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THE FEDERAL UNION,
( Cornerof Hancock and Wilkinson streets.)
OPPOSITE TBECorSTIIOI M?.
BOUGHTO*. IflSBET K fO., Slate PHiiters.
January 2, I860.
Tuesday Morning,
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^ Thought,. for the Timfd.
^ Every Southern man and woman who take an
interest in the peace and prosperity of the section
io which they live, and in their own individua]
happiness, will look steadily to the preatwork of
bringing order and system out of confusion and
disorder, -nd strive by every energy they possess
to prevent unpleasant feeling between themselves
and the negroes who are dwelling amongst them.
They can do great good if they will, by a little
painstaking, or a great deal of harm by neglect
ing to take an interest in the welfare of those who
must be for awhile, at least, their only depend
ence for labor. As one of the very best means of
making the negroes satisfied, we receommend
prompt and frequent payments. It matters not
what you may think is best for the negro—satisfy
him. and you do the very best thing you can for
both yourself and him. If lie prefers $5 at the
end of every month, to $100 at the end of the
year, pay it to him. Those who can do so, would
do still better, if they could pay at the end
of every week. Many negroes prefer to get $1-
50 cts. at the end of each week, to $8 at the end
of the month. The Planter, of course, will not be
able’ to pay his laborers until the crop goes to
market. But in all other cases, we would urge on
employers to pay frequently. The negro is sat
isfied with less money, and will work more faith
fully.
, i V We should also encourage such of the freedrnen
and freedwomen as are disposed to comply with
their engagements, and who behave with propri
ety, by increasing their wages in proportion as
they mani.'est a disposition to do well by us. It
will not do to say. other labor can lie had in a
short time—and therefore we care not what may
become of the negro. Other labor, doubtless wi l
come; and it is true that many of the negroes
have acted foolishly by leaving good homes, and
gome have treated their former Masters and Mis
tresses almost cruelly, by leaving them while in
sickness, and without any help; but we still
have them here, and w’e owe it to ourselves, to
humanity, to the good of the State, and the peace
and welfare of our respective communities, to^
help the negroes if they manifest any disposition
to help us and themselves. We know that most
of the negroes will suffer for their stubbornness
and blindness. It will be a lesson which will be
of service to them—but let us make good examples
of a few, so that the balance may be encouraged
to imitatothem. The negroes w ill soon find out
that a good name is invaluable to them—as much
ao as to a white man ; and when it is observed by
them, that respectable white men will have no
dealings with bad and vicious negroes, the strong
est possible incentive is afforded to induce them
to strive to do well.
Let us, then, remember that it is greatly in oui r
power to improve the negroes in cur midst. And
let us also i^^forget, that we aid society in pro
portion as we make the negroi s better satisfied
with their situation as laborers, and as we culti
vate in them right and proper notions of their
^.relation to ibe superior race, and the Government
WHY' STAR'D YE I* EKE ALL THE]
DAY IDLEf
This question was never more per
tinent than at present to the people
of the Southern States. It applies
with overwhelming force to all; black
and white, old and young, male and
female. We would have said rich and
poor, but we have no rich people
among us ; no, not one. The wealth
of every country consists in the pro
ducts of labor, and when there is little
labor there is little wealth. Some of
the most fertile countries on earth,
are among the poorest countries, be
cause the people are indolent and im
provident. Witness Turkey, Spain,
Mexico, and some portions of South
America, whilst Holland and Belgi
um, which naturally were swamps
and morasses, have become rich‘and
prosperous on account of the industry
of the people. In every community
those who labor and accumulate have
to support the idle and profligate.
When we see any one lounging about
without any occupation or business,
we Ji.now that be or she is getting
£h$iM living out of somebody else.—
The tinie has come when every body
in Georgia that is able, should be in
dustrious and economical. The black
people have got to work or starve.—
Begging and stealing will soon be
played out, and the question will be,
work or die. And the white people
too will soon learn that they must do
something for a support. Fathers and
Mothers can no longer support their
sons and daughters in idleness, for they
have not the means, and their chil
dren ought to know it. Idlers and
loafers will soon learn that their occu
pation is gone. They can no longer
live on credit, for the credit system is
abolished. They can no longer sponge,
for there is no one to sponge out of.
The do Nothings as well as the Know
Nothings, have had their day. Every
body has got to go to work, and the
sooner every body realizes this fact the
better. We then again repeat the
question: Why stand ye here all the
day idle ? There is work enough to
do ; but we must not be too particu
lar as to the kind of work, if it is hon
est. And when every one, black and
white goes to work with a will, the
country will again become prosper
ous, and many will again become rich,
and that good time we have been so
long looking for will have come.
I JUfX£ —- —
Death of distinguised Georgi
ans.—The Macon Telegraph says that
Hon. Wm. H. Stiles died in Savan
nah a few days ago.
\\ e see by the New York Daily
News of the 21st ult., that Hon. Ma
thew Ilall McAlister, formerly of
Georgia, died in San Francisco on the
morning of the 19th of December.
The late Freshet.—The late
heavy rains have doue considerable
damage to our Railroads in Georgia.
On the Georgia R. R. the bridges on
the Oconee and Yellow Rivers were
injured, delaying the regular trains.
On the State Road, two of the trestles
of the Chattahoochee bridge were
swept away. The same damage was
done the Oostanaula bridge, near Ite-
sacca.
Boston tr a nscen d entalism.—A
writer thus takes off the Bostonians:
“Margaret, this is poetry,” said a
transcendentalist to his companion, as
Fanny Ellsler gave a miraculous twirl
to her extended leg. “No, Waldo,”
was the reply, “it is religion.” Will
somebody tell us where the “religion”
began and ended ?
Some Fairness Left.
There is a little of it yet remaining, if
applied for soon. To prove it, we quote
the following from a voluminous and forci
ble writer in the National Intelligencer at
Washington, evidently a man of posi
tion :
What, in fact, Messrs. Editors, have
the people of the South done worthy of
degradation and dishonor at the hands of
the Government of their country ? Let
us endeavor to answer the question in the
impartial spirit of history, giving to them,
as the party destined to be arraigued at
its bar, the benefit of the qualifying cir
cumstances and the charitable abatements
to which they are fairly entitled, and
which will be sure to be accorded to them,
in the end, by the judgment of mankind.
It is conceded that they attempted to sub-
Ladics’ Fashions.—As our lady
friends are all interested in the fash
ions of the day, we give an article
from the Round Table, showing the
predominant color which will be worn
this winter by the female sex:
“The rage this season is for red—so
say the fashion writers. Bed dresses,
red skirts and red jackets, red cloaks,
ml in the bonnets, red ribbons to
adorn the hair, and to come down to
the latest Parisian innovation, bright
red hooped skirts and equally bright
scarlet corsets. ‘What is the object
of scarlet corsets and scarlet hooped
skirts?’ said a lady to the attendant in
a store where these gaudy articles
were displayed. ‘Object,’ repeated
EnuTKOn Elhridge's Opinion on military
Courts.
The Terre Haute (La.) Journal prints
the following extract from a letter from
Emerson Ethridge to a gentleman in that
city ;
Dresden, Tenn., Oct. 24, lSGf>.
Your very interesting letter of the 29th
ultimo was received the day I started to
Columbus to witness the last of the farce
which oiiginated last summer. r I he Vul
gar and malignant malcontents who caused
my arrest and detention at Columbus for
seven weeks last summer, had begun to
feci the load of infamy they had incurred.
Something must be clone. What could
be done but a resort to a military commis
sion—one of those patented inventions in
motion jurisprudence which are “organi
zed to convict and ordered to try.” Ac
cordingly grave and lying charges were
preferred and the personnel of the tribunal
carefully selected. The President of the
commission was one of those who, under
l the Butler regime, had hanged Mumford
in New Orleans. Nothing more was sup-
I posed to he wanting, lint the world has
j begun to canvass the infallibility of the
j Kirks and Jeffreys of the lOlli century.
I Proof must be bad. In my case delay
had rendered it indispensable. But not
one of the secret assassins who had crea
ted my arrest—not one of those who had
furnished the cjtparte affidavits upon which
the only material charges and specifica
tions were based, could be forced to ap
pear.
They dared not submit themselves to
the scrutiny of truth, or confront the gaze
of those who knew them. Consequently
the government was compelled to summon
inteliigedt and respectable men who were
present at the public meetings where the
alleged cries were said to have been com
mitted. I did not summon a single wit
ness ; I submitted no proof in my defence:
//r-yurr a i'l/srrm nj i.airs, io carry , 1 , T
infn rfft ct thehth clause of the 5th fertion of the iind 1 uia not employ counsel nor did I argue
the case. When the government closed
vert ohe nationality that they might es-jthe woman, eyeing her interlocutor
contemptuously, ‘why, they are the
latest style.’
“This was sufficient. A garment
may be opposed to every idea of pro
priety, good sense aud good taste; it
may be ugly in itself, as well as un
becoming to the wearer; but if it is
the “latest style,’ that is endorsement
enough ; the most courageous woman
would not dare to question its claims
to respect and admiration.
The reign of scarlet is not incom-
tahlish another of their own. But they
did so under the clear conviction and in
the firm belief that they had the right, un
der the organic law of the land, to do so.
It was their political faith, or at least, the
faith of the tontroling majority of them,
that they had the constitutional right
peaceably to withdraw from the Union.—
It was a faitb which had come down to
them from their fathers. It had been
held as true by many of the wisest and
purest statesmen of America. It bad
been vindicated as the true rendering of
the constitutional compact, by men at tho
From the Boston p 0 .*
Outrageous Proceedings i„ n
Vermont—A Music Teacher Ah.„ , . l " p,l!,f .
rr » Wealthy Young I.ady, £? 'T
ont of Town. "* '• ‘•ureg
The phantom of perpetual bachelo r fc Cod
maidenhood, in semi-distant shadowy f an< *
awful to dwell npon. Singlc-blessedL.®*' ’*
generally desirable, and an unduly nmi„ “ not
age of the little Miss is a sort of (Lupl 0 . 0 *-* 1 Us *
Providence dreadful to consider. ]{„ ., stl0D of
should one feel surprised at anythiDa- • S * w hy
however strange, especially in nsners D i tor8 '
the heart, not the mind, holds absolute W “ ere in
it is surprising that the world wi,h t *h an< l
scribe matters of mere taste and fee'ino.»° ClrcQ ®-
fixed rules. How often have w„ 2 ,| Certjia
strapping man pair off with the slender r
live female—the large masculine vira™ • , DU '
lillipntian apology for a man. Ij 0w fl f, ' . •
the must
North a, well as at the South. No !«•*»• P 0 * 1 ** 1 ® wi . th ,1 ‘* ? f «°!f whicl *
lative interpretation,.no judicial decision
could be quoted against it. It was as often
supported as opposed in the harangues of
orators and in the lucubrations of political
essayists The logic of the bayonet had
not yet engrafted the opposite construction
upon the constitutional compact. That
this faith was honestly embraced and sin
cerely entertained by tho people of the
South they attested by the highest evi
has been inaugurated about the same
time, and divides the honors about
equally in the world of fashion. But
what be done with this rage for scar
let and this rage for gold, which has
broken out like the small-pox or the
erysipelas, and exhibits itself in glar
ing blotches, in gilt bands and brassy
. j pendants, suitable enough as an adorn-
dence that man can give of the sincerity of merit for window curtains, but, to our
Report of the Commissioners,
Article and the latter part of the third, clause of the
~nd section of the. Aik Article of ^jj^Jonstiintion.
under which they live.
The Houliicrn rrprenentafion in ConjrrM.
Many pe r sons at the South are so anxious that
those which were formerly the Confederate State*
should be represented in the Congress of the U.
8., that they are willing to send men to the Sen
ate that would take the test oath ralher than have
no Senators there. This, we think, is a mistaken
and a ruinous policy. Men that are willing to
take the test oath would not represent a large
majority at the South—they would only add to
the number of our enemies already there. Better
a thousand times that we should have no repre
sentation in Congress, than that we send men
there who do not sympathize with a majority of
the people at the South. Whilst we are without
any representation, shame and the opinion of the
civilized world will probably keep them from
putting any oppressive bnrtliens on us. But if
wo were to send men there who were willing to
take the test oath, they would also be willing to
do anything else the majority in Congress should
demand of them. At any rate they would not be
able to do us any good. Let us remain without
any representation, until wo can send the men of
our choice. The Black Republicans must have
•ome one to quarrel with, and if thero is no one
from the South to oppose them, they will soon get
to fighting among th'-mselves. Thero are signs
of Bach a division among them already. Let us
not step in, and by concentrating them on us, heal
the broach among themselves.
— ♦ mm
Goiho to Mexico.—We hear of, and see, some
people who have got the emigration fever strong
ly on their brain ; and Mexico, and Gov. Harris’
little colony appear to be the “promised land” to
wbich their eyes are turned. Now, these people
■re tired of the ills they have; but they should be
careful, when they start from their old homes,
that they do not fiy to others more formidable and
insupportable. In other words, let them be 6ure
they do not get out ot the frying pan into the
fire.
Mexico in onr opinion is destined to be a battle
ground for a great many years, and it is by no
means certain that Maximilian will be able to
bold the country. If be should be expelled at a
future day, and Mexicans once more rule Mexico,
then a dwelling placoon the road from the sea to
the Halls of the Montezumas, would be about as
desirable as a residence in the kingdom of Da
homey.
Augusta.—Atlanta was thought to
Re the most lawless city in Georgia; but
the record of the past twenty days
shows Augusta to be far ahead of the
Gate City in this unenviable notoriety.
The papers ol Augusta, during the
past ten or fifteen days, make up a
“bad case” for the hitharto respecta
ble city ol Augusta. Murders, rob
beries in broad day light, assassina
tions, &c., &c., seem to be the order
of the day. With such a Mayor as
Mayor May, we hoped for better
things.
This work was placed into our ’■fids by Col. John
B. Wteins Sec’y. of Senate, who was required by reso
lution of that body to superintend the printing of the
* ame, on Wednesday at 12 o’clock, and was r«ady for
deliveryon Saturday morning. It makes a pamphlet
of 39 pages. Hon. Linton Stephens, who rrnp appointed
one of the>ommiHsioiier8, declined to serve, and the
other commissioners selected Samuel Barnett Esq. of
V ashington Ga., in his stead. The report was prepar
ed by Judge Starves, W. Hope Hum. Esq., L. E
Bi.ECKr.tr Esq., and Samuel [Barnett Esq. Coi.'
Ij. N. V* kittle s name does not appear in connection
with it, though he was appointed on the Commission.
The report is prepared into an orderly arrangement
of Articles and Sections, with the proper divisions and
titles of subjects, arid is accompanied with the draft of
a short adopting bill.
The commission in prefacing their labors, remark 1
“Wo are sensible that, in presenting this system of
laws, we may be subjected to the imputation of hav
ing done at once too little and too much—too little for
those who are expecting an instant arid speedy reme
dy for all the ills which the present crisis lias brought
upon us; too much lor those whose prejudices have
not yet yielded to the necessities of our situation.
The mischiefs to be remedied-are enormous, r.nd
there is more or less of an indefinite hope and expeetn
tion that legislation will afford at once, and with all
certainty, the proper remedy- It is impossible that
this hope can be gratified, this expectation realized.—
The results which arc to ensue from such legislation
present a problem that can only bo wrought out by
experience. A prominent factor in the solution must
therefore be time. We cannot expect that for this, our
distressed people will patiently wsit, and more or less
of. disappointment must issue. Prepared to aecept
this result we shall not be mortified by intimations of
feebleness, or imputations of failuic,aud shall be sat
isfied with the humble meed of having honestly endeav
ored to do our part, and thereby contribute aid to those
who are charged with the difficult duty of guarding the
State and the persons of color in our midst from the
evils of sudden emancipation.”
“Reliable” not dead.—We thought
“Reliable” died with the War, But
we see he is still kicking. Looking
over one of our exchanges on Satur
day last, we see the reliable telegraph
Agent sends greeting as follows :
“Southerners in Brazil. Captain
Raphael Semmei. The Pardon buni-
ness declining. Arrival of the Minis
ter from Columbia. The Disturbance
at Clarksville. The Governor of Ja
maica suspended. Head-center Stevens
in Paris. Maximilian expected to ab
dicate the Mexican thvone, &c. Now,
our readers have in the above the
heads of the latest news; and, if relia
ble, they can put it in their pipes and
smoke it, that’s all.
■ —
Open the cook, then.—Harper’s Magazine,
one of the leading Radical journals, has an edi
torial in the December number, much more liberal
and fair than anything we have seen in it since
the V, ar. The writer says : “The strong sense
that was deaf to Lee’s cannon, will hardly be pfer-
suaded by the tongues of his soldiers turned Rep
resentatives and Senators —
Then away with _ . v
itcra Uko their tent** ^ CoDgretm * n members are delighted with the pres-
the case I was done, 'i be result is that
I am completely vindicated and my ene
mies covered with infamy, if indeed such
creatures could find in “the lowest depths
a lower deep”—The members of the court
were conspicuous for their gentlemanly
and courteous hearing, and they candidly
confessed their ignorance of the law by
the rules and principles of which they
so frankly professed not to be governed.
I know enough of military commissions
to regard every intelligent man who de
fends their necessity or jurisdiction as
more dangerous than any culprit who has
ever been murdered by their judicial
mockeries. Surely your Northern peo
pie love servility, else why do they, or so
many of them, glorify the worst instru
ments of cruel despotism, and hail with
joy the most glaring usurpations? Will
not some shrewd Yankee speedily startle
the world with an improved thumb screw/
What a pity that Iiavaillac had not lived
until now. In this age tho Dry Tortn
gas, with improved instruments, would
have extorted real names for accomplices
who had no real cxistance. But enough
of this. I have read your letter to my intel
ligent friends, buch words of sympathy
from such a source are more than grateful
at this time.
The Prospects in Congress.—Speak
ing of the debate in the Senate and House
ou the 21st, the intelligent correspondent
of the Louisville Daily Courier writing on
that day says
It has been another losing day to the
Radicals, and the work of reconstruction
of parties goes bravely on. Already Con
gress is classified under three heads—Un
ion or Administration men, Radicals and
Copperheads. The administration party
is substantially growing stronger, audit is
predicted by sage political observers that
when the President opens fire from his re
serve of big guns, there will be few left to
oppose his policy. This is to be done ear
ly in January, beginning with the use of
Executive patronage. Even republicans
admit that within thirty days a majority
of the Senate will be on the side of the Ad
ministration. 'i bis is all that will be need
ed, for with a Conservative majority in
Senate, the Radicals in the House will be
utterly powerless for harmful legislation,
except to refuse admission to members
from the Southern States.
The debate between Messrs. Wilson and
Saulsbury to-day in the Senate, develop
ed the progress of the programme which I
telegraphed you last night-
Senator Wilson has been heretofore the
Frenchman of Sumner, and was one of the
last men expected to fall in line as one of
the President’s guards, but on this run he
took a graceful farewell to the radicals,
and made tho first step towards enlisting
in tho Union ranks. With a maintain-
ance of good temper, and the existence of
a true Union Spirit on the part of the
South, the President will be enabled to
win a substantial victory. Leading South-
his convictions—they sealed it with their
blood, and with the loss of well nigh all
of earthly possessions. It is submitted
that men acting upon a political faith so
universally'accepted among themselves as
true, and attesting the sincerity of their
convictions by so many costly sacrifices,
may have been mistaken ; they may have
erred, as I believe they did, both in the
interpretation of the Constitution and in
the attempt to reduce their cherished be
lief to practice.
Good Sensible Adviee to Freedrnen.
Capt. J. Burnett, Assistant Superinten
dent Frcedmen’s Bureau, lias issued a
circular to the freedrnen of Western Nortli
Carolina, and the adjoining districts of
South Carolina, which will be to most of
them somewhat interesting and very sur
prising. Ho commences by T telling them
that he has heard that about Christmas
they expect to receive the lands, horses,
farming utensils, and a portion of their
former masters’ plantations. If it is true
that such are their anticipations, he in
forms them that they- may- as well dismiss
all such ideas at once, for the Government
has nothing to do with their masters plan
tations, and has no right to dispose of them
in any manner. And, furthermore, he
adds, that if they do not labor—have not
labored since they became free—during
the winter they will be in a situation worse
than slavery—they will have nothing to live
upon, and must, with their families, perish.
He assures them that the Government will
Dot feed them, nor will it help them in
any way ; and if they do not labor hard
and establish themselves characters for
industry, their lives will pass away and
they will be known only in name. He
furthermore says :
“Since I have been among you I have
discovered that a majority of you look up
on your former masters as your enemies,
and upon the ‘Yankees as your old friends.
In this you are mistaken. I am from the
North, and know well the feelings that ex
ist there towards the negro. I know that
a majority' of the Northern people will
not consent to your becoming citizens
amongst them. The Government, through
a military necessity, has given you your
freedom, and in that fieedom the people
of North Carolina will ever protect you,
unless you become unworthy of their pro
tection.
“The South is your natural home, and
Southern men will he your frieuds. The
majority of you were raised, have grown
up on the same plantations with your for
mer masters ; and I know it to be a fact
that there is a feeling, a sympathy, exist-'
ing betwoen you that does not, nor never
can exist between you and the people of
the North. If Southern men are your ene
mies, it is your bad behavior that has
made them 60. The fact is that you know
not how to appreciate your freedom, and
have grossly abused it.”
This is good talk. Sound, sensible ad
vice. We trust all freedrnen who read it,
or who have it read to them by their em
ployers, will profit by it. Captain Burnett
lias told some plain truths. We hope they
will have good effect upon the class they
are destined to influence.
Punctuation—That is putting the
stops in the right places—cannot be too
6edulousy studied. We lately read in a
country paper the following startling ac
count of Lord Palmerston’s appearance in
the House of Commons: “Lord Palmerston
then entered on his head, a white hat upon
his feet, large but well polished boots up
on his brow, a dark cloud in his hand,
his faithful walking stick in his eye, a
menacing glare saying nothing. He sat
down.”—Punch on Punctuation.
crude notion, out ot place on the del
ieate and graceful form of a pretty
woman.
“We say nothing of the scandal
and impropriety of biazing out in the
loose finery of shameless Parisian lord-
tes, while the earth is yet fresh above
the graves of thousands ot the noblest
and bravest among us, w’hile thou
sands of homes are yet darkened by
the loss of all that made life worth
the living, or wrested it out of abso
lute want and misery—because such
considerations, though well enough for
the visitors of a tract society, as the
ground of appeal for charitable assis
tance, afford no reason at all why
fashionable ladies should not follow
their fancies and indulge their ca
prices.
“But, unfortunately, our fashiona
ble ladies are also our wives, sisters,
mothers, friends, the guardians of our
households, the angels of the hearth
stone, upon whom, under Providence,
the future destinies of the Republic de
pend.
“The Kings rule the people,
But thou rulest the king.”
“Men rule the nation, but women
make men. And what sort of men
shall these women in scarlet and gold,
and gew-gaws make? Alas! not men
honest, not men true, not incorrupti
ble, but false men, treacherous men,
schemeing men, men willing to sell
themselves or their country for that
gold and mockery of wealth, the love
of which they drink in with mother’s
milk.”
Forney on the Message.—The President
himself in full view of his accountability
to the people, declares that the work of
restoration is complete, so far as he could
control it, and that the people of the South
are ready to obey the obligations and pen
alties they have incurred, and are prepared
to show their sincerity by their works.—
The testimony of lit. Gen. Grant in sup
port of this declaration is characteristically
frank, explicit and truthful. We certainly
ask no better witnesses. They are not
alone competent to speak, but abundantly
worthy of belief. And this is impressive
ly true in the fact that nothing either in
the message or the accompanying report,
looks to a surrender of principle as under
stood by the friends of the government
and laid down in the platform of the Na
tional Union party, or attempts to postpone
or to evade the great duty of defending,
protecting and befriending the freedrnen
of the South. The whole exhibit is man
ly, straightforward, and lull. That it has
been criticised is to be expected in these
days of novel complications and novel
remedies ; but that any statesman should
believe that it does not come up to the
full measure of patriotic expectation is
almost incomprehensible. We hail it as
the moment from which to date the re
storation of the conquered States to a vin
dicated Unicn, and the true historical be
ginning of a republic without a slave.—
Washington Chronicle.
Two Negro Thieves Sentenced t.o Servi
tude.—Wilmington, N. C..Dcc. If).—Two
negro men, John Walker and Robert Mc-
Key, convicted of larceny by r the New
Hanover comity court, have been sold into
servitude for a period not exceeding five
years. The sentence is agreeable to the
laws cf the State, in relation to freedrnen,
before tho war.
Uat.
Shooting at sight is the order of tho
day in Mexico. A correspondent of the
New York Herald says that during his
short stay at Matamoras twenty-five men
were phot down with scarcely the form of
a trial for alleged opposition to the Impe
rial authority. Extermination is the avow
ed policy of the empire toward those who
incline to the Liberal cause, Mtd active
relation if the confluence.
A Tl dl to do Couple.—A., T. Stewart,
the dry goods millionaire in New York,
among hrn other possessions, owns both
the St. Nicholas and the Metiopolitan
hotels—lire suug sum of $140,000 a year,
as their rental, prov iding him with pocket
money to buy cigars with aud peanuts.—
As he and his<*nfe are alone in this world,
have no children, and are expressively
economical.in their expenditures, it is pos
sible that their million aud a-half a year
of income may enable them to subsist, at
least, in these extravagant times, especial
ly as they have the choice of two hotels
to lived in “free gratif for nothing.”
(Pittsburg Dispatch.
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t ~ .1 - | . aIow OtlPn
nave we seen the plainest man marry
handsome woman, and rice versa. H
times is talent eoupled with stupidity fc° W J naD 7
married to ignorance; folly lea<iioe’w!i e ^ e
the nose; pride and rank hnmhJed° m .■T
with obscurity, and wealth riicnii 1‘V union
erty. Mone/ is the only o„ e
universality of taste seems to prevail s
U„J. Or* farcy ,be folly S'
ophers in troubling their heaus cud iiijiirin e tl,!
healths in endeavoring to find the longitude ff
quadrature of the circle, the philosopher's s ’ to he
the phoenix, the general fitness of things th'
greatest happiness, when all this is perfectly e 8
plained in the single word—money. Btft th et "
are cases where money is left entirely out of th*
question—instances where the only stock used in
the bargaiu is unalloyed love, reciprocating win,
out reference to nationality. And such a case
surrounded by peculiar circumstances, and C ul'
mina'ing in a finale rather disastrous to one of the
parlies, at least, has come to our knowledge as
having occurred in a neighboring State, the par-
ticulars of which are as follows : v
On Monday last, about nine o’clock. Professor
B. Melchoir, of Montpelier, Vermont—who, it ap-
pears, has been teaching music in that city for some
time—was taken by a mob from his lodging room
and violently escorted to the railway station, and
ordered to leave the city immediately, upon pen
alty of being shot 4f he returned. The pretense
assigned fur such a dastardly outrage was to ex-
tort from him (the music teacher) a" w ritten con
tract of marriage made secretly, some time since,
between himself and a wealthy young lady of that
place, whose name we withhold for prudential
reasons. -Those who took a prominent partin
this high handed transaction had been baffled in
their efforts to get possession of this document,
for the purpose of broaking up the intended un-
icn. Professor Melchoir was not permitted to «•
main in the place long enough to collect his dues
nor to visit his intended wife or her parents. Tbs
marriage was to have taken place the next day.
The gentlemau who was thus unceremoniously
hustled out of town, had, it appears, succeeded in
wooing the heart and hand ot a respectable young
lade, one who had rejected the offers of a number
of the gay lovers of Montpelier; and it coming to
pass that the prize was about to lull to a foreigner,
the discarded lovers clandestinely agreed npon a’
plan to get rid of the Frenchman who had thus
won the affections of a Yankee girl. Professor
Melchoir is, of course, exceedingly indignant st
the manner in which he has been treated, and pro
tests against such rough usage. Such flagrant vi
olation of law should not be countenanced among
those who pride themselves upon being a law-
abiding people, and certainly such high-handed
proceedings should not be winked at. Tho gen
tleman why was s-i unjustly dealt with will pro
bably resort to legal proceedings, and, sooner or
later, ascertain whether he has any rights in Mont
pelier that tho people there are bound to respect.
One of the most prominent actors in this outra
geous proceeding was a cotton speculator, who,
during the war, incurred the displeasure of Gen
eral Butler. We mention no names in this matter,
but quietly wait the result.
War Measures in time of Peace.—
The Boston Courier very jnstlj says: It
sorely must have escaped the attention
of some of the dominant party in Congress,
that they were elected in a time when
war was raging and the issue yet doubt
ful, aud that the present is a season of
peace. Where they look for an enemy
there is none. Their work is therefore
changed; and it would argue the possess-
sion of strong reason among them if they
would stop to consider the unexpected
class of duties to which a sudden change
of circumstances bad summoned them. If
we read their conduct right, they have
not yet come to a knowledge of the fact
that the war i3 all over; but they would
continue the same military rule throughout
the South which they apparently believe
they were chosen to perpetuate- If they
persist in so grave a misapprehension,
there is no likelihood of their ever warm
ing the seats again which they occupy now.
They ought to kuow that it is a restored
fraternity that the people of this country
want, not conquest, not inequality of po-
litical condition, not a government irrespon
sible to those for and by whom it was in
stituted. But as it is, they are suffering
the love of Union in the breasts of South
ern men to decay, as if nothing were of
equal importance with their own present
hold upon power. Their fatal policy will
work an overwhelming revolution in the
popular sentiment, and they will be obli
ged at last to confess that they lost all iff
selfishly preferring party to country.
This is the day when the exercise of mag
nanimity would prove a genuine element
to statesmanship; it is pitiful, therefore,
to find the party in possession of the Gov
ernment unable so far to comprehend tho
situation as to know when the time
come to forgive, or even how to forgiw ot
all.
Sulphur and Cholera.—Dr. Herring, of
Philadelphia, iu his “Domestic Physi
cian,” says of Asiatic cholera :
Tho surest preventive is sulphur, put
half a teaspoonful of flour of sulphur into
each of your stockings and go about yonr
business.; never go out with an empty
stomach ; eat no fresh bread nor sour food.
This is not only a preventive in cholera,
hut also in many other epidemic diseases.
Not one of many thousands who have fol
lowed this, my advice, haye been attacked
by cholera.
Tight on Butler.—The New York World
thus speaks of the notorious Benjamin
F. Butler :
Butler, ex-general, the “tightly-corked
bottle imp” of Bermuda Hundreds, is
showing a letter to newspaper editors and
others which he alleges he received from
Lord Palmerston, in which the latter apol-
gizes to Butler for animadverting upon hi*
tameus New Orleans woman order in the
House of Commons. It will be remem
bered that, to excuse himself from nis fi
asco at Fort Fisher, Butier also produced
a letter purporting to be written by gen
eral Whiting, the Confederate Comman
der at that place, in which tho latter took
Butler’s view of the case. The cU IL°, u . 9
thing about both Palmerston’s and Vv bi
ting’s letter is, that neither of them should
be made public until after the alleged au
thors were dead. From these ip s j ft “ ce
we are inclined to believe that, it GeUj
Grant should “shuffle off his mortal coi
within a year, Butler would so®® °^ o
produce a letter, iu which be wou
whitewashed of all his military 6ins by
Lieutenant-General.
Public Meeting in New
New York correspondent of the * 1
phia Ledger writes: * a tihe
Leading Republican
their cue from Washington, are inl .* ^
the preliminaries of a public meellD ® in .
the Cooper Institute cn Monday ®_ v
next. Democrats, as well as Adin 111 ^^
tiun men, will be invited to partrcipa •
Among the speakers will be Hon- 1
J. Raymond, and, perhaps, " on * , -w,
Brooks. This movement will, no
impel the radicals to get up 0OBM
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