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SUCCESS IN LIFE.
There is much truth in the following lec
ture, which a practical inau is supposed to
give to his son :
Valter, 013/ hoy, do you realize that each
year the grave is nearer to you than ever
before—that unless you are active, the
season of life will close before halt your
alloted contract will have beeu performed,
unless, like too many people, you have no
aim, no hope, no ambition beyond picking
your teeth after diuuer I Half of the world
—yes, Valter, more than half, go to the re
ception room of eternity,without any object
in life—a3 drift wood floats down the stream,
guided by the current and lodging against
the first of obstruction. And what is drift
wood, my boy ? Once in a while a good
stick of timber is found therein, but it is
worth more to haul it out, clean off the
sand aud mud, than it is worth, and more
time aud good tools are spoiled in making
it into what you wish, than the stick will
ever bring even in active msrkot.
Have a purpose my boy, live lot some
thing. Make up your mind what you will
be, and be it, or die in the attempt. This
is a iaud where there is no stint to ambition.
Ail have an equal chance, B‘. >od tells;
pluck wins; honor and integrity well di
rected will scale the highest rock and bear
a big load. Don’t start oft in life as a
sheep dog does, without you are knowing
what you are going to. Load for the game
yon are hunting for. It is as easy to be
a man as a mouse. It is as easy to have
friends as enemies—it is easier to have
hot!) than to go through life like a
tar bucket under a wagon, bumping over
stumps, and swinging right aud left with
out a will of your own. Every one can
see something. There is enough to do.
There ace forests to fell, livers to explore,
cities to build, railroads to conduct, inven
tions to be studied out, ideas to advance,
men to convert, countries to conquer, wo
men to love, offices to be filled, wealth aud
position to acquire, a name to win -a
Heaven to reach. Yes, my boy there is
lots of work to do aud we must do our
share.
The world is wide aud its owner is God.
If you wish to be somebody, pitch in. The
brave always have friends. Where there
is a will there is a way. Where others
have gone you can go. And \ alter, my
bov. if the old track don’t suit, make
new one, somebody will walk it. Success
is never obtained in a country like this
without au effort. If you fail once, try it
again, if you fall down, get up again.—
It it is dark, strike a light. If you are in
the shade, move round, for if there is shade
on one side, thero is sunshine on the oth
er.
If j'our seat is too hard to sit upon, stand
up. If a rock rises up before you, roll it a-
way, blast it or climb over it. If you want
money, earn it. If you wish for confidence,
prove yourself worthy of it my hoy. It
takes longer to skin an elephant than a
mouse, but the skin is worth somethiug.—
Don’t he content with doing what another
lias done—heat if. It any enemy gets in
your way kuock him down or pitch him
clear. Deserve success and it will come.
The boy was not born a man. The sun
does not rise like a rocket or go down like
a bullet fired from a gun. Slowly but
surely it makes its rounds, and never tires.
It is as easy to be a leader as a wheel
horse, and you are always in town. If the
job bo long, the pay will bo greater ; if the
task be hard the more competent you must
be for it.
And then, my boy, always be bonora
ble. Keep your word or give au excuse. If
you owe a man pay him if it takes the last
shirt, tail and all. If you can’t pay him.
say so at once. Do to others as you would
he done by ; after that as they do by you.
Punish enemies and reward friends. If
you do not punish enemies, noue will fear
you; if yon do not reward friends, we
pity the selfishness of your heart. If you
make a jrorniso keep it. Play your hand
or leave the table. If others betray you,
teach them better, but on no provocation
betray others. If you have a secret keep
it closely ; if } r ou have the secret ol auoth
er, watch it more closely than your own.—
There can be no excuse for a betrayal of
confidence ; no apology that can be sufiE
cieut. If you are in hard luck, wear it
out. If you can help a friend, always uo,
if he is worth}'—if you cannot, don’t in
sult in the style of refusal.
A little act, word or look, where the
heart is sore, lingers as does the fragrance
of the rose long after the vase is broken.—
If you are right stick to it; never be a
shamed to own it. Keep your head above
water, no matter how deep the stream or
swift the current; some one will help you.
Don’t grumble ; don’t fret; don’t whine.
Dogs whine. It is easy to be cheerful as
• to snarl around, and good nntured men al
ways make the handsomest corpses.
Don’t change your business every time
you have the blues—change is not benefi
cial. If you are cheated, don’t try to get
even by cheating some one else ; if you
have made a bad bargain, don’t stop trad
ing, but make a better one next time.—
If you get in a scrape, get out, and look
closer next time—never be caught twice
in the same trap. People may lorget er
rors, but they have no sympathy for fools.
If you wish to be a leader, always go
ahead ; and remember that the smoother
tin* route you pick out, the less complain
ing there will be among your followers.—
And, above all, Valter my boy, no mat
ter what the circumstances, never be
the first to go back on your friends.—
Be honest aud faithful—God and for
tune will never desert you.
Not Bad for the Old Lady.—A cor
respondent of a New York paper, who is
accompanying Gens. Steedman and Fuller
ton in their tour through Virginia, speak
ing of the Jefferson mansion at Monticel-
lo, says :
“The mansion itself has gone to decay
aud has a painfully neglected appearance.
One would suppose that no one lived in a
house so lonely and ruined, but we were
informed that the place was inhabited, aud
could be visited for the moderate sum of
twenty cents.”
“Gen. Steedman inquired what particu
lar fund tiie money was to go to, and was
informed by the old lady in charge that it
•was the restock to place with the chickens
that Sheridan's cavalry bad ‘eat up before
her eye*.’ ”
The General did not protract the couver
sation.
The old lady’s project is about as likely
to achieve its intent as was Bennett’s plan
for paying the t a’ioual debt.
[Petersburg Index,
Travel in Germany-
A correspondence of the New V ork Com
mercial, in Germany, writes as follows :
Pii.sf.n, Bohemia, Jan. Id.
•The railroad reaches Austrain dominions
at Furtb, where the baggage and passports
are. examined. Mine was objected to, be
bank, aro entitled fo vote in boroughs.—*
This addition is expected to adJ 24,000 to
the electoral body. Third, the house
hold franchise in boroughs is to be reduced
from d£10 to <£7, avid a class known as
“compound bouseuolders,” or persons
i whose taxes are paid by the landlords, are
i to he permitted to vote. This change is
cause evidently my age did not correspond j expected to add 204,000 to the coustituen-
with that in the passport. On examina
tion I found that the clerks at the Depart
ment in Washington had merely copied
my passport thirteen years ago, and so I
stood in the new. as in file old pass
port, at thirty-niao years. Luckily l had
an old passpoit with me aud could ex
plain the reason of the error. “With
American clerks we will let this pass,”
said the Austrain, “they are apt to make
mistakes.” I pocketed the reproach and
passport, aud went my way. The ex.,
animation of the luggago was far more
liberal than I had been led to expect.
A tew miles travel into Austria gave me
iu some respects an agreeable, in others a
disagreeable sensation. The farm houses,
covered with clapboards, the scenery in-
terpersed with forests aud cleared fields,
and the general appearance of the newly
opened country, made it look like our
Western country.
A fancy dress ball was going at Pilsen
[cy- Mr. Gladstone calcnUted that these
| clauses would, in the aggregate, add 400,*
I 000 votes to the electoral list, one half of
| whom would bo workmen. The correct-
| ness of the latter estimate was suhsequeiit-
I iy questioned by Mr. Bright, who gave ap-
j parently reliable data in support of his po-
| aition, that the proposed changes would
(operate chiefly in favor of small tiaders
j aud others, and that not more than 11G,»
j 000 workmen would bo added to the num
ber of voters.
All Old Lcllcr of Ciiurlfs Sumner.
In a late issue of the Baltimore Gazette
we find the following letter from Chas.
Stunner, which was written in 1S61 to a
well-known firm in that city. When con
trasted with his present course, it reads
rather amusingly :
Senate Chamber, )
17th January, 1S61. J
Gentlemen .-—I have been honored by
on Surnlay, and I do cot know who was j your communication, dated 16th January
the greatest sinner—I for writing or they
for dancing on Sunday. Mine would have
been the least if J had written ou hut I had
to stop, so great was the noise ; so I went
over, increasing my sins, and took a look
at the dancers, f saw at once whence the
great noise came, for they danced with
great force. Sucli polkas, Polka Mazur
kas and Gallopades I never saw danced
before ; I only wonder where the}' took
their breath from, for they danced harder
and longer than I could imagine it possi
ble for human endurance. The
iu which you ask me “to endorse the Crit
tenden resolutions.”
I suppose that you have never read
those resolutions. If you wilt look at
them yon will see that they propose to
plant sectionalism in the Constitution—to
exhalt a discarded party dogma into a prin
ciple of constitutional law—to annul the
explicit verdict of the people—and to vi
olate the lessons we have received from
Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. Of
course, such propositions are offensive to
ladies’ GV erybody who truly loves the Constitu-
dresses were rather showy, as in fact was ! tion as it was banded down by our fathers,
all their bearing. The men drank beer j It only remains that men who really
and wine freely ; the women, everywhere
the more sensible of the sexes, used lighter
beverages.
Cakes and confectionary of the best
kind were much in use, and the music was
very good. I again retired to my room
when they had become quieter, and con
tinued my letter. I had found on inquiry,
that the civil and religious authorities
think it no violation of the sabbath to
dance ; which however, hardly relieved
my religious scruples upon the subject.
I had already said that the country re
sembled in many things our Western Penn
sylvania country, and there were even the
nly
love the Union should determine to stand
by the Constitution as il is, without at-
tempting to patch it over with the proposi-
To this we beg leave to add that this
man Kilpatrick, who now appears so virtu
ousiy indignant at the bombardment of
Valpariso, is tbo same who so wantouly
destroyed private property in Georgia
and South Carolina during the march of
Sherman’s army through these States.—
The troops #f his coimnaud stole every
thing within tLeir reach, and while en
camped at Johnson's Turnout ou the South
Carolina railroad, five miles from Aiken,
the whole country for miles aroud was
scoured aud completely sacked. Silver
ware, jewelry, gold aud silver watches, fur
niture, cooking utensils, ladies’, gentle
mens’ and childrens’ wearing apparel, and
iu fact every article of food, furniture
or dress was either stolen or destroyed in a
spirit of infamous bate and sheer wautou-
ness. These assertions can he proved by
ladies and gentlemen who witnessed the
disgraceful outrages. Furthermore, we
know a most estimable lady aud gentle
man, whose forms have been bent and
whose beads have been whitened by the
frosts of seventy winters, living in that
neighborhood, that suffered the loss of their
comfortable home, having been fired and
burned by Kilpatrick’s marauders. When
encamped at Johnson’s Turnout, his table
was only surpassed iu its array of massive
silver ware, by that of the Sultan of Tur
key, Brigham Young or the Blair eyed
Beast.
Had Kilpatrick respected the laws of
civilized warfare, the wanton destruction
of private property in certain parts of Geor
gia and Carolina would not to-day be an
incontrovertible testimony of how the
troops under bis immediate command, “in
contravention of the laws and customs of
civilized nations,” did commit certain in*»
famous acts in destroying and burning pri
vate property, robbing the cradle and the
grave, “where no result advantageous to
the lawful euds of war could be attained.”
These facts are not, perhaps, very palata
ble to Mr. Kilpatrick, but they are, never
theless, true as Gospel.
tions which the Fatheis of our country
would have scorned.
The duty of the patriot is clear; and I
am glad that there can he no. doubt about
it. Faithfully, yours,
CHARLES SUMNER.
Why the Confederacy was not Re
cognized.—The recent debate in the Brits
isii Parliament, upon the Reform Bill, has
i established the facts as to one of the ob
scure points of history—why the Confeder
little martin boxes. Wheat iu (ho field ! a te States were not recognized by Eng-
looks greener and healthier hero than in land and France. During the debate upon
Bavaria and Warteinburg. j the Reform Bill, a question as to the posi
Soldiers get about four cents a day, their I tion ot parties having been raised, Mr.
clothes and two pounds of'good bread and D’rsraeli, while half admitting that the
! (Tory) party with whom he acted were
or a I jjot indisposed to recognize the Confeder
acy, declared that ono of the most influeu-
entia! members of tho Cabinet was clear
ly committed to recognition, and not only
that, but bis colleagues were on the point
of acting in accordance with his convict
tions aud his advice. If this was a hit a-
Mr. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Ex
chequer, in his reply, did not see fit to re
tort, and we aro left to iufor therefore,
quite nouplused,for I assure the reader that j t h a t wliile there was uo doubt the Tory
a common dinuar. The latter I tasted and
it had a good relish and was plenty i
man. A captain gets about forty dollars, j
a colonel about one hundred and twenty i
dollars a month.
The women wear short frocks and take j
uo pains to conceal their knees. I ask- j
ed one of them if she felt no shame at such ;
exposure. “Shame !” said she, pulling her i
frock up a little more, “what is there iu I
these legs to be ashamed of?” I was
that if large size be the standard,there was,
on the contrary, something to be proud of,
A Doctor Pankratz i3 improving the
place by building several modern style
residences. I was told that he is
very rich, that he is a promoter
of industrial interests; he owned coal
mines, bank stock, &c. A good joke
is perpetrated in a paper, which may be
said to be London Punch for Bavaria,
which I must give the reader. It repre
sents the hunter asking a hoy whether
there was any game about .• “Yes.” said
party at large was ready and anxious to
recognize tiro Confederacy, some of the
most influential minds of the Cabinet were
ready to act in accordance with their wish
es. It is not certain that the late Premi
er. Lord Palmerston, is not to be placed in
that category.
Although Lord Palmerston and tho par
ty in power were in favor of recognizing
the South, it appears that Queen Victoria
herself was opposed to intervention, and
used her personal influence both in Eng
land and in Frauce to sustain the North.
tickler
the boy, “there is the schoolmaster near by,! The confessions which the Reform Bill de
bate is incidentally bringing out. would
seem to give additional weight to this view
of the case. It is pretty certain that if
Ministers had been left to follow their own
course, the Tory clamor would have been
yielded to.
Shoot him !” This funny thin 0
the Bohemians wonderously.
Common day laborers get about ten to
fiften cents a day here and found. So you
perceive that labor is poorly rewarded.—
The new demands for coal diggers are.
however having their effects, aud wages
will, with increased employment, get high
er. Railroads are elevating society here,
too. Many customs which I saw when a
boy in Wurtemburg, exibt yet in full force
iu this city.
They manufacture a most delicious beer
here, clear as amber, and most refreshing
to drink. Any American brewer, who
would come here and learn to make it,
would become immensely wealthy if lie
made it in New York. It is alone worthy
of a visit to this place.
English Reform.
We give below the substance of the
franchise bill which has recently engross*
ed the attention of the British House of
Parliament. On a division in the House
of Commons upon this subject the vote for
the Government was 320, that for the op- . ..
position 315 being, a virtual defeat of tf:c j , ;{l niest remonstrances contained herein, it on
Government measures. The Nil'iunal In- | ly remains for the undersigned to reiterate in the
ll.iw We da Slrut—The Record Lives.
The Macon Telegraph truthfully ob
serves that “it is strange how principles
will change when the tables turn and it is
‘your bull that gored iny ox.’ From Min
ister Kilpatrick’s protest to the Spanish
commander off Valparaiso, we extract the
following :”
Whiie belligerent rights permit a recourse to
extreme measures for tho carrying out of legiti
mate military operations, they do not, include the
wanton destruction of private property where no
result advantageous to the lawful ends of the war
can be attained. International law expressly ex
empts from the destruction purely commercial
communities such as Valparaiso, and the under
signed would beg his Excellency to consider most
earnestly the immense loss to neutral residents,
and the impossibility of removing, within the
brief term allotted to them, their household goods,
chattels aud merchandize.
If, however, his Excellency persists in his inten
ts bombard the port of Valparaiso, in spite of
telligencer says .•
If. is a striking fact that while Great
Britain is probably about to enfranchise
great numbers of her citizens, the great
American Republic, so far as Congress is
concerned, proposes to disfranchise whole
peoples. The London Times admonishes
us of the disastrous results that have aris
en iu Ireland from the adoption of a pros
pective, persecuting policy agaiust politi
cal offenders.
Tho progress of the reform movement iu
England is watched with much interest.—
It appears from the debates in the House
of Commons on the subject t hat the sue
cessfui termination of the civil war in this
country has given strength to liberal ideas.
Goldwiu Smith declared, during the war,
that, unless the Federal Government
should succeed in putting down tbe rebel
lion. no liberal man could live iu England.
The reform bill which has lately passed
the House of Commons is not a very great
ab'yince toward popular rtpresentation.—
It tn’aiges, to some extent, the electoral
rights <f the middle and lower classes.—
The total adult male population ol Eng
land and Wales is 5,230,573. Of these,
only 1,012,532 aro entitled to vote.
The leading features of the reform bill
are : First it proposes to reduce the e£50
county franchise to XI4 occupation, with
or without laud. This change, it is calcu
lated, would admit 172,000 persons, chief
ly of tho farming aud middle classes.—
Second, copyholders and leaseholders in
Parliamentary boroughs are to bj placed in
the same position as freeholders. Lodgers
paying ^£10 a year for apartments, and
persons having for two successive years
the sum of 450 to their credit in a savings
clearest manner, in the name of bis government,
his most, solemn protest against tbe act, as unusu
al, unnecessary, and in contravention of the laws
and customs of civilized nations, reserving to his
government therightto take such action as it may
deem proper in the premises.
The undersigned has the honor, &e.,
J. Kilpatrick.
To his Excellency the Commander in-Chief of
the Naval forces of Her Catholic Majesty in the
Pacific, &c.
Commenting on what Mr. Kilpatrick
glibly terms “belligerent rights, legitimate
operations, wanton destruction, lawful
ends, international law, purely commercial
communities, solemn protest ansual, uune
cessary acts in contraventiou of laws and
customs of civilized nations, ei ad nause-
am,” the Macon Ttlegrnph says : ‘‘This is
all sound doctrine—the law of war as. re
cognized by all civilized nations—but
what became of it when stone fleets were
sunk across Charleston harbor to destroy
the commerce of the world with that city
— when for mouth aftev month fiery mis-
sils were rained upon the women and chil
ilron of the city, and upou the property if
friend and foe—when the city of Atlan
ta was laid in jftlies on its evacuation by
tho Federal army—when the lovely capi
tal of S >uth Carolina was leveled with tbe
eath and thousands of inoffensive people
turned out to starve aud freeze iu midwii*
ter—when tho city of Petersburg was
shelled to pieces, by long range artillery,
because the army of Grant had not the
manhood to tako it ? Where were these
‘laws of civilized warfare’ when the Fede-
al armies perpetrated every species of atro
city ur'on private citizens of the South,
and their leaders unblushingly announced
to the world that *anything that damaged
the enemy was lawful in war V ”
Correspondence of the N. I’. News.
What the Rudirals have Done.
Washington, May 12, 1S66.
There is much more in the “plan” con*,
taiued iu tho report of the Committee of
Fifteen than appears upon the surface. It
must be considered in connection with the
legislation of the present session of Con
gress, anil with the attempts at legislation
which have been frustrated up to this time.
It must be viewed, too, in tbe light afford
ed by the speech of President Johnson ou
the 22d of February last. Examined in
this manner, it is evident that the Radi
cals in Congress consider it as one of their
trump cards, in the desperate game that
they are playing against the President.
Their trump card is the bill which they
rushed thiough the House on Friday, mak-
iog a “General” of Ulysses Grant. Here
are some of the things which the radicals
in this Congress have done and attempted
to do.
First, They compelled both Houses to
abdicate their constitutional powers, and
to hand over those powers to a secret tri
bunal of fifteen members, chosen by them*
selves.
Se.cond, They have attempted to forco
negro suffrage upoD the District of Colum
bia, in opposition to the unanimous wish of
the people, and they are determined to do
it yet.
Third, They attempted to pass the odi
ous Freedmen’s Bureau bill, in which at
tempt they were defeated by the Presi
dent.
Fourth, They have abolished one of the
Judgeships of the Supreme Court, so as to
prevent President Johnson from appoint
ing a successor to Judge Catron, and so as
to secure a control of the judicial branch
of the Government, as well as the Legis
lature.
Fifth, Having secured tho control of a
majority of the Judges of tho Supreme
Court, they prevented the Court from deci
ding the test oath case, by which act
thousands of lawyers in tbe South are pre
vented from earning their bread.
Sixth, They have proposed so many
amendments to the Constitution that, if
they were passed, the original instrument
would be virtually abolished.
Seventh, They propose, in Schenck’s
Army Bill, which is soon to be brought up
again, to impose an immense permanent
standing army upon tho country, a large
proportion of the troops of which will be
negroes.
Eighth, They have passed the Civil
Rights bill, which abolishes State laws
and. State courts, establishes negro equali
ty, and sanctions negro suffrage.
Ninth, They have passed an amend
ment to the Post Office Appropriation bill
which takes away from the President the
•power which has been exercised by evdry
President, of making removals and ap
poiiitments.
Tenth, They have agreed to a plan for
the permanent dissolution of the Union,
which has been reported by the Committee
of Fifteen, the object of which is to dis
franchise the whole Southern people, to
force negro suffrage upon the South, to
prevent the South from being represented
iu Congress, to perpetuate the power of
the Radicals, and afford them the means
of governing the Southern States as con
quered and subjugated territories.
Eleventh. They have expelled from the
present Congress, Mr. Stockton. Mr.
Brooks aud Mr. Voorhees; they propose
to expel Mr. Davie, Mr. Saulsbury and Mr.
McDougall; they have passed a bill for
the admission of Colorado, a bogus State ;
and they propose to make a new State out
ol East Tennessee, in order to secure a
two-thirds vote in both Houses, so as to
carry their measures over the President’s
veto.
Twelfth, and lastly, They have made
Grant a General, raised his pay to SIS,000
a year, and nominated him for the next
Presidency.
THE RADICALS APPREHEND CIVII, WAR.
All these acts on the part of the Radi
cals are simply pans of the great plot
w’uich they have in view, to revolutionize
the Goveiumeut, to chauge its form, to
make of the President a mail of straw, and
thus to control the executive branch of the
Government, as they have already gained
the control of the legislative aud judicial
branches. The success of tbe plot requires
that tbe Southern States shall be excluded
from all participation iu the next Presi
dential election, and shall be permanently
excluded from Congress.
The Yankees are inventing “a machine to hull
cotton-stalks,” Better raise the cotton first*
Bill lri» Is Called Before ilic &ec«a£tu«ti»a
Committee.
SUPPRESSED TESTIMONY,
To the Editor of the Metropolitan Record".
Mh. Editor: Murder will out, and so will evi
dence. Having seen Dan Rice's testimony before
the Destruction Committee, I have felt sorter
slighted because no mention aiut been made ot
mine. 1 suppose it has been surpressed, but I am
not to be hiu out in obscurity. Our couutry is the
special jury, and by and by tnis business will go up
before it on appeal. The rccoid must go up fair
and complete, and therefore l’li take occasion to
make puoiic what I swore fo. I said a good deal
more than I can put down, Mr. Editor, and at
times my language w:ulconsidered impudent, but
they thought it was all the better for their side,
for it iliusirated tbe rebellious spirit. I heard one
of ’em say : “Let him go ou—the ruling passion
strong in death, lie’s good Btntes evidence.”
When I was put on the stand, Old Boutwell
swore me most fiercely aud solemnly to speak the
truth, the whole truth, and I observed that lie was
then entertaining about a quart of doable rectifi
ed, and it looked like it had soured on his stomach.
Old Blow was setting oil on one side with a mem
orandum book, getting ready to note down some
“garbled extiacts.”
Old Iron Work was chairman, |and when ho
needed his Republican head, old Boutwell, sajs
he: “Your name is Arp, I believe sir ?”
“So called.” says I.
“You reside iu the State of Georgia, do yon ?”
“1 eau’t say, exactly,” says 1. “Hive in Kouie,
right in the fork of two injun livers.”
“Ill the State of Georgia,” says lie. fiercely.
“In a state of uncertainty about that,” says I.
“We don’t know whether Georgia is a State or
not. I would like for you to state yourself, if you
know. The state of the countryjrequires that this
matter.should be settled, and 1 will proceed to
state.”—
“Never mind, sir,” says lie. “Howold areyou,
Mr. Arp?”
“That depends on circu stances,” says I. “I
don’t know whether to count the last five years or
not. Duriu the war, your folks said that a Stare
couldn’t secede, but that while she was in a state
of rebellion she ceased to exist. Now you say
we got out, and we shan’t get back again until
1670. A man's age has got somethin to do with
his rights, and if we are not to vole, I don’t think
we ought to count the time. That’s about as near
as I can come to my age, sir.”
“Well, sir,” he said, “are you familiar with the
political sentiments of the citizens of your State
“Got no c.tizens yet, sir, that we know of. I
will thank you to speak of us as -people.’ ”
“Well, sir,” says he, “I’ll huyipr your obstina
cy. Ai e the people of your State.”
“Don’t speak of it as a State, sir, if you please.
I’m on oath now, and you must excuse uie for be
ing particular. Call it a ‘section.’ ”
“Mr. Arp, are the people of your section suffi
ciently humble and repentant to come back into
the Union on such terms as we may think proper
to impose ?”
“Not much they aint,” says I. “don’t think
they are prepared for it yot. They wouldn't vol
untarily go it blind against your hand. They' say'
the deal wasn't fair and you have marked the
cards and stole the trumps, blit at the same time
they don’t care a dam what you do. They’ve be
come indifferent and don’t carej nothin about
your Guy Fawkes business. 1 mean no respect to
you. gentlemen, but 1 swore to tell the whole
truth. Our people aint a noticin you only out of
curiosity. They' don’t expect anything decent, or
honorable, or noble from you, and they’ve gone to
work diggin and plowiu and plantiu and raisin
boy children.”
Right there the man with the memorandum
scratched down a garbled extract, and old Bnut-
weil says be: “What do you mean by that sir ?—
What.inference do they intend ?
I’m statin facts,” says I. “You must draw your
own inferences. They arc raisin boy children.—
Any harm about that ? Any' treason ! Gan t a man
raise boy children ? Perhaps you’d like to amend
the Constitution and stop it. Old Pharaoh tried
to stop it among the Israelites, but it didn’t pay.
He finally caught the dropsy in the Red Sea.—
We arc raising boy children for the fan of it.—
They are a good thing to have iu the house, as Mrs.
'foodies would say'.”
“Mr. Arp, are not the feelings of your people
very bitter towards the North ?”
“I beg your pardon, sir, but y'ou’ll Lave to split
tbe question, < r else I’ll have to split the answer.
Our people have a very high regard for honorable
men, brave men, noble-hearted men, and there’s a
heap of’em North, sir, and there’s a heap of wid
ows and orphans there we are s >vry for ; but as for
this here Radical party, they look upon ’em like
they was hyenas a scratchin up the dead for a liv
in. It’s as natural to hate’em as it is to kill a
*nake. It’s utterly impossible for me to tell the
strength and lengrh aud Light, depth and breadth
of their contempt for that party. They' look upou
a Radical as—as—as—wet! as a beggar on horse
back—a buzzard sailin round a dead eagle—a suck
egg dog creepin up to the tail of a dead lion. They
talk about hirin’ Brownlow to abuse 'em, to use
language on ’em, like he did a few years ago,
when he spoke agaiust Pryne. If they do hire
Brownlow, he’l spatter ’em, hc’l daub ’em all over,
mid slime ’em and slobber 011 ’em about right, and
it will stick, lor the pores aro open aud their mor
als spongy. I’d like to stand oil’ about ten rods
and hear him spread himself. It would be worse
than a squirt-gun full of cow slop, and I Lave no
doubt would give general satisfaction.”
“That’s sufficient, sir,” says old Boutwell. “If
it was in their power to do so, would your people
renew the tight 1”
“Not unless they could Sght the Radicals all
alone, and all the world agree to ‘hands off.’ Even
then there wouldn’t be no fight, for we couldn’t
cotch you.’’
“What do your people say upon ]the subject of
negro equality ?”
“They say it’s a lie, sir—it don’t exist by natnre
and never can iu practice, Folks were not created
free and equal. That may be h theoretical truth,
but it's always been a practical lie. There’s
grades of society every where. There’s men I give
the sidewalk to. and there’s men that gives it to
me. There’s men that I vote, and men that vote
me, aud the grades go up, step by’ step, from my
sort to Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens, and General
Lee, and Howell Cobb, and Ben. Hill, and their
sort; for they are the highest in the nation; aud
then again it goes from me down, down, down to
the niggers, aud the Republicans and the Radicals,
and that's as low' as they run. There aiut uo
equality, and you can’t make one. We 11 vote the
niggers certain. I’ll vote Tip, and Tip’s a ‘head
center.” He’l vote about'forty, and the first thing
you know, vve’l elect seven, big, black, greasy
niggers to Congress. We’l do it certain—seven
of’em 16 carats strong, with African musk. The
other rebel States will do the same thing, and you’l
have about fifty of ’em to draw seats with, and
you cau all stick your legs upon your desks to
gether, aud swap lies and vermin, aud bo sham-
pood at the same shop, and the fair sexes cau set
together in the galiarics and mix odours, and fan
their scent shout promiscuous. We’l give y’eu a
full benefit of your Civil Rights bill, sec if we don’t.
You go on—play your cards. We are bidin our
time. We are payin your taxes and your duties
aud back rations for 1664, andlicenses, aud your
infernal revenue, and obeying your laws without
havin any hand in raakin ’em, and we are cut off
from pensions aud public lands ; and you sold a
poor man’s still in my county tire other day be
cause he couldn’t pay your tax on some peach
brandy he stilled for his neighbors two years ago ;
and soon ycu’l be sellin tho land for the land tax,
and you’re tryin your best to play the devil gener
ally; but you’l catch it iu the long run. Bee if
you don’t. Talk about Fenians. When the good
non of the North and the South all get together,
tbey’l walk over the track so that you won’t have
ime to get out of the way. Yuu’l subside iuto ob
scurity, and your children will deny that their
daddies ever belonged to such a party, Excuse
me. gentlemen, but I'm a little excited. Five
cents a pound on cotton will excite anybody that
makes it. Tax 011 industry—on sweat and toil.—
Protection tariffs for Pennsylvania and five cents
a pound tax ou Southern cotton—half its average
worth—and your folks will mauago some way or
other to steal the other half. Mj advice to you is
to quit this toolishness and begin to travel the
only road to peace.”
Old Blow couldn’t keep up with his garbled ex
tracts.
“What makes the PresiJeut so popular at the
South?”
“Coufrast, sir—contrast. The more he aint
like your party, the more popular he is. He would
t eat us about right, I reckon, if you would let him
alone, but yon bedevil him so, that sometinps fcr
don’t understand himself. I don’t thmk he knew
for a a while whether his Peace Proclamation rt
stored the writ of habeas corpus or uot. But do
you go ou aud ^npoach him, and that will bring
matters to a focus, i’ll bet you’d be in Fort Dela
ware in a week, and the Southern members be
here in their scats, and they'll look round at the
political wreck, ruin aud plunder and stealing
that’s beeu gnin on, and tlmy migbt exclaim, in
tbe language of the poet,
“Who's pin here since I'sh pi t gone *"
“Mr. Arp, suppose we should have a w
Witli
England or France, what would the rebels »>.
“They’d follow Gen. Lee, and Gen. J 0 j
and Lougsireet, and Bragg and oid lien *riT
opinion is. that Gen- Lee would in ad u,,., j- . ?
army, and Geu. Grant would be bis chief ot
and Gen. Buell would rank mighty bret, ;u . ^
“What would you do with Ueneral Bhernn r
“Sorry you mentioned him. We’d Lav,-1 0 [*
him, 1 reckon, as a camp tiddler, and ins* 0 i ' :t
sing 'Hail Columbia by tire light, as a ""
•ri
the boys how mean it is to bum cities an ,j,
and make war upon defenceless women anj ,
dren. No, sir, our boys woniJu t light
such.” * Uc *i«
At this time the man with the mcrrorandni-
down some more garbled extracts.
“Do you think Mr. Arp, that if the South s }
ever hold the balance of power, they wuu'j'V
maud pay for their negroes l”
“I can’t say, sir. But I don’t think the S „
has lost anything that way. We got their77'
before tbe war for their vitlela and clothes*-
doctor’s bills, and we get it now tor adoot^"
same. It’s all settled down that way. a!l ,j v “‘
Bureau couldent help it. 1 he only differci
in the distribution. Borne ol us don’t own as "
ny as we used to, but everybody has got a ni-V
or two now and they’ll vote eiu or turn emod '"
nigger that wouldent vote as I told him, ;
ent black my boots,”
At this time tho Committee looked at one aw-
er, seemin to be bothered and astonished i
bled extracts were put down with a vim. y '
Mr. Boutneli says he, “Air. Chairman, I q-
sir, we are about through with the
think, sir, his testimony settles the question .
what we ought to do with the Southern trj-
The Chairmau gave me a Republican njj
remarked, “Yos sir, I think we do. The
drels burned uiy irou works.”
Whereupon 1 retired, having given'genera]
isfaction. * ‘ a *'
Yours truly, BILL Afip.
Tbe Bureau Ih South Carolina and Cet, r .,.
Our correspondent, says the Now York IN -
with the investigation commission of Gens '
man and Fullerton, writes from Port Koval s r'
and Savannah, Ga., that a iar nmre favurbLo
dition of affairs is noticeable among the free ;
iu Port Royal, Edisto.and the Hilton Head h; ~
Under the administration of General Scott "
Commissioner of South Carolina, matters areT
grossing very satisfactorily- The same oid ,L"
of Northern peculation and malfeasance, how«;
is told in relating the condition of the Sea p
settlers. In Georgia the report is to the effeetju
the Freedman’s Bureau is an obstacle iu tiic-n"
-•f kindly feeling between the whites aiw
blacks.
The correspondent reports twenty-five thou-
freedirien upon the Sen Island, and about twem-
plantations encumbered with valid cerfiS«u«'
treedmen—the remainder being invalid and wur
less. He says the experiment of makino- t fc 0 r “
gro a planter, on his own account, has failed m:-
rably and singnaily. Those who were in the J.
tion last year to raise tweutv or thirtv bales 01 co
ton, have uot a cent, and are subsisting .
charity. He says they made miserable crop? a-
were robbed by Northern speculators, under ■
Bureau, of the little they did make.
rhe Commission were able to see but one iV
enltivated by freed men without the supervision
whites, that was in fair condition. On the tin.
worked by Northern speculators, the n-ere
weie found in a most wretched condition—i*; -
aud nailed. “In nine cases out of ton,” says a
“where we have come across a plantation poor
cultivated—the negroes hardly worked and mine
ably led—that plantation lias been leased 1;
year or two by a man from Massachusetts." t
yet the same correspondent indulges occssioui
iu his pleasant little episodes about the Souther,
planters gradually learning that the negro is ak;
man being—not a brute or a vegetable.” Hare:;'
planters gained this information from tho Non.,
era speculators—Massachusetts lease holder?
the Bureau officers and Missionaries, wWo ?.
ploit s in the way of benevolence aud humanity
has been recording for the last two luontiu -
Which of these busy functionaries gave the ip*
rant Bouthern planter his first lesson in huntanc }
[Jfessenrff.
CreTAsscs Id Louisiana
Tbe accounts of the serious disasters that h?r
come up from the State of Louisiana in c„l*
qiience of the great breaks in the levees of uJ
Mississippi river are really painful to read. At <•
eral points the crevasses have reached the mar.
tude of rivers. One of them is represented 1-.
stream twenty-five hundred feet wide, and theit
mense volume of water pouring iuto the adjxn
parishes suspends all the operations of agriculte
At Morganza a volume of water four hundred :i-
wide and ten or twelve feet deep has made;.
way through the bank of the river, aud great lie
es of property have already occurred.
It is feared that the cotton and sugar gvo”i”
parishes of the State will be almost totally rcic-
by this terrible flood. It is stated that during”:
war no measures of precaution were taken top
veut these disasters, and the levees werefreqs
ly cut by military order. A large emend”,
will be required to restore them to a safe cr-ndi:
Twenty years says an exchange, will not jnr
for Louisiana to recover the agricultural pro?. •
ty which she enjoyed six years ago.
Cbvii. Rights Bii.l Ignored in Yirgiiu
11 a siting ton, May 28.—A case involving the ■
stitutionality ol the Civil Rights bill has jnsrbw
decided adversely by Judge Thomas, of the C-'
cnit Court of Virginia, sitting in Alexandria
civil action between while men. One of thy
tics offered to produce negro evidence ; the Jt--
decided that inasmuch as the State laws ot V
ginia forbade the introduction of civil testimony
civil suits to w hich white men alone were par-
the evidence of the negro was inadmissible.s-
tliat no Congressional legislation could impair
right to decide what persons or classes wertc
petent to testify in her couits.
Civil Rights.—The Quitman Banner reper-
case as having occurred at Oak Grove Churc: •
that county, ou Sunday last. About two bun-
negroes appeared, and demonstrated their eq:-
by taking seats promiscuously through tbe bo-'
thrusting themselves into tbe same pews wiu ’
dies, who vacated their seats and left the
worshippers (?) in peaceful possession. TLi*
of course, done, not by tho free action of froo *-
but at the suggestion of w hite emissaries,te* ?
ny of whem are now scattered through rhe 1 j
try, poisoning the minds of the negroes, an- I
deavoring to stir up a feeling of hatred tow- j
the whites.
The Banner intimates that if this state of 1
continue, these “missionaries” will be ferret
and lost somewhere iu the woods aud swamp'
IMPORTANT DECISION.
New York, May 30.—Judge Nelson of the *
prerae Court, has delivered his decisie Q :fl j.
case of a prisoner in the Albany penitential
tbe trial of a civilian, in times of peace, by*
martial is illegal, and the conviction void-
Railroad Ext ensign.—We learn that the?
of Directors of the Alabama aud Tenness^ f
ers Railroad Company have closed what b ^
as the Breed contract., to extend the road t -
ton. By this contract Mr. Breed nndeiW*^
complete the road through to Dalton witk B
months. The road is now running to up 0,1 '
Jacksonville, Alabama, and considers!^
has been done on the route thence to Bal 10E '
Knoxville and Kentucky Railbo° c '
Knoxville Commercial states that the eE '”ri
mount of money required to buiid this to* '
Louisville to Knoxville has been secured.
work is progressing as rapidly as labor can JC
ployed.
Through Tickets Over Southern Rd, 1 '
At the recent convention of presidents *■’ j
iutendents of Railroad and Bteamboxt ““g,
tween Baltimore and New Orleans, held *
mond, it was resolved that through
agreed to from New Orleans, Mobile. .
ry, Atlanta, and Augusta, to Richmond. '
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and N e ‘ r °,.y
the basis of the prices charged for s* 1 * 1 ' , eS ,
via the Western and East Tennessee y
system of through checks from New 1 1)1
Orleans and intermediate points was de r! ’ u
Freedmen Kidnapped—The New
bune’s special saj s : “The Government^ _|
session of evidence going to show Ui* r ^
of Freedmen have been kidnapped
Eland,
and smuggled off to Turk’s
from
to do *® 3
rgiea on to 1 arK s 1 , 3 ?-.
work in the salt mines, or tKJinsfcii' su
engaged in the Coban slave trade. ^
The work no doubt of the undersfrapP^ j
Bureau—the same class of men that & ^
from Africa the negroes upon the coun- r .
(Jurat for speculation bas not yet abated*