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AMERICAN VOLUNTEER
JOHN B. BRATTON, Editor k Proprietor
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CAJiLISLE, PA.. JULY Id, 1805.
_.. * S-w, Cai-Htle I .nficr £e-.
fined Iron at -11 ets. per lb.: Nails, So fid per
keg : llni-o .Shoes, $7 00 per keg; and will
sell goods as cheap as the cheapest at all times.
A reduction made to Ilctailcrs. f
or the Pea'i:.—Of late sever
al uulteuliie-i have occurred in oiw town bo
twee-n s.d.licrs at ’n g.uaLon and Citizens,
some of them r mg quite seriously. As
a general thing the troops at this post have
conducted themselves in a becoming manner
and have commando 1 the respect of our peo
ple. Of. Jato. however, they have exhibited
a more turbulent spirit, and one evening last
week some two dozen of them trade a raid
nto the town, and, under the command of a
—iuuncom:aLssiouo.d-aflicorTdvn-)eked'i:h>i.rn--antl
.beat several of our best citizens, and fired up
on others. The Chief Larger, Mr. C\>ir
r.ELh, during Lis eD’.-rts to quell the riolimr,
was assailed, knocked down, and very much
injured. F r some two hours riutiug, shoot-’
ing and lighting continued, until finally n
strong detachment of troops arrived from'tho
garri- m. comm.ind-id by a Lieutenant, who
snc.tL.’dcl in arresting a number of the ring
loader-, and lefioring ord«*r. Some half do-
xon s ■ are I”"' in prison, and us many
more deserted and have tut sine’ been heiinl
from
i here shonM b ? no bad feel n g exist In g be
twoo:i one , I'.'zons an 1 t lie tro ips at this post.
Of cour-e wo have many bud men in one
t iwn. woo ! no, on m we tb in one eeeas’un
abused nod imp sed up m s.,ldiers. Our pen
J’lo '''Olid c lie very lit tlu to s.-o these .1 is
turbos t!io peaoo boiti-he 1 from the b
ouyn, fir tiioy liavo neidicr sympathy ur ro
speet for tocm. dint the soldiers, when thee
f.-ol themselves aggrieved, should not hold
our omiro community responsible, and
'• huoek down and .Iran; out” every one they
lueei. this will nat bo tolerated, and the
Bo! liers will do troll to remember this fact.
As wo said before, we desire to see a g, O 1
iecling cultivated between our citizens an 1
tlm trw psat tlds post; am! if any Carlbler
maltreats a soldier, without cause, all our
good e.iami.s will demand his punishment
to the full ottbmt of the Jaw.
Inn Ufivit-T.—Must of our farmers hate
h..., J .n d cutting and hou-ing their crop of
gr.un. Much of the wheat in this fuller, we
r-.-rot t . learn, was «criuidy injured by rii<t
iUnl mil low. The -rain, in many sections,
Oul not iil'Cn v.- . 11. nml i-rcfcnls n. >-lirivele-l
iippi’iii.nicn,aml lacks weight. Onrsan-uino
r.nt.oipafi on, therefore, have not been real-
A week or two lj. lore harvest it wa'i
lioliovnl the -rain crop wnuKl be the largest
r.nil lost ever -athoreil in this valley; but,
o»\j|l
•- lu -t anil mildew, it is sieirndv
an xdeld. T| it^m _ aud ~.U s
1 1\ HH:illg.
Jii..u Kncßßii 4 - 4 . Jilaekberries in greet
ii! uimon- an I f.nnrothanusual (wlicie
(1 T 1 ■ * -.». nr: nnv ilo.cling our in irkot.—
j..' viuv Mm- rim- in size, taste and aroma
t. those of former years, and i|, c believers in
/ : ' m ' moo.einal pro;,ertics will no doubt lav
iu a fall st...;k of them this season.
Ontcs Con:; .ini, T„:,UTo K s._Groon corn
a.ii to..l,"lees nave made their appearance in
' ~0- v brought here from
'a..]:a .re an,, readily purchased by onr
tp.vo.v.t!.,. It will not bo long nulii the
bom, and Rat dons in our county, will yi,.;,;
aunndanec of these delightful o=cuionls,
tTM.-h -.( not suite as. early, are certainly
more pala'r.Ue and healthy.
CT’ Id oodouelt sin-oting eonimcnced on the
•Ith in-t„ the earliest day (he law will allow,
dim bud? are much scattered, (owing to the
wet seas :ini ] (| lO , nirs „i t 0 f thorn, we are
told is very laborious. ,\ 0 o big shooting”
iuis been done among thorn yet.
'd.'ii: Forttn, or Jtn.y._Tho dtli of July
mm u. :-c generally nWrvcd this year than
I t soicral years before. There is scarcely
a town or village of any si/.«j*tbat did mit
1.'.v0 lae e:ghty-ninth anniversary of Ameri
can Independent relcl,rated in some appro-
Pnntc manner. As a general' thin-s there
was an oration delivered, the Doclar.i'tion of
Independence road, and music. The popuhi
t on, except those burned! itely engaged in
g-wli.ig in their crops, made the day a pub
lic holiday, and joined i„ the festivities and
taanksgiving of the occasion. Everywhere
we believe, the return of Peace w na made
the subject of gratulation, and never before
was there a population more rejoiced at the
close of war. ' While the day was 'OOlO
- with more than usual eclat in our
1 irgo cities, their people did not excel those
Of the country in heartfelt gratitude at the
close of the rebellion and the restoration of
the Union. The joy of the people is deep
and sincere, and (heir demonstration on the
occasion was as well evidence sf their grati
tude as their patriotism.
Pnnv. l :;; 'iun.u Itionr.—IVc hear it express
ns a general determination among democrats
to quit dealing with shop-keepers who have
abolition portraits or ensigns in their shop
windows.' This is right: if shop-keepers
widi to advertise by forcing their obnoxious
sentiiocnts upon tho community, let them
he patronized only by those who approve of
it. Deamoials should lake.notice and novor
darken their doors while such insults aro of
fered ns inducements to buy their goods.
Major General Hunter was tho orator of
4th —/V cololjrtltion at Washington on the
General Hunter ought to go to Utah and
10 married to about fifteen 300 pound wonch
>K ‘ as a rewar< 3 for his distinguished services.
RIOTS AT NORFOLK.
Fights and riot; take place every'few days
at Norfolk, Virginia, between the United
States soldiers, stationed there, and the ne
groes. A number on both sides have been
killed, and still more seriously injured—the
greatest number of victims being the blacks.
These disorders are to bo deplored, and should
bo cheeked if possible. Mob law is brutish,
and every good man should set his face stern
ly against it. Hut, are the soldiers who en
gage in those Norfolk riots, alone responsi
ble? Have they not been educated in'o the
belief that law is to be disregarded.with im
punity, when it fails to argoc with their po
litical or any oilier opinions? Have not
man v cowardly scour. Ire Is, wearing shoulder
h\rapsr"Cireouraged .the men under them to
sack printing indices, break up political meet
ings, and mob, arrest and murder Democrats,
On hundreds of occasions? Those outrages,
in all sections of the country, would not have
taken place had it not been that Jacobin
GcneraL, Captains, Lieutenants, and vaga
bond Chaplains planned them and urged the
private soldier to commit them.
: But, now that the soldiers have turned
against the negro—now that the black man
of Norfolk is abused, cutT d, kicked and even
murdered by Union soldiers—Jacobin editors
and “loyal thieves,” all over the country, are
bitter in their denunciations of the soldier,
and wonder whvsuoh onlragcsV.rc tolerated,
-and-wdiydt-JsddiabYhc.UiAuu_jroj),p3__aye__syp
hostile to the “ pet -lambs.” We can tell
them. It is the attempt of the Jayobin lead
ers to force the white soldier to recognize the
negro as his equal. .So persistent have been
the efforts of the Jac»bins in this direction,
that tho soldiers have become exasperated,
and to show their resentment, they assail
every black man they run against. TLev
have been Instructed, wn repent, to put law
at defiance, and to enforce their mm opin
ions by brute force. Little did their nfticors
snppisc when they commenced to teaMi their
sol Hers to read’ at law and cdm*. that the
nr-yroes w.nil 1 be made to suffer under this
mode of red. .’-siny supnemd v.-mny-. S»
lony as Ab diliou soldiers pra-’tice 1 ih-dr nit
rnyes upon Ponvmra's. their c nvanlly .Lie ddn
.officers could look on c implaccntly and ap-
provingly: but novr ti.it sambo is made
j suffer at the L-mds of thr? sol liar, these panic
I officers turn up the dirty' whiles of tlu-ir
| Mood .-hot eyes, and express astonishment
and regret at the conduct of the piMiers.—
Thc-c oflicers arc mure to blame than the
sddiors, and, if we are not much mistaken,
they ton will share the same treatment that
L now bestowed upm the Norfolk blacks-
The soldicrsbe/// not ayroo toncyro equality ;
they will not even admit that the ignorant
blacks shall have the riyht to v ue d»\vn wiiite
men. The leading; Jacobiu-Uepublicans may
insist that the late warwas wayed for Llio sole
purpose of liberation I’.iur millions of slaves,
but the soldiers n h » faced the ntmcl cnoiny
in the !i dd. declare that they fmyht for me
Union an! not I’a* the ncyro ; and they fpd
degraded and insulted when they arc asked
to reyard the ncyro as their equal. I£“nee
these frequent difficulties and riots at Nor
folk. They are disgraceful, but let the blame
rest.jyhorc it belongs—upon the shoulders of
the infernal demayoyues who arc constantly
.clam 'winy -for ncyro equality, and who are
attempting to force white troops to look upon
the black man as his equal.
ldle llloul iititeultial. JJji clmuaii.
Among other letters from
Idem icnUrt throughout the c unr.ry, tlio f.il
lowing from ex-Piv/Meut Duclmnan was r-'m
at the Democratic celebration at liar
riaburg, on the Fourth*
Vr’IICATLAND, XE\R L\VO \ <J\: R, ]
July 2, Dbj. I
Gentlemen : I have receive.! your kintl in
vi'atlmi to unite with “the Democracy of
I larrijiiuiri' ami its vicinity” hr- colohralin'r
the approaching anniversary of nur Xathina!
IndopL'mlenee, un i regret to >ay I blmll not
1/0 able to enjoy this privilege.
On 11 1 i•? hallowed Anniversary lot ns re
joice ilia'", the intervention of Divine
iVu\ithmee, ]»caeo has nnee more rename.l to
idess our laud, Oifr joy, however, will ho.
wi'b a c’oml of sorrow for tlie loss of
our Uind-h'Mrte.d ami ili'tin-uiAiod FreM.Lut
by a diabolical crime, and tills, tot, at the
very m nnonl when, by wan clemency, ho was
abmt lo o mvinee the world llnu'pcace has
its as well as war
I am gratified to observe that overvwliorc
throiuilnuit the State the old I) inn cra'le part v
is renewing tin; energies of former wars. Tr
Can never die while the b l .institution am)
Ibiion shell live. It will be a bright and
glorious dev for tin' p'ople of the country
ond (hts will svr< h/cnittCy though at my ad
vanced ago I may not live to see it—when
the well-tried and principles of
Democracy, as expoumi‘ , «l hy •lellevson and
Jaci-.s in. shall regain fclm ascendency in the
adminis r ralion o! the Fedora! Government.
.Yours, ve«y respectfully,
JAMDS DL'OItAXAX.
D. D. Dus, IXn , and others. C\mmittoc.
Tiif. 1 oice nr ax Ootouenarian Demo
crat.—The following letter from one of the
oldest and most highly esteemed Democrats
ot Lancaster county, and for many years a
resident of this county, was read at the grand
Democratic celebration of the Fourth arilar
risburg;
Litiz, Lancaster Co., Pa., 1
July 1, 1805. j
. G'anmEMEN ■ lam in receipt of your kind
"nitatiou. When informed that tho writer
ol these iinciMs far past tho allotted “ three
score and ten I '—that he has been tho stead
hast and consistent supporter of every true
man. from Jdlcrson down to tho latest ex
ponent of Democratic principles— you will
no ho surprised that my heart longs to ho
v.‘ aolL ’ , " -ilte this anniversary of our
.National Independence, in tho old fashioned
""o', r n l,lll:s "''"Void folks fools
—o.d folks /.now young folks to bo fools
Inks an old man’s advieo-the advice of one
wlio loves now, as when they lived on earth
tho pnuoipiesol Jefferson and Jack-mu— bend
every nerve of your young energies to tho
restoration ol such a policy as finds its only
warrant in the teachings of the fathers of the
Iq'pubi'o, in the, loiter and spirit of the Con
stitution of the lotted Stales, That has been
our anchor n, the pa.-t-tu it wo owe every
thing—liberty, prosperity and liapniness.—
And do yon cling to it as tho only hope of
tnro JU *- > * loan Government in the fa-
Very respectfully, Ym ir friend
T 1 T, -n BENJAMIN KKEITER,
D. D. Boas, Lsq., and otliers, Committeo,
fn?" Orders will shortly bo issued muster
ing out,of the military service tovor one hun
dred and fifty majors and brigadiers, most of
whom have been in comparatively pleasant
positions in our Northern cities on courts
martial, etc.
THE LINCOLN CHAPEL 01- EXPIATION*
It is now announced that tho Washington
theatre will shortly bo rc-opeucd by Mr.
Ford, and that the scene of the most nppnfl
ing political crime which our ago has wit
nessed, is soon to echo once more with tho
jests of tho player and tho applauses of the
crowd. The very box in which the sixteenth
president of the United States-was foully
slain, on Good Friday night, while listening
to “Our American Cousin,” is, doubtless,
thus again to, lie filled with pk-asure-scekOiS.
at a price; apicmium, perhaps, bciugchargod
fur the use of it, in consideration of the in
foresting historical ronioniscences attached to
tho spot. Of course, “Our American Cous
in,” reproduced upon this memorable stage,
crowded houscs.-parttculurlv if a
pause were ala-ays to be made at that point
in the farce, which the players had reached
when tho crack of a pistol “eclipsed the gay
cty” of Washington. Tho “ Dead March in
Saul” might also bo appropriately struck up
at that moment by the orchestra, and tho au
dience bo requested, am mg the “particulars
in the small bills,” to rise uncovered and
stand during its performance.
Tho country was assured, immediately upon
tho assassination of Mr. Lincoln’, by a cho
rus of those redical journalists, who declared
tho desolation of the whole South by fire and
sword, the execution of Jiuterson Davis and
LonKtiT L. Lee, and the extinction of all the
southern ‘sovereignties to bo but an icado-
Tprate-expiatiorr-pf'-so' -gvear :i' enimV'tluit
Ford’s theatre should never again be given
over to secular use.:.
A committee or elJaons, l-clenjn;; (~ loot
cIiHH v. hieh lias so clam, )r,hi sly ai-myite !lo
ilscl" all tho ChrisiiaaiiT and ail ilie I n,-,i.1.v
of tho la-mi, v,-as formed to raise by enb.enrt-
tioa a sum aioini.ito to tho piuvli.i.i! if the
theatre, and to its conversion intj a jda-o
»!' worahip. The f.um mpiiro 1 :is a
lar;-e one : many a, 1 yai ami pi m-i c auaact
o. haj nnule it twice over in the emu-ee ot’ a.
.-m-lo year dnrin; (ho war! an! ins i.hjt-cl
f"i- which it Win to lie raised v. ; - p.) v.-iiullv
Icj'irain;- aikl proper that even iho-'o of ns
will) UIO'I thdrinipjhl.v knew the mdlownois
and hypocrisy ..f t!:e rndical j,re;-:i. ions to
I yahy and to piety, en-jhl m.t d.niht t |, e tiling
"•mild 1)0 June, dme wiill ou.,e, and qaieklv
done, *
Unv any man doubt that the resour
-0!s ~f Plymouth Church alone, under tliojm
lire-i-ivo appeals ( .f llc.vur AVaiiu JJnccncit,
Would ho found equal to paying this cheap
and simple tribute lu the “ martyred Presi
dent?” The spot on which Unvar. Duke of
Orleans, hung front his carriage, .lied, now
hears, ami lor more than twenty years Ims
borne, aloft a noble chapel of expiation; con
secrating the sorrow and the infection of a
horoaved king and a disappointed people,—
•Vav.jn the •■rebel” city o( lliclnn m 1 itself,
the site of a great llicatcr, whicli was burned
to the ground half a century ago, scores of
the fairest daughters and most accomplished
sons ofVirgiiiia perishing in the (lames, has
been sot apart and made sacred with a “Mon
umental church.” C mid any man hdievo
that the loin 1 -voiced mourners of the Loyal
Leagues, assuming to themselves a work'of
piety and decency, which, had they left it tu
the pc .pie at huge, must long since have
been achieved, would cynically and shamc
h's.-ly throw fiat work up within three short
months after the awlul event of April 11th :
nay,
glilr._cxe (.1,1
yah which 111 1 f", 1 11,,wc.l (!ic (1 l’.i'l marlvrVho.lv
Dike Xk.l.j, ail (cars ?” ' J
\et such is the h-bauieful fact !
“ ’td !tuf. ’ti' i'i
Aml [lily bid ’(i.- imo.”
Of ennao the people who have 1 lit this
svamlal upon ns will heed it but little. They
are used to such great promises ami such
Eourvy performance, The “ haml o| liulc
employment hath the daintier seu-o.” Peo
ple who have been content to be simply loyal,
to make no pretensions, to do their duty
without triumphing over their neigh hors, and
lo keep their word, will be shoekcfaml pained
hy this disgraceful revelation; but it will
bring no blush to the cheek, of the I. wal
Leaguers,
The chances are, indeed, that in virtue of
their cir.rtsto do wind they have act done,
they will call cm Mr. I'oni, to p u t them down
upon the “ires list” of bis theatre for an an
niversary perfoiraanee of “Oar American
Cousin,” with prayer between the acts by
divines of their uwn choice.
TitEvritaNTor Pr.i3oNr.ns._The Richmond
WV/b/ofMhe dTtirjui.e publishes the report
of the j nut select e mimittee of the confeder
ate congress upon the treatment of prisoners.
This report complains that the publication
ol the Sanitary Committee, with its ph-.to
graphs, is ”sensational” and (also, inasmuch
as it takes.special cases of the,very sick, ex
changed as such, and would convey the im
pression that oases of sickness would, not, in
all times and in all conditions, furnish pro
ciscly such pictures.
It also assorts that the confederate prison
ers exchanged lor those ghastly objects pre
sented the same shapes of misery.
It assorts that the treatment of prisoners
Was intended to bo humane, and that they
fared, m many oases, hotter than the eon fed
ora to soldidrs.
We know that during the Revolutionary
war Americans, as prisoners, wore very bad
ly treated ; we know that the English genor
nls ind.gnanlly denied any intentional iuliu
man it}'.
IV e give, with pleasure, tho assertions of
the South. There is an easy way of settling
the question of good or ill treatment on both
sides. The average of deaths of well men
will settle tho question. Every other view
piust bo partial and one-sided:
'i'ho greatest crime of tho war was the rc
usal to exchange. History will put that
vhoro it belongs. General Butler, in his
pooch at Luwoli, disclosed tho fact.
ID“ President Johnson, hi his Fourth of
July letter to tho Gettysburg Committee,
said ; ‘‘l am greatly mistaken if in tlio States
utely in rebellion we do not henceforward
have au exhibition of such loyalty and patri
otism as were never soon nor felt there be
fore.” Tho radicals don’t believe him.
K 7" Governor Curtin has signed the death
warrants ol Dgvid Gregory and Wm. Hop
kins. convicted of murder in Philadelphia.
Hhey will be bung on August 11
SENATOR WILSON ON THE RI3IPAGE.
Senator Wilson, on the 4th of July, ad
dressed the nostro pic-nic at Washington.—
■ He got on a very ultra-negro rampage, and
• tells us pretty plainly what the country may
expect from him and the ultra wing of the
Republican party. Ills speech is as impu
dent as it is radical, lie tells us that the
agitation of nogro question will’never cease
until all that is claimed for them is granted,
the right to vole. hold office, and generally to
control the coun:rv. lie makes an impudent
throat that ho aid hi?, friend-? arc ready and
will build up anil pud down at 'heir pleasure ”
' He says he bel-mgs to “ a hndjf of men who
are aren-dowe Ito sleep on iuc jc:ld of victor;/”
Wo have known many good men before Ibis
who-slcpcvni the field of victory and rotted
there, which will bo the fate of this negro
Moses. Rut hear him in his own words:
“ I want the South to understand that their
black code and their black laws, and all they
have done to hold men in in slavery, were
abolished forever with slavery itself: and I
.serve here h> day a noliee upon (hem find I have
prepared a bill , which I intend to introduce,
too, on the first day of the next Congress, for
the personal liberty' of every Freedman on
this continent; and I want them to under
stand (hal I belong (o a body cj men who are
'accustomed (o sleep on Ike yield oj‘ victory —a
class of men who accept the doctrines of the
New Testament, who accept as the living
faith of the North American republic, the
Declaration of Independence—a ola-s of men
who represent the principles of liberty, o{
Immunity, of justice, ami a set of men who
■never-were and never can bcdci'cab'dr (Cheers. - )
In our eat » the words, the touching words of
Abraham Lincoln run forever, that the black
man may, in* s-miv* 'hour of future trial, keep
the jewel of Hinny in the family of freedom.
Mr. W ilsun limn n-viewed the various politi
cal parties with which he had been connect
ed ac various tim?-, but from which lie had
broke when thev evad'd to carry the stand
ard of progress ti the height that ho thought
it should go, until at la-t, said lie, alter four
years of bloody struggle 1 have seen slavery
wiped out of the emntry, from Canada to
Mexico. Now I tell you to-day, that, casting*
party obligation:- a-idc, we stand on the eter
nal principle of right : have sworn to stand
there to the end d the chapter ; a.id si long
as there is a ri-git m.t secured, or a wrong
unredresseJ, //•• nr n are-ready and will
build up und pa ( t barn at (heir pleasure. —
And I say to you that ninety-five out of every
hundred of the men who in'November last
voted to put Al-raliam Lincoln—Hod bless
his name—in the presidential chair, are
standing to-day shoulder to shoulder, deter- j
mined to protect the iivedmen of America.—
Nothing is man- Mil-lime than the record of i
the black man in tins struggle. They have
stood by our brave soldiers ami sailors in the
thickest lights, they have guided them against
the enemy ; they have stood by our men
when fugitives Irom starving prisons and
sgiycn them food. They stood by the country
faithfully in the hour of trial ami the country
will stand by them. (Good, good ! and an
plans ,) It is said if they possessed the right
of sudrage they would vote as their former
mas.crs dictated to them. If there ever was
an utterance that had not thb semblance of
truth in it, that is it. I believ.e that if the
government had told when it forced
them to lay doun-their arms that they must
do Jnsti to the negro and give him his fran
chise, the” would gladly have done it; but I
am not here to find fault with the govern
ment, and sbajl keep my faith in it until it
i.-ybroken. And 1 believe the President of
the Dmted Slates, who told the black man in
the capitol of his own Tennessee, that, if no
one else would, ho would bo the Moses, and
bo to them what Abraham Lincoln would
ha\c been t' them bad he lived to carry out
his groat and ghu-iuns principles I under
stand they say they holu the night of suffrage
in their hands. 1 want them to understand
that an act of CNwigross prohibits them from
holding ofiicos under the government, and
until justice is done to (he negro, these gen-
■+lomcir-wiIITTirT.I!RTI3 — fj;e oTTvcs. "Pardons
Wuii’i s ivo tliem to them. lam in favor of
compromises poacr.illy ; byt wo may accept
as a onin[)i‘o2n;.v.‘ ju.-Mi.-u to tlio negro.
I'ATn of 11 ci'Fi! i.ir. -Justice Story, in his
Commentaries on tin.* Constitution, >f alludes
to the downfall of Kcpublies, and furnishes
the following food, fa' the digestion of the
people of to day. Is it too late for the los
■on ? Perhaps n it:
jMany roiloelior.s ctowd upon the mind at
the moment, many grateful loilootimn of the
pasl and many amicus thoughts of the fu
ture. The past i„ -ecui-e. It is unalterable
The seal of eternity is up m it. The wisdom
whiohit has beamy.-i, eano.-t be obscured
neither-ean-it-be deici-ed bv human intirmi
ty. The future is -hat winch may well awa
ken the most einmst solicitude both for the
Virtue and permane.ieo of our republic. The
fate of ether republics, their rise, their nvoo
rc-s, then-decline, are written but too Icd
h.y on the pages of history, if, indeed, they
are not emtmually before us in the startling
ragmeols ,d their ruin.- Those republics
luiu? pmMtou : ami h:ivc perishod their
own hands. Prosperity ha 1 enervated them;
ami a venal populace conMiinimiMil their cle
stniciion. The ■leoplo, alternately |l,o prey
ol military olneliaim at homo an 1 of ambi
tious mvauers abroad, have sometimes been
cheated out of their liberties hv servile dem
ag igm s sometimes betrayed into a surren
der of them l,y false patriots; and somu
tiines they have willingly sold them for a
nnee to the despot who lias hidden hHiost
for Ins victim a fhey have disregarded the
warning voice „f their host statesman, and'
ha\c perseemed and driven from ollioe their
truest friends. They have listened to the
counsels of rawing syoophauts or basocalum
m.ums of the wise and good. They have
reverenced power more in its high abuses and
summary movements than in its calm and
nil • lUUl ' in '-n cmM - y " -llon !t dispensed
li.ossings with an unseen, hut liberal hand,
they have surrendered to faction what be-
i U n° uunim ' m interests and common
rgl sol the country. Patronage and par
ty, tho triumph of an artful popular loader
ami llio discontents of a day, have outweigh
ed, in their view, all solid principles and'ln
stitutions of government. Such arc the mel
ancholy lessons of the past history of ropub
lies uovfn to our own 1
DC?” Philadelphia i s still troubled with ne
gioes vbo will ride in the street oars or
smash something. On Wednesday a black
female citizen entered a car, and refused to
budge out; the conductor attomped to turn
the car oft the track, when a lot of negroes
gathered and acted must outrageously. An
other ear came along, and the negro woman
entered that. The excitement became still
groatcV; the negroes attacked the cars with
paving stones, but wore finally .driven off.
These are some of the delicious fruits of Sum
ner's and Judge Kelley's advice to the “ col
ored people."
. T 'TOOR.u-7iic.w, Eiuions.—All printers are
liable to make mistakes, but tho followin'*'
beats all flic errors'wo have over seen ; ■ °
“The lady principal of a school, in an ad
vertisement, in a Philadelphia paper, mea
lier Icmalo assistant and the “ reputation for
teaching which -she bears but the printer
—a careless fellow—left out the “whiuli," so
the advertisement wont forth, commendin'*
tho lady 3 “reputation fir, teaching she
bears*! - .
BENNETT ON THE PILLOKi’.
That great embodiment of original sin and
■wickedness, James Gordon Bennett, of tho
A T ew York Herald , who lina devoted his ener
gies for the last four years to the work of
maligning the public character of Mr. Bu
chanan and other distinguished Democrats,
has just been placed on a pillory which will
aflord the whole country an opportunity of
seeing him as ho is.
Standing on this pillory and looking over
a long life (tevotod to tho acquisition of
wealth at the expense of truth, honor and
justice, well might ho exclaim with Mukanna:
<{ IRrc 1 .lodge if hell, with nil Us power to damn,
Can add ono hint to tho Coni tiling X am !'*
The Richmond Commercial JJ{illelfn, of the
--d M:., contains tins following statement of
a fact:
“ damns Gordon Bcnnnot is not only ibo
implacable foe ol the South, but likewise of
•the United States entire ; in fact, the enemy
ot all win) do not offer tu rowan! him. This
is editor who has taken a most active
part in tho pa--.t war. Ho was fcheliis'.
to agitate ; and at one time abso*
nuoiy advocated tho secession of New. York
city in I-S>l, as an * independent city/ but
Inc -.ibidiinmUts, both of Now England and
urbor Northern States, knew his weakness,
and ho was, therefore, easily converted to
t.ieir blood-thirsty views sight j/old.
At j lJls Ij ccn whispered that in the begin
ning of the war, this self same ‘old man’
wrote a letter to Mr. Davis, -then the Presi
dent. of the Confederate Suites, offering to
support the policy of his government for the
sum of fifty thousand pounds sterling. This
is reported to bo a fact by men of influence
who are presumed to know;, and as Mr. Da
vis is now a prisoner in the hands of the go
vernment, wo moat respectfully suggest that
lie bo called upon to acknowledge whether or
not our assertion is correct. Mr. Davis re
fused this disgusting proposition, as all gen
tlemen would have done, and hence tho ma
lignity of this ‘ poor old man* to the South.”
iho New York World confirms this charge
t of tho Richmond paper. It says *
. “ Bennett asked Mr. Davis to give
him. XdO.OOO to support and advocate the re
bellion, and that Mr. Davis declined tho offer,
we have known for some months. Thu fact
was stated to us by a gentleman to whom
Mr. Davis himself alleged it—a gentleman
\n liose Word would not be doubted were we
at liberty to mention his mmo, and who, al
though poli dcally opposed to him, yet enjoy
ed his personal confidence, and between whom
and the rebel President there was was such
intimacy that to him first, Mr. Davis commu
nicated the despatch of General m ,fr in"
the evacuation Qf Richmond. & ”
“ If our recollection servos us, Bennett, in
y-'rA ( lS C A to ll *’ ■ Dilv ' lS » stipulated that this
&00.000 should bo deposited to his credit
abroad, and also that tho rebel government
should make good any losses ho might incur
in advocating its cause. Mr. Davis declined
the offer, preferring to establish an open,
honest organ, the Index, in London, and
thereby showed a very correct appreciation
i utter lack of political weight
and influence, its probable treachery, its ccr
tain cowardice, as shown when it was com-
to hoist Hie stars and stripes, and its
capacity to make any cause odioUs by its .
support.”
Logic. -The Kepfibiican papers think it is j
a very bad recommendation of President :
Johnson's policy of reconstruction, that it
meets wiih so much approbation from the
Democrats. This is about the average
amount of brains that some excessively loyal
sheets bring to the discussion of great nation
al interests. The Democratic press can but
choose between tho different modes of recon
struction presented by the President and iiis
friends with but a faint hope of influencing
either : but in this case, the plan of the Pms-_
TJ
out is so manifestly the best, that Demo
crats cannot but prefer it. The hotter plan
would have’ been to permit the rotors in each
State returning to the Union, to manage
their own affairs in their own way ; but as
the 1 resident a plan will ultimately bring
matters to the same point, it is hardly worth
while to quarrel with it. The proposition
of the radicals, looking to'indiscriminate con
fiscation, banishment, and negro voting, is
so abhorrent that no man, with proper views
of humanity, constitutional law, and sound
policy, can for a moment give them his ap
probation.
Mortality Among the Colored Troops.—
Hie mortality mnoii £ the noirro troops in
the -Mississippi valley has boon proverbially
large. One regiment of eleven hundred
Strong, raised in one neighborhood, every
man of which passed the surgical examina
tion and was pronounced good, able bodied
and freo from disease, wore placed in a camp
by themselves, in the very locality where
they had boon raised, and in less than six
months over one-half of the number weie
under the sod. These raon were placed at
no severe work, were not engaged in a bat
tle, not a man was killed through the casual
ties of the war. They wore simply required to
drill and perform the usual work of-a soldier
in camp, tind' had all the care in respect
to cleanliness and protection from' the
weather usually allotted to soldiers ; but they
dropped off, one by one, until over ono-lialf
their number wore buried, and that, too,
without the appearance of an epidemic'.
The FoitTiico.Mi.va Trial of Jeff. Davis.
—Mow that tiie Conspiracy Trial is over, and
the sentences of the Military Commission are
executed, there will soon bo definite action
concerning the trial of Jeff'. Davis. If it
shall be’determined to try him'for 'treason,
the proceedings will of course, take placo be
fore a civil tribunal, but from present indi
cations it is more probable that ho will be
tried by a Military Commission, as tho lead
er nndinstigator of tlie conspiracy, for it is
said in prominent quarters that there is new
ly discovered evidence in this connection
against him.
A Black Editor's Oimnion The" Black
Republican” is a newspaper in Kew Orleans
edited by a colored imin (a clergyman,) who
it would seem, from the following, doss not
think that tho regeneration of his brethren is
to bo accomplished by voting and tax-paying;
“ Tho colored man and tho white man can
not livo in this country • they must
and will have to sepaaate, unless tlm Con
gress o the nation will giro them a place lor
themselves, fur as it was with Abraham and
Lot so it was with us, and tho sooner vo
seek a homo for onr rising generation, the
boltei it will bo for us. am- final destiny, so
far as I can dimly see, is that in throe hun
dred years it will boa rare thing to see a
colored man in this country. Like the In
(imn, our nice is destined to become extinct
m this country unless wo move ourselves."
B@» Henry Winter Davis, in his speech at
Chicago, on the 4tl, of July, took grounds in
lavor of negro suffrage,
THE CONSPBAOY.
The Terrible Sequel to the Mm
dcr of the President.
FATE OF'THE CONSPIRATORS,
Payne, Harold, Abzerott and Mr?;
Surratt Sentenced to be Hanged.
Mudd, CPLonghlin and Arnold to be.
Imprisoned for Life.
SPAIV«EEK TO BE IMPRISOiV
JliJO TOR SIX YEARS.
How the Condemned Received the
Dread Intelligence.
PAYEE COOL AKD VNCOXOiIrNED.
ESooth’s Acc«anj)lacc ISrcAks
£9 own.
PITIFUL DEMEANOR OF ATZERODT
REMARK IRLE FIRMED OF MRS, SURRATT,
EFFORTS TO OBTAIN A REPRIEVE,
W.VnixcnM.v, July fi.
In aonordanoo wTh the Ridings and sen
tences of t'lo military commission, which
President Johnson approved yesterday, Da
vid E. Harold, Lewis Payne, Mrs. Mary E.
Sunitt, and George A. Abzdrott are to bo
ImnK to-morrow (Friday) by the proper mil
itary authorities.
I)r. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, aud O’Laugh
lin are to be imprisoned for life.
, Spangler is sentenced to six years’ impris
onment at hard labor in the penitentiary ai
Albany. - J
Communicating the Verdict of the Court to
the Condemned—Their Demeanor,
[sI’EGIAL DISPATCH TO THE WOULD.] •
„„ Washington-, July 0.
IhG promulgation to-day of the orders of
the War Department, announcing’ the find*
ings of the military commission in tile cases
ol the conspirators, their approval by the
I resident, and the direction of-.their execu
tion, has caused considerable excitement'
arising principally from the fact that the sen
tenocs are to ho carried oiib within the next
twenty-four hours. It appears Chut the Pres
ident on yesterday in an interview with
Judgo-Advucato Holt, decided to approve of
thofindings of the cum mission, and directed
their execution on Friday. This morning
therefore, General llatrailft and General
Hancock proceeded with the orders in each
prisoner’s case, and read then! soparatfilv to
them in their colls in the penitentiary. The
officers first visited those who' were Senten
ced to death, and Payne’s coll was reached
and the orders for ins execution was read to
him ;he scorned to bo as cool*and unconcern
ed as when on {rial, though wearing a doci*
dod air as if ho had expected that fiitm lie
was asked if lie desired some spiritual advi
ser, and lie named the Ilov. Dr. Strcxtcin, a
Baptist minister in Baltimore, who was im
mediately sent for. Abzorott was neit vis
lied. and tlie order for his execution was
road to him. Ho was completely unmanned
and wqpt and groaned must bitterly. In re
ply to inquiry, lie asked tbo officers to send
lor some Lutheran-minister. Harold’s turn
come next, and the order in bis case who
road. At first lie seemed quite indifferent,
and In eatbed easier when the ceremony was
over; tint wiien lie talked about sending for
a minister and seeing his mother and sister,
he gave way to tears. The last cell was
that of Mrs. Surratt, to whom the order for
her execution was road. She hoard it with
out any apparent emotion.' but ifti it.s_n.m
elusion, she begged the officers to extend the
lime, that r-lio was not prepared to die in so
short a time, and filially a-kei for four more
days. As neither of tho’oflicers had any au
thority in the promises they made no reply.
I-Gi request fur two Catholic clergymen to
visit her was complied with, and'’they are
witli her to-night. Ail the relatives and
near friends of those under afcntcnco of deatli
have been notified, and are allowed access to
the penitentiary and frequent interviews
with tne condemned. No orders wore read
to those who are to he imprisoned, as their
sentences will ho immediately carried into
execution by their removal to the Albany
penitentiary. Efforts, are being made tin’s
afternoon and to-night by the counsel and
friends of Mrs. Surratt and Hamid to have a
reprieve granted in their eases, though the
I resident is also i\rgo<l to emmnuto the sen
tmee of death in Mrs. Surratt’s case A
e’rnng religions influence seems tn ho undn.r
this, which is strengthened by the rumor
that lour members of the commission have
signed a petition to the President favorim
the commutation of Mrs. Surratt's sentence".
General Ifatrauft is busy to-night in makun
arrangements for the execution. A scaffold
is being erected on which all four of thocon
donined will bo bung at once. The plane of
execution is the small prison yard, which is
surrounded by a wall twenty jive feet hi"h
THE CONDEKINIJ).
Payne, Harold, Alzerott and Mrs,
Surratt Hanged.
ATTEMPT TO SERVE A WRIT OP HA
BEAS CORPUS.
WAsnmGTON July 7—On tho petition of
Mary E. Surratt through her counsel. Aiken
and Chunmtt Judge Wylie, of the Supreme
Court of this District, directed an issue of the
wntjif habeas corpus to Gen. Hancock, com
manding him to produce in Court at 10 o’-
clock this morning the body of Mrs. Surratt
with tho cause and day of her detention
ihoi writ was served on Oon. Hancock at
the Metropolitan Hotel, at 8 o'clock this
morning, by tho United States Marshal Good
ing. lie immediately consulted with tho At
tornoy General and the Secretary of Wnv
At half-past ten o’clock tho Gbiieral lind not
obeyed the writ.
Hus lucfc wifi biought to the notice’ of the
court by the counsel, but the Judge said ho
had not the power to enfuroo-tho writ.
At an early hour to-day guards were placed
all round the Arsenal grounds to prevent the
intrusion of persona to the scene of execution
none being admitted.excepting those nro»i
ir,umo fi ei PPlioj ' T ' lth tiCUetS General
J.ho relatives of Mrs, Surratt and Ilaro'd*
spent several hours with them during the
forenoon, and they wore also attendo'd by
and AtSt nJ ' ,iSer3 ’ aS '' TOr ° flIS °. Pa y ce
A few minutes after 1 o’clock, the outer
prison door was opened and Mrs. Surratt
was supported on her way to tiro gallows bv
two military officers. , “
Next followed Alzerott, Harold and Pavne
Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Harold and Alzerott
il eollicers entrusted with the execution
sit ions* mm ‘ sters ° cau P led intermediate po-
Major General llartrauft, who has been
from tiro commencement in charge of the
oftheWarT 0 “ Dd readme order
ot the War Department, already published,-
approving the sentences, and ordering ~1
penolty of death to bo indicted. S '"I
A heayy guard was stationed on the ~
surrounding tiro ground, while below sol,r V
were funded on l.vo sides of a square p f r
haps several hundred civilians were dp.
anxious spectators of the solemn scene n l '
oftho pnealO attendant on Mrs Surratt r
pcatod n short prayer, to' which Pavno , u
was seated next to hoiq attentively bsten ,
Tho minister who had been ddmihisterin?,
Payne, expressed in the name of the p, V
his sincere thanks to General Uaptr.'inft "'!(
tho officers and soldiers who had ehariti"V
him, for their personal kindness. Thovi r
not uttered an unkind word, nor given an, '
pleasant look or gesture, but seemed to
passionate his misfortune. - ”
Tho minister-then uttered a brief pm-,
asking for Payne tho forgiveness of ~i| i,-’
sms and a passage out of this world into ti
,l„ys oPhoavon Tho minister'who
Humid also returned thanks for kind
mcht of the prisoner, and offered a
.that God would receive his soul; Hamid *
affected to tears. The mini-tor who attend?!
At&orotb also returned for him thanks toC' *
Ilarlranft and other officers for kind at!,'!'
lion, andthen invoked the mercy of GoJ ~!
on the prisoner. TliS condemned wore tlm,
required to rise from their- seats, when tV
eliairs were ronioved.. They wore now all
the drops, their hands fastened behind then
and their legs bamhigod both below ani
above tho knees, and white capo blared ov»,
their beads. - •' '
Ateerott, while being prepared for the c-,
edition, said, “ Gentlemen, farewell, fit.
good care; good-bye, gentlemen, now'lioliire
me.P One of the clergymen, standim. ni-it
exclaimed, “ May wo all m;et in tbc oili
world.” “
As soon as tho noose was placed arounj
eacl’ neck, Mrs. Surratt’s being the last on:
adjusted, the section of the platform on whici
they had been standing, suddenly fell and
the culprits were hanging several feet froe
the ground.
Mrs. Surratt and Payne scarcely moved i
muscle. Atzerott exhibited some twitehin*
and Harold showed more nervous seusibili»
than any of tho others.
Ihe bodies hung until life was extinct and
afterwards given over for burial, the roiwl
coffins being already at baud for that pi,,
pose. 1
Tbh arrangements for tho execution nca
perfect.
Major Gon. Hancock was present throu<4
out the proceedings. It is said Payne las
night made a statement in behalf of Mn,
Surratt, exonerating her from complicity, an:
that another person subscribed to an aifidavi;
impeaching the testimony of an imported
witness against her.
[second dispatch.]
Washington, July 71 —The condemned
were brought to the scaffold at about hall!
cast one, accompanied by an officer and sol
diorS.
Mrs. Surratt was on the scaffold next I
tho penitentiary than an mo Payne, Haro!
and At/.orott, , A clergyman attended ear
on the scaffold. - " ■
. Harold aliod tears before tbo dap waR
draini.
Payne was stoical,-but said nothing, look -
ing mostly toward the sky. , “ (■';
Atzerott cried and kept saying, “ GentlJ'!
mens, take arfate,’ of beware, good-bye. i.
liopp to meet you in a better world.” ’ {;"
Mrs. StirraLt said nothing but seemed vorrj
weak. The priest held a' cross to lior lipi'a
till tho last moment. I"
Payne’s clergyman returned thimks at hi; :
rerjuest to Gen. Hartranft and other ollioerfc
of tho prison for their kindness,'
All wcio hung in manacles save Mrs. Sur
ratt. Four soldiers performed tho execution.
Graves were dug near tho scaffold and cot
Ibis wore beside them ready for the occupant:
Payne was strangled'to death, but tlr
necks of all the others, wore broken'; ,
Ihe execution did not occupy more than
twenty minutes, and was devoid of oxtranf
ilinary incident or accident. Contrary to (lit:
prt vailingimprcssion, no" speeches were made
on the scaffold, and it is doubted whctfie:
-MrSirSn i'l-att left :
Payne siiid, during tho night, to his cler
gyman, that he thought if lie killed Sewar’l
it would bring peace to tho South.
Atzerott exhibited the most fear in prison
and on the scaffold. j
Harold boro up better than was anticipal-j
ed, and Mrs. Surratt seemed almost inaai-l
mate, having to bo sustained in her cell and!
on tho scaffold. j
Tho bodies hung until 2 o’clock, when diet
were cut down, ami life was found to bo os
tinot on examination by the army surgeons,
. ihe moment tho execution was oyer, all
civilians were ordered outof tho prison-yard
Payne made a written statement durln;
the night, in which ho exonerates Mrs. Sur
p.Ut from all complicity in tits assassinatiu
Id the President.- This was transmitted I;
Judge Holt. . ...
ilrs. Sim-alHs Case—The Writ of Ha
lien’s Corpus.
This morning Judge Wylie granted an ap
plication of the counsel of Mrs. Surratt f,
unt ot habeas corpus commanding .Majoi’
General Hancock to produce.tho body of Mri
Surratt before the court: The writ was rt. : ,
tamable at 10 o’clock, hut nearly two hour
alter that time Gen. Hancock entered tilt"
court, accompanied, by Attorney Generali
Speed, who apologized for tho apparent delajii
in making a return by the General, whiohF
was unavoidable. He then proceeded to real?
the return, in which General Hancock sail;
tho body of Mrs. Surratt Vras in his posses-i
smn, under and by virtue of a'n order of Pre
sident Johnson, for the purpose expressed)
and which order is as follows:
m • Executive Office, July 7,1865.
lo Maj Gciu Hancock, Commanding, etc.;
1, Andrew Johnson, President of the Uni
ted States, do hereby declare that the
habeas corpus has been heretofore suspended!
in such cases as this, and I do hereby espe-j
cially suspend this writ and direct that youj
proceed to execute the order heretofore given
upon tho judgment of tho military commis
sion, and you will give this order a 4 ’retdrn to'
this tfrife. . ,
A. Johnson-,
President of tho United. States.
Tho-Courfc remarked that no further stop!
would bo taken in tho matter. .’
Attorney General Speed' briefly rejoined,|
remarking upon the distinction between tlifli
civil add military jurisdiction, and showin*
the utter impossibility ol lighting battles,
carryirig on War and maintaining the gov
ernment in time of war, by phooess of law.’
Denton, Mxrvi.and, Burned to Ashes,—
A letter frdin Denton, Maryland, brings us
tiro intelligence of the destruction of that
town by fire on the 4th of July. It siys r
’ fho entire business portion of tno’ town
was burned on the evening of tiro 4th. Sol
a sloro, shop or hotel was loft • and many fa'
niiliea left totally destitute. As the people
celebrated the 4th With much enthusiasm,
regret tna’t this terrible fire originated froffl.
a rocket thrown in the upper story of the oU
a: B. ILirdcastlo store. Wo get our infor
mation fi-Hni George M. Ruqsum, Esq., As
sossor of Internal Revenue, Fjr.it District of
Maryland. Ills letter is addressed to Bov.’
A. Mansliin, of this city, who is tt native of
Denton, Md.”
CC7" Before its adjournment the Oonnooti
eut Senate—largely Republican—refused to
endorse Johnson’s administration, the
lutions being tabled. One of the membo’fl
said it was “ suspicious to see Democratic
newspapers praising the President's policy"
'—which, in reality, if is.-