u u
a
and you sought in vain through their writ
ten laws and legal customs for any trace
of Africa. Contrast their condition of to
day with our own. Look at what they
are. They are degraded and brutal ; their
main characteristics are love of ornament
and show ; they have not a form of gov
ernment such as we have ; religion is al
most unknown ; heathenism is running
riot through the land, and sensuality
reigns supreme. Ilayti is rapidly retro
grading into barbarism. Tho negro's
happiness, his chief delight, as his char
acter has unfolded itself in that island is
whnt it is here and w hat it is in its native
land : idleness and an apparently instinc
tive bloodthirstiness are its attributes. I
refer you to the numberless revolutions
and massacres that have Recurred fhere,
and I assert that his highest delight is in
massncreing his species. If evidence is
wanting, it may be found upon every page
of the history of emancipated Ilayti.
Hostility to the foreigner is a ruling pas
sion with the llaytian ; agriculture is
abandoned, their commerce is dying out,
and their population is decreasing with a
rapid tendency to convert the whole coun
try into a forest.
I read from Mr. Mackenzie's Report
in 1S30. In 1803 Ilayti was placed
entirely under the control of the blacks,
and in 1830 Mr. Mackenzie reported to
the English govcrmcnt as follows:
"lu 1780, there were exported 141,
089,831, pounds of sugar, 7,004,27-1
pounds of cotton and 70,835,210 pounJs
of eotlec. In 1820 there were exported
."52,801 pounds of sugar, 020,972 Kiunds
of cotton and 32,180,785 pounds of cof
fee.". There is a consideration of some impor
tance in this connection bearing upon the
position that I assume, that is, that sugar
(the production that is most palpably di
minished) requires constant toil in its cul
tivation ; while coffee (that maintains its
status better) grows wild through the coun
try. The latter has continued an article
of commerce and is largely exported. The
plow does not exist. The gold and other
mines there are being neglected ; the ma
chinery is worn out or allowed to rot out ;
the forests are returning. Ilayti is rece
ding from the light of civilization ; the
people are becoming savage ; their habits
are disgusting and heathenish. The con
dition of Ilayti re-asserts the position that
I maintain, that this race have no capacity
for progress- Look at Mexico ; see what
a conglomeration of revolutions is there ;
see the degeneracy of that country : the
legitimate result of a commingling of blood.
See Central America and the Spanish col
onies south all these furnish additional
evidences of the truth of the fact I assert.
LEARN BY EXPERIENCE.
Let us then be warned by the experience
of the past taught by the lessons of his
tory. If (lod's law be the elevation of
humanity, let us continue to elevate our
selves and with Christian charity aid those
below us to climb the ascending jrrade. If
the law of the world be the law of pro
gress, let us be satisfied with the proud
position we enjoy, trying no new path but
energetically moving upward in our yet
bright career. Let us not fetter ourselves
by halting midway to enable the African
to reach us. Let us be wise and perse
vere the sovereignty of our race. Let us
estimate it at its true value and refuse to
share it with those of whom history is
silent, whose land is voiceless, whom vour
own exjierienoe teaches are your inferiors,
upon whom privileges are lo.-t, and whom
the mournful lessons of a century have
but served to demonstrate their inertness
and stolidity. Chain is not to "the
r.OIA" OF THIS DEATH."
on: position toward the president.
Let ine reply to an attack which the
Senator fix m Erie has made upon my
friend, the Senator from I Jerk?, Mr. Cly
mer," and impliedly upon myself. The
Senator attempts to show that in 1SC3
the Senator from Perks voted against
granting the use of these hulls to Andrew
Johnson, then I'rovisional Governor of
Tennessee. He forgot to state, sir. that
the Democratic party represented upon this
noor, introduced as an amendment to that
resolution a proposition granting it also to
George P. McClellan, applause, which
was voted down by the Republican party
here, as the record will show. We there
fore voted against the resolution in to-to.
Jiut, sir, to go beyond that, I hold it a
duty as a member of a party that have
principles, to extend the hand of fellow
ship to every man who places himself
upon those principles and whether he be !
peasant or President, to sustain him with
all my ability, with all my force, in car
rying out and successfully vindicating !
those principles. If this be the position of j
President Johnson, he has our right hand '
of fellowship ; if it be not his position, he !
Las our opposition. '
HATE ; A RAO POLICY. j
Ix't me now turn for a moment to some !
of the arguments of the Senator from '
Bradford. He says, sir, "the people of '
the South have no rights that we should !
respect save to be Lung and to be damn
ed, lhis is his very language. I re- '
gret, sir, that such language as this should '
come from the lips of any Senator. !
Mr. LANDON. I quoted that as the j
language of Governor Prownlow, of Ten- !
nessee. It was not original with me. '
Mr. WALLACE. The Senator by !
using it becomes responsible for its senti- '
ment. j
"TLey have no rights ; they are to be '
hung and to be damned." Alas ! Is this '
the nineteenth century and are wc enligh
tened men ? Sir, go back to subjugated
Hungary, to conquered Poland, and sec
there men, trodden in the dust, with the
heel of tyranny upon them ; see there the
sore oppression of the Austrian and the
Russian upon the necks of those men,
who dared to rebel against a government
'that was above and not of them ; and say
if you want to repeat in this country the
scenes that have been there enacted. I
trust that )our soberer moments, your
more serious reilection will cause you to
blush at such language, to shudder at
such doctrines and to remember that "to
err is human, to forgive divine." Sir,
the Senator had upon his lips at almost
the same moment the expression, "beaut'
fur ashes, the oil of joy for mourning."
If, with the ability that I know he pos
sesses, and out of respect for the vocation
that he professes, he had proclaimed the
doctrines of the sermon on the Mount and
of that glorious solution of the angels,
"Peace on earth, good will to men," he
would have been nearer, much nearer tha
position that he should occupy. Sir, the
hour for hate has passed and the hour for
forgiveness has come; they who are states
men should raise to the heighth of the oc
casion ; and however much their vindictive
passions might wish to wreak upon these
people just punishment, yet the good of
their country, the good of their race, the
future prosperity of four millions of blacks
and live millions of whites, depend upon
the adoption of some other policy.
A PLASTIC COVERNMENT.
Sirs, the Senator says that the Govern
ment is plastic a most convenient word,
pbistic that it may be formed and
moulded by the hand. And, truly, it is a
plastic Government aye, a plastic Gov
ernment when now, in obedience to King
Caucus, at Washington, a cabal of men
rule the nation irrespective of legislative
or executive functions, and take upon
themselves the power of a French Direc
tory. Well may you say the Govern
ment is plastic. Go back to the times of
1780, and remember that then the French
Government was plastic, too ; that it was
moulded and manipulated to suit th';
ideas of designing men, and used to op
press and destroy the people : and out of
it crime bloodshed fearful, awful, honi
b!e bloodshed. No, sir ; as has been
well said by the Senator from Perks, (Mr.
Clymer,) this is no plastic Government.
It is a government of law a government
of law that you and I swore to support
when we took upon us our duties in this
chamber ; and they in Washington have
unon them the same obligation. There is
to be no plastic government in this coun
try ; there are rights recognized by the
Constitution that are to be maintained:
the rights of individuals and the rights of
States. Sirs, the secessionists in 1SG1
undertook, by war and bloodshed, to
break up this Government, and they fail
ed ; four long, fearful years of struggle
saved the Government. Put your plastic
Government would now seek to do by un
constitutional legislation what the seces
sionists failed to do in four years of war.
Is not this so? Sirs, where now is your
rallying crj- ? Are you now for the Un
ion ? Or are you, in obedience to this ca
bal of men at Washington, under the lead
of Stevens, (immortal from liis ileeus in
these halls,) moulding your plastic Gov
ernment to sever and divide the Union ?
Is this so ? or is it not so ? Are 3 ou for
this Government as a whole, or are you
on the other side of the issue This is a
a question that must be answered some
time and somewhere.
THE COLORED SOLDIER.
The argument that the colored soldier
took his musket and did his mite for the
protection of the Government, has been
used, and is the great shibboleth in his fa
vor. The whole number of soldiers called
for from 1801 to 1SG5, as found in the"
report of the Secretary of War, was two
millions seven hundred and fifty-nine
thousand and forty-nine men, (2,750,0 10 ;)
and tho whole number received was two
million six bundled and fifty-eight thous
and five hundred and fifty-three (2,G58,
553.) The whole number of colored
troops enlisted is one hundred and seventy-eight
thousand nine hundred and seventy-live,
(17S,075) not quite 200,000,
as the Senator said. The greatest num
ber of colored troops in service at any
one time was 123,150 ; and that sirs, was
on the 15th of July last, some three
months after the rebellion ha'd been crush
ed. Laughter.
Suppose that these 123,150 men, about
whom so much noise is made, ("ami who
are said to have fought bravely,") suppose
that those 123,150 men were Yankees or
Dutchmen or Irishmen, how much would
they have been missed in the whole, two
million, six hundred and fifty-eight thous
and ? There are four millions of these
colored people, and out of these four mil
lions, one hundred and twenty-three thous
and carried the musket as against two
million and a half of the white freemen of
this Government, who took up their arms
and did battle bravely in its behalf. I
say that, comparatively considered, their
rights sink into utter insignificance ; and
Senators should be ashamed to prate
about the great deeds of the colored sol
diers. Sirs. I want to hear something of
the men who did the battle in the heat
and brunt of the day ; I want to hear
something of the men who, in all those
four years of strife, were constantly doing
all that they could ; and let us not ba told
only not be told only of the "heroism" of
a few who were mainly placed there
against their will. Pluck soldiers were
equal in bounties and pay with the white
soldiers. The colored man has been
emancipated. (Senators say I desire to
send him back into slavery. I pray 3 011
do not. commit me to that. I desire to
do no such thing.) The result is that the
black has bad his race emancipated while
the white man has had his Government
maintained. Let us be satisfied with ! the level of the African slave applause
these results. The black has obtained ; or to an equality with the colored man.
what, in the opinion of the .Senator from ' Sir, his blood shall be maintained in un
Erie, he fought for ; and the white man, j sullied purity. Erect in his manhood,
if you would believe him, has obtained ; protection in his labor and in his power
what he fought for ; because if you tell : of sovereignty, the white laborer in the
him that he fought to emancipate negroes
he will tell you "it is false," that is the
answer you will get from five-sixths of
them. Put if you tell him that he fought
to protect and defend the Government, he
will say, "that is so, that is what I went
j to do and what I did." The war is en
ded ; the Government is protected and the
black is emancipated, as a consequence of
the war. Shall I denounce the means
that brought about that civil war? Shall
I here express my judgment as to what
brought on that great calamity. The
men who initiated it North and South, I
denounce in unmeasured terms : Aboli
tionists and secessionists are equally guilty.
Great Applause A voice ; "That's
played out." Sirs, it may be "played
out" now, when the warnings of reason
and experience cannot yet obliterate the
consequences of that fanaticism ; and there
may be other things in jour rule and
reign "played out" too.
A AVAR OP RACE?.
Now, sir, what are you disposed to do?
To agitate. In 18G1, you proposed "to
agitate." You commenced "to agitate"
in 1830, and you have been agitating ever
since ; you agitated us to a war, and we
got through the war with an enormous sac
rifice of money and of blood ; and you
propose to agitate further. The entering
wedge is before us ; agitation is to contin
ue ; and we are to go on from bad to
worse until, as the Senator from Pradi'ord
tells us, it culminates in a war of races.
Heaven help the weaker when that day
comes. Sirs, the instinct of blood is stron
ger far than the lust for power. The in
stinct of blood possessed by the vitality,
the energy and the vim of the Anglo Sax
on, the Teuton, and the Celt in this coun
try will, when your culminating point has
! been reached, ride down, batter to pieces,
I break into utter fragments any race that
dares to raise its hand a-ainst them and
j ask for equal rights in the government. I
trust that a war of races is never to come
but I affirm, Senators, that you are driving
the entring wedge, you are increasing
the number of points at which these races
are to be thrown together. The points of
contact between the races are bein mul
tiplied, and the old fable of the iron pot
and the clay pot will repeat itself: in
every contest where the stronger comes in
competition with the weaker race, the
weaker must and will give way.
Mr. Jefferson says, (as quoted by Mon
sier Conseil,) that "nothing is more clearly
written in the book of destiny than tho
emancipation of the blacks, and it is equal
ly certain that the two races will never
hve in a state of equal freedom under the
1
same government, so insurmountable are '
the obstacle which nature, habit and opin- j
ions have established between them." j
This is the opinion of one who knew
both races.
the will of the people.
This bill, sir, proposes to grant the right
to vote to the negro in the District of Col
umbia, and to take from the hands of the
white men (because that is its practical
effect) the contol of that municipal gov
ernment. There are some fifteen thousand
negroes in the city and vicinity of Wash
ington, and seme eight or ten thusand vo
ters in the District. This gives the control
of the municipal affairs of the District to
the negro. I suppose they will be discreet
and not elect a negro as the lirst mayor.
It is a vital point in the argument, when
the people of a State or district, expressed
themselves in an emphatic manner against
a certain measure, it is an outrage to force
that measure upon them. The will o,the
people lies at the foundation of our Gov
ernment, and those who do not express that
are not truly the people's representatives.
It may be said that the men in Congress
were not elected by the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia. They were not : vet
they are, for all practical purposes, the
immediate representatives of that constit-uencj-,
and the will of that people ought
to be obeyed.
Mr. LOWRY. Who are the people?
MR. WALLACE. The white peo
ple of the District of Columbia.
Mr. LOWRY. The white people ?
Mr. WALLACE. Yes sir; the whites
have some rights left yet. The' have the
right to govern that District ; and until
they say they are willing that the negro
should partake" of those rights they should
not be compelled to share them with him.
protect the white i.arorer.
The policy of my state upon this sub
ject, sir, is my policy. In 1780, she
emancipated" the si aves that were here
and in 1838 she declared that the white
race should govern the State. I accord
to these people all their natural rights
the right of life, liberty, property and the
pursuit of happiness ; but I deny to them
political rights. I lis safety and the
maintenance of Our rights demand this.
This is a government made by white men
and to be so perpetuated. Sir, that flag
is the symbol of the majesty of a white
man's law, the herald of the capacity of
the white man for self-government. The
ballot is the emblem of the white man's
sovereignty. These shall never be bad
ges of a weaker race. Sirs, the proud
head, the honored neck of the white la
borer yes, the white i.arorer. for "to
this compaction doth it come at last"
shall never with my consent be bowed to
' shop, the field, the highway, the sover-
eign of the Republic, he shall be in the fu
ture, as in the past, the sinew of the
State, the vital element in the prosperity
of the nation.
TlrmfrrT.it itii Sfnfmr
j CLJHK AVILSOJV, Edltor& Proprlrloi.
! EPKXSIJURG, APRIL 5,:::7:7::il8GG".
I Fiji: governor.
' H1ESTER CLYMER.
Another Veto. President Johnson
I has vetoed the Civil Rights bill, a twin
j brother to the Freedman's Bureau bill, rc
i cently passed by Congress. The Presi
i dent, it seems, cannot be swayed from his
i course, but nobly stands by the Consti
i tution. All honor to Andrew Johnson.
Resignation of Senator Clymer.
1 Iarrisrerc, March 30, 1SCG.
Hon. David Fleming,
,2raler of the Senate of Pcnn-flvania :
Sin: I hereby resign my seat as Sena
tor representing the Sixth Senatorial dis
trict of this Commonwealth.
I had intended to forward 30U my res
ignation on Tuesday, the sixth day of this
month, but on examination of the election
laws I found that if a resignation takes
place at any time before the last fifteen
days of the session ol the General Assem
bly, it would be the duty of the Speaker
to issue his writ for a special election. As
by a joint resolution the day of final ad
journment has been fixed on the 12th day
of April, 1800, I have deferred informing
you of my intention until this day, in or
der that my district may be spared the
! Tses . incident to a special election,
which it is now too late to order.
You will believe me that I sever my
long connection with the body over which
you preside with feelings of deep personal
regret, constrained thereto by the new re
lations which I bear to my fellow citi
zens. For you, sir, and every member of the
Senate, I .-hall ever entertain the kindli
est feelings of personal regard and esteem.
I have the honor to be
Yours, very faithfully,
IIIESTER CLYMER.
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
The contest in Connecticut on the 2d,
was an exceedingly close one. It is clairn-
-,, . .. . rrif. n'Art - '
Will li.lVf nliiinl (.(III nr 'IflM ni-ii.mtu
The State Senate, is said to stand 14 Dis-
unionists to 7 Democrats, and the House
50 Disunion majority a loss of 4 in the
Senate and 20 in the House for the Dis
unionists, since 1801. New Haven elec
ted a Democratic mayor, Col. Sperry, by
a majority of 1,550. Hartford gave En
glish 312 majority a gain of 325 over
the Lincoln vote.
Conceding the figures to be correct, we
have no cause to be discouraged. The
I Democracy of Connecticut have made a
gallant fight ; and, though defeated by a
paltry few hundred, they have achieved
wonders. They have gamed about ten
thousand votes since last fill, when Buck
ingham beat Seymour by 11,035 votes.
This result is almost as glorious as a com
plete success. The Democracy had little
to hope for in any New England State,
but having made a gain of 3,500 in New
Hampshire, and about 10,000 in Connec
ticut, in one year, let us be hopeful and
tankful the tables are turnning the
hbtt h tide is foot rolling back .' Patriot and
I 'lUOTl.
The New Hampshire Trick. In his
I conversation with Messrs. Purr and In
! gersoll, of Connecticut, on the 23d ult.,
President Johnson exposed the chicanery
by which his enemies carried New Hamp
shire by a reduced vote. He said :
" The principles of my restoration pol
icy are fundamental. No man can ap
prove of my policy and that of Congress
at the same time. That is impossible.
In New Hampshire it was proclaimed that
both policies were supported, which of
course, could not be ; but after the elec
tion it was claimed that a radical victory
had been achieved.' He trusted the peo
ple would not now be deceived."
tST A negro in Paris, Kentucky, who
had outraged a white child ten years old,
and afterwards murdered her, was, on
Wednesday evening, taken by the citizens
from the jail and hung.
$SB A despatch to the Chicago Times
states that an order received from St.
Ijoui takes away War Department ad
vertising from all papers in that city that
hive baer. abusing the President.
Ca A man named Joseph C. Smith
committed suicide in Prooklyn, N. Y.,
yesterday, in consequence of losing all his
money through a swindle.
The Lincoln (Del.) Herald urges the
citizens of that State to modify the Con
stitution so far as to make intelligence, and
not color, the basis of suffrage.
James Ilammill, the famous Pittsburgh
oarsman, is going to England in May, to
have a trial with Harry Kelly, the cham
pion oarsman of that country.
We must suppose that men value red
noses, judging from the expense they are
to get them.
One of our exchanges gives an account
of a child being born with three tongues.
Our devil wants to know i it's a girl.
Ox Friday night last George White,
formerly belonging to the 1 2 th Virginia reg
iment, was knocked down, tied and gagged,
011 the old state road near Petersburg.
He was then robbed and loft in this con
dition. When he was found he was in
sensible from cold.
C3Mr. Geary, the Rump candidate for
Governor, is warmly supported by Stevens,
Forney, Kelly, and other advocates of ne
gro equality. One of hismst earnest ad
mirers is Fredrick Douglass. Geary is
their candidate on their platform and
if he should be elected, would be entirely
controlled by such influences.
Siiameit i A few days since the Rad
ical Rumps at Washington appropriated
twenty-five thousand dollars to feed, clothe
and make comfortable the negroes in and
around the Capitol, but voted down the
amendment of Mr. Saulsbury, of Del
aware, appropriating t lie same amount to
the poor whites of the District. Is Mr.
Geary in favor of this ?
CjrA lunatic confined in the Alleghanv
jail managed to let the water run from
the hydrant till it had reac hed a depth of j
nearly a toot on the floor. He laid Hat
upon his face in the water, and was stri
king out nobly as though swimming, when
he was discovered by the officers of the
jad.
Tin: ee railroad thieves with a miscella
neous lot of plunder, were arrested at Erie
last week. The fellows have been runnin-
a grocery and variety store in the imme
diate vicinity of the depot, the stock in
trade having all been t-fohn.
G2m Arthur Munl.md, a resident of Pitts
burgh, was killed at Oil City, 011 Saturday
last, by falling from the platform of a car
on the Pithola Railroad. Roth legs were
sev ered and he died soon after.
Killed. An old lady named Hamil
ton, residing at Conemaugh station, Cam
bria county, was run over by a train of
cars on the Pennsylvania railroad, near
Johnstown, on Thursday of last week, and
was instantly killed. She is represented
to have been a most estimable woman,
and leaves a family of four grown up chil
dren. The accident is said to have been
entirely unavoidable.
How to Dispose oeTrami. A great
many persons are at a loss how to di.-pose
of the ragged and mutilated currency that
accurnulateson their hands. An exchange
says it is the easiest thing in the world,
and without any expense. When you get
three dollars worth on hand, put it in
small packages, pin a paper band around,
with your name, post office address and the
amount, then put it in an envelope, and
address it to the "Treasury of the Uni
ted States, Washington, D. C." It goes
and returns free of postage. You will get
new currency in about one week from the
time you start it.
The Fiout Horn Law. The follow
ing is Mr. Donnelly's eight hour bill, which
passed the House on Thursday:
An act for the protection of laborers.
Section 1. lie it outvied, That
hereafter labor performed during a period of
eight hours on any secular day, in all cot
ton, woolen, silk, paper, bagging, flax
and other factories or workshops, in the
Commonwealth, shall be considered a le
gal day's labor, and hereafter contracts
made for the employment of mechanics
and laborers, in all the various branches
of trade for daily laborers, shall be coi
strued to be for eitiht working hours, to
the day in any employment ; Provided,
That this act shall take elFeet from and
after the lirst day of July next, and, pro
vided further, that this does not apply to
farmers or teamsters.
A lady who resides in Nashua, N.
II., who had lost a very dear child a few
weeks ago, on Tuesday last managed to
procure the key of the tomb in which the
body was laid, opened the coffin, took the
child in her arms and bore it homo. There
she tended it as though it was still living,
and defied all endeavors to take it from
her for several hours ; and it was only
from the effects of an opiate administered
to her that the efforts made were finally
successful.
The Hospital Records have just been
footed up and they show the enormous
aggregate of 253,000 Union soldiers to
have died on battle.-fields and in hospitals
during the war, to suppress the Rebellion.
This does not include those who died at
their homes of lingering disease contrac
ted in the service.
In the Senate on Thursday last, Mr.
Lowry read a bill to erect a new county
out of parts of Venango. Erie and Craw
ford, to be called Curtin. This is theTi
tusville project. .
New Election Law. The folloHi:
new election law was recently passed
the Senate and House of Representative
and if signed by the Governor, will in
come a law. It materially changes th?
mode of voting.
Sec 1. That the qualified voters . (
the several counties of the Commonweal;!),
at all general, township, borough and spe
cial elections are hereby hereafter author
ized and requested to vote by tickets j Tin
ted or written, or partly written, severally
classified as follows : One ticket s!,:i!
embrace the names of all judges of the
courts voted for, and to be labelled out
side "judiciary," one ticket shall embrace
the names of all State officers voted for.
and be labelled "State ;" one ticket tl.ali
embrace the names of all county of.kcis
voted for, including office of Senator, it
voted for, and be labelled "county o:.o
ticket shall embrace the names of n!i
township officers voted for, and be label!-.!
"township ;" one ticket shall embrace ti.o
names of all borough officers voted f. r,
and be labelled "borough," and e:;i !i
class shall be deposited in sejerate balk-t
boxes.
Sec 2. That it shall be the dutv of
the sheriffs of the several counties of this
Commonwealth, to insert in their election
proclamation, hereafter issued, tho iir-t
section of this act."
Peace. The Patriot l ',; of ih
3d instant, says: President John.v.11 on
the 2d instant, issued a proclamation decla
ring the insurrection in the Southern States
at an end ; that "the laws can be sustain- d
and enforced therein by the proj.fr i'.I
authority;" and that "standing armies,
military occupation, military law, mili
tary tribunals, and the suspension of th.
privileges of 'the writ of habeas corpus
are in time of peace dangerous to j.ablie
lib?rty, incompatible with tiie indiviJual
rights of the citizen, contrary to the -h-ii'i-us
and spirit of our free institutions a:.d
exhaustive of our national resources. :u. 1
ought not, therefore, to be sanctioned ;
allowed, except in cases of actual mv:t-i. a
or insurrection." This proclamation put
an end to military occupation and domin
ation at the South and places the sce.-J .1
States on a perfect equality with th. re.-:
of the States.
An unfortunate inebriate, .loo Pal-to:;
after having spent all his cn.-h in th
dogieries of Philipsburg. Centre conn
ty, Pa., was thrust out to find his u r
home the brst he could. Failing t i.
the bridge across the Mol;anmm. he L..M
Iv dashed into t lie creek to wn.L it but er
he had proceeded two-thirds ncro.-s. !..
limbs refused to perform their (ilk-e. II
grasjTjl a bough of an overhanging tree
unable to advance further and so-.r. t
fast congealing water cemented close al...t;
him a tomb of ice which stretched !V. i:
shore to shore. Two days after this 1
was'fouad stan ling there rigid as an icicle
his knees imbedded in a sheet of ice froze;
clement seven inches thick, his body iv
dined a liltle forward, hands clutching in
boughs, eyes astaro, and dispair pit-run-on
Iiis features.
"The "Coming Man." The foll-.wii :
resolution has been passed by the 'Kepub
lican'' convention of Lawrence county
by those who support John W. Geary f. r
Governor. White men, rtad it :
".'..(.-(.(, That justice, honor, good
faith, as well as a proper regard for t!.-'
pub ic safety, demand that in the District
of Columbia, and in that portion of t!i
countr- latelj' in rebellion, the elective fran
chise should be guaranteed to loyal citizen
alone, Irrespective of race t.u cx.i.or. "
Sltcioe. We learn from the Tyn r.
Hemisphere that Mr. Alex. Dysert, of link
ing Valley, this county, committed suicide
on Tuesday last, by shooting himself wi:h
a pistol. The deceased was unmarrie.'.
and had been laboring under a strange hul
Iication of mind for some time previous -
the rash act. Although he was repute !
wealthy; a foreboding of want and starva
tion is alleged as the cause of him commit
ting the unnatural deed.
In strong Irish communities, it is sai l,
the story has been circulated that the.
name of the "no prefix" candidate is
Macgeary : that he is a real "broth of a
b'y" a "true son of the sod," occ. and
that he only dropped the "mac" for "con
vanience." That dodge won't win. For
the "convanience" of the Union taxpay
ers of the State the Democratic Irishmen
will drop both the "mac" and the "gary."
2" Samuel Johnston, who made a dic
tionary, would have said : I will not ex
pend pulverized particles of explosive ma
terials on aqueous fugacious fowls."
Andrew Johnson says in plainer phrase:
" I don't waste powder upon dead ducks."
We like the homely phrase the best
dignity or no ditrriity.
A correspondent of the Memphi
rejus, who has just been over the battle
fields of Corinth and Shiloh Church,
Mississippi, says that the bodies of not
less than ten thousand Confederate soldiers,
who fell in the battles, now lie scattered
and bleaching over the ground.
The United States Supreme Court de
cided lately that National Rank ..-hares are
personal property, and as such subject to
State taxation.