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Humber 18.^
TO A BIRD.
Sweeter thon then all tlie poets
That have sang!
Mellow are the lyrics ringing
From thy tongue 1
Wondrous warbler, robed in feathers
Jet and gold!
Precious gems, the tiniest caskets
Surely hold.
Vainly mar earth’s boasted artists
Hope or sigh
E’er to deck their loveliest pictures
With such dye I
Who of mortal master* ever
Wrought such things ?
Made a golden aong, and gave it
Flash ing.wi«gs ?
Think ure, os we hear thy singing.
All day long,
Only Gotl the Artist, painteth.
Such a song /
I will weave a -little romance
For thee, bird.
From the walls of fairy legends
I have heard.
Once a Peri, doomed to penuuce
For a wrong.
Sought forgiveness of her monarch
Iu a song—
Wrought a strain of wildest music
Rare and sweet,
Laid it low amid the violets
At her ieet.
There beneath a uet of dew-drops,
On the grouud,
Sang the music like u spirit
Jewel-bound.
Through the world tho Peri wandered
From her lay.
Found u Hud, lone biid, enchanted
lly a Fay,
She brought her song and sung it
To the bird,
And it raised its voice and warbled
What it heurd.
Music of the bird and Peri.
Echoes woke,
And the cruel Fay’s enchauting
Bond was broke.
And the king forgave the Peri
Her great wrong,
And with gold he docked the singer
Of the song.
Though the songster that I sing of,
Thine the lay,
ChedKug the dit-mal moments
Of the day;
Filling all the vacant places
In my heart.
Golden singer, stay beside me,
Ne'er depart!
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[From Appleton's Journal.]
Only tho Old Clothes that She Wore.
BY 21. O. SHBFHEBD.
Recently at the Morgue, in this city, the
attire ef a drowned person alone remained
for identification."
[The following tender but tragical linos on-
ly just fore-sbsdowed the death of the author.
They were, we believe, the last he |ever
penned. Within a few hours after receiving
the price of his verse he died from the effects
of intemperance. This was on Saturday, tho
22d of May. Mr. Shepherd was well know
contributor to the magazines, and as a
writer of luent and often excellent poems,
and distinguished in certain circles Jn New
York es a representative Bohemian. He
bad wit, genius and prepossessing manners,
but was ruined by his passion for drink.]
There is the hat
With the blue veil thrown round it just as
they found it,
Spotted and soiled, stained and all spoiled—
Do you recognise that!
The gloves, too, lie there.
And in them still lingers the shape of her
fingers,
That some one has pressed, perhaps, and ea-
Ho slender and fair.
There are the shoes,
With their long silken laces, still hearing
To the toe's dainty dip, of the mud of the
Sip,
^. The slime of thewoM,
- — - Thor# is tho dress.
Like the blue veil, all dabbled, discolored
and drabbled—
This you should know, without doubt, and
ifao.
All see you may guess.
t *
There is ths shawl.
With the striped bolder^ hung next ii
tier, . c
Soiled hardly less than the light mnslin
Notice.
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Cc .ito 0 ‘be hxoojiD Monday in every month
‘bird Monday in May.
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Pfoppetorn.
TotEi
lUe «Unr.r* dtle wdBeedmy prioes. for
‘SS?® 5 ®
Ah, here’s a ring
ere forgetting, with a pearl setting,
There was only this one—name or dato!—
none!
A frail, pretty thiag.
. A keepsake maybe,
Yh» gift of knothcr, perhaps a brother.
Or lover, who know* ! him her heart chose,
Or, was she heart-free?
Doei the bat there,
With the bine veil aronad It, the same as
they found it.
Summon up a fair face with just a trace
Of gold in tho hair !
. i, . I f A month now has passed,
And her sad history remains jot n mystery.
But these we keep still, and shall keep tkai
until
»* Hope dice at last. - ” .
i lu*>ii iti . i G :
Was she tba prey
Of some deep sorrow clouding tbe morrow,
Hiding from view tba sky’s bappy blaaf
Or was there fool play?
, ,*Xiisqc: :o (inni^ba-R-i
Alwl,*kb a>»,UUI ^ . v .
Sob. on, or olhor, porbopa o fo&d Botbor.
. Ib*K^*jIlJl b«.weU?
Bonapart’o Domestic Life.
Napoleon became acquainted with the
guide of his destiny and the friend of
his life, the widowed Counteaa Josephine
de Bcauharnais, nee Tascher do la Pagor-
tbo salon of Mons. Chateau-Ben-
and. In apito of earlier events, the
young Bonaparte played a very impor
tant character in the brilliant assemblies
at the house of Gen. Bsrras. The hand
some viscountess, “a fairy woven of lace
and goose,” spoke to him several time*
in hen large-hearted way in pity for the
munner in which he had been neglected,
and, dead in love with her. The vis
countess could not have been more as
tonished than at the offer of marriage
which he made to her, and she wished to
decline the overture at once, regarding
him as “intolerably ambitious,” and say
ing that “he smelt too much of the cloth
and boots.” But Barras wished to make
the genius of the youug Bonaparte serve
him, and induced the unprotected widow
to give a favorable hearing. His words—
“The marriage with M’me Beaucliaruaia
will give this obscure little general a
name in the world”—strikes us as very
ridiculous now, when no one is interest
ed in M’me Beaulmrnui* except as she
was connected with Napoleon. Jose
phine's friends (M’me Tsllieu, the fash
ion queen of that time, M’me Chateau-
Benaud, and the latter Duchess d’Abi an
tes the loquacious M’lle do Permon)
followed their womanly instincts of
match-making and brought all their
tlueuce to bear in favor of the obscure
general. Still she hesitated a long time
before giving the fiuale “yes,” because
SUE FEARED HIM.
“I’m frightened,” she writes to one
her lady friends, “at the power which
Bonaparte wields over those around him.
His searching look is full of riddles, and
he even lords it over the directory. Just
think how he could make a woman trem
ble. Even that which should please
me most—the hotness of his passion for
me is just what makes mo hesitate ; my
youthful days are olreudy past, and the
question is whether I shall be able to re
tain this tenderness of affection, which,
with him, is most like the outbreak of a
volcano.”
Still Napoleon conquered her preju
dices by prayers and persistence, nnd the
civil marriage contract was finished on
March 9,1796. In certain circles Jose
phine was much blamed for this marri
age ; she was frequently called the “ci-
i devaut vicomtesse” in ridicule ; on one
occasion, a certain marquis refused to
take a seat near her at a ball, because,
as he said, she had “battered away her
misfortnne he could not forgive her,
because she did not mourn her first hus
band, who had been guillotined, like a
Roman Empress, all her life long. But
for Napoleon this marriage with the dis
tinguished lady was a
MIGHTT LEVER OF HIS SVCCESS.
Her talent and her knowledge of liu-
an nature pointed tho way for the
young adventurer. He had scarcely been
first counsel without her help. She be
came indispensable in his greatness—for
France intrigue must alway^irop up
merit—and, in addition to this, she was
the sum of a true wife, a tender and self-
sacrificing friend.
There is scarcely a single beautiol,
wifely quality which Josephine did not
possess ; her amiability has become pro
verbial—she was never known to say
anything unpleasant to auy one ; she
never drew tears. She softened the hard
ness of her husband ; she secured amnes
ty for the exiles and freedom for the
condemned, aud she made friends out of
his very enemies. She had an under
standing and appreciation of literatnro
and art, and a lively senso for all that
was beautiful. She was particularly par
tial to flowers. She transplanted the
first camelia from her home in the An
tilles to Europe, and also introduced that
peculiar poetical bird, the black swan,
among ns.
NAFOLEON’S LETTERS TO JOSEPHINE
The letter which Gen. Bonaparte wrote
to bis bride from Italy breathed forth
the great passion.
Wife—dream, torment, bliss of my
soul,” he wrote, “thy letters were cold
they have not the pulse-beat of the souL
Thou lovest everything more than me ;
Thou dost not, ou my account, forego
the first representation of a new play
the theatre, nor give up thy dinner with
the Barruses to write to me. Hast thou
not a little bit of love, one drop of that
great amiability which overflows from thy
heart, for me—thy husband? I envy
Fortune (her favorite cat) thy caresses !’*
occasion he sent to her from
the seat of war this pretty acknowledge
ment : ’ While I am winning battles, you
are winning hearts for me at home 1”
This love of Napoleon's, however, had
the shadowy side of a terrible jealoosy.
He set spies npon his wife in the per-
kons of his adjutants and secretaries, and
made even her coachman aud servants
watch her. Her excess of love frequent
ly lead him close to that very step which
be actually took twelve years later, under
the influence of an opposite feeling. He
threatened separation on several dif
ferent occasions. “I will destroy the
whole net of corly-heads and blonde dan
dies that flatter you—yea, I will have an
eclat, an open breach, a legal separation !*'
writes the jealous Napoleon. Once ha
had bis porter's lodge, and mads her
own domestics refuse her an entrance
into bis cabinet; and It was only very
reluctantly, in response to tba prayers of
his stepchildren, Eugenes and Hortenae
that ha consented to take
her to Ids anas again. A* a pledge oj
EXTRAVAGANCE AND AVARICE
Napoleon also tyrannized over the
poor Josephine with his avarice. She
understood perfectly how to dress her
self well aud play the part of Empress
with brilliancy, but she naturally needed
a large amount of money to do tliis. The
proud and rich Emperor stormed and
fumed over the large millinery bills, os
might a poor bourg<x>ise who was fear
ful of being brought to ruin by an ex
travagant wife. (Still he gave her the
command to appear at the court recep
tion so as “to shine through her beauty
and the brilliancy of her toilet.” If her
dress did noi happen to suit him he
would empty his inkstand over it; he
would send his creditors to prison in
stead of paying them. On one occasion
of his rage, a bill of three hundred hats
* month having been presented to
him, he smashed a costly aud magnifi
cent coffee service, which were, together,
fully worth the entire sum demanded of
him. He blamed especially her extrava
gance in the restoration of Malmaisou,
that mugnificeut repository of the great
est Freuch culture, which French canuon
has recently destroyed. The walls of
Malmaison were hung with Gobelin
tapestry made by the hand of Josephine
herself ; in the hot-house she cultivated a
thousand vuriets of the Jionaprtea specious,
a wonderful South American plant, so
named in honor of the Emperor by the
botanist Palisot.
No stranger ever dared enter Napo
leon's work-room ; she herself cleaned
the dust from his clothes, which -
spread about over the chairs—her
“relics,” she called them On his writing
desk lay a historical work, opened at the
very place where he had left off.
remarkable that Napoleon spent the four
days after the battle of Waterloo-
perhaps tho most bitter of all his
life—at Malmaison. From here
went to Rochefort to give himself
up to the English. What may he
have found in these halls, where
the footprints of his once dually beloved
wrife were still impressed, and through
which her sighs still echoed ? That wife
who hod been his good angel, to whom
his cruelty hail given the death blow,
and who still could not survive his mis
fortune.
An “fut” awake.
Mot Ura-tb*' HretTarkUh
ni«u brought to Europe..
Josepliiae • ^
THR SEPARATION.
The first harsh word between husband
and wife are apt to l>o the first drops,
which afterwards swell into the avalanche
of quarrels and criminations. Soon
Napoleon f olded, not only about Jose
pLine’a extravagance, but about all other
disagreeable circumstances, even the
weather. He always mode her feel his
bad humor; that powerful element dis
covered iu his love was changed into
despotism and selfishness. He forced
her into the duties of etiquette at the
cost of her personal freedom and health.
While ha himself would refuse to attend,
he would compel her to use all strength
to be present at the brilliant entertain
ments given in his honor. On one oc
casion he actually dragged the sick Em
press out of bed, forced her to dress her
self, and to make her appearauce ii
toilet at a bull. It was iu consequence
of this barbarism that Josephine after
word suffered from an ugly cutaneous
disease.
Napoleon’s divorce from his wife re-
muius a blank spot iu his life, from
whatever side it may be regarded. It
was a wicked and unnecessary piece of
business. When the separation had
been decided upon in council, the Em
peror himself undertook to commnui
cate it to the unhappy Josephine. He
dined with her ouce more, aud the mosl
painful scene ensued after the meaL—
Josephine tells of it herself, in the fol
lowing words:
After the coffee had been served,
Bonaparte sent the servant away, and I
remained alone with lum. My God,
what a look he had ! His whole body
trembled, and teiror to my heart.—
He took my hand, laid it upon his breast,
and then spoke these words : “My Jose
phine, you know how much I have loved
you. I have you alone to thank for the
happiness of my life, but my destiny is
stronger than my will. I muatjeven sacri
fice my greatest affection in favor of
France.’ ‘No more,’ I still had thepow-
er-to cry out. I knew what it meant; I
hod expected it, and yet the blow was
fatal. Suddenly l felt that I should grow
mad from grief, everything swam about
>, and I fell faintly to the gnmnd.”
Corespondent of the N. Y. Evening Pis*]
An Enormous Pigeon Roost
The propensity of wild pigeons to con
gregate in multitudes at given seasons is
well known, and many tremendous sto-
havo been told of them, tho details
of which were thought to make a heavy
draft on public credulity.] We have now,
however, authenticated information from
a gentleman of the highest reputation
who passed last week iu the section of
Wisconsin we are about to dever;be, of
roost”,bo enormous in extent that
throws all the older accounts into
the shade.
Commencing near Kiibourne City»
the breeding grouud exteuds northward
townships in lengths, and probably
with a variable width of from ten
to twenty miles. The forest within these
limits ore made np exclusively of oak and
evergreen, of a variety of species. It is
u samly district, embracing perhaps . the
poorest soil in the State, and apparently
destitute of food for oven moderate
flocks of birds. Yet almost continuously*
> whole area, every tree and
shrub is so loaded with nests os to be
past k computation in numbers. One
single pines, from eighty to one hundred
were counted, when the job had to be
given up as impracticable.
Our informant, Col. Henry Herndon,
gives so ue curious details of his expe
rience on his breeding ground, and of
the habits of the pigeon, when aggregat
ed in such multitudes. The nesting
place is not, as would naturally be sup
posed, selected for any abundance of
food, for a pigeon can readily pass iu
hour from fifty to a hundred miles,
that the range is really across the entire
State, and they have carried wide-spread
destruction among the grain fields. The
male uttends the young during the mid
dle of the day, the femnle returning to
ward evening to take charge. Only one
egg was anywhere found in a nest. The
incubation lasts about two weeks, and
the young in a short time after are ruth
lessly thrust out to take care of them-
Belves, and develop so rapidly that a few
days - suffice to give them full matu
rity.
Probably tho sex changes alternately
with eaoh brood, as the process of hatch
ing goes on continuously. Millions of
the young perish, but it mukes no appre
ciable difference in tho number. Tho
woods ore alive with wolves, foxes and
all the species of native carnivora, who
feed to repletion without making any
sensible reduction of the aggregate.—
Scores of hnnters catch their thousands
daily * in'nets—aud bands of Indians
busy iu drying and preparing other
thousands as a supply for next winter’i
use. But all the shooting, netting,
knocking form the trees with poles,
make auy seusible impression,
every form of destructive agency fails to
The scene in the night is described
most remarkable. Immense flocks get
benighted while off feeding, and, as they
return, tho roar of their wings through
the forest is overwhelming. They pile
upon each other literally in heaps, break
ing the overburdened brambles, and pre
cipitating multitudes from their parches
upon the grouud. The wild wings and
the chntterings that fill the air as late
as midnight, is truly appalling, while the
odor arising from the countless dead and
drooping produce a stench utmost intol
erable.
The “ flock,!’ if that term is compre
hensive enough, is moving northward
and will probably reach Lake Superior
iu June, when the “season” will close
by a return South, which generally takes
place l»y way of Michigan. They proba
bly auuually make a great circuit, lika a
buffalo, from North to South and re
turn. Any one curions to see this spec
tacle should take the curs (o Kiibourne,
City and follow ap thw cant side of the
Wisconsin river The thousands sent to
market are caught at points far distant
tant from the herding grounds, so that
the, real locality is not generally
known.
As a general rale, soldiers should be
eschewed when wo think of making Pres
idents. In Grant, and Sherman, and the
“G. A. R.,” we have had soldier politics
enough for one generation. “The shoe
maker to his last” is a good maxim in
President and Cabinet making, as it is
elsewhere. We uced statesmen to do
tatesmen’s work. When toga yields to
the sword, and force and slaughter ore
the ultima ratio in the maintenance of a
principle the soldier is needed. If the
exigency of the time* should particular
ly call for a soldier who will batcher his
own troops faster than ho does those of
the enemy, then the hour and the man
have met Ulysses Grant. Bat there are
times in which the soldier and the states-
aro found in ono ond the same man.
The first Napoleon was a wonderful in
stance in point Alexander Hamilton in
the past, and Bismarck in the present,
ien who not only exhibited military
talents in the intervals of their career as
statesmen, but they have caused the
world to believe that they had in them
the stuff to make great captains, had they
turned their studies to arms;
All things being equal, and the “let us
have peace” being settled as a reality,
and not as a false light to lure the coun
try into a war in peace, we should great-
irefer a sound, upright and incor
e Democratic statesman as our next
didate for the Presidency. But
not passing through a stage of ordi
nary political experience. The sword
constantly flashes in the eyes of men
above tho dust of the civil political arena,
There is a pervading feeling that this in
strument of Preridentiul ubitrament u
already half drawn, and that the Con
gress has encouraged and empowered
Ulysses to draw it at full length and nak
ed from its sheathe to settle the next
Presidential battle in its lost resort. In
other words, that if the “Copperheads”
and the “Rebels”—thereby meaning the
Democracy -should outvote him at the
polls, ho will discover a “military neces
sity” to appeal to force to make himself
In such a case it would be uncom
fortable to the Demociacy were they to
find themselves with an elected President
who was altogether a civillian. He might
be so very civil as to quail before the
menaces of force, and thus a military dic
tator have seized the Government by a
right of might—ond so a long farewell to
the Republio of the fathers, and every
vestige of free institutions.
Here would be a dilemma in which the
Democracy would have need of a leader
who was both soldier and statesman.—
We know of but one such
country who belongs to that side of the
Potomac from which a candidate has to
be taken. Wo need not mention the
name of Gen. W. S. Hancock, for the
reader will -already have anticipated it
He is the only soldier who graduated
from the war on the Federal side with
true and constitutional ideas of civil
freedom. Nor did ho tarry in making
those ideas known and felt. In the
heigbt of tbe high tide of intense
sectional bitterness, and in the seat of
Phil. Sheridan, as Military Governor of
Louisiana and Texas, he issued his fa
mous order No. 40, and thereby indelli-
bly stamped his name as a statesman,
patriot, and a lover of civil liberty, <
the history of his country. His letter to
Gov. Pease, of Texas, iu reply to an ap
peal from that worthy to let loose his
troops upon the conquered people of Tex
as, soon followed this order, ond that'
another State paper that will live os
shining episode on the record of the
darkest and gloomiest era this country
had yet experienced.
We have before ns a private letter from
a distinguished New Jersey Democrat,
who thus speaks of his availibility
candidate:
“He combiues more of the element
necessary to success than any man that
has been named. He affords a locus pen-
iten tin for the disaffected Republicans.
As against Grant, he will carry off a large
majority of tho soldier vote, while lus
nomination will bo perfectly satisfactory
to the Democracy of the North. . 0{"°
other candidate can all these things be
said. In addition, no civilian can be
elected that Grant, Morton & Co., will
not cheat out of his elect ion. With Han
cock, they would not dare to make the at
tempt. We most look to success, and per-
sonal ambition must give way to the
genres of the hour. There is reason for
believing that Pennsylvannia (his own
State.) Maine and Vermont, will be sold
for him ; his chances ure very good in
Missouri, and I do not despair of reach
ing Ohio. Some of the leading
the latter State lean that way.”
If there is a prospect for a struggle af
ter tlte Presidential votes are counted,
Hancock is the man. It was bis corps in
Virginia that Grant always ordered to
the front when hard work was to be done;
and there is not a soldier in Lee’s army
who was not a witness to his fighting
qualities. But this is not all; his Louis
iana administration proved Mm a soldier
of civil freedom as well. He is a Dcm
ocrat in the bargain, and on that score
eminently fitted for a Democratic nomi
nation.
Vulgarity.
A Rkmarearle Loom. —There is now
i exhibition, in one of the vacant stores
nnder the old National Hotel, one of the
most remarkable pieces of mechanism we
remember ever having seen. It is a new
loom for weaving woolen goods and tbe
coaser cott on fabrics ; but what is so re
markable about it is tbe immense rapid
ity with which it does its work. A yard
a minute is childs play for it, and from
five hundred to fifteen hundred yards an
ordinary day’s work! This is no guess
work, as any ono can ascertain for him
self by visiting the exhibition. The fab
rics produced are certainly equal to the
best imported goods, and we can see no
reason why the inventor is not destined
to work an entire revolution in the art
of weaving. The best judges pronounce
very strongly in favor of the utility and
great value of it, especially for the South
and wq are pleased to hear that an effort
ia to be made to secure, the control of it,
Atlanta. If any of oar readers have
tseen it, they should do so at once, as
we ‘understand it will remain in the city
but a fe> dajn—Daily True Georgian,
June Ikj.j
Sound Doctrine—Senator Trumbull,
of Illinois, stated, in a few words the
issue which hia Republican friends in
Oohgreair made dip for the next campaign,
.rr'ifi,; ■
HTha qtirotion is whether we aroio
_ fiuaeeo well that ehe orderedlw generateifitehw. bale oentralii.
Toeng lediee had letter be fut uleeji more of them before tho close of her I sotidated .^woreromeot ;i<to etril
-ii-*#iil<itw:Vi .i c -.mil thirtyweren and hate bql <000. f c
bn**,
longer have a Republic compoMpd .pt
Ifitafew, but a centralizrdjcon-
“ strike out
Musket Balls iu the Body.
In Frazer's Magiuiue wq find the fol
lowing
A number vf curious cases of tho pro
gress of musket balls from tho place
where they are first lodged have been ob
served by military surgeons. We have
heard of a remarkable case where tbe
muskbt ball struck the forehead above
the nose,, and having divided iuto two
halves, one hulf went round beneath the
skin on the right aide, and tbe other on
the left, advancing in contact with the
skull. We do not ask our readers to be
lieve the poetical edition of this fact, that
the two half bullets met again behind, af
ter having performed the circuit of the
head in opposite directions, and advanc
ing with a slightly diminished force,
united nnd killed an unfortunate man
who stood in the way ; but the fact of tbe
splitting of the bullet, and the sdvsnoe
of each half in opposite directions ia un
questionable. The singular progress of
a musket bullet from the forehead to the
throat has been recorded by Dr. Field-
AtThrf first battle of Newbury,
in the timo of the Cromwellian civ
il war, a medical gentleman xraa. shot
near the right eye. The skull was fract
ured at the place; but though the surge
on could see the pulsation of the brain
beneath the wonnd, yet the bullet had
turned on ono aide and coold not be dis
covered. Various bone* were discharge
ed’from the wound, the mouth and the
nostrils At the time of the second bat
tle of Newbury the wound healed and
could not be kept open; but about twelve
yean afterward,. when the doctor waa
riding ip a dark night, he felt a pain
abont the 'almonds of the ear,* which
occasioned a partial deafness. Having
stopped hia ear with wool,* he. was sur
prised one day In March. 1670, by a *nd-
den pnUoE crack m hia. W when all
that side of nia cheek hung Ioqc A as if it
~l%&n^tfalyt!o,“4tfd i a bafd^ 1 knot was
andertha «•*-. Various tumors n6w;
.U>ro»VRRa iq lR-Uunlutf'ftmltfrliMrt
Vi SSflwW to
Lua ... iamim 1M niiTAr riiatm
Sam Johnson’s Oration.
White folks, Braddorin, Sisters, or
any odder man :
It is wid de feelins ob do greatest, in
clination dat I hab de honor lo disappear
befdro yon dis evanin,to express our pro
bitionary existence, an own filial indul
gence. An why do we submit to dis
oberwhelmin dislocation ? We all know
we do, dat we know we know, an
ob oonrse we do ; an dat’s what’s de mat-
Spose dat Cambodia de Great does
a his bridge across de Carribean Ocean,
as to konnect wid de Pennslytucky
Railroad; does dat make it dat we
hab got to pay free cents postage to cross
ober ?—not much. Den, on de Oder
hand, if Horraco Greedy does ran his tel
egraph across do Gulf of Long Island
Sound, what’s dat got to do wid Me-
Lane’s libber pills, or de Hoosio Tunnel,
hain't it ? Au again, sposo dey do ketch
Queen Victoria, is dat gwino to hab any
ting to do wid stoppin do progress ob de
Frussian Pranko war ? Won’t it ? Well,
I guess not bad.
Now, feller stugents, it is time for ns to
se np an strike at our owu feelins, if
we expect to submit to de efforts ob de
Babment. I’ll do you good—an data de
pint we expect to carry at de next sittin
of de Congressional Legistur obde board
of Common CounciL As Dr. Bismark re
marked in his great remark before de
House ob Parliament at Bristol, he said:
'American citizens— American citizens,
he said, didn’t he ? an he was right—
11 dat’s whst’s de matter.
Nextly, bradder Mormons, leff us take
a glimpse at de American eagle. What
you gwine to do wid dat dare bird, hey ?
Dere it staus, ou de summit ob de Rock-
ygliany Mountains, wid a bottle ob Mrs.
Winslow’s soothin syrup under one foot,*
box ob de Risin Sun s|ove polish
under de odder, hollerin aloud dat beau
tiful poem by Madder Goose, 'Excel-
ov V
Lastly, my feller hypocrites, leff
take a look at southern contbieverasy,
an J what do we see dar ? don’t we ? Don’t
“ * it wid a masked battery under
au a pirate ship stioken out ob
each pocket, standin on de ruin ob Fort
Sumter, tryin to climb up Mount Ver
as to pull down de good ole
flag ? But dare stuns de Union bull-dog,
Ginerol Grunt, an he grabs King Cot
ton by do middle ob de trowsers, an
shakes him into du middle ob next
week.
For when do Fief h c does discribber,
He send him long np Salt ribber,
De Union dey shall ne’er dissiber,
For de stars an stripes mus float for
eber,
Au dat’s what's da matter wid Hannah.
How Women Get Office in Wash
ington.—A correspondent of the Pitts
burg Chronicle writes from Wasqington :
The road to preface in official life ii
ily easy by comparison. I do not pro
pose to mandate the Capital with femi-
niuo solicitors by intimating that ap
pointments grow on the trees that shade
Government grounds, bat only to show
how hundreds of women sro transferred
from their homes to the elevated station
of the “Treasury ladies.”
For example, a father from Maine or
Vermont, by the favor of his member,
gets a clerkship for himself. He lisa a
daughter, and, after.* time, by persever
ing effort, she gets a place. The fami
ly all go into society, entertain company
and become inllueutaL They have a
cousin or niece, and presently they get a
place for her, because it is so nice for her
to have an independent purse with which
to dress herself, and the valne of her
board adds to the revenae of the family.
This is a true illustration not of an
isolated case, but of hundred*
In some instance the daughters of farm
ers, who are little restricted in their re
sources, and covet a gayer life, persevero
with their members until they get ap
pointments, and thus become independ
ent of the paternal source of supplies.—
Not long since a lady died in onei of our
hospitals, who had saved hundreds of
dollars from her salary, and who had
comfortable home for a depart
ment place that many a soldier's widow
had begged for. A neico of]Ben.{Butler
was her fortunate successor. '
There is a lady resident of the District
of, Columbia, who holds a place in one
of the most desirable bureaus. 8he has
very pleasant home with her family,
all the members of which, including
herself, would he quite indignant if it
waa intimated that necessity compelled
her toseekor aooepi employment from
the Government. At this time she is
making an extensive foreign tour, iu
company with distinguished friends,
while a sister acts as herjsubelitate in the
department '**'
A very large portion of the women. ap
pointed from Virginia and the District
have sympathized with the rebel side,
and do still. :>.>•-
Some few Senators remain iu Wash
ington a considerable portion of vacation
time. They are the most successful.
One of them is a great favorate with the
ladies, and has wonderful success in pro
curing plaoee for them.
We commend the followingjextract to-
the thoughtful study of the young. Noth-
iug is so disgusting and repugnant to the
feelings of the noble and good, as to hear
young, or even the old, use profane,
or vulgar language. The young of
town are particularly guilty of pro
fanity.. In our day, it seems the ‘‘boy’
docs not feel himself a “man” unless h e
can excel in this great sin.
We would guard the young against
use of every word that is not strictly
proper. , Use no profane expression—
allude to no sentence that will put to
blush the most sensitive. Yon know not
tho tendency of habitually usingindecent
and profane language. It may never be
obliterated from your heart. When yon
grow up you will find at your tongue’s
end some expression which you would not
use for any money. It was used when
quite young. By using care yon will
save yourself a great deal of mortification
and sorrow. Goo^ men have taken sick
and become daliriotis. In these moments
they Used the most vile‘and indecent lan
guage imaginable. When . informed. of
it altar restoration to health they had no
idea of thtf’pain they caused; they * had
learpejl.snd repeated the expressions in
childhlddd, and though years had pass
ed riiicc: they had been indelibly
' * heart: Think of this,
From the Falatk* (Fla.) Herald.]
Attacked by Alligators.
A gentleman who has been stopping
our midst for some time, gives
count of ouo of the most terrible scenes
ever recorded in the annals of this c
try. While steaming up the plaoid
tern of the Ocklawaha river he witnessed
a conflict which made his hair stand
end, never to be forgotten. After round
ing Sackett’s Point the stream widens
and deepens, and tho water at this hand
always looked troubled and black. Sud
denly the steamer encountered a
alligators, floundering [ and|) splashing
wateUin every direotion. Their bellow
ing shook the foundation of the water*
The captain says he never heard or wit
nessed such a scenfc' before and never
wishes to again. Before the speed of
the little steamer could be checked tliey
found themselves in the midst of these
terrible monsters. To go back or to go
ahead was impossible. The passengers
endeavored to drive them away by shoot
ing, and the hands on board beat them
with handspike* yet they seemed more
determined to obstruct the passage of
the boat.
The situation every moment became
critical, and the crew and passengers
more and more exhausted, and the de
struction of the boat seemed, inevitable.
Already three colored hands had been
devoured by these terrible monster*
and several others wounded. Several
planks were torn from the hall, and the
steamer was with difficulty kept from
•inking. Just at this period a source of
relief came. A huge serpent appeared,
making his way from the lakes—the
same, it is supposed, that waa seen at
Devil’s Elbow ” last fall The alliga
tors soon disappeared, following the sea
devil, or whatever yon may coll him,
and such fighting never was witnessed’
At] a point ,where the river suddenly
narrow* it soon became blocked with
dead alligators and the .water Was refl
with blood. It is difficult! to account
for the number and sadden appearance
of these animal* bat the Utet* theory
may throw some light upon the subject.
,4guagc. and never disgrace yourselves.”
It is believed by many, that there is a
large snbterraneoos passage of water
between the headwater* of the Ocklawaha
and the waters of the Okehoobee lake,
and that these modsters h%ve found their
way here in great number* and if not
soon exterminated, will obetraot tke navi
gation of the Ocklawaha.
Journalistic Snobbery.
“Miss Nellie Grant is engaged to a
Lieutenant of the navy.” “Miss Nellie
Grant will be sweet sixteen on the 4th of
July next. ” These are paragraphs which
are going the rounds of tba&reat. Stop
them. Hit the old man os much as yon
please—and you can’t hit him too hard—
but, for the sake of common decency,
let the unoffending members of the fami-
lyalone.” ;* •
The above is from the Louisville Couri
er-Journal, and it calls to inind the fact
that snobbery is rapidly becoming a moat
disgusting feature in American journal
ism. It is true that it has not yet been
developed to any very considerable extent
in the South; yet a few paper? have yield
ed to it, and are paying some attention
to tvhat is called ^‘society new*"'
When a newspaper drags a lady young
or old, married or single, from the priva
cy of her horn* and parade® her by
uame, or conapicioos institution before
the public, as a thing to be compliment-
ed' or criticised, a great breach of the
rules of society is committed, and woman
is deprived *of that privacy which is tho
safest guard to her purity.
Few newspaper men who have wive*
sisters or daughter* caro to have them
held up tothe.pnblie gaze through the
columns of the pres* Arid yet we find
newspaper writers taking precisely such
liberties with the wivei*-' aisteis and
daughters of other memt True, there
are some women whp ooyet such notori
ety ; yet it is a pleasure to believe that it
is not such women as give American so
ciety its tone. * I
The fact that there are Anthonie*
Stanton* Dickensons and Woodhnlls
does not destroy the privacy of female
character and allow scribblers a license
to handle their names as they would the
names of public 'men. Though] a few
women have unsexed themselves it does
not follow that tho press -.has the liberty
to unsex the remainder.
Let woman alone. Let her' be the
queen of society if she can ; but do not
make her a common stock of public—and
frequently disreputable—criticism, by
dragging her name into publio print*—
The parity and sanctity of home clusters
around the wife, the mother the daught
er, the sister. Let it not be corrupted
by tmkalkrwed touch; bat leave woman
in. her. retirement. Her glory ia there,
and her honoif, and she need not go be
yond it for authority to perpetuate her
precedence in society ur in the lore and
esteem of man. Let ns have done with
journalistic snobbery.—Atlanta Sun.
■ 1 m ■ ■ ‘"’■". 'fin ,
A Singular Mods or Telling the
Hour.—An exchange gives the following
singular method of telling the time of
tho day or night, which we copy for the
benefit of thorn who wish to try-the ex
periment : • • 1 ’
Seat ' yoursolf at a table. Attach a 1
piece of metal (say a shilling,) to a thread.
Having placed your elbow on the table,,
hold the thread between the thumb and
forefinger, and allow the shilling to hang
in the center of. a glass tumbler. The
pulse will immediately vibtate dike a
pendulum and vibration will increase un
til the shilling striXST the sides of the
glam; andsnpparing ti* time of the ex
periment to be at the boor of 7 or i71-2,
the pendulum will atrike the glam seven
time* and then kzm; Its momentum and.
return to tho center. If yon hold the
thread a sufficient length of tim*4hc ef
fect will repeat; bat not until a sufficient
f time has elapsed to, convince
A long nosed thin shanked old maid
appeared at the door of a fanhers hoose
the other jttra ilbwa, and wanted hie
wife to ahb^mibefor some woman’s news-
>. and sl^i>petitkm foe woman’s
This wifeeeUed oat, Charles,
, „ drewd of . rosy
ed> children.’ She 1 then: tamed to
sitbr and said, “Have yon: any of
these r No I was tho sharp reply.—
•Then replied tho buxom wife,” go and
get a few, and afterwards come to me
‘ about woman's rights if you feel likeifc
length of ^ _
yon that therexperimentfkli
We need not add tb*. the „
beheld with a Maadjmtand,
tbe vibrating motion wiU be,
edi At whatever hour of*
night tbe experiment ..is mud
extauee will be the mm*
tr*
ui» l-et M.
Development ,o* (
ilMiRcoanter, “don’t lillt. lo
development of epeciee. . The
worth Rfadjingie the develop-
r 1- :LVv tMN-t- ....’
.ulo IO id,