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Sumptuary Legislation.
[From the SprlngQeld (Mass.) Republican.
The State and the Liquor Laws.—
We are assured that the wine furnished to
the guests at the State dinner at Parker’s,
on tne evening of the day of the assem
bling of the Legislatuie, was not paid for
by the Commonwealth, but by generous
private parties, who were unwilling the
hospitality of the State should he, even
for consistency’s sake, limited to dry vict
uals. The differing statement we found
in some journal of the eastern part of the
State, lint the fact does not weaken the
point of our oomment, which was, that
neither the State nor its representative
officials, including its police ami its courts,
Exhibit such a belief in the prohibitory
system as was essential to its success.—
Here, for instance, was a State dinner,
under the Authority and prestige of the
Commonwealth, given at a hotel whose
proprietors are under indictment for
breaking a criminal stutute, accompanied
with wine and other liquors, purchased
in violation of the law, and furnished ap
parently, if not in fact, at the expense of
the public treasury, certainly forming a
part of the State’s pjihlic entertainment.
Now we denounce such inconsistency,
such demonstrated unbelief iu and con
tempt for its own laws. They can never
be enforced so long as such things are
done ami sanctioned by public sentiment.
Either the prohibitory law should be re
pealed, or the entertainments of the State
should be given at temperance hotels, out
of sight ami smell of liquors; and from
gubernatorial chair, from judge’s seat,
from State constabulary, from jury box,
all alike, should he excluded every man
who drinks wine or liquor, except under
medic il prescription, aud then such as is
bought at the State agency. This seems
presumptuous and ridiculous, we know;
out it is a logical necessity of our existing :
law, and that law will never be enforced i
until we come up to the rule we have laid j
dowu. Hypocrisy and intemperance are j
both increasing vices in Massachusetts;
aud it is quite time honest people began a
moral crusade against both.
We fail to see the force of the plea that
the liquor was not ordered or paid for by
the State—it was at leastdrank bya Legis
lature assembled with a settled and deelar
ed purpose to put a ttual stop to the traffic
iu and use of spiritous beverages; and the
fact is an odd commentary on the policy of
teetotalizing a people by statute. The law
maker* themselves discredit their own ac
tion in advance. Another part of the par
agraph significant: “ Hypocri
sy aud into i.perance are both increasing
in Massachusetts; aud it is quite time hon
est people began a moral crusade against
both.” The Springfield Republican is
high authority. If intemperance he in
creasing in Massachusetts, it is increasing
against every possible effort of Legislative, ;
Executive, aud Judicial authority to sup- j
press tiie use of wines and liquors alto- j
gether. Fora long time the sale has been I
forbidden by law, and the police have con- .
fisrated many thousands of gallons kept !
for surreptitious sale. Astra ger passing I
through the .State could not buy a drop of j
wine for money, unless somebody should
privately advise him of some of the Hu-I
merous method* by which the law is vio- i
lated.
Now, we have not the smallest objection
that Massachusetts should govern herself
to her own notiou. It is only when Mas
sachusetts ideas of government are sought
to be imposed upon the nation that they
become of much interest. The same im
practicable conceit of maintaining public
and private morality by law, which
Massachusetts inherited from the Hump
Parliament, is now sought to be imposed
upon the people of the United States
through Congress, by the ageucy and in
fluence of Massachusetts politicians. We
see the practical result of it in their own
State, by the confession of the leading Re
publican print of Massachusetts. Intem
perance has increased, and, as a matter of
eourse, hypocrisy, false swearing, and
law-breaking has increased much more—
for the man who sells, aud the man who
drinks, do it in violation of law, and in
the exercise of all the criminal arts by
which the penalty is evaded. The law,
then,instead of promoting public virtue, is
the fruitful source of public and private de
moralization; and all statesmen admit that
such is the inevitable consequence of step
ping beyond the proper sphere of legisla
tion, and attempting to compel men to be
moral and religious by statute. When the
Rump ordained that “vital godliness”
should be an indispensable qualification to
office in England, tbey made many cant
ing hypocrites, but not one pious man.
Negro Suffrage in Tennessee.
BEECHER TO BROWNLOW.
The following letter appears in the
Nashville Press and Times.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1867.
Governor Ilrotcnlow :
My Dear Sir: I have just been talking
with a friend returned from Tennessee,
and have learned a little more in detail
than I before knew of your State, and
what you propose to do. Pray, do not
think’me meddling with your business,
when I express my anxiety for your suc
res* in the thorough and permanent en
franchisement of the negro, for Tennessee
is in some sense the representative of the
new nation. What the whole people
above ail things need just no w is that one
of the Southern States should of its own
will and by the vote of its own people
come up fully on to tiie platform of “equal
rights and jult citizenship far all men."
Then there will be a model to work for in
the other States. They will have courage
to believe that such things can be done.
Suffrage for a whole people I deem a natu
ral rignt. I should urge it as a matter of
"justice.” Should you secure it, it will
raise the conscience of the whole nation
many degrees higher than it is. But in
your case, it is also a matter of political
safety. If some fear that such measure
will kill them, so 1 am sure want of it will
kill them. To die for principle is to make
sure resurrection ; while political death,
without, and eveu against principle, is
death perpetual and resurrectionless.
Should Tennessee remain firm and work
out this great truth and duty of universal
suffrage, not fortified by crime, I shall re
gard it as the turn of night. The day
star will have arisen, and light will grow
stronger and darkness weaker every mo
ment thereafter.
I hope that God will be gracious to you
and reinvigorate your frame, lie has
made your life precious to those who wish
well to the country. Into tiie struggle of
the next cam) aigu you will carry not
only the fate of Tennessee, but of the
whole South, and so of the nation. May
God go with you, and bless you and bring
you out victorious. Then, If you wish to
depart, we wii! rejoice with your inheri
tance of that rest which remaineth for the
people of God.
I am, dear sir, truly yours,
H. VV. Beecher.
The Financial Future.—Secretary
McColloch, in conversation with a gentle
man, upon the subject of the finances, last
week, said that he regretted to find the fu
ure prospects so unfavorable and forbid
diug. It was his desire to secure practical
measures of reform in this important mat
ter, but his plans were seriously obstruct
ed by the political complications that had
been sprung upon the country, and which
threatened to retard, if not break up, all
the efforts which he might put forth.
A Paris letter of the 22d of December
says : The last dispatch of Mr. Seward is
regarded as deliberately offensive. It
proves to the French people that not con
tent with subjecting them to the humili
ation of decamping from Mexico, the Uni
ted States wishes to insult them.
2onvnal %iil> iftedgeitger.
By Rose Ac Rurr.
“County Printing.”
The “ Citizen” of yesterday has an ar
ticle on this subject—specially in reference
to that of Houston county. The particu
lar point iu it is, that it should be done in
a paper recently commenced at Fort Val
ley. We do not wish to derogate anything
from the enterprise, industry Or success of .
anew beginner. Let him have his course,
as with others who have gone before Idm.
Merit, energy, and intelligence are gener
ally appreciated, when properly devel
oped .
As to the law, or any la\v, with regard to
the location of the printing of the Judge
of Ordinary, it cunnot be found in the
“Georgia Code,” or any later Legislative
Act.
Section 2,460, says that “ the Ordinary
must issue a citation, giving notice of the
application to all concerned, in the ga
zette in which the county advertisements j
are usually published.” That point, and i
the reasons for it, we think are already
settled.
To correct the erroneous impression of
some, with regard to the “ Georgia Code,”
we publish a law passed two years after its !
issue (Dec. 11 1863), which was introduced
into the Legislature by Mr. Dwiuell, of
Floyd county, repealing two ofits sections j
applicable to the question involved:
An Act regulating the advertising of sales ;
by Administrators, Executors and Guar
dians, and for other purposes.
W HERE vs, the Code of Georgia requires i
Administrators, Executors and Guardians j
to publish the notice of the sales they are ,
authorized to make in the gazette in which |
the county advertisements are published; :
and whereas, this meansof advertising not i
unfrequently fails to accomplish the object 1
of giving publicity to those sales, for the
reason, that the prope'ty to be sold may be •
located in some county remote from the j
one in which the gazette aforesaid is pub- i
fished, aud where it ha* iittie or no circu
lation.
tSec. 1. Therefore, he it enacted, Ac.,
That after the passage of this Act it shall
be lawful for Administrators, Executors,
and Guardians, to publish the notice of
sales they may be authorized to make for
the time prescribed by law, in any news
paper orgaze’te having a general circula
tion in the c >unty where the property to
be sold is located, and this shall be deem
ed a full and sufficient notice of such
sales.
Sec. 11. Repeals conflicting laws.
It is true that the Code says “ it shall
be the dvty" of Sheriffs and Coroners to
publish their sales in a paperin thecouuty,
where there is one, and where there is
not, then in a gazette having a geueral
circulation in it.
Ordinaries are required to publish in
the paper where the county advertise
ments are usually published.
This provision of the Code is merely di
rectory, not compulsory, and a violation
is attended with no penalties. The object
of the Code is, plainly, to publish in such
paper as shall have the largest and most
general circulation in the couuty and
elsewhere, so that the public may be fully
advised of the sale, and the greatest noto
riety given of the fact, thus securing aud
promoting the ends of public and private
parties in procuring the largest possible
competition in the sales, Ac.
By no manner of means can this rule
be construed as applicable to a small
paper published iu a village, not the
county site, near the line of the county,
with very little circulation in the county
or elsewhere, whin there are papers pub
lished so near to the county with such
large and universal circulation in the 1
county—so that the advertisements in the j
county, when appearing in such papers,
give an immediate ami extended notice j
throughout the whole county and many j
other places of importance, where the local I
paper does not reach and is never heard of. j
The law expects the officer in each case to j
exercise a sound aud just discretion, so as j.
to subserve the ends of the law and pro- j
tect the rights of the citizens. Were they I
to do otherwise in such cases, the ends of
justice would be defeated, property in I
many cases sacrificed for want of a notice i
of its sale, and the rights of citizens in |
many other ways injured and perhaps i
totally defeated.
Admission of Colorado.
While the majority in Congress are
pressing the hill for the admission of Col
orado as a State, the Governor of that
Territory, under instructions from the Leg
isluture, has forwarded by telegraph an
earnest protest against admission into the
Union, asserting that the Territory has
not population enough to support a State
government. The following dispatch
reached Washington last Monday:
“Denver. Colorado, Jan. 10, 1867.
“ I am instructed by the House of Rep
resentatives of this Territory to send you
the following resolution, passed by that
body :
“’Whereas, It Is announced in the pub
lic prints that it is the intention of Con
gress to admit Colorado as a totate into the
Union ; therefore,
Resolved, by the House of Representa
tives of the Territory, That, representing
as we do the last and only legal expres
sion of public opinion on this question,
we earnestly protest against the passage
of a law admitting the State without first
having the question submitted to a vote
of the people, for the reasons—First, That
we have a right to a voice in the selection
of the character of our government. Hec
ond, That we have not a sufficient popu
lation to support the expense of a .State
Government.
“For these reasons we trust that Con
gress will not force a Government on us
against our will.
Respectfully, Alex. Cunningham.”
The Impeachment. —The Tribune cor
respondence says that the business of col
i lecting testimony against the President
will not be pushed very energetically, and
that opinions have been expressed which
| convey the impression that the bill will
! be permitted to die in the committee room.
| Gen. Butler lias declared that no measures
! will be taken for impeachment by this
Congress, and Senator Morgan of New
York opines that no impeachment will
| ever take place. In fact, says this au
thority, the more earnest supporters of
: the President seem to hope that the Re
publican majority in Congress will enter
into this impeachment project, as certain
leading men among them say that it will
result in the complete triumph of Presi
dent Johnson and the disruption of the
Republican party. Wo hope the corres
pondent of the Tribune may be stating
| facts.
The European governments are still
arming. France expects to have 450,000
needle guns ready for use by May next,
aud Kussia has ordered one hundred cast
steel cannon from the celebrated works of
the Messrs. Krupp, at Essen. They are to
be paid fourteen thousand dollars for each.
Bavaria, too, is arming, having ordered
ninety-six rifled cannon from a Bohemian
foundry.
The census of Chili was taken last
April and has just been published. Ac
cording to this census, the area of Chili is
132,000 square miles; the population is
2,084,945; the foreign residents in the
country numbered 23,220; eight hundred
aud thirty-two of the inhabitants are from
one hundred to one hundred and forty
years of age, and 9,6## are physloally or
mentally helpless.
I The Future of the Negro.
The Came and Consequence of his Emigra
tion South.
i An editorial correspondent of the
Charleston Courier takes no very encour
aging view of the future history of the
Southern negro, or of the motive and
I consequence of his emigration to the mild
j and prolific wilds of Florida. What is
! said of hi 9 local attachments, however,
'we believe to be true. All the old tradi
: tions and theories upon this subject
which have been incorporated into so
many of the old plantation songs and re
hearsed to plaintive ails by the burnt-cork
opera troupe are, as the books say, without
foundation iu fact.
Equally pure romance, too, was the
twaddle about the extraordinary strength
of hi* family attachments. The occasion
al separation of families was a heavy
count in the bill of indictment against
slavery; but every man who knows any
thing about the facts, will admit that
“freedom” lias separated iifiy families
where slavery did one. In fact, to state
the whole truth, ami make a clean breast
of the matter, emancipation has demon
strated sucli a lack of conjugal, parental
and filial attachment and fidelity in Sam
bo, as to fill every observer with astonish
ment, and mark one of the most certain
indications of the progress of the race to
extinction.
The writer h** sometimes taken it upon
himself to remonstrate with parties for
forsaking wife or husbaud and family, and !
forming new connection* In a miseella- !
neous and informal manner, discounten-;
anced by the stone tables of Moses, but!
failed to produce any salutary impression, j
The fact is, Mr. Sambo treated the lecture [
ns the richest Joke of the season. “Law
sakes, uiassa, do you spose I’se gwine to!
tie myself up to dat old woman an her (
chiiluns?” And Mrs. Satnbo’s moral
sense was equally obtuse. She was
voluble—me demoußtrated by numerous
examples that “dem asjes takes up with
one auoder gits along a heap better dan j
dem as is married.” In short, Ethiopian \
family attachments and fidelity to the so- !
cial relations, are pretty much of a myth, j
and if our friends of the Bureau are going j
to regulate this matter squarely by the j
Levitical law, they should at once organ- \
ize a corps of at least a hundred thousand
clergymen, each one with a staff of detec- j
tives, and marry the race as the white \
brethren are said to vote in New England
—that is to say, early, often, and all the
time.
But all this is not precisely gertnain to
the Courier’s letter, which we append as
follows :
It has been one of the mistakes of pub
lic opinion among us hitherto, that the
negro had large inhabitireness —that his
local attachments were paramount with
him, and that upon this quality of xnhabi
tiverxess, this attachment to place, we could
rely as sufficiently strong to keep him at
home iu the well known and accustomed
haunts, which lie had proved from his in
fancy.
This is a mere delusion. The attach
ments of the negro to the accustomed
home, were the results of his bondage,
his ignorance, and his incapacity for en
terprise. The restraints put upon him
while lie remained a slave, subdued, in
degree, his propensity to wander, and bis
natural indolence kept dowu thut love of
change, which is yet the most decided of i
all his characteristics. Even while a j
slave, he almost iu variably chose bis wife j
at other plantations, us remote as possible
from bis own; sometimes at a distance
eveu of twenty-five miles. Thisgavehlrn
the pretext fur frequent absences, for
which, in degree as he was faithful, be
could procure permission from indulgent
masters. lie departed from home Jnvari- I
ably on Saturday, sometimes very early in i
the day, and did not return till the Mon- j
day ensuing—usually late in the day.
As soon us he was made to understand
that he had been raised to the dignity of j
a freedman—which, to hi* mind, meant;
neither more nor less than that there was
no longer any check or restraint upon his j
movements or las passions, he went wild, j
Almost invariably he abandoned the plan- |
tation of his former owner, where he w?
born, where his children were born—
where he had a favorite cabin and a little
patch, all his own, around it. In but
very few instances, did lie remain in the
accustomed homestead.
Here, lie betrayed the secret of his na
ture. The moment lie obtained license,
he became a nomade. In place of conceu
trativeueas and inbabitiveuess, tie exhib
ited that levity aud caprice of character
which have made the negro the connect
ing link between the monkey and the
man. He has no attachments to place or
person. His passion is for perpetual
change, and so you will find it. f His law
is to be lawless. If not a slave, he will be
a vagabond, and he will pass, under favor
ing circumstances, from the vagabond in
to the savage!
Now, Florida, is the very region in \
which he will develope these two latter
pliases of character. You may seduce
him thither, or any whither, from any
homestead, in spite of all attachments, by
such rules as have, for thousands of fears,
been used by the civilized for the seduc
tion of the savage ; and, when he gets
there, lie will probably remain longer
than he is likely to do in Georgia, Ala
bama or Texas, or until you drive him out!
That territory of swamp fastness, forest,
everglade aud river, flowing with fish,
will commend itself to the negro even as
it did to the Seminole. He will be loth to
abandoneit —will never do so, if he can
help it, as soon as he has ascertained its
peculiar susceptibilities for his peculiar
nature. He will work there, after a fash
ion, for two or three years-until he feels
himself—until he has made a full acquaint
ance with the country—until he has out
grown his natural caution and timidity,
and gradually come to the experience of
that larger license which wili follow from
the absence in numbers of the superior
controlling influence of the white race.
He will then abandon the fields and take
to the swamps, and, like the red man, on
ly emerge from his covert, strong as a
bandit, to ravage the fields which he was
carried there to cultivate. In less than
seven years, in all probability, the Govern
ment of the United States will be com
pelled to do with him as with the red men
—enter his fastnesses with an army,
slaughter, capture and expel with the
strong arm, and, after decimation, convey I
I the residue of his tribes to some remote I
| Western wilderness where they will be (
! lost finally among the more savage races
whom they will there encounter.
This sounds to you like an audacious
attempt at prophecy. Wait, my dear
Courier, and do not make a Judy of your
self by any premature shows of incredu
lity. The prophecy will, In a few years,
be history, for it is the result of law ! The
law of the negro, which subordinated his
I race to the control of a superior civiliza
i tion, saved him from the two phases into,
aud through which, he is now destined to
pass. Released from all law, save that of
j his own necessities and impulses, he will
; first become the vagabond, and next the
| savage. The last will be his ultimate de
velopment, whenever lie shall congregate
in bands in the swamp fastnesses of Flori
! da. The desultory life of the red man
j appeals to all his tastes. His necessities
can all be met by hunting and fishing in
the prolific wilds and swamps of Florida.
I This is the only law that he will acknow
| ledge. It will correspond equally with his
nature and his necessities. It will gratify
the one—it will meet the requisitions of
the other; and philanthropy—the disease
i of self-esteem, which perpetually rebukes
j the Deity with reproaches of bad man
l agement in the affairs of mankind—will
have done its work, when, having first
transformed the slave laborer into a vaga
bond, aud thence into a savage, finds it
necessary to root him out of the land with
1 its bayonets aud destroy him.
| We have witnessed, in this nineteenth
century, one of the greatest crimes tha
Macon, Ga., ■Wednesday, January S3, 1867.
history has ever charged upon civilization
—one of the greatest crimes against God
and man—against humanity and the
rights of States—against the peace and
prosperity of the next hundred years; oq,
a region of the globe, amongst the most
favored of all the nations of the earth ! (
Negro Emigration. —We see a note to
the editors of the Telegraph, dated CaifHJ
la, states that about a third of the negroes
In that county have emigrated, and the
planters have difficulty in finding hands.
One of the South Carolina papers says Wit
the liiriug agents iu that State secure five
dollars per head for all they can engage.—
Iu this State we understand ten dollars are
paid, and it is very evident tiiat many of
ihesf industrious > migration ageuts have
realized large sums at tiie business during
the past winter. We should not be sur
prised to learn that several hundred thous
and dollars have been made in the State of
Georgia in this w ay within a year.
Now, we are not of those who are going
into despair over these losses of negro
population and labor. They will seriously
diminish the exportable crops of the State
foi some years ; hut it is hardly question
able that a rapid diminution of our negro
population will, of itself, if rightly treated,
be a stroug inducement to white immigra
tration. The uplands of Georgia are so
well adapted to tillage by white labor,
that it will be to a great extent our own
fault, if within a short time the influx of
whites does not equal the efflux of negroes.
It ought to be greater, if we will set well
directed measures on foot to invite immi
gration. We hope the press of Georgia,
appreciating the necessity of action in the
premises, will consider well the suggestion
of a State Bureau of Immigration, aud
press it upon the next Legislature.
Negro Population of the South.—ln
a communication to the Secretary of War,
of the 21st ultimo, General Howard,of the
Freedmen’s Bureau, says :
"In Virginia, the freedmen have de
creased in number : estimated population
at this date, 500,000. North Carolina
estimated about the census of 1860—360,-
000. South Carolina decreased; present
population estimated at 375,000. Georgia
estimated at 400,000. The population of
Florida has remained about the same a*
when the census of 1860 was taken—62,677.
In Mississippi, a census has been taken
since the close of the war, showing a slight
decrease; 320,000 is the present colored!
population of the State. In Louisiana, re
ported colored population 350,000, Texas
by the Assistant Commissioner of the !
Slate reports an increase; colored popuia- j
tion estimated at 200,000. Missouri—it is I
probable that the freedmen have left this
State iu large numbers for Kansan, lowa,
etc.; estimated population 100 000. In
Arkansan, the colored population has de
creased to about 100,000. In Tennessee,
the Assistant Commissioner estimates an
increase from 280,UU0, population in 1000,
to 300,000.”
Tiie President vs. Congress.—A
Washington letter says that it is becoming
probable that tiie President will have the
Constitution to sustain himself and the
Government in opposition to the factious
and revolutionary proceedings of Con
gress.
Supported by the decisions of the United
States Supreme Court, he will, as he
stated to the Arkansas delegates, en
force the laws and tiie constitution. Tiie
President’* friends express their entire
confidence in the President’s disposition
and ability to resist and crush out the
radical project for the usurpation of
exclusive and absolute power over the
Government. Matters will come to a
crisis Iu a few months, though not at the
present session. The extreme radicals are
in favor of pushing these t*ebe«*t*s to a
practical result at once. They have ad
vanced so far that they cannot recede nor
stand still.
The President and the Impeach
ment. —The Washington Correspondent
of the Daily News says:
It is but fair to say that the majority of
either wing of the Capitol
scout tbe idea of impeachment with the
utmost derision—not from alack of malig
nity towards the Administration, hut
from a ready understanding that in the
institution of such u course of procedure
lies the certain germ of party discomfiture
and ruin. As for Mr. Johnson, I do not
think he loses any of bis nightly repose
because of the inception of this farce ; and
so far as bis own course was to apply to
such an exigency, that lias been deter
mined months ago, when the atmosphere
was less rife with Radicals than now. I
have known, almost from the first, what
that determination has been, and I appre
hend that i'i tiie actual visitation of the
crisis tiiere can be no harm in divulging
the foundation upon which is rests Once
summoned to answer charges of impeach
ment. Mr. Johnson will return a message
in writing, addressed to Congress, in which
lie will proclaim, first, to the House: “ I
deny the validity oj your indictment, for
it wus found by a Grand Jury incomplete
and insufficient for its preferment.” Anil
to the Senate: “I refuse your panel ;it is
lacking in the presence of twenty-two
members, whose absence deprives’ your
body of the semblance of right to consti
tute ajury for the impeachment of the
humblest servants of tbe Government.”
If this Congress cannot try the President,
it cannot impeaeh him ; and from those
that understood the President's will, in
action conforming to previously expressed
conviction, it is easy to see that he will
submit to no forced abdication of the Presi
dency, and that if sucli a policy is medi
tated and attempted, it would precipitate
a bloody collision in the very streets of the
Capital* and mayhap at the portals of the
White House. Are the Rads ready for
this ? I think not.
Brazilian Farming.— A very inter
esting letter from Brazil, in the Augusta i
Chronicle and Sentinel, gives a rough or
der of Brazilian farming :
"The Brazilian is, generally, a miserable
farmer in everything else than that which
relates to the growth or coffee. The Cain
penas lands are very fine, but nearly all
of them have been cleared after the Bra
zilian style. Let me describe to you their
method of clearing and planting: The
forest is cut down ; the trees and bushes
are cut up, but are suffered to lie as they
fall until the leaves aud wood become suf
ficiently dry. The torch is then applied.
Whatever is not burned is permitted to
remain. Holes are made among half ch ar
red logs and unburnt bushes, into which
they put the seed, corn, cotton, &c. The
Eiauting is made immediately after the
urning. The plauls, therefore, get a lit
tle the start in growth ahead of the bushes,
and that is all the cultivation the crop yets.
They plant one piece of land two years in
succession, and as there are no frosts to
check vegetation, at the close of the second
year the bushes and weeds have complete
jK>Bsession of the soil, and the land is aband
oned. Strange as it will sound to you, it
is nevertheless true, these farmers make
fifty bushels of corn to the acre, cultiva
ting it in this rude way. Under this sys
: tem of cutting down the forest, and then
j “turning it out” after the lapse of two
| years (and very frequently one), a vast
j region has been-robbed of timber, but the
. lands for farming purposes remain unin
jured. This system has wasted the timber
to such a degree that there is none left
l that is suitable for fencing ! recourse is
therefore had to a system of ditching to
keep the cattle from the fields.
The dry goods trade in New York is
: quiet, with but few sales. The market,
notwithstanding the extreme lethargy, is
in a healthy condition, and the future is
, looked forward to with much hope, hut
without much speculation, as to when the
spring trade will open. Few believe in a
heavy trade during the year, but a healthy
tone is expected.
—. ■ t
The Pennsylvania Senatorial Election.
The result of the election for Senator
from Pennsylvania in placeof Mr. Cowan,
has no doubt created some surprise. The
first ballot in caucus stood : Cameron 46,
Curtin 23, Thad Btevens 7, Grow 5. The
ignominious defeat of Stevens, imperson
ating as he does the ultraism of Northern
radicalism, and backed by all outsiders ot
that stock, is liable to be misunderstood—
particularly as Simon Cameron, although
claiming also to be an ultra radical, is well
known to be so only in equal violence to
his own mental constitution and the fun
damental law. Stevens is a born radical—
a man of the most violent prejudices and
passions—of no scruples—and without a
particle of reverence in his composition.
Twenty years ago, as a Whig, he enjoyed
the reputation of being the most des
perate, reckless and unprincipled poli
tician in the country.
The characteristics of Simon Comeron
are equally familiar—a man whose pecu
liar talents and energies have been dis
played in the acquisition of enormous
wealth which lie has always subordinated
to His political ambition. He is good
natured, facile aud apt—an original old
hunker Democrat, but who uses his poli
tical principles as he docs his wealth.
We apprehend that the entire contest
in the Pennsylvania Legislature turned
upon mere pecuniary consideration. A
vote for the Senate in that highly respect
able body has long been jocularly valued
at ten tiiTnqsaud dollars, and we suspect
there is more truth than fancy in the
quotation. Stevens himself, before he
went into the caucus, complained bitterly
of tbe utter venality of the Pennsylvania
Legislature, and his grief no doubt re
sulted from the discovery that he was
comparatively short and would be over
trodden. Since the election, the pretence
of an investigation into the charges of
bribery has been set on foot at Harris
burg, but that farce is regularly performed
after tbe grand drama of a Senatorial
election in Pennsylvania.
We think the result in this case proves
nothing more than that Senator Cameron
wielded the largest purse, arid managed
his cards more adroitiy than Stevens or
Curtin. Os the three aspirants, Cameron
is unquestionably the safer forthe country.
He is no bigot or funatic, and w here per
sonal interests are not involved, we think
he would follow a moderate policy. The
Washington Intelligencer chuckles high
ly over the defeat of Stevens, hacked as
he was by Forney, who not only declared
for him in boih his papers, but made a
personal canvass in his behalf at Harris
burg. The result of their joint efforts—
aeveu vote*—was humiliating, but it shows
they were not well supplied with current
arguments.
“ It occurs to us that if ever men came to
Washingtonohop-falleu, humiliated, mor
tified and distressed, tiie whilom dictator
of tiie House,and his meritricious confrere,
who is ti.e editor and proprietor ot the
“ two newspapers, both daily,” Sunday
included, must he those men. * * * *
Mr. Stevens repaired iu “ pride of j>ower
and place” to Harrisburg. He was fol
lowed by tbe editor of tbe Chronicle, for
both ot whom it was announced by tele
gram, suits of parlors had been put in a
suitable state ot preparation for tiie arrival
of men who supposed themselves so ca
pable of riding the whirlwind and direct
ing the storm. Their levers could move
the world of radicalism. They came, saw,
and were demolished. Scarce a sign is
left of them. We cannot see how either
can hold up their heads among the )>oiiti
eal characters at the Capital, to whom
they have es-ayed to give the nod. What
a ‘lame and impotent conclusion!’ But
seven votes in the Republican caucus for
the ‘great commoner,’ backed by tbe
editor aud proprietor of 1 two newspaper*,
both daily,’ and Included!”
The Fenian Movement.
We find in an exchange an account of
the unearthing of C. O. I. It. X. Y. Z.
James Stephens, by which it appears that
the Head Centre, instead of sailing for the
Emerald Isle, a* reported, there to beard
the British Lion in his den, disappeared
very marvellously in the depths of some
private boarding house in New York, and
was only brought to light through the re
searches of some committee and tbe
treachery of a pretended friend. Stephens,
in fact, has proved a worse case than “B
Doran Killian,” "O’Mahouy,” or any
other of his predecessors, who have han
dled the Fenian funds aud sold bonds of
the Irish Republic. But, as if enough had
not been disclosed to dispel this fraud and
delusion, another somebody-—a Colonel
Gleeson —has taken direction of affairs,
and the Fenian headquarters are repre
sented to be teeming with grand
and active and exuberant patriots. This
is tiresome. The Irish - American people
must, about this time, begin to understand
the matter, and can squelch it by -imply
withholding remittances. Tiie constant
fuss and agitation kept up in New York
for the purpose of levying contributions
from the credulous, n eans nothing more—
certainly means nothing more which is
less practicable than a voyage to the
moon, while, no doubt, it is a source of a
good deal of inconvenience and trouble to
the Irish at borne. It has brought upon
them an English standing army of thirty
tliousaud men, the suppression of the
habeas corpus, numerous arrests, stagna
tion of trade, and other social evils and
inconveniences of a very serious charac
ter. The nuisance should be abated by
the action of the intelligent Ameriean-
Irish. They alone can put a stop to it, by
cutting short the pay and rations.
A Shocking Affair.— The following,
as we have gathered them from a person
who was present at the examination of
witnesses before the coroner’s inquest, are
the circumstances that led to the killing
of “ Mage” Henderson, a son of Judge H.
L Henderson, by Samuel Hardaway, in
Wakulla county, on last Sunday afternoon.
Henderson was standing in the piazza of
liardaway’s house, and used some express
ion which Hardaway thought insulting,
when he was shot aud instantly killed by
the latter. Hardaway remained in bis
house until he was arrested the next day.
The coroner’s jury rendered a verdict for
murder, and aardaway was brought up to
Tallahassee, on Tuesday, by the sheriff of
Wakulla county. and loged in jail to await
his trial before a higher court.
The unfortunate prisoner is, we learn,
over sixty years of age. The old story—
“whiskey and some frail fair one”—are
said to be at the bottom of this deplorable
affair. —Tallahassee Sentinel.
In 1860 there were 54,000 church edifices
in the United States, with sittings for JB,-
974,579 persons, leaving a population of
12 467,745 without provision in any church
or sect—fearful statistics, alter allowing a
liberal per cent, for persons too young or
too old, too sick or too infirm, to attend
church.
The National Bank of Mobile recently
declared a semi-aunual dividend of eight
per cent, on the capital stock. This is the
second dividend within the year, the
former being of ten per cent.; making
eighteen per cent, for the year. This is
doing very well for an institution the first
year of its existence.
The Citizeua of Savannah are turning
their attention to the project of cutting a
canal of eight miles along the coast, by
means of which four hundred miles of in
land navigation, from Savannah to Jupi
i ter Inlet, Fla., will be opened to steamers
of four-feet draft.
THE VICTORY OF THE HENRI
ETTTA.
Log of her Run from Now York to
Cowes.
Scenes on Board, and Distance Made
Each Day.
Highly Interesting Recital.
[From the London Times, December 27. J
FIRST DAY AT SEA.
The first day at sea was bright and cold ;
we carried ali sail, making eleven knots
an hour until noon, when the Henrietta
was struck by a heavy snow squall and In
topsails had to be taken in. During tne
twenty-three hours we had made two
hundred and thirty-five knots by observa
tion and two hundred and thirty-seven by
log, and found ourselves in latitude 40° 07 /
and logitude 68° 52'; tiie wind was north
erly and came in strong gusts; at ten min
utes to 4 o’clock we passed the steamer
Cuba and another steamer, to both of
which we showed our racing signals, re
ceiving prompt replies. Several sailing
vessels were sighted, but they all kepi
away from us as soon as we showed our
dark blue flag, as if believing the canard
that tiie yachts were Fenian privateers. —
I’tie weather grew more stormy towards
night, and our little boat was at times half
under water, but behaving most admira
bly. The mainsails were reefed before
midnight, but as tbe weather moderated
the reefs were shaken out and boih jibs
set.
At noon on the second nautical day we
scored two hundred and ten miles by ob
servation and two hundred and thirty by
log, the discrepancy being accounted for
by a current which had drifted the yacht
over twenty miles to the southwest. Clear,
sunshiny weather during tiie day, and
bright moonlight, with occasional snow
squalls. at night, closed the record for the
13th of December.
ON DECK NEXT MORNING.
The next morning the weather was
cloudy and warm, and the sea had fallen :
some of the guests enjoyed their siesta on
deck; the servants unexpectedly appearing
in white trousers seeumd like gliosis from
the long departed summer. Nothing was
iri sight upon the oeeau but flocks of gulls
and Mother Carey’- chickens. At noon
we had made2o4 miles. By a fine observa
tion in theevening, the placid moon show
ed silvery upon a sea smooth as the
Thames. Reclining in the comfortable
cabin, tiie Chateau Margaux and cigars
within easy reach, the guests listened to
the captain’s stories of haunted ships and
suicides at sea, and dismal wrecks of the
.Southern Ocean. Toward midnight,how
ever, the scene changed, and repeated
squalls, with rain and bail, struck tiie tiny
craft, and bowled her along at the rate of
eleven, twelve and thirteen knots an hour
At suuri-e tbe next morning a snow storm
began; the sea and sky seemed one, and
botli were a deep slate color; the men,
half white with the snow,moved slowly at
tiieir wqrks; the dark horizon was noticea
bly rmrrow«(; «m« the snow drifted down
the (Henrietta passed thtough tiie water
that foamed upon thtdeck; to tbe leeward
a spar from some wreck lifted itseif to the
view like a great skeleton linger,indicative
of ruin; ali our surroundings wer- mourn
ful aud depressing. No observations could
be taken but by dead reckoning. We had
gained two huml ed and twenty-live
mile- during tiie past twenty-four hour-.
As night fell, the yacht sailed faster and
faster, until, as we looked over the side
where the waves came cascading over the
diminutive bulwarks, wo seemed to be
fairly living along. The sky cleared, but
the wind Iren he ued at sunset, and the
light sail* were hauled down and the maiu
-a.il reefed. Tiie yacht quivered like a
race hon*eoverdriveu,andthe pumpswhich
were tested every hour, sounded dismally,
but showed no leakage. S-ea after sea
boarded the staggering craft. A wave
came bursting the skylight into the cabin.
All right long this heavy weather contin
ued; but the yacht rau so easily before the
free wind that every body slept as quietly
as if the Henrietta were the Great East
ern.
PASSING A BRIO ANI) CROSSING THE
BAN KS.
In the gray of tbe following morning,
Sunday, December 16, we passed a brig
bound to Newfoundland, and the crew,
who bad evidently heard nothing of the
yacht race, climbed up the rigging to stare
at u* as we dashed swiftly ami silently by,
like the Flying Dutchman. We were now
crossing tbe Grand Banks, and at noon we
had sailed two hundred and forty-six
miles for the day, and over one-third the
distance to Cowes. Thewindstill remain
ed northerly, and the yacht k pt her course
without variation. At 2 o’clock the Cap
tain, officer* and yachtmen assembled in
the cabin for divine worship, while the
winds whistled shrilly without and the
waves splashed across the deck-lights ov
erhead: the prayers for the day were re
peated. aud a chapter from the Bible and
one of Jay’s brief sermon* were read. At
10 P. M. we were off the Grand Banks and
off soundings, going at the rale of twelve
knots an hour. Heavy seas still boarded
the vessel, washing overboard one of the
crew. The wind still held from the north
ward, and all hands were not too semsib.e
to credit the Captain's superstitious stories
and refrain from changing their attire lest
thev should bring a change of wind. The
night passed quietly, and the ship averag
ed eleven knots in spite Os the seas that
constantly hammered her like marine
Vulcans.
A SNOW STORM.
Tiie next morning found us in “the
roaring forties,” which we h id been taught
to dread the character of. The ocean had
entirely changed; instead of dancing over
short, chopping waves, tike those of the
English Channel, we appeared to be pas
sing between ranges of water hills. Run
ning thus in tbe trough of the sea, there
seemed to be no horizon. The water, glaz
ed by the snow that fell almost constantly,
had the consistency of oil; the sky was
filled with dull, leaden clouds; but the ba
rometer rose steadily; the wind,which had
been rather doubtful during the morning,
blew from the north once more. A tine
observation gave us two hundred and eigh
ty miles for tbe yacht’s progress during
the preceding twenty-four hours. In six
days and fourteen hours we had sailed half
way across the Atlantic. • In the afternoon
a beautiful rainbow brightened tiie hori
zon, but this “ bow r of promise ’proved
most deceitful, and brought us renewed
bail and snow squalls instead of pleasant
weather. During the night the wind shif
ted to west-southwest. We “jibed” ship
and hoisted the square-sail, but were
forced to lower it again in a few hours, as
the signs of dirty weather ominously in
creased. The effect of “jibing” we may
explain to tbe uninitiated, is to change the
cant of a vessel from one side to the other.
Naturally, then, the guests who had gone
to rest when the yacht had an inclina
tion of forty-five degrees iu one direction,
suddenly awoke, cross aud sullen, when
they were rolled over in their berths by tbe
careening of the yacht to forty-five degrees
tbe other way.
HEAVING -TO IN A GALE.
The weather was now exceedingly
threatening. The mainsail was double
reefed for the first time, aud the vessel put
in order for a storm. At noon we had run
two hundred and fifty utiles. The south
west wind freshened after noon, and at 4 i
p. M. it blew a regular gale. The mainsail
was furled and three reefs taken in the
foresail and the jibs taken in. Even with j
this small spread of canvas the yacht was ,
driven nine miles an hour. On deck the j
rain and spray shut in the vessel like a
watery curtain. Below the pitching and I
tossing rendered it impossible to sleep. A
bucket was placed near the stove to extin
guish the fire should necessity ari-e. The i
dead lights leaked unexpectedly aud un
comfortably. Holes were bored in the
state-room to let out water should the sky- j
light be broken in. The servants were ,
dashed about the cabins as if shot from in
vincible catapults. The guests had enough
to do to hold themselves inside their berths.
Under these circumstances, which would
have delighted Mark Tapley, everybody
became again good-humored. Just at
midnight the struggling yacht was struck
by a tremendous sea, that burst over the
-quarter, struck full upon the foresail, and
then fell heavily upon the deck, staviug in
the yacht’s boat. Simultaneously the car
penter rushed wildly Into the cabin, pale
l with alarm, and shouted: ‘‘Mr. Bennett,
Vol. LTX, TVo. 17.
we must heave her to; she is opening for
ward, sir!” With great good sense no
body stirred save Mr. Bennett, who quiet
ly informed Captain Samuels of the car
penter's report. As quietly the Captain
came down from the tfeck and examined
the supposed leak, which turned out to t.e |
nothing but the bilge water oozing through
the line planking near the cook’s berth.— i
The galestreugthened, however, and at last
the Captain decided that the Henrietta
should be driven no longer. Prepaiations
were made to heave-to, which is simply
layi ug tire ship's head to the wind under
close canvas, so that she rides as if at an -
chor. The storm trysails happened to be
stored in the cabin, and, as the sailors j
came silently down, oiled the tackie, and
carried the sail upou deck, the scene re- ;
minded one of the bringing forth of the ;
pall for a funeral. A pause in a race like i
this seemed the burial of all our hopes.— j
Nevertheless it was some consolation to be i
informed by Captain Samuels that in his :
thirty years’ experience he had never seen |
aves-el that could face such a gele so long, j
and it was charitable to hope that our ri
vals were having better weather than our
selves. Once hove-to, the yacht rocHed
lazily and pleasantly; the waves rushec.
and the winds howled past, but did not
disturb her.
OFF AGAIN.
Before noon the next day, December 19,
the wind had lulled, and the ship again
started off briskly, as if rested ami refresh
ed. Everybody now changed bis attire,
and for once an old superstition proved
true, for the wind shifted to the north ami
west again. The sun shone pleasantly,
but the sea was still running high ; the
waves, blown about like the sand-hills of a
i desert, disclosing strange mirages of tents
i and sails as they revealed strips of the hor
j izon here and there. We made our short -
| e3t distance on tins stormy day, gaining
| only 153 miles. At 3 I'. M. v.e were going
| fifteen knots, and kept up this pace for
; several ifturs. In the evening, we sailed
; calmly in the mellow moonlight that
: marked our track before us with its sheen :
the cabin fire was allowed to die out, and
overcoats were discarded. The seas rose
on either side like wails, and the yacht
ran swiftly between them at the rate of
thirteen knots an hour. There could have
been no stronger contrast to the incidents
of the previous night. Sailing at liie same
pace the next morning, we scored 200
miles by noon. The clouds, moving in a
grand procession from east to west, and,
forming in solid masses behind us. prom -
ised a continuance of the fair wind. At 3
I’. M. we passed the steamer Louisiana,
bound west, making out her name from
Mary tt’s signal-flags. That night every
thing was cheering; the yaehtmen sang
iustiiy in the cabin, and the sailors answer
ed as lustily from the forecastle : the Cap
tain turned in for the first time since our
start; hut nothing is so variable as the
weather.
REFRESHING IN A CAI-M.
By 1 o’clock the next morning there
wa3 a dead calm, and we came on deck af
ter breakfast to find a warm summer day.
The yacht was scarcely moving through
the water, the sails hung drooping from
tnc y«r.i», tho noun was peifectlv smooth;
the stillness was remarkable; there was
no ripple of the waves, no rustling of the
sails—of course, another superstitious
change of the toilet. One of the servants
was discovered to be a professional barber,
and a shaving shop was improvised, every
body contributing oils, pomatum, and per
fumery. There was a general "rejuvena
tion ;” those who had not been shaven for
ten days came out from the barber's hands
as from a disguise. Bits of unsuspected
finery, such as neck-ties and scarf-pins,
were displayed. One would Lave thought
it a gala day; but, in truth, nothing could
have been worse for us than this calm —
welcome even another gale, so that it tame
from the west.
Ail this mummery was again effectual.
About 11 A. M. a fine breeze sprung up
from the south, and under full canvas, all
the sails drawing well, the Henrietta cut
her way tbr< ugh the calm ocean. The
cabin was too warm lor comfort, and the
yaehtmen reclined on deck i ke turtles in
the sun. A school of porpoises paused the
ship, and the second mate started a legend
which l cau not but believe —that the
yacht was going so fast as to strike one of
the fish and cut it in two. Better evidence
of her speed is to be found in the log,
which records that she sailed one hundred
and fifty-seven miles that day, despite the
time lost by the calm. Bv night, we
were making eleven knots, with every
thing as snug and trim as on the first day
out.
A soft, baimy morning succeeded, and
we were roused up at sunrise to salute a
Bremen steamer that dipped her colors as
'he passed. The yacht now ran easily
like a machine, robing up 252 miles by
noon ;at3 P. M. we fell in with a Scotch
mist; in the midst, of it we spoke the
packet-ship Philadelphia, eleven days out
from Liverpool. The Captain of the
Philadelphia doubly encouraged us by re
porting that he had heard nothing of the
other yachts, and that the winds were
westerly.
SABBATH OBSERVANCES.
The next day, Sunday, December 23, we j
logged 196 miles. There was a brief calm j
at daybreak, followed by light southeast I
winds. At noon divine service was held
in the cabin. The wind gradually rose j
during the afternoon, and, as usual, in the i
evening the good yacht rallied splendidly,
increasing her progress rapidly from sev
en knots np to twelve —at which rate she 1
was dashing along as the moon rose, blood- !
red iu the hazy English sky.
LOOKING TO THE RESI'LT.
The excitement in regard to the race
readied fever heat. Ail jokes and stories I
became stale, and nothing was talked of:
but yachts aud time and wind, aud the j
probabilities and possibilities of the con
test. In every distant vessel, we saw a
Fleetwing; every star near the horizon I
was translormed into the Vesta's sigual j
light. At BP.M. we were on souudiugs;-j
at 12, midnight, oft Cape Clear. Thus the j
next morning, December 24, found us in '
the chops of the channel, hoping to eat j
our Christmas dinner at Cowes. It was ,
a murky, foggy, dark, disagreeable morn
ing, aud even at noon it was impossible to
take a solar observation; but by dead
reckoning we had made one hundred and
seventy-two miles. The carpenter, who |
had given one sensation by discovering j
a spurious leak, uosv treated us to another t
by announcing that the Fleetwing was in
sight. Everybody clambered on deck.— |
Binnacular glasses, eye glasses, spectacles, ;
aud telescopes were brought to bear upon
the imaginary yacht, which was soou
made out to bean English topsail schooner
bound the other way. ludiguation fol
lowed excitement, and both quickly I
merged into a hearty laugh. Neariug the j
laud of Christmas carols and Dickens up- |
on Christmas eve, <t was impossible to go ;
to rest. After a very late dinner we had;
our Christmas songs and stories; among j
the former was a ditty composed in honor
of the Henrietta, and sung to the familiar
air of “Sweet Evilina.” While these fes- |
tivities were in progress, we had made the
Sicily Island Lights at a quarter to 8 P.
M. The current drifting us to leeward,
we steered south southwest for an otHng,
and passed the islands handsomely, hav
ing msde no tack since we left New York,
and having only varied eleveu miles from
the straight line between the two points
So admirable a landfall reflected great
credit upon Captain Samuels. At 3
o’clock P. M. we passed the Lizard Light,
going thirteen knots an hour steadily,
: the Henrietta, like a well-jockeyed race
horse, reserving her best pace for the fin
ish.
PILOT ONBOARD.
Running close to the bold coast, we
sighted tiie Eddvstone, Start Point, and
Portland Hill, aud at 12:40 P. M. on Christ- j
mas day took on board a Cowes pilot. A ;
heartier cheer never rent than that which |
greeted the pilot’s announcement that no
other American yacht had passed up the j
channel. The race seemed won, and a sud. i
den blaze of sunshine lit up the chalk j
cliffs of old England in silvery glory; it j
was like an illumnationof welcome.
THE RACE WON.
Under every stich of canvas, with even
stay-sail set, and with her racing flag and
Yacht Club ensign proudly floating on
the still breeze, the Henrietta dashed by
the Needles, and Messrs. Jerome aud
Knapp, the judges for the Fleetwing and
| the Vesta decided that all the conditions
of the race had been strictly complied
with; down went the racing flag and the
private signal of Mr. Bennett took its
place. As the yacht turned up the chan
nel to Cowes the land shut out the wind,
and like one who has finished a long and
toilsome task, the brave little yacht slack
ened her speed and floated leisurely along.
Her blue lights and rockets announced
her arrival here, after having crossed the
Atlantic to the Isle of Wight in the un
precedented time of thirteen days, twenty
two hours and forty-six minutes mean
time, and that without having carried
away any of her light sails or spars, or
even so much as a shred of canvas or a
strand of rope.
[From the Semi-Weekly Southern Enterprise.]
Appeal to the People ol Georgia.
Fellow-Citizens: The undersigned
respectfully makes this appeal to ypu, on
a subject deeply involving your highest
und most vital interests, Tlehas no fnanu
facturing, nor mining, nor railroad project
to advocate. The object to which he would
draw your attention is, the importance of
educating the yoor children and orphans
of our soNiiers. He would remind you
that the true wealth and greatness of a
commonwealth does not consist in the
richness of its soil, in its Inexhaustible
mines, in its manufacturing aud railroad
interests, but in the intelligence and vir
tue of its citizens. Deeply impressed with
this truth, he has sent his jietition to the
Legislature several years in succession,
pleading for a specific appropriation for
this object. Early in the recent ,-ession
he visited Mtlleugeville, and addressed
that bod> in the hall of the House of Rep
resentatives, urging an annual appropria
tion of $100,000; or at least, that some
thing should he done for this uutortunate
class of her citizens. He learns that up
wards of s&>o,i»oU were appropriated for va
rious objects —all, no uonbt, worthy and
ine«,riant—but that nothing was done to
wn ro.- educating these children and youth,
except d»e passage of un act providing for
common schools; which, however, is not
j to go into operation until D>o. Trusting
j that the General Assembly will not repeal
: that act, the undersigned appeals to the
i people to take this l.alter into their own
hauus Cor the ensuing j< ar.
From the most reliable data within our
reach, (the rsait Statistics in the reports of
the Slate Commissary General, and kin
dred documents), we have concluded there
were about b'd,ood of this class when the
war closed. Since that time it is believed
that 10,000 have passed the age of pupil
age, uneducated, leaving 50,000 exposed to
a like fate, at the rate of live or six thous
and per annum. It is hi behaif of this
mass of mind—as rich as was ever culti
vated—that ttiis appeal is made.
I The writer is aware that much is being
1 done hr them in certain localities; that a
j lew schools are sustained for their special
! benefit; and that hundreds of teachers
j are instructing them, free of charge. Yet
i ail this is but a titne of what is needed,
i in many neighborhoods this class is in
j the majority, and there are not paying
! pupils enough to sustain schools; and in
j many other instances the door cf the
j school-room is closed to them, because
| they cuunot aii'ord to teach them gratis.
| Is it reasonable they should be expected
' to do so ?
In what way can men of wealth—money
making men—invest a portion of their
fuuds, where they would accomplish so
much good, and yield so much happiness
to themselves, aud by paying the tuition
of one or rnoee of tuese children, or the
salaries of teachers to iustruct them ? The
writer trusts he will be pardoned by that
peerless statesman and Christian patriot,
Alexander H. Stephens, for remitming
you of the fact, welt know n to bis friends,
Iliat he has spent nearly all he has ever
made in the education of the worthy
fK>or. What a noble example he has thus
sethis countrymen! How many of you
will emulate ii\'
if you have not wealth, you may have
infiuence. You cau speak, \ou cau write
in favor of this object. It'is education
that has given you the influence you pos
sess. As these poor, neglected ones can
not speak for themselves, let me beg for
them that \ou will at least exert your in
fluence in their favor. As to the manner
in which that influence snail be exerted,
I must leave to your judgment and dis
cretion. But le: me beg that you will do
something, and that without delay. Cali
your neighbors together and address them
on the subject. Organize societies, if
necessary. House the people by some
mtaus.
To my bretlireu of the Christian minis
try I appeal with confidence. You serve
that blessed Being who said, "The poor
ye have always W ith you, but me ye have
not always.” Brethren, preach to your
congregations on this subject at an early
day ; or, if nothing more, read to them
this appeal. Itemind them that, among
those fioor neglected orphans, are, perhaps,
a Davis or a Mephens, a Fierce or a Pal
mer, a Mercer or a Mallory. Urge them
to take them by the hand, and elevate
them to those positions ior w hich they are
naturally qualified by the tnjble blood
which flows in their veins.
Aud then the-'e is auother class of xny
fellow-citizens to whom such an appeal
was never made in vain. 1 allude, of
course, to Editors. Many of you, who
now wield tha pen with such power, have
wielded tire musket or the sword as well.
In behalf of the children and orphans of
your comrades in arms, I invoke your in
fluence. If the Press will use its power in
favor of this cause, there will not remain
on my mind a doubt of its success. You,
gentlemen Editors, can rouse the public
from that lethargy into which, it seems to
me, they have fallen on this subject, and
which threatens to lie so fatal to the best
j interests of tiie State and of posterity.
I could say much more, but I forbear.—
| If this appeal shall secure the education
I of one poor orphan, I shall not regret its
i preparation. vVould to God it could avail
j lor thousands. J. H. Campbell.
Thomasville, Dec. 20, lkf>s.
Papers throughout the State are
respectfully requested to copy.
Have we a Civil Law or Not I
Our city, on Monday last, was a scene of 0
rioting and lawlessness unknown before
in its history, and came near resulting in
the most serious consequences. We men
tioned, iu last week’s issue, that the Sner
ift', iu attempting to execute a writ of eject
ment, was fori.ib y resisted and turust out
of the house he was endeavoring to take
possession of. Ou Monday hesuuimonded
to his aiii a number of the citizens to serve
as a posse in executing his writ, and again
Paul Crippen and others of like Radical
proclivities armed some forty or fifty ne
groes, and hoisting the U. 5. flag over the
building in dispute, placed them in it, de
termining to resist the law. This being
the stated" the case, and the Sheriff's force
but few iu numbers, it was deemed pru
dent, in order ts avoid bloodshed, to post
pone action until advice could lie had
with the proper authorities as to the best
course to be persued. Thus the affair
stood until evening, when J. T. Frisbie,
the marshal of the city, entered the store
of Mr. J. (Joiding, a peaceable citizen, aud
behaving in a rude and becoming man
ner, was ordered to leave and upon his re
fusal to do so was forced out and the door
shut. Frisbie then gave orders to a lot of
negroes he had at his biddiug to break the
doors and sackthe building, which was at
tempted, the doors being cut in with axes
and had not Mayor Riddell, Mr. B. B. An
drews, General Eiuegan and several other
gentlemen interfered promptly, it certain
ly would have eDded in the most serious
consequences. Much credit is due thesa
gentlemen in quelling the riot. This is a
simple statement of the facts in the case,
and we may well ask the question, have
we civil law or not? Ifso, aie these things
to go unpunished ? There are, unfortun
ately, three or four vile men in our com
munity who call themselves radicals, and
get their living by" duping and defraud
ing the poor negro and pushing them for
ward in all their dirty work, iso long aa
these wretches are a lowed to remain here,
we mayexpect disturbances, and troubles.
All the insolence and insubordination of
! negroes here come from the teachings
i and baneful induence of these trifling
men.— lernandina (Fla.) Courier of Tri
day last.
During the late meeting of the British
Association at Nottingham, at one ot the
soirees, specimens oi meat preserved in
parattiue were exhibited. The process
consists in the immersion of fresli meat iu
paraffine at a temperature of 240 degrees
if. ( long enough to effect a concentration
of the juices of the meat aud to expel the
air. Afterward a coating of paraffine is
applied to exclude the air and prevent
1 decomposition.
John Bright, in a letter, says: If Ireland
| was one thousand miles away from us, all
! would lie changed or the landlords exter
minated by the vengeance of the people.
| This is a frank and bold expression against
j any plea that Ireland is as weil treated as
| England.
The Montgomery Mail learns that no
difficulty is experienced by planters in
contracting for labor for this year, the ne
' groes evincing a willingness to enter into
i equitable agreements.