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REV. DR. CAHILL'S LETTER.
"TO THE RIGnT HON. LORD VISCOUNT
- : rALMEKSTON.'
" Judge Kane, of rhiladelpbia, had teen hear
ing evidence in regard to the alleged recruiting
for the British army in tho United States. One
jf the chief witnesses was a Mr. Sirobel, wliose
evidence contains sonie extraordinary, if true, dis
closures. This man Strobel, whose social stand
ing appears to have been such tht .Sir Gaspard
Lo Marchant asked him to dinner, and the officers
of tho "Cth regiment associate! with him on
terms of equality, swears psoitively that a plan
for he enlistment of men iu tho United States for
tho British service was concocted by Mr. Cramp
ton, tho Gjvornors of the British Provinces, and
himself, and that a commencement of enlistments
was inada under it."
IiATH?ARXlIAX. Oct. 23, 1855.
Mr Lohd . The American papers of last
Saturday week have brought to this country
the abounding intelligence contained in the
extract just quoted $ and two n.a'.Is havj siuca
arrived from New York, whi!c ihe facta re
ferred to remain up to this day uncontradic
ted. So, my lord, you have advised your
ambassador. Mr. Cramptou to enlist the Irish
in America. You want them now in order
to recruit your wasted army iu tho Crimea,
or to garrison the growing weakness of your
distant colonies. Glory be to God! that the
43atiablti cruelty of English law, in extermi
nating and banishing the poor, faithful Irish,
is now forced to acknowledge the national
crime, by employing your ambassador to seek
their return. Heaven be for ever praised !
that the perfidy of Lord John Ilussell's ad
ministration (your former chief in the perse
cution of Ireland) is now exposed before the
withering scorn of all the nations of the civil
ised world. So, you now offer a bounty, and
pay, and the Queen's uniform, to the despised
exiles, whom iriibiu the last Pfven years your
administration starved, aud jibed, and ban
ished. I thank eternal retributive justice in
Hhc present instance, in thus compelling the
public executioner of my country to confess
wilh his own uuiuUiius cruelty to Ireland. I
grateful to tho unerring laws of the Su
premo Arbiter of nations that the conspirator
against the religion and tho prosperity of Ire
land stands at this moment jibbetted by his
own coufession on the pillar of public scorn.
Hut, Sir, besides the cruelty, there is an
irreclaimable indecency in your ordering tho
enlistment of the Irish in America. You
held office under Lord John llussell, during
the years of the cholc;a, the famine, the ex
termination, sn 1 the expulsion of tho hated
race. In those days of uational woe, when a
heart of teel would be melted in seeing wail
ing thou3aads sw?rm all the shores of your
country iu mournful or wild despair, you
would not pay an inspector to examine the
leaking ship, nor would you appoint a sur
geon to stay the ravages of disease, and save
the lives of these illfatcd aud unhappy chil
dren of Ireland. No ; you would not you
certainly would not. And now, when you
. want the ail cf their faithful hearts and their
"invincible courage, you .meanly flatter the
warm bosoms which you lately despised ; and
you perfidiously seek the service of the noble
nature which you cruelly baniahed. Beyond
all doubt you permitted the savatra exteriiiiua-
"tor, the ruthless ship captain, "th 2 sinking
resxel, and the terrors of the tempest,, to ban
ish, drown, and kill more than one million
and 'a half of my friendless countrymen.
The graves ia Gross Island, where ten thous
and abandoned victims lie the abysses of the
Atlantic, where many a broken-hearted faith -
r, mother, and child mingle their whitened
"bones, amid the foundations of the deep, bear
: melancholy testimony of the reckless hatred
and the ferocious bigotry which depopulated
Ireland during the years of your former sub
ordinate office.,- You are decidedly an accom
plice in this Irish calamity ; and with such
delinquency on your head, where can human
tongue or pencil find languacro or coloring
sufficiently descriptive of the tshauielessncss of
. the man who could now stand at the corner of
the streets of XV ew Orleans and Philadelphia
offering a bribe to the survivors of your ex
pulsion, pressing "by perfidious promises into
England's service the living remnant of mis
rule and shipwreck, and armincr with the
sword of England tts very wen on whose
necks, but a few years ago, jour laws would
prefer to tie the hangman's rone? Honceal.
palliate, explain this conduct sn von will it
;places England and yourself in a position of
iu .uuTOincy wuicu is discreditable to
the nation: it is a crime which your greatest
enemy can never exaggerate by calumny, nor
uiuaai uneiter ever exceed in
slander. . .
The apologists of the government and your
blends may arrest that the lands of Ireland
are held by lease, as in some ether countries
and hence that the extermination complained
of is the legitimate result of property and land
tenure. .. I deny the parallel between Ireland
.and any other country on the face cf the
globe ; because the landlords of Ireland, in a
majority of .instances, are Orange men or big
hts, sworn to exterminate the Catholic popu
nation, if ttey. can? while the landlords of
, other nations sustain,- aid, and protect . their
W7 ,ther??re the .comparison ' of the
uure oi. land in intlm '.rvtir,t-w,a Mnnnn-'V.A
SBnllait T , 1 vvuuuiwi, wuva lie
?P " .IreW-l-till yoti make ths landlords
both cases resemble each other, or till yon
give to the Irish Catholic tenant a legal and
equitable protectioa against the ferocity of
the Orange aristocracy tilllhen they have
the clear poer of depopulating Ireland and
killing the Queen's subjects. Asajvroof of
the logical accuracy of thfcso statements, I
appeal to the history of ixodern nations, and
fearlessly challenge even one instance, where
two millions of human beings have been un
housed, banished, and killed,' in any one
country, within the period of seven years :
and all this fu assise ire planned, carried on,
and "executed by a steady machinery, which
has reduced to powder the obnoxious race
with the same mechanical and unerring result
as -a mill grinds corn. The tenancy of other
coMtries, under their landlords, as compared
with this country, bear the same resemblance
to each other as a flock of sheep nnder the
care of the shepherd" and In the slaughter" !
house of the wolf. Oh, Sir, it is idle to talk
of the duties of property towards a Catholic
population, while a persecuting aristocracy
own the land ; and therefore any minister of ;
the crown who quietly looks on, while the
people are decimated, is a willing accomplice
in this legal massacre.
But wait awhile, my Lord. China cocks,
Durham pigs, Kent rams, and short-horned j
bulls, are now the fashion in all our towns : !
special trains, courteous directors, dejenuers
a la fourcliette, viceregal rhetonic, balls, and
mangelworzel, have with a skillful variety ta
ken the place of tho poor honest population,
the old piper, and the merry dance. But ;
wait awhile, and England and Lord Lieuten
ant', and noble graziers may soon learn the
approaching paralyzing fact that pigs can
not handle a rifle, that rams cannot discharge
the cannon, that bullocks cannot man a ram
part, and that tho modern scheme of herds
and flocks, and no men, is a mistake which,
in the just ways cf divine vengeanco, may
yet humble England to the dust, and make
her lick the ground in slavery under the op
pressive sway of a foreign master. Wait
awhile, nous vcrrons.
At each annual reunion of those agricultu
ral spectacles, it mcaas, Ireland , that tho
scheme of extermination is successfully ad
vancing that large grazing farms are pro
gressing that the people are disappearing.
It is now the rage to convert the soil of Ireland-
into immense bullock and sheep parks,
and as a proof of her steady advance of the
system, we must recollect the facts viz.,
that one hundred and ninety-six thousand Irish
left Ireland in '52 one hundred and iifty
thousand in '53 and one hundred and eleven
thousand in '54 ! And, therefore, where the
population of pigs and bullocks is recorded by
the secretaries of these societies as an impo
sing aud triumphant proof of the rapidly lm
.provng, condition ojE Ireland, it stands pre
cisely as an evidence of equal value to demon
strate the frightful depopulation of the coun
try. The entire aud wle aim of these socie
ties in Inland is to advance the landlords and
to expel the tenantry it is to encourage the
growth of black cattle and live stock, and to
diminish in the same ratio the census of the
people. There is uo aristocratic anuual meet
ing to wovk the mints of Ireland, to encour
age labor, to advance commerce, or to foster
trade ; everything which could even remotely
make the people happy is cruelly omitted,
and a plan which has the appearance of na
tional advantage adroitly and persevcringlj
introduced, in order to cover the withering
expulsion of the whole Irish population.
Ancient history furnishes one instance of
national insane recklessness, which can be
compared with the sanguinary English frolic
of first exterminating and then attempting to
enlist the expelled Irish. Previou.-ly to the
subjugatiou of Greece to the lloinan power,
the Greek legislature (so like England) fear
ing that their numerous slaves would join the
Romans, put all their farm slaves to death,
and never recovered the famine, which lesulted
from their massacre. And, without urging
the facts of history beyond the legitimate de
ductions of logic, there can bs no doubt that
England al?eady feels, and shall soon, very
soon, feel in her very heart's core that the ex
pulsion of one million and a half of the Irish
peasantry is a freak of Protestant policy which
denudes her empire cf the necessary military
force, which reduces her to a mere auxiliary
force in the Crimea, and which humbles her
to a state of acknowledged and slavish depen
dence and subserviency, to tho supreme and
arbitrary will of France. Oh, God ! what an
army lies on the bottom of the Atlantic, and
in the Irish gravepits, where the most infa
mous persecution has buried at least three hun
dred thousand of the finest men that ever the
world saw. It' there be justice in Heaven,
and if there be revenge for incredible crime.
there must be a fate reserved for England
commensurate with the multitudinousuess of
her national crimes, and which the full chalice
of her iniquities to Ireland, must Boon call
forth in the palpable catastrophe of national
chastisement.
My Lord, will you kindly inform the fath
ers and mothers of Ireland how manv of their
banished children you have recruited for Eng
land in America : do, Lord Palmerston. do.
tell us, the success of your officer, Mr. Cramp-
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ton '. uo, oir, teu us, now many men trom
Clare, from Mayo, from Meath, from Skib
bereen, have joined your ambassador ? But
if the ambassador fail in his sewme' why do
you not employ your former friends and com
panions, Gavazzi, Acluln, Astrazzt, Mazzini,
Kossuth, and Cicerouecchio ? You cannot
fail, my lord, in your scheme, as vou can be.
by your former associates in European and
English policy.' ,Wby not enlist a refreshing
uauauon trom your quondam correspondents,
the ' free corps" bf Switzerland who sacked
the ' convents, robbed ' Mount St. - Bernard.
banished priests, and killed " nuns. Verily,
my lord, you are the man to recruit tor Eng-.
land, from amongst your virtuous and moral
bands of the Continent. ' ' : .
..,T$ut you have the foreign German Legion;
..j 1 .I . r j . . 1.
I auu ju uiti ta oartuaian contingent, most
dear to England, since they have confiscated
church property, expelled bishops, closed con
vents, and imitate your own Henry and "Som
erset. But these legions and these contin
gents, besides losing at present three millions
sterling by them, demonstrate that England
has no army of her own to defend your em
pire ; and, again, they prove, that having no
military capital at home or abroad as a first
rate power, she is henceforward doomed to
be the tool of France, the slave of a predomi
nant nation, an old diseased skeleton, having
nothing left of her former vigor,' exoo-pt the
inherent and inseparable marrow of Protes
tant bigotry and persecuting intolerance.
Pray, tell me, mv lord, . whether Mr.
Crampton intends coming to Ireland to recruit
for the Crimea ? I can refer him to certain
districts in Ireland where men of his kidney
mav be likely to find recruits for the honor
and safety of England. Perhaps you would
think of sending him to Dingle, where the :
Soupers have purchased some Catholic souls
at ten shillings apiece. The contingent, with
corrupt Bible in one hand, a sword in the
other, and perjury in their mouths, would
charge the enemy with more courage than
the Connaught Rangers? lie might try
Kells, in the country Meath ; examine the
eoup kitchens in Connemara, look in on the
Island of Achill, and learn as he passes along
how much the Queen s name has been exalted
in Ireland by her clergy publishing tracts of
blasphemy, formeuting rebellion, and collec
ting tens of thousands of pounds from the
gullable English to turn the Gospel into re
venge and to worship Uod by a lie.
Ah ! my lord, the bigotry, the insolence.
the iufidelity, and the hypocrisy of England,
are detected at last : and your servant, Mr
Crampton, under your command, is merely a
1 cal tool in your hands, endeavoring to rem
edy the results of a system in this country
which shall soon, very soon, end in the just
and final degradation of England. Oh, Lord !
how long ? Yes, there is truly an indecency
in this enlistment in America : it is a reckless
defiance of all the honorable feelings of socie
ty. What would be thought of the man who,
having murdered a parent, would then em
ploy his orphan child to polish the sword with
which his father was assassinated? Yes, I
repeat again and again, it is most indecent of
you to originate this unfeeling outrage on the
broken heart of Ireland : and now this cruel
freak has been received in America will best
appear from the following extract from the
Aeifl York Herald, a high Republican jour
nal : Mr. Crampton owes it to himself and
to the character he has borne during his long
residence at Washington to explain this mat
ter, if he can, in such a manner that will sat
isfy the public. Some such explanation is
not less due to tho country ho represents.
Nothing would be more likely to embitter tho
feeling on this' side of the water than an im
pression that the Queen's government is so
contemptuously reckless of our laws as to au
thorize their systematic infringement by the
highest British functionaries in America."
1 intend, at my convenience, to Write a se
ries of letters on your past and present career
-not that 1 consider you an able "statesman
-you are an artful debater rather than a con
summate politician but I addrecs myself to
you because I look on your lordship as the
exponent of a policy which, sooner or later,,
will bring ruin on your country, Louis PhiU
ippe onco said of you, that "such was your
obstinacy of temper, that you would reckless
ly expend the last shilling in the British treas
ury, and fire the last shot in her locker, soon
er than yield even to reason." But, if he had
added that you were a Christian without any
defined creed, and a politician without a fixed
principle, he would have most justly ' defined
jour lordship's public character. I have
taken it into my head that I know you better
than any living man : and I dare say I should
surprise yourself were I to produce the docu
ments I co aid Bustain the definition already
given of your lordscip's inherent and essen
tial official characteristics. I look upon you
to be the most disastrous minister that Eng
land has ever selected in her policy, and cou-
cons.der you, beyond all comparison, to be the
greatest and the most perfidious enemy thd
Catholic Church has ever had either in ancieut
or modern times. You sometimes throw a
bone adroitly, to be picked by a hungry aspi
rant of Catholic fame you occasionally fling
a sprat on the political current, by which you
Bucceed in catching some silly fools, who are
ignorant of your crafty skill ; but with this
occasional semblance of petty concessions,
you are of all living men, if you dared, the
most willing accomplice to forge the chains
and rivet the fetters on the Catholics of the
whole world. . Who can forget the speeches
which were Uttered by you and Lord John
Russell at the close of the last session of par
liament? Ihe mean and cowardly attack on
the Pope pronounced by you both can never
be forgotten t and the motive which prompted
these combined orations is as transparent as
your known hatred of Catholicity. Of Lord
John Russell it may be said, that it is a pity
he has suivived the year '50. Like an old
actor, once the Jupiter of the stage, but fal
line bv degrees till at length he fills the offics
of snuffing the candles at the theatre, he has
sunk below himself and below notice, and
now Btands,. by the public decision, for the
Zero of political consistency and national
honor. ' i '
,' In your ! speech at the close of parliament
in last August, you attack the weakness
afld the tyranny (as you called it") of the Papal
government, and of the King of Naples."
Aye, you saw that the King of Sardinia had
confiscated church property, and imprisoned
and banished bishops, had closed convents,
and had blasphemously laid hands upon the
consecrated rights of aires, vou. therefore.
concluded . that . the wicked King would be
consigned to the just reprobation of the church
of which he is a member for this public sacri
lege ; and hence, as the true exponent of the
principles . of English ecclesiastical spoliation.
Your lordship, taking up tbs xpiring ebor8
of Russell's bigotry,' closes the session of the
last Parliament by palliating tho lobbery. by
praising the plunderer, and by launching at
the head of the church and the Catholic King
of Naples the stereotyped abuse and historical
lies, of which no one can command a more op
ulent conital than the preseut premier of Eng
land. What a study of incongruities do vou
present in your official personalities ! You
appoint a Catholic chaplain in Ireland, and at
t'je same time you try to unpope Pio the Ninth
in Italy ! You give liberty of Catholic wor
ship in a gaol in Ireland, and you denounce
Gatholic doctrine on the continent I You pro
tect a Catholic convent at home, and you de
molish all conventual life abroad 1 You lick the
ground after a Catholic Emperor ia France,
and you spit in the face of a Catholic King in
Naples ! - Your words are all peace, but your
tti;Bs to all discord! You the advo
cate of all constitutional law at home, and
you are the personal friend of all the revolu
tionists abroad ! x ou advise a universal calm.
and you always appear as in a storm. Your
lordship resembles 44 Mctber Carey's Chick
ens" on sea ; you are the harbinger of bad
weather : your appearance foretells disaster :
you delight in shipwrecks ; you live amid de
serted rocks, and you grow fat on the dead
bodies cast upon shore nit turn dispar swi.
In my conscience I look on your conduct
during the Russell administration as the prin
cipal cause of the continuation of the present
war. You encouraged the devolution cf Hun
gary by perfidious promises of English co-op
eration you drove Sardinia into a war of
usurpation you kissed the hand of Kos
suth, the most unprincipled political wretch
in existence your spies maligned the reli
gion, the laws, the customs of Austria
your press slandered the court and the Empe
ror and you have, by a policy peculiar to
yourself, as the Captain Rock of Europe, driv
en the enmity of that Catholic Empire into
unmitigable revenge against England ; and,
as if to add mockery to your republican poli
cy. Lord John Russell is sent to negotiate a
peace, and to induce Austria iLii most in
sulted and outraged kingdom to enter into a
coalition with England ! while it is notorious
to every diplomatist in Europe that Austria
would prefer a coalition with ltussia, or with
any nation on the earth, 60oner than form a
national alliance, and trust the known perfidy
of England. I say you have incurred the ir
radicable enmity of Austria you have pre
vented an alliance with her you have lost
her assistance in the present struggle you
have given strength to Russia, and in my soul
I look upon you, from your revolutionary
conduct, as the principal accomplice in the
destruction of the allied armies of the Crimea.
Has it ever occurred to your lordship, in
reading the continental journals, in studying
the speeches of . ministers, and observing the
conduct of cabinets, that you have :;ever heard
any abase of the Queen of .Lng'and never
observed any officer of any court advise the
confiscation of what you call your church pro
perty never knew any ministerial papers to
be paid for unceasing calumny of the -hnghsh
court, of the English religion, of English
manners? .And, again, has the idea ever
presented itself to you, that no Catholic coun
try has ever employed lying liible-readers,
has ever nired clerical slanderers to visit the
houses in England, or in any other Protestant
Country, and by tracts of blasphemy, by a
forge of infamy, passing all credibility, prom
ulgating lies against everything Protestant?
One moment s reflection will teach vou the
contrast between England and Catholic Eu
rope on this irritating subject ; and if (as I
can assure you) Catholicity feels deeply woun
ded by this lyinj practice of infidel Protes
tantism, will you tell me how has our gracious
Queen leen able, at her " lata visit, to look
France in . the face, or how can you have the
hardihood to raise your eyes in the presence of
your master and England's present superior,
the .Emperor Napolean? Be assured, my
lord, these arc questions of deeper import
than strike the eye at first sight. - You ridi
culed France when you thought France was
we?ik. You now flatter France when you see
France is strong. Your press despised the
Emperor when you fancied he was an outcast,
and now you fawn on him when the canon of
Boulogne is heard r in Saint James's and the
Champ de Mars, under a French sun and a
French sky, reveals the glancing sheen of one
hundred thousand lifted spears in the presence
of your Queen But, then, the royal entente
cordiale is a guarantee for future peace ! !
aye when England found it her interest to
strike France, she did so, ar an expiring voice
from St. Helena has told ; and, believe me,
when France shall find it her interest to re
turn the blow, that same voice will sound in
the ears of France like the summons of resur
rection, and arm millions of her children in
coats of steel to avenge tho national stain, or
advance the imperial interest. Aye, entente
cordiale ! Tshaw 1 Wait, my lord, till the
Crimea shall be evacuated wait till France
takes possession of Asia, and plant her eagle
on Turkish soil firmly and time will tell the
tale that your petty auxiliary battalions,
with their Btupid commanders in dreamy sen
ility, shall be ordered home by your, imperial
master, giving to England, of course, some
commercial advantages, but keeping for France
tho possession of the soil which she alone has
iron, and pushing her conquests aud their real
glories as far as the Indus. In fact. England
deserves from France merely the freight of
her ships in deporting the munitions of war.
Her ofiice has been that of carrier to the
French army She was laid at tho Alma
she was asleep at Inkermann and she owes
her life, beyond doubt, on that occasion, to
the trench sho was mad at Ualaklava, and
she was beaten at the Redafl."
And how could it be otherwise ? All her
generals are all Swaddlers to a man they are
all old Bible-readers, tract-distributors, street
preachers. arid psalm 6irigers. ' Between the
gout and tha Bible, they were late every
where, and be&ted every where. Old Haglan
was id bed at Inkermanri -eld Simpson pray
ing in a trench at the storming of tho Redan
and old Burgoyne laid up in the gout, while
the men walked trp to the middle in mud, in
last winter, as they staggered, laid down, and
died on their way from the shore to the camp.
And, as an illustration of the irradicable and
incomprehensible disease of Swaddling inhe
rent in the nature of these old jibbering gen
erals, they have never, in one instance, borne
testimony, or s -.id one little kind Word in their
despatches of the invincible courage of tho
poor Irish who stood in the front rank of ths
raging battle who flew with lightning fash
against the red iron shower of death, and, with
an Irish cheer from their faithful hearts, buri
ed their victorious steel in the bosom of the
enemy, and saved, and won, the day. Yet,
not a word of praise from the English or Sco'ch
generals the old gouty chiefs the hoary, gen
ii, armed Swaddlers in the Lord.
But the time may not be far distant when
the Irish people and Irish courage may re
ceive more patronage when England will re
cover from the gout when the Protestant
clergy will learn to preach sermons, and not
Grange orations and when the mania of lies,
and Swaddling, and Biblical bazaars, and
Protestant lace, and Lutheran hosiery, and
evangelical needle-work, shall cease to be a
national necessity, and be succeeded by a
compulsory voioe of truth, shame and common
sense. . .
Ireland has fallen into a lethargy, within
the last eight years, from the paralysis of fam
ine and persecution ; she has lost her speech
from the terrible stroke, and she can never
forget that while lying in her bed of sickness,
the treacherous Protestant Church Bent her
emissaries to try and rob her of her faith in
her last struggle of existence, and thus to add
damnation to death. But I here counsel
Ireland, now that her present living children
have escaped the national grave, to resume
their former energies, to meet eiery week in
Dublin, to raise the old shout of defiance
against your English bigotry ; and I under
take to say that within two years the Protes
tant Church Established will begin to crumble
before the indignant combination of all clas
ses; and the tyranny of England will crouch
to the voice of nuited Irishmen under the ap
proaching pressure of European policy.
I have the honor to be your lordship's obe
dient servant,
D. W. Caiiill, D.D.
K NOW-NOTHING COX VENTION AT LoCISVIXUS.
There was a Mass Meeting of Know-Nothings
at Louisville last Tuesday. The Times
speaks thus of one of the speakers:
Gen. Williamson, of Pennsylvania, was
announced for a speech, when a snobbish
looking man, with an enormous wig, made his
appearance and announced, to the great de
light of his audtenee, that ho was all right
on the goose." We never heard of Gen.
Williamson before; but as he was introduced
as a specimen of Pennsylvania Samism, we,
with great patience, listened to his tiresome
harangue in the hope that the opinion of Penn
sylvania Samon the Nebraska bill would be
revealed. But on that question the martial
spirit of Pennsyvania was most prudently
The nearest he came to an ex
pression of opinion upon that subject was, j
that after the Know-Nothings have elected J.
the I'r.sident, ana a151.nuu1.eu mc uwsiucj
would enter upon a consideration of the sla
very question, and so settle it as to preserve
the Union. . . . . - .
Immense applause greeted this portion of
the orator's speech, and he took his seat amidst
the highest demonstrations of approbation on
the part of Bartlett & Co.
It says further 1 . t . ,
Altogether, the Convention has been a
failure. The number in attendance was small,
and the speaking unsuSerable. It ha3 been
a uuii, ce vy, siupiu auair uiuujuuui,
the only thing accomplished by it - has been
Mncnnintinn of an intolerable quantity of
bad whisky, and the expansion of a large
amount of foul breath. It is the last kick of
44 Sam" in Kentucky. Peace to his ashes,
and his soul to the devil who gave it.
K TliVRTimrs CorxTEiirElT. We saw ves-
terdav (says the Philadelphia Ledger of the
23d) a 5 bank bill 01 tne t nuaaeipma xan
altered to a 20, and the alteration so skil
fully done, that persons unacquainted with
the notes of that bank would bo likely to be
deceived. This ntite, which is a genuine $5
altered, may be detected by holding it to the
light and observing the difference of shading
in the figures 20.. which is lighter than the
general shades of the note. A mors certain
mark of detection, however, is in tho differ
ence of the vignette. On the fives, in the
upper left corner, there is a vignetls of two
reclining female figures, with the Goddess of
Liberty between them, and on tho right hand
of the note, a female figure. Beated, with a
bird and globe in her right Land and a spear
in the left. In the twenties there are two
beds of, Washington above, two female fig
ures, sail vessel on right, houses on left, spread
eale below ; a likeness of Franklin on tho
right end of the note, and a bust of William
Penn on the left end. As this altered note
has ihe pictorial representation belonging to
the five dollar bills, persons may easily fee
that it is not a twenty, as it purports to be.
Value 67 the Grass Caor. Governor
Wright, of Indians; says our grass crop is not
properly aFPreCiatci1, cr0P' 6 J"8 ap"
t,. c,-. nonr & jmonianeous v'eld. and
none yields so large a profit. The hay crop of
r . . 10CA t O AAA
the United otatcs in ioou was uvrr io.vw,
aaa fXf 1 PftS ha i?sttmatcs at IS.
UUV tVUPj l-U.M v
000,000, which is worth 150,000,000,
while the wholo cotton crop is valued at
$128, 660, 000. Of this crop more than half
is produced by the four States, New York,
(which yfclds one-fourth of the whole,) Ohio,
Indiana and IHincis. Tho grass crop which
is used for pasturage is at least as valuable ;
so that this 6'ingle herb is wrtli annually taoro
than thrc huodrcd oiClicTis ef dollars.. .
An Affecting- Story A CLH1 Lost
A child of Frankliu Gray, of Proatoa
county, Va., (two years of age) attempted to
folic w iU father to a neighbor's, a mil dist
ant. The mother, missing tha child, became
alarmed, and at onca instituted search. She
followed her husband, but heard no tidings of
the lost one. . Father and mother, spreading "
the alarm, joined by ajmpathizii-g neighbors,
set out on a search, aud all that day and
night they continued the search, but morning
came, and still the little wanderer was cot
found. Court was in session at Kingwood.
(the county seat.) and on Saturday morning
adjourned to allow all in attendanoe to aid in
restoring the child to its anxious perenU.
The party numbering now about 200 persons,
searched the woods all day, but sot till the
hunt had been well nigh abandoned, as even
ing was coming on apace could any inform
tion be had of the child's condition or where
abouts. . Mr. B Hawley, as he was returning
home, and within half a mile of Mr. Gray's
house, found ths child, but it was dead It
had perished - from exposure, having been
without food, wandering in the cold dreary
woods from Friday morning.
Shocbuso MraoEa va Savannah. A most
shocking murder was perpetrated last niuht,
about half-past nine o'clock, at the Arbor Bil
liard Saloon, on Bryan street, kept by Mr. J.
M . llay wood. On repairing to the place some
twenty minutes after the occurrence, we found
a large concourse of persons assembled in the
saloon, and the body of a young man by the
name of Francis Hyatt, the bar-keeper, lylnR
upen the floor dead, having received a pistol
ball in his left temple.
The shot must have caused instant deata,
and the unfortunate young man lay upon the
spot where he had fallen. Uyatt, who cam
from New York to this city, is said to Lav
been a very quiet, inoffensive "young man.
From what we were able to learn, there ap
peared to have been no collision between hint
and the person who fired the fktal shot. Tba
proprietor of the establishment was absent at
the time, and only a few persons are known
to have "been present.
Three or four persons have leen arrested
and a preliminary investigation of the matter,
before Esquire Russell, was going on at the
barracks, when we left there at 12 o'clock.
We were, however, unable to learn any par
ticulars of a character sufficiently authentic
to justify our reporting them at this time.
Coroner Eden held an inquest on the body
of the murdered man, which resultad ia a
verdict that the deceased came to his deaVh
by a pistol shot fired by some persons bn
knewn to the jury. Savannah Air, A'o.
2A. -
Resolutions Returned. Governor Adaa .
of South Carolina," in his message to tho Le
gislature, says that he has returned the fcao
lutions 6en him by Massachusetts to - the
proper officers of that State. ' In explanation
he says : . -
44 Had Massachusetts confined herself to
resolutions expressive of her feelings and pur
poses in relation to slavery, ioipeit'.ncnt aa I
may have regarded them, I would have re
ceived them with indifference, ted transmitted
them withoi t comment; -ut I CDnsider. the
acts cf her late Legislature as an insult and
an outrage upon evt-ry member of the Confed
eraey, who has a right to demand the enforce
ment of the fugitive slave act. . A State
whose Legislature deliberately, unblushing'y.
impiously violates her constitutional obliga
tions and whose people resist tho execution of
law, even to the shediirg of blood, is uot en
titled to . comity. from us ; - and I feel that I
would have. betrayed the dignity of my trust
had I hesitated to affix on such cocduct the
eeal of official condemnation. The interchange
of civilities with a people who feel it to he no
dishonor to pre vert the recovery of stolen
property, will hardly reclaim the faultless,
and is incompatible from the respect which
honesty owe3 to itself."
Marks on. Newspapers. We Je&rn from
the Washington Star that it has been decided
by the Post OiEce Department that a mere
mark above or around an advertisement or
other article tn a nw"fopcr docs. not subject
tho newspaper, to letter postage; as by such
mark no additional information is either asked
for or communicated. This however, -should
not.be understood as allowing any device to
be used by which information is asu'ed for cr
given. Any device a letter or figure, for
instance to indicate the period of subscrip
tion' has expired, cr is about to e-pire, is a
clear vijlation cf law, subjecting the paper to
lettet postage by weight ; and if that is not
paid, tho Postmaster of the oEce of delivery
is required to return the paper to the mailing
office for prosecution. Tho penalty is fire
dollars.
. 3T"A Boston correspondent of tho Neir
York Evening Post gives an insight into the
workings of tho Prohibitory Liquor Law in
Massachusetts, lie saj-s: ' The obstinacy
of juries, in liquor cases is on the increase,
and is extending over Ih'e State. IIa!f-a-dos-en
cases have failed in Franklin county,
though Judge Bishop told tho jury that it was
their duty tj convict, if they were eat'ufied as
tthefucts. Tha law is the dcadeit of dead
litters"
E&s'.era Eaukj Tumhlng.
Telegraphic dispatches state that the follow:
mg banks wero mrown om m wowu.
lthode L'iand Central Bank,
Ellsworth Bank. Maine,
Orno "
Searspo'rt 44
Royalton Bank, Vermont,
Peoplo's Bank of Danby Line, Vermont.
3T A western editor cautions ti tall
readers against kusiog short women, m the
habit hae rendered him round eaoulderd.
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