Sht giittasity /ntelligtuar, PII.BLISMIED EVER WEDNESDAY EY H. O. SMITH .t CO il. G. SMITH Trans-Two Dollars por annum, payable in all caeca lu advance. TIDE LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE:EL IS publietteit every evening, Sunday excepted, at :5 per Annum in advance. OF.FICIg—SouTHwEsT 00111181/ OF CENTEX dclonnt. gtiordinitecto. Moro Mete; Old and New. [From the Da4llti University Mugazino.l All tellers of pet ghost stories firmly believe In their authenticity. This Is an admitted fact. And all who fancy they ' tntve seen disembodied spirits pr spec tral apparations are equally satisfied that they were not under any delusion, mental or physical. The vision of a head which - haunted the late Earl Grey, was said by many to have been a spe cies of monomania, or optical deception ; but when the head presented itself to the eyes of other members of his family, that theory broke down. The second Marquess of 'Londonder ry, better known as the celebrated statesman, Lord Castlereagh, told at one of his wife's supper parties In Paris, in 1813, the following supernatural tale with the most perfect gravity. Sir Walter Scott was amongst the hearers, and often repeated it. Lord Castlereagh, when cOmmanding in early life a militia regiment in Ireland, was stationed one night In a large desolate country-house. His bed was at one end of along, dilapi dated room, while at the other extrem vlay a great fire of wood and turf had been prepared within a huge, gaping, old fashioned chimney. Waking in the middle of the night, he lay watching from his pillow the gradual darkening of the embers on the hearth, when suddenly they blazed up, and a naked child stepped from amongst them on the floor. The figureadvanced slowly towards him, rising in stature at every step, until on coining within two or three paces of his bed it had assumed the appearance of a ghastly giant, pale as death, with a bleeding wound on the brow, and eyes glaring with rage and despair. Lord Castlereagh leaped from his bed, and confronted the figure in an attitude of defiance. I t retreated before him, diminishing us it withdrew in the same manner that it had previously shot up and expanded. lie followed It , puce by pace, until the original childlike form disappeared in the etubers. When Lord Londonderry died by his own hand in 18:22, Sir Walter Scott said, 'This explains a story he told me of his having seen a ghost, which I thought was a very extraor dinary narrative from the lips of a man of so much calm sense and steadiness of nerve. But, lie doubt, he had been subject to aberrations of mind, which often create such phantoms." We can not see how the suicide of Lord Lon donderry explains the ghostly appear ance of so many years before. Neither eon we quite admit the "no doubt," of habitual mental wanderings, of which no evidence is offered, and none, as we believe, has ever been recorded. The Marquess bore through life the charac ter of one endowed with most unusual self-possession and an even tempera ment. The suicide. iu all probability, proceeded from some immediate ex citement or incidental cause rather than from any constitutional tendency. The most,trust•worthy chroniclers of the day male no allusion to the latter possibility. They attributed the act to I the harassin labors of the late session, as well as toLinaLy mortifying reflec tions on his political character, with ! which the daily and iveekly organs of public oldnion, opposed to the govern- meat, abounded. the coroner's inquest brought in a verdict of insanity, and his lordship's remains were interred iu Westminster Abbey. Such was his unpopularity at the time, that while his 1 conin was being removed from the 1 hearse into the sacred edifice, yells of 1 exulting execrations were uttered by' the surrounding populace. Then, as now, the destructive principles of infi delity and sedition had many loud tongued adyucates, of whom a type presented itself in the ignorant drunk aru who was taken up in the Strand for shouting, " No King, no Church, no Constitution, no Nhthing at all " -Not content Witt. ' the ostensible causes of the self-destruction of the m inister,moreth one scandalous story was propagated by his enemies injuri ous to his character; but they obtained little credit, and, in all probability, were, the pure inventions of matey°. lence„without the least foundation. Lord Ifyron, iu his ribald poem of "Don J non," and also in one or two unwor thy Epigrams, sneered at the sad event in a tone which all well-thinking per sons felt to be more disgraceful to the writer than to the unconscious subject of his sarcasm. The gifted poet forgot what Shakespeare puts into the mouth of King Henry the Sixth at the death bed of Cardinal Beaufort: " Forbear to judge, for we are shiners all." The pre cept is too often unheeded, but cannot be too frequently recalled. The supernatural appearance referred to above may have been a dream, as it occurred at night, when the narrator was in bed ; although Lord L. declared he was awake. We have heard a person of credibility say he once dreamt he was asleep and dreaming; that he awoke and dreamt again, taking up the Intel! rupted sequence of thought and action as if nothing had broken it, and still under the conviction that he was asleep all 'the time. It is beyond the scope of theory or reasoning to accout for dreams. This ghostly child recalls another story of a juvenile fetch, or wraith, or whatever the proper term may be, late ly told to the present writer by a friend, a senior of Ids own standing, which pre sented itself to him a long time ago in Wales, when he was fishing in the river tisk. The teller of the tale is essential ly u, practical, rather than au imagina tive or romantic individual, with noth ing dreamy or superstitious in his mental or cerebral development. Strol ling down tile bank on a line summer's day, rod in hand, on the look out for a favorable spot in which Co try a cast, he stopped at a place which appeared in viting. The Usk abounds in rocky islets. Opposite to him, and near the centre of the stream, was one of these, rather ele vated. On the other side, between the rock and the main -land, the current ran with much rapidity, and somewhat tur bidly, as if disturbed and intercepted by obstacles below the surface. The depth of water was much greater than on the side our fisherman had selected. This he knew from former visits and observations. Suddenly he looked up, and saw a little girl, of six or seven years old, in a bonnet and cloak, with a basket on her arm, standing quite on the summit of the island. She remained for some time, and he continued to look steadily on the unexpected object, won dering how she got there, as without a boat access to the place where she stood was utterly impossible. He had his fishing-boots on, and tried to wade across to her, but the river was to deep. Determined to satisfy himself, he moved further down until he reached a fordable point, and crossed over to the other side. There, to the increased surprise, lie saw the child standing, having left the island. No vestige of a boat, or raft, or any contriv ance by which her passage could have been effected, presented itself. This, of course, added to his astonishment, and he walked towards her. When within a short distance, she moved across a field or two in the direction of a:cottage on an eminence, backed by a wood ; as cended-some stepson the side of the hill, opened the door, and disappeared with in. There could be no mistake. He was . certain of the fact and identity of the person, for he had noted her dress and appearance with minute attention, He followed quickly, reached the cottage, knockedat thedoor and was told to come in. He did so, and saw a man and woman. apparently his wife, sitting by the kitchen fire. The attitude of the man was desponding—his head on his hand, while his elbow rested on the knee. The visitor asked where the little girl was who had just preceded him into the cottage. The reply from the man was, "No little girl has entered here ; we had but one and we lost her some months ago ; she is dead." He then pointed to a cloak, bonnet and basket on the wall, and said. "Those were hers, and there she always left them." The stranger instantly recognized them As those he had seen. "Then," replied the man, solemnly, •' you have seen her Fetch ! ' She was our only child, most dear to us, and allowed by all to be the best girl in the school she attended." After a little more conversation, be pressed a gratuity on them, which they were unwilling to take, and, not liking his own reflections, left the cottage. He then went to the school in the immedi- ate neighborhood, to obtain further particulars. Everything he had been told was corroborated by the school mistress, who also took him to the child's 'grave in the vWage churchyard:. Here the incident ended. Nothing IMI!1=fEl VOLUME 69 more ensued, nor had the person to whom the vision appeared the slightest connection with or interest in the parties concerned. He cannot persuade himself that it was a bona fide ghost, and to this hour remains undecided as to what it really was. Of this he is certain, that he was not asleep, and that What be saw and did were not the vapors of a dream. Sleep overpowers people in strange positions, and It is qute possible to be so overtaken when fishing on the banks of a river ; but to retain a salmon-rod In bands, and not drop or lose it, under such conditions exceeds the category of possibilities. Besides, where was the money that had been given on this par ticular occasion, and certainly no longer in the bestower's pocket? We ourselves have a distinct recollection of walking ' a considerable distance during a night ! march; in a state of perfect somnolency from fatigue • but•the hands were emp ty, and nothing dropped or lost. On another occasion, going up Mount Erna by night so as to reach the summit for sunrise, one of the party dropped from his mule asleep; whereupon the dumb quadruped halted till he should get up again. Being missed, two of his com panions, with the guide, came back to look for the absentee, and found him locked in deep repose in the pathway, I and the mule standing by him in the same state of happy obliviousness. A strange incident, which has been in print before, occurred in the life of Gen eral Sir John Sherbrooke, who died in the year 1830. He was another man with as little romance in his composi tion as could possibly be imagined. A good executive officer, but hot and pep pery as cayenne pepper; his temper not being improved by a deranged liver, tile result of long service under the scorch ing sun of India. In the year 1785, he and Gen. Wyn yard, then very young men, were offi cers in the same regiment stationed in Canada. On the 15th of October in that year, about four o'clock P. x., before dusk came on, they were seated in Wynyard's quarters engaged in study. It was a room In a block house, with two doors, the one opening on an outer passage, the otherinto the latter officer's bedroom, from which there was no exit except by returning through the parlor. Sherbrooke, happening to look up from his book, saw beside the door which opened on the passage the figure of a tall youth, apparently about twenty years of age, but pale and much emaci ated. Astonished at the presence of a stranger, Sherbrooke called the atten tion of his brother officer, sitting near him, to the visitor. "I have• heard," he said, in afterwards relating the inci dent, "of a man's being as pale as death, but I never saw a living face as sume the appearance of a corpse except Wynyard's at that moment." Both re mained silently gazing ou the figure as It moved slowly through the room, and entered the bed chamber, casting on young Wynyard, as it passed, a look, as his friend thought, of melancholy affec tion. The oppression of Its presence was no sooner removed than Wynyard, grasping Sherbrooke's arm, exclaimed, in scarcely articulate tones, "Good God! my brother!" Both anxiously waited the arrival of the mall from England; some of the officers, meanwhile, induced Wynyard to confess with much reluctance what Ihe had seen. Great excitement was I produced throughout the regiment in consequence. When the expected ves sel arrived, there were no letters for Wynyard, but one for Sherbrooke. As soon as he opened and read it, he beck oned Wynyard from the room. They remained closeted for an hour. On Sherbrooke's return, the mystery was solved. It was a letter from another officer, begging Sherbrooke to break to Wynyard the news of the death of his favorite brother, who had expired on the 15th of October, and at the same hour at which the friends saw the apparition in the block-house. Some years after wards, Sherbrooke, then in England, was walking in Piccadilly, London, when on the opposite side of the street lie saw a gentleman whom he instantly recognized as the counterpart of the mysterious visiter. Crossing over, he apologized for his • intrusion, and learned that he also was a brother—not a twin, as some accounts have it—of Wynyard. More than once, and long after, when some allusion to the incident was made, in Gen. Sher brooke's presence, he interposed, with strong emotion, saying, "I beg that the subject may not again be " mentioned." The impression on the minds of those who heard him was that lie considered the matter too serious to be talked of. General Paul Anderson, a distinguished Peninsular officer, who, when a major on Sir John Moore's staff, assisted at the burial of that gallant soldier on the ramparts of Corunna, corroborated the facts here repeated, as having heard them direct from Sir John Sherbrooke's own lips a short time before his death; adding that Sir John assured him also, in the most solemn manner, that he be lieved the appearance to have been a 'ghost, or disembodied spirit, and that this belief was shared by his friend Wynyard. Strong evidence, more than forty years subsequent to the event. We find it stated in Moore's Life of Byron, that the noble bard sometimes used to mention a strange story, which the commander of the packet, Captain Kidd, related to him when on his pass age to Lisbon in 1609. Being asleep one night In his berth—Captain Kidd, loqui• fur—he was awakened by the 'pressure of something heavy on his limbs, and, there being a faint light in the room, could see, as he thought, distinctly the figure of his brother, who was at that time in the naval service in the East Indies, dressed in his uniform, and stretched across the bed. Concluding it to be an illusion of the seuser, he shut his eyes and made an effort to sleep; but still the same pressure continued, and still, as often as he ventured to,.take another look, he saw and felt the figure lying across him in the same position. To add to the wonder, on put ting his hand forth to touch this form, he found the uniform in which it ap peared to be dressed dripping wet. On the entrance of one of his brother offi cers, to whom he called out iu alarm, the apparition vanished ; but in a few mouths after he received the startling intelligence thaton that iudenticalnight his brother had fallen overboard, and been drowned in the Indian seas. Of the supernatural character of this ap, pearance, Captain Kidd himself did not appear to have the slightest doubt. "Oh!" exclaims the incredulous reader, "this was a decided dream;" Grant ing the probability of such a solution, it was nevertheless an intimation, out of the natural course, of an event which had actually occurred at an enormous distance, and touching most closely the party to whom it was conveyed. Fight with an Alligator In a Tan Tat. The following is an account of a recent hard fight between a man named .Hitt and a seven-foot alligator in Texas.— Hitt was :It work in a tan-yard. He went to work in the morning as usual, but during the night an alligator had taken possession, and was in the vat when Hitt left work the evening before. On arriving at the yard next morning, Hittentered the vat without discovering the intruder, took hold of a side of leather, and pulled and tugged, but could not raise it, and called his son to assist. He had not yet discovered the monster lying on the side, nearly cov ered with tan ooze. He heard a splash behind him, and thought it was his son jumping in, Not so, however—the al ligator had made a lunge at him, but only caught the seat of hls breeches. Thinking his son had missed his grab, he bawled to him : "What are you pul ling at me for? Why don't you take hold of the hide? " His son answered: " Pap, I ain't there." Applodorus relates that Theseus sat so long on a rock that at length he grew to it, so that when Hercules tore him forcibly away, he left the nether part of the man behind him. Mr. Hitt had a narrow escape from a similar fate. lie screwed himself around, minus the seat of his breeches, to see the monster in battle array, face to face, confined with in the limits of the tanvat. The alligator, as it Is known by those acquainted with the brute, is, "like him who has his quarrel just, ,, doubly armed be ing able to knock down a man or an animal with a blow of his tail as well as to break bones with his ponderous jaws; but in this case the sides of the vat inter posed and kept the beast from bringing its rear into the fight. Hitt struck out with his fists, but finding the coat of mail of his adversary too much for such assaults, leaped upon his back and played Kentuck with his thumbs, bringing something more than the fabled tears to the eyes of the crocodile. In the mean .(....'...1).r./.Xaitt.aot(t. stttettiq/eite,C.e__ time the boy had run to the house after Mr. G. and his gun. In the great hurry and excitement, Mr. G. presented his gun, cocked, at some huge mass. Hitt, ash turned out, was on top, his body and head elevated about twelve degrees. Mr. G. was standing nearly over them in a shooting position. Hitt saw the danger, but too much exhausted to speak, dis engaged his hands and elevated them, when 0. fired, killing the animal. Hitt recovered a little from his exhaustion, and sang out, " What did you shoot foil? I had him whipped all to putting the strings on him."—Exchange. Anecdotes of Chief Justlce Taney. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial gives the substance of a conversation with Mr. Samuel Tyler, of Maryland, the literary executor of the late Chief Justice Taney,in which some interesting anecdotes are related respect ing that distinguished jurist. We ex tract the following passages: TANEY'S ABITOI - IRENCE OF POLITICS. "Taney had not literary abilities like Marshall ?" "Yes, he had abilities, but be was a thoroughly devoted lawyer, who re fused to express opinions, literary or otherwise, which might seem to obtain the sanction of the name of the Chief Justice, and, although he read much, he seemed to make an effort to com press his mind and utterances into legal channels merely, and looked upon his Court with an eye single. Efforts were made to drag him into politics at many periods of his life, notably during the Douglas-Breckinridge campaign." ' What case was that Mr. Tyler ?" Well, sir! One Mr. Hughes, of Hagerstown, au intimate friend of Judge 'fancy, wrote to the Judge, in the heat of that political campaign, saying that it was affirmed all through the country that Judge Taney had de• elated himself in favor of Mr. Douglas for the Presidency. Consequently the Irish Catholic voters were going pell mell for Mr. Douglas. And Mr. Hughes, who believed the contrary to be the pre dilections of the Chief Justice, wrote to the latter for permission to deny that he had expressed himself in support of the Little Giant, as he was called.•' " What did the Chief Justice reply?" " He wrote In a letter, :which 1 pos sess, to this effect—very nearly iu these terms: "`Sir, I am Chief Justice of the United States. As such, since the year lei3G 1 have never cast a vote ! I never permit any retainer or under-officehold er of mine to converse with me upon candidates and their prospects. I never give advice to render service, volunta rily or involuntarily, upon any side And so particular am 1, sir, that my name shall never appear, with my con sent, appended to any politics, that I refuse to permit you to deny that I am for or against auy body at this junction. If any man hus affirmed anything on the credit of my name, I hold to my neutrality so tenaciously that I refuse to let my name be used for any denial, even of an unauthorized falsehood !' " " There were probably other Instances of his political neutrality 2" " Yes. I recollect that at one time the marshal of his Court, being a stout partisan, wanted to go to the polls in his official capacity, to keep 'order, for the Democrats were hard pressed, and required both physical and official aid. The Chief Justice said to him: 'Mr. Marshal --,' he always gave every man his official term, and insisted upon being entitled to hls own name official ly, in like manner—' Mr. Marshal, you can go to the polls, sir, like every citi zen, but if you go as the marshal of my Court:you go at your peril! " CII IEF JUSTICE CHASE-THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. " What did Judge Taney think of Chief Justice Chase, Mr. Tyler ?" "Better of him, sir, than most of the Chief Justice's friends. I have heard him express himself favorably of Mr. Chase's address, motives, and legal "Judge Taney's opinion of Andrew Jackson was high, of course ?" "The highest. He was the grandest Cesar that ever sat in the Executive chair. Few of Judge Taney's friends have ever been iu the White House since Gem Jackson left it. I never expect to enter there again. Judge Taney recog nized in Gen. Jackson the supremest will, the strongest devotion, the clearest intellect that ever adorned the Chief Magistracy. So far from the Cliief Jus tice, in his capacity of remover of the deposits, being the tool of Andrew Jack son, he was the.suggesterof the removal, and impressed the same upon the Presi ident. The latter was at that time at the Rip Raps, and I possess the letter which Mr. Taney wrote, saying to Gen. Jackson that to his knowledge the Uni ted States Bank was a sink of corrup tion, and that patriotism and expedi ency warranted the President in re moving the deposits, while Mr. Taney had no doubt, from an examination of the law, that it gave the President the right." The Bred Scott decision, sir. Was the Chief Justice aware that in this stood the measure of his regard with a posterity which will exist when slavery and its influence shall be no more?" Mr. Tyler said.that the Chief Justice seemed, after rendering that decision, to be chiefly indignant at the political attacks made upon his judicial integrity by Seward and others. "He was the purest character that ever wore ermine," said Mr. Tyler, enthusiastically. "He never suffered his character to be 'lmpugned ; he was chaste as Lucrece ! " "But, sir, was it his saying—were they his terms—that a negro had no rights which a white man was bound to respect?" "Oh ! that was picked out of the de cision—a decision agreed to by Judge Grier, of Pennsylvania, and Judge Nel son, of New York—and quoted against Mr. Taney ; whereas he had only cited it from a statute, or compiled it from a series of statutes. The decisions was a model of Judicial learning, so accounted everywhere, and, like all Judge Taney's papers, perfectly classical in style." You do not know, then, whether Judge Taney is entirely responsible for this decision, its phraseology, and the matter of it as it stands 7" " Entirely, sir. It is his composition, and he never expressed any fear as to the verdict of history upon it." " Was Judge Taney a man of cour age"" " Yes: he could have died in the 11re for a principle. He was a feeble, but a fearless man. Somebody once asked to introduce John Randolph of Roanoke. 'I am told,' said the chief Justice, 'that Mr. Randolph is iu the habit of insult ing the people familiarly. I cannot know any such character, sir.' " " Did Chief Justice Taney desire that slavery should continue?" "Why, sir, he gave the very best proof of the contrary ; for, though poor, he manumitted all his negroes, and left his family without money or servants. Some time ago I was applied to by a nobleman from Europe for a large pic ture of Judge Taney, and 1 found that the only copies remaining were marked as set apart for his faithful, life-long slaves, and —." In what pertained to his office Judge Taney was discompromising, reserved and judicial, but he was as democratic as a savage before his God. At Fred erick he used to wait in the rain outside the Catholic church till the priest was ready to call him to confessional. The priest said one day: "Judge Taney, you need not wait among these Irish and negroes. You can go into my office, or be confessed immediately." "No, sir," said the Chief Justice, " I will take my turn." This man, with such alleged traits, defended by P. Benjamin against such lions of debate 'as outroared the accusers of Warren Hastings, will still have for the chief epitaph upon his long lite: " He wrote the Dred Scott decision." SWEDE. In Jefferson county, Florida, they have an "Honest Club," which administers jus tice on offenders with a whip. Kate Johnson, the Buffalo. murderess, haS visions, in one of which she saw Bridget McDermott, whom she represents as saying " that she forgave me for what I had done to her, and hoped God would forgive horror what she had done to me. She spoke very kindly, and said she was the cause of my being taken from my little orphan chil dren." The official returns of New Jersey give Seymour 2,880 majority, and Randolph, for Governor, 4,618 majority. The majori ties for Congressmen are—First District, Moore, Rep., 3,875; Second, Haight, Dem., 805 ; Third, Bird, Dem., 4,124 ; Fourth, Hill, Rep., 79; Fifth, Cleveland, Pena., 2,248. The Democratic majority on the total Con gressional vote is 3,433. LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 25 1868 Indian Battles on the Plains. Interestlog Details of the Attack on Colonel Forsyth—lllow the Indiana Flea...Noce Canning than Bravo. LEAVENWORTH, NOV. 12. The object of General Sheridan's cam paign against the Indians seems to be to compel them to abandon the country lying between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. This line of country is about five hundred miles long and two hundred wide. Lieut. Beecher, who was familiar with much of the territory, (having visited the Indian tribes when they were peace able,) organized a small band of scouts, and obtained much valuable informa tion. Col. Forsyth obtained permission to increase the band to sixty men, placed himself at their head and marched into the Indian hunting grounds along the Republican. Their object was to hunt, and obtain information of the where abouts of the Indians. Having followed for several days a large Indian trail, on the morning of the 17th of September, while at breakfast on the Dry Fork of the Republican, thirty miles above the trail leading from Fort Wallace to Sedg wick, a dozen of Indians suddenly dash ed into their camp and stampeded eight head of horses. Preparations were made to follow and recapture the stock, when Sharp, an old and experienced scout, saw the stampede was a decoy to draw them into au ambuscade, and that other Indians were concealed behind the hills. Calling out, "the trail is hot and we must cover." Col. Forsyth, by Sharp's advice, retreated to a little island In the stream near by. Scarcely had they reached the island when, on the hills all around them, the Indians appeared in vast numbers, and a strong force drawn up in line was seen advancing down the flat to the left of the stream. Telling his men to burrow in the Band for their lives, Col. Forsyth tied the horses In a circle round the island. Be fore the men, with their knives and tin plates, (their only trenching tools,) could throw up a covering, the Indians charged furiously upon them, and a desperatestruggle ensued. Col. Forsyth, Lieut. Beecher and eight of their men fell, but the Indians were repulsed and fell back to reform for another charge. Again the men dug for their lives, and soon were tolerably well shielded by friendly sand, which, being soft, they had thrown up with great rapidity. A hole was scraped out in the centre of the little island, and In this the dead and wounded were.laid. The Indians were now seen approaching again, and the devoted band prepared to sell their lives as dearly as possible. Their faint ing and bleeding leader, as he heard the yells of the coming savages, raised him self up and cautioned his comrades to be cool and make every shot tell, for they had only sixty-five rounds to the man. The struggle was fierce and bloody, but the Indians were again repulsed. Once more the chiefs rallied their warriors and sought to inspire them to brave deeds by haranguing them. Some of these addresses were delivered in so loud 'a voice and so near the besieged that nearly every word could be distinctly heard. Sharp, who had formerly lived with the Indians and understood their language, well interpreted what was being said. One Sioux chief, pointing to the sixty horses of the scouts, said : " See their ponies ; they have only a few, and these men ride singly, and there are no more men there than horses, for they never go as we often do, two upon one horse. We are hundreds, they less than one to four. Shame on you, warriors, to let this'haudful of pale faces drive you back." Then the women and children appeared on the hills clap ping their hands and singing the war song, and the chief continued: "Look at your women and children ; they come down to see you be brave, but you run away from the white soldiers and they are ashamed of you. Come now, let us kill the pale faces." While these speeches were going on the Great Medicine Man appeared in full regalia, and, beating his drum, he sang a song which amounted in sub stance to this: " The medicine is good; the Great Sprit is with us ; the bullets of the pale faces won't strike the brave; only cowards are killed by them, I am not afraid of them. You must kill the white soldiers, or the Great Spirit will forsake us, our medicine be bad, our children and women die of starvation. Warriors, be brave." He sang in a loud monotonous voice, riding about in cir cles among the warriors, swinging his body to and fro, and beating furiously with a stick upon his drum. To show how harmless the bullets of the whites were, the Medicine Man rode around the fort, beating his drum and singing about his good medicine and bravery. An did scout, who had had his thigh broklen early in the fight, and who had been watching the Mediciffe Man, fired at him, and the ball whistled so close that the Great Medicine withdrew to a greater distance to perform his antics and preach to the young braves about the safety of fighting the pale faces. Raising himself up in his sandhole, the old scout again drew a bead on Great Medicine, as he approached a little nearer, and tired, this time with effect, for the Indian was seen to reel in his saddle and drop his drum stick, as his pony carried him off. "He has got his medicine," said the scout, as, exhausted with pain, he fell back in the damp trench. Notwithstanding the speeches of the chiefs and the encouragement of the women, the Indians could only be in duced to make two charges on the whites, and then resorted to a safer mode of Indian warfare, strategy. Filling all the hills and ravines, they availed them selves of every hillock and bush to creep upon the fort. As soon as these sharp shooters were all posted, horsemen were sent to ride around the fort, and as the besieged raised up to fire, the sharp• shooters poured upon them a shower of bullets that rarely missed their mark. Colonel Forsyth forbid his men to fire unless charged, and calmly awaited the result. The Indian sharpshooters picked off the horses, and, as the last one fell pierced through the heart with a rifle ball, an Indian from the hillside called out, " There goes the last horse down ; now we have got them."— All day long the fighting lasted, and at nightfall not less than two hundred warriors were close about the fort. Col onel Forsyth feared a night attack ; and had the Indians charged in the night with half the bravery they had exhibited in daylight, Colonel Forsyth and his party must have been murder ed. Greatly to their joy, however, the Indians withdrew, leaving only a few pickets to guard them. Watchfires were however, lighted on all the hill tops. and close watch kept to prevent their escape. At noon the women had chang ed their song of battle to a wail for the dead, and one Indian mother rushed with outstretched arms towards the fort, beating her breast and crying, "My chincha • ; oh, my chincha;",("my son ; oh, my son,) who had doubtless been slain in the battle. In the morning, when Col. Forsyth's meu had retreated to the island, they had left behind their packsaddles, con taining all their ptovisions, and these, with five hundred rounds of ammuni tion, had fallen into the hands of the Indians. The only food of any kind in the fort was a few handfuls of crackers and a pound of coffee. These were given the sick, and they were made as comfortable as possible. Lieut. Beecher died early in the night, a ball having penetrated his side and broken the spine. Dr. Moore, the sur geon, had been killed instantly, a ball passing through his head while engaged in dressing Colonel Forsyth's wounds. Colonel Forseyth had been struck by a ball in the left leg, shattering the bone below the knee, and another ball passed through his right thigh, near the body. To add to the misfortunes of the beseig ed, the rain began to fall soon after dark, and the sand washed down upon the wounded and got into the locks of the guns. Nevertheless all kept their cour age up, and continued to work manful ly. They could hear the Indians mov ing about the fort, quite close, and twice they prepared to receive a charge that they thought was about to be made. Col. Forsyth detailed two scouts with instructions to make their way through the Indian lines if possible, and go as fast as they could to Fort Wallace, a hundred miles distant, for relief. Bid ding their brave commander and com rades adieu, the two scouts, on their hands and knees, crawled over the breastworks and disappeared in the long grass. Hour after hour those in the fort waited anxiously, but as the scouts came not back they new they had es caped or been captured. Hope sprung up in their breasts, and they worked with a will to finish their fort and pre- pare for the struggle on the morrow.— Several times during the night volleys were fired into the fort by the Indians, but the bullets flew harmlessly over head or lodged in the sand breastworks. Once Sharp heard a noise in the creek near by, and, crawling over the breast works, he saw an Indian within fifteen feet of the fort, trying to get off the body of a dead Indian. Aiming as well as he could in the dark, the scout fired, and the savage sprang up with a yell, only to fall down again in the agonies of death. Next morning the body was gone, but a large pool of blood marked where it haelain. After a of horrors, day dawned at last, and s owedithe Indiansi in vast numbers around the fort, but a good distance off. About sunrise they ap. proached closer, but no charge was attempted. Firing commenced and was kept up lively during the forenoon. The accurate aim of the scouts kept the Indians far out on the hills, and no amount of urging could induce them to come near the deadly rifles of the scouts. At noon the savages drew off, and the besieged emerged from their holes in the sand, and began to move about a little by twos and three. Large numbers of Indians were still in the vicinity, but only occasionally showed themselves on the hill tops or far up the valley. The scouts now made fires of the arrows sticking in the breastworks and laying thick about the fort, and cooked cane for the sick. steaks were cut from the hams of the dead horses and roasted, of which the scouts made a hearty meal. Preparatiions were also made to Jerk meat, and a six day's sup ply cut from the dead horses. Meanwhile, the scouts sent out by Colonel Forsyth had reached Fort Wal lace and communicated with General Sheridan. They had encountered great peril in making tbeirescape, and all the next day, after leaving the fort, lay within hearing of the guns. As soon as it was dark, however, they set forward again and made good progress, although at times Indians were within a few yards of them and once an Indian came and stood within a few feet of where one of the scouts lay. On the fourth day they reached the fort, having eaten nothing but horse meat, not daring to discharge their guns at game for fear of bringing down the Indians upon them. As soon as General Sheridan knew of the perilous situation of Colonel Forsyth and his command, messages were sent to Colonel Bankhead, at Fort Wallace, Col. Carpenter, at Chyenne Wells,and Gen'ls Bradley and Brisbin, on the Re publican, to hasten to Forsyth's relief, and spare neither:horse flesh nor money to save him and his brave followers. The race to the rescue was all that could have been desired, even by the besieged, who hourly strained their eyes to see the blue coats in thedistance. Marching day and night, Colonel Carpenter, at noon on the 2.5 th, came within eight of the fort. The besieged, who had been with out food except horse meat for eight days, were feeble, feverish and ex hausted. Mistaking Colonel Carpenter's negro soldiers for Indians, the men ran into the fort and stood to their guns, ready for fight, but when they came nearer, and the scouts saw the blue jackets, the latter flung down their guns, and rush ed frantically over the breastworks towards the troops. Shout upon shout rent the air, and strong men wept like children. " Saved ! saved !" was all the &rave scouts could say, as they fell upon each other's necks, and tears ran down their cheeks like rain from eyes all un used to weep. What pen can describe the emotions of that hour, when these brave men realized they were indeed saved from a slow death by starvation, or a still more horrible one at the hands of their savage foes. Colonel Carpenter had thoughtfully put a sack of coffee and some hard bread in an ambulance, and this had kept up with LlFim. Finding the hard crackers on the ground, the famished men seized and devoured them eagerly, while the kind-hearted negroes hastened to make kettles full of hot coffee, and the surgeon dressed the wounds of the disabled. On the morning of the third day of the siege the Indians appeared on a hjll, near the fort ,with a white flag, and Col. Forsyth, knowing that it was only a ruse to get them to surrender, ordered his men to fire on the flag, and a few shots caused it to be hastily taken away. A Sioux warrior called out to know what they meant by firing on a white flag, and the scout, Sharp answered b im in the Sioux tongue: "It means fight; come and takeus if you can." At noon , , on the third day, the Indians began to draw off, and only small parties were seen in the distance afterwards. The Indians were, however, not far off, and if the besieged had left the fort, would soon have returned and overwhelmed them. Neither could the scouts move, on account of their dead and wounded, eight having been killed and twenty wounded. On the day after Col. Carpenter's ar rival, Cols. Brisbin and Bankhead ar rived with their commands, and the dead being buried the wounded were removed to Fort Wallace. Thus ended Col. Forsyth's battle, his fight having bebn one of the most desperate ever fought upon the plains. Col. Forsyth reports that fully four hundred warriors attacked his sixty men, and that not less than thirty Indians were killed and seventy-five wounded. At last accounts Col. Forsyth and all his party were doing well.—Cor. (lin cinnati Gazettc. A Strange Passenger The train from Bristol to Knoxville yesterday was speeding on its Western way joyously. At Greenville it was reinforced by a couple—gentleman and wife—evidently of some degree, though somewhat fatigued by a rude, jolting, mall hack ride from the mountains of western Northern Carolina. The liege lord, yet in the activity of life, had nothine in his appearance or demeanor to attract any other notice than that usually accorded to a gentleman. The lady—and she was evidently a lady in the true sense—while apparently re joicing in the very exuberance of health to the discerning and experienced eye, was manifestly not at ease with herself, after her disgusting mountain ride. She certainly took no pains to affect the " Grecian bend." "All aboard," cries Henry Lyle. `Clang, clang" goes the bell; "toot, oot," the whistle, and away goes the rain. Now, in that car—we mean the car in which our couple were seated—were all manner of folks, the grand-pa, the grand-ma, the pa, but, better than all, something less than a dozen of those unplucked blossoms of maidenhood with whom the realities of matrimony were as the arcana of the Fates. Not a few nice mustachioed young products of the tailor and barber were around to catch the fragrance of the blossoms aforesaid. The train sped on—our couple rested cosily in their double seat. The rough ride from Asheville for the nonce was forgotten. Alas, it was only forgotten to give way to present misery. What can it mean? The conductor is called, and Henry Lyle, always prompt to re— lieve the distressed, is on hand. Being a man of quick perception and blessed withal with some experience in matters matrimonial, a short private interview determined his course of treatment. "All the gentlemen will please move to the forward car," was the gentle edict. " What's the matter?" " Is anything wrong ?" cried the maidens. A shake of the head and a few terrific frowns from a motherly dame awed them into silence. " Why all this, Mr. Conductor," de ferentially exclaimed they of the mou stache and gold chain. " All the gentlemen forward at once!" persisted Henry: " Yes, go on right now," cried she of the cap strings. Don't be stoppin', but go right along! Big things are goin on now !" And they did go forward without knowing why. A. blanket was hung up over the glass door of that car! Henry Llye was hunting a doctor at every wood yard! The banished males were not re-admitted to that car! The young ladies didn't get out of the car ! Eheu I * * * * * * When the cars got to Knoxville, Henry Ras embarrassed to find a pas senger aboard for whom he had no ticket. It's a boy—and they call him Henry Lyle.—Knoxville Herald. The magnificent gold sword ordered by the corporation of London for Lord Napier, of Magdala, has been finished, and will soon be presented to him. The sword is of solid eighteen carat gold, in finely executed repousse work. The Crops of the United States for 1888. . . The Department of Agriculture has issu ed a report of the condition of the crops of October. It says the full promise of the early summer has not been realized in the wheat harvest. The Increase of the area over that of last year, in Its effect upon the aggregate product, is nearly neutralized by the small diminution In some of the princi pal wheat-growing States in the yield per acre, so that the increase in the total quan tity, as shown by the October returns, is scarcely more than three per cent., and that it obtained mainly from the Pacific coast. The averages for October appear to show a decrease in the production in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Con- I necticut, New Jersey, North Caroline, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Texas', the latter having only half a crop. The other States Indicate an Increase; In most of those east of the Mississippi very slight. In Min nesota the increase was thirteen per cent. ; lowa, six; Missouri, eight; Kansas, twenty-three; and California twenty-five per cent. Many places in different parts of the county, especially in Maryland, report disappointment in the yield of grain ,in threshing. The disappointment,however, is sometimes in the other direction. The oat crop is light in the Eastern, Middle, and Southern Atlantic States. There is not a full average In Michigan, Wisconsin and lowa. In the other States the product is above the average, the largest increase being twenty-one per cent. lu Nebraska. In Wisconsin the deficiency is nine per cent. Considerable injury from frost to the corn crop is reported In Nor thern Indiana, Illinois, and the more northern latitudes. In some portions of lowa an estimate of two fifths of soft corn is made. From Southern Indiana, Southern Ohio, West Virginia and Penn sylvania, there are complaints of immatu rity in consequence of wet weather, and a few accounts of injury from drought are received. No general or severe droughts have been reported. The total product will not be what was hoped for in the early sea son, or what is needed for the country with the rapidly increasing population, but a somewhat larger quantity than lust year, which was a season peculiarly adverse to corn production. The area In cotton is somewhat less than last year, but its culture has been better, the preparation for planting more complete, and the labor more regular and reliable. As a general rule, early In the season, the promise was fine. Serious losses have of late been incurred, however, principally from the depredation of the i cotton caterpil er, or army worm, which has proved m re general and severe in Georgia than e eewhere, very troublesome In portions of A abama and Mississippi, and somewhat prevalent in the Carolinas and in , Arkansas. . Heavy rains In Tennessee and the South west have caused anxiety, but effected less damage than was expected. The returns Indicate a smaller crop, by fifteen or twen ty per cent., than last year, but the com plete estimate will not be made till the crop is gathered. Peas and beans will be nearly an average crop. Buckwheat is very gen erally deficient. Connecticut, New Jersey, Minnesota, California, and some of the Southern States furnish a favorable excep tion. Sorghum has been more successful than last year. In Southern New England, New Jersey, Delaware, the Gulf States, and California, potatoes are reported a full average crop, with a deficiency of ten per cont. in New 'York and Pennsylvania, and from three to seven per cent. in the South ern Atlantic States and Tennessee, twenty in Illinois, ten in lowa, eleven in Indi ana, fifteen in Ohio, sixteen in Michigan, and a greater or less reduction in other Western States. Returns from Louisiana indicate an increase of twenty two per cent. over last year in sugar cane. The amount of old wheat on hand is somewhat less than usual throughout the country, With the ex ception of the Cotton States, which have a higher average than lust year. This remark will not apply to Texas, where the grana ries are uniformly empty. The quantity left over in Wisconsin is relatively some. what lower than in the neighboring States. The stock of beeves in preparation for mar ket is larger than last year west and south of New Jersey, except Indiana and Illi nois, which States constitute an important beef-producing section. The deficiency in Illinois is placed at two percent., and Indi ana five per cent. The condition of the fat tening cattle is almost universally superior, giving promise of better and larger meat supplies than usual. 13== The news from the River Plate confirms the accounts of the reported triumphs of the Brazilian arms which have been pub lished from time to time. The allies have pushed the remnant of Lopez's army from the Tebicuary. Lopez has exceeded him self of late in the cruelty ol his actions, and if half be true that is reported of him, he deserves and will receive the execrations of mankind. From the very beginning of his career ho has marked his history In blood, and he does not seem to possess a single manly attribute, or any sympathy with his race. He is cruel, malicious, re vengeful, and insatiable for blood, and knows neither compassion nor 'contrition. The atrocities which he has committed upon his own people are almost incredible, and partake of the characteristics of fiends.— They are all true, however, and are attested by respectable men of various nations now at the seat of war. But vile as this so-called "hero" is, and revolting as are the records of his deeds, the people of Buenos Ayres and Rio de Janeiro have forgotten them and their own victories, for the moment, in the conduct, we grieve to say, of the American Minister Washburne, who, if the accounts be correct, has not only disgraced himself beyond redemption, but put a great dishonor upon the Republic which he rep resents. This man, it seems, with a gunboat at his command, abandoned to the tender mercies of the tyrant many persons of various na tionalities who had sought for the protection of the American flag, Englishmen and Frenchmen being included in the list. Worse still, the brother of Lopez, "who had fled from the bloody hands of a man who was ready to put him to an ignominious death," was also betrayed and consigned to the cruel vengeance of the tyrant. What was the reason which induced the Minister to act thus, it is hard to say • al though it is hinted that he was involved in certain doubtful transactions with Lopez, and dared not disobey his commands or wishes. The worst and blackest deed of all, however, remains to be told. Mr. Washburne undertook to act as a sort of convoy to a gentleman named Porter C. Bliss, and conduct him on board the Wasp gunboat. They accordingly set off, but wet e beset by the ruffian soldiers of Lopez, and Mr. Bliss was seized and carried off to prison, where he was afterwards put to tor ture. This gross violation of all interna tional law, and the commonest courtesies of official life, the American Minister did not resist nor protest against. No remon strance, no attempt at resistance or at res cue, was made. There lay the Wasp, ready to prove that her sting at least was no fic tion, but an avenging reality. And there she was suffered to lie, while the American Minister quietly went home. Mr. Bliss went to Rio with the family of Ben. Webb, and was highly respected. He was the son of the Rev. Mr. Bliss, a mis sionary to the Indians of New York, and went out to study the South American In- diens and their language, perhaps for mis sionary purposes. Lopez suspected him as an enemy, and to gratify his pride and lust for cruelty, Washburne sacrificed him. He had no excuse for his conduct. In his published letter he attempts to defend him self from the charge of cowardice and in competency by protesting that he did all he could for Mr. Bliss and the rest of the un happy foreigners who had sought the refuge, which ought to have been sacred, of the American flag. But it is clear that he was frightened at Lopez, or that he truckled to him and licked the dust from the tyrant's lest to curry favor with him. He admitatbat In all the arrests that were made in spite of him, " he does not know what has become of the persons taken out of his protection." But the American people will demand them at his hands. They were under the protec tion of our flag, and ought to have been de fended to the last drop of blood in all the veins of all the Americans then and there present. Why did he not try the effect of the Wasp's guns? What was the boat there for but to preserve the honor of the Ameri can name, and to avenge its dishonor? AS cording to Mr. Washburne's own confes sions, he is guilty of the highest crime known to men: that of betraying the hos pitality and protection of the Bag of his own country, committed especially to his keep ing,`and of branding the name of American with infamy. The New Archbishop of Canterbury The influential position of Archbishop of Canterbury has been conferred upon Bishop Tait of London. In the present political agitation, Dr. Tait, like all the Anglican Bishops of Great Britain and Ireland, is an opponent of Mr. Gladstone's bill for the disestablishment of the Irish Church. In religious questions he is regarded as a moderate liroad Church m an, wh o is in favor of allowing to every party in the Church the greatest liberty. On this ground he has repeatedly opposed the measures taken by the English Church against Dr. Colenso, as well as the severity which in many dio ceses is shown to the Ritualists. He is an ardent champion of the connection between Church and State, and strenuously opposes the movement toward the self-government of the Church in questions purely ecclesi astical, of which the late Archbishop was an avowed partisan. Dr. Tait is distin guished for his theological learning, having received his theological education partly at the German University. Ate pastoral visit which he recently paid to the English con gregation at Bonnehe visited a number of the professors, and warmly expressed his grateful recollection of the time be had spent at Bonn as a student. The diocese of London has had few bishops who can com pare with Bishop Tait in the activity dis played for:the erection of new churchesrand for bringing all classes of society, and in particular the poor and abandoned, under the influence of religion. THB SUBBATT CABS. How a Guiltless Woman was Pacrificed to the Rare of Radicalism. Arnold. Dr. Mudd, Spangler, o , Eaugh Ilu and John 11.1gurrate Exonerated. CbrreApondenee of the New York World BALTIMORE, NOV. 10. I. Mrs. Sarrelt, living with her daughter Anna and her son John. kept boarders in her house on 11 street, Washington. This method of eking out her income was ren dered necessary by the stringency of the three and by the fact that her husband bad left a certain claim on the Surratt property, in Surrattville, unsettled to the satisfaction of the executors of lion. Charles B. Calvert, formerly owner of the estate. The execu tors were anxious for the payment of this claim; and, on the Friday previous to the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, Mrs. Surratt made a Journey to Surrattville—a abort way from Washington—to collect money from her creditors wherewith to reduce the debt. Failing to obtain all the necessary means, and having received two letters from the executors the week of the assassination reminding her of her husband's dues, she resolved to make another visit to Surratt villa on the following Good Friday, and collect a sum owing to her from a man named Nott, in the neighborhood of the estate. That same Good Friday happened to have he terrible sequel in the night now furn filar o all mankind. After breakfast, Booth quitted the Na• tionul Hotel, at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street, and walked up Sixth street to B street, to Mrs. Surratt's house. Mrs. Surratt's son John anti Booth had been very Intimate; indeed it is plausi bly supposed that John H. Surratt had been taken into Booth's confidence in the matter of a plot to abduct Abraham Lin coln, President of the United Stafes,•and convey him bodily and squirming to Rich mond, the temporary capital of the tem porary Southern Confederacy. As John 11. Surratt was ou that morning in Elmira, N. Y., or thereabouts—it good distance front Washington, his tnother, and his friend J. Wilkes Booth—the latter might reasonably have wished to hear tidings of him. Or, as Booth had been accustomed to call fre quently at John Surratt's room while Sur ratt was In the city, and had been intro duced to Surratt's mother, some social in terest or other ordinary concern may have grown up between Booth and the tinnily which Booth strolled up to i❑quire about. Mrs. Surratt had returned from church a short while before Booth arrived. It being Good Friday, the Catholic service bad been as usual, concluded In time for an early dinner, which she had at that moment fin ished. Weichman, u familiar boarder, was at the door with the buggy which was to convey her to Surrattsville. As daylight would last only until a quarter past six p. M., she was in a hurry to go into the coun try, transact her business, and return in time to serve tea to her boarders. Therefore, whatever Inquiries Booth may have bad to make of her must have been brief, and so must have been her replies.— He walked back Into the parlor with her and remained scarcely five minutes, when they appeared at the front door way, and Mrs. Surratt left with Weichman for Sur rattsville. While the buggy-ride to Surrattsville was In progress, J. Wilkes Booth replaced the hat which he had lifted to Mrs. Surratt at her departure, and sauntered back down Sixth street to Pennsylvania Avenue.— Thence he took the easy, careless, graceful stride which was one of the charactertics of his street appearance, up Pennsylvania Avenue, and around the corner of Tenth street towards Ford's Theatre, to get his letters. At the theatre the scene transpired which I described literally In a previous letter. Harry Ford, brother of the proprl• etor, thought to have a joke with Booth, being on the beat of terms with him, and said : John, the President is going to be here to-night with General Grant. They've got General Lee here as a prisoner, and he's coming too. We're going to put him in the opposite box." At the same moment Harry Ford handed Booth a letter enclosed in a long envelope, addressed to him. Booth broke the seal, remarking, in a pooh-pooh-ing sort of tone: " 0, no; they haven't got Lee a prisoner; they certainly wouldn't bring him to Washington." Now, the fact, important to be stated at this juncture, Is, that only an hour or two before a messenger had come from the White House to the theatre to say that the President and General Grant, with Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs .Grant, would visit the theatre that evening. At that hour, when the messenger came with this announce ment, Booth must have been about getting out of bed or at breakfast, and as Booth bad already seen Mrs. Surratt, and as she was then bowling along in a buggy towards Surrattsville, and as she was not to, and did not return to Washington till nearly or after dusk, the case endeavored to be made out against her—that she went to Surratts ville on Booth's errand, with foreknowl edge of his purpose to undertake the as sassination at the theatre that evening— collapses in the first place. Booth had no possible means of knowing, nor is it sup• posed that he knew anything about the purpose of Mr. Lincoln to attend the eve ning performance until he visited the thea tre at this time and heard the news from Harry Ford's tongue. Therefore, the ab surdity of the idea that the deed at the theatre could have been contemplated be fore this information was communicated to Booth, also collapses. IL Booth read, or rather skimmed over his letter, in a way that indicated that some thing else was troubling his mind. He folded it suddenly, and satisfied himself by several other earnest inquiries that at least that part of the news be had heard which concerned the intention of President Lin• coin and General Grant was true. Saying "good - morning," he walked toward the avenue and toward the Kirkwood llouse at a rapid pace and with a preoccupied manner—a contrast to his former lazy and pertectly•at•ease appearance which seems to have been observed (In such an elegant personage) by nearly all the witnesses. The presumption, fully fortified by the facts to be related, is that the thought that Mr. Lincoln might be killed in the evening as he sat in the theatre box first occurred to Booth in these moments. Certainly the thought, could not have been long delayed. One Atzerott was staying at the Kirk wood House: Booth went to seek him.— Atzerott was doubtless one of the chief con spirators in the previous abduction plot, in company with Payne and Herold. After this visit to the Kirkwood House, Booth was not seen on foot during the after noon by any witness who appeared at the trial or who has made himself known else where. It was there that he saw Atzerott, and he also had an interview with Payne and Herold. There the plan was probably arranged; Atzerott was to take the life of Vice-President Johnson; Payne was to slaughter Secretary Seward; and Booth undertook to attend to both the President and General Grant. The actor who thus succeeded in screwing up the temper of his associates to the sticking point of a resolve to do murder sat down and wrote a letter justifying the intended act. He and the rest signed the paper, which Booth sealed and directed to the editor of the National Intelligencer. From the Kirkwood House Booth rode to a stable fora horse,lmounted on which he started up Pennsylvania avenue. On the avenue be met an acquaintance, Matthews, and intrusted to him t he sealed letter direct ed to the National Intelligencer. [This meeting on the street of Booth with Matthews was corroborated, at the trial of John H. Surratt, bye witness who had mis taken Matthews for Surratt. The fact that Booth did hand Matthews the letter has been confirmed by Matthews himself, who, on the let of the ensuing July, met Mr. John F. Coyle, proprietor of the Intelligencer, and another gentleman, near the Intelligencer office, and informed them not only that be had received the letter from Booth, but that, in his agitation the ensuing night, when the town was ringing with the news of the as sassination, he had opened the letter, read and burnt it] Booth's whereabouts, between his adieu to Matthews and his second appearance at Ford's Theatre at night, were never con jectured. One clue alone has been afforded to them. Payne stated in prison before his execution that they met again ; that some doubt arose, and that it was not until S o'clock that night the final resolve was made. Harold was appointed to conduct Booth along the route beyond Washington. Meanwhile Mrs.Surratt, accompanied by her boarder Watchman, jogged along In a buggy towards Surrattsville. That was the early springtime, about the middle of April. Lloyd. the Tavern-keeper at Surattsville, is the fellow who helped Weichruan to swear Mrs. Surratt off the scaffold. Yet the proof is sharp as steel that Mrs. Surratt did not once see Lloyd that day until alter she hadlfinished her business and her horse's head was turned cityward. Weicibman was then in the buggy with her; they chanced to see Lloyd as they were abodt starting for Washington ; and Lloyd when he came out to the buggy to speak to them, was beastly drink. His drunkness was so apparent that it was observed at once by both Watchman and Mrs. Surratt. The latter Is, or was, accused of making a confi dant, in a fearful, unprecedented conspira cy, otian inebriate in the very booziness of inebriation Weidman, a most cowardly scoundrel, who, 1f there was not a murdered woman in the case, would deserve to be laughed at for his blundering perjury, swore one day at the trial that Lloyd whispered to Mrs. Barrett that day. Lloyd, to whom Welch man confided the fact that he had given this testimony tin a prison ambulance, after be had given it), indignantly turned to Welch man, reproached him for the story, and denied haying done any Such thing. But, NUMBER 47 accepting the testimony of Wolchman us true, and• considering that the drunken man, Lloyd, really did approach Mts. Sur ratt and puzzle her with some hoarse maud lin syllables, what a cotnmentary is this upon "circumstantial evidence" at a great state trial I Nor Welchmau, nor anybody else, has been able to state what tee whim- poring amounted to or meant. It might havebeen: "MissusS'rat—hlc—'tween our. a3l's aline—hie—day ;" or, "his—M'S'rat, 'ow's - Johnny?" But nobody but God Is t h wiser for it. Tile "trial" affords us no light whatever upon this complaisance of 1%1 rs. Surrittt towards a drunken man, save that he was drunk, end that Rile hesinrted to &Tend him by not stopping to accost hint. IV. `We have seen what occur:0(11u Washing ton during their absence, and we all know what happened that night. Let us glance, now, ate series of facts associated with the night of the assassination, which Illustrate how blindly and malignantly others be sides Mrs. Surratt were prosecuted and "convicted " by the government under the feverish influence of the time, and show upon what flimsy testimony and supposi Lions they were condemned : 1. The folly of Sergeant Dye's statement about the dramatic "calling of time" when Booth entered the theatre—a statement which of course tended to implicate the PIII• ployes and give the thing the air of a Mtge ramifying conspiracy—ins been exposed. It was within the knowledge of the prosecu tion that as Booth entered the theatre he simply asked Buckingham, the doorkeeper, what time it was, and that Buckingham re ferred him to the clock in tho lobby. 1100th looked 111 the clock and went up into the dress circle. But this statement was not allowed to be made; neither was Bucking ham, who afterwards became a government employe at the navy yard, called as a evil ness in the J. $. Surma trial 12. When Booth Jumped from the theatre box to the stage, alter tiring the pistol, his spur evidently struck the frame of portrait of Washington, used as a &coral ion beneath the ballustrade of the box on that evening. Lower down his spur scraped thu !edit. above the stage box beneath. This threw him off his balance, and he fell to the stage, striking on the side of his left foot, and dis locating or breaking the Lane Of his It'll. ankle. The pursuit or him across (hostage by Colonel Stewart is evidently mistaken as to tints, for he moved in great pain. Ile told Herold, who met him outside the city and acted as his guide, that he did not get his Injured foot Into the stirrup until lie was going up Capitol Hill—a half mile from the scene of the crime. The visit to Dr. Mudd Was made solely at the suggestion or Har old, to have his ankle set and tied with splints. The doctor's house was a consid erable distance trom the direct line of es cape. Booth and Herold arrived there late at night, when Booth explained to the doctor that he was hurt by being thrown from his horse. He remained, after the doctor had attended to his ankle, to have a crutch made, and then left. When he had finished with his patient, Doctor Mudd quitted the room, (and, I believe, Cie house) nit SOIIIO errand. lie did not see Booth near enough to speak with hitn again, but observed him at a distance leaving the place with I lerolti. Herold stated In prison that Booth suf fered greatly with his hurt, but more from the cold, wet weather, when they remained out all night in the woods. As a passing and curious reminiacence of the assassin's pluck, young Garrott, at whose place Booth wa.s,killeci,ruspouded,in answer to the quell tion whether Booth complained much of his leg? "No; I slept With him all night, and he did not disturb me by moaning or complaint of pain." It. Arnold (now under sentence for life,) was at the time of the assassination, clot had been for weeks, employed In a 'tuber's Store at Fortress Monroe. There is ito trace of any correspondence, and no evidence of an interview between Arnold and Itooth during the month of April. 4. O'Laughlin (now dead) whom a bar bar, at the trial of J. 11. Surratt, swore Booth had called "Mac," was employed in Baltimore, but way in Washington on business the day of the assassination. Ills movements were perfectly accounted for by some officers of the navy. 5. Spangler was St and about the theatre. His admiration for Mr. Lincoln, and his innocence of complicity or knowledge in Booth's plan, are firmly believed in by everybody who knew him. v. Mrs. Surratt had formerly met a man named Payne. When she met him he was dressed like and was said to be a clergy. man. (His father is a clergyman.) When the man named Payne—who had come remarkably near making en end of Secretary Seward—came again to Mrs. Sur ratt's house the night of his arrest by the detectives, he was disguised as a laborer. He was so smeared with mud, and carried such a worn pick-axe over his shoulder, that, when Mrs. Surratt confronted him, she did not recognize her clerical acquaint ance. This is the lees surprising MS Mrs. Surratt was near-sighted. It is Mill less to be wondered at when the feet is remem bered that one of the detectives, who had Payne in charge, and who may be supposed to have been rathersharp-sighted, Was un able to swear to the color of the coral that Payne wore that night, or to distinguish between two very different coats offered for his inspection thereal one. Yet Mrs. Surratt's assertion that she did not know Payne (who was almost a stranger to her) in his disguise was held to be a "suspi cions" circumstance, and was used against her. Payne himself declared In prison that he went to Mrs. Surratt's only because he know but two or three houses in Washing ton, and because he knew John 11. Surma so well. lie had no opportunity of making any communication to Mrs. Surratt at all. He presented himself at a most unfortunate moment for him, and was nabbed by the officers before Mrs. Surratt came out through the parlor door. lie felt himself to be taunted down front behind, and new to this place for refuge to find himself In the lion's mouth. "If I had two lives," said Payne at one time to tit:mead Thiamine. who was In charge of the prison, " I would give them both to save that woman." N The sequel of the facts thus recited is so Inevitable, so thrilling', that it writes itself, and cannot fail, I believe, to make an in delible impression upon every mind. In the first place, it was simply impossi ble that Booth, or Payne, or Atzerot, or Herold, or anybody else, could have deter mined upon the assassination of President Lincoln at the theatre until they, or one of them, knew that Mi. Lincoln was 11l be at the theatre. In the second place, the messenger from the White llouse announcing that the Pres ident and family desired a box for that eye ing did not arrive at the theatre until HOMO time in the forenoon, and Booth could nut have heard of it until he came, two or three hours latter, for his letters. In the third place, Booth had then just quitted Mrs. Surratt's house, where he left her starting for Surrattsville, In the country, whence she did not return until night. Her absence rendered it impossible for Booth to have any communication with her about his bloody project. In the fourth place, not one of the other prisoners could have been informed of, or are shown to have taken any part what ever in, the affair. No trace of any ineeting or correspondence between Booth and others, save Payne, Harold and Atzerott, or bet ween the latter three and other suspected parties save Booth and themselves, Miring the remainder of that day up to the hour of the assassination at night, exists. Mrs. Surratt, let It be repeated, was in Surma., vine ; Dr. Mudd was at his home several miles from Washington t Arnold was at Fortress Monroe; O'Laughlin was engaged on business with certain navy officers who account for his whereabouts ; and Sprang ler was in, and in the neighborhood ot, the theatre, where Booth did not call again after receiving his letters until night. In the fifth place, the communications had, or attempted to be had, by the four guilty met. with the other prisoners or any of them, before and after the day anti night of the assassination, are perfectlyaccounted for. Arnold, O'Laughlin, and possibly John Surratt, were shown to have been in terested in a conspiracy to abduct the Presi dent, Which had its birth months in ad vance of the sudden resolve of Booth to Us saseinato him. Booth's visit to Dr. Mudd's house was a visit off his line of flight from Washington to have his broken ankle set. Payne's visit to Mrs. Surratt's resulted in his being captured before a word passed between them to prove or dispel the idea that they had an understanding! Let justice be done! Even at the cost of Lawyers' reputations and the too " loyal " jprejudices of whatever men or class, let ustice be done now to the memory of a woman unjustly hung and to prisoners most unjustly confined. Mrs. Surratt was innocent—as innocent, doubtless, of the t.rime imputed to her as any housewife who site stitching at her children's garments in some log cabin in the Western plains. Not less to bar memory and hor children—both whose consciences are as clear as her's was of responsibility In thin execrable business —than to all decent women in the United States, is the justice, the poor but only pos sible reparation, of an official acknowledg ment of her innocence due. I shall have more (specially relating to the trials of Mrs. and John 11. Surratt) to communicate in regard to this matter. J. B.S. Indian Remains The explorers sent out by the Smithson ian Institute in search of American antiqui ties, have discovered a large number of skulls and idols in the mounds of Indiana, Missouri and Tennessee. These remains are supposed to be older than any that have hitherto been found in this country, and arki believed to have belonged to a race anterior to the Indians. The skulls are smaller than any previously noticed, are box shaped and almost square. In the same mounds were also found pottery and implements, unlike any that have hitherto been discovered. RATE OF .Lowiimeria. Buncnzra Anymennincanye, 112! a year per mare or ten lines; Se par year for Saab ad ditional square. • RS&L TAITATZ ADVZSTIIIING, 10 ointaZi Hoe?. the ant , and 6 aenta for eadt subsequent 0- sertion. GENERAL ADVERTISING 7 cents a 2111• for the !Ina, and t COD ts fur each subsequent Inser tion. SPECIAL Narrow Inserted In Ltxria Minna /,5 cents per lino. BPICLLL Norm= preceding inarrtagell 104 deems, 10 cents per line for drat inserticsn , and 6 cents for every Inbeequent IIISIIIIIOII* LLOAL AIM °TIMIS fi021016••• Executors' Administrators' n0t10e5,....—...—....... 2,5 f/ Assignees' notices 2.50 Auditone notice', Other " Notices," ten lines, or less, three times 1.50 Growth of Nal•ngrry Anionic the heath era Meeks. From the Meridian (Mi..) Mercury, Oct. 27.1 Wo heard of a case yesterday, at Marion, which strongly illuntrates the Nigro's nat ural tendency for Voudonlam. A negro by the name of Clay came to Marion some. thing more than a year ago, from Indians, where lie had livetf during and previous to the war is a freeman, lit the full enjoyment of all the educational privileges the negro worshipping people of that Stain wore dim peed to vonehnola. Ile set up as negro %eland, and very soon became a great light smoug Lila race as a teacher among the young in the "rudiments," and of the Old in the knowledge of their political and so cial rights. We do not know, but suppose Wan he has been tpenting under the au.pirea of the Northern educational so cieties for the enlightenment or the poor negro in the South, and was deemed eminently tit for the noble tank. Of lam Clay has fallen Into bad health mid firmly bellettlts taut he has been conjured by old Prank Clinton with whom he has been boarding. By his witchery lam] devilish arts, ho believes t hot old Frank has tilled him chock foil of liZZFlrds, bugs anti ver min. Ile sent for a "doctor" Who has great reputatation Mr exorcising devils, and breaking the "spells" of norcercrs. (This vent doctor lives in Meriden, but we never heard or h•iii before.) Clay says that he is improving under his treatment. no has got rid of three great bons bugs, the big black bug, considerably bigger than It June-bug, that invades one's chamber of summer night to buzz iind thump oround the room. The uoctor laid him upon his back, and working his reg. up and down, like a pump, succeeded, no Cloy avers, in puming a peek of wood lice out of him. The lizards ore not yet beyond the doctor's art to •-ost out; Clay firmly believes he is full 0r them. The way he mays Frank tilled him with lizards was this: Ho caught a water Ilzarrd out of a spring, cut its head MI and put it into a bottle of water, 1111 d, Inn opportunity offered, gave it to him to drink, and thus charged his corpus with the tormenting reptiles. The negroon about Marion believe lit Clay's having been " tricked" by old Frank. As it proof of It, Prank wen recently trio! before the church. still among the specifications was gravely alleged the charge of conjuring Clay. Ile was csinvleted, mid not only expelled from the church, but a coin intone waited on him and ordered him to leave In twenty-tour hours upon pain of death. Frank did not leave, but it is believed was in mortal ter ror. The sheriff had a warrant to arrest him for Stealing, and yesterday, for the llrat time, lie put Mantel( In the way of that °Meer, who loosed him In jail where, for the present, the old conjurer la safe from the dread intent. .JOIIII Appleton, a well known 1308i013 builder, tiled at Nowtonville, Mass. on Monday, at the great age of yearn and II months. 110 lived rl yearn with his wife, who tiled in iloofland'o Orrmatt . _ 1100 VE NWS CI MOJA N HITTEHN, 1100 FLA.:VIPS 0 ERMAN TONIC. The Great 'Wieldles for all Diseases of the LIVER, NTOMACII, OR DICIENTIVE 0110 ANN . ROOFLAN D'S UERrIAN HITTERS 10 entlipowl of the pure Julcea (Or, ntx they are medicinally termed, ur .h..R.lrocts) of itooUi, Berl" and Barbs, I making a prepare flint, highly concentrated, null entirely free (rein alcohulte 011ini-alirc unv kind. 1100 ELAND'S GERMAN TONIC, loa corohluation of all the Ingredients of the Bittern, with the purest quality of &into Cb-ue Kum, Orange, &c., making one of WO Elitist pleoBlllll and agreeable reniedles ever offered to the public. Those prof-cringe Medicine free from Ale.. Iloilo admixture, will use HOOFLAND'B UERMAN BITTERS Th.,n who have no ohJentlou tho combl nal ion of the liitterti. as 'Ala.', wilt nee HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC. They are both equally good and Contain the Milne 111,11C111111 virtues, LllO eludes between the two beluga inert: matter of nut., the Tonle bring the most palatable. Tine htenenwin, I mon a variety of Canons; Snell us Indigoition Dyspepsia, Nut - vow, Debility, etc., Is very ILIA In have ILA function. deranged, Tn 0 Liver, sympu thinning as Closely an I L doe with the kJ SlOnlaell, then Ile comes affected, the result of which IS that the putieut !ruin several or more of the (01- owing dlneanes : Conetlpatlon, Flatulence, Inward Plies, Fn , nerve of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nauman, Heartburn, Diagumt fur Food, FoMewl of Weighl. In the Stomach, Sour Eructailona, Sinking or Fluttering at the lilt of the I , IOIIIIICII Swimming of the Head, Hurried or Dlfilcult Breath ing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choliing or, Sultiicatlng Rennatlolls when lu a Lying Pinata no. of Vielon, Boni or Welni be fore the Sight, Lull Path In the Head, - . . Ileneleney of Per.plratiou, Vellownee H of) the Mk In and Eye., Pala In the , 41cle, Back, Chest, Limbo, etro. Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning In the Ffesti Coustaut Imaginings ofE vil, and Great iiepreosion of Spirits. The sufferer (rein these discuses should ex ercise the greld CIA caution In the selection era remedy for his case, purchasing mil) that which lie is assured 11 from his investiga tions and Inquiries kJ possesses true merit, Ix xkll(nlly compounded, in free from injurious Ingredients, and has established for noel( a re,utation for the cure of these diseases, In thin connection we would submit those Well known remedies— HOOFLAND'S UERMAN BITTERS AND HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC PREPARED BY Dr. C. M. JACKSON, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Twenty-two years since they were first in trodu. d into this country from liermauy,dur lag which time they have undoubtedly per formed more cured, and benelittod sunering humanity to a greater extent, than any other remedies known to the pubile. Theme remedies will effectually cure Liver Com plaint,Jaundice, Dynpopsia, Chronic or Nervous Diarrhcea .12 Disease of the Kid neyn, and all Diseases arising from a Diner doted Liver, Stomach or Intestines. D.IOIIIL.ITY, Resulting from any Cause whatever PILOVIRATION OF 'ling StrisTrll, induced by Nevore Labor, Hard. ships, Exposure, Foyers, to, There in no medicine extant equal to then remedies Munch cases. A tone and vigor Is Imparted to the whole system, the appetite Is strengthened, food Is enjoyed, the stomach digests promptly, the blood is purified, the complexion be.ones hound and healthy, the yellow tinge in eradicated from the eyes, a bloom in given to the cheeks, and the weak and nervous invalid becomes a strong and healthy being. rEkttiONti ADVANCED IN LIFE, And feeling the hand of time weighing 110aVi i i?lll u i p l o n n t use ,w 2:Plls "l l3Mtgi nd „rth e l ! NV an elixer that will Mean new life into their velum, restore in a !tonsure the energy and ardor of more youthful days, build up their shrunken atrium, and give health and happl neon to their remaining yearn, NOTICE. It to a well-established fact that fully one. hall of the :amide portion of our population are seldom in the eu LJoy me n t of good health; or, to use their own expression " never feel well." They are languid, devoid of all energy, extremely nervous, and have bo appetite. • To this etaaw of persons the liflTEßki, or the TUNIC, hi especially recommended. WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN, Are made strong by tile use of either 01 the e remedies. • They will cure every case of MAR without fall. Thousands of certificates have accutnulated In the hands of the proprietor, but space will ul . ow of the putdicaLlon of but. few. '1" hose, it will be Wiser eo, are wen of note and of lea t, ■fund I ug . that. they in.t be believed. TESTIMONI A LM. HUN (i 1 O. WO/UUDWARD Chief ..71IffiG , Of the I , li7=7„hi C i t"" Pa. "Tit'' , &Wren 14, 18117. "1 fled' Hoodand'a U erwau !littera' In a good ton lc, .erul lu dim e b rolna uti o t r orgari, and of gre; A on deLdlny, and Want of nervoua action in the symtem. Yourx, truly, Geo. W. WOODWAitn..I HON. JAM FA THOMYSON. Judge of the aupreme Cbort of Pennttgecinta. Aprit I consider HoolluntVii Uernisa /Mite. ' valuable medicine In case of attack. of addles. Lion of liybpopsla. I can certify telt from my experience of IL. Yours, with t repent, JAMES 111011 PRON." Fftom Ray. JOSEPH H. KENN &RD. D. r Pastor of the 'lentil. floptut Church, Plulcutelphla Jorkson—llear sir. I have been 11 . .0,111.- 1y requested wootinect my name with recom mendations of different kinds of medicines, but regarding the practice as out oriny appro priate sphere, 1 have In all cases declined; but with a clear prooflu various instances and particularly to my own family, of the toieluineas of Dr. oolland's (Amman the I depart for once from my usual °aurae, to express my full conviction that, /or genera/ debi2tty of the system, and en,eetsaly for Liver Omplalrit, it is is sale and valuable perpetration. In some cases it may fall; but usually, 1 doubt not, It will be very beneficial to those who suf fer from the above causes, \ Yours, very reapeetfully, I. H. KENNARD Eighth, below COW.. Ht. Fuca RSV. E. D. FENDALL. AsstsionlEdifor Chr4llan aironfele, PhiLadefpAta I have derived decided Iwnellt from the use of Hoodland's German Elttere, and feel it my privilege to recommend them as a moat value,. be tonic, to all who are suffering from general debility or from dlaeases arimitig from derange ment of the liver. Yours truly, E. D. /OZADAIS. CAUTION lloottand's German ltemedles are counter.' felted. Bee Mat the fl signature of C. M. JACKSON la on the j wrapper of each hot. tie. All others are counterfeit. Principal Office and Manufactory at tbeGer man Medicine Store, No. 63l ARCH Btaeet, Philadelphia. Pa. CHARLES M. EVANS, Proprletor_, Formerly C. M. JACIBOIP & CO. PRICES Hoofland's German Hitter!, per bottle,—.sl,oo • half dozen 5,0 e Hoofland'e German Tonle, put up bkquart bot Lice, silo per bottle, ore half dozen for 87.60. igir Do not lorget to examine well the artlels you buy, In oro.r to get the genuine. For sale by C , n ,, leste and Dealers In Medi. owes everrwtiorei jut ZI Zawdmow
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