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store's unvarying law is change;
out of Chaos issued Light,
■ ~ a || her wide and glorious range,
.If. ir.xi, the beautiful, the bright,
‘ B g and tho inanimate,
, üß h(hl the stern decree of Fate.
i whispered by the evening breeze,
, echoed by the rippling stream,
luJ Autumn’s melancholy trees,
A, a gentle Spring’s fast fleeting beams,
A,',,] Winter’s snow, and Summer s bloom,
Shadow created matters doom.
y,. H change throughout this glorious
Matter's eternal law must be;
But Mind, like Him who gave it birth,
Claims kindred immortality,
And liove, its noblest attribute,
Time, change, e’en death may not uproot.
No! dearest, no! the love we feel
in not au ,jntsfuMtM gleam,
I V[ stl |] tjjc Name througii woo and weal.
;• bun ,s with pure and steady flame,
And magnet-like, its wondrous power
Fresh vigor gathers every hour,
And distance can hut separate
Material things—our spirits still
Biism red by the hand of Fate,
Defy her stern, imperious will,
Por thine is fimdly with me here,
And mine—dost thou not feel it near?
And as through lifts we onward move,
Though all around may fade and change,
Oh! what cm change our spirit’s love ?
0,„. souls affections, what estrange?
Time's rough, rude blasts may bend our forms,
Our love will brave its darkest storms.
Phyi.archcs.
The Clicm-lloard.
BY OWEN MEREDITH.
My little love, do you remember,
Ere wo worn grown mo sailly wise,
Tluwe evenings in the bleak December,
< urtain’d warm from the snowy weather,
When you and 1 played chess together,
Checkmated by each other’s eyes?
Ah ! still 1 see your soft white hand
Hovering warm o’er queen or knight,
Brave pawns in valiant battle stand,
The double castles guard the wings,
The bishop bent on distant things,
Moves sliding through the light.
Our lingers touch, our glances meet
And falter; fails your golden liair
Against my cheek ; your bosom sweet
Is heaving. Down the field your queen
(tides slow her soldiers between,
Ami checks me unaware.
Ah me! the little battle’s done,
Disperst is all its chivalry,
Full many a move,since then, have we,
‘Mill life's perplexingeheckersmade,
And many a game with Fortune
play’d—
What is it we have won ?
This, this at least —if this alone—
That never, never, never more,
As in those old still nights of yore,
i Fro we were grown so sadly wise),
Can you and I shut out the skies,
Shiit out the world and wintry
weather,
And eyes exchanging warmth with
eyes,
i’lay chess, as then we play’d to
gether.
A Mi l'.—Tiie following note appears in
the London Spectator :
“Bik: 1 have just read with great ad
miration your able article on the case for
women. Von state with perfect truth that
‘spinsters and widows are just about the
1 ;ist politically informed amongst women,’
mu! that‘it is the wives, sisters and daugh
ters of eager politicians who get the
strongest hold of political questions.’ Al-
I w me to suggest, as a slight llaw in your
iguiiient, which might give occasion to
in worthy cavil, that ‘spinsters and wid
iwh' are notunfrequently ‘daughters,’and
in exceptional cases ‘sisters.’
f am, sir, &c.,
“A Simnster, Sister and Daughter.”
“Bentley Lodge, Kssex, May Ho.”
< ieorge Francis Train gave his biography
liberty and brilliantly, the other day, as
follows:
“When I started out in life, travel was
my idol ;t he world doubted. Then 1 tried
knowledge; 1 got no praise. Then hooks;
they ridiculed. Then languages; they
sneered. Then patrotism; they cheered
first, then knocked me down in Boston,
shot at me in Dayton, bayoneted me in
haven port, arrested me in Bt. Louis, and
fried to assassinate me in Alton. But in
spite of this I have kept iny independence
and individually. (Loud applause.) I
asked the world what it wanted; it replied
money. I have made it, and am now de
voting my time to that, simply out ofcon
tempt for the opinions of men. No morn
Heftening of the brain, but hardening of
tho heart.”
—— ♦ ♦
Artificial Diamonds.—Although all
the known sources of diamonds in the
world are running low, astonishing quan
tities continue to be supplied to tlic trade
in Europe, and, as these are unmistakably
genuine, dealers are-greatly exercised to
know where they come from, while some
an- of opinion that certain parties have
discovered, ami keep secret, certain im
mensely productive mines in the East;
otliers are quite as confident that some
lucky chemist produces them by artificial
means, ami has thus f ar kept, this great
secret, in purifying and chrystali/.ing car
bon to himself, a man named Koepping,
or Keppieh, of Breslau, who has made
iinmensesalesofdiainondsof late, in Paris,
and who has kept all the cutters of Ant
werp busy for some weeks, is thought to
hold the key of the mystery. So say the
late foreign papers.
The largest topaz known has just, boon
deposited at tlie Bank of France. It is of
Brazilian origin, and measures 7( inches
iu length by 4s inches in width, and about
the same in thickness. It weighs more
titan 31 pounds. However valuable this
'tone may he from its brilliancy and size,
it is still more so from its artistic merit, as
'Untie face is engraved a half leugth like
ness of Christ breaking bread at tlie Last
Supper. This composition was executed
with the burin and diamond dust by the
■vner of tlie gem, Andre Cariello, former
> «,f tlie Naples Mint.
kBA(.KNTs.—Th e delicate reagents used
u chemical manipulations can scarcely be
oiH-eived. I o detect the presence of sugar
mdiabetes, make a solution of the suirar
r glncosuria, add a little of the solution of
sulphate of copper, and then some caustic
otash, and instantly the solution will be
une red, even if there be only the ten
iionth of a grain of sugar present. Com- I
tied with the following, however, this is 1
ite rough : Desolve one grain of silver
a small quantity of pure nitric acid and
ten jHiur this solution of silver into 3,250
gallons of water, or about eighty barrels. —
\\ hen well diffused through the mass, put
one drop of the water upon a plate of glass,
and touch it with a glass rod previously
dipped into pure hydrochloric acid. The
-Imp ot the solution will become turbid or
milky, indicating tlie presence of silver,
although there is contained in that drop
only the two hundredth millionth of a (, rain
oj silver.
Change in the Surface of the Moon.
At the last session of tlie Academy of
Science, says the Courrier de Havre , of
May 21, M. Delaunay read a paper, by M*
Fliuumarioii, on tlie subject of a recent
'■flange in the moon’s surface. A crater
"ell defined and perfectly well known to
vdronoiuers, has disappeared within a
ar, and its place is now marked by a
Xv white spot, in the middle of a plain.
'is the first time that any change has
-n noticed. M. Chaconiar made a like
•-rvatioii, which confirms that of M.
buinmarion.
I'be Louisville Journal publishes a list
,if eiglity-four names of the most promi
nent merchants iu that city, asking for
reduction in rents. Will Messieurs the
landlords respond though ? That’s the
‘tuestion.
Ky Rose Ac Burr.
Wheat Culture.
[Rome Courier.
Mr Editor: Your intelligent corres
pondent from “Cottage Home” deserves
the thanks and gratitude of the farmin'*
community of Hoyd county for the pnuT
tca >n erost he manifests in the improve
"lent ot the system of fanning, and the
commendable zeal he has exhibited in the
organi/.aLon ot the first agricultural society
n the county—since the surrender. If
wo U 9udl IQen in the county
wi might be able to make a big “dent” in
Dm ol, V f ? By Kyßtern ~f' cultivating
he sod, it we did not shiver it into atoms,
and consign it to the oblivion of all effete
institutions! Your correspondent calls for
several articles on the preparation of the
ground for sowing wheat, the best plows,
them C ' * lure for one of
In t le lirst place, firstly, there are three
things absolutely necessary as a prerequi
site lor tlie proper preparation of laud for
sowing wheat. The. first is to know when
to do it, the second how to do it, and tho
tliiul to do it thoroughly— without regard
to what your grandfather and father may
say about how their grandfathers and
lathers did it before you were born. Re
member that this is a progressive age and
country, and “niggers” didn’t vote, hut
worked occasionally when your grand
fathers sowed three pecks of wheat to the
acre on an old broom sedge field; and
brushed it in with a pine top, witliouteyen
disturbing the repose of tho soil by
scratching tlmtou surface with a Georgia
scooter. .Select the Jaiul you intend for
your next wiieat crop (and don’t let it be
more than your force can manage), and
as soon as you finish your present, harvest
ami lay by your corn (the sooner the
better), set all hands to sprouting—not
with a common corn hoe, or briar scythe,
but with a regular sprouting hoe, that will
take lip your sassafras, persimmon and
other bushes at the root, and not cut them
off above the surface; remove all fallen
timber and old stumps out of the field;
when you have done this and burnt your
spr.uts, your land is ready for the plow
(not the scooter or hull tongue); you will
then, having previously secured as many
two-horse Livingston or Avery plows as
you have force to man, and large, strong
mules or horses to pull, “pitch'in” and
astonish old mother earth by tearing up
and turning over her bosom to the depth
ot ten or twelve inches (tlie deeper the
better).
This ought to he done in July or August,
so as to expose tlie sub-soli to the mellow
ing operations of the sun’s rays during
the summer solstice; about the middle of
September (not later than tlie first of Oc
tober) thoroughly pulverize the soil by
running a heavy two-liorse harrow witli
iron teeth over it twice. After this pre
paration, sow broadcast (as you are, unfor
tunately, not sufficiently’ advanced in
modern ideas on the subject of scientific
farming to appreciate the great advantage
of a wiieat drill*) a bushel and a half—
never less than a bushel and a quarter ;
you can’t expect to reap unions you sow—
of good, clean seed wheat to the acre, and
plow it in deep with a double shovel plow,
and then trust to Providence. Quit your
everlasting grumbling at tlie seasons, and
if you don’t raise better wheat, and more of
it, than you ever saw grow on tlie same
breadth of land in this Cherokee country
before, T will agree never to write another
article on the culture of wheat as long as I
am a disfranchised rebel of District No 3,
Territory of the former so-called State of
Georgia, first settled by old man Ogle
thorpe!
In another article 1 may say something
about the best variety of seed wheat for
this latitude; hut 1 am boring your read
ers, and will stop.
File wheat drill, now a curiosity to most
of our Cherokee farmers, must soon com
mend itself to their favorable consideration,
and self interest will open their eyes to
the great advantage of putting their wheat
in with u drill, instead of broadcast sowing.
There has been nothing more fully demon
strated than the increased production of
drilled wheat, from a variety of causes—
the following among others: “The seed
is covered deeper; it is covered more regu
larly; less seed is required; there is more
circulation of air through the crop; less
liable to freezes out in winter; it stands
better at harvest time, and the result is an
increase of several bushels per acre” over
t hat sown broadcast on the same quality of
ground. Another important advantage is
the great saving of labor; one hand and
two scrub horses can sow as much in a day,
with a good drill, as five lazy white or
black freed men will under your present
system. Virginia.
Three milkmen were lined S2O apiece,
day before yesterday, in tlie Court of
Special Sessions for mixing water with
thcirmilk, prior to serving their customers.
This grave punishment will interfere
somewhat with tjie profits of these honest
tradesmen. They, however, have the
consolation of knowing that by adding a
few more drops of water than usual to each
can of milk—conducting their operations
more privately than they did on, this oc
casion—they will speedily he able to make
good their ioss. By continued frugality
in this direction they and their fellows
may acquire a sufficient fund to secure
some legislation next Winter that will
relieve them from the tyranny of existing
laws. It would not be a difficult thing, we
are sure, to get through a milk ami-water
bill at Albany. If our Legislatures are
noted for any one kind of enactment more
than another it is for such as tend to make
things mixed. As for the respectable class
whose rights have been (Inis trampled on,
do they not deserve public sympathy? As
well take their lives us t hat by which they
live.—[iV. Tina s, 22<1.
Chief-Justice Chase, in the United States
Circuit Court in North Carolina, recently
delivered an opinion on the general law of
treason, embracing a good many points of
general interest. The point in question
was whether Southern debtors were re
leased from their debts by the acts of the
Southern Confederacy compelling them
to pay over whatever they owed to North
ern men to the Confederate Government.
Tlie Chief-Justice decides that they are
not. He discusses the general law of trea
son applicable to the recent war between
tho Government am! the seceding States,
and decides that while the Southern States
changed their practical relations to the
Union by secession, they did not in the
least affect the obligations of the Consti
tution and laws of the United States. The
opinion contains many points of general
interest. [New I ork Times.
Tope Pronounces Against titePresi
dent. —General Dope, commanding the
third satrapy, has pronounced against the j
opinion of liis Commanati-_j u _chief, the
President, and set at open utc-mee the
opinion of the first law officer ot the Aw
tiou. We Avere aware that the satrap of
the third Province always experienced
great difficulty in discriminating between
Ins hindquarters and his headquarters;
hut we wree not prepared to believe that
lie would nullify the law jus explained by
the Attorney General, and as will be con
strued in a day or two by orders from
the Commaiider-in-Chief. Instead of
AA’aiting for such orders as a decent subor
dinate would have done, our independent
satrap sets up for himself and promulgates
an order, declaring that certain parties
shall not register, whom tlie law clearly
permits to register. Gen. H. Q. (Head
Quarter) Pope is evidently on the rampage
ami does not intend to allow any one to
construe the Law except himself. He is
working in the interest of the Military
j Despotism party, and intends flanking the
Conservative Union party just as lie flank
ed and got in the rear of Stonewall Jackson
at tlie second battle of Manassas. The
number of converts he Avill make by his
political mameuvrs will lie about equal to
tlie number of prisoners lie captured from
Beauregard at tlie evacuation of Corinth.
[Montgomery Mail , 23d.
Among the attendants at the Bos'on
adversaries, were two women wearing
bonnets of the style of twenty years ago.
They attracted much attention.
O’Connell once met a conceited literary
friend, and exclaimed. “I saw a capital
thing in your last pamphlet. Dnlyou .
eagerly replied his delighted listener
‘‘What was it?” ‘‘A pound of butter!
Nolen on llie Situation.
BY B. H. HIRE.
Our noble Governor sought to test the
constitutionality of these measures before
the Supreme Court by a hill tiled in the
name of the State. lam glad he did so.
It was a manly effort, for which our child
ren will praise him. Besides, hegave Die
coart an opportunity of deciding an im
portant question which may lie one day
involved. He failed to get tlie test, because
the court was not able to decide that, it had
jurisdiction in the form in which the ques
tion was made ; not because Georgia was
not a State, but because Georgia being a
State the question, as made, was political
only. But the humblest ot the ten mil
lions of the people of the ten States, whose
rights of person or property are interfered
with by one of these military officers, can
make the question and make it judicially ;
and thou tlio court must decide it,andean
decide it only in favor of the citizen. Ido
most earnestly hope that every citizen,
whose property is seized or whose person
is arrested under pretence of these Military
Bills, will promptly appeal to the law. 1
am aware that our people are attempted
to be frightened from tills appeal to the
courts because they are told it will be years
before a decision can be forced! This is
not true. A decision ou a wit of habeas
corpus must come a? once from tlie District
Court, and in a short time from the Bu
preme Court. But, if this delay is to de
feat tlie application, would not people for
the same reason assert no right by the law,
and thus submit to all outrages or take the
law in their own hands? And must the
right on which all rights depend he aban
duned|because the law is slow?
But, it is said, that while the courts arc
waiting, the Congress will complete its
work. But, if the courts finally hold that
tlie work is completed without any autho
ity under the Constitution, will not all tlie
work go for nothing and our existing gov
ernment he restored?
But suppose it will take one year, or live
years or ten years to “force the court to a
decision ?” Would it not he better to brook
the court’s delay for even ten years than
toaoceptanarchy and slavery fora century?
No, there is neither logic, nor sincerity,
nor patriotism in this argument or excuse,
tluit we are helpless. If we consent to and
accept these military measures, then we
are helpless, because they, by that consent,
become valid—become our act. If we do
not accept—if we vote against a Conven
tion—they never can become valid. They
never can be finally enforced. This is the
reason, and the only reason why every
means is resorted to to secure our consent.
Without that consent these acts have no
vitality. There is for these corrupt party
manipulators and bribed deserters from
their own honor, no refuge from disgrace,
hut in success of their scheme of ruin.—
Therefore, it is that emissaries come and
rennogades labor,and original secessionists
become orthodox loyalists, and by persua
sions and by threats of bribing some and
alarming others and deceiving all, seek to
get tlie people to consent.
The wicked violators ol' the Constitution
would cover theireriuies by calling it Pro
gress and getting the people to tread with
them in their country’s death-march.
Tlie itinerant vender of his people’s hon
or would escape the infamy of his trade by
inducing the people to join in the sale.
Wliat! will the people violate the Con
stitution to get strength, or abandon the
laws to find safety? Then, is tlie mariner
skilled who throws away his chart and
compass to find his way over the sea ; and
the madman has become wise who forsakes
his shelter to avoid the storm.
“One of the banished crew,
I fear, hath ventured from the deep, to raise
New troubles.”
It is said, in the next place, that if we
do not accept the present plau of recon
struction proposed in these Military Bills,
another plan, more odious and oppressive,
will be provided. Further disfranchise
ment, it is said, of tlie wiiite race will take
place, and it may he a total disfranchise
ment of all but tlie blacks and their fel
low’s in suffering and former bondage—
tlie persecuted loyalists, and who alone
will then have the government of the
State.
But if tlie present plau fails because it
is unconstitutional, how can a worse plan
—a plan still more unconstitutional—suc
ceed ? If it is not in the power of Congress
to disfranchise a few, how can it disfran
chise all? Congress can neither make nor
unmake electors, and every member of
the Congress knows it. And every act
which seeks or pretends to make or un
make voters in a State is void and will he
declared so; and every election held, or
constitution formed, or government organ
ized by voters who are made voters only
by Congress, is void and will be declared
so. Every man who is made a voter by
the laws of his State, and is denied that
vote by Congress is wronged, and every
agent or officer of the Congress or other
person who enforces tlie denial is a wrong
doer, and responsible in all tlie penalties
and damages prescribed by the State laws.
The only danger possible liesin the strange
fear of the people to assert their rights,
and the consequent disposition to consent
to the wrong. From consent alone can
wrong derive power, and when ouce con
sented to its power becomes irresistible.
If they did not see, or think they saw, a
fatal inclination iu our people to yield,
Congress and the renegades would not ask
their consent, nor dare to inflict the
wrongs. For to attempt tlie wrong and
fail (and without consent they must fail), j
can only bring ultimate disgrace on those j
who make the attempt. When the bur- |
glarkuows theowuerof the house is awake |
and determined to resist, he will not dare j
enter; but if he knows the owner is asleep i
or disposed to yield, he is sure to enter; ,
he is invited to enter. A Congress, or a
fragmentary conclave thereof, who breaks '
the Constitution to iullict wrongs on an
unresisting people, is more criminal and
far more cowardly than tlie burglar: and
the man who is within— who is of the
people—and who counsels submission to
tho wrong, is far more to be despised than
a burglar or than even sucli a Congress.
Os like character is tlie threat that, if we
reject their plan, Congress will, in anew
plan, add confiscation. He is to be pitied
for his simplicity who does not know that
Congress lias no more power to confiscate J
the property of a peaceful citizen than lias j
a political meeting or a church mob ; and ,
tiiat the very attempt would necessarily j
end the existence of the Congress attempt- ,
ingit.
But, unmanly and without foundation
of either law or reason, as are these threats
of further attempts at disfranchisement
and confiscation, they are of surnas“ , “«
importance in other respect- * in ‘ l I
the most serious
pie. The pos i * i ° nur S etl l u P on us ls 11 IS *
We must submit to a proposed wrong lest
a Greater wrong fellow. We must surren
der our franchise, because, if we do not,
our property will be taken also. Now, the
1 first point to which I beg attention is this:
! These positions admit that the party (or
power if you please) which proposes the
present wrong, lias already the will to in
flict further wrong; that the Congress
which requires you to consent to the de
struction of your franchise, has already
(he will to rob you of your property.
Thus, you are asking to place your prop
erty for safety in the keeping of that
power which already has the will to tase
it You are importuned to escape the
power of the lion by rushing to liis em
brace ; to avoid the fang of the serpent by
placing your hand in liis mouth !
This is precisely the point. W ill every
man in the South ponder it —repeat it —
never forget it? Disfranchisement, con
fiscation, and far worse evils will not come
—cannot come— through our existing Slate
government. Never! But they can come,
and they will' come through the govern
ment which this plan of reconstruction
proposes to establish tor our existiug State
governments. Who, in all these States,
favor or agitate for confiscation except tlie
Northern emissary and Southern renegade,
and the negro, when prompted and direct
ed by these emissaries and renegades.
Are we not warned ? Read tlie resolutions
of negro conventions, and whenever you
find one of these conventions in which
these emissaries and renegades are the
i devlish prompters, you will find confisca
tion threatened, or apologised for, or
i justified or demanded. And these are the
i very men who are to form, organize, con trol
ami administer, and enjoy the ofiices
under these new governments proposed
by these Military Bills. And when we
I admit the power to abrogate existing
governments and organize new govern
Mftcon, G.a., Wednesday, J u}\ 3, 1867.
meats to be composed of sucli men with
such views and for sucli purposes, these
abrogations and disfranchisements, and
new organizations, will continue until
such men do effectually control, and such
views and purposes do effectually prevail.
The whole purpose of the Military Bills is
to add these ten Btates to Radical party
power; nothing less than the complete
accomplishment of the purpose wifi Tie
accepted. And tliis purpose can never he
accomplished but by disfranchisement,
impoverishing, destroying and driving off
all the true, and noble, and manly and
country-loving of the Southern people;
and delivering over our bright and beautiful
land to the riotous rule and miscegenating
orgies of negroes, yankeea and base apos
tates from their own kindred, color, coun
try and blood. I would not fear the docile
negro, left to himself. He would soon
know liis true friends, in liis interest, and
he useful. But the Africanized white man
is an enemy to the peace and the interest
of both races and would he an admitted
monster in any age or country of barbari
ans*
I admit, then, that we are in danger of
confiscation. Those who outlaw patriot
ism and inteligence, would not scruple to
rob. The representatives who violate the
Constitution they are sworn to support, in
order to abrogate State government, and
reduce the people to military bondage,
could not add to their iniquities by taking
the little property we have left. Asa
people we have but little—scarcely enough
to prevent starvation. All the world
seems to be moving to send bread to keep
us alive. What a curious people we are!
fit objects of charity and fit subjects for
confiscation ! Tlie same train brings the
bread to feed, the officer to oppress, and
the emissary to breed strife and to rob!
Alas, we have been robbed—robbed in war,
and in peace, and by foes and by friends.
A few are rich. They prospered while
their victims were sacrificed—showed a
talent to make money while their dupes
showed a will to 10-e blood. These might
naturally dread confiscation, and, in view
of the sacrifices they made to get property,
it may he reasonable they should make
greater sacrifices to keep wliat they made,
for what is honor worth to such? But
even these should not altogether lose their
reason. May they not he nursing a power
that may consume them ? Thieves are not
always to lie trusted, even bytlieir friends
and co-laborers. It is safer to avoid a
danger than trust to controlling it.
When we abandon the safeguards of the
Constitution, and trust ouselves to the
magnanimity of its violators, we shall
embrace the surest means of procuring the
loss of all things. But I scorn to pursue
such a line ol argument.
A people who are willing to sacrifice
honor to avarice are beyond the possiblility
of redemption. If the very statement of
the proposition does not awaken a feeling
of abhorrence we are indeed in a sad con
dition. If anything can he baser than
degradation,it is such a motive.for sinking
to it. Lost property may be recovered ;
burned cities may be rebuilt; devastated
fields will bloom again ; even buried chil
dren, fallen for their country, will live
again in the quickened spirits of new gen
erations. But as with individuals so with
peoples and communities-the sense of hon
or once lost is lost forever. Yea, more ; the
history of human nature, singly ami in
communities, teaches, wiilioutexceptionof
example, that when self-respect is ouce
lost, self-abasement once accepted, cities,
lands, liberty, country cannot be re
tained.
It is natural, too, that all others should
lose respect for those who lose respect for
themselves. If we accept the humiliation
proposed for us, all mankind will; be
ashamed of us, our children will be
ashamed of us, and our very enemies,
whose hatred prompted the shame, will
mock and deride us. Even now I believe
the impression which a few have been in
dustrious to produce, that our people are
willing to reconstruct under these acts, has
damaged us more in tlie estimation of all
honorable minds than anything else that
lias happened. I do not know Gen. Pope,
but if, as I assume, he possesses the ordi
nary instincts of honor belonging to an
American gentleman, he must have felt
an almost nauseating pity for the poor
men who gathered about him in Atlanta,
and, forgetting the history of their fathers
and the character of our institutions, wel
comed, with feasting ami rejoicing, tlie
inauguration of military despotism over
one of the Old Thirteen, whose sons were
in the first revolution, and who holds in
her bosom the ashes of Pulaski! A brave
man loves courage in others, and despises
sycophancy, especially that sycophancy
which makes sacrifices to power to secure
safety, perhaps patronage for itself. He
roism in defeat, patience ill suffering, the
preservation of honor iu the midst of mis
fortune, arc the sublime virtues which
everything on earth admires, and every
thing in heaven rewards, and which
never fail to lift a people posssssing them,
however temporarily unfortunate, to final
prosperity and renown. And a people
however great, who propose dishonor to
tlie helpless, who would take advantage of
misfortune to force oppression on the
unresisting, will surely sink by the weight
of their own infamy to mire, and every
thing on earth and ill heaven will rejoice
at tlie fall.
I admit I have often overrated the intel
ligence, and virtue, and endurance of our
people. Everything they have done, from
the suicidal repeal of tlie Missouri Com
promise to the criminal and factious de
moralization which compelled our surren
der, has been contrary to my wisnes, and
against my protest. But I do not believe
they are so lost to every instinct of man
hood as to accept the plan of State
destruction proposed by the fanatical rep
sentatives of other States, as contained in
these Military Bills. Many at first were
taken by surprise, and were tempted witli
a desperate thoughtlessness to yield.
But they will reject the hateful tiling
they had almost embraced.
Letter from Gen. Srliotirld to Governor
Itro « n low.
Headqrts. First Mil. District, \
Richmond, Va., June s, 18(57. j
To His Excellency, IP. G. Brownlow, Gov.,
of Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee :
Sir: I have received a communication
from a number of citizens of Lee County,
Va., complaining of the action of bodies of
men in Tennessee, Avho have entered the
State of Virginia and forcibly seized of this
State and carried them into Tennessee and
imprisoned them for alleged offences com
mitted during the late war. Among others
are especially mentioned the names of E.
E. Anderson, of Scott county, and M.
t, ot*TCounty, \ a.
I respectfully request that steps may be
taken topreA-ent the lawless acts complain
ed of, and to restore to liberty persons who
have been unlawfully arrested in ' irgiuia
and carried into Tenno&->ce.
I have received from you requisitions
for the rendition of several persons accused
of committing crimes in Tennessee during
the war. Some of the parties claim that
the acts of Avhich they are accused were
lawful acts of war, committed under re
cognized military authority, and that the
necessary witnesses for the defence are
men who were engaged in the same, or
similar acts, and who would consequentlv
be liable to arrest and imprisonment if
tney were to go into Tennessee as wit
nesses. . , .
I have directed an investigation to be
made in each of the cases referred to, an d
will act in accordance with the tacts which
may be developed.
In cases where men are indicted for
crimes committed since the 'y a L A
cause their arrest a> and rendition to the
civil authorities of Tennessee upon your
requisition. But, when the acts charged
were proper acts of Avar, done under recog
nized military authority, it would not be
proper for me to send a citizen of V lrgima
to Tennessee for trial.
I hope the \ iews 1 haA*e expressed ayul
coincide with those entertained by your
self, and also by Gen. Thomas, to aa horn I
have addressed a letter similar iu purport
to this, and that we may be able to so co
operate as to secure justice and prevent
the repetition of acts which tend to violence
and disorder. ~
I am, Sir, very respectfully, your obeui
ent servant, ,
J. M. Schofield,
Brevet Major-General U. S. A., Com
manding District No. 1.
Forney’s Press thinks “it would not be
possible to expend money more judicious
ly” than by sending electioneering agents
among the freedmeu. Very likely.
A Black Bock.
H niton Rowan Helper, who wrote the
famous “Impending Crisis,” which made
such a terrific stir a few years ago, is out
with another volume, called “Nojoque; A
Qurtjtion for a Cont inent,” and which fe
putt shetl hy Geo. Y r . Carleion A Cos. Let
us name tlie purjibae of this volume h>
quoting the first half a dozen lines of the
preface, wherein Mr. Helper says : “Were
1 to state here, frankly and categorically,
that the primary object of this work is to
write the negro out of America, and that
the secondary object is to write him and
manifold millions of other black and bi
colored caitiffs, little better than himself,'
out of existence, God’s simple truth would
be told.”
This is the key to the whole volume,
which is a bitter, passionate, verbose,
crazed diatribe against black men, with a
plea for their “fossilization,” and an argu
ment against employing blacks, feeding
them, educating them, or having them
around in any way. Mr. Helper did great
service against slavery a few years ago,
and lie now explains liis present position
as follows:
There is, it is believed, a peculiar fitness
in the fact that this exjtosure of the utter
unworthiness and worthlessness of the
negroes, should be made by one who had
previously made a thorough exposition of
the political follies and corruptions of the
negro owners themselves.
Evidences should no longer he wanting
that good iill-il, tie- v.n-v best jr.en in all the
world—the real salt of the earth —m« -be
hearty haters of slavery, and, at the same
time, unconditional de testers of darkeys.
To live iu juxtaposition witli tlie negro,
or to tolerate Ins presence even in the
vicinity of white men, is, to say the least,
a most shameful and disgraceful proceed
ing—a proceeding which, if persisted in,
will, sooner or later, bring down upon all
those who are gqilty of it, the overwhelm
ing vengeance ot Heaven.
This book is very lively reading, and is
hardly less disgusting than lively. We
make a few extracts Avhicli stamp the
volume as mischieveous, prejudiced and
inhuman:
Strikingly apparent is it that the negro
is a fellow of many natural defects and
deformities. Not only is lie cursed with a
black complexion, and apish aspect, and a
woolly head ; he is also rendered odious by
an intolerable stench, a thick skull and a
booby brain. Au accurate description of
him calls into requisition a larger number of
uncomplimentary terms Ilian are necessary
to be used in describing any other creature
out of topliet; and it is truly astonishing
how many of the terms so peculiarly ap
propriate to him are compound words of
obloquy and detraction.
The catalogue of epithets which follows
this quotation shows that Mr. Helper is a
master both of compound and simple
words of obloquy. We give a few more ex
tracts :
If * * “we hate them with perfect
hatred,” as they deserve to be hated, and
as we are required and expected to hate
them, Ave shall thereby render highly
acceptable and pleasing service to the
Deity; and, continuingtoplea.se him, will
secure for ourselves unlimited and everlast
ing felicity in Heaven.
We must consider attentively all their
mean and loathsome characteristics, and
from tlie sum total of them, we shall, it
clear and unbiased in our judgments,
quickly perceive that, like hyenas, Jack
als, wolves, skunks, rats, snakes, scor
pions, spiders, centipedes, locusts, chinch
es, ileas, lice, and other noxious creatures,
the negroes are not upon the earth to he
loved and preserved, hut, under the un -
obstructed andisalutary operations of the
laws of Nature, to be permitted to decay
and die, and then to disappear, at ouce
and forever, down, down, deep, down, in
the vortex of oblivion !
On the premises of no respectable white
person; in tlie mansion of no honorable
private citizen ; in no lawfully convened
public assembly ; in no rationally moral
or religious society ; in no decently kept
hotel; in no restaurant worthy of the pat
ronage of white people; in no reputably
established store nor shop—in no place
whatever, where any occupant or visitor is
of Caucasian blood—should the loathsome
presence of any negro or negress ever be
tolerated.
This is the loathsome and most execra
ble wretch (rank-smelling and hideous atvh
criminal that he is) who has been men
tioned as otie fit to have a voice in th -
enactment of laws for the government of
the American people !
Not only do we mean to 1 1 ire, and have
about us, white persons only, but witli
due regard to public decency and general
morality, we mean that all our Avliito
neighbors and countrymen shall do like
wise.
High time isitthat the deceitfulnessand
trickery of this color cry of the two-thirds
majority of the Black Congress, and of
oilier Black Republicans, should he mi
incasuredlyexposed, denounced and rep
robated. No longer must the clamorous
and canting clowns of the Black Congress,
nor their coarse-mouthed co-adjutors he
permitted to cover or screen their deep
dyed complicity with the crimes of an ac
cursed race, l»v the jagon-like or frog-like
cry of Color! Color! Color!
Tn tlie craze aad jumble of this book the
author gets things fearfully mixed up. On
page 253 he cries “down with the pig
headed President,” and on page 27(! he
speaks of the President as an “able and
incorruptible statesman.”
We think our readers can hear a little of
this book, even at tills hot season. It is
a monument of folly and sophism, a budg
et of the most reckless assertions, and the
pathos and buncombe of the book are fitly
expressed in the following sentence,which
closes a chapter with a “ whew :”
Depart, therefore, ye wicked and aban
doned blacks, into tlie regions of da* l ' ness
and deep despair and oblivion prepared
for you, and for all akin to j' uu i Horn tlie
foundation of the world - an “ ]et tlj e ra “
diant and gem-like ga K - s os gloiy, adixed
to pillars of gold, b‘ °P wide for flic
reception of the righteous and Heaven
blessed whiter who, while ineffably happy
amid iliaiwrui fenced fields ot superb
fruite an* flowers, shall, with constantly
increases j°y> bask forever in floods of
richlj perfumed and silvery sparkling
lip-h 11
The Liberty Granted to Confeder
ates. —Admiral Semmes, editor of the
Mem plus Bulletin, makes the following
excellent reply to Thurlow Weed, who
said, iu :he New York Commercial Adver
tiser, tint he (Semmes j had made poor
use of tie liberty accorded to him by the
Government. The Admiral says :
“As fir Mr. Weed’s remark, that we are
making\*ery poor use of the liberty which
lias beet granted us, etc., we have only to
observethat we are under no obligation to
the Unled States for any liberty granted
us. Tlb ‘liberty’ which we received at
the surender of Gen. Joe Johnston, in
whose army we held a command, was a
quid po quo. It Avas given to us for a
consideration, and that consideration was
that ac would lay down our arms that avc
still Ud in our bands. Our liberty was
the remit of a treaty made with the enemy
ou thi field of battle, and even savages
observ* such treaties. But the Lnited
States, with a want of faith of which a
sav T ag£ should be ashamed, violated its
plightkl word of honor to us, and arrested
and htld us in confinement for three
month! Luring our confinement, we
demaiied our release of the President,
under »arole, and it was accorded to u-.
We ae exercising the ‘liberty’ which be
longs t> us, because we purchased it, and
not b; tolerance and as a favor, as Mr.
Wee<ivould insinuate.”
Maj-r Richard Orme, of Brunswick,
Georsi, has gone to the Bay Islands, to
openlie way for a colony of Georgians and
Floridans. As soon as lands can be pur
chase! and arragements made for the re
eeptim of tlie colonists, a hundred families
will Allow him.
t'ractlcal If.altli Sn;aeslion» I’ertiaeal
to tlie SoaMa.
We commend to the careful considera
tion of our readers the following sugges
tions from one of our most skilful and
.exjierleneed physicians :
Experience has taught theolder residents
of our city the importance of taking great
a- a re of their lieultli, especially during the
summer and autumn month'?. The sud
den change from cool day- to sultry ones
will cause much sickness if proper care is
not taken in regard to clothing, work,
drink, food, rest, etc.
“Dress according to the weather” is a
good rule, hut it is often ditficult to premise
just what the weather is to be. A fine
morning is often followed by a cool eve
ning, and vici versa. Persons who lea\*e
home early, in the cool of the morning,
are apt to retain their thick clothing or
winter wrappers. Some of our foreign
population are accustomed to wear the
same clothing the Avhole year, and follow
tiie same rule here, until sickness teaches
them otherwise.
Asa rule, there is no danger at this
season of the year of dressing too lightly,
provided a person is active, and is not ex
posed to currents of air. But remember to
keep the vital organs well protected, as
lungs, Ac. Keep the brain cool. The
covering for the head should be lignt and
airy. Many cases of sun-stroke, apoplexy,
congestion of tiie brain, «vc., are caused by
wearing a thick, noii-ventilated hat or cap.
A broad-brimmed palm-lea ' is well adapted
for summer wear, although they are
just the style. Ail umbrella would be a
good sunshade if 'popular.
Let the dress:be light in color and tex
ture.
Avoid working in the hot sun as much
• Lie. Errands,-hopping, Ao,.should
be done in th*' morning or iu tiie »-V < "big.
K m plovers si iou hi not ex nose- their help
unduly about mid-day. If obliged to he in
the sun much, avoid all cool places, cur
rents of air, Ac. The system can he school
ed to endure a great amount of heat, even
above the boiling {Kiint —212deg. Far.
Exposure to sudden changes ot temper
ature is dangerous whether it be from a cool
saloon to the sultry street, or from the arctic
to tho torrid regions. The fluids of the
body must change in quantity and quality
to meet these changes of temperature. Do
but little brain work w hen in the sun. Go
about work cheerfully; fretting keeps the
brain too active —too much blood iu it for
a hot day.
While hard at work avoid drinking.—
We drink too much for continual health,
although perhaps not enough to suit tlio.se
avlio deal exclusively in fluid drinks. Take
fluids only Avhen they are needed. The
system does not require a large amount.
All superfluous fluids arehurriedoutof the
body by every available avenue. Tlie dry,
parched feeling in the throat is due to
the hot air and dust inhaled, and is not
true thirst. It is not a demand from the
whole system for fluids, but a call for ad
ditional’ moisture to this mucous mem
brane. Soldiers found this kind of thirst
best relieved by chewing a small piece of
“hardtack.” A small piece of ice held in
the mouth will relieve it speedily.
Great care should be exercised in regard
to food. Food easy of digestion, plain and
nutritious, should be selected. Vegetables
and fruits, if fresh and ripe, may be eaten.
Do not eat too heartily of any kind of food.
The system is not able to take care of sucli
hearty food as it could during tiie cooler
months. Inspect your own meat; it is
better to eat none than some that is in the
market. Avoid late suppers. Give the
digestive organs longer time than usual to
do their work before resuming toil. Re
member, tiie system Is a liviug, working
machine ; if you abuse it, you do it at your
own peril.
It is an uucliaugable law of our bodies
that waste must tie followed by repair.
Cell by cell, tissue by tissue, and organ by
organ, it is being worn out and repaired.
This goes on at all times. Some portions
of tlie system, however, tire only repairing
(luring sleep. Rest when weary, if possi
ble.
Get all tlie sleep necessary, l>ut not too
much. Do not rest in a draft, but fresh
air is absolutely essential. A person may
tro tor months with little sleep, but finally
the system can stand it no longer, and
diseases ensues.
Give attention to the surface of the body.
Take baths ‘often. Inattention in this
regard caused much sickness last season,
especially among our foreign population.
Cheeked perspiration causes diarrhoea; a
filthy skin may cause the same thing. Ts
our citizens would puss through this sea
son without sickness, they must “look out
for No. 1.” Ifslightly unwell, attend to it
at once, for now is no time to dally with
sickness. Disease usually goes where it
is urgently invited.
[ Nashville Bunncr.
IVoi’S Items.
It is stated that reconstruction in Vir
ginia alone will cost, half a million dollars.
Tiie commerce of Galveston, Texas, it, is
estimated, tvill reach $80,000,000 this year.
One hundred thousand cotton splindles
are motionless in Rhode Island.
General Ord advises freedmeu to stick
to their work and let public meetings
alone.
The .Salisbury, (N. C.) Banner says that
tlie county of Forsyth sold enough dried
blackberries last year to pay it- taxes.
The Pacific Railroad is now in operation
six hundred and sixty miles west from St.
Louis.
While attempting to shoot at a target,
a party on Btaten Inl.tmi killoil a lady who
was promenading. Tlie company kindly
ofl’erd to defray the funeral expenses.
When tlie Piesident vetoed the Recon
struction hill the Radicals said lie grossly
perverted its meaning; now they insist
tiiat its character was accurately described
in the veto.
The ('umberland Presbyterian General
Assembly (Southern) decided at its last
meeting m Kentucky, that it was the
duty of th» Church to “ leave all civi 1
and political questions to Oosar, to whom
[,v End’s ordinance they belong.”
Oil was struck Saturday a Aveek ago,
seven miles from White Bluff’, in Dickson
county, Tenn., near the line of the N. A
N. W. Railroad, and was running at last
accounts, at tlie rate of twelve barrels per
day.
Garrett Smith, an honest. Abolitionist,
says: “1 have ever held that a sufficient
reason why we should not punish the con
quered South, is that the North was quite
as responsible as the South for the chief
cause of the war.”
The Boston Journal says: l£ More than a
hundred thousand cotton spindles con
trolled in Providence and A’iciaity have
been stopped within tiie last, ten days, and
the probability is that the number will be
considerably increased tliis week.”
The Raleigh Sentinel says there is a
rumor, supposed to be well founded, that
the Radicals of North Carolina have de
termined to use efforts to induce tlie
colored people to register, and vote against
a convention. The argument to be used is
that this is the best means of bringing
about confiscation.
The Thomasville Enterprise, reporting
an interview with officers of the Atlantic
A Gulf Railroad, says that “it is confi
dently expected that the road will be in
operation to Bainbridge iu October next.”
if so, we presume tiiat a steamboat line
from Columbus to Bainbridge Avould do a
paying business next winter.
It is shown that in the fi\*e years pre
ceding the American war the average
yearly value of cotton imported into Eng
land was £53,862,776. Iu the live succeed
ing years t-lie average rose to £25,884,(>16.
The quantity imported during the year
1860, the year just closed, is tiie largest
known, amounting to 1,847,770 bales,
Avorth upwards of £33,000,000.
One of our interior exchanges opens a
leader with tlie remark that in emigration
is the only hope of the South. Yes, if the
loafers and Radicals would emigrate; hut
on general principle we would prefer to
say that immigration would help it more
if industrious men could be got as immi
grants.
Iu a trial of speed at a race in Benning
ton, between a famous walker and a Ja-st
horse of that place, in which the man was
to walk a quarter of a mile in less time
than the horse trotted one-half a mile, the
first heat was won by the horse, but the
man took the next two with ease in 1.23
and 1.23.
Vol. ><». 17
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
IBy the Now VorK Associated I\csh.|
llrutN.
\V asiiinuton, June ill.—'l’lie Loui-ana
Levee question is atilai-ting Aeut alien*
tion, ami ii, is contiieatly stan*d Unit a
si>«eial committee will be appointed by the
next Congress to investigate all matters
oonneeted therewith, inclining tile means
used to secure the passage, at Le i session,
ot the bill whereby Government enuoised
the Levee bonds.
1 he Court of Claims rendered judgment
against the Tinted States in iourteen
cotton claims, involving SHd.i'oo, under
the law of restitu.ion, to loyal owners.—
Twelve eases are held under advisement.
It is stated that Senator Sherman, in a
reeent dis|»atch, said he would attend a
ealled session if business required i! ; lie
sees nothing as yet to warrant an extra
session.
Difficulty is apprehended in getting two
thirds in attendance. Among 'hose who
can not or will not attend are California,
2 ; Connecticut, 1; Delaware, 2; Ken
tucky. 2; Maine, i; Maryland, 2: Neva
da, 1 ; Ohio, 1 ; Oregon, 2; Pennsylvania,
1 ; Rhode Island, 1 : Tennessee, i : West
ern Virginia, 1 ; Wisconsin, 1 ; Vermont,
1. Morton, of Indiana, will probably be
unable to attend. The >■ ■•stimates show
three votes short of the two third- neces
sary- to defeat a veto.
i ‘ ••reals!t*ut.
WXSJIIXi. roNj.ltrWcJ j. -The Pie. id iu'-
spoech at Boston was confined to an ex
prcssiou of thanks to the people for cour
tesies to him as a citizen and chief magis
trate.
Three cheers for Congress were called
for, front the outskirts of the crowd, but
the cheers were not given.
During Mr. Howard’s speech, three
cheers for North Carolina were proposed.
Mr. Howard said: “You may well give
three cheers for North Carolina. She was
the first of the eleven who seceded to come
back again to the family fireside oi the
Union, and to-day nothing is wanting for
her to resume her ancient, honorable and
most patriotic position in the family of the
republic, but the consent of the people of
Massachusetts. 1 know that all that is
coming about—is coming about veiy soon.
I have seen the earth and the skies full of
the elements of fertility, of health, and of
vigor; and 1 saw in North Carolina the
cotton springing up, which is to supply,
next year, the mills of Massachusetts; 1
have seen in New York the wheat glow
ing that is to supply the West Indies and
the Southern States; and l know that
nature designs that this whole continent
—not merely these thirty-six States, but
this whole continent—should he, sooner or
later, within the magic circle of the
American Union.”
Boston, June 25. —President Johnson
was conducted to the eupitol, to-day, and
formally received by the Governor.
Slieriditn.
New Orleans, June - —The ‘Times,’
this morning, in an article commenting
severely on Sheridan’s telegram to Gen.
Grant, slays “it contains gross inaccura
cies of fact, errors in law and logic,” and
“if the conduct and language of this re
markable document he sanctioned by any
considerable portion of the American peo
ple, the Constitution had better he con
signed at once to the Haines, and the re
public delivered over to Dinarchy and
chaos.”
Mexico.
New Orleans,o une2s.~-Adispatch from
Galveston says that an Austrian pa.- ed
through that city to-day, en route North -
representing himself as an officer of Max
imilian, who stated that the Emperor had
been pardoned on condition of his leaving
the country as soon as the ports of Tam
pico and Vera Cruz were open for his de
parture.
Duel.
< irArl kstom , June 21. —The trial of
Hoag, tlie surviving principal, and both of
the seconds in the recent duel, for murder,
was begun to-day, and excites intense in
terest. An array of eminent counsel have
been engaged. It is exported the case will
be given to the jury to-morrow.
Ocner:tl \i I .u s.
New York, June 25.—Gen. Cole lias
been committed for trig!, for murder in
the first degree. (Shooting Hon. li. 11.
Jfiscox, the alleged seducer of his wife.)
Mr. Lord, of the Bond-robbery notoriety,
has revelved one million and two hundred
thousand dollars from an unknown source,
leaving Mr. Lord short SI*O,OOU.
A lunatic mother, at Blackwell’s Island,
caressing her child, two weeks old, smot li
ered it.
A little girl, six weeks old, in Leonard
street, was found dead in bed with its
drunken mother.
in consequence of (lie appearance of
yellow fever at New Orleans, arrivals from
that port will he boarded in the lower hay;
and all steamers bringing emigrant pas
sengers are required to land at quarantine.
'fi'lic Cro|»H.
There is a good deal in the papers in re
gard to the crops of 1807, hut. the accounts
[ all agree in the most important feature—
that the prospect of an abundant yield was
never more promising. The New York
Journal of Commerce lias some interesting
statistics on the subject. Os hay the crop
of 1860 was put down in the census at a
little over nineteen million tons; that of
1866, by the Agricultural Bureau, at 21,-
678,626 tons ; valued at 8217,461,837 ; hut
tlie yield of 1367 is iike:y to be over thirty
million tons, a gain whose importance
can hardly be overestimated. The wheat
crop of the United States for 1865 is given
by the Bureau at 151,0.<8,00. bushels,
valued at $333,779,0-16. The yield this
season is still subject to more contingen
cies than the hay crop—hut the testimony
from all sections is more universally cheer
ing aud favorable to the largest estimates
than ever before in our experience. The
same is true of the corn crop. The yield
of Indian corn for the last year was given
at 87,946,295 bushels, valued at 8001,005,-
205. For this year the promise now
exceeds twelve hundred million bushels.
Other grains, and the most of the fruits,
are equally promising. The effect of such
a supply upon the finances of the country
will be almost magical, unless counter
balanced by tho giossest mismanagement
of national atikirs.
Middle Tennessee, —The Lincoln
county Sown says that the wheat crop of
that county will reach2so,ooo bushels, in
1800, it was 180,00.
The Columbia Herald states that large
quantities of wheat can he purchased in
that county at one dollar and fifty cents
per bushel.
The Lebanon Herald says the wheat
crop in Wilson county is turning out well,
and the farmers e xpeetto realize from one
dollar to one dollu r and a half ]>er bushel.
Yellow Fever .—lt is stated that there
have been twelve deaths from yellow fever
on hoard a steamer at Hilton Head. The
B teamer was from J lavaua.
journal &
IPK,IISTTI IxT Or
OF every description,
EXECUTED Mini SKILL AND DISPATCH,
ON REASONABLE TERMS.
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[Lynchburg News of Tuesday.
A Shooting allair occurred about 11
o’clock yesterday morning, near the inter
section of Church and Market, streets, be
tween Messrs. Robert 11. and David E.
Hooker, Jr., on the one side, and Mr. R.
11. Glass, senior editor of the Kt<pubUcmi,
on the otli other, which resulted in the
very serious injury of the latter gentleman.
The at I air grew out of a publication in the
/.I jniJi/ican of Sunday, comment iiigoii the
Hiite< edents of several of the signers to the
cal! fora Radical convention in Richmond.
Amongst those whose names an*appended
to the call is Mr. David JE. Booker, Sr., an
officer in the internal revenue service, of
whom ihe L‘cj>uftliran thus spoke:
“Mr. David E. Booker was a ranting war
man during the war, and boasted how
much he did for the cause, and how much
tobacco lie sent tothegaUaiitConfislcrates.
He has now taken the iron-clad as the
recipient of a fat Federal office, and lives
on lamb and peas every day. Bully foroiir
ancient Democratic friend Hooker. ”
This is understood to have been the ex
citing cause of the difficulty, Messrs. U<>.
11. and David E. Booker, Jr., being sons
of Mr. D. E Hooker, Hr., above alluded to.
The details of the affair, as nearly as M e
have been enabled to gather them from
eye-witnesses, areas follows : The Messrs.
1 Hooker ivere seated in the door of the
Second Presbyterian Church, which is
elevated several feet above the level of the
street. As Mr. Glass came up Church
street he passed within a few feet of them,
.when they arose and came down the steps,
and tobl Mr. Glass to defend himself, or
words to that effect. Mr. G. replied that,
lie did not want to have a difficulty with
them, and told them to go oll’and let him
alone, at the same time drawing a pistol
and holding the muz de down his arm ex
temle i l»j his side. Ile continued to walk
across Market street to the corner, sit the
Masonic I lall, When he turned at right
angles, and proceeded towards his office.
When lie had passed down to a point nearly
opposite the entrance of the billiard saloon ,
kept in the basement story of the Masonic
1 lull, oncof the brothers, standing behind
a stone post erected at the corner by tin*
church, tired at him, and, as is generally
reported, squatted behind the stone pillar.
Mr. Glass returned the tire, and several
shots followed in quick succession, until
Mr. Glass fell, shot through the left eye.
From an examination of the pistols, as
well as from marks of the balls, it appears
that Mr. David E. Hooker, Jr., tired three
shots, Mr. It. li. Hooker two, and Mr.
Glass one. A cap on Mr. Class’ pistol
failed to explode. One id t lie balls tired by
the Messrs. Booker entered the window of
the Philharmonic Hall, one struck the
sash of the window of the billiard saloon,
and two the wall of the same building,
whilst one penetrated the left eye of Mr.
Glass, and is believed to he imbedded in
the left temple, though the surgeons were
not satisfied of its locality, nor had they
made any ell'ort to extract the hall. Mr.
Glass was assisted to his office, and several
physicians speedily appeared to minister
to his necessities. We are glad to learn
that, though very seriously wounded,
strong hopes are entertained of his recov
ery, though his eye is irretrievably de
stroyed. His condition last evening was
represented as comfortable. The Messrs.
Booker were immediately arrested and
committed to jail to await the result of
Mr. Glass’injuries. They will be exam
ined on Monday next.
We do not propose, in view of the pend
ing legal investigation, to commeuton the
features of this cas/G. We think few of
our readers, however, will recognize in the
extract above sufficient provocation to
justify such an assault. The article in
question is clearly legitimate in its char
acter, as no personal assault is made on
any one, and only the public declarations
and acts of the party are made the subject
of comment. That a public journal ist has
the ri(/hl to comment on the public char
acter and antecedents of any one who ap
pends his name to a political document is
an assertion of which few persons will
question the correctness. Mr. Hooker
having signed the call for a convention to
perfect the organization of a political par
ty, thereby invti/<l the an i mad versions of
others,and so longas ids private charac
ter was not assailed, neither he nor his
friends had any just cause of complaint.
But w«* forbear further comment, and
leave tiie matter for investigation t>y the
civil authorities, or the military commis
sion which may undertake its adjudica
tion.
Gkokuia. —'There is said to be a good
deal of feeling, and that not of a very
amiable character, among the several
Radical aspirants for gubernatorial honors
in this State. The Atlanta man is re j Kir ted
to be growing particularly nervous about
the questionable honor of bearing that
banner through the coming contest. We
suspect somebody will be disappointed in
this matter, and much mortification ensue,
[A tla.ntu Ititel/if/t art r.
The Augusta man don't feel nervous at
all. If he gets his walking papers as May
or, he has his loyal papers as Postmaster.
John Van Buren’s illustration of two ex
tremes will be matched, if the Augusta
man win the race. From Oglethorpe to —
Blodgett. Whew!!!
L A ur/uxta. Constiiut iottalixl.
11ELLFKii. —Mi l). W. Moore, of Alle
ghany county, Pennsylvania, in a speech
made in the Democratic Convention of
that State last week, said: “If hell were
deprived of Satan, and Stevens took his
place, it would gain in malignity what it
had lost in ability.”
Dit. Butler. —The Providence I’rtxs
proposes that Ben. Butler should Is* sent
down as Provisional Governor of Louisi
ana. An exchange says the I’rtxx forgets
that new emergencies ('all for new men.
Civil others are now to he removed—not
plate and the like.
Persons Entjtlf.ii to Register.—Ac
cording to the Attorney General’s con
struction of the Military Act, which has
authority by the endorsement of the Presi
dent, every male citizen, native-born or
naturalized, who will he twenty-one years
of age on the day of election; no matter
how mucli aid or comfort he gave to the
Confederate States, either by force of arms,
siibcription to loans, or in any other way,
has the right to register and vote: Unless
he held, Inf on the tear eomiiuncrtf a mili
tary or civil ollice under the I Inited States
i Jovernment, or was Governor of a State,
Member of Congress, Member of the leg
islature, United States Senator, Judge of a
Court, or holder of a county office which
required au oath to support the United
States Constitution, or has been convicted
of felony. *
Such exceptional cases disqualify. All
other persons have the right to register
and vote. [ A ayuata Conutilutionalint.
The Late Duel Near Charleston.—
The coroner’s inquest on the body of Mr.
Edward lioe, who was killed in the duel
(ff Wednesday lust, was begun yesterday,
says the Courier, of Saturday,by a i>oxt mar
tem examination in the morning on the
body of the deceased, at the Roper Hospi
tal, and continued in the evening, at the
coroner’s office, by the examination of the
witnesses to the transaction. The testimo
ny of several was taken, and the further
consideration of the case post|>oned until
ten o’clock this morning. Mr. Boag has,
in the meanwhile, after an unsuccessful
petition for bail, has been committed to jail
to await the result of the examination. —
The two seconds in the affair have also
been committed.
.S'. The principal and seconds have
since been presented by the Grand Jury
for “murder.”
Samuel B. Wiggins died in St. I.ouis,
recently, from a cancer in his nose, caused
by pressure of his spectacles. The World
wickedly remarks that it will lie remem
bered that some years ago the colored
spectacles of the Tribune similarly brought
about bleeding Kansas.
The Gazette d< i'ranet announces that
the medical attendants after having had a
consultation on the state of the Empress
Carlotta, have declared that she will
never recover her reason. It is also the
opinion ofthe physicians that her nervous
system has received a shock which must
soon result in her death.
It seems settled that Congress must
assemble next month. The Uniou is again
in danger, and the Radical journals, from
Dan to Borsheba, are tooting their horns