egannottr giAtiligenar. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23, 1868 Patting Geary The toadies of John W. Geary seem resolved to force him upon the Repub lican party as a gubernatorial candi date, in spite of the fact that 'the best men'of the party are completely dis gusted with him. A paper in Erie, which Is controlled by a member of this "humbuggedest" Governor's cabi net, goes off into a strain of the most extravagant eulogy. It blows its trum pet after the followingsonorous fashion: Let our gallant Boysin Blue rally around the banner of the Chevalier Bayard of our State. lie has ever been without fear and with out reproach, as the hosts of freedom will acknowledge. No American—least of all—no Pennsyl vanian need be told of the military record of our gallant Geary. Whatever the foe was tobo found, there did our noble lea der appear to head the combat with all the vigor of his giant nature. In Mexico, it, California, and in the grand arena of tjie rebellion, he ever appeared in the front rank, always crying ' Como on," and not "Go boys," like some we might name. It is almost a pity to spoil so nice a picture, but regard for truth compels ps to do so. It is an established and in controvertible fact that Geary acted the part of an arrant coward In Mexico. At the storming of Chapultapec this Chev allerßayard, took to the chaparal, and hid his precious carcass until all danger was over. Then lie came sneaking out with a cock and bull story about having encountered as many men in Buckram as Falstaff did; but his tale was as ab surd as that of the fat Knight and as little credited by his comrades. So in censed and disgusted were the soldiers under his command that immediately after the return of the regiment, Meet ings were held by its members in Cam bria and Fayette county, in which reso lutions were passed denouncing John W. Geary as "an arrant coward." These meetings were publicly assembled in the Court Houses of the two counties, and the proceedings were rublished in the local Whig papers of the day. During the late :war Geary kept a Bohemian :about his head quarters, : whose business it was to manufacture lies for circulation through the columns of a sensational newspaper. This fel low once had a report published of a purely imaginative battle, at an out of the way place in Virginia, in which Geary was represented as performing prodigies of valor. When the matter was examined into, it was found that there had been no engagement with any enemy,.and the terrible can nonailing, which was said to have taken place, must have been a mere pounding of the empty air, if ally such thing there Win , . The capture of the old " Spittoon," at Harper's Furry, was Magnified into the grandest kind of an achievement.— Sniekerville became historic under the pen of I I ans \\*Last's 11:1Mlee, :UM lies thus glibly retailed, eiivertal this psi] . charlatan with tilitipffer ofreputed mili tary rettoNVll. (Mary came out of the war ready to serve any party which would give him an office. lle wits lieVVr:ellOit'y 10,0111 positions. Alter returning from Kansas (when lie let a fellow half his size spit in hisguberwitorial face, without daring to resent the indignity, and pardoned the mac who shot his insulter) he was content to descend to the business of taking the census of two or three town ships in Westmoreland county, thus accepting the pettiest kind of an office under President Ruch:man. Simon Cameron, wanting as candidate fort b,v ernor some weak fellow whom he could own completely, picked upon theory, and, being then in the zenith of his power, the Winnebago Chief forced the nomination of his purchased Mid, against the earnest protests of the best and purest men of the Republican party. Since his election Geary has made a fool of himself whenever he gtas appeared in public. His silly speeches have made him a laughing stock wherever he went. We hope Geary may be made the IZe publican nominee. II he is the I)eumo c•rats can beat him easily, by putting up a really distinguished soldier, or some able and popular Covode's humbuggedest " Governor can't be re elected. The Inquirer of this city is a Radical newspaper. It has advanced with the extreme men of the party, keeping pace with them all the time. It is the organ of a wing of the Republican party in this county, which is not regarded as being ally purer than it might be. Yet, strange to say, even this journal is con strained to cry out against the infamous system of bribery which, being intro duced Into our politics by the Republi can party, has grown to be almost uni versal. The Inquirer evidently feels no sense of shame in confessing the wide spread corruption which prevails among public officials who have been elevated to power by its party. That seeming callousness is scarcely to he wondered at, however. 1t has come to pass that the people are fully conscious of the fact that the Radical members of our State Legislature form a ring at each session, for the express purpose of extorting bribes from all corporations and other bodies applying for legisla tion. There is not a moderately well informed man in the Com monwealth who does not know that the votes of a majority of the Radical members of our Legislature have been constantly put up at auction for several years past, to he knocked down to the highest bidder. The open sale of the high office of U. S. Senator to Simon Canieron is only au instance in point. The same kind of thing has occurred en a suialierscale almost every day °reach session. And, s., common has the thing become, that it has almost erased to ex cite continent. The people know that meinbri, , nt the i, ,, gisiattire are . con stantly seeking and accepting bribf., and yet it s co, 111 111, l'el:.11111, 1 by 11116 1 0 ' h y 111 . 111 1 It comparatively trivial Jinn ter. The public conscienr has been I.area, an with a hot iron, its lite aullullst 11l enrsal prevalence Of or- Ilcial corruption, We are glad to notice in the article of the Inquirer some evidence of a proper appreciation of the great dangers to be apprehended from this great sonice of evil. It s'l3 It is idle to suppose that an evil of this olotractor, t u rd one Ilutt has grown to the d proportions that ii has of late years been r assuming, can 1,13 suffered wit hout prfe I tic lug the most disasterous results. The vampire that sucks the life-basal of its victim, in order to contribute to its own sustenance, is not fiord fatal to that vic tim's life and lealth, than is Bribery to the life and health of popular government. It withdraws the fountaitr ~f power from its true place, in the hearts.of the people, and transfers it to the pockets of those who pos sess and are willing to use money to pur chase influence and power. With an apparently clear conscious ness of the disgraceful state of affairs which prevails, the inquire seems to be unable to suggest any remedy. The truth is, it is like a surgeon who is call ed upon to remove a cancer which has already sent its poisonous roots deer, down Into the vital organs. He sees at a glancethat the patient must die unless the knife is applied, but is at the same time fully convinced that death will inevitably ensue if an operation is at tempted. The corruption which alarms the Inquirer has become so wide spread and so deep seated in the very, heart of the Republican party that it cannot be removed. The only thing that can be. done is to allow the diseased thing to die, and the sooner it is buried out of sight with all its loathsome corruption, the better it will be for the country. The 11111 Murder After long delays, caused by the re peated challenges for cause, a jury has been impannsled In the Hill murder case, in Philadelphia, and Gtorge Twitchell is now on trial for his life. His wife will be tried separately. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1868. Negro Suffrage In Pennsylvania. Horace Greeley well said that he had no great respect for the "insects whom an inscrutable Providence permits to edit the country Republican papers," but we have less respect for the igno• rant insect who publishes the following in the Honesdale Republic: "1062 William Penn promulgated "The Frame of Government" of Pennsylvania, under authority of the charter granted him by King Charles H. In this document the right of suffrage Is given, without restric tion, to " the freemen of said province." In 1701 Penn granted what is known as the "Charter of Privileges." By this in strument the right of suffrage was broadly given to " the freemen of each respective county." , The first Constitution of Pennsylvania ' was adopted in 1770 k The convention that &Baled this instrument was presided over by Benjamin Franklin. It gave the right of suffrage to "every freeman of the full age of 21 years." The men of the Revolu tion, while asserting their own rights and liberties against proscription, were careful to stand fast by the cardinal idea of the po litical equality of all men. In 1790 a now constitution was framed. Thomas Mifflin presided over the conven tion that made it. This instrument gave the right to vote to " every freeman over the age of 21 years." In 1839 the Constitution was revised.— .lohn Sargent presided over the convention. The basis of suffrage was changed, so as to include only "every while freemen over the age of 21 years." For one hundred and fifty.sla years, blackmen, it black they were, voted in Pennsylvania, on precisely the same con ' dition as white men. In 1082, not 1662, the " Frame of Gov ernment of Pennsylvania" was pro mulgated. The right of suffrage is' thereby granted to " the freemen of said province," but who shall be such free men is not carefully defined. Certainly negroes were not included, because it is extremely doubtful if there were any in the province at the time, the first im portation of Africans having been to ' Virginia, in 1620, and if there were any such in the province, they were cer tainly slaves. That the " man and brother" was not then considered a legitimate depositary of political power -is evident from the Statute of 1726, which " denominated the African race an idle and sloth ful people; sshich directed the Magis , trates.to bind outlfree negroes for lazi ness or vagrancy ; which forbade them to harbor Indian or Mulatto Slaves on pain of punishment by fine, or to deal with negro slaves, on pain of stripes; which annexed to the interdict of mar rings with a white, the penalty of re duction to slavery; which punished them for tippling, with stripes, and even a white person with servitude for intet marriege with a negro." Notwithstanding the "Charter of Privileges" of 1701, the negro had no right t to vote in Pennsylvania, and it Is altogether incorrect to say that he did • not viite wider it. The negro never voted under the Constitution of 177 ,1 ,, :Ind when the new Constitution of 17,10 woo framed, the words " every freeman over the age Of tw . enty•une years," which define the right of suffrage, stil! excluded the ne• In the year 179:,, it was decided by the Court of Errors and Appeals of this State, that under the ('unstitution of 71 , t, thi- negro was not entitled to vote. 'the same question was before the Su preme Court of this State in July, 1537, :ktiti it was decided that the negro had never had the right to vote in this State. See opinion by liibson, C. J., Hobbs et. al., vs. Fogg ; I; \Valls, 353. ).1r Fathers, who believed lit the rinciples of the Declaration of Inde pendence, understoDd the true laws of l‘werninent too well, and valued their liberties too highly, to endanger every thing by placing the ballot iu the hands of an inferior and degraded race. Pilfering and Poisoning The New York ll'orhi has created a profound impression in that city by ex posing the short weight given by retail grocers and the adulterations of many of the articles they sell. It sent repor ters to numerous stores, and they found that the goods which were sold iu pound packages almost invariably lacked an ounce or so iu weight. But it re gards this pilfering as a petty thing when' compared to the wholesalb adulteration of commodities which is practiced. Tea, which is sold for the genuine Chinese article, was found to be a villainous compound of "tea leaves once used, sloe, oak, willow, elm, poplar and hawthorne leaves, with various poisonous colorings, and catechu and sulphate of iron fur taste." Such a mixture as that is calculated to make each particular hair on the head of a tm-loving old maiden stand on end. The World insists that the same sort of adulteration, to a greatest or less extent, is applied to nearly every article. Sugar is au exception. The popular stories about using sand in it seem not to be true. The cheating in that commodity must be in the weigh ing or moistening. But, says the World, "in other articles, almost all articles, great numbers of our retailers deliber ately and successfully swindle their cus tomers." That is a sad picture, indeed, and we cannot help pitying the victims of the vile arts of the grocers of Gotham. The startling revelations made by the World have set us to wondering wheth er the grocers of country towns are eu tirely free from the vices of their Me tropolitan brethren. We suppose our grocers sell their goods as they buy them. But are we sure they have not been sadly adulterated betore they came into their hands. It is said to be a well established fact that Pure spices can scarcely be found. This ques tion of adulteration is one which di rectly affects the health of the people, and it needs to be looked to. Negro Carpe[-Bagg,ers f lit seems that the South is not only to he afflicted with the swarm of lean and lantern-jawed Yankees, who are push ing themselves into every vacant office they can find, but that the Negro Con gressmen from that section are also of the carpet-bagger species. The mulatto who is now hanging round the lobby f the House, wiv ting for a recognition of his claims re; a Representative from Louisiana, is not a Southern negro. He emigrated front Ohio since the war, where its seems he voted for Lincoln in 1860, contrary to the laws of that State. Now this vagrant - Northern Negro pops up as a Repiesentative of the negro ye term of the South. In the name of the barbers, the boot-blacks, the waiters, the black mechanics and the field hands of the South, we protest against this as unfair. Let them send men of their own class, if we must have Negro Con gressmen from the South, and not black carpet-baggers. The Supreme Court A bill has been introduced in the Sen ate to increase the number of Judges on the Bench of the Supreme Court. When Andrew Johnson came into power, a law was passed ieducing the number, in order to prevent him from filling a vacancy. The proposed increase at this time is admitted by the New York Di bum to be in consequence of the con servatism of some of the Judges ap pointed by liar. Lincoln, That amounts to a distinct confession, that the Radi cals intend to pack the highest Judicial tribunal of the land with pliant tools, who will decide according to the de mands of their party. How long can liberty continue to exist under any government when such an outrage is I openly committed. THE Somerset Herald and Whig, the organ of the Republicans of Somerset county, advises Congress to go slow upon the negro suffrage queston. Its editor is Radical enough, in all con science, but he sees symptoms of mu tiny among the "frosty sons of thun der." The mountaineers of Pennsyl vania are not ready,yet to endorse negro equality. They have too much pride of race for that. The Legal Tender Act The intimation that the Supreme Court is likely to discharge a plain duty in a conscientious manner, by declaring the Legal Tender Act unconstitutional, has caused a terrible commotion among the smaller fry of Radical newspaper editors. Horace Greeley takes the thing very complicently. He seems to admit that the law is unconstitutional, and apprehends no serious difficulties, if the Supreme Court so decide. Other leading Radical Journals take the same view. They do not expect chaos to come even if the truth is promulgated from the highest judicial tribunal of the land. But the Philadelphia Post and the Lancaster Express have been thrown into violent convulsions. The Past,,in the most frantic style, calls upon Con gress to abolish the Supreme Court. The Express paints the most appalling picture of the woes which it asserts will follow an opinion adverse to the consti tutionality of the law. We have not seen such a commotion among the Rad ical miriows for a long time, and, con sidering the composure of Greeley, and other tritons of the school, we are quite surprised at the splutter iryto which the diminutives are thrown. Let these "insignificant creatures" (we believe that is the term Greeley once applied to them) read theleading Democratic and independent journals of the country, and there will be an abatement of their agonies. The Phil adelphia Ledger is regarded as first-class financial authority in thin section, and it says: If the decision of the Court shall be of the character intimated, it will no doubt be right, and be a large stride towards au early resumption of specie payments. If Congress had no power to pass such a law, it is void from the beginning, and " greenbacks" are not, and never have been, in law, a legal tender fur the payment of debts, public or private. But it is said and believed that " all contracts made since legal tenders became the money of account by the cus toms of trade. will be held by the courts bound by that custom. The courts of the country would hold that all debts contracted within the greenback era might be legally dis charged by a tender of the commodity contemplated, and not, as the Express foolishly declares, " that every creditor would have the power to demand, and every debtor be forced to pay in specie." In past suspensions of specie payment, hills of exchange and notes of hand commonly expressed so many dollars "in currency," and this precaution was a bar to recovery in specie. In all trans aeLions which have taken ptuce.since the passage of the legal tender act, "greenbacks" have been . universally recognized as the medium of payment, on the well established principle that an existing law is part of the contract. There is no such danger to be appre— hended from a correct decision by the Supreme Court as certain small Radical newspapers would undertake to make their readers believe. The duty of the Court is plain. If the law was in coo- Ilia with the Constitution, as is no generally conceded, the Judges must ao pronounce it. They have no choice in the matter. A Lesson from the Indiana Lynchings. We publish elsewhere full particulars of the horrible lynching case in Indiana. This terrible deed was done in a North ern State, in a thoroughly Republican State, in the State which is the home of the Radical Vice President elect, in a state which professes to be able to take care of itself, and winch would fiercely resent any meddling by Congress with its domestic affairs.' - Yet we find in no Radical paper any hint that this mon strous assumption of the right to dis pense with Judge and Jury, and to pun ish by death I cowed and helpless pris oners of the State, who have incurred the hatred of a crazy mob, is any blotch upon the fame of Indiana as a State, or that it proves the savage instincts which underlie the smooth, civilized skins of the citizens. The majesty of the United States Government was spit upon and defied by these lynchers; for the Itenos and their comrade Anderson, were sur rendered by the Canadian authorities to the United States, on the solemn pledge of our national representatives that the men should have a fair trial, and, if found innocent, should be returned to Canada. Yet, no Radical member of Congres; has moved for the appoint ment of a committee to investigate the matter, and no Radical newspaper has advised the government to hunt down and punish this gang of lynchers, or to put Indiana under martial law. Had the same thing occurred in any Southern State a general howl would have gone up from one end of the land to the other. There' would have been a highly exciting scene in Congress. Sumner would have ranted, and the smaller fry would have echoed his rav ings in full chorus. Every Radical newspaper in the country would have insisted that the State in which such a thing could happen was only fit to be ruled by military force, and that its white population bad been completely , barbarize(' by the existence of slavery. The Franking Prlylleg,e Post Master General Randall, in his report, again calls attention to'the gross abuses of the franking privilege. He says three dollars will buy the Jac simile frank of any member of Congress, the stamped impression of which, in the present condition of the law, exempts from postage all mailable matter. Now that this fact is given such wide rub licity, it is probable the frauds will be more exten've thau ever. Cheating the government being winked at by the popular co of morals, the s e ofstamps is likely to fall off, and the re • of wood engravers to increase immediately. Three dollars for unlimited mail facilt- tie4during two years is exceedingly cheap. Even leaving such swindling out of the question, the expediency, or rather the justice of abolishing the franking privilege is unquestionable. Public functionaries should pay the postage on their private correspondence like other people. That required for their official business should be paid by the government, but the expense should fall, not upon the post•otfice, but the particular department, legistative or executive, to which they belong. If this were done, the post•oftdce would be found to be nearly, if not entirely, self sustaining, the pFesent deficit being oc casioned, in a great measure, if notalto gether, by its gratuitous services to other departments of the government. End of the Jeff. Davis Matter The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says, the case of Jeff. Davis will never be called up for review in the Supreme Court of the United States, where it now reposes. - i If that statement be true, and we see no reason to doubt it, there is an end of a matter which has given the Radicals an im mense amount of trouble. The cry for vengeance upon Jeff. Davis has ceased, and the song about the sour apple tree Is no longer sung. THE popular vote in England gives the Liberalsa majority of 172,000—Vaore than 14 per cent. of the whole number of votes given. The Scotch, however;" who are certainly the most impartial udges of the leading question, which was justice or no justice tb Ireland, gave an overwhelming vote for justice, that is, forthe Liberals, being 5 to 1 in the boroughs, and even in the counties a majority of about 20 per cent. on the total county vote. Taking Great Britian as a whole, the majority on the popular vote is about =,OOO in a total vote of 1,278,000, or more than 16 per cent. Governor Geary announces that the State debt of Pennsylvania has been reduced $2,414000 during the past year. . H the Radicals in the Legislature had been less corrupt and extravagant, the reduc :rt would have bean considerably eater. What Constitutes a Republican Form orf Government ? The Harrisburg State Guard pub.l lisbes the following noticeable para.. graph in its editorlOcolumns: Etas the State of Maryland a republican form of Government? is a question now - , under consideratioopy the House Judiciary Coinmittee. The investigation to answer this question is slowly progressing, and from the laws framed by the late Legisla ture of Ma ryland , it is claimed th at the Committee . will be able to show that that State is without a republican form of gov ernment. Plain people may not all have learned as yet what the Radicals deem neces sary to constitute " a Republican form of Government." On that subject the leaders of the Republican party in Maryland have kindly undertaken to enlighten the world. They have just had a meeting of their State Central Committee to consider the very question to which the State Guard alludes. They adopted a series of resolutions to be pre sented to Congress, the first of which reads as follows : Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress, under the national constitution, to protect the equal voting rights of all loyal Ameri can citizens, regardless of their complexion, for the reason that to admit the right of a State to limit the franchise to one class ad mits.its right to limit it to any extent—an abuse effectually guarded against by the constitution in requiring that the United States shall guarantee to every State In the Union a republican form of government, That is certainly sufficiently explicit. It defines the Radical idea of a Repub lican form of government exactly: We are therein taught that no State which prevents negroes from voting and hold ing office has " a Republican form of government." What kind of a govern ment thatof Pennsylvania is considered to be by these modern Solons we know not. The fathers of the Republic no doubt thought they had succeeded In establishin "a Republican form of government," but it seems they were entirely mistaken, and we have been living under some sort of despotism, if the Radicals are to be believed, ever since the establishment of our National independence. How Ignorant all our great statesmen of the past must have been, to be sure. What fools our former Fourth of July orators must have made of themselves. How silly must all the boasting of former generations about our Republican institutions be con sidered. To what extent is the folly of these Radicals destined to go? When will their experiments end? What new form of madness will follow their pres ent crack-brained schemes? How much of the wise and benificent goveenment bequeathed to us by the fathers, of the Republic will be left if they have ; their way a while longer? There are serious questions, which ought to be seriously pondered by all good citizens, without respect to party. Investigating the New York Election Not content with deciding elections in the Southern States to be legal or il legal, valid or invalid, just as suited their purposes, the Radicals In Congress haVe now undertaken to investigate the conduct of the State elections in the North. Moved thereto by la petition of " narrow minded blockheads" of the Union League of New York, an Inves tigating Committee has been appointed to inquire into' all the exaggerated rumors which have appeared in the Re publican newspapers of that State. The examination is not to be confined to the city, but is to be extended to the rural districts. The Democracyof New York have no reason to fear any fair and open investigation. The charges with regard to fraudulent naturalization can be easily refuted. But this movement is fundamentally wrong. It is the as sumption of a right to interfere with State elections by:Congress, for which there is no warrant. If such a prece dent is once established, we can readily see that it will end in depriving the States of all control of their domestic affairs. We shall have State elections set at naught by a decree of the Central directory, and State officers deposed by a partisan vote of Congress. Are the people of the different States prepared for that The probabilities are that Congress will not go quite so far at present, as to attempt to depose Gov. Hoffman. The Radicals will likely content themselves with setting a Iprecedent from which they can make an advance in the future, if they should deem it safe to do so. They will summon hundreds of willing and unscrupulous witnesses before their Investigating Committee, and will pub lish a partisan report, made up from the cock and, bull stories of ward politicians, to pay for which a hundred thousand dollars or so will be abstracted from the national treasury. These investigating committees have come to be a source of enormous expense, and hundreds of thousand of dollars are uselessly wasted upon them annually. Abuse of the Franking Privilege. It is currently reported, and general ly believed, that Horace Greeley will be made Postmaster General under General Grant. Widely as we differ from the editor of the Tribune politically, we can not help hoping he may be appointed. He is the inveterate enemy of the frank ing privilege, which has caused so great an increase in the cost of the Post Office Department. Mr. Greeley estimates that not less than one million dollars were expended during the late cam paign for the circulation through the mails of political documents. Since the Radicals have invented stamps for marking: the names of Congressmen upon mail matter, this evil has greatly increased. Every committee and sub • committee has one of these convenient articles on hand, and all political let ters and documents are sent to their destination, free of postage. 'Whether many private letters are mailed in the same way we know not. We occasionally receive missiles of that character. The Union League of Philadelphia has been doing a large franking business, under the stamped signature of Congressmen O'Niel and others. They sent out a large issue of a lengthy and useless re port since the election. It is certainly high time there was an end of this thing. Let the franking privilege be abolished, both in Congress and in our State Legislature. It has grown to be a grievous burthen which ought no lon ger to be borne. Cost of Eulogies on "Old Thad." We do not like to sum captions about the cost of eulogizing our deceased Con gressmen, but when we notice that no less than thirty thousand copies have been ordered to be printed we can not help thinking that is drawing a little too strong. The cost of these things will be over a dollar each. From thirty to fifty thousand dollars is too much to pay for printing eulogies, even upon such a prominent Radical as Old Thad. But, then, the toiling masses pay it, you know. Speculation In Breadstuffs The Chicago corner in corn has cul minated, and resulted in repudiation by about two-thirds of the " shorts." The number of bushels repudiated was about 100,000, the difference was about $25,000. The people naturally inquire how much these speculations and attempted " cor ners " are attributable to the abundance and depreciation of the currency, which, through the influence of banks, centre, in the hands of reckless and unprinci pled men, who will not permit even the necessaries of life, breadstuffs and fuel, to escape their avarice aid thirst for gain. WHERE was the colored representa tive in Congress from Louisiana when the drawing of seats took place on Wed. nesday ? Ile appears to have been left out of the Het. Can it be that Senator Sun:mer will submit to this insult, and have nothing' to say in regard to the rough treatment of );t!3 brother of the African race? I TRIP TO THE SOUTH EDITORIAL ROWE& Lynchburg appears to be a thriving place; though how a town could grow to be of any importance when planted ott such a site is, a mystery hard to solve. It lies upon the baaltof the James on as broken andtmeven ground es the country Zan furnigh. The steep declivities of its streets demand much care to tread them in safety, and when the sleets of winter cover them, broken legs must be the rule and not the exception among the citizens who are enterprising enough to venture forth upon them ; and When a slide Is once commenced, there is ample cause for apprehension that the race from the cradle to the tomb is about to end in a rapid " burst" down the homestretch to the foot of the hill. Providence, R. 1., has a street wherein it is said, the attic windows of each house are on a line with the Stoop of the house immediately above it ; but it may with equal truth be said of Lynchburg that the chimneys of adjoining houses rise in a continuous line towards the skies, the roof of the house below forming a convenient garden plat for the house above. This is to be aura something of an exaggeration, but still Lynchburg is a very hilly town as the well developed ankles of its fair inhabitants testify. Hillside perambulation, yon know reader, is well adapted to the exhibition of pedal beauties. The town derives its name from one Lynch, who formerly owned its site, at which there was a ford or ferry over the river. To it the produce of the back country was carried, as it afforded the only conven ient place for crossing, which the River pre seated for some distance along its course. The primitive mode of conveying tobacco to this point in olden times, was to nail a slab across each end of a hogshead, to which a pair of shafts were attached in such a man ner as to allow the hogshead to roll ; and a mule furnished the power to haul this novel carriage to market. The chief trade of Lynchburg is iu tobac co, and it manufactures probably the best smoking and natural leaf chewing tobaccos in the world. The bright golden-leaved to bacco is selected to make the first grade of smoking tobacco, and the "Lone Jack" is the most approved brand, though very many others are nearly equally as good.— This bright tobacco, smoked in a Powhatau red clay pipe, weaned nearly all our party from the use of cigars throughout our trip We attended a ladles' fair held in no Bap tist Church for the benefit of its Pastor ; and if the ladies at the tables were fair sum- pies of the beauty of the women of Lynch burg, we confidently assert that this Vir ginia town will take the palm for pretty women from all the cities of the country ; we are of those who believe that very few ugly females were ever born into the world, but still there are degrees of beauty, and the majority of the ladies at this fair were positively pretty; but what beggars they were! Good Heavens! it makes each particular hair on one's headstand up, even at this hour, to think of the desperate as saults of fair battalions that we encounter ed. The charge of the six hundred was nothing when contrasted with the impetu ' osity of the charge which six of the fair yen_ ders of merchandize made on us; but it had a different result; we were slaughtered and they victorious; but the bravo Col. Dechert, our captain, carried off as a trophy of the evening's engagement, a magnificent doll three feet high, and the rank and file bore off enough pound etike to provision the en tire command through the next day's march. The Norvell House, at which we stopped, spreads a table which cannot be excelled; its cook is a master of his profession. Throughout our trip we found the Southern Hotels uniformly well kept, and especial ly in the matter of servants, do they merit the travellers' praise. The waiters, uni versally colored, are abundant and good, and your selection from the bill of fare is placed before you promptly; Northern landlords, take notice. The country behind Lynchburg we judged from our observations was not, as a general rule, very fertile, though we noticed in some parts of our ride around the suburbs land which looked very well. A couple of our party went in a conveyance ten or fif teen miles to the southward and returned not very well pleased ; though we did not place explicit reliance on their report, as we knew by experience that they were captious enough to have turned up their noses at the land of Canaan, if they bad taken a buggy ride through that milk and honey region in the olden time; the milk would have been sour and the honey full of decay irg bees I We left Lynchburg on the morning 01 4 Thanksgiving Day, going East on the South Side Railroad, intending, at Burkes villa Junction, to take the Richmond and Danville Railroad Southward. We passed through Campbell, Appomattox and. Prince Edward counties, and did not see any fine agricultm al lands. The Railroad was most ly bordered by timber and the land seemed thin, as was indeed to be expected, since the road passed along the top of a ridge. This by the way is universally the case with Southern roads; instead of seeking as with us, the valleys, the railroads occupy the ridges; this renders it impossible to get a fair idea of the country by traversing its railways, as the rioh a l nd cultivated lands are found in the valleys. The South is a sparsely populated country, and is conse quently still covered over its major surface by forests. The rich lands and the valleys are in cultivation, but as a rule tho poorer uplands and ridges have been left to their native wildness, the necessities of popula tion not requiring their fertilization and culture. We passed within a mile and a half of the scene of Lee's surrender, near Appomattox Court loupe, and ceased to wonder that in this desolate region the Gen eral bad concluded that •it was time to quit fighting for such "sacred Soil." About noon we arrived at Burkesville Junction, but to our disgust learned that the Danville road was keeping thanksgiving day, and that no trains were running South. We therefore passed on to Richmond, in tending to take the train back in the morn- ing. A half-dozen of us, however, securing a letter of Introduction from General Im boden to Mr. Jefferson, a nephew of Thomas of that name, residing near Amelia Court House, got off the cars at that station to spend the night with him. We found a large crowd at the Court House and the county court in session. An auctioneer was standing on a wagon engaged in sell ing a tract of 700 acres of land, by order of trustees. It was going at $5 per acre, and we understood was a good farm; its cheap ness so much astonished ears that were ac customed to hear land sold at $2OO per acre, that we came near losing our balance and buying it at a venture. Just think of it— a good farm of 700 acres, near the railroad, and only 40 miles front Richmond:with improvements, for 0,500. You are aware, reader, that the Ccurt Houses in Virginia were not generally lo cated in towns, but were built at some con venient cross-roads near the centre of the county, with the expectation probably that towns would spring up around them ; but the cities in most cases declined to spring, and as a result, we find the Court Houses standing now nearly alone in their glory,in the midst of the woode 2 with very few build ings indeed around, to keep them company. The Amelia Court House bas at its back the Presbyterian Church and the Jail, on its left a dwelling or two, and on its front two stores, a shoemaker's shop, the railroad depot, and no tavern. This is about the sum 1 1 total of the village. The Court House itself is quite a handsome and spacious building, stands in a beautiful enclosure, and is ap proached by a pleasant walk beneath the overhanging and Interlacing branches of majestic forest trees, ( reT County Court, which is compose of all the cvi i‘ Justices of the Peace in e county and mmeets regularly once a th, was in ses sion when we enters the court room. The Justices, nine en in number, sat in chairs on a raise platform along the oppo site or back end of the room, occupying its entire width and having a desk in front of them which seemed to afford a convenient resting place for their feet. Two ladies eat with them, who we ascertained were wit nesses in the case then on trial. Before them sat the Jury, the Bar and the prisoner, in a apace enclosed by a railing; outside of which was gathered a large and motley crowd, all negroes, of every shade of color 1 tdad of both sexes, who seemed to be in tensely Interested in the proceedings., A . negro boy was on trial for stealing atrunk, and it being a felony, a jury had been em pannelad in the case; Crimes of less grade, we understood, were decided without their intervention, byi the Justices alone. The I counsel for the defence was speaking and en deavoring:to make the most out of a bad case; he besought the Suryto give the prisoner the benefit of any doubt which might be In their I minds and they could not be without doubt, although the lady who lost the trunk iden tified-tho prisoner; for hoW could she be 'certain when all negroeri looked so much alike?" We wished - much that we held the road of an artist, so that we might sketch to .the 'l47e, the"striking arena which this ;Court Room presented, and giVe to others 'the amused feeling which we 'experienced in ob.si3rvieg the open month, the fixed blank eye and the wropt, attention with which the dusky sons of Africa gazed upon the orator as they leaned, one upon the other, far over the railing of the Bar, appar ently lost in admiration at his eloquence, not understanding what he said, but won dering greatly how he got his words so fast and where he got them from: The boy was found guilty butrecommended by the Jus tices for some reason, to be pardoned. We found Mr. Jefferson, who was a Justice at tending Court, and accompanied him to his residence some two miles off. EDITORIAL NOTES—IT: Burkesville Junction is about halfway between Lynchburg and dtichmond, and the country from a short distance west of Burkesville to within fifteen or twenty miles, of Richmond presents on the railroad a good agricultural appearance. As we ap proach nearer to Richmond we run into pine timber lands and into a coal field ; the country there has a desolate look, although every now and then we meet the smoke of an engine engaged in working a valuable vein of coal. Amelia county is not intersected by the rich bottom lands of rivers, except upon its eastern border, along which runs the Ap pomatox ; yet its gently rolling farms strike favorably the; eye examining the country for its agricultural advantages; and its lands.being cheap, near market and capable of great production when properly farmed and fertilized, it offers tempting in ducements for settlement to Northern far mers. A Holland colony has already settled 'The Radical Braggarts and the State in it and haslsectired the refusal of a tract i Debt. of Gov. Geary has issued a proclamation 12,000 :acres of land commencing some four miles from the Court House, at ten setting . forth the amount of the State debt redeemed by the Commissioners of the dollars per acre. A number of the large Sinking Fund from the first Monday in landholders, seeing the advantage which September, 1867, till the thirtieth of Nevem: would result to this section of the country Il e c r , t l h B` rt "s t . du T rt ' n e g G t o h v a e a r e n o fi r ft ito r m m s o althea just by the settlement of a white colony of this $2 , 414,810 24 of the State debt were redeem kind, agreed to sell to its agent a portion of . ed. This proclamation is made the occa ' their tracts, so as to enable the colony to oh- sion of much boasting, on the part of the twin 12,000 acres of land lying all in radical fiaaaai a Iproses, managementco ncerningof ra radical l wonder ful ocials in one body ; a condition which was a ' general and Governor Geary's administra sine qua 1107 t of their settlement. Mr. tion in particular. or course the "rural Jefferson, for instance, allowed them to • Caifres" who don't stop to look beneath have a thousand acres off of his plantation goldt tsurface,at glitters,b u but i m a a r g e i i i i n e T e l; ta t every a o t v h a i r r t r t : a s on very favorable terms of payment; and ! statement Made in this proclamation. Our the colonists are now at work, each one 1 readers will see its hollowness when we diligently improving the small section of i d pen. ,just gir ma it , t 3 . i h n iz i s n ligh l t a p n u d n w ct as ure e w at ilo s u h r e land which has been allotted to him. Mr. , ten years ago, by an act of the Legisla- Jefferson himself is a very good farmer, tore (see Pardon's Digest, page 914) which and has a magnificent plantation. He pur- 1 provides as follows : chased it, in separate tracts, some years ini'Lotre,l.nhees ap addttrill of i interestp a ying ua t er h the e , s a e o n t t t ago, when the land was comparatively such further indebtedness as may hereafter poor; but he has now brought it to the be contracted on the part of the ceminon highest state of cultivation, and assured us I wealth, the following revenues and in that he had raised on it fifty bushels of comes are hereby specifically appropriated wheat to the acre. Can Lancaster county , come se a t f aita a rt y „ m t — it w : re o r T k h s e t li l at nett t a a are rival now, or i a beat this? We ourselves counted in one I may hereafter be owned by the common place on his 'plantation twenty-live large ' wealth, and the proceeds of the sale of the stacks of grain. There was no room to doubt the groat fertility of this farm, and I same hs a re o to f fo sa tT o m ot ed s e m g a d o t w he ae idacre l i te r we had every reason to believe that any of following sources all revenues derived from the the land in the county could be brought, From bank afters and dividends. by careful farming, to d all the same degree of fertility. Good farms, with substantial im- ''' th'erasmouearceasasoerree v d em o a n e c co a rap n o e r a a ta tir corporations h. 1 The tax on taverns, eating-houses, res provements, can? be bough Lin Amelia at i taurants, distilleries, breweries, retailers ten or twelve dollars per acre. The white 1 pedlars, brokers, theatres, circuses, billiard corn is grown here as it Is in all the South- an a d ten br fa l e im i s n a e lc l i i o a n e e n , se t a e . n pin alloys and t country, although we found no ono who P On theatrical, circus and menagerie ex was able to tell us why it was preferred to hibitions. the red, which we grow at the North, con- On auction commissions and duties. sidering that it yields the largest product. The kindness which we experienced and Gno7raittaCorwneilvla, writing, entered of record, on which a tax and dee d a l ). iatr mortgages,let tersunietso the cordiality with which Mr. Jefferson, is assessed. Mr. Chaffin and others urged us to linger On public officers and all others on which with them and at our leisure view the farms a tax f: Ls r l e e t vi n ed g 1 . surance companies. of Amelia and make the acquaintance of On enrollment of laws. companies. 4 pis nters, caused us to leave this county On pamphlet laws. on the morning after our arrival with much On loans or money at interest. regret ; but we were obliged to join our Allßevenues fine s , erv forfeitures ad.ro a mn d m p e p i e I a a l t i e. lielands. party in the continuation of our Southern The excess of militia tax over xpendi tour, promising ourselves to return at some tures. future time to the pleasant scenes we were Militia tax. lit. leaving. Tonnage tax paid by railroads. .£ Escheats. Passing southward from Burkesville Collateral inheritance tax. Junction through Prince Edward, Lunen- I Accrued interests. berg and the upper part of Charlotte coon- I Refunded cash, and all gifts, grants, or ties, the land looks pretty fair; but it is irt bequests, revenueorithe mtott die State erivdt andhere nroit t. when, at the border of Charlotte and in may be m otherwise directed." Halifax, you meet the Staunton, Bannister 'The receipts at the Treasury, from the and Dan, branches of the Roanoke, that I sources above enumerated,\ were, for the you see the rich bottom lands lying in the year tVe7, $5,024 _32,01. l e D a u s t ri a g the valleys of these rivers, whose fertility and doubtle is v , largely in excesS of lush last h year. beauty are such as to fill the farmer's soul During the fifteen months for which there with jay, The railroad crosses the valleys port of the Commissioners of toe Sinking of Lie Staunton and the Bannister, but runs that of the Dan for a number of miles, I Fund f i s from made. he a T b h o e , a receipts et ti a a a t a t d h e sources, e a s - u w r eYre not ro less than $13,250,000.00. 7 We ree rossing at Danville, on the border of Vir- to the statistics of the Auditor General's re ginia and North Carolina. The Bannister I port to bear us out in this statement. Now, S a tributary of the Dan, and the Dan and ( let r i ea t b t a b a b t o borne r i y n mind o f that the it,t on law re- r e - th e Staunton, running together in Meek- Lived at the State Treasury from the lenberg county, a few miles from the bor- above-named sources, shall go into the der of Halifax, form the Roanoke, which Sinking Fund for the purpose of paying the State debt. Hence, during the fifteen thence flows down, a majestic river, into months ending Nov. 30th, 1868, there were ! Albemarle Sound, through one of the rich- in the Sinking Fund est valleys in the world ; with this draw" I Applicable to the payment of back to its fertility—that as it nears the the State debt ,6,250,000.00 coast, it becomes unhealthy, passing into a that Amount of debt paid during period region which the fever and ague claims as its sovereign domain. Not applied to payment of the debt $3,835,183.36 As there were a number of farms lying in the valleys of the tributaries to the Roa noke, which our party desired to examine, we broke up into several parties and got off the railroad at different stations, agree ing to meet again - at Goldsboro, N. C. A number left us at Drake's Branch, in Char lotte co., and placed themselves unner the guidance and embraced the hospitality of Col. Carrington. We stopped with a party at Clover, and met at the station Mr. Sims, whose plantation of 4,000 acres, lying upon the Staunton we had just traversed on the railway. Four of us accepted his kind in vitation tb-make his house our home during our stay, while the remainder under the guidanc of Gen. Imboden, stopped with the Rev Mr. Clark, whose plantation of 4,000 ac es on the Staunton, adjoining that of Mr. ims, was offered for sale. We had a please walk of tWo miles, to the residence of Mr. , Birris, under the guidancerof Major McPliails a most kind and agreable gen tleman of about our own age, who is en gaged i,n managing the plantation of his father in this vicinity. We may not say how agreeable an evening was that which was in store for us ; but if the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Sims in making us feel per fectly at home and the brightness and beauty of three young ladies, their delight ful conversation and enchanting music could cause an evening to pass away most agreeably, then surely no superlative too strong can be used to describe the pleasant ness of this one of ours, as it floated off into Time. We had observed as we crossed the R. R. bridge over the Staunton a large earthen fortification near its Southern end ; we now ascertained that this was on Mr. Sims Plantation and that it had been thrown up to protect the bridge against the forays of Union Cavalry. A portion of the Southern army had been encamped here for some time towards the end of the war, for the protection of this bridge; as it will be remembered that while our army besieged Petersburg, the Richmond and Danville Rail Road formed Lee's only direct means of communication Southward, and Its preservation. was therefore of vital importance to him. A large Union cavalry force under Wilson reached this Bridge, a short time before the close of the war but was driven off by the Confederate force sta tioned at this fort. So great a discomfiture as our forces met with at this point can on ly be explained by giving full credence to a legend which is circulating in the neigh borhood, that at the decisive moment of the battle, a young lady of the vicinity seized a Confederate Stariclard and leaping boldly upon the ramparts of the fort,inspir ed the Confederate garrison to fight with more than mortal:courage and desperation ; and at, the same struck deep terror into the hearts of their foe. Certain it Is, that lust then the Union line broke and the whole attacking force passed in full flight up the valley. This whole country has been drained of its horses. We mourned with our young lady friends the loss of their favorite riding horses. The troubles of this region came after the surrender and after the war was overt far then the army of Sherman marched through it to the North and left nothing in the shape of a horse in the whole country. Singular as this 'statement seems to be; incredible as it appears that after the termipation of the war, such wholesale robbery should have taken place, yet the fact cannot be controverted. The stealing may not have been ordered, but it certainly was permitted ; and the soldiers of that vandal army of Sherman scattered in small bands along the whole line of march, and the inhabitants had o reason to cougrati4 themselves if they lost nothing more their horses and their stock. Of these they were completely etriPPO ; yce copld not hire a horse in the Whole country during our stay in it, and we necessarily saw it, therefore, :views afoot." We shall have more' to say — ,of this army of Sherman when we get to 4ie Carolinas ; we .have been over a good portion cif his black ened trail. Suffice it now to say that the cindnet of his troops was disgraceful to:the civilization of the age; it is an infamous slander neon war to their action war llke yupoii - warriors, to call these men soldiers. •••—• liowiForney w ibed. The investigations regard to the Alaska purchase show that Forney ac cepted a bribe of $3,000 for advocating the measure in the Washington Croni de. The Philadelphia Post tells how the matter was managed as follows : It is a fiction in Philadelphia that the legislation of Congress is dictated by the Daffy Chronicle, as it is n' fiction in Wash ington that the politics of Philadelphia are dictated by The Press. These two fictions formerly made a fraction of a fact. But , the first of them is forever cur -1 ploded by the tact that the The Chronicle was paid three thousand dollars for printing Robert J. Walker's communications, and kindly praising them editorially. No paper that is paid to advotate a purchase can have influence, antits opinions are not worth buying. W he n the Czar paid three thousand dollars in gold to have the Alaska bargain puffed in the Chronicle, the poor man wasted his money; three hun dred dollars would have been more than enough, but Emperors are proverbially lib eral. The whole glair is a very pretty one. Mr. Walker said to Mr. Stoeckel that the Chronicle had been very kind, and Mr. Stoeckel said to Mr. Walker that he thought so too. Mr. Walker said to Mr. Forney, , the editor, that his editorials were very fine, and worth three thousand dollars ; Mr. Forney said to Mr. Walker that be didn't know anything about it. Mr. Walker said , to Mr. Forney, the publisher, that be thought the articles were worth-three thou sand dollars, and Mr. Forney said he thought so too. So the money that the ed itor refused the publisher accepted, and The Chronicle got paid for the job. What has become of the $3,835,183.36 re ceived at the Treasury, payable to the Sink ing Fund, and not applied to the extin guishment of the State Debt? Is the Sink ing Fund robbed of millions of dollars annually to defray the expenses of the gov ernment, and to make the people believe that their taxes have been reduced? Before our Radical friends ipdulge in further boasting, will they please explain this little discrepancy between the amount of the State debt redeemed and the sum provided by the people for its redemption? At the same time, they might as well inform the tax-payers that under Democratic rule the State paid but 4,4 i and 5 per cent. on its loans, whilst under the administration of Gov. Geary it pays 6 per cent. on the bulk of its indebtedness. When they shall have performed these little tasks, they may go on with their manufacture of cheap thunder for the gubernatorial campaign. Until then the people will respond to their boasting, with the derisive shout, Vice to Humbug.—Harrisburg Pabiat. The Fleet Blow for Woman eulTrage The Washington correspondent of the New - York Herald says: Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, bas become an advocate of female suffrage, and made the first bold movement in favor of woman's rights in the United States Senate by the introduction of the followi❑g bill : Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 'United States of America In Congress assembled, That the word "male" in the first section of the act entitled "An Act to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia," passed on the Bth day of January, 1867, be struck out, and that every word in said act applable to persons of the male sea shall apply equally to persons of the female sex, so that hereafter women who are inhabi tants of said District of Columbia and citi zens of-the United States may vote at all elections and be eligible to all civil offices in said District pn the same terms and con ditions in alt reSpects as men. Thus this favored District Is to be the first place where female suffrage is to tried, as it was the first where Samba put on hie full political vestments. Since the commence- Mont of the present session of Congress memorials have been presented from differ ent places signed In all by about two thous and persona, a majority of whom are wo men, asking for female suffrage in the Dis trict of Columbia. About two hundred persons in Washington have memorialized to the seine effect. • There are six different measures pending, involving female suf frage, including two propositions for a con stitutional amendment, one bill for such suffrage in the Territories ! and three bills for suffrage in the District of Columbia, Representative Julian introduced three of these measures. Horrible Railroad Accident NEW HAMBUROH, N. Y., Dec. 13-11 P. M.—A heartrending accident occurred here in Van Rensselaer's cut, on the Hudson River Railroad, at a quarter past three this afternoon. At that hour a party of three consisting of Minnie Bodden, a daughter of John Redden, of Milton Per ry, aged 7 years; Mary Vannosdale, wife of John Vannos. dale, aged 24 years; and Catharine McN ulty, young girl 18 years, were walking to wards New Hamburgh on the down track in the cut mentioned, as the train which left Poughkeepsie at 3 o'clock, P. M., was approaching. The engineer saw them and whistled an alarm vigorously, but before it was heard tthe locomotive struck all three. The engine and three cars ran over Mary Vannosdale, magling her 14 a horrible manner and killing her instantly. The little girl was hurled to tho west side of the track, against a atone wall, and Catharine McNulty was thrown to the east side of the track. Both of the latter were seriously injured. The little girl is now lying at Charles Hoffman's residence and Catharine 'McNulty at Mrs. Rachael Law= son's, where every attention Is being paid them. The little girl's parents are here, and Dr. Baxter thinks 'the injured will re cover. The'body of Mrs. Vannosdale was cruelly deserted by her ielatives at the sta tion, but the station , agent and a.few villa gers have taken proper care Olt. Coroner Vandewater held an inquest on it, the jury returning a verdict in accordance with the facts, The principal witness was John Engler, who was on the train. He picked up the little girl. The action of the friends of Mrs. Vannosdald Is severelY caner:wed. New Haven has put up about $3,000:000 worth of baildbiga this season', eiipoYete baiie a population of 09,000 in, two years and boasts itself the "bonsmercial centre" of the bintmeg State. ' ' The Wholesale Lynching in Indiana Statement or the Sheriff. fFrom the New Albany Commercial, Dee'r. MI Another terrible tragedy was enacted in this city between threeand four o'clock this morning, resulting in the breaking open of the county jail, and the shooting of Sheriff Fullerlove. At twenty minutes past tfiree o'clock this morning, the famous Vigilance Committee put in an appearanco, They arrived here on the train from Jefferson ville, getting off the cars at Pearl istreet.— There were front seventy to seventy-five men, all well dressed, wearing red' flannel masks that completely concealed their fea tures. Each man was armed with one or more revolvers, a heavy club about thirty inches long, and a slungahot. Upon getting , off the train they placed patrols along the street from the railroad to the Jail, and a strong guard was placed around the jail,— Before placing the guard around the jail five or SIX men seized Mr. Luther Whit-' ten, one of ex-Sheriff Fullerlove's geards, employed to keep watch at night in the jail yard, tied him hand and foot and car ried him into the Sheriff's office and placed him in a chair. The Committee then se cured the other persons in the Sheriff's of fice and immediately went to the room in which Sheriff Fullerlove and his wife were sleeping. Sheriff Fullerlove had been awakened by the noise and stepped to the door just as the Coinmittee were about tm enter it. The committee demanded of the Sheriff the keys to the jail and told him if he made any noise they would shoot him, at the same time pointing their revolvers at him. The Sheriff told them to shoot—be would not give them the keys, and would also raise the alarm. Sheriff Fullerlove then opened a door and ran down stairs into the basement of the house, and climb ed out of the wind Ow. As he did this a half dozen pistols were pointed at him and he told the crowd of Vigilante not to fire at him, as he was the Sheriff. Gaining the yard, he attempted to reach the gate lead ing to the street, but was fired upon and severely wouuded in the arm, just below the elbow, the bullet burying itself in the bone. Several men seized Sheriff Fuller love, one of them striking him on the fore head with the butt of a pistol, knocking him down. Some one of the mob then told the men not to hurt the Sheriff, but to carry him Into the house, which was done. 00 their reaching the house, Mrs. Fullerlove, seeing blood upon her husband's clothing, commenced crying, but she was told by the mob to stop and keep perfectly quiet, or she would be killed. The Sheriff bad no clothing on except his drawers and shirts. The mob then searched the house until they found the jail keys. They then shut up the Sheriff and guards and proceeded to unlock the doors of the jail. When they reached the inside doom of the cell of the room they encountered Mr. Matthews, the patrol in the cell room. He drew his revolver and threatened to shoot any man that would attempt to tin lock the door. 'the mob showed him a rope and told him if he fired even one shot they would break the door down and hang him. He then surrendered to them under a promise front them that his life would be spared. The mob, 'however, were unable to unlock the door, and they compelled Mr. Matthews to unlock It for them. They then seized and tied hint, end placed him in the room with other cap tured guards. They had the keys of the cells, and before removing Matthews from the cell room they had forced hint to show them the cells in which Frank Reno, Chas. Anderson, Simeon Reno and Wm. Reno were confined. They now had full possession of the jail, and knew where to find their intended victims, and the work of death was commenced and speedily ac complislied, leaving a terrible and sicken ing memento of its completeness in the ' dangling, lifeless bodies of its victims. • Toe first man was Simeon Reno. The cell house is divided into two tiers, upper and lower, and around the upper tier of cells is an iron corridor supported by strong iron pillars. From the southwest corner of this corridor Simeon Reno was hung. His - arms and feel were pinioned, and he was ifi his bare feet. He hail re ceived a blialv upon the head, and a thin streak of blood stained his thee. Ile had on no clothing except his shirt and pants. The next victim was Charles Anderson. He was hung frpm the northwest corner of the corridor, and his features gave evidence of a terrible struggle with his relentless executioners. On the south end of the corridor Frank Reno was hung. Upon his head, just above the right ear, was a deep wound, apparent ly made with a s.lungehot, and the right side of his face was besmeared with blood. The face and neck were remark ably white. Immediately in front of Frank, and touching him, William Reno was bung. His face was much distorted and the flesh was greatly swollen, burying the rope from sight. The sight was one we pray God we may never again be called newt to witness. ' • The mob having completed its work left the jail, looking the door leading into the cellroom and carrying off the key. In the best order the Vigilance Commit , tee then left:the premises for _the railroad, i where a train was in waitiurefor fhem, and ; left the city, the work for r oll they came being accomplished. W n Sheriff Full erlove was shot Mr. Peott begged the • privilege of going for aph sioian for him, • but the Vigilance Committee would not permit, telling him to left they took . Perron with wait a• short time. ~ When they le . them to the train to prevent le giving the alarm, telling him to hasten for a surgebn , forthe Sheriff the moment the train started. • 'I he mob brought with them ropes with • which to do their work. They were of ma r nlla rope, five-eighths of an inch in size i and about ten feet in length. Each rope t had a regular hangman's knot upon it. i The mob brought five ropes in all, one of i which they said they brought with which to hang the guard if be resisted. It is be lieved, however, that it was the intention 1 of the mob to hang Clark, who is In our jail, on a change of venue from Washington I county, ns his name was mentioned several - times by the mob. Fear of an alarm, doubtless. saved Clark's life. 1 The mob were in thejail, Sheriff F. states not to exceed five minutes. He thinks not over three minutes were occupied in the - terrible woek of Bending the four victims of their fury iisto eternity. The parties were , sent to the Floyd county jail for safety. . , STATEHENT OF A PRISONER,. , Henry Clark, a prisoner in the jail for killing George Toile, at Salem, Ind., was an eye witness of the lynching, and makes the following statement: The first persons I saw in jail were two men who had on masks of red flannel, or something of the kind—perhaps red hand kerchiefs. Heard the men talking to Mat , thews, the guard, apparently endeavoring to force him to point out the cells. Mat thews refused to toll them anything. Then a voice said something about putting a rope round his neck, and the order was given to pull him up. Then heard Nos. 24, 11 and 7 distinctly uttered, and they seemed to have released Matthews. No. 24 was Frank Reno's cell ; No. 11 was Charles Anderson's, and Simeon and William Reno were in No. 7. Then heard some one say, "Bring a rope," and they went to Frank Reno's cell at first. Frank said nothing, and heard the words, "Frank Reno, No. 24," and then, "Pull him out." He resist ed some and cried, "For God's sake, gen tlemen, what are you going to do?" They told him to dry up and then tied his hands, and a couple of them grabbed him by the throat, pushing him along. Ae they got to the top of the stairs he clutch ed at the banisters, but made no noise. He died very hard. After hanging Frank they went to No. 7' where Simeon and William Reno were. As they opened the door some one spoke up and said, ...What do you want here?" Then I beard something fall, and afterwards heard that one of them had been knocked down by Simeon, who had seized the sink lid to defend himself. I then heard the:fall of another body as they rushed into the cell. Simeon had been knocked down. Heard him groan. They then took him out, car ried elm around and hung him. ,I heard him make no noise. Then they brought out William, and I saw them put a rope round hie neck. An order was given for Nos. 3 and 5. Every man seemed to be called by a number in stead of by name, to go up and catch the rope. William said, "I am innocent gen tlemen, never done the robbing. 0 Lord, protect my father and sister." Two men pulled him up. William struggled very hard, When Anderson was taken out of his cell he asked for time to pray, but was told to shut his mouth and that they did not want anything out of him. They strung him up, but the rope broke. It was tied again and be was again pulled up. APPEARANCE OF THE BODIES. When wearrived at thejail the four bodies had been cutdown, and were lying stretched upon a blanket In the ball. The three Reno brothers, all young men and nearly the same height, were lying aide by side, while at their feet lay the body of Anderson. All wore jeans pants, and the Repos bad on plaid shirts, without coats or vests. Ander son's shirt was of a dark, dull color, though of the samepattern as those of his co rn eae- I ions. The face of Simeon Reno, who lay between his brothers, Frank and William, was covered with blood from the wound he had received white vainly struggliug against the overpowering mob. Their features were not in any way distorted, the still, quiet pallor of death alone speaking of the spirits that had fled. The Coroner was busy col lecting a few articles from their persona, and the jury stood looking on. No testimony was taken, and after deciding to give up the bodies of the deceased men to their friende, the jury . adjourned until seven o'clock fn the evening. AN AFFECTING SCENE. The wives of Frank Reno and Charles Anderson have been temporarily residing In New Albany for several,Weeks. Alias Laura Reno, sister of the deceased, who had shown such devotion to her ill-fated brothers, arrived at ten o'clock, a dispatch having been sent to Louisville, where she was attending St. lirsuline Academy, a Catholio school. As may he suppbsed, she, as well as Mrs. Frank Reno and Mrs. An derson, are in deep distress. Winn taken to view the remains of her three dead brothers, lying in a row, the distress of the sister was a spectacle never to be forgotten. Her cries were piteous and heart-rending. The youngest of the brothers seemed to be the special object of her affection, for, as she stooped over the lifeless form, she exchilm ed, "Ohl my brother lmy baby!, my baby brother r.' 2, 14 816.64 WHO 'THE MOB writa. There were all sorts ttf tapnrts and rumors, as to who the lyncherpliete. Aiaßy boldlyasserted that they were a gang x,ong s hired to do the dirty work they petformea, while others believe thein td bade been the Jackson County Vigilance Committee. The Jeffersonville Railroad Company is openly charged with connivance at the affair, brit there is nothing whatever that can be relied on that would criminate any company or any particular persona. Tho dreadful work was quietly done, and even the victims wore strangled into silence when they wouLl have cried out In horror to their God. -.....r, THE OHIO RIVES DISASTER scenes About the Wrecks—The Work of keetitertuf the Bodies—Nearly w B un aced Victims. A corrspondent of The Cincinnati Com mercial has visited the scene of the late terrible steamboat accident, on the Ohio River, 65 Mlles above Cincinnati, and gives 4.yery graphic description of the ecettee there. Having described the collision and the burning of the boats, he says. "Of all those who were on the two burn- • ing boats there was ono man—and only one man—who saved his trunk. That man was Capt. David Whitten of the steamer Amer- • lea. And Napoleon Jenkins, the pilot of the America, saved his valise. I spent twelve hours at the wreck on Saturday, December 12. The scene may be described in a few words. All that Is left of the America Is her lower port guard imbedded in the frozen mud along the shore the skel eton of her port wheel-houso leaning nn tiro willow-fringed bank, the ragged metal sheatlng along her bow, and several tan gled fragments of her chimneys. Some of her pantry ware is scattered along the bank. The United States sits square ou the bot tom of the river. the blacked frames of her wheel-house stillholding erect and together. The muddy river licks the lower halt of the name painted on her sides. The bow anti stern are out of sight; and covering her submerged lower decks are motley frag ments of freight and baggage. There are boxes of paper collars, shreds of clothing, fire-stained culinary vessels, broken shut ters, bent iron girders, charred timbers, shattered boxes and gaping barrels. The wrecking steamer Graham and a barge aro anchored next inside the remains of the United States; and Just below is the steam er Underwriter, with huge cranes, chains, and a ponderous diving bell on her fore castle. Along the yellow, frozen bank, 25 or 30 feet high, with its narrow Moping beach to the water, a jeansy string of rus tics are squatting on their hunches, absorb ing all the sunshine they can, and watch ing the dragging operations with atolls! faces. They flock from far and near to see the accident (they emphasize the last sylia ble,) and would rather freeze than carry it faggot to the tire built to warm the wreck ers. With the mercury nearly at zero, the hardiest among the wreckers cannot work more than half an hour at a time. A row of eleven decent collins ere placed on the beach. One of them - 2onteitts two bodies—no, only the fragments of two bodies—there is nothing but fragments its any of the solemn array of minket:4. le those collies are deposited the blackentsi corset of seven unidentified men, four mu identified women, and one unidentified to male child of 10 or 11 years of ego. The lids of the callus which cover the female re mains are partially screwed down. Those over the males are loose, and whoever dares look on death In its most grisly guise, n a ry lift the seven lids, ono utter the other, in sickening succession. In every case the feet of the bodies aro burned off. Some lack legs and arms. None have a recognizald.- feature left save the ghostly double rows teeth, and from them the enamel Is gone, 'The fire burned off faces and scalps; some times made ashes of the skull; left re fee. charred rags of flesh where there had been arms, knots of roasted muscles whore there had been legs. In all instances the lists have been clenched like the teeth, and the forearms doubled up against the breast-- in one case so tightly that though the flesh is but partially roasted oil', the bones are wrenched loose ut the elbow, and:glettm ivory. In a few alielterol spots on the bodies the flesh is ocorclusl red and veiny, but elsewhere they are black IN if the balked flesh, the naked t entions, and charred bones heed been coated will, rusty tar. One of the mules wits evidenti,- mun of splendid mold 'and vigor. it is supposed that his body, which oven the sav agery of the dreadful lire could not wholly mutilate, is that of Rev. let r. Parent, of Philadelphia. Ile was a man of notably handsome form; and on Birch meagre grounds does the talk of indentiticatton new rests. There are at the wreck ten or fifteen men who are seeking to recover the remains afloat friends and relatives. What a har rowing errand Is theirs to rush anxiously to the batik whenever a black horrible thing Is dragged front the river, to judge by a clinging button, a shred of apparel, a tooth, a scar, a ring, or a tuft of hair, It ii be some one whom they have loved, whose, beauty and buoyant health they have ad mired. I saw a young Israelite from Pu laski, Tennessee, whose father mime to Clit cinnati to buy goods, and was a passenger on the United States on the fatal night, conducted to the row of coffins to examine whether the remains or his father lay there. / He was not over 17, a quiet, mild youth, with dark, sympathetic eyes. The expres sion that stormed his face, when the Ilrst lid was raised, was indescribut ly ohoeking. hod," he brokenly murmured, "do they look so 'l!' lie gazed at the others vs, candy, faintly shivering, like a man in the. 4 3 1( first assault of ague. The bodies all ueettietl alike—all eqnally and unspeakably muti lated—all perished forever from distinguLch,- able mortality, all shut out (rout the sates lied grief of kindred, and the last holy " • tribute of affection. The youth cat around the landing the rest of the day like one in a stupor, and whom the down boat arrived, depayted without it word to anybody. It Is not likely that many more both.. can be identified, and it Is equally imprtast-• hie that many more will be recovered. Th.., wrecks have been dragged anti proleed, M. every portion, over and over agar. fire bottom of the river has been dragged with. long linos, equipped with neatly fieti• hooks, and raked with pikes and grappling irons. The submarine diver spent nearly three hours on Saturday in exploring a pile 14 submerged logs, against which iv sup posed some bodies had driftei , d searclung an eddy formed under the sunketa; orator guard of the America, he found [loth,' ing nave a black alpaca dress, trimmed with narrow folds of Week - silk. Eighty-five persons aro now known to to have bean lost on the two steamers, provided none of the 12 bodies remaining unidentified are those of some whose nuineA appear in the list. Taking into considera tion the unknown persons who must, hay.. perished the deaths by the disaster cannoi tall far short of too CINCINNATI, Dec. 16.—Three bodies were yesterday recovered from the wreck of tho steamer United States, near Florence, In diana. One of them is supposed to be the remains of Lewis H. Vance of Madison, In. diens. The Union Racine Railroad It will be seen by the new advertisement of the Co., in another column, that 0111 miles of the Union Pacific Railroad have been completed and put into active operation. For 120 miles more the track is graded, arm tho iron on the ground ready for laying. More than four hundred -Fnikis have been built In the season of 1868, and with leas than 400 miles now intervening between the rails of the Union Pacific and the Cen tral Pacific Companies, every indication guarantees the opening of the entire line to the Pacific in the early summer of The earnings for the year ending Juno 30, were more than four million dollars, on uu average of 972 miles In operation; and the earnings for the last five months were $2,- 386,870. These amounts are so largely in excess of the liabilities of the Company oil account of interest upon its own First Mortgage Bonds and the Government bonds loaned to It as a subsidy, as tu al low of no donut that all such liabilities will be promptly met when due. The mad is well equipped, and largo orders hays been given for such an increase of rolling ,sto,k as will be necessary when to the local trait., is added the immense through truffle whirl., must follow the opening of WO entire lino. Each section of twenty miles knit been critically examln9d by the regular Govern ment inspectors appointed for the purpose. and reported to the President as possessing all the characteristics of a first-class road. A special commission, appointed by the President in September last, mode thorotigh re-examination of 010) miles, and surniffeil op their conclusions by saying: "Taken as a whole, the Union Pacific Railroad has been well constructed. The general route for the line has been well se lected, crossing the Rocky Mountains at some of the most favorable passes on tho continent. The energy and perseverv::,, with which the work has been urged 114- ward, and the rapidity with which It has been executed, are without parallel in his tory. The country has reason to congratu late itself that this great work of national Importance is so rapidly approaching com pletion, under such favorable auspices." The evidence of many other able and critical examiners of the road coincides with this testimony to the faithfulness with which the road has been constructed. The First Mortgage Bonds of the Company tiro now offered for sale at par and accrued in terest, at which price theypay a high ;ate of interest.. Both principlaland interest being fully secured by the value of the road and the extent of its business, it would seem that no better Investment Can be of fered; and we cheerfully call attention to the facts set forth in the advertisement of the Treasurer of the Company. Ariirifit of tho flurderere of Gen. A correspondent writes us from Claren don, Monroe county, Arkansas: "The as samba of Gen. T. C. Hindman has beep ;c rested in Vicksburg, has confes4ed hip e and implicates about twenty of the citizens of Helena, not only as accessories, but as instigators end promoters of the deed. j hope all will be brought to Justice. reoph ? are opposed to, mob or lynch law. A number of men have been killed in this county this year, most of them by feuds ea- - gendered in families and family difficulties. Only two men were martyrs to principles, one a Democrat, the other a Radical."—N. Y. Nan. Th Negro Representafave Menard, the negro who claims a neat.-1n the House, from Louisiana, sa y 's the Li brary Atist:clation of Washington did not, a. heretofore stated, address him a note t 4.- guesting him not to present his ci . 94q, but., on the contrary, urgel ) lileu to do so. He says he was born tree n Illinois; attended the Liberia Cottage in itfo, voted . for Lin cidn'ln 1880, and also sat on a jury In that State. Ed without a certificate frein Gov. Warmouth. single American drug house consomea, fifty thonsand sheepskins annually in mak% Mg plasters for oar feliolV4Atizens v,hQ, have weak backs.
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