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You tar. aO2llllOBll DZIIOCHAT.
A MC XEA OR-s'
Of the Great Struggle between Liberty
and Helmetlsm tbr the last
Hundred Years.
THOMAS JEFFERSON IN FAVOR OF A WHITE
MAN'S GOVERNMENT.
Nearly forty years ago, a female evan
gelist of the Beet formed by Jean Jaques
Rosseau stood up in the Bowery theatre
of the city of New York, and in presence
of an admiring audience, denounced with
bitter scorn the holy, ecripturestof the old
and new testaments, and placing ber hand
on the Declaration of Independence, ex
claimed : " This is my holy Bible—my
text book—the holy Bible of American
Independence, and must soon be the holy
Bible of all the earth."
Americans concede to Thomas. Jeffer
son, the founder of Democracy, the au
thorship of that immortal document enti
tled the Declaration 'i)f . American Inde
pendence. Does the Bible of Thomas Jef
ferson teach the doctrine of negro equali
ty? Did Thomas Jefferson, the Virginia
patriot, anywhere in any of his numerous
writings, assert the equality of the white
and black races ? The Republicans pro
claim to the world that Thomas Jefferson
is the founder of their party ; that he laid
down the principles they have taken up
and carried forward so triumphantly.—
They say that "for any man to stand up
in the latter part of the 19th century and
talk about God Almighty distributing his
favors unequally among men, is_an insult
to Omnipotence, and that they are plac
ing the negroes on an equality with the
white race as Jefferson in his holy Bible"
intended they should be.
Happily_ for America, Jefferson not on
ly indited" his "holy bible," but he was
its expounder and interpreter. Six years
after writing the Declaration of Indepen
dence, the learned Marquis de Bartle:Mar
bois, Secretary of the French Legation,
propounded to him a set of inquiries, and
among the number was one concerning
tlnegro race in America. Did Jeffer.
Roll tell this learned Frenchman that he
intended to place those negroes on a po
litical equality with the white race, and
that he meant the same in the &Clara
tion ? Nay, he unfolds to Count Mar'bois
his plans, in the foym of a bill ibefore the
Virginia Legislature, of gradual emanci
pation and colonization of the black race ;
and of sending to other parts of the world
for an equal number of white inhabitants,
—to induce them to emigrate hither, pro
per egeouragements are to be proposed.
" It, will probably be asked," says the
author of the holy bible of the Republi
cans, " Why not retain and incorporate
the blacks into the State, and thus save
the expense of supplying by importation
of white settlers the vacancies they will
leave ?"
Answer : "Deep-rooted prejudices en
tertained by the whites, ren thousand re
collections by the blacks of the injuries
they have sustained, new provocations,
the real distinctions which nature has
made, and many other circunistances,will
divide us into parties and produce convul
sions, which would probably never end
but in the extermination of one or the oth
er raa•. To these objections, which are
politiml, may be added others, which are
physical and moral. The first difference
which strikes us is that of color. Wheth
er the black of the negro resides in the
reticular membrane betwegn the skin and
the sccof-skin, or in the scarf-skin itself;
whether it proceeds from the color of the
blood, the color of the bile, or from that
of some other secretion, the difference is
fixed in nature, and it is as real as if its
seat and cause were better !mown to us.
And is this difference of no importance ?
Is it not the foundation of a greater or
less share of beauty in the two races?
Are not the fine mixtures of red and
white, the expression of every passion by
greater or less suffusions of color, in the
one, preferable to that eternal monotony
which reigns in the countenances—that
immovable veil of black which covers all
the emotions of the other race?
" Add to these, flowing hair, a more el
egant symmetry of form, and their own
judgment in favor of the whites. The cir
cumstance of superior beauty is thought
worthy of attention in the propagation of
our horses, dogs, and other domestic ani
mals—why not in that of man ? Besides
those of color, figure and hair, there are
other physical distinctions, proving a dif
ference of race. They secrete less by the
kidneys and more by the glands of the
skin, which gives them a very strong and
disagreeable odor. They seem to require
less sleep. A black, after hard labor tbro'
the day, will be induced by the slightest
amusement - to sit up till midnight, or la
ter, though knowing that he must be
out with the first dawn of the morning.—
Their griefs are transient ; those numbei
less afflictions, which render it doubtful
whether Heaven has given life to as iii
mercy or in wrath, are felt less, and soon
er forgotten with them. In general their
existence appears to participate more of
sensation than reflection. To this must
be ascribed their disposition to sleep
when abstracted from their diversions
and unemployed in labor. An animal
whose body is at rest, and who does not,
reflect, must be disposed to deed; of
course.
Comparing them by their faculties of
memory, reason and imagination, it ap
pears to rue that 'in memory they are
equal to the whites; in reason, maeh in
ferior, as I think one could scarcely be
found capable of tracing and comprehend
ing the investigations of Euclid ; and that
in imagination - they are dull and anoma
lous. It would be unfair to follow them
to Africa for this / investigation. We will
consider them here on the same stage
with the whites, and where the facts are
not apocryphal on which a judgment is to
be formed."
tour limits compel a pause in the trea
tise of this great statesman upon the phys
ical differences between the white and
black races. But on .a review of the dis
sertation already given, what facts, Amer
icans, are brought to full light before you?
The first which blazes forth its rays upon
you, is the fact now disputed by the par
ty in power, that the founders of this gov
ernment intended to found and did found
and establish a " White Man's govern
ment"—that the black race were to have
no share therein, but were to be removed
out of the United States, and their places
to be filled with white people from some
other part of the globe. The fact stares
you in the face that Jefferson and all the
patriots of America never intended to in
corporate the blacks into the State, as the
Republicans are now incorporating them;
and that. their assertion that they are car
rying out the principles of Jefferson .or
any other American patriot of 1776, is a
false assertion.
The fact stares you in the face that the
Republican party made war upon the gov
ernment, of our fathers, for the express
purpose of tearing down the "white man's
government," and building up a black
maft's governnient; and that they are
building this government upon falsehoods
and lies, and establishing by the power of
the sword over the white people of the
South, and over the dead bodies of a mil
lion of American people, that very politi
cal equality between the negroes and the
white race, the attempt to do which,
Thomas Jefferden declared would " pro-
duce convulsions, which would probably
never end bat in the extermination of one
or the other race."
Another fact stares you in the face, that
Thomas Jefferson's principles are the
principles which are now stigmatized
by the Republic:Hest as "eolorphobia," a
cure for which was discovered by their
leader, " Doctor Jenner Garrison.' The
color o the negroes is candidly given by
Jefferson as an objection to their being
incorporated into the State or govern
ment. Their " odor" is another objec
tion ; their woolly heads another ; and
besides these—figure, color and hair—he
gives many other " physical distinctions,
proving a difference of race."
The next number will contain the intel
lectual distinctions, given by the author
of the declaration that " all men are crea
ted equal"—explaining to all the world
why the nogroes were farbidden a place
in the American government, which the
Republicans call a "wicked prejudice,"
which' they are driving out of the South
ern people, and curing them thereof by
the medicine discovered by Wm. Lloyd
Garrison, and administering the same
with " bayonets at their throat." And
this history will prove that this warfare
upon the South and upon their " sympa
thizers" in the North, is the wickedest
persecution that has occurred in the an
nals of the world since the days of the Ro-
man Empire.
—A one•legged soldier at Harrisburg,
Pa., who is a mechanic, has a likeness•of
Grant banging in the shop, and every
time the General commits an act showing
himself the guilty tool of the Rump, the
soldier makes a black mark on his face.—
It is needless to say that. Grant's face is
already as black as a negro's.
The Farmer.
How happy is the farmer's toil !
To deck with turf the unsighted soil,
To clothe the glebe with grain,
Even while be sleeps, the busy seed
Doth wake to consummate his deed,
The earth to bless and man to feed ;
Nor shall his hope be vain,
Who walks with Nature and with God
la holy labor, o'er the sod.
&GM:TENET.
—A gentieMan' whO bad been a justice
of the peace for thirty-five' years, was not
allowed to register, in the State of West
Virginia, becanie be purchased a horse
named Stonewall_Jacksoa ; the register
remarking "that he'd be d—d it any
" trooly toil" man would own a horse by
that name."
31.1,7 UM 808 POTATOES. —I will give
you a receipt for raising potatoes, that is
worth the price of your paper for one year
to any farmer that is short of manure. It
is as good as the
. best superphospate of
rime, and it - Will riot cost halt as much, I
haVe tried it two years, and I am satisfied _
that it is gc)tid on dry land. Take one cask
of run ' e atid Black it wish wat er , and Wen
stir in one bushel of filfe salt,. and then
mix in lnatii, enough iso that it will ant
beonine'rinirtar; it will MOO, about five
barrels.' Pig' ball' a pint in *bill, at
planting.—Yesartehuseter Amer.
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1868.
The Gun Powder Plot.
A LEGEND OF 1770
Night bad set in deep, and in a small
log cabin situated a few miles from Tren
ton, N. J., sat five men, four of whom
were seated around an old oaken table in
the centre of the room engaged in playing
cards, while they frequently moistened
their throats with large draughts from an
old earthen jug that stood on the table.
They were heavily bearded, coarse look
ing men, and from their dress, which
somewhat resembled the British uniform
they were evidently Tories. The other
was a stout built young man, clad in the
continental uniform. He sat in one cor
ner of the room with his face buried in his
hands.
"Tom," said one of the Tories, rising
from the table and seating himself near the
prisoner, for such he evidently was, "Tom,
you and I were school boys together, and
I like you yet. Now, why can't you give
up your wild notions and join us ? You
are onr prisoner, aad if you don't we shall
hand you over to headquarters to morrow,
while if you join us your fortune is made,
for with your bravery and talents you will
soon distinguish yourself in the royal ar
my, and if this rebellion is carried out,
your cause would be rewarded by a knight
hood and promotion in the army. Now
there are two alternatives; which do yon
choose ?"
"Neither," said the young man, raising
his head and looking the Tory steadily in
the eye.
"I am now, as yon say, your prisoner,
but when the clock strikes twelve I shall
leave you; I shall disappear in a cloud of
fire and smoke, and neither you nor your
comrades, nor even myself can prevent it.
Yon may watch me as closely as you
please, tie me hand and foot if you will,
but a higher power than yours or mine has
ordained that I shall leave you at that
time."
" Poor fellow, his mind wanders," said
the Tory; he'll talk differently in the mor
ning." And he returned to his seat at the
table, leaving the youth with his head res
ting in his hands.
When the clock struck eleven, the
young prisoner drew a pipe and some to
bacco from hispocket, and asked the To
ry leader if he - bad any objection to his
smoking. " None , in the least," he said,
adding with a laugh—" that is, if you'll
promise not to disappear in a cloud of to
bacco smoke."
The young man made no reply, but im
mediately filled and lighted his pipe; hav
ing done which, he arose and commenced
pacing the floor.
He took half a dozen turns up and
down each side of the room, approaching
nearer the table each time, when, having
exhausted his pipe, be returned to his seat
and refilled it.
He continued to smoke until the clock
struck twelve, when he arose from his seat
and slowly knocking the ashes from his
pipe, said :
"There, boys, it's twelve o'clock, and I
must leave von. Good bye !"
Immediately all around the room
streaks of pre ran hissing and squirming;
the cabin was filled with dense, sulphu
rous smoke amidst which was heard a clap
of thunder. The Tories sat in their chairs
paralyzed with fright.
The smoke soon cleared away, but the
prisoner was no where to be seen. The
table was overturned, the window was
smashed to pieces,and one chair was ly
ing on the ground outside of the building.
The Tory leader, after recovering from
his stupor, gave one glance around the
room and sprang oat of the window, fol
lowed by his comrades. They ran . Oro'
the forest at the top of their speed, in the
direction of the British encampment, leav
ing their muskets and other arms to the
mercy of the flames, which bad now begun
to devour the cabin.
The next day two young men, dresSed
in continental uniform, were seen standing
near the rains of the old cabin. One was
talking of the night previous. " Let ns
hear all about it, Tom," said the other.
" Well," said be, " last evening as I was
passing this place, two Tories ran out of
the cabin and took possession of me. Be
fore I could make any resistancethey took
me io, and who do you suppose I saw as'a
leader Of their party but John Barton, our
old school mate. He talked with me, and
tried to induce me to join them; but I told
them I couldn't do it; that at twelve o'-
clock I was going to escape, disappear in s
cloud of fire and smoke; but he laughed
at.me, and said I was out of my head.
" About eleven o'clock Laslied him if I
might smoke. He said he bad no objec
tion; so I filled my pipe and lighted it,
and commenced walking the floor. I had
;lout a pound of gunpowder in my pock
et, and as I walked I strewed it all over
the floor. When the clock struck twelve
I bid them good bye, and told them I had
to go; and then knocking the ashes out of
my pipe, the powder ignited, and a daz
zling flame of fire shot across, around, and
all over the room, filling it with suffoca
ting smoke. Before it cleared away I
hurled a chair through the window, sprang
out and departed, leaving them to their
own reflections. Yon know the rest."
—Aleby is dancing Eke milk P Because
it strengthens the eaves.
Indian Corn.
The corn crop is by far the most valua
ble one grown in the country. It is cul
tivated over a larger extent of territory,
thrives well under various degrees of lati
tude and returns more money to the' agri
cultural community than any other cereal.
How important, then, that the land on
which it is cultivated be mechanically and
chemically prepared—draining and sub
soiling—deep, thorough ploughing, abun
dance of manure; then the seed put in at
the right time, in a proper manner, and
the after culture timely and thorough.
The Spring has been late, but a season
able time for corn planting in the Middle
and New England States, is from the
tenth to the twenty fifth of May, There
is nothing gained by planting this crop be
fore the soil is warmed np; before the
temperature is sufficient to make the seed
germinate rapidly. The source of heat is
from the sun; and no soil will absorb much
solar heat when saturated with water.
Hence, there is nothing gained in planting
corn before evaporation has carried off
the Spring rains, and the temperature of
the soil is sufficient to expand and germi
nate vegetable seed. But when the sea
son is reasonably advanced, and the land
is dry and warm, get in your corn with
out delay. Late planting makes late har
vesting; and as there are only one hun
dred and twenty, to one hundred days be
twenty Spring and Autumn frosts, "de
lays are dangerous."
One of the most important things in
planting corn is thorough ploughing. No
true farmer will dispute this. Corn roots
extend over a large surface, and will seek
food from all portions of the soil broken
by the plough. Again, many seasons are
subject to droughts, and that, generally, is
at the time when the ears are maturing.
A safe guard against drought, is a well
drained soil, sub soil ploughing and fre
quent culture of the growing crop.
We prefer the inverted sod, Spring
ploughed, if a dry, mellow soil. If a stiff
clay land, we should have ploughed it last
Fall, so that the Winter frosts could aid
in breaking it up; giving it time for the
sod to rot and mingle with the soil. Some
grass lands are very tenacious—such as
the blue grass, on limestone land in the
Middle States. On alluvial ploughed land
in New England, or on most loose soils
which contain considerable organic matter,
spring ploughing answers, and generally
need not be broken up much before the
time of planting. But remember this
great fact, no soil can be made too mellow,
during the growth of the crop.
As to beet way to apply manure, there
is a great diversity of opinion. It is im
possible to give instructions applicable to
all sections. A great deal depends on the
land cultivated; a fertile soil will do well
with surface manuring; more cold, sterile
land requires some stimulant in the hills,
ashes, poudrette or super phosphate, in
addition to stable manure. In surface
manuring, experience teaches these facts.
If manure is spread on a light, sandy, or
loamy soil, we should turn it in deeper
than on a naturally moist or wet soil.—
Manure decomposes sooner near the sur
face—also acts on the growing crop soon
er—but whether manure is buried three
or six inches below the surface makes
but little difference on naturally warm and
well cultivated soil. Corn crops will find
all fertilizers, at either depth, long before
harvest.
As to modes of planting we are firmly in
favor of having the rows to run North and
South; laying the land off in, two direc
tions, at right angles to each other, and
planting where the furrows cross each oth
er. For small varieties of corn, three and
a half feet apart for the hills, but for
the larger varieties of corn, four feet is
better. All corn must be far enough
apart to run the plough and cultivator, and
to give access of light and heat to the soil.
The absorption of the manure and plant
food are thus equalized. Besides, the
cultivation of the crop is made more per
fect the soil is broken, stirred and pulver
ized around every side of the bill by this
system of cross ploughing or cultivating at
right angles. Grass and weeds are also
moee perfectly eradicated than they can
be by the plough or horse barrow run
ning in one direction alone.—Farm a nd
Fireside.
A CURIOUS CASE FOR. LAWYERS.—A
curious trial will be beard before the
Judge de Paix in a few days. A farmer
and a butcher concluded their bargain
over a savory dish of eels. The butcher,
during the repast, drew from his purse a
bank note for £8 to pay for a sheep pur
chased. Unfortunately, the note fell into
the sauce. The butcher fished it up deli
cately between his finger and thumb, and
shook it gently to remove the sauce; but
the farmer's dog, interpreting the action
for a gracious invitation, snapped at
and gulped down the note. The butcher
was furious and stupified. "I want. my
note," said be ; " I will kill and open your
dog." "I prohibit, you," replied the far
mer; " my dog is worth more than .£B."
" Then," replied the butcher;" " I owe
you nothing; your dog has received pay
ment, and in presence of. witnesses, too."
" 0," continued the farmer, "my dog is
not my cashier; and further, if you have
paid me, where is your receipt?" "If it.
comes to that," cried the butcher, " we
'will bring the matter before the judge;"
and to Cutsar they have both appealed.
Hypocrisy Exposed.
It will be recollected by our readers
that a few weeks ago, and just prior to
the Connecticut election, the New Eng
land Conference, of the Methodist Episco
pal Church passed a series of resolutions
endorsing the reconstruction policy of
Congress, in favor of Gen. Grant for the
Presidency, and in hearty approval of the
conviction and deposition of President
Johnson. These resolutions were doubt
less intended to have an effect on the Con
necticut election. But the people of that
State did not look at thepolitical situation
of the country in the same light with these
hypocritical parsons, and the result was
altogether different from their calcula
tions.
To throw into the form of the Litany, a
series of political resolutions denunciatory
of the South was undoubtedly an act of
profanity; but then it is so pleasant to
Northern radicals to ride rough shod over
the white population of the South, and,
in that spirit of pure humanity on which
they so much pride themselves, to take
delight in conferring upon ignorant and
credulous blacks,_ just emerged- from a
state of slavery, almost unlimited control
over their former masters. Their theory
with regard to the negro is a very simple
one. They hold, or rather they profess to
hold, that he is theyeer of the white man,
and that all distinetiona,of race and color,
should be resolutely swept away. Of
course, if this theory of universal brother
hood and of social and political equality
be good for anything at all, it is equally
applicable at. the
,North as at the South.
Indeed, as between the two sections, the
North, rightly considered, presents unu
sual advantages for putting the theory to
a practical-test. Nearly all the Negroes
in the North are native born freemen.
They have been through life in close con
tact with the white population, have re
ceived some measure of education, and in
certain of the New England states have
been granted a qualified suffrage. In New
England then, it' anywhere, the conditions
already exist which offer to those who
proclaim the doctrine of negro equality
the fairest opportunity for proving their
faith by their works, and this was espe
cially the case with the Methodist Con
ference.
But wht do we see ? That --r-----
tative bo dy nad just passed a resolution,
rejoicing " that in carrying forward the
work of national regeneration, the Con
gress of the United States has been faith
ful to the will of God in building up our
ruined state organizations on the ouly just
and enduring foundations of the equal and
fraternal oneness of man."
The same paper from which we quote,
in speaking of this resolution and the sub
sequent action of the Conference, remarks
as follows :
This solemn recognition of " the equal
and fraternal oneness of man" seems to
have inspired Bishop Ames, who presided
at the Conference, with the determination
to prove to the world that with the Meth
odist Episcopalians of New England pre
cept and practice went hand in baud. He
therefore rose, and in accordance with the
spirit of the resolution we have justquo
ted, stated that " he intended to transfer
a number of colored preachers to the N.
England Conference." If a bombshell
had suddenly descended into their midst,
the delegates to the Conference could not
have looked more aghast than at this dec
laration of their Bishop. But when a res
olution of approval was introduced they
threw off the mask of brotherly affection
for the negro and denounced the proposed
innovation in the strongest possible lan
guage. What !
.put a - negro preacher
over a white congregation ? It was mon
strous. It was impracticable. It was a
most. unheard of proposition. The Meth
odists of New England would never con
sent to have their pulpits filled by negroes.
As the discussion proceeded several of the
speakers became intensely excited and de
clared, with emphasis, that " not one
church in all New England could be
found willing to accept colored men as
pastors." A few others thought differ
ently. But the final result was that "the
whole matter was referred to the Quar
terly Conferences, who are to recognise
or ignore colored preachers at their pleas
ure." It was the easiest method of get
ting rid of a distasteful subject. The
Quarterly Conferences will do nothing,
and Bishop Ames will in future take good
care not to assume that the doctrine of
negro equality which these political Tar
tuffes are so prompt to insist upon at the
South is equally applicable to the North.
The Fireside.
No lessons leave a more abiding im
pression than those which gently drop in
to the mind at the fireside. No fun is
more tickling, or leaves behind it less to
regret. No history is purer, as a whole,
than fireside history, and none lives lon
ger or more lovingly in remembrance.
He who cannot look forward with yearn
ing desires to fireside enjoyments, as the
staple enjoyments of his life, is greatly to
be blamed; for the fireside has its duties
to be'done, as well as its pleasures to be
realized. , They who make light of its
sanctitiefi, or who rise up in rebellion
against its spirit, or who wantonly dis
tub its peace, or who poison its springs
of confidence with suspicion, or who in
troduce jealousies within that charmed
IVOLUME XXV, NUMBER 19.
circle, or who profane it by aught that ss.
yore of selfish despotism, break the spell
which environs it, and forfeit its rewards.
It should be the altar to which we bring
our daily sacrifices—the turtle doves and
young pigeons of home life—to offer them
to the genius of domestic bnity. "There is
no k , lace where wet, are more bound to
" mind the thingspf others" as our own,
or more gracefully display affection in tri
fles, or can with more profit study to
please others than ourselves. Forgetfgd•
ness of fireside duties indicates,. to say the
least, a deficiency of disinterested love.
A man cannot be truly judged by what
be does before the world. All manner of
selfish motives may urge him to wear in
that broad theatre the dress of sanctity,
or courage, or courtesy, or patience, or
considerateness, " that he may be seen of
men." 'But it is at his own fireside that
be best shows himself, when be cast aside
the garments of pretence, and puts on the
slippers of natural habit. What .be is
there and then he probably is in reality,
for bib heart is en dishabille, and com
mends itself, or otherwise, by its own
proper qualities unveiled and undisguised.
—There seems to be a wide difference
in the tally of snows during the winter.
Previous' to the six-inch fall of Easter,one
newspaper announced that the one of the
night preceding Good Friday- made the
twenty-fifth ; another says the thirty
third; another the thirty-eighth ; and a
fourth says that that snow was exactly
fortieth. We are on the lookout now for
one which has counted up to fifty.
—A gentleman was chiding his son far
staying out late of nights—or rather early
ofnext morning—and said : "Why when
I was of your age, my father would not
allow me to go out of the house after
dark !" " Then you had a deuce of a fa
ther—you bad," sneered the young prof
ligate. Whereupon the father very rash
ly vociferated : " I bad a confounded
sight better one than you, you youngrao
cal 1"
During the first year of the war, when'
change was scarce, and some large mer
chants were issuing currency -of their own,.
a farmer went to a store in a neightV4 .
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the merchant a five dollar bill, of which
ho wanted seventy-five cents back. The
merchant counted out the amount and
handed it over to the farmer. Ile looked
at it a moment and inquired :
" What's this ?"
" It's my currency," said the merchant.
" Wal, my
good for nothin' where I
live," said the farmer.
" Very well," replied the merchant,
keep it until you get a dollar's worth and
.bring it to my store, and I will give you
a dollar bill for it."
The farmer pocketed the change and de•
parted. A few weeks after he went into
the same store and bought goods to the
amount of one doll ar, and after paying
over the identical seventy-five cents he
took out a handful of pumpkin seeds, coun
ted twenty-five of them, and Weed them
over to the merchant.
" Why," says the merchant, " what's
this ?"
“ Val,” says the farmer, "this is my
currency, and when you get a . dollar's
worth, bring 'it to my place, and I will,
give you a dollar for it."
The fate of impeachers in history. is sig
nificant. Of the fifty eight persons who
signed the deatn warrant of Charles Stud
art, thirty seven survived the Common
wealth, and lived to see the restoration.
Of the thirty seven, nine were executed,
twelve imprisoned for - the remainder of
their lives; eleven tied to escape punish
ment, three were pardoned or released,.
and the fate of two is left in doubt. The
twenty one who died before the restora
tion were attained by Parliament. Crom-
well was exhumed and hung; and so were
several others who were the chief instiga
tors of the regicide. All this was done
not to gratify any spirit of revenge on the
part of Charles 11, but in obedience to a
popular demand for justice. Of the es
tates of-the fifty eight regicides, 38 were
confiscated by exclusion from the• indem
nity bill of Charles 11, one was restored
by pardon, and the yearly income of the
remaining one was confiscated.
—The Gettysburg Asylum Swindle bat
ended by the closing of the office in New
York, and the disappet,irance of the MD*.
gers. The newspapers which encouraged
it, and the persons who permitted theif
names to be used for its benefit without
remonstrance (probably for a thereof the
spoils,) should be prosecuted for aiding
and abetting this stupendous fraud.
—Gen. Buchanan, commander of the
Fifth Military District, has issued an or.
der forbidding agents of the Freedmen'.
Bureau to take any active part in politica,
on pain of dismission from their poste.
—Thadens Stevens " lady" is a colored
woman, wbo was the wife of a negro bar
ber at Harrisburg from whom Thad stole
her.
—The Chiang!, victory 'troubles the
mongrels exceedingly. Their dislike to
white men's elections bas grown prow ,
bial.
Currency.
The Fite of Impeachprs.