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lewis M. grist,Proprietor.J Jitirtjenbciil Jfauiilj getospaptr: Jfor % $roatotioit of t|t political, Social, Agricultural ant> Commercial Iniengia of % Soatj). |terms?os so^too^^jai>vasce. YOLUME XII. YORKYILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1866. NUMBER 6. "NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP." In the quiet nursery standard, Snowy pillows yet impressed, See the Tonus of little children, Kneeling, white-robed, for their rest All in quiet nursery chambers, While the dusky shadows creep, Hear the voices of the children? "Now I lay me down to sleep." In the meadow and the mountain Calmly shine the Winter stare, But across the glistening lowlands Slant the moonlight's silver bars. . In the silence and the darkness. Darkness growing still more deep, Listen to the little children ' Praying God their souls to keep. "If wc die"?so pray the children, And the mother's head droops low, (One from out her fold is sleeping Deep beneath the Winter's snow,) "Take our souls j" and post the casement Flits a gleam of crystal light. Like the trailing of bis garments Walking evermore in white. Little souls that stand expectant Listening at the gates of life, Hearing, far away the murmur Ut the tumult ana uie stnic; We. who tight beneath those banners, Meeting ranks of foemen there, Find a deeper, broader meaning In your simple vesper prayer. When your hands shall grasp this standard, Which to-day you watch from far, When your deeds shall shape the conflict In this universal war, Pray to Him, the God of battles. Whose strong eye can never sleep, In the warring of temptation. Firm and true your souls to keep. When the combat ends, and slowly Clears the smoke from out the skies, When, fhr down the purple distance, All the noise of battle dies, When the last night's solemn shadows Settle down on you and me, May the Love that never faileth Take our souls eternally. j| Jfldwid ,f:teg. THE IRON VAULT. I live in San Francisco, and am * lock smith by trade. My caning is a strange one, and possesses a certain fascination rendering it one of the most agreeable of parsuits. Many who follow it, see nothing iD it but labor?think of nothing but its returns in gold and silver. To me it has other charms than the money it produces. I am called upon, almost daily, to open doors and peer into long neglected apartments; to spring the stubborn looks of safes, and gloat upon the treasure piled within; to quietly enter the apartments of ladies with more beauty than discretion; to pick the looks of drawers containing peace-destroying miss'ves, that the dangerous evidenoes of wandering affection may not reaoh the eye of a husband, or father in possession of the missing key; to force the fastenings of cosh boxes and depositories of records, telling of men made suddenly rich, of oorpo rations plundered, or orphans robbed, of I hopes crushed, of families ruiacd. Is there | no charm in all this??no food for specu-! lation?no scope for the range of pleasant fancy? Then, who would not be a look* > smith, though bis face is begrimmed with the soot of the forge, and bis hands are stained with rust? But I have a story to tell?not exactly a story, either?for a story implies the completion as well as the beginning of a narra tive?and mine is scarcely more than the introduction to one. Let him who deals in things of fancy, write the rest. In the spring of 1856?I think it was in April? I opened a little shop on Kearney street, and soon worked myself into a fair business. Late one evening a lady, closely veiled, entered mv shop, and palling from beneath j a cloak a small japanned box, reqnested me to open it. The lock was curiously constructed, and I was all of an boar in fitting it with a key. Tbe lady seemed nervous at tbe delay, and at length reques ted me to olose tbe door. I was a little surprised at tbe suggestion, but of course complied. Shotting tbe door, and returning to my work, the lady withdrew her veil, disclosing as sweet a face as can well be imagined. There was restlessuess in the eye and a pallor in the cheek, however, wbiob plainly told of a heart ill at ease, and in a moment every emotion for her bad given place to that of pity. "Perhaps you are not well, madame, and ! the night air is too chilly ?" said I rather inquisitively. I felt a rebuke in her reply: In requesting you to close tbe door I had no other objeot than to escape the attention of persons." I did not reply, bat thoaghtfally continued my work. She resumed: "That little box contains valuable papers?private papers?and I have lost tbe key, or it has been Btolen. I should not wish to have you remember that I ever came here on suoh an errand," she continued, with some hesitation, and giving me a look which it was no difficult matter to understand. "Certainly, madam, if you desire it. If I oannot forget your face I will at least attempt to lose tbe reoollection of ever seeing it here." j The lady bowed rather coldly at wnac jl considered a fine compliment, and I proceeded with my work, satisfied that & sodden discovered partiality for me had nothing to do with the visit. Having succeeded, after mncb filing and fitting in turning the lock; I was seized with a curiosity to get a glimpse at the precious contents of the box, and suddenly raising the lid, discovered a bundle of letters, and a deguerreotype, as I slowly passed the box to its owner. She seized it hurriedly, and placing the letters and pictures in her pocket, lookod the box, and drawing the vail over her face, pointed to the door. I opened it, and as she passed into-the street, she merely whispered? "Remember!" We met again, and I have been thus particular in describing her visit to the shop to render probable a subsequent recognition. About 2 o'clock in the morning, in the latter part of May following, I was awoke by a gentle tap npon the window of the little room back of the shop, in whioh I lodged. Thinking of burglars, I sprang out of bed, and in a moment was at the window, with a heavy hammer in my hand, whioh I usUaliy kept at that time within convenien reach of my bedside. "Who's there?" I inquired, raising tfa< bainojer, aud peering out into the darknes ?for it was as dark as Egypt when unde the curse of Israel's God. "Hist!" exclaimed a figure, stepping ii front of the window; "open the door, . have business for you." "Rather past business hours, I shouli say ; but who are you ?" "No oue that would barm you,' returne* the voice, which I imagined, was rathe feminine for a burglar's. "Nor no one that can !" I .replied, rath er emphatically, by way of a warning, as . tightened my grip upon the hammer, ant proceeded to the door. I pushed back th< bolt, and 6lowly opening the door, discover ed the stranger already upon the steps. "What do you want?" I abruptly in quired. ' I will tell you," answered the same sof voice, "if you dare open the door wid enough for me to enter." "Come in," said I resolutely tbrowin] the door ajar, and proceeding to light candle. Having succeeded, I turned to ex amine the visitor. He was a small am neatly dressed gentleman, with a heav raglan around his shoulders, and a blue nav, cap drawn suspiciously over the eyes. A 1 advanced toward him, be seemed to hesi tate a moment, then raised the cap froD his forehead and looked me curiously in tb face. I did not drop the oandle, but I ac knowledge to a little nervousness as I hur riedly placed the light upon the table, am silently proceeded to invest myself witl two or three very necessary articles of cloth ing. As the Lord liveth, my visitor was lady, and the same for whom I had openei the little box about a month before !? Having completed my hasty toilet, I at tempted to stammer an apology for my rude ness but utterly failed. The fact is, I wa confounded. Smiliug at my discomfiture, she said : "Disguise is useless; I presume you re cognized me ?" "I believfc I told you, madam. I shouh not soon forget your face. In what wa; can I serve you ?" "By doing half an hour's work befor daylight to-morrow, and receiving fiv< hundred dollars for your labor," was tbi reply. "It is not ordinary work," said I, inqui ringly, "that commands so munificent i compensation." "It is a labor common to your calling returned the lady. The price is not s< much for the labor as tbe condition undei which it must be performed." "And what is the condition ?" I inquired "That you will submit to being conveyet from and returned to your own door blind tolded."" Ideas nf murder, buredarv. and almos 9 O * / ? every other crime to villiany, harriedly pre sented themselves in succession, as I polite ly bowed, and said: "I must understanc something more of the character of thi employment, as well as the conditions, t< accept your offer." "Will not five hundred dollars answer ii lieu of an explanation ?" she inquired. "No?nor five thousand." She patted her foot nervously on thi floor. I could see she had placed entirely too low an estimate on my honesty, and J felt some gratification in being able to con vince her of the fact "Well, then, if it is absolutely necesaarj for me to explain," she replied, "I musi tell you that you are required to pick the lock of a vault, and?" j "You have gone quite far enough, mad am, with the explanation," I interrupted : "I am not at vour service." "As I said," she continued, "you are re quired to pick open the lock of a vault, anc rescue from death a man who has beet confined there for three days." "To whom does the vault belong?" 1 inquired. "My husband," was the somewhat reluo tant reply. Then why so much secrecy ? or rather how came a man confined in such a plaoe? "I secreted him there to escape the ob serration of my husband. He suspected as much, and closed the door upon him. Presuming he had left the vault, and quit ted the house by the back door, I did nol dream, until to day, that he was confined there. Certain suspicious acts of my husband this afternoon convince me that the man is there, beyond human hearing, and will be starved to death by my barbarous husband, unless immediately rescued. Foi three days be has not left the house. J "drugged" him less than an hour ago, and he is now so completely stupefied that th( lock may be picked without his interfer ence. I have searohed his pockets, bul could not find the key; hence my applica tion to you. Now you know all; will yot accompany me?" "To the end of the world, Madam, or such ao errand." "Then prepare yourself; there is a cat waiting at the door." I was a little surprised, for I had nol heard the sound of wheels Hastily draw ing on u coat, and providing myself witb I ...? * ?nA imnUmanta T tz70Q Qnnn of flit IIJC lc^aucu imptuivuwj*. n?u uvv/t* MM WMV door. There, sure enough, was the cab: with the driver in his seat, ready for the mysterious journey. I entered the vehicle, followed by the lady. As soon as I wa: seated she produced a heavy handkerchief which, by the faint light of an adjacent street lamp, she carefully bound round mj eyes. The lady seated hersolf beside me, and the1 cab started. In half an hour the vehicle stopped?in what part of the citj I am entirely ignorant, as it was evidfentlj driven in anything but a direct course from the point of startiug. _ Examining the bandage, to see if mj vision was completely obscured, the lady handed me the bundle of tools ^ith which I was provided, then taking me (jy the arm t | led me through a gate into a house which I know was of brick, aod after taking me e along a passage way which oould not have s been less than fifty feet in length, and r down a flight of stairs into what was evidently an underground basement, stopped bea side a vault, and removed the handkerchief I from my eyes. "Here is the vault?open it," said she, 3 springing the door of a dark lantern, and throwing a beam of light upon the lock, i I seized a bunch of skeleton keys, and r after a few trials, whioh the lady seemed to watch with the most paioful anxiety, . sprang the bolt. The door swung upon its I hinges, and my companion telling me not i to close it; as it was self-locking, sprang e into the vault. I did Dot follow. I heard the murmur of low voices within, and the next moment the lady reappeared, i. and leaning upoo her arm a man, with faoe so pale and haggard that I started t at the sight. How he must have sufe fered during the three long days of his confinement! g "Remain here," she said, handing me a the lantern ; "I will be back in a moment." The two slowly ascended the stairs, and i I heard them enter a room immediately ay hove where I was standing. In less than a y minute the lady returned, s "Shall I close it, madam ?" said I placing my hand upon the door of the vault, a "No ! do!" she exclaimed, hastily seizing e my arm; "it awaits another occupant!" i. "Madam, you certainly do not intend to?" i "Are you ready?" she interrupted, imii patiently, holding the handkerchief to my . eyes. The thought flashed aoross my a mind that she intended to push me into the J vault, and bury me andmy secret together. - She seemed to read the suspicion and con r tinued: "Do not be alarmed. Tou are not . the rnao!" s I could not mistake the truth of the fearful meaning of the remark, and I shuddered as [ bent my head to the handker. chief. My eyes were as carefully bandaged as before, and I was led to the cab, and i thence driven home by a more oircuitous y route, if possible, than the one by which we came. Arriving in front of the hoase, B the handkerchief was removed, and I stepp - ed from the vehicle A Durse of five hun b " - ? B dred dollars was placed iu toy band, aod in a moioeut tbe oab aod its mysterious occupant bad turned tbe corner and were l out of sight. I entered tbe shop, and tbe puree of gold y was tbe only evidence 1 could summon in j my bewilderment that all I bad just done r and witnessed was not a dream. A month after that I saw the lady and tbe gentleman taken from the vault walking j leisurely along Montgomery street.?I do not know, but I believe tbe sleeping bus band awoke within the vault, and his bones t are there to-day. The wife is still a resident of San Francisco. j Jacob's Ladder?What it Emblem 4 atised ?it tne reports we near de true, ' there are some of the earlier pupils of Grand Lecturer Drew, (whose work the Grand ( Lodge of New York declares to be stan dard,) who still in alluding to Jacob's Lad der in the Lecture, speak of it as ascending a to Heaven. Such ignorance is inexcusable; * and persons so transgressing ought to be ^ sent to a night school, instead of being permitted to expose their incapacity. If such persons are possessed of any mind, they should remember that"the crowning of the t Lodge is the-celestial hemisphere," and all Free and Accepted Masons hope to arrive at the dominions of bliss by the allegorical assistance of Jacob's Ladder, one part of which rested on the earth, and the other ' extended to Heaven, on which the angels were ascendiDg and descending: those asI cending oarried the obligations of gratitude to the Throne of Grace; those descending dispensed the mercies of Providenoe to the whole oreation. fPUiN OwmKrtll/l'jl f\f fKfl noflirA C\f IUC iUUUV/l J Ojr LU UUilUWI u* vuv UUVMI V v? maD, his body earthly, but his soul Heavenly and divine, was shown to Jaoob in a visr ion, to remind him that be conld never attain its summit bat by a strict adherence to the laws and commands of the Almighty? which "Would not only prove a soaroe of ' earthly blessing, bat enable him to return ' to his Father's House in peace and pleuty; which, in process of time, was fully verified. In an emblematical sense, this Ladder may ' be considered as resting on the Book of the Law; for by paying implioit confidence to ' the doctrines contained in that sacred vol' ume, we are convinced by promises incon' trovertible, more solid than the earth, more ; permanent than the Heaven, that, by a ; steadfast faith in Well doing, a continual 1 hope, aDd a heart replete with charity and ! benevolence, we shall finally attain the summit of that Ladder, metaphorically speak' iug, the dominions of bliss, and mansions or pure delight. Major General John A. McCler-; 1 nand on the situation.?Gen. McClernand wrote a letter to a recent Johnson > meeting at Macon, Missouri, in the course of which he said : : Glancing at the President's reconstruc' tion policy, what remains to be said of it! 1 He has officially and formally announoed 5 the termination of the rebellion, and the i fact that ea?h and all of the States are ! equally entitled to exercise and enjoy the ? same relations to the general government. 3 What should the disfranchised States do? i As an humble individual, revering the Con stitution and respecting the rights of all, I 1 say let tuoso States elect their Senators and i Representatives, repair to Washington, ! and take their entitled seats in those bodies, j ' peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must, r and let the oonsequenccs take care of them1 selves. ?? ? ' s t@T The negroes had a row among themr selves in a church, in Mobile, Sunday week, i which resulted in killing five and wounding i a great many of them. ' fipsfjetonwttis ! From tlie N?w York Herald. ! SANTA ANNA. | Sketoh of Hia Bemarkable Career. Antonio Lopes De Santa Anna, ex-President and Dictator of Mexico, arrived from St. Thomas at Elizabethport, N. J., on the lltb inst., and is now residing with a friend at that place. The purpose for which he J namAs is not generally known, but it is sup- j posed that it is to aid by some means the j cause of the Liberals in Mexico against j Maximilian of Austria. He has lately avow- : ed hostility to tbe latter, whom he former- j ly looked opon as one destined to give peace ! to his distraoted country. Santa Anna has passed a remarkable oareer and is a remarkable character. He was boro in Jalapa, Febraary 21, 1798 ? He first oame into public notioe in 1821, in the Mexican war of independence; and in 1822, having expelled tbe royalists from Vera Cruz, he was appointed to the command of that city. In November of that year he was deposed by Yturbide, who bad proclaimed bimself Emperor; but Santa Anna refused to submit to his authority, raised the banner of the Republic in Vera Cruz, and in 1823 sucoeeded in oompassing Ytarbide's downfall In the changes whiob quickly followed he plaoed himself at the head of the federal party, but was defeated, and retired to bis estate at Jalapa. Id 1828 he took the field against the Government of Pedraza, chosen to the Presidency by an elected majority of two, declar ing the election of Gnerrero valid; and after a series of engagements retired to Oajaca. The command of the forces against the Spanish expedition under Bartradas was intrusted to him; and embarking at Vera Cruz he forced Barradas to capitulate at Tampico,. September 11, 1829. Guerrero made him Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the army, but continuing afterward to exercise the dictatorial powers with whioh he had been invested to repel the invasion, Santa Anna combined with Bustamente to overthrow him, and the latter was made President by the army. In January, 1832, however, Santa Anna headed a new insurrection, declaring for bis former opponent, Pedraza, whose triumph he insured by a victory over the government troops in October of that year. Being him self chosen President in March, 1833, he had to confront a popular insurrection under Arista and Don Gabriel Duran, but speedily subdued it. He now left the party of the federalists, and put himself at the ! head of the centralists, who wished the pow er concentrated in the exeoutive government Though a favorite with the army, which desired him to be made Dictator, he was unpopular with the nation, especially as a rumor was spreading that be aimed at the imperial dignity A new revolt broke out in four proviuoes, and a manifesto was issued at Texea against I his government. On May 11, 1835, he ut| terly defeated the army of the insurgents on | the plains of Guadalnpe, near Zacatecas, killing two thousand and taking two thousand seven hundred prisoners. This was a fatal blow to the republican party in Mexico, and Santa Anna was named diotator. The destruction of the federal constitution was soon i consummated; the State legislatures were 1 abolished, their plaoes being supplied by a < departmental council, and the Governors of < the several States became dependent upon the supreme power. Mexico was submissive, but a revolutionary feeling had been I long existing in Texas, which now broke out into open insurrection. Early in 1886 < Santa Anna took the field in Derson. Bv i the middle of February he reached the Rio I Grande at the head of six thousand troops, ? stormed the Alamo at Sao Antonio on March 6, after several days' siege, aod massacred its defenders, bat with great loss to 1 himself; and after the massacre at Goliad, 1 done under his express orders, marohed to- I ward Gonzales. At San Jacinto he met the i Texan army under Houston, by whom be < was totally ronted, April 21, and the day following taken prisoner. During his cap s tivity he made a treaty with the Texans, < whioh resulted in nothing, as his faootioDS < were suspended by the Mexican govern- i meat i In 1837 he was set at liberty, and return- 1 ed to his native country by way of the Uni- ' ted States. On reaching VeraUruz he was 5 coldly reoeived. At the Presidential eleo- k tion of that year he received bat two oat of sixty nine electoral votes. He had retired ' to his estate, twenty-seven miles from Vera 1 Cruz, when (November 27) the Castle of 6 San Joan de Ulloa was bombarded by the ( French. He hastened to Vera Crnz, where his services were accepted by Genera! Victoria, and took command after the fall of i the oastle. He repelled an assault upon i that city by the French (December 5), for- t cing them to re-embark, bnt reoeived a ( wound in the leg which necessitated its amputation. In the contentions between the j centralists and the federalists which during ^ the following years distraoted Mexico, he fl was one of the leaders of the former; and ^ from Ootober 10, 1841, to Jane 4, 1844, j he was virtual Dictator, under the title of ^ Provisional President, Bravo and Canalizo s acting as his substitutes during two inter- 0 vals of absence with the army. He was a- ] gain Constitutional President, under the in- t strument of June JLZ, laid, irom Juoe ito r September 20,1844, when he was deposed t by a new revolution, taken prisoner near ] Tlacolula on January 15, 1845, banished j for ten years, and took up his residence iu p Cuba. p The two succeeding Presidents, Herrera c and Paredes, found themselves unable to h grapple with the difficulties under which I the country was laboring, aggravated as n they were by the war just breaking out with the United States. Santa Anna was re- ti oalled, and by the connivance of the Ameri- a can government, which, for reasons that vi have never been made known, supposed him favorable to peaoe and to recognizing the independence of Texas, he was permitted to pass through the fleet and reach Mexico in safr^y. There, contrary to the opinion entertained in the United States, he declared vigorously for the war, and was appointed generalissimo by the provisional government under Salas, and in December was made Provisional President. Immediately after, at the head of twenty thousand men, the flower of the Mexican army, be ..J J ?J J T?_l OO tiuvauucu uunuwaiu, auu uu rouiuaijf uu} 1847, attacked the American troops at Buena Vista, five thousand strong, under General Taylor. He was effeotually repulsed, but nevertheless maintained his reputation and popularity, and collected a new army for the defence of the eastern frontier. In the meantime Anaya was elected President, and Santa Anoa, taking command of his troops, intrenched himself at Cerro Qordo, where, on April 18 he was attaoked and defeated by the Amorioans under Scott. Yet in spite of these disasters he was enabled to collect three thousand men from the fragments of his broken army, and, retreating toward the national capital, halted at Ayutla There he was informed of his appointment to the Presidency, as it was felt by the Mexicans, amid all their disheartening reverses, that he was the only one who could make head against the Americans with any prospectof success. But finding subsequently that the election for President whioh the StateB had held on May 15 was unfavorable to his pretensions, he prevailed on Congress to postpone the counting of votes until January, 1848, and in the meantime banished or imprisoned all those opposing his schemes, and established a seveie censorship of the press During the course of the year he oarriedon secret negotiations with Soott and Trist, the American commissioner, with qaestiooable sincerity, and certainly with no result. He organized an army of thirty thousand men for the defence of the capital. The battles of Contreras and Churubusco followed (August 19 and 20,1847), and the next day an armistice, proposed by General Scott, was accepted by him, which Buspen ded hostilities till September 8. The battle of Molinos del Rey was fought Septem-. ber 9; and on September 16, 1847, the city of Mexico was oaptured, having previously been evacuated by the officers of the Government. Santa Anna now resigned the exeoutive chair to Seoa y Pens, who had been constitutionally elected his successor, and though he despaired of successfully resisting the party of peaoein Mexico, he made a last effort to retrieve bis reputation by the siege of Puebla; but be was attacked by Gen. Lane at Huamantla, and forced to re tire from the place, which was now relieved In the middle of January, 1848, an attempt was made to surprise him at Tehuaoan, where he was lurking, but failed ; and about February 1, Santa Anna informed the Min iil? nf War Qnrl tViA Amorir?n,-i flnmmiinH er io-Chief that he desired to leave Mexi eo, aod "seek au asylum on a foreign soil, where he might pass his last days in that tranquility which he could never find in the land of his birth." The desired permission was granted, and on April 5, 1843, be took passage from La Antigua to Jamaica. Iu that Island he remained several years; but the anarchical condition of Mexioo under the Presidencies of Herrera and Arista turned men's eyes once more upon him, and returning to Mexico in 1853, he was received with great enthusiasm He was appointed President for one year, after which he was to call a constitutent Congress; but he fomented a new revolution, by which he was declared President for life, with power to appoint his successor, and the title of Most Serene Highness. He began to rule with despotic authority, aod the revolution of Ayutla followed, led by General Alvarez After a struggle of two years, Santa Anna, finding himself without resources, since be had spent the ten millions of the Gadsden treaty, signed bis unconditional abdication, tod sailed (August 16, 1855) from Vera Droz for Havana. He afterwards went to rorbaoo, Venezuela, for two years, and has iince resided in the Island of St. Thomas. Da the advent of Maximilian io Mexico he jmbraced the cause of the usurper, believDg, as he declared, that Maximilian could estore peace to the country. He was dis ippointed, however, in his hopes and perhaps his expectations; for be soon abandonid Mexico and the cause and returned to 3t. Thomas. Here be has since resided.? When Mr. Seward was in the West Indies le visited Santa Anna and had a long con. rersation with him. This may have had lomething to do with the present visit of the ix-President of Mexico. Death of Ex Gov. Allen.?The last nail from Vera Cruz brings the melancholy ntelligence of the death of the above disinguished citizen of the South. The New Irlpftna Pir.amine. savs of him : The lamented deceased was a respectable tlanter iD Loasiana when the Confederate var broke ont, and immediately entered the ervice as Colonel of the 4th Regiment of volunteers, and rising to the rank of brigalier general, proved himself a brave and i jallant offioer. Subsequently disabled by a evere wound, he was, on the expiration if Gov. Moore's term, elected Governor of jouisiana, and held that high office when I he war closed. He was then at Shrevelort, where, learning that he was among i he exoepted from amnesty, he crossed i ?exas and Northern Mexico by way of i donterey, to the oity, and engaged in the < mblicatiou of the Mexican Times newspa I ier, in which he was very successful. Re- I entiy his old wound broke out afresh, and I le would have sought medical advice in 1 'aria but he was unable to make the jour- f ey. t Gov. Allen was a man of enthusiastic ] jmperament and generous spirit, and pos- i essed a mind well cultivated and stored c fith polite learning. His death so far J away from borne and friends, is a sad one, It but his memory will ever be cherished by w the people of Louisiana, whom he served devotedly His administration of the highest office in her gift was able, earnest, and tt faithful. We presume his remains will be st brought home for burial in the land and di under the guardianship of the people he st loved so well. tc w Remarkable Conversation of Presicent tl Johnson with the London Times Cor- 8t respondent. Under date of April 16th, the Times' W a : * i\Luenuau uuueapuuuem givea iuc luuuwiug Qj accoaot of an interesting interview be bad recently, with President Johnson : The President first adverted to the con- g dition in which he found the country on bis y accession to office, and pointed oat that ever since that time the Radical party, which p now has the control over Congress, had been preparing for the issues forced^ upon him. p Their object was manifest, and it was one which, from their point of view, they could u scarcely be blamed for pursuing it so eagerly. They knew perfectly well that when , the South came baok into Congress their ^ day of power would be over?the Southern ^ representatives would stand as a unit; they would probably fall into alliance again with ^ the Democratic party, the old issues of sla- ^ very and State sovereignty would be dead and buried, and the party which now ruled . would be stripped of its power. Their talk ^ of philanthropy and benevolence to the ne- m gro, meant nothing more than a desire to work upon the feelings of the North, so that they might be enabled to carry everythiog their^own way. It was a renewal of an old conflict. The two seotions of the ^ oountry were ready to go to war before the rebellion broke out?the one to- preserve ^ slavpru. the nf.hftr tn destrnv it. Paah side ~-J J ? J ? ? was willing to sacrifice the Government in order to gain its object. The South strnok first The rebellion was subdued at the a, Southern end of the line, and now it is ^ swinging round to the other end "These ^ men," continued the President,, and he al ol ways used these words to denote the Radi- w cal party?"are almost ready to go into rebellion again rather than have their supremacy destroyed by the re introduction of the 8C South. They know nothing practically of the real state of the South The very man 01 who had drawn up the Civil Rights bill, 0| what are his means of judging? I left him 0j in the Senate during the war, and went out 0, to Tennessee and saw it all, and bore my 0I share of the troubles. He stopped at borne w and now endeavors to make his theories ^ square into the events of the war, and leg- )( islate on ideas which he has never put to y the test." h The President then went on to speak of gi slavery and the negro. He bad been it brought up, ho said, under the very shadow 01 of the institution of slavery. He bad oi bought and owned slaves, but still he had I _ I ? - - 1_ I L _1 J! always oeeu ior aDOiisning Slavery upon any a: basis which could be adopted with safety tt to the country. When it came to the ques m tion whether slavery should be abolished or c< the Government broken up, he never had a it doubt as to the coarse which he ought to in pursue ; he decided to give up slavery, and c: he abided by that deoision. Butthe South tc now woald treat the negro with greater fc kindness than the North, if it were let w alone and not exasperated. "They talk of w justice to the negro," continued the Presi- w dent, "God knows my heart yearns toward ai him wheo I think of the end which these it men are preparing for him. I see that end fa olearly enough?they are going the way for A a conflict of races. When that occurs we ti all know how it will fare with the negro.? to How has such a contest always ended ?? b< When the time comes there will be no strug- w gle. The result will be- decided without hi fhah. Mnw thpr. whnr rJn urn ? HPhp hi very thing which we said these Southern <sj States could never do?which we fought es these four years to prevent them doing? a these men affirm that they have actually done?namely, been out of the Union. The ro Southern States are ready to come back la upon our terms, take loyal oaths, and ao- tr< knowledge their allegiance, but these men th say they shall not. Why, if they had of- wj fered to oome baok, or any of them, during ia the rebellion, should we have turned them hi away on the ground that they bad placed se themselves out of the Union? Mr. Lin- hs coin offered to receive the whole Legislature m of Richmond?a rebel Legislature?and tw would have welcomed them with open arms, sy Would he have refused to receive these wi States now that they had fully submitted ?" th * * * * jjj Mr. Johnson then enlarged with considerable detail upon the operation of the ui Freedmen's Bureau, and said its machinery re; was now being used to get negroes conveyed to from the North back to the South, by the Cc very men who were asserting that the lives ori of the freedmen were not safe in *he South. Gi Thev had hired or bonpht lands, thevwant- fal J _ O * * ed labor, and they got their negroes trans- wl ported at the expense of the Government kn The Freedmen'8 Bureau compelled the negroes to go, or they stopped their subsistence allowance. It was little better than xi< another form of slavery, only that it was at solely conducted by Abolitionists; for the sui Freedmen's Bureau would not assist a Southern man in getting negroes from the 8pi North, where many thousands of them have the takeo refuge during the war A gentleman C0| from Falkland county, Virginia, had been ]os to him, the President said, only a few days del ago, saying that be had sent three hundred tab negroes to the District of Columbia, for se p0] jurlty during the war. Ele now wished to ed bire them, but the Freedmen's Bureau in- wh terposed obstacles, and would give him no for belp in transporting them; whereas the iD Government railroads were plaoed at the pri service of other speculators. Ia all that he tal< mid it was evident that the President ap- wil proved some plan for protecting the negro ges ind giving him succor, but that he considired the administration of the Freedmen's 1 Bureau was not all that could be desired, it i i did oot accomplish the true object for hioh it was founded. Speaking of the Radicals he said: "These men," he also said, "have raised >e cry of <mad-dog' at me, aod the people :em to be getting afraid. They will unsrstand me better by-and-by, and underand these men, too. I could sot ezpeot > get through without a struggle." Yet it as most estraoidinary, he continued, to link of the couree "these men" were purling. By being suited again the country ould stand respected is tbe eyes of the orld. It was now laboriBg under tbe evils F an inflated currency, and while trade is istricted by the South being kept in un srtainty?an element of danger in the tate?each evil* ooald not be oorreoted. et there were eigne that people were beinning to be alive to the troth. "Look at eoria"?and be mentioned several other wns where meetings in support of the resident's polioy have lately been held, noe the passage of the Civil Eights Bill. It is like water trickling along the ground," iid Mr. Johnson. "Yon can see the damp laoes here and there, and yon know it will radoally spread. It will take time j bat, fter all, what good oan be aooomptished ithout trial and difficalty. If I fail, my igret will not be for myself. . I will hope utt some one wiser will rise ap to do the ork." The President attered these words i a somewhat weary and sad bat very earnit tone. He continued with greater anilation: "My convictions are firm and rong, and strong conviotions ace a great luroe1?the best soaroe?of ooarage to a lan. I have fought disunion nearly all >nnd the eirole, and if I am called upon i complete the oirole, I will. Then I ooald ly most heartily that I would that I could epart in peaoe." The Friends of the Negro. The reoent developments of the rapacity id villainy of the Freedman's Bureau .gents io Virginia and North Carolina, ive stimulated a little more truth-telling 3 the part of some of our Northern friends, bieh it is as well to give farther ciroalaon to. A correspondent of the Providence Post mdsit thesabjoined communication : "The account of the cruelties practioed 3 the blacks at Newbern, by the agent f the Freedmen'a Bureau, reminds me I some transactions at Riohmond among ar own soldiers, and of coarse by order of ar own officers, after its capture, and I as thinking when I heard it that the inabitants of that renowed place must have joked on admiringly, after our uproar about Pirz, who by the way deserved a ten-fold aoging, if one-tenth of the evidence aainst him was true. But it struck me that would have been good justice if some of ar shoulder straps had swung aloogside t him. "In conversation with some of the sol[era, some little time after their return, ou le subject of punishments, they informed le that the penalties for the slightest offen 39 were bo mocb worse than whipping that was idle to talk of it. They then told e of the practice of making the offenders irry heavy logs on their shoulders?enough i wear down the strongest men?and this ir boars without resting, until nature ould sink under the iofliotion. Another as tying a man down to the groud by his rista and ankles, after stretohing his legs ad arms to the utmost capacity, and#keepig him so for hours and hours, with his toe and person oxposed to the biasing sun. .ootber, of riding the wooden horse, which tey described as two boards united at the ip with a sharp edge, and spread at the attom, on whioh the oolprit wm seated, ith bis feet tied together nnderneatfa, and is hands tied or fettered together behind m, and then shrieking that they were plittiog them in two !' The poor wretch* would often remain for half a day at time. "Bat nothing straok me with more horr than the sufferings of a poor colored d, who they said was suspended from a Be or beam (I hare forgotten which) in e prison yard, by a rope, one end of which is fastened to his wrists behind him, and this situation kept over half a day, while a cries of agony were heart-rending. It ems impossible bat his shoulders must ive been disiooated, and I presume that is the case, as they said he died a day or o after; and upon some expression of mpathy for his fate, the answer was 'He is only a cussed Digger!? And this from e men who went to free the black man from e tyranoy of Southern task-masters. ' If there ever comes a day when that ihappy race should discover who their al friends are, it wonld be a great blessing them. Bat is this the land where the institution declares there shall 'be no nel and unusual punishments inflicted?' eat God ! is this the land ? or have we len asleep, and work in some other, tere mercy, trath, and justice are on* own ? Damage for Delated Transport a)n.?In the United States Circuit Court Indianapolis, on the 15th, an important t was decided. ?. & S. Coffin, packers, sued the Indian* alia and Cincinnati Railroad for delay in j transportation of pork to New York, by isequence of whioh they were heavy era. The road set op in defence that the lay was occasioned' by the Government ;iog possession of the road for the transrtation of troops. A verdiot was render* by the jury in favor of the plaintiffs, ich settles the responsibility of railroads dilatory transportation. The damages this case were small, but an important cciple was involved. Eminent legal snt was employed on both sidee, and it 1 be followed by similar suits for damato large amounts. 16?" Why is a colt like an eeg ? Because s not fit for use until it ia broke.