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,, 0n s'la.!ay, tke 24th doy of January
(he usual quiet neighborhood, known
i" ' — *% n •' u
tis the "Wil««js settlement," in the South
part of tltis county, wa« startled by the
report that the body of a stranger had
be«n found, foully murdered ; the excite-
ment bccarao intense ; no man knew the
body, nor coaid-this least due be found by
which the ji^rderera could be traced. A
words issuing from the trembling lips of a
d^in^t man are worthy ofsarnast attention.
the
jfet a boy, I mingled in bad eompo
man in that
r.ana
meeting «ru
whole com m
aoeouat of-ibj
thereby UNI
picked men
in search <4
lend to sua
McKinne;
n cha
ovary direction
eeewhich might
picigo. 'A train was started at
anfffollowed, until link by link
elrcuinstnnoes was disclosed auf-
warrant the arrest of John
and Wm. 0. Black more, two
I, living near McKinney, who
ingly arrested, and brought to
laof for trial. On the 1st Monday
in February! District Court began. Up
on the oiroumstonoes produced before the
Grand Jury, that bony found true bills of
indictment against the prisoners for mur-
der in the first degree. Upon the trial,
which took place immediately after indict-
ment, the best legal talent at this bar was
employed, both In the prosecution and de-"
fence, and upon circumstantial evidence,
John Thompson wm convicted. Upon the
oonviotion of Thompson, who was first
tried, Blackmore, whon arraigned, made
open confession of the crime, in a great
measure exonerating himself, and casting
the principal blame upon Thompson, evi-
dently with the design of enlisting the
sympathy of the courts jury and apectas
tors in his favor, in whiob be to a consid-
erable extent, succeeded; but the jury
could do no less than they did do, under
their oath, and returned a verdict Of mur-
der in the first degree. Upon Which ver-
dict Judge Hart passed the sentence of
the law, naming the 26th day of Maroh as
the day w^>on which the prisoners should
be hung; and here we take occasion to j
speak in terms oT the highest praise, of
the energy and determine ion of those of
our oitisens, who traced out and were in-
strumental in bringing the murderers to
justice. Their time was freely given up,
and no difflcuiiy seemed insurimiumatfe;
and to those of our citizens who liberally
donated their means to fee lawyers, and
pay guards, too much credit cannot be
awarded.
After a confinement of near eight weeks,
under close guard and loaded with heavy
chains, the day arrived upon whioh the
criminals were to expiate their fearful
crime, by yielding up their lives upon the
gallows. The day dawned beautiful and
clear. At an early honr tho crowd be-
gan to assemble, and by 10 o'clock a. m.,
the publie square was literally filled.
Tne gallows was erected at the South
wicdotr on the eaat front of the Court-
House, in the open room of which the pris-
oners had been confined since their trial.
At about one o'clock p m., the priaonors
were led Out, enshrouded in white, their
faces only visible. We may not have look
od upon them as fftrhaps others did, but
to our mind the two men presented great
contrast. While Blackmore appeared to
ucoept his fire wi'h quiet and even prayer-
ful resignation, Thompson, though deeply
a Fected, met bis with stern determination.
U > words escaped the lips of either. At
1; 80 p. m. the sharp stroke of the hatch-
et which severed the rope was heard-—the
drop f*ll, and Thompson and Blackmore
*hung suspended in the air. .The neok of
Blackmore was dislocated and he died al-
and 1 can see now, too lata to improve
lesson it brings, however, that my
mind and morals took en a bias, that tike
the hand of unyielding destiny has led me
to this sad and solemn hour of my preAt-
less history. I played at cards and soon
was led into gambling. I took the social
glass with my friends, but soon I detected
ttie preeenoe of is fondness for the exhila-
stimulant. It new into- n habit
not unfreeqnentty, I
hitkitual and persistent Sabbath breaker ;
and often without the knowledge or con-
sent of my parents, would steal off from
home to play at carde or fish on Sundays,
I have lived awildand wicked life. While
the war Was going on. I wan with a wioked
company, and I did many things along
with my comrades, that I ought not have
done. After the war wm concluded by
nee, 1 went back to my home in Missouri,
ut I was pursued and driven away from
home; from political difierenoee and pri-
vate prejudices, I could not live there in
peace. I then came to Texas—thinking I
wonld make this State my home; but not
long afterwards 1 went baok to Missouri,
but I could not stay. Last fall I returned
to Texas and felt almost desperate. I. had
been to your State but a short time when
I aided in ttie commission of the orimefor
whioh I am presently to suffer and die. I
am deeply.sorry I did it, but I can't undo
it now As to Mrs. Mallow, with whom I
was bo&rding, she is a good woman and
entirely innocent of any connection what-
ever with our crime. I thought for a
while that I was safe in the wickedness I
had done—that no one would accuse me of
doing the deed;.but somehow the eye of
God seemed to be upon me, and my sin
hee found me out 1 do believe that a
man's sins, sooner or later, blood hound
like, will scent him up and hunt him down.
I have been running in sin a long time,
but it has overtaken me at last.
And now young men. as I turn away
from you to die, let me beseech you to
avoid drinking, swearing Sabbath break-
ing and gambling, the sins which first star-
ted me down the hill of crime, amid the
shadows of whose base I must surrender
lt'« X :«m nnmrthy ,tn kfiOB. vXJuMM.
none of you will feel bitter towards me
when I am gone. To give up the life I
have forfeited, is the highest price I Could
pay for my sins; and as the promised flow-
ers of a coming spring snail pressntly
bloom over my sleeping form, as the per-
fume laden breezes are to siug my own
lullaby, as I can't now brush the tears
from the cheeks of the widow and orphans
whom I have helped to deprive—the one
of a husband and tho other of a fatben,
and I would live better it my life could be
spared—1 pray you do not send your per-
sonal hatreds into the grave after me.
My friends, a kind, but long farewell."
John Thompson.
LAST ■
WORDS OF WM. O. BLACKMORE.
And now my friends my time has come,
and I waive you the kindeet farewell!
Wm. 0, Blackmore
BLACK M ORE'S
LETTER TO HIS MOTHER.
t immediate!
v ; the fall failed to break
apson's neck, norN did the cord draw
sufficiently tp sjtop immediate respiration;
he livSd|«noK naif an hour, and his death
was
whitenp one. -we suppose, woi
ty>"KT tha^gven Thompson \
VeM. They v rere accompanie
,' edge .of -the ~dark waters of
We outN&d, in the proper plaoe, to say
that during their j^nfinetnent, the prison-
oners were freqdentjyorisitea br Rev. W.
P. Petty, Mr J. irfttett^Dd of8tfr% who
labored earne<tlyTtfr their Smythurgood,
and lively nb «9 are entertained that. Black-
more rofcajired-pardon in the sight of God,
would be willing
wss not peni-
f. TheJjfere accompanied to the very
raters of death by the
~Rey. Mr. Petty, who in the presence of
the assembled thousands, in a very appro-
priate prayer, commended the souls of the
unfortunate men to an Allwise and merci-
ful God. Mr. Petty also, while with them
on the scaffold read the dying declaration
of each, which we publish elsewhere.—
Sherman Courier.
LAST WORDS OF JOHN THOMPSON.
"I am to die to day. and my sentence is
just. I desire to live, for life is sweet;
and 1 car.'t say I'm afraid to die, but I
am not willing to die. As I past off be-
fore you. however, and join the uncounted
company beyond the flood, 1 desire to ad-
minister s warning to the young men of my
•oountry, that they may turn to good ac-
count:
1 have lived long enough to attest from
my own experience that a man's circum-
stances are inexorable, and that they make
him what he ia. No man is independent
of the company he keeps; he may vainly
think so, but befota^he is aware of it, that
company, he it good or bad, has moulded
him into its own image. Young men, these
March, 26th, 1869.
I confess I was concerned in the murder
of the man. for which I am to die by the
law of the land I am heartily sorry, and
know that it is but just that I ahould die.
But before I do die, T want to say a few
words to the young men of my country as
a warning to them. In my childhood my
parents taught me my duty to God and
man. They did'nt allow me even to play
marbles on Sunday. 1 was a good boy up
to ray fifteenth year, when I went into the
Confederate array. Unfortunately for
me, I went into a company of very wicked
men; they were my companions, and step
by step I imitated their example, my con-
soienoe often checking me, until I commit-
ed the crime that brought me here. —
men, if you keep wioked, profane,
I ing, gambling company, you will oer-
y niton to ruin too. The difference
between you and me is—you are looking
forward upon life, and I am looking back-
wards upon it. I can see danger where
some of you do not see it, and with my last
breath I warn you to keep good company
Shekman, Maroh ISfllMh
Mrt. 8. Winjrty, CarrvlUon, Carroll Com-
*. Mo .
Dear Ma—It gives me much pain to
inforih you ot my present oonditioa,*nd I
know it will owes you much grief, Ma
willing to die ; it is a hard thing to think
of. but I remember yon did your duty in
ra'singmo up ; your conscienco is clear.
If I had only kept your instructions, this
never would have been; but I did not lis-
ten to you but went astray, have listened
to bad advice, and wont in bad company ;
and look what it has brought me to. Too
know it was not in my heart to be a mar
derer. but I have been made almost to be-
lieve that there was no hereafter. I have
been led astray by moan men I have
been in prison about eight weeks, and
loaded down with ehains, bat, thank God,
they will be removed to-morrow. Oh,
that every man felt as I do 1 there would
do no use" of ehacklea or prisons, but nil
nations would be at peace with God. —
Not more than three months ago I was
enjoying this world. I did not know that
I had an enemy in this land—all were
friends of mfoe ; but now my friends are
few on earth, butj know I have friends in
another world that are worth all*here be-
low. I don't think any one hns anything
against me more than the law requires. —
The Sheriff has been kind to me. and
the guards also. I have never called for
anything that was necessary but what I
got it. Even the Federals have been
kind to me. 1 have no enmity in my heart
against any one. Henry wrote that he
was coming to Texas in the tail; don't
give yonr consent for him to come, for
this country is in awful state of affairs, it
is Over ran with outlaws. He is young
and liable to be led astray. At home,
with you is the place for him to bo. I am
oldest, take my advice once. I was doing
well until this'came up. I was farming in
Collin county, Texas. A gentleman from
Missouri, by the name of Thompson, came
t" where I was living, and J took h'
a partner. Tlo was a man orninnti _
ancc: he proposed to me several depreda-
tions, and at last I consented to go withj
him He first proposed to take off a drove
nod oorae Ijere, for this country
desperadoes. Ho is young and
led off into ruin by them as I
I tried to shun bad company
way to Sntan. and have brought
death; but I pray to God that
be brought to justice and tho
In poaoo onSe mors. I have
■y hard since I have beep in
d made some money and proper-
tve it all to my lawyers to defend
they did me no good. Undo
' more was to see mo Inst wtek
it deal of trouble about me ;
I mode him n gift
than anybody else.
The workmeu are bnilding the scaffold
to day ; I can't say that it makes any
change in my feelings—that is doath. As
I said before, I am willing to die and in-
stead of grieving for me, you ought to be
glad that I have died and left this sinful
world, and gone, to a better one ; for I
feel that I am going where sin and sorrow.,
nor death, nor will be no morO. I will
never meet with you all here below, but
pray that we may all meet in Heaven
where parting will be no more. M
mains will be taken to uncle Will
more's and buried I want jpa to come
and get my remains, and bury them in the
Liberty grave yard, if it is in your power.
Will Stone and Mr. Hunter are attending
to having my coffin made. 1 have bad re:
ligious instructions and they have proved
good to me. Parson Petty has been to
see me nearly every day / he is good to
mo in every way. I cannot reward him
here below, but God will reward him in
Heaven. Ning, you wrote me that you
bad joined the church. Oh I I want to
meet you in Heaven. Never do anything
wrong ; torgive your enemies, and live ap
to the rules of the chnroh, and you won't
fear to die Toll brother G. and Sit to
be good, and never cease praying. I have
not got much time to write, will Stone
is coming to Missouri in the fall, and he
will tell you all of tbe particulars of my
doom. Ning, remember this is from your
dying brother—remember these lilies are
the last yon will ever see from me, and do
ketu my request that I have made of you
So I must close Give my lore to all my
friend and relatives and tell them fare-
well; accept a portion for yourself. Your
brother.
- ' ! ; BRECKINRIDGE.
"tht oppoaruNtxv or a statesman.'
7
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1-8.28.
—
(From tho New York Tribune ISA )
Tbe graceful and wise little speech made
lbs other da* by Mr. John 0. BreokiOri
occasion
home,'suggests the
ry looks totMs gs*'. ~-jr --
tlemsn, and whioh, as we hopefiilly treat, it *oat« • was ki
My ro-
Blaok-
■lii ~Ti j
of horses, and
not consent to it ; he
stole a horse, took it off and sold it, and
on his way back he killod a man. I was
atruid of him myself when he told of his
daring deeds he had committed. I tried
to persuade him to leave, but he would not
heed. But at last I consented to go with
him, and we killed a man. He is now sen-
tenced to be hung ; he says he cannot
make poace with his Makor, but I am in
hopesjie will belore it is too late. He
was my last enemy that I . forgave. Ho
killed his friends as well as his enemies.
He porsaaded me not to work for my liv
ino,—that there was an easier way to get
it. Q l that I had never v n him, I
could have seen yoa once meae, but as it
is I will never meet with yon in-this world;
but I hope that we will meet across the
River in a world unknown to us. Ohl V.
is hard for me to nart with one that I love
so dear as you. No more will you bear
my welcome footsteps at your
T
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loor
no
or none
I understand that some people have, in
some way. accural Mrs. Mallow of knoW'
ing somcthin,
about the crime weeomtnit
'g
ed, or some of the money not yet roported;
and I feel it my duty to say that both
charges are wholly false ; she knew noth-
ing of the whole thing, neither hate we
given her any of the money received. She
is a good woman.
I wanted also to tell you. that though I
shall aoon leave you, I believe God has for-
given me, and 1 have a hope of soon be-
ing st rest. I have no unkind feeling to-
ward any one; and in my heart, I forgive
all who have been unkind to me. lam
sorry that I can't live, that 1 might undo
some things 1 have done; bu' I am not
afraid to die. I believe death will only be
the gate to my beautiful and happy home,
I hope you will not feel vengeful towards
me when I am gone. I have some friends
who have already gone to the beautiful
home of the angels, and 1 trust through
the boundless mercy of God, that I soon
shall join them. My precious mother still
lives. I know this sad news will nearly
break her heart; but may God sustain and
comfort her, *
one to soothe my dying paios I must part
to-morrow with Strangers alone. So I
must come to a close as it is getting late
in the evening. Will Stone will be there
in tho tail, lie can tell you more than (
can write. Give my love to all, and ac-
cept a portion for yourself. This.from
your dying son. Farewell,!
WM. O. BLACKMORE.
BLACKMORE'S
LETTER TO HIS BROTHER.
Sherman, March 25,1869.
JV. W. Litton, Platlxburg, Clinton Oounly,
Mo. ■
Deah BlbTiiEK-1 received your wel-
come letter not long since, and was glad
to hear irom you You wrote mo to do
nothing to get me into trouble ; but your
letter—your kind instructions—were too
late ; I had already got into trouble. It
is hard forme to write the awfal condition
that I am now in, though I am glad that it
isas well with me as it is. I am in prison
in Sherman, Grayson county, Texas, and
am sentenced to death for murder. I
made an open confession in court of my
guilt. I was tried by an honest and clev-
er jury, and was found guilty of murder in
the first degree. The State Attorney
plead mercy forme, but the jury could not
spare my life apd do themselves justice. I
have been treated well since 1 have been
in prison. Ning, this is painful news do
not grieve for me. I have only one more
day to live in this world, but I can meet
death williugly ; I only regret that I have
todio in the way tliSt I have to, though it
is an easy death to die, but the stain that
it will leave on yoa and the rest of my re-
lations, as 1 am the first ono of the name
that was over charged with anything of
the kind. But this may be for the best,
—it will be a warning to yon and Tommy.
I know you are a good man and need no
warning, but Tommy is a wild boy and he
needs instructions. Oh! may this bo a warn
ing to him. He wrote that ne was coming
to Texas in the full, but do not let him
HIS
BICKER8TAFF
ANO
CHIEF COM FEDERATE KILLED.
on the ooaesion of his return, after a
years' exile, to his old
week for whioh the oountry
und which, as we L
receive at,his hands.
ere is a man whose aareer in the service of
die Government was exceptionally successful
in waratt npoq it
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■{A DESPERADO Kl
A CITIZEN AMP SOUUKK ^OLJ^Xl).
If
¥
. . J ^nd*&««r ingJ>etwefpff and 8t*;
o ebek. Dow Witt, who togrerftfr with
desperate character nam<d¥eSn, murder-
ed a negro Man' named John Cowa^lL^
r " grocery in this^laee, some two
nod brilliant, whaee oareer ;
^s killed by af pai^yof sol-
d.enrwho haj accompanist Sheriff
nnd deputy Sheriff Stwt for die purpose
of aiding in the arrest of Fsnu atul Witt,
It seems that^while some„ojf we
ill
zeesbip at an age when most 'SUftKKj/tM
noohing the fall maturity of thpir powers.—
The grandson of Thomas Jefferson's Attorney
General, and of one of the earlieat United
States Senators from Kentucky, hs inherited
devotion to the nublio servici with his name,
and learnod the love of the Union with the
lessons of his ohildhood. At twenty-five he
was Msjorof a Keatuoky regiment in the war
with Mexioo j at twenty six he was oounsel for
General Pillow, in the remsrkible difficulties
in Whioh that offiesr was involved ; at twenty
eight he was a member of the lower house in
the Kentuoky Legislature, at thirty'he was a
representative in Keatuoky,having defeated in
the can vase so popular a Kentnokiaa as Leslie
Combs; at thirty 4we he was again returned ti
Congress after an exciting oontest io whioh he
defeated Governor Robert Letcher; at thirty-
tour he was Vioe President of the United
Stater; and at thirty seven he was the nominee
of one wing of the dominant party for the Pros
idenoy. The yonn</eet and moatisvored man
in the country who had ever runiauoh a round
of offioial honors up to the very verge of the
highest preferment, he ebose, iA 1861, to link
his fortunes With the seotion that had so ear-
nestly supported him for the Presidency, and
entered the Confederate servioe. At thirty
eight, the man who thirteen years before had
served the Government as a soldier on a for-
eign soil, was a Major General in the armies
that strove to break up the government, and at
forty-two.be was Secretary of War of the in-
suigent Confederacy. Tben followed a dreary
four years of exile, and nowin hie forty ninth
jroar—just at the age wh6n suoh men are enter-
ing upon the full and ripe maturity ot their
powere—vigorous and yet oapable of a lifetime's
work—this soldier of the Mexieau war, Con«
gressman, Vioe President, goes baok to Ms na-
tive State. . . J
What shall he do to make returns lor put
honors—What to mage amends for past er*
y
indsliSr^535!ypfefifil8
sisterhood, brooding over the eshee i
erly i
of bri
directum fi
rvammd actiance, cam^,
prairie from the timber near bt
%om&
cape, put spurs to his horse and daehed
away. Ten or a dozen shots were fired in
reply, and a hot pursuit was immediately
commenoed. After a chase of three or
four miles, the fugitive was overtaken near
a small oreek^ whioh unluokily for him
was swollen from the effeots of a heavy
rain whioh had fallen \ few hours previ-
ously. Dashing into the stream, be suc-
ceeded in crossing it, but before ascending
the west bank, his horse was shot from un-
der him, and himself repeatedly and se*
verely wounded by Corporal Payne and
private Henry, who were foremost in the
pursuit. Witt resitted to the last, empty
ing tho other barrel of his shot gun, and
one six shooter, and discharging throe
shots (all that would fire) irom another,—
He finally sucoeeded in eheltering himself
behind a small knoll from the fire of the
oorporal and private, but was dispatched
shortly afterwards by Sergeant McGraw,
who with Sheriff Wilson, had crossed the
stream near ite source. And so endod the
mortal career of this bad man. Nothing
Sseon pf Penn until Wednesday morh-
when, as the Sheriff and a small par-
ty of soldiers and oitisens were approach-
ing the House of Sol, Fitshugh, five or six
miles Southeast of town, Penn and a man
by the name of Hays, who is charged with
the murder of Odl. Erwin, ran from the
house into a thicket olose by. They were
instantly pursued, the pureuing party dis-
mounting and entering the brueh oji foot.
From the Waxahatohie Argus Extra, April 6
Ben Bickerstaff—universally known in
Northern Texas a the master assoeiste of the
late Oullen M. Baker, and Thompson, latterly
tbe sawt active, energetic and learlees accom-
plice of the former, met with a horrible and
uneipectod death at Alvarado, Jobneon ooun*
ty, cd yesterday evening, at about sunset. The
particulars of the tragio ocourrenoe were re-
counted to Us this morning, In A. J. Barnes,
in the presence ot Me Mrs. David and John
Myers, all of whom are oitisens of Alvarado,
and were participants in the terrible affair.
Bickerstaff and Thompson had been residing
for eoine months near Alvarado, and it was
their eustoss "to visit that plaoe late in the
eveaing, and during the night to institute a
oaraival ot robbery and other crime. Biok*
erstaff had assumed the name of Thomason,
and was known to the man a? the community
by that name. But it appears that a few in-
dividuals knew bis real name. Time passed,
and the orimiuals became bolder and their out-
rageous acts grew to be more unbearable.—
Ooasequently on the iaf«l evening mentioned,
the good oitisens of tbe village preparod them-
selves with shooting apparatus tor the purpose
of ridding their community of these, the graat-
cit pests they had ever koown.
The hour at which the desperadoes usually
visited them approached, and with it oamo the
arties for whom they so anxiously looked A
ling not unmixed with anxiety and pain
was depicted upon every face Tbe men rode
up to the horse rack and dismounted, and so
soon as they hsd alighted, a shower of death
dealing leaden batU was directed at thorn.—
Thompson was killed instantly, and Bioker-
staff Was struck in three plsoes. Notwith-
standing his frightful and mortal wounds, one
of whioh either burst the ball of his right eye,
or so ooutuscd it ss to reader it entirely sight-
less, he fired two welt aimed shots at bis ad-
versaries, one ball passing through the elothes
of ono of his antagonists, and one shot striking
a gun in the hands of another. He then fired
several shots at random, showing while evea
in the elntohes of death tbe desperate sad un-
conquerable spirit which had attended him all
along through his career o' crime. Whea he
was proetiate upon the ground, and his adver-
series store gathered around him, he exclaim-
ed : "You have killed as brave a man as there
is in the South." He was disposed to be oom-
muniostivo, but he fsiled to get soy interested
or atteutive auditors.
Thus passed from earth a man who had,
doubtless, steeped himself in crimos as heinous
and foul as are known in the annals of this
oountry; and ths instances of his lawlessness
are, perhaps, onlv second in number to those
ot hi* formor ohief, Oullen M. Baker; and
that merely by reason that the latter was more
inveterate in the business.
Thompson hsd been a cit'scn of Alvarado—
having lived there, we believe, as a respeoted
oittsea for sbout two years. He was seduced
into the vioious oareer upon whioh he had en-
tered, by Bickerstaff, a men who was then al-
ready well advanoed on the highway of orime.
We learn that some arrests el oitisens of Al-
Varado have been made, it being suspected that
they were accessories of Biokemaff and Thomp
sou. We forbear to mention names, as the
parties hsve been highly respected, and as
there is not yet proof positive of their con*
nection with the deceased
hellion, and seeking to nurss their smoldei
heat into another flame. Sbe still oheri
hopes of payment for property in hrmea bo-
ings, if not of an actual re-oonversion ofCthem
into property. She still denies equality be-
fore the law to a large olsss of her oitisens.—
She still licenses any white ruffisn to outrage,
or murder a uegro's wife belore his eyes, and
refuses to take the negro's testimony against
the orimiaal. To every step in the nation's
progress toward freedom, harmony, and peace,
she opposes her utmost resistance, la every
possible way, and with an a matin; pernaoity,
sbe cherishes in the midst of the new life of
the repubtio, the spirit of thj slavehunts, the
oivilisation of the dark ages. Throughout tbe
whole Unite of tbe late rebellion there is not
to-day a State eo rebellious iu opirit or aot ss
Kentuoky. Neutral so tar as she eeuld bewa-
ring the war^he is now hostile^s far asjsho'oan
be,when tho whole n itiou is ogring for peace
Yet her favored son is the returned Vioe Pres-
ident of the Union end Secretary of War of
the rebellion, Popular always, from his ear-
liest ontronoe on politioal life, he is now far
more popular than ever. Heretofore he has
been the leader of a party in tbe State ; now
ho'may be, it he ohooees, the leader ol the
State.
Wo hear and bdlieve that Mr. Sreokinridae
comas baok animated only by hopes of union,
prosperity, and peaoe ; that he earnestly de«
sires the aooeptanoe, in good faith, of the re-
■'llts of the wsr as final, the cessation ot s'rife
the growth of fratornal feelings, the dismissal
of old subjects of dispute, and a new political
departure ; that he frowns upon every expres-
sioo of a desire to renew the struggle for the
lost cause; and that for himaolt he looks for
no future save in the growing greatness of the
nstion he once sought to destroy. That na-
tion has freely pardoned him all his errors.—
Will ho not, in return, use his influence io hor
behalf ameng these disaffected Kentuo!
who almost worship him, and are sure to
low with enthusissm wherever he may lead
the way ? His first appearance in Congress
wss as the eulogist of Henry Clay. Will ho not
now emulate that greet men's fame, tako up
his mantle, and pload, with an eloquence not
unworthy of audiences that still remember tbe
silver-tongued Harry ef the West, for re con-
oilliatioo, and harmony, and Union and peaoe?
We want to see it acknowledged in Kontuoky
that loyalty to the Union was not a orime, nor
even a cause lot politioal disabilities or sooial
ostracism. We want to see the spirit of rebel
lawlessness Isid. We went to see tho efforts
to retain, in the guise of apprenticeship or oth-
erwise, some of the worst features of the sys-
tem of slavery abandoned. We want to see
the binding effeotof the oivil rights bill frank-
ly and manfully accepted. Wo want to see
negro teetimony admitted in ths oourte, not as
better than a white man'e, but preoisely like a
white man's, for whstever the oiroumstanoes
and the previous oharaotar of the witness may
show it to be srorth. Above all, we want to
see the old spirit of loyalt* and devotion to the
Uuipn once more the enaraeteristio of this
Commonwealth of glorious memories.
'®r>) were wounded. Hall received four
shots—two in the left arm, one in (be left
thigh snd one in the right groin, and is
very dangerously wounded. Johnson was
struck oiiee in the left arm. Hull's arms,
a Spencer rifle and a six shooter, foil Into
the hands of Penn and Hays, who, having
now a favorable opportunity made their
way out of the thicket, and each mounting
a horse—one a soldior's, and another a cit-
izen's—effected their escape. They'Wero
subsequently pursued eight er ten tnilee,
when alt trace of them «rat loot. Their
own horeee, whioh wor* in Fitahugh'e W~
fell into the bands of the Sberifl.—McK,
Messenger.
. 1 ■■■■ ■■ i ■ im 0 s 0 1 " " t} (i y
Beware o* Bekzine.—Prom the faoil-
tty with which it removee grease-spots from
fabrics, this substanoe has come 4k) be re-
garded almost as a household indispensa-
hie. But few persons, however, realise
the exploeive character of benxine, or the
dangers attending the careless handling of
the Tiqnid. Being one of the most volatilo
and inflammable products resulting from
the dietillation of petroleum, it vsporisss
with great rapidity, so that the oontente
of a four ounco vial, ir overturned, would
render the air highly explosive. The
fleetest care ehould he oxeroieed in hand-
'"g this substance in proximity to fire,
ana it is important to remember that tbe
vapor escaping from an unoorked bottlo
snll cause a flame to leap over a space of
ten feet,—Scientific Amerioan.
Cincinnati, Feb, 20.
lad named Georj
first leston in vi
List evening a
Grear was taknig
ipede ridiij
A crasy man, baying got into the gal
lory of the Senate of the United Statae
during a rambling debate, was taken out,
the eergeant at arms telling him that he
was out of place in that gallery. 'That's
so," said the lunatic, "I ought to bj on
lie floor with the Senators.
I a
urn —
t Miller
full epeed
natch way,
ich gave way ^1 precipitated the rider
and velooipede.io the basement "below, a
distanoo of four "Stories and a half, badly
shattering hie right hand, dieloeating his
loft_ ankle, fraoturing his right hip, and
inflicting other injuries ot eerioas and psr-
hsps fetal nature.
ie boy was taken up in an insensible
condition and conveyed to the residence of
his psrente, where ho uow lies under the
care of Dr. Wood. The Dr. announces
the worst injuries to be the fraoture of the
hip and oonoussion of the brain, but pro-
nounces neither neoestarily fatal.
" ■— •• mmi i — —-
Gold has recently been discovered in
Hawkins county,Tonn., about eleven miles
east of ItogcrsviUe, ou tho south side of
the Holston river.- The specimens exhib-r
itedare saUl to be of the richest qonHty,
surpassing the celebrated mines of Califor-
nia. Acompunyof energetic gentlemen,
possessed ol sufficient capital, have the
matter in charge, ami will fully develop
the capacity of Uie mines.
. ■■■' . —
An American ex-Brigadier General is
giving drawing lessons in Ileidelburg; and
a poor French C.>ant, tbe descendant of
one of tho oldest French Legitimist fami-
lies. is the rao'tj fashionable dancing mas-
ter in the sum" city.
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