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Fixtu Toast. Andrew Johnson, the
lesiuent of the United States AH
lienor to him for his courage and patriot
ism but lot him remember that his only
sure foundatiou is the Jeffersonian De
mocracy. Mr. President axd Gentlemen
Though I have not the pleasure of a per
sonal .acquaintance with Presidcut John
sou, you could uot havo called mo up to
respond to a toast that better suits the
convictions of my judgment and the fecl
inirs of my heart. If ever a public man
exhibited these ureat virtues of couraee
nnd patriotism, it must he confessed that j
President Johusou h:Vs doui: so. iu a pre-j
eminent degree, in his steady opposition
to the malignant revolutiouary majority
of Congress. The noblest courage is not
confined to feats of arms. He who sinks
not beneath the frowns of fortune, and
ennnot be intimidated by the threatj of
fierce aud implacable majorities,, often
displays a heroism that outshines all the
glory of battles. The valor of the battle
field is often ouly a Jove of glory and re
venge, but the love of country, which is
the true patriotism, shiues out traasceml
ently iu the man who dares to face the
frowns alike of friends aud foes iu ue
feudiig the Constitution and rights of
the State. Such a man President John
son has proved himself to be. He has
refused power, because he believed it to
be unconstitutionally and corruptly be
stowed. He has resisted the cunning
arts of hypocrisj-, and stood unmoved
under the public threats of revenge aud
assassination," because he prefers even
death to a treacherous or cowardly sur
render of the constitutional safeguards of
popular liberty. That, sir, is the picture
of a man cf the tntcst courage and loftiest
patriotism. (Prolonged upplause.) I
know not on what page of history to hunt
for an instance where, a public mantlets
been confronted with aore treacherous,
savage and implacable opposn.u than
that which 'President Jolt u son has met,
eveu at the hands ef his own party. And
jfvhere, in ancient cr modern tlavs, did a
man bear hiiuseit witii Letter pluck and
determination ' Hi
ation ," I can take
oft-rereated declar-
no backward sJpn"
comes from lins
s firm as those which!
ued to pronounce the tremendous '; No
by the Eternal!'' and plainly tells the
conspirators cf Congress and all their
lurious allies, that they have to denl with
a man who is ejual to whatever emergen
cy their treason may bring upon tht
country. Sir, I usa the word treason,
Btcaniuje to apply in its worst sense. For
that they are aiming to destroy the Gov
ernment organized by our fathers is no
longer a matter of doubt iu any circle of
ordiuary intelligence. The man who de
nies it is wanting in cither seie or truth.
(Applause.) But, Mr. President, who
an the men now engaged in overthrow
ing, this government? What is their
character? What have been their ante
cedents? I do not speak of the mass of
the Republican members of Congress, for
they appear to have no publip repord
knowu among gentlemen ; they seem to
have been tract distributors, nieincric
lecturers, colporteurs or spiritual medi
ums. - (Laughter ) If they were even as
respectable as that, we are permitted to
rejoice that they have not always been as
disreputable as they now are. But, sir,
the leaders are known. Their record
Stand3 out as distinct and infamous r.s
that of Satan, who. if we may believe
Mit6n, got up a sedition in heaven not
ahcther unlike the .one these old mal
contents are now waging against the Con
stitution of onr country. .Who, then, are
the leadijrs of this Congressional sedition?
They are a triumviri of traitors like that
famous coalition of three who conspired
against
vmriri
the liberty cr Rome. Our tri-
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embraces Stevens, Wade and i
umner, and as lor the rest or tue con
spirators, they appear to be the tools or
satellites of these. Xow, sir, who are
these leaders of the Congressional war
upon the President, and upon the Con
stitntion of the United States ? Arc they
men of charaetpr and honor ? Have thev
been generally respected by the people of
the United: (2o, no.) Are they men
that should be naturally entrusted with
the honor of a nation, and the liberties of
the people? Let. us 'draw a portrait of
these men singly, that we fcnay the better
judge of them in their associated charac
ter.
Who is Thad. Stevens ? Has his char
acter been that of a man of honor, a
statesman and a patriot? Sir, as a man,
we hate to speak of liim. A man who,
in the midst of a refined and intelligent
population of Pennsylvania, is not ashamed
to have shared, for years, his roof and his
heart with a negro wench, is not to have
his name mentioned, except on compul
sion, in the company of geuttemen.
(Applause. Socially, he is a worthy
companion of negroes, and not fit for the
company of white people. What is ha as
a statesman ? "Who can name one act of
his public life that is above the level of a
malignant demagogue? The first time
we pversaw his name in the public print,
was an account of his having jumped
from a tirq storj window in Ilarrisburg,
to save himself from a heating, by the
enraged populace, fof somp official vil
lainy. That was a good many "years ago,
and if he has since performed any publip
feat more worthy of the dignity and
character of B'statesman, it has not reach
ed tLa publip print. Then,-sir, what has
been is pharaeter for patrio'tism ? Has
not his very name been synonymous with
that of sedition and treason ? Did he uot
a few years ago exclaim on the floor; of
Congress; "The Union as it was and the
Constitution as it is God forbid it!"
lie not gay,
" Whenever I hear a
Sman yegin to prate aooui tne vo,iBtuu-
tioQ. 1 k now that I am in tbe presence
of a rebel."
of this man
That, sir. is the patriotism
He holds every man who
lovcf. af4 would prescrye the-Cunstitu
tion of his country, n : rebel." For seek
ing to restore the Union nnd to preserve
the Constitution, President Johnson is
called an : usurper " and a u despot," by
this vile old traitor of more than thiity
years standing ! Babbling hypocrite 1
wretched, hackneyed re viler t-t your
country ! chronic traitor to every public
and private virtue ! When f hall merci
ful death relieve the land of a presence
which has been a calamity and a shame
from the first hour of your public life?
Silence a miscrraut ! Then, sir, who is
Peujamin Wade, the next person in thi
truimrtrutr of traitors? What is his
record ? Has he borne a reputation for
patriotism among his countrymen ? What
has beeu his public character ? It is but
a few years since a member of Congress
from- his own State denounced him pub
licly, ou the floor of Congress, as a 'fal
sifier, a calumniator and a coward," and
to this day he has not dared to do other
wise than to crouch beneath the public
charge. A branded coward and falsifier,
he now assails the President, because ho
possesses those high attributes of patriot
ism and courage which must ever be
hateful to such a man as llenjamin Wade'.
There, sir, stands his record, as black as
a negro's face. Ten years ago he pro
claimed these infamous ords, " This
Union is not worth uresdrvinir." And!
after declaring that the Ctrrtstitution of
our country must be digested of certain
parts, he said, 1 If we cau't have that, 1
go for no Union at.all, but I go for fight."
That, according to h.is own words, is what
he has been lighting for no I'ninit
at tdt." And he is now fighting the
President because he is for the Union.
The" President is contending for the Uov
ermueut our fathers made. Benjamin
Wade is for overthrowing that Govern
ment. That is the fight, sir.
Xow, what of Charles Sumner, the
third person in this trinity of the Con
gressional rebellion ? lias lie the record
of a gentlcmau and a man of honor? A
few years ago he was publicly whipped
for the too free use of his ribald tongue,
andwhadid he do about it? Why. he
put effor Europe, and exhibited himself
as afajytetf man, to the surprise, if not
the amusement, of all gentleman on that
side of the water. We had the mortifica
tion to run against the dog-like creature,
both in Londonfand Paris, and were com
pelled to bo a spectator ot the tontcinpt
with which hi was regarded by gentle-
men ot a!! shades t t opinion. All we
could say was. that we believed there was
not another mr.u in America, who was
shameless enough to go ubout the wotM
exhibiting him:clf as a ichtpe! man.
And what is the character of Charles
Sumner for patriotism? Has he not.
during his whole life, borne the reputa
tion cf being fanatical lover of negroes,
and a virulent enemy of he Constitution
and Government of his country ? (i cs.
yes.) His first step ou entering the Sen
ate of the liuited States was an act of
perjury, for Senator Douglas afterwards
wrung from him the damning confessiou,
that he took the oath to support the Con
stitution of the United States 'vjrfth men
tal reservations." That he
openly took the oath to aqTport the Con
stitution, Le inwardly swore to himself,
and to his negro idol, to break it ! How
faithfully he bus kept the oath to his
owu perjnid oul and to his negro idol,
let his present attitude in the Senate bear
witness. He has always been an avowed
nullificr, a disunionist, a seditionist, and
a revolutionist. At a public meeting a't
Worcester Sept. 7th, l!54, he counseled
the people to disregard and disobey the
Supreme Court of tho United States, de
claring that "That the whole dqgnia of
passive obedience to the court must be
rejected." Again, in 1850. he called
upon the people to resist a law of Con
gress, promising tq set tl;e example him
self, saying' I am bound to disobey
this law." But whv do I ouote this
mj 1 '
man's record? His shame aud treason
are as public as his name, . And this is
j the ribald wretch vl0 assails the honesty
and patriotism ot Lresiucut Johnson for
striving to save the Government and the
Union from his assassin's hand 1 (Ap
plause.) Such, feir, is the character and
the public record of the three leading
ct-nspirators of this Congrrss. What a
triumvirate of villians! Men f outra
geous insolence, total strangers even to
good manners, who scesn drivcu by some
evil genius, inspired only with hatred to
our country ! The whole plan of their
legislation is packing aud matting these
States together into a despotism that is
precisely worthy of a community of ne
groes. The rest of tho Republican mem
bers of Congress appear to be mere tools
of these infamous traitors. They are fol
lowed by them like their shadows. They
thread them like needles I How long,
Americans, will you endure these com
mon pests of your country ? the promo
ters of jealousy, the inspirers of malice,
the enemies of the vhite man's civiliza
tion, tho foes of public ind private de
cency how long shall yonr wrath, xh,
my countrymen, slumber over this trinity
of abhorred traitors? Away with them"!
Profaners of the name of liberty!- assas
sins of our country ! may the wrath of
St 1 .
uod and men hunt them out or the land
they have smitten with their black and
dire curse! (Great applause.) Sir,, it
has not been the custom of free and brave
communities to stop long to argue with
such copspirator8 as these ; because no
argument can reach men of such stupend
ous crimes. But the laws must bo ro-
speetcd. Sir, fhey are conspiring to
overthrow ths Jaws ! While you dream,
their revolution goes on. The liberty of
Rome feJL not because there were con
spirators in Home, but because weak and
timid counsellors said wait 1 and the
people dreamed. Greece fell a prey to
Macedon, not because there was not a
Demosthenes tq thunder cut the timely
battle-word of resistance, - but because
there vyas a weak and corrupt Usehiaes,
to lull the people with the syren voice of
safety ! There ean be no peace no safety
m this country, until the echeinca and
principles of these men arc torn up, root
and branch. Your toast says well, that
leirersonian Demscraey is the only foun
dation of" successful resistance to this
revolution. There are politicians who
think the Democracy can save the coun
try only by nominating men for office
who misrepresent the principles of . De
mocracy. There are others who think
the best way is. to deny the truth, and
rua our candidates upon a platform of
lies. . ; ;
Sir, one man with a hypocrite's face is
bail enough, but a whole party with such
a lying visage is a horrid sight. (Great
applanso. j A whole party composed of
nobody but strikers and bummers for
office, is a sight to make the gods laugh.
(Laughter.) Of all sights, that, the
most sorrowful, to sec Democratic thieve
attempting to steal Black Republican
thunder, (laughter.) Is this-wretch a.
maniac, who stains himself with the
blood of munlcrer, and goes out asking
honest men to vote for him ? He is a fit
companion of the demagogues who put on
PA'irk ll pufifiran tiiery nnd go forth to
solicit Democratic votes. A hundred
years of this kind of campaigning, would
show that there always will be a class of
honest Democrats who can uever be
caughUin such aft. infamous surrender of
their principles. Jt-fftmoH Dt mocrary is
the foundation of the government of the
United States. To abandon tliose prin
ciples is to overhrpw the Government.
There-is' no other name given under
heaven whevebv our country can be
saved,- but that of the grand principles of
government laid down by 1 nomas Jener
sou. Jefferson was not ouly the father
of the Declaration of Independence he
was really the father of the government,
and the founder of the Democratic party.
Had the Democratic party, glorying iu
its own record, Ptobd firmly upon its own
foundations, this terrible conflict could
never have come. And until the Denio
cratiafcparty returns to its own founda
tions, it is powerless for any patriotic
work. As a tender to this Black Repub
lican revolution, what a contemptible
thing it is! (Loud applause.) It bears
the same relatiou to the Black Republi
can party that a mulatto docs to a ifto.
All our political campaigns here in the
North are simply races between n mulatto
and a negro, and the negro has proven
himself a man of the Jest bottom. (Loud
laughter.) This is according to nature,
because the mulatto is a moityrr.t, possess
ing the strength of neither of the original
types. When the race opens again' be
tween the ir V? man and the wfjro, we
shall be t rend of some better results.
Ouf mulatto politicians, plunging tibout-
ui 'Infinite lroth-cceans of "loyalty,
make terrible sjeecliis against such
things as Negro Bureau anil Nesru
Rights bills, but, sir, the real poiut to be
aimed at, is the principle on which all
those atrocities are based. Leave the
roots of tha upas tree in the' ground, and
yon throw clubs at the branches in. Vain.
Never, never can you rebuild tht Fplendid
edifice of Democratic liberty upon these
Black Republican fouudations ! The
wall are sunk in the LlooJ of fteomeu I
While they stand; they rest upon the lib
cities of a nation I You must dig them
up, and throw them out. You must have
neither respect nor iucrcy for the doubly
abhorred conspirators of Congress. Re
spect for such mdn is a weakness, aud
mercy is a crime ! Nail traitvr! upon
their forehead, and set the populace to
crying traitor! whenever they dare to
appear in the public ways, and you will
.very soon brisg their rule to "an end.
Learn a lesson from the fate of the beau
tiful republics of Italy iu the fiftcpnth
century they fell, not from the strength
of the monster Caesar Borgia, but from
the timidity and hesitation of the leaders
of the people. The people, if well led,
would havo made a very sudden end of
the whole abhorred race of Borgias. ' Ah.
beautiful Venice ' lovely Florence ! hap
py Uoiogna I proud l?ofuagna I wherp
uow are all your glories ? God preserve
my country from such a fall ! God give
pluck, and honor, and manhood to this
people! The pestilent majority of Con
gress is another family of Borgias 1 May
the. vengeance of God apd ciau fall upon,
them. - (Tremendous applause.)
State Elections. The State elec
tions in the several States comprising the
redcral Lnion are as follows:
In Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky and
Texas, on the first Monday, in Tennes
see on the first-Thursday, and- in North
Qarolina on the second Thursday of Au
gust; in Vermont on the first Tuesday,
iu California on the first Wednesday, and
in Maine on the second Monday, of Sepi
tember : in Florida and Mississippi on the
first Monday, in Georgia on the first
cdnesday, in Indiana, Iowa and Jeunr
trylvania on tne second Tuesday, and in
West yirginia (so-called) on the fourth
Thursday of October ; in Louisiana on the
first Monday, in Delaware, Illinois, Kan
sas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jer
sey, New Y"ork and Wisconsin, on the
first Tuesday, in Colorado on tho second
Tuesday, and in South Carolina on the
fourth Monday of November.
Wendell Phillips has an 'income -'of j
guUUUJiC .lle sits under ponsnea
mahogaR-yffcits off beautiful china and
solid silver, and burie3 his slippers in the
soft pile of velvet carpets fit for the par
lor of . a prince. He has never been
known to deny himself for purposes of
charity. If, during the war, hb 'contrib
ute (o raise a regiment or Buppors a
soifiiop's family, we have yet to learn it.
If he has rnade any donation from his
abundant wealth to the fund for support
ing the negroes of the South, we stand
ready tq repord the fact upon sufficient
proof. -
Swift was happily facetious, in speaking
of the Prince of Orange's harangue to the
mob ot i'ortsraouth, ' We nro conic,' ' said
he. M for your good -for all your eoods."
" A universal principle," added Swift, "of
all governments; but, lifccmost other truuis.
onlv told by mistake," '
iOXFKSSIOX AXI 1I5ATII OF
AX A U5I Y. 1 1 A I S. A I X .
M. M. Pomeroy,' the able editor of the
La Crosse (Wisconsin) Democrat, gives
tho following death-bed scene, which he
was culled to witness on his recent visit
o Chicago: . ' ; .
The Rev. Henry Clannard, an ex-army,
chaplain who left off expounding. Bible
and recruiting' for the Saviour, and by
indorsing- the nigger and Abolitists be-1
came au army chaplain in one of the Wis
consin regiments, passed from life to a
home beyond a blessed immortality the
other day, and thus shuffled off his mortal
coil. A physician had called on him two
or three times a day for a month, doctor
ing for an ague brought on while steal
ing cotton in Arkansas while with Gen.
Curtis.' "On learning that the ex-minister,
and ex-chaplain would live the night
out we called with the. physician. In a
little woodi u looking room not over twelve
feet square, iian' obscure boarding house
in Chicago we found the invalid. The
room was bare of furniture except a poor
bed. a little dirty washstan1, two wood
bottom chairs, au old trunk, a piue tabb.
on which was spread a newspaper on
which lay an old Bible, a pair of old snuf
fers, some pill boxes, and such stuff. The
dying man was propped up in bed. while
a faithful negro woman gat on the foot of
the bed. As we entered ho rallied and
asked thedoctor who ha hud brought with
him. On being told that it was " Brick "
Pomeroy. he sank back, closed his eyes
rallied u little and said, " Perhaps it is as
well, lie might as weU know it 2 apy
one." ' !
And he proceeded to make his dying
statements, which was in these words, as
we took them down in our memorandum
book asvthe physician requested,
My name is Henry Clannard; I am
forty-one years old. I am a Methodist
minister at least I was one. I was once
happy -and conteuted, and loved Christ,
my Master, with all the zeal a Christian
ever had. At last I grew cold in relig
ion, selfish and envious of the good for
tunes of others. I wanted to make money
and to have some fuu; I had no partic
ular education, to thought I would be
a Republican politician. I began by
preaching jiolitics from the pnlpit. and
praying for the negro. It payed me in
moitey, but I lost influence at the Throne
of Grace. But I did noteare for that, if
I could only have influence with the Re
publican party. I forgot Christ and be
came interested iu the negro. I had in
fluence with a few members of my church,
and talked politics to them. I was paid
by office-seekers to influence christians,
fsunethnes I made as high as fifteen dol
lars at au election fur my influence with
christians. At last I found politics paid
tetter than religion, aud I worked for the
chaplaincy of a regiment aud got it. Then
I let religion' go and went to war. There
I wrote letters dioine' denouncing Demo
crats and Copperheads. And I stole cot
ton, jaud silver ware, and pictures, and
books, and drcssscs for my wife and sis
ter, aud horses aud mules for my brothers,
and a piano for the Governor who gave
me the commission, and a gold watch for
my captain, and a lot of household fur
niture to send home to my colonel. And
I robbed the soldiers of jelly and such
tuff sent do;jn to them to use while in
hospital, nnd 1 had a sham of the goods
stoleu from sanitary fairs, and made lots
of nianey. l'lease give me a little piece
of that pounded ice ? 7 '
The physician gave it to him, when he
continued : -
But I wag not happy. I drank whisky
with the boys when away from home, and
indulged in some excesses not worthy men
tioning. and laid up quite a pile of money
And 1 was taken sick while out stealing
cotton from a plantation where a widow
lady lived. I had coaxed her nijrgers to
run away, and they ore all dead now,
When the war was ended I came home
to Wisconsin, but could not stay there.
So I came to Chicago. And I grew sick.
And I have got to die: I have called on
Christ I have prayed to God, but some
how 1 cannot get rebel lor my soul. Hie
door of mercy seems shut against me. I
forsopk. religion, for politics, and now God
has forsaken mo. I pray to my Saviour,
but he don't hear me. 1 talk to this faith
ful netrro woman she says "yes uiassa!"
and that is all I can cet out of her. I
know I can't live long. I feel that I am
dying. I feel certain that I am goingno
hell. Please give me a piece more .or ice
before I go. I want these things written
down as a warning to others who forget
Christ for politics. I feel that the negro
can't saye that Christ won't save mo.
I. was unfaithful to my religion, and am
forgotten. I was faithful to the negro,
but alas, the negro can't help me where
I wan't help he can't ease my soul, 1
am going tq hell,and I know it. I expecl
to meet many persons thprg who forgot re
ligion tor politics. I-do not expect to see
you again in this world or the next, but
I want this confession printed. - Please
give me a small small piece of
of of ice 1"
And thus died the Rev. Henry Clan
nard. Some twenty or thirty " military priso
ners arrived here last week and were
placed in the Ohio Peuitentiary, upon the
sentence of court 'martial at Little Itock,
Arkansas. They wor composed of all
ranks and colors, and as a special degra
dation to the whites, each white prisoner
was chained to a negro,.' and in this con
dition they marched through the city
attended by negro guards.; The Presi
dent's proclamation restoring the habeas
corpus does not appear to be regarded
with much ' respepf in Arkansas, where
military tyranny and -political fanaticism
continue, to hold undisputed sway over
the lives and liberties of oitizens. But
why should the Ohio Penitentiary be con
tinued as the reoeptaclo of the victims of
military courts in Arkansas. Ohio
Crisis.
Tho following is an Irishman's dosoription
of making a cannon : Take a long hole, and
pour brass or iron all round it.
IIASTIilt OltI!IX OF tlODFKX
ITII.ITIES,
The following extract from Draper's
last work, "Civil Policy in America,"
shows the Eastern origin uf much that is
useful and udmifablo :-
In times of which history 1ms failed to
preserve any account, that continent
( Asia) must have been the scene, if pro
digious activity. l;isit were first devel
oped those fundamental inventions and
discovericsewhich really lie at the basis of
the progress of the human race the
subjugation of domestic animals, the man
agement of fire, the expression of thought
by writing. We are apt to overlook how
much man roust have done, how much he
must have added to his natural powers in
pre-historic times. Wc forget how many
contributors to our owu comforts are of
( Iriental origin. Their commonness hides
them from our view.
If the European - wishes to know how
much he owes the Asiatic, he has ouly to
cast a glauce at au hour of his daily life.
The clock which summons him from his
bed in the morning, was the invention of
the East, as also were clepsydras and sun
dials. The prayer for his daily bread,
that he has said from infancy, first rose
from the side of a Syrian mountain.
The linens and cottons with which heA
clothes himself, though they may be very5
fine, are inferior to those that have been
made for time immemorial in the looms of
India. The silk was stolen by some mis
sionaries, for his benefit, from China.
He could buy better steel than that with
which ha shaves himself, in the city of
Damascus, where it was first inveuted.
The coffee he expects at breakfast was
first grown by the Arabians, apd the na
tives of Upper India prepared the sugar
with which he sweetens it. A schoolboy
can tell the meaniug of the Sanscrit
words, sacchara camla. If his tastes are
light and he prefers tea, the virtues of
that excellent leaf were first pointed out
by the industrious Chinese. They also
taught him how to mako and use the cup
and saucer in which to serve it. His
breakfast tray was lacquered in Jsan. '
lhere is a tradition that leavened
bread was first made of the waters of the
Ganges. The egg he io fcroakjng was laid
by a fowl whose ancestors were first do
mesticated by the Malaceans, unless she
may have been though that will not
alter the case a modern Shanghai. If
there are preserves and jBflilts in his
board, let him remembery?ith thankful-
uc-ss that 1 ersia gave injd the cherry, the
peach, , the plain.- If in any of those
pleasant preparations he detects the flavor
of alcohol, let it rcmiud him that that
substance was first distilled by the Ara?
bians, who have set him the praiseworthy
example, winch it will be his benefit to
follow, of abstaining from its use. When
he talks about coffee and alcohol, he is
using Arabic wopds. A thousand years
before it had occurred to him to enact
laws of restriction iu tie use of intoxica
ting drinks, the Prophet of Mecca did tfee
same thing, and, what is more to the pur
pose, has compelled to this day all Asia
and Africa to obey them.
We gratify our taste for personal orna
ments in, the way the Orientals have
taught us in the pearls, . rubies, sap
phires, diamonds. Of public amusements
it is the same. The most magnificent
fireworks are "still to be seen in India and
China ; and as regards the pastimes of
l j i '
private ma, xjurope uas prouuecu no in
vention that can rival the gamef chess.
We have no hydraulic constructions as
great as the Chmese Canal, no fortifica-
fious as extensive as the Chinese Wall;
wc havo no aytcsian wf lis that can at all
approach in depth some of theirs. W e
have not yet resorted to the practice of;
obtaining coal-jras from the interior , of
the earth J t;ey have borings Jot that
purpose more than o,UU'J feet deep.
An Unearthly Story,
The Staffordshire (England) Sentinel
contains the following extraordinary state
ment: A very wierd story is current in
the hill country of Staffordshire. ; We
have been unable'to verify the narrative
with anything like precision, and content
ourselves with, relating it as nearly as
possible as it was told to us by a clergy
man. One day last week, a carrier, with
his horse and cart, was taking his accust
omed journey between Button and Mec
clesfield. After he had gone some dist
ance, he as accosted by a wayfaring
man, who was plodding along the road,
who asked for a lift. - The carrier took
the man np, and then proceeded onwards.
After a while the carrier complained that
his hands were cold, and asked his com
panion to drive for him for a time. The
man consented, and took hold of the reins.
Before they had gone ninch farther, a
stranger on horseback the horse, by the
way, was a white one overtook them,
and rode by the side of the cart. A con
versation was commenced, which very
soon took the direction of the cattle
plague. Its devastating effects were dis
cussed, and a parallel was drawn between
it and other calamities, past and future.
The stranger on horseback suddenly be
came prophetic,; saying that next year
there would be a plague or blight among
the corn, which would destroy the fruits
of thocarth, which would, be followed.
the next year, by a plague among man
kind. " Christians, he said, " would be
dead in the roadside hy hundreds ; yes,"
he added, lowering his voice, and 'ad
dressing the holdgr cf the reins, dead
as the man who is sitting by your siqc I
The driver turned, and to his horror,
found that !h? was sitting by ths side of
a corpse, lhe Btranjjer on horseback
galloped awayr and the temporary driver
or the cart was left to pursulf his journey
with his melancholy burden. ,
: A wlnte man in Sfcr Louis became enraged
at a negro, the other day, and wa3 about to
strike him with a brickbat, when the colored
man fell back on his reserved richt : Look
hero white man, don't you strike mo wid dat
ar rock don't you do !t,- sar. I'd hab you
know 'dat when you strikes mo you strikes a
bureau:
LJKTTFJt FISOM A REP 181.10.131
Judge H. L. Comstock, of Wyoming
county, New York, who has been a prom-"
inent aud influential Republican, has
published letter on the political condi-r
tion of the country. lie says' the iques- '
tion to be decided ia, whether the Union
is saved or destroyed.! The Co'ngression-'
al Joit;t Committee virtually tells us that'
it is destroyed, and that amendments to
the Constitution, to be ratified by each of
the States lately in rebellion, are faeces-'
sary ia itj restoration. It is, 'he 'says,'
absurd to suppose ' tha it ean ever be re
stored on such terms. J, f this policy pre
vails, the Union isdastpoyod. iThe effect
of adopting the report of the CoBuflitfde
win be to upite the .ouih and divide the
North. The Union party can never
stand together on such a platform, and
whoever belie 'es it can, must be verj
iguorant of the signs of ftbe times. The '
States lately in rebellion will.become more,
and more disaffected, and, if held at all,,
mast be held as subject provinces by mil
itary force Nothing but absolute necosrj
sitv should lead to the ndnrf inn nf snoli
policy, and it will be difficult to convince
the world that such a necessity exists
wheti there is not an armed rebel in the
lands nor the slighest reason to fear
another rebellion, unless the Deonle afa
denlf d their rights. Loyal members t
ougSt to be allowed to take their seats,
anil Congress canoct deny the right of
Sepresentafeion to any portion of the peon '
f le without violating the Constitution
aud dissolving fhe'Lnion. Either these
States are not in theUnion, or else the -
are entitled to representation. There can; '
be no middle ground. To say that they !
are out of the Union, is to. confess that the
W;li frillfl in ifc r.liionf rr Ico t r rrtra 4 Via
lie to everything we said as to what that
object was while the war was going on.
The report pf the Committee, moreover,
treats these States as within tne Union,
by calling on them to ratify an amend-?
ment to the Constitution which the
oould not do if they were out of it. If
Congress had admitted those members
1. . I 1 A. J i 1 t. . . ...
uu ntre wyai, ana rejecieu oniy inose
who were disloyal, then we should have
had Uarion and peace, and the loyal sen
timent of the South would have been en
couraged ; bqt when loyal and disloyal
are treated alike, nothing b"at harm can
ensue. The questions forced upon our
attention are of the gravest character. .
J hey touch the fundamental principles "
oi tue uovernment. i lie policy wiiicit
treats the Union as haying been preserv
ed by the war, and the States as entitled
to all their rights under the Constitution,
is the only one that can restore peace and .
prosperity to the country. Leading;
traitors, perhaps, ought to be punished,
but we ought tc rejoice to see Southern
Mates and the Southern people renewing
their allegiance and sending loyal men to
. 4 1 i : -i - .
mc cuuuais ui tue liiiuou.
OA.V1A AS.1A; ASD oECRETAKT OEW
ard. The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, makes the follow
ing statement, upon his own responsibili
ty, no doubt :'f It is known that Santa
Anna came to this country through th
influence of Secretary Seward. ; Santa
Anna was expected last week, Friday, at
which time, it will be remembered, it was
telegraphed over the country that 31 r.
Seward had gone to Auburn f but the
non-arrival of the steamer Georgia, upon:
which Santa Anna was, delayed his trip .
C? . . .ft . cr n - -
until Saturday; but still the vessel ..did
not come. On Sundav Santa Anns, -was
announced. Qn Monday, Mr: Seward,
accompanied by big private Secretary,
went in a private car to : Jersey, City,
reaching Taylor's Hotel in that eity at
own name unofficially, and his Secretary, -
upon being requested to register, de
clined. Several men from Elizabethport,
ro?fVot fVia lifilpT t vcr Mrlv'tinnr
and were in waiting for Mr.' Seward.
The interview lasted for some time and
from the description given of one of the
party he is believed tq he Santa Anna
himsplf. 31r. Seward left Jersey City at
11 a. m. the same day for Auburn.
is the second attempt that has been made
to get Santa Anna into this country since
-ir. cewaras interview; witn mm as ot.
Thomas last winter. The first effort
failed, although a ycssel wa3 sent specir
ally for him. Upon the ?ast occasion ie
was given to understand that if he ex
pected to accomplish anything, he must
come here at once,' because matters were
in such a shape that further delay would, t
be fatal tq thte proposed plans,, whatever "
they were. Santa Anna's deyotiQn tgtfce
liberal cause is believed to be an arranged '
blind. x
A Fretty Fair Hit. A BO-calle
Union man. who once had acted with the
Democratic party, as it was said for pat
ronageake,'the other day tried to justiv
ty his change of sentiment to a DeiaacralijX
ana wouaa-ap dj snying tuaib - mc xcm
ocratic party, wen last ia poweTyivras so r
nt. that it was a sh&ineJbr Mr de-
cent man to hare anything tq 4 Wh it"
cratie - party has undergone a completfj ..
. .1 i i
purification witnia tne laswour years.
5 How so?" eagerly inquired Mr. Aboli
tinnist " Whv." slowly; responded ths
other, f all the d-d rascals left the Dem-
ocratic party at the breaking out of the
war to secure a share of the. plunder, and
we thu3 got rid oi iem. . j.iiero was
Forney, and Bea Butler, and
Without waiting to hear the balance of
the list our negroist moved rapidly up the.
Street. . , ;
A eorrfisnondent of a New York i Goni
al, writing from North Carolina, sajs that,
some of thfi agents of the Bureau ia the
old North State ' are " runniag planta-1
uons ; on tneir own too,$. ; ana ia trying
eases against the freedmen 5a, veryBeat
style of punishment is to impose a fin
and allow the freedniea to work it out oa
the plantation." Verjuice arrangement
indeed!- ' ;