Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1881, Page 3

Gen. Johnston's Latest Chapter on the ‘ail of the Confederacy. euararse wr. davis wir TAKING €2.500,000 rx SPECIE IN HIS FL nT FROM Ri MOND TO THE SO0TH AND NEVER ACCOUNTING POR IT. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has furmshed toa eorrespondent of the Philadelphia Press an- other chapter of the close of the rebeition, explanation of the feud betwaen himself and Jefferson Davis: I was at a point not far distant from Colum- said General Johnston, “when [ received aphie order from General Lee to take aud of the army against which General Sherman was opera: concentrate it and drive Sherman bac ching in three obeyed orders so far as uniting th of course, our force was not then to seriously interrupt General St gress. It is d army, but, Tkept up and we frequen action. Afler the eva ion of Richmond n s broken. Soo g, VA., April 10, 18 that General Lee surrender A fn little room for Wa SLEIGH, April 11, 1865. Jeter sone Davi n Johnston sent the a Pateh Mr. Davis anda portion of his arrived at Greensboro, and Mr. D; mitted the fullowing disps GREENSBOKO, April 11, 1855. 2. Johnston: elary of War did not join me at Is expected here this afternoon. A: fon nay render best, Ty un WwW point. JEFFERSON Davis. y the following dis; Johnston SBOKO’, April 11—4:30 p. m. Later on the sa! was received by Gen Gre y dispatch of 1 f has not arrived. mation it ts probably det in that event you will = JREFEKSON Davis. General Johnston returned the following reply = —April 11, 1865. “The morning of the 12ti eral Johnston, “found me i guest of General Beaurezard. Viewed the condition of aff that in view of the great di the surrender of General Confederacy was « sulnime! tion we found! e, the Fesources of the arm for the future. Hi have a larze army state his plans for a cont The conference termin thout op re up his mind and to individual judsinent. Gene the Seeretary of War, had not the confirmed the report of the General Lee. Thad a conversati later in the day. in w viction that the that ail the pov in the Executive were destroyed. exeept one, that was the power to te T expressed tie decided op should be exercised at onc pressed myself thus to Mr. Davi given me no opportunity. he, rather to my surpris on opinions rather t yacht them. sation between Br brought about a sec were present Mr. [ Beauri esti: tre military forees of the two nm with him 1 the con- The Grant, General agerevated somet government left in his han greatest of crim the only possi further dev: Breckinridge. Mr. Mall Mr. Davis’ cabinet exp: decidediy against a continua thought it the President of peace. The President annoyed at these empha sition to bis views, and call result of the “Hampton nee of the w pee h the United recognized. Mr. E min sustained Mi not only in this position, but in his se continuing hostiliti Speech in favor of prolonging the war. HOW SHERMAN AND JOHNSTON MET. manders had frequently agreed to an armi: and intimated negotiations upon which Tespective governments founded tre Peace, and I proposed that he should allow me He rather objected to the latter part of the proposi- t cress General Sher- to address General Sherman to that end. tion, but sugested tha man, asking a meeti: the ter an armistice so as to enable the civil autho: jate terins of ps T suggested that the letter be then and there prepared: that Mr. Mallory should write it. and that I would sign and send it at once to General S! Mr. Davis dictated the letter to Mr. Mailory. After I dispatched it with all possible ‘al Hampton. who was authorized to not only forward it to General Sherman, but to arrange the time and place for the conference with any officer General Sherman might desig- Rate. I then left Mr. Davis and returned to my command, and on the 16th of April received ‘orable reply to my proposal cneral Hampton, on the Cosme gt bapa a = that we were to meet at noon onthe 17th of April at the house of Mr. Bennett. on the dirt road running from Hills- boro to Raleigh. and about iaidway between the cavalry outposts of the two armies. On the morning of the 37th, secompanied by my staff of cavalry, I started for L arrived ‘shortly in ad- an, but saw him coming |. and I did not monnt until he rode up. We saluted neat dismounted, and walked into the Gen. Sherman's fay. for @ conference. ‘troops, and lead to a mistaken iny i that the crime had been incited or « the first one in that section after man to receive the sad int coln’s murder. 1 expressed the convicti which Ihave ever since held, that it was the | surround hi greatest calamity that could have befallen the THE HANGING OF LEFROY. How the Last Scene im a Celebrated Case Was Enacted in Lewes Jail— ‘The Prisoner Led Half Dead to the Scaffold—A Painless Execution. imself, so as to prolong the war, would be a fresh disaster to the people of the south which I did not propose to be a party to. This is the disobedience of orders on my part which Mr. Davis In his so-called ‘History of the Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govern- ment,’ alludes to, when he says: ‘Had General Johnson obeyed the order sent him from Char- lotte, and moved on the route selected by him- self, with all his cavalry, so much of the infantry as could be mounted, and the light artillery, could not have been successfully pursued His force united to that I had as sembled at Charlotte, would, it was believed, have been sufficient ‘to vanquish an: which the enemy had between us an Had the cayalry with which 1 left Charlotte been associated with a force large enough to inspire hope for the future, instead of being discouraged by the surrender in their rear, it would have probably have gone on, and when united with the forces of Mowry, Forest and Taylor in Alabama and Mississippi, have constituted an army large enough to attract ers, and would have revived the droop- ing spirits of the country.” JEFF DAVIS A FAILURE. “ Because I did not lend myself to this plan of Mr. Davis fur prolonging the war, he seems to think that I committed an offence against the whole southern people. the people take a different view of ii thoroughly content with their estimate of my conduct on that oce: Very soon after sending the above dispatch to Mr. Breckinridge I again communicated with own authority asking . this time upon the cted agreement. DISCUSSING MILITARY PRECEDENTS. “After the conversation which the introduc- tion of this subject provoked, the object of our meeting was brought up by General Sherman’s remarking that he offered me the same terms Grant had accorded to General Lee. his attention to the tenor of my note, and sug- gested that it did not contemplate a conference vr surrender, but simply an armistice to per- il authorities of the two countries to <otiate terms of peace. He replied that the vernment of the United States did not recog- nize the existence of the Southern Confederacy, ant that he could not receive, or transmit, any | proposition addressed to the Government of nited States by those claiming to be the civil authorities of the Confederacy. He, however, bs mself as exceedingly anxious to di- the South such calamities as the con- in of the war would inevitably bring, and “1 his offer of such terms as Grant gave to i reminded him that the position of our ‘swas vastly different from those of Gen- Lee and Genera! Grant: that mine was four rch from him, and that the distance 1 not be lessened. therefore I would not be led king a capitulation. e it erested that there were usin going further | From the London Telegraph's account of Arthur Lefroy’s execution, the following extract “The gallows consisted of two pits: connected with each other, one a broad and the other a narrow oblong, the broad one being Im- mediately under the gallows, and covered in by a black trap-door that opened in the center, and was only supported In ita place by a long bolt t the other containing a brick staircase that led under the scaffold. Above the trap door, or rather at the right-hand side of it, and close by the gallows-tree, was a lever, something like the switch-handle that one sees on railroad lines, connected with the bolt below the trap- The rope that hung from the cross-bar ‘was coiled up in along bight, reaching, however, nearly to the floor; and, althouch it had done duty so frequently, as Marwood said, seemed | Such the scaffold; the grave was a small excavation in chalk. scarcely four | feet deep, while the chasm beneath the seaffoid must have been ten or twelve feet in depth. To Marwood the whole thing evidentiy seemed a triumph of art, and as he moved’ hither and ing the superiorities of his de. dently expected that his handiwork All the while the bell | as passing away. The army was then | columns, two of which were further to the rear than Sherman's center. I ree enou. hb ubtfal whether it could have le column of his A a8 to the plan of 0 juts My information is that suspension of eral of them, and called his attention to the Napoleon to. the Arch to other eminent military authorities | ed terms of peace. me was a very interesting part of. herman entered into on ot these military precedents with ced an earnest desire to ed_and to restore the jon ofauthority toconduct zotiations to that end had been ‘settled, we in to consider the terms which might be ac- ded to the southern states in the event of ity of the United Duke Charles, Mr. Davis at | would meet approval. dismally tolled and the time At length a warder came bustling up, and, with a bundle of keys in his hand, beckoned to Mar- It wanted about ten minutes to nine | o'clock, and the doomed man inside was wait- ‘Ready for you,’ remarked the warder, and with a complacent look Marwood gathered up his ‘tackle’ and followed. skip and a hop, as thouzh he were answering Gea. Sherman upon m him for a seeond conference military features of the rejec a fayorable response from him about sunrise on the 26th of April, and at noon that in met in the Bennett house, and in the same room where the first conference had taken place, and very soon agreed to the terms which put anend to the war within of our own commands. “Is Mr. Davis aman of much military abil- With an cary on to the auth General Sherman had had a long ation with Mr. Lincoln upon this sub y short time before our meeting, ‘eve. furnished him the basis for the ce which we afterward agreed to. 1 iad any doubt but that they were in accord with Mr. Lineoln’s views, ave been accepted and ratitied by hi It did not take us long to agree ertis as expressed in the memoran- e signed at our second meeting, clause; that was the that in which we stood with uvabated cheer- fulness, and disappeared into the jail toward the cell of the man about to die. him as he would move along the corridor and present himself at the portal of the condemned cell, with a smile on his face andthe ready step. I wondered mightily how he death—could move so brisk! fashion he would introduce Himself to the hu- man being he was going to strangle. t;in the guise of Marwood it | alling celerity. “By no mean: T do not regard him as hay- ing either exec ive or military ability. His xecutive of the Confederacy I do not believe that there is in the history of the world another } such example of demoralizing control as that management of the affairs of the He isa man of over-weening van- ity and great will power. I regard him even more ofa failure as @ military man than as a civil executive. He naturally has no under- standing or conception of military operations on an extended scale, and to think that he kno’ EDERATE TREASURE. “I see that in his bock he alludes to having left some money with you at Charlotte and you distributed it among the troops.” “Yes, that was an occurrence which I dis- tinetly recall. On the 19th of April, after the conclusion of my first conference with General Sherman, I hastened to Greensboro, where my headquarters had been remove there about daylizht.~ I there expected to find Mr. Davis, but he had remo I tound, however, a commun in which he directed me to obtain from the Breckinridge came, and, at Mr. Davis’ request, | Treasury agent a box of silver which had been Mr. Reagan, the postmaster general, accoin- They joined me at General Hamp- ton’s headquarters shortly before daybreak on save him a very full account of the scussion between General Sherman elf, and the termsas far as asreed upon. Mr. Reagan sat down and reduced them to ns, to facilitate the business of the second mecting. He included the articles for amnesty, vithout excepting Mr. Davis or the cabinet. “When General Sherman and I met that morning I sugvested to General Sherman the presence of General Breckinridge and his close personal relations to the president of the con- fedracy, and proposed that he be admittted to eral Sherman assented. ize was admitted. Not, how- e ry of war, but as a major-general in the confederat When the memorandum, as prepared by Mr. Reaxan, was handed me I read it to General Sherman,who took it and immediately sat down at the table and began writing, lolding the paper Thad given him directly in front of him He had been writing bat a moment when General Breckinridge interrupted h upoa the bless General Sherman iooked at him he had finished. when he instantly ‘Supon the paper without even . and bezan writing as rapidly en the memorandum he had b ting was finished I found that it ditferes ue only in being more in detail. was not continued long after the | Colonel Dayton, of | , Was called to make four copies of the agreement, one for each of the Presidents, one for General Sherman and | When they were finished and | nsinitted a co; General Sher | demonstrates this —the agent of and after what | | Confederacy ici with the exception of " one relating to amnesty for Mr. Davis and his spent most of the afternoon dis- | cussing this question, and at sundown had not General Sherman's idea seemed to be to dispose of this question in some juanner that would not jeopardize the ratitica- tion by his government of the terms of peace agreed upon by us. AFTER THE FIRST DAY. “Tt was after sunset before our first confer- | ence was concluded, and we parted to meet the next morning at 10 o'clock. moved with ap Lefroy knew nothing of this, an executioner as the latter with a bow entere probably too late for mus thought, and the wretched creature may we have been bewildered. not break.’ was the only expression to which he gave utterance, As it chanced, | won't last long. But the Gov'ment. y is | put itown. But this " | In’ to change. Its a-zoin' to be | in’ly | proved; | a-comin’ to an end. They’s men | thousands of acres of this land. They” bly the result of some | apprehension from what he had heard of the ‘Marwood long drop. THE DEATH PRAYER. “There was not time for mor was already busily at work passing the leather belt round his body, fastening his elbows and wrists and baring his neck. The bell was toll- ing, and nine o'clock had nearly come. The clergyman, in his white surplice, was ready; two warders had taken their places, one on either side of the con- ; Marwood, with one strap yet unused in his left hand, and his right hand firmly fixed on the leather belt that confined his y prepared to move; the under sheriff, the gov- ernor of the jail, surgeon and magistrate, all a only saw h is vain enough i- | Teached a conctusi ‘Thope the rope w he hangman Immediately after 4, ( telegraphed for Mr. Breckin- . the secretary of war, whose confidential ms with Mr. DayisI thought would ena- eat his position upon the am- consideration. d, and arrived to Charlotte. ion from him, | time to be moving. pre hesty question left in his hands subject. to my order. It was said to contain £39,000 in g | Davis said I should use it asa military chest When I came to receive it. 1,200 short, which amount the Treasury | | axent saidthe commissary general had taken from it. After the receipt of the first order directing me to take charge of this money for the use of the army Mr. Davis sent a second order directing its return to him at Charlotte. Both letters were received by my adjutant gen- eral, Colonel Anderson, before my arrival, and were handed me together. I replied to Mr. Davis’ two notes and acknowledged the money, butdeclined to return it, as directed in Mr. Davis’ second note. the civil authority of the Southern Confederacy had been destroyed, that only the military par of our government had an existence, and that I regarded it as only equitable that a share of the funds still left should be appropriated for the use of the army, especially as the troops had re- ceived no pay for many months, and nothing of iue for years. I assured Mr. Davis the | would be put to quite as good use if I retained it as if it were returned to him. rected this specie to be paid to the army, each officer and man to share and shi ie, and Mr. | for the army. tary | first da: sound of the death prayer. through the passage toward the door that led into the yard moved that awful procession, and as the warder unlocked the door which opened close to ths scaffold it emerged into the air. had chanced to see Lefroy on several previow oceasions. and notably at ‘the trial, yet it was with a feeling bordering upon curiosity that T now looked upon him as he emerged into the There was much that operated against the producing of a favorable impres- He was attired not, as was stated, in a garb, but in a very old suit of gr: tweed. He was tightly pinioned, so ti: ed, his wrists were bruised; his hat was off and his hair somewhat di had not been shayed for some time, and he was being hurried along by his executione But, apart from all this, there was apallor on his face so unearthly that he presented the appearance of one who wasalready | dead, and I much doubt, whether, but for the presence of the warders on either side of hin and the support which he gained from the hanz- man, who pushed him for h been able to accomplish the di | cell to the grave. The words of the clergyman, rising and falling upon the ears of the sp tors were evidently appear to hear the passi y hin an agony’ of fear, and abled helplessly along. he line has been ‘Trupt communi- the conference. 1 took the ground that . and agreed ster to our arms in ne, puthern with his left hand. an making a sp ings of peace. are alike, ‘and it “I had learned from Generel Beauregard that the President had a large amount of specie in | his possession, and I wrote urging of it be paid to the soldiers then in a My letter to Mr. Davis on this sul was quite urgent. and I intrusted it to Colonel Mason, of my staff, with instructions that he de- nd bring a re- harlotte, deliy- ice from the tion of the war. inion or y one to have made | be relying as usual upon his | ul Breckinvidze, rived, but later in the day he reached Greensboro, and urrender of | upon him; he did not © agreed upon. : Colonel Mason a the letter to Mr. telegraphic acknowledgment to me that the let- | : ed there has ney Mason waited some | I efforts to get a reply nce to my instructions, without one.” 5 but the mareh to grave, or rather to the seaifold, | painful: all the bravado that w t Maidstone had gone; the terrors of in full force upon the approached the seaffuld this was par noticeable; he could scarcely take the step | in was to place him where he never stood before, and from whence he would never azain; and Marwood, who at no instant let ¢ It, was fain once more to push him for ie #0) Mr. Davis at once, and response to it. amd made sey bin a few hours. it four or five d: cate with the civil authoritie States, and geta rep! Sherman abo ye to commun of the United ly, but I did not receive Mr Davis’ approval of the terms of peace until th 24th of April. and_ within an hour of the time [ "sannouncement that ved of the agreement, and that the armistice would terminate in forty” ight hours. Mr. Davis sidering for all those five or si not he would accept the terms of peace which the United States government rejected as too but was oblized to return “ What became of t! It followed or pre government of the Contede ubout the time Mr. Davis went in that direc- atan end, and ut whieh reposed ad of the civil received General WAS THERE 80 MUCH MONEY? “Have you any idea of the amount of specie Mr. Davis carried south 7” “Col. Paul, an eminent artillery officer of the Confederacy, and now a prominent lawyer of Richmond, a man of high character, told me that he inspected the specie before its removal rom Richmond and after it had been loaded ready for transportation. was a car load of it. re UNDER THE Drop. “Tt was evidently not the moment for cere- | them. They chose not to do so, and the repub- mony with the hangman, who was now once | placing the tall young man, up ad evidently been con- days whether or more very bus ‘kinridge and me, however, nd conference, at which and his Cabinet. General Mr. Davis asked my n of the available ies to the war. It was demonstrated that the armies of General erman, and General Canby ing more than 340.000 available men, while the force at our command | the Be was not more than 25.000 all told. I to Mr. Davis that un- der the existing circumstances it was his duty to exercise without delay the single function of js, and open nezo- tiations for peace: and that it would be the to attempt to continue war, © effect of which would be to ate our country, and to uselessly shed the blood ef oar countrymen. General reached, under the cross-tree, stoopi nd then fumbling about with which he now ess: the trenbling youth's face. not suppose for a moment that Marwood in- tended to be rough; and anxious to do every thing as ex But it certainly appeared to me pting to fix the cap on Lefroy’s head, and in pulling it down over his face, he hurt the prisoner somewh worst of this was, however, long rope dangiing about Leiroy justed, and the thimble through which the in to be placed beneath his not know how iong this operation took. not time it. It may have lasted only a onds, but to meit se “When the agreement between Gen. Sherman and myself had. b knew of it felt elated. great glee, and riding back to Gen. Hampton's headquarters took it for granted that the war He made several bi tions to me, some of them of considerable mag- Before we had got three miles from nnett House on our return, he proposed that we buy the Greenbrier White Sulphur prings in Virginia. That seemed to be his pet scheme, and he insisted that it would be y-naking venture. el frecsaridze wee in He said that there As he only saw it boxed y for shipment he could, of course, give no information as to the amount in doliars and Gen. Beauregard, however, was in im- mediate command at Greensboro’ while the President was there, and doubtless had an op- portunity of knowing more accurately the amount of money with the President than most pt his immediate political family. inced that the Pres- usiness proposi- that in attem) it unnecessarily. T suggested that we aie Was’ Gon 0,000 in specie at ¢ have no doubt but that Gen. Beauregard’s esti- mate was within bounds. Charlotte and mi told me that while standing ing a small creek a man rode it of tronble about that,’ he said, ‘not a bit of troubie about getting the money, we can borrow it.” ‘Where, and of whom?’ I asked. “Oh, most any capitalist would be willing to there will be no trouble We wiil buy the springs.” “Mr. Reagan’ was also pleased with the set- Hement, and almost every one else except Mr. Confederate officer near a bridge cross- up and inspected he was in charge of the P and wanted to see whether The man in charge med appallingly long, whil the swaying of Lefroy’s body showed the nameless agony he was enduring. whether during this time the sound of the el man’s voice, which continued all the while é preparations went on, was of great consola- last look as the white cap was produced was lifted heavenward, his pallid face was turned upward, his lips movi but so soon as the eap was over his face he began to sway, and so much that I ex- pected he would fall before the business was finished. At last. howev Marwood, grasping the ped back. There was another awkward apparently for the purpose of allowing ‘man to finish the sacred invocation in which he was engaged; and then the level being pulled back, the trap doors open, ai falls with a terrible thud into the cavern below. Down ten feet, as was presently shown by the measurement of a tape line, he had dropped, the whole weight of his body falling upon his receiving such a strain, was in- en 80 completely body never gave so much hudder, but, turning half around, in the cold morning veloped by a haze of steam rising’ from i@ corpse, and showing by the visible discon- nection of the vertebra an how sudden death had been. to the hideous spectacle ha¢ extreme to spectators and suilerers alike, Ithink the actual death was as merciful as it could well be, if the agony of the two or three ipsed from the leaving of the condemned cell to the fall of the scaffold be left Had there been an assist- $ upon the scaf- other benignant ondemned in or- suspense, less fault the miserable busi- lings other than rrible crime for that the agony of prolonged, and inishment of the wag & tedious and horri- It tay, too, have been actual d the long drop occupied impossible to r. 80 thus occupic back us,’ he re; dent's money t the bridge was safe or not. told the officer that he had twenty wagon loads This would be in perfect harmony with Col. Paul's statement that there was a car load when It left Richmon rd’s that there was AN IMPORTANT DISPATCH. “Immediately upon receipt of the dispatches from General Sherman announcing the rejection by his government of the agreement and the ending of the armistice within forty-eight hours, I communicated the fact to Mr. Davis. about six o'clock in the evening of the24th when Isent the dispatch, and in addition to givin the information, I asked for instructions, and suggested that the army be disbanded at once to prevent further devastation and bloodshed. I | received a dispatch in reply, dated 1 p. m., of the 24th, and signed by General Breckinridge as Itordered me to disband the wito instructions to meet again at en point farther south, and directing that I join the President with all the available cavairy at my command, and all other soldiers who could be mounted upon serviceable ani- mals from the wagon trains, and all the light ar- | tillery I could furnish serviceable horses for. | This was the last order I ever received from the Confederacy, and I fel duty, to refuse to obey it. lowing response by wire: Hon, J. C. Breckinridge: Your dispatch received. We have to save the he army und save the ng as though vals Conference,” nd and with wkieh he said demonstrated that any terins of = “What became of the money?” all was ready. and or his authority to treat i ind of his victim, ; is 5 d made a dramatic hever given any satisfactory account of it to my , and what is a strange thing to the southern people have never held him to count for it. The $39,000 he left at Greens- boro the soldiers received, attorney, now living in Atlanta, has accounted A short time before the “I suggested to Mr. Davis, that military com- Major Moses, an for $20,000 more. evacuation of Richmon city placed in Mr. Davi for the defence of the cit: neck, which. stantly brok as one conyul- Richmond was evacuated, ‘it was transported the specie belonging to the Confederacy. A committee of Richmond bankers was sent to re- ‘a., they succeeded en $110,000 or $120,000, but it was captured by ison’s cavalry and turned into the It is now there and in tion. The Richmond bankers are suing for its recovery and it has never cided to whom it belongs. Say $120, there, and $39,000 in the military chest left at ensboro for the army, and $20,000 accounted This would make $179,000 out of the $2,500,000 which General Beauregard Pc other good authority estimate was on The preliminaries J been painful in the ipelled, from a sense of At Washington, I Feturned the fol- ey ingetting betws ef while transporting it hom APRIL %, 1865, ee tates Treasury. minutes that ela; Te the blood of tl igh civil functionaries. Your plan, 1 think, wot We ought t prevent invasion; make terms for Our troops, and give an escort of our best cavalry to the move without loss believe the troops will not 1 impracticable. Ma. ured Macon, With M: rigudier General M: garrison, Federal pa- out of consideration. ant to expedite the movement: fold or had chloroform or so; anesthetic been given to the der to lessen the pain of might have been found with hess. Asit was, without any. those of reprobatton for the suffered, I felt 1 m unn rh compared even with Hlotine in France, it B gn Wii ay fancy. but it seemed to ing of the tray a sensible peri how long the two seconds’ may seem to one who is only do the last. dent, who ought to of a moment. Commanders | for by Major Moses. ee Cobb and G. W. Smith, ‘ Kall and Mercer, and ‘Mr. Davis in his book says he does not re- pers anneunce capture of Mobile with member anything about the circumstances of the money transaction with you?” +o —____ A Young Grru’s Discrace axp DEaTH.—A telegrain from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., states that a student from Cedar Rapids, ccused by the officers of Vassar College of stealing $175 at various times from other students... She confessed, DAVIS’ SUBTERFUGE. This paragraph in the dispatch about dis- banding the infantry to meet farther south I, of recognized as a mere subterfuge. His surround himself with a force which could travel much ,faster than infantry peor ret, suggestion ut the reorgani: of r father should not info: ioe eens pote gy was Dae ie Cone however, informed, b young girl died of paralysis of the heart. Mary L. Magnes, Jowa, had been a : object was to but benged that rmed. He was, ——————————_-e- 5 1 ____ REsTITUTION.—Since the ‘distlosures co1 ing the oorrany, peste ar os J refunded to the President's pi My impression was at the time, and still is, 9 me a tele-| that it was Mr. Davis’ intention to take gram from the Secretary of War announcing the | class of troops and push assassination of President Lincoln. He said he | war west of the Mississipy had received it by courier on his way to the con- | the title of a President a and that he bad refrained from speak- or showing the message io any cne lest pectable escort #% might create undue excitement among the | Grande into Mexico. With mm: this| FRIGHTENED 4 Woman To Death. continuing the | Sanders attempted a felonious he might wear | Mrs. Lancaster, and | months ago. The try | disease a few min assault upon » Pa., some two woman died of heart Central society $500 exacted for taxes. It is said that to make this pa; when he was finally forced to leave t! -Recelver Simi to have a res SOUTHERN MOONSHINERS, A F—-gged Mountaincer’s Idens in Re~ gard to the From the Atlantic Monthly for January. They despise the lie of towns and cities and | think the inhabitants of such places much in- | ferior to themselves in wisdom, character and | happiness. ‘They are all republicans in politics. | I asked the leaders in the mountains how th could support the political party which makes and executes all the laws and carries on al! the prosecutions against them; but they said: “Jest 80; yes, we know; but that makes no ditfer- ence. We know a lot o’ them big men ’s got | the Goy'ment now an’ runs it for what they can steal. But we've always voted agin them fine chaps down thar In the towns, an’ we always shell.” Both the moonshiners and the business men in the towns said that the continued man- facture of whiskey in violation of the laws was partly a feature of the old warfare of the inc taineers azainst the civilization and the peoj of the towns. Yet in many instances this e: feeling seemed to be an abstract or rather than a personal feeling, as the 1 between individuals belonging to t opposite classes are often very kind whenever there is any display of the irit, or feeling of class superiority, it side of the moun.aineers. Twas soon informed of the mea gin of the old mans’ saying, “I'd orta know, I've sarved my time.” He’ was one of the men ever convicted and punished under the revenue laws in that part of the country, and he had really “served his time” in a nortler tentiary.” On his way home he had been in Ne York and Philadelphia, and had acquired some definite if y correct ideas regarding northern civilization. Neither he no: class felt that there was any dezred grace involved in their punishment for crime against the revenue laws. ‘They did not rez themselves as criminals, but appeared t« the resulting hardships as a part of the ““f of war.” They seemed to feel hatred against officers who and ori p only done his dut testation of “the reformer, is most intense, and their thirst for not extinguishable by time. Tasked the old man if the unlawful distill! would always be kept up. °N. improved, ye see. [sha'n't ne ; I'm too old. But the railroads built diree’ly hither an’ yan, m do anybody any good.” They'll cut off the woox for fuel an’ Tumber, an’ they'll be min quarries up hyur, they say. An’ they'll mean, dirty little towns laid out. ail Then, instid o’ people drinkin’ a litte whiskey, as we've always done, theyll 1 times much miser’ble pison’ stu’ s an’ drunk, an’ whoever drinks it “il be to steal an’ lie. I reckon theyll be sou mighty fine houses built som’eresalong thisri an’ they'll put big scientifie locks on to t doors, an’ thieves ‘Il come up from Cineinnaiter an Chat’noog’, an’ break into'em. They ¥, never been a lock on toa door in these tains. But they’sa goin’ to be the all-! improvements about hyur, an’ I s'pose ple ‘ll larn to steal too; haf to, to ki live. An’ they'll be some o’ them city women hyur, I reckon, from them big places, with their fine feathers, and their dresses a-drazgin’ on to the ground, an’ they'll be. the devil to pay among onr young men. That’s what they eail | ctv'lyzation, ai'nt it, stranger? I tell ye. this country’ll soon be improvin’ like hell, but 1 shan’t live to see much of it.I reckon. I'v pretty nigh about sarved my time: but ef you | come around hyur in about twenty years, | mebbe ye'll remember what I'ye said, Our | folks is been hyur nigh on to a hundred years, an’ no man ‘u'd ever say that one of the name | ‘wd lie, or that anybody ever needed help an’, didn't et it from the Foljambes; but they'll be | 1 more enterprise arter a while, I reckon, an’ we'll all be a-cuttin’ one another's throat {i —_—__+--._____ Better Let Well Enough Alone. Washinston Correspondence Baltimore 8: After the recent speech of Jud Davis out- lining his attitude on the question of the orzan- | ization of the Senate, it has been the general | impression that things would remain as they are until the 4th of March, 1883. The election | of Mr. Riddi@berzer as Senator from Virginia | insures almost, if not quite, beyond the shadow of doubt that the republicans will have a clean majority after that date. This is announced in | ail political cateulations made here, and under | ail the circumstances the democratic officers of the Senate have had good reason to conzrat- | ulate Themselves on the prospect of holding on to their places for fifteen months to come. But it is not at all impossible that | democratic greed for office may — upset the calculations of the — Senate offi- | cers, and they may find themselves left’ out in the cold at a much earlier date than March, 1883. It ought not to be forgotten that Judge Davis owes the democratic party in the nate nothing. They had the oppoitunity to make him the presiding officer, and if they had | done so he would unquestionably have stuck to | i’, when the same opportunity came to | hastened to avail themseives of it As | iis ics go, it may, therefore, be considered | 1 quite gencrous in Judge Davis that he gave his ci iz vote to the continuance of democrats in the many profitable and desirable places under the seerctary and the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate In announcing his decision, however, | Judge Davis indicated that his opinion was that the present situation should remain unchanged, the main point being that Mr. Shober, the chie clerk of the Senate, should continue under the order of the Senate previously passed to act as secretary in place of Mr. Burch, deceased. Un- der this arranzement the business of thh Senate has been conducted smoothly and sati: factorily, and the republican Senators ;who considered that they were as much entitled to the offices of the Senate as to the committees acquiesced in tie views of Judge Davis, and decided not to renew the struggle of last spring for the posses- sion of the offices. But it seems that there are some who are not content to let well enouzh alone. A southern Senator has inaugurated a movement to elect a clflef clerk, and proposes for the office a citizen ot hisown state who has lately been removed as reading clerk of the House in consequence of the accession of repab- lican supremacy in that body. Three cit- izens of this Senator's state, one of whom is his own son, are already’ occupying positions in the office of the secretary, and even ifthe democrats had a majority i and there was a va clerk, such a proposition would be, to say the least of it, alittle cool. But as it is, with no vacancy in the oifice and with the present chief clerk amply competent to perform his own du- ties and those of the secretary, the latter being merely nominal, the proposition does not come short of unparelleled eftrontery. If it is pushed by the Senator and his democratic colleacues the probability is it would result in the substi- tution of republicans for the democratic offi- cials now in, and reasonable and fair peopie eculd not regret such a result from such a cause. A proposition has also been mooted to take up Gen. Field, the late doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, and bring him forward as a candidate for the office of secretary of the Sen- ate. This proposition is pertectly legitimate and does not offend good taste like the other, but it is scarcely less foolish, and if insisted on, the same result would be apt to follow. ‘That Promised Chilian War. From the 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. If we get into war with the insolent Men oon and jevy an army and cl im. st fetch her to terms, how are we gale to get satistaction?—Cincinnalé Gacetic, We can seize all the real estate in Chill, ac- cording to the modern ethics, and rent the place. out for an ostrich farm. In a war of this kind contractors would all get rich and the poor fealiey pend fill themselves up with glory. The war, we think, would be very popular. 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