Newspaper Page Text
HET-a ■W
J'l'.Weehiy
•it-tUiy
TM f0 B«0«irtl01i( TATABIJ U> ADVAHO*.
\u p»iien by “iU are stopped at the expira-
' t the time pal* tor without further notice.
Merihew wilt please observe the datee an their
Uppers. The postage on al! papers is paid at
n«nnnii 1>
Persons wishing the paper furnished for any
less than one year will have their orders
n iiptly attended to by remitting the amount
JL the time desired.
Mo city subscription discontlnned unless by
oositive orders left at the office.
To Advertiser*.
A 3QUARB i? ten measured lines of Nonpareil
the Morning N*W8.
Amazement advertisements and special notices
in' jK.-r square for each insertion.
Other advertising, first insertion, $1 00 per
each subsequent insertion (if inserted
day), T5 cents per square.
' ,i, r reading matter notices, first insertion
per line, each subsequent insertion* 15
ants ]*r line-
advertisements inserted every other day, turice a
' t , r mux a IiMt, charged $1 00 per square for
each insertion.
Mo contract rates allowed except by special
,, r „„u-nt. Libera! discounts made to large ad-
jerusers.
Advertisements will have a favorable place
tfhen first inserted, but no promise of continuous
publication in a particular place can be given, as
advertisers must have equal opportunities.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Tiie Morning New* Uiu* the Inrgeat city
n „,| mail circulation of any paper pub
lished In Savannah.
# Affairs in Georgia.
The editor of the Atlanta Ilerald
couldn’t survive another fourth of July
this year, and we are glad that he got
safely over the one just passed. It’s
curious what notions some people will
have.
Everybody in Southern Georgia planted
out potato vines on the fourth.
Banks county comes forward with a
centennial water-moccasin. He has two
beads and four eyes.
A Harris county bailiff shot a negro
fatally the other day, while the latter was
going at full speed. This is better than
the Atlanta man with his rope lariat.
We are’ not certain about this fourth-
of-July business. If a man has to scuffle
as hard to be a patriot as Major H. Wax-
elbaum Grady, of the Atlanta Herald, we
don’t want to invest. Patriotism seems
to be only another name for perspira-
Hon. T. M. Norwood proposes to invest
iu a sheep ^ind stock farm in Ware
county.
The Way cross editor of the Valdosta
Times calls attention to the fact that
birds are on the decrease.
Crops in Clinch county are looking
well.
Somebody tried to burn Feagin’s sta
bles in Macon the other day.
The cotton factories at Columbus and
Tallussee have taken 1,080 bales of cotton
more than they did last season.
A cypress tree was cut down in Ran
dolph county recently which contained a
colony each of sap-suckers and bats and
two hundred pounds of nice honey. Talk
about your eucalyptus globuluses.
The Columbus factories paid out $12,-
000 for wages last Saturday night.
A Campbell county negro argued with
a brother and got knocked in the head.
The farmers in Oglethorpe county are
complaining of the destruction caused to
their lands by beavers. These dam f
mals, they say, dam the creeks till whole
acres are dammed.
Occasional narrow escapes from the
playful kerosene come to us through our
State exchanges.
Bishop Beckwith and family passed
through Atlanta on their way to the
North last week.
Mr. William Harrison, who is in jail at
Jesup, charged with murdering his wife
is allowed to promenade the streets
occasionally for fresh air.
A little white girl'in Columbus was
badly burned the other day. She at
tempted to kindle a fire with kerosene,
and—succeeded.
The Times complains that the Thomas
county jail has been converted into
lunatic asylum.
A right smart little thunder-gust
passed over Jesup the other day.
A venomous alligator attacked Mr.
Louis Thomas, in Wayne county,
cently. The eager saunan seized Mr.
Thomas by the calf of the hind-leg, but
that gentleman succeeded in tearing him
self away.
Crops in Muscogee county are tolerable;
in Stewart and Chattahoochee fair; in
Talbot and Meriwether favorable; and in
Harris there is a prospect of an average
yield.
An old gentleman gives the Elberton
Gazette a remedy tor snake-bites or insect
stings, which he has never known to fail.
Immediately upon being bitten or
stung, or as soon as possible thereafter,
apply a piece of moistened copperas to
the wound, and keep it there until the
effects of the poison disappears. The
copperas can be applied with a bandage,
or a large lump placed on the wound, to
which it will adhere as the mad-stone is
said to do. When the lump drops off it
should be replaced by another piece,
moistened as the first, and this kept up
until the adhering ceases.
A little negro was run over at Barnett,
on the Georgia Road, and so seriously
injured that one of his legs had to be am
putated.
Columbus Enquirer: The Financial
Chronicle this year was not worth a cent
for estimates, and the last few weeks has
been making some singular additions.
The edition of the 19th makes the total
crop 3,435,134 bales. The paper of the
>t»th makes the port receipts 9,708 for
the week. This added to the previous
receipts ought to make the total 3,444,—
842. The Chronicle, however, makes the
total 7,000 bales more, i. e., 3,451,826,
and we have seen no explanation of
where those additional thousands came
from.
Jesup Georgian : News has just reached
us that on the 29th ult. an elopement oc
curred which created much excitement
among the friends of the parties con
cerned. It is stated that Mr. Braxton B.
llopps, of Baxley, in Appling county,
eloped on Hip above mentioned day with
‘one Mrs. McKinney, who was also a citi
zen of Appling, to parts not definitely
known, but supposed to be Texas. He
left a young wife who is represented to
be of a most excellent character, and who
came of a family above reproach. Vie
are sorry that such a disgraceful affair
should have been brought before the
public. The families have our sympathy.
Another call for divorce soon, we pre
sume, and that, too, by one ot Ine elite
of this section.
The talented philologist of the Rome
Commercial unbuckles his throat-iatch
and makes the following guarded ro^
marks: “ Yesterday, while looking at
the ugly phiz of Mark McDonald s alli
gator, preserved in alcohol, we saw la
belled on the bottle the Spanish
til Lagartos, and thereby hangs a philo
logical legend. Let it be borne in mmd
that the words El Lagartos moan in Eng
lish, “The Lizard.” Well when the
Spaniards first visited Florida, while sail
ing up the rivers and through the “ Lauid
of Flowers,” seeing the alligators, they
-called them El I^agardos, 44 the lizard.
And now these words El frujardo* have
been corrupted, by mispronunciation,
: into alligator. And is the origin of
4he reptile’s name. ”
Florida Affairs.
In the name of Heaven, let the Mel-
lonville Advertiser be made an official
organ. Its eulogies of Stearns and his
barnacles will then be in order.
Pratt, of Palatka, hears of one truck
farmer that made nineteen hundred dol
lars this season off six acres of land.
There is a vague suspicion in and
around Lake City that a fifteen year old
negro boy, fat and juicy for one of his
age, has been caught and devoured by
an Orange Pond alligator. It would
seem from this that the saurians in that
neighborhood are not particular as to
what they eat.
A rattlesnake bit a little negro on the
foot near Quincy recently, but the only
inconvenience experienced by the incipi
ent suffrage-slinger was a badly swollen
leg. He is now running around as
nimbly as ever.
When Pratt, of the Palatka Herald,
meets an intelligent “gent” he makes a
note on’t.
Gen. Sanford, of Orange county, has
received another shipment of Italian
fruit trees.
We are indebted to Mr. G. P. Webb,
of Gainesville, for some very interesting
fruit and vegetable statistics. Up to the
1st inst., forty car-loads of melons have
been shipped from that depot, amounting
to 35,119. There had been shipped,
from the same point to the same date,
1,024 crates of vegetables, 125 of which,
as we are informed by Mr. Webb, were
raised and shipped by an enexgetic and •
industrious colored man named Frank
Stuart. Frank is an honor to his race.
Crops in Alachua county are looking
well. Corn is good, cotton is promising,
and farmers are living at home.
The New South remarks as follows:
A. B. Hussey, of Bay street, received
last week from the Reed grove, at Man
darin, an invoice of oranges that ripened
during the winter on trees that bloomed
last fall, and now have on their branches,
at the same time, the half-grown oranges
of this spring’s bloom and the fully-
ripened fruit of the bloom of last fall.
We learn, on inquiry, that this has often
before occurred in this State.”
The last intelligent gentleman whom
Pratt, of the Palatka Herald,, has consent
ed to interview, has traveled extensively
all through the peninsula, and he is of the
opinion that an open water route did
once exist between Peas Creek and Okee
chobee, and that the canal beds of that
section may be determined by earth
banks on either shore showing that it is
not the work of nature, but of men.
The Herald also says that the deposit
of muck beds on the St. John’s river
forms a rich vegetable soil; in some
places it is from six to ten feet in depth.
It is a paradise for fruits and vegetables.
It is becoming celebrated, and the results
of experience show that Providence has
furnished us with an inexhaustible fer-
beds that will last for ages to
It seems that CoL Pratt, of Palatka,
bitterly denies the existence in that re
gion of a disease among orange trees
felicitously known as the “ die-back.”
There is nothing to report from Con
over this week.
The Sandersville (Ga.) Herald makes
bold to assert that Florida has been de
veloped without the aid of H. I. Kimball.
This seems incredible.
Burglaries sometimes occur in Ma
rianna.
The only basis for the report that there
is yellow fever in Pensacola is the fact
that a German bark with two or three
cases on board is quarantined eight miles
from the city.
The Jacksonville Press says that Mr.
Geer, of Columbia county, has invented
a propeller which is said to give much
more power and speed than the ordinary
one now in use. On a trial of this inven
tion recently, Mr. ^Geer says that he pro
pelled a twenty foot yawl at the rate of a
mile in two minues, using a propeller only
nine inches in diameter. He has applied
for a patent. If Geer’s propeller will ac
complish this, we don’t want any Keely
motors.
Smoke-houses are occasionally robbed
in Jackson county.
While a party of negroes were recently
carousing at the house of a lewd white
woman, at Milton, some one fired through
the door aud killed two of them.
There were forty-one ocean sail in the
harbor of Pensacola recently.
The Palatka Herald predicts great com
petition among the orange growers in the
future.
Col. Pratt pays a tribute to the genial
and studious qualities of Codrington,
editor of the Florida Agriculturist.
Crops in Jackson county are only mid
dling, the corn having suffered severely
from a six weeks’ drought. The oat crop
was large.
The Palatka Herald says that Orange
Spring is one of the healthiest and most
delightful bathing places in Florida.
This spring is one of the many curious
ones for which our State is famous. It
flows from a well thirty feet in depth,
aud forms a circular basin of sufficient
oapacity for a large number to swim in,
discharging its waters into the Ocklawaha
river, one mile distant. The temperature
of the waters 75 •degrees Fahrenheit,
and is strongly impregnated with sulphur,
pleasant to drink, and deliriously soft to
bathe in. The’ bath is free to all. The
spring and basin is down in a dell, sur
rounded by a thick growth of cabbage
palmetto, which shuts out the vulgar gaze.
It is a wonder that Orange Spring is not a
place of greater resort. It will, no doubt,
in time become famous.
BY TELEGRAPH
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Old Man Beecher’s Salary to Be
Raised.
Ridiculous Predicament of English
Royalty.
tilizer,
come.
St. Augustine is building her own
county road bridge.
Capt. Osteen relates a curious incident
to the Palatka Herald. He says that
while working in his corn-field he sent his
little boy for a pitcher of water. The
boy had not been absent for more than
ten minutes when he heard his cry of
terror. He hastened to the spot, when
to his astonishment he found the boy on
top of a fence, and an alligator eight feet
long rearing up and trying to get at him.
Of course he dispatched the alligator and
relieved the trembling boy.
Mrs. Keech, wife of the man whose
mistress was recently murdered by the
man Newton, has been committed to jail
as an accomplice, on the testimony of the
murderer.
Mr. Holden, of Orange county, has
been considering the propriety of send
ing to the Jacksonville Fair an orange
limb tearing blooms, and green and
matured fruit.
The Mellonville Advertiser says that
General Sanford is preparing to bnild a
hotel on Lake Monroe.
The new steamer Pioneer is now run
ning on Indian river, plying between
Titusville and Jupiter Inlet.
A huntsman on the Homosassee en
deavored to anchor his boat to a log. It
was the old, old story; the log proved to
be an alligator, the head of which the
gallant huntsman of the Homosassee now
wears on his fob chain.
It is said that the watermelon crop is
estimated at about two hundred thousand
between the stations of Stark and Cedar
Keys, and estimating that they will only
realize 12i cents apiece net, this product
alone will leave $25,000 in the country.
Theo. Slade, who killed his brother-in-
law in self-defense, is out on bail.
Welaka boasteth of a shingle factory.
A Boston man has purchased an orange
grove in Marion county, whereat the
Banner glows.
The Mellonville Advertiser says that
Dr. Duke, of Orlando, was found dead in
his office on Sunday night last. When
found he was half-standing, half-leaning,
against a counter.
A railroad from Pensacola to Tensas,
near Mobile, is next in order.
Eight hundred dollars belonging to the
school and seminary funds, was stolen
from Mr. J. L. Demilly, the Treasurer of
Leon county.
Alberger, Manager of the Great South
ern Railway, has returned to Jacksonville
from the North. He is now superin
tending the construction of the telegraph
line between that city and Jesup, which
will be completed in a few days.
The turpentine still of Hon. S. L.
Niblack was burned near Lake City last
week.
Mr. D. Greenleaf, of Jacksonville, is
lucky. A burglar stole his watch the
other night and then returned it.
His Honor CoL Peter Jones, of Jack
sonville, who was one of the agents, is of
the opinion that the project for a direct
line of steamers between that cit'y and
New York is among the things that were.
Walls has a right to nominate a cadet
to West Point, and the Press wants to
know how much he is going to charge.
It is said that Lake City is improving
more rapidly thj® at any time since the
war.
We find this paragraph going around
The wealth of the new comers within a
radius of two miles of Fort Reid, in Or
ange county, is stated at two millions of
dollars. Lake Maitland, in the same
county, settled two years ago, now sends
off a tri-weekly mail averaging over one
hundred letters a mail.
Root beer sustains and soothes the av
erage St Augustinian.
The Hon. Wilkinson Call, of Jackson
ville, was married recently to Miss Carrie
f. SwkiBs.
Greenbacks vs. Bonds.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)
‘•If the bonds are good, the greenbacks
are good.”—Enquirer.
The bonds are good because they are
payable, interest and principal, at a fixed
time, in coin. You want to make the
greenbacks payable in nothing but wiud,
and to establish the principle that they
shall never be payable in any thing else.
If you were to succeed, they would be
just as “good” as the paper rags of Texas
were, or the paper rags of the Con
federacy, or the paper rags of the United
States in the days of the Revolution.
Times.
A bond is better than a greenback, in
the opinion of our contemporary, be
cause it bears interest and is payable in
coin. But, then, which is in the most
danger of repudiation, an interest-bear
ing obligation, or a non-interest one ?
The gold is held by a few—the legal
tender by the many; and there are six
times as many bonds as there are green
backs. The Times thinks an interest
debt of $2,000,000,000 owing to say one
hundred thousand people is perfectly
good, but a non-interest debt of
less than $400,000,000 in the hands of five
million people who elect all the official
personages of the country is nothing but
wind. The greenback is better than a
bond, because it is a legal tender for all
debts. Dollar for dollar it can pay off a
gold debt The greenback has been from
the beginning, under the policy of the
moneyed power, treated as a hated step
child. The bond has been the petted, fa
vorite progeny. We commenced in the be
ginning by discrediting the greenback,
refusing to receive it for Custom House
dues. We agreed to pay the interest of
the five-twenty bonds in coin. The gov
ernment thus disinherited its own money.
In the mean time the contract with the
bondholders was changed by a corrupt
Congress, and the principal made payable
in coin. It w*s before payable in the
greenbacks with which it was bought.
For years the system has been to
call in and cancel the little bonds
for that is what the greenbacks
are—which were held by the people
without interest, in order to add to the
great bonds that the few take, when they
receive for taking them an exorbitant
rate of interest. Greenbacks are live
capital. Bonds are dead capital.. The
latter is a withdrawal from business of
two thousand millions of dollars, which
ought otherwise be invested in business
that would give employment to thou
sands of people. Who will start a fac
tory or a foundry when he" can make
more money by purchasing a parcel
of bonds and depositing them in some
bank, when he can live upon the in
terest of them? The “paper rags” of
the Revolution, the “paper rags” of
Texas, and the “paper rags” of the
Southern Confederacy were issued by
governments that had no legal status
they were not a legal tender,
and they had no wealth behind them,
piece of paper signed by a beggar, prom
ising to pay a million of dollars, would
be worthless, but a note of YVm. B. Astor
would be as good as coin for that amount.
The Times will then please take notice
that a bit of paper may be a rag, and
then again it may not be, and our green
backs are not rags.
The account of a case of extreme
cruelty toward a yellow girl in Verona,
Mississippi, given by Mr. bordhoff in one
of his letters from that State, and de
rived from a Federal official, it is claimed
bv the Mississippi people was greatly
exaggerated by Mr- Nordhoff's informant
Whether it was or no, is of little conse
qnence, as an isolated ease of that char
acter should not have' the effect of pre
judicing the public against the popula
tion of a State. Cruelties quite as outra
geous, occurring nearer home, are daily
chronicled in the newspapers of the
North. The Buffalo Express of a late
date contains an account of the treat
ment of two helpless children, the
daughter and nephew of a man
named Rider, who lived six miles from
that city, which is quite as revolting as
anything that has been told as occurring
in Mississippi. These unfortunate chil
dren were nearly starved, frightfully
burned with a red-hot poker, and beaten
and kicked until their bodies were hor
rible to look upon, and this continued a
Jong time before the neighbors inter
fered, Finally Rider was arrested, and
a Jnstioe of the Peace fined him the sum
of fifteen dollars for his brutality. Sub
sequently, however, when Rider attaoked
the man who complained against him
with an axe and nearly killed him, the
ruffian was made to feel the severity of
the law and give $500 bail to keep the
peace. All this occurred in the State of
New York; yet it does not prove that
our people are in rebellion against the
General Government, or that as a State
they are insensible to the dictates of hu
manity.—-A. Y, bun.
Noon Telegrams.
PAMPERING AN ADULTERER,
THE CUBAN INSURRECTION.
DARK RUMORS ABOUT THE WHISKY
FRAUDS.
Brislew Propose* to Push Matter*.
PRINCELY DIFFICULTIES.
New York, July 5.—A London letter
dated June 22d says: As the time draws
near for the departure of the Prince of
Wales for India the difficulties of the
journey are more clearly appreciated- It
ha6 not yet been settled whether the
Prince is to supercede the Viceroy or ac
company him as a guest, and even old
Iudians are very much divided on the
question, some asserting that it will have
a bad effect on the mind of the natives if
the Queen’s son plays second fiddle to the
Queen’s deputy, while others argue that
it is of more importance that the Vice
roy’s dignity should be maintained at the
highest points, as, after all, he is the per
manent representative of Great Britain in
India. The Prince’s costume is another
problem. A Prince in a calico shooting
jacket would, it is thought, not be suffi
ciently impressive, and though the red
coat and cocked hat of an English Field
Marshal is no doubt imposing enough, it
is very fatiguing to wear in a hot country.
It was at one time contemplated that
the Princess would accompany her
husband, but this idea has been aban
doned, partly on account of the diffi
culties in regard to etiquette, and partly
on economical grounds. The govern
ment is still scheming how to get money
for the expenses oCthe trip out of India.
For some months past the Prince has
been suffering from sciatica, and it is to
be hoped that the Eastern climate will do
him good.
CUBAN AFFAIRS.
New York, July 5.—A Havana letter
of June 26th sa> s: “ According to official
reports from Santa Clara, several forces
of the battalion of Baza, on the Liguanca,
surprised the encampmenentof Guayabo,
and killed eight rebels and cap
tured seven prisoners. On the
15th of June, the same day the column
of Catalanes, in combination with the
battalion of Baza, surprised the encamp
ment of Cecilio Gonzalez, in the Lomas
Devanges, and killed five insurgents.
The column of Leon had an encounter
with another small band of insurgeuts on
June 15th, and killed thirty of their
number. The insurgents, in these re
cent encounters, are estimated to have
had seven killed and lost, seventy pris
oners and thirty-one horses. In this
Cuban war the horse is an important
animal and takes a prominent place in
all army reports. More horses have
been reported captured and killed than
have ever existed on the Island of Cuba. ”
LADY FRANKLIN.
New York, July 5.—The London Times,
in a late issue, referring to Lady Frank-
liu’s critical condition, says: “She con
tinues to manifest the same deep interest
in all connected with the Arctic explora
tion, which has been the leading feature
of her life. ”
A London dispatch says: “I regret to
hear that beyond the rally which she
made on Sunday last, the 27th of June,
and which is still maintained, there is no
material improvement in Lady Franklin’s
health, and that her recovery is consid
ered hopeless.”
DARK RUMORS.
New York, July 5.—A Washington dis
patch to the World says: “There are
dark rumors afloat affecting certain
prominent Treasury officials in connec
tion with the late whisky frauds, which
it is expected will develop themselves
very soon. Secretary Bristow is said to
be in possession of evidence establishing
their criminality, and expresses a deter
mination to prosecute them to the fullest
extent.”
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
San Francisco, July 5.—The corvette
Narragansett arrived here late last night,
from the Gulf of California. The situation
of affairs at Lapaz is more serious. Since
her departure it is understood that the
corvette Benicia, Capt. Hopkins, is or
dered to that port on her return from
Victoria.
American interests are said to be im
periled by the insurrectionists. The Be
nicia is expected in a few days.
A PREMIUM ON ADULTERY.
New York, July 5.—There were im
mense crowds at both the morning and
evening services at Beecher’s church yes
terday. large numbers being turned away
on each occasion. Thirty new members
of the church were received. Next
Wednesday evening a special meeting of
Plymouth society will be held, for the
purpose of raising the salary of the pas
tor. Beecher will not leave town until
Wednesday for his vacation.
STEAMBOAT 8UNK.
Louisville, July 5.—Information has
been received here that the steamer J. D.
Parker, from Cincinnati to Memphis,
struck a rock going down the falls late
yesterday afternoon and soon after sank.
The passengers and a large part of the
freight were removed in safety.
FROM BOSTON.
Boston, July 5.—Worth Spates, a law
yer and member of the Maryland Fifth,
delivered a lecture at Music Hall on “The
Southerner’s Impressions of Boston.
The hall was crowded and the lecturer
applauded. He received a vote of thanks
at the conclusion.
INCENDIARY FIRE.
Manchester, N. H., July 5.—Water
man Smith’s private residence was
burned by an incendiary. Mrs. Smith
saved her life by jumping from the sec
ond-story window. Loss $50,000.
DISTILLERIES SEIZED.
St. Louis, July 5.—Several distilleries
in the Ozark Hills, and a large one in the
woods of Harrison county, Texas, have
been seized. The proprietors have been
arrested.
JABBING AFFRAY.
Columbus, O., ^uly 5.—In a bar-room
fight Peter Tyutt, a well-known rough,
fatally stabbed a negro named James Tur
ner. In running to escape Trutt seri
ously stabbed another negro.
HOLIDAY.
New York, July 5.—To-day is one of
general celebration here, though much
firing was indulged in yesterday, when
there were a number of accidents, as
there will be to-day.
FELLOW FEVER.
New York, July 5.—A Key West dis
patch reports that there was no deaths
from yellow fovpr on the 3d, but on the
4th there was one death, and a few new
cases were reported.
SUICIDE.
Middletown, N. Y., July 5.—Nelson
Fuller committed suicide yesterday by
breathing the fumes of charcoal. His
father recently drowned hinqself.
THE FOURTH.
New York, July 5.—John Welsh, aged
seventeen, was fatally shot, and several
persons severely injured yesterday.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
Anniversary Oration of Gen. John S.
PrestOH.
A Remarkable Addre*»— Historical Re
trospect—Eloquent Deuunriatien of New
England Policy and Theories—Democrat
ic Principle* the Rauls of Civil Liberty.
Sidney Smith said the memory of a
certain kiss followed him forty years.
How would Plymouth Church classify
such & kiss as that ?
Charlottesville, July 1, 1875.
To-day has witnessed the closing exer
cises of the fiftieth year of the University.
It was commenced in the morning by a meet
ing of the society, at which considerable en
thusiasm was manifested. At half-past
twelve p. m. the Public Hall was filled with
a distinguished company, who listened to an
address so extraordinary in its character
that it will never be forgotten by those who
had the good fortune to be present. South
ern enthusiasm was aroused to its highest
altitudes, and Geueral Preston’s appeals to
Southern patriotism fell on susceptible
minds and touched the hearts of those who
were familiar with the memories of the past.
Extracts of this address will be found b dow.
The Alumni dinner, which was a very en
joyable affair, came off this evening.
ADDRESS OF GENERAL PRESTON.
Genera! John S. Preston said: The whole
brood of nurselings—the offspring of fifty
years’ aunual partnrition of the foremost
school of letters, science and philosophy in
the New World—have called me, one of the
firstborn but humblest of the flock, to stand
bore by our nursery cradle and speak to
them aud you. It is a very notable honor,
the most notable of my life, and I under
take it with a tremulous reverence for the
high responsibility it imposes. My foster
brothers are the learned, the wise, the heroic
elders and teachers of the land; the in
tellectual and social “Conscript Fathers;”
the “Socratici rinj.” Coming out from the
obscurity of age and a lost country, what
theme can I assume to celebrate in the
presence of the alumni of the University of
Virginia ? The literature, the science, the
philosophy, together with the embodied
thought of these fifty years, have spread
before us a world full of themes so various
that vour speaker may well bo more troubled
iu selection than io treatment. Were I to
take any of a thousand, appropriate to this
day and occasion, I might succeed in win
ning your sympathies and awakening your
interest. Standing here, as it were, on the
portico of our own academy, where for fifty
y ars Wisdom has talked with her chosen
sons, we can see the great book and volume
of Nature unfolding like a scroll to draw our
wandering, upturned gaze, or we can wander
to and fro in shaded avenues amid the
graceful forms of Art,
And see how Apollo, fair-haired god,
Draws in and bends his golden bow.
While on the left fair Dtan waves her torch.
THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.
For us I must seek for othor themes,
sterner thao the dictates of scholastic
science, broader than that which spans the
earth, stronger than that which binds the
ocean, higher than that which measures the
stars of heaven. It is that theme which
burdens every soul which worships eternal
truth and right, to which philosophy,
science, art. poetry—all you are taught in
this glorious school, with its men of mighty
thought and learning—are but humble hand
maidens and servitors. It is the theme
whose purport is to measure the deep rela
tions of right and wrong, of justice and
liberty, and I will talk of it here to-day be
fore these altars and under this sky, though
cautiouB philosophy may be offended aud
timid policy may tremble to approve. I
cannot stand in the shadow of Moniicello
with my heart overflowing with sacred
memories and not ease it by utterance.
God does not grant me the mercy of blind
oblivion to forget the past, and the duty of
filial piety will not let me be silent concern
ing the present. I tremble to lose vour
esteem aud approval. Be charitable to these
gray hairs ana to one who offered his life,
and gave all the rest, that you might be
free, and lost all save this poor woful rem
nant of that life.
ACHIEVEMENT OF FREEDOM.
The people of that portion of North Amer
ica which contributed the American Repub
lic to the history of modern civilization de
rived their profoundest sentiment and prin
ciple of civil liberty from the prccopie of
that blessed religion which thus proclaimed
all men free and equal before the tribunals
of eternal justice, and gave the fullest
sanctions of their Christian revelations to
the regulations of this liberty. It was the
importunate and devoted zeal of the Chris
tian which moved our English ancestry to
sacrifice all mere human attributes to the
attainment of the freedom of conscience,
regarding that as the criterion of all human
truth as well as the fecundating power of
the “Katorthorma ”—the pure rightness of
action in this life—and thus confirming it
for all time as the royalty and sovereign pre
rogative of mankind.
THE LIFE OF FIFTY YEARS.
Let us see. We are celebrating to-day
the fifty years’ life ot this University, which
began this life fifty years after our fore
fathers went forth to the sacrifice of blood
under that dread command. In that war
fare they acquired a continent and a perfect
liberty, and transmitted them to ns. For
the first ten years they were pantiug for
breath after the struggle, under the ma
jestic sway of Washington, and were thus
Drought to the beginning of a new century,
apparently set apart and dedicated to their
exaltation—something over three score and
ten years ago. Three score and ten years!
What of this allotment of time to the natural
span of hnman life, in its relation to the life
of liberty, under the nurture of our own
fathers, aud of our duty and devotion to its
sacred behests ? Three-fourths of the nine
teenth century of grace have gone into the
boundless abyss of the past, and already
Time is casting its records and traditions
into the waste of oblivion, dimming bis
ghastly and swift-moving phantoms, leaving
to us their dark trail only to warn or to mis
lead us. It has been an era strangely com
mingling good and evil to the human family;
especially that portiou assigned to the Amer
ican continent, and most notably to the peo
ple who derived their political existence
from the Euglish Colonies. In Europe the
first decade was signalized and emblazoned
by the over-mastering genius of Napoleon
subverting the systems and ruling over the
Continent, and the mighty intellect of Pitt
defying that rule and burling it back from
England. In America, Washington was
dead. His robes of unsmirched purple,
stolen and misfitted for a timo, were again
worthily on the shoulders of Jeffersoo ; and
here white-handed Hope waved her sceptre
of Faith, and Liberty sat smiling beneath
the bright enchantment, or serenely and
grandly seemed to move onward to the
anointing and the coronation. Tenderer
and more devoted, stronger and purer, high
er and holier than aught on earth save a
mother’s love for her child, is the almost
divine sentiment which makes us love and
live for the land of our birth. But above—
this, above all of earth—more heavenward
still—is that feeling which makes us rever
ence with worship and cherish by devotion
the truth which is transmitted ns by our
fathers ; for that is the filial obedience shin
ing in the same sphere with immortal love,
i’liis holy sentiment, in all its most heroic
forms, developed into action all the virtuous
energies of the men who had won the liber
ties of America, and with wise, ardent and
valorous devotion they wont on building up
a grand and glorious structure on that
foundation, strengthening aud adorning it
with the pillars aud muniments ot tho right
of self-government and the mighty preroga
tive of the freedom of conscience. They
were grandly inspired architects, those mas
ter builders who came out ot the first war
for civil indepeudenc > in this New World,
aud iu fifty years they completed an edifice
dedicated* to civil freedom and free con
science whose foundation was a continent,
u hose boundaries were boundless seas, and
whose turrets aspired to Heaven to Catch
the light and blessing from a God of Truth.
This was the temple which was to become
the pride of history, tho joy of a great and
happy people—“ the joy, the pride, the
glory of mankind”—in which no man’s lib^
erty was to be judged by another man’s
conscience. For this sacred purpose the
covenants were placed upon the altar, the
gateB were opened to the people, and they
went in and prayed, with tflanksgiviugs and
hymns of praise, and renewed the cove
nants, aud the world began to know them,
and called them blessed—
In one loud, applauding sound.
The nations shout to her around,
Dow supremely art thon blessed.
Brothers, it was the design, the structure,
the offering of our very fathers—our fathers
who drank the waters of the Chesapeake
and the South Atlantic, and built the Uni
versity of Virginia. The men who begat us
with the royal priesthood, who sanctified
themselves to bear i he ark with its cove
nants, andpiace it securely as they prayed
on their Zion; and they were those who
called on the earth to rejoice, and on the na
tions to say that liberty again dwelleth on
the earth, and on us, their sons, in humble
faith to cry “Amen !” And what is our an
swer? It was in this supreme hour that
there sprung from the godlike brain‘of the
high priest of that hierarchy, this our
saintly ana benignant nurse mother, whose
generous breasts have nurtured this genera
tion, who have renewed all th^* oovepant
by sprinkling that altar with rtbuir blood—
with our blood, young men. >Ve are that
generation—we are tne men who have haz
arded our lives for that covenant,
DEFENCE OF THE TRUTH-
An age illustrated by tha travail of pa
triotism, truth and justice ever bears in its
womb a generation ready to defend and
miaintaiu these attributes with all the vir
tue and all the valor it has inherited, and
history records this day two of her grandest
proofs in view of the 'shores of the Chesa
peake—proofs of equal blazonry—under the
auspices of George Washington and Robert
Lee.
I beg you, my gentle friends, to remember
that I am pot dncussing the fitful politics
of a day, or the fleeting controversies which
spring from the chance conditions of popu
lar sentiment—the hubbub of an hour—
appeased by the petty triumph of a party.
These, if not beneath the dignity, are far
removed from any of the purposes of this
day’s celebration. I am endeavoring, in an
humble way, to display the logic of funda
mental principles and potential events in a
people's history. I regard myself fully
justified, by the supreme significance of
the theme, in adjusting the destiny in
tended for the people of whom we are
a portion, and of whom we asipme, in
some large degree, to have been here under
this roof set apart as the representatives.
I pray you, then, to keep this kindly present
to your minds. Besides, it is essential in all
jnst historical criticism to keep before us
not only the principles which underlie, but
all the broadly marked events which control
the conditions of civil aud social arrange
ment. I might, indeed, treat of all these
wonderful things as abstract speculations.
But I dare not-do so in the presence of the
living generations. The bloody tumult of
that storm which fell npon our peaceful
grandeur may have subsided, but onr poor,
water-logged vessel is still flapping her
shivered sails and rolling heavily and help
lessly in the yawning troughs, and her way
hack to her haven can be known only by
njeasuring to nature, the strength aud the
course of opposing currents. What are
these? Unhappily for mankind, for truth
and for us who dwelt under its promises io
this great work of oar fathers there was as
sociated a people of different origin, of hos
tile sentiment, who early resolved that we
should not worship in our own temple or be
free UDderonr own covenants, except we did
both according to their judgment and their
conscience.
PURITAN BABBLINGS.
For a time, however, our services went on
under the guidance and priesthood of Jef
ferson, Madison, Monroe, Marshall and their
compeers, sustained by the genius and spirit
which brought unpolluted to this Continent
the great principle and usages of the Eng
lish constitutional liberty. But4hese people
who came to this Continent coeval wi'h our
progenitors, and in some sort partook of the
strife which caused the political separation
from England, hated the* manner of liberty
I have attempted to describe, because it re
strained their covetousness by the dictates
of self-conacieace and liberal provisions of
equal law. They were originally driven
from England for violation of her funda
mental law, and therefore could not bring
with them motives and sentiments in ac
cordance with, but in fact and naturally, ad
verse to the principles of English constitu
tional liberty and of English religious free
dom. They came, not as refugees from
unlawful persecution and tyranny, but as
escaped convicts from the just penalties of
a turbulent heresy and an ambitious rebel
lion, which sought by violence to enforce
their consciences on England’s law. In
stead, therefore, of bringing the laws and
usages growing out of the charters of
English liberty, they brought only crude
and shallow systems' of theological, philo
sophical and political fictions, scarcely above
the vain babblings of mediaeval speculations,
mingled with the poisons of licentious fanat
icism, establishing upon them municipal
forms of mere superficial restraint and firm
systems of educational training calculated
to perpetuate ignorance and substitute indi
vidual craft for public virtue. Their de
scendants, therefore, who were contempo
rary " ith our royal priesthood of Washing
ton, Jefferson, Henry, Mason, Madison, Mar
shall, the Rutledges and Pinckneys, could
have had no iuboru reverence for such pro
genitors, and thereby became, and must
continue, the representatives of a merely
individual present aud selfish interest. A
people who can have no truthful revorence
ror the past can never provide worthily, not
to say nobly and honorably, for the future.
The Mayflower freight, under the laws of
England, was heresy and crime. The James
town emigrant was an English freeman,
loyal 1o his country and his God, with
England’s honor in his heart and English
piety in his soul, and carrying in his right
band the charters, usages and the laws
which were achieving the regeneration of
England. It was that predominant stan
dard of action from whicn all their laws and
institutions were evolved, and by whioh they j
were ruled and measured; the principle of
the supreme necessity of justice, as the le
galized power of God, which could neither
be changed or compromised. These two
people spoke the same language, and nomi
nally read the same Bible, but, like the off
spring of the Syrian Princess, “they were
two manner of people,” and they could not
coalesce or commune. Their feud began
beyond the broad Atlantic, ai:d h is never
ceased on its western shores. Not space,
or time, or the convenience of any human
law, or the power of any human arm can
reconcile institutions for the turbulent fan
atic of Plymouth Rock and the God-fearing
Christian of Jamestown. You may ass gn
them to the closest territorial proximity,
with all the forms, modes and shows of
civilization; but you can never ce
ment them into the bonds of brother?
ho id. Great Nature io her supremest law
forbids it. Territorial localizatiou drove
them to a hollow and unnatural armistice in
effecting their segregation from England—
the one for the lucre of traffic, the other to
attain a more perfect law of liberty; the
one to destroy foreign tea, the other to drive
out foreign tyrants ; the one to offer thanks
giving for the fruit of the earth, the other
to celebrate the gift ot grace in the birth of
Christ; the one to realize the idea of indi
vidual and material gain, the other to iusti-
tutionize the principle and sentiment of
liberty and justice. Nature, in her various
recondite, inappreciable, but most potential
organizations, imposes conditions evolving
necessities and results which the arbitrary
or conventional institutions of man cannot
control, and fail even to assimilate. Her
stern decrees forbid man’s resistance and
punish bis violation of them. The Greek
philosopher and statesman long ago pro
claimed the irreversible maxim : “You may
combine for the pursuits of trade, or form
alliances for defense, but Corinth aud Me-
gara can never be one State ; they are two
people.”
NEW ENGLAND FANCIES.
These, in general terms, I regard &a the
ethnographical principles and the ethical
attributes on whioh were based the states
manship of New England, as manifested by
Seward, the philanthropy of New England
as represented by Sumner, and the Chris -
ianity of New England as practiced by Ply
mouth churches, aud which made her peo
ple in th j olden time accessories and prin
cipals in stamping on this Continent what
has been called the foulest blot of modern
civilization. In perpetrating this crime the
Plymouth Rock descendant outran the King
of Conge? in catching the slave, and out
sailed the sailors of Vasco di Gama in fetch
ing him by the “middle passage.” A second,
fouler blot stamped by this same Plymouth
descendant on this hour in which we live to
day is that, being the joint inheritor and
beneficiary of the Jamestown temple ofliber-
ty,in pare accord with his original attributes,
he set himself, with emancipated slaves, to
destroy the temple and to slaughter the
men, women and children, and devastate
the land of the Jamestown descendant
as the culminating blazonry of the patriot
ism, the piety, tne valor, the civil and re
ligious conscience of New England—in the
language of their great General Sherman,
under the supposed solemnity of an oath, to
declare that “ the desire of their hearts and
consciences was to extin>a*e (to destroy the
species of) the people oi the South and scat
ter salt over their land.” One people first
erect npon the land a noble structure and
dedicate it to true liberty, stamping her im
age and engraving her rescripts on its port
als, and then share all its uses with another
people. That other, made strong by the^e
uses, first dispute tne liberty, then violently
wrench it from those who beslowed its bless
ings and its glories on them. Thei^ in th
mortal struggles which the creators and
benefactors make to retain the substance
and forms the assailants destroyed all its in
stitutions; subverted the foundations of hu
man sooiety, violated the most sacred ordi
nances of God’s economy, and established a
system in which neither social bonds nor
public faith are venerated.
Nil erit, quod nostris moribus addat,
Posteritas omne in pnecipiti vitium stetit,
said the Roman.
A STRUGGLE WITH FANATACLSM.
History is the gazette and revelation of
the past, “nuntia cetustatisthe master of
the present, “ magistra ti/'c.” The best
knowledge grafted to men is that which in
spires the soul with reverence for a virtuous
ancestry—with gratitude to those who have
sacrificed themselves that their posterity
may possess the truth. The grand privilege
of this knowledge creates in the heart a
train of dutiful sentiments T7hivih bind men
to emulate their benefactors, to justify their
sacrifices and io-defend their truth from
reproach with the same eagerness and de
votion that they do from danger, ft is unly
by a true knowledge of tl*e past that those
who come ^fte? can be made the patriots
and the heroes whose high destiny it
may he to conduct their country to
deliverance and liberty. If these words be
true* then f dare avouch it as the most im
perative apd sacred duty of this association
of th® Alumni of the University of Vir
ginia to transmit to posterity the true nar
ration of the facts and the irreversible logic
of these three score and ten years, and with
it to exhibit the seemingly dying effort of
moral, civil and religious truth in its struj
gle with fierce intolerance and greedy f.
naticism, sustained by merely mechanic*,
and physical forces and energies, and thn
to justify before God and posterity bo'
valiant, how virtuous and how heroic me;
women and children may be who, inheritin
the promises of God's holy spirit to an ilia?
trious ancestry, impelled by filial piety ai
sustained by the divine sentiment or patrio;
ism, in asserting that their liberty shall n<
be judged by other men’s consciences ! 1
this record you are to tell what you you;
selves have borne in vain opposition to th;<
intolerance which has swept away your b
heritance. What the ministers of that ii
tolerance have done aud what they are no'
doing to destroy hnman hope von may leav
to that God who, in His own holy' wayv.
avenges His own truth.
In the corrupted currents of this world
Ofleuce's glided hand may shove by Justice:
But 'tis not so above.
There Eternal Justice honors Cssar’s les.'
than Cato's sword. There ceritas sernpitema
Jiuens.
THE FOUL CRimc.
ff, then, this function is duly performed,
our vocation is to unveil the foulest crime
which stains the annals of human history,
by unfolding the causes and relating tho
fuctfl and results of the recent war between
New England and,the Confederate States,
that war having b'wept from national exist
ence the majestic truths of civil and reli
gions liberty, and set upon their ruins the
mercenary fictions of fanaticism, disobe
dience to the laws of Nature and resistance
to the will of God. In doing this we must
give the proof of a prodigy which staggers
belief by facts which compel its avowal. It
must there be put upon your record, for
prosperity, that less than seven decades and
a lustrum sufficed to uproot and dispel all
veneration for the past countless centuries
and to engraft upon the chronicles and the
civilization of the nineteenth century of grace
as its most vital attribute and essential
element and power the most unnatural
crime God has permitted man to perpetrate.
This crime is the triumphant blazonry of
the Constitution of the United States, the
triumphant record for the gaze of nations,
that the liberties, the lives, the consciences,
the affections, the immortal hopes of eight
millions of Christian men, women and child
ren, that our iibertii s are judged by other
men’s consciences. There is no need here
to-day, reeking as we are still under unnat
ural domination, to recite the details by
whioh it came over us. Your land for &
thousand leagues streaked with the graves
of our brothers, and silent with the dominion
of terror, is the poor, dumb witness. You
yourselves are the living, present witnesses,
wearing the blood-bolt on yonr brows and
the scars over your hearts, and can testify
of yourselves that all this is the quick job of
a lustrum, worked by powder and steel in
the hands of Teutonic -ind Irish hirelings,
“rivindi j<rces,” hired by premises and
guided by brains under the moral develop
ment of tho “ripening influences of human
ity.” Let your historiaus tell this to |>o8-
terity, aud your poets sing of it in funeral
chant. But let them with it say wo were
uot subdued when Lee 'surrendered his
starvelings at Appomattox. That we were
not all subdued when they sent their
satraps to plunder and degrade us.
Let them say this in truth. But,
brothers, comrades, may I not stand here
to-day in these holy places, at our baptismal
font, and say to you—conjure you by the
majestic truth of our cause—by all that is
sacred in human hope and faith—by your
trust in the promises of the immutable God,
that your historians shall not record for our
children’s children, we are subdued, when
with humble and abject spirit we swallow
tho he—that God and humanity demand
that our religion, our liberty shall be jadged
by the emancipated negro and his New
England master. Is that the ivilization to
be recorded by the legatees of Jeffers >u for
the veneration of posterity—that wiih
bended knees and humbled hearts we pros
trate our souls, and thank our God that our
liberties arc jadged by other men’s con
sciences—that we have the bastard heritage
from Washington and Lee, to crawl on our
bellies to negro and New England temples
and at the outer gates pray them—not to
give us back our happy homes, not to give
us back our slaughtered children, not to
give us back our perfect liberty, but to let
us be of them, that we, too, may celebrate
their altar witn warbled hymns' and forced
baiieiujahs and breathe for them ambrosial
odors, our base and servile offerings !
Sons of Washington, legatees of Jefferson,
compeers of Lee, this is your liberty and
your conscience this day :
Bondage is hoarse, and dare not speak aloud,
KL-e would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine
With repetitious.
THE POLICY OF NEW ENGLAND.
Suppression, then, is the policy of the rep
resentatives of victorious, triumphant New
Eugland. What is the policy, or its syno
nym and complement, the duty of the de
feated, dejected felon and rebel ? Manifes
tation—open-wide manifestation. To tell
the world aud posterity why we fought, for
what we fought, and how we fonght, and
how we have straggled and suffered. To tell
all, suppress nothing, and let the bright
record of tru:h, valor and heroic fortitude—
the sad story of defeat and abjection—go to
these children as an example, and as a warn
ing that—
Whatever our sages taught,
Or genius could inspire, must fade away,
Ana each fair virtue wither at the blast
Of Northern domination.
What, then, my brothers, were our stakes
iu the mighty conflict, the arena of which
was half a continent, and the spectators a
world of anxious nations ?
LAND AND LIBERTY.
Onr stake was not only land and liberty,
hut all tbe forms, modes, purposes, habi
tudes and sympathies of social organ is is,
fixed for centuries and sealed to ns by tbe
sacrifice of blood. Wc did not fight tb
save provinces or armies, or for conquest and.
the extension of power. We did not tight
even on the hatred of nations, or the an
tipathies qof races, or for the propagation
of systems. We fought on the instincts of
self-preservation, deriving our principle,
our motive, our courage and our fortitude
from the example, the teaching and the re
nown of our immediate and illustrious pro
genitors. You and I were held here at tin
font, in the arms of Jefferson and Madi
son, anl baptized in the promises of
a God of truth—ti&ined, armed, sent
forth to battle by their saintly
and imperial rescript. With us
it was the upheaval of tne great deen of
interest, sentiment and hope. In a word,
we fonght for the earth we lie upon, for the
air we breathe and for the altars we worship
at; for all the attributes and guarantees of
this life and for all the hope beyond it. And
this was our stake, and we lost all save that
hope. What was the plea of the invader,
the conqueror and the destroyer? Union
and emancipation, integrity of territory and
freedom ana citizenship for our slaves, the
African negro. If there be any other plea,
motive, impalse or apology, it was not de
clared in the open arena.’ It was not on
their banners. It was not in their war-cry,
nor in their shoots of victory, nor is it on
their monumental tablets, nor in their en
grossed laws and decrees. They shouted
“Union!” that by unity we might be held
in bondage. They demanded national life,
that they might take tho life of our liberty.
They freed the slave, that we n^igh* become
the slave of slaves. The dictate of these
motives was a fieice and relentless war
pursued to conquest, confiscation and to
subjection, and to the subversion of the
whole order of human truth. This w*s the
plea and the stake of New England. These
were the stakes held by fate over that tre
mendous warfare, Vith its surging waves
rolling wide aud wasteful over a continent,
darkening the light of heaven, frightening
the trembling earth and steeping it in blood,
over which fanaticism and avarice raged
with demoniac fury, and patriotism shrank
from the prostrate form cf liberty. To
those who looked upon the contest, fate
seemed terror stricken by the curse of
fa'-ati^ism, dr bribed by the gold of avarice,
to strike the scales and cast into the &U-
dbnsuming past ail that truth had won from
the mercy of God in threescore and ten
years of earnest striving to obey his com
mand. He had promised our fathers’
fathers, over two hundred years ago, that
the mightiness of His arm and the over
shadowing of His Spirit would shelter and
guide us and give us strength to gather and
enjoy the golden harvest of peace and lib
erty in this New World; and we believed His
promises were immutable. Brothers, there
are here to-day sons of those fathers to whom
the promises were made, who believe the
seed sown by that Almighty planter cannot
perish, bat will grow ag&ip. will bloom, and
will bear fruit, and that His promises are
immutable But I do not see it. It is be-
f ond the scope of my logic. Like Columbus,
would climWhe topmost mast in the dark
night, with the wild ocean around me to
catch one ray of glimmeriug light Jr uni that
unseen shore, of that l^ght which comes
from the uncreated sun But I cannot see
it, a*l i. dark and bidden, impenetrable.
Sot do I hear it in the tkunderings of Sinai,hi
the promises of Zion’s hill and Stloa’s brook,
nor even in the groans cf Oaleary. I do not
read of it in the brilliant forms of Grecian
ph;lo&ophy,6r the majestic practice of Roman
Empire, nor in the august and stately march
of England’s liberty. I do not see it iu the
sublime speotacle of Washington’s labor
and prophecy, nor in the still grander sac
rifices of Manassas and Appomattox. Amid
all these I wander, darkling, for my faith in
the immutable promise of Almighty God. I
do not know it m all these. But, my broth
ers, my oomradea, I feel it—aye, I feel it
here, in my heart of hearts, that our
children mnst be free, and that the groans
of onr oppression will be silenced by the
shouts of their liberty, I know this faith
comes of none of the transitory and err nee*
cent powers which have ruled the ways, the
works and the institutions of men ; but in
my soul it is begotten of the spirit of the
Author of truth—for with that God for us
sgain to be free is Bis truth. Io this rapt
aud crowned faith I do see the gleaming
1 ght shining over the dark waters. I do
hear the billows falling on a golden beach
and I catch the perfume of sweet flowers
and fruits, and as the day dawn opens the
tremulous light and begins to glint the
heavens—
Perchance to gladden the expectant eyes
Of far off nations in a world remote.
I hear the hymns of praise and thanksgiv
ing and the songs of triumph from the bat
tle fields we have fought, and then I know
that our blood has gone up as incense and
will descend as dew of heaven to water our
land and ripen our fruit, tbe fruit of our
fathers’ liberty.
THE SKELETON OF NATIONS.
But, comrades and brothers, here we are
to-day, after our fifty years, our country the
skeleton of nations, and here around us the
ghastly sepulchre; if not the scorn, at best
the object of the fruitless pity of our fellow-
men; the only heritage we can bequesth to
these children, I he opprobrium of their
birth, the woes wo suffer and the insults
they cannot avenge. Here we stand this
day. the beaten, defeated, degraded strug-
gleis after the existence oi liberty, our
lances broken, onr shields battered and onr
banners draggled in the dirt and filth of
the earth. And there, brothers, joint heirs
of Jefferson, we will be, the gazing stock of
nations, so long as our liberties are judged
by other men’s consciences. But for you,
nurselings of to-day, still at onr mother’s
breast, I would change this sad and weird
lament, this gloomy chant of woe, and strike
the resounding chords which send forth the
bold anthem of hope, and give to you a
cheering and a living echo from tbe dark
vault of the past. Once I dreaded lest the
womb of Virginia bad been seared to bar
renness, and her fountains of nurture all
dried up, and hope itself banished from
her sphere. But when I look at you to
day and see your earnest and pious souls
gleaming forth in your eager, bright
eyes—and when I stand here in these
lovely and hallowed places, with this sky
aud this .and about me, and their breezes
fanning my brow—here in the shadow of
Monticello—here, where we, now decrepid
fragments, were nurtured in that ennobling
lore and gathered that trnthfnl spirit which
led us to give ourselves and all onr hopes in
the fruitless straggle to keep you all free as
our fathers had made us—I cannot but feel
that the sacred spirit is still alive in your
hearts and will again appear and move in
you a triumphant ending. Believe me, no
ble youths, the triumphant realities of hu
man life are not worldly success of wealth
or gratified ambition or the luxurious repose
of rewarded labor. But, mark me, they
are duty, truth, right, justice and the abso
lute freedom of conscience. They are
those things which are graven on tho
throne of the eternal God and manifested
to you and to mankind in the truthful
records of Yorktown and Appomattox, in
the names of George Washington and Rob
ert Lee.
hotels and Restaurants.
TO THE PUBLIC!
W HAT YOU LIKE
—AND—
WHEN YOU LIKE IT.
COMFORTAIJI.K QUAKTEUS
—AND—
Moderate Prices!
T HE undersigned takes pleasure In announcing
that he has perfected arrangements which
enable him to offer the guests of
BRES^iAY’S
European House
Every Comfort and Con
venience
To be enjoyed at other Hotels, at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
A FIRST CLASS
RESTAURANT
ON TILE
EUROPEAN PLAN
And a FINE SALOON are attached to the Houses
and will be
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT!
Guests will be accommodated with
THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS,
In any style they may desire, and at any hour.
The cuisine arrangements aie unrivalled.
PLEASANT ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$2 00 PER DAY.
A READING-ROOM and BILLIARD-ROOM
are open for the entertainment and amasemexit
of the guests.
Confident of my ability to render ample satis
faction to all visitors,
A TRIAL, ONLY IS I>ESIKE1>.
JOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
myfr-tf
PLASTERS’ HOTEL,
C’or. of Barnard A Bryan Sts.,
(Market Square, Savannah, Ga.)
S6aki>, - - $2 oo per day.
T HE undersigned having taken charge of the
above well-known hotel, and refitted it, an
nounces that it is now ready for the receptiou of
guests. It is convenient to business and jnst the
place for planters and merchants visiting the
city. The table wi 1 be supplied with the be*t
that this and other markets atfo d. Eligib.e
rooms neatly furnished, with or without board,
can be had at reasonable rates during the sum
mer. A. E. CARR,
my29-ly Proprietor.
Sietlmnal.
1> 11. ULMEK’S
Liver
Corrector
FOB
D1SKAUS ARISING
APEBIE5T ^
******
I>isordereil State of the .Liver,
SUCH AS DYSPEPSIA, OBSTRUCHONS
OF THE VISCERA, STONE IN THE GALL
BLADDER. DROPSY’, JAUNDICE,
ACID STOMACH. CONSTIPATION
OF THE BOWELS, SICK AND
NERVOUS HEADACHE,
DIARRHCEA AND
DYSENTERY’.
Enlarged Spleen, Fever and Ague, Eruptive and
Cutaneous Diseases, such as Saint Anthony’s
Fire, Erysipelas, Pimples, Pustules and Boi s,
Female Weaknesses, Affections of the Kidneys
and Bladder, Piles, and many other disorders
caused by Derangement of the Liver.
This preparation, comp. >sed. as it is, of some
of the most valuable alteratives known, is in
valuable for the restoration of tone and strength
to the system debilitated by disease. Some of
our best physicians, who are familiar with the
composition of this medicine, attest its virtues
and prescribe it. It is a pleasant cordial.
Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M. IL,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Price One Dollar. For sale by all tbe principal
Druggists in the city.
Educational.
University of Georgia.
'T'H.KRE will be vacancies, at the next annual
X Commencement of this Institution, subject
to such changes and modifications as the Trus
tees may then make, in the offices of Chancellor
and the following Professors: Latin Language;
Greek Language; Modern Languages. French,
German and Spanish; Belles Le tres; Moral and
Mental Philosophy; Natural Philosophy and As
tronomy: Mathematics; Civil Engineering and
Applied Mathematics; Chemistry, Natural Science
and Agricultural Chemistry; History and Politi
cal Science; Agriculture and Horticulture; and
during Commencement week (July 30 *o August
4,1875,) the Board of Trustees will elect persona
to fill said offices.
Applications maybe filed with the undersigned.
By order of the Prudential Committee.
WM. L. MITCHELL,
Secretary of the Trustees.
Athens, June 96, 1675. je99-T*AF,9w
Letter Headings,
N OTE HEADINGS aad ENVELOPES, printed
in any mtyK and aa paper ot any quality os
oi mEag the customer mav desire, at the
gORNING NEWS JOB OFFICE.