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mi VOL. . ALBANY, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 18(55. NO. 13. S STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. t ISSUED EVEH1" SATURDAY. IN iLBAMY,LIJJJfCOl.TY, OG. TUBLIS1IEU AND EDITOR. OSes, over the StortTof 0T. KTorcrcsiT & Co. TERMS: rOR SUBSCRIPTION! One Copy for One Year - - - $3 One Copy lor Si Months - - $2 itaS"" Payment to he made, iu advance in every ce. The Paper will not be sent to any address unless ordered, and the term for which it shall be ordered be paid for. A a. drjHtrture will t madt from these terntt in any instance. N. B. 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The Anti Slavery Standard takes hih grounds on the -question of universal suf frage. It regards suffrage not only as an inalienable right, but holds it to be trea son against God's Government to with hold it from any human being his hands hare formed. , If it is an inalienable right, inherent in inan,will the Standard please say whether a Government tan for a mo ment withhold it From any human being, male or female, who arrives in the United States, and declares his, or her, intention to become a citizen thereof. In other words, are not naturalization laws in the nature of high treason against God's Gov ernment?: Certainly, it would be injus tice of tha rankest kind to the foreigner were he deprived of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness, whe,n ho landed at New York, unless for crime, and yet, if suffrage 13 as much an inalienable right ! as any or all of these, is not the same ab-; etraet injustice done him. and the same' rank treason committed by depriving him i of it for an hour j as would be done were j he incarcerated without cause ? Let us ; be consistent in this matter. Inalienable rights belong to all men, of all nations. We cannot set up laws discriminating against their enjoyment and exercise, be cause the individual happens to have been bom , in Ireland or Germany, and not in the United States. . But if fie is entitled toUhe one and enjoyment of one, because it is inalienable, he is entitled to the use and enjoyment of all that are inalienable. Down with naturalization laws then. Give the Irishman, the vxerman, the Swede, the Italian, the Frenchman, the use of the ballot the moment he lands on our sou and declares himself hereafter a citizen of the United States. If the right i3 ina lienable, it is rank iaj ustice to withhold it from a. young man till he is twenty-one. He is capable of exercising it at a much earlier date. No law denies him the en joyment of all other inalienable rights, and he is free to exercise them the mo ment he has the capacity and desire to do go. 'Why, then, make an arbitrary defi nition of time at which he is privileged to? use' this right, and before which it i3 convenient for him : to- exercise it. Let the laws be so reformed that the youth of the land may vote thefmonient he knows enough to deposit the ballot. Then there are the women, who. if permitted to vote, would .-arrive at the legal privilege three years earlier than the males. Why are they cruelly, wickedly, and monstrously deprived of the exercise of our inestima ble, inalienable right ? They do this in Australia once the Botany Bay of Eng lish criminals. ' Isn't it high treason aeainst God's Government to withhold the right of suffrage from them? What has the Standard been doing these thirty years, that it has not agitated the subject? It might have done something for the dis franchised ; white women of the North, even though it could not accOmplisbrmuch for the" oppressed blacks of the South. Inalienable riirhts are universal rights, beloBurno- ta all - men and aH women. If ttffrage be of their aumber they cannot rightfully be deprived of it,- except for (Crime, , It is oaf opinion that the argu jmct'of the . Standard proves too much, fL iavokts it in absurdities from which po.Iogie or sophistry eia release it. , , Trouble in the Ca.mp: The Phila 4elphi Ledger Las the following from its Washington igprresponcrent: - -' I heat from authoritative sources that the'radkals are arming their batteries heavily fV the creat contest they are de- Ccrogress...- sident Johnson,- they as sert is not ciing &itt the principles upon, tchich he was elected ana it is-the determination ot theseentlfimea that no other .principles sha govern, if they can help it, .One of the fbst radical of the $ Senators has evea Jiioso far as to de clare his .intention of. uScrins a bill of fmpeaehmeat soon after the meeting of Regress, and advocating it with' all his accustomed nsrgy and determination. President, it w" well known, Js not jpmindfal of the fanatical war-cloud that is rising, "but he, has cast his anchors upon ft sure bottom, and ho apprehension need be felt for the safety of- either ' ship or OIIA' GAMMON N THE AltOM TIOX PARTY. Aii able satirist in one of the Eastern papers thus hits off the deception and dis honesty, the inconsistency and unconsti tutionality, of the policy aoed upon by the party in power: We . have accomplished a great work, but much remains to'ibe done, before we can establish firmly the great principles of our party. c Have made slaves of six millions of people who have always been our enemies, and we have made four mil lions of freemen, whom we must make our friends. The first thing to be done is to drop the name ot Republican, and take the name of Union. The present popu larity of that name may last long enough for us, to fix ourselves so firmly in power as to defy all opposition. It is true, wc have never been able to retain any name long at a time, because some how or another our principles and our measures have always soon rendered every name we have taken unpopular and thrust us out of power. We began as Federalists, theu National Republicans, then Union men, then Free Soilers,. then Native Americans, then Know Nothings, then Republicans and now we have come back to Union men. All these names we have, by turns, brought into contempt with the masses. Now, while our name is popular, wc must man age so to secure our power that the masses .shall not have power to turn us out. We hare the purse and the sword in our hands ; we must manage to keep, them. There are several subjects which must be managed with great eare aud adroit ness to secure our success. The first is the question of negro suffrage. They must have the privilege of voting, or rather we must have the privilege of vot ing them. They are entitled to vote if anybody is, because they are the men who have enabled -us to crush the rebellion, and secure the great power we now pos sess. Did not our great, good and lament ed Lincoln declare that " to dispense with the services of the negro troops would be to give Up the contest?" What our white soldiers could not effect our negro soldiers most gloriously accomplished. They are therefore entitled to vote. But it is not so much what they are entitled to, as what we want and must have, that is to be considered. We want and must have their votes to setoff against the votes of the poor white men. ' We can make a valuable use of it, too, in another way. e can use them as a base to in troduce a property qualification for voters. and if we can effect this, we disfran chise the u poor white trash" who always vote against us. : - But we must not commit ourselves to this now. It might prevcut us from be ing able to accomplish it. It might drive off many who -are now supporting us. We can make nothing by it; all who are in favor cf it will vote for us any how, be cause they know they have nothing to hope from our opponents ; they know it is our interest to adopt that measure when we can, and they know we do not hesitate to deceive anybody to secure our interest. The negroes can't help us by their votes now, but when we get the power, we can adopt it, and their votes will make up for what we lose by it. There is another ; question which .will give us great trouble, and upon which, unless we manage it with great skill, we are in danger of shipwreck. It is fraught with danger and difficulty. I allude to the exemption of Government securities from taxation. It must be saved at all hazards. One of our grealest men said. " let the Government take care of the rich : the rich will take care of the poor." This is the doctrine ; we must impress it upon the people. W c must especially ring all the changes upon the horrors of repudiation, I find there is a strong and growing . aversion to this exemption, and the people have feelings and opinions that it is very hard to answer. I heard the other day a very plain-looking man talk ing very strongly against, the injustice of it, ana as there were several listening very attentively to him, I thought I would put in' a word in its defense. So I said to him, " My friend, don't you know that Congress has passed a law that these secu rities shall ? not be taxed by the States ?" Tie replied, " Yes, I know it ; but I know it is unjust, and it is the first time I ever heard it claimed that the Constitution gives Congress the power to say what cronertv a State shall or shall not tax. . If it has the right to say that a State shall not tax one sort of property, it has a right to say it shall not tax. another. If there is auy property it has the right to exempt from taxation, it is the Government lands yet it has never claimed that right, but nas always inaue a uaigaau yj uui eiict. A "But if you tax these bonds they will be sold out of the State, and that much capital be driven out. i - " Well. I suppose they will eret the value of them in money or some other pro rcrtv -that will pay taxes, and even if they don't, I see no good that property does the State which pays no taxes.", ; : ".But, my friend,' you will not have the olie-h ted faith of the country violated, and besides, yoa know the Government could not have got as mucn tor tnese ponas u Congress had not "promised that they should not be taxed!" . " The faith cf the country is not plight ed to this iniquity. Congress had no right to pass such a law, and nobody is bound bv it either in law or " stnrals. I know that all vou people that stayed at home and speculated upon and made fortunes out of , the mistortunes ot tne country, make a, great fuss- about the plighted faith of the country, and talk mighty loud about the disgrace of repudiation, but I never hear any of that sort-except where it is to heln the rich and privileged class es There are thousands of men in the army who entered it for the war y the war is over and has been for months, the men want to go home 9 ', their families, but thev dare not" do it at the risk of being shot' as' deserters. ' I don't hear an j of voa complamiDCr of the 'violation pi the plighted faith of the country. 1 went iuto the army four years ago. The Govern ment promised to pa v ine in money as good as gold. Last year they paid me in money that was worth from thirty-five to forty cents ou the dollar. -When they paid me .off two months ago, it took n dollar and fifty cents to make a dollar. I don t hear any of you complaining of tlie violation ol the plighted taith ot the Government in this. You, and such as you, stayed at homo and speculated, and got fat Government contracts and trot these bonds; some of them you paid for in currency worm inirtv-nve cents on the dollar, and from that up to ninety. iou snow as well as I Uo tliat the Uov crnmeut has not issued .a bond since the war commenced for which it received a hundred cents on the dollar in gold ; and besides, many of you got these bonds by selling worthless or iul'orior articles to the Govonmiout lor three or four prices, and now you want to tax us, who have done the fighting and sustained the losses, to pay you their lull amount in gold. " I came home two months ago, after having been absent four years. My young est child, nearly tour years old, I saw for the first time. I found my wife looking ten years older than when 1 left her, from anxiety and her hard work to support her self and the children, with the help I could give her from my pay; and even with this, she had to sell most of our stock. Before I went iuto the arm- we had the comforts of life around us ; now, we have but very little left us but one little farm. Four years of hard work, exposure and fighting have left mo less able to work than I would have been if I had stayed at home. You all say we have served the country, and talk aud speak a great deal of the gratitude of the country toys. But what have we saved ? And where is tha gratitude ? AH of us have lost propcrty many have lost life, and of those who have "returned, many have lost health aud limbs. What do we find ? We cannot get .work to do that will support our fam ilies. If we go into any business, we must first pay a license to the Government. If we should, by good luck, happen to make in a year more than six hnudrod dollars in any way, we must pay to the Govern ment a tax of five dollars on the hundred for all over six hundred dollars, though all that make may not be enough to sup port our families. We cannot eat or drink, or wear anything but what is heavily tax ed, and wheu we die. our wives and, child ren cannot divide the little property we leave without first paying to the Govern ment one dollar on every hundred of its value; and then we have heavy State and County taxes to pay besides. I do not see how we are to five. AH this we we are to suffer, that speculators and i tmev cs may be made rich off of our lubpr.l thre WM pnjv hiloie .ri -all blow a great deal about the gb- L,j rooster. Kho lCCame so pktous that You rics and the benefits of the war. I cannot see it. l don t see what we, who have done the fiuhiino- and the suffering have m.wl. -am lil-I- m-il-A Til TV - I1! . ! is not one of tho rank and file who is not .w ly nu vj, .v. f un0!5 aaa rcet sct'in w ,it ;.. ;.!.,, i worse off. I have suffered and lost enough and for oue, I am not willing that I aud my children, and thoir children after them, shall be ground iuto the dust aud made slaves, to make nabobs of men and their children who did not strike a blow in the war." : I did not think I was making anything by this discussion, and I left. I did not know how to answer him ; and. besides, he was getting a little excited. But we' must manage somehow to answer these things, or to keep them out cf the dis cussion. I write these things to you to let you know how the thing is going. This must be shown only to the intelligent heads of our party, and to those .who are not over ly squeamish, for these things will have their efiect with the ignorant, and even with some of the intelligent, who are squeamish about what they call justice. Ferhaps 1 may "write again. lours, as ever, Oily Gammon. An Abolition View. The New York Evening Post, one of tho ablest Abolition organs in the whole country, after discussing: the policy of President Johnson on reconstruction, adds : Should the policy of the President then fail, the determination of matters will be left to the Cougress, which, after such an experience ' will not be in so fit- tins a mood. Many of the members of that body already hold to the theory that the insurgent Statea have destroyed their State organizations, and reduced them selves to the condition of Territories. Many others insist that the whole body of the people, who took part in the war, became thereby, as our courts have de cided, alien enemies, forfeiting their rights, and putting themselves out of the pale of citizenship, which can only be restored by an act of pardon or an act, of naturalization. 'J hese theories arc, per haps, not popular now ; but they can be made so belore iNovember next, let the fair and kindly disposition of the North meet with no corresponding response ; let it be turned back with insolence, or indifference, or hostility; and it is easy to see the result. Disappointment will pro voke exasperation, and exasperation lead to acts. The generous policy will cease to find favor ; doctrines of Federal su premacy and of the need of lederal in terposition will get into vogue; the strong arm of military lorce will be exerted; and for years to come, the Southern States, which have now" on opportunity of embarking on a career of freedom and prosperity, will sink into mere territorial dependencies,, if not subjected to an igno minious military vassalage. , , , , A Greek maid being asked what fortune she would brinz her husband, replied : "I will bring him what gold cannot purchase a heart unspotted, virtue : without stain, which is aU I inherit from my parents." --'Chaw' Ferguson I Tbii noted guerrilla chief has . been executed.. He pLoved to be nearly as bad and brutal a man as Stanton The latter is not hung yet however. - . . From tho Christian Times. 0NCEI X I W S!Mti I S A TIVK AltTIC Must persons who hnv their lutth in a Christian land, w ho are at alj.-l'wrving ill their habits, and who do urhcloiig to that political party known ill tho "groat unwashed," have some idea, more or loss distinct, of the appearance, and qualities of the sponge. The distinguishing char acteristic of the sponge is its capacity for absorbing water. It lias great imbibing power. In this it 13 second only to the habitues of u city rum saloon or a village tavern. Tho learned tell us that it is an animal, and, if so, it must be like the Irishman's alligator "a baste that was nil mouth except his tail, and that was mouth too." It is because of the won derful capacity for absorption with which some men are endowed by nature, or ac quired by long and successful practice, that they have been denominated sponges. Such persons hv( th. feouhr and the kill of imbibing all that is uecessary for their maintenance, either in a physical, mental or moral point of view, with -a mug froUl and matter-of-course sort of air which is wonderful to behold. For instance, in the first year of my ministry I am a Baptist minister, reader a man drove up to my gate one terribly rainy afternoon, threw the reins over his horse's neck and knocked at my door. 1 opened it, and he fcaid : Is this the Kev. Mr. Gladm" I! V.a el " . . "Wcih Br. G.. uit name iJ Elder Sponge. I am ou my way to theprricrul association and 1 thought J would stop Over night with you. I'm very wet. so idease take my burse to yntr stable, give him eight or ton cars of corn and run my buggy under cover." Dear reader, 1 was greener then than lam now, and did it" When 1 came back to the house I found Ur. S. com fortably seated, with his muddy boots on the round of otic of my parlor chairs, and his dripping umbrella standing upon the pretty rug my wife was at so much pains to make. I went into the kitchen just in time to hear that lady tell our little hired girl to go to the store, a quarter of a mile away, and get some black tea, for Br. S. had told her he couldn't drink any other. We kept that man two days, aud when I arrived at the general association. I heard of Br. S. telling that we had treated him very shabbily. An old friend of mine, the sou of a Baptist minister, told me once that wheu he was a boy he really u-ed to think that be had curried the horses and blackened the boots of every Baptist in Ohio. He said their stock of chickens became so reduced by the visits of the traveling the instant he x-aiitiht si-jht of a , Br. Sponge coming over the brow of the till. with wide extended winrs and vcBow behind him, betook to the woods. Cack ling at the tap of his voice. " My turu next niv turn next !" I have already alluded to the air with which the vou. He qionge inflicts himself upou really seems to think he is a great favor, and that yuu doinsr you ought to be overwhelmed with the sense of honor done you by his visit. Mrs. r Gladius can't stand that. Mrs. G. is a very nice woman, but not long ago fhe expressed herself to me somewhat forci- bjy in this wise: "I didn't care so much about that man (the Br. Sponge) staying here a week, or about his blacking his boots on the win dow sill, or making me get soft-boiled eggs and toast for him every morning. I could stand his detestable sanctimonious snuffle when he prayed, but to thitfk of his squeezing my hand when he left, and telling me it must afford me great pleas ure to carry out the Apostolic injunction in Hebrews 13:2, and that 1 would re ceive my reward ; that I can't stand, and won t stand, there now! If these sponges were always upon re ious or denominational business it would not be quite so bad, but generally they are peddling books, selling reapers or hawking rat-traps about the country. It is astonishing what demands .they will make of one. I ouce received a letter like this: Spoxgeville, Aug. 5. Rev. Mr. G cadius Dear Brother : I am a Baptist in good standing, aud am iu the commission business Can vou inform me what is the price of beans in your village ? An early answer will greatly oblige, Yours in the bonds of Gospel love, A. Sponge. The following was wy reply : Mr. A. Sponge Dear Sir: Yours of is received. No. Send me a stamp for the postage of this letter. Yours, &c, ULAPirs A still more summary dealing Is' that of my friend. Rev. Muscular Christian My friend boards at the village hotel, and not long since he was visited by a tall, solemn-looking individual, who announced himself as the general agent of the aurora borealis aid commission, for supplying the inhabitants of the north pole with palm loaf fans and ice cream freezers. lie also said that he supposed it was conve uient for him to stay there until he could present the subject to the churches. - " CertainlyT the landlord will be happy to entertain you," blandly responded my irieuu. " Ah, yes, but I want to stop with you I always stop with the minister." ' " Wall. I will let tou occupy one of my rooms for a dollar and a half a day." ' " But I don't mean that. " I mean for you to entertain me as other ministers do; LUCY UUU L ilJV UUJ Liiiu. With that my friend turned and looked him square in the lace and said : What is your salary, sir ?".., . ' ; f Two thousand dollars a year, and my expenses paid ' - ; .. , ; " Well, sir, my salary ia just eight hun dred dollars a year, and if you don't leave this room instautcr I shall proceed to put you out." ' " What!" ejaculated the general agent, lifting up hh hands in hoiv horror. " is that the spirit of the Gospel; is this ful filling the injunction of the apostle, 'As much as lieth within vo.u, lire peaceably with all men?"' . , "May-be-not," replied my friend. "But I am very sure the apostle never meant all men to live with use, and I interpret the text to mean, 'As much as don't lie in you, put 'cm out,' and I shall immedi ately proceed from the exposition to the application unless you leave." The general agent left. Header, don't understand me as endorsing tho Itev. Muscular Christian's course. I must say that 1 think it a little loo severe, i I have iu contemplation a milder remedy. I propose buying a six pounder, planting it before my front gate, aud loading it with a blank cartridge. When Br. Sponge makes bis appearance, I will touch it off. This will, I think, in most cases, scare him. But if he should con tinue to advance. I shall then, with mv family, execute a masterly retreat to the barn, where 1 shall have enough provis ions stored to List me until the enemy raises the siege and retires. The Sew York Denioeraey. A e have already shown in these col umns the. spurious character of the so. called :- Democratic " ticket aud platform formed in New York. It is well to notice what Abolitionists say of the body tvho made them. The Albany Evening Jour nal thus speaks of it : The Convention which put forward this pMatibnu was not enthusiastic." But it was eminently practical. In the language of a leading member, it was intended "to go in and win at any coit." So Jong as war prevailed these party managers were peace men ; now that the strife has ceased, thev are for the vigorous prosecution of the war; they. outvie their opponents" in the show of enthusiasm with which they wave the Union ban ner ; they earnestly eudorse the measures by which our flag 'has been carried in triumph over the South. With slavery in existence, they were its earnest defenders never abandoning the system so long as it had a spark of life iu its car case; now that slavery is under the ground, they resolve themselves entirely satisfied with its overthrow. They would have nominated Horace Greeley for Sec retary of State, and adopted Wendell Philips last speech as a platform, if such measures had been deemed, essential to success. Mephistopheles comes to his new work in the disguise of a75asut. We shall look with some curiosity to see how the rank and file will take this abandon ment of almost everything they have been accustomed to hurrah for and swear by. l'hey can only know that their platform or ticket is "Democratic " by its libtl.and by the two or three " ear-marks which tatiou and on national indebtedness. It is best for the Union parry to understand at the outset of the campaign, that our opponents have taken the strongest posi. tion possible tor them to occupy. ihe character and work ot the "Demo cratic Convention remmu us of a little illustration in the form of a fable. A wolf caught a skunk, and was about to slay him, when the skunLsaid, "Don t kill me. I'm a wolf." " You a wolf! Let me hear you bark." " I can't bark, because I've got a bad cold." " But your clothes don't look like a wo!t s. ;iOh, mine were sto len; these are my little cousiu's." "But you havu't a wolf's ears." ' Because my ears were trimmed. Ihe wolt, halt con. vinced, was about to leave, when he sud denly stopped, snuffed the atmosphere a moment, and exclaimed, " xou may bark like a wolf, and wear tho clothes of a wolf, and show the ears of a wolf, but no wolf ever had such a d -d bad smell about him as you." And so, the poor skunk died. Seizing Ihe Jlines. The San Franoisoo Call, an Abolition organ, in a recent leader on the right of the Federal Government to take posses sion of all the mineral aud minium lands in the whole country, gave expression to the following view of that subject : S appose the Administration docs in tend to take such a step -what is there wicked about it ?" The present Adminis tration has been legally selected by the people to administer the affairs of the country. It is conceded on all hands that about all of the gold and silver lands in tho country, belong to the United States. They are its property. The Government, as well as individuals, has a right to do what it pleases with its own property. It may either sell or give it away, or even allow others to work it without charge. Either disposition is purely a question of policy on the part of those intrusted by the people with the duty of managing the affairs of the Gov ernment and of disposing and taking care of Government property. . How do the owners and workers in our extensive gold this? and silver minjs like The End of the World. A British army officer, Captain W. A. Baker, of the Royal Bombay Engineers, has at last settled an often-disputed date the year in which the world will come to an eni. In a work just published in Encland, entitled "The Day and the Hour ; or, Notes on Prophecy ; a Sketch of the Future, extracted trom the lii- ble," he imparts a considerable amount of luiviuiabivu r, un u . ..j v.... ...... .j . ...j ... ...... if true." The day of judgment, he tells us, is fixed for Sept. 20, 1878 ; the hour, sun set ; tho Translation of tho Saints having previously taken place, at l'o'elock in, the r t it - niiv r t 10-; morning ou iiio-oiuoi oauuurj ion;. : An honest Hibernian, trundling along a hand-cart Containing all Ins movables, was accosted with '. Well, .Patrick, you are mov inz asain I see." "Faith,1 1 am," he" re plied : " the times are so hard, it's a dale cheaper ' hiring hand-carts than paying lira tail Treatment of Ilie .egroe Koulli Uy -oi-llifra Oliieer aud Wiliuii. The Cincinnati Commercial has a cor respondent who i travelling through the South on foot.' Among other things he mentions, the cruelty of the Northern officers and civilians in the Southern States towards the negroes, and contrasts with it the treatment thev received at the hands of their old masters aud the South ern people generally. We make the fol lowing extracts from his. correspondence : I, stopped to drink (oh, how sweet water tastes to a foot-traveler in the sunny and sandy South.") at a place temporarily occupied by a gentleman of the name of Tatum. Herbert Tatum (I was particu lar to inquire, his name) is a Southern prodigy being the only man I have yet met in the South, who, upon upon the testimony of the negroes thenesclvcs. (for their master was away) tkite trr jhftfe th universal sudden revulsion by the-late slave-lord against their emancipated vic- tims. Strange to Fay, tins planter is fcdu- eating his negroes himself. Strange to say, though impoverished like fhe rest, (he was at the time absent trying to pro cure corn' he had all ulnn" tbroimh ilia war, and still eonriuuw?, to she with ' hU.i people the same he cats himself. Fur ther, he does not now. and never did, show any distinction whatever among his servants had treated all aliko no favor itism. To be sure he had informed his servants of -their perfect freedom of ehoicc to go where they liked, at the same tine telling them .that if they preferred to re main he would do the best lie could by them; take them back with him to his and their home" in Mississippi, and locate them in comfortable independence and freedom on the plantation. vv hat wori- fjet ns illustrate the operation of our nn der that the faithful creatures ptill cling jstpble currency 1v a simple example,. in to such a man ? What wonder that while i telligible to evWlaboring man. If. three others complain that their able-bodied negroes are leaving until they are com pelled to drive the rest away these true servants, grateful f r a spirit cf sincere kindness which I never knew any of this much-abused race, however imbrute 1, to ignore what wouder that they all, little and big, ask nothing but the privilege of remaining, even if they should have to remain as before with sach a master? Opposed to this is tho policy gener ally pursued. Distrust aud dislike beget them appropriate compliments.- How heartily these tropical African natives reciprocate a feeling, whatever it may be. Aud (hen when the military forces the fugitives from injustice, back into the clutches of the same injustice, what cru eity ! What infamy for an United States soldier, at the bidding of ono of these white slave hounds, to whom the negro has been recommitted what disgrace to the 'uniform he wears. I say for the Un ion soldier to be called upon; and .till deeper disgrace for him to be found com- JLdyini: tunij neqroes vp fj the thumbs. " i 11V, saiu tuu WTir.trr, m-x r we don't srv how vou people have bet tered the condition of the ncjrroes we never treated them so badly while they were slaves." Stopped to chat with a kind-hearted Alabama mistress, shout twelve miles out, who said : "Northern piasters are al ways the worst. Two men kept a store on the road near by. They took their meals at a neighbor's house, and mean while left the store unattended, so that the negroes, in their absence, would get in and steal. 4 1 had seen some of my ne-i groes with things that I thought could J not belong to them, and sent these men ' word not to let them come about the ! store. Pretty soon- one of my servants was missed. I was anxious, and my hus band went down the road toward the store. On the way, he-met these men returning with the missing negro, holding him up between them. . As soon as -the slave saw my husband, he fell upon his knees, crying ' O, my massa! O, my massa 1' My husband thought he was shamming, for fear of further punishment, (for evidently he had been caught steal ing at the storo,) and takiDg a cowhide from one of the traders, struck the negro with it, when the poor creature fell back dead. Those Northern traders had been whipping him all night first one, then the other." This correspondent thus speaks of the conduct of a Federal officer towards the negroes : Major Ross Wilkinson is an individual who merits due consideration in this con nection. : Major Ross Wilkinson, of 'the lGth Corps, Provost Marshal, lias had the immediate military police cf all Upper Alabama. You know 1 mentioned how negroes upou the plantations I passed, from Columbus to this place, have ween "-regulated,'' to the out-lleroding of even Southern severity. All that tying up by the thumbs, is, it Eeenjs, part of a system whose head and instigator was the Pro vost Marshal, Major Ross Wilkinson. A few days ago, not far from town, three colored girls were stripped of their cloth ing, and by Union soldiers (under orders of Major Ross W llkinson,) lashed upon the bare back, with a buggy trace one fifty, one sixty, and the third ninety nine times, all, to use the phrase of the All .. . t t 1 1 1l 1 A Alabama statute, " wen laid on, A re spectable clergyman of this place, -who in obedience to a published circular, re questing that the usual functionaries should administer the marital sacrament to negroes, also going to Major Ross Wilkinson, Provost Marshal of the loth Corps, for permission, in a particular in stance, was answered : . " You may marry respectable white people, but I'll not permit you to marry niggers. 1 mean to make, an end of niggers. . ; If I had my way entirely I would stop the breed These are" about his words, as reported to me, and brutal as they are, they are but consistent with his infamous spirit. ; In addition we will give the following. extracted from the statement of a corres: pendent of the New' York Independent ( Beech c-r's), who writes from Richmond : His. name is B. F. Stoops, Captain of the Eleventh Pennpylrania cavalry, Marshal of Fluviana county, Virginia. J will state one act of this man's cruelties, which should be suffi cient to give him pre-eminence in the worst days of the Inquisitions I give you the tacts as vituetned and related by a responsible gentleman of that county. "On Tuesday uoou I saw a negro man ou a wooden horse. The hor; e was construct-. cd of two boards, by bringing the two edges together in the form '.of a V. Heavy weights were attached to his feet. I was informed by citizen that he had been confined in this painful position since Saturday morning. The man had! become exhausted faiuted and fell off several times, when the heavy weights referred to were fastened to his limbs to prevent bis failing." This gentleman, touched with the sijifcring of ihi& TietiEa of terturorwtn to th Marshal to inter-' cede.ia his LehaUV ad. ta r rtjaoustrate . against this cruel punishment, when that gentleman informed him that his remon stnicce would do no good, that he would not take" him doam if the Lord Jesus Christ, himself .should come for him. Our informant has since learned that the ncro expired from his torture. , "lie 1 .oL"t'1 23 if lie was dying when I saw. nn. Hon the Poor arc RofoueI Some three months ago. gold was down to 125, and we seemed fairly on the way to a sound currency. But it is now up ward of 144, with the prospect of a still further rise. It is by taking advantage of such fluctuations- in the valoe of mon ey, the sharpers and speculators acquire sudden riches; and every dollar that they make, comes oat of the earnings of labor. three months aeo. when gold was 125, a frugal laborer had put 100 ia a saving bank, the interest at 5 per cent., the nsual rate of suc h institutions, would be one dollar aud twenty -five cents. The principal, when he lent it. was worth 80 in gold; and now, when it has been on interest three months, the principal and interest together ainouht to less than $71 in gold, making a dead loss of $9 in gold or $13 in our present 'currency..',' It is in this way that the people are robbed of the fruits of their labor. - Daniel Webster, more than thirtyyears ago, described with his habitual vigor of statement, the operation of &? inflated, fluctuating currency. What ho understood so clearly from history and 'philosophy, we unhappily knew from observation and bitter experience. We com mend his im pressive language to the earnest attention: of the industrious classes; "we ask them to mark, as from their own knowledge they can, the truth of its representations. Mr. Webster said : ? "The very man. of all others, who has UlV.UllJl.t luultUl I LI U LiVUUU. lUlll.lll.Jj and who suffers most by mischievous leg islation in money matters, is the man who earns his daily bread by his daily toil. A depreciated currency changes the prices, paper money failing between morniDg and noon, and falling still lower between noon and night, these things constitute the very harvest time of speculators, and of the whole race of those who are at oace idle and crafty; and of that other race, too, the Cataknes, of all times, marked, so as to be known forever by one stroke of the -historian's pen, men greedy, of other men's property eiid prodigal of their own. Capitalists may outlive such times. They may eitheprey on the earnings of abor by their centr per cent., or they may hoard. But the laboring man what can he hoard ? Preying 5 on nobody, he be comes the -prey of all. j Uis property is in his hands. iii3 reliance, his productive, "rechold, his all, is his labor. Whether he work on hs small capital or another's. his living is still earned by his industry ; and when the money of the country be comes depreciated and debased, whetlier it bo adulterated coin, or paper without credit, that industry is robbed of its re-, ward. He tlicn labor for a country vchose laics cheat Mm out of Jus bread. Maevellovs Copt. of. tub Bible. A few years since there was exhibited at New York a marvelous specimen oi nanawruing, u dc imr no Io.ir than a complete transcription of the Holy Bible on a surfaco about the size of an ordinary mantel or pier glass, tne woras of the same being so ingeniously arranged and grouped as to form the representation of a beaut-Hilt temple, white at tne same time not one word is omitted, no senteuce trans posed, and the several sentences follow each otner m proper oTaer, -as nrss view uia spectator perceives only a wen arranged architectural drawing, delicate and exact, but on ariose examination (some parts re quiring the use of a magnifying glass every part ot tne elevation eacn wmuow ami uoor way, each apparent line and .curve of col-; umn cornice and entablature, everyrning, in short, about the picture, except, perhaps-, a slight shading, is resolved into a "distinct regular handwriting, lhis wonaeriui pro duction was executed by a Polish gentleman, bv the name of Davidson, who finished his task after two years and seven months of constant labor and application. The adjuration of Madamo Duruy, the wife of the French Minister of Public In struction, of the Protestant faith in favor of tho Ivomanism, has been reported. The Paris correspondent of the Post, alluding to the fact, observes that the Jesuits are very active just now amongst the families of high, and conspicuous peronageg in France as well as England, Other ladies of the Protestant religion are spoken of as likely to beeeme Papists, and it is reported that !M. Guizot will ere long declare himself a Roman, Catholic. , - . . The use of the term " horse-power, is very common, yet few, except good mechanics and engineers, attach a definite meaning to it. - It means the power required to lift 13, 000 pounds, avoirdupois, one foot high ia one minute. AB.vi Appointment. Colonel Burbridjre, who rnn-dft himKplf Tintnrimiei in . VonHnirv daring the war by his infamous brutalit ea, has been appointed Treasury Asrent ia Texas, ' .