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'r rararai ' m m -7 / > r r-r-y ' '' ^ ^ " ' '- ' f. . .-/SAL^:.^d?iO < < ??1 ^ if ill S^I ^fif'llHlf 10I nlMlMil li^ll irt^iiHl^il37 (LI 1II p fill I I F llf r III 11 r ?1 I rITr #1|kJ%JBJ^/^!#^' 1?>wV^M^9>W<W BBVOTSD TO MT3RATURB, THB ARTS, SCIRHC1, AGRICULTURS, NBWS, POMTICS, &C., <cC. TERMS?ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUS,] "Let it bo Instilled into the Hearts of your Children that the Iiiberty of the Press is the Palladium of all your Rights."?Junius. [PAYABLE IN ADVANGE VOLUME 3?NO. 19. ABBEVILLE C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1855. WHOLE NUMBER 123. .JXLIBUEIiXjAXrsr. WRITTEN FOR THE INDEPENDENT TRESS. Qov. Troup and Romanism. Messrs. Editors:?Wo had intended to give, in our present communication, a few -extracts from the "Sons of the Sires," hut Bome very remarkable statements in the remarkable letter of Gov. Troup to Dr. Slap*>y has precedent claims upon our attention. The letter to which we allude was first published in the Albany (Ga.) Patriot, and copied by the Press in its issue of the 17th July. Dr. Slappv says of the "venerable" Governor that "his letters show that his mind is as clear as crystal water," &c., and Georgia's "most intellectual statesman and purest politician" says that the "Catholic Church has existed at all times without complaint " ! The greatest difficulty with us, on reading his letter, was to arrive at any satisfactory opinion respecting the mental condition or historical attainments of this Anti-Know Nothing "Dan" of Georgia. Wo tell you, candidly, gentlemen, you had better rccommeud to the notice of your readers the importance of reading "Romani*m at Home" by "Kikwan," and also a series of letters to Bishop Hughes by the same author, before you rely too much upon the assertions of an old Georgia politician, even though he be a Troup in himself. The following historical account of "l'apal Slaughters," taken from the Crusader, will show that the Catholic Church has ,-5X not always cxistcd"witliout complaint:" Waldenses persecuted, tormented, burned, cut to pieces, during more than two hundred years, 500,000. Albigenses.?Three conspicuous cities, viz: Beziers, Lavour, and Carcassonne, reduced to ashes. Ilcrctics and orthodox Christians slain promiscuously during the ringing of bells, which utter tlie agonies of two hundred thmisnrwl mon C\var ruiiH> and amid that blood the priests sing the hymn of Veni Creator Spiritus.? Number of slain, burnt and destroyed, 200,000. Eve of St. Bartholomew.?In the name of the Pope's infallibility Paris is set on fire and pillaged. Priests and friars walk the streets repeating rosary, and cry out at every Gloria Patri,?Murder / Murder ! King Charles IX, amused himself from the balcony of his palace, by firing on the persecuted. Number of killed, murdered, and butchered, 80,000. Destruction during thirty years in Germany.?Number of individuals exterminated and tortured, 543,000. Protestants in Cevennes, France, under Louis XIV.?Number of individuals destroyed, 42,000. War of the Ussites for the Catholic doctrine in Sweden and Poland.?Number killed 80,000. Drowning of women in the river Seine on Good Friday, by order of Charles IX.'s favorite, 500. INQUISITION. It lasted upwards of four centuries in all Catholic countries, especially in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. St Dominick, Peter of Castlenau, and Torquemada, raised thousands of funeral piles and caused thou sands of tortures; they invented the torments of water, of the rope, the wooden horse, melted led, burning pitch, and boiling hot oil; red-hot irons, ropes covered with soap, wheels, poisoned cups, sharp nails, heavy hammers, cutting blades, burning pincers, liquified metals, hidden knives, subterraneous dungeons, water and fire, fire and lead, hunger and thirst, frost and burning heat: they are weary of torturing: the earth is peopled by crime, terrors, revenge, cursings and fright: Europe is scattered over with human limbs: America is covered with human corpses. No one was ever able to number the victims of the Inquisition ; it was impossible to represent tbem either by numbers or cyphers ; however, historians, who have trans initted to us in a more especial way the memory of tliese hellish saturnalia, all agree in averting that, for upwards of four centuries, more than ninety millions of men disappeared from the earth through clerical persecution. Hence we are satisfied with placing in our list, Italians, French, Westphalians, Swedes, Bohemians, Hungarians, Spaniai ds, Peruvians, English, Poles, Dutch, Luistaniana, of all classes, sects, ages, and sexes, burnt, tortured, hung, quartered, drowned, ?od4>urnt alive, 90,000. Now, editor of the Freeman's Journal, compare the whole amount of your list with ours (those who perished by the hands of the revolutionists,) and sav,yourself which of the two parties, that of the terror of *08 in France, or the Inquisition of four centuries throughout the earth, hat best performed He duties. :>* ^ ' But' this H not all, sir;-tt^re yet remain# a slight difference to be-dwiwrted, and we beg of you to give<w^|yflhtot$on to the last..' . These bundled who were assassinated by the clerical dagger, what were they guilty of? Of nothing at all. All their guilt consisted in praying to God in one language rather than in another; in believing in communion in one form instead of another; in having faith in eternal morI cy with one more or less symbol; and they I were not only moderate, just, inoffensive, resigned, peaceful, but they were the most liberal, learned, eloquent, pious, generous, and the greatest men of their age. The following bear witness of it:?Galilleo, in the priBonsof the Vatican ; Savonarola, on the funeral pile of Florence, Paolo Sarpi, stabbed at Venice; friar Fulgezio, hung at Rome; Benedetto da'Foiano starved to death in Castel Sant' Angelo; Giordano Biuno, Ceeco di Ascoli, John of Praga, Arnaldo da Brescia, John IIuss, Urbano Grandier, tortured, hung, scorched, reduced to ashes and to dust, and their ashes thrown to the waves, and the dust blown before the wind. Now let us see, Mr. McMaster, if those victims of revolutionary terror were as mild, pious, just, peaceable men as those of the Inquisition. The priests and noblemen on whom the French Convention enacted such rigorous jholiv.v-, nuiv iuiiuus reactionists, who rose at intervals against liberty, with torches ami swords, with poignards and crucifixes, and conspired not only in the castles and cloisters, but called from their frontiers the Prussians, Russians, Spaniards, and Austrians. to ensanguine France. You may quote Carrier do Nantes, Mr. Abbet McMaster ; but why not mention, also, the sexton Calhelineau, and the. curate Brenier, and the commander Stofiiet, and the alms-giver, Batbotin ! Who has forgotten the valorous actions of those pious and ferocious men in La Vendee? Well, we wish that Mich elet should remind you of them for us. Listoil : "There existed an osscntiall difference between the revolutionary violence, and that of fanatics, animated by clerical fury; the revolutionary men, by killing people, only wished to disperse the enetpy^ .jfre clericals, faithful to the ferocious sflifir'oX ^ie Inquisition, not only wished to murder, but they wished to torture, they wished to obtain infinite sufferings from poor wornout man, in order to give glory to God." A receiver of custom-house duties, called Sucho, filled and emptied the prisons of Machecoul four consecutive times. The crowd at first murdered joyfully. Sucho disciplined the slaughter; he wished that executions should bo long and painful. As being a murderer, he was particularly fond of children; because their inexperienced i.onric L 1 uuuuo uiuow tuc suiieriug LU UU longer. Some sailors and soldiers could not view such tilings without being horrified, and protested against it ; then the royalist committee transacted their business during the night; shooting was no longer practised; they used to crush the dead and hastily cover them with earth. Acccording to the authentic statements transmitted to the republican Convention, five hundred and forty-two persons were, in the like manner, murdered in less than a month. There being no longer any men to kill, the attention was turrn 'owards the women. A horrible m"r was accomplished. There was in j church the tomb of a fashionable female Baint: the tomb was questioned : a priest celebrated mass on the tomb, and placed his hands on it. "Behold the slab moving?I feel it," cried out the priest; "I feel it moving! And why does it rise ? In order to implore a sacrifice pleasing to God, in order to ask for the slaughter of women!" Fortunately the National Guard of Nantes happened to reach there. uAh /" exclaimed the few survivors, "you are come too late : you are come to save the walls : the city is exterminated! " They showed the placcs where some had been buried alive, and a stiffened hand was perceived, which had, during the frightful agony of suffocation, grasped soma withered ^riiss, and was still twisting itl From this we perceive that Carrier and Robespierre did not condemn peaceable and monensive men to death V that the victims of revolution were neither a Galilleo nor a Gierdani, neither a Fulgenzio nor a Savonarola, and that, for both revolution and reaction, there was at least the terrible right of reprisals. But eveu though wo were to allow that the victims of t.ha ronnhlinnn were severe conspirators, unmerciful excutionere, ferocious reactionaries with their hands spotted with citizen's blood, is it not at least true that the French revolution deserved to be much pitied in its excesses, as it bad before its eyes ten centuries of injuries, insults, ill-treatment, humiliation, spoliations, floggings, oppressions, slaughterings iniquities, and all manner of wickedness, which could not easily be forgotton in twentyfour hours! Did not the people^ who all on a sudden raised their head in Europe, after ten centuries of cruel scourges, deserve at least some indulgence, if they remembered a Richelieu and a Mazzarim, an Alheroni and a Torqumada, a Louis XI. and a Charles IX., a Philip II. and a Duke of AHmL the park of stages and the Bastile, the tower o(Kesla |ad the pivfalla of the Louvrep a wpwoil, ?npt prmOM, SWaDSMi counts and executioners, who, joinedthe , other tribe of priests, courtiers, and soldiers, kept more than nine hundred years their foot on the neck of nations, and devoured the sweat of their brows, and sucked the blood from their arteries, insulting them, burning them, spitting in their faces, and torturing them to deatn ? All theso debts were to be paid for by the , revolution of the past age; and they were so generously paid for, that prisons, tortures, spoliations, exiles, gibbets, and gallows were brought more than once into full use, tbauks to noblemen, priests, and soldiers. A last prayer, Mr. McMaster! Since you are so fond of calculations and cyphers, we invit.P. vnn tr% nrinf- fnr no Via llof I J ? ? f ?* ?WI UJ VUC I lOb Ul tiLllIU^ which the liberal, victorious, and powerful party has sacrificed in Europe from the year 1848 down to the present day ; and, as corresponding, we will give the list of the forgiveness of Naples, the favors of Palermo, the indulgences of Rome, the amnesties of Florence, the paternal acts of Venice, Verona Mantua, Milan Vienna, and Paris, which have been accomplished in a very holy manner by the merciful party of the altar and the throne, from Ferdinand of Naples and Pius IX. down tolladetzky and Bonaparte. Leaving your readers to determine between the correctness of Gov. T. and historical facts, with regard to the very innocent yet wantonly persecuted harlot of the "Seven Hills," we are, with but little confidence in the politicians of the present day, your most obedient Alvan. Irish Antecedents. Never, in the least enlightened ages of Pagan Ireland,'were her people euiltv of such barbarity toward foreigners, as marked the conduct of native Amcricari9, in this Christian land, on the occasion of a late state election. On the contrary, a liberal toleration and generous hospitality were the distinguished characteristics of the Irish race many centuries before the dawn of Chrsitian civilization ; and their example, in this respect, should put to shame the boasted model republicans of the nineteenth century, who, like the dog in a manger, refuse to share the blessings of a free government with a race which Washington himself declares took a patriotic and important part in establishing. Camden and Stanihurst observe that "The Irish were remarkable for their hospitality. The unfortunate always found refuge among them. The Spaniards, Gauls and Britons often sought an asylum in that country, to secui^ themselves from the tyranny of the Romans. Princes and people, who were persecuted in their own countries, found there a safe retreat." "Apud Scotos exulabant." Bede mentions a -body of English emigrants who settled in Ireland for the purpose of acquiring the arts and learning of which the schools of that country were then the only accessible sources; and he adds: "All of whom the Scots of Ireland most freely received, and afforded them daily food without payment: thev likewise supplied them with masters and books without remuneration." At a late period the Emperor Charlemagne sent his officers of slate to be educated gratuitously in the seminaries of Ireland. Gratianus Lucius declares that the love of hospitality among the Irish was not confined to individuals, it was the general taste of the nation ; and .there were lands assigned by the government to a certain number of persons, who were appointed to exercise it in the different provinces. They were called biatAchs or hospitalers, and furnished food, raiment and all the comforts of a home to such strangers and foreigners as might sojourn in their locality._ In such high esti manon whb held tho office of public hospitality, that none but nobles were honored with this dignity, though their example was emulated by the people, from the highest to the lowest rank. "Besides the hospitable institutions established by public authority, the bouses of private lords were like inns, where every one was welcome." This was ainesiaii nospiianty to foreigners more than two thousand years ago; and how agreeably and strangely tt contrasts with that of the Know Nothings of oimland and generation, *who seem to think it almost too great a privilege for foreigners?for this very people, whose generous deeds should secure for them a reciprocal kindness?to perform for them the most menial offices, and if they presume to the rights of citizenship, they, with their wives and children, property and homes, are consigned to the vengeance of a brutal and infuriated mob. What renders this unnatural treatment of Irish settlers in America still more extra1 ordinary, is the fact that, since the revolution, they have been bitterly stigmatised and persecuted at home by. British tory functionaries, for their intense Americanism, and well known republican sympathies. In the debates of Parliament, subsequent to that period, the agency of their countrymen in Knnrrlnf# rwnr otMi^rrla Pa? noflnnol " ,M?,,45 v? II.UV|^UU enoe to a successful issue, has been frequently thrown in the teeth of Irish members. .Upon one occasion Lord ifontjoy explicitly declared that "Through the means of Irith emigrant*, England, ha* loft America? A nd Lord Spire, .who had. opportunity and reason to.kno* Jbe efficiency of their interests of a large majority of tbebr coan' ' ,? " * * j"^ ; v ' ? . . . .. ^ -' * ' ?. .... . .. *.*?*> try men, did not scruple to express his sentiroerts in the following qjgniGcent language : "Why should England grant the Irish Catholics emancipation, since so many thousand of them fought aguinst her in the American war*" B:'t we .'9ed not rely upon British testiraoriy alone to show the base ingratitude of Know Nothing intolerance, as exhibited in th'i ho: rid outrage in Kentucky, and the obti^ilion? o. hospitality'to foreigners which rest upor American citizens. Wo have already shown what were Washington's opinions upon this subject, and shall further quote from his recorded sentiments as occaainrt vnnmro Inctfinno I Irish^olunteers merit the warmest thanks of America for their patriotism ; and I hope their countrymen who have so long struggled for freedom will be cordially and hospitably received'here. * * * * * The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the persecuted of all nations and relig&ms, whom we shall welcome to a participation in our rights and privileges." And r.gain, in liis sixth annual address:? "To every description of citizens, indeed, let praise be given. But let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the constitution of the United States. Le.t them cherish it, too, for the sake of those who, from every clime, are daily seeking a dwelling in our land" These generous sentiments, so strikingly in contrast with the bigoted and insulting _e ii.- t _i_ > i * . * & uiiwi ui nit; ijuuiavinu journal ana us Kindred organs of tlio p>esent day, were expressed by the purest nnd most illustrious of American patriots, and were received with cordial acquiescence by his countrymen, while the important services rendered by foreigners to the land of their adoption were still fresh in their memories. A proposition then to establish invidious distinctions and exclusive privileges, based upon origin and religion, would have been scouted from one end of the Union to the other. And when the tory administration of John Adams afterwards partially developed such a system, the people rallied around Thomas Jefferlon, aud repudiated that administration and its wot ko. f Eut o-r new-fangled Americans seem to have forgotten what Washington and his contemporaries gratefully remembered ; and seem not to realize that the hospitality lavished upon foreigners by our ancestors wa3 not altogether a labor of love and unrequited benevolence, but, in an economical point of view, a grand investment for the political as well as productive interests of this country. They seem to have forgotten that Charles Carroll, an Irish Catholic, pledged $2,000,000 of his private property to prosecute the war of the revolution, nnd that but for the voluntary contributions of his countrymen, at a crisis of dire necessity, the consummation of our independence would have been long delayed if not defeated. They have, perhaps, forgotten that George Berkely* endowed one of our first colleges (Yale); that Robert Fulton* invented and built our first steamboat; that Christopher Colles* and DeWitt Clintonf were the fathers of the great New York canals, which first opened communication between Canada, the great West and the Atlantic; that James Sullivanf projected and constructed the first canal (Middlesex,) and Patrick Traeey Jacksonf the first railroad (Boston and Lowell,) and the first cotton manufactory (at Waltham, now in operation,) in this Know Nothing State of Massachusetts. Indeed, most of the great public works as well as private enterprises which have marked the rise of this republic, may be traced, both in their execution and design, to the same alien sources; and, in their bearing upon our national prosperity, have left the natives of this generation to deplore the awful effects of "foreign influence 1M What signify the genius aad public services of those distinguished engineers whose nnqM* and deeds we have just mentioned ? W?jiB they not born in Ireland ? and what public achievments or private virtues can atone for this unpardonable sin, or reconcile the jealousy of envious demagogues, while they "see Mordeeai, the Jew, sitting at the King's gate ?" Hda the divine mission of .Id&na P.nriuf Koan p/ionrua/1 ah? on/1 w< .ww ?vwu ivovi JVM IVI VUI V1LUW tmu country, the fact of his being born in a stable would undoubtedly have consigned him to the same ignominious fate, at the hands of the Know Nothings, that he experienced 1800 years ago among the equally bigoted Pharisees. Ahoub. Born in Ireland. * f Born in tnis country, of Irish parents. Kenneth Rayner, in a late speech, is reported to have said : "Give us American politics and American religion." To which TV?~ /'_J\ T ? - .?nt m?v >?i<i uiiuui uuuruHi rejoins ;" v> e don't know of any American religion, except Morraoniam, SbalperiBm, and Millerism. These are native American religions. The Christian religion, tro believe, is of foreign origin, and its founder not a native of A flwrica. A quiet exposition of trrith often has a than a.violent attaokon error* ?. ? v V; !" - .: hiiS 4... :t}". . * Pre* School*. We take the liberty of publishing the < following letter from Col. Memrainger for the purpose of attracting public attention i to his scheme of improving our present free I school system in South Carolina. It is a subject which the members of the Legisla- i ture should well consider before going to i Columbia. We know that his Excellency < Governor Adauja .is colle?-??ng information I in regard to our Tree ach'ooiu, and will make ] some recommendation in his annual message I with a view of improving the existing ays- s tem. We will say more on this subject i hereafter.?Southern Patriot. 1 Flat Rock, Aug. 14, 1856. t My Dear Sir : I have given much con- t sideration to the subject of improving pub- t lie education in our State in connection with 1 ine tree schools, and it seems to me that if (some of us in the Legislature, representing t different sections, could digest some plan, 1 public opinion is ready to carry it out. It t I seems to ine that the fundamental error of < most of the schemes heretofore proposed has i been in attempting too much aj. once ; and < wc should avoid this by laying foundations < and then raising the superstructure. If, in- 1 stead of attempting to educate at once eve- s ry part of every district, we were to com- 1 mence with the most populous part of each, ] and there establish good schools, we would I gradually extend the field of improvement < from these centres. We would thus raise J up teachers for each neigborhood, who could < be employed in the mote sparse and desti- t tuie neighborhoods. Suppose, for instance, t thete were good schools at Greenville and ? Spartanburg, at which every child within ^ the area of three miles could be taught. ] Such schools would not only prove centres 8 of lieht in each of those Districts hut. wnnU r enable each of those villages to furnish < tenchers for the whole, or part, of the year, < to every part of the District, at cheaper * rates and with more cerlAinty than when i teachers were drawu from a distance. The benefits of such schoola would become so apparent that every portion of the District which could combine for the same purpose c would aoon follow the example. 1 In order to enable the schools to succeed, 8 I think they should be common schools, * taking in rich and poor upon one common basis. I would make them so good that ' the rich would prefer them to any other school. That this can be done, has been a fully demonstrated at the North, particularly 3 in the city of Tsew York. The plan I would r suggest would be, that each village, inclu- kding the country within a sufficient range r to attend shcool, be permitted to tax the in- * habitant, to a certain extent, nnnnnllr to 11 build school houses and to pay for the sup- 8 port of teachers; that the State furnish, say 3 one-third of any sum so taxed for school houses, and so much per scholar in proportion to the amount taxed on the village; that there be elected, in every such precinct, a Board, to have charge of the schools and carry out the scheme, and that every child in the precinct be free to entor the school under regulations to be adopted; that, ns the State is to take part in the matter, the Legislature elect a Board of Education, who shall prescribe the forms of the buildings to be erected, and make general regulations I for the schools, and appoint a Secretary to * go round and see that these regulations are i complied with, and furnish proper infqrma- < tion for each local Board. ? In connection with all this, I would re- 1 quire the Board of Education to establish, * at Charleston or Columbia, a Normal School, 3 for the education of teachers, so as to en- < sure a supply for the schools, and put this i school under the charge of the State, as un- t der the Prussian Bystem, each teacher edu- < cated to be subject to strict examination, t and to be bound to serve for so many years f in the district Echools after their education c has been completed. t Please consider this outline and write me i your views, and whether you think any such t schema would bo desirable or practicable, t Very truly, yours, G. G. Mbmminger. e Col. B. F. Perry, Greenville, 8. C. f [From the Due West Telescope.] ^ Let Them Oome. r The following argument from the Inde- f pendent Press against "the impolicy of re- t striding immigration" is commended by the I Charleston Standard on account of its pro- t frmnrl nJiilnBAnKtr r~ "But there is one view of the subject of immigration which we take as conclusive, against all measures tending to total prohi- P bition of it. The laws. of nature which govern the world will not permit of their n own infringement. Human laws directly ^ opposed to them may be enacted, but never ^ executed. The law that governs the roil- v ing stream of water governs also the mo- ^ ving tide of population. Both will flow un- ^ til the common body reaches its level and c finds its abiding place. When the stream c of European immigration shall have so reg- * ulated itself, it will as naturally cease as wa- a ter ceases to flow when it* level is reached. c And io prooew of ages to come, should this i country become what -Europe is, now, thltj * great teservoir, abd/|fah>wt? the bawen dry land, the tide will flow back again. ) pAMilotiAn mn^ Inilrri il? .V' 1 and readily diffuses itself with the native element, there is no cause of alarm. The law of nature is but working its legitimate results. When the surfaoe is all covered, Iho surplus waters will flow off in some way, or subside. The idea, therefore, of throwing up a levee, as it were, around this contit nent, laying to our souls the flattering unotion that we are to live while the balanoe Of the world are overwhelmed with redundant population, is vain. Even if it were possible for us to compass such an end, what a itupendous exhibition of *elfuhnees should we present I" If the Editor of the Pres? osmSiandard jad each a clear, cool, delightful spring at .he door, would they be pleased to see a dir.y, filthy Cerent let into the spring just for he pleasure of seeing the polluted and poluting stream run back again ? If this philosophy is sound and profound, lien it was a good Uiing for the Goths and' Tandals to rush into the Roman Empireind convert it into a wilderness, they could >nly roll back when the crowd became toojjreat. If it is good that thousands should :ome to our shores every week from despotic .vfuuiitea wouiu not tue same thing have i>een good a hundred years ago ? If the )hip load9 of paupers, crimnials and Catholics had landed on our shores a hundred (rears ago that are now landing, this Repubic never would have existed. Is not that certain, Messrs. Editors ? Why then shonld iuch cargoes of the tools of tyrants be encouraged to come now to scatter around ,hem "firebrands, arrows and death," and hen flow back? We are not in favor of i "total prohibition" of emigrants, but we vould rather take thern in "broken doses." ?^rty or fifty thousand "pills" per annum, iuch as we get from Europe, in the-ahape)f rough Germans and Irish, Jesuits and >thers, are about as much as the stomach >f the Nation can well 6tand, unless they , vould "operate" more mildly than, they dorr our r.itipa ** u. ?o ? A String of MUh&pt. A man named Wrajjg was brought intome of the City Courts in New York for.di?urbing the pence. No witness appeared ajainst him, and he was requested to tell lis own story: Jndge?Mr. Wragg will you state the acts connected with your arrest I' Mr. Wragg?Certainly, Sir. Last sight . bout 10 o'clock I was going along the treet quietly and unostentatiously, with my nind occupied in profound meditation. Suddenly my thoughts and vision were sinultaneously arrested, not by a member of he police, but by an old haC which was ying on the sidewalk. Now I have a deepiversion to an old hat. In fact I might ay that the whole world has a rooted an* ipathy to old hata. It may be because oldlata are emblematical of a man going down be hill of adversity. Men under such oiriumstances and old hata receive the same reatment, namely, kicks. Now nine ou? )f ten seeing that old hat lying on the sidewalk as I did, would have given it a kick, ind that, sir, is just what I did. I kicked hat old hat, and not only that, but I kickid a frightful large stone which was inside wfW. T faU if r_n:?e j? * /> ?. a. ica lujacu inning lurwaru, ana unfortunately I fell against a fat woman with >ufficient force to cause her to fall; in filling, she knocked down a ladder; one and of the ladder struck me, the other hit i cart horse; the horse gave a jump an A he carman was thrown off from his cart;'heell on a bull terrier dog; the dog gave a 7e11 and bit the* carman, who rolled over in me; a nigger rushed out of an alley and cicked the carman for falling on his dog, he carman picked up a stone and threw it at he nigger, but unfortunately it went through he window of a Dutchman's grocery and ell into/a butter tub; the Dutchman*came >ut; by this time I had got up and ?raa a>out to castigate a boy whom 1 saw laughng, from which circumstance I was Ted 0 believe that he put the stone in the.old lat; I ran after the boy. When be saw ny bellicose Attitude he yelled out for hi* ather. The Dutchman ran after me, and ust as I caught the boy the Dutchman aught me. Sir, my physical power waa lot sufficient to cope with both. I am cot 1 Sampson. I was vanquished ; not only l o:_ ?i ?i ? < untjoir, out wiien released irom uieir grup was taken by three or four other Dutchnen. ?? ? Brutal Murder.?One of the most bra- ^ : al murders we have ever heard of was lerpetrated Dear Jefferson in Marengo ooany a short time since, on the person of s iegro woman belonging to the estate of Yin. F. Brassfield, by a man by the npiuoof '.> i. Habn. The cireomstanoee as stated to is by a friend are these. Hahn, whobad '-vlired the negro woman, Ruepectingjfwt--*' laving stolen some money whtoJ^^iUMt/ nissed, stripped her nal^ed^ streehed ber mt on the ground with ?a4& Hibh .* eparate stake, and coqH&taoekl.beafoig hfe .boat sunrise wad condoned,' With inttfrfilft >f rest, to do so ufltU sundown, about an tour after whieh JSfcftw Whfy. Q6n. sno^r letter,Ju yaA,