Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-10
/. COLUMBUS, O., WEDNESDAY MORNIN {
AGood story.

The FeliciGna LedQer of the I'd instant
tells the following story in illustration OF
the manner in which Southern, outraget
are manufactured for Northern eonsump4
ton. "A short time ago gentleman from /
the North visited Feliciana, with the puTI i
pose of selecting place to settle. While i
riding along one of the country roads, be
discovered what he took to be q rebel
skulking along the fence to get shot a
him. Thoroughly frightened, he stfuci |
spurs to his horseyand set off like arrstreak
of creased lightning." Fortunately, an
honest old planter met him, and stopped l
his mad career with the question: "Whal Il
is the matter ?n We give the remainder ol
the conversation as detailed by the Ledger l
oi sWell,n says he, refining up. bis horse.
'sthere is heap the matter. / came very |
near being killed just now% 15a ne h,ffi, i
t.How was that?n inquired the planter |
"I'n tell you,i says he. s.I,m q stranger
in this country, and as poor as q church
fair opeuinghere, and came out to look |
around little, when up here q short dis
tance I was surrounded by-by-by, as /
they are called north, rebels. e.y - j |
& s sPshawi" says the old man, laughingly, |
that's all fiction. Come and go backWigh
me !, I'll pledge you my hOn0r!that not a |
hair on, your head shall be touched" ,ql4 |
He took the old mans advice, but reluc- |
family, and rode very cautiously until they |
arrived at the place where be received the |
mortal fright which caused him to have |
terrible backache. 4.,..sy 5as I4otff |
/ /" Here,Y says he, g is the very place, and |
yonder, pointing to the object ahead, is |
that same darned fellow yet" .1o5b
swell, well, ha. ha,- hal Is that what
you got scared at?" "a er.-.--.- .f3
- Yes, it was" ny II
AS they neared the object the old gen.
tleman showed him that it was nothing but
an. old mOuse-colored mule of his, that had,
unfortunately, got two of his legs fast In
the pasture fence. ..r laa,... -.tl.
Upon this he acknowledged it good sell,
and said he felt spots all over him as big as
a blanket. izssTia s.s ss.f sr..5 e1f
GREAT fear is manifested by the Radicals
in various quarters lest the enfranchised
Southern negroes shall, after all, when they
| 90 to the polls, vote. under the influence Of
| the whites, on what is called 1.-THE rebel
side." The Badical alarm upon this SUBJ
lject is too great to be repressed or
concealed, and in some cases open
expression is given to it. The Chicago
Republican,, q leading and very able
Radical organ. threatens that if the
called rebel side, the matter will be
i thoroughly investigated by Congress and
the elections be annulled or declared void,
if Congress. see good reason for such pro-
ceeding. Very likely the country has not
yet been able to look more than half way
down to the bottom of Congressional in
fanny. And probably that infamy is as
bottomless as the internal pit. But we
trust that every new outrage is fastening
and, will hasten the end Of all outrages.
.. OF course we do not know how the
4 Southern negroes will generally vote, but
we hope that Ignorant as they are, they
have so much sense, that they can be made
to understand that the whites among
whom they have always lived and by whom
they have ever as general rule been most
| kindly treated, are fare more their friends
than the Northern Radicals, who seek only
! to use them for political and selfish pur-
poses. m tzr asft .q.,s -l.'.-.,,g,ss =
i If Congress shall choose to annul the
Southern elections because Southern ne
lgroes do not vote as Congress would have
them vote, let Congress annul and be hang.
l ed, 1t will be but another added to the
many atrocities that are most assuredly
fastening the crash of Radical despotism,
L. The editor of that able Southern paper,
the Mobile Register, has no doubt of the
ability of the white men of the South to
carry the negro vote, if they try, in spite Of
all the influences that the Radicals may un-
| dertake to exercise over the black race.
Still we presume, that, if the negroes vote
! against the Radicals and defeat them, the
4elections will be annulled by Congress
I upon some pretext or other-C Congress won't
care what, The Mobile Register says:
( THE Sherman bill, bad as it is, does not
1 forbid US to be united and true to ourselves,
l and it does not, command us to surrender
what little of rights of Government are
j left US to the few Yankee political adven-
turers who have come amongst US to take
the trouble and the profit of managing our
affairs off our hands. Suppose that DlGny
are disfranchised, we still can put down
the Radical plOtters- Nay, If all are dis
franchised, if we are prudent and Just; we
can beat these plotters- even before an un-
mixed colored constituency. If there were
inone but negro votes in the city and county
iof Mobile, we would wager any sum that
We could name hundred Southern gentle
4 menof well-known character in the county
who could beat either one of the Yankee
firm that is now dividing out the Offices for
Itself, in prospect, for any public Office. It
lis plain and obvious duty, and one to
(which every good citizen, should address
himself, to advise with the eolored men as
I to their interests and duties in their new,
responsible, and, to them, peri1ous posi-
4tion. ."-LouisUilIe Journal. % E :,
A BERLIN letter to the London Times
thus describes the discovery of subterra-
mean city in one of the Russian provinces
in Asia: --s--------
A subterranean city has been discovered
in the vicinity of Fort No. 1, on the Sir
Darya river. Kirghistan settlers having
undertaken to furnish bricks to Major
/ YuDf, the Russian commandant of the fort,
drought him such curious specimens of the
required article Gnat ne was LED TO inquire
whence they had procured them. On their
taking him to the place: the existence of a
subterranean city of vast extent was soon
1apparent to the astonished Russians The
place seems to have been originally built
Jon the Lake Avel, but by the receding OF
1.-THE water is now at some distance from its
5shores, and in the course of time has been
covered up by sand and alluvial deposits
Whether it belongs to the'ancient Parthian,
or,a comparatively speaking, modern
! Dshungarian period of Turanian history,
thasi not yet been ascertained. A guard has
jbeen stationed on the spot to protect the
mysterious city from depredations, until
the arrival of further orders from the Gov
ernor of Orenburg.
THE Democracy have charged Butler
with being wholesale spoonthief, and the
| Impeachment has been Endorsed by loyal
member of Congress bingham, of Ohio)
upon the floor of Congress-. The Democ-
racy have also charged upon all concerned
lin. the execution of Mrs. Surratt, that heI
trial was a mockery, and her strangulation
murder! This was most damning accusa-
tion, but it has been fully sustained by 8
subsequent decision of the United States
Supreme Court, and reiterated by Butler
on the floor Of Congress But the most as
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