Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-02-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDEROUS OFFER. —The following appears in the advertising columns of he Selma (A I aboma) Dispatch : —"One Millien Dollars Wanted, to Have Peace by the , let of Mnrch.—lf the citizens of the S .uthern ConfedeI racy will furnish me with cash, or good securities for the sum of 1,000,000. dole., I will cause tie lives of Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Andrew Johnson to be taken by the Ist of March next. This will give us peace and satisfy the world that cruel ta rants cannot live in a 'land of liberty.' It tide is not ace ,m-plished nothing will be claimed beyond the sum of 50.0u0, dole., in advance, which is supposed to be necessary to reach and slaughter the three villains. I will give myself 1.000 towards this patriotic purpese. Everyone wishing to contribute will address "X," box X, Cahaba, Alabama.—Dee. 1, 1864." S CEN ES IN G rur.—Now it happene that the courthouse at the assize towu of Brisk is inconveniently near to the market, whith is the resort of farmers for miles round. Thither come cattle, sheep, and beasts of burdens and thither are taken grain, and hay, and all kinds of agricultural produce. The place is so near to the courts of law, that the sounds of marketing, the grunts of pigs, and the neise of blatant beasts, have many times been known to pierce the sanctium of justice, on to interfere with the delivery of grave human utterances. On this occasion, when Mr T— came so grime, usly to grief, high market was going on in the street and place outside. : Animate of various kinds had given audible proof of their presence, and just as the vanquisher of Mr T— resumed his speech ajackass, di eirous to showing his sense if the learned gentleman's sharp wit, pet up a bray sufficiently loud to be heard right through the court. It was his lordship's turn now, and he, thinking perhaps that no keen a tonguesman as he who was speaking could look well enough to himself, to be able to bear a rub down, said, with a good-humoured smile, which was the salve to his blow, "One at a time, brother; one at a The serjeant reddened slightly, and merely nodded assent to his lordship's proposition. The laugh was against the serjeant, but " nothing he reek'd," yr seemed to do, and. went on tie the close of his speech. His lordship bcgan to sum up the ease tn the jury, sifting the facts, and laying down the law. He had not proceeded very far, when the animal aforesaid, instigated, no ihubt, by a feeling of kindness for the serjeant, took advantage of a slight pause in the summing up, to testify once more to its appreciation of English jurisprudence. The loud lacehaw! resounded through the court, attracting the attention, if not the fears ot the judge. Respect for the bench precluded any such notice by the bar, as the bench had taken of the former bray ; but his lordship had flung down his glove to the serjeant, and the seijeant was not the man to refuse the gage. Ile followed his own plan in taking it up. When the judge continued his address to the jury, the impression created by the jackass being yet fresh upon the audience, Serjeant---- turned him around to the leader who sat next him, and said in a stage whisper, 11,11.,41 distinctly by every one," I neeer noticed till now the remarkable echo in this court." " Net even with your long ears," said a junior in a whisper as audible as the last remark, whereby the laugh, which began to rise at his lordship's expense, was shifted back again to the serjeant, who strove between his dignity— which would not let him notice the junior so immeasurably beneath him—and his anger, which made his fingers itch to punch the junior's head. The serjeant uas a wrathful man, and had the reputation of even "swearing his prayers." Forth from his mouth flowed a string of mattered curses, like lava from a volcano that cannot burst in open fury ; and to judge from appearances a breach of the peace seemed net unlikely to occur at a later hour in the day ; though, an far no I know, tome actually took place, the aerjeant, a thoroughly good fellow, having been observed to select his youthful advereary for special attention at the mess on that very same day ; and ever after speaking highly of him as a foeman worthy of his own steel. —From "London Society" for February.