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V^HJ GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENC^ER.
The Family J o u r n al.—Nevrs—Politics—Literatore—Agbiculture—Domestic Affairs.//"'
*' QEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
MACON, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1870.
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VOL LXIV.-W. 37
{For the Telegraph and Messenger.)
Onr Rest.
., fiodwe praise Theo for this day of rest;
jjwntoS IoUs back aU the week of care,
*, letrW such heavenly quiet in the breast,
not a fe°hng that the world may share.
The tired traveler that onward goes
with bra&i feet hia weary journey’s length,
e r« toward the promised sweet repose,
stopping place," where ho may gather
jfrreSth. ., ^
p ^ ear souls on Thy blest Sabbath day,
$jp off the travel stain *he week hath made;
(o pin we strength to journey on ouj way,
jjwud that world whose glory ne'er shall fade.
Util! precious day of rest to toil-wom spirits given!
OO sacred songs shall rise upon thy wings,
jjJ swell beyond the golden mists to Heaven,
perc sits onr gracious master, Ring of Kings.
fitoii, Ga., Hxba.
People Will Talk.
j ca may get through the world; but 'twill be very
slow
t; we listen to all that is said as we go;
wVll bo worried and fretted, and kept in a stew,
for meddlesome tongues wiU liavo something to do.
if qiiet and modest, you’ll have it presumed
jLt your humble position is only assumed;
foo'r* » anoep’s clothing, or else you’ro a
fool.
Bat don't get excittd, keep perfectly cool,
For people will talk.
If Mamma and noble, they’ll vent out their spleen,
you'U bear some loud hints that you're selfish and
cun:
11 rartt and honest, and fair as the day,
THtilcallyou a rogue in a sly, sneaking way,
18! For people will talk.
inj tbea if yon show the least boldness of heart,
Or j slight inclination to take yonr own part,
jE. till call you an upstart, conceited and vain;
BjtjjMP straight ahead, don’t stop to explain,
For people will talk.
If threadbare your drese or old fashioned your hat,
Some one will surely take notice of that,
tad bint rather strong that yon can’t pay your way,
Bat don’t get excited, whatever they say,
For people will talk.
I If nm drees in the fashion, don’t think to escape,
For they criticise then in a different shape:
lon're ahead of your means, or your tailor’s unpaid,
Bat mind your own business, there’s naught to bo
m&do, i
For people will talk.
Sow, the best way to do, is to do as you please,
For yonr mind, if yon have one, will then be at
ease;
Of course you will meet with all sorts of abuse,
Bat don’t think to stop them, it aint any use,
For people will talk.
I Ore’s RoseaJ^
BY ALICE CABT.
When the morning first undoses,
And before the mists are gone,
And the bills seem bright as roses,
Just a little farther on.
Eoses red as wings of starlings,
And with diamond dew-drops wet.
“Wait,” says patience, “wait my darlings—
Wait a little longer yet.”
So with eager, upturned faces,
Wait the children for the hours
That shall bring them to the places
Of the tantalizing flowers.
Wild with wonder, sweet with guesses,
Vexed with only fleeting fears;
So the broader day advances,
And the twilight disappears.
Hands begin to dutch at posies,
Eyes to flash with now delight,
And the roses. O! the roses,
Bnming, blushing full in sight!
Now with blossoms softly beating,
Heart in heart, and hand in hand,
Tooths and maids together meeting,
Crowd the harvest land.
Not a thought of rainy weather.
Nor cf thorns to sting and grieve,
Gather, gather, gather, gather,
All the care is what to leave.
Noon to afternoon advances.
Rosy red grows msset brown;
Sad eyes turn to backward glances,
So the sun of youth goes down.
And as rose by rose is withered,
Sober eight begins to And
Many a false heart has beep gathered,
Many a true one left behind.
Hands are clasped with fainter holding,
Unfilled souls begin to sigh
For the golden, glad unfolding
Of the mom beyond the eky.
Hope.
Never despair 1 the darkest dond
That ever loomed will pase away,
The longest night will yield to dawn—
The dawn will kindle into day.
What if around tby lonely bark
Break fierce and high the waves of sorrow,
Stretch every oar! there's land ahead!
And thou will gain the port to morrow.
When fortune frowns, and summer friends,
Like birds that fear a storm, depart,
Some, if the heart hath tropic warmth,
WiU stay and nestle around thy heart.
If thou art poor, no joy is won, _
No good is gained by sad repining,
Gems buried in the darkened earth
May yet be gathered for the mining.
There is no lot, however sad.
There is no roof, however low,
Bnt has some joy to make it glad,
Some latent bliss to soothe its woo.
The light of hope will linger near,
When wildest beats the heart’s emotion,
A talisman when breakers roar,
A star upon the troubled ocean.
The farmer knows not if his Add,
With flood or drought or blight must cope,
He questions not the fickle skies.
But plows and sows and toils in hope.
Then up! and strive, and dare, and do,
Nor doubt a harvest you wiU gather;
Tis time to labor and to wait,
And trust In God for genial weather.
Will You Take a Sheep.—An old form
er about the time that the temperance reform
vas begining to exert a healthful influence in
the country, said to hia hired man:
''Jonathan I did not think to mention _ to
you when I hired you that I think of trying
to do my work this year without rum. How
nrach more must I give you to do without it?’
“Oh, I don’t care much about it,” said
Jonathan, ‘‘you may give me what yon
please.”
“Well,” said the farmer. “I will give you a
sheep in the fall, if you will do without
“Agreed,” said Jonathan.
The oldest son then said:
“Father, will you give me a sheep too if I
do without rum?”
“Yes, Marshall, you shall have a sheep if
you do without” _
The youngest son, a stripling then said:
“Father will you give me a sheep if I do
without?”
. “Yes, Chandler, you shall have asheep also
tfjou yflll do_without rum.”
n train •
sheep
FRO.VI WASHINGTON.
A Little About Georgia Matters—Tlie Son th
em Pacific Railroad Schemes.
Washington, April 23,1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: After
the storm there comes a lull. Georgia has
been quietly shelved to await the pleasure ~ c
“Beast” Butler. The House has disposed
numerous private bills and some sections m
the tariff bill. The Senate disposed of some
fifty bills yesterday, making a very perceptible
redaction of its calender. Both Houses seem
now to “mean business.” The Senate has ad
journed over till Monday; but the House
in session to-day.
The following letter was prepared by a Sen
ator for transmission to the Chronicle, but on
reflection it was thought that the effect of con
tradicting one falsehood would be the cause of
its other utterances to be_ accepted as truth,
which would be a result involving too much
danger to morals to be permitted. The letter
was therefore handed to the correspondent of
a New York newspaper for publication:
Presently Chandler spoke again:
“Father, hadn’t you better take
too?”
A New Haven' school ma’am, instructing her
class of girls in home geography, the other day,
fod to explain what a Mormon was, and brought
oat this pertinent remark from a little chit of
•aao years of age: “ Well, I don’t see how they
taanage it. I should thiuk that when ho kissed
°ao of his wives, the others would all get jeal
ous and pnll every hair ont of their head. My
mamma would, I’m sure.”
United States Senate Chamber, 1
Washington, April 21, 1870. J
John W. Forney, Editor Daily Chronicle:
Dear Sib: In the Chronicle of this morn
ing, in an article on the “Georgia bill,” I find
the following statement:
“The minority of Republicans who voted
with the Democrats to obstruct the reconstruc
tion of Georgia have the largest share of re
sponsibility for the result”
The Journal of the Senate shows, as does
the Globe, that on the adoption of the amend
ment of Mr. Pomeroy, of which you complain,
the votes of the Republican Senators stood
thirty for the amendment to twenty-four
against it. Thus you will perceive that a “ma
jority of Republicans,” instead of a minority
voted, as you call it, with the Democrats, and
I suppose that the Democrats in the Senate
must be permitted to vote on one sido_ or the
other of questions presented; that being so,
the majority of Republicans cannot very well
determine on which side they shall vote.
Yours, truly, A. Senator.
If the South is cheated out of a Southern
Pacific Railway, it will be through the machi
nations of carpet-baggers, who have failed to
secure black-mail from the legitimate projec
tors of such an enterprise'. When it was an
nounced that Gen. Fremont was coming to
Washington in the interest of the Memphis
and El Paso road, and it was further whis
pered that he was well supplied with funds,
the lobby rubbed , its hands with great glee,
and, in immagination, fingered bonds and
greenbacks galore. But Gen. Fromont would
have none of them. Ho had neither bonds
or greenbacks to distribute among the lobby;
and so the lobby set to work to defeat the en
terprise of which Gen. Fremont is the head.
Prominent in this disreputable business are
the Southern carpet-baggers. Bills have been
introduced in Congress for building Southern
Pacifie railroads which contain either the,
names of men of straw as corporators, or no
corporators at all. The objeet of the intro
ducers and backers of these bills, is to secure
black-mail. Only this, and nothing more. It
It may seem strange that men who are sup
posed to represent Southern States, Should
endeavor to defeat the only enterprise likely
to successfully construct a road from the At
lantic to the Pacific through Southern territo
ry; bnt it should be recollected that these men
really represent only themselces, and that their
sole aim is to fill their own pockets. This they
generally succeed in doing.
A bill is now before both House of Congress
granting the right of way and other principles
to the Southern trans-Continental Railway.
This road embraces the Memphis and El Paso,
and connecting lines to Norfolk, Virginia.
The Memphis and El Paso and Pacificrailroad
has a valid, subsisting charter, intact, super-
added to a munificent land grant to construct
a railroad through Texas, on the 32d parallel,
to the Rio Grande. A large amount of money
has already been spent by the Company m
grading in Texas, in purchasing locomotives
and iron rails, some of which have already
reached the line of road, and in securing val
uable and controlling interests in connecting
and continuing railroads west of the Missis
sippi, and also west of Texas; and in the ac
quisition of lands in and around the Day of
San Dicao, for the use and profit of the Com
pany. Much has been said concering the
lapse of land-grants made by the State of
Texas to this road, but without authority or
foundation. The affidavit of Chief Engineer
Daniel and E. H. Epperson, then its Presi
dent, show the point where the eastern point
ot the road is loeatedi and the work done on
it; also the steps that were taken to secure the
land-grant prior to the war, and they also show
that the work was resumed in the summer of
1866, after the war was over. It is held by
the Company that there was no cause of for
feiture before the war, and there has been
none since. The interval of time covered by
the war, when work totally ceased, has never
been claimed by the authorities of Texas as
cause of forfeiture. On the contrary, the Leg
islature of Texas passed a law on the 11th ot
January, 1862, securing the rights of the Com
pany, and not allowing the time of the contin
uance of the war to be counted against it.
Although this law was passed by a Rebel
Legislature,” the new Constitution of Texas
recognizes it as valid and finding.. Nor. is
there anything in the new Constitution whicn
impairs the validity of this Company’s rights
under its charter and the subsequent laws re
lating to it. All reports to the cpntrary.are
the work of the black-mailers and lobbyists,
who want to be bought off; but whom General
Fremont does not consider it profitable or
proper to buy. . „ ..aj
The Senate sub-committee on Pacific KaL-
ways to whom the trans-Continental bill was
referred consists of Messrs. Thomas, of Ohio,
Rice, of Arkansas, and Howard, of Michigan.
Howard is interested in the Northern Pacific
Railway scheme, and of course, ad verso to a
Southern road. Mr. Rice, though a carpet
bagger, is understood to have held aloof from
the anti-Southern Pacific railway carpet-bag
ring ’ while Mr. Sherman favors the Southern
trans-Continental. The chances for a favor
able report from this Committee are under
stood to be good- , , , ..
Mr. Howard presented yesterday, what is
understood to be his individcal protest against
the bill, and not a minority report from the
Committee, as some supposed it to be. . *
In the House the trans-Continental bill is
before the Committee on public lands, of which
Mr. Julian, of Indiana, is chairman. Alavor-
ablc report is expected from this Committee.
The friends of the road are confident of getting
the bill through both Houses.
The Baltimore Gazette of Monday next will
contain a letter calculated to have a good ef
fect on the Georgia question. It shows up the
Radical conspiracy by which Georgia has been
made the football and unwilling agent of the
dominant party; and gives a coraprehenave
review of the political history of roster Blod
gett, “seventh Senator-elect’” The facta are
for the most part so well known in Georgia
that I consider it unnecessary to furnish you
with an advance copy. The letter will, how
ever produce as much excitement here as did
a former one,now known as the ‘ ‘Georgia Mani
festo,” of which an early copy was transmitted
to the Telegram and Messenger.
The correspondents here, with scarcely an
exception, are opposed to Bullock and his
schemes, and their influence will do much to
ward bringing him to.grief. So mote it be.
Dalton.
AN ADDRESS.
Delivered Before the Entiles' Memorial as
sociation at Rose Hill Cemetery, April
SCtll, 1870.
UX BID NET LANTEB, ESQ , OF MACON.
In the nnbroken silence of the dead soldierly
forms that lie beneath onr feet; in the winding
processions of these stately trees; in the large
tranquillity of this vast and benignant heaven
that overspans us; in the quiet ripple of yon
der patient river, flowing down to his death in
the sea; in the manifold melodies drawn from
these green leaves by wandering airs that go,
like Troubadours, singing in all the lands; in
the many-voiced memories that flock into this
day, and fill it, as swallows fill the summer; in
all these, there is to me so voluble an eloquence
to-day that I cannot bnt shrink from the harsher
sound of my own human voice; and, if I might
bnt follow where these silver tongues lead me,
far rather would I invite your thoughts to their
spiritual guidance and keep mine stilL Indeed,
I will pursue this preferable coarse, and so com
bine my duty as orator and my inclination as
man; for if I have rightly interpreted the sen
timent which supports your memorial organiza
tion; if I have accurately comprehended the
enduring idea about which your society has
grown and wound itself, as a vine about some
firm piHar of white marble; then, in giving ut
terance to this most musical converse of Death
and Nature and Memory, which goes on in this
place by night and by day, so will I best utter
those emotions which animate your association,
and which call for some month-piece to-day. I
take it, the very words which I have employed
in describing the elements and circumstances of
this scene, do most accurately symbolize and
embody the precise virtues which it is the direct
tendency of your association to perpetuate and
keep alive in our midst.
Believe then, that in the few words I have to
say, I shall but translate to you that formless
and sonndless rhetoric of which I spoke in the
outset, aye, that majestic oratory of death’s si
lence, of the forests’ stateliness of the Heaven’s
tranquillity, of the river’s patience, of the mus
ic of winds and leaves, and of the strange com
mingling of grief and glory and joy that lies in
our memories of the days when these men died
for liberty.
I spoke first of the silence of death. My
countrywomen and countrymen, I know few
wants that press upon onr modem life #tith
more immediate necessity than the want of this
same silence. In ibis culmination of the nine
teenth century, which our generation is witness
ing, I tell you the world is far too full of noise.
The nineteenth century worships trade; and
Trade i3 the most boisterous god of aU the false
gods under Heaven. Hear how his railways do
thrill the land with interwoven roanng and yell-
ings! Hear the clatter of his factories, the
clank of his mills, the groaning of his forges,
the sputtering and laboring of his water power 1
And that is not half. Listen how he brags, in
newspaper and pamphlet and huge placard and
poster and advertisement! Are not yonr ears
fatigued with his loud bragadocio, with his
braggart pretensions, with his stertorous vaunt
ing of himself and his wares ? Nay, in this age
of noise, the very noise itself, which is usually
but the wretched accompaniment of trade, has
positively come to have an intrinsic commercial
valuo of its own. It is a fact that some trades
succeed by mere force of noise, by mere auc
tioneer’s strength of voice, by more loudness
of stentorian advertisement, without possessing
a single other element of recommendation or
success.
Now, far bo it from me to condemn the sounds
of hammer and saw and anvil; far be it from
me to censure advertisements, which form tho
legitimate appliances of success in trade. I am
not hero for that, to-day. This is not the place
or the time to draw the distinction between the
legitimate and the illegitimate rush of commerce
between what is ■rile brag and what is proper
self-assertion in tho merchant’s advertisement.
But I know that there is an evil in aU this noise.
Out of this universal hubbub there is born a
great wrong. A certain old homely phrase ex
presses this evil in vivid terms: In these days,
there is so much noise that we cannot hear our
selves think.
"What time have I to enumerate tho signs and
evidences of this evil, of not hearing ourselves
think? They are on every hand. Crudity, im
maturity, unripeness, acidity, instability—these
things characterize onr laws, our literature,
all our thoughts, our politics, our social life, our
loves and hates, our self-development
Permit me, then, to felicitate your Memorial
Association, because, among many other rea
sons, one of its immediate consequences is to
counteract these evils of noise which I have
depicted. You, my countrywomen, invite ns
once in the year to escape out of the tuxbulen-
cies of trade, and to come here among these
silent resting-places of onr dead soldiers. You
lay a tender finger on-the blatant lips of trade,
and bid him be still in the august presence of
the dead who speak not. You help us to hear
ourselves think, for a moment This is well
done. If there be in this company one broken
heart; if there he here one who has her dead
lying in this Cemetery; if there be here one
who haslearned from silence the divine secret
whereby a man may harmonize the awful dis
cordant noises of life, I invoke its witness that
my words are true, that silence is the mother
of a thousand radiant graces and rare virtues,
and that if one will lean for one hour over these
graves of our dead Confederate heroes, there
will well up into his soul more
“Large, divine and comfortable words” 1
than ever feU from living human orator.
Ah, old comrades, who lie sleeping about this
yard beneath tomb and hillogk and sculptured
piHar, you fought for us in your lives, you died
for us in your love, and now—if our hnman
voice might float over the dark river to where
you are gone on the other side—we would cry
across to you that still, after death, your unsel
fish ministrations to ns continue; stiU, after
death, your graves send up benignant blessings
to onr souls; stiU, after death, your dumb Hps
answer the tributary flowers that we bring you,
with responses and strengthening benedictions
that rain sweet influence on our distracted life.
For this, my countrywomen who compose
this Memorial Association—that you enable us
to appropriate this after-death beneficence of
onr silent dead—for this, in the name of an age
half insane with uproar, I thank you.
I spoke, next, of the stateliness of the trees.
In these davs, stateliness is an antique virtue.
This age is not grand ; it is, rather, activo. Me
have substituted adroitness, in the modern, for
the massive strength of the old times. ’Where
the antique man was strong, the modem man is
supple; where tho antique man was large, the
modern man is keen. In such an age as ours,
how extraordinary was the stately grandeur of
those noble figures that arose and moved in
splendid procession across the theatre of our
Confederate war! Lookwith me down the long
temple of history, and I will single you out two
figures, wherewith I amwilHng that my beloved
land ahull front the world, and front aU timo, as
bright, magnificent exemplars of stateliness.
Mark them! Whether their swords gleamed in
the hottest smoke of the front of battle, or their
peaceful hands waved from the professor’s
chair, stately always: stately in victory, stately
in defeat: stately among the cannons, stately
among the books: stately in solitude, stately in
society: stately in form, in soul, in character,
and in action; aye, each of them,
“From spur to plume, a star of tournament'’
Do yon not know them ? One is stHl stately
in life; the other Hes stitely in death. Their
two oolossal statues are already set up in fame’s
glittering gallery of the stately souls of time.
The convulsive tempests of the war-ocean have
lashed and lashed at them, and they have not
moved. Multitudinous arrows, shot by the in
genious malignities of a thousand enemies, have
fallen blunted from their mighty sides. The
insulting fulminations of tyranny have light
ened about their tranquil heads in vain. There
they stand, high-reaching, eternal sculptured
images of stateliness, in the sight of aU the na
tions. Glory has set but a simple inscription
upon tbdis*
It is the same inscription which love has writ
ten on every heart in this land, On one, Rob-
ebt £. Lee: and oa the other, Stonewall Jack-
son.
For this, my countrywomen who compose this
memorial association, that yon bring ns to con
template the stateliness of the chiefs, and the
stateliness of the mswerving private soldier,
who fought or fell in the Confederate war—for
tins, in the name of in age when stateliness is {
rare, I thank yon.
Weekly Resume of Foreign Affairs.
PREPARED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER,
Great Britain.—Mr. Laird, tho celebrated
ship-builder, has signed a oontract for building
two more steamers for the New Orleans and
Hamburg steamship line.
The Sankey paper mills are using wood for
j the manufacturing of paper, instead of rags,
I spoke next of the tranquility of the over-j success,
spanning heavens. The, too, is a noble quality • Ten stea^mers with 6,500 emigrants have sail-
which your association tends to keep aUve. | e d from Liverpool for the United States within
Who in all the world feeds tranquillity more I the course of one week. ,
than we? I know not adeeper question in our I There is muoh uneasiness felt about the new
Southern life at this present time, than how wo i steamer Sirius, which left Calcutta for Liver-
shall bear our load of wipig and insult and in- | pool already three months ago.
jury with the calmness anl tranquil dignity that 1 . Fbanck.—The Senate has started the discus-
beeomes men and women vho would be great i oa toe plebisoitum. ■ ’
in misfortune; and, beliets me, I know not The Committee of the International Working-
where we will draw deeper inspirations of calm S naan’s Association has passed a resolution to ab-
strength for this great emergency than in this t Btain from toting altogether. A manifesto
place where we now stand, ii the midst of de- signed by seventeen deputies of the “Left" and
parted heroes who fought agiinst these things ! seven representatives of the Frenoh press advi-
to the death. Why, vonder les my brave, bril- ses 4110 P 60 P Iq t0 vote ‘SNo” on the plebisoitum,
liant friend, Lamar; and yonier, genial Robert I whiclx 48 now May 8th. There is a ru-
Smitb; and vonder, generoti Tracy—gallant! mor ttat > after toe adoption of the plebisoitum,
men, all; good knights and stahless gentlemen. Prince Napoleon will be sent to Petersburg to
How calmly t/i<ysleepinthenW3tof it! Unto
this calmness shall we come, atlast. If so,why
shonld we disqniet our sonlsforthe petty stings
propose a general disarmament.
“La Marseillaise” and “Le Gaulois” have
published a letter of Pascal Grousset to the
of our conquerors? There comes a time when 1 President of the High Court of Justice, while
conqueror and conquered shall alike desoead tois tribunal was sitting in_Tonrs to pro-
into tho grave. In that time, 0, my country
men, L> tl At time the conqueror shall be ashamed
of his lash, and the conquered shall be proud
of his calm endurance: in that time the con
queror shall hide his face, and the conquered
shall lift his head with an exultationin his tran
quil fortitude which God shall surely pardon I
O, happy Lamar, O, happy Smith and Tracy,
O, happy heroes all 1 Yo who died whilst lib
erty was yet a hope in onr bosoms, and whilst
tyranny was yet only a possible speck on our
future 1 If we may not envy yon your death,
we may at least solace ourselves in the tran
quillity of your graves until we, too, shall join
you in those regions
“Where beyond these voiceB there is peace 1”
For the contemplation of this tranquillity, my
friends of this association, in the name of a
land stnng half to madness, I thank yon.
I spoke next of the patient river. See there
how it draws on steadily to where it shall min
gle with the salt sea and be lost in it through
fair or foul weather, by night and by day, un
der snow or snnshine, by rugged hill or alluring
valley, reckless of obstacle, patient of opposi
tion, nnhasting yet unresting, it moves onward
to destruction. Was it not like this, that these
soldiers walked their life of battle, patient
through heat andcold, through rain and drought,
throng bullets and diseases, through hnnger and
nakedness, through rigor of discipline and laxity
of morals, aye throngh the very shards and pits
of hell, down to the almost inevitable death that
awaited them ?
For this; that you bring ns to contemplate
this vast patience, I commend you.
And I spoke of the music of winds and leaves.
I like to figure every event as a tone, and all
events as one many-tonedhormony that arises to
the great music-master and composer, np yon
der. That the tone of this day may be round and
melodious, we come here without resentment,
without doom or hate or any vengeful feeling
to mar onr love for these dead. That we can
dc this—that we can contemplate these dead
face3 without unseemly revenges bnming in onr
souls, is to me a most marvellous triumph of
divine Christianity. I have had occasion once
or twice to speak of certain antique virtues we
which the ancients excelled ns. Here now, bn
rise immeasurably above the classio people, in
onr new wings of divine faith in yonder great
Forgiver and great Avenger. Listen to Mark
Anthony, when he looks upon dead Caesar’s face,
his murdered friend 1
“O pardon me, thou piece of bleeding earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy.
Which like dumb mouths dc ope their ruby lip s
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue!
A curse shall light upon tho limbs of mon;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadfnl objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile, when they behold
Their infants qnirterod with the hand of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds;
And Cffisar’8 spirit, ranging for revenge,
WithAte by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
, Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
So, Maro Antony; but not so gaze wo upon our
dead. To-day wo are here for love and not for
hate. To-day we are here for harmony and not
for discord. To-day we are risen immeasura
bly above all vengeance. To-day, standing up
on the serene heights of Forgiveness, our souls
choir together the enchanting music of harmo
nious Christian civilization. To-day we will not
disturb the peaceful slumbers of these sleepers
with music less sweet than the serenade of lov
ing remembrances, breathing upon onr hearts
as the winds of Heaven breathe upon these
swaying leaves above ns.
Lastly, I spoke of the memories that throng
this day and this place. . Here, my heart and
my tongne fail me. In the presenoe of these
mighty remembrances of those strange, sad,
glorious moments when the land was full of war,
i falter. Who is here that needs help to recall
the glory of those days when yonng Liberty
sailed in front of onr arms, and her radiant eyes
beamed upon onr victorious armies, as a maid
en’s upon her lover in the first blnsh of love ?
Who is here that needs help to reoall the suffer
ings thatfollowed those early victories, the stern
endurance of defeat, the sickness of long ap
prehension, the weariness of prolonged expec
tancy, the hardships of straitened circumstance.
nounce judgement upon Pierre Bonaparte. The
letter, which is dated March 22d, contains grave
evidence against Pierre Bonaparte. The Presi
dent, however, has never produced the docu
ment in the Court This course is bitterly cen
sured by the papers.'
Ever since the trial of Pierre Bcnaparte the
“Ecole de Medicine” has been in a perpetual
state of exoitement, because one of the profess
ors, Tardieu, had given evidence before the
Court in favor of the Prince. Whenever Tar
dieu attempted to lecture, the students created
snoh a disturbance that the Professor was
obliged to leave the room. The establishment
has, therefore, been provisionally, closed until
the 1st of May. Tardieu is supported by all his
colleagues.
The son of Juarez, the, President of the Re-
publio of Mexico, has arrived in Paris.
Rochefort’s children have been allowed to
visit their father in his celL
Tibaldi, who had been deported to Cayenne
for being an accomplice in the Orsini conspira
cy against the life of Napoleon, has been set at
liberty. He has arrived in England.
The duchess. of Berry, the mother of the
Count of Chambord, the Bourbon pretender to
the throne of France, died in Venice, Italy, 72
years old.
The strikes in Paris have begun on a large
scale. The foundrymen and moulders, about
15,000 strong, the tailors, sugar-refiners, and
hat makers of the capital have all struck within
the course of a few days. The so-called “So
cialistic Societies,” which are secretly connected
over all Europe, are said to be at the bottom of
this surprising spectacle. They aim at nothing
loss than the destruction of the modem State,
wishing to establish on the mins of tho Euro
pean world the “United States of Enrope,"
where there will be eternal peace and happiness
evermore.
Spain.—The trial of the Dnke of Montpen-
sieur for the murder of Prince Henry, of Bour
bon, was brought to a close before a court-mar
tial in Madrid. The frank confession of the
Duke, and the expression of his regret hav
ing been received as extenuating circumstances,
he was only banished from Madrid for one
month. Besides, he has to pay a sum of six
thousand dollars to the family of the deceased.
The tribunals are pronouncing unusually se
vere sentences against all those who participa
ted in the late riots occasioned by the conscrip
tion.
The Spanish republican papers demand the
separation of tho Church from the State, and
urge the banishment to Rome of such' Priests
and Bishops as refuse to take the oath on the
Spanish constitution.
Italy.—The Roman Council has adopted the
“Schema de fide,” by an overwhelming majori
ty.
The Papal authorites apprehend an attack of
Mazzini and his partisans on Rome, Forty sus
picious characters had been arrested in Rome
and the environs, and the investigations tend to
show that there exists a conspiracy in the
churches of the State for the purpose of over
throwing the temporal power of the Pope. The
leaders are acting in concert with the revolu
tionary parties abroad.
The Pontifieal Government need not fear
Mazzini as long as the Frenoh tricoloro is wav
ing from the battlements of Rome. There are
further difficulties to be expected with the
Worldly Governments.
Spain insists that the Clergy shonld take the
reqnired oath on the constitution. Prim has,
moreover, emphatically declared that all decrees
or regulations of the Holy See contrary to the
Spanish constitution were null and void. Ao-
coiding to a telegram from Pest, Hungary, the
Hungarian House of Lords has passed a resolu
tion \o exolude the Hungarion Prelates, who
will vote in favor of infallibility from their
body. \
g in Germany the cradle Protestanlsm.of the con
viction is growing upon many zealous educated
catholics,tbat the church must be freed from the
influence of Rome. In Rhenish Prussia, and
also in Switierland, numerous meetings have
been called to itart catholic ecclesiastic^ reform
associations. -
The “Cologne Gazette ” has published an
interesting sketch of Srossmayer, the Bishop of
Bosnia and Servia. who is attracting the gen
eral attention by his truly humane principles,
his love of troth, aid the irresistible charm of
his speech. Hi3 appearance is the more re
the broodings of love over beloved ones absent; markable, as he has issued from a race which
iu battle, tho hope, the fear, the prayer, the ; is hardly recognized as a civilized nation,
tear, tho frequent agony? Who is here that. Joseph George Strosspayer is a Croat. He
needs help to recall tbo dreadful thrill of that j was born in Essck, tbs capital of Sclavonia,
last blow, when tho laud, like a strong men t where his parents lived hi humble ciroumstan-
stricken, bowed head and sbronded face in j ces. As the child exhibited already an extra
mantle and wept, knowing beyond donbt that [ ordinary mind at an earl) age, his father des
it could not he free ? 1 tined him for the Church. .After having finished
To these memories I commend you, as you his studies in Pest and Vienna, he returned to
proceed to your reverent employment. They his native land, and was appointed Bishop of
exhale from these graves to meet and greet the Bosnia and Servia at the ag? of 34.- In this
fragrance of your flowers. lofty station he has always endeavored to onlti-
Before I leave yon to your most loving task, vato the true spirit of religion, the love of God
I have one word which these departed soldiers, and man, and to promote the civilization of his
if they were in life, would certainly wish to be people. There being no schools of a higher
spoken. I know that I am here to-day as your order in Croatia and Solavonia at that time, he
representative, to honor my dead comrades: bnt gave 100,000 florins towards the establishment
now I take heart of grace, and I become for of a university at Agram. His total donations
this brief moment, tbe representative of my for similar purposes amount to 700,000 florins,
dead comrades to honor yon. My country wo- 1 Every year, from 50 to 60 boys and youths are
men, these men who have gone into the silent educated at his charge. In Dyakovar he is
land; these men also have their memories of building a grand gothic cathedral, which is to
the war, which they have carried with them. I bo adorned with beautiful fresco j painings.
speak for them when I thank you that for every , Wherever he finds a remarkable talent, he is
wonnd, and by every sick-bed, in camp and ' endeavoring to develop it by word and deed,
hospital and home, there came tho white hand Painters, sculptors and musicians owe their ar-
of woman, soothing and tending and comfort- tistio education and fame to his liberality. The
ing. I speak for them, when I thank you that lady singers Wallinger in Munio and Polska in
there was no brave man in battle who did not Vienna, both being native* of Agram, are in-
reoeive the liberal glory of yonr woman’s smile debied to his kindness. Every lofty aspiration,
for his reward, and that there was no coward in every humane principle, will find on echo in his
battle whom yonr woman’s sonl did not frown heart.
into merited contempt. I speak for them, when His theologioal and social education is chiefly
I thank you for a myriad graces that beamed German. He speaks and writes the French
from you in a time of darkness—for a myriad and German fluently, and masters • the Latin
tendernesses in a time of cruelty—for a myriad with the same ease as he does hia native tongue,
kindnesses in a time wild with revenge. I speak He is only of medium bight, but his whole car-
for them, when I thank you for this annual tri- riage denotes energy and firmness. Though 56
bate of the early glories of the spring which years old, he looks muoh younger. He has
you bring to lay upon their graves. O, ye prepossessing features, bright eyes, and a beau-
bright companies of the martyrs of liberty! tifully shaped forehead. The Groatians will
O, ye glittering battalions of the dead that died call him with pride their “ Maoenas.”
in glory! O, ye stately chieftains that lead in j • -
Heaven as ye led on earth 1 One day ye shall! The following may be cited as an example of
witness for yourselves, in burning acclamations a scrupulously honest testimonial to character.
of gratitude, how ye remember, tod how ye The writer says: “I have known Mr. for
aiiaii eternally remember, theunoorrapted souls, several .years. I consider him eminently quali
ties gracious hearts, the brave characters, the fled for every post he seeks. He possesses a
stainless eyes, the radiant smiles, and the ten- . fine voioe. His taste in liquors is remarkable,
der fingers, of the women who glorified and He plays whist with singular steadiness. He
sanctified the Southern Confederacy! knows as muoh about everything as most men.
— . . . He is frequently sober, and occasionally indus-
The cold weather of the last week destroyed tricras.”
nearly aU the fruit, but the apples, in the Alton
(Illinois) district, and probably two-thirds of -WIN the Brooklyn Convention on Wednesday,
the entire peach crop of Southern Illinois. Rev. Dr. Jeter delivered an address onthe pow-
M. D. Hawes, a ten-year old citizen of Dan- er of the press, and Bev. Dr. Curry one on the
ville, Ind., has left the bar and gone to preach- condition and prospects of education in the
ing in the Methodist church. South.
Southern Press Association.
From the Savannah Keuss. J
Savannah, April 25, 1870.
The annual meeting of tho Southern Press
Association was held this day in this city.
The following papers were represented :
Chronicle and Sentinel, Augnsla—Messrs. A.
R. Wright, Henry Moore and Fat. Walsh.
Constitutionalist, Augusta—Jas B. Randall.
Columbus Sun—A. R. Lamar.
Mobile Register—W. D. Mann. •
Savannah News—W, T. Thompson.
Savannah Republican—J. R. Sneed.. ! -
Montgomery Advertiser—W. W. Screws.
Charleston News—R, B. Riordan.
Wilmington Journal—Jas. A. Englehard.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger—J. Clisby
and A. W. Reese. • .1 I.. .
The report of the President was then reed,
and after some desultory discussion, partici
pated in by Messrs, Mann, Walsh and the Presi
dent, was adopted unanimously.
In the course of the debate Mr. Riordan, of
the Charleston News, gave his experience of the
practicability and advantages of the cash sys
tem for subscription and advertisements. He
said, proved that it was emphatically the best
for both patrons and newspapers, and the only
system that promised a profit to the,proprie
tors.
Maj. Englehard then offered the following
resolutions, which were adopted:
Resolved, That all complaints preferred
against the New York Associated Press by mem
bers of this Association shall be transmitted,
through the Executive Committee of the Asso
ciation.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Associa
tion be directed to get from the members there
of the assessment levied upon each by the New
York Associated Press.
A discussion then arose embracing a wide
range of subjects, and without developing any
new facts or decisions, was terminated by the
adoption of the following resolution, offered by
Col. W. D. Mann, of the Mobile Register:
Resolved, That a committee of five be ap
pointed for the revision of the Constitution and
By-Laws of the organization of the Southern
Press Association, to the end that its efficiency
for the good of its several members be increased.
The following gentlemen were appointed un
der the resolution:
W. D. Mann, of the Register, Chairman.
J. R. Sneed, of the Republican.
A. R. Wright, of the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Jos. Clisby, of the Telegraph and Messenger.
J. A. Englehard, of the Wilmington Journal
A. R, Lamar, Chairman Ex-offioio.
Mr. Sneed then moved the adjournment of
the Convention till Tuesday, April 26th at 10J
a. si., which was carried.
A. W. Reese, Secretary.
■> Georgia Press Association.
The second semi-annual meeting of the Geor
gia Press Association assembled at the Masonio
Hall at ten o’chck yesterday morning, Joseph
Clisby, Esq., of the Macon Telegraph, Presi
dent, in the Chair; and S. A. Atkinson of the
Sontbezn Banner, Secretary.
The journal of the last meeting was read and
approved. . ' i .
The following journals were represented:
Albany News—Carey W. Styles.
Americas Courier—W. L. 'Perry.
Bainbridge Argus—J. R. Sneed (proxy).
Columbus Son—Thos. D. DeWolf.
Chronicle & Sentinel—A. R. Wright.:
Constitutionalist—J. R.’ Randall'"’ H
Dawson Journal—S. R. Weston. ’ t
Griffin Star—F. S. Fitch.
Hawkinsville Dispatoh—D. W. D. Boully.
LaGrange Reporter—C. H. C. Willingham.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger—Joseph
Clisby.
Monroe Advertiser—E. G. Cabiness.
Madison Farm Journal—J. F. Sahecut.
Rome Daily and Weekly—R. A. Moseley; Jr.
J. F. Shanklin. :
Rome Courier—M. Dwinell
Savannah Republican—J. R. Sneed. - i
Savannah News-^. H. Estill \ ; \
Southern Watchman—J. H. Christy.
Southern Banner, and Farmer and Artisan—
S. A. Atkinson.
Southern Recorder—R. M. Orme.. : .2
Talbotton Standard—J. T. Waterman.
West Point Shield—E. R. Sharpe. '
On motion of F. S. Fitch, of the Griffin Star,
the report of the Committee on Advertising,
laid over from last meeting, was taken up.
On motion of J. H. Christy, of the Southern
Watohman, the portion of the report containing
the schedule of rates, was adopted.
On motion of F. S. Fitch, of the Griffin Star,
the balance of the report was referred to the
Committee appointed at the last meeting to draw
np a bill regulating legal advertising, to be re
ported to-morrow morning.
Oh motion of Mr. DeWolf, of the Columbus
Sun, O. H. O. Willingham, of the LaGrange Re
porter, was constituted Treasurer.
On motion of O. W. Styles, of tbe Albany
News, the Secretary was instructed to print two
hundred, copies of the proceedings of the As
sociation for distribution.
On motion of Gen. Wright, the meeting ad
journed until Tuesday morning, half-past nine
o’clock. S. A. Atkinson, Secretary.
The Rothschilds Robbed.—An employe of the
Rothohilds, of Paris, has just robbed these
bankers of a very large amount. Details of the
case, though not complete, are still sufficiently
clear. It is stated toat a careful scrutiny of
the accounts and books of the bullion depart
ment has shown a deficit exceeding 2,500,000,
or £100,000. The perpetrator of the robbery is
Chas. Tassius, a man forty-nine years of age, of
German birth, bnt long resident in France. He
was the President of the Liederkranz, a musical
association, and a partner in a brewery. His
position at Messrs. Rothschilds’.' was that of
manager of the Bullion department, and in that
capacity it was his duty to purchase ingots of
the precious metals which were offered for sale.
The discovery of his fraud' was accidentally
made in consequence of his delay in forwarding
a bulk of 1,000 English sovereigns, for which a
customer had paid 25,00% Upon his failure to
reappear at the bank, his till and chests were
searched, audit was discovered that neither the
1,000 sovereigns nor the 25,000 francs were
there. . The police were immediately informed,
and they succeeded in arresting Tassius, who is
partly paralyzed, at the house of a relative. A
search was also made at his own residence, and
a sum of about 20,000 francs was found, as also
some correspondence, which proved that the
prisoner had been concerned with a Prussian
physician in Bourse speculation which had not
boon profitable. The Prussian doctor has also
been arrested on a charge of complicity in the
frauds committed by Tassius, and both prison
ers awaited judicial examination when the mail
left
H. J. Samsdell, the Washington corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who
first published the charges regarding bribery
in the Georgia bill, telegraphs as follows to the
Commercial of the 22i inst:
The Bullock lobby is still busy in circulating
the report that the investigation into the bri
bery cases has come to naught, and is discon
tinued. An at tempted explanation was placed
in the hands of every newspaper correspon
dent in the city, last night, and the report
went broadcast that the explanation was satis
factory to the committee. There is no shadow
of truth in this ; but on the contrary, it is as
false as a deliberate falsehood can be.
The gravest facts have been already proven
before the Committee, and the investigation
is but just begun. It is not at all unlikely that
the efforts at" bribery will be found not to be
confined to the influencing of Senator’s vote3
against the amendment. Some suspicious cir
cumstances are connected with a draft or check
of a very high official of Georgia, in favor of a
newspaper, whose record in the Alaska job is
not wholly clear.
A loafkb left his wife in a rage, telling her
that he would I<6vsr come back until he was rich
enough to coma in a carriage. He returned
Urn same evening in a wheelbarrow.
,7y-. La Letter from Texas. *
Davis County, Texas, April X5,1870. .
Editors.Telegraph arid Messenger.: Reoeiving
your magnificent 1 journal weekly, reminds me
that perhaps friends at home would IBce'to hear
something of our party, and how we are pleased.
On the: 12th of January last, abbot twenty of
ns left Maoon, bound for Jefferson ,county,
Texas. 4Ve had a gay and pleasant time throngh;
reached New Orleans onthe 14th; remained two
days-long enough for some of our party to be
fleeoed of their loose change,—sight seeing, etc.
Here we^net some five hundred emigrants, all
“ bound for Texas.”
The night of the 15!h' found us on board of
the fine, large steamor Grand Era. Most ex
cellent accommodations, good fare and kind at
tention from the offioers of the boat, together
with agreeable traveling company, rendered the
trip delightful.
On the 22d we landed safely at Jeffersbn, from
where our party dispersed into different parts
of.the country:“to seek their fortunes.”
I am t now cultivating a small farm and am
well pleased. The land is not altogether as pro
ductive as in some other portions of the State,
yet it is good and cheap—from one to three dol
lars per acre. I believe all who came out with
me are well pleased. An energetio, working man
can do better business farming hero than in
Georgia, from the fact that mother earth yields
so much more abundantly. Say to my friends
in Georgia who are seeking new homes, Texas
has room enough for all.
A terrible rain and hailstorm passed through
this section on Thursday and Friday last No
special damage done.
With the hope of sending you a good list of
new subscribers, I am, Yours, etc.,
W. F. M.
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Stay in the Country.
The frequent letters we receive from young
men in the country about coming to the city,
and asking relative to the chances of employ
ment, advancement, etc., constrain.us to say,
with emphasis, Stay in the Coun try!. And tins
admonitory advice is foundod uponsome actual
knowledge of both country and city life and
avocations—the health and competence which
the one assures, and the uncertainties, disap
pointments and failures attending the other.
Our large cities are over-crowded, and the
present is a most unfavorable period to change
firom country to town life and occupations,
even if such is ever advisable. In New York
city alone tens of thousands of intelligent and
skillful people are out of employment or only
living from hand to mouth; and the times are
such that the prospects of those who depend
upon occupation in stores, offices and manufac
tories are becoming more and more discourag
ing. Many who have growing families depend
ent upon their labors for support are wisely re
moving to the country, and not a few capital
ists and business men are manifesting shrewd
ness and foresight by securing small farms or
landed estates for their sons, with a view of
placing them beyond the temptations and
chances of: town life and speculation. And
we believe theie are to-day at least a quarter
million of people Ip,this city who would mate
rially better their condition by going into the
country—on farms, or to new and growing
towns in the West,- South, etc ,-where land is
cheap and fertile, and labor in demand and
well rewarded. Maits*-
Young men, ,and especially farmere sons,
who are looking city-ward should carefully
consider the changes of success—which, ai the
best, are poor indeed, as statistics amply dem
onstrate—and ponder well the life-long conse-'
qiiences of a change from country to city life
and occupations. Those looking for employ
ment in newspaper offices, (either as clerks or
brain-workers) as are many who write us, are
particularly cautioned to look before they leap
into the tempting but uncertain and laborious
whirlpool of Journalism;- Bor in this, as in
most city professions and trad s, tbfcke is little
or no room—except for such geniuses as are
rare indeed. For one brilliant .success, like
that of Greeley or Raymond, there are a thou
sand signal failures—failures which not unfre-
quentlv render the aspirants and their families
both destitute and miserable. An advertise
ment for a competent newspaper man or edi
torial writer, would rat once be answered by
scores of city residents, qualified by long prac
tice to occupy the position; hence how poor
the chance of an inexperienced countryman,
unless he possesses superior capacity, or is
hacked by influential friends—and the latter
can only aid him in starting, for persistent
labor and decided bjain power are requisite to
achieve even average success in a field so filled
with active competitors.
Let us cite a case in point On removing
the principal office of the Rural to New York,
we advertised'in. a morning paper for an ex
perienced book-keeper—one thoroughly con
versant with the newspaper business, etc.—
Before five o’clock of the same day we received
seventy-four written applications for the posi
tion ! And many of these were from men who
had been in business and foiled 1—men for
merly well-to-do, if not rich, but now poor,
with educated and refined families to support,
and that two in a city where to live decently
requires hard, well-remunerated work, or a
surplus of means.
And what is true in regard to journalism is
to a great extent true concerning other pro
fessions and branches of business—for nearly
all the so-called respectable city avenues to
competence, fortune or fame, are filled with
industrious, ambitious and persistent aspirants
and • competitors. Hence the chances to be
come Stewarts and Vanderbilts, or Harpers
and Applctons, are indeed._few and for be
tween. Better far try agriculture, whioh is
truly the most honorable and useful, as it is
the most natural and healthy pursuit of man.
Yes, stay in the country, and avoid the iotteiy-
like change to city life and habits, and from
out-door to sedentary employment. Remem
ber that though few—alas, how very few—
business.and professional men succeed in ac
quiring and retaining wealth aqfi position, the
many fail of securing even a com petency—while
thousands who began life with high hopes and
brilliant prospects, annually die in poverty and
obscurity. Bear in mind, also, that the farm
is the natural nursery of health, virtue and
contentment, and that it guarantees oompe
tcnce if not wealth—while the city (with its
avocations, associations and temptations) in
juries and often destroys the health, corrupts
the morals, and not unfreqnently leads to bank
ruptcy in cash, conscience and respectability.
Avoid tfie turmoil of the poisonous town by
staying in the tranquil, pure, invitrorating, life-
giving and sustaining country- We venly be
lieve that, as a general rule, every young maa
who leaves tbe farm for the counter, dedr,
physio or law, forsakes a certainty for an un
certainty—and as to the extent of than uncer
tainty, let the idle, starving thousands of out
large cities answer.
For the above and other cogent reasons we
earnestly reiterate, Stay in the Country !
[Rural New Yorker.
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A Judge Becomes Insane in the Coubt Rook.
In the United States district court at Trenton,
on Tuesday, daring the progress of an argu
ment by the district attorney, Judge Field, who
was ou the bench, rose from his seat, and with
his face to the westerly wall of the court-room,
lifted up his hands, beat the air wildly with
them, and shouted out, “It It aw ®se, it is ns
use, gentlemen, you will have to indict tho
judge 1” and then he shrieked and fell toward*
the wall but was, fortunately, caught and oon-
veyed, in an Insenhible condition, to hi* chap*.
bers in the State house. The atone
great confusion. Medical aid was
obtained, and it was learshd hbeat,’"'
afterwards that the attack
over
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