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Execution of the Notorious Guerilla, Champ Ferguson, nd of the most desparate and Wooly of all the marderome mets evoked in the South-West by he re met a richly deserved fate by hanging on ‘Thee day of this week. He confeamed to the reporter of the Nashville Due area that he 'd been engaged in the killing of great many men, some in that he considered fair battle, and others where he thought they sought to kil him. One one he given where he went to @ uan’s house with whom he was good friends, but had heard some one say that the man had threatens him, and deliberately, in the prononen of hhe man's wife without the interchange of word, Khot hun wud. He exhibited the most undaunted courage to the lake preclaiming that he conslared himself justifind ingshat he tied home, thy le died a Rebel, and want tea to be buried in Rebel rj). His own confessions show him to be a wretch unsit to live. _ 4a We take plaantten to announcing to our rea ere that Med. 1%, Claypoote hme returned uy thin citys and,in company with Me. Anderson, porchared the entire interest in the prove and tin wate entails ment of the fate E.R. Elmer. This i known wa one of the heat establishments of the kind in Boutly Jor xage and the new Theum, which Will be renown as Chay pooly Anderson, pornéas the means any ability to, Araiwigins ity high reputation, Mr.Gleypoole in a very ventlemanly and screeably person (0. dent with, and ‘Mr. Anderson, having Wet Yong experience with the late Mr. Elmer, is thorouighly posted in what he cor rapnily dewiee. Having Just purchased an extensive took, they intend to fet tha public know win they are for mile, ‘Choir advertisement Wik appear next week. OG Thu Swities’ Soldier's Relief Associa tion of this City, will meet in the basement of the Session Room of the 1st Presbyterian Chapel, on Thuryday afternoon ext, at (0) Yelock. _ EF The following named choice piecer of awert music have just been received from the popular establishment of H. Wa ters, No. 481 Broadway, N. ¥.: “The Martyr of’ Liberty, “A Maiden for Bale, “Too Late to Marry,” ‘Give me Honest Friends, and Trav.” Jonathan Woodruf—onn the constable who arrested Morrison upon my distant ; found hire near Lummis’ mill in a wagon; be got out of this wagon npt gaye, to me what mull hin | 1 tt 4 warrant for him; he got in his own wagon nd drown alum to his owe hou, where lett Hine sed wont mull got the warrant; walle oil at Fairton wnfil he camie along, when L fol lowed him to Bridgeton, where he went to pot peony he went into theatores and dit not lets thal 7 on the next Sunday morn ing C found him at home and took bine to jail James Powell;say Bell at Haghin's on the srew of August Hie; cannot tell what Bell said; dive wn iornetion that Dull waid the boy helped frowk the door dowi) heard such Stolo went wither (here of at Tell's house ; made the map which ias being used in the court teon Bihan Powell poeing. Mary Ann Penn—five in Bridgeton, and wm sister; lived with him about two years ago have visited off aml ow since then ; Bell and Joseph were om good ters; I have carried victuals to Bell; have sean Joseph ii this four times, the next a morning Joseph could not remember what it had done but ap peared to be simple; do not know what he was about, Robvoon Murray (recalled) stated that she had been several tiree of Bells and en Wie Rub hanging over the door; daw ft there about two weeks after ho was shot, Nathan-Duffield stated that he had lived to the home with Bell for six manuias Bell has no diareter witness never put any depend ance in him while he lived with him. Jeremiah Everingham testified—that Bell's reputation for truth and veracity was not good in would not have believed him under oath ; could not remember any parti p wal do, but the general talk of the poi huod wax to thin effet. Robert?. Whitecar (rocalle!) had only been acquainted with Bell's character for veracity for a year; had honed people pay it was not relia ble for such; witness woul not believe bi under oath; could not name any par person who had spoken thus; would have had the same opinion if thin matter hail not come up. Dim first. He said he passed Bell's home wy ie was gulvg bo Mr. Shaws lo wee about rule Wiga some hay, Thayas half mile further for Morrison Ly Bell's to Blww’s than it was the office way. Witness’ feelings were perfectly Morrison. a Aloghin tuctified that he lived near ly from Bell'a; that Bull came n Ww hone wounded » wos fir am Cho grabee anned sett doe anoble to men, when witness carries thin ding Bell sal, Muerlvua shob meg yilawe oak ap writte taint all the, wail by the murnne he wes way. Hail sven Myeriion that after ovo at bis owie eune, werlety tela wei ay i driving matali, butaidl shot tuber peurtheuar wir dice; whet he had gut abou t we thints af they ‘waty Wyre, Rett Mearrimate’s, Wee bared yun 5 heard lent one pump recording wise pirkety sanith tskwen sitesi ‘i fee tan ipo i ia chilitrem servamninge looking, pretty soon after the the sand of the gun and the sere ing cane from the ‘rection of Bell's howse . A more than one gut was feed, Withews could not will have missed bearing it; witness” forge was frightened and he checked him, to home bin from earning a big 5 withers saw fortiaott three or four weekss after Bell died, when he (Morrison) tld hin that when he was about tghty yards for Bell’ house, Bell Hired up bin, and that he then rushed up to his house and got hold of the mane of his gon, wud male in effort two or three teeth pinky it away from him, and he pulled on hime. Mor rison wanted by huvvy whether Ueclrige went square in at Bell’s hip, and when told it did not. said that wag what he thought , said also, that he did not know what he was at until Ye Trshmay hollered, they he began to be scared . Bell was a small man, weighing about 125 pounds. Margaret Everingham corroborated thy timony of the previous winners in reference to the screaming of the children, the report of Hutone gun, and the quiet of the evening; and also tealified that Bell told her that Morrison bursted in the door ; she examined the burly after death and found the hip joint dislocated from the body. Rebecca Murray called for the defence lived at Joseph Morrison's at one time of the murder ; did know what way Morrison came tome that night) did not know Bell t he moved tom Bridgeton down there; Mo ann helped him move with his team: Joseph: was tight , when he came home from Bridges Me, Bell came along and called him two of thee time before he would go out. Joseph went out, and they got to talking, anl Jonson asked him for the money that he owed Tim; as he started as he called Joseph a son of b—h. Joseph: told him if he called him that clu he would come out the fence to King Hell call nyne again, whic Joseph jansped | *4y from a child.; for’ die Tax three or four over the fence to him, steel Hine twee and Years Wee character that not beer reliable for kicked bin once; Joseph was Both, that beath ; she thas lived in hin neighborhood ; two when he got over the fence he could notstand, OF three years ago for huevamd lived in a bat fell on his bawes; they came back to the thenty belonging to witness ; from her general House wit Joseph’s aru locked round hin, reputation 1 would depend on the direum when Joseph portred hin out x Reink and stances whether he would believe her. coaxed him to wake up with bit; he coaxed Mr. F. Westcott, counadl for the prisoner, him for a quarter of an hour, but he would yet made an address to the Jury in his he take it up. Bell was cursing and a wearing tilbal taking the ground that the parties he started for huma; Joseph, Sarah and me were all intoxicated; that there had been a started between daylight and dark to get quarret in the afternoon in which Hell won the Johnty Shaw 10 gooser wite the marsh ooggressor; that Morrison way too irnnk to gut hay: Sarshi dosepl’s wife; Joseph and I know what he was about ; that he did not in Johnty Shaw had been getting hay together | tend w go to Bell's when he started for Shaw's for two or three weeks; [now then start off that he took his gun with bie for the puxp to the marsh together; Shaw almost always of shooting dogs of which his wife was afraid ; game across the fields; they came up in that Bell hot at him first; that his dying front of the house—it live over toward the die ! Declarations were not to be believed ; that cor ceotion of Bell’s—Mlyrrison said he was Zolison freed under the excitement both of fear “ sokng Shaw's5 ar orelei took his gun irk witd Fiquor, and that if convicted at all, it could tear tea ae oe alties of only be for the crime of man slaughter, unter Dusiel Leivulyonve.¥ sew Whar conte ot; amt ! Sycaroreee dar the states Are i: long, said to Saweph, Ie id going to sitout us; before | tgent, the clores ouccinot wasuur, reviewd tse Thardly goth the words out of my mouth leeyiddnce, taking the position that it did put rod, and the shot, hit tha whole three of us: [Osu aturcinoh “way toa deuule to know Lae inition Ha rod! tre pans tes wae EET wee pest ite mee tens hago about five yawls off fie gate whan he feeds what he was about; that Shaw was known fine ahou struck me below the knee, vba above | 40 Ye a dangerous, man | Spee mine oe the knew, and one ateuck my arm; Josephe ae ae iteelf; that the Mariebanid left ay bod ruse, Vente Bella, [Moana ye Morsiaim ac ts: aein by TLagbin Turned rutind to Sallie and vaid, Det ass ge and Mere mae by bis putting the aatla in the gun; sive sett Foweph is going to day by that time that he went by Bolt'a for the purpose of elioot he cante back ous; I heard git go ullutter iat Ne yhellen Elles pout Hy bis quar he started; Taw the Leishman the alter Jovel; that there wae no Genial of Morrison's peyih gut- backs Bell way stalding about two shootings Lhut all the evidence except [rebecsa yards from the site, on the aniaide, brushing ! Murray showed the report of but one gun; that his clothes, he hallooud, and vail Joseph hind the evidence of Rebecca Murray, boll from her shot him; ten we came again ; general character and her post We @ Gon about two Weeka before this, saw daweph and | Yieted thief ought not to weigh with the Jury ; his Fun With a pistol-ball; could not identify that Bell's dying testimony was worthy of nil tie ball; i wast about the size of thy one in credence, and that while he shoul rejoice if court, and was right round whes he put the Jury could see their way clear to acquit Sa Sreealae oh the vhiaaner of the crime of wilful murder. Jones Stevens was acgusinted with Morri son; had seen him tolerably well read , though he did not lone his mind on such occasions. Smonel K Hand—had known Mebecca Mur. About tera ie01ithia ago tht comimunity wie donply shocked by the ascount of a growthine in ant revolting mbeder perpetrated in the township of Pattfield, upon the porton of Mr David Ball, hy a man named Joseph C. Mor rison. ‘That puarthen Juul buen drincng, ie nat rel had arisgn—the rout had excited Muerivon to frenzy, aid after buating and kicking Bell, had retorted to hid home, taken his gam, lowiled lh a Hullol ahd several watls—had procachert to the eusldome of Bell, probably Broken down Au dour, and shiek Wink in the aide, inflicting a wound Which after alent theoe woeks prayed mortal. Morrisan wan nerostud and Myemeg cre ated in the county prison until the greater all spawned sitting of the court of Ogee and Tor or, when on Monday anl Tuesday of ab present week he was tried before Judgefilver fur the eviads Tie prisonur was put a man of Porvoions ap pearance, but on the contrary possessed a mild demeance. The countenance was wnlubel igent; his foreheal eecedingy hin aye stilt and inexpressive: his hair black, and neatly part of his whole fee stolid and dlafigured with a large Wen, and hie departaunt in the court (nater an Interesting spontator rather than or of a map of teil for his fe veasionally when some stalemnt Wax being made, either by Witnesses or Counsel, Which opposed Ha cersion riven by his Counsel he could shake his head in diasent, but otherwise gave no sign that he was othie than an Interested spectatory The case was ably conducted by Ss I. Moage land, Esq. for the State, and Pranklly Wet coil, Biaq., for the defined, by whens the evi dence was fairly presented wail dissected be fyre the Jury. ‘The vst wines varied wou Dr. El Bateman, a physician, resident in Pairfold, ie testified that on the evening of te Fourteenth of Augist last, fis wis called to wee Haviel Huompanied by Dr. Robert Batehed thuee about nine o'clock yg; that Lue fiona then th floor wounted in the felt higy by a that his examination at the Gase wa s, as hie id not consider the wound wt oof any great importance; Ie probed the wound, found only the wall, applied cold wwaloe and WM bine far the wight, On the nuxt day but one he visited Nine aigtin and fan bins with high fever. Morrison Inn said the day before, be the mgistrary, that he had kicked him he (De. 1.) turned Boll over in ed and found his brides. To the examina tion he found a hard in balance, wnt th thy skin discovered a naily (wre in the event other not) in about a week his at tention was called to the pation’ had heart done two Tutches and extrac nail, thy size of a fence nail, and a Littles bent, these were all that were ford. When he went there Bell said that he had taken a nail from te wound, but he did not believe n, as he did not suppose It persiile that he had been shot at with nails, BelPacry all the fine stay that his back was killing him, or, pointing to his back, woul aay, *this is killing me,” fle Hhonghi lw was bruised, but did not think high cange C the halls and nails were proc ATieeed, sara Lilled by the witness as the one axtracted my), the wound proved to be a mortal one, although at first he did not consid er itsu. His death was produced by mortif cation, which was superindiced by the muti. he examined Bell carefully, and could find no other cause, and that no doubt that he died of that wound, #4 he could discover nothing else the latter With him (it could have caused his death; he did not remember the exact di of his death, but stated that he lived twenti our days after being wounded; he expected to be sent for but was not, and no did not ex amine tin after occurrence; he was there about an hour before his death, in company with Joseph Fogbin, his wit, and others, while he was dying, and asked bine if he knew that w regarded him as a dutive man T he was gone that it was dificult for Mim apeale, but his replied that he did that he wax 5 he did not wish him to die with soft; and from the prompt= the WAG put KOE gee ae Lie tennery wire omen a . wis going to shoot the dogs with it; then yet the evidence appeared to him too strong to neighbor's dogs howled and cut up so that we allow any othr verdict. ‘The venerable Jwige could not wieep nights; he brought home this | Elmer concuied the cave by a lucid and ear- decanter that night with whiskey In it, and | Hest exposition to the Jury, both of the law in drank woven or eight times “before he started the case, and their duties in Jury - He for Shaw's; he drank it out of a tea cup, not told them that the killing of Daniel Ball by quite half tax cup full each Aine; I noticed the prisoner was not denied, and this fret it two or three times; when we came back I showed him to be a guilty man, but the de- Morrison sat on the front step for a while, and I gree of his guilt wag for the jury to decide throwed up whickey; T went outta him and The indictment was for murder, but th Jury ooixed bie to come int Snilie and me led him | might find hime guilty of iauy one of tkree dif in wad [and bie: down on the Noor, from where | feron! kinda, ay they might think the evidence till morning; when we ta “arranted, ‘The propriety of convicting of | him down t he whiskey ran owt of hin mouth ; | Wn aTinghter would depend upon the credit | in the morning Le started to go down to the | they gave to the evidence of Reheven Murray ne: marsh with his team—had nothing in but his | t2 the previous shooting by Bell. ifewe sex hay rake. Joseph took one drink before head of wilful yourder it would be necessary lines Mint the neinaner wan in such a state thought he was cooseion die. (His dying declarations were offered t o videnge, but were objected to.) Bell said f rom the test that he should not recover, and complained very nae of the part of his back where the nail was found he received tolera te care, neither the best nor the worst; he did not consider the normal mortal until the day he died. Bell was very il from the bed ginning, and could not take whiskey, and he thought that an Iriahmen who could ‘not take whiskey was very illy he ate very little after he was wounded, and the had had the best of food he could not have oates ee The wit t ; tw be led to the Tast nail was found about a W week before his death. In his cross-exami nation the wittsons stated that he did not think soll’a clothes were burned withough he did not examine them; he thought the nail had fall ten into a cup when he thut probed for it; he did not think then or now that mortification had at that time scum, but judged I commen ced about twenty-four hours before his death. Belt did not say where he was when he picked the nail out of his wound; he had known him about seven years and never saw him intoxica ted; from his refinal to take whiskey thought he was very sick and might not recover; he found him on his first visit at Hogbin’s, prob ably half mile on the road to Millville; on the next visit found him at his own home. Bell’s house had two doors, one front and onv ne with the road running along the gable en The next witness calle was Mr. Eben C. Powell, who stated that he resided about three quarters of a mile from Bell's, and had drawn a map of the locality (which was produced in court) and that Its measuruments were carrect as nearly ns they could be made #0 by pacing: that between eight and nine o'clock of the 14th of August he heard at Bateman’s store the Morrison had shot Bell, and in company with eight others he went to Bell's house. Mrs. Bell was very much frightened, and void a husband had been shot dead, and who would show us that it was say she said she did not know where he was, but he had started to the nearest neighbors, and pointed on the road to Hogbin’s, and no there found Bell lying on the floor, and shot in the left hip. 1 azamined the wound, but did not think it serious, and who he said he should die from it,laughed at him; where the wound had been made the trousers were burned a place considerably larger (han Ye ae Tmade ee examination before nally leaving, when the wound appeared more M'Chesney place; he landed the gun i the jous, art Bell told me that wound was | house two rweaky before: war eevisinbe did not serious, and that T would fall on it by side I have the gun that afternoon ; Morrison did not well, which he had pulled out of the wound; any gun that afternoon after te came they had mhe candle at Bell's, and did not find home; did not aay anything to witness about ibat that time; the staple of the lock had been getting naily; would say the same if she was burnted off, and Iay upon the Hour; next morn on her dying bed; now all three walked inn ing went town to bear the trial, and saw Morgang together to the road, slowly ; took about reven and asked him what was the age of his ly- a quarter of an hour to go. It was between i about shooting the Irishman; he replied, daylight and dark; wow Bell come out of his !don't deny it, | did shoot the Irishman; Ihouna with his gun, we were just near enough ! , and for the shot to hit every one of us; sin the didn’t care if T had, for the shot first;” asked | place where the shot struck Sal she has him here he was when Bell shot him; said he hoard when they struck her; the shot did not was on the roinl to Jonathan Shaw's; when he go through witness’ clothes. Morrison then got seventy-five yards from the house the Irish: | feft, us and ran towards Bella house ; did not | man shot him; went to Bell's house to sen if) see Joseph fire ; heard two guns ; turned round ,he was able to attend the trial; could not find to “Joseph ife and waid, let ya kee what they the nail which Mull wad he threw by the well, are going to do, and said I would go; Morri but a woman there said that she had found it; son met me and we alerted for home ; we over found a gun in Hell's house ,which was not bad- I took the daughter before we got home ; found ed, so I did not have the appearance of having her waiting when we got to the fence ; none of thee fired recently; Bell was carried in a way as said anything till we got home; after Mor gan to the squires, and gave him evidence; the prison shot him witness did not want him to go first night who was Was there; he found the key to Shaw's ; he said nothing, but took him by inside and the door locked; the bolt abot out BSB 82 tata than and the staple gone; aod the gate turn down; two days before he died he said he should die, and he wanted my to read and pray for ‘him, which L did; Tavked him if he shot Morrison; he replied, “L did not »hoot at Morrison, be I broke into my house and what an, without any cause at all;” on the Sunday before he died he expressed himself priparsa to die; in the, evening When without he told him he did not think he should meet him again unless it was in heaven; he then auked him again, “did ‘you or did you not shoot at Morrison ?” ha ra pe “I did not, he opamo and broke into my we oal shot mig without any cause,” Dr. Bateman was recalled and stated that Sheet this to him on the day of his loath, athua ©, Powell testified —that the che or of Rebecca Murray, for teath ani for swan bai, and would not believe her under oath Joseph Moghin, atated that accorlmg to what he had heard of Stebecon Murray, he would not believe her wader omth; had heard Murray naw she did not tell the truth. Started—no Was NOE SOOT oe AN me wUTMIT— as were Te wees ween peruse ~ Bell said, after the fight, that he would have of soundness of sound as allowed him to act with no for a witness because Joseph steuck him, | ialice aforethought=—that the trathe might Joseph usually kept his gun in the closet in either he expressed by the wordy of an the sitting room—never saw the children have accused person, or lying in wait to kill him until Joseph came to jail. If she was on her or implied by the general cimmitances of the dying bed she would say that Bell Grad the first on#¢, and the question to be settled here was gun. So the cross examination witness stated whither Morrison really intenited, when he went that she had been in jail for two weeks for this house, to kill Bell. As he did, it was stealing money—had plended guilty to the murder in the fire t dgree; if he did bot, but charge—was getting supper at Morrison’s when I formed the intention in the quarrel in which Bell came along. ‘The sun was about half an ! Bell was shot, then it might be murder in the hour high when Joseph came home, and it was a second degree, to which the law affixed light, about fifteen minutes later when Bell came at penalty. If there was a reasonable doubt along. He had just got the horse put up his of his intention to kill Bell he should not wife and he were in the shed back of the houge he found guilty of murder in the frst degree, where Bell could not see then; Bell called | In attending to their duties as Jurymen, t o him three or four times before he would go warned them against being influenced by the omts does not know what they were talking | condent assertions of either counsel as to about (ill Joseph asked him for his money ; their delce in the guilt or three ones of the vaa standing in the fromt door about three prisoner He expressed a wish that he coun yards from them. Joseph was inside and Bell outside of the yard. Bell was mad because Joseph asked him for his money and called him a son of 2 b—he saw him strike Bell twice with his fist and kick him once. Bell did not strike back, Bell was sitting, and when Joseph hit him he fell down. He did not hit him so terrible hard. Bell was mad hind Joseph coas ed him for a quarter an hour to make it up. They did not come into the house further than the shed. In about a quarter of an hour Bell went off; we left the children and started for Shaw's before supper was done as he wanted to get back before it was late, Joseph had aid in the morning that he wanted to go here; he maid just before he started that he was go ing there and wanted us to go for company . It was getting dark when he started; Joseph's wife the way afraid of the toga at the fol would abstain from such a course into fu ture, as what the law wanted was a clear sift ing and presentation of no evidence; and while it was right to present that evidence in the best array possible, for the respective wides they advocated, so Hat the whole truth might be brought out, yet, their opinions were of no visible consequence to the Jury, and ought not to be expressed. The review of the evi dence, while bringing out some points more clear and prominently thin before—was emi nently lost, and expressed in kindly language —while his freedom from any attempt to diax the Jury, would have dona gredit to the Funge advocate of a military commission The Jury were out for about thee hye ve iley returned with a verdict of murh : second degree, and the prisoner was setenced a ten years confinement in the State prison, IMPORTANT FROM ENGLAND. Our Clahas on the Belin Government. From the New York Herald. By the steamship Hibernia we have received important information affecting our future re. lat with Great Britain. On the 7th of April last Mr. Adams, our Minister in London, wrote to Harl Junsell, intimating In diplomatic language that the Washington Cabinet held England responsible for the damage lone by the Alabama and her piratical companions. — On May the dth, nearly a month afterwards, Bart Russell courtly replied that British liability could not be measured by United States toss and that the real and only question was whether the British Government had faithfully and how fully performed their duty as neutrals. The same day My Adams rejoined that the insur gent Stated became belligerents at sea solely by reason of vowels furnished them by England and he charged the Custom House officials of Liverpool with vagrant negligence it permit | Hine the Mahara ter naonn i Robert Wallaker, Ba the magistrate be bay” The Trov- J_M. Challis will pranoh {fre whom the guse wa first brought, presented of a paper containing 4 statement of (he proceed+ at the Alws House next Sunday, at | {vhs teteatitin that Marina esi des Telek P, a, as the matt, expected to vis, Neuro hase a jf to tats he wa doviliole amed,, wd didn't care what he did, COE'S DYSPEPSIA CULE. Wo. Bat paeaia besring the same only rewedy ever discovered thet will | #tatement from Morrison. Re and roinneally gare sis, indi. | Wm. Conover testified to Epaslu Morrison gestion, sickcbendacher and enable dyspeptics | 88 ¥ that he shot the Trin! he didn't to eat hhearts food without fear of distress; one care who knowed it, but thet ho what hisn iret. ‘be obtained at all owr drugetorse, ‘Mr. Powell was recalled and stated, that af ter the examination Morrison wanted him to go security for him, which he declined, a t him that he had told im ‘before that if he did not bet Minor alone he would kill some when Mat ‘repllied that he a ee than at the present time; and that he whould not save abot the Irtehuwan if by harlot got “‘Avrexiiox, Boupixas oF tm Tate Anxr.” Beay’ discharged soldiera an eet ay bear knowledge. . Betvalag the Brown ¢ Co. of No. %, Park Place, N. ¥., information will by furnished which cany iy qylmable, that Joseph's wife staid with Live in the same room all night while being on the floor; and the candle was kept burning all the time. Mrs Marriot Siew, testified that her husband sod Motrison were getting hay together last dammer, before the shooting of David Bell; they always went by Bell's and the McChowney redocament was the best road; very wel lom went the other way. Belford EB. Russell, stated that the day be fore he heard of the Morrison was in his shop at Fairton, pot that bu was somewhat under the influence of liqanrs. Joseph Baily tealised—that he talked with Morrieuy the day be lard of the shooting ned that Morrison was under the Sndlisence of Ihquor. ‘Satowel Gule—bad nold Bell w gun for which Dell was to Bey him, bat did not; did not know feeqertly the. Sogo spun generally We wently 5 the s colors the jube, that ot alwayse ¥ toe Pane BUH 80 MIM DOK 5 om OUT way wuste Joxsph kept talking about Shaw; on the way out back he said nothing about any one; after we got the British Poreign Offoe. At the eud of that tonic were the canile and not something to the Bat Russell addressed to Mr. Adams a ont but, Joseph did not eat anything and we did despatch justifsing the comduct of his Govern wor ny anything about it; when we told mont and declining the offer of arbitration Joseph the next morning what he had done he | which bail previously been made by Mr. Lew would not believe it, and did not until the con- lord. The law officore of the crown (saint siable cane after him ; we were going down to Lord Russell) must be held to be better inter. the marsh; witness was going t 0 break mu| proters of British statutes than any foreign mach; did not bear what the constable said; Government can be presumed to be, Mer Ma ho came back and got in his own wagon; with jasty's Government must therefore decline to pout and Joseph’s two doys went to the office | make reparation or compensation for captures too. the ball up mm paper; did | made by the Alabama or ba refer the question not put anything else in; Joseph abot w dog a | to any foreign State,” ‘night, or two before; 1 saw him load his gun; | In place of the arbitration thus resected the | the dog ran off pretty nearly shot to pieces, | British Foreign Mecedany proposed a commis | ‘and the dogs did not come to wail there after | sion of inquiry. Our Minister, his backbone all foomg as the negotiations grew sore en tangled, answered that he did not believe this alternative would be acceptable to his Govern ment, and be addedhat the recognition of the South we belligerenty by England “was auch | in Hist as wae ¢ before done by one nation | to another In a state of smnity,”” and that the blockade of Southern ports was the vense, yaunov, rot the crine, of British policy. At this stage the correspondopos stops; but ® somewhat remarkable circumstance now | colmed to light. It was exactly at this period that Journal, so to have exclu sive gouroes of announced that the negotiations respecting the Alabama claim Threa m on the pussuit without any reply from had reached a critical or a unpleasant usage.— ‘The Government being questioned on the sub- Sect utterly denied such wis the cage,— ee ee mone You was being wy ite about frienilly and pmlgable termyy NEWS BREVITIES. Colonel War 1. Allen sorceded a few daya sine, in New York, in leavin guy an oeder wharreat for (i) tee at pycrenn than General Jexua Gongalox Ortega, View Veesidual of the Mexican Republic, on the plea but Ne (Allen) had contracted liabilities to the amount of several thous and dollars, in his capacity of General Orton's “legalized” wyoukim conduction the Mexican Bulgrdion ‘Scheme, and t hat General Ortega should be restrained from leaving the country until the debt was paid. ‘Thy contending parties have unworn wifidavits at Variance to each other. ‘The General states that Colonel Allen never ated officially, and that the entire affair is pomaginey to obtain money. — The one stands andjourned to the 27th jist, Mississippi, in advance of all the other cuious States, has resumed her old position in the Cyinn, and is once more under the control of her own Skule of hcers. Hee Legislature assembled an Moniluy of his works and on the fylowe ing day Governor Humphrey was ina ginated and delivered his inangural ad drew. He aprwedl against the right of State to weraily, and regretterd that the ad vocatey al’ this foetring had pai it to the test of the sword. He approves of the diiancipatio wf aneoes, but ix opposed Ito giving tig the privilege of yolines More than half the spellings books now sold in Llouston, Texas, xo into the Wane of negroes.— Several seluors for culured persone are now in operation thowe and i Galventon. Many planters buy = stock of xerious huvke fie tla nchools, ab ready wok unkeepient upon the phinta tious Virginia Was proves to be one of the mivatiest States of the soulled Monfeder acy. New proof of this appear from time to time. The Postiiseer General now file that the former Pordumetyre of the OF Dominion repudiated their debts to Uncle Sum to a greater extent than those of any of the other ruleo States The farmers of the State are now bus ily engaged in Waking cor. We learn that the corn crop this year is the hery inst ever raised in New Jersey. As this is the case generally, the corn crop of the country, it is confidently wxnticipated, will more than supply any supposed deficiency in the what crop. In the report mare by Captain d. My Moore, who was sent to Andersonville to mark the graves il’ the Fodor prisoners, he status that he has recognised and placed proper tabfets at the head oft thousand four huudred up sixty-an graves, leaving Tut four hundred and fifty-one unk muse it is said that in his forthcoming mes say the President fully recognizes the manhood of the negro. It would qualify and limit his right of suffrage by educa tion up property. When prove to be possessed of either of these, Mr. Johnson thinks he ought to be allowed to vote. At theatest dates, foyer and the cattle plague were exteud ing their ravages in wud, and public prayers were about to be offered for a stay of the pestilence. ‘The Comptroller of the city of New York, being unable to pay the Metropoli tan police, Moses Taylor, on being appeal eid to, has advanced $600,000 to the city for the purpose. cholera, yellow The announcement of Mr. Edwin | | Booth’s marriage is premature, and at the moment, peculiarly painful and indel | ‘Pate, The residents of Prince William Co., Va. have petitioned the authorities to allow the troops to retain in that county. The now of Daniel Webster has lately been opened, and the remains found in perfect preservation.
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