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Wordtof Wisdom From the Grave of
Lee.
One of the moat interesting features
of the late commencement exercises at
Lexington University in Virginia, was
tho address of John Goode, Jr., before
the literary societies.
Mr. Goode is one of the rising states
men of Virginia, a gentleman of admi
rably balanced intellect; of temper
thoroughly schooled to his command,
brave, eloquent and accomplished. He
was one of the prominent members of
the Confederate Congress, representing
* portion of the memorable district
which once did similar honors to, and
was honered in turn by, John Ran
dolph.
We regret that a lack of space pre
vent* us front submitting to our readers
the full text of his able and eloquent
address. It is admirably suited to the
times, and, while reading it, one can
not fail to be impressed with the con
ceit that the orator must have been to
®ome extent inspired by tho spirit of
the great Virginian, whose remains rest
hard by the rostrum occupied on the
occasion. The contribution of Mr.
Goode to the better spirit which is wel
ling up in the popular heart from one
*nd of the country to the other, is as
frank and fair as it is wise and able,
*bd cannot fail to elicit a response from
tight thinking and right feeling men
everywhere.
Its effect upon the young men just
going forth to the battle of life could
not have been anything but deep and
Permanent.
We append a few of the most salient
Passages, feeling that no contribution
of our own pen could so well fill the
oolumn editorial Mr. Goode is re
ported as follows:
The gallant people who survived the
have preserved a stainless record of
which any people might well be proud.
Though abandoned by fortune, they
yet escaped disgrace. Though
forsaken by the genius of public liber
ty) they have yet preserved untarnished
the shrine of the public h;*nor. Instead
of abandoning themselves to dispart,
they have gone to wc rk with a resolute
purpose and indomitable will worthy of
the heroic race from which they sprang.
They have exhibited recuperative en
ergies such as no people have ever ex
hibited before. Rich and abundant
harvests have been gathered*from fields
lately trampled by the red-fiery hoof of
war. New buildings have been erected
in our towns and cities, giving profita
ble employment to the mechanic, the
artisan and the laborer. New works of
internal improvement have been pro
jected and are in process of constructipn.
Her schools and colleges have been
crowded, not only by her own sons, but
by the youth of other sections, who
have been attracted to her soil no less
by the excellence and superiority of her
institutions of learning than by the sa
cred memories and glorious traditions
which belong to her past history.
It would be impossible to urge too
strongly the duties and responsibilities
of the hour upon the deliberate, ear
nest consideration of the young men of
the South. The obligations of patriot
ism demand that you shall not sit down
and fold your arms in ignoble and in
glorious ease. Ydfe must enter the con
tests of life with strong arms and stout
hearts, or be contefe to forfeit all its
bright and magnificent rewards. Thd
voices of the past come mingling with
the voices of the present, and they all
constrain you by every consideration of
interest and of honor to dedicate to the
service of your native land the highest
energies of your nature and the noblest
powers of our souls. While it becomes
a pious and sacred duty to preserve its
noble traditions and cheerish its .holy
memories, it must not be forgotten that
to tne keeping of the young men of
tho South will soon be committed her
future destinies and all her hope3 -of
pro>perity and happiness.
You uiust grapple heroically with the
issues of the living present, aud not re
ly exclusively upon the exploitsof those
who have-preceded you in the battle of
life. An eminent British classic has
beautifully said that “to the future and
not to the past looks true nobility of
soul.” Far be it from me to inculcate
a spirit of hostility and vengeance
toward the people of any portion of our
common country. Far be it from me to
rekindle the animosities and hates which
were inseparable from our recent san
guinary struggle. On the contrary, k
is the earnest aspiration of my heart
that those animosities and hates shall be
forever buried, and that the white wings
of the sweet messenger of peace may
once more overspread the entire land.
There is nothing which the people of
the South more ardently desire than
lasting and enduring peace.
• DUTIES OF THE FUTURE.
But, while I deny that the sword has
ever settled or can ever settle any ab
stract question of right, I concede that
it is the dictate of wisdom and patriot
ism to submit to the “logic of events.'’
and that the highest Statesmanship con
sists in a proper adjustment of the con
ditions in which we find ourselves placed.
Since the fortunes of War have decided
adversely to our claim of separate na
tionality, and it has been determined in
the dispensations of Providence that
the government of the United States
shall be our government, and. the flag
of the American Union shall be our
flag, it becomes our patriotic duty to
extinguish the bitterness and hate .of
the past, and with uplifted brow to look
bravely and hopefully to the future.
While I do not counsel you to enter up
on the devious paths of p; litics I be
lieve that it is the patriotic duty of
every citixen to take an interest in the
affairs of his government; that those af
fairs ought not to he left to the man
agement and control of trading profes
sional politicians, and that ‘‘eternal vig
ilance is the price of liberty.”
There are influences at work which
threaten the destruction of every con
stitutional barrier, of every limitation
of power, and of every safeguard of
freedom. We have seen State govern
ments overthrown and'legislative assem
blies dissolved. We have seen civil
governments completely sul«or«linated to
the military. We have seen the right
of trial by jury denied, and the great
writ of civil liberty suspended in a time
of profound peaoe. We have seen a
helpless and unarmed people disfran
chised and subjected to the arbitrary
rule of military masters. It is my de
liberate conviction that there is no hope
for the preservation of civil liberty up- -n
the continent until local self-govern
ment is re-established in all the States,
and the great truth is recognised by all
departments of the general government
that it is a government of well defined
and limited powers. Here Isjthe sheet-
anchor of our h pes and the palladium
of our .liberties. There is m way of
escape from the difficulties which envi
ron and the changes which threaten us
but in a speedy return to our ancestral
faiths and to those cardinal principles
which underlie the foundation of our
representative system of government.
The obligations of patriotism require
every good citizen to oppose the cen
tralizing influences of the times in
which we live, and to gather up the
fragments of a broken constitution with
the same eagerness with which the ship
wrecked mariner would seize the last
plank when the midnight storm and
tempest are howling around him.
PROGRESS OF THE 80UTH DEPENDENT
UPON HER SONS.
They require the exercise of what
ever influence we may possess, not only
in opposing the centralizing tendencies
of the government, but in contributing
to the moral elevation and improvement
of the individual citizen. The public
safety and the national honor depend
upon the force of individual character.
Lord John Russell once observed that
“it is the nature of party in England to
ask the assistance of men of genius, but
to follow the guidance of men of char
acter.” Wha; a happy day it will be
when,the same observation will be true
with reference to pai ties in this .c. un
try, where none but men of character
can command the public confidence and
support, when every position of honor
and of trust shall be filled by a repre
sentative man of incorruptible integri
ty, who will “feel a stain like a wound,”
and avoid corruption in office as he would
flee from “the pestilence that walketh
in darkness and the destruction that
wasteth at noonday.” Nothing is nec
essary to lift the South from the dust
and restore her to pristine greatness
and glory but a resolute purpose and
earnest effort on the part of her sons.
If her young men who are now enter
ing up"n the theatre of life will deter
mine not to shrink from honest toil; if
they will seek employment n->t only in
the learned professii ns, but in. the use
ful departments of commerce, mechan
ics and agriculture; if they w : ll carry
into those departments not only strong
arms and stout hearts, but skilled labor,
trained intellects, and incorruptible in
tegrity ; if they will imitate' the prim
itive simplicity and old-fashion, homely
virtues of their ancestors; in a Word,
if they will exhibit the same high qual
ities in peace which illustrated the con
duct of their elder brothers in war, our
bek ved South will once more “bloom
and blossom like the rose.”
Railways in China- *
Through a special Herald dispatch
from London, (says that paper of the
5th) we learn that a private meeting
has been Convened at -Stafford House
for the purpose of promoting railway
enterprises in China;—that it is in c >n-
templation to furnish a free girt rolling
stock sufficient to* equip ten miles of
railway as an inducement, by a practi
cal experiment, to the Chinese Emper
or to sanction the construction of a net
work of railroads through his domin
ions, and that abundance of capital can
be commanded for the work. The com
mittee on the subject are to call a pub
lic meeting under the auspices of the
Lord Mayor of London.
The importance of this scheme will
be readily appreciated if considered in
connection with the British railway
project for connecting the Mediterrane
an with the Persian Gulf by way of
the Euphrates River and with Baron
Reuter's Persian railway contracts, and
with the British, railway system of Hin
dustan. Taking all these grand schemes
and systems together, they simply look,
first, to the control and absorption of
the trade of the whole of Asia south of
the Russian Empire, and to a strong po
litical foothold rrom Asiatic Turkey to
India on the west, and from the Pacific
Ocean to India on the east, against any
grasping designs or supposed hostile de
signs of Russia. But. whether by En
gland or Russia, the building of exten
sive railway lines in Asia, east or west,
will be for the general benefit of man
kind, aud so we wish success to all such
enterprises.
China has not a single railway, for
the reason as stated in Abbe Hue s nar
rative that they could not be built with
out desecrating graves. China is, as a
matter of course, considering its age
and teeming p pul tion. one great grave
yard. and the leading idea of the re
ligion of the Chinese is reverence for
their dead ancestry. How the English
will induce the Chinese to unction the
inexor. ble aligmeiit of a railway over
a soil in great part occupied by the dead
is a perplexing question.
THE GREAT STORM. ■
Particulars of the Havoc in Ohio, In
diana and Other States—Complete
Destruction of Wheat and Growing
Crop*—Incalculable Losses.
Cincinnati, July 8.—Heavy rains
are reported through the region of the
recent storms, covering a portion of
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and further
west. Crop reports are gloomy. '
Jacksonville, III., July 8.—
Twelve and a quarter inches of water
fell between 12 and 5 o’clock, bridges
were swept away and great damage to
crops resulted. Many bridges and cul
verts were washed away. Spring wheat
is fiat on the ground. Winter wheat is
harvested. Sprouting crops are flooded
on the lowlands and damaged' on the
highlands.
Cincinnati, July 8.—The following
accounts of damages to the crops -and
buildings and estimated losses by the
recent rains have been received here
In _ hio, through Fayette county, the
wheat ahd corn have been seriously
damaged, many trees uprooted and one
barn demolished; loss estimated at three
thousand dollars outside of crops. In
Washington county crops were consid
erably beaten down and estimate ef loss
cannot be made, reports not having been
sufficiently lull. In Delmont county
several icres of timber were destroyed
for a mile around. In Belmont nearly
all. the fences were blown down, admit
ting stock into grain fields. Wheatand
corn were also flattened out. In Mor
row county, in the vicinity of Cording-
ton, on Thursday and Friday the storm
levelled fences, and many valuable orch
ards hfere ruined Ip Franklin county
the loss is estimated at from $50,000 to
$100,000. The bottom lands were cov
ered with water, destroying crops. Part
of the canal in the town of Winchester
is under water, compelling some of the
firms to stop business. -In the southern
portion of Licking county crops, of all
kinds are badly damaged. The Newark,
Somerset aud Strasville road suffered
severely; twenty-five miles of track
were washed out and several bridges
destroyed. In Clinton county the grain,
iti shock, r.nd that standing in the field*
were alike prostrated, making it neces
sary to raise a great part of it by hand
In the southern portion of Greene coun
ty wheat crops suffered. The estimated
loss is from fifteen to twenty per cent
In'other portions of the county the loss
is considerably lighter. The weather is
still showery, and unless it clears up
soon the wheat Crop, which is dead ripe
will be partly injured. In Muskingum
eounty, Zanesville. Washington, Perry,
Wayne and Knox townships suffered a
loss by damage to growing crops not less
than $100,000, besides a heavy loss of
timber. In the southern part of Bug
ler county the rain did damage to the
crops; a large lot of timber was also
blown down. In Pickaway county crops
destroyed and washed away approxi
mate a loss of $100,000. To this may
be added broomecom, within three miles
of Circleville, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
In Athens county at Nelsonville, the
Hocking river overflowed and inundated
the lower part of the town. A large
number of families were compelled to
leave their houses and contents and fly
for life, so sadden and unexpected did
the flood come. Crops in the b >ttom
lands are a total loss. Damage to crops
is estimated at $100,000. A great num
ber of families living along the river, in
the vicinity of Athens, were compelled
to move to higher ground. The Mari
etta and Cincinnati railroad track is cov
ered with water, too deep to allow the
passage of trains.
In Fairfield county the loss of pub
lic and private property is estimated to
be over $500,000. Many low farms
were swept of everything but the build
ings.
The Hooking canal can not be repaired
having fifteen large breaks within a dis
tance of twenty-five miles.
. The Bremen canal is six feet under
water.
On the morning of the 4th instant,
four bridges on the Cincinnati and Mus
kingum and the Cincinnati and Hock
ing Valley railroads Were wrecked.
The Hocking canal and river are
made one stream by the u amorous
breaks.
In the southeast part of Indiana se
vere losses are reported. In Union
county crops are damaged ten to fifteen
per cent. In Ripley county the wheat
suffered badly. In Decatur county the
wheat will yield hut three fourths of a
crop. In Shelby county two thirds of
the wheat is lo»t- In Dearborn county
the ]oee of. crops will be far up in the
thousands. The same report oomes
ibr Fayette county, in which corn will
yield but three-fourths of a crop.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Particulars of the Wreck of the Steam
er City of Washington.
• New York, July 8.—The agent of
the I- uiau Hue telegraphed the
agents at Halifax to do every thing
possible regardless of expense for
the passengers of the wrecked steam
er Washington. The baggage and
spare stores were safely landed with
the passengers and crew. She car
ried no mail.
Halifax, July 8.—Details of the
wreck have been received. The City
of Washington left Liverpool on the
24th of June, saw neither sun nor
stars during the passage, and it wa9
impossible to make observations.
When she struck, Saturday -after
noon, objects could not be seen three
yards ahead. She was going about
nine knot when she stranded Per
iod order prevailed. Twenty-eight
cabin and. 431 steerage passengers
were safely landed by the ship’s boats
and the small craft attracted by. the
stamer’s guns. The sea was calm,
and the distance to the main land a
quarter of a mile. The vessel's es
cape from total destruction with all
on board is providential.
Halifax, July 8.—It is hoped
that the City of Washington will get
off if the calm continues. The pas
sengers are supplied with cooked
food from the ship. The vessel has
a general cargo, part of which is
very valu ible.
[From the New Orleans Herald.]
The Celebrated Judge Lynch.
Mr. Bartholomew Lynch, who presides
over Kellogg’s Fourth District Court,
and who has won such unenviable noto
riety in the trial of the Picayune libel
case, is a 'son of old Erin, and speaks
the English with a broad brogue.
There is a humorous as well aa an
irascible phase to Lynch’s character. It
is related of hiiii that not long since a
lawyer—who also is a son of the Green
Isle—was arguing a somewhat tedious
case_ before him, when Lynch having
satisfied himself as to the merits of the
case, and dreading a lengthy speech,
said quite abruptly to the voluble attor
ney. wh.un we shall name Hagan:
“Mister Hagan, sit down, sir!”
The attorney, with a cooltiess that
was refreshing paid not the slightest at
tention to the command, and proceeded
with his argument.
“Mister Hagan,” said Lynch, rather
more pointedly, “take your aate.sir 1”
The lawyer scarcely noticed the in
terruption, but plunged ahead as vigor-
ourly as ever.
Lynch was now excited, and turning
to the sheriff he exclaimed: *
. “Mr. Sheriff, sate Mr. Hagan!”
The sheriff hesitated a moment to
see if his superior war in earnest, when
suddenly the irate magistrate, with an
attempt to smother his wrath that was
a palpable failure, exclaimed, “Mister
Hagan, go on thin I” and after whisper
ing something to the clerk, he relapsed
into a listening attitnde, remaining per
fectly quiet for some hour and a half,
at which time the lawyer *baving ex
hausted the subject, and being quite ex
hausted himself, sank into a chair and
saturated an extensive pocket handker
chief with the copious perspiration that
beaded his legal brow.
Lynch raised himself slowly in his
chair, and inquired very mildly, “Are
you through, Mister Hagau ?”
“Yes, sir ”
“Are you sure you’re through ?”*
“Yes. sir, quite sure.”
“Well, sir.” remarked Lynch, “your
argument has had no more effect ‘ up -n
the court than a spoonful of water_on
the back of a duck. There’s been judg
ment entered np against ye for an hour
and more.”
were all infected with Episcopal and
Presbyterian creeds, and all that that
great principle which has produced this
boundless universe, Newton's universe,
and Herschel’s universe, came down to
this little ball to be spit upon by Jews.
Mr. Adams’ opinion was that until this
awful blasphemy was got rid of there
will never be any liberal science in this
world. And yet he escaped anathema.
Mr. Jeffieraon, on the contrary, was de
nounced by the pious and mohd Ham
ilton as “an atheist.”
Adams and Jefferson-
Mr. Parton, in defending Mr. Jeffer
son’s religions character, in his sketchy
way, in the July Atlantic, brings in
comparison with it that of some of bis
contemporaries He says:
Mr. Adams, however, was by far the
more impatient of the two with popu
lar ereeds. as he shows in many a comic
outburst of robust and boisterous Con
tempt. He presented bis utter inabil
ity to comprehend that side of human
nat ure which made people object to pay
ing a pittance for his near navy-yard,
and eager to throw away their money
upon such structures as St. Panl’s, in
London, and St. Paul’s, at Rome. Aa
for the doctrine of the Trinity, he great
ly surpassed Jefferson in his aversion to
it. He scolded Jefferson for bringing
over European professors, because they
Kellogg—The Usurper’s
Army-
Tbs novel spectacle in this country,
of a standing army in time of peace, is
presented in the Province of Louisiana,
where the. usurper Kellogg has surroun
ded himself with formidable military
force for the purpose of overawing the
oppressed and plundered people. The
brigade consists ot two battalions of
infantry, made formidable by a corres
ponding number of Winchester rifle*;
a battery of tWo Gatlin and tWo Napo
leon guns, and a troop of cavalry, pro
vided with Spencer repeating rifles
This formidable force was paraded
through the streets of New Orleans on
the 4th, to the great delight of the
“unified,” and having been, formed in
line in Annunciation Square, were, says
the Herald, “reviewed—phew!—the De
Facto himself, supported and ‘protected-
by that embodiment of all that is gran'd
and sublime in military displays, Major
General Longstreet.”
These are some of the elements of
the “Republican form of Government"
which Gen. Grant has guaranteed to
the people of Louisiana !
Dead-
Philadelphia, July 6.—Father
Kelley, pastor of St. Michael's Church,
died of apoplexy while bathing st At
lantic City.
Atlantic Citt, July 6.—Rev. Fa
ther Kelley of St Michael’s Catholic
Church. Philadelphia, died in the sort
here just before noon to day. He had
heen stopping at the Wyoming House,
an# while bathing with a company of
ladies was seized with an apoplectic fit
and died almost instantly. He was an
expert swimmer, and his feats in the
waves attracted a large party. Sudden
ly he threw his hands np and his be d
foil back on the breakers. Immediate
assistance was rendered, bat be was
dead before he could be taken On shore.
His body was sent to Philadelphia on
the afternoon train The rnmors- that
he was drowned are withont foundation
His head at no time was under the wa
ter, and he was not over his depth when
he died. His neck was greatly discol
ored with purple and green bands He
was about thirty years old, and well
known in the northern part of Phila
delphia.
A Magnificent Scheme—New Oriental
Despot.
.The latest European newspaper?
contain the details of the extraordi
nary agreement made between the
shah of Persia and Baron Julias
Reuter. * * * * Persia has been hand
ed over for seventy years the abso
lute control of Baron Reuter.’ The
Baron is as characteristic a product
of Western civilization as th ■ Shah
and his country are of what is called
progress in the East. Bom in' a
pretty German principality, be be
gan life as a bank clerk in Goettin
gen, and first became known in 1846,
to a very limited public, as the pub-
lisher of lithographic newspaper cor
respondence in Paris. He was an
odscure adventurer when he trails-,
ferred his business to London in 1851,
yet in less than seven years he bad
the telegraphic news service ot the
Metropolitan Press under his undis
puted control, and could compel the
oldest and most exclusive of English
dailjgp to accede to whatever terms
he cbt>se to dictate. Reuter bad
foresight enough to anticipate the
unlimited expansion of the telegraph
system, and promptness enough to
secure exclusive privileges from
every new line that was opened in
Europe. He supplemented the ear
lier blanks in the magnetic wire-cir
cle by couriers, or carrier-pigeons,
and still later by steam-packet ser
vice. At this moment there is not
a city la the world which does net
contain Renter’s news agent, doing
his work with various degrees of bad
ness, but still forming pert of e great
system, which is one of the most se
curely founded of commercial monop
olies. The man whose name the
London Timet was flr$t'compelled
to put at the head of its telegrams
in 1859, occupies now one of J,he fin
est houses in London, and gives din
ners whose gorgeous accompani
ments, at least,-the richest of En
glish Dnkes could not surpass.
To this magnate the Shah of Per
sia has handed over the exclusive
right to construct railroads, to make
canals, to work mines, and to estab
lish other productive enterprises
within h s dominions. He can take
Government lands free of expense,
and can ose all materials found iu
Government quarries, gravel pits,
etc., withont payment. Neither tho
men nor the materials that this great
contractor may employ are to be
subject to taxation. Any mineral
d posit not of gold, silver, or prec
ious stones, which Baron Reuter’s
agents may find on the royal lands
of Persia can be taken and worked
by them without charge. Such pri
vate property iu lands and mines as
he may require, must be transterr. d
to him at the ordinary prices of tho
country. His first task is to con
struct a railway from Rescht, on the
sonth shore of the Caspian, to Ispa
han, the old capital of Persia. The
length of the road will be about four
hundred miles, and after it has been
completed the Persian Government
will give its sovereign guarantee to
pay seven per cent.—five per cent,
for interest, and two per cent, for
sinking fund—on a loan ot $30,000,-
000, which Baron Reuter is author
ized to obtain lrom anybody who will
lend it to hitn. The procee is of the
Persian Custom-houses have hither
to averaged a little* over $1.000,000
a year. Buron Renter is to purchase
the entire Control for twenty-five
years, of the custom duties of Persia
by paying $100,000 a year more
than the Government now makes out
of them. Considering the thieving
instincts of Eastern tax-c< diet-tors, t fie
Baron will probably find that a few
honest Luro{>ean officials can make
a very handsome profit for him out
of the speculation.
The Baron and his successors are
to remain tor seventy years absolute
com mere ial • delators of Persia. They
are to pay the Government, mean
while, fifteen to twenty per cent, of
their net earnings in return fur the
magnificent concessions accorded to
them, and when their lease has ter
minated, It may be renewed oh such
terms as both contracting parties
can agree on. If the Government
assumes control, at the end of that
time, of the wor -s of the Renter
Company, it must pay at a liberal
valuation for the buildings, machine
ry, etc., which may then have been
erected by the company. Who is to
enforce the previsions of tbe contract
does not appear, but as Baron Reu
ter is a naturalized British subject,
there seems to be an opening here
for a repetition of the history of the
East India Company. The 8hah has
been telling the people of England
that, in coming among them, he teeia
that he is coming among friends.
Some of the Shah's successors may
not unlikely become jealous of the
rich fruits of the Reuter concessions,
and then it may be assumed that the
country which wrenched Herat from
the hands of the soldiers of the Shah
would once h&ve to show' itself the
reverse of friendly.—New York
Times.
• A Sensible Dog Law.
The Michigan Legislature at ii
last session passed a sensible do
law, much better than our own al
surd enactment requiring dogs to 1
muzzled in sum mer, under *the vo
gar notion that hydrophobia prevai
at that season? From the Bay Cil
Chronicle ye copy the law as follow:
Every person who owns a do
shall procure a license therefor froi
the City or Township Clerk whei
he resides, which license expires o
the 1st of the followin'* April, an
eveiy dog licensed shall wear a co
lar, upon which shall be stamped th
owner’s name and tbe number of th
license.
The fee to be paid L« $1 for a mal
dog and43 for a fe*> ale dog
A provision is made for payin
damages for the destruction of shee
out of the fund aiade up of fees, a i
that the balance goes to the schoo
of the township. J? is also provide
that whoever shall k< e H a dog will
out license shali forfeu $i£) with cos
of recovery thereof* it aU(ri j>n
vided that any pera n •;!»», *nrt ir |
made the duty of ever ,
and constable to kill any ....;. 11 .L»g
going at large not iceii.-to and co
la red as ab* ve described, and sue
officers-are to be allowed fifty xxui
for each dog so killed by f.iyqj
