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The Family Journal.—New s-—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs.
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
[ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1870.
VOL. LXIV-NO. 34
| „ 0 r Dream of Zion—Mo. 1—The
' v Restoration.
(00K0UJDED.
Ilift np thy 0b * 2ion! put on thy glorious
I fctrcCptb.
I Exemption is at hand, it comes to thee at length;
I pc* on ihy robes, as once In days ol yoxo,
Itra “desoUtion, destruction 1 ’ swept thee sore,
I iris* “aptir* daughters,” bind up tby streaming
hair,
I jj 0 lopger ty tooss water, ext yo weeping there,
I Get thee henc® oh, exhflea! again retrace thy path,
|jj 0 jc^ar shall thoso drain the bitter drege of
I wroth,
I ^tertoaco “auspicious stare” beamed on thee form
lief*
Imiaahslt thou return to the “city of thy love.’
13eboU, upon the mountains! how beautiful are
the feet,’
[ n ilio who with “glad tidings” cometh thee to
1 ptet!
Iliol «P y° weeping fair ones! let not thy grief
ikti*,
i cometh as a bridegroom comes to meet his
Hide,’
Ijdriil go before thee, restore to thee thine own,
IfarBs bath said it, Ho who reigneth on hi? throne,
IBtsfltby march Oh, Zion! “go where glory waits ~
His protecting arms, ‘who lovoth well thy
pt«s,’
h He tot promised comfort to His beloved race,
Jjhpjor the oil of gladness on every wasted place ?
IScH raise tbee up again to thy exalted state,
Ld bare toy house to thee no longer desolate.’
FROM WASHINGTON.
ff ef Ames—Another Breach of the
titutlon—The Two Senatorial Old Fo.
STies-AXoe to Ceorfria-Tlie last Georgia
Doctor—Matters and ’things In General.
Sentln
Consti
Washington, April 2, 1870.
Edxtoks Tf.t.fgbaph and Messengeb : Yester*
day, by a vote of forty to twelve, the Senate of
the United States trampled the Constitution
under foot, and added another to its long list of
outrages against law and jostioe. The mere
question as to whether General Ames should
have a seat in the Senate pr not, was one of lit
tle moment. As Mr. Edmunds said, speaking
for the Republican party, his voteconlddo “no
good to ns, and no harm to our enemies.” It
is the glaring, flagrant violation of the law of
the land, the ignoring of clearly established
facts and the overruling of the decision of the
ablest and mo3t conscientious of Republican
Senators, which give to this case its importance.
One result of the proceedings yesterday, it is
predicted, will be the disorganization of the
Jndioiary Committee. A positive feeling of
personal enmity toward certain of its members
Notes on the Railway Situation.
KCMBES VI. /
Editors Telegbaph akd Messengeb : One or
two other brief articles will conclude what I
have to say on the Railway Situation in Geor
gia. The last two numbers, I observe, have
not been so generally copied by the press as
were those which preceded them. This I re
gret, since I write in the interest of the people,
and since the two articles in question presented
the conclusions to which the previous argument
had conducted us. It may be that our people
have become inoculated with the virus Of State
aid to railroads; that every section of the State
has a pet project of its own, and that to carry
out these projects, the people have gotten their
consent to overthrow the system built up by our
fathers, and to enter wildly upon a policy which
can end only in tho bankruptcy of the State. If
this be the case, then we can understand why our
newspapers should close their columns to such
views as I have had tho honor, in my recent
communications, to present to the people.
Permit me to suggest here, Messrs. Editors,
that there is reason to fear that our editorial
Luke Jerusalem! Jerusalem awake!'
v '-captive children," He will never more forsake;
t. pxUoee again, in grandeur shall arise;
and thy tow’ra point upward to the
the«;
Bright flocb- “d thy herds again attended by
.nine,
I gnie.and wonder thro’ meadows, and thy
plaice;
(ioosg “olive plants," around thy cheerful board
vill spring,
1 loathful voices thro’ surrounding woodlands
a?i
: veuv limbs recline beneath thy spreading
tww.
I&aifcic of tly harps will float upon the breeze.
Iflint they did rejoice—at length, I heard thee
i with united voico, they uttered a reply;
fSallveep we for our tires, weep we for our tons,
ineaur brethers, and other chteritshcd ones,
bvpontlence and pray’er mxy yet avoid thee much
rile who is right’ous regardeth thee as such ;
I \\',<tehma,i He bath set again upon tby walls,
i knoweth well their duty and will obey His
calls—
l bit lie keep thee safe and free from all alarms,
I bring toy ehetrished ones again nnto thine
|ldungehad now come o’er the spirit of my dream’
i those who sat and wept beside that murm’er-
ing stream.
brio they sang aloud, again did they rejoice,
P« too. with them combined, with “cheerful hearts
ini voice,"
mb too, was there, and others swell’d the
throng,
onward u they marched, they cheered tiieiu-
icJtm with song—
ifir hxtpe which in the vale, appeared eo dim and
obi,
pliitcn’d in the eon as if their strings were gold,
[•thinks I eee them now, as winding o’er the hills,
1 tipp’d refreshing draughts from thoso trick
ling mountain tills
1 ringing, “Home Sweet Home," as thro’those
pt« they trod,
ben they had come again to tho city of their God.
Lenobe.
I C’bge Hill, JTaeon, March 26th.
Linos to a Skeleton.
[ following poem was found near a skele-
i in the Mnveum of the Royal College of Sur-
Lincoln's Inn, London, and was sent for
tstion to tho Morning Chronicle. Though
Tfsineas reward was offered for the discov-
p o( the author, bis name has never trans-
Ho
Behold this ruin! ’Twaa a skull,
Once of ethereal spirit full;
This narrow ceil was life’s retreat,
This »p Jce was thought’s mysterious seat
jtoat beauteous visions filled this spot!
«h»t dreams of pleasure long forgot!
>or hope, nor love, nor joy, nor fear
Have left one trace or record here.
Beneath that mouldering canopy
“•-c.t hlione the bright awl busy eyo.
“*t Mart not at the dismal void:
«*oaa! lovo that eye employed,
“ *ithno lawless lire it gleamed,
through the dew of kindness beamed,
«ye shall be forever bright
"hen stars and suns are sunk in night.
Jftbin this hollow cavern hung
jj* ready, swift and tuneful tongue.
“ ftoeliood's honey it disdained,
tni when it could not praiso was chained,
« held in virtue’s cause it spoke,
let gentle concord never broke,
Tb*t silent tongue shall plead for thee
wben time unveils eternity.
S»y. did those fingers delve the mine ?
JJv »ith its envied rubies slrine ?
To hew tho rock or wear the gem,
iittle now avail to them,
Bat if tho page of truth they sought,
w comfort to the mourner brought,
The hands a richer meed shall claim
Iban all that wait on wealth or fame.
bails it itoetlier bare or shod
llose feertho paths of duty trod?
B from the halls of ease they fled
{»seek affliction’s humble shed,
*• naudeur’s guilty bribo they spumed
homo to virtue’s cot returned;
feet with angel’s ways shall vie.
“t tread the palace of the sky.
Sweet Heart.
i**ihwaiAEarth, and bare thy breast
i “‘' ttI b«kU.-< ," of the sun;
liysabuo throbbings feel
4ncU «Solden spring begun.
I- that He asleep
io ™-Wnedreams boneath the snow;
Ti"** 1 'Be maple's ember blood
" ron Sh all its veins in passion flow.
'gjiZS*By, call back tho birds :
Jr 1 ™«k the bloom I0 shrub and trr.-:
jhot from height or depth, O Earth!
J yon call back Sweet Heart to me.
-®»««t seed that feU by chance,
Slass blade on tho plain
land to hear your Ugliest step,
1 u her grave you call in vain.
“ftird
gjjjdand bud and warm South wind.
sweeter than them aU—
UeS? ® 5 “ t# nee, rich and strange,
c “Ga neither spring’s nor love's recaU.
'.—That’s just the word to fit to
Bunches of asparagus laid on our desk,
%i by Mr. 8. L Gnstin, of Vinevillo.
* j con£ >der himself tho recipient of our
. tckaowledgments for so seasonable and
ffisa present. We have never seen finer
“here.
air, Gustin says we may whisper to
®* n tnal friend, Dr. 3. Dickson Smith, of
‘hat this asparagus is not the result of
culture," either.
cat*! nu ?! )cr of Mormons wbo practice poly-
said not to exceed 2,COO.
has been developed, and is daily growing more T ere “ rea f.°“ lo ,? ea f. ln . al our i a “°“ al
intpnso and hitter Thi., eemmHtee i 0 I friends confine their attention too much to the
merely pohtical aspects of the question of Re
construction, and give too Httle thought to tho
financial side of the subject. We cannot be too
as a sort of landmark of the past, a relic of the
days when tho Constitution was paramonnt;
and as such it is obnoxions in the extreme to
those of tho Radical party—and they compose
the majority—who are intent on making Con
gress supremo, and its will the law of the land.
If the committee is allowed to exist at all, such
men as Conkling, Carpenter, Edmunds and
Trumbull, will be forced to retire from it; and
Morton, Drake, Stewart and Thayer, or Sena
tors of that stamp, will take their places.
Thus wo glide rapidly downward to anarchy
and despotism. Facilia descensus Avernif How-
rapid the progress has already been a daily ob
server from the gallery can readily see. The
days of tho Constitution, tho days of an Ameri
can Republic, have now imt two representatives
in the Senate Chamber—Mr. Garrett Davis, of
Kentucky, and Mr. Vickers, of Maryland. Yet
when either of these gentlemen take the floor
the Radical Senators, regardless of decorum
and ignorant of what constitutes good breed
ing, either rush en masse from tho chamber, or
commence chatting and laughing among them
selves. Even Democrats, and Democratic jour
nals, are wont to sneer and jeer at these Sena
tors of the old regime. They are called old
fogies, bores, etc., and a deaf ear is turned: to
their pleadings.
Why is this ? Not that these gentlemen are
lacking in ability. On the contrary, ns an ex
pounder of the Constitntion Mr. Davis has no
equal in the Sqpate; while in a legal argument,
Mr. Vickers has few if any superiors. Let any
one turn to the columns of the Globe and read
the speeches of these gentlemen, and they will
find what I have written more than confirmed.
Mr. Davis’ style is fine, nervous and forcible;
and beside the rant and rodomontade of such
men as Drake, Stewart and many others, it
gleams like a diamond in a rubbish heap. It is
not the manner, nor the style of Mr. Davis or
Mr. Vickers which are so distasteful to Radical
Senators. It is the doctrine they preach. No
man wbo has made np his mind to commit mur
der cares.to look upon the gallows or the grey
walls of a prison. So with the Radical Senators
who have resolved to ignore the Constitution,
and to murder liberty, while the people sleep.
They do not care to listen to the recital of the
consequences of the crime they contemplate,
nor to bear mentioned tho instrument they have
so desecrated, and which they propose to still
farther desecrate. Hence they hate the defen
ders of the Constitution with a discourtesy
worthy only of boors. There are none so deaf
as those who won’t hear.
I foar the action of the Senate yesterday pre
sages woe to Georgia. I have never been hope
ful as to the adoption of the Bingham amend
ment; but I have never been so near to utter
despair as after listening to the debate and
hearing the vote on the admission of ex-satrap
Ames. Who next will aspire to control the af
fairs of -Georgia? Congress has taken charge
of her internal affairs before, end has her by
the throat now. That is bad enough. Bat here
come the “Boys in Blue,” the “Grand Army
of the Republic,” the white Radicals of Wash
ington, and the black Radicals of Washington,
aU of whom want to have a finger in the Geor
gia pie.
Mr. George T. Downing, a mulatto, who dis
penses coffee, fish balls and “ cold tea’’ in the
xasement of the Capitol, is .among thx latest
agitators of “the Georgia question.” How
absurd all this would have appeared some years
ago. A petty District, unrepresented in Con-
careful about tho former; and yet political er
rors may be corrected; but for ruined credit
and bankruptcy there is no remedy, unless it be
the questionable remedy of repudiation. In
Alabama, where the Legislature has voted the
endorsement of the Stato to almost every en
terprise that asked for it, the people are al
ready agitating the question of repudiation. In
North Carolina, whero a similar policy pre
vailed for a time, the following act has been
passed:
Section 1. The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact, That aU acts framed at the
lost session of this Legislature making appro
priations to ljiilroad companies, be and the same
are hereby repealed; that all bonds of tho State
which have been issued under the said acts,
now in the hands of any presidents or other
officers of the corporations, be immediately re
turned to tho treasurer.
Sec. 2. That the moneys in tho State Treas
ury which were levied and collected nndor tho
provisions of the acts mentioned in section 1 of
this act are hereby appropriated to the use of
the State government, and shall be audited to
the counties of the Stato upon Hie tax to be as
sessed for the year 1870, in proportion to the
amounts collected from them respectively.
No one need be surprised if the peoplo of
Georgia should follow the example set them by
other States. Indeed, some of our thinking
men already declare their hostility to the recent
railway legislation, and say that our only reme
dy is repudiation. It need not be doubted but
that a people, who have repudiated their indi
vidual liabilities, will bo equally prompt to re
lieve themselves of their State obligations.
It is no answer to say that the Stato has only
endorsed the bonds of certain railway compa
nies, ior which she has taken mortgages, and
that the debts incurred by the sale of these
bonds are not her debts. The man who puts
his name to the promissory note of his neighbor
as security or endorser, is as much bound in
law to pay tho debt a3 the principal maker of
tho note; and though ho may enjoy none of the
benefits of the transaction, it becomes by oper
ation of law as ranch his debt as if he had bor
rowed the money himself. His property, as
well as his honor, is bound for the payment of
the money. If the principal cannot, or will not,
discharge the debt, tho security or endorser
must do it, and then employ counsel to collect
the money out of the principal, if it can be
done. •
WiU tho railways, whose bonds have been en
dorsed by the State, be able to take np these
bonds at maturity? Some of them may be, but
it is plain enough that most of them will not.
And their ability to meet these bonds will be
impaired jnst as wo may increase the number of
now roads whose bonds may be hereafter en
dorsed by the State; since the greater tho num
ber of roads among which the railway business
of the State is divided, the less remunerative
wiU the business which faUs to each one be, and
consequently the les3 valuable will be the stock,
and the less able the several companies to dis
charge their liabilities. When the railroads now
contemplated and being built by the aid of the
State shaU have been put in operation, there
will not be a single road in tho Stato of Georgia
that wiU pay its stockholders seven per cent,
npon their investments. Ono of the first results
of this deplorable stato of things will be this:
and from Pulaski, Wilcox and adjoining coun
ties, will gradually turn down the Macon and
Brunswick road to Savannah and Brans wick;
while the trade of Baldwin and Pntnam will
eventually be carried ofi to Augusta and Savan
nah. These roais give Macon additional cat-
lets to the sea, ind unfortunately at the same
Reminiscences from Judge Long-
street.
* ,;a ' QUEEN BESS. j i
Fronde’s Estimate of England’*Ntrgih i
Sovereign.
Mr. Fronde, m his latest volume on English
history, is very severe on the character and
conduct of Queen Elizabeth. He depicts her
Under the head ef “Old Things Become
New,” Judge Longstreet contributes the first
of a series of papers bo the Nineteent h Cen
timette^fnrnishadditionSmeaiw for can-ring' tury for ^om which we extract a few I as a habitual and mean "liar, a peefish, bad
—* . - ' ■* 1 passages. Judge L. says he was horn in the tempered, ill-mannered woman, and a tempor-
ciiy of Augusta, ill the year 1790, and he is H ng ’ va8C j Uatin & untrustworthy sovereign.
, whose parsimony, and variableness, ana small
therefore an octogenanan this current year L unn ; n ^ would ^ ave mined herself and her
He graduated from laic College,in 1813,and I kingdom but for the fact that she had two
went immediately to the Law School of Judges great statesmen beside her, and that good luck
Reeve & Gould, in Litchfield, Connecticut, continually picked her out of the imbroglios
into which she had fallen. She lied to her
_ — .. - - ... • i enemies and she lied to her friends; and then
SSiSitiS.?;:; ” P - fam,ljl ' and lclls I “fle» »l" »• th. Utter -hen the result
The Macon and Augrnta Road will take away
travel from the Atlanta aad West Point Road,
and from the upper 125 iailes of the Georgia
Road, and from the uppeft 13 miles of the Cen
tral Road, and will add soyevhat. to .the trade
produce and business right through and away
from her. The row roads mnst live, so|to
speak, as weU as thi Central; and to do this,
their charges must be, and Kill be, unless hu
man nature has changed greatly, very nearly the
same as the present charges' of the Central.
But cheap transportation mil take away, as well
as bring business. Tie tendency of trade, like „ ,, . ..... r> ,
that of water, is to the sea. Water never flows ! Here he became acquainted with the Beecher
for it ever to successfully compete with the Cen
tral for the constantly diminishing amount of
cotton that will hereafter be brought to Macon,
-when the roads now contemplated and being
built by State aid, shall have been constructed.
The Central Company is a strong corporation,
and is conducted with consummate ability, and
it has too much at stoke to permit itself to be
outdone by any of its younger rivals. Its busi
ness may suffer for a time, but who will be ben-
efitted in the end? Not Macon, I lear; for the
Brunswick and Albany Road, with its extension
to the Chattahoochee, and the Fori Volley and
HawkinsvilleRoad, will inflict a thmsand times
more injury upon that goodly city, than it coaid
ever suffer at tho hands of the Central Road,
however administered. Bnt for the policy of
State aid, for whicb Macon Iaboredso long, and
which was at last successfully inaugurated in
the cases of the Macon and Brunswick and tho
Macon and Augusta Roads, it is not at all prob
able that aid wonld ever have bees granted to
the Brunswick and Albany Road, and without,
which there was as little prospect that that road*
wonld ever have been hnilt
The writer of these notes does not reside in
Macon; and yet there is no city ia the State in
whose prosperity and importance he feels a
deeper interest; and so feeling, he has long be
lieved that a close union between the Central
Railroad Company, the Southwestern Company,
the Macon and Western Company, the peoplo
of Macon and the people of Columbus, was in
dispensable to tho welfare of eac!i and all of
these parties. Thi9 union did exist in the
earlier days of our railway history, and was
productive of the happiest results. . It will be
re-established again—not this year, nor perhaps
next year; bnt it will be re-established, and
that, too, at no distant day. To suppose other
wise, i3 to suppose that sensible men and well-
managed corporations will continue to war upon
each other, to tho rnin of all of them. If the
management of either one of these corporations,
or the spirit which actuates either cne of these
cities, is not snch as tho others canid desire,
reason, and argument, nnd time will be found a
far cheaper and more efficient means in bring
ing abont a change, than a railway war. That
this is the wiser policy, will be apparent to any
inteUigent person who will reflect how much in
jury either one of these parties could do one or
aU of the others, if it were to try.
Histoeicus.
HOW Miss Catherine BEECHER BECAME AI of her procrastination and deceit became vis-
yotary to single LITE: ible. Supposed to be the champion and main-
Here I sat for a year, off and on, under the ^ ope ' ste , not ° n! ?
ministry of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, father of ^Retted with Catholic alliances and refused
. .... the renowned Ward and Harriet. There was J* er “4 t( i 13& Protestant movement in the
of Augusta. But its grades are too heavy, and another daughter, more to be pitied than I tnes, hu 1 i she hemelt detested the Fu--
the distance by that line to the sea is too great, t h ese are to be blamed. Her name has been r i tanS) . and even promised to consider whether
‘ brought annually, at least, and tenderly to my W not return to the Catholic chureh.
memory for about fifty years. If she lives she States at that critical
will excuse this public noticeof her; if she be P €nod °f their history was on a par with her
dead, I have no care what her surviving ^ of Alencon, the unhappy Frenchman
brother and sister may think of it. She wai ^ hom s ¥ tossed about with promises of mar-
betrothed to Alexander Fisher, of my class, a "age and polite dismissals until hp had become
man the like of whom it takes tne world a cen- the ridicule of Europe. _ ^
tury to produce. From the day that he entered w ,g. ain , and ngm n 6 hc drove Burleigh and
college to the day that he graduated, he never de ? paa £’., nnticipated
missed but one question in any branch of! no ““ D g bufc “e. ruin of the realm from her
science taught in toe institution, and if he was 5°j ltl0 ^r c 93 ue t™s, which had become a scan-
before, as he was after I entered the class, he da ’ Froude says: It was like dancing
never hesitated two seconds in giving his an- ? n a ro 9 e ’ , -“ er movements may have
swers. He was elected Professor of Mathe- ^ en f tremely clever, but they were, also ex-
matics in Yale College soon after he gradua- £ emel y dangerous. She was p aying with
ted, was sent to England upon some business France, playing with Alencon, playing with
connected with the college, was shipwrecked & e States, half false to al|,halt sincere to all.
and lost; and thus Miss Beecher lost a union ? he V* tn “! D g with her own credit, and try-
of, perhaps, fifty years, with the brightest 1D £ patience, of statesmen who, on the
genius that I ever saw, and I believe the I wholo, were the wisest .that ever served a Eu-
brightest that America ever produced, blend- r0 -^ a J“ sovereign. Leicester, whose influence
ed with as lovely a moral character as any wu^ her was the strongest, who had the least
American ever bore right to be shocked at moral improprieties,
In 1813 Massachusetts got up the Hartford bad yet intelligence enough to see the politi-
T t • » ,.a Icaleffectotmsmistress performances. Though
Convention went out of tho Urnon, burned Mencon bad enga ed £ imself c]sewliere) t | e
blue lights for tho benefit of the British Crms- Duke of Guiso was intriguing with effect in
sers, and was, with Connecticut, in practical Scotland. A Spanish-Italian invasion, though
antagonism with tho rest of the confederacy I Elizabeth refused to believe it, was impending
for the remainder of the war. This brings S ’
n tit • * •,% .il that she possessed was at work in the very
from Judge Longstreet some pithy remarks heart of England. “The more I love her,”
upon the attitude of Massachusetts towards wrote Leicester, “the more fearful ami to see
the secessionists of 1861. He quotes the Hart- such dangerous.ways taken. God of his mercy
ford Convention memorial, 6ays that Massa- and giro us all here about the grace
, .. , . , , . . to discharge our duties; for never was there
chusetts kept up a standing army to maintain more necd ° nor never stood tHs crown on 1;ke
a sort of armed neutrality to the government till peril. God must now uphold the Queen b:
the close of the war, (and he might have ad- miracle; ordinary helps are past cure.” I
ded that she also refused troops to the Federal “»however, in her later treatment of Alencon
gress, presuming to dictate to a sovereign ! Wo shall have our territory covered with a net-
State! A negro bar-keeper meddling in the
affairs of a State whose record is lustrous with
the names of dead and living statesmen 1 As
well might the newly-acquired town or city of
Sitka assume to guide the municipal affairs of
New York, and the chief of one of the Alaska
tribes don his war paint and sound the war
whoop for Tammany. Yet the appeals of the
~ A. R., tho Boys in Blue, and of Downing
and other negro politicians will have weight
with a partisan Congress; and their meddling
and warring will surely be felt in Georgia.
The Senate is very unfortunate in its selec
tion of secretaries. Forney’s financial fiasco
while Secretary of tho Senate is too well known
to require farther mention. And now Mr. Sec-
work of badly mnnaged, yoorly equipped and
inefficient railways, all struggling for a precari-
ons existence, and many of them finally forced
to sale under tho sheriff's hammer.
Among the roads that will bo tho first to yield
to the pressure, will bo those which have re
cently received tho aid of tho State, simply be
cause their construction was not caUed far so
much by tho increase of business, as by the
interests of certain non-resident financial ope
rators, backed by local feeling and personal
considerations. Anterior to the war, when onr
crops requiring transportation were far heavier
than they are now, the dividends declared by
our best railways never exceeded eight per cent.
What their dividends will be in the future, with
A Woman’s Club.
Boston i3 the head centre—top, middle and
bottom—advance and rear guard, of all civiliza
tion, refinement, intellectual cuLure and men
tal, moral, material, social, religions,' philo
sophical, aesthetics! and universal soundness,
health and progress, not only oa the American
continent, bnt throughout tho world also; and
if there be any other rational and moral worlds,
Boston is the centre of them.
All the other outside places cf the earth are
establishing Soroses, or Sorosisses, or whatever
tho plural may bo, but Boston his established a
Woman’s Club, which, among tho sorossiseses,
is as the moon among the little twinkling stars
of heaven—“ paling their ineffectual fires,” and
diffusing everywhere so mild yet brilliant a re
fulgence that fancy, poesy and imagination
monnt upward into the blue spiritual ether of
intellectuality and soar bejond the seventh
hoaven. The glorious galaxy of beaming bril
liancy and loveliness that daily gathers at the
A Wonderful Inventor.
A wonderful inventor—Mr.. Seth Boyden—
died on Thursday at Middleviile, N. J. The
deceased was a native of Foxboro’, this State,
and settled in Newark in 1815. In 1816 he
invented a novel machine for splitting leather,
which has been so improved that a hide stay
be split into several layers. Another man
would have made a fortune from the invention,
but Boyden’s restless mind always abandoned
a machine as soon as it was a success. The
manufacture of “patent leather” was began by
him in 1819, and the business which he then
started now forms one of the most important
of the business enterprises ot Newark. He
made the first specimens of malleable iron in
1826, and continued its manufacture until
1831; perfected the first locomotive with a
driving rod outside the wheel; invented the
steam “cut-off;” produced the first daguerreo-
typo in America; assisted Prof. Morse in
working out the theory of electric telegraphy;
invented the process of making toe zinc known
as “spelterdiscovered the method of mak
ing Russia sheet-iron. This has always been
regarded as one of the most profound seorets
of the arts, but Mr. Boyden plodded through
it and made a good article of Russia sheet,
but at a cost so great that it cannot compete
with the imported article. He patented a hat
body forming machine, which is now used ex
tensively in all hat manufactories in the coun
try. In his later years Mr. Boyden gave his
attention to agricult ure, and many of the most
celebrated, descriptions of strawberries were
his. During all nis life this remarkable man,
whose inventions have made millions for oth
ers, was himself poor, but his poverty was for
gotten in his genial spirits and his noble life.
Up to the latest days of his existence, the
thoughts that had accompanied him from ear
ly manhood were still working after further ’
discoveries, his intellect as clear and his spirits
as ambitious as ever.
Government) and then, when tho war was I ^ s H a P9 eara most despicablc’. and it is,
_ i indeed, hard to believe that this vain, bad-
over, she petitioned Congress to pay the ex- tempered, irresolute and deceitful old woman
pensesof arming, equipping and subsisting her of whom we read was really the great Eliza-
belligerent army corps. There’s nothing like beth of England,
modesty. j Foreign -Items.
In 1815 toe Judge commenced practicing Prince Napoleon is to make a trip to India,
law—married and settled in Greensboro’ in I Suez Canal.
1817—went to the Ijcsiiji'tuK'1822,-srtien I
he was raised to the bench; was a candidate long.
for Congress in 1S24, with tho certainty of J. Roman sepulchral chamber, containing
election, when the loss of . child smote him STS”®
so sorely as to disgust him with political life vine.
and he withdrew from toe canvass. In 1827 The extra Budget of the city of Paris for the
he joined the Methodist church, and in 1838 f e ^“ r P 6 a . lo “° r f J 5 A'
, J 000,000 francs. The total deficit is 534,500,000
abandoned tho profession of law and became a f ra ncs.
Methodist preacher. He giveshispersonal ex-1 terrible explosion occurred on the 19th of
retary Gorham, a truly loyal patriot, from the double the railways and bnlf the crops of former
Pacific slope, has got into hot water. He has! days, it is not difficult to foresee,
presumed to apply to Senator Cole various op-1 It may bo well to examine for a moment and
probious epithets, which wonld not look well in! see what can bo done, and what probably will
print, and has dared to meddle with appoint- j bo done, now that the Legislature has entered
meats for California. In consequence, hi3 offi- upon tho policy of granting aid generally to
cial head trembles on his official shoulders. ! railroads. Every ono will admit that our rail-
The war has been carried into Africa. It is ! way system might have been in several respects
Radical against Radical, and outsiders need not ■ better than it is. The roads might have been
care which side wins. i more direct, and thus more advantageous to the
A Radical Congressman remarked to-day that! people and less costly and. less expeusivo to tho
Conner, the Democratic Representative from; stockholders. Tho first idea presented to the
Texas, might prove quite a thorn in the side of i projectors of roads to be built by tho aid of the
Beast Butler, if he should see fit to “go for” the j State is. as we have already seen, a plefo to cut
Massachusetts bully occasionally. Of course, I off existing roads by shorter lines. Here are
(laid the Congressmen, Butler could not afford i probably some of the roads which tho policy
to reply to the young man; nor could ho dis- i under discussion would promote,
miss him with a “shoo fly,” as he did Mr. Cox. j A road from West Point to the Macon and
I hope this snrmise may prove correct. I trust! Western Road at Barnesville or Milner, and a
Conner will prove a thorn in the side of Beast ■ road from Barnesville through Thomaston to
Butler, and may the thorns multiply with ra- i Geneva. These two lines would seriously injure
pidity, and be of exceeding sharpness. If they! the Atlanta and West Point and Georgia Roads,
are tipped with deadly poison, so much tho bet- and the Colnmbns branch of the Southwestern
ter for the country. I Road.
Dr. Sam. Bard, Governor of Idaho, was on The Air-Line from Atlanta to the upper Sa-
the Senate floor yesterday, and had a lengthy • vannah River, already being bailt under this
conversation with Senator Sumner. Since his i policy, and a road from Atlanta by McDonough,
confirmation, Bara's face has been wreathed Jackson, Monticcilo, EstontonandMilledgeville
with smiles, and he is “us jolly as a big sun- • to the Central Road at Tennille. These two lines
flower.” {wonld cripple the Georgia Road and the Macon
General debate on the tariff bill was closed aad Western, and inflict incalculable injury
yesterday by Mr. Garfield, who made the forty- ' upon Macon.
third speech on the subject. The speeches on j A road from Griffin to tho Alabama lino in a
this bill occupy some two hundred and sixty , directiontoDecatnr, Ala., which would injure the
columns of tho Globe. i Atlanta and West Point road, the Georgia road
The House met last evening for debate, Mr., and the Stato Road. Snch a road has been
Wilson, of Minnesota, in the chair. Five mem- commenced by private enterprise, but the aid
bers were present. The speeches were few,! of the State wiH probably be invoked before it
bnt expensive to the people.
The Snltan of Turkey is having manufac
tured a largo carpet, in one piece, for the east
room of the Executive Mansion. When Grant
leaves the White House he will, no doubt, take
the carpet with him.
The Congressional menagerie has received an
addition. It is Moral Monster Ingersoll, of H-
Unois. He is a fit mate for Beast Butler.
Petitions against tho seventh section of the
pending funding bill are ponring in from all
quarters. Dalton.
A new bill for the regulation of peddling is
announced in the Massachusetts Legislature.
Among the articles enumerated in which ped
dlers are forbidden to traffio are indigo and
jewelry. Tho reasons alleged for these pro
hibitions are indicative of A belief that the
class- of salesmen whe disposed of wooden
hams has by no means lost its ouzraing. Jewel
ry is not permitted because of the facility with
which the spurious manufacture can be passed
off as genuine; and there is a clay in Connecti
cut that can be so colored that one-eighth part
of indigo is sufficient to make it saleable as the
pare dye.
Imprisonment for debt has at length been
abolished in Rhode Island.
is completed.
The aid of tho Stato hns already been ex
tended to the Macon andBranswick road, which
wiU injure the Central road, and whiob, itself,
will load to a short road catting the city of Ma
con off from Columbus, Albany, Eafanla and
Fort Gaines, namely, a road from Fort VaUey
to the Macon and Brunswick road at Hawkins-
ville. Indeed, a charter has *already been
granted for this short road.
The aid of the State has also been granted to
tho Brunswick and Albany road, and will be
asked for the extension of that road to Eufanla,
or to Americas and Columbus. This road will
do great injury to the Southwestern, the Cen
tral, the Macon and Brunswick and the Atlantia
and Golf roads, and will take 1 away from Maoon
the very cream of its business.
Such are some of the fruits which will spring,
and which are already springing from the policy
of State aid, and from the war that is being
made npon the old railway system.
Macon has taken the lead in this departure
from the policy of our fathers, and I fear it will
be the first to experience its evil effects. The
Macon and Branswiok road and the Maoon and
Augusta road will not increase its business one
dollar, but will take many thousands from it.
The lucrative trade that formerly came to it
from the lower part of Twiggs and Houston,
in tho shade; and here, too, every day, tho
long-haired poets and tho brilliant wits of New
England gather and lay the incense of their ad
miration at tho feet of the Boston graces; and
toon rise and soar into the regions of poesy,
psychology and metaphysical philosophy with
thoso enchanting houris.
Two long columns of tho Boston Post tell
who thoy are and what ttey say and see; how
the sweet angels are dressed, and all the scintil
lations of mental, moral and physical beauty
which flash from theso charming, bewitching,
erudite, profound and radient luminaries. Bnt
while thoy fly throngh space, let us see how
they wiU sustain “natur" when they come down.
The Post says:
By and by tho doors roll back, and two or
three of the ladies who are appointed as a com
mittee to se9 that everything is prepared, como
forward with hospitable faces and annonnee
penencc at the great, crisis of life when his I ^h at the great steam workshops of Fourch-
tonuffhts were first, turned seriously to religion I ambault, by which eight persons were horribly
thoughts were first turned seriously to religion , scalded) five of them ^ ordill y.
Ot-W .ft Christ Sara, “if
mlldo hism]!,' to meant (,od a will as rc-1 journals, bools, pamphletE, pSeo and official
vealed by himself. Now come, lnudel, I dave I and business placards and handbills,
you to the test. Assume that Jesus Christ 1 The faculty of the University of Vienna re-
was what he professed to be, a legate from I cently debated the question whether they shonld
heaven, sent or coming out from God to teach grant diplomas to female students of medicine,
men their duty to their Creator, and the con- and decided that they would allow such ladies
sequences of obedience and disobedience to his 1 83 had graduated at other institutions to follow
commands. Put off all your worldly wisdom J their leotures, and practice in Vienna. An Eng-
and approach Him as a little child approaches j and Swiss lady applied for that privilege,
his father. Cease from everything which He _ P os ? esses . a costly .staff—169 superior
calls sin. Read His word carefully under the °® cera 111 o°Uve service and 379 on half
supposition that it is, or at least may be true. for mer are three marshals,
Rrinnsfiv Rim if it really ho trim tn ® 6vente . en generals of artillery or cavalry, fifty-
club house has laid Parnassus and all its deities convince you of its truth. Pray in private S,T° of an J ni . n ® t y- f ° u ^? ia i or ’g e nerals.
convince jouoi irs irum. -t ray m pma^, Th0 retlred ii St oons is ts 0 f thirty generals of
pray in your family; attend the ministry of the firet Damed category, 148 of toe second, and
His word every Sabbath; withdraw from the 201 of the third.
society of profane persons, and make. Chris* “a strike of bakers and no bread!” is the
tians your principal associates. . Do this, gen* I cry in South London, where agitation is on foot
tlemcn, for three mouths, and if you are not 1 to close up every bakery in the kingdom, sim-
bccomo thorough believers in toe truth of nltaneously, in consequence of the government
Christianity, I will give you—I was going to measure to suppress “ the smoke nuisance,”
say—my head for a foot-ball; but that is not without excepting the bakers,
mine to give. I will submit patiently to any The American Morse has jnst superseded the
chastisement you may choose to inflict upon Breqniet system of telegraphing between the
me as a vilo, hypocritical deceiver. I speak Tuileries and the barracks in Baris. From 8
from experience upon the subject. I have I a. m. until 4 p. m. the poor soldiers stationed at
mentioned the loss of my first child. It oc-1 instruments have little more to send backward
curred while I wa3 living with my wife’s aajj forward than the monotonous dispatch,
mother, and her second husband. A more Bat toe government is none
affectionate husband, a kinder father and step- “ e less ’ vl S“ ant '
father never lived—a more blameless charac- A mot of SL Guizot is circulating in Paris,
ter I never saw. Ho was a Christian. I was I venerable statesman is reported to have
au infidel. On the day or day after my child aaid ^cneef the elegant salons of the Fan-
was buried, his wife died. What was my los3 Ollmer
compared with his? My grief was actually rei i^ S nowa» vaM^T^ink^thfi bn
™ uuuuuudt]; dangerously severe. For four .or five days af- Lm be a g£>at Minister.”
that the lunch is ready. Then there is a gen-. J er ”9^“, °C “J n ‘jP“ ™A T A remarkable oase of resusoitation is reported
oral exodus into the next room, a busy chatter- ; “ eat ’ would rendasunder with pain, and Isaid ffom Montpelier, France. A young man as-
ing, a settling.of peoplo into their places, and i t0 my physician, Doctor, if you do not do phyn’ated by charcoal, was touched on the soles
everybody is placed and ready. There is no I something for mo I shah be a maarnan ra a D f his feet with red hot iron without avaiL
sitting around ono large table, in a droadfnHy lew days. . . lime, said.he, Judge, is the Electrio batteries were then brought to bear,
stiff manner. The ladies group themselves ac- I only physician ior your disease.’ But there and, after eight hours of effort, animation was
cording to their own inclinations abont the 1 was a physician. The great Physician—who restored,
smaller tables, and are served there. A table in ' could and did heal my disease, long before
7 vvUlU uliV4 Uvlit MiJ* \ilOvtA..v; IOaIq MvlUAw I %
tho centre of the room is tastefully and bounti- : time could have done it. And 0, how beau* What Gov. Bollock’s Friends Think
One who has been so privileged as to attend
morning mass at the Tuileries in the ftdl even
ing dress which custom requires, writes that the
door to the chapel is guarded by Cent Gardes,
in their uniform of brilliant nltram&rine, and
the visitor is ushered into a long, high, narrow,
rectangular chapel, having a gallery supported
by white marble columns. The high altar ia
simple, bnt the walls are covered with large
paintings representing events in the lives of the
saints. Immediately in front of the altar are
arm-chairs with prie-dieus for the Emperor,
Empress and Prince ImperiaL
Some time after twelve o’clock several gentle
men in court costume enter hastily to see that
all is in order; the officiating priests walk down
the centre aisle from the altar, and station
themselves at tho doorway. Presently a load
voice cries out “L’Empereur!” Enter a num
ber of dignitaries, walking two and two, cham
berlains in scarlet, deputies in black and green,
Cent Gardes in bine, others in ohocolate colored
uniforms, with no end of gold embroidery on
their collars and sleeves. Then comes the Em
peror in a General’s uniform, having on his arm
the Empress. They take holy water from the
gold aspersoir held by the priest; and as they
walk np the aisle, bowing on both sides, the
organ plays a stirring march. The procession
is closed by a number of officers of various corps,
tho doors are closed, the visitors draw nearer to
the altar, and service begins. The music is
operatic rather than religions, and the preacher,
who begins his sermon by addressing “Sire,”
and invokes the Divine blessing on his Imperial
listeners “in return for their countless acts of
charity, and for all the benefits they have heaped
on France,” gets them safely throngh the ser
vice by 1 o’clock.
A Colored Juror.
We have been favored with the photograph
of a colored gentleman who was lately drawn
on a Southern jury. Being handed the prooess
notifying him of the necessity of his attendance
at the court house, our friend dropped the agri
cultural implement with which he was at toe
time peacefully hoeing his employer’s garden,
and, not stopping to see more thsn that it was
a bailiff presenting him a paper, fled into the
house, there to exclaim in : Uie words following:
“ Misses, they have tnk me to court. I neber
stole anyting in my life. Fo’ God's sake, sen’
for de white folks to save me.” It being ex
plained to him that he was required, not as s
criminal, but to act as a juror in certain moot
cases of life and property then depending, he
was with sore difficulty prevailed upon to putin
an appearance. Struck with his looks, an ad
mirer of the carious wrought with him to sit for
his picture, the consideration being the remis
sion from the panel to the agricultural imple
ment above noted, and in testimony of this con
tract having been carried out in all its articles,
our friend was, days since, dropped from the
jury Ust, and we now have that marvelous
simial similitude, Ms photograph.— World.
A Remarkable Crime.—They do have
remarkable crimes in the North. A dispatch
from Troy to the Herald, of Wednesday, says:
On Wednesday night of last week Nanning
Yanderpeyden, a wealthy farmer, living a mile
from tills city, was murdered in his bam about
eight o’clock. His son-in-law, E. A. Alexan
der, reported that the murderer attacked him,
after killing Mr. Yanderpeyden, hit him with
an iron pump handle, broke his arm, and also
cut him on the head with a knife. Suspicions
were aroused that Alexander himSelf aid toe
deed, and this afternoon at four o’clock, after
writing a complete confession, ho committed
suicide by blowing his brains out with a shot
gun. His confession states that he meditated
murder for a year, and about four weeks ago
intended to do it, but the presence of a negro
frustrated his design. lie says the Lord
prompted him to do it. He tried to escape
it, but could not, and thinks he has done no
wrong. He asks toe pardon of his wife, and
hopes to meet her in heaven- He says he had
no accomplice.
fully spread, and so artistic is tho arrangement ■ tiful, how very beautiftil the example of his
that it seems almost too bad to spoil the effect,
oven for the sake of satisfying tho appetite.—
The table Is daintily draped with snowy damask,
nnd the bunches of flowers, placed here and
by tho side of the piles cf delicate wMte china,
royal ancestor just before and after the death
of his infant sen.
Morning and evening would my bereaved
household friend go down on his knees and
and baskets of golden cake, heaped up in gen- ilc knowiedge our afflictions as sent of God,
flrnna rvrnfnRinn. thrIta nn n nintnrfl t.nn ftQCl
pray for strength to bear them submis*
‘ ;ht be sanctified to
of the Irish.
A Washington correspondent of the Atlanta
Era, Gov. Bullock’s'official organ, in a late let
ter to that paper, says:
From 1824 to 1860, the so-cnUed Democratic
party controlled the country whenever united.
They were enabled to do this mainly throngh
any more regrets,
ishorself assisting in the work of devastation.
Such tempting lunches as these women know
how to get up, simple enough, but so delioately
cooked, so prettily served. There were oysters
escalloped and stewed, so fresh, so well cooked,
that one almost fancies she has never eaten oys
ters before; crisp white rolls, and delicate
brown ones, cake of all kinds, and fragrant cof
fee that weald have driven a Grabamite wild,
and made him forget that his principles allow
ed Mm to take nothing stronger than dilated
milk. Yes, it is true, the ladies of the Clnb
don’t confine themselves strictly to “feasts of
- - , , . * -j ,.- r ... | the Irish vote. Hereafter the colored native
our souls eternal good. I would give a thou- element will hold this balance ot power, and it
sand worlds, thought 1, if 1 could _ believe therefore behooves Republicans everywhere to
am very ignorant of the scriptures, I never the most degraded negro slave, is quite long
bestowed an hour’s study on toem with the enough for an experiment. It has strained onr
honest aim of ascertaining their truth, in all Republican form ot government to its utmost
my life. Iam resolved that I will seek reli- j tension. AU this is to be changed in the future,
gion, and I will seek it just in the way those ** only one of the great results to be ac-
who know most about it, tell mo to seek it.: I j o° m pfitoed by the adoption of the Fifteenth
announced my resolution to my wife, and then Amendment.
.... „ w _ announced, it to her step-father, and told him I Now where’s the Irishman that don’t disgrace
reason andflovTof sonl",’’—a pleasant diersome"- that thenceforward I would share family pray- the namo, who will not register tMs insult in
times, bat undoubtedly very unsatisfactory for or with him. Tears of joy now filled his eyes, J Ms memory for future nse ? Wo have blushed
a steady living. , and my tears of grief ceased to flow. I com- with shame and indignation to record the manv
,, r : menced studying toe scriptures ra earnest. „„„ . .. , . L r
Os toe Fridays in Lent the Pope performs praying God ffthey really were true that I B ^ntnever at ona morebUter and ™
a singularly quiet and simple devotion. Ho might be convinced of their truth. I had ^ but never at one more bitter and nn-
a singularly quiet and simple devotion. Ho convinced ol their truth. I. wa f .. ...
walks Into St. Peter’s and up 1 to the Chapel studied them not more than a fortnight, be- deserved than tMs.
of toe Sacrament, where he kneels in silent lore I began to find ra them some wonderful 1
prayer; thenoe to the Chapel of t he Madonna evidences of their divine origin, which I won-
del Socorso, whero he does the like; then he
passes the bronze statue of his great predeces
sor, where he does a3 all good Catholics do,
and after silent prayer before the tomb of St
Peter, walks out of too church as he came.
Nothing can bo more interesting than an act
which leave everything to suggestion, and in
which there seems so little to shut off commu
nity with any Christian soul.
dercd the world had never discovered before,
and which I afterwards learned wore from
two to fifteen hundred years old. All my
doubts soon vanished, and I became a thorough
Good News for Tennessee.
The Nashville Banner of Sanaa/ says:
Hon. Henry Cooper arrived in the city yes
terday, from New Vork, having left Washing
ton the early part of last week- With the best
opportunities of learning the status of the Teu*
The New Prophetess.
The World of the 2nd inst., says:
Miss Lillian Edgarton lectured last night at
the Cooper Institute on the woman question.
Miss Edgarton is very attractive in appearanoe,
and has a perfect command over an unsually
full and rich voice. As a public speaker she is
undoubtedly the ablest that has yet appeared
from the ranks of the other sex, and will easily
take rank among toe best orators of the day.
Although she advocates a public career for such
women as are qualified for it, she iB strongly op
posed to woman suffrage, and, indeed, to any
suffrage except that based npon intelligence and
honesty. The warm applause given by a large
audience to Miss Edgarton’s expression of her
views on this point is significant, in view of the
fact that most of those who. were present were
avowed friends of tho emancipation of women.
It is painful to infer that Miss Anna’s nose
is out of joint; but they say she is going to be
married, and that event may exert a reconciling
influence.
believer in Christianitv I knew no tinned I opportunities ot warning ■«!«>»»<■ w spective farms will be in requisition to bn dl-
mmever ra vnnsuanuy. l knew nothing ot neg8eo gj tQat ion at the National Capital, bn. nn into town lota,
the text upon which I base my challenge to I hi« oninion that the reoonatrnctinn ; o. .v.
Thb probable passage through Parliament of
the bill for the preservation of life and property
in Ireland has caused emigration to the United
States to increase to a remarkable extent
• cj fi . r —i - 1 '.rnrSn-'i I,avers as his opinion that the reconstruction
you, infidel, but 1 uuwitongly verified it Will scheme is “played oat” Except sometMng
you follow my example? No, you will not, j altogether unlooked for transpires, there is no
and Christ tells you why you will not “This i reasonable probability that Congress will step
is the condemnation” (mark that word) “that I in to interfere in the affairs of our State,
light is oome into the world, and men loved J _ »o» ■■ ■ -
darkness rather than light because their deeds J The spring style of bonnets ia described as _ r
were evil” Here I must dose for the pres-1 “something like a sun flower on the peak,of a to the State of Dade, but to the xajktio orfat oc
eat I haystack.”
Latest from the State of Dade.
We quote from the Chattanooga Times of
Saturday:
One of onr reporters retained yesterday from
a visit to the State of Dade, and reports that he
received kind attention from the people and
had a pleasant trip.
The wheat is extraordinary fine all along the
line of Alabama and Chatanooga Railroad. Gen
eral prosperity prevails, and the farmers are
thinking the time not far distant when their i
* So far, the erop of peaches and apples la not
materially injured, and there is now a prospect
for plenty of fruit.
The citizens of Trenton deserve commenda
tion for the splendid Masonic Female Academy
which they have almost oompleted. It will be
an ornament to the town, and a credit not onto
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