The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1868, Page 5

THE WASHBURN MUDDLE. The Testimony Elicited Against the Minister— How He in Alleged to Have Alded the Allies and What Ke Got for Se Delng—General J. Watson Webb iu the Muddle, * ‘The following is an abstract Of the remaining por- ‘tion of the correspondence between the Paraguayan vernment and Minister Washburn. It is higuly edifying and will repay perusal:— ‘Minister Benitez states that Dr. Antonio de 1 Carreras in a sviemn declaration said thi ne to probable resull afterws the staphaity of the allies in not appearing on the 12,000 men at the time agreed upon; Ghat—speaking of the plan in general—Washburn t the idea a | PI 10 (as Washburn always” usin, marely, Abe word allies) should “3 —that 13 to A in Washburn’s inion Marsiial Lope and tiie national eause were and that he beileved the success of the revolu- easy, since when Humaité should be cut off, not resist low; that besides what has reggie upon ihe ee which nigno gave of counting upon forces in the cay ital by bribery or other ce ib project Wash! approved asa sure mode sucoeas and of avoiding the effusion of blood. As to the time agreed npon—that, in the first place, #8 was'to be when the squadron should pass Humai- $8, which event had been announced by correspond- ence several montis before (fve or six months), and that after its the movement was announced Yor two or three occasions, until at last the time was ‘xed at about the middie oi duly. All this gave rise tosome sarcasiic expressions from Mr. Washburn, ‘as, for example, “They are brutes,’ “They are more Brazilian than the Brazilians themselves,” “Caxias 4e nothing but a good military organizer, but for the west he is acomplete nullity,” manifesting the little eonfidence he had in Caxias’ promises, and regrettin: that Seinen be lost by such stupidity on the part ans. As to the part which Washburn took in the revo- Jution he (Carreras) knew by what Washburn him- self said to him that he had undertaken to forward ‘the correspondence of the revolutionary committee to the enemy, under the seal of the Consulate of Por- in order ti:us to save himself from the respon- ‘telling him (Carreras) also that he had ful- Blea part by always sending the correspondence every time that de nad occasion to send his own to his by flag of truce, except the last time, when he only sent a letter to the ‘Wasp, ordering ae to come up to San_ Fernando; ‘ashburn also told him that he had offered heuse to Bergés as an asylum for all Be pede compromised in the revolution, and that ‘Washburn notified Berges himself of the occasions when there would be sent a flag of trace, in order ‘that he, as well as the other members of the cominit- ‘ee, might prepare their communications for the enemy, tue deponent (Carreras) being one of those {who had written to Caxias more times than those ‘aforementioned. Suspecting by the imprisonmenta, which Wasiburn learned about the middie of July, that the government hai got hold of the thread of ‘the affairs, Washburn said that he lamented the fate aan. persons compromised, such as Bergés, Be- a, mgno Lopez, the deponent, Rodrigu: ‘and others, and that he considered the end ot tue war postponed since the revolution had failed. Minister Benitez then states that Bergés reiterates Ais statement about the packages, affirms and rati- ‘Ges it under oath, at the same time that Washburn respecting him, that he does not suppose ‘8 would do so through malice towards Wash- , Since the latter had no reason to believe tnat Be ever cherished such sentiments towards him. itez aivo expresses hia inablity to understand fashburn’s remark in his last note, that if he had been eariier informed of Rergés’ declaration much of this Jong and disagreeabie correspondence might ve been avoided; ‘ior even now,” adds Benitez, with & {uli knowledge of the facts, you oblige me to Maintain bere vege Sern tmcaonies ae ey subj , What 18 more, w he demant for the criminals Bilss ad” Mustereon, whom Excellency ~ retains there against all tice.” In his letter to Minister Stuart Wash- Burn admits that he purposely prolonged the j@orrespondence in the hope of saving these two (men. Benitez recalls to Washburn that his diary accurate as to such items as his calling on the iden’ mother and finding her well but sad, * while it is deficient as to what (if any) letters he forwarded through the lines on April 2%, Here he ‘thinks proper to again bring Carreras’ declarations Here are the aeclarations:— ‘That on the 2th of April he sent a leiter to Caxias, under ‘to Don Juan Francisco Gowland in Buenos Ayres; that this cover he sent a letter to Don Juan Jacinio Bargas, which was contained the said letter for Caxias; that te ent On Whee occasion, aud that in fact the Mibietey uid at in 0 Minister (wend it with bis f he wrote this letter (fe (Mr. Washburo, “I am going to improve the vunity to write my correspondence for below," to which Mibiater repied, “Ali right, aud that Le should hand in letters the next day, as he was then going to close up his ‘own;” the deponeut stating here that although he did not ex: say to Mr. Washburn that he was gol Washbura) tinderstood % so that ta 10 gay, jen the revoiutioniats; that ihe Fy apne ioe piney a ono the retreat of Marshal bicuart, which toa certain used the previous plans of th yo Sequont necessity of this by a bold operation as (seth ‘an: poesibie, demanding of him tm that reepect to ead off without joss eolum id to Sri Raat te eon ay BA ea tr wi a8 g Teodived s peckag of letters for v i fo person: to him in Vasconcellow there opened the, package and found Ma roll of letters for the deponent, whieh he delivered to ne conductor (Washburn) 16, be convered to the on; that im the rull came @ letier another for Tom and three for the deponent, ‘was that {rom juts of Caxias, dated the or the 18th of Marcb, ‘the ethers were one from bis ere a c~ m an Bargas, the letter 0! atemens har ms harmonized with that of Vascon- Sd the gunboat Wasp a large letter for comain avout four aheeta of leer oF it im his vresence, be found itor Garter rerum, and gave it bien to ba’ delivered as the later did immediately upon bis ; here relates how Washburn refured to for- some letters of the Minister for Fo! Afairs that it would be a breach of falth and allies, —% wants to know was ing Packages in good ae neutrality as regards the latter State. He at Berges declares that Washburn, when he ved the package by the went down to me | where Bergés was at the time, but kept it 1 till both had returned to the capital, when he vered it to Berges at Salinares. This, Benitez shows that Washburn knew the purport of letter, ren’ frat to Marquis de Caxias \was enclosed addressed to Minister Brito, of Buenos and wns forwarded by Wasivburn. Carraras in- the documenis are in an iron safe in the Le- eon. and that he would put his hand in i fire to attest the fact. Bergés adds that:— 2 10 bia opinign that when Washbura made sueh efforts to ja country [i waa all a farce in order to deceive the egrnment and that his real desire was to of the alifes by agreement with hia coll ie the General [J. Watson Webb} who is the inister at that court. In addition to the conver- hhe had with Washburn, who always ondeay- to diacourage him, there aro the’ revelations which erect Wesait ta Fay Oa vo aes ni urn ia (Spas s Weabburn). Rien © | Berites thanks Washburn also for the facta fur- eee hia letter relating to the correspondence ‘ardod througn the et from Baron de Souza Wo Vascoucellos, as they w fresh light on Minis. ter Borges’ treasot ges ) In his reply Washburn relates the his! of his juaintance with Carreras. He admits that his ory ie fogged by the declarations of Carreras as ots Lig. that © ras did give @ letter for John F, Gowland in Buenos Ayreg, ‘He adds that what the numerous trunks, boxes, we, feft iu his office for safekeepipg contain he can have no knowledge, but if the papers are tn ayy one ef thom, and tue person who leit them ‘send @ ‘written order apd description that he know ‘them, he willbe moat happy to deliver them, There- Ty oy sends = ~ "oo ex ‘by @x-Min- rt Jos° Berges, and dal hn Feraand 6. The following ts the order:— . you Bir Events mort unexpected decide dress you this letter from the eninp to refoon you to have the Pegs to deliver 40 the bearer the three sealed pack deposited with your excellency in my quinta at S the Doginoing of July ultimo, at the ten witch} recelved from your exceliency a few da: Serivalatthe capital. The first is Inbelled by mr ex Paown hand with the tite “Papers of Berges" i talne the corn opondes ° the lary being that which con which Tiere eechanged with Marquia d Se sreond | led “Priv Dorrespondence and routalon vers ¢ my er 5 in thie a A A ances with which 1 am your exceliency's most attentive and sure servant, JOSE BERGES. An reply (Angust 12) Washburn repeats his denial of having received such papers from Bet og There is @ strange adm! Gratvitousiy made ta ‘Washburn’s reply of August 11, He says:— og tte are several conversations 4 ave no When mp Sf Marquis de Caalas ;Sracilian) #6 told me thet Gremee rat Onorio wivld soon be at ‘with 10,000 ; after my return | remem’ niebal Lopes would bave - pore i oul tempt to march with that foros dirve Femaried that if such e ibing were attempted ty Osorio man of hia whole army would eseape hen ab Bar cw, ® short time be'ore, Thad discussed the same na with bie Excellency Marshal Loper, P Hero i an admission that he betrayed the Marquis ae Axis, for the latter would not make kaown to So important a movement aa that of General dow nO en in confidence. If no confidence was im “ved in this instance, os = ad or erquis axing extend w ‘ast ‘0’ AuoWledue, to Minwstgs Borges, Who a) that time NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, was the head of President Lopéz’ Cabinet. There seems to be here the traces of " racy turned. Washburn’s part can scarcely be imagined. statement thas be (weshbees discussed the thing with his Ex ncy Marsha! Lopez, a short time before at Paso Pueu will not mend the case. Mt true, it have been the first ht for Lopez as to Wasbburn’s movements when in the fact wat leader what like Caxias would not trust such rmation to one nor a tried or sworn friend, and if Washburn was not such a friend of Caxias, then he must have been trying to deceive him (Lopez) as to the enemy’s movements, Washburn in this leiter deuies that he ever inti- Mated to Berges any es or disgust consequent on the slow movements of the allies. ‘This denial, however, is set at naught by Washburn’s letter daied in Buenos Ayres, September 24, and addressed to the British Minister, Stuart. When writing to the latter Washburn must have forgotten his line of ar- gument with Benitez: in a note dated August 18 Washburn in takes, up the Bliss and Masterman case. He claims that they are not refugees, but that he sought them to do his work or service as transiator and physician. He olfers to give every facility to a notary if govérn- ment choose to send one for thelr depositions. He algo wants to know what persons of the following residents at the legation are recognized .by the gov- ernment of Paraguay:— ‘LIST OF PERSONS NOW RESIDENT IN THE LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES AT ASUNCION. The Minister, wife and child; Mrs, Leite Pereira, Carlos Moincke, private secretary; Kale Leaby, George F. Master- Bee Seas ee eee ee mt azar Carrel chore Jars Lola fivas (Lavandera). xin 5 Soon after the Departmerft for Foreign Affairs of Paraguay was entrusted to Don Luis Caminos. Un- re — ‘of September 4 he answers Washburn, stat- This government has sufficient conactence of {ts own dignity and duties not to commit itself by sending a uotary to your Excellency's house to examine the criminals ‘Shes and Mas- terman w! have never nor are members of the Legation; but the government will not hesitate in making ‘them appear before a tribunal because they are in all and for all merely refugees in your Excellency’s hotel. He tells him that ne encloses passports for all the eraons 10 his list of members of the legation save iss, Masierman and Baltazarar Carreras. He states:— with to your Excellency’s recommendation of the profession and sizading of Bites and Mastormana'T ‘ean ost Say to your Excelisucy that they are almost identical wit! those which yonr Excellency was pleased to make in favor of ras whou you were asked to dismiss him from your legation, and now {t appears that your Excellency has noi had mach trouble in applying against hin the words least honor able to any man. ‘Your Exceliency is right in thinking that my government has no desire to expose elther your Excellency or your family to any calamity, and tt i well known that during your lor stay inthe country your Excellency has been treated wi every consideration, as your Excellency yourself has con- fessed in your correspondence. I caunot, however, conceit bow your own convenience fs incompatible with the expulsion of those individuals, whereas their stay there must give rise to appreciations less satisfactory from the fact of their betn: implicated in a vast conspiracy, the depositions with which extend even to your Excellency. My government grievea to see your Excellency advocating for traitors to the country ax if you were one of them. They say 80 at least, and it behooves your Excellency to weigh these Aavertions, made judicially, ‘which. I will here further com- lament with others. ‘I shall rst bring forward one of the fndividuals of whom your Excellency ‘haw sated that. you heard of for the first time—Benigno Lopez, who deposed as follows ‘That onthe ascent of the first expedition to the north in 1864 they began to talk polities, Washburn saying to depo- e country appears to shake itrelf.”* nent—*Yes ; but we do not know who will suffer the fret blow, although ft is probabie that in the end we shall fare worst, seeing the power ‘and great of our To this Washburn perfectly agreed with him. Then from that time forward they continued talking whenever they me condemning the ryatem of government because the policy ot the government was arbitrary of being liberal and conatitutional, as befitted a country like Paragnay, rich for ata climate and for its natural products of ail kinda—that the government of the Marabal thought of nothing but makin Soldiers, and that scarcely any private ciizen was to. be me with, and that such a state of things could not but help to and retard progress and civilization in the country. ‘That all their conversations were in this tone Uuntt, on the occasion of his accompanying Washburn on & trip’he made to the front ia March for the pur- re of crossing, over to, the enemy's camp, they went more deeply into the matter and mooted the f the neceasity & change of government to bring toa close the protracted war, due, in Washbura’s opinion, tos violent and inconsiderate act of the Sarahaly ‘of which he certainly sorely repented. To this deponent re- plied, “What he is sorry for {not to have taken the Allies one by one4o make them dance," ‘That from this and other conversations they held together deponent understood that wirhed that i should trumph rather than Paraguay, aud that he would be di e to work in this sense, on which account he had no acruple in laying open the plan éf endeavoring to eifect @ change of goverament, not joubting that the Marquis de Caxias as soon as ho’ was made ware of the advan that would folow a successful revolution, be would send the bases of arrangement to le, the work. ‘Anal enabl to begin That in Paso Pucu, and just before Washburn er to the Somaya cam, deponent went tosee him in his quar- tera, and being aske.! by him about the situation of the army, deponent answered that it was pot bad, but that it wouid be rendered a very difoult one if Caxias stretched @ line from ‘Tuyuti as far as the Paraguay river, because it would be then enclosed. That while saying this deponent bent down and described tiris oJ ion by marking on the ary the vari- ous tions of the two armies, and showing that in this way interior of the republic remained ex ‘and that noth- Ing could obmruct, 8 force | from | reaching | the jcuar! aa) an ing 8 m Mas, Paraguarl, which was ‘not Yar, with the revolutionary force, and the combined wouid then be able to command the princtpal departments of the republic and the capital by means of oe That then Washbura, being interested to under- stand roughly the Pp ‘deponent, drew from his waistcoat pocket a pencil, which he handed ty’ deponent, ing at the same time to his private secretary, Moincko, who was in the room, to go out for a short time, which the at once, not, however, before having heard part o' fon and seen the tracing jo by deponeut finger on the ground. That then (when Meincke was gone with pencil, after which the left for the enemy's camp, most ikely carrying with him the drawing made on paper by deponent, That deponent’s intention, in making a drawing of the intended operation, that Washburn should show it to Caxias, and if ne did not say so cxpresaly ras decal Jatter did the con’ with his it wi use he understood that sure to do ft, which in fact turned out eud- im with Ue bases for Mo iSing the change of eet SPdetonncrs be bent coe eater use, iked him he had kk hie ho asl how ad loft those people (the army), to which he answered, well in health, but sons ve mi is their position, which, as 1 me worse (alluding to the circular move- ment). That in Paso Pucu after Washburn’s return from the enemy's camp, bringing the bases and letter of Cagias for de- eynburg that if they were success. fa tibion and something more fo t, instead of going to Chile, he might go where he and that bo said this because-Washburn was alwa: ing of hence to take charge of the legation in id was only this hope that made him put up with legation. That bencica this offer, deponent about end of ‘oF beginning of November delivered to ‘ashburn {n two sums the amount of 1,000 onnces and $15,000 more ‘That deponent's object in ring Washburn thle gratuity was jeot in giving Washburn was Scetetion in the revolution: That ot being eaasied 0 enable 0 po we 0 Te Bing moran Order to prott by theygoed dispositions of the ‘That ‘in addition to all this. Wa Fenn oe pascanatul ts rom em wae hound that if the abou! the new aa ora vo the revonuti, aceutrary case give an asylum 4 A a8 follows:— Francisco Lg yl ‘arreta de That Minister Washb cm recotved the um of #140,000 in accord ‘ashburn himself revealed to de- notes, ing to wh s; that this moAey was given to him by Benigno Lopes fe'the inst of ft h (di Sialic Gries Marae ety oa servants of Beni by two, no himself on their hi in twq Journeys, about dark; that deponent was pres- ent once ‘One of these servants came In with the money, and that Minister placed the sum of $40,000 at the dis- deponent and Carreras, according to a request ho said he Deponent and recelved from Benicio himeett ih it | cy however, did not the money, not knowin, whial t3 do wit the time, nnd consequcntiy. the whole remeined in the Minister 101 poakeasion. ‘e have omitted a great many details of this tes- timony, but in the above wili be found the leading features of the accusation against Washbura. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, now living in Florida, ‘enjoying the aroma of the orange groves, won't al- low negroes to come near her, she detests them so heartily. Since writing “Uncle Tom's Cabin’ she has experienced a remarkable change of ‘art. A new Hampshire Sambo from the South, havin, been told to kill ten or fifteen chickens for Thanks- givil actually “run down” the flock separately, catching one atatime. He chased some of them “that is the way they do itdown session of the Ohio Legislature pronounced the shortest and, in the amount of work performed, the most imp: nt that the State has ever had. Making priations for the re- building of the Lunatic Asylam lately destroyed by fire was among the business promptiy executed. A New York correspondent of a Boston paper says ari Schurz will succeed Mr. Henderson in the United States Senate from Missouri. This is going @ long way round to news from home, It is, ever, sometimes the most relfble. But gene- Tally the surest way to defeat a candidate is to make & premature announcement that he is cunving. It concentrates opposition against hin. Annest oF A WOMAN FOR Fravp.—A woman claiming to be wife of John Hunt, of Walling- ford, Conn., if under arrest in Meriden for obtainiug goods at Various stores by fraud, having them Charged to her alleged She told various stories as to her husband's residence, sald she had cpyters va him, and that she had been advio y a lawyer ew ain ail the goods she ould in his name, ! sagacity would detect the | VIEWS OF PUBLIC HEN SLUON CAMERON. Wasuinoron, Nov. 28, 1868, Some days ago I had the pleasure of a very agreeable interview with Hon. Simon Cameron, in which the conversation ran mainly on the public welfare, as was but natural with a man in whom love of the country and hope for its future are the bases of aii thought, . Mr. Cameron takes the same sanzuine view of our future that seems to haye been inetinctively reached by 80 many of our public men. “Firmness in the administration of the laws is what we get with Grant,” said the Senator, “and this will give us complete political tranquillity. Political tranquility is the paramount necessity, Even the financial condition depends upon that. No succeas with the finances can make the South quiet without a firm contrd) under the law of the disaffected elements, while this firm administration Of the law and the peace it will insure will do much to carry us through our money troubles if we can only keep out of the hands of the currency doctors. ‘The debt is not great by comparison with what the resources of the country will be in a few years if we assist peace to develop those resources, and that is the way to reduce the debt and solve the currency problem.” “It may be true,” I said, “that the growth of the country will solve these problems, but may the peo- ple hope that tne problems will be ieft to such a solotion 7? “We shall soon be through with the present Trea- sury Department; but, then, no one can say into what hands we may fall. There must be some- where in the country the ability to manage our fSnances, and we will find it as we found the skill to manage our armies, The most natural place to look for a Secretary of the Treasury 1s New York city. ‘That ig tue money centre of this Continent, and in the future will probably be the money centre of the World, and the President might choose there, per- haps, from among the great merchants or bankers, one of good character and practical taient; and such @ man Would lave too much sagacity fo indulge in theories. Theories aside, the solution touched upou seems inevitable.” “You count with great confidence, then, upon Grant's firmness with the South.’? “Yes,” said the Senator; “the night before the im- Rene ment vote was taken Grant went lo see ade.” “in the spirit,” 1 said, inquiringly, ‘in which one calls on the tan wio Is to be President to-morrow?” «“Yes,? was the answer; ‘in that spirit,’ “So completely, 1 thought, were even the best in- formed men convinced that Johnson could be re- moved and give piace to Vid Ben, But wiat was it that Grant, of ail silent men in the worid, wa3 89 eager to say? What was there he was so urgent to communicate to the President that he could not wait till the formality of Johnson’s removal had clothed his successor with his power??? “Yes,” said the Senator; “he went in that spirit He went to urge upon Wade the reappointinent of sheridan to the Louisiana district. What Grant urged upon Johnson as an actual and Wade ag & ible President he will proba- biy do hunself, so that Sheridan’s appointment to his former district may be looked upon as possibly one Of the first things to be done under the next ad- ministration. And this is an earnest of peace and an indication of the temper in which the new ad- ministration will take hold of reconstruction. Sheri- dan in Loutsiana is an epitome of the whole story. It means reconstruction of the nation according to the will of the North—that is, according to the wiil of the people who stood by the governwnent, and not according Lo the will of those who gongs to destroy it—reconstruction on conditions laid down by the conqueror, who is inclined to be generous and con- fiding, and who at worst will only be xo firm or so harsh as the ugliness and 1ll will of the conquered compels him to be in order to asvert and enforce his purpose, This is the reconstruction we will have under Grant, The South may be bitter, and flerce and deuunciawry, and no doubt will be til it finds out that all that does no good, and then it will be amiable enough. The South will recover the satisfactory tone of mind it had just after Lee’s surrender. in those days the men of the South clatmed but little aud would have been quite content to be sure that their property would be left to them, We spared their lives and we spared their property of our owo will. Perhaps it ‘was not quite wise to spare all their lives. Some. body ought to have been hanged, and if this were a choice between Lee and Jeff Davis, Lee was the worst, for his was the clearest case of ambition.” “He also claims to stand on the dangerous notion of duty to his State.” “Even that was an after it. He hesitated between the two sides in this fight only to ascertain which side would afford him ihe best chance. He could have been commander of our armies, but he did not know it and went over. But to retarn to the Soutuern men gencrally, We spared their lives and their property, and that must suifice; we will not leave thein the petvana to make the laws that are to re-establish the relations of the Southern States to the rest of the country.” “Ig it possible that the old quarrel between Grant and Butler can be made to interrupt the harmony of relations between Congress and the Executive ¥” “No; Butler will be aa active mania the House; but he has too much ability and perception to become responsibie for putting Congress in the wron; against the Executive. Butler came a great d nearer than koow to being President of the United States to-day. Lincoln wanted Butler to ran on the ticket with him for Vice President—to hoid the piace on the ticket sul juently given to Joun- son. I myself went down to Butler at Fortress Mon- Toe as Lincoln’s messenger in this matter. Baller aoe the Vice Presidency an exceptionable piace.” It may be judged that Butier had not then fallen upon his theory that assassination is part of our system, JOHN A. BINGHAM, Some Chat With a Vigorous Thinker in Ohio—His Views on the Condition of the Country—The Great Lmportance of the Fourteenth Amendment. Capiz, Obio, Nov. 20, 1868, “No, sir,” said Mr. Bingham, “reconstruction is Rot yet done with—the future is not secure.” “and why not?” “Because the fourteenth amendment is not safe. Every power for the salvation of the general gov- ernment is in that measure, and it is eminently ne- cessary that it should become properly and beyond all question part of the law, for without it there is no power. Attempts to destroy the Union are not the less but the more imminent for an attempt hay- ing once been made; but the next attempt may not assume the tary character, It may come in s shape that wil eacete to dais in the courts or be unable to raise our hands against it. The gov- ernment must be able to crusu im the courts those possibie abuses of power on the part of the States ‘that put them in conflict with the nation.” “What is the exact status of the amendment ‘now fr” “Well, the Chiet Justice, ina charge in Virginia, faid \t was part of the law, and this apparently docs for the people; but tf this is only a declaration of the Chief Justice the majority of the associate justices can overrule it.” “But is this only a declaration of the Chief Jus- tiee” “rhe amendment was proclaimed by Mr. Seward as accepted, but it was prociaimed with an if ana a ‘whereas,’ dubiously. Congress bas by joint resolu. tion declared the measure carried; but a joint resolu- tion is a law only to the two houses. Unless, the: there is something more than all this the amend. ment cannot stand an examination in court, Con- gress must by bill, reciting the amendment and nam- ing the States that have voted for it, solemnly de- clare it part of the organic law. It will have no force till this is done. ‘There is a bill for this purpose now lying on the table of the Judiciary Committee which that committee agreed to report and did not, and which stands ag unfinished business, Every day that gocs by without the passage of such a bill by Con- gress imperils the amendment greatly. Uregon has ‘Withdrawn her‘assent, and Ohio and New Jersey have done the same. This leaves as only twenty- eight States, and the loss of anotuer would deprive us of three-fourths.” “Do you assent, then, to the right of States to with draw @ vote like this? “No. T believe it is a case in which the power of the Legislature is exhansted when it t the first Instance, But 4 law like thit left to legal nicety, The acceptance of this law was the first will of the people in a great moment, it was the broad, honest impulse, te intuition of the Tight that swept from Maine to California. The in- tuitions of a great ple are the highest political wisdom. - When suc! intuition is crystallized into law that law represents the universal, even though unconscious, tion of some great trath.” “You consider, then, that the whole future of the Telationa between the general governinent and the States depends upon the fourteenth amendment, and that the onty security the war bas given is in the power it gave us to make that amendmen: ?” bstantially that, There was evidently po power of prevention in the constitution before, and there ‘waa none because the framers of that instrument did not deem any necessary. They aewumed political honor. They guarded the national existence with the obiigation of an oath—the oath of a@iegiance to the constitution of the Uniied States that every Stato Official takes. Daniel Webster held that the very vi- tauly Of qe governmans wag in thpt opti, a this very oath that the rebellion directed 1a DECEMBER 3, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. @ matter of fact, we have seen thot it was at | mate persons.’ ‘We the people of the United States’ meant the whole body of free mate cittzens, black or first blow. It began there, It reguired of ati | white; and that itshould mean this constituies @ US cecalures a8 a first step the recantation of that oath and the swearing allegiance to another power. ‘that was so far a dissolution of the Union. ‘at means, therefore, of guarding the gov- ernment is not to be depended upon, Fortunately for the country secession did not reat there. It was tempted to the misste; wer. ‘This is what the Northern aemoerais did for us. They wanted sowe share in rebellion too, There was in New York, in 4861, a powerful organization whose object was secession and the crea‘ton of an indepeudent repub- lie—a sort of New Venice. These men did mot see any ass'stance for them ia the legal attitude of the South, and pushed the Southern leaaers to overt acis, With the pledge that not a regiment should ever march against them from the North, ‘then came an act of war.” “And this you hold was to the advantage of the nation?” “The uct of war put Lhe movement in such a shape that we could take hoid of 11, How else, moreover, could we ever have mustered the North? How could We have raised armies among a people used to the utmost limit of political difference for such a Lo gerd Aa the coercion -of an unarmed population ‘hat simply claimed a righ? It was the act of war that raised the country and gave us a} power, and that too within the constitution. By the constitu- tion Congress may declare war, aud the right to make war involves the right to do any act that is necessary to secure the objects of the war.’” “But suppose a similar movement in the hands of men wiser by the failure of these Southern leaders— men pretending or feeling agrievance that may exist anywhere, and not to be deluded by democratic promises into making War against twenty millions of & free people—suppose they did all nominally within bcd slam, so that they could only be fought in the courts “Well, without the fourteenth aiendment you Would be powerless against them, That amend- ¥: puts in the hands of the general government ‘time of peace the power that is not in the rest of e consuitution, because when the constiiution was framed its necessity was not foreseen. All rested then on the sacredness of an oath, But since we have seen there is no power in that it would be folly not to use other means—not to control inoninagenss they respect—against the always possible abuses of State power, which would put any section in the altitude held by the South before 1b made war, and which wauld constitute a ractical dissolution of the Union. There Is no remedy but in this article. in the law’s respect for the proper rights of Siates it is not easy to get hold of even the abuse of those rights, Suppose a case of simple secession in which war 1s not made upon us, The Legislature adjourns and refuses to elect Senators, the people do not choose Congress- men and there is tius merely a failure of the na- tional phase of the State’s existence through non- perforinance of functions that you cannot with- out the amendment compel them to perform. It is only through the States that the machinery of the national government comes into existence, and any State muy thus to adegree cripple us in the abuse of its powers, Or if a citizen of a Northern State moves into a Southern State and takes his residence there, they can tax his property to tue extent of com- fiscation to pay for their Joat niggers, and you can- not get it into a national court, for a State 1s abso- Jute in its sphere, and the levying tis own taxes is supremely its sphere. These are not chimerical eatin; for they are doing worse than this all the ame? nera? Thomas gays of his district that murder prevails by the consent of society,”’ “Well, the fourteenth amendment is fall of power for ail the occasions likely Ww arise, It provides against the payiuent of all rebel claims in any guise; it gives the protection of the nation to its citizens and ina large sense provides against unioresven dangers in the clause for ‘appropriate legisiauon.? 1t assures for the first time tn our bistory against all Possibilities the gee ed of the body politic, the United States, the political rights of the nation. It provides that no States suall make or enlorce any jaws which shail abridge the privileges or immuni- ties of citizens of the United States. [t ts one of these privileges to choose representatives, to be represented in the Senate and to vote for that body, a State body too, that chooses a President. Some of the immunities are freedom from cruel and unusual punisument and unlawful seizures, It gives us Tull power W_ protect eur citizens, and it was needed. Hitherto there has en no question of our right to protect our citizens in foreign countries, as the Kosta case extremely illustrates—the case of a man only a citizen by decla- ration aud 50 positively protected by your New Yorker, Marcy. But when @ greater outrage was committed in South Carolina againsya citizen resi- dent in another State there was no remedy under any authority.” “Your view of the power of the amendment, then, is,in bnef, that it puts more definitely the law of Felative national and supremacy.” “it guards us against What we must always count upon, the abuses of State power, and unless we have such a guard we are in no beiter position than we were belore the war. The framers of the constitu. tion did not count upon these abuses and did not rovide us with remedies. They supposed a spirit In ail our governinents in which men would be as little ready to encroach on Others as to have others encroach on them, because the danger is tn de- Waren to whatever side from the spirit of the law. e have found that te be a delusive dependence and must act from our experience.” . “State rights proper, ten, you do not regard as necessarily i conflict with the central power, e@x- cept in their abuse.” “Yes, it is a true national duty to guard the people of the United State against the abuses of the powers the States: Fs, genom have. Chancellor Kent says:-— ‘The judicial power of the United States is neces- sarily limited to national objecta. the jaw of property, the very ex! vem isle ction, the principal rights and duties which Gow from our civil and domestic relations fall within the control and, we might alinost say, the exclusive cognizance of the State goveraments. We 100k essentially Ww the State courts for protection to all these inomentous interests.’ This is rignt, as it supposes a nataral state of society, where the agents of the law endeavor to do justice." We have another state of affairs to deal with, where the agents and miniaters of the government and the law use it a8 @ machine to give eject to a revengeful spirit and vent iheir wil on whatever helpless ones they find within their reach. In such a case the protection of property and personal right becomes @ Lationsi Object, Of course if we could suppose thet ali the judges were to be men like Kent far lees + we must now do would be ecessary. Justice is tucaruate in @ man Hke him.” “[g It not the case always that men who have thoroughly, broadly and properly studied the higher spirit of the law attain to s general freedom ir@p the baser motives 7”? “It certain i 4 “But thé World has ® contrary opinion as to the Jaw and the men wo study it.” “The world sees mastiy pettifoggers. To have an ample and full view of the mind and soul of & great lawyer, look at Bacon, the ampiest iniellect and the whitest sou! Known to the history of humanity.” =, “tam giad that you do not believe him, ‘the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.’ ” Alexander Pope would say that of anybody. He ‘Was too litle to take Bacon's measure—a pitiiu) fel- low. Not one of Bacon's legat judgments has ever been reverred. Tam @ thorough believer aiso én the theory that he wrote the plays that pasa by the vame of that obscurity William Nhakspeare.’! “It is the spirit of historica! visi that {t breaks images and evaporates traditions; bul Shakspeare is woo good @ tradition ever to ve given up.” “}lave you read Ho.mes’ boos on thus question of Skakepeare ?”” “I have not.” 4 “My attention was frat called to It by Judge Holt. The autnor has @ judieial mind and puts ite evi- dence so that you canpot doubt Wut he is rignt,”? “But, Mr. Bingham, I would say this much gen- erally; historical criticiswa runs to am extreme aud overicaps its mark when it requiee degal evidence ag t any event or the exisvence, career or bccn of any man. No doubt it can be shown in arguimen' that Caligula was the frst Quaker, aud as to Witliam Penn and bis principies, Jf you will go to the State House of Pennsylvania you will Snd @ portrait of the respectable gentleman in very handsome armor. Armor means tiguiing. No doubt, however, the general judgment of the world is bear right as to both. tts ‘lng too far to endeavor £0 upset ali that the world, believes because It cannot be sus- tained on evidence. ‘The Germans have proved to their own satisfaction that there was no Homer, We absolutely know much of Shakspeare {9 a ut thé Atigmps 10 give bis playa U another is in the same direotton.” “AB tO What know of Shakapeate, tt 18 but lit- fies yet I pelieVe We KNOW of him all that there was of bim. know, Moreover, is against nin, and indicates that he did not possess the greatness of soul that appears in the plays. Consider wis will. What do you think of & Wau Who leaves his second best bed to his wife?! “| think that you Midst Not bold Shakspeare re- sponsible for it. No man rises altogether above his age or above national character. Old Knglish, ciety, high or low, d.d nol iook upon wives wititihe refinement and delicacy of this age. An old Bogish rover) says ‘the best goods in & man’s house is a dead wife.’ Do not decry Shakspeare for baving been English.’ “Shakspeare bad not the knowledge that is In these plays.” “If that argoment is effective it must be so in both ways; for the plays were Written by @ nan ignorant of things that Bacon certainiy knew. J would rather believe that the plays mn their best phase were the unconscious product of an accidental brain ina foot ge than convict Bacon of the ignorance, the ove of mut and the fondness for poor jokes that rans through them. But ol! this leads use great ‘ways from our mutton." “Well, the mutton was copked. Unless the four- teenth amendment ie firmly fixed as part of the law men now living will see the end of our bistory asa nation; for without it we have not uate central power, save when war givesas the igh to assume all power that may be nevegsary, ‘Tocqueville ‘was Tight in his saying that the os#once of our ays tem was centralized power and deceniraized administration.” “Bat power existe fog the people omly im adminis- tration.” A “True, and when you have ented of corrected whatever abuses may arise edmniniswation you have @ perfect system.” “What is your opinion of tue proposed amendment for universal eu " “The qnestion of universal sutrage Is an inevitabia part of the future. Sudrage ts conuned to male per. sons by the tradition of the goverament, and va free po but not to whites. The word white was de- iberavely voled out. of the piraseology of the eon- atitation, Keut said of evea the slaves that they wore ‘citizens under dieabihitias; bub now we have removed the disabilities, They are ali free and tine como unger the obd desor! repubiican government. “What are your views in brief as to the manage- ment of the dept?” “One of the very Important points of the future is the establishment of the national finances on & proper bags, 1 believe that we must have a funding 1 making the time forty years and fixing the inte- rest as low a8 four per cent or four and a haif per cent, principal and interest payable in coin. This would save us thirty millions a year in interest and would close the mouths of agitators of financia! the- ory. The conversion shou.d be voluntary. It can- not be doubted that 1s would be taken up. There should be no taxes on it. Such a loan on this gov- ernment would be the best investment in tue world Jor great capitalists.”” NORTH CAROLINA. Sceues and Incidents in the Blue Ridge Moun- tains During the War—Additional Outrages by the Notorious Colonel Keith—His Arrest aud Imprisonment at the Close of the War by the Military—He is Turned Over to the Civil Authorities for Trial. MARSHAL, Madison County, Nov. 24, 1868. James A. Keith, a native of this county and for- mer Confederate licutenant colonel, has recently been remanded from the jail at Raleigh to that of Buncombe, the county adjoining this, there to be held until tried for the commission of one of the most fiendish outrages ever perpetrated—that of the Massacre of thirteen persons in this county during the late war. In giving the details of this grave crime there is no disposition to nurture feeling and strife that should be buried with the terrible past, bat simply to record an important matter of history which, if not altogether overlooked, has been only briefly referred to in the public prints, And while impartially recounting the. pri- mary causes, the circumstances and the results of the massacre, at which humanity must shudder, it Is but simple justice to state that the victims as well as the perpetrators of the outrage were culpable to & great extent; but that furnishes no justification nor adduces any sympathy for the chief criminal, now soon to be brought to justice. All classes here, even the former friends of James A. Keith, equally with the friends and relatives of lis unfortunate victims, agree In the demand for that terrible retri- bution—blood for blood—decreed by the laws of both God and man. If there is any sympathy for the criminal it exists only in the breasts of his wife and children and those who were his accessories to the act, the latter from the fear that through their leader justice may overtake them at no late day. It is well known to your readers that during the re- bellion a state of chaos, anarchy and constant commission of crime existed in the moun. tainous regions of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, Here a large class of poor, honest, but mostly illiterate people, who lived com- ratively isolated from the outer world, were found it 1861 80 devoted in their allegiance to the govern- ment of the United States that all efforta Ww seduce thern into the rebellion proved entirely fruitless, and steadfastly during that terrible four years of strife did they maintain that allegiance. Regniarly organ- izod bands of these men, armed with their own shot- guus aud bunting rifles, were formed, and by a sys- tem of signals at the approach of danger they re- treated to their mountain fastnesses, which they resolutely and heroically defended if.pursued. These were joined, too, by large numbers of deserters, who usually carried with them their arms, and so formi- dable did they become about 1863 that a large Confede- rate force had to be sent to break up if possible these bands, which were proving a serious source of annoyance to that government. This same section of country boasted aiso of quite @ rebellious class of people, devoted to the shortlived confede- racy, and, consequently, an intense - hatred grew between the two opposite elements. The latter were the better or more wealthy, mauy owning plantations of considerabie extent, which being at that time tilled by slaves, were frequently invaded by the erceem as the loyalists were calied, in quest of provender, which they were usually suc- cessful in obtaining. Even towns and villages were not exempt from these incursions, and often when such raids were made the most flagrant outrages were committed, lite being not unfrequently sacri- ficed. Besides eatabies, let and lead, stores were rifled of their contents, beds aud bedding taken from private houses and even women stripped of their clothing and outraged by men who were drunk. In the face of such outrages it is not to be wondered at thal the rebels were terribly incensed against their “tory enemies,” 80 called, nor that they dealt se- verely with them when the opportunity oifered. Many of the rejatives and friends of the women who were outraged aad the people that suffered losses from the raids of loyalists were among the rebel troops on duty in this section, and these particularly always gave them hot pursuit and harsi treatment if captured, ‘THB IMMEDIATE CAUSE WHICH LED TO THE MASSACRE. ‘Towards the close of the war salt was an article of domestic use the people of the coniederacy suffered eatly for the want of. It could only be obtained frexceeain jy small quantities, and then it had to be as carelt divided and apportioned as the pow- der issued to the army. Of the two articles for a lon, perioa salt was decidedly the most precious, an many a family who would otherwise have been ampy rovided jacked aimost every necessary of life in the simple article of salt. At the period refer. red to the Confederate authorities had possession of the Kanawha valley salt works, from which the en- tire supplies of this and otter States came. It was sent to the different county seats and there issued to the various townsliips and precincts in quantities to suit the population, according to the amount re- ceived, On one of these momentous and important occasions the people living in Laurel valicy, a re- mote mountain gorge of considerable extent, chiefly inhabited by loyalisis, conceived the idea that they had not received their fair share of salt, and were necessarily exceedingly infgnant. A meeting was held and it was resolved that as soon as 8 in Captain Kirk could be sent for to Hast Tennessee to lead them salt raid should be made on this town (Marshal), the county seat of Madison, Kirk, a valliant Union commander in this section, generally headed every movement where numbers to any considerable ex- tent were required, and from his repeated successe: became quite popular a8 @ raider. He was formerly a tailor in Kast Tennessee, aud boasted of tis relation- ship to the then military Governor of the State, Brigadier Geverai Andrew Jonson. THE HALT RAID. ‘With the arrival of Kirk, who was notifled that a supply of powder and lead could also be obtained ere, every preparation had been completed for the roposed faid. Numbering about eighty, horse and foot, variously habited and as oddly armed, with an advance guard thrown to the front, Kirk gave the command “forward,” which set the force in motion, But a few hours’ march aud the raiders were close upon the unsuspecting town, and, there being no troops to offer resistance, an easy though rapid entry was eifected and the town was in possession of Kirk and at the mercy of his successfui command. ‘The mbabitants, mostly women aod children and a few aged men, were thrown into @ much worse state of consternation than if the veritable “Yankees” themselves had arrived when they saw their remorseiess enemies, the “Hulfaloes,” from whom they looked for every species of crime and ontrage. Kirk, however, as long vf og kept luis men Weill under control, and the first excesses that occurred were chiefly due to some of the terri- fled peopie themselves, who, the better to appease a portion of the men, produced an antimi supply of whiskey. This ly partaken of the men lost Ou restraint, and pillage first of the stores and then of private houses was commenced, All the salt, powder and lead in town had been safely secure Previously, so that with this main object accom. lished nothing else was left but a comparatively ugiorious return to the valley or the sacking of tie vown, This wae proceeded with vigorously. Houses: were gutted without regard to who the owners were; women Were stripped almost naked ang the} clothes taken; children wereseryed in likg Mhnner, and among tite victhii of this ate andenind ‘was the family and residence of Mlone! Allen, of the Confederate army, whoge ileutenant colonei Keith was. With the plagge?, aster a suort Stuy, Kirk and his band left town aud returucd (0 thelr Mountain resort yoraolested, oe ee TH MARE AORB, Soon, however, the sad news of the pillage was conveyed by special messenger to Licutenant « ‘olonel Keith, who, enraged beyond meagure and being des- perate, With 160 select men proceeded cautiously though in bot pursuit of the raiders. With the pe- culiar cunning which @ thirst for blood and geance gives, Kaiti aietly surrounded #@ portion of the valley where he knew lus game was Safe, as far As &@ Bailictent number to glut lis appetite for blood Ia concerned, without sny cousideration as to whether they were com ad in the raid. vhls was on the igth of January, J#0%. The house of one Joun Chandler was tuat selected for Keith's horri- Die purpose. A rapid descent was made upon this at atime when it was discovered & number of por- gona were assembled togetuer init. Almost belore they could realize their sitnation thirteen men and boys, some of whom had been in the raid, were With a tervible oath Ket made nown. his iptention of killing every man of them, and here & scene ensued that escripuion. The entire party implored Fe eaee tor mstey, deciaring in the most piveous tones tueir willingpess to do anything their captors demanded, prov.ded their lives were spared, Gray- haired men joined tueir eutreatios with the tears of heipless woinea and erying boys. But ail to no pur- e—death was ee hanes his — an or. jor to move the prisoa wing sceng er ed rho women. aad boys fell at the feet of tho soldiers, calling oa them in the ail thas was sacred, through taelr tears, to save them. ‘Some of the he piess victims the Tega of their but were brutally shaken Off, wita a borribly mut- terred curse. Now the movement commenced, and the thirteen victims were dragged about a quarter of amile from the house, conveyed a short distance from the pablio road into the woods, and there, . 5 —- — firet fre. These helpless youths, so ruthlessly torn from their homes, were spared to again beg for mercy. But the remorseless Keith orde: s second fire, and the remaining innocent victims were ushered tnto the presence of & just God. Nearly all of them were pierced by @ number of bulicts, ana, excepting the boys, they ali expired almost in- stantly. = "i lowing is a list of the victims:—James Shel- ae yore Sheiton, Jr., David Shelton, Sr., David Shekon, Jr., Roderick Shelton, William Shel- ton, Isaiah Shelton, Anderson King, Joseph Wooda, James Metcalf, Halen Moore, Wade Moore and Jas- er Chandler, . Petter the perpetration of this revolting deed it was atleast tobe expected that the murderers would accord their victiins soldiers’ graves. but even this sad ceremony was denied. Acting under the orders of Keith the bodies, lying close together, were cov- ered with stones in @ most savage and rude which 80 mangled their features that ina short when their friends dared to remove them, they c not be recognized. ‘These details are but, im and fail to portray the savage atrocity of “The Laurel Valley Massacre.”” ARREST AND TRIAL OF KEITH BY THE CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES, For a considerable length of time nothing was known of this inhuman outrage; but at length it reached the ears of Zebulon Vance, then Governor of the State, who at once demanded of Mr. James A- Seddon, then the Confederate Secretary War, the arrest, trial and pene % ) onion, - james A. Kelth. In imperative demand Keith was placed under an Ofiicer’s arrest (in his quarters) and a short time afterwards was called before a military court mar- tial, which probably bore ail the semblance of such @ tripunal without being one in fact or character as far as the adminisiration of justice was concerned. Keith, after a mock trial, upon the plea that he was acting under orders from General Harry Heth, tow of Virginia, was discharged or cashiered the service, but acquitted of all other charges. ‘Thus a criminal who has no equal as % barbarous monster in modern times has been to the 1 escad allowed to escape the doom he go justly merits, SUBSEQUENT CAREER OF KEITII, Free again and without the trammeis of mill restraint, Keith, with a knowledge of the terror his name produced In this county, returned here, and ol more organized a band of outlaws, of which he made himseli commander. At the head of these be roained through East ‘ennessee and Western North Carolina, plundering and murdering, it is alleged, as it suited his convenience. With the proceeds of this roobery he purchased a farm on South Tiger river, where his wife and family resided till the surrender. During this period, in 1864, there is since the sworn testimony of Mary Franklin, who alleges that, accom- panied by his band, he visited her house in this county, bis first act belug to Kill her soa Balius. A younger son, Josiah, sought ge under the floor Of the dwelling, while anotber, James, ran to effect his escape. Keith fired the house, causing Josiah to come out, When he was brutally murdered, James was pursued and he shared ihe same fate. Tho house was consumed by the lames and ihe bereaved other sought protection within the federal lines, HIS LAST ACT. Strange to say, Keith remained in the county in which all his alleged outrages had been coiely committed unul 1866, and has since been indicted ior murder and arson committed 2ist May of that year. He was tien sought, and would have becn suimmartiy deait with, but that he effected his escupe to Greenville district, 5. C., where he re- sided, eighteen miles north of the Court House, in @ neat residence at the foot of the Blue Kidge, until his PINAL ARKEST. Upon charges made and numerous indictments found againsi him his arrest was effected by the mul- itary. uuder orders irom General Canby. He was lodged in Castie Pinckney, where he remained for a considerable period—the people in bis county all the while earnestly soliciting his trial by a military com- mission, Affidavits in effect as above were forward but after due consideration General Canby di that the military had no jurisdiction in the ¢ and among & number of other prisoners of like class he was turned over io the civil authorities for trial, a8 will be seen by the following orde! SPECIAL ORDERS—NO, 72. HEADQUARTEKS SKOOND Mintrany District, ara CHARLESTON, 8. C., July Sl, } XXYVIT, The commanding oflicer, military post of Charies- ton, 8. C., will forward under a reifable guard prisoner James A. Keith (citizen), charged with murder and other hefaous crimes, to Kaleigh, N.C. where the prisoner will be tara over to the commanding officer of that post to be by him. eid subject to the requisition of the Attoravy General of the Bi of North Carolina. ‘The Quartermasier's Department will furnish the necessary transportation; the coat of such transportation to be reim- bursed from Reconstruction fund, eave ae By command of t Brevet Major General ED. R. 8 CANBY. Lours V. Cazignr, aoe Acting Asst. Adjt. Gen, While imprisoned at Castle Pinckney Keith strong-. ly protested against being returned to nis native! county, on the grounds that his life would not safe in any jail there, Hence his coufinement in the jail here until recently, when he was taken 0 jail of Buncombe county, to be heid until trial. dames A. Keith is six feet high, dark hair, dark complexion, has a ieavy black beard, unusually ieee wearsa sinister expression of countenance and powerfully built, weighing probably 145 or 190. Ho’ converses ina low tone of voice, usually Keeping one of bis eyes shut while speaking, from habit; is intelligent and has a thorough knowledge of history. He served in the Mexican war, from which he re- turned a physician, with an idea of military aiairs whict served to advance him to the rank he held in the Confederate service, mapcnsing that government at the secession of South Carolina, he became unpo; ular with the Union people of this county, and hens probably, his barbarous course towards then subse Nobody expresses the slightest sympathy A SCARE IN STEUBEN COUNTY, W. Y. A Curious Story About Wild Cats and Other Animals. {From the Corning (N. Y.) Democrat, Nov. 26,} Our Hornby correspondent reports that intense excitement is prevailing in that usually quiet town over the appearance of dangerous wild auimals. What species of animals they are no one can tell, but they are probably the sume ay those which tn- fested Post Creek and vicinity about two years ago. They are heard screeching in the woods nearly every night, particularly in the region of Dry kun and Wild Cat Hollow. Their screams are repre- sented'as sounding like the crying of a wouian in distress or calling some one ata distance. The terror is becoming w) read ainoug the iuhabitants, and few dare venture forth alter dark except in company with others and well armed. The first appearance of one of these animals occurred in the Harrison neighborhood about two weeks ago. It was 0 bold that it chased a cat up the corner of a louse on to the roof, frightening the inmates nearly to death. A few evenings afterwards a gentieman who was in his stable yard @ COW saw & Very peculiar looking animal prowling around, and coming alarmed arose to run to the house. The animai upon seeing him likewise became trightened, and with the most astonishing speed escaped to the woods, Another gentleman saw something ap- proaching his premises recently that looked so fero- cious and dangerous that he ran for his gun to shoot it, Upon endeavoring to obtain a favorable position for that pape the thing got sight of him and sped by with sueh velocity that his fright prevented alm from firtng at it, Another yoang man avers that but a few evenings since as he was driving through a piece of woovts, after having taken a young lady home from @ sociable, he saw an animal springing turough the branches of the trees, and that its eyes,im the in- tense darkness of the night, looked like two coals of ‘edges to have been so terrified that . he Way home, and several tines narrowly escaped having his buggy overturned and his neck broken. Many others have seen the same thing at different Umes ana places, ali of whom unite in describing It as being about the size of a large dog, very biack in color, with a ferocious thick head and erect ears. Low many of them there are it is of course linpossibie to say. There may Le but one and there may be a dozen, But whether few ox many, ac\ive measures should be introduced at once for their slaugiter. Traps shouid be set and a com. pany of armed hunters should scour every pieve of woods in the town. eel ‘HE BOND ROBBERY IN BRIDGEPORT, CONN. {Prom the New Haven Journal, Dec. 2.) At the hour of closing the Pequonnosk lank on Mouday the cashier, Mr. Higby, nouiced thats bot belonging to Mr. ©, B. Hotenkiss, of Bridgeport, and which lad beea piaced tn the vault of bank for safe keeping, Was missing, and he immerdiately ju- Stituted inquiries a8 to whether Mr. Hotel siss had remove itor not. Mr. Hotchkiss was found and do- Clared that he had not removed it, and it therefore me apparent that the box had been swien. contents of the box amounted WO about $90,000 in securities, of which not over $2,000 were in funds available to the robber, the re- mainder being in_ registered bonds and stocks of various kiad’. Tie box Was lust seen during the morning (Monday), aud the president of the bank thinks that he saw it during the forenoon, as he had occasion to go to a box of his Own and was obliged to move Mr. Hotchkiss’ box @ little lo get abit, as they were placed near together in the vault. Alter that nothing was seen of it, and it was pot missed till, ag stated above, about the time of closing the bank. it is understood that the president is not sure that he saw Mr, Hotchkiss’ box at that tine aud may be laboring under @ mistaxe. If the box was taken during the day it was a most wouderfully bold and successful robbery, aud totally inexplica- of course, tue bank was not left ® moment, and the vault is directiy behind the counter of the cashier and teller, #0 that no one could possibly enter without being seen. The roboery must have takeu place in the night and some other box have been laced in the position of the one taken 80 a8 conceal time, Mr. Hotchkiss, upon learning te facta went immediately to New York and took ace tive measures for traciag the property should ti ve ut upon ae the secsaitne in the she wing:—Tem $500 ten per cont school bonds, Issued by the Cod of Marshail, Mic! to Crane, end Orane & Hurd; five s1 Milwaukee and Ratiroad first morty bonds, Nos. 2,070, 1,047, 3,4° 43; three Connecticut St bor 1 United States coupom at present ee bonds, Nos, 22,020 and 22, MURDER AND MARRIAGR.—At Montgomery. Texas, the ii i ivan oulion, Fue imploring. mercy fromthe ‘relentless | recently, & man named Cline was alive ait killod by captors, and without being even allowed the | Walter {. Brennan. Throe days afterwaris (ho privilege of a aliort prayer to that Throne before | widow of the turdeted Man ran of witi Nts mur whioh they Were #0 soon to appear, the fatal cout | derer and was tuarticd to lim. After # hot pursuit mand was given. Nine fell dead the first diss | Brennan and his brite were captured, aai fe ty ohai of nearly & hundred muskew; but strange | awaiting bie Wial for the murder Of his Wie s Urst busvoud. of voters, ‘freg + to may, she four bare were not killed oubruht at Hie