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2 THE. CHICAGD_DAILY “TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1872 ARKANSAS. The Disturbance There- 7 Vigit to Pope County,” Episodes of the Revolt--The Carpet- " Bag and tae Bowie-Knife, Descriptions of the State Rulers. From Our Oten Corvespondent. Lrrrrs RocE, Ark., September, 1872, You are aware that, in Pope County, Ark., sev- eral lives have been taken within the past three ‘months by the carpet-bag crew, and the roving demons of this wild country. THE TRIP THERE. In a visit to Arkanses, from which I have just returned, I noted the disturbances in this coun- ty, and took the list of fatalities arising from the urlaid ghost of the war, during the career of the Military and Provisionsl Governments. ~ I slso sketched the personages who came to the surface in Pope Couaty, on the adoption of the Reconstruction Constitution of 1868, and aecer- tained thet they were in soluble quantitiesin a wild, mountainous community; that, between their cold, coarse, phlegmatic natures, their en- trenched kind of politics, and tho spirit of an arms-bearing people, there must arise irrconcila- ble hatred and probable bloodshed. Even admitting some native vices in the people, Iformed the opinion—which I adhers to still—that both the Northernized State Gov- ernment, and the genius of its plans of recon- struction, were dishonest, unphilosophic, and unrepublican. WHAT IT SIGNIFIES. You have not the space _or patience to follow the career of the county ofiicials amongst the unwilling, but submiseive, eight thousand im- digenous people of Pope, throngh nearly the whole four years of those nnduly long terms of oftice; For three years of that time, no violence was offered and no force employed. The County Clerk, Hickox, by superior will and sbility, had bocome the head of the party and the chief of the county officers. His Sheriff, Dodson, the Deputy Sheriff, Williams, and the Snperinten- dent of Instructions, Stuart,—all mon of some physical and mental force,—drew close together and steadily farther away from the peoplo. Half-slien ab first, this county sdministration sought to concilizie no enemies and make no driends. It was without social influence; and yetit threatened to perpetuste its rule for yat Tour yeors by audacity, and the tricks of the re- gistry and the franchice; and, when 2 rupture occurred in its own ranks, it laid hopes of con- tinuence upon an appeal. - JARTIAL LAW. 5 Martial law in Arkansas, with Clayton's State militia, means that the connties invaded foot the bills of the war; that the householder's fields and the merchant’s store give forage, and stock end coffee for the tender of depreciated county serip; that blood flows; and that the party which raised the militia force the election. He who esks for martial law, therefore, becomes the in- vader of his neighborhood, and the common en- emy. Mesntime, the native vices of the peopla swere little restrained; life was cheap, and mur- der went unpunished; and, finally, the Connty Clerk and the Sherif('s Deputy claimed to have been fired upon. At the last insolence, the fonr rulers of Pope County make an exhibition of their power. They gather & large posse, seize four citizens on suspicion, hurry them toward the boundary of another county, and, when the night overtakes the cavalcade, firing begins from the woods, and but two of the four prisoners live to tell the tale, while none of the official posse is wounded. At this startling tragedy, Pope County rises in arms. The offcials, terrified at the con- sequences, fly to Little Rock, and np%sal to the Governor for military interference. = Loose and ‘unsuthorized bands of motley Union militia opo- rate in one region, and defiant and mandlin reb- els guard the county-geat. RIVAL APPEALS TO THE GOVERNOR. ‘We may follow, in fancy, the flight of Hickox and Dodson to the State Capital, closely followed by Captain Scott, o merchant and good citizen of Dover, and by Parson Nickerson. - Of course, Scott and Hickox wers waylaid by the Brindle editors first, and the Democratjc ed~ itors considerably later; and -Mr. Hickox, look- ing like = sorrel bnffalo, severe and grim, proba- - bly dropped in at Tucker's Bank, at Littls Rock, and drew some of his savings. 5 Then they took their way to the State House. THE STATE HOUSE 2t Little Rock stands mpon 2 bluff juet above the Arkensas River, to which the edi- ifice turms its back. A stone thrown from the rear windows of the State House would fall into the Arkansas. There is & good view from this bluff of what is called Big Rock, in contradistinction to Little Rock,—a hand- some, wooded bluff of stone, on the Opposite sido of the river, two or three miles above ; and 2180 of Rogue Hill, less than a mile from the Btate House, where some of the more success- ca.rpab’bfi_ggem have pub np bandsome houses, with Meneard roofs and towers, and all the naftiness of Shoddy. i The State House is o claseical building, com- osed of a centre, with columns snd curtains on oth sides, connecting with wings. It is room; and sufficient for the State's purposes, althongl built et the origin of the Stete Government. ‘The State officials eay that it is not what is re- guired, and that something new must be pub up; but I thought thet they had befter complete a State before they made avother State House. Their attempts in the former direction have been very unsuccesaful up to this time, and tho com- mencement of anew State House would prob- ably mark the beginning of 2 job. 4 The State House has largs yard before it, which contains some fow trecs,—oaks, cotton- woods, etc. A wooden fence incloses it, and scross the way is the old State Bank, and nearat hand the old edifice of the Real Estate Banl #£wo institutions which monopolized banking in former times for 21l the State. The fund of ‘the Smithsonian Institute was partly lost in Ar- kansas State funds, which someho were depre- ciated throngh these banks; and their history ‘bears ont the judgment of the only early visitor to Arkansas, who published a book. i8 book: ‘ad never been heard of anywhere, and, before 1 started out, I had the good fertune to discover it in the Library of Congress. It was a publica~ tion, in 1619, of Thomas Nutfall, 2 Pennsylvania Qualer, and naturslist, who seys, at that date: “The establichment of & town is now contem- plated also at the Little Rock by Colonel Hogan and some others. They have not, however, suf- ficient capital to endow it, except to derive some 2dvantagous wealth from those speculators who are viewing various purts of the newly- formed Territo) * * * Tho condition of finances and banking in the Western country at present is horrible. - Wildeat benks abound, and 10t & note in Kentucky commands specie. All the wealthy part of whole communities seem conspiring in a common system of public fraud.” Tiis el to get some such a notion of the for- mer period before we enter the State House, where the Ambassadors from Pope County are to talk to the Governor. TAE_GOVERNOR, ‘We can imagine Hickox and Dodson, dirty and nervous on coming into Little Rock latein the afternoon ; and, if they did not think it policy to visit the Governor at_bis pleasant cottage, one mile from the State-House, in the environs of the town, they probably sent for him. or waited until the morning, when he could be seen in his office. The Reverend Hickerson, and Colonel Scott, and Shim, and others, would also in due iime, pass under the trees in the naked Court- House square to the rongh-coated_State-edifice, which Jooks as dirty as anything in Arkanses; and, turning to the left, through the colonnades, they would ascend to the second story of the left wing, where the Sceretary of Slate, the Gov- ernor, and his Lieuteurut occupy a series of light and commodious, old-fashioned rooms. Tt does not require to have been with theso wisitors to sketch the personuel of the Governor and his staff. o ‘Hadley is 2 man of about 45 years of age, With wn-up children, who has led a commerciel e from the time he left his natal County of Chatanqua, in Southwestern New York. Ile lived for a while in Minnesota, and, at the close of the war, planted cotton in Arkansas, and did not take to politics until he became unfortunate. Ho looks like & Governor, fully ip to the aver- 8ge, in sppearance, of other” State Governors, ihough & trifle younger. He has dark brown bair and beard, and a good, deliberate manner, broad shoulder. an adsptable and ploagsny ex- terior, and a fair address. . The esteem in which l:oiaixeld, by tho average sentiment of thé peo- plo, -is. that of a. man_-who ‘. would be ‘capable and just wunder other” influ- ences than those which at present surround Lim; but Powell Clayton, McClure, and Co., control-the Btate organization,-and -Hadley- reposes in their arms, He i now well-to-do,— the fruit as I was informed, of some division in railroad spoils ; but whether the said division was & fair ghméer of not, who can tell, since everybody has ax%!fi'uned away the Credit Mobl- ior_peccadillo? The boundearies between official right and wrong have been broken down by the land-grant_railweys, and * legitimacy ™ occu- pies amuch wider area than it used to. 7 TOE CHIEF JUSTIOE. . While the Governor, looking the Magistrate, is asking and answering questions, we may sup- pose that old John McClure, the Chief Justice, drops in. This celebrated Chief Justice was & Major in an Ohio regiment during the war, and studied lew with the celebrated fid- dling Billy Mungen, Democrat. He never shrieked for Freedom before the cloge of the war, when Clayton unyzorted him into the State, and he was put on the Bench of Associate Judges, ll of whom look like confirmed poker-. .players. Such a set of Judges 2s they have in Arkaneas can be seen nowhers outside of New York City. Several of them are plugs, with eara which stand on guard, and eyes which run into people’s pockets. As McClure played the largest gae of poker on the Benck, and was the most unscrupulous man_there, they worked ont one of the Associate Judges, and made him Chief Justics of Arkansas. He is, at the same time, Public Printerand the editor of the State organ; and, if these letters are so fortunate as to ob- tain his favorable mention, I fancy we shall have, from the other_side of Arkansas, eome choice specimens of Judiciary English in retort. This man has pnblished in his paper precisely what he wanted Governor Hadley to do in Pope County. He says: “We urged him, with all the eloquence we are master of, to put the county under maertial law, and sweep the men who did these foul mur- ders from the face of ihe earth. To our advice, he turned en indifferent ecar, eaying: ¢These assassinations ere horrible, but there has been no resistance to processes, either civil or criminal.’ In this bii of writing from Chief Justice McClure, the diligent reader can see the persons and minds of both Hadley and his highest Judicial oficer. The latter wanted biood ; the former preferred conciliation, and theught that the healing of time was better than vengeance. TIE SECRETARY OF STATE. Next to McClure in the Governor's galaxy was tho tall, rathior owl-eyed Secretary of State, Johnson, who has bean pushed by the carpet- baggers into that flexible position, where he has lost the backbone shich took him into the war and'made him nearly o hero. Uneasy, appre- hensive, not satisfied with the way are oing in a State where he has lived sinea child- 00d, Johnson illustrates what may become of good men when bold and bad oes dispense power, ofiics, and mercy. THE BIGRT-EAND JAN. Then there was the Chevalier Bowen, & perfect men of the world, who rejoices when ke hears that people of great pretensions hove turned out rogues; who is perfcetly liberal, perfectly unscrupulons, rich, © game,” and the right baud man of Clayton. Bowen comes, in fhe second generation, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and is tall, with stend-up ears, and was a good soldier, duriug the war, for Kanses, He belongs to what is called the *“ Kansas Ring,"” whicl is composed of Clayton, MeClure, Sarber, andBowen. Bowen's advics is always to fight at once. He thinks the Reconstruction acts were foolish, end thet tho way to hold the South is with an iron band and brass Imuckles. Bowen was one of the Associate Judges on this Bench, although one would think, tolook at him, that he would be & more capable judge at a prize- fight. Grant made him Goyernor of Idaho, and, 28 he had made a considerabe sum of money by receiving and selling State bonds for & railrond of which he was President, he chafed under the strict duties of both Judgs and Governor, ead came back to Liitle Rock, where he lends money st 8 per cent o montl, keeps a fine house, and i Clayton's choice for the Senate, as successor to Rice. Bowen is as shrewd as any of the shrewd men in the carpet-bag Govern- ment. He is not ungenerous, is brisk and ready to shoot or treat at B;nlli moment, and his general remark, when you t: about troubles in Arkansas and the fall” of car- pet-hngéery, is this : By G—, we don’t run.” THE EING CARPET-BAGGER. Next in the Governor's junta we. may show the Pope County people into the presence of Porell Clayton. : This man has nothinfil of the New England character, and is & Middle-State boy, from just over the Delaware line in Pennsylvania, of & sober-minded Methodist family, and it is ru- ‘mored that he was, in his youthful days, an ex- horter in that Church universal. He immigrated to Eansas some time before the wer, and had no sympathy there with the freedom-shriekers ; but, according to some ac- counts, swore that he wonld take up arms on behalf of the persecuted South, if Lincoln op- posed them. ~However, he went into the war, and came out of it witha fine reputation for pluck and coolness, and with a jovial, boyish pature. At the close of the war, he fook to lanting, got him a wife in Arkansas, and was Feld in Bigh esteem by almost everybody for his clever, hail-fellow-well-met manner, and physical propensities, such as hunting. One day he Bhot off hia left hand while on one of these ex- peditions, and he, therefore, carries an empty slesve; but it is not & memento of the war. Clayton soon showed a love for politics, and this probably grew out of his attachment to the gamo of poker, which is the great political ac- complishment in tho West and Southwest. He thought that old Governor Murphy was weak and vecillating, and songht to have Aadrew Johnson remove Murphy and appoint himself. At that time, very many of the Rebels would have hailed this change ; for they thought high- Iyof Clayton, and supposed that the time of cakes and ale would be in if he were Governor. Failing to get the sppointment, Clayton threw himself into the hands of Bowen eud McClure, and set up the Reconstruction Government. ‘When the Repablican Convention met to make a nomination, Le received it through the manipu- Intion of these friends, and, so far from being & mild and gentle Governor, hie was the thunder- Dolt of power in the State. _At the firat rising of insubordination, 'hiah militia were onb on every side, scourging the common enemy; an Aianeas thon noeled that knd of trespment. He resigned tho Governor's office to go to the Unitod States Senate, aund this inyolved so meny desperate atops (such as purchasing from one of the State officérs his resignation, and switching another off iuto the empty place, 80 as to push Hadley up to the top) that he was impeached, aud had to buy end wheedle enough Democratic votes to get clear. The Federal Court then indicted him for the same offence, and then he ot the President to remove the Marshal and istrict Attorney, who sre, of course, his deadly enemies, He has all the Federal patronage in Arkansas, and is the ruler of the State. To look upon, Le s a light-haired, tall, nonchalant man, under 40 ysars of_sge, With a roving, audacious, fighting look in hie 6ye, an Irishman’s beau ideal, e has pleyed with danger so long, and laughed it awey 5o often, that he can go to any part of the State with impunity, and say what he pleases, Whipplc, the ex-District Attorney, calls him tho ‘‘Border Rufian of politics.” There is, however, mnothing ruffianly in Cleyton's’ sddress; = and hLe nover &eems to be much in eernest, and never dffects to be Lonest. He is not well off, having pursued pow- er rather than weslth; and he works at politics 28 if it were a fascinating gome at cards. - So far from backing up Dodson and Hickox in their cock-and-bull story about the night attack, Clay- ton i8 said to have made light of the whole per- formance in the beginning. : He now shows a little growing regard for pub- lic consideration, and, sccording to McClure's statement, was not in favor of mertial law in Pope County. In the Radical State organ for Bept. 16, McClure writes a8 follows: ‘It has been charged that Senator Clayton favored mar-~ tial law in Pope County, and we desire to say right here that he nover favored martial law, and is opposed to it to-day, to our certais Inowledge.” THE GOVERNOR GOES TO THE WAR. Such are some of the main people around Gov- crnor Hadley; and, although he insists that Dodson's posse was attacked, and ssys that the shooting of the prisonera only, while an awkward thing, was not impossible, he resolved to go in person up to Rus- sellville . and look at the situation. He, therefore, told all parties that he would make up his mind on the spot; and, about ten days after the massacre, he went up to Russell- ville, and stayed over night. He sent to Dover {or ten of the leading citizens to come down and consult with him, and they rode in the early morning, and got to Russellvillo about dsylight, where they talked with the Governor some three houra. They formed a good opinion of his mild- nees and professions of justice, and concluded that ho was going to side with them as against Dodson and Hickos. These people told him all the circamstances, and bronght up witnesses to show what depredations Bart. Clonager wo3com- mitting. Tho people said they could not disband {heir Dover Guards until the militia were abso- lutely scattered, for the character of the militie was known to besuch that, if Dover were loft un- protegied, it would be burned, M. Hadley, while under the influence_of these citizens, 16- sued the following order disbanding the militia: 3 PERRY STATION, Ark., July 13, 1672, Special Order No. 1] Captain John H. Williams, - Comimanding First Com- pany of Pope County Sfate Guards : __You will relieve from duty the forces under your command called out to nesist the Sheriff of your coun- ty in the serving of eivil process, and cause all proper- £y, such as horses, eaddles, bridles, and camp equipage, .and all arms taken by your command for the use of such forces, taken from citizens, to be returned to them without- unnecessary delay, and require them to Teturn to their respective homes as quiet and good citizens, 0. A, Havrey, ‘Commander-isi-Chief. THE POLITICIANS MIX IN. | . ‘When Governor Hadley got home, however, and fell under rhe infinence of McClure and the rough advisers of the Cleyton school, he recon- sidered, in some Gagreo, his good offices and pro- mises toward the Pope County people, and ship- ped a quantity of arms up to the militia. There 18 gome question as to whether these arms were laced in the hands of the same militia who had gured in the sasassination of Tucker and Huilo. As late as July 26, the Governor wrote -o letter to Gibson, who commanded the State Guards in Yell and Bope Counties, to take said arms from the custody of the men directly charged with this asenssination. He also demanded that Clonager be dismissed from the militia, and said, in terms: “I am satisfied that Clonager has act- ed badly, and is a gross violator of law; and I Tope there will be no means spared to bring him to justice, or any others thus offending.” Thus it'is very clear that Governor Hedley thought very wall of the Pope County peoplo while be was amongst them, but grew a little severe after. he got home to Little Rock; and, when I was at the State Capitel, he was hardly willing to admit anything agains his militie, and nothing whatever ageinst Dod- son or Hickorx, although it will be seen, by the shove orders, that he was “satisfied” fhat the militia were about as bad as the boys of Dover. A mild comment on Governor Hadley would be, that he i ono of those men whose judgment isnot his own, and that, surrounded by per- fectly good influences, he would bo one of the best and most exemplary rulers. Enough has been said to show that, in the Minstrel faction at Little Rock, he and Clayton were c})robably chief counsellors to moderation and clemency, while the rest of the Minstrel faction supported Hickos, Dodson, and martial Iaw. The Brindle-Tails and the Democrats, however, set up such & horrible howl over what hed taken place in Pope County that one might have thought 2 lot of Indian squaws were howl- ing the sonls of their departed braves toward the spirit-land. Rice, Brooks, Weeks, W'hig}flc, and all that set shouted that Hadley and Clay- ton had met together, resolved th:\hPr;Ee County must go to war, and that Hickox was the man to begin it by kiling poople. p Where hoth sides are 80 bad, it is hard to dis- criminate; but I got the idea that the Minstrel Eurty had moroe natural conservatism than the rindles, although tho latter happen just now to be acting with the Democrate. ~ It is to the interest, however, of Pope County and-the rest of Arkaneas that the Government be made more representative there, and I beliove tho success of the Brindles and Domocrats this year would achieve that result, while-the Minstrel party is only moving forward with wasted rein- forcements to inevitable discomfitura at last. INTERVIEW WITH J. I BATTENFELD. Amongst the porsons whom I interviewed was Battenfeld, editor of the Natfional Republican, of Russellville,—the only newspaper of PuEs County, and whose_ofiice was_burned down by some of Dodson's ** Minstrel” band, on Sunday night, the 8th of Sepiember. & 5 k. Battoafold was bora in Virginie, and moved to Youngstown, O., befora the _war. He joined the Federal army with the Sixth Ohio Cavalry, end remained in the_service until the end. Hehadlived, at one time, in Arlkanses, and his sistor was married to. Shinn, the chief merchent of the county, and the chief man of Ruseellvillo. Battenfeld, who appears to be about the averaga type of the country political editor,—that is, grinding o1l tho axcs for the party, and palling the strings of the county or- ganization,—was chosen by Clayton to do tho organizing in Pope County; and _Battenfeld ad- mitted to me that ho had presided over one of the Union Leagues there, and had recommended Hickox to Clayton as being gerfectly capable of doing his work. Isuspect that Shinn got tired paying onerous taxes, and that ho furnished the Binews of warto Battenfeld's paper; at any rate, the Rusgellville Repudlican went over fo the Brindles and got the general support of the Democratic party, and Buttenfeld becamo aterri- ble scourge to the Popo County Ring, publishing every week lists 0f iigures to show that they were plundorers, \fhen the military were ordered out, Battenfcld's ofiico was doom- ed; and this act.is one for which the Republi- cans are wholly responeible, nnd it is relatively as base an act as the killing of Brown by Hailo. AREANSAS AND LIBERTY OF TEE PRESS. . Tho Constitution of Arkansas, gotten up by those carpet-baggers, i very explicit 8s to the liberty of tne press, and almost at the beginning contains the following section : SEC. 2. The liberty of the presa shall forever remaln inviolate. The free communication of thoughts and opinions 1 ono of the inalienable rights of man; and all persous may freely speak, write, and publish 'their centiments on ll subjects, being responsible for the sbuse of such rights, In all criminal prosecutions for 1ibel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to tho jury thut the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall e acquitted, Battenfeld is & thick-set, hnzel-eyed man, with black hair, and the look of one who in- dulges periodically. in n spree.” Indeed, he cele- brated the destruction of his office by getting on o spree-and cursing Genersl Upham, and nar- rowly escaped getting into the guard-house. * Captain Battenfeld,” said I, “ you have prob- ebly a very thorough notion of tho inside of Ar- kansas politics; will you tell me whom you con- sidor the ring-leader of the Minstrels 2™ 013 John McClure. He is a big, heavy- whiskered, braying old fellow, whom Clarton brought here to furnish him with wits. . He has a splendid mind, and is corrupt frox his naval to his ecalp; ond you can imegino_what sort of Bench we have in Arkansas when McClure is at the same time Chief Justice, Public Printer, ed- itor of the State orgap, and with his hand in evory sort of job. He'ismow off et the Pitte- burgh Soldiers’ Convention, representing Ar- kansas.” < - % Who is at the head of the Union Lezgue in this State?” 3 “Powell Clayton. The last time I attended the League Convention wes in the Governor's room in the State House, and Clayton administered the oath. He inter- polated into the regular oath of the Leagne the words ‘And we swear to sustain the present State Administration of Arkansas’ When the rest held up their hands, I keptmine down, and made up my mind thet I would give the thing o) T Who constitute the Central Clayton Ringin the Stato ?” ““Well, McClure, Clayton, Hadley, Bowen, Wilkshire, Scott, Tankersley, and Belden. As I said before, the mflffnmb“ one man amon%:;t them is McClure. he had any honesty, he would mako s first-class Supremo Judge ; but he soreens anybody in the party, and makes all the moneyhe can,” “You do not think Hadley a bad man ?” * No, I think him a green man. These fellows never meant to make him Governor, but only to ive him tho State Senatorthip. They dared not trust Johneon to be Gov- ernor, end they uehed him off into a side ofiice, and were obliged to put up with Hadley. He won't do all the dirty worl they require.” “’Did you have any Ku-Klux in your county " ¢ Nons whatever. There were no disturban- ces there in 1868, when they happened all over the State; and this ought to grove to you that the present quarrels are forced upon the people, and do not grow out of the proper condition of 1 things. There are four Union Leagues in Pope County. There never was a Ku-Klux in the Dis- trict. “The Democrats there are the best citizens, and, if let alone, quiet men. But you Lnow neatly overybody there has been in the army, and those who stayed home have been under fire from pertisan bands, so that, when you murder citizens by a Sheriff’s process, you walen the very devil, even in tbe«gfieteat community.” ““Do_you suppose thet Clayton gave advice sbout Pope County to Hadloy 2 “Yell, wo generally understand hero that Hadley niever makes & step without telegraphing. to Clayton, at Washington, or elsewhere; but he ]fifi Eothing of the desperado in him, as Clayton _ “Did your attacks upon Hickox, Dodson, Wil- liams, Stuart & Co. ever get you into trouble?” “God bless you, yes! ~You see, when I took my paper off with ‘the Brindle-tails, I becamo the eneral organ of all citizens who can read, and hie county ofiicers used to invade my office with revolvers and clubs, and with Hickox I had four or five personal quarrels. Dodson never seemed to have much notion of newspaperinfluence. Ho was & comparatively ignorant man, and had a su- perstition about the press. Besides, ho wasa perfect type of the bandit, and wonld sometimes come up fo me, and say, ‘Butterfield, thoy say youare running me hard; butIsuppose itis your business, and I shan't get mad.” Yet, in & few minutes, when Dodson could pick up five or six men, s50asto overaweme, he would come back again, and curse me for half an hour, With his pistol out. That is the type of the Arkansns desperado,—tractable until he has & crowd arourd him. Hickos was no such charceter. He was a Togular conquoror,—surly, ugly, arrogant,—and ho believed in forca as the proper means of gov- ernment, and was_afraid of nothing. Af one time, I'saw murder in Hickox's eye; but e was too discrect to fire at that time, for I had ‘the draw’ on him. He and Williams both drew on me just before the murder of the prisoners, and Williams swore that he would kill me certainly before he was done with'me:—He and Dodson, however, came back next day and apologized ; but no man in the world ever knew Hickox to make an epology. He was a Northern boar. Ididdo mighty.hard work against these fellows, and they have tried evory menns in their power to bresk me up. One time, the store where I Lept hardware burab mp, and, when I camo down to Littla Rock to get my insurance, I found that somebody had slipped in before me, and made affidavit that I did not have enythin, there worth more than two or three hundre dollars. The President of the Insurance Com- pany was the Captain of the Stato Guard, and e lnew the contrary, because he had been in the storo but & little while before, and he read me some of this affidavit. I recognized the language of School-Superintendent Sturrt in it. That enealing old hypocrite had been active enough fo try to haye my insurance stopped, hoping that it might stop my paper to lose the money; but I got every cent of it, and that Ieft them no alternative but. to burn me out. The Minstrels had no paper, except one at Dardanelle, which saspended two months ago. When we Brindles went off from the regulars, we took two-thirds of the: vote in our county. They got my foreman, Myers, to steal my subscription-list, and started a Minstrel peverat Dardanelle, called the Eye of the West; ut I beliove even that is Brindle-Tail. In Pops County, but for these disturbances, we should have beaten the Minstrels two to one, for we were growing ell tho time. There are 1,300 votes in the county legitimately, but only 800, aro registered ; and there are 500 or 600 of dis- franchised, intimidated, or indifferent people, who do not vote. The county taxes are aboul $2.15 on the hundred. The county is virtually bankrupt.” “Who reprerents Pope County in Congrass 2" ““Tom Bowles. The district comprehends twenty-three countics, and stands third numeri- celly.” Bowles is & Brindle-Tail, and I was Post- mester at Russellville for eome _time. ‘We shall elect in the Popo District the Repre- sentative in the Legislature, no matter Wheghbr Pope vote or not. If they putus under martial law, or stand their militia around our polls, still, in the noxt £wo countics of the Legislative Dis: trict, we sre perfectly sure. There will bea Congervativo Legislature to follow the present.” “0r. Battenfeld, haye you any reasonable doubt that the Minstrel militis burned your oftice ?” “No citizen of Russellville entertains the least doubt of it. Their proposition was to have mo hasten to my office when the flames burst out, and then shoot me down, 80 as to }Zrevent offectually any revival of the paper. I ept in the houso, and did not venture out. Noxt day, a.0gr0 dosperado, named Jeff. Em- bry, was sent from the militis, charged with rum, to findme snd kill me. I was pleying bill- iards. The first thing T noticed, this negro had struck an old veteran loafer around our village over the head with a pistol, so that the blood bad spurted all .over him, end the old man was lying on the floor. The supposition was, that I would interfere, and then the negro would shoot me. I had a heevy billiard-cue in my hand, and we Liad the negro covered at the sama time, and we drove him away. Before he conld make another attempt, I got out through the back door, and took no farther chences. How- ever, I had sixteen shots onme, and I should Lave given them all away on Bome of the crew. Iwent over to Dardanelle for refuge, and am now af Little Rock.” i “Did General Upkem condole with you about the loss of your paper? ¢ “No; that cold-blooded buccaneer simply mede the remark that I could not get any insur- ance this time, bocanse I had teken my pross and appurtenanices across the river. But he knew better when he walked down to the office and saw, with his own cyes, the press scorched in the fire and the apparatus melted.” 4 Mr. Bstlanfuh{ you have published 2 state- ment that you have ‘& witness who overheard & conversation between Dodson and Upham, and that Dodson plead to let your paper s ‘burned, and Upham finally gaye his consent. What wit- ness was that 2" ““Well,the fact is, it was & servant at the houss whe,x_-c they stopped, who slipped over and told me.” “¥ou did not believe thet a man of Upham's education end New England_extraction would put himeelf in thet position ?” “Well, sir, when he went up in_Northesstern Arkaneas, in 1868, ho performed just the same sort of assassinations which Dodson and Williews imitated,—taking oub persons withont_regard to ony charges of guilt azainst them, and murder- ing them at the roadside; -and, in some cases, these men had their stomachs ripped open and filled ith eand, 80 88 to sink them in_the river If you will turn to the report of the Logislative procecdings for 1670, you will find that the Adjutant General had t6 be despatched to Wood- ruff County in order to defend Upham against the horrible accusations which sprang up againat him from the most respectable querters. Dan- forth, in the report, admits that, on one occasion, Upham arrested fifteen of the 0ld men in town, confined them in a brick building, and notificd the citizens that, if he was attacked, he would kil all these prisoners and burn the town, Why, eir, these militin operations under the Clayton Government aro worse than Haynauw's. At the first sign of resistanco to anything, these salaried brigands are sent amongst us, with what ia called the Govarnor's Guard; and tho riff-raff of our communities,—such fellows as Bart. Clonager,— aro gatherod up into posses of militia to lay the country waste.” v GaTE. = v Murdor of Female Children in fndin. Tho Central Provinces reports for 1870 supply the annexed account in regard to tho provalence of infanticide n that country : A rogular village visitation was_instituted, and evidence teken as to the proportion of boys and_girls, and some other necessary fects. One magisirato_reports having visited ninefy-nine villages, inhabited by & clan whose head i the Tajeh of Amorha. Eighty-six of the villages were ‘‘suspected.” In soven villages, in- habited by one casto, there were 104 boys, and only one irl, and ihat ono gir] had probably beon saved by being brought up in hor mother's family, altogether spart from her father. The Babook of Asogpoor had twenty boys, end “no ir] has ever been married from among them.” ten villages of another caste there was nob one git], and_in onothor ton *a marriage of a irl {5 ah_unknown ceremony.” Noarly all ‘the amilies of tho Baboos and Koours practice the crime, with the exception of the Koours of Luckmunpors, who had twenty boys and twenty- ono girls—a most honorable exception where ‘murder is the ruling social law. In one village in Oodeybore a venerable punditeaid: “I have lived near the place, men and boy, close on eighty years, and I never sow a marriage in it” ' In some districts there hes boen considersble improvement. The Lieu- tenant-Governor, in referring to’ the Agra district, said: “In 1810 only three female infants among the guilty clans survived their birth ; in 1841 there “were_fourteon; in 1843 there twenty-eight, and in 1865 thore 433, abon} 44 per cent. of the child population. I could ive you o very large number of instances from heso Teports, both as to the crime and the great changs (hat has boon brought about by an tado- fatigable body of officials, acting under en- lightened and sympathizing chiefs. Here is one anstwor, at all events, to those who tell us that English rule is doing nothing for India. There is wo doubt thot wo aro failing in many respects, end in some where the East India Company suc- ceeded; but thore certainly are some particulars in which British power is enrolled in the service of civilization. ——— The Northern Pacifice=An Indian Me= lecs From gentlemen who have just returned from the Missouri River, information is received that the workis being vigoronsly Jxroancuted, and the track-layi g 15 goin ahoad at the rate of three miles per day. Unless some unexpected obstacle is encountered, it is asserted that the road will be fully comglotetl to the Missouri Riv- er by the first day of December, but it is proba~ ble that passonger treins will nob be placed on the line to that point until next S[er%,_ An occasional raid is made by the Sioux In- dians upon thoir weaker neighbors, and the par- tioulars of one of recent occurrence is thus giv- en by Dr. Georgo H. Keith, to the Minneapolis Euvening News: ‘A fight ocourred near Fort McKean on Wednesday last, between partics of Bioux and Rees, each numbering about 100 men, during tho progress of which three Rees and two Sioux were killed. Red Bear, a Ree Chief, and an old warrior, was killed. ~ After killing him, his son, & brave young warrior, rode inton crowd of Sioux to prevent their mautilation of his father, and was slanghtered in o._very short time. After killing him they horribly mutilated the body of his fathier, by sticking, into it seven butcher-kmives, fourteen poisoncd arrows, cub off both his ears, broke his arms, and crushed in his slmll. The Doctor eays that on his refmm he learned that the fight had been renewed, with what result he did not learn. —The widow of Levi Woodbury, once the bello of Washington, may still be seen, &t & good old age, riding horseback about the suburbs of Porismouth, N H NEW YORK. “The Great Question of Clothes--Fine -7 “Féathers "Don’t Make Fine Birds, Social Honors:to Froude, the Historian, : Luees’s Becoption fo the Foblp Red Hen--A Savage Kiss for a! Swoet' Song. ‘What Divorced Husbands May | Horeafter. Expect. From Our Own Correspondent, % ) New Yoz, Oct. 10, 1872, During the past week, the principal events— for they are such to the feminine world of fash- ion—have been the. openings of the prominent milliners, mantna-makers, and dry goods mer- chents.- Broadway, Fourteenth street, and other thoroughfares have been crowded with carriagés, end the carriages filled with women as energeti- cally in search of attire ‘as if they had been snatched from the glowing canvas of Giulo Ro- mano, and were-in-the condition of Pity, as de- scribed by the late William Shakspeare. * THE PASSION FOR ADORNMENT. Strolling sbout town, I have been more than ever impressed with the universal fashion of the sex for adornment. Ido not wonder theta pretty woman, especially while she is young, should be desirous to'dress up to her beauty, and to justify the kindness of Nature by the graces of Art. Bhe owes it to herself and the science of esthetics not to hide her lovely light under a-bushel, but to let it stream, grand snd glorious, over every eye that hungers for color and for form. What I do wonder atis, that women'homely to repulsion, and the antipodes of elogance, have cven a greater craving for gay robes and superabundant ornamentation than those of their sisters who are fitted to wear them. These, 18 & rule, do not, and will not, dress in harmony with their pleinness end awkwardness ; will not subordinate, and, to a certain extent, hide, themselves to and behind their garments. Instead of this, they persist; by excessive dis- play. in advertising their ugliness, and compel- ling comparisons between what they are'and what they wear. Elderly meidens, and matrons too, stubbornly refusing to forget their angn- larities,—or still worse, théir obesitles,—their wrinkles, their years, array themselves in gowns and gewgaws that would hardly hava been be- coming a quarter of a century before. a DRESS is o thing to be determined by the appearance, form, stylo, and age. Everybody cleims to un- derstand this,—it i8 & trnisim, iudeed,—and yet the majority of women practically ignore “it. They trick themselves out in fine feathers, un- der "the delusion that fine feathers make fine birds; heighton their physical defects by palpa- ble unfitnessos; snd render their appearance the subject of satire, instead of an object of admi:-| ration. s For some mysterious reagon,—perhaps it is the blind groping for besuty in-s spirit not ont- wardly becutiful,—the homeliest women -have the stronger mania for trappings and tinsel than those have who are blest with comeliness. In striving to have the modistes transform them into something rich ‘and rare, they are transformed into something poor and common, They publish their Fl&lnness in ital- ics, and call general attention therstoby points of ‘exclemetion, in place of setting their copy in Roman, and letting it pass unnoticed with the rest. They doa certain wmnE to others,” and' hurt themselves, by laying such an emphasia on the unattractive, and by obliging lovers of grace and beauty to direct their eyes where neither is to be found. B " A woman i8 not to be despised because she has the misfortune to be plain or prossic; but, if she be wisg, she will cultivate herself in & di- tection in which Nature and Destiny have. not fixed her limits, rather than scek to violate laws that are infrangible. - JANES ANTHOXY FROUDE, the eminent English historian,—whom Justin MeCarthy declarcd to be John Anthony in & re- cent Galaxy article,—~will have a reception” at the Liotos Club next Monday evening. The oc- casion promises to be exceptionally pleasant and brilliant. The invitations—about 500 in num- ber—have just been issued, and includé. the names of most of the gentlemen congfimou in literature, journalism. snd art. ong the bidden guests are William Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett, E. Godkin, Sydney Howard Gey, Whitelaw John Hay, George William Curtls, Parke Godwin, J. G. Holland, l%ichard Henry Stoddard, Edmund Clarence Steadman, Edward L. Yeomans, Henry Ward Beecher, O, B, Frothingham, Edwin Booth, Edmund Yates, Lester Wallack, Anton Rubin- stein, Eastman Johnson, Willam Whittridge, Winslow Homer, Jervis McEntee, Henri Wieni- awski, and many others. 4 The Lotos.has ‘gained a_high reputation for the clegance of its entertainments and its cor- dial hospitality. It is the rendozvous of man; poets, scholars, and beau esprits, and, thougl young, is already in the front rank of our liter- ary and artistic organizations. On the Tuesday ovening following, Messieurs Scribner, Armstrong & Co.,—Froude's publishers in this _country,—will give & dinner to the historiah at Delmonico’s, and George William Curtis will preside. Mr. Froude also meet there many distingunished thinkers and scholars, and will have o oppor- tunity, sided by the other numerons entertain- ‘ments prepared for him, to judge impartially of the quality and range of the American mind., A VERY UNIQUE ENTERTALNMENT was that given, the other evening, at the private residence of Pauline Luccs, in East Fourteenth street, to the party of Bious chiefs on a visit to the Motropolis, The littlo_prima-donna had been so much pleased with, what she called, the queerness (biznrrmg) of the Indians, when she had seen them at a Broadway hotel, and they had | been so much delighted with her, that the re- ception under her own roof was a mutual satis- faction. - i The braves, to the number of fifteen, in full ‘war-paint, drove up to the Baroness Von Kah- den’s door immediately after dinner, and, under the guidance of their interpreter, entezed her sumptuous drawing-room. She Soon appeared, shook hands with them, and bade them welcome all round. She was so glad they had come that sho clepped her hands, and laughed in the most childish fashion. They made themselves at ‘home at once ; Bquatting down on the floor ; pa- rading up and down before the mirrors, and ad- miring the _elegant furniture. The diminutive. warbler ordered champegne; poured it out, for the savages with her own fair hand, as the cheap romancers say, and smiled at the industry they displayed in drinking. THE 60N OF THE FOREST, agis well known, takes very kindly to fire-water in any form, and on that occasion showed an ap- preciation of Roederer that would have done “has been achieved by the unaided powers of Th;s 8 credit to any representative of civilization. The Tndinns quaffed the eparkling wine. until they bubbled over with happiness, and sought to make their fair enteriainer understandtheir harsh tonguo by a variety of gestures. Deter- mined to do something to_please her, they at lost performed & war-dance, the = se- rious ~ dotriment of the _ furniture, randishing their tomshawke, and flling the house with the noise of their demonstrations. They were very desirous o hear Lucca sing, which she promised to do if they would first favor her with some of their vocal musie. They began with a series of * Ugh-ughs"-and *‘ How- hows,” and roseina crescendo of discordant. noises; reminding one of a combination of Japanese concert and exhilirated camp-meeting, which threw Lucea into.convulsions of laughter. She then redeemed her promise, executing—to Max Maretzek's piano accompaniment—the famous jewel aria, from * Faust.” The red men enjoyed the eing'm% greetly, and when she was through, the head chief, Thun- der-Hawlk, ran up to her, and Lissed her before ehe could anticipate his oscu- latoryintent. Allthe Caucasians present laughed st this extremcly-civilized- salutation, and the prima-donns, though at first nmoyed! soon. joined in their merriment, eaying: Groat Heavens! TItisnot every dsy that & woman is kissed by an American Indian. (Mon Diew ! ce nest pas chaque jour que Pon t elre boise par les Aborigenes Americains).” At a Iate hour, the primeval copperheads took their dm.rtn:e, after declaring to the prima- donna, throngh their interpreter, that ehe wes the most charming white soen, aud that the music equaw they had ever q%:e wade with her mouth was sweeter than & summer-breeze sigh- ing throngh the forest. : % s g THE MUSIC OF THE ¥U - By the by, the statcment in the London Athenceum that Lucca has forsaken the German theatres, and separated from her husband, Baron Von Kuhdén, i8 said to be correct. It is alsore- ported that she intends to confine her lyric ca- Teer in the futurs to this country, Englan -France, - Italy- and--Russis,-instead of -limiting - herself, as heretofore, to the Teutonic opera- houses. - It is now reported that she will remain_ in America for two years, as she is greatly pre- possessed in favor of the Républic, THE OREGONIAN EINGER. - Joaquin Miller, who has been on:the eve of sailing abroad for the last four or five weeks, is still Kero, and now seems to have his min full of rendering assistance to the. Cubans in | their stmigls for_independence. He talks of going to the Ever-Faithful Iale with & horse and n, and doing battls for the opgrassed‘ - Miller does not appear to have any fixed ideas respect- ing his future, and his late wife would doubtless say that his Cuben orotchetis another effort to imitate Byron and his mission to Greece tq fight for Grecian emancipation. By the by, Miller's friends say that -Mrs. Joaquin misrepresents and wrongs him_foully in her lecture, and that she does 50 delibérately, conscious that her course gives him exceeding pain. It ig certainly Pt A FOVELTY, even in this country, for & woman to - turn Ter divorced husband into & subject of. public discourse, and may truly be said to add new hor- Tors. to matrimonial Separation. Many good persons have longbeen alarmed at the frequency of the dissolution of connubial partnerships, and may feel comforted by the beliof that this—. the latest resuli thereof—may act in the fature as & wholesome corrective. 1 am sure the men are fow who would not bear extreme matrimonial dis%\lietude for a long while before they would be willing to' be lec- tured about by their ex-wives, all over the conn- try. It is worso to be the subject .of a lecture after divorce than to be the subject of & lecture during marriage. CorstouN. s g SENATOR SUMNER IN EUROPE. Hlis Arrival in London and Departare, for Paris—Hlis Views on the Political Situation—¥le is Grieved at the Pres, ent Course of Fred. Douglass and ‘Wendell Phillips—What He Thinks of the Geneva Arbitration—Consult= ed by-the French ¢ Left.” - 21. D.C. in the Cincinnati Commercial, Loxnoy, Sept. 23.—A few days ago an_elderly entleman alighted at the door of Maurigy’s Hotel, and entering, stood for a moment exchang- ing a steady look with the veteran proprietor of ihe establishment. The newly-arrived guest spoke to him in French, the hotel propristor’s native tongue. AL Maurigy, yon do mnot Imow me.” ~ #I know you perfectly,” respond- ed the old man. ‘“You are Semator Sum- ner. Fifteen years have ‘passed, and where now are the men who used_to gather round you then ? Where is Lord Brougham, and whero is Lord Cranmouth? And Lord Pal- merston—yes, he used to come and see you too. They are gone.” Then Manrigy invites the Sen- ator in, and proceeds to treat him as if he were the last of his famous ‘Eu.tm But the old hotel proprietor is about the only ane of Charles Sumner’s former friends who was here to.iel- come him. Not, indeed, -because they have gone ‘the way of Maurigy's list, for many yet" Femain ; but chiefly becanse the Senatos bao hit the dead senson straight on the head, No member of the aristocracy less demo- cratic than Sir Charles Dilke could be found in London in September, without raising sus- ?icions a8 to the condition of his estates; and need hardly say that Sir Charles immediately paid his respects to the Benator, and enjoyed his company at dinner. It was with plessure that he received a telegram from those who were his dearest friends here—the Duke and Duchess of Argyle—conveying a_most cordial invitation to him to visit them at Inve Cas- tle, whoro they now are. imilar telegram came from John Bright, inviting him to Roch- dale. - Sumner was in London for a few days only, and is now in Paris. I had a good deal of conversation with Mr._ Sumner during |- his visit, and t] g, from. bis. peculiar po- sition in regard to the Presidential contest, that his views might be of interest to your readers, T send (with his consent) some statements which he made, though they Were not uttered with the e:ggcutmn of their being printed. Alr. Sumner hed not seen the comments which certain jour- nals had made upon his eudden departure for Europe, &nd was indignant, that any one should supposo that it was from inelination that he is not now heartily engaged in urging the ¢lection of Horace Greelsy upon the American people. He declared that he consented to go abroad only after his old-friends Dr. Bowditch and Dr. Howedeclared that it was impossible for him to make a single ageech without incurrin; serious danger. . Sumner s2id he regardeg the Liberal nomination gs an_eminently good one. It has placed in Opposition to one of the most ignorant men that ever held office in the United Stafes, s man of established literary reputation, a man whose whole literary career intellect and the honesty of his character. nomination has.placed in or-osition to 2 merely selfish, commonplace person, & man whose history is a salient feature of the time, and is - characteristic of the country. me of the attacks upon Mr. Greeley by men who ought to honor him are such 8s he (AIr. Sum- ner) believed would be bitterly repented by those who havemade them, It seemed to him partic- ularly mournful that Frederick Douglass should- bring himself tossy, “Wedo not object to Horace Greeloy, tho anti-slavery man, but to Horace Greeley who does notknow his own mind from day to-dey,” or words to_that effect. T have not,” said the Senator warmly, ‘geen Frederick Douglass recently, and I regret that I have not; for I would have face to face asked him how he counld dare to utter an accusation of that kind against & man who had for more than a quarter of a century defended the equal Tights of his raco—defended them day in and_dey out sgainst such heavy odds. I would have asked him ifhein all his life ever had a doubt of what Horace Greeloy's mind was “from day to doy’ about the rights of his oppressed race.” With reference’ o his friend Wendell Phillips—by whose side Mr. Sumner studied “at ‘college, and studied law—2r. Sumner usfimke tenderly, &8 he always has done through all the differences that have separated them. In nothing did I more note the golidity of Charles Sumner’s_chatacter than that he should still adhere to the habit I hed 50 long marked in cerlier years ot Washing- ton—never 8o criticise any man whose aims ho rogarded as high and sincere, however severol that other muy have criticised him. “ When was urged to read Mr. Garrison’s letter ‘review- ing my snti-slavery record,’ I declined, simply snying that I rospected Mr. Garrison's anti- slavery record too’ much to be Wflfing‘f: read enything that would make me honor less. As for my anti-slavery record, if it cannot stand ‘ithout nursing, it may as well fall” 3ir. Sum- ner alladed to the large number of letters which he had recaivedfrom%mminentmenintha South, —some of them who hed, as members of .Con- gress, beon his bitter foes,—in response to cer- toin sentiments in his (Sumner’s) letter fo Speaker Blaine, and quoted passages from these letters showing that these men accepted the sit~ uation, and were preparad to respond to any in- dication of magnanimity on the part of the North. With regard to foreign politics, Mr. Sumner said that he thought that the Arbitration at Geneva would prove to be a land- mark in the history of international relationsnip. Unquestionably a new prin- ciple of mut respect and amity ad been established, in that & nation is requir- ed to have Iaws and 'to_administer them, not simply for itself, but with some referenca fo the invest the Presidency with new and almost in sistible powers. If Grant is re-elected it will impossible for any one to sy that he is the fr and frank choice of the American people as the best and most worthy citizen for that homor . America. . Mr. Sumner_ has _dexaf 1 timo since he has been in London, chic ly to visiting the galleries ‘of 1 is not only a passionate admirer of wor of art (of which, as is well known; he-has a go collection in Washington), but he is, so far the Venetian and Dutch schools-are.concerne a connoissenr. He sat fora long time each d azing upon the Turners and Claudes in ational Gallery, but his chief enthusiasm & : for Aty Scheffer’s ‘ Francisco de Rimini,” in ¢ Bethnal Green Smrfi;ol Hartford) collectic This he seemed to think as grand a picture was. ever painted, But asI walked with b emid grest works of art, the yeteran' Semato mind again and again wandered to the Americ strnggle, and no one who had seen him th conld have any doubt that he' has coms to £t conntry with a heavy heart. 'BORING FOR WHISKEY. A Search for the. Wreck of & Steam: Sunk in 1860—Six Hundred Barre of Whiskey nnd Two Hundred Cas' of Brandy Buried in a Sand Bar—1? Treasnre Founds - i From the Memphis Appeal. In the fall'of 186D, or early in 1361, the stem er South Bend, bound from Cincinnati to t. Arkiansas River with s valuable cargo of lique| and general merchandize, was sunk in_the sissippi. She was the property of Thomps Dean and John D. Adams and was_run_into steamer fifty miles - from AMemphis, a sunk. A wrecking boat shortly afterward we to the-place, and succeedsd in recove some of her upper works; buts heavy rize curring in the river, the wrecker was drivs away, having lost her anchors and epparat The South Bend was therefore abandoned f] the time. When the stage of water again lowed of theresumption of work the. count was troubled with civil wer, and men's min- were turned to differeat things. The nnde writers could not procure boats and men pursue the search, for the location of the wre waslost. The buoys were swapt awsy, everything wasin & state of uncertainty. the ‘time. “the disturbance” had - cezsed thought of the South Bend was lost; only a f old river men allowed their minds to range o the vast surface of the deep and speculzte n) the hidden treasures contained therein. Several of thesd thought it worth while fo tempt to find the South Bend, but did not ad any rotions] methods in their seasch. They bl recourse to witches, s;i.rifists, clairvo; dreams, and weak-minded peopls of all 1 rather than fo reason and experience. Th ' very naturelly failed. Captain John Cowdon,7 = old river man; and = person of gmatiutellj B and experience, 2 man who has been acquaing 1 with the Missisaippi River since his infancy, & knows all about its peculiarities and its !ay tions from Cairo to the Balize, had the ides searching for the South Bend in his capaci mind for a long time, but could not find lei to e his investigations . until rece: lBe oro mrnktigg n.xgivi,i‘he ren:mud out. location of the wre great experience: river matters enabling him to do this with tonishing sccuracy. He knew that eddies sand would be formed and deposited below boat, and that the bar would grow like a tail comet down the stream, and that the boat we ba found, if at all, nearthe head of the new s formation. The wreck, however, Was spnk or bar that had been zlready formed, extendi from the Arkenses shore several hundred yar: into the river, the channel running befween and the Tennessee shore. This would cauj complications in the simple problem, complic| tions that required the head and_experience Captain Cowdon to understand and unravel. e difficalty of finding the wreck may be timated from the fact that 3,000 boats might sunk and hidden in the area within whoge limij it was generally thonght the hull of the Sou Bend reposed. Going at it, then, in a etupid! methodical way, it might take five year's regul 1abor to strike the hull;. and if good luck d not attend-the searchers it might take : ears. ‘The expense of such a pursait wou. Seter the most sanguine, particnlarly when it recollected that no one can say for certain wh. is left in the hull, or what the wreck -may 1 worth when brought to the light of dsy. It thought that the 600 barrels of liquor whic wers shipped on the South Bend in Cincinna! and the vast quantities of cognac brandy, a untonched, and even much more valusble fhe when they were sunk beneath the wave. yalue of the cargo is estimatod at $100,000, by it may take much of this sam to bring it market. i A The following letter will éhow that the inder itable Cowden has discoverad the trensure : Baxp Bux, Mismssrort BIVES, ooy 36, Oct. 2, } Eprrons Appean: To-dsy, st 12 o'clock, after soven weeks' search, I have. struck the wreck of steamer South Bend, in boring our eloven hun: and wenty-ifth hole. The' boat llea perfactly lo and straight 58 If on docks, The decks are sound ‘wabroken, twenty-four feet deep nnder the sand, about eixteen feet below the present stags of wat gms%m gflfi;flpnfly of liquor, which wilk: 3 appliances Lean. get it out Respect{uny ;«fm, Jomx Cawn o neers =] oughly, and succeeded in - finding vha owan of the bost, and meastiring her ditiensiors, SH is one bundred and Afty feet long sud thirty fa beam, capable of carrying two hundrefl ‘to The captain, heving great faith in his own eaga , undertook the fask of finding and s sunken steamer eome months ago. - Hom: & contract with the underwriters a Cincinned which protects them s well a8 himself in the respective rights. The underwriters, -havir paid all the insurance on the property,- were the loss, and still retain the’ right to profit 1 whatever may be recovered by the hercules efforts of Captain Cowdon. Under this contras Captain Cowdon has gone to grezt expense ar trouble. Now that he is sure of his game, I will pursue his object. with redoubled vigor ar sasiduity. Ho wil have to construch s cof dam, and have eteam engines, derrieks, ar other apparetus, which will ensbla him to vesc] the wreck before high water comes. g Saits for Breach of Promise. From the Indiamapolis News, Oct. 10.: Miss Florence L. Johnson, s lovely yoou lady of Morristown, throngh her -attorney: Ray, Voss & Dayis, has brought abreach ¢ promise guit sgainst Alonzo Tymer, a wealtta entleman of this city. Damages are laid ¢ 10,000. Both parties ereof the highest r spectability. - [From the Baltimors Sun, Oct. 9. Suit has been instituted in_the City Co Judge Scott, by Jacob Lenz, through his co gel, \W. Hollingsworth Whyte, sgainst Maj] omm, to recover $8,000 damsges for an leged breach of promise of marrisage. The nt filed in the case yesterday sets forth that tk! parties hed enfaged themselv@. in ‘marrisge that & reasonable time for the.-1i ent of ik engagement has now elapsed; that tho plsintit suitor, Lenz, has always been ready and williv § ¢ and anfious oven to comply with his engag:. ment, but that the lady bas neglected to en 3} ‘brace the opportunity, and has, indeed, refusz to marry, leaving him with no other consolstio ; than the law’s cold formalities, a suit before : grave Judge, and damages i the sum of $3,007 With which he hopes E2S assuage his gricf ac| mortification. It i3 very plain to see that 3L’ Lenz does not believe in woman's rights.. A Father Shot and Killed by His Perx, secuted Son, { Oct. 11, ] Feom the Loutstill: Courier: ] A gentlemen from near 6, 3adiso County, farnished us'sesterdsy with' an accour! rights of its neighbors, This is an important m; toward something like international society, and it i8 of far more importance than any ques- tion of money. While Mr. Sumner was here he was consulted in the interest of the pronounced Republicans of France (the “Left') with re- -gard to_certain fundamental principles—as to the working of the system of two legislative chambers instead of one, and the executive pover. 1 cannot venturs to quote the opinions of the Senator upon points which sre likely to become subjects of vehement struggle in the next gession of the French Assembly; but Imay say that Mr. Sumner expressed _very earnestly the conviction that the suspected ten- dency of & eingle execntive head to accumulate power to itself, and to grow into monarchical ‘methods of carrying its objects, was amply justi- fied by the history of the United States, and he expressed himself not at all sura that the suthors of the Constitution might not have been wiser had they, as was for some time contemplated by them, conatituted an executive commission of several persons rather than confided the degree of power required by an executive to ono indiyids Mr. Sumner in this considera~ tion dwelt less on the conrse of President Gmig whom he seemed to_ think had simply violate the Constitution and disregarded all principle, more for the lowest advantage and interest of himeelf and_his relatives than to indulgo any public ambition with regard to the State. ~ Su » man, however, conld by no means have failed to suffer from _general scorn, and been amim- ° eaiblo candidate for any party, had it not boen {hlf- there bad haen & progresaive tendency to T ody in that County, in which a bo Srmod Thahas Cettia baled his_tather, Wast ington Curtis, on Wednesday Iast. Thecircuxr © stances, as related, are about as followa: Wash Curtis was a vary ill-tempered man, ws , in the habit of abusing his family, and seeme | t0 make the boy who killed him the _speciai ot ; jeot on whom to vent his spieen. On Tuceda } night Curtis came home and beat his wife an { dsughter most _cruelly, end aftervard lef ! home. On Wednesday morning he returne ; and agai waged war upon his household by a tempting to punish his son Thomas, whois sk 19 years of age. The boy refused to be chastize¢ and the father becoming fatious with g rushed toward his son with a drawn knife in. hand. The boy fled. and was pursued for abou 100 yards, when, finding that he would be over taken and probably killed, he halted, and, turn ing upon the father, W s pistol and fire. The ball entered Curtis’ neck, cutting the jugu lar vein, cousing him to bleed to desth in abou . 20 minutes. e mother, sisters, and brother i of the young man justify the act, saying that h. Lilled his father purely in self-defence. —Profossor Tyndsll, upon landi York, was welcomed by, his cousin, Heotor Tyr | dall, of Philadelphia. "In sppearance Profeeso all is smallin stature, of spare face, ha bright gray eyes, and short irnn—imy beard. H' wears; spectacles, and dresses in black. ‘In con versation he gaid that on account of the Presi dential election he would not lecture in Ne: York much before the 15th of December. H. leaves this city for Boston within a couple o days, where he will iecture probably on the sukb Jegt of light, and kindred topics, at Nev