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Mr. F. Bret Ilarte undertakes, in the
Ovcrlandr3fonthly, a companion-piece to
celebrated" Flynn of Virginia," or "In the
Tunnel." That truly dramatic poem had
an advantage of priority, the intrinsic merit
of the two seeming to us so nearly balanced
that whichever appeared first would appear
to be the best. At any rate, the following
rencontre of the mines,—friend meeting
friend, with a tear and all oath, in a bar,
after years of separation,—is a bit of char
acter-painting we cannot afford to:spare
from our coluinns :
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An Old Time Mystery
" I kill 1114 101 l Yl,ll,ir!"
The paing he:c I was Ihraytt bail
haughtily, and the blue eyes Iltcdied
with pas,hacite excitement.
She tea: a beautiful creature th ia fair
garden-haired girl. She was very yaung
and her petitite figure lool:ed almost
tin• the ruunded,
thrill and perti.el outline, one would
have thought herhl--a little girl
indeed, with the sunny hopes and
dreaming titiodes of chiliihoud but
these ilkelused n womanhood full of
nameless gluey, Hell:Lod rare in beauty.
Few Knott the world as well is She, this
brilliant little meteor., that hail thistle,
upon .society, turning men's lie:tits, all(
making a fair laily 111:111 with jealousy
But a fro• months before she earne
New (L•leaus , the protege of a wealthy
English lady, wlw load for litany years
spent her Iler loktory
none I.new, until the events which pro
eured me an introoluetion to tier, none
eared to inquire. It was evident to all
she was loved by the lady as a 'laughter,
but site w.o, presented to the world as
her nitoce.
ble accent, iu the rich mellow voice an
liquid speech. The I:Mt:an:Mimi queer
ed in royally over the haughtiest belle:
Men said that accent charmed as mule
other could ; rival beauties tried to im
itate it. But her fascination lay in her
faro std Cyt'S that seemed so
true; in the passionate regret that
fevered there at a sense of woe; in the
hand open as day to charity.
As she stood before me in her fierce
anger, I thought 1 had never seen a be
ing so lovely. The golden curls shaded
face tint brow, :LIM the chiseled lips hurl
assumed their haughtiest curve. Proud
as a queen she looked, the indignant
blood-stltining mad: and brow, while
the cheek Hushed tind paled alternately;
but the blue eyes never lost their pas
sionate flush o u r the lips the udil of
seorn.
The night ',entre, the house had been
robbed and a casket satntaining dia
monds stolen. Myself and Mr. I
had been sent for by Mrs. M s, to
investigate the case. It was evidently
the work of an experienced burglar,
and as lie must have passed through the
room of Miss VI it to reach the
apartment of the lady front whom the
jewels had been stolen, I asked Miss
M—s if she had heard nothing in the
night to excite her alarm. At my ques
tion, which was somewhat abruptly
spoken, she Itesitattai and appeared un
duly excited. I felt surprised tit this and
repeated the question.
" Did you hear (nose, anything during
the night?"
" I did, sir."
" May I inquire what it was?"
" I decline to tell."
" But why, Miss M svt
" I cannot inform you."
" Al all events you will tell me if you
saw or hoard the person who committed
the robbery ?"
" I both saw and heard him. Sir,you
will excuse me ; but that I may end an
interview extremely painful to me, I will
say to quit Illat I saw the person who
came into the house, saw the robbery
committed. but am withheld by reasons
I cannot disci°, from giving you his or
her deseription."
The avowal was made in a low, chok
ing utterance that showed how pro
foundly the young creature felt the
shame of the disclosure. Shocked and
surprised, I scarcely knew what I said,
bad, remember appeal ing to Mrs. Ms
to unite her entreaties with flume to in
duce Miss M s to change her •de
tenni nation, or at least give a reason for
it. But she did not hear me. Her eyes
were fastened on the young girl's face
with a wild entreaty that thrilled me to
the heart. She seemed to understand
why the girl refused to tell; and, gazing
for art instant, threw up her hand with
a wail like one broken-hearted, aml
sank sobbing to the flour.
" Miss M s, this is very strange.
You do not wish me to think you a con
federate, and, unless, you tell me, what,
else am I to think ?"
It wai then that her expression chang
ed, and her face lit up with indignant
excitement.
" I will not tell you, sir! "
She winged for an instant, and I read
her innocence in the look. Whatever
the mystery, she was not criminal.
"Think what you please. I will not
tell you." Before I had time to reply,
Mrs M. s rose to her feet, and, tak
ing the young girl by the hand, turned
to me.
"You are mistaken sir, in your suspi
cions. 'lbis is a family mystery—the
child is not to blame. Had I known it
sooner I should have dispensed with
your services; but you oblige me by re
tiring now, and pursuing your investi
gations no further."
It was impossible to resist the
grave dignity of this grand old lady.—
We look our lehve in a perfect whirl of
amazement. I' confess to my share of
curiosity, but all the events of that
morning bewildered me. I thought of
nothing all that day save the mysterious
burgulary. I did not speak of it to
others, for it was evident that Mrs.
M—s did not wish it canvassed, and
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my own powers of reflection were una
ble to solve It.
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The next day I received a note, in
closing a fee for my trouble, and enjoin
ing the strictest silence in regard to the
events which occurred. Of course I
obeyed; it was nothing to me, and I
tried to forget it, but I could not. No
matter what business engaged my at
tention, I found myself thinking of that,
and so a year passed away.
One night a man was shot in a drunk
en brawl. He was a noted character a
. . . _
burglar. I was near him when he fell.
He called me and I bent above the
stricken man, from whom the life-blood
NSW oozing fast.
" Will you do me a favor'."'
" If I can—yes."
" You know Mrs. , the English
Tull her I am dead !"
Unutterably surprised, I would have
asked him more—would have question
ed him its to how the life or death of a
burglar could interest her? hut he waiv
ed me
I did his mission carefully as I could,
I imparted my intelligence. I was re
ceived in silence—a silence like death.
The next (lay a single close carriage
attended the remains to the tomb. It
was not long before a marble shaft rose
above it, and the single inscription—
1100 Wood loy vlooleoleto
tells to the observer all that is known of
the burglar's grave. Long yearn after
ward I know lie was the English lady's
son, and that her mission here win to
see and redeem him.
She failed utterly, and both she and
e fair young girl are seen no more in
e brilliant society, in wl,i, h the young
!may WaS once so admired.
Farm Life Among the Chlppeiras
The best sample of Indian farming
around Lake Superior is found on the
Bad Itiver reservation, the farther
shore. The point is r 'fiehed by canoe
navigation, twenty miles south of Bay
field, the only beautiful village on the
whole lake-borders. 'there are two
thousand Chippewa:, on the reservation
under eleven chiefs. The chiefs are all
stalwart men, of the ancient, Indian
esque type—strong-limbed, (open-faced,
and high-headed. They are evidently
the pick and best men of the tribe.—
Their, great orator, Na-gau-nup, is well
known at \Vashington. Ills three
daughters would be noticed any where
for their beauty, intelligence, and fine
manners. Four-fifths of the tribe wear
citizen's dress, and at a distame have
the air of the Canadian gentleman.
A stranger visiting t h e reservation
will need the aid of a pilot and oarsman.
The best to be Lad are two Chippewa
women, who will make the twenty miles
,listaiiee from Ilaytield, with neat strokes
in six hours. Should the wind favor,
they will hoist sail, and go down in four
hours, passing the largest of the Apos
tle Islands, where a Catholic mission
has been planted for two loin years.
Had River reservation takes in live or
six townships, each six Miles square,
along the river. It is rich bottom land,
heavily timbered, and bearing striking
resemblance to the famous Miami Val
ley in Ohio. The river is deep, clear
and winding. 'Wide hay meadows and
wild-rice marshes border the mouth.—
Farther up, we open into a thick forest
of elm, ash, cedar, birch; balsam, ma
ple, and aspen, with occasional clumps
of pine. The air hereaway is dazzlingly
I (dear, and on a still day the river shines
like polished glass. The reflection of
the green jackets or the cedars and the
red caps of the Maples, on mi autumn
(lay, puts all Mr. I'rang's chromos to
shame. As we approach the
five miles up the river, our fair oars
women, using the river surface for a
mirror, slick up their hair and f a ce, and
then send forward our canoe with the
swiftness of a steamer.
The village proper takes in three
hundred acres Of level clearing, includ
ing six acres of grave-yard, populous
with small frame coops and crosses.—
There are two little churches, Potestant
and Catholic, a school-house, pay-house,
Uovernment farm-house, store, slams,
and forty or fifty bark and log cabins
stretching for a mile along the grassy
river-bank. Here dwells .the ancient
Ojibway. 'the scene presented of a
pleasant Sunday afternoon, when half
the tribe have gathered; the groups in
motion and at rest ; the variegated cos
tumes of pagan and Christian; old chiefs
with pipes and paper collars ; old scorner,
of seventy in the dress of seventeen ;
stylish young bucks ; modest maidens,
half-naked children, and wolfish dogs,
form a picture and study rarely equalled
on city boulevards.
ONE AMU.: ENOUGH'.
The averaged-sized Chippewa farmer
is satisfied with an acre of clearing near
the stream. There are two hundred,
perhaps, of these farmers scattered along
the reservation. They are assisted in
making clearings with (lovernment ox
en. The trees are felled, trimmed, and
the logs pulled aside in the edge of the
thnber. 'their cabins of logs or cedar
bark usually occupy the north side of
the clearing. The bark is double rowed,
set upright, with sloping roofs. The
sides are supported and bound fast With
poles, crossways and perpendicular, in
side and out. 'they have a little square
window at One end, and a door at the
side. 'the walls are mostly lined with
rush-mats. A little raised platform, a
foot or so high, at one side, answers for
bed, table, and chairs. A little ham
mock swung from the corners takes the
place of the cradle. In roost cases, a
cracked stove of some sort is seen in the
centre, with a retinue of pots an,l dish
es, kept clean and shining by the dogs.
'The philosophy of the Indian is to
have enough for the present, to drudge
little, trust fate, and follow his nature.
The Chippewa farmer dont care to add
to his acre of clearing. He has no yards,
no fences. Indian dogs are guardians
of the cabin lot. A few have loonies, a
few oxen, many a cow and calf, and
some a pig, but never a ling. Their
stock is driven down to the lake-shore
in summer, where they find good pas
ture and relief from Ines. The cow is
sometimes kept about the cabin, watch
ed by children, and tied at night. They
work their bulls and oxen singly, using,
a bend fur a bow, with long thills at
tached to each end with ring and bolt,
They use them to plough, and to draw
up hay and wood in winter. They have
seldom a wagon-road; their canoe is
coach and carryall during the reign of
stnniner.
I=ll
Every family has a separate sugar
bush, of one or two hundred trees, which
has conic down to them from a former
generation. Sugar-making begins in
April, and is followed up with unlimit
ed frolic and feasting. The troughs are
made of keen-colored bark, folded
at the end. Flat spites with creases are
driven inio chisel-cuts male in the trees.
The women do all the work, gathering
wood and sap on snow-shoes. The sap
is boiled in long iron kettles, hung in
the centre of the camps. sugar is king.
Children kick about on their bellies,
daubing their faces with candy, and
rolling on the snow. Young bucks gorge
themselves by day, and carouse about
with rattles and drums at night. Old
men start out for ducks and musk-rats
with a big cake of sugar in their sacks,
and live on It for days. When dry, the
sugar is put in bark mocoeks holding
from two to sixty pounds. Many of the
smaller are ornamented with dyed por
cupine-quills, worked into stars, flowers,
and various figures. Families make
from three to live hundred pounds each
season. They sell more than half to the
traders, and then buy it back by the
pound at double price.
PLANTINO.
E.Plauting comes early in June, lasting
two days. It is a family allidr, the wo
men and children turning out ca massy.
They plough from half to three quarters
of an acre. They plant potatoes mostly
dropping the smallest. They plant
about an eight of an acre of small Red
River corn. The hills are close, crook
ed, and crowded with stalks. Small
patches of rutabagas, pumpkins,squash
es, melons, beaus and cabbages rejoice
by themselves. A few plant peas, and
four or rive among them last year raised
oats and peas together. Wheat is not
thought of, as there are no tlourm ills on
all Lake Superior. They hoe but once
and hill largely.
DEEM
Haying begins the last of July. Each
family has a little strip of meadow,which
was set off by their fathers before them,
and is' arked as their own. They cut
from fifteen to twenty hundred of hay
each. Indian men handle the scythe
well. They cut a few hours in the morn
ing, and then lay by. The women throw
off their blankets, and take the rake
after dinner. When the hay is heaped.,
two poles are run under each cock, and
the hay carried off and stacked on dry
ground. No teams are used. Those.
who have no stack sell their hay for
thirty dollars a ton. There are forty
acres of tame grass on the Government
farm by the village, two hundred acres
of pasture and fifty of ploughing.
Neighborlndian does all the work.
Rice harvest begins in August.—
Whole villages of travelling camps are
set up beside the rice-swamps. The rice
grows two feet or more above the water
of the same depth. Each family stakes
off its lot of half or three-quarters of an
acre. The rice crop is first secured
against the blackbirds by catching up
large bundles of tops together, and tying
them with basswood strings. They are
tied in rows three feet apart, and extend
for miles. When the grain can be loos
ened from the capsules, gathering com
mences. Two squaws to each canoe
push out befti•een the rows, one guiding
with a paddle, while the other bends
the tops over the edge of the cellos with
a stick in one hand, and whips off the
grain with a stick in the other. Rice
harvests last three weeks, and is the
gala season of the year. The girls gather
spoils by day ; the boys gather for frolic
and dance at night. During the season,
four to ten bushels of wild rice are gath
ered by each family. It is taken home
in canoes, dried on cedar-bark, and laid
' upon poles over a lire. When dry, the
' grain is hulled by girls, who tread it out
with bare feet on hard ground. It is
then winnowed, put in bark sacks, awl
Is worth six cents a pound.
MIME
Fishing is not countedamong the vir
tues of farm life, but it is like light told
shadow to the Chippewa farmer. Ills
pot of fish is rarely empty ; he fishes all
the year round. lie catches white -lisp
and trout with gill nets in the lake,
and sturgeon, weighing forty to sixty
pounds, in the river. lie builds a rack
of piles across the river near the month
and as the sturgeons are stopped in their
ascent, he jerks them up with a book
and pole. The sturgeons are dressed and
smoked by the WOlllell, who have built
their camp-lires near at hand. In win
ter, they take a little sled and mat out
to theedge of the lake, cut a hole through
the ice, draw their blankets over their
heads, let down a decoy fish, and when
they have attracted their prey near the
top, they fasten them with a car.
They often go out live miles oft
log to catch fish fori breakfast. They
rarely go out in winter till their tish
pot, is empty.
MEM
In his way and at home, the Chippe
wa farmer is hospitable, jovial, and con
tented. The more provident lay in a
good stock of fish, rice, potatoes and
corn for winter. The potatoes are buried
in pit-holes four feet deep, and covered
with birch bark and earth. tiix bushels
of corn, twenty of potatoes, a hundred
pounds of rice, two sucks of flour, four
half-barrels of fish, and fifty pounds or
pig are considered a bountifulwinter's
store. Summer takes care of itself. They
commence boiling corn, pumpkins and
melons when green, and continue 11l the
way up. They pick off the false squash
and pumpkin flowers, and boil them
with corn and pork. They boil potatoes
with fish, or roast them in sand under
the fire. They mix flour and water and
bake it in iron pans, or boil it in luntp
lings. The Indians have great faith in
dumplings, and in that faith we are all
pretty much agreed.— icurth and 1 Iwnr.
A Murder Trial in Nevada
." I was sitting here," said the Judge,
"in this old pulpit, holding court, and I
we were trying a big, wicked-looking
Spanish desperado for killing the hus
band of a bright, pretty Mexican woman.
t was a lazy summer day, and an aw ful
ly long oue, and the witnesses were tedi
ous. None of us took any interest in the !
trial except that nervous, uneasy devil
of a woman—because you know how
they love and how they hate, and this
one had loved her husband with all her
might, and now she lied boiled it all
down into Irate, and stood here spitting
at that Spaniard with her eyes; and
I tell you she would stir me up,
hm, with a little of her summer light-,
[ring occasionally. Well, I had my '
coat oil and heels up, lolling and sweat
ing, and smoking one of those cabbage
cigars the San Francisco people used to
think. were good enough for us in those
times ;and the lawyers they all had their
coats offandwere smoki rig and wh i t ding,
and the witnesses the same, and so was
the prisoner. Well, the fact is, there
warn't any interest in a murder trial
then, because the fellow was ;always
drought in not guilty, the jury expect
ing him to do as much for them some
time; and although the evidence was
straight and square against this Span
iard, we knew we could not convict bin:
without seeming to be rather high-hand
, cd and sort of reflecting on every gen
tleman in the community ; for there
warn't any carriages and liveries them
and so the only style there was, was tr
keep your private grave-yard. lint thai
woman seemed to have her heart set or
hanging that Spaniard; and you'd ought
to have seen how she would glare on him
a minute, and then look tip at me in her
pleading way, and then turn and for the
next five minutes search the jury's faces
—and by and by drop her face in her
hands for just a little while as if she was
most ready to give up, but out she'd
come again directly and lie as lively and
anxious as ever. But when the jury
announced the verdict—not guilty—and
I told the prisoner he was acquitted and
free to go, that WOlllllll rose up till she
appeared to be as tall and grand as a
seventy-four gun-ship, and says she :
"Judge, do I understand you to say
that this man is not guilty, third mur
dered my husband without any cause
before my own eyes and any little chil
dren's, and that all has been dune to
him that ever justice and the law can
do ?"
" The same," says I.
"Arid then what do you think she
did? Why, she turned on that smirk
ing Spanish fool like a wild-cat, and out
with a navy and shot him dead in open
court"'
" That Wtei Spirited, I am willing to
admit."
" Wasn't it, though said the Judge,
admiringly. " I wouldn't have misscd
it for anything. I adjourned court right
un the spot, and we put cm our coats and
went out and took up a collection for her
and her cubs, and sent them over the
mountains to their friends. Alt, she
was a spirited wench !"—(i(t/q,,y.
Discovery or a New and Remarkable
Cave in lowa
A wonderful discovery hits just been
made about six miles west of I/oblique,
lowa, which consists of a cave of im
mense dimensions:lnd magnificent gor
i,
' cousness and beauty. While mining
for lead ore a Mr. Rice made the dis
covery in iniening a narrow passage,
which he followed about 700 feet, lead
ing into a large room, connected by a
narrow passage with many others,which
he followed a distance of about 1000;feet,
where the cave seemed to terminate.
Ile afterwards sunk a shaft of thirty
feet deep, intersecting the cave near its
termination, and he and his party of
live descended and entered another nar
row passage of about one hundred Met,
where it expands into a large hall of one
hundred feet long, forty ur fifty feet
wide tool from ten to fifteen feet high,
and ornamented with stalactites of great
beauty the roof, like a miniature sky,
studded and spangled with orbs of most
brilliant lustre, and presenting a erysta
line surface of exquisite fineness and
lustre, which flashes by the light of the
torches with great brilliancy.
From this room the cave branches in
two directions at an angle of about forty
degrees, which being traversed for about
half a mile, the explorers found several
other chambers of even greater dimen
sions and greatly exceeding the first in
beauty and interest, the entire sides and
roofs being covered with snow-white
stalactites and frost-like encrustations of
carbonate of lime and gypsum. In many
parts of the cave might also be seen
arayonite, and at distances varying from
ten to fifteen feet are deep recesses in
the walls, so large and high in some
cases as to enable them to walk about in
them.
On the floors of these recesses many
stalagmites had formed, one resembling
a hugh polar bear, and other formations
resembling clusters of grapes, etc. In
another place a hand was distinctly
traced. l'he water in the cave is so clear
that in places where it is ten inches
deep it does not appear to be more than
two. The party remained in the cave
about six hours, and traveled in it about
two miles.
At Helena, Arkansas, on Monday, P.
H. Rayner, while drunk , shot his wife
in the head, and thinking he had killed
her, blew out his own brains. His wife
was only stunned, the bullet having
imbedded itself in her waterfall.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 15. 1870
Synopsis of a Farewell Discourse, by
Rev. J. V. Eckert, Preached at Quar
ryville, June sth, MO.
TEXT Cor. 13,11: "Finally brethren, fare
well. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one
mind, live In peace, and the God of love and
peace shall be with you."
We meet for the last time in the rela
tion of pastor and people. It is 15 years
and 10 months since I became your pas
tor. I cannot recall all that has trans
pired in that time, should I desire to.
The memory of the minister cannot
retain many things which remain fresh
in the memories of the people. The
nature and character of Ins work will
necessarily divert his attention from
many little occurrences of life.
What made a lasting impression on
you ninny have been but transient in any
mind and life. But the more prominent
events will remain fixed as our exist
ence. Some things we soon forget,
others we never forget, but become part
of our thoughts forever.
I have moulded you, and you me,
both for time and eternity.
1 do nut purpose sitting in judgment
over you, nor do 1 desire you to sit in
judgment over me, in this trying hour.
We have mingled too often together in
the sober and solemn events of life for
such vain work now. Our tears and
prayers have too often flowed together
to now dream even of casting stones at
each other. Soon we will all stand be
fore the Judge of all the earth, to ac
count for our stewardship here.
The text is a general exhortation
made up of four particulars:
1. lt'• rje,t.--In another verse Paul
says: " And this also we wish even your
perfection." And on this passage Item
says : " That whereas the members of
the Corinthian church were all, as it
were dislocated and out of joint, they
should be joined. together in love; and
they should endeavor to make perfect
i what was amiss among them, either in
faith or morals."
It is a metaphor also taken from a
building; the several stories and tim
bers being till put in their proper places
and situations, so that the whole build
ing might be complete, and be a proper
habitation for the owner.
The mine figure, though not in the
same terms tile Apostle uses in Eph.
_ .
This particular exhortation is, be knit
together in love, that you may grow up
into Him in all things, which is the
head even Christ. There must be mu
tual love and unity, together with the
proper fruits of these among - you in order
to your spiritual growth and usefulness.
;2. lle of (100(1 Comfort. —However
Much you may have been tossed to and
11101 disjointed, there still remains
the possibility of order and peace.
Our Saviour said, it must needs be
that oillmces , come ; and wo to the world
beCallSe Of OirelICCS ; anti WO to that num
by whom the unions() eometh, but
still he also says, I will not leave you
comfortless, I Will come to you.
The proclamation of old was, return
thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord;
and I will not cause mine anger to full
upon you ; for I am merciful, saith the
Lord, and f will not keep:anger forever.
Duly acknowledge thine iniquity, that
thou hast transgressed against the Lord
thy (lod ; and 1 will heal your backsid
ings.
Your comfort you will find in leaving
the evil and holding to the good, and
claiming the promises of God which are
sure and steadfast. For, I know, says
Paul, in whom 1 have believed, and am
persuaded that lie is able to keep that
which I have committed unto Mtn
against that day.
Receive therefore admonition always
as from the Lord, and you shall have
consolation. Take l its dealing' , as from
a merciful father, and it shall lie well
with you. Ile sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love, and for a
helmet, the hope of salvation, and you
shall obtain eternal life through Jesus
Christ.
3. //,' OW: Mind.—Let the ?/;tore mind
be in you which was ill Christ Jesus.
Have the same purposes, objects and
holy coliCerll, and let those be glory of
Clod and the good °fillet'.
lie occupied to the fullest extent with
sod's thoughts and work.
of one 'Mud in maintaining your
uhrislian integrity. Strive to preserve
moral purity ruin soundness. Let an
incorruptible honesty of principle rule
you, and keep the faith once delivered
to the Saints entire and pure.
Ite steadfast and unmovable, and al
ways abounding in the Ivork of the
Be also of one 111111,1 in devotion to the
r:use of religion. Nothing else should
Iry so near your heart. And as you have
a conlinion interest in religion, you
should also show a common purpose for
Concentrate your force in your fas
ter's work, anti fle kill tto great things
fur con.
Lct not the love of the world exceed
your love Mr your Saviour.
But lei Joshua's resolution he the
resolution of every house; as for me
01111 my house we will serve the Lord.
4. lire in J'eacc.—As your judgments
will not agree, suiliir not differences
of opinion to be pressed to contention
and alienation of feeling. For any one
so blind to prudence and reason, as to
insist that others must yield to his judg
ment, acts :Ls a blind guide that would
tend you into the ditch of ruin.
Nor can a man cover his own guilt by
magnifying the faults of others.
'Phi:, exhortation to peace, is especially
for those who are disposed to trouble the
church. Some people ire not content
unless engaged in creating trouble some
where.
And then others, Pilate-like, would be
very innocent of wrongdoing, but whose
assumed innocence is not so praisewor
thy in the eyes of other.
It is the duty of all to cultivate a true,
peaceable disposition. Follow peace
with all men, and holiness, without
which no man shall see the Lord.
The text concludes with an assurance
of the presence of (Md; "and the Clod of
love and peace shall be with you."
Such as live in love and peace may look
for the gracious presence of God here,
and glorious presence hereafter. Love
can only live in the element of good
will. Ana where this isnot God, gra.e
cannot be. "Brethren," says Paul, ye
have been called to liberty; only use
not liberty fer an occasion to the flesh,
but by love serve one another. The
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness Etna temperance.
"Above all things put on charily,
which is the bond of perfectness."
1 commend you to OA, and to the
word of His grate. I have always en
deavored to serve you faithfully as sup
port and circumstances allowed me. .Nly
whole Pastorate among you has been a
struggle. I came among you deficient
in cultivation and experience, and
therefore had to labor and study
hard to bring myself up to a
Ltir standard of intelligence and elli
cieney. I have also all along had to
draw on my own limited means for sup
port ; and it would be wrong to conceal
front you these •unpleasant sacrifices I
was obliged to make. Hence I have
served you in much heaviness of spirit,
and have often been surrounded by a
gloom that was almost too dark for me.
;oil alone knows all I had borne 'to d . ) , i
what I felt to be my duty.
"Finally, brethren, farewell." Nit
forever, I hope, hut as your pastor. Add
as I go to mingle in other relations an
seenes and hearts, follow me with your
prayers, and I shall also remember you
at a throne of grace. And you who have
been toy friends, but not members of the
church, I assure you of my warmest
friendship, and kindest regard. You
have always shown me much honor
and love, and I always have tried to
reciprocate the feeling and esteem. And
although I have not had the pleasure to
receive you in the church, I hope my
labors for you in the Lord has not been
in vain, and that at some future day
much of the fruit of my labor may be
found. And that on account of my
watering God may give a blessed in
crease of such as shall be saved. I com
mit you all now to the hands and heart
of him we have just installed as your
pastor. May his labors be blessed, and
God's grace richly descend upon you.
And whilst you look for him to dis
, charge his full duty to you be not l
de
linquent in the performance of yours to
' him, sustain him, encourage him, meet
his wants ; thff9he may give himself
wholly to the work of the ministry.
And if we part never to all meet again
in this world let us all strive to meet in
our Father's Rouse in heaven.
Statistics of my labors among you :
Babtisms, 187 ; Confirmations, 131
Deaths, 275; Marriages, 152.
The celebrated troiting-horse:Stone
wall ran away in Lynchburg, Va., a few
days ago, and seriously injured himself,
it is feared fatally.
Chinese Emigration
Foreign Correspondence of N. Y. Tribune.
CANTON, China, April 6—Mandarin,
priest, coolie, and beggar seem to be:get
ting a fair understanding of American
laws. Their constant theme of discus
sion is the probable action of the United
States on the " Chinese Question."—
Before the American war wild tales of
gold mountains, of wealth to be had for
the asking, of a Chinese-loving race
that owned the laud, were circulated.
Then, however, the higher classes dis
credited these statements, and published
books warning the people, and declar
ing those rumors to be " wily snares for
the avaricious, leading to toil and death.'
But now a new interest has sprung Up
filming the Chinese as to the United
States, owing to several new Causes.
Within two years more than . 5,1100
Chinese have returned from California,
either to make a visit or to remain at
home. They have wonderful tales to
tell of wealth, present or prospective,
and of the great liberty they enjoy. A
few hundred or a tiny thousand dollars
is a great fortune for a laboring China
man. Like Marco Hobo, the relator/
have the diamonds to show. The coolie'
in the rice-field hears of a land where
lighter and more wholesome labor re-
ceives twenty-five times his present re
! rompense. The treadmill operator in
f the rice-mill think,: of the hid cents a
day in California, and compares them
with the five or perhaps six which he
receives here. The farmer or gardener
is told of crops that bring fifteen hun
dred per cent. inure profit in market
than any in China. Thinking only of
1" thirty dollars a month," never of Ow
cost of living, they arc ready to embark
at a moment's notice.
They suffer also from the increasing
tyranny of the Tartar llovernment. I
Forced to obey their conquerors, to pay
exorbitant taxes, and to sacrifice their
lives, if called upon, under a system
devised by foreigners in which Chinese
have no interest, they contrast the pri
son, the starvation, the insults, and the
toil of China with the liberty, the lux
ury and the comparative kindness of
which their returned neighbors tell.
Another cause for confidence hi the
people of America, and one which will
yet outweigh all others, is the act of the
Emperor defying Ward, the American
filibuster. They accept all the gods their
ruler giVeS them without the slightest
question. Ward was of great service to
the Emperor in putting down the rebel
lion. His suevess was something won
derful to the Chinese, and at the time
when he was accidently shot by his own
men, they - looked upon him as the
greatest general that had existed for 2,-
000 years. At his own request, his
coffin was left at Sing Pa, according to
Chinese custom, above ground and un
covered. Nine months after (1s8:), the
Emperor ordered the body to
be demoved to Sung-Kong, and
deposited in the courtyard of the
temple of Confucius. Within the tem
ple was set up a tablet bearing his name
as the " Captor of Sung Kong and many
other cities." The Emperor has seen tit
to go further, and in a recent edict has
placed him among, the major gods of
China, commanding shrines to be built
and worship to be paid to the memory
of this American. The people are wor
shiping him along with the most ancient
and powerful deities of their religion as
a great deliverer from war :old famine—
as a powerful god in the form of 0 man.
Lt every household, school, and temple,
his name will be thus commemorated.
The remembrance of millions of people
secures his immortality. The deification
of this American certainly will give ad
ditional intensity to tlei respect already
entertained by the Chinese l'or the Unit
ed States. .Any country in which 11
Chinese deity was born is ;10011 enough
for his worshipers.
The sacrifices and risks undertaken
by the Chinese emigrants and their rela
tives are truly heroic. Before the pass
age of the law forbidding American
vessels to engage in the coolie trade, the
emigrant was bound to work a certain
length of time atter his arrival ill the
United States at a stipulated sum per
month„ out of which the emigrant's
passage money was repaid. American
employers and capitalists being now
forbidden to advance money for the
passage, as that would be directly en
gaging in the coolie trade, emigrants
apply to the wealthy among, their own
countrymen andgive their security here.
In this is the worst feature of the whole
business. The coolie (all laborers are
called coolies) goes to the rulers or
elders of his town or village, and
with the consent of those interest
ed gives security on the persons of
his family for such a sum as will secure
his passage to the United States. The
elders go to the Mandarin and give him
their united bond fini the amount. 'Flue
Mandarin in turn gives his note to the
ticket-Mokers, who furnish the coolie
with his ticket. The bond, by which
all the persons (ire bound, given to se
cure the coolie's note held by the
brokers, stipulates that in case the coolie
fail to pay the sum charged for his
ticket, including the fees of brokers,
Mandarin, and Elders, within the speci-
tied time, then the indoNers will pay
the same without que,tion. The sent
charged to the coolie liar the ticket which
costs the brokers but is often as
high as $3OO or S.IM. In five inointeieS
out of ten, he will fail to meet his obli
gation. If he fails to pay, the brokers
here demand payment of the Mandarin
at once. The Mandarin pays the note,
charging a heavy fee for so doing.—
The elders pay the :Mandarin, charge
another fee, and demand the moonlit
from the coolie's family. They being
unable to pay are sold off, one after an
?thor, beginning with the youngest
l.rl, until enough is realized to cancel
debt. In this way whole families
are often reduced to slavery, to pay fora
$4O ticket. Two families were sold here
in Canton last week to satisfy such a
debt. One of the notes was for $350.
Two unmarried girls, each 13 years old,
were purchased by an Italian profligate,
at $73 apiece. One boy was sold for
Six persons in all were sold before the
requisite amount was raised. Girls,
however, often bring higher prices, and
sometimes the sale of a handsome daugh
ter will be sufficient. It is not noire
quent for different members of a family
to urge that they may be sold instead of
some loved one that is eil i ered.
heads of famine: , sell themsel
into servitude to save their families.
Chinese, beside the sacred family tie,:
common to all mankind, have a strong
religious desire that their children
should be free, to pay devotion to their
memories after they are deal. When
they sell a child they believe that it is
sold, body and soul, and that it can
never again be a relative of theirs, either
in this world or the nest; and unless
they leave children to pay them certain
kinds of devotion after death, their souls
"will wander forever, naked, cold and
hungry, through an eternal waste of
darkness and terror." It has sometimes
happened that after the sale of a family,
the coolie returning [link a portion of
the claim still unsatisfied, anti he him
self is sold for it.
The precautions which the Chinese
take against being buried on foreign soil
or in the sea are not because of any re
ligious fears with regard to the peace of
their souls, as is commonly supposed.—
If they were able to secure passage for
their entire families, and to own land in
the United States, they would be as con
tented with the prospect of burial there
as in their native villages. It' the laws
of the United States permitted the con- I
tract system, this ontrageouß brokerage
business could be abolished, and for the
money it now costs to carry one person,
a whole family could secure tickets.—
Another result would be in the emigra
tion of thousands instead of hundreds.
The desire to reach the United States
is so great that even with the present
bad system, vessels enough cannot be
chartered to take those in waiting. Two
thousand left the port of Hong Kong
last week, and as many more were.left,
behind for other vessels. Twelve thou
band emigrants went front that port to
America last year, and front present in
dications the number from China will
be double this year.
The English Government throws dif
ficulty in the way of emigration. All
order has been issued front Down
ing-et. to the Governor of Hong
Kong, prohibiting for the future all emi
gration from the colony to foreign coun
tries, and allowing it only to places
within her Majesty's colonial posses
sions. Under the cover of their regu
lations," the authorities seem never to
tire in attempts to create controversey
and to plunge American vessels into
litigation. Thousands of Chinese who
have gone to Hong Kong for the purpose
of shipping to America, even after
purchasing their tickets• have been
taken to Macao, whence they are
shipped on contract to virtual slavery
in South America. Not content with
this, the English authorities have taken
means to destroy the benefit of emigra
tion by licensing Chinese gambling
houses. Into these the returning Chi
naman is enticed by "old acquaintances"
hired for the purpose. Often within two
hours after the steamship in which he
came has cast anchor, the Chinaman is
kicked out of the gambling room, all
the money gone which he has worked
years to earn, and with which he was to
pay the debt that binds his family.—
Poverty, starvation, slavery, or death
must now be his and their portion. Woe
to the returning Chinaman that tarries
within the jurisdiction of English law,
where games and orgies which even
heathen laws forbid are legalized and ell
eouraged for the revenues they
The Uuited States should make it un
lawful for American ship to land Chi
nese passengers there.
The attempt of vessels to secure labor
ers for the Southern States, have in
nearly every ease resulted in dismal
failures. Two vessels came into the
Bay of Hong Kong, about two months
Igo, and believing what Koopmansehap
had told them, they expected to fill up
at once and to be off for Louisiana in
less than a week. When, at considura
ble expense, a sufficient number ayes
collected, it was found impossible to get
any money advanced because none of
the Hong here had corresponding or
branch }longs through whom to eol
lect repayment in the Southern States.
While the slave-masters were trying to
adjust this difficulty, the Coolies sod
delay departed for Macao, leaving
noth for their board bill. The labor
, seekers then collected another body,
purposing to say nothing about con
! tracts, except verbally, until the ships
should arrive at the mouth of the :Nils
: sissippi, where a contract would be valid.
They imprudently boasted that in case
any Chinaman refused to sign any con
tract they should then propose he would
be thrown overboard. After the larger
part had passed the Hongkong inspec
tion, this thread was told to the Chi
nese, and before the next meeting the
Coolies had disappeared. The bill of
expense amounted to 1i.'50,0(X), or more.
One ship abandoned all further attempts
to sell laborers, and, almost bankrupt,
chartered fur merchandise; the others
are still hunting for another lot. Near
ly the same misfortune betel a vessel
from the Sandwich Islands. Meautime
the Coolie trade to those countries
which enforce contracts made here is as
brisk as ever, and not a few American
vessels, sailing ostensibly under Porte
gese or Peruvian flags, are engaged in
it. A repeal of the present laws of Con
gress upon the subject would complete
' ly destroy the trade to other countries
and send the surplus 'millions of this
oppressed land to the United States.
Federal Interference In State Affairs
REMARKS OF TILE HON. JOHN D. STILES,
On the Bill to Enforce the Fifteenth
Amendment, in the House,
Slay 27, 1570.
MR. STILES.—Mr. Speaker: I regard
this as the most important bill, one more
affecting the whole people of this coun
try, than any bill that has been submit
ted to this Congress. Never before was
such a proposition submitted to the leg
islative department of the government.
This minority has struggled for a brief
time in which to discuss it and present
to the country its monstrous provisions.
Never before did the Radical party Ven
ture upon so hold an act to subvert the
rights of the States and trample down
the powers reserved to the States and
the people. We must regard it as the
first attempt by this Congress to altsu - b
all that is left to us of State govern
ments, State supremacy and State law,.
In its wake other laws will follow, and
slowly, yet steadily, surely and inevita
bly, every inalienable right will be
swallowed up in the centralized power
to be controlled by Congress, the army
and navy, and the Executive.
The bill contains twenty-three sec
tions, covering nineteen pages. It pur
ports to be "An act to enforce the right
of citizens of the United States to vote
in the several Slates of this Union, and
for other purposes." Ostensible it is an
act to enforce the Fifteenth Amend
ment. In its scope, meaning,, design
and - intent it reaches far beyond any
such object. 'the object of its support
ers is to overthrow the rights of the
States, control by force and fraud the
elections, to strike down the popula r .
will, to blot out with one dash the
whole system of free elections, now the
protection, the safe-guard of the people
whose rights are stricken down by the
representatives.
You are about to pass a bill which you
believe gives you the right, theabsolute
power, to control every election—gene
ral, local and special—in all the States
and Territories. You give the power to
the 'United States officers, consisting of
marshals, commissioners, and others, to
arrest supposed offenders, and to cause
them to be prosecuted and punished in
a multitude of forms hitherto unknown
to the people. It creates hordes of new
officers ; it places in the hands of elsit
nksioners and others the army and
navy, to enforce the judgments and de
grees of political organizations ; it places
In the hands of the President the whole
land and naval forces to aid in this at
tempt to carry elections everywhere ; it
transfers the trials for pretended offenses
to the United States courts; it drags cit
izens from home and friends to be tried
at such place as the satrap may designate,
rendering the trial a farce anti a fraud.
Irresponsible Radical government of
ficers are to be the accusers and the wit
nesses. l'artisan judges and packed
juries are to be the arbiters. The laws
are changed in a moment. 'Fite forms of
law regulating , elections to which we are
accustomed are changed. Under the
guise and pretense of giving protection
to the newly-enfranchised race, the ne
gro, you strike at the very foundation
of free government. You pretend to
give a free ballot to the negro voter, and
in this effort virtually manacle and en
slave every white voter in the land.
You would give superior rights to the
negro. You make his pathway to the
ballot easy, while the white must seek
his right to it through lines of bayonet
ed soldiers. This is not a law to enforce
the Fifteenth Amendment. It does not
purport to be. It is the entering-wedge
to the new order of things.
I impress upon the people every
where to read this bill and study its
monstrous provisions. I entreat them
to hook to it now that these wrongs shall
go no further. I enter my protest here
in my place against this and other bills,
because it violates every principle of
free government, because it strikes down
the sovereignty of the States, because it
strikes a fatal blow at State rights, State
laws, and the freedom of the ballot. I
protest against it in the name of every
white man, woman and child that
represent upon this floor. 1 raise my
voice and shall cast my vote against this
tyrannical and revolutionary measure.
I protest against (this outrage in the
name of every white voter in this coun
try. I protest against it because lam
opposed to making the negro superior in
rights to the white man. I protest
against it because you are seeking to
elevate the negro at the expense ~f the
white man's rights in this government.
I protest against it because I am in favor
of a white inane government upon this
continent, and utterly opposed to forc
ing upon an unwilling people negro suf
frage, negro equality and negro supre
macy by force, by fraud, and the cor
rupting influences by which your
amendinents and your laws have been
forced upon this people.
This law will disgrace your statute
book. Sir, that time will come when
its repeal will be demanded by the uni
ted voice of an outraged people. You
presume upon your majority and your
power here. During your session the
people of two States have spoken in
condemnation:of your proceedings. The
voice from Connecticut and New York
have reached the country and this Cap
itol. In New York your negro vote
was condemned by white freemen.
The handwriting is on the wall, and as
time passes, you will find the people
rising to condemn you. You seek by
this legislation to perpetuate your pow
er; but, sir, remember he who asks too
much may get none. The weakness
of your administration, the corruptness
in the different departments of the gov
ernment, :the unjust, unconstitutional
legislation of this Congress, will surely
meet the condemnation of a just,-patri
otic, and liberty-loving nation and peo
ple.
The Hon. B. F. Wade and wife and
Edwin Forrest are at Eaton Rapids,
Michigan, using mineral watr.
The new Illinois constitution sets out
for perfection, by first ordaining that it
shall never be changed. _
Conclusion of the Speeeh of Hon. S. S.
Cox, of New York, on the Bill to En•
force the Fifteenth Amendment, In ihe
House, Moy 27, 1570.
Mr. Speaker, in the time itiotted me I
have not the opportunity Logi) darough this
bill and dissect it, section by section, as I
could wish. I can only marvel at the in
difference with which gentlemen regard
this attempt to tramp down with elephan
tine foot all private rights and legal codes.
You cannot thus interfere by penalties with
the ballot without destroying the virtue of
the latter, by attempting rudely to uproot
its abuses. You would grasp at political
power by those undue statutory means;
but y o u will g rasp a shadow. You follow,
like Maebeth,:the dangerous vision and un
hallowed hopes i,r a bewitched ambition !
You will nail. You would enforce a cen
tralization with bayonet and posse., with
qua, warrant., anti affidavit, but you will
fail. Centralized power, like that seized
and wielded by the present Napoleon, was
won by bidder means and is living to-day
gradually resigned, with a wisdom infinite
rum pared with yours.
What is your conglomerate incongruity
which you cull a law? Let me enumerate
some of its beauties;
I. It is so lull of penal clauses :is to lia
ridiculous and ineffectual.
2. It is so full of spite is to be promotive
;if litigations and perseentions.
3. It is so general in its terms that nu in
formation or indictment isudil be drawn
Hint its provisions, and therefore it is a
fraud upon the public and the accused.
4. It destroys jury trial.
It is so partisan that it discriminates
in favor of the black against the white.
in. It is so unmindful of the Constitution,
that it compels Stateotlicers tocinforce Fed
eral laws.
7. It is so vengeful that it would 1111 jails '
:mil eumulate Mies beyond the capacity in
masonry to immure tine prisoners iir the
people to pay the sums.
.... It creates a class of pah I g; iv ernment
counsel, furnishes fees fur them from the
the poekcts of our constituents, and dints
increases taxes, while it tills the nation
with a horde ;if detestable spies and in
fin-niers.
O. It begets a conflict between State and
Federal authorities and by throwing the
sword into the Federal balance, seeks by
military power to overawe and control the
elections of tine States, and while aggran
dizing power in the Federal government
destroys the form, structure and genius
,of
the Federal government.
It will be impossible to elaborate all these
points. I will endeavor to elucidate a few
of them:
1. The Fenno ;nooses. There are twelve
sections of tines and penalties out of the
tweinty-three in this bill ! Need 1 rehearse
them 7 Imprisonments and tines, fines
' and iniprisenments, relieved only by civil
' suits and counsel fees! This law is so ell
ni ulative with punitive clauses as to be a
; monstrosity. Most of these sections pun
ish with i ni prison ment and tine for offenses
already amply provided for in State laws
l as to election frauds, although those State
laws do not attach to them such heavy pen
' aides. I could go over the sections of the
,erialio, to show the uncalled for weight of
these penalties; and then I might in this
presence be permitted to read Jeremy Ben
tham on the old harsh English penal codes,
to show that all excessive penal clauses
overleap themselves. They fail of their
aim. Will the scholarly gentleman [Mr.
Bingham] who reported this bill turn to
the fourth chapter of Bouring's edition of
Jeremy Bentham (volume nine, pogo 22),
, on penal law? The philosopher considers
what dividends may lie made from the
" stock" of human felicity by the penal
udes. We know that he was no advocate
of such Draconian codes. In the spirit of
our " Anglo-American representative do
n'ts:racy,- or in the spirit of its Constitu
' tint against " excessive" punishmenLs, inn
traces out all midi codes to lawyercraft and
hypocrisy. lie finds such codes confeder
ate with fraud, and subservient to tyranny.
Ile finds their synonym in the word "vis
itation—penal visit...thin. - To this sumo
source of civil disorder and turbuleneo do
I trace this iniquitous bill.
1 In what es shall suchsevere punish
; moots lie applied 7 In what shape; -what
proportion 7 Bather, Bentham asks, in
what shape or proportion shall it not be ap
i plied? Ile answers, as I answer for all
1 the:twelve sections of these, twenty-two ;
sections of this putative enactment, these
penalties are groundless, needles, Wellies- '
I riot's and unprofitable. In such cases pun
: isliment, in the language of the quaint
philiisopher, is inapt mid thoeases unmeet.
Take the cases of this bill, from the futile
aftemps to raise civil issues to the attempts
to punish the landlord far collecting rent
of the voting tenant under a tine not less
1 than s.son; loan the indefinite conspiracy
1 of the highway in disguise, with the limit
1 of sri,ooll lino and imprisonment not exced
-1 lug fen yearsdothe still moreuncertain mis
t thMieatior of holding tithes illegally against
the fourteenth amendment, under the
1 penalty of sl,one tine and in year's imprison
!M
! illi, or both, and you will see what Bent
' ham means when, by an u phe , ri scorn, he
derides sneh unphiliisophic and contempt
' Rile sehennes as this hill is replete withal.
Bentham evidently foresaw cases where
1 the evils appurtenant to punishment were
greater than the evils to be punished. The
1 inkdoed, is 11010 r words, is not so atrocious
as the law.
i " Of the sort of operation liv which for
the exclusion Of greater evil is purposely
produced the operation called 'mullion is
1 but ;me mode. For, taken by itself, gen
! eminent is, inn itself, Will vast evil."
What a foresight h a d this pLilosopher , !
Ile looked into the heart of this latter day.
Wherever, by the evils of government,
greater evil is excluded, the balance takes
the nature and name of good. In other
cases which lot examines, the punishment
is inefficacious mid unprofitable, because
to the undiminished evil of the offense is
added the evil of punishment. The evil
excluded is 110 t SO great as that introduced.
Thus reasoning, this Congress might per
ecive why a wisejudgment &mid denounce
such atrocious remedies as this bill pro
vides for Wrongs not NO great as its execu
tion would induce.
I pass from this abstract phraseology I
speak plainly when I demo nee the inter
minable, general, excessive and incompre
hensible penalties against the alleged regis
tration and voting frauds, North or South,
as an intolerable statutory nuisance. There
is no compensation for its existence by any
possible good. It will become a dead, pu
trescent letter on the statute. Courts,jurors
annul witnesses will laugh the law down.
Public opinion will despise it. The penal
ties inay now and then go to the spy :mil
informer; lint the bread they buy will
choke those who eat it.
2. I pass lightly over the point as to liti
gations and persecutions. This bill begins
where it is the interest of all there should
be an end, to wit, with litigation. The bill
is a provision for fees, counsel, spies, in
formers, suits, eta., to the end of tins gen
eration. Ilence I am opposed to it because
it is a bill of spite. It has no spirit of am
nesty. It is reprehensible because it does
nothing to heal wounds. It pours into
them no balm. It is a fruitful source of
litigation. At the end of civil :war there
ought to be tranquility. You are five years
after its end beginning a system of pro
scription which will have retaliation, and
again retaliation. There is no end of this
' incessant system of provocation but civil
war again.
Ti, If any lawyer will examine the clauses
of the bill he will perceive /lOW very gen
eral it is in its terms. It is so general that
I might apply to it the old Latin maxim,
//obis later in yenemlibus—fratirl lies in
generalties. Head the bill through and you
will find that there are penalties fur non is
; sion and commission. 'l'lie legal i•ertainty
; on which to frame an indictment is not ap
' parent. Some of the sections punish a man
if he does not comply "with the hill." The
accused has no exact definition of his of
fense. If an officer "refuse or knowingly
omit to give effect to this section"—such
are the words, forsooth, on which to draw
an indictment! flow can the astute lawyer
from Ohio, who was one of this muference
committee, or the gentleman [Mn. Davis]
who distinguished himself so Much in
eriminal practice the other day in New
York and who is now looking the in the
face,: [laughter)—how could they or either
Wf them with all their skill draw an indict
ment limier sunlit general clauses?
4. This bill destroys the right of trial by
jury. This is another point to show the
lawyer craft, or unlawyer-like craft of this
bill. In the third section, where a person
oilers and fails to perform an :net, he is al
lowed to vote,' and the officer who fails to
give effect to his vote, on presentation of
I an ex perrte affidavit of the facts, is liable to
$5OO to the aggrieved party I Thissum, SO
less, is to be recovered inn the old common
law action on the case, Costs and counsel
fees also, and fine and imprisonment I Now,
as to the civil action, one familiar with the
Constitution might infer that "in suits at
common law," like actions in case, "where
the value in controversy shall exceed
twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury"
should be preserved according to the sev
enth article of the Constitution! But Ono
pretentious wiseacres who funned this bill
wish to preserve the Constitution by break
ing it! They upset jury trial to punish
voters—not of their party ! By the third
section they consider, first, an offer to do
as tine act done; second, give effect to the
deed; and third, then provide a civil reme
dy, based on ant ex party affidavit of the
plaintiff, and command judge and jury to
find at least $5OO damages. The jury can
find uo less. Was there ever such blind
ness and idiocy? Is this preserving jury
trial? Is this preserving public liberty, or
its great safeguard?
5. This bill discriminates in favor of the
black and against the white.
The fifteenth amendment Is understood
by the House, The power to "enforce" it
is also understood. What is " appropriate
legislation" for its enforcement is not so
well understood.
If you turn to section five of this bill you
will see that it allows hindrance, control
and intimidation of a white voter,
but it
makes it a crime to hinder ' control or in
timidate a black citizen. Aside from the
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general and loose words of this penal stat
ute, is it not strange that again In the
twenty-third section there is a similar pro
vision ? In spite of the fifteenth amend
ment to the Constitution against discrimin
ation this bill does discriminate, and in
favor of the black and against the white,
This alone is enough to condemn this bill.
But as this has been elaborated by my
friend (Mr. Beck) I pass to the
Sixth point on the bill. I refer to the
clause which compels State officers to en
force Federal laws.
6. In the second section these State offi
cers are compelled to act as Federal agents,
and a penalty fixed for their non-perform
ance. This is a section coming from the
old fugitive slave laws, and in defiance of
the decisions of the courts.
7. I pass to the other points, as I rannnt
go Over all of the enormities of this bill in
the short time allotted to me. I would call
attention to the fart referred to by the gen
tleman front Indiana [Mr. Kertil that this
bill provides all through for lawyers—shys
ters, ho designated them --pettiniggers, who
get counsel fees at pleasure out of the Treas
ury for hunting up these eases. It tares
our people for this despicable 'business, at
the pleasure of the ruling powers. But
this is not it. worst feature. The Crowning
odium of the bill is that it provides for
spies and informers; this is the odium
of history. Informers are the meanest class
of men ever put under the inierose, , pe f o r
rational disseetb in.
I havosaiii that the is the odium
of history. SO 110 tuts 1,,r11 ill till ages.
'lbis bill is to lie vitali,.l with his leprous
present , . The learned tretitleinan t Mr.
Bingham; is familiar with the heretic
its portrait has been drawn by master
hands. The int . ! diner appeared in inany a
piece before Ill' was presented in this
llc has assailed with lua lucrative perjury
matt y an Motive!!l loan in other lands ; hr
is as old as the
!floriferous plots of the meal MI. and the
Rye Ilouse;" as Mil it 'rims ()ales, the
"common voucher of base aecusatiou.''
Ills detestable character was depicted by
the great Irish orator. " 1 have heard,"
said Curran in Finney's case, '• at assassi
nation by sword, by pistol, and by dagger:
but hero is a wretch who would dip the
evangelists in blood if lie thinks he has not
sworn his vietim to death, without mercy
and without end ;" and than bursting into
all indignant tlanie of invetitive he makes
this picture of the hateful (Ira/natl . , per.siiiiir
of this bill; it is familiar to the school-boy
in his declamations, but it it fit to be lucre
reproduced!
"But the learned gentleman is tinnier
pleased to say that the traverser has charg
ed the government with the encouragement
of informers. gentlemen, is another
small fact that you are to deny at the haz
ard of your souls, and opts the solemnity
of your oaths. You are upon your tiaths to
say to the sister country', that the tiovern
ment or Ireland noes no such abominable
instruments of destruction as in n irl erS.
Let mo ask you honestly, what do you feel,
when in my hearing, when in the fare of
this audience, you are called upon to give
a verdict that every man of you know by
the testimony of your own evos to be ut
terly and absolutely false? I .spout k not
now of the public proclamation of hin,,m
ers with a promise of seeresy and of ex
travagant reward; I speak nut of the fate
of those horrid wretches Who have been so
often transferred from the table to the dock,
and from the dock to the pillory ; I speak
of what your own eyes have seen day after
day, during the course of this commission
from the box where you are now silting; the
number of horrid miscreantsrvho avowed
upon their oaths that they had come from
the very seat of government—front the cas
tle, where they had been worked upon by
fear of death and the hopes of compensa
tion to give evidence against their fellows
that tine mild and wholesume councils of
this government are holden over these cat
acombs of living death, where the wretch
that is buried a man lies till his heart has
time to fester and dissolve, and is then dug
up for witness.
"Is this fancy, or is it fart? 1 faVe you
not seen hint, after his resurrection front
that tomb, after having been dug out of the
region of death and corruption, make his
appearance upon the table the living image
of life and death, and the supreme arbiter
of both '7 Have you not marl“:d when he
entered how the stormy wave of the multi
tude retired at his approach 7 Have you
not marked how the human heart bowed to
the supremacy of his power in the midis
sembled homage of deferential horror?
llow his planets, like the lightning of
heaven, seemed to rive t h e body of the ac
cused, and mark it for the grave, while his
voice warned the devoted wretch of woe
and death; a death which no innoceneellin
cseape, no art elude, no force resist, no :mi.
tidoto prevent; there was an antidote--a
juror's oath—but ('sell that adamantine
chain that bound the integrity of 11.11 to
the throne of eternal justice is solved and
melted in the breath that issues from the
informer's mouth ; oibnst•ll.ll, , Wings from
her moorings, and theappalled and affright
ed juror consults his own safety in the sur
render of the victim:
And yet, Ir. Speaker, in the tiv, of this
picture and history, this bill is lull id this
most atrocious, inh•rnal sy:soln .Jf
The hill, in very h, ,t, is thii
of lawyer craft--
r. If my colleague will allow
lie, I would :Ls!: him in what section of this
all there is any provision for informers?
l'ox. If the gentleman will give rue
ime .I. will show him. True, there is im
itch won! a. " i rtncr, Certainly it
s not used; hut—
Mr. Davis. Ana I assert that there is no
provision for informers in this hill.
Mr. Cox., I will show the gentleman
where it is. The sound, third and fourth
sections make such previsions. Those
sections do not call them "informers, - hut
they are in effect infurniers • because money
is given to all lvho prosecute. In the spo
on(' section there is a forfeit of $. - ,00 to the
aggreived ; is there trot? 'There is an ac
tion on 010 rase ;is there not? 1 rill costs
and counsel fees; are there out? If this is
not payment to the prOSeelli.4,l" and as ill
ducement to prosecute, What is?
What does the learned grntlrtuen rl,lll
New lurk [Mr. Davis] i,y an i
er ? Dues he mean is hat I 1110:111? The
man who gives informatiun and firuseentes
fur money, fur filthy luere—that man, I say,
is an infurnier. That is what is meant Lv
an informer under stir revenue. Incas ; is It
not? That is t h o definition given by IL'
courts ; is it nut? But the informers under
the internal revenue law are saints in hea-
Veil compared with the Ironic of hungry
oillco-seekers and interested parties who,
inflamed by zealotry, avarice and rancor,
trill be enabled by this hill to goSouth and
North, and play (he part of Federal police
spies and informers, to stifle the free voice
of the people in their elections.
Will the gentleman front New York (Mr.
Davis] if still unbelieving, read the third
section ? There, too, is a penalty of .ff:fee to
the aggrieved and an action and costs and
counsel fees. So in the fourth section.
I could also shots' that by lawyer craft or
some other craft no provision is made in
this bill to punish the inlorrner for bearing
false witness, which this bill instigates and
pays for, against his neighbor. Is this an
oversight? If so, it is too late to correct it.
We must take the whole bill or none.
. _
I !night show also here the odious pro
vision of thn twentieth section as to pre
sumptive evidence ; the presurntion of guil
and then the heaping, in a cowardly way
of the suns probunilt on the defendant
show that lie is innocent.
I pass that and other enormities anal de
formities to speak of the last point.
By this bill, as I have shown, you pro
pose to call in the army and the militia as a
posse copilot us to assist in carrying out
your plans of conquering the free ballot. I
perceive in these plans a conflict of juris
diction that will inevitably come between
the Federal government find the States it
this bill becomes a law. Sir, I 'neon liv
this no threat. But when gentlemen talk
so glibly :timid going to New York and us
ing the power of liederal government to
regulate elections there in their interest,
and against the popular will, as they have
ill the South, I do not know and I cannot
say how such assaults upon the freedom of
that great city will be repelled. I only
know that in some bold, ntmily way isitit
ting a great people they Will be reptillNil.—
Slake sure of that, gentlemen. You can
not safely intrench upon the freedom iif
the ballot:. You have debased its mode of
exercise here and in the South, but you
cannot. control it by Federal force for Rad
io:ll purposes in New York. If., you not
know—if not. I Will tell you—that the vot
ing in NOW York city is carried on in per
fect peace? All testify to this who have
been in New York on election day. It is
so quiet you would not know it to be elec
tion day. gentlemen talk here about elec
tions in New York as if they were held
under the influence of whisky, bribes, vice,
etc. Nosy, the simple fact is, that in or
about the room where the polls are held
you see no crowds until no riivit, as von do
111 Illinois, in Ohio, or in New England.
There is no drunkenness; you see 0110 or
two policemen there to prevent a possible
trouble. The ballots are placed in the vari
ous glass boxes. Any one can see ills bal
lot fall like the poetical "slow flake," If
there have been frauds heretofore in the
city of New York, the Republican police,
which has had the supervisory function
over the registration, had as much to do
with it as any one of any party. And such
frauds to some extent are incidental to all
great cities of diverse interests, where men
aro absorbed in the hurried pursuits of
wealth and luxury.
In conclusion, I repeat that laws like this
will be inoperative anti ineffectual. It may
provoke, as it is Mtended,Lrouble,
riot and bloodshed, but its penalties will be
scorned. This will bo the case in New
York city, upon which we were informed
this bill was intended to operate, the regis
tration clause especially.
Nor will it aid Radicals to carry elections.
The clamps of the Republican party at
Albany have been fixed on that city by
State legislation and city commissions for
years. Every year brought fresh dissigis-
RATE OF ADVEETINING
ADYSIITIIIIMMIINTS, 312 a yen
emote of tan lines: Sd Par year for each
tiOn4l !KW°.
..
REAL EsTATS:ILIMSIttfaTNO, ideents n 11n
the find, and 5 cents for each mut...thou
mmiertion.
GENERAL ADVERTL9ING, 7 cents a line fo
firm, haul 4 vents for thault bublioquout I
thou.
SPECIAL NoTTCEs Inserted In Local Col
lG cents par Una.
SPECIAL NOTICT-S preceding Inarrlages
deaths, 10 cents per lino for lirst Incur
and 5 (yenta for Ivory aniAmiuenl,
LDCAL AND OTEINR NOTICFAI--
.-,
EXeCtltors' notices......_
Administrators' notice
Assignees' notices 2
Auditors' not lees 2
Other" Notices," Lou lines, or less,
three times /
faction with this system of goverin
until the revolution of hod year. Altlio
the Itopublican party had the police of..
York city; although they had all the po
to control, arrest and lottlish repent
anti fraudulent voting, yet a large map,
has been rolled up there against the Itul
lican party with every year. No intolli
lllan, whatever he may think ~r,u,nu.
sores of the body politic, and of some o
incidents inseparable front a great city,
will believe that New Yorl: iv boom
more and inure Democratic every Jay,
that this bill will still further every
tr
Deinoeratie stronatit. Ther,torv, it ua
to be entitled "a bill lo secure do ,iipr
acv of the Democratic party and l ee
iron-so of itS vines in .New York city."
Mr. Allison, NVlty did yon not vote, ii
for this hill?
Mr, Cox. I ale not vote li.•re to incri
oraggrandhze party. l hope that illy fri
front lowa votes en a high, p l:wut
that. Ile isso serene, kind, and hamlsii
knughter•l
I know full NN el! whence emanate :ill
slanders against the Democr:my of .
York:. 'l'liey are from the same , :ouri,
that winch elainers for the naturaliza
Lill of my colleague I . l\ I r. do
wonder that my ec Ilcuguu -and I dosir
speak of him will: all respect think , r.
or poorly or \,n York eity tifter his re,
experienee there. But that experience
I fear, a...whited tho source
of II
slanders :mil clainors. I think 1 I c ic e
this plainly eilinis.ol, hilt I will
statement for my colleague. I say Ilia
these slanders oil the N -tv Yorl, t,qu0..1
route from the Ne‘v York in,., Imo
the editors of which live 0111 , iile of that
and have uo sympathy tciih its umssrs
no YOU , in the City. If l were
enter more fully of the Join se nl .
York to-day—ands if I coiild shield
front this ion I would dos., I c.
show that she has a cheaper and a I,
quc,rllllo-51, iu tv Inch there is loss fr
than in your Chicago' , or Cincinnati
l'hiladelphias ur ltocliesters, awl less t.
lion, ay, aunt li.ss crime iimi inie
different and less hateful grade and
than Boston.
Mr. Stevenson. The gonticimin tr ill
well if he can do that.
Mr. Cox. Till,' is 1010 thinc t a rt
which I desire to remark. It o ill not
for gentlemen of the repuhlioan party
least in NeNv York State, ivle , the Miler
gave all their votes in the NoNV York le
lature for the now charter, to impeach
character of that honored :Mil glorious •
svith its ninety-tine thoUsailil
majority. That Detilocracy hove oVeri ,
Many trials amd dangers. '!'heir inottm
that of their State, is " Excelsior." \\
new hills of pains and penalties
pressed on then, by Itallical bigotry
111)1) ibis sentew of spies
informer , is added to the restriction
ready heaped upon their commerce
their industry, I, hen to Federal teal
internal :tad rctrnial, With its inluisili
11111,11•114 allgl
is Sllpermidod the espionage, litigati
prosecutions, , ictilleills :mil penal
losteri,l by a horde of Federal detect
and police, to overawe their free cult ,
and control their local government,
will prepare and nerve theniselvc , for
conflict. They hay Lt' State nu preli
Fit Albany Molten your yoke of wood :
with Hod's help, they salt breal, the yi
of iron now forging (or them in this Fed
capital!
Startling Affray Between T - ho
Brother,
Not long flgt,4olo
near Monroe, Detroit, became ilcran
being subject to tits of melancholy
weeping. lie continued to grow iv
until it became necessary to send him t,
asylum at Kalamazoo. use morning
week George F. Streeter was to start
the unfortunate man for the asylum,
felt that Ito should Tir' assistance,
Chrititliplier brother of tie, c
man, volunteered to :Li...on:pally Sire
'l' lie I introit says:
"On the Intuit the ton trothers h:
seat together directly in front of the ell
and it was noticed that thin iuvano man
i.onst:intly calmer, while Christopher
more and more Ile rontinui
groan and weep, deploring the cetlai
that was SO snow to Separate the two,
baps illal refusal tin loin
by the sympathetie and cheering N,
Or 1110 ()Miler. I iawnl.lll,l haul note
1,1,311, alld,
gilt nit for dinner at the Mitchell,
at
of the throe. They all sat
at the hotel iliningdable, the otlicei
loess thin brothers. The titbit,
ud with mails, wouu•n all.l v 1111.11,11,
sengers on lilt, which
posi G. ill° door. The meal had
voninien,•ed, when Christopher, the
brother, suddenly tittered a Iliad
of sorrow and despair, ii hich
every ono, eat/sing ry cry cheek to
pale, As he shrieked hn rnsn from 11
ale, ilaidied the rillii•er II
a 0110,1, alai Olen till, two iueaue bee
lot-ked together in a mail struggle. VI
down they whirled, shriek Mg,
king, pulling, each one a giant in etre,
each one a demon ill his hate. The Ste
est men trembled:lml fro,
strange scene, 1.1111 Wl/1111.11 sc r eamed,l
111,1, alai for a moment or two 1111,
such a strang,c spectacle there ns
never witnessed in his lifetime.
mail brothers struggled and writhed,
one down, then t h e other until smite •
passengers cried " shoot thnni
neer, coolest, stall, made several ,•frn,
snlmrato the combatants, whinh silts
fushed by Lawrence seizing his hest
iat and springing through the croivil
door. Ile went straight aboard the t
clambering on top of the cars. Christi
was throivii down and 110111111, aril
canto a struggle to seem° the
brother and talcs him from the
The feat was at length aveiiiiiplislwd
then he was tied, hand and foot,
left at the hotel, while Streeter
this city with Christopher. TM:sin-tin
locked up at the l'entral Station whi
officer returned tog,. forward wit h the ,
and will return hedity and lake
0110 11l Monroe. Tinn cells and sh
of the poor R.lll/W 1,111i11,1
station were enough to malco
treml,le, and lie jumped and boll
against the door of his 1•1.11 in a way
shook the building. The whole inn
is Ime of the strangest that has ocie
for a long time, amt but for the torn (.1
and scratches exhibited by the drill,'
the shrieks and yells of the Last virti
the fearful disease, might seem I il:e
manse."
At Omaha, er the 11th of May, Mis
Ilurth, a young girl just enterin•
seventeenth year, and win, was to Imia
married on the foliowing morning
worthy young bricklayer named Br
shot herself through the breast and di
most instantly. The motive is but is
tured ; lmt the strange part of the sn
Gild les follows: Three years ago,
but a child, she was admired and cn
by young Brewer, a frequent visitor:
parents. All went smoothly and so
engagement resulted, her parents fits
the match. The Arl ivies beautiful, ri
and attractive, and received many
thins from other young men. Iler
grew madly jealous, and a fluarrel,
ration and the attempted suteidir of It
followed. Six months after she act
a new lover, awl again everything
smoothly, though Brewer emitilin
visit the 11.180. About six weeks ago
Ida told her mother that if she ever or
any in, it would be I B rower. llt
lover silts dismissed, and preparatim
gas for her marriage to her first elea.
the day before that fixed for her ins
she appeared fitfully strange and
eonfidant that she voidd never Inge it
list still continued to work upon her
outfit. Al three o'clock in the sate
the discharge of a pistol 55110 hoard
girl's room, and her mother, rushi
Pound her in the agonies of death
robes provided for her bridal de,-Li
corpse for burial, mot the ilav upon
she was to have become in 1 sh
consigned to the tomb.
Horrible Accident Inn London Th
Los t ur n, June S.•--A di,tressing, ae
0/•Cllrred at the Alhambra r'nueorl 111
night. While the ballet svas in pr
:111,1 the 010110 crow,ll,l with da
ono of the large trap lours in the Vel
the stage gave way, and :1 number
.dancers, who were grouped 011 lb
were violently precipitated into the
under the stage, which With 111111S111111
and seas filled with machinery and
cal lumber. Eleven of the mifor
girls were levity injured, and son
feared fatally. The eata,trophe ea
panie among the audience, which
had no serious result.
The of Oaxaca Nearly He%
by nn Earthanahe.
ItAvA NA, June 6.—A violent eartl
has visited the State of Oaxaca. Its
were especially disastrous in Oaxa
capital of the State. One hundred an,
persons were killed and tiny-three Ic
ed. A third of the city WILY renderer
habitable. The earthquake extender
mines, where eleven men were kill
many wounded, Buildings in all pi
the State were destroyed, and repor
ditional deaths are milling in.
Artificial Leg, for Woof. led So
WASHINGTON, June 7.—The Con
Committee on the bill to supply si
who lost their legs in war with artilie
met to-day and decided to adopt the
bill. It provides that soldiers shall
lowed to take either legs or money,:
choose, the Senate bill, provided M
plying them with legs alone, leavint
no choice. It is understood that n
the soldiers would rather have the
At Cincinnati, George Jayny,
working on a church steeple, w:
cipltated to the ground, adistanee
feet, by the breaking of a rope hi
up the seallbld. He was instantly