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NOTES ON THE SITUATION.
BY 15. if. lIILL,
NO. XIV.
Rut if this generation shall do its full
duty wo must do more than simply rescue,
the country from impending evils. The
causes which produced those evils must be
understood and corrected. The people
must see how and what means and for
what purpose they have been so sorely af
flicted. If tiiis be not done, theu though
we may arrest the revolution for a time
and defeat the treasonable iniquity of these
Military Bills, yet in some other form
these same evils will come again. This is
the people’s government. All the evils
which have befallen us have been accom
plished through the people, and the final,
tiie complete, the permanent remedy must
come from the people. He will be entitled
to be called the father of bis country, far
above Washington, who shall be able to
lay bare to popular comprehension the
agencies by which the people of America
have been to cut each others’ throats, de
stroy their common prosperity and blight
the hopes of their own children. My pen
is not sufficient for the task, and these
notes are already too extended to under
take it now. But I shall allude to these
agencies here, and in the future may re
turn to the subject.
These agencies seem to be many, but
there are really two, and from these all the
others spring.
1. Beinagogueism, or thirst for office,
including all the appliances for gratifying
it.
2. Fanaticism, or the bigotry of extreme
opinions, which lias existed in all sections
and lias been developed on various—even
antagonistic-—subjects. Ignorance, cre
dulity and want of virtue among the peo
ple have been the food for both agencies.—
One of the most learned and profound
judges of men and governments says : “In
the birth of nations, the chief men make
the institutions, but in the sequel the in
stitutions makethechiefmen.’ Thissingle
sentence embraces all the philosophy of
the rise and fall of free institutions in the
United States.
Tiie chief men of that day made the
Constitutions—State and Federal. They
were patriots, and were made great and
prominent by leading their country to
independence. Os course as long as these
men lasted they were tiie chosen adminis
trators of the institutions they had formed.
They could have no other desire or higher
ambition than to make those institutions
promote the good of tiie people. And,
therefore, no result could follow but that
which did follow : The American people
rushed to prosp rity with a rapidity and
to an extent which was and must remain
the marvel of human experience. But
these fathers of tjie republic passed away,
and so next did the generation which was
born in their day and taught by their im
mediate examples and influences. After
this new rulers had to be chosen, and the
necessity of choosing was frequent, ac
cording to our institutions. Every man
was equally entitled to be chosen. The
people were the choosers, and to please the
people was the way to he chosen. Aspi
rants soon discovered that tiie majority of
the people were more easily pleased by
tiattery than by reason, by promises than
by admonitions. All men had passions
and prejudices, but all men did not have
enlightened consciences or informed judg
ments. Therefore passion and prejudice
formed the more inviting, because the
more available held for those who sought
office. Then means were adopted to com
bine and make effective the efforts of these
office-seekers. Parties were formed and
caucuses invented. Subjects were pro
posed and issues presented which could
excite the most passion and operate upon
the largest amount Platforms
were built, not to expound tiie Constitu
tion but to please the greatest number. As
sectional prejudices were most powerful,
so subjects and issues that were most sec
tional were preferred. It was in this way
that slavery was brought into politics, and
it is, and always lias been, my firm con vic
ti<w that Southern proslavery political
agitators were more efficient in the des
truction of slavery than the Northern
I'imitics. The agitation was settled anil
unsettled, and again settled and again un
settled, juntas often as manipulating party
leaders thought the question of settling or
unsettling could lie made available as a
party issue in a Presidential contest.
By this process honest men, who acted
from convictions founded on principle,
were gradually excluded from the public
councils, and the public offices, State and
Federal, were filled with mere party man
agers, prejudiee-engendorors and passion
patiderers. YVe have many men who are
notorious, but not one in five who deserves
to* e known. Such men were never relia
ble. They could be bought to any party
with the chance of an office. This is why
most of our public men haVebelongcdtoail
parties, have been bitter aspirants in all,
and have made {earnest harangueson all
sides of almost all important questions.—
They went with tiie current because they
desired to ride on tiie current..*, They
could not afford to cleave to principles in
minorities. These men brought the
country to revolution, have kept it in
revolution, and are unable to get it out of
re volution.
But the other agency of destruction
extreme opinions, all of which various
kinds I include itl the generic term fanat
icism—has been, from the beginning, ,
enmity to the Constitution. Mutual con
cession for tiie common good is the soul,
the very being, of the Constitution. It is
the breath which was breathed as life into
it. By concession alone was it formed,
and in that spirit alone can it ever lie
safely or peacefully administered. Bui
extreme minds never concede. They hate
concession and trample oil compromises.
Therefore ttiese extreme minds at the
North denounced the Constitution as “ a
covenant witii hell and a league with
the devil”; and extreme men at the
(South denounced the Union as the source
of all evils to the South.
These men were much more numerous
at the North than at tiie South, hut, left to
themselves, they would have remained
powerless in both sectious. But they
adroitly watched every opportunity to get
control of the great office seeking parties
of the country. And the managers ofthe
parties corruptly pandered to the respec
tive extreme opinions to get* tlieir help in
securing tiie offices. The repeal of the
Missouri Compromise furnished tiie long
desired occasion to segregate the sections,
Tiie extreme men of tiie South took charge
of the Democratic party to bring about
secession. The extreme men of the North
organized and took charge of the Republi
can party to destroy or bring about a
reformation of the Constitution ; and the
politicians— our so-called great men—were
perfectly willing to be taken charge of, if
there bytliey could be placed in the offices,
and did not care, on either side, one tig
whether slavery was extended or not ex
tended, destroyed or not destroyed, so they
could keep the offices! The majority of
the people of the South were made per
fectly crazy with the idea of their great
right to carry slaves to Kansas, and the
majority of the Northern people were
made equally crazy with, the alleged bad
faith of the aggressive spirit of slavery. —
The minority in each section who declared
t hat this whole agitation was a pandoi|i
‘"box” opened upon the country, leaving
scarcely hope believed, were laughed at as
visionary. So fanaticism bought up dem
.‘igogueism with the offices, anil the two
together rushed tiie country into civil war.
These are the chief men whom our insti
tutions have produced! And what are the
results? Instead of honor, prosperity and
iiHlepbiuleiiee, we have humiliation, pau
perism, and disfranchisement; instead of a
union of harmony and good-will and the
spn it of concession, we have a despotic
fragmentary conclave ruling with Cerberi
an hate. We have slain a million of
L.r r i aad doo “fed four millions of here
in »nWri P£>: i conten teil blacks to starva
oiui’, tnu a " d death; and to acoom
’ | Wt; have destroyed property
to have* to£hft? n,y u n,ore th * n t
« ,h^e African race in
Aiiienca th riH) times over at onen market
value! And are they phf
lanthroinsts ami patriots who are not
known by such works? No, no • thev are
the double-shaped monsters which the
demagogue and the fanatic have begot by
seduction ofthe people, aud by rape upon
the Constitution.
The art of deceiving the people so as to
get their votes, has been tbe chief means
by which nearly all the politicians who
liy Rose Ac Burr.
have become prominent during the last
twenty-five years, have been enabled to
succeed and get the names and places of
leading men. This man Butler, of Mas
•achusetts, became known throughout the
conn try before tiie war almost entirely
because ofliis success, with the aid of one
another, also from that lu building
platforms for his party, which could be
construed to suit every section, every
opinion, and every prejudice. Yet this
man was not one whit more unprincipled
in political morals, nor any farther below
the standard of a true statesman, than
were the many all through tiie laud who
availed themselves of his deceptive work
to get tiie offices. He is as guilty who
uses a fraud as lie who originates it. As
deceptions brought on the collisions be
tween the sections, it is not at all wonder
ful, that deceptions prevailed throughout
its progress andstillcontinue, Ills leaders
have professed to desire what they did not
intend should be accomplished. The peo
ple listened to the profession, and could
not be made to see or believe the intention.
Therefore the people of America have been
made to do, with energy and great sacrifice,
those very things which of all others they
most hate. They have been made to cut
their own throats under the belief it was
the only way to save their own lives; to
use force to preserve a union of consent;
to indulge feelings of hatred and distrust
as the only means of 'preserving harmony;
and now the proposition of these Military
Bills is to trample on the Constitution as
the only way to peace aud safety ; to dis
franchise and humiliate the white man as
tiie only way to enfranchise and elevate
the black man; to rush into anarchy as
the only way to find security for person
and for property; and to subvert the gov
ernment as the only means of preserving
it. The authors and defenders of these
Military Bills are wise like the daughters
ofPelias, who insisted that by cutting their
old father in pieces they could renew his
youth ; and our people will prove to be as
foolish as was the old man whoconsented,
when they consent to these destructive
Military Bills as the means of entering the
Union and of preserving written Constitu
tions.
Os all delusions of the revolution, the
greatest was that of supposing that either
party to the late conflict was fighting to
preserve tiie Union under the Constitution.
This delusiou was committed by many in
the North and not a few' in the South.
There has never really been a war to pre
serve the Union. The masses of the people
Northjthoughl so because tbeir leaders pro
fessed no. But the extreme men of tiie
North naturally took charge of the conduct
of the war and they never intended it
should cud without a reformation or de
struction of the Constitution. They had
long before declared the old Constitution
to be a covenant “with hell and a league
with the devil,” and, in the debate oil the
Civil Rights Bill, old man Stevens con
fessed that, from his gou/h, he had lunge,l
for the occurrence of some great convulsion
under the influence of which the Con.si it at inn
could be changed. Is he, therefore,
laboring to preserve that Constitution
which lie has longed lrom his youth to
change—change violently , under thein
fluence of a convulsion The pretence to
the people during the war was to preserve
the Union because the people loved the
Union ; the purpose of the pretenders was
to destroy tiie Constitution because they
baled the Constitution. The result is the
preservation of a territorial Union, but the
utter destruction of a Constitutional Union.
Consent was the beauty of the old Union ;
force is the power of the new. The proof
that the Radical leaders were not sincere
when they professed to wage the w'ar to
preserve t.iie Union, is the fact that when
t he war has ended tlu-y will not admit the
Union is preserved. Some of them pro
claim that the war ended too soon! Why
ended too soon? Because they are afraid
the excitement of tiie convulsion will end
before, under its influence, they can com
plete the long desired work of destroying
or reforming the Constitution. If the
people of the" North could only be made to
see (he clearest truth of the revolution,
to wit: that tlieir leaders have used them
to destroy the Constitution by appealing to
their loveof the Union, all would be safe.
The great difficulty, therefore, lues been
that patriotic, conservative men in both
sections have been uqable to make the
people of either section see that the ex
treme men of the two sections had a com
mon end. The people could not see this
because the-e extreme men seemed to be
lighting each oilier, when, iu truth, both
were lighting the Union. The extreme
men saw that the only feeling with the
people of either section which was or could
be made stronger than the loveof Union,
was the love of section. Proslavery was
the great question which was thought
could concentrate all feeling at the South,
and, therefore, the extreme men assumed
to he the peculiar exclusive friends of
slavery, anti all men at the North were
declared tb be its enemies, and all at tiie
South who differed witii them were de
nounced as traitors to their section. Anti
slavery was the great feeling at the North,
and there the extreme men assumed to be
tiie only true defenders of the North from
the wild aggressive spirit of slavery, which
was represented as seeking, with tiie
master's lash, to control the whole coun
try. The people of both sections listened
until they believed, and sent tiie force to
Washington, who made tiie national cap*
itot but a theatre for sectional bullies;
who reduced all eloquence to sectional
billingsgate, and whose only statesman
ship consisted in engendering sectional
hate. The natural result was war, hut a
sectional war, and a war in which the
triumph of either party was the triumph
of an enemy to tiie Union under the Con
stitution. And this is theonly war which
has been waged, and tiiis is the only final
triumph which will lie achieved if the
people do not open tlieir eyes in both
sections and make a united war against
tlieir common enemy—ttieseextreuie men.
It was with those views that 1 so earnes
tly begged the South in iB6O not to secede,
because she would thereby be only fur
thering the purposes of the common enemy
of tiie South and the Constitution—would
thereby throw all the power of the Union,
into the hands of that common enemy
which power would he used, first to crush
the South, and then to destroy the Consti
tution. It was because of these convictions
I went with my section and never felt I
made war on the Union, although I saw
the Union was being crushed between two
antagonistic forces. And it was because
of these convictions I was willing every
hour of the struggle to stop the fight and
negotiate, fueling that, if either party
yielded to arms, common equal confedera
tion would he impossible. But we never
could negotiate, for the plain reason that
in that way the Union might be preserved,
aud this tiie lenders of the North never
intended to permit. They determined to
continue the convulsion to enable them to
destroy ail hope of Constitutional Union,
and now they fear tiie war has ended too
soon to enable them fully to accomplish
their work. It was, therefore, I urged the
South never to yield, but to tight to ex
termination rather than be subjugated,
for subjugation of either section was the
greatest possible obstacle to future peace
and Union as well as to honor and inde
pendence for either section. But slavery
has been destroyed and divisions between
the extreme men of the North ami South
are no longer promotive of the common
end. The common end was, not to pre
serve or destroy slavery, but the common
end was to destroy a Constitution founded
in mutual concession for the common good,
and to which extreme opinion is and must
be enmity. Slavery was only used ns an
exciting sectional means to accomplish tiie
work. The pretence for difference be
tween the extremes has been removed, but
the common purpose remains. And what
is the result? These extremes are gelling
together. 1 believed aud declared in ad
vance they would unite. 11 is natural and
logical that they should unite. When
division prompted a common eud it was
natural to divide; but when Union can
promote that same common end it is
natural, consistent to unite. Sumner aud
Stevens, and Brown aud Holden are not
accidents—nor are they original characters.
They have figured in all mad revolutions
from the fall of Greece and the destruction
of Jerusalam to the present day. Such
men have ever been treacherous to princi
ple, faithless to trust, and deceitful in
professions, but always consistent—per
fectly consistent —in tiie common end of
destruction to government. Aud as these
Military Bills have no character but
opposition to all tiie provisions aud prin
ciples of the Constitution, and can have
no ent but its utter aud final destruction,
such men, and all their ilk in both sec
tions, will unite pi their support.
The unscrupulous portion of thesecosion
leaders-those who i-bever acted from
conviction of right—aud the Northern
.Radicals are making friends and shaking
bauds, like Pilot aud TTSrod, for the final
crucifixion of the Cftndtitution. Can it lie,
can it possibly be, that the American peo
ple, like an inflamed foolish rabble, will
still cry crucify him, crucify him; give us
Barabbas, give us Barabbas—give us anar
chy, give us anarchy!
Now, then, tiie duty of all patriots is
plain. Theeuemies of the country are
united. Their platform is these Military
Bills. Let tiie friends of the country
unite. Let our platform Ik; the Constitu
tion. There is no longer any excuse to be
deceived. If we want peace, if we want
safety, if we want liberty, if we want
prosperity,if we want hope forourchildren,
if we want Union, if we want written Con
stitutions, wemusl unite —all patriots every
where must unite. We must crush out
these real authors of all our sorrow; we
must declare that the'will of two-thirds of
a fragmentary conclave of congressional
members is notund shall not be the supreme
law of the land, but that tiie Constitution
aud the laws passed in pursuance then of
are, atul shall be, the onlysupreme law for
the freemen of America.
For the present, at least, these wiles will
end. It was my original purpose to apply
tiie reasoning I have employed to the
history of former revolutions, for the pur
pose of showing that tiie monsters of revo
lution in all ageH have acted in like spirit,
witii like purposes and with like treachery,
as those who dominate in tills country
atnlseek to overturn our institutions; and
also the impossibility, according to un
broken human experience, of forcing, by
statute, tlio black race and tiie white race
to equality in government. And to show
that all the consequences which I have de
clared will result from the efforts now
being made to subvert the government by
force and fraud, bavo resulted—invariably
resulted—from similar causes in all the,
past.
But those who can believe that good,
and not evil, will come of violating our
Constitution, of trampling upon our laws,
of disregarding plighted faith, of degrading
the white race, of fomenting hatreds lie
tween different races, and of keeping up
continual sectional strife, would not hear
reason from the living or the dead! All
sueii will take an oath to support the Con
stitution when they register, and then vio
late ttie Constitution aud that oath by vot
ing “for a convention,” and feel no com
punctious. But all who love the law and
its safety, the truth and its rewards, the
country and its peace, our children and
their prosperity,and liberty audits guaran
tees, will register and vote against a con
vention, and never cease to resist, in all
forms aud on all occasions, this sum of
American oppressions, this embodiment
of American treason, tiiis aggregate of
Amerieau dangers, these Military Bills
enacted to keep 'their authors in pow
er.
1 beg to express, in tiiis manner, my
grateful acknowledgment for the many
warm and earnest expressions of apprecia
tive approval which lam daily receiving
of my luitnlile efforts to wake my country
men to their dangers and their duty, i
cannot write a personal answer to each
one, but I feel nolle the less thankful for
such comforting encouragement.
I have sought only to write the truth,
only to discharge a duty, only to serve the
country, but I love, and hope I shall ever '
love, the approval of tire wise aud the ap
plause of the good.
I‘oitits ll.Miiied lij ttie supreme Court
us Georgia, July Term, PSif,
(Chronicle k Sentinel.
George Washington, Plaintiff in Error,
vs. The State of Georgia. Indictment fur
Carrying Concealed Weapons—Dough
erty.
Warner, Chief Justice.
On the trial of a defendant for having
and carrying on his jierson a concealed
pistol, the Court charged the Jury “ that
if the prisoner bad a pistol and it was in
doctepa,ris during the morning, lie was
guilty and they must so find him.” Held
that this charge was error. Judgment
reversed.
H, Morgan for Plaintiff In Error. N. A.
Smith Solicitor for the State.
C. W. Hand and others, Plaintiffs in
Error, ns. James Armstrong. Motion to
Dismiss Appeal—Sumter.
Warner, Chief Justice.
When it appeared that Hand, one of the
plaintiffs in error, on the 13th day of
April, 1800, presented his bill of exceptions
to the Circuit Judge, which was duly
certified aud signed by him, and on the
17th day of the same month, entered iiis
appeal from the verdict of a petit jury, in
tiie same cause according to law, and on
the 19th day of the same month tiled his
bill of exceptions in the Clerk’s office, af
ter entering said appeal, whereby the said
cause was heard in the Supreme Court
without objection, the ojijmsing counsel
having knowledge that au appeal had
been entered in the court below :
Held that the cause was still pending in
the Court below', and that the Supreme
Court acquired no jurisdiction to hear aud
decide the cause upon this statement of
facts, aud that the Court below erred in
dismissing said appeal. Judgement re
versed. *
Hawkins and McC’ay for plaintiff in
error.
Cobb and Jackson for defendant in
error.
Y. G. Rust,Survivor, vs. G. W. Garma
ny. Petition for rehearing a cause in the
Supreme Court.
Warner, Chief Justice.
When parties have been heard before
this Court, and its judgment rendered
upon the law and the facts involved in it,
this Court will not grant a rehearing of
the cause upon the alleged ground that
the Court misapplied the law to the facts,
or misunderstood the facts. The judg
ment of tiiis Court is conclusive upon tiie
rights of the parties in that case, solar
as the same were involved in it. Motion
overruled.
Judge Lyon for petitioner, H. Morgan
contra.
Samuel Adams, Plaintiff in Error, vs.
Wm. H. Adams. Habeas Corpus—
Dougherty.
Warner, Chief Justice.
Under the provisions of the act of 1860,
the County Judge has uo jurisdiction to
bind out colored minor children as appren
tices, unless such minor children are resi
dents ofthe county, and whose parents
reside out of said county, or are dead,
the profits of whose estate are insufficient
for tlieir support and maintenance, or
whose parents, from age, infirmity, or
poverty, are unable to support them.
When the mother and reputed father of
illegitimate children have intermarried,
and the father recognizes the children to
be his and the mother be dead, such father
is entitled to the lawful custody of the
children. Judgment reversed.
Smith & Strozier for Plaintiff in Error,
Wright and Warren contra.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah,
Ga., vs. Eliza G. Burroughs. Motion to
establish lost papers. Warner, Chief
justice.
By the act of 7th March, 1866, lost jta -
pers may be established without requiring
a bond of indemnity, although the Courts
have the power to require indemnity.—
Yet in view of the condition of the coun
try at the time the act was passed, it was
obviously not tiie intention of the Legis
lature to require that it should be done iu
advance, but leave the parties to adopt
such precautionary measures as their fu
ture safety might require. Jugment af
firmed.
E. J. Harden for Plaintiff in Error.—
Law and Lovell for Defendants in Error.
Andrew S. Floyd vs. The State of Georgia.
From Burke. Harris, Judge.
Unless there should he great superiority
in physical strength of an assailant wflio
strikes another a blow with his fist, or
ill-health in the assailed at the time, or
other circumstance producing relatively
great inequality betweeu them for com
bat, the assailed cannot justifiably resent
a blow by stabbing the assailant. The
general rule on the subject is that given
by the Circuit Judge in his charge to the
jury— 4 that whether thestabbing amount
ed to self-defence, depended on tiie nature
and violence of the assault made.' Judg
| ment affirmed.
Juo. H. Newton and Jno. .7. McCtlllock,
vs. Juo. M. Bailey.—From Western Cir
cuit.
Harris, Judge, delivered opinion ofthe
court. Judgment affirmed.
Macon, Ga., Wednesday, July 17, 18€>7.
Terrible Tragedy in Brunswick.
The Ai ling English Consul Stool Down
On His Wedding Dap
(Havuiiaii N«ws, July Stti. <
One of the most lamentable tragedies
that it has ever been our sad duty to record
occurred in Brunswick, Ga., Friday last,
abouf five o’clock, in which a young man
was shot while sitting in his door, on tiie
very day on which lie was married. It
was lamentable in not only the death of
the victim, but from the respectability of
all parties concerned and the sad end of a
short but happy marriage. The circum
stances attending the unfortunate affair,
apart from its origin, areas follows, al
though reports are current imputing the
occasion of the alfair to different motives:
About 1865 a young ami wealthy English
man, named E. G. Westmoreland, who
was engaged during ttie war in blockade
running, in which lie gained considera
ble reputation and wealth, came to Bruns
wick, Ga., with the intention of investing
his capital and making tiie place his home.
Possessed of line business qualifications,
be formed a partnership with Gen. <lor
dou, anil* together they carried on a large
business in running several saw mills.
Through some mismanagement or misun
derstanding Westmoreland retired from
the firm, and afterwards was residing in
the city, acting as English Consul there.
Here be contracted the acquaintance of a
young and beautiful lady, the daughter of
it prouiineut and,respectable citi/.eu, whom
be afterwards addressed. At tiie time of
the Englishman’s visits she was visited by
a young man named Capt. E. J. Martin.
Westmoreland continued iiis attentions,
which were encouraged by tiie young lady,
and in dug time lie proposed and was ac
cepted, much against the parents’ wishes,
it is said.
During the attentions of these young
men to the lady, which were most assid
uous on both sides, a coolness anil reserve
sprung up between them, hut from what
cause it is not known. Previous to this
circumstance they were apparently friends
and were considered as such by those who
knew them. Thus matter- stood, until
one day Westmoreland saw Martin de
scending the steps of a neighbor's house,
where lie had been visiting. Not noticing
Westmoreland, tiie latter called out to
him, “Hold up, Martin, I’ll walk down
with you.” Not answering the- request,
Westmoreland repeated it, when Martin
turned towards him and said, “ f do not
wish your company, sir,” or words of sim
ilar import, atul quietly walked on. As if
feeling insulted by this reply, Westmore
land challenged Martin, who immediately
accepted. Seconds were chosen, and every
thing for the combat bad been prepared,
tiie party intending to .-proceed to tiie
ground ou the Sylvan Shore when she ar
rived at that point. Being detained some
hours beyond her time, she did not arrive
tilt late, during which delay the seconds
and friends of both parties adjusted tiie
difficulty, i>y inducing Westmoreland to
withdraw the challenge, and Martin his
remarks. The friends of both parties con
sidered the difficulty finally settled, and
thought nothing more of it.
The rivals, however, maintained tlieir
coolness, and were noton speaking terms.
Westmoreland continued ids attentions to
the young lady and Martin his visits to
tiie house. On Friday last alsiut 11
! o’clock, a. m., Westmoreland and the
i young lady were married. After a short
time spent in the usual congratulations
on sueii occasions, the young bride and
husband proceeded to the office of the lat
ter, and began making preparations for a
! bridal tour. While awaiting the arrival of
the Sylvan Shore, Westmoreland, in iiis
shirt sleeves and stocking feet, was sitting
on the office steps conversing with Judge
! Marlin. Whilethus engaged Martin came
i up the street, and walking directly in
| front of Westmoreland, drew a small pis
j tol and without a word of explanation
i tired at him, the ball striking him in the
! groin. Westmoreland immediately sprang
■ to Ids feet, when Martin fired again, the
Shall taking effect in the centre of the
■ breast. Westmoreland advanced toward
Martin, and seizing him by tiie arm, said,
“Martin, what have 1 done to you that you
shot me?” and began sinking to the
ground, A soldier passing at the time,
wrung fife pistol front Martin’s band, and
with his other arm supported rfu-dyidt?
; man. Westmoreland did not utter a word
| aftoi lie fell, and died in aliout fifteen
\ minutes. Martin made no attempt toes-
S cape, and surrendering to a squad of sol
' diers, he was marched to iiis room in the
i hotel until his arrest by Bheriff Depree,
under a warrant issued by Judge Hous-
I ton.
An inquest was held on the body by
Judge Houston, and a verdict rendered in
accordance with the facts.
While this wasgoing on, a large crowd
assembled in front of the hotel, highly
incensed, and threats of violence were
uttered, so exasperated had they become.
Tlieir indignation was heightened in a
great measure by tbe fact ofthe duel and
the knowledge of the rivaiship for the
young lady. Upon consultation the au
thorities decided tiiat, in view of tiie great
excitement which prevailed, and the prob
able attempt being made to lynch Martin,
it would be better to send him to Havan
nah forsafe keeping until the excitement
subsided. He was according placed on
board the Sylvan Shore, and arrived iu
this city on Saturday evening in charge of
Sheriff Depree, Marshal Burns, Chief of
Police Dart and a posse of two citizens.
Captain Martin is a young man of fine
personal appearance, good education and
of great determination and bravery- He
served on the staff of Gen. Johnstn in
Virginia, under Uongstreet. He is the
owner of a large rice plantation on the
Altamaha river, which he was cultivating
at tiie time the murder was committed. —
His friends contend that other motives,
more aggravated than jealousy, prompted
tiie commission of the deed, and tiiat trans
actions of a personal nature, committed
after the settlement of the duel, were in
themselves sufficient to justify tiie act. Be
that as it may, we have no desire to com
ment upon the facts as we have gathered
them, but leave the matter to he in
vestigated by the Courts. The alfair is a
sad one, and is deeply regretted by all,
from the social standing of the parties.
Mr. E. G. Westmoreland was born in
England, and descended, it is said, of a
noble and ancient family. He was a man
of fine intellectual abilities, and of consid
erable wealth. At the time ol' his death,
he had been married but about five hours.
We cannot too strongly urge upon the
community in which the offence was
committed the importance of suspending
any expression of opinion as to the guilt
or innocence of the accused party, until
the matter is thoroughly investigated.
Robberies. —Saturday atternoon last,
whilst Mr. G. W. Pond, residing on
Church street, near Elliott, was engaged
in settling some difficulty with a party on
his premises, his room on the second story
where lie kept his trunks and chests, was
entered, three chests broken open and tiie
contents, with the exception of an amount
of money, said to be between S7OO and
S9OO, strewed about the floor in all direc
tions. The most singular feature of tiie
case was that tiie parties scattered about
the floor all the gold jewelry in the chests
including some eight or nine gold watches,
gold chains, ear rings and bracelets, and
some silverware. Lieutenant Hendricks,
was informed of the robbery and took tiie
casein hand, making a personal inspec
tion of the premises in all the apartments.
Nothing was discovered leading to tiie de
tection of the robber, but it is believed to
have been committed by some person well
acquainted with the premises. A strict
examination, it was supposed, would lead
to the arrest of tiie offenders.
On IFriday a colored boy was arrested
on tiie charge of stealing SIBO from a resi
dence in Calhoun street. The boy says lie
saw other parties having a file and key
by which they entered the premises, and
afterwards saw them with the money.
Lieutenant Hendrick locked him up for
trial.
Between the Ist and 4t.h instaiit the
premises of Mr. David Barrow, on Beau
fain street, was robbed of four silver spoons,
one pair of gold ear rings and sundry ar
ticles of clothing. Mr. Barrow entered
his complaint at the Detective Office, tiie
officers of which speedily arrested the boy
and committed him to Jail. Most of
the stolen articles were recovered.
[Charleston Courier, \)fh insl.
Don’t fail to ‘register.’
REIGN OFTEPROR IN TENNESSEE |
Tumble Scenes at Franklin.
A BLOODY BROWNLOW RIOT!
PE ACE AI! L E CITIZ ENB S1 LOT DO W N
INDISCRIMINATELY.
Seven Wh'dc Mm, Thfrty-Ow Leaguers,
and Four Conservatives, Fall.
THE KU.I I>*. OF Uir'HAEl. f’OOY
Till? BUREAU ON THE GROUND.
Troops seal from Naslivilli: to Itestore
Order.
Full Particulars of the Riot.
[Nashville Union & American.
The most intense excitement prevailed
in tiiis city throughout Sunday, rumors
having gained circulation that a bloody
riot had occurred on the previous ni lit
at Franklin, a small citv eighteen miles
south of this place, on the Nashville and
Decatur railroad, the scene ofthe memora
ble battle of Franklin. With every repe
tition the wild reports gathered addH«m«l
horrors, and by nightfall tiie number said
to have fallen in tire riot had reached an
almost incredible figure. The same little
excited groups tiiat always gather when
big news is afloat, assembled upon tiie
street corners and at the hotels ami other
public places, to gossip and enlarge ujkjii
the meagre bits that had been dropped
from conversation of passengers brought
up by the Southern trains in the morning.
In the afternoon company C of the 45tli
infantry, under Capt. D. W. Burke,
marched into the city and moved toward
the Nash vile and Decatur depot, where
they got aboard the four o'clock train for
Franklin. This served to increase tiie
excitement, and speculations were rife as
to whether a detachment of militia would
not follow them. No reliable information
could be gained, however, as to what had
occurred, or tiie danger of more trouble,
until yesterday.
THE RADICAL MEETING AT FRANKLIN ON
SATURDAY.
It was well understood here that a Radi
cal meeting had been held at Franklin on
Saturday, and from this it was generally
Huppoeeu the riot had grown. The facts,
however, show a somewhat different ca.-**.
A Radical meeting had been called at that
place and at one o’clock in the afternoon
a crowd of about 2,500 blacks and whites,
many of them armed, bad assembled at
the courthouse, where the speaking was to
i«* done. Abe Hinith, a colored man em
ployed at the capilol, introduced D. M.
McFall, Radical candidate for Representa
tive of Williamson county in the Lower
House ofthe General Assembly, who was
followed by W. V. Elliott, candidate for
State Senator. Elliott -poke about an
hour and a half, when John Trimble, one
ofthe Radical nominees for Congress ill
this (the fifth i district, took the stand and
made the la-t speech,occupying two hours,
and the meeting quietly broke up at five
o’clock. The drums, life-, amt banners
were laid up in the courthouse, amt a por
tion of tiie crowd moved homeward.
In the assembly that listened to tln-
Radieal speeches were a goodly number of
Conservatives, who expressed uo little
surprise at their tone, as nothing but
vituperation, slander and abuse, the usual
Concomitants of Radical harangues, li;vd
been looked for. (tenoral good feeling ap
peared to prevail, and no harsh words had
passed in any portion of the crowd.
ARRIVAL OI JOE WILLIAMS.
At about half-past four o’clock, Joe
Williams, the great colored Conservative
orator, who had been addressing a largo
meeting at Spring Hill, thirteen mile
distant, rode into town in a buggy, accom
panied by Alfred Newsom, a Colored man.
Th'7 'jmvr up to ttie stors *»f Colonel
John M. House where they vvre,greeted
by Luther Ewing, ttie President of GV»>
Colored Conservative Club, who invited
Williams to address the club at the court
house.
Williams replied tiiat it would be impos
sible for him to do so, a* it was imiKirtant
tiiat he should be in Nashville that night.
Ewing again urged, but Williams dill iv
fused, and in a few minutes started oil’
toward Nashville.
After crossing Harpeth river, Newsom
remonstrated witii Williams, saying that
he should not think of going on to Nash
ville until next day, a- their horse had
been driven a long way, and could not
well stand tiie fatigue of tiie drive borne.
Home further talk follow’ed, when Wil
liams finally concluded to turn back.
THE LEAGUE WELCOME WILLIAMS.
As they again reached the Square, they
were observed by a great number of the
colored Loyal League, who were on tlieir
way to the League rooms. As tiie buggy
c.-uiie up, the Leaguers crowded around it,
some or them shaking hands with and
welcoming Williams, while others receiv
ed him by tipping the vehicle, and calling
upon him to get out and make a speech.
Williams repeatedly declined, but they
would not listen to him, and lie was forci
bly lifted from his seat to theground. Two
of the leaders of the League then locked
arms with him, and tiie tiiree marched to
ward the courthouse, followed by the
crowd, who cheered for Williams, and
shouted “Come hear the Rebel Joe Wil
liams speak!” The bell of the courthouse
rang out clearly and loudly, and people
from all quarters began to flock around, as
tiie colored orator mounted the steps.
THE SPEECH OF WILLIAMS.
As he commenced iiis speech, the deep
est interest was manifested by the large
assembly, and their attention was riveted
upon the speaker as he proceeded. Every
thing was orderly and quiet, and there ap
peared no possible prospect of any trouble,
though a number of the League were arm
ed with revolvers, and swords dangled at
the sides of tlieir leaders.
THE LONG ROLL SOUNDED ANI) THE MEET
ING BROKEN UP.
A number of mean wiiites, who were
watching tiie course matters were taking,
could not brook the idea that tiie colored
men should be allowed to hear the t ruth
from one of their own people; and at once
determined that the meeting should be
broken up. One John Bliss, an unprinci
pled white Radical, the proprietor of a
store in that place, appeared to be most
active iu bis efforts to draw away the
crowd.
In about fifteen minutes, the drums,
fifes and banners were brought out, the
long roll sounded, and everybody turned
tbeir eyes for a moment to the centre of
the square, where the musicians stood.—
Part of the crowd immediately started
away, and ill a little while commenced
forming as if for a procession, taking their
cue from the wiiites and setting up yells
for Brownlow.
The friends of Williams fearing trouble,
appealed to the remaining members of
the League to protect him. A colored
man saiu to Col. Jno. M. House, “Mas
John, dey’re all gwine to take him down.”
“No, said the Colonel, they will not if we
all stand firm. It is only some low white
men who are interfering. The colored
people want to hear him speak.” Col.
House called upon the Conservatives not
to interfere with the black men, who
wore, he said, in no way blamable.
The Colonel then started toward Bliss,
who at once commenced moving away,
but being called upon to halt, lie stopped
until Col. House came up. A conversa
tion followed iri which the Colonel was
insulted by Bliss, and promptly resented
the insult by slapping him in the face.
Bliss walked rapidly back to the Lea
guers and Col. House went to his store,
from whence a message was immediately
transmitted to Williams asking Him to
cease speaking, that further trouble might
be avoided. This request he complied
with, and came down from tiie steps and
went over to the store of Col. House. In
the meantime, Bliss, stung with his treat
ment at the hands of the enraged Colonel,
was calling upon the league to “go for
him,” and was drawing some of them
after him. One of the colored officers
asked: “Whoare you going to kill?”
Someone replied, “John House. I
can’t do any such thing,” said the officer;
‘he’s my friend; lie never did me any
harm; let Bliss do his own lighting.”
FORMING OK LEAGUE.
This appeared to excite some division,
but the drums continued beating, and as
Williams had ceasep Bpeaking, ail tiie
members of tiie League gathered, at one
point, and formed in column for march
ing, displaying tlieir banners conspicuous
ly. These banners bore the inscriptions :
' 4 Treason must bo made Odious, and Traitors
Punished;'
4 My Policy Played Out;’
‘Klmi tuber Fort Pillow when you cast your
v ote : ’
' The Radicals Build, the Conservatives Burn our
Sciiooilionses and Churches;’
■ Andy can't control Congress;’
‘ Vot " the Radical Ticket.’
In addition to these a plain flag, bearing
the names of Brownlow, Trimble, Elliott,
Bean and McFall, was raised.
The word was given and the dark col
umn, numbering about . two hundred
Leaguers, all black men, moved off. On
arriving at the hotel, they were stopped
and addressed by Mr. Elliott, wbo im
plored them to do nothing that would
lead to a disturbance.
At t.iie store of Colonel House a small
party of his friends had assembled, armed
witii siiot guns, as his life had been threat
ened and some of tiie Leaguers had been
drinking pretty freely. An old colored
woman had come to him,, saying that tiie
infuriated mob had determined to take
his life tiiat night, and that he might
look for trouble.
When KUfott closed his remarks, the
League marched-«v#r to the store of John
Campbell, where tiiey were supplied with
twenty or thirty muskets, and then again
moved on.
The excitement was very great, and
large numbers of tiie people had flocked
to their windows and doors, or collected
upon tiie streets. At tiie house of Dr. D.
B. Cliffe, corner, of Main and Cameron
streets the League halted and were ad
dressed by John Trimble and several
other persons, white aud colored, who ap
pealed to them to be quiet and orderly.
They cheered for Trimble aud ill a few
minutes marched oil - to Acatlemy Hill,
in tiie outskirts of tiie town, where they
stacked arms, threw out pieketsjmd were
addre-- and by Mr. Elliott, and D. M. Cliffe,
the Registration Commissioner, both of
whom urged them to go quietly home.
Bliss and Pis party, however, seemed to
have tiie Leaguers under complete control
and as they were marching back to town,
someone asked,‘Are you well loaded?’
* We are ail ready,l was the reply.’ Then,
said the first speaker, 4 when you couie to
House’s corner, lire into it. It makes no
difference who you kill, it’s dark aud no
on<- will know who you hit. ’
ft was about half past eight when the
League again reached tiie square. Just
before it had arrived at House's corner,
Alien Williams, an influential c ilored
man, came to the back door of House’s
store, where the Colonel and a small party
of friends were standing, and where they
had been called by the noise of the drums.
He asked to see Mr. Sara House. Col.
House stepped forward and asked if lie
the Colonel ; would not do as well. Wil
liams said ‘Yes.’ Ho then said, ‘ We’re
not going to have any
to break iifi.’ ‘ I’m very glad, Allen, re
plied Colonel House,' that is just wiiat we
want : all good citizens want peace.’
THE LEAGUERS OPEN FIRE—KILLING OF
<. ODY AND DISPERSION OF THE RIOTERS.
As the conversation ended, Alien Wil-
Pam- walked oil toward the column of
lea: iers, who had by tiiis time moved up
to the -tore and come to a front face. He
had taken some twenty steps, when the
sharp crack of a musket sounded from the
left corner of the column, and a minnie
ball struck Mr. MichaelH. Cody, Jr., who
was standing at the door of the store, with
liis hand resting upon the muzzle of a
douhie-barreivd -hot gun. Mr. Cody stag
gered a little, but quick as thought raised
ids piece and discharged both barrels
simultaneously into the midst of the leag
uers. In a moment afterward lie was
dead, aud his body removed to tiie'inside
of tiie building.
Both sides then poured in a vigorous
fire, the wounded of Cqj. House’s party
being carried into the store as fast as they
f>*d. A large a umber of Citizens hearing
the firing, rushed to the place, thirty or
forty of them joining House’s party. Thus
reinforced the little garrison at the store
charged the League, which at once gave
way and retired, taking tlieir wounded
with them, and tiie conflict ended.
Joe. Williams and Alfred Newsom,
whi-u the tiring commenced, were stand
ing outside the store. Newsom received a
number of buckshot in iiis ear and side,
but was not seriously wounded. Wil
liams having heard that there were par
ties in tiie League who had sworn to kill
him, determined to go to Nashville, thus
removing any trouble that might be
created by his presence, although he had
been assured by- a number of colored men
that uo ill-will was felt toward him.
Several shots were fired after him as he
crossed the Square ou his way home.
THE WOUNDED.
All the wounded Leaguers were struck
by buckshot or squirrel shot. Home of
them were terribly frightened. One who
had received a slight flesh wound in the
back, gave himself up for dead, until he
saw all tlu* shot that had hit him roll out
ofliis boot, noneofthem having remained
in tiie big lump tlia* had been raised upon
his back. On Sunday night we saw six of
tbe colored League stretched upon the
floor, only one of whom was seriously- hurt.
Drs. Bark and German waited upon tiie
wounded of Col. House’s party, aud Dr.
1). B. Cliffe attended to the shattered
Leaguers.
LIST OF CASUALITI.ES.
MichaelH. Cody, Jr., killed. Minnie
ball entered in front of left shoulder pass
ing through to this spine, aud lodging just
beneath the skin.
Hardin Figures, seventeen buckshot in
neck, head and body. Wounds slight.
Logan Neely, buckshot and squirrel shot
in various parts of the body ; serious.
• James Hurrisou, minnie ball in thigh ;
severe.
Capt. Smithson, shot leg,and hip; slight.
W. E. Cunningham, shot, hand ; slight.
Albert Newsom, col., shot, ear and side;
slight.
Albert Gadsey, col., minnie ball in leg ;
severe.
Geo. Neely-, col., shot in body aud leg ;
slight.
Dick Crutcher, col.
The above parties were at the door of
House’s store, or acting with him when
the firing was going on.
The following persons, all colored, were
with the League:
Polk Watson, shoulder, back and legs;
serious.
Geo. Farmer, boy, left lung; serious.
Ham Young, leg; slight.
Henry German, thigh; slight.
Miles Bostic, leg ; slight.
Jeff Polk, hip; severe.
Jack Springs, back, shoulder aud arm ;
serious.
Randall Beach, neck; slight.
Oliver Youngman, left shoulder; slight.
Houston Patton, thigh ; slight.
Pleasant Caruthers back ; slight.
Jim Swanson, foot; serious,
Anthony Leazer, log; slight.
Anthony Blackburn, calf;slight.
Washington Bennett, knee; severe.
Jared Finnell, back.
Edward Brown, hip and legs ; severe.
Abner Brown, hip ; slight.
Burtell Bostic, head ; slight.
Frank Brooks, leg; slight,
Honrv Rachel, slight.
Jack Farriss, hack ; slight,
Henry Williams, back; slight.
Goff Leech, severe.
Seven others of the League, all of whom
livein the country, were slightly wounded.
Whites killed, 1 ; wiiites wounded, 5 ;
colored wounded, 35; total wounded 40.
The wounded, it is thought, will alii re
cover.
CORONER’S INQUEST.
Coroner R. P. Moss, with the following
jury, held au inquest upon the body of Mr.
Couy on Sunday : J. C. Wells, Capi. W. C.
Cunningham, Allen Williams, colored, J.
W. Neeley, Col. Elliot, A. .1. Foster, C.
A. Merrill, A. Alston, John W. Miller, J.
G. Neely, W. G. (Houston, W. O’N.
I'erkins. A verdict was rendered to the
effect tiiat deceased came to his death by a
shot from a musket iu tiie bauds of some
person unknown.
> 01. IjX„ Xo. 11).
ARRIVAL OK TROOPS AND KI UKvr
FICIAUJ.
Captain Burke's company of the tr,th
infantry arrived by the afternoon tr lin
Sunday, and took possession of the court
house. Their appearance was it e.i.-i wi;h
great satisfaction by the citizen-
Major General Carlin, . \\ H-h and
Lieut. Groesbeck, of the FrceUmen's : :u
--rcau, visited Franklin on Sunday. (}.•>;
Carlin returned yesterday.
WIIO FIRED THE FIRST SHOT.
Messrs. James H. White, L. K. Crown
Jno. Scruggs, Mr. Gordon, and other re
spectable citizens, assert their readim ;.o
take oath that tile first shot was tired |,y
the Leaguers, and that the movements on
the part of Colonel House and his fri.-mD,
were purely defensive.
MICHAEL H. OODY, .JR., AND COD. HOI -K.
Mr. Cody, tlie gentleman who was Rill
ed, was a member of the firm of Vaughn
& Cody, livery stable proprietors. Among
the most extreme Radicals, even, he has
always borne the character of a quiet?, in
offensive citizen, and was universally re
spected. He was about twenty-four years
of age, and leaves a wife and two small
children.
The character of Col. John M. House is
well known, and there is not perhaps a
man in Williamson county whose record
stands clearer as a peaceable quite eitizeu,
than his. He did his duty as a Confeder
ate soldier, and as a citizeii of the United
States since the surrender, not a word can
he said against him.
Tiie whole aflair was a bloody outrage
upop a law-abiding community*and one
which we trust will have its legitimate ei
fejg.
OF MII.ITJA FOR FRANKLIN
yesterday.
The exciternentat Franklin still contin
ues. The presence of the regulars will
doubtless hold the Leaguers in H ck,
though there were rumors of more troubles
yesterday, (.'apt. Jim. Sumners’ company
of colored militia wa- sent down from this
place by the afternoon train, for what pur
pose is not known. If they were sent to
preserve order, it can be nothing more
than a direct insult to Gen. Duncan and
the soldiers of the veteran 4-ith, who are
stationed there to preserve the peace—a- if
they were not competent to keep order
Such a “slam" on the gallant regulai has
not been perpetrated before since the birth
of the L T nite(3 .States army. l>li-.-,the man
who incited the riot, was in this city yes
terday, and it was doubtless for his eiqie
cial benefit that the rnelish were forward
ed.
INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS.
Judge Rrien convened the Cireui; < 'eurt
at Franklin yesterday, and the grand jury
are investigating the'facts in regard to thp
riot. An investigation is also being made
by the Bureau authorities.and report- will
shortly be made.
Attempt at Rohbery. —Yesterday
morning about half pastone o’clock a most
daring attempt was made by a negro to
rob the grocery store of Mr. James O’By me,
on the northwest corner of Bay and Mont
gomery streets —tlie bold villian being
shot and captured under the following cir
cumstances :
Jt seems that he entered the hack-yard
by climbing the fence, and was detected
on the premises by a lady living in uu ad
joining house, who immediately ga e an
alarm; the fellow thereupon made his es
cape by jumping over the fence, leaving
two empty nags in tlie yard in his llight.
Several neighbors who had been aroused,
gave chase and captured the fellow in Bat
tle Roy, but he succeeded in releasing
himself trom their custody, and effecting
his escape.
He was promptly pursued and overhaul
ed in Montgomery street, near Mr. Lach*
lison’s residence. During the chase one
of his pursuers fired several shots at him
to intimidate him—he refusing to obey
their orders to stop and surrender himself
—one of the balls striking him in the leg,
thereby inflicting a wound which, al
though not dangerous, caused him to cease
further efforts to eseajie. He was taken to
the Barracks, his wound dressed, and yes
terday morning he wa- brought before
Judge Russell, of the County Court, who
committed him for trial.
• [iSavanna/t Republican,‘.Hh.
Fate of a Daughter of Hon. Aaron
V. Brown.—A most interesting will ease
has just been decided in Nashville- Mias
Cynthia Saunders, the daughter of Mrs.
Aaron V. Brown, was married during the
war to a Colonel Williams, a Federal offi
cer. He won heraffections while affording
some protection to her family’s property
during the war. He no sooner married
her, according to some of the witnesses,
than he coerced her by his treatment into
his trembling and wretched slave instead
of his adored wife. In this condition he
moved her to his mother’s home in Phil
adelphia, where she pined away and dietl.
While thus tortured he is alleged to have
coerced a will which leaves ali the proper
ty to him and his heirs in perpetuity,
and proscribes from its benefits her fond
mother and loving sister and brother.—
Before dying lie sent her mother a blas
phemous dispatch informing her of the
approaching dissolution of her daughter,
his wife. Mrs. Brown hastened to Phila
delphia, where she was subjected to the
most cruel indignities, such as humbling
herself on her kuess, before he would per
mit her to see her dying daughter. When
she reached her room her daughter was
insensible. This was the close of this ill
fated woman’s career. We knewfiier as a
lovely young school girl, the favorite .of
all who visited her family circle, and af
terward as she blossomed into lovely
womanhood, and causympathize with her
relatives in the deep misery which her
marriage entailed. The jury found agaius
the will. Williams resorts to the usua
devices of a desperate aud defeated litigant
—the gross misconduct of a juryman aud
that other howl, so fashionable in these
days of undue outside pressure, because he
4s an ex-Federal ortieer.
. [Memphis Appeal,
PASS Him Around.— Tlie Covington
Examiner says an individual calling him
self Harris, visited Covington on Saturday
last, and offered for sale a horse. Failing
to find a purchaser, he placed his horse in
a livery stable, and stopped at the Clem
mons House. Ingratiating himself into
the confidence of the proprietor, and
pawning his horse, succeeded in borrowing
his watch and a small amount of money,
and left—taking the cars toward Augusta.
It turns out that the animal was a stolen
one, belonging to W. J. <fc P. B. Wooten,
of Atlanta. Harris is well dressed, ex
ceedingly talkative, and it closely observ
ed, conflicting statements will he detected
in His conversation; red complexion, light
hair, five feet eight inches high, and
weighs about 12i pounds. He has all the
marks of an infamous scoundrel, and the
press will favor the public by passing him
around.
Newspaper editors are well paid in Paris.
It is affirmed in the journals that Mons.
Clement Duvernois, who was recently one
of the writers of tlie Lib■ rh , and who is
about to become editor of the Epmpu , is to
receive a salary of $4,000 a year and an
“ indemnity on entering on his duties” of
$20,000. A carriage is, moreover, to Lie
provided for him, On some of the jour
nals the remuneration is even higlierjthan
this; aud it is to be remembered that a
Paris editor does nothing like the amount
of work tiiat is expected in London. In
fact, the Parisian passes tlie greater part of
his time in smoking cigars and in talking;
and if he knocks off an article or two”!
week he thinks himself wonderfully in
dustrious. Sometimes he lets weeks puss
without writing a line.
There is much unpleasant talk about
Oueen Victoria in England just now. It
is said, for instance, that she drinks 100
much wine; that her temper is violent,
and that she is so parsimonious as to
limit the supply of bread and butter to the
servants,
Caroline Bremer, an inmate of tlie Port
laud (Me.) almshouse for thirty years,died
there on the 2Sth ult. In all that time she
had never spoken a word. Poor woman!
How she must have suffered!
A woman said in a police-court tlie other
day, that before marriage, her husband
pretended to be much struck with her, hut
now she was every day struck by him. .
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MACON, GA.
IX STRAWBERRY TIME.
The garden gate as we two paassed throngh,
Swung soltly backward, then closed again ;
Over our heads the sky’s deep blue
Purer shone for the last night’s rain.
And the milk-white clouds through the azure sailed,
And over the landscape cool shadows trailed.
Through checkered sunlight and shadow we went,
iletiie and 1, that sweet June day,
When the odor of clover-blossoms was blent
Wnh'thi; fragrant scent of the new-mown hay ;
And the voice ol the bobolink sounded clear,
As he called to his mate from the meadows near.
Half shy, half wanton, the light Wind played,
On the breezy uplands, with Hettie’s curls.
That over her shoulders idly strayed,
And kissed the cheek of this queen of girls,
As we sauntered on by this path that led
To the meadow where grew the strawberries red.
Together we stopped in the tatl green grass,
'i hat day when the June sun shone so fair;
But my thoughts were all of this village lass.
And not of the strawberries growing there:
01 her cheeks where the rose its blushes shed,
And her lips like the berries so ripe and red.
Soon her basket was filled to the brim,
\\ hen turning on me her great brown eyes,
r root under her straw-hat’s shadowy rim
Bhc darted a look of quick surprise;
hor you might have counted the berries that lay
In the basket I carried that sweet June day.
“ Hettie," sa.d I, as I rose—and she
Withdrew her gzMm gentle alarm—
“ One basket’s enough for you and me
And lilting hers, laden, across my arm,
We sauntered back by the path that led
From the meadow where grew the strawberries red*
llut long ere we reached the garden gate,
She and I, on our homeward way.
From her own sweet lips 1 bad learned my fate.
Oh, happy the hour, and happy the day f
And happy the heart in its new-found bliss,
As 1 ■seated each vow with a lover s kiss.
Ah ! many a year since then has gone by;
Hut whenever the month of June draws near.
And the clouds grow whiter that cross the sky,
Or whenever the bobolink’s v ice I hear,
As the summer approaches her golden prime,
Comes the thought to me of that straw berry time.
A High. Tribute to the Character of
General Lee.
In a long editorial article calling for trie
donation of £IO,OOO to Washington Col
lege, by the friend? and admirers of Gen
eral Lee in England, the London Standard
of August 17th, speaks of him as follows:
There is no living hero—there are noue,
if any, whose name shines with the purest
lustre in history—whose character has
commanded so high a triijute of affection
and admiration from their friends, of
respect aud honor from their foes, as that
of General Lee. No life more perfectly
heroic, no reputation more untarnished
even by the minor blemishes which are
not uncommonly found in union with tlie
highest heroism, has ever been connected
with a national struggle. No share of
vanity or egotism, nothing of tlie self-will
or petulance so often characteristic of
conscious genius, no tinge of affectation, no
taint even of the pride almost inseparable
from ordinary greatness of mind, which
can endure everything but humiliation,
and regards submission as digrace, alloy
the simple grandeur of the Virginian sol
dier’s nature.
A piety without the slightest shadow of
Pharisaism, a sense of duty to which the
sacrifice ofevery personal feeling and in
terest appears a' matter of course,, have
marked his whole course aud guided his
every public act, whether as a soldier
or as a citizen. A family connection and
the nearest living representative of the
great champion of American independ
ence, General Lee has been the Washing
ton of the Confederate war; like Wash
ington, a man “whom envy did not hate,”
but without even the one dark stain of
doubt, if not of dishonor, which tlie death
of Major Andre lias left on the memory of
his prototype. No more “ -eliiless man
aud stainless gentleman ” ever lived ; no
soldier ever set a more admirable example
of the soldierly virtues of honor, ehivalric
generosity, and manly simplicity; no great
man ever retired into obscurity, after wit
nessing aliketlre ruin of his cause and tlie
destruction of his private fortune, with
more of Christian patience and unshaken
fortitude.
Os his military achievements we need
not speak. It is enough to say that nearly
all his victories were won against enor
mous odds, and that his fouryear-' defence
of Virginia has few paralleis'in history as
au example of great results accomplished
with siiiail,means and a fearful disadvan
tage.'
What is now more interesting to remem*
her is the personal character of the man,
as displayed in the various exigencies of
that trying struggle; the simple honesty
and kindly feeling which prompted him
to console his soldiers as they recoiled
from the cannon-crowned heights of
Gettysburg, with the assurance, ‘lt is all
my fault;’ aud unaffected self-deprecia
tion which pronounced, when Stonew ’1
Jackson fell, ‘1 could wish for the sake of
our cause, that I had been disabled rather
than you the Christian chivalry, whit .
no outrage could provoke to retaliation ;
which after Virginia had l>een rendered
desert, withheld the army that invaded
Pennsylvania from inflicting tlie most
trival injury on person or property: which
when his own estate had been plundered,
ravaged and confiscated, took care to pro
teetthe houses and property of his enemies;
the horror of useless bloodshed which
withstood the cry of retribution excited by
the murder of Southern prisoners in cold
blood, and supported the resolve of the
President that unless the actual murder
ers were taken, no blood should be shed
but on the field of battle ; the touching un
selfishness of his last words to his dis
banding army, on the sorrowful Pth of
April, ‘1 have done my Liestfor you.’ But
it was when all was over—when the chief
of a great and long victorious army was a
private man and a paroled prisoner—that
the peculiar greatness of General Lee’s
nature shines out with unequalled
brightness.
A Very Fmo Field.
“ Tlie South is a fine field for Northern
capitalists,” says the New York ]he aid,
adding:
“There never wa-; a fiueropportunity for
Northern capitalists to invest their money
than the South affords just now. *
Why do not our capitalists, instead of
stock jobbing and using their money for
all sorts of kite flying speculations, invest
in Southern property?”
For the simple reason, says the Expn ss,
that they do not invest their money in
Hayti, or Jamaica, or Spanish America,
viz., that a mixed people, with mixed gov
ernments, can give no stability to Capital,
or certain reward to Enterprise. Tlie Fed
eral Government is ‘ruining ten States of
tlie Uuion, in order to keep up Tariff
Bounties for a few Northern Monopolists,
and is using Southern negroes to govern
Northern white men. Capitalists will
never invest much money under negro
and mulatto Governments, lie more in
Louisiana, than in Hayti or Jamaica.
The Washington Star “ understands”
that the Radical members ofCougress who
favor the impeachment of President John
son, will not press it at this session, but
will endeavor to have a Congress in Octo
ber for that express purpose.
The Memphis Appeal learns that sever
al cases of cholera have occurred on the
Yazoo river, above Yazoo City.
Louisianianshavehad luck in Louisville.
One lost a diamond stud worth $5,000 in
that city on Saturday, and another had
S3OO stolen from him the same day, at a
hotel.
At a Union League Pic Nic on the loth,
at Thunderbolt, near Savannah, a negro
named Nero Thomas Was shot and dan
gerously wounded by another “ man aud
brother.” The M. D.’swere unable to find
tlie ball, and as the reporter of the Savan
nah Republican says, it xtrwk " bom in th<
abdomen, we do not wonder tit it.
The firm of Lee & Norton was lately
dissolved in Montgomery, after a business
connection of more than thirty years.
The Mail claims itas the oldest firm in the
South.