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A. H. Stephens' Views?Reconstruction?Suffrage.
Under the above caption, the Washing
too correspondent of the Cinoinnati Commercial,
gives an interesting report of the
views of Mr. Stephens on the questions of
the day, as expressed in an interview :
Washington, April 6,18G6.?Probably
no man in the South, who was oloscly
identified with the rebellion, is loss distrusted
by the loyal people, than Alexander
H. Stephens. Before the culmination
of that treason to the United States, which
is declared in the organic Act of our Government
to consist in levyiug war against
them, Mr. Stephens strenuously opposed
secession, and predicted what has come to
the Southern people as a result of their
mad folly and crime. But that indescribable
ignis fatuus of State sovereignty, popularly
called States rights, seems to have
drawn not only Mr. Stephens, but Qeneral
Leo, and many other Southern men who
professed loyalty, into the malcstrom of
treason. And to conciliate that numerous
oloss of Southrons, kuowu there at that
time as Conservatives, Mr. S. was selected
as their second Executive officer of the
Confederacy. Officiating in thut capacity,
he may be fairly presumed to at least understand
the feelings and wishes of the
Southern people, a correct reflex of a large
and respectable portion of whom he was,
immediately proceeding the rebellious outbreak.
Hence, upon the arrival in this city a
day or two ago, I had the pleasure of sev
erul long interviews with him. that 1 might
** cull from these copious and unreserved expressions
of opinion on the various subjects
now agitating the public, such main features
as will give us "iporc light" on the
great problem of reconstruction. Ho expressed
to mo
HIS VIEWS ON JOHNSON'S POLICY,
and thinks the principles enuuoiated by
the President in his aunuul message, last
December, and reiterated in various official
and unofficial documents and speeches
since, arc the fundamental elements of our
sjrBtem of Government. This policy is acceptable
to the late insurgents, and is, in
his opinion, the only bi sis of restoration
which will command the hearty coop
eration of the conservative and peaceloving
people in all sections of the country,
lie thinks that all Mr. Johnson has done
towards reconstruction was done under the
sanotion of military law and us commanderin-chief
of a victorious army and navy.
What the conquered people of the South
^ did was a part and parcel of tlio terms of
surrender. When they had complied with
the conditions exated by the President,
they were entitled to all the rights allowed
other sections of the country, and that Congrew
had no more right to dictate any ndditioal
terms of surrender than the ac ne
body weuld have had to have dictated tho
terms of surrender at Yicksburg. But
WHY DO THE REPUBLICANS PERSIST
in their attempt to keep out in the cold all
theso States now at pcaco and penitent ?
Because they will vote with the " strict
constructionists" (as thoy always hnvo done,
he said) and not with the Federals; and
I thus, by uniting with the Northern Dcmoorata,
thore would be formed u large national
party, possessing a sufficiency of
strength and adhesiveness to warrant a defeat
of Blaolc Republican Radicalism.
They think if they can oompel the adoption
of universal suffrage, by the enchantmwvii
TUB STEWART PROPOSITION
of universal amnesty, or otherwise, then,
the negro voting with the Federals in the
South, there would bo hope of a longer
continuance in power. Lie could aeo no
, other explanation of the zealous maimer in
whieh the Radicals urged the titles of the
late slaves to political equality with the
L whites, a new aud unheard of question
| sprung upon the issues of oivil war. And
| he does not think the Stewart plan of
I "tiokle mo, Johnnie, and I'll ticlclo you,"
would be sanctioned by a single Southern
State. He thought the Northern view of the
question of secession was that the Southern
States bad never gono out of tbo Union,
I and tho war wus prosecuted to keep them
I from going out If the Southern States
I were out of tho Union, th> n the war against
I them was cruel and atrooious. Tho Prcsl
ident's view that the functions ot these
^ States were merely suspended during the
rebellion, and to quote from Mr. Lincoln,
out of their u proper practical relations "
with tho Union, no thought consistent;
and on this hypothesis, the moment the rosistancc
to the Federal Government ceased,
the Southern States stood just where thoy
did when the war began, with all thoir
rights as States unimpaired, and their domestic
or other relations, ouly changed in
such aspects as tho amended Magna Charter
desiirnated.
Mr ("mrffeand nnininnn
fully and frocly on the subject of
RIGHTS OF NKOROES,
and held, in emphatic language! that their
civil lights should be precisely those of
other people, with no separate aud discriminating
codes or regulations.
Many of the legislators of Georgia had
sought his advice on a "black code" of laws
designating a different, and in many instances,
severer puuishuiont for negroes
committing certain crimes, than that applied
to whites?such as hanging for rape,
while the penitentiary was only givcu the
white man guilty of a similar offence, llo
opposed any discrimination in dcliniug
crime or devising penalty. That Legislature
finally legalized negro testimony in
oases affecting their own race. This proposition
ho philosophically submitted to
his body servant, an intelligent negro, and
Cufty was elated to thiuk they had been
given superior advantages over their white
friends, claiming very naturally that the
negroes wcro not permitted to tell the
truth except whero one of their own race
was interested! With Cuffy'-t logic Mr.
Stephens went hack to the Legislature, and
in a week, a new, just and practical law
was enacted, admitting the testimony of all
persons, regardless of color, leaving, of
course, the credibility of the testimony to
be adjudged by the court. And Mr. Stephens
successfully urged upon his people
the necessity of li>>ruliiin<; th? ni>>rrni>H in
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the enjoyment of civil righto possessed by
other persons. Un the all absorbing subject
of
SUFFRAGE.
Mr. Stephens holds that under our system
of Government, each State has icservcd
the right to declare who shall exercise
the elective franchise ; and he does not
recognise suffrage as a right pcrtaing to
citizenship, but a granted privilege. Congress,
therefore, has no authority to confer
it upon any class of persons, and should
not force so odious a measure upon the
South. Ultimately, when the negro shall
have become intelligent and frugal, and inoorj
orated, by his possession of real estate,
into the body politic of the various States,
he thinks all of them will, if from no other
motive, from that of iutercst, grunt the
privilege of suffrage to tho blacks. lie
elaborately unfolded to mc sonic of
HIS PECULIAR IDEAS
in regard to suffrage and representation,
and proposes u plan which he thinks would
intercept tho necessity of, and absolutely
prohibit tho formation of large and corrupt
politieul organizations. Following up the
political reasoning of tho anciont savant,
Aristotle, he would divide society into uu
merous classes, representing every profession,
trade and interest. There should
then be a basis of intelligence to start from,
and each interest of the studio, law, morals,
religion, mercantile, mechanical, agricultural,
all. should be represented ueerrdin.r in
it.s ratio of adhorcnts and wealth. He
would restrict the suffrage of the lower, ig
norant and debased strata of soe'ety, to
check what excesses and mischief the in
discriminate franchise of the rabble might
induce.
A Curious Illustration. ? " My
friends," said a returned missionary at a
late anniversary meeting, 44 let us avoid
sectarian bitterness. The inhabitants of
Hindostan, where I have been laboring for
many years, have a proverb that4 Though
you bathe a dog's tail in oil and bind it
in splints, you cannot get the crook out of
it.' Now, a man's sectarian bias is simply
the crook in tho dog's tail, which cannot
be eradicated, and I hold that every one
should be allowed to wag his own peculiarity
in peace 1"
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Home Took challenged Wilkes, who
was then sheriff, and received tho following
laconio reply: " Sir?T do not think
it my business to cut tho throat of every I
desperado thnt may bo tired of life; but us ;
I am at presont tho sheriff of tho city of i
London, it may happen that I shall shortly
havo an opportunity of attending you in '
my official capacity, in which caso I will
answer for it that you shall have no ground i
left ts complain of mv umlMi-nro i? /.??? I
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you."
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An elderly gentleman travelling in a
stage ooaoh was much amused by the constant
fire of words kept up between two
ladies. Ouc of them at last kindly inquired
if their conversation did uot make his
head ache, when ho answered with u good
deal of naivr.tle, u No, tuadnui, I have been
married twenty-ci^ht years."
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From Texas.
INDIAN DEPREDATIONS-ROBBERIES, MURDERS
AND OUTRAGES UPON TIIE PEOPLE
The following letter from tlie^Ton. J. E.
llanck, tells a fearful tale of Indian depre.
dations upon the apparently helpless people
of Toxas:
Austin, March 10,18?hJ
In compliance with your request, I hastcu
to lay before you such information in
regard to depredations by Indians upon our
Northwestern frontier as have couie withiu
my personal knowledge during the last few
months. 1 shall eon line my remarks to
nrt.nl T lrnn? 1 .U
it t?u? .a. ntiutf IV tiutv vvvuutu niiuill lilt'
district which I have the honor to represent.
About the time of what is known as
"tho break up" in Texas, tho Indians, some
twenty-five in number, caino into Mason
County, not more than thrco miles from
where I live, and killed Mrs. Todd, wile of
Geo. "W. Todd, who was our County Clerk,
carried off her daughter Alice, a young and
interesting girl of fourteen years, who had
just a tew days before returned from the
Sat.- Saba Female Seminary, and kil'cd a
negro girl who was in tho party. Mr.
Todd was in the party but managed to us
cape unhurt.
The Indians were generally dressed in
the Mexican style, but were chiefly armed
with bows and arrows?ouly a few guus.
That same party went uu into Gillespie
County, and there w.t'niir two*~uiilcs ot
Fredericksburg, captured two young German
girls, one eighteen and the otjicr
about iourteen. They killed the elder one
before they left the neighborhood, but not
until alter they hud treated her iu a manner
too revolting to d? scribe. The girls
were the daughters of a Mr. and Mrs lingliss,
of Grape Creek. Ou Grape Crook,
in that county, they shot an old lady by
the uaiue of Frail, and carried off her iktle
son, a promising boy of ten years. On
Crab Apple Creek they killed an old man
whose name was Walker, turned his house
and carried off two of his children?a little
boy and girl. From every neighborhood
they so far succeeded in collecting and
driving off all serviceable horses that there
was no possibility of overtaking them.
They went out without cvui feeling the
necessity of being in a "ft**.Try. k: 1..
iiiumu vi -~vugusi nisi ruey reiurneu i?? tiie
Sulmc, iii Musou Couuty, and there hilled
an old gentleman by the name ol l'ark, hi*
wile uud grnudson, burned their house and
druvo off their hones.
On ttcd Creek they killed a man by the
name ol Fred. Con way, who left an excellent
wile and live li'tlo children to umurn
his untimely loss. Fred was a noble man,
and brave as brave could be, but the savages
overpowered aud murdered him in a
most shameful matiucr. Not far from there
they killed an old man, a Herman, Ly the
name of Hheeman and his little son. Ou
Spring Creek, in Gillespie County, they
killed Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and carried oft
their children, I don't now remember the
number, but threo or four I'm sure. They
killed at tho same time and place a Mr.
McDonald, and cairied of] his family, consisting
of his wife and fivo children. On
the Tertcnolis, in the same county, they
carried off a promising boy fourteen years
of age, the son ol a Mr. Fisher, and again
took the horses about the different preinis
us, and escaped without injury. Still later
they came again, and on Beaver Creek, in
Masou County, they killed a Mr. (lancing
and his wife, tut not till six of the red
devils had violated her by turns in the
presence ol her husband, who was, of
course, wounded and helpless. They finally
scarrified Mrs. (lancing by drawing a
knife across her abdomen and thighs in
every possiblo direction, and then left her
to die by slow degrees; .she was far gone
in pregnancy, but strange to say, she re
taiued her senses to the moment of her
death, and when found, was ahl-i to give
(he statement as just roluted. They killed
an out man by the name of Couch on Meet
Creek, on the odgo of Masou County, shot
a young tuau by tho name of John I .owe,
on the Little Liano, did many oilier depredations,
and us usual, drove our horses
before them and escaped without injury.
Just as I was leaving homo they oaiuc on
the Leon, in Macon County, and shot old
Mr. l'utiiani and sou, and drove off <|uitcn
number of horses that were making their
way farther down in the settlements. 1
have not mentioned near all the Jcpredations
that havo been committed on the
Sixty seventh Representative District alone
within n few months past. I do not r?
member the name and particulars of the
other eases; tlie truth is, 1 rather seek to
forget than to remember such horrible
scones. You may ask why wo dout keep
our horses in good strong stables, and be
ready to niako chase after tho Indians. I
answer, that ten, twenty, or thirty Indium
generally take horses regardless of uno oi
two or three tuen and their stables.
Again 1 may answer that tho people or
tho frontier of Texas are generally stock
growers?they raise cattle; and tho fuel
that their beeves have been subject to al
manner of depredations tor lour years
leaves many wen without the means to bu)
meat and flour for their families, much
less for their horses. The horses arc necessarily
left, therefore, to tako the desperate
chance on the range. Siuco the break
up the few in that country who wcro fortu
natc enough to have any horses remaining,
have been unable to render thom available .
for much good, bceauso when they could
collect them they couldn't sell thom, and
now that they could get a little something 1
for them, their horses arc all gone, and !
they are unable to collect them. Last1
summer mid fall, men, neighbors of mine,'
came to mo at San Antonio and botrged mo |
to mU thorn, it 1 could, in getting four or j
five dollars per head for thu choico out of i
a drove of five hundred noble muskero
grass beeves, whero in a drove at that time
not ouo beef of which was less than four
and from that to eight years old. They
had to drive them home again. The great
necessities of the people had caused them
to overstock the market.
1 urn, very respectfully, your obedient
servant. JAMES E. IIAN'CK.
Fort Mason, Mason County.
St mn p*.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has tho followiug circular iu relation to
stamping instruments issued without
stamps, or insufficiently stamped :
Treasury Dkcartmest,
Office or Internal Rev knob, v
Wasuisotom, March 10, 1806. J
The first internal revenue act took effect,
so far as related to stamp duties, October
1, 1862. Instruments executed and delivered
prior to that date, though they
may be recorded afterwards, are not cbargoable
with stamp duties.
If any instrument subject to stamp duty
was issued after October 1, 1802, and prior
to August 1, 180-1, unstamped, or insufficiently
stamped, the appropriate stamp
may be filed in the presence of the Court,
Register, or Recorder, as provided by sec
tiou 100 of the act of Juno 00, 1801.
Any instrument issued since August 1,
ISO 1, unstamped, or insufficiently .stamp
1 i a 1 1 ? .1 i * 11 -a
cu, in ?y ue atauipcu uy me v-oncctor upon
payment for the proper stutup, uud ot a
penalty ot tifty dollars; and where the
amount of the stamp duty exceeds fifty dollars,
on payment also of interest on said J
duty at the rate ot six per cent, from the
day on which the stamp should have been '
affixed.
If the instrument is presented to the
Collector within twelve calendar months
from its issue, the Collector is authorized
to remit the penalty, provided it shall appeur
to hit* satisfaction that the omission
to stamp it was by reason ot accident, mistake,
inadvertence, or urgent necessity,
and without wilful design to evade or do
lay tho payment of stamp duly.
Iftho instrument is not presented within
twelve calendar months, the penalty and interest
must be paid to the collector before
he can render it valid by fixing the appropriate
stamp, without regard to the cause
of the omission to stamp it ut the time of
its issue. The Commissioner has no power
to remit this penalty.
Dcput y collectors, unless acting as col
lectors under section .*>!), have no authority
to affix stamps or remit penalties under
sectiou 1 ot.
The stamp to be affixed to any instrument
is that required by the law existing
at the time when tho instrument was made,
signed, and issued.
When an instrument is properly stamp
ed under cither of said sections, the stamping
relates back to the time when the instrument
was issued, and rondeis it from
the beginning as valid to all intents and
purposes as it it had been duly stamped
when made, signed, and issued.
Tho whole amount of penalties paid to
collectors tor validating unstamped iostru
merits should bo returned on i'orui OS, with
other tin assessed penalties, and the uionoy
deposited to (hj credit of the Treasury ol
the United States, with other cnllcctious
E. A. lioj.MNti, Commissioner.
Prom the Paris Kentnekian, March 20.
llaitilt hie In Kentucky.
On lust Monday a fearful tragedy was
enacted in Millersburg, ftouibon county.
Henry M. Houldcn, of this county, about
19 years of age, son of Jesse II. llouldcn,
was being tried before the trustees of Mil
lersburg tor a breach ot the peace romtnit
ted the night bclore. During tlie progress
of tho trial young 1 >011 Men jumped
1 up, drew his pistol, nourishing it and
swearing, and suid " any person who said
' he tired his pistol tho night before told a
lie, and he would kill the person who
! touched him." Tho marshal attempted to
arrost him, and called upon tho by stand1
ers to assist, and in the attempt to do so ho
. fired his pistol twice, tho first shot kiiliug
! F. 15, Waters, sou ot 11. 11. Waters, of
' t Columbus, ( Ja., and lormerly auditor of
j that State. Waters was about 21 years of
1 age, and had lost a leg before Atlanta dur?
; ing the late war, having been a major in
tho Fourth Georgia regiment. Ho was a
I 1 student in the College at Millersburg, aud
I HI , 111. ,L I 1 liriAll UJ ftl.? m.?l Ki-itti n
M joang uuu in the institution. He w.ii.
?mmmmMtmSSB '
j preparing to leave for hi? home, with the -J
intention of studying law under Governor
Brown. When Bonlden found he had ' *
killed Waters ho was deeply aflfeeted, and
kneeling over his prostrate body made
great lamentations. Bouldcn had an ez?
ainitiing trial at Millersburg the same
1 evening, beforo Rtttmr*?? rIV???? m+a
nett They held him to answer before
the next April Bonrbon court, in the ram
of 82000, Jesse U. Boulden and Br. Car- j
' penter being bis scourities. " _* ' j
1 The father of young Boulden paid the
expenses of Major Water's funeral, and
sent Joseph LL Miller with the body to
Georgia.
Albert Barnes.
|- High in social position in the commmut
ty where he has lived so long?high hi
the sacred profession which he adorns?is
the gentleman whoso name wc hare taken
the liberty to put at the lioad of this article,
lie is an able, accomplished and Christian
gentleman, gentle in every sense. Unlike
most of his clerical brethren, be maintained
the gentleness of tone throughout the
conflict of fierce passions now happily at en
cud, and with clear and tlxed opinions-?
and those, too, on the side of the government?we
have never hearu or read one
word from his lips or his pen which seemed
like the utterance of ill-temper or intolerance.
Ho never prostituted his pulpit
by truculent harangues. He never defiled
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me Bucrcu elements no administered bJ
reading bulletins of bloody strife. Hq
never haunted clubs or leagues. He pray*
ed for victory for tho cause he thought the
right one, but ho blessed no flags waving
' over ghastly fields of fraternal war. Such
was the tenor of this good man's ooqrso
during the war. What it has been sinse
the war is over and the blessed light of
peace is shining upon us, the reader will
see in the following extract from sermon
of Mr. Barnes, which wo find copied Ut
one of our exchanges, and which wo gladly
reproduce. W hat a contrast to the scream
of vindictive fanaticism which comes from
every corner of infidel New England, and
as infidel Ohio, where New Eogland seed
is sown, whose organs are Sumner an4
Stevens and Wilson and Wade :
I hesitate not to say that, ou the whole,
the conduct of the ?outh in the feelings
evinced on the termination of the conflict
has been such as to demand tho oonfidcnce
of tho North, and to secure the almiratioa
ot mankind. Tho surrender of armed forces
was so complete and entire; the ecssatioQ
iif hmtililiiw tvaa an :
ov imuiVUlillO BUU Uai**
venal} the acknowledgment that they had
been overcome was so prompt, frank, and
manly; the readiness to return to the Union
bus been so general and apparently so sincore;
the recognition of the fact that slavery
is extinct lorever has been so wisely admitted
us a tact?vast as are the consequences
involved, and is the change in their
habits; the readiness to come under the arrangements
for collecting the revenue his
been so prompt; the disposition to resume
commercial intercourse with the great cities
of the North lias been so marked; and the
willingness to come into the great arrangements
of the nation for perpetuating freedom
has becu so general, that we see in
this, 1 think, the return of the feelings of
the best days of the republic. There aro
exceptions (individual), but there has never
been a civil war closed whore there was
less lingering animosity, or more willingness
to unite again utidcr the same govern1
moot. Cau we forget, when we think of
j what is in the Southern bosoiu still, that
1 long-cherished opinions, feelings and customs
do not soon change among a people?
Cau wu forget how long after the wars of
the "llosea, and after the civil wars that
rcsultod in tho establishment of tho "Commonwealth"
in England on the cessation
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I VI vuv IVIW9 UI nul, U1V! ICUllIJgS IDSt FUU1
i been engendered lingered in tho bosoms
: of Englishmen Cau we forgot how long
alter the Revolution, the banishment ot
i .Tamos, and tho accession ot William and
I Mary, love for tho "Pretender" lingered in
j the hearts of a portion of that nation; how
firui was the conviction "that he was the
rightful heir of the crown; how strong tho
hope that ho would yot oomo to the throne ?
Shall we blaae onr Southern brethren if
some similar feelings linger in thoir
bosoms ?
? ?
We are exceedingly sorry to say that
we yesterday saw a man get himself bitten
by a big rattlesnake for tho sake of having
u quart cf whiskey administered to hioi.
lie waru'i killed by either the bite or tho
driuk.?[Prentice.
With many readers, bnllianey of style
passes for ufiluence of thought; they mistakes
buttercups in the grass for immeasuruble
gold mines in the ground.?[Longtcllow.
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