball under her tongue as a sweet morsel, and
squirting the saliva about like an old salt. She
is quite a connoisseur in the matter of paper,
and evinces a decided preference for a cer
tain pale blue unruled foolscap, which smells
badly. Deprived of her paper for a day or two
she becomes restless, distrait and melancholy,
refuses to eat or be comforted, and is not herself
till a fresh supply is procured. “How is
Miss ?” we inquired of a female friend the
other day. “Not well,” was the reply, “her
paper doesn’t agree with her.”
We have heard of opium eating, snuff eating,
arsenic eating, and pencil eating among the
female fraternity, but we believe this is the
first instance of paper eating that has come un
der our knowledge. If the young lady knew
how paper is made, we think she would make
an extraordinary effort to break off the pernicious
habit. Iu the liojte that this article may pass
beneath her eye, we suggest some of the
materalis which in the course of a month of
paper eating, are reduced to pulp between her
pretty teeth: Bandages from sore legs, rags from
the gutter, cotton diapers, shirt tails, and all
sorts'" of miscellaneous odds and ends. Bah!
If that does not effect a reformation, she is in
corrigible.—Indianapolis Sentinel.
The Truth Well Spoken even by the
Times.
The following extract from a letter in the New
York Times, written from Albany in this State,
shows tlie striking difference, even now, between
tlie Yankee style of “rigid discipline,” order and
regularity of work, and that which taking tlie
patriarchal as tlie true system, approaches it as
nearly as may l*e, in the present changed rela
tions of the two races :—Augusta Chronicle •&
Sentinel.
I have visited two very large plantations be
tween Americus and this place, on each of which
over a hundred hands are busily and faithfully
employed in the cnltivation of com and cotton.
One or these places is worked by the original
owner, and all his hands are his former slaves;
and tlie other is jointly owned and worked by
Northern capitalists and Southern men skilled in
planting, and the management of negroes. On
the latter all the hands were “ picked up ” and
brought together lor the first time, when they
were set to work. On the former the owner
does not reside, but leaves entire control to his
manager, (Ofirn, overseer;) and on the latter the
Southern shareholders are continually present,
having no subordinate managers, but foremen,
(generally intelligent negroes,) to whom some es
pecial branch of the daily work is confided by
the commauder-in-chief.
I hail thus a very good opportunity of judging
of the two s}’stems, or rather of the two species
of the same system. On the first place the ne
groes talked of home, and home associations,
and old massa, and told of the exploits of young
massa, “who died in the war,” and they express
ed the wish to live and die where their fathers
and mothers lived and died before them. They
9eented perfectly contented and settled, and
thought their contract was a liberal one—food
and medical attendance and one-fourth ot all
they make. They were pleased with their mana -
ger, said he was a “mighty good, kind man,”
who “never giv’ a nigger a hard word ’less
u’serv’s it.” They said they thought they work
ed about as hard as “ ’fore freedom ; ” but when
pressed were compelled to admit that the “wo
men folks” were not as industrious as in old
times. An old darkey, who seemed to be a self-
constituted Justice of the Peace and general um
pire in all matters among the negroes, who seem
ed to have known every one in the neighborhood,
white and black, since' they “was so high,” indi
cating the hight by spreading out bis band alxnit
a foot from the ground, seemed to feel great in
dignation at “de foolishness of some niggers,”
who want to play the lady and gentleman, and
abstain from work. ‘He seemed to understand
the wljgle question thoroughly, and if Air. Ste
vens would follow Old Bens advice, he would
have but little use for that penitentiary of hell,
of which he speaks witli such prophetic experi
ence.
Ben thinks that if tlie negro can make a living
and clothe themselves decently, have their prop
erty protected and their liberty secured, they
ought to he well satisfied; that “ no nigger airit.
fit to vote—’cause why, he don’t know nothin
’boutthem-things;” they must “behave and learn,
and show ’der selves fit for it,” and then they will
be helped along by the white men; and that
“ ilem as wont work ” must steal, and bring a bad
name on all the darkies, and they ought, to be
punished or driven away. At this stage of tlie
conversation he remarked to me in confidence,
but with great emphasis, “ Dere’s a heap of no
account niggers, massa, as sure as you’re a foot
high.” He introduced several freedmen, women
aiid children, to the, with great politeness and
dignity, auil seemed quite a master of ceremonies
among Ills fellows. When I tookmyleave, after
sharing my tobacco bag with him and thanking
him for his politeness, he remarked, with great
pride, that he was “ old massa’s confidential
servant,” and that “ massa didn’t keep none but
well raised servants about him.”
Everything on the place bore the mark of ease,
contentment, and plenty; but there were also
signs of waste, neglect, untidiness, and that want
of system which lias always characterized plan
tation management, and which philanthropists
attributed to the horrors of slavery, but which
was realy attributable to the absence of the own
ers and the listless improvidence of the negro.
The crops were backwardjthough healthy, and
the manager thought he would make about two-
thirds of a crop of cotton, with com, &c., enough
to keep the place. He seemed satisfied with the
hands, but said they did not do more than two-
thirds work. He thought his employer would
have better consulted his own interest had he
employed strange hands and let his own go, be
cause they took liberties and presumed on the
kindness and affection which tlie owner and
his family felt for their old dependents. Of the
entire negro population in the place a little more
than half were working hands, but all are ted by
the owner, lodged and provided with fuel, and
vegetables of their own raising, and the workers
receive a fourth of everything.
As I sat in the porch of the managers’ house,
(who, by the way, entertained me most hand
somely,) smoking' my pipe of scarfaletti, about
two hours after sunset, tlie moon just beginning
to peer through the tree tops, and as I heard'the
shouts of laughter, the songs and banjo perform
ances proceeding from the freed men’s houses
about a quarter of a mile distant, I wished lor
once to have Mr. Wendell Phillips sitting beside
me m order that he might cease abusing Mr.
Stevens, of Pennsylvania, for not being suffi
ciently radical in liis schemes for the elevation ot
the negro.
On the other place to which I have referred—
that owned by Northern capitalists and Southern
agriculturalists, and worked by the latter—I
found much more rigid discipline, more order
and regularity of work, but none of those home
attachments, and fixity of abode, none of that
this-is-my-home feeling which marked tlie ne
groes on tlie other plantations. The end of tlie
year, when the crop is gathered, seems the end
of the treedmen’s life of labor on this farm.
They were well fed and healthy-Jooking, but
they were neither cheerful nor settled, and I
heard many fears expressed that when the.days
get warmer aud the work more toilsome many
will desert. The laborers here are paid monthly
wages, the employees always reserving in hand
one month’s wages as security against destruc
tion or loss of property and against desertion
without notice, it being stipulated in the contract
that a hand leaving before tlie end of tiie year
forfeits all wages due to the date of his departure.
The crops on this place were very fine and prom
ising. The land is among tlie finest in Georgia,
and cost the present owners (the stock and im
plements included) a hundred thousand dollars
in cash
On a comparison of the labor system on the
two places I unhesitatingly prefer that where the
hands feel they are at home, and consider them
selves identified with their employer. It may be
that they may not appear to work as hard, or be
as careful, as where everything is weighed by the
scale and every hour counted, and idleness in
volves pecuniary fines but in the long run the
cheerful, contented, take-it-easy negroes will do
more than those who feel that they are mere
passers by, and, who, knowing that they can do
as they please avail themselves of the privilege
whenever they are rebuked or They desire to
“ knock off."
— .
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
An A fleeting Incident.
Wednesday we witnessed an affecting scene at
the dock of the New York Central line of pro
pellers. A party ot emigrants, some thirty-five
in number, were expected to arrive on the Dean
Richmond, and when she came in, many of tlieir
friends were on the docks to receive and welcome
them. Among the number was a Norwegian and
his wife from -Mormon Cooly, somewhere in La
crosse county, named Symeson. This man had
sent to the old country, remitting money, for his
aged father to come out here and spend the bal
ance of his remaining years in peace and happi
ness on the Mississippi, and as a party of emi
grants was about 'leaving Dolstad, the old man
was to join and come with them. As the boat
neared the dock, tlie pleasure of Symeson knew
no bounds. He left Ins home some ten years ago,
and of course he had not seen his father during
that time. He flew about the deck, straining his
eyes to tlie utmost, to catch a glimpse of tlie fath
er among the passengers on the upper deck, and
although a man of forty years of age, Ids child
ish happiness and simplicity attracted the atten
tion of all. Before the boat touched her landing
place, lie was on board, embracing quickly those
of the emigrants whom he had known in the old
country and looking meanwhile anxiously around
him, his face red with excitement and pleasure.
We noticed that although his friends greeted
him cordially and kindly, there was a reserve
about them that seemed out of place on so joy
ful an occasion. After a look about him, the
man seemingly missed the face he expected to
see, and very suddenly, earnestly, in contrast
to tlie stolid.mauners of the Scandinavian, very
nervously asked a question. The man to whom
he spoke took him to one side, away from the
party, and imparted to him the sad information
that on the voyage across the Atlantic, in the
crowded steerage of the steamer, bis father had
fallen a victim to the cholera, and his body had
been consigned to the deep. The effect was ter
rible. The rough, strong man a moment before
so joyous was bowed and stricken by grief, and
wept like a child. He was taken upon the dock
and given to the arms of his wife, he weak and
helpless, the tears like rain pouring down his
cheeks, while moan after moan escaped him.
The blow deprived him of all strength, and
when the old man’s effects were landed, and he
saw a chest, an ancient heirloom of the family
which he had known so familiarly in childhood
days, he fell prostrate upon and kissed it time
and time again. It was a scene those present
will not forget. The man and his wife left for
home the next morning, he still sad and un
happy.
What is that which works when it plays and
plays when it works ?—A fountain.
The Broken Merchant.
BY MRS. L. U. SIGOURNEY.
It is the duty of mothers: to sustain the re
verses or fortune. Frequent aud sudden as they
have been in our own country, it is important
that young females should possess some employ
ment, by which they might obtain a livelihood
in case 'they should 1* reduced to tlie necessity
of supporting themselves. When families are
unexpectedly reduced from affluence to poverty,
how pitiful, contemptible it is to see the mother
desponding or helpless and permitting her daugh
ters to embarrass those whom it is their duty to
assist and cheer. .,
“I have lost my whole tortune, said a mer
chant, as he returned one evening to his home;
*• we can no longer keep our carriage. M e must
leave this large house. The children c.au no
longer go to expensive schools. Yesterday 1
was a rich man; to-day there is noshing that. 1
can call my own.”
“ Dear husband,” said the wite, "we are still
rich iu each other and our children. Money may
pass away, but God has given us lsetter treasures
in those active hands and loving hearts.
“ Dear father,” said tlie children, “ do not look
so sober. We will help you to get a living.
“ What can yon do, poor things?” said he.
“ You slmll see, you sluill soc, M fins wore u sev~
eral voices. “ It is a pity il wp have been to
school for nothing. How can the father of eight,
children he poor? We shall work and make
you rich again.”
“ I shall"help,” said the younger girl, hardly
four years old. “ 1 shall not have any new things
bought, a. d I shall sell my great doll .”
The heart of the husband and father winch
had sank within his bosom like a stone, was
lifted up. The-sweet enthusiasm of the scene
cheered him, and his nightly prayer was like a
song of praise,
They left their stately house. The servants
were dismissed. Pictures and plate, rich car
pets and fnrniture, were sold, and she who had
been mistress of the mansion shed no tears.
“ Pay every debt,” says she; “ let noone suf
fer through lis, and wc may be happy ”
He rented a neat cottage, and a small piece of
ground, a few miles from the city. With the
aid of his sons, lie cultivated vegetables for the
market. He viewed with delight and astonish
ment the economy of his wife, nurtured as she
had been in wealth, and the efficiency his/laugh
ters soon acquired under her training.
The eldest one instructed in the household, and
also assisted the younger children ; besides, they
executed various works, which they had learned
as accomplishments, but w hich they found could
be disposed of to advange. They embroidered
with taste some of the ornamental parts of fe
male apparel, which w’ere readily sold to a mer
chant in the city.
They cultivated flowers, sent boquets to mar
ket in the cart that conveyed the vegetables; they
plaited straw, they painted maps, they executed
plain needle work. Every one was at her post,
cheerful and busy. The little cottage was like
‘ a bee hive.
“ I never enjoyed such health before,” said the
father.
“And 1 never was so happy before,” said the
mother.
“ We never knew’ how many things W’e could
do, when we lived in the great house,” said tlie
children; “ and w’e love each other a great deal
better here. You call usjyour little bees.”
“ Yes,” replied the father, “ and you makejust
such honey as the heart likes to feed on.”
Economy as well as industry was strictly ob
serred. Nothing w’as wasted; nothing unneces
sary was purchased. The eldest daughter be
came assistant teacher in a distinguishe 1 female
seminary, and the second took her place as in
structress to the family.
The dw’elling w’hich they had always kept
neat, they were soon able to beautify. Its con
struction was improved, and the vines and flow
ering tiees were replanted around it. The mer
chant was happier under his woodbine covered
porch, in a summer’s evening, than he had been
in hia showy dressing room.
“We are now thriving and prosperous,” said
he, “ shall we return to the city ?”
“ Oh, no!” waa the unanimous reply.
“ Let ua remain,” said the wife, “ where we
have found health and contentment.”
“ Father,” said the youngest, “ all we children
hope you are not going to be rich again; for
then,” she added, “we little ones are shut up in
the nursery, and did not see much of you or
mother. Now we all live together, and sister,
who loves, us, teaches us, and we learn to be in
dustrious and useful. We were none of us hap
py w hen w T e were rich and did not work. So
please, do not be a rich man any more.
Mistakes About Each Other.
Not one man in ten thousand sees those w ith
whom he associates as they really are. If the
prayer of Burns was granted, auil w’e could all
see ourselves as others see us, our self-estimates
would, in all probability, be much more errone
ous than they are at present.
The truth is, that we regard each other through
a variety of senses, no one of whicli is correct.
Passion and prejudice, love and hate, benevolence
and envy, spectacle our eyes, and utterly prevent
us from observing accurately.
Many of those we deem the porcelain of
human clay are mere dust; and still a greater
number of those w e put down in our black books
are no further off from Heaven, and perchance
a little nearer, than the censors who condemn
them. We habitually undervalue each other
and estimating character, the shrewdest of us
but now and then make tlie true appraisal of the
virtues and defects of even our closest intimates.
It is neither just nor fair to look at character
from a stand point of one’s own selections. A
man’s profile may be unprepossessing, and yet
one of the kindest and best friends in the world
We once saw a young man w’hose timidity
was a standing joke with all his companions,
leap into the river and save a boy from drown
ing, W’liile his tormentors stood panic stricken
upon tlie bank. The merchant who gives curt
answers in liis counting room, may be a tender
husband and father, tyid kind helper of the de
solate and oppressed.
On the other hand, your good humored person,
wlio is all smiles aud sunshine in public, may
carry something as hard as the nether millstone
in the place where his heart ought to be.
Sucli anomalies are common. There is this
comfort, however, for those whose judgments
for their fellow’-mortals lean to the kindly side,
such mistakes go to their credit in the great ac
count,.
He who thinks better of his neighbors than
they deserve, cannot be a bad man, for the stand
ard hy which his judgment is formed is the good
ness of his own heart. It is the base only who
believe all men base, or, in other W’orda, like
themselves. Few, however, are all evil. Even
Nero did a good turn to somebody; for, when
Rome was rejoicing over his death, some loving
■hand covered his grave with flowers.
Public men are seldom or never fairly judged,
at least while living. However pure, they can
not escape calumny, however correct they are
sure to find eulogists. History may do them
justice; but they rarely get it while alive, either
from friends or foes.
An Incident in the Life of Thad. Ste
vens.—One of our Pennsylvania exchanges,
in speaking of the revolutionary attempt of
Thad. Stvens & Co. to overthrow the State Gov
eminent ot Pennsylvania in 1838, when it be
came necessary to call out the State militia to
put the legally elected Democratic Governor in
his place, narrates the following incident:
Cincinnati Enquirer.
“When there was really no danger—when a
speech was being made to a listening and re
spectful audience in the Chamber of the Senate,
Stevens, whose guilty conscience discovered in
the broad, honest faces that lined the hall, the
features of a tiand of assassins, jumped out of
the back window of the building and betook
himself to flight. He ran through the darkness
to a remote comer of the ground, and hid in a
patch of bushes. Presently, hearing the foot
steps of two his friends who had sought safety
in tlie same way, and fancying that the mob was
indeed coming, he cried out, 'Don't kill me—for
God's sakedon't kill me !' To which one ot the ref
ugees, more impetuous than polite, fearing that
the noise would insure their capture, responded,
‘Hush /’ you cl—d fool—it's only me /' This is no
fiction—it is not even the truth embellished—it
is simple fact, within the personal knowledge of
thousands of citizens of this Commonwealth.
Many of them have heard tlie particulars, as we
have detailed them, from Stevens’ own lips.”
Thad. Stevens.—The Boston Post fears Thad.
Stevens will soon be in a straight jacket. His
intellect is unsettled ; his anger has dislocated
his reason; he raves and foams, aud sputters,
and threatens and gnashes liis teeth as though
his heart craved revenge—that nothing short of
the annihilation of his opponents could appease.
But the old politician finds no relief. His malig
nant imprecations only indicate the fury of the
passions which rend his Ixisom and will soon re
duce him, in body and mind, to the condition of
an impotent driveller. It is painful to see a man
whose period of life should exhibit something of
the soothing influences of Christianity, possessed
of spirits that torment and debase him, and fill a
mouth with curses that should utter prayers.
The fire unquenchable he invokes for those he
hates, regardless of the warning that the judg
ment he metes shall be meted unto him. The
Chaplain of the House should labor with the
ireful Pennsylvanian.
At a town meeting in Haverill, Massachusets,
last week, the selectmen were instructed to
charge fifty dollars per night for the use of the
Town Hall for theatrical and minstrel perfor
mances, and also to refuse a license to any such
companies to occupy any other hall.
[Fromlate Parts Letter.]
The proprietor of a furnished hotel in (lie Ri Ie
de l’Universite, appeared before tlie Minister of
Police, and informed that functionary that, a
murder had just been committed in his (tlie hotel
keeper’s) house. On tlie previous evening, he
said, a stranger had taken a room, stating liis re
sidence to he Melon, and liis purpose to spend
two or three days in Paris. After ordering his
baggage to be carried to his apartment, the new
comer went out, giving notice that lie was going
to tlie Odeon Theater, and should not return to
the hotel until the termination of the perfor
mance. Near midnight lie re appeared, aeCom -
panied by a young and very pretty woman,
dressed in male attire, xvlio, he said, was his wife.
The next morning, at an early hour, tlie pretend,
ed sposa left the house, requesting that her hus
band might not tie disturbed until her return,
which would be in about an hour. At noon she
was still absent, and, hearing nothing stirring in
tlie room occupied by the gentleman front Alehin,
tlie landlord began to feel uneasy, and rapped at
the stranger’s door. Receiving no answer front
within, the hotel keeper sent, for a duplicate key
to the apartment, upon entering which the young
anan was found lifeless upon liis bed. A doctor
was hastily summoned, who, after a brief ex
amination of the body, declared that death had
been produced hy a blow on the left temple, in
flicted by means of a blunt instrument.
It was evident that the assassination had been
committed by the woman in male attire, and
every effort was made by the police to discover
her whereabouts, but ineffectually. A month
subsequently, another murder was perpetrated
under similar circumstances, except that on this
occasion the victim, also a traveler, had gone to
his room quite alone. At a late hour, however,
an effeminate-looking young man < ime down
stairs, and was let out l.y the porter of the hotel,
who remembered the fact on the following morn
ing when the crime was discovered. This affair
caused great excitement in Paris, and redoubled
exertions were made by the police to ferret out
the mysterious assassin, but still without result
Eleven days afterward a third victim perished in
precisely the same manner as the preceding two,
and in the course of a few months no less than
twenty men lost tlieir lives by means so exactly
identical that no doubt was entertained that the
murderous blows were all inflicted by the same
hand.
Stung to the quick Fouche, the Minister of
Police, set all liis spies to work, and ottered a
large reward for tlir discovery of the author of
these unparalleled crimes.
One evening a certain B.,a member of the
Secret Police, but who had the appearance of a
provincial gentleman, was passing through a
narrow’ street of the city, when he encountered
a handsome, equivocal-looking youth. B. stopp
ed, aud said to himself. “ That’s a woman in
male garb. If it should be she ! ”
At tlie same moment the handsome stranger
also turned aud smiled encouragingly.
“ That settles tlie question,” murmured the
delighted spy. “ Now, if I manage things cau
tiously, my fortune is made.” And retracing Iris
steps lie accosted tlie unknown ;
“ 1 have something very particular to say to
you,” whispered B., witli a knowing leer, “hut it
is not possible for ns to talk freely on the public
street. Might 1 not invite you to accompany me
to my hotel? ”
“ I suppose you take me to lie a woman ? ” was
the reply, in a soft voice. “You are quite mis
taken, my good Sir ! I don’t mind having a chat
Willi you, how ever ; where are you staying ? ”
“ In the Rue de l’Universite ! ”
“ Indeed ! I am too well known to go there.”
“ I am on the right track,” thought the spy,
“’Well, then,” he said aloud, “ we will go wher
ever you like.”
“ Come,” replied the other.
And, crossing the river, tlie pair presently en
tered a small hotel on the Place du Chatelet, en
gaged an apartment, and ordered supper to be
served in their room.
“If I am to remain with you during your stay
in Paris,” said tlie young woman, who no longer
attempted to conceal her sex, “you had better
have your baggage brought here.”
B., overjoyed at the opportunity thus offered
to lodge tlie necessary information at the Central
Police Station near by, at once assented to this
suggestion, aud declared that he would go him
self, pay his bill, and bring a box of silks he had
at the other hotel. After an hour’s absence he
returned, accompanied hy two porters, carrying
on their shoulders a heavy box, w’hich they de
posited in a corner of tlie room. The supper
previously ordered was now served.
“Your walk must have made your thirsty,”
said the young W’oman, pouring out a glass ot
wine for her companion. “But., before you sit
down, have tlie kindness to give me my hand
kerchief, which I have left over there on the
sofa.”
Suspecting some trick, B., while crossing the
room, watched his new acquaintance closely,
and saw her throw a powder into the glass of
wine, which, instead of swallowing, he dexter
ously managed to spill on the carpet. In a few'
moments he showed signs of drowsiness and be
gan to murmur incoherent words. Draw ing the
syren near him, he felt something in her pocket
which excited liis curiosity. Upon asking what
it was she produced tlie object—a beautiful little
hammer.
“ This,” she said, “is an opiate of tlie most
powerful description. I’ll show’ you presently
how it puts people to sleep.”
B. had fallen to the floor, in an apparent state
of complete unconsciousness. Stooping over
him, the murderess raised her anticipated victim’s
head, placed it in tlie most favorable position to
render the intended blow effective, and had al
ready raised the pretty little hammer, when sud
denly the box in the corner flew open, with a
loud noise, and a grip ol iron seized her uplifted
arm.
On the trial, which took place shortly after
ward, the female assassin alleged, in her defense,
that she had been ruined by a villain, and had
sworn to be revenged upon the entire male sex.
This romantic story, however, did not prevent
her conviction and subsequent death on the scaf
fold.
: ip
Besponslbiiitr of Banker* and Others for
Special Beposlts.
An interesting case, at Cincinnati, before
Judge Storer and a jury, w'as heard on Monday
last. An action was brought b}' W. H. Vande-
water and wife, against Larkin, Fox, & Co., ban
kers, to recover $1,000, the value of two 7-30
bonds for $500, alleged to have been left as a
special deposit in the bank ot the defendants. It
is claimed hy Mr. Yandewater that the bonds
were the property of his wife; that he left them
there on special deposit on the Ilth of June,
1865, having enclosed them in an envelope, on
which w’as written the name of liis wife, and the
amount enclosed—$1,000; that afterward, on
the 11th of September, he called for them, and
they could not be found, and the defendants re
fused to pay him their value.
The testimony showed that the defendants,
when called upon for the bonds,, stated that they
thought they had paid them to Mrs. Yandewater;
then that they had delivered them to Mr. Yan
dewater, and finally tiiat they were lost in some
wax’.
The defendants claimed that they had received
this deposit without having given a receipt, and
without examining the envelope to see whether
it contained the amount named : that they noti
fied the defendants that as they received no com
pensation for the care of the bonds, they could
not be held liable for their loss, as in cases where
they received deposits in the regular w T ay. The
bonds were placed in a tin box where all the
special deposits they received wore put, and then
placed in a strong safe, where no one except the
officers and clerks ot the bank had access.
Judge Storer, in his c harge to the jury, said :
In the first place the jury’ should determine
whether the bonds were delivered or not to tlie
defendants. If they were it was for the latter to
show why they had not returned them. The
law presumes a paper is lost, it, after a diligent
search, and sufficient lapse of time, it cannot be
fonnd. If it has been received tlie bailee is
hound to redeliver it, provided lie lias it within
his power. If stolen, destroyed or lost by some
other casualty, tlie matter was susceptible of
proof. Two hypotheses were presented by de
fendants ttiat were wort hy of consideration; first,
that in all probability they had delivered the
bonds to the plaintiff, or to tiis wite, who was un
questionably competent to receive them, being
her separate property ; and, secondly, that from
the circumstances stated in the testimony for tlie
defense, Ihe jury might fairly inter they were
taken away by some one fraudulently. If the
property had been lost, so as to prevent defend
ants from having it in their power to restore it,
they were not responsible; but the jury must he
clearly satisfied in the matter. It was not a case
in which they were to be governed hy conjec
ture. It should appear not only that tlie defend
ants could not restore the property, but their
liability to comply with the contract had been
produced by no act of theirs—no neglect, no
omission on their part.
The jury, after a brief deliberation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff for the amount of the
bonds, with interest from the date of the demand
A Use for Cast-off Crinoline.—The. New
bury port Herald says: “ In passing tlie garden
of our friend Marden, of t he Amesbury stage, a
few days since, we noticed a dozen seis—more
or less—of hoops, reversed from their orignal po
sition, the small ends down, and the large ones
supported on stakes, while inside tomatoes are
being trained to run up the sides and fall over
the outside, which will shortly give a very beau
tiful appearance,