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VOLUME 3.
[From the Daily Post of ThurwUy ]
THE MEMPHIS RIOT.
Fight Between (he Police ami
the V cgroc"-- A snail Its I pirn A
Murderol l noHen«tlii|{Kln< li»
-•Origin of (lie OlMnrbitncc—
.4ll the Colored Nehool-hoii««e*
and Burned—ll<»n-
MeHof~ltlaek« I>CHlroycd--.nore
<ol d- Hlooded 51 u nlers- Itu r-
IIIIIK of Women, Etc.* Etc.
After carefu% sifting the thousand and
• one stories in circulation, in reference to
tthe origin of the disturbance in South
Memphis on Tuesday, the following seems
to be the truth of the matter:
Some sixty or seventy soldiers, recently
discharged from the Third United States
(Colored) Heavy Artillery, were out on
South street drinking. '1 hey got noisy,
hut were doing no damage. A squad ot
police came along and iu*hed in among
them, making an arrest of two. The sol
ilicrs made an outcry at this, but did not
attack the police. They, however, fired
several shots from their pistols, some say
at th e police and some at random The
police immediately commenced firing into
the crowd of soldiers, and they returned
the fire, killing one policeman and woun
ding two others.
Both sides were reinforced, and the ac
tion became general, with about the losses
on both sides as given in yesterday's issue
THE FIELD ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.
We learn from a reliable gentleman
who was in South Memphis early yester
day morning, and also from officers in the
Fort, that nearly all the negroes in the
vicinity of the disturbance fled to the
Fort for protection after the affair on Tues
day night. South street was perfectly
quiet. The bodies of the negroes who
had been killed were lying, unburicd, and
the most of thorn wave horribly bruised.
Few negroes were visible anywhere in
that locality. This is corroborated by
two gentlemen, who accompanied the po
lice on their first visit to that part of town
yesterday morning. Large numbers of
citizens, armed with pistols, carbines and
muskets, went down with them.
As soeta as they reached south street
they began to fire upon every negro in
sight. F. Dickinson, colored, while
standing in front of his house, and who
had been promised that if he remained
there he would not be disturbed, was shot
down. C. Watkins, colored, was cursed,
and on his starting to.get away, was shot
by the crowd.
A colored was killed in sight.
Another surrendered, and while surroun
ded by policemen, on the cry of " shoot
him," "don't let him escape," was shot
in three places. On raising his bauds to i
beg for his life he was knocked down with
a carbine, After falling to the ground in
a dying condition he was shot through
and through. A boy wa. taken out from
undor a bed, knocked down with a club
and dispatched with some ten or twelve
shots. Two colored children were killed.
A black woman was seen in a grocery and
shot. Another on the street was killed.
The respectable negro blacksmith, op«
posite Mrs. Ilardwick's, on Main street
who had not been away from his shop,
was shot down, and will probably die
W'c could find no one, and we inquired of
several policemen and citizens who went
down, who had seen any armed negroes
on Sofith street, or in that vicinity, dur
ing the day.
A large posse was called out by the
Mayor and £Uariff. and armed them from
thp gun and pistol store of Henry Fol
som & Co. The Mayor had a conference
with Col Kappner, of the Third United
States (Colored) Heavy Artillery, and the
latter assured him there would be no dis
turWu.ce >f the armed citizens would d:s
perse. The Mayor accordingly ordered
them to return to their homes. Many re
tired, but many more remained. The
Sheriff kept a hundred men under arms
last night at the Greenlaw ltlock. Early
in the morning Gen. Stoneman ordered
an officer, with fifty men, to patrol the
streets; and that a guard be put around
the Fort to keep the colored soldiers from
being connected with the disturbance.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
A colored woman, while walking along
Main str«et, near the corner of Main
and Exchange, was shot down by a drun
ken mam.
A negro who came ia from the country
ma shot off hie horse and the horse
stolen.
The body of a colored soldier who was
kiiied the day before, lay daring the fore
noon on Mulberry street. It was repeat
edly spit upon, kicked and cursed by ruf
fianly boya. This soldier after behig kill
ed by a gun shot and several pistol shots,
hid been cut ia the breast several times
with a knife.
Two white ladies made affidavit before
General Kuukie that B*L Picket, (cohx*
ed,) who wm dragged oat of bit bouse
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
and killed, in South Memphis, had just
returned from his day's work, and had
had no connection whatever with the dis
turbance. Olher affidavits were made
before the General, identifying some who
had killed peaceal le negroes. He will
give the whole affair x thorough investi-
gation.
In the afternoon the rioters sot fire to
the house, near the end of Causey, which
has been occupied by 11. N. Kankin, (col
ored,) for a colored school. Mr. Kankin
has had about two hundred pupils in at
tendance. He himself was struck with
a whip at the corner of Union and Sec
ond streets. The ruffian irttempted to
draw his revolver to shoot him, but was
prevented by another citizen*
Several more houses in South Memphis
were burnt during the afternoon, and dor -
ing the whole evening the sky in that di
rection was luiil with flames. There
were incendiary fires also on Madison and
Shelby streets.
Early iu the evening there was sharp
firing out on De Soto street. A nesro
hoy of twelve or thirteen years was killed-
A neirro woman from the country was
deliberately shot on Shelby street It is
supposed mortally.
[Fronithi* Dully Post of Frldiy ]
The riot was kept up all cdnesday
nij-ht. Crowds of armed citizens were
gathered at the corners. Many were half
drunk. The great feat of the roughs,
was the burning of the colored school
houses, churches and homes. They seem
to have acted in concert, and to have car
ried out a progjainme which had been
previously arranged. This-is shown by
the clean sweep which was made of every
building used for a colored school or place
of worship by the colored people, but
most strongly by the conduct of the riot
ers on the burning of the Collins Chapel.
This colored church stands on Washing
ton street, and cost 87,000.
After getting this well under the con
trol of the flames, the leader of the des
peradoes called upon them to "fall in,"
which was done in a style which would
have reflected credit upon any military
organization, and proceeded to a black
smith shop on Alabama Rull
Hun, which, as it bclongod to a peacea
ble black man, was burned. We have
received the names of quite a number
who shared the glories of this part of the
field, but whether they participated in
setting the fires in other parts of the city
we do not know.
The Colored Raptist Church on Main
street near Overton, was burned This
was of brick, and the oldest colored church
in the city. It was owned by the colored
people.
The colored church on Poplar street
was burned; also the Lincoln Chapel,on
Union st. This belonged to the Ameri
can Missionary Association, and cost one
thousand dollars. It was insured for 800
dollars.
Kvery colored church was burned.
The colored schools were kept in the
barracks formerly occupied by the Pro
vost Guard. Those were all burned.
Loud and repeated threats were made
by the rioters that when they had des
troyed the colored sohool-houses they
would kill the teachers. The threats
were so violent, and the rioters having
shown themselves capable of any brutal
ity, it was deemed prudent that they
should go north They all left for Cairo
on the St. Louis packet. Many of the
officers on duty here sent their wives awuv
with these ladies.
An attempt was made to burn Colwell's
Hall near the corner of Gayoso and Third
streets. This hall belongs to a wealthy
and influential colored man, from whom it
takes its name, and is the most frequent
ly used by the colored people for public
meetiuge.
A house near Mr. Rankin's school- 1
house, which was burnt on Tuesday, was
fired during the night. A colored girl,
seventeen ya»rs of age, named IJachel
Hatchcll, who had been a scholar of Mr.
Rankin's was sick in this house, and on
running out WHS knocked down, shot and
thrown into the fire. Her body lay ip the
ashes yesterday morning burned to a crisp,
excepting her head and shoulders. Some
one had kindly thrown a shawl over this
horrid spectacle. Coroner Erickson, on
making inquest upon the body, found the
report true that she was shot before being
,thrown iLto the fire
The Botanico Medical College, on Beal
street, io which oolored schools have bean
yept, wa» set on fire, but it was put out
by «ome teachers who stay in the build
ing.
A grocery kept by an old colored man
in Sooth Memphis was broken into and
robbed and he killed in his bed. He
was to be seen lying in bed ia jostthe
posture ia which he was killed yesterday
morning.
A Urge number of the bouses in South
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do ou. duty as we understand it"—A LTNOOL*
BIITLEK, BtJTLER COUNTY. PA.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1866.
Meuiphis occupied by the blacks and
some in other parts ol the city were burn
ed. JS'o effort was made to stay the
flames. In one case four negroes were
fastened up iu a house and the house set
on fire.
A colored man on Alabama street, in
forms us that his house was broken into
and about two hundred dollars in money
taken, and he beaten over the head ; and
the same party broke into his neighbor's
house, killed him, locked the wife and
children in the house, set it on fire and
burned it down.
A colored woman named Rhoda Jacobs,
while lying in bed with her child at her
home in South Memphis, was shot in the
breast. •
John Mason (colored) was shot in the
bead while iu h's house in the same
neighborhood. His'money was then de
manded of his wife She replied that
they had none. The house was then
searched and everything of any value ta
ken. Indeed, robbing seems to have
been as mucn the object of the rioters *s
negro killing. One negro was asked if he
had any arms, and on his answering that
he had not, a pistol was placed at his
bead and his money demanded. Twen
ty-eight dollars was taken out of a trunk
broken into in the house ot Reeky Pleas
ant. in South Memphis.
We -heard the particulars of the rib
bing of from ten to twelve negroes, from
the parties themselves. The sums taken
ran from the most trifling up to three
hundred dollars. One said he wits or
dered by a policeman on the corner of
Real and DeSoto streets to give up his
money and his weapons.
A colored man, living in the northern
portion of the town, sayß they entered his
hfluse on pretense of searching for arms,
and killed his mother, an old colored wo
man, iu her bed.
Two or three negroes were shot in
Chelsea.
Six or seven houses occupied by ne
groes were burned on Echols street.
A building, now private property, but
formerly belouging to the Government,
was burned on Gayoso, east of DeSoto
street.
The grocery at 51 Causey street, be
longing to a colored man, was entered
and robbed of half of its contents.
Rob Church, colored, was shot in his
saloon, on DeSoto street.
A colored man named Cook, a porter
in a store on Main street, was shot near
the corner of Main and Exchange streets.
A wolored boy on Main street had his
brains beaten out.
A shot was fired at a negro man who
was quietly looking through the grating
in front of the billiard saloon in tho Gay
oso House. The ball missed him, and
passed in close proximity to two ol the
players.
The body of a negro who had been
shot, lay in the morning at the corner of
Hernando and Real streets.
An attempt was made to fire every
Gov. building in town. Iu ono that was
burned it is said that an immense amount
of Quartermaster's stores were destroyed.
The carnival of blood and fire contin
ued the whole night. The sky was con
tinually lit up, sometimes by one, and a
gain by several fires in different parts of
the city, at a time. Crowds of armed
rioters were moviug up and down the
streets, firing, shooting and threatening
negro sand Union meu. The Post was
repeatedly threatened with violence.—
Friends inform us that at one time a
crowd up main street,seemed to have been
fully determined that the "damned Yan
kee-nigger sympathizing I'ott" should be
wiped out, aud that they were the ones
to do it. The only call we received, how
ever, from these lovers of a free press,
were from two ruffians who fired at the
building, and ran with all their might.—
No damage was done.
The rioters sepmed determined to re
peat tho tragedy last night by attacking
the teachers of colored schools, the col
ored ministers and Yankees generally.
Yesterday morning found the city
quietly dozing after the long night's ex
citement. South Memphis was nearly
deserted. Dead bodies of negroes were
found here and there in the streets. The
violence during the night had been alto-"
gether confined to the whites. Indeed,
it is said that firemen can be indentified
who were riding about town on horses be
longing to the Fire Department, and who
fired some of the houses. It is charged,
too, that numbers of the police joined the
rioters.
Although the city was generally quiet,
the assaults aod robbery of negroes con
tinued. A colored man named Louis
Bennett, who bad just oome on a boat
from Mound City, was asked on the levee
whers he was from. lie replied that he
was from Mound City. They called him
a "smoked Yankee," robbed him of his
watch and money, broke his arm, beat him
over the head, and kicked him off.
Rob't Jones (colored) had just come
in from the country, and was standing on
the corner of Ilgal and Causey streets in
the forenoon. A man, appearing to be a
policeman, took his pistol and twenty
nine dollars in mnncy, and. ns he turned
to leave, thrust a knife into his back, un
der the shoulder blade. Another, stand
iuf, by, known to be a policeman, made
no arrest of the robber.
A colored man named Rob, who works
at Mr. Odell's livery stable, was stoned
as he was passing the Engine House near
the corner of Adams and Main streets.—
He hastened to get out of the way, and
was shot in the leg.
A negro was shot in the knee near the
corner of Howard's Row and the levee.
This was doao by a well-known individ
ual for the sake of amusement, and was
laughed at by the citizens who saw it.
A large number of armed men from
the country arrived on the morning train.
They hoped to have a hand iu putting
down a great negro insuirection. Very
general quiet was, however, maintained.
The following notice was published in
the afternoon as a result of a meeting of
a nunibcr of the citizens :
TO TITE PUBLIC.
At meeting of the citizens of Mem
phis, held this day, W. R. Greenlaw was
appo : nted Chairman, and R. C. Rrinkley,
Secretary. The following resolutions
were unanimously passed :
Resolved, That he Mayor of the City,
with the Sheriff of the County, together
with the chairman of this meeting, be
authorized to summon a force of citizens
of sufficient number to act in connection
with the military, placed at the disposal
of the Mayor by Gen. Stoneman, which,
together, shall constitute a patrol for the
protection of tbeeity, to serve such time
as the Mayor, Sheriff and Chairman of the
meeting shall direct.
liesohetl, That our mayor he request
ed to close all liquor saloons till further
orders.
Retained, That the Chairman, J. 11.
McMahon, S. P. Walker and R. C. Rrink
ley, be requested to wait upon Gen.
Stoaeman, and inform him of the pro
ceedings of this meeting.
W. R. GREENLAW, Ch'n
11. C. BRINKI.EY, Sec'y.
The above proceedings have my cor
dial approbation, and arc published for
the information of tho citizens.
JOHN PARK, Mayor.
Memphis, May .'Jd, 1880.
IIEADQR'S DEP'T OF TENN, 1
MEMPHIS, May 3d. }
To the Mayor, City Council, and all Civil
Officers of the county of Shelby anil
the City of Memphis :
GENTLEMEN: Circumstances compel
the undersigned to interfere with the
civil affairs of tho city of Memphis.
It is forbidden for any person, without
authority from theso headquarters, to as
enible together any posse, armed or un
armed, whito or colored. This docs not
include tho police force of the city, and
will not as long as they can be relied
upon as preservers of the peace.
I am, gentleman,
Yory respectfully,
Your obed't servant
GEO. STONEMAN, Maj.-Gcn. Comd'g.
The order of Gen. Stoneman gave great
satisfaction.
A strong patrol was placed in the city
in tho evening. There were a few pistol
shots in various parts, and more especi
ally frequent over toward the Charleston
depot, but no general disturbance.
During the afternoon a large number of
drays, loaded with furniture an I house
hold goods from South Mempels, passed
up Main street. Everybody seemed to
be getting away in anticipation of another
house-burning by the rioters last night,
which, wo arc happy to say did not oc
cur.
TICKUNH.—Lord Erskinc, when at
the bar, was retained for a lady named
Tickle, against whom an action for libel
had been brought. On the trial he com
menced his address to tho court thus :
"Tickle, my client, the defendant, my
lord." The audience, amused with the
oddity of the speech were almost driven
into hysterics by tho judge's replying :
"Tickle her yourself, Harry."
—" Pompey, why am de River James
like lager beer?"
Dun'o, d'you ? give's 'um up.
'• 'Kase it ruus into tho Dutch Gap !
Yah ! yah!"
—A gift which ia prompted by a jgen
erous feeling is far moro valuable and ac
ceptable than many rich offerings from a
renctant hand.
—Tho firr? mau that "struck ile"—
Jonah.
Hon. Geo. V. Lawrence on the Pres
ident.
The Impediment to Ilitrinonj'--
Tho Strength of tliel'iilon Piir
<y.
In the House of Representatives, on
the sth instaßt, the Hon. Geo. V. Law
rence, representative from the 124 th Dis
trict, had the floor on the tariff question,
but was drawn into a running debate on
other topics. Mr. ltandall interrupting,
desired to have read the platform of the
Democrats in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lawrence, of Pennsylvania. 1
have seen that platform over and over
again. It is au utter abandonment of all
the old positions of'the Democratic par
ty.
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania. It is a
good TJnion platform.
Mr. Lawrence, of Pennsylvania. Hut,
sir, of what use is a platform which every
one knows to consist simply of hypocriti
cal professions ? Sir, the platform which
that party has adopted in Pennsylvania
for campaign purposes is a card repre
senting Clyn er supporting a white man,
while Gen. deary, that heroic man who
travelled with Sherman tbr'o the South,
and returned victoriously, is represented
as holding up, or perhaps, embracing, a
negro.
Sir, the only capital of the Democratic
party today iu Pennsylvania is the negro
question. They attempt to appeal to the
lowest passions and prejudices of the ig
norant and depraved, with regard to the
negro. Recause some of us representing
hero the State of Pennsylvania, voted for
negro suffrage, as an experiment, and to
enable them to compete with returned
rebels in this District, our names are pa
raded as friends of the negro in preference
to the whito man. In this, with the
tricks of demagogues, that paity appeal
to passion and prejudice, and not to judg
ment and reason.
Now, I say, that is the platform upon
which these men stand. It is published
in every Democratic paper in the Stale.
I eulogized President Johnston when
these men were denouncing him. I stood
by him at that time, in Ilarrisburg, when
he made one of the most able arguments
I ever heard in defense of the Constitu*
tion and the right of this Government to
put down this rebellion. I followed hi in
then ; I followed him in Tennessee, whon
he Bto<jd like an oak stricken in the for
est, \vhen he was driven from homo and
his family were scattered. I stood by him
then, and 1 stood by him a candidate
of the Republicau parly in the last cam
paign. I helped to elect him. I would
be glad, sir, to say that I endorsed every
act of Jiis Administration. 'I do not, and
I cannot.
I came here as anxious as my friend
from Illinois that we should be united ;
that the President and Congress Hhould
stand together in this great issue. I
knew the assaults wc had to meet from
the Democratic party. 1 knew they were
thirsting for the loaves and fishes. I
knew they would use every effort to se
cure possession of the Government. I
was anxious that we should stand upon
the platform of the party which wou!4
save us from this humiliation and dis
grace. I did all a man could do to stand
by the President, and as some of my
friends know, I subjected myself to sus
picion and reproach from some of my rad
ical Irieuds, because I*did not indorse all
their policy. I regretted to hear the
President abused in the early part of the
session. I was anxious wo should be
kept together; but after his speech on the
"I'M of February, snd after his veto of the
civil rights bill, I found I could not go
his whole policy without degradiug my
self and loosing my own self respect.
And I say here, in the presence of the
nation, that my district that voted for
him was in favor ofsnsta : ninghis admin
istration until by some of his own acts,
and b */ mean* of the Copperhead party all
over the land, he succeeded in destroying
that conSdence which I desired to culti
vate ; and to-day I have the gratification
to know, although I represent a doubtful
district, that the President, by the ro
moval of pure, honest and patriotic men,
and by pardoning men covered all over
with crime, who have been guilty of treas
on to the country, and by suffering him
self to be led astray by our opponents,
has made it necessary for the Union men
to stand together in support of the gener
al policy we sustain here, and they are as
earnest and as powerful as when they
sustained Andrew Johnson for the Vice
Presidency of the United States. They
stand in opposition to the general policy
of the President, and in favor of the gen
eral policy pursued by the party in Con
gress, and I stand there with them. lam
not going to abandon my principles to
follow of any man. I was wil
ling to yield something for pence and linr
raony. When war is made upon us, when
it comes upon the wings of tho wind ev
ery morning and evening, when we are
attacked upon all sides, when attacks are
made upon our people because they are
not willing to bear the yoke, I cannot
suppoit the policy.
Mr. Speaker, I will not abuse the Pres
ident personally. I never do that thing.
I predict, with the honorable-gentleman
from Illinois, that we need not fear the
contest. Wo live in an age of advance
ment, when bibles and churches and
school houses are scattered all over the
laud, when men are expected to respect
a man because Flo is a man, when men are
expected to do justice to all men, white
or block ; and I say the day is not far
distant when this miserable copperhead
party, that has no love of principle, that
docs not stand by its professed principles
during more than one campaign, that has
changed them in my own State twenty
times within my own knowledge, when
this Democratic party that derided John
son, that slandered Lincoln—yes, sir, for
they did deride, villify and slander him
all over the land, calling hint a low buf
foon, while to-day they como up and hyp
ocritically sing pralsos to his memory—l
say that tho day is not far distant when
this Democratic party jvill sink into ob
livion covered with t|)e curses of the peo
ple it has deceived.
This same party rallies around Presi
dent Johnson by night and by day. Go
to the White (louse anytime you please
and you will be sure to seo some of them,
and always the shadow of some of the
Hlairs. [Laughtor.] I have scarcely
ever gone there without meeting fconie of
the family. I have seen the old man,
who is almost ready to fall into the grave,
there. It was the same during Lincoln's
Administration ; ho was always there try
ing to lead the President away from the
people, ju order to give ollicc to the fam
ily.
I feel like tho man in my own State at
the time that President Jackson removed
tho deposits, lie said : "I didn't wish
General .Jackson any harm; but I should
not care if tho Almighty took a fancy for
him." [Laughter.]
No family in this land, so few in num
ber has dono HO much to alcinato the
President from those who wore his friends
as this family of Blairs.
I have been drawn off into this person
ality. Ilow could I help it? The Union
organization by which I have stood since
tho first (ocsin of arms was hounded at the
attack on Sumter, I have followed it,
never stopping to inquire whether a man
who adhered to it was a Democrat or a
Republican, and it was this organization
and its policy that saved the country. I
have mot these men who call themselves
Democrats everywhere. I know where
they stand, and how they long for the
flesh pots of Egypt. But I have always
found myself right when I have sustained
the Union organization in my own State.
Months ago I trembled for tho President
elected by Union votes, when I saw those
men about the White House trying to
steal him away, flattering him, eulogiz
ing him, and dictating a policy for him.
When I saw, long since, in the State
Dipartaacut, a pile of pardons as high as
twenty family Bibles, [laughter ] and a
man carrying a lot of (hem out. I saw it
was a wholesale business, and was inform
ed by a gentleman there he had carried
out thousands of such.
Well may wo tremble for the President,
when wn reflect how much depends ou
his fealty to his true friends.
IJut as my friend from Illinois [Mr.
IngertuJl] has well satd the C'nion party
will survive and save the country. 1
glory, sir, today, in the record of that
party. There never has been a party in
any country that has done so much for
liberty. It liaa saved this government
from destruction. While the soldiers
met the rebels in the field of battle and
defeated them, the loyal men of the
North met their allies in the political
field at the polls, and defeated them. I
repeat, this Uijion party has saved the
country in its hour of trial, and it will
triumph in the eud, not so much on ac
count of ito numbers as because it is right.
As my friend from Chicago [Mr. Went
worth] remarked the other day, "God
will sustain us if we sustain the right."'
I repeat, then, tho Union party is
bouad to triumph. I may not indorse
all that is dene here by it. I3m not
quite satisfied with tho report of the Com
mittee on Reconstruction, and shall vote
to amend this proposition. But the Un
ion party will live in spite of adversity.
Already the political axe is falling upon
the necks of our friends. lieads are fill
ing in my own State.
A Member—Who are they ?
Mr. Lawrence, oi Pennsylvania—As
NUMB Eft %\
good men as ever lived ar. being displ.-
oed for bad men The Present has
turned out the Marshy 0 f Western Pe„ B .
sylvauia, as pure and upright a man and
as capable as ever held office anywhere
and appointed a man in his plaoe who wm '
dismissed from service on a charge imnli
eating his integrity. Thank God, he is
not confirmed, and will not be. [Laugh
ter.] I have met him very often. Ido
not know how much money he has made
out of the position that he lost. The re
port vories.
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OBAND JURORS DRAWN i OR JUNE
TERM, 18(56.
John Levis, Kst)., Zelienople; Wm.
Slma (oi David), Washington; G. H.
Warren, Prospect; Andrew Christie,
Coo.-ord ; Wm. Tillorman, Adams; Fos
ter Beaton, Marion ; Nicholas Wallr, Par
ker; l',li lieckwith, Slipperyrock ; Thos
It- Hoon, Centre; Alex. Gillespie, C*ani
berry, James Cranmer, Clay; Robert
Glenn, sr , Worth ; Robert Boggs, Jack
son ; A. Hlack, Cherry ; Isaac Cleland,
Muddycreek ; Wm. 11. Rediok, Alleghe
ny ; ./ohn Urdin, Clinton; Robert Har
bison, Buffalo; Sam'l Bolton, Lancaster;
I bos. ('ratty, Franklin; Robort Purvis
Middlesex; Wm. Cratty, Butler; David
Doug.il, Boro. Butler; Thomas Beattv
Mercer. •"
TRAVERSE JURORS DRAWN FOR JUNB
TERM— FIRST WEEK, 1800.
John Whitmire, Adams; Samuel Mi •
Andreon, Allegheny, Joshua Gailbraith,
Buffalo; John B Graham, Butkr ;
Hugh (irossman, Brady; Francis Con
nelly, Centre ; Jesso Braekney, Clay ;
John Billingsly, (Cherry; John O'Don
ell, Clearfield; John B. McLsngblitj,
'Clint.,n ; Richard Allen, Concord ; Wil
son Graham, Cranberry; John W. Bran
don, Connoauenessing; Henry Doiwiy,
Donegal; Win. C. Campbell, Esq., Fair
view; Thou. Dodds, Franklin; Win.
(joehring, Forward; Thoa. W. Boggs,
Ja< kson ; Thoa. Frazier, Jefferson; John
Wuster, Lancaster; Wm. Surrena. Ma
iion; Ebenuer Brown (of Mercer;
James M'Collum, Middlesex: David Bm.
cr, Muddy creek; Henry Mynioii, €bk
land ; Joel Kirk, Penn ; Wm. H. Shira,
Parker; James Clark, Slipperyroek; .fa*.
Stephenson, Summit; Wm. JL Stalker,
Venungo; Robert Thorn, Washington;
Wm. Crookshftnkf, Winfiold ; Andrew
Glenn; Worth; H. C. Ileiueman, Boro.
Butler; Wm. McCulloqgh, sr., Bor. Mil
lerstown ; Isaac Brewster, Bor. Prospect j
David McDonald, Bor. Centreville; Isaac
Latschaw, Bor. llarmooy.
SECOND WEEK.
Geo.Boston, Portersville; J. E. Muder,
Saxotburg; Edward Mellon, Zclienople;
R. It. Walker, Esq., Harrisville; Henry
Young, Adaros; Joseph Rosenberry, Al
legheny ; James Harbison, Buffalo; Obe.
Cratty, Butlor ; Jesse Hall, Brady; Tho».
Campbell, Centre; Matthew Brown, Clay;
Charles Bovard, Chefry; Robert Love,
Clinton; Win. Wick, Concord; Davi'l
Garvin, Cranberry; George Brunamon,
Conaoqaenessing; Alex. Black, Fairview,
Joseph Edmunson, Franklin ; p. Gale
baugh, Forward ; Pat. Graham, Jefferson,
'l'hos. Donaldson, Jackson; W. Michael,
Lancaster; Jno. Murrin, Marion; Jno. El
der, Mercer ; Wm. F. Parks, Middlesex;
George Barclay, Muddycreok; Jno. L.
Neyiuan, Oakland ; Wm. Logan, Penn ;
Thus. A. Shryock, Parker; Natbaniol
Cooper. Esq., Slipperyroek; Wm. Lind
sey, Summit; Samuel Sloan (of James),
Venango; Ilenry Shook, Washington;
John Cooper, Winfield ; Ameziah Kelly,
Worth; Campbell Cochran, Bor. Bntler;
Isaac J. Cummings, Bor. Butler; Jacob.
Wolford, Donegal.
—Mr. Budkins is a spry old gentleman
of sixty, but having never been married
passes off fur forty five, aud would like to
take ten off that. During the cold weath
er, when the N. Y. Central Park pond
was in fine order for skating, the old gent
got a splendid pair of shiners and un
dertook to display his youthfnl agility in
the midst of his young friends and tlje
public generally. It was hard work to
get theui on ; but he waa ready as last,
and boldly striking out, one leg went
north, the other south, and down he oame,
as solid and square as a judge on the
bench. Blaming the skates, he strapped
them up, rose to his foet, and witii anew
flourish came up, all standing, on the
same cushion that leceived him before.
Trying again, he met the same fate, when
a "Young America" coming up, and be
holding him sitting at his ease on the
glassy surface, called out to him, " I say,
old cockadoodle, yon've got them skates
on the wrong place; put 'em on under
your coat tails!" Budkins grinned a
ghastly smile, and then called to the boy,
who glided off in an instant, sod would
not come back to get a quarter. Bodkin*
took off his skates, apd went hope a
wiser and sadder man.
—Whenever a man uses tobacco there
is vir-chew in it.
—The only pain that wt> can mafce
light of—a window paat*
—What comes after cheese? Moose.
| —Success with the ladies is like viij-
I '' n playing—a groat deal dopcaL ou thq
I beau-iog.