■WEBjSTESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1868.
"The printing presses shall be Iroe to every
person who undertakes to examine the pro- 1
ceedlngs of the legislature, or any branau of
government; and no law shall ever be mode
to restrain the right thereof: The free commu
nication of thought and opinions is one of the
Invaluable rights of menrand every citizen
may freely speak, write and print on any sub
-lect; being responsible for the abuse of that
liberty.' In prosecutions for the publication of
papers investigating Uie official conduct of offi
cers, or med in public capacities, or where the
matter published Is proper for public informa
tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi
dence.”
The Signal Corps, which perform
ed such valuable services during the
war has been entirely broken up. But
it will soon be reorganized on a more
permanent footing, in connection with
the Regular Army.
The new five cent fractional curren
cy will be issued'next week. About
$BO,OOO worth of defaced and mutilated
currency is destroyed by burning per
day, and $50,000 worth printed. Ar
rangements are nearly completed to
tnake the amount of the latter equal to
that.of the former.
Only 'two survivors of all those
who participated in the war of the rev
olution so far as known by the Com
missioner ofPensions, remain, namely:
Wm. Hutchings, of Penobscot, Han
cock bounty, Maine, aged one hundred
and jme years,’ and Lemuel Cook of
Clarendon, Orleans County, New York,
aged ninety-nine years; and only five
widows of revolutionary soldiers draw
pensions from the government at a
yearly amount of two hundred and
ninety-three dollars.
The Richmond correspondent of the
N. Y. Herald states that it lias recently
come to light that the government made
a mistake in the arrest of R. B. Winder,
■who iB now confined iu Libby- prison
on charge of being implicated in the
Andersonville outrages on Federal sol
diers, W. S. Winder, whofhas made his
escape from the country being the person
wanted.',
John Ca.mpiikMjdied in Cecil,County,
' Maryland, lately, at the great age of US
years. II was very deaf and almost
blind, and so irksome was his manner
} of conversation that his friends never
informed him of the existence of the
war, in blissful iguoraiiee of which he
therefore lived and died.
The statement telegraphed from
Washington that Gen. Grant was about
to sail for the Rio Grande in* the Hag
ship of the Gulf squadron, says The
Washington Star, is without authority.
The General simply designs visiting
Mew Orleans for the purpose of inspect
ing the army under Sheridan, ami so
far from sailing in < 'oinmodore Wins
low’s flagship at once, will not leave for
some time to come. Owing to the press
ing duties requiring his attention in
Washington, helms not yet determined*
how soon he will visit New
and when he does go it will be by the
most expeditious route.
A short time ago, a parly of
tors of lands on Junius Island, Soutti
Carolina, started from Charleston in a
boat for the island, accompanied by
officers of Gen. Sickles’ stall, but were
unable to effect a landing—some sixty
negroes having appeared on the shore
and threatened to lire op the first man
who should attempt' to land. The
negroes refused to listen to the officers,
and threatened to kill the negro oars
men if the boat should not immediately,
leave. The boat was followed for two
miles along the shore. Two companies
of the sth Regulars have been ordered
over to,arrest all who oiler resistance* —
These are the results of Gen.
Bax ton’s inceirtliary To
those, and others of the same kind of
lawless blacks, Senator Sumner pro
poses to denote all the coast islands and
the fertile lands along the rivers for thir
ty miles inland. A pretty paradise they
would 'make.
'Tin; old King of Belgium died on the
hth iusl.T'aged 75. lie was an able man
and a good king.. He was an uncle to
both Queen Victoria and her late hus
band Prince Albert, and married f<xr his
first wife Prin-cess Charlotte, the daugh
ter of George the fourth, whodiedsooii
after. In 18110 he was chosen King of
Greece, but declined that honor; and the
year, the Belgians havingsucceed
ed in establishing their independence of
Holland, he was chosen the first King
of Belgium. His second wife was daugh
ter of King Louis Phillipe (if France, by
whom he had threesonsandadaughter.
The latter is at present Empressol Mex
ico. His oldest son, the Duke ol Bra
bant, aged thirty years, succeeds him,
under the title of Leopold the Second.
The motto of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company seems to he u never despair.”
.The last European mail brings the in
telligence that it has been determined
to renew the attempt to lay the cable
during the ensuing year. Several hun
dred miles of the core or interior portion
of the new Atlantic telegraph cable
are completed. The Great Eastern is
chartered to go to sea in .June, ISIIG, for
the double purpose of layingan entirely
new cable ami of raising the broken end
of the 1 ,lpO miles of cable laid this year,
so its to splice additional cable thereto,
and thus, if successful, furnish to the
public a second means of communica
tion. The 1,100 miles of submerged
cable is ascertained to be in the most
perfect order by daily tests taken from
the time it broke, ami still .continued
daily. The buoys at the end of it are
washed away, “ but this,” writes Mr.
Haward, “ is of no consequence, as they
were intended only for a temporary pur
pose, the {Spot for grappeling having
been laid'down by solar observations, so
that a good navigator can at auy time
sail to within half a' mile of the broken
cable.”
On Tuesday evening the famous Arc-
tic explorer, Dr. Hayes, of Philadelphia,
* returned to Kane Lodge of New York
- the Masouic Hag which the Lodge had
intrusted to him, at the Merchants’ Ex
change in tjiat city, five years ago, to
carry to tin/ North Pole, if possible.—
■ General James F. Hall, one of the ofii
cersof the Lodge, introduced Dr. Hayes
to the brethren present, and the Doctor,
in a brief address, stated that the fiag
which he then returned had been plant
ed further north than any other, except
the fiag of our country, and that it had
floated -within five hundred miles of the
Pole. '
. Some days ago the necessary papers
were filed in the Treasury Department
showing that forty miles of the second
division of the Kansas road had been
completed, and application was accord
ingly made for the six hundred and
forty thousand dollars of bonds. Since
theabove, therepresentatives of another
interest have presented themselves at
the Treasury and notified the Secretary
that the bonds called for are in their
possession, and ask that the bonds be
issued to them and not to the Kansas
and Leavenworth party. The Secretary
has all the papers and documents rela
ting to the subject, and will render his
decision in a few days. The amount
-involved is some six hundred and forty
thousand dollars.
A New Haven (Conn.) grocer had
for some time past missed small' sums
of money from his drawer, but couldn’t
guess where it went to. Last week he
had occasion to move an old counter,
under which he discovered a rat’s nest
composed of $7O in bills and currency.
Edwabetß. , KE , rc , HijM, ; the‘AiDnval : "
led forger, was sentenced on Saturday
last, in New York city, to an imprison
ment in the State Prison, for fojiiTyears
and six months, which would naturally
be supposed to be a punishment light
enough to satisfy all parties except the
victims of his forgeries and the public ;
but it seems that asfcrongparty of friends
have already gone hn to Albany to so-,
licit his pardon from Governor Fenton.
As the' delegation includes some very
influential 'names, it is whispered that
the new year will not be very old before
the prince of defalcators is restored to
his family.
Clement C. Clay, of Alabama, for
merly United States Senator, more re
cently a rebel agent in Canada, and at
present a prisoner at Fortress Monroe,
lias recently been permitted by the
President to receive a visit from his
wife. Mrs. Clay arrived at the fortress
on Thursday of this week, and wassoon
after admitted to an interview with her
husband in his prison. Fortress Mon
roe correspondence states that she was
surprised to find Mr. Clay iu such good
health, his confinement not appearing
to have injuriously affected him. The
health of Jeff. Davis is also said to con
tinue good.
The French Emperor has got a new
“elephant,” and one that promises to
give him some vexation. Stephens, the
Head Fenian, having escaped from
Dublin to France, the British govern
ment, (according to the last news) has
demanded his extradition, under the
treaty between the two countries. This
treaty, like all others, excludes, political
.offenses, so that the English authorities
to recover their lost prisoner, have been
driven to the subterfuge of./lemanding
him on the charge of “ breaking jail.”
To thistle French government answers
that Stephens would not have broken
jail i)f he had not been imprisoned for a
political offense. Napoleon, therefore,
declined to deliver the Fenian, chief.—
But the matter has raised some discus
sion i-n the French newspapers, looking
to the abrogation of the extradition
treaty. f
Recent reports concerning the dis
position of the various Indian tribes,
with whom the Government has of late
entered into treaty compact, represent
a favorable aspect, and perfect confi
dence ex isls of a secure and lasting peace
hereafter. The parties whp made the
attack on Butterfield’s mail coach a
short time ago, had not been advised of
tlie treaties which had been made. Ail
excellent profile protrait of the Presi
dent,, designed for distribution among
those of the Indian chiefs who observe
strictly tiie character and pb.ligalions of
their treaties with the Government, has
been executed in silver by JVI. Paquet,
and is pronounced a work ojt great artis
tic skill and merit. !
Contracts for postal service on forty
routes in Virginia were awarded by the
most office department on jVednesday.
These routes, for which offers have been
Inade since the regular bidding two'
mouths ago, will cover nearly the
whole of these States/ not then awarded
with immediate postal facilities. Mail
service in North Carolina is in greatly
increased demand. Numerous efforts
are being made, and yesterday upwards
of thirty routes were let. All the ser
vice will go into operation New Year’s
day. Contracts for service in Bouth
Carolina, Georgia, and other Southern
States, are also being freely disposed of.
In the Appointment Office correspond
ing efforts areprogressing for reopening
postofficesin every SouthernandSouth
western State. The number of deci
sions on the subject of appointments
may beset down at two hundred a week.
Yesterday, Virginia, Louisiana, Texas,
Kentucky and Tennessee, shared large
ly.
Tjie new toy called Pharaoh’s Ser
pent, which has been sold in large quan
tities throughout the country, was made
the subject of remark by Dr. Stephen
son Macadam, atthe November meeting
ing of the Pharmaceutical Society of
Great Britain, held at Edinburgh. He
said this “new toy is composed of a
highly haugerous ami poisonous sub
stance, Called the sulpho-cyanic of mer-
lt contains* two poisonous in
gredients, viz: mercury and sulpho
cyanic acid, either of which will kill.
By experiments made it was shown that
one-half of a six-penny Pharaoh’s ser
pent is sufficient to poison a large sized
rabbit in an hour and three-quarters. —
A large dose destroys life, but takes a
longer time. Dr. Macadam says : “The
toy is, therefore, much too deadly to be
regarded as merely amusing, and seeing
that it can lie purchased by every school
boy and brought home to the nursery,
it is rather alarming to think thatihere
is enough of poison in oue of the ser
pents to destroy the lives of several chil
dren, and the more-so that /he so-called
Pharaoh’s serpent is covered with bright
tin foil, and much resembles, in out
ward appearance, a piece of (chocolate or
a comfit.”
Hon. Henry Winter Davis died
at Baltimore, Maryland, at’half-past
two yesterday. His disease was pneu
monia.
Mr. Davis was born at Annapolis,
Maryland, in 1817. He graduated at
Hampden Sidney College. He entered
public life in 1855 as a representative in
Congress from Maryland, serving on
the Committee of Ways and Means. In
the Thirty-sixth Congress (1857 to 1850)
he served on the same committee. In
the Thirty-eighthCongrees (18G3tolS(>5)
he was chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
' Any one unacquainted with the man
or his age, looking at Mr. Davis a month
ago, would have pronounced him not
over thirty years of age"; yet at the time
of his death he was turned forty-eight.
His extremely youthful appearance was
chiefly due to his light complexion and
hair, and to a well-preserved, tall, man
ly and graceful figure. He had a grace
ful agility of carriage, and affected a
certain neatly negligent style of attire.
,His eyes wer6 deep set, black and ex
pressive, and bis hands were small and
delicate like a woman’s. As a speaker
Mr. Davis at one time stood very prom
inent among the orators in Congress.—
He at all times exhibited a great deal of
mental and physical activity, his man
ner often bordering on restlessness, be
ing noticeable for disquietude even
when at his desk listening to ottTgfs*
speaking. He was, without being par
ticularly contemplative or reflective,
quite reticent, and did not pass for one
ofthe sociable M.C.’s. It was, perhaps,
particularly unfortunate for his orator
ical reputation that Mr. Davis was
always a member of the strong party in
Congress, for every indication of his
mental quality and characteristics
which were betrayed in his short career
led his admirers to believe thathe would
have best exhibited his powers in oppo
sition than in advocacy of principles,
particularly if part of a hopeless minor
ity driven to bay by a strong, confident
and derisive majority. His organ of
combatlvencsM was inordinately large,
and be would have preferred to fight
his way, inch by inch, than (to unwar
rantably change the simile) to “walk
over the course.”
Tiie vote on negro suffrage in George
town, D. C., resulted as follows : Seven
hundred and thirty-four against it and
one for it.
The Fenian Senate have published
a letter from Head Centre Stephens,
denouncing O’Mahony,
the number of railroad accidents in this
country during the past year was one
hundred and eighty-three, against one
hundred and forty the year previous.
The fatality, however, was .in favor of
1865, the number of lives los: during
that year being three hundred and
thirty-five, against four hundred and
four in 1864. We here find somereason
for congratulating the public. Although
the number of accidents the past year
was above that of the previous year, it
seems that the fatality was considerably
less. We do not know to cause
this may be attributed, other than that
railroad companies are becoming more
careful about the lives of passengers—
a consideration, no doubt, superinduced
by the amount of pecuniary damages
they may be mulcted iu.
The Strong divorce case in one of the
New York City Courts was finally
brought to its teiminutiou on Sunday,
but in a manner rather unsatisfactory
to the-parties concerned. The jury, af
ter being in delibeiation for forty-eight
hours, came into court and expressed
the opinion unanimously that it was
impossible for them to agree. They
were therefore discharged by Judge Gar
vin. The pointof disagreement was on
the question relative to the adultery
charged against M)r. Strong, ten of the
members being in favor of rendering a
verdict declaring his innocence, and the
other two refusing their assent thereto.
All of them agreed on a verdict in favor
of Mr. Strong on the
the charges of adultery against Mrs.
Strong.
A St. PAULcorrespondent of the New
York Herald claims, for Minnesota the
credit of being the healthiest State in
the Union, especially for persons trou
bled with pulmonary affectious. The
correspondent tells how, despite the cold
winter temperature incident to the high
latitude of the State, the dryness of the
atmosphere, the peculiar character of
the soil, and the almost total absence
of fogs and moist winds renderit a most
favorable locality for consumptives,
thousands of whom from the East hre
now scattered throughout its extent in
all directions. Figures and data are
given to prove that no oneafilicted with
consumption who removes to the State
before the disease has progressed too far
in the system fails to experience relief
and to be rewarded with a materially
lengthened life. The Pulmonary Bri
gade of the city of St. Paul is one of the
marked institutions of the place.
Governor James L. Orr, of South
Carolina, the Executive chosen by the
people of the State at their recent elec
tion, issued on Monday week his pro
clamation announcing his assumption
of the duties of office, by permission of
the President, and Instructing the citi
zens in regard to the Commonwealth’s
present status. He informs them that
though civil governmentis-restored, the
habeas corpus still remains suspended
in the State, and the military power is
therefore paramount in all matters of
which it lias special supervision,among
which is the adjudication of all contro
versies in which fhe freedmen are in.
terested. The Governor gives the blacks
and whites both some good advice, tell
ing the former that on theirown sobrie
ty, industry, honesty and good behavior
alone must they now depend for happi
ness, and counselling towards them on
the partof the latter kindness, human
ity and justice
A remarkable Thanksgiving gath
ering took place in York, Maine, at the
residence of Daniel Mclntyre, Esq.
Four generations were present. The
venerable grandfather is eighty-two
years of age, and wluit is remarkable,
weighs but scccnty-tivo pounds, with
not even a gray hair intermixed with
his black locks or whiskers. He car
ries on his farm in person ; last summer
he worked with the hands mowing in
thfe field, and now performs the duties
connected with the care of two yoke of
oxen, five cows, one hundred shtfep,
&c., &c., assisted only by a young lad.
Fie reads his newspaper regularly with
out spectacles. His bigger and better
half is hale and hearty, weighing two
hundred and twenty-five pounds. They
have had twelve children, eleven of
them being alive; ten of them were
present at the Thanksgiving feast; one,
nothavingquite his growth, measuring
six feet three inches, with lots of grand
children to make grandmother’s goodies
disappear somewhat rapidly.
Information having been received
by the government that parties in New
York, in the--, interest of Maximilian,
were engaged in shipping articles, con
traband of war, to Mexico, the Secretary
of State has directed the United States
Attorney to keep a vigilant watch on all
vessels sailing for Mexican ports, and to
seize all contraband articles. The gov
ernment is determined to break up this
sort of traffic. The parties engaged in
this business allege that they have a car
rier route, entitled, Maximilian Express
Company. Some facts will shortly be
made public, showing up the matter
more definitely.
A public meeting of the citizens of
Chamber sburg, says the Repository, was
held in the Court House on Thursday
evening last, to memoralize the Legis
lature in behalf of the despoiled people
of Chambersburg. Col. D. (). Gehr [ire
sided, and ,T. W. Douglas, Esq., report
ed a memorial to the Legislature, which
was read and adopted. It is a temperate,
able representation of the peculiar suf
ferings of the people of Chambersburg
and while it does not claim restitution
at the hands of the State, it appeals to
the generosity of a Commonwealth
whose treasury is overflowing, for tem
porary aid to enableourcrushed citizens
measurably to recover from the destruc
tion of July 80, 1804. A resolution of
thanks to the generous people of Car
lisle, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Philadel
phia, Pittsburg and other points, who
kindly contributed to the sufferers im
mediately after the fire, was adopted,
and D. O. Gehr, J. McDowell Sharpe,
Geo. W. Brewer and A. K. McClure,
Esqs., were selected to go to Harrisburg
and present the claims of our people
before the proper committees of the
the Legislature. Speeches were made
by Senator Duncan and Representative
Stumbaugh heartily endorsing the
movement and expressing their pur
pose to devote their best energies to
give it success.
President Johnson is getting a
breathing spell at last. The number of
visitors at the White House iadaily
diminishing. The daughters of the
President, Mrs. Patterson and HMrs.
Stover, will do the honors of the White
House and receive their friends on New
Year’s day. No other reception than
this will be given until February, a
month being required to place the
Executive Mansion in complete repair.
Mesdames E. Cady Stanton, Lucy
Stone and Susan B. Anthony, all of
them ardent ad vocate9of women’s rights
have addressed a petition to Congress,
asking an amendment of the Constitu
tion ofthe United States, thatshall pro
hibit hereafter the States respectively
from disfranchising any of theircitizens,
on the ground of sex. They claim that
fifteen millions of white women have
quite as much right to be invested with
the suffrage, as four millions of blacks.
The total losses by fire the past year
amounted to over forty-three millions
of dollars, against about twenty-eight
find a half millions the previous year.
" Tie^^paWieaß^iSy^mT^pi tSr ‘
That the Republican party will soon
be split in twain is as certain as any thing
can be. Even if it could hang together
on the question that now threatens it
with speedy disruption, it would'split
up as soon as that question is disposed
of. The old Tariff issue is showing signs
of life, and upon this it will be impos
sible for the Republicans to agree.
Those in the New England States not
satisfied with the enormous profits
they are making now, will insist
upon raising the duties. Senator
Sprague, of Rhode Island, has already
made a move in that direction in the
United States Senate. The Republicans
of Pennsylvania will follow their lead,
but thoseofNew York and the Western
States will insist upon a reduction in
stead of an increase of the Tariff. There
has already been a Free Trade League
organised in New York. Its leading
and mostactive members are influential
Republicans, and its principal organ is
the New York Evening P*st t whose ed
itors may be classed among the fathers
of the Republican party.
Thecommercial interests ofNew York
would be promoted by a reduction of the
duties on imported goods. The same is
true of the agricultural interests of the
West. Branches of the Free Trade
League ofNew York may therefore be
expected to be organized in the west,
where they will supersede the “Loyal
Leagues’’now or lately in existence.
With the Republicans ofNew England
and Pennsylvania struggling for anjn
crease of duties, and thoseof New York
and -the Western States fighting for
“ free trade,” a permanent division oft
that party would seem to ba altogether
certain.
On this, as on all other questions, the
great body of the Democratic party
happily hold uo extreme views. They
hold, and have always held, that a
Tariff which will afford sufficient reve
nue to defray the ordinary expenses of
an economical administratiou of the
government, will also, iflevied with dis
crimination, afford sufficient protection
to the American manufacturer to give
him a fair profit on his goods.
Courage in the Absence of Dauger,
The Louisville Journal , noted for the
keennessof itssatire,and theaptitudeof
its iuuendos, relates that “ though Carl
Shurz lias recently traveled extensively
through the South, he did not get there
during the war.” This is unkind of
Prentice. For, if Shurz had exposed
himself to danger, an unlucky shot
might have deprived President John
son of the invaluable service of that
political charlatan, as given in his long
winded report. It is well remarked by
the Buffalo Courier, that the whole of
that document “ instead of being what
the President asked from him—a state
ment of facts—is a partisan argument
against the President’s policy, in some
parts so offensive that it must have re
quired great magnanimity in the Presi
dent not to have thrown it into the fire.
Shurz even goes so far as to argue for
enforced negro suffrage, and to reply to
the position taken by the President on
that subject.” This is all that could
have been reasonably expected of one
more distinguished by his words than
by his deeds. Should he aud Butler
unite in their opposition to the Presi
dent and General Grant, it is hard to
tell what would come of it.
Church Raids.
A few months ago there were exten
sive raids made by the “ truly loj’al”
Bishops and Clergy of the different de
nominations, down South, to capture
churches anil confiscate them to their
own use. Bishop Scottof the Northern
Methodists, took the Potomac route, and
Bishop Simpson the Mississippi. They
were quite successful so long as they had
bayonets and negro troops to help them,
but since the civil authorities have got
into operation, these stolen churches are
being returned to their rightful owners.
But the “ confiscating” propensity does
not yet-appear to be crushed out. We find
the following account of a difficulty in
the Shenandoah valley, in a late num
ber of the Baltimore Cazcttv :
“ Sometime since a Rev. Mr. Lloyd
came to this place (Berry ville),and rep
resented that he had been appointed to
the Berry ville Circuit by Bishop Clarke.
The people told him they had a preach
er, one who had remained with them
during the troubles of the past four
years; that they ‘were satisfied with
him, etc. ; that they did not desire his
(Lloyd’s) services; that they would not
hear him, nor contribute to his support,
i&c. Still he remains and continues to
impose himself upon the community
who do not services.
The opposition of the people to Mr. L.
is not because he is loyal. A numberof
the leading members of this charge can
present as fair a record of loyalty to the
Governmentduringthe rebellion as any
man. Their loyalty has never been
called in question. They refuse to re
ceive this gentleman because they do
not and cannot endorse the position of
his Church. The chief organ of that
Church, the Christian Advocate and
Jour naif* has raised black flag
of amalgamation and negro equal
ity. It says, Jji a late editorial:
‘This godless prejudice against' ne
gro equality deserves diviue punish
ment. She (the church) must cease to
loath and dissociatednen on account of
color. She must give her brethren of
the despised hue her cordial fellowship ;
in her churches, her schools, her count
ing rooms, must they move freely and
unnoticed,’ &c. Now a church which
departs from its appropriate work of
spreading Scriptural holiness and turns
its attention to politics, and which sub
stitutes fhe negro in the place of the
Gospel, is not the church we prefer,and
the people of this section will not receive
as its pastors men who may be sent to
them from such a source.”
This is to the point. The misfortune
is, for the Northern clergy who have
adopted the infidel dogmas of New
England, that these churches could not
be carried away. Some of them made out
pretty well in “ confiscating ” libraries,
watches, plate, jewelry, &c., but these
churches have to remain.
The anxiety of Maximilian’s govern
ment to encourage emigration to Mexico
from the United States is shown in the
strong inducements tosettlers held forth
in the documents recently issued for
widespread circulation by his “ Imper
ial Commissioner of Colonization,” the
American ex-Confederate Lieutenant
Maury. Maury presents in glowing
colors the wonderful natural resources
of the country, which only need Anglo-
Saxon brain and muscle for their de
velopment. Meantime, both Maximil
ian and the republicans are awaiting
with the greatest anxiety the action of
the Congress of the United State rela
tive to their affairs. The republicans
are sanguine that they will soon be re
inforced by an army from this country,
while Maximilian expresses great desire
for the most intimate friendship with
us and our government, and hopes,
though not at all confidently, for recog
nition. He thinks, however, that if he
could have a private conference with
President Johnson and Secretary Seward
he Could soon bring them over to his
side.
There is said to be a very decided
disposition on the part of Members of
Congress to increase the number of Na
tional Banks, most of the members be
ing interested in securing such favor for
different parties. The probabilities are,
therefore, said to be that an additional
issue of one hundred millions of curren
cy will be authorized.
Sunday next, January 9th, will be
celebrated throughout the United States
by the Methodist Episcopal Church as
the 100th anniversary of the establish
ment of the church in this country,
lwnierwcMier on Papernoney.
“ The very man,” said Daniel Web
steiy.‘ f ofall others who has the deepest
interest in a sound currency, and who
suffers most by mischievous legislation
in money matters, is the man who earns
his daily bread by his dally toil. ' A de
predated currency, changes of price,
paper money falling between, morning
and noon, and falling still lower be
tween noon and night—these things
constitute the very harvesfc-timeof spec
ulators, and of the whole race of those
who are at once idle and crafty ; and of
that other race, too, the Catalines of all
times, marked so as lo be known for
ever by one stroke of thehistorian’spen,
men greedy of other men’fe property and
prodigal of their own. Capitalists
may outlive such time. They
may either prey on the earning
of labor by their cent, per cent.,
or they may Hoard. But the laboring
man—what can he hoard?' Preying on
nobody, he becomes the prey of all.—
His property is in his hands. His re
liance, nis fund, his productive freehold,
his all, in his labor. Whether he work
on his own small capital or another's,
his living is still earned by his industry ;
and when the money of the country be
comes depreciated and debased, wheth
er it be adulterated coin or paper with
out credit, that industry is robbed of its
reward. He then labors for a country
whose laws cheat him of his bread.”
The above should be inscribed in let
ters of gold upon an immortal tablet.
They are words of wisdom, that the
class to whom they are addressed are
prone to forget, greatly to their disad
vantage and to theirsorrow. The whole
financial system of this country is now
based upon an irresponsible paper cur
rency—more vicious and worthless in
its relation to gold than any Mr. Web*
ster saw during his political career. The
laboring men have been foolish enough
to sustain, by their votes, this policy,
which is consuming their small resources
and rendering the maintenance of the
most frugal existence almost impossible.
Will they ever awake to their true in
terests, and demand that this public
swindling and robbery shall cease ?
Cunning By-Play.
In Thad. Stevens’ late speech, one
of the most noticeable paragraphs is as
follows :
Nor do I regard with any respect
the cunning by-play into which they de
luded the Secretary of State, by fre
quent telegraphic announcements that
“Sou tli Carolina had adopted the amend
ment” —“Alabama has adopted the
amendment, being the twenty-seventh
State,” &c. This was intended to de
lude the people and accustom Congress
to hear thenamesof these extinct States
as if they were alive, .when, in truth,
they have no more existence than the
revolted cities of Latium, two-thirds of
whose people were colonized, and their
property confiscated, aud their right of
citizenship withdrawn by conquering
and avenging. Rome.
The radicals —or, more properly speak
ing, the infernals, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer —were caught iu their own
trap, when they insisted upon forcing
the Southern States to adopt the aboli
tion constitutional amendment. In
their eagerness to adopt it they did not
see that it overthrew their theory that
the Southern States were out of the
Union by their own act, and should be
treated as such, and denied representa
tion in the Union. They got the amend
ment at the expense of cutting their
jugular vein, through which their polit
ical current flowed. They have recog
nized the Southern States in the most
imposing and public manner, and must
now take the consequences.
The Test Oath,
The argument of Reverdy Johnson in
the Supreme Court, in the case of Gar
land denying theconstitutionalityof the
'test oath, is attracting a good deal of at
tention among lawyers, and is univer
sally pronounced one of the finest efforts
ever delivered before that bench.
At the close of his argument, Senator
Johnson addressed the court as follows :
“Will the court indulge me with a
word or two more ? Every right-minded
man—every man who has within his
bosom a heart capable of human sym
pathy—who is not dead to the kinder
and nobler feelings of our nature—who
is not the slave of his own dishonor—of
low, degraded passions, of iiatred of his
countrymen, or of political partisanship,
solely for its own wretched triumph—
reckless of the nation’s welfare; but
must wish, but must make it the sub
ject of his daily thoughtamlof his pray
ers to God, that the hour may
come, and come at once, when all
the States shall be again within the
protecting embrace and shelter of the
Union, enjoying alike its benefits (and
greater were never vouchsafed to man),
contented and happy and prosperous,
sharing in its duties, devoted to its
principles, and participating in its re
nown. Aud when the people through
out our almost boundless domain may
be seen coming together as brothers,
with one love of country and oue hope
ofacommon destiny—ofsafety, welfare,
aud national glory—with one determi
nation to achieve it by uuited’efforts
—inspired and strengthened by an
equally pure and ardent patriotism, for
mer differences forgotten, ami nothing
remembered but their ancient concord
ami the equal title they have to share
in the glories of the past, autif to labor
together for the even greater’glories of
the future. And may I not, wth truth,
assure your honors that this result will
be expedited by the bringing' within
these lemples—the courts of the United
States —a class of men now excluded,
who, by educatioon, character and
profession, are especially qualified
by their example to influence the
public sentiment of their respective
States, and to bring them, if any doubt
yet exists, to the conviction which, it is
believed, they unanimously entertain
—tiiat to support and defend the Con
stitution of the United States, is not on
ly essential to their people’s happiness
and freedom, but is a solemn duty to
their country and their God.
May it please your honors, depend
upon it, that in that event they will be
seen gathering around the altar of the
Union, resolved to support it, under
every exigency, at all hazards, as one
mankind with oue voice be heard invo
king the blessings of Heaven for its
maintenance' and preservation till time
inself shall be no more.”
Intemperate United States Senators.
A Washington correspondent, in
alluding to the exclusion of Senators
Saulsbury, of Delaware and McDou
gal, of California, from the Standing
Committees of the Senate,on the pretext
of their habitual intemperance, says:
“But why suspend the ax of reform
when the work is but half accomplished?
Why make invidious distinctions by re
proving McDougal.aud Saulsbury for a
fault that exists to a greater \extent in
theson-in-lawof the Chief Jtu&Hceof the
United States—a title by which one
of the Rhode Island Senators is much
better known than as simple Mr.
Sprague. It is a fact patent to
every Senator, and every one fa
miliar with the doings of the Senate,
that Mr. Chase’s son-in-law is the most
bibulous youth in Washington. It is
known that he was non eomjyos mentis
during the most eventful hours of the
last session, and that he exceeded all
other legislative tipplers in the amount
of amusement he created for the galle
ries during some of the night sessions
last winter. Now, why this partiality
that rebukes Saulsbury and McDougaly
and has not a word to say against the
son-in-law of Mr. Chase?”
The successor of General Cass, Chand
ler, of Michigan, is also in the same
category. The reason of the discrimi
nation against McDougal and Saulsbury
is, they are Democrats; Sprague and
Chandler are Republicans.
Mr. Stevens’ Position
Throughout the whole of the late war,
when the rebels had entire possession of
from seven to ten States, the Govern
ment and the people of the United States
maintained that those States were still
in the Union ; now that the war is over
and the rebels have been conquered and
their bogus governments displaced, and
we have possession it is proposed to con
sider those States as out of the Union. —
This is an absurd position, and yet it is
the one that Mr* Stevens desires to put
the country in.—Fhila, Ledger.
ArrfralofCapt. Semmesit Washington.
Raphael Semmes, late Commander of
the Alabama, arrived at Washington on
Thursday night, in charge of Lieut.
LymanP._French and. Sergeants Cas-.
sidy and Jones, Halted; States Marines,
and was at once taken to the Navy Yard,
where he was placed temporarily in a
room hastily fitted up in the dispensary
building over which a guard was placed.
He will, however, be moved from his
present quarters to more commodious
quarters adjoining the Chapel, now be
ing fitted up for him. From the /Star
we take the following in relation to his
arrest: . '
He was arrested at his place, Spring
Hill, about four miles from Mobile, Ala.,
on the evening of the 15thj inst., by
Lieut. French and the sergeants aboye
named, on an order from the|Navy De
partment, as he was sittingiquietly in
his parlor reading a paper. Lieut.
French, on entering the house, at once
informed him of the Object of hiß visit,
at which Semmes expressed greatastoh
ishmetu, and claimed that he had been
paroled, and that this arrest was in vio
lation of the parole'.
Lieutenant French made the Circumr
staoces attending the arrest as pleasant
as possible, aud informed has prisoner
that he would allow him until twelve
o’clock the following day to arrange
matters with his family, which privi
lege he accepted, and at noon* on the
16th he announced himself as ready
(having taken leave of his wife and
three daughters) and the party at once
proceeded to New York via Mobile and
New Orleans. On the passage he was
quite cheerful, and talked freely about
his arrest and of his conduct during the
war, and his prospects of an early trial
expressing himself williug to stand the
trial, and arguing against the legality of
his arrest. Semmes has the same look
of audacity for which he was noted in
his younger days here. He wears a
moustache and imperial, which are per
fectly white, while his hair is yet dark.
He is now about 50 years of age, and is
about 5 feet 8 inches high, of rather
slender built, and is dressed in a pair of
grey pants, vest and coat, and a dark
overcoat.
The Pittsburg Commercial, de
cidedly the ablest Republican journal in
Western Pennsylvania, is earnestlyand
actively combatting the wild and de
structive theories of Stevens and Sum
ner. The following articles are from its
issue of Friday :
Scnaffir^bu/unL,-. —The special mes
sage of the President lias been the sub
ject of much discussion in the Senate,
principally, however, by Senator Sum
ner. This gentleman, in his character
istic manner, has seen lit to apply gross
epithets to the views and efforts of the
President on the subject of restoration,
aud he draws his facts, such as they are,
from newspaper correspondence and
from the private correspondence of men
as radical as himself. Nooue questions
his privilege to do so,, but does he not
betray a' lack of faith in the Executive
officer of the Government? The Pres
ident’s policy has been formed r and di
rected upon information obtained
through official channels—from officers
of the Government in whom the people
have the greatest confidence and who
are not tainted with even the suspicion
of intrigue or personal prejudices. Eith
er the President and his subordinates
are unfaithful to their trusts, or Senator
Sumner and liis allies are unjust, if not
unscrupulous, in their action.
Wcif/hty Ti'mimony. —The testimo
ny which General Grant gives concern
ing the temper of the South while it
may not square with that of persons in
less responsible positions, and less can
did in their utterances, is not to be dis
missed lightly- His concluding words
are as follows: “The citizens of the
Southern States are anxious to return to
self-government within the Union as
soou as possible; that while recon
structing they want and require
from the Government.
they think,is required by the Gov
ernment, aud isnothurailiatingto them
as citizens; and that, if such a course
was pointed out, they would pursue it
in good faith.” He regrets that “ there
cannot be a greater commingling at this
time between the two sections, and
particularly of those intrusted with the
law-making power.”.
If Mr. Sumner and Mr. Stevens would
go as General Grant went, and observe
for themselves, mingle with the people,
then speak their honest belief, they
would be better legislators because better
informed men.
The Republican bplit.
We copy the following racy remarks
from the Richmond (Va.) Times:
The signs that the radical iceberg
which was threatening to overwhelm
us is about to split in twain are becom
ing unmistakable. The rupture between
the jacobins and the Girondists of the
party has fairly commenced, and when
Grant struck the former on Tuesday last
with the ponderous Thor hammer of his
vast popularity, the political rats began
at once to look around for safe quarters.
The Chronicle has been for nearly four
days upon the conservative side of the
political sapling, which is an instance
of political consistency without a paral
lel in the history of that paper.
Forney, who has not turned an “oc
casional” summersault for a week in the
columns of the Philadelphia Press,
plucked up courage enough the other
day to denounce the last war hoop of
Stevens. We happened to be looking
at that flexible individual with a very
powerful opera glass on Tuesday last,
when one of his assistant secretaries was
reading the report of General Grant on
tlie loyalty of the South, and it was ob
vious he had made up his mind that
there was very little more bread and
butter in the pantries and firkins of
the radicals. We then predicted the
sagacious old Norwegian rat would
swim off to the “conservative” ship
that night, and we w< re not mistaken.
There was after Grant’s report a smell
of savory cheese and bacon about the
conservative party which convinced
Forney that there was agood time com
ing in that quarter, with rich njbblings
and not overmuch hard work ; and un
til the radicals show that they are strong
er gthan the President and. General
Grant, the “ever" faithful Forney” is
gone for them. ,*But the position of Mr.
H. J. of Congress
and editor of the New York Times, is
most important. After much shifting
and long hesitation, he-has broken with
Stevens, Sumner & Co. He has at last
nailed his colors to the mast, and ha
clinched the Caliban of Pennsylvania"
in* a death struggle for suprema
cy. His reply on Thursday to
the v ‘speeclf of Stevens was bold,
strong and uncompromising. He has
at last “ burned his ships,” and intends
alongside of the President and General
Grant to fight it out on the conservative
line all winter and summer too. Ray-,
mond is shrewd, well versed in the pol
itics of the day, and is now the leader of
the rational, intelligent and respectable
wing of lii,s party in Congress. The
steps of this adventurous young Tele
machus are watched overand guided by
that sagest of Mentors, Thurlow Weed,
the man who slew Horace Greeley in a
hand-to-hand contest last Fall. The
disintegration of the Republican party
will not be rapid, however. That fero
cious old snapping turtle, Thad. Stev
ens, will die hard; indeed, he will be
dangerous for some months after his
head is chopped off.
Snow Storm In a Ball-Room,
A writer in Once-a-Week gives a de
scription of a Russian ball at Moscow».
during which the scene in the ball-room
was enlivened by the strange phenom
enon of a snow-storm, produced by the
sudden temperature of the room. The
writer thus describes it:
Theevening passed pleasantly enough,
but toward the close the heat began to
get intolerable, and although the gen
tlemen did their duty well, it is only fair
to say, in fanning the fair ones and
bringing them ices, it became more op
pressive. At last a gentleman, braver
than the rest, (probably his arm ached)
threw open the top part of a window,
and now happened the phenomenon.—
A cold gust of wind in
through the open window, and the heat
ed air which was congregated in the
upper part of the room became sudden
ly condensed, and descended upon the
assembled party in the form of snow
flakes. Probably there never was seen
so curiousa sight in aball-room. Ladies
and gentlemen in ball-toilette, in the
midst of a dance, and snow-flakes des
cending; and were it not for the incon
gruity dr the attire, more like a skating
party. The snow-storm, as may be im
agined, was the conversation of the
guests for the rest of the evening, and of
the inhabitants of the town for the en
suing week,
Ketchum Sentenced to the State Prison
Tor Four Tears and Six Hontbs—Re
corder HofTman’sßemarKs,.e(e., etc.
iFrom Yesterday’s N. Y. World I
On Saturday, being the last day of the
December term of the Court of General
SessionSfEmvard B. Ketchnm, the great
forger, was placed at the bar to receive
the sentence of his crime. The partic
ulars of the case are too well known to
need repetition.
APPEARANCE OF THE PRISONER.
Soon after Recorder Hoffman and
Judge Russel took their seats on the
bench, Ketchqm was conducted to the
bar. He looked pale an<l care-worn.
His eyes, kept mostly on the floor, were
surrounded with dark circles, and ap
peared somewhat 1 bloodshot. There
was a forced look of firmness and stolid
ity in his face, however, thht betokened
the exertious he was evidently making
to repress the feelings under which he
labored. He exhibited no trepidation,
though the general expression of his
feaCTHes showed that he endureffniueli
mental suffering.
Morris Ketchum, the prisoner’s fath
er, sat b'eside the prisoner.
The District Attorney, A. Oakey Hall,
having moved forjudgment on the pris
oner,
Allen, his counsel, applied
for a postponement of the sentence, on
behalf of Ketchum, Sons & Co.:, ami
read an affidavit of Mr. Francis N. Bangs,
reciting that tire litigation in relation
to the financial affairs of the firm ren
dered it necessary that said postpone
ment should be granted.
THE MOTION TO POSTPONE THE SEN
TENCE DENIED.
The Recorder denied the motion.
The Court does not entertain the
slightest doubt of the good faith of the
application made fora postponement of
the sentence, and the Court also sees
very plainly that the seuteuce of this
prisoner will lead to a great deal of con
fusion, and greatly damage the business
affairs of toe house with which he has
been connected; but that is one of the
inevitable consequences of the- com
mission of crime by any one who is en
gaged in large business operations. —
The personal calamity to himself is not
all that follows the commission of a
crime, but every one connected with
him in business or social relations is
involved in it. That is one of the penal
ties that follow it. While the interests
of the creditors undoubtedly require
that more time should be given for the
examination of this prisouer, I cannot
but feel, after looking at this case care
fully, that the State, whose laws have
beeu violated, requires that they should
be vindicated with some degree of
promptness. There are other interests
besides those*of the creditors. There is
the great public interest which must be
consulted. The law has been violated,
and violated under circumstances which
by reason of the very character of the
violation, attracted unusual attention ;
so that the State has a greater interest
than the individual. While I regret
very much thatoneofthe consequences
of this sentence must be that honest
persons must be the losers by it, I feel
it my duty, in view of the fact also,
that when this plea was taken it was
(although not expressed) understood
that the case woul 1 be disposed of in
the course present year. Whether that
was understood by the counsel or not I
do not know\l but it was intimated to
the District Attorney. I shall, there
fore, feel bound to proceed to the sen
tence of this prisoner.
The Clerk (Mr. Vandevoort) then said
Stand up, Ketchum.
Mr. Ketchum then rose and stood al
the bar.
KETCHUM SENTENCED.
The Clerk —Have you learned a me
chanical trade of any kind ?
Mr. Ketchum —No, sir.
The Clerk—What now to
say why judgment should not be pro
nounced upon you according to law ?
. Ketchum—Nothing, sir.
The Recorder addressed the prisoner
as follows: i have given your case.
Edward B. Ketchum, most anxious unci
careful consideration; not because 1
ever doubted what the interests of so
ciety required or duty demanded of me,
but for the reason that I well know that
many gentlemen of high character and
excellent judgment entertained views
entirely at variance with my own. Oc
cupying as 3’ou did an exalted position
among the business men of this great
commercial city; commanding as you
did unlimited confidence and credit;
possessed as you were of great wealth
and influence, you became involved in
speculations as vast as they were dan
gerous and ruinous; and then, to save
the financial ruin of yourself and houses
which seemed immiuent, you did what
no one of inferior position or credit
could have done, raised immense sums
of money upon paper which you forged,
thegenuineness of which noonedoubted
symply because you presented it. It
was the every-day story, varying only
from other stories in the magnitude of
the forgeries and the greatness of your
fail, and you gave a shock to credit and
to confidence from which the business
interests of the city did not readily
recover. Your friends and those who
ask for you the mercy of the Court say
you w'ere laboring under a mania. Rut
every man whose personal sympathies
do not to some ex tent warp his judgment,
knows that it was no other mania than
that whieh seizes on every mail who
commits a crime in order to avert a
personal calamity which he cannot
endure to meet. If, here as
judge, I should mitigate your punish
ment for any of the reasons assigned,
or because hearts are aching and
fainting, or because ’of my own per
sonal sympathies with those who
mourn for you, 1 should feel that
every sentence 1 had passed upon a first
offeuder had beeu a wrong, and that I
was indeed a “ respecter of persons.” It
is my duty so to administer thelaw that
all men may feel and know that none
are beyond either its protection or its
power. It may well be, as claimed by
your friends, that if you were permitted
to go free, you would’soon be able to re
deem your reputation and re-establish
your position. Ryt if this Court should
yield to their application, it would be an
official declaration thatmen ofiniluence
and station could ofl'eud against the laws
without the fear of punishment. Public
interests and necessities • demand that
the penalties of violated law should he
visited upon the offender by way of ex
ample as well as of imnishment. If
you had been put upon trial upon all
the indictments brought against you.
the term of your imprisonment would
have extended through the greater part
of your Jife. The District Attorney has
vindjetited the law by arraigning you
upon one to which you have pleaded
-guilty, with full knowledge of the con
sequences. Upon that plea theextreme
punishnieuLia five years’ imprisonment.
The law, however, directs the term of
imprisonment shall not expire during
the winter months. In discharge, there
fore, of my duty, I must pronounce the
sentence of the Court, which is thatyou
be imprisoned in the State prison for
the period of four years and six months.
A number of the prisoner’s friends
then gathered round and shook hands
with him, and he was subsequently re
moved to the qity prison preparatory to
being sent to Sing Sing.
Sensible Talk,
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher de
livered an address on Reconstruction at
Troy the other evening and is , reported
by the Times (Rep.) as saying ;
“ Those flasliesof Wouthernsentiraent,
bitter editorials aod tossing heads, are
not surprising when we thirik of the
scourge that has swept over them—that
a proud spirithas been obliged to confess
defeat at the hands of men they de
spised—that their property lias been
swept away—their sons slain—they re
duced from'aftiuence to beggary. When
I think of this, the wonder is chat they
are as temperate as they are. 'Consid
ering their fearful defeatand humiliated
position, I think they have behaved
well. It may not be fashionable, but I
honor them for the feeling they exhibit
That is plain and sensible talk. The.
men of the £jouth who were engaged in
the rebellion, and now, recognizing its
overthrow and legitimate consequences,
maintain their manhood, andshowthat
they have some feeling and spirit above
the craven,tare far more worthy of honor
than the fence-straddling, gentry who
were neither here nor there in the fight.
They are to-day sounder and more
liable Union men than Stevens,
ner&Co.; for while they admit seces
sion was a failure and recant their her
esy, Stevens, Sumner & Co. assert that
secession is an accomplisued fact, and,
propose to treat the South as territory
wrested from an alien enemy.—Roches
ter Union.
Thanks to Hon. Thaddeus| Stevens
for an interesting public document,
containing the First Annual {Message
of President Johnson and the Report of
the State Department.
The Benicia Joy.
Jobn C. Heenan at Home—llls Desire to
Avoid Notoriety—He Refuses to Re-en
ter the RiugC—His Opinion'of Price
Fit-hls In England and America, Ac.,
Ac..
[From Friday's New York World. 1
John C. Heenau, the celebrated ad
versary of the late Tom Sayers, arrived
in this city from Boston yesterday after
noon. The news of his arrival soon
spread among sporting circles, and of
course created quite a flutter of excite
ment. Heenan arrived in Boston last
week from Europe, and has since then
been passing a few quiet days in com
pany with his wife, aud a few friends,
at the residence of his mother in Stam
ford, Conn., whence he arrived In this
city on Wednesday noon, and put up at
the Metropolitan Hotel. Although a
greatnumberof his admirers and friends,
sporting gentlemen, and professionals
of the ring, had called upon him dur
ing his stay at Stamford, aud had beeu
made aware of his coming to this city
during the present week, the >exact
of his arrival they were unable to ascer
tain, and were thus prevented by the
ingenuity of Heenan from making any *
display at his coming. Heenan sterns
desirous to avoid notoriety of all kinds
at the present time, and the “fancy”
who hoped that his advent would be the
signal for a grand “blow out,” were
sadly disappointed on finding him so
determined to keep “retired from the
public gaze.” However, Wednesday
morning a goodly gathering of the
sporting fraternity assembled at the de
pot awaiting the incoming trains from
Stamford, us by some means or othei;
they had ascertained that the ex-cham.-
pion would be on one of them. After
waiting patiently for two truins, they
made up their minds they had been
sold, and dispersed, spoiling for some
body to vein their spleen against. Nev
ertheless, the 1“ o’clock train brought
Heenan with it, and, as the gentlemen
who had expected him on the previous
trains had gone home, lie waseuabled to
reach his<botel wit bout being recognized.
His arrival, however, was soon known
in sporting circles, and from three in the
afternoon till late in the' evening,
Heenau good natufedly, bore up with
the importunities of the. many who
called to shake him by the hand. In
thq,evening, in company with several
gentlemen and old sporting friends, he
visited several resorts of the fraternity
and was warmly greeted wherever, he
was seen. Yesterday, in the afterncVn
and during the evening, he received
quite a number of persons who ealled
upon, him, hut refused all Attempts
made to give him a “ rousin’ welcome,”
which, of course, includes “ a sleepless
night and a headache in the mornin’.”
Determined to keep aloof from pubHc
exhibitions and demonstrations of all
kinds, he made his intentions to that
effect known to the many who wished
him to be feted, in a polite hut deter
mined manner, that forbade further
urging of their request. A‘number of
the “old sports ” intimated that a good
mutch might be yet made for the
“ Benecia_Boy,” but they received no
eneouragemeut from the ex-champion.
On the contrary, in a convosation with
our reporter concerning a prize-fight
which was to have come oil’ lately, but.
did not, Heenan made this significant
remark :
“Well, it’s far better it never came
oil—it’s a good thing. You see, the
opinion in England regarding prize
fighting is the same as it is evidently
here. There will be no more great fights
in England, and in a short time there’ll
he none here.” In answertoa question
as to whether lie would ever enter thpv.
ring again, hesaid : “No sir; notunder •
any consideration > even if I ever felt so
well inclined I would never think of it
again.”
Heenan’s personal appearance as late
ly given by certain English journals
who described him as “ fast falling avvuy
under the ravages of consumption,” is
far from the truth. He is as straight in
in his walk as'ever; his eye has lost
none of its old brilliancy, and the ruddy
hue of his cheek is not the flush of dis
ease, but the bloom of health itself. His
voice is the same us of old —full, round
and sonorous. With the exception of
a cold, caused by the changeable state
of the weather, he is as able and hearty
as on the day when he stood in the ring
Avith Tom Sayers, “ the observed of all
observers.”
Wild Doings,
A correspondent of the New York
Timex gives an account of the reasons
for the removal of Brevet Brigadier
General Wild, of Massachusetts, from
the superintendence of the Ereedraen's
Bureau in Georgia, as given by Genera]
Steadman, military commander of that
department. He says:
“He (Wild) was, no doubt, an honest
and conscientious man. But there was
no practicability in him. He proposed
to redress the multiplicity of slumber
ing wrongs which had been spent for a
century on the unfortunate blacks; he
was inclined to instantaneously square
up for the innumerable cruelties inflict
ed upon this oppressed people for an age
—in fact, he fallaciously and mischiev
ously went to work to educate and ele
vatethe black man with an utter disre
gard of the feelings and rights of the
white race, who, at least, had claims, if
only as equals.
“ He mounted a hudy-of black men.
who rode at large over the country ami
committed excesses of the most in
famous character. The people generally
suffered at the expense of every man
who lnul a black face. A perfect reign
of terror was rife; everything became
unsettled; and an implacable hatred
between the two races was the natural
offspring. He not only did not co-ope
rate with the commanding general, hut
he zealously worked to clog his efforts
in all particulars.
" Two outrageous acts of Gen. Wild
are broughttonotice. For some alleged
reason or other, h e caused an old gen
tleman, weighing over two hundred
pounds, to be tied up by the thumbs
until the entire flesh was torn from the
?bones. Only a few days before General
Wild was relieved he arrested two of
the first ladies of the county, and had
them stripped -naked and examined by
.two colored women, an indignity I
nev'er heard of before during the war.
“When General Tilson took charge
the direst disorder prevailed, and nearly
sixty thousand indoleut blacks were be
ing kept and supported by the Federal
commission. He issued an order, the
enforcement of which set matters right
at once. Throughout the whole State
General Tilson Ims but a little over a
thousand paupers, ami most of these are
sick in hospitals. He says that he is
hound that all able-bodied negroesshiill
be made to work.”
Confederates In Canada.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
firvjuircr, writing from Toronto, Canada,
gives the following information con
cerning several Confederate officers:
“ I met here General John C. Breck
inridge, Genera] McCausland, Colonel
Harry Gilmore, Major John Castleman,
Captain, llinde, and others who bad
been officers in the armies of the Con
federacy. General Breckinridge looks
and is in perfect health. It was repre
sented during the war that his hair had
turned from jet black to silvery white.
That was a mistake. A few gray hairs
are perceptible about the locks, that is
He Ffkeeping house in an humble,
retired way. He is much respected by
the citizens, and is invited to two or
three parties a week at the residences of
the first families. He is a great walker,
walking from six to-ten milekaday,
while the weather permits such exer
cise. He is a hard student, reading a
greatdeal. All thegentlemen here from
the Confederate army conduct them
selves with great propriety, and are
treated with respect and attention by
the citizens.”
Five Daughters.
A gentleman had five daughters, all'
of whom he brought up to some respect
able occupation in life. These daugh
ters married, one after another, with
the consent of their father. The first
married a gentleman by the name of
Poor, the secoud a Mr. Little, the third
a Mr. Short, the fourth a Mr. Brown,
and the fifth a Mr. Hogg. At the wed
ding of the latter, her Bisters witfi their
husbands were present. A/ter the cer
emonies of the wedding were over, the
old gentleman Bald to his guests :
“ I have taken great pains to educate
my daughters, that they might act well
their part in life, and from their advan
tages and improvements, I fondly.,'
hoped that they would do honor to
family ; and now I find that all my
pains, cares and expectations have
burned to nothing but a poor , litU$ r
short , brown , hoggP