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WEEKLY intelligencer.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, September 20, 1865.
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Wb call attention to the communication
of R Q. M., in to-day’s paper, and particu
larly invite consideration for it from those
who are or may be in authority, and whose
solemn duty it will be to devise measures
for averting the evils to society resulting
from the changed condition oi the negro
population; if, indeed, it now be within the
reach of human power to prevent such
things.
The letter referred to in the communica
tion was written by one brother to another,
without the slightest impression that it
would ever find its way into a newspaper,
and is a free and unrestrained communica
tion of facts existing and of apprehensions
felt for the future. It shews the state of
feeling, and the action of the negro race in
what is known as the “ low country ” of
our State, where that population is very
numerous. Its statements accord with
those made in reference to this matter in
almost every portion of our land ; and un
less true wisdom, free from the cant of a
sickly and foolish so-called philanthropy,
and the senseless and heartless ravings of I
wild fanaticism, shall interpose in the ad
justment of the difficult problem, we fear
that scenes will occur that will fill the heart
of the true philanthropist with anguish.—
None but those acquainted with the charac
ter of the negro, and those brought into ac
tual contact with|him, can realize the diffl
culties connected with his management in
his present surroundings. Vain, ignorant,
superstitious, and generally prone to idle
ness—inflated with his sudden freedom, of
which he entertains very improper and in
correct notions—unstable in bis habits and
unreliable in his engagements, with a rest
less desire for change, and suddenly invested
with the control ot his own actions, he finds
it almost impossible to realize the fact that
still he must work if he would live. His
employer, under these circumstances, as a
general rule, finds it impossible to obtain
from him continuous and regular labor, and
hence results a very general inclination to
employ white labor, and to dispense with
that of the negro.
The course that the negroes have pursued
since their freedom was proclaimed, will
inevitably lead to this result, and unless
some means can be devised by which they
will be kept in the cultivation of the soil, an
occupation for which alone the great ma
Jority of them are qualified, many of the
fields W’ll be left to grow up in weeds, and
a consequent scarcity of subsistence will
prevail throughout the entire South, and
the cotton manufactories of the North and
Bast will be stopped for the want of that
material without which they cannot prosper.
All these evils may be averted if the proper
steps be taken in the management of this
difficult question. Common sense, however,
and the experience of years must guide iq
these matters or the result will be useless,
1 rofltless and pernicious.
Southerners and the President.—In our
yesterday’s edition we published the feeling
and eloquent response made by President
Johnson to the Southerners in Washington
City who had called upon him for the pur
pose of presenting an address in behalf of
themselves and the people of the South.
From one of our Northern exchanges, we
learn that when admitted to the presence of
the President, Mr. McFarland, of Virginia,
who, it seems, acted as chairman of the
body, delivered the following brief but ap
propriate address:
“Mr. President—The gentlemen accompa
nying me, and whom I have the honor of
introducing to you, constitute a number of
the most respectable citizens of nine of the
Southern States. They come, sir, for the
purpose of manifesting the sincere respect
and regard they entertain for you, and to
express tbeir sincere determination to co
operate with you in whatever shall tend to
promote the interests and welfare of our
common country, and to say that they are
as earnest now and faithful to their allegU
ance to the United States, and to the con
stitution of the Union, as in the past, and
that they have great confidence in your wis
dom to heal the wounds that have been
made, and in your disposition to exercise all
the leniency which can be commanded by a
sound and judicious policy. That they are
assured, in doing this, of your desire and in
tention to sustain and maintain Southern
rights in the Union of the United States.”
It is said that the President was deeply
affected at the presence of the gentlemen,
and during the delivery of this address. His
reply, as our readers must have noticed,
plainly indicated deep feeling.
nounces the arrival of Gen. Beauregard at
Vera Cruz, where he goes into voluntary
exile.” We see it stated that Gen. Ma-
gruder is paying a visit to his sister in Eng
land, the wife of Lord Abinger, who was
formerly stationed with his regiment in
Canada, where he became enamored ot the
robust charms of Miss Magruder, who will
be remembered as formerly one of the
most portly belles of Washington. As
the wife of Lord Abinger, the lady
has become the talk oi London society
The Emperor Maximilian Las purchased
and shipped from New York, for the Impe
rial printing office in the city of Mexico, a
set of Hoe’s celebrated'printing presses; has
ordered two steam fire engines from the
same place, and is about to contract with
New York ship builders for several steam
ships, plans for which are on the way to
him. The citizens in San Antonio, Tex
as, held a meeting on the 16th nit. to in
augurate means to provide a homestead for
Gen. J. B. Hood. It was proposed to open
subscription fiats for the purpose in every
county in the State. A dispatch to the
New York Herald says, the tide of travel
setting from this city toward Richmond, is
beginning to be very considerable, and has
already compelled the managers of the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad to place
an evening passenger train upon that route
in addition to the train which has been
leaving here at an early hour in the morn
ing. On the first day this route was turned
over to the company, its passenger receipts
amounted to only twenty seven dollars.—
Latterly, the receipts from travel have aver
aged twenty-two hnndred dollars daily.
LABOR AND PRODUCTION.
The Nashville Gazette asks “what shall be
our labor system ?’’ This is an important
query—one that addresses itself with great
force to every man in the South who has
the manliness to resist that disposition to
despair at the changed relation of “master
and slave,” which, we regret to say, has
overcome many; and of every man who
is intelligent, patriotic, and benevolent; for
to such must eventually be left the regula
tion of labor in the South, that its former
productiveness may continue to prevail.—
How necessary it is that the labor of the
former slave shall be properly directed, in
order that this productiveness may follow,
and he at the same time be saved from want,
if not famine, as well as that the country
may profit by it, as it does through the labor
of the white man, is forcibly illustrated in
the following which we copy from the same
paper:
Tennessee, says the Gazette, “produced
50,748,266 bushels of corn in the year I860;
this year it is estimated that the yield will
approximate 17,000,000 bushels. Here is a
decrease in production that may well cause
the most visionary of political economists to
shudder. A similar ratio of decrease is ap
plicable to nearly every product of the Sou
thern States; and in view of this state of
affaire, the question which heads this article
becomes one of paramount importance to
all classes of society.”
This alarming decrease in production, is
not to be ascribed alone to Tennessee. We
have not before us now any statistics by
which we could show that Tennessee, much
as she has lost in her productiveness from
tnent. The latter required a paternal mode
of government, to watch over and take care
ot them. The lormer required a strong
government to keep them in service. The
two, combined, constituted the ill-under
stood system of Southern slavery. This
system has now been np rooted. We are
all at sea, without rudder or compass. The
childish negro, not knowing the meaniog of
a sudden freedom, which he cannot appre
date, because it has not cost him any sacri
flee —because he has not bought it, (and
every truly tree people have,) despises labor,
as the concomitant of a state of degradation
from which he has been released. He hies
to tne cities and large towns, and there os
cillates between the improvised ball room
and the miserable hovel, gaining a precari
ous livelihood by doing small chores and
stealing to “make both ends meet,” until
rank disease demands the penalty of laziness
and filthy habitation. The farmer—his
best laborers gone beyond recall—those that
remain more troublesome th&a profitable,
in the absence of restraint; and no other
system of farm labor available—with little
ready cash to invest in labor saving ma
chines, which, after all, are illy adapted to
an undulating country like Tennessee—the
farmer folds his arms, and waits for contin
gencies, well satisfied if he can raise enough
to support his household.”
We agree with our Nashvill^cotempora
ry, that “this cannot last long”-^.that “some
thing must be done”—and like it, we desire
to draw the’sttention of our people to it.
It is a subject that should command the at
tention ot our wisest and most practical
men; not men,disheartened and discouraged,
who are desponding in their nature, and
ready to give way before misfortunes, but
men who are fit to “battle with the world,
men with enlarged views, enterprising men,
statesmen and patriots, who understand the
situation of the South, her present and fu
ture responsibilities in all that pertains to
the local interests ot their. States, the pros
perity and happiness of their people, and
what they owe, at the same time, to the
freedmen in their midst, and to the great
American Republic, of which their States
are and must remain component parts. Such
men as these, coming to the rescue, will be
able, we predict, to give such directions to
labor as will save the South from the dark
future predicted as her fate by the hopeless
and desponding; and in their great and good
work they will be cheered on by every con
servative man in the North and West, and
what is more, will be sustained by the
Government itself, though fanaticism may
howl at them in their efforts.
The Republicans Staggered—The
New York World says that the action of the
New York Democracy has fallen like a
bomb in the camp of the enemy. “First,
blank amazement; then explosion ; then
commotion, scampering, groans, writhing,
terror, horror; and forthwith, the summon
ing of a genera] conncil of war to determine
what to do.” The following dispatch, it
says, to an evening paper portrays the trep
idation, trouble, and dissensions that reign
in the Republican camp:
Special Dispatch to the Commercial Advertiser.
Washington, September 11.—-The leading
politicians of the Republican parly have
gathered in this city to consider their policy
in the fall elections and in the new Congress.
The difference of opinion is toide, and excites
angry controversy..
Thurlow Weed is playing a prominent
part He has warned the radicals that they
wifi be displaced from power if they press
their extreme views upon the people.
H is doubtful whether the conflicting elements
causes to which we shall refer, has lost less {can be harmonized. Senator Wilson, on be
General Meade's visit to South Carolina
was to prevent the recurrence of conflict be
tween the military and civil authorities of
that State. He had an interview, at Co
lumbia, with General Gillmore and Gover
nor Ferry, at which a satisfactory adjustment
was made.—Gen. Hooker paid a high
compliment to the military genius of Gene
ral Robert E. Lee. In his testimony before
the committee on the conduct of the war,
General Hooker testified, under oath, as fol
lows : Our artillery had always been superi
or to that of the rebels, as was also our ins
fan try, except in discipline, and that, for
reasons not necessary to mention, never did
equal Lee’s army. With a rank and file in
ferior to our own, intellectually and physi
cally, it has by discipline alone, acquired a
character fer steadiness and efficiency, nns
surpassed, in my judgment, in ancient or
modem times. We have not been able to
rival it, nor has there been any near ap
proximation to it in the other rebel armies.
———Gen. Beauregard.—A Brownsville,
Texas, correspondent of the New Orleans
limes, writing under date of August 26th,
Bays: “The Monitor, of last week, an-
than Georgia or any other Southern State;
but these may easily be procured by any one
desirous of pursuing the subject. Of course,
much of this decrease in production, is to
be ascribed to the withdrawal of white labor
and the supervision oi the whites over negro
labor, daring the war. Bat the actual de
crease in the productiveness of negro labor
is alarming in all the Southern States, and
we look with much solicitude to that soon
coming future which is to solve the prob
lem now agitating the public mind—“ what
shall be our labor system ?”
What the Gazette says too in relation to
the condition of Tennessee, is also applica
ble to Georgia. It says—“ we are already
drawing heavily upon other States, for our
daily meat and bread. We are exporting
next to nothing. The balance of exchange
against us is daily becoming greater. Yet
there is no fact more patent than that we
have no surplus capital to squander. There’s
not a bank in the State that will discount.
There’s no money on the market; and we
hear occasionally of most exorbitant rates
of interest demanded and given, in private
arrangements. And all this while millions
of acres of fertile land fie uncultivated. In
truth, we are fast becoming a poor people,
although in possession of the richest boon-
ties of Nature. This, perhaps, is not so ob
vious to the denizens of a city where, as in
Nashville, millions of Government green
backs have been disbursed. Yet it is a fact
painfully distinct to every thinking mind fa
miliar with the State at large.’ 1
Is it not alarming that a State like Ten
nessee is “drawing heavily upon other
States” for its “daily meat and bread ? ” A
State that once exported into South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Louisiana, its large surplus of grain, floor,
and meat, now dependent upon others, and
though “millions of greenbacks” have been
disbarsed at its capital, it has no “capital to
squander; ” “no money on the market; ”
“exorbitant rates of interest demanded,” and,
with all this, she has, wbat is more alarm
ing still, “millions of acres ot fertile land”
lying uncultivated—her people fast becom
ing a poor people.” Here we see the true
source of wealth—when those millions of
acres of fertile land shall be cultivated, then
will Tennessee become what she has been,
a prosperous and wealthy State. The la
bor she most have, else she, like Georgia
and every Southern State, wifi become poor,
“although in possession of the richest boun
ties of Nature,”
The causes the Gazette thinks, and proper
ly, too, “which have induced this condition
of affairs may be readily traced. The form
er labor of the South consisted of negroes.
They were men, as regards physical quali
ties, they were children in mental develop-
half of the Hew England Congressmen, seems
to reject all compromise.
His plan is to rely on the party majority
in Congress to resist the admission of the
Southern States, and virtually appeal to the
people against President Johnson’s policy.
The conservative Republicans propose to
meet the difficulty of the Hew York Democratic
nominations by nominating Generals Slocum
and Patrick, and Lucius Robinson.
The leading New York Republicans have
had numerous interviews with Secretary
Seward, with whom the project has been
discussed.
The Radicals have been reinforced by Gen
eral Butler, and a decidedly lively t.me is ex
pected .
Ccmmenting upon tbe foregoing, the same
paper says:
“ The Republicans are checkmated. Ac
cording to present appearances they are on
the eve of a grand schism. Whether they
split or hang together in an association ot
mutual and suppressed hatred, it is all one
to the Democratic party. If they divide,
our victory wifi, perhaps, be more easy ; but
if they hold together it will be not less cer
tain. ”
The foregoing is encouraging to the
friends of the administration. From other
sources too similar intelligence reaches ns.
We at the South can be merely “lookers
on ” now, at the great political struggle that
is fast approaching in the North and in the
West. The East we give up. We have no
hope to cheer or animate us when we look
to New England. Her conservative men
are overpowered by fanatical numbers. Bat
from the North and the great West, wc de
rive consolation in the belief that they will
stand by the Freside^t in his administra
tion of the government, and in his efforts to
restore the Southern States to the Union
with all their constitutional privileges and
rights.
Some Cheese.—The Utica Herald, speak
icg of the cheese Manufacturers’ Hall on
the New York State Fair Grounds, says
that is a tent capable of holding over one
hundred thousand cheese; and adds:
“ The cheese will be ranged aronnd on
three tiers of shelves, sloping back like
steps. Ia the centre will be a throne for
the Queen cheese from Canada, a daughter
of milk, weighing some four thousand
pounds. The dame measures some twenty
feet roand her waist, although she is but
four feet high. We hope that no accident
will happen to her on the cars, for we would
like to see this British lady.
Nothing New Under the Sun.—We
have always regarded the waterfall as a
heathenish invention, bat we were not aware
until recently that it is a monstrosity of
classic birth. Oar friend Colonel Jewett, of
tbe Geological Hall, shows us a coin of
Hiero I, Tyrant of Syracuse, who reigned
from 47S to 466 before the Christian era, on
the obverse side ot which is the head of the
goddess Diana, wilh an txcresence precisely
like that now worn under the dnbioos name
of the waterfall.—Albany Journal.
[COMMUNICATED. ]
Mr. Editor: A great social problem is
being worked out under our very eyes.—
The sudden transition of three or lour mil
lions of the African race from slavery to
freedom. Everything connected with it
must deeply interest those, who like our
selves are so intimately and profoundly in
volved in its solution. What the results of
this measure will be; whether in the long
run beneficial or disastrous to one or both
the races, with which God in his Providence
has peopled this country, largely depends
upon the measures adopted by our rulers
and legislators, national and State. Gov
ernment in its largest sense, in this coun
try, is tbe exponent of public opinion. It
is all-important, then, that the Pres9, (of the
South particularly,) without prejudice for
or against either race, should in a calm and
dispassionate spirit enlighten the public
mind of both sections, by presenting tbe
facts, connected with the practical workings
of the free-labor system already developed
and attested by perfectly reliable witnesses. As
a slight contribution to this needful work,
permit me to give your readers a few ex
tracts from a letter, just received from my
brother, who resides on the sea board in
Liberty county, Georgia. Premising, that
he is a Christian gentleman, cheerful in hie
views, and all his life a sea-island cotton
planter, proveibial, as 1 know from person
al knowledge, even among the negroes, as
a most humane, indulgent and conscientious
master, I proceed to quote from his letter:
“ We five in eventful and trying times —
It is to be hoped we will not see worse days
It may be necessary for us to pass through
greater trials, but the Lord will certainly
some day forgive us and cause|his face to
shine upon us. My hope is that such regu
lations will be made by Congress or State
legitiation, as will make negro labor profit
able to us. Things cannot remain as they
they are. Every allowance ought to be
made for those who from a state of slavery
have become freemen. The negroes are
full oi notions and are new wild in their
calculations. The thought is hardly enter
tained that they are still to work our lauds.
Every one expects to have a farm of his
own, and it is a current.opinion among them
that these farms are to be given them.—
What a state of thing9 there would be, ii the
negro is to be under no control, working
each his own farm ! There would not be
cotton enough made to clothe the people of
ihe United Sta es, and our country would
not be worth a picayune. The fact of ihe
matter is, unless some system ot apprentice
ship or compulsory labor i established, in
my juigment, the days of the prosperity
of this country are at an end * * * *
I am afraid the system of free lab ir with
the negro race will prove a perfect failure
—his aspirations are not high enough. I
was told when in Philadelphia, that they
were the worst class of citizens they had:
It is to be hoped that the Northern and
Western States will receive with open arms
all that may go that way ; then the evil will
be divided among us and life will become
tolerable, Let it be a law of the land that
every Slate shall be required to receive
them. They are, without doubt, the most
inert beings the world ever produced.—
While the hope of reward will induce some
to lead a life of industry, compulsion in some
form is the only influence of any virtue with
the multitude. R—, I have seen many of
them this year without a morsel of food to
eat from day to day, spending their time in
idleness, trusting I suppose to the liberality
of their friends, or expecting by foul means
to reap a harvest from those who have la
bored for their bread. It makes my heart
sick to see so many on the verge of tempo
ral ruin. Our land is to be filled with pau
pers, and where poverty exists crime will
abound. There certainly must be wisdom
enough in the country to see the evils
whi oh threaten us, and certainly something
will be done to ward them off, if fanaticism
does not prevail. A man may be so carried
away by feeling, as to act without reason.—
Yait issues are now before the country; the
solution of which the future alone can re
veal. I believe the Lord foreordains what
soever come3 to pass. Nothing can happen
but by His providence or permission. Here
I rest my hope.”
Speaking of the freedmen in his employ,
wilh whom he wa9 I thiiik the very first in
that section to make contracts, he says:
“ Several of those who entered into a formal
contract with me at the opening of the year,
have broken their obligalione.”
Speaking of a neighbor’s plantation he re
marks : “ Mr. Q thinks it will be better to
sell the corn at Arcadia, the moment it is
harvested, as there is no security against the
thefts now committed. The negroes are
now illustrating to the full, that propensity
to steal, which under the strictest discipline
we could not control Taere will hardly be
a cow left on the land. The military au
thorities we have are powerless to stop the
evil.
Such are the facts and sentiments present
ed by one who has not the remotest idea
that whathe has written will find its way
into a public print. What he writes is true.
Let f cts be diffused abroad and let all who
love our country; let all who truly love the
human race and especially those who are in
positions of influence or authority, ponder,
deliberate and decide under the influence of
a pure philanthropy and in the fear of God.
Yi ura respectfully,
R Q M.
DEATH OF MADAMBBOLAND.
At length, after an Imprisonment ot nearly
six months, 6he was taken, in November,
1793, to that fatal Conciergerie,from whence,
in those days, no prisoner issued but for the
guillotine. Here she was placed in a
wretched cell, next to that in which poor
Marie Antoinette had been lodged. She
who had rejoiced oyer the tall of that un
happy queen, was now seen in private mo
ments to weep bitterly. Yet her courage
did not give way. In the cells were lodged
many of the Girondins, who were yet to be
executed, and when they were let out in the
passage for exercise, she talked to them
across Ihe grating of her door, and encour
aged them to 1 jok on death as a martyrdom
She rose now to the level of an
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
A RAILWAY TO TBE SOUTH.
We invite the attention of Cincinnatians
to a letter on the first page, on a railway
connection between Cincinnati and the
South, and to the following statement of
distances in connection therewith :
From Cincinnati to Charleston, by way o
Knoxville, is 660 miles, and about the same
to Savannah. From New York to Charles
ton, by railway, is 813 miles, and to Savan
nah 917 miles. Thus by railway Charleston
is 153 miles nearer to Cincinnati than to
New York. The South Carolina and Geor
gia system of railways, whose lines are gen-
marijruom. era ]jy f rom the interior to the coast, accord
in her misery and despair poured out bitter t0 l ' ie g enera V eour!,e 0, Jhe>r rivers, Iron
reproaches on the very men who, in th
A Woman Overwhelmed with Grief.—
The Utica Telegraph states that a lew
months ago Dr. Horton, of this city, lost two
of his three children. On Tuesday the
Doctor himself died. On Thursday the re
maining child, a bright girl ot ten, did not
feel well, and her mother gave her, as she
supposed, a dose of geranium; but, by a sad
fatality, mistook for it yellow jessamine,
which is a fatal poison given in such a dose.
Tbe mother was unconscious of the fatal
mistake she had committed nntil the daugh-
ter suddenly exclaimed, “Oh, ma, I can’t
breathe,” and sank down and died at once.
The father and daughter were both buried
together Friday afternoon, and a stricken
one bowed alone over the graves, who was
six months ago a happy wile and mother of
three children.
hall above, were holding the mock trial of
her friends. One by one she saw them de
part, never to return, and felt that her turn
must be at hand.
It cajne at last. Before David, the judge,
and Fouquier-Tinville, tbe public prosecu
tor, she was accused of being the wife of
Roland and the friend of his accomplices
She stood before them proudly. " She was
dressed simply, in white, and her long rich
hair flowed in curls over her shoulders —
tier lace, while it had lost all its freshness
from long confinement, was still beautiful
in expression. This beauty had once melted
a whole assembly before which she was ar
raigned, but it served only to enrage her
present accusers. That very morning,
Brissot, the founder of her party, had been
executed. She could not hope to escape,
yet was resolved to speak out and defend
herself to the country.
The court was at that time open, and the
trials were attended by the dregs of the
populace, who interfered with them at plea
sure, and mingled coarse invectives with
the impertinent questions of the public pros
ecutor. The interrogatory was at first ot
little importance, consisting of questions
about her early life and first connection
with Roland. It then passed to questions
about his colleagues, and lastly, to such
gross imputations upon her character, that
she burst into tears. After three hours of
this public torture she was dismissed, and
returned to her cell.
Two days later she was again called up,
and the interrogatory proceeded as before.
When called upon to tell what she knew of
Roland’s concealment, she steadfastly re
fused to say a word. “There is no law,”
she exclaimed, “in the name of which one
can insist on the betrayal of the dearest feel
ings in nature.”
‘,With such a talker we shall never have
done,” cried Fouquier Tinville, furiously;
“close the interrogatory.”
She turned on him a look of withering
pity. “How I pity you 1” she said; “you
can send me to the scaffold, but cannot take
from me the joy of a good conscience, and
the conviction that posterity will acquit Ro
land and me, and devote our prosecutors to
infamy.”
She was told to choose a pleader. She
chose Chanveau, and retired, crying merrily
as she went, “I only wish you, in return for
the harm you wish me, peace of mind equal
to what I leel, whatever price you attach to
it.’’ She ran down the steps eagerly. Her
friends were waiting to receive her in tne
passage, and as she passed through them,
she drew her fingers across her delicate
throat, to show that she was condemned.
The tumbril had come and gone inces
santly on the fatal day. It was on its last
journey for that day that it took up Mad
ame Roland and an old trembling man
named Lamarche. The mob, reveling in
blood, shouted, “A ia guillotine!” “I ain
going there,” ehfc answered: “but it will
not be long before those who send me hith
er will follow. I go innocent; but they,
will come stained with blood, and you who
applaud our execution, will then applaud
theirs.” The mob answered her witb the
vilest insults and grossest epithets. Youth
and beauty could no more excite admiration
in their ferocious hearts than the sight of
trembling old age by her side could draw
forth pity. Lamarche wept bitterly ; but
Madame Roland, proud of her fate, was un
naturally gay, and strove to encourage him
When they arrived at the Place de la Gon
corde, where beneath a huge clay statue of
Liberty stood the guillotine, reeking still
with the blood of her friends, she leaped
lightly from the cart. The executioner
pulled her by the arm toward the scaffold
“Stay,” said she, feeling sympathy for her.
companion even at this moment; “I have a
favor to ask, though not for myself.” She
then explained that the sight of her death
would redouble the old man’s misery, and
begged that he might be allowed to die first,
She heard the knife fall on his neck without
a shudder; then bowing to the great statute
she cried, * O Liberty, Liberty 1 how many
crimes are committed iu tby name 1’’ and
mounted the scaffold firmly.
In a few seconds her head, fair as it was,,
rolled into the basket prepared to receive
it.
Thu?, at nine-and-tbirty, died this strange
woman. There is more warning than of
example in her story.
Some days later, some shepherds trudging
aloDg a Norman highway, with their flocks
before them, spied in a ditch a body of a
man. They raised it up, found it to be that
of an old man, tall, thin—stern even in
death. In his heart was yet the stiletto
which belonged to yonder sword stick lying
by; and on his breast was pinned a paper
with these words on it: “Whoever thou art
that findesf these remains, respect them as
those of a virtuous man. After my wife’s
death, I would cot remain another asy up
on this earth, so stained with crimes.”
This was Roland, who had thus destroyed
himself. — The Queens of Beauty.
northwest to southwest, utter advantages to
tins connection with Cincinnati. beyond
those described merely by distances. Y,.f
in the maltarot distances alone we have ad
vantages over New York, including even
the coast towns, the points most remote
from us. To the interior great producing
regions of.these States, we present still
nearer connections, which will take in West
North Carolina.
When we come to the gr« at cotton and
sugar-growing regions ot the .southwest,
the difference in < ur tnvor becomes much
greater. From Cincinnati to Mobile, by
way of Knoxville, i» 743 miles, and to New
Orleans 843 From New York to Mobile,
by the Virginia and East Tennessee Rail
way is 1,201 miles, and to New Orleans
is about 1,310 miles. Thus, the distance
from Mobile to New Yoik is 458 tnihs
greater than to Cincinnati, and fiom N w
Orleans 458 miles greater, if wc view
ihcsc comparative distances as hearing on
the trade between the South and Cincinnati,
they show an advantage that will insure 'o
ua a great trade when ihe c muecting link
is built. Or, if we view it. as a toute for the
travel between the Bomhwest and the Eia ,
we shall find that the ihtf reuee in tV e dis
tance between a route by way of Ciucinna: ,
and one E -at over the Virginia and E i»t
Tennessee roads, will be more th in made
up by the superiority of the Northern roads,
their easier grades, stra'ghter lines, better
equipment and higher speed.
Cincinnati, however, will • ffer to tie
South theb st marker, for the purchase ot
her agricultural machinery an i implements
and mvcbani' s’ tools, and of Midi agricul
tural produc s as she may have to buy from
the North, and < f furniture, iron and tin ware
and all the principal articles ;of domestic
manufacture. And it seems to us that, tak
ing into the account the difference in favor
of Cincinnati in the travel and trims
portamn to and irom the S. mil, she
can turnish to Smtii rn buyers imp >rtui
goods and articles ot New England manu
facture on as favorable terms as Ihe mrr
chants of New York. Her c uion, ulso, in
a wide extent, ol country, will find a cheap
er transit by lira route than by the circuitous
way of road, livers ami sea, with their va
rious transhipmen s.
The building of 138 miles of road will
complete tltis connection. As a great
through line of Hade and travel between
the Erst anrT Southwest, this rouie lias ad
Vantages that will, from the start, insure it
a profitable business. It will make Cincin
nati the center of the trade of a wide re
gion, that, with her other advantages, will
accelerate her growth, and established be
yond all rivalry her position as Qneen of
tbe West.
Is Not Satisfied with It.—The Em
peror of France is not satisfied with the re
cent partition ot Schleswig and Holstien
between Austria and Prussia, who went to
war with the other German powers to libe
rate the Duchies aud then treated them as
provinces. Napoleon pretends to feel out
raged that Prusoia should consult her con
venience only, and the Paris Temps argues
that in doing so she afforde justification for
France to do the same thing, and it mildly
hints that some point on the Rhinish fron
tier might be convenient to France, who had
the same right to appropriate it. This is the
way these old powers talk and act. The
people of a territory are nothing at all, if any
Government wants the territory, and is able
to bold it. When they w ml it they gene
rally find a precious pretext for seizing it
and then they gloss over (heir intentions by
some appeal to national soirit or national
traditions, which insures them the support
of their own people in committing the re b-
bery. Napoleon has been long desiring the
extension of his empire to ! he Rhine. fle
can lake advantage ot this diplomatic ar
rangement of the Duchies ns a pretext for
ex.ending it. I: he shou d proceed fur her
in that policy, he will have the liberation of
a p ople from oppressions as the or/ to jus
tify his act3 and arouse the sp : r.t of Fiance
to the work. »
A Pretty Puzzle.-“Now, d.ar, I will
bet yon anything that you can’t tell which
is the front of my new bonnet.”
AY EXPENSIVE MISTAKE.
Yesterday one of the wealthy men of this
metropolis visited Wall street on a little
business with a banking firm doing busi
ness not many doors above the corner of
William, and Wall streets. The old gentle
man like many another man of money, wore
a poor suit of clothes, and a hat that had
once been fashionable. Moreover, his coun
tenance was not familiar to the men of Wall
street, and his business habits were not
suited to the locality. On entering the of
fice of the firm, he very deliberately walked
up to the first vacant aim c.-iir an I sat
down in it, at the same time removing his
hat and deliberately wiping the perspiration
Irom his forehead. While engaged in this
operation, Mr. C , the junior member of
the firm, walked in. Espying a poorly-clad
man sitting in his chair, the young banker’s
temper was ruffled, and he rudely ordered
the stranger to vacate his seat. Mr. L
was in no hurry to obey the mandate, and
mildly suggested that he had “a little busi
ness to transact” first. “Well, I guess you
can do that on your feet, as readily as in my
chair,” said the banker, and at the same
time, witb a gesture of impatience, taking
hold of the piece of furniture. “But I am
tired, and it is very warm, and I want to
rest a little, besides my business will require
some time,” persisted Mr. L—, who spoke
slowly and acted deliberately. The manner
and appearance of the poorly clad, but weal-
thy man, annoyed the spruce banker, who
vented his irate feelings by forcibly ejecting
the occupant from his chair, and telling him
that his business could not be ot sufficient
importance to deprive a gentleman of his own
seat. “May be not, sirl May be not!" said
Mr. L , with an expression of anger.—
“I came down town to see your firm about
the investment of some two hundred thou
sand dollars that will be paid to me in a few
days, but as I dislike your way3 ot doing
business, I shall cross the street to B V,
where they treat people decently at all
events.” Young C thought he might
have made a mistake, but would not own it
by apologizing, so he answered by saying
that he had not the pleasure of the gentle
man’s acquaintance, and asked who he
might be. “My name, sir,” said the other.
“is L , and now that you know me, and
my business, I shall bid you good day. and
go elsewhere to be treated civilly.” An ex
pression of deep mortification overspread
the countenance of young C , for he re
cognized in tbe name of the min whom he
had inuslted one of the “wealthy citizens"
of New York, and realized that its firm had
lost a valuable customer, whose present
business alone would have brought much
money into the coffers of the concern. Mr.
L left the office, and young C af
terwards told our reporter that he would be
careful how he made such another expensive
mistake.—iV. Y. Sun.
Equalizing THE Two Worlds.—Some
years ago a gentleman died. Hi3 widow in
herited his property and collected the in
surance on bis life, and very soon enlarged,
repaired, and fitted up her residence in quite
luxurious style. A friend calling, ex
pressed some little surprise that she had
made these alterations so soon after the de
cease of Mr. . “Why shouldn’t I do it ?”
replied the practical “relic” “My husband,
good man as he was, is enjoying a glorious
mansion in the skies, aud ot coun-e he
wishes me to be as comfortable as possible
here on earth ” W ho says that woman’s
faith was not shown by ht-r works.—Boston
Transcript.
The beauty of women enticeth men to sin
against the statute.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when leveled
at a strong mind.
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He who scoffs at the crocked had need go
very upright himself.
Man never is, but always to be, blest.