The state rights democrat., October 13, 1866, Image 2

STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT.
SI, II. ADDOTT, EDITOR.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13. 1366.
The Astor House in New York rents for
$33,000 per annum.
Mrs. Sarah R. Cobb, mother of Howell
Cobb, died recently at Atlanta, aged 73.
Prussia, by the lato war, gains a popula
tion of 4,050,000 souls.
Oeorge D. Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal, returns an income of $13,400 per
year.
The new Catholic Cathedral at Indianap
olis, Indiana, is to be crowned with a higher
tower than anj other in America.
During the first week of the month of Ju
lj New York city imported a million and
a half of dry goods.
Montgomery Blair, in his recent speech
at Reading, Ta., said there was not a thief
in the United States who was not a Radical.
It is estimated that it will require twenty
millions of dollars to pay the bounties voted
by Congress to be paid the negro soldiers.
Prof. Causey, a colored man, wns ordain
ed a deacon in the Episcopal church in San
Jose, California, recently.
The seventh annual session of the Grand
Lodge of California, Independent Order of
Good Templars met recently at Sacramento,
Dr. Haswell presiding.
PenSeld College, Georgia, has conferred
the degree of LL D. on the illustrious Pres
ident of Washington College, Virginia, Gen
eral Robert E. Lee.
A young girl in St. Louis receniy married
to -win a bet she had made of $20. Her
husband proving indifferent, she has applied
for a divorce.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
at Manchester, New Hampshire, has de
clared a dividend of $100 per share. They
need "protection," poor fellows.
The Millerites say it trill grow hotter and
hotter every year until finally the world con
sumes. We expect they know, but Mount
Hood is still covered with snow.
Montana Territory is 2,000 majority dem
ocratic; the Legislature on joint ballot,
stands 33 democrats to 6 republicans. ''Dead
democracy" breathes slowly.
Gen. McDowell has ordered two companies
of soldiers to be stationed at different points
along the California and Idaho stage route
to afford protection against Indian depreda
tions. A wild man has been discovered near
Reynold's Ferry, Tuolumne county, Califor
nia, who lives in a eave and subsists on what
he finds in the woods. He is said to be a
Hungarian.
Information has been received at Musca.
tine, Iowa, that ex-Mayor Funk, of that ci
ty, while traveling abroad, has been seixed
by the Austrian authorities and placed in
the ratks of the army.
Some Abolition thief who was dying,
writes from Chicago, August 13, 1866, to
the United States Treasurer, returning $14,.
000 which he said justly belonged to the
United States.
The Marysville Appeal says Ben. Butler
is supposed to know something of New Or
leans. The people of that city who once had
silver spoons are supposed to know some
thing of Ben. Butler.
A negro in the town of Pajaro, Santa Cruz
county, California, has been kicking up a
row in the public school. He insists that he
pays taxes, and under the Civil Rights Bill
his children are entitled to the benefits of
the school.
Abraham Lincoln, when a youth, desired
to marry Miss Wood, of Centerville Ind.,
but 6he declined, it is reported, on account
of his being "so awkward, lazy, a retailer
of stale jokes, and over fond of whisky."
Pretty good excuse, we think.
For three years service in the battlefield,
an Abolition Congress voted white veterans
$100 bounty, negroes $300,. and themselves,
for drinking whisky, preventing a restora
tion of the Union, and squandering the peo
ple's money for six months, $5,000. So they
have made the scale. Congressmen first,
nigger next, and white soldier last.
The Radicals every day are making them
selves more ridiculous, says an exchange, by
their whining and whimpering over the loss
of the "loaves and fishes." When Andy
struck the pap rag from between their teeth,
all their courage oozed out. They are in
the position of Shylock when he received the
"due and forfeit of his bond" for overreach
ing and bloodthirstness and conspiracy.
Poor devils we- do pity them their pun
ishment is greater than they can bear.
At a place called Holly, in the State of
Michigan, an inhuman father by the name
of Buck, whipped his little son only ten
years of age, with a strap of leather, until
the little fellow was completely exhausted ;
and, not satisfied with this, fastened a heavy
chain to his ankles, attached a heavy stick
of wood to the other end, and' compelled the
poor boy to drag it about the remainder of
the day. If the little fellow had been black,
and the scene down South, the Harpers
would have had another chance for a picture
for the Weekly.
The Proprietor's of the New York Day
Book announce as ready for the market the
"Youth's History of the Great Civil War,?'
price $1' 40 per copy. This is a work which
should be in the house of every democratic
family m the land,, that the rising genera-
lion may know the true cause of the late civil
strife, and be more fully enlightened to meet
the next one with which we are now threat
ened by the radicals. We design procuring
the work for-our own use, and will take
pleasure in procuring copies for as many of
cor democratic mends a? may desire it.
WHAT HAS FANATICISM DONE?
We cannot but shudder at the results
of Fanaticism which a review of the past
brings before us. It has trampled under
foot the Constitution. It has caused hate
to take the place of reason and power
the place of right, and tyranny to don the
garb of justice. Fanaticism has ignored
laws, and caused thoe who attempted to
defend and enforce them to be torn to
pieces by mobs and left lifeless and man
gled on the soil of Free America. It
was this that waged a terrible war and
filled the fiairest land in the world with
sorrow and sowed desolation as by a whirl
wind, devastating a great section of the
Union, leaving its cities in ruins, destroy
ing its railroads and public works, and
completely paralysing its industry. Wc
have the relics of the nation's best man
hood in the shape of a half million of
mouldering skeletons left as a monument
of the wickedness of Fanaticism. It has
turned loose upon society three or four
millions of negroes, and changed them
from a useful element to vagabondage
and crime. It has filled the land with
widows and orphans and usurped the
place of plenty with penury and want.
Fanaticism has burdened a oucc prosper
ous and Independent nation with a debt
of three thousand millions of dollars, and
left the people groaning and struggling
under the most oppressive taxation,
blighting the energies and industry of the
laboring classes. It has done all this and
more too, and yet the cravings of its ra
pacious, maw are not satisfied. After
waging such a war as was never waged
before, professedly to keep the South
from going out of the Uniou, and when
the Union was icstored, the army dis
banded and the honored work doue
when the South had submitted to all that
was asked of her, Fanaticism boldly steps
in and says the States we fought so long
to keep in the Union are now out of it,
and in the face of all this has the unblush
ing impudence to tell us the war was a
success. The South wanted to go out of
the Union peaceably, Fanaticism said no !
The South was willing to fight its way
out, but Fanaticsm would not allow it to.
The South was conquered, wrs beaten in
the unequal contest, accepted the result,
and after four years of the bloodiest and
hardest fighting the world ever witnessed,
returned to her allegiance, disbanded her
armies, run up the stars and stripes, and
is now willing to remain in the Union
she loved till Northern Fanaticism made
it hateful to them. The same Fanati
cism which opposed secession, the same
Fanaticism which said we were a disu
nionist, the (fame Fanaticism which said
a State could not fight its way out of the
Union by the sword or by ordinance of
secession which declared the Union nev
er could be divided, now says the South
is out of the Union, and can only return
on certain conditions, unreasonable, dis
honorable, and more humiliating than all
her defeats. We ask, is this the charac
teristic of a magnanimous and Christian
people ? Will such a courfm restore the
peaceful relations once existing between
the North and the Sonth ? Is it just,
patriotic, or honorable ? Slavery is abol
ished, and the great object of the war at
tained is it just and generous to carry
on a more bitter crusade than before'
While the South with true bravery and
devotion goes about building up her ru
ins, healing her wounded, and abiding
like brave men the results she could not
avert, Northern Fanaticism continues stri
king a disarmed and fallen foe. What
right have we in the face of all this to
boa3tof Christianity and humane feeling?
We ask, where is this crusade to end ?
Has not slavery been given up ? Have
not the Southern people been humiliated
before the world ? Has not the strength
of our army been demonstrated beyond a
doubt? Has not the dignity and honor
of the Nation been maintained ? In
short, have wc not conquered ? What
more is wanted ? In God's name, what
more is wanted ? Is it not time that wc
were endeavoring to unite in heart and
hand a people alienated and divided, and,
together, working out a common destiny
for a great and common country ? Let
us cease this strife, and endeavor to turn
this hatred into love. Let us now com
mence to pour oil upon the troubled wa
ters, and heal up the wounds which have
been bo long torn open. Let us do these
things, not alone for the South, but for
our country.
Outrages on "Loyal Colored"
Men in the North. We notice that
the Mongrel papers only fish up cases of
alleged cruelty to negroes south of the
Potomac. The other day a "colored
unionist" was taken from the jail in Lans
ing, Mich., and hanged by the ''rebels"
of that vicinity. And the other day the
" rebels" in Brooklyn attacked another
"ward of the nation," and stabbed him to
the heart. All over the North these acts
occur; and yet the Tribune never hears
of such cases, except south of Mason &
Dixon's line. Why is it?
Ben Butler- wants another fight.
He is spoiling for 'a-muss. ' Does the val
liant General think if he had another
chance he could rob Smith's bank and
make it stick ? Or has he bethought him
of some house'whose spoons he didn't get
If it's simply a fight he is after he had
better hunt up the carpenter who licked
him some time ago.
Truce of God.
Never before in the history of the
world, says the New York Day Hook,
were neighbors and friends so wrongly
and unhappily forced to become enemies
and murderers of each other as the un
fortunate people of tho "B order States"
in the late civil war. The people of Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Maryland, &c., had uo
cause for couflict or disturbance in their
midst, and were all living in tho most
completo harmony with each other. There
was, it is true, the ordiuary political
questions on which they might divide in
to political parties and appeal to tho ballot-box
as tho final arbiter, but in regard
to the question that toro tho States asun
der and forced their people into deadly
antagonism, there was no difference of
opinion or conflict whatever. They had
a child race in their midst, natural mi
nors, who, like other minors, were in do
mestic subordination suited to the nature
and wants, and in all Tennessee, &c, there
was not one single Citizen who desired
any change or modification in the social
status or relations of this element of their
population. Hut Massachusetts and oth
er northern Statos fancied this condition
of things wrong, and that it should be
nbolilicd und the negroes elevated, or
the whole citizenship degraded into a qom
mon condition, and they sought posses
sion of the government of all the States
to u.e it as au instrument to force tho
States having this negro clement to amal
gamate their negroes into the general
citizenship. The Gulf States, with their
large negro populations, knew that this
was social destruction indeed, that the
people had better be swallowed up by an
earthquake than be subject to such a des
tiny, and they hoped to escape it by se
cession and a "Southern Confederacy."
This brought down the whole power of
the northern States on them, and the un
fortunate people of tho Hordcr States
were forced to take one side or the other,
and thus become the slayers of their own
friends and neighbors without any caue
of conflict whatever among themselves.
What a sad and pitiful fate for poor
Champ Ferguson and scores of other good
men and true, to thus become the victims
of howling Abolition lunatics in the
North, who, through all the scenes of
blood and misery, remained safe in their
distant homes ! Hut tho war is over, and
we truit the people of the Border States
will forget and forgive each other, if not
the Abolitionists, and like Henry of
France in the eleventh centurv, establish
a "Truce of God" that shall restore the
old kindly relations so atrociously inter
rupted by the madness and crimes of oth
ers. General Kimball, a Radical now stump
ing the State of Indiana, said in a speech
which he lately delivered at Evannrille
in that State, that ''those who were in fa
vor of taxing Government bonds were an
infernal set of scoundrels." The laboring
classes must be heavily taxed to pay the
interest on these non-taxable bonds, but if
pome one queries why those bonds should
remain exempt from taxation, he is im
mediately branded as an infernal scoun
drel. There is a day of reckoning coming.
It cannot be that the laboring millions
of the United States will always consent
to remain dupes of the men who arc now
amassing immense wealth by heavily tax
ing those who toil day by day for a living
In may not be this year nor next year,
but sooner or later the people will awake
to the fact that the so-called war for the
Union, was simply a piratical crusade
against the people of the south, to rob
them of their property and to deprive
them of a Constitutional guaranteed her
itage. That the war was prolonged from
year to year to enable a few thieving
rascals of the North to enrich themselves
by robbing the mechanics, the farmers
and day laborers of the country. These
working men are those whom Kimball
calls infernal scoundrels. Now they sleep
and dream but their dream will end and
they will awake.
Pacific Insurance Company.
When a man insures property it is a mat
ter of vital interest to him whether the
company with whom he insures is prompt
in the discharge of its obligations. The
best evidence a company can furnish to
the public that they arc perfectly good
and responsible in law is, not an exhibit
of their assets and liabilities certified to
by high official functionaries, but the
prompt adjustment and payment of all
just demands. This is something tangi
ble ; it is something the whole community
understand and appreciate. It affords us
pleasure tc state that soon after the burn
ing of Sprenger's hotel became known to
the agents of the Pacific Insurance Com
pany in Portland, Mr. Boyd was des
patched to Albany to inquire into the
affair, and after due investigation, Mr.
Sprenger received a check for the whole
amount of insurance. This is the best
evidence the Company can furnish of
their ability and integrity; and we would
recommend them to all desiring to insure
against loss by fire.
Tiie Springfield (Mass.) Republican is
of the opinion that the war ended too
soon. That seems to be the notion of
most all Abolitionists. They could not
have stolen much, more from the South
for that country was about impoverished,
but they might have robbed the Govern
ment and the people of the North a little
while longer, ;
Senator Dolph.
On Monday last Mr. Iloschoim rose td
a question of privilege, and introduced
tho following note, which was read :
"God damn you. if you vote with tho
Democrats on that resolution I will help
hang you I DoLPH."
A resolution to censure Senator Doiph
was immediately offered by Mr. Avery,
and after a prolonged debate was finally
adopted by a vote of yeas U8, nnys 0.
Mr. Dolph, it is needless to say, is a
Radical. He is considered a leader, in
Multnomah county, of the "God-and-morality"
party. It pectus, from state
ments which transpired in debate, that
he is also a member of a church the
Methodist, wo presume Also, Dolph
fled from tho draft in New York, and
catno to Oregon on a mule belonging to
the Government. Yet, notwithstanding
all this, he has the audacity and hardi
hood deliberately to sit down and write to
a brother member that it ho doesn't vote
to suit him that he (Dolph) will help
hang him. A beautiful professor of re
ligion ! but a consistent member of the
Radical pnrty.
on-It crept ion or the Democrat.
S.jj.km, October 9, 1800.
rcnuHiiKitT Dkmocuat Sir : I
write to know concerning the Dkmocrat.
We have had but one number, I believe,
fiuce tho meeting of the Legislature.
Member inquire every week of me why
the paper does not conic. I assure all
parties that the paper is mailed wherever
ordered. Wc have now had two mailt
mince the publication day of the Demo
chat, but no paper romc.
The distrusting Assembly goes t-lowly
on. Nothing of interest yesterday.
Very truly, Gko. R. Helm.
All we can nay to the above that the
Democrat has been regularly mailed,
every week, ninee the sitting of the Leg
islature, to those members who have or
dered it. We are utterly unable to conceive
what is the matter ; but are using our
bct endeavors to ferret out the gross
negligence, or rascality, of some officials
which must hotticwhere exist.
A Case for the Itntllral
InrluiiM.
Hutnani-
Major Robert Douthat, who owns one
of those fine estates iu Charlo City
county, for which Eastern Virginia is so
famous, and who is one of the most cuter
prising and successful agriculturist, own
ed a negro man named Harry, who for
years was what it railed in Virginia his
"headman." Harry bore an excellent
character, and was greatly indulged ond
trutei by hit master.
When the war broke outand difficulties
thickened around tin tract of country in
which Major Jmthat'a farm wassituated,
he confided to Harry all of his interests,
leaving his valuable property under his
guardianship and management. For a
while Aarry was faithful to hit trust.
Rut iu rn evil hour he listened to 'the
advice of the ucwconicr", aud determin
ed to try lii fortune at a free man. So.
one day. about three years ago, Harry
look a horse, 'mule and saddle belonging
to his matter, and rode forth to freedom
and happiuctt. From that time there
were no tidings of Harry on the stolen
animals, until Monday last. On that day
Major Douthat aw a strange looking ne
gro approaching the houe. The negro
saluted him as "Master. Major Dout
hat, not recognizing him, inquired who
he was and what was his buiinest? "I
am Harry; master, don't you know me?"'
was the reply. "Harry!" exclaimed the
.Major, regarding lam more closely, "is it
ossibIe . hat has caused this change
in your appearance .' It was no wonder
that his former master did not recognize
him. When he last saw him Harry was
plump, healthy, erect and cheerful. The
man who now appeared before him was a
perfect wreck ot humanity. His eyes
protruded from their sockets in a most
unuatural manner, his tongue was partial
ly paralyzed, and his limbs drawn by acute
rheumatism. He was emaciated and re
duced to premature decrepitude (his age
is only forty).
Harrv told his talc brienv. hen he
deserted the farm he made his way to the
vicinity of Hampton. He worked for a
time, ns he expressed it, "tor the l an
kecs," on Smith's Island. He got no
pay, and was cheated or robbed of every
thing he had. He became sick, but re
ceived neither attention nor sympathy,
but was left to scuttle along as best he
could. The victim of neglect and inhu
manity, without medicine, food or decent
clothing, he bethought him of the home
he had left, and tho master he had de
serted, and finding, as he said, nothing
but deceit and cold-hearted cruelty among
his Northern friends, he determined to
return to his master. He coucludcd his
story by saying, "Master, I've come to
beg you. in the name of God, to take me
back and give me something to eat, and
let me live with you and work for yoa.
His master told him that it was needless,
now, to talk about any pcrmancut arrange
ment; that what he wanted was immedi
ate medical attention, food and comforta
ble quarters. Ho provided him with
these, aud told him it would be time
enough to think about a permanent ar
rangement when he got better. When
asked about his children, he said he had
not seen them for more than a year, and
he knew nothing: about them.
This case of Harry is but one of hun
dreds and thousands of liko instances.
Comment is unnccssery. Will not the
Northern newspapers publish this? It
is no fancy sketch, but the truth. Rich
mond Whig.
The Only One. Congressman Hub
bard, of Virginia, has sent to the con
science fund of Treasury the extra 2,
500 which Congress voted itself, saying
that he voted for the mc teased pay be
cau?e he would not otherwise vote the
bounty to soldiers. No other Congress
mau has been guilty of such disloyal con
duct. The rest say that they voted $100
to the soldiers in order to get $2,-500 for
themselves. Examiner.
It is that the said King of Prussia in
tends to assume the title of Emperor of
Germany. j ?y
Letter from tho Capital.
SelIm, October 3, 18GG.
Editor Democrat -A brief refer-!
enee to tho character abd abilities of the!
members of tho Oregon Legislature will
doubtless prove interesting to the constit
uents who selected them to como to the
Capital and legislate for the good of the
State.
Sterns, in tbo Senate from Grant
county, still holds on to bis scat. By a
vote in that body, strictly partisan, the
hearing of this contest was postponed
for 90 days long after the pession closes ;
thus cutting off Mujor Dribblesby from
any further prosecution of his claims.
Stems was the Rump candidate for the
place. He was a brazen ass before his
election, aud tins not improved since, and
is now the butt of hatred and contempt
of all men whose eyes fall upon him. He
is despised by the Abolition party for in
flicting himself upon the Senate, thus
forcing his party friends to como to his
rescue, and confederate themselves with
him in this monstrous crime, so promptly
condemned in the lower branch of the
Legislature in the admission of Kniscly
ami McCoy, upon tho same vote, over
limits and McKcan, whereby this unmit
igated vagabond holds his teat adversely
to the just claims of Major Dribblesby.
Sterns is a drunken, besotted vagabond,
without honesty and without decency;
with disgrace, depravity and corruption
bursting out upon every feature. He
only wants the huge ears ond switch tail
to make him an ass complete; he brays
to perfection, has the conscience aud pas
sion of the ass, but destitute of the same
standing among his kind as that of the
jackass among other animals.
W. Cary Johnson was most instrument
al in holding Stems in his seat under the
forged and fraudulent certificate from the
Count v Clerk of (jraut county. John-
son was attorney for Brents and McKcan,
in the House, knew all the facts, saw the
poll-books, counted up the votes, aud
knew, if he were not blinded by partisan
madness, that Dribblesby was fairly elect
ed by more than 140 majority, by the
sovereign voters of Grant county, over
Sterns, the whisky bloat and bummer.
Vet Johnson marches into the Senate
and procure the adoption of the resolu
tion to postpone the contest for 90 day.
Johnson is a religionist by profession, and
hopes thereby to find a justification for all
his villainy in the good graces of his
brethren. Let u strip the cloak of hy
pocricy from him and leave him exposed
to the light of censure, hoping thereby
that a little of honesty may yet be infused
into his frozen concicncc.
Little Jim Pylc is too weak, mentally
and physically, to stand much criticism.
Since Gibbs' defeat he ha more the ap
pearance of a walking corpse than a live
man. J'vlc is now a Radical if he has
sense enough to - know what the term
means, but he is too feeble to eve? do the
Democracy any injury or the Radicals
any benefit ; therefore I conclude that
further criticism is dangerous, lest under
the criminal statute wc should be indict
ed for ''cruelty to dumb brute."
Dolph, of Multnomah, and Cranston,
of Lane, are two of the greatest nuisances
to be found in cither branch. Dolph has
a supercilious, egoti-cial air about him,
while Cranston has a "striking" air
about him. Dolph looks as though he
was part nigger, while Cranston feels as
though he was a whole nigger. Dolph
has many pretensions without ability to
support them, while Cranston has no
ability to support any pretensions. Dolph
has a superabundance of cold jawbone,
while Cranston is the perfect pattern of
the jawbone of an ass. Dolph, I should
say, is a renegade Democrat, associated
with the nigger element in this country,
for the spoils of political favor, being un
able to win public office in the society of
gentlemen, while Cranston appreciates
the oderiferous scent of tho amalgama
tion party of this State, that cannotboast
that all of its standard-bearers and office
holders have pure Caucasiau blood cours
ing in their veins.
Chcncwoth, of Denton, is tho Speaker
of the House, than whom a more confused
and obtuse individual could not be found.
Chcncwoth has the faculty of cmployiug
a dozen of sentcuces to express a single
idea with confusion, when it could be
neatly and explicitly stated ere he is half
doue the preface. He is a man of few
ideas and has a verbiage iu expressing
them that always renders them the more
ridiculous to his hearers. He will start
in and pour out a flood of words aud sen
tences that rattle and jingle like the in
harmonious discord of a dozen rams
horns in the mouths of unlettered musi
cians, without the merest idea of what he
intends to say before he gets through ;
runs much upon his shape, and yet is
muscled like the grasshopper; grossly
ignorant and excessively lazy, wholly des
titute of honor or honesty; without any
moral restraint, and wholly unable to re
sist the over-weening influence that a
twenty dollar piece within his grasp
would have upon his distracted vision.
I come now to speak of W. II. Stark
weather, of Clackamas, who has twice be
fore been a member of the Oregon Legis
laturo first as a Democrat, and latterly
as an extremcst. He abandoned the
Democaaoy in 1850, and since then has
waged the most untiring hostility to ov
ery measure of the Democratic party,
right or wrong. Starkweather is a bold,
fearless, consistent partisan ; lived iu
Oonnecjticdi until he came toOregoniand
was' educated under the influences of
Rlue-Liht Federalism; learned all the
little Yatikce tricks and schemes, arid is
no doubt fully skilled in all the arts, such
as manufacturing wooden nutmegs and
hums to sell to the lords of the slave oli
garchy in the South, etc. Starkweather
is a consistent partisan, believes a nigger
as good as a white man, would be proud
to see the amalgamation of the races, and
especially would be pleased to see the
slave in the South trample upon his mas
tcr and debauch the daughter, through
personal hostility to the growing enter
prise of a class so much envied by the
picayune spirit of New England, and is
therefore consistently opposed to the
Democracy, the old Constitution, liberty,
and to a republican form of government.
Upton, of 31ultnomah, is the most rot
ten and corrupt of any man in the House;
of rcticenco the most hidden and design
ing, while the finger of duplicity and
double dealing is apparent in every meas
ure iu which he takes an interest. If he
had more ability he would be truly a
dangerous man. If we could strip him of
his deception and undie his hair and
beard, wc would find him a feeble old mau
and a bundle of schemes, fulhoftbo littlo
tricks by which broken down old political
hacks seek to inflict themselves upon a
too confiding public. Upton is now the
wreck of a once moic vigorous man
perhaps in his younger days he was of
more honor. I should cay that he has in
times past been jilted in politics, until
his intense passion for Upton, and only
Upton, has become a chronic malady.
He was himself a candidate f jt the Uni
ted States Senate ; voted for Gibbs, but
suffered much in the flesh every ballot
lest Gibbs should receive tho requisite
number to elect him. This is Upton.
Lot him improve before the people politi
cally, or eke let him fall- a miserable
old torn down political guerrilla ; "un
wept, unhonorcd aud unsung."
These men, many of them, were once
Democrats; were oucc friends of their
country, but have sold themselves tor a
price which they have not received.
Some of them are in a worse condition
than' the famed Judas who did receive
the thirty pieces of silver; and some of
them are daily geliing out their country
daily riveting the fetters" upon their chil
dren for coming time, slaves to their lusts
of power and public plunder, and a
burning disgrace to the houses of legisla-
jtion iu our young but rising State.
"Ob. fcr a tongue l curc the lave,
Wbo treaton, likes ic'l!jr b'.iglt,
Coo u'er tie council of tbe Urav,
And Uau tbm in their boar of mijLt."
Yours, truly. Listener.
Stolen Jewelry in the North.
The following is an extract of a letter
from Few York, published in the Haiti
more Episcopal Methodist, of the 4th
int. : We don't know how much troth
there in in this incident, but facts, within
tho knowledge of many persons, nt Jeast
make the statement possible if not plaus
ible. We have heard even of pianos, and
jewelry, which found their way North
during the war, an 1 under circumstances
which we think will warrant an effort at
restitution. A southron lady, on a visit
to this eity, went to woridiip in one of the
up town churches. Soon after an elegant
attired New York lady, of high social
standing, entered the same pew andie
tnaincd during the service; after which
the southren lady called her aside into
the vestry-room, and in the presence of
the Hector, with whom she was well ac
quainted, thus addressed her: Madame.
luonoi wihi 10 onena you, but mat
fhawi you are wearing belongs to me.
(Tho shawl was asuprebone.) The New
Yorker protested, and declared that there
mustbesome mistake. 4'If,"savs the south
ern lady, "you will examine a certain cor
ner, you will see my initials worked in it,
and the Hector knows my name well."
The corner was found, as well as the
initials. 1 he southern lady then re
marked : 4tThat ring you have upon
your finger is also mine, and if you will
take the trouble to examine the interior.
you will find the same initials engraved
as
above described took place, and with
similar results. Turning to her again,
the Southern lady said : "Madame, that
bracelet you have on is mine also, and
by pressing a spring on the mside it will
unclasp and show you a portrait. The
New York lady did as requested, and
there was the lady's portrait. She
promptly returned the ring and bracelet,
and as she was convinced beyond the
power to controvert it that they were the
property of this Southern lady, and re
marked as she did : "They are yours,
and you are welcome to them, but as I
wore this shawl to church, I must beg tho
privilege of wearing it home again." The
Southern lady acceded, of course, and
they exchanged cards.
The shawl came back in due time, but
the New York lady had probably obtain
ed the articles in such a manner as to
render it too unpleasant to divulge. No
more was said about it. Moral : If south
ern ladies want to know where their ar
ticles of missing jewelry and wardrobe
furniture are, let them attend some fash
ionable up-town New York church, aud
if the men want to know what has beeome
of all their fine horse3, shipped North by
army officers and "bummers," lot them
spend au evening at Ceutral Park,"
Bully for Massachusetts! A
school inarm iu Mass. lately boat a little
child with a heavy ruler, for misspelling
a word, until twelve days afterwards the
child's back and arms plainly showed
signs of the terrible punishmont. The
child was less than four yoars old. That
huzzy would probably roll up her eyes in
holy horror at the idea of some one strik
ing a buck nigger.
A young girl was htely put up at a raf
fle in Home. The tickets were all sold,
but the police interfered.
B Y ,-TE L E G RAP H.
New York, Oct. 7. Tho reports of
famine in India are confirmed, especially
iu the region around Calcutta. The cor
respondent of the London Times, writing
from that city under date ot August 11,
wiy the city was being so crowded with
paupers that the municipal commissioners
and merchants had organized a relief. On
Monday a public meeting ot all classes
was held in the town hall to raUc a ''sub
scription Ucpo'ts were read giving sta
tistics which, completed to date, show
I lint at 22 place 1 1.275 people are daily
fed in addition to the sick in the hospital;
and, with this number, is increasing at
the rate of about 200 a day. It may be
Maid that 20,00(1 persons are now subsist
ing on charity daily in Calcutta, Keports
from Dombay arc even more appalling,
says tho same authority. Think of 9J
dead bodies being picked up in the streets
ot Dombay each morning. Half the truth
ha not yet been told. Tho last returns
show7,0o0 deaths in that one station
during the week ending July 31st. If
you treble that number for the many who
pecome me ioou oi me jackal and vulture
in the lonely jungle or ditch, you will
not go beyond the sad truth. It is ob
vious that the Hoard of l'evenue has
ceased to report the deaths.
Santa Anna was in Washington a few
lay ago accompanied by the notorious
It. Clay Crawford, who calls himself Gen-
af. . . m
era i. Santa Anna had an interview with
Seward and the President and is now
back agiiin iu New York. One report
says that at the Cabinet meeting on Thurs
day. Seward made full exposition of San
ta Anna's intentions and urges the exten
sion of tsueh moral aid as was desired.
Another authority denies that and says
the mission of Santa Anna was to con
vince the Administration that the chureh
party is the only one in Mexico which
can establish a firm government there in
ease of the downfall of Maximilliau. But
that the question has not been pressed
on the Cabinet. - -
Th Herald ays that Col. Lopex has
tailed for Mata moras with specinl instruc
tions from Ortega. One of the objects
of the mi.ion is to receive consignments
of arms, which have been dispatched from
New York and Philadelphia. He is di
rected to announce the approaching ar
rival in that city of General Ortega, who
will leave for 31exicu at the end of this
week.
.New York, October 8. Advices from
San Antonio, via Galveston, are that
quiie a number of Santa Anna agents are
at work re ruit'ng tor a raid on Mutamo
ra. 'Ihere i but lutle sympathy rhwn
them there, it being fully understood
(that Santa Anna U pledged to Napoleon
uj acknowledge the I ranee debt, if he
.ucceed in gainiug a footing on .Mexican
soil. Very few have joined his ftaudanl
as he is known not to be partial to the
Liberal cauc. Large quantities of arms
and supplies have reached the Mexican
frontier fur Juarez's army at Monterey
and other places. General Kc'.beJa's
forces arc now iu excellent condition, and.
will ikmii be fully equipped for a winter
campaign. Latest advices Pay Juarez
was at Chihuahua, preparing for all early
departure for Monterey, where (Jeneral
KftCohcda is in coiuiuaud. The latter is
sanguine of future success and awaits the
arrival of ihe President, who has fur five
years upheld the Liberal eau?c.
Washington-, October S. The Pres
ident has issued a proclamation recom
mending that Thursday, the 29th of No
vember, be observed as a day of Thanks
giving and praise to God for ll II s mer
cies and benefits, and also recommending
that the people humbly and devou'lv im
plore Him to grant to our national coun
cil aud the whole population that Divine
wisdom which alone can lead the nation
into the ways of all good.
Princeton. New Joey. October 8.
Commodore Stockton died last night at
l J o'clock. His death has caused a deep
feeling of gloom to pervade the entire
community. The funeral will take place
on Wednesday.
Chicago, October S. The steamer
Lesella passed Leavenworth October 4th.
'from Port Benton, bringing $2,500,000
m treasure from 3Iontana
A planter in Sumter county thus re
lates to the Livingston Journal an account
of an amusing interview between himself
and his "head man" Howard. Work
had not gone to suit him, so calling up
Howard, he ordered him to quit the
place. Flinging down his hat and assum
ing an attitude, Howard delivered him
self "thusly :"
"Massr I don't wish to dictate you or
anything o' dat kind. But dont tell this
nigger to lecbe. Be Yankees say 1W
free, but I nebbcr would bleeve 'em if
you hadn't tole me so ; Now, I'sc been in
the family thirty years,an when I dosen't
do right ju3 take dis nigger's shirt off an
whip him to your satisfaction, an he'll be
a better uigper. I dosen't want no sich
freedom as makes me lebe home when I,
don't do right. An' mass'r, when dese
udder niggers doesn't do right, ef I wasr
you I would not go to the buro. I'll whip
'em for yon caze ef I go to de buro agin
anodder nigger, dey paj-s no 'tention ; but
when you goes dey makes you pay money.
Dat's all de buro fur. An, mass.r since
you lost all your niggers, you can't 'ford
Unlocking tiie Rocks. The great
cost of silver and gold arises not so mueh
from their scarcity in the earth, as the
i i&cu ty of ex r icting them from the r
stony combiuations. Dr. J. C. Aver, the
II t- - 1 . A . . K '
wen kuowu cnemist oi Massachusetts,,
has cut this gordian knot. After having
merited and received the gratitude of half
maukind, by his remedies that euro their
diseases, he is now winning tho other
half, by opeaiug for them an easy road to
the cxhaustless treasures of the hills.
He has discovered and published a cheni
ical process, which renders at little cost,,
the hardest rocks and ores friable liko
chalk, so that the precious metals are
loosed from their confinement, and easily
gatl ered. Mines too p cor to pay, may bo
worked at a profit now, and the vield of,
rich mines is largely iucreased, while the
eost of extracting the metals from the ore,'
is diminished. Either is a great achieve-1
ment, to enrich mankind, or cure their
diseases. But we are' informed our cel
ebrated countryman adheres to the latter, -
as his specialty and chief ambition.
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