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10 ALBANY, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1800. NO. 47 4 STATE 1MB O STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY, . is aly, cor XT Y, oc. JAS. O'MEARA, rTBLlSHEtt AND EDITOR. v'.ctv. KnfV Enildin? en the Street rnnningr from tne'Rirer by the Court Ilonse, St eie, Two Block ef the fclaia Batincts street. TEUIS: ron SUBSCRIPTION i i Cspy for One Year - - - f 5 l t iy fbr Six Months - - 8 55$" Payment to He made In advance in erery as. Tie Paper will not be. Mat U any address aalcs oHrcd. and the term for which it f hall be ordered paid for -y0 departure e!!l le mtiilt fr tktm ttrmi ia aity tjfafr. 2- 8. 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OFFICE ct his residenee, one mile from Albany. February 17. 1S66. From the Richmond Examiner. IXIHC'TMEXT OV JF.1TERSOX DAVIS. Full History orihc Fonl nniUtnr ilrrous Plot Judge I ndcrnood anil the I'onspl ! against the MAi'e of JeUVron ItuUs Hi lie teriutuation to C onvict mid Hnug Hint How lite Jury vnx lckei I lie ( haraeterot'the Men Tnm Itadienl Howling fVr the IMood ot JetFerson Ilavts The Seeret History of Jade I'nderwood and Ml Conspirators lu Ittrhataoud. ' The intended programme of Judjje Un derwood and his " Court," at Norfolk, had been secretly forwarded to us before be made Lis advent into that eity, but, as reavealed to us, it was so base and villain ous that we doubted its genuineness, and chose not to divulgeN-it until wc might wait and see if the real enactment would correspond with the story told us. Un derv?rXHl has strictly fulfilled his engage ment, find the seal of secrecy having been removed from our lips, we proceed to give, as briefly as possible, a full history ot the murderous plot to take the lite ot Jefiersou Davis : HOW UXPF.RWOOD FACE ED HIS JURY. Long before the meeting of his Court. 'Judge Underwood was secretly devis ing means by which he could mustera ju ry iu this State who would ic sure to ex ecute his pnrposes, and find a bill ot hi dietmeut aramst Mr. l'avis. ihis was the first step in the game, and Under wood knew the importance of securing it; if this failed, all tailed.' lie was in con sultation here with the " Ferret Club," and obtained from them a list of names of those who had already committed them-! selves by their antecedents and speeches (as will be shown hereafter) in favor of the hanging of Mr. Davis. This part of his programme being secured, he goes, to Xorlolk and sends his Deputy I inted States Marshal (a Mr. Duncan) to Rieh niond to summon jurymen, a list of whom was furnished the Marshal by Underwood himself. Upon that list were the fol'ow inr names: Hunnieutt. Franklin Siearne. James E. Lipscomb, "William N. Tinsley, B. WarJwell, B. Davis, T. Dudley, Jr.. W. Fay. . l itssir ? , YuiEGOX CITY. Partienl-ir Attention eivea to Land Claims and Land Titles. . Orcgoa City, Ogn'., Dee. 20. 1SG5. A. F. WHEELER, NOTARY PURIilC. i Hv Albany, Oregon, l TILT. PROMPTLY ATTEXD TO THE If writin and talsins aeknowledcmcnta o lTcedt, Mortgage, and Powers of Attorney. Alao, XJposirforfs, ASdavits, -Ae., 4e. ; OFFICE In the Xew. Court Houee. ! Aafcany, Jaauary 2T, 1S6S. ,"'.'' speculation during our great tribulalion. and realized, it is tid," a large fortune, lie is a Ikpior merchant on Main street, au old resident of the. eity, and hates Mr. Davis because he is a temperate man. who lent bis influence against the sale of ar dent spirits duriif the war. noV UXDKRWOOT) MADK SURE OF j HIS CAME. In order to have in his hands none but pliant tool, Judge Underwood.instrueted his Jepvty marshal not to enforce the at tendance of parties; he wanted none that would not be. volunteers in ihe iniquity. iee the cunning villain m tins. I micr-. wood was determined, not to endanger the success of his plans by having any un willing jurors, lfe had selected his men. but they would not be trustworthy if they were forced into service. The jury must be perfectly willing to do the job, or the whole plot might miscarry. This makes the conduct of those creatures who went to Norfolk and did Underwood's bidding even more atrocious and despicable, for it was voluntary with them, and they could have refused to attend. In fact, two of them did refuse to"g; Franklin Stearns! and James E. Lipscomb, 'and fr this one good act they deserve much credit. They : were the only two out of the whole list who had the manliness and good s'enee not to participate iu this plot of Under wood. THE JURYMEN' "SELECTED IN NORFOLK. The Norfolk papers tell us that the par tics raked up from that city to sit upon the jury were no better than those picked from Richmond. Speaking of them, the Norfolk Virginian savs: " We make the declaration. Mhc truth of which will be attested by every respect able man in this community, that so far as the Norfolk men are concerned who were on that jury, a iijpre unreliable set could not be found in this or an' other community. Three of 'them are desert ers from the Confederate ranks. Butler mitigated his infamy in this community. by fixing perjury on one ot them. And another seeking a lower depth., after he turned Union man. weut into the business of running blockade goods into the Con- HI 'EEt II OF II OV. MA.. Delivered before the Ohio Demo crude State i'oit vent Ion ttt t 'o Itimhti, on the tilth day of .May, istttt, on being elected Chairman. jYyDXt; Ct, W. GRAY, B lj Ft G E O fsl ; D E NT I ST, fim. " v Late GraJnate ef the J CincinnaU College of ffixg.-Zk .AOiirtl Dental Snrgery, JXTXLX? . WoalJ a?ain oTer his Professional services to tl itlzes of plaea and surronnding country. ' Orrtft Up stair? in Foster's Brick Building. Kesideace aloncsUlf tf ti'. faeific UoteL 'Atbsjny, Aosnst itth, ; anglltf CHARACTER OF THE MEN FROM RICH MOND WHO SAT ON THE JURY The above list, as will be seen (furnish ed the Marsha!, we repeat, hv L nder wood himself.) is headed by the name of Hunnieutt, editor of a dirty negro sheet published here, called the Nesr Nation an iufamons, unscrupulous old villain, who has been anything and everything, from whisky-seller to preacher. Several years since he made his" first appearance iu Fredericksburg, with the aspiration of passing himself off as a Baptist preacher and journalist. His numerous antics in duced the citizens of that towu at first to imagine tjiat he was'a crack -brain idiofe But it required not much time to prove to thftir nttpr Rtisfriftinn th:it lit wrtS I cracked all over, and void of all honesty. Latterly, he removed to Richmond, where "lie has shown himself to be a low, slupul mypoerite and knave. Here, Hunnieutt fVok negroes to his embrace, "and ha raiued thetn on Capftol -Square, under the shadow or u ashlngtou s statue, and fJeiitlemen tif the Convention: lam very sensible of the honor confcn'ed upon me by being called upon to preside over your deliberations. And I am the more bound to make my acknowledgments, that it comes unsolicited and without even a wish on my part. I return my thanks to you; .gentlemen, and will endeavor to merit the confidence you have reposed in n:e. And to do so. 1 am sure, will not be a difficult task ; for never did greater harmony prevail in our grand and time honored party, andneyerdid its delegates :isseml)Ie'r1iit onventum with more of fraternal filI7ig, or with a firmer resolu tion to s:njd by the principles that have made the name of the party a sjynonyiu of whatever expresses good government, and that will m the future secure to our or ganization an existence as enduring as time. Whore all are actuated bvf the . . . same noiiie motives, and neither envy, jealousy, or selfishness finds a place, the duties of a presiding officer ares.o simple that it is scarcely possible to err. 1 (lentleuien, we have very often met in Convention before, and under the most various 'circumstances at times when all was so bright around that the most far-sighted and distrustful could perceive no speck of danger iu bur political sky ; and again, when that sky was overcast and menacing that even the most lion hearted and hopeful culd scarcely refrain from despair. WeJiave seen our country uuder Democratic rule, the abode 'of the mo?t free, prosperous people on earth ; and again, we have seen it, under the dominion of our opponents, n prey to all that human nature has' ever devoloped of despotism, horror and calamity. But whether in sunshine or in dark ness, in cab.li or in tempest, our party has ever followed the path of duty according to its honestco!jvictioiis. To sny that it lias never erred would be to claim for it a ! more than human intelligence. To s'av federact. and vet. as a juryman, took the tuat seldom erred and never intention oath that he had never given 'aid and a!,y; "s but to speak the verdict of his tory, it is oa years since the maugnra- ASSAYtWG! B. W. TRACY & CO., , -.(SUCCESSORS TO TRACT KI?G.) . f ; ASSAYEKS, rOHTI,Al, OREGON. . : THE HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR &CLD mJST4. LEGAL TENDERS, ETC. 3JIXIXG STOCKS BOUGHT AID :'V';i' SOLD. X)FFICE 5S Front street, first door Eorth of Arrigoni's. Portland, Dee. 20, 1865. . i ' comfort to the South. ihis is a true bill against some of the men who arTat tempting -to fix treason upon Jefiersou Davis." THE RADICALS PLOTTING FOR THE I1FE OF MR. DAVIS. From the conspiracy of Judge Under wood it is very plain that he is carrying out. in letter and spirit, the programme arranged with devilish ingenuity by the Radicals at A ashington, and that Mf; Davis is to be execute!, if men -base enough for the purpose can be found. It is even whispered that between this and J une an act of Congress will limit Executive clemency. Mr. l'a vis is to die, if Radical malignity, assisted by alt the subtlety of demons, cau attain that dire result. Tho "Washington cor respondent of the Baltimore Sun admits as much in the following paragraph of his correspondence : ';Thc indictment ?of Jefferson Davis by the urauu J tiry at Norfolk, and setting his themes arc negro sulfragei cci'iality;his ease for trial at Richmond in June, is and miscegenation. . in accordance with the programme agreed W. N. Tinslcy is a Virginian y birth, jupen here. Judge Underwood is expeet but a brute by nature, wIit made a for- icfcin the city to niht with the copy of tune ontolthe vontederaey byfjuakingj the indictment. Tic trial of Mr. Davis bread for the soldiers, and thenran cft'jwiU now undoubtedly take place at as car for Europe, but stopped in New .YcrkSily.a day in the Juno session as possible, and will J. . SOMiAX PllRISII & IIOLMAN Portland, ogn. .! CHeal Estate, ommerciai and ; ; , ' Stock Brokers, jeneral Intcllienee and Col ." "' lection J Agents. (CmCEXo. SO Pioneer Block, Front Street. Portland, Doo. 20, 18G5. - SOiiB:2ITII BROS. . .IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN..; YTAT. HE3 AND JEWELRY, i:v.2:;z5, gold akd silver ware, MILITARY GOOI3S, :::: 1 .CLOCKS, c., &c., &c. ,. 03 Front Street, Portland. fottlMi. Dee. 20, i $.'.' , , r .. . qFSAX FRANCISCO, CALIFORXIA.) Will attend ia person to the " ' i 'xos'icntion ef Claims Arising' in Oregon and California, : .nd t tha Sttlemonfc of Acoounta with tha .STATE. TREASURY, WAR, NAYY AND POST OFFICE n IHE HZDM Emwiu CR patentcffice rers(B8 having Lnstneu can have It promptly ftltcsded to, and olUua information fromliuje v tune, if desired. ' : " ".. . Acbress Xo, 478 SEVENTH STREET, .- : WASIirSGTOX CITY, D, C. au28 JUGT RECEIVED ! r nAnKEusi s.JV,rKAv- ." - ALSO " . jO riff JI-J i wMeh we rr gelSng ry c... FLEISCnXER i CO. This fellow Tihslcy is of a good. family, and his connections 350 very respectable, but they are ashamed of hiui. 1 hey feel that he has disgraced them, and they re pudiate and disown him with the utmost indignation. A traitor to . his kin,, his friends, his acquaintances, his follow cifc lzens and his state, he was justly consid ered, by Underwood as vile-enough for his atrocious purposes. rext on the list comes "W ardwell, the Yankee "cool icy man," whose blood is frozen by the thing he deals in. Ward well was di$qnalified to sit on that jurv, and JL-. Davis' counsel will have a per fect right to challenge the luaictnieot he helped to frame, for he had Iformedahd expressed an opinion to his guilt or inno cence, in these words, as can be establish ed by the oath of a gentlemen of this city : t: If I was on the jury that is to try Jeff erson Davis. 1 would hang him - to the first tree that would bear his lorin. This man holds a position aa deputy, under Humphreys, Collector of Customs for the port of Richmond, and is one of those double-faced impostors who have deceived Mr. Johnson, and whom, we trust, he will remove as soon as he learns . theTr true characters. Mr. Humphreys is now in Washington, moviug heaven and earth to secure his appointment, fearing that the President will not send in his name for confirmation. If President Johnson knew the true character of the man. and what a bitter enemy he is to his administration and his policy, and how thoroughly he is at heart with the Radicals, Humphreys' head would soon be chopped off and in the basket, Tho next of the -willing slaves of the District Judge "is Fay "the culprit Fay" an indigo blue 'Yankee, another deputy of Collector Humphreys : a man who could take the test oath, or any other oath, with equal indifference. lie was sent to Virginia to eke out a jury, and he knew his part and performed it. s The fourth one is Davis, a full-blooded Yankee, Tvho ran away from us during the war, and has since returned, without an invitation. ' He was a notoriously bad character previous to his flight, and his hegira has but added to his disrepute. Tais.Dapia is what is called a-jack-leg carpenter, and he is eager for the job of building a scaffold for his illustrious name sake. . : .. - -. ' . .-' . ' The next, but not least, of the five worthless from Richmond, who have'made themselves accessories before the fact to the murder of Jefferson Davis, is old Dudly, a Yankee, "who was too old to run off, being over the conscription age, and who couse'inently turned his attcutioa to of course, be conducted with all due formalities, but as all arrangements uecesspry to secure a conviction have been made, the result niay4)C easily predicted. It is the settled purpose ot certaiu men in high position here io have Mr; Davis executed, if it is within the range of pos sibility, and they are not slow in assert ing that -the people ot the Aorth will nev er allow I the interposition of Executive clemency One Hundred Million Dollars Stolen. It is announced from Washing ton that the investigations of Assistant Secretary Chandler have disclosed the startling fact that the United States Treas ury has been defrauded of more than one hundred millions of dollars during the past year ! The frauds iuvolvc military and civil officials at the South. A special committee sot investigation will De ap pointed. Thyse men, it should bo borne in mind, are not Southerners. They are petty Abolition politicians of the North, who have been pensioned off upon the country by the party in power, in military positions. Ihey are the ecuui thrown to the surface by the vitiated condition of affairs during the past few years, and hav ing tailed to secure like so many ot the tribe ample fortunes during the war, have taken to down-right stealing iu time of peace. ; They were sent to 'occupy the places at the bouth because they were " loy al," and could ' take tho oath." ' The system of robbery organized by men who have influence with the leaders of the dominant party, has cost the county vast sums ot money, and the climax has bocn reached. The people who pay taxes furnish the material on which these cor morants fatten, will put an end to-their iniquities, and render it impossible for a repetition ot them, by ousting from' pow er a corrupt and profligate partV by whose management these gross wrongs ikave been made possible. Middletown fNT. Y.) Banner. ' tion of Mr. Jefferson. During 48 vears of tkat period the Government was in the hands of the Democratic parfy. Du ring nearly eight of the remaining seven teen years, though presided over by Pres idents uot of our choice, it was admistcred in main, upon Democratic principles. In this long lapse of time there was wit nessed, what had never been witnessed before, a total absence of civil commo tions, and a profound peace for fifty out of fifty-six years. And not pcacessdone, but also, unexampled freedonffowth and prosperity, and happiness. No man ever lost life," liberty or property, for a political offense, under a Democratic" ad ministration. No man was ever deprived 03- such an administration, of life, liberty, or property without due prrce of law. Xo political bastile ever then darkened and disgraced the face of the la,nd. No prison doors were . ever then closed against the sacred writ of habeas corpus. Xo military commission, organized to convict, ever then usurped the functions of the lawvniaker and of the civil courts. No tongue or press was ever then silenced by arbitrary power. And never, no never, was such a thing then heard of as an American exile n ho can look at this picture of liberty, security, happiness and national glory feebly though it be drawn, without feel mg his heart swell with an honest pride at the thought that he belongs to a party that has such a history ? What a sad reverse the last few years present, I need not say. Their events, arc too fresh in our recollections to require recital. And now," gentlemen, we are again as sembled in council to consult and to act for the common welfare. The storm of war has passed by but wq are yet very far, I fear, from the bavcu 0 peace and safety. Indeed it may well be doubted, Whether wc have ever seen. a time of more peril than the present. After four years of bloody wlir to preserve the Union, as we are told, we see tfie party that arro gates to itself exclusively the name of Lnion, practically dissolving what it pre tended to . preserve. o see eleven States, that have laid down their arms are obedient to the Constitution and the laws, and are anxious to resume the exer cise of their constitutional rights, forci bly deprived of them, heavily taxed with out representation and ruled by laws in the making of which they have not the slightest voice. And this 13 done by a party that calls itself Union and Hepub lican. Tray, .gentlemen, if this be Union what is dissolution f It this be ilepubh canism what is despotism ? Did any one States now that is to say, there was and is no right of cxc!u?io$ in cither case. Let 110 'man deceiyphimself or be de ceived by sophistry upon this question. It is vital to ftafcx is fence of our Govern ment. Tho wrong "done' to the Southern Statcs"ts not done to thefu alone it is a wrong to all the States to Ohio as much as to South Carolina. If, upon boiiic pretext or another, a majority in Con gress may disregard and override the Constitution, and exclude that State from representation, a majority in another Congress may iu like manner and upon some other pretext, exclude Ohio. And. besides, the right of a State to representa tion is uot her right alone-; it is the right of every State that all the States shall be represented. J he I moil into whicli wc entered is a Union of all the States. The laws of Congress that we agreed should bind us are laws made by representatives from all 'the States. Our fatcrs never asrreed, wo have never agreed J that States obedient to the Constitution should be excluded from Congress, and our laws be made by the remainder of the- States. There is not a word in the Constilution or in the history 'of the Republic that gives the sliirhcst sanctiou to such an idea. On the contrary-it is directly subversive of the Constitution, and carried into prac tice, is an overthrow of our Government. And in. view of these facts, I do not hesi tate to say that the doings of the present so-called Congress of the United States arc plain usurpations of power. It is not Uy; Congress ordained by the Constitu tion, but is an incohate, imperfect, frag mentary body, unknown to that instru ment. We may be bound by its acts as the acts of a Government tlej'ncto, just as the acts of usurpers 'exercising ue fttrto the powers of Government, have gener ally been held binding ; but to solemnly call it a Constitutional Congress, is a mockery of the Constitution. Gentlemen of the Convention I cannot detain you by referring in detail to the doings -of this so-called Congress; but there is one general view of them that I wisbf to present very briefly before I take my seat. No one can have attentively and im partially observed the ev'cntsofthe last five years, and especially of the last six months, without being convinced, thatau organized Conspiracy exists, having for its object a fundamental change of our sys tem that shall make the General Govern ment supreme, not only ia those makers now couuned to it bv the Constitution. ITKJ1S FltOM Till! NOlTlIi Rev. O. I. Fitzgerald, editor of the Christian Spectatoi , writing to his paper, furnishes the following intcresting'items of the persons-and things he has seen while traveling down Smith: At J'rookhavcti, (Mis?.,) the dirfner house, at! old gentleman in homespuu in sisted 011 my (lining at his expense. At parting, I asked him, i Is this the way you treat strangers down here in Dixie? Do yon feel it to bo your duty to pay for their cat$g?" " We ought to do it," he t 1 .1 ' r answered, wnen iney come its rarasyou have for the church. If you feel under any obligations to me," he added, " dis charge the debt by praying for me" and the old man's eyes filled with tears as he spoke. " My name is ," he cou- A youhjr man in Vermont, bent on secur ms a partner for life, called on a young lady and invited her to ride. Ho made himself as agreeable, as possible for the first few miles, and thcn, having mustered all his manly courage, broached the subject in the following style:; VV iu. you marry mo7 The answer was as sweet as it was short get out and go heme on foot, then-.1 The lady obeyed orders, and reached hohio in safety.. .. . i - . '-,. .. . " ' : : ';' There" is much- wisdom in a few words spoken by an Euglish farmer-, who advised ' to feed land before it is hungry, to rest it before it is weary, aul to weed it bclore- it is foul," - ' " . ever hear English rule over Ireland Austria rule over Hungary, or Russian rule over Poland called republican f fancy not and yet wherein do they differ in principle , trom that rulo which, our Abolitiou' so-called Congress Sxercises and is striving to consolidate over the Southern States ? And who doestnotsee that if the precedent be set and approved of Congress excluding a otatc. or State from representation, there never will be wanting a pretext lor a like exclusion 0: any State obnoxious to a majority of the Congress, or whose representation would oppose a bar to the schomes of that ma jority or to the perpetuation ot its power If the representation of a State is to de peud upon the -will of Congress, instead of tilfa provisions of the Constitution; of what use is tno uonsuiuiion, or wnai vi tality has our Government ? ' What-would have' been said had the ijoDgress, wnen the Hartford Convention was in session and when Massachusetts forbad her militia to pass her own borders to defend the onntry, excluding the New England States from representation? What would the SumnerSf and Wades, and Stevenses of that dhv have said to that r And yet there was iust as niuch right to do so i then, as there is to exclude the southern utoilso in nearly, if not in every matter. now belonging to the State Governments, There is nothing more striking in our listory than the attachment ofVur ances tors to local self-Govcrnment. . it was this feeling, more than any other, tlrat led them. to confine the powers of the Federal lovernment to matters of general concern. eaving to the State Governments exclu sive jurisdiction over. everything of a lo cal or domestic character. And-so far did they carry this spirit, that even iu the States au administrative, and, in some dses, a quasi legislative power, lias always been conferred upon their various civil divisions. 1 bus we have boards of County Commissioners for counties, of trustees for townships, of directors for school '. districts, while every municipal corporation, from the largest city to the smallest village, has its council, enacting iws under the name of Ordinances, to regulate matters of local concern. Thi3 is the true spirit and idea of our Republican institutions, and never was anything better devised to secure good Government, to educate the people 111 the science and practice of political power, and to preserve their liberties and free institutions. Opposed to this idea of ocal self-government, is that of a consol idated central power, a huge, unrestricted, supreme and irresistitible National Gov ernment. This was the favorable idea of a certain class of politicians at an early day ; but. was decisively defeated in the Convention that framed the rederal Con stitution, and was so repugnant to. the feelings, Eentiments and habits ofjthe American people, that it was not until our late terrible civil war gave rise to the exercise of " Imperial powers" by the General Government (to use J)lr. rew ard's language), and to tho creation of an immense natioual debt, that any one dared to revive the scheme. But no one can now doubt that it has beeri revived, or that the Radical leaders in Congress are straining every nerve to carry it into effect. One of the means employed for this purpose, consists of amendments to the Constitution, and one of their chief rea sons for excluding the Southern States from representation in Congress is, that in their absence, propositions to amend may be adopted, that,' were they repre sented, would surely fail, . Gentlemen, I need not say to you, edu cated as you have been in' the Democratic laith, that such a consolidated govern- tiiiued, and then he proceeded to spell it. lest, as he suggested, I might pray for the wrong man. That dear old brother be lieved in prayer evidently. Jackson has sadly suffered from the war, but is still a pleasant' looking place. Many of the finest residences were de stroyed, with nearly all the business por tion of the eity; the wrecks and ashes still mark rhere fiue dwellings, large stores and .factories and machine shops stood. They are rebuilding the principal business street, but in rather rude style, of one-story board houses. The great body of the Methodist ne groes of the South will unite with the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Zion Methodist Colored Church. Maiiy adhere to bur church, resisting all solicitations and inducements to leave us. I know not what is ,to be the future of the black race in the South. It does not look promising at present. I dined with Governor Hnmplireys, late General in the Confederate army. He is a member of our church a hero and a Christian. He was the successor of General Rarksdale at Gettysburg, and is idolized by the -men and women of Mississippi. He is a quiet, plain. man. about fifty years old, gentle in his man ners and with a worn and weary look. He is hot very hopeful tff the future of the South: It all the public men 01 the country were of his stamp, all would be well.' In the heavy timber on the Big Black I saw startling evidences of the awfully destructive character of the missiles em ployed in modern warfare. Oak trees a foot and a half in diameter cut in two by cannon-balls! The woods looked as if decimated by thunderbolts, that .had crashed through them, destroying splint ering and scarring every livktfliing. It would be too mnch to expect of hn man nature for the Vicksburgers to be in very good humor yet. Their sufferings were peculiar affd long-continued. When I looked at the caves with which the whole city is honey-combed, and remem bered that delicate women and helpless children were competed to abandon their homes and burrow in these subterranean retreats -when I -looked at the ruin of their hemes -when I talked with wives and mothers who had lost their husbands and all their noble sons in the conflict when I was told of the wanton cruelty and destruction sometimes practiced it seemed to nie that " reconstruction " was going on in Vicksburg"as rapidly ascould reasonably be expected. Of Grant and McPherson I heard nothing but what was honorable to them as men and as soldiers. They presented the sword of manly con flict to the foe in the field around the helpless threw the mantle of a soldier's protection. But Dana, who was m com mand here awhile, he stands in Vieks- burg about as Jntler and .banks do m New Orleans. - At a station called Hickory, but where I could see no hickories, something got wrong or broke the engine, and we were detained four or five hours. I was hun gry, and made an investment in crackers and sardines at the little store. I had no appetite in New Orleans, but how I rel ished this meal f Such is the perversity of hurau,, nature, that we are sure to wanMrhat is out of our reach. After I had '-eaten, I thought of the crowd of freednien in the back car, many of whom I was sure were hungry and out of money. I walked in among them, and in a cheer ful tone asked : " How are you colored folks getting along about something to From the New York Freeman' Journal. a iAxc;i:itov oeli'siox. There are multitudes of men attached to the ideas and principles that are vul garly called Democratic," who are nursing the ddusion that the Democratic party is going to carry the day in the next Fall elections, by some kind of t; manifest destiny." Wc wish to say to nil such that they are hugging to their' bosoms a most dangeious delusion. It is not immber.s that win. It is organiza tion. Through most of the States, and through most parts of every State, Dem ocrats are as thoroughly disorganized a mass of voters as the demon of disorder "ewuld wish. Wc want, in time, tb tell the Democratic parfy that a disastrous defeat is before them, next Fall, unless . they bestir themselves betimes. The s winking and nodding of Democratic po litical managers, at the last moment, Will fail, as it has failed, most shamefully, in years lately past. Let us face" the true position. Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, has been Vleluded, by Seward and his friends, intd. the absurd idea of building up a new parry neither Black Republican nor Democratte, but some (crtixm tntf some"" black neutral of the third sex." Tf that game could win, President Johnson would, as a matter of course, be over-slanghed, and Seward would ccnie out as the head of this party of " the third sex It will be a failure, It cannot win. Bat, in the attempt, Seward and his frfends are bamboozling Johnson. Sewaftf and Co. are in mortal dread of the Democratic party. They know that Democrats ean 'accept Andrew Johnson as their candidate in 18G8. They know that, under nocirenmstanccs, can they, accept Seward, the ornamental head-piece of tho " irrepressible conflict." Hence their efforts for the ntter destruc tion of the Democratic party. President Johnson, so far, has fallen into their trap. He is not using his Executive patronage to promote his Executive programme. It is from no memory of our aneient tra ditions, when Washington and Jefferson, as Virginia freemen and gentlemen, re fused to require the office-holders of their Administrations to support their policy. All such high notions are discarded now. It is done, now, as a matter oaf political eraft. The plain English of it is that President Johnson has men in his Cabt- net who are plotting against him, person ally, while, by wily flatteries, they are blinding him to their proceedings. Sew ard and Stanton, and Speed, while pre tending to differ with each other, all see eye - to eye. They are all agreed in the plan of eonsisniDg Andrew Johnson to complete obscurity, at the close of his present political term. JNw, being an honest man, we will say, Zi 1 .1 i c , j T.i wy, mat, jor Anurcw dounson, per- meni as these men are striving to estab lish, would be one of the worst and most corrupt of despotisms; and that if the people wish to preserve their liberties and their substance, to have good laws, equal rights and light taxation, they must never surrender their admirable system of local sell-government. The Fate of a Forger in TIigh Life. The Aew York journals refer without a word of comment to the fact that young Kotchum is serving as book-keeper in the shoe-shop at Sing Sing, and has won tho good will of all about him. He breakfasts in his cell, but is allowed to eat dinner and supper in the workroom with tho foreman and outside helpers, who bring their dinners with them, at which meals he has the best of faro : his parents "and wife come often to see him ; he receives and answers manv letters ; and the prospect8are that he will feme out better fitted for business than ever, and then have his revenge on Wall street. He i not con fined to tire rule of silenco generally main taincd in prison, but is allowed every possi ble. privilege, being looked on as the victim of circumstances rather than as a studied malefactor. Albany Argus. " " ' w Be temperate in diet. Our first parents ate themselves out of a house and home. eat V A dozen voices answered eagerly that they were getting along badly enough 7-one stout fellow saying, with an earnestness that" carried conviction, "I have been mighty lionnrt all day. 1 went over to the little store and made an investment for their benefit, and then laid down on my cushion to rest. After that, I was a popular man m that second-class car. All us inmates were anxious to wan on me, or do something for me. I have heard the negro charged with ingratitude, but I have never found him ungrateful. May those who have the responsibility of governing ana providing lor me immoua of this unfortunate race act wisely ana truly,, and may God in his mercy bring both the whites and blacks of the South out of their wilderness of sorrow ! ' At 11 o'clock we arrived at Meridian. The place was burnt by Sherman, but is now being rebuilt. I stopped at the Jones House. The Jones House is not equal to the Cosmopolitan. The beda at the Jones House were not clean, and too many bed-fellows share ; the traveler s couch. The servants at the Jones House are not well trained. The education of the night-clerk of the Jones House had been neglected ; he had not advanced ia his studies as far as chirography. ; But thev were kind at the Jones House. O the Jones House and Meridian no more now. r . sonally, we care not, . as respects this world, one Continental damn ! We have noleject for him, and never expect to haveany. Were he to be declared Pres ident for Kfe rf tl late United States, we would refuse to shake hands with him, except he could, in some marvellous man ner, purge himself of complicity ia the murder of Mrs. Surratt, Wirz, and vari- . ous other innocent people. But, witb all that, if he so showed himself as that there was a reasonable prospect that, hence forth, he would administer the Govern- ment of the United States in a manner advantageous to the common interests of all the States, we would work for bis election as President in 186S, and, again, in 1872, and, again, la 1876, if he de sired it at that period. - That means that we look on the Presi dentiaU office in the United States Gov-' ernment as no post of honor! How oa it be, after the execrable way it was han dled by ; Lincoln, with. Seward as hia mentor ? " "We look upon ii as a constabulary duty to, be discharged., WThoever discharges its duties aright, wo are ia favor of keep ing in, for fear worse may happen by a ange.! . - We mean to warn the Democratio party that President Johnson is habitu ally bamboozled, and that the vast major ity of the tremendous iiXecative patron age, in all the Departments, is used against the President, and against all tho conservative principles of our fjrOYem ment. We wish to say, once ore, and we will repeat it often hereafter, Demo crats must.organize, and enroll, and that on a declared support of the few funda mental first principles of Jeffersoaian De mocracy. The Democracy, "unorganized, in the various localities, will be as the chaff before tne wind. 0c foes,v the Union Leagues " are thoroughly organ ized. We say, in tho most ew&est terms, to Democrats, if yo are not organized &nd enrolled, in yout various ahbor- hoods - if von are trusting to the amatu of public meetings for tictoryr you will -be sadly disappointed. ' i . - Victuals and Cwthes. An exchange re cards girls as singular creatures. As for instance: Offer one of them, it says, good wascs to work for you, and then ten chances to one if the old woman, can spare one of the girls. But just promise matrimony, and see if they don't jump at tho chance 01 wor&m a life-time for their victuals and clothes. Southern Sentiment. Tho Cincia; nati Gazette is noted for its extreme Rad- ralism. I has a Radiiu fcorresoondent at Memphis, who las, hdwever, written as follows: Certain evil-disposed persons Jiaving; sent a threatening letter to Dr. Wilson the principal of a freedmen s school at Columbus, Miss., the Common Council of . that city, at a decent meeting, passed res olutions condemning toe act and guara tee ing protection to Dr. Wilson and his as sistants, so long as they may conduct them selves with propriety ia obedience to tlie laws of the land., In this connection It may be as well to state that nine-tenths of the stories of the ill-treatment of Northern men hj ex-rcbela whien, find their way into Northern papers, are talso. Northern men of enterprise and liberal views meet eith as much good trertrjjeat and protection in the South as ia tae North. - " The Best Way. Oftentimes a girl says " Xo " to an offer, when it ia as plain aa tno nose on her face that thS means "Yes." The best way to judge whether she is in earnest or not, is to look straight into her eyes, and never ruiud her nose, t ";'. 4