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One would naturally conclude, id taking
even a cursory survey of public affairs, that
the South had enemies enough without her
borders. Tho hosts of Fanaticism, allied
apparently with nil the legions of Hell, are
banded together for her overthrow and des
tination. The malignant and infuriated spirit
that animates them'and is developed in all
their conduct regarding us, was never before
felt by one civilized people toward another.
It stands without a parallel outside tlic re
gions of the damned. Humanity never be
fore approximated so closely the fallen an
gels in all their infernal attributes. Such a
struggle with au unarmed and conquered
peoplo on one side is unequal enough in all
The bill to regulate the tenure of office, as ins own statement in relation to tiie
csmI dividend of five per cent. At the conscience.
- - - - -- But the South lias other enemies to con
front, and a victory over whom is as essential
to her peace and safety 113 one over the class
wo havo already described. They nro within
her own bosom, sharers of her fate and par
ticipants in all that concerns her rights or her
honor. Wc havo no refcrcnco to that miser
able corporal’s guard of degraded wretches
and moral bankrupts, who, during the late
war, swung from one side to tho other, as in
is in the followin
ry The Washington Chronicle
acted by Forney, the Secretary of the Sen
ile,1 lately had the following editorial re-1 Merest might dictate, and arc now assembled
in Washington, feeding, a3 mendicants, on
crumbs from the Radical tabic, and doing
the dirty work of their masters with the hope
«If the existing conflict is not terminated
1>t impeachment, it will end in war!”
Forney also says, "It the laws stand in the | dnid rcwnrd j n the abasement and
«r, to much tho worse for the laws 1”
Cosnover Found Guilty.—A dato from
Washington of the 11th says: Sanford Con-
nover,detective, who fabricated testimony of
the complicity of Jefferson Davis with tho
Lincoln assassination plot, lias been found
guilty of perjury.
degradation of their own peoplo—we have
nothing to say of these, for they have not the
dignity to secure contempt, much less serious
consideration from Southern men.
Wc have particular reference to two classes
of people, whose influence wo regal'd as most
injurious upon our future prospects as a com
munity. The first consists of those who arc
Beast Butler announces bis intention by nature averse to strife, or have large
to run for the Presidency in 1808 at all liaz- pecuniary interests to subserve, and who, to
»rds. Why not t Running it his forte when calm their fears and save their dollars, would
there is nothing to steal 1 welcome any amount of moral degradation
' ■ ■■■•— 1 and political servitude that may be imposed
£JF“ “Military power,” says Mr. Henry J. on their countrymen. They aro generally
H»ymond^“is the last resort of a decayed and i acn advanced in years and who wish to spend
king Republic." Nothing is truer, and yet the decline of litc in tranquility and repose,
the samo man that sees tlic truth so clearly, I or lncn w j 10 ie3t everything by the present
a wedded to the band of conspirators who t g cc t upon tBe contents of their parse. We
«thus destroying fbo Republic, and on all I tbtu neither should oontrol In the pre
cessions giving them aid and comfort rather
au desert bis party. What higher crime
us s man commit against his country than
iiil
0JT Washington College is unable, in its
impoverished condition, to pay General Leo
»decent salary. Tho noble old Roman re-
fsses all aid iu the form of donations.* aud
!br|tru»tees aro making an effort to raise by
subscription a suflicient endowment to put
his professorship on an independent footing.
sent fearful crisis. Old men will soon die and
pass away, while the tho young and middle
aged aro to ho left to bear the country upon
their shoulders, and reap tho fruits of
the wisdom or folly of those who preceded
them upon tho stage. It is for the living
world end for posterity that wc aro now
called on to net, and not the men who aro
passing away and will not be hero to reap
the legitimate harvest of the seed they are
sowing. Their motives aro doubtless of the
purest—and wc make no assault upon them
—but wo should bear in inind that the road
to perdition “ is paved- with good inten
tions.” Noi 1 can mean avarice be allowed to
53f”A colored man was fined one dollar and
costs in New London for “groaning like a
paam" in meeting. The Southern Metho-J
dfe and Baptist niggers had better look out,! dictate when the liberties of a great people
Mil take warning from their New London j now on the stage, and millions yet unborn,
friend*. are at stake.
—"—’ The other class—and we rejoice that it is
ST - The Cincinnati Enquirer advises its j a ver y Slna || one—are men, most of them not
readers and tho public, in view of what it j « nat jy 0 and t 0 tlic manner bom,” and who
considers the certain impeachment of the . have not drawn their inspirations from South-
President, to “ avoid tho entanglements °f j crn ^eeds and traditions: wc allude to those
debts and other business contracts that arc , j ourna ]f s t a 0 f the South who are ever remind'
dependent upon a state of peace and tran-1 j n „ onr p CO p] e 0 f their weakness and counscl-
quility tor their performance, nnd to keep all | jj n g them to submit without a murmur to
aili sat for an impending storm and convul- 3n y additional indignity and wrong that
ton.” The advico is good-, says tlic Colum-1 mft y bc Leaped upon them. They ungrate-
tea Enquirer, and timely, whether wo regard j f u uy depreciate every movement of our
the impeachment of tho President as proba- friends at the North that look to resistance
U* or not. Any sudden change in the value tyranny and usurpation, and openly tell
of the circulating medium of tho country . Riem that, inaugurate a war in our be-
ttu*t derange business and produce financial ■ 1)alf nnd in defense of the Constitution of
embarrassments No man in debt knows m , r fathers when they may, they need I
shether his resources three months hence
till enable him to maintain his solvency.—
Nor does tho rutin who contracts a debt now
bum what will bo the value of the currency,
our latticrs wnen uicy may,
look to us for no assistance, but must
fight it out themselves, unaided and alone.
Not content with the present ’ hardships un
dor which our people groan, they are coutin-
uul the consequent amount ho will havo to < ua jjy coring our enemies that" there is no
P«f. six months hence. I resistance in us, and that wc are ready for
Should the bills now pending la Congress nn y ninoun t 0 f degradation and wrong that
into laws, we shall very soon hear tlic 1 may be h ea ped upon us, thus inviting them
•eking of the financial timbers. j to further oppression. What a despicable
** and cowardly race most we become under
Ths State University and the Maimed such teacll - s the *. W c
were once
SIMMs.—IVe find the following in tboAu- ht bv a noble ancestry that
m Chronicle, ot the 12th instant, with pwfa>bh ; w slavery-that even <
*Mnark that the letter is n private one, , as Qothin _ wbeo in the ba.
*1 not intended by tho author for the ej*i degradation and dishonor. Has the spirit
«>«e except the party to whom it was of those noblo |ncn (lclJarted lorcvcrt We
[Rated:
Ckivkiisity of Georgia, Feb. 8,18G7.
4- Ji. Wright .
Nlr Dear Gkneiial : I have just rc-
to Athens from a visit to Alabama,
’hither I waa called by urgent private busi-
I trust not; yet, it is just such teachings as
! those we have referred to that destroy the
1 spirit, manhood and chivalry ofaonCC proud
and chivalric people, and reduce them to tho
! condition ofscrls. Heaven deliver the South
: from them in her present hour of trial I She
has already enough to crush her to the earth,
J hasten to answer yours of January last.
Jr' r ® n) » kin £ arrangements to recti?* ( without invitations lor renewed forms of op-
-iMticatc the liinimed soldiers under the 1 . , ■ , _ r .
Pwhlons of tho Intcnct of the Legislature, j pression, and exhortations lrom her oun
wears to mike $300 do nil that tbc act would-be leaders to abject servility and
is perplexing enough. We shall i submission. When Patrick Henry thundered
“p«tto lose much or nil the tuition, but forLb b j 3 glor i oll3 j>hill»pic against British
iJL* ”!'. v,ate . t,lc difficulty, 1 fear, ()f oppression, and called upon his countrymen
rfat'Og, clothing, &c., on the amount deter- > 1 . ,,
by tho bill, and wliich, I understand to stand by their liberties, where would
^aihe Executive circular just issued, will have lived in liistory tho name ofthecravin
spirit who rose as tho matchless orator took
bonds. Yet we'
rah, and do it heartily, ffii die ;,is seat and preached homilies on prudence
. ,1’dd semi-annunliy
rf l( 't>all we rah, and uo a* u—mij, 1
of the young men themselves, and i
l*P»tby with tho spirit that promptc
of tho Legislature.
^ittien, ]>ray tell your young friend to
Wo shall be glad to sec blm. Lot
ited the
hut
'g the necessary certificates from the
k'Smd, or County Jud«re, that he is entitled
beneflta ofthcnct^ Ac. If possible, let
1 to remain, yours, most truly,
Andrew A. Lir-cosm.
and the honors of war
Heaven knows wo are tired enough of
strife, that we long and even sigh for peace
and the reunion of all our people in frater
nal harmony; but the South has made all the
sacrifices to secure tho boon that sho should.
^C°Di*prepared with bed and bedding, When the issue cornea whether a selfish and
• infuriated minority shall destroy every ves-
j tige of Southern liberty, and, overthrowing
the Constitution aud government of our fath
ers. erect a military despotism over the
I American people, we say it boldly that should
the patriots ot the North organize for rcsist-
: mice and supply us with the means, we shall
not fail to urge our felloe countrymen of the
South to lly to the rescue, and as one man
rullv to the Republican standard.
Nor will it be a forlorn hope to which we
shall invoke the people of the South. Toe
“rent American heart, the preponderance ot
. Cod* ok Georgia.—W
..Write | eUt . r f rom g*
lave seen
IP HI D. Irwin, of Ma-
‘tom which it appears that his now
v 5°nol the Code will he delivered tosub-
s as*ri* ° n ^ n '" °f *f une nuxt . It will
•••'■ lae laws in force in this State.
• ai ts <>t the recent Legislature.
■ . ■■ ■ •!<• it: advance. The bool, will
, r <usued only by n subscription, as a lim-
BiRnlier w4ll.ba-laRe i. Remittances
de. bv m bl to ! ion. 1). Irwin, ot
■ ■ ’
: i; s ffwin stalls that lif will deliver in
*|; tt N Copios of the Code to subscribers
U M ticairt ii:~»&itth<rn reorder.
passed by the Senate,
language:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica, in Congress assembled, That every per
son, excepting the Secretaries of State, of the
Treasury, of War, of the Navy, and of the
Interior, the Postmaster General and the At
torney General, bolding any civil office to
which lie has been appointed by and with
tbe advice and consent of the Senate, and
every person who shall hereafter be appointed
to any such office, and 6hall become duly
qualified to act therein, is, and shall be en
titled to hold such office until his successor
shall have been in like mnnncr appointed
and duly qualified, except as herein other
wise provided.
Sec. 2. And be it further enneted, That
when any officer appointed as aforesaid, ex
cepting judges of the United States Courts,
and excepting those specially excepted in
section one of this act, shall, during a recess
of the Senate, be shown by evidence satisfac
tory to tbe President to be guilty of miscon
duct in office, or crime, or for any reason,
shall become incapable or legally disqualified
to perform its duties, in such case, nnd m no
other, tbe President may suspend such officer,
and designate some suitable person to per
form temporarily tbe duties of such office
until the next meeting of the Senate, and un
til the case shall be acted upon by the Sen
ate, and sncli persons so designated shall take
the oaths and give the bonds required by law
to be taken and given by tho person duly
appointed to fill such office; and in such
case it shall be the duty of tho President
within twenty days after the first day of such
next meeting of tho Senate, to report to the
Senato such suspension, with tho evidence
aud reasons for his action in the case, and the
name ot the person so designated to perform
the duties of such office, aud if the Senate
shall concur in snch suspension, and advise
and consent to tbe removal of such officer,
they shall so certify to the President, who
may thereupon remove such officer, and by
and with the advice and consent of the Sen
ate, appoint another person to such office.—
Bat if the Senate shall refuse to concur in
such suspension, such officer so suspended
shall forthwith resume the functions of his
office, and the powers ot the person so per
forming its duties in his stead shall cease,
and the official salary and emoluments of
6uch officers shall, during snch suspension,
belong to the person so performing the duties
thereof, and not to the officer so suspended:
Provided, however, that the President, in
case he shall become satisfied that such sus
pension was made on insufficient grounds,
sbaU be authorized at any time before report
ing such suspension to the Senate, as above
provided, to revoke snch suspension, and re
instate such officer in the performance of the
duties of his office.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the
President shall havo power to fill all vacan
cies which may happen during the recess of
the Scnntc by reason of death or resignation,
by granting commissions which shall expire
at the end of their next session thereafter.—
And if no appointment, by and with the ad
vice and consent of the Senate, shall be made
to such office so vacant or temporarily filled,
as aforesaid, during such next session of the
Senate, such office shall remain in abeyance,
without any salary, fees or eninlunieuts at
tached thereto, until the same shalt be filled
by appointment thereto, by and with the ad
vice aud consent of the Senato, and during
all such time all the powers and duties be
longing to .such office shall be exercised by
such other officer as may, by law, exercise
such powers and dnties in case of a vacancy
in such office.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
nothing in this act contained shall l>o con
strued to extend the term of any office, the
duration of which is limited by law.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if
any person shall, contrary to the provisions
of this act, accept of nny appointment to,
or employment in any office, or shall hold or
exercise, or attempt to hold or exercise, any
such office or employment, lie shall be deemed
and is hereby declared guilty of a high mis
demeanor, and upon trial nnd conviction
thereof ho shall be punished thereof by a
fine not exceeding $10,000, or by imprison
ment not exceeding five years, or by both of
the said punishments, in the discretion of
the court.
Sec. 0. And be it further enacted, Tnat
every appointment or employment made, bad,
or exercised contrary to the provisions of this
act, and the making, signing, scaling, coun
tersigning, or issuing ot any commission or
letter-of authority for, or in respect to any
such appointment or employment, shall be
death ok ms child—HIS KEELINGS with
regard to it.
Rev. Joel Linsley, tbe murderer of bis own
child, who was recently sentenced to :heNev
York State prison for a term of years, ad
dresses the public at length through the Bui:
falo Courier on the subject of his crime. Tiie
following extracts give tbe leading points of
his discourse:
My little boy lost his mother when about
one year and a half old—a lady whom I loved
intensely, and who loved me with all the ten
derness and devotion of a woman’s nature.—
After the death ot tny '.vl' ■ - '.y affections
were drawn more closely around my child
and I loved him most tenderly. He was truly
the light of ray house He was a noble, manly
and beautiful child, very affectionate in his
disposition and bright in his intellect His
father and friends looked upon him with
pride and hope, and I should not have been
satisfied to have had him absent from me for
a week. My little boy bad a wonderfully
firm will, enough for an adult, but there was
nothing malicious in it
I do not speak of this as anything against
him, but on the other band I consider it to
have been a God-given talent of the highest
importance, had it been rightly trained. On
tbe night of his death, bis stepmother had
taken him to another room to put him to bed
My little boy bad been trained by his own
mother, during her life, to be put to bed by
himself alone, as on account of her feeble
health she was not able to do as mothers or-
dinurily would, and he would do it just as
cheerfully and happily as though put to bed
in any other way. In this instance my child
refused to obey my wife, and she was striving
to secure obedience. I supposed a word from
me would bo sufficient, as lie very seldom re
fused to obey me; but it was not. TVe ques
tioned whether it was best to try and force
obedience; whether it were not best to drop
the matter and consider about it. I finally
decided, on my own responsibility, to punish
him; not that I cared so much for tbe par
ticular thing ho was to do, bnt I felt it was
important ^o secure tho habit of obedience.
I anticipated no serious conflict at nil.
The instrument I used was a piece of a
shingle taken from some old shingles used for
kindling, thirty years old 0/ more, and the
wood I should think was hemlock, certainly
not hard wood. My impression is that it
might have been an inch and one quarter
wide, possibly, but I can not state with pre
cise accuracy the width orit. It very likely
was less, as was stated in court. It was not
a thick shingle, nothing like a club about it.
It occurred to me that obedience would be
secured more readily by it, than by using the
hand, if it was necessary to use corporeal pun
ishment at all. I recollect distinctly of feel
ing when I commenced, that I would rather
the blows would fall upon myself than upon
my boy. As I continued to punish him,
stopping at very irequent intervals, and talk
ing to him, I felt convinced that he knew
wliat J wished him to do, as his reply to my
question, “Why will you not do it, Johnny ?
Pa issorry Johnny wil'not mind,” was, “Ido
not wish to, I wish to do something else,”
stopping crying at tire same time. I had
own foundation. I fee' that my home has
been desolated by the death of a dearly loved
chikl. The consequences of my own act here
come upon me with crashing weight in that
loss which many could never have lived
through.
I frankly confess my great error in this. —
My family has been broken up. My property
has been swept away by the necessary ex
penses of my trial, and I greatly fear that the
iite of my wife is at least jeopardized in her
present feeble and critical state of health.—
if you ask me wliat 1 think of the sentence
and conviction, in view of all. these, I must
say that I teel it to be unjust and unworthy
the code of an enlightened Christian nation.
In saying this, I do not at all impugn the
integrity of the judge or tho jury who sat
upon my trial. While my reputation is its
precious to me as to any man, and I am as
keenly alive to the good or ill opinion of »y
fellow-man as any man, yet I feel that charac
ter is infinitely more important than reputa
tion; and this has been my only support, my
hopo in God in all my trouble, that truth
could sooner or later bear sway in tbe minds
of my fellow-men.
Radical Dispatches.
The lollowin5»,specimens will serve to show
what sort of pabulum the Radicals are get
ting up daily to feed tho revengeful feeling
of the North:
Mysterious Convention of Rebel Gen
erals.—Louisville, Feb. 6.—A mysterious
convention of rebel Generals is in session at
a leading hotel in Louisville. Among tbe
number are Magruder, Humphrey Marshall,
Duke and seven or eiebt others.
Anniversary of tlic Georgia Histor
ical Society.
From tho Sav. Herald, 13th.]
The 28th Anniversary meeting of the Geor
gia Historical Society was held at their Li-
rary Hall yesterday afternoon, at 4 o’clock.
The Society was called to order by Vice-
President John Stoddard, Esq. After the
reading of the annual reports of the various
officers, the election of several new members
and the transaction of the usual miscellane
ous business, tbe Society proceeded to tbe
election of officers for the ensuing year, when
tho following gentlemen were unanimously
elected:
President—John Stoddard, Esq.
First Vice President—Honorable Solomon
Cohen.
Second Vice President.—Honorable Edw.
J. Harden.
Corresponding Secretary—Dr. R. D. Ar
nold. *• . . :
Recording Secretary—Dr. Easton Yonge.
Treasurer—Wm. S. Bogart, Esq.
Librarian—J. F. Cano, Esq.
Curators—Col. W. T. Williams, Wm. Dun
can, Esq., W. B. Hodgson, Esq., Thomas M.
Norwood, Esq., Dr. IV. M. Charters, H. A.
Richmond, Esq., Gen. A. R. Lawton.
The business of the meeting having been
concluded, tbe Society adjourned to meet at
their hall again at half-past seven o’clock, to
proceed thence to the Baptist Church, to hear
the eulogy of Hon. Henry R. Jackson on the
life and character or their late President, the
Right Rev. Bishop Elliott.-
At the time appointed tho Society reas
sembled ato the hall, the attendance being
unusually large, and, wearing their badges
marched in a body to the Church, the front
pews of which had been reserved for their
accommodation. The Church was filled in
every part by citizens, tbe ladies composing a
very large part of the audience.
The orator, with the President, Vice Presi
dent, officers of the Society, and the Reverend
Clergy of the city occupied seats on tbe
platform.
The observances of the interesting occasion
undertaken to secure obedience, and I felt were in the following order;
that I must accomplish it It will be said voluntary
that I erred in commencing at that hour, Pravcr by Rev * Mr r ; andrum .
when my child was tired by the play of the Readiug 0 f thc ft ymn « The Dying Christian
day. I did err in so doing, but as I have to ° His S oul,” by Rev. Mr. Wynn,
said Iliad noKlea oftnysenous confhct at Hymn hj the Choir.
alL It I had I should not have commenced. oration by gen. henry r. jackson.
But it was a part of my education and was Benediction by Rev. Mr. Pinkerton,
my otvn judgment tbit a child at that age, _ . . i.
however much as a general thing the parent . The oration of General Jackson was a fit-
should avoid coming directly across the will tin S tribute to tho exalted character and ever-
of the child, yet when tbat did occur, that to-be-cherished memory of its beloved and
there was no better or wiser wav than for the I subject. JLxke everything emanat-
parent to wisely enforce obedience. in S from ils talented author, it was appropri-
* * * * . * ate to the occasion—eloquent in diction, fer-
I will say something more os to my feel- vid “» feeling, and elevated in sentiment,
ings. For the first few days I cannot at all ^ ^ ie c ^ ose oration, whiop was hs*
describe them. While tlic billows of public J ened t0 Wlth dee P silent emotion by the
indignation anil excitement were rolling I lra mense concourse, the benediction being
around me, under a greatly exaggerated state*- pronounced, the audience retired, when, on
ment of the facts in the case, and a total mis- mot *? n ^ r \ T>°ga.rt, a resolution
conception of my motives of conduct, 11 unanimously adopted expressive of
scarcely heard them—I felt them not. The I thanks of tho Georgia Historical Society to
heart was too full of its own sorrow for anv General Jackson for his eloquent and lmpres-
tliing more. It lay crushed and wrung under I slve oration, and requesting him to furnish a
tho keenest anguish. * Are you a father who C0 Py f° r publication.
Georgia Boys Before a Yankee
Bureau Inspector.
AVery Hard Story.—Louisville, Feb.
7.—Belle Hoover, a “likely” colored girl, was
poisoned this morning by a white man who
had been keeping her for a mistress. The
man was arrested, and gave as his reason that
he was afraid the girl would tell his wife
that she was with child by him. lie was
tried this evening before ’Squire Kennedy,
and, on making the above explanation was
released.
Commenting on this latter telegram, the
Louisville Courier says:
We do not know that this lie, or we should
rather have said bunch of lies, is any more
worth the trouble of denial than any other of
the tens of thousands which have been man-
factured by tbe enemies of tbe South for the
use of the Congressional^ melling-committees
and the Northern press for eighteen months
past. But as it can do no harm to show the
Northern people how they aro imposed upon,
we will dissect the above dispatch for their
benefit It makes in tbe Tribune just eight
lines, and in these eight lines there are nine
distinct, outrageous and wilful lies, viz:
Tho dispatch reads:
Lie No. 2—“Belle Hoover, a likely colored
girl."
Belle Hoover was a pretty white prostitute.
Lie No. 2—“ Was poisoned this morning
by a white man who had been keeping her
for a mistress.”
She committed suicide, as was proven at
the Coroner’s inquest by tbe testimony of a
number of her companions and of the drug
gist who sold her the arsenic. She informed
her companions of what she had done, hours
before she died, and gave as a reason for her
rash act, that her lover had abandoned her,
and tbat she did not want to. live.
Lie No. 3—“ The naan was arrested.” No
arrest was made, because there was no ground
for one.
Lie No. 4—“ And gave as his reason ”—as
there was no man in the case, and none arrest
ed, of course no man “gave as his reason”
anything whatever.
Lie No. 5 —“ That he was afraid the girl
would tell Tiis wife.’’
The lover was a boy about sixteen years
old, only a short time escaped from the nur
sery, and had no wife.
Die No. C—“That she was with child by
Jiim.”
She was not with child by him or any one
else, and for tbat reason and because ho had
no wife, he could not have been afraid tbat
she would tell his wife.
Lie No. 7—“He was tried this evening.”
As we have said, there was no arrest and
no occasion for any, and consequently no
trial. -
Lie No. 8—“Before Squire Kennedy.”
There is no Squire Kennedy in this city.
Lie No. 9—“And on making the above ex
planation was released.”
As there was no arrest there was no state
ment and no release.
Negro Immigration to
nessce.
Ten-
lias lost a dear and only child upon whom
your affections centered in a peculiar manner?
You may go a little way in your appreciation
of my feeling. But that other pang of hav
ing been in some sense tho cause of the death |
ot your own child, unwittingly, indeed.
A school teacher in the “ Dark Corner of
Lincoln” sends tho following to the Augusta
ter of tho treasury, a full and complete list,
duly certified, of all the persons who shall
have been nominated to and rejected by tbe
Senate during such session, and a like list of
Heaven grant that you may never know that I Chronicle:
feeling. As time wore on, and the averted Rust Monday, a genteel looking man came
J|[ M looks of men met me, shut out almost en-1 to our settlement, announcing himself as Cap-
deemed' and arc hereby declared to be high tirely from sympathy, which seemed most tain Inspection, United States. Commissioner
misdemeanors, and. upon trial and conric- j precious, and false public sentimeut resting I of the Bureau of Education, for this Educa
tion thereof, shall be punished by a fine not upon me with crushing weight, while my tional District, which comprised the whole
exceeding five years, or both; said punish—J heart was all bleeding with its own grief— of Lincoln county. Ho was directed to my
ment nt the discretion of tiie court all was like daggers piercing me, At first school house; upon his arrival, after lie had
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That it j my friends feared that reason would be de- repeated the announcement of his character
shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Sen-j throned. And to-day language cannot de- and functions, I received him with such be-
war was atc at tbc c]ose n f cac j, scss ; on thereof, to j scribe ray yearnings for my child when my coming politeness and proper courtesy as I
deliver to the Secretary of tho Treasure, and mincl reverts to him. * could command, considering it due to his
to each of bis assistants, and to each of tho ! Perhaps I ought to say something in view official rank and station. As tho first arith-
auditore. and to each of the comptrollers in of the conviction and sentence passed upon meticclass hacl just been called up to recite
the treasury, and to the treasurer and regis- me. It may be inferred from what I have their morning lesson, I tendered him the
— a ‘ sai^, believing as I do that a former sickness I class book (Davies) opened, at tile appointed
bad to do with this matter, a sickness tho se- lesson. This ho declined, saying lie did not
verity and particulars of widen could be but I need the book, but would examine forliim-
jjrunm nmi"x * m-nm. n.m n ,—r m-t ir. iimperfectly presented in courts, being for self. Curtius Lamar stood at. the bead of
all tbc officers to wbioU nominations shall ' years under tho most powerful tonics and the class. Now, although Ciircius is a good
have been made, and notconfirmed and filled ! narcotics daily, a sickness from which my I boy and a fine scholar, he served two yeurs iu
at such session: Provided. That the Presi- ! physical constitution never has recovered and Virginia under Stonewall Jackson. It.was
dent shall have power to make aud deliver, never can, it would be strange indepd if ray not without some trepidation, therefore,
after the adjournment -of the Senate, com- j mind had the same vigor which it had be- that I heard Captain Inspection put to him
missions tor ail officers whose appointments , fore. 3Iy own judgment is, that had it not the following question:
have been advised and consented to by the been for this sickness aud subsequently nerv- “A regiment is composed as follows:—
Senate. ! ous prostration more or less connected, being Three tenths of the men are Germans, twb-
Sec. 8. And be it furthrr enacted, That so for months alter I came home, near four fifths arc Irish, one-tcnthGanadinns, and two
whenever the President shall, without tho years, that I could not look into a newspaper, hundred and forty arc Americans! What
ndvice and consent of the Senate, designate that this thing could never haVe occurred. is the strength of the regiment f”
and authorize, or employ nny person to per- j •' Bnt as to the conviction: If I did not “That depends upon the man who leads
■U' • . ....1.1. . —-*—“— TtktpnmettliUMir,
relieved
Next
retary of tbe Trei r 1 Ute
uicatc such notice to all proper accounting him at all hazards, come life or death, I son of our bootmaker, Patrick O’Reilly
and disbursing officers of his department. would suffer silently, nnd feel that I deserved man highly esteemed in our community—is a
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted. That to suffer. But if I was actuated by the high- smart lad of fourteen yeari “Let the next
no money shall be paid or received from tlic est motives of nny man’s nature, in pain per- answer,” said Captain Inspection. “480,” was
treasury, or paid or received from or returned torming what I believed to be duty; if it was the prompt answer. “How ?” says the Cap-
out of" any public moneys or funds of the the very love I felt for my child which caused | tnin. 480 was promptly repeated. “I can’t
Astronomical Speculations-—TJie
Final Fate oTtlio Universe.
Knoxville Correspondence Cin. Commercial.]
Tho plentiful harvest with which the labors
of the husbandmen iu East Tennessee have
been blessed, and the protracted and severe
droughts that have visited most of the South
ern States, together with the prospects of an
impartial franchise law in Tennessee, have
attrt:cted to this section of the State great
numbers of negroes, and the cry is still they
come. From North Carolina, and from the
cotton regions of the sea-coast, from Georgia
and from Alabama, with their “ plunder,”
and with the hope ot realizing in this fair
country their brightest dreams of freedom,
they come, in cars and in carts, on horses and
on toot. The building of our three railroads
—the Knoxville and Kentucky, the Knoxville
and Charleston, and the Morristown and
North Carolina, gives great numbers of them
work, and this, with the large cribs, groaning
with ripe, yellow corn, at sixty and seventy^
five cents per bushel, attracts them hero.
So long as their coming does not conflict
with the interests of our laboring whites no
complaint is made, but already the murmur-
ings of coming trouble are heard. The rich
bottom lands of the rivers are the points of
of rallying, and there the trouble will first
begin. In order that the real condition of
affairs may be understood, it should be re
membered that the laboring field hands In
East Tennessee are most of them whites, ancl
that during tbe war they were loyal and op
posed the heavy land owners. Since, the war *
the public feeling against the wealthy rebels
has been so violent, and that feeling has taken
such a shape that they were forced to leave the
country. On returning now after the storm
has subsided, they find their lands in the
possession of these whites, either as tenants
under the Frecdmen’s Bureau, as purchasers
at sales ordered by courts of law under judg
ments procured in what is generally known
as damage suits, or as purchasers under tax
sales. These parties, iu possession, cling te
naciously to whatever, legal advantage they
have thus gained, and for the past eighteen
months our courts of law have beem adjudica
ting these novel questions. These contests
naturally provoke a bitter feeling. In most
cases the original proprietors come off the
victors; and now, after they have won their
lands, they retaliate upon their opponents by
turning them out of their leaseholds and put
ting in these itinerant blacks.
In addition to the whites who would work
if they had an opportunity, this country has
been infested by the hangers-on and camp
followers of the armies—those who, in the
garb of Federal soldiers, plundered, and stole
everything within reach. These.men have
taken advantage of the unsettled state of our
society, and have perpetrated the grossest
outrages, stealing aud plundering. They
have nothing to gain and everything to loose
by peace and quiet, and they take every op
portunity to keep up the mob power tbat at
one time, under the rebel power, drove out
and plundered all who were loyal, and under
the cover of loyalty, plundered all who were
disloyal. These classes have now a new ele
ment to contend with, and, under the plea off
hatred to the blacks, they wage war alike
upon tbe negroes and upon the landholders
who employ them. This struggle between
the laboring whites and the blacks will con
tinue, and will grow bitter just in proportion
to the number of the blacks and the extent
they affect the interest of tbe whites.
anv office, contrary to tlic provisions of this The Judge says the majesty of the law out of the room saying: ‘Til report you;
' <11 *» * ... V _ . _ must 1 .A T n 1 .... ... nnv.w«nnnrntA
act; nor shall any claim, account, voucher, or must be sustained. I have always supposed
other instrument, providing for or relating to that human criminal law must be founded
such pavment, receipt, or ‘ retention, be'pre- upon the law of God and derived irom it
nted, passed, allowed, approved, certified alone its force. Does God hold a man re
paid bv anv officer of the United States or apijnfcilfn for any tiling more than wrong do-1
you are an unregenerate, unreconstructed,
abominable rebel; I’ll report you to the
Bureau. You are teaching these youths
treason.”
or pm
physicul power, are — —- , ,
eminent of Washington.and they arc obliged
to triumph in a contest witbeonspirators nnd
traitors. • 1 . * f
by any perron exercising the function, or
performing the duties of any office or place
trust under the United States, for or in
-pcct to such ofiice, or tbe exercising or
...•rforming tbe functions or duties thereof.
And everv person who shall violate any of the
provisions of this section shall be deemed
uiltv of a high misdemeanor, and, upon
Jewish Educational College for New
York.—It i3 proposed to establish un educa
tional college or university for the Jews in
the United States, to be erected in New York.
in the present or in the past, or for a neg
lect to do right arising from a culpable indif
ference to the right, or a preference for the
wrong ? Is crime to be determined by the
consequences of an act or by tho intent ot I The proposition is promoted by the Const!
the heart t Cun you make crime without yon tntionul Grand Lodge of the order ofB'Nai
can prora some unlawful nnd criminal intent Polish, and by tlic leading members of the
in sonic form i Can you make crime of an I Hebrew • body in New York, Philadelphia.
Trial and conviction' thereof, shall be join- error in judgment, though it be a very serious Baltimore, and elsewhere,
ishe.l therefor by a line not exceeding $10,-' one! But the Judge says the majesty of the | ——~—
OOtl, or by imprisonment not exceeding ten law must be sustained. I cannot see the point. Alexander Duncan and William War-
v ears, or both of tile said punishments at* tbe Such an application instead yiSustaining the | wick, two of the oldest iesidents.ofDahlone’
discretion of the court. • majesty of tbe law,-in ray opinion,,saps its" ( died in that place last week
... '' V.-’Vv
If two bodies were placed in space without any
lorce acting upon eaeU other than their own grav
ity, they would immediately start toward each
o*hur, and would rush together. The sun and
planets which constitute the stellar system
which our solar system belongs, are prevented from
running together into one mass by their revolu
tions about each other. The revolutions of the
planets around our sun, and of the satellites about
their primaries, have been, ascertained with that
wonderful precision which is the just pride of as
tronomical science, and astronomers are now en
gaged in the sublime problem oi unraveling the
revolutions of tbe countless suns that make up our
s;ellarsystem. Already the cluster of the Pleiades
is indicated as the proximate locality of the centre
around which our sun, with his attendant planets,
is sweeping his vast orbit j and it is suggested that
it is probably the common centre of the orbits of
all the suns of our 6tellar system.
If the force ot gravity extends across tbe incon
ceivable spaces which separate the several stellar
systems ot the universe, those systems must rush
together unless they are held apart by revolutions
around each other.
If light was an emanation, as held by Sir Isaac
Newton, the spaces between the solid bodies of the
universe might be absolutely empty; and, in that
case, the revolution of the bodies around each
other might go on forever. On the other hand, if
light is a vibration in a subtle fluid, the tlula might
obstruct the motions of bodies revolving in it, and
they must Anally come together in one mass. The
experiment so ingeniously devised by Arago, and
carried out with such honorable regard lor the
fame of its designer, by Messrs. Fouleault, Fizeon
and Berc((ue, to determine whether there is a dif
ference In the velocity of light in its passage
through air and water, has demonstrated that light
is a vibration. It follows lrom this that, as far as
light extends, spdee 16 filled with a material fluid
which resists the motion of bodies revolving in it
aud bodies within this space must gradually wind
their way inward, aud ultimately come together in
one mass.
The moon must be drawing very slowly nearer
and nearer the earth, and the two bodies, in the
far distant future, will come together. The solid
crust of tiie c.irtli will I).- broken up by the sbork,
an immense quantity of heat will be generated by
the destruction of the moon’s motion,' and the two
bodies will luse together into one molten globe.
As the new and etJaiged earth is cooled upon its
surface, a second series Of geological deposits will
be constituted, accompanied, perhaps, by strange
and inconceivable forms of animal aud vegetable
life.
At the samo time tbe earth is winding its way
inward toward the sun, and must ultimately lall,
an.inconsiderable pebble, into the fast glowing
mass. The same fate awaits all the planets, aim
our solar system must one day be but a single
globe. When this globe is cooled to the right
temperature, it may be covered with a multitude
of iukabiUnts, and astronomers may ri;e who will
watch its revolutions among the associated suns
of our stellar system. If their knowledge and in
tellect are equal to'the scienceofoarastronomers,
they will foresee the ultimate coming together of
all these suns into one common globe. And not
this only for they will predict the final coming to
gether oi all the"stellar systems of the visible uni
verse into one mass of matter.
W’Jten this mass is first collected it will be in
tensely hot, from the destruction of motion in tiie
several suns and systems of suns as they come
together. The heat will be radiated outward into
the universe, aud the one mass of mattergradual-
ly cooled. During the cooling there will be the
same play and mutual interchange of heat, elec
tricity and magnetism, and other imponderable
forces that are now upon this earth. As the cool-
iDgproci-eds, the action of these forces diminish;
when 077 degrees is reached, light will cease, and
darkness will fill the universe. As each vibration
of heat leaves the material mass it will expand
outward at the rale of 191,000 miles per second iri
all directions, iu the lorm of a swift, BWWling, Lol-
low globe. When the temperature c! aosulute
cold is reached (Util degrees,) the last vibration of
heat will leave the mass of matter, and wilt expand
outward through all infinity of space and time.
Supposing, however, the etheiial fluid Which
fills the viriole portion of the univer-e is limited
in extent, so that tho lest vibration of heat will
resell i s boundaries au t cease, what then h, comes
01 the force of the universe, and ot the doctrine
of the cijuverson Of force. — .ix-tenti/ic A.ni rinin
A Sensation.—Quite a stir was created
among our citizens on Tuesday last, by the
appearance in our midst of a gentleman by
the name of Snipes, of Upson county, who
said he came with authority as Assessor and
Collector for the State of Georgia, for thepur-s
pose of collecting the provisional tax for the
year 18G2. This included all property owned
at that time. Mr. Snipes issued handbills,
stating that he had been appointed Assessor
and Collector for the State, by a Mr. Patter
son, of Tennessee, Chief Assessor and Col
lector, for the United States of America; and .
calling upon the citizens to pay said tax.
Similar handbills were printed for the
counties of Schley, Marion, Webster, Stew
art and Chattahoochee, which places Mr.
Snipes expected to visit, after getting through
with the county of Sumter.
Our citizens, doubting the authority of Mr.
Snipes, to act in the premises, refused to obey
the call made upon them, whereupon tho As
sessor and his Assistant, Mr. Ilenry Scarbor
ough, "of Schley, left for that county.
We examined tho papers of Mr. Snipse,
and were not satisfied as regards the genu-
ineress of the documents. He may have
been appointed to the office for wliat we
know, but bis papers are evidently not fixed
up in such a manner, as would authorize one
to recognize him as the Assessor and Collec
tor for said tax. He had no authority ema
nating from a higher, source than this Mr.
Patterson, of Tennessee, showing his appoint
ment. We know not who this Mr. Patterson
is, bnt Mr. Snipes represents hint as icing
the brother-in-law of President Johnson.—
This, we tbink, is a mistake. We know the
President has a son in-law by the name of
Patterson, who resides in Washington City;
but we bare never heard of him having a
brother-in-law by that name.
Our citizens are uhvays ready to pay all
axes exacted of them by those in authority,
but in this instance, wc think, they .bad bet
ter not be in too great a hurry, but wait, un
til they receive “more light” on the subject.
Imericus Hep., 14t/i.
Episcopal Meeting.—The Episcopal Bish
ops in Montgomery yesterday, in attendance
upon the meeting of the Trustees of the Uni-
ersity of tlic South, (Suwanee, Teun.,) were
Bishop Green, of Mississippi, (Chancellor,)
Bishops Quintard, of Tennessee, Wiltner, of
Alabama, and Lay, of Arkansas.
Among the clergy, we notice Rev. Dr.
Scott, of Florida, Dr. Easter, Dr. Legcock, of
Louisiana, Dr. Williams, of Georgia, and Rev*.
Mr. Hines, of Mississippi, and others.
Bishop Wilrner, of Alabama, delivered an
eloquent memorial sermon iu honor of the
late Bishop Elliott, at St. John’s, church last
evening. 1 . ‘ t. - -.1 y
There being no quotum of trustees, the
meeting will take place Saturday morning.
Bishop Quintard reports that the prospects
of the University are very good.
Bishop Joseph Wiltner, of Louisiana, will
arrive to-day.
Services will be held every night during
the week at St. John’s church.
[Montgomery Mail, 14th.
Death of the “Immortal J. N.”—Many
of our readers will regret to learn that the
reat philosopher, statesman, satirist and ora
tor, J. N. Fee, is no more. Here wasa terri
ble example of tiie force of a strange hallu
cination in reducing power to weakness,
greatness to humility, grandeur to decay.*—
His h ilkicination pursued him to the grave,
and, like an inveterate but powerless demon,
now sits and howls upon its brink. “J. N.”
was to have visited our town on the 2?
A Windfall.—A little girl, niece ot Cap- J ste.nt, but this will explain all to his disap—
tabi Childs, is reported to have fallen heir to , pointed friends.—Nashville Gazette, XCith.
a fortune of a million and a half of d
This little heiress resides in Portsmouth,
Virginia, and is thus suddenly enriched by
the death of a relative in England. She is
but seven or eight years of age.
IrS- 1 " An erudite reporter iu Pittsburg dis
dained to state that a mule had kicked a
man in the stomach. lie said that it “re-
caicBrated him in the abdomen?’