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"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
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cch4-rOney and subscriptions, and to con
trct'for tidvertising and job work for us,
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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. •
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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, •
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