A. J. GEkRITSON, Publisher.}
smart IN .11ASSACRUSETTS.
We owe to Mr. George H. Moore, the
Librarian of the New York Historical So
ciety, many thanks for the masterly and
merciless exposure which he has just pub
lished of the impudent and utterly un
founded assertions of Mr. Charles Sum
net, that " titi person was ever born a
s lave on the soil of Massachusetts"
Not only has Mr. Moore unhorsed Sum
ner and brought all his pretensions of his
toric veracity to grief; but he has punc
tured in many places the gaseous volumes
wherein Professor John Gorham Palfry
has glorified the holy horror of those bo
gus saints, the "Puritan Fathers," to
MAC in human flesh."
The peculiar value of Mr. Moore's "His
tory o f Slavery in Massachusetts" con
sists in the calm, dispassionate way in
which he dissects and utterly annihilates
all the ' omarice With — whinh New England
writers have surrounded those hard,harsh,
cruel, truculent adventurers, bigots and
sanctimonious hypocrites, whose landing
at Plymouth Rock should ever be regard
ed. as an irreparable calamity, like the ap
pearance of the small-pox among the In
dians and the rinderpest among the Eng
lish cattle.
If the ruling passion of the early set
tlers in Massachusetts was not burning
witches and persecuting all, those who
differed from them in religious faith, it
certainly was the enslavement - of human
beings. The array of evidence collected
by Mr. Moore from the early records,
statutes e ordinanees and annals of the Mas
sachusetts Puritans, renders Lids fact in;
disputable. Immediately after their land
ing at Plymouth Rock, and before they
were strong enough to reduce the Indi
ans to slavery, they sold 'White offenders
against their code of barbarous Blue
Laws into slavery, perpetual and tempo
rary. After their famous raid upon a
slumbering Peqnod town, the enslave
ment of Indians became a regular busin
ess with - the Saints.
From the accounts of the Colony of
Massachusetts for receipts and expendi-
tures of an Indian war commencing 1745,
and ending in 1746, Mr. Moore finds
among the credits the following humane
item :
By one hundred and eighty
eight prisoners sold into
captivity, £397 13s. 4d."
At that time the people of Massachu
setts, the African kings and the—Alger
ines—were the only barbarians engaged
in the export of slaves. The puritan fa
thers sent off ship load after ship load of
Indian captives to foreign countries.
In the " Plymouth Record," vol v., p.
173, in August, 1675, there is an order
the sale in "foreign conntryes" of " one
hundred and twelve Indians." The ac
counts of the "Treasurer. of ye Colinie"
give us most interesting statistics of the
extent of this traffic of the "elect of God'
in human flesh.
In September, 1678, one handled and
seventy-eight " prisoners of war" were
pat on board a vessel commanded by
- Captain Sprague and sold into Spaine."
A humane Puritan named Elliot petition
ed the Council to*op this Iraffic, but his
petition was utterly disregarded and the
traffic flourished.
Io MEI one hundred and fifty Indians
came in and volnntati'y surrendered them
selves, praying mercy of the Puritans,hut
they wore " sowld for slafez," remarks
Easton in his "Relation," and they were
"shipped out of ye conntrie."
The wife and child of the most celebra-
ted of Indian Kings—we allude to Phillip
of Mount 'Hope—were sent to the West
Indies and sold. The Indian princess was
the daughter of good old Massasoit, the
first and best friend of the Puritans in
New England, whose faithful friendship
saved the Plymouth Colony from deitrtic
tion upon more than one occasion. This
fact Edward Everett states in one of Lis
orations. Finally the Christian nations
to whom these captives wtre sent refns'd
to buy them, and a cargo of North Amer
ican Indians were sold by the Puritans of
Massachusetts to an African prince. This
was carrying the slave-trade into Africa
with a vengeance.
Mr. Moore devotes forty-eight pages of
elaborated history to the traffic which
the Puritans carried on for nearly_ ball a
century, in Indian captives, the preachers
and elders writing long and sanctimoni
ous arguments to prove that they were
trafficking in human - flesh in strict accord
ance with the "will of God !"
One of "Ye Saints" in 1637 coveting
an Indian prisoner of war, proposes to
buy the chattel, after the following char
acteristic fashion :
"It having again pleased the Most
High to put into"your bands another
miserable drove of Adam's degenerate
Reed [meaning Pequod prisoners of war,]
I am bold to request one of the children.
I have fixed mine eye on thislittle one
With the red about his neck,but I will not
be particular about my choice."
One of the early Winthrops, in 1131,
also claiming a share of the spoils of a
midnight foray upon some Indian village,
writes
"Air. Endeeott and myself isalotk' :You
in the Lord Jesam. We have heard of a
dividance of women and children in the
Bay, and would be glad of a share, viz : a
young woman and a girl, and a boy if you
think good. I wrote to you for some
boyes for Burmudas, which I think is con
siderable."
This exemplary gentleman was in the
foreign trade it would seem.
Emanuel Downing, who married into
the Winthrop family, and who settled in
Massachusetts as early as 1538,in writing
to John Winthrop in - 1648, furnishes a
most luminous illustration of the
views of the Puritan fathers on - the sub.
jest of human slavery. Ile says :
" A war with ye Narragansett(lndians)
is verie considerable to this plantation,for
I doubt whether it be not a synne in us,
having power in our hands, to suffer them
to mayntane ye worship of ye devil',
which they doe. If upori a just warre the
Lord should deliver them into our hands,
we might easily have men, women and
children enough to exchange for Moors
(negrces,) which will be more gaynfut
pillage for us than we conceive, for I doe
not see how we can - thrive until we gets
into a stock of slaves, sufficient to do our
business. 1 suppose you know very well
how we shall mayntan'e twenty Moors
cheaper than one English servante. The
sbipp that. shall bring the Moors may
come home laden with salt, which may
beare most. of the chardge." .
Here we have a direct proposition to
ship to Afi lea Indian captivts, and bring
back a cargo'of more docile slat es, to help
the &anti; work tint their destiny as the
elect of the Lord.
Mr. Moore shows that in the "New
England Magna Charm," the Body of
Liberties of 1641, the Puritan fathers le
galized the enslavement of " captives ta
ken in just wars, (they never engaged in
' unjust war,') and of such strangers
i ii
(meaning negroes) as were sold to t em."
slavery, as it existed in Massache
tts,
was, we hesitate not to say, the most
shocking, brutal and inhuman ever prac
ticed upon this continent. Had the au-
thoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin laid the
see' e of her libelous romance in Massa
chusetts, in the seventeenth century, it,
would have been true to nature.
- Mr. Moore, to show what negro slavery
really was in- 1639, quotes - the following
passage from Josselyn's account 'of his
voyage to New England :
" About 9 o'clock of the morning Mr.
Maverick's negro woman came to my
chamber window, and in her own conn
trie language and tune sang very loud and
shrill. I understood she had been a queen
in her own countrie, and observed a very
dutiful and humble garb used towards
I er by another negro, who was her maid:
Mr. Maverick, who was desirous to have
a breed of negroes, and, therefore, seeing
she would not keep company with a ne
gro man he had in the house, he comman
ded Lim swill she nill she' to lie with her!
Which was no sooner attempted than
she kicked him out again ; and this she
took in highe disdain, and was the cause
of her grief."
Refreshing commentary this upon the
manners and morals of the "Saints."
Many of the Puritans were not as prow
ident as the "chaste and godly" Mr. Mav
erick, for Mr. Moore says that generally
" negro children were considered as an
encumbrance in a New England family,
and were given away like puppies."
Of the morals, manners, and hideous
condition of the Massachusetts negroes,
decency forbids us to say anything more,
but the pages of Mr. Moore's history are
replete with facts which show that their
condition was infinitely worse than it has
ever been at the South.
The work before us clearly demon
strates that both Sumner_and Paltry have
falsified history in their Aeclaration that
"no slave was ever born on the soil of
Massachusetts."
In 1773, the Supreme Court of Massa
chusetts declared that a negro born in
New England was the slave of the owner
of his mother. So, at a later day,in 1790,
it was decided by the - same,tribunal that a
certain negro in, the Province, in Wex.
barn, was a slave from 1765 to 1776,when
she was freed by a special deed of eman
cipation. - Three , years later the !Mee
Conti anti the saine judges; by an' unaiii
mous opinion, held a.nem girl born in
the Province to :have heel,/.the, lawful
slave of a citizen.
Ample evidence "can be found in many
portions of Mr. Mode's work, that the
children of slaves were actually held and
taken to be slaves, theproperty of the
owner of the niother, liable to be sold and
transferred like any other chattels, and
held as assets in the hands of executors
and administrators.
With a cruelty . which nothing but the,
truth of history justifies, Mr. Moore tree,
oes the orig,inal fugitive slave law in the
Federal Constitution to-" Articles of Con
federation of Near Englind of May 19th,
1.643,"- which " Confederation," while it
was, in the language of those who framed
it, intended 'prineipally . to "advance the
Kingdom of our Lord Jean's Christ, and
to.enjoy the Gospel in puritie," also
,took
good care to provide:for the "recovery of
the fugitive negro slaves. The Saints, in
their,articlee of confederation which pro:
vide for tbe'lpudition of - slavea,b`senten
tionsly.reniark 'that "such servant-is part
MONTROSE,. PA., TUESDAY, ; JUNE 12, 186 a.
of the master's estate,
and far more con
siderable part than abeaste."
In the early days of Massachusetts,
when Ole " Saints" solemnly re-enacted
the lawei,of Moses, they attempted to jus
tify all of their cold-blooded and atrocious
misdeeds towards the Indians and ne
groes. Then they dwelt, as Mr. Moore
shows,with great delight upon the justifi
cation of negrd slavery by, the Old Testa
meat, and insisted that it wa§ a divine in
stitution.. We find a reference in the vol
ume before ns to many of their scriptural
arguments. Here are a few of, them :
1. "These oßlaeltantores are of the ,pos
terity of Chant, and therefore are under
the curse of slavery."—[Genesis ix. 25,
20, 27.
2. " The niggers are bro't out of a Pa
gan country into places where the Gospel
is wholesomely preached."
3. " The Africans have wars one with
another, Our shipi bring lawfull captives
taken in these wars."
In the tax laws of Massachusetts " ne
groes and Indians are rated with brutes."
Mr. Moore gives us a notable argument
of Judge Sewell, in 1716, to prevent the
discontinuance of so revolting a classifica
tion.
"It has been asserted,"says Mr. Moore,
"that in Massachusetts the, miseries of
slavery were mitigated," but the record
does not bear out the suggestion, and the
traditions of , the town at least preserve
the memory of the most barbarous and
brutal of all, "raising slaves for the mar
ket."
The first newspaper published in New
England illustrates among their adver
tisements the most hideous features of
slavery, as it existed among the most re
morseless adventurers, who, even in the
name of God, practiced innumerable vices
and crimes.
The ath:ertisements in the New Eng
land papers relating to the negro slaves
are exceedingly curious. Negro men,wo
men and children are mixed tip in the ad
vertisement with sales of wearing appar
el, gold watches and other goods. " Ve
ry good Baibadoes rum" is, offered-with
" a young negro who has had the small-,
pox," and competitors offer "likely negro
men and women just arrived:' "Negro
men and new negro--bona -rm Lave-been
in the Colony some time," and also " just
arrived a third parcel of negro boys and
girls." A " likely negro wench" is also
advertised for sale, " with a child six mo.
old, to be sold together or apart," and "a
likely negro man taken by execution, to
be sold by auction at the noyalExchange
Tavern at six o'clock this afternoon,"
concludes these extracts.
The length of this article constrains us
to leave much the larger portion of Mr.
Moore's history of slavery, as practiced
among the Puritans, unnoticed.
It is a wonderful and startling record
of the horrors and terrors of slavery as it
was practiced for more than a century in
Massachusetts and other New England
States.
Base Ball.
This game is a great invention. It is
easily understood. All you have to do
is to keep your eye on the ball.
It's all about a ball.
They also use a bat. Tho bat is a club
built on the model of the club Barnum
killed Captain Co , k with. This is why
the organization is called a club.
One fellow takes a club on a line, and
another stands in front of him, and fires
the ball back at him.
The chap with the club hits back.
The ball flies in the other direction.
The first fellow drops the'club as tho'
he was scared, and ruins like a pick pock
et with an M. P. after him.
Several fellows run after the ball; some
body catches it and fires it at somebody
else, when the chap who had the club
stops running. •
Another fellow then takes the club and
the same man who is called " pitcher,"
pitches on him, fires the ball at him, and
he bits back, knocks the ball, drops his
club and cuts his stick for the first base.
Half a dozen fellows out on picket duty
scramble for the ball.
One reliable B. B. is posted behind the.
dub man, in case the club man misses the
ball, to see that it don't go by and hit the
Umpire. .
When one side is out the other side
goes, in, and when both sides are out, it is
called an innings.
It is quite an intelligent game, depen
ding entirely on the use of your legs. The
first principle of the game is running.
When you are " in" you run away from
the ball; when you are " out" you run
after it.
It is splendid exercise; keeps ,yon so
warm, consequently is always played in
the summer time.
—General- Cass's health has recently
improved very rapidly, and he is now bet.
ter than for some-time past.
—There is now on record in the Conn
ty, Clerk's office in Newark, New Jersey,
a document upon which there are revenue
stamps amounting -4011,9 U.
—Louis A. Colin has been held to an-
swer for embezzling $.42,000 of .the funds
of Duncan, Sherman J C0.,.0f New York,
and has been locked up to await, invest'?
gation.
A GRAND OLD POEM.
Who shall judge a man from manners ?
Who shall know him by his dress?
Paupers may be tit for princes,
Princes at for something less.
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket •
May bec,lotbe the golden ore •
Of the deepest thoughts and feelings—
Satin vest could do no more.
There are springs of crystal nectar
Ever, wolling out of stone ;
There•are purple buds and golden
Hidden, crushed, and overgrown.
God, Who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me,
While he values thrones the highest
But as pebbles in the sea.
Man, upraised above his fellows,
Oft forgets his fellow men ;
Masters, rulers, lords, remember,
Theyour meanest kind are men--
Men of labor, men of feeling,
Men by thought, and men by fame,
Claiming equal right to sunshine,
In a man's ennobling name.
There are foam-embroidered oceans, '
There are little sparkling rills,
There arc feeble inch-high saplings,
There are cedars on the hills ;
God, who Counts by souls, not station,
Loves and prospers poi and me,
For to Rim all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone are builders
Of s nation's wealth or fame ;
Titled laziness is pensioned,
Fed, and fattened on the same;
By the sweat of others' foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor man's outraged freedom
Vainly lifted up its voice.
Truth and justice are eternal,
Born With loveliness and light,
Secret wrongs shall trever prosper
While there is a• sunny right;
God, whose world-heard voice is singing
Boundless love to you and me,
Sinks oppression with its titles,
As the pebbles in the sea.
„Traveling in . Brazil.
urn - Orz - iremek oil i llOfidaymorning
when we left the unbearably hot city of
Rio, drove to the harbor, and went ou
board of a little steamer about as large as
a common size railroad car. The day was
hot, but the sky was clouded so that we
were at least protected against the burn
ing rays of the sun.
In an hour's time we were steamed
across the splendid Bay of Rio, for Pe
troplis, situated on the opposite side.
The Bay of Rio is so large that it contains
several hundred islands. We passed a
great number of them. Some were cov
ered with luxuriant vegetation, and hou
ses are scattered here and there near the
shore, or are partly visible through the
beautiful green of the tropical trees; oth
ers again consist only of bare rocks. A
magnificent spectacle is presented by
these rocks. Great, gigantic, smooth
stones, one laid upon the other, hanging
over the water, as if the hand of man had
placed them there with great art and dili
gence. The boat had left Rio at 3 o'clock
we reached the opposite shore. We im
mediately entered the railroad cars, and
L I rode for about half an hour at a terrible
rate of speed through a low wooded coun
try, sometimes seeing uncultivated prai
ries, covered with broad leafed grass sev
en feet high, and sometimes fine fields,
planted with corn and sugar cane.
The cars stopped at the foot of a moun
tain, seemingly as high as the clouds. I
wondered how we could possibly ascend
to such a height. We, however, entered
a heavy wagon, and four strong mules
dragged us along. The road which lead
to Petropolis is a truly astonishing and in
teresting work of art. It is so
wide that two wagons can easily pass
at the same time. It is as smooth as a
macadamized road, and is protected on
one side by a wall which is continued up
to the summit. Every traveler who vis
its Rio ought to see this wonderful road.
During the assent of the mountain a con
tinuation of new views delights the oye of
the traveler; the most magnificent wa
terfalls, murmuring rivulets, majestic
trees, and the rich green of tropical 'vege
tation.
After the lapse of an hour—about half
warup—the mules were changed, and we
had, in the forest solitude,, the pleasing.
view of a little farm house. Before the
door stood a young .German and his wife.
The latter bore in her arms a little light
haired child. After a short delay we pro
ceeded onward; before long we had the
lower stratum of clouds beneath us, and
the world seemed to be covered with a
large white vail. At last the summit was
gained, and the suprised eyes of our, little
party looked upon a new world.
Here, high above the clouds, a peaceful
valley lay before us. On both sidesof the
road .stood neat, clean looking -houses,
stireNtitinded by gardens :filled with the
most fragrant flowers: This 'valley is de.
A4ted' so highC above 'the earth, that it al.
Most Seems as if nothing could' disturb
its' quiet and peace. '” • • • -
'The land upon Which -Petropolis was
built formerly belonged to the Emperor.
When the German colonists arrived every,
one of them received a piece of laud,.for
which they had to pay afimpll yearly, sum
of money to the government. All the
people hero have fresh, healthy looking
complexions, even consumptive patients;
who come to this place from Rio, find the
location to their advantage. The air is
always mild, fresh and moist.; we could
feel its beneficial effects upon the system
after the first twenty four hours of our
stay here. 'if we' expose ourselves to the
rays of the sun, we, 'of course, feel it, as a
Brazilian sun is always felt ;‘, but a fresh.
breeze is most always blowing, so. that,
we cannot at all complain of heat in the
shade and inside of the house. In the
morning the weather is always fine; in the
afternoon, however, rain falls regularly.
The morning hours, are, consequently,
mostly selected for walking out. We get
here good, fresh, hard butter, while the
same article in Rio is put on the table in
a liquid state.. This little colony seems to
be quite a paradise; it has all the advan
tages of the most favored places on earth.
Last Sunday we Avent to church, for the
first time since we left home. . . How How un
utterably happy we felt whenwe heard
the words of hope and confidence which
the venerable preacher uttered. They
greatly comforted us and assured us that
the Lord is near us everywhere, even on
the remote mountains of Brazil.
Alpine Cookery---A Traveler's Innen
:ion.
A paper on , " Switzerland in Summer
and Autumn," - in Blackwood gives an ac
count of accents ofhigh peaks of the Alps,
accomplished under great difficulties and
accompanied by perils which are vividly
described. Ooce, nearly overcome by
fatigue and ready to perish with hunger,
the traveler devised a rare soup, which
seems to have had a magical effect. We
copy his descriptlon.
It was six at night, and dark, when we
got back to the Fatilburg Cave. Oh, the
horror of the last of one hundred and fifty
feet from the
. glacier I I was so knocked
up and shivering with weaknets that I
could not speak, and had to motion the
guides to make me some tea. I had eat
en nothing all the day except a few
prunes, and I felt that I must either eat
or die; bat my stomach revolted at the
- vareurea -- ortue strib - gyTeg ornititton
with which M. Wellig Oad burdened us,
of the tough bread, and of hard eggs,
without salt or pepper, these condiments
having been left on the Jungfrau. A
great effort of gastronomic genius was
necessary, and there luckily came to my.
aid sundry recollections of experience in
another hemisphere. It was necessary, to
make soup, and for that soup I determin
ed to use all the ingredients at my com
mand. I made Marti break the bone of "
the leg of mutton and produce some mar- '
row; then the misanthropic iron pot was
emptied of tea; and here, 0 weak minded
cooks, were th ingredients I put into it;
water, red wine, mutton marrow, bard
eggs, cheese, bread, butter, honey and
prunes. A sort of divine furor—a gas
tronomic inspiration—came over me, so
that the quantity of each ingredient was
most cunningly calculated. Never had I
before tasted, never do I again hope to
taste, such a glorious potage as this Sal
migondis ala Faulberg. It was not hun
ger that supplied the sauce, for I was so
sick and weary that nothing but the most
exquisite food could have roused my ap
petite. The red wine had diffused a warm
fragrance through the whole mesa ; the
cheese of Gruyeres more than supplied the
want of condiment, and some of it had
been burned at the bottom of the pot so
as to give a fine pungent flavor; the mar
row served as the very finest stock, the
mutton and egg bad been cut to tender
ness, and the mellowing honey unity to
the whole. It was not only my eating
which was the proof of this pottage.
Ritz had been looking with ill disguised
contempt at the whole proceeding, and,
when I had finished; took up the pot with
a skeptical leer and tasted the remnant
by aid of a cup, for we had no spoon.
The very first taste, however, wrought ati
entire change in his opinions. Without
saying a single,wo It'd, he looked at Marti
and handed - the pot over to him. Marti
tasted and looked eloquently at Ritz.
Ritz looked at Marti, and straightway,
without exchanging .a, single word, the
two worthies fell to work to make a sim
ilar concoction: lam happy to say their
combined efforts turned out 'a failure.
That could do more htrie been - repeated
than " Paradise Lost" could have been .
re-written. Under its soothing influence,
I was able to sleep the'sleep of innocence;
and peace in my rooky hollow, and did
not wake until morning was far advanced;
and Ritz, whose services were no longer
required, had departed.
To Sum Rum 'Las .—A little car
bon oil, (kerosene,) dropped on will pen.
etrate the thread, and the screw can be
immediately turned
'-Some burglars entered the reSideneo
Of lion. George H. Pendleton; in Cinoin
nati, on 'Tuesday night, while the faMily
were asleep They made themeelv es at
twine; lighted a fire; boiled Setae' 'eggs,
and made coffee; need 'the :Sayer spoons,
and, angular to say; 43141'11'0t steal them.
IVOLUME XXIII, NUMBER 24.
'To be rich,' said Mr. Marcy, formerly ,
Secretary of State, requires only a satis
factory condition of the mind. One man
may be rich with a hundred dollars, while
another, in the possession of millions, may
think himself poor, and as the necessities,
of life are enjoyed by each, it is evident
that the man who is best satisfied with
his possessions is the richer."
To illustrate this idea, Mr. Marcy rela
ted the following anecdote ; 'While I was
Governor of' the Stateof New York,' said
he' I was , called
_upon One "miming, a
my office, by a rough specimen of a back
woodsman, who stalked in, and commenc
ed cifilvecsation by inquiring 'if this was
Mr. Marcy ?'
replied that was m name.'
'Bill Marcy ?' said h e. I nodded as
sent.
'Used to live in Southport, didn't ye 2'
answered in the affirmative and be
gan to feel a little curious to know who
my visitor was, and what be was driiring
at.'
Bow much makes it Nan deb.
'That's what I told 'em,' cried the back
woodsman, bringing his band down on
his thigh with tremendous force : I told
'em you was the same Bill Marcy who
lived in Southport, but they wouldn't be
lieve it, and I promised the next time I
came to Albany to come and see you, and
find out - for sartm. Why, you know me,
don't you Bill ?" , -
'I didn't exactly like to ignore his ac
quaintance altogether, but for the life of
mei I couldn't recollect even having seen
him before; and so I replied that he had a
familiar countenance, but that I was not
able to call him by name.
'My name is Jack Smith,' answered the
backwoodsman, 'and we used to go to
school together, thirty years ago, in the
little red school house in old Southport,
Well, times have changed since then, and
you have become a great. man, and got
rich, I suppose ?'
'I shook my head, and was going to
contradict that impression, when he broke
in :
'Ohl yes you are ; I know you are
rich; no use denying it. Yon was Comp
troller for—for a long time; and the next
time we heard of you, you were Gover
nor. `Von must have a heap of money,
: a_toolLalcui.ofit—glacl to san you get
ting along so smart. Yon was always a
smart lad at school, and I know that you
would come to something.'
thanked him for his good wishes and
opinion, but told him that political life did
not pay so well as he imagined. I sup
. pose, said I, 'fortune has smiled upon you
since you left Southport ?'
'Oh ! yes,' said he; I han't got noth
ing to complain of, I must say I've got
along right smart. You see, shortly af
ter you left Southport, our whole family
moved up into Vermont, and put right
into the woods, and I reckon our family
cut down more trees and cleared more
land than any other in the whole State.'
'And so you have made a good' thing
of it. How much do you consider your-.
self worth ?' I asked, feeling a little cu
rious to know what be considered a for
tune, as he seemed to be so well satisfied
'Well, he replied, dont know exactly
how much I am worth; but I think
(straightening himself up,) if all my debts
were paid; I should be worth three hun
dred dollars clean cash 1' And he was
rich, for he was satisfied'
The Treasury Clerks
Secretary McCulloch has rendered his
report concerning the clerical force of the
Treasury, called for by a recent resolution
of Congress. From this report we learn
that the total number of clerks employed
in the Treasury is 2,005, of which num
ber 439 are females. Of the 1,566 male
clerks, 547 have served in the United
States army, and if the female clerks and
copyists at least three fourths have lost
near relatives during the war. In com
pliance with the instructions of the Presi
dent, the Secretary has appointed muster
ed out and disabled soldiers to positions
wherever practicable. Of 106 watchmen,
messengers, and laborerers, 83 were par
tially disabled in the service.
Negroes for they Offices in the South.
The recent announcement of the Chron-.
icle, that "it did not see why the
.post
offices of the South should go a begging`
while the black element remains in the-
South," seems to have been an anthora
tive utterance of the cabal that , rules Con
gress. For the House Committee has re
ported adversely on the recommendations
of the Secretary of the Treasury and of
the Postmaster General for such a modi
fication of the test oath as will enable
them to supply the small offices'needed at
the South•for the assessment and collec
tion of revenue, and for the diffusion of,
letters, and newspapers among th9.Peo•
Ple•
Newspaper correspondent says
that in Georgia, where Shertnan's army
made a sweep of all the carriages, the la
dies go visiting in cars. They-calls:them
cartes de visite, and console themselves
with the thought that they are in the
height of fashion.
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