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And Emma Eustace Was a beauty—such
a beauty as only now ami then, here aud
1 there, burst upon the eyes of the woild.—
All that the budding promise of ber glow-
in" girlhood gave a lorecast of, was more
■ than realized in the radient glory of her
womanhood.
' Ahd si c was as regal as she was iieauti-
• ful. She accepted the homage society paid
i her wondrous beauty as a Qneen accepts
the homage of her leige subjects. She re-
: ceived its compliments as her right, and
she felt neither flattered nor grateful for
their bestowal. Noue approached her but
. to be dazzled and to admire, and yet, with
. all tills power to charm, she was not a co
quette. Accepting admiration as her due,
she was yet careless of it, and made nc ef
fort to extend the bounds of her sway.—
Men called her cold and heartless; because
she would not encourage their willful mad
ness. Others called lier'proud, because she
would not nnbend the fascinatior of her
loveliness to court still more the popnlar
adulation. It was only those who could
read the secrets of her soul that could find
anything in her nature that was lovely or
good; and even this few were often embar
rassed to understand and to reconcile its
conflicting impulses.
Hiram Lavender was one of this few, and
yet Hiram Lavender had alway avoided
Emma Eustace as a man would avoid a
dangerous fascination. Me r .rely met her,
and when he did it was by accident, and
their interviews wsre marked by in un
pleasant embarrassment.
It may have been these circumstances
that piqued Emma, and betrayed her into
the haughty spirit that burst out when Hi
ram offered to escort her and her mother
into his mother’s house.
“And I am sure, Hiram that no more sin
cere wishers for your success will be left be
hind you than Emma and I,” answered
Mrs. Eustace.
“I feel flattered by your kind wishes,
Mrs. Eustace, and shall endeavor not to
abuse them,” he replied, slightly re assured.
“Mr. Hudson was with us yesterday, and
he spoke so proudly of you, that wo were
all quite enthused,” Mrs. Eustace said with
a friendly gossip.
Hiram blushed scarlet, ior with all his
self-confidence, he was extremely sensi
tive.
“Mr. Hudson is very kind, and his par
tial friendship has betrayed him into an
undue estimate of my abilities.”
“Mr. Hudson’s compliments are not idle
—hisjudgment cannot be biased by par-
tiallity,” answered Mrs. Eustace, with a
kindly animation.
“Then I am sure that I am very much
obliged to Mr. Hudson for his good opin
ion,” and Hiram began to unbend the
shackles of his embarrassment, and to speak
with clearness.
Emma remained silent. The flushes of
her recent chagrin still glowed upon her
cheek. Mrs. Lavender came to her relief.
“What new books have you, Emma ?” she
asked with a delicate adroitness, to divert
her thoughts.
A disingenious simplicity was one of the
sweetest traits of Emma’s character, and a
sunshine of lelief gladdened her counte
nance as she answered,
“I have no new ones, but am reveling
amid the beauties of the old. Madam Cot-
ten's works are very interesting. The sto
ry of her poor proscribed outcasts is told
in such a pathetic tone that I cannot resist
it.”
“I admire your taste, Emma. The sim
plicity and pathos of a work is far more af
fecting to the good and the true than all
the sensational heroics that can be writ
ten.”
“Oh, I cannot endure a sensational nov-
el.”
“The Waverly novels possess a rare com
bination of the pathetic and the heroic.”
“Admirable, but those in which the pa
thetic predominate are destined to the
most enduring interest. The sweet, patient
itebecca, will haunt the mind, when the
knight ol Ivanhoe, with a'l his goodness,
will be thought of as the errant hero of a
fitful dream.” And; unconsciously to her
self, the impulsive girl became so enthused
in her critique that she forgot the unpleas-
aut episode that so embittered her spirits a
few moments before:
Mrs. Lavender was charmed with the di
rection her well meaning efforts had taken,
an.l she answered,
“Aud the Heart of Mid Lothian will out
live all the others.”
“Yes. In my memory atleast,” she add
ed, after a moment’s pause.
“I am reading an elegant story, a serial
now being published in Blackwood, It is
called “Zaidee;” and I am sure you would
like it," said Mrs. Lavender, not yet wil
ling to entrust Emma with her own silent
thoughts.
“Tes, I too am reading it, and I do like
it very much,” quickly answered Emma,
seemingly as uuwilling to relapse to her
self.
And all this .chile Hiram Lavender was
absently listening to Mrs. Eustace, and me
chanically answering yes or no, when a pause
in that lady’s breath would suggest to him
the propriety of answering at all.
At length a direct questiou prevened
his monosyllabic answers, and aroused bin)
t > the presence of bis visitor. “When do
you go, Hiram ?” Emma too was attracted
aud she looked into his face to catch the
answer.
“The precise day has not yet been fixed,
but within a fortnight at the farthest,” he
answered.
“Oh, so soon; and you will find time in
the interim to spend an evening with us ?”
“I ought not to promise,” and his eyes
'Distinctively turned towards Emma. Her
glance met his, and in that glanceall traces
of the proud imperialism that insulted him
at the carriago door were gone. “That is,”
he stammered, “I fear that—that my time
will be so occupied with—with my ar
rangements, that I will hardly have the
leisure.”
“I shall hear no plea, sir. You must not
slight your old friends thus. Mrs. Laven
der shall ho be so ungrateful,” appealed
Mrs. Eustace.
“Not if I can control Kin,-’ answered
the widow, with a smile; “and 1 think that
I can venture to make an engagement for
him,” she added, with a begging glance
in bis face.
Hiram bowed, and answered, “My time
is yours, mother, only the few days already
pledged to Mr. Muggleton—and Viola” he
add d, with a slight lowering of bis tone.
“And Viola;” a strangely musical name,
as breathed ia that suppressed tone, and
tho music floated in the brain of Emma
Eustace for days and nights alter.
“Then I shall transfer one evening to
Mrs. Eustace, and she may determine the
one,” returned Mis. Lavender.
“Tuesday evenirg, then, sans cerenwnie
—we shall expect you Tuesday evening.”
And the candid tone of Mrs. Eustace be
spoke her sincere gratification.
_ “I shall esteem it an honor, as well as a
great pleasnre, to wait upon you Tuesday
evening," and Hiram bowed a rather awk
ward bow first to Mrs. Eustace and then to
Emma.
“And Viola” was ail that Emma heard
as she slightly drooped her head in return
“Your piano is open, Mrs. Lavender, and
your violin also, Hiram—will you favor us
with some tnusio," asked Mrs. Eustace, with
a glance at the instruments.
Mrs. Lavender aud Hiram frankly com
plied with the -request, and the fine old
Scotch reel of “Tcllochgorum" filled tho
air with a refreshing melody.
This was followed by “Twas within a
mile of ■ Edinboro Town,” sang in Mrs.
Lavender’s sweetest spirit, when Hiram's
soul, moved and melted by the charm,
turned to Emma with unaffected warmth,
and said, “Miss Emma, sing Annie Lanrie
for me, I have never hoard it s-iug so.well
since you saug it years ago.”
Mrs. Lavender arose from the piano, aud
Emma, with a radiant grace, took her place.
“You will accompany me?” she requested
Ilitam bowed and adjusted his violin; and
then /hat sad, sweet strain, which is said to
have moved the strong veterans of the A1
ina to tears, floated like a living, breathing
perfume through the room.
The deep hush of the moment that fol
lowed was the happiest tribute that could
have been paid to the performance.
It was broken by Emma, who raised her
eyes to Hiram and said,
“I believe you are partial altogether to
Scottish music, or, you once were/’* she
added, remembering, with a slight bitter
ness, that it had been more than one year
sincehehad spokeen to her upon that, or any
other subject.
“Yes, I still like it best of al 1 ," be an
swered. “It may be, however,” he added,
“that its simplicity enables me to more
readily master it than the more difficult Ital
ian and German schools.”
‘And there are some exquisite gems to
be found in Mozart in Webber, and Men
delssohn,” she said with a quiet deference.”
“It would be an impertinent egotism in me
to deny that, or even attempt a criticism of
their wondrous works. The musical world
is ringing with their Io Peons, and if I
cannot swell the chorus with my faint
praise, I shall not stop my ears to the glad
huzzah.
A slightly cynical tone colored the sin
cerity of this remark, and grated harshly
upon Emma’s sensitive ear. “I venture,
however, to say that the only enduring (and
by enduring I mean living in the hearts of
the pure and good) parts of their works
will be those which are the most simple
and touching. The softness of the solemn
strain, upon which the “drinking song” in
“Lucretia Borgia” floats, will be hum-
ed by ages unborn; when the wild fire; the
tragic energy, the grand diapason of the
opera will be unheard and undreamed of.”
Emma thought, “strange, my own senti
ments, and had I spoken, those would have
been my own words,” but she silently cogi
tated the coincidence and spoke not.
“It is only applying to music, Miss Em
ma,” he continued, “the same principle
that you apply to works of fiction, and is
measuring its beauty by the same standard
by which you measure the beautiful and the
true in a novel The Drinking Song in the
opera of Lucretia Borgia, and the Anvil
Chorus in La Trouvatore, are to these works
the same sweet refreshing and redeeming
oasis of the desert, that yon find the gentle
character of Rebecca, the Jewess, to be in
the stormy story of Ivanhoe; and, indeed,”
be continued after a moments silence, “the
same principle is applicable to all kin
dred works of art. Painting finds its most
enduring monuments in the simple and
touching. It is said that the drooping sor
row of Corregio’s Magdalene haunts the
mind for days and years after one behjlds
it, while one can contemplate the lofty mien
of some mail-clad warrior without even be
stowing a second thought upon it. And so,
too, of Statuary; the soft repose of the Ve
nus Medicis, and the passive grace of the
Apo’lo Belviderr, sinks into the soul to rise
up in after years, as the mind yearns for
the things it knew in other days, while the
eollossal Statue of Peter the Great excites
only a momentary interest akin, more to
wonder than admiration. Even in the
Luocoon where the terrible energy of human
despair is so faithfully fixed in marble, its
greatest virtue is found in the tooching ap
peal depicted upon the faces of the boys as
hey turn their straining e cs upon their
father.”
Emma listened with a pleased interest,
for in the i ind Hue eyes of the speaker she
caught a music as rich as that which hung
upon his words. -
Mrs. Eustace also leaned forward to gath
er in each word.
Andean you not apply the same prin
ciple to woiks of nature, as well as works
of art?” she asked.
Yes,” he answered; “indeed it is from
nature first that I draw the principle. The
simple the gentle, and the beautiful in na
ture enters first and deepest into the heart.
The modest Violet, the dewy Daisy, the sim
ple Anemone, and the half opening Rose are
dear to us all, because they are all simple,
lovely and modest. And fuither," he added,
it applies with equal truth to human char
acter. The enduring charm of human ex
cellence is found in the gentle, the modest,
the sweet instead of the brilliant, the im
perious and the grand.”
As Hiram Lavender said this his gaze
uniutenticnally sought the face of Emma.
A crimson flush suffused its love’iness, and
her eye flashed a defiant repudiation of
what she esteemed a direct and cruel thrust
at her own proud nature.
Hiram perceived his mistake, or rather,
the misconstruction that Emma placed
upon his motives, and would have gladly
recalled the words.
A moment's embarrassing silence ensued,
when, at a motion of impatience from Em
ma, Mrs. Eustace arose to go.
Hiram escoited them to the carriage,
and as the driver closed the door Mrs Eus
tace said:
■Remember next Friday evening; we
shall expect you.”
Hiram bowed his acknowledgments and
returned to the house feeling extremely ill
at ease, aud reproaching himself for, he
knew not what.
I fea-, Hiram, that you violated Em
ma’s feelings. She is extremely sensitive,
and the world, you know, calls her impe
rious and proud,” said Mrs Lavender when
they wee seated alone together.
And she is imperious and proud,” deci
dedly answered Hiram.
“No, Hiram, you do not understand Em
ma,” remonstrated his mother. “She has
a beauty radiant enough to dizzy the head
of a less sensible girl, and sne has been
petted enough by her father to have made
her imperijus and proud, but for all that,
she has a good heart—a true heart,” she
added by way of emphasis.
I confess, mother, that I do not under
stand her character," Hiram answered after
moments thought. “But, then, she is
nothing to me,” be continued with a slight
ring of bitterness in his tone.
No, nothing to you, Hiram,” and Mrs.
Lavender dropped her voice, “and because
of that you ought not to judge her so harsh-
ly.”
“I have not judged her, mother,” replied
Hiram, “nor did I once think of her when
I contrasted the pure and gentle in human
character, with the proud and haughty.”
'I will not do you tho injustice to think
that you did, but Emma evidently appro
priated the parrallel aud blushed scarlet un
der it,” answered the widow.
“1 am sorry that I said it, and could 1,
with propriety, apologise for my seeming
rudeness, I would be glad to do so,” Hiram
replied with a perplexed air.
“No, it is best let alone,” advised the
mother. “Emma has too much sense to
th'nk long of the matter.” And she might
havi added, that after the first repellant
scorn, Emma had too much magn&n ; mity to
care at all for the matter.
“I will endeavor to be more prudont in
future,” he said by way of compromising
his embarrassment. “I am too harsh in
my convictions to please society,” he added
in an explanatory tone, “and am always of
fending when I am not understood. I can
never please-the ladies,” and with an impra
tient jerk of the bead he continued, “the
lees I see of them, the better for my repu
tation for gallantry.”
“You understand the female character
less than yon suppose they understand yon,
Hiram,” answered his mother. “Women
are not so fastidiously sensitive as you ima
gine them to be, and a brnsk earnestness
in men is what they most admire. T mean
all true women do," and Mis Lavender’s
cheeks glowed with a tr :e woman’s pride.
- “Then I do not understand them,” an
swered Hiram, “and, least of all, Emma,”
he added reflectively. But why he thus
particularized Emma. Hira n’s own heart
wondered.
“And Viola,” whispered Emma to her
own dark thoughts, as Bhe lounged back iu
the carriage cushions, but why she whis
pered it, Emma’s heart could not under
stand;
The organism of the soul is so delicate
that its chords can be touched by the faint
est shadow of events, as the sensitive strings
of an Eolian harp are touched by the un
seen and unfelt fingers-; and it may have
been the monitions of the unseen—the flit
ting shadows of coming events, strikin
upon the sensitive soul-chords of Emma,
that caused her heart to whisper the words
again and again; or it may have been that
in the words, the imperious beauty first re
alized the truth that Viola was no longer
thu little child we last saw her, but was now
a blooming girl, whose modest braoty and
quiet manners would soon open out u; on
the social skies of Fairfield. And what if
Viola was soon to ste; into society?—and
what if hers were the enduring charms of
bnman excellence? —why should Emma
cere? Not, ccitaiuly, for anything she cared
for Hiram Lavender, for i she knew one
feeling for him different from that she felt
towards other men, it was a feeling of con
straint, if not aversion. Nor was she jeal
ous of the gentle beauty of Viola, for Em
ma rose high above the dignity of a petty
rivalry With rat affectation, she felt too
secure in her own peerless domain to suf
fer one jealous fear to invade it3 plcasancc.
And yet, “and Viola” floating upon the
softened tones of Hiram’s voice kept ring
ing in her ears, hushing out all else that
Were musical beside.
Mrs. Eustace was too busied with her
owu thou hts to Dotice the abstraction of
Emma, and the carriage rolled home in
silence.
At home, in her own room, Emma re
called the scene, and only for a moment did
she dwell with a frown upon niram’s
words.
“The most enduring charms of human ex
cellence, is formed in the gentle, the mod
est, the sweet, instead of the brilliant, the
imperious and the grand,” she murmurred
to herself, “but perhaps he did cot mean
it,” she softened, “and yet why did he turn
to me as he said it ?” she asked herself
with a quiver of doubt—“not surely to re
proach me for my pride? for he ought to
know that I am not proud; but 1 am not
humble as I should be, and the world
thinks that I am really proud; yet, why
does it think it? because of my petted wealth
—because of my father’s lands and slaves?
or is it because 1 despise the flattery ol
men?” and the indignant blood again moun-
ed to her cheek.
No, Emma, it was not that—but because
of all these and more; because of your ra
dient beauty, your queenly air, your haugh
ty mien, which, all unconsciously to your
self, shown resplendcntly around your eve
ry motion, and colored your every action.
“And yet Hiram is right,” she contin
ued thinking. “It is the sweet and gentle,
rather than the radient and grand, that is
most lovely and most endaring. I wish
that he did not think me proud,” and Em
ma unconsciously appealed to her deeper
anu most sacred heart; “But why ?” she
asked; “need I care, tic is nothing to me.”
But an unquiet flutter of her soul told Em
ma that the confession was hardly an hon
est one.
The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING. May. 26.
A National Convention of colored citi
zens of the United States is to be held in
St. Louis ou the 22d of September next, to
take in codsideratiou what is necessary to
be done to educate the masses of the color
ed people up to the full bight of their duty
as American citizens.
Therailroad companies of Louisville Ky.,
have agteed that it is useless to try to resist
or evade the enforcement by the United
States authorities of the claim of the ne
groes to ride iu the street cars, and decid-
it is best to avoid serious collisions by open
ing the cars to them. This effects the bu
siness of the roads considerably, many
white people, and ladies especially prefer
ring to walk.
How few men can say what Hans
Christion Anderson has recorded. “My
life is a lovely story, happy and fall of inci
dent. The history of my life will say to the
world what it says to me—there is a living
God who directs all things for the best.”
The other night, as Edwin Booth, as
Richelieu, had finished the lines, “France,
my mistress, my wedded wife, who shall pro
claim divorce ’twixt thee anl me?’ a deep
voice from the audicuce answered, “Chica
go.” There was great consequent “lafture
and applaws.”
The American Medical Association, as
its annual meeting last week in SanFran-
cisco, after a very exciting discussion, in
definitely postponed, by a vote of SO to 25,
a proposition in the following words: “Noth
ing in this constitution shall be so con
strued as to prevent delegates from colleges
in which women are taught and graduated
iu medicine, and hospitials ia which medi
cal women giadnatcs attend, from being re
ceived into this Association.” Another
resolntion proposing “that the American
Medical Associatieu acknowledges the right
of its members to meet in consultation the
graduates and teachers of Women’s Medi
cal Colleges, provided the code of ethics of
the Association is observed,” was also in
definitely postponed.
Williamson’s system of steam canal tow
age by road engines on the tow-path of the
canal, was tried at Albany on Thursday, in
the presence of Canal Commissioners
Wright and Chapman and several engi
neers, and gave entire satisfaection. Three
boats were towed at the rate of three miles
an hour.
The Navy department has ordered the
following Board ot Visitors to mttend the
annual examination at the Navy School at
Annapolis. Mil.: Vice-Admiral Stephen 0.
Rowan (President), Commodore J. J. Al-
my, Medical Inspector R. T. McConn, Pay-
Inspector A. H. Gilman, and Chief-Engi-
ncer Stephen D. Hibbet.
A resolution amending the Massachusetts
State Constitution to confer suffrage cn wo
men has been defeated in the Massachu
setts House by a vote of 68 to 68. The
Senate rejected the bill to regulate the
hours of labor in factories by a large ma
jority.
The wheat prospects in the western coun
ties of North Carolina are excellent, says
the Newborn Republican and Courier.
The University of Kentucky has pur
chased Ashland, the home of Henry Clay,
for $30,000.
The Raleigh Telegram says the fishing
season along the North Carolinn coast and
eastern rivers has been the most extraordi
nary known for years.
Col. J. Lucius Davis, a graduate ot West
Point, who fought through the Me r lean
war, and commaded the 10th Virginia cav
alry in the late war, is dead.
Tho Atlanta aud Agricultural Associa
tion will hold their Fair for the present
year from 10th to 20th, inclusive, of Octo
ber next. The Committee on Premiums
and Classes ore preparing for publication
their premium list, and will havo it ready
for distribution about the 1st of J one.
A FEW RAILROAD FIGURES.
The anxiety aud presisteucy of the dis
organizers in lugging in the lease of the
State Road—as an issue in the present
canvass makes it necessary that the voters
of Floyd county shonld have before them all
the facts and figures in the case, that they
might intelligently make up their decis-
sious upon the matter. We therefore give
a few figures, which are taken from the of
ficial records of the State and can be relied-
npon.
The State Road has neen in operation
twenty years. During that twenty years,
its expenses have exceeded its recti; Is, $2,
000,000, including the S500,000 demand
ed and actually necessary to put the road
in order.
The prosperous admin’stration of Joe
Brown to which the opponeotsof the lease
point so triumphantly as a standard of the
worth and the profits of the road, raised
the opperations of the road frorq a bare
paying up to a profitable basis. But dur
ing the four most profitable years of his ad
ministration before the war, its net profits
were only 81,140,000. Contrast this $1,-
140,000 of tho triumphant Brown adminis
tration with the net profits that are secured
to the State by the lease and what havo
we? The lease brings to tde State $300,-
000 per annum, this multiplied by 4 gives
the sum of $1,200,000. Now figure it ont
for your selves and what do you have.
The sum of $60,000 in favor of the lease.
And yet you are told that Pilate aud He
rod killed Christ, and Joe Browu and Ben
Hill muidercd the State Read.
Sixty thousand dollars over the most
profitable time of aoy state administration
is not a very bad kill.
But contrast it with the twenty years of
its operation and what have we? These
twenty years cost the State the sum of $2-
000,000.
Set that down, $2,000,000.
Now figure up what the State will real
ize by the lease—S300,000 per annum for
twenty years, amounts to $G,000,000. Set
that down—$6,000,000.
Now to this add the interest that ac
crued upou the first payments, amounting,
in all to 4,000,000, which $4,000,000 you
may add to the $6,000,000 principal, and
you have the sum of $10,000,000.
Now put all these figures together and
what have you?—$10,000,000 gain by
the lease, 2,000,000 loss by the political
management. Making in all the magnifi
cent sum of S12,000,000 in favor of the
lease.
Theories and sentiment may ho excel
lent things to tickle the popular mind with,
but facts and figures do not lie.
STATE AID TO RAILROADS—IVILL
IT PAY?
There seems tc be a misapprehension in
the minds of many, in reference to lending
the aid of the State to building Railroads.
Many think the State is liable, and with
out any security, for every bond it endorses
for the building of Railroads. If such
were the case, the credit ol the State would
be iu great peril, but fortunately it is not so.
The Constitution of Georgia, which the
Governor, who has to issue and sign all
Railroad bonds, and who has to take an
oath to support and carry out the Constitu
tion, says: “Nor shall the credit o'" the
State be granted or loaned to aid any com
pany without a provision that the whole
property of the company shall be bound for
the security of the State prior to any other
debt or lein, except to laborers; nor to any
company in which there is not already an
equal amount invested by private persons.”
This is the very language ol the Constitu
tion of Georgia.
So it will be seen that belorc a single
bond cau be issued to any Railroad, that
private individuals must have actuallypaid
in to such road, out of their oicn jnchets, an
amount equal to the sum they ask the State
to endorse for said road, aud in addition to
this, must give the State the first mortgage,
not only on the road, but upon “the whole
property of the company” as security to the
State against any loss. To illlustrate, take
the road chartered by the last Legislature,
to run from Rome to Columbus,Ga.
The bill, aud the clause of the Constitu
tion above quoted, provides that after pri
vate individuals have built and equipped
twenty miles of the road, that the State
may endorse the bonds of the road eqnal
to the amount actually expended in build
ing and equipping the first twenty miles;
the money raised on this endorsement to be
expended on the next twenty miles of the
road. Say it takes two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars from the pockets of pri
vate individuals to grade and equip twenty
mils? of the road, the Governor can then
issue State aid bonds for tho amount of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to aid
in building the next twenty miles; and
when the forty miles are completed, the
State has a lein superior to all others, on the
whole road, and the whole property of the
company! So, unless the Governor com
mits perjury and issues bonds unlawfully,
the State cau lose nothing by this policy
of State aid We know of no road that
would net sell for half it would cost to
grade and equip it under anything like pro
per management.
While this is so, we were glad to see our
immediate representatives, Scott and Bol
linger, in the last Legislature, through great
caution, opposed with vigor tho granting of
State aid to all roads, except those they
felt confident woold aid in developing the
material resources of the State,—aid in in
creasing in value all her taxable property,
and place her credit beyond peradventure.
They voted to lend the credit of the State
to a few meritorious roads only, and we ap
prove their course.
The Macon Te’egraph & Messenger in
nocently asks “Where is Beast Butler?”—
He thinks that worthy’s claims to roguery
are about to be rivaled by a sneak thief
that entered a negro church in that city,
and stole the sacrimental service.
Never fear for Bntler. Wo venture that
there is. an understanding between the two.
Butler is the King of rogues, and there is
not so much as a rin stolen in all the Uni
ted States without his approval.
Tho Chicago Common Council has or
dered that the tax levied on the grave of
Senator Donglas he paid ont of the general
fond, and the sale of the ground stopped.
ItiL'Cr, BOSTEED’S CHAlter; TO the
GRAND JURY.
Below we publish the charge of United
States District Judge, Richard Bus teed, to
the Grand Jury of the District Court for
North Alabama. Ic is a complete refuta
tion ol the Ku Klux stories that bare so
unjustly prejudicial to the public mied
against that splendid section. It gives the
lie direct to Grant, Morton, and those mis
erable revolutionists who have sought these
alleged disorders as a pretext to invest the
President with the powers of a dictator.
We earnestly commend thecharge of this
Federal, and carpet-bag officer, to the con
sideration of onr Northern readers, beg
ging them to remember that this District is
the reported het-bsd of Ku Kluxism and
votes almost solidly Democratic. Will our
spirited little Radical friend, the Bay City,
Michigan, Journal, do us the favor to pub
lish it. It would give its readers a far bet
ter idea of the truth than two columns ot
its editor’s bitter conjectures :
Huntsville, May 16.
Tbe Hon. Richard Busteed delivered the
following charge to the Grand Jury :
Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen :
You have been summoned to yonr pres
ent duty by the ordinarily recurring de
mands of that part of the public system of
laws which comes within tho jurisdiction of
the national courts. It gives me unfeigned
satislaction to he able to announce that there
is hut a single case of alleged offence to he
brought to your notice, a case in which a
party is charged with robbing the mail.-.
This state of facts is exceedingly gratify
ing, when wc consider thata whole year has
elapsed since the erapanneling ot the last
Grand Jury, for the United States, in this
District. No better evidence of the gen
eral good order which prevails in this com
munity, and no stronger proof of loyalty
to the government, need or can be fur
nished, than is given by their obedience to
the laws. This is especially true, where the
laws are believed by them to savor oi par
tiality, harshness or vindictiveness. Fealty
to statutes that are repugnant to one’s own
idea of what is just, exalts obedience into a
virtue of the v ry first order, and entitles
the citizen to tbe extremest and teudereft
consideration of the government.
It is dne to the people of this Judicial
District, and to the entire country that the
Federal Court should expres? itself on this
subject, with emphasis and candor. It is
its duty always, on the one hand to warn
against offences, and so endeavor to hinder
their commission; and, on the other hand,
to commend obedience, and so to encourago
the well-doer. Let us take courage in the
hope that we have inaugurated the period
which shall witness all the States of our be
loved country fraternal in fact, as well as
in name, am! when there shall he neither
fair pretext nor actual necessity for the pas
sage of any law of Congress intended to
suppress locafc irregularities, or offenses
against the rights of citizens of the Re
public at large. 'Jiet it be onr individual
care and pride to add permanence, nnd
strength to free institutions, and to vindi
cate the capacity of the American people
to bear tbe restraints imposed upou them
selves by their own laws. We shall thus
confound the enemies of liberal govern
ments, and strengthen, throughout the
world the hands of those who struggle in
their behalf.
I suppose that most of you arc practical
ly acquainted with what pertains to your
present service, and that it is not necessary
for me to do more than, in a general way,
remind yon in this respect. Yonr foreman
is authorized to administer oaths to witnes
ses, and compel their attendance. Twelve
of you must concur in finding an indict
ment, and every trne bill must be endorsed
by your foreman, and then returned into
court. Your deliberations are to be had in
secret, and you are to maintain the secresy
of yonr jury room inviolate. The District
Attorney is your adviser upon all questions-
of a legal character, has the right of access
to your chamber, end should conduct the
examination of witnesses before you, but
when you deliberate or vote, you must be
by yourselves.
The responsibility of placing a man upon
trial before a jury ot the country is one of
the utmost gravity. It should never ho
done, cxeept upon such evidence of proba
ble guilt as you would be willing to act up
on in a matteraffecting your own dearest in
terests, and such as satisfies yonr reasonable
belief that crime has occurred. Y’on are by
do means to take it for granted that an of
fense has been in fact committed, because it
is charged. Recollect that yonr office is
one of inquiry, and that the legal presump
tion of innocence attaches to every transac
tion, until that presumption is overcome by
the verdict of a petit jury.
On this point I cannot do better than to
quote from a charge reccnMy delivered to a
grand jury in Memphis Tennessee, by the
Hon. H. H. Emmons, the United States
Circuit Judge fer the Sixth Judicial Dis
trict. He says :
“In a ruling with testimuny rightfully
before yon, reason as you would if you de
sired to learn the truth in aay serious af
fair concerning the highest interests of your
business or your families. The anxiety you
would feel, and the common sense you
would employ, in such circumstances, should
characterize your labors as jurymen.
Bear in miod, gentlemen, the purport of
the oath you have just taken. For beauty
of iormule, for solemnity and precision of
statement, for exact discrimination of what
yon are to perform, is unrivaled in concep
tion and in language. Yon would do well
to con it over and over until its every es
sence permeates yonr every thought. Let
me, in conclusion of these remarks repeat
it in your -hearing : “You do swear that
you will diligently inquire, and troo pre
sentment make, of all snch articles, mat
ters and things, as shall be given you in
charge, or otherwise come to your knowl
edge, touching the present service; the
counsel of the United Staler; yonr fellows,
and yonr own, you shall keep secret; yoa
shall present no one fer envy, hatred or
malice; nor shall yon leave any one unpre-
sented for fear, favor, affection, hope of rc-
ward orgaiD, but shall present all things
truly, as they come to your knowledge, ac
cording to the best of your understanding.
So help you God.”
The ejal troubles in Penns Ivania have
happily been adjusted, and lull work was to
have been recommenced yesterday Better
late than never, bat it is too late to benefit
the shivering poor who through the dreary
cold of March and April were freezing for
the want of fuel.
Desecration.—The saeriligious work of
tho Paris devils still progresses. The offi
cers of the Commune have seized all the
valuab'e and sacred articles in the Church
of the Trinity, and will deal similarly with
nil the other churches. What a .-plendid
chance it is for Butler. Metre Dame Dis
Victoris has been sacked, and the demoli
tion of the famous Chapel of tt-c Expiation
has already commenced. How long will
these furious demons he permitted to spread
their unholy work—oh, how long ?
'fhoJLa'Grange Reporter says: “Tho
Rome Courier spells it decrepid more than
once in the same article.” Of o u'rsc wo
did, we were quoting the words t.f the “fee
ble and decrepid lunatic”of the Cominer-
tial, and as he applied the term to his own
case, we supposed that he had aright to
spell it as he pleased.
THE NORTH,AND SOUTH RAILROAD.
From the Heard county News wo tnke
the following accouut of the railroad meet
ing recently held in Franklin. By it it
will be seen that the people are in cal nest-,
TheNcw.- also protests against the nar
row guagfe humbug. AVe commend tc the
News the two excellent articles recently
published in the Courier upon this sub
ject.
Persuant to previous call, a meeting of
the citizens of Heard county was held in
the Courthouse on Saturday, the 13th inst.
to take into consideration the raising of
funds to aid in the survey of the North
and South Railroad. The meeting was or
ganized by calling our Corporator, W. M.
K. Watts, to the chair, and appointirg M.
M. Barron, Secretary.
The Chairman briefly stated the object
of the meeting, satisfactorily explaining the
main points coouected with the enterprise.
On motion, D. Oliver, Esq., was called
npon for an address, who responded in an
interesting speech—stating that the para
mount consideration is, to secure the Road
by every fair means; depicting the sad cose
dition of other points which selfishly refus
ed to extend aid to railroads; and. with oth
er appropriate arguments, set forth the ma
ny advantages which would accrue to the
citizens of Heard co., and the whole coun-
try.
Col. Beall was also called upou, who ad-
dressel the meeting iu a well-timed aud ap
propriate speech, giving interesting facts
and figures regarding the present cost of
getting goods and provisions to onr county,
and contrasting these prices with what
would be the result if wc had a railroad,
etc.
Remarks were also made by the Chair,
man and Dr. G. IV. l’cddy, urging the
vast importance of prompt action in tbe
matter.
After the arguments were closed the sum
of $415,00 was subscribed to aid in the sur
vey
On motion, a committee was appointed,
consisting of two from each district, to so
licit subscriptions for the survey. Also, a
committee of 15 to meet the surveying
party at the lower line of Heard county.
On motion, the editor of the News was
requested to publish the proceedings of the
meeting.
Adjourned, to rc-assemble on the 1-t
Tujsday iu next month.
W. M. K. WATTS, Ch’ D .
M. M. Barron, See’y.
TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR
THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD.
There are growing in Trenton, N. J.,
two cork trees raised from acorns sent ont
from Washington a few years ago by the
patent office. There are others in North
Carolina and Florida.
Rural South Carolinian.
The proprietor of this paper, the Jack
sonville Rcpnblican; hasjone growing from
the same set of acorns. Ho had two trees,
hnt one died in transplanting. The one
now living, is standing in the flower garden
near the pavement. It looks on first sight,
like an oak.
We hope Brother Grant will bring or
send a twig from the free he has growing
to the next exhibition which will come off
on the 4th Tuesday in June next.
The TEnu.iNTEPEC Canal.—Captain
Schurfeldt, of tho Tehuantepec Canal sur
vey, has arrived at Washington, and re
ports the feasibility of the enterprise. He
suggests the supply of water from a source
never before thought of, but what that
source is the dispatches do not tell. Per
haps he expects to to tap the moon. In
ter-oceanic communication through the con
tinent w;nld tc the triumph of the century,
hnt we have no faith in government enter
prise to affect it. That thing is all a shame
less humbug. If M. Lesseps could be in
duced to give the matter bis attention, and
be was to pronounce it feasible, we would
then regard it as possible. Or, if Maury,
proscribed and despised as he is by our
government, was to say it could be done,
then would we believe it. But these gov
ernment humbugs only care to be favorably
noticed, and to make fat jobs, and hence
their reports only look to that end.
Rochefort.—This arch-fiend ofRepub-
lieanism has been caught at last, or at least
so says the London dispatches; and it is to
ho hoped that the cause of a common hu
manity will be rid of one of its deadliest
curses. He was arrested while attempting
to escape from the Commune, tho whirlwind
of whose passions he has been so busily
arousing.
Doomed.— l he Archbishop of Paris has
been selected by the Commune for execu
tion as a hostage. They have also doomed
the Abbes Degurre Croze to the same fate.
The Bloody Ku Klox.—Horace Gree
ley, the venerable agricultural philosopher,
and bellows blower cf the Tribane, is on
the hunt of the Ku Klux. He has ram-
sacked Louisiana with a fruitless search
and is cow in Texas. He calls upon the
ghostly spirits to come, but they come not.
Wc suppose that be will have to come to
Rome aud find Bullock’s lying correspon
dent (if that dirty little dog can be found)
before he can get his savage eye upon the
midnight marauders.
A little girl, Katie, daughter of Mr. J.
H. Otto, of Macon, was drowned iu a tub
of water ou the 19th inst. It being near
the ^rcakfast. hour, the members of tbe
household were engaged in their domestic
affairs while the little child was playing
abont the yard, as was its usual custom, bat
being missed iu a few moments, a servant
was directed to a3certaia its whereabouts,
when, to the horrible astonishment of all,
its little lifeless body was found in a wash-
tub about half filled with water.
Westminister Review for April.—
We have the Wcstminister for April. It is
up to its former excellence; and, with the
exception of one or two grave errors in its
article npon “The American Republic,” we
arc delighted with it. The openi ig sen
tence in this article says “The material
power displayed by the American Republic
during the late civil war, and the magna
nimity and moral grandeur exhibited at its
close, etc.” Wo cannot appreciate the mor
al grandeur, lot the magnanimity, but, on
the other hand, wc have received nothing
but a churlish and niggarly treatment from
the government.
Wc shall notice this paper more at length
when leisure permits, and will only give the
following table of contents of the Review:
Aristophane; The American Republic—
Its Strength and Weakness; Thomas Hood;
Battles in the Chnreh; Public School
Teaching; France, the Jesuits, and the Ti
entsin Massacre; Ste. Benve; Army Organ-
Ration; Contemporary Literature; Theology
and Philosophy; Politics, Sociology, Voy
ages and Travels; Science; History and Bi
ography; Belles Lettres.
A fourteen year old girl in Cincinnati
cowhided a young loafer who had made re
marks about her.
Bullock Feels Rich.
The malignant cunning, and political
trickery of the charlatan whom the misfor
tunes of our country have placed ov t r ns,
cannot be measured. The regular course
of its mendacity flows on. reeking with cor
ruption and smelling hiah to heart n with its
infamy, hpi it requires an occasional strain
lant from the cruel tyrants at Washington
to heave it up iu all its astounding aud
alarming proportions. Like the Mcoulde:
iag fires ot a volcano, the poisonous gases
that exude can tell of the hal ful elements
within; bnt it requires tbe wrathful throe
of the fire giant withm to send from its
flaming month the pent up lava of its ha
tred.
The malignant si al of the tyrant at Wash
ington has oeen moved to action, and in
obedience to its erne] mandates, this petty
creature of accidental power; Rufus B.
Bullock, lias darned up the ordinary course
of the stream of his meanness, aud has
flooded the State with its reeki
shameless venom.
This flood of slanderous spite waspunred
upon our community by the Commercial
his advertising organ of this city, on the
morn'iDg of the 23d iDst, ia a column proc
Isolation, averring and specifying six.een
different cases of Ku Klux outrages, and
offering in the aggregate the sum of two
hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars
—assuming that each of the parties con
sisted of ten men—as rewards for the ap
prehension of the parties.
\Ye will give so much of his specifica
tions as refer to parties in this and Chattoo
ga counties. After the usual bombastic
preamble, this fellow proceeds to say :
“I do hereby issue this myjproclamation
offering a reward of five thousand dollars
for the arrest, with evidence to convict, of
any one pe:soo, and oue thousand dollars
for each additional person, being of the dis
guised party, or band, or clan, engaged in
either of the lawless proceedings hereinaf
ter recited, to-wit:
Who on, or about the night of the 18th
of February last, came to the house of
colored man named Dan Jack Foster, in
tbe county of Floyd, aud after beating and
maltreating, and otherwise misusitg the
said Foster, did then and there take from
him such articles of small value as he had
about his cabin.
Who on the same night visited the house
of a colored man named Hilliard JobnsoD
in said county of Floyd, and did then ard
there abuse and maltreat the said John
son.
Who, on the same night, came to the
house of a colored man named Anderson
Fcullain, in said connty of Floyd, snd did
then and there take from him his gnu, and
did then, and there commit an outrage up
on the person of the wife of tho said An
derson Ponllain.
Who, on the same night, came to the
house of a colored man named Patrick, in
the said county of Floyd, aud did then and
there take from him his gun and otheT ar
tides of value.
Who, on the same night, came to the
house of a white man named Zebe Walker,
in said connty of Floyd, and did then and
there compel! him to stand ont in the cold
for a considerable length of time without
his clothing.
Who on or abont the night of the 21st
of February last came to the callaboose or *• p F0RD "
jail at Trion Factory, in Chattooga connty,
and did then and there forcibly release a
culprit from confinement thcrem.
Who on or abont the night of tho 4th
of February last came to the plantation of
Mr. Robert Foster, in said connty of Chat
tooga, and did then and there murder
colored man named Squire Ellerson.
Who on or about the same time came to
the plantation of Hon. Wesley Shropshire,
in said county of Chattooga, and did then
and there tear down and destroy a school
house. and threaten to hang a colored girl
who was the teacher of said school, and did
then and there cruelly beat and maltreat a
colored man who was charged with having
built the said school house.”
Of these charges it is unnecessary to
speak with tbe exception of the mnrder of
Squire Ellerson, an accouut of which was
given in the Courier at the time. They
are all either false in tuto, or grossly ma;
nified.
Ellerson was murdered by a party on
the night of the 4th of February. He was
a Democrat—had been solicited by a gang
tbe night before to join a party to hunt
and kill the Ku Klux, and because of his
refusal he supposed that he was killed. We
published an account of the nnfortnnate af
fair at the time, bat because Ellerson was a
Democrat, our law-loving Governor with
held any offer of reward until four months
after; and now that- his master demands
a batch of Ku Klux outrages, signed with
tho official seal of the State, this miserable
thing come? in with the murder of a colored
mao, to give a force to his slanderous ar
ray of petty outrages. The grinning corpse
of tho poor negro is dragged from its grave
and held up, side by side, with the poor,
shivering Zebe Walker, whom his cruel
tormentors made “stand ont in the cold.”
The affair of the school house, on the
plantation of Eon. Wesley Shropshire, was
unfortunate to those who know nothing of
the facts, whioh are these : In the splen
did Dirt Town Valley there is a prosperous
Female Academy—an institution built up
with great care and pride, by the elegant
people of that community. This Academy
stands near the lands of this same lion,
Wesley Shropshire, a man who has strange
ly repudiated the honor of his family, and
gone, like Ephraim of old, “a whoring after
Radical gods.” It apperrs that, being pos
sessed of this Radical itching, the hands of
this same Eon. Wesley Shropshire were
tamed against his old friends and neigh
bors, and in order to break down the Acad
emy, he gave a plot of land as close to it as
he eonld, for the purpose of erecting a ne
gro school.
It was to protect their cherished Acad
emy that the parties referred to by Bol
lock, and for which the magnificent reward
of ten thousand dollars is offered, destroyed
the school house, and whipped the negro
who built it, leaving a note at the same
time for Hon. Wesley Shropshire, that if
he persistedtin his designs to establish a
negro school in that close proximity to the
Academy, that they would visit him next
No objection to his negro school anywhere
else.*
Their action is to be regretted, bnt it
can be excused; and public sentiment says
that tbe greatest error was in whipping the
negro instead of Eon. Wesley Shropshire.
Tho importance given to the other out
rages committed in Floyd and Chattooga,
is despicable, end if those trumped up in
the other portions of the State are of the
same character, it shows with whatingenn-
ity a cowardly tyrant can make “much ado
abont nothing.”
But the :jrant at WasM
hts requisition upon our Slat, r M **
The Ku Klux hm mast
on which to operate, and our p" -5 **
ernorwasonlyteo^^^Co,.
nu:t y .a lying, 3nd his , ruek ,
v.cney to Radicalism both atoL W
tv e are nut surprised at him hut r
must our people think of* paDe ' 7. Wl *
t» be Democratic,andbattlCr
that gives countenance and
to tho circulation of such •' ■ Beae »t
lainotious, by publish*..ihiljj
ment or disapproval, even tl-nu^ it ' 0 ”'
per annum fordoing it.
1 “Dudfsi i
onlj
A Lucky FALL.-j 0 h n
recovered the sum of$lo 0 fio
New Orleans and ChatW-a ^
Company, for damages snstaineilhS
through an opening through the Co^
dvmtic'ei; : ‘ v 7 s " iei J'»*.-h.
1 in -oc.it i -. lc , :cr p|, ot „„ r h ^ ? f
voted a.liLir- r |.. r hi, **£ F T “**-
afterwards her hr.,tl„-r f.-nnil it , T 1 *
of a billiard s-tioon, decorated with a
ot mustache.-and an immense segar artistf
pin.
cally done with ;
What a Distinguished Man -
our Nominee.—One 0 f the
guished statesu c:i
•'ID ftp
Diost detiu.
m Georgia, an d one , t .
has the confidence of the Democrat. 0
thts State, and of the United
who has filled high offices of
'its, and
trust—Star*
and Federal—said a few days a „ 0
“the defeat of Scott of Floyd would bit,-
a shout of joy from every radical, mill
way and carpelbayger, in Georgia.”’
Let all Democrats, therefore, who
patbize with the aforesaid, vote j.L
Scott. "
J SPAN LiixiES.-The J1 con Tele-rapt,
says Liliutn Auratum. i s the hotanied
name ot one of the most beautilul tribute
of the floral Kingdom, and, as its name in.
dicates,, is a golden liily of mammoth pro-
portions. The one exbibite 1 to us ,,,
grown by Mr. Milne, from a bnlb imported
directly from Japen,-and, in our estimation,
it far exceeds anything of the kind we et’
cr saw..
Affairs in Mexico do cot seem t„ b
in a much more lovely pickle than the; are
in the blessed Union. Jaurez and Leri)
the rival candidates lor the Presideocj, are
applying the grease with lavish hands, each
to carry his poiDt. Jaurez has his hand in
the public fat geard, while Lerdo has a fin;
supply of hisowD,and so the “greasers are
having a slick time of it. Whoever wins
will have to fight.
ORDINARY’S NOTICE.
A, LL Executors, Administrators and Guardi
ans who are liable to make return?, are faertlj
required to do so by the first Monday in July,
1871, in terms of tbe law in such case made and
provided, or'if not complied with by that date,
a rule Nisi will then be taken to know thecaase
of snch neglect.
H. J. JOHNSON, Ordinary.
may25wtd
FORD & GLOVER.
NEW GROCERY
—AND—
Commission House,
NO. 7, BROAD STREET,
(Lower end of Shorter ElocV.)
ROME, . - - - - GEORGIA,
A lull line of Groceries and Family supplies
constantly on hand. Cotton and all sorts of
country produce bought and sold. Consip-
its and orders solicited. may23U-w6m
Clover & Grass Seed Gatherer.
PAUL DISMUKES,
Patentee and Manufacturer,
GALLATIN, TENS.
J PROPOSE to sell theSUte anl OocntjEifbt
this Machine, or Single Machine. It bom-
pie in its construction, drawn by two Horn
and will gather the seed of Eight Acres per di»
of Clover, Blue Grass, Herds Gras3 or Bsrley*
Blue Grass will yield from 4 to S bushels per
acre. Clover will yield from 2 to 4 bushels per
acre.
This Machine does not injure the Cloreror
Grass in gathering.
By its use we will be exporters instead of im*
porters of Seeds. .
It is only necessary to see the JIaehuie, to
know that it will be all that is proposed fordm
it can be seen that the firm of PAVL DK-
MITKES A Co., Gallatin, Tenn. oi addressed bj
letter.
MR. PAUL DISMUKES,
Gallatin, Ten:
Dear Sir.-**
have seen your Clover and Grass Seed Gatherer
at work in the field* and wc prononsw n t
best Machine ever invented to keep Mosey
We are satisfied that it will gather fro® *****
to eight acres per day, and take them c
above the leaves of the Clover.
R G. Gillispie, I. W. Ham-*,
E. T. Bush, T. II. Arnold,
Jno. F. Gillispie. J. C. Vertrees,
I. N. Guthrie, J«. Gnthne,
- R. W. Bennett, B. F. J*®* 10 ®'
I. N. Newkirk, Xhos. Flann^’
Dr. B. W. Hall, Wm. Bake, ot Pa*
A. a Franklin, T.Bojer*
Ball* PejtoB.
Me Paul Dismukks:—Bear Sir,--1
nre in stating that one of your Seoi ^
was used on my Clover field last laU ^
for which I received one third of seed g» ^
With my portion I sowed 40 acres,
encugli left to sow 15 or 20 mim
have come up and as good a stand as 1 ,
No work ever done on mjr . P Gn,IJ3H£
*S-P*tent right of the States
Alabama for sale by M. Dvriasst,
J T'J~-The above Machines for sole DJ -
McDonal J, Rome, Ga.
mayl6tw-wtf
Chancery and
Sale.
ERSUANT to a decree in
United Sutes District Co"*;. 1fo J“tii-ouiaj'
District of Georgia, will be sold it e £*rt
between the legal hour, ol sale, bom" ^jtj,
Honse door in tbecitTofRom^FI^^^d
ing or lou ot lana Humuei.-
779, in tho third district and fourth sec
Terms cssb. , „
Also at the same time “lP“'f’{f e orfi»*'
traton sale, persuant to sa order of th« k(i9
r,ol Floyd wunt,.for the benefit
and creditors, lot of land number ^
third district and fourth section, ssaai*^,.
ber 117, in the 10th district and foorU ^
SrcLtro^rhfif^mcni^
TiU. retained as scemitv ^
may25td of W. IT- —-
GEORGIA, Polk County.
\V HEREAS John If. Key las
. » i Z/fi Alii* A®
yy HEREAS John il. w jj; o»»°
eeafmhto be and appesr ntmyo® 1 ^ y nj
hand W officii ^
they haTB,
ted.
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