The San Antonio Ledger. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 2, 1867 Page: 2 of 4
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PEBIJL.8 OP THE: DAY.
W* ere lomawhat amused of lata, at reading
the remark! of members of Congress, and the
•diteiiils of aoma of the leadlos radical papers
' qt the parila that bang over the country at ibis
tlinvThey seam to bare just become aroused
to tb^^fetportaut fact that there are great dan
gera thraitening our liberties at the present
time. This is not at oil surprising, when we
consider the political shortsightedness the nor-
thern people here manifested daring the war, in
liaving their Statea shorn of all those rights
guarantied to them by the Constitution.. i be
crv then vas "a great militar/ necessity.'
"Hive the President all the power he needs,"
aaid they,—and the result is that Congress now
wants the same powir, anil because the Presi-
dent batieres that a time of peace has no use
for such power, he is oalled a traitor The tiu-
Ítremo Court has decided that civilians ennnot be
riod by military oourts, and so they discard the
Supreme Court Sumner says, "the Supreme
Court will soon find itself outside tho 'Jovem-
mont." Had he said that Congress would soon
dispense with the Court and Constitution, hp
would have told the truth, In the lute debate
on the bill to disfranchise the whites and enfran-
chise the negroes of the South, for the purpose
of securing radical control of the Government,
•and the passing through their bands yearly, of
over ñre hundred millions of dollars, Air Ro¿ rs,
of New Jersey, said:
"Rather than see military government estab
lished in this country, be for one, would use the
power which the Almighty had given him in re-
sisting the invasion of his iibertios. It this thing
were continued, it would bring on a war that
would roclc the land like an earthquake If
Congress thus undertook to ride over the Su-
preme Court 'and over the Constitution, then,
unless the people had booomo sluvcs and were
nnfit to be freemen, they would not submit
without resistance, even though it aost their
blood. He was not willing to submit to the gal-
ling yoke of despotism. If that were treason,
then, in the words of Patriok ilenry, he would
say, ''Make the most of it."
If The psople of the South were not already
ao oppressed and broken down as to be unable
to deteni themselves, and if the) had the blood
of Washington, JelTorson, Madison, and tbe
eages and heroes of the Revolution, they would
Erotest, as their fathers had protesto'!, by their
lood against tbe despotism of King Ueorge.
lie haped tho President of tho United states
would resist, lie hoped thut, before bo sabinit
ted, he would use all the military power \vhio:i
the Constitution had givou hitn to ooiupel trai-
tors und disunionists to obey the law. if An-
drew Johnsun would submit to see the country
destroyed, his name would go down with igno-
miny to posterity, as a living libel, a coward and
a traitor.
Mr. Le Blond, of Ohio, spoke in a similar
strain. lie opposed the measure as one thut
oast down ali landmarks of the country, and
whose tendency was to divide tbe Inion and
subvert the Constitution. It placod every thing
iu tho hands of tbe military, and permitted tbe
oitizens no redress in the civil oourts. lie (Mr*
Le Rlond) did not desire another war, bu', he
would rather see one than to have tbe pc pie
submit in a oowardly manner to the delioerute
overthrow of the Constitution of tbe oountry.—
The Southern people failed to dissolve the Un-
ion by lores ol arms, and this bill proposes to
accomplish that for them by legislation. This
country, uudor present rule, ll drifting fait to a
monarohy, and the goal will soon be reached un-
less the people take the matter in hand and re
store our shattered institutions.
Mr. Finck, of Ohio, said it was trne we had
conquered a poaco, but did not coitquor one inch
of territory that did not belong to us bolore. -
The bill sounded the death knell of liberty, for
the country could not be free if one third ol its
people was governed by military rule. The lib'
ertio? of the people could not thus be preserved,
lie (Mr. K.) did not believe that tho men who
proposed and supported this measure, urged it
forward in tbe best interests of the oountry. It
was a bold snd fearful attempt to maintain party
oieendancy by oxoluding the pjwer aud votes of
one-tbird of the people of the country. It was
a mensuro of revenge, malice and usurpation,
got up in the interest of oppression, and to
trample on the rights of tbe people of this ooun-
try."
These men have become alarmed, sure enough.
Well, il they had seen, as' Southern Statesmen
did, these perilB when the Constitution was sot
aside by their own States in the "Dred Scott
deoision," stood up then as men, with the South,
for the enforoemeut of tbe Constitution, the per-
ils that have sinoe come upon the country might
all have been averted. £ut these men slunk
back, as it was only the South then that was in
danger. Now they see that step by step the
Constitution is about gj«e, and they cry out I us
tily for help. Messrs. Rogers, Le Blond and
Finck, when your party has contended for what
you eonsider to be your rights as guarantied to
you under tho Constitution, for four years,
placed six hundred thousand of your enemies
hors du combat, at the price of over two hun-
drei thousand lives, and your country laid wasto,
your buildings burnod over the boads of your
wives and children, your personal property plun-
dered and stolen by and army of thieves, your
wives and children ravished aud starved—then
call upon the South and talk about "patriotism"
and "Patrick Henry," und "King George," and
we will listen to you.
bave
era. Were the negroes
themselves and the aid of their old masters, the
burdens of their obanged condition would be
greatly alleviated; but this will not be tbe case.
The same fanatical spirit that freed them at the
saeritoe'of one third of their number ts now
pushing on its mad career fur the oei.tuin extin-
guishment of the entire race. Let the Southern
people in their trials and misfortunes remember
their firmer slaves, and comfort thim and alle-
viate their distress and help build up a sfstetn
of schools for educating them, so to be armed
against thieves and imposters. In this way
they will in a great measure, avoid the oormo-
rant horde of Northern teachers, who will poison
the minds of tbe negroes, a^gptRwiol their
bard earnii
Owing to an entirely new and nnexpected
change in the political programme at Waihing
ton, matters are quite different now from what
we had reason to exfeot one woek ago. This,
however, Is enly in time, and has nothing to do
with tbe final result. It was bllieved one week
ego, that, owing to the division in the radical
party iu Congress) that their extreme measures
wonld be blocked lor the present session; but by
a consolidation of bilis und amendments they
finally sucoeeded in pushing their extreme
measures through. This they oertuinly would
bave done at the meeting of tbe next congress;
and as that meets on the 4th of March, It Is us
well, perhaps, that the matter has thus culmina-
ted. It now only waits te be passed by u two
third vote over the veto of tbe President to be-
come a law, which there is but little doubt will
be done. Wo hardly know what to say of tbe
fioai bill that pute.-J* aud we very muub doubt
whether the supporters of the bill knew Its true
character, as it was finally hurried through with
such baste, after tbe remuddling and conglomer-
ating, that there was no time lur loping off ex-
oreesenoes; but the people of this country, -North
and south, East and West, will kuow well the
nature aud character of this Bill, before they
have doue with it. It consists of the double
distilled quinlesocnce of revenge and lust for
power and plunder of all the factions of tbe rad-
ioal party. We council our people to continue
on iu tne even teoor of toeir ways, obeying the
laws of the country and submitting to tbe pow-
ers that be. situated at tje people of tbe south
.are, it would iliy become us to tuke steps that
would seem justifiable under uifferent circum-
itanco. The "candlta of industry" should now
bo lighted,and as we are passing through this or-
deal, brought upoti us because we refused to
bow sufficiently low to despotism, and make
mockery of the suffrage of freemen by voting us
ordered by tbe dictates of tbe despot, let us the
more earnestly remain firm in our manhood und
integrity in the future. If the liberties if our
people are ever again restored and guaranteed
to the people, it will be brought about by the
virtue aud integrity of the Southern flaoplo.—
Tbe North has had a abort lease of po,ver, and
we see where our Government now is. Tbe de-
stroying angel came, hut there was not found
sufficient number of righteous to save the
country. Tbe nttention of our people, as has
been the case for the last two years, should be
turned to building up their own households, and
relieving the wants of the poor and destitute
«round them, and let the affairs of the nation
drift.
BUL.DII£H'4 GKAVJ3.
ieed lightly—'til a soldiers'i grave,
'a lonely, mossy mound—
Led yet,, to hearts like mine and thine,
It should be holy ground.
Speak softly—let no careless laugh,
No Idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips, wbere sweetly sleeps
The heru in his rest.
For him do revil'e shall beat
When morning bright shall come;
For bim at night no tattoo rolls
Iu thunder from the drum.
No costly marble marks the plaoe,
Recording deeds nl fame,
But rudely on that bending tree
Is carved tbe soldiei's name.
A name—not dear to us—but abl
There may be lips that breathe
That name as sucrcJiy and low
As prayers at dewey eve.
There may be brows that wear for him
The mourning cypress viue;
And hearts that make this lonely grave
A holy pilgrim shrine.
There may 1 e eyes that joyed to gase
With love into his own,
Now keeping midnight vigils long
With silent grief alone.
.There may be hands now clasp'd in prayer,
This soldier's band bas pressed,
And cheeks washed pale by sorrow' tear
His own cold cheek's caressed.
Tread lightly—fir a man bequeathed,
Ere laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his nativo land,
11 is gallant soul to God-
Visit to Stratford-on-A von, Kenll-
Worth and Warwick Cuttle.
SOJIBl'UlMi OH NOTHING.
This is the winding up of the second Congress,
and after all the Slurry and blurry, blowlug hot
and blowing oold, wo find it closing, and really,
after adjusting our stethoscope,telescope and ini-
coroope, wo o in n i:her hoar see or perceive any
thing great or good that it bus done to our great
and once good Government. It is true it has
tnus far oarried out vory well the programme
that tbe party advertised when it came into
power, vis. the ruin if tbe African ruse, six
years have passed, and over a million of that
i ace have passed away. Remember, we do not
include tho white race, in the estimate, for
whites are now nowhere,—we simply say that
over a million of the biack race have gone to
"that bourne from whence no traveler returns,"
aud this proscut Congress are taking steps to
send away the greatest possible number of tbe
balance in the leust possible time. We said that
wo oould see nothing great or good the late
Congress has uonc; we mistake, tor certainly
the other Coigress oil a great thing when they
voted each member of their own body extra pay
ts tbe mne of fire tbousand dollars, uud for
which it is questionable whether they ougut. nui
to be indicted for swindling. Thoy had the
same right to have appropriated five millions to
each number, as fire thousand; but enough ol
this, lor tbe money might as well go to them, as
to other Government swindlers.
Left London one fino morning in the
express tram lor Leamington Spa, which
we reached farly in tho afternoon. This
is on« of the most fashionable watering
places in England, and Stratford, Komi
worth, and Y\arwiok Castle, being all in
the viciuily; it makes a convenient head
quarters for thoso wishing to Tisit those
places.
Took the Btage coaoh the following
morning for Stratford-on-Avon. We
passed through a beautiful country and
over a fine road, lined on either side with
noble trees, whose foliage, branching out
from the roots upwards, formed a leafy
screen, through the interstices of which
tho country might be seen, and liaving u
very singular effect. After a pleasant ride
of about ten miles we readied Stratford,
and went immediately lo tho li use in
which Sltnk-peare is said to liuve been
born. From tbe outside it looks vory
much as the picture r •presents it, and
like a bulchcr's shop. Indeed, for that
matter, it hns been used a? such for tin
last thirty years, but has lately been pur
chased by subscription, end is now sot
apart as sacred to the memory of the
great genius who was bom there. Our
guido over tho house was a garrulous old
woman. She first pointed out to us an
ancient fire place, in which was a little
cupboard. The fire place is large enough
to accomodate two or throe persons, and
it was "formerly the custom to sit in it
while enj lying the pleasant process of
warming oneself," A beautiful picture
was immediately conjured up by the ima
giuaiion of two aged croncs leaning over
the blaz ng wood, and rubbing their shri-
velled hands together. Wo then went up
stairs to the room in which Shaliepeare
was born. The walls, and even ceiling,
are covered with tho mtoics of the pii
grims to this shrine. Among them were
many illustrated names. After sufficient
ly contemplating the room, and locking
out of tl.o «ilnJo#, we left and went to
Shottering. A beautiful country lay on
either side of tho road, sufficient to in-
spire any man. We soon rcachcd a little
!ane sweetly perfumed with flowers and
the scent of the new-mown grass; and
coming to a little brook, which wos pen-
however, thut we were Americans, and
that wa intended leaving Leamington
noon, be grauted us permission to enter.
An old «román conducted us lo tbe Ar-
mory, and immediately commenced her
recitation: "litre is the great porridge-
pot ot Guy of Warwick"—pointing to
an immeDge copper kettle in the centre of
tho room—"it coutuins one hundred and
twenty gallons, and Guy of Warwick
used to eat his breakfasjt out of it. lie
was eight lent high¿ Wio present lord is
tall and thin. It was filled |*tioe with
punoh, on the birtfc ef the present lord's
sou, and was emptied as many times.—
llere is tbe boar apear with which Guy
killed the hoar, for which feat he was
knighted" (pointing loan immense beam,
which on" would llónk could ouly be mov
edbytheaid of maohinery.) '-Here is
the tusk of tbe boar he killed. Thai's
all." We immediately gave that woman
half a crown, and emerged into the open
air. Then walked about tho grounds
with the warder. A quiet little stream
rolls by the Castle, and the grouda are
beautifully luid out, as much us possible
iu imitation of nature. The Castle itself
is Uuilt upon a rook, and is the only one,
I believe, that Cromwell, that puritanical
old customer, left alauding. We then re-
turned to Leamington.
ICenilworih is but a short half hour's
distance by rail. Passed through the
beautiful forost of Arden, and at length
reached Kenilworth Castle, which has
been so iuimortulized by Scott, and so tie
moliuhed by Croinvell that one has really
nothing left to saf'abnut it except that
tbe inside was damp and the outside very
ruinous, and it is beautiful, even in its
fall. We sat in the window from which
Queen Elizabeth had many a time locked
out upon a beautiful scene. Wo cluned
also to tho Leicester's pritate sitting
room There i) no floor in the room but we
sat in the arched window, now over-
grown with ivy, and thought of poor
Amy Bobsart. llul I had had cold in my
head, aud was continually snuffing, so
fearing that persons uiigbt think 1 was
urying, I descended Irom my airy an 1
leafy position, llul Kenilworlh Castlo,
a9 it is, is a place for dicanis, so let those
fond of buil'iiug air-castles and dreaming
aver the past, go and tuusu there; they
will find there sufficient food for their tan-
cy.
of the drainage converging at the nam and ' í ' L% I í-J-j A
forming a pool of water from 4 to5000 1 Jli Li vJ lb/*-X U1VJ.
yards ic length and
_ from lSOO to 2000
yard* iu width, ud from 10 to 15 feet in
depth and furnish* the only water for
tho Irrigation of at leaBt 8000 acres of
land. The water it slightly braokish,
when low. The e dams satisfy me of
tbe practical utility of dams all over
Western Teias, und naturo has clearly
ahown that the "Fl«g Poud" was design
ed fur that purpose.
President Juariz is expected in Zara-
lecas to day or to morrow aud grand prep-
arations ate being made for his reception
on tbe part of citizens and soldiers, tucli
- — music.
We now find, as this session closes, tbe mem-
bers circling round wilh bills and resolutions for
the ruin ot tb. country, and tu. only check now ^Vdy "rolling be'neatlVa rustic bridge,' we
tliut wo can relv unnn is 111 thu rniitritininif in. . . °
THE BEAM IN Tllfillt OWN EYE.
"First cast out the beam in thiae own eye, and
tben on est tbou see olearly to' pluck out tho
mote from thy brother's eye," said our Saviour
The radical barpies aro comtuntly crying out
against crime in the South, and making insidu-
eus comparisons of tho gene al immorality of
onr people. Now, although those knowing to
the facts In the malter, do not believe such as-
sertions, and even they themselves know they
utter falsehoods for base purposes, still it is
quite necessary that tbeso falsehoods should bo
met and nailed. In ihe last number of our pa-
{>er wo gave statistics irmn TV&llsmgTOn, show-
ng that in 1860, pauperism and crime, even in
Massachusetts, exceeded tbat of tbe South, in
proportion to tbe population, ten fold wo now
give a short extraot relating to erim* and im-
purity in Mew York City, ol late.
"Tho New York Trlbuoe batan articlo on the
•ubjeot of "The Mystery of .viurdor," in the
course of wbioh it turnishos some very startling
faots. Amongst others is tbe statement that in
the city of New York, there wore, during the
year 1866,^ no fewer than 71 homicides and
murders, without including numerous casos of
death by drowning or other meant-, where it was
not quite olear whether or not there had been
foul play. Only 33 persons were arrestod for
those orirno , and the rocords of tbe oourt show
only 15 oonviotious, several or which were for
offénoes oommitted in a previous year, with 19
prisoners still to be tried. Tbat is to say, of the
perpetrators ot olear and unmistakable homi-
cides in Mew York, mifro then 50 per cent, are
not arrested, and nearly 80 per cent, are not
punished." W
And drunkenness among women an! even of
the higher elassos, says a leading paper of that
city, la of oommon ocourranoe.
We will here remark that war, especially a
ciril w r, bas a natural tendency to corrupt the
people of any eountryi but in the ease of tbe
Mouth, situated at her people have been, with
four million ef negroes turned loose among them
dlreotly after the smoke of battle bad subsided,
with the enemy they had oontended with quar-
tered on their premises,—we say that the his-
tpry of the trials, forbearance and fortitude of
Southern people will never find an equal —
The amell amount of lawlcM crime, ooniider-
lng the oiroumstaneee, Is remarkable, especially
wbea It ia oonaidersd that fully one half of it
las been oaused by tbe intermeddling of a sat
«rm"m.r.aCmpuJ5:,"t,ooB,iDí"" «
TJ* fteedmen, too, hare beta sorely tempted
ly Uui lama elan, and by tfatir ceadwlghey
tbat wo can rely upon is in the robtraining iu-
flutnqo of capitalists who hold immense sums in
Government jjouds and who lear that unaichy
will depreoiatu these Bonds, and. insure thoir
financial ruin. Is not this a fine pass for a Uov-
orumeut to be reduced to? Xhis hold of 8 foty
is ndruly eq ial to the fig treo that U lysees clung
lo in passing Sylla and uburybdis, on his return
from the siege of Troy. This Congress has been
pushing its íeckless sobemos to suoL an extent
tout there is uo retreat, aud we now find its
membors circling around ia painful uncertainty,
not knowing what to do. According to their
theory, tbey hare tbe power to do anything lor
they have the numbers; but still they du noth-
ing. They are afraid to advance iu their dia-
bolical course, for the iiixecutive and Judioial
departments are lions In thoir path. They tear
to recede for tbe certain ruin ot their party, aud
loss of contemplated pillage aud plunder they
have already tasted will l'ullow, und thoir con-
stituents they have so long mislead will execrate
them, aud It the . push on their mad schemes
they fear tho vengeanco of an outrugod p;ople
on whose country financial ruin has been
brought.
We hardly know whi.'h they are the more de-
serving of, our pity or our coutempt. In the
mean time, our country is groaning under a tax-
ation that exceeds that of any other nation on
eartn, and tbe funds so raised are being squan-
dered and swindlod away by Government ugonts
uud pollticul trickster?, for the puipjse if se-
curing n lile lease of purty powor, so that they
may evcntuuliy plunder the entire country and
peoplo. Turco yours ago the President was tho
Government, and Congress and the Judiciary
wore nowhere; but now Congress is tho Govern-
ment, aud the President and Judiciary are no-
whoto,—and during the puft six yeaiB, autos
have been dono away witn, all except tho South,
and tbey are still doing; aud State tines nre uow
imaginary political land marks formerly con-
juro.j up by superannuated men culled 'fathers
ol our country," who kuow nothing of a. strong
Goverumeut uud radicalism under the reign ot
tho trine ot llaiu in Xtit)7.
But why does Congress f tagger and hesitate,
and circle round, if they have all the power as
tbey atlirm'l Wny du tbey nut act! '1 ho truth
is they uow begin to bnvo a ditíunt view of tbe
horrors ot the storm tbey bave ruiiod. The pent
up winas have been loosened und the dark
aloud at. i.ow euoiruliag tne political horiaol,
and the multeringsof the distant thunder are
heard. The oceuu of public conlideuce ulready
rolls mountain high, aud all uve now thrente.'itu
with fiuaooial wreck. Wh«n all barriers give
way, then woe, woe he to those that have thus
brought on this fiuan.iul ruio; tor it will atfcct
alike the high and low, the rich and pooi; aud
all will satiate their vengeunce upon the plotters
of their ruin.
A SAO OECLABVTION.
In the dispatches from Washington, dated
Feb. 22., we notioe the following:
"WiSutNOTOF, Feb. 22.—No regard paid to
this day here.
] Une of the strongest evidences of tbe degen-
eracy of a Government and people, is their uttor
disregard of thoso great and distinguished men
ao muob venerated by our people iu the uays ol
country's prosperity.
We doubt if there is a Southern man who
does not venerate the nume of Washington,—
and they always will.
Au attempt to o,st a slur upon the Mayor of
our city a few days ago, by the radical paper
here, by attributing to him words of disrespect
to the memory of the "Father of our country,"
proved abortive, as we notice It was promptly
denied. Northern fanaties may j rate of en-
lightment and advancement, and spurn tbe old
Constitution of our fathers, as "a league of
slaveholders;-' but at every step they take tbey
teem to greet the new ro nes of enlightment and
advancement as did featan on his eutry te tbe
infernal regions,—
"Every deep I enter, a lower deep, to devour me,
Seems opening wide "
The Saturday Iteview says that ''the
most dangerous kind of man in all tbe
irorld, whether in low or exalted station,
is h« whojugt niiiwa being t true gen
i or."
crossed it. uud turning into a fiad came
abruptly upon Anne Ilathavray's cott g<
a vory old houso, with a very old door,
and which a very old man opened. A
middle aged woman mnde her. appear-
ance on our requesting permission to st e
the cottage, and led us over tbe house.—
In the passage elio showed us ün old
courling-chair," in which Shakspeare is
supposed to have sat when he made love.
It was a very curious looking affair, anil
seemed calculated for anything else but
malum love in. We went up stairs, where
no saw a carved bedetead, pointed out as
Shakepearv's wedding conch, also oln
bed linen and ollar curious relics of
Sliakspearo's time. This lady also in-
formed us she was a decendant of the
Halfway family. I looked at her with
curunTty, fur she was anything but good
looking and contemplated sometime this
good woman who bore in her veins the
blood of Miakspeare's wife—awfully col
littoral that. She seemed pleased wilh
my attention, and when we left gave uie a
boquctof flowers.
Fro'ii Shottering went to the church in
which Sliakipeare und his wife lie buried
It is a beautiful church, and formerly he-
longed to the monks. It was built long
before Shukspeare's lime, and contains
nomo very old monuments. The seats in
which tho monks sat are still preserved
and in tho original plaoc. They are curi
ously curved, but some of the carvings
consist of very indecent representations,
Shakespesi e's remning lie beneath
plain slab of stone, with tho following in
scrlption:
"Good friend, for Jesus sake forbeare,
To digg ye dunt cncloascd here;
Bles' be } o tunn vt spares these stones,
But curst be he yt inons my bones."
These lines are said to bave been writ-
ten l>y htm short time before his death
hut 1 should say tl;elr sentiment is un
worthy so great a genius. His wife His
beside him, and other members of the
family near by. iiis last lineal descend
ant was his grand daughter, Lady Bor
nard. In the wall over Sl)akspoare:
tomb, is a bust, said to have been taken
from a ca-t of him after death. The low
erpart of the face ia puffed out and look
sensual' but that appearance may have
been occasioned by death. Having wau
tiered again over (lie old church we rc
turned to Leaininglon.
Next went to Warwick Castle phae
ton a la postillion. It was a very elegant
turn-out, and our postillion, equipped In
a bright scarlet jacket, white breeches
and yellow-lop boots, with a black velvet
jockey-cap cocked on the side of his head
presented au appearance that was "fun
cy" in the extreme. We created quite a
sensation as we rattled through tho vil-
lage, and the oountry damsels all turned
as wo passed them. The deuce of it was.
however, that our postillion was too
infernally communicative. He kept con-
tinually turning round to explain the
nature snd uses of things that we didn't
care a copper for, and the consequence
was, that our dignity, for which we did
care, suffered dreadfully. At length we
reached the Castle, pulled up magnificent-
ly before its poitul, when the postillion
summoned the warder. He seon m de his
appearance in a full suit of sable, and
politely informed us that there war no
admittance to the Castle on acoonnt of
tbe decease of Lady Warwic, who depart-
ed this IA i year ago. On informing him,
Washington, Feb. 22.—It ia stated
tbat Surratt's lawyers advise him against
any confessions or statements. Surratt
and his sister had an interview of a sad
character.
Panama, Feb. 12.—The revolution in
Couca bas been suppressed. Several ol
the insurgents were killed,
Australian uews is unimportant. The
harvest is prolific.
Vkncennks. lud., Feb. 22.—Ihe Wa-
bash is higher than ever known.
Washinuton. Feby. 22—No regaad
paid tho day hero.
Nebraska has accepted universal suff-
rage. on which her admission depended.
Bank of France returns show an in
knes, cash.
dancing, ringingChuroh beds and atfcqfher
tr. nz
grand display of flro works at night.— 'jreuse in week a receipts of fifty million
Jiiurez is en route for San Luis Poiosi.
which point he designs making the capital
of Mejfion for the present ond making it
permanent at that place if possible and
thus remove it from the City of Mexico.
The Liberals are now in possession <i)
Guadclajara. Guanajuato. Zioateoas. Du-
raugo, A^ut calientes and San Luis Pot-
osí. The Imperialists are at Queretero
in considerable force, under the command
of Miramon nnd Warqui-z. They have
about 10 or 12.000 men, including about
400 Volunteer Austrian Cavalry, and
report Bays that said troops are in mo-
tion with the viow of retaking San Luis.
Gen. Mijia has retired from tho servioe.
in oonsequenoo of ill benlth—one of the
ablest, if not the most able Generals the
Imperialists had in their service. Old
Max. has "played out," and is said to be
laying around loose in the vicinity of
Orizaba, for the purpose of restoriug his
sliatternd health and constitution. I
liETTttR 1'ROM MEXICO,
The followiog letter from Nat. Mitchell, was
received a day or two since by Rev. Win. J.
Joyce, and ulthough the military news contained
therein Is out of date, still, it will, we trust, be
interesting to a majority of our readers;
Ojocalienti,,Mex. Jan. 22, '67.
My Dear Biiotheh:
I have been thinking of writing you
for a long time for tlie purpose of in-
forming you of what I havo seen and
learned in this semi barbarous country,
duayig my lust four or five month's pere-
grinations. We have, contrary to the
expectations of ourselves and the expres-
sed opin on of every body else, es- aped
entirely unmolested by either the author-
ities or robbers up to this time, both in
person and property. The inhabitants,
without exception, havo uniformly trcat-
d us with the utmost kin ness, better
indeed than they treat their own people
From Saltillo we came to San Luis Po-
iosi, a distance of about 300 miles, trav
eling a little - East of South t' e entire
distancep. From San Luis, we came to
this Village, distant from San Luis about
120 miles and from tho city oí Zacatecas
shout Í8 mi'e.=, traveling a little North of
W est the wliofljl distance. The country,
we have pussejj through is a seiies ol
nuiuuiaiiit an i valflLS, with here and
there an extensive Hacienda; indeed,
iIicbo Haciendas are to b.i met with, at
almost every point, where Ihere is water
sufficient for irrigatingjsurposes, to any
xtent. The chief p Auctions of said
tlacHndas, are corn, wliSt and barley and
stock, mostly sheep, gcat", horses end
mules. The city of gRltilln, contains
about 10,000 inhabitants 'fenn Luis, about
80,000; and Zacatecas about 40,010. On
the road from Saltillo to San Luis'there
aie the Towns of Matehuala, 1G 000 in-
halii'ams; Chnrcas, 5 000 du.¡ Venado,
10,000 dr.; Yldeli&nd.-', 5,000 do. Saltillo
is au agricultural City, with somo com-
merce with the Interior cities, and has
two Cotton Factories engaged, making
course brown domestic only. Tho town
of Venado is purely agricultural with an
extensive Cotton Fac'ory Building. San
Luis derivi s its chief importAnoe from
its central position in the so called lie
public of Mexico, itnl is about 350 miles
from the City of Mexico, and located in
an extensive and fertile valley. Zuca
locus is purely a Mining City and derives
all its importan e from the numerous
rich silver miles that abound in and
around it, fiom which are annually ex-
tracted (mm five to seven millions of
dollars, which of course give it some
commercial importance.
My attention has been much directed
to tho various means adopted by this
peojle to secure water for irrigating pur-
poses, and the result of my observations
is, thut your views in regard to darning
tho ' Flag Pond," nre, in every respect
perfectly practicable and can bo success-
fully carried into operation, with cotnpar
ntively small expc se. I havo seen three
different dams ericted fir the purpose ol
increasing the quantity of water. The
first was at a place called "Las Bocas."
wbere the dam was thrown across a small
mountain rivulet, not more thin three or
four feet in width and probably a foot in
depth. Tbe dam wus.of solid rock ma-
sonry, about 20 ft. in width at the base,
Hbout ten feet ut the top. about 35 feet in
heigh', nnd from 330"To 400 yarda in
length—resisting a pressure of water 24
f> et in depth, covering an area of proba-
bly 500 acres, and ihen gradually becom-
ing of smaller \olumeover several hun-
dred acres more. This increasu of water
enabled tho owners of the Hacienda tt
irrigate at lrast 1500 or 2000 acres more
of land than they otherwise could without
tho aid of the dum. At one end of the
dam, tho own r ot the place, (a widow
lady) hns erected a beautiful Church, on
a small mound, in token of her grateful
thanks to Divine Providence for the
blessings the dain has conferred upon her
children. I presume tbe dam and tbe
Church must havo cost from 50 to 75,-
000 dollars, notwithstanding tbe cheap-
ness of labor in this country. Tho next
was also a rock dam, much longer but
not more thansrven or eight ft. in height,
and confined, probably, 1000 or 1500
acros of water, supported by a few small
slow running spriugs. The dam was
about a yard in width at tbe bsso. This
body of water served to irrigate about
twice tbe number of acres of land that it
covered. This place ia called "Espiritu
Santo" and is on the road between tills
and San Luis Potosi. The third is at a
placo called "Santa Helena" about fifteen
milea from my preaent locality. This is
an earth dam where the ground ia but
slightly draoendirg, and ia from a quar-
ter to a half mile in length and from 11
to 15 feet in height. It successfully re
aiata Ihe drainage of about 12 or 15 miles
square of land that flows from a series of
low and gently sloping billa, from three
diferent points of tUe compass, the whole
shattered healih and constitution
expect he is about the greatest humbug
that ever undertook to play Emperor—iu
fact wholly worthless.
On or about tho 8th inBt. Gen. Jesus
Gonzales Ortega, the competitor of Jua-
rez for tho Presidency, together with his
Scoretary of War, Paloni, made their
appearauce in the City ofZacateoas, much
to the surprise and astonishment ef eve-
ry bod)*. Ortega at ouoo had an inter-
view with the Governor of the City
Gen. Auza, nni tbe Governor advises
him to retiro to his own private residence
end remain quiet and ho thought by bis
so doing he would not be molested, but
Ortega turned a deaf ear to tho advice
of the Governor and that very night
issued a flaming proclamation which he
had had printed iu'Son Antonio, Texas,
calling on the people to rally to his stand-
ard aa the only legitimate Magistrate of
the Republic, and denouncing Juarez as
an usurper aud every thing else he could
think of, abusive. The Governor had
him arrested about 11 o'clock that same
n'ght, and before daylight he was nu his
way to tbe presence of juari*:, in Dtiran-
go, guarded by 500 Cavalry. While
Urtega was on tho road to liurango he
ws8 tried by a Military Oommissinn of
Liberal officers, in the city of San Luis
2 or 300 miles distant, found bim guilt'
ef something, Lord only knows what
name they gave it, and sentenced him to
be shot immediately: but Juarez know
ing and fearing the influence of Ortega'i
friends, if the sentence were oarried into
execution, commuted the punishment to
solitary imprisonment. Patoni was also
imprisoned.
The political affairs of this benighted
people i re in a horrible condition, snd
all are anxiously looking forward to the
advent of United States intervention to
settle the political dilemma in which the
wbnlu country itself to day.
Tho atiove is A sampro ot
thiDgs sre carried on in this country of
"Liberty and Independence."
Yours Truly,
N. M
_ombny shipmant of cotton for the
■elk et.ding 1st inst., is 20,000 bales.—
4'k of cotton on bond in Liverpool on
the 9th, is 560,000, of which 35,000 were
Americana.
Philadelphia, Feb 22.—The day has
beon honored by all the Courts and tbe
Banks. The chair and table on which
the Declaration of Independence was
written, was presented to the Speaker of
the State Senate.
New Yolk, Feb. 22.—Arrived, Bising
Star, with $900000 in treasure. Mau
hattan. from New Orleans via Havana,
Java from Liverpool, and Halteras from
Richmond.
OoiN. Illinois, Feb. 2Í.—Sheridan ana
staff passed en route for New Orleans.
By the Cable.
Liverpool, Feb. 21.—Steamer South
mpton, hence for New York ia on locks
on the Irish coast.
The American Consul purchased steam
er Rappahannock, at auction, for fifty-two
hundred pounds sterling.
London, Feb. 21.—The suspension
of Habeas Corpus iu Ireland has been
prolonged.
The repairs of the Groat Eastern havo
been completed. She was Buoccessfully
launched to day.
The turkish Sultan officially informs
other powers of his determination to as-
semble representatives of different crecds
for tbe purpose of adopting measures for
enforcement i f formor treaty of 1856.
Berlin. Feb. 21.—Bismarck is again
dangerously sick.
London. Feb. 21.—It is now staled
that Stephens lias not been in Ireland.—
lie was recently seen in Franco.
Tho troops stationed in Korr nnd C rk
counties are in sufiicic nt numbers to pr -
vent outbreak. People quiet.
Tho English Government announces
that it will treat aliens caught in rebell-
iou as pirates.
.Washington, Feb. 21.—Evening.—
The House business unimportant. Motion
to exempt from three per sent tax on cot-
ton farmers who raise only live bales or
under negatived.
Sunate proceedings unimportant.
Washington.
Washington, Feb. 21.—A bi.l author
¡zing thd sub marine bridge at St. Louis,
Inhabitants el the Human iiedy.
What lliink you, render, of your body
being o planet,"inhabited by living race
as we inhabit the earth? Whatever may
be our thoughts on the subject, it is even
so. Your body h but a home for para-
sites. that crawl over i i s surfnee, burrow
beneath its íkin, nestle in its entrails
and riot and propagate in their kind
every corner i f Its frame. The sensation
in regnrd to trncliina in swine fler-h has
set the scientific to • knocking their heads
together," and the result is the following
faots: Parasites not only inhabit the
bodies of all anima's used by us ns food
but they aie also found in abundance
our own organization. The species tro
china spiralis ot winch eo much has been
said, aud whose existeiioe has been ¿lis
covered in pork, is, according to our best
anatomists, found in almost every muscle
of tho human body. It lies along the
fibers of the muscles, enveloped in little
cysts or sacs about one-fourth of an inch
in length. It can bo distinctly seen nnd
examined only by the use cf tho micro
scope. Professes Wood, ol Philadelphia,
snys: "Nc evidence bos yet beon produe
ed of any morbid influnence exerted by
the trechina upon the system during life.
Thoy havo been found iu subjects carried
off by sudden death (acci ient) and !
Ihe midfit of health." An English
thority says: "It is a notorious fact
tint the numerous parasites do crawl
over our surface, burrow beneath our
skin, nestle in our i ntrnils, end riot and
propagate their species in every oomer
of our frame. Nearly a snore of animals
belonging to tho interior of tho human
body nave been nlready discovered and
a description given, and scarce'y
tissuo or an organ but is occasionally
profaned by inroads. Each, also, has its
special domicil. One species of stran
gle chooses the heart for its dwelling-
place, another inhabits the arteries, I
third tha kidneys. Myriads of minute
worms lie coiled up In the voluntary mus-
cles, or in the areolar -tissue that otm
nects the fleshy fibres. The guinea worm
and the chique bore thiough thetkin and
reside In the snbjicent verticular mem
brane. Hydatids Infest various parts o
the body, but especially the liver and the
btain. A little fluke, in general appear
anco much like a flounder, lives steeped
in gall in the bi iary vessels. If you
squeeze from the skin of your nose What
in vulgarly called a majrgot—tbe con
tents, namely, one of the hair follicles
it Is ten to one thBt you will find in tbat
smBll eebacious cylinder several animal
culm, exhibiting under the microscope
ouriouus complicated structure. Even
the eye has its living inmate. With this
knowledge of our composition, it matters
but little bow many entozoa we consume,
so long at wo do not see them; it isnotli-
Ing more than all ages base done before
us. We might with as much propriety
refuse to drink water, which, however
pure, is fairly alive with anin alculte. as
to refuae to eat meat because it exhibits
(under the mioroscope) entozoa"
A Scrub Headed Boy haviug beon
brought up before tho oourt, as a witneca
the followiug colloquy eusued:
"Where do you live?" aaid the Judge.
"Live with mother."
"Where does your mother Uve?"
''She Uvea with father.
"Where doea he live?"
"He lives with the eld folks."
"Where do they live?' Saya the
Judge, getting verr rod, as an auuibia
snicker goes around tha room."
"I'hey live'i home."
■'Whero in the devil's name ia their
home?" roars tho Judge.
'•That's where I'm from." Says the
boy' sticking his tongue in a corner of
his check aud closing one eye on the
Judge.
"Here, Mr. Constable." save the court.
take the witness out and tell him to
traveljlha evidently does not understand
the nature of an oath."
•'You'd think different," snys the Ij^y,
goying towards the doorway." if I was
lo onco give you a cusg'n."
The recent marriago of Mr. Day with
Miss Field presents this singular suomaly
that although he gained the field, she wou
the day.
■ ■■ i m <0>* —1 11
At a printers' festival lately, the fol-
lowing toast was offeredi ''Worn —stc-
ond only to the piess in tho dissemina-
tion of newsl"
Effectual destruction of weeds—mairy-
ing a widow.
A Gentleman just returned to thia
country from a tour in Italy was askod
how ho 1 ked the ruins of Pompeii. "Not
very well." wos the reply, "they are so
out of repair."
Which is Which.—"Ah, Put!" said
school-mistress to a thick headed urch-
l, into whose muddy brain she was at-
tempting to beat the alphabet. "I'm
afraid you'll never learn anything. Now,
what's that letter, eh?"
Sure I don't know oia'iiul" replied
Pat.
I th.ought you could have recollected
lliut."
"Why, ma'aui7"
"Because it has a dot over the top of
it."
Oh, ma'am! I mind it well, but sure I
thought it was a fly-speck."
"Well now, remember, Put, it's I."
"You, ma'am?"
"No, no! not U,'but I, blockhead."
"Oh, yes! faith now I have it, ma'am;
you mean to say that you, not I, are a
blockhead."
Fool, fool!'' exclaimed the lidy, almost
bursting with rage.
'Jist as you plaze,'" replied Pat. "Fool
or blockhead, it's no mat't r which ye are
to me, so long as you are free to own it."
Bill retiring compound interest notes
one hundred and forty millron dollars of
which are due this year, aro taken up.—
An amendment authorizing the issue of
ne hufidred million leiznl tenders to re-
place them. Passed. 99 to 59. Anoth-
er Bection prohibits retirement of four
million per month during the present
year. The House their voted on tho bill,
defeating it—75 to 84. Bill reconsidered
""I il^cK?l^!fteVCTp'poflcd immediately,
wilh a section forbidding tbe four million
dollars per month stricken out. Passed,
95 lo 65.
The bill authorizes the issue cf one
hundred million legal tenders to rtdeom
the compound iuterest notes.
A. T. Stewart is In re, working to d
feat the bankrupt bill.
Vole by which tho Senate passed Sher-
idan's bill, as amended by tho House, 27
to 7.
The special committee, to enquire into
ihe sale by the government of Southern
railroads, commenced investigation.
The followii g nomiuutlon have been
confirme !: "Internal Revenue Collectors
Samuel F. Cooper, Aik; John Road, Ni
C.; A. Henderson, Texas. #
Gen. Giiffin.ono of the superintendents
of the freedmen'a bureau, at Galveston.
Texaa, forbida any public demonstration
over the reinterment of tho remains of
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. He is but
one ramove from a hyena.—[St. Louia
Timet .-
Tbe difference li la favor of the beat.
Rats fN Cairo.—Cairo is a ratty city
If there was ouc person for every twe rats
in this place Cairo would be as popu'ous
as the city of New York. They ara as
numerous as lice were in Egypt, at the
lime Mosos had hi* celebrated difficulty
wilh Pb-traoh. Tho other day a stranger
arrivod in the city and was astonished to
sco droves of rats passing across the
walks before him. Wherever he went ho
saw rats—groat fat follows, with nimble
feet and blight eyes. Strange to say
although ho liad a cano in his hand he
did not venture to strike at tho "petB
that gave him so much at noyance.—
Finally ho took a friend by the arm, and
walking ns d.'with him in very myster
ious manner, said: llave you seen any
rats tins evening. Thousands of them,
suid his friend. The stranger's face
brightened in an instant- It's all right
«aid ho. The truth is, I've been diink
ing like a fifth lat-ly, and when I saw so
many rats I was fearful they were crea
tures of my imagination and not bona
fide rats—iu short I was afraid that 1 had
deliriums. You have taken a weight
from my miud, let us drmk.— TOairo
Democrat.
A Nation's Death.—It is a fearful
thing to behold any being, endowed with
intellect however weak, tall a viotim to
the hand of him, who spares not—relents
not, nt the cry of high or low: It is in
conceivable more awful to behold a na
lion In its decline and full, which has
arisen from a handful of needy coloúists:
gradually increasing in territory and
population, adding strength to strength
—power to power, going forth conquer-
ing and to conquer. Bnt. whon that poo
plo is the ehosen of the lord; when that
bind is the fairest that is lit up b) the
sun of beiiVeni when her oomnierce
whitens e ery sea, and her flag is known
nnd respected among those that, go down
to the sea in shif; when it is a land where
enlightment has altained^ts golden prime
nd where all religoua creeds are recog-
nized and protected, the sight may well
cause ongils to weep, and men to bow in
huiniüty and acknowledge tho vanity of
earthly gandeur and glery.—D. W.
Voorhees,
On the oooasion of a terrible ship-
wreck, when all tlio efforts of the captain
snd crew seemed unavailing to avert the
coming fate, an old lady went up to the
skipper, wringing her banda in despera-
tion, and exclaiming: „
"Ob, cap alnl are we rgally in dan
ger?"
"Yea, ma'am," answered he, "we muat
trus In Providence now,"
"Good Godl" waa the pious rejoinder,
"hat it come to that?"
The Best Authoriti.-
you, said the counsellor,
"I oall upon
to state dis-
tinctly upon wbat authority you¡are pre-
pared to swoar to the mare's age?"—
' Upon what authority?" said tbe hostler
interrogatively. "You are to reply, and
not repeat the question put ;o you." "I
doesn t consider a man's bound to answer
a question afore he's time to turn it iu his
mind." "Nothing can bo mi re simple,
sir, than the question put. I opain repeat
it. Upon what authority do you swear
to Ihe animal's age?" "The best author-
ity," responded he, gruffly. "Then why
such evasion? Why not stato it at once?''
Well, then, if you must have it." ' Must!
L will have it," vociferated tho counsellor,
ing the witness '•,W ."*V
affti win nave it," r joined the
lostlor; '1 had it myself from the mare's
own mouth."
A negro having been brought before a
magistrate, and convicted of pilfering,
tho magistrate began to remonstrate.—<
' Uo you know how to read!" "Ves
mast-h, little." "Well, don't you make
use of the bible!" "Yes masso; Btrap
the razor on him somo tiu.es."
hiob old m n have their eaay chaira
editora haTe their uneasy onaa.
A singular and very dessructive epi¿
dtmio prevails among tbo hogs in South-
ern lows. The intestines of the dead
hogh are found to bo filled with worms
from six to twelve inches in length. The
disease is naw to the farmers, and they
are greatly excited.-
.#..«
A New York letter wiiter gives us ths
following specimen of editorial sufferings
in tho Iribtine office:
O.n day last year, Mr. Greeley wrote
un editorial'entitled "William 11. Sew-
ard." Imagine h 8 rage when it came to
hitn in proof headed "Richard the Third!"
Yet anybody familisr with chirogrophy,
it his inky jerks can be so designated,
will readily see, not ouly how such a
mistake could be made, but how it prob-
hbly would bu! Again lie wrote about
'■throe men in buckram," and the prosaio
typo setter got it "three men in a back
room." And this, notwithstanding the
tact that two compositors of sagacity and
experience are hired at an extra salary,
because they oan read his copy. But
George Ripley has been tho victim of tho
grobsest outrage in this line. In one of
his book notices betook the liberty of
quoting from Suakspearo, "T s true, 'tis
pity; uud pity 'tis, 'tis true." And when
ihe wretched bungler got it, '"Tis two,
'tis fifty; 'tis fifty—'lis fifty i wo !"
An English tourist visited Arran, and
being a keen disciple of Izaak Walton,
was arranging to have a day's good sport.
Being told that the cleg or horso-fly would
suit his purpose admirably for tackle, ho
addressed himself to Christy, the High-
land servant gir':
"I fay, my girl, can you get me some
horseflies?"
Christy locked stupid, snd he repeated
his question. Finding that (lie did not
yet comprehend him, ne exclaimed:
'•Why girl, did you never see a horse*
fly?"
"Naa, sir," said the simple girl, "but a
wus wanse saw a coo jump overa preah-
ipice'"
i — a i
Capt. Stephen Ward, of Kennebunk,
well known as one of the largest ship
builders iu Maine, fell dead at the Bos-
ton depot, in Portland, on tho 12th inst.
Supposed case of heart disease. Cnpt.
Ward was about fifty five yoars of age.
It is stated that Edwin Booth's share of
the income at the W inter Garden Theatro
amouuts to $500 per night.
New York oity has a population of
32,000 to the square mile,, iucluding in '
the estimate all ita parka and other open
places. (
Mrs. Smith, of Eennebunk, Maine, haa
been convicted of manalaughter for pois-
oning her husband.
Not far from Red River, in Dakota,,
there are numerona salt lakea and ponds,
which will yet prove a source of wealth1
lo tbe entire country. Hundreda of acre*
can be covered with avoporatlng vat a, and
millions of bushels of salt can be mods
(it the mereat trifle.
Momorlala have beea presented to the-
Legislature of Michigan, for the adoption
of some measures to prevent the needles*
di attaction of forest tree In that
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