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Thursday Septemlur 17 INttS
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ly growing in public favor. The
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The Old Guard—
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out. A glance at its table of con
tents will satisfy the reader of the
truth of this statement. The edi
tor throws a bomb-shell into the
Mongrel camp, entitled “Resist
ance to the Reconstruction Acts
not Unconstitutional,” in which he
lays bare to' the bone the infamy of
these Acts. Our financial friend,
“Ben Franklin,” Sounds the tocsin I
of war in a spirit-stirring poem en- j
titled, “Ho! for the Ballot-Box.” \
Dr. Van Eyrie contributes an arti- i
cle entitled, “Plymouth Rock and i
James River, ” of which it is only !
necessary to say that he handles 1
the subject under discussion in his i
usual argumentative, convincing
and able manner. The paper on i
“Ulysses S. Grant” continues to j
show conclusively that the apparent ;
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was more the result of blunders |
than of sliat.A«j?, T- AT,: !
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GREENSBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,' 1808.
POETRY.
LIFE'S LYCOAURVITF.
Grt-en grows th-- laurel on the bank,
Dark waves the pine upon the hill,
Green bangs the 1 ebon, cold and damp,
Dark springs the heartsease by the rill,
bid mosses clamber? ever bright,
Pale is the water-lily bloom,
Thus life still courts the shades o( night,
And beauty hovers over the toomb.
! So all through life, incongruous hue
I Each object wears from childhood crown.
The evanescent heaven’s hue,
I The all-ending—sober brown.
Our brigbest dreams ioo quickly die,
j And gr’efs are green that should be old
And joys that sparkle to the eve
Are like a tale that’s quickly told.
And yet ’tie but the golden mean
That checks our lives unsteady flow,
God’B counterbalance thrown between,
To poise the scale ’twixt joy and woe/
And better so for were the bowl
Too freely to the parched lips,
Too mnch of grief would crush the soul,
Too much of joy would weau from heaven
■awWaa ' 1 ■ . m i —e—, p,
Eulogy on the Death of
ROBT. E. MARTIN.
BV JUDGE LUMPKIN.
Never, since attaining to man
hood do I recollect to have been so #
shocked by any death, as that of
DR. MARTIN. It was so sudden,
so sad, without any figure of speech
I can truly.say, that the mournful
intelligence made me sick at heart.
Life has seemed to me more cheer
less ever since. Fourteen years
ago we met as officers of this Court,
he as Clerk, las Judge. That re
lation continued until dissolved bv
death. All the other members of
the Court have changed, and I now
alone remain to lament the loss wo
- lla Y - c at MI t
together in talking over the trials
j and troubles of this tribunal. No
j similar institution in any other civ-
I ilized country in the world lias eu
| countered such unreasonable oppo
sition, such unmerited bufferings.
But the time will come when the
troth. Will triumph. Our people are
not only just, hut intelligent and
generous. In due season they will,
instead of seeking to destroy an
establishment, which even with its
defective organization, has done
so much to elevate the Judiciary of
the Statd abroad, and secure a just
and faithful administration of the
law at homo, bend their best efforts
to perfect the system. _This is alike
the dictate of wisdom and enligh
tened patriotism. But how great
a loss shall we all suffer in the soul
cheering companionship of the de
ceased. Who shall relate for our
amusement, the stories of the good
old days of our fathers and moth
ers ? What was there peculiar to
that palmy period, that he did not
reanimate in his life-like pictures ?
The old homestead, with its neat,
but plain furniture, its clean scour
ed pine tables and split-bottom
chairs. The white-washed walls
with the little glass suspended, sur
mounted aud surrounded with Bach
elors buttons, and the figured towel
. of domestic manufacture, hanging
baneath, the square bedsteads with
burned posts and home-made cords,
—the huge tan-trough for manufac
turing leather of the hides of
beeves killed for the family, and
out of which were made the stich
downs, welted or pegged shoes,
with shoe-thread from flax spun up
,on the place, and the wax made
from rosin from the neighboring
pine. The dipped candles, the clay
baked pipe. Topics like these were
the never failing themes of the
Doctor's discourse. And there,
amongst the few books upon the
tiny shelf underneath the glass, in
addition to the family Bible, Dil
worth’s Arithmetic and Webster’s
spelling book, was that wonderful
novel, “Charlotte Temple,” the on
ly work of fiction the Doctor ever
read. What a feast of soul he al
ways esteemed it. What was Bul
wer's last novel compared with
that l Who will forget the sensa
tion created at “Walker’s Meet
ing House” when the first plated
stirrups and panel painted Gig was
seen there ? llow one after anoth
er would steal in and whisper the
incredible news, until the congre
gation could no longer be kept to
gether, and when it was finally de
cided, after much debate, that the
“VIN€IT AMOR P ATRIAL”
device in the panels of tho Gig
must have been “stomped,” they
never could have been painted.
Doctor Martin may dio, but his
boyish love for the fair, fat widow
at the Camp Meeting, and the dis
cipline administered by his father
for its cure, the mourning worn for
his grandfathor on the next Sun
day after his death, with crape
|elaborately arranged on his straw
hat, barefooted and in his shirt
sleeves, thus manifesting such
sigus of sorrow as drew tears from
the eyes of his aged grandmother.
His fete of gallantry at “Cross
road Smith’s,” his toast at the din
ner given in honor of one of South
Carolina’s noblest sons, the honor
able William C. Preston, and which
he conned for a week before hand,
expecting to elicit the most unboun
ded applause, on account of the
novelty of the sentiment, “Prin
ciples not men.” Ilis two first and
only law cases, his interview with
General Jackson, at old man Alli
son's, the history of tlie surrender
of the British Army at “Little
York” by the redoubtalfle Eppy
Robinson. These, and a thousand
other side-splitting will
never be blotted from our memory.
Farewell friend and soiu|ade.
We shall never occupy th Unseat
without feeling the absence of thy
familiar face. All who sought thy
place, bear testimony to thy worth.
Thy vacancy few can hope fully to j
supply. Thou wert expecting long 1
life. God has seen fit, in ai moment I
to loose the silver cord. , lie can-j
not err. We bow submissively to i
His will.
To be Transmitted.
The Griffin Star says :
The speech of Maj. Moses, one
of the Electors for the Unite at
week, which coritatvwr 7. tPlJor’i: g
passage, which we give our readers
as the purest specimen of denuncia
tion vet developed in this campaign.
We doubt if the English language
furnishes a stronger combination
of words than this, and we predict
that the excoriation of Joe Brown
will go down to posterity as stan
dard stump oratory, to be declaim
ed by thousands of school boys yet
unborn ;
“Beware how you take the first
step in Radicalism. You know not
to what extreme it will lead you.
There is one man who knew not
the depth of baseness to which be
would descend, until urged, on by
read ambition. Let him be an ex
ample to deter you. He was hon
ored by the State when she was Iree
to bestow honor. He has endeav
ored to place old associates and
friends below’ the level of the ne
gro. He has done this to protect
himself from personal accountabili
ty and save from confiscation a for
tune accumulated during tho red
carnival of war. 11c embraced dis
honor, that he might have his polit
ical disabilities removed, and, as a
Senator, has the sovereignty of Id ;
State at tho footstool of her ene
mies. At the Chicago Convention
he voted for the Radical platform,
which declared that Georgia should
enter the l nionasTui inferior mem
ber and not an equal auiCif'g Sover
eigns. Among our enemies,, in a
set speech, he published his treach
ery and boasted of his infamy.—-
The House of Representatives re
belled against the damning deed
and defeated bis ambitious scheme,
while his arm was yet outstretched
for Senatorial honors. He is now
about to cover up his infamy by
wearing the mantle of the incorrup
tible Lumpkin, who, as Chief Jus
tice, seemed the fountain from
which its pure stream originated.
He hopes that wrapped in tho spot
less ermine of Justice the people
will forget the corruption which it
covers. Vain hope! He aannot
escape from himself; and tha pre
sence of that Justice whose slat he
desecrates will ho his constant ac
cuser.
Prometheus, because he stolk fire
from Heaven, was chained to the
cold Caucasian rock, the vulture
piercing his vitals, the links tff the
lame Lemnian festering in hisiesh,
but, upon this man. who has stolen
the honors of the State, would) I fix
a yet darker doom.
I would bind bim to thq soil
which he his betrayed, andkeny
him the refuge of expatriatiA.—
IHe should not fly hence to other
j climes, and among other people for
get his misdeeds. His curse should
be to live among tho people whom
he has deceived I would bind
him hero among the witnessesMo
his infamy. The widows whom he
has betrayed—the orphans whose
ancestors he has dishonored, should
meet him in his daily walks, quick
en his fading memory, and point
him out with scorn and loathing to
the thousands yet unborn. 'Hie
graves of our noble dead should be'
bis silent accusers, and on eiicfi an
niversary of the surrender, I would
have him wander alone, apart from
all others, in our Confederate" Ce
meteries, among the doad whose mem
ory he attempted to dishonor, and
see
•‘Beautiful feet, with maidenly tread.
Offering* bring to the gallant
I would have him trace tho tear
of beauty as it falls and freshens
the iloral offering on the soldiers’
grave, and feel that by all these
weeping and sympathizing hearts, |
| lie alone, wrapped in the solitude of
Ibis infamy, stood apart, loathed,
contemned and despised.
The curse that I would soar up
on his heart and brand upon his
brow, would be that he might live
• —that he should find no Lethe to
| bless him with forgetfulness—that
i as his life ebbed, his memory might
I quicken, aud that ha should be link-j
ed forever with his accusing cou-
I science.
i Uat him feel what he is, and
what he will be, and let him re-,
i member what ho and what he
'might have been. If fate has a
| punishment worse than this for the
man,whq sacrificed country to am
bition then let that fate be his.”
|The Result of Radical
RULE
Y xii nmpunmiAir uvm v/»A/.nn. tnrrt/ a %r* t*
j of August before a large Democratic
iratification meeting at Princeton,
j Indiana, Senator Hendricks said :
If you want discard, if job. want
revolution and civil war brought
! upon us again, then vote lor the
i Radical party, which to-day, I ,say
;to you, through its leaders in Con
jgress would rather have revolution
{than to give up the offices, and the
j money-bags of the a at; op,—-
; [“That’s so,”] If you allow the
Radicals to carry this election,
; then if there shall come bloodshed
land strife, don't blame anybody but
i yourselves. We want harmony,
\we want peace, so* that we may
{have trade, commerce aud prosperi
ty. . y
Does this Radical party talk , to
me about peace 1 It was but a
week before the adjournment of
Congress, at iiigbt session of ibe
Senate, that they passed the bill
distributing among the people u! the
United States 200,000 rilled mus
kets of the calibre of 58. Just bow
large that is, don’t know, but 1
{should think it would take a bullet
| about the size of the eml of my
I thumb. These rifles were to be
I distributed by the Governors of the
States to .such persons as. they es
teemed loyal. They don t regard
you and me as loyal; wo could nftt
have a gun. But Governor Baker
could have decided in Indiana ,why
were .the loyal men, and have given
them the rifles. They are to
be distributed among the' negroes
of the South. You hate given the
negro the ballot, you have put the
white man down ; and now you
want to give him the Springfield
rifle, with all tho accoutrements,
that the negro may lord it over the
wdiitc man at the ballot-box and at
home.
They may carry this out, gentle
men, but when it comes there will
be bloodshed, and when blood be
gins to run in the South you will
feel it running a little more rapidly
through your veiu3, and after a
wdiile it may commence to run from
your veins. The fire of civil war
lighted up anywhere in this coun
try will be like the fire that lights
up the prairies in the night time.
It will leap until even the horsemen
cannot escape it.
The Radical party say that the
people ought to continue them in
power. This may be so, but I am
unable to see it in that light. I am
in favor of putting them on the first
notice, the first opportunity, and I
think that opportunity is coming in
October. I think it will come—!
that is my present impression, lhe
handwriting is on the wall. The {
handwriting says, as it 'said to l
Belshazzar ‘ofdid, “Thou art weigh,
cd in the balances and found want.
in<£;“ and his knew smote togeth
er jiist like the knees of Radicalism
are .emitting together to-day;
[great applause and laughter] “and
that night Belshazzar's king lom de
parted from nim.”
A Wife’s Loyc.
Woman’s love, like the rosehip*,
spmjng in the arid desert, upreads
its rays over tho barren
the human heart, and while all
around it is black and desolate, it
rif os strengthened from the absence
of every other alarm. In no situ
ation does the love of a woman ap
pear more beautiful than that of a
wife. Parents, brethren and Mends
have cJnims npon tho affections—/
bat the tore of a wife is of a dis
tinct and different natnre. A
j daughter may yield her life to thp I
.preservation oUa parent—a ■ sfetcr
may'devoh? herself to' a snfifetir:"
brother; bnt the feelings whieft im
duce it are not such as those whiclf
load a wife to follow the husband of
•her choice thrbiigh every pin and
peril that can befall him ; to Watch
him in to cheer him in ad
versity. and oyer remain unaltera
ble at bis side in the depths of ig
nominy and shame. It is a heroic,
devotion which a woman displays in
in adherence to tho fortunes of a
hapless husband. When we behold
her in domestic scenes a mere pass
ive creature of enjoyment, an in
tellectual joy brightening tho fami
ly with her endearments and love
for extreme joy which that presence
and those endearments are calcula-
ted to impart, we can scarcely credit
that the fragilo being who seems to
of human suSeiTng— nay, wTTen iTte
heart of man sinks beneath the
weight of agony, that she would
maintain nev prestine powers of de
light, a id by her words of comfort
and patience, lead tho murmur to
peace and resignation.
An Orator's Trick.
Mrs. Lydia Maria Child tells the
following anecdote of Edward Ev
erett :
•“When Mr. Everett was prepar
ing a lecture or address he is said
to lmve been in the habit of arrang
ing everything very carefully be
forchcad. On one occasion, when
about to deliver a speech at Lexing
ton in commemoration of the battle
on the !9th of April, 1775, Le in
quire:! whether any one who had
fought on that oceas.pn was still
living. Being informed that one
old man survived,’ he called upon
hina* and after gome conversation
concerning tho events of the Revo
lution, lie said,
“In my address I shall make an
allusion to those who fought at the
battle of Lexington. 1 want you
to sit in fropt of me, and when I
begin to allude to those heroes I
want you to stand up.”
“Thu old soldier obeyed his rti
sfructious; but as soofl as he arose
fjwm his seat, ,Mr. Everett extend
ed his arms as die statue flow does,
and exclaimed:
“Sit down, venerable sir ! Sit
down ! It is for us to stand in your
presence.”
The aged man obeyed the direc
tion, but in the simplicity of bis
heart lie was quite bewildering by
suedi contradictory orders. He had
no idea how effects were produced
ip oratory, and he afterward said to
a friend,-
“ ‘I don't know what Mr. Everett
meant. I' irrt, be told me to get up,
and then when I got up, he told me
to sit doijn.’ ”
Lately the remains of a Homan
bridge have been discovered at
Clermont France. On referring
to Cajsar's Commentaries the site
was recongm'zed as the spot where
that famous General surprised a
tribe of the ancient Gauls. It
would appear that this bridge wal
thrown across in one night, without
the enemy's knowledge. The Ro
mans had first driven piles into the
marshy soil, over which wore
planks of birch, and oak, without
nailing, in order not to the
attention of the enemy by the noise?
of tho hammers.
kT. 11. Printer.
NO. 22-
te Price ,of 'Cotton' —Wo see
by the Liverpool and N(Bv York
dispatches cottonis going down .
Tiro exceeding blue prospect for a
crop wAuld make pi,e think it
would be going up at this time.—
Our opinion is, a powerful effort
is about to be made t> rule the
’ market down to as low a notch as
possible. 11 will boa move on
tho part of the speculators to onca
.more, as they did.last year, cheat
'tlieqdanters out of ‘ucri-iy all of
their crop. Tho only wav for our
planters to defeat them is to held
on to every hale with a tight grip
until they are offered' at least
twenty-five cents per pound.
Outreason for tiiinkisg, and sol
advising, is this / Thera will not
boa 9 much cotton raised this year
ns was last, while Yhe demand for
it will be oven greater. That is
the whole truth in a nutshell.
During this summer it has geaer
idly brought twenty-lire cents in
this market, and if the supply is
gohtg to be less aud the demand
greater, will any man of sense
contend that tho price should or
would be less ..than twenty five
ceut par-poind. The price, ought
to lie, thirty live or forty cents. —
It is more reasonable to suppose it
will bring the latter figures than
fifteen or twenty.
Wo hope our planting friends
will fix twenty-five cents as their
minimum price and stick to it until
next .! uly and~ August. Let the
speculators preach, pray, theorize
put out All sorts of false reports and
make the market cut up all kinds
of coper?, all Os which they can
easily do, but hold on and contend
lor your price You will get it be->
fore tho season closes:
Macon Journal <£■ Messenger
Beecher on Kissing. — 11. W. B.
oia% tl jq
sat alone in the jldrch. A few Into
blossoms of the' Chinese honey
suckle sh«l down a trace of perfume
through the air. Thebe wore no
locusts sing'ng, no katydids, not
gurgling crickets, and yet some
soft sounds I certainly heard ! Not
birds, surely ! I think it must have
been the plash of one honeysuckle
blown against another. Yet there
is no wind to move them ! I hear it
again ! Listen ! It is like the falling
of a drop of dew into the silver lake
from some birchen leaf! No, that
is rude. Tt is as if two dreams float
ing in the night had clashed; or like
the joining of two prayers love on
their way upward: or—-nay, it wa
a kiss!—pure, sacred, holy! It is the
soul’s symbol when words fail it.
It is»thc heart's sigh, dr interjection
’when it has a feeling for which
there is no expression !”
fiirs of uh II 'r ib .the' Creel-
Throne. —Accounts from Greece
ust received here speak of the joy
of the people.in consequence of the ■
birth of an heir to the Greek
throne, such an event not having
occurred for tho last four Centuries
This child of Queen Olga, ol
Greece, received on the day of Ins
birth, (the find of Auyu-d),' the
names of Constantine Lienry Dc<
mosthencsf The bells were rung,
and canuon fired/ The squaro be
fore ftie royal palace was densely
filled with enthusiastic populace.
Shouts of -.‘’Long live Constan
tine!’'were frequently uttered.—
I’ho King appeared on the balcony
with the Grand Duchess Alexan
dria of Russia, mother to the
Queen, her two sons tho Grand
Pukca Alexis and Nicholas, ami
ail the officers ot the court aud the
highest officials of tho State.—
Athens was for some days the
scene of g.eat rejoicing. *
Radical Dictionary.— Upper
Tens—Wooly Heads.
Second Best—Those who wish
their heads were wooly.
First cut of a gentleman—Flat
nose, kidney foot, and a big hump
for hen roost robbing.
Piftsport to Office—A carpet-hag.
Progression—A well regulated
system of lying and stealing.
I lonurublos —The biggest rogues
Excellencies—Jay hawkers.
Loyalty—“-Swearing to everything
you have a chance, to.
Dishonesty—Paying Debts.
Terrorism —Tolling the tyuth.
Constitution of the United States
—A relic of heathenism.
Their Motto-—AV ateh and steal.