4 `"*." - ~`Szi3 - C .'ii ~~ ~.. "The printing presses, shall be free to every ri - whri undertakes to erainine - the Pro:' tieedlngs of the legislature, or. any brartelk.Of govertiliteiat; and -no law shall : ever be, hulas to xvistrainthe frt-thereof. , The free ebininn nleatied.of tho t and opinions is one of the .of men; and every citizen may freely speak; write and print 'on any sub ject ; dieing responsible • for the • abase of that liberty; . - Ireproseentions for the publication of papers insestigating.theofilcialnonduet of offi cers, or men In pub capacities capacities, or where the matter -I, Ptlia proper for imblic in.forma tlon, the truth. thereof may be given in evi dence." LANCASTER, INTELLIGENcEe. OFSICE, . November etn,lBlls. f DPWNEX is authorized to re cch4-rOney and subscriptions, and to con trct'for tidvertising and job work for us, • cOOPER, SASNDERSON t Co: The TencheTs' Institute. We have taken occasion to drop in several times during the week at the Teachers' Institute, which has been in session at the Court House, and have always .been highly entertained. The exercises . have been of such a character as to convince all that the teachers of this county at least are alive to the import ance of the great work assigned to them. They show,not only a desire to prepare themselves properly to discharge the serious duties devolving upon them, but a fitness for their work, and a , zeal in the great cause of Common School Ed ucation, which should entitle them to the especial respect cod the entire con fidence of the community. There is no life more laborious than that of a faith ful conscientious teacher, and none width meets with a poorer reward in. a peouniary point of view. Nowhere are they paid as they deserve to be. It is strange that parsimony and an illiberal spirit should cramp the cause of edu cation among us, and cripple the great instrumentality of our Common School •System. But so it is in too many parts of Pennsylvania, to her disgrace be it spoken, even to the present hour. We are glad to believe, however, that there is a growing feeling in this community, and throughout the State, in favor of greater liberality in this respect. In deed it is high time all our people had learned that in wherever else they may safely save, they cannot do it in the maintenance of their Common Schools. Whatever else they may cheapen, they should not allow themselves to attempt to cheapen the wages of the school teacher. A cheap teacher is sure to prove the dearest in the end. That school which pays the highest salary is sure to command the best talents, and to be the cheapest, because it is the best. Our people are beginning to see and feel this, and the time, we verily believe is not far distant when the pro fession of the teacher in Pennsylvania will be elevated to its true position ; when it will not only be highly re speaable, but sufficiently remunera tive_command the talents and the energies which are needed. There is no single agency which is better calculated to promote this desi rable, result than Teachers' Institutes, conducted as is that of Lancaster county. They improve the teachers, give them clearer and more comprehensive views of their duties, elevate their pi ofession in their own estimation, and impress the whole community with a sense of the duty of properly sustaining the great cause of our Common Schools. More Collins Wanted for the Freedmen. A correspondence is in progress be tween the city authorities of Mobile and the " Freedmen's Bureau," in regard to the burial of negroes who die ''insol vent." Mayor Forsyth says, "If they are unable to take care of themselves while living, or to receive interment afterdeath, it seems clear that the power that placed them in that condition is bound to provide for them." The Coroner writes: "The negro population of this city is even now suf fering greatly, and greater and more numerous evils impend, from which there is for them no escape. The com ing winter will, I fear, be to thenegro a terrible timeof suffering, with no kind master to admonish him in health, at tend to him in sickness, crowded in un ventilated hovels, often without fire places, ill-provided and improvident, the negro race will suffer, sicken and die by masses." He then appeals to the Bureau for means to provide a decent burial for the poor unfortunates. The speeches made at the meeting lately held in the church of the notori ous Dr. Cheever, ought to have all the philanthropy of the Abolition ists. The announcement that many thousands of coffins would be needed to meet the last earthly want of many of the freedmen during the coining winter ought, we think, to have been met by prompt and liberal action. But as yet we have not heard any response to the call. .The appeal of the Mayor and Coroner of Mobile is another loud call for more coffins. The negroes are free now, and they_need many things, which were formerly supplied by liberal masters, but their great want is coffins. Coffins, coffins for the freedmen ! That is now thecry. Shallit be unheeded? Will those whohave forciblythrust the negroes gro into the position in which they must " die by masses" refused to supply cof fins. They need not be a very superior article; need not be metalic cases, with plate glass windows, through ; which friends may gaze on the haggard fea tures of the starved dead for the last time; need not be constructed of rose wood or mahogany ; need hot have satin linings inside and silver plating on the outside; but coffins of some kind the freedmen must have, and that not a few of them. They want them now ; and according to thestatements of the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau will want many thousands more during the coming winter. How shall the coffins he provided? That is the question of the hour. That the present alarming rate of mortality will not only continue, but increase with accelerated rapidity during the present winter, is admitted by all who know anything of the condition of this unfor tunate class of human beings known as freedmen. The doom of death is upon them. They must die by thousands.— There is no help for it. It is but a con sequence of au inflexible and irreversi ble law of nature. A weaker and less cultivated race can never co-exist with one so much its superior except in a condition of dependence. There is an antagonism between the Anglo Saxon race and the African which makes the freedom of the latter his sure destruction. He can not keep peace in the struggle for existence with the Anglo Saxon, and must inevitably either die out, or come back to his legitimate relation of-dependence. There is no reversing the great law of nature in this respect. The weaker race must fade away and die until it becomes extiwt, or it must assume a position of dependence and suhordination. The first fruits of freedom have proved to be very bitter to the negro. Thrust out Upo'n the'world they have found themselves utterly unfitted to provide for themselves. Grim death now stares thein in the fa - ce, and they have not the necessary intelligence to evade it. Ap palled by the horiors of their situation, unfatted to act the part of freemen, un able.t&provide for themselves or their fati . iilW . lher are dying by multitudes; dyiiig in ituteSei; -- The - Mere matter of buryingthatlaa4 heeeme a subject of im.tiortanek.'xeotruispre wanted for the reedmen; many thousands of coffins Will be needed this winter. How shall they be supplied? With out meaning to be irreverent:without Intending to east any slur upop-the well establisheifebiirsebir of the Yankees of New England, we would.-respectfully suggest that the Treedmen's Bureau rent, or confiscate, one of thelargestrucui most densely wooded of the pinaforests of the South, and then let out the con tract of converting the timber into cof fins to the lowest bidder. We have no doubt New England would speedily-fur- Rish the necessary capital to erect an establishment large enough to furnish pine coffins as fast as 'needed. Such a project would delight the heart of many Xankees who would see a ch ance to make. a handsome margin by legitimate tricks of Yankee trading. The coffins might not be according to contract, but their defects would be sure to be well con cealed by that kind of Yankee talent which invented wooden hams and man ufactured wooden nutmegs. They would look well enough, and would answer the purpose of burying out of sight the evidences of the utter failure of Yankee philanthropy. The Insurrection in Jamaica • We give to-day a detailed account of the insurrection in the island of Jamai ca. The details are horrible and revolt ing in the extreme ; but they are only of a piece with the history of every up rising of the negro race. When once the passions of the negro are fully arous ed, when hatred or interest gets the bet ter of his natural cowardice, he is under all circumstances the most cruel and vindictive creature that ever wore hu man shape. The tiger passions of Afri ca are in his heart, and he has, when aroused to deeds of blood, no more pity than the merciless beast that haunts the jungles of his native land. The facts elicited show that the mas sacre was the result of a deliberate plot for assassinating the white population and putting the negroes in possession of the island. The 29th of October was fixed for the rising; but the arrest of some of the conspirators on other char ges precipitated the out-break several days. At the bottom of the conspiracy was George William Gordon, ex-magis trate and member of the Colonial As sembly, and, it would seem (though on this point the colonial papers make no definite statement), a white man. The active leader was Paul Bogle, a negro Preacher, and it is significant that most of the rebels were in some way connect ed with " religious " associations. Bo gle, Gordon and the other principal rebels have been arrested and hanged. General Lamothe, ex-President of the Haytien Republic, is believed to have been implicated in the rising, and has been arrested on board a schooner, in which he was trying to escape from the island. At the date of last advices the revolt was nearly suppressed, though fearful stories continue to be told of the negro atrocities, and one road, eight miles long, was said to be impassable •orn the collection of dead bodies. The insurgents do not seem to have attempt ed the destruction of the property on the island. Their aim was to assassi nate the whites and then enter into pos session of their property. The details of this horrible insurrec • tion will be read with especial interest at the present time, when the prominent leaders of the dominant political party in this country are insisting that the negro shall be declared the equal of the white- man. Their counsels would in evitably bring about a repetition of the horrors of the .Jamaica insurrection, and repeat them it may be with ten-fold magnitude and atrocity in the Southern sections of our own country. The ne groes of Jamaica have long been freed, .tve long enjoyed the right of the elec Live franchise, have for many years been in the position to which fanaticism would assign the four millions of blacks in this country ; and their cleration socially and politically is accurately de tailed in the account of the atrocious acts which we publish elsewhere. Such is the record which the negrt, has made for himself where he enjoyed all the privileges of a freeman. The Doctrine of Negro Equality to be Endorsed by Congress. Unless we are greatly mistaken one of the first acts of the radical Republi can majority fn Congress will be to con fer the right of suffrage upon the negroes in the District of Columbia. John W. Forney, who seems to delight in grovel ing in hiS own degradation, has a long letter in yesterday's Press, over his sig nature of OCCASIONAL, in which he argues the propriety of such an enact ment, and urges its adoption. The let ter concludes with the following words The District is national ground . It is ex clusively governed by the Congress and the President. Therefore it is not only right to do this thing, but it is a duty that should be cordially m7knowledged and promptly discharged. There is not near as much hostility to impartial suffrage among the remaining and returned residents as there was to the act of Emancipation.— There is excitement, of course, among those who may be voted out of the offices they have held so 10n. , , by the aid of the unterri tied Democracy; but this will subside be fore what begins to look like the inevitable. And even the pardoned and reinstated rebels will be surprised how smoothly the experiment will work. It will be!remembered, that, just before the recent election in this State, Forney in a letter to the Press, repudiated the idea that the Republican party were in any way committed to the doctrine of negro suffrage. Either he was guilty of uttering a falsehood then, or he has changed his opinion since: That the real leaders of the party were fully committed to the odious doctrine then, we were fully convinced ; that they in tend to agitate 'the question until the negro stands the acknowledged equal of the white man cannot be successfully denied now. It was only a few days ago that Henry Ward Beecher used the following language in his paper, the independent: " The former aims of the Republican par ty are ended, Did it advocate the non-ex tension of slavery? That was accomplish ed. Dal it advocate the prosecution of the war; That VIIS actomplislied. Did it ad vo onto the Proclamation of Emancipation?— That was accomplished. Did it advocate the constitutional amendment? That was it., crowning appeal. All these issues are note or the past. They do not survive. It mov the Republican party accepts no new principle, it will have none at all. It it will have none at :ill it will perish. Are we the friends, therefore, or the enemies of that party, when we warn it against its own de struction? "A national party must have a national issue. The next issue before this nation is equal rights. The Republican party cannot escape. If the President shall decline it, then Congress must accept. If Congress shall decline it. then the next Presidential canvass will lay it at every man's door for a verdict." There isphilosophy and political truth in the utterances of that poll tical preach er. The Republican party was born in agitation, it lived upon agitation, it can never exist without agitation. And the leaders of the party, in and out of Con gress, recognize the truth of Beecher's utterances and are ready to act in ac cordance with his suggestions. Finding that President Johnson is not to be bent to their cherished design of forcing negro suffrage upon, the people of the South, as an antecedent condi tion to the restoration of the Southern States to the Union, and fearing to take issue with him directly, they have re solved that the issue of negro equality shall be taken up by Congress, and the first bold step in that direction made by the passage of an act conferring the right of suffrage upon the negroes in the Dis trict of Columbia. The Solemn enact ment of such a law by Congress will go fqx to gratify the fanaticism of the ex- tr'eme ra~dicais,`au' `aaFo[t yliopes prevent them from making a split in the ranks of the party. They houie to be able to influence President Johnsonl to sign such a bill. Whether he will do r pot rentahis to be seen. Wellope' and believe he will have manhood' enough to refuse. : ' But, whether he does or - not, by the passage of such an act In regard to tha- District of Columbia, the Republican party will have fully committed itself as a party to the doctrine of negro suf frage and negro equality. They cannot then dodge the issue any longer by quibbling resolutions and lying asser tions that it is not an issue. We hope they will thus show their hands to the people. They have fooled them by false issues and betrayed them by lying words long enough. A Banquet to lion. Asa Packer. A grand banquet will be given to the Hon. Asa Packer, of Mauch Chunk, at the Sun Hotel, in Bethlehem, on Thurs day next. Oue of Philadelphia's most experienced caterers has been engaged, and a sufficient number of distinguished guests have been invited to comfortably till the large dining hall. It is to be given by numerous gentlemen of Phila delphia, New York, and the Lehigh , Valley, among them Wm. H. Gatzmer, Esq., J. G. Fell, Esq., Lewis Auden ried,,Esq., Jno. Smylie, Jr., and John N. Hutchinson, Esq., and is tendered as a compliment to Mr. Packer for his liberality in everything which tends to increase the wealth and enterprise of the Lehigh Valley, and especially for his gift of 5590,000 and fifty-seven acres of land for the establishment of a col lege in South Bethlehem. Among the invited guests are Generals Grant and Meade. serious Illness of Ex-President Pierce. Our readers will be pained to learn of theserious illness of ex-President Pierce, -at his residence in Concord, _New Hamp shire. He is sick with chronic diar rhoea, tending to ulceration. God grant - that the life of this eminent statesman and patriot may be spared for many years to come. Chicago Tunnel Six of the cylinders forming the main shaft have been sunk, and the last will be placed in position to be sunk in a few days at the farthest. In sinking the cylinder it has not been found necessary thus far to apply any additional pres sure save their own weight, which has been sufficient to sink them. It will be required in the sinking of the last cylinder, the addition of which will drive the shaft about 35 feet into the solid clay, to apply a high degree of pressure, and for this purpose prepara tions are making to bring to bear, with the assistance of pulleys, as much of the weight of the erio as will be requisite. THE Con nellsville Railroad Company has again commenced work at the Sand Patch tunnel, the former contractor, Mr. Humbert, having the job, and determin ed, as we learn, to drive it through to completion at the earliest practicable moment. The Cumberland Cirilian of a late date says: "It is coutidAintly ex pected that by the first day of INanuary au opening will have been made through the entire tunnel, and no effort will be spared on the part of the company to bring about an early completion of the road." The pr , . - ese-nt prospects of the company are bright, and with the aid they have lately reerived, they have every inducment to finish their road at an early day. Fc, the Intelligencer A Reply to a Tax-Payer On the ll.th of October, ICifi, a communi cation appeared in the Lancaster Jidda gencer, signed a Tax-Payer, ill.bluating that Thos. C'. Collins hail not made a just return to the Assessor, of his income for the year 143-I. Understanding front whence the eommtmication i,llll', and the object and the motive, I considered to take the advice of Solomon, not to answer a fool ac cording to his folly, !east you be like unto to hint. But on the :SO of November a second slander was published in connection with the first, stating, "That it was ex ceedingly strange that nearly .110 month has passed by, and as far as Jack, (mean- Mg Jack Hiestand,) the invincible,`is con cerned, as well as (bilins himself, the pub lic have not been enlightened." Tak ing a second advice from Solomon I thought it best to answer a fool according to his folly, least he be wise in his own con ceit. I would say to this falilier and slan derer that if there is anything wrong in my return to the Assessor, let him notify him in the matter who is the proper person to apply to. He says if his statements be true it is due to the public that, it should be thoroughly ventilated; if it should howev er be false, then great injustice is done to the accused and the public should be imme diately enlightened in the matter., lie it as it may, however, there seems to be some thing the matter somewhere. Then he com mences with a tissue of falsehoods, stating the amount Collins drew from the Treasury in 180.4 for services rendered as one of the Commissioners from Lancaster county, which he states was over $BOO. Then com mences his calculation, as to what would he return to the Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue for that year, and goes on adding and substracting in connection with the pro ceeds derived from the two farms, he in the former communieation says Collins sold. He says that it is a rxne saying that figures will not lie. - Now, that the public-may be enlightened in the matter, in place of drawing over $BOO from the Treasury in lm;4, I drew butt 50 in that year, and I have not sold a farm in the lastten years. He says that figures will not lie, true and correct figures will not lie, but false figures and false ca , culations will both lie and deceive; but some men will a lie and some lawyers do lie. Now that the public may have some knowledge of my course as County ( oininissioner, I entered that office with it determination to do my duty, fearlessly, faithfully and honestly, as far as I knew, and resolved to pursue that course and guardlt he interests of the County against frauds and unjust claims, and as there are:certain men who crept into the Re publican party unawares, whose words and actions were before ordained to con demnation, ungodly men foaming out their Ow - II shame, and because they could not make a tool of me and in fidel-we the beyond my honest convic ions of justice and right, have taken this method to calumniate and slander and vent their spite. I would say to the public be ware of such men ; pretended friends but secret enemies; men in sheep s clothing,but inwardly ravenous wolves; men who would shake you by one hand and stab you with the other; and as there is a woe pronounced against the mum whom all men speak well of; there is nothing that would sooner make me - suspect myself of being in a wrong course than if such men would speak well of me. The public will see that such an uncalled for malicious slander re quires a sharp reproof. I would forgive and pray for such men, that they might re pent and turn from their evil ways, and if they do not, the blackness of darkness is reserved for them forever. He signs himself a tax-payer, and here I would say, without boasting, that I pay more State and County tax in the small township in which I live, than one hundred other tax-payers in the township, and then he concludes, " nowj as Jack's mind is too much taken up with the subject of electing a member of the legislature to fill the va cancy which has recently occurred, I sup pose no serious harm could possibly result by troubling your neighbor of the Express to assume the task and enlighten the honest tax-payers of the county." In reply to this last insinuation I would say that neither Jack, nor the editors of the Express, nor any other respectable editor of the city, has for the first time to concoct with me either on the street or in the back room, for the purpose of pre senting their claims or influencing me be forehand in favor of any measure they wish to bring before the Board of Commissioners , . Thos. C. Counts, LANc.A.n.E.I3, Nov. 2114,1865, • , From a retirement which, in its corn lete*ss, during nearly five years g.itagon, has been Without a .parallel#'r mm 7, a seclusion, at his quiet home r : which has, been arletint digliifiedi Mr; - Buchanatiat last sPeaks to his country-:' .Irien: He is:the olderit of liVingAmer-! lean . statesmen , for;; although General Casa hi some years h kiactual Benito', Mr; Buchanan'a civil services' .date - muck farther back. Frbtri thelitne when he' entered the House of Representatives to 1861, when he retired from the Presi dency, he was almost continuously in public function, legislative, diplomatic and executive, and in no trust—anterior to that of the Chief Magistrany-z-does his worst enemy impute to him a fail ure. His action, as - President, has been subjected to harsh and unsparing criti cism ; a rash judgment, by mischievous agency, has been passed upon it ; his silence has been misinterpreted ; his perional enemies, generally men who had received unmerited kindness at his hands have been unscrupulously active, and even his friends—and he has them, faithful and true—influenced by his wishes and example, have been silent too. From this judgment Mr. Buchan an now appeals; and that appeal, in the modest volume entitled " The Admin istration on the Eve of the Rebellion," we now gladly and proudly introduce to the public. It is well worth the careful perusal of the historical stu dent, for it is written in a style of calm, judicial sobriety, which the fair-mind ed student will duly estimate. There is no asperity, no vehemence—none of that temper, which, as a general thing, is the evil distinction of American poli tical controversy—scarcely al=sh word, and yet no attempt to propitate, hostile criticism, and, withal, aserene and dig nified disregard of small men and small things which is very striking. If per sonal ingratitude has barbed many of the slanders which have been shot at him, these pages show that the wounds have been very superficial indeed.— There are certain vile agents of calumny —and, as in Mr. Buchanan's pages, so they shall be nameless here—who may be conscious of a blush when they find that they are so far contemptuously for given, that they and their confederates are not even mentioned. Mr. Buchanan's narrative is defensive, not inculpatory, —and if it were, no one who knows him supposes that in anger he would now stop to trample on creeping venom. That among Mr. Buchanan's friends there may have been a fair and friendly doubt whether " now " was the best time for this publication need not be concealed. It was worthy of considera tion whether it might not be better, with the example of Sir Robert Peel and other statesmen whose public ca reers were the subject of controversy, to trust to posthumous justice, and dele gate the duty of vindication to faithful friends by and by. But this is a sug gestion hardly proper to be made to a retired statesman, ;Sir Robert Peel died in harness), whose intellect and vigorof mind are unimpaired, and who has a right—conscious of such resources—to tell his own story—to watch its effects upon his countrymen—and to repel, if need be, adverse and unfair criticism. In short, and this is perhaps the best view to take of it, we are very sure that every one who reads this per sonal record—so modest yet so self-reli ant, so, equable in tone, so tolerant in opinion, so thoroughly worked up with reference to evidence that no one but a trained reasoner could have done it, without a conviction that it is well for the cause of truth—well for the friends who, by their fidelity to him in his de ' cline, shame the poor motes that flutter ed in his sunbeams—that he did this work for himself. No one familiar with his habits of thought and expression will doubt that it is all his own—and no one will begin it without reading every word of it to the end. While, as a mat ter of style, there is perhaps no phrase in it which can be called pointed or brilliant, there is no one which sinks below the high and uniform level of what we have ventured to described as judicial propriety. Small as the volume is—and in these (lays of huge books this is no slight merit—it is divisible into three portions— that which may be described as prelimi nary—the sketch of the anti-slavery crusade during his public life, down in fact to the ripening of the agitation on the organization of the government in Kan sas, in 1858; that which discusses the action of his administration at its close when the Nation was standing on the perilous edge of war; and the concluding portion as to his foreign policy, which even his ene mies concede to have been successful. In what we have describkl as the pre liminary narrative, Mr. Buchanan states with emphasis his theory of political cause and eflect, and attributes all our sorrows, all our failures to reconcile sections, to the repeal of the Missouri compromise, or in other words, to the Kansas-Nebraska bill, thecardinal error of the South, and, subsequently, to the defiance of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case, wh ich was the flagrant crime of the North. When Mr. Seward, standing on the threshold of high office, said, as we know he did, that it was treason in the Supreme Court so to de cide, he well illustrated the criminal spirit of insubordination to law, which has made him the fit instrument in the overthrow of all law, and we pause in wonder that a firm-believer in the Dred Scott case, such as the present President was and is, should so long tolerate the contact of a reckless rebel to its authori ty. Mr. Buchanan is very clear as to the evil consequences of the Missouri repeal. It was a great mistake and a great misfortune. An eminent foreign ;statesman, years ago described the scene as he witnessed it, on a stormy night—stormy without as well as with in, when the Kansas-Nebraska bill finally passed the Senate. It was to him full of evil augury—and the very consequences which Mr. Buchanan now attributes to it, were then foretold by a sagacious and farseeing statesman. It is in one of these preliminary chap ters that Mr. Buchanan reproduces an extract from a speech of his in the Sen ate thirty years ago, a quarter of a cen tury before the South and the North crossed their bloody swords over the worthless corpse of slavery.. We ven ture, in the ghastly glare of these, our times of sorrow and uncertainty, to quote again words of ineffectual warn ing. On the 9th of March, 1836, Mr. Bu chanan said as a Senator, " This ques tion of domestic slavery is the'weak point in our institutions. Tariff's may be raised almost to prohibition, and then they may be reduced so as to yield no adequate protection to the manufactu rer; our Union is sufficiently strong to endure the shock. Fierce political storms may arise—the moral elements of the country may be convulsed by the struggles of ambitious men for the high est honors of the Goverument—thesun shine does not more certainly succeed the storm, than that all will again be peace. Touch this question of slavery seriously—let it once be made manifest to the people of the South that they can not live with us, except in a state of continual apprehension and alarm for their wives and their children, for all that is near and dear to them upon the earth—and the Union is from that mo ment dissolved. It does not then be come a question of expediency, but of self-preservation. It is a qUestion brought home to the fireside, to the do mestic circle of every white man in the Southern States. This day, this dark and gloomy day for the Republic, will, I most devoutly trust and believe, never arrive. Although, in Pennsylvania, we are all opposed to slavery in the abstract, yet we will never violate the constitu tional compact which we have made with our sister States. Their rights will be held sacred by us. Under the Constitution it is their own question, and there let it remain." How rapid was the progress of ruin and misery thus foretold, will be seen in Mr. Buchanan's luminous pages ; but . one is actually startled by a recol lection, there suggested, of the fearful advance of fanaticism when, in 1859, Helper's book—for which Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Seward rewarded him with a lu crative office—announced the details of the fresh crusade. In the tumult of war we had almost forgotten this man Hel per and and his patrons. Here is his plan : lst—"Thorough organization and indepen dent political action on the part of the non slaveholding whites of the South." 2d—" Ineligibility of pro-slavery slave holders. Never another vote to any one who advocates the retention and perpetua tion of human slavery." 3d—" No co-operation with pro-slavery politicians—no fellowship with them in re ligion—no affiliation with them in society." 4th—" No patronage to pro-slavery mer chants—no guestship in slave-waiting ho tels--no fees to pro-slavery lawyers—no employment of pro-slavery physicians— no audience to pro-slavery parsons." sth—" No more hiring of slaves by non alavehoWer§." •• 't s ". ; iseen riraikre% tion to pro-slavery newspapers." Who, can wonder, .reading this, at Sohn Brown's bloodypikes? Nay who dm wonder that the South, chafed to madness by such precept and ptacticet and by the appalling real4.-that. - those -- who: - petted Helper, and . ; canoni zed ßrown, had, at last, succeeded to power and office should have rushed to -arms? (*.descending on the scale to very little ,things indeed, who does not see in Helik er's programme " No patronage to pro slavery merchants; no guestship in slave waiting hotels; no fees to pro-slavery awyers; no employment to pro-slavery physicians; no audience to pro-slavery parsons;'' the germ of the social ostra cism, the poisonous vegetation that has grown up for our disgrace everywhere, - and no - where more. than here. Naturally enough, the great interest of Mr. Buchanan's book is in the part relating to the threatened outbreak of the war, and to that, we should dogreat injustice it'we were to attempt to offer an abstract. Let any one who desires to arrive at truth, read it conscien tiously, and he will come at once to the conclusion that, if ever gross popular injustice has been done, it has been to President Buchanan. Let us illustrate this briefly. Mr. Buchanan is denounced, from one end of the land to to the other, as the aider and abettor of the South in its revolt at Federal au thority, yet not one word can be traced to his lips or his pen ; no act, to his agency, to give color to the accusation. General Scott, on the other hand, is re garded, we believe, as the type of that peculiar loyalty to the Federal Govern ment which characterizes a recreant Virginian. He placed superfluous sharp-shooters on the tops of houses and planted artillery in the streets of Wash ington to protect Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Lincoln, riding in the same barouche. He planned the impotent campaign of 1861, when McDowell was hurled back from Manassas. In short, he is, and al ways has been, the incarnation—the es sence of loyal patriotism. Yet, on the 18th ofJanuary,l66l, without the know ledge or consen t of the President,General Scott published in the National Intelli gencer—a paper with a large Southern circulation--an essay in favor ofa dissolu tion of the Union, rather than war, and the erection of not two, which was all that war exacted, but four Con federacies of which he furnished the actual metes and bounds. Such was Mr. Buchanan's Commander in -chief, and the world and pcsterity must determine who was the truest and most "loyal" man, the President silent ly and anxiously watching the course of events dud trying so to guide them that he might be able to hand over to his suc cessor—already designated—the great Executive trust unimpaired, or the fid getty, garrulous soldier, who was by words, written and printed, promoting separation. Such was Mr. Buchanan's military adjutant when grim vissaged war was roughening its front. He turned to Congress—the Helper-Covode Congress. To Congress he appealed, and what was the result? Congress, guided by Sum ner and Seward, was deaf as an adder. Mr. Buchanan, in his message of 1860, asserted the doctrine—of Hamilton and Madison—that a State, as a State, could not be coerced, but that the public prop erty could be protected, and the re sponse to it from all, except the fanatics who were the majority, was distinct and emphatic. "I do not believe," said Andrew John son, a Senator from Tennessee ; " I do not believe the Federal Government has the power to coerce a State, for by the eleventh amendment of the Constitu tion of the United States it is , expressly provided that you cannot even put one of the States of this Confederacy before one of the Courts of the country as a party. As a State, the Federal Govern went has no power to coerce it." So spokeevery statesman in Congress. And those who thought differently and who, as we have said, were a majority, stood by., persistently refusing all aid to the Executive and watching with a scoff the coming ruin. "In this perilous condition of the country," says Mr. Buchanan, "it would scarcely be believed were it not demonstrated by the record, that Con gress deliberately refused, throughout the entire session, to pass any act or resolution either to preserve the Union by peaceful measures, or to furnish the President or his successor with a mili tary force to repel any attack which might be made by the Cotton States. It neither did one thing nor the other. It neither presented the olive branch nor the sword. All history proves that in action in such an emergency is the worst possible policy, and can never stay the tide of revolution " Then followed, and we know no more dismal story, the Crittenden Compro mise, and the Peace Conference, the great measure of projected conciliation which should, had not fanaticism hard ened the heart of the nation, have com manded respect as emanating from that great Commonwealth, Virginia, which was the last to yield to the tide of revo lution, and which, without quailing and without repining, has borne with heroic constancy the sharpest agonies of war. But it was all in vain. The Republican party,says Mr. Buchanan ,and so history will say," accomplished their object, and thus terminated every reasonable hope of compromise." All this is honestly told, without exaggeration, and without asperity, in this little volume; and so it went on to the bitter end. Congress passed no measures to ena ble the President to execute the laws or defend the Government. They declined to revive the authority of the Federal Judiciary in South Carolina, suspended by the resignation of all the judicial offi cers. They refused authority to call forth the militia or accept volunteers, to suppress insurrections against the Uni ted States, and it was never proposed to grant an appropriation for this purpose. The Senate declined throughout the en tire session to act upon the nomination of a Collector of the Port of Charleston. Congress refused to grant to the Presi dent the authority long since expired, which had been granted to Gen. Jack son for the collection of the revenue— The Thirty-sixth Congress expired and left the war just as they found it. Then came the catastrophe—or rather the portents of the coming crisis in Charleston harbor, and to Mr. Buchan an's chapters on the subject, we are glad to refer the reader without attempting any reference to it ourselves. They are absolutely conclusive of Mr. Buchan an's integrity of purpose, and innocence of all connivance imputed to him. We know nothing more interesting than his ingenuous and manly narration of the trials which surrounded him—the crumbling away of his Cabinet—the fi nancial difficulties and complications, in no wise affecting his character—the exactions of the seceding States—and his own cairn dignity throughout, anx ious but Tor two great results, to hand over to his successor the Executive trust unimpaired, and to avoid the effusion of fraternal blood How earnestly he labored, how completely he command ed the respect of all around him who shared his confidence is shown by their voluntary and emphatic testimony. "In terminating our official relations," said Mr. Holt, the War Secretary, " I avail myself of the occasion to express to you my heartfelt gratitude for the confidence with which, in this and oth er high positions, you have honored me, and for the firm and generous sup port which you have constantly extend ed to me, amid the arduous and per plexing duties which I have been called to perform. In the full conviction that your labors will yet be crowned by the glory that belongs to an enlightened statesmanship and to an unsullied pa triotism, you have my sincerest wishes for your personal happiness."' Our limits are now reached, and we can do no more than beg such of our readers as have faith enough in our bjudgment to be guided by it to read this ook for themselves. We wish we had room to notice in detail the closing chap ters on the President's foreign policy, which are full of interest, especially the one which treats of Mexican relations, now so critical. It is, however, impos sible. Mr. Buchanan's book will, no doubt, be the signal for a new outburst of vitu peration. In fact, by a strange infideli ty somewhere, his enemies have already begun it. The vocalbulary of abuse is not exhausted, and, if it were, a repeti tion of strains , of wicked calumny, is very easy. It is of little moment. His appeal to a nation's sober thought, we trust, will not be in vain. But if it is, looking to the sure judgement of poster ity on this honest and manly record, his friends may well be content with the assurance it gives that James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, never, in his high function, violated the letter, or spirit of the Constitution, and that on his hand there is no drop of blood. What higher praise, what purer consolation, need ny pupa man covet?—.4e. Full Details of the Negro Atroelties— The Revolt Deliberately Planned. but PrentatureAr.pereloped—Ari !lento and Member or Assembly at the Rottom of the Plot—All the Leaders Capitaieed.nlandEltaared. • - Correspondence of the N, Y. Herald.) e OUTRRE4R OFD THE INSURRECTION.' OR - Saturday, the 7th of October, 1865, a Court of Petty Sessions was, held at Morant Bay. While the business of the court was being proceeded with a great noise arose in the court house, which increased to such a pitch as to compel a temporary suspension of the proceed ings. The justice's ordered the party making the disturbance to be brought before them, upon which one Charles Geoghegan (a head rioter) left the Court House, followed by the police, who cap tured him on the steps. He was imme diately rescued by one Paul Bogle and several other persons, who had large bludgeons in their hands, and taken in to the Market square, where some one hundred and fifty more persons joined them, also with sticks. The police were severely beaten, and had to retire to the Court House without their prisoner. On Monday, the Court of Petty Sessions again meeting, and proceeding with the business, a man named-Lewis Dick was tried for trespass. As soon as the case of trespass was called some one hundred and fifty persons, the same who rescued Geoghegan, entered the Court House with sticks. The magistrate convicted Lewis Dick on his own plea of guilty. Paul Bogle immediately came forward and told the man not to pay any fine, but to appeal, which he did, and enter ed into the necessary recognizance. On Monday, the 9th, warrants were issued against Paul Bogle and twenty-seven others for riot and assault on Saturday. On the Police going to Paul Bogle's house and attempting to arrest him, a horn sounded, and about three hundred persons, armed with deadly weapons, made their appearance from Bogle's chapel and a cane piece near the house. Three policemen and one constable were placed in custody and taken into Paul Bugle's house, where they were threa tened that unless they took an 'oath to forsake the white and brown people and join their assailants they would be im mediately put to death. Fearing that Paul Bogle would carry out his threats they took the oath, which oath was ad ministered by Paul Bogle. The police did not return until the allowing day, Tuesday. THE FIRST SHOT FIRED What had taken place at the execu tion of the warrants was communicated to the Custos, Baron von Ketelhodt, who had just returned to the parish.— The police further stated that the peo ple were gathering in great numbers at btony Gut, and Ehat when they left there were over six hundred persons under arms; that shells were blowing in every direction, and that they were informed the people intended coming to Morant Bay on the following day, Wednesday. On this information the Custos -sent off to the volunteers at Bath, and also an express to the Governor requesting that troops might be despatched without delay, as he feared a rebellion on the following day. The despatch was not received by the Government until eight o'clock Wednesday. On Wednesday the vestry met and proceeded with their business. About four o'clock P. M., drums were heard, and after this the rebels made their appearance. The vol unteers were drawn up in line before the Court House, eighteen in number. The Custos, who stood on the steps, ex horted the people, sdnie six hundred, armed with (loudly weapons, not to en ter the square, and stated that if they had any grievances to complain of to say so, and it should receive redress.— They, however, persisted in coming into the square, upon which the Custos read the Riot act. By this time the mob had come within a few yards of the volun teers, firing a volley of stone at the vol unteers. Captain Hitchins then gave orders to fire. The most murderous at tacks were then made on every one com ing within reach of the rebels. The volunteers being overpowered took re fuge in the Court House, where the Custos, magistracy, clergy and other gentlemen were. Finding that these parties had taken -helter, they smashed the windows to atoms, firing continual ly into the Court House, when the vol unteers returned their fire, doing good . • . service. ATTEMPTS AT PACIFICATION About half past five o'clock the Court House was fired. The Custos then put out a flag of truce by advice of the Clerk of the Peace. The rioters asked what it meant, and were afiswered peace. They said they did not want peace, they wanted war. A second flag of truce was put out, with no effect, the rebels crying out war, war ! On the roof of the Court House falling in through the fire that had been set to the premises, the Custos and other gentlemen burst open the doors and ran down the steps, therebels attacking them in every direction. THE FIRST MURDERS. A cry was raised that thesteamer was in sight, and eager eyes were turned towards the place where she was sup posed to be, but only to be averted again iu disappointment. Mr. Arthur Cooke and Mr. Walton who attempted to escape through a• window, were both killed ; all the rest took refuge in the house at the Fort, when it was ascertain ed that several volunteers had fallen. The late Custos then asked if any one would go out and speak to the mob. None ventured to doso; and while they were consulting, the roof was discovered to be on fire. At the suggestion of the Rev. Mr. Herschel a prayer was being offered, when shots came pouring in through the window, which caught his Honor the Custos, a child of Mr. Inspec tor Alberga and the Hon. Mr. Georges. Mr. Herschel then bandaged the wound of Mr. Georges with his clerical neck-tie; the burning roof fell in, and the inmates were compelled to rush out. Mr. Mc- Cormack was chopped to pieces on one of the guns at the steps of the Court House. BARON KETELHODT AND HIS COMPAN- lONS BCrCHERED The Custos was armed with a sword which he took up. Each endeavored to save himself. The mob cried, "Now we have the Baron; kill him," and loud shouts announced that the deed had been done. Dr. Gerard was then called to come out, and the mob protesting they would save him. Mr. McPherson and another concealed themselves, but were soon discovered and assaulted. Mr. McPherson, C. V., is since dead. The unfortunate victims were then killed in detail under circumstances of atrocity. Dr. Gerard was then discovered and came forth, Mr. Ratty clinging to him. The latter was, however, torn away and cut down." Captain Hitchius, who had behaved with undaunted bravery, was seriously wounded at last, and, faint with the loss of blood, threw his arms round Dr. Gerard's neck, and was :de spatched in that position. After Mr. Alberga was butchered, the mob were about to murder his already wounded child, when some woman in terfered and saved the poor innocent. Mr. C. A. Price was murdered almost at the same time with Mr. Alberga, not withstanding the efforts made by one William Donaldson to save him. This man, we must observe, deserves the greatest praise for the superhuman but unfortunately unavailing exertions which he used to save the lives of the victims. Dr. Gerard owed his safety in a great measure to this man's inter ference. After a series of most eccen tric acts, stealing nearly everything in the way of valuables and money from some houses, and sparingothers, taking the watches and money of the murdered persons, and saving some and despoil ing others, the mob retired from the town a little before the Wolverine hove in sight. The volunteers behaved with great gallantry, and sold their lives dearly. Ammunition failing, they were nearly all destroyed, the very few sur vivors having been most dangerously wounded. MUTILATION OF THE DEAD. Mr. Herschel's tongue was cut out, and the fingers of the Baron's hand were cut off, the murderers observing that they would write no more lies to the Queen. The Clerk of the Peace concealed himself beneath the pillars of Dr. Gerard's dispensary, and so saved himself. The conduct of the mob was marked with cruelties only paralleled in the history of Indian orNew Zealand warfare. The mob abstained from liquor, but it was well ascertained that they partook of a mixture of rum and gunpowder, the day previous to their butchery. AN INCIDENT OF THE MASSACRE Stewart, who struck a fatal blow at the late lamented Mr. Hitchins, went aftewards to Bath, where that gentle man's lady resided, and aocosted her thus: "Are you Mrs. Hitchins?" On receiving an answer in the affirmative from the trembling lady, he caught hold of both her &boulders, and shaking her rudely, aolded, " killed your husband, and L am mho to ask you to forgive me: - Doyohforgive me?" I do ' " she gasped with au agonizing look at her poor niTant, ,who'iNas near by within reach irt the, ruffian% grasp. You lie!" he replied,,%haking her with more. violence than :before ; " go down on your knees and .tell it me." Apprehension for her-child vanquished the repugnance she felt at the mere sight of the heartless murderer. What she would 'have suffered' death for, rather than consent to - on any other oc casion, she did for the sake of the little innocent. Sinking to the abject posi tion he ordered, the poor lady repeated: "I forgive you; as God is my Judge I do! but save my poor child, whose father you have killed !" Half doubtful, Stewart looked once more at the pos trate form before him. -His fingers clutched as if ready to tear their prey ; his features lowered with an expression of savage hate, at the sight of which the widow mother's heart was ready to sink within her;.but, struck apparent ly by some afterthought, he bid her rise and go away with her child, adding, with a significant look after them as left, "If could only believe you did not forgive me I would kill you both !" A very short time after this occurrence Stewart was taken, and received the traitor's doom on the gallows. CONTINUED ATROCITIES. • At Duckenfield estate the rebels de stroyed the great house and, barracks with bludgeons and cutlasses. Some of them set fire to the rum store ; but the flames were speedily extinguished by others, who stated they must ou no ac count fire the works or buildings of any estate, as they would be required by and-by. All the liquor found was forth with imbibed or taken away—the very beds and mattrasses being cut and torn to pieces, so as to render them of no value thereafter. Proceeding thence to Amity Hall Estate's works, the rebels went through the same routine of depre dation and destruction. With fiendish yells and shouts they rushed up to the great house vowing vengeance on Mr. Augustus Hire. The nearer they ap proached the house the louder became their savage cries. On entering the dwelling the were met by Stipendiary Justice Thomas Witter Jackson, who, after addressing a few words to them, was ordered to hold his tongue. He was immediately cruelly beaten and left by the cowardly scoundrels for dead. The next victim wasa worthy old gentleman named Crichton, on whom they perpe trated great cruelties, leaving him in a like condition as that of Mr. Jackson.— Mr. Hire and his son next fell under the clutches of these demons; both were beaten and chopped mercilessly, to the satisfaction of their relentless assailants. Then commenced the pillage of the stores ; after which, return ing to the house, the rebels found- Mr. Jackson had been placed in a bed in which Dr. Crowdy was also lying dangerously ill. With another yell they at once set fire to the bed, with the view of burning Mr• Jackson alive, but ere the flames had gained way they were extinguished, as the rebels stated they must save the doctor's life, he hav ing sworn to be on their side and not to dress the wounds of - any white man. With renewed shouting they had pro posed to go on to Holland Estate, but but this was overruled by the majority, who exclaimed " No, Hordley is nearer and we saw a lot of the damned Scotch men there as we passed at dusk, as well as Mrs. Shortridge and her children, and as we cannot find Shortridge we must murder his wife and children and get rid of the breed." Some fifty of the Hord ley people, with faithful, hu mane and honest hearts, met them at the foot of hill stating they would not permit them to come to the estate. They thereupon told the Hordley men, some of whom instantly brought the inform ation to Mr. Harrison that if he would give np Mrs. Shortridge and her chil dren they would not proceed further. It need hardly be added the monstrous proposal was declined. During this parley several of the Hordley men rush ed back to the great house, taking Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Shortridge, the children and the several ladies to different pla ces of safety, where they concealed them, and at the same time secreting all the other refugees. They then re turned to the rebels and accompanied them to Hordley, apparently taking great interest in ferreting out their wished-for victims, but in truth taking them in every direction savethat where the ladies and children were secreted. The rebels perpetrated a scene of pil lage similiar to that pursued at other places, and emptying the stores. The door of the room which contained those at Hordley was defended by a brave and noble African named James Duffus, who sank at his post after he had re ceived a cutlass wound on his arm which disabled him. HELP AT HAND Thus closed the second day's work of the rebels, who appeared to be done up with excitment and exhaustion, as little noise was made by them ; besides they knew something capable of reduc ing them to soberness ; some of their number engaged in plundering Bow den's hou-e had been disturbed by a couple of shells from a thirty-two pounder on board the gunboat Onyx exploding among them and killing sevearal. Saturday morning called the rascals, men and women, to a reckoning they did not anticipate. Troops were landed at Bowden, one party of whom marched towards Golden Grove, while the rest took the road through Bath, meeting at the grove. These collected all the whites and colored on theirline of march who desired protection, escorting them to the gunboat anchored at Bowden. The rebellion had proved au entire failure. PARTIAL FAILURE OF THE PLOT The part of the plan already unveiled displayed an organization that might well cause lookers-on to tremble, and direct attention to other quarters than the houses of negroes for the designing head. Fire, an element of destruction the black man delights to use, was not allowed to make havoc ; no house, none of the works, none of the canefields were laid in ashes. The cattle were not only left uninjured, but all of them driven into pastures on Thursday eve ning, and the fences carefully replaced. The rebels did not commemorate their miserable successes by lighting up a trash-house. The grand future restrain ed the madness of the present moment; those deluded beings were to awake some morning not simple planters and attorneys, but proprietors. ATTACK BY THE MILITARY The bitterness of disappointment was too visible in the countenances of the negroes on Saturday morning, as the military reached Golden Grove and at tacked in earnest the rebels assembled there. A report was prevalent among the people that the military would side with them, but they soon discovered their fatal mistake. The rebels were surrounded and either made prisoners or shot down. As the escort moved along Pleasant Hill towards Bowden, several rebels showed themselves on the mountains, brandishing their cutlasses in defiance, little knowing they were within range of the soldiers' rifles, which speedily laid them on their backs in mortal agony. MAKING SHORT WORK WITH THE AS- 123ZECCE! The following despatch Is from Col Hobbs : JIGGER FOOT MARKET, BLUE MOUNTAIN) VALLEY, NINE MILKS ADVANCE OF } MONKLAND, Oct. 19, 1985. ) Sirrt—l have the honor to bring to the knowledge of your Excellency that I marched at half-past eleven last night for the rebel stronghold "Stony Gut." About daylight this morning, in pass ing through this village or cross roads (where the rebels had destroyed every thing) I found a number of special constables who had captured a number of prisoners from the rebel camp. Finding their guilt clear, and being unable to either take or leave them, I had them all shot. I have Paul Bogle's valet for my guide a little fellow of extraordinary intelligence. A light rope tied to the stirrups, and a revolver now and then to his head, cause us thoroughly to understand each other; and he knows every single rebel in the island by name and face, and has just been selecting the captains, colonels and secretaries out of an immense gang of prisoners just come in here, whom I shall have shot to-morrow morning. One of the famous leaders and rebels rejoicing in the honored name of Author Welling ton is among them, and three others. MARTIAL LAW having been proclaimed throughout the county of Burry (Kingston excepted), courts martial were speedily assembled for the trial of all the rebels apprehend ed. Their sittings commenced on the 14th. THE CONSPIRATORS' PT• %N. Among the treasonable documents re cently captured by the authorities in their search since the outbreak in St. Th - omas in the Feist is ‘ ‘..A.planof Mpg be-anifireptired nider the direction of Gefleral Lainothe r the Haytiefi refugee. ' The plan presents the, point at whisk: the city was to be fired—the points to which it was expected the antlittrities would repair—the points at which the massacre was to commence, and the points at which posts were to bestation ed, so as to. cut, off the flight of those who escaped to 'the roads leading out of the city. The conspirators wereto await the arrival of the troops at the scene of conflagration, and then on a given sig nal were to seize the camp, the barracks, the arsenal and the batteries ; there was to have followed a general massacre iu every street from both ends, every house being entered and searched. THE PLAN FOR A GENERAL RISING. From all that can be gathered it ap pears that the outbreak at Morant Bay was premature. It was to have com menced, according to the best informa tion that can be obtained, on Christmas Eve, and was to have been general throughout the island. In support of this, it is strange that verification of this information should have been elicited from a prisoner in the general Peniten tiary. ARREST OF GORDON. On Tuesday, the 17th of October, a body of armed policemen, escorted by the Kingston Volunteer troop, proceed ed to the wharf premises occupied by Mr. George William Gordon. The prem ises were quicklysurrounded and forced open, when a coolie servant of Mr. Gor don was taken up, and the papers and documents seized. Mr. Gordon was not found there. The Clerk of the Peace, accompanied bye proper force of officers went on to Cherry Garden, where also another ineffectual search was made.— A guard being left at Cherry Garden, the Clerk of the Peace proceeded to Headquarter's House, in this city, where Mr. Gordon was brought in and surren dered to the warrant: HIS TRIAL AND EXECUTION On the 21st of October he was tried and convicted, and on the 23d inst. he was hanged. On the fatal morning the prisoner rose early, and asked for a basin of water to bathe his face and hands, which was given to him by or der of the Provost Marshal. While bathing himself he said, "Should my life be spared I shall never again med dle with politics." A oup of tea was then given him, which he drank. It was evident, up to that time, that the wretched man had no idea of his earth ly careercoming so near a close. Short ly after his tea his doom was announced to him, the effect of which was forcibly apparent on his pale and emaciated countenance. He then asked for half an hour, which was granted to him, and which he employed in reading a couple of chapters in the Bible, and writing a short note to his wife. After doing so he was marched under a strong guard of the Sixth Royal regiment to the place of execution. With an apparent ly firm step, but a sorely troubled mind —if the face is an index of the same—he mounted the ladder placed beneath the centre arch of the burnt court house— the rope hanging from the same—and stood on the barrel prepared as a trap board. Standing thereon, gazing be neath him on the loyal hearts assembled as well as the prisoners paraded to wit ness the doom he so justly merited, and on eighteen of his brothers in crime who were hanging below. On hisarms and legs being held to be pinioned he handed his spectacles to a sailor of the Wolverine. The Provost Marshall then uttered the words, "Sentenced to be hanged;" the order was given, "Pull away," and the traitor was launched into eternity. Thus perished George William Gordon, member of the As sembly and ex-magistrate, a victim of the seditious doctrines he had himself so freely disseminated. He struggled fully fifteen minutes. ME= This notorious rebel was brought into Morant Bay about eleven o'clock on the Tuesday following George William Gor don's execution. He came in escorted by a large body of Maroons, and his ar rival was announced by the blowing of shells. The greatest excitement pre vailed in Morant Bay when it was posi tively ascertained that the monster had really fallen into our hands and was soon to meet the punishment he so justly merited. In appearance he was a man between forty-five and fifty years old, black, with thick, heavy, reddish lips, blurred eyes and very much pitted with small-pox. His sullen countenance and dogged manner bespoke him a man capable of committing all the atrocities with which he was charged. At about one o'clock of the same day he was placed on his trial, and entered into no defence whatever except a few questions in the form of cross examination. MOSES BUGLE, Paul's brother, was placed along with him for trial, and portrayed the same sullen and dogged appearance. He was severely wounded by a brown man named Bothwell, who captured him, and who also received a severe wound on the right arm. Moses Bogle was what is generally termed a yellow ne gro, taller and stouter than Paul, with large, heavy whiskers. OLD BUIE, the Captain General of the rebel forces, was also tried and condemned on the same day. He was a man, we should suppose, bordering on sixty-five years of age, short, thin and remarkable in his appearance from the grey beard which he wore. On the same day these three rebels—the principal ringleaders in the massacre—were executed at five o'clock, P. M., on the ruins of the old Court House—Paul hanging in the cen tre, Moses on the left, and Buie on the right—all hanging on the centre arch of the burned building. Beneath them were fourteen others hanging. Neither of the three uttered one word after con demnation, but met their doom with an indifference painful to behold. For the Intelligeneer. Great Fraud Detected—Distillery Seized. MESSRS. EDITORS : On Saturday last our usually quiet borough was thrown into a feverish state of excitement on the announce ment that one of our own citizens had been perpetrating extensive frauds on the gov ernment. The amount at first was stated to be but a few hundred thousand, but be fore evening it was a mooted question between officials and outsiders whether these frauds should be estimated by mil lions or billions. Information had been lodged with the Deputy Collector that an extensive distillery WILY in operation in the suburbs of that classic region known as " 'Pow Hill." Madam Rumor represented subterranean passages and vaults in con nection with the distillery on so extensive a scale, filled with pure tangle foot, as to endanger the very foundation of our bor ough, and many praying sinners and inter mittent Christians commenced a timely re pentance in anticipation of an explosion which might prove as fatal to our borough as the eruption of a volcano or the destruc tion of an earthquake. Rumor also repre sented that so large a number of hogs were being fed in connection with this distillery that the price of pork would be materially affected in our market for several years to come. The case was represented to the officials in Lancaster, who visited the premises to-day and learned that the monster had been con ceived and brought forth by Mrs. Frederick Smith, who is the daughter of a distiller in Germany; the building in which it is con tained is a shanty, 7 by 10 feet, built over an oven, the monster itself is something larger than apiece of chalk, but not larger than an ordinary dinner pot. It was in proof before the officials that the monster was purchased in Lancaster, on the 2.3 rd of last month ; that the proprietor had since purchased one and a half bushels of chopped corn, four quarts of rye and two quarts of malt; that several experiments had been made pro ducing about three quarts of whisky, which appears to be a perfect success, as one of the officials pronounced it to be twenty-five per cent. above proof; this will be good news for those who are fond of the "critter," provided they purchase direct from the dis tillery. The matter wa.s settled by the parties agreeing to take out a license and comply with the law in future. The officials deserve the everlasting gratitude of the public for their prompt action in this instance ; it has already secured seventy five cents to the Government on the three quarts already produced, and it having been officially announced that this distillery produces whisky twenty-five per cent. above proof, the little monster has a bright, prospect in future, the whole stock consist-. mg of two good sized porkers and seven small squealers in such a condition that there-. is no danger of the market being glutted the. present season. It to be hoped, if the na- . sal organs of the officials have not "gin out"' in their wonderful efforts in smelling out the hiding place of these three quarts of whisky, nor their minds in tasting the same, that they will be able to increase the revenue of Lancaster county by hunting up the incomes of some five thousand far mers, each of whom appears to make enough to purchase an additional fano every five or six years, -but no income on. which to pay taxes. ABOUS, • Commune, Noy. 20, - • - - -
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