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Wirx's Dying Statement.
A abort time previous to bis exeootioo,
Win gave the following particulars concerning
hia life. 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
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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
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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
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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 ,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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*
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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
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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. ?
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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J being taken in the light quarter to bring