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Col.
Von Borckc nn«l Win. Evelyn
Mr. Editor:
I notice, with regret, an article in the Au
gusta Constitutionalist, taken front the Mo
bile Times, in which the latter journal takes
Mr. Wm. Evelyn, of New Orleans, severely to
^ApoN the “COP PEBII EADS.
TBE ' it 0 t persecution that has been
1* * P tllc North against that class of cit-
’ «ed the lato war upon their
j g not only unjust, but I task for a letter recently contributed by him
jaatber® ’ regret especially to sec so to the Round Table. Evelyn, it seems, has
jjtroo^ ^ tgble a gentleman as Gen- commented rather sharply upon the career of
nathising with the great wrong, Col. Von Borcke, n Prussian officer who serv-
* ^ p]iD * m " ^ — /- V.!. a I <*/l in f llO nrmioa f 1i« IaIa aimim*
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fiiOir» Dl influence of bis name and ox- ed in the armies of the late Confederacy.
^ allreand active. Patriotism, In taking up the gauntlet for Col. Von
f )se should have deterred him I Borcke the Times shuts its eyes as to the mer-
‘ ’ R is a very serious thing its or deeds of Mr. Evelyn, thereby setting
• rothing
hastep. ll,s » **I«T —
** w * aCl r class of citizens, many of whom hini in a false light before the public and oth-
wP 018 '^fie and virtuous and intelligent erwise doing him great injustice.
** • ('l'lows under a perpetual 1mn and As to Col. Von Borcke, I only know that
* > btir . even f or a grievous blunder or h« is the reputed author of a series ot South-
^Thw denied fellowship, and all par-1 ern war sketches, published in Blackwood’s
their own government,
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jcipjti#"
Thus i
in
Magazine; I know nothing of his antecedents
or of his present standing; which, according
to its own confession, is as much as the Times
own
majority, how must they feel
. country thus ruled, and
* „ are wielded for their has any knowledge of.
** . P °, what must be their temper 1 * k ™ w something of Evelyn, however,
^“ mrnunity that discards all idea of “ d for tlle of the Times will state
u ■ i wiU admit of no such thing as I tkfct 1,e is “ n Englishman by birth. Coming
l And yet, if a report of a recent
‘ rvition with General Grant be true, this
w ,r he would wage against a large
* of his lellow-citisens in all respects as
H d true at heart as himself—this the
jjv wall of partition that he would raise
people of the same political and so-
L o-manmity, and whose destinies are,
%' found up in the fate of one common
Sag all that is said of the “Copper-
- w be true, such a spirit toward them,
^Ifaland unrelenting, is not only unjust
Slid, It should find no place in the
“*3 . generous, right-minded, true-
;^„l citizen. It is a declaration of perpet-
I »jrfirc in one’s own family.
J Ij 0W utterly imielensible becomes this
_ of conduct in view of the fact that the
on which it is baifcd has no real
. J.tion in truth, but is of that class of
-smil-u], accusations which parties, in the
Ant of political excitement, never fail to
^ us means of degrading their op-
‘ We do not believe there is a word
iinith in the allegation that any respecta-
wn , t the -North, of Northern birtli and
,tion, favored a dissolution of the Union,
atbe final triumph of the Confederate arms
ihc late sanguinary struggle. 8ome op-
^1 the war, ’tis true, but not because
t desired a political separation; all their
hags and opinions were notoriously oppos.
ufsuch a result. They did it, some from
atitutional scruples, believing that this
w a government founded solely on the
inteftke governed, and that there was no
r itr in the Government to coerce a State
tthought proper, for reasonhsatisfactory
herstlf, to withdraw that consent and re-
3, f roa ] the confederation—that no free gov-
aent could be a government offorce.
Other*, again, opposed the war from con-
iimtinns of policy, founded in a fore for
Union. They believed tbut even though
jt South might be conquered, the States
>hl not he pinned together with bayonets
J should not be if they could—that the
aion, to be worth anything, must bo based
ipon he affections of the people, and not up-
their lean—that the only practicable way
hri.iging hack the seceded States was by
uercise of forbearance and demon'
minus of au intention * to do them
harm. And we have no liesitu
as Southern men fully acquainted
;:h the temper and sentiments of
fie. in saying that had this policy been
;td, the Southern States would have
:e back within a twelvemonth and volun-
(jj restored the Union, and without the
; iJing of a drop cf blood. We have not
■obt of this. The people would have de
nied it in spite of the few politicians who
f»r disunion with or without a cause
they would have yielded the question oj
■ •rr in the Territories, which was never
cal but merely one of principle, upon
K r guarantees of its security in the
i The truth is the war was a great and
Sunder on the part of the North, and
ling hut creditable either to the patriot-
f statesmanship of the day.
.!i being the motives of those men at the
who shuddered at the shedding of fra
'-Ib'.oou, it is an outrage to charge them
bsaffcction toward their Government.
: 'weie far better Union men than their
'chteous accusers, and are now angels of
spared with those demons in human
*1» would keep the Union asunder for
individual advantage or the grati-
ff a fiendish revenge. There is one
tint can novel be laid to the charge of
Icspised “Copperheads"; they hove never
upon the Constitution of their
PJ, nor sought to pervert it from the
rPwposes for which it was framed by
tas. This is the highest test of pat-
and can their Radical persecutors say
for themselves ?
Englishman by birth. Coming
to this country at a time when civil war was
raging ho joined the Southern army, and in
vested his»thole fortunein Confederate bonds,
from which he nev^r cut a coupon.
In all friendliness I ask the Times if the
young Englishman is not entitled to ns ninch
credit for his deeds of valor—for the blood
he slied in the Southern cause—as Von
Borcke, or any one else ? Why then does
that journal persist in showing up only one
side of the question ?
I will state, also, that Mr. Evelyn was, as I
remember, upon the staff of the lamented
Stuart—a comrade-in-arms of Colonel Von
Borcke, with every opportunity of discover
ing whether that officer was a gentleman, or
the opposite. There is no douhl upon my
mind but that Evelyn has good authority for
even tiling lie lias said of Von Borcke; and
I have no doubt lie lias the authority of his
personal friend, Jno. R. Thompson, as to the
little swindling operation in their joint lite
rary work in England. I am almost per
suaded, also, that Jno. R. Thompson was the
author of those war sketches attributed to
Von Borcke.
I am certain that Mr. Evelyn had good rea
sons for writing the letter he did, and that
they will appear in good time, I firmly bc^
lievc.
As a Southern soldier, as an associate of the
person whom he criticizes, Evelyn had a per.
feet right to expose the humbuggery of Von
Borcke.
Will the Constitutionalist, os an act of jus’
tico to the distinguished gentleman, in de
fense of whom it is written, give this article
a place in its columns ? J. C. H.
Coiitttitu
Arrest of Cnpt. Braine oi the Confederate “Willoughby" and the
Navy—The Chesapeake Affair. tionallst.
The arrest, in New York on Saturday j . , , , ril
• Afr* * t i n n • r ^ r “The violence and other phases or the po
evening, of Capt John C. Brainc, formerly of canvaS3 arc thc absorbing topic of con
the Coniederate Navy, on the charge of mur- I versat ; on< even j n circles and on occasions
der, and that he had papers on his person
showing that he belonged to a recent organi
zation in New Orleans, has been announced
by telegraph. Capt. Braine, it will be recol
lected, on the 5th ot December, 1863, seized
the United States passenger steamer Chesa
peake, while she was on her jiassage from
New A ork to Portland, Maine. lie was ar
rested at thc Wall House, Brooklyn, on Sat
urday, on a requisition from Washington, by
thc United States Marshal, at thc instance of
one James Johnson, first engineer of the
Chesapeake, who was on lioard when Orin
Schaffer, the second engineer, was killed by
when politics are usually ignnrcd. The pro
bable results I have already predicted—with
what reason, the Maine election will have al
ready told you. The Democrats have already
received a sad lesson, and they are destined
to be humbled still lower. It was a proverb
of Franklin's that, “if a man cheat me once,
he is a knave; if he cheat me twice, I am a
fool." They have put theinsrlvi-s under the
leadership of a man whose whole career is
one of fraud, violence, and unblushing dema
goguery : one who has been steadily and
justly denounced as most unfit to govern
the}- have accepted as a leader when great
qualities were most needed.
Mr. Johnson’s tour has done the business
for him. It is impossible to express the ve-
onc of the Confederates engaged in the cap- 1 hemence with which he is denounced by men
® ® »f _ 1 ■ — _ IT.. 1 . . . o. 1 - f A fll O lovnl fit
h *tk*iitt’i Soldiers’ nnd Sailors’ Con.
Vengeful Resolutions
P®*. 8ept 18.—A Convention of the
^ wil sailors of Massachusetts was held
■’ifeuil Rail to-day lor the purpose of
measures to secure thc equalization
^ " unties to soldiers of Massachusetts,
£j«ure to loyal men and their posterity
pd* of the late war. N. P. Banks was
'• Indent, and among the Vice-Presi-
; J hre Generals B. F. Butler and Bart-
“•t Convention was addressed by Gen.
and tho following resolution was
M That treason should be made
’■ *ad that the authors should bo pun-
IJ.y in the name of our starved and
■™ brothers at Andersonviile, in the
1 our slaughtered brothers on every
Mi is the name of the widows and
C.® the name of American liberty and
Rc *u justice, we protest against the
^ release of Jefferson Davis. We
J'KUnst the insulting leniency that
pampers a blood-stained traitor,
:$r,i . occu Py a felon’s cell and live or
riJT® * fare; and we demund that he
J5v° trial for his crimes and treason
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH.
We rejoice to see that thc friends of this
noble institution, nothing daunted by thc de
vastations of war, which swept away all their
improvements at Suwance, the Federal sol
diery not leaving even so much as tho corner
stone and contents to mark the spot, have
gone to work in good earnest nnd organized
the University at thc beautiful town of Win
chester. This location is only temporary. It
is designed to return to Suwanec, as soon ns
circumstances wiU admit, and there carry out
thc original intention of a Southern Univer
sity on a grand scale.
We quote from the Winchester Home Jour
nal, ot the 10th instant:
“ A grand day lor Tennessee, and all the
Dioceses ot the South, was Monday, the 3d of
September. The suu rose iu all its bright
ness, the air was balmy—fragrant with thc|nextmormng.
breath of flowers, laden with the songs ot
birds, as a new era dawned for the pleasant
town of Winchester. By the untiring eiTorts
of the noble Bishop of Tennessee, the first
school, or college, of the University of the
South has now been successfully organized
here. The.Trustees ot the County Academy
have transferred to a special board, acting
under the authority of the Bishop nnd Con
vention of the Diocese, a fine brick building,
capable of accommodating two hundred stu
dents, and a campus of four acres. The Rev.
F. L. Knight, D. D., of New Jersey, was call
ed to thc Rectorship, and, accepting, pro
ceeded at once, on his arrival here, to organ
ize tiie Collegiate Institute, and with such
success that nearly one hundred students ma
triculated yesterday. The Faculty now con
sists of five professors and four tutors, there
being two professorships still vacant."
SUWANEE DIVINITY SCHOOL.
The Suwanee Divinity School has been re
moved from thc mountain, and made a co
ordinate branch of thc College. This is de
signed to supply thc Diocese, and, as far as
possible, the Southern church with clergy
educated on the spot, and trained for the du-
turc. Captain Brainc is charged in the war
rant with the murder of Schaffer. Johnson,
when Captain Brainc ,whs arrested, was very
insolent in his language towards him, and
taunted him bitterly. The reporter of the
New York News visited Captain Brainc at
the police station, aud gives thc following ac
count of the interview:
Captain Braine. on being asked if he had
any objection to make a brief statement of
his complicity in the affair which resulted in
the death of Schaffer, very readily replied that
he had not, und thereupon gave, in reply to
interrogatories, a brief account of the Cbes-
npeake capture, thc substance of which is as
follows:
In December, 1803, Braine came to Wil-
liamsburgh, but did not tarry long; for about
a week before the capture of thc Chesapeake,
he sailed on board that vessel with his wife
for Portland; he had at this time a commis
sion os Lieutenant in thc Confederate States
Navy; while on this trip he conceived the
design of capturing the vessel. He next went
to St. John’s, New Brunswick, where his com
mand were awaiting his arrivaU They were
mostly Englishmen; there were a few Irish
men, in his own words, “as good fighting
men as a man wants;" lie thee came through
Boston, via New London, to New Y*>rk, un
der orders lrom thc Confederate States Navy
Department, with bis men. Arriving ut 4
o’clock in thc afternoon, he went with them
the same day ou board the Chesapeake at
Pier No. 14 North river, lie says that the
assertion which has frequently been made
that he enlisted men from New York and
Brooklyn is utterly untrue. On the same day
that they weut on board they sailed. At
aliout two o’clock next morning Braine and
his confederates captured tile vessel otf Cape
Cod. His men had all bceu instructed in
their role*. Guards were placed at various
points.
Their instructions were not to shoot any
but such us refused to surrreuder. The se
cond engineer, Orin Schaffer, it appears, when
called upon to surrender, was below, oiling
the machinery. On hearing the demand he
responded by firing upon Brainc's second
lieutenant. Three shots were then discharg
ed at him, and he was instantly killed. Some
ot the officers, according to Braine’s account,
showed less intrepidity. One officer, he says,
hid behind an ice-box in the gallery. The
first engineer wus wounded in the chin; the
first officer in thc leg and arm. Braine says
that he saved the captain's life, but hand
cuffed him. The firemen were put in irons.
The vessel, now in possession of Braine.
steamed under orders to Sea Cove, Grand
Manan Island, a British island off Eostport,
Maine. Here he remained three or four
hours, and then steamed up the Bay of Fun-
dy. Brainc put the passengers on board a
pilot boat on Pugwosh, on the coast of No
va Scotia, came to anchor, and had a commu
nication with thc agent of the Confederate
States of America; weighed anchor, aud
steered for Shcrbrook, St. Mary’s. Halifax,
and was by noon next day off Yarmouth
Light Ou the following day, the vessel hav
ing been caught in a storm off Cape Sable,
put into Sbelburn harbor, short of coal;
cleared for La Have, Nova Scotia; lay there
a week, and made arrangements for coaling
at Sandborough harbor, near Halifax; sailed
alongside the United States frigate Niagara
As the rest of his connection
of all parties. He has sunk to the level (if
he were ever above it) of Secretary Seward
and Parson Brownlow. He is no longer fear
ed by the Radicals; he is simply hated and
despised. A few, who would apologize for
him, say that he is simply unfortunate in his
temper. A man who has no record ofprincl
pie to fall back upon, has no recourse except
to scold.”
Do our readers suppose that the above ex
tract is from the New York Tribune or thc
Philadelphia (Forney’s) Press ? If they do
they are mistaken. Strange as it may appear
to them, and to the great mass of tho intelli
gent minds of the country, our clipping is
from the Augusta (Go.) Constitutionalist, of
the 18tli inst. Why our esteemed eotempor
ary will continue his assaults upon the Presi
dent we are at a loss to discover, unless we
bring ourselves to thc conclusion (which wo
cannot yet do) that he is desirous of accom
plishing his overthrow, nnd ot delivering np
the Government, in all its branches, to the
tender mercies ot Stevens, Summer, Wilson
and Company. Just now, when the good men
of the country, both North and South, are
deeply concerned at the results of the Maine
election, this writer in the Constitutionalist,
who hails from New York, and appends to
his ill-timed, unwise and seditious effusion
tho signature of Willoughby, seems to gloat
over the disasters to the Conservative cause,
and joins with Greeley, Forney, Philips and
Garrison in denouncing the man who, above
all others, the South has most ”ausc to thank
und support. Why our people should join
the Radicals in their denunciation of Air.
Johnson we cannot conceive. Will the Con
stitutionalist be so good as to .enlighten
us on this point. Whatever may be the
opinion - of the Southern people os to thc
President’s course before and during the war,
we are very sure that we speak the sentiments
of nineteen-twentieths of them now, when
we say that we give him our cordial support
and sympathy in his Herculean efforts to re
establish the Union and restore Southern rep
resentation in the halls of Congress. The in
terests involved, in tUe pending struggle are
too immense to justify us in jeopardizing the
issue by a captious, ill-tempered and puerile
attempt to ridicule and denounce bint who,
above all others, is doing most and risking
most in his efforts in our behalf.—Aug. Chron.
dc Sent.
The Scene of the Great Surrender.
IIRCOI.I.F.CTION8 OF THE EVENT—THE nODSE
IN WHICH GENS. LEE AND GRANT MET.
with the Chesapeake is already well known,
it is unnecessary to repeat it here.
At the termination of the war, Braine was
in commund of the C. S. A. schooner, St. Ma
ry’s. Heating that thc war had terminated,
he burned her off Jamaica Isiand. He then
went to Europe, nnd arriving in Liverpobl
last July, paid off his men and returned to
to thc United States, believing himself safe
under the amnesty proclamation. He took
up his residence in Savannah, and, accord
ing to his own statement, he bos been on inti-
atu terms with some of our Government of
ficials.
He next went to Washington, and previ
ously to starting for Williamsburgh tarried
there for ten days. He had been, when ar-
rested in Williamsburg, boarding at the Wall about fi(ty feet long, with a porch i
House about ax weeks. He was visited by extending the whole length. In front
several of his friends and acquaintances yes- - - - e - -
terdary. He is cheerful, and believes as he
held a commission from the C. S. A., which
the United States recognized as beliger-
ents, amenable to the laws of war, tiw killing j p^Jor,‘which is about elght^T
of Schaffer cannot be regarded.as a murder. Comfortably furnished, the walls decorated
11° says that he never lumself discharged a with Tlle interview lasted until
shot on board fhe vessel. In reply to inqui-1 afte r two unlock. Major McLane has thc
A correspondent of tho Richmond Whig,
who lias just visited the scene of the great
surrender, furnishes the following interesting
letter, dated at Lynchburg:
I was at Appomattox Court House on
yesterday, and, indeed, it was a sad day to
my heart. In memory I reviewed the panic
scenes of the eventful period ot our surrender.
It was there that the noble old hero folded
his arms in the serene dignity of his match
less person, aud said to the famished band who
hung around him that all was over. Here
thc veteran of a dozen campaigns embraced
his comrades, and, gazing through their tears,
looked for the last time on their battle-wem
flag, now furled, and soon to be lost to tlicir
sight forever. And as I wandered over the
place alone, I felt that I stood a solitary
mourner over the grave of my country.—
'What recollections bwept over my heart 1 I
thought oi the brave and the true who per
ished for right and freedom. I thought of
our days of peril and trial, our years of sacri
fice and devotion, our poverty and desolation
bntyct there was some gleam of light. We
have a history, glowing with the deeds of
manhood and chivalry, os enduring, as eternal
as the blue hills that look down in peaceful
grandeur on the consecrated spot.
It may not be uninteresting to your readers
to give u minute description of the house in
which the articles of capitulation were sign
ed. I was a guest of Major McLaine, and I
sat in the very room. The house is of brick,
in front
_ _ front of the
house is a well, covered with lattice work.—
The yard is small, with a tine plat of grass,
shaded with locust trees. At about half-past
ten o’clock Gens. Lee aud Grant met in the
SEWARD.
THE DREAM OF LIFE.
ties of their profession by acting as Lay Rea- fi 08 .®? *° k ? s P] ace captain said name3 0 f a p w j, 0 W ere present, but, as he in-
: that he was boin at Hollv bonn-rs. m thc * .i _ ... . 1 ... ’ -I,
ders in Missionary works, under thc supervi
sion of the Theological Faculty,which is now
constituted as follows:
Rt. Rev. C. T. Quintan), D. D., Bishop Pro-
fesser of tho Nature, Ministry and Polity of
the Church.
Rev. F. L. Knight, D. D., Professor of Pas
toral Theology and Systematic Divinity.
Rev. Henry P. Hay, D. D., Professor of He
brew, Biblical Literature, Liturgies and Ec
clesiastic History.
Rev. F. L. Knight, D. D., Acting Professor
of Greek Exegesis and Homiletics.
Rev. David Pise, D. D., Prolessor ot
Rev. H. P. Hay, D. D., Acting Protessor of
Elocution und Sacred Music.
Win. H. Tomlinson, Librarian.
From thc same journal wccopy thc
FACULTY OF THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
Rt. Rev. C T. Quintanl, M. D., D. D., Vis
itor, Lecturer on Evidence of Christianity.
Rev. F. L. Knight, D. D., Rector., Prof,
of Greek Language qnd Literature.
Rev. Henry P. Hay, D. D., Prof, of Ancient
and Modern History.
Rev. W. W. Guilford, JL A., Prof, of Latin
and Mathematics.
Rev. Henry P. Hay, D. D., act. Prof, of
Belles Letters, Rhetoric and Logic.
Rev. F. L. Knight, D. D., acting Prof, of
Modern Languages.
J. C. Shapard, M. D., Prof, of Chemistry
and Physiology.
, Profl of Philosophy and
Political Economy.
—Prof, of Music.
Geo. R. Fairbanks, M. A., Esq., Lecturer on
American History.
Geo. W. Bowers, Tutor in English and
Mathematics.
— —r, Senior Proctor.
Henry Dunlop, Junior Proctor.
Benj. C. Bradford, Register.
is made for his conviction
'K whence the necessity of a trialt
^ °* the demand should be left out
b J these blood-thirsty soldiers of
-'dtUj; {hat he be convicted and that Tomlinson, Librarian.
‘Kig.. I. S. Sims, Bursar.
John Rose, Janitor.
We congratulate - our Episcopal friends on
this auspicious inaugurating of their great
work, and trust, before many years, to see
tlicir original'iutentions carried out in n uni
versity that* shall stand unrivalled on the
American continent.
GoianssHm and Factorage.—We invite
the attention of merchants nnd planters of
the interior to thc business card of Messrs.
Clark. Jones «fe Co., of Savannah. It is a re
sponsible firm In all respects, being comjioscd
of gentlemen
Adolph Bernard, th kei
. ■ :i!i' 1 C'l.i: -ton Rail-
7*PP«arcd from Memphis, suddenly,
-> us ago, taking with him sl0,000,
»pany. A rev rd of ; 1,500
meeting
pin
p ro-
bei i
^ Couatv.
ratily thc
i< ipliia Consen utivc j CX I
Ued to meet at Daw-
i Saturday, the t!!>tli
rience in
it intc
nutne
rritv, energy and much
Tjie Fall.—I’une
o much ilitu — durhi
» a sicklc-v season.
-ays that the reason of
■ harvest times is that it
tbut he was born at Holly Springs, in thc
State of Mississippi.
Wulker County Opposed to Repudiation.
LaFatette, Gh., Sep. 15, ’CG.—At a meet
ing of tho citizens of Wulker county, held
this day, thc following proceedings were had:
Col. A. Cooper was called to the choir and
Judge T. M. Phipps appointed Secretary.
On motiod of Dr. G. G. Gordon, a Com
mittee of five, consisting of Dr. G. G. Gordon
Judge Eastcrlin, James Gray, J. R. Brooke
and Josiah Smith, were appointed to draft
resolutions. The Committee reported the
following resolutions which were voted down.
Resolved, 1st. That tho citizens of Walker
county in Convention assembled, do instruct
and request her members to thc legislature,
to use their votes and influences for the pas-
ge of thejollowing laws :
First. For a perfect and complete stay-
law—not only to stop the selling of property
by bailiffs and sheriffs—but to go so far as to
prevent suing and tbeobtaining of judgments
against debtors.
Resolved 3d. That our members be also in
structed to u<ie their whole influence for the
passage of a law—scaling thc debts made be
fore the war in the following manner: That
the amount ot property owned by the citi
zens of said county before the war, be ascer
tained by reference to the tax books and thc
present amount ascertained and compared
with the former, and in proportion to the
amount destroyed during the war, jnst so far,
scale the debt. These resolutions were advo
cated by Dr. G. G. Gordon, and opposed by
D. S. Farris, Mr. Lawson Black, Capt. Wood
and Col. James Armstrong.
The latter making an able and eloquent
speech against the adoption of the resolutions
and recommending that the creditors com
pound with the debtors.
A resolution was then adopted requesting
the creditors of this county not to press
their claims, and asking those who had com
menced suing to take them out of court.
On motion of Mr. T. E. Pat(on, the Home
Courier being the ‘
tends getting up a fine picture of the whole
scene, I will go no more into detail. On the
wall there is a very accurate diagram, drawn
by a Federal officer. Tho table and the
chairs have been taken away as relics.
Despotic Designs of tiie Radical Ma
jority.—Thc correspondent of the National
Intelligencer, writing from Boston last Satur
day, clearly, and wo believe correctly, dis
closes the designs of the Radicals upon the
liberties and property ot the South. W«
make two extracts from this interesting cor
respondence:
The speeches on Wednesday night, at the
reception of the Southern Radical commit
tee, disclosed some important political facts.
It appears from the authorized declaration of
Col. Stokes, of Tennessee, that the ten ex
cluded Southern States are to be recognized
when they shall have reconstructed their
State Governments upon the model ot Ten
nessee. and not until then; and that Tennes
see will, by the 25th of December, adopt im
partial and equal suffrage. Thus it will
be made a condition precedent to the ad
mission of loyal representatives from any of
the ten excluded States, that it shall, in addit
ion to thc ratification of thc proposed con
stitutional amendment, enfranchise all the
freedmen. It is the intention then to
pass, at the next session, an enabling act, by
a two-thirds vote, providing for the repre
sentation of seceded States when they shall
have extended the right of suffrage to all their
blacks. This will be a law for the perpetual
exclusion of the ten States from the Union, or
from participation in the Federal Councils.—
This “impartial suffrage" is to be applied on
ly to thc excluded States at present Thc
delegates from the border States, formerly
slaveholding, are to bo exempted from it, in
thc hope that they will aid to impose it upon
the ten Southern States. The border States
rejected it at the late Radical Convention in
Ivortising medium of i Philadelphia, while the conference delegates.
this county, was requested to publish thc , from the Northern States approved it, but
proceedings of the meeting. j were afraid now to adopt it.
On motion ot Mr. Wash Holden, the meet- ’ * , * * *
ing then adjourned. j - After Tennessee shall have enfranchised
A. Cooper, Chairman, j ] icr freedmen—put the ballot, as Col. Stokes
says, into tho bands of every loyal man—
OT A four-vear old bov went to church Tennessee is to be the model to'which the
Sunday, and when he got home his grand- other SUt« lately in rebellion must conform,
mother asked him what the minister said. 1} tb ®y ' l *Rte and delay to do tbi9then Mr.
“Don’t know,” said he; “be didn’t speak to
[From tho Richmond Times.]
Neither the cholera nor the knite of thc
assassin, we are pleased to say, have been able
to abbreviate the duration of the life of Wm.
H. Seward, which God lias prolonged for
some wise purpose.
And yet, if Mr. Seward fails to arrest that
terrible tornado of Radical passion which he
deliberately put in motion a quarter of a cen
tury ago, it would have been far better for J
liis fame had his life been terminated when
he officially proclaimed that the constitution
al amendment which abolished slavery was a
portion of our organic law. For it is now
growiug more and more apparent every day
that the huge and complicated machine of
sectional agitation which Mr. Seward con
structed to advance his political fortunes
no longer obeys the will of its maker.
The inventor of that terrible instru
ment of torture called “ The Maiden, " j
was one ol the first victims of its dead- ■
ly embrace, and the head of Dr. Guil- J
lotinc leel before the French Revolution end- i
ed beneath the knife of the terrible machine j
which bears his name. And when we behold •
Mr. Seward laboring in these terrible days of
the Republic to arrest tb'e* progress of the
party to which he gave birtli, we are remind
ed ot the fate of many an ambitious statesman
who has been shipwrecked by a tempest ot
his own creation. We give Mr. Seward great
credit for what he is now doing to save the
nation, nnd we are grateful to Providence
that lie has again been snatched from the
jaws of death; but when the history of the
terrible revolution which is uprooting the,
very foundations of our government is writ
ten, lie must stand forth the colassnl central
und figure in that group of agitators whose
labors have accomplished the overthrow of
their country. And when his present patriot
ic labors are interrupted by the howls,taunts,
insults nnd derisive shouts of in
furiated Wolverines and Iloosiers, ichom he
taught to hate the South and her institutions,
the classical learning aud mythological lore
of Mr. Seward jnust recall the fate of Acta-con,
who was torn to pieces by liis own hounds.
Thenty-one years ago Mr. Seward, then in
tiie prime and vigor of mature manhood,
found the abolition party a weak, despised
and helpless minority of hissing, venomous
and abusive, but utterly contemptible fanat
ics. Annually a iqotley crew of these unsex-
cd women and half demented men gathered
in New York and BostoD, and after perform
ing the most grotesque nnd extravagant an
tics, were esteemed fortunate it the escaped
thc attention or the mob. In those days
Abby Kelly Folsom and Garrison were the
controlling spirits, for in that day men like
Sumner and Phillips were unwilling to dirty
their dainty hands with such a foul and un
couth set. ,
This handful of wretched men aud womea
Mr. Seward found worshipping their bluc c
idol as thb negro does his Fttitehe, and es
poused their cause. He gave to the cause of
slavery agitation and sectional hate the influ
ence of one of the most subtle, powerful and
cultivated intellects of the age. lie lifted the
Abolition party out of the mud in which it
had so long floundered, washed it, clothed it
in fine linen, changed its name, and made
Freesoilism the watch-cry ot tiie North. He
controlled the Northern mind and thoroughly
sectionalized it. He thundered in Congress
and out of Congress perpetually against the
constitutional barriers with which our fore
fathers had protected the institution of slav
ery. He taught Chase, Sumner, and his other
satellites, to trample upon the laws and spit
upon the Constitution where they protected
the master in the enjoyment of his property
in the negro.
■ This ceaseless agitation speedily severed
all the ties which bound the Union together,
and a terrible civil war ended a long and bit
ter sectional'controversy. The teachings of
Mr. Seward profited Mr. Seward but little,
however, for a new man grasped the glitter
ing prize for which he had so long and so un-
scrupuously struggled, and thc war produced
multitude of heroes, whose popularity pla
ced Mr. Seward beyond the pale of hope, so
far as the Presidency is concerned.
But when the war was at an end and sla
very abolished, Mr. Seward, who is a cultiva
ted statesman and far from a cruel man, ar
dently desired the immediate restoration of
the Union. But like the Girondists, those
learned, philosophic, brilliant, eloquent and
well-bred reformers, who inaugurated the
French Revolution, but who were powerless
to restrain the merciless Jacobins, Mr. Sew
ard found himself powerless in thc presence
of Stevens, who is the Murat of our
revolution. Out of the seething cauldron
of passions, which had been heated by
BT GEORGE I>. PBESTICE.
’Twas but a bubble, yet ’twas bright,
And gaily danced along tho stream
Ot lile’s’wild torrent in tiie light
Of sunbeams sparkling—ii.:u a dream
Of Heaven's bliss, for loveliness—
For fleetness like a passing thought.
And ever of such hopes as these
Tne issue of my life is wrought;
Fori have dreamed of pleasures when
The sun of young existence smiled
Upon my wayward path, and then
Her promised sweets my lieatt beguiled.
But when I came those sweets to sip,
They turned to gall upon my lip.
And I. have dreamed of friendship, too,
For friendship I had thought was made
To be man’s solace in the shade,
And glad him in the light, and so
I madly thought to find a friend
N hose soul with mine would sweetly blend,
And as two placid streams unite,
And roll their waters In the bright
And tranquil torrent to the sea,
8o might our happy spirits be
Borne onward to eternity.
But he betrayed me and with p*ia
I woke to sleep and dream again.
And then I dreamed of Love, and all '
The clustered visions of the past
Seemed airy nothings,to that last
Bright dream. It threw a magical
Enchantment on existence—cast
A glory on my path so bright
I seemed to feel and breathe its light.
But now that blissful dream Is o’er,
And I have waked to dream no more.
Beyond each distant glimmering star
That twinkles In the arch above, .
There is a world of truth and love,
Which earth’s vile passion’s nerer mar.
Oh, could I snatch the eagle’s plumes,
And soar to that bright world away
Which God’s own holy light illumes
With glories of eternal day.
How gladly every lingering tie
That binds me down to earth I’d 6ever,
And leave for that blest borne on high
This hollow-hearted world forever.
Is Booth Alive :—Some weeks ago we
gave place in our columns to an article from
a Chicago paper, going to prove that grave
doubts were entertained by some whether tlia
individual killed by Corbett was in rcr.lity
Bootb, the assassin of Lincoln. In this con
nection we give the following from thc S. F.
Examiner's Chicago correspondent's letter:
Many persons are of opinion that Wilkes
Booth stiU lives. Let me give your readers
a piece of information that recently came iu-
v! ; ii li is never Her
printed. On the evoning of President Lin-
coin's :.--.i-sin-it;. , n. ay,.".r.g la.lv in Wn-li-
ington. who was playing at Ford’s theatre
was on her way from her home to the the
atre. As she was walking along the
street at a quarter past seven o’clock, she met
Wilkes Booth on the side walk. They had
been well acquainted for several year?, and
were on intimate terms. They stood awhile
and chatted. The girl told Booth she had
received an anonymous letter that day that
was quite amusing Booth asked her to let
him take it and he would hand it to-her at
another time. She gave him the letter and
hurried on to the theatre. That night she
was horrified to learn that Wilkes Booth had
assassinated President Lincoln in the very
theatre where she was playing. The
poor girl was frightened out of her wits
for several days, fearing that some one
had seen her give Wilkes Booth thc paper so
short a time before the assassination. So
time passed ou, and the actress went to her
home in Philadelphia. About five weeks
since that young woman received back again
through the post office, the very letter she put
into the hands of Wilkes Booth on the night
of thc assassination. There is a private mark
on it, too, that makes her positive tlmt’Wilkes
Booth sent it. These are facts, and the ac
tress is now playing at one of the Chicago
theatres. The story is a strange one to sav
the least of it.
Gioncrnl Lee’s Application for Par- |
don—Intcrestlaa
a war of Mr. Seward’s creation, savage, re- rc .ta r y of War to the President, with theearn-
morseless, ierocious leaders emerged, who ...... ...
heeded not the voice of conservative Repub
licans—and when Mr. Seward, remembering
how he had been the Pope of the party of
“slavery agitation,” thundered his orders from
the Vatican of the State Department, Ste
vens and his associates treated them with no
more respect than Luther did the excommu
nication of his Holiness of Rome.
And as the terrible revolution which now
convulses this unhappy land develops each
day some new phase of its monstrous hid
eousness, the fact becomes more and more ap
parent each day that Seward, thc Girondist,
is now helplessly beneath the feet of Stevens,
the Jacobin. The party which he created,
in its paroxysms of demoniac fury, wouid
have shouted with joy and almost dared to
celebrate with bonfires and the roar of can
non his demise, had he fallen a victim to thc
terrible scourge which has just released him
from its fearful grasp.
We are deeply, vitally interested in the suc
cess of Mr. Seward’s Herculean efforts to ar
rest the mad progress of his party, but it is
evident that he is as powerless as a traveler
in the path of a tornado. The fisherman in
thc Oriental legend cast his nets into the wa
ters of a mysterious lake ard drew forth a
copper vase, in which Solomon had imprison
ed a terrible, merciless, nnd most malignant
genie. When he broke the sacred seal of the
wisest of kings and released the monster, his
vast proportions almost obscured the horizon,
and his first effort was to slay his deliverer.
Just such a fate now threatens the great man
whom neither the assassin nor thc pestilence
cau slay. The party which he found base and
ignoble, and made great and resistless, r now
clamors for his blood and curses the unskill-
f uincss of Paine and the clemency of the chol
era.
“ The Crowning Horror.—Fifteen Union
soldiers, confined at Andersonviile until thc
Cmretpondeiice. I close of the war, were last Monday discovet-
Hf vdo’rs a ,...» Tr S 1 el1 st5, i in confinement in a cave near Atlanta,
Washington, D. C., June 20,18G5. ’ ’ ;’- v . rebel S uerr > ila9 , and totally igno-
f . „, . „ , ... ’ . ’ ’ rant that the war was ended. They were
tr£;. Robert L. Lee, Richmond, Ta. : starved and emaciated, having been cruelly
General—Your communication of date abused, and most of them were nearly idiotic
the 13th instant, stating the steps you had from the protracted confinement in darkness,
taken, after reading the President’s* pr?cla- not having seen the light since leaving An-
mation of the 20th ultimo, with the view of dersonville.”
complying with its provisions when you The above paragraph appears among a pot
learned that, with others, vou were to be til- \pourri of horrors served up by the Chicago
c iL te< .f 0r . treas ?“ b ? tl,e Grand Jury at Nor- p 0 st, for the rapacious crops of its Hottentot
folk; that you had supposed that the officers readers. We fancy that the news in the para-
and men ot the army ot Northern Virginia graph will be “news for the marines.” Just
were, by the terms ot their surrender, pro- Uncli reports as the above are circulated in-
tected by the Lmted States Government from dustriously through thc Radical press and
molestation so long as they conformed to its though neither publisher nor people believe a
conditions; that you were ready to meet any word of them, thev howl over the atrocities
charges that might be preferred against you, an< i yd p f or condi-n punishment on all “reb
and did not wish to avoid trial, but that if e ls.” The stomach of a shark would refuse
you were correct as to the protection granted things that are delicious ta the maw of a
by your paro.e, and were not to be prosecut- Radical newspaper editor. The He in the
ed, you desire to avail yourself of the Presi- above paragraph is so palpable that it needs
dents amnesty proclamation therefor, with no condradiction. The sense of a common
the request that in that event it be acted on, idiot could teach him that such a state ot
has been received and forwarded to the Sec- affairs could not exist. Bin that in nowise
retary <K War, with the following opinion deters newsmongers from trumping them up
endorsed thereon : aud publishing them as precious tit-bits ot
In my opinion, the officers and men pa- evidence in favor of “rebel” condemnation.—
roled at Appomattox Courthouse, and since, We had an idea that there was nothin^ - in the
upon the same terms given to Lee, cannot be vicinity of Atlanta that could answer the *pur-
tned tor treason so long as they observe the pose of a cave unless it is some of the cellars,
terms of-their parole. This is my under- from above which Sherman burned tho homes
s land ing. Good faith as well as true policy of widows and children, and these are by no
dictate that we should observe the condition means shut in from the light.—Atlanta New
ot that convention. Bad faith on the part of Era.
the Government, or a construction ot that
convention subjecting the officers to trial for Grass hopper Plague in Kansas.—The
treason, would produce a feeling of insecurity I Kansas City Journal is informed by John li.
in the minds af all the officers and men. If Griffin, E?q., who has just returned from
so disposed, they might even regard such an Junction City, Kansas, that that section is
infraction ot terms by the Government as an I overrun with grass-hoppers. They come in
entire release from all obligations on their swarms from the West so thick that the sun
pirt. I will state further, that the terms M 9 hidden wherever they appear. They are
granted by me met with the hearty approval faring sumptuously, stripping corn-fields and
of the President at the time, anti of thc j eating up the grass, weeds, and leaves on thc
country generally. The action of Judge Un- trees. The Lawrence Tribune, we also notice
derwood, in Norfolk, lias already bad an in- makes mention of their advent, and says their
jurious effect, and I would ask that he be or- ravages lmve so far been confined to a track
dered to quash all indictments found against twelve miles wide and three hundred miles
paroled prisoners of war, and to desist* from !<> n g. Some idea of the vast quantitv of
the further prosecution ot them. these insects may be inferred from the fact of
U. S. Grant, tb cir having^ot on the railroad track of the
Lieutenant-General.” Union Pacific Railroad in such numbers as to
“Headquarters, Armies United States, cause the wheels to slip on the rails. The
June 10, 1805.”
This opinion, I am informed, is substantial
ly the same as that entertained by the Govern
ment. I have forwarded your application for
amnesty and pardon to the President, with
the following endorsement thereon:
“Respectfully forwarded through the Sec-
freight train due at Wyandott evening beiorc
last w r as actually detained several hours in
| consequence of the grasshoppers having
taken possession of the road.
ECLECTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE
OF THE
CITY OF 1ST. Y.,
Chartered April Twenty-second, 18G5.
est iecommendation that this application of
Ge leral R. E. Lee for amnesty and pardon
tray be granted him. The oath of allegiance
required by recent order of the President
does not accompany this, for the reason, I am
informed by General Ord, the order requir- I “ PatHW. AlTen. M. D. Prot. of Theory and Pric
ing it, had not reached Richmond when this I tice ot Medicine.
was forwarded. U. S. Grant, Wm. W. Hadley, M. D., Prof, of Materia Msdiea
“Lieutenant-General. an TLn b - ei n pe iv ,ics 'ii r. r. * *
L rr • t- I ThOb. D. Worrall, M. D., Prof, of Obstetrics and
“Headquarters Armies United States. 1 - ~ - -
FACULTY:
, Robt. 8. Newton, M. D., Prof, of Operative Sur
gery and Surgical Diseases.
June 16, 1865.
Very respectfully,
U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General.”
Asparagus Beds.
Thc civilization of asparagus is simple and
not laborious, yet there are a few things re
quisite to success, to which it may not be
amiss to call attention. And at the outset
we would say, that the beds should be set
with roots aud not withseed, as by this meth
od no time is lost, and much sjiace and i&bor
is saved. Tp procure the roots the seeds
I Diseases of Women and Children.
Edwin Freeman, M. D., Prof, of Descriptive and
| Surgical Anatomy.
John M. Youart, M. D., Prof, of Physiology and
Pathology.
J. Milton Sanders, II. D., LL.D., Prof. ofOr-
I ganic and Physiological Chemistry.
PRACTICAL ANATOMY.
The supply of material for dissection is ample,
nd tarnished at a mere nominal price.
REQUISITES FOR GRADUATION.
&ar:c as all regularly chartered medical colleges.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
The sessions lor !SeG-’67 will embrace prelimi-
sliould be sown in the month of March, in nary and regular terms. The preliminary term
drills, and in the succeeding November the Ji'* 11 commence on Oct 1st, and the regular t«un,
roots may be removed to the beds, though it' 0ct- 15tb '
T. M. Phipps, Secretary.
Thaddeus Stevens’ scheme for confiscation
will be adopted, and the freedmen will be
put in possession of the lands.
me," A good many older people m'glit an
swer in the same way. -
Virginia.—John Tyler, Jr.; publishes a
card in which he denies that he Is in favor of
repudiation. He significantly says: “We
iavc. as a people, little save honor left, and -'avy, was partially examined on Tuesday,
this I am unwilling to sacrifice.” and postponed till the 8th of next month.
The Case op Captain Braine.—The case
of Captain Braine, of the Confederate States
Gen. Lew, Wallace aud the Mexi
can Question.
New York, Sept. 19.—The Herald’s Bra
zos Santiago correspondent sa}s of General
Lew. Wallace’s Mexican fillibuster movements
forborne time past: Gen. Sturm, of Illinois,
and Corliss & Co., of New 1 ork, agents for
the sale of Mexican bonds, with other parties
in New York and Washington, have contract
ed to supply Carvajal with §500,000 worth of
war materials. A ship lead was forwarded,
and the balance wa3 getting ready for ship
ment. Carvajal has also contracted for $35,-
000 worth of hospital stores, the contractors
expecting to realize fabulous profits.
The great object of all this great supply of
material of war and medical stores ms the
equipment of a force of 20.000 Americans,
who were to be recruited at New York, New
Orleans and other points throughout the
United States. Major General Lew. Wallace
was to have command of tho force, which
was to concentrate iu Matnmoras previous to
the advance into the interior. This force was
to fight for the Mexican Republic against the
French. Upon the arrival of General Wal
lace at Matamoras, lie had an interview with
Gen. Carvajal, and the result was a telegram
sent by General Wallace to parties in New
Orleans to forward immediately 5,000 men.
The 12th inst. found Carvajal an exile and a
resident of Brownsville. General Wallace
countermanded the order for the 5,000 men,
and, much disgusted with the change in af
fairs, he proceeded to Monterey, to see Presi
dent Juarez.
is better not to transplant them'until thc se
cond Fall, thus allowing them time to gain
strength. When it is desirable to make the
beds at once, it is better to procure roots two
two or three years old from a nursery.
Fees for a full coarse, $105
Matriculation Fee 5
Demonstrator’s Fee, 5
Graduation Fee, ’ 30
Hospital tickets, 3
Good boarding, in the vicinity of the College,
Asparagus l>cds may be made either in the ^ad for about live dollars per week. The
^••*“0“ “ v Eclectic school-books arc recommended. For fnr-
Fall or Spring with about equal success— t her information, address
November is the best Autumn and March thc ROBT. S. NEWTON, it. ».,
best Spring month for this purpose. The 22 East Eighteenth St.
beds may be made either in single rows or I New York City, Sept., 1866.
with two, three or four rows, as best adapted
to location and convenience. Wc prefer beds I THE
of four rows, as they will require less labor,! American Eclectic Medical Review
ground and manure, than the same quantity A Monthly Record of Medicine and the C&llate-
of asparagus in narrow beds. When the ral Sciences. This Journal is published on the iiret.
beds are made in rich garden soil, their prep- fT el 7 month; each number containing lorty-
aration will not necessitate so much work as
when the soilfis hard and badly cultivated; Management is under tUcontnfi of ^ ^ dltorial
but in either case it is better to dig out the _
bed four and one-half feet wide, one and one f TOA » *’ r * D
1 EDWIN FREEMAN, M. D., Associate Editor.
half feet deep, leaving a path 3 and 1-3 feet
wide on each side. The bed should then be
filled up to within four inches of the surface
of the ground, witli alternate layers of rich,
rotten manure, and the soil, which had been
taken out—this should be made solid so as
The true and distinctive Principles of Eclecticism
are strictly adhered to and advocated.
TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION f
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, in Advance.
All communications should be addressed to the
not to sink much, and four light drills drawn Review . 22 East Eighteenth St,
the length of the bed, about twelve inches 11 1 ■' sept24-wlt]
apart, the loots should then be planted about
ten inches apart in these drills, spreading
them out with the apex of the root erect,
then cover with equal parts of manure and
soil to the level of the ground,
thus' leaving the root four inches be
neath the surface. Keep the bed per
fectly clear of weeds, and let it stand for one
year. The ensuing Fall cut off the tops of
tho asparagus and add an inch of earth from
GRIND LODGE OF GEORGIA,
F. -A., jVI.
GRAND OFFICE SECRETATY,
Macon, Sept. 21st, 5866.
THE Annual Communication will con-
Mrver.eat the Masonic Hall in this city, on
, 1 1 /\WEDNESDAY the 31st October." All
the paths, swelling the beds slightly; the I Lodges and Brothers are required to take due no-
second year continue this course, swelling tice of the same. Such Lodges as cannot be rep
tile beds by the addition of earth, until the resented are requested to forward their Returns
roots arc covered to the depth of seven or and Dues tome at the time of meeling, oras early
• I . • 1 a 1 £5 poSblOiC.
eignt incues Lodges needing Blank Forms for Returns, will
Thc second year some aspargus may be cut forward their orders immediately,
from thc beds, but it is' better, by not cut- By order of the M. W. Grand Master.
ting, to give the plants'all the strength they
can attain for succeeding years. Alter the
second year, top-dress the beds every Fall
with manure and fork it it; in thc Spring,
giving them salt occasionally. Thus treated, I
they will last and produce abuudautly for a
life time.
sep23—4tdltw.
B. ROSE, Gr. Sec’y.
day, on a bet consumed eighty dozen raw oys- j 187 cases of machinery for the Central Rail-
sters, and he survived. * road.—Sac. Rep.. Idth.
Administrator’s Sale.
-vrriLL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Deccm-
YV berjiext, before tho ’Court-House door, in
the town ol Knoxville, Crawford County, Georgia,
between thc usual hours c; . , -I ' Acres of
Machinery for the Central Railroad. I Lana. N\>. -SS, 2nd District. ■ 0 At re ot
—The bark Starlight, which arrived Satur- Land, Na 68, in the rth DL-ui . .cing to the
Jo&on, brought among tarfWghtl jttiSf “ p ’ w ’ 7-
Terms made known on day of t-alc.
I3IAH WALTON, Aum’r.
sen 21-tOd*)