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l mi 1L iiii YOL. 1. ALBANY, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1805. NO.: 8. DEMOCRAT. Willi b k3 Ji rk 1 JJIj 1 STATE UIGljTS DEMOCRAT. , ISSUED EVKRV SATURDAY, -1ST AlllX AN Y, un COUNTY, OCX. ..PUBLISHER AND KDITOR. CeaTh Oaa ttary BaiUlasr tha e;Utt rai3B,f Oram ta IHvar fcy the rt time. Cat side, Yw lcks -.Last af iL llsia SJusla stmt , TEUMS: fia' Copy fy Qn Yr . . , ao C'iy fbr Mix 5Snthn 9 jC? lXrmeot t be made la edace t every eae. Yfce Paper wilt not be wot t an? ad.lreiw tiUm ervifjr.l, And the tfrm for wk.hsfc M ehall be trdrrd be paid' ft. Ve ?7rr 'M fVen t ttrmit ts tajtesre. . X. B. Tiwetv prior Mke .will be rtven to wk ttbteri'0r oC the week ea vfeteh ki ub criptioa will expire, mod ttnie a enter fur W naURMB! aeumpaaie4 wlUi ihe . monj, b (Ivm, the Paper Will be diaecau&tted to that f ' . rca AavrnTxrirra fa One Cewar, af Tw1t tinea, a & C Xasertlott. $3 Pr Each Sabeeaaeat tasertioa 1 ftjsr A LiWal Xleinetiea ftaaa these rtt t Quarterly, Half Yearly and Yearly Advertiser. s4 v?oa all tJafftby i4j:tisesaeBtft, will ba iaad. trwpBdt wtitinjr w wnnfi lgnatore r aaoeyaoaitr, mast' make know thir prupcr ntnai u the K litor. or tie attcotioa Ul be given t tklr cootmauk-atiomj. . AU! Wattvrt and Cmmnnist;nBS, whether en sinn or for pablicalion, ihostd be addreae4 to the Editor. ; ' - - ' - !' Ttii.t GAnBUtBS, The New York cor tisooadeat of the Cincinnati Gatctto wiya : " In'Siie of at meat letters I nok of fumbling a one of the vum of our fashion aUo wotaen, an-1 1 hare siuo le&raeii thnt it ia praoticfrl iit eertaia mtxiish quarters far mow than. I LaJ uppoi In Fifth Are sae aaJ Fourteenth aiwiTwentT-tlnrJlatrcot, that when thir purses are depleted . they put up their bracelet, necklaces and w5hcs as wagors. . S.aso Jf the feminine puaesters hw heavily, and the desperate .thifl RO allusion t their wardrobe to t -(r are put to conceal their losses j an.. .ace thew, must be fearfully desnr salii$ig. A young woman, tha daughter of .oca of oar most opulent citizens, was point . e-i out to rue in the Park, as a noturious 'abitT, by one of ser osi, who inform ed me she tad parted with" ccarly $100,000 aiooeshe went U Saratptv, in July, and ,,r3o kfr doting papa beliere she had ex pa4i the sum iu dress aad charity. The ' vouft i-cnua in qucsnon it ery prettv, j.rt nire than twenty and aa one regard- inj; her pile, spirituelle tare, her soft blue ejes, and gentle and reserred manner, '.VouJd ima;ineshe had fallea a ictim to cae of the taost daagTus of tioes. .i : TTaiT Att Tkisk, BctTurCaat Sat. .Is not Gen. Grant doing just a loot's uiite tod ranch of the starring and hand-shaking business t Can we tae his rcfual to speak id public as an evidence of excessive modes- ty, wtiea we ana -Him rusaing iranucanj about itrall direct !fns t receive the cheers, l3aera, bows, iriuaiphal arches and com- timest which tha put lie - have not ret f, rf"jwn weary of ogering w hi nodding but . e lent imae? That a pahlic wan should ,! t.'. t peak: too ofn or make his Tiews too he&p, is Tery true; but when, as ia Gen. Craat'a C.ve, a man that never speaks at all, 3 "jknd leaves as in doubt whether he has " ary "a rel view about hira," t'.S error is clearly a the aide of ere--sirre:icae. If he he "painfull j diSdentthit ha cannot utter "evra tn words to the err -s-Is he eoes kotoo- inz and hultabahwir ? t' .tt his carriaro, hotel, or railway car r - & -.es he continue .. .to riave r.s vry eminit i lfi?tT totea all voand from Pan to I'eoLela, as if with a Luajer never to be sat ; u4 for the shouU s ; .n i ovations of his fdkr daiens? Some . -reor le aaya :that Twcasc'a. Shermaa has im C tv much talLic -. r.!, i perhaps this . ut Lc true, is nt uratst doing just a 1 lcu mite too iauehf iift isiarriBaiMi hand i t ahaiifig busiBeas! j . Not Iscukib to Kiss ' ih Rod. A Soathem oSccr writes fcaaorjuslv to the , JiobUa Eegtstcr, in rt ply U the accusation of a Northern newspaper tli&i the Southern tl people still praise tifjir wa Generals and - r fcitect to praise thww who haTe saved the 1 T.epubtie,--'' He- thinks" the Yankee- must 1 Lave peer ideas about Southern human na-;- tare jf they expect" anything different, and 3 ? i-sys f '"--- ' ' - i' - , ' -'or do I sing prc&ns to the Union Gener s ; t!s fur saving the Itepnblic, far at the time ' the thing-was done it etrerk iae"that thev ; eared the wroag one. It mnj be that 1 ocjht to be gratefni to the ienerals who E tlirashed ine and all ciy friends ' within an i" inch cf our lives, but, ia the lanmageof Mr. . V.a-1, I don't see it in thl.se lamps.' . 1 . e all aUaiire the art" 'e l-fauty of the t .a ia wiica ine cniun tieuerais put ' ns Um-r,h ; we make rr .' -;e the fct tv: I - ' "idy ia .point r. ur as as a eot rf puES,-beca.uje we d-.; t e' "qanee in const"..: ?1. -Li s.'tne c j. t i, t, ii aid iasnlt to i r to suppress r 5 was done t' I; "but to de- i- ' '.eful sons of e'eiia oar ink and . would be i. a preaeiltated at- T s Ccmiss'ief f I P-evcnuc has crs whose ' -.iad dol- I as manu 1 cover all r from the i tlatpi i trerelxai ex. . . 4-s.....IIy shou'l 1 . -f, and ' -r U.eir r ?n ." . ;voe u pablicaL.1. li. a . .1 'jtf t:ihe.' J i e printing . . . ci t.it ci ; . - .r Army vlll ... . . i s- i. At li t C s i -1 f l''cr" cf -ti8 ! eiOj; be i . i r'-Etl .c i. - .''v that CDI.fcist of " - '.'j dls-a-sy, are ucit will -i to the r, t-e . trarc0, - ia A--r ell c r vet.. , Las won -aemouat-or tut lor a -9 lar r'-J'.r by . i I a - ? Tar-ty year hi there, are oftn parties of Udio, ftrm vhich h cprn;to are aterfjlj excluJvl, where the fair gamesters plaj Vntil daylight for larr tuket ; and it not unfrcouentiy hap- ' - , - lit .airienn irt re The ar klpw lusli the rarseu In thp Gutter. The following frotu Parson Got. llrown low, ia bis Knoavillo Whig, is worth pe t using: Thousands of . free colored persons are coagregatilig . ia aud around tlto Urge towns in Tennessee, and thousauds are coming in front' other States, one-third of whom cannot pfk employment. Indeed, less than one thvsjd .want explovmcnt, or feel willing to htanp to work. Tlier en tertain the erroneous idea that the Gov ernment is bouud to supply all their wants, and even to JSimish them with houses, if, in order to ort hat. the white occupants I must he totrned out. There is a force de mand for labor in every section of the State,4 hu the -ro!ored people, with here and there a noblo exception, scorn the idea of work. They fiddle and dance at uight. and lie around the stores and street coiners m the day time. And some of the indiscreet teachers of the negroes from the North, who know nothing ot the ne gro character, have Wen known to tell them not to hire to white people I Hat ing the single idea in their heads of ttlm. Ittion, they advise the simple and credit, loua negro to a life of precarious subsist. enee, ot idleness and u;iuciuir, and of crowding into the towns to bo edm atnl, in preference to good wages and comfortable homes in the country. If some great change is not made when winter comes on, and if the military force is withdrawn as they will be, there will be great suffer iag and fearful mortality atuoug them. BCVFOAOK ANJ SCFFKRANCC. There is a lad state of feeling now be tween them and the whiten and it is daily growing more bitter. Many of the ne groes arc insulting to white families, who never owned any of their color aud never did them any wrong. They frciiciu!y elbow unprotected white women off our narrow pavements, and curse white men passing them, just to thow their a a (Veri ty. - Others are swearing on the and v- have heard them that they will cloau out the d d town ! And still an other cliuss swear that If they are not al lowed their rights at the ballot-box they will resort to the airtruhjrJxxx ! And they swear they will be backed up by the Government. Aa one desiring the wel fare of the colored people, they will per mit me to say that they can't Jrivt the Legifdature of Tenncssce into conferring upon them the elective franchise. Ihey can, by the demonstrations they are uiak irg in this direction, deprive themselves ofauy such p'rivilege, so far as Tennessee is concerned. The Federal Government has no right "to control the suffrage ques tion in lennessee. And the great I uion party of the nation will have more sense than to attempt to control the question by Congressional legislation. THE TOWNS TO 1JE CtF.ARED. General Tilson, at .Memphis, has deter mined that he will compel the free people of color to leave the city and surrounding towns, even if the removal requires mili tary force. He has sent a patrol through the city to learn who have employment, and who have not, and to notify them that no further supplies will be furnished to them that can support themselves and re fuse to do so. At Memphis they have been contracting for wages, and, becoming dissatisfied, break their contracts and leave off abruptly. General Tilsou has no tified them that this will- not be allowed, that they must make good their contracts, and that he will compel them to work at the rates and places agreed upon. I rank General Tilsoa atuoug the best men we have ever had in command at Knoxvillo, and I am pleased to find that he is still showing his good sense and love of jus tice at Memphis. We lack such disci pline among the colored people in this eud of the State, and I hope it will not be long until more regulations are adopted by the Commissioners of Freed men, who, aa I understand it, hare con trol of this branch of affairs. There is no better man in the service than General FUk, and if he fails $o do his whole duty, it will be because his headquarters are at a 3 .... .1 . a distance, ana nc is not rosiea as 10 me state of things here and along the line of this road. EAST TEXSESSEE AXD THE DARKIES. President Johnson will remove all the troops from East Tennessee before a great while, and the colored people, as well as the whites, will have to take care of them selves. A portion of them I know, and I feel assured they will be iudustrious and quiet citizens, providing for themselves and families. T 1 he great majority of them will not, and will get into trouble many of them will break into the penitentiary 1 Tbey will fail by their threats of violence to accomplish any good, and he is their j beat mend who advises them agarnet this course of conduct. Colored soldiers in! Federal uniform with guns and pistols in their hands, must nqt suppose that East Tennesseeans will be intimidated by them, or suffer their families to be abused., I know these people, and I know they will not submit to be run "over by Degro sol diers- And knowing this, I desire to keep down any conflict between the races. The East Tennessee troops who nave iougnt three dreadful years to free the negroes and get the privilege of coming back to their old and cherished home3, are not the men to be run over Jby colored sol diers who came into the fight at the elev enth hour. And those who have the im mediate control of the colored troops, and are in daily conversation with them had as well understand this fact at once. - "WHITE AND BLACK EIGHTS. Loyal men in East Tennessee concede to the colored people "their freedom, and the right to enjoy all they can make or evea realize from the aid of the Govern ment, aad the still farther privilege of edu- : caiicg their children j but they are not rrerarea to see all their churches and 'j-tlireejsehool-houaes turned over to them, and jtheinaoceat wiute cuudrea ot Union pa- rents, who never owned any slave, deni ed houpos of worship and houses in nhieh to teach school, bucaue a lew mipadcut teachers, upstarts from the North, but of any employment, havo conceived th idea of immortalising the negro t There ar those of us here, claiming to be on tho side of the Union, who still think, notwith standing tho result of tho war, that a white child is an rood a a black one ! There are those of us here, on tho side of tho union, who do not rvcognne the fight of tho Government, after emancipating tho negroes of Union men, to tako their lands nud property as a puuitduucttt lor having owned slaves 1 There aro those of us here, claiming that there i no discount upon our Unionism, w ho don't recognise the right of a Cuptuiu or Lieutenant in command of colored troops, mum tho rep rcsoutiou of n negro of bad character, ar resting respectable loyal white tneu with negro bayonets, and marching them from one county to another for liial, when their condemnation bus been agreed upon by tho negroes in advance ! And there nro thousand of true-hearted. In ion citizen and discharged Federal etldicr in Kat Tennessee, who will die right here, in a second war, before they wih submit to auy such insults, wrongs, or outrages. BAOACloVS COUN8t:L. I speak out plainly, because the state of tho public mind requires it. 1 here is a ueep, intense, nrjrmre icoim geitiug up throughout this end of the Mate upon this subject. I think I see where aud what it will lead to, and I desiro to reme dy the evil. I adfise the white popula tion to treat the negroes justly in all re spects, and not dietaih them in their law lul and peaceful pursuits. They were armed and uniformed by the Government, and ought not to bo deuouneed on that account, w hero they conduct themselves properly. On the other hand, let those who have control of the negroea advise them to a quiet and peaceful course, and to reconcile it to themselves to sec white men and their families enjoy what rightly belongs to them. Let tltcui frown down all malicious complaints from negroes of bad character against white persons w ho have always kUxkI fair. et them cease to attest gentlcmeu of character and stand ing, and of loyalty, because some curagod slave has faucicd he can procure uch ar rest. A day of reckouing will come bare after, and the encroachments upon the rights and liberties of loyal men and im prudently continued, the day will come ooirr than any of us waut to see it? A LIVELY BALL. Since writiug the foregoing, I am In formed that at a colored ball iu the Uni versity building in thi city, three colored persons were k.lie l in uuo uight. It is said they were i-hot by white men dreed in Kitmtii' rlt tic ' Oi' Course I condvmti. iu unmeasured terms, any puch outrage, ana l maae mention oi u to mow in state of feeling getting up l-etween the race. These balls arc too frequent, aud all wrong. White soldiers aud ojjictrt atteud tbcm and dance with the colored women. Ouo Ohio soldier, a man of very fair edu cation, procured a license to marry, but not disclosing the color of bis iuteuded, and actually married a young wench, for merly a slave in this city ! If this sort of alliance suited his tatrt I be tio com plaint to make, liutd do complain that the morals of the 'colored population are not so good since theiryrcdom as when they were in bondage. 3nd at tho speed we are all making in the direction of their cnlighteumcnt, our teaching, preaching, prijiug,. singing and daicing will take half of them to ruia in a very fchort time. One-half of all the colored soldiers iu East Tennessee, have no; respect for that uniform, and do not appreciate its dignity and importance. Two of them iu full uniform, some time since, upon a narrow sidewalk in this city, knocked the writer of this article into the gutter, throwiag him upon his hands and knees. He was try ing to get out of the way, and they saw it, but being feeble, and lean in if upon a staff, he moved too slow for their ideas of progresss. Iniade no complaint, but con cluded that thce colored ruffians had not " learned to respect the uniform of the army," and went my way not rejoicing -'but fed nig in the left knee that 1 was worsted in the.encounter, which 1 had not brought about, but sought to prevent! Soldiers and officers wearing the Federal uniform ought-all to be gentlemen, no matter what their color, but the only two colored soldiers I ever encountered did not prove to be of that stripe. I have no wish to try them again I might light upon others less refined who would run me through with a bayonet I Being de nied a white man's choice, I only ask a negro's privilege of gettingout of the way 1 NEGRO TROOPS TO BS WITHDRAWN The plain truth is4 the colored soldiers have not been properly instructed. Who is at fault I am not able to say; Believ ing that their longer continuance in East Tennessee will be productive of no good, but of much harm, 1 hare written to Pres ident Johnson to remove them to those localities where they . are needed, V and where the people Were a unit rn bringing on the rebellion. Indeed, I have inform ed the President that no troops are need ed in East Tennessee of any color, and that the loyal people and the civil author ities are fully able to preserve order aind take care of the eountry. The Bench, from the County Court up to the Supreme Court, is occupied by loyal J udges ; the Prosecuting Attorneys are loyal men, so are the Sheriffs and J ustices, and we are prepared ia East Tennessee to preserve order without the aid of troops. An English Catholic journal state's that the stories of the Pope's extravagance are wicked exaggerations, llis persopal ex nenses for camaices. stables, &o.t do not amount toeventr scudi (or dollars) a month. His own table costs one scudi a day, and all he spends retqrns to lus people. . Amons the Court file et Tannton is the finding of a Coroner's' Jury, drawn up some th!rtv virA ftT, LV a hnvver,' which con- rtv vi eludes " that the said J J - O V . . ' - . - ' . . . came to his death by the vi&iuiuoa God." - cf the aforesaid ri'Kimti e Pahimnre da?),) TUT. Wr.tXOt lt ITtf lMiftYY ASD Some of the lcmocratie Conventions which lately met in tho Northern .States endorsed tho eounw which the President has pursued towards the Fonth, and pledged to him thn support of tho Demo eratic party. Although that party has taken ho action in this Stale, tho Chair man of the Democratic Ktate Central Committee has fanned an address, in which he apeaks of " tho wiso and just policy of conciliation which diMinguifhos the dealings of President Johnwoo with thif Southern States. Several of our Northern cotcmporarics, and amoitgHhem come of the Hemocratie journals which clung nnwt fearlessly and tenaciously throughout the war to tho principle which they had advocated at its com mencement, have protexfod Mtigly against the action of their tate Conven tion. Tbey My that the cordial rdore ment by the latter of Mr. JoIuhou' p4 icy involve an abaudtHJUient of every principle that the Democratic party ban ever contended fur that such a conr.e has bceu adopted at the instance of time nerving politician who are ready to sac rifice truth and consistency for power aud that, iu an ill-timed chv.rt to propt tiato Mr. juunson and secure uts lavor, the Democratic party is likely to lorfeit its claim to the rerqot of the country aud to popular support. We most certainly do regard the action of tho Democratic party a, to say the Jcat of it, premature. .Mr. on ii -on may norcaner snape u policy to a nearer conformity with those political tenets which the leaders of the iiemocrattc party, a lew months mice, roiraided as Ciirdiiial articles of their po litical creed; but, in view of the present position of affairs, it is difficult to see how a thorough and unreserved approval of his coarse is compatible with uu adber euee to Dcmcratio principles. In tone and temper, his sjioeeh to tho dolrgutiou of Southerners which met him ou .Mou day hint was all that could be desired. While he did not speak very definitely iu regard to his future course, ho protested that he had uo disposition to deal harshly with the Southern people that ho was determined to take the Constitution as his guide that he was "opposed to con solidation or ooucent rat iuu of power" iu Washington, " under whatever guise or uaiue," aud that ho be Lived the southern people were determined to curry out in good iaiih the pledge they have giveu to submit to the l-cdcral laws. For all this Mr. Johou deserves and will receive commeudatUiu at the hand of all save the radical faction, w hich ia still endeavoring to hiuder the work of pacification. II u actiou, too, in Mississippi, is significant of an iutention, on his part, to l reveut further military interference with the rights of the people of - the Southern States. In bis communication to Gov ernor Sharkey, authortiiug the reorgani tatiou of the militia,- ho has said that " under the priueij.lihi of the great char ter of freedom handed down 'to the peo ple by the fouuders of the Republic, the peopW wust be trusted with their govern uieut." All this is encouragiug, and seems to betoken a brighter future. The worda of the , President are such us the Ik-imwratic party wight cordially endorse. But until his views hare assumed the tangible form of a clear and consistent policy which accords with the principles he has promulgated, jt is too soon for that party to give its unqualified approbation td his course. The war is over, the South-is disarmed and the people of that section are willing to abide, iu good faith, by the surrender they have made, aad to. acquiesce in the abolition of slavery. Mr. Johuson him self is satisfied with the temper and spirit they have maintained. According to the principles of the Democratic party, the work of reconstruction is easy euough. A Democratic Administration would, probably, garrison the more important points in the Souths and withdraw the soldiers who are in possession of Southern towns and plantations. It would re-establish the Federal Courts, and enforce the Federal laws, and would leave the people of tho several States to regulate their do mestic affairs after the old republican fashion. But how do matters stand to day, both in the South and in the North? The Federal Government retains posses sion of property , in the. South which it originally appropriated on the ground that its seizure was a military" necessity. Civ il officers are removed from - or appointed to olficc by the military authorities Elec tions have been conducted under the aus pices of Federal . soldiers. Provisional Governors are set up to rule over States by proclamation of the President - News papers are suppressed by otlended oiener- als; " Plautcrs are ordered to employ cer tain laborers by Government agents, who also dictate the " amount of wages they shall pay. uoverumeut iarms are being worked in Maryland on lauds to ichicn the Government has acquired no title, and from tch fch tJte fumilict of the owners have been artccn, pennnetis, into me uoria. Provost Marshals arrest civilians in almost all the Northern : States, and Military Courts try citizens not in the land or na val service. In briei, tho country has not yet been placed in such a position by Mr". Johnson s policy that he" Democratic party can , with any show of consistency or truth, unreservedly approve his course. We are not uumiudful of the many diffi culties by which the President is sur rounded, lit is eminently proper that the Democratic party should recognize these, and should hail with applause every occa sion on which he surmounts tnem and make one step towards restoring the South those rights which all parties have de clared she would be justly entitled to at the close of tho war. That party, it is evident, is looking to him to place the Government again upon a constitutional basis, and only awaits the inauguration of a policy tending directly towards that end before it accords him that, unhesitating ' support. But the palpable facte ot the day wholly rebut the declarations of cer tain Iicmocratio ( on ventioiiH. that Mr. JohnHou has ati-aitfnutfy tytr th- rrtrd nflhe lh mot rut if jurti,it that his poli cy, Uina lar, has been in strict accordance with his teachings. Wo certainly doiore most ardently the iuocom of thn Democratic party, believing that it contains in its ranks alt the really onscrvntive men id' tho country. But if jhat sueccwi is to be purchased by an aban lonment oCjirinrtiif fur txtnlirnry, and ly the tjrmest trlftultifration we vannnt ire Air thn cnuntry will he much thr yiin f. If it accepts to-day theories of gov ernment which it "denounced yesterday, tud approve of measures which it has icrelotore earnestly condemned, it degen iratcs into a mere combination of political flace-huntcrs, whose victory or defeat will only affect, for good or ill, the individual composing it. Should it abide honestly and zealously in tho faith it a hour of tri umph is not tar distant, and it will come forth from its fearful trial all tho purer aud the stronger. "rrotcrtl will Thy Elephant.' In Columbiana county, Ohio, resides an old fellow renowned for his belligerent disposition, who is generally known as Friend Shavey. Born and bred a Qua ker, he was long p'uico read out of meet ing on account of his quarrelsome propen sities, but he still pertinaciously clings to the plain clothes and the plain language or his earlier day, possibly as a protection against the wratlnamich he is continually provoking by his overbearing and irritat ing demeanor. Ho is always tho owner td' the crossest dog in the uctghboihood, tho most troublesome, breachy steers, &c., and is continually in hot water with some ot his iio:ghiors m eousciiuence of the depredations committed by his unruly live stock. A few weeks wince Vau Aui hurgh's Mcnagcfie. traveling through Columbiana, was obliged to pass his resi dence. A little before daylight, Nash, the keeper of the elephant Tippoo Suib, sm he wo nassin" over tho road with his elephant, di-tcovered this pseudo-Quaker seated upon a tettco upon the roadside, watching a bull which he had turned out upon tho road, and which was pawing bellowing and throwing up a tremendous dust generally. Iu fact, from tho fury of the animal a demonstrations, ouo would readily have taken him for one of the identical breed that butted a locomotive off a bridge. "Take that bull out of the way I" shout ed Nash, as ho approachod. "Proceed with thy clei haut," was the reply. U "If you don't take that bull away he will get hurt, continued .Nash, approach ing, while the bull redoubled his belliger cut demonstration. . " Don't trouble thyself about the bull, but proceed with thy elephant, retorted Friend Shavey, rubbing his hands with delight at the prospect of an approaching scrimmage, the old lellow having great confidence iu the iuviucibHty of his bull, which was really the terror ot the whole country around. N Tippoo Saib came on with his uncouth shambling gait; the bull lowered his head aodmade a charge directly upon the ele plant. Old TiptKK), without even paus ing in his march, gave his cow-catcher a sweep, catching the bull on the side, crashing in his ribs with his enormous tusks, aud then raised him about thirty feet in tho air, the bull striking upon his head as came down, breakiug Iub neck aud killing him instantly. " I'm afraid your bull has bent his neck a little," shouted Nash, aa he passed on. "Bent the devil," cried old Shavey, with a troubled look at his defunct bull " thy elephant is too hefty for my beast, but thee will not make so much out of the operation as thee supposes. I was going to take my family to thy show,' but I'll see thee and thy show blowed to blazes before I go one step, and now thee may proceed with thy elephant and be d d, please;" the "please" being added as Shavey took a second look at the propor tions of the stalwart elephant-keeper. Wilson ok the Diffebexcb i Abolition Ranks. Hon. Henry Wilson, in a recent speech at Yonkcrs, used the following language t ' s The llopublican party, then, nns written its name lor justice, liberty and humanity, while thb Democracy has ever voted against all these measures for human liberty. They say they support the policy of Mr. Johnson, but I say they do no such thing. Did they support the Constitutional Amendment ? There is not a man in the country as strong a supporter as Andrew Johnson Do you fcnow how inueii tnore is in tnisamenaincnt It authorizes the , Congress of the United "Mates to make these staves emancipated in all respects free men and citizens of the United StateSi That provision is now en dorsed bv more than twenty States, and I tell you Congress will act up to it by ap propriate legislation. Wo can declare null and void any black code of any State, They say thev are in favor of the policy of Andrew Johnson. ' Dare they stand by him on this measure ? They favor his policy of recon struction,. Do they know what : is ? , There are differences between us on several of these points, but the ltepulican party was born of tree discussion, has Uvea ana thrived, ana conquered bv it. The President said to me the other day that he hna never made any discrimination between those who favor negro suffrage or what is known as his policy. That he is for free discussion, from which would eventually eoine forth the truth. And I tell you to-night, that there wilU be in toe congress ot too Unitea States a bold, free and candid discussion of all these ques tions, and there will be no trouble between us and tho President and Cabinet, we have ability enough to settle those questions as they arise. I have faith that all will be settled so as to socure the liberties of all the the people in all the States. ' There's a difference in time, you know, between this country and Europe," said a gentleman in New York to a newly arrived irishman. "For instance your friends at Cork fl.ro in bed and fast asleep by this time, while we here are enjoying ourselves in the early even inc." 44 T"hat's always the way," exclaimed : Pat, 44Ircland niver got justfee y. v .... , . (I'Mm the f?t. Louts llepulilioiin.) HO It 11 All! HV.H ItY Til 11 FltllllO. tlll.VM lit ItllAI . A late number of a paper published at Shrcveport, contains the information that Judge Wccms, of the Tenth District of JiOiiisinna, and Sheriff Alder, of one of tho eountio of that District, have been placed under arrest by a petty potentate who abuses tho functions of agent of the Frcedmcn'a Bureau for that region. Hi reason for putting them in durance seems to bo that the one presumed to arrest, and tho other to try a nearo who had been guilty of horse stealing. Chaplain Calla han, whom they so gro-sly offended by their act, and who investigated the 44 out rage" they committed, made a report up on it, tho unimu of which is contaiued in the following extract : It is no uart of the design of the Bureau t iuterfnre with th Luiio-SH of Judife Wecma t'.nirt, eseept In a manner contem plate! In this case. White men mav sue each other bofori! him ft much as they please nod we will not say a word. They may aell eac h other out of house and home hy decrees irom unoer ins nano, ani, so lar as tins jiu- reuu is conceroeu, it will ik ail nutit. Jie inny imprison and hangaa ninny white men as he pleases, and no opposition will bo rais ed by us, but ho must not touch a negro. The enormous stretch of authority the agent has indulged in, is so apparent to our renders, that wo need not oiler even a suggestion to that end. It is without a shadow of right or reason, even if Judao v eems wero the worst rebel m thoiaud. because tho hitter was iu the exercise of the plain judicial duty of trvins a crimi nal, against whom the commission of a fel ony was charged. But the agent has not even the poor makc-shul ot an excuse, that Judge Wcotus was a sympathizer with the rebels in their late war against the Government, to urgo as a pretext for his arrett. It happens to be, on the con trary, that ho is a gentleman of known crsoual worth, high legal attainments, and that, during the last four years, he adhered with unfaltering fidelity to the Union, when all around him failed in the obligations that patriotism enjoined. Tho ageut's motive, therefore, was ouo of wil ful wrong, or one which grows out of that utter oblivion of right and justice which laitaueism inspires. There are scores of such people as this agent located throughout the South, as olhcer, real or pretended, of the Freed men's Burenu, and who might make mis chief ad libitum, by encouraging and pro tecting negroes in lawlessness, and insult ing and tyrannizing over the white. Very few of them are men who possess sense and discretion proper for their position, while very many are lunatics of the mama cal stamp, or veritable scamps, who exer cised low or. discreditable employments anterior to the war. Some of these who aro ignorant of all professions, and peculi arly so of that of law, are set up as arbi ters between blacks and whites, in so-call ed Freed men's Courts, and assess punish ments and judgments with forms of pro cedure that shame the jurisprudence of J udge Lynch himself. In one such Court, recently, ip Tennessee, a; negro wench swore theTbaternitv of her brood of 5t children toiler former master; and the latter, without even being allowed to trav erse her statement, was ordered to iiro- vide support in future lor the whole Jam' ily, at an expense of many hundred dol lars a year. In case he defaulted in pay ment, his lands were to be seized and sold. aud the proceeds applied to carry out the order of the Court. Another Freedjnan's Judge, who opened a Court in Georgia, proclaimed that the freedom of the slaves dated from the day on which President Lincoln issued his proclamation of eman cipation, and that they Were entitled to recover from their owners for all work dono up to tho time they quit their mas ter's plantations. The negroes in his sub- district forthwith proceeded to make the most ot this opportunity, and went to Court to register and swear to claims in just such amounts as they pleased. The agent then Catered judgment for them, aud warned the masters to pay up within a week, or take such consequences of lev ies on their property, or imprisonment, as he chose to bestow. - Another flagrant case; which transpired only a few days ago, is authenticated by a special message of Mayor Tdmpert, of Louisville, to the City Council of that eity, dated on the Zoth ult.; ! ; ? , On the 22d instant t re ceived a communication No. 1) from H. A. McCalcb, Lieutenant Colonel and Superin tendent of the Freedmcn's Bureau for the city, stating that a freedwoman was lying dead at the'Freodmen and Refugees Home on Broadway, between Eighteenth and Nine teenth streets, within the corporation limits of the city, and that, as the Government had declined burying any more of that class, he expected the city authorities to do so. I an swered, stating that I was not authorized un der the circumstances to use the funds of the city or its , credit for 6uch purposes ; that sucn expenditure would pe trom my own purse, and that l was unwilling and unable to meet it.' The same day I, received a com munication from Gen. Palmer, commanding the Department of Kentucky, in which he tejers iu mo vuse, uuu, m lerms uncompu meittary and unmerited, declares hia inten tion to bttry said, freodwomnn.and to charge such expense to tho city of Louiaville, and to compel thepayment offcalla in this case aud an similar cases. omca then 1 have receiv ed two other communications (marked four auu uvej miunuing me oi otner acauis, and other debts of the city in consequence. I hold that as the freedmen were brought here viiiiuui, vnv , uuueem vi we auworuics, ana in direct violation of the laws of the State, the Governmen t is the party responsible for their presence here and is bound to bury such as die here." " The' expenses in case of an, epi1 demio among them Would be enormous. Such a calamity is not improbable, as great numbers of them are huddled together in the city living in tilth, and altogether, breathing . . ' '.'-; -ft And still another which th6 Mayor re cords to the account of Palmer and his fa natical officials in the same message : In this connection I would callyour atten tion to a case wnicn occurred only yesterday; a negro woman assaulted and beat badly a white lady, Mrs. ; Blevins, on Market, bo- vwoeu xuignKcnia, ana Mneteontn Btreets, Tim woman was very properly arrested by officer Thos.'Antlc. This morninjr the talf. i t ary son t a negro guard to take her out of tail, and also st-ut a guard to arrest Mr. Hh'vins. There is no necessity for burdening our already overcrowded columns with inoro uch examples of the jostice f.) of Frced- mau'a Courts, because they notoriously ex ist in numbers sufficient to prove tho whole Freedmen' Bureau system fcn abuse compnred with which, all other crochets and usurpations of Ldwin M. Stanton r mild and merciful. A late dispatch from Washington City intimates that President Johnson will soon abridge the desnotio power that lies in the hands of its em. loycs. Tt him go further, and make' in is action decisive in proportion to tho rank diabolism of tho evil, by turning out Major General 2Ioward, Clerks, Adju tants, and all, locking up the-ofrac and pitching the records into tho Potomac ri ver. Mrs. Jefferson 'Davis IwTEREeT- ixo Incident. The Ariguata Constitu tionalist says : A clerical friend of ours in pn!?iMg through one of the street a few day since to ' perform a ministerial duty attending to the sick and wounded in the hospitals encountered a stranger, who accosted him thus: - 44 My friend, can you tell mo if Mrs. Jefferson Davis is in the city of Augusta?" iNo, sir, replied our friend. 44 she is not.',' 44 Well, sir," replied the stranger. " you may be surprised at my asking ouch & question; and more particularly so when I iniorin you that I am a discharged Unit ed States soldier. But, and here ha evinced great feeling sir, that lady has performed acts of kindness to me which 1 can never rorEret. hen semn-r in tho Valley of Virginia, battling for the Union, I received a -severe and dangerous wound. A ((the same time I was taken prisoner and conveyed to Bichmond, where I re ceived such kindness and attention from Mrs. Davis that I can never forget her ; and now that I am discharged from tho army, and at work in this city, and under standing that the lady was here, 1 wished to cull upon her, and offer to share with her, should she unfortunately need it, tha cent 1 have in the world. - atcralizatiqx. We find the fol lowing in the New York World : . It is important that persons of foreign birth residing among us should not forget that the naturalization laws have under gone an alteration which dispenses with tho five years residence, in the case of' persons who have served in the army. By the act passed in 18G2, aliens twenty-one years and upwards, who have served ia the army and received an honorable dis charge, are entitled to naturalization pa pers without giving the previous notice of their intention to become citizens re quired by the former law, and it is neces sary, in their ease, to prove only one year's residence. . We commend this alteration of the law to the attention of discharged soldiers of foreign birth, and advise them to procure naturalization papers in season for the fall election. - . ; J : ; ; . U The Constitution sayi that Congress may pass ' uniform laws of naturalisa tion." Where then has Congress, tha power to say some foreigners shall be nat uralized in one way and others in anoth er ? But the Constitution has little to do with legislation these times. f , i r "4 Falsb ArrxaaaKCES. The Jfew York Sun warns its readers not to take the hectio flush of seeming prosperity for the bloom of real, personal or national health. . It there fore soberly and wisely says i The ' Gov ernment is in debt twenty-seven ' hundred millions of dollars-rail contracted within the lost five years. Every dollar of that debt, which bears interest, is distributed among the people, and every t&x payer must bear a share of the burden according to tb taxable valuation of his property. It matters not how much of this interest ia paid by : direct tax, or how much in the way of internal revenue ; in one way or another it all rest unon the nmtili.: and the eountrV At l&ffti is just the said twenty -seven hundred million dollars poorer than it would nave oecn. wun out the war, to say nothing of the general wastage of resource. : How is it, then, that -we are apparently richer, while in reality a great deal poorer, than before the rebellion? The truth is that our present condition' is unnatural, baseless, transitory. ; . The war'" created an artificial prosperity, .which al though' well enough for the individuals who 1 made hay while the sun shone,', was ficti cious and unreal, so far as the country, waa concerned."' " . " " ' ' Is it Jcstics ?4-The farmer or taechaaio who, by hard labor, has. scraped .together one thousand dollars' and loans it to his neighbor, is forced to pay on the amount so received ft tax to the trovernment and to . tho State.-. The: shoddy contractor who has made his five hundred thousand dollars y cheating the Government and swindling the soldiers, it he puts his , money in Uovern ment bonds, is paid a greater interest thfta the farmer or the mechanic loaning to, tut, neighbor isr allowed to receive, and out of the thirty-six thousand five hundred dollrjs which he receives as semi-annual inter est each year,";he pays no taxes . to the Gov era ment he has swindled, none to the State. county, township, or for school or road pur- pOsesv''i:,"'f:'-"f vuii; S.'iumt Ma-Mat.. ar Plccs The nofses New York city have necessitated a fashion of wearing plug ' in the ears.. ; These are' small cotton wads, saturated with some delicate oil and inserted in the ear,- as- suits the convo&ience or needs, of the wearer. .The Home Journal . notices, in con nection. with the ear-plugging fashion, an 'a iUcIe for carrying these wads when they aregfcot doing duty in the ear. It ia a small . flat box, like a snuff-box, made oil-tight, so as to prevent the escape Of the 1 liquid, and thes8 boxes can b carried izx the vest pocket. The Journal says that ladies attach the box to a 44 little "gold ring, bung from the neck simply confined to the belt or admitted to the elyaium neai by" - 1. , The Port Byron (N. Y.) Times Eayt that several persons near Auburn ''iave recently beea fatally stung by Iifge Wona that in fested tomato vines, ueatlv ensuing within a few hours. The worm is about three, iaohe long, of a green color, and armed witholaws and nippers, with a black horn xiea4iaS jn irpotj t&ree.-fourtfts of (H weh long. V -"- - jBf