GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor
VOLUME XIX.---NO. 251
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, GIBSON PEACOCK, CASPER SOURER, Jr.,
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THOMAS :T. WILLIAMSON. •
The Bramerret Is served to enbacribers In the city at
an2B cents per week, payable to the carriers, or to 00 per
num.
MUMBLED.
EBARTHOLOMEW-BUCHANAN- On Stinday, the
9th instant, at St.. John's Episcopal Church Norris
town, Pa,. by the Rector, Rev. E. Maxey, fir. G. R.
.Bartholbmew to Miss Rebecca K. Buchannan. both of
Philadelphia.
`JONES—MARTIN'On this morning, Peb. 6th. at
the residence of the bride's mther by. the Rev. Wes
ley Kenney, J
DD. Mr. Aaron- ones, Jr.,' to Miss
Mary A. Martin, both of Germantown. •
•
BRI , ROSE—Onthe 4th bantam in the lath year of
.his age, Harry B elrose,s en of Louis and Julia Belrose.
' The 'relatives and friends of the family are rrempect
fully Invited to attend the funeral on Wednesday
afternoon, the 7th instant, at 3 o'clock, from residence
"No. 2003 Green street. - as.
BUM if—Suddenly, on the 4th instant, Mrs. Hannah
Bummin the 79th year of her age.
The relatives and friends of the family are re•
spectfoily invited to attend her funeral, from her late
residence, No. 1111 Marlborough street; on Thursday
afternoon, at 2 o'clock, without farther notice. **
DESGRANGES—On the evening of February 4th,
after a lingering illness, Clarence C. Deegranges, In
the 83c1 year of his age.
The relatives and friends of the family are re
rapectfully invited to attend the funeral from the
residence of his father, No. 513 South Ninth street, on
• Wednesday morning, Feb; 7th, at 10 o'clock. Inter
ment at Laurel MI cemetery.
lIAITLAND—On the 4th instant , Isabella W., wife
.ofJoseph Maitland, in the 31st year of tier age.
Her iriends and those of the family are Invited to
attend her funeral from the residence of her sister.
airs. T. J. Potts, No 1114 Race street, on Wednesday,
tue 7th Instant, at 2 o'clock, P.M.
IitPATTERSON—On the morning of the 3d instant,
Robert, aged 3 years and 5 mouths, son of Robert E.
and Mary L. Patterson, •
ROWLAND—EarIy on the morning of Feb. sth,
Benjamin, youngest child of Benjamin and Virginia
L. Rowiand, aged (6) six years.
The relatives and friends are invited to attend- his
funeral from the residence of his father, Cheltenham,
- Montgomery county, on Thursday, 9th• instant, at two
-o'clock. Interment at Trinity Churchyard, Orford. *.
SOALERS—Feb. sth, 1568, Charles Edward Somers,
son of Wm. E. and Sallie Somers, aged 2 years, 5
months and 3 days, after an illness of two weeks.
The funeral will take place on Thursday, Feb. Bth,
at 2 o'clock, from the residence of his grandfather,
Cbalkley Somers, No. 2004 Green street. The rela
tives and friends of the family are respectfully in
vited to attend, without Inrther notice.
SHY TII—On the sth instant, at his residence in
Wilmington, Del., David Smyth, in the 84th year of his
'FunPral on the ath instant, to lea're the house at 12
so,
_
WATSON— On the sth instant, William Inman
Watson, of Burlington, New Jersey, in the 72i1 year of
his age.
STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OP
PENNSYLVANIA.—The members of this Society are
rcquestol to meet at No. 211 e West Delancey Place, on
Wednesday, the 7th instant, at 2 o'clock, P. M., ounc
-Wall• , to attend the funeral of their late feltoW
memb er, THOMAS ROBINSON.
GEO, W. 14A RRTR, Secretary.
'72I2TH IitOREENS FOR SHIRTS.
Green Watered Moreens.
6-4 and 5-i Green Baize,
White Cloth for Sacks.
White Evening Silks.
EYRE 43: LANDELL, Fourth and Arch
1:c --HORTICULTURAL 14 A T.T,— S. W. corner of
Broad and 'Walnut sta.—Essay THIS EVEN
G—"Diseases of the' Pear."
H0W.A1313 HOSPITAL. Noe.. 1616 and 1520
Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med
i treatment and medicines furnished gratuitously
lathe poor. se2B
- HORTICULTURAL AA T,T S. W. corner
WBROAD and WAG:ISIJY. Lecture exylanatory
o American System," with German chart (50 feet by
12), FEBRUARY a th, at 3 to 8 F. IL Adults
-slon, 15 cents. it*
1/ZMERCANTILE LLI3RARY. COMPANY.
I a Ii:LLA.DELPICEA, Feb. 6th, 1866.
annual election for a Board of Managers will be
held In the Library BOOM, on TUESDAY, 20tn instant,
between the hours of 4 and 8 F. AL
JNO. A. M , CALLISTER,
Recording Secretary.
c'-‘IIR.EIMRNINWRITEL4" OF TH M E
FR P.A9:
ILLS (late Miss Cora L. V. Scott) will lecture at
NATIONAL HALL, on THIS EVENING, at 8
o'clock. Doors open at 7. Col. D. is a Southern man
-and has been connected with the colored troops.
He will speak upon the present condition of the
. Freedmen.
Mrs. D. will also lecture on the same subject.
Admission 25 cents. Proceeds for the benefit of the
Freedmen's Schools.
U'n- • OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND
I,‘" NAVIGATION COMPANY, PIar.ADr.LPECIA,
December 21at,1860.
LOAN FOR SALE.
IN SUMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS.
The Loan of this Company, due April Ist, 1881, inte
rest payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent, per
annum.
This Loan is secured by amo age on all the Com
pany's Coal Lands, Canals, and S ackwaterNavigation
the Lehigh river,and all their Rallroads,constructed
•,and to be constructed, between Mauch Chunk and
Wilkesbarre, and branch roads connected therewith,
and the franchise of the Compsw relating thereto.
Apply to SOLOMON SHErHERD, Treasurer,
delti-rptff . ISt South Second street.
NOTICE.—PLANDEL AND EfAyDN BOCIE
TY.—The Second Concert of the season will
rtt il ifplace on FP.IDAY EVENING, February 9, at
MUSICAL FUND HALL.' Subscribers will take no
lice that, in consequence of the PUBLIC ItELIE %R
--SaL taking place on THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
the CONCLET will be on FRIDAY NIGHT; there.
fore, all Subscribers' Tickets dated Fep. 8, are to be
-used on Friday night s _ All subscribers that wish to
.avold the crowded hollillse on -- Friday night can use
their tic. eta at the Rehearsal. The public will be ad
mitted to the General Rehearsal on Thursday after
. noon. Feb. 8; doors open at one o'clock—to commence
.at two o'clock precisely. All members of the Society,
will be punctually on theplatform before two o'clock.
Doors will be opened on Friday evening at 6',4 o'clock.
and Concert to commence at As the Concert will
be over before 10,9; o'clock, it, is requested that the
,audience will remain seated until the close. Librettos
of the Oratorio, containing the Life of Mendelssohn
-mid explanatory remarks, will be on sale at the Music
Stores and at the Hall. Competent ushers will be in
:attendance to seat the audience.
Admission to the Rehearsal 59 cents.
Concert '
A limited number of Tickets will be on sale at C. W.
R. TRUMPLER's, Seventh and Chestnut streets;
LEE dc WALKER' S. Chestnut, above Seventh. and
•at W. H. BONER'S. Chestnut street, above Eleventh.
By order of the Music Committee, fes-3g
.41PHILADELPHIA AND ERIE RAILROA.iI
CO.MPA.NY, PirtnenzLextrA. Jan. 224 1,366.
e Annual llieethar of the Stockholders of the
Philadelphia an WALTi Raoad Company will be held
at the Office, 230ITETstreet, on MONDAY, toe
12th February next, at 10 o'clock A. M. At this meet
ing an Election will be held for Ten Managers of the
Company to serve for, one year. The polls to close at
2 o'clock P. M. GEORGE P. LITTLE,
ja2oa,m,w,loti . Secretary.
WEST CHESTER AND pmr...DELPHIA
RAILROAD COMPANY.
I he next Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this
, Company, will be held in the Horticultural Hall in the
Borough of West Chester. on Monday the twelfth day
•of February, A D. 1866. at 12 o'clock M., when - and
where an election of officers to serve the ensuing year
will take place
By order of the Board.
A. LEWIS SMITH.
ja2s.f.m,w,tofel2/ Secretary.
• NOTICE.—A Meeting of the Stockholders of
V a the GERMANTOWN PASSENGER RAI' AY COMPANY will be held at their Office, corner
• of SIXTH and DIAMOND istreeta, on THURSDAY,
Tebrnary 15th, at 10 o'clock, A. M., to take action upon
- the agreement for Consolidation and Merging entered
' into by the Board of Directors with the Board of. Di
rectors of the Fairmount Park and Delawareltiver
:Passenger Railway Company.
By order of the Board. _
JOSEPH SDTGERLY.
• fe2-fro,w,St* - Secretary.
• PLATT OIL COMPANY.—A special meeting'
of the Stockholders will be held at.the office of
'theComPanY, No, 250 CHESTNUT street, in the city
of Philadelphia, on. THURSDAY, the 15th day of Feb
ruary next, at 22 o'clock, -noon, to act upon a proposi
tion to reduce the Capital Stock of the Company from
Five • Hundred Thousand Dollars to One Hundred
"Thousand Dollars.
W. S. PRICE, _
S. , T. RibMAKER, Jr.,
J. S. CLARK
D. W. Clle ,
D. D. clam.
Directors
jan,liVA.
ZiGLISH PICKLES. CATSUP% SAUCTAB_44I4,
Alf _Crosse tt Blackwell's English Pickles, apps,
.ces, Durham Mustard, Olives, &eq.. lan% DA'
ship Yorktown and for sale by JOS, B. nOSS
CO. 1118 South Delaware avenue.
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Clinics of the Philadelphia Hospital,
Alma House, West Philadelphla.
Among the new features which we intend
to add to the columns of the EVENING 13:17L
LETINt will be a resume of the Medical and
Surgical Clinics of the Philadelphia Hospital
of the preceding week. These Clinics are
among the most prominent of the attractions
which make our city the chief place of
medical instruction in the Union, as well as
the Canadas• and the Islands. They are
attended by a majority, if not all the Stu
dents of the Pennsylvania University, the
Jefferson Medical College, and other
less pretentious institutions. These
Clinics precede, • by very many
years; those of, the Pennsylvania Hag
nital, and, indeed, any other institution on
the continent, and owe their origin to the
celebrated Dr. William Shippen—the founder
of medical teaching in this country—so long
ago as 1788, since which time they have
gradually assumed an importance un
equalled by those of any other city, and de
servedly attained the high character they
sustain at the present day. They were for
merly a subject of expense, bat the liberal-
ity of the present excellent Board of Guard
ians of the Poor induced them to place the
medical instruction of the institution at the
service of the various 'Colleges. They are
now.free.
These clinics are composed of lectures in
Medicine and Surgery, with practical dem
onstrations in the latter branch of sciences.
They are only given during five months of
the year—October, November, December,
January and February, by the Consulting
Physicians of the Hospital, assisted by the
regularly appointed Resident Physicians of
the Alms House in which the Hospital is
located. The amphitheatre in which thaie
clinics take place is beautifully adapted fdr
the purpose, and considered the very best
in the United States, accommodating with
comfort some five to six hundred
spectators, all of whom are enabled
to witness the slightest movement of
the patients or hear the faintest whisper of
the lecturer. They occur every Wednesday
and Saturday of each successive week, com
mencing with the medical at 9/ A. M., fol
lowed by the surgical at ill, ending, gene
rally, about one or half-past one o'clock.
The medical lectures of the present course,
now verging towards its end, were given
during the first three months by Dr. J. L.
Ludlow, M. D. (medical), and William H.
Pancoast, M. D. (surgical), and now by
Alfred Still 6, M. D. :(medical), and J. R.
Levis, M. D. (surgical). The present corps.
of Resident Physicians are Dra. Smith, Par
ry, Bartles, Wilson, Stewart, Maples
Sparks, Shen and McClure.
The principal event of last Saturday's
clinic was the amputation, at the knee
joint of a patient, performed by Dr. Levis,
and attended with the most perfect success.
The leading feature of the operation was
"the substitution of nitrous oxyde gas for
chloroform or sulphuric ether, as an antes
thetic agent, and the 'great length of time
during which the patient remained under
the influence of the new remedy, no less
than twelve minutes, the longest period of
time on record in this city, or indeed, on
record anywhere. The Faculty have had
a large gasometer and retort erected, and
intend testing the new agent to its fullest
extent. So far its results have proved most
gratifying.
Amont the other recent discoveries made
at this Institution is the additional valuable
substitution of the Sulphate of Cinchonia
for the Sulphate of Quinia (Quinine), as an
anti-periodic and tonic in intermittent and
other fevers, where the latter was the com
monly employed remedial agent, with the
most extraordinary results. Not a single
failure occurred in which the new remedy
was used, exhibiting its decided advantage
in every instance, not the least important is
the fact that nonelof the head symptoms oc..
cur,—dizziness, hdadache, ringing or buzz
ing in the ears, cerebral oppression, Ltc.,
which is the common, result of the use of
Quinine and one of its principal objections.
This is really a most important discovery in
all its bearings, one of which amounts to
something in these days of high prices. lt
costs less than one-seventh of the price of
the ancient commodity.,
The Cherokees and their Chief, John
To the Editors of the National Intelli
gencer:—A communication in your issue of
the 9th of November under the caption
"Ex-Chief John Ross" has just fallen under
my notice, It contains so many misstate
ments, and may produce so many errone
ous impressions, that I feel it my duty to .
ask the privilege of space for a brief reply.
The political history ', I of the Cherokees
during the past forty years is so intimately
interwoven with that of' our country, espe
cially as connected with the propagandism
of the ultra notions respecting slavery and
State Eights, which finally culminated in
the late rebellion—that space will not allow
me to go minutely into it. Suffice it to say
that one of the first steps taken in this di
rection by those who held these notions,
was the persecution of the Cherokees • in
order to gain possession Of their lands east
of the Mississippi—the imprisonment of
their missionaries, and finally the
consummation of theSe efforts by the
United States Government committing
the great wrong of negotiating
a so-called "treaty" with a few unauthorized
and, with two or three exceptions, insigni
ficant individuals, under which the Cher
okee people were, against their most earnest
protests, and in the face of the most solemn
treaties, driven from the homes of their
fathers and compelled to migrate hundreds
of miles to lands selected for them west of.
the Mississippi. WhateVerdissensions sub
sequently arose among them, had their
origin in this oppressive action of the Gen
eral Government. Such treatment was of
course calculated to try thempirit ofabrave,
free people, and had it not been for, the wis
dom, moderation and pacific counsels of
their idolized chief—John Ross—it .wpidd
not have been accomplished without much
01111 AIEDICA_L SCHOOLS.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1866.
bloodshed and the expenditure of millions
of money.
Look back, Messrs. Editors, at the films
of the Intelligencer from 1835 to 1840 and see
- what wrongs the poor CherOkees were
subjected to during those years, how
they 'were hunted down, robbed of their
property, and in some instances murdered
in cold blood while being collected in camps
for removal. See who were the instigators
of these measures, and for what object, who
imprisoned their missionaries and why, and
see who 'were the staunch friends and sup
porters of the Cherokees and the mission
aries. Read how families were sepafated
never to be re-united; how, in their long,
wearisome march for hundreds of miles tit °. ;
the western territories, they suffered and
died by thousands, and is it any wonder
that some desperate characters among them
should,in an evil hour,takethe lives of some
whom they regarded as the chief authors of
all their calamities? Ido not justify these
acts of 'violence, but I must say that the
provocation was more than human nature
ordinarily bears with meekness and resig
nation.
This brings me to Mr. Boudinot's
communication. It bears sufficient
evidence of the animus of the writer, viz:
that of extreme hostility towards Mr. Rose,
who has been the beloved and idolized
Principal Chief of the Cherokees, re-elected
every four years, by the almost unanimous
voice of the people, ever since about the
year 1828. He has ever been the friend of
education, Christianity, peace and good
order. To bear me out in this assertion, I
need only refer to the history of the Chero
kees during that time, to their progress in
civilization, to the records of Congress, and
of their own National Councils, to the an
nual and extraordinary messages of Mr.
Ross as Principal Chief, to their free school
system, and to their condition when the re
bellion broke out, with free schools in
operation, one for every thousand of their
population, besides a male and female
seminary, also free, and to the peace and
good order which reigned throughout the
country. Mr. Boudinot, on the other
hoad, is the representative of those who
sold the birthright of their nation, and
were the authors of their internal difficul
ties. But for many years the difficulties
have been so far settled that those of the old
"Treaty party" who chose to do so, resided
quietly and securely in the nation. Others
like Mr. Boudinot chose to expatriate them
selves. The influence of this party was
always in favor of extreme Southern ideas,
hence some of them were said to have united
with the "Knights of the Golden Circle,"
and your correspondent, if my memory is
not at fault, while editing a paper in a bor
der town of Arkansas, endeavored to excite
feelings against Mr. Ross by calling him an
"Abolitionist." Hence, too when the rebel
lion broke out, they threw themselves heart
and soul into it. Mr. Boudinot soon ap
peared in Richmond, as a delegate from the
Cherokees ,to the Rebel 'Congress, and his
Uncle Standwatie was made a Brigadier-
General in the rebel service. Why were
not these honors conferred on Mr. Ross and
his friends, if they were such hearty rebels"
as your correspondent represents? No. Mr.
Ross and his friends, "the poor Indians,"
caused the rebels great solicitude, and were
loyal to the United States government,
though overpowered by hostile forces,
against 'which that government had by
sollemn treaty promised to protect the
Cherokees.
That Mr. Ross was loyal, his murdered
children, his scattered family, his ruined
home, all, all the work of rebels in arras
against the United States Government, at
test.
In regard to the commission that met at
Fort Smith, and its extraordinary acts 4 can
only say that, knowing as I do, something
of the history of past commissions sent by
the United States Government to force mea
sure! upon the Cherokees that they were
opposed to, I am not by any means pre
pared to receive its conclusions as just and
right. To my mind their official record
shows a determination to take advantage of
the extraordinary position the Indian tribes
were placed in by the rebellion--certainly
by no voluntary act of thetra,so far,at any rate
as the Cherokees were concerned—to again
compel them to accede to measures to which
they were opposed, and which are contrary
to all treaty stipulations with them. I trust
that Congress will not sanction any more
oppressive measures against the Indians.
The whole bearing of this Commission
towards the Indians was unworthy of the
representatives of a great and magnanimous
nation. They treated with them as if they
'were all savages, and seemed to do every
thing possible to create ill feeling amongst
them; for the purpose of demonstrating the
necessity of using stringent measures with
them, in ether words, placing them under
martial law. These so-called "dissension"
among the civilized Indians have always
been magnified for the purpose of keeping
up a military establishment on the frontier,
in the interest of contractors, sutlers, &c. -
In conclusion, I would say that I am not "a
relative" of Mr. Ross nor an "interested
party" in the case at all, except for justice t
and right. I write chiefly from personal
knowledge of the facts, having been born
and bred in the Cherokee Nation, and being
familiar with their history for the past forty
'years. My father was for more than thirty
years a missionary of the "American
board" among the Cherokees, and was one
of those who suffered imprisonment in the
Georgia Penitentiary for maintaining their
rights, and privileges under the United
States Government against the dogma of
State Rights. [See the case of Worcester vs.
the State of Georgia, in Peter's Reports of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
vol 6, page 515.]
Respectfully,
S. W. BUTLER, M. D.
The advices we receive from India and
China possess considerable interest as affect
ing American commercial relations in the
East. The fear of Russian encroachments
in Central Asia which has become chronic
With the British government, has latterly ,
assumed a nsw phase. It is now conceded
by the Anglo-Indian press that the slow but
sure advances made by the Russian Govern-
Ment in Central Asia are endangering the
future safety of England's Indian empire.
The Bombay Gazette admits. that Eng
land "is utterly helpless to prevent
Russia from proceeding in her career of
conquest, if it is her will to carry out her
policy of annexation." The same paper
bears testimony to the wonderful civilizing
influence which the European Colossus is
exercising on her recent acquisition, and
adds that Russia "is the only Power that
can successfully accomplish this work."
In Cashmere the progress of Russian power
has induced the Anglo-Indian government
to send out.three native spies to obtain au
thentic information.
,The Bhootan treaty recently concluded by
the British authorities has been the subject
of much comment in England, and; will
Probably be made aground of, attack upon
Earl Russell's Cabinet as soon as Parlia
oun vnem t u coinvrny
ment assembles. The Calcutta Englishman
informs us that by this treaty the Bhooteas
have conceded to England "all their rights
and interests in the eighteen Bengal and
Assarni'Dooars, including all the land."
A remarkable picture of the state of affairs
in China 'when Sir Rutherford Alcock, the
British Ambassador, arrived at Pekin, is
furnished by the overland China mail. The
Chinese, relieved from their fear of the
Taapings, were busily''engaged in casting
munitions of war, and were preparing to
exclude all foreigners from the country.
English advices state that Sir R. Alcock
arrived in time to change this policy.—N.
Y. Herald.
Additional Details of the Bagdad Affair
---Names of American Officers
Said to be Engaged in the Pil
lage--Imperialist Prisoners
Forced to Join Escobe
do's Command--Al
leged Complicity of
General Weitzel's
Men in the Sack
ing of the City.
ICorrevendenee of the New Tort Herald.)
HAVANA, Jan. 31, 1866.--By the steam
ship Guiding Star, which leaves this after
noon, I send you some interesting news rel
ative to the Bagdad affair, taken from the
_Mario de la Marina of this morning, which
publishes two letters received by he last
mail, respectively the 6th and 15th of Janu
ary, which I translate as I find printed.
The first commences thus:
"We saved ourselves by flight, as soon as
it was possible, from the horrors of which
Bagdad was the theatre, and succeeded with
difticult:v in getting aboard of this vessel
[name not given[ by means of a small boat
in a very leaky condition. The town of
Bagdad was invaded between three and
four o'clock in the morning, from three dif
ferent points at the same time, by a con
siderable number of United States colored
soldiers, belonging to the various American
encampments between Clarksville and
White Ranch. The first thing the invaders
did was to set at liberty one Foster, who was
imprisoned a few days previously for the
double crime of robbery and murder. This
Foster immediately mounted a horse and
directed the attack •and pillage. All over
the town were to be seen uniformed Ameri
can officers giving orders. They were of tke
Clarksville garrison.
The so-called COL Reed commanded the
Colored troops. Presently • the self-styled
Gen. Crawford presented himself,and a Little
later the Mexican Escobedo. It was fully
S o'clock when the troops of the latter be
gan to come in, and all resistance had by
that time ceased.
I ought to mention that the attack was so
sudden and unexpected that we could think
of no other means of saving our lives but by
flight. The American soldiers rushed
through the streets like wild beasts, dis
charging theirmu,skets and pistols to terrify
the people. Thei Mexican garrison went
over to the enemy.- The two four-pounders
entrusted to Lieut. Saavedra were soon in
possession of the bandits, with all their am
munition, etc. It is said an attempt was
made to re with them upon the aggressors
but that they were found loaded with sand.
Scarcely was the garrison disarmed when
the invaders placed guards on the river
bank, who allowed no one to pass without
first robbing him of whatever valuables he
might have. Two American citizens, who
were acquainted with the officers, succeeded
in getting protection for some families se
creted in a store, by means of a guard,
enabling them subsequently to cross over
to Clarksville, but were unable to prevent
them being completely stripped of all they
had. The very one who most contributed
to the safety of those persons was himself
despoiled, despite his claims as an Ameri
can, of his gold watch and chain and every
thing else he happened to have about him.
As soon as the first discharges were heard
the gunboat Antonia got up steam, but,
before she could move, was twice attacked.
though without success. Presently she
went up to Matamoras, the bearer of the
news of the Bagdad disaster. It appears
that an Austrian and a Frenchman were
killed on board. Two or three Austrians
found in the town were cruelly murdered.
The Mexicans did not take any part in the
robberies and murders, which were exclu
sively the work of the United States folks,
commanded by American officers. It ap
pears it was the steamer Rio Grande, In
charge of the United States Customs au
thorities, which carried over the troops for
the first attack. Afterwards the steamer
Prince of Wales was employed to carry
troops to and fro and transport the plunder.
The liberals' (Mexicans) residing in Bag
dad made common cause with the Ameri
cans, and it is asserted that 'all the authori
ties of the place were accomplices. After
the sack commenced the work of vengeance
and murder,"
The particulars of the second letter,that of
the 15th, were given to the writer by a gen
tleman doing business in Bagdad, who was
compelled to conceal himself daring a period
of six days, and who witnessed all that was
described. He is the person alluded to as
Mr. L. Here is the letter:
”Mr. M. L., a friend of the imperial
regintel, and whom Foster and his people
threatened with death, has been six days
concealed in Bagdad, and owes his salvation
to the captain (a Spaniard) of the American
steamer Eugenia, who afforded him the
means of leaving larksville, and also to
the captain of a Swedish brigantine who put
him on board this vessel. [The writer pro
bably alludes to a French vessel of war, on
board of which he wrote the present letter.]
Mr. L. succeeded in' getting out of Bagdad
with the aid of Colonel Hall, who demanded
his carriage in return for the service ren
dered. Mr. L. told him he might take it:
but the prudent colonel required from him
a receipt in which he should declare that he
had sold the carriage at two hundred dol
lars,The carriage had cost four hundred
and fifty dollars in New York.
The colonel also demanded the horses, but
another officer of the United 'States Army,
Major Sears, had already appropriated
them, with fewer scruples, as well as a
silver mounted saddle, worth three hundred
and fifty dollars. All that Mr. L. possessed
in Bagdad wss taken from him—furniture,
merchandise, money, books and , papers- 7 -
everything in his house.
Mr. L. thinks the first attack, which gave
the enemy possession of the town, was made
by about one hundred soldiers, who crossed
MEXICO.
the river opposite the guard, in front of the
last stores in Bagdad. A Mexican known
by the name of "Coahuila" directed the at
tack against the post, which was surprised,
with the loss of the sentinel and another
killed, and two wounded. The remainder
surrendered, with the exception of three,
who shouted "Viva Mejia!" and who were
sent over to Clarksville.
The house of the commandant, Rico, was
taken pbssession ofby American officers and
colored soldiers, who. spoke English only,
and declared Rico a prisoner of the United
States.
The officers, Reed, Sears, St. Clair and
Lumberton, accompanied by others, and at
the head of some fifty men, threw them
selves on the barracks, surprising the guard.
The trumpeter was killed in the act of
sounding the alarm. Six Mexican soldiers
were killed; the garrison, which amounted
to two hundred men, was confined in the
municipality , building, and intrusted to a
guard of United States troops. As soon as
Escobedo arrived he ordered them to be set
at liberty. They were immediately stripped
of their uniforms and permitted to go over
to Clarksville, being informed at the same
time that they must incorporate themselves
with the liberal troops at Brownsville. Mr.
L. thinks they have remained faithful to
their flag, and at the first opportunity will
return to the side of General Mejia.
The police, subaltern employes, and Mexi
cans of the l&west class, joined he enemy.
Lieut. Saavedra, with the French pilot who
was in Bagdad, went to Matamoras on
board the gunboat Antonia. The son of Don
Antonia Lirna was set at liberty by the
Liberal Colonel Garcia, on giving security
in the sum of $1,200, fbr which an American
named Bondouh.quie is responsible.
The highwayman Foster, having been set
at liberty on the taking of the barracks,
ordered a gun to be placed behind Mr. G.'s
store and commenced the attack on the An
tonia. The aggressors were esconced in the
store and neighboring houses. It is said
they fired two shots. The first, intended for
the wheel, passed over the stern; the second
struck under the wheelhouse, within two
feet of the boilers. After the attack eight
negro soldiers were found dead in the store,
and ft is supposed several were wounded.
After the Antonia refired the pillaging
commenced, soldiers and towns people tak
ing part in it together. At about eight
o'clock some one hundred and fifty negro
soldiers, commanded by General Weitzel,
arrived in Bagdad 'to protect property.'
Certain itis that their first care was to pil
lage like the rest, under the direction of their
officers. The vandals broke down doors
and strewed the streets with effects of all
kinds, while those who endeavored to oppose
them were ill-treated or :murdered. A
Frenchman, named Roque, was killed, and
his wife infamously outraged. Other ladies
met the same fate, and two of them paid re
sistance with their lives. Judge Holongo
was murdered by a negro, and Judge Cer
vera was required by Major Sears to pay him
two hundred dollars as a ransom for his life;
but he was satisfied to take one hundred
dollars, which was given him by the lady.
Some twenty American ofticershad passed
the night in Bagdad, and from the first took
part in murdering and sacking. Ex-Colonel
North played a prominent part. Other
Colonels in active service made themselves
equally:con.spicuous—among them Fitzpat
rick, Hall, Davis and Hudson. The last
named officer signed passes to Clarksville,
headed thus, 'Headquarters of United States
in Bagdad,' and commanded the 'saviours'
under the orders of General Weitzel.
Americana alone manages the guns on
the 6th. They fortified the heights and lake
shore, in order not to be interrupted in their
work of pillage. That was a complete
house moving, everything ; even to stoves,
tables, benches, &c., having been carried off.
It was feared that the houses would have
been given to the flames after they had been
emptied.
All the stolen effects were carried to
Clarksville in sailboats, rowboats and
steamers, and even to White Ranch, whence
they- were sent by railroad to Brazos or in
wagons ;to Brownsville. Vessels have al
ready left Brazos laden with the products of
the sack. The American officers have
purses well provided with gold, and no one
in Clarksville cares for greenbacks. Various
French refugees in Clarksville have
claimed merchandise bearing their marks,
though not their names; but their preten
sions have been ridiculed. There are forty
rive barrels of wine there belonging to one.
Don Manuel L.
Very few Mexicans remain in Bagdad.
They understand that the work has not been
done for their interest.
Colonel Mejia is now Military Command
ant for Juarez in Bagdad, and the outlaw,
St. Clair, is Captain of the Port and Presi
dent of the Prize Court. Escobedo re
mained a very few hours in Bagdad. Corol
lary : 'The town of Bagdad has been seized,
sacked and 'defended' by colored soldiers
of the United States, led by United States
officers. The act is monstrous, and justifies
any one in asking if we are really living
in the nineteenth century."
TERRIBLE TORNADO IN GEORGIA,
A NUMBER OF LIVES LOST.
A House Raised From Its Foundations
and Blown Off, &c.
A correspondent, writing from Newbern,
Georgia, gives the particulars of a tornado
of unparalleled fury. One woman was
blown a distance of four hundred yards,
her house was found one hundred yards
distant from the foundation of the house,
fragments of which fell six miles distant—
the writer says :
The tornado struck the earth in two col
umns—a little to the rear and immediately
to the right and left of the Rev. J. L. K.
Smith's dwelling and converging to a
point correspondent to the course of the two
clouds before rriptioned, joined their forces
from fifty to seventy-five yards distant, and
then, with united volume, swept northward
to the tannery of James H. Robinson,where
after demolishing the bark mill and un
roofing another building, it left the earth—
leaving its future course to be known only
by scattered garments and fragments of
wood droPped miles afifiray. Thu , the whole
compass of its visible ravages is comprised
within an area not exceeding two hundred
yards in width and half a pile in length.
The track of its chief violence is even much
narrower than this.
Scarcely a tree is left
.standing whers i
passed—of the fallen onei, some lie at every
point of the compass. This fact may be at
tributable to the general rush of the winds
from the four quarters of the heavens or the
whirl afterwards. But it is not my purposa
to philoaophize—if I could—l only ',state
facts. Suffer me .to say, however, that tt
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DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS.
this imperfect sketch should meet the 'eye
of the 'venerable Dro.Mans,l hope it will be
consistent both with his pleasure and his
convenience to favor your numerous read
ers with his views upon these remarkable
and fearful phenomena of the winds. But
,the general rush of winds was northward—
as evidenced by the drift of timbers and the
bodies of the dead. The whirling nature of
the winds is manifested by the debris scat
tered upon either hand. As to the direct
force of the wind, I give for the present, one
noteworthlinstance
A green oaken board, after being carried
some three or four hundred yards, was
driven to the depth of seven inches into the
cleft of a white oak; as if with a maul swung
with giant power. In the immediate track
of the storm the rain fell in torrents, while
outside of it, at least for any distance, there
was but little, and the ground over which
the fury of the tornado passed is covered
over withriftsi, such as are usually tube seen
upon, the banks of running streams after
great freshets. These are the prominent
characteristics of both the hurricane and
tornado blended in this wonderful phenom
enon of nature. Some also represent it as
having been attended by a glowing appear
ance; but few saw it, passing, as it did, with
almost cannon ball velocity.
Every outbuilding through the entire
course of the, tornado from the point of first
attack—beginning with barn and stables of
the Rev. Mr. Smith—was sweptaway, some
of them to their very foundations. The
Same is Vie of fencings. In one case, where
there was a lane, the rails were heaped pro
miscuously between the two. Of the four
dwellings occupied by white families, only
one, that of Mr. Joseph Finney, was left
standing, roof broken in and shattered.
Outside of the main channel, the house of
Mr. Becland was damaged by flying tim
bers. The building occupied by Mrs. Moss
was carried away to the floor, which was
literally covered with the debris of chim
neys and the tops of fallen trees; yet of the
seven in the house at the time, all escaped
with life save one, youngest son of Mrs.
Lucy Jones. Dink Moss, J. Wyatt, Jr.,
Lucy and Nancy Jones bady Injured, par
ticularly the first named. Strange to say,
a child of Mrs. Nancy Jones crawled from
beneath a fallen tree with hardly a scratch.
The kitchen was occupied by Burrel Bin
ford (colored) and his wife and another
woman. Of these, Burrel was blown to a
distance of fifty yards, and killed. His
wife was severely injured. She was
carried twice in the air, and says she saw
fragments of timber flying thick as leaves
in an autumnal gale.
The dwelling of Dr. James H. Mont
gomery was lifted friam its foundations,
turned over and dashed to pieces. Himself
and wife were severely injured; little
daughter slightly; his son escaped un
harmed.
But the residence of Mr. J. C. Bailey suf
fered most, both as to itself and inmates,
Mr. Bailey being found dead at the distance
of a hundred yards, and his wife at the dis
tance of three or four hundred yards. This
building encountered the fiercest assault of
the tornado, and was better calculated to
test its strength than either of the others
mentioned, being new, large, and built of
heavy materiai,but was as a feather before it.
Its slighter material, such as roofing plank
ing, Fash and window blinds, were carried
far away, showers of their fragments falling
six miles and more distant. Even of its
heaviest timbers, few were "left near its
former site, many of them being thrown to
a distance of hundreds of yards, one in
particular, a foundation sill forty or fifty
feet long and some twelve inches square,
passed above some buildings, two hundred
yards distant, and fell in a street in a broken,
shivered condition. A reasonable supposi
tion is, that this building, containing its
doomed occupants, was lifted up from its
foundations entire, and torn to fragments
as hurried on by the whirling storm.
Facts and Fancies.
The Boston Post gives the following two
items, consecutively:
"Josh Billings" is on his way through
Massachusetts, and we advise every one
who has an opportunity to hear his lectures
to do so.
A precocious pair of 14 and 15 slimmers
respectively residing in Baltimore, took it
into their heads to get married, which they
did, and started for' Washington. The pa
rents followed and found the youth selling
papers and the girl sewing for a clothing
store, both happy as cooing doves.
The peculiarity of the thing is the prox
imity of the "Billings" to the "cooings."
Two commissioners have just taken their
departure for Mexico in order to carry to
the Empress Charlotte the property which
she inherited from the late King Leopold.
Kis said to amount to twenty millions of
francs, but the Empress will only receive
the interest of that sum—the late King
having placed the capital in such a way
that it cannot be touched. Maximilian
would be glad to place his capitai in the
same way if he could.
Seven prisoners have just.escaped from
Sing Sing. This makes fifteen or twenty
who have larykert jail there within a month
or two. "Sing-Sing" is,apparently a com
position without bars, and its score seems
to have been left out.
A perfect riot of enthusiasm greeted Mll'e.
Patti in Marseilles. Her bonnet was seized
and divided into shreds as keepsakes.
What brutes ! It is said that when the poor
girl complained that her bfain was whirling
round with fright at the loss of her bonnet,
one of the wretches coolly remarked, "Elle
cc besoin d'un moulin !"—"she needs a
milliner !"
Naples is recovering its old gaiety, now
that the cholera has disappeared. The only
place in Italy that did not lose its gaiety
was Gaeta itself.
A$ deaf mute passed his examination as an
attorney at the recent term of Court at
Toronto. He will never be able to deceive
a jury, as he will have to show his hand
whenver he addresses them.
MERE is a great scarcity of vessels at
Richmond. and freights abundant.
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