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-••WISDOM. JUSTICE AND MODERATION-'
VOLUME XXVII-
ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1873.
[adjourned meeting of white
led citizens, held in New Or-
[le evening of the 16th inst.,
were unanimously adopted
[for the welfare of Louisiana
[sent extremity, a unification
of whatever color, race or
k ho are citizens of Louisiana,
[ are willing to work for her
j; advocating tho equal and
- exercise by every citizen of
[political rights guaranteed by
Btution and laws of Louisiana,
Constitution and laws of the
|tates, and by the laws of hon-
erhood, and fair dealing, main-
flie right of every citizen to
‘ill all places of public resort,
pi at will on all vehicles of
nveyance upon terms of per-
Jity with any and every citizen,
bur influence, counsel and ex-
ay go to make this right a live
pticed right; recommending
banks, insurance ofiices and
flic corporations recognize and
our colored fellow-citizens,
are stockholders in such in-
IT the right of being represent-
airection thereof, recommend-
Etinetion in public schools or
lational institutions; declaring
(of encouraging colored citi-
Dral districts to become pro-
bf the soil to the extent of
tiding to all land proprietors
ate the policy of considering
Jon of breaking up the same
ill farms, in order that colored
nd white immigrants may
practical farmers and culti-
tlie soil. The resolutions
pnor and good faith towards
lemoving prejudices heretofore
[gainst color, deprecate acts of
[from whatever source, and
pclarc that in view of the nu-
buality between the white and
fements of the population, we
Dcate an equal distribution of
" trust in our State, demand-
i only condition of our suffer-
ity, diligence and ability, and
kte this not because of the of-
aselves, but simply as another
oof upon our part that all we
n equal union and not an il-
hjunction brought about for
penefit of one or other of the
bat union.
G. T. Beauregard, Ch’m.
Marks, C. C. Antoixe,
T. Kelso, C. H. Thompson,
(Day, August Bohine,
de Mary, W. M. Randolph,
Dr. L. O. Rondancz,
Committee.
aittee of fifteen was appointed
nass meeting when deemed
Antony and Cleopatra.
I am dying, Egypt, dying,
Ebbs the crimson life tide fast,
And the dark Plutonian shadows
Gather on the evening blast;
Let thine arms, O Queen, support me,
Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear,
Harken to the great heart secrets
Thou, and thou alone, must hear.
Though my scarred and veteran legionB
Bear their eagles high no more,
And my wrocked and scattered galleys
Strew dark Actium’s fatal shore.
Though no glittering guards surround me
Prompt to do their nr aster's will,
I must periBh like a Roman,
Die the great Triumvir still.
Let not Caesar's servile minions,
Mock the lion thus laid low;
'Twos no foeman's hand that slew him,
'Twas his own that struck the blow.
Hear, then, pillowed on thy bosom,
Ere his star fades quite away,
Him who, drunk with thy caresses,
Madly threw a world away!
Should the base plebeian rabble
Dare assail my fame in Rome,
Where the noble spouse, Octavia,
Weeps within her widowed home;
Seek her, say her gods have told me,
Altars, augurs, circling wings.
That her blood with mine commingled,
Yet shall mount tho throne of kings.
Glorious Sorceress of the Nile,
Light the path to Stygian horrors,
With the splendors of thy smile.
Givo this Caesar crowns and arches,
Let his brow the laurel twine;
I can scorn tho Senate's triumphs,
Triumphing in love like thine.
I am dying, Egypt, djing;
Hark the insulting fooman's cry;
They are coming—quick, my falchion,
Lot me front them oro i die.
Ah ! no more amid the battle
Shall my heart exulting swell,
Isis andOhiris guard thee,
Cleopatra! Rome !—farewell!
| Writing a History of the War.
puisville Courier-Journal says:
prson Davis is said to be writ-
ory of the war. Such a work
a man would be valuable,
orted as saying that he feared
y was beyond ‘the redeeming
moral worth or elevated in-
and the memories of the
obilier and Vienna scandals
aful point to the observation,
emoralization has been entire-
lit about by the party that has
n the government since the
> well that the most capable
ling hand is to write a history
ivotal period where a decade
and honesty ended and the
• corruption and dishonor com-
If Mr. Davis will prepare his
li skill and judgment, a3 well
pie ability which all acknowl-
bolds, he may walk down to
Iwitli it in his hand.”
ricity an Antidote for Poison
ednesday a son of Robert Mont-
two years of age, residing at
Voodyear street, drank a quan-
fiudanum, which had been left
in his way. He soon fell
upor, which lfas followed by
ons. Dr. Murry was sent for,
M to. his aid Drs. Caldwell and
electricity was applied for the
i °f rousing the child from his
M no medicines' could be ad-
■ e , • The electric current was
id tor about two hours, when
mg energies of the child began
and by Thursday morning lie
of danger.—Baltimore American,
IDA DELZONS.
Chapter’ IV—continued.
“Nay Father, I’m not offended; I am
only shocked, surprised at the strange
ness of your proposition. I know that
in your own goodness of heart you may
not see any distinction between classes.
It is too much the tendency of this wild
society of ours to beat down the barri
ers of caste, and to socialize into one
common intercourse all classes of
people. It is to relieve my daughter
from this deteriorating tendency that I
send her abroad, this more than to per
fect her education. She has already
too far stooped from her place, and has
too familiarly patronized these low peo
ple. The contagion must be removed,
and to make it effective the isolation
must be complete. You can then un
derstand, Father, why it is that I am
shocked at your proposition. The girl
may be well enough in her place; but
that place is not in the confidence and
affection of my daughter Ida.” This
Madame DelzcJUs said in her quiet dig
nity, that gave the words almost the
importance of an edict.
Father Chalon smiled a pleasing
smile as he answered,
“ I fear, my daughter, that your views
are extreme, both too high and too low.
Too high for happiness of your child;
and too low for the real worth of the
little girl. ”
“Surely, Father, you do not mean to
say that the difference is not between
my child and the girl, that I say,” quick
ly retorted the lady in a tone of injured
dignity.
“ Nay, not that, ” answered the priest;
“ unhappily for the poor little Kathleen,
the difference is there. But unless you
are to remove your daughter for aye
from this place, you ought if possible
to harmonize this difference. The life
you propose fitting her for is not the
life she will have to live in this primi
tive society. If she is to remain abroad
during the whole of her life it were well
enough to choke from her glad young
heact all the tender associations of
this wild life; but if she ever expects
to return to her home here in this pleas
ant land, it were better that the sym
pathies she feels for the poor and un
fortunate be not disturbed. No, my
daughter, rather encourage them; for
in them she will find a solace that all
the tinsel and flattery of society cannot
give.”
“ I would not stifle the sweeter in
stincts of my daugher’s being,” softly
replied the lady, “ nor would I have
her despise the poor. No; let those
instincts be tempered by the discretion
of years and refined education, and
then she can without danger to her
station yield to their humanizing in
fluence.”
“ But this little girl is not bad. She
is really a bright little creature whom
I am sure it could be no discredit to
love!” quietly said the priest.
“It is not the girl so much as her
brother,” meditatively the lady said.
“Pat, mother!" asked Ida, looking
up from the absent wonder into which
the earnestness of the discussion had
thrown her; “surely Pat has done me
no harm!”
“ No, Ida, but you must quit think
ing of him,” replied the mother. And
then turning to Father Chalon, she
added, “It is for this that I most wish to
send Ida away. The evil influence this
uncouth boy is obtaining over my child
must be broken.”
The good old man bowed. He com
prehended the mother’s anxiety, and
he appreciated her motherly solicitude.
“There can be no danger in that
direction,” he softly answered; “the
youth is not naturally bad. He has a
quick sense of propriety, and would
not be likely to forget his station. It
would be a gracious tiling in you to
patronize his little sister, and—”
“You misapprehend me, Father!”
she quickly interrupted; “I do not fear
the boy; ’tis Ida I fear for: the poison
to her own mind of such an.association.
She knows nothing of her own true
station; and if she may ever learn it,
she must utterly forget the false one we
have let her too long already sink in.
The companionship of this girl would
undo all we would hope to do by send
ing her abroad, for it would constantly
remind her of the old life she has led
here.”
“And is it for that, mother, you are
going to send me away ? To forget my
dear pretty home, my pets and my
playmates, and all of my gladness, and
you, and my dear papa, and dear good
Father?” asked Ida, in a tremor of un
easy perplexity.
“ No, my child; not forget all these,
but to forget your wild associates. To
forget the low people you know now,
and to cultivate tne society of your
equals; to fit you for it, ana to inure
you to its graces,” answered the lady.
“ And then—?” smilingly asked the
priest.
“ And then she may adorn its proud
est places,” replied the lady, with a
flush of motherly pride.
“ Where?” asked Father Chalon.
“ Where!” answered the lady, “ wher
ever found. Wherever she may go.” ■
“ And am I never to come back home
again any more?” asked Ida.
The question was a simple one, and
it was asked in a low sweet voice; but
it startled the gentle heart of the lady
with a sharp surprise.
“ Come back home again, my pretty
darling?” she said, resting her hand on
the head of her child; “ To be sure you
must come back home again. I could
not live without you.”
“ Then why, mama, must I learn to
forget all about home, if I am to come
back to it again?” asked the daughter.
“ Not forget it, daughter, but to leam
of other things. You will be a lady
then, and will have to be above the
hoiden life you are living now.”
“ Will I, mama ? Then what in the
world will become of me ? What will
I do to keep from dying with ennui f
If I can’t frolic through the woods and
chase the birds, and gather flowers, as
now, I had rather not come back home
at all, but be a Sister at once. Hadn’t
you, Father?” .
The priest smilingly answered,
“ Oh no, ma petite. As your good
mama says, you will be a lady then,
and will have other things to think
about and to interest you. One can
not remain a child always; and when
you return home after awhile you will
be changed. I could wish, though, that
your glad young heart may always re
main as fresh and as sweet as now!” he
added, rather soberly.
“ Yes, as long as I live I would be
glad that Ida could be a child with me.
But since that cannot be, and her wo
man’s estate will come, we must fit her
for it,” said the mother.
_ “ I would wish very much that the
little girl Kathleen could go with her,”
said the priest,after a moment’s thought
ful silence.
“ Are you really so deeply interested
in the child?” asked Madame Delzons.
“ Indeed I am! She is a remarka
ble child, and I feel so tenderly for her
destitute condition.”
“Would not another school do as
well? Iberville or Baton Rouge, or St
Marie ?” she asked; “ I will gladly pro
vide for her at either of these—any
where but with Ida.”
“Yes, so far as the girl is concerned
it may not matter where; only for your
own child’s sake I thought of France,”
answered the Priest
“ Yes, mama, please let her go with
me,” pleaded Ida.
“ I cannot appreciate your objection
to the companionship of the girl,” con
tinued Father Chalon. “The child
will be an inestimable comfort and en
joyment to your daughter.”
“She is such a quiet little thing,
mama, and looks up to me like I was
a queen,”’ srtuck in Ida.
The mother smiled. The homage to
her regal daughter touched her heart
“ Well, well, we will see about it to
morrow—after awhile, I mean.”
“ There now, that is so good in you,
mama!” cried Ida, rising up and kiss
ing her mother.
The next morning early, Ida was up.
The prohibition of Doctor Xaupie was
disregarded, for her shoulder was just
as well as it ever was. She awaited not
his profound formula to he returned to
her native wild wood air; but calling
Nette and Carlo and Psyche, she started
out, bent upon a purpose of her own.
That purpose was, to capture the lit
tle Kathleen bodily, and to bring her
into the presence of her mother; to let
her innocent sweetness help her plead
for her companionship. The enthusi
asm of this purpose lent a Jjthe step to
her feet, and a ruddy glow of morning
breath to her cheek; and the less ardent
Nette had to brighten her lazy energies
to keep near her in her eager haste.
“I ’clare, Miss Idy! you beats de
Jews a-runnin’! I km hardly keep up
wid you! You’ll make youself sick
wid dis race, see if you don’t!” panted
Nette.
“ Oh no, Nette; I like it It is fine
fun this fine morning. See how I make
the dew spatter from the grass. It looks
like kicking gold beads about,” laughed
Ida.
“ Yes, an’ you’re gittin’ your stockin’s
an’ your pantalettes as wet as drownded
rats! And your frock is all dragglin’
too! Missus will he mad, sure!”
“ No, they will soon dry. I would
have rode the pony, only the little
Kathleen would have had to walk, and
I wanted to walk with her,”
“ Yes, but I could ride de pony back
by myself, and you could walk back
wid de gal, ’zif’s dat what yer want,” re
plied Nette.
Nette had but little idea of unselfish
propriety. Her bright young mistress
was more considerate.
“ Yes, but I’d rather walk, anyway,”
she replied.
"Well walk, den, Miss Idy; don’t
run!” qualified Nette.
The sudden appearance of Ida and
her attendants surprised Pat into an
awkward confusion, and the little Kath
leen into a flutter of timid wonder.
They had just finished their morning
repast, and Kathleen had carefully put
aside a broken plateful for her father,
who was still sleeping off the revel of
the night before at old Gorbeau’s.
“How-d’ye, Pat? Don’t run! Here,
tell me about your arm. Is it so bad ?
Let me see,” cried Ida, as she held out
her hand to the awkward boy.
Pat drew back. He could willingly
have kissed the foulest weed that hand
might touch; but he hadn’t the effront
ery to touch it with his own.
u Mw nrm io nlmnsf. Wfill1
“Yes, I mean that. Mama is going
to send me away to school, and I wan';
you to go with me. Father Chalon says
so too,” replied Ida.
“ Oh, I can’t! I have no shoes. I’m
not fit to be with you!” cried the girl,
as the gaping abyss that lay between
them opened' in its breadth and depth
before ner eyes.
“ Bvrt I have shoes, plenty for both of
us, and I want yon. I carrt take Nette
with me, and I will cry my eyes out
without some one from home with me,”
urged Ida.
“And I can serve you—can sit at
your feet and look up to your, face and
love you?” asked Kathleen, entering
into the joy of the prospect.
“Yes, that is it, Kitty; can sit at my
feet and love me and I will love you
too. We will both love one another;
for away out thqre in that strange
land we. will have no one to else to
love,” answered Ida, growing home
sick already with the thought,
“What! is it so far away you are
going, Miss Ida?” asked Pat,.the pre
sentment of coming desolation driv
ing him out of his awkward reserve. ■
“Yes, Pat: away to France. Only
think of it!’’ she answered.
Pat thought of it. Like an electric
flash it passed through his mind; and
the thought made him sick.
“That is indeed far away,” he mur
mured, half to himself
“Oh yes, far away. And only think,
Pat, how lonely I will be away there
by myself. Please let Kitty go with
me!” said Ida.
“It might be well for -Doody,” mut
tered Pat.
“Yes, I will love Kitty, and Kitty
will love me. Won’t you Kitty?” she
said, offering her hand again'to the shy
little giri.
Thi3 time, the Offer was accepted, and
Kathleen caught it in her own and cov
ered it with kisses.
“Yes, I do love yon already!” cried
she, in the fulness of her childish glad
ness. t
“ And Father Chalon,” suggested Pat.
“ Oh, Father Chalon says for her to
go. It is all understood, and I want
Kitty to go with'me right now and sec
mama,” answered Ida. -• •’ 1
“But Pat, and poor father! What
will become of them ? I cannot leave
them!” cried Kathleen, dropping the
hand of the little lady and stepping to
the side of her uncouth brother.*
Pat stooped and kissed the flushed
cheek of his sister, as he assiiringly an
swered,
“ No, Doody; father- and I can get
along very well, . It is better for you to
go. Then I can work away from home
and you will not be so lonely without
me. I was going away anyhow; and
now that Miss Ida will be gone too,
I—I—” and Pat broke down for the
want of something to say.
“Yes, Kitty, come along; let us-gO
to mama. It will be lonesome here for
you all by yourself; and since one of
us has to go it is better that all of us
should go, said Ida, coming to Pat’s
relief. ■
Kitty begged a moment in which to
improve her scant toilet, and then she,
was ready to submit to the captivity of
her little friend; Pat promising to come
up after awhile and bring her back
home.
(To be continued.)
My arm is almost well,” he said.
“I am so glad!” said Ida. “And
you, my little lady—-Kitty I mean; how
are you ? Come, let me Mss you!”
Kathleen shared all of Pat’s sacred
awe of the grand young mistress, and
she shrank back from the proffered
honor as she would have shrank back
from the caress of an angel.
“What a shy little creature you are,
Kitty! You are worse than Psyche.
See her; she doesn’t mind to kiss me I”
continued Ida, laying her peachy cheek
against the nose of her fawn.
This simple friendliness somewhat
assured Kathleen, and she ventured a
wistful look np into the face of the lit
tle lady, as much as to say, “ I wish I
wore your fawn.”
Ida interpreted the .expression, and
she reached out her hand.
“ Come, be my pet ; it is for von that
I came. I want von to go and live with
me; to go to school with me, and talk
to me of home when I am gone away,”
she said.
Kathleen’s blue eyes stretched in de
lighted wonder.
“ You do not mean that ?” she falter-
ingly ftsked.
Didn’t like It.
A lady with a poodle dog entered a
smokjng car on a Western train the
other flay,; Kid • when, the conductor en
deavored to persuade her to go into
another car die refused, saying her
presence would deter the occupants
from smoking.- A gentleman, however,
took out -a cigar and began
when She wrenched it from his m
exclaiming, “If there is anything
hate, it is tobacco smoke.” The pas
sengers who had witnessed the affair
were convulsed with laughter, but the
smoker suppressed
may have been struggling for
a in words or action, and
ined throughout the same im-
' lie gravity that had character-
hum from the first Calmly
im his seat, he opened the win-
est him, fastened it up, and,
over the seat back, took tha -
’s poodle dog and threw him out
~ dow as far beyond as possible,
le time saying: “If there is
I do hate, it’s a poodle dog. 1
H «-
Back from Liberia.
The steamship San Jacinto, which ar
rived;? yesterday from New York,
brOU^it with her four or five negroes,
who are said to have been of the num
ber who left this city some time since
for lAeaa. The darkies state that
they have become quite satisfied with
this laid of the race, and preferred the
jf**- of old Jaw Jaw, where they
com, cotton, peas-, potatoes,
where they can hunt the ’pos-
the coon whenever they get
for something fresh in the way
George D. Prentice.—The following
is an extract of the writings of "Mr.
George D. Prentice. It will be read,
we think, with pleasure:
It cannot be that our life is a bubble,
cast on the ocean of eternity, to float a
moment upon its wave and then sink
into nothingness. Else why is it that
the high and glorious aspirations, which
leap tike angels from the temple of our
hearts, are forever unsatisfied? Why is
it that the rainbow and clouds come
over us with a beauty that is not of
earth, and then pass off, to leave us to
muse on their loveliness? Why is it
that the stars, which hold their festival
around the midnight thrones, are set
above the grasp of our limited faculties,
forever mocking us with their unap
proachable glory ? And finally, why is
it that bright forms of human beauty
are presented to our view and taken
from us, leaving the thousand streams
of our affections to flow back like Al-
fine torrents upon our hearts ? We are
iiom to a destiny not of earth. There
is a realm where the rainbow never
fades, where the stars will spread out
before us like the islands that slumber
on the ocean, and where the beautiful
beings which pass before us like the
shadows will stay in our presence for
ever.”
A North Carolina Fanner Kills his Wile
and Shoots Himself*
Raleigh, June 12.—On Saturday
morning last, in Yadkin county, oc
curred one of the coolest and most de
termined murders and suicides ever
committed in this State. John Hol
combe and his wife, Julia, who had
been married about a year, were the
subjects. Julia possessed uncommon
beauty, and was suspected of infidelity
to her marriage vows. She was on the
eve of leaving home to visit Salisbury
and Charlotte. Holcombe, having en
deavored to dissuade her from leaving
without success, decided to murder her
and commit suicide. He drew his pis
tol and fired, with frightful coolness,
three shots at her, death ensuing almost
instantly. The neighbors were attract
ed to tiie house by the reports of the
listol, and found Holcombe reloading
us weapon. He told the crowd if any
one approached him he would shoot
him. When he had finished loading
he walked to the side of his dead wife,
placed the muzzle of the pistol to his
eft breast and pulled the trigger. His
lifeless body fell across that of his
beautiful but wayward wife. The ball
had passed through his heart.
“Gath,” of the Chicago Tribune, re
cently had an interview with Govgmor
Waite, of Virginia, and obtained from
him the following views concerning the
jotitical prospect of that State: “He-
' bought that all the difficulties of the
Conservative party would be settled
before next autumn, and a ticket be
made which would cany the State by
20,000 majority. He said that there
were half a dozen candidates, among
them the second son of General: Lee,
who had a good show to' get the nomi
nation. The Republican candidate
would probably be Thomas Hughes,
who had been an officer-in the Confed
erate army and publisher of a newspa-
>er at Petersburg, and he was now
Jhited States attorney. This man is
Baid to have considerable 'personal ca
pacity.”
to the government of that
we did not hear how they
eased, bnt presume it was not
congenial to their feelings and
as * that of the United States.
„ is quite certain, they are
back ii old Georgia again, and express
D. -j. |- tj 0n stay here.—Sa-
Volnnteer Companies,
id the following in the Atlanta
We Understand that nearly
dred companies of volunteers
have applied to the Governor for per
mission to organize and to get arms.
The arms received last year have all
been distributed, and were sufficient to
arm anlya few companies. Notice has
been given by the War Department
that there are other arms for distribu
tion, .but the government notifies the
Governors of the several States that
iUik list quotal of arms would be given
out only on certain conditions. These
tonditions make it doubtful whether
the.State8 of the South will make o|
plication for the arms at alL In ti
meantime, however, we hear it stated
that Governor Smith has determined to
authorize the organization of no other
companies for the present
\jfZ‘ 2. BJ* Bankrupt Cue.
' Hannibal L' Kimball and Edwin N.
Kimball have filed their petition in
bankruptcy in the District Court of the
United States for the District of Massa
chusetts. Their liabilities amount to
$3,769,177 45. The amount of indebt-
ednes returned in Georgia foots up the
handsjme little sum of $70o,550.
Henrj Clews & Co., one banking com
pany :n New York, loses the small
sum of $1,000,000. J. G. Sears, of
Griffin, feels the pressure to the trifling
sum of $40,000, that he worked for on
the Vna Wert Railroad. As to the assets
of the estate, we are not advised, but if
they will amount to fifty cents in the
dollar on the indebtedness, the assign
ees, who are to be chosen at a Court of
Banknptcy, hoiden at Boston on the
10th of June, at eleven oclock a. h 7
will hare a good thing of it—Origin
Star. [
The Washington friends of Senator
Mitchdl, aliai Hippie, advise him to
resign,not because his alias and his
past life, can invalidate his claim to a
shouldnot be represented by a Senator
whose influence must be paralyzed by
Ins present anomalous domestic^ rela
tion.” A deserted wife and children
are those “domestic relations” which
in this case are held to be so injurious
and “aaomalous.” But when tins bin
omial Senator was first announced as
the elected creature and tool of a rail
road lobby magnate, the party of great
moral ideas saw nothing “anomalous”
in thzt Such “relations” were too
common' among Republican Senators
to paialyzo anybody’s influence.
On one of the trips of an Aspinwall
steamer, the steerage passengers were so
numerous as to make them uncomfort
able. The sleeping accommodations
were aptly described by a Califomian,
who approached the captain and said:
“I shomd like to have a sleeping berth,
if yon please.” “ Why, where have
you been sleeping these last two nights
since weleft?” “ Wall, I’ve been Bleep
ing a-top of a sick man; bnt he’s got
betternow, and won’t stand it no longer.”
Mr. John Hougbtailing, Of Rochester,
is said to be the oldest; railroad con
ductor in this country, having begun
work in that capacity in 1839, and con
tinued ever since. His travels have in
length equaled about'forty times the
circumference of the globe, and al
though he has had several accidents,
only one has been at all serious.
The rumor is again current that
Judge Richardson will soon resign his
place as Secretary of the Treasury.
This time the reason given for it is
that he will accept a position which
has been tendered to him in connection
with an American hanking house in
Paris. .
Mr. Penistan, the Philadelphian who
drew the $500,000lottery prize recently,
is going to be very liberal to the public
institutions of,Ins city. He has al
ready riven $2,000 to the Reformatory
Home for Inebriates, and $2,000 to the
Fountain Society?
- *— -
Juan Seguin—who stole the lawyer’s
horse at San Antonio after he had suc-
for a likeo flense—has very properly
been sent to the penitentiary for five
So much, for stealing a lawyer’s
Xanrel Grove Cemetery.
The following graceful lines are from
the pen of J. C. Harris, one of the ed
itors of the Savannah Morning Neus:
Tie hcary trees stand ranged about,
Their damp gray mosses trailing ; .
Like ghostly signals long Imrg out
* For sdecor unavailing.
And marble shafts rise here and there
In immemorial places.
Embalmed in nature's bosom fair
And chiseled xrith art's graces.
Twas here, Juliette, yon watched the skies
Bara into evening'* splendor,
And saw the sunset's wjndrous dyes
Fade into twilight tender ;
And saw the gray go oat in gloom
So comes the winter's breathand so
The spring renews her grasses—
I lilt my daxzled eves, and lo!
The mirage swiftly passes.
8 bear child! fir many a weary year
The rose has shed her blossom
Upon the tablet resting here
. Above thy tranquil bosom.
And many a season here hath brought
Processions of new comers,
And many a wonder death bath wrought
Through all these fervid summers.
b of thee, Juliette,
I hy face and form Elysian,
Save what the whole'world will forget—
A dreamer's dubious vision.
THE IRON INTEREST.
NEW SERIES-NO. U to burn and plunder was the order of
the day. The chivalry have been si
ped of most of their valuables. Gold
watches, silver : ;pHch«te, cupe, spoons,
forks, eta, areas common; in tamp as l
blackberries. The terms of plunder
are as follows: The valuables procured
are estimated by companies. Each
company is required to exhibit the re
sults of its operatiouk ab any riven
place—one-fifth and first choice fails, to
toe share of the com mander-in-chi tf
and staff, one-fifth to the corps com-
manders and .staff, bhe-fiftii to field of
ficers of regimente, and two-fifths to
the company.
Officers are. not allowed to join the
expeditions without disguising them
selves as privates. One of our corps
commanders borrowed a Buit of rough
clothes from one of my men, and was
successful in this place. He got a'
large quantity of silver (among other
things an old-time milk pitcher,) and
a very fine gold watch, from a Mr. De-
Saussure at this jplace. DeSaussure is
one of the F. F. V’s of South Carolina^
and was made to fork over liberally.
Officers over the rank of captain are
not made to put their plunder in the
' e forgeneral distribution. This
unfair, and for that reason, in
order’to protect themselves, subordi
nate officers and privates keep back
everything that they can carry about ■
their persons, such as riifgs, earrings,
breastpins,, eta, of which, if I ever
live to get home, I have about a quart
I am not joking—I have at least a
quart of jewelry for you and all the
girls, and some No. 1 diamond rings and
fins among'them. General Sherman
las silver and gold enough to start a
bank. His share in gold watches and
Gov. Jno. C. Brown, President of the At
lanta Convention:
Being induced to attend tho con
vention lately held in Atlanta, Ga., to
introduce for the consideration of its
members a report showing the effect a
“Canal to the Sea” would have upon
the iron and coal interest of Georgia,
Tennesse and Alabama, and as soon as
practicable after the organization of the
convehtion, I introduced a resolution
asking the appointment by the Presi
dent of a special committee of three,
to report -upon these objects. The
“Committee on Business,” to whom
my resolution was referred, did not
consider it; consequently at the solici
tation of several members of the con
vention from Kentucky and Tennessee,
I address your Excellency this letter
embracing such facts as I presumed a
committee would report to the conven
tion.
In' September, 1869,1 had the honor
to address a letter to Col. J. D. Morgan,
an honored citizen of Nashville, .in
which I stated that Tennessee, Georgia
and Alabama, would become the Wales
of Arherica, in the manufacture of pig
iron, in consequence of the low cost of
production, and made an estimate of
the cost of a ton of pig iron in these
States, which was as follows:
tom of on at *2.90 $4.00
8* buk.1* of coal at S centf 0-10
Ton of Iimeotono... 00
Superintendence and labor per ton 4.00
Wear and tear per ton ._. 50
Interest per ton 1.00
Incidentals per ton —
$10.90
It is gratifying to me, sir, to be able
to state that my. estimate made four
years ago, has been realized, that pig
iron is now being made in these States
at less than my estimated cost, and it
is still more gratifying to me to assert
as the facts warrant me to do, that
these States, Tennessee, Georgia and
Alabama, are now maufacting pig iron
at a less cost than any other State, place
or country known to the business.
The actual average cost of a ton of
jig iron, in favorable localities, in Cen-
ral Pennsylvania, as stated by W. E.
S. Baker, secretary and treasurer of
the Eastern Iron Men’s Association, is
$29.65.
The coat of a ton of pig iron in Shenaago
Valley, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown,
Ohio, as stated by I. G. Butler, Jr., Esq.,
.$31.50
The cost of a ton of pigiron in Pittsburg is 29.00
seat, hit on the ground that
The cost of a too of pig iron inSt-Loa •D 32.00
Tho boot ofla ton of pig iion in Great Brt
ain, in gold, is ———- 21.00
Tho coot or a ton of pigiron in India, in
gold, *s - 19 00
Tho cost of a ton of iron in Georgia, Ten-
nesso, and Alabama, is loss than... 10.00
or a little over one "half what the cost
is in the principal iron producing sec
tions of the United States.
The cause of the cheapness of pro
duction here as compared with the
North and East is of easy solution.
There, the material which enters into
the make of iron—coal and iron ore,
are separated several hundred miles,
and require river, lake and railroad
transportation, and frequent handling
to bring them together; here, coal and
iron ore, both of superior quality, lie
in close proximity, sometimes in the
same mountain, the one above the oth
er. For instance, the manufacturers of
jig iron in Pittsburg bring ore from
he Lake Superior iron region, first by
Tail to Marquette twelve miles, thence
by lake several hundred miles to Cleve
land, Ohio, thence by rail over one
hundred and thirty miles to Pittsburg,
makihg the cost of ore alone for a ton
of iron $16. At the Rockwood Fur
nace in Roane county,Tennessee^ tram
way half a^mile long transports both
coal and ore to the furnace, the cost of
the ore for a ton of iron is $3. What
then can prevent these States from soon
becoming the Wales of America?
Nothing hut the want of water com
munication with the sea,—the great
West, and those “inland seas” bound-
ingone-third the Union in the North.
Thirty years ago the world’s products
of Great Britian was 1,000,000 tons, now
it is 6,000,000. Then the production of
the United States was 285,000 tons, now
it is 2,150,000tons. Thirty years hence
the ratio of increased production being
the same as the past thirty, (of course
it will be much greater Jthe annual pig
iron product of the world will be 48,-
000,000 tons, that of Great Britian 24,-
000,000 tons, and that of the United
States 18,000,000 tons. But from the
muttetingB we hear from. Great Britian
—from England—it is apparent that
she has readied the topmost round in
abundant and cheap there was practi
cally no limit to the expansion of its
industries; but with coal as now,
scarce and dear in proportion to the
demand, the British manufacturer finds
himself placed at a- serious disadvan
tage. With cheap production Jie could
supply three-fonrths of the world’s
markets, but os his wares increase in
cost, competition is encouraged which
might not otherwise have been possi
ble. Dear coal means high prices in
every department of trade. If the
present scarcity of coal in Great Brit
ain is due to the fact that its mines are
no longer able to yield what is needed
to carry on its great industries, those
industries must languish, and of these,
iron manufacture is the surest and
most seriously effected.” What are the
facts?
Tfife coal mines of Great Britain have
reached the maximum of their produc
tion, 100,000,000 tons a year, and * can
not now yield sufficient to. make it
“abundant and cheap.”
The shafts of many of the mines, it
is said, have attained to the depth of
2jO0O -feet; and at that great depth the
thermometer standsat 80 deg. Fahr.,
which renders labor difficult and ex
pensive. Coal a few years since was
sold in England at ten shilling or two
•dollars and forty cents a ton, now it is
worth forty shillings or nine dollars and
sixty cents a ton. The cost of malting
a ton of pig iron in Great Britain a few
years past was forty-five shillings, or
ten dollara and eighty cents a ton, now
it is eighty-seven shillings or twenty-one
dollars a ton, in gold.
Mr. J. Lenthian Bell, president of the
English Iron and Steel Institute, said
in a recent address: “In by far the
greater number of European States, ac
cording to our present information,
there is a limit to any rapid increase
in the production of iron. * * The
impediment which stands in the way of
any great extension of the continental
iron trade is coal. * * If we have to
apprehend advent of a powerful rival
in the iron trade, it is not the old world
of Europe we have to fear, but the im
mense and undoubted powers possessed
by the Western Hemisphere. In ores
of the finest description, the resources
of the United States are unlimited,
while in coal our great wealth is in
comparison but poverty.”
In short, there is. apparent, bnt one
bar to a boundless production of iron
in the New World, that of hnman hands
to manufacture it These few remarks
of Mr. Bell then show conclusively that
there can be but a slight, if any increase
in the production of iron in the Old
World. In that event it is palpable
that the New World must increase its
iron productioff far beyond its ratio.
This iron sceptre is slipping from the
European manufacturers, and it will
naturally fall into the hands of the
American manufacturers. They alone
are able to grasp it, and those three
Southwestern States, Tennessee, Georgia
and Alabama, with & greater area of
coal and iron ore than England, Scot-
land and Wales, and a climate so genial
that it is incomparable, must soon be
come the great iron producing section of
this continent when opened np to the
markets by water communication.
Let the mandate go forth from the
people that these water commnnica-
tions shall be made, and before the
great enterprise, worthy of a great peo
ple, is completed, a hundred furnaces
will be erected, where brilliant and
jrosperous fires shall light up the val-
eys of the Cumberland, Tennessee,
Sequatchie, Coosa, Black Warrior and
Cahaba, producing annually 1,000,000
tons of pig iron, and adding $40,000,000
to the wealth of the people, and in ad
dition 5,000,000 tons of coal, 1-6 the
annual product of Pensylvania, can be
mined and floated to market, which
will add $15,000,000 more to our wealth
as a people. Here is an estimate of
,000,000 tons of coal and iron to be
shipped from these States annually, and
this is merely the beginning, which,
with our present facilities for transpor
tation, could not be moved at all.
Mr. W. Mattien Williams, well known
as an English contributor to the Met
allurgy of Iron and Steel, says: “Ere
long, we,England, shall be large import
ers of American pig iron.” With
tion of iron. That which enters into
the make of pig iron, coal and iron ore,
is being exhausted so rapidly that her
statesmen are alarmed for the future in
regard to coal, and a political economist
has said—“We may conclude the time
is not far distant when England must
surrender to her competitors many of
the industries of which she has hither
to enjoyed a practical monopoly, Coal
may truly bo said to he the-nation’s
prosperity, and so long as it remained
cheap transportation to the sea, pig
iron can be shipped now from Tennes
see, Georgia and Alabama and sold at
a profit in England, as the average
jrice now is S31.21 gold on $35.88
Jnited States currency per ton. And
the same is true in regard to coal, which,
with good water transportation to the
sea, could be put in the English market
at a cost of $6.50 per ton.
Add to the natural resources of these
States, that of cheap transportation to
the markets of the world, and then they
can compete successfully for the iron
trade of the world.
Very truly,
Gi
eorge. T. Lewis.
A Graphic Picture.
What next? asks the New York
Graphic of Saturday. Horrors have
multiplied on us since summer opened
until men dare not look into theihture
and reply to this question. Cholera is
on its march np the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers. The yellow fever is in
this city and in Brooklyn. The ther
mometer has taken its place among the
nineties. Murders are every day oc
currences. Suicides abound.' Fires
sweep away whole villages, and are
devastating’ tha-mountains on either
side of us. On Long Island, in West-
cheSter county, and in New Jersey, are
drying up the gardens that snpply onr
market *
Everywhere the crops are deficient,
and the signs of the. season show that
death is preparing to reap a bare har
vest in aQ directions. So the question
forces itself upon ns with terrible em
phasis—what next? Seven years of
peace and plenty and health have suc
ceeded the war of the rebellion. It
may be that now we are to have a
series of pestilence, want and crime.
Such is the law of recompense. One
nation fares as does another, and each
takes its turn of sunshine and dark
ness. But if knowing the peril, we
face it boldly, it will be robbed of '
its terrors.
On the morning of Monday last, ?
1 * r of Lee coun
R. Hr; Hitt, a farmer of Lee county,
shot and killed a.man named Bennct
Drake, at that time in his employ.
The negro had attacked Mr. Hitt, and
to his house for the pur
pose of further violence, and in spite
of repeated warnings. The killing was
done in self defense, and Mr. Hitt has
surrendered himself to the sheriff of
Lee county.—Central City.
THE R'JRIJIXC OF COLUMBIA.
An Unintentional Confession by one of
“Sherman’s Bnmmcrs.”
The Columbus Sun and Times pub
lishes tiie following letter, which was-
found in the streets of Colmnlna im
mediately after the army of General
Sherman had left, and the original of
which has been preserved and can he -
shown and substantiated:
Camp Near Camden, South Carolina,
Feb.26,1865.
My Dear Wife:—I have no time fdr *
' ^ We have had a
chains alone at Columbia wastwo hun
dred and seventy-five.
But I said I could not go into par
ticulars. All the general officers and
many besides had valuables of every
description, down to embroidered la
dies’ pocket handkerchiefs, (I have my
share of them too.) We took gold and
silver enough from the d—d rebels to
have redeemed their infernal currency
twice over. This (the currency) when
ever we come across it, we burned, as
we considered it utterly worthless.
I wish all the jewelry this army has
could be carried to. the “ Old Bay
State.” It would deck her out in glo
rious style, but alas, it will be scattered
all over the North and Middle States.
The d—d niggers, as a general rule,
prefer to stay at home, particularly af
ter they found out that we only wanted
the able-bodied men, (and to tell yon
the truth, the youngest and best look
ing women.) Sometimes we took off
whole families and plantations of nig-
I ;ers, by way of repaying secessionists.
Jut the useless part of them we soon
manage to lose—sometimes in crossing
rivers—sometimes by other ways.
I shall write to you again from Wil
mington, Goldsboro’, or some other
place in North Carolina. The order to
march has arrived, and I must close
hurriedly. Love to grandmother and
Aunt Charlotte. Take care of yourself
’ ,e children. Don’t show this let
ter out of the family.
Ynfff wfTpftionnfp ^
Thos. J. Myebs, Lieutenant, &e.
P. S.—I will send this by the first
flag of truce to be mailed, unless I
have an opportunity to send it to Hil
ton Head. Tell Sallie I am saving a
>earl bracelet and earrings forlflr; but
jambert got the necklace and breastpin
of the same set I am trying to trade
him out of them. These were taken
from the Misses Jamisons, daughters of
the President of the South Carolina
Secession Convention. We fonnd these
on onr trip through Georgia.
This letter was addressed to “Mrs.
Thomas J. Myers, Boston, Mass.”
IlUteracy.”
One of the maps accompanying the
census statistics of 1870, and bound in
volume 1st of that report, is “Elit-
acy.” The educated portions of the
Union are represented in a very light
line ground work, and unenlightened
jortions -by a black shade. In the
torthem States all is light and sunny;
the Southern a pall like a dark cloud
overshadows the land. This map the
Columbus Sun rightly regards a? ob
jectionable and ungenerous, for two
reasons—1st, because it is deceptive;
and 2d, because it makes a mortifying
and exaggerating parade to foreign na-
tion^of the misfortune of one section
of the country. It may well be doubt
ed whether, if the educational condi
tions of the two sections had been the
same, (mutatis mutantis,) any such map
have accompanied the census.
We say that it is deceptive. It is
based on returns including the negro
Gate slave) population of the South;
and this population, as large or nearly
as large as white in a number of the
Southern States, almost intergrally
helps to form the black cloud that dar
kens our section in this map. Admit-
education to the same per cent, of the
population as the whites (which very
many of .them'are not, after living so
long without commencing “the rudi
ments”), time enough Eince their em
ancipation has not yet elapsed for most
of them to leam to read and write, nor
has tiie condition of the country per
mitted it It is, therefore, ungenerous
in including their numbers in compu
tations made the basis for a compara
tive chart exhibiting the relative state
of ignorance of the several sections—
and in sending this chart ont to foreign
countries from which we hope to ob
tain immigration.—Macon Telegraph.
A New Poital Convention.
The Postmaster General has now
under consideration the scheme fora
wstal card convention between Eng-
and and the’United States, by which
the cards wonld be received and de
livered in either country for three
cents. The only obstacle now is the
demand of the steamship companies,
who receive two cents and claim that
they are underpaid. The new Phila
delphia steamship line has signified its
to carry the.mails at the low
est rate. The Postmaster General has
authority to make the convention with
out reference to Congress, so that the
of ocean penny postage may
roximately realized in a few months,
this will be a long step toward the
lowering of the rates tor letters.
Dover, Vt, has not had a death for
five years, and the town hearse was pnt
up at raffle the other day, and won by
a man who is going to alter it into a
milk cart.
— 1 **
Mr. J. G. Sears, a well-known rail
road man, was killed at Griffin on
Monday while attempting to couple
some freight cars.