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I “The r«Uen Snow.”
jfeuri fal;tort: Yow republished in your
-per of Wednesday morning the above
.x-tn, n production of extraordinary merit.
Tie author’# urttue doCs not appear, no doubt
, ;l,o disappointment of many reader* who
imiro the true and beautiful in sentiment and
imposition. Knowing hor history, I pur-
-e giving a br,ef biography.
The maiden name of the author was Doha
si vv. She was !*orn and grew into woman-
1 in tiio Wabash Valley, Indiana. Her
,nat< were plain honorable people, blessed
•it’, pienty though not rich as the word goes.
y loved their beautiful Dora, and bestowed
jpm her an education which few females
v,r receive. That accomplished, her father
,od m 'ther's next ambition was to wed her
^.,,0 wealthy and distinguished gen-
Ueosan. A* is too often the case, they had
the fatal delusion that the daughter’s will
thodubc sacrificed upon tho altar of Mam
mon; that wealth and ambition should be
preferred to love.
In iN)0. P. 8. LcBaum and Dorn Shaw
were married. LcBaum was a citizen and
the pus-essor of immense property in St.
Louis. Being in tho Wabash Valley upon
M:<ine®s of his bouso, lie saw, loved and
i . ..-il this young, beautiful nnd accomplish-
. 1 woman. He did not get her own but her
j, irento’ consent, and the marriage which fol
lowed was hallowed by no love, save upon
the fide of the husband.
Taking his bride home to his splendid
palace in the city, bIio was tbero given every
thing that wealth could l»estow. Still she
-u not happy. Did yon ever see a eontent-
11 eagle in a gilded cage ?
The wife was at once introduced to, and
.came the admiration of, the best people of
the city. To tho outward world she ap-
THE ARCTIC HIGKI,
ITS EFFECT ON MIND AND BODY.
^FROM Dll. IIAYKB’ ‘‘OPEN POLAR SEA.”]
January 20th.
The morn is coming!
A taint twilight flush mounted tlic South
ern sky to-day at the meridian hour, and,
although barely perceptible, it wa3 a cheer
ing sight to all of us.
At our usual Sunday gathering, I read from
Ecclesiastes these lines:
‘•Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant
thing itis for the eye to bebohl tho sun.”
And this suggested the text for our even
ing conversation ; and we talked long of the
future and of what wa9 to be done, with the
coming again of the god of day.
Wo all feel now that the veil of night is
lifting, that the ciond' is passing away, that
the heavy load of darkness is being light
ened. The people have exhausted their
means of amusement; the newspaper has died
a natural death; theatricals are impossible;
and there is nothing new to break the weari
ness of the long hours.
But we Shull soon have no need to give
thought to these things. There Will lie, ere
long, neither time nor occasion tor amuse
ments. The Arctic night will soon bo num
bered with the tilings of tbo past. We are
eager that it shall have an end, and we long
for the day and work.
And say what you will, talk as you will
of pluck and manly resolution, and mental
resources, and all that sort of thing, this Arc
tic night is a severe ordeal. Physically one
can get thronght it well enough. We are
nnd always have been in perfect health. I
nm my own “ship’s doctor,” nnd atu a doctor
without a patient. Believing in Democritus
rather than Heraclitus, we have laughed the
scurvy nod all other sources of ill—bealtli to
shame. And we have laughed at the scurvy
really and truly; for if it does sometimes
come in like a thief in tho night, with salt
rations and unsutlicient food, which has not
been our potion, it does, too, conic with des
pondency, and the splenetic blood of an un
happy household, from which we have for
tunately been exempt.
But it the Arctic night can be endured
with little strain upon the physical, it is,
nevertheless, a severe trial to Imth the mor
al and tho intellectual faculties. The dark
ness which so long clothes nature unfolds to
the senses a new world, and the. senses ac
commodate themselves to that world but
poorly. The cheering influences of the ris-
iug sun which invite to labor; the soothing
influences of the evening twilight which in
vite to repose; the change from day to night
and from night to day which lightens the
burthen to the weary mind and the aching
body, strengthening the hope and sustaining
tho courage, in the great life-battle of the
dear home-land, is withdrawn, and in the
constant longing for Light, Light, tlic mind
and body, weary with the changeless progress
of the time, fail to find repose where all is
rest. The grandeur of nature ceases to give
delight to the dulled sympathies. The heart
through the sensitive organization of the ear,
I am oppressed as with discordant sounds.
Silence has ceased to be negative. It has
become endowed with positive attributes. I
seem to hear and see and feel it. It stands
forth as a frightful spectre, filling the mind
with tho overpowering consciousness of uni
versal death—proclaiming the end of all
things, and heralding the everlasting luture.
Its presence is unendurable. I spring from
the rock upon which I have been seated. I
plant iny feet heavily in the snow to banish
its awful presence—and the sound rolls
through the nigut and drives away the phan
tom.
I have seen no expression on the face of
nature so tilled with terror as the Silence of
the Arctic Night.
TH2E2 FLOOD.
cdNDmox of cirATXANooo a - - loss op i.,fe
AND PROPERTY—DISTRESS AMONG THE
CITIZENS.
TO MY HUSBAND, OX THE
VERSARY OP OVRMARRIAGE.
i lie Telegraph.
BOOSTS AXM- j
T El E HUS3AT S’KESHET!
The Flood in East Tennessee.
The Flood in Mlidtile Tennessee.
Baranza’s First Speech in Congress*
[by SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPH.] •
arvd the happiest of mortals, illustrating longs continually for new associations, new
;.,irr fcw there arc who really know the secret: objects, and new companionships. The dark
, . , 7 <3, , . „ ! and drear solitude oppresses the understand
->nows dI the human heart. She passe ' jug; thcdcsolation which everywhere reigns
:.<>t:rs in splendid misery. haunts the imagination; tho silence—dark,
At that time the famous theatrical mana- j dreary, and profound—becomes a terror,
i Ken IleBar had a fme company at the ' And yet, there is in tho Arctic night much
' . ’ .... , .... 1 that is attractive to the lover of Nature.—
Luos Incatre. His leadings a ^ - ! There is in the flashing Aurora, in the play
Annette Isce—no less renowned for her act- j Q f moonlight upon the bills and icebergs,
• nimic life than her beauty and many wo- I j n t (, e wonderful clearness of tho starlight, in
ism:v virtue#: To this theatre Mr. and Mrs. i the broad expanse of the icefields, in the
i.tBsum went one night and witnessed a lofty grandeur of the mountains and glaciers,
:,ay. Dora had never lieen inside a theatre
Kcforc, and belore the enrtain fell upon the
in tho naked fierceness ot the storm«, much
that is both sublime and beautiful. But they
speak a language of their own—a language
cnad act she had taken a resolution which j rongb, rugged nnd severe,
would change the wbolo course of her life- j Nature is here exposed on a gigantic scale.
4c lad determined to bean actress, HkcMiss put of the glassy sea the cliffs rear the.rdark
a uunuiwuiiueu v c fronts and frown grimly over the desolate
waste of ice-clad waters. The mountain
peaks, glittering in tbo clenr, cold atmos
phere, pierce the very heavens, their heads
hoary with unnumbered ages. The glaciers
pour their crystal torrents into the sea in
floods of unmeasurable magnitude. Tho very
nir, disdaining the gentle softness of other
climes, bodies forth - a loftier majesty, and
seems to fill the universe with a boundless
transparency; and tho stars pierce it sharply
and tho moon fills it with a cold refulgence.
There is neither warmth or coloring under
neath this etheral robo of night. No broad
window opens in the cast, no gold and crim
son curtniu falls in the west, upon a world
clothed in blue nnd green and purple, melt
ing in one harmonious whole, a tinted cloak
of graceful loveliness- Under the shadow of
the eternal night. Nature needs no drapery
nnd requires no adornment. The glossy sea,
the tall cliff, the lofty mountain, the majestic
glacier, do npt blend ono with tho other.—
Each stands forth alone, clothed only with
An interviow with tho manager was easily
obtained, who saw in tho aspirations of tho
lady a chance to make a splendid hit and put
gold in his purse. He gave her every cncour-
sgwuent, dismissed the idea of her first ns-
laming a second part, but assured her that
tbe should make her debut in the lending
character of the ploy she had witnessed—
“Julia," in the “Hunchback.” More than
(neonraged, indeed completely resolved, Do
ra at once commenced the study of the play,
and possessing a quick intellect, was at least
master ot the language in a few days. Pri
vate rehearsals appeared to give perfect sat
isfaction to the manager, as well as to his
cum puny—trained for that particular pur) rose
md for that occasion. All this was kepi from
the husband.
From a gentleman who left Chattanooga
at a late hour on Monday evening last, we
have obtained a few particulars ot the terri
ble state of affairs in that unfortunate city.
At the time lie left, the Tennessee river was
still rising, the rain still falling, and the
whole country presenting the appearance of
a vast sea of water. He was a guest at the j
Crutchfield House, where lie remained until
the water reached the verandah, when it Was '
deemed prudent to vacate, which was done
in a l>oat. T ie water continued to rise steadi-1
ly until it readied the ceiling of the first |
story of the hotel, after which, being in other f
parts of the city, he saw nothing more of it. ]
On Market street, the main business thorough-'
fare, the water was fen feet deep at the highest
points, or over the top of tho awnings ii.
front of the large stores. The goods had
been removed to tbe second stories of tlic
buildings, where it was believed they would
be safe, and tbe necesity of removing them to
a Jmorc secure point was not seen until it
was too late. Thus more than three ft urtlis
of the '.dry goods, provisions, Ac., were de
stroyed.
Our informant estimates that at least two-
thirds of the city is literally destroyed. Ho
saw small houses floating hitlier and thither,
while many largo ones had either tumbled
over, or were tailing asunder. Tbe scene was
one ot wild confusion—in fact, so terrible as
to beggar description. Persons who bad re
mained in their homes in the vain hope that
tbe waters would recede, were compelled in
some instances to make their exit through the
roofs, and escape in boats. He could not
give an opinion as to the number of lives
lost, but they were numerous, and he saw
many very narrow escapes. The citizens
were goiag from house to house in boats, as
sisting each other, and endeavoring to save
articles of personal apparel, and a few valu
ables. While this was the case, however,
with the better class, that wretched popula
tion, so peculiar to Chattanooga, composed of
negroes and vagabond white men, were busy
in taking advantage of the situation by the
perpetration of robbery, and other acts of
lawlessness. Great loss from that cause will
result to families whose homes had been
abandoned.
On tbe hills adjacent to the city were hud
dled the refugees from the deluge, and in the
mixed assemblage there existed a most un
fortunate state of society. Among the groups
of tho lower classes, both white and black,
scenes of a most disgraceful character wtre
transpiring, the result ot unrestrained drunk
enness.
At the car shod the water was over seven
feet deep. All the railway rolling stock that
could bo taken to a place of safety remained
i itact, but much of it was submerged, while
box cars were seen floating in every diree
tion.
We only make a brief synopsis of the facts
furnished to us. hoping to give our readers
the lull particulars in a few days. Our in
formant was told that tbe oldest inhabitant
does not remember to have seen the Tennes
see river so high by fifteen feet, and the un
precedented magnitude of the flood can only
be accounted for by the great quantity of
rain, added to tho rapid inciting of snow in
the mountains.—Atlanta Intelligencer, 14th.
Four years ago to-day, nriorr-
Four years affo to-day,
' We breathed the pare and holr vr-vs,
Which mode us one for aye.
Bright dreams were in our b»|>|\ h-art-
Of usefulness and peace- 1 - r
Of a fairy homo where tho Star • f J.ovu
]tter vigils no’er should cease.
/The fairest summer flowers shootJ .tow
In love and beautv there—
The clearest fount, its cry: tall thou
Out on the perfumed air; ,
Sweet PoeSy with gentle tobeli
Should gild eati-loafan . tic* ‘'
And Music’s tUrillir.g rtrpin® should f.U
Oursoul* with <!csl sy.
Alas! tho war has cloutlixl o’er
The skies of which we dreamed—
The footsteps of a toe bath pressed
Tho path where snnlight gleamed.
But dark how’er the world may be,
Tho’dearningthdnden roll, ,
No tyrant power on earth can dim
The sunlight of tho soul 1
The harp that onoe so fondly waked
Its softest lays for thee.
Is seldom touch’d but then there comes
A dearer minstrelsy—
The rippling laugh of childhood floats
Upon the morning air.
And morry little blue eyes claim
Ofiove their rightful share.
Two little souls ’tis ours to guide
Along life's chequered way—
Two little minds to treasure up
With geins that ne’er decay;
Two precious little hearts to keep
In purity and truth.
Oh. may kind Heaven help us shield
Them from the sins of youth!
To-day is bright and beautiful
As 'twas four years ago.
And oorhearts are still more radiant
With love’s unchanging glow.
Thus may they gather faith and truth
Each year that passes by.
Till they beat together in the realm
Where love can never die.
Wilcox county, Ha., Jan. 6 '67.
IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
From the Nashville Union and Diipateh of tho 7th.]
As we write, the Cumberland, swelled and '
r angry with the surging floods, rolls past the i
city in resistless grandeur, currying on its j-. Mr. P. T. B.tniuin will find the IIous<
j We extract as follows from the Knoxville I surface the debris of forest and field, each : Representatives a most excellent advertising
i Commercial, the numbers of which from the [ minute increasing in volume and momentum, i medium, iu case he is elected to Congress.
, Gtii to the 12th came through on the 1Cth: and steadily makinginrods through the north- ' He will certainly not forget the high duties
From the Commercial of the 7th] ern P-irt of the city. The danger resulting ' to his"" country devolving upon him, and it
■ We are now in the midst of a terrible I f r0 ™. th c present freshet orddugc, both here will be a pity a, he forgets his private world-
flood. The waters areupon us, and still con- and further South, will be by no means incori- ly affaire—a* :*nuine pity if his justly-fimed
tinnetocome! The valuable bridges across stderable. Already we have to report very. | sagacity fail? to point out to him how he can
the Holstou has been swept away, and not a | senous havoc on the Chattanooga railroad, j dove-tail business and iiatriotMm together to
vestige can now be 6een to indicate that sucli I ^ '* immense trestle work over Running ■ the mutual benefit of himself and tiu* Great
a structure ever stood. The rain continues Water, near Whitesides, was yesterday after- j Republic. I nm informed by the Spirits that
to fall and at present writing,. 3-p 1 . Mv there j n P] )n partially swept away. It i# that j his first, speech in Copgre
is no' indication that it will cease. The wa- Ih'ast one hundred feet oi the structure v >s 'uws:
r has now reached the highest water-mark j P a _ rne< ; _ 1 ^ j '',t*V and rind the^rapid'y j “ Mr. Speaker—whit
known to the stream, if our information
correct. The turbid waters go- rushing by,
bearing on its surface fences, bridges, rem
nants of buildings, and every conceivable
Coating substance that comes in its way.—
The damage to the country must be immense,, m
and if the waters do not recede, before many I t0 re F acc ; T" . . ^ as 8TV ’ e P t RW’ay.
hours, Park’s steam saw-mill, and John Co-' We have heard it intimated that eommunica-
increasing floods would- be very likely to de- ] eased limb ? Cut it oif! Whnt
molish the greater part of what remained,: a diseased curiosity 1 Sell him!
When it is borne in mind the vast length |
and depth of this trestle work—it is abouS
one hundred feet high, and ten times that
length—it may be imagined the time it will
ker’s null, and William’s old warehouse,
with all the buildings on the bank, will be
swept away.
From the Commercial of the 8th.]
All will remember that the rains fell in tori
rents, the lightnings flashed, and the thun
ders clashed, and from Saturday, Saturday
night; Sunday and Sunday night; Monday
and Monday night; Tuesday and Tuesday
night; Wednesday and Wednesday night;
tion with Chattanooga cannot becstablished
inside of two weeks.
Beside the Running Water trestle work,
two other bridges, one at the foot of Look
out mountain, and the other somewhere in
the same neighborhood, have been washed
away. Colonel Innes, superintendent of the
road, has already sent every available man at
his command to prosecute the work of re
pairs. As may naturally be supposed, a great
deal of inconvenience to merenaots will be
up to Thursday morning, the rain continued l • , , ., . ■ , .
to fall,and the floodslominued to follow. Up h?P<;™ nced the break m railway com<m>.
to present writing, 12 M., Thursday, the wa-J motion? hut the greatest sufferers will b^the
ter is now eight feet and sev-;n inches higher
than ever before known to the oldest resi
dents of Knoxville, and still rapidly rising.
We have just Teturred from a two hours’
trip around the city. It is not aver estima
ting the loss to say that one and a half mil
lion of dollars will not cover the loss sus
tained by the people of East Tennessee. We
have already learned of over four hundred
destitute poor of the South. Corn has been
pouring into Nashville in vast quantities of
late, for shipment further South. Our city
must uow become a regnlar storehouse for
this-now much needed commodity; while
the destitute poor in Alabama and Georgia
will 1 have to suffer still greater privations
than they* have lieen enduring. As the Run
ning Water bridge is tbe other side of Ste-
Ec Kind to the Frqedmen.
One morning tho city was thrown into a j solitude. Sable priestess of the Arctic winter!
■tier l.v an announcement in all the journals.! she has wrapped the world in a winding-
, sheet, and thrown her web and woof over tbe
wd upon all the bulletin boards, that Miss of Noture .
hors Shaw would appear that night as Julia ; Vncl y (iavc ROBe out 0 ft en into the Arctic
is Sheridan Knowles’ great play, entitled the j n jght, nnd viewed Nature under varied ns-
Hanchback.” LcBaum and his friends were ! pects. I have rejoiced with her in her
l». thumlerboll M.
Je first entreated, appealed and threaten'd , etched her sportive play, and have beheld
aife, and next the manager, nnd finally j ] ier robed in silence. I have walked abroad
•helared Ills intention to murder her upon , in tho darkness when tho winds were roaring
.. ,„ndi» bor nnncnr-i through the hills and crashing over the plain, theirsupport
a stage the moment sao made her appear fc strolled along the beach when the fUtance to the little children ol the Imprisoned
i_i_ — father.
"Had the usages of clviliacd war been observed
Mr. Davis’ private property would have sufficed
them, or bad he been permitted to labor for their
support he would have rendered such aid unneces
sary ; but the people act upon the knowledge that
he was robbed of everything, including his books,
lurnilure, diplomas, commissions, testimonials,
even a large part of his wearing apparel, aye, and
that of his wife and little children, whose trunks
were pillaged on the ship where, after taking him
and their servants from them, they were still kept
prisoners. This mendacious newsman, writing
(or such as himself, desires to make a sensation
became >lr. Davis is no longer fettered and guard
ed in a cell.”
,3 <*. AH to no purpose. Tlic manager duly nn | v soun( j tliat broke the stillness was the
all thia passed into the streets, which of; t j u |j cre aking of the ice-tables, as they rose
Oorse increased the sensation and strength- 1 and fell lazily with the tide. I have wau-
the desire to attend. Everv ticket was dered far out upon the frozen sea.and lis-
w . _ , | , , . tened to the voice of the icebergs bewailing
1 by 9 oclock, nnd it were needless t ..ay j lin p r isonment; along thcglacicr where
when night camo that place of amuse- f orin3 nn d fulls the avalanche; upon the hill-
*«t occupied the thoughts of tho city. tops, where the drifting snow, coursing over
Toe curtain rose—Dora appeared—walked, tho rocks, sang its plaintive song; and again
rr I have wandered away to some distant valley
where all these sounds were hashed, and the
air was still and solemn as the tomb.
And it is here that tho Arctic night is most
impressive, where its true spirit is revealed,
where its wonders arc unloosed to sport and
play with tbo mind’s vague imaginings.
The lieavens above and the earth beneath re
veal only an endless and fathomless quiet.
There is nowhere around me evidence of life
*<*mera1, blushed and repeated her part
^ehanicaUy—like any school girl reading
composition at an examination. Still
’■it tndiencc was pleased—not by the acting,
•fl by the novelty of the occasion. The
***** the third, fourth nutl filth nights were
tbe first. Then tho morbid appetite of
•Upublic, satiated with novelty, demanded
“’’fcl acting, Tliis Dora could not supply, or^mot’on.
^•audience fell off—the manager became
i, dissatisfied—refused to offer a re-en- are lost in the grey vault of the skies. The
he had best dark cliffs, standing against their slopes of
I stand alone in tho midst of the mighty
hills. Their tall crests climb upward, and
patent, but intimated that
S® to soother city.
* the meantime, LcBaum sued fra di-
^e.whicb wus readily grunted by tae court,
^ttrxt appeflnhni' pt D‘>ra \' in New
•[was, where her former so i.-i 1 osition was
~|tnown, and where she was wholly thrown
her merits as an nctress for snooesa. It
Median to say that she failed to elicit
t ***°gle plaudit.’
•^•rtst of the story is soon told. Aban -
7'a«J by friends, home, husband, penny loss,
-’fell-.(o u , | ler own wo.'lls—
*l**din*. .
n lionven to hell;
tillii in tiii- .itreet:
m spit on ..ml beat;
l)re*dil)R to die,
, • r Ml to whoever would buj.
ISf.f* f r a merx-l of bread.
;iv;eR and feurins the dead !
white, are tho steps ot a vast amphitheatre.
The mind, finc.ing no rest on their bald sum
mits, wanders In space. The moon, weary
with long vigil, sinks to her repose. The
Pleiades no longer breathe their sweet in
fluences. Cassiopeu and Andromeda and
Orion and all the infinite hosts of unnum
bered constellations, tail to infuse one spark
of joy into this dead atmosphere. They
have lost all their tenderness, and arc cold
and pulseless. The eye leaves them and re
turns to earth, and the trembling car awaits
something that will break the oppressive
stillness. But no footfall of living thing
reaches it; no wild beast howls through the
solitude. There is no cry of bird to en
liven the scene; no tree, among whose
brandies the winds can sigh and moan. The
pulsations of uiy own heart are alone heard
in the great void; and as the blood courses
Mr. Davis.
We published a paragraph recently in re
gard to Mr. Davis nnd his pecuniary condi
tiou, which tins called out the following let
ter. The Baltimore Gazette vouches for the
high character of its author:
"If Gen. Miles received remittances for Mr.
JhtvU to Mie amount ot til,009 ns reported, tbe
fact wits concealed Irom Mr. Davis. It is not trac
tint all restrictions upon Mr. Davis’ eorrespon
dence have bceu removed. Letters addressed to
him are still seat to tbe commanding officer, and
as they reach Mr. Davis consist ot applications for
autography and Northern letters of low malignity.
Tbe only pecnulary evidences are notes, purporting
to be issues of the Confederate Government, bnt
generally, If not always, counterfeits of the style
advertised for sale in Philadelphia someyears since.
‘‘About Christmas some Iricnds in Maryland and
Virginia did send boxes of provisions os presents
appropriate to the season—say three or lour boxes.
There*was also from Boston a box of books, tent
by one whose kiud nature revolted at the barbari
ty towards a prisoner so constantly witnessed by
one residing there.
"Onr noible and generous people hare from
time to time, out of the seanty means left to them
by the incendiary pluadorlng'annies of the North,
sent to Mr. Davis’ wife and children means for
Sometimes little children oiler »s-
‘Tiie Infamous Two-Tiiirds."—Under
this caption the N. Y. World publishes, sur
rounded by a heavy black border, the names
of the Senators and members of Congress
who voted to pass Sherman’s Military Bill
over the Prraident’s veto, which measure the
editor characterizes ns a “a bill to annul the
Constitution of the United States, to subvert
the government of ten States in the Union,
and* to substitute therefor military despot
ism.” After giving the names of those who
“voted avo on the final passage of the bill to
‘organize hell.’ ” the editor adds : “The time
is coming vfhen every man in the above list
will stand accursed*in our history. Their
children will deny their descent from the in
famous two-thirds of the Thirty-ninth Con-
ress.”
Jefferson Davis Visited by New York
Merchants.—Three of the most prominent
merchants of New York city, on a general
tour of observation in the Southern States,
Arrived at Fortress Monroe on the fith in.it.,
and spent the afternoon in an interview with
Hereon Davis. They Mere pleasantly re
ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Davis. The convcr-
ation which ensued on various commercial
subjects, it is stated, was prolonged for sev- J Radical* as presiding
The following sentiment®, from the Atlanta
New Era, meet our cordial approval:
No matter from what stand-point we view
the present condition of those who were for
merly our bondmen, and our changed rela
tions with thorn, we arc bound by all the mo
tives which impel actioie to be kind to the
frcedracn. and to do all iir’our power to im
prove, advance, and elevate them intellectu
ally, in order that they may become useful
and valuable citizens, and qualified for the
intelligent employment of the new privileges
with which they have lieen invested, and the
proper discharge of tho new duties these
privileges involve.
By act of Congress the former slave has
been made tlic full equal, politically, ot the
late owner—been made a lull-gf-own citiiien.
As such lie must be recognized, and as such,
he must be treated, for under the supreme
law of the land, none have superior or lngu
cr rights. „
But this is not tho cansideration that
should actuate us. We should be moved by
nobler and more elevated motives; and we
teel and know that, with tbe great mass of
our people, these will lie the governing prin
ciples of our conduct towards this class ot
our population.
Without any agency of theirs, and almost
without wishing the boon, they have been
made free. During the later period of their
servitude they not only did not take advan
tage of our then weakness and strike for
themselves, but plowed our fields, made and
husbanded our crops, took care of our prop
erty, and even, in some cases, defended their
then masters and mistresses. For all of this,
wc owe them a debt of gratitude which can
be paid, and paid without any loss of self-
respect, by treating them with the utmost
kindness, and convincing them wc arc really
their truest triends. And to whom should
they look with more certainty of sympathy,
and aid, and receiving instruction, than to
those with whom they grew up in tlic most
intimate relations, and who, though they
claimed the product of their labor, always
provided toe their wants, and exercised over
them tbe tendcre-st and most watchful care ?
And why should not the former owner still
care for those who, though now free, once
so faithfully served, so sincely respected, nnd
in many cases really so loved him and his?
Who so well understood his nature and his
wants, or how to show the kindness to which
tho freedmeu, as a class arc so susceptible,
which they so heartily appreciate, as those
who nurtured them in intancy, and so ten
derly cared for and protected them in old
age ? Surely, the dictates of humanity, of
former ties, of Christian duty, and of calm
reason, ami even cold, calculating sefislmcss,
all demand that, to “be kind to the freed-
men,” is a requirement of our situation we
may not and should not neglect. Let us be
kind to the freedmeu.
thousand bushels of corn that have been venson the break equally effects the Memphis
1 anil i liarii -ton railroad, os it does tneNaab*
villc and Chattanooga road. Botli roads join
at Stevenson, and that point must remain a
terminus for each for some little time to
come.
washed away, and from Williams’ Island his
entire stock of cattle have been lost. The old
warehouse, filled with valuable property at
tached to Parks’ mill, has been swedt away.
Two O’cLoeic, r. m.—The water is now
reported forty-two feet above low water and
nine feet above high water mark, or that
A considerable portion ot Nortli Nashville
is submerged. Tlie low ground, several acres
much higher than - ever known. The old n extent, immediately north of the rat road
feed store, near the slaughter house has tr ^ e-work is completely submerged. A
floated away. Mr. Dobson’s bouse, has also nu ^ r of straggling, one-story houses very
gone, and Mr. Cheatham’s new bouse, situated rece - ntI y occupied, could barely exhibit their
in tlic rear of the McPherson bouse, has also roc f yesterday evening, all else bemg under
T water. As the river-was rising last night at
° Four O’ci^ce, k Jt-At this time, the ‘} ie ra ? c ofa ( n inc, J ? cd ft an 1 > our ’ . and
water apparently has reached its highest theramcont.nued to pour down, there is na
point, as lbr the pad thirty-five minutes there !indaa,na S« wl,Ich ma y
has been no perceu ;ible advance. The main ‘-.f °°?V 1 •< i
building of John Coker’s mill is still stand- . On.the NashvillelandDecatur railroad we
ing. The old Williams warehouse is also left ard of , tbree bndffes ' >ul :'- a , Wfty '
with us, and the Park mill still remains.- I Tllu re g ular P^nger train did not leave
-ad as fol-
vith adis-
1 do with
What .do
wc do with any speculation of any kind what
ever that don’t pay l. Get tid of it—get out
of it! Of course. Simply i ecau.j I have
got the most superb collection of curiosities
in the world—the grandest museum ever
conceived of by man—containing the dwarf
elephant, Jenny Lind, and the only living
giraffe on this continent, (that noble brute,
which sits upon its hams in an attitude at
one graceful and picturesque, and eats it3
hay out of the second story window.)—be
cause I have go# these things, and because
admission is only thirty cents, children and
’servants half prise, open from sunriso till 10
i>. in, peanuts, and ali other luxuries of the
season to be purchased in any part of the
house,—the proprietor at an enormous 3>:-
pense, having fitted up two- peanut stands to
each natural curiosity,—because I have got
these things, shall I revel in luxurious indo
lence when ray voice should sound a, warning
to the nation ? No !’ Because the Wonder
ful Spotted Human Phenomenon, the Leop-
ard Child from the- Wilds ot Africa, is mine,
shall I exult in my happines-s and bo silent
tv-hpii rat onuntrv’s lift ia IhlMtMMM ? No
First creek, which passes through the town
from the railroad' to the river, has been much
swollen, but the principle damage has re
sulted Irom th*- back water of the Holston
river. The Main street bridge was raised up
and floated from- its bearings, and tbe tim
bers were saved by bringing them ashore.—
The Cumberland'street bridge, which is cov
ered, was saved by removing the planks and
I yesterday evening. It is quite probable that
I travel will be resumed on the road at a very
early day.
Corn by the Eastern Route.
Suffering in the South.—A communi
cation wa® to-day laid before the Senate from
the 8eeret*ry of War, transmitting the state
ment of Gen. Howard, Commissioner of the
Freed men’* Bureau, in response to a resolu
tion of the Senate, calling for information in
regard to the extreme want in the Southern
States, &c. The report states that from offi
cial sources, and confirmed by gentlemen
from differenf sections of tlic South, he esti
mates that S2.G22 whites and 24,238 colored
people will need food from some source be
fore tho next crop can relievo them. The
number of rations required for one month
arc 1,107,000; furtive months, the probable
time required, 8,031,000. At 25 cents per
ration, the estimated cost will be $2,133,750|
of this, $025,000 have already been appr *
priatetl, leaving $1,508,750 to be provided.
The destitute are apportioned as follows:
Virginia, 2500 whites and 2500 blacks; North
Carolina, 3000 whites, 2000 blacks; Alabama,
10,000 whites,500 blacks; Florida,500 whites,
1000 blacks; Georgia, 7500 whites, 500 blacks;
Tennessee, 1000 whites. 1000 blacks; Missis
sippi, 1802 whites, 2038 blacks; Arkansas,
1000 whites, 500 blacks; Louisiana, 300
whites, 200 Macks. Since the report was
drawn up a statement has been received from
the Assistant Commissioner and Governor of
Georgia greatly exceeding the amount in the
table, but a larger appropriation is not re-
A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph
takes exceptions to our recent calculation of
the cost ot corn by the Savannah route. The
. most material one i® in relVreaee i.> the freight
allowing the water to_ have full play, and as charge by steamer to Savannah. He says
there was no cement it was not otherwise i»i- jj iat t ^j g charge is fifteen cents per bushel in
jured. _ I stead of 8 cents. Wc have no-information in
Second creek, at the foot of Mata street, I reference to tbe actual charge, and did not
presented a very animated appearance. The profess to have any.. We were only giving
East Tennessee University students kept a v^bat we supposed to be a fair and paying
boat there for the use of themselves and other f re i„i lt ^argo by the New York and Balti-
passers by. Several buH'dingsin this vicini- more steamers, supposing that if the grain
ty were submerged to the second story trade ot thkt sect j on took r |iat course, the
windows. steamers would, following tbe Head of the rail-
The tain lias ceased, and we now trust we I roads, put down tbeir charges to rates that
have seen the worst. Neatly every family I WO uld secure and retain the trade. We think
living on the streets, near the river, have been yet t br,t they will pursue a course so inani-
sufferers to a greater os less extent. Tho 1 |ts t f y to thelr advantage. Tie Telegraph’s
amount of dimage, at this time, cannot be j eorrespoBdentcalls-the rate a “high one” and
estimated. A large number of families have I jt j s evidently such* an obstacle to a great in-
been rendered homeless, for the present, and I crease of the business of the route, that we
a portion have Ibst. their homes by tbeir be- I cannot doubt its early modification. If tbe
ing carried away by the flood. Tbe water j )n . sec t lines will not make the reduction,
stands, at this time, ten fcet and seven meftes new steamers can bo found to tacilitate a
higher than known to the oldest inhabitant, trade that.only neads liberal accommodations
From tho Cominorcial of ttw 9th. I to make it large and profitable.
At last tbe Waters have ceased to rise. The j Tbs object of cur article was not to show
water reached twelve feet above tire flood of I how cheap corn can be sold lverc or in Macon
March, 1847. Anyone who has visted Knox- by merchants, but only to compare the cost
villc, and is familiar with, the location of the I of transportation by the two routes. We were
buildings on the river, and on First and Sec- not, therefore, particular in including some
ond creeks, can scarcely realize that such a I miner charges incident to both routes, such
flood could ever come, so-as to reach the roofs as sacks, insurance and dravage. Making
of the buildings that now stand completely duo allowances for these, we believe that it
submerged; some cf them half the pitch of the is naw in the power of the Baltimore and
roof. The Atkin’s sasli. door and blind man-I New York steamers, in connection with the
ufactory, occupied by Messrs. Gasper & Da- I railroads from Savannah (that have already
vis, was swept away, with all the valuable reuticed their charges), to secure the grain
machinery it contained. We think it doubt- [ transportation for this past of Georgia and
ful .whether' any of the buildings that arc Alabama, and that they will be neglecting
submerged can be saved from falling when their own interests if they fail todo it.
the water leares them, as most of them arc
actually afinat. Esquire Barry’s two houses
are held to-tlieir location by being securely
fastened by ropes; but we judge it will be
found that the foundation has been consid
erably injured.
Coker’s mill 1ms eareened over toward tbe
[Col. Enq.
The Supreme Court.
The assertion continually meets our eyes,
riiat it is worse than folly for the South to
anticipate any relict from oppressive Con-
stream, which indicates that the foundation [ Sessional legislation by an appeal to the bu-
on that side has been washed out. C. W. “*“ c
Parks’ mill has a portion washed away, and
part was drawn ashore just as it was on the
point of floating down stream. Tlie old Wil
liams warehouse, occupied as a pottery by
Messrs, French & Carpenter, is still in place,
owing, probably, to the fact that a large
quantity of coal was on the floors below.
Water street, from Church street to the river,
presents a singular appearance. Houses half
fuls 1 of water on the bank of First creek and
ooitho opposite sido of the street, piles ol
preme Court. Some ot our contemporaries
declare that the Supreme Court is dead, oth
ers point to the fact tliat at least two years
will necessarily elapse before a decision by
that body can be reached, whilst astili great
er number contend that we have no right to
anticipate a favorable decision by that Court,
because tliere is only a majority of one con
servative on the bench, and the advanced
age and physical infirmities of two of that
class will probably debar them from further
participation iu the official action of that
household goods', together with doors, win- ) b°d.Y- .
dows, and such other articles as have floated ' VB wish to direct the attention of the
and been secured, are-promiscuously covering I public to the fact that on the question of the -. . . - . , -
everv vard. Many persons are now hoaseleaa legality of military Governments, and mill- <hd tbe «ramleur of the Museum amid the
- r - . *. I in I... Dnmm «CT,. ^ A««... 7 ~ . ronftlliikttWF 1itv»4 ft nr I tm» wnm arc tltn wnrlil
when my country’s life is threatened ? No
Because the Double Humpbacked Bactriciau
Camel takes his oats in my menagjrie, shall I
surfeit vritli bliss and lift not op roy voice to
save the peoplo? No-1’ Because among my
possessions are dead loads of Royal Bengal
Tigers, White Himalaya Mountain Bears,
so interesting to Christian families
from being mentioned, in the Sacred
Scriptures. Silver-striped Hyenas, Lions, Ti
gers, Leopards, Wolves, Sacred Cattle lroni
the sacred hills of New Jersey, Panthers,
Ibexes, performing Mules anti Monkeys,
Soutn American Deer and so forth, and so
forth, shall I gloat o-ver my blessings in si
lence, and leave Columbia to perish ? No I
Because I have secured the celebrated Gor
don Cumming collection, consisting of oil
portraits of the two negroes and a child who
rescued him from impending dc-ath, shall I
wrap me in mute ecstacy and let my country
rush unarmed to her destruction ? No! Be
cause unto me belong the monster living
alligator; over 12 feet in length, and four
living speckled brook trout, weighing 20
pounds, shall these lips- sing songs of glad
ness and peal-no succoring cry unto a doomed
nation? No! Because I have got Miller’s
grand national bronze portrait gallery, con
sisting of two plaster of Paris Vennses and a
varnished mud-turtle,, shall I bask in
mine own bliss and be mute in the
season of my people’s peril? No!
Because I possess the smallest dwarfs in the
world, and the Nova Scotian giautess. who
weighs a ton and eats her weight every for
ty-eight houes; and Hear Fhclim (TFlanni-
gam, the Norwegian Giant, who feeds on. the
dwarfs and ruins businessand the lovely
Circassian girl; and the celebrated Happy
Family, consisting of animals of the most di
verse princiglesand dispositions,dwelling to
gether in peaoe and unity, and never beheld
by the religious spectator acquainted with
Eden before the Fall, without emotions too
profound for utterance;; aod 250,000 other
curiosities, chiefly invisible to the naked eye
—all to he seen for tlic-small sum of 30 cents,
children and! servants- half-price—staircases
arranged with special reference to limb dis
plays—shall I- hug my happiness to my soul
and fail to aiy aloud when 1- behold mycoun-
try sinking tn destruction and the grave!—
No !—a thousand tiine3-No !
No! Even as one sent to warn ye of fear
ful peril,Lcry, help! help! for tho stricken
land! I appeal to you—aud to yoo—and to
you, sir—to every true heart in this august
menagerie!! Demagogues threatened the
Goddess of Lilierly !—they beard the starrv-
robed woman in her citadel! and to you the
bearded woman looks- for succor! Once
more gritn.Treason towers in our midst, and
once more helpless loyalty scatters into cor
ners as do the dwaxfi when the Norwegian
giant strides among them ! The law-making
powers and the Executive are at daggers
drawn,.State after State flings defiance at the
Amendment,, and lo I the Happy Family of
the Unk>n is broke a up ! Woe is me!
“ Where is the poor negro? How hath he
fared Alas! his regeneration is incomplete;
he is free,, but he cannot vote; ye have only
mado him white ia- spots, like my wonderful
Leopard Boy irom the .wilds of Africa ! Ye
promised him universal suffrage, but yc have
given*him universal suffering instead! Woe
“ The country i® fallen ! The boss monkey-
sits in tlie fi#Anb, and the tom-cats, the
racsoons and tlie gentle rabbits ot the once
happy family stand helpless and afa> off, and.
beaold him gabble the provender ir. tbe pride
off his strength L Woe is me!
“Ah , gentlemen, our beloved Columbia.,,
with these corroding distresses upon her,
must soon succumb ! The high spirit will
depart from her eye, the bloom from her
eheek, the majesty from her step, aud she will
stand before us gaunt aud worn, like my
beautiful giantess when my dwarfs and Cir
cassians prey upon her rations! Sooa. we
shall sec the glory of tlie realm pass away as
and homeless. We learn from the country
above that the loss of corn, fences and other
property is immense.
From the Commercial of tho 12th.]
Wc learn from the engineers of the Knox
ville and Charleston railroad that, from the
calculations they have made, tho water in the
Holston river rose forty-three fec-4 and five
inches above the 'water mark, and that it
stood at that time, eight hundred and fifty
feet above the level ot the sea. All our citi-
tary Commissions for the trial of offenders, in 1 consuming fires, and the wonders the world
time of peace tbe Court were unanimous in ! admires shall give place to trivialities, even
the Milligan test case. Though a bare too-' i'i the proud museum the wonders that
jority ot tlic Court coincided in the opinion ' once amazed have given place to alieapstuffed
relative to the powers of Congre3^ during reptiles and peanut stands! Woo is me!
the existence of hostilities to proclaim mar- “O, spirit of Washington! forgotten in
tial law and suspend the habeas corpus, every j these evil times, thou arc banished to the
member of the Court agreed that no such | dusty corridors of memory, a staring effigy of
power could be legally and constitutionally | wax, and none could recognize thee but the
exercised in time of peace. Such being the label pinned upon the legs! G, shade of
case, we can see no reason to doubt that tlie Jackson ! p. ghost of the gallant Lafayette!
Court would be consistent with itself, anti JQ live’ofily id museums, and tho sublime les-
""raforTh^ranroaTbrid^fi^rtJtha'HoL I “Ot announce a decision directly in the teeth »nsof your Jives ”° * ae „ eded
1 — . —9 . - . ( of one so recently promulgated. Why then
should our Legislature hesitate to take such
steps as may be necessary to secure a speedy , , , ,
consideration by the Supreme Court of the u P on l' e > ar| d hurl the usurping tyrant from
constitutional question involved? It will h's throne! Impeach! impeach! impeach !
never do for us to sit supinely down and neg TW ” " iM ’ **" Aroa * R~»mwawV«i n
ston. The water at one time was twe feet
and five inches above tho top of them. The
water commenced falling at 4 4 2 o’clock, r.
m., on Saturday.
TUB EAST TENNK8SE AND VIRGINIA RAILROAD.
Wo learn that ibo only serious damage this
road has sustained is the loss of tlie four
the slumbering nation 1 Woe is me!
®> House ye, my people, rouse ye ! rouse ye!
rouse! Shako off the fatal stupor that is
commended for Georgia before another esti- I s . mlis of the Strawberry Plains Bridge and
mate shall be made, based on thorough in- j tlu , Flat Creek brid e. Aside from this the
pcclion. Cor. X. 1 7i.nes. damage is easily repaired, and unless the
weather proves very stormy these damages
Jh£F“ Forney writes: "The Fortieth Con- will be repaired and the trains running regu-
’ress of the United States whs organized in j larly ugain at the expiration ot ten days. In
less than an hour bv the election of that > the meantime passengers and mails will Be
stern Radical, Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio, taken across the river by boat to connect
President of the Senate, and by the re-elec- \ with trains on either side.
tion of that equally stern Radical, Schuyler I *
Colfax ot Indiana, Speaker >of tlie House.”] Clerk of U. S. District Court.—Major
Item is a manifest propriety in-electing stern Sherman Conant lias been appointed by
ff'teers of a rump Con- Judge Fraser Clerk of the ”
Down with the dread boss monkey! O,
lect or refuse to avail ourselves of the chance 1 shake the seditious miscreant out of the na-
of redress by an appeal to the cnn.-titntional iced-tub and reconstruct the Happy
arbiter of all such questions on the ground Family 1”
tliat the Constitution was no longer of force, * + *
and no law existed in'the United States ex- Tub Thirty-ninth Congkess.—The last
eept the acts of Copgress. However true this Congress legislated about four hundred, post
may be practically, it is not legally true, and masters, collectors and assessors of internal
We should not fail to claim our constitutional revenue, and other important officers, out oi
remedy. Lynchburg Xeicn. their places ou the 4th of March, leaving the
♦ offices and Government property at the mercy
Suicide.—We are pained to learn that Dr. of any person or persons who chose to take
J. Reynolds, of Perryvillc, committed suicide possession, and forbidding, under severe pen-
crnl hours.
gross.—9M!l
Court at Tallahassee.
at his home iu East Perry, last week, by
means of laudanum. No cause, so far as we
U. S. District 'know, lias been assigned for the commission
of tlie rash act.—Marion Commonwealth.
altVj any interference by the proper heads of
departments iu the matter. The result will
be a loss by the Government of several
millions of dollars.
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