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A -< (ii’exed nisi .nouni
l\l> si’AKE.
chances of Butler's Ivu klux
, s . lt length operated upon the
• IC our still thicker bcad-
.. ! ; ... an extra glass of his fa-
. | k .ja.i'l he has a ain un-
iienoo ol his lips, and spoken
5 b.-half of old Spooney’s
hi the s. uthern people,
a anj outra.'e is so sweet to
that i irant could not bear the
iaa (hmeress adjourn with
al . xtraordinary powers to
....and with a 1 e on his
the poisou of asps under
. au’i nl- to the radical ha-
1,,f affairs now exists in .so.ne
the I'uion, rendering life
insecure, and carrying the
,'ia! r- llection of the revenue dar-
■ - t i !i ,t such a condition of af-
•i;ae locdities is now before
■ Tint the power to correct
is beyond the contr J of the
a . kies, [ do uot doubt; that the
:i!,- Bx.eative department of the
; acting within the limits of
lv.c-. i.- sufficient for present erner-
is n : el or ; thetefore I urgently
aaiea I such lecisl ition as in the judge-
of ('• uurcss shall efiectually secure
IiD-rty.and property, aud the enforcc-
lit in all parts of the United
expedient to provide that
ill be passed in pursuance
c i 1 iti n shall expire at the
w session of Congress.—
it her subject upon which I
e-l 1 ids!ition during the
'c'ji-J. U. S. Grant.”
...I v.i:!i t ueulent eagerness his well
icd little terriers’ hasten to further his
'■ Pomeroy introduces a bill with
i .vine provisions:
• President is hereby authorized, if
ttr.iiceJ of the facts as herein set forth,
•• Ji-en tiou, to issue a proclamation
“ioriae nurtial law in force iu such spec-
A- 1 ! county or district of county, and iu
ui'tiiii 11 the militia force provided for
a nil act of 1793, he is authorized to
othj the army aud uavy of the United
'uis t.) suppress any resistance to the
uv- of the Uuited States, and to bring to
ttal any persons charged with crimes
J ~* 1st die United States or against any
t'a thereof, who, by the laws and Con-
•tK; a of the United States, are entitled
bthvircc aud equal protcetiou of the laws.
t |: i persons are to Lc tried, and if
•v i .d. punished according to the rules
ls --:.yies of war. And the Preside! t is
u:h..r zed to suspend the writ of habeas
®pa- in such district for the time being,
■ ’ e his action to Congress at the next
K:5 ‘.c season.
io iTo Bouse the message was sharp-
■: h' .1 b u t was finally referred to a
e.-'c;' ’ ij.tuitt.ee. consiting of Shullabarg-
tr 1* -tier, of Massachusetts, Schofield,
Blair, of Michigan, Thomas, Mor
a3 - beer. Wbitehouse.
•WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION."
VOLUME xrv.
ROME, GA„ FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 31. 1871.
NEW SERIES-NO 31.
-tfN’-iREss is still huiroiering away upon
e Ku Klux bill. The Senate diseuss-
= ‘ House amendment, which forbids
l? Cjuaiif.ee of investigation from report-
^ this session of Congress or to the
the debate Morton and Thurman
arms, aud it was fairly conceded that
“ ^ lver had uot found a Roland, he had
** caught a tartar.
^ !|, ‘ political complexion o** the present
.' materially improved—there bc-
• * 1 i* oae huudrod Democrats, with
'° 3j *.*iicut, Cilforoia and Texas nnrepre
' 3 * ei These will each return a Democrat*
lc ^-••gatiou.
I* 3 the j
ate yesterday Josh Hill pre-
a Petition of J. E. Bryaut, against
p C seat,n o of our perjured statesman—
Blodgett. We arc hopeful that the
\ Qaie will uot he so abandoned as to ad-
w .' t Mr. Brevet Brig. Geo. Reynold
■ 80 ambitious of Senatorial honors,
^ " n <Jr dcred back to his regiment in
an] U , JW ||* t |j e y w jj| fc ee p U p th e
i; ‘ ao7 eaieot, and order Ames back to
! ‘t. it will be a hopeful sign of return-
"S'-fscin the Senate. • .,
M 11' " 0 P u t>lish this moruiug the
fir. et er to u most extrnor
,i. ’ ^ u H J <tk. After having stripped the
ful ’ l l! °l' t l' c animal from his tcor-
Sl . c ‘ ,C;lS3 . he now applies a mop, well
in " sa l l aud pepper. Applied to
iis? ,se ’ l ' le refined torture of Nemi-
eltv ; U ' an u,ina tural and fiendish era-
in. lo tough sensed monster it is
*"“■« cliiay,
d «aTened p
tl e f J oma P°P B“Q would bound from
^ of aslcepy elephant.
aunoyance;rebounding from
in-ibiliiics as a boy’s cotton
THE FSRST BOOK OP THE CilllOSI-
Ct.F.S OP GEORGIA.
CHAP. XX.
The Kill:/ ami the King's wife give a fust—
The shoihlgites gather at the fast of the
King—Haw the stuck ups arairesseil—
The airs the// /ml on— il Jlow wc. apples
do swim.
1. And it came to pass that after the
King had gathered together so much of the
people’s money, that he had stolen from the
people, that he became puffed up with the
vanity of his great riches.
2. And the wife of the King did also
become puffed up with pride—seeing that
before the King become to be King, that
he was a miserable baekra, and his wife
had to darn old socks fur a living.
3. And it also came to pass that the
King and the King’s wife, after they had
thus become puffed up with pride, because
of the great heaps of money which the
King had stolen from the people, that the
King said unto his wife,
4 Oi l oman, wo were onee poor and ob
scure, but now we are rich and notorious,
it is mete therefore that we should appear
before the world iu big style as other big
folks do.
5. Therefore, I say, let us give a grand
feast, and umke a grand display of ourselves
that p nple abroad may hear of our glory,
and think that wo are some punkius.
G. Then did the wife of the King an
swer the King, aud sai-f, True, old man —
we are now as rich as anybody, and I Jo so
want to outshiue Mrs. Worthy, who so de-
spiseth me because of my high statiou. We
will give a feast, and we will make a great
display, aud then I will send my puppy dog
Scruggs, and his fellow dog Grubbs, some
of the scraps that are left after the feast,
aud have them to write abroad the fame of
our least.
7. Aud this sayiug of the .King's wif«
did please the King, for the King was as
vain as he was thievish.
S. And so the King did order his house
hold to prepare a great feast, aud he and
his wife did send abroad invitations for all
the shoddyites, and the carpet baggers, and
the rogues who had become rich off of the
spoils of the people, for them and their
wives and their daughters to come to the
feast o! the King.
10. Aud upon the 9th day of the month
the feast of the King was prepared, and
tlie guests of the King did come at the in
vitation of the Kiug.
11. Arid lo, when the guests had assem
bled at the house of thcKing, it was found
that it was an exceedingly phosphorus as
sembly.
12. And the brilliancy of the r feath
ers, and the sparkling of their diamonds,
and the perfume of their handkerchiefs,
did shine like fax fire, and smell like a
barn yard.
13. And the wife of tbe Kiug was ar
rayed in a costly gown of velvet, trimmed
with black lace, an ostrich tip, paint lace
and diamends.
14. But the diamonds were made of paste
—the lace was unpaid for, and the money
that bought her gown was SrOLF.N.
15. Aud the first guest that sat at the
right baud of the King's wife, was a Mrs.
Josh Oakes, whose husband was a celebra
ted petroleum dealer in the heathen city of
New York.
15. And this Mrs. Josh Oakes, from the
heathen city of New York, did likewise
wear a costly gown and diamonds, and the
diamends which she wore were also made of
paste.
1G. And Mrs. Josh Oakes may have been
a lady, but she was present in a miserable
scurvy company.
17. And next to Mrs Josh Oake3, who
wore 'he paste diamonds shone Miss Jessie
Brown, a voracious maiden who had scent
ed the prosperity of the King, that he had
stolen from the people of the land of Geor
;ia, even from her home in the wolverine
city of Detroit, and had come down to fat
ten upon it.
18. And this Miss Jc3sie Brown wore a
dress—or leastwise the society newspaper
did so state.
19. And there was also a wooden nut
meg maiden present at the feast of the
King, and her name wasSylvestcr May who
had also scented the fatness of the King,
which the King had stolen from the people
of the land of Georgia, and she had flown
down to the land of Georgia to stuff her
mouth, with the good things that the King
had stolen.
21' And besides those great lights of
shoddy, there were others of smaller mag
nitude, for there was a number of Browns,
of Thompsons, and r f Peters.
22. And when they had all assembled,
they aped the manners and put on the airs
of real gentlemen and ladies.
23. And one to have seen them and not
heard them, neither have smelled them,
would have supposed that they wore real
gentlemen and ladies.
24. But as soon as they opened their
blabber mouths, and revealed the empti
ness of their heads, and when the warmth
of the dance had overcome the perfume of
their handkerchiefs, and the'.r natural odor
exuded from their scurvy hides, one knew
at once that it was an assembly of vulgar
shoddyites.
25. Aud in eating and drinking, and
dancing did they spend the night, and af
ter the feast had ended, the wife of the
King did send unto the King’s lickspittle,
Scruggs, a basket of the scraps and the
crumbs that were left from the feast.
3G. And Scruggs, like the ass of Scrip
ture, knewefh the hand that fed him, and
straightway did ho write a grand report of
the feast, that the same might go abroad.
27. And the fame of the King’s feast
did go abroad all over the land, but it was
only known in the lind of Geoigia how that
the money that paid for the feast of the
King was stolen by the King from the peo«
pie of the land of Georgia.
Elections in Connecticut and
Rdode Island.—Tie State election in
Connecticut will occur cn the 3d of next
month. As the Democratic Governor,
English, was elected last year by 800 ma
jority, we may expect an increased majori
ty this. It is ganeialiy conceded that an
entire Democratic delegation to Congress
will be elected. This will add 4 more to
the Democratic strength.
The election in Rhode Island follows np
on the 5th of April. This little hog holo
is so intensely radical an 1 scaly, that no
good may be expected oat of it.
Tue Puess Convention.—In answer to
the eall of the President of thu State
Press Association, we nominate Augusta as
the place lor the mectiag of oar uext Con
vention.
Manuel of National, State and Railroad
Indebtedness, is tie title of a valuable
book, kindly sent us bv its compilers—
Coadict & Co., Bankers of New York. Its
statistics are reliable and complete, sho.vin,
the financial status of every State and all
the principal Railroads in tho Union.
KU-KLUX LEGISLATION.
If the bitterness of hate that rankles in
the breast of the demagogues at Washing
ton is so patently developed by the discus
.-ion of Ku Klux measure in Congress it
is no less plainly demonstrated by it that
there e' ists a strong conservative and hon
est !reeling among tho members of the
Northern press; a d however much it may
be favored iu Congress, it does not receive
the approval of the ; rrss.
The following arliele we take from the
Boston Advertiser:
“There cau ho no better argument against
the K Klux bill, than a mere statement of
its provisions. Ttie legislation proposed is
objectionable iu every possible way—in its
purpose its methods and its certain results.
The object, is ostensibly to protect the loy
al and peaceable citizens of the United
States. We refuse to believe that if the
Southern States are left to govern them
selves, they will, for any long time, tolerate
the diabolical crimes charged upon the Ku
Klux, and we refuse to believe that there
are men wicked and blood-thirsty enough
to carry on an unprovoked and cruel war
upon the persons and property of colored
men. If the States are depended upon to
take care that such crimes are tot commit-
ted they will do it.
The sentiment of humanity must be trus
ted at the South as at the North. The
crimes, if political in their nature, will de
feat their own ends, by raisiug up a party
that will put them down. If the iiritat-
ing influence of a Federal interference is
continued, the States will just as surely not
enforce the local laws. The real cbjcct of
the bill is undoubtedly to assist the Repub
licans in maintasning or regaining their
power in the Southern States. It will cer
tainly fail in this. The “enforcement act,”
and the President is in an unpleasant di-
Ierna from these vexed importunities, which
involve removals of Bep ihlicans appointed
by bimselt. The must prominent] and
pushing of these unfortunates arc the re
tiring members from Teuucssee and Ala
bama. Arnell, of Tennessee, late chair
man of the committee on education aud la
bor, and who affects the scholar and poet,
proposes to locate in the federal city as a
claim agent, until such time as he can
wheedle the President into a foreign port
folio, or the commissioucrship of the Bu
reau of Education. His colleague, Wm.
B. Stokes, familiarly known as the “Bald
Headed Eagle or the Mountains,” took a
shy at the position of sergeut-of arms of the
House, but met with igaominons defeat.—
lie proposes to go the way of all Congress
ional flesh, and a dernier resort, becomes al
so a claim agent, to vibrate between Wash
ington and the Tennessee mountains.
Prosser, also a colleague, is pushing for
the Posoffice at Nashville, vice the father-
in-law of ex-Senator Fowler, who being
functus officio, can no longer expect to retain
his relatives in office. Mr. Back, of Mo-
bi'e, who was cruelly supplanted in Con
gress by Ben Turner, a colored brother Re
publican, worried the Pres dent out of the
appointment of Appraiser at Mobile. His
name was subsequently withdrawn, bat it
was sent in again to-day, under the heavy
pressure of the Maine Senatois.
M r. Buck having originally carpet bagged
from the Sunrise State to the warmer cli
mate of Alabama. The colored member
from MJjile proposes to fight his predeces
sor's confirmation to the bitter end. Kx-
S. n»tor Warner refuses to part with his po
sitir.n in the S:r.atc, but appears daily On
the floor, lot hying for official patronage, in
which he is aided by Senator Sherman. He
haunts the White House and the depart
ments and is apparently oblivions of the
fact the plory ot his Ichabod lias departed
It is thought he is gressing himself for the
post of Collector of tho port of Motile—
a nice little plum of official patronage—
supplant one of his own appointees, a na
tive aud prominent Unionists of Alabama.
The only re. 1 geniuine privilege left in
Washington to these rnfaus tcrrihles is the
avenu" street cars, wi.ereoa they are still
deadheaded until tho close of the year ’71.
They also retain their passes over the vari
ous railroads of the country, but these are
only valuable to return home upon. After
the adjournment of the present session they
will, ouc by one, bo unwillingly forced to
retire from their household gods of Wash
ington, unless they all locate here as claim
agents aud form a gigantic ring with the
uewly appointed commissioners of South-
rn claims, to enjoy an absolute monpoly of
that practice. Ex-members of CoDgrcss
soon find their level in Washington society.
When they loose their positions they lose
their imyortancc. Nobody cares for them
here. They may have some status at home
but in Washington they become valueless
relics of the past.
Ancient Level of Western Itlvcrc—» hither
are We Drifting'
The Bloomington Pantograph, after no
ig the fact that during the recent (reshet
in th's city, it was possible to pass foom
Lake Michigan to the Illinois river in a
as it is called, has irritated and alienated I boat, says:
more Republicans at the North than it has
secured iu their rights at the South. It
has pioved to be not only of doubtful con
stitutionality but ineffectual, and much
more disastrous to Republicans than to De
mocrats.
Nor are the methods proposed by this
bill Jess objectionable They would render
a person on bis way to a masquerade ball
liable to a trial for an offense, of which the
lowest punishment is a fine of 81,000 and
a year’s imprisonment. It would subject a
boy wuo stole a pistol from a private house
to a minimum fine of £5,000 and five year’s
imprisonment. Besides these severities of
sentence, it takes away from State Courts
nearly tho whole of their criminal business,
and gives marshals the power to call out
troops, which mty become in the highest
degree dangerous. Under it any laborer
who applies for employment to an employer,
of different polities, and imagines that po
litical reasoas have something to do with
the refusal, may send the employer to jail,
and ibtain damages for the failure to get
employment.
If an unsuccessful candidate for office
refuses to engage a man, and incautiously
reproaches the applicant bccauses the latter
did notvote for himself, the workman has
a cause of action against him, and may, with
the assistance of a judge of the same way of
thinking, send him to prison for five years.
Certainly nothing more need be said to show
tbe iniquity cf the details ol this bill.
The inevitable results of its passage
would be a continuance of the disorders in
the South, and a serious defection of Ro-
pulicans in the North. Theoretically the
General Government is stronger than the
Government of any State. For practice*
purposes in putting down local disturbances
tho State Government is infinitely prefera
ble The preliminary action of the Honae
shows that neither this bill nor any one re
sembling it can pass, lt would be well for
the country and for tho Republican party,
which (he promoters of this bill profess to
have so much at heart, if tbe efforts to
pass a Ku Klux bill should be immediate
ly abandoned, and Congress make3 all haste
to adjourn.”
TUE FALLING STARS.
Tbe Washington correspondent of the
New VTork Herald thus depicts the little"
ness of defunct Congressmen. It i3 enough
to sicken one with ambition to think that
after all, one can be dropped so low as these
fellows are stooping.
We are glad that none of the crew are
Southern, for although dropped in the
South, they are no part or parcel of ns.
“The outgoing Senators and Congress
men stubbornly refuse to return to their
homes, bnt cling with barnacle-like tenaci
ty to this, their old haunts, about the feder
al city, invading the Capitol, the Depart
ments and the White House, with all the
imposing show of former greatness. They
embarrass the President by their demands
for office all claiming they havo a prior
ri»ht upon bis patronage, and most be ta
ken care of. They insist that Grant’s re
nomination largely depends upon their ac
tive services, and thus a conflict is created
between them and their old constituents,'
who naturally dis'ike to be supplanted in
their claims for office by the brighter reful
gence of .defunct Congressmen
Whenever a Democrat haa succeeded the
entgoiog Republican demands the control
of the patronage of his district, tbe same as
if he had been re elected, and if there hap
pens to exist a good fat office, “a game
worth the candle,” ho presses his claim
therelor, upon the President, although it
involves the removal, perhaps, of the very
incumbent originally appointed through
his influence
. There never was, perhaps, sn6h an un
reasonable pressure for office as exists now,
This proves that at the present level of
the river, an unusual flood from rains aud
melting snow is sufficient to connect the
waters in the lake a few feet above their
average level to make a constant communi
cation with the Illinois. It is well known
not only that the lake is now subject to
fluctuations of more or less extent, but
there are marks along its borders which
prove conclusively that its former average
water level was much higher than now.
And this is true of the whole chain of
lakes. At various altitudes above the pres
ent water level, there are distinctly marked
beaches or ancient shores, which indicate
the former water level with certainty.
Those beaches at some places extend along
the lake for miles.
They are distinct and well defined, with
margins of sand and gravel, arranged by
the actions of the waves, and bounded by
terraces of rocks or cloy t core 1 by the
washing of the ancient waters. These ter
races have been examined with much care,
by geologists, aud there remains no doubt
that the lakes formerly stood at varions and
more elevatod water levels.
Bnt this proof of a higher level iD the
lake is also found along the banks of the
rivers which flow into it; and, as in the case
of the Illinois, which once flowed oat of it.
The old river bed, by which Lake Michi
gan once discharged a portion of its waters
into tbe Illinois, is so distinctly marked as
to leave no question of the fact. The
boundary bluffs and rocky backs channeled
horrizontally by the action of running wa
ter, the beaches which wore once tho shore
margins, and the beds of gravel and sand,
water washed, sorted, ripple-marked, strati
fied and arranged by running water, have
been observed at various points; and the old
river bed is still distinct for the whole dis
tance.
Whether so recently as tbe time of tbe
Jesuit explorers of this region it was possi
ble to pass from the lake into the river, ex
cept daring extraordinary floods, cannot be
certainly known, bat even that is not im
probable.
Similar evidences to prove that the rivers
of the West once ran at higher levels than
at present are found upon the margin of
all of them, and this fact is one of common
observation. Bat there are evidences of
the exhi'tence of rivers still more ancient,
the beds of which are now dry, their boun
daries nearly obliterated, and the regions
which they drained now so changed as to
leave it doubted as to what water-shed they
received their supplies from. Vestiges of
these ancient streams are fonnd thronghont
the region south of the Illinois river, on
the prairies. Thry consist of beds of sand
and gravel, sorted arranged an rtratified by
the action of running water. Thus in this
and the neigboring counties have been pro
duced those gravel and sand banks npon
which the inhabitants depend for supplies.
Careful examinations show that those
streams flowed over the ancient drift ol
northern gravel, and all that mass of trans
ported material which covers np the rocks
over nearly all the prairie region. We
have a very well marked example of those
dried np river beds in- the' northern part
of Bloomington, coming from the direction
of Towanda and stretching away southwes
terly, down the bed of the present slough,
north of the Conrt'Honse. Fifteen years
ago, when Center street was opened north
ward from the present site of the Ashland
House a bank of gravel and sand was cat
through at the corner of North street,
which onee forined the southern bank of an
ancient river. The gravel and sand in'tbis
hank were as distinctly sorted and stratified
as are the present banks of any modern riv
er; and tbp proof of former river action was
complete. The same evidence have been
traced for miles to the^eouth-west.and noth-
east. But what baa beoome of the river?
We only know that there has been_such
change in tbe surface that there is no lon
ger a supply of water for this ancient chan
nel, and it has dried up. Bnt the early
residents ot this city tell os that, since the
first houses were built, the depression,
which is called the “Northern Slocgh” was
an impassable swamp; and hs who will take
the trouble to go into the ditch which now
drains away its water, may gather fresh
water shells six L et deep in the banks.
What is to be the end of all this washing
oat of river beds? It is evidantly going on;
and give then time enough, and the
streams must either dry up, or reach the
level of the sea and ccasc to flow. It is not
necessary to give ourselves any anxiety
about the matter, of coarse; bat as “always
taking out and never patting in, soon
comes to the bottom of the meal tab,” it
mast corns to the bottom in excavating
river beds, when they must cease to flow.
Our readers may carry out the thought at
their leisure In the mean time, we can
elude that “tho Jesuit explorers” told the
truth about the paseagasc from Lake Mich
igan to the Illinois river
JUNIUS REVIVED.
Nemesis to Governor Rnlloeb-
No. 3.
7 o His Excellency, R. B. Bullock .-
Your Excellency will pardon mo for cor
recting a few typographical errors which
appear in uiy two letters lately addressed to
yon. An intelligent reader might amend
the text, bat I know your Excellency, like
Martha, is troubcld about many things, and
may be just now engrossed in preparation
for your hegira.
In paragraph 1st, (letter number one)
“ministerial” shoo'd be “magisterial.” Your
ministerial career has not yet commenced.
The failure o( the mortgager to foreclose
on Wade and Douglas during the westward
trip of the Tennessee leaves them on Grants
hands for disposition before your Excellen
cy can be heard. You have tbe consola
tion ol knowing, however, that merit—
which in your party is ranked in the in
verse ratio of principle—does not always
insure promotion. The qualified applicants
arc far too numerous for the offices provid
ed by law. Republics arc known to be an
urateful, and Presidents sometimes forget
ful after dinner. But your master will not
overlook your merit". He is out entirely
given to cruelly. Were Grant as wicked as
be is weak, and had no kith or kin, histo
ry, after a cycle of near two baodred years
would repeat itself as after the Monmouth
rebellion, and Akertnan, with you as execu
tioner, would be a Jeffreys “campaigning”
in the South, and happy beyond expression
With him as Judge and Jury, the assize
would then, indeed, be perfect; and your
appointment most humane. The rebels fal
ling victims to the Judge’s mercy, it they
survived the shock of your Excellency’s
.hastly smile, would gladly call for death
by the guillotine or gallows to escape the
horrors of a second glance.
In the 5th par., in the sentence, “the
remainder of the ostrieh—except the head,
etc” heart was written where the head oc
curs. The simile, your Excellency is not
inapt. It grows in favor upon reflection.
Voracity and stupidity are the distinguish
ed characteristics of that animal. Green
bashes and pebbles are the weakness ot the
one—greenbacks and diamonds the failing
of the other.
Again, the body of the ostrich is o! large
dimensions, while the head is very small.
Ornithologists, tell us that iu running it
never deviates from one direction. Ever
since your .sublimation, your Excellency
has but one straight coarse, and that desen-
sits arereno. But singular enough, the low
er you get the higher you rise. The patri
cians of Rome served the bruins of the
struthiocamclus (the African species) as a
rare and luxurious dish. The people of
Georgia Would most gladly forego the dish,
and rejoice to even kuow that the Ameri
can species carries that luxury in its head.
It has instinct sufficient to feather its own
nest, but not brains enough to keep it from
beiog foul.
In paragraph 7, in referring to yon Ex
cellency’s offspring, in the expression
“whose greatest crime is their paternity,”
“curse” was written for “crime” Nothing
was farther from -ny thoughts than the in
tention to add to their misfortune tbe im
putation of wrong While the iniquities
of their fatber will pursue them to the 3d
aud 4th gcueratious, it will be their calam
ity, and not their sin.
You will pardon me for suggesting that
the evil might be mitigated by one or tbe
other of the two resorts. The first is sim
ple, very simple—as simple as its inventor.
Tho expense is nothing—tho manipula
tor dexterious and wonderfully versed in
tbe priestcraft of Mammon. It is to issue
at once a proclamation of pardon to your
self—His Excellency, Rnfus B Bollock,
pardoning Rnfus B. Bullock, the culprit 1
the credit of the suggestion is due to your
own genins in pardoning a recent offender
in advance of an arrest, or even a charge
of crime.
Its adoption on yourself may save you
from arrest; probably from impeachment;
possibly from conviction. Should you be
solicitous about future offenses, either re
peat tbe proclamation at the close of each
day, or purchase from Hi9 Excellency, the
Governor of Georgia, ai indulgence to cov
er all meditated crime. Tetzel still lives
in the person of His Excellency, and “a
fellow feeling makes him wondroos kind.”
Besides, the cost is not even the parcel of
a reckoning his Executive warrant will
draw, even though Angier and the statute
stand guard at the Treasury. Bnt should
your Excellency, with that Roman abnega
tion of self, which has so distinguished yon
from ill yenr predecessors, feel constrained
by that motto non soil, ted aids, which
forms yonr rale of action, to deny yourself
even the small indulgence of a pardon, as
the second and only hope I recommend a
change of name. There is certainly some
thing corrupting in its initisL Even your
Excellency, who doubts all things save to
tal depravity, cannot donbt alter reading
the honorable list which yonr name stands
prondly eminent Among them a few are
Belshazzar, Balaam (who smote yonr great
progenitor with a staff lor showing the fam
ily trait—perverseness) Bacchus, Balak,
Barabas, Boigia, Bar bason, Barnadine,
Bln‘ beard, Blodgett, Bryant, Belcber,
Bradley, Biteal, Beelzebub, Botler and
Bnllock. Can this be ascident ? Were
the worst of characters in history, and in
fiction also, christened with that initial be
cause predestined to be wicked, or did the
initial work snob direful results ? - His Sa
tanic Majesty is no exeeplion. Defering to
superior merit, .he took bis rank two grades
below, and called himself, devil. Philogists
have made many interesting and important
discoveries of late years. I continued to
their consideration, in view of the revela
tion made above, how it ever dame to pass,
that Horace Greeley’s name does not com
mence with B-
These philogists tell us that centuries ago
the inquisitors of Spain habitually wore
heavy beards to heighten tbe terrors of
their presence, and that by uietonotny (th e
(the mostache typifying the character) the
inquisitor was, by his victims, called higote.
This, your Excellency, from your inquisito
rial skill and practice, knows to be the
Spanish word for beard or moustache.. The
bigger the beard, the bigger the bigot!—
What then, must bo the fierce bigoty of
your Excellency, if to be measured by the
furious appendage waving like two bloody
banners over the battlements of your bra
zen cheeks, when, with top boots, spurs and
ivorv handle whip, “like feathered Murcu-
ry, you turn and wind u fiery Pegasos, and
witch the world with noble horsemanship.”
The last error to which I shall refer, oc
curs in my second letter. In referring to
yonr Legislature (its majority) as the pons
asuiorum over which you rode so often at
pleasure, either the printer or myself put
in the latter word one too much for good
orthography. If the error be mine it only
shows teat tho nature of the subject was in
my thought at the momont; and how nueh
mightier is the truth than the arbitrary
rules of language. If the printer added
the letter it proves that he was better ac
quainted than I was with that Genera! As
sembly. In either case, if you and your
party are wise you may draw from this er
ror in orthography a most instructive les
son. Truth cannot be changed by the ar
bitrary acts of man. And your effort",
born of lury and hate to raise the negro to
the station aud dignity of the Southern
white race, are as silly and futile as the at
tempt ot Xerxes to bind the ocean with an
iron chain, or of your Excellency to give a
sincere smile
Your Excellency, “I did not think to
shed a tear in *11 yonr miseries.” but how
can one restrain the course of nature alter
learning that the Tribune of this city has
spoken well of you ? This is the curse of
Cain; it is greater than yon can bear. What
ever may have been the common opinion of
your Excellency, no one supposed belore
that you had sunk so low. Have you su
borned the nation’s bawd; this Jezebel
whose Ahab occupies the capital, and who,
by the false witness of her sods of Belial,
laboriously plied for twenty years, set on
the dogs of war to rob the Sout'i of her po*
sessions ?
Had the Tribune condemntd your course
I might re : ect the evidence of all my sens
es and think you virtuous, I have seen and
felt your tyranny, I have tasted the cup ol
sorrow pressed by your hand to the lips of
a brave and noble people. I have heard
their groans wh n under your iron heel,
and to the remaining senso your Excellen
cy’s name has grown so odiously odorous to
all the State, that fire and brimstone only
can work its fumiative air. But thir Trib
une may not be bought. If so, so much the
worse. If her tickled favor is volunteered,
you should suspect yourself—yea, more—
do what others are doing—swear you are
not honest 1 then, spurning the approval of
this mendacious meretrix—whose praise is
calumny—turn back and le td a virtuous
life.
A few of the Georgia press likewise show
symptoms of disturbance produced by my
two letters. That they and the Tribune
here should tarn upon me is no more sur
prising than it is suspicious They fear the
loss of their alms which your munificence
bestows at the State’s expense. These aie
but nature's scavengers. They come, we
hardly know how or when; bnt common ob
servation tells us why. Their presence is
neither the harbinger of approaching disso
lution, or the evidence of death. Nature
supplied them to Herod when he became
too vile to live, and they crawled away
with him into his grave. Let not their sue
cessors squirm, or rise and buzz (as tbeir
nature and form may be) at my approach.
They choose from instinct and feed on gar
bage. Let them fatten on the corruption
which expressed by its own superincumbent
bulk and weight, is dripping from and reek
ing around the Executive chair.
Nemesis.
ROBERT CHAMBERS.
This eminent Scotch litterateaur is
He died in Edinbarg : ltt- the ago-Of siily-
ninc.
From the New York Herald of the 19th
we take (he following sketch of 1 ‘Ilia
life:
At- Peebles, Scotland, in 1802, the sub
ject ufTliis sketch was born. His parents
were peraius of rc.-pcctab’:lity and good
standing; but as they lacked wealth to
send them to the universities Robert acd
bis brother rcro educated in their native
town.
Reverses making et'li narrower an al
ready small income, the family wire com
pelled to return to Edinburg, where the
two boys were, in a measure, thrown entire-
ly npon their own resources. Scotch pluck
and industry soon surmounted the many
obstacles in their pith, in ISIS Robert
began business on his own acrount as a
bookseller; his capital a.m uuied to a few
shillings,but he invested it judiciously, and
was able to make a living out of it. Book
selling, however, was only engaged in from
necessity. The yonng man possessed a
literary ta*te which bo fonnd an op
portunity of indulging.
William, his brother, had added tbe
printing business to books -lling, and Rob
ert induced bini to undertake tho publica
tion of a small periodical called he Kalieil-
osmpc,the latter furnishing the aiticles and
William setting tV type and printing ofl
the paper himself. After a brief existence
tbe Kalinloscope, was abandoned to enable
Robert to write and bring out his ‘illustra
tion; of t! o Author f W averly,’ an admira
ble work on the supposed characters whom
Sir Walter Scott d ^scribed in his novels.
Shortly after this b >>k appeared, Robert
set about collecting • -iter als for his ‘Tra
ditions of lviinbtu:a most interesting
work It was pubi.-hed in 1824mnd has
pa-sed through many editions.
The deceased ao. her had now made a
reputation in the world of letters and hence
forward his path in life was smooth and
easy. His “Popular Rhymes of Scotland”
appeared iu 1826, duri :g the following
year he published his -Pictures of Scot
land’ and shortly after he gave to the pub
lie five volumes of i -tories of the‘Scottish
Rebellions,’ two of s l.ife of James I.’ and
three of‘Scottish B • 'tads and Songs.’ IIo
also began tbe publ i ition. of bis ‘Biograph
ical Dictionary of Eminent Scotchmen,’
which was couipleto 1 iu four volumes in
1835.
In 1829 William and Robert, for the
first time, entered iaio copartnership. To
gether they publi: hod a “Gazetteer of
Scotland’ in 1832, and a -History of Scot
land for Juvenile R.-.iders,’ the latter writ
ten by Robert.
On February 4; 1832, tbe first number
of Chambers’ Jounwl appeared and soon
obtained a very large circulation. From
that timi the business of the brothers con
tinued to improve, and at the present day
is very large. Althongb he never receiv
ed a rcgalarjedueatiun in science the sub
ject ot this sketch prudnecd several excel
lent geolog'cal works. Tho latest of his
historical productions is tho ‘Domestic An
nals of Scotland.’ lie also edited, with his
brother, a large number of works, one of
the most important of which is ‘Chambers’
Enclyopcedia.’
The death of Rob rt Chambers must be
regarded as a sever. ! >ss to Scottish litera
ture. He was a close and attentive student
of the history of his native country, and
contributed greatly iu the work of giving
to the world facts iu connection with the
events cf the past in Scotland which would
have been wholly lost bnt for bis study and
research.
A Hep.nbllcan member of Congress v. i
draws from that Party..
U afford* us the highest pleasure‘o pia
the following letter of Hon. James G.
Blair of Missouri (no relation of Gcn’l F.
F. Butin, hut like him a bold and faithful
mao) before our readers. In tbe facts pla
ted by Mr.- Blair will be found some oftfie
reasons that) account for tbe upheaval of—
Northern and Westeru)fentimcnt nowgo’ng
on iu so gratifyiog a manner. Let the
Southern People in this supreme hcnr^cfL. |
trial and hope be line to their manhcod and
all will be well. Let them be patient,
brave and discreet, and there is yet a glo- E
rions fnturo for them and their children.
Washington, D C., March 2G, 1871.
Hen. J. II. ’McCormick
Dear Sir: Your note asking my reasons
for withdrawing from the Republican cau
cus on Wednesday night is before me
Ordinarily the proceedings of caucuses
are regarded as sacred, and not to be re-
ealtd; but as the proceedings of tbe sever
al caucuses held have been made known,
so far asrelateJ to me, through the public
print, I have no occasion to withhold from
you tbe rea ens which prompted my action
on the occasion alluded to.
Elected as a . liberal Republican, and
pledged to a tariff lor revenue, and against
protection, and for fall ainresfy and remov
al of all disabilities imposed upon those en
gaged iu the lute rebellion, placed me in a
condition where I coaid not be governed
by a maj mty vote in the canons meetings
of rim Republican party npon these sub
jects, and at tbe first meeting which I at
tended. I so announced to tbe caucus. Ob
jections were made to my remaining in
caucus, as [ was opposed to all tbe funda
mental principles of the party, and could
not be bound by the action of the majority;
another objection was made, that I bad vo
ted for Gen’l Morgan for Speaker of the
Home. I 'old them I could not have done
otherwise, under my principles and pledges
in my caov: ss
The matter passed off only to be renew-
cd again at our next meeting.
It was again asserted that I was opposed
to tho fundamental principles and measures
of tbe Republican party. Upon reflection
I came to tbe conclusion that, as there was
co agreement between my views and the
of the majority of the ca icas upon
those questions or measures, no good could
result from my participating in the caucus,
and, hence, I withdrew. To yield to a ma
jority ir. too caucus would bo but surren
dering everything to the protectionists, aud
to those who seem to think the continued
bamilatiou and degratioa of the white peo
ple of the South the strongest bond of union
and communion in. the Republican party.
This I could not do without a violation • f
the pledges I made dnrirg my canvass.
Coaid 1, by adding my vote to the* Demo
cratic vote in the House, redeem my plcdg
es made (o my constituents, and fail to do it
because a majority of the Republicans cau
cus decreed otherwise, I would be unfaith
ful to my pledges, and unworthy the coufi
dencc of an enlightened constituency.
To be thus controlled by a majority
would but be placing myself in the condi
tion of being elected as a “froe trader and
libcralist” and voting in the iaterest of
‘prolectiouials” and proseriptionists.
I 1 ’the Republican party has no higher,
nobler, nor mere exalting a mission, aim,
and purpose, than the taxing of the Fcople
of the West for the benefit of the aristo
crats and monopolists ot the East, k and the
coutiuuei degrxtion and humiliation of the
white people of the Sooth, then I must
confess that 1 am at loss to see how myself
and my liberal Republican friends in my
distaict, who agre with me in sentiment,
can consistently longer affiliate or act with
Resnectfally, yours,
J. G. BLAIR.
TUt Narrow-Guage In Massachusetts.
The joint committee of the Massachus
setts Legislature, to whom was referred the
subject of Darrow-gnage railroads, have re
ported a bill authorizing the construction
of such roods. The bill provides “that any
branch railroad hereafter constructed in the
State may adopt a guage of three feet or
the existiog guage of four feet eight and
one-halt inches, acd no other guages shall
be used. Any association of persons, a
majority of whom shall be citizens of the
Commonwealth, and all ot whom shall be
citizens of the United States, is anthirized
to locate, construct, main ain, and operate,
within the limits of my town in the State,
a branch railroad with a guage of three
feet, with suitable tracks, stations, and
ippage, provided that at a meeting of
the legal voters of said town two-thirds of
such voters shall authorize the construc
tion of the railroad.
Upon recording articles of association
the company Bhall become a body corporate,
with all tbe powers and privileges, and sub
ject to the duties and liabilities affecting
railroad corporations. Any railroad corpo
ration now established may locate, and may
maintain as a part of its railroad system,
one or more narrow-gnage branch roads,
provided tbe county commissioners where
the road is to be located determine that the
public convenience or necessity require it.
The bill also makes provission for the trans
fer of freight from the narrow-gnage roads
to the existiog roads. We learn that sev
eral companies have been organized for the
purpose of building such railroads in Mas
sachusetts, and should the bill proposed by
the committee beoome a law it is thought
that tbe construction of half a dozen or
more narrow-gnage roads will be underta
ken daring the coining sammer.
Sumner on Grant.
In an interview «ith a reporter for the
New York Herald Sadmer said : ^
We have never had a President before
who usurped the uar power. Grant has
done this. He has been making war for
months past without any shadow for consid
eration for the legislative authority. He
has consequently been infracting the Con
stitution in the br.vest manner, acd bis
conduct is totally indefensible.
The Senator made tLe above remarks
with deliberation, devoid of excitement bat
evidently meant what he said. As he con
eluded, your correspondent said.
Correspondent—Bat, Senator, do yon
think President Grant looks upon this mat
ter as a violation of the Constitution ? Do
yon think he knows his views of the ques
tion arc eo widely different from yonrs ?
Sumner—He 7 What does Grant know ?
He does’et know anything, sir. I do not
accuse him of any k aowledge whatever. He
is not a man capable of understanding prin
ciples or of grasping anything in a com
prehensive view. He docs not understand
tbe primary elements of the constitutional
requirements of war. All he knows is how
to execute. Pat him on a horse and he’ll
{■hinder along somehow in the field. There
is where his vocation ends.
The Albany Express Robbery.
Albany, March 15tb.,
The jnry in the case of Filkins, tried
for shooting the Albany express route agent
and robbing the car of several thousand
dollars, this morning rendered a verdict of
guilty.
The Coart immediately senteaced the
prisoner to twenty years’ imprisonment in
Clinton prison—the fall extent of tbe law.
The prisoner’s counsel will prepare a bill
of exceptions and apply for a writ of error,
and carry the matter before the general
term of tbe Supreme Court for review.
The ooetitntion does not provide for an
Executive barber, and as Grant does not
like to inear the expense of one himself, he
employs a negro in that capacity and has
him paid as a twelve hundred dollar clerk
in the Treasury Department. Apd he does
not seem to be any kin to Grant, either.—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A sad story is told of a Radical Con
gressman, new to the ways of the Hoose,
who mistook the meaning of the clapping
for pagee which always follows the
ban's opening prayer. “Well that beats
me,” aud he “I don’t see any thing in that
prayer worth cheering.”
The Nutmeg State.
When snuffing political defeat in the
distance, Republican news papers bare a
happy way of anticipating the impending
disaster—making it fall as lightly as possi
ble. If there is a reasonable chance of
carryi ug a State, it i9 heralded forth that
“our friends are enthusiastic and united,
and oar majority cannot be less than twen
ty thousand.” If disaster is sorely antici
pated, something like the following from
the New York Tribune tells the tale. Al
though carefully warded, it predicts Re-
publican defeat in Conneticut with about
as much certainty as words can convey it:
The Conneticut election in almost every
year is made to feel the follies of either un
wise legislation or reckless political move
ments at Washington. For several yearn,
at least, the Republicans hare had some
unpleasant issue forced npon them at the
most promising time in a the campaign. It
did look, however, this year as if no extra
neous issue would be raised, bnt right in
the midst of congratulations on that point,
came the removal of Charles Sammer from
his honored position as Chairman of the
Committee of Foreign Affairs. Conneeti-
cut is in no way responsible for this—her
Senators do tot sanction it; yet we are
obliged to meet it as a forced qnestion, and
in any event, the political situation is not
improved by it.
Query—If, before the New Hampshire
election came off, the Republicans, having
claimed the Governor, all the Congressman
and the Legislature, and yet lost all, what
will be the extent.or their disaster^ Con-
detient where they affect to eonaider the
contest donbtfnl?
Scientific experiment shows the following
number of beats a second for the wings of
each insect : . The common £7, three hun
dred and thirty; the drone, two hundred
and forty; the bee, one hundred and . nine
ty ; the wasp ; one hundred and ten ;
the hawk-moth, seventy two ; the drag
onfly, twenty-eight; and the cabbage-
bntterfly, which is inaudible, nine beats a
second.
The War Indemnity.
The London Time’s money article
says:
It seems that,allowing for the deductions
to be made, the snm to be paid by France
to Germany will be anont £160,000,000,
or £170,000,000, to which, however, five
per cent iaterest will have to be ad cd for
the installments that may be delayed be
tween now and the end of 1873.
An impression is general that France
will decline no effort necessary to clear off
the whole forthwith, and that this object
will not nroTe impracticable unless it is pre
vented by those organs of the press who
seek to proclaim in this and all other move
ments “the sole and fixed idea of taking re
venge.”
Probably the most carious ant inth;
world is the parasol-ant efthe West In
dies. Dr. Forbes Winslow, in his work on
Light, says these ants walk in lone proces-
si ms, eoch one carrying a cut leaf over its
head as a parasol, in the snn, and they de-
posi' these in boles ten or twelve feet under
ground, apparently with no other object
than to form a comfortable nest for a species
of white snake, which is invariably fonnd
coiled np among them
Kn-Klux Outrages in Kansas.
Three mat Hanged and Five Shot—
Leavenworth, March 13.—(Special to the
New York Tribune.)—The Atlanta Un
ion of the 2ni instant says the follow-
ingT-
“The vigilance committee seized eight
men known to i^ive been horse thieves,
shot three, and hanged five by the heels
until dead. Three of the men turned
State’s evidence, bnt were hung notwith
standing.
Indian Outrages.
A private telegram to day received from
San Diego, California, says that on the 7tb
instant forty Indians attacked the United
States Mail stage of Barlow and Sander
son, on the Maricopa or Gila, Dessert, Ara-
zona.
The driver was shot,the mails destroyel,
and seven horses captured. . The point is
directly npon tho proposed line of the Tex
as Pacific ur'32d paralled railroad.— Wash,
ington Star, March 16.
It is a well established fact—that a per
son who is gnil’y of squirting tobacco juice
in the boose of worship, don’t expec-to-rate
as a gentleman.
The number of known species of lichens
is abont five thousand.
The strongest vegetable fibre known <8
sail to be that of New Zealand flax. It has
sword-like leaves, tea or twelve feet in
length. It is used by the setters for bind
ing tbeir sheaves, fastening their gates, ty
ing up their horses, and in almost every
possible way..
Lydia Thompson, in a letter to the New
York Herald, denies that Bhe rides with
fast yonng men, or that she is. even ac
quainted with one of that class of bipeds.
Among the astronomers wLo went
from England to Sicily, to observe the
late eclipse, were two women, appoint,
ed to take obersations with the spectro.
■nope.
When leaden rifle.bnllets are fired against
iron targets, the lead is melted and spat-1
tered npon tbe target, in the form of a •
■tar.
A contemporary says, “The fust printers!
were Titans." There are a good many |
“tight uns” among them still.
Every young doctor will get on if he on
ly has patients.' • r
The best thing to give the poor—employ
ment.
