FF-FCE |FCETTE.
FRWJ MORNING I>EEEMBER 1. IMS.
MORAL ASPECTS OF THE REED CASE, j
From the day on which Jacob Crouse
met his fate until the present hour, we ■
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 ,
report of the proceedings in the trial of
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
columns did not respond to the foui
slanders repeatedly uttered in regard to
the Reeds, and for this reason alone,
we permitted the base libel ujon our
own character, "THE BEDFORD GA
ZETTE murdered Jacolt Crouse," 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
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. From the time
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
tired, 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
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 Crouse, he went before the jury
tu counsel ami 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 pettifog
ger's trickery, to obtain a continuance;
moving to quash the array of jurors,
though the jury had been drawn in the
same maimer in a hundred previous
capital cases; and linally swearing the
case off by making an affidavit to the
absence of important witnesses. And
just here, let us look 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 oneof 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 appeared :ui(l testified le
-fore the Grand Jury at September ses
sions. Wm. J. Campbell was in atten
dance at the trial, last week, but this
important witness was not even called
to the stand by Mr. ('essna. Why Mrs.
Hoke, Howsare and the two Liz
zies were not forthcoming, Is, doubtless,
l>est known to the "affiant" who swore
that their testimony was "material
to a trial of the ease." Rut, the black
est page in sill the dark history of this
man Cessna's connection with this Reed
case, is yet to l>e written. Contempt
for the meanness of the fellow's malig
nity and pity for those, who must share
his shame, almost constrain us to for
bear. Yet, why should we hesitate to
tell the truth concerning a creature,
who fain would blacken and blast the
reputation of others with falsehood ?
Had all the evidence offered by the de
fence, been admitted by the Court, the
criminality of poor Crouse would have
been considerably relieved by the reve
lation of the fact that he believed, that
as an officer, he had the right to kill
John P. Reed, Jr. What gave Crouse
this false and bloody notion ? lx't us
see. We quote from the bill of excep
tions sealed by the Court to the counsel
for the defence:
"The counsel for the defence offer to
prove that ('rouse said he would kill
Heed, 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 him that he
would not be hurt if he killed him.—
Counsel for Commonwealth object; ob
jections sustained by the Court and bill
of exceptions sealed."
The evidence which the defence in
t<tided to produce under this proposi
tion, was that of some Ave witnesses,
all respectable and worthy men, who
were ready to swear that Crouse, at va
rious times, in October, ibG4, and at
biter periods, declared that he would
kill Heed, if he ever returned, and
when counseled not to do so, that he
would say, "I know what 1 am doing;
i am not acting blindly; L have a right
to kill himand at least one of those
witnesses would havesworn that Crouse
said to him that JOHN CESSNA had
told him that he could kill the Reed
hoys 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 (1864) I
was talking to John P. lUvd, Sr., on
business near his office: Jacob ('rouse
passed, while we were talking, towards
the Washington Hotel; I afterwards
met Crouse, 011 the same day. He ask
ed me what Reed had said about him.
I told him he had not said anything;
that we were bilking 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 (Crouse) had
made about his boys, lie said he had
threatened to kill them, and that he
would kill them yet. I told him he
should not do so; that he might get in
to hocutties. He said, no, he wouldn't;
that he never went into anything btindly;
that JOHN CESSNA had totil hint he
had a right to kill him,a# an officer, and
that he couldn't, or shouldn't he 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 primmer 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
witnesses material to the issue, are
absent, which witnesses, though with
in his reach, he subsequently fails to
produce; who advises as Jacob Crouse ;
declared he was advised? What shall
be said of the politician who goes over
the State, traducing his neighlnirs 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 Iteed; electioneer
ing at the expense of the reputation of
a man whose guilt, or innocence, was j
yet to be established? Nay, more.— !
What is to be thought (for tongue can- j
not utter a just description of such in
famy) of the Christian who sits in the
|>ew just behind you, hiking 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 lil>el upon the
legal profession! What a disgrace to
the political arena! What a shame to
the church of the meek and lowly Je
sus ! The pettifogger, the mountebank
and the hypocrite all combined in one j
nature; who shall describe the ineffable j
meanness, the contemptible trickery, I
the unutterable baseness of a compound
so vile as this?
LIBELS PROVED.
Time sets all things even. The un- i
parallelled mendacity of the Bedford j
Inquirer in regard to the ('rouse homi- :
cide, has at last received a fitting rebuke,
j
i nay, ha# Iteen branded by a sworn jury >
i of the best men in the county, us a libel- j
lour falsehood. Time after time tluit j
sheet published in glaring letters, this
j charge: " The Bedford Gazette murder
|ed Jacob Crow*!" Time after time |
ithis base lie was made the ground of j
! an appeal to the credulous, against the
; GAZETTE and the Democratic party, j
Now, people can see how they were
j duped. It teas proved on the trial of
J. P. Heed, Jr., by eleven witnesses, and
the jury so decided, that ('rouse WA> V
NOT Ml 111) KB El) A T A LL, but was
shot whilst in the act of tryiny to l:ilt Heed
with a stone, it was proved by these
eleven witnesses that ('rouse attacked
Reed and injured him severely whilst
Jhe was retreating from ('rouse. The
; writers for the Inquirer kuew this all
! the while, yet they persisted in saying
that ('rouse was rhot because he was a
sort of provost-marshal, the BEDFORD
GAZETTE having declared that any per
son accepting that office "could not live
a peaceful life, nor die an honorable
j death." Now, eleven witnesses hav
ing sworn in open court, that Crouse
j attacked Reed (and therefore courted
' death) and a jury under solemn oath
! having found that Crouse was not
murdered, (neither because la 1 was pro
vost-marshal, nor because of the lan
guage of the GAZETTE applied to pro
j 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
BEDFORD GAZETTE murdered Jacob
Crouse." Yet, more. The I/upiirer
published an account of the killing of
Crouse, which clearly conveyed the idea
that John I'. Reed, Jr., was guilty of
murder. It declared repeatedly that
Crouse was shot because he was pro
i 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,
1 like any common felon. But uow all
1 this malignity on its part, so longap
parent to unbiased minds, is 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 I
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 ? <an
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 la* shamed in the future,
as 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.
CAR voi mm 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 31 r. ('essna ? ('an
any of the men who counseled Crouse
to pursue, insult, anil attack the Reeds?
John P. Reed never stirred up strife
among his neighbors; never indulged i n
drunken brawls; never associated with
rowdies; nor (lid he ever, according to
common report, furnish a railroad pass
to u reputed strumpet ami (rare! with her
to Philadelphia. Let his persecutors j
produce such testimony to their char
acter, as the following, if they can,
(we quote from the report of the trial): j
The following gentlemen were then sworn and
testified that the charm ter of defendant, John P. I
Reed. 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 Hileuian, Capt. S S Metzgar,
Rev C Court, John Sill,
Judge Burns, Peter liewalt, Esq.,
II N'icodemus, Esq.. Job Shoemaker.
Major Taliaferro, Rev F Benedict,
0 E Shannon. Esq., Thomas Jamison,
I)r C N Hiekok, DrF C Reamer,
Joshua Mower, J W Lingenfelter. Esq , j
Wm Lyon, Esq., Ueorgo Blymyre,
Joseph W Tate, Esq., Wm Bowles,
Capt S Lyon. Samuel Shuck.
Capt T Lyons, Samuel Statler,
N J Lyons, J W Ltickerson.
John Palmer, Esq., Espy M Alsip, Esq..
Hon a L Russell, Moses A Points, Esq.,
S J MeCauslin, Hon Job Mann,
Wm Hartley, H C Reamer,
I)r J Compter, Sheriff Aldstadt,
John A Mowry, Wm R King.
P. FKAZKK SMITH, Esq., of West
j Chester, was of counsel for the Com
monwealth in the Crouse homicide j
case, having been retained tis such by •
Mr. Cessna, who, it .seems, assumed the
management of the (-a.se on the part of J
the prosecution. We know Mr. Smith 1
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 per
i mitted the demagogue Cessna to lug
I 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 ('essna. Ac-
I cording to the statement of the latter
| he had invited about a dozen of lawyers
! to take the position Mr. Smith was pre
-1 vailed upon to assume, before lie ad
dressed himself to that gentleman.
j Among that numtier was Thaddeus
j Stevens, who declined because he pre
| ferred to remain within the line of pro
j fessional honor and to follow the good
i old rule of the true barrister, never to
! take blood-money. We doubt not that
1 Mr. Smith was deceived in regard to
the nature of the ease, for Cessna had
| his own tale about it, and boasted on
! the cars that the attorneys for the de-
I fence did not comprehend it. But
whatever inducements operated to bring
Mr. Smith into the case, we are hound
t
to say that in the trial and during his
stay in our midst, he deported himself,
In all respects, like a gentleman.
Tir K 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. Reed, jr. Will that paper do
justice to Mr. Reed by informing its
readers that eleven witnesses swore in
open Court that Crouse attacked Heed,
whilst the tatter was retreating from him,
striking him {Heed) with a targe stone,
and being about to strike him again with
another stone when Heed fired * also, that
the jury decided that there was neither
murder nor manslaughter of Jacob
Crouse? The Repository 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
wgre 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 GAZRTTK
to refer to our issue of August 4,
and compare our account of the Crouse
tragedy publishe<l in that numlier of
our paj>er, with the testimony in the
trial of John P. Iteed, 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.
the readers of the two papers decide
which did tell the truth concerning the
killing of Jacob Crouse.
THE tVnnkiin RrpaUory, of this week,
has an article on tha-übjectof the Reed
ease, in which it sa;s that "Mr. Reed
was confessedly disbyal,"and that "lie
had no sympathy wth the government
which guaranteed hm all his civil, re
ligious and political rights, but, on the
contra ry,notorioasljsympathi7iCd with
its murderous foes."' Was this proved \
upon the trial of Mr, Heed? Was there
any effort made by the prosecution to
introduce testimony o such effect? Not
a bit of it. Did Mr. Heed ever confess
himself "disloyal'"' If so, has it been
proved when and where he became
"confessedly" so'.' K<>, never! How,
then, does the Jieposfory come to have
so certain knowledge concerning Mr.
Reed's "disloyalty f Of course, that |
journal will respond "Mr. Reed tied to j
Canada!" Granting,for the sake of ar
gument, that he did, the Reptmititry
ought to be aware fis it seems to have
pried into Mr. Reed's private affairs so
carefully and diligmtiy) that he went
to Canada long bel'de the Conscription
act was passed, tint when he left his
home he did so in the open light of day,
announcing to all his acquaintaiuv that
he intended to study law in an office in |
Toronto, and tint, therefore, he did not
Jin- to avoid inciting rebel bayonets, a
la the immortal hero of "Rutherford's
Lane." It is true that after a resilience !
of some years in Canada, Mr. Reed was
drafted under the Conscription act. iie
otieyed the law to its very letter, by j
paying commutation, just as did Col.
McCiure when that worthy received an
invitation tofigld for hi-country. Why, j
then, should the Ilepimtory thus assail
Mr. Heed? llail it not better, to use a
homely adage, "sweep IK -lb re its own j
door?" For wherein is the difference 1
between one who goes to Canada, to
keep out of harm's way, and a period-1
ical "skedaddler," who scents the tattle
afar off, and leaving iiis friends and
neighbors in the lurch, runs just far j
enough away "to save his own bacon?"
But weeannot believe that Col. Met lure !
is the author of the article in question. J
it is beneath the standard of a gentle
man. Yet, be the author who he may, J
let him not concern himself as to the \
conscience of Mr. Heed. A creature
whose heart is filled with such maligni
ty as i- exhibited in that article, will
have enough to do to smother in his
own breast, "the worm that dietli not:
and the lire that is not quenched." Let ;
him remember that "each of us carries
his own hide to market," and if his is
not as thick as of the rhinoceros,
he will feel the force of this injunction.
PIIKSIDENT JOHNSON, it is announc
ed, will soon restore the habeas corpus.
Why not? Even the Abolitionists claim
ed that the suspension of that great writ
of right was demanded only in time of
war and actual danger to the govern
ment. What is tin- matter now, that
we must still be deprived of this ancient
and blood-taught privilege? Hasn't the
war been "fought out," and isn't the
"rebellion crushed?" "Yes, hut the Un
ion is not yet restored," says some "Re
publican." < )h! we had thought it was.
Surely you toldusthatnli that was want
ing to restore the Union, was to whip
the South. That has been done. What
is lacking now?
ALL HAIL MINNESOTA! The Demo
crats have either carried this State, or
come so near carrying it, that there is
no fun in it for the Abolitionists. At
last accounts the Abolition candidate
for Governor led his Democratic com
petitor only If) votes! The "negro suf
frage" amendment was defeated by a
large majority. laist year Lincoln car
ried this State by about 10,000. Well
done, Minnesota!
No wonder the Abolitionists curried
the State. It now turns out that (>l,OOO
Democrats who voted last fall, did not
turn out to theelection, or were disfran
chised by Abolition boards. Had these
votes been polled, our majority in the
State, would have liven 40,000. Hence,
let Democrats organize in such manner
as will enable us, next year, to poll our
full vote.^^^^^^^^^^
TAX on breadstuffs is the last wrin
kle in the horn that is goring the sides
of the people. The Assessors of Inter
nal Revenue are now engaged in noti
fying all manufacturers of flour, that
(fct cents tax will be assessed upon ev
ery barrel of this necessary of life they
produce. Who pays this tax ? The
consumer, of course. If things keep
on at this rate, how are poor people to
earn their bread?
WM. KKNXKDY, Esq., lias retired
from the editorship of the Shippens
burg Valley Satinet. It is, we believe,
Jlr. Kennedy's intention to become one
of the proprietors of a new Democrat -
ie paper in Carlisle. Success attend
him.
EIJITOHIAL VISITOR. —WO had the
pleasure, on Thursday morning last, of
a call from Brother TKAU&II, of the
Hollidaysburg Standard , who, with
some friends, was on a Hying visit to
our borough. Vive le good-looking ed
itor of the "gay and incomparable"
Standard !
THE Pottsville Stan/lard has Itecii
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 JAMA I- <
CA!
For the Bedford lin/.ette.
M 11001. BtrOHll-xo. t.
CI.ASs 1 KIL'ATIOX —A WtIHD TO TEA- I
ci i Kits.—Our common schools can nev
er reach their full measure of useful
ness, without thorough classification.
Nothing is so necessary to their success ;
yet, nothing lists been so much neglect
ed. This neglect, up to the present
time, lists been mainly the fault of di-,
rectors. Teachers were powerless. The
variety of books used made classifica
tion impossible. Now, however, Os-!
good's Spellers and Readers, Brooks' ,
Arithmetics, Mitchell's Geographys, !
and Drown'sGrammars, are adopted in
nearly all our districts, and their exrlu- ;
sive use will lie enforced as soon as the |
schools liegin. The schools (except in j
a few districts where directors, in deli-1
ance of law, still refuse to establish uni-1
fortuity) can now be classified, and, if
they are not, it will be mainly the fault
of the teachers.
The classification of a school requires \
skill and firmness. The task is both j
delicate and difficult; and many fail in
its performance. If the teacher lacks
judgment and knowledge of human
nature, we can say but little here, that
will aid him. lie must read works on i
teaching, and study the subject as be
finds it in the practical details of the ■
school-room. Even when lie knows
what should be done, and how lie should i
proceed, his task will not be 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. In this way liook- hythe
wrong author, or of too high a grade, j
; have been put into the schools. It is j
true they have sometimes been bought
by the stupid adviceof the teacher him
self; hut they have generally come in- j
j to the school without his knowledge,!
I and contrary to his wishes. Once in- j
' treduced, they can not be got rid of. j
! Classes are multiplied and the teacher's i
time is 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,
j by what at first seemed a trilling and uii
! 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 the
Third, and the Fifth instead of the
Fourth. Nearly all are A step too high
fr\r !i(?p '<iw! iVup flfp jvl)
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 proper 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 be formed
unless there are 100 many in the Fourth
Header for one class. The Fourth, if
properly used, contains enough to make
lirst 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
rithmetie with the advanced work in
steadof the primary. Dozens are study
ying GreenleaFs "National" who will
never comprehend half that is in bin
"common school." Pupils begin Gram
mar with the biggest book they can
buy. Mitchell's Geographys are used
and nearly all have his large Geogra
phy and Atlas—the largest and most
comprehensive work, probably, that
has ever been used as a text-book, in
tiiis country. There should not he 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; anil the present is probably the
most favorable time to do this, that wo
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 his
age and capacity. <)f the new readers
introduced, very few, indeed, require
anything higher than the Fourth. Of
the Geographys, the "Primary" and
"Intermediate" are all that we need,
of the Grammars, few require more
than the First Lines. The institutes
should be introduced, only where there
are r/ooclefaxxe#, and thereare at present,
few really good Grammar classes in the
county. Ol' the Arithmetics, a few
will need the Intellectual and the Com
mon School, but far the greater number
will do better to study the Primary
.Mental and the Primary Written.
J. W. DICKFRSON,
Co. Sup't.
A New Bedford paper gives a list of
forty-six American whaling vessels,
with ten thousand (wo 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 mil ion dol
lars.
A getleman from Appomattox Court
House, Virginia, strifes that there is
nothing left of the apple tree under
which General Lee surrendered but a
red hole in the ground, and it is feared
that unless the hole is fenced in that it
also will be removed by curiosity seek
ers.
\ MinU K RKIMHI.MIV VMTORY !
lirliu Onl The UHMM'iHimli r !!
What was the mutter with our neigh
bor of the m-gTooispan last week Why
didn't he pa rude the picture of that
wonderful specimen of spontaneous,
combustion, the tOOO-pminder cannon?
Why didn't he come out in large job
type,in daring capitals? I )idn't lie know
that t here had been another great Black
ltepublican victory? that his ideals of
perfect men, the negroes of .Jamaica,
300,0(0 strong had risen up against
the whites, some 10,000 in number, and
11 > a-sai;re< 1 a great many of tiuiu? If so,
why didn't lie rejoice?
It is likely that he postponed his re
joicing until this week, hoping, that
more of the good news would come in.
If so, he will be wofully disappointed.
For 10, the tidingscome that the rebell
ion of the 300,000 brave, intelligent , hu
mane darkies of Jamaica has been suni
mariiy and ignominiotisly suppressed
by a few hundreds of white men, and
theonce negro-worshipping British ofii
eials 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 lias acted hjmih
the "idea" which the abolition pre—
and speakers have for years endeavored
to pound into his thick head, viz: the
extermination of tin* white race, and the
experiment has ended in a miserable
ti/.zle. Where was negro chivalry, when
whites were massacred by three hun
dred times their own number?
Let the Jamaica insurrection leach
the Abolitionists the lesson they must
learn ere long, viz: that the negro is in
ferior to the white man in everything
j but that which is purely animal, and
that he is not to he trusted either as a
citizen or a soldier. — PotLicilfe SUt/nhtrd.
Fell inn H <i nrl <> is.
The Fenians have recently purchased
or leased, the residence owned by the
celebrated patent medicine man, Mof
fat, in 17th street, New York, for the
"headquarters" of the "Irish republic."
It is a five-storv brown house, onianien
: ted, inside and out, in a most elaborate
manner. Frescoes, carvings, paintings,
slieilds, coat-of-arms, rosewood, eltnu.v
and black walnut, stained windows and
costly doors abound.
< )nthe first floor the "financial opera
tions" are carried on, where motleys are
received, bonds issued, and the treasury
department of the republic conducted.
On the same fioor 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(i'Brien, and ('olonel
O'Mahoncy. The president has his of
fice and private room on the second
floor. Another suite is allotted to the
secretary of military board of examin
ation anil a secretary of matters civil
are also to operate on this floor. The
hall, offices, and committee rooms of the
Brotherhood senate occupy the third
floor. Mere, probably, fhe uneasy cons
ciences of our Panada ncigio-n-s, who
are reaping thistles from the tigs 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
directors curseCoursol and his decisions.
Whether they be right or not, we have
no means of knowing, but it requires
neither a clear eonseienee nor a very
clear head to conclude that however
much the old women, of hotli sexes in
Canada,maysutfer, the" Irish republic"
will probably flourish in spite oftheni.
Pittxburr/ Post.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN — Bi T WAS-
N'T. —A shoddy exchange gives the fol
lowing figures of the vote of IKC>4 ami
1.803. Lincoln, 290,889; 1 lartranft, 207,-
slCi—Shoddy loss, 35,378. McClellan,
1170,308; Davis, 21-3,292 —Democratic
loss, til, Old. Assuming these figures to
be correct, they show that about sixty
thoumiul Democrats, who voted in isol,
neglected to vote in 1803. Is this not
too bad? After gallantly keeping up
our organization during four years of
the most trying and villainous persecu
tion and misrepresentation ever endu
red by any party, anil 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
little lessthan ignominious. Just think
what a different state of affairs would
have been presented, had every Demo
crat performed his duty and east his
vote as in 1804. Forty thoumml , at least
would burr been our majority ! We can't
dwell upon this mortifying theme—l'u
triot At 'iiion.
Dot; FOKNKV ! —Poor Dog Forney
has a great dread of Mr. Buchanan's
Book, now in the hands of the publish
ers. It seems to the poor dog as though
hi* Hood of slander and lies would not
be able to prevail against the pure and
uncorrupted sage of Wheatland. There
is no man living who can deny that Air.
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, Chase and Greeley
school for plunder and nothing else. Let
the poor cur whine! Buchanan's vir
tues will shine long after he and many
another equally miserable dog has had
his dav!— AOrt it u tnber/u nt I Denvwrcd.
"A l.niTll AT THK WIItTK I lot So"
The following oceurs in < 'oL M'l'lureL
"Hour with the President:"
"Soon the door opened and a </< uteri
lady emerged from the President's
room with ti large official envelope
clutched nervously in her hand, and a
iH'iiifjnity of countenance that tohl more
plainly than word* that another citizen
had been horn attain to the HepuOtief*
The <lreenshurg Democrat prints the
utMive and adds that "the incident is re
markable, not only lieeause of the queer
uses to which the White House upjiears
to have been devoted, but the extraor
dinary recuperative powers of the lady
in question."
The H> UfrI Trial.-.Aciiklllml F John i>
Rmif. Jr.
The telegraph announces the fact that
Joint F. lleed, Jr.. of Bedford, wasar
quitted on Sat urday of thechaigcoj l, a \.
ing murdered one t 'rouse. The plea i t
up in his behalf was that the siiootiu</
was done in self defence, and from win,-
we know of thocilse, we have 110 donlr
it was completely inside out. Theca—
is one of those unfortunate one- -pring*.
ing out of political animosities. Tj„.
man who was killed had inside several
assault:- upon John I*, lined, Jr., atui
upon Ins younger brother, a Weak and
defenceless. youth. At the time the
shooting occurred, (."rouse made an ;t>-
saulT upon John J*. Heed, Jr., struck
him with a stone; knocking him down
and was advancing with another stone in
his hand, when Heed drew a 'pistol, .-hot
him, and killed him almost instantly.
The jury have pronounced the act jus
tifiable, as done in self defence. We
hope tlie time will.soon come when pa.-;
politicalaniinositie- will have been for
gotten. 11 is said that < 'rouse was urged
on to his acts of violence by outside par
tics in Bedford. If this be so, they
were the most culpable.—Luhruxle,- /„.
tetlhfeiHir.
Coiitimtalioki <>!' Indian Ih'itrediulmik.
[Correspondence of the Cliicngo Tim eg.!
Four liAtiAMtK, Dacotah Territory,
Nov. <s.—For lob miles on each side of
Fort Sedgwick 1 Julesburgi there have
been fatal encounters, almost every
day, between Indians and traveller-,
hist week a hand of delegates to (Un
cial Sanborn's peace convention, on tltc
lleptihlican, attacked a train near Al
kali station, liam-strnng the oxen,
chained them and two men to the wag
ons, and burned the whole outfit. A
few day.- previous another party attack
ed a government train a short distance
above Sedgwick, and after a tierce tight
of four hours, fell hack, leaving six
teen of their dead behind. A vegeta
ble train en route from Camp Collin-to
this place, was captured a fewlay- ago,
so that we shall probably have a sear
eitv in the market the coming winter.
At present potatoes sell for 35 cent- a
pound ; cabbage, $2 50 :t head ; green
apple-, £1 a pound, and everything cI-<-
in that line in like proportion.
But the boldest move on the inert of
the Indians took place day before yes
terday, when a band of five attacked
a government train, camped only half
a mile from and in plain sight of tin
fort, and attempted to stampede the
stock, but receiving a warm reception
from two soldiers, who were hunting
in the vicinity, they took to their heels
after shooting six or seven head of cat
tle.
Their sudden dash was a piece of mere
bravado. They were mounted on tin
best horses their tribe afforded, and had
fresh ones following them ; on these
they would dash through a rocky can
on or over a porous prairie, where it
was difficult for us to follow, even
wlien dismounted and leading our hor-
Th Indians wereso much broken upJiv
(leu. Conner's campaign that they fail
ed to provide for the winter, and now
they are crossing the Platte on their
way down to the Republican, where
the buffalo are plenty through tliewin
ter season. This movement aeeounts
for the preset/: hostilities on the Platte
road.
Terrible Steamboat Disaster on Hie Ml*-
Kis*i]|>i—One Hundred l.ive* I.osl.
MF.Mi'Hrs, Nov. 23.—A Collision <v
eurred last night between the Niagara
and Post Roy, on the Mississippi, seven
miles above Helena. The Niagara sunk
in twenty feet of water. One hundred
deek passengers, mostly discharged ne
gro soldiers, were drowned. Thecabin
passengers and erew were all saved.
The Niagara was valued at £!•'>(>,<Hi, and
was uninsured. Two hundred and fif
ty ton* of freight on xlie Post Boy \va
uninjured.
llttlx'iw Corpus to bo Kcslorol.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — President
Johnson expressed this morning to a
friend, his intention to restore the priv
ileges of the writ of fuibeu# corpus at
the earliest possible time, and todoa
way with the secret detective service.
(ioVKUXOK Parsons has returned to
Alabama with two hundred pardons
for citizens of that State.
A IiIA'OCK S POIiOCS Pt.ASTKIis. A
Druggist- sniii the other day, you have no need l"
advertise jour Porous Plasters, for every one sold
certainly causes a dozen to lie sold, and a dozen
sells a gross, aud so on. You will not tic aide (•>
supply the demand soon. But we can supply a
thousand yards a day.
AKKKI'TIOX or TUK SPINK Ct'llEll.
Hartford, Conn., Nov. 11, ISfii
Messrs. Tuos. AILCOCK A Co.—Please send with
dispatch, twelve dozen Allcock's Porous Piastre
tlur daily experience contirms their very sujieri" r
excellence. At this moment of writing, a man ap
plies for one, who. bj- entanglement in the shall et
machinery, had both his legs broken, spine severe
ly injured, and was for nearly a year entirely help
less. This man found relief very soon by the ap
plication of a plaster to his spine, lie was soon
enabled to work, and now he labors as welt as ever
lie would cheerfully pay $o for a single plaster it
they could not be had at a lower rate. lam sur
prised that surgeons do not make use of these per
forated plasters, to the exclusion of all others, as
their flexibility and adhesiveness are greatly in ad
vance of all other plasters with which I am ac
quainted ; while the perforations peculiar to them
rendered them greatly superior to all others lor or
dinary surgical uses. Knowing the Plasters t" be
so useful. 1 have no scruples that my sentiments
should be known. J. W. JOHNSON M b
Principal Agency, Brandreth House. New \rk
Sold by all Dealers in Medicines. jOet. -O-lm
])K. TdIUAS' VKSKTIA.V IiINIMI Ni
Hits given universal satisfaction during the four
teen years it lias been introduced into the I mtoi
States. Alter being tried by millions, it has bo "
proclaimed the pain destroyer of the world. I ain
eaunot be where this liiiiment is applied. II use
as directed it cannot and never has tailed 111 a
glu instance. For colds, oongbs and influeuaa. •
can't be beat. One 1(1 cent bottle will cure all the
above, besides being useful in every family fcr sud
den accidents, such as burns, cuts, scalds, insert
stings, <te. It is perfectly innocent to take inter
nally, and enn be given to the oldest person 01
youngest child. Price 40 and SO cents a bottle.--
Office, oil Cortlandt Street, Xew York Sold by all
Druggists P*t 20-lni
MAMMOTH SALTE BILLS, PRINT
ed at short notice. Large Bills make large
sales. We know it to be so. THY IT! It will
much more than pav the extra trpettst of print
ing. Call at THE (JAZETTB JOB Ornci.