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He was born in the Can. ton of Solothurn, Switzerland, in 1822,Jand when quite young removed with his parents to Zurioh, where bis father carried on the ? tailoring business until 1834, when he took a position in the Custom House, whioh he attii held when the prisoner last heard from him- Win married in Switaerland a lad; of aristocratio family, with considerable money, but he soon, by his profligate habv* its, run through it Failing to agree;' it . .#>- was.agreed that they should separate, he leaving for this country and allowing her to obtain ft divorce. When growing no, Win's father wished him to study for the pulpit, but he refused preferring medicine, sod took a oouree it Zurich, where he graduated. After striving in this country , be took another oouree, and graduated at Cleavelaod, Ohio He was for two years in a banking house in Zuriob, and afterwards travelled through Italy, not stopping long * - at any one place. Win landed in New York in 1849, and made an effort to establish himsetf as a pbysioian, bat failed because he oould not apeak good English. He then went to Connecticut, where be remained several months, subsequently he worked in a factory in Lawrenoe, Massachusetts for a time, and was aoon engaged as interpreter in a fbctory 3 miles from Northampton, where . % Germans were employed; was afterwards engaged ao superintendent of a water care establishment in Northampton, Massaohu? setts. At the instance of a physician Wins went with him to Cadis, Kentucky, where he married his present wife, Elizabeth Sa-! villi, in 1851. Cadis not offering a good opening he went to Louisville, and was sa-1 perintendent ef a water-cure establishment xor acme ume. w irz afterwards took obarge of oo? of Mr. Marshal's plaolatioos, a ear Natohez, and in 1857 moved bis family there %nd remained until the breaking out of the war. In the early part of the rebellion he en. listed in a company called the Madison Infan try, and remained with it until August, 1861, doing guard dnty at Howard's Factory Prison, in Biehmond. When the prisoners commenced to arrive from first - Ball Ran there was no list, and Wire com mended to make a list of them. He attracted the attention of General Winder and in a short time by an order from the War Department was plaoed on a detached service in the South, with she rank of Sergeant? In May, 1862, he returned to Richmond, and was sent out to the battle of Fair Oaks, where he acted as Assistant Adjutant General and Aid to General Joe Johnston, and in this battle received a severe wound on the right arm, from a piece of shell, making it neoessary for a difficult surgical operation to be performed. Wirz was then made Assistant PrOvoet Marshal of Manchester, but did not like the place, and asked to be relieved and was placed on Winder's Staff, and at the request of Onld was ordered to go over the Sonth and hunt up prisoners. When he had oompleted his tour and reported) he was assigned to doty as ohief of the secret police, but disliking this more than the Provost Marshalship, and uot sue oeeding in being relieved, he obtained a sick leave. He went on that thirty days toTus caloosa, and had it extended for thirty more, but was ordered in a few davs to oome im mediately to Richmond. They had at this - time started Libby prison and Belle Isle.-7* This was eerly in 1863. When he came to Richmond he waamade chief of police in the Provost Marshal's office. He staid there two days. One day he met an officer who told him they were looking for somebody to carry arms to the Trans-Mississippi Department. He offered to carry them, and soon received orders from both the Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy. He went to Charleston and got some fixed ammunition and guns that had just arrived c "C 1..J tr ? c H* ?: J Kvui j^ugiauu. juc ncuw iar iio iuciiu* ian, and had some trouble in getting tbroagb Pemberton's Department; went to Port Hudson and could not cross on acoount of the gunboats Hartford and AlbatroBS. He then got a furlough to go to Europe on nocount of his health. He bad a furlough for four months, but was so delayed that his furlough only lacked three weeks of hieing out when he landed at Liverpool. After returning from Europe he was ordered to * Augusta to superintend the transportation of prisoners to Andersonville, and in March, 1864> was ordered by Gen. Winder .to relieve his son at Andenouville. '' With Tespeot to his fate he said: "As far as I am concerned I have no hope of reprieve. These tbiDga which were done ^meaning AndersoOvilte) somebody must suffer for. X have never denied that the " prisoners were mistreated ; but it was not ' taj fault. If I am the last oue that is to suffer death for the Southern Confederacy I am satisfied. I do not fear death. I never saw a man shot nor never shot^one myself. That I will say as long as I can say it. 1 never hunted prisoners with the dogs, nor anything of that kind. Unfortunately, Gen. Winder is dead. If he was living he wonld come out and not let the innocent tf T 0088 aoner.. x never oooia get Winder to set his foot on Che inside of th*6 stockade. I don't know the reason. I bare no complaints to make of th% persons who have taken care of me ha^in prison, nor do ? have any ill will against any member of that ooort martial> aor the Judge Advocate. If I have against any one, it is they who perjured themselves. The man who gave bis name as Delabon, a grandson of Gen. Lafayette, will be fonnd oat to be a German Jew named Schaffer, a deserter from a N. York regiment. 1 went down into the yard today, ?nd there saw preparations being made for the scaffold, whioh would make most any man fiinoh. I had no suoh feelings. I w * * ? % ' i ^ V. -tfOtiKsA j-mt. caooot express it. It is not har'd hearted ness, bat I bad no snob feelings. Any-' body who knows anything about military matters know that one in command of thirty-five thousand men has to be striot, bnt when I am acoused of oonspiring with Jeffaronn T^ovio nni) ?* <a ?f) ? K* JkS??io HUU WUCtO lb J0 All <ft JIC. Wirz, baa had two children, ooe of whioh, girl, ten years old, is living.- He denies that he and his seoood wife lived together unhappy, and that ha was ever in the boose of correction in Zariob for forgery. The latter report, be says, originated from the fact that a distant felative failed in business, and was arrested on the charge of false bankruptcy. He leaves no property for his family. His manner of speaking was com- J posed throughout; his statements were | made id a remarkably direct manner, con- , sideriog the surroondiog circumstances, ' and none but a few of the least importance .j were drawn out by any direot questions. . ( Prom the Liverpool Mercury, November 7. The Shenandoah. j . Considerable exoitement was oaused on ^ 'Change yesterday, morning by the oircula- _ tion of the report that the Confederate orui-ser Shenandoah, of whose exploits amongst ( the Amerioan whalers in the North Paoifio so much has been heard, was passed about . eight o'clock by the steamer Douglas, at anohor at the bar of Victoria Channel, ap- ^ parently waiting for high water. By many . the report was discredited, it being thought ( that those on board the Douglas were in er- ( ror, and bad mistaken some other oraft for j the celebrated ex-Confederate cruiser. At ^ half-past ten, however, all doubts upon the ( point were set at rest by tee anenandoab steaming up the Victoria Channel, with the . Palmetto flag flying from her masthead.? The proceedings of this cruiser have caused much anxiety among commercial men.? , After Richmond was taken, and when the Government of the Confederate States was regarded as a thing of the past, Capt. Waddell startled those who trusted their mer . ohandise on board Amerioan ships by mis-* believing, or affeoting to misbelieve, that * the Confederacy had been broken op, and continued his depredation upon pedheable * merchantmen. This conduct caused much irritation among the American merchants and ship-owners, and one or two of the ^ fleetest ships in the United States Navy were sent in pursuit of the Shenandoah. She, however, suooeeded in eluding the vigi ^ lance of her pursuers, and the last that was beard of her whereabouts was that she was ^ off Cape Lawrence, in the Arotio Sea; and j that in that locality she had destroyed sixteen whalers* most of Wbioh had cargoes of r oil, and were boaod for toe United States. r She was then steering in a southerly direction, and there can be little doobt that she was tracing her course towards England. Capt. Waddell, the commander of the Shenandoah, states that the last vessel be spoke was the Barraoonta, of ^Liverpool, bound for San Francisco He met this ves- . sel at sea on the 3d of August, and learned ^ from her captain that the oanse of the South was irretrievably lost. Capt. Waddell, on hearing this news, expressed his intention J to proceed to England, and arrived off this ^ port yesterday morning. He then took a pilot on board, and finding the intelligence t he .had received from the captain of the Bar- ^ raconta as to the subjugation of the Sonth . undoubted, be desired the pilot to take his ship alongside one of ber Majesty's vessels of war, if there were any in port. The ^ Shenandoah was takeo up the river at high t water, and, according to the instructions given to the pilot, she was moored alongside t the Donegal. A orew from the vessel was ^ placed onboard her, apd the customs authorities having been oommuuioated with, some offioers belonging to that department were also placed in charger Soon after the surrender of the vessel, Capt. Waddell and several of the offioers and crew went on , .1 o: .L. j-r i Gn..tV. J auure. oiuue hib uoitjiu in tuc uuuiu, mc flag of the confederation has been seldom, if ever, seen in the Mersey. * As might be expeoted, therefore, the appearance of a ! steamer in the river flaunting the Palmetto, 1 excited considerable attention, and, as we 8 have stated, some apprehension was felt as to !j the intention and destination of the redoubt- . able stranger. The Shenandoah is a smart, ( handsome oraft, with blaok painted hull and v unmistakeably rakish rig, and appears to be altogether a qniok and serviceable vessel., 1 She has a crew of 133 men, and a ballast * of ooals. 8 At the present juncture, when so many knotty points of international law are at ^ issue between this Government and the U- ( nited States, and when the maintenance of atnioable relations between the two countries is so much to be desired and so essential to* the welfare of both, the absenoe of the Shenandoah from this port was more to be desired than her presence. There can 1 be little doubt that, after the neoessary for- ' malities are gone through, the vessel will ' be banded over to the United States au- i thorities. However, some question may a- 1 rise as to the detention of her orew?a ' subjeot which-may lead to misunderstandings that had better been avoided. It is * understood that the representative of the American Government at this port has been, since the arrival of the vessel, in communication with the customs authorities. It is also stated that certain oommeroial houses, wbo were said to be deeply interested in the success of the Confederacy, were engaged yesterday in making inquiries in regard to the Shenandoah. It may be, therefore, that some point will be raised as to the giving up of the vessel. The Home Office authorities have been oommunioated with, ; and their decision in regard to the final ' des ti nation of the vessel may be ezpeeted in a few days. * ' ^. [Liverpool DUpaich, November 9.] The captain and crew of the Shenandoah ! ba.ve been released on parole. It is believ; ed. that the matter will cause no serious dif ! fiuuJty. ? 1 J^-JTo err is human?to forgive, divine. 2 WSF We publish the following ciroular, as it oontains information of oonsiderable in* terest at the present time : Hkadquabtbbb Act. Asst. Com. Ecu ac 1 bi700ki?, Fekedmen andAban. Lands, Disteiot Whtim Sooth Carolina. f Colombia, S. C.t November 22,1863. J [Circular."] In order to avoid the evils that must necessarily follow a failure on the part of employers and freedmen to enter into contracts for the ensuing year, it has been determined to require that contracts to be made immediately. The accompanying form has been adopted, and will be observed. . It is hoped that the stipulation in this form providing for the continnance of these contracts after the restoration of civil authority, under suoh rules and regulations as v- i? ll. t :.i.a au: IDSJ OG auupwu uy tut) JucgioiHvuiu vi ouio | State, will prove satisfactory to all parties, tt is reoommended that, as far as praotica-? t>le, in order not to break op their homes For the present, freedmeo to be employed by And make contracts with their former masters, and that care be taken to provide for the maintenance of the helpless and inirm. This end will be most easily secured by paying the freedmen for their labor in slothing, food and shelter, and medioal attendance, and snoh additional wages in money as may beagreed upon. Commandug officers of Sab Distriots will designate in officer at eaoh; court house in the SubDistriot to act as agent for the Freedmen's Bareao, and to take obarge of the making >f contracts. This -officer, associated frith two oitizens of the.Military District (magstrates, if they can be obtained) will con ititnte a board ander the provisions of Cirsolar No. 5, from headquarters of the Boeau. In cases where the employer and reedmen cannot agree upon the terms of he contract, this board, after a careful examination of all the facts, will fix the terms. The two citizens (members of the board) ihall be paid three dollars per day for the ime actually engaged in the disobarge of heir duty?the aoconnt to be oertified to >y the officer associated with them, and ap- . >roved by the Sab-District Commander. To defray the necessary expenses of these >rooeedings, a fee of fifty oents shall be iharged and colleoted for eaoh freedman so imployed; in cases where ten. or a .less lumber are employed, if more than ten, wenty-five coots will be coSlocted for eaoh idditional freedman so employed. The en- ( ire fee to be paid by the employer. These ees will be oollected by the officer in charge ma accounted tor to mo ouu-o.oaiotauL Commissioner. No disbursement by bim vilf be allowed, except the per diem of the asooiate members of the board, upon apiroved accounts. A"weekly report will be , aade by bim to the Sob Awriatent Commie- , ioner, which will be accompanied by a cor- j eot oopy of all contraota entered into Sab Assistant Commissioners will report / reekly to'these headquarters the number if contracts made, the nnmberof freedmen , lontraoted with, and every dtfaer matter of , mportance or interest connected with this msiness. 1 , They will also, to' the extent of their , >ower, enforce the faithful performance of j he conditions of these oontraote. The in- , erests of fre6dmen.will be carefully guardid, and their rights, iu every respect, pro j eoted; but, at" the same time, they must , le compelled to fulfill their agreement, and , f idle or vioious, they must be punished. j No effort should be spared to correct the ; irroneous impression that prevails among . reedmen iu regard to a division of land ; , 1? 4 *kam fA malra BV J( 10 UUb uccubmrjt 1U1 vuoui dv ittkbu lontraots, or they will be permitted to leave , heir present homes, and go io great! num>ers to any other part of the country. RALPH ELY, - j Brevet Brigadier General, , Acting Assistant Commissioner. Columbia, S. C, Nov. 22,1865. To Brevet Brigadier General Ralph Ely, ( Acting Assistant Commissioner B. R.f , F. and A. L. , Sir : By authority of the Assistant Comnissioner, you are hereby directed to as- ( ume charge of the affairs of the Bureau if Refugees, Freed men and Abandoned . iiBods, for the District of Western South ' Carolina, with Headquarters at Columbia, Sooth Carolina. . Subordinate Assistant Commissioners rithin the District will be subject to such general regulations as you may publish in tocordanoe with orders from the Assistant Commissioner for South Carolina and Goor- , jia. I am, General, very respeotfully, yonr >bedient servant, C. H. HOWARD, Brevet Brig. Gen., Inspector Gen., And Chief of Staff. ' Restoration in the Valley.?ah icoounts from the Valley of Virginia give jncouraging tokens of the spirit of the people in regard to improvement. Desolated as that fair country was by the torches of Sheridan and Hunter, there is now some prospect of the restoration of at least a large portion oWts wasted property in the coarse of a few years, when it will onoe more be made to "blodm like a garden." In one locality, in Rookingham, we are told by the Register, a locality desolated and blackened by fire, new buildings have been springing up at the bidding of the genius of Energy and Toil. Already not less than ten splendid new barns crown the sites whioh a few - i 1D0DIDB 8^0 uctipD ui oiuuuiuciiug ashes Almost all of these barns may be embraoed within the line of the vision from a point on the road leading thence to Rawley Springs. All these improvements have sprang ap within the last few months, sinoe harvest. ? * A great many people, adds thv Register, thought and said last nntamn, when we suffered so severely by the ravages of war, that we toover should regain our wonted prosperity. They now begio to see bpw maoh mistaken they were. Already fencing is everywhere being rapidly replaoed, and maoy of the barns to hold the fruits of hon -n est toil are in readiness for the harvest whioh s blessed end ever mindful Providence will again send as. , This same march of improvement is remarked in other parts of the Valley. Not least among the evidences of increasing enterprise is the revival of newspapers and the appearance of new ones, all devoted to' the great interest of practical restoration.? We have noticed the old Vindicator and tbe spectator, or Staunton ; tbe Register, of Harrisonburg j the Shenandoah Valley, New Market; the Winchester Newt; the Charleatown Free Press, and Spirit of Jefferson Truly the old Valley is looking up again from tbe depth of her "voioelesa woe." Richmond Enquire*. A Btcme Falls from the Sky. Mr. James Lomley, an old Rooky Mountain trapper who has been itopping at tbe Everett House for several days, makes a moat remarkable ^statement to us, and one which if authenticated, will produce the greatest exoitemeot in the soientifio world. Mr. Lam ley states th&fc about tbe middle of last September, he was engaged in trapping in . the mountains, about seventy-five or one hundred miles above the great falls of the Upper .-Missouri, and in the' neighborhood of what is known as Cadotte's Pass Just after sunset ope evening, he beheld a bright luminous body in (he heavens, whioh was moving with great rapidity in an Easterly direction. It was plainly visible for at least five seoonds, when it suddenly sepa rated into particles, resembling, as Mr. L. describes it, the bursting of a sky-rocket in tbe air. A few minutes later, he heard a beavy explosion, which jarred tbe earth, very perceptibly, and this was shortly after followed by a rushing sound, like a tornado sweeping through the forest. A strong wind sprung up about the same time, but as suddenly subsided. The air was also filled with a peouiiar odor of a sulphurous ohararter. These inoidents would have made but slight impression on the mind of Mr. Lornley, bat for the fact that on the ensuing day he discovered, at a distance of about two miles from bis camping place, that, as far as he could see iff either direction, a path bad been cat through the forest, several rods wide;?giant trees uprooted or broken off near the ground?the tops of hills shaved off, and the earth plowed np in many places. Great and wide-spread havoc was everywhere visible. Following up this track of desolation, be soon ascertained the cause oT it in the shape of an immense stone that had been driven into the side of a mountain- j But now oomes the most remarkable part of the story. An examination of Ibis stone, inr so moob-ef lr?B-w?s vttRiTe,' showed' that it had been divided into compartments, and that, in varioos places it was carved witb curious hieroglyphics. More than this, Mr. Lumley also disoovered fragments of a substance resembling glass, and here and there dark stains, as though oansed by a liquid. Be is oonfident that the hieroglyphics were the work of human bands, and that the stone itself, although but a fragment of an immense body, most have been used for some purpose by animated being* 1-!. - . .L . 1_ u. T I Strange as irus story appears, iur. jjualley relates it with so much sincerity that we are forced to aooept it as trne. It is evident that the stone which he discovered was a fragment of the meteor whiob was visible in this aeotion in September last. It will be remembered that it was seen in Leavenworth, in Gelena, and in this city by Col. Bonneville. At Leavenworth, it was seen bo separate in particles or explode. Astronomers have long held that it is probable that the heavenly bodies are inhabited?even the comets?and it may be bhat the meteors are nsed as a' means of conveyance by the inhabitants of other planets, in exploring space, and it may be that hereafter some future Columbus, from Mercury or Uranus, may land on this planet by moans of a meteoric conveyance, and take full nnnuiwMiinn thereof?as did the SDamsb .... r. ? navigators of the new world'in 1492, and eventually drive what is known as the Mhoman race" into a condition of the most abject servitude. It has always been a favorite theory with many that there most be a race superior to as, and this may at some fotnre time be demonstrated in the manner we have indicated.?St. Louis Democrat. An Arabian Laughing Plant.?For the first time I met with a narootic plant, very common farther Sooth, and gifted with ourioos qualities. Its seeds, in wbioh the deleterioQB principle seems chiefly to reside, when pounded and administered in small dose, produce effects much like those as eribedto Sir Humphrey Davy's laughing gas. The patient danges, sings, and performs a thousand extravagaqoes, till, after so hour of great excitement to himself and amnsement to the bystanders, he falls asleep, and on awaking has lost all memory of what he did or said while onder the influence of the drag. To pat a pinch of this powder fnto the coffee of some unsuspecting indi i-?~ t vidua] is not an uncommon jo&e j uur uu x hear that it was ever followed by serious consequences, though' an over quantity might, perhaps- I myself tried it on two individuals, but in proportions, is not absolutely homeopathic, still sufficiently minuteto keep on the safe side of risk, and witnessed its operation, laughable enough, but very harmless. ? _ ? . - ? General Grant on the Mexican Question.?The most important pert, perhaps, of General Grant's brief spefeoh on the Mexican question, in New York, last week, was omitted in the .published reports In closing, he said that the Mexican ques tioD was one of the few topics on jrhicb be aljowed himself to speak freely. It is known that the appointment of General Logan to the Mexican mission was made upon Grant** recommendation,* and that in private conversation in New York he freely expressed himself in favor of driving the Frenoh from Mexico at the point of the bayonet Row President Johnson Spends the " W:;' V**' ... , The Washington Star gives the follow* ing account of how the President of the United States spends the hours of the day. The office is no sineoare. "President Johnson has few equals in industry. He rises at six, and until breaksfast, whioh is served at half past seven, looks over the newspapers. Immediately after breakfast, he goes to the exeoutive apartments and commences the labors of the day: First, there are bundles of letters to be read and the replies dictated to the secretaries. Applications for appointments, promotions, discharges from the army and navy, political advice, petitions for Exeoutive clemenoy, mod innumerable other subjects, are disposed of j but before half completed, the visitors have commenced to flock into the ante-roQinB and thrust their cards niton him. Pardon.seekers swarm on everv hand. Former owners of confiscated property pace op sod down before the door of the President's room, and females with indesoribable effrontery, insist upon immediate admittance. "After the most important business of the morning has been disposed of, the visitors are admitted one by one, and the President submits himself to their artesian process.' This lasts until about half past one or two, sometimes three o'olook, when the doors of his apartment are opened, and the whole crowd admitted. Atsuoh time, Col. Johnson, son of the President, or Colonel Browning, the Private Secretary, stands near the President and takes memoranda, as dictated by him, on the cases, of the visitors, who succeed one another with subjects for Executive aotioo like the dense throng at the post offioe window. The President's manner at such times is always pleasant, and gives oonfidenoe to the most timid.? His deoisions are quick, and each individual who lays bis case before the President learns, in half a doaen courteous words, the final decision. When all have been listened to, and the halls are once more empty* the President turns again to papers on his table until four o'olqpk, tbe hour for dinner. After dining, he returns to bis offioe, and there generally remains until a late hour, seldom retiring before 11 o'olook. "In addition to thesd duties it must be remembered that there are distinguished visitors constantly presenting themselves.? Representatives of Foreign Courts, Governors, Senators, Generals, and hundreds of lesser magnitude, must be received, each having some important subjeot requiring oare and deliberation, while over all, towers the great and evor present problem of reconstruction. Cabinet day, nose bat the beads of the departments are granted an interview with the President. Were it not for the relief from daily annoyances afforded by the Cabinet meetings on Tuesdays and Fridays, no physical constitution, however strong, could endure tbe exhausting labor performed by the President of the United States. There is no offioe of the Government so burdened with responsibility and anxiety, aod no man living is required to listen to such an endless recital of private griefs as unsophisticated visitors poor into the President's ear at every public interview." w ?. atii* 4?" Hon. Henry Clay Dean, of Iowa, in a speech delivered at Banokensaok, New Jersey, a few days ago, paid the following tribute to the Virginians: The Virginians.?I dare speak one bind word for the oppressed in the very teeth of the oppressor. Since Adam took possession of Eden, no part of his heritage has given to man suoh 8 hundred years of history as that of Virginia, beginning with the pnblio life of George Washington, and ending with the sarreoder of the armies of Gen. Robert E Lee. The great orator, Patrick Henry whose spirit lighted np the first great Revolution, and whose mild sweet voioe called armies up the valleys and down from the mountains to defend New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts from the invader's hoof, was a Virginian; George Washington who led these armies, was a Virginian; Thos. Jefferson, whose great soul encompassed the world and lifted its - - - L-SA l!L light upon a benighted age, to ceaon u nuerty, was a Virginian; James Madison, environed oar rights by a flame of living Are which the most illustrious periods in the past and present century preserved unharmed all that was sacred in life and precious in Hope?the Constitution of the United States?was a Virginian j John Marshall whose luminous mind, guided by immutable justice, gave being to a most profound and comprehensive judioiary, the bulwark of American institutions, the marvel of mankind, was a Virginian; Henry Clay, whose^ commanding majesty of soul drew after him whithersoever he went, one full half of the " 1 Amon. whole moral and mteiieoiuai puwo* oa, who did obedience to his name, was a Virginian; the Lee's?Richard, Henry, I Arthur, Francis, Lightfoot, Light Horse ! Harry, and his illustrious son, Robert E Lee, were Virginians; Thomas Jonathan < Jackson, the great military genius of the Western hemisphere, born on my native . Monongabela, was a Virginian. The oourts and legislatures, forums and pulpits of every State in the Union and every government on the continent, have been ordained by Virginians. Their blood, shed in noble defenoe of liberty, has fattened every valley and their bones -have bleached on every mountain from Bunker HiH to the City of Mexioo. With suoh a history, and suoh a race of freedmen, Henry Wilson, Horaoe Greely and Charles Sumoer would disfranchise this illustrious people, and place them under the tutelage of barbarian .negroes 7 i Proud glorious old Virginia, what Amerii can, with American pride, whether aboli tionist or democrat, would not rather be 1 Stonewall Jackson, buried in the bosom of i Virginia; dead and immortal, than live and ? Ia-AaiI Kb mankind 7 1 Do jjuuorj iww?? "j ? ^1? _ General Wad* Hampton. ; The Washington special correspondent of the Nev York Exprttt presents the following sketch of General Wade Hampton: \> Gen. Wade Hampton, who eatne so near being eleoted Governor of South Carolina, is a grandson of Brigadier General Wade -Hampton^, of th*.BeTOlutioa and war of 1812, and a son of the late Colonel Wade Hampton, <80 well known- throughout the Union to the patrons of'the turf. W ade Hampton, tbe elder, was a native of Prince George oounty, Maryland, in the vioinity of Washington,/and of obscure parentage He entered the Revolutionary war as wagon master, and from that hnmble position gradually rose to the rank Of Colonel. After the war he emigrated to South Carolina, and became' a planter, and on the aoqaisiiion of Louisiana made anon invest^ i menta in that territory, on the Mississippi, j near-New Orleans; as to render him, 0n his death in 1888, one of the richest men in i the ooantry. I On the breaking oat of the rebellion, the i present Wade Hampton was regarded as a- j mong the richest men-at-the Sooth. He < was originally-opposed to secession?frank- < iy confessed that he saw nothing in it bat < ruin to himself and bis relatives; hat when 1 the war ooinmenoed, embarked in it with i ail the impetuosity of an ardent natnre, and 1 by his gallantry and skill as a cavalry offi- 1 oer, soon attained the rank of Lieutenant 1 General. In person, he is desoribed as one J of the moet strikingly elegant men of tbe 1 day?very tall, with olsssieal features, and < a magnifioent blaokbeard?si together quite 1 a Cavalier of the Bayard order. His offieero and men were devotedly at- j tached to him?not more for his dauntless 1 courage in 'the .field than for those rare j qualities of head and heart for whioh hf Is ' equally distingnished. At tbe oelebrated oonferenoe between Generals Sherman and Johnson, in North Carolina,I am. informed that W&de Hampton, as he sat npon his } horse, formed altogether the most notice- 'J able feature of the occasion, and attracted 1 the an wearied admiration of tbe Federal 1 soldiers'who were present, to whom he had been previously unknown. As one of them remarked afterward, "Hampton looked as if he bad stepped, 'hone aod all, oqt of a canvass by !fitian or Yelasqnes." Wade Hampton is about forty yean of age, and, with tbe exercise of prndenoe and moderation, will not unlikely, unless destitute of ambition, fill a very prominent plaoe - - m . 9 n .1, io the fa tare history ot toe oonta. From die MempfeJj Appeal. A Vagrant Newspaper, The press upon which this number of the Appeal is printed, and which will, we trust, yet issue many thousands to be scattered broadcast throughout the Afississippt Valley is the identieal press whieh left here iu 1862, a little while before the oooupation of Memphis by the Federal troops. It is the same press from which was issued the Appeal of Grenada, and whioh retired from the town as the Federal cavalry were approaching the north bink of the Tallahatchie, after Grant had driven Pemberton from Abbey ville. It is the - same press, I with tha same pressman?^ao?; may his days grow long, and hi* flbadoW i never grow less I)?that was shelled oat of Jackson when Grant made bia famous move from Brainsbarg, by which be isolated Pemberton and shot him op ia Vioksbarg, l to be bagged thereafter on the Fourth of I July. At first the shells bad the bast of it, a number of thed intercepting the line of maroh over Pearl River; bat'Andy Harman and the faithful old press, from which had just been printed that morning's Appeal, won the race in the ead. While "Old Joe" Johnston was bothering the Federal advance oar press made its clean escape dowD the Southern Railroad to Meridian, and so on to Atlanta, at its leisure." It is the same press which vibrated to the then- . dershock of the siege of Atlanta, retiring therefrom bat a little while before Sherman's victorious legions entered that ill-fated oity. It is the same press from whence, at Montgoraery, the Appeal continued to oheer and encourage those whose quarrel it had espoused to'quit themselves like men, nntil the advance of that dashing fellow, Major General Wilson, with bis nine thousand Spencer Rifles in the hands of picked men, who kqew bow to ride and to flight, admonished us of the policy of. evacuating the "cradle of the rebellion." And so this veteran campaigner of the press corps took itoaif whAflla and steam, and sonirht ref age east of the Cbattahooohie. The balk of the office was stopped at CoIambus, aod was there destroyed by order of Major General Wilson,_ bat the press, having been forwarded to Macon, was saved from destruction by deposit in a safe place, and was not discovered until after the armistice and the promulgation of orders from General Sherman to stop the destruction of either public or private property. It has had many a narrow escape, but it is bale and hearty, and capable of doing yeoman's service, as the appearance of oar paper will testify. , Thx Jamaica Insurrection.?The terrible negro insurrection which lately broke out in the British Island of Jamaioa, has been virtually suppressed. It was inevitable that it should be short-lived, however sanguinary, barbarous and brutal it may have been in its inoeptien, and however great the disparity between the whites and blacks as to nnmbers. Wherever and whenever the two races come into oollision, the superiority of the whites most, in the end, by the law of natare, signally assert I itself, lost as it does under the ordinary conditions of oivilised life. The statement has already been made from Jamaica showing that the difficulty grew out of the rioee i of the blaok race in the island, their idleness and unthriftiness, from which they be' came unable or unwillingio pay the nsnal moderate tax, though oocnpying lands gratuitously. The unadvaneed condition of *..- Y* '* - . * i / . -r . . the, negro population in Jamaica is well i known. Whether it might not have been better, after their many yean of froeddnfc had more direct and special steps been takes te that end by those who aooompluhedtWBi emancipation, cannot be definitely <BH8b? mined; bat baring secured them.UbortmA/ j notion and put them on equality of. prifileges with its other free oitisena, th a British Government adopted the usual rational the ory of leaving freemen to work out tforir own destioy. They are, it appear*, is dtimtitimL' numbers in the island that this policy would seem a necessity. The population of the Island of Jamaica consists of aboat 815,000 blacks and 75,000 mulattoes to about only 10,000 whites. The late outbreak, as omr Consul rep resents, pSk^touf1^ jRnii "J go. It therefore became a very serious matter for us to observe. Had it been possible for it to suooeed, it Would hare ratted b&ok civilization and progressive develop* meat in Jamaica incalculably, and donefe * .1 jury to the black raoe, for there can be no question at this day that the race is better off under the influence of the white '-owe, though not on sooial equality (whether or without equal rights before the law,}tt||i in any other oonditioo. This is shown in oar own country, on every hand?in Maryland especially. Where, in a mixed commuoity of the races, the whites pre ponder- i ate in numbers, as here, we find the n?$r? on a higher plane and in a better moral and sooial condition than where the reverse is the case. His condition is better in Megs* land, perhaps, than in Virginia, and in Vbk ginia than in Sooth Carolina, Alabama, Fhe rapid emigration of white populate* into the far Southern States^ therefore, while of the first importance to the pteae&t white residents and those States themselves may also be of advantage to the negroes.? Under these oircamataneea the avoidance of issues with the whites is at all timet the best policy of the oolored raoe. Those who advise them to the contrary are not their true, certainly not their wisest friends. f<[ BaUvmar* Sun. The Baft B*L . A feather bed is ruinous to health. A mattrass is better; bnt in the course ?f ? ' generation or two, either will beoomeoobsid* erably loaded with the emanations froth tfa bodies of those who sleep oa them. When we oonsidor the immense amount of animal refuse whioh is constantly eaoaping ;$rwn ? the pores of the shin, ttbe conviction isjfcr- . n ced upon as, that what we Bleep on nee# jjjfl purification oqce in a while just M the M clothes we wear have need to be taken. to the wash tab. A straw bed is betterthar. H a mattress, for we can throw the straw away 0 and the expense is not heavy. But fketiee Hj and- clean as a straw bed is, it has a trouble- 0 some rattle, while it is new, which to9f0? 0 persons is suggestive of ghosts, or midnight 0 robbers. A light, elastio plank ts very *? pleasant, if supported at the ends and 007- jl# ered with a blanket. Sleeping on thedbor H is plessanter than it seems, and there is no B| danger of breaking one's bones by taw# ling out of bed. Many of our soldiers 0 have found sleeping in snow-drifts or 1osfi* -> . paddles, to agree with them; and it is eer- 0 tain that a mud-puddle in a pofe afmpephere flH -*>ore wholesome sleeping accommodfc |H - - .v. ~**?at luxurious bed in an un uod lain (do lu, 3bb ventilated chamber. But of all the beds ever invented, the |j? best, moat wholesome, and perhaps the JgB cheapest, is thf hammock. You need no |8j bedstead, no mattress, no cnmbrons tap- B pings of any kind. Yon can lie at perfect MB ease is it, Alfthe "making of thaW* Kg that is necessary being to hang and fiSf pat a blanket or sheet i n to it, as yoa prefct. sBe; It should be well hang on two stoat wrought jm iron bookt, which are securely fastened in- ]|B to the wall on opposite sides of the room. IB If yoa want to rock yourself, as yoa soak reg yoar baby in the oradle, yoa can do it with |glj no trouble At all. There is none of that |n| feeling of anvendlsted closeness, which tW* there is aboat a feather bed, for the wMble 38 oodoern is as open as a shad net. There is no fear of vermin taking up their lodgings in it, for every shred of it is expoaad to ||S view, and there is no room for the oreatorea jgH| to hide. There is no diffiealsy aboat etsan- ma ing it, for you ban dip it into a bnoket of ag| scalding water. Nor is there any trouble H in moving it, for when it is rolled np and |B tied, the handle is no larger than your hat. fln Anybody who will try a hammock for a SB few nights Will wonder that they ever oootd # Rag enjoy the ponderous old thing known as ||jB bed and bedstead. ||W win :?? B Apprentices and Journeymen.?The MM2 eubjeet of regulating the lawn of appren- B tioeship is being considered by die N. York 9 Oonventionof Trades Sooietiea, now is seasion at Albany. This is one of the most Bfl important matters tint could oeoupy the at* gS tention of such a body, and might be made to result far more beneficially to mechanioa OwlE and the 'people generally than wrangling HB oyer questions of strikes and other, matters B which the laws of demand and supply will In settle. Owing to the faulty system' of ap? B prontioeship In this ooUOtry, it is Well nigh B a general complaint ^hat the number of good HH?S workmen in nearly every branch B try is growing leas m ' IT ijljft '! ten flfl often the ease that young lada goto an as- ' gBBf tablishment for a year or so, and having so- HB quired merely the rudiments of a trade dt Bfl employment, leave for another city and set I up for journeyman, or, what is quite as bad, ffiB arbitrarily leave their unlearoed trades half Bflj a doaen times before arriving at a respeotable proficiency or a proper age, and torn |BS I out incompetent, of ootuss, at last. This B is not only detrimental to themselves, but pSgffj to the community, and discredits the trades BS for unskilfolnesa. The remedy for this fl great evil is in the legal establishment of a ' jjjjjjB liberal system of apprenticeship, and wa B * - ? * Mnu Mima of stena *3391 1 are gi?<* w om " >???*- ?? ? 2*3*31 J being taken in the light quarter to bring