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[PROPRIETORS
SERIES,!
MACON, GrA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1866.
IYOL. 1, NO. 49
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V# D j O B PRINTING:
-fcnifulnr attention will be given to the
PRINTING of CTeiy descrif-
. vg Is.—It» «6d tlmt Secretory Sew-
1 J ^pressed his opinion that England
'.' jo p„y the Alabama claims. This
^ opinion is doubtless based on the
fisiarmation which lie hns received by the
(jftmM. '
HoYicros is Nashville.—Mr. C. H. W.
jflj.iucnt
ot the Associated Press at Nash
«u killed in the streets of the city t»y
: .hF. McGavock, Monday last. The dif-
originated in a case of scandal that
cnril in the city of Louisville, the partic-
^of which are not given.
•wo?the State Penitentiary.—Thc
:B bia Plurnix informs ns that the Com
goners appointed by the Governor of
Tii Carolina, to nrrnnge lor the establish
;I of a penitentiary, have purchased from
% Thos. J. Haw Is a tract of fourteen acres
situated on the Columbia Canal.
I© Crop about Natchez.—A well
• no commission house of New Orleans fur-
4m the Picayune with the following ex
act. from a planter of Adams county, Miss.
This county will not make one-third
,mount planted for. About one bale and
Luf per hand will bo the average crop
county. If we do not realize higher pri-
* there will be some heavy losses.”
Savannah.—Wo are gratified to see that
j finer city is rapidly regaining her health
jl4 week, there were but 31 deaths from all
a*>, of which hut five were from cholera—
, white and four blacks. Another week
i the disease will probably have entirely
.■appeared from the city. We may add,
•At evtn now there is not the slightest dan
i in visiting our seaport.
fcjTTbc ladies are notified of the meeting
f the Ladies' Orphan's Educational Society
morning, at 10 o’clock, in the basement
I the Presbyterian Church. We earnestly
teire to see this society in successful opera-
n, believing, as we do, that it is very need
U, and that its results will be highly benefi-
Wc hope many of ou; benevolent ladies
>21 be present and take part in the proceed
Ruotal op Gen. Tillson’s Headquar-
-We understand, says the Sanannah
itrild, of the 24th, that Gen. David Tillson
in command of the sub-district of Geor-
contemplatcs the removal of his head
"trs to Savannah. Major C. T. Watson
f the General's staff officers, was in town
*rdaj and secured the building on the
*r of Lincoln and Bay streets (Padel-
A where they wili be located, and the
will take place immediately.
la Hoo Crop.—The Jonesboro’ (Tenn.)
that several of the farmers in that
~ 'a of the State have lost every hog they
• while others are equally unfortunate.—
3 'iiieasc is not confined to particular dis-
*3. u usual, hat extends throughout the
teL and the complaints are alarming. If
^•ute of afTairs continues long there will
* enough left for home supply, and like-
^h suffering must be the result among
•’rxrer classes of the people daring the
winter.
■-iehsox Davis.—If is said that Chase
Underwood have set down the trial of
■' ^vis for the term of the Court in May,
In the meantime he is to remain in
>3 under military custody. Perhaps this
under all the circumstances. Mr.
v * >s better ofT in the hands ot President
than he would be in itbe dutches of
■ vindictive creatures as Chase and Under*
' If released now, he would be imme-
"*J ‘nested under the indictment pend
* *nd made to exchange his present com*
, garters for some loathsome Virginia
application for hail would be hope-
**• Albert Griffin.”—The Columbus
" ,J Pling our enquiry concerning this in-
-i. thinks he “is tbo son of one B. F.
J*- once conducted a job printing
‘ hment in Macon, removed from
'to Brunswick eight or nine years ago.
‘ ‘PPeared from that placo just before
*' Sun i* probably correct. We knew
l ,r who edited a paper for someyeara
. * K 'k, »nd our information is that the
/Pw*on of ne account, was run off from
years ago, for alleged incendiary
! This latter is doubtless the ver-
Albert Griffin, of Mobile,” who
k * extensively in the Brownlow men-
BsHiimi y.
* ® 0ee 4 Esq., of Washington county,
L “* residence on Monday the 13th
^ f . Sneed was an old and much a-
Nwc & j. c*
^'’f 'rane, for many years a highly
bUau °* e ^ u * ®R>*e n °f Athens, died
Saturday night, after an illness
Campbell, City Treasurer of
! Shul #n< * former, y Superintendent of
*S1b : died at Summerville, on
•»sv yiTo;
onc °* oldest and
We citizens of Hnbenbafa coun-
•'Wtnly on the (itii inst. W. W.
hq.,/' *** °ne of the first ''-triers of the
t»; v '’iiiigratnl t':■ m, North Caro-
ht"w’**** h ”°- At tlie time of his
M in t,le b2d yenr of his age.
OUR NEXT MAYOR.
The declension of our present worthy May
or to become a candidate for re election,
throws open the door for discussion on the
subject of our mayoralty. In doiDg so we
refer to no particular man, and cast no re
flections upon any one; and we have as much
right as any to express our preference for one
or another kind of municipal officer.
Macon should elect one of herbest men for
her next Mayor. lie should be a man capa
ble of comprehending the interests of the
city in the most enlarged sense—a man of in
telligence sufficient to perceive all needed
sanatary measures, and with the firmness and
pcristcncc to carry them out—a man who is
willing to visit all portions of the city and
remedy existing evils as far as possible—a
man with sufficient taste and judgment to set
on foot a system of permanent adornment
and improvement of the city. He should be
of an economical turn of mind a man of benev
olence and charity, a man of cultivation and
intellect, a man capable of representing the
city creditably, and of honorably maintain
ing and advancing her Interests. The future
of Macon lias the promise of great prosperi
ty and importance; but we must have a mu
nicipal government capable of wisely and
energetically adopting those measures which
are necessary to consumatc this prosperity
and importance. We must not take things
as they come; but grasping time by the fore
lock, and taking advantage of ojytortnnities,
wc must secure the golden promise of the
future and bring health, contentment and
and prosperity to our citizens, and importance
and influence to our city. But all this will
depend, in a great degree upon our Mayor,
and upon the Alderman wc elect. Let us for
our municipal officers, then, elect men of fore
cast, economy, intelligence, energy and per
severance. Then our lives and our property
will be protected, the material interests of
the city preserved, and its future prosperity
and dignity secured.
The Great Hurricane.
i A Black Orator Travelling South.—
the results at the Bahamas—half ot j A- correspondent of the San Antonio Herald
Nassau rs Hunts—official REroRT to ! writing from Austin, Texas, says:
the navy department. j Our city was enlivened a few days ago by
' Washington, Oct. 20.-Licutenant Com- j th ® appearance of an ebony gentleman
mander, Win. Gibson, commanding the Y ho w “ represented as a loyal subject
United States steamer Latona, reports to the
For the Daily Teletrrapl).]
TO THE VOTERS OF MACON.
As the annual election for Mayor and Al
derman of the city is close at hand, I appeal
to the voters of the city to cast their suffrag
es, for no man for either office, who is not
pledged and determined to do all that can be
done to hurry to an early completion the two
great wants and works of the city—the Bruns
wick Railroad, and the Canal and Water
Works.
Macon is the centra], and should be the
most important inland city of the State. Her
position and material advantages are tar
above all others. All she wants is a wise and
energetic city policy and action, to develop
and enjoy what nature has done for her.—
While other places are going forward with
giant strides, Mncon must, no longer adhere
to the Snail’s gait in her affairs, which lias
heretofore been her pace.
Macon now has more Railroads centering
here (to say nothing of the river) than any
other city in the State; and, yet, her public
debt is less, her taxes are lower, than those
of any other. Let us awake and complete
these two works, and then, as the early com
pletion of the Augusta Railroad is now assur
ed, we can rest from further labor, if wc so
desire, without detriment to our city.
The Brunswick Railroad is far the
most important ot all others to the city, im
portant as the four others are admitted to
be;
1st. It gives us, at Brunswick, another
shorter and cheaper route to the sea than
the route we now have to Savannah
3d. It is practically shorter to Savannah
by the Brunswick, Atluntic & Gulf Railroad
titan by the Central.
3d. It opens to ns a direct and most im
portant connection with Florida and all her
railroads, through an unoccupied and virgin
scope of country, affording the best timber
in the world to any amount; and it com
bines other minor advantages, which will oc
cur to any one.
The Brunswick Road must be built, or Ma
con loses the greatest of all her advantages.
The papers are full of the late connection
formed between the Railroads of Georgia and
Florida, and the great benefit and advantage
that will accrue to the State thereby: all this
will be lost to Macon, without this direct
connection by means of tlio Brunswick Road.
'The importance of tbo Canal and Water
Works all admit, let ns go forward and com
plete them. There, too, nature seems to in
vite us to do something for our city and its
people—for tlidr comfort, convenience, Health
and safety; for the survey of the engineer
demonstrates that the river nr.d the contigu
ous land seem to havo been formed for the
purpose of a canal, requiring but little aid
from tlio hand of nuro, to combine them for
the purposes of a canal, lor manufacturing
and to water the city, and this at a moderate
expense. Let us take hold of this necessary
improvement and complete it at once, nnd
thereby give work nnd wages to hundreds of
our people who are not now able to support
themselves, and let us vote for no man who
will not pledge himself to carry out our
wishes.
Let ns, to 6ome extent, at least, follow the
example of Atlanta, and do something for our
own preservation and advancement. Within
two years Atlanta has not only re-built her
city—in many instances erecting new and
beautiful buildings—but while yet adding
structure to structure and street to street, she
is extending her borders and capacity for
business and enjoyment. She does not con
fine lier efforts to mere city limits, but is at
the same time projecting Water Works,
Street Railroads, and two great lines of Rail
road— one through Alabama to the West, and
the other an Air Line Railroad to the North
Voters of Macon, again I appeal to you to
look well to your interests and the interests
of your city. Vote for no man who will not
pledge hini'clf to advocate and sti-tain the
completion of the two great enterprise to
which I have referred. m
W.
m a. Goak.”—We wonder what the Radicals
would say if they knew that that intelligent
paper the Eufaula Daily News is conducted
bv a Black man!
Navy Department, under date of Nassau,
New Providence, on the 9th instant, the fol
lowing :
On the 3d and 4th ihsts., when on a line
between Cape Hattcras and the Bermudas,
we encountered a revolving storm of hurri
cane violence. We are not in distress, but
the damages sustained are serious. As care
fully computed from our observations, the
cyclone was moving nortb.cast at the rate of
thirteen miles an hour. Its center, when
nearest to us, was lat. 33 deg. north, long.
77 1-3 deg. 40 min. 20 sec. west. It bore
south south-east, forty miles distant Its
whole diameter was two hundred and sixty
miles. It came upon us suddenly and with
litt’.e premonition, the barometer registering
rather than ioretelling the changes of the
wind and weather.
The sea rose so rapidly and grew so dan
gerously heavy and confused that, being sat
isfied that we were in the leit-handed semi
circle ot the storm, I deemed it safe to abide
the issue by heaving the Latona to on the
port tack. The center of the hurricane pass
ed over the island of New Providence on the
first instant, and the scene of wreck and de
vastation is marvelous and very sad to see.
More than'half ot Nassau is in ruins. Most
ot the houses are unroofed, many blown to
pieces, and some moved bodily from tbeir
foundations into the street Churches,
houses and other building of solid stone, are
scattered as if by a bombardment. The trees
were destroyed, leaf and branch, as if by a
conflagration. Nearly every vessel and boat
is sunk, or swept, high and dry, on the outer
islands. The destruction of property and
the consequent suffering is said to be dread-
iuI. The important light at the Hole-in-the-
Wall is not burning. The harbor light is on
ly a temporary lantern. The lights on the
Stirrup Key, on the Isaac and the Gun Key,
are reported to be uninjured, though the
tower of the first named is crooked. Judg
ing from the dismantled and otherwise dis
tressed vessels that we have seen, both at sea
and in this port, the chapter of casualties
from this hurricane will not be a brief one.
A more complete report, with all the dates
and diagrams, relating to this hurricane, the
meterological log of Her Britanic Majesty’s
steamer Nimble, blown ashore in this harbor,
and other interesting information, I will send
by the first opportunity, to the Bureau of
Navigation.
The Constitutional Amendment.—Be
cause The News ventured to inform its read
ers that the signs of the times, and especially
the result of the late elections at the North,
indicated reconstruction on the plan of the
Constitutional Amendment, many of our
country exchanges are denouncing us as
Radicab,“and exerting all their puny efforts
to injure us in the estimation of our fellow-
citizens, and several journals in other States
have joined in the hue and cry. Fortunately
for The News, its position is such that, when
ever it may determine to enter the arena of
politics, it may choose its own course, with
out listening to the dictation of its cotem-
porarics; but The News has been hitherto,
and still is strictly a newspaper, and only
touches on politics so far as to give correctly,
to the best of its judgment, the political in
telligence of the day. Its duty in that re
spect it has always performed faithfully, and
it will continue so to do—all silly cries of
shame” and vain threats of ostracism to the
contrary notwithstanding.
[Charleston Daily Nines.
It the News did not mean to be understood
as ready to accept the amendment, its “drift
ing" article, to say the least of it, was an in
suit to the whole South, as it implied that
they could be induced to accept the infamous
amendment It was also, in effect, an invita
tion to the North to press the amendment
upon us. The use they have made of it is
proof of this. With the most charitable
construction possible, it must be conceded
that the article was a most inconsiderate and
unfortunate one. For one,we have no thought
that the editors have the slightest proclivity
towards, or sympathy for, the Northern Rad
icals.
Queen Victoria, and hailing from Canadian
territory—an intelligent, refined and educa
ted gentleman, the editor of a public jour
nal,a D. D.,as well as an M. D., making the tour
of the Southern States for the purpose of ex
pounding the difference between the physio
logical construction of the black nnd white
races, and the mental temperature of both
Dr. Parker—he was called by that name—de
livered a discourse in tbeafternoon atthc court
house to,the white population, anrt again at
night to ; the negroes. The Doctor brought
letters of recommendation, I understand, to
the State authorities, from some of the best
truest and most intelligent men of the South
and seemed to have more modesty than most
men, white or black, nnd behaved as thou,
he was honest in believing ana teaching to
those of his own color their inferiority to the
white race. He ridiculed, very appropriate
ly, I thought, the idea of the political privi
lege of suffrage being extended to the sons of
Africa’s parched sands, complimented Mr.
Johnson, also Mr. Davis, and dwelt at some
length on his associations with Messrs. Chase
Stanton, and other big men of the Uni tec.
States, in relation to the work of restoration
From South America—The Allied Fleet
Make an Attack ana are Repulsed—An
Iron-Clad Blown up, etc.
New York, Oct. 22.—The Herald’s Rio
Janeiro correspondent, of Sept. 25th, announ
ces important movements of the allied army
in its advance to Paraguay. On the 1st of
Sept the allied fleet moved up the Parana
river to operate with the army in its attack
on Fort Curaxate, an outpost of Fort Huma-
ta. They came upon a masked battery, with
which the fleet became engaged. The iron
clad Rio de Janeiro, which was in advance,
was disabled by a sixty pound shell, and the
fleet drew off to wait for morning. On the
2d, the battle was resumed, and during the
day the Rio de Janeiro was blown into frag
ments by an explosion of torpedoes. All the
crew perished, either by the explosion or at
the hands of the sharpshooters of the enemy.
On the 2d of September the army moved
forward and assaulted the fort, carrying it at
the point ot the bayonet Up to the latest
dates, Sept 8th, no further advance had been
made.
The Emperor ot Brazil closed the session
of the Assembly on the I8th of September—
In his speech, he informed the members that
the United States of North America has given
to Brazil the most complete satisfaction for
the violent capture, in the port of Bahaia, of
the privateer Florida by the war steamer
Wachansell.
Hand Them Round.
Two men, respectively named J. J. Craw
ford and J. L. Richardson, left this city sud
denly several days ago without making ar
rangements for settling many obligations
that they had contracted during a short so
journ here, some of them of very recent date.
Mr. G. K. Clark, jeweller, followed them up
as far as Naylor, on the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad, and recovered a fine watch which
Crawford had purchased of him on time, just
before leaving, who was deterred from hav
ing them arrested by threats. Crawford
claims to come from Atlanta, is a fine looking;
man, with black hair, ruddy complexion ant
pleasant address. He is a Mason, and no
donbt he has made his connexion with the
Fraternity the passport to Masons for the
purpose of swindling them. The craft are
cautioned against this unworthy member.
Richardson has entered into a partnership
with Mr. Fairfield, at the City Hotel, in brick
making, Mr. F. investing several hundred
dollars, which he put in R.\s hands. He was
also indebted to Mr. McUuffin for board.
. The Florida and Georgia papers aro re
quested to give these gentlemen a notice that
will cause them to seek a stopping place be
yond the confines of both States.
[Floridian, 23rd.
Blockade Burning During the "War.—
English papers give sfome statistics in regard
to the business of blockade running during
our late rebellion, which are very interesting.
Nassau, a port of the Bahama Islands, was
the principal place from which this trade was
carried on, and the imports at tiiat port in
creased from £234,029 in 1880 to £5,840,112
in 1884, and the exports from 157,350 to £4,-
673,938. The principle article ot trade was
cotton, of course, which figures for about
£4,000,000 in both the exports and imports.
The whole number of blockade runners that
entered Nassau during the war was one hun
dred and sixty-four, onc hundred and two of
which made successful voyages. One of the
successful ones made eighteen voyages, but
seventy-four of them made only two voyages
each. Toward the end of the war tlio cap
tains of the blockade runners received £1000
for each voyage, with the right to carry ten
bales of cotton on thoir own account.
Homely, ltut Truthful.
The Augusta Constitutionalist publishes a
letter, just as written, from an old sergeant
of the United States army to his commander
of fether days, who came South in the late
war and bore a conspicuous part in our re
cent struggle for independence. We make
an extract
Washington, D. C., Oct. 14, 1888,
Gen. , Dear Sir, i re
ceived yours dated Augusta, G. A. Oct. 1, and
also A letter from Adnns Express office in
Georgetown dated Dec 2, 1885 with $20 00
enclosed tliair in by calling thair as you ad
vised mee to do i was verry happy to beer
from you but verry sorry to hcer of your mis
fortune caused by the late acursed war wicli
lias almost left evry honest man desolate and
enriched the NcwcDgland faniucs who are
trying to plunge our Country in another war
more bloodier than the one wee have just
merged from, they were the instigation ot
the late war but you could never find them
on the field of Ba'ttlc, They were the spec
ulators and legislators of the land they held
the reigns ot the Government with
the firni grasp of Tyrany but if they
want more blood i say give them no chance
to scrink trom the Battle field let us cary the
war to their fire sides where they must tight
or have the country they are carving the
elections East nnd West by lying to the pco
pie and misrepresenting the South, if the
people of the South and Conservatives of the
North does not unite together and stand by
Andrew Johnson then the days ot the repub
lie aro numbered, i am no politicion and
shonld not dwell so long on Pollictics but
sir it rais my temper when i think of the
Brave men who lias fallen on both sides all
on account of Pollictics. they told us wee
fought for four years to keep this Union to
gether but when the war is over niggers let
loose, property Confiscated, they declare that
the Country is Divided for some acursed pur
pose of their own,
Kicked to Death.—The Newcastle, Penn
sylvania. Gazc'to contains an account of
most terrible and nrolting murder which
as perpetrated in Laurence county in that
ate. A man named Carpenter wot actual-
kicked to death by his wife. At the Cor
oner's inquest testimony was taken proving
that the woman was in the habit of kickin
_4d beating Carpenter in the most unmerei- i terested in their vicinity,
ful manner, and at various places, and always ,
hen kicking him aiming at the Jower part I £j^~The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad,
of
A lady in St Louis who had request
ed of Gen. Robert E. Lee a lock of his hair
for tlte Southern Relief Fair in that city, to
be disposed of by traffic; received the follow
ing in reply:
Lexington, Vjl, Sept 20, I860.
Mrs. IF. A. Aglar:
I have received yours of the 10th instant,
enclosing the circular of the Missouri South
ern Relict Association. The object of the As
sociation—the aid of destitute widows anil
orphans—appeals to all the better feelings of
humanity, and therefore elicits a general de
sire for its success.
As you think the donation you request from
me may be the means of procuring some re
lief to the destitute, I cheerfully send it, and
hope your expectations may bo realized.
With great respect,
Yonr obedient servant,
R. E. Lee.
To Maimed Soldiers.—As many of our
wounded braves are wending their weary
way to Mncon, in the hope of obtaining the
limbs voted them by the Legislature, we
would say that Dr. Bly lias not yet removed
his factory here, though it is said he will
shortly do so. We would therefore advise
our unfortunate fellow citizens to remain at
home until such time ns public notice is giv
en through the papers that tlicir wants can
be supplied by Dr. Bly. We shall certainly
notily them of the time.
Wc hope all the papers of the State will
copy the above as information to parties in-
Russia,
SCHAMYL TAKES THE OATH OF ALLE
GIANCE TO THE EMPEROR.
St. Petersburg (Sept 21) Correspondence of the
London News.
Scliamyl, the captured Circassian chieftain
has taken the oath of allegiance to the impe
rial majesty. The circumstances under which
such a change was brought about in the
haughty prisoner are described as follows
the Russian Invalide: It will be remembered
that after fighting with the Russians for
twenty years, Schamyl was taken prisoner
1859, at the capture of Gunib, and sent thence,
with his family and a few retainers, to reside
at Kaluga, a town in the central part of Rus
sia. The consideration which was show
him from the first by his victors made a deep
impression on the uncivilized mountaineer,
who had expected nothing short of decapi
tation. His reception by the inhabitants of
the town to which he was banished, still fur
ther softened his heart, and one by one liis
Asiatic semi-barbarous fears and prejudices
were removed. At last, oven he was honor
ably received by the Emperor at Chuignieff,
at a cavalry review. Struck with the mag
nanimity of the Czar, so different in his bear
ing from Asiatic potentates, Schamyl then
and there confessed that his heart was fairly
won, and that he only awaited an opportuni
ty to give proof of his sincerity and grati
tude. At last, only a month ago, a great
sorrow came to disturb the serenity of his ad
vanced years—his favorite daughter, Nnfisato,
died. The Emperor having been informed
of the sad event by telegraph, at once dis
patched an officer, who was charged with
the conveyance of the body of Nafisato to
her native Caucasus. Thereupon Schamyl
addressed the following autograph letter in
Arabic to the Emperor:
“Thou, great sovereign, has vanquished
me and the people subject to me, by lorce of
arms; thou, great sovereign, has spared my
life; thou, great sovereign, hast subdued my
heart by thy beneficence. It is my sacred du
ty, os a decrepit old man, loaded with thy fa
vors and vanquished by thy magnanimity, to
instill into my children a sense of their obli
gations towards Russia and her lawful rulers,
I have enjoined them to chbrish feelings of
everlasting gratitude toward thee, oh sover
eign, for all the favors which thou continual
ly heapest on me. I have enjoined them to
be true subjects to the Czar of Russia, and
useful servants of our new country. Render,
oh sovereign, niv old age tranquil by order
ing that I should take an oath of allegiance
to thee, together, with my children, I am
ready to take that publicly. A call upon
Almighty God and his great prophet Maho
met to witness my sincerity and the purity of
my thoughts, and I record my oath on the
most holy Korah, before the not-long chilled
body of my best-loved daughter Nafisato.—
Vouchsafe, oh sovereign, to grant this my
most earnest prayer.”
The Emperor hadj of course, no objection
to receive the imaum’s oath of allegiance,
which must infallibly have an important ef
fect, on the Mussulmen population of Circas
sia. Accordingly, on the 26th of August
(7tli of September) last, Schamyl and his
sons, Kaskl-Malioma and Mahomet-Shafi,
swore fealty to the Emperor and liis succes
sors in the great hall of the assembly of no
bles at Kaluga.
■ The marshal of nobility having addressed
his new fellow-subjects in terms of welcome
and congratulation, Schamyl replied in Ara
bian almost in the same terms as those used
in his letter to the emperor. The ceremony
terminated with a luncheon, (“zakuska,”) at
which Schamyl made a speech, thanking the
inhabitants of Kaluga, through their Mayor,
for the kindness with which he had been re
ceived in their town.
The Buried Talent.—I sat lately in the
chamber of death. The unconscious form
which lay beside me was that of a man a
little past the meridian of life. The quick,
heavy breathing, and an occasional move
ment of the hand or head alone gave evi
dence that the spirit had not departed. It
was said to see him passing away thus un
conscious of his state, without giving a sign
but alas 1 of what could he give a sign ? As
my eye rested on the mournful figure of his
wife bending anxiously over him, and then
on tho scanty furniture of the room which
betokened only respectable property, my
mind glanced involuntarily over the life of
the dying man, for his history was known to
me, and the moral seemed too important to
be lost. Early an orphan, at the ago of
twenty-one, he found himself the inheritor of
an immense fortune, the possessor of an
agreeable person, a ready wit, a good social
position, a graduate of one of our first col-
eges, aud a member of one of the highest
and most lucrative possessions. What should
mar so fair a prospect ? As I said, an orphan,
his youth had been spent in alternate neglect
and injudicious indulgence. No mother's
voice had led him to love and obey Him
who had so richly endowed him ; no father’s
counsels nnd corrections had taught him the
excellence and wisdom of self-control. Mar-
iying at an early age, after a few years spent
in extravagance nnd dissipation, he emphati
cally settled down in life. Already he had
thrown up several opportunities of lucrative
practice in bis possession on various
tiretexls, and it was ever so. Exertion
was painful; responsibilities were irksome;
indolence became his besetting sin, and his
fortune, wasted away under a system of self-
willed inaction, while his mind, brooding
over his disappointments, lost all its vigor,
and liis body lacking healthy exercise became
tho prey to a deplorable disease, which ren
dered him subject to the sudden death he so
much dreaded. And now, his Master has
called him hence. Oh, sad illustration ot the
buried talent! There were those who strove
to lead him at last to tho Savior, anil per-
Iinps, let us hope, that his mind, enfeebled ns
it was, grasped at that anchor of the soul,
Jesus Christ, with strength enough to lay
hold on eternal life. Vie can only hope.—
How is it with you, dear reader ? Have you
many talents or have you one wherewith to
honor the Master f Have you wealth, posi
tion, intellect, beauty and health, and are
you using them to glory God, or squander
ing them on your own lusts and follies ?—
This poor man had all these, and yet. with-
A TAKE-OFF.
wno the author is, we know not.
As along the street I blundered,
Much I maryeled, much I wondered,
- Seeing eights and things that mortal
Never saw or dreamed before;
On the pavement came a rapping,
As of footfalls gently tapping,
And I heard a muslin ilapping,
Which my oye would fain explore,
“ ’Tis some female,” then I muttered— -
I had seen the thing before—
Only this, and nothing more.
Came this female sweeping by me;
Fearing she should chance to spy me,
Suddenly 1 stepped into a
Friendly, waiting, open door;
Thenco I saw tho lovely maiden—
Being from some distant Aiden—
All perfumed and dry goods laden—
Pass me and go on before.
Naught had I to ao but follow,
And noto down tho dress sho wore;
'Twas a mystery to explore.
■ And I found—by close inspection—
That her haughty, upper section,
Something chance had called a bonnet,
On its pericranium wore;
And I saw her breast heave slowly,
'Neath a garment fashioned low-ly,
And I knew the movement wholly,
I had never seen before;
For I knew ’twa3 “ patent heaVers "
That this radiant maiden wore;
Only these, and nothing more.
And her cheeks were full and rosy;
I could tell you, inter nos, a
Secret that a druggist told mo
Of the color that she wore.
Yet her cheeks were very pleasing,
But her look at me was freezing,
And she showed a sign of sneezing,
As she swept along before ;
And she sneezed » pair of “ plumpers ”
Out, at least a yard before;
Only this, and nothing more.
Then I noticed an uncertain
Lifting of the muslin curtain,
That her feet had deftly hidden
From my errant eyes before;
With each lift came a desire
That 'twould lift a little higher,
And at last it did aspire
Higher than I’d seen before;
And I knew it was a “tilter"
That this saintly maiden wore ;
Just a “tilter"—nothing more.
And the tilting and the rocking
Up nnd down the splendid stocking
Gathered by a bluish ribbon,
That I chanced to see sho wore,
Showed me—'twas a sight for weeping—
That a pair of “calves” were creeping
Out of place, as she was sweeping,
Like a stately queen, before—
“Calves" that she had lately purchased
From a fancy dry-goods store;
Patent “calves" and not much more.
And the fluttering and the flapping
Of the maiden’s gaudy trapping'
Showed me sights that never mortal
Eye had dared to see before—
Sights revealed by every lifting
Of the folds of muslin drifting
Bound her, whicn the winds were shifting
Eyeward, higher, more and more—
Sights that, to mortal vision,
Never were revealed before;
Nameless here forevermore.
And while thus her rigging fluttered,
Much I wondered, and I muttered,
“ And you call this thing a woman
That is trouncing on before;
She, the brazen doll of fashion,
Wrapped in one tremendous passion—
Sunken from her noble station
To the thing that goes before;
¥>h ! that ever mortal vision
Should such mystery explore,"
Thus I muttered—nothing more.
And the thought came o’er me gushing,
“ Where has gone the art of blushing
That wo loved in wife or maiden
In the saintly days of yore ?’’
Call me, if you will, uncivil,
While I name her “thing of evil,”
And I wish the very—deuce
Had the toggery she wore,
And again she were arrayed in
Dresses like her mother wore,
Vanished now forevermore.
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY
OF THE “REBELLION.”
« The Other Side of the Audersonville
Question.
To the Editor of the Herald :
I trust you will find a place in the ample
columns of the Herald for the accompanying
brief correspondence. It presents in a very
striking way the other side of “the Anderson
ville question.” It is a matter of historical
justice to the South, and it presents for the
first time, I believe, in a distinct form nnd on
a clear, sharp issue, calling for a categorical
answer, what has long existed as a vague and
undermined accusation against the Federal
Secretary of War, who controlled the subject
ot the exchange of prisoners. I have the
honor, &c., your obedient servant,
Edward A. Pollard.
New York, Oct. 9, I860.
New York, October 4* 1866.
Robert Ould, "Richmond, Va.:
My Dear Sir :—In my recently published
history ot the war, entitled “The Lost Cause,”
have devoted an entire chapter to the ex
change of prisoners and their treatment in
the prisons of each belligerent. I have on
these subjects stated certain facts which I be
lieve were not entirely known even to the
people of the South, and which appear to
have startled the Northern public and to
have shaken the judgment formed at the trial
of Wirz. The New York Times says these
statements “might deserve attention, if the
author gave his authority for them.
Now, Sir, will you do mo the favor to ex
amine the chapter of “Tne Lost Cause” re
lerred to, and say how far its statements are
sustained by your correspondence and per- j
sonal recollections in your office ot Confede
rate Commissioner tor the exchange of pris
oners. I refer especially to those statements
hich contain the new version of Andcrson-
ville, and tho extraordinary circumstance
that, in 1864, the Confederate authorities
offered to return the sick nnd wounded Fede
ral soldiers without equivalents! Excuse my
troubling you with the inquiry. But the
question is of great importance; it is a vital
point in the historical reputation of the
out any outward vice—for with all his way- South ; and I am not disposed to pass by a
wanlness be was ever strict in truth aud - v " — 1 ‘ - -
honesty and all the passive attributes of the
i The fact that the United States authorities
[ acted upon the offer, nnd at a late day dis-
1 patched steamers to the mouth of the Savan
nah river to receive their men, ought to be
| sufficientjproof, if any denial be made.
Yours, truly,
Ro. Ould.
■ «»*
The Improvement on American
Horses.
The N€w York Evening Post, in an article
on American horses, advises a mixture of the
blood of our wholly or partly thoroughbred
domestic animals with that of the wild
horses of the Western plains, and thinks that
thus a distinctively American race could be
created which, especially for cavalry purpo
ses, would be better than any now existing.
Of the wild horses it says:
“Over the vast plains extending between
the British possessions on the north, the Mex
ican plateau on the south, the Indian frontiers
on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the
west; over the more southerly portion of the
arid tract lying between the latter chain and
the Sierra Nevada; throughout much of Cali
fornia, and in other districts along the Pacific
coast, as well a3 on tho Pampas of South
America, exist in the present day vast herds
of the dcccndants of five barb marcs and
stallions turned loose by the Spaniards as
long ago as the occupation of Cortez and Pi-
zarro. Countless thousands ot these animals
are still as wild as the buffalo and antelope.
Other thousands have been reclaimed to the
‘service of man by the savage Indian and the
civilized pioneer. In many of their native
points these animals greatly resemble the
Arab blood from which they sprung. In
their circumstances of nurture and training
they possess still further points of resem
blance. They are children of privation, and
like such, as often happens, children of
genius. Fire, vigor, speed, stay at long dis
tances, on short fodder, and for long times—
these characterize them certainly only less
than the barb stallion, if we must make even
this exception in deference to popular opin
ion. They possess weight-carrying abilities
which have never been predicated even of
the most famous barbs.”
Wrestling UVutch.
The Reputed Chnmpion of the United
States Defeated by a Negro.
From the Nashville (Tenn.) Dispatch.
Yesterday afternoon the first excitement of
the sporting season came oft at the race
course, in the shape of a wrestling match,
for a purse of one thousand dollars. The
contestants were a white man named Uzile
Prickett, the reputed champion of the Uni
ted States, and a negro named Simon Thomp
son, raised by Mr. John Thompson, a few
miles from the city.
At three o’clock the parties were on the
grounds and began preparing for the struggle.
Both stripped to the waist, the negro per
forming the operation in about two minutes,
while his antagonist tired the spectators by
absorbing about half an hour in endless ma
noeuvres, displaying all the while the most
complete satisfaction. The negro hung his
head and looked half dejected but gained
spirit before the other had completed his
preparations satisfactorily to himself. The
wrestle was the best two in three, and the
betting ran three to one on the white man.
At last the parties clenched, but the strug
gle was a short one, the negro throwing his
antagonist fairly in a few seconds. Still the
crowd seemed to have confidence in the white
man, and the betting was all one sided.
Afterjrcsting a few minutes, the two men
were called to time. Prickett handled him
self cautiously, but the negro had it all his
own way, and threw his antagonist inside of
half a minute.
There were probably seven hundred spec
tators present, aud loud cheers greeted the
conclusion of each round. The backers ot
Prickett were much disappointed in the re
sult of the match, and considerable money
changed hands.
Hasty Reading.—Hasty reading is time
thrown away. It is worse. It impairs the
memory and induces a superficial habit of
thinking. We should read to stimulate
thought, to expand the mind, to obtain new
ideas, to fortify an opinion previously enter
tained. An ordinary paragraph in a news
paper loses half its interest by a rapid, super
ficial, thoughtless reading. It a paper or a
book is worth reading at all, it is worth read
ing closely. It is the habit of close, critical
reading that strengthens the mind. A book
that will not bear such a reading should be
set aside us a profitless companion. It is ut
terly barren of ideas. A tew books, or even
one book well read—that is, studied—will
make a man subtile in argument. Hence the
maxim, “Beware ot the man of one book.”
Frost.—There was a heavy frost in all low
places in tiiis city and vicinity yesterday
morning. Tender vegetation of every kind
was nipped, and wilted under the influ
ence of the sun. In localities below this,
where there was a heavy fall of rain a few
days ago, no daubt the destruction was much
more extensive. ,Tlie weather is cold enough
for a killing frost, but the dry atmosphere
and high winds succeed in keeping it off.
The Ang. Chronicle of yesterday says that
region was visited on Wednesday morning
with the first killing frost of the season, put
ting an end to all anticipations of u further
lengthening out of the cotton crop.
TnE Cotton Crop.—The Agricultural
Bureau at Washington, in a recent report
gives an estimate of the probable crop ot cot
ton for I860. The Commissioner prefaces his
estimate with the statement that it is too
early yet to predict the result of the year
with certainty, as insect enemies may yet af
fect the crop. He gives, however, estimates
for each State, computed from the reports of
his agents in various counties. He thinks
Alabama will produce 290,98C bales, Arkan
sas 146,957, Florida 21,717, Georgia 175,400,
Louisiana 281,051, Mississippi 300,C2G. North
Carolina 72.757, South Carolina 70,282, Tenn
esson 29G.4G4, and Texas 172,585. The total
gentleman, because he glorified not God they
were all withdrawn; he died poor and im
becile unil unnoticed, and, above all. with- Richmond Oct. 0 18C0.
out any hope for the life to come. Learn, I j j? ^ p 0 n ar< ; .
beseech vou, from this sad case, tho danger Yrv ru- c-,,, <•
<•««■* 'vWi God'. Bite. You, to. will
beheld to strict account for every talent, and thirtv-ei^ht of tli ' 1
challenge so distinct and pointed as that of | ?, otton cro P’ ^ <“1° of the
the Times. Respectfully yours i Bureau, will be teles. Tins is lar-
Edward A. Pollard. ! ^‘ r tI,an thc estimates.
his bowels. Carpenter, although a power
ful man,never resisted, but in thc language
of one ot the witnesses, “juststood and took
it”
from Bristol to Lynchburg, will be consoli
dated with thc Southside Road, making one
trunk line from Bristol, Tennessee, to Nor
folk, on the Atlantic coast.
The Greatest Physic Taker.—Mr. Lem-
uel Jessup, a rich old gentleman who recent I v
died in England at the age ofsixty-five, was,
to the maker of pills anil potions, the great
est of benefactors. When his apothecary’s
that account will be oi.lv the more deplorable 'V“ u “Boet Caua^ very care-1 bill, co vering fifty-five closely written pages,
should he please to continue to vou these There is not one single state-| was presented in court at a trial which folio w-
nnrflilv .rtt tQ until death * nlcnt t,lcr e'n contained, relatirgto matters ot , c d Ills death, it was proven that in cne vear
* °- ‘ exchange or to transactions in winch I was he swallowed over 50,000 pill*, and that, be-
concerned, that is not strictly and accurately sides, he had taken—not in one year perhaps
Declines.—Hon. Montgomery Blair de- true. Ido not think tho gentlemen who hail —no less than 40,000 bottles of different
clincs thc nomination for Congress for the . charge of the subjec’ of the exchange of mixtures. Thc faculty must have been as-
Fifth Congressional ^District of Man-land in prisoners on thc part of the United States toimded at his death. Since he so miracu-
is hardly worth
of Mr. Stone to represent the Conservative
Unionists as well as Democrats.
_ _ _ Mol lie • Trussell, the
wounded, without requiring the delivery of; murderer, wears in thc Chicaga jail, are val-
Conlederate equivalents, will not be denied, ued at $30,000.