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Johnson, Gen. Grant and Secretary Sc
ward held a meeting, and it was deter
mined to recommend, as a measure Of the
Administration, that we should pay the
French claims in Mexico and receive
Mexican territory in exchange, probably
in the neighborhood of Guaymas. Lee
wis Campbell will shortly depart for
Mexico. The Juarez Government will
be recognized, and no other. AS | have
said, | do not give this information rs
official, but as rumours coming from high
authority and generally believed. The
Administration hopes by this change of
policy to make amends with the people
for its disgraceful course On Reconstruct
ton questions.
The Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, the Min
lister to Mexico, arrived here to-day,
having been telegraphed for by the Pre-
President and Secretary Seward all the
evening. 1t is evident that the Mexican
question will soon be definitely settled.
Minister Campbell will leave here soon
10 carry into effect the new state of affairs.
The holders of Mexican bonds are ~jubilant
over the state Of affairs.
Notwithstanding the petulant denial of
The Press, in Philadelphia, it is very
certain that Mr.. Stanton will retire
from the Cabinet, being relieved at his
own request. Sherman will go into the
War Office. Stanton is said to have ex-
pressed a desire to go to Spain. The
entreaties of his friends may induce him
to change his mind, but his retirement
frop tho War OHoa ic Gvod
President Johnson, accompanied by his
son aud private secretary, visited BaIti-
more this morning, and returned here
early in the evening. Colonel Standish
Barry, an Assistant United States Trea-
surer. died at Newport, Herkimer County,
N. Y, last evening.
Preparations are in progress for the re-
moval next week of the archives, etc., of
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| must again repeat that Barbados offers a solitary exception to the
general argument. The population here, as have said, is extremely
dense, averaging 500 persons to the square mile, and partly from an
aversion of the negro to leave his home, partly from his fear, still easily
excited, of being sold into slavery, no material emigration from the island
has ever taken place. In Barbados, therefore, labor has been always
abundant, and the island, which out Of 100000 acres has loo, 900 under
cultivation, presents the appearance of a perfect garden. Land, as
shall hereafter show, averages $500 an acre; and when it is added that
the land which brings such a price is purchased for agricultural purposes
Ouly we have, i'll the fact conclusive evidence of most remarkable pros
perty. ALT this, practically considered, is owing in a greater degree to
an adequate labOrng population than to the special benefits of abolition,
as illustrated in an AntiIavery Societys annual report. But no credit
is due to the Barbadian plantocracy for retaining that Adequate laboring
population liz their employ. To the latter it was the option of work at
low wages, and on most iliberal terms, O. starvation. But in other
colonies, as in Trinidad or British Guiana, where the same iTiberal
tenure prevailed, the result was very different. There, where land was
ed that a path to independence lay open before him and as the planter
became more stubborn in his system of coercion, and more rigid in exact
ing the requirements of an obnoxious tenure law, he discovered too late
that, for want of labor, lost through his own mistaken policy, he was
compelled to abandon his estate. And yet tit is surprising how the negro,
in spite of all disadvantages, has chung to the soil upon which he was
born. So true is this, that after having closely examined the causeso of
estates being deserted, [ find that they are debt, incumbranee, and want
of capital far more than want of labor. We in the United States have
heard of abandoned properties in the West Indies, and, without much
investigation, have listened to the planters excuse-the Incidence of the
negro, who refuses to work except under compulsion; but I shall be able
to show that, in those colonies where estates have been abandoned. the
laboring classes, instead of passing from servtude to Incidence and idle
ness, have set up for themselves, and that small proprietors since emanci-
patton have Increased a ~hundredIOd. I shall also show that in those
islands, as ia st. Lucia, where a more liberal tenure prevails, the indus
try of the laboring population is not to be questioned. 1t was only the
other day that l read an extract from a Tobago paper in the planting
interest, in which the writer deplores "he perverse selfshness of the
labOrers" He complains that the lab0rers have large patches Of land in
cultivation, and hire help at higher wages than the estates a afford to
pay. and suggests. "as the only remedy for these serious evils" a fresh
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CY~ PACKET NEWS! An
PRUSSIA.
ILLUSTRATED London News, Oct. 1877

ILLUSTRATED London Neacs, Oct. 1877
On Saturday last Prussia took formal
possession of the kingdom of Hanover.
The Royal patent was read in the palace
at Hanover by the Governor-General,
amid saIvos of artillery and the clang of
bells. The ex-King, having Illuminated
his protest against the annexation of his
kingdom to Prussia, now relieves all his
former subjects fro II their oaths Of allie
glance to him.
The formal incorporation of Frankfort,
Hesse-Cassel, and Nassau into the Prus-
sian monarchy took place or Monday.
The Royal patent Of incorporation was
read with much ceremony at Frankfort,
CasseI, and Wiesbaden. At Frankfort
the people received the announcement
with dull apathy, ard without any de-
monstration of their feelings. At Casscl,
on the contrary, the Estates and the
people Wed with each other in demon
STATIONS of joy, and the ceremony of
annexation was marked by great enthu-
Siasm.
In Wednesdays sitting of the Wirtcm-
berg Chamber of Deputies a bill was
passed %indemnifying the Government for
concluding the armistice and the treaty
Of peace with Prussia. Ei9hty-seven
members voted for, and one against, the
bill.
There is once more a report that the
negotiations for a delinitjve peace be-
tween Saxony and Prussia have been
, 1866-11-02
THE BRITISH WESTTNDIES
BY VIM. G. SEWELL.
CHAPTER III.
.THE GOVERNING GLASSES or BARBADOS.

(COntinued)
Last autumn an association was formed in Barbados to improve the
social and moral condition Of the labouring population and, in the pre-
amble to the resolutions adopted at the first meeting, it was asserted-a
fact too patent to deny-that one of the main barriers to social progress
arose from "a want of confidence between the employer and the employ
ed" But the proprietary body have so set their faces against the move
ment that its chances of success for the present are very unpromising.
The planters, tenacious of their privileges, and, like aristocracies all the
world over anxious to retain their power over the masses, met to coun-
teract the new movement. They denounced the society "Or attempting
to arouse unjust suspicious in the minds of the ignorant touching their
rights = they viewed with alarm" and "s a political movement the
desire for a more liberal tenure, and as "an endeavor to jeopardize the
successful system of plantation management as now adopted - they
maintained that "te best of feeling" existed between them and their
tenants, and, finally, they declared their inherent right to adopt such
measures as they might think fit for the good government, safety, and
welLdoing Of their properties. The absurdity of these pretenaons in a
professedy free country need not be pointed out; and I only introduce
them in order to show the iliberal nature of the tenure which the plan
tiers still resolutely uphold. They hope by stringent measures to retain
the liberated peasantry on their estates, but their laws produce the very
opposite effect; and in spite of the warnings of experience and the die
tates of common sense, they obstinately stick to a policy which has ruin
ed many fair West India property.
, 1866-11-02
A m er a n.
(New York Daily Tribune, October 22)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81, 1866.
There are important rumors in circula-
ton to-day that I have traced to an au-
thority, which, if not official, justifies me
in sending them to you. The President
and Cabinet instead of charging the do
mestic policy of the Administration, in
obedience to the will of the people as
expressed in the October elections, are
now intending to create a new and popu-
lar foreign policy, to affect the November
elections. At the last Cabinet meeting it
was resolved to demand payment at the
hands Of the British Government in full
for all the outrages committed by the
Rebel privateers which were fitted out
in England. This is said to have been
the decision Of the Cabinet, and to carry
out this decision instructions were sent
out to Mr.. Adams last Thursday. If
England suggests the propriety of calling
a commission, our Government will not
acquiesce.
It is also stated, on the same good au-
thority, that on Wednesday last President
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We notice in the st. Thomas Times of
the 3lst last month the arrival there Of
two French Steamships the Emperatrice
Eugenie and La France !; the former
having on board troops from Mexico on
their way to France, and the latter
General Miramon, ex-President of Mex
leo I; General Marques, ~Plenipotentiary
to Constantinople, and M. Buenaventura
Baez, ex-President of Santo Domingo, as
passengers.
THE European Mails arrived here last
evening. The Papers do not contain
much of interest or Importance. We
have selected a few articles this time,
and promise more in the next.
, 1866-11-02

the State Department to the recently
erected Washington City Orphan Asylum
on Fourteenth-st., which has been rented
for q term Of years until the new State
Department building shall be erected on
its present site.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21

THE WASHINGTON TERRITORY FE-
MALEs-It is stated that A. S Mercer,
ESQ. of Washington Territory, who took
a steamboat load cfyoung women TO hus-
band market on the Pacific coast last fall,
has written back that the enterprise is a
snccess and that he will repeat TIE experi>
ment next summer. 1t is 10 be presumed
then that the interesting cargo of femin>
Unity reached its destination without utter
ly tearing each others eyes out. and that
the susceptible bachelors of Washington
Territory rushed eagerly TO the dock, pro.
vded with blank marriage licenses. duly
authenticated. contesting eagerly for the
first choice from among the loveabes thus
at las. all of the New England importa>
tions, even to the ugliost and oldest, were
at last disposed of and are now engaged in
fryig slap,jacks and sweeping cabins in
the homes Of the Pacific We are glad to
learn that the experiment has been sue,
cessful Men greatly predominant on the
Pacific coast and women in New England.
If these countervai!ing disparities could be
removed at the same time by such projec is
as this, barring their apparently CONNER
cial character, the family relation, that
great conservator of all the virtues. would
be more common, and great good would
result.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21

During the American war general OF
ficer in the service of the United States,
advanced with score of men under the
English batteries to reconnoiter their po-
sitiou. His aid-de-camp, struck by a ball,
fell at his side The officers and orderly
dragons fled 7recipi;ately The general,
though under fire of the cannot, approach
ed the wounded man to see whether he had
any signs of lite remaining or whether any
help could be afforded him. Finding the
wound had been mortal, he turned his ewes
away with emotion, and slowly rejoined the
group which had got out of reach of the
pieces.
This instance of courage anu humanity
took place at the battle OF Moamouth.-
Gen. Clinton who Commanded the Eng lish
troops, knew that the Marquis de la Fay
cite generally rode white horse; it was
upon white horse that the general officer,
who retired so slowly, was mounted; Clin-
ton desired the gunners not to fire. This
noble forbearancc probably saved NJ. de II
Fayette's life, for it was he himself. Al
that time no was hut twenty two years o'
age
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21
EEisIt N,is E3y Best!

THIS Is natural question for farmer
to ask, but an answer is not always rsadilv
given. A man, with two or three years
experience on farm, can determine pref
ty nearly what crop is best suited to each
section of it, so far as quantity or yield is
concerned, but it is not so easy to decide
what particular product will pay best in
any particular year. Sometimes the pota-
to crop is short and the price Of that prod
uct reaches very high figure. The next
seoson each farmer doubles his quantity of
potato ground, and the result is reduR,
dant market and low prices Then follows
diminished production again, and so on,
year in and year out This is orc of the
annoyances of trade, and pertains TO all
calllngs. to certain extent. That farmer
will probably succeed best who pursues a
generally uniform system-diversifying
his crops regularly. so that he may have
something to sell Of each class Of products.
whatever the ruling price of them in the
market may be-RurR Nc,r Yorker
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21
The Expedition 60 New Mexico
and Arizona.

From the St. Louis Democrat, June 13
The expedition to the gold, silver and
copper mines Of New Mexico and Arizona
on the Gila river, is rapidly forming, tc
take its march across the plains. Tent;
ana supplies were shipped from this city
yesterday, to Topeka, on the Pacific rail
road, where men have been sent to estab-
lish camp for the outfitting of teams
&c., preparatory to starting for the new
Eldorado. A large unmber of men arc
making their arrangements to join the ex
pedition, and the company's Office in this
city presents lively and businoss-like ap,
pearance. The company is regularly
chartered. under the title of ''The Ameri'
can ella River Mining company" and con
tracts to take men through to the mining
districts for sums wholly inadequate tt
defray the expense of those emigrating il
small parties.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21
EGW0.

The Fayette Union says that the warm
weather and copious showers We have been
having the past week are bringing crops
out finely. Wheat never looked better
Corn is making up for lost time. Every
description Of wild fruit known in that
locality bids fair to yield an extraordinary
crop.
The Independence Bulletin says that
accounts continue favorable in the main
Oats do not look so promising as could be
desired in some portions of the country.
The recent warm weather has helped corn
along rapidly, and it is now looking well
wherever good seed was planted. Wheat
looks we'll
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21
The Ruling Passion Strong in
Death

Old Boge was a miserly cd fellow, who
had accumulated great wealth by lifelong
penurousness. But even misers have to
die some time, and old Boge was at length
called upon to pay that debt which all
must pay, and which is paid as easily by
the man who hasn't got cent as by the
possessors Of millions.
Old Boge was sick unto DEATH finding a
partial recompence in his suferings from
the reflection that as he could not eat any
thing something was being saved. His
physician told him that his end was ap-
preaching. and as he felt within himself
that he was approaching his end, it was
evident to old Boge that he must meet his
end very soon.
"How long have to live?" asked old
Boge, in faint voice.
"Only half an hour" said the physician
taking out his watch in business manner
and added, sis there any one you would
like to send for-a clergyman for in
stance ?"
Old Bogo rlused in ethargic way for a
moment, and then started up as with a
sudden thought, raised his feeble hand felt
of his emaciated chin, upon which two
weeks growth of gray and stubbed beard
had grown, then whispered hurriedly-
"Quick me-bring me-a barber. y
The barber came with his kit, and old
Boce said in voice that was rapidly
growing weaker:
"You-charge-ten cents-to-shave
live men ?"
Yes, that is our price," replied the bar
ber
"What-you cbarge-to-shave-dead
men?"
"One dollar" said the barber, wonder
ing what he meant.
"Then-shave-me--quick," said old
Boge, nervou.ly cycling the watch which
the doctor held in his hand. He was too
weak to speak further, but the doctor in.
terpreted the n"es.;c. .t ...at was in MS eyes
''Fifteen minutes" replied the doctor
Old Boge made a feeble motion as with
lather brush, and the barber was at his
work iu jify. He performed his work
with neatness and dispatch, and although
the sick man had several sinking spells OF
an alarming nature, yet he bore up to the
end When the last stroke of the razor
was given, old BoSc whispered in tones OF
satisfaction, "Thatll do-ainety-cents-
sdred," and Immediately expired.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21

THE TEXAS WHEAT CRor.-Dr. Cox,
who has recently returned from an exten-
sive tour in the wheat-growing regions OF
Texas, informs us that there never was q
finer prospect in the world than at this
time. He says that without some accident
three times as much will be raised this
year as was ever raised in one year before
In some county-Collins, we believe-the
Doctor says 500, 900 bushels of wheat will
be for sale. At the mills near Dallas, he
was offered flour at 81 per hundred pounds
This is good news for -four lovers, as W,
hope that instead of it being worth sS pei
hundred, we can soon buy it for So =
Wessrra Te~c~
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21
The Martinsvillee Gazette, bewildel

The Martinsvilee Gazette 4 bewilder,
ed country paper, is surprised to see some
of the soldiers, since they came home,
acting and voting with the democratic
party" There is nothing at all surpris
ing in this, if the Gazette would only look
at it in the proper light. The soldiers
are simply voting as they fought-to re-
store the Union, to sustain the administra.
ton, to discomfit the crazy radicals who
are laboring to perpetuate the dissolution
of the Union, in order that the blessed
nigger may he invested with social and
political equality. The soldiers have
learned, during their service, to distinguish
between gold and pinchbeck, patriotism
and plunder, cant and conscience. The
soldiers have also learned to appreciate 10 70
the gratitude of republicans, as manifest
ed in the distribution of offices among the
stall fed patriots, while battle-scarred sol
diers are quietly given the go by.-Daii,
Herald
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21

CoLFAX.-This trickstering, abolition
niger representative in Congress from
this district, is casting about for another
nomination for Congress. He pretends
hypocritiaclly, that he is very disinterested
that he would rather 90 to Europe. wit
ness the Establishments Of foreign govern
ments, and all the while he has his emmis
sares through the district investigating
his chances for reelection This is Colfax
all the time--hs sel6shness and grovel,
ing hypocrisy without any manlines about
him. IF his friends tell him he can be
reelected he will submit to remomina'
ton and regarding his nigger, high tariff
high tax proclivities--hi open opposition
to the President and his constitutional
union policy-wc would rather he should
be the candidate of the radical disunion-
lists than any other man. Whitc County
Democrat
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21

The fight between Congress and the
President, if there be fight, i, curious
affair and will bear a deal of careful watch
ing. We have never invested very largely
in the stock Of the political firm of Johns
son, Seward and Co. and we think on the
whole we shan't until after the dog days
As Lord Chatham said on one cccasion-
"Confdence is plant Of slow growth "
and we have seen so many promising
democratic plants nipped by the first
rude breath during the past five years, that
we prefer to wait for the bark to harden
before we hang any more hopes on thes e
budding conservatives. Our rule OF
faith is very simple. We believe no med>
icine can heal the woes of this bewildered
American people but q revival of the prin-
ciples Of JeiTersonian Democracy, to which
William H. Seward is the natural and
mortal enemy. Any man or men who are
so enamored of success aud SO infatuated
with policy as to strike hands with Sew
ard, we respectfully decline to train with
Dem H. l.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21
The Queen Of Hearts.

Miss Lancet was q gay coqrette, who
dTelt in rural parts her Wit ard beauty
had won for her the title Queen of Hearta"
Of every signing swain that knelt she only
made butt and counties we're TIE gallant
youths she cruelty had "cut" Among
the gents professional the very "deuce"
she played, and many victims of her
tricks" we're covered with "spade."
To grace the sepulchre she sent younz
Doctor Gentian Root, and three attorneys,
two divines, bad also followed suit" A
hopeless love curtailed their lives; so.
blaming heartless maids, they "shuffled of
this mortal coil" and sought the peaceful
shades. But conquests cease. like al
things else, vain victors lose their power,
the daring Queen of Hearts was trump
ed By Captain Barney Bower"
Twas summer time. when blazing suns
all things beneath them Tarch, the captain
with his warlike troop through Wagtown
made a march" Against this mighty
son of Mars her breast she could not stees
right skillfully she worked the game,
but Barney had the deal" The Golfers
of the rich papa bold Barney had in view.
so played not for the maid alone, but gold
and diamoads too But rich papa put Cap
tains nasal organ ont of joint, and did
with "club" toward the door significantly
point. Henceforth the naughty Queen
was doomed to drink of sorrows cup: her
lover from the town did ''cut, and never
more turned up"
A lone, heart broken, "shuffling" dame,
she pined from day to day, warning tc
all giddy firts, and then she passed"
away
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-21
4 Prayer for Ex-ssresslenf Esavis.

= Prayer for Ex-FressGesat E2y3s.
Rev. S. W. ROGERS, of Memphis, rector
of st Lazarus Church (EpiscopaD in that
city, on Whit Sunday, issued a pastoral
letter to his congregation, which he ex-
horts them to offer up the following pray
er every night when YOU go to bed, and
every morning as soon as you rise :"
ooh God whose mercies are eyerias
ting, and whose power is infinite, look
down with pity and compassion upon Thy
servant, whom thou hast laid in place OF
darkness and the deep. Give him always
a sorrowlul sense of his sins and Of Thy
fatherly love and correction. Give to his
judges tenderness and compassion, and tC
him meek and forgiving spirit toward al
those who have confined him. Raise u:
friends to pity. and relieve him. Give
him the continual comfort of Thy Holy
Spirit, and so sanctify his Affections tina
they may work for him an eternal weigh
Of glory through the merits of Jesus Chris
our Lord"
Another clerical conflict for the ear o
the Judge of all the Earth. Southern di.
vines pray for the safety and deliveranc;
of Mr.. DAVIS, while Northern divine
pray for his death by military or judicia
violence. This wrestling in prayer-onc
side for mercy and the other for vengeance
will, We suppose, terminate sometime il
October next. In the mean time let al
watch over themselves, and pray to be for
oiven tthheir sins as they are willing &c far'
Give the tresspa.-es o. others.