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MACON, WEDN’SDAY, JULY 17,|1867.
incident Agents lor the Journal and
jTlee'^eug’cr.
Amerieus —WM. C. GODWIN, P. M.
Cuthbert —J. M. BROOKS.
Dawson —J. C. F. CLARK, C. S. C.
Albany—& RICHARDSON, P. M.
Tliomaaton —I. H. TRAYLOR.
Forsyth—F. O. MAYS.
Perry—J. S. JOBSON, Esq.
Fort Valley—J. A. McKAY, P. M.
Eufaula, Ala.~*-B. B- FIELDS.
Hawkinsville —L. C. RYAN.
Oglethorpe —W. J. J. SMITH.
Montezuma —ICHABOD DAVIS.
Marshallville —J. A. SPERRY.
Talbot ton— J. CALLIER, P. M.
Griffin —JASON BURR,
Milledgeville—F. L. BRANTLEY.
Authorized Agent.—Mr. Clarence
Aldrich is our authorized Agent for
collecting and receiving subscriptions.
Foreign Immigration. —Much has
been written and spoken on this important
subject, but “ line upon line and precept
upon precept” should be the rule with our
people. We invite attention to the letter
from Paris, to be found in our columns
this morning. It is from a gentleman of
superior intelligence, and who is fully
conversant with the subject whereof he
writes.
The Bill to “ Organizgi Hell in the
South,” as Last Amended.
Elsewhere, our readers will find the text
of this last and foulest iniquity perpetrated
by the enemies of their country, under the
forms of law, and in defiance of every in
stinct of humanity and honor. Assassins
of Liberty, this hateful faction does but
make good its natural claim to the bad
eminence of using power stolen from the
people, for a more unscrupulous and mer
ciless oppression of that people, than the
annals of history have ever shown. Let
them go on, though. Our faith is still un
shaken in that classic proverb :
The mills of the gods grind slowly,
But they grind exceedingly fine.
As the peudulem swings far in one di
rection, so it must, in the order of nature
and retribution rush far in the other. As
these conspirators decree power and place,
at the point of the bayonet,[to the ignorant,
the brutal, and the unworthy, only the
more surely will follow a reaction tore
store to their birthright the wise, the good
and the intelligent. The night may be
long and very dark, and the pathway
rugged and painful to tread, but the morn
must come, and come, too, not only with
justice, but vengeance in its dawn.
For the present, it only remains for ev
ery man in this fair land to take for his
motto what should have been our shibbo
leth from the beginning: Accept noth
ing—submit TO EVERYTHING.
These words blaze out the road, not only
of duty and honor, but of final safety and
repossession of every lost right.
Blue Sky—New York and Pennsylva
nia.
The signs that Radicalism will reap the
whirlwind of political repudiation in some
of the most important Middle and North-
Western Statesin the coming fall elections,
are rapidly culminating. Like the strong,
steady sweep of a tide at its flood, they
come to cheer the heart of every man in
this broad laud, who loves liberty and its
rewards, and whose freeman’s instincts
loathe and despise tyranny in all its shapes,
and its minions of every degree.
We had occasion, a few days ago, to
speak of Ohio and the panic there among
the conspirators, and to refer, incidentally,
to Pennsylvania, as promising much of
good, also. We had not, at that time,
1 iowever,seen as.positiveevidence of the real
situation as is furnished in a recent letter
from Lancaster, the home of Thaddeus
Stevens, to the New York Herald. Even
that diabolical spirit, nerved with hate as
it is, contemplates the possibilities of de
feat. In New York, it is “ conservatism”
that will break the phalanx. In his own
State, with thestingof Cameron’s triumph
rankling in his heart, lie stigmatizes, in
language as fit as it is truthful, the band of
robbers with which his party has filled the
Legislature. It seems that even their
vengeful, negro-loving constituents are
about to revolt. No matter, though, what
does the work, so that it is done and well
done. But to the conversation:
Question —What do you think, sir, of
the condition of the republican party in
New York State ?
Mr. Stevens —I think you will be kill
ed by conservatism in New York. Your
republicans are what the Indian would
call, “mighty unsertian.” They have no
boldness or settled principle. Your last
year’s platform was one of the most absurd
and cowardly that could be adopted in a
country running rapidly to radicalism.—
Greeley has generally spit upon such
platforms; but I suppose he will be for a
more diluted one noxt year. / believe New
York w ill hi lout thin year by want of ear
nestness in the cause, and by the dish
water which has been thrown around by
Greeley and Gerrit Smith.
CORRUITION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Question —Is the republican party well
united in Pennsylvania?
Mb. Stevens—J fear that we shall lone
Pennsylvania this next election. Ido not
think we have earnestness enough in the
State to unite and draw out the republican
strength, while the republican portion of
our Legislature has been so openly, noto
riously and shamefully corrupt, that all
the honest people in the State are dis
heartened and disgusted.
Question —You do not suppose that
you can beat New York in corruption, do
you ?
Mr. Stevens—l think we could. Cam
eron had his men with their hands full of
greenbacks working in the Legislature.—
He had not fourteen votes in his favor at
the close of the election, but soon after he
had forty. One man now claims $50,000
for services, and they refuse to pay him.
This corruption will certainly beat us here
next < lection, unless we draw out the repub
lican strength by gel tiny up a furore and
excitement on impeachment. Geary, too,
hurts us very much. He is an unhappy
failure, and his nomination was an unfor
tunate thing for the party.
How it was Done.—“ Libra,” the At
lanta correspondent of the New York
Tunes, deserves the thanks of the curious
for letting light in on dark places. We
here at home could not hope to fathom the
mystery that envelopes many political
combinations and programmes now being
made in our midst, but this keen Yankee
comes along, and presto, all is clear. His
latest illumination is as to why the Atlan
ta E a has nominated Grant for the Pres
idency. Can it be that the Dr. was “ sell
ing” him?
Atlanta boasts three daily papers—the
Opinion, which is Radical, and the Jntelli
•jinecr, and the Era, which, though not
very pronounced iu politics, are yet both
out in favor of registration and a Conven
tion. The latter journal is edited by a
person named Bard, who has hoisted jthe
standard ofGrant for the Presidency, whMf
is regarded as a very good joke in “ Mili
tary Dislriet No. 3.” On asking him the
meaning of this move, lie told me, with
the most enchanting naivete, that “ it was
all right—the meaning of it might not ap-
I>ear to the superficial observer, but lie had
been on to Washington to see General
Grant, and Grant and he had arranged
the whole matter!”
Whose is It?— Mr. Chas. Rogers, Su
perintendent of the baggage-room at the
Bt. Nicholas Hotel, New York City, writes
us that lie lias “found a baggage check for
baggage from New York to Macon,” and
that the party to whomit belongs had Lest
write and see about it. He does not “send
the number, for anyone might send for it;”
from which we infer that Mr. R. is a \
“dowuey cove,” and not to be taken iu.
The New York Times.—This journal,
in a recent article on the “ South and Re
construction,” thinks that the bill report
ed by tiie Committee on Reconstruction is
“definite enough to satisfy the most fas
tidious.”
“It simply makes the military com
mander of eacli district the only govern
ment over its people and within its limits;
and sweeps away all other authority,
legislative, executive or judicial, that
might stand iu his way. It treats the
whole Southern country as if it were in a
state of war, and hands it over to the ab
solute control of military power.”
The editor declares, farther on, that this
is wholly unconstitutional, but that he
does not object to it, as we are passing
through a revolution, in which constitu
tional checks and guaranties must not
stand up against the popular will.
We have called attention to this candid
avowal by one who electrified the
honest men of the nation last year by his
bold reprobation of this very thing,merely
to show where the country is drifting. The
people of the South are asked to ally them
selves with men who, while declaring that
eight millions of people are being governed
against law, against justice, and
against the written constitution of the
country, yet do not object to it!
Tne spirit that in Georgia stigmatizes
the Constitution as a “ dead dog,” and in
New York welcomes-its violation, is the
same. It deluged France in blood; it rent
England in twain and murdered her con
stitutional ruler; it crossed the Atlauticin
the Mayflower, and after dotting a conti
nent witii graves, is now mustering its
forces for a final assault upon the last bar
riers that defend constitutional liberty.
A Meek and Lowly Shepherd.— The
New York Church Union of a recent date,
publishes as a choice specimen of pulpit
eloquence, a sermon preached by a Radi
cal stump orator—we will not degrade the
cloth by callinghim minister—iu a Brook
lyn church, on the occasion of ex-Presi
dent Davis’ release on bail. We make the
following extract to show its animus. If
anything more rabid, more ferocious,more
fiendish in spirit can be found, even in
those sewers of filth and falsehood, For
ney’s Press and Chronicle,it has escaped our
observation.
And yet the party that applauds, or at
least tolerates a pulpit from which pours
weekly such a foul stream of malignity,
has its allies here in Georgia. Let them
get control of our pulpits, and we shall be
doomed, like the stout old Covenanters of
Scotland, to worship iu the woods and
fields, or go without religious privileges:
Proud, stubborn and desperate to the
last, when his policy was crushed he lied
sullenly, thiovously, scandalously fled—
with the treasures of tbosehe bad deluded,
struggling to bear oft' all possible booty
from tiie country he could not rule, but
could bring to the veige of ruin. This
arch traitor, this desperate out 1 iw, this
prince of all rebels, pirates and villains,
with a price sel on Ins head, was pursued
through hundred of leguc -t,chased through
three great States, and finally captured in
the cowardly disguise of a woman, and
brought back—to what? To justice? Far
from it. To trial for his crimes ? rt is to
be feared not. He was brought back and
guarded at the expense of the nation for
two yi rrs in her strongest fortress, as it
now appears, to be tyrannized over in a
hand-in-g'ove way by a pigmy whom
murder bad set on a pyramid, but who
either dared not or wished not to bring to
an honest trial the foremost, vastest villain
on the globe.
Finality.—We hope every honest man
in Georgia, appreciates now, at their true
value, the promises of those who have been
bellowing “ finality” as a reason why the
people should accept the Sherman bill.
From Wilson, and the other strolling
barators, down to the small fry of apostate
editors and plunder-mongers, who yelp in
chorus as they get their cue from Wash
ington, this argument has been dinned
intoourears ad rau-eam. What becomes of
it, now? And 'what assurance have we
that the October session of Congress will
not be signalized by the imposition of
fresh conditions, and more insolent and
painfully humiliating exactions? Already,
even before this new turn of the screw has
been legalized, “so-called,” one con
spirator in the Senate, bolder than his fel
lows, gives fair warning that it is not
the last. Said Nye, of Nevada, in the de
bate on tiie btk inst., before tiie passage of
the bill:
There would he no substantial in
this country until every rebel was either
dead or disfranchised. Instead of opening
the doors to let them in, he would make
the law more stringent. He was heartily
tired of this talk for leniency. The rebels
only wanted an opportunity to revive the
rebellion in which tuey had been engaged.
He knew that the constiutency he repre
sented were afraid only of opening the
gates too wide. He denied in toto the
proposition that these people could he won
by magnanimity. They had been tried
with the Constitutional Amendment, but
had rejected it, and had yielded to nothing
but the. bayonet, before which they were
made to tremble. It would be found that
before the work of reconstruction was com
pleted still more stringent laws would
have to he enacted.
The man who listens again to this syren
song of “ finality,” with such a warning
thundering in his ears, deserves to wake
and find himself a dishonored thrall, with
the damning memory that he has bereft
those who are to follow him of all power
to remove the collar, and regain their
birthright.
Played Out.—The farce of a free elec
tion in the Southern States, is completely
played out under the amended “ Recon
struction" bill. The whole question of
“Convention” or “ no Convention” is left
virtually in the bauds of the registrars.—
They may not only judge of a man’s qual
ifications who applies in future to register,
but the power is lodged with them to re
vise the list, and strike from it all whom
they;may hold not qualified to be enrolled.
If, as the day of election approaches, the
prospect of defeat is even among the pos
sibilities, all they have to do is to retire to
their rooms, close the doors, and by era
sious and additions, make the majority
just what they please. We agree with
the Mobile Register that :
This result ought to lie eminently satis
factory to those .Southern patriots who ad
vocate an “ acceptance of the congression
al programme of reconstruction.” They
will get it now “ pure and simple,” and
they will be saved every trouble in the
achievement.
Scalped !—Our plain-speaking friend,
Christy, of the Athens Watchman, has on
his war paint this week. So far, he shows
two scalps—one of a little Federal Major,
who bosses the Bureau at Athens, and im
agines himself a I.ieut. General, at least,
and the other of some nameless, but inef
fably “ mean white,” who has been insult
ing propriety and the nostrils of all decent
people by the expression of certain opin
ions in regard to the relative merits of
white and black people. He loses his
scalp, as follows. It would be much more
satisfactory, though, to announce that it
was his head:
A 3falter of Taste.— We have been in
formed that the opinion has been publicly
expressed in this community, by a man
professing to he white, that negroes are
■ot only as good, but in some respects bet
ter than white folks! As every man is
presumed to be the hirst judge of his own
value, we shall not pretend to contest that
point with any white man, so long as he
eon fines his theory to his own individual
ease. Indeed, we are always ready to
concede that whenever a white man thinks
negroes are bettei than himself, he is al
ways right!
Results of “ Restoring the Union.”
Wendell Phillips iu one of his recent
incendiary harangues, summed up the re
sults to the North of the late war for the
"restoration of the Union :”
We are surrounded by childless mothers
and orphans; we have mortgaged the right
hand of this generation ami the next to
pay $3,000,000,000 ; we have taken the com
forts from this generation ; we have filled
half a million patriot graves.
Aye, white-livered traitor, and for what?
To whip back States into a Union they
would never have left, had their confeder
ates of the North been true to tlieir consti
tutional obligations aUnion which you
had declared a “ league with death,” and
whose Constitution your shameless tongue
had denounced as “ a covenant witii hell.”
In tiie language of tiie Memphis Appeal
you and yours did not wish that the
Southern States should not secede. You
wished for war, in order that slavery might
be destroyed, and some millions of profi
table laborers become idlers, paupers, vag
abonds and criminals. For this you push
ed Lincoln into a war upon the South. —
For this, you have not only surrounded
yourselves, but tilled the South “ with
childless mothers and orphans.” The
South had the right to secede, if it wished.
It was under no obligation to' remain in
the Union when to do so became injurious
to it. Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas
were not under obligations to recognize
any more tadpole States as their equals.
fn the denial of this right, the North
was recreant to its own pretended princi
ples; and in making war upon tiie South
it committed an immense crime. Phillips
pictures some of the consequences of tiie
crime. Thepicture is not half dark enough.
The debt is nearer Jive than three thousand
millions. The war has demoralized more
men who still live than those who fill
“ patriot graves.” Crime is rife and inso
lent and audacious, all over tfee Northern
land. Tiie Clergy and the Teachers are
corrupted. Murder and rape are chroni
cled daily ; and seventy per cent, of the
convicts are returned soldiers.
Aye, we do rejoice to see the poisoned
chalice commended to the lips of the
North. The South is manacled and help
less. Shall she not rejoice that the Omni
potant God is her just avenger?
The only Reason.—lt appears from
Greeley’s testimony before the House Ju
diciary Committee, that he was urged by
certain of his party friends not to go bail
for Ex-President Davis. Why ? Because
it would hurt the Radical party ! And
this is the party of “ great moral ideas” —
tiie friends, par excellence, of “ human pro
gress”—whose leaders vaunt themselves
the peculiar advocates of a “ wise and en
lightened statesmanship!” A national
injustice was to be perpetrated, and a State
prisoner murdered by inches, in order that
the most wicked and damnable faction
that ever cursed a country with its foul
domination, should be retained in power!
Southern Beggars in the North
and WssT.r-We have recently received a
good many letters from different points in
tiie North and West, inquiring into the
responsibility and honesty of different
parties who purport to be agents, sent out
for the purpose of securing donations of
money and food for the destitute of the
South. To t hese inquiries we have replied
to the best of our ability and knowledge,
and have given such information as we
could obtain.
Our purpose in alluding to this matter!
thowever, is to caution the charitably dis
posed people of other sections not to en •
trust, without the fullest satisfaction as to
tlieir reliability, into the hands of any in
dividual, supplies destined for the desti
tute. Tiie safest and most sure way to
bes.tow these charities is to send the sup
plies to the Executive of the State, or to
Mayors of cities, Justices of Inferior
Courts, and other public officers. If this
course is pursued, the donors may rest
assured of a proper disposition and grateful
acknowledgment of the kind assistance
rendered. Weareglad to note in this con
nection, that there is not that extreme
destitution among our people now that
did exist a few months since.
The Round Table.—The Sixth Vol
ume of The Round Table begins with the
lirst issue for July. The paper lias attained
unequivocal success, and is now a firmly
established institution of the metropolis.—
Its editors, however, not satisfied with
past achievements, are determined by ev
ery possible exertion to elevate and im
prove it to the highest attainable standard,
Tiie principle of securing the very ablest
writers for each and every department
which lias been found so successful during
the past year, is to bo rigidly adhered to
for the future, but amplified in scope so as
to embrace all possible force, spirit and
variety. Politically, The Round Table
will continue absolutely independent, and,
as heretofore, tiie steadfast advocate of free
trade. Various arrangements have been
effected for securing novel, valuable and
interesting features, not only in the
usual articles, but in serials and corn 3-
pondence; and the conductors promise
that no efforts shall be lacking on their
part to make the paper, in ail respects, an
influential advocate of enligntened progress
and an honor to American literature.
July and August are the best months for
grubbing up sprouts and briars, many of
which, if cut down now will die, that
would spring up immediately if cut any
other season. '■*>* *■*
If new lands are to be cleared, it is a
good time to eut down the undergrowth,
too small for fencing purposes so as to let
the bush dry. The sprouts are less likely
to give trouble, and all work done at the
leasure time after laying by, is so much
saved next winter.
If your Wheat has not been threshed and
sunned, get it out, and after thorough
sunning, put it up iu boxes or in casks, in
the middle of the day, while hot. In a
basement or dry cellar, if it is thus put up,
it will keep sound for two years, at least.
If it stauds long unsunned, it will be
greatly damaged by weevil. Some add
1-2 lb. salt to each bushel of wheat, which
will do no harm, but we have always
found a good sunning sufficient.
An exchange says: Dr. H. G. Stover, of
Boston, lias written a book on the subject
of foeticide, which shows that the people
of Massachusetts, in respect of this partic
ular crime, in the villages as well as in the
cities, are nearly twice as corrupt as the
population of France, and eight-fold more
depraved than that of the city of New
York.
If none but “descendants of the Pil
grims” perpetrate the crime, the more ex
tensively it prevails, the better it will b
forthe country. —[Chicago Times.
Workmen, pedestrians and others
whose vocation uecesitate their being
much in the sun while the thermometer
is up among the nineties, will do well to
remember that many a case of sun-stroke
and general prostration from the effects of
heat has been prevented by keeping wet
greeu leaves in the crown of the hat. If
leaves are not attainable, a pocket hand
kerchief saturated with water |and placed
in the hat or cap wilt lie found to be bene
ficial in warding off the effects of the sun.
This is very simple, and if followed, will
serve to render out door employment j
much more bearable than it is at present.
Brevities.
Robert Stratton, a well kuowii miller,
near Gainesville, Ala., was murdered on
the 6th while sleeping in his bed. The
weapon with which he was shot was held
so near his body as to burn the flesh.
An extensive revival of religion is going
on at Tallahassee, Lake City. Monticello,
Quincy and other points in Florida. —
Many have joined tiie different churches.
111 Tennessee, Brownlow’s imps tear
down and trample upon the stars and
stripes, when found suspended over the
house of any man whom they know will
vote against that old wretch.
Beriali Magoffin, who "weakened” so,
as Governor of Kentucky, 4
violated tlio neutrality of that State, has
been nominated for the Legislature by the
Democrats of Mercer county. A bad
selection, we fear, gentlemen.
Mr. Thomas Mills, well known in Mont
gomery, was murdered in Greenville,
Ala., on Tuesday. No particulars, as yet,
have been made public.
Silas Bragg, believed to be one of a
gang of outlaws in Baldwin county, Alu.,
murdered, on the 3d instant, a citizen, of
that county named Bruton. 011 the (itli
he was found dead in the woods—Lynch,
J.
Dinah, an ex-slave of Dr. God
win, of Autauga county, Ala., died on
Tuesday, iu that county, aged 110 years.
Col. John Collier, of Atlanta, was sworn
in on Monday, as Judge of the Coweta
circuit, vice Warner.
Tiie Intelligencer notices the escape
from the chain gang iu that city, of a no
torious character, named Sockwell. The
men who watch that chain gang, must be
slow coaches, indeed.
About 100 Augusta negroes, bringing
their own soda water, ice cream, whiskey,
and rations, came up to Atlanta on Thurs
day, on a pic uic excursion. The Intelli
gencer wishes that the fresh mountain
breezes may be wafted around them during
tlieir stay.
We are pained to learn, also, from the
Intelligencer, that Albon Chase, one of
the best citizens, in every sense of the word,
of Athens, died in that place, on the 10th
inst. Green he the turf above him !
Characteristically, the Opinion gives
currency tq a rumor started by the half
drunken pic-uie negroes who arrived in
Atlanta on Thursday, that a white man
had fired upon them at Covington !
We also learn from the Opinion, that.
Ma. Hulbert, State Superintendent of
Registration, has moved his office to At
lanta.
Pat Lynch, Jr., of Atlanta, was acci
dently shot on the up passenger train of
the W. & A. It. K., Thursday morning.—
The ball passed through one of his hands,
and into his leg.
In Whitfield county up to Wednesday
afternoon, 80S whites, and 140 blacks hail
been registered.
In Murray county, so far. 0»0 whites and
100 blacks have been registered.
The demand for corn in the Atlanta
market exceeds the supply. It also rules
higher than wheat—an anomaly in that
market never before known in the memo
ry ol the “oldest inhabitant,” says the In
telligencer.
Lottie Sherwood, a "pretty waiter girl,”
shot and killed Warcu Pettit, her lover,
and who was employed in the same saloon,
in Memphis, on Monday night.
Forney says that it is “dangerous to be a
general south of tiie U. S. Miramon and
Mejia, Die Lee and Johnston of Mexico,
havefbeeu shot as deserters.” In any other
country but the North, and in any other
party but Forney’s, such an unprincipled,
shameless wretch would find it dangerous
to obtrude upon the society of men claim
ing to be gentlemen.
Dr. Robert J. Breckenridge.well known
in medical circles in the Confederate
States army, and atone time acting Chief
Medical Director of the Army of Northern
Virginia, died a few days since in Houston,
Texas.
Major Whiting, Quartermaster in charge
of the work, reports that up to this time,
70,000 bodies have been reburied in the
cemeteries embraced within the operations
of tiie Army of the Cumberland. And all
that negroes may vote, and the foulest
faction that ever ruined a country, be kept
in i>ower!
Mrs. Ruth, a daughter of the late Gen.
Quitman, of Mississippi, died on the loth,
in Louisville.
On the 21st of August, tiie planet Jupi
ter will appear without his satellites—a
thing only twice recorded, heretofore, in
the history of celestial phenomena.
The Radical Territorial Convention for
the Territory of Florida, met at Tallaluis
see, on the 11th inst. Their first act was
to defeat Hart, “Mean White”, for Presi
dent, because he was a native Southerner
Good!
011 the same day, during a thunder
storm, lightning struck two stores in that
city, simultaneously. Several persons
were more or less shocked, but none seri
ously.
The steamer R. E. Bell capsized from a
collision with a schooner during a heavy
squall in the Waccamaw river, S. C,, last
week, and seven persons were drowned.
In Muscogee county, up to Saturday
night, the total registration was 2,05.5 —950
whites, and 1,095 blacks.
111 the case of Edward H. Wilson ?«.
the Bank of Louisiana, for 700 bales of
cotton, a verdict was given last week in
the Circuit Court at Montgomery, Ala., for
$100,909,05.
Tiie Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier notes the fact, in a Jate
letter, that unqualified negro suffrage was
only carried in tiie Radical caucus on the
Sherman bill, when first debated, by two
votes. Finality-ites, attention!
In Glascock county, as we learn from
the Constitutionalist, registration stands 160
whites, and 87 blacks.
Dr. J. Marion Sims, now a resident of
Paris, and of high repute in his profession,
has sent Gov. Orr, of 8. G\, SI,OOO in gold
to be disbursed for the benefit of the poor
of that State, and particularly of Lancas
ter, of which district the Doctor is a native.
At the late meeting of the Board of
Trustees of Mercer University, at Pentleld,
the degree of L. L. D. was conferred upon
Rev. and Hon. J. L. M. Curry, and it was
also resolved to urge the removal of the
college to Atlanta.
At the sale of a cargo of sugar and mo
lasses from Cardenas, in Charleston, on
Friday, Muscovado sugar brought 12J to
13 1-10, by the hogshead. Cuba and Mus
covado molasses brought from 45 to 56
cents, per gallon, by the barrel.
There are 8,320 delinquent tax payers in
the city of New Orleans, owing amounts
varying from fifty cents to thousands of
dollars—says the Charleston News.
At the recent commencement of the
Georgetown (D. C.) Female School (Cath
olic), the highest honors in the senior
circle, a crown and medal, were conferred
on six young ladies, one of whom was
Miss Saida Bird, of Hancock county.
Misses Louisa and Mary Myrick, of this
State, each gained a silver medal.
Two negroes outraged the persons of two
white ■women and a mulatto girl, on
Tuesday last, in Burke county. They
have not been caught, we are sorry to an
nounce.
John Forsyth, of the Mobile Register,
says there is one miracle neither God nor
the devil could work, viz : Make anything
but a traitor, a renegade, a coward and a
scoundrel out of any Southern born man
who would desert his Southern mother in
the hour of her agony and become a Radi
cal.
The residence of Major McCracken, of
Covington, was entered and robbed of two
trunks on the night of the 9th inst. Their
contents were valued at a thousand dollars.
A negro was arrested and sent to jail to
answer for the theft.
Up to Friday, 1,990 voters had been man
ufactured in Newton county—l,o9B white,
and 892 black. Among the blacks, “Great
KHtain MoCalliUi” and “London Eng
land,” are two of the “ entitles.”
The Nashville papers, of Friday, suy
tiiat news of a sudden and rapid decline
in Brownlow’s health .reached them the
day before. Too good to be true, we fear.
Gen. Grant and a party of Rump Con
gressmen will visit Lookout Mountain the
latter part of this monih. The Nashville
Gazette hopes they will stay long enough
in Tennessee,toobserve how Brownlowism
conducts elections. .
The editor of tiie Opinion discourses
very flippantly about brainless editors.
Better that, perhaps, for its a misfortune ,
than the fault of stealing the products of
another’s labor, and passing it off on
your readers as your own.
K Three of the leading hotels on Rich
mond are about being closed for want of
patronage. Three stores on every block
iii that city are for rent or sale.
Two brutes named, respectively, Hanks
Waterbary and Tom O’Neal, bruised and
mangled each other on Wednesday near
New York City one hoar and forty minutes
for t he pitiful sum of two hundred dollars.
The atrocious murder of Maximilian
meets no sympathy, anywhere, outside
the Rump Congress. Much white-livered
bullies as Chandler and Howard, and
surh a savage as Logan, who is true to the
brutal instincts of his Indian blood, are
the only approvers of the foul deed in all
thecivilized world. We are glad that they
have thus placed themselves on the
record. It goes far to vindicate the South
in her desire for separation from a people
who honor such qualities.
In five precincts in Sumter county, 317
whites, 416 blacks have been registered.
W. R. Gorman, of Talbot county, made
this year on two acres of sandy land, fif
teen years in cultivation, 65 bushels of
wheat, weighing 60 poumls to the bushel.
The Hon. 15. H. Hill speaks this morn
ing at 11 o’clock, at Uavis’ Hall, in
Atlanta.
Registration in Barbour county, Ala.,
shows something over 5,000 voters, with a
slight black majority. Notwithstanding
that, the people are cheerful and the earth
laughs with the richest harvest ever
known.
A terrible tornado passed over portions
of the Memphis Charleston It. it., on
the 12th. fine span of the bridge over the
Tennessee river, at Decatur, was blown
away.
We learn from the IntDUgene* r, that the
Empire Stab- Insurance Company has de
clared a dividend of 31 per cent, on it.-
capital stock.
A young man named Craig, from Pitts
burg, Pa., swallowed an ounce of lauda
num at a hotel in Louisville, the other
day, hut tiie M. D.’s pumped him dry. and
he is still this side the river. He couldn't
pay his hoard hill, and his friends wouldn't
“ante.”.
A certain editor in Atlanta has forgot
ten already, a lesson administered not
many days ago by a Columbus friend of
ouis. At least we judge so, from the lan
guage of an article in his paper in reference
to the Hon. B. H. Hill.
IIILIII.Y ItII*OKTA\T.
TlieOr<l«r% 4. mutiny U«{(i%irHiiou to <’er-
Partio* ti« hi iml. and.
To llk.nhv ts. Wetmobe, President Board
Registration, Savannah, Ga. :
No such instructions are authorized as
you announce in tiie Savannah papers.
You will be guided by the law and pre
vious printed instructions. Recall your
advertisement.
By order of Major General Pock.
J. N. Mkline,
General Inspector Registration.
Approved: G. K. Sanderson, Captain
and A. A. A. G. 3d Mil. District.
[Savannah ll>publican, VMh.
Early in the Field.—We learn from
a colored freeman (not freed man) that
Aaron Sweat, of Marlboro’ District, an
other i-olored freeman, (not freedmanjwho
lias a!w;u s enjoyed all the privileges of a
white man, is a candidate for Congress in
tins Congressional District. That he has
made several appointments, at which he
has been met by crowds of freedmon, to
whom he has made electioneering
speeches. In these speeches lie tells the
freedinen that he gels his papers from the
West, informing him that the Radicals
are butchering all the old secessionist men,
women and cni’dren, and argues that the
same must be done here, aud that now is
the time to do it. There are other native
born natural orators, of African descent,
wiio also address these meetings, using
equally violent and incendiary language.
One of these, by the name of Prince, a
bricklayer by trade, is also in the field as
a candidate for the convention. There can
he no doubt that if tiie fact, as related to
us, was officially communicated to Gen
eral Sickles, that lie would at once teaeli
them a lesson they would not soon
forget.—[ Cher a w Advertiser.
The Co-operative Movement.— Those
people who imagine that the interest in
co-operative industry is a passing spasm,
of excitement due to sucli incidental
causes as high rents, costly living, expen
sive materials of labor, or the failure of
eight hour law—in other words, that it is
but another kind of conspiracy against
wealth—are profoundly mistaken. The
movement is no local passion, no momen
tary flurry, but a widespread and steady
revolution in the industrial world. It goes
on most powfully in countries where
society is very differently organized from
ours, and where our particular vexatious
are not acutely felt. In England, for in
stance, the system spreads so fast and
takes such hold, that the regular traders
are meditating self-defence. A year ago,
there were in England four hundred and
seventeen co-operative stores, realizing all
together, some $6,000,000 of profits, and
dividing thirty-live per cent, on invest
ments.
In France the papers report still more
wonderful successes, and on a higher plan
of enterprise. The French are the bast
organizers of industry in the world. No
people are so thrifty, so quick- witted, so
sagacious, so pliable, so fond of experi
ment, so scientific in procedure. They are
entirely foot-loose and handy, and they
have turned over so many theories, that
they have learned pretty well what can
be done and what cannot. They were not
satisfied as the English were, and as many
of our people seem to he, with co-operative
shops, which are well enough in their
way, but which do very little to exlubit
the principle of co-operative labor—but,
taking the idea at once in its full scope,
applied it immediately to the recorgauiza
tion of industry. The city of Paris has
thirty industrial associations, the prosper
ity of which is so immense that all sorts
of trades are striking into the system ; the
small trades which require but lithe
capital, sucli as last-making, spectacle
making, chair-making, finding it especially
suited to them. The busy city of Lyons
has thirty stores conducted on the system,
the profits oil the capital were sixty per
cent, 'l'he movement bus attracted so
much attention, and acquired so much
importance in France, that the directors of
the Credit, au Travail (the Workingmen’s
Bank) have invited a congress of the co
operative societies of all nations to assem
ble in Paris on tiie 14th of August for
general consultation.
[ Richmond Dispatch.
Chief Justice Chase presides at the term
in October, to hear the writ of error
granted in the case of the confiscated J
property of McVeigh, of Alexandria.
Correspondence from Paris.
Extract from a letter lyldrossed to .James
R. Butts, Esq., of this city, from his cor
respondent, dated Paris, June 18th, 1867 :
Dear Sir : I had the pleasure of receiv
ing your favors of the 30th of Deeemlier
and 17th of April last, together with plans
and diagrams, for which please receive
my thanks. I submitted them to the
Chief-Engineer of Mr. Schneider, the Pres
ident of the French House, who has a
foundry in which he employs twenty
thousand workingmen. I wanted him to
repair tiie factory you mention, and to set
tiie mills aud spindles at work. He might
have paid himself afterwards, upon the
benefits arising from tiie establishment.—
Unfortunately, hcAlocs not seem decided
yet to do that or to purchase; although
one million is to him what a pence is to
you or to me. fdo not despair, however.
I thiuk that in the course of time, and by
perseverance, something will turn up in
which our mutual plans may he realized ;
hut, as I told you before, everything de
pends on the energy and ability you and
your people will display in the matter;
and above all, you must penetrate your
self well of this truth : Lands are thrown
for nothing on this market by the millions
of acres to those who are willing to go and
take them and cultivate; and this is want
ing which are not like yours, agitated by
the conflict of parties, aud under the reign
of martial law. These considerations are
grave obstacles in the way of a settlement
of your country by foreign emigration.—
But still your lands arc so rich, your jseople
so hospitable, your institutions so much to
the taste of our French citizens, there is so
much natural aflinity between them and
tiie Southerners, tlie political reasons for
helping you are so strong, that I should
not he surprised if a strong current of emi
gration would some day leave the shores of
France, Italy, Spain and Austria, and go
to settle in your regions. Our capitalists
begin to he very hold. Paris is now the
centre of ail great speculations, of ail for
eign loans; all continental railroads are
contracted for witli the capital of this
city. London, 1 ain told, comes now but
second in the money market, and Paris is
first—no wonder! Paris is now the ren
dezvous of ad tiro nations, and of all the
mniiarchs of Europe; itll other cities are
| now eclipsed by its splendors, and ail those
who vi.-jit. it, say it far surpasses what
their imaginations had dreamed of. 'Your
interests are, evidently, to avail yourself of
the inclinations capitalists have to seek for
a safe and profitable investment of their
capital, for as you well say, you have lost
everything, even the instruments of labor,
without which the restoration of your
lost fortunes is impracticable. In such
emergency you must make all imaginable
sacrifices, I mean those in keeping with
honor and interests. Having made so
many to sustain the war, why should you
not make some to get out of the ruinous
ami difficult position in which you are
placed ? t cannot, of course, tell you throe
thousand miles off, what these sacrifices
must he, and if 1 knew 1 would not cer
tainly take the liberty to indicate them to
you. These sort of things must he self
inspired and spontaneous gerteralities ;
they are the result rather of individual,
than collective, initiative and enterprise.
But allow me, with ail due deference, to
tell you what Maximilian did to get emi
grants to Mexico, and what he would have
carried out had not the French deserted
him. In the first place he prevailed upon
-"'iie rich land owners to give away half
ot tligr lands for emigration, retaining the
other half for themselves. He then ap
pointed agents in Vera Cruz and other
places who received emigrants and carried
them to homes provided for them, where
they remained till they had built up for
themselves the houses in which they were
to live. Home lands were sold, some others
were given on lease. £ simply throw out
these general features to you, so that you
may know in what direction success lies.
Gu Lave actually in Georgia men of
wealth, who could form an Association for
the purpose of selling land to emigrants,
and of assisting them in their settlements.
This Association might have its seat in
Savannah, and house in Paris, which
would, perhaps, obtain credit here in car
rying out the enterprise. To the task of
sending agricultural emigrants this house
might also direct an industrial current
upon your State. Good, honest, skilful
artisans would be found in any quantity.
The house in Savannah might state what
kind of industry is most likely to flourish
in Georgia—advertisements might he put
in newspapers to that effect; hut first an
Association, headed by prominent citizens
of your State, must i>e organized. This is
(he preliminary step, nothing is possible
at present in Georgia without it. When
it will lie formed I will, if I aiu free, intro
duce the firm to our first capitalists in
Paris and elsewhere; I will go to Havre,
Bremen, Hamburg, Trieste and Italy, if
necessary ; organize houses corresponding
with those you will have formed, or direct
your agent, If you send one, in his opera
tions. This, I think, is a practical scheme.
Let your most conspicuous and wealthy
citizens meet; let them form a respectable
capital, and associate notonly their money,
but their lands ; let the State protect and
patronize them ; let them appoint intelli
gent and responsible agents in all the
large cities of Georgia, aud in ten years
youwillhave asmuch capital and as many
emigrants as any State in the North.—
This, I think, may succeed ultimately if
not immediately, especially if your politi
cal condition assumes a better aspect. At
all events a strong organization, with
property and capital, cannot fall to inspire
confidence, and assist you in doing what
nothing else (An do so well—procure your
labor and capital, and lay down the basis
of internal development of your immense
resources. I take the liberty to give you
these indications because they appear to
me calculated to help you iu getting out
of the painful position in which most of
the Southern States are situated. You
have to make efforts in the right direction,
get a population you have not, and to
obtaiu it uo sacrifices ought to frighten
you.
Your course is plainly marked: you
have to call around you a population capa
ble of assimilation, and not one which is
not; and to that end all your efforts must
be directed.
What I say here will not prevent me
from doing all I can to sell your lands, and
promote your interests; but I have very
little hope of success until you have or
gauized.
If you send me some documents upon
the resources and history of your State, I
will try to make good use of them, and if
I have something new to tell you before
this letter is answered, f will write you.
I am, sir, faithfully yours,
K. FAURKNOE.
Washington, July 13.—The Union
Congressional committee meet to-night to
hear reports from Southern agents—con
sider political situation, and adopt means
to secure political dominion over that
section.
Col. Humphries, agent for Cherokee
Indians at Fort Uibsou, died with the
cholera
Richmond, July 15.—Adolfe Wolfe, a
well-known merchant, who closed busi
ness recently and went South, was brought
back to-day front Alabama, charged with
obtaining goods on fraudulent pretences
from parties here. He had also dealt
largely in Baltimore, New York and
Cincinnati.
Fifty-one eases of alleged whiskey
frauds are to he tried at the next term of
the U. S. Court.
Roswell, Ga.—lnteresting Letter.
We have beeu permitted to publish the
following letter to a friend, lroiri a well
known former citizen of Macon :
Roswell, Ga., July 19,1««7.
Dear .—ln yours of the 6th instant,
received yesterday, you ask for “some ac
count of Roswell, its climate, crops* mills,
improvements, &c.”
You seem to have written almost by
intuition in putting “ climate ” first in your
list, for, of all pleasant things in this ex
ceedingly pleasant place, the climate l
perhaps tiie first to he noticed and enjoyed.
Unfortunately for exact details, there is no
thermometer within reach, other than the
feelings; but it may he sufficient t<> say
that the people here, with all facilities at
hand, put op no ice nor import any, for
summer use—none is needed. The tem
perature of the water is 56° Far., tested
to-day ; and a gentleman remarked yes
terday that he had not noticed the ther
mometer higher than 84° this summer.
Last night about 9 o’clock, while a goodly
com|yiny of us were sitting in an open
piazza enjoying the soft moonlight audthe
c6ol refreshing air, there was a universal
call for thicker clothing, (I had on then a
stout worsted coat); and there has not
been a night since our coming, that at
least one blanket, and sometimes more,
were not necessary to comfort. If Adam
and Eve in l’aradise enjoyed a more
delicious climate than this, they were a
highly favored couple.
Roswell, as you know, is a small manu
facturing village of a few hundred inhabi
tants, situated on a branch of the
Chattahoochee river, where it can command
water power sufficient for almost all the
manufacturing purposes of the State. It
is about 20 miles by travelled road from
Atlanta, and If from Marietta, and has a
tri-weekly line of hacks plying between
it and the former place, coining hereon
Mondays, Wednesdays aud Fridays, aud
returning there on the days intervening.
The site was selected before the Indians
left the country, and was named for Mr.
Roswell King, the father of the principal
family of the colony, which soon after
wards gathered here from Mclntosh,
Liberty and Bryan counties, and which,
in the course of time, established the Ros
well Factory for cottons, the Ivey Mills for
woolens, the Lebanon Mills for flour,
besides saw-mills, tanneries, .-hoe factories,
&e.
There are four organized churches here,
the Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal and
Presbyterian, and three church buildings,
together with four flourishing Sabbath
schools, and a once prosperous (andproba
bly-to-be-resumed) Academy. Os the
stores tiie only one of any size is connected
with the* Factory ; but it is a perfect
Noah’s urk, containing everything in
ordinary demand by tiie community and
neighborhood, liquor only excepted, which,
by-the-hy, is not demanded by the exceed
ingly temperate people dwelling here, nor j
allowed to he retailed within a certain dis
tance of the settlement. The reputation
of tiie place for intelligence, enterprise,
refinement, sobriety, good order,and every
social excellence is not exceeded by any
other community in the .Slate; and it is
well worthy of the model Church and
model Pastor which came together from
the low' country, and grafted the excellen
cies of their seaboard society upon tiie
sturdy stock of the mountains.
Os course Roswell has felt tiie terrible
effects of the recent desolating war. Some
of her noblest sons went down beneath
the tide of battle. Most of the fathers too
have disappeared. And in the deadly
swoop of bherman upon the factories of
the Btate, in the yeai 1864, his fiery torch
was applied not only to the public im
provements here, hut tosotneof the private
dwellings, and hundreds of the factory
girls and many of the inhabitants were
sent by him beyond the limits of tiie so
called rebellion. It is melancholy to look
into the once crowded homes ami streets
and mills of the colony, and compare the
aspect of the present with what it was five
or even three years since.
Dreadful, however, as was the Llow tiiat
fell, the spirit of the people was not broken.
Like a nest of bees, whose stores of honey
have been crushed and ruined, but whose
hive has been left (for no Vandalism, even
of Sherman, tiie chief of modern Vandals,
could destroy the rocks and shores and
waterfalls and factory sites of the Chatta
hoochee river) they have set themselves
with a constantly increasing energy to
repair the ruin and to resume their work.
In fact they are already at work in the
cotton, woollen, saw and grist mills, not
on as large a scale as before, for neither
their means nor the country’s will permit
that yet, hut at work, and ready for more
enlarged operations as soon as the times
demand.
The crops, concerning which also you
enquire, are in most hopeful condition. —
Not much cotton has been planted, hut
what there is looks well ; while the corn,
in every stage of progression from that of
knee-high to that of tassel'aud silk, is of a
deep rich green, and the wheat crop,
nowhere a failure, m in many cases above
the average and of the best quality. Flour
retails at 6aud 8 cents per pound, hut it is
said by some of the buyers, that ere long
it will sell for 21 cents a pound, or $ > j»er
barrel, a hope in which many will unite,
hut which few will probably realize.
Live stock is scarce, every accessible
thing that lives, breathes and moves hav
ing been killed or carried off' by the blue
coated visitors to these hills two years ago,
and the time being insufficient for their
resupply In the course of nature. For this
reason the breadth of land under cultiva
tion is much less than it would otherwise
have been, and freight wagons (except
those connected with the Factory) are not
easily found. This evil, however,ds rapid
ly being remedied by time.
Like every other part of our down trod
den South, Roswell feels the scarcity of
money. White labor can be freely com
manded, for either farm or domestic
purposes, at 75 cents a day lor able bodied
men. and 50 cents for women, they finding
themselves.
The only serious deficiency in the social
arrangements of the place, is the want of
a house for public accommodation ; there
is not even a caravanserai, where a I ravel
ling man and beast may eat their own
provender under shelter. But for any who
would tarry longer than a night, either for
business or for pleasure, this deficiency is
more than compensated by the pleasant
board to be obtained in several private
families.
Os one tiling I can assure you from near
ly a week’s experience this summer, and
from many months experience in summers
past, that those who are now languishing
under the sweltering heat of our midland
and seaboard cities could not easily give
themselves a greater treat than to conn* up
here for a few weeks and enjoy the delicious
water and the refreshing air of this quiet
mountain retreat.
Yours truly, ***** **
MY GHOST.
Ghost of my dead, dead hope, thy grave
Was fashioned for thoo bitter years ago. [log,
I put thoo in it heaping the heavy clods with weep-
And said, “ tho’ J tenderly love thoo,
1 can plant no flowers above thee,
For I buried them all in tho coffin, dear hoi>e, whore
thou urt sleeping I ”
Ghost ot *iy dead, dead hope, why haunt me so?
Ghost of my dead, dead hope, thy hand
Ts beckoning, and yet I cannot go,
Thy lips are sick with sighing, for tiie deep wild
pangs of dying
Return and will not release thee!
Would it comfort thee or appease thee
To know that in tho same dark grave_we twain
were together lying?
Ghost of my dead, dead hope, why haunt wo so ?
I nkwaddling a 41 -.ninny at tiie l nivcml
Exhibition.
“Malakoff,” the Paris correspondent of
Hie New York Times, transmits a thrilling
description, by M. Theopliile Gautier, of
the Moniteur, of the uu waddling of a
mummy at the Paris Exposition. The
mummy was five hundred years older
than the time of Moses, and walked about
in Egypt nearly four thousand years ago.
We quote from tiie. description :
“The process of unbinding the body
commenced. The outside bandages of
strong linen were first removed with the
aid ot scissors, and then a faint odor of
halm, incense and aromatic drugs tilled
the room like the perfume of a drug simp.
Having fouud an end among these many
wrapi« rs, the mummy was placed in an
upright position, iu order that the long
yellow strip of linen might more easily he
unwound. A stranger scene cannot ho
imagined than this hugerag-dollawkward
)y tossing its arms in the air, while its
despoifers increased at every turn the heap
’of yellow linen at their feet, as one does
the pa rings of a fruit before reaching the
core. From time to time the bandages
inclosed piecesof cloth resembling fringed
towels, designed to fill in the spaces or to
sustain the form. The head was passed
through holes cut In piecesof cloth, which
were adjusted at the shoulder, and fell
over the breast. A kind of veil of coars-e
India muslin, the delicate rose-tint of
which would have charmed an artist, was
discovered after the removal of all these
obstacles, it seems to us that liie roneon
must have been used in the dyeing of this
muslin, unless the original red had become
flesh-colore*J from contact with the aro
matic drugs, aided by the action of time.
Under this veil bandages of liner linen
enveloped the body in their mazy entan
glement. Curiosity becoming greatly
excited, the mummy was made to revolve
more rapidly. Hoilman or Edgar Poe
would have made tliis scene the basis of
one of their terrible histories. Just at
this moment a sudden storm sent great
drops of rain, like bail, against tiie w in
dow-panes; pale streaks* of lightning
illuminated the old yellow skulls, and the
grimacing contortions of the six hundred
death’s heads of the anthropological mu
seum, and the low rumbling of thunder
served as accompaniments to the wulse ot
‘Nes Khons,’ daughter of Horns and of
Rouaa, whirlingjin tiie impatient hands
of her disrobers.
The inummydiminishedseusibly in size,
and her lank figure became more and more
evident as the envelopes • grew Jess in
thickness. An immense quantity of linen
wrappings eiicuni ered ttie room, and it
was difficult to believe they had all been
contained within thishox, which did m>t
surpass the size ofau ordinary coffin, the
neck was the first portion of the body
which appeared disembarrassed of band
ages; hut Vas glued up with such a mass
ol naptha that it required the aid of ,-cis
sors to remove it. All at oneo wo saw a
bright glittering through the dark portions
of the nitre which stilt remained ou the
Irreast, ami wesoon brought to life a thin
leaf ot im tal cut in the form of the sacred
falcon, the wings extended and the tail
spread as a fan, like the eagle in heraldry.
Upon this leaf of gold, too poor a trinket
to tempt the grave-digger, a prayer was
written, demanding of the guardian gods
of tombs that tlie heart and entrails of the
deceased might not tic too widely separated.
A beautiful microscopic yypw te of hard
stone, exquisite for a chain to a watch,
was attached by a thread to a collar of blue
glass beads, where hung a sort of amulet of
turquoise blue enamel, in the form of avail.
Like mteres (Porge, in which the transpar
ency is governed by the crystaiization,some
of the heads bait become half opaque,prob
ably from the heat of the bitumen, which
was poured upon them boiling. All this
is nothing extraordinary, however. These
little objects are often found iu the coffins
of mummies, and there is not a curiosity
shop but what possesses more or less of
these figures in blue paste; hut an unex
pected and touching detail was a flower
found under each arm—so well preserved
that a botanist would no doubt have been
able to name it. Was it a lotus blossom or
apersea? No one could tell us, as our
sompany was mostly composed of savuntx.
Ti is incident made us ail pensive. Whose
hand had placed there the-e [*>or flowers,
a-a last adieu, at the moment when Ibis
deeply regretted body was about to disap
pear forever from mortal eyes? Flowers
four thousand years old! What a subject
for meditation '. A little berrv of fruit,
whose species it would be difficult to name,
was also found from time to time in the
bandages.
Perhaps it was one of those narcotics
which renders oblivious those who inhale
its fragrance. On a fragment of cloth was
written the name of an unknown king
belonging to some dynasty equally ignored.
The mummy opened at the univer- J ex
hibition tills a void iu history ua.a
anew Pharaoh. The face still remain and
concealed beneath its mask of linen and
bitumen, which it was difficult to remove,
owing to its immense age. The sei.—ors
; I finally removed the last obstacle, and two
; large black eyes shone with a semblance
of life between two blackened eyelids. The
• eyes were of enamel, sucli as the ancients
J always put in a careful prepared mummy.
The effect of those two fixed staring eyes
in that dead lace was something startling.
The corpse seemed to contemplate the
living beings before it with disdainful -In
prise. The eyebrows were left clearly de
fined by the falling away of flesh. The
nose, we are obliged to avow it, wa- flat
tened At the end to conceal the incision
which had teen made ia the removal of
the brains of Nes-Khons, and a piece of
gold leaf was placed over her mouth like
a seal of eternal silence. Her line well
preserved hair, fell m light ringlets about
her ears, and was of that peculiar reddish
tint so waiter cite among the Venetian la-
and which the caprice of some of our
rfyfnvte* has brought into favor at the
present day. We hardly believe that this
peculiar shade (which broughtNes-Knotts
into the latest fashion) could have been
natural, as without doubt she was a bru
nette, like her fellow Egyptians, and this
auburn tint is probably produced by ih e
perfumes and drngs-used in the embalm
ment. This same golden tjnt is found on
the heads of two women exposed in the
glass case, and what is strange, one of
them has the same Coiffure as the Venus
of M iio, and the other a profusion ofbraids
forming a sort of casque, as t lie hair is
worn at this time. Little by little tiie
l**dy was exposed to view in all its pain
ful nudity. The skin on the body was
red, and covered w ith little blue spots like
the mould on pictures, paused by the con
tact with the air. From the incision made
to take out tiie entrails, aromatic sawdust
mixed with grains of resin, was dropping
like bran from an unsewed doll. The
long emaciated arms, with their bony
hands and decorated finger-nails were ex
tended, with a sepulchral modesty in the
attitude of the Venus of Medieis. The
feet, seemed to have been originally small
the Loeuails like those of the fingers being
covered with hits of gold leaf.
Was. she old or young, pretty or ugly,
this Nes-klions, daughter of Horns and
and of Ryeaa, named lady by her epitaph?
It would be difficult to judge. Nothing
remains hut dry bones enveloped in a
yellow skin in which it would be impos
sible to recognize the graceful form of the
Egyptian woman as painted by the bjush
of Aima-Tadma. One might well believe
himself dreaming when he thus sees before
before him in palpable form a thing—we
cannot call ita being—that lived and loved
live hundred years before the time of Mo
ses, and two thousand before that of Christ;
for sucli is tiie age of themummy opened
at the Universal Exhibition in tiie midst of
all tiie machinery of modern times. What
curious events are concealed in tiie future'
In the face of such an event as this the
imagination would be justified in indulg
ing in almost any extravagant flight of
fancy. Like Hamlet talking with the
grave-digger,onecomes to the philosophical
conclusion that the dust of Alexander
perhaps serves as a stopper to a beer barrel.
We reflected that at tiie Universal Exhi
bition of future centuries, when the present
civilization should be replaced by another
a professor of anthropology in speakinir
of extinct races, might perhaps make »
dissertation with our skull upon the edi
torial species of the family of men of | e .
ters, au<i wo east a friendly and melan
choly parting glance on the poor mummy.
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remons of U n ‘ bene ? ami cured more
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