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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1888.
The New Tear.
TheTlie retreating footsteps of another de
parting year awaken us to retrospection.
We glance back to the,past to be sad
dened by the recollection of friends
gon6, of opportunities for good wasted,
or it may be, of wrong acts committed.
Fortunate indeed must that individual
be who can look back over even the
short space of a single year without a
feeling of regret. Darkness often covers
the past. It is the future that is always
bright. • So we stand, in the present,
with the shadow of pensive thought on
our faces as we glance backward to the
past, but with features ready to light up
with increased hope and renewed reso
lution as we turn to the future. The
retrcdpections which are indulged in at
this season lead to the formation of new
resolves, made, alas, in most cases, only
to be broken. Let us hope that those
framed for 1868 may be resolutely kept.
The year that is. gone has been full of
important and significant events. All
over the world there has been great po
litical agitation. The map of Europe
has been changed. Old boundary lines
have been trampled out beneath the feet
of marching armies, and new ones have
been traced by the bloodstained bayo
net. There has been much to excite
hope in the changeswrought, hope that
the masses will gradually but surely
gain all their rights, and that,
When sceptre and crown
Shall tumble down,
the people of Europe will be found fully
prepared to enter upon a popular form
of government with the assurance cf
success.
In Mexico, in the South American
States, in Asia and in Africa the harsh
sound of war has been heard; but in
none of those regions does any appre
ciable advance seem to have been made.
The very elements seem to have been
at war, earthquakes, hurricanes and
volcanic eruptions have vented their
fury upon the earth. There has been
plague, pestilence and famine, and from
such visitations we have not entirely es-
eaped.
With the people of the United States
the past year has been one of only com
parative prosperity. A bounteous har
vest of grain relieved all who have
means, or an opportunity to work, from
any danger of absolute want. But all
over our country the cry of financial
distress has been heard. Trade has lan
guished, our commerce has been almost
annihilated, and our manufactories
stand idle, while multitudes of working
men are turned adrift with the winter
before them, and rio means of provld
hig support for themselves or their film-
illes. In the South of are worse
than they are In the North. There it
is estimated that one and a half millions
of human beings cannot expect to-live
through the winter without the bread
of charity.
The people of the North are looking
at the past history of our country and
comparing it with the present. They
begin to see very clearly what is wrong,
and have already begun to apply the
proper remedy. The elections of lust
summer and fall show that the masses
can be trusted. They intend to make a
complete change, being assured that
only with men in power who are com
mitted to a proper policy, can any per
manent improvement be expected. That
is a New Year's resolve which the peo
ple will faithfully keep.
With the new year begins a Presi
dential contest which will be Lhe most
exciting this country has ever wit
nessed. The questions involved are of
the greatest possible magnitude; and
npen a proper detertiltation of them
the future destiny of this nation de
pends. The party in power will resort
to every possible expedient to maintain
their hold on office, but the people arc
resolved to effect a change, and they
will assuredly do so. With the begin
ning of ISGS the intelligent masses will
begin that great work of political re
form in earnest.
Cheered by such a belief we enter
upon the New Year, determined to
make both the DAILY and WEEKLY
INTELLIGENcEit more vigorous and
efficient than they have ever been be
fore. That is one resolve which we will
certainly keep, if we live. The WEEK
LY will be greatly en
larged before the next issue appears. 1t
will be then second in size to no paper
pubj . ished in the State, and we are de
termined 'that it shall not be second in
any other respect. During the past year
its circulation has been constantly ex
tending, not only in this county but
throughout the State, and outside of its
limits. We are under obligations to
many friends for the interest they have
taken in it, andwe thank them one and
all most heartily. Let them all deter
mine to do still better during the com
ing year. I u no way can they more
effectively serve their country than by
circulating widely, vigorous and well
conducted Democratic newspapers. Lel
every reader of the INTELLICIENCER re
.solve to do his whole duty in that im
portant matter, and let him see to it
that the resolve is followed by Imme
diate and energetic action.
The Maryland Legislature.
The Maryland Legislature meets to
morrow, January Ist. It is unanimous
ly Democratic, not a single Radical
having been elected to either branch.
A United States Senator is to be chosen
in place of l lon. Reverdy Johnson.
Pr SEEMS to be settled that Hon. Thos]
A. Hendricks will be nominated for
Governor by the Democratic State Con
vention of I ndiana, which meets on the
Bth of January. William H. Holman,
who has been very prominently spoken
of in connection with the second place
on the ticket, is understood to have de
clined the honor, his people in the
FoUrth District thinking he is the very
person to beat George W. Julian for
Congress.
THE R.ipn•css and Inquirer seem to be
considerably exercised as to who shall
he the next Speaker of the lower House
of our State Legislature. They sug
gest different parties, some of them en
tirely new 41, but, very singularly;
never mention zany of the Lancaster
county members d's worthy even to be
thought of in connection with the posi
tion. Ilow does it happen that this
great county isrepresented by such in
significant men ? is it not about time
there was a change for the better?
IT ie reported that should there be a
split in the Republican Convention, and
Chase he the candidate of the Radicals,
that the friends of Grant will not allow
the Southern Starte4.l to be restored to the
union in time to pots for President, as
they are all regardedne.iinre for Chase.
Thus are ten sovereign !i*.t,es of the
Union to be made shuttle coo, and
to be knocked about at plettlgrO'l7 4 .4, l e
Radicals. .
A. SAN FRANCISCO correspondent of;
, the Chicago Tribune writes that if it be
true that Grant has indorsed Forney's
.editorialaothe Pacific States may be set
down for Ate Democratic nominee for
—the Presidency. die says the Radical
element in California amounts to noth
ing, and if General Grant hasmade any
such aVovial' he could not carry Cali
fornia, Oregon-or Nevada.
Peace and Good Will. •
The American nation has eaten its
,Christmas dinner, it is to be hoped,
With a good appetite. Everywhere ex
cept in homes whersgsant'povertksat
as host, the table has beim spread'with
more than ordinary care, and heaped
with luxuries appropriate to this, the
most festive sftwom of the year. Farni
lieehave been gathered together, friends
have met to greet each other, and the
ties of kindred and the bonds of affinity
have been more closely knit by the
spirit of the season, which with gentle
fingers weaves into the ware of our
lives bright tints of kindliness, the
steadfast coloring of friendship and the
golden hues of love. Christmas and
Charity should be synonymous terms.
The words which fell from angel lips
on the first Christmas eve can never
lose their interest. " Peace on earth,
and good will to men." That glad
song of the etherial band which
hovered over the cradle of the Saviour
'of the World, appeals to humanity as
'strongly now, after' a lapse of almost
two thousand years, • as it did on the
night when it was first uttered. It can
never become meaningless; can never
grow obsolete ; can never • fail to be
worthy of universal reverence and of
world-wide application. With each re
curring anniversary it only gathers
strength, increases its binding force,
and becomes more and more recognized
as the grand rule for the guidance of in.
dividual and national action.
It has been the fond dream of many
that the time would come, and that be
fore long, when it would be recognized
as the universal rule for the govern
ment of human action. Earnest Chris
tians, let us hope they were not mere
enthusiasts, have confidently antici
pated that, at no very distant day,
wars would cease, and all difficulties
between nations be adjusted without a
resort to the arbitrament of the sword
of battle. The events of the last few
years are almost enough to cause these
advocates of peace to despair. Not only
have nations been at strife with each
other all over the world, but in our own
lanu the most gigantic civil war ever
witnessed has been waged with vindic
tive fury. With the stubbdlm spirit of
the Anglo-Saxon, each section battled
for the mastery. The fact that the com
batants were allied to each other by the
ties of kindred blood seemed only to
render the contest more bitter and un
relenting. The feeling of hatred was
artfully ;fostered on each side, until it
became not only the controlling emo
tion of society, but the foundation on
which political parties were built and
elections carried. Even up to this hour
one of tire great parties appeals to the
angry passions excited by the war rather
than to the reason of the American
people.
;Ell is strange that any party should be
so silly as to attempt to stand on a plat
form which necessarily arrays against
it in a solid body all the intelligence,
all the honesty, and all the decency of
one half of the country. Yet the Re
publican party has deliberately done
that very thing. Its chief reliance has
been upon the perpetuation of the ani
mosities engendered by the war. In its
eager greed for office it seemed to be
stricken with blindness. its leaders
failed to remember that hatred was too
hideous a passion to belong harbored in
auy generous human bosom. The at
tempt to leer alive in the minds of a
majority of the Northern people a feel
ing of personal or sectional antagonism
toward the white race of the South was
an act of the most stupendous folly.
When, in addition to that, the leaders
attempted to transfer the entire control
of all the Southern States to a horde of
ignorant and degraded uegroes, the fate
of the Republican party was sealed.
The white men of the North do not
hate the white men of the South. While
the war lasted we met them resolutely,
face to face, on the battle field, deter
mined to prevent the destruction of the
Union ; and when, after a gallant and
gigantic struggle, they submitted we
were ready to accord to them their
rights under the Constitution. That
was and still is theprevailing sentiment
in the mind of a vast majority of the
white men of the North. They do not
demand the execution of vengeance on
a conquered foe. To do so would be in
consistent with the, character of the
generous race from which we are alike
proud to derive a common origin.
We are sure there is no christian man
or woman in the North who will not
thank (Lod that the animosities which
were excited between the people of the
two sections by the war are rapidly
dying out. We are of one race, with a
common country, citizens of the same
government, Boasting a common ances
try, having a share in the memories of
the same illustrious past and the glori
ous hopes of a still grander future. We
are knit together by the tenderest ties
of kindred blood, and bound to each
other by bonds of material interests.
We have been one people, we are one
people today, we must continue to
be one people for all time to come.
The white men of the North cannot
harbor hatred toward the white men of
the South. All social, political, mate
rial, commercial and business interests
alike forbid such a thing. Let us hope,
then, that the great American nation
ate its Christmas dinner this year with
a heart full of kindness for all, that it
did not fail to remember how peculi
arly applicable to its condition are the
sacred words of the first Christmas choir,
when angels announced the coming of
" peace on earth and good will to men."
lilots at Norfolk.
There were several riots in the South
on Christmas day. In Norfolk, Va.,
the Deputy Sheriff' of the county, Thos.
Latimer, had a difficulty with a negro
boy, when a negro man came along and
took the boy's part. Latimer was un
der the influence of liquor at the time,
and after quarreling with the negro man
awhile, drew a pistol and shot him in
the head. The negro was taken to a
drug store and his wounds diressed. It
is thought he cannot recover. As soon
as Latimer shot the negro he went into
his house and locked the door. A mob
of negroes soon assembled, and made an
assault upon the house, breaking in the
windows with bricks and forcing the
doors open. Latimer attempted to es
cape, but was caught by the mob, beaten
unmercifully, shot in the neck, and his
head cut open with a brick. He was
finally rescued by two or three negroes
who had not let their passions assume
full control of them, and locked up in
the jail for' protection. The riot lasted
for half an hour, and several persons,
not combatants, were seriously injured.
IT IS suggested by the Southern
Opinion that, as the ten Southern
States have been Africanized in all but
names, that they also receive African
names—that in referring to them, aise
shall be made of the geographical nom
enclature of Africa. Blot out the glori
ous and precious names of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkan
sas, Louisiana and Texas from our maps
rinfl „Platutes, and write in their places
Hui!, I ,, i:o . rtie and South (Wines, Pa
homey,.Aultut;.: Sahara, Borneo, Con
go, ) 5 obdad and iigTit) a.
CARES/.J, Agtiri7i4A or ow coil of the
special investigainj; cotemittecon the
elections in Kenttue.ky 1a iixosi Tit tour
hundred thousand dollar;, That is a;
sipecimen of the way the finitely Isle:Aug
squandered.
Public Conscience.
In every enlightened and . christian
community there is such a thing as a
public conscience, by which the moral
quality of , public acts is determined
upon, Just personal actions are in the
individual mind. As in individuals the
correctness of the Conscience as a moni-
ter depends upon moral culture, so in a
nation is the public conscience de-
pendant upon the cultivation of correct
habits of public thought. When an
elevated standard of public morality
prevails, the men who are elevated to
positions of trust by the people are men
of pure lives, or at least of decorous
habits. They will cloak their sins, if
they be not upright, using the mask of
hypocrisy, which has been aptly de
fined to be an embodiment of the
homage which vice pays to virtue. Not
until a nation has advanced for in the
pathway of moral decline will its pub
lic men dare to lay aside the pretense of
honesty and integrity, and be willing to
appear with brazen front before the peo
ple, bearing the stains of crime upon
their robes of office.
The youthful student reads with
amazement and indignant shame the
story of the corruption which prevailed
during the decline of the great Roman
empire; and his astonishment knows
no bounds when he learns that the once
august Senate became completely cor
rupt and mercenary. From that point
onward to the open sale of the diadem
of the Ctssars iu the camp 'of the Prtu
torian Guards, the descent, rapid as it
was, excites comparatively little sur
prise or comment. The public con
science was dead to emotion. It had
been seared with the hot iron of corrup
tion. With'the debauciiing of the pub-,
lie conscience the life of the nation de
clined, until the great heart of public
virtue ceased to beat; and nothing was
left except the gigantic and fast-decay
ing corpse of a corrupt military despo
tism, over which brooded us sad mourn
ers the recollections of a glorious and
patriotic past.
The most alarniing indication of our
present is the decline of public virtue,
and the concomitant deadening of the
public conscience. The time was in this
republic, and that but dlittle while ago,
when no man who was suspected of
being corrupt would have dared to as
pire to any public position. The day
was only a few years back, when the
public official who dared to contaminate
his fingers with a bribe was doomed at
once to eternal political damnation.—
That is no longer so. It has come to
pass that our State Legislatures are fill
ed with men who, if they do not open
ly solicit bribes, are ever ready to take
them. Last winter we witnessed the
open sale of the most important office
in the gift of the members of the Penn
sylvania Legislature. 1t was well
known that Simon Catuerou bought
up a majority of the members, and
that they received the pay for their
votes directly iu money. There was
tit) attempt to disguise the fact. it is
also trtie that the officers of the two
houses were sold, that the committees
were arranged with reference to com
pensating certain prominent parties for
their influence, and that a ring was
formed for the purpose of taxing every
corporation and individual desiring pri
vate legislation. Yet this state of ninths,
disgraceful as it was, (ailed to excite
that indignation among the masses
which might reasonably have been ex
pected.
Not only are State Legislatures cor
rupt, but even the Congress of the
United States is more than suspected.
The lobby has become a recognized in
stitution at Washington, and it is known
that money can procure the passage or
the defeat of bills. Members are more
than suspected of taking bribes. Sad
and humiliating as such a state of af
fairs is there is no denying its exist
ence. Officials would not dare to lie
guilty of such acts if the public con
science were not debauched and per
verted
The standard of public morality has
been greatly lowered in our country. We
read the long catalogue of crimes with
which the newspapers are daily tilled
almost without emotion. Embezzle
ments, gigantic thefts, open robberies,
swindles of every variety, homicides,
rapes, deliberate murders and crimes of
every conceivable description and of
the greatest magnitude are of such fre
quent occurrence that they scarcely ex
cite even passing comment. Now and
then some horror more ghastly or novel
than ordinary creates a ripple on the
current of public opinion, but it soon
subsides. A very carnival of crime pre
vails, and we somehow accept this as
the normal condition of our society and
scarcely make an attempt to remedy it.
Yet, while it is notorious that public
virtue has greatly declined, we are
gravely told that we are advancing rap
idly in civilization and culture. Is that
true? Are we not rather retrogading?
Does not the demoralization which ex
ists threaten to become more extended?
How does it happen that the moral
agencies which employed for the
regeneration of society, seem to produce
so little effect? it cannot lie that divine
truth is less potent now than it was at
any former period. Thetis eternal and
unchanging. The fault must, therefore,
be with the agents employed to enforce
it. When a correct history of this pe
riod of our national existence comes to
be written, to the shame of very many
professing clergymen it will be truth
fully said that they permitted them
selves to be made the tools of a political
party, consented to mould their public
teachings to accord with its views, and
converted their pulpits into an agency
for the promotio it•of its success. We
hear the doctrine of negro equality
dished up by political preachers iu
glowing style; but who ever heard a
word from one of these zealous partisans
in condemnation of the corruption of a
Radical State Legislature, qr a hint
that Congress was anything else than
au assemblage of the mostincorruptible
patriots. These super-serviceable fel
lows scoff at the President of the United
States and hold him up to ridicule and
contempt, while they' laud such no
toriotis and confessed scoffers at ull
sacred things as Thaddeus Stevens, and
such drunken and profane wretches as
Ben. Wade. It is not strange that re
ligion and morality should rapidly de
cline under the teachings of such men.
They excite the passionsof their hearers,
but never touch their hearts or convince
their understandings. They bring a
reproach upon Christianity, and under
their ministrations crime stalks abroad
through the land with the most brazen
effrontery. By the repeated lapses of
these political preachers from the path
of virtue, the cause of religion has sus
tained the most serious injury. They
are to a great extent responsible for the
wide-spread demoralization which pre
vails. Instead of elevating and quick
ening the public conscience of the
nation, they' have debauched Suit per
verted it.
In blight and creditable contrast to
that of the political preachers of our day,
has tic'en , the course of those conscien
tious and truly holy men who have re
fused to drag exciting toohtteal sivesi
tions into their pulpits. They ca pe
made the Sabbath a day of rest from
worldly strife for their people, have
addressed themselves to the hearts and
couticlepces of their hearers, and have
consi:ahtl7 and persistently urged the
claims .of rellglon upon them.—
Foi such ministers even the most
worldly men entertain * the highest re
gard. Their lives are pure, and their
example is a burning and shininglight
in a sin•darkened world; They correct
and quicken the public conscience. tet
us hope the time is not far distant when
none but such ministers will be tolera
ted in any church. Then may we, ex
pect an awakening of the public con•
science and a decrease in crime.
What Negro Supremacy Costs.
• Congress has solemnly resolved to
continue as it has begun. There is to
be no change in the method of dealing
with the South. The supremacy of the
negro is to be maintained, no matter
what it may cost. It matters not to the
Radical fanatics that the industry of
the South is almost destroyed, or that
multitudes of laboring men are out of
employment in the North. Without
the votes of the negroes they cannot
hope to elect the next President, and
they are resolved that they will not tie
turned aside from the course they have
chosen by any considerations whatever.
The determination to continue in their
mad career has been made with the full
knowledge that it will involve a direct
expenditure of many millions of the
money wrung from the toil and - sweat
of white working men, for the purpose
of controlling the negro vote. We are
not prepared to furnish anything like a
full exhibit of what will be the cost of
thus electioneering among the black
barbarians of the South, but we glean
the following exhibit from the defi
ciency bill before Congress :
For reconstruction expenses in the
First Military District. $50,000
Reconstructien expenses in the sec
ond Militury District
Reconstruction expenses in the
Third Military District
Reconstruction expenses in the
Fourth Military District
Reconstruct ion expenses in the Fifth
Military District
➢taking in all the sum of
That is the deficiency now demanded,
and is in addition to $1,500,000 before
appropriated and long since expended•
All that money went for election ex-
Penses only.
The following items are also found in
this deficiency bill, nearly all of which
is rendered necessary by the establish
ment of military despotisms in the
South :
To supply deficiencies in the Quar•
termaster's Department, for the year
ending June all, 18GS, to wit:
For regular supplies
. .
.
„
For incidental expenses 7.50,000
For purchasing cavalry and artil
lery horses . 400,000
For transportation (dimity ' 7,350,000
Making in all the sum of $12,000,000
There are other items, making
the whole bill $12,1367,000
At least ii 49,350,000, of this (deficiency
mark ,gott) is for supporting and s paying
white and negro troops to keep the
white men of the South In subjection
to the negro.
General Howard, the head of the
Freedmen's Bureau, which Congress is
determined to continue, has asked for
additional appropriations, us follows :
On hand $5,513,965 55
EM=M]
Aud here are some of his items of ex
penditures as he presents them iu detail :
Salaries of Assistant Commission-
. • • • _ _ _ _
ars, Sub Assistants and Agents.. $117,000
Salaries of Clerks 02,700
Stationary and Printing 03,000
quarters and Fuel 200,000
Subsistence Stores 1,500,000
\ledical Department 500,000
Transportation 500,000
School Superintendents '23,000
Buildings for Schools and Asy
lums 500,000
Telegraphing and Postage 18,000
Beside and beyond this there areother
and still greater expenses. The bulk of
all the enormous appropriations for the
army might be saved if the whites of
the Sputh were permitted to manage
their own affairs. We am paying the
most gigantic sums to enable the Radi
cals to force the supremacy of the negro
upon them. It is for the working men
of the North to say how long such a
state of ailitirs shall continue. The
remedy is in their hands, and we be
lieve it will be effectually employed at
the coming Presidential and Congres
sional elections.
Cualous ! It is a singular fact that, ac
cording to the record of crime published by
the Lancaster Intelligence) . for the past three
or four years, no serious offense has been
committed by a Dutchman or an Irishman,
or any other nationality or profession who
are supposed to sate the Democratic ticket.
It traces all the serious crimes to white
cravats and dark skins! —Kt/tress.
We record events of the day as they
transpire. If it so happens that uegroes
and political preachers are very fre
quently guilty of crimes we cannot re
fuse to chronicle such occurrences. We
publish a newspaper, and do not feel at
liberty to suppress the truth because an
offender may chance to wear a white
cravat or a black skin. That species of
favoritism is now much in vogue with
Radical newspapers, and the mass of
their readers are beginning to find out
that they cannot rely upon them for
either news or political opinions.
Will They Prosecute the Express ?
We have been expecting to hear that
the Council of the St. John's Lutheran
Church had entered a suit for libel
against the ErpreNs. It published, not
what it promised, but enough of record
matter to show that Rev. W. V. Got
weld was prosecuted for fornication and
bastardy, and that a change of venue
was had in the case. That is all the
charge we made against him. If we
were guilty of libel, then is the Eepr , SS
equally guilty, and it should be prose
cuted. Do the "Church Council" in
tend to permit it to escape without even
a trial? We are still waiting to see.
Tin: city of Harrisburg has been the
scene of so many negro outrages of late,
that a very proper indignation against
the idle vagabonds of that class has been
excited in the minds of the community.
The radical journals of that city have
been no little exercised by the effect
which has been produced by such a
state of affairs. They get scared now a
days by the mere mention of a bad deed,
fearing lest the perpkration should
prove to be a "colored manhood." The
latest evidence of this is found in the
last issueof the Statc Guard. Speaking
of the burning of Mr. Eby's barn, it
says:
It is alMost unnecessary to say that the
fire was the work or an incendiary. A gen
tleman who rode by the place only a few
minutes before the alarm wns given, saw a
man running along the pike, who seemed
to be anxious to be unobserved, and, after
proceeding a short distance, cross the fence
into the fields as if flying from pursuits.
Our informant is sure that the party thus
fleeing was a white man.
Why this anxious inquiry as to the
color of the individual, and this evident
rejoicing at the assurance that the sus-
picious individual was "a white man?"
Will the State Guard tell us?
A NEW insurrection in favor of Saute
Anna has broken out in Yucatan, and
appears to be supported by many former
officers of the empire. It seems almost
incredible that the ex-Dictator, who but
a few weeks ago barely escaped with his
life, should once more disturb the.peace
of iris pative country. There is, We be
lieve, pot the least chance of the suc
cess of the ruoveroeut ; and if the old
Genera) is caught aliye on gexic,an ter . -
ritory, he will probably not be let otras
easily gs the last time. Santa Anna
ki nxste u; Apwever, denies that be is
going C 4 Alt,eigtl4-
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Public Doculilo44b
We are Indebted to Hon. George W,
Woodward, J. Lawrence Getz, ,and
Adam Glbssbrenner for public docu
ments, and hope they will continue
their favors.
CommOniimilth'is. Bev. Washington V.
Gottwald—The neened in the Court of
tlnirhtsillessions of Adams County.
tcoarrninzna
Tice following deposition of Miss A. M.
Walter's was taken by consent of counsel,
she being too ill to attend Court: -
Maria Walter, being sworn,
posetir as follows: I am a sister of Eliza
J. ' Walter,
living in the same horse with
her, in. York street, Gettysburg; Iremem-
Isstr of Mr. Gotwald calling in April, 1883;
it was in the evening; it was the week of
the closing of the college session; he in
quired for' Eliza; I met him at the door;
he generally inquired for her when he call
ed ; she was not in at the time-; she was at
a neighbor's; I sentfox her; she came home
immediately when I sent for her; Mrs.
Miihlenburg and myself were in the back
parlor; I think Mr. Gotwald sat in the
back -parlor until Eliza came in; of that
I am not certain, however ; after Eliza came
in she and Mr. Gotwald sat in the front par
lor until he left the house; they went out'
into the passage; one of the folding doors
between the two parlors was open ; we had
fire in the back parlor; the doors leading
from both parlors to the hall were closed;
some time after Eliza returned to the back
parlor; they remained some time in the
hall ; cannot say how long; may be fifteen
or twenty minutes; cannot tell; after re
turning to the back parlor, Eliza went out
and procured some cakes and wine for Mrs.
Muhlenburg and myself, and remained un
til after Mrs. Muhlenburg went home, when
she accompanied her; I cannot remember
positively ; my impression is, it was the
early part of the week ; it was not Wednes
day evening, as that was prayer-meeting
night; Mr. Gotwald was a regular visitor
at our house for a period not less than
four years; he boarded for a time with
Miss Maria Wintrode, who lived in our
neighborhood; during that time his visits
were more frequent, daring different hours
in the day and evening.
Cross- don't know at what
time the College session closed that April ;
it closed on Thursday, I think ; I am cer
tain it was the week the session closed, and
the beginning of the week; there is nothing
special by which I can fix the time, more
than Mrs. Muhlenburg was here; Mrs.
Muhlenburg had not spent an evening
with us before while she was boarding
with us; I cannot soy how they sat in
the front parlor; I heard them talking;
he came in the early part of the evening,
after tea; cannot say if it was before the_
gas was lit or not; as near as I can remem
ber he was here an hour or more ; the gas
was nut lit in the front parlor, but in the
back parlor; d not know if there was.
light in the passage or not; generally had
light in the passage when we had company ;
sometimes we had no light when it was
moonlight; cannot say how it was this
time; don't know if it was moonlight or
not; it may have been ten o-clock; it rosy
have been later when Mrs. Muhlenburg
went home; I can only fix the date by
the visit of Mrs. Muhlenburg; that is the
only fact by which I can fix the date ; I
am positive she was hero that evening.
In Chief.—l am not positive it was In
the week that the College session closed;
I think it was, but it may have been the
week after; I know it was not the first week
In April; it might have been the second or
third week of April; Mrs. Muhlenburg
commenced boarding here the evening of
the first day of April, 1863.
A. M. WALTER.
Dr. O'Neil, sworn : I was called in to visit
her at Picking's; can't tell if I was called
in first to treat her for a felon or a fall ;
she suffered from a fall also; such pains
would hasten parturition; she was hi and
in labor. I remained with her sixteen hours;
labor difficult and protracted. She was de
livered by forceps; I can't say if it was in
the extremity of labor I advised her of her
situation:; but in .her labor, when she was
hovering between life and death, she said
the Rev. Mr. Gotwald was the father of her
child. These declarations were made at
the time I had made up my mind to resort
to Instrumental labor, and so infortned her.
The use of instrumentals required in other
than extreme cases; I resorted to instru
ments because her strength was falling.
The fall and the felon hastened labor.
Mrs. Catharine Muhlenberg, agirmed :
went to board at Mrs. Walter's on the Ist
of April, 1863, and had rooms at Rupp's
house. Took my meals at Welter's, and
called in to spend an evening in the Id, 3d
or 4th week of April. That evening the
Rev. Mr. Gotwald called, an ii remained in
he front parlor with Al iss Eliza Walter.
He did not stay a long time. I was sitting
under the gaslight in the opposite room,
and saw Eliza and Mr. Gotwald sitting
each at a window in the opposite room ;
my face was towards the front parlor. Mr.
Gotwald left during the time I was there,
went out of the parlor. She returned after
wards and spent the balance of the evening
with us. Refreshments were brought in ;
she went out and purchased sonic.
5. They sat one at each front window.
The door was not closed; I can't tell, can't
speak decidedly, but often thought the door
.was open between the hall and the room.
Can't say how long they were absent. Can't
tell how long before I went away this was.
It was most probably the second or third
week. I suppose I could have heard any
conversation if I was positively sure the
door between the back parlor and hall was
open. The door between the front and back
parlors was always open. Either the door
was open when 1 went in, or there was a
a light; how it was when Gotwald and
Eliza went in I can't say.
lice. Mr. Muhlenberg Mrs. Muhlenberg
left on the 23d. College closed to the best
of my recollection, on the 15th of April,
18(i3.
3,836,8011 00
$10,350,165 55
Dr. 0' :Veil, re-called: The child had not
come to maturity. The distinction is so nice
that I can't particularize as you approach
the ninth month. A child that is vigorous
in every respect, comes to its full time and
feeds well. This was not as vigorous as
might be. I can form au opinion when I
see the child.
Could the story be written of the gi
gantic frauds perpetrated during the
war, the people would be amazed
beyond measure. The slime of cor
ruption tainted almost every public
transaction, and thieves abounded more
than honest men. Here is the last hor
rible revelation. The St. Louis corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer
says:
There is no telling the ways that men,
greedy for gain, will not avail themselves of
to advance their fortunes, especially during
and since the war, as men have berm found
willing and anxious to sell soul and con
science for a little filthy lucre. A few days
since an incident occurred which very for
cioly illustrates this. An Irishman was
employed to dig up and remove some
of the bodies of Union soldiers in
the Wesleyan Cemetery of this city.
In lifting the coffins he thought they seemed
unusually hollow in their sound, and open
ing some of them found that no bodies had
ever been placed in them at all, nothing but
planks or square blocks of wood.- The mys
tery to the honest Hibernian was great, but
when it was told him that the Union sol
diers were buried by contract, the under
taker receiving so much per coffin, and that
the bodies could be sold at a handsome
profit to some medical college, the doubt
was at once removed, and the avenue to a
large fortune immediately disclosed. This
was only one of the ways that the war
made men rich.
Colonel William Y. Leader, chair
man of the committee on lectures of
the Constitutional Union Association
of Philadelphia, has received a letter
from Alexander H. Stevens, of Georgia,
accepting an invitation to deliver an ad
dress on the condition of affairs in the
Sothern States, in Philadelphia, and
saying that he will be in that city in a
few days.
A Pertinent Question
General Gillem, of the Freedmen's
Bureau, has written a report describ
ing the awful condition of the negroes
in the South, who are driven almost to
desperation from want. Why do not
the Radical papers publish it? Are they
afraid to lay this terrible testimony of
the bad legislation of their party before
their readers? It looks like it.
THE Radicals submit with perfect ob
sequiousness to the removal of Pope,
Swayne and Ord. They scarcely mur
mur at what would have raised a tem
pest a few mouths ago. There is a species
of dog, named Spaniel, which never
seems to love its master half as well
as juit after receiving a sound beating.
THOMAS R. TROWSRIDGE, of New
Haven. declines to have his name go
before the Republican Convention of
Connecticut in connection with the
Gubernatorial nomination. Connecticut
is no longer considered to be a desirable
place for Radical aspirants.
M. C4acENTEg.; who lately related a
story to the effect that VFesident Lin
coin treated Goverribr
,eymour rudely
in a conversation in regard to the rafsing
of soldiers, has been forced to retract.
11,e takes it all back, and admits that his
story was false.
B,ErziA4qz WADE Is, decidedly atouts
with Arant. 4en;arnin, some days ago,
addressed the
.Clenersl a letter for the
purpose ,rd haying h,n3 ? g o on, vli t c, 'slut
eMeer In the army, fransferr,ed ,Cur
lisle harrE4eks. a eays'he'll be d—-41
if the acting
. Vice - President; of the
States isn't at least entitled . to
an answer to a letter.
ITO BE CONTINI"ED.I
A Horrible Fraud
Hon. A. 11. Stevens
The Angola Calamity—Deseription of
the Accident by a Survivor.
The Utica (N. Y.) Heroic! of December
22 has the following:
The ten o'clock train from the West last
Saturday night brought to Utica Mr. Amos
H. Thomas and wifeamd two of the vic
tims of the late terrible railroad accident on
the Lake Shore railroad. They are so bad
ly injured that they were obliged to be ear;
ried on matresses to their reeidence„ No. 20
'Breese street. Mr. Thomas's injuries are
principally' across his hip and stomach,
and, although bad, are not as severe as
those received by his wife, Mrs. Thomas
was most severely bruised from .head to
foot. Mr. Thomas and his wife were in the
last and ill-fated car, from which, it is said,
but three out of fift y passengers escaped
alive, and they were two of these.
Mr. Thomas thinks, however, that
five passengers did finally escape
alive from this car, one of whom has
since died. He occupied thefouTth
seat from the front, and his wife sat
in the third, directly in front of him. The
first thing he heard was the bumping sound
of the wheels coming in contact with the
ties, and at once knew the car had run from
the track. Nearly all the passengers in the
coach immediately jumped upon their feet,
and as the car swayed to-andtro they would
rush to whichever side was uppermost to
prevent its overturning. This continued for
perhaps half a minute, and then the car
struck the bridge, being still in an upright
position, -It passed nearlyacross, when the
rear end was thrown so far from the track
that the coupling, being insufficient to sus
tain the great strain upon it, broke, and
the car went, end first, crashing down the
side hill, the lower end just reaching the
edge of the creek.
Before the car fell nearly all the frighten
ed passengers were standing in the aisles,
Mrs. Thomas alone keeping her seat. Her
husband was in the aisle, but still holding
his seat with a firm grasp. When the car
took its fearful plunge the fact that Mrs.
Thomas was sitting in her seat and her hus
band firmly clinging to his own, alone saved
their lives and prevented them from being
buried among the hot stoves and burning
seats, and crushed and roasted mass of
human beings in the rear end of the car.
How Mr. Thomas came outside of the car,
he is utterly unable to tell. He states that
he was not unconscious; that he found him
self in a single instant after he was thrown
from his feet lying upon his back, the roof
of the car entirely swept away, the car
itself literally broken into a thousand
pieces, and he himself looking straight
up into the sky! It seemed to be all
done in a few seconds of time. He
found himself with heavy pieces of the
wreck laying across his legs and pressing
ono of them upon a sharp, broken iron
which entered his clothing near the thigh.
His first thought was for his wife, who ho
discovered was lying near, but before he
was able to render her assistance, she had
been taken out and cared for by a citizen of
Angola. At his feet lay a man bleeding
profusely from a wound in his head, but
who was able to free himself from the de-
brie, and then had strength sufficient to as
sist Mr. Thomas, until at last the latter was
able to crawl out of the wreck upon his
hands and knees, and thus make his way
up the bank. He was taken into the pas
senger car that stood upon the track, and
afterward removed to a private house and
medical aid procured. Mrs. T. was ren
dered insensible by the fall. The first she
remembers was feeling the blood running
down her face. Casting her eye toward
the lower end of what was once the car,
she saw the flames eight or ten feet high,
but the passengers were so covered with the
ruins that they could not be seen. The lire
was so near that she must make an effort to
escape or burn. In trying to rise, her in
juries were so severe the effort rendered her
insensible again. She would probablyhave
added one more to the list of the dead from
this shocking disaster had not a citizen of
Angola, seeing her fearful position, come
to her rescue. After making the effort to
get up, she remembers nothing more until
she found herself in a private house. A
succession of fainting fits followed, and as
she recovered from each she declared thu
she was entirely unhurt, and It was only
some time after the accident that shy was
convinced she had received injury. It was
probably two hours after the accident be
fine medical aid could be procured. Two
physicians were aboard the train, whose
attentions were fully occupied with those
more seyerely'injured•
A largo bundle lay upon the ground that
had evidently rolled from the second pas
senger car. This had been passed over and
pushed about by people bearing the wound
ed. At last their attention was attracted
by hearing a smothered cry proceed from it,
The clothing was unwrapped, and behold,
there lay an infant about six months old,
digging its chubby fists into its crying
eyes, unhurt, and without a single scratch
upon its body. Its mother was accompan
ied by a gentleman who afterwards died.
She was still insensible last Saturday morn
ing, two days after the accident.
Another Great Popular Loan
It is commonly known that the Gen
eral Government, for wise purposes, has
given its aid and encouragement to the con
struction of one Main Through Line of
Railroad from the Pacific Ocean across the
Territories, to connect with the various
Eastern Branches of the Pacific Railroad
system, and which will form the Grand
Trunk Route to the Far West, upon which
the mighty trans-continental traffic will
concentrate.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company—
who aro carrying it forward with greater
energy and persistence than was ever
shown in any similar work, in ancient or
modern times—will build, equip, own, and
control the western half of this Through
Line, the most productive, favored and val
uable portion of the whole, and may justly
be regarded as possessing the richest fran
chise ever granted on this continent.
The Act of Congress confers upon the Cor
porations, beside the right of way across
the Territories, a gift of 12,800 acres of the
public lands per mile, contiguous to this
line,!and an appropriation from the National
Credit of Sixty Millions in 6 Per Cent.
Bonds, delivered as the work progresses ;
or half the estimated cost of the Through
Line and Branches. These subsidy bonds
the ( Companies may cancel in a course of
years by the transportation services of the
road's, and a small per centage of its not
earnings; they, therefore, constitute an ele
ment of great strength to the Corporations.
The Act further authorizes them to issue
an equal amount of their own First Mort
gage Bonds of corresponding denomina
tions, which shall be the first claim upon time
whole railroad property, and to which the
lien of the ti()Vernillent shall be subordinate.
Very gratifying progress has been made
in extendin , ° , the railroad track from both
directions. Nearly 1,000 miles of the Main
Line and converging branches between the
Missouri River and the base of the Rocky
Mountains have been built within three
years. The Central Pacific Railroad has
also steadily and successfully carried the
Main-Stem Line from the steamboat navi
gation of the Pacific to the summit of the
Sierra Nevadas, and into the great Salt
Lake Basin east of the California line. Hay
ing overcome by fur the most difficult and
expensive portion of the whole line, the
probabilities of the through connection with
tfle eastern lines being effected in 1870,
amount almost to certainty.
The prominent feature in the progress of
the Central Pacific Railroad is the remark
ably large and profitable Local Business
which is developed upon the completed
portion; more than justifying the estimates
of its projectors—that the immense traffic
between the ports of California and the
Mining Regions of the Interior would sus
tain a first-class railroad line, even if the
overland connection were not built. The
net profit upon operating the link of less
than 100 miles, thus far reaches nearly two
millions in gold.
With every extension of the track the
business and profits of the completed, part
are increased ; so that when the OvOland
through traffic shall be centered upon the
Central Road, the general prosperity df the
Company will be without parallel, and its
Securities appreciated correspondingl*.
The Steamship Raleigh llaraest
CirAniF.sroN, S. C., Dec. 25.—The stbam
ship Raleigh, frbm New York for &Ai Or
leans, was burned yesterday, about twenty
miles off the coast. Eighteen of the,pas
sengers and crew were brought here by a
tug this morning. Thirteen lives:are sup
posed to have been lost, including Captain
Marslarnati. Twenty-four persons are still
missing. They were last seen in the boat,
or clinging to the wreck.
[SECOND DISPATCH.]
CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec. 25—Evening.—
The steamer Raleigh took fire on Tuesday,
the 24th, at noon. The following named
persons have been saved and landed here:
Purser McManus and wife; D. B. Rice,
Chief Engineer; John Smith, Seaman;
Thomas Keating, baker; James Crow
ley, third cook; John McDonald, sea
man; Margaret Murtha, a stewardess;
Captain N. R. Nubbs, an officer of the
New York police; Chas. Whittson, passen
ger; C. W. Bartlett, chief officer; Gordon.
Young, second officer; Chas. Smith, Quar
termaster; Michael Gebbney, messman;
Thomas P. Brown, fireman ; E. Robbers, ,
steerage passengers; and Frances Mehal,
steerage passenger.
The following are probably safe: C. P.
Marsham, Jr., son of the Captain ;Patrick
Harrington, fireman; James Larkins, firo•
man; Eugene Ellis, Captain's boy. These
persOris were in the large boat; and are
known to have others with them whose
names are unknown,and it is believed that
they picked up several parties that were
floating on portions of the steamer.
The follotving are lost: Henry Palvin,
chief steward; 'rhos. lollop', third stew:.
ard; James Peififfid, Waiter; Bran- .
iirm, pantry Mari; MartM, a' bby
Welsh a boy of New Orleans; Joshua Sii
vernail;• coal-Basset; 'fireman,
and Mrs: Bryant, passenger. The fate of
the remained, including cuptaiu -2tlarsh
man, is, up to this time, unknown. •
A great many of this tobacco factories in
Richmond; Va., suspended operations last
week for the winter, but those Which kept
On' tikve enspended operations' for the
christuitiOoldays, and it.is t'eryprobtible
that none of lliem will oonjmei ce agbin
until the spring sets in. "
Negro Suprenn in Hayti--Salnave a
Specimen Brick.
• We published yesterday a short letter
from a correspondent at Pert an Prince the
capital of the negro republic of Hayti, which
furnished us a more graphic picture of the
delightful state of things in that happy land
of negro supremacy than we have had for
a very long time from any other historian.
Salnave, President, an unadulterated negro
of the Congo breed, a hideous savage in a
photograph, and a horrible barbarian in
his actions, is engaged in a ferocious strug
gle against a horde of conspirators who are
resolved to pull him down. The manwhom
he by a revolutionary movement displaced
—Geffrard, a mulatto—was an intelligent,
educated, amiable and polished man, far
too much for the unwashed Africans con•
stituting the bulk of the Haytien people
Salnave, more ferocious than Soulouque,
seems determined at least that if he is to
fall it shall not be from the amiable weak
nesses and indulgencies of Geffrard. Sal
nave, in fact, is a worthy imitator of the
model African King of Dahomey. '
It appears that the Cacos (whatever they
may be) have gradually . gained strength on
the frontiers of SL Domingo, and have re
taken Fort Biasson, driving Salnave's
troops before them amid great rejoicings ;
that, alarmed by these reverses, Salnave
had embarked on board a steamer, with a
large body of Haytien savages from the in
terior known as the Piquets, who wereused
by Soulouque in his reign for the most
murderous purposes; that they were not
allowed to land at the capital on account of
their nakedness ; that all the weapons they
carried were cutlasses, and all the food they
required was sugar cane. This brings these
Haytien negro savages about as near the
status of the gorilla as anything of the
genus homo discovered by Du Chaffin in
Equatorial Africa. We see, too, in the em
, ployment of these creatures by this model
negro Salnave something of those peculiar
ameliorations of negro society resulting
from negro supremacy.
In the absence of Salnave from his capi
tal the Government had been left in charge
of General Ulysse—probably so-named af
ler the world-renowned Ulysses S. Grant,
but a black horse of a totally different color.
This negro Ulysse, it appears, is the butcher
who did Soulouque's bloody work when
ever his services were wanted. He must be
a fearful barbarian in his way, when the
opponents of his policy in the Legiilature,
to escape his clutches, had sought the pro
tection
of the British Consulate. Ile seems,
likewise, zo be a full believer of the doctrine
of negro superiority, from an order which
he had issued requiring every white woman
to rise and salute his ebony highness while
passing by their verandas. The peaceably
inclined inhabitants of Port au Prince were
in fear at any moment of having those bru
tal naked savages from the interior let
loose upon them like dogs, should Saltier°
take ottenee or become disappointed.
And this is negro supremacy as now il
lustrated in Hayti, where the generous soil
produces enough for the negro's subsistence
without labor, and where the neverfuiling
tropical climate relieves hint of all the ex
penses required on the mainland for cloth
ing. Considering the naturally indolent
nature of the negro, Hayti ought to be a sort
of African paradise; but the whole history
of that African settlement since the first
rising of its blacks for the abolition of
slavery is only a record of the inevitably
downward tendencies of the negro back
a gain to African barbarism, if left to him
it, et'. What, then,
is his manifest destiny in
o ur Southern States under the new dispen
sation, if established, of negro supremacy,
It .iit not difficult to guess. His natural in
dol once will carry him to the point of star
vation, the pangs of starvation will drive
hint to rapine and bloodshed, and then will
follow his bloody extermination. This is
the moral conveyed to us from the ripening
fruits of negro supremacy in Hayti.—N. Y.
Herald. ,
The Georgia Mongrel Convention In
Distress.
ATLANTA, Dec. 23, 1807
The Convention met this morning, and
Immediately took a recess till three o'clock
this afternoon, in order to give the Finance
Committee an opportunity to negotiate a
loan to pay the expense of the Convention.
The afternoon session was exceedingly
stormy. The Finance Committee failed to
secure a loan, and reported an ordinance to
authorize a further effort, which was de
feated on the ground that nothing could be
done. The report of the Commissioner sent
to Milledgeville to draw $40.000 from the
State Treasury was received. It says that
he showed the State Treasurer the ordi
• nance of the Convention, with Gen. Pope's
authorization and direction endorsed, and
that the Treasurer said ho must decline
paying out any money on such authority,
being sworn to obey the constittaion and
laws of Georgia, and was bonded only to
ray warrants signed by the Governor.
During the debate that ensued ono dele
gate said that the Treasurer had snubbed
the Convention. another said, !' Would to
God the Convention could snub Pope."—
The negro, Bradley, said the sergeant-at
arms should be sent with a file of soldiers
tq bring that impudent Treasurer to the
bar of the Convention. Another negrosaid,
" What did they bring us here for'?"Great
confusion prevailed.
Extreme indignation is expressed by the
delegates, a majority of whom have not
money enough to take them home. Hotels,
boarding houses, the Convention printer
and the officials suffer severely.
The Convention adjourned until the Sth
of January next.
SL,Thomas—Anticipated Obstacles In the
Way of Perfecting the Purchase.
WASHINGTON, December '25, 181;7,
11 o'clock P. M. J
The anticipated difficulty in securing the
appropriation of funds by the House ot Rep
resentatives necessary to consummate the
purchase of St. Thomas, appears to be not
the only obstacle in the way of the United
States perfecting the acquisition of that
island. From a gentleman recently arrived
from St. Thomas, I learn that, as the time
approaches for the people to determine, by
their suffrages, whether the island shall re
main under the jurisdiction of Denmark
or be transferred to the United States, the in
clination to allow matters to remain as they
are grows stronger. This feeling is not the
result of any hostile sentiments towards
our institutions, but a desire to avoid the
high rates of our portdutles. As is known,
the only support of the present sparse popu
lation of St. Thomas is its trade with the
adjacent islands and along the Spanish
Main. The geographical position of the
island renders it convenient of access to
vessels passing to and fro in the great high
way of commerce between North and South
America. The present customs—about
one and a half per cent ad valorem—
being of so small an amount, obviates
entirely the necessity of warehouses
and precludes any inducement to fraud.
Under the present system the mer
chants are content and able to do a profit
able business, and they fear their trade
would be entirely ruined by an increase of
duties. It is thought by those well advised
that it will be necessary to satisfy the traders
of the island, who are the most influential
portion of the population, by some special
legislation to suit the duties of the island to
the circumstances of trade. By not making
these provisions they think the population,
from a thriving commercial people, will be
reduced to a few officers necessary to ad
minister the government, and the requisite
laborers to coal ships upon their arrival,
while the business will bo confined to the
few merchants required to supply the ship
ping and a transient population.
Important Penaton Declxlon•
The Secretary of the Interior has just
made a decision which settles the question
as to whether a distinction exists between
drafted men and volunteers as to the right
of pension. It has been urged by claim
ants and attorneys that the previous un
soundness of a drafted soldier should con
stitute no bar to a pension, The Commis
loner of Pensions, in his decision, which Is
affirmed by the Secretary, says: "It Is not
within the province of this office to make
amends, in my opinion, for any wrong
done by the mustering officer or examining
surgeon, in accepting a man who was phy
sically disqualified. The law makes no
distinction in regard to persons, between
volunteers and dilated men ; and, in my
judgment, this office has no authority to
make such distinction."
The Secretary lies also decided that the
three years' limitation prescribed in the
pension laws, applies in the case of minors
whose application had not been filed with
in three years from the date of death or
remarriage of the mother,'and that the limi
tation begins at the time the right of pen
sion occurs.
Mount Vesuvius In More Intense and
Grand Eruption.
LO;FDON, Dec. 24, 1867.
Despatches received from Naples men
tion that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is
continually increasing in power and splen
dor. Immense sheets of White, yellow and
crimson flame arise hundreds of feet above
the crater, and at night the Bay of Naples
is lighted up for miles. Lava Is pouring
down the mountain side In Immense quan
tities, and large stones are occasionally
thrown out from the mouth of the volcano.
A deep rumble, like reverberating thunder,
is heard from time to time us in the bowels
of the earth, and many of the people in the
vicinity have left their homes, tearing an
earthquake or other calamity. No such
eruption has probably occurred in Vesu
vius for centuries ; and the spectacle is re
garded as one of the most magnificent and
sublime ever witnessed in nature.
Republican NominAtions In Alabama.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 28.—'rhe COULI
ty Republican Nominating Convention to
day nominated eight nogroes and sixteen
Whites, and IS)rar whitessand twomegroes for
the State Legislature: majority of the
whites are liorthern men, and connected
with the Freedmen's Bareau.'
A negrowas shot dead yesterday on the
plantation of Mr. Merriwether, near Ithe
City, by another negio; for declaring him
self oppose:4
. to the TJnion League. ;•
The Montgomery &uric'', which claims
to be the genuine League, has expelled John
I".•Keffer, a leading Radical, for dishonor
able conduct and actilons calculated to raise
a war of races, K effer has a league, which
he claims to be the genuine. The whole
affair will be laid before the grand council
of the Unign League for its 'decision.
New :Items;
The PrLticess of Wales is 23 years of aga.
Chicago circulates more counterfeit than
genuine postal currency. • •
It is suggested that female suffrage be
tried in Utah.
Thurlow Weed talks about "green
negroes." That is a new huo.
Roses and lilies aro blooming in Now
Orleans.
It is stated that ex-President Fillmore is
writing a history of his administration.
Mrs. Pollard, wifo of him who was shot,
has debuted on the stage at Baltimore.
An exchange calls Anna Dickinson Miss
Jaw, and Grant General Lockjaw.
A paper says Booth's make-up as Othello
would entitio him to a seat In any Radical
Convention.
Blondin, the funambulist, fell from hie
rope, at Cologne of many odors, and broke
his arm.
Mary Harris, who killed Burroughs the
treasury clerk at Washington, is in an in •
sane asylum at Antleosta.
There were two murders and a dozen ac
cidental shootings In Memphis on Christ
mas day.
Sam Collier, the prize-fighter, supports
John Brougham in Baltimore in playing
the "Lottery of Life."
Alfred Menken, a negro, and no relation
of Adnh's, is a member of the Nashville
School Board.
A young woman being asked by a politi
cian which party she was in favor of, replied
that she preferred a wedding party.
A California miner, who has barely real
ized a living tor eleven years, dug out $lO,-
000 in three day's work recently.
The opposition to the new Constitution in
Alabama is increasing, and includes many
of the Radicals and Radical newspapers.
The - customs receipts at New York, Bos
ton, Baltimore and Philadelphia, from the
16th to the 21st, amounted to $1,535,300.
Gen. Hancock was not, as has been al
leged, a member of the court that condemned
Mrs. Surratt to be hung.
Major Ben White, of Texans, Texas, Is
dead, aged eighty-six. lie was one of the
three hundred of Austin's colouists. • •
Cattle are among the chief exports of
Texas, yet the State imports eittensively
butter, cheese, and even milk.
An assistant county judge of Addisou,Vt.,
has been arrested for beating his horse to
death. A nice man for a judge.
A rich Chinaman of San Francisco was
recently buried in a coffin which cost $l,OOO
in gold.
The winter has begun Nv ith great severity
in Italy. The Tuscan river Arno has been
frogen over.
lien. Sherman haS received as a present
the silver bull's eve watch carried by the
Roger Sherman who signed the Declaration
of Independence.
Santa Anna owns a villa on the Island of
St. Thomas, and may become a citizen of
the United States by the transfer i fif that
The per diem of members of the Virginia
Convention is $5,880 per week. This does
not include the salaries of officers uor the
mileage of members.
Brigham Young advises the Bishops and
Mormon peoplo of Salt Lake to lay up from
two to seven years' supplies of wheat and
flour, us he expects a great famine.
The authorized length of railroads in the
United States is 51,000 miles, of which :15,000
have been completed at a cost of 31,054,000,
000.
Six miles from Brunswick, Mo., is a farm
of 100 acres; valued at $12,000, having au
apple and peach orchard, the fruits of which
this season have brought 132,500 cash.
Tho Montreal postmaster hus lad the
heads of his clerks examined phrinologl
catty, and dismissed those whose bumps
wore not properly developed.
A Brahma rooster was recently killed in
Amesbury, Mass., and In Its crop worn
found thirteen nickel cents and two two--•
cent pieces.
Disturbances among the negroes are re
ported in Greenville, Demopolis and Cam
den, Ala., and troops have been ordered to
those points.
The half-yearly interest on the 5-20 and
1881 bonds, together with the payment of the
gold bonds of 18-17, will put nearly $30,000,000
in gold on the market early next Mouth.
The directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asy
lum of Virginia have been removed tOr vio
lation of estate law, by Gen. Schofield, who
has detailed army officers to act in their
stead.
Mr. Dickens' description of the shipwreck
in his reading from David Copper&lcr, in
New York, was so naturally Impressive
that his auditors put their overshoes on to
prevent wetting their feet.
A negro shot and killed a white man In
Washington on Christmas night for run
ning up against him as they turned a cor
ner going in opposite directions. The mur
derer escaped.
Thirty-two thousand and eighty-two head
of cattle have been shipped from Alexan
dria, on the Toledo, Wabash and Western
railroad during the past season, requiring
ten thousand and five curs.
A literary gentleman suggests to country
editors that is about time to bury somebody
or something in the tomb of the Montague.%
l le thinks the tomb of the Capulets already
overcrowded.
The widow of the land-owners who, in
18-12, deeded the land on which the city of
Madison, Wisconsin, stands, claims that
she did not sign the deeds, and demands
dower in some of the best lots in the city.
The bill to remove the capitalof Colorado
to Denver went to the Governor on the 7th,
was approved, and on the 10th the Legisla
ture adjourned to meet at Deliver on the
11th.
The ceiling of the Representatives' Hall,
in. the Indiana State llouse, fell on Satur
day night, damaging the hall to the extent
of $lO,OOO. An effort is being made to have
the whole building condemned.
A bell weighing six hundred pounds has
been presented to the Catholic Church at
Wytheville, Va., by Captain John 11. Gib
bony. The tones of the bell can be heard
twelve miles.
On Saturday evenilig last, Mr. :John
Kempston, clerk of the Supreme Court of
New York, and for eighteen years a law
reporter of the Herald, was run over and
instantly killed at the Fulton Ferry.
The Winchester (Va.) /Velem says: "Popu
lation is pouring in upon us, chiefly front
Southern Pennsylvania. These folks are
generally of the right stripe, and come to
farm on our lands."
Some uneasiness was felt in Montreal be
cause of an expected Fenian rising on
Christmas clay, and great precautions were
taken, but nothing occured. Similar un
easiness was felt in England, but there,
also, Christmas was quiet.
A small house Inside the west end of the
Iloosac tunnel; was burned recently, and
the flames were carried 200' feet into the
tunnel, nearly suffocating two or three
workmen who were attempting to rush
out.
John A. Roebliug, of Trenton, N. J., the
builder of the 1111110118 suspension bridge
over the Niagara, and that across the Ohio
at Cincinnati, has Just commenced farming
in lowa, where he has a nice little farm of
23,000 acres.
At Lockport, Henry county, Ky., the
other day, Dr. W. W. Johnson and his
brother•in-law, named Floyd, had a "diffi
culty." Floyd tried to shoot Johnson, but
before he could carry out his design the
Doctor fell dead• from disease of the heart,
General Gillen, sent by General Ord to
report on the distress prevailing In Ills dis
trict, arrived in Washington, yesterday,
and had an interview with the President
and General Grant• Ile reported a gloomy
condition of affairs.
The Native Virginian says that move
ments are on foot by 'which the whole power
or the fierman press In the Atlantic States
will be brought to bearin favor of Immigra
tion to the Southern States, and Virginia
especially.
They have a new breed of cats in Ver
mont which have tails only an inch king.—
he advantage claimed for such tails is,
that they cannot get under a rocking chair
or be stepped upon, and that the door can
be closed quicker when they go out.
The Legislature of Kentucky having pas
sed a resolution instructing Senator Guth
rie either to proceed to the capitol dr resign,
he chartered an extra car, and will under
take the journey, notwithstanding his feeble
condition. He is said to be suffering from
paralysis of both limbs. -
"Why are women like churches ?" First
ly, because these is no living without one
secondly, beaus° there is many a-spire to
them ; thirdly, because they aro objects of
adoration, and, lastly, but by no Means
least, becauSe they have a loud clapper in
their upper story.
A good story concerning the production
of " The Lady of Lyons" at Salt Lake City
Theatre: "An aged Mormon arose, and
went out with his twenty-four wives, an
grily stating that he wouldn't sot and see a
play where a man made such a cussed fuss
over one woman."
The survey of the muscle shoals of the
Tennessee River is progressing rapidly,—
The surveyors have reached the mouth of
Elk river, completing the first section of the
canal. An effort will be made to induce
Congress to make an appropriation to carry
on this important work, which will. open
navigation from Knoxville to the Ohio river
The statement of the public) debt for the
present month will not heassued 'until the
oth'-or' 7th of January, According .to the
best information obtainable, it will show a
material increase lu the debt aver what ap
peared in the November statement. The
contraction of the currency, it is thought,
'has been very small this month.
' A' Frenchman' who had purchased a
eouuti3t sent was complainipg,of the want
of:bird's in.hisgarden., ,
"Set; some trapsii
replied an old officeri d and the'll, come. I
was once in Africa, and therewasn't sup.
posed to be a woman within two hundred
mide.4. I hung a pat!. - of ear rings and a'
collar upon a tree, and the next morning I'
found two women under the branches, t