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The Pirate's Thumb
i.-TH 1.; A D 31 . 1 RA L . 'S RETURN
It seems only yesterday that I was
but six years old, and was standing on
the lawn of our house, fourteen miles
from Dorchester, holding my mother's
hand, and, with my brother Ned, wait
ing fur the arrival of my father, the ad
miral, who had just landed from a cruise
after slavers on Lite African coast.
It was about the year 1783, and my
father had written to 'tell my mother
that he should post from Plymouth,
where his vessel lay. The bells were
clashing out in the village steeple for
King George's birthday, but I, some
how or other, associated all the rejoic
ings with theanticipationsof my father's
return. It was harvest, time, and the
men were shouting across a distant up•
land an they brought the last load home
to the farm stackyard. Those shouts,
too I blended somehow with the happy
feeling of expectancy. Even the very
sunset, that was Just reddening the sky,
seemed to me almost an part of the cere
monial, mid only a fitting compliment
on no great an °evasion.
My lather had been three years away,
and I had but an imperfect recollection
of anything but his severe, keen look,
him uniform, his cocked hat, his satin
knee-breeches, his white silk stocklugs
and his gold-buckled shoes. I milieu'.
beret!, too, his grave pacings after din-
ner up and down the quarterdeck—an
he called the suave by the front win
down of our dining room—when the
folding-doors were thrown optm. I re. :
membered how he used to occasionally
turn aside into the hal) and tap the big
barometer, then shake his head, and
resume his silent pacingl4. I remelt'.
bared also, him having a mast erected
in the Dutch garden, on which on cer
tain days, the Union Jack was hoisted !
with a salvo from an old ship's cannon
that, was kept In the harness•room.—
My brother Ned, three yearn older
than myself, had, when we were
reading together, and resolving on
becoming future Robinson Crusoes, ;
taught not to associate any father with
all the naval heroes who ever fought
against, the enemies of England, from
Drake and Frobisher dOWII to Blake and
old lien how. 1 always, I know, pie•
tured Idol erect on his quarter.deck,
with his band on his sword, and Cl/1111011-
shot as large as Dutch cheeses !lying •
thick around hilll. Perhaps 1 and Ned
partly derived this conlcw hat exaggera
ted impression from all old engraving
of Itenbow which hung in the dining•
room. Our notion of au African cruise
was boarding slavers, cutting down
Navagu•looking men in straw hats, and
wititphalf a dozen pistols in their belts,
and splashing grape-shot inWscurrying
fleets of black 110ni's many•paddled
canoes.
A small brown cloud of dust grew
nearer and larger. Suddenly, from the
brown cloud emerged a large yellow
traveling carriage, four white horses,
and two posit HMIs In scarlet jackets.—
My mother gave a slight scream of de
light—lt was my father. The carriage
stopped; it tall, thin, grave man got
quietly out; another moment, and my
mother was in his arms; then lie turn•
ed to us and kissed us composedly. He
was a reserved man, and made no great
display of affection. His luggage was
a large telescope, a gray and red par
rot, some charts, two valises, and his
sword.
" Why, papa," said \ed, looking up
at the carriage," "you've gut Roldusuu
Crusoe's Friday with you.. Look, mam
ma—look, Fred ; it is, isn't it?"
There way, indeed, ti blackservant In
our uniform sitting grinning good-na•
turedly ou the dickey, with a large, live
tortoise under his arm.
" Friday No; that's Monday,' said
my father, smiling ; " his name, for that
is the day we picked hint up, one hun
dred and twenty miles front the Isle of
Prance. There was henna his brother;
they'd drifted in a canoe three hundred
miles, and they were sinking when we
found them. Weren't you, Monday.."
'' Yes, we was, massa."
"And, my dear," said my father to
my mother, " I've taken hint us my
Mblumn. Ile's too useful a lellow for
a ship's cook. I sent his brother In the
Thunderer to the \Vest Indies. We
found hint very quarrelsome aud re
vengeful."
lontlay ventured a remark, lutensl
tied by all oath,—
" Ctesztr, him
111111 blootl up."
bad temper, when
" Mmiday," said my father, " no more
swearing now you're on land. Remem
ber, footmen never swear."
My mother looked rather alarmed at
the new domestic, mid drew tie hack
from the tortoise, who had just put out
Lis bead snail-like to reconnoitre his
new quarters.
"Polly, my dear," said my father,
"Monday saved my life in Old Calabar.
A shark had all but snapped me, but he
dived under him with a knife. Didn't
you Monday
"Caught him under third rib, Massa
(laminar ; but them ground shark berry
hard to ,
" Monday,'' said my father, "no one
ever swears in England except oa board
ship."
"Berry true, massa—dumb, massa—
berry true, No one swear in Englund—
not even postilion, when wheel come
off, ah
"Quite right, Monday," said my
father, smiling at the man's quickness;
"1 forgot. Yes, postilions sometimes
do. But mind, Monday, If you Imitate
postilions, though you have no wheel
to come off, you go back to sea and the
caboose install ter. Now, mind that, my
man."
Years wont on, and Monday grew into
one of the most faithful and admirable
of servants. My poor father was killed
In the great battle of the glorious let of
June, and Monday became not only a
playmate but a sort of guardian to us
boys. He climbed walnut-trees for us,
he scaled old ruins for hawks' nests, he
laid our night-lines for us, he drove oil
violent bulls that chased us in meadows
intersected by " trouty " brooks, and he
even fought farmers' men who caught
us under suspicious circumstances in
cherry orchards. A daring though a
a bad rider, he broke in wild colts for
our speciallle followed us in
coursing, heitelpal us in ferreting; in
fact, till we went to Rugby, and from
there to college,
Monday was our in
separable henchman, a servant of
whose entire trust wort hi ness my mother
nevereutertained a mistrustful thought.
On one occasion, and one occasion
only, at a village club Festival, Monday
got drunk, and fought in succession four
champions of a rival parish who had
dared to uphold republican opinions,
praise the French, and deprecate Lord
Howe's victory. 'lnc quantity of beef
forced upon Monday by his admirers
on this occasion, however, finally led to
his doleful f a ll—in fact, to tell the sober
truth, to several falls.
It was the year before I attained my
majority that the failure of a bank at
Exeter, and a long series of frauds and
forgeries committed by our too-trusted
family lawyer, reduced my mother's
property to a bare four hundred a year.
It became, therefore, necessary for Ned
to at once relinquish his intention of
entering the Engineers, and for me to
abandon my hope of distinguishing my
self at the bar. It wits a hard struggle,
particularly for Neill but we did It,
and both entered the house of a West
Indian firm—Mulford and Suargate, in
Abchurch Lane, our mother living
with us in verynice lodgings In Gower
street, where Monday—now a man about
thirty-five years of age—continued our
faithful and devoted servant, just as
cheerful, willing, and indefatigable as
he had been when lie was first set down
at our door in Doreetshire _fourteen
years before with a live tortoise under
his arm.
It was, I think: in the third year of
our mercantile life that our head part
ner, Mr. Mulford, one morning called
me into his room, where Ned was at
work with him auditing some Jamaica
accounts.
" Gambler, my boy," he said, looking
up from the red lines he was ruling in
an enormous ledger, and handing rue a
bank-note, "I want you to go to the
post-office with this oue thousand pound
note. Put it In an envelope at once,
and direct it to our consignees; Haber
fleld and Holmwood, John Street, Bris
tol. Mind, post it with your own hands;
for it -must reach before to-morrow
night;to catch the vessel for Barbadoes.
,Here, .Ned has got some news of your
bleak servant's brother from a West
Indian paper."'
"0, Fred—" Ned began.
"NOt a word now, Ned," said
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Mulford severely. "Go on. Three slx
four, sixteen two."
"Three six four sixteen two."
I left them at their work, and went
• into my own room. I found two ship
brokers waiting to see me, and Monday
with a message from my mother,
upon • some business she wished
me to see her lawyer about. It wan
ted only twenty minutes to the post
time. In my hurry and vexation I
• hastily directed the letter with the bank-
I note, and gave it to Monday, with spe
: clal directions to post it. Monday told
me afterwards that he had punctually
j posted it ten minutes before the box
j closed.
The Jamaica paper Ned referred to
contained bad news of Cresur. He had
long become drunken, vicious, thievish,
and mutinous, and had once narrowly
escaped the yard arm for stabbing a
boatswain when off Madagascar. The
• paper went on to say, that„ on
June 7, IKOI, while the Thunderer
lay on Lagos River, Cfusar had Jumped
overboard with the Intention of desert
, lug, lie was seen in the water, and a
bout Instantly lowered to pursue him.
J All at once a shark was seen to turn
and snap at him, and presently blood
rose to the surface of the water. The
sailors stopped rowing, horror-struck,
, and pulled back to the vessel. A shout
I from the deck, a howl, lu fact, of rage
I and horror made them turn round;
they then saw Cresur rising, nut fur
from the shore, turd taken on board a
fourteen-puddled canoe, which instantly
pulled up a muddy creek, and passed
out of sight under the mangrove
• brunches. Directly they reached the
vessel they discovered the pause of that
heart-rending shout. Fiesta had leaped
overboard, out or revenge, with the rap
lain's child—a line troy, the delight of
his father turd the crew, and, being
chased by a shark, had thrown him the
child to stop Ills pursuit.
We told this horrible story to Monday,
who seemed to take It deeply to heart.
Ile tossed Ills arms up, and tears came
into his eyes.
' "Sunni father," he said, " t
hearts. Him always bery bad when
blood up. Old nigger nurse told o n e he
, struck great monkey Atlsh when he
could hardly walk. 'ISVII,pl!,111101(
, Massa
Gambier, but no 'snipe Debit, 1 think."
' To our utter astonishment and Intl
' idle regret, two days after that, Mon
day, who had been sent with a money
letter and Koine messages to the West
India Docks to a captain of one of our
vessels, never returned. Wesel a Bow
Street runner to search for hint, we in
formed the patrol all through Bother
' halm and Wapping, we wrote to a
magistrate, we advertised, but all in
vain—Monday never returned.
"What do you think ~l' the bust
,ll eSti I said to Ncd one tinny in the
office. "It could u't be that twenty
pounds."
I thought Ned would have struck me,
but he only said coldly,—
"Fred, I am ashamed of you. Busi
ness makes you cruel and suspicious. I
would trust Monday, even now, with
the Bank of England and never care to
count the gold first.
Just then 111 r. 11ulford entered the of
lice, hot and agitated.
" Here's a })rutty thing," he said,
" Gauthier; that one thousand-pound
note has never reached Haberlield and
Huhn wood. Are you sure you put it in
yourself:"'
I felt the blood rush to my head and
my brain swim us I replied miteringly—
"NO, I was very busy at post-time. I
sent it by Monday."
"Then that's what the villain bolted
with, of course," said Mr. Mulford. •
I hung my head like a detected
schoolboy: I felt bitterly the result of
my carelessness, the hopelessness of re
pairing it.
Ned thoughtfor a moment, and bit
his pen. Then he rose and jammed on
his hat.
"No," he said, "I still believe in
Monday,—the note has been lost. Fred.
let us run to the post-ollice and make
inquiries. Strange things sometimes
happen to men of business in a hurry;
and unless I hear Monday own it, I will
never believe he took that looney. My
belief with the second lot is, that he was
decoyed into some brandy shop, and
there drugged and murdered. No, I'll
never give up my belief in Monday."
"The delay with that money may ruin
our consignees," said Mr. Mulford.
"They will not send the sugar vessels
till they hear, and so we shall lose the
market, 0, young 111011, unwise young
man, how could you ever trust that
black seoundrel .."'
I put on my hat, and I and Ned ran
like madmen to Lombard street. No
hackney-coach could keep puce with us
at all. We rushed breathless into the
Lost-Letter 011 ice—then a shambling,
miserable little room, ill-ordered and
lazily superintended by three or four
careless, badly paid clerks. We told
them cautiously that we had lost a let
ter posted on such a date, and directed
to Messrs. Haberfield and liohnwoud,
Joint Street, Bristol.
No,—no Aid' letter in the pigeon
holes.
" Or perhaps," said Ned, " in a hurry,
misdirected Messrs. Daherfield and
Holm wood, Bristol street, London."
"No." This reply was said with a
cold reserve.
"Or perhaps," said I, "to Messrs.
Mulford and tivargate, Abelturcli street,
Bristol.''
The clerk looked over the minim, as
if beaten at a game of skill, and slowly
handed me a letter. My heart seemed
to swell as large as a quartern loaf. It
was the letter, the seal was unbroken.
My eyes and Ned's met,—he too saw it
was the letter.
"What is there to pay ?" said I, coolly.
"Sixpence."
I paid the sixpence. I never parted
with sixpence with less regret, and we
hurried out of the office.
I tore open the envelope, which was
covered with postmen's annotations.
There was the bran new thousand-i.ouud
note. We danced for juy.
"So poor Monday was innocent after
all, you see, Fred," cried my brother. I
was almost too pleased to care whether
he was or was not.
Pour years after this remarkable and
fortunate recovery, my brother Ned
went out to Jamaica, to conduct our
agency there, and I became a junior
partner in the firm in Abchurch Lane.
Ten mouths after my brother's depar•
tore, I received time following letter from
him, dated Kingston, Jamaica, August,
1805:
My DEAR Br:MUER:
But I need scarcely recapitulate the
commercial details of the prices of sugar
and rum with which the letter com
menced. It ended thus:
I have now something to tell you that
will indeed astonish you. We have
been tormented for six months past by
a pirate schooner, that has intercepted
our fishing vessels, and once or twice
carried off the smaller merchant ships
between here and Cuba, and New Or
leans. The vessel was commanded, it
was reported, by a negro—a runaway
man-of-war's man—ii rascal of sonic
parts, and of equal courage and cruelty.
The momenta small vessel came within
range, this bloodthirstyscoundrel would
hoist his black flag, pour in two or three
broadsides, and instantly board,his men
dashing in hand-grenades and bottles
full of gunpowder with a match in each,
and leaping down on the terrified crew,
sabre and knife in hand. The moment
they took a vessel this monster used to
nail down the hatches, put sentinels at
the cabin doors,then call up the crew and
passengers one by one, and put them to
various horrible deaths. Well, this sort
of thing went on for some time, till at
last we Kingston people grew rather
savage, and determined, cost what
might, to burn out this hornet's nest
So Alfred Dawson (that's one of our
magistrates) hired one of the largest and
fastest schooners that could be got at
Porto Rico, manned it with a tremend
ous devil-may-care crew of volunteers
from this island, and mined us all to the
teeth. He then—very clever it was—
turnedthe vessel into a fire•ship, stuffed
It full of powder everywhere; if we
were beaten, we could then pretend to
desert the vessel, and leave it with a
time-match burning, and if the beasts
drove us off, we could part from them
with a fair chance of sending them
nicely up to the moon. We set out one
line day, and sure enough,- two hours
from Kingston, who should bear down
upon us but El Negl*Capitano, all hot.
Their, first well-aimed shot brought
down one of our masts, and before we
could recover, the confusion of this, their
boarders were on us. We stood firm
to receive them, but they poured
down In such numbers—Creoles, Mes
tijos Negroes, Spaniards, Maroons;
straw hats, red nightcaps, felt hats—
tliat they pooa drove us to the quarter.
deck, with heavy loss, too, work our
cutlasses and boarding-pikes as we
' might,—and as, by Jove, we did, for our
blood was now pretty well up. Well,
we were outnumbered, that s a fact.
! There was no standing six to ten. We
made for the boats, and -lowered them
pretty quick, too, those who were left
of us. Most of us got down safe,—l
among them, but not by any means
first,—Fred still pelted shot, and Just as
I we were pushing oft' who should I see
; grinning through the boarding netting
above but El Negro Capitano himself;
and who do you think this El Negro
Capitano was? Why our Friend Mon
, day,—fact! 0, I shall never believe in
human nature again. Only think of
that laughing fellow who used to carry
us on his shoulders, and help us to steal
old Farmer NVood's apples. The worst
of It, however. to finish, was that the
rogues put out the match, and saved the
; ship for their own use.
Ned was quite right' Three years
after this El Negro Capitano grew so
desperate and troublesome to the Ja
i maica merchants, that three armed
schooners were fitted out to follow him
to the Terapin Key, the little sand
Island Which_ Monday had fortified.
The resistance wag desperate, but two
thirds of the pirates were eventually
' shot down, and ho and four of his
otlicers were taken, and sent to Eng
land for trial. I was abroad at the time
on business; when I returned the trial
! was over, and Monday and his four
comrades were swinging in chains at
Itiarkwall Point. Mr- Mulford went to
the trial, and recognized ouriblack foot
, man, now scarred, ferocious, and des
' perate, but he was unable to obtain
leave to visit him afterwards in the
condemned cell. I saw from the papers
I hat the villain fought desperately, in
Ills press room as he was being pinion
, ed, and nearly strangled two of the
turnkeys and the hangman's assistant.
Iv.—TIEE coossmi NEAR THE BASIC.
--dt wise about th ice years after the trial
that I and Ned, (just returned from
Jamaica) were walking down Cheap
side, full of talk of old friends and old
dun's. I Was propounding, to his in
' finite amusement, an old eccentric
theory of MI nu about transmigration—
" diving" us I culled it.
"Men conic up again," I said, "de
pend upon it, Ned; same faces, same
characters, with fresh bodies, that's all.
1 met Francis the First yesterday, driv
ing a Kensington 'bus—thelong big nose,
small mouth, piggy eyes ; lie was porn
pous, gallant, and full of light as ever.
No use talking to him about that im
prisonment in Spain, but the same man.
Socrates—snub nose, high cheekbones,
big brow, look of coarse honesty—keeps
a second-hand book shop in Holborn.
1 saw Henry the Eighth the other day
at a butcher's door in Newguto Market.
He's a Mormon now, and has written
anti-papal pamphlets on Spiritual
Wives. 0, they come up again ; they've
only been hiding."
Ned laughed, and said, "Mad as ever."
Then we agreed to call for Jones,
man we knew in Lothbury, and go and
dine at Greenwich, at the Trafalgar;
, and so we did.
We had the Dolphin room, and after
dinner went out on the balcony to see
the grand old river turn into Burgundy
in the sunset; then, as twilight came
on, the vessels and barges grow more
spectral, and steal by in a ghostly
fashion.
" Perhaps," suggested Ned, as he sip
ped his claret, " those vessels are bring
ing back sum of your divers. Suppose
we found El Negro Capitano a cook on
board a :Margate steamer Be kind
enough, old boy, to touch that bell.—
They've got very good weeds here, I'm
told."
All at once, as we leaned over the
balcony smoking, \ed, who was always
full of fun and adventure, proposed a
wild scheme.
"Suppose, Fred," he said, holding his
cigar up like a torch, "we wait till the
moon rise—it rises early to-night, and
it is ayoung one, it won't give too much
light—and then we take a boat, pull to
Blackwell Point, andsee that oid friend
of ours, that horrible rascal, Monday ;
I want a lock of his curly hair as a keep
sake. I want to look at the black ar
ticle under the microscope."
" But suppose we were seen by the
river patrol, there'd be a pretty row. It
would look very nice, Frederick and
Edward Gambier, City .Alerchants, re
spectably dressed men, charged with
stealing a lock of hair from the pirates'
gallows at Blackwell Point. 0, it'll
never do."
" Nonsense, Fred, plsh. I thought
you'd more courage."
" 0, there's no danger," said Jones, a
quiet sort of second-fiddle man, who
had been eating and drinking placidly.
"They'd only think we were examin
ing them ; or perhaps take us for sail
ors, imbibing the moral effects that
Townsend brags of as derived from such
ghastly exhibitions. Come along, boys."
We ordered coffee, took a " Uloria,"
paid our bill, and off we went. We
hired a boat and pulled it ourselves,
singing a West Indian negro war-chant
as we darted rapidly, and with a steady
stroke, to the quiet bend of the river
where the ghastly triple framework
stood dark against a sky just flushed
with the earliest dawn of moonlight.
The last red glowof the sunset gleamed
behind the black framework of the gib
bet, wherefrom dangled the five hideous.
shrivelled bundles. A crow, late to
roost,hovered near, looking through the
wire network.
"By Jove, here they are," cried Ned,
driving the boat's nose up into the black
sludge, from which stuck out one or
two dry and muddy reeds. Ned and I
laid down our oars and leaped on shore,
leaving Jones with the boat.
" Give us a back," cried Ned, and he
was up on my shoulders in a moment,
close to the body of El Negro Capitano.
" Look alive," I said, " Ned ; you're
heavier than you used to be, and I
shouldn't like to be caught.''
He drew his knifeout, cut something,
then jumped down, and we made for
the boat.
"0, it was Monday; I knew the
rascal's shrivelled face in a moment. It
looks cruel, even now, as if he washing
ing to cut our throats, if he wns'nt pin
ioned. Here's my souvenir of him."
lie held up in triumph his trophy;
it was not a lock of dry black wool—it
was the pirate captain's thumb.
" There, Government will never miss
that," he said, "Now then, Jones,
back water, and give way all."
Ned was silent for a moment or two
(au unusual thing for him) as we pulled
back to Greenwich.
"Well," said he, "Fred," after some
five minutes, "it beats me still, tothink
how that Monday could have gone to
the bad so suddenly. I shall always
keep separate in my mind the old ser
vant, and the pirate the brute after
wards became."
It was the day after this little adven
ture, and Ned's acquirement of his
keepsake, that my brother and myself
were coming down Cornhill, on our way
to the Bank. Ned had been bantering
me again about the "Divers," aud ask
ing we to show him one.
. .
"There," said I, poiriting to a passing
scavenger's cart; "look at that dirty
lellow driving; so hard, so vicious, so
crafty and cruel. Do you know him?"
Ned Uid not, by any means.
"That," said I, grandiloquently, "Is
Ca3sar Borgia. I know him directly
from the old medals of him shown me
at the Museum by Mr. Vauz, only ten
days ago. Couldn't mistake him. But
hush, I see he does not wish to be
recognized, and he has just stopped yis
cart at the Yorkshire Gray for a glass
of gin."
Fred was fond of this wild Bedlamite
theory of mine, and laughed as usual in
his hearty, frank, joyous way.
"Come, cross over," he said; "we
must call on that stockbroker just op
posite the Bank."
Just as we crossed, an old negro cross
ing -sweeper came across the road to
wards us with extended hand, for the
usual penny. We came full butt against
him. Ned drew back, and laid hold of
my arm. I confess I felt my flesh creep
and my eyes dilate.
The sweeper himself dropped his
broom, and seized one hand of Ned's
and one of mine. It was Monday, come
down from the gibbet,—Monday, there
could be no doubt, for there was qhe
same large droll eye, the same form and
manner, more wrinkles, white hair, but
still the same man.
Ho was almost hysterical in his de
light, so we drew him to the entrance
of a passage in Threadneedle street.
"0 Massa Fred," he said, "0 Massa
Ned, how mother? How dear missus?
0 dear, 0 Lor', you thought Iran away
with twenty pound twenty-eight year
ago; no, no, not old Monday. Prem.,
LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING JANUARY 15 1868
gang seized him at Wapping, took him
off to Indian station—kept there ten
years—then run away—never asked to
go—came back to London—got this
crossing—made money here. Last week
Alderman Woodman—good man, pass
here every day to business—left me a
hundred pounds. 0, ten years I have
got that twenty pounds of yours, Massa
Uambler dear, and brought it daily to
this very crossing, hoping to see you—
hear ofyou. Here it is."
As Monday said this he drew from a
side pocket of his long soiled scarlet
waistcoat a small, greasy bag of gold,
and pushed it into my hands.
Tears sprang into .ny eyes; as for Ned,
who was always more impulsive than
myself, he walked away for about
twenty yards, and then turned back
obviously red about the eyes. We both
shook Monday by the hand, and he
grinned and danced round us, careless
of the whole world beside.
"But, Monday," said Ned, severely,
as if still almost doubting the truth, and
looking scrutinizingly in Monday's
face, " how did this arise—this murder
at Jamaica, your turning pirate captain?
Who was it, if it wasn't you, who was
tried at the old Bailey, and is now
swinging in chains at Black wall Point ?
Moreover—mind now, man, you're on
your oath—let me see, have you got two
thumbs?"
Monday smiled quietly, and held out
his hands. The thumbs were safely on.
Then he sighed, and beat his broom
thoughtfully on the ground.
"I wan at that trial, manna. That was
brother Ciesur ; bad lot—bery bad when
him blood was up. Neber liked white
man after Captain of Thupderer gave
him two hundred .lash—blood always
up after that."
The Dutchman who had the "Small. Pox."
The writer sat alongside the driver
ono morning, Just at the break of day,
us the stage drove out of Blackberry ;
he was a through passenger to Squash
Point. It was a very cold morning. In
order to break the ice for conversation,
he praised the line points of the oil'
horse; the driver thawed.
" Yeas, she'sagoot hose, and I know's
how to drive him."
It was evidently a case of mixed breed.
Where is \Vood, who used to drive
this stage
"He be's laid up mit to ter rumatlz,
Hence yester week, and I trives for him.
So"—I went on reading a newspaper.
A fellow passenger„on a back seat, not
having the fear of murdered English on
his hands, coaxed the Dutch driver into
a longconversation, much to the delight
of a very pretty Jersey-blue-belle, who
laughed so merry that it was contagious;
and in a few minutes, from being like
unto a conventicle, we were as wide
awake as one of Christy's audiences.
By sunrise we were in excellent spirits,
up to all sorts of fun, and when, a little
later, our stage stopped at the first water
ing-place, the driver found himself in
the centre of a group of treaters to the
distilled Juiceof apples: " Here's a pack•
age to leave at Mrs. Scudder's--the third
house on the left Land side after we get
into Jericho. What do you charge?"
asked a man who seemed to kuow the
driver.
"Pout a lefty," answered he. "Ter
fird haus on ter lefthaud out of Yerlko?"
On we went at a very good rate, con
sidering how heavy the roads were.—
Another tavern, more watering, more
apple jack. Another long stretch of
sand, and we were nearing Jericho.
" Auny porty know der Miss Scutter
haus?" asked the driver, bracing his
feet on the mall bag, which lay in front
of him, and screwing his head round so
us to face in.
"I don't know nobody o' that name
in Jericho, do you, Lishe?" asked a
weather beaten looking man, who evi
dently "went by water," of another
who evidently went the same way.
"There was old Squire Gow's da'ter,
she married a Scudder, and moved up
here some two years back. Come to
think on't guess she lives nigher to
Glasshouse," answered Lishe.
The driver, finding he could get no
light out of the passengers, seeing a toll
raw-boned woman washing some clothes
iu front of a house and who flew out pf
sight as the stage flew in, handed me
the reins us he jumped from his seat
and chased the fugitive hallooing, "I'fe
got to small pox, l'fe got der--."
Here his voice was lost as he dashed
into the open door of the house. But
in a minute he reappeared, followed by
a broom with an enraged woman an
nexed, and a loud voice shouting out:
"You git out o' this! clear yourself
quick. 1 aint going to have you dis
easing honest folks if you have got the
small pox!"
"I dells you I'fe got der small pox.
Ton't you versteh! der small pox!"
" Clear out ! I'll call the men folks ;
if you don't clear!" and at once she
shouted, in a tip-top voice, " Ike ! you
Ike! where air you?" Ike made his
appearance on the full run.
" IV-what's the matter, mother?"
"I deli you onct more, for der last
dime. I have got der small pox unt
Mishter Ellis he gifs me a lefty to gif
der small pox to Misses Scutter, and if
dat vrow is Miss Scutter, I promised to
gif her ter small pox."
It was Miss Scudder, and I explained
to her that it was a box he had for her.
The affair was soon settled, as regarded
delivery; but not as regarded the laugh
ter and shouts of the occupants of the
old stage coach, as we rolled away from
Jericho. The driver joined in, although
he had uo earthly idea as to its cause,
and added not a little to it by saying, in
a triumphant tone of voice—
"I von pount to gif ter old vomans ter
small pox!"
A Visit to Thrum rowers' Studio
I visited Hiram Powers, the sculptor,
to-day, and must tell you a word about
him. We found him. engaged with a
party of gentlemen when we first en
tered his studio, but after tiller departure
he received us in his private room with
great politeness. You all know how lie
looks, for many writers have sent you
vivid pictures of his noble forehead,
deep-set, piercing eye, and his classic
contour. The long iron-gray locks fall
lightly on his massive shoulders, and
his whole appearance inspires one with
pleasure, ease and confidence. When
he stood with his'chisei in his hand,
working on a new piece which is
to astonish the world of art, "It
represents," said he, The last of
her tribe,' and my idea, that she
should flee before the march of civi
lization, the weak before the strong."
It is an Indian girl in the act of fight;
one foot on the ground—the arm ex
tended or rather reaching forward with
au eager fear depicted on the averted
countenance. " I shall put a wampum
girdle around her waist, and moccasins
on her feet," he said, " for we must
have a body, before we clothe it, you
know." He showed me the first at
tempt he ever made at modeling in clay
—the head of au infant, a beautiful lit
tle gem, and as he says, "as good as
anything he can do now." When
eighteen years of age, while working
on wooden clocks, he occupied his spare
moments for twelve months, in model
ing this little bust—his first attempt,
and the beginning of a successful and
brilliant career.
He has not visited his native land for
30 years, and though pressed with work
every moment, will endeavor to leave
for America during the coming year.
There are ten men at work on different
marbles, both ideal and portraits, and
their skill in copying from the models
of their master is quitesurprising. The
Greek slave is being copied again from
the original model, which I saw, and
when finished will be the sixth copy.
He has an ideal bust which he calls
"America," a beautiful face—more Gre
cian than Columbian, and a mixed ex
pression, in which you read determina
tion and modesty, firmness and gentle
ness, purity and holiness, shining from
the cold marble. This is Hiram Powers'
idea of America. I noticed from his
conversation .that he was much disap
pointed, and perhaps grieved with the
decision of Congress, which gave Clarke
Mills the statue of Washington to cut
from marble. He thinks it hardly a
fair thing, and with thebelief that " his
dog is better than any other man's dog,"
he holds that Mills is incompetent for
the execution of such a statue. We left
our countryman with many expressions
of gratefulness for the kind reception he
had given us.
Verp , Doubtful
With all the tinkering of the radicals of
Congress to get the ten Outside Southern
States reinstated on the bads of negro su
premacy in season for the Presidential elec
tion, will they succeed? Very doubtful.
Without those States will they succeed in
the Presidential election? Very doubtful.
Will they head off Andy Johnson? Very
doubtful—lV. Y, Heivqd, I,
The Political Situation What An
lonest Radical Thinks of It.
The New York Tribune gives especial
prominence to a letter from a special
Washington correspondent, from which
we make the following extracts:
The session of Congress thus far has
been chaotic. Nothing has been done,
became no one has seemed to know ,
what to do. Impeachment died Ignobly n i
with saarcely enough friends to give it
decent burial. There can be no doubt
that the Impeachment attempt injured
us. It gave Mr. Johnson the courage of
Insolence. It fell upon the party like a
shower of rain, and especially when It
was mtended by the reaction against
Reputlicanism in the October elections.
Then, also, came the Financial ques
tion. The Western people are sensitive
and restless about the finances, and we
have Antler making just such an appeal
as Jeer. Cade made to the men of Kent:
" There shall be in England seven half
penny loaves sold fur a penny; the
three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ;
and I will make it felony to drink small
beer " The Reconstruction measure
comes once again. We have tried to
make this complete; but Mr. Johnson's
vindictive earnestness, coupled with the
cunning of Judge Black, has made it
impos4ble• The Tenure-of-Wilma bill
—violated in the person of Stanton--still
remains reft and torn, and Stanton is as
much am, of our politics now us though
he were dead—or au ex-President. For
a gentle, easy fading of reputations, com•
mend me to this dear old dusty town.
"Where Is the brilliant and rising Gab
by front the Rock Mountain District"'
" !—Gabby ! yes; splendid genius—
bu t he was beaten by Rocket, and keeps
a tavern in Montana.'' So long as
Stnnton was God of War, he was wor•
shined; he lied organs end courtiers;
but now, when his name on a lieuten
ant's commission would not be worth a
smitht.reen, lie Is forgotten. Probably
they may crowd him in when the Sen
ate mitts. But people care very little
about .t.
The woes of Stanton—lmpeachment
—the irenchlng storm of the October
Equinox, which came down upon the
poor Radicals so dreadfully—Butler's
financial Jack Cade notions—are all for
gotten In the Presidential handicap:
" C. s. Grunt, b. IL, aged; dutn, Victory,
sired by West faint.—hidden by E. 13.
Wushherne. Colors, red, white und,blue
—with u black hoop."
If you will allow the racing calendar
text, I thus give you the favorite horse
in the present handicap. It looks very
much is if our betting man had it ar
ranged that he should be formally en
tered at Chicago. I use "handicap" in
a more expressive sense than a mere
form o!speecti. Grant is the favorite
horse in the political betting-books.
Every jockey and tramping man of the
Republican party shouts for him. The
amountof shouting is wonderful. There
is so mpch organized enthusiasm and
disciphoed spontaneousness: "Ask no
questions—answer none—merely hur•
rah, bo3s." This is theGrantidem Then
we have Mr. Washburne himself. The
good "father of the "House" has gen•
erally baeu a stern fattier—unrelenting
and ezacting—a perfect old Squire
Western, and apt at any time to bring
down his cane upon the back of any
poor yuing, member who came within
the range Mills gouty toes. Ask Roscoe
Conklirg fora youthful experience—say
about 07egon War-debt times! What a
dear old father he is now !—a perfect,
blessed, heavenly old gentleman—lras
cibility mellowed into Benignity—full
of dimiles, and cheeriness, and good
humor, with a sort of " Bless you " my
dear chi.dren," stealing over his face as
he walks down the House of a morning.
The young members cuddle around him
as a perfact Kriss Kringle, and, for the
first time in his Congress career, Mr.
Colfax finds that he is not the most
popular titan in the House. No, no,
gracious Mr. Speaker; the man who
carries tiese foreign missions and things
in his picket is the man of men to day.
This is the jockey who trains the fast
horse Ulysses—who teaches him his
paces, and what gait he shall take, when
lie shall trot, and when he may canter.
And there never was a more favorable
investment! See how the trading men
crowd around his paddock and caress
him. The number of "original Grant
men "—sf men who discovered his
merits years ago—who stood by him
and believed in him—and who saw in
his modest, quiet face the features of a
second Washington—passes compre
thension I doubt if ever a man was
more "believed in." The admiration
with which Captain Cuttie regarded his'
marine comrade Mr. Bunsby was noth
ing to it. When he writes his letters
are gold. No man since Bacon ever
wrote such letters. When he speaks it
is the voice of the ‘sliver-tongued.—
When he neither writes nor speaks,
then we see something Platonic or So
cratic iu his silence. The ashes from
his cigar, yeti, and the smoke that rises'
froah the ashes, are full of statesman- I
shi). You hear his praises on all sides.
Blidr and Forney praise him, although
people remember that Blair and Forney
hale the most unlimited admiration of
success, anti have praised every Presi
dent since Jackson. They keep house
here, and make a business of it!
.4 it wise, say many of our most
thinghtful men, to make a soldier a
clultlidate? Are we to take the advice
of tiose leaders who insisted upon in
doliing Mr. Johnson long after his
tre4ison begun to work ; who feared the
Frsedinan's Bcreau bill was unnecessa
ry,dimi „Manhood Suffrage the greased
cartridge of the Sepoy, and who demand
the nomination of negative military
candidates? The candidate may be
grent soldier ; his character may have
civic beauty as well as military glory ;
lie may be"indorsed" by radical politi
cians. Any of these considerations
might be pleaded in behalf of a military
nomination. They are not pleaded.
• We must have a military man as the
candidate of necessity. The4e men find
sun.iess dearer than principle, and prefer
an easy campaign with au uncertain
leaner to a manly fight at every odds
for liberty and justice. The Republican
party should certainly meet this ques
tiot : Should success in war be the
highest recommendation to the Presi
dency? Our best men had hoped later
years would give us the moral strength
to to in this respect what no party in
this country has everyet done. With the
exception of Washington, we have had
no military President competent to
deal liberally with affairs of State.
It is customary to say this of Jackson.
We cannot honor the man with the
highest honor who debased the public
morals by fostering corruption, and who
regarded the country very much as he
did his plantation in Tennessee, and the
public officers to be kept as well under
the whip as his negro slaves. The edu
cation of the mere soldier unfits him for
civil responsibilities. His life is spent
in camps or forts, on the Indian frontier,
or in circumlocution offices, drowsily
winding red tape. One of the greatest
modern thinkers has shown how few of
theeiementsof character thatcontribute
to greatness are needed in the successful
military commander, and names Crom
well, Washington, and Bonaparte as
the only three men in modern times
who knew how to command an army
and also how to govern a nation. The
experience of men and books—the
knowledge of political economy and
civil law—the serenity of temper so
necessary to a ruler—are almost impos
sible to a military man inactive service.
Hls profession is lawlessness, his
discipline tyranny. His education
teaches him not to make men happy,
but to give them utility and force. His
virtue is the bayonet, his law a cannon.
He is surrounded by soldiers. With
an education limited to the stern re
quirements of a military command, he
finds the Presidency surrounded by poll
ticians,.who flatter him, and pander to
the very weakness which it would be
wisdom to curb. He is slow to recog
nize the sacredness of law. He chafes
under authority and precedent. His
Constitution is a general order; his Su
preme Court a corporal's guard. Ac
customed to absolute power,
it is not in
his nature to surrender it. So, when a
critical Congress ruffles him, or his
policy is overruled, the temper of his
mind is to regard it as he would a break
to his line, and order up his artillery.
A President like Johnson, with mili
tary ideas, would' most probably have
replied to the exasperating speeches of
Sumner and Stevens by a couple of
batteries on Capitol Hill. Freedom is
almost incompatible with a military
spirit. A warrior who rises by his
sword cannot always resist the tempta
tion to rise 'still higher on the shields
of his soldiers,
Because the halting, cowardly, and
timeserving policy of the Republican
party led, to its defeat at the recent elec
tions, they must enter a new campaign
with a soldier candidate. The party
does not want a soldier; if it had car
ried Pennsylvania, it would have done
without him. But this is the hour of
its despair, and only a soldier can save
it. This argument—resting only upon
necessity—is urged in spite of reason,
experience, and common sense. There
is not a politician here of any party
with skill enough to do the rule of three
who does not feel that military service
is the lastqualitication for the Prealdeny.
Philadelphia Photographed.
William Wirt Sikes has a graphic pa•
per upon Philadelphia in the January
Northern Monthly. We quote a few
passages:
A delightful aspect of Philadelphia
life is that which is presented by the
personal appearance of its better classes.
The young men of that city are cele
brated for their manly beauty, their
clear, rudy complexions, their erect,
compact, well-rounded figures, their
bright eyes. There is less dissipation
among the youth of Philadelphia than
among those of any other of our great
towns. Young Philadelphia can play
billiards without madness; it can drink
its wines at parties without feeling re
quired to get hilariously drunk ; it can
patronize bar-rooms without turning
them into scenes of wild orgy; and it
can go to the theatre in the evening
without thinking it a duty, as a climax
to its joys, to adjourn to a supper room
afterward, and get to bed at three o'clock
in the morning with the seeds of a thun
derous headache sown in the jaded
stomach.
The same general truths apply with
equal force to the other sex In Philadel
phia. Girls trip along Chestnut street
in rosy loveliness which would put to
shame the whitened Fifth avenue lady.
With both sexes there is a modesty of
costume which tunes the whole human
aspect of the town. English travelers,
who have formed some conception of
our great cities from their readings pre
vious to coming over, generally have an
Idea that the Philadelphians, as a rule,
wear drab coats, shad•belly In cut, and
broad-brimmed hats, shading smoothly
shaven faces. They pass through New
York, where attire Is often so very
" loud" as to suggest the roar of Broad
way, and coming to Philadelphia find,
instead of a city 01 Quakers, a city of
Englishmen. The well-dressed men of
Philadelphia affect the English style of
attire, and detest the French. They
cultivate side-whiskers as a specialty
They know a New Yorker as soon as
they see him—firstly, by his moustache;
,econdly, by his yawn, and his air of
being immensely bored.
Literature, as a prgfession, does not
flourish in Philadelphia to any extent
at all approaching that of the other
great cities. To earn one's bread and
butter by literature is of itself sufficient
to close the door of genteel society upon
the scribbler, no matter how able he
may be.
The newspaper craft of Philadelphia
seems to be composed of remarkably
steady-going, industrious, well be
haved, and, in many cases, even well
bred (in the fashionable sense) people,
who have in them no more trace of
what we, in New York, term Boheini
anism, than they have of the blood of
the Ciesars. One of New York's most
prominent leaders of fashion is connect
with literature; and the newspaper men
and authors, who are familiar guests to
the most ultra select of New York's so•
cial aristocracy, may be named by scores.
In Philadelphia I know of but one
instance of the kind, and in that in
stance the favored (I) person is a man
of great wealth; as to his connection
with types, that is endured merely, with
a shrug of the shoulders and a regret
that he should not be in a more re
spectable business. Perhaps It may not
be wrong to mention one or two names
of Philadelphians well known in liter
ature for purposes of illustration—Mrs.
Rebecca Harding Davis, for example,
and Mr. George H. Boker.
A lady like Mrs. Rebecca Harding
Davis would be a lion in the most fash
ionable circles of Boston. In New York
she would not be unknown in those
circles if she chose to move In them,
and, If she chose to avoid them, she
might still move in a circle where let
ters are the symbol of aristocracy. In
Philadelphia, fashionable society knows
no such person. As for literary society,
there virtually is none In Philadelphia.
The Asronoolnollon or Colonel Sonehes
The assassination of Colonel Platon
Sanchez. the Mexican Liberal, who
was President of the court-martial
which tried Maximillian, on the road
from Catorce to Sun Luls, on the 18th
of last mouth, was but a token, and a
significant one, of the inevitable revo
lution in Mexico. His executioner was
Domingo Perez, an ex-Sergeant of
Maximillian's bodyguard, a well edu
cated Mexican and long notorious for
personal exploits of during bravery.—
Perez at the time stepped out from his
post, and, calling to Colonel Sanchez,
said: "I am under the necessity of
avenging the death of my Emperor,
and you who pronounced his death sen
tence, and ordered his speedy execu
tion, must be the first to fall." He
then fired at Sanchez, the ball from his
Spencer rifle passing through the Col
onel's head, and causing instant death.
The Sergeant then called upon the
troops, who had all been under Im
perial Sergeants and Corporals, telling
them, " All who desire to do so may
now retire to their homes; while those
who wish to follow me to the Pacific
Coast will take a few steps forward. Of
the 180 men 15 signified their intention of
going home, and left with their arms.
The remaining 105 followed Perez to
ward the State of Jalisco. They were
armed with Spencer's eight and Henry's
twelve-shooter rides, and were splen
didly Mounted. They opened the safe
containing the army funds, which San•
chez! had in his possession, and took
therefrom its contents, $1,700 in all.
At each town they levied a contribution
of bread, and compelled the people to
provide food for theirhorses. Martinez's
command at Zatacetas was ordered to
follow Perez and to give no quarter.
They started 573 strong, and mutinied
at the little town of Ojo Caliente, twelve
leagues from Zacatecas. Perez joined
Chavez's revolutionary party on the Ist
instant, at the small town of Santa Ana,
twelve leagues to the southwest of
Guadalajara, and routed the 11th Regi
ment of that state, which had been sent
in pursuit of them by order of General
Ramon Corona. Sanchez,Pintos, Chaves
and Perez then united their commands,
which numbered some 1,700 men. They
are now in the heavy mountain lands
between the Camino Real of Tepic and
Colima. They stay there in obedience
to orders from Lezada and Placio de
Vega.
International Coinage
The bill introduced by Mr. Sherman into
the Senate on Monday with a view to
promote a uniform currency among all na
tions provides that the weight of the gold
coin of $5 shall be 124 9-20ths troy grains,
so that it shall agree with a French coin of
25 francs, and with the rate of 3,100 francs
to the kilogramme, and the other sizes or
denominations shall be in duo proportion
of weight, and the fineness shall he nine
tenths or nine hundred parts line in the
thousand. The weight of the half dollar
shall be 179 grains, and less coins in pro
lortion ; but the coinage of silver one dol
ar, five cent, and three cent pieces shall be
disconti uued. The devices on the coins
shall be wholly different from those now in
use. The value of gold coins shall be
stamped thereon in dollars and francs, and
also in pounds sterling should Great
Britain agree to conform the pound sterling
to the $5 piece. All these gold coins shall
be a legal tender. The remaining sections
of the bill provide for the reception of the
present United States coins at the mint, the
coinage of the new pieces, and that they
shall be issued from the lst of January,
I&i9.
Senator Chandler Among the Democrats.
A good story is told of Senator Chandler,
which it may not be amiss to relate. A
few evenings since, while the National
Democratic Resident Committee were in
session at the National Hotel, consulting
on party affairs, a rap at the door was
heard, and "come in' having been said,
who should present himself before the as
tonished gaze of the committee but the veri
table Michigander, Zaoh. Chandler. Per
ceiving at once that he was not expected, or
perhaps awed by the presence of the mag
nates assembled, Zach. started back, when
ex-Marshal Hoover went to him and po
litely explained what was going on, telling
him that if he "really felt a change of heart
and wished to come in, perhaps, if the
question was submitted, the committee
might consent to apply to his case the well
known words'While the lamp holds out to
burn, the vilest sinner may return.' " Old
Zach concluded not to "join" just then, but
thought be Would call again,
Bights of Forelgnaltrn citizens—Letter
from !!r. Vollnndlahwm.
A meeting to consider the rights of natur
alized citizens was held in Toledo, Ohio, on
Saturday evening last. The first speaker
was Hon. J. M.Ashley, who said that when
we invite foreigners to our shores we are
bound to protect them everywhere. Of
what use, le asked, is our country's flag to
a man whom it does not shield? It was for
the people to decide in regard to these
things. Lot the agitation go on until the
principles for which we contend become
part of the laws of all nations.
Speeches were:made by other gentlemen,
and a letter from Hon. C. L. Vallandigham,
avowing his sympathy with the object of
the meeting was read. It wus as follows:
DAYTON, Ohio, Dec. 26, 1867.
GENTLEMEN : Your note of the lath lust.,
Inviting me to be present at a public meet
ing In Toledo, to be held on Saturday eve
ning, the 28th inst., to condemn the illegal
imprisonment of our fellow citizens by
foreign governments, I have just received.
While it would give me great pleasure to
attend and participate in person, yet inas
much as it is out of m power so to do, al
low
me to submit a few
suggestions upon
the subject of your meeting.
The point, it I understand it, decided by
the English courts in Islenny'a case, is that
one born a British subject, though natural
ized by another country, may be arrested in
Great Britain, and there tried, convicted and
punished for words spoken or overt nets
committed in that other country, and this
upon the doctrine of perpetual national al
legiance. In effect, therefore, it is held in
England that en Englishman or Irialiman
born, who, after naturalization here in due
form of our law, may happen, as u Senator
or Representative of the United State, to
vote for a declaration of war against Great
Britain, or for army, navy or supply bilk
n such war, may if found at any time 'after
wurcl In England, be there hanged, drawn
and quartered for treason committed by
311('11 Votes given in the American Congress,
The mlitiple statement of a dolt:1110 III:0
this consigns it to utter uondenthation here,
and the question with us Is not 01111 of haw,
but of diplomacy, of mtuteaniunnhip.
law of Bump° is one way; the law of
American the other, and the point hue at
lam been reached when either Europe must
consent to recede from her doginaor Ameri
ca 'abandon her whole system of 111Ouriali
zation. By negotiat , on, by treaty, therefore,
in the linat place. I desire to see the old
Continental and English claim renounced,
Nemo patricon exucre posit, may be very
good laatin,:though not equal quite to Earl
Chutham's authes tuber hum'', nor worth all
the clasalcs. Certainly it bas 'authority and
antiquity upon its side. But the world
moves, and justice and right and sound
policy are riot to be sacrificed to u dead lan
guage, or a maxim which nations have out
lived, and which in the cosmopolitan times
of steam navigation, railways and electric
telegraphs, laud, submarine interoceanic,
ought to become obsolete.
America cannot now abandon her claim
to naturalize the citizens and subjects of
other governments. Her early settlers dial
put oft their country. She is the offspring
of naturalization. Her whole settlement,
population and progress to this day are a
standing negative of the doctrine of per
petual allegiance. Every citizen of the
United States now is either a naturalized
citizen or the son or descendant in 'wine
generation, of one who, at a former period,
was naturalized ; and the only real "native
Americans" among us are the aboriginal
eavages. The Constitution of the United
States provides for naturalization ; among
our earliest acts of legislation were laws to
carry out the constitutional provision, and
our whole policy has been a persistent exe
cution of these laws. To us, our doctrine
is of daily, extended and vital importance.
To Europe, her maxim is of but casual and
most limited application; unless, Indeed,
she shall forbid emigration as to those yet
tat home, and, es to others, demand rendi
tidn, or by sheriffs and posses, or by fleets
and armies, attempt recapture of her mi
grating millions, who practically, have put
.off their native countries to assume ails
glance to ours.
Nor can the United States for one moment
omit to extend the same precise measure of
protection at home and abroad to natural
iced and native citizens alike. And should
all peaceable means fail, Englaud herself.
by her present Abyssinian expedition, made
up of fleet arid army, with caution, musket
and sword, to rescue her subjects tram un
just and illegal imprisonment, is now indi
cating, with sufficient clearness, the final
means of enforcing the reciprocal right of
citizens to receive, and the duty of govern
ments to give protection. But I aria satis
fied that if our government shall become
tonally in earnest in the matter, and exert
itself with promptitude and vigor, not only
will the American citizens now suffering
unjust and illegal imprisonment In foreign
countries be set free, but the question itself,
of interntational law, which so long has
vexed us, be finally adjusted by recognition
of the doctrine and practice upon which our
whole country and government were
founded.
This Is not a Fenian question, nor a more
Irish question even; but ono in which ell
naturalized citizens, In whatsoever country
born, are concerned. To the German es
pecially, whose government demands °Mini
mil litary service, It Is of great and personal
Interest, while every native•born patriot
must feel profoundly the duty of maintain
ing the honor and justice of his own coun
try and government, which, by conferring
citizenship and demanding obedience, has
in this most solemn form promised protec
tion, speedy and absolute, to her naturalized
as to her native citizens, all over the globe.
I write hastily, gentlemen; but whethern
private citizen or in otlieltd position, I will
maintain the snnndness and justness of the
sentiments which I have expressed. Very
truly, ac., C. L. VALLANDICUIAM.
A Righteous Fuglists Verdlet—What hi a
The libel suit of Mr. Rigby Wason, to re
cover damages to the extent of one thous
and pounds sterling from the proprietors of
the London Times for the publication of
matter spoken in the House of Lords, con
taining animadversion on and censure of
the motives of that gentleman in presenting
a petition to the Peers, as Just heard in
Guildhall, involved points of the utmost
importance to the newspaper profession,
and its issue in u verdict for the defendants
defines the rights of journalists towards the
public in such a manner as will leave them
much more freedom in the discharge of
their duties. Mr. Wason went before Par
liament with a petition in which he asserted
that a former political opponent, Sir Fitzroy
Kelley, who had Just been appointed Lord
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, had, " upon
the 11th of April, 1835, pledged his honor
as n gentlemen to the truth of that which
he knew to be false, for the purpose of de
ceiving a committee of the House of Com
mons ;" and he (Wilson) prayed that a com
mittee might be appointed to Investigate
this charge.
Earl Russell presented the paper. His
noble brethren were quick, sharp and de
cisive in their condemnation of both the
language and motives of the petitioner. 'rite
London Times reported the speeches. Mr.
Waeon sued the London Times for libel, nut
for libel in publishing an incorrect or garbled
report, but for libel in publishing the re
marks
at all.
The case was conducted in the Court of
Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of
England charging the jury in a most lucid
and exhaustive exposition of the case as
presented on either side. The Chief Justice
told the jury that it was shown that the re
port was "truthful and fair," and if truth
fill and fair its publication by a newspaper I
was privileged. The second count com
plained that the London Times " falsely
and maliciously" published an editorial
article on the subject of the debate, and 011
this the Lord Chief Justice told the Jury
"that if they were satisfied the article was
written honestly and with a desire to vin
dicate truth and justice they must find for ,
the defendants." The jury found for the
newspaper on all the counts.
This effort to hamper freedom of discus
sion and abridge the liberty of the press in
England, as well as its signal defeat, are
not without value on this side of the Atlantic,
where editors of independence and enter
prise are continually pestered with notices
and charges of libel suits by adventurers
who seek to make a little money out of
them on the plea that some one has been
aggrieved by their placing current facts
correctly before the public. Like many
persons who are ever ready to attribute
motives to others for their everyday acts,
and who pretend to be very sensitive in the
matter of their own reputation, this Mr.
Wason is no way sparing of his abuse of
his opponents. He has had printed in
London a" Letter Exposing the Falsehoods
of the Lord Chancellor and Lord St. Leon
ardo, uttered in order to deceive the House
of Lords ;" and a pamphlet with the title
" Who are the Liars?' In the Court of
Queen's Bench be refers to the House of
Lords as "an assembly of fishwomen," and
to the Judges as " Bailey lawyers,"
"foul-mouthed" and "guilty of deliberate
and malignant falsehood."—.N. Y. Herald.
The Late !Melancholy Parricide
The following is an extract from what
was probably the last letter ever written by
the late Congressman Hamilton, of Ohio,
lately killed by his insane eon :
" As I have named the cause of being at
home, it is proper I should be a little more
explicit. My wife wrote me that my oldest
Boy, Tom. eighteen years old, was threat
ened with insanity. I found on my arrival
that her fears had a real foundation, but I
hoped that it would be but a temporary
trouble, till yesterday, when his conduct
was such that I despaired of managing him
at home or at a private water-cure, and I
have made arrangements to take him to the
asylum at Columbus. He has been one of
the molt quiet, industrious and exemplary
boys I ever knew, and my chief reliance for
the management of my afralre and the con
trol of my Other children in my abaenoe."
NUMBER 2
The Ohio Democratic Convection
Tho Ohio Democratic State Coin ention,
which met at Columbus on the historic sth,
Is said to have been not only ono of the
largest, but the ablest gathering of the
kind over seen in that State. The pro
ceedings were entirely harmonious through
out, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
The Convention was called to order by
John G. Thompson, chairman of the State
Central Committee. Mr. H. J. Jewett, M
Muskingum, was elected temporary chair
man, and Henry V. Kerr, of Clermont, sec
retary.
A motion to refer all resolutions to the
Committee on Resolutions, without debate
gave rise to some discussion. Au amend
ment was offered no follows:
liesoteed, That Hon. Geo. U. Pendleton
is the choice of the Democracy of Ohio tor
next President.
The resolution was adopted amid the
wildest enthusiasm and cheers. A com
mittee was appointed to wait on Mr. Pen
dleton, who soon returned with that gen
tleman. His reception by the Convention
was even more enthusiastic than that which
marked the adoption of the resolution. lie
made a abort speech, declaring that who
ever might be the Democratic nominee
would certainly be elected.
The Convention then adjourned till the
afternoon.
The main interest centered In the action
of the Committee on Resolutions. This
committee was principally composed of men
pledged to Judge Thornton. Thu resolu
tions reported by them were as follows:
Resolved, That tho Demovracy of Ohio
congratulate the vountry upon the Impor
tant aspect of political affairs, as evidenced
by the Stale elections of 1007, and they look
forward with hope unit eonlidence to the re
sult of the momentous struggle upon which
depend in so great a degree the future pence
and prosperit y of the Union.
Re.rofacil, unalterably apposed to
the doctrines which lend to consolidation,
we renew with unflagging/Ati and Morel's
ed energy our attachment to that political
creed which has ever been No staunchly nil
hored to by our organication, through days
of trouble anti disaster us well as good for
tune and prosperity, which was thus ex
pressed by Thomas Jefferson, " Equal and
exact Justice to all men, of whatever State
or persuasion, religious or political ; peace,
commerce and honest friendship with all
nations, entangling alliances with none; .
the support of the State governments In all
their rights, as the must competent admin
istrators of our domestic concerns and the
!Wrest bulwark against anti-republwan
tendencies ; the preservation of the general
government in its whole constitutional
vigor as the sheet anchor or peace at home
uud safety abroad; u Jealous cars of the
rights of elections by the people, and the
supremacy of the civil over the military'
authority.
Resolved, That wo condemn the legisla
tive usurpation of Congress, and particular
ly the several acts of reconstruction, so
called, as violation of the constittitiobal
compact between the States, and as utterly
subversive of every principle Lifson' govern
ment that distinguluhes u free people,
Rcso/ved, That we are opposed to any
measures which recognize that the integ.
rity of the Union was ever broken, that any
of its members were over out, and that we
determinedly insist that the Southern
States, no longer being in insurrection or
at war with the federal government, are
entitled to the full Stare recognition and
constitutional representation in Congress,
and the Electoral College given to ail the
Stales, and that the denial of it to them by
Congress and Its efforts to dictate by mili
tary force a government for them are un•
constitutional, revolutionary and deliotic.
Resolved, That we are oppo , ed lioth in
policy and principle to negro suffrage; that
the State of Ohio having, by the emphatic
majority of fifty thousand, rejected it fur
herself, is sternly opposed Lo its forced im
position upon other States, and that we
stigmatize such an imposition by the federal
government as a most basin usurpation.
Resolved, That the practical effect of the
so-called Reconstruction acts of Congress
is to deliver over ten States to the political
and social control of negroes, and to place
the lives, liberties and fortunes of the whites
residing therein in the hands of a barbarous
people, and that It would inevitably lead
either to a war of races or to the Africanizing
of the South.
Resolved, That, notwithstanding the enor
mous and conceded frauds in the creation of
the public debt. the laith of country is
pledged to its payment, principal and in
terest, according to the terms of the several
acts of Congress under which the bonds
representing the debt wore Issued, but not
otherwise, and we are opposed to any plan
for extending the time of payment, thus
increasing the amount of gold Interest to
more than the principal, or to any declara
tion by Congress that the principal is pay
able in gold, which would virtually add
more than a thousand millions to the bur
den of the debt and to the whole insane
financial policy of which these measures are
a part.
liesofved, That neither forgetting nor de
nying our ancient faith that gold and silver
coin forma the currency of the Constitu
tion, we declare that the five-twenty bonds
should be paid In the same currency re
ceived by the government for their issue,
and that by the withdrawal of the mono
poly granted to the national banks, this re
sult can he 11CCOM pl haled without an undue
or dangerous increase of paper money, now
the only circulating medium, thus reliev
ing our people from the burden of a debt,
the tendency of which is always to corrupt
and enslave our government from the re
proach of paying a favored class in gold,
while discharging its debts to all others, in
cluding pensions to widows and soldiers,
in an inferior currency.
licsolved, That this plan violates no law,
impairs no contract, breaks no faith, and,
instead of retarding a return to specie pay
ments, is the shortest because the only sale
way of reaching that end.
lees° tved, That all the property of the
country, including the government bonds
which receives the equal protection of the
government, should bear an equal share In
its burdens.
iteBotvcd, That we indignantly reject the
principle derived from the feudal system,
that the musses of the people belong to the
governments under which they live, which
in another form is contended for by the
monarchies of Europe—including t; rent
Britain—once a subject always a subject ;
that we, on the contrary, Maintain that all
individual can by emigration and residence
m another country, forswear his previous
allegiance anti be admitted into all the civil
and political rights of his new home; that
American citizens by adoption and natura
lization are entitled to all the rights, as be
tween us and foreign Powers, Nellie!. can be
claimed Ly our native born citizens, and it
is the duty id* the lederal government to
protect and maintain them by every means
within its power.
Re,yo/vcd, That the people will sustain
Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States, in his struggle with Congressional
usurpation, and that we pledge the Democ
racy of Ohio to support him in all Consti
tutional measures to relieve the white people
of the South from the negro government
now being imposed upon them.
Resolved, That the fortitude and gallantry
of our soldiers in the recent civil war In de
fence of the Union entitle them to the grati
tude of the country, and they should be
remembered by it in its bouutlea.
Pesofeed, That the Democracy of the
country have neither the purpose nor the
desire to re-ostablish slavery nor to assume
uuy portion of the debts of the .tatea lately
in rebellion.
Horrible Saielde—A Bridegroom Desert
eLl by his Bride Hangs Himself.
We have learned to-day the particulars of
a horrible case of suici de that occurred at
Treseow, on the Lehigh Valley road. A
young man, aged about'_.? years, married
a young woman about three months peat,
and a few days tack she became tired of
married life and returned to her brothers to
live. The young man was very much
troubled, and calling on his wife on Sat
tatiny, intormed tier unless she would live
with Lim, he would kill himself. She re
fused, and he executed the threat by hang
ing himself from a tree near the house.—
rope was so long that his feet touched
the ground, but, determined to die, be held
them up with his hands, and was found
dead as n stone. The bride's brother took
the body down, carried it toe neighboring
tavern, where it remained on the stoop dur
ing the day. In the evening he knocked a
board from the fence, constructed a rude
coffin, and buried the body of his brother-
In-law outside the fence or the church yard.
That is the way they do things up the river.
—Easton Preis of Jan. 7th.
Governoc of Virginia
The executive term of Governor Pier
point, of Virginia, expired on the 31st of
December of last year, and it is being dis
cussed in the Virginia press what is his
statue at this time. According to the con
stitution and laws of Virginia, a Governor
and Lieutenant Governor should have been
elected lust year, and by the first ofJanuary
of this year should have been installed
in office. But in the process of recon
struction military interference preven
ted elections and relieved the Legisla
ture of duty. The Richmond Dispatch
claims that the case Is covered by a general
provision of the constitution, which requires
that "Judges and all other officers, whether
elected or appointed, shall continue to dis
charge the duties of their respective offices,
after their terms of service has expired, until
their successors are appointed." Governor
Rierpoint continues in office by the consti
tution because there is no successor quali
fied ; unless General Sopofleld shall exercise
We power under the reeonetruotlon'aet to
supersede Inm, which La not probable.
RATE OF ADVERTEOLSO.
Ja mule Aavarrzeloarys, $l2 a year NIT
woe or teolltiesi Fl Der Year for oath. ad.
tlotaal ware.
SAL ESTATZ ADWITIBING, 10 Cents • Hl:tailor
the test, end 5 cents for pun subsequent In
sertion.
.ENZIIAL Anvil:Tuft:so 7 cents a line for the
first, and 4 Con to for each subsequent Inser
tion.
?Emu. Nomoza Inserted In Local Column
15 cents per 11fle.
.scrst. Names preceding marriages and
deaths, 10 cents per line for first insertion,
and 6 cents for every subsequent insertion.
LEGAI. AND OTII U Noricsi—
atectitors' 2.50
Atinitnistmtors'
Assignees' notices
Auditors' notices 2.00
Other "Notices,' ten lines, or leu,
three times
„.,„„ 1.50
A Lively Dny for Reporters.
From the Richmond Dispatch, January
Early on Saturday morning the pollee
discovered upon certain walls and fetters in
, the business part of the city a printed card,
signed by E. Cuthbert of the NOW York
Herald, assailing in the moot scurrilous
manner the character of Dr. J. 11. Brock of
Phu Enquirer and EXaMinerllOWSpOpOr.Tho
cbJectionablo cards were discovered, and the
• Chief of Police, knowing that the charges
I which it contained were of a character
likely to provoke a hostile meeting betwhen
1 the gentlemen whose names have been
mentioned above, caused Dr. Brock to be
bound over to keep the pence.
Later in the day Mr, Ernest Wlltz, an
other reporter of The PLraminer,tind a friend
of Dr. Brock, met Mr. Cuthbert on the cor
ner of Eleventh and Itank streets, when
there was un itnmediate resort to blows.--
The parties were soon separated, and short
! ly afterward Mr. Wiltz was arrested on a
warrant obtained by Cuthbert, unit recog
nized for has appearance before the Mayor
this morning.
This athur created quite tin excitement
around the locality in which it occurred,
but it was soon eclipsed by another emute,
in which nearly the WllOlO reportorial corps
of Richmond were more or leas
A statement In the editorial eolutnn of
The Didpateh of yesterday mentioned In
cidentally that our reporter had obtained
his informatton cementing the repudiation
of Hunnicutt by Porter from W. ll.Saninet,
who does the stenographic reporting for the
Convention. Feeling in sonic manner ag
jrieved by thle, Immediately alter the ad
ournment of the Convention Mr. Samuel
approached Mr. James I'. Coward in of this
paper with the words, " r. Cowardin, you
have not the first principles of a gentle
man."
Mr. Cowardln ottompted to resent the In
sult by n blow, but ins Willa wore seined and firmly held, and Natnuol romarked that
the difficulty could hu nettled olnowhuro
than on thu (lour of the Convention.
An hour or two afterward Mr. SlllllllO
walked up Twelfth street, near :the Enqui
rer and I..rnminer ffilloo, in company with
movoral Radical members or the COIIN'tII.
lion, 1l r. Cowardln toot him, and demund
ed n rotriwtion or Mu roust 11 taboret' at the
()Waal. Till , rotrootion being renined, Mr.
Coivordin ruined Ids 011110 cud struck Sam.
uelnuvorol heavy blown on the Mid. Thu
latter drew idstols unit lho portion closed,
when !wilily or Brunswick and other mom
horn of oho Convuntion rushed to the old of
Manuel, and Join,' In the attack upon Cow
ordm.
Several bystanders, belonging to the
Richmond press and to the Convention,
thou rushed in, and the affair began to look
very much like a free tight. The pollee
1.10011 arrived, however, and the tollowing
parties were arrested mi implicated In the
disturbance; Cowardin and heady of The
Divrach, Jannis of The Enquire, Leahy of
the Convention, and Samuel of Baltimore,
sternographie reporter. They were all
recoginged to appear before the Mayor this
morning.
Kennon's for the Removal 01 Gen. Pope.l
' A Washington correspondent (January
3) of the liost.in Mit furnishes the follow
ing as the reasons for the removal or (ten.
Pope,_ !is communicated officially to the
President :
Under the State lutes the census of Ala
haunt was taken in 101)11, showing a popula
' clot' of 1011,1010 white males over the age of
twenty-tiffs years, and 91,000 blacks. The
late registration, under :ion. Pope's man
ipulnuuns, resulted ill registering 74,000
whites and 9 11 ,11011 blacks. The Bureau con
stitution is to be voted for ou the 4th day of
February, and, us already stated ht this
correspondence, the negroes since the regis
tration have become vary nitiOs unuttered,
owing to their long habit of changing homes
at the beginning of a new year. To cOllll
- the effect of this change of residence,
(funeral Pope solid an tinier that any per
son offering to vote in limy county sli old
he allowed to do so upon making ullldn vii
that his 'Janie had been registered. This
order also provided that, fourteen days pi I .
ceding the election, the registrars throug'
out the State should open their Hats a it
revision, and keep them open live days. A
revision similar to this woe liad preceding
the elect ion for delegates Loth° Convention.
A (thirty its aro before the President to the
effect that a large number of negroes under
the ago of twenty , one were permitted to
register and vote, and unless lien. Popo
bad been removed the name would again
be allowed.
touSC turnishiug &tido, &c.
YOUNG FOLIO{ ATTENTION!
Now On the I Imo to get on rrted. You can
furnish your i 11,1121. with HTU V EN, KETTLEts.
PA No, TINWARE, and another necessary ar
ticles In our line at the
On/OD (.11.1) LOW PRICES.
OLD now In the thou Mr you In buy
for the young folks TI N. W ARE to look like
Nucor IIIiANN nod COPPER WARE to leek
like (J, ad. vo have enlarged our Iltoduess, and
can .miter every Inducement to UM. who are
now buying HOUSE
JOHN DEANER d, CO.,
Nu. 7 Lust Klng street, P
Lancaster, a.
J tn h-trw
/MAN-FITTING AND PLUMBING.
kj JOHN DEANER w CO., No. 7 East King
Street, with . Increased facilities, urn now pre
pared to attend to all orders WIWI reeKs
UM! dispatch. Having noun but the host work•
men employed, all work will be LIEIII4IIOO In a
superior niontier,uud with all the modern lin
provemeuls.
Copper hail. and Wool, hollers, and all
kinds or Copper Work for Breweries .61,d
attuotied to With promptness. Having
greatly enlarged thin department, all orders
eon be tilled lorthwith.
'l'lN BMW'S m HPOUTING
Attended to In any part o(i he city and Calmly.
Furnaces, limier., Stoves, Hauges, and salt
modern Improvements (or heating Churches,
Hans, Parlors, Houses, at., always on land,
and will he put up In any part of tile nay or
county, or their repairs ulcerated to at any
time. JOHN DEANEH d CO.,
N 0.7 East King street.,
!TEEM
E k'UENINLIING GOODS I
A. C. FLINN,
NO. 11 NORTH Q UEEN STREET
LANCASTER, PA.,
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110 USEKEEP.I,VO GOODS,
Ilounekeeperx . Hardware, Stove. of all klnda,
Till W.O, JAparlll.l Ware, Wooden Wal),
litotakds, rpoanx, Ko I vem, Forka, Cop
per and limas V,urv, and Cooking lhonallu of
all lauds.
STOVEH,
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Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware
ILA UPA cron Y.
COI'I'ISR KI=LESI, ALL tiIZEN
ROOFING, HPOUTING AN D TIN MENDING
Pal/M1 . 11.Y ATTENDED TO.
Particular attention paid to fitting np
Breweries and Distilleries.
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING
Water and Una Plpea, Lend, Galvanized Iron
Cant and Wrought Iron, Terra Cotta and Cup
per Tublng•
HYDRANTS, BATH TUBS AVD BOILERS,
112ItMEINffill
FORCE and LIFT PUMPS for ClBtrrns nr
deep WeMr, llydraullc Rome, lieglsters, Lan
era, Ventliatorn, ac.
At A. C. FLINN'S,
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Jai ttdmw
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HE OLDEIST AND LAIR/EST ESTABLISH,
/RENT IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
CEO. M. BTEINMAIv eft CO.,
WENT KING STREET,
Having recently enlarged their store and thus
greatly Increased their busMau facilities, now
offer to the comm unl ty,
AT THE LOWEST PHILADELPHIA RATER
the rineetatelortment In the market, of
HARD WARE
SADDLERY
0118
1 3 AINTS,
GLASS
iOVES
IRON AND STEEL,
OEDAR WARE
SLEIOIi-BELcurLtßil
OIL LOTHS,
SKATES, decr:
PERSONS COMMENCING HOUSEKEEPING
will Linda full iClisortment of goods In theli
line.
They are also agents for a auperlor article
NAILS, Mid for
DUPONT'S CELEBRATED GUN AND ROCK
POWDER
fri - The highest meth price paid for Clover
Tin]Of , ti V. and Old Flax Seed. Idea 81 tfdaw
E. IL SCILiEFFE6,
wßoLffauz AND RETAIL HADDLERZ
NOB 1 AND 2 EAST KLNE2 STREIT
LAN °ASTER, P.
$26 FOR 1799 CENT COINS INAISTEIDg
collections bougbt.; • Book showin
prices paid for coins, i 5 °ante; Monthly Coin
and Stamp Idegazlne,ls cents, yearly; Ells•
tory or American Coins 81.10. Mason NtOthowl..
No. 481 Chestnut street, B'lthadslols.