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WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, , 1867
Greeley.
Horace Greeley is being soundly
abused by hits Republican cotempora
ries because of his generous action in
signing the bail bond of Jefferson Davis.
Why he is thus abused, it is somewhat
difficult to say. The only reason which
- we know of that should induce one man
to refrain from becoming responsible for
the appearance of another at the time
fixed for his trial, would be an appre
hension of the risk which he was run
ning in making the engagement ; yet,
surely, if Mr. Greeley chose to incur
this danger, it is nobody's busines& but
his own. Mr. Greeley undoubtedly at
tributes the rancor exhibited towards
him in this matter, to its proper cause,
when he credits it to the Pharisaical
spirit of his cotemporaries, who think
that in howling thus violently against
the release of Davis, they are pandering
to the prejudices of the people, and mak
ing Greeley the scapegoat of an act,
which they really approve. That they
do approve it, we must conclude, or else
accuse them of advocating a continued
and palpable violation of the law.
Jefferson Davis has now been con
fined by the military power of the
United States for two years in open
defiance of the plainest and most fun
damental principles of law, and no good
citizen can either fail to commend the
action of the President in at last di
recting his surrender to the civil au
thorities, or fail to condemn our her
maphrodite Executive for his tardiness
in recollecting the sworn obligations of
his position.
The demands of the law, however,
have at length been respected, and
Mr: Davis is held to answer before a
proper tribunal for any offence which
he may have committed. Horace Gree
ley has signified his appreciation of this
triumph of law, by becoming responsi
ble for the forthcoming of Davis when
ever the legal authorities may call for
him, and in so doing he has earned the
respect of every citizen whose respect
is worth possessing. Nor has he de
meaned himself by having his name
connected with that of one who is ac
cused of an infamous crime. Treason
is a political offenee, and one which the
stability of nations requires should
have a severe penalty attached to it ;
otherwise civil counnotious might be
of constant occurrence. And yet,who is
the traitor in a civil war? That cannot
be told until the war is over. In the
South, wl.ile the late contest continued,
he who opposed the de facto govern
ment established there was a traitor
to that government and might have
sulll.red for it; but if hr lived until
the South was conquered, lie suddenly
found that, instead of being a traitor,
he was a patriot of the first water. Ir,
however, the Confederacy had main.
tained itself, he would have continued
a traitor, and have been so recorded ILI
history.
In civil wars, therefore, success is the
crucial test whereby to determine pa
triotism from treason. l' , uccess makes
the patriot, the want of it the traitor.
George Washington is written down in
history a patriot, Benedict Arnold a
traitor ; but if our Revolution had
tailed, history would have declared
Washington's patriotism to have been
treason, and Arnold's treason to have
been patriotism.
A Righteous Decision
The Radical Legislature of last win
ter undertook to strip the courts of
Dauphin and Lebanon
counties of their proper constitutional
jurisdiction by taking from them all
jurisdiction over felonies and misde
meanors, and vesting it in another
newly-created tribunal which they pro
posed to set up. The act required the
establishment in each of the named
counties of a court of record with crim
inal jurisdiction ; created a president
judge to preside; empowered him to
order extra sessions, and to dispense
with jury courts whenever he might
deem it expedient; authorized the Gov
ernor to appoint the president judge
and jury commissioners until new ones
should he elected ; and made it unlaw
ful to summon grand juries after the
usual method for Schuylkill county.
Such a stretch of power naturally led
to an appeal to the Supreme Court of
the State, and that tribunal has just
rendered its decision in the case. The
court, without a dissenting voice, sub
stantially declares the law creating
a court of exclusi've criminal jurisdic
tion to be unconstitutional, but reserves
the question of concurrent jurisdiction
to be determined when that question
shall be properly brought before it.—
The Supreme Court granted an order
requiring the established courts of
Schuylkill county to resume their jur
isdiction, and to attend to their duties
as if no such law as the one to which
we refer had ever been passed.
This is only one instance of the mauy
assaults which are being made by cor
rupt and venal Legislatures upon long
established usages and the most firmly
settled constitutional rights of the peo
ple. But for the timely interposition
of the superior judicial tribunals which
have been established by the Constitu
tion of the United States and of the
several States,‘,there would be no re
straintupon the fanatical revolutionists
who seem to delight in destroying the
most valuable and well-established of
our social and political institutions.
The suppressed diary elf Wilkes Booth
has at length, by direct command of
the President, been published. It clear
ly indicates that Lincoln's murder was
Booth's act alone, and that he was in
spired to commit it by the notion that
he was doing a deed, such as that for
which " Brutus was honored," and that
which "made Tell a hero." It atlbrds
not the slightest ground fell the chargf,
made by Stanton and Hort that Davis
was privy to the crime, and this doubt
less was one of the reasons why those
miserable wretches concealed the Diary.
Booth was a murderer, aid offers no
other excuse for his offence than that
he thought he was doing right ; but we
should like to feel far more certain than
we do now, that those who, without the
justification of a lawful condemnation,
took the life of an innocent woman, can
truthfully offer the same excuse in pal
liation of their crime.
The Richmond Examiner
The Richmond Examiner has changed
hands, a company having been formed
(of which T. H. Wynne is President)
whfch becomes the owner of the Ex
aminer at a stipulated price—the entire
cost being divided into shares, which
have been taken by many of the old
employees of the establishment, in
numbers to suit their respective abilities
or desires. The paper has been some
what reduced in size and in price; and
like;lvise proposes to drop its political
character and to devote itself solely to
the effortto advance the material inter
ests of Virginia; believing that in the
present condition of the State its ener
gies will be thus better devoted than in
.olitical discussion.
Tag Pennsylvania Railroad Company
;has recently purchased a controlling in
terest in the 'West Branch and Susque
henna Canals, and, at an early day,
,intend greatly to improve the line as far
as Northumberland, widening it to that
point, and also inpreaslng the depth to
six feet.
The Tenipeenn• the league.
The furious state of anger into which
Horace Greeley has thrown the radical
Republicans by simply signing the ball
bond of Jeff. Davis
.has .astonished
everybody, espeoialiY::" as it is well
known that Grealey has repeatedly de- 5
dared himself to be in favor of tha.un
conditional release of Davis and the,
declaration of a general amnesty ,to all
the political exiles of the South. But
this last act of Greeley's is, we think,
but the pretext and not the cause of the
war whihh has been declared upon him.
His views upon the question of recon
struction do not suit the major por
tion of the leaders of the Republican
party ; they are afraid of them, for
they see in them the ruin of their party
ascendency. He favors the admission
of the South to representation in Con
gress upon the passage of the Constitu
tional amendmemt ; they do not, be
cause they fear the Southern States will
conform to this condition precedent
and thus force the Republicans to
acknowledge their right to participate
in the Presidential election of '6B.
Greeley doubtless sees this danger to his
party as well as they do, but he happens
to be an honest man, who believes .
honesty to be the best policy,
and that it is always expedient for
a party' to act upon principle.
That he is right, the history of parties
in this country demonstrates, for it is
seldom that ultimate success has attend
ed the sacrifice of principle to the dic
tates of expediency. The " narrow
minded blockheads " of the Union
Leagues do not comprehend this fact
however, although the very felicitous
simile, by which Greeley illustrates the
position in which they would put their
party, should open their eyes to their
folly. Says he, " your attempt to base a
great, enduring party on the hate and
wrath necessarily engendered by a
bloody civil war, is as though you
should plant a colony on an ice berg,
which had somehow drifted into a
tropical ocean." The force of this com
parison cannot be gainsayed ; but we
do not believe that he will convince the
"blockheads" who are the numerous
branch of the Republican party, and
who VIM grasp at the prospect of present
success at the expense of inevitable fu
ture defeat, and who are determined at
every cost to keep out the Southern
States until after the decision of the
Presidential contest of next year. Time
will show whether they will be able to
achieve their ends. It will be well
in making the calculation as to its
probability, to take into the esti
mate the fact that the Democratic
party will have a candidate in the
field who will be voted for in every
State both North and South, because
that party believes the United States
to consist of ALL the individual States.
It will be well to recollect, too, that the
Democracy; have a well grounded ex
pectation that they will carry a majori
ty of the States, and that they will have
a majority in the Electoral College.
Should these expectations be verified,
it will naturally result that the Demo
cratic candidate for President will be
elected, inasmuch as the Constitution
says that " the person having the great
es number of votes shall be the Presi
dent, if such number be a majority of
the whole number of electors appoint
ed." And there is one thing which we
feel authorized to state with absolute
certainty; viz: that if the Democratic
candidate is elected President, HE WILL
BE I NA UG URATED.
It has been very unfortunate that An
drew Johnson, though a man of honest
intentions and excellent judgment, has
proved himself absolutely incapable of
enforcing his judgment by his action;
else representation for the Southern
States, which must be battled for and
won in the future, would have been a
conquered difficulty of the past. Mr.
Johnson believing the South to be en
titled to this inalienable right, should
have exhausted every physical power
in his hands as President to secure it.
He had the power, for he had only to
declare who composed the United States
Congress, and he could have rallied
around him the mass of the people to
support its decrees. He is a great man,
perhaps, but at any rate, a great Zero,
and we can look for no assistance from
him ; yet the Democracy knowing the
work that is cut out for them, can ac
complish it without the aid of either
President or Congres.s.
Stevens and Belle)'
That history repeats itself has time
and again been illustrated, but nowhere
more strikingly than in the recent af
fair at Mobile, where Kelley, according
to the New York Tribune, "laid down
flat on his face" at the first fire of the
mob. Centuries, however, generally
intervene between these repetitions,
and it must be a fast age and a fast peo
ple that can boast of twosimilar historic
events Within a little more than a quar
ter of a century, with two such redoubt
able heroes as Stevens and Kelley for
their leading actors.
Stevens at Harrisburg, cracking his
lash over his subservient partisans, ad
vising them to throw "conscience to
the devil " and trample upon the will
of the people; Kelley at Mobile with the
15th United States Infantry at his back
and the whole army besides, insulting
his white fellow citizens and inciting a
motley crowd of negroes to deeds of
violence and plunder. Stevens driven
from the halls of the Capitol through a
back window by an indignant and out
raged people ; Kelley falling " flat on
his face" at the very first fire of a mob
of his own creating, provoked beyond
endurance by his insolent and boastful
harangue. Ye Gods! What heroes!
What a theme for some loyal poet
and for Harper's pictorial. Can not
the Poet Laureate of the Union League
invoke the muse to aid him in record
ing the deeds of these valorous men in
rhythm? Can not Harper find an artist
who can give the proper expression of
the "(treat Commoner" when leaping
out, of the back window of the State
Capitol, and who can portray the beau
tiful physique of Kelley "lying flat on
his face" with an imaginary crowd of
excited negroes rushing to his rescue.
Certainly these similar historic events,
in which so great bravery was
displayed, ought to inspire the most
melodious strains of the Poet, and call
forth the finest penciling of the Artist.
'By all means let us.have these redoubt
able heroes and their heroic actions
done up in poetry and painting. Per.
haps too, some Sculptor's chisel might
be brought into requisition and the cold
marble be made to speak of the courage
of the hero of the "Buckshot War," and
of the intrepidity of the chivalrous
Knight of Mobile!
Why Davis Was Not Tried
The Washington correspondent of the
New York World says:
The ultimate release of Jeff. Davis has
been an exciting topic of discussion
among the Cabinet; and his present
freedom, will result in a few days in
eliciting the fact that he cannot be tried
on tbe,charge of high treason. The
Attorney-General is said to take this
view of the case; and Judge Chase, he
holds, is responsible for the result, as
the Judge, during the war, decided that
the rebels were belligerents, in order to
justify the disposal of the blockade
runners in prize courts, and belligerents
cannot be tried for treason. To reverse
the decision would be to declare all the
sales of prize -vessels unlawful. It will
be remembered that the South claimed
such vessels should be the subject of
adjudication in Admiralty Courts; but
to overcome this objection, Judge Chase
declared they were belligerents. This
is the true cause why Jeff Davis hes not
been tried.
"'t~btro~ttou:
We are all so used to tales of corruption
in our public officers and public bodies,
that we presume the latest developments::
in relation..to the cltkte union existing
.between the detectiyepoliceforce of the .
city:Of New York arid . its biggest thieves,
will hardly excite in the :breast of any
one an emotion of surprise. We have
been made.ftimiliar during the past few
years with the details of numerous
frauds and robberies, principally of
Government securities, in which the
New York banks and the wealthy
bankers of that city have been the
chief sufferers; and very seldom have
the crinchials been arrested. A few have
been, however, and certain officers of
the United States Government have
been lately examining them in relation
to some of the more notorious of the
robberies. One C. E. Sinclair, who was
concerned in obtaining $20,000 of U. S.
bonds from the Ninth National Bank
of New York by means of a fraudulent
check, and in various other transactions
of a similar nature, has freely answer
ed all the questions proposed to him,
and states that the party with which
he operated paid ten per cent. of the
face value of the stolen bonds to five of
the principal New York detectives, one
of whom is the Chief of the Force.
There does not seem to be any reason
to doubt the fact of this league between
the thieves and the police. Thieving
now is being rapidly reduced to the con
dition of a perfectly safe as well as pro
fitable, and even respectable business.
United States Bonds are now quoted
among thieves as being worth 50 cents
on the dollar. This is the price they
get for them; the purchaser incurring
what little risk there may be of being
compelled to restore the stolen bonds
to their owner. Out of the 50 per cent.
received' by the thieves they pay 20
per cent. to the police, and the Com
pany of rogues retain the moderate
compensation of 30 per cent. as a fair
profit for their trouble in the transac
tion. Notwithstanding the prevalence
of this mode of making money, and the
openness with which it is carried on,
we cannot quite satisfy ourselves that
it is a legitimate way of amassing
wealth. And yet it is very difficult
now-a-days to draw the line between
what is proper and what is improper to
be done to win greenbacks. Look at
the stock boards of the large cities,
where the most prominent and highly
respected men, daily endeavor to fleece
the unwary by depressing the value of
a certain stock below what they know it
lobe worth, or by raising that of another
far above what they are aware is its in
trinsic value, and do this, too, by the
falsest representations, and the most
unscrupulous methods; how are they
better than thieves? Look, too, at the
conduct of our most distinguished men
in political life, iu selling the influence
of their position for filthy lucie, obtain
ing valuable grants for nothing, from
the government they are elected to
serve, thus robbing their fellow-citizens,
lining their own pockets, and violating
their oaths. Certain parties wanted
to get a charter for a Railroad, and
to secure the influence of the Secre
tary of the Senate they gave him
a large interest in it. Well, they got
their charter, and Forney the other day
sold his interest in it for some $200,000.
He had given no value for this large
sum, so that it seems evident that the
somebody was robbed of it, as we do
not believe that it was a legal perquisite
of his official position.
But if these are honest ways of get
ting a living, as we would naturally
presume them to be from the character
of the persons employing them, we
are entirely unable to distinguish
honesty from dishonesty ; the two
things seem to run into one another,
and the place of juncture seems to
be very much serrated and very un
even. Certainly our dictionaries or our
morals want revising, and as we despair
of the morals, we look hopefully to the
dictionaries to relieve us from our
muddle. Will the publishers of Worces
ter and Webster please take note in.
time for their next editions?
Stanton for President
The St. Louis Democrat, (extreme
Radical,) in an elaborate editorial,
brings out Edwin M. Stanton for the
Presidency. It refers to Generals Grant
and Sherman, and pushes both of them
aside on account of the uncertainty of
their political views. But in Mr. Stan
ton it finds " a statesman who has been
the military superior of all our generals,
and whose part in the war has been not
less deservAAg of honor than that of the
bravest hero that ever slept on a hard
fought field."
People who know Wilt- the Secretary
of War is merely the clerk or aid-de
camp through whom the President, th A e
constitutional commander-in-chief of
the army, transmits - his orders, might
be puzzled to know how Secretary Stan
ton happens to haVe been " the military
superior of all our generals," were it
not for an interesting bit of information
furnished by the Democrat to prove
Mr. Stanton's claim to Radical grati
tude. It states that " when Mr. Lin
coln summoned the rebel Legislature Of
Virginia to assemble, Alr. Stantoncoun
termanded the order by telegraph, and
at the earliest opportunity convinced
the President of his error."
Poor Lincoln! So little regard for
his fame have the Radicals who eulo
gized him so warmly when he lived and
pretended to lament him so bitterly
when he died, that they do not hesitate
to reduce him to a mere nose of wax in
the hands of his Secretary of War. Mr.
Stanton would have had a lively time
of it if he had been a member of Cien.
Jackson's Cabinet and had ventured to
countermand the President's order.
Old Hickory would have seized " the
earliest opportunity" to take him by
the beard and jerk him out of his skin.
It shows the temper of the Radicals,
that they desire for their candidate a
man who is noted for obstinacy, tyran
ny, impudence, selfishness and total
disregard of the rights and feelings of
others. Mr. Stauton's countermand of
President Lincoln's order was an
offense for which he should have been
expelled from the Cabinet. Any Presi
dent who had a proper sense of self
respect would have expelled him for it.
Any party who had a decent respect for
the Presidential office would condemn.
him for it. But the extreme Radicals
want to put a brute in the Executive
Chair, and Beast Butler not being avail
able, Edwin M. Stanton is looked to as
the next best specimen of a political
A Compliment from Slam
Commodore Goldsborough, cruising
in the East, writes home that he has
recently had an interview with the
King of Siam, at which his Majesty
kindly informed him that, out of com
pliment to this great country, he had
called his youngest son, George Wash
ington, and requested the Commodore
to officially acquaint his Government
with the high honor he had done us.
The latter, overcome by so flattering a
compliment to his country, eagerly
consented, but his enthusiasm suddenly
subsided, as in the course of the conver
sation he ascertained from the King
that George Washington was his forty
first son , and, inquiring as to the num
ber of his daughters—" Ah!" said the
King, "they are innumerable ; I never
counted them."
It is perhaps needless to remark that
the archives of the State Department
are not graced with a record of the
honor vouchsafed us by this vigorous
monarch._
Deifriellon - of theillierkan &Mlle.
The Old Capitol Building at Wash
ingtop is being demolished. Strai#
and*onderfally (Weise are the seen&
whia have beell::k44 l eteP,within
walla; the earliF andihisasiEH
theiepublio;:,they rerecho4dtheikii4
and'eloquerit utte*nees thoo
haye been -justly ranked among the ,
greatest statesmseithe world efth. saw.
These have passed away. Happily for
them, nearly every one of them died be
fore their eyes had seen the fulfilment
of the predictions they had repeatedly
mafie concerning the evils to be apPre
hended from the donainance of a purely
sectional political party in this country.
They were true atriots. They loved
liberty for its ow .-Wke; they reverenced
established law, because they knew that
in a government such as ours, there,
could be no sudden and violent depar
ture from long established principles
without great and disastrous convul
sions ; they impressed upoii all the ab
solute necessity of implicit obedience
to the requirements of the written Con
stitution, because they recognized in it
the great charter of our freedom. How
sublimely eloquent were many of the
appeals made within the walls now be
4ng demolished. How fortunate it
would have been for us had they been
heeded. The Old Capitol Building at
Washington has very many pleasant
and patriotic recollections associated
with its earlier history, recollections
which every true American recalls with
a thrill of pride.
But therere other associations of a
later date connected with it. It has
taken rank in history with the French
Bastile and other detested dungeons of
the despotic past. The same walls
which echoed the eloquent appeals of
the purest and most gifted statesmen of
the Republic in its earlier and purer
days, have since heard the indignant
utterances of innocent men in chains.
Where wise and wholesome laws were
once framed, all law has since been
most ruthlessly violated; where in
other days sat the chosen law-givers of
a once free Republic, the free citizens or
that same Republic have afterward
gazed through dungeon bars, pleading
in vain for the protection of the laws of
their country ; where the name of lib
erty was formerly most revered, liberty
has been most shamefully outraged ;
where freedom had reared her home,
the most cruel despotism afterwards
made a loathsome haunt. In history
the building now being destroyed will
be remembered principally as The Old
Capitol Prison.
We had occasion to visit it once on
official business. A citizen of Pennsyl
vania had been carried away by military
force and incarcerated within its walls.
We.applied to Governor Curtin, asking
him to sustain the majesty of the State
of which he was the chief executive
officer. He did so in his own timid
fashion, and after two or three weeks of
delay we were informed that the Secre
tary of War would consent to the re
lease. We went to Washington, and
presented our credentials at the War
Department. A General who presided
over the outer audience chamber took
the papers and told us to !call the next
day. We did so and were informed that
nothing had yet been done, but that the
documents would be at once referred to
Judge Advocate Holt. We called the
next day and were informed that the
case was in the hands of Mr. Holt, and
that nothing could be done until his
opinion had been rendered. Next day
we called again, and still nothing done.
Called on Mr. Holt and had an inter
view which was tolerably satisfactory.
He promised that the case should be
ready for Secretary Stanton on the
morrow. To-morrow came and we
called again. Were informed the Sec
retary was not at lionte—no furtherinfor
'nation could begot out of thesubordinate
general. Called the next day and were
informed that Mr. Stanton was at home,
but that he could not be seen. Happen
ing to have a newly-elected member of
Congress with us, he called for a card
and sent in his name without stating
his business. The messenger returned
in a moment bowigg obsequiously, and
informed the embryo M. C. that Mr.
Stanton would be happy to see him.
We were ushered with him into the
august presence and made our mission
known. A lieutenant was sent for the
papers, which hadibeen returned from
the office of Judge Advocate Holt. The
case was too clear a one to admit of
doubt or hesitation, and his report was
in our favor. We got a sealed envelope
of huge size marked " official business,"
and addressed to " the Military Gover
nor of the District of Columbia." Went
to his office and found it closed for the
day. Returned early the next morning
and were forced to take our place at the
end of the long procession of applicants
for passes and other favors. Stood two
hours in the mud with a fierce snow
storm beating on us before we got a
chance to approach the dignitary iu our
turn. Got from him another sealed en
velope directed to " the Keeper of the
Old Capitol Prison." Went post haste
to that notorious bastile. There were
guards outside, but our big en
velope was an open sesame. We
were admitted within the gloomy
portals. In an ante-chamber paced
more armed guards, while a num
ber of others were lounging at the fire.
Were directed to an inner room. Found
a. shoulder-strapped official with his feet
up on a desk smoking and chatting
gaily with a couple of comrades. Pre
sented our huge envelope. Official
fingers soon drew forth the contents.
T•d:ing down from a shelf I.•!.ind him
a iwok in appearance and size similar to
a country nierchaut's blotter, or day
book, he asked us when the party
was Incarcerated. Told him as near
as we could. Turning back some
thirty or forty pages, every one
of which was filled with names, a
name to a line, with short notes mark
ing number of dungeon, &c., he found
that of the party he was in quest of,
and ordered a sergeant to bring him
down from No. 39; to permit him to
bring his clothes, but not to permit him
to bring any books or papers. When
the sergeant had left the room, the pre
siding genius of the place coolly said:
"Will you know this man when you
see him ?" and on our answering the
interrogatory affirmatively, he jocosely
added : "We sent a fellow away some
three hundred miles the other day, on
a requisition, and when he got there he
turned out to be the wrong man ; two
of the same name having been put in
here on the same day." When our man
presented himself he was touched to
teats in his joy. In his hand he bore
a bundle of clothes, wet from washing.
He had tried hard to keep 'Mimed
clean,. but found it impossible to.pre
vent the vermin which infested the'
place from finding a lodgment in his
garments and on his person.
We went out of that bastile into the
wild wintry.storm that prevailed with
a feeling of relief and settled conviction
that, for the time being at least, despot
ism 'had firmly enthroned itself upon
the ruins of the Republic. So it had.
Never did any tyrant more recklessly
outrage every principle of liberty than
did Abraham Lincoln and the men who
surrounded him during the war. There
was no protection, for the life or liberty
of the citizen: All legal barriers against
outrage wsire hroken down,, and the
"one maii:,poWEn o reigned supreme,
and wiihl.a,rod of :iron. The,. prisons
may be'deniolished, but the mebiory
th; outrages perpetraied under the
of pretended patriotism will never
be forgotten. They will remain as a
attdn upon the fair fame of our country
Wthe latest generation, anq, if this
pl** not forget that thi4r — ever were
freiv;their mention will always cause' a
blush of indignant shame. to mantle
the cheek of every American whojs
worthy of the name. • •
The New York Herald Upon the Radicals.
The New York Herald has long been
distinguished for sagacity in detecting
changes ,in , public sea and for
, .
alacrity In falling in with the pular
- current; For the last six or eightears
it has been howling with the Radicals,
but it now sees signs of a political revo
.
lution which is destined soon to number
the Republican party among the things
of the past. Read the following from
its issue of Saturday last :
Counter Revolution ha New York and
All Over the 'Country.
The movement of the Union League Club
of this city over Horace Greeley's relations
with Jeff. Davis is another indication of the
counter revolution. It shows at once the
protest of the popular sentiment and the
consternation of party managers over the
bomb that has burst in their midst. Jeff.
Davis' liberation was only the natural
result of the views of the war held by those
leaders of the Radical party who control its
acts. It was an inevitable corollary of the
Radical doctrine that the war was only
a party contest which a great blunder of
the opposition had caused to be canvassed
with bullets instead of ballots. Holding
these views the Radical leaders would
have released him long before, no
doubt, but they were afraid of the
people—they feared to undeceive the
earnest masses. They kept him two years,
supposing that the people would forget in
that time all those terrible sacrifices of the
war that the politicians forgot in two days.
This expression of the Union Leaguers,
however lame, has two distinct declarations
in it—one from the members who sympa
thize with the masses, and one from those
who represent the thoughts of frightened
party managers. The last, feeling that this
act has, even after two years, let too much
light in upon the insincerity of the leaders,
fear to touch it; the former see that they
have been trifled with, and move to free
themielves 'from the thraldom of heartless
and incompetent leaders. But this is not
confined to the Union Leaguers ; it is a feel
ing that is unsettling the political elements
everywhere, and foreshadows that deep,
positive change in public opinion that will
carry the election against the republican
party in this State next fall.
.411 over the country there is the same
change, the same unsettling of popular
thought, the same evidence that radicalism
has reached the turning point in its destiny,
and that national disgust at the ridiculous
conduct of the leaders and at the hollow
ness, pretence and sham of party acts, is
moving the counter revolution that will not
only hurl radical leaders from power, but
will go far to obliterate such traces as they
have left in the history of the country through
partisan legislation. Within the Republi
can party, even in the small circle of the
men recognized as leaders, all is chaos. Be
tween the Republican National Committee,
the Union League Club, and Phillips, But
ler, Stevens, Wilson and Greeley, who can
tell what are the real purposes and plans of
the Republican party with regard to recon
struction? Nothing was left to be done but
to settle the country upon the practical
basis of making South and North political
ly and socially alike ; yet the simple ques
tion of how this result might best be
brought about, the determination of the
question that was the real sequence of
the war, is not attempted by any, but each
one is eager only to secure the pre-eminence
of his own extreme views. Republicans
have so managed affairs in the South since
the collapse of the rebellion that the result of
an election there will be to return a repre
sentation composed of six niggers and sun
dry uncertain white men—perhaps all orig
inal secessionists. All will be as it was
before, except for the six niggers, and these
represent the results of the war- No radical
seems to comprehend or to be willing to
acknowledge that the war had any other or
higher purpose. There was no great issue
of national life, only political difference;
and opposition was, of course , no crime.
Hence there was no treason. Nothing was
sought but to get these six niggers into
Congress. For that the nation spent three
thousand million dollars, and thus our
nigger Congressmen will cost us $500,000,000
apiece. Did ever a people before give so.
much for so little? Have we not shown a
prodigality of extravagance in paying such
a price to secure these privileges to a race
that had no other title to our attention save
the clamor that it was oppressed?
By its absolute failure to; carry out the great
purposes of the war, by wasting the energies
of the nation in making its expenditure con
duce only to securing unworthy results—
results that the people did not care for—that
are ridiculously incommensurate with the
sacrifices made, the radical party has incon
testably shown its unfitness for a great trust,
and has demonstrated to the people that their
only safety lies in repudiating it altogether—
plans, theories, delusions, leaders and all.
There is no other course. It is no longer
the party of the people, no longer the vital
exponent of the will and thought of the
nation. Formed in a time of great danger,
compacted into firm political unity by the
necessities of a tremendous struggle, that
party carried the war to a glorious issue
because its yews and purposes were
the views and purposes of the people,
because the spirit of the people filled
and vitalized all its acts. But its leaders
misunderstood the result. They thought
the victory was not the people's victory,-
not the great ultimate aspiration of the
country, but merely the triumph of some
pitiful party plans. In that thought they
set about prostituting the national success
—appropriating it to their small uses—at
tempting to make it subserve purposes of
personal ambition and partisan tyranny.
Having attempted to steal the national vic
tory and brand it with a party name, these
leaders are now quarrelling over the spoil.
Going blindly away from the people, they
have gone too far; going beyond the real
purpose with which the people waged the
war, they have lost the great bond of unity
—lost the great guiding purpose of popular
will, and, like the babblers of Babel, con
found one another with strange utterances.
But they confound no one else. Thepur
poses of the people are unchanged. They
waged war to preserve the nation, and it is
their purpose that this shall be a Union of
free and equal States; that no great commu
nity of American citizens shall be trampled
down in order to secure the supremacy of any
party schemes. Strong in this great purpose,
with the same power with which it waged
war the nation will rise in counter re-volu
tion against those violent party leaders—
against any and every party machine, plan
or platform that would divert or urge for
ward the great war and great succass to any
other object than that of securing the na
tional welfare—the happiness, prosperity
and peace of the whole Union—the freedom
of every part of the people. This the poli
ticians already feel, and this the next elec
tions will show.
Greeley to the Union League
The New York Union League feeling
disposed to expel Horace Greeley for
having signed .Davis'' bail bond, sent
him a notice to appear before them for
trial. They will doubtless wish they
had let him alone, for in this morning's
Tribune he demolishes them in a scath
ing letter of which we subjoin the con
cluding portion
* * I shall not
attend your meeting this evening. I have
an engagement out of town, and shall keep
it. Ido not recognize you as capable of
judging, or even fully apprehending me.
You evidently regard me as a weak senti
mentalist, misled by a maudlin philosophy.
I arraign you as narrow-minded blockheads
who would like to be useful to a great and
good cause, but don't know how. Your
attempt to base a great enduring party on
the hate and wrath necessarily engendered
by a bloody civil war is as though you should
plant a colony on an iceberg which had some
how drifted into a tropical ocean. I tell you
here, that out of a life earnestly devoted to
the good of human kind, your children will
select my going to Richmond and signing
that ball-bond as the wisest act, and
will feel that it did more for freedom and
humanity than all at you were competent
to do, though you had lived to the age of
Methuselah. I ask nothing of you, then,
but that you proceed to your end by a di
rect, frank, many way. Don't sidle off into
a mild resolution of censure, but move the
expulsion which you purposed, and which
I deserve if I deserve any reproach what
ever. All I care for is, that you make this
a square, stand-up fight, and record your
judgment by yeas and nays. I care not
how many vote with me, nor how many
vote against me ; for I know that the latter
willrepent it in dust and ashes before three
years have passed. Understand, one for
all, that 3 dare you and defy you, and that
I propose to fight it out on the line that I
have held from the day of Lee's surrender.
a a * * HORACE GREELEY.
The Liquoi Law.
The following was the vote upon the
liquor bill in the Senate, upon its final
passage:
Ynes—Messrs. Bigliam,l3rowne, of Law
rence; Brown, of Mercer; Coleman, Con
nell, Cowles, Fisher, Graham, Haines,
Landon, M'Conaughy, Royer, Shoemaker,
Stutzraan, Taylor, White, Worthington and
' Hall, Speaker-18.
' NATs—Messrs. Burnett, Davis, Donovan,
Glats, lames, Ridgway, Randall,
Searight and-Wallace-10.
The yeas are all Radicals and the nays
all Democrats, except Ridgway.
The , new Catholic church at Port Deposit,
Md., will, it 41 expected, be dedicated on
the 9th'ofJnne. 'Rev. Dr. FoleY, of Balti
more; is to officiate.
. - ' - - A - titter — from ... er.-
Dr. Butler writes to the Boston Traveller
• '
as follows:
Let me examine the assertion that the
story that 18 pages had been taken from
POotit's diary is also an invention.
-:":AlOottea diary has , been. -beteret ; the Come,
i r
=Mee, and',lB pagie•are carefiilly' nt Out;
tisingthepages down to-the very of the
assassination: TWonly4nestiori . raised
was f'Whoin and birwhowwere these lea**
out ant?
__Booth i widletvinted foi".his life
:througti - swempeSiid Itoifater the ' as
sassinatlim, world hardly have leisure
for such amusement; beside, on horseback,
with one leg - broken, it might be difficult to
get aruleror straight edge by , which to trim
the leaves as nicely as it is done. Every
thing taken from Booth's person was put in
evidence on the trial of Mrs. Surratt—even
to a bill of exchange taken out of the same
diery—except Mit aary itself and the vain
, ble diamond pin which he wore. . These
alone were kept back. Why cannot 18
leaves of the diary and the pin now be
found? Until those having had "custody of
the articles taken from the body can account
for all of them I must be excused from be
lieving the testimony that the articles are
all now in the same condition as when
found. If the witness can be found who
' has got the pin, perhaps he can tell us who
has the missing leaves. Upon the whole,
do you really think that the missing leaves
are an invention? As my hand is in, per
haps it will be well to look up the origin of
the phrase which nninventive persons have
appropriated to themselves.
Y.tiur article says:
" Gen. Butler must be more careful; or
he'll get 'bottled up' again."
True, he may be—in the same way as be
fore. In May, 1864, when operating against
Richmond and Petersburg, Gen. Butler re
ceived orders from Gem Grant to send away
all the troops he could with safety spare to
reinforce the Army of the Potomac on
the Peninsula—then about to fight the
battle of Cold Harbor. In obedience thereto,
Gen. Butler sent Gem Grant 17,000 picked
men of the 25,000 effective men, including
black troops, then under Gen. Butler's
command, Whereupon, Gen. Butler com
plained that tbe necessities of the Army of
the Potomac had " bottled hilt up in Ber
muda Hundred." That complaint was re
peated about his headquarters, and the
very words will be found to have been pub
lished the correspondence :from thence of
The New York Mites of that date. Eighteen
months afterward Gen. Grant.tncorporated
the words in a grave official report, without
giving, as I have done, the reason for their
pertinency; and the phrase thus used by
him Wei deemed a scintillation of genius.
The inventor did not think as highly of his
own production ; 14owever t even a borrowed
rushlight shines widely in a thick mist.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
BENT. F. BUTLER.
The Burial Place of Booth
General L. C. Baker has published a di
ary, in which he details his connection with
the "secret service" of the War Department
during the war of the rebellion. He makes
the following statement in regard to the
disposition made of the body of John Wilkes
Booth :
- .
General Barnes, Surgeon General United
States army, was on board the gunboat
where the post mortem examination was
held, with his assistants. General Barnes
cut from Booth's neck about two inches of
the spinal column through which the ball
had passed ; this piece of bone, which is now
on exhibition in the Government Medical
Museum in Washington, is the only relic of
the assassin's body aboveground, and this
is the only mutilation of the remains that
ever occurred. Immediately after the con
clusion of the examination tho Secretary of
War gave orders as to the disposition of the
body, which had become very offensive
owing to the condition in which it had re
mained after death; the leg, broken in jump
ing from the box to the stage, was much
discolored and swollen, the blood from the
wound havingsaturated the under clothing.
With the assistance of Lieutenant L. B.
Baker I took the body from the gunboat
direct to the oh , enitentiary, adjoining the
old arsenal groi .ids. The building had not
been used as a ',lsola for some years pre
viously. The Ordnance Department had
filled the ground floor cells with fixed am
munition. One of the largest of these cells
was selected its the burial place of Booth.
The ammunition was removed, a large flat
stone lifted from its place, and a rude grave
dug; the body was dropped in, the grave
filled up, the stone replaced, and there rests
to this hoUr all that remained of John
Wilkes Booth.
A Poor Rule that Don't Work Both Ways
Last year a widow lady and her daugh
ter, doing a brisk millinery business on one
of our leading thoroughfares, returned a
very handsome income to one of the asses
sors. The other day the daughter, a neat
bit of femininity, called at the same office
with the income report for the present year.
The report was neatly made out, perfect in
t'orm, but showed that the millinery busi
ness had not paid: indeed, there was a dead
loss of $1,900. The lady gave in the return
and sat down. The assessor and his clerks
kept on with their business. After a long
wait she timidly asked if she "should get
it now, or would it be necessary to call
again ?" "It ?" inquired the assessor, "I
don't understand you." "Why," said she,
"the $1,900 the Government owes ma!"
She had to be cruelly undeceived. The
poor souls thought that if the Government
taxed incomes in prosperous times, it ought
to make good the losses of an unsuccessful
year.—Louisville Journal.
.11obile—Kelley Under the Table
" While Judge Kelley was speaking a po
liceman was having a verbal altercation
with a drunken fellow who was misbehav
ing, and seized him for arrest. The crowd
immediately around was excited, but not
noisy nor violent. At this particular time
the horses - attached to the ambulance of
Colonel Shepherd's 15th infantry were
frightened, and started to run through the
crowd. Of course every person tried to get
out of the way, and rushing furiously in
every direction pressed against others; and
some person, believing it to be a riot, fired
a pistol, whereupon there was a general
firing—some towards the speakers' stand
and some from it. Lights were blown out.
Kelley got under the table and then got
away to the hotel, no one attempting to mo
lest him. There was no person on the stand
hurt. The only persons wounded and killed
were opposed to the Radicals, except one
negro, who was found dead some distance
from the scene. The whole affair sprang
up in a moment. There were no prepara
tions for it. The party mostly armed were.
the negroes. There is not a respectable'
man here who does not greatly regret the
occurrence. Many, of course, do not like
Kelley's radicalism, but there was no dis
position to prevent his speaking or break
up his meeting by any leading man here.
I was at the meeting a while, and all there
seemed attentive and quiet. Judge Kelley
came very hastily to the Battle House, and
a guard of soldiers were thrown about the
house to guard hint. He was taken to his
meal by military, and seemed afraid to
leave here for Montgomery in the regular
steamer, having a special boat to carryhim
from this wharf. He was in no more dan
ger than I was, and could walk the streets
with just as much safety. He did not need
military protection any more than I do, but
he called upon the military for effect. It
seemed more martyr-like to need protec
tion. It would create more sensation North.
The Galveston Riot.
The Galveston News of the Pith instant
gives the following account of the riot in
that city at a negro meeting the night be
fore. It says:
About five hundred negroes assembled
last night on the lot in front of Turner
Hall. The band played the Star Spangled
Banner, after which Dr. R. R. Smith, of
United States direct tax notoriety, nomi
nated 0. F. Gunsacker President of the
meeting. After several speeches by white
Radical orators Stephen Paschal, negro,
was introduced and commenced speaking,
addressing himself to the whites, stated
that if he had bad the same opportunity
they possessed he would have been one
of the smartest men under the heavens.
"The colored man was the smartest man
on the globe." [Voice in the crowd—
" You're a liar."} Cries here arose of "put
him out," "put him out." Paschal said,
"Yes, put him out." Several women made
for the party who had interrupted the
speaker. The confusion became general
and about fifty pistol shots were fired,
which caused the crowd to disperse in all
directions, even to the speakers on the
stand. The greater, together with the
lesser lights, ignominiously fled the field.
We saw a medical gentleman, with a plug
bat and eye glasses, under a bench along
side of a negro woman, each trying to get
as close to the floor as they possibly could.
Such confusion, such excitement, we never
saw before. The man who cried out "You're
a liar" was a United States soldier. This
the negroes all agree in stating, as well
as a gentleman well known in the city,
who was standing by him and not only
saw the man, but heard him cry out.—
There were only two persons injured, one
negro shot in the thumb and one white
man shot in the shoulder. The firing was
mostly in the air and done entirely by
negroes; this we saw ourself, are willing
to swear to it; and we had the best pos
sible position for seeing what was going on.
A Calf on Stilts.
The Zanesville (Ohio) Courier (Rad.,)
thinks Judge Kelley's conduct at Mobile,
his defianceof all attempts to prevent him
speaking, and his bold declaration, that he
had the army o f the United States at his back
to protect him, and then retiring, frightened
and demoralized, was such as to hand "him
dewn to posterity as a craven to principle, a
disgrace to the Union party, acowardtohina
self." The Courier has the correct estimate
of Kelley : He is a calf on stilts.—Cineinnati
/Enquirer.
Southerners in South Ame , lee.
A Rio Janeiro letter says:-Some South
ern planters have purchased land in the
district of Citampinas,
and are attracting
the attention of the Brazilians by using the
plough Bud other implements, and the:
dealers in these articles are driving a brisk
trade. Those America* who settled., on
tae coast south of,Rlo have erected sawitills,
andsirenaivenpplyingtheßiomarkni , xeo
excellent timber. —2il Qbac eldvert aer, ay,
litirsiersi On:
FOgler, the murderer of Mr.'Dlusmore,in
December last, who was.hung at Washing
ton, Pa., a few dayik before 'his execution
made a lengthy , confesam, occupying sev
4columns of fine prlnt, in which he de
iNety mintit=irtPular in relation to
crimtklisan etitnimunistances, and
I,oisresulta. Fogler's""ccnifesaion is true,
tnetbreeSons'of Mr. Montgomery were of
thit modt.harcle'ned character. One of them,
James,!_whn'kept a ; -store, suggested the
robbery Dinsmorii,..after planning other
crimes which failed through the scru
ples of Fogler, who was a laborer in
the employ of the senior Montgom
ery. James Montgomery arranged that
his younger brother, :globe," as he
was familiary called, and. Fogler should
commit the crime, and was impatient at
their delays. At length the plot was car
ried into effect, the two confederates in crime
having blackened their faces. The first
'blows were struck by "Babe" Montgomery,
who knocked Dinsmore down with a chair,
and stabbed him, Fogler doing the shoot
ing. Becoming alarmed at the disturbance
created, the two ruffians ran off, leaving
their victim to die, young Montgomery
saying his brother James "could not call
us cowards after that," and that it was one
of the noblest acts he ever knew of."
On their return to the village, James
Montgomery assisted them.to hide the evi
dences of their guilt, and gave directions
how they were to act, offering the aid of
himself and his wife to "swear them out of
it." After the arrest of the criminals, law
yers were procured by the Montgomeries
for Fogler, who entrapped him by specious
promises into a denial of "Babe's' com
plicity with the crime, and by his silence,
and the false swearing of some of the Mont
gomery family, procured the acquittal of
young Montgomery. Gogler was then left
to die the death of a murderer. On the
scaffold he solemnly reiterated his asser
tions that the confession he had made was
the truth.
As may be imagined, the publication of
the confession has created intense excite
ment in Washington County, and through
out that portion of Pennsylvania.
Hon. Wm. Montgomery, the father of the A
boys, William, James and A. J., accused by
Fogler of a knowledge of, or participation
in, the murder of Mr. Dinsmore, publishes
a lengthy communication in the Washing
ton Review, of this week, in which he goes
into a close and searching analysis of the
Fogler statement, to show its utter untruth
fulness. Mr. Montgomery—who in this
deplorable affair cannot but have the sym
pathies of all reflecting men—urges that the
Fogler confession was the work of several
hands, and was gptten up for the purpose
of injuring everybody who had taken any
friendly part for the unfortunate and guilty
wretch who purports to be its author,whilst
those who arrested, convicted and hanged
him are made the subjects of special lauda•
don. Mr. Montgomery asserts that by this
means Fogler hoped to gain a pardon, and
save his life. He charges Fogler with beiflg
a most abandoned liar.
The main points in Mr. Montgomery's
statement are—that the confession was com
posed or dictated by others, impelled there
to by personal hostility to himself and
family; that the confession is totally un
worthy of belief; and that the motive of
Fogler in assenting to such statements, was
to secure his own pardon by implicating
those whom ho supposed would exercise
their influence to that end, in order to
silence him ; and, at the saute time, lie was
obeying those personally hostile to Mr.
Montgomery, and who were instrumental
in getting the confession up.
A Ship of Death Flouts into a Port of the
Shetland Islands
Since the tine when the Ancient Mariner
told the terrible tale of the curse-laden ship
with her crew of ghastly corpses, no more
thrilling story of the sea has been related
than that of the whale ship Diana, that re
cently drifted into one of the Shetland
Islands.
A year ago she left the Shetlands on a
whaling voyage to the Artie, regions, hav
ing on board fifty men. From that time
nothing more was heard of her. The friends
of those on board became alarmed. Money
was raised and premiums offered to the first
vessel that would brine tidings of the miss
ing ship, but all to ne avail. Hope was al
most abandoned.
On the 2cl of April the people near Rona's
Voe, in one of the Shetland Isles, were
startled at seeing a ghastly wreck of a ship
sailing into the harbor. Battered and ice
crushed, sails and cordage cut away, boats
and spears cut up for fuel in the terrible
Arctic winter, her deck covered with dead
and dying, the long lost Diana sailed in like
a ship from Deadman's Land. Fifty men
sailed out of Derwick in her on a bright
May morning last year. All of the fifty
came back on her on the 2d of April, this
year; the same, yet how different!
Ten men, of whom the captain was one,
lay stiffened corpses on the deck ; thirty
five lay helplessly sick and some dying;
two retained sufficient strength to creep
aloft and the other three crawled feebly
about the deck The ship was boarded by
the islanders, and as they climbed over the
bulwarks, the man at the wheel fainted
from excitement; one of the sick died as he
lay, his death being announced by the fel
low occupant of his berth feebly moaning,
"Take away this dead man." On the
bridge of the vessel lay the body of thecap
tam, as it had lain for four months, with
nine of his dead shipmates by his side, all
decently laid out by those who soon expect
ed'to share their fate.
The survivors could not bear to skin the
bodies of their comrades into the sea, but
kept them so that when the last man died
the fated ship that had been their common
home should be their common tomb. The
surgeon of the ship worked faithfully to the
last, but cold, hunger, scurvy, and dysen
tery were too much for him. The brave
old captain was the first victim, and died
blessing his men. Then the others fell, one
by one, until the ship was tenanted only by
the dead and dying. One night more at sea
would have left the Diana a floating coffin.
Not one of the fifty would have lived to tell
the ghastly tale.
The Steamer Santiago de Cuba Ashore
near Atlantic City—Several Passenger
Drowned.
The steamship Santiago de Cuba, Capt.
Behn, having on board 350 passenger*, from
California, went ashore, at quarter before
four o'clock, on Wednesday morning, about
five miles south of Atlantic City, and how
lies within thirty rods of the shore. While
getting the passengers ashore, seven per
sons were drowned.
When the steamship struck the passen
gers were in their berths, but the blow
shook the vessel so violently that all were
aroused and soon on deck, and to their as
tonishment they found the sea not very
boisterous and the land in full view, though
it had been foggy early in the night. The
vessel struck first when about 300 yards
from the shore, and then struck a second
time and broached to, and went on towards
the beach sideways until within about 150
yards of the shore.
Three boats were lowered, and Capt.
Kelley, an experienced seaman, a passen
ger, took charge of the first boat. The three
boats were filled with the lady passengers,
and all reached the shore in safety, but un
fortunately, as Capt. Kelley was making
his second trip to the shore the boat was
overturned in the surf and all were thrown
in the water. There were in the boat about
a dozen ladies, one child and four men row
ing. The people gathered on the beach ran
into the breakers, and by joining hands,
managed to get thei passengers to the shore,
but not in time to save all their lives. Sev
eral persons and the child were drowned.
These were Mrs. Ricker, Mrs. Mary Wal
kins, a sinle woman; Mrs. Gross and
child, and John Smith.
The life-saving raft was also launched
and a load of passengers safely landed; but
on attempting to haul back to the ship by a
line stretched from the vessel to the shore,
three out of six of the crew of the steamer
then on it were swept off, and one of them,
the quartermaster, named McNulty, was
drowned. All the passengers were safely
landed, together with their baggage. The
bodies of the drowned were recovered and
taken to the Mansion House at Atlantic
City.
Capt. J. Townsend, Wreck Master, and
his crew, took charge of the vessel, and
expresses the opinion that it will bo got off
without material damage, as it now lies easy
in about ten feet of water at low tide.
A,Strange Freak of Nature
There were in this city not long since
three children, all of whom were joined to
gether at the hands. One hand on each of
the right and lett figures was perfectly form
ed as far as the finger joints, where they
united with those of the central figure—the
bands of the three being thus firmly clasped
together. The central figure had no fingers,
the end of the arm resembling a ball when
clasped by the hands of his two companions.
The arms of the trio were boneless from the
shoulder to the finger ends, and could be
bent or twisted into any conceivable shape.
The limbs from the knees down were also
boneless. At the knees there is said to have
been a large protuberance, as if nature had
intended them to act as substitutes for the
boneless leg and useless feet. They are en
tirely blind, the whole surface of the eye
ball being of a deathly white color, and con
tained no pupiL Their heads and bodies
were perfectly formed, and the organizations
and functions appeared perfect in each.
They wore visited by a number of persons,
among which was our informant, who says
they were still-born; and vouches for the
assertion. There was, we understand, no
medical examination of the case, which is
to be greatly regretted. The
parents haveleft the city, taking with them the remains
of the children.—Sandusky Beguter.
A Human Wolf.
• -
A. foreign journal states that a man, with
the instincts and habits of a wolf, has lately
been discovered in a pack of wolves, in the
kingdom 'of Oude, India. Wolves abound
in that country and children are often car
ried off by them; and the theory in this
case is, that an infant was carried off by a
she-wolf, adopted and raised to manhood,
and now presents the appearance of a
human wolf. The creature as been caught,
clothed, andie now
some
by a gentleman
living in a town some eight hundred miles
Of Calcutta., Ere 'does not speak, eats his
food int the gralutd, and avoids the gaze of
the Mu= eye.
Joel 'inditeSr, i'Valcv $441 4 1)j0d• 1 : 01 4
ur n
death, has been released on bail at Auburn,
to stand a nErw
The Mayor and Chief of Police of Mobile
have been deposed by order of .Gen. Pope,
and other officers appointed in their places.
A young lady in New York hang herself
with the cord of the bridal bed on the morn.;
ing after the marriage.
A farmer in Smyrna, Del., is reported to
have sold his strawberry crop of four acres
for $4,000, the purchaser to do the picking.
Mr. Bonner assures the Springfield Re
publican that Beecher's Norwood is North
ampton.
Pio Nono gets fifty-eight thousand dollars
from tka private contributions of the Roman
Catholics of Philadelphia.
Owing to the late frosts the peach orchards •
In Delaware, along the bay shore, are not
expected to yield more than a quarter crop.
Twelve or fourteen men entered a bank
ing house in Richmond, Mo., killed three
men and carried off $4OOO from the money
tray.
A scriptural student, who has just heard
of the Russian treaty, says Uncle Sam is
like the prodigal son, because he is wasting
his substance in a fur country.
Cardinal Cullen, in a recent pastorial ad
dress, speaks forcibly of the declining con
dition of Ireland, saying that "-nearly
3,000,000 of the inhabitants have emigrated."
Santa Anna, now an old man of seventy
years, has been spending the winter on
Staten Island. He is said to be worth n
little less than a million.
A Baltimore lad got his head fast between
two iron railings upon a pair of steps the
other day, and the rails had to be cut by a
blacksmith before he could be extricated.
Gen. Pope has issued an order districting
the States of Georgia and Alabama for re
gistration, and appointing a freedman 9n
every board of registers.
The Buffalo papers are excited over the
appearance on the street of a husband of
ninety carrying his infant of eight months',
while his wife of seventeen walks by his
side.
Turkey being bankrupt, and having im
posed taxes on every other imaginable thing,
has at length resorted to a tax on babies, be
cause they are " exempt from military ser-
A man caught seven salmons in Main,
last week, weighing one hundred and
twenty-five and a half pounds, and sold
them to the Parker House at Boston for
81.15
A Philadelphian says that the invitations
of Jay Cook, the Government banker, to a
party lately given by him, were as follows:
" Guests received at 5-20 ; (lancing com
mences at 7:30; supper at 10:40."
The Thames Tunnel, Mr. Brunei's great
work, which cost half a million of money,
has been sold to a railway company for
£lOO,OOO to be paid In ten annual instill-
The newspapers of New York complain
that that State this year pays in taxes twice
the amount it cost to administer the Gov
ernment of the United States for the eight
years Thomas Jefferson was President.
The constitutionality of the act of Assem -
bly creating a new criminaljudicial district
in Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin coun-
ties, was argued yesterday before the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania.
Among the income returns in Washing
ton, this year, the largest is that of H. 0.
Cooke, banker, $89,000; W. W. Corcoran,
the well-known bunker, returns $35,333,
and G. W. Riggs, his partner, 57,058.
Mr. Youatt, the famous veterinary sur
geon, who has been bitten eight or ten times
by rabid animals, says that crystals of ni
ti ate of silver, rubbed into the wound, will
positively prevent hydrophobia in the bitten
person or animal.
The latest invention reported from New
England, so prolific in inventions, is an
"automation hay-pitcher" for loading hay
upon the cart in the field, the movement of
the cart-wheels furnishing the motive
power.
Ex-Governor Hawley, of Connecticut.
asks of the Hartford Courant : " Who knows
but that a good many of us may yet have to
pas our respects to an occupant of the White
House, who traces his descent down from
some wild and savage African chief!"
The people of the Southern States want
money, and it is represented to be so scarce
in some portions of the South that planters
who, in order to secure their crops, have
been forced to borrow, have paid as high'as
10 per cent. per month for its use.
A few nights since, six car-loads of oil
took lire on a train which was coming down
the mountain near Kittaning Point, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, andabout two hun
dred barrels burned up. The flame illumina
ted the whole valley between the Allegheny
and Brush Mountains.
Eggs with iron shells, it has already been
announced, have been laid by the highly
educated hens of Prussia. A Berlin chemist,
who caused his hens to lay them, did so by
teaching the hens to eat a preparation in
which irop was used, and by compelling
them to abstain from lime.
Mary O'Gorman hanged herself in Jersey
City one day last week. She was driven to
commit the act by the cruelty and abuse of
her sons, who were in the habit of beating
her to compel her to give them money. After
the deed one of the wretches stole 245 from
the person of his dead mother and escaped.
The next monthly statement of thepublic
debt will show a slight Increase in the bobt
since last report. The rumors about a July
session of Congress to relieve the Treasury
are declared to be mere speculations, as
there is no probability that the Treasury
will be embarrassed.
In Boston harbor, on Monday, the divers
who set about removing the pleasure yacht
which was sunk on Sunday, found two of
the women who were drowned when she
went down, clinging to the rigging, holding
on with a death-grip. Had they let go they
would have come to the surface and might
have been saved.
The loss of the Santiago De Cuba is se
verely commented upon. It is said that
the loss of the ship was purposely arranged
by the captain in pay of an opposition line
to California. It is reported that an at
tempt was made to wreck the steamer oil
Hatteras. Thus spite has caused the loss
of ten lives, a fine steamer and a valuable
cargo.
Mr. Daniel Gardner, of Lancaster,
having lost several head of sheep recently,
went wolf hunting, and soon found a borrow
ing place, wherein were seven as fat and
sleek wolf pups as eyes ever beheld. These
he slow on the spot, and laking the ears to
Lancaster, and duly filing the sworn proof,
was handed bounty vouchers amounting
to $126.
It would seem, as the result of a long
series of experiments conducted by Pro
fessor Bellini, that the best antidotes against
poison are tannic acid and tannin,
chlorine and the tinctures of iodine and
bromine. The agents do not, however, act
chemically on the poison, but only through
the astringent effects produced by the acid
on the mucous or inner surface of the stoned).
New York has some curious rain storms.
A Waterford (N. Y.) paper announces that
on Saturday it rained twenty seven times,
and that ono man was workin gon the west
side of a street when a shower came up
which in three minutes wet him to the skin.
Another man, working directly opposite,
did not get wet at all, nor was ho aware that
any rain had fallen in the vicinity.
Chief Justice Chase has granted a writ of
error in the case of Joseph Bruin, whose es
tate was sold under a decree of the United
States Court at Alexandria during the war.
The writ is based mainly on the fact that
the absolute estate was sold, which was be
yond the power of the Court, and that the
condemnation was for treason, of which the
party could only be adjudged guilty by a
Jury.
An interesting pamphlet, embodying
some curious facts in reference to the inter
nal revenue, has just been published, from
which we learn that out of the whole popu
lation of the United States only 460,000
persons paid a tax upon incomes—in other
words, that out of the thirty-five millions°
our people, less than half a million have
incomes of more than $6OO a year.
In the Presbyterian General Assembly,
at Cincinnati, yesterday, tesolutions were
adopted urging measures for the liquidation
of the debt of the Board of For
eign Missions. A proposition was made to
extend Home Missionary operations
to Russian America. A committee was
appointed to report measures looking to a
more devotional style of church service.
Among the names of those recently
called to the bar in the Middle Temple,
London,
appears that of Budroodeen Tyab-
Joe. This gentleman is a Mahomedan, and
the first ever called to the English' bar.
'rho oaths of allegiance, &c., were admin
istered to him in the usual terms, but he
was sworn on the Koran. He intends to
practice at the bar in Bombay, where he
will be the first disciple of the Prophet
who has ever'beld such a position in ~ntlla.
A gentleman writes to the London Times
in reference to hydrophobia, which Is now
agitating England as well as this country,
that the late Sir Benjamin Brodie recom
mends caustic potash to cauterize the part
bitten by a rabid dog. Sir Berdamis'
reason for this, as given in his works, is,
that dissolved caustic potash penetrate
farther than nitrate of silver, and is, there
fore, preferable to the latter, as more like
ly
to follow the course of the poison and
neutralize its effects.
During the past year a large hotel his
been built in Georgetown, D. C., which'is
about to be opened under the auspices of
no leas noted a personage than Robert J.
Walker. He is to be assisted in this new
business by ason and son-in-law, and their
intention is to make the house the' most
quiet, comfortable and fa.shionablehomefor
families to be found in' the District. Fifty
years ago the great tavern which stood upon
the site of the present edifiCe was fre,quent
ed by John Randolph, who, with his nu
merous servants in livery, and horses and
carriages, gave place a celebrity , which
will mot soon be forwitten: , Toolay r an
ax-
Secretary.of the Treasury, and au ea-Sena
tor is about to, prove to. Eke
.world that, nate
can kee p a I}etel,'!