BY S. B. ROW. CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1861. VOL. 7.---NO. 25. THE EA1NY DAY. BT LOXOrKLLOW. The day i cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains and the wind is never weary ; The vine itill clings to the mouldering wall, Hut at every gust, the dead leaves fall, And the day ia dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It raina and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts (till cling to the mouldering pact, Vat the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the day ia dark and dreary. Be (till, sad heart '. and cease repining ; iVbind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all. Into each life some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary. T II K CJ It IS A T" UOBBE It Y The U. S. Government involved in a Lou of over 6,000,000 by the Malfeasance in office of Ex Eec'y J.B.Floyd and other high Officials. CODtRD BAILEY A TOOL IN THE HANDS OP MORS DISTINGUISHED AND RESPONSIBLE RASCALS. WM. H. RUSSELL FEARFULLY INVOLVED. The select committee to wbom was referred the resolution of the lower House of Congress, adopted on the 24th day of December last, di recting them to inquire into and report the facts i'i relation to the fraudulent abstraction of certain bonds, held by the Government in trust for Indian tribes, from the Interior De partment, made a report on Monday, Feb. 11th, iron) which we make the following extracts, and by which it will be seen that while the Government sustains a direct loss of $870,000, through the rascality of high officials and others, it is indirectly involved in an aggre gate loss of over six millions of dollars ; THK INDIAN TRUST BONDS. By reference to the abstract marked "A," herewith transmitted, it will be seen that the Government still holds State bonds and cer tificates, nnd United States stocks, for certain Indian tribes, to the amount of $2,525,211,82. These bonds, as well as the 870 abstracted, mil one Indian bond handed to the Hon. G. N. Fitch, and not returned by him to the De partment, for reasons assigned in his eorres pondencu with Godard Bailey, were purchased from time to time by authority of law with the money of the Indians, arising from treaty stipulations. Originally they were in charge t the Indian Bureau, while that bureau was connected with the Department of War, and remained in its custody after it became one of the Interior Department in 1849, and from that time up to 18 57. In that year the custo dy of the securities was transferred to the Secretary of the Interior. The Government ' having 'the bonds in its possession, was the trustee for the Indians, who were the actual owners of them ; and presuming that its a gents have exercised ordinary diligence and care as their custodians, the question arises as to the extent of its liability for their loss. THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN RUSSELL Jt BAILEY. Wm. H. Russell is the head of the bouse of Russell, Majors Waddell, a firm widely known as contractors with the War Debarment for transporting army provisions over the West ern and Southwestern plains. Mr. Russell sta ted to the committee that, he had heard in N. York of such a man as MrBailey, although he did not exactly remember his name, who had been in the city to scllChiriqui securities and Florida bonds, the latter for Mr. Yulee, a Sena tor from that State. When asked from whom he received his Information, he gave the answer usually roMirtetl to in auch cast's, viz : be could not remember. The next heard of M r. Russell ), that he is on his way from Xew York to Washington, in company with Luko Lea, Esq., a banker in the latter city. Mr. Lea was for merly Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and is a partner of Mr. Russell in the banking busi ness at Leavenworth, Kansas. In a conversa tion that ensued between them, Mr. Russell made known to Mr. Lea his embarrassed cir cumstances, and asked if he (Mr. Lea) did not know of some one that could assist him, (Mr. KusMell.) Mr. Lea answered in the negative, lie states in his testimony that Mr. Russell wiggeated that he had heard of a man in Wash ington, by the name of Bailor or Bartey, who was a relative of Governor Floyd's, and an a gent (or the negotiation of the sale of stocks, and asked his friend if he knew him. Mr. Lea was again compelled to give a negative reply, but stated that he knew a man there l'v the name of Bailey, and Mr. Russell said ttiat he supposed that was the man of whom lie was in search. It is very evident, from Mr. Lea's examina tion, that ho was both an artful and unwilling witness. He had to be pressed with great per tinacity to induce him to disclose what he knew, and even then his answers were so in terspersed with irrelevant and equivocal re marks, designed to relieve him from suspicion "t complicity, that your committee are corn pelted reluctantly to notice the absence of the tandor and frankness that they might reasona bly expect to find in his responses. He was compelled, however, to say that he informed Hr. Russell that Mr. Bailey was in no condi tion to assist him ; that he had no stocks or money, and was as poor as anybody. Before "eparating, Mr. Russell seeming still to be lieve that aid might be obtained in the quarter indicated, requested Mr. Lea to see Mr. Bailey in regard to the matter. Mr. Lea complied 'th this request, and stated to Mr. Bailey that Mr. Russell had said, unless assistance rendered, the acceptances of Gov. Floyd jouli be protested, and he would be compel 'ed to retire from the Cabinet. Mr. Lea is, however, careful to state in his evidence that -e gave no intimation to Mr. Bailey that he 'gbt use the stocks he had in his charge be longing to the Indian Trust Fund. Mr. C. G. " agner, who is nearly related to Mr. Bailey, na in whose bands was first placed bis con tusion, states, in bis evidence given (your commiitce are pleased to say) with full" and nnorauie frankness, that ho learned from Mr. "alley that Mr. Lea did mention the stocks in ie conversation between them. And, indeed, j would naturally be inferred, from the fact nat Mr. Lea was perfectly familiar with the siness of the department, and knew that r Bailey had the stocks in charge, and had o large command of private means. Mr. Lea imits that after the delivery of the first in Iraent of bonds to Mr. Russell, ho knew that ' l' "useII and Mr. Bailey wore engaged in n,og the Indian Trnst safe ; that they so con ned to him ; that he had conversation with "m on the subject, and that he endeavored aigroade them from further commissions of e crime. He also states that he refrained ".m "farming tne Secretary of the Interior of the transaction referred to, and that be ex acted the most solemn pledges from bis two friends, that his name should never be public ly known in connection with the business. Aut bis precautions have not availed to afford him entire exemption from responsibility in connection with the transactions your commit tee have inquired into. Mr. Lea did not in troduce Mr. Bailey to Mr. Russell, nor does he state that he appointed for them a place of meeting, yet it happened that these two per sons did meet at the War Department on the same day that the interview between Mr. Lea and Mr. Bailey occurred. Mr. Russell says this was between the 12th and 15th days of last July. It was probably on the 13th day of that month. The chief clork of the War De partment, Secretary Floyd's most intimate frieud, Col. W. R. Drinkard, was the medium through whom the introduction took place. On that day they had their first interview at the War Department. Col. Drinkard, as shown by his own evidence, impressed Mr. Bailey with the belief that Mr. Russell was a gentle man of great respectability and pecuniary re sources, and that if the acceptances of the Secretary of War were allowed to go to protest be (the Secretary) would be greatly agonized and disturbed. Messrs. Russell and Bailey held a private interview in the third story of the Department and within a few hours there after Mr. B3iley delivered to Mr. Russell one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of bonds at the room of the latter person in Washington city, and on the same morning the recipient returned with them to New York. Mr. Rus sell states that he left with Mr. Bailey oue note of Russell, Majors & Waddell's in their stead, as security. Ninety of these one hun dred and fifty bonds were Missouris, and the rest Tennessees. Mr. Russell does not recol lect, at first, whether or not the January cou pons were on the bonds, but states that, subse quently, the most of the bonds were retired by him in order to obtain those coupons to return to Mr. Bailey, as ho (Bailey) was positive in his request to have them returned. These coupons having been taken off, the bonds were afterwards disposed of. The ob ject was, cf course, to conceal the fraud ; for if the coupons were on hand it was not probable that the bonds would be demand ed or inquired for. According to the statement of Mr. Russell there was no further correspondence or com munication between Mr. Bailey and himself until the September following. At that time he returned to Washington for the purpose of obtaining others. An interview was held with Mr. Bailey, the result of which was tltat 387 bonds in addition to those first taken were transferred to Mr. Russell on the following day. The protection of the honor of Secreta ry Floyd, tho necessity of providing for the other acceptances as the bonds previously de livered, and which were alleged to have been hypothecatedjwero assigned as the reasons for requiring further assistance. In this, as in the first instance, the paper of Russell, Ma jors & Waddell was left as security. Mr. Rus sell states that at this conference Mr. Bailey first informed him that the bonds in his pos session belonged to the Indian trust fund. It was the agreement that the bonds first taken should be returned within ninety days; but at the second interview the time was extended to the 4th of March, 1861. In October Mr. Russell returned the South Carolina and Flor ida bonds, one hundred and forty or fifty, hav ing ascertained that he could not negotiate them, and North Carolina bonds were substi tuted in their stead. Mr. Russell egain ap peared in Washington in December following, and on the grounds so successfully relied up on before, viz : the protection of the War De partment from sacrifice, he was enabled to ob tain from Mr. Bailey three hundred and thirty-three bonds, as an additional advance, making the entire number abstracted eight hundred and sevenly. From the bonds ob tained on the second and third occasions, al ready referred to, it is evident the January coupons were cut off, as a caution ngainut de tection. Nine Tennessee coupons, belonging to other bonds than those abstracted, were re turned by Mr. Russell, doubt lots because the abstracted bonds had passed beyond his reach. The transaction last referred to ap pears to have closed the business relations of these two persons, so far. at least, as the' related to the abstraction of bonds. BAILEY'S MOTIVES FOR TAKING TliK BONDS. Why Mr. Bailey abstracted the bonds is a question to which your committee can present no satisfactory answer. As he 'and Mr. Rus sel were entire strangers previously to their meeting at the War Department, neither the obligations of friendship nor the suggestions of kindly feeling seems to have prompted the act. Mr. Russell insists that no money or other valuable consideration ever passed to Bailey, who confirms this statement in various communications which have reached your committee. It is not ascertained, either, that Mr Bailey came suddenly into the possession of any large amounts of money. His bank account was kept with Messrs. Riggs & Co., ot Washington city, and Mr. Riggs testifies that between July and the 13th of December, his deposits increased largely over former ones, but amounted in tho aggregate to not more than five or six thousand dollars. It is true that this sum is a large one to be in the possession of a persou whoso salary was but $2,000 per annum, and who was supporting a family, yet it would not, of itself, constitute a ground for grave suspicion, or aflord a clue to the discovery of the purposes of the ab straction. Mr. Bailey, in his conversations with various witnesses stated, that his design was to protect tho character of Governor Floyd, and lo save him from the dishonor and retirement from the Cabinet that would be necessarily incident to the protest and dis covery of the acceptances which had been il legally issued to the firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell. Whether this consideration was the solo motive of his canduct, it is left to the House to determine. Your committee are, however, constrained to express the convic tiong that behind the events that have been made conspicuous, and beneath the exterior of the transactions that have been described, is a purpose which, although successfully hidden, was none the less powerful and effic ient, and has given unity and vitality to the schemes now partially exposed. ACCEPTANCES ISSUED BT THE SEC'T OF WAR. When the iniquitous act perpetrated by one of the subordinate officers of the Interior De partment in the abstraction of tho bonds waa made known, it was discovered, at the same time, that acceptances, unauthorized by law, and deceptive and fraudulent in their cbarac- ter, had been issued by the Secretary of War, in favor of Messrs. Russell, Majors & Waddell. As a portion of these are inseparably connect ed with the history of the bond embezzlement, it is proposed first to inquire Into the circum stances attending their issue. It is stated by Mr. Russell that, on the day he made his last application for securities, Mr. Bailey agreed to furnish them on the condition that there should be deposited with him, in their place, the ac ceptances of Gov. Floyd as .Secretary of War. Mr. Russell, it would appear, had then on hand 735,000 of acceptances, seventy-two thousand of which were unconditional, and the balance conditional and payable out of tho earnings of Russell, Majors and Waddell for 1861. The amount of the bonds he received on that and previous occasions was eight hundred and sev enty or eight hundred and seventy-two thous and dollars. There was therefore wanting to make up the requisite sum of securities, one hundred and tbirty-tivo thousand dollars, and we accordingly find that there is an accept ance, bearing date Dec. 13th, for that precise amount. When it ia remembered that that is the date of the last delivery of bonds, and of the receipt therefor, the inference seems una voidable that the acceptance was issued to make up an ascertained deficiency, and that it was anticipated that it would go into the pos session of Bailey. There are other facts that should be stated in this connection. Mr. Rus sell Gxes Ihe probable earnings of his firm for the year 1861 at from $500,000 to $600,000, while Captain Tan Vliet estimated them at $488,000 for 18C0 ; and General Johnson says in his testimony that for the present year they will be about what they were in I860, which was $540,000, including a payment made in Washington by Captain Miller of a little more than $09,000. The conditional acceptances given to Mr. Bailey amount io $798,000, or $218,000 moro than the maximum sum that could have been earned by Messrs. Russeli, Majors and Waddell during that year, accord ing to the estimates of tho Department based upon the earnings of the previous year. The acceptances for the $798,000 were the only conditional ones Issued, and these, together with those for $72,000, issued unconditional ly, must be regarded as a loss, as the Govern ment will, doubtless, acknowledge the obliga tion to replace the bonds belonging to the In dian trust fund ; and there is little reason to expect that Russell, Majors and Waddell will make a return of what they have received. If your committee could rest here, and could feel justified in expressing the belief that there are no other outstanding liabilities, and that no further demands would bo made upon this or any future Congress, in connection with these extraordinary proceedings, they would deem this an occasion for conjrratalation to the House. But, unfortunately, there are transac tions of a similar character, but of a still great er magnitude, that claim your attention. In 1853, the Secretary of War, commenced the issue of acceptance, and, at the same time, wrote to various banks and individuals urging their purchase or discount. One of his letters, and one from Col. Drinkard, Chief Clerk of the War Department, to James T. Soutter, Esq., president of the Bank of tho Republic, will be found included in the testimony taken in New York. Copies of various other letters "relating to the same subject, obtained from the War Department, accompany this report. Mr. F. P. James, of New York city, testified before the committee, that Mr. Soutter, to whom reference has been alrerdy made, said to him upon one occasion that he had a draft for $15, 000, and with it a lettrr from tha Sucrof-iry of War, stating that he had issued, or was about to issue, acceptances in favor of Russell, Ma jors, and Waddell, but that at no time should he issue those acceptances to exceed one-halt of the amount which he knew, of hisown knowl edge, was actually due to the parties for ser vices alreadyperformed. Mr. Soutter, on be ing called on to produce this communica tion, says that "he had an impression, and he supposed it was derived from a-letter of Mr. Floyd's, that the War Department issued ac ceptances to the extent only of one-half of the amount that would become due to Russell. Majors, and Waddell on work in process of ex ecution." Although on examination olthe let ters received by tho bank, and his own private letters, failed to bring to light auch a commu nication as he had expected to find, Mr. Sout ter does not change his opinion, but concludes that it was derived from the statements of some persona whose names he cannot now recall. These letters and representations arc impor tant as showing the means adopted by the Sec retary of War to get the paper he issued into circulation. OVER $6,000,000 OP ACCEPTANCES ISSUED In relation to the acceptances issued uncon ditionally by the late Secretary of War, your committee deem it their duty to state all the facts they have been able to discover, as fully as possible. They amount in the aggregate, to the enormous sum of $6,179,195. Add thereto the conditional acceptances which have already been thrown back upon the Gov ernment through the agency of Mr. Bailey, and the sum total is $6,977,395. This esti mate is based upon data furnished by the War Department. It appears therefrom that ac ceptances to the amount ot $840,000 were re turned to the Department for cancelation . Mr. Russell, however, claims to have returned only $200,000 or $250,000. He further states that the acceptances which he did return were those which had matured in his own pocket and could not, therefore, be negotiated. But this assertion is positively contradicted by the endorsements on the returned acceptances, and by the testimony of Mr. Irvin, a clerk in the War Department. From the careless and irresponsible manner in which business was transacted by that gentleman and the late" Secretary of War, and from the fact that it was the habit of Governor Floyd to issue ac ceptances at the Department or at his house, or at .whatever place he happened to be, it is a matter of great uncertainty whether or tot tho $840,000 should be deducted from the sura heretofore atated. The probability is, that when the acceptances were returned to Governor Flovd by Mr. Russell he accepted others at the same time for the same amount, of which there was no registry made. It is deem ed safest to proceed upon the supposition that the acceptances made in the place of those returned were registered. Upon this hypothe sis, the $840,000 must be deducted from the $6,179,395 of unconditional acceptances made and registered in the War Department. This would leave of them, so far as is shown by the records of that Department, $5,339,395 still in circulation ; and to this amount, the $798,000 ot conditional acceptaucei received by Mr. Bailey in lieu of the bonds, and the aggregate is $6,137,196. Here, then, confining the statement to the records of the War Depart ment, is a deficit of $6,137,395 to fall upon the holders of these acceptances, or to be assumed in some may by ihe Government. WHAT WA8 DONE WITH TUE ACCEPT ANCFS. The evidence shows that the acceptances have been sold in various parts of the United States wherever a bank or private individual could be induced to purchase. Inasmuch, however, as Mie amount ot those that have been traced directly into the hands of present holders con stituted but a small fraction of the sum still unaccounted for, and as owners are daily filing additional claims at the War Department, it is deemed unnesessary to give a detailed state ment of the discovered acceptances, or to make other mention ot them than to refer to the papers relating thereto presented by the War Department, and to the general evidence. It is proper, however, to remark in this connection, that while your committee do not deem it necessary to give said details, the data in the War Department fixes the minimum amount ot outstanding acceptances known to that Department at $1,445,000. PECULIAR RECORDS IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT. By reference to the testimony of Mr. Irvin, a clerk in tho War Department, it will be seen that he kept a registry of the acceptances on loose pieces of paper, only as they wore report ed to him from time to time, and no other was made. He states, too, that there was no re gistration of the $798,000 of conditional ac ceptances which fell into Mr. Bailey's hands ; and that immediately after the discovery of the abstraction of the bonds Governor Floyd went to his office and directed him (Irvin) to enter an order of cancellation of those acceptances, which ho did upon a slip of paper as he had entered the date3 and amounts of others that had been Issued. The acceptances being in the hands of the Hon. Jacob Thompson, hav ing been placed there by Mr. Bailey in lieu of the abstracted bonds, an order of cancella tion, at such a time, was simply-an order a gainst the Government. Had the acceptances been held by other parties, the order would have been equally futile ; for, if legally issued, it could not invalidate them. PAYMENTS TO RUSSELL, MAJORS A WADDELL. It also appears from the records of the War Department that while tneso acceptances were being issued to tho amount of millions of dol lars, Russell, Majors and Waddell, were regu larly receiving their pay for the services per formed under their contract, in money, from the Government. The aggregate amount ol the payments made to them, in cash, during the years 1858, 1859 and 1860, is $4,842,964.41, and a large portion of this sum was paid by the propor officer at Leavenworth City, Kansas. Gov. Floyd admitted in his evidence that ev ery acceptance which be made "ran against un earned money," and was designed to give the contractors "the credit of their contract." Yet there has not been discovered the slight est indication that he made any inquiry about the payment, or concerned himself to see that they were, when made, applied to the accept ances. Reference to the testimony ol General Johnson, of the army, and of Mr. Atkinson, the Third Auditor of the Treasury, and to a de tailed statement of the payments which pre sented to the committee the amounts of the earnings and payments, will more fnlly appear. It would, perhaps, be sufficient to say upon this point, that Mr. Russell acknowledges that there is now but a small sum due his firm for current earnings. But it was considered desi rable to remove all uncertainty from this ques tion, and to ascertain positively whether Rus sell, Majors aDd Waddell had ever presented any claim to the War Department for extra services, and whether any claim for such ser vices had ever been paid by that Department, and correspondence was accordingly had with the present Secretary of War, the Hon. Joseph Holt, who referred the letter of the committee to Gen. J. E. Johnson, Quartermaster Gene ral, and Col. J. I Taylor, Acting Commissary ef General Subsistence. It will be seen from thtdr replies, that no such claim has ever been made, or allowed. Gen. Johnson, however, states that there is an account amonnting to $27,390.49 still suspended, which the late Sec retary of War directed to be reduced by a 'disallowance" of $9,125.62. He also states the sum due them on the 4th of January last, upon current earnings, to be $27,750.49, from which must bo deducted fifteen thousand dol lars for a duplicate payment. This amount was ascertained by telegraphing to Leaven worth, (at which place tho accounts of Russell, Majors and Waddell are kept,) and, altho' it may not include other earnings in New Mexi co, it cannot be largely increased. The facts, therefore, are, that Russell, Majors & Waddell not only absorbed all the sums earned by them under their contracts, and sold all the bonds hey. received from Mr. Bailey, but also raised very large sums of money upon the acceptan ces issued by the Secretary of War. THE PRESIDENT NOTIFIED OF FLOYD'S DOINGS. Senator Benjamin testified that some twelve or eighteen months ago he was written to from New York by tho attorney of Duncan, Sher man & Co., and his opinion asked as to the le gality of the acceptances issued by Gov. Floyd to Russell, Majors and Waddell ; that, the let ter having stated that they were issued with tho approbation of the President and Attorney General, he called on Mr. Buchanan, who told bira ho knew nothing about them, but if Gov. Floyd had issued them, they were issued prop erly ; that he visited Floyd, who said the mat ter had not been submitted to the Attorney General, that the "drafts" were issued in pur suance of a long-established cusiom of the of fice, but not until after he knew the trains lor transportation had left St. Louis for Utah ; that he (Benjamin) urged Floyd to discontinue the practice, and that the latter had promised he would. Other testimony shows, however, that Floyd continued to issue acceptances in discriminately, without reference to instal ments, to the arrival and departure of trains, or without regard to money which was due ; the aggregate issued after Mr. Benjamin's warning being $2,163,000. Concerning this, the Committee say : "Having had his error and its consequences distinctly pointed out ; having expressed his intention to refrain, in future, from the commission of similar acts, he still persists in his former course, and ac tually issued an acceptanco for $135,000, at a dato so late as the I3th of December, 1860. Whether this manifest contempt of counsel, ienca ot law. and violation of a solemn promise. can be reconciled with purity of pri vate motives, and faithfulness to public trusts, is lor the House to determine, u is me opm ion of your committee that they cannot." COTTON IN AFRICA. Among the various cotton districts of the world to which the attention or the British manufacturers will now be directed, in the un certainty of receiving their usual supplies from the United States, that of Africa will probably not be neglected. The" reports of travelers in the interior of that country concur In the representations of the crop being not only indigenous, but that the plant is even a nuisance on account of the rankness of its growth. We have heard such statements from Mr. Du Chaillu, and such are the accounts of Dr. Livingstone, and others. Mr. Thomas Clegg succeeded, in the single district of Sierra LeOne, in increasing the exports from 1,810 lbs. in 1852, to 96,470 lbs. in the first quarter of 1858t and much more was offered at d. per lb. in the seed, or about 2d. per lb. clean cot ton. Its quality is such that it commands a higher price in the Liverpool market than In dia cotton. So important was this source of supply regarded by Lord Palmerston, that in July, 1858. ho expressed his opinion in the House of Commons, that, In a few years, the western coast of Africa would furnish a more important commerce in this article than is had with any other portion of tho world, except the United States. Such a consummation is like ly to be rapidly hastened by the present con dition of our cotton-producing State9. The only auswer against the probability of the suc cess of African cotton-raising it that no depen dence can be placed upon the labor of the na tive negro. Yet, in the Yoruba country a large and regular trade is carried on by them in this article, and among other exports of Western Africa that of palm oil has, within a few j ears past, attained an immense impor tance in England, being now introduced into Liverpool from one only of the several ports of shipment to the amount of 20,000 tuns annu ally. This oil, used at the great factory of the Messrs. Price, to the extent of 150 tnns a week, for making candles, is obtained by expressing the thin covering of the seed of the oil palm, and pouring boiling water over the pulp. The oil rises upon this and is skimmed off. Each covering, or drupe, it is stated, yields about 1-16 of an ounce of the oil. and a palm tree only thfee or four pounds. Hence the amount of labor exercised in this branch of industry, but lately developed, too, must be enormons. With proportional encouragement, which the exigency will call forth, still more impottant results must soou be attained in the cotton culture, and this will rapidly extend over the African cotton districts to the permanent det riment of our Southern interests. A Model. A friend of ours is in tho habit of visiting a very charming young lady about thfee times a week perhaps oftener. It is not positively known that there is an engage ment, but the gentleman is so completely do mesticated that he enters the house without knocking, and if his lady-love is not in the parlor, does not scruple to go up stairs in search of her. The other day he tten't through half a dozen rooms without seeing anybody, and at last came to the fair one's own cham ber, but found tho door locked. "Are you in there, Mary 1" inquired, he. 'Bless my heart, Charles, is it you ? Go a way, you scamp, you can't get in !" cried the lady, in great trepidation. ' 'I must, Mary," said the young gentleman, giving the door a shove, which threatened to break away its fastenings. "For Heaven's sake, Charles!" screamed tho lady, now in the last stage of terror, '-go away this instant, I'm I'm " 'You're what V "7'm a model " shrieked the lady ; and the gentleman left, laughing boisterously. Arkansas Amusements. We learn that at Marion, Arkansas, on Saturday week last, a horse race took place, respecting which great excitement was raised, and considerable bet ting was indulged in. In settling the bets, bad blood arose and a. fiery quarrel was the conse quence, in the course of which no less than five persons were wounded. Mr. Graham, a far mer, was shot by Mr. Iliegs, who is a brother, we are informed, of the law3-er of that name. Graham's son, a boy of nine years old, then undertook to avenge his father, and he shot Higgs, wounding him In the arm. Iliggs next fired at the boy, and wounded him so seriously that his recovery is doubtful. A son of Mr. Wm.-Ticer, a boy of twelve or fourteen, was badly wounded by a shot. Wm. Gettling is in jail for being concerned in the shooting; the remainder ot the parties actually engaged (five persons), are confined to their beds ; three of them are seriously wounded, but fair' expec tations of the recovery of all of them, except the chili Graham, exist. Memphis Appeal. Kxights of the Golden Circle. The inev itable Gen. Geo. Beckley, K. G. C, turns up in Louisville. He denies most energetically that the organization of which he claims to be the head aims to subvert the Government. To use his own cpmhatic language : "The K. G. C. is an institution, even in Louisville, and will be the very first to respond when a call is made for the defenders of the State. It has tendered 12,000 troops to South Carolina, and will give her 50,000 if she needs them; and it can give the Federal Government 135, 000 to fight a foreign foe, but not one to fight a Southern State. Now, sirs, I hope I shall be clearlv understood. Il'e look only to the Jl mericanization of Mexico ; yet the defence of our own homes is a paramount duty. It ever there has been a movement set on foot to settle forever the Slavery question, and bal ance the political powers of the North and South, and thereby perpetuate the Union, the K. G. C. have made the movement." Self Sacrificing Collector. A jobbing house in Philadelphia employed a lawyer in North Carolinatocollectadebt of $90. In the course of time they received from him the re mittance of $85. Having been unable to col lect the debt in the regular way, he had "boarded it out." In concluding his letter to the firm, he wrote : "I have retained $5 for my services, though the commission is but $4 50. I have only to say that if you knew the abdominal anguish I have suffered while board ing out your bill, you wouldn't begrudge the extra half dollar." Unsocial old Snarl says that love is a com bination of diseases an affection ot the heart. and an inflammation of the brain They who "pine" iu their youth can nerer look "pruce in their oia age. ( H 0RRIBLE AFFAIR IN CARSON VALLEY. A correspondent of the Missouri Republican writes from Denver city, on the 20th nit : A gentleman, who has but rcently arrived in this city, called upon me to-day, and gave me an account of a horrible massacre on the Surplus Cut-off, about fifty miles north of Salt Lake City, during the latter part of last Aug ust. A party of emigrants, on their way to California, was attacked by a party of men, painted and dressed like Indians, who rushed upon them in the night, took them by surprise, and murdered seven of the party ; the others escaped to a train camped back from them, on the road, a distance of ten miles. The assas sins did not pursue them, as they probably knew of the other company, and were afraid of encountering them. Among those murder ed was a Mr. Stevenson, formerly a resident of Lawrence, Kansas, and bis niece, Miss Lizzie Stevenson, a young lady sixteen or eighteen years of age. Mrs. Sevenson, wife of the murdered man begged of the savages not to kill them : one of them replied in good English, "that they were determined ro kill them all." He then leveled his rifle and shot Mrs. S., which took effect in her right hip. Supposing her to bo dead they left her. Catching up the infant son of a woman they had already killed, they struck its arms and legs off with a knife, and then threw the suff erer Into the bushes by the wayside to die. The next morning tho bodies of seven persona were found and properly interred ; two of tha company were missing, whom they supposed to have been taken oft as captives. .Mrs. Ste venson was found alive ; her wounds were car ed for, and at last accounts she was in Carson Valley, kindly attended by the settlers there When found, the corpse of Miss Stevenson bore unmistakable evidence of having been outraged by those bloody fiends, under whose cruel treatment she died. Her clothing had been drawn up over her head and secure ly fastened. Hon. Tom Corwin on the Crittenden Prop osition. We quote lrom Mr. Corwin's speech in the House of Representatives, on tho "1st Jan., as reported in the Congressional Globe : "But it is proposed that we shall insert In our proposition to araend4he Constitution that this line of 86 degrees 30 minutes shall gird the globe, and that all South of it shall be open to .slavery, and by this proposed amendment sla very is fixed there whether the people you ac quire wish it there or not. Every one who looks upon the map knows that it means the conquest of Mexico, and all the small repub lics in South America. One of our Mexican acquisitions is now the very accursed cause of our ruin; and yet you covet another. Yon have four millions negroes now, and yon must increase the number to sixty millions before you can want room for slave labor. Fifty years hence you will not be able to supply slaves e nough to meet the reasonable demand for slavo labor in the present slave States; yet you wilt ponder and speculate upon your condition as it may possibly be half a century to conm ; and unless your dreams are accepted as truth? now, and provision made for yon for half a century to come, you rush madly on to the destruction of yourselves, and not yourselves only, but the final destruction and overthrow of the best government known among men,- and the ex tinction of the fairest hope yet presented to the longing hearts of a world." Northern Alabama. The working men of the town of" Athens, Alabama, as we learn from a letter written there on the 29th Janua ry, and published in the Nashville Dcmocraff met in the Public Square on Saturday night, and "fired thirty-three guns for the Union, and that the national fiag still waves at the Court-house, its enemies at Montgomery and disunionists every where notwithstanding." They then paid a Visit to Gen. Houston, who had just returned from Washington, where he many years represented the Athens (Ala.) district in Congress. Tho Nashville Dtmo cral's correspondent says : "That General re ceived the Union men in hfs usual happy style. He hopes that this glorrons Union may still be preserveed by the working Union men, and that they may still work in the LT nion, and find plenty of bravo hearts and wil- ling hands to help in every time of need. On taking leave of tho General, he was saluted with a volley of muskttry and three cheers for the Union. Severe Case of Diptheria, A young lady died of this disease, rather suddenly, at Youngstown, Trumbull county, Ohio, a few days since. She had been ailing for three weeks, and was regarded by her physician, as out of danger. Just before her death, she complained of severe pain in the region of the breast. A post mortem examination de veloped the fact, that cavites of the heart had been so filled up by that peculiar exuda-' tion, or membrane, caused by diptheria, that the valves between the cavaties were closed up. A few similiar cases aro reported by Philadelphia physicians. The New Loan. The announcement that capitalists in New York and Boston would re fuse -to subscribe to the new bonds unless a compromise was made, h3s had exactly the op posite effect from what was intended. That sort of coercion will not be endured, especial ly when everybody knows they must preserve the public credit in order to give any value to sixty-five millions of loans and Treasury Notes now outstanding, and prevent greater derangements in business. The British Consul at Savannah has inform ed Lord Lyons of the outrage on Capt. Vaugh an, at that port, and he communicated the facts to his government on the 11th. The Captain invited a colored stevedore, who was working on board his ship, to dine with him. For this he was tarred and feathered by a mob. The Coniul acquits the authorities of all blame, and charges the outrage to a mob coamittee. The incorporation of the Tariff principle in the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy will destroy it in the estimation of some ot its best friends. Free trade and African slave trade were the doctrines upon which it started out, and when they are ignored, the whole scheme is an abortion. The managers were afraid of direct taxation, and therefore are surienderlng their vital principles. General Scott, It is said, has been tendered the services of over one hundred thousand cit izens of Pennsylvania, in ca3e a resoit to arms Is necessary to preserve the Union.
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