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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
py Information from Burlington, Ver
mont, lia§ been received that uniforms for
150,000 men, and 30.000 rifles of tho very
best .wtrem, Imre been transported from
New York State to that city, where they now
He concealed, awaiting the advance of the
Fenians. -
; rgr The Holly Springs (Mi.JJ Reporter
:«\va not more than one-third tho open lands
in* Marshall county—one of the most produc
tive in the State—are under cultivation the
present vear. It is quite probable that 3Iar-
slinll county is no wpreo off in this respect
than tho rest.
NOT SO.
A friend enquires if it is true that J. W.
Burke & Co. are selling out Wo reply no,
that they are doing a bigger business than
ever. They have lately received thirty cases
of rawds, which docs not look much like
seimig out, and they are prepared to sell any
thing from a spelling book to tho largest
sired ledger. Give them a call and you will
soon pee that the only telling out they are do
ing is to sell out their present stock in order
to make way for another and a larger, all in
the legitimate way of trade.
‘•Tue Comic Monthly,” for April, now on
sale at Patrick’s News Depot, is the best
American attempt at wit and humor that we
recollect to have seen. Tho burlesque on
sales of paintings by the “old masters” is ex
cellent, while the allcgorial satire on the Fen-,
ian RevolutionJs equal to anything that has
appeared in the London Punch. Buy a copy
if you would like to tako a real old-fasliioncd
ante-bellum laugh.
Mr. Patrick has also all the lending picto
rial and news papers of the country, which he
offers singly or by the quantity.
Yive »a IIumbco.—Tho man who. it is
said, contemplated the assassination of Gov
ernor Brownlow. of Tennessee, lias been ar
rested at Grcnnda.Miss., nnd ordered to Nash-
villo far trial beforo a military commission.
We predict that the whole affair will turn out
to'be a sensation Radical humbug of the first
water, got up to give importance to such a
creature as Brownlow. Tho idea of his assas
sination is on a par with the reported attempt
to assassinate that saucy “nigger,” Fred.
Douglass, when somebody in Baltimore grazed
hi* Inee u ith a brick! Wc have in the two a
precious brace of martyrs. They will both be
assasinated at the same time.
The Civil Rights Bill.—The “civil
rights” guaranteed by the bill which passed
both houses of Congress lost week, are de
fined in the bill as follows: “The same right
to mako and enforce contracts, to sue, be par
ties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase,
lease, sell, hold nnd convey real ami personal
property, and to full and equal benefit of all
laws and proceedings for thn security of per
son and property ns is enjoyed by white citi
zens, and shall be subject to like punishment,
pains and penalties, and to none other, any
law, statute or ordinance, regulation or cus
tom to tho contrary notwithstanding.”
Waking Up.—It is worthy of note that
some of the Congressmen from the Northwest
are waking up" on tho subject of protective
tariffs, a scheme of plunder by which their
section and the South arc impoverished in
order to enrich the manufactures of New
England and the miners of the middle States.
It is high timo the planting interests every
where in the States had combined to resist
this war against them. Mr. Washburne, of
Illinois, and Mr. Allison, of Iowa, have Doth
ventured a protest against tho demands of the
protectionists of New England. Washburne,
has led off against that time-honored swindle,
the fishing bounties, and Allison has followed
on the coal question.
The Lovely Jane.—The Nashville Ban
ner pokes considerable fun at Jane Swisshelm,
whose long, and proverbially ungovernable
tongue recently lost her a place in one of the
departments at Washington—how tho pestif
erous “ould ’oman” con get there is a myste
ry. Our Banner friend, though, so far does
violence to gallantry as to characterize the
lovely (!) Jane ns an “irate old pullet,” whose
“garrulous cackle just now is drowning out
the 'occasional' death quackle of the defunct
aquatic”—Forney. The following is the Ban
ner’s partiug salutation: “Get on a high
roost, thou damp old fowl, and ‘dry up.’—
Thou can'st not hatch anything but eggs of
treason. Shew 1”
When Jane’s next “ Reconstructionist”
comes out, we expect to find one John Hap*
py in a condition of new reconstruction.
“ General Lee denies ever having taken the
oath to support the Confederacy, and says
that he purposely avoided it.”
Wc are not surprised at anything that ap
pears in the Radical papers at the North, ns
they seem resolved to libel everybody and
everything South: but wo must confess to
some astonishment when we find such a para
graph as the above admitted to tho columns
of n Southern paper, except for tho purpose
of branding it as a falsehood. It is a base
slander on the great mau to whom it refers.
No man was more loyal and thoroughly de
voted to the Confederacy than General Lee.
lie freely sacrificed all he had in the cause,
and as freely offered his own life, and now to
say that he purjmsoly avoided taking an oath
to support it. is but a mean invention to throw
odium on the cause for which he fought to
tho last.
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What Does it 3Ieax.—Wilson, of 3Iass.,
closed his speech in Pppositioi^to the Presi
dent, a few days since, as follows:
“Two years ago, in a trying hour of the
country, wc placed a great soldier at the head
of all our armies, and he led the armies to
victory, and the country to peace. Perhaps
a patriotic and liberty loving people, if disap
pointed in their aspirations and their hopes,
mav .again turn to that great captain nnd
summon him to marshal them to victory.
Now th&t is strango language, coming from
a U. S. Senator. It is passing Grange, taken
in connection with the published statement
of Mr. Boutwell, a radical member of the
nouse from the same State, that “the situa
tion is so portentous, wo nped not be surprised
if hMUUtimshould break out anew within the
next two months.” This looks as if these
New England Radicals, failing to triumph
over the President with tbeir wicked schemes
in Congress, were about to coll tho army to
their aid and declare war against him. It
would l»e calling “spirits from the vasty
deep,” as. there is but little sympathy in the
army for their scheme of disunion and ty
ranny. It would mot be a bad plan for the
President, as be holds the sword already, to
put It into operation again-1 these conspirators
nnd thus steal a march upon them, nnd dose
then with their own physic.
NORTHERN ELECTIONS.
Now Hampshire held her election on the
13th instant, and Pennsylvania and Connecti
cut will soon follow. Tho result in tho first-
named State has been ascertained: the Re
publicans havo-carried it by a majority larger
than that given for Lincoln in ’04. Wo look for
the same result in the remaining States, and
for the simple reason that the only issne mqdo
in these elections is one of strength between
the Republican and Democratic parties. The
real questions of vital importance are kept
out of the canvass. There are thousands up
on thousands of Republicans who support the
President, and in this respect occupy com
mon ground with the Democracy, but so long
as they are allowed to do so and preserve their
position in the ranks of a triumphant party,
they will never quit it and jqin a defunct or
ganization without power or prospects. If
the Democracy would consent to abandon
their organization and unite with the Re
publican friends of the President in getting
up a new organization with Constitutional
Union and perfect peace and restoration for
their mottoes, .something might be done for
the country. But .T.Jtin Van Burcn and Dean
Richmond never intend to join a party where
Thurlow Weed and Wm. H. Seward are sure
to take the wind out of tlicir sails. Here’s
the difficulty. It is all self and nothing for
the country.
Nor do the Northern DemocracyMearo from
experience. They keep up their faction and
run their candidates election after election and
are kicked further down hill at every turn.—
In this way the discordant materials of the
Republican party arc kept in a state of cohe
sion, when, if the field were left wholly to
them, a division on vital existing and pressing
issues would take place and a new party of
the country evolved. As matters stand now.
the Republicans keep together and carry ev
erything before them, though in point of fact
a minority of the country upon the greatest
questions of the day. Radicalism triumphed
in New Hampshire, just because the conser
vative Republicans had no alternative but to
rcmain-wlicrc they were or go into the Dem
ocratic party. The New York Times, a bit
ter opponent of the Radicals, glorifies over the
election, although the Radicals claim it as a
triumph for themselves! And so will it be
in Connecticut the first Monday in April, and
in Pennsylvania. Tho Democrats have the
right sort of principles and want to save the
country, but they are unwilling to doit at the
sacrifice of their party. Practically they hold
it os of more value than the restoration of the
Union and the harmony of the people.
In all this there is neither patriotism nor
good sense.
We have yet to hear of a Republican can
didate who endorses the views of the Presi
dent on reconstruction, and so long as such
men arc elected, the Radicals have a right to
claim their success as a triumph for them
selves against the President, for practically it
is such. A majority of the people may be
with the President, but they might ns well be
opposed so long as they continue to elect his
enemies to office.
The Republicans are making desperate ef
forts to keep together, and the policy of the
Democracy is affording Jkem such valuable
aid and comfort that they are likely to be suc
cessful., After all, though, we care not a fig
which party is in power, provided the Presi
dent shall succeed in making Coem carry out
his policy. If he can convert the Republi
cans to bis own patriotic views, the country
will at least be safe, even though the Demo
cracy should be left “out in the cold.”
THE ALLEGED SLAVE TRADE WITH
CUBA.
The Augusta Transcript, after referring to
the report that Gen. Toombs had met ono of
his former slaves in Havana, in a state of
slavery, says: ‘Wc learn also that a worthy
minister, who has charge of a church in our
neighborhood, but is now in Havana, has
written a letter stating that he met there sev
eral of the fo rmer slaves of Gov. Hammond
of Beech Island. They were kidnapped
from Augusta, and are now in a state of slave
ry. The information comes to us so directly
that we have no doubt of its truth.”
As regards the former case, we are inclined to
the opinion that the rumor so current is with
out substantial foundation. Upon enquiry
of those who ought to know, viz: the fami
ly connections of Gen. Toombs, and especial
ly those who are in regular correspondence
with him, we learn that no such letter has
been received by them, and furthermore, they
do not credit the statement about Gen
Toombs having met one ot liis former slaves
in Havhna.
The story about Gov. Hammond’s negroes
may have a better foundation, and upon the
matter generally we think it likely where
there is so much smoke there is,some fire. The
Government could readily satisfy, itself on
this point provided it has a desire to do so.
Heavy Failure.—rThe Whipple Fil Man
ufacturing company of Boston, failed lost
week for a very large amount. The suspen
sion is caused by having on hand a large
amount of goods that could not bo disposed
of except at a loss. This is the “beginning
of the end.” Wc shall have many more of
the same sort growing out of a deranged cur
rency and political confusion. In this the
North will but reap the rewards of her fanat
icism. The troubles that New England lias
brought upon the country will recoil upon
her own head, nnd tho retribution will bo *
just one.
The Stay Law.—Wc observe in the Col
umbus Sun an opinion of Hon. Linton
Stephens adverse to the veto of Gov. Jenkins
disapproving the bill for staying executions
on the ground of its unconstitutionality.—
3Ir. Stephens thinks the law. constitutional,
and argues with considerable force to sus
tain bis position; but as the whole matter
will probably soon come under review by
tlie Supreme Court, we omit the details of his
argument
Cotton Crop of 1866.—«We transfer to our
columns on interesting and sensible article on
this sutyect from the New Orleans Timet.—
Wc think the conclusions of the Times are
far more reasonable than nine-tenths the
speculations that find tbeir way into the pa
pers, It sets down the crop of tho present
year at a million four hundred thousand bales,
which wc regard as near nn approximation to
the truth as can be arrived at with the data
before us. *
E3T Cam loaded in Louisville, Kentucky,
are now sent through to Atlanta without
breaking bulk. Therfc arc also through bills
of freight.
For the Telegraph.
A Loving Word for the Dear Ladies.
Yes, w« (I believe all the great writers prefer the
pnral pronoun) do love von every one. We are
the veritable knight about whom, for the last tonr
years, yon have heard all that 6tuff of lighting,
bleeding and dying on a hundred battle-fields—not
for our gevoted Confederacy, but for “the girls we
left behind ns.” Wo are the fellow who take the
gnttcr on tho side-walk to make room for yonr
flounces—who enjoys standing two short hours on
tho night train, alter putting yon snugly into his
comfortable seat by the stove—who has lost more
temper and hard words on that old crust who says
so many sly, sharp things in the newspapers about
the “dear creatures” than he has on the whole na
tion of Yankee thieves. Itissetlingsnchan enor
mous valae on the “pink of yonr little fingernail,
and such a mean one on his own merits that bas
kept this miserable, dusty, pell mell, third story
cuddy,from bring the cozy setting room with some
body on the other side of the well trimmed lamp,
and which he envies more than the White House.
Well, it is an awful risk for an unarmed or one
armed individual to venture an original idea these
Burian times—may be after all the hundred battle
fieldshavn’t thundered away our natural timidity.
We do Under hate to come to the point, bnt for the
first time In our whole lives will take for onr mot
to : “Nothing risked, nothing gained.” Lady-
sweet lady, when yon appear at tho Opera, Thea
tre, Hop, 8olrce, Reception, Dining, Pic Nic, oron
the grand prominade, wear as much satin, silk,
velvet, “real point,” ribbons, feathers, trinkets;
and last bnt not least, those niagras you call water
falls, as you can conveniently pile on—that is, re
member if that is your taatc; but can’t yon manage
to fish out from the great deep of yonr precious
wardrobes a plain, genteel, little bll-quakerish suit
for the 11 o’clock service Sunday mornings ? One
of those “I don’tcaro to be gozedat” styles your
good Sense suggests when you start on your Sum
mer travel. Jecms knows what Is lacking abont,
when he says the chnrch is not the place for the
display of dry goods and jewelry shop window.—
He, for one, can’t help thinking when yon come,
even as a pretended heart-worshipper before the
great eye that sees yon without your trappings, It
Is best to suit yonr apparel to the occasion, as yoa
do at other times. There is unfortunately so mo*
human natnre In human beings that let one gc in
to Ills pew in ever so “proper a frame” of mlrd, he
can’t bring home much ot the realities ofctmflty,
which yonr eloquent Dr. W. Is urging or Ids at
tention, with your butterfly wings flittinf before
his visual organs, rustling in his cars. There Is,
believe ns, a time and place where the “tiieful and
ornamental” won’t mix up. Wo havi’t said a
word against; pretty things, in the abstract; are
too timid for that; but what do your rrby lips say
to a chnrch uniform ? We pause for y*ur reply on
next Sunday, 11 o’clock, a. m. Now fiiat you have
run yonr eyes over this honest protest—say “old
fogy”—say “queer”—but don’t say fro are not
Your affectionate,
Jakes.
I
Admiral Semmes has been discharged
from custody at Washington and is probably
en route for his home, as all the politicalpris-
oners should, and we liopo will soon be.
THE PFOPLE’S PRESIDENT.
Tne Boston Post thus expresses its opinion
of President Johnson:
If ever a President could be properly called
“The People's President.” ic is Andrew John
son in his present attitude. He docs hot
wrap himself up in his official consequence
and stand aloof from his fellow-citizens, but
comes tutlicm as his friends, his equals, his.
protectors. Ho is free to acknowledge
liim3elf chosen to execute their will in the ad
ministration of their Government. The same
manly frankness distinguishes his intercourse
with all the departments of Government os
with the people. His convictions are honest,
founded upon reason, and uttered with the
sincerity and earnestness that disdain subter
fuge. So he spoke at Washington on the
22d: his words cams from his heart and
will reach the hearts of his countrymen, ne
labors for tho entire nation—he seeks the
preservation of its freedom, the restoration of
its unity and the permanence of its power.—
No man can turn him from his design.—
Threats are to him air bubbles—party com
binations and* attempted intimidations are
vain, ia the effort to swerve him from the
course he conceives duty points out. With
such a man at the head of the Government—
one armed so strong in honesty—the turbu
lence of faction—the bitterness of enmity—
the struggle for revenge—may fret and'
chafe to their topmost bent without
ruffling a hem of his garment. Ho stands for
the country, and will bo sustained by its pa
triotism and judgment. His tacts nnd liis
arguments have engaged the attention and
won the approbation ol prominent men who
have been ranked as radical abolition Re
publicans, while larger numbers of the more
conservative members of the party give them
warm sanction. They feel that the questions
at issue rise above party consideration and
present themselves to tho candor of all good
citizens for decision; that they appeal to the
patriotic integrity of the people for solution,
as did the great question of suppressing the
rebellion in 1861, and that the response will
be equally strong and enthusiastic now as
then, in favor of sustaining the Union. The
motto of the people will be now as then—
“Our countiy—cur whole country.”
An Interesting Event.
Married, on last evening, at the First
Presbyterian Church in this city, by tho RL
Rev. Charles T. Quintard, Bishop of Tennes
see, 3Inj. Gen. B. Cheatham and Miss Anna,
daughter of A. B. Robertson, Esq.
Perhaps no event of this oharacter in our
city has ever elicted more general interest or
attracted a larger circle of friends than the
marriage ot Gen. Chcnthnni. Both the bride
and bridegroom were natives of this imme
diate vicinity, and the latter a descendant of
one of the oldest families of our State, which
taken in connection with his high reputation
as an ablo and gallant officer, secured for him
an interest in the hearts of our people that
but few could excite. The large nuditori-
torium ot the church was densly crowded by
the elite of Nashville, and friends from a
distance, presenting a scene of beauty and
animation in striking contrast with the stormy
events ot the last few years in which the Gen.
had'been so conspicuous a personage. Among
tho notables present we observed tho Hon.
Jno. Bell, Hon. R. L. Carothcrs, Gens. S B.
Buckner, B. R. Johnson, W. B. Bate,"8. R.
Anderson, and W. C. Whitthomc.
The groom was supported by 3Iaj, Ingram,
Maj. Young, Maj. Hampton, Maj. Henry,
Mnj.Lockhart, Surgeon Buist, Maj. McNairy,
and Capt. Robertson.
The bride wns attended by Miss Ramsey,
Miss Clark, Miss Clark, 3Iiss Elliott, 3Iiss
Thomas, iliss Pope, Miss Erwin and 3Iiss
Patterson.
We speak in harmony with the great heart
of Tennessee in wishing our valued friend and
his accomplished bride n long life of unin
terrupted pleasure.—Nash. Union & American
pgr Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, in re
ply to various strictures upon his course du
ring the war. bos written a letter stating
that the 2Wtamsung at Charleston in 1801,
when Fort Sumter was taken, was because
the fort fell without loss of life. He also
states that he was in Charleston when the fa
mous letter from the Pope to Jefferson Davis
was written. The Bishop disclaims any
agency in procuring that letter, and regards
itand'Davis’ reply not as a recognition by
the Pope, of the Confederacy, but as a corres
pondence between individuals—private, not
diplomatic.
Council of Roman Catholic Anciniisn-
OF8 _Archbisbop Spaulding, of Baltimore,
has received letters form the Pope of Rome,
appointing him apostolic delegate, with au
thority to convene a plenary council of all
archbishops and bishops in the United States
during the present year, and to preside ovea
them. This council, it is thought, will be
assembled some time in September or Octo
ber. It is further understood that Bishop
Spaulding will be constitute da Cardinal at no
distant day.
State Road.—The Atlanta Intelligencer
says it is rumored there that Maj. Campbell
Wallace, formerly PNsidcnt of the East Ten
nessee and Georgia Railroad, has been ap
pointed by Governor Jenkins, Superinten
dent of our State Road.
SOUTHERNERS. STAND BY 'yiE
SOUTH I
There is a method in the madness of tlie
Radicals. It is not merely fanaticism that
prompts them to abuse and oppress the Sou th
ern people. It is not simply the gratification
of sectional antipathy, not yet even the desire
to make partisan capital by conferring politi
cal power upon the freedmen, that induces
them to make warupon tho President’s policy
of reconstruction. They have an object be
yond these, and wo regret to see that it is be
ing partially accomplished. That object, is
to so far disgust and' discourage tho more in'
fluential classes of the South as to provoke
them to self-expatiration. The demagogues
who rulo in Congress have cunning enough
to be aware that a systematic course of injus
tice and insult toward a sensitive and liigh-
toncd race, born to freedom ami keenly ap
preciative of its loss, will leave them, no ac-
ccptible alternative but to seek shelter in other
lands from the tyranny that weighs upon
them in their own. The close of tho w ar left the
Southern people in great depression of spir
its, afflicted with domestic misfortunes, and
crushes beneath a load of poverty and sor
row. This burden of suffering naturally oc
casioned a mental and moral prostration that
intensified tlie susceptibility to indignity and
outrage. It is upon this morbid sensibility
that tho Radicals have practiced, with the
purpose to deprive theSouth of its intellectual
strength, and thus open an easier field for the
propagation and triumph of Radical doc
trines.
We would not intimate that the Southern
people have cxlibitcd any lack of manhood
m facing the jealities of their position. On
the'contmry, <e do not think that history re
cords a more-sublime display of moral courage
than our vanquished countrymen have shown
in their acceptance of the consequences of
discomfiture. When the great political fabric
that they reared was dashed from its founda
tions and crumbled over their heads, they
stood amid the ruins with the calm dignity of
men who can confront their destiny, in the
conciousncss that they had done all in their
power to command success. They struggled
they endured, they stood by their cause while
there was the slightest glimering of hope to
redeem their efforts from the imputation of
madness. They beheld their homes
destroyed, their wives and chil
dren " destitute, and the' graves
of their comrades telling the odds 'of the un
equal struggle; but, until their leader yielded
his sword in token of the final overthrow,
they forced the overwhelming legions of their
foe, outnumbered, perhaps despairing, but
still defiant. When all was over and the same
sense of duty that sustained them in the fight
bade them ground their arms and lower their
banner, they took up the implements of peace
and sought to redeem their country from the
frightful ravages of the strife. It was but nat
ural that there should be bitterness and an
guish at their hearts until at least the tears
were dry upon the cheeks of the widows and
orphans; until at least the gashes of the
wounded began to heal.
But, before the echoes of the last gun had
died away,, the Radicals commenced to goad,
insult anil provoke the vanquished with that
relentless bloodhound spirit of fanaticism
that gives no quarter in the hour of victory,
and knows no mercy even in the presence of
appealing Peace. Some men in. the South
have survived the struggle, who have foice of
character and intellect enough to combat the
Radical intrigues to gain a partizan supremacy
in that section; nnd those men arc to be
bounded out of the country by sheer persis
tence^ insult and oppression. Wc hope that
the Southerners thus ostracised wil( have the
moral courage to combat tho conspiracy.—
Wc know that many of them are casting wist
ful glances toward the inviting fields of3Iexi-
co and Brazil, and wc admit that tlipre is sore
temptation to seek in those more hospit
able climes relief from the intolerable
persecution of the fanatics who wield
the reins and the lash in our National
Legislature. But these have well nigh run
their Phffiton course, nnd the thunderbolt is
forged that will hurl them into the political
Po. 3Ir. Johnson will not suffer the South to
be made valueless to the common cause of re
cuperation, by the machinations of a faction
that have no regard for the general interests,
but seek only, by encouraging dissension, to
strengthen their partisan power. The post of
honor and of duty for every Southerner is now
at liis own hearthstone, or in those fields of
labor where lie can best rebuild the shatter
ed- fortunes of his section. In doing that he
will serve the interests of all, for the prosper
ity of the South is essential to the progress
and welfare ot the Republic.—N, Y. Daily
Neus.
The Massachusetts Legislature and the
President.
A correspondent of the Savannah nerald
writes from Boston under date of the 8th
inst:
' The Legislature of 3Iossachusctts hangs
fire strangely upon the question of reconstruc
tion and the split between tbe President and
the Radicals. I wrote in my last letter that
resolutions were presented immediately upon
tho promulgation of the President’s veto mes
sage and other resolutions when he made his
speech on the 22d ultimo. These were re
ferred to the Committee on Federal Rela
tions, and after several days two scries were
reported by that committee to the
House. 3Icanwhilc the excitement had
somewhat abated. They were not im
mediately discussed, but were assigned
for the 8th iustunt. Day after day
passed, nnd almost every day there were no
tices of amendments to be made to them
when they came up. They came up yester
day, and' a great many amendments were
offered; not by Democrats, nor yet altogether
by those formerly known as the most conser
vative Republicans, but they'came from va
rious quarters and were nearly all more con
servative in tone than those previously offered,
or the series reported by the committee.
The following, the first of which was
offered by 3Ir. Jewell, of Boston, and the
second by Mr. 3Iorsc, of Cambridge, (both
among the ablest men in the House) show the
tenor of the sober second thought which pre
vailed after the first heat of the excitement
had moderated.
“Resolved, That we arc not unmindful of
the patriotic course of the President at the
outset and during the continuance of the late
civil war, nor of the services reudered and
sacrifices borne by him during tbe rebellion;
and wo trust that, by the exercise of the same
qualities ol wisdom and firmness which made
him stand by the Union in its great peril, nnd
by a course of prudence nnd conciliation, the
existing differences between Congress and the
President may be harmonized nnd adjusted,
and a way found for t]ie return of the States
lately in rebellion to their proper practical
relations to the Union, consistently with a
just discharge ofour obligations to the frved-
mcn, and the security of - the liberties and
rights of all the people under the (Constitu
tion.'’
"Demited, That the people of Massachu
setts have entire confidence in the patriotism
of the President of the United States, and the
members of the Congress of tho United States,
that no efforts on their part will be spared to
restore peace and harmony among the several
'States on a sure and lasting basis, in accord
ance with the great principles ot the Consti
tution.”
So many amendments were offered, and there
was such a diversity of opinion apparent that
the consideration of the vexed question, after*
a lengthy discussion, was Btill furtliet post
poned. I suppose that pretty radical resolu
tions will finally be passed, though I very
much doubt that they will contain a censure
of the President, while a very respectable mi
nority favor indefinite postponement of the
whole subject
Olustee Battlefield.—The bones of the
soldiers killed at the battle of Olustee, having
become so exposed as to shock the sensibility
of visitors, Lieut. Grovcman, U. S. A., com
manding at Lake City, has had th6 remains
of the gallant dead collected and appropri
ately buried. This little cemetery lie has
neatly but substantially enclosed to preserve
the sacred spot from intrusion.—Florida
Union.
Nativities in tlie U. S. Senate.
Of the fifty gentlemen composing the Sen
ate as it now stands, twenty-one only arc
there as representatives of their native States.
A majority of the Western Senators were
•bom in the Eastern States. Mr. Howard, of
Michigan, is a native of Vermont, and his
colleague, Mr. Chandler, was bom in New
Hampshire. Mr. Doolittle is a native of New
York, and his colleague, 3Ir. Howe, hails
from the rock-ribbed coast of 3Iaine. No
other State but Massachusetts could have been
guilty of Ben Wade. Connecticut divides
the honor of 3Ir. Trumbull's birth between
herself and that gentleman’s parents.
3Ir. McDougal, who represents Califor
nia, took his first sniff ot atmospheric air in
New York. Ohio is responsible for 3Ir. Hend
ricks, of Indiana, and Norton of Minnesota.
Kentucky gave Mr. Yates, of Illinois, and 3Ir.
Brown, of 3Iissouri. New York is entitled
to *all the honor that attaches to the natal
State of Jlessrs. Stewart and Nye, of Nevada,
Sir. Williams of Oregon, and a half dozen
other Senators. Nor does emigration seem to
lifivc been confined to removals from the East
to the far West, in Senatorial instances. Mr.
Fessenden, of 3Iaine, is a New Hampshire
man; likewise Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts.
Mr. Cragin thought better ot New Hampshire
than these two gentlemen, and left Vermont
to take up bis residence in it. Mr. Sumner
was bom in Boston of course.
New Hamshire, one of the smallest States
of this Union, has six of her “natives” in the
Senate—Messrs. Chandler, Grimes, Wilson,
Fessenden, Pomeroy and Clark. New York,
the largest State in the Union, has but two
more than New Hampshire—Messrs. Doolit
tle, Harris, Nye, Stewart, Wright, Williams.
McDougal and Van Winkle. Pennsylvania
and Ohio arc equal, each having three—the
former, 3Icssrs. Buckalew ; Cowan, and Ram
soy; the latter, Messrs. Sherman, Norton and
Hendricks. Massachusetts has three—Sum
ner, Wade and Morgan. Kentucky has five
—Davis, Guthrie, Yates, Brown and Henry
S. Lane. Vermont has four—Foote, Howard
Cragin and Poland. Connecticut has three Fos
ter, Dixon and Trumbull. Viiginia has two—
Wiley and Henderson. Maine has three—3101-
rill, Howe and Nesmith. Indiana has one-Jiin
Lane. Delaware has two—Riddle and Sauls-
bury. New Jersey has one—Stockton.—
Rhode Island two—Sprague and Anthony.
Slaryland two—Johnson and Creswell; and
Ireland one—Conncss.
It will be seen from the above that Ken
tucky, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Vermont.
Connecticut and 3Ioryland are represented in
the Senate by men bom in the States they
represent. The other States arc represented,
in whole or in part, by “adopted” citizens.—
No member of the present Senate was bom
west of Indiana—Illinois, Minnesota, ,Wis
consin, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa being
without “sons” in that body.—Nashtilie Ban
ner.
A Radical’s Desceiption of the Pbesi-
dekt—His Great Power and Ability Con
ceded.—The Hon. John D. Baldwin, mem
ber oi Congress from 3Iassachusctts, writes
this description of Andrew Johnson and his
late speech. Baldwin is of the Summcr-
Stevens stripe In politics:
s * * what the President said is before
the country. How. he said it, my poor words
may fail to tell. For the first time I stood
near and looked closely on the man. In the
course of nn eventful life I have seen many
men of willful power and forte, but never be
fore have I. looked on one so thoroughly em
bodying the etil spirit of re volition. It wiU
not do to underrateMr. Johnson. He is terri
bly in earnest, and, withal, most vindictively
cool. A thorough-paced demagogue, his in
consequential logic, his egotism, his repeti
tions, his thorough belief in himself, and his
popularity, are all-elements of strength when
he laces such assemblages as were arrayed
about him yesterday. Andrew Johnson is an
able man—how able, I 'never realized till
yesterday. All results arc involved in his
policy. Had he a Cabinet as able and as des
perate, tho dire results which the near future
would bring could hardly be named now.—
We stand on the verge of a fierce. strife, to
meet which ..the country should gather its
strength and gird up its loins. This man is
no weak Buchanan, and he means to crush
Congress or be crushed.
3Ir. Johnson is a man of stalwart mould.—
Just above middle stature, he is so broad-
shouldered, firm set, and deep-chested, as
almost to seem below it. He has a large
head. It is a compact home for his fiery
will and brain. His face is marked, strong
oval outline, powerful under-jaw; well de
fined but rather sharp chin; a wide, straight
mouth, full flexible lips, skin coarse in tex
ture but firm, complexion swarthy, hair coarse
black, streaked with grey, a nose small at
the root, but full and large at the nostrils,
which expand and lift as he speaks, broad
roomy forehead, beetling bushy eyebrows,
beneath which are a pair of the coldest, hazel
grey eyes I ever saw in a human head; these
are the outlines of Andrew Johnson.
Fred. Douglass’ Oratory.—The Nash
ville Banner is responsible for the following:
“Wc never heard Fred Douglas speak but
once. He is a pretty sharp darkey, well in
formed, rather graceful, and entirely" ready.
On the occasion to which We allude, he spoke
iu Independence Square, in Philadelphia.—
Hi9 harangue was violent, made up chiefly of
descriptions of the outrages practiced upon
the slave by hi9 master, and produced a very
decided effect upon tho crowd. Perceiving
this, Fred took his advantage at the flood,
and went higher and higher into the region
of eloquence, “Ah, my friends,” he said, “I
do not speak from hearsay, I stand before you
a' living—I was going to say a bleeding—Wit
ness to the truth of all I relate. If you could
behold the stripes and scars upon my back”
—Just here an Irishman vociferated, “Hould
on Freddy, darling—is it truth you is telling
us.” The darkey orator lifted his finger trag
ically to heaven in the affirmative. “Oh r mur
der did they lacerate you ? Fred answered
that they did.' “Did they buck you like a
slioat ?” Fred answered that they did. “Did
they buck you, like a slioat Fred answer
ed that they did. '“Begorra!” roared Fat, “if
that be true, you must nave been a d—d bad
nager!” It closed the meeting in a general
row.”
The Democracy of Pennsylvania in
their recent State Convention to nominate a
candidate for Governor, adopted tlie follow
ing resolution as a part of their platform of
principles:
That the States whereof the people were
lately in rebellion are integral parts of tlie
Union, and are entitled v to representation id
Congress by men duly elected, who bear true
faith t.» tbe- Constitution and laws, and. in
order to vindicate the maxim that taxation
without representation is tyranny, such repre
sentation should be forthwith admitted.
THE GREAT COTTON QUESTION.
Facts and Figures Regarding the Crop for
86G—The Productive Power of the
South—How 3Inch Cotton can be Raised
—Speculation ns to Probable Prices.
Cotton lias become a word to conjure with.
Plutus whispers it on ’change, and the whole
commercial world becomes excited. 3Iany
there are who think of nothing else, specu
late in nothing else, love nothing else. They
talk of the fleecy fabric when awake, dream
ofit when asleep, turn it now into greenbacks
now into gold, and now build with it all
sorts of castles in the air. The cotton crop
of 1860 was 5,386,897 bales, of which about
one-fourtli was consumed in this country,
leaving the balance, worth at tho old ante
helium price about one hundred and sixty
millions of dollars, to take the place of specie
in our foreign exchange. It is not won derful,
then, that cotton is regarded as a product of
great importance, find that in the future, as
in the past, it is expected to occupy a prom
inent position in our industrial and commer
cial statistics.
Much speculation exists ns to the probable
crop of 1866. Some look for a crop of three
millions of bales, while others again arc far
more moderate in their estimate, placing the
prospective crop at a million or a million and
a half. These differences of opinion arise
from the different views entertained touch
ing the productive value of free and slave
labor. Some tliiuk that the freedman will
be more effective than the slave as an. agri
cultural producer, while others imagine that
he will be almost worthless.
On this subject we have been favored with
some calculations, made by a keen statistical
friend of ours', which wc think are well worthy
of being seriously pondered. The data can-
»ior-
Trourles of a Married Man.—One
ning .m athletic young farmer, in the- tow7 f ‘J
Wnynesburg, took a fair girl, “all bathed
blushes,” from her parents, and started for
the first town across the Pennsvlvania line to
be married, where the ceremony could’b,
performed without a license. The haunt
pair were accompanied by a sister of the m r t
a tall, gaunt, sharp-featured female of stW
thirty-seven summers. The pair crossed the
line, were married, and returned to '\Vellsvill e
to pass the night People at the hotel where
tlie-wedded party stopped, observed that
they conducted themselves in a rather sinmi
lar manner. The husband would take his
sister-in-law, tlie tall female aforesaid, into
one corner of the parlor, and talk earnestly to
her, jesticulating wildly all the time. Then
the tall female would “put her foot down”
and talk to him in an angry aqd excited man
ner. Then the husband would take his fair
young bride into a comer; but he would no
sooner commence talking to her, than the
gaunt sister would rush in between them and
angrily join in the conversation. The people
at the hotel ascertained what this meant
about nine o’clock that evening. There was
an uproar in the room which had been as
signed to tho newly married couple. Fe
male shrieks and masculine “swears” startled
the people at the hotel, and they rushed to
the spot. The gaunt female was pressing
against the door of the room, and the newly
married man, mostly undressed, was barring
her out with all liis might Occasionally she
would kick the door far enough open to dis
close the stalwart husband, in his Gentle
man Greek Slave apparel.
It appears that the tall female insisted ujt-
not certainly be questioned, and all ofour* ZSSZtt
readers arc at liberty to judge for themselves
of the conclusions arrived at. Yf the figures
and deductions which wc are about to offer
tend in any manner to harmonize commerce,
and check the wild mania of hazardous spec
ulation, our aim will be accomplished.
Numerous correspondents, who appear to
be interested in lowering the price of cotton
now held by the producers of the South,
coolly state that all the negroes have gone to
work with energy, and that consequently the
cotton crop of the present year cannot be less
than 2,500,000 or 3,000,000 bales. Persons
who make such statements cannot have visited
the outskirts of this, and other Southern ci
ties, where negroes by thousands congregate,
and are living in comparative idleness and
destitution. There are in this city at present
not less than 75,000 negro men and women,
who have drifted hither from the rural dis
tricts in order to enjoy the imaginary ease and
pleasure of city life. A similar story may be
told of every city and town from the Poto
mac to the Rio Grande, and tlie total number
thus drawn away from agricultural employ
ments is indeed enormous.
According to our friend’s statistical table
there were about 4,000,000 slaves in the South
at the commencement ot the war. It was the
custom in ancient times to estimate one-tenth
of every nntiori or tribe as warriors, or per
sons capable of bearing arms. Taking this
as a basis of calculation, there were at the be
ginning of the war 400,000 negro men between
the ages of 18 and 45 years. Of that number
200,000 entered tbe army of the United Stages,
but the sword and disease reduced their ranks
to 100,000. Since the close of the war many
of these have been disbanded andgone to the
North and West. The remainder are in tlie
army still. Of the 200,000 who did not enlist,
some perished in the Confederate service
while engaged in erecting forts nnd digging
trenches; 100,000 are now to be found in
towns and villages throughout the South, em
ployed on board of steamboats, in hotels, or
playing the part of independent freedmen.—
Of the balance, 25,000 removed into tho
States where cotton is not produced, and 75,-
000 remained at home on the old plantations,
and most of them may now be found in the
field at work.
.Turning to the opposite sex, we find 400,-
000 between the ages of eighteen and forty-
five years. And how shall we account Tor
them ? Go, ink-shedding Bohemian, to the
coast of Carolina and Georgia. Follow the
train of General Sherman’s grand march from
Atlanta to the sea. Go to 3IobiIe, Nashville,
3Iemphis, Vicksburg, Savannah, Jackson,
Baton Rouge, 3Ionroe, Shreveport, Alexan
dria, and this city. Visit tine gravey£.rds in
our towns and villages, and ask who sleeps
there. It- will be easy to account for the’dis
appearance of 100,000 negro women—poor,
ignorant creatures, who left their homes to
follow triumphant armies, but perished of
cold, hunger, and fatigue ere the bliss of free
dom became theirs. We are speaking now of
grown-up women. The children who follow
ed them fell by the wayside, and slumber in
unmarked, unconsecratcd graves. To seek
guarantees for their promised freedom, 25,-
000 have gone North, East and West, and
125,000 are about towns, cities, and villages,
washing, cooking, or following far less cred
itable Occupations. This would leave 150,-
000 effective female laborers in the rural-dis
tricts. Of boys and girls, between the ages of
ten and eighteen years, there are, perhaps,
120,000, lialfof whom are either employed or
are loitering about towns and villages. We
have, therefore, of available cotton raisers:
Negro men i 75,000
Negro women .150,000
Negro boys and girls 60,000
wedded pair; that her sister was favorably
disposed to the arrangement, and that the
husband had agreed to it before tho wedding
“took place, and now indignantly repudiated
the contract. “Wont you go away now, Su
san ?” said the newly married man, softening
his voice.
“No,” said she, “I won’t, so there!”
“Don’t you budge an inch 1” cried the mar
ried sister within the room.
“Now—now, Maria,” said the young man
to his wife, in a piteous tone, “don’t go to
cuttin’ up in this way; now don’t.”
“I’ll cut up as much as I wanter!” she
sharply replied.
“Well,” roared the desperate man, throwing
the door wide open and stalking out
among the crowd, “jest you two winimin put
on your duds and go right straight home,
and bring back the old man and woman, and
your grandfather, who is nigh on to a hund
red; bring ’em all here, and.I’ll many the
whole raboodle of’em, and we’ll sleep togeth
er !”
The difficulty was finally adjusted by the
tall female taking a room. - 'Wellsville is en
joying itself over the sensation.
A Yankee Pass.—An official Dutchman in
the valley of the Mohawk, one day stopped a
Yankee pcdler, journeying slowly through
the yallcy on the Sabbath, ami informed him _
that lie must put# up for the day; or, “If it ™
vasli neshessary that he should travel, he must
pay de fine for dc pass.” It was necessaiy, it
seems, for he told the Yankee to write a pass,
and he would sign it. “That lie could do,
though he did not much write or read wri
ting.” The pass was written and signed with
the Dutchman’s hieroglyphics, and tlie ped-
ler went forth into the bowels of the country
without impediment. Some six months ii-
terwards, a brother Dutchman, wiio kept a
store further down the Mohawk, in setting
with the pious official, brought; in, among oil
er accounts, an order for twenty-five dollars
worth of goods.' “How ish dat ?” said tlie
Sunday officer. “I never gave no order—l:t
me see him.” The order was produced; lie
put on his spectacles and examined it “Yah,
dat ish mine name, sartan—yeas, but it ish
dat Yankee pass.”
A Dutch Introductiox.-AA fine old Ger
man gentleman who had just returned from i
visit to the “Fadderland,” bringing with him
his frau, met an old friend in a store up street,
not many days since, and alter some little
conversation tlie old gentleman inserted the
index finger of his right baud among the
short ribs of liis better half; w ho had up to I
this time taken no part in the conversation j
but stood leaning against tho counter com-1
mulling .“mit herself.” Her lord and master I
accompanied the poke with the exclamation j
of—
“PetsyC Petsy!"
“ Vat you wants ghon f”
“I wants to introduce mine friend, ShacobL
Stump, te big fool, te more you knows him H
te better you gits acquainted mit him.” ■
pST* Among M. Alexander Dumas’ many
talents, it appears that cooking may be in
clude*; in proof of which he recently gave
a dinner, cooked wholly himself, at his new
apartment, Boulevard Malesherbes, to a party
ot twelve, among whom Sirs. Milnor Gibson
was included. The cuisine is reported to
have been wprthy of Soyer, or even Brillat
Savarin himself in liis very best days.
p5^~After long drought there fell a torrent
of rain, and a country gentleman observed to
Sir John Hamilton:
“This is a most delightful rain; I hope it
will bring up everything out of the ground.”
“By Jove, sir,” said John, “I Lope not; for
have sowed three wives in it, and I should
be very sorry to see them come up again.”
ZsTAn ek-Confederate of New Orleans,
under the influence of too much whisky, on
the 13th day of last February, (Carnival day),
cried “Hurrah for the Southern Confederacy.”
He lias been sentenced to two years’ hard
labor in Fort Jefferson, Florida. His name is
William Wright, citizen.”
Ax old gentleman'wns admitted to the
almshouse at Washington* who, five years
ago, was a citizen of Fredericksburg, worth
$100,000.
Total 285,000
We must now take into consideration the
number of whito persons who will devote
their attention to cotton raising. In the cot
ton States there were about 250,000 white
men at the commencement of tlie war, who,
if so inclined might have devoted their atten
tion to the raising of cotton/ Of this number
100,000 have been killed or disabled during
the wai; but their places have to some extent
been supplied by the growth of boys. We
think that it would be a large estimate to al
low 200*000 white laborers for the cotton
fields during the present season. If so. we
liAve a total effective force of 485,000 cotton
raisers. .
The next question is- how ranch cotton
can wc reasonably expect to be raised per
hand ? Statistics show that in 1840, with a
force of 600,000 laborers, our crop was 1,800,-
000 bales, or three bales per hand. When
the laboring force doubled between 1850 and
1860, the crop proved to be 4,500,000 bales,
equal to 3 3-4 bales per hand What then
shall be our estimate for the present year ?
We must remember that there is a scarcity
of stock and agricnltural implements; that
fences, gin-houses and habitations need re
pair; that food must be provided; that much
of the rich cotton lands along the Mississippi
are not yet redeemed from overflow by the
rebuilding of the broken levees. Our de
pendence for a crop must rest .chiefly upon
tire highland farms, which are far less pro-
dactivc than those ot the lowlands. All
things considered we cannot expect more
than throe bales per hand, which would yield
1,440,000 bales in alL Now, if it be "con
tended that this this estimate is below the
mark, the reader will please remember that
wc have made no calculation for the labor
which must necessarily be devoted to other
crops—sugar, tobacco and rice for instance—
nor of that which wilt be turned to mechanics
and stock raising. These employments will
certainly absorb all that remains of the phys
ical laboring power which the Southern
States can at present boast. With all these
facts lieforc us, it would be vain to expect a
cotton crop of more than a million and a half
oi bales.
Let not tlie commercial and manufacturing
world be deceived by the loose calculations of
Frecdmcn’s Bureaus or interested speculators.
Nor will it do to base an argument on the
amount on hand at the close ol the war— >
that was made up from the sayings and hid
ings during five long years from the torch-
man and the plunderer. The Tew bales that
the planter now has he should not sacrifice at
existing rates. He need not be frightened by
a nightmare crop of three million bales. No
such crop will be produced either this year or
next. What will be raised in 186S we will
not, pretend to say. It is enough at present
to know that we cannot raise a crop exceed
ing 1,500,000 bales this year, and as the de
mand for our staple will be much .greater
than the supply, the price will assuredly ad
vance. Wc stake our professional reputation
on the correctness of our general conclusions
in the premises.
Sad Case of Derangement.—“Weill
Jones, I suppose ye have been out to look at
Texas ? Did you see anything of onr oldl
friend James out there t
“ Yes, gone deranged.”
“ Gone deranged? How? What, doeshe|
do real crazy ?”
“ Yes, indeed; lie doesn’t know his own
hogs from his neighbor's.”
The Wheat Crop.—Wc have seen and!
conversed with several men of sense and ob-l
servation, who report to us that there is»|
fair prospect of a good wheat crop in EsSj
Tennessee. The cold snap of February kl
jured wheat in some places, but upon tfcl
whole, we are promised a good crop. Ltfl
our farmers put in heavy crops of oats Midi
corn, as they will do, aid add these to o®|
hay ertop, which never fails, and we shill
have enough to eat and to spare.—Knoxv&u
Whig. I
,n . .
G5F"The- Savannah (Ga.) Republican, m
the 5tli, contains this paragraph: “Drownei r
off the island of Cuba, on the 26th of Febrt
ary, Colonel- C. B. Brent, of the late Confcd
erate Army. He was in tha 24th year of bis
age. This-sad occurrence took place, whik
Colonel Brent was en route from New Orlet*
to Brazil. The Colonel had jumped ore
board to rescue a sailor who had fallen firosl
aloft, and although every effort was made tt|
recover them, yet, owing to the freshness
the wind, it was impossible to do so.
Progress.—One of the 3Iempbis papen^
told by an old citizen of that city that/
1828, when the town contained a populate
of six or seven hundred. Capt. Shreve ]» r
ed there from the Steamer George Wi
ton and made a speech, in which he t
that Ms boat had made the trip from
Orleans to Louisville in twenty-fire days, “
declared that it could never be done
Daniel Purcell, who was a non-jo
was telling a friend, when King George'
First landed at Greenwich that he bad sf
view of him— .
“Then/ said liis friend, “you know hi®
sight ?”
“Yes,” replied, Daniel, I think I know 1
but I can’t swear to him.”
A Drop to the Ocean.—Among the j
tributions towards cancelling the
debt, the United States Treasurer anno
the gift of a beggar, amounting to one <
which was acccepted and transferred to -
vaults^f the Treasury with the same fon®|
ity as a more munificent sum.
Aunt E. was trying to persuade b
Eddy to retire at sundown—“You see.
dear, how tlie little chickens go to J
that time.” “Yes. Auntie,” replied Eo
“but the old hen always goes with them-
A lady wished a scat in a typ*?
hall. A gentleman brought her a cM^
“You are jewel,” said she. “0b, no, I
jeweler; I have just set the jewel.''
Some ladies sprinkle their ha*® ^
with tears in order that they may swed/
cash out of their pockets—just as P/Tv
ally sprinkle the floor before swecpin-
Mork than a thousand steam voy»£ c ' ■'/
the Atlantic will be made during the J>
year by the vessc.sof different lines-
more than in any previous year.
If vou have a cough, don't go to ch^
disturb the rest ot tho congregation.