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Newspaper Page Textftfttral VOLUME XLII.j 111011 M ILLED6E VILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 24,1872. NUMBER l*. £ t Jftbera 1 Virion, Id PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN MILLEDGEV1LLK. GA.. BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE, (Corner of llaueock and Wilkinson Street.,) £t $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year. S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar peraquare of ten line, for first insertion, and aeventy-iive ceutefjr each tubse quent continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office,Com munications or Editorial notice, for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING? Sheriff's Sales, per levy of ten lines, or leif,....$2 50 “ Mortgage fi fa sales, per square,........ 5 00 Citations for Letters of Administration 3 00 ** _ “ Guardianship, 3 00 Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00 “ Guardianship, 3 00 “ “ leave to sell Land 5 00 “ for Homesteads, 1 75 Notice to Debtors and Creditor., 3 00 Sales ot Land, &-<•., per square 5 00 “ perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150 Estray Notices, 30 days, 3 00 Foreclosure ot Mortgage, per sq-, each time,.... 100 Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,).... ] 75 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land, See., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required bylaw tc be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. Notice of these sules must be given in a public ga idle -10 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notices to the debloig and creditors of an estate niU't also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, &c., must be publish- ed tor two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, &.C., must be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly three months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules tur lorcclnsureof Mortgage innstbe publish ed monthly for four months—for establishing Tost pa- pers tor the fall space of threo months—for compell ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond has been given by thedeeeased, the full spaceof three months. Publications will always-be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unlessotherwise ordered. LULU'S COMPLAINT. BT HESTER A. BENEDICT. I s a poor ’ittle sorrowful baby, For B'idgei is ’way down stairs; My titten has taehtd my finder, And Dolly won’t say her p’ayers, I hain't seen my beautiful mamma Sineee ever so Ion" ado ; An' I ain’t her tunhin’est baby No kinder, for B’idget said so. My ma's dot anoder nrv baby ; Dod dived it—he did—yes’erday, An’ it kies, it kies so drefful! I wia' He would tate it away. I don't want no “sweet ’ittle sister.” I want my dond mamma, I do; I want her to iiss me an’ tiss me. An’ call me her p’cious Lulu! i my papa ■ A 'ittle rtond til 1 en some day; Here’s nurse wiz mamma's new baby, I wis’ s'e would tate it away. Oh, oh, what tunnin' ved finders ! It sees me vite out of its eyes ! I dess we will teep it, and dive it Some tandy whenever it kies. I dens I will dive it my dolly To play wid inos every day ; And I dess, I dess—say. B idget, Ask Dod not to tate it away. ■ DA RAYMOND'S I.iving Female Writers of (be South. Stepping into the store of L. W. idents of our city : Mrs. Mary E. Tuck er, now Mrs. Lambert of New York city, and Miss Sinclair, now a resident of Philadelphia. In the honored roll of names is that of the well known and distinguished Maria J. McIntosh ; and of Mrs. Westmoreland, author of the recent sensational “ Heart-Hungry.” Among Kentucky’s writers is the noble and gifted Mrs. Warfield, author of “ Housedold of Bouverie,” “ Beau- seincourt,” and of the thrilling war poem “ You can never win them back.” In the Louisiana department appears Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, a niece of Mrs. Warfield, also noble and gifted as she has a birthright to be, author of various popular works, as “ Lucia Dare,” “Agnes Graham,” and “Atha lie,” just published. In Alabama Miss Evans (now Mrs. Wilson) and the cel ebrated Madame Levert, present the best know r n of the 19 names. In Ten nessee Mrs. L. Virginia French stands pre-eminent for her brilliant powers as a writer of both prose and poetry. Who has not read her recent “ My Roses?” Of the Virginians, Mrs. Margaret J. Preston occupies the most his name to civilian societies in many localities, especially in Pennsylvania Poets sang his praises in patrioti verse, and so universal was the respect paid to the memory of the old Saga more that it seemed likely, at oue time, that the day devoted to him would excel the 4th of July in popu lar esteem. The preseut Tammany Society of New York is the last re maining memorial of the St. Tamma- ny. Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. Agents for Tcdcral Union in New York City GEO. P. ROWELL &. CO., No. 40 Park Row. S. M. PETTING1LL A- CO., 37 Park Row. r’p" Messrs. Gimffin A Hoffman, Newspaper Advert ining Agrnta. No. 4 Souih St., Baltimore, Md., are duly authorized to contract for advertisement* at our loweit rates. Advertisers in that City are request ed to leave their favors with this house.” Hunt & Co., of this city, you may see ! conspicuous position. She is a sister a few copies of a beautiful volume of the widow of the late Gen. “Store- published by Claxton, Kemsen & Haf- vva ^ Jackson. In North Carolina, felfinger, 819 & 821 Market Street, Miss Fisher ’ author of “Valerie Ayl- Philadelphia, bearing the title given mer ^ as a P^ ace 5 and in South Caro- above. It is the embodiment—the li,,a * Mrs * Sue Petti g ru King (now compact and spnrklingcrystilization of ^ rs> powen ) stands at the head of the that desirable to be known of those Iist * In Maryland, Mrs. Seemuller and heroines of the day, both as regards iMrs * D * E * N * Southworth appear; and their lives aud their labors, who are and in T exas, Miss Moore and four erecting stone by stone a grand tern-. °Giers. pie of Southern literature—the fema- ^he ^ a ’ r com pGer of this beautiful nine builders of a proud and glorious vo!ume has honored w'ith its riedica- monument, to adopt the expression of tion > four gentlemen, whose assisting a great Roman poet, cere perennius. labors she acknowledges iu the follow “ Ida Raymond,” who for some ln S Airing manner reason, insufficient as it seems to us, prefers to be known to the public only by the beautiful pseudonym, brought “ To John R. Thompson of Virginia, James Wood Davidson of South Caro lina, Hon. W. G. Macadoo of Georgia, & i t n girectcrg. RAIL ROAD TIME TABLE. Ariivn! and Departure of Trains at Milledgeville. MACON A AUGUSTA RAILROAD. Day Traits. Down Train to Augusta arrive'" at Milledgev., 8.14 a.m- Up Train to Macon arrives at Milledgeville, 5.35 p.m. Night Train. Arrives from Augusta at 12:15 a m. “ “ Macon at St40 p m. EATONTON & GORDON RAILROAD. Up Train to Eatonton arrives at Milledgev., 8.45 p. m Down Train to Gordon arrives “ 2.35 p. m Post Office notice. iMii.lkdgevii.le, .Jan. 18, 1872. From and after this date inaila will close as follows: Mails for Atlanta and Augusta and points beyond going north and east, will cloRe at So’elock A- M. Mails tor Macon. Southwestern Road, and points beyond, going south-west, will close at 5 P. M. Mails for Savannah and Florida close at 2:15 P. M Mails for Eatonton and Monticellocloses at8:45- PM. Office hours from 7 A. M. until 6:30 P. M. Office open on Sundays from 8 to 9 1-2 A. M. Money Orders obtained from 7 A. M. until 5 P. M. JOSIAS MARSHALL, P. M. Church Directory. BAPTIST CHURCH. Services 1st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 11 o’clock a m and 7 p m. Sabbath School at 9 l-2o’dock, am. S N Boughton, Supt. Rev. D E BUTLER, Pastor. out in 1869, in two very handsome Charles Dimitry of Louisiana—a quar- volumes, the germ of the present tette of Southern Authors who have work. It was then entitled “South- ever kindly encouraged and judicious- land Writers.” The present work is ^ adv,sed the ‘Female Writers of a vast improvement on the former. It ^ outdl > this record of them is embraces a large number of new respectfully didicated.” We are sure writers, some of whom did not step ^. at no higher meed of merit could be forward, and others who could not be ■ w ’ s ^ ed or won by these four gentle- tempted forward, to occupy seats in men than to be thus known as having METHODIST CnURCH. Hours of service on Sunday: 11 o'clock, am, and 7 pm. Sunday School 3 o’clock p m.—\V E Frankland, Su periutendeut. Friends of the Sabbath School are invited to visit it S S Missionary Society, monthly, 4th Sunday at 2p m Prayer meetiug every Wednesday 7 o’clock p m- Rev A J JARRELL, Pastors PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Services every Sabbatli (except the 2d in each mo) at I 1 o’clock a in. and 7 p m- Sabbath School at 9 1-2 am. TT Windsor. Snpt. Prayer meetiug every Friday at 4 o’clock, p m. Rev C \V LANE, Pastor. EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Without a Pastor at present. Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a in. Lodges. I. O. G. T. milledgeville I.odge No 115 meets in the Senate Chamber at the State House on every Friday even ing at 7 o’clock. C P CRAWFORD, W C T. E P Lane, Sec’y. Cold Water Templars meet at the State House ere- y Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. MASONIC. Renevolent I.odge No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d Saturday nights of each month at Masonic Hall. G D Case, Secy. I. U.HOWARD, W. M. Temple Chnpter meets the second and fourth Sat urday nights in each month. G I) Case, Sec’y. 8 G WHITE, H P. milledgeville I.odge of Perfection A.-.& A.-. 8.' R.\ meets every Monday night. SAM’L G WHITE,T.\P.-. Geo. D.jCask, Exc Grand Sec’y. CITY GOVERNMENT. Mayor—Samuel Walker. Board of Aldermen.—1. F B Mapp; *T A Caraker; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J 6 Henry Temples. Clerk and t reasurer—Peter Fair. Marshal—J B Fair. Policeman—T Tattle. Deputy Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter Ferrell. Sexton—F Beelaud City Surveyor—C T Bayne. 2 E Trice; H McComb; City Auctioneer—S J Kidd. Finance Committee—T A Caraker,Temples, Mapp- J Caraker, Trice, M( Finance Committee Street Land cComb McComb, j Caraker, Trice. Cemetery “ Temples, Mapp,_T A Caraker. Board meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each tnth. ■ COUNTY OFFICERS. Judge M. R. Bell, Ordinary—office in Masonic Hall. P L Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court, “ Obadiali Arnold. Sheriff, “ <) I* Bonner, Dep'ty Sheriff, lives in the country. Josias Marshall. Reo’r Tax Returns—at Post Office. L N Callaway, Tux Collector, office at his stere. H Temples. County Tieasurer, office at his store. Isaac Cashing, Coronor, residence on Wilkinson st. John Gentry, Constable, residence on Wayne st, near the Factory. MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA. Dr. G. D. Case Dean. Dr. S,G. WHITE. Prea’dl Regular meeting first Monday in December* STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Dr THOS F GREEN, Superintendent. M R Bell, Tr. At Steward. FIRE DEPARTMENT. D B Sanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief- The M At M Fire Co. meets at the Court Room on the first and third Tuesday nights :n each month. THE PEOPLES FAVOJLITE NATIONAL GIFT ENTERPRISE, FOR EDUCATIOSAL PURPOSES. ESTABLISHED IN 1869. Our Tenth Distribution will take place in public in Hon L- D. Campbell’e Hall, Monday, May 20, 1872. «» cash and vauija- fOlMIuU BIE GUTS! 1 Cash Gift in American Gold, $5,000; 1 Cash Gift in American Silver, $5,000 ; J Cash prizes, each 81,000. Whole Number of Cash Gifts, $1,672. Sin gle Tickets, $1 ; Six Tickets, $5. 10,000 Agents wanted, to whom lib©rsl deduction will be made. Drawings take place every 60 days. Circulars containing references and full information *ent to any one ordering them. Address at once, L- A. BOLI, Manager, Lock Box 175, Hamilton, Ohio. April 12, 1872. the older temple. True modesty is always a beautiful trait in woman; but that modesty which going be neath the surface of the manner, would forbid the doing of great or good ac tions for the emulation, the encourage ment, or the improvement of our fel low-creatures when this is practicable, is a diseased and pernicious modesty, not the healthful sentiment which always forms an element in a heroic and noble nature. “ Living Female Writers” makes an exquisitely tasteful octavo volume of 56S pages. It’s general finish and ex terior appearance, to say nothing of its contents, make it a beautiful cen tre-table ornament. The contents are such as ought to make every lady, and every friend of the ladies of the Southland, proud of the work To mention the greatest trait of this fine book first, as is proper, it has purity of sentiment throughout. Wher ever the taint in morals has spread— and spreading it is even on the pages of Southern productions—it’s stains have not reached these fair pages. The Southern gentleman need not fear to present a copy of it to his pure- minded and modest lady-love, or to read aloud to her every line and sylla ble it contains aided their fair and noble countrywo men in building up a worthy temple of Southern literature. Whether or not the massses of Southern readers desire a literature of our own, must be seen in the success of this charming volume. If the South be really in earnest in establish ing a Southern literature, this book must prove a brilliant success : but if the South designs to play the step mother to her own brain-working he roic literary progeny, her readers will continue to squander thousands of dol lars daily for bitter anti-Southron pe riodicals (such as “ Harper’s • Maga zine”) and prurient Northern books, leaving unnoticed the purer and nobler and abler productions of her own son3 and daughters. In this sad age, when Greeley Burns his Ships and De clares War to the Knife.—The fol lowing is the Tribune’s comment on the Cooper Institute meeting of the Liberal Republicans. His allusion to the “crack of the party whip by the party upstarts over the party leaders'- is very significant of the editor’s opin ion of aud coutempt for the men who now seek to control the Republican organization: “The Reform Meeting.—New York gave, last night, the first response to Cincinnati, it was an answer worthy of the noblest cause. The pursuers whom General Schurz described as ‘baying on the track of the independ ent Senators so fiercely that it would be alarming if the collars around their necks were not so plainly seen,’ have delighted in declaring the Liberal Re publican organization ‘an insignificant movement by a mere handful of dis contented sore-heads’ The largest meeting in Cooper Institute since the war, and one equal to the best in ev ery element of respectability, influ ence, aid devotion to Republican principle,is the fitting reply, lf-any resident of New York ever had a doubt as to the purpose of her best citizens to keep the work of reform from stop ping at the city limits, this meeting resolves his doubt. If any ever had a fear that the administration patronage or the crack of the party whip by the party upstarts over the party leaders, could silence or overawe the reform ers, this meeting allays his fear. If any need the stimulants of seeing tens ot thousands co-operating to the na tional purification, this meeting gives him the cheer that comes with the in spiration of numbers, and eloquence, and contagious entl usiasm. Responses to the Cincinnati call multiply on all hands. But we reck on this the most substantial impetus the good work has yet received—the most auspicious beginning any great political campaign has had for many a year. It means that the Cincinnati Convention is to be a success alike in numbers, representative character and generous purpose. Let it be equally wise, and it will name the next Presi dent of the United States. And now, friends in New York and every State, to work ! Of numbers, resolve, enthusiasm, we have enough. But we confront a compact baud of office-holders, with their office-seeking GOV. VANCE ON INDEPENDENT CAN DIDATES. old Whigs. Radical., Arc. The most amusing speech we have read in a long time was made by Gov. Vance a few days ago at Statesville, N. C. Read the following extracts, and laugh : One fellow will tell you that he is an old W-h-i-g, and don’t like the Democrats and Secessionists ; that they brought on the war and are responsi ble for all the ruin of the country, and therefore they think that they had better go over. [Laught r.] Now, I have this to say about that. In the first place, these Secessionists, alone, were not responsible for the war. The northern Abolitionists had, in my opin ion, more to do in bringing on the war thau anybody else. But suppose the Democrats were to blame for it, how does that affect the question ? What excuse does that give for lend ing your influence t» a party that is robbing the country of the little the war left it? Suppose I was a Demo crat at the beginuiug of the war (which I never was) or a Secessionist the crime of “treason” is alleged to ; allles a " d de l ,endeafc8 ’ holding in their have attained the highest perfection of j S ras P ^ ie splendid organization of a art, surely “ c—** ” I noble nnrtu. nomo h„ B h^n such “ Southern” book- buyers with “ Northern principles” are the worst of traitors. But what ever of treason, or indifference South ern literature may receive from the million whose duty it is this day to take it by the hand and lead it forward with zealous friendship—however much it may have to learn, all by its own efforts, to walk alone like the un tended nursuless child of negligent Next, its ability is very great, con- parents—we believe its future destiny is both assured and great. Let motto be “ Per angusta ad august a." W. G. M. sidered in the aggregate. In no coun try in the world can one hundred and eighty writers be found ot either sex, all of the first rate ability. It is not assumed or pretended, even by those j The legend of St. Tammany, the writers themselves, that all ol them- | patron saint of the great political so- selves are in occupancy of the front ciety of New York, known familiarly rank in the Toll of fame. Not all of as “ Tammany Hall,” is a curious one. them will ever reach that rank: Such i This powerful Sagamore was to the saying must be uttered from a sense of Indians of this country what Prestes its truth, not because our mind rests John was to the theologians of the upon any particular subject of hope- . Middle Ages, what Confucius is to the less mediocrity in all of this fame-roll. Chinese, or the Prophet to the Turks. But in life’s lottery, death, domestic He represented the ideas of valor, cases, Fashion, or some other of the prowess, wisdom, and virtue, and tra- Parc at of authorial enterprises, are ditioo credits him with the possession sure to leave in the rear-rank some of of supernatural powers. The origin so great a number—some, perhaps, j of this celebrated chieftain is involved who, under other circumstances, might in doubt. He is known variously as set in the loftiest niches of the Tern- Tammany, Temane, Tamanend, Tami- ple. We are led to this train of thought 1 nent, and Tameny. Curiously enough, by an imperfect recollection of some however, in all the surmises that have very sneering paragraphs we have been made regarding his identity, he seen in certain prejudiced Northern j has never been connected with the journals leveled against the noble ef- tribes that dwelt on Manhattan Island forts of Southern women to build up i or in its vicinity. He is stated to have a Southlaud literature. We think < been a Delaware, of the Lenni-Lan- such sneers come with a bad grace J nappe Confederacy iu New Jersey and from that section of the “ Union” j Pennsylvania. According to another which caDnot array in a similar volume i account, he was the first man to wel- an equal number of female authors come William Penn to his new home without including among them a Bos-; upon the banks of the Delaware, ten negress of the last century, whose ! Another story places his wigwam up- effusions are weak and obscene as com- : on the site of Princeton College, be- pared with the weakest and the ob- j neath whose walls he is now supposed scenist of the contributions tg Ida j to lie buried. Again, he is repre- Raymond’s volume. But we may/well Rented to have lived among the hills indulge in a good-humored contempt of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and to for the Yankee sneers of Southern lit-I be buried in Berks county in that erary effort, inasmuch as we well know they are mere borrowed plum age— mere stealings of expressions ap plied only half a century ago by self- conceited English critics to all Ameri can efforts—the mere braying of the jackass with the lion’s skin on his shoulders. Our own noble Georgia stands proudly pre-eminent in the number of her writers, as embraced in this vol ume presenting literary contributions and biographical sketches of 30 wri ters. Kentucky has 14, Louisiana 28, Alabama 19, Mississippi 5, Florida 4, Tennessee 8, Virginia 24, North Caro lina 8 ; South Carolina 25, Maryland 11, and Texas 5. Among the 30 Georgian writers who appear io the volume, two are at present residents of our city—Miss Kate Clifford Kenan, and Mrs. McAdoo, better known in the literary world by her pseudonym “Mary Faith Floyd and two others wore formerly resi- State. Whoever, or whatever he was, Tammany was undoubtedly a renown ed brave among his people; and so great was his fame that when, St. George having ceased to be the pat ron saint of the Continentals, the Penn sylvania troops of the Revolutionary army proceeded to organize a patriotic association, they chose Tammany for canonization, inscribed his name upon their banners, aud selected the 12th of May—which tradition ascribed as the birthday of the new saint—for appropriate celebration. The practice ot celebrating this day spread through out the army. St. Tammany and his natal day were both adopted. Forts were named after him, and the 12th of May was regularly commemorated by the troops until, shortly before the War of 1812, General Dearborn, then Secretary of War, ordered the festival to be abolished, as tending to debauch ery among the soldiers. Representing the idea of liberty, St. Tammany gave party, whose name has been for a dozen years the unfailing watch* word of victory. They were already alarmed ; last night will arouse them to their most desperate efforts. Vie must organize, and at once. The cam paign is to be aggressive ; attack is the key of the situation. The romance of the health-giving quali ties that lie perdu in the State of l’lorida, did not die out with Ponce de Leon. That poetic adventurer, balancing his mind be tween fortune and hygiene, worked his'de- vious way through swamp and morass and across baimy forests of moaning pines in quest of gold and the fabled fountain of youth. He did not discover either, al though, perhaps, in seeking for the magic waters that should rejuvenate the gray- beards among his followers, he fonnd a cli mate that brought back to their swarthy cheeks the bioom of good health. Siuce his day, the merits of Florida a6 a “health recruiting station,” have been gradually forcing themselves upon those who, enfee bled by lingering or chronic disease3, have eften longed for some climate where Na ture, kinder to man than she shows her self in more rugged lands, restores the weakened frame to strength. At thepres< ent time the winter emigration to Florida —especially from the North—has assumed important proportions. It is estimated that 20,000 persons from that part of the country spent the' past winter in that State. These visitors yield a source of no in considerable revenue to bank accounts of the Floridians, ravaged in pocket as they are by the swarms of rapacious “carpet-bagers” who have settled upon them. Thus it is that, by a sort of poetic recompense, the North—whence come these birds of prey—lines with crisp greenbacks the depleted parses of the temporary Florida hosts, who have suffer ed from the predatory habits of the human kites whom she has let ily from her capa cious penitentiaries and State prisons. The curious aud inelaucholy coinci dence was presented on the 11th iost. of three boiler explosions on the same day and in different parts of the coun try, whereby fully eighty human be ings were drowned or scalded or burnt to death, aud many others injured. From the telegraphic accounts re ceived ot the explosion of the boiler of the Red river and St. Louis steamer Oceanus, and the subsequent destruc tion of the wreck by fire, the disaster appears to have been one of the most lar horrors in the history of steam boating on the Mississippi river and its tributaries. Out of nearly one hundred people—including fifty cabin and thirty-five deck passengers—on the ill-fated steamer, only thirty-two are reported saved. To add to the sad features of the accident many ladies were drowned. This is indeed a ghast ly beginning of the spring travel on the Mississippi river. The grand jury of |Hancock, county last week in their presentments recommen ded that the Representatives from that county endeavor to have enacted some law by which the plaintiff will be required to pay in advance, or give bond for, the coats befoie bringing action in any of our courts. I courts (which I never have been) or that helped to bring on the war (which I never did) is that any reason why you should take to stealing ? [Laughter.] Suppose a neighbor should catch you robbing his hen-roost, do you think it would be a good excuse to say, Why, I wouldn’t have stolen these if Vance hadn’t brought on this war? [More laughter.] Now, I want to tell you some of the symptoms of a fellow when he begins to turn over. He first begins to talk about being “independent.” [Laugh ter.] He is not tied down to any par ty, and will vote for what he thinks best, etc. According to the diagnosis of the most skillful political doctors, this symptom means the same thing as the sheriff there says when he leads a horse out to the block and cries out, “ who says, gentlemen, and how much?” [Applause.] This is an in dependent horse! [Great applause.] In other words he’s for sale. A man who is devoted to principle can’t be independent. His principles constrain him to vote with that party which will carry them out. The next symp tom is an intense love of whiggery [Laughter and applause.] When this comes out strong you may appoint the funeral. [Laughter.] Radway’s Ready Relief can’t save him. [Laughter and continued applause.] I do protest and beg that if any man wants to join the Radical party he won’t prostitute the name ot the old Whigs. The old Whig party was at least a decent party. The Democrats in olden times used to call it atistocratic, and to some extent it was. I can now see many of these old fellows who used to dress with scrupu lous neatness, their boots so black and shiny that a puppy would bark at his image in them all day [laughter,] his shirt collar white as paper and st'ff as pastboard ; in his pocket be carried a copy of the National Iutelligencer, and blowed his nose w ith the sound of a trumpetin a red bandanna handkerchief. [Great laughter and applause.] Such men were the very salt ot the earth for personal and political uprightness. They elevated no thieves and public plunderers to high positions in the gov ernment: they made no Littlefields the guardians ot their State bonds; they had no Sam. Watts nor Jaybird Jones on the bench. They associated polit- cally with no cuffy Mayo-Deweese, A. J. Jones, Windy Billys, and Jordan Chambers. [Applause.] This profane use of the name of Whig reminds me of a circumstance that happened once in my law office. A fellow came in one day, and taking a seat, with asleepish countenance said, “Governor, me and another gentleman has got into a little scrape, and I want you to help us out of it.” “What sort of a scrape?” said I. W-e-1-1, its a kind ot dispute,” said he. “But what kind of a dispute?” said I. “Well,” said he again, “it's a matter consarnin’ of hogs.” [Laughter.] “Well, how concerning hogs?” said I. “Well,” said he, “I believe he accuses uie of taking one of em.” [Great laughter.] He didn’t want to call it by its right name. Now, if any ol you want to go over to get your share of this plunder that’s going round don’t put it on “old Whiggery.” [Great laughter.J Don’t call it “a matter of hogs,” but come out openly and call it by its true name —a matter of stealing. [Continued ap plause and laughter.] Some men pretend to find a great similarity between the doctrines of the old Whig party and Radicalism. There never was a greater mistake. There is no Whigeiy in any of these violations of the Constitution and out rages upon civil liberty that I have mentioned. Light is not more widely separated from darkness than are the principles which distinguish these two parties. Just imagine, if you can, Henry Clay wallowing in the same bed with Billy Holden, the Hon. Cuffy Mayo, and Windy Billy Henderson, and Daniel Webster stirring them with a stick. [Uproarious laughter.] I re peat if you have any inkling for the flesh pots of Egypt say so, and be done with it. Be like the girl when her bashful sweetheart, ashamed to speak forcible trespass. I have seen five or six hundred passing through Charlotte at one time, of men. women and children, going two hundred and fifty miles from home to attend court, some with their rations tied up in rags, leaving their farms to neglect and ruin, with lit tle or no money, and compelled for want of means to camp out in crowds with out shelter over their heads tor weeks at a time. How such a sight does fill me with love and admiration for the Gov ernment ! The object of all this is ap parent enough. One of their most distinguished men had the impudence to tell me that they intended to run enough of our citizens away by ku-klux prosecutions to carry the State in the next elections. I told him, if you un dertake to do that proclamation telling back. [Laughter and applause.] I only tell you what I had from the mouths of their own leaders. Still some men pretend that they are not satisfied with the progress that the Democracy are makngto restore a proper rule to the country, and they make a thousand objections to continuing in the con servative ranks. From tbe New York World, 13tb. THE GREAT MEETING. The Cooper Institute meeting was a fit thing, fitly done. The bold reli ance on popular support in which it was conceived was justified by the Democrats will perhaps esteem Mr. Trumbull’s the better of the two, as containing less from which they would be inclined to dissent. But it must be considered that this was a Repub lican meeting, in the interest of a movement in which only Republicans are participants, and whose success de pends on Republican support. It was therefore with great wisdom that Mr. Schurz sought to elevate It above the level of a mere political contest into that high moral region in which hon est men of all parties can find stand ing ground. But it is perhaps invid ious to make any comparison between the two speeches, when both were so bold, so pertinent, so seasonable, and so truly excellent. Let the commu- I will issue a j nitv read them and judge for them- theni to come selves. If this great and spirited meeting is a foretaste of Cincinnati, the Demo cratic party can well afford to wait and watch. It will put no obstruc tions in the way of a movement which seems to stand on so strong a basn. But it must nevertheless reserve its final judgment until the present hope ful anticipations shall ripen, by pro gress of events, into established facts. Life’s Brightest Hour.—Not long since I met a gentleman who is assessed for more than a million. Sil ver was in his hair, care upon his brow and he stooped beueath his burden of thronging, earnest multitude of whom | wealth. We were speaking of that terrible in the long catalogue of simi- this mind, sat and swallowed his spit tle in stupid embarrassment, and kept pressing her foot with his under the table. She finally exclaimed, “John, if you love me, why can’t you say so, like a man, and quit dirtying my clean stockings.” [Great laughter.] Look also at the political persecu tion to which they are subjecting the people in the Federal courts under this infamous unconstitutional kuklux act. I have heard it stated that there are 2,000 defendants indicted and to be tri ed at Raleigh, no doubt before a packed jury of Radicals, as others have been tried, no one of whom is charged with taking life or any other offense which would amount to more in our State than assault and battery or a only a small part were able to gam admittance into the largest public hall in the city. Tbe meeting was ap pointed at 8 o’clock; but soon after seven the hall was packed and cram med, and at half-past seven there was a retreating stream of people who had vainly tried to wedge themselves into the expectant assembly, and had failed. A black mass of bees clustering upon a swarming hive is but a faint image of the outside crowds, who, though coming early, came too late for en trance. If the meetiug had been held in the open air, tbe people attending it would have been measured by acres. The great feature of the meeting was that the people were there. It is demon strated that the strong, courageous, patriotic popular heart is in this move ment, and that it is therefore likely to succeed. “ This thiug was not done in a cor ner.” Here in this focus of intelli gence, the metropolis of a continent, where an active press reports every demonstration, and wafts it, as if on the wings of the four winds, to every hill and valley, every town and ham let, of this vast country, so successful a public meeting is of immense signi ficance. The throbs of this mighty heart will send the pulsing currents through every artery of the republic. What Bunker Hill was to the Revolu tion, what Anderson’s brave resistance at Sumter was to the war for the Union, such will this New York meet ing be to the Presidential campaign of which the opening guns have now been fired, aud whose report will re verberate from end to end of the coun try. From Passamaquody Bay to the Golden Gate, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, the influence of this great meeting will be felt. It was tfie one thing just now requisite to “fire tbe popular heart.” It will send an electric thrill to the remotest extremities of the republic. We knew before that some of the Republican leaders opposed the re-election of Grant; but we had no certain means of judging whether they did net re semble officers without rank-and-file sufficient to constitute an army. It is, apparent that the people are with them ; that the people are ready to follow wherever they can find states men courageous enough to lead ; and that this movement is in no danger of failing for want of earnest popular support. The speeches, last evening, were equal to the occasion, and fully met the expectations of the applauding au dience. The conjuncture required, above all things, boldness; aud they were sufficiently bold. Neither Mr. Trumbull nor Mr. Schurz showed any inclination to mince matters, or to handle the Administration with mit tens. The truth was spoken without fear; the breach between the Liberal Republicans aud tbe Administration is made irreconcilable ; hereafter it is war in which no quarter can be either asked or given. There is now strong reason to believe that the Cin cinnati Convention wii! be a success, and that it will hold in its hands the destiny of the republic for the ensuing four years. It will not be a mere ad visory body intended to act upon and influence the Grant Convention at Philadelphia, but a thoroughly hos tile body, meeting to organize a can vass which will sweep away the pre vailing nepotism and corruption, re established kindly relations between all the States, reform the civil service, check centralization, and restore the right of local self-government. It is now certain that the Cincinnati Con vention will nominate a ticket, and unless some great blunder is perpe trated in the selection of candidates, that ticket will unite, in a close, com pact phalanx, all the elements of op position. We shall have something to say of the speeches when our readers have had time to peruse them. We lay be fore them, this morning, full reports; and we have never published a better supply «f profitable reading. Mr. Trumbull was strong, pertinent and courageous; but excellent as his speech was, we incline to think that Mr. Schurz’s was the happier effort of the two. In point of intrepedity, the great quality of all, we can perceive no difference; but Mr. Schurz lays a stronger, or at least a more skillful band on the moral convictions and sensibilities of tbe people. Both speeches were admirable, and many period of life when he had realized the most perfect enjoyment, or, rather, when he had found the happiness nearest to be unalloyed. “Til tell you,” said the millionaire, “when was the happiest hour of my life. At the age of one-and-twenty I had saved up $S00. I was earning $500 a year, and my father did not take it from me, only requiring that I should pay for my board. At the age of twenty-two I had secured a preity cottage, just outside of the city. I was able to pay two-thirds ot the value down, and al so to furnish it respectably. I was married on Sunday—a Sunday in June —at my father’s house. My wife had come to me poor in purse, but rich in the wealth of her womanhood. The Sabbath and the Sabbath night we passed beneath my father’s roof, and on Monday morning I went to my work, leaving my mothet and sister to help in preparing my home. On Monday evening when the labors of the day were done, I went not to the paternal shelter, as in the past, but to iny own house my own home.— The holy atmosphere of that hour seems to surround me even now in the memory. I opened the door of my cottage and entered. I laid my hat up on the little stand in the hall, and passed on into the kitchen—our kitch en and dining-room were all one then. I pushed open the kitchen door and was—in Heaven ! The table was set against the wall—the evening meal was ready—prepared by the hands of her who had come to be my helpmeet in deed and name—and by the table, with a throbbiug, expectant look up on her lovely and loving face stood ray wife. I tried to speak, but could not. I could only clasp the waiting angel to my bosom, thus showing to her the ecstatic burden of my heart.— The years have passed—brag, long years—and worldly wealth has flowed in upon me, and I am honored and en vied ; but, as true as heaven, I would give it all—every dollar—tor the joy of the hour of that June evening in the long, long ago.” New York Ledger. Honor to a Southern Writer in England.—Recently the Premier, Mr. Gladstone, referring to the recovery from the late almost fatal illness of the Prince of Wales, adduced as one proof of American sympathy in his behalf the beautiful poem called “Sandring ham,” composed by a Southern poet ess, par excellence, Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, of' Lexington, Va., which he styled a “poem of extraordinary mer it.” Soon after, the editor of the London Cosmopolitan, who had re-pub lished “Sandringham” from the col umns of the New York Albion, came out with the following paragraph : “Wearesure,” he said, “that it will gratify Mrs. Preston, of Virginia, to be informed that Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, has written us a letter of thanks for republishing her beautiful poem, ‘Sandringham,’ iu the CosmopolitanSuch honors to a Southern woman ot genius should de light every patriot in our section, aud be noticed by our press everywhere. [Charleston Courier. Mrs. Fair’s new trial will begin on the 24th of June. A letter to the Boston Globe says that public teeling has experienced a change favorable to her, and that everything seems to fore shadow her final acquittal. She is re ported to be worth $50,000, and it is said that during a recent excitement in stocks she was largely interested, and made over $20,000 clear. Michigan sends a full delegation to Cincinnati, headed by ex-Governor Blair, Representative in Congress from the Third District* He has just returned from a trip home, and re ports that wherever he went in the northwest he found the |>eople clam oring lor a change, and especially bit ter against the reckless extravagance of the administration. The Supreme Court of New York has decided that the statute makes the use of the word “Co*” in a fino name, where there is no partner to rep resent it, a misdemeanor. Any con tract made in such firm name is void. A Gate City lawyer included in his bill against his client: “To waking up in the night and thinking abou( your case, $5

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