He lost every residence he possessed, and as the insurance companies refused to renew, from the aspect of affairs, on the expiration of his policies, the loss was a total one, and reduced him to almost beggary.

With a few negroes he reached Mobile and is now living on the income their labor yields.

His brutal conduct had reached the Bay city, before the fall of Jackson, and on his arrival there, instead of receiving the sympathy and aid of the generous hearted people, he was coldly met and all rejoiced at his downfall.
Those, in that city, who in heart were like him, might have offered assistance, did they not fear that such conduct would lead to suspicion and eventuate the exposition of their enormities.

His punishment is the just reward for his iniquities, and we record almost with regret that he is not reduced to abject beggary.

Though we are told to "return good for evil" and to "forgive our enemies," we cannot in the case of Mr.Elder do either, but would like very much to see the Mosaic law of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" put in force, and in this wish those who are even more charitable than ourselves will coincide.
Swartz is now in Augusta, Georgia, living in ease and affluence, like the majority of Southern speculators.