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ISTew Series.
WHY LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED. *
Among the chosen friends says Pome
roy’s Democrat, of John Wilkes Booth’s
boyhood was a dashing, chivalrous
young man named John Y Beal, whose
home was in the beautiful Shenandoah
Valley not far from Winchester. Damon
and Pythias were not more attached to
to each other than were Booth and Beal.
Beal was Southern in his sympathies,
and planned raids on Northern cities,
and at last was captured at or near Buf
falo; tried for piracy on the Northern
lakes, and sentenced to be hanged on
Bedloe’s Island.
One afternoon, in the city of Wash
ington, while Beal was under sentence
of death, there alighted from the car
riage two men, who walked into the
room occupied by Washington McLean,
of Cincinnati, who was at the time in
Washington in the interest of his busi
ness. These men who called were Sena
tor Hale of New Hampshire and John
Wilkes Booth. Booth was exceedingly
anxious to save the life of Beal, his
chum and confidential personal friend.
He had interested Mr. Hale in his be
half.
They importuned McLean to go with
them to the President, as a Democrat—
as a frien 1 of Booth—as a man who had
much influence with Mr. Lincoln, and
to vouch with Mr. Hale for any promises
Booth might make in return -for this
great favor to him. After a protracted
interview, McLean accompanied Hale
and Booth in a carriage to the residence
of John W. Forney, who was then in
bed, the hour being late. Forney was
awakened from his sleep and told the
object of Lis call. His sympathies were
enlisted, as'he was always ready to serve
his friends.
It was an hour or more past midnight
when® Hale, Forney, McLean and Booth
were driven to the White House. The
guard, at the request of Forney, admit
ted the carriage to tho grounds. Mr.
Lincoln was called from his sleep and
there in the dead of night, he sat and
listened to tho prayers of Booth and the
endorsements of those who came with
him to ask the favor of Executive clem
ency.
This interview lasted till 4in the
morning. It was one of tears, prayers
and petitions. There was not a dry eye
in'the I'Uom as Loot li knelt at the feet
of Lincoln, clasped his knees with his
hands, and begged him to spare the life
of one man—a personal friend who in
serving the ones he loved, had come to
the door of death.
Booth told all. Ho told how, long
before, in a fit of passion to do some
bold deed, he had joined in a conspiracy
to abduct the president and to hold him
as a hostage for the release of certain
military prisoners who were Booth s
friends, and wh°, it was thought, were
to be shot. He told of the meetings
they held at the house of Mrs. Surratt,
and all of the plans had fallen to the
ground long before. He offered his
services at any time and in any place or
capacity, free of cost and fearless of con
sequences. The eminent gentlemen who
were there with him joined in the re
quest that the prayer of Booth be grant
ed, and that his friend Beal should be
pardoned.
At last President Lincoln, with tears
streaming down bis face, took Booth by
the hands, bade him rise and stand like
a man, and gave him Lis promise that
Beal should be pardoned. He asked the
party to depart that he might gain rest
for the work of tho morrow, and said
that the official document that they ask
ed for should be forwarded at once to
tho United States Marshal, Robert Mur
ray, in New York, and through him to
the officers charged with the execution of
Beal.
After brfeakfast Lincoln informed Sew
ard, Secretary of State, what he had
done or promised to do. Seward said
that it must not be: that public senti
ment in the North demanded that Beal
should be huug. He declared that to
pardon Beal would discourage enlist
ments, lengthen the war, and insult the
sentiment that called for biood. He
chided Lincoln for making such promis
es without asking the advice of his Cabi
net, or advising with himself, Seward,
on State policy. As the argument grew
contentious, Seward declared that if the
conduct of war was to be trifled with by
appeals of humanity he should go out
of the Cabinet and use bis influence
against the President, and should charge
him with being in sympathy with the
South. Lincoln yielded and Beal was
executed. The reaction on Lincoln's
nervous system was such that for days
he was far from well.
The effect on Booth was terrible. He
raved like a madman, and in bis frenzy
swore that Lincoln and Seward should
both pay for the grief and agony he had
been put to. From the death of Beal,
Booth brooded vengeance for that which
he considered a personal affront. His
rage took in Seward, and he engaged
Harold, Atserodt, and others to avenge
Beal s death by killing Seward, while he,
Booth, wreaked human vengeance on
the President.
At last came the hour. Booth killed
Lincoln. His friends and the relatives
or avengers of Beal tried their best to
kill Seward, and when they left him
stabbed, bleeding, and limp as a cloth,
as be rolled over behind the bed where
on they found him, they supposed their
work was completely done.
Our story is told. We have given
i the truth of history, and told < xactly
| why Abraham Lincoln, the humane Pres-
I ident of the United States, was killed.
ESTABLISHED 1859.
ELIIKRTOX, GEORGIA, MAT 24, 1876.
LETTER PROM GEN. BEAUREGARD.
We presume the following letter from
Gen. Beuregard will satisfy all military
critics as to the possibility of capturing
Washington City just after the battle of
Manasas, July, 1861:
New Orleans, March 7, 1876.
Dear Sir : I avail myself of the first
opportune moment to answer your let
ter of the 17th ult., inquiring of me, as
in command at the time, why the pur
suit of the federals immediately after
i their rout at the battle of Manasas, Julr
21, 1861, was suddenly checked and the
Confederate troops recalled toward Ma
nasas.
I will first state that, though wit..
General Joseph E. Johnston’s consent I
exercised the command during the bat
tle, at its close, after I had ordered all
the the field in pursuit, I went
personally to the Lewis House and re
linquished that command to him. I
then started at a gallop to take immedi
ate charge of the pursuit on the Centre
villfl turnpike, but was soon • overtaken
by a courier from Manassas,- with a note
addressed to me by Col. T. G. Rhett, of
General Johnston’s staff, who had been
left there in the morning to forward
that General’s troops as they might ar
rive by rail from Winchester. Colonel
Rhett thereby informed me that a strong
body of Federal troops had crossed the
Bull Run at Union Mills Ford, on our
right, and was advancing on Manassas,
our depot of supplies, which had been
necessarily left very weakly guarded. I
hurried back to the Lewis House to cor;
municate this important dispatch t
General Johnston, and both of usjbelievin
the information to be authentic, I un
dertook to repair to the threatened quar
ter with Ewell’s and Holmes’ brigades,
at that moment near the Lewis House,
where they had just arrived, too late to
take part in the action. With these
troops I engaged to attack the enemy
vigorously before he could effect a lodg
ment on our side of Bull Run, but asked
to be reinforced as soon as practicable
by such troops as might be spared from
the Centreville pursuit. .
Having reached the near vicinity of'-
Union Milk ford without meeting any
enemy, I ascertained to mv surprise,
that the reported hostile passage was a
false alarm growing out of some move
aitutrj of win a,- t* u civwj e ' v 'j i--- -
eral D. R. Jones’ brigade), who had
been thrown across the run in the morn
ing, pursuant to my offensive plan of op
erations for the day, and upon their re
turn now to the south bank of the run
were mistaken through their similarity
of uniform for the federals. 1 returned
to intercept the march of the two bri
gades who were greatly jaded by their
long march and countermarch during
that hot July day, I directed them to
halt and bivouac where they were. Hear
ing that President Davis and General
Johnston had gone to Manassas, I re
turned and found them between half
past nine and ten o’clock at my head
quarters.
This will explain to you why the par
tial -‘retrograde movement,” to which
you refer, was made, and why no sus
tained vigorous pursuit of McDowell’s
army was made that evening.
Any pursuit of the federals next day
toward their rallying point at and
around Long Bridge, over the Potomac,
could have led to no possible military
advantage, protected as that position
was by a stream of field works. No
movement upon Washington by that
route could have been possible, for even
if there had been no such works the
bridge, a mile in length, was command
ed by federal ships of war, and a few
pieces of artillery, or the destruction of
a small part of the bridge, could have
made its passage impracticable.
Our only proper operation was to pass
the Potomac above, into Maryland, at or
about Edwards’ ferry, and march upon
the rear of Washington. With the hope
of undertaking such a movement I had
caused a reconnoissance of the country
(south of the Potomac) in that quarter
to be made in the month of June, but
the necessary transportation, even for
the ammunition essential to such a j
movement, had not been provided for
my forces, notwithstanding my applica
tion for it during more than a month be
forehand, nor was there 24 hours food at
Manassas for the troops brought togeth
er for that battle.
G. T. Beauregard.
Hon. J. C. Ferris, Nashville, Tenn.
Strong application was recently made
to the President and the Attorney-Gen
eral for the pardon of a large number
of illicit distillers in the South, particu
larly in Georgia, but acting upon the
views of the iwvenue officials, thus far no
pardons have been granted. The appli
cations seemed to be for a wholesale
pardon of these priseners, the cases be
ing those of comparatively slight offen
ses, and the petitions set forth that they
had been already sufficiently punished.
The applications not having been favor
ably acted upon, renewed petitions have
been presented; giving specific cases
in which the clemency of the Govern
ment is invoked. There are quite a
number of them now before the Attor
ney General-
-
“What are you in jail for ?” asked a
prison visitor of a negro.
“For bor’win money, sail!”
“Why, they don’t put men in jail for
borrowing money.”
“Yes! But you see, I had to knock
de man down tree or four times afore
he’d lend it to me 1”
THE BEST WOMAN THAT EVER LIVED.
We have doubts about the following
story which comes to us from the inte
rior •, but the author is responsible for
what he says, and his name can be tb
tained upon application at this office :
Last winter two of my neighbors, Mr.
Miller and Mr. Grant, lost their wives
upon the same day, r.nd both of the
funerals took place three days afterwards,
the interments being made at the ceme
tery about the same hour. As the two
funeral parties were coining out of the
burying ground Miller met Grant, and
clasping each other's hand they indulged
in a sympathetic squeeze, and the follow
ing conversation ensued :
Milller—l’am sorry for you. It’s an
unspeakble loss, isn’t it
Grant—Awful! She was the best wo
man that ever lived.
Miller—She was indeed. I never met
her equal. She was a good wife to me.
Grant—l was refurring to my wife.
There couldn’t be two best, you know.
Miller—Yes, I know. I know well
enough that your wife couldn’t hold a
candle to mine.
Grant —She couldn't hey? Couldn't
hold a candle ? Why, she could dance
all around Mrs. Miller every day m the
week, including Sundays, and not half
try! She was an unmitigated angel,
take her any way you would.
Miller—Ob, she was, was she? Well,
I don’t want to l e personal, but if I
owned a cross-eyed angel with red hair
and no teeth, anil as bony as an omnibus
horse, I'd kill her if she didn't die of her
own accord. Dance! How could a
woman dance that had feet like candle
boxes and lame at that ?
Grant—Better be cross eyed than wear
the kind of a red nose that your wife
flourished around this community. I bet
it'll burn a hole through the coffin lid.
And yon pretend you’re sorry she's gone.
But you can’t impose on mo ! I knew
you’re so glad you can hardly hold in.
She was the chuckle headedest woman
that ever disgraced a graveyard ; that’s
what she was.
Miller— If you abuse my wife I’ll
knock you down.
Grant—l’d like to sec you try it.
Then the two disconsolated widowers
engaged in a hand-to hand combat, and
after tussling awhile in the snow the
£V. i- • r .i-0.-. .bjj.wiu jUioU as
Miller was about to insist upon his wife’s
virtues by biting off Mr. Grant’s nose.
When they got home Mr. Grant tiod
crane upon all his window shutters to
show how deeply he mourned, and as Mr.
Miller knew that his grief for Mrs. Miller
was deeper, lie not only decorated his
shutters, but be fixed five yards of black
bombazine on the bell-pull and dressed
his whole family in mourning. Then
Grant determined that his duty to the
departed was not to let himself be beaten
by a man who couldn't feel any genuine
sorrow, so he sewed a black flag on bis
lightning rod and festooned the front of
his house with black alpaca.
Then Miller became excited, and he
expressed his sense of bereavment by
painting his dwelling black and by put
ting up a monument to Mrs. Miller in
his front yard. Grant thereupon stained
his yellow horse with lampblack, tied
crape to his cow’s horn, daubed his dog
with ink, and began to wipe his nose on
a black handkerchief As soon as Miller
saw these proceedings he spread a layer
of charcoal all over his front yard ; he
assumed a black shirt; ha corked the
faces of his family when they went to
church, and he hired a colored man to
stand on his steps and cry for- twelve
hours every day. Just as Graut was
about to see this and go it one better he
encountered Miss Lang, a young lady
from the city, and in a couple of weeks
they were engaged. Then he began to
take in the evidence of his grief, and this
made Miller so mad that he went around
and proposed to Miss Jones, an old
maid, who never had an offer before.
She accepted him on the spot, and they
were married the day before Grant's
wedding, which so disgusted him that
he would have given up Lang if she
hadn’t threatened him with a suit for
j breach of promise. There is peace be
tween the two families, but when Mrs.
Miller gets on the rampage sometimes
Mr. Miller mourns for his first wife more
than ever.
Hating. —Hate no one. It is not worth
while. Your life is not long enough
to make it pay to cherish ill will or
hard thoughts toward any one. What
if this man has cheated you, or that wo
man played you false I What if this
friend has forsaken you in time of need,
or that one having won your utmost con
fidence, your warmest love, has concluded
that he prefers to consider and treat,
you as a stranger 1 Let it J all pass
What difference will it make to you in a
few years, when you go to the undiscov
ered country 1 A few more smiles, a few
more pleasures, much pain, a little lon
ger harrying and worry through the
world, some hasty greeting and abrupt
farewell, and our play will be “played
out,” the injured will be led away and
ere long forgotten. Is it worthy to hate
each other 1
There seems to be little doubt of the
truth of the statement that Messrs. H.
W. Grady and W. H. Moore intend a
speedy revival of the Atlanta Herald.
[Chronicle & Sentinel.
No surer sign is wanting that the
South means to rule this country with
an unsparing hand than that the major
ity in Congress no longer whittle pine
wood, but eat peanuts. —[N. Y. Herald.
Yol. Y.-No. 4.
THE WHEAT CROP IN THE SOUTH.
The editor of the Union Springs Her
ald gives the following as a mode of
preparing and cultivating wheat, which
will insure it from rust and secure a
large yield :
June is the month in which to begin
your preparatory work for next crop of
wheat. Select a high, well drained piece
of land, however thin it may be, in pref
erence to low land. Lay off in rows 12
inches apart, with a shovel plow, fol
lowing in each shovel furrow with a
subsoil plow, or a scooter 14 inches long,
made of iron or steel l£x2£ inches, not
wider or your horse will not be able to
pull it, if put in the ground as it should
go. If the land be thin put in sufficient
manure to give the peas a good start,
before running tlie scooter furrow. In
these furrows drill from 1 to 2 pecks -of
speckled peas per acre, and close these
by splitting out the middles with one
shovel furrow, followed by the subsoil
or scooter plow. Boro two boles with a
6 quarter auger into a 4x4 inch scantling
into which insert two small hickory poles,
which when fastened to the liames, will
serve as shafts and traces. With this
implement you can ‘knock off five rows
simultaneously. When the peas shall
have attained a growth of about eight
inches it would be of benefit to run one
furrow, with a small shovel between the
rows.
During the month of August, while
the peas are in bloom, turn the vine un
der, covering them entirely with soil if
possible. To accomplish this, twist two
heavy chains together, to be used as a
drag ; fasten the two ends to the single
tree, thus forming a bow, which should
at the nearest point be at least two or
three inches in front of the turning
plow. This drag will hold down the
vines, enabling the plowman to cover
them up.
In October, between the Bth and 15th
sow broadcast 30 bushels of cotton seed
on each acre. Turn under with a two
horse plow, following in each furrow
with your scooter or subsoil plow. Sow
broadcast bushels of good seed wheat
and then sow broadcast one sack (4
bushels) of chloride of sodium (common
salt) to each acre ; cover by dragging
a harrow or very heavy brush over tho
land. _
xibpaiu “cou uio lUi
lows :
Take a tub, fill half full with water,
and dissolve salt in the water until a
freshly laid egg will float, showing a
space the size of a nicklo above the wa
ter, then stir and skim off all the wheat
that rises to the top. Continue to stir
as long as any wheat will rise to the
surface. Feed the skum to your stock.
As soon as tho defective wheat has been
thus removed take out the sound wheat,
and repeat tho operation until all the
wheat designed for sowing has been in
brine.
In January scatter broadcast one bar
rel per acre of land plaster over the
growing wheat.
If these directions are followed you
may confidently expect to reap, next
spring 20 bushels per acre of as good
wheat as can be imported. As the re
sult of the year’s operations you will
have S4O for each acre treated as above
directed, and your land which is now
poor, will then be rich.
Repeat this process the second, third
and fourth years, omitting tho cotton
seed, and after the second year use only
two bushels of salt—and 40 bushels of
wheat per acre will be the result for the
fourth crop. For tho fifth year five
times as many bushels of corn per acre
as can now be raised on tho land ; and
for the sixth and seventh years, from
one to two bales of cotton weighing 500
pounds each, barring Providential inter
ference.
ON THE BATTLE FIELD.
A recent writer truly’ says : I believe
no two good soldiers will widely disagree
as to their sensations during a battle.
I take it to be a piece of bravado in
any man to assert that he bad no fears
during the progress of a long and severe
engagement. A battle is a veritable hell
upon earth ; not to be in serious appre
hension while it lasts, is to be either
drunk, crazy or insensible. The highest
type of bravery is that of the man who
realizes the full extent of the peril, but
sticks resolutely to his duty. It was my
experience, and that of all those about
me, repeated a dozen times, that shell
firing is not ordinarily near so demoral
izing as that of musketry. It is not of
ten that shells are thrown so that their
fragments scatter deatb)and wounds, and
their loud humming overhead does not
cause that nervous tingling which al
ways follows the sharp zip of) a riff? bul
let. The peculiar cutting of the air
made b'y half a dozen of these at once
is apt to give the soldier the idea that
the whole air is filled with them, and
that .he is certain to be struck by one of
them.
True —The Savannah News has this,
In these times it behoves everybody to
keep their money in circulation at home,
and there is no more certsin way of doing
so than by giving your work to your
own tradespeople and mechanics. The
money you spend with them is quickly
and " thorougly redistributed.” The
merchants, the dry goods and shoe deal
er, the grocer, the house owner, and all
classes get a share of it. If your work
and money go to the North and West,
(we moan in small orders, such as you
can havo filled as well at home,) you
never have a cent of it returned to you
in trade.
WHO WAS THE BAD BOY.
Little Annie was dressed, and stand
ing in front of the house waiting for
mother to go out to ride.
A tidy boy, dressed in coarse clothes,
was passing, when the little girl said to
him :
“Come here, boy, and sake hands
wi’ me. I dot a boy dus’ like you nam
ed. Bobby.”
The boy laughed, shook hands with
her and said:
“I've got a little girl just like yon, on
]y she hasn’t got any little cloak with
pussy fur on it.”
Here a lady came out of the door and
said:
“Annie, you must not talk with bad
boys on the street. I hope you haven’t
taken anything from her? Go right
along, and never stop here again, boy !”
That evening the lady was called down
to speak with a boy in the hall. He was
very neatly dressed, and stood with his
cap in his hand. It was the enemy of
the morning.
“I came to tell you that lam uot a
bad boy,” he said. “I go to Sunday
school, and help my mother all I can, I
never tell lies, nor quarrel, nor say bad
words ; and I don’t like for a lady to
call me names, and ask mo if I have
stolen her little girl’s clothes off of her.
No, ma’am, I don t love to bo charged
with stealing.”
“I’m very glad you are so good,”
said tho lady, laughing at tho boy s earn
estness. “Here’s a quarter of a dollar
for you.”
“I don't won’t that," said Bob, hold
ing his head very high. “My father
works in a foundry, and has lots of mon
ey. You’ve got a boy bigger than I,
haven’t you ?”
“Yes; why?”
“Does ho know the ten Comm and
ments ?”
“I’m afraid not, very well,” she an
swered.
“Can ho say the Sermon on the Mount,
and tho twenty third Psalm, and tho
golden rule?”
“I am very much afraid he cannot,
said the lady, laughing at the boy’s
bravery.
“Doeseu’t he ride on his pony on
Sundays instead of going to chinch?’
he continued.
“I am rather afraid ho does, but ho
ought not to," said the lady, blushing a
little. ti
“Mother don’t know I came here,”
said the bright littlo rogue, “but I just
thought I would come around and see
what kind of folks you were, and—and
I guess mother would rather your boy
would not come round our doors, be
cause sho don’t like Mamie to talk to
bad boys in tho Btreet. Good bye.”
And the little boy was gone.
[Watchman.
Roscoo Conkling can’t be President of
his enemies an old story about John C.
Calhoun, to the eft'ect that when ho was
a candidate for the Presidency he was
induced to visit an old negro woman
who had a local reputation as a prophet.
After examining the lines of his hands
she said, “Massa Calhoun, you nor no
other man whose name begins with a 0.
can be President of the United States.
It is also recalled that the failure of Mr.
Calhoun, Mr. Crawford. Mr. Clay, and
Mr. Cass, have confirmed this prediction.
This seems ominous to Sir. Conkling.
He might begin bis name with a K or a
D, but it is doubtful if his prospects
would be benefited thereby.
<£♦
The custom of appointing young law
yers to defend pauper criminals received
a backset the other day in our district
court. His Honor, Judge Noonan, had
appointed two young lawyers to defend
an old and experienced hoi’B6 thief. Al
ter inspecting his counsel for some tiino
in silence, the prisoner arose in his placo
and addressed the bench .
“Air them to defend me ?”
“Yes, sir,” said his honor.
“Both of them ?” inquired the prison
er.
“Yes, both of them,” responded the
judge.
“Then I plead guilty,” and the poor
devil took his seat and sighed heavily.
[San Antonia Herald.
The unanimous re-election of Mr. S.
K. Johnson as Superintendent of the
Georgia Railroad is one of the greatest
compliments ever paid a young man in
this country. It is safe to say that Mr.
Johnson is eminently worthy of the hon
or conferred upon him, and we predict
that his career will bo more than a jus
tification of the confidence reposed in
his energy, talonts[and accomplishments.
[Constitutionalist.
Courtesy —That is a word of fino im
port, second only to honor in tho idea
of a thorough gentleman. It is anima
ted by a gentle and kindly spirit, which,
ns it comes from the heart, bo it always
goes to the heart. It is the outward
form of a spirit—the flower and aroma
that spring from those twin roots.
When these are united there is a com
plete courtesy—one of the most gracious
and winning things that delight human
eyes and charm human hearts.
Dr. Tucker, Chancellor of tho Stato
University, in a letter written to some
gentlemen solving tho Augusta problem,
illustrates that “wo livo in the 18th and
not the 19th century.” by a process of
reasoning wherein eating partridges is
the unknown quantity.
Of two hundred and nineteen millions
of dollars of gold and silver annually
produced, nine tenths are exported to
the East to pay for tea, coffee, spices,
sugar, silk, tin, dyestufts and other Ori
ental products consumed by Europe and
America.
An old Scotch lady gave a pointed re
ply to a minister who knew that he had
offended her, and expressed suprise that
she should attend so regularly to hear
him preach. She said : “My quarrel is
\vi you mor. It is not ’wi tho Gospel.