Friday Maruinif DM-cinber 1. Ing.l.
SIORAE ASPFATS OF THF. RF.F.O CAKE. |
From the day on which Jacob Grouse j
met his fate until the present hour, we j
have not published a single line in re
gard to the unfortunate affair which ;
resulted in the death of that miserable !
man, saving only a statement of the (
facts connected with the killing and a j
report of the proceedings in the trial of i
John P. Reed, Jr. We studiously re
frained from defending the course of
Mr. Reed and carefully avoided the
expression of any opinion as to his guilt
or innocence of the crime with which
he was indicted. Our silence in this
regard was owing solely to our desire |
that the law should have its course un
obstructed by any possible impediment
which our discussion of the case might .
throw in its way. For this reason our j
columns did not respond to the foul
slanders repeatedly uttered in regard to
the Reeds, and for this reason alone,
we permitted the base libel upon our j
own character, "THE BEDFORD (SA- I
ZETTE murdered Jacob Crowe," to go
uncontradicted and unrebuked. Rut,
the law has had its course and we can
now speak without fear of defeating the
ends of justice. Our slanderers have j
had their say; let them not complain
now that we shall have ours.
The most conspicuous part borne in
the trial of young Reed, was that taken
by John Cessna, Esq., one of the coun
sel for the prosecution. Fronithetime
of the killing until the moment of ac
quittal, like a blood-hound in pursuit;
of his quarry, he was upon the track of
the Reeds. When the fatal shot was !
fired, the crack of the pistol brought
him in "at the death," and after young
Reed had surrendered himself to the
sheriff, he marched to the jail at the j
head of a mob, and with the froth of
his malignant heart boiling over at his
mouth, yelled like an incarnate devil,
"Hang him! hang him!" When the ;
Coroner's inquest was held upon the
body of ('rouse, he went before the jury
as counsel and harangued them in favor
of the finding he desired, a proceeding
without parallel in all the annals of ju
risprudence. When the case came up
at September sessions, he resorted!
to all the expedients of the jiettifog
ger's trickery, to obtain a continuance;
moving to quash the array of jurors,
though the jury had been drawn in the
same manner in a hundred previous i
capital cases; and finally swearing the
case off by making an affidavit to the
absence of important witnesses. And
just here, let us lf>ok at this affidavit of
Mr. Cessna. We find him swearing
that "John Williams," " Howsare,"
"Mrs. M. S. Hoke," "Win. J. Camp
bell, "Lizzie Long and Lizzie Gordon"
were "material to a trial of the case."
Upon this oath of Mr. Cessna, the Court
continued the trial to November ses
sions. Now, not one of these witnesses,
except John Williams, did Mr. Cessna
produce at the trial, last week, though
he had three months time in which to
have them brought here. We are in
formed that when Cessna made his
oath, John Williams was not faraway,
and that he uppeajwd and testified be
fore the Grand JfiMat ttepteinlier ses
sions. Wm. J. Campbell was in atten
dance at the trial, last week, but this
important witness was not even called 1
to the stand by Mr. Cessna. Why Mrs.
Hoke, Howsare and the two Liz
zies were not forthcoming, is,doubtless,
best known to the "affiant" who swore j
"hat their testimony was "material.
o a trial of the case." But, the black
it page in all the dark history of this
an Cessna's connection with this lived j
se, is yet to be written. Contempt
• the meanness of the fellow's malig
•y and pity for those who must share
* shame, almost constrain us to for
ar. Yet, why should we hesitate to
11 the truth concerning a creature,
i
ho faiu would blacken and blast the
eputatiou of others with falsehood?
lad all the evidence offered by the de
fence, leen admitted by the Court, the
Aiminality of poor Crouse would have
■een considerably relieved by the reve
lation of the fact that he believed, that
ifc an officer, he had the right to kill
John P. lived, Jr. What gave Crouse
tliis false and bloody notion ? Let us
see. We quote fcom the bill of excep
tions scaled by the Court to the counsel
for the defence:
"The counsel for the defence offer to
prove that Crouse said he would kill
lieed, if ever he returned to Bedford;
that he had authority to kill him; that
he was not acting blindly, but that
JOHN CESSNA had told liijn that he
would not be hurt if he
Counsel for Commonwealth cteect; ob
jfwthitis sustained bv the CouiTand hill
of exceptions sealed."
The evidence which the defence in
tended to produce under this proposi
tion, was that of some five witnesses,
all respectable and worthy men, who
were ready to swear that Crouse, at va
rious times, in October, 1864, and at
later periods, declared that he would
when counseled not to do so, that he
would say, "1 know what I am doing;
1 am not acting blindly; I have a right
to kill him ;" and at least one of these
witnesses would havesworn that ('rouse
said to him that JOHN CESSNA had
told him that he could kill the Reed
boys and he couldn't be hurt for it.—
We will give the testimony of this wit
ness as taken down by counsel for the
defence, at a private examination of
witnesses. It is as follows:
"After the election last fall (1804) I
was talking to John I'. Reed, Sr., on
business near his office; Jacob Crouse
passed, while we were talking, towards
the Washington Hotel; I afterwards
met ('rouse, on the same day. He ask
ed me what Reed had said about him.
I told him he had not said anything;
that we were talking about business.
He said he believed Reed had said
something about him, that he was not
pleased with him, that he had heard
some of the threats that he(( 'rouse)had
made about his boys. He said he had
threatened to kill them, and that he
would kill them yet. I told him lie
should not do so; that he might get in
to hocutties. He said, no, he wouldn't;
that he never went into anything blindly;
that JOHN CESSNA had told him he
had a right to kill him, as an officer, and
that he couldn't, or shouldn't be hurt; and
he said if he (John P. Reed, Jr.) ever
came back he would kill him."
This statement needs no interpreta
tion; it speaks for itself.
And, now, what shall be said of the
lawyer who heads a mob, and, foaming
at the mouth like a madman, demands
that a prisoner shall be lynched; who
goes before a Coroner's jury to plead for
a verdict; who moves for a postpone
ment of a trial, upon his own oath .that
witnessses material to the issue, are
absent, which witnesses, though with
in his reach, he subsequently fails to
produce; who advises as Jacob ('rouse
declared he was advised? What shall
be said of the po/ttieiun who goes over
the State, traducing his neighbors by
statements that they murdered provost
marshals; making capital out of the
blood of the man who declared that this
mountebank had guarantied him im
punity, if he killed Reed; electioneer
ing at the expense of the reputation of
a man whose guilt, or innocence, was
yet to lie established? Nay, more.—
What is to be thought (for tongue can
not utter a just description of such in
famy) of the Christum who sits in the
pew just behind you, taking the sacra
mental wine from the same cup in
which you drink spiritual fellowship
with him, and who, nevertheless, finds
it in his heart to demand your blood,
even though he does it in the garb of
his profession ? What a libel upon the
legal profession! What a disgrace to
the political arena! What a shame to
the church of the meek ami lowly Je
sus ! The pettifogger, the mountebank
and the hypocrite all combined in one
nature; who shall describe the ineffable
meanness, the contemptible trickery,
the unutterable baseness of a compound
so vile as this?
1,1151.1.S I'KMVKI).
Time sets all things even. The un
parallelled mendacity of the Bedford
Inquirer in regard to the ("rouse homi
cide, hasat last received a fitting rebuke,
nay, futs been branded by a meant jury
of the bed turn in the county, an a tibet
hnt* falsehood. Time after time that
sheet published in glaring letters, this
I charge: " The Bedford daze tie murder
ed Jacob < 'rouse /" Time after time
; this base lie was made the ground of
an appeal to the credulous, against the
GAZKTTK and the Democratic party.
Now, people can sec how they were
duped. It wan proved on the trial of
J. I'. lieed, Jr., by eleven witnesses, and
the jury no decided, find Croune 11*. 1S
NOT MIUDERED A TA LL, but wan
shot whilst in the act of trying to kill Reed
WEth a stone. It was proved by these
I eleven witnesses that ("rouse attacked
lieedand injured him severely whilst
he was retreating from ("rouse. The
writers for the Inquirer knew this all
the while, yet they persisted in saying
that ("rouse was shot because he was a
! sort of provost-marshal, the BKJ>FOHI>
I (JAZKTTK having declared that any per
son accepting that office "could not live
a peaceful life, nor die an honorable
death." Now, eleven witnesses hav-
ing sworn in open court, that ('rouse
attacked Reed (and therefore courted
death) and a jury under .solemn (Kith
having found that ('rouse was not
murdered, (neither because he was pro
vost-marshal, nor because of the lan
guage of the GAZKTTK applied to pro
vost-marshals generally; but was killed
by Mr. Reed, in self-defence,therefore,
the Bedford Inquirer has been virtual
ly convicted of libel in saying "that the
BEIFOUI> (IA/.KTTK murdered Jacob
('rouse." Yet, more. The Inquirer
published an account of the killing of
t'rouse, which clearly conveyed the idea
that John P. Reed, Jr., was guilty of
murder. It declared repeatedly that
Orouse was shot because he was pro
vost-marshal, thus attributing malice
to Reed, and plainly charging him with
murder in the first degree. It assailed
young Reed's character in the most
shameful manner and demanded that
he should be chained in his prison cell,
iike any common felon. But now all
this malignity on its oart so long ap
parent to unbiased minds, ts laid open
to the sight of all. Eleven witnesses
have sworn that the Inquirer LIED,
and the verdict of twelve jurors, under
oath, brands it GUILTY OF LIBEL |
upon John I'. Reed, Jr. Such is the
character of that sheet, proved in a
court of justice. Can people be any
longer misled by its statements? Can
its readers afford to risk their own rep
utation for truth, by repeating what
they see in its columns? Are its polit
ical friends to he shamed in the future,
a- they now are, by its falsehoods? If
yes, then it does not matter in this
country how great a liar one maybe,
provided he belongs to the Abolition
party. ________________
t'AX YOI I>> IT?
We ask the blood-hounds in human
shape who have been hunting down
John P. Reed, Jr., who among them
can show as good a character before a
jury as hedid ? ('an Mr. ('essna ? < 'an
any of the men who counseled ('rouse
to pursue, insult, and attack the Reeds?
John P. Reed never stirred up strife
among his neighbors; never indulged in
drunken brawls; never associated with
rowdies ; nor did he ever, according to
common report, furnish a railroadpa**
to <t reputed strtnnpet and travel with her
to Philadelphia. Let his persecutors
produce such testimony to their char
acter, as the following, if they can,
(we quote from the report of the trial):
The following gentlemen were then sworn and
testified that the charaeter of defendant. John IJ.1 J .
Heed, Jr , for peace, good order and propriety,
was always good :
Rev H Heckerman, Major Rupp,
Rev N H Skyles, Col J T Metzgar,
Rev C W Hileman, Capt. S S Metzgar.
Rev C Court. John Sill,
Judge Burns. Peter Dewalt. Esq.,
H Nicodetnus, Esq., Job Shoemaker,
Major Taliaferro, Rev F Benedict,
0 E Shannon. Esq., Thomas Jamison.
Or C N Hickok. Dr F C Reamer,
Joshua Mower, J W Lingenfelter. Esq.,
Win Lyon, Esq.. ticorge Biymyre,
Joseph W Tate. Esq , Win Bowles,
Capt S Lyon, Samuel Shuck,
Cant T Lyons, Samuel Statler,
N J Lyons, J W Pickerson,
John Palmer, Esq., Espy M Alsip, Esq.,
Hon S L Russell, Moses A Points, Esq.,
S J McCauslin, Hon Job Mann.
Wm Hartley, H C Reamer,
Pr J Compher. Sheriff Aldstadt,
John A Mowry, Wm R King.
P. FKAZER SMITH, Esq., of West
Chester, was of counsel for the Com
monwealth in the Crouse homicide
case, having 1 teen retained as such by
Mr. Cessna, who, it seems, assumed the
management of the ease on the part of,
the prosecution. We know Mr. Smith
well, having had the good (or ill) for
tune to serve some five months with
him in the Legislature. Although a
political opponent, we generally found
him courteous in his opposition and a ;
gentleman in every respect. We are
only sorry that he should have ]>er
mitted the demagogue Cessna to lug
him into this case for the purpose of
shielding himself from the odium of
a defeat which he knew to be inevita
ble. Mr. Smith is too good a lawyer
to have risked his reputation as a cat's
paw in the hands of John Cessna. Ac
cording to the statement of the latter
he had invited about a dozen of lawyers
to take the position Mr. Smith was pre
vailed upon to assume, before he ad
dressed himself to that gentleman.
Among that number was Thaddeus
Stevens, who declined bemuse he pre
; ferred to remain within the line of pro
■ fessional honor and to follow the good
! old rule of the true barrister, nrnr to
' take blood-money. We doubt not that
! Mr. Smith was deceived in regard to
{the nature of the caw?, for Cessna had
J his own tale about it, and itoasted on
the (sirs that the attorneys for the de
! fence did not comprehend it. Hut
whatever inducements operated to bring
Mr. Smith into the case, we are bound
i to say that in the trial and during his
i stay in our midst, he deported himself,
i in all respects, like a gentleman.
THE Franklin Repository talked very
glibly of the murder of Jacob Crouse,
some time ago, commenting with un
necessary severity upon the course of
John P. deed, jr. Will that paper do
justice to Mr. Reed by informing its
readers that eleven iritnessex more in
open Court that Crouse attacked Heed,
whilst the tatter wax retreating from him,
striking him (Heed) with a targe xtone,
and being altotU to strike him again with
another shone when Heed fired f also, that
the jury decided that there was neither
murder nor manslaughter of Jacob
('rouse? The ßepository/ might likewise
do justice to the christian virtues of its
friend Cessna, by saying that the coun
sel for Mr. Reed offered to prove (but
were prevented by the ruling of the
Court) that Crouse declared that John
Cessna had assured him that he could
kill the Reeds with impunity.
' WE ask the readers of the GAZETTE
to refer to our issue of August 4, IKGo,
and compare our account of the Crouse
tragedy published in that number of
our jiajier, with the testimony in the
trial of John P. Reed, Jr., published
last week. Then, we would, also, ask
the readers of the Inquirer to make a
comparison of the account of the same,
published in their paper of same date,
with the testimony as reported. Let
the readers of the two papers decide
which did tell the truth concerning the
killing of Jacob Crouse.
TH E Franklin Repository, of this week,
has an article on the,subject of the Reed
case, in which it says that "Mr. lteed
was confessedly disloyal,"and that "he
had no sympathy with the government'
winch guaranteed him all Lis civil, re
ligious and political rights, but, on the
contrary, notoriously sympathized with
its murderous foes." Was this proved
upon the. trial of Mr. Reed? Was there!
any effort made by the prosecution to
introduce testimony to such effect? Not !
a bit of it. Did Mr. Reed ever confess
himself "disloyal?" If so, has it been
proved when and where he became j
"confessedly" so? No, never! How,
then, dots the Repository come to have
so certain knowledge concerning Mr.
Reed's "disloyalty?" Of course, that
journal x ill respond, "Mr. Reed Hod to
Canada!' Granting, for the sake of ar
gument, that he did, the Repository I
ought to he aware (as it seems to have
pried into Mr. Reed's private affairs so
carefully and diligently) that he went
to CaiuuU long before the Conscription j
act was passed, that when he left his
home hedid so in thoopen light, of day,!
announcing t< all his acquaintance that
he intended to study law in an office in j
Toronto, and that, therefore, hedid not
Jiee to avYid meeting rebel bayonets, t/
la the immortal hero of "Rutherford's
Lane." It is true that after a residence j
of some years in < 'anada, Mr. Reed was
drafted under the Conscription act. He
obeyed the law to its very letter, by
paying commutation, just as did Col.
McClure when that worthy received an
invitation to tight forliiscountry. Why,
then, should the Repository thus assail !
Mr. Recti? Had it not better, to use a |
homely adage, "sweep before its own
door?" For wherein is the difference j
between one who goes to Canada, to i
keep out of harm's way, and a period- |
ieal "skedaddler," who scents the battle
afar off, and leaving his friends and 1
• |
neighbors in the lurch, runs just tar !
enough away "to save his own bacon?"
Hut we cannot believe that Col. Met 'lure
is the author of the article in question.
It is beneath the standard of a gentle
man. Vet, be the author who he may,
let him not concern himself as to the
conscieiuc of Mr. Reed. A creature
whose heart is filled with such maligni
ty as is exhibited in that article, will
have enough to do to smother in his
own breast, "the worm that dieth not
and the tire that is not quenched." Let j
him remember that "each of us carries
his own bide to market," and if his is
not as thi - k as that of the rhinoceros, ;
lie will fed the force of this injunction.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON, it is announc
ed, will soon restore the habeas corjjas.
Why not? Even the Abolitionistsclaini
ed that the suspension of that great writ
of right was demanded only in time of j
war and actual danger to the govern
ment. What is the matter now, that
we muststill be deprived of this ancient
and blood-bought privilege? 1 lasn'tthe
war been "fought out," and isn't the
"rebellion crushed?" "Yes,but the Un
ion is ii< it yet restored," says some "He
publican." Oh! we had thought it was.
Surely you told us that all that was want
ing to restore the Union, was to whip
the South. That has been done. What
is lacking now?
AM, HAII. .MINNESOTA! The Demo
crats have either carried this State, or
come so near carrying it, that there is
110 fun in it for the Abolitionists. At
last accounts the Abolition candidate
for Governor led his Democratic com
petitor only i!tgi votes! The "negro suf
frage" amendment was defeated by a
large majority, ffiistyear Lincoln car
ried this State by almut 10,(MM). Well
done, Minnesota!
No wonder the Abolitionists carried
the State. It now turns out that 01,000
Democrat* who voted last fall, did not
i turn out t< the election, or were disfran
chised by Abolition boards. Had these
votes bei'ii polled, our majority in the
j State, would have been 40,1 MM 1. Hence,
let Democrats organize in such manner
as will enable lis, next year, to poll our
full vote.
TAX on breadstuff's is the last wrin
kle in the horn that is goring the sides
of the people. The Assessors of Inter-
I mil ltevenie are now engaged in noti
jfyingall Manufacturers of hour, that
<;:t cents tax will be assessed upon ev
i cry barrel of this necessary of life they
I produce. Who pays this tax ? The
I consumer, of course. If things keep
I 011 at this rtte, how are poor people to
' earn their bread?
W.M. KENNEDY, Esq., has retired
from the editorship of the Shippens
burg Valley Sentinel. It is, we believe,
Mr. Kennedy's intention to become one
of the proprietors of a new Democrat
ic pai>er in Carlisle. Success attend
him.
EDITORIAL VISITOR. —We had the
pleasure, on Thursday morning last, of
a call from Brother THACOH, of the
Ilollidaysburg Standard, who, with
some friends, was on a flying visit to
our borough. Vive te good-looking ed
itor of the "gay and incomparable"
Standard!
Tin; J'oitsville Standard lias l>een
greatly enlarged and improved. It is
an able exponent of Democratic princi
ples. We wish the enterprising pub
lisher much success.
THE Abolition papers publish a pyr
amid of States carried by their party
recently. They forget to add JAMAi- j
CA ! ______
For the Bedford Gasette.
S4IIUOI. KKIORM-..X0. 4.
CI.ASSI I'H'.VTTOX —A WoliP TO TEA- j
en Kits. —Our common schools can nev- j
er reach their full measure of useful
ness, without thorough classification.
Nothing is so necessary totheirsucress ;
yet, nothing has been so much neglect
ed. This neglect, up to the present
time, has been mainly tin- fault of di
rectors. Teachers were powerless. The
variety of books used made classifica
tion impossible. Now, however, Os
good's Spellers and Readers, Rrooks'
Arithmetics, Mitchell's Geogniphys,
and Rrown's Grammars, are adopted in
nearly all our districts, andtheir exclu
sive use will be enforced as soon as the
schools begin. The schools (except in
a few districts where directors, in defi
ance of law, still refuse to establish uni
formity) can now he classified, and, it
they are not, it will he mainly the fault
of the teachers.
The classification of a school requires
skill and firmness. The task is both
delicate and difficult; and many fail in
its performance. If the teacher lacks
judgment and knowledge of human
nature, we can say hut little here, that
will aitl him. He must read works on
teaching, and study the subject as he
finds it in the practical details of the
school-room. Even when he knows
what should be done, and how he should
proceed, his task will not he without
difficulties. Parents will refuse or neg
lect to get books for their children; or
they will buy without consulting the
teacher, and thus frequently get the
wrong kind. 1 11 this way books by the
wrong author, or of too high a grade,
have been put into the schools. It is
true they have sometimes been bought
bv the stupid advice of the teacher him
self; hut they have generally come in
to the school without his knowledge,
and contrary to his wishes. Once in
troduced, they can not be got rid of.
Classes are multiplied and the teacher's
time i- wasted. Pupils can not get a
long because they are using books too
difficult for their compensation, and the
school is interfered with and injured in
every way, for many years, perhaps,
by what at first seemed a trilling and un
important event.
Three fourths of the pupils in the
county are using higher readers than
they require. They use the .Second in
stead of the First, the Third instead of
the Second, the Fourth instead of tiie
Third, and the Fifth instead of the
Fourth. Nearly all are a step too high
for their age and capacity. Nor are all
content with being one step too high.
Some are two and even three steps: that
is, some who are only capable of using
the Second reader, actually use the
Fourth or Fifth. A pupil who is using
the propei - reader, can hardly be found.
Almost every school has a class in the
Fifth Header; when, in truth, there
should not be a dozen such classes in
in the county. We have no use for
them, and they should never lie formed
unless there are too many in the Fourth
Header for one class. The Fourth, if
properly used,containsenough to make
first rate readers, and far more than our
pupils will ever learn in the common
schools.
What has been said of Heading, isal
so true of other branches. There seems
to be a kind of mania for big books.
Pupils begin the study of Mental A
ritlunetie with the advanced work in
stead of the primary. Dozens are study
ying Greenleafs "National" who will
never comprehend half that is in his
"commonschool." Pupils begint>ram
mar with the biggest book they can
buy. Mitchell's Geography* are used
and nearly all have his large Ge<>gra
phe and Atlas—the largest and most
comprehensive work, probably, that
has ever been used as a text-book, in
this country. There should not be one
of them in the county. No one ever
learns half that it contains.
It is time that we put a stop to these
evils; and the present is probably the
most favorable time to do this, that we
shall have for several years to come.
New books are being introduced, and
care should be taken that each pupil
gets such as are exactly suited to ids
age and capacity. Of the new readers
introduced, very few, indeed, require
anything higher than the Fourth. Of
the (ieographys, the "Primary" and
"Intermediate" are all that we need.
Of the Orammars, few require more
than the First bines. The Institutes
should lie introduced, only where there
are good c/w, and therearc at present,
few really good Grammar classes in the
county. Of the Arithmetics, a few
will need the Intellectual and the Com
iiion School, but far the greater number
will do better to study the Primary
Mental and the Primary Written.
J. W. I)IC'KEItSON,
. Co. Sup't.
A New Bedford paper gives a list of
forty-six American whaling vessels,
with ten thousand two hundred and fif
ty two barrels of oil, destroyed by reb
el pirates during the late war. The
value of the vessels is estimated at one
miilion one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, and the oil at halfa milion dol
lars.
A getleman from Appomattox Court
House, Virginia, states that there is
nothing left of the apple tree under
which General Lee surrendered but a
red hole in tin' ground, and it is feared
that unless the hole is fenced in that it
also will be removed by curiosity s<-ek
ers.
ANOTHI R KKPIBIHAN VMTORV!
Bring Out The UMHI-hHiinlfr!!
Wlnit wus the matter with our neigh- j
borof the negroorgan last week Why
didn't he parade the picture of that
wonderful specimen of spontaneous
combustion, the 1000-poundrr cannon?
Why didn't he come out in large job
type,inflarinjicapitals? Didn'theknow
that there had been another great Black
Republican victory? that his ideals of
perfect men, the negroes of Jamaica,
;}(Xl,ooO strong, had risen up against
the whites, some 10,000 in number, and
massacred a great many of them? I f so,
why didn't lie rejoice?
It is likely that lie postponed his re
joicing until this week, hoping, that
more of t he good news would come in.
If so, he will be wofully disappointed.
For 10, the tidings come that the rebell
ion of the:> 00,000 bravo, intelligent, hu
mane darkies of Jamaica has been sum
marily and ignominiously suppressed
by a few hundreds of white men, and
thconce negro-worshipping British offi
cials are hanging the niggers at the rate
of over 1,000 in a single parish !
Alas! forthenegroorgan,and alas! for
its idol, for the nigger has aeted upon
the "idea" which the abolition press
and speakers have for years endeavored
to pound into his thick bead, viz: the
extermination of the white race,and the
experiment has ended in a miserable
lizzie. Where was negro chivalry, when
whites were massacred by three hun
dred times their own number?
Let the Jamaica insurrection teach
i the Abolitionists the lesson they must
learn ere long, viz: that the negro is in
ferior to the white man in everything
j hut that which is purely animal, aiui
that lie is not to be trusted either as a
citizen or a soldier. — POUHVHII' StuuiUu'd.
Feiiiaii Mea<li|nart ers.
The Fenians have recently purchased
or leased, the residence owned by the
celebrated patent medieiin man, Mof
fat, in lTlit street, New York, for the
"bead quarters" of the "Irish republic."
It is a live-story brown bouse, ornamen
ted, inside antl out, in a most elaborate
manner. Frescoes, carvings, jtaiutings,
sheilds, eoat-of-arms, rosewood, ebony
and black walnut, stained windows and
costly doors abound.
On the first floor the "financial opera
tions" are carried on, where moneys are
received, bonds issued, and the treasury
department of the republic conducted.
On the -ame floor is the reception room
and the "library," with maps made
from the last Fenian survey of Ireland,
and, for aught we know, the lives of
St. Patrick, Smith O'Brien, and Colonel
O'Mahoncv. The president ha- Ins of
fice and private room on the second
floor. Another suite is allotted to the
secretary of military board of examin
ation and a secretary of matters civil
are also to operate on this floor. The
ball, offices, and committee rooms of the
Brotherhood senate occupy the third
floor. Here, probably, the uneasy cons
ciences of our Canada neighbors, who
are reaping thistles from the figs they
planted at St. Albans, imagine are plan
ned and projected those fearful raids
which keep the youthful Kanucks in
arms all night, and make "pursy" bank
directorscurseConrsoland his decisions.
Whether they be right or not, we have
no means of knowing, but it requires
neither a clear conscience nor a very
clear head to conclude that however
much the old women, of both sexes in
< 'anada, may suffer, the" 1 risli republic"
will probably flourish in spite of them.
—Pittsbury /'off.
IT MIIIHT HAVK BKKX—BI T WAS-
N'T. —A shoddy exchange gives the fol
lowing figures of the vote of 18G1 and
lsff-,. Lincoln,29fi,:ls9; llartranft,2.'S7,-
sl(!—Shoddy loss, oS,s7ff. McClellan,
"7 (i, lit IS ; Davis, 215,292 — iH'inocratic
loss, 41,0Hi. Assuming these figures to
be correct, they show that about fifty
thousand Democrats, who voted in IStit,
neglected to vote in 18(15. Is this not
too had? After gallantly keeping up
our organization during four years of
the most trying and villainous persecu
tion and misrepresentation ever endu
red bv any party, antl after bravely
combatting the pampered and gorged
hordes of Shoddy at every previous
poll, thus to be beaten by our own in
action and apathy, when the field was
clear and victory within our grasp, is
littlelessthanignominious. .Justthink
what a different state of affairs would
have been presented, bad every Demo
crat performed bis duty and east bi.-
voteasin 1804. Forty thousand, at least
would harebeen our majority ! We can't
dwell upon this mortifying theme— Pa
triot X- ( iiioit.
DIM; FOKXKY! —Boor Dog Forney
lilts a great dread of Mr. Buchanan's
Book, now in the hands of the publish
ers. it seems to the poor dog as though
his flood of slander and lies woultl not
be able to prevail against the pure and
uneorrupted sage of Wheatland. There
is no man living who can deny that Mr.
Buchanan is pure, honest and truthful.
Who could say that the miserable turn
coat Forney is either? Every man
knows that he left the Democratic party,
and went over among the Disunionists
of the .Seward, I'base and Greeley
school for plunder and nothing else. Let
the poor cur whine! Buchanan's vir
tues will shine long after lie antl many
another equally miserable dog has had
his day!— Xorthumtwrlaud Democrat.
"A BIUTU AT THH.WHITK Horse"
■ The follow ing occurs in Col. M 't lure's
"Hour with the President":"
"Soon the door opened and a yenteet
lady emerged front the President's
room with a large official envelope
clutched nervously in her hand, and a
heuiyniti/ of countenance that totd more
I dainty than words that another citizen j
had been horn ayain to the Republic."
The Greensburg Democrat prints the
above and adds that "the incident is re
markable, not only because of the queer {
uses to which the White I louse appears ;
to have been devoted, but the extraor- j
dinary recuperative powers of the lady
in question." i
Tim Bedford Triul— Acquittal of Ji,„
RCMI, Jr.
The telegraph announces thefm-t t|,
John 1\ Itecd, .Jr.. of Bedford, v,.0 ,
quitted on Saturday oflhechargt m h;
ing murdered one ('rouse. The pi, a .
up in his behalf was that the shoot;,,,
was done in self defence, and from wi,
we know of the ease, we haw m(|.,.:
it was completely made out. The,
i- one of those unfortunateouo spri,
ing out of political aniiii<>iti s.__q
loan who was killed had made -ey,.,.
assaults iijion John P. Heed, Jr.,
upon his younger brother, a weak;
defenceless youth. At the timet;,
shooting occurred, ('rouse made;,,,
sault upon John P. Heed, Jr., ~ lr;
iiini with a stone; knocking him ff,
and wasadvaiicingwitlnuiotherst(,i;
his hand, when Reed drew a pi-mi
him, and killed him almost instaiio
The jury have pronounced tin.
tifiable, as done in self defence. \\
hope the time will soon come wln-n;
politiealnuimositics will have he, ,
gotten. It is said that <"rouse \vu>ur n
on to his acts of violence by outside, ..
ties in Bedford, if this he t j
were the most eulliable. —Jjtwv
Continuation of 1 11 dill II Uc|irwlaii o „
[Corrt-sponJeiiee of the Chicago Time- j
Four LA KAMI K, I >ucotah Territory
Nov. f.—For lhl) miles 011 each side.
Fort Sedgwick (Juleshurg there hav
been fatal encounters, almost ever
day, between Indian- and traveller
Isist week a band of delegate- tub,,
end Sanborn's peace convention, on tli
Republican, attacked a train near A
kali station, hum-strung the o.\-i
chained them and two men to then a:
ons, and burned tlu* whole outfit,
few days previous another party attic 1
ed a government train a short distant
above Sedgwick, and after a fierce fig)
of four hours, fell back, leaving si
teen of their dead behind. A vege;
ble train en route from CampCollin-:
this place, was captured a
so that we shall probably have a sear
city in the market the coming winter.
At present potatoes -ell for <vnt
pound; cabbage, s? 5(1 a headjgr..
apples, $1 a pound, and everything t i-.
in that line in like proportion.
But the boldest move 011 the pari 1
the Indians took place day before yes
terday, when a band of five attack 1
a government train, camped only luk
a mile from and in plain sight nf th
fort, and attempted to stampede tie
stock, but receiving a warm rtirptin
from two soldiers, who were liuntiie
in the vicinity, they took to their lev
. after shooting six or seven head of un
tie.
Their sudden dash was a piece of men
bravado. They were mounted on tl
best horses their tribe afforded, and h;.
fresh ones following them; on tin
they would dash through a rocky or
011 or over a porous prairie, wheiv
I was difficult for us to follow, ew
when dismounted and leading our L
I s es.
The I ndians weresomuch broken 0/
(ten. ('onuer's campaign that they !
til to provide for the winter, and: v,
they are crossing the Platte on t. ■
way down to the Republican, when 1
1 the buffalo are plentv through thev i -
• , ~,, .
ter season. 1 his movement account
| for the present hostilities on the Pl:.-
! road.
Trrrlblc Ktcaiulioat Disaster oiiilicUi
sissi-One liitmlrcil I.ivcs Loot.
M KM I'll IS, Nov. 25.—A ('ollisieu
| curred last night between the Niagara
: and Post Boy, 011 the Mississippi, sec:
! milesabove Helena. TiieNiagura-i.T
jin twenty feet of water. ( Hie huiuln
I deck passengers, mostly discharged ii'
gro soldiers, were drowned. Tlicraiiii
passengers and crew were all save:
The Niagara was valuedat £i:!.tHio.ai
i was uninsured. Two hundred and u:
!ty tons of freight 011 the Post 1 b>y w
uninjured.
llalxffkv < (ir|ius to W
WASHIXOTOX, NOV. 24.—Preside:
Johnson expressed this morning to
: friend his intention to restore the priv
! ileges of the writ of hit/wax cor/no a
] the earliest possible time, and to dc
i wav with the secret detective service.
I *
(lovKitxoii Parsons has returned
Alabama with two hundred pani<
I for citizens of that State.
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A IJLCXK K'S Pontics PLASTKKs.
j Druggist said the other day. you have no BUM
| advertise your Porous Plasters, for every on l ''
| certainly causes a dozen to be sold, and a '
; sells a gross, and so on. You will not he a
j supply the demand soon. Hut we can -up '. 1
thousand yards a day.
AFt'KCTIO.V or THE SPINK CCP.EI'
Hartford. Conn.. Nov. 11. I s '
j Messrs. TIIOS. ALI.COCK & Co.—Please semi
; dispatch, twelve dozen Allcock's I'otoii
! Our daily experience confirms their very suV '• • •
excellence. At this moment of writing. * 1U: "' :
plies for one, who, by entanglement in flc B ,s "
: machinery, had hoth his legs broken, spine se>'
| ly injured, and was for nearly a year entirely if;
less. This mau found relief very soon by the s,
j plication of a plaster to his spine, lie wa->•
j enabled to work, and now he labors as well a- 11
He would cheerfully pay for a single plttsie
i they could not be had at a lower rate. lam
| prised 'hat surgeons do not make use of these j
j loratod plasters, to the exclusion ol all other"-
their flexibility and adhesiveness are greatly •""
' vanee of all other plasters with winch 1 *"
| quaintcd ; while the perforations peculiar!" 11
rendered them greatly superior to all otiti c t ,r
j dinary surgical uses. Knowing the Piastvis
: so useful, 1 have tin scruples that my sentim
should he known. J. W. .lOHNsUN. M
Principal Agency, Brandreth House. New V
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; lias given universal satisfaction during the •
: teen years it has boeu introduced into the
1 States. After being tried by millions, it to" •
! proclaimed the pain destroyer of the world,
| cannot be where this liniment is applied .
! as directed it cannot ami never has failed m 11
gle instance. For colds, coughs and influn-'j
can't bo beat One 40 cent bottle will cure 'n ■'
above, besides being useful in every family t"' ,
den accidents, such as burns, cuts, scald- ;
stings, te It is perfectly innocent to take i• •
nally, and can be given to the oldest P er ' I ,'"
youngest child. Price 40 and 80 cents a hot 1
Office, st> Cortlamlt Street. New York. isM "
Druggists. Ort 20"
\f AMMOTIL SALE BILLS, l ,ri "J'
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