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TIIK GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
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Hon. A. II. Hansel has
Judge, nml W. B. Bennett, I- sr l
tbo Southern circuit.
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Printing Oi dice Bur*’ 1
learn that the Csrtersvillo Express ofl.ee was
destroyed by &*, with several other build
ings is that place, several days M,,ce -
|yi Tkb Kome (Ga.) papers record the
death, at tho age of 09 years, of Mrs. Susan
Eeliols. mother of Gen. Robert Echols, a Jong
time Speaker of the Georgia House nod Pres
ident of the Senate.
Radicalism.—It is reported by the 11 *»b-
ington correspondent of the Baltimore Ga
zette that Thad. Stevens took $800,0CO with
him to Harrisburg ior the purpose of securing
his election to tho United States Senate.
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gy General A.P. Stewart announces
the Memphis papers that, on the 1st day of
February, he will become connected with
the school conducted by his brother, Profes
sor J. D. Stewart, in that city.
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A Visitation.—The telegraph announces
tho departure from Washington of a colored
regiment lor Cliarleston. V hat horrible
thing have our Charleston friends been do
ing that they should be thus scourged ?
Tl.c New York Evening Post, the New
York Commercial Advertiser, and tho Cin
cinnati Commercial, all of them Republican
papers, agree with tho Herald, the Times,
the Tribuue, and other journals of the same
party, in opposing the impeachment of tho
President.,
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Diocese of Georqia.—The Memphis Av
alanche says that Bishop Wiluner, of Alaba
ma, has been invited to officiate in the State
of Georgia until the election of a bishop to
fill tho vacancy occasioned by the death of
Bishop Elliott. Bishop Wilmer, of course,
will r.ot exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction
but will simply perform the rites of confirma
tion, ordination, etc.
The Man Spotted.—The solitary member
of the Virginia Legislature who voted for the
Constitutional Amendment, is D. W. Lewis,
of Fairfax. He was a member of Brownlow’s
Nigger Loyal Convention at Philadelphia last
summer, and nobody will be surprised, ex
cept that any county in Virginia, should
have tent such a man to ti.e Legislature.
General Grant in Favor of Neoro
Suffr vos.—When the Arkansas delegation
called upon him, he told them to go borne
and adopt the constitutional amendment im
mediately, and after they had done that to
pass a bill giving suffrage to all persons with
out regard to color. He has used similar
language to others from the rebel States
within the last six weeks.—Car. Jfew York
Tribune.
pST* TnE New York Times is struck with
‘•the utter absence of malignity” on the part
of those Governors recommending the adop
tion of ti.e. amendment The amendment is
perhaps so malignant they fonnd themselves
unable to add to it by abuse.—Louisville Bern-
*:rat.
Perhaps they felt that they couldn’t do
justice to the subject, like the notorious
swearer whose nshcssp.lt out at the tail of
his cart. You know the story.
AGRICULTURE IN GEORGIA.
Wc publish elsewhere a letter from Geor-
ia’s greatest agriculturist, Mr.David Dick-
hc. n elected j gon, of Hancock count} - . His experience for
Solicitor, for I tho past fifteen years, is an illustration ol
what properly directed industry can accom-
pli.-li. No man in the Soutli lias done so
regret to
much, in liis duy and generation, for himself
and for the cause of agriculture. Were a
tithe of our people such planters and farm
ers as lie, we might even snap our fingers in
the face of Northern fanaticism and bid It
defiance. The South would soon become
strong enough to command respect, and rich
enough to make it to the interest of all man
kind to be on the best terms possible with
us.
We regret that Mr. Dickson, in the letter
before us, did not go more fully into details f glowed upon his bees, his orchards and dairy.
Experience of u Practical Farmer.
Editors Telegraph.—Gentlemen: I
send you an extract from a letter received by
life from David Dickson, of.IIancock county.
The stress of the late war drove me into liis
neighborhood and gave me an opportunity
of learning much ol the system and success
of this enterprising planter. Fifteen years
before the war, he commenced planting on
what was considered light sandy lauds, and
much. exhausted, with a capital of $25,000.
When the war broke out, his capital was
eighteen times larger. This result was brought
about by his energy and system, by improved
modes of culture; by improvements in agri
cultural implements; by attention to the
health and comfort of his laborers; by nur:
ing and protecting his stock, and care ho
of his system of cultivation and plantation
management. Want of good judgment, sci
entific skill and economy have been the bane
of Southern agriculture, and his enlarged
and accurate experience,, we arc convinced,
if given to the public, wonld work a salutary
reform in that important branch of industry
He throws out some facts and hints, however,
to which all who cultivate the soil would do
well to give attention. His great ngent, he
tells us, is tliejudicious use of fertilizers.
They must be of the right fort und properly
applied to produce the desired results. On
these points he gives valuable inlormation,
and it should be treasured up by the tillers
of the soil generally. His plan is to manure
the rich as well as the poor lands, for while
the lormer have the capacity to produco
plants of every sort, tho effect of fertilizers is
to add to their fructifying qualities. Riel,
land well manured, it is said, will produce
nearly double the quantity of cotton that it
would without the artificial aid.
How Mr. Dickson managed to secure so large
on amount of labor from a given force, he does
not tell us, though we hope he will favor us
with his system of mnnagementand with such
other results of his experience as he thinks may
be of public benefit We would be glad
to hear from him often, and on any branch of
agricultural science, feeling assured that he is
capable of giving his unfortunate fellow-plan
ters of the South the very information they
need most in their present struggle for recu
peration.
And in this connection, as the labors of
the year are about to commence, wc cannot
urge too earnestly upon the planters the wis
dom of availing themselves of the various fer
tilizers that science or nature has prepared
for the improvement of tho soil. Mr. Dick
son tells us what varieties he has found best,
and all of them, we believe, are to be had in
this city at reasonable rates. Mr. Asher
Ayres is agent for a large number, and, in
deed, for nearly all that have an established
reputation in the South. We hope to hear
of his doing a heavy business in this line the
coming spring, not only for bis own but
for the country’s sake.
Above all, and mainly, his golden harvest
was reaped from tliejudicious use of Fertili
zers. Believing the views he advances, will
be interesting to your agricultural readers
the extract from his letter is submitted, with
the hope that his example msy be imitated
by our planters.
Yours, Respectfully,
James A. Nisbet.
We had some pew-renting yesterday
in a Gospel church of this city, and hope it
passed off successfully. We doubt if it com
pares with the pew-renting of a political
church in Brooklyn, tho particulars of which
are as follows:
Beecher's annual sale of jews and aisle-
seats in his church was held on Tuesday
night. The first chance sold for §550. Pre
miums were mostly four or five times greater
than the assessed valuation of tho various
pews. The receipts from pew-letting this
year will exceed $50,000.
E5T*A Washington dispatch says: “Gen.
Grant had a long interview with Secretary
Stanton upon the effect of the recent decision
of the Supreme Court upon military com
missions. It renders the Frecdmcn’s Bureau
and Civil Rights bills nullities, and, while it
is allowed to stand, orders will be issued to
prevent any conflict of authority under it.—
Secretary Stanton, General Geary, General
Palmer, and all other army officers who have
been upon military commission arc hourly
liable to criminal arrest and trial. Senator
Trumbull, who drew up both tho above bills,
agrees with the Supreme Court.”
A Patriotic Thought Beautifully Ex
pressed.—The N. O. Picayune, referring to
the decision of tho Supreme Court on Milita
ry Commissions, says: ‘‘This emerging of
the Supremo Court above the atmosphere of
partisan strifes and tumultuous popular pas
sions into the region of calm and unclouded
justice, is the rising above tho waters of the
Ararat, on which tho ark of tho consti
tution way repose in security. It is the her
aid of the good tidings that they, whom its
broad roof shelters may begin, without fear
of further floods, to turn their thoughts to
the tnsk of replenishing and adorning the
beautiful earth that is restored to them.”
The President’s Consistency.—While
ho was military governor of Tennessee, dur
ing the late war, Andrew Johnson sent the
following telegram to Hon. Montgomery
Blair, then Postmaster General, who read it
at tho 8th of January celebration in Wash
ington :
[Confidential.]
Nashville, November 24.
To Hon. Jf. Blair, Postmaster General:
“I hope that the President will not
ho committed to the proposition of States re
lapsing into territories and held as such. If
he steers clear of this extreme, his election to
the next Presidency is beyond a reasonable
doubt. I expected to have been in Wash
ington before this time, when I could have
conversed freely and fully with reference U- -
EFFECT OF RADICAL RULE.
The country is beginning to reap the fruits
of the seed sown in placing a Black Republi
can Government over the American people
The indications at tho North are, that the
people are in a state of uneasiness and boding
apprehension as to any further movements in
politics which may trouble commerce and
shake confidence in the luture. Quiet, sensi
ble business men, the farmers, the artisans,
and the poor, begin to think that they have
had “reconstruction” enough and would wish
to see Congress give some time and attention
to the material interests of the country—and
instead ot inventing continual new alarms of
political revolution,trying to colm down and
settle those which have already been stirred
up. Anxious letters and telegrams from con
stituents are said to be pouring in upon mem
bers of Congress entreating them to let the
President alone and let the country have rest.
Radical newspapers themselves appeal earn
estly in the same sense.
Nor is the alarm ior the stability of affairs
confined to the country. The world abroad
is looking on and seeing the rapid strides wc
arc making toward anarchy and revolution.
Our telegram informs us that large quanti
ties of American securities are to be shipped
back to us, nobody in Europe feeling safe in
putting their money in the bonds of a Gov
eminent that shows every symptom of decay.
Nor need we be surprised at all
this. We have a Congress of fanatics,
who know nothing but tho negro.
Very truely yours,
David Dickson.
Hancock co., Jan. 2, 1807.
and are animated by no other sen- all risk of worms, drouth, flood, &c.
timent but hatred of the South and their
own love of power. They never stop to think
of legislation that concerns the credit, char
acter, or well being of the country. The tar
ring und feathering of some mischievous in
cendiary at the South, a negro riot, polyg
amy in Utah, ancl cognate measures are am
pie to fill their narrow souls and engross all
their attention. There is not one in ten
of them that has the brains to teach a cross
road school, nor one in twenty that has the
morals and manners to secure him admission
to a gentleman’s table. The truth is the leg
islative department has fallen into tho hands
of fanatics, rogues and blackguards, and
there is every reason why the country should
be alarmed and the world abroad feel re
luctant to have any business transaction with
us.
Let the people of tho North take a survey
of their agents and their work, and repent of
their own mndness before it shall be iorever
too late.
Beautiful Extract.
The following inimitable extract is said to
have been written by Bishop Heber in one of
the very onrliest of his memorable produc
tions ;
It cannot be that earth is man’s only abid
ing place. It cannot be that life is a bubble
cast np by the ocean of eternity to float a mo-
ment upon its waves, and sink into notliing-
tho policy to be ndopted'by the Government; l ncss - ^ Ee why h it that high and glorious
but it lias been impossible for me to leave
Na-hvillc. I will bo there soon. The insti
tution of slavery is gone, und there isno good
reason now for destroying the States to bring
about tho destruction of slavery.
(Signed) Andrew Johnson,
“Military Governor.”
“ Strange Rumors at Richmond^’]—The
following is a special dispatch to the Herald.
Let no one be frightened:
Richmond. January 8,1867.—From various
events that have recently transpired, it is evi
dent that matters of a serious und grave na
ture are now under consideration at the War
Department and in military circles. Rumors
have reached here that movements have al
ready been made, in viewjof the disturbance*
likely to grew out of the impeachment of the
President by Congress. Troops are now be
ing transported from different points—to
what destination is a mystery. Added to
this, Gen. Schofield to-day left this city os
tensibly on a tour of inspection through this
department: but really, it is said, to be ab
sent in Washington a wholo month.
aspirations, which leap like angels from the
temple of our hearts, arc forever wandering
unsatisfied ? Why is it that the rainbow and
cloud come over us with a beauty that is not
of earth, and then pass ofl'to leave ustomnsc
on their loveliness 1 Why is it that the stars
which “ hold their festival around the mid
night throne,"’ are setabovc the grasp of our
limited faculties; forever mocking us with
their unapproachable glory? And, finally,
why is it that bright forms of human boautv
are presented to our view and then taken
from us, leaving the thousand streams of our
affections to flow back in an Alpine torrent
extract.
During the last year, I learnt some valua
ble new lessons: One was the training of
linnds to do double the amount of work, with
more case and less waste of sweat and mus
cle. My former hands being better trained
than others, had better offers than I could
give, and nine-tenths of them left me.
then employed hands from as many as forty
plantations, and got none that knew how to
work to any adv* ntage. I had hands before
the war that could pick GOO pounds of cot
ton in a day, all by day light, and all hands
that went to the field averaged 330 pounds
per day, without a lick, orany white man in
the field. All of my old trained hands have
now applied to come back, preferring one-
third of the crop gathered on my place, to
one-half on the places worked last year.—
Whilst I owned them they told me to plant
33 acres in com and cotton, and 17 acres in
wheat and oats, and they would cultivate it
with my aid, in preference to 20 acres under
an overseer, and could do it with more ease,
My crops before the war averaged me $1,000
per hand. I divided thus; $200 lor manure
$200 for horse power, tools &c; $300 for
land and $300 for labor. My estimate now
is when hands work well to divide as follows
First take pay for all purchased manure—
the balance to go one third for land rent—
one third for horse power aDd all tools in
cluding Gin, waggons, carts, wheat thrash
er «fec. hoes and axes excepted, which each
hand should furnish—and one third to the
laborer, being divided among the bands that
produce; the cotton seed to be returned to
the land and all crops left in the field un
gathered to go to the owner of the land.
Now as to commercial manures &c. I am
written to frequently to know of whom I
purchase, and what kind I use. John Mer-
ryman & Co. of Baltimore are my agents, but
there are other parties who will do justice.—
Money is so plentiful at the North that, spec
ulators purchase each cargo of Guano as
soon as it arrives and hold it for an advance
so that the planters and farmers must
act upon some uniform plan. The
only plan I see now, that will do
any good, is this: Send your check
on to Baltimore with instructions to pur
chase of first hands only. Refuse to purchase
any manipulated or mixed manures. Many
of them no doubt have merits, but the planter
had better do his own mixing, then he will
know what he has got and save the profit.
The beat manures bring the crop of bolls on
cotton early, and a drouth then, with half a
crop, would check tho growth, whilst the
cotton with an inferior manure and but few
bolls would not be injured; the rains setting
in would injure the first far more than the
last. The manures I am now using are com
posed thus: Peruvian Guano, Bones, Salt
and Plaster—one hundred pounds each of the
three first and fifty pounds of the last. Bones
are but of limited supply; resort must be had
to some of the phosphate Guanos, of which
the Columbian paid best bat ie now exhausted.
The true plan is to try all the manures on
their own merits, then do your own selecting
and compounding. There arc some of the
phospbato Guanos that I have not tried, but
my opinion is that they are too high to pay a
profit. Manure should yield at least double
the cost, to pay for capital, labor, taxes and
their first choice. He asks for a letter an
thon/.ing him to make such a pledge,
also says to Case, in his le tter, ihnt be ivan
to nuito with Jam as a full partner in
land speculations anil town sites.
This is the precious scamp v;lio impeaches
the President. He was reelected to Congrc
under the influence of liis furious Radicals
and zeal for the war. IVc conjecture that
would be found generally that, like
French revolutionists, many ot the leaders
the present revolutionary Congress arc men
whose characters will not stand the scrutiny
of investigation. The revolution has brought
the corruptcst men to the surface, and the
highest placc3 are filled by them, to the di
grace of the nation, and the general distur
bance of the order, peace, and prosperity
the land.
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The Southern Legislatures and the Negro
A Radical Concession.
The Northern press, even tho Radical por
tion of it, is forced to concede that the South
ern Legislatures, by their practical legislation
in relation to the negro, have given the He
to all the varied slanders against us. As
specimen ot their concessions, we quote as
follows from the New York Times of 3Ion
day:
“Exceptingthe unanimous refusal of the
Southern Legislatures to ratify the Consti
tutional Amendment, it must be confessed
that the general legislation of these bodies
of late has been such as to command the ap
proval of tlx: freedom-loving people of the
North. With regard especially to the ques
tion of the Hacks, which interests very deep
ly a great number of people in this section
the action of the Legislatures has been, in
almost everyfcjjkgKc. humane and liberal to
a very high degm. Not only have the old
laws affecting them adversely, one way or
another, been repealed, but the guarantees of
their personal, civil, social and property
rights in the new legislation have been strin
gent and unexceptionable. We think it must
astonish every man to see how old prejudices
have gone down with old institutions, and
how the innumerable restrictions connected
with slavery have given place to the large
liberties ol the new order of things. Inde
pendently of such matters as affect the lately
enslaved race, wo think that every one who
has taken the trouble to look over the pro
ceedings of the Southern Legislatures, must
have been struck with the extent to which a
liberalizing’ spirit pervades their actiou. It
appears in a thousand minor things, which,
to be appreciated, must be compared with
things as they existed in the past. Such
progress ot ideas, such ready recognition of
changed circumstances, ought at least to
modify the ferocious language which violent
extremists use in speaking of the action of
Southern Legislatures.”
THE SUPREME COURT.
E'oqucnt Tribute from Ex-Attorncy Gen
eral Black
The following speech was delivered on the
evening of the 8th, at the National Hotel
Washington, at the banquet given in honor
of the fifty-second anniversary of the battle of
New Orleans. The speech wa3 made in re
sponse to a toast complimenting the United
States Supremo Court:
Mr. Chairman: In the history of this
country it has never before been thought nec
essary either to toast the Supreme Court or
defend it. But times have changed. Very
recently attacks full of bitter malignity have
been made on that tribunal, and measures
are deliberately taken to bieak down its just
authority. Considering by whom these as
saults are made, and what the object of them
is, it would perhaps be better to encourage
them, since it is certain that in the long
run they can do no harm to anybody but
tbeir authors. If you have a viper to deal
with, or a nest ot vipers, it is better to keep
them biting at a file than auything else they
can lay their teeth to. Still it may not be in
appropriate to look for a moment at the oc-
esaion of the present persecution.
Three private citizens of Indiana, perfectly
innocent of any offence—I say perfectly in
nocent, because, up to this time, no human
being lias ever legally sworn even to a belief
of their guilt—these citizens were arrested,
kidnapped, and carried before a body of men
wholly without power to meddle with them—
not authorized even to swear a witness fjpr
them or against them—and there, after a
proceeding which it would be mockery to
call a trial, they were ordered to be killed on
certain fixed day. In this condition of
things the judicial authorities intervened,
and, with the aid of President Johnson, the
victims were rescued.
When the cause came into the Supreme
Court the simple question was, whether a
citizen could bo lawfully deprived of his life
without a fair, honest trial, before an impar
tial jury and a regular court. To this there
could be but one answer, and tlia(
Ashley, the Iinpeacher.
The Washington Republican arraigns 31 r.
Ashley, the man who impeaches President
Johnson. Quoting the words, “He that is
without Bin amongst yon, let him cast the
first stone,” the Republican supposes that
Mr. Ashley, in declaring that the impeach
ment was a “painful duty,” and he had sought
various members of the House to perform it,
only endeavored to find some one who could
meet the requirement which the Saviour de
manded of those who would take the reputa
tion and life of a fellow-being. It was not
surprising that Ashley found none such, if
this was his motive. Mr. Johnson would not
be disturbed were this requirement enforced
in Congress.
But Mr. Ashley, all unworthy, as he truly
confesses, took upon himself the accusation,
The Republican shows how little he was cn-
very dishonest acts of tho impeacher, brought
to light before a committee of the House of
Representatives in 1863. A report submitted
to the House by one of its committoes on the
28th February, 1863, shows that Mr. Ashley
was charged with “corrupt official conduct,”
and only escaped by a “flaw in the indict
ment.” Ho was accused of obtaining an
office for a “consideration previously made,”
and escaped because it was not exactly prov
en that the consideration had been ‘‘pre
viously agreed upon.”
Ashley procured the appointment of F. M.
Case as Surveyor-General of Colorado.
Among the letters of Ashley to Case, pend
ing his exertions for the appointment, is one
dated February i!d, 1861, in which he dwells
upon our hearts ? We arc born lor a higher on t^ 0 importance of the office, saying that it
destiny than that of earth. There is a realm i would enable a good business man, (in mcan-
where the rainbow never fades; where the !
stars are spread out before us like the Islands
that slumber on the ocean, and where the
beautiful beings which pass before us like
shadows, will stay forever in our presence.
iTT" The New York correspondent of the
Hartford Press says that A. T. Stewart's new
house will cost $1,800,000, and that there is
a report in circulation to the effect that Mr. I he had promised that the sub-appointments
Stewart is soon to retire from business. ! should be made jointly, he giving them
ing “rogue” probably) to make a fortune of
$50,000 or $100,000, and in the same letter
he says: “ I want my brother as chief Clerk !”
On March 12, 1851, Ashley by letter informs
Case that lie had made some progress, and
that “in order to secure the Indiana delega
tion and Senator Lane to operate on Smith,
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tit ed to accuse anybody by reviving some be denounces the judges for deciding what
was given unanimously, all the judges yield
ing their full and unreserved assent to it.
They held, in effect, that the pretended trial
was a conspiracy, and that the execution, it
it had taken place, would have been a mere
lawless murder. What else could they do ?
To hang men without jugc or jury is an act
so clearly forbidden by the fundamental law
that no one can make any mistakes about it,
if he has sense enough to know his rrelit
hand from his left. The prohibition is writ
ten down as plain as any one of tho ten com
mandments ; there is not a sentence in the
Lord’s Prayer more simple; not a moral pre
cept can be found in the child’s primer more
easily understood. Yet the court i3 abused,
and slandered for saying it. Tho organs ot
disunion and anarchy publicly proclaim their
determination to disregard the decision, not
because it is erroneous, but because it con
fines their power by limits inconveniently
narrow. They declare that they will do, in
defiance of it, whatever gratifies tlicir own
purposes or promotes their own interests;
and they impudently use this very expres
sion : “If the law stands in our way so much
the worse for the law.”
Mr. Thaddcus Stevens, tho leader and dri
ver of tho present Congress, denounces this
decision on the floor of the House. To my
certain knowledge lie knows it to be per
fectly right. The senseless twaddle about
hanging American citizens by the law of na
tions, on criminal accusations of their own
Government, could not for n single instant
impose on an understanding like his.
and send them back at bur adversaries, wc
would leave them quivering in tbeir very
hearts.
A great truth, on which the safety of soci
ety and the security of individual rights mast
depend, in its nature indestructible. You
may crush it to-day, but it will reappear and
vindicate itself to-morrow. On t tbe other
hand, nothing is so evanescentor so fickle as
the passions that spring from the interests
and the prejudices of the hour. Let the les
sons ot history be heeded. Titus Oates. Beil-
loe and Dangerfield enjoyed a far greater
measure of public, confidence than ever was
bestowed on Mr. Holt, Mr. ConoTcr, Mr.
Campbell alias Hoare, or by all the officers,
agents, spies, detectors and witnesses of the
military bureau put together. They—
I mean Oates and company—were loud
ly applauded in Parliament; they were the for
mer f avorites of the British" people, and they
were the very darlings of all the political
preachers. They held the lite and honor of
the nation in their hands. If they but
pointed a finger at au individual he was
doomed, and no purity of previous character,
no proof of innocense, however clear, could
save him Irom destruction. Such vdis their
overflowing prosperity one year; but before
the next came round those wretched miscre
ants were howling at the cart's tail, under
the Avenue, about his want of taste in the
selection of his apparel. “Why don’t you
bow as Mr. Blank docs ? His Moves are in
perfect taste: yours arc such as a countryman
would select.
These tilings grew upon her, while they
alienated him, and living as they did at the
finest hotel in the city, with uncounted gold
at their command, and nothing to compel
their attention away from trifling things,
their minds dwelt upon them, magnified
them, allowed them to see nothing else, with
the result of a separation under circumstances
which were infinitely worse than death, for
then-flic grave would have close *
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s timed by
Persons Burned to Meath
: are called upon to record one of.,
. . , - melancholv ;
vhicli has sver occurred within the ih Y "’
iccident which!
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most horrify in
astropiie—Jail < „
Fire—Twenty.i
this State. Though an
caution or foresight could
a tli rill of horror throughout the whole c
try. 'On the evening of the 7th instant?!"
tween the hours of 8 and 9 P. H., the ocm
pant of the jail heard, very suddenly, apf 5 "
bliner noise in the upper stories of the j a y
’“** "ates were being sliakeD, anfi : ^
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blin
if the iron
,e grave would nave closed over every me diatelv followed the cryof tire
; whereas, life is spared, with its long from pis'room to ascertain whether ^
years of agony.
A Dance With an fndian—The 5
cal of the Vicksburg Rcrahl at a
Masquerade Bn!!—Ills Own Ac
count.
On account, perhaps, of the manifold du
ties always pressing upon us, we have never
learned to waltz—we have never placed our
arm around a fragile, fairy, fleecy, fluctuating
form, and whirligigged around loose; but at
the grand masquerade and fancy dress ball
on last Tuesday night wc happened to
express our regrets at this deficiency in our
the lash of the public executioner, and the education to a young, plump, fresh, and closely
whole population of London was clapping j dominoed Indian girl while we were prof
its hands with joy. Let tlie man who puts enadingtlie vast hall withthe lusciushumjjsy-
his trust in a false popularity beware of the j dumpsy. She sweetly intimated that the
rebound which is sure to come, sooner or I hubbub of such an occasion, when a foux
later. It is written down among the un- j pas would scarcely be noticed, was the very
changeable decrees of Almighty God that no i best time in the world to learn. Wc would
lie shall live forever and especially is this 1 not acknowledge our name if we had backed
true of a great* monstrous, bloody He like i out from such an offer, and, as a matter of
this which tbo Supreme Ci»urt has put its ! course, we very shyly requested her to
broad foot upon. : afford us the sublimely perpendicular
I have spoken of the court as a collective ! pleasure of a small lesson, merely for
body. All the judges concurred in the de-1 the purpose of getting acquainted with
cision of the question before them. On a j each other and giving us a relish for oui
merely speculative point which lay outside ! victuals at supper. Sweet and gorgeous abo-
of the record there was a dissent. The mi- rigine, she consented. Gently, delicately,
noritv was wrong, ol course, as all minorities j fastidiously, and timidly we placed our arm
are. Each Judge, however, met his duty to ; around her pliant waist. Her long raven
the case itself, and all are therefore entitled ! locks tickled our elbow, .Her hand was in
to the reverence and respect which is justly j ours—as soft as a pussy cat’s back as she si-
sliown to the highest talent, coupled with ! lcntly watches a mouse-liole at the soft and
the purest integrity. But one among them j witching hour of twilight. Her left foot was
is vrimus inter purea not because he is better i against our right boot. The gaudy feathers
nor greater than the others, but because he is ! upon her moccasins tickled our manly knees,
more fortunate. He wasselectcd as the organ ! Our eyes met; two soft and melting glances
of the majority and gave expression to their shot out of. the. holes in her domino, and
judgment. The thoughts that breathe, and emitted sparks like the R. E. Lee rounding
the^vords that bum all over that opinion • ar ”” ht tJlH
are his thoughts and his words. The irresis-
table logic which goes through and through
adverse argument, and the felicity of illus
tration which makes the whole subject blaze
with light, are all his own That great pro
duction will be a guide and a landmark for
all future time; it identifies its author forever
with the sacred cause of constitutional liber
ty, and makes his
“One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die.” '
to at William’s wharf on a dark night in the
latter part of December. Music arose with its
voluptuous swell and drew nearer to us—and
we arose and drew nearer to the female red
man. Her warm breath was upon our fin
gers. and her long raven hair went flippy-ty
flop over our shoulder.
We had not yet waltzed an inch, and we
didn’t care a Confederate bond if we never
moved from that spot till the editor of tlie
Vicksburg Herald joined the sons of Temper
ance. We shook back our yellow locks, and
immediately the air was laden ‘with the tmtib
It gives him a position to which no earthly < Q(lor of Martlia Washington’s Hair Restora-
station can add any dignity; for a man ot' ti for gaIe bj Hardaway & Co., and ail re
just ambition would always rather be a pub- ’ table druggists. We bowed low our
lie benefactor than to hold a high office. editorial head, and whispered in a voice
Mr. Chairman, when you recollect that tiie • w j lose dulcet and melifluous notes would have
court has saved us from nothing less than the t el tecl tlie heart of a deputy constable—“Gor-
total overthrow of our free government, ami ; £r eous child ot the forest, whese ancestor dis-
when you observe tlie roaring and foamingof £ overed Columbus, would we were a glove
the calumny which assails it, I think you will U p 0n that hand that we might touch that
agree with me, that it is the duty of every | cbec ^—would that wo were a pair of mocca-
Ckristian man in America to put a morning; s ; ns U p 0D those feet that we might caress thy
and evening prayer for the longlileot all the , corns —would we werea hank of yarn,strung
judges, and the perpetual preservation of their
just authority.
with spotted beads, that we might encircle
i that form—would we were a long bunch ol
; raven hair that we might flop around that
Boarding and Housekeeping Med' ; neck—would wc were an open barrel of gol-
icallr Considered. ; < len s y ru P that thou mi S ht di P tb y fin ger
HS and lick it—would we were a coronet that
Hall’s Journal of Health, which is always . we might rest upon that brow—would we
replete with suggestions on health for the ! were a roll of greenbacks that we might
stay in thy pocket would we were
a brindle dog that we might guard thy wig
wam—wonld we were a big black rooster’s
tail that we mingle dangle near thy face—
wonld we were an Indian chief.” Thus far
masses, contains the following striking con
trast between the troubles arising from house
keeping and those attending boardinghouses
and hotels:
Every winter the number increases in large ] we spaketh, and she sighed. Her ruby lips
cities, of persons who, having become tired of j did part, and she spaketh: “If you are done
village and country life, or of keeping house j wooding up, we’d better let in, for the music
in tii. lnni- tn hnarrlinr. at hotels or nri- 1 jg wasting away,” We let in, and we wasted
away. Our two hearts beat with such respon
sive throbs that a greased case-knife could
not have entered between the throbs. It
seemed as if ten thousand caterpillars were
emigrating up our back, and turtle doves
were picking meal bran out of our ears.—
Huge sighs of the size of a rutabaga turnip
escaped our lips; heard murmuring brooks,
whispering houghs, and warbling birds, and
tinkling cow-bells, and we floated far away
on a fleecy cloud otone hundred dollar green
back bills. The music ceased, but the Wash
ington Hall kept on waltzing. Tlie Indian
maid sought her native forests, and we are
carried by our friends to the Times office
with a cramp in the bottom of our feet, and
our eyes turned wrong side outwards.
n f f Aether the jS
was on nre or not, aucl alter walking aton i
the jail he observed a little stuoke, i ssa jj“
from one of the windows on the third
liis next object was to open the prison d,
and extinguish it, hut rememberin» jk*
Mr. Baoneau, who was the jailor
who was living several hundred
from the jail, had tho keys hi
possession, lie (the occupant of the .jail);
mediately dispatcher! a messenger lor hi
Mr. Barineau, accompanied by°thc shed?
were soon at the jail; in the meantime W"
ever, numbers of persons had collected ’ n’
fire, apparently, at this time had not niade '
rapid progress as was shown in a few minau
although a dense smoke was issuing
every window. The sheriff, with theW?
ance of nearly all the citizens of the rS"
and the gnrrison at this place, immeclig.f
took the most active measures to save, if tw
sible, the unfortunate inmates. The door
the basement was opened, but the dense J-
suffocating, smoke prevented any one M'
rescuing those who occupied ’the thS
story. As a last resort strenuous effort
were then made, with the assistance of U
ders, to remove the grating from one of th,
windows, which proved ineffectual. t>
time the cries and screams of the sufferin' 1
inmates were heart-rending. The jail was i?
flames and 22 human beings were beierr fc un ,
to death without any possible relief ff n '
raYen man agency could effect nothing, every e a v
was made to rescue them that could be sti«*
gested, but all to no purpose; the devouin
flames soon consumed them, and in tliecbw
red ruins is only to be seen tbe gbastlv sow
tacle of bones. Horrible as the accident m
be, and as much as it may be regretted i
consolation follows of having done our dat? to
the best of our abilities; and that accident it
confinedjto noplace or order of circiuushncK.
With us rests the duty, but the result with
Gid.
At the time the jail caught fire, there were
in it twenty-three prisoners. Twentv-two
negroes were confined in the upper cells os
tho third floor, among whom were three wo
men. On the second story Robert H. riinu,
a white man, was confined on bail process'
Mr. M. F. MeBride, by great daring, rushed
to Mr. Flinn’s loom, which was the first one
at tbe bead of the stairway, and unlocked the
door, he thereby making his escape. Mr.
McBride deserves the highest credit, but ic
his attempt to save the prisoner he came nig),
losing bis own life. He fell twice by suffda
tion before he reached tbe foot of the stair
case.
Where every one did so well, it would!*
wrong to make invidious distinctions, botwi
cannot withhold our meed of praise of the
superhuman efforts of Lieutenant Ross, pri-
vate Wm. Green, (who mounted a ladders
the most perilous crisis, and ascended to|
window on the third story) ShcriffMaithu
Mr. Beck, Joe and William Blakely, (colored
particularly excited our commendation.
As to the origin of this fire weeano
conjecture. Whether it was accidental
designed by tbe prisoners, for the purpose
making their escape, is one of those raystsi
that will remain unexplained. Ajurjot
quest is now sitting for the investigsiioj
the whole matter, but ap to time of going;
he knows and what they know to be true,
for no conceivable reason except his desire
that his particular friends may continue to
enjoy the delightful luxury of shedding, in
nocent blood.
The judges, and all who think with them
are called traitors because they declare tne
Constitution to mean what it says, and be
cause they will not violate it themselves or
permit its violation by others when they can
prevent it. If this conflict for and against
the Constitution implies treason on either
side the guilt does not lie at our door. It is
not tlie man who sustains and loves and be
lieves in the laws of his country; it is not
such a man that can be justly called a traitor.
But if there be sn American citizen any where
who, with an oath upon his conscience to
support tbe Constitution, wonld make war
upon it, subvert it by brute force, and take
away the defences it affords to life liberty,
and prosperity, leaving them to the mercy of
mobs.'murdercrs, kidnappers, military com
missioners, and bureaus of Military justice,
such a man is thoroughly a traitor.
“Aye, from the extremes! upward of his head
To the descent and dust oeneatli his iect,
A most toad-spotced traitor.”
These arrows which they cast against us,
barbed and poisoned with the accusation of
treason, rebound from our impenetrable ar
mor, and fall harmless at our feet; for we are
shielded and helineted, and weaponed with
the truth ; but if we choose to take them up
vate houses as a kind of elysium; nothing to
do but eat and sleep and walk about; while
there is a blissful deliverance from the annoy
ances of incompetent, faithless and blarney
ing servants, who, when you engage them,
profess a perfect knowledge and skill in every
thing which pertains to the kitchen, and yet,
within a week, show that they know little or
nothing beyond the most common duties.
They cannot even kindle a fire without its
costing about tliice times as much as it ought
to; they cannot bake a loaf of bread fit to
eat; their pastry would kill a plowman in a
week; and even when furnished the most
lavishly with the very best materials, have
neither sense nor system in their preparation,
and very few kno w even how to cook a po-
tatoe.
But in escaping these vexations, greater
than these soon present themselves in a boar
ding-house life, and among the first is the
giving way of the health; the body becomes
sleepy and dull, the mind loses its elasticity,
and soon begins to waste itself in worrying
about the merest trifles; a very little inconve
nience is magnified, and looms up in moun-
answer tainous proportions. One of these called on
us recently, a lady, well educated, elegantly
dressed in perfect taste, and—merely to look
at—any man might be proud to call her his
wifi*. The moment she entered our offi :e she
began to whine at an amazing rate, declaring
thai she was in a state of perfect physical and
mc .tal prostration. It was very natural for
us> to inquire into the cause of such a hope
less condition. She was boarding. A gene
rous husband had surrounded her with every
thing calculated to afford her enjoyment.—
She had no chiluren and no servants to annoy
her. Herliushantl was at liis place of busi
ness from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M., and the re
mainder of Iris time was at her service. She
went to the races, attended tho opera, visited
her friends, and yet she pretended she was in
a perfect stato ot physical and mental prostra
tion.
Into this gulf of perdition will they arrive
at no distant day who arrange to go boarding
as soon as married, instead of going to house
keeping. A more unprofitable mistake can
not possibly be made by the newly married;
it is more mischievous in Winter than in
Summer, for in warm weather the young wife
can walk on the street, or drive in the park,
or visit among her friends, but in the Win
ter she is cooped up in one room and spends
hours at tlie window-pane, gazing listlessly
out upon tlio streot— afraid of tho cold, yet
detesting the confinement, while a great pait
of tho time, the husband being at his busi
ness, the mind of the young wife is tbe prey
of .a thousand disquietudes. At one time
she thinks her friends arc slighting her; at an
other, she becomes envious of others who seem
to be able to dress more elegantly than herself,
and she begins to mako unfavorable compari
sons to herself and to her husband as to their
condition, and she becomes moody or petulant,
and complains, and the husband wakes up to a
Artemns Ward’s First Letter.
Mr. Browne,says the Cleveland Plaindealer
commenced writing for the Plaindealer, in
the summer of 1859—Mr. J. W. Gray being
then proprietor. His limitless humor confined
itself to no special subject for a number of
months, but \va3 constantly “cropping out”
in all sorts of quaint sayings and juicy para
graphs. He finally concluded to give his
writing more individuality by adopting a
n<m deplume. Hence the famous letters from
“Artemus Ward” showman. These letters
first merely written for the purpos e of “filling
up” when copy was scarce, sprang almost'im
mediately into wide spread notoriety. The
first one appeared in the fall of 1858. Here
it is:
“To the Editor of the Plaindealer:
“Sir—I’m moving along—slowly along—
down ’tords your place. I want you should
write me a letter, sayin how’s the show biz-
ness in your place. My show at present con
sists of three moral Bears, a Kangaroo, an
amoozin little Rascal—(’twould make you
larf to detb to see the little cuss jump up and
squeal,) wax figgers of G. Washington, Gen
eral Taylor, John Bunyan, Dr. Kidd and Dr.
Webster in the act of killing Dr, Packman,
besides several miscellayus moral wax stat-
oots of celebrated piruts and murderers, etc.
Now, Mr. editor, scratch off a few lines saying
how is the show bizuess down to your place.
I shall have my handbills dun at your ofliss.
Depend upon it. I want you should git my
hrndbills up ia flaming style. Also git up a
tremenjus excitement in yr paper, ’bowt my
onparalled show. Wc must fetch the public
somehow. We must work on their felins-comee
the moral on ’em strong. If it’s s temperance
community, tell ’em I sined the pledge fifteen
minits arter ise born. But on the contrary,
press they have not rendered tlicir verdk
[Kingstree (8. C.) Star.
General John B. Gordon.
[From the Metropolitan Reccr!
Gen. John B. Gordon is the son oft
Z. H. Gordon and Sirs. Malinda Gordoa.v
have lived to the ages of seventy and fir
one respectively, to witness the honors ts
ed upen their son. The family came ora
ally from Scotland, settled in Virginia,*,
then moved to North Carolina, from via
the father of the General emigrated to G*
gia. The General’s grandfather entered!
army of the American Revolution aftlie?
of fourteen, and served throughout the ti
war. His great uncle. Captain G rdl
greatly distinguished himself at the balfifi
King’s Mountain by charging the British lisH
seizing one of the officers by tlie cue andra
ning down the side of the mountain*:!
him. An uncle of General Gordon's, Cij
Wilev Gordon, raised a company in Son
Carolina to insist Texas in her struggle fi
independence. He and nearly all olhis con
mand were killed m a desperate battle vitl
the Mexicans.
Gen. John B. Gordon was bora intp'
county, Ga., the Gth of February, 1832,»
>va9 29 years old when he began his milk
career. At the early age of eight he p>
fessed conversion, and gave such unmish
ble evidences of piety that hewasbspt
into the fellowship of the Baptist chord
which his father was the honored .pastor.
He was educated at the University of tie-
gia, receiving the highest marks of di---
tion in all of his classes. He here ga« e
dence of those high qualities as a sp^ 1
for which he was afterwards so distingo:*
and took the “first prize gold medal ’ wt.
was awarded to the best speaker. HestS®
law with Judge Hill at La Grange, aou
gan its practice in Atlanta, being takeni w
a partner in the law linn of Overhj&j’i
ley. About this time he married Hiss ru*
Haralson, the beautiful and accoop*
daughter of Hon. H. A. Haralson, o
Grange.
He was beginning to make liis
lawyer, when he moved to the dSTortaern p
of the State to assist his father in cerf f
an extensive coal mine. At the breit ?
of the war he was living in Jackson ^
Ala., just across the Georgia line. Dr
he was a States’ Right Democrat, ana u* i
lie had never takc-n an active part in r.
affairs, he was a believer in tho
secession, and did not for a momen
the supremacy of his State. T^er
many inducements for him tor*®**®’^
at home, and leave the hardships ot' ^
and the dangers of battle to othort-
not received a military edueatren,
entirely domestic in his taste?, in “ .
niary interests must suffer greatly u ^
off from his business. But he aid• ‘
tatc as to the lino of duty. .He
airy company and tendered it io.tue ,^
if your people take their tods, say that Mister airj TOU , 1)anv uuu a - uucicu ^
Ward is as genial a feller as we ever met— j of Alabama, and upon his declining w. 1 *
full of conwiviality, and the life and sole of cavalry from this pa;t of the StatA,
tho soshul Bored. Take, don’t you ? If you converted intp an infantry comp ar J ^
say anything ’bout my show, say my snaix is ; tached to tlie Seventh Alabama
as harmless as a new-born babe. What a in- j At the organization of the regime-'-;
teresting study it is to see a zonological ani- elected J Taj or, and at once set to*® 1 *^
mal like a suaik under perfect subjection. | p aro himself and his men for ^e “
My Kangaroo is the most larfable littlecus3 I: fore them.
ever saw—all for fifteen cents. I am anxyus Braof-'
new discovery, and as unwelcome as it is ! to sekewer your inflooence. I repeat, in re-! Freights at Atlanta.—in 0
new—that his wife is not happy; not happy j gard to them hand bills, that I slin.ll git them ] day says:
in her social position. No man can doubt struck off up to your printin ofliss. My per-
that iu going to housekeeping the prospect j litical sentiments agree with yourn exactly,
of a happy and thrifty married.lifc is unmis- I know they do, because I never saw a man
takably more promising than in the heart de- i whoos didn’t,
straying practice of living the first twelve
months of married life in'hotels and board
inghouses. Very few young wives are safe
in any public associations. The papers
abound in cases of infidelity to marital engage
ments by lately married girls being thrown
Respectfully yours,
“ A. Ward.
“P. S.—You scratch my back, and He
scratch your back.”
An Indian Expedition to Paris.—It is
announced that a party of twelvefierce-look-
We were told at noon yesterday,^..j
the railways leading from here - ,^<1
eanymorefreiglitffr^^
could
ected. " 1
into the society of men of leisure, their bus-1 ' n S Camanches, on their way from tlie I'ar
bands being engaged in their business pur- IVest to the Paris Exposition, have arrived
suits. The mere dandy loafer, or gentleman in New York city. The New York papers
of leisure, has every opportunity ot taste, . are discussing the best means of caging lip
and dress, and address, above that of the V 16 ?® savages, so as to mako -them harmless
mere man of business, to turn away a wo-
to receive i
transport it, excepting
notice from this, that it
more, was momentarily expec.-- ^
also informed that for a week > .. ]
past, transportation, could not
lor the conveyance of the goo as 0 ^
here and ready for shipment. .
complained that they could l° a .o;
addition to wliat they had al rea .’
but could not get them.
man’s heart from her husband by tho mere
fact of causing her at first, without implica-
sting himself, to draw unfavorable compar-
son against her husband as to personal tidi
ness.
One of the most splendid weddings that
had ever taken place then in New York, re-
are discussing iuc ucoo menus ui uu”iug up ^ -.- £ ^
these savages, so as to mako 'them harmless [ Fenianism Played Out.—?
during their stay in that city and also on the i Tribune says Stephens has retiicd
remainder of their journey to Paris. They ; from the Fenian ranks, allegin' - ’
are a delegation from one of the wildest, most tion too weak to attempt
bloodthirsty, treacherous and cruel tribes of England. The
gtlr .
onfl* 0 . 1
9Pii Centers* held 8
the Plains, and the public generally keep at ■ xflght to consider what actiou va*
a respectful distance from them. A statement was made that £>. r
raised $700,000 since his arrival l ^ j
t , „ |3?”General Grant has said recently that try, yet little remains in the tre^^
suited in a separation and a broken heart, he does not desire the nomination of any none of the arms presented to ..
i . ,_:*i.j« ~ u Y-, - , ... i i. * AUif‘“
and a premature grave within a few years, party for the Presidency, but he recommends i tion were sent to Ireland,
by the wife’s continued twitting her husband, either Thomas, Logan or Farragut, if the ! srprfri+r'*. r^xt meeting. i . !K
when they were walking on Broadway, or on choice must fall on a hero. .u Stcnbr ?“!! in »’•" ri 1
There
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