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The Almighty Dollar
BY GEORGE LIPPARD
They brought him a dollar.
He took it, clutched it in his long,
skinny fingers, tried its - scrund against
the bedpost, and then gazed at it long
and intently with his dull leaden eyes.
That day, in the hurry of business,
Death had struck him, even in the street.
He was hurrying to collect the last
month's rent, and was on the verge of
the miserable court where his tenants
herded like beasts in their kennels—he
was there with his bank book in his
hand, when Death laid his hand upon
him.
He was carried home to his splendid
mansion. He was laid upon a bed with
a satin coverlet. The lawyer, the rela
tions and the preacher were sent for.
All day long he lay without speech,
moving only his right hand, as though
in the act of counting money. •
At midnight he spoke.
He asked for a dollar; and they
brought one to him, and lean and gaunt
he sat up in his death-bed, and clutched
it with the grip of death.
A shaded lamp stood on a table near
the silken . bed. Its light fell faintly
around the splendid room, where chairs
and carpets and mirrors, silken bed and
lofty ceiling, all said, GOLD! as plainly
as human lips can say it.
His hair and eyebrows were white,
his cheeks sunken, and his lips thin
and surrounded by wrinkles that indi
ted the passion of Avarice. As he sat up
in his bed with his neck bared and the
silken coverlet wrapped about his lean
frame, his white hair and eyebrows
contrasting with his wasted and wrink
led face, he looked like a ghost. And
there was life in his leaden eye—all that
life was centered on the Dollar which
he gripped in his clenched fist.
His wife, a pleasant-faced, matronly
woman, was seated at the foot of the
bed. His sim, a young man of twenty
one, dressed in the last touch of fashion,
sat by the lawyer. The lawyer sat be
fore the table, pen in hand, and gold
spectacles on his nose. There was a
huge parchment spread before him.
" Do you think he will make a will ?"
asked the son.
•' Hardly combos mends, yet," was
the whispered reply. " Wait. He'll
be lucid after awhile." .
" My dear," said the wife,
I better send for a preacher?"
She rose and took her dyinghusband
by the hand, but he did not mind. His
eyes were upon the Dollar.
He was a rich man. He owned pal
aces on Walnut and Chestnut streets,
and hovels and courts on the outskirts.
He had iron mines in this State; cop
per mines on the lakes somewhere ; he
had golden interests in California. His
name was bright upon the records of
twenty banks ; lie owned stocks of all
kinds; he had half a dozen papers in
his pay.
He knew but one crime—to be in debt
without the power to pay.
He knew but one virtue—toget money.
That crime he had never forgiven—
this virtue he had never forgotten in the
long war of thirty-five years.
To hunt down a debtor, to distress a
tenant, to turn a few additional thobs
ands by a sharp speculation—these were
the main achievements of his life.
He was a good man—his name was on
a silver plate upon the pew-door of a
velvet cushioned church.
He was a benevolent man—for every
thousand dollars that he wrung from the
tenants of his courts, or from the debt
ors whO writhed beneath his heel, he
gave ten dollars to some benevolent in
stitution.
He was a just man—the gallows and
the jail always found in him a faith fu:
and unswerving advocate.
And now he is a dying man—see
As he sits upon the bed of death, with
the Dollar in his clenched hand. 0, holy
Dollar! object of his life-long pursuit,
what comfort hast thou for him now in
.his pain of death'?
At length the dead man revived and
dictated his will. It was strange to see
the mother and son and lawyer mutter
ing—and sometimes wrangling—beside
the bed of death. All the while the
'Testator clutched the Dollar in his right
hand.
While the will was being made
preacher came—even he who held the
pastoral charge of the church whose
pew doors bore saintly names on silver
plates, and whose seats on Sabbath day
groaned beneath the weight 01 respecta
bility, broadcloth and satin.
He came and said his prayer—decor
ously and in measured words—but
never once did the dying man relax hiS
hold on the Dollar.
" Can't you read me something, say
—quick, don't you see I'm going ?" at
length said the rich man, turning a
frightened look toward the preacher.
Thepreacher, whose cravat was of the
whitest, took a book with golden clasps
from a marble table. And he read :
" And I say unto you it is easier for a
camel to go through the eye gf a needle
than for a rich man to enter into the
Kingdom of God."
" Who said those words—who—who
—who?" fairly shriekedthe dying man,
shaking the hand which clenched the
Dollar at the preacher's head.
The preacher hastily turned over the
leaf and did not reply.
"Why did you never tell me this be
fore? \ Why did you never preach from
it as I \ sat in your church? Why—
why?"
The pleacher did not reply, but turn
ed over nother leaf. But the dying
man would not be quieted,
"And its easier for a camel to go thro'
the eye of a needle than for a rich man
to enter into the Kingdomof God, is it?
Then what's to become of me? Am I
not rich? What tenant did I ever spare
—what debtor did I ever release? And
you stood up Sunday after Sunday and
preached to us, and never said a word
about the camel. Not a word about the
camel."
The preacher, in search of a consoling
passage, turned rapidly over the leaves,
and, in his confusion, came to this pas
sage, which he read :
" Go too now, ye rich man, weep and
howl, for your miseries that shall come
upon you. Your gold and silver is cank
ered ; and the rust of them shall be a
witness against you, and shall eat your
flesh as it were with fire ; ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days. Be
hold the hire of the laborers who have
reaped down your fields, whichis of you
kept by fraud, crieth ; and the cries of
them which have reaped are entered
into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath."
" And yet you never preached that to
me !" shrieked , the dying man.
The preacher, who had blundered
111.6n,gh the passage from'James, which
-- we.have quoted, knew not - what to say._
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He was perchance terrified by thevery
look of the dying parishioner.
Then the wife drew near and strove to
comfort him, and the son (who had been
reading the will) attempted a word or
two of consolation.
But with the Dollar in his hand he
sank into death, talking of stock, so
rent, of copper mine and camel, of ten
ant and debtor, until the breath left his
lips.
Thus he died
. _
Whtn he was cold, the preacher rose
and asked the lawyer whether the de
ceased had left anything to such and
such a charitable society which had
been engrafted upon the preacher's
church.
And the wife closed his eyes and tried
to wrench the Dollar from his hand,
but in vain. He clutched it as though
it were the only savior to light him
through the darkness of eternity.
And the son sat down with dry eyes
and thought of the hundreds of thous
ands that were now his own.
Next day there was a hearse followed
by a train of carriages nearly a mile
in length. There was a great crowd
around an open grave, and an elegant
sermon upon the virtues of the deceased
by the preacher. There was a flutter
ing of -crape badges, and rolling of car
riages, and—no tears. They left the
dead man and returned to the palace,
where sorrow died even as the crape
was taken from the door-knob.
And in the grave the dead hand still
clutched the Dollar.
The Round Table
The round table was a game practiced
by English Knights in the days of
Henry 111. The name was derived
from a fraternity of Knights, who fre
quently jousted or played at a lance
game with each other, and accustomed
themselves to eat together in one apart
ment ; and, in order to set aside all dis
tinction of rank or quality, seated them
selves at a circular table, where every
place was equally honorable. Roger de
Mortimer, a nobleman of great opulence
established a Round Table at Kenil
worth, for the encouragementof military
pastimes, whereone hundred Knights,
with as many ladies, were entertained
at his expense. Afterwards, a more ex
pensive Round Table was erected by
Edward HI., at Windsor. This one was
on a very'extensive scale. It contained
the area of a circle whose diameter was
' two hundred feet. Games and military
exercises were carried on by the young_
Knights, who assembled here with a
view of attaining all the requisites of a
soldier. The example of King Edward
being followed by Phillip of Valois,
King of France, he crew to his court
many German and Italian Knights,
who would otherwise have gone to Eng
land. But the contest of the two mon
archs had .the effect (to use a vulgar
phrase) of running the thing into the
ground. The Round Table was Abol
ished, and the order of the garter suc
ceeded it. The ceremonial parts of this
order are retained to the present day,
but the spirit of the institution does not
accord with the customs and manners
of society in the nineteenth century.
" had no
A Domestic War Dramit
A. singular case before the Supreme
Court of New York shows how a de
ceitful widow duped a soldier. The
plaintiff tells a most romantic and piti
ful story. He returned after three years
service in the ranks of the defenders of
the country, with his back pay and an
honorable discharge in his pocket, to
Jersey City,
and put up at a boarding
house kept by one Mrs. Brosman, who
represented herself as a lone lorn widow,
with three small children. Here the
widow'sfascinations:overcame the heart
of the soldier. He told hislove, and was
not rejected; the children called him
" papa ;" the widow styled herself Mrs.
Brown. There was a brother about the
house, and this brother, the widow said,
held a lien or claim on her establish
ment to the extent of about $5OO. How
" nice" if that could be moved! The
war was nearly over; bounties were
very high, and to zraise the money Mr.
Brown was determined to re-enlist. He
did so in New Jersey, and handed over
the bounty to the friendly brother John.
Soon came the end of the struggle, and
the returning soldier hastened to rejoin
the dear,wife that was to be. He hurried
to the hotel but the widow had disap
peared. In her place, however, appear
ed the brother, but "quarn mutates ab
jib !" No longer the brother but the
insulted husband demanding what bus
iness John had to inquire for his wife,
and informing him that the widow was,
and long had been Mrs. Brosman. The
children were his own children; the
house had been sold, and if he (Brown)
called again he would be eliminated
from the premises.
Brown now seeks redress at law, and
on an affidavit of these facts has pro
cured an order of arrest against the of
fending Brosman, which has probably
by this time been served on him by the
sheriff.
Smuggling on the Frontier
There can be no doubt of the truth o
the report. Hardly a day passes but
somewhere along the frontier goods are
smuggled over. Silk patterns, laces,
shawls, men's broadcloths and other
fine goods present tempting baits to
smugglers, and large quantities cer
tainly find their way from Canada to
the States with paying duty. Sarnia is
a favorite poi n tof crossing for smugglers,
but they cross all along the frontier
between Sarnia and Ogdensburgh. One
active branch of traffic is in liquor, the
very high tax on which offer enormous
profits to the successful parties. Even
respectable ladies are found taking the
character of smugglers, and engaging
in the work of defrauding the Govern
ment. The Ogdensburgh Journal
states that two most respectable ladies
of that town have lately been arraign
ed for smuggling. The high prices of
clothing in the States are taking
numbers from this city and from other
places near the frontier to Canada to
purchase their winter clothing. Sever
al stores in Hamilton, &1., have enjoyed
an extensive patronage of that character
lately. In the little village of Windsor,
opposite Detroit, no less than eight large
clothing stores have lately been opened.
A coat costing seventy-fiveldollars here
can be bought in Canada for thirty dol
lars or thirty-five dollars in gold, say
forty-four dollars or fifty dollars in
currency ; a suit worth one hundred
dollars here can be brought there for
forty-five dollars, say sixty-seven dol
lars in our money ; boots twelve dollars
here. can be had there , for six dollars,
say nine dollars of our money, and
other things in like proportion. This
being the case, a considerable saving is
experienced by purchasers, afterpaying
their expenses to Canada and back. At
a meeting in Detroit it was estimated
that from $5,000 to $lO,OOO worth of
goods are smuggled into that city daily.
Measures were taken to abate the evil.
The keeper of a well-known eating
saloon at the depot on a branch road
running from .the " Erie" north, was
some years since, and is still, afflicted
with inflammatory rheumatism. Sev
eral of his friends visited him, one at a
time, and told him that unless he gave
up drinking it would kill him. At last
the doctor, by arrangement, said the
same thing, and mine host began to cry,
and said, • Jim has been here and talk
ing to me about drinking so much, and
then Tom came, and after him Sam;
and all (boo-boo!) talking to me about
drinking (boo-boo,) and now' you've
come; and there isn't nary one of you
that considers how dreadful dry I am;'"
Not a Word of Comfort
gliocelbiteouo.
Wade Hampton ` to the Peoide of South
Carolina----He Recognizes the Aboli
tion of Slavery—The Duty of the
People to Support President Johnson
in His Present Policy.
Expecting to leave the State in a few
days for an uncertain period, I cannot
do so without expressing to my fellow
citizens my profound sense of the honor
paid to me by the vote given to 'me in
the recent election for Governor. In re
turning my thanks to them for the late
spontaneous and extraordinary mani
festation of their kindness, it is due to
them that I should state the reasons
which induced me to decline to be a
candidate. In the first place, the con
vention which gave the election of
Governor to the people, had with singu
lar unanimity—though not in their
public capacity—requested the dis
tinguished gentleman who has been
elected to become a candidate for the of
fice. This he consented to do, though,
doubtless, at great personal inconve
nience and a heavy sacrifice of his pri
vate interests. Under these circumstan
ces I was unwilling to do anything that
might cause a political contest to the
State. I thought that no good could
arise at home from such a contest, whilst
it might do us infinite mischief abroad.
The President of the United States had
exhibited not only a strong disposition
to protect the South from the radicalism
of the North, but to reinstate us in our
civil and political rights. I feared that
my election—by embarrassing him in
his labors and policy—might incident
ally do harm to the State. Superadded
to these considerations of a public char-
acter, deterring me from appearhigas a
candidate, there were others of a pri
vate nature no less strong. My affairs,
neglected for five years, imperatively
demanded my personal attention. Had I
believed that my election as Governor
could really benefit the State, or sub
serve any of her true interests, no sacri
fice of a private nature, however great,
would have deterred me from accepting
that or any other position to which she
might have called me; but regarding
my nomination only as a compliment
from some of my former,comrades, I
felt at liberty to decline, tough deeply
sensible of honor paid to me by the
nomination, and the manner in which
it was received throughout the State.
These reasons, which I hope you will
understand and appreciate, impelled me
to withdraw my name. Having given
the reasons for the course I pursued,
and expressed my thanks for your gen
erous confidence in me, I should per
haps here close. But the evidence you
have given of your kindness to and con
fidence in me—evidence as unexpected
as it is gratifying—authorizes me, I
trust without presumption, to add a few
words of counsel.
For years past it has been the boast of
our fytate that there was but one party
within her limits. Commendable and
vital as that state of affairs was during
the war, it is scarcely, if at all, less so
now. Every association of the past, ev
ery duty of the present, every hope of
the future, bid us still tostand 'should
er to shoulder." The work before us de
mands all the paLi iotism, all the cour
age, all the endurance of our whole
people. Let no party strife, no minor
issues, no petty politics, divert us from
the great and pressing work of the hour.
That of reanimating, as far as possible,
our prostrate and bleeding State, and
rehabilitating her as speedily as may be
with the forms, the rights and the sanc
tity of government and of law.
The bark which was launched a few
years agu, amid such joyous acclama
tions, which was freighted with such
precious hopes, and which was wafted
on by such earnest prayers, has suffered
shipwreck. It behooves us, as wise
men, to build of its broken timbers, as
best we may, a raft, whenever we may
hope to reach a haven of restaud safety.
It may be that when the forms of
government are restored, and freedom
of speech allowed to us, your late con
vention will be subjected to harsh criti
cism and its action impugned. Should
such, unhappily, be the case, remember
that you, the people of South Carolina,
accepted this convention as part and
parcel of the terms of your surrender.
The President had no shadow of au
thority, I admit—under the Constitu
tion of the United States—to order a
convention in this or any other State,
but, as a conqueror, he had the right to
offer, if not to dictate terms. The terms
offered by him you have accepted, and
you are bound by every dictate of
honor and manliness to abide by
them honestly, and to keep in good faith
the pledges you have given. I do not
myself concur fully in all the measures
adopted by the convention ; but I shall
cheerfully acquiesce in the action it took
to carry out faithfully the 'terms agreed
on, and I willingly accord to it high
praise for the manner in which it dis
charged its arduous and unwelcome la
bors. No similar body ever represented
more largely than it did the dignity, the
learning, the virtue and the patriotism
of the State, and I am sure that it was
actuated by pure and high motives.—
Entertaining these views, I think that
it is our duty tosustain the action of the
convention in recognizing the abolition
of slavery, to support the President of
' the United States so long as he mani
fests a disposition to restore all our rights
as a sovereign State, and to give to our
newly-electd Governor a cordial co
operation in his grave and responsible
duties. Above all, let us stand by our
State—her record is honorable, her es
cutcheon untarnished. Here is our
country—the land of our nativity, the
home of our affections. Here all our
hopes should centre ; here we have wor
shipped the God of our fathers ; here,
amid charred and blackened ruins, are
the spots we once fondly called our
homes ; and here we buried the ashes
of our kindred. All these sacred ties
bind us to our State, and they are in
tensified by her suffering and her deso
lation.
And, as a child, when rearing sounds n olest,
Clings close and closer to the mother s breast
So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar
But bind us to our native land the more.
I trust that you will pardon me for
thus venturing to counsel you. Believe
me, that it is in no presumptuous feel
ing that I do so, but solely in au honest,
sincere and humble hope of contributing
my mite to the welfare and honor of our
State. What I have said has been
evoked by your recent manifestations
of kindness to me. This I shall cherish
as one of the proudest recollections of
my life,
for it assures me of your belief
that I have tried to do my duty. It only
remains for me, in bidding you farewell,
to say, that whenever the State needs
my services she has only to command
and I shall obey.
I am, very respectfully and gratefully,
your fellow-citizen,
WADE HAMPTON.
Death of M. Dupla
The China brings news of the death
of Andre Marie Jean Jacques Dupin, a
well-known politician of France, and
ex-President of the National Assembly.
He was born February 1, 1783, bred to
the bar, defended Marshal Ney in 1815,
and has filled a great number of public
trusts. After the revolution of 1830 he
was chosen President and Speaker of
the Assembly, and won considerable
fame asa presiding officer. At thegreat
Exhibition in London in 1851, he was
Preiident of the French Commission of
the International Jury. Although not
an active participant in the coup d'etat
of Louis Napoleon, he has ever since
been a supporter of the Government of
the Emperor, and latterly held impor
tant offices under it. - In 1857 he was
made Procureur General of the Court of
Cassation, and at the time of his death
was Senator. During the present year
his name has become familiar by an ad
dress on the corruption of French morals
and the extravagance of French women.
Humphrey Marshall was afthe Attor
nay General's °Mee in Washington yester
day seeking a pardon.
Gen, Canby has restored the Methodist.
Episcopal elnirehe,s of New Orleans to their
congregations, • • '
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1865.
The Shenandoah
The Last Anglo-Rebel Pirate=lier Arri
val at Liverpool—She ap ars In the
Rersey Flying the Co e rate Flag—
'Her Surrender to the British Mar
Steamer Donegal—The Pirate Captain
Released on Parole.
Fr..m the N. Y. Herald.
By the arrival of the Inman steamship
City of London at this port, we have
news of the surrender of the armed
steamship Shenandoah, the last Anglo
rebel pirate, to the British authorities.
The event had occasioned considerable
excitement in England, but it was ex
pected the affair would be settled with
out leading to serious complications.
The Surrender.
The Liverpool Post of November 7
says the cruiser Shenandoah arrived in
the Mersey yesterday about noon, :mad
surrendered to her Majesty's ship Don
erral. The following is the telegraphic
despatch announcing the fact:—
The Shenandoah, Captain Waddell, bas
surrendered to her Majesty's ship Donegal
in the Mersey. She has a crew of one hun
dred and thirty men. When the pilot board
ed her otf the port he was asked whether
the war was over or not. The last commu
nication the Shenandoah bad was with the
ship Baracouta, bound for San Francisco,
on 3d August. Reported that she has de
stroyed thirty seven vessels in all."
Captain Waddell, the commander of
the Shenandoah, states that the last
vessel he spoke was the Baracouta,
from Liverpool for San Francisco, from
which he learned that the South was
really and truly defeated. Ou this he
at once stowed away his guns and am-
munition in tne hard and started for
Liverpool, stopping at no other port.
On arriving of the Mersey he took a pi
lot on board, and finding that the news
of the defeat of the confederacy was un
mistakable, desired him to take the
Shenandoah alongside a man-of-war, if
there were one in the river. The ex
cruiser was in consequenceplaced along
side her Majesty's steamship Donegal,
and a crew from that vessel placed in
charge of her, some custom officers be
ing also in charge with them.
As she came up the river the Shena
ndoah excited great attention, the sight
of the Confederate cosign she carried
being now a novelty. She is a long,
handsome ship, painted black, heavily
sparred, and au unmistakably quick
and serviceable vessel. As soon as the
necessary formalities are concluded she
will doubtless be handed over to the
United States government. Immedi
ately after the surrender Captain Wad
dell, his officers and crew got on shore,
and no doubt they soon left the town.
We may mention that the armament of
the Shenandoah was taen out from
this port in a steamer called the Laurel.
This fact was promptly made public,
and flatly contradicted at the time,
though ample confirmation of the state
ment soon arrived from Madeira, near
where the Shenandoah and Laurel met.
According to various reports Captain
Waddell was more than once told, while
cruising in the Pacific, of the termina
tion of the war, but as his informants
were the crews of the Northern vessels
he destroyed he persistently refused to
give credence to the statement.
During the stay of the steamer in the
river the Sylph and the Sprite, the boats
plying between the Princes' landing
stage and the New ferry, will pii:ss
around her on their journeys.
Subsequent Disposition 01 the Vessel.
A Liverpool correspondent of the
London TinICS says:
In consequence of Captain Waddell
having surrendered the Shenandoah to
the commander of her Majesty's ship
Donegal, the former vessel still retains
her anchorage in proximity to the Done
gal, and a company of marines are in
possession of tile late cruiser. We yes
terday stated that a portion of the offi
cers, together with Captain Waddell,
left the ship after the formal surrender,
and lauded at Liverpool, where they
separated. To-day, however, we learn
that Captain Waddell, after pledging
his word of honor to Commander Fisher,
It. N., of her Majesty's ship Eagle (who
received the surrender), went ashore
and communicated with a "Southern
house," after which, according to
promise, he rejoined his ship.
In the meantime, however, three of
the crew left the ship and eAV.ped to
the Cheshire side of the Me ey. That
the crew of the Shenandoah have for
sometime been short of provisions there
is not the least doubt as a boat load of
fresh beet , vegetables, potatoes, &c., sent
off by some charitable Southerners,
was refused permission to go alongside
the Shenandoah, the officer in charge
stating that a proper supply of fresh
provisions would be served out by the
Donegal to the men of the Shenandoah.
On board the Shenandoah there are
about thirty-six chronometers, together
with a quantity of sextants, cabin fur
niture, furs and other articles of value,
which there is not the least doubt are
the proceeds of Waddell's late raids
among the whalers of the Arctic seas.
In her hold there still remains—in fact,
all articles are under seal until instruc
tions are received from government—a
large quantity of ammunition, together
with the six shunt guns and the large
swivel gun.
It is not at all impossible that within
a few days the Mersey many be visited
by the Sacramento or other vessels of
the United States navy, under the com
mand of Admiral Goldsberough, whose
squadron was last heard of at Toulon
and Brest.
The vessel is now in charge of Lieut.
Cheek, of her Majesty's gunboat
Goshawk, whom Captian Paynter has
placed on board with secret instructions.
There are a guard of marines r a number
of seamen from the Donegal, and a
body of customs officers in possession of
the Shenandoah. There is on board a
considerable quantity of money and
valuables, but Captain Waddell has no
intention of using them for the ship's
purpeses. He has preserved the prop
erty as that of the American govern
ment. Consequently he and his officers
and men are without pecuniary re
sources. Several of the crew who re
mained on board are down with scurvy.
The communications between the gov—
ernment and the authorities here,
in
reference to the Shenandoah, have been
and are being carried on by telegraph.
The men who were first on board the
Shenandoah after she anchored say they
never saw an English man-of-war in
such excellent trim after being at sea
anything like the length of time since
the vessel was last in port. The crew
are stated to be for the most part smart
young fellows, and to have the appear
ance of smart seamen. They are of
mixed nationality, but several are ap
parently Americans.
Waddell Stated to Have Changed His
Crew.
Prom the Liverpool Post, Nov. 8.
When Capt. Waddell heard the real
news, or suspected that what he was
told was true, he put about ship and ran
for Lisbon. Not knowing what inter
pretation the British government or the
federal government might put upon his
conduct, he entered the Tagus, paid off
his crew and put a new crew on board.
In his long cruise and long voyages he
never encountered a British or an
American man-of-war, and on Monday
he sailed up the Mersey and startled the
people on both sides of the river by dis
playing the Confederate flag.
History of the Shenandoah.
The rebel pirate Shenandoah is the
English vessel, manned by many of the
grew of the rebel pirate Alabama, sunk
by the Kearsarge, and has been raiding
principally on our commerce in the East
Indies and North Pacific Ocean. She
was purchased by the rebels in England,
and fitted out there to a great extent.—
She cleared in October 1864, under her
proper name, the Sea King, for Bombay,
with a load of coal. A rebel naval offi
cer was in charge. She proceeded to the
island of Madeira, where she found an
English steamer called the laurel, which
had brought her guns, ammunition and
an addition to her crew. The Laurel
ran out of Funchal, and transferred the
munitions, &c., to the Sea King at sea.
When this was accomplished the En
glish flag was lowered and the rebel flag
hoisted. The ship was then put in com
mission as a rebel privateer, under a new
name—the Shenandoah. Her, cruise
was then continued. ; All American ves
sels found were burned and destro,*ed
CreWS pusde 1)r18olieftil (TAIL=
duced to join the pirates. She touched
at the island of Tristan d'Acuntia,i and
landed the crews of the vesselsshe had
already captured, and then steamed for
Melbourne, Australia, where she arrived
on the 25th of January last. On her
voyage she captured and destroyed elev
en or twelve sail of all kinds, most of
them in the vicinity of the Cape of Good
Hope. At Melbourne she received
thorough repairs to her boilers and ma
chinery, was docked and had her bottom
fixed, and augmented her crew, in vio
lation of English neutrality, by about
eighty men. The English authorities
granted every favor desired, against the
urgent protest of our Consul,M.r. Blanch
ard, and the officers were feted at the
Melbourne Club. Our Consul was in
sulted by oneof the crown officers by the
name of Gunner, and in every way our
representative was given to understand
that the sympathies of the people were
with the pirates.
After remaining some time at Mel
bourne the Shenandoah steamed out of
the bay and began cruising off the
Heads waiting the arrival of several large
American clippers, due in March at that
port. The vessel sailed from Melbourne,
and when next heard of was in the
Ochotsk Sea and in Behring Strait,
where she did much damage to Ameri
can whaling vessels. The consterna
tion effected by her appearance in those
seas among our whaling vessels will be
distinctly remembered, as also the im
mense damage which she effected. Af
ter disappearing from the North Pacific
Ocean, she was not heard of again un
til her appearance in the Mersey except
ou the occasion of her being seen off the
Cape of Good Hope, as reported in the
Herald of the 20th inst., (yesterday.)—
It now appears that she was on her way
back to England to surrender.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PIRATE
The Shenandoah is a full clipper ship
rigged propeller, having hollow iron
masts and wire rigging. She carries all
the improved methods of reefing, furl
ing and setting sails from deck ; has
rolling topsails, royals, and a fly at each
masthead. She is about two hundred
and sixty feet long. Her hull is of iron,
frame covered with wood, rather weak.
In fact, they had so little confidence in
its force of resistance that her officers
kept her out of range of shot. She is a
fast sailer and a fast steamer, and they
calculated to effect more damage by
surprise than by action. Her armament
consists of four sixty-fourpounders, two
rifled thirty-two pounders - and two
twelve pounders. On herstern can still
be seen a part of her old name, the Sea
King, the whole not being obliterated
by paint. The following is a list of the
officers who shipped in her when leav
ing England to begin her piratical
course:
Lieutenant Commanding.—James J
Waddell.
First Lieutenants—Wm. C. Whittle
John Grimball, S. Smith Lee, F. T
Chew.
Second Lieutenant—D. M. Scales.
Acting Master—J. S. Bullock.
Acting Chief Engineer—Mat. O'Brien.
Passed Assistant Surgeon—C. E.
Lining.
Acting Assistant :Paymaster—W.
Bindlove Smith.
Passed Midshipmen—C. A. Browne,
J. T. Mason.
Acting Assistant Surgeon—F. J.
McNulty.
Engineers—First Assistant, W. H.
Codd; Second Assistant, John Hutchi
son; Third Assistant, Ernest Mug
gaffency.
Acting Master's Mates—C. E. Hunt,
J. T. Miner, Dodge Colton.
Acting Boatswain—George Harwood.
Acting Carpenter—John O'Shea.
Acting Gunner—John L. Guy.
Sailmaker—Henry Alcott.
Second Carpenter—John Lynch.
Sketches of the Officers of the Shenan
doah-
LIEUT. COMMANDER JAS. J. WADDELL.
James J. Waddell, the chief of the
crew of the Shenandoah, is a native of
Pittsboro' Chatham county, N. C., and
entered the United States naval service
at Portsmouth, Va., on the receiving
ship Pennsylvania, in 1841, having grad
uated at the Naval Academy by " the
skin of his teeth." A few months after
he was shot in the hip, in a duel with
anottidshipman. After 15 years'
service. afloat he was made Assistant
Professor of Navigation, &c., at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. In
1859 he was ordered to the East India
squadron. and in 1861, when the war
broke out, mailed his resignation from
St. Helena. His reason for resigning
was given by him in a letter published
by him in January, 1802, as owing to
his " unwillingness to bear arms against
his father's home and relatives in the
seceded States." He declared explicitly
that he had no property in the seceded
States, that he was not hostile to the con
stitution of the United States (very few
of the rebels were, according to their
story), that he venerated the flag and
wished that he might hazard life and
limb in its defence against some foreign
foe, like cruel, neutral old England.—
The true reason was that he was en
gaged to be married to a young lady of
Anunapolis, whose family was strongly
inclined to be rebellious. This lady,
Miss Iglehart, daughter of James Igle
hart, a very wealthy merchant, he mar
ried in December, 1861. This-was his
first overt act. His resignation was not
accepted, and he stands on the navy
register of 1862 as "dismissed." In
February, 1862, after having taken the
oath of allegiance, and while on parole
not to leave Annapolis, he ran the
blockade to Richmond and entered the
rebel navy. His commission as first
lieutenant in that service bears date
March 27, 1862. He was assigned to
duty at Drury's Bluff defences, on James
river. Subsequently he had a command
in Charleston harbor, from which he
ran the blockade in 1864 to take com
mand of the Shenandoah. The date of
his promotion to lieutenant commander
is not known.
FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. WHIT
TLE, JR.
This officer is a native of the State of
Virginia, and a graduate of the Annap
olis Naval Academy. He. entered the
United Statesservice as an acting middy
September 28, 1854, being on proba
tion," as the course in the Naval Acad
emy is called, until his graduation and
warrant as midshipman on the 11th of
June, 1858. He made his first cruise at
sea in the steam frigate Roanoke, re
turning in September, 1857 ; and, being
placed under orders for examination, so
remaining until 1858. He resigned early
in 1861, and entered the rebel service as
first lieutenent June 11, 1861; but his
commission was next dated February 8,
1862. He was on duty in 1863 in the
steamer Chattahoochee, in Mobile bay,
whence he ran the blockade to England
in 1864.
FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN GRIMBALL
iS a native of South Carolina and a ren
egade graduate of the Naval Academy.
He entered the United States service as
an acting middy September 23, 1854,
and received his warrant as midship
man on June 11, 1858. He was sent to
sea on his firstcruise in the Macedonian.
He entered the rebel navy as first lieu
tenant in May, 1861_; his commission
was issued to him February 8, 1862.
SIDNEY SMITH LEE,
the junior of that name, is the son of
Captain Sidney Smith Lee, of the rebel
navy, and a nephew of Robert E. Lee.
He entered the rebel navy as volunteer
lieutenant, or "lieutenant for the war,"
as the volunteer officers of that grade
were designated, March 22, 1862, and re
ceived his commission November 1,
1862. He was originally on duty on the
steamer Atlanta.
FRANCES T. CHEW
is a native ,of Tennessee; was once in
the United States service, and entered
the rebel service as a " master on the
line of promotion" on October 15, 1862.
He ran the blockade from Mobile, where
he was on duty in 1863, on the steamer
Mobile.
SECOND LIEUTENANT D. M. SCALES,
a native of Virginia; appointed to the
United States Naval Academy from
Mississippi in 1859; resigned his middy
warrent in 1860; and was appointed a
passed midshipman of the rebel navy in
May, 1861, receiving his warrant Oeto-
ber, 1861. He was promoted a second
lieutenant in 1864, and ordered from the
Atlanta to the Shenandoah.
PASSED SIIDSIIIPMAN 0. A. BROWN.
Promotion appears not to have been
very rapid in the rebel navy as in the
rebel army. 0. A. Brown, who -was a
passed midshipman of the Shenandoah,
was a middy of the third and unexam
ined class of the rebel navy in 1861. He
resigned the same position in the Uni
ted States navy. He is a native of Vir
ginia, and entered the United States
service September al, 1860, and that of
the rebels July 8, 1861.
PASSED MIDSHIPMAN JOHN T. MASON,
is the son of Hon. J. M. Mason of tLe
Mason and Slidell notoriety. He was
born in Virginia, and entered the rebel
navy September 27, 1861, receiving a
warrant as midshipman In August of
the same year.
The Impossibility of Elevating the Negro
shown by the History of Jamaica.
The Radical theories about the eleva
tion of the negro race, which have been
so assiduously disseminated throughout
the country for years past by the Garri
sons, the Greeleys, the Beechers, and
the Phillipses of the North, have at
last been satisfactorily answered. The
result of thirty years' experiment in
Jamaica, the country to which the ne
gro fanatics have always turned for an
example, has always demonstrated the
utter incapacity of the negro for self
government, and shown his unfitness
even to appreciate and enjoy rationally
_the benefits of freedom ; and the recent
accounts of savage and horrible atroci
ties, perpetrated in cold- blood by the
blacks on that island should be suffi
cient, we would think, to convince the
most rabid abolitionist of the insane
impracticability of his views. The
negroes there—who have tortured their
victims in every fiendish way, who have
cut the tongtes from the mouths of
clergymen, who have massacred help
less children, and who have violated the
persons and mutilated the bodies of ten
der women—are not savages from the
wilds of Africa, nor " ignorant and op
pressed beings, who have been kept in
a state of slavery by brutal masters."—
They belong to a generation which has
grown up under free British institutions.
They have been protected and encour
aged by all the power and influence of
the British Government. Education
has been offered them, they have had
access to all places of honor, and they
have had for nearly thirty years every
advantage and opportunity that could
boxlesired. The professions have been
open to them, and seats, not only in the
Assembly, but in the Legislative Coun
cil, have been free to them, where they
sat, side by side with and enjoyed the
same privileges as the whites. At one
time the Kingston Journal was edited
by Jordan and Osborn, the former of
whom was a mulatto or brown man, as
they call themselves, while Osborn was
most decidedly black. Both of these
men were in the Assembly. Jordan was
afterwards Prime Minister,wasgiven the
C. 8., and afterwards K. C. 8., figuring
thenceforward as Sir Edward Jordan.
Nor are these isolated instances. Some
of the black men of the day have been
educated in England, and, from this
race, many men are chosen to fill the
position of Magistrate and to serve in
the Government police.
Every possible advantage which could
be enjoyed by a people has been enjoyed
by these people. Every, possible encour
agement that could be given has been
given them. So far, however, from ad
vancing in civilization, tbey have deci
dedly retrograded. The history of
Jamaica, since the passage of the Eman
cipation Act, has been that or gradual
decline and decay, and the history of
her negro population has been that of
the relapse of a people, freed from the
care and restraint of civilized and Chris
tian masters, and from a condition of
dependence, in which alone they seem
to manifest any instincts of civilization,
into. a state of brutish and savage bar
barism.
During the ten years previous to the
emancipation act of 1833 the average
annual production of Jamaica was above
100,000 hogsheads of sugar and rather
over 21,000,000 pounds of coffee. During
the four years of gradual abolition, from
1835 to 1838, the average production fell
to less than 60,000 hogsheads of sugar
and less than 12,000,000 pounds of coffee ;
and during the first four years of " per
fect freedom," from 1839 to 1842, the
production fell offstill more and averaged
only 42,000 hogsheads of sugar and 6,000,-
000 pounds of coffee. The production
of sugar has since then fallen off still
further. That of coffee has very slighly
increased, but since the yearlB39, when
freeholders of color were first granted
the elective franchise, there have been
no returns of sugar or coffee compared
with the products of former years.
They have, on the contrary, been re
duced to about one-third of what they
once were. This, too, it must be recol
lected, in an island of great fertility,
possessing virgin sources of wealth and
plenty in its fields, its pastures and its
fisheries, capable of maintaining a popu
lation four times as great, and of export
ing instead of importing breadstuffs and
other staples.
From the moment the negro was
emancipated it became evident that the
successful cultivation of plantations,
which had previously yielded very
handsome returns, was impossible.—
Property fell frightfully in value, and
more than half the sugar estates were
finally abandoned by the owners. Large
canals, which had been opened and
were kept in repair by the planters,
were allowed to fill up and became re
converted into swamps, and the fields
grew up in bush, every trace of cultiva
tion being lost. On these abandoned
estates negroes squatted ; others took to
the hill country. Living in a tropical
climate, where little clothing was need
ed, and where little labor was required
to produce the actual necessaries of life,
they have remained there, relapsing
into a savage state, performing mysteri
ous rites and worshipping strange Uods.
As the blacks numbered nearly 295,000
out of a population of about 365,000, it
became necessary that they should pay
something to the support of the Gov
ernment, and a moderate tax was ac
cordingly laid upon this black
squatter gentry. This they re
sisted. The land they declared
was theirs. The whites, they said,
were tyrants and oppressors, and
their extermination would cause a
brighter day to dawn upon the island.
These doctrines were taught and en
couraged by the priests of their heathen
worship. Negroes from their bush
homes in the hills and from their hovels
on the estates were convened, assem
blies were held at midnight, addresses
were made and hymns were sung to
Obi rites and Fetish ceremonies, en
couraging the blacks to their work of
blood and pillage. What has been the
consequence is well known. There has
been a rising and a massacre outvieing
in horror the story of the Sepoy rebel
lion, and a retribution more speedy and
BS summary.
Such is the history of the attempt at
emancipation in Jamaica, and the effort
to elevate the condition of the negro in
to that of a free and intelligent citizen.
It has ended in the ruin of a once pros
perous colony ; and in the utter debase
ment of-the black. While the few have
shown themselves desirous of improving
the ,opportunities presented to them, the
many have manifested no desire except
to avoid work and indulge their brutal
propensities. The right of suffrage has
been granted to every property holder
with a rental of £lO, and yet it is com
paratively little exercised,
there being
also a registration tax of ten shillings
for each voter, which the black property
holders generally do not care to pay.
The whites necessarily exercise great
political control, although they number
scarcely 14,000, in a population of 365,
000. Besides this, by their activity and
thrift they have gradually become
possessors of most of the cultivated
sugar estates in the Island.
- The negro loses his political control
by his own indifference and want of ca
pacity, and he loses the proprietorship
of land by his idleness and worthless
ness. The only remedy for this is the
the massacre of the whites. If the ne
gro cannot compete with the white
NUMBER 47.
he must exterminate him. This is
the old story, and is but another phase
of the irrepressible conflict. This time
the blow which was struck has recoiled
with terrible effect upon the negro him
self. Such, indeed, must be the event
ful result whenever the two races come
into conflict, There is an antagonism
between the white and the black which
prevents them from inhabiting the
same land as equals. The black cannot
elevate himself to the condition of the
white; the white will not degrade him
self to that of the black. The latter
must, be content to occupy an inferior
position, to be under the guidance and
receive the protection of his superiors,
and in this way to receive a develop
ment and an advancement in civiliza
tion which he will never reach if left
to himself or to the tender mercies of
theoretical fanatics. —Baltimore Gazette.
From the Rome (Ga.) Courier
Bill Arp on the State of the uountry.
"Sweet Laud of Liberty, of thee I sing."
Not much - I don't, not at this time. If
there's anything sweet about liberty in
this part of the vineyard, I can't see it.
The land's good enutf, agd I wouldn't
mind hearin' a hyme or flvo about the
dirt I live on, but as for finin' sugar
and liberty in Georgy soil, it's all a mis
take. Howsumever, I'm hopeful, I'm
much calmer and sereener than I was a
few months ago. I begin to feel kindly
towards all people, except some. I'm
now en'deave-Fire to be a great national
man. I've taken up a motto of no
North, no Sduth, no East, no West ; but
let me tell you, my friend, I'll bet on
Dixie as long as I've got a dollar. It's
no harm to run both skedules. In fakt
its highly harmonious to do so. I'm a
good Union reb, and my battle cry are
Dixie and the Union.
But you see, my friend, we are gettin
restless about sum things. The war had
bekum mighty heavy on us, and after
the big collapse we thot it was over for
good. We had killed folks and killed
folks until the novelty of the thing had
wore off, and we were mity nigh played
out all over. Children were iucreasiu
and vittles diminishin. By a close cal
culation it was perseeved that we didn't
kill our enemies as fast as they was im
ported, and about those times I thot it
was a pity that some miracle of grace
hadn't cut off the breed of furriners
some 18 or 20 years ago. Then you
would have seen a fare fight. General
Sherman wouldn't have walked over
the track, and Ulyses would have killed
more men than he did—of his own sick.
I have always thot that a General ought
to be pertickler which side he was a
sacrifisin.
Well, if the war is over, what's the
use of fillin up our towns and cities with
soldiers any longer? Where's your re
konstruction that the papers say is goin
on so rapidly? Where's the liberty and
freedom? The fact is, General Sher
man and his catapillers made such a
clean sweep of everything, that I don't
see much to rekonstruct. They took so
many liberties around here that there's
nary liberty left. I could have rekon
structed a thousand sich States before
this. Anybody could. There wasn't
nuthin to do but jest to go off and let us
alone. We've got plenty of Statesmen
—plenty of men for Governor. Joe
Brown ain't dead yet. He's a waiten—
standin at the door with his hat oil.—
Then what's the soldiers here for—what
good are they _doiu—who wants to see
em any longer? Everybody is tired of
the war, and we don't want to see any
more signs of it. The niggers don't
want em, and the white men don't want
em, and as for the wimmen—whropee !
I golly ! Well, there's no use taking—
when the stars fall agin maybe the
wimmen will be harmonized. The male
business—that oath about gittin letters!
Gee-tiger ! They always was jealous
about the males anyhow, and that order
jest broke the camel's back. Well, I
must confess that it was a powerful
small concern. I would try to sorter
smooth iteover if I knowed what to say
but I don't. If they was afeared of the
wimmen, why didn't they say so. If
they wasn't, what do they make eni
swear for? Jest to aggravate em ?
Didn't they know that the best way to
harmonize a man was to harmonize his
wife first? What harm can the wim
men do by receivin their letters oath
free ? They can't vote,`' nor they can't
preach, nor hold offis, nor play soldier,
nor muster, nor wear breeches, nor ride
straddle, nor cuss, nor chaw terbacker,
nor do nothing hardly but talk and rite
letters. I beam that a valiant kernel
made a wimmin put up her fan bekase
it had a picter of Borygard on it. Well,
she's harmonized, I reckon. Now the
trouble of all sick is that after these
bayonets leave here and go home, these
petty tyrants can't come back any more.
Some Georgy fool will mash the juice
out of em sertin, and that would'ilt be
neither harmonious nor healthy. Better
let the wimmen alone.
Then there is another thing I'm wait
ing for. Why don't they rekonstruct
the nigger if they are ever goin to ?
They've give em a powerful site of free
dom, and very little else. Here's the
big freedmen's buro, and the little bu
rns all over the country, and the papers
are full of grand orders, and special or
ders, and paragraph, but I'll bet a pos
sum some of em steals my wood this
winter or freezes to death. Freedman's
burn! freedman's humbug, I say. Jest
when the corn needed plowin the worst,
the buro rung the bell and tolled all the
niggers to town, and the farmers lost
their crops, and now the freedmen is get
tin cold and hungry, and wants to go
back, and ther ain't nuthin for em to go
to. But freedom is a big thing. Hur
raw for the freedom's buro! Sweet land
of liberty, of thee I don't sing. But its
all right. I'm for freedom myself. No
body wants any more slavery. If the
abolishunists had let us alone, we
would have fixed it up right a long
time ago, and we can fix it up now.—
The buro ain't fixed it, and it ain't a
goin to. I don't know anything about
it. Our people have got a heap more
feelin for the poor nigger than any abo
lishunist. We're as poor as Job, but
I'llbet a dollar we can raise more money
in Rome to build a nigger church than
they did in Bostown. The papers say
that after goin round for weeks, the
Bostown christians raised thirty-seven
dollars to build a nigger church in
Savannah. They are powerful on theory
but mity scarce in practice.
But its no use talkin. Everybody
will know by waitin who'4 been foold.
Mr. Johnson says he's gwine to experi
ment, that's all he can do now—its all
anybody can do. Mr. Johnson's head
level. I'm for him, and everybody
ought to be for him—only he's powerful
slow about somethings. I ain't a wor
shippin him. He never made me. I
hear folks hollerin hurraw for Andy
Johnson, the paper say, oh ! he's for us,
he's all right, he's our friend. Well,
spose he is, hadn't he ought to be? Did
you expekt him to be a dog bekause he
ain't a hanging of us, is it necessary
to be playin hipocrit around the foot
stool of power, and makin out like he
was the greatest man in the world, and
we was the greatest sinners? Who's
repentin ? Who ain't proud of our
people? Who loves our enemies? No
body but a darned sneak. I say let
'em hang and be hanged to 'em, before
I'd beg 'em for grace. Whar's Sokrates,
war's Cato? But if Andy holds his
own, the country's safe, provided these
general assemblys and sinods and
Bishops' conventions will keep the
devil and Brownlow-tied. Here's a
passel or slinkhearted fellers who play
ed tory jest to dodge bullits or save
property, now howlin about for offis—
want everything bekause they was for
Union. They was for themselves, that's
all they was for, and they ain't a goin
to get the offises neither. Mr. Johnson
ain't got no more respeck for 'em than
I have. We want to trade 'em off. By
hokey, we'll give two of 'em for one
copperhead, and ax nothin to boot.—
Let 'em shinny on their own side, and
git over among the folks who don't
want us reconstrukted. There's them
newspaper scriblers who slip down to
the edge of Dixie every 24 hours, and
peep over at us, on tip toe. Then they
run back a puffin' and blowin' with
straight coat tail, and holler . out, "He
ain't dead—he ain't dead—look out ev
erybody, I'm just from thar—seed his
Js~#.lii
Bemire of_ ten lineti ilen*r - r7oeFkt. /MFe#lll3 for
fractions ofyear.
Bast ESTATS, • ?=4.omi_nPitorincrY,and Garr
men ADVNBTISENo,- 7 cents a line for the
flrst„ and 4 cents. for each subsetraent fuser
tion: -
PArsurr nantoirris and other adver's by tne
column:
One column, I year,— --
Ralf column, l 6 °
Third column, l 40
Quarter column, • —. ~.: 30
BUSTRESs
one year,. : ».._. ..._ ' ... . .... 10
Business CLuar,ffie fines or.less, one
year .... _ 5
LanAr.
Executors' notices 2.00
Administrators' 2 . 00
Assignees' notices,..._. 200
Auditors' notices, .. ... .. -. .1.50
- Other "Notices,” ten lines, or less,
three times
toe move—heard him grunt ; he's goin!
to rise agin. Don't withdraw the so
jers, but send down more troops imme
geately." And here's your Harper's
Weekly a headin' all sich—a gassin' lies
and slanders in every issue—makin'
insultin' pikters in every sheet—breedin'
everlastiu' discord, and thawing bigger
than ever since we got likt. ' Wish old
Stonewall had cotch these Harpers at
their Ferry, and we boys had knowd
they was goin' to keep up this devilment
so long. We'd made baptists of them
sertin, payroll or no payroll. Huiravir
for a brave soldier, I say, reb or no reb,
yank or no yank ; hurraw for a manly
foe and a generous victor—hur-r-raw
for our side, too, I golly, excuse me, but
rich expressions will work their way out
sometimes, brakes or no brakes.
But I'm for Mr. Johnson. I'm for all
theJohusons—it's a bully name. There's
our Governor, who ain't goin at a dis
count ; and there'd Andy who is doin
powerful well cousiderin, and there's
the hero of Shiloh—peace to his noble
ashes.
And there's Joe—my bully Joe,—
wouldn't I walk ten miles of a rainy
night to_ see them hazel eyes, and feel
the grip of his soldier hand. Didn't my
rooster always clap his wings'and crow
whenever he passed ourquarters? "In
stinct told 'em that he was the true
prince," and it would Make anybody
brave to be nigh MM. I like all the
Johusons, even to sam—D. C. lie never
levied on me if he could git round it.—
For 20 years, me and Sam have been
working together in the justice court.
I was an everlastin defendant, and Sam
the Constable, but never sold my prop
erty nor skeered Mrs. Arp. HurraW for
the Johnsons
Well, on the whole, there's a heap of
things to be thankful for. I'm thank
ful the war is over—that's the big thing.
Then Put thankful I ain't a black re
publican. I'm thankful that Thad Ste
vens and Sumner and Philips, nor none
of their kin ain't no kin to me. I'm
thankful I live in Dixey, in the State of
Georgy ; and our Governor's name ain't
Brow. nlow. Poor Tennessee I golly,
Johnson's
pardons
she catch it. Andy ohnson's
pardons won't do rebs much-good there.
They better git one from the devil if
they expekt it to pass. Wonder wat
made made Providence aillict '.em with
sich a cuss.
But I can't dwell on sich a subjekt,
Its highly' demoralizing and unprofita
ble.
Sweet laud of Liberty, of thee,"
i coo a net sing In Tennessee.
But then we've had a circus once more,
and seed the clown play around, and
that makes up for a beep of trouble. In
fact, it is the best sign of rekoustruction
I have yit observed.
Yourn, hopin,
BILL ARP.
P. S.—And they hawled Grant's cabin
a thousand miles. Well ! Sherman's
war horse stayed in my stable one night.
I wanted to sell the stall to some Yankee
State fair. As our people ain't the sort
that runs after big folk's things, the stall
ain't no more than any other stall to me.
State Fairs, its for sale. I suppose that
Harper's 'Weekly or Frank Lesly will
paint a pikter of it soon, by drawin on
their imagination. B. A.
A Strange Story
About a year ago a Jew, and an entire
stranger, stopped over night at the house
of a respectable farmer and miller, in
Milford township, this county. He rep
resented to his host that he had an
amount of goods under bond in the New
York Custom House, which he could
not get, as he had no money to pay the
duty, which was $lBO, and wanted to
borrow that sum. He offered to leave
four gold watches, as collateral security
for the money, valued atslso each. The
farmer and miller pitied the necessities
of the stranger and loaned him the $lBO
and took the watches to secure the debt.
Time wore on and the stranger did not
return to redeem the watches. The hold
erbecamealittle uneasy at having them
in his possession, lest they might be stol
en and he made to pay for them. He now
„hem carefully examined, and found—
the watches were pinchback and
worth five dollars apiece. He was
.. satisfied that he had been the dupe
of a swindler. A year passed away, and
his Jew friend did not make his appear
ance. One day last week our farmer
and miller came to Doylestown in the
cars. When the train stopped at White
hall station, he saw a man on the plat
form he thought looked like the one
who left the watches with him, and be
got out and asked him if he had not
stayed all night with him about a year
ago? He replied that he didn't know
him. The'moment the stranger spoke
the recognition was complete, and the
lender of the money said, " You are
the man ! I will take you to Doylestown
with me." The stranger replied, "I
pays! I Rays!" and suiting the action
to the wiSid pulled out his pocket-book
and refunded the $lBO. The truth is
often stranger than fiction, and this is
one of the instances. Altogether it is a
strange story, and exhibits an instance
of unsophisticated honesty and confi
dence in a stranger, and unusual good
luck in recovering the money.—Doyles
town Democrat.
Agiiinst the Current
A waggish chap, whose vixen wife
by drowning lost her precious life,
called out to his neighbors, all around,
and told 'em that his spouse was
drowned, and in spite of search could
not be found. He knew, he said, the
very nook, where she had tumbled in
the brook, and he had dragged along
the shore, above the place a mile or
more.
" Above the place?" the people cried ;
"why, what d'ye mean ?"
The man replied :
"Of course you don't suppose I'd go
and waste the time to go below? I've
known the woman quite a spell, and
learnt her fashions tol'ble well; alive
or dead, she'd go, I swow, against the
current, anyhow!"
THE following story is told by one
who says he was an- eye. witness to the
afi'air: '
Just before the capture of Savannah,
General Logal with two or three of his
staff, entered the depot at Chicago one
fine morning, to take the cars eas l t i on
his way to rejoin his command. The
General, being a short distance in ad
vance of the others, stepped upon the
platform of a car, about to enter it, but
was stopped by an Irishman with:
" Yee'll not be goin' in there."
" Why not, sir'?" asked the General.
" Becase thims a leddies caer, and no
gintleman 'll be goin' in there widout a
teddy. There's wan sate in that caer
over there, of yees want it,"-at the same
time pointing to it.
" Yes," replied the General, " I see
there is one seat, but what shall I do
with my staff.
"Oh ! bother your staff!" was the
petulant reply. "Go you and take the
sate, and stick yer staff out the windy."
An Effective Speech.
During the Revolutionary war, Gen.
Lafayette, being at Baltimore, was in
vited to a ball. He was requested to
dance, but instead of joining in the
amusement, as might have been ex
pected of a Frenchman of twenty-two,
he addressed the ladies thus :
" Ladies, you are very handsome;
you dance very prettily; your ball is
very fine—but my soldiers have no
shirts!"
This was irresistible. Theban ceased
the ladies went home and wenttowork ;
and the next day a large number o f
shirts were prepared by the fairest hands
of Baltimore for the gallant defenders
of their country.
Gov. DILLT.NoTrAIr of Vermont, has
appointed as Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court, the Hon. Luke P. Poland,
of St. Johnsbury, to fill the vacancy in
United States Senate occasioned by the
death of Senator Collatter.
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