Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-25
THE GRAND, GLOOMY AND Pc.
CULIAR NORTH.


CULIAR NORTH.
The immaculate North, pure,
loyal and undeflled is blest with q
most progressive spirit. Grand,
bold and startling originality
looms like a mighty scientific
planet before the wondering gaze
Of the world. The people of the
South are disloyal, outside bar
barians, fit only to be ground and
pulverized in some huge and mer-
ciless reconstruction mill. And
while this elegant bit Of amuse-
ment is encouraged here, the
magnificent North revels in its
bold conceptions delights in its
grand originality. A few of its
features would not be uninterest-
ing to the reader. 1t is in that
detachable locality that, that moral
ulcer FreelOveism flourishes and
blooms in such delightful luxuri-
ance. 1t Is there that three rever-
and gentlemen OF undoubted stand
ing in society and unbounded in
auence, sanction, by oil the forms
and ceremonies peculiar to the
church, such unholy alliance IS
that Of the llbertine Richardson,
with the seduced wife Of McFar
land. It is there that infanticide
is discussed and commented upon
with that nonchalance which
familiarity with the observance Of
the hideous custom alone can give
There it is that maniacha
women desert their domestic du-
ties; absent themselves from their
families; outrage common decen.
cy by going through the country
bowling and wailing because they
are not permitted to vote. There
it is that the marriage tie is al
most a nullity through the ease
with which divorces can be pro-
cured. There, too, Spiritualism
finds q home and q habitation.-
There loyalty is the grea: shibbo-
leth glued to the tongue of every
one. There treason and rebellion
are made odious, and to satisfy
the world that it is, n system of un-
interrupted outrage and wrong
is kept in constant and successful
operation against a helpless ant
oppressed portion of the citizens
ofthe country. But with all thii
startling and peculiar originality
it has been :Le proud privilege o
a District Attorney IN Rocklant
county, New York, to far excel it
There was q murder committed
in that county recently. A maj
nqTaed Joachim Fuerten wa
killed, and an Alsatian known al
Antoine Maurer was suspected
Of having committed the muir
der. He was arrested ant
lodged in prison. The testimony
was amply sufficient to convict
but the Prosecuting Attorne.
adopted a novel and startling
mode of intensilying the testimo
ny. He seems to be oppressed
with a sublimity Of original con
Ception. He caused the head o
the murderd man to to be severe
from the trunk; had it pickles
and canned, and then begun
system of inquisitorial tortur,
with the prisoner. The prisOI
solitude Of the poor conscience
lashed wretch was enlivened b.
the constant presence Of this 10!
ghoul. When Maurer went II
wash his hands, he found the hea'
staring at him from the bottom o
the Wash.pail. When he sat il
the hall, outside his cell, gazing a
vacancy, a theatrical hand LITE,
! the blanket from the hall table a.
revealed the head. The hea,
:, , glared at him in his waking mo
ments at dead hour of night and s.
frightened and haunted the poo
wretch that it IS surely no wonde
! that he was at last driven half in
1 sane. Then acknowledgements
: ing, contradictory, and imprOba
ble-which can hardly be calle
, confessions, were wrung from hin