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5\Tl'RDAY MOUSING, Feb. 18.
.f,0 YEARS OLD.”
in oil li ly (ill years old,” after liavin
sarhsryouthful anl maturer years in a
^taous obscurity, lias at length fallen into
and, jeiicd with an unaccoun-
itching for publicity, she takes up
1.-siecziv oil hand bellows, and lets fly
£ l.;j tlj-: 0 nuoK-rcial and the Courier, in
.Jjjt ivouiJ do credit to the veriest
Ejmc that ever was sent to the asylum,
rbc kindlv cared for and protected.
y.i Be have the greatest respect tor
riThiirs. and especially far the gray hairs
if a decr-.pid old ! idv. Ever since we were
i&sfc b .v. and read in the New York
jair.V) I. the pathetio story of poor
viRuth, and her sweet little friend Ann,
fsaaing J'jwu the hill to help her, we have
•r.rk'1 the weakness of 'eminine decrep-
ita.iewith aa almost sacred veneration, and
; pittied its failings as weaknes-
= .ufcr than blamed them as indiscre-
ii, Kv.a iiu.v our heart readies out
: ,7.,r l.-this pior old lady “G3 years
if .ml wc iiasleu to mollify her cruel an
ti*. and beg Iter to forbear her wrath, lest
p::;iur:-hj might strain tile leather of
brbelli*i to such a tension that it might
ia-s;. and then she w.uld not be able to
rile any win 1 at all.
.hi now grauuy. pleas.-, for your own
ale,h id in.or, if you can't contain your
far,di get same me else to handle your
halka fir you—your exertions are too
mil far oae of your natural weakness
ni the ac.-uuialat ,d weight of‘-GO years.”
‘SO years el 1”—only think of that, end
via!a wealth of knowledge, ofexperience,
til of kata liy amenities, can be stored in
dit,"idly length o! days, and what sights
cut this p. irdear silly old lady have seen
tan that time. How mauy varyings of
™e. how many changes of times, how
Bn that must be pleasant to remember,
uimayhap a few things that it were pleas
auto forger.
61 years old—why my dear madam,
toes a world of uacaning in that simple
Httece. a volume of thought, an infioi-
BaSof speculation.
| E‘years old—let us pursue the train ol
®*w thus opened out to us, and take
•Wf lnutlie long vista of faded years
MvH.-k by this kind old lady.
•'i.Vf.rs old—tliea she was born in the
ft-’ Bit. Wclaope, madam, you will ex-
®-‘os for taking liberties with your ago
~ ; ti arcs of ladie3 are things to be con-
Porei— reflected upon, but not to be
fenuoccj. II oweger, since you were so in-
® :etl os to give yours yourself, wo will
tr.:: ourselves of the privilege, and employ
£ t j point a moral, if it cannot be made to
*” ra 1 talc. Ct) years then, carries us
“otto 1311. And how stood the world
If 1 - '-oropc then, as now, was torn and
Mag by a harsh and cruel war—
Wiogton against Soult, was contesting
t! supremacy of the Gaul in the Peninsu-
“• the guns of Barosa and of Albuera
'Methundering forth their unearthly peals,
-d-he wo r lj of humanity was shocked by
jf tert '^ ,! massacre of the Mamalukes at
Cair.. Yipoloan, the Corcican boy
. 5r "' a lro, » the obscurity of a Provin-
f‘P=v onto the highest pinniole of earthly
His fame had attained its zenith,
f. -,ady his head was becoming dizzied
“WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”
VOLUME XXV.
ROME, GA„ FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 24. 1871.
over at night, for the telegraph had not yet
been thought of either.
Oh, it does seem a long time ago since
this old lady was born, and wonderful in
deed has been the progress of science and
of civilization since that momentous event.
We wonder if her birth had anything to do
with all these improvements, and the
amazing development of all these sciences,
It certainly must ha -e had, and we fancy
that her doating daddy, as he trotted his.
chubby little daughter upon his knee, nov-
er dreamed that h:s little wee darling would
ever live to see the day she conld travel
from Maine to California—California, in
deed, her daddy never heard of such a
place—in six days, and never wet her
feet.
And if the puling little thing could
have had the precieuce to have seen and
told all the wonders of the telegraph—how
one in New York can speak to St Peters
burg, on the one side, or San Francisco on
niinnship.... 3 oo the other, in a moment of time, the good
" sion from . 1 ’ 0
natured old fellow would have thought his
fcyias
til b,
ttary height. The gentle Josephine
I " J ru lely pat aside-to give place to
- 'J tl Maria I, liaise, and the good ge-
* i °f -Napoleon was sorrowfully pluming
pmijas to forsake the man that had for-
>i birth and his people,
hr j| 11 ' ear Wo t * le war cloud was gather-
'ii t' r , slwrei ’ an d *he American eagle
pun:u, ; ber wings fora swoop at the
^ of ^ British lion.
' Teir ta0 > young King of
tap 3 ■' a P 3 * eon Bonaparte and Ma-
t-o J T ^ re * 1 duchess of Austria, was
°ldlad*-'r- ' ^ ut not least, our venerable
to' r ' en ^’ who is now “GO years old,”
Sc)r. : 't°un ling plains of North
lj jf ‘ ’ <ere ‘ben covered with the state•
Wes 3t ] a °d t * 10 ' ,r daunts were the
” - 3 'J bunting grounds of the Chero-
laiit th.^ WQ 1 ^ ea ' ut ‘* u l Hill City was not
ani.i. '--'bough its site stood inviting
rivers ^ tl18 bright waters of its
Nor B.i?t „ aJe ' n = by a3 gladsome as now.
10 s br an r ° borrid . Rome Conner
lies v i. ” wrath ol bed ridden old la-
there h f ° r the Ku Klux. And
then r ■, , eea a Courier there were
Were a ,. ,i rM a s ^ or ' t3 mails, for railroads
*Webrn n ^ nt on sbt of. Nor would there
V telegrams for Billy to curse
wee bairn as daft for her story, as we now
think her foolish for writing her “GO years
old” article against the Courier. But the
little thing had not learned the art of tel
ling things she conld not see, asjt cante to
her in after years, and consequently all
these things were unknown to her simple
minded papa, who was content to live as his
fathers had lived, 60 years behind the
times.
But our young friend—young tb n, but
60 years old dow—did “as well as could
be expected” and grew up into blushing
maidenhood. The war of 1812 was fought
her first recollection may perhaps reach
back to the tims when her brother Joo, or
Tom—if she had such a brother—sung to
her of the battle of I’lattshurg, when Gen.
Prevost
“Just run out
Upon a scout.-
To burn the town of Plattsburg, or fired
her young heart with “The Hunters of
Kentucky—oh Kentuck.”
After this war came a long stretch of
fateful peace, and our young maiden be
came a lady grown. She was good looking
butftor nil that suiters kept aloof, and by
and by she became more particular about
telling her age than she. is now. After a
while she determined not to marry, and
this unlucky non-alliance it may be that ac
counts for the acerbity of her temper now.
But as she grew older all those events that
mark the six decades embraced in the span
of her life as the most wonderful ofany since
the flood, were transpiring. One invention
suggesting another, one discovery reveal
ing the secrets of another, as we unfold the
leaves of some mysterious book, page by
page, disclosing its tale of wonder and awe,
until our dear, silly old friend, stands at
the ripe age of “GO” amid the wonders of
world undreamed of by people at the
timo of her birth.
An age so big with the triumph of sci
ence—the ptogress of art, aod the advance
meat of civilization as that which charac
terizes the GO years of our venerable fe
male friend, is too sacred to be reviled, and
we again hasten to make our peace with the
old lady, and again implore her to turn her
bellows over to some one else, and let us
rest in peace beneath the shadow of bar
venerable age
CONGRESS AND THE KENTUCKY
1EQISLAIUKE.
Tho question of State Rights is now n;-.
before Congress in a practical shape. The
action of the Legislature in refusing to
grant a charter for the Cincinnati and South
ern Railroad through tho Stat", has thrown
the question before Congress where
the friends of the road have carried
it, in the hope of having Congress to do
what Kentucky was unwilling to do her
self.
The plea of Congresssional interference
is based upon that clause in the Constitu
tion, which give3 to Congress the power to
regulate commerce between the States.—
This construction does not apply to build
ing railroads, but of course this Congress
will stretch the Constitution to suit itself-
If the Constitution happens to be in the
way, why so much the worse for the Consti
tute t, that’s all.
Mr. Bowen—M. C. from South Caro-
olina, whose lato marriage t) Mrs. Sue Pet-
tegru King so shocked and saddened every
Sonthern heart, has bad his trial for-biga
my, and tho jury failed to make a verdict
11 for conviction, and 1 for acquittal. In
discharging the jury, Judge Wylie said
“that if the prosecution failed to obtain a
verdict on the evidence, he did’nt think
they would ever have a verdict.
He said that one bribed juror was more
than a match for his eleven fellows, but he
did,nt mean to insinuate that there was a
bribed juror on this panel. He did not
see how a juror conld hesitate for a moment
-in finding a verdict in a case like this and
3 'tny folds to burst again over our thoagtlt the eT i de nce of two witnesses who
testified to their own infamy should not
have much weight.”
The honorable gentleman has been ar
rested upon another charge of bigamy at
the instance of Francis Hicks, who alleges
that he married her in 1852.
Verily the Radical dogs in South Caro
lina are anlncky in their public men. Whit
timore, the Reverendj cadet rogne, was ex-
pelled from the House, and now another of
their shining lights isjabont to be doused.
Sich is Radicalism, and when jostice over
takes them they will all be hanged.
Curly Harris, arrested at Pittsburg for
shooting a police man, while on the cars in
oharge of Philadelphia officers, leaped from
a train going at full speed, and, although
hancuffed, succeeded in escaping.
* • ►
Miss Rosa Poe, sister of Edgar Allen
Poe, is now in Richmond, dependent alto
gether upon charity, and it has been eng-
suggested that relief might he afforded her,
if only a tenth part of the admirers of her
brother’s genins would make a small contr^
bution in her behalf.
THE KU KUUX—THE ATLANTA SUN
AND BULLOCK’S PROCLAMATION.
Tho Atlanta Sun publishes an official
Proclamation . of Bullock’s, setting forth
alleged perpetration of certain offences by
disguised parties in this vicinity and coun
ty, and offering a reward of $5,000 for the
amount of noe and $1,000 each for the re
mainder of the band
The Sun in its comment upon the alleg
ed offences very properly condemns them,
it true, and calls upon our good citizens to
interpose their influence and strength to
put down the marauders, and to anestthe
reign of outlawry in our county.
By this proclamation a great injustice is
done our people. But as the foolish adven
ture of the party that eotered our city upon
the night in question gives our enemies an
opportunity for the abuse of their powers,
we suppose that we must accept of the odi
uni and bear the evil consequences.
As to all tli.: allegations set forth by
Bullock in his Proclamation, we cannot an
swer. But so far as the insults and threats
offered to our citizens during their inexcu
sable visit, we know that they are false
Neither was there a negro mortally woun
ded in tile vicinity of Rome upon ihc night
in quest ion
Wo ourselves happened to meet them on
-ur return from our office, and only from
their numbers would any one have suppose-
ed that they w.re other than a party of or
dinary citizens, as we did not observe a sin-
;!e mask worn by the party, or any unusu
al dress.
Yet, for ail this, tho fact of their ridin
in a large body, and entering our city at tho
hour of 11 o’clock, is sufleient to call forth
a 5,000 dollar reward for their arrest.
We do not blame Gov. Bulloek for his
effort to preserve the peace, and maintain
the dignity of the laws. In this he has our
hearty coopera!ion, and we are only sorry
that he gave the example himself, of set
ting the law at defiance, by pardoning out
of prison condemned feloDs reeking with
the blood of their murdered victims Nei
ther do we approve the existence, now, of
any secret organization; that has for its ob
ject the interference with ontside or public
affairs.
At the timo this party entered Rome, we
condemned their presence—not for any ac
tual harm that they were doing, or did‘
but we readily believed that their move
ments would be seized upon as a pretext,
by our enemies, to injure us in the cyes’of
those who were not familiar with the facts.
We still condemn them for the same rea
sons, and appeal to them, for the sake of
our common interest, to desist from such
conduct in future, and thus deprive our en
emies ol’ their strongest weapon aga’nst us.
But while coudcmning the toolish and
indiscreet action of these parties, we yet
ha7e to condemn, in as strong terms, the
unwarantable and unjust uses made of them
by our enemies. And right here, we will
remark, th it this abase is as outrageous as
are the acts of any Ku Klux that ever pli
ed the lash or sounded a whistle; and it is
that, that has deteredthe press from speak
ing out in more emphatic terms against
them. As an instance, the Chronicle and
Sentinel published and condemned a foul
outrage committed by unknown parlies up
on some negro convicts in Jeffersonjcounty,
not long since; when a few days afler, old
beast Butler, a meaner man than either of
the negroes whose ears were cropped
for house-burning, paraded the paper in
Congress and read the article to prove that
Corker was not entitled to his seat, because
of this occurrence. As long as such base
uses are made of our attempts to publish
and coadenn these acts of violence, we
would be at least justified in alluding to them
as gingerly as possible. But no such policy
has actuated us and we have ever been,
and are still, ready to condemn wrong and
outrage wherever we can find it.
The Saturday Review snseringly say?,
that as American life grows respectable, it
certainly grow3 dull; and that their best
novelists have to deal with the disappear
ing phases ol society—the backwoodsmen,
or tho old Puritan settler, or the rough mi
ner, who have all but given way to the
commonplace gentleman in a white shirt and
stovepipe hat.’
THE COTTON QUESTION.
Supply and Demand.
We publish the following cotton argu
ment from the New York weekly, cotton
circular. Its facts and figures are sueh as
our planters should earnestly consider.
The man that bases his cotton calcula
tions on a big crop, should also consider the
certainty of retduced prices.
Cotton Planting in the South and
Cotton Spinning in Europe.—In the
editorial colnmns ot The Chronicle is a
communication from a contributor, with
some of whose opinions we cannot agree.
First. We do not believe that it is good
advice to the planters to tell them to pnt as
much land into cotton this year as last year.
If they can plant and raise it so that they
will be able to accept 51aGd. per ponnd in
Liverpool, and still secure a profit, then we
would certainly feel that they were safe in
taking that course. But if they hire their
labor at the same rates given the last sea
son, and pay as much for the other expens
es of cultivation, and find next September
that they have taised 4,000 000 bales of
cotton, at a cost of 54d. on the plantation,
and can only get 5i at Liverpool, the con
sequence clearly is they are ruined, and the
commission merchants who made the advan
ces go down with them. We illustrated
the result of an over supply of cotton in
the tahle we gave last week, and which we
repeat below, showing the average price of
middling uplands at Liverpool for a series
of years before the war:
1845 4fd 1849 5id 1853 5fd 1857 71d
1846 4*d 1850 7}d 1854 bid 1858 61d
1847 Gfd 1851 5}d 1855 5}d 1859 6*d
1848 4}d 1842 5id 1856 6d 1860 5}d
This table shows ns that we most expect
low figures to rule if the market ia over-
supplied. The consumption of cotton can
not be largely increased next year over the'
capacity of this year, except by bnilding
new mills, and that is the work of months
at least, and in the meantime the planter
haa sold his crop at a loss. Hence, we
think it is the part of wisdom, both for the
planters and the commission merchants, to
let the extent of planting depend upon the
price of labor, keeping m mind always that
they mast not expect to market the next
crop, if a large one, at a higher figure than
5£aGd. at Liverpool. It is a very good idea
to drive oat foreign competition with low
prices, but if we ruin ourselves in' the op
eration it does not seem to ns desirable.
Second. Nor can we give entire ascent
to the proposition that the consumption of
Great Britain cannot exceed 12 per cent in
crease over last year. We look for 15alS
per cent, increase if the goods com be dispos
ed of; shat is to siy, we think Great Bri
tain’s capacity is equal to that figure, and
that her mills are now running at that in
creased rate. The weak point tn cotton at
present is the accnmulation of goods in In
dia and China, and the doubt which exists
whether, even at the present low rates, they
will be distrluted. Bu • this question of
consumption is becoming cne of minor im
portance, in view of the large crop which
has been raised. If prices have, reached a
low enongh point to prevent free shipments
from India, th 'U the inquiry as to the pos
sible consumption of Europe will come in
with much force
Communicate J.
Rome, Ga., Feb. 17.
Mr. Editor—As there exists a misap
prehension of the facts in regard to the
blowing up of the air chamber, &o., ot the
large generator on yesterday af.ernoon at
the Company’s shops, I desire to give yon
the facts, as they occurred:
We were testing the tightness an J air ca
pacity of a large machine just finished, pre
paratory to trying its 'ighting capacity,
when the excessive pressure of air and wa
ter, by suddenly cutting off the vent, burst-
ed it apart, and precipitated the water over
the floor. There had not been a particle
of gasoline put in the reservoir, and could
not have produced an explosion. There
was no damage done to anything except the
machine itself, neither was any one injured
by the blowing up, although the entire
force of the shop, eighteen in number, were
standing close to th t gene ator at the time,
all of whom will voluntarily corroborate
this statement.
By giving this publicity, you will Jo ao
act of justice to an enterprise that will yet
play an important part in the future busi
ness affairs of Rome.
Years truly,
R. Mickle, Sup't.
The following will be read with interest
by the many friends of the late Capt. J. R.
Stevens :
Communicate).
Affecting Remincscencc of the late Capt.
J. it. Stevens.
Mr. Editor—Since the tragical end of
oar friend, Capt. Stevens, I have re-read
with peculiar interest the following letter,
written by him to myself. Yon will per
ceive that tho letter was written on the
20th of last November, and I request its
publication ia your paper, feeling assured
that it will convey same comfort to the
hearts of his afflicted family, as well as
prove interesting to his large circle of
friends, as giving some insight into the
spiritual struggles and' conflicts through
which he passed.
It is impossible to read hi- letter with
out beiug moved to deepest pity fi r the
poor spirit—which, weary of its ternpta
tious and grief, and sunk in deep despair,
sought release in the desperate recourse
which startled and overwhelmed the en
tire community. The mind of man, Mr.
editor, is a dreadful thing to contemplate.
Made in the image of its creator, and thus
elevated to a stupendous height, when it is
overthrown, how great is its fall! Like a
great stone tailing from some great height,
it crashes through all restraints, and car
ries the man before it like a very little and
a very helpless thing.
As one who jaw a great deal of him dur
ing the past threo months, and to whom
onr poor friend laid bare uis inner life
more freely perhaps than to any other per
son, I cannot but hope that the poor, tired
spirit is at rest. S. E. Axson.
At Home, Sabbath Evening, )
12} o’clock, Nov. 20th, 1870. j
Mu. Axson—My Dear Fricml:—I have
jnst returned from your church; was led to
go there this morning by a supernatural,
irresistable influence; walked into the coun
try this morning ana bought two plows and
a two-horse harrow, my conscience smiting
me terribly daring the transaction. I start
ed home without a serious thought of at
tending church; had passed your chnroh
some distance when the inward monitior
suggested that 1 had better retrace my
steps, aad hear what you bad to ssy. -I hes
itated several minutes, when my good an
gel prevailed, and I reached the church al
ter you had taken yonr text, and I suppose
had been preaching ten minutes. I don’t
know that yon prepared the sermon express
ly to suit my condition, but every sentence
was an arrow of conviction to my sinful
heart. I shed tears of true penitence—
something I have not douc for many years,
and then and there determined, by the
grace of God, to lead a new life.
I am satisfied that your position is cor
rect, viz: “That it is utterly impossible for
a sinful man to reform his habits without
the assistance of a higher power thin his
own weak resolves.” I have tried it for
the past six months—have to a certain ex
tent succeeded, bnt find that I am gradnally
falling baek into my old habits. Nothing
bat the grace of God can save me. I had
not beard directly from my mother, who is
in her 75th year, for more than twelve
months, when on my return home, afler an
absence of three days’ dissipation, with
some old friends, I found a letter from her,
in which ocenrs this passage : “My dear
son : I have heard good news of yon, and I
sincerely hope it is true—that yon have
qnit the nse of what wonld have been the
rain of yonr soal and body; I pray the
Lord to give you gracs and power to ena
ble yon to forsake everything, that pre
vents yon from becoming a Christian—that
is the main thing, after all. What should
we more earnestly seek for than the salva
tion of onr immortal souls ?”
This from one whom I know to be a de-
vont Christian, who has been praying for
me for forty-eight years, pierced me to the
quick, and led me seriously to reflect on my
fallen and almost rained condition. I passed
a sleepless night, and am now in the depths
of despair. Do yon really think thero is
any hope for me ? I have been siniug
against light and knowledge for more than
forty years. I like tho government of the
Presbyterian Church better than the one in
which I was reared and will openly unite with
if.it there is no dissenting voio; ou the pant of
any of yom members, and yon will receive
me jnst as I am, > poor sinner, without re
quiring me to believe or endorseyonr pecul
iar doctrines of predestination, etc. These
things I consider non essential to salvation.
I believe in a free and universal atonement
—that all can be saved who have the true
faith, and keep the commandments, and
have not sinned away their day of grace,
which I fear is my case.
I. may, however, be mistaken in this, and
hope I am. Even should I fail to secure
my own salvatioD, my ontward, consistent
example may bo the means of influencing
some of my wayward companions and
friends, aod not only benefit them, but les
sen my own condemnation, by making an
earnest, siucere effort to reform my habits,
and thereby become a better man and a
more useful citizen.
If I get to drinking again, as I did pre-
viou- to my recent effort to reform, I feel
that I am lost—forever lost; and the re
straining influence of church associations
may save me from a drunkard’s grave, if
nothing more.
I shall leave home in the morning at 8
o’clock and may not return before nigl-t. I
don’t know what yon require in advance
from applicants for membership, bnt I am
willing to b; governed by yonr rules. If
it requires a vote of the members and there
is a single ballotagaiost me, yon will please
inform me of it, and I will defer the mat
ter until the objection or prejudice ptay be
removed, as I dou’t want to unite with any
church whore a single brother thinks me
unworthy of tho association.
I have never intimated to any one ex
cept my wife and little girls that I had
made up my mind to take this important
step, and they thought me jesting; it is
therefore, as yet, unknown to the ontside
world, and I desire that 1 should not be
made public until the day of my admission.
And if that should not occur, I wish yon
to keep it strictly on the square, a profound
secret I have my reasons for tnis.
I have ever since [ formed his acquain
tance cherished the kindness feelings for
your most excellent and distinguished fath
er, and flatter myself that he f'ei-ls some in
terest both in my temporal and spiritual
welfare. I have therefore, no objection to
your showing him this letter, and asking an
interest in his prayers od my behalf.
I sha l bo glad to see you at my house at
any time after my return; or, if you prefer
it, I will call at tho Parsonage any night
yon may suggest, as I should like to have a
private personal interview with you.
Very truly, your friend,
J. R. Stevens.
not see Dolph Moore hang Outlaw V said
Bergen. -
‘No, I did not, and I know nothing about
it,’ I again replied.
‘Rodgers and Patton knew nothing na
tal they were hanged; then they conld tell
abont it’
Taming to one of the men he said. Gee
a rope. The man got a rope and tied it
aronnd my neck. My arms were, then pin
ioned, and, taking hold of the rope, Ber
gen led me to the woods. I vas then pnt
under the limb of a tree over which the rope
was thrown.
“Now tell mo all yo i know abont the
hanging of Wyatt Outlaw, or I will
break yonr devilish neck,” said Ber
gen.
‘I have told you all I know, and that is
noting.’
“Pal! him up,” said he to the other
men.
The rope was gradaally tightened nntii I
was lifted off the ground. I was kept there
abont one minute and a half, and when
lowered was not able to speak for some
time.
‘Now confess,"di-T^ff yon, or I’ll break
yonr neck the uext time ’
‘Are you ready to confess?’
*1 have nothing to confess,’ I answer,
ed.
This time I was jerked ut> suddenly and
roughly, giving me great pain. How long I
was hanging I can’t say. I soon became
unconscious, and when I next regained my
senses I was sitting on the ground leaning
against the tree. Two men and Bergen were
there.
I a'most regretted I had not died, as I
leared they wonld again subject me to the ’
same terrible ordeal. I was conducted baek
to my tent, Bergin telling me on the way
that it I ever divulged what had besn done
that night he would blow my heart out.—
They did not subject me to these tortures
any more.
I am not a member of any secret politi
cal organization, and never have bcon, I
never saw a Ku Klux to my knowledge.-
What my pffencc consisted in I don’t know,
I was imprisoned about a month.
There are two others—Wat. Patton and
GeorgeS. Rodgers —who received the same
treatment at the hands of Bergen as did
Murray.
Cresstvcll Sustained.
Dou Pmlt is resjHinsible for the fuiloW |l
ing. - ‘ '
It- was snpposrd fora while after the
Cbqrpenin:' ili-vel-ipmcuts that' Oreswell’s
place would certainly he vacated, but the
public arriving at this conclusion, knew ve
ry little of his Excellency, General Grant.
The way he inclines to the wroog side is as
tonishing.
General Cox made his fight against fraud
and found the President io his way. Mr.
Creswell is caught playiog into the hands
of rogues, and the President actually scs-
NEW SERIES—NO 26. The Pennsylvania politicians have lee->
determined to pnt him out, and have a
Postmaster-general from their beloved State.
Until this affair occurred it was supposed
they wonld succeed Now, however, Mr.
Creswell is firmer -in his place than ev-
W1LHELM3HOE.
Louis Napoleon’s Proclamation to the
French People.
Holden Impeachment.
. Damaging Testimony.
The Richmond correspondent of the New
York Herald (Mr. Cuthqert,) who is now
in Raleigh writing up the impeachment tri
al, says that the first witness examined as
to the Bergcn-Kirk outrages was P. A. Wi
ley, ex-sheriff of Caswell county, who states
that he was working alone in the tobacco
field in July last, when he was approached
by six armed men, habited in the uniform
of United States soldiers.
They levelled their muskets at him and
demanded his immediate surrender. He
asked permission to go to his house and
change his clothes, as those he bad on were
filthy with tobacco smut. The officer of the
party (Bergen) said:
“No, d—n yon. Come as you are.’
Wiley then begged to be allowed to see
his family, promising them faithfully to ac
company them.
-No, you’re a d d scoundrel, and you
must come along now’
Thereupon Wiley prepared to resist, and
struck at the men right and left with his
fists, knocking three down; bnt with the aid
of fence rails he was soon overpowered.—
They then placed him on a bare back horse
tying his feet underneath the body of the
animal, and in that position of torture whip
ped him with sticks the entire distance of
ten miles to Yanceyville.
Wiley is oae of the leading citizens of
tho county, is a powerfully bnilt and high-
spirited gentleman, bnt groans were forced
from him by the terrible punishment of that
day.
When they reaehed Yanceyviile the en
tire inside of his legs were wet and blister
ed, for the weather was quite hot in July.
He sank with exhaustion on the door step
of the court-house at Yanceyviile, but Ber
gen com ing up at the time, said:
Get up from there, you d d scoun
drel; how dare yon sit down in my pres
ence?’
He was kept in almost solitary confine
ment, but frequently they would send six
armed men who would stand over him in
the cell for hours their bayonets at the
charge on him, and he was daily threat
ened with death by either Kirk or Ber
gen.
Lueian H. Murray, of all, is perhaps the
most unfortunate of the victims of the fiend
Bergen, for beyond a donbt Bergen is a
combination of everything vicious, degrad
ed and 'contemptible.
Kirk was a timid sort of desperado, who
was always in an agony of terror when en
gaged in what he well knew to be an un
lawful proceeding.
Bergen was an arrant coward, bnt a ty
rant, who gl ated over the tortn.es ol his
victims, and the more intense the latter the
more fierce his joy. Murray is a young
man, of respectable family, residing in Ala
mance connty. He was arrested among
nearly one hundred others iu the connty by
Bergen.
His statement is as follows:
I was laying in a tent at the camp as a priso
ner one night about eleven o’clock, when
Bergen came to the door and said,‘Murray,
is that you ?’ I said, ‘Yes, it’s me.’ He
then went away and remaiced absent abont
five minutes,when he returned without any
light, and seizing mo by the feet he said,
‘Murray, get up and come oat here.’
I asked*
‘Can I pat on my shoes?’
‘No, you won’t want shoes long,’ he re
plied.
I then went oat and Bergen conducted
mo to his tent, upon entering which I saw
three men standing with pistols in their
hands.
Bergen then sat down on his bed,
and threw his pistol down beside him, on
tbe bed.
‘Now, Murray, tell me all yon know
about tbe hanging of Wyatt Outlaw,’ said
Bergen.
“I know nothing abont it,” I repli
ed.
‘You’re are a d——d liar,and ifyout don’t
confess I’il blow yonr heart ont.’
Bergen as he said this, got up and cock
ed bis pistol,when the other three men cock
ed their pistols.
‘Fll give yon another chance. Did you
[From the Heir Orleans Times
Grand Canal Enterprise.
The project of securing a continuous in.
land water-line communication between (be
Mississippi river, opposite New Orleans,
and tbe Rio Grande, running along the
western margin of the entire Gulf coast of
both Louisiana and Texas, is now attrac
ting the attention of far-seeing mee and cap
itaiiats, both at home and abroad. By
some beneficicnt dispensation of nature or
Providense, a series of lakes, lagoons, shal
low bays and inland bayous, so stretch
along the westen margin of the lands bor
dering the Gulf of Mexico as to render the
work of canalizing and connecting them
comparatively easy and inexpensive.
A glance at the map of western Louisan-
a will afford a faint idea of the location and
general araagement o p these interior wa
tors, though many of the natnral bayous
which might be made available in the pros
ecutioa of such a work as that contempla
ted, arc Dot laid down on any map, being
known only to local hunters end surveyors.
Forty years ago D. Brasliear and otbers
projected and commenced vrirat is known
as the Company’s Canal, just above Millau-
dons’s plantation. It was connected with
the Mississippi by a lock, and was designed
to extend to Berwick’s Bay, so as to meet
the trade requirements of a quite extended
and fertile region of country this side ot, and
beyond the Teche Four miles of excava
tion extended to the canal to a bayou which
led into lake Salvador, and from the wes
tern end of this lake a cat of ten miles car
ried it to the Lafourche. It was thence
extended, by short cats, from lake to lake
and from bayou to bayou till through Ba
you Black, it finally reached Berwick’s Bay
Tue resonnees of the company were, how
ever exhausted before the canal was sup
plied with proper locks at the Lafonche,
aud the necessary barges and means for
transportation, and every since it has re
mained in an incomplete condition. To
give vitality and a great future to the en
terprise, means are required, not only to
widen and deepen the cats which were
long since made, but to extend the canal
along the remainder of the Louisiana coast,
and four hundred miles along the coast
line cf Texas, the latter being supplied
from one end to the other with interior
bay and natural channels, which only re
quire to te connected to render them avail
able for navagation. The cats in Texas
wonld be through level prairie land, with
out rocks or other obstacles* and the entire
length of these fragmentary canals of that
State wonld not exeeed thirty miles, while
the connections between Berwick’s Bay
and the Sabine would involve cuts to the
extent of twenty-seven miles, the whole dis
tance in Louisiana being two hundred and
fifty miles.
In considering the importance of this
work, we most remember that navigation
along the Gulf coast of Texas is both dan
gerous and expensive, while such an inland
water commnnication as that proposed
wonld open up a vast trade between the ag
ricultural and mannfactnring portions of
the Mississippi Valley L and the interior of
the Lone Star State, and wonld prove to
city of-New Orleanes of infinite more value
than the Erie Canal has been to New York.
Navagation on the projected canal would,
for the most pirt, be unimpeded by looks,
and would be open to commerce at all sea
sons of the year; moreover, the country
through which, it runs and with which it
wonld form connections, is richer and more
productive than that through which the
Erie Canal extends.
In this connectir d, we are not only as
sured bnt hare seen letters from Enrope in
corroboration of the fact that certain capi
talists in England are ready to furnish all
the money necessary for the completion of
the work. They look forward to the time
—not far distant—when a railway will ex
tend through Mexico from'Corpus Christijco
Mazatland* and when this canal, throngb
its watt? connections with Corpus Christi,
will become one of the chosen channels of
Chinese and East Indian commerce. Such
a canal would practically extend the Missis
sippi river to Mexico, and would, through
lateral connections, give and increase of
many thousand miles of interior navigation,
furnishing facilities which are essential to
the development of almost unbounded re
sources.
The mechanical contrivance now in ex
istence render the digging of canals easy
and inexpensive, compared with such an
undertaking a half, or even a third of a
centnry ago. With effieient dredges and
derricks, miles and miles of canal can be
pompleted in a single year. Capital alone is
now required, and that, -we are assured,
will be forthcoming. Every citizen of
Louisiana aid Texas will welcome the com
meneementof the work in its enlarged and
more promising
London, Feb. 12*—Tae followin
translation of the proclamation addressed
by the Emperor Napoleon to the electors of
France :
WillheXiMSHohe, Feb. S.—Betrayed
by fortune, I have Kept since my captivity
a profonnd silence, which is misfortune’s
mourning. As long as the armies confront
ed each other, I abstained from any steps
or words capable of causing party dissen-
tions, bnt I can no longer remain silent be
fore my country's d’sasters without appear
ing insensible to its sufferings.
When I was made prisoner I conld not
treat for peace, hecan-o my resolutions
would appear to hare been dictated by per
sonal considerations I k-'t the Regent to
decide whether it viti the interest of the
nation to continnc the straggle. Notwith
standing an unparalleled reverse, France
was nnsnbdned, her strongholds nnredneed
a few departments invad -d, and Paris in a
state of defense.
The extent of hermisfertunep might pos
sibily have been limited, but while her at
tention was iirected to her enemies, an in
surrection arose at Paris, the seat of her
representatives violated, the Empress was
threatened, and the E npire, which bad
been three times acclaimed by the people,
overthrown and abandoned. Stilling my
presentments, I exclaim -d. “What matter
my dynasty, if the country is saved ? In
stead of protesting against the violation of
my right, I hoped for success in defense,
and admired the patriotic devotion of the
children of France.
Now, when the struggle is suspended,
and all reasonadle chance of victory has
disappeared, it is time to call to an acconut
the usurpers for their bloodshod and ruin
and squandered resources It is impossi
ble to abandon the destiuies of Frame to
an unauthorized governa: nt which has left
no authority emanating from universal suf
frage. Order, confidence, and solid peace
are only recoverable where the people are
consulted respecting the government most
capable of repairing the disasters to the
country. It is essential that France should
be united in her wishrs.
For myself, braised by.injustice and bit
ter deception, I do not kuow or claim my
repeatedly confirmed right. There is no
room for personal ambition. But till the
people are regularly assembled and express
their will, it is my duty to say that all acts
are illegitimate. Ther • is only one govern
ment in which r. sides the national sover
eignty, able to heal Mound.-, to bring hope
to firesides, to reopen profaned churches
fur prayers and to restore industry, concord
acd peace.
From the New York Sue.
Grant ami Boutwell.
It looks very rauc'r as if General Grant
was trying to worry Ur. Boutwell out of the
Cabicet. The pretest fir this is their al
leged differences of opinion on some finan
cial measures; such, for example, as the re
peal of the income tax. Does any body
who can catch a single glimpse behind the
scenes believe that this is the real reason
why the President wants his Secretary to
throw up the seals of the Treasury ?—
No!
The simple trnih is this, Grant 3nspects
that Boutwell is hot tile to his nomination;
and more than this, he has got it into his
head that the latter aspires to be the Re
publican candidate in 1S72. So Grant
now wars on Mr. Boutwell, just as he has
long been tryiug to break down Senator
Sumner and Governor Fenton, and for pre
cisely the tame reason—their belief that he
has outlived his usefulness,and ought to re
tire at the close of his present term of of
fice. How long bsfore the President will
open fire on the Honorable Horace Grce-
ly?
At the first White House reception, af-
188 ter the exposu.e, Mrs. Grant invited Mrs
Creswell to receive with her, and the Pres
ident not only attended- tbe reception at
Cresweli’s house,bnt went out of his way to
show that the Cborpenning Agent had the
countenance.
Among tbe contingent expenses of Con
gress are some curious item*. From an
account, recently published in the New
York Tribnne, it appears that the average
cos: to the government of burying a mem
ber of Congress is about $1,500.
The arrest of Patrick Woods, for knock
ing down a Virginia Congrt ssman, who re
fused to drink with him, took $860 from
the contingent fund, of which one dollar a
day went to keep the prisoner in provisions
during his incarceration- Pat must have
well, or somebody made money by the oper
ations
The cost of bringing the recalcitrant wit
ness. Florence Scannel, from New York,
was $391.
Would bc-members, who failed to estab
lish any seats iu the House. $51,500 from
the fund. The carting of documents to
and from the House, rost 87,500, at SI per
load.
The cost of hoard at a New Orleans ho
tel is set down at S3 per day, which is the
amount charged by the suh-Coismittees of
Elections and their messenger, for three
months spent in that city, iuvestigatiog the
Louisi- ua election frauds
One thousand dollars was paid to Caleb
Curbing for defending Gen. Butler, in the
suit brought against him, in Baltimore, by
Mr. Woolley; S1.000 more to William Seb-
ley for his. services in the same cause.—
Xhshville Union and American.
FROM HARK TWAIN*
Yes, I’ve Lad a good many fights in my
time,” said old John Patky. tenderly ma
nipulating his dismantled nose, “and it’s
kind of queer, too, lor when I was a boy
tho old man was always telling me better
He was a good man, and hated fighting.
When I wonld come with my nose bleed
ing or with my face scratched np, he nsed
to call me ont in the woodshed, and in a
sorrowful and discouraged way say: “So
Johnny, you’ve bad another fight, hey?
How many times have 1 got to tell ye how
disgraceful and wicked it is for boys to
fight? It was only yesterday that I talked
th you an hoar about the sin of fighing,
and here you've been at it again. Who
was it with this time?” With Timothy
Kelly, hey? Dont yon know any better
than to fight a boy that weighs twenty
pounds more than yon do, besides being
two years older? Ain’t ye got a spark of
sense about ye? I can see plainly that yon
are determined to break yonr poor father’s
heart by yonr reckless conduct. What
ail's your finger? Timothy bit it! Drat
the little fool! Didn’t ye know enongh to
keep yonr finger ont of his month? Was
trying to jerk his cheek off, hey? Won’t
ye never learn to quit fooling ’ronDd a
boy’s mouth with your fingers? You’re
beund to disgrace us all by sueh wrstched
behavior. You’re determined never to be
nobody. Did you ever hear o? Isaac
Watts—tnat wrote “Let dogs delight to
bark and bite’—sticking his fingers in a
boy’s month to get ’em bit, like a fool?
I’m clean discouraged with ye. Why
didn’t you go for his nose, tee way Jona
than Edwards, and George Washington
and Dan’l Webster nsed to when they was
boys? Coold’nt ’cause he had ye down!
That’s a party story to tell me. It does
beat all that you can’t learn learn how Soc
rates and William Penn nsed to gouge
when they was under, afler the hours and
honrs I’ve spent in telling yon abont those
great men! It seems to me sometimes as if
I should have to give you np in dispair.
It’s an awful to me to havo a boy that dont
pay any attention to good example nor to
what I say. WhAt! you palled out three
or four handfuls of his hair! H-m Did
he squirm any? Now, if you’d a give him
one or two in the eye—but, as I’ve told
ye many a rime, fighing is a poor business.
yon promice to try and remember that?
H-m Johnny, how did it—ahem—which
lieked?
‘“You lieked him! Sho! Really? Well,
now, I hadn’t any idea yon conld liek that
Tommy Kelly! I dont that John Banyan
at ten years old, conld have done it* Jon-
ny, my boy, yon can’t think how I hate to
have you figthing every day or two. I
wouldn’t have him liek yon for five, no,
notiorten dollars! Now sonny, go right
in and wash np; and tell yer mother to put
a rag on yer finger. And Jonny, don’t let
me hear of you fighting againl”
“I never see any body so down on figh
ing as the old man was, bnt somehow he
never could break me from it/'
From the SprtngtielJ (Ill.,) Republican.
A Wedding Which Did Xot Co ne Off.
Considerable excitement prevailed i n
Sunday last at Vienna Cross Roads,in Clarke
County, over a wedding which had been an
nounced for that day.
All preparations were comp'etcd by 3
o'clock P. M., and Miss Mattie Tench,
step daughter of Saarncl Frock, a beauti
ful young lady o! eighteen, was ready at
Mr. Frock’s hotel, to take part in the Cere
mony.
The other party was Marshall Chiisstn-
gcr, a young man who : e father and moth
er live near Enon, and at the appointed
time it was found that he had not arrived.
He had expected to arrive at any time du
ring the day, but this expectation was not
met.
The hours of 5, G, 7, aud 8 o’clock ar
rived and passed.away,and tho party, com-,
posed of seventy-five couple, waite 1 in vains
Of course, the badly treated young lady was
in tears.
Up to t'.is hour nothing is known of
Chmiicger’s whereabouts. The father
is offering a large reward for the young man’
arrest.
Death and the Grave.
A FABLE.
“1 am hungry,” said the Grave* “Give
mu ined.”
Death answered: “I will send forth a
minister*of awful destruction, and you will
be satisfied.”
“W hat minister will you send?”
“I will send alcohol. He shall go in
the guise of food and medicine, pleasure
and hospitality. The people shall drink
and die.”
“I am content,” answerd the Grave.
Aud now the church bells began to toll,
and the monrnful procession to advance.
“Who are they bringing now?” said the
Grave.
“Ah,” said death, “they are bringing a
honshold. The drunken father aimed a
blow at his wife. He killed the mother
and her chill together, and the dashed ont
his own life.”
“And who,” said the Grave, “eomes
next, followed by a train of weeping chil
dren?”
“This is a broken-hear'ed woman, who
has long j ined away in want, while her
husband has wasted his substance at the
tavern. And ho too, is borne behin I,
killed by the hand of violence.”
“And who next?”
“A yonng man of generous impulses,
who, step by step, became dissipated, and
squandered his ad. My agent turned him
out to be frozen in the street.”
“Hash!” said the Grave; “now I hear a
wail of anguish that will not be silenced.’
“Yes it is the widows cry. It is the on
ly son of bis mother. He spurned her
love, reviled her warning, and a bloated
corpse he eomes to thee. And thus they
come—further than tbe eye can reach, the
procession crowds to thy dark abodes.
And still lured by the enchanting cap
which I have mingled the sons of men
crowd the paths of dissipation. Yainly
they dream of escape, but I shat behind
them the invisible door of destiny. They
know it dow, and with soDg and dance and
riot, they hasten to thee, O Grave! Then
throw my fatal spell upon the new
throngs of yonth, and soon they, too, will be
with thee.’’
May Christians go to the Theater.
Rev. J. F. W. Ware, pastor of the
Chnrch of oar Savior, Baltimore, deliver
ed a very sensible and broad spirited ser
mon recently, on the subject, “May I go to
tne Theater ?” Among other things, he
said: “The more Christians go to the thea
ter, the more Christian will it be. If we
all endeavor to raise the social tone, to en
courage a grand art, and make its noblest
impersonations welcome and desirable, we
shall be doing the best thing we can for it,
for ourselves, for the public, make it snre
that in the incoming fatnre the theater
shall stand side by side, hand in hand with
the press and the pulpit in the elevation of
popular taste, and the teaching of Chris
tian morality.”
Silly Sabine should make a note of each
excellent viewB on the stage.
Tbe Company of Leather-Sellers in Lon
don will issne in April a Work containing
Reproductions of the Ancient Charters and.
other Historic Monuments in its posses-
Won’t yon, for yonr father’s sake—won’t “O' 1 *
The reproduction will be made by the
Photo-Cramo-Lithograph process.
A Richmond lady has written a book
entitled “The Art of Good Living.” Now
if she will teU ns “How to make a good
living,” she will be a public benefactress.
The great “composer”—Chloroform.
t , i
A Publishing House in Leipsic has .
brought ont a complete edition ol Beetho
ven’s works, in twenty.four parts elegantly
bound and lettered.
Each part can be had seperately and nn.
bound for about six cents a sheet. The en.
tire work, in bound volumes, costs 223 tha.
ers and 2 silbergroschen.