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MACON, GA., FRIDAY. APRIL 19, 1867.
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TIIE POLICY
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BPa’s Advocates.—Should the State
J ." .«* lose her snit in the Supreme Coui t,
be for the lack of either n jusi
„ »ble men to ndvocatc it Bluck
:;, wr Cowan nnd Brent present nn array
m and legal learning hardly ever bc-
witnessed on one side of ft cause i
Snio seen, too, that they have struck
, # new track from that blared for them
,, Mississippi attorneys, leaving out tin
. lent and making the Secretary of War,
. Grant nnd our District Commander par
"vfendaut. The best lawyers in this sec
'4, ,1, Q state think well ot the change.
BiDfCTioS OF Freights.—Wc are pleased
-ote tbe fact that the Central Railroad,
r cpmm endable liberality, lias reduced
freinlit on provisions to & point but little
cost of transporting them. On
lbe r hargo is but 20 cents per sack, or
,J t nine cents per bushel; bacon 40 cents
„ hundred when boxed or 1 arrclled. These
wln c«0M show a commendable degree of
Midenaion for the suffering portion of the
UmUtior, »nd wo hope soon to record the
>opfradon of all other roads in the State.
fits Graft and the Radical Radicals
o wit on Grant has opened, in the Tn-
An editorial, presumed to have been
rinen !,v llutlcr, defends the military repu-
rionof Gen. Rosecrans at the expense of
lt of Gen. Grant. It is very severe on the
L, This must be a flank movement of
• Chase-Kadicala, who fear the nomination
Grant for the Presidency.
Mistaking tub QuEs-norT-The Charles
\*C*S has quite a long article protesting
fa* the complaints now before the Sm
me Court, and condemns the argument of
pma Sharkey nnd Walker «inconstant
sh the political view* of the South. The
it, forgets that Messrs. Sharkey and
Lr are arguing a point of constitutional
L- and not popular opinion anywhere,
ky are proceeding on the ground estab-
Lrf „ 1c T H 1 by the action of every depart-
wtot* the government, without reference
£ opinions held in the past, or still he d,
k this or that section. It is perfectly «g ii-
•i<9 and consistent for the Southern States
«trail themselves of the laws of the coum
cr whether they believe those laws are
::lcd in jnstico and truth or not.
Test Oath Set Aside.-T1io West Yirgm
. Supreme Court decided recently that the
irrer's tent oath should continue to be ad-
aistered in that court notwithstanding the
wiftion of the Supremo Court of the L" -
d States. Judge nindman, of the Cabell
..ant)- circuit, has, however, aclra.tted Major
filler to practice in liis court without taking
tenth. The Greenbrier Independent says
Ut the Judge intimated very ^at.nctly that
ii final decision would sustain the autbon-
r of the United States Supreme Court ruth
•than that of the West Virginia Supreme
tort. p
(Jm THE CorNTRT, wk hope Foueved
. Washington dispatch of the 8th insmnt
ays: “Senator Sumner loft hero last night
or New York, tbeooe to soil for Europe per
ext steamer. Senator Conness leaves here
n Tuesday for California via New Y ork
ity."
Philadelphia Mint.—The cold deposits
it the mint of the United States, Phi a e
this, for the month of March, were $303,000 ^
30 14; the silver deposits were $1S.000,144
II Total deposits, $323,000,014 30. ~
linage of gold was 15,000,245 pieces,. their
ralue being $310,008,510 70; tho silver coin-
ige was 37,000,515 pieces, nnd its value *2-
UT 97 ; the copper coinage was 4,101,75
pieces, and its value $157,070. Total pieces,
1,154,510; tot il value, $400,797 73.
gr Mrs. Jeff. Davis is in good health yet,
Jot with.'.finding statements to tho contrary,
ud expects soon to be as well ns can be ex
petted under tho circumstance?. She is so
journing with her friends in Baltimore.
{Ebc Clinton Homicide.
Clinton, Jones Co.,. April 9,1807.
Editor Telegraph—£t>: The unfortu-
ut* difficulty that occurred last Thursday in
<hr village, between Dr. James F. Barron and
lb. Jesse Glawson, was to-day fully investi-
Stttd on a commitment trial had before his
Htoor. U. H. Ilutchings, (one of tbe Judges
* the Inferior Court), acting ns County
lodge—the accused having surrendered him-
•tifto the Sheriff without effort to escape.
Alter a full examination into the case, upon
*fi*testimony of some eight or nine witness
ed argument had by counsel, the accused
*** discharged, the Court deciding it l.. be a
^ of justifiable homicide. Mcsi f -
Blount lor the defence— 1 Oo.. W. Poe,
°f joar city, for the prosecution.
Yours, *•
AND DUTY'
SOUTH.
OF THE
glorio’tfs heritage of liberty which was re
ceivcd irom our lathers. It is policy to act
Zs Rebellion ever Justifiable in a Re
public 7
Foeticide in the United states.
English Confederate Cotton Eoan
Bondholders.
4 “Hdeeah” if the Wbokg Place > ou
Speaker.—Tho Petersburg (Va.) Iudex
f| bte* the following incident:
Boring his speech in front ot Jarrett s Ho-
**l on Thursday night. Senator Wilson re
cked that six hundred nnd twenty-five
battle* had been fought in the late war. He
Poetically adde 1 that “three hundred and
J*eutj-five thousand Union soldiers had lost
•wir lives in crushing out the rebellion.
"Hurrah for dat1” cried a colored member
the audience.
Since tlic institution of legal proceedings
the Supreme Court to test the constitu-
nality of the Military bills, we consider all
sens ion of tl:c above question as irrele-
ant and inopportune. If those bills bo de
clared unconstitutional, they will bo null
d void, and all tlie executive power of the
country will be brought to sustain the dccis-
What is more, it will bo sustained by
tho people, and the Radicals who count on a
popular rebellion against the decisions of the
Supreme Court, will find that they havo “reck
oned without their host,” If, on the con
trary, those measure? should lie held valid
and binding, or if the Supreme Court should
vade or postpone action on the matter
brought before it, it will then bo the'doty of
tho Southern people to take action under the
law, and of the press to give them the best
advice they can.
Wc have already, previous to tbe institu
tion of suits at tbe instance of Southern
States, expressed our opinion regarding tbe
duty of the people in this latter contingency.
Some, we regret to sec, have misapprehend
ed the drift of our remarks, or perhaps wc
should say, havo failed to perceive the con
sistent relation between the advice then given
and uncompromising and undying detesta
tion of those oppressive measures to which it
relates. Our reference was solely to the ini
tiatory step to be taken by tbe Southern
States, nnd wc expressly reserved all opinions
upon all matters beyond tbe election of dele
gates to a State Convention. We wish not to
be misunderstood in this matter, and as our
views are set forth with great clearness and
logical power by our contemporary ot the
New Orleans Crescent, we copy and adopt its
argument.
When we advocate a particular policy
which wo think should be pursued by the
Southern people at the present time, wo claim
that it is no violation of principle. We are
not of that class who change with the vary
ing winds of public favor, regardless of right
and justice; but wo claim that it is tbo prov
ince of true statesmanship to adopt that pol
icy which tends to promote success, provided
it does not violate those high principles of
justice which should guide communities as
well as individuals. Tho mariner cannot con
trol tho storm which threatens to drive bis
bark upon the breakers, but by the skillful
shifting of his sails ai>d a careful attention to
the helm, he may often avoid tho impending
danger. And so it is with the statesman.
Ho may be beset with political tempests which
are not of his making. He may attempt to
weather tbe storm under bare poles, in the we
hope that it may subside. But a sudden
change in the direction and force of tbe storm
may threaten to drive him upon new dangers,
and thus compel him to leave the inaction
which before was advisable, and farce him to
spread his sails in order to escape the new
perils by which be may bo environed.
By the recent change in the direction of
the radical storm, the Southern States are
thus suddenly exposed. The policy of iuac
tion which was suited to the past, will not
enable us to escape the new perils. Wc mast
take the storm as we find it, untempered as
it is “ to the shorn lamb”—we must accept
facts as they are, and direct our course with
all the wisdom that can be summoned to our
When, succeeding the darkness which has
so long enveloped the Bast, a ray of political
light now beams from Now England, it les
sens tlic gloom which invested the luture of
the country. By the light of the Connect!
cut elections we can perceive that the Consti
tution yet has friends in tho North and its
principles have defenders. New England is
no longer a unit of radicalism ; but the voice
of one of her States will be heard in tbe halls
of Congress advocating union and the free
government as it was interpreted by thefath
era, and denouncing that modern system of
republicanism as interpreted by the radicals.
It depends upon ourselves whether wc will
send back a friendly greeting to this spirit of
conservatism, or whether, by our silence or
inaction, we send to the halls of Congress
radical representation which will reduce to
nullity the conservative vote of Connecticut,
now pronounced in favor of a constitutional
Union.
There could be no stronger appeal made to
our people than is thus made by Connecticut.
It if. an appeal to every class of our people,
to tho white and to the colored alike. Tbeir
interests arc the same, and their voices siiould
be commingled in friendly response. By the
perpetuation of radical rule both races at the
South will be equally oppressed. The same
legislation which invidiously oppresses the
industry of the Southern white man, equally
taxes the industry of tho colored laborer.
They are, therefore, alike interested
breaking tbe rigor of a partial legislation,
which tends to bring distress to every class of
tho pcoplo of the South.
It is, then, the policy, as it is the duty, of
every Southern man to whom that right re
main?, to exercise the privilege of franchise
at the polls. A neglect of our people to dis
charge this duty will be followed by the
inosf fatal results. It will ensure the radical
iling 0 f the entire South. It wfll neutralize
the °voice of conservatism in every section
It will fill the halls of Cougrcss with South
era radicals more vindictive against their own
people than tbe most violent radicals of New
England. Our refusal to avail ou selves of
the right of franchise would thus bo as un
wise and impolitic as it would bo to cast our
votes in direct opposition to our own inter
ests, and adversely to the welfare and happi
ness of our country.
Every motive of patriotism, tberelore, calls
upon all men who ore in a position to do so
to register themselves preparatory to votin
It is a duty from which none have a right
shrink. It is the only means left of respond
ing to the reviving sentiment of conscrvati
{q the North, of preserving for ourselves some
remains of constitutional freedom, and
From the Detroit Post.] , .
Y" , • • opprirrl with .... TTY If every mother in this country, guilty of From the Manchester (Ens.) Guardian, March 21.]
thus, but it is policy in periect ace tu From the New Vork World.] . murder, should be hung for the crime, the yesterday afternoon a meeting ot the bond-
principle. It recognizes facts winch we can- Tbe Ti racs contends that it is not. its luarriccl women j n many of the States would holders of tbe seven per cent. Confederate
not change, and seeks by just and legitimate argument, if we correctly appreliemi irus, in ^ a]most ( ] ec i ma tcd. The criminals mount-; cotton loan was held at the London Tavern,
means to° guide the State in safety through substance, that inasmuch as.tne aggneteu ing t h e scaffold would not be only courtezans Admiral Provo Wallis in the chair. The
the political storms which howl so fiercely ■ are represented, they have a rcmec y in tne wbQ shoot their lovers when excited by rum chairman said the meeting was called to re
around u?. i elections if they are a majority, wane, lttney or j ea ] onS y or both; young women frenzied by ; ce i ve the second report of the committee, w-ho
»-* rr are a minority, they are bound to submit wounded pride when jilted, or maddened by ‘ p a£ i obtained tlie highest legal opinion to dis-
Gcncral Pope and the Newspapers. :-\y e( j ono t undertake to define toe Justin- sl]ame w ] len seduced and abandoned; or the ; abuse the bondholders of the idea that this
able causes of rebellion, since they mvohe a raot | lerg 0 f offsprings whom to kill before ! W as not a legal loan. Sir Hugh Cairns (now
! question of degree, and therefore uo not act- ; ^ aro Jjom or stra ngle afterwards ii
From the Montromery Mail.] 1 Question i
The Commander-in-chief has been at Ins
and already a
mit of very <
i ol degree, ana weiw>™ “ v ‘ _ i they are born or strangle afterwards is a nec- j p, or d Cairns) hud declared that it was a per-
rcry exact statement. Bat whatever t css ' sacr ;y C e to the reputation of their sin-1 tectly legal loan; nnd at this moment he be-
the amount of opprc--ion which J u f* ] n ; n „ p aren ts; they would be also women ; ii cvc d the South was perfectly willing, if it
med resistance, we cnnnotaee why it wllom we meet in goc ; e ty and meet oftener j wa s allowed to do so, to pay its quota of the
newspaper correspondent lias obtained an in-, Hgjj armed resistance, we ‘i j whom we meet in society . ....
terview with lnm and published him inlie ; s j, oulll make anv difference, in the moral k ccause 0 f their crimes—women who possess | c i a ; m3 of the bondholders. He read the
papers. A correspondent of tlie Macon - , lt])CCt G f t i,e question, wliethi r the oppress- ]ucat ; on anc j pre tend to refinement, who ' seC0 nd report of tho committee, which gave
KGRArn, writing from Montgomery undci . , )C fcn . or nl!iny . The majority in a ' ' • ' ' ' |
date of April 2d, describes a visit made to | bl5c wiH never rebel, since they have an
a *1.., rnliii I'tc of POllVltrSH- i * * . . . < 1 - 1.^ attnidiniT
Headquarters, and tlic subjects of ceuversa- , an( j j ess i, n2ar dou S mode of attaining
tion. Ho saya of Gen. Pope: . I their wishes. When minorities rebel, they
“ ne spoke strongly of the necessity ot our j ^ ^ ^ t jj,. 0 dds against thorn; and it is
people conciliating did ‘ poWer of the 8®V' j . deep arose of wnHfe o¥ a firm confi-
* * • « _» v 4• Iia dviI nnna dy » . 4 . .♦ ? »_ CHI1
Majorities
men; and
Ho expressed surprise at the shore- < individual men may be unjust and tyjan-
sightedness of the South in not seeking to ma j 0 rities composed of such individuals
conciliate Congress, and tlie branch of gov-) m ’ be s0 too. The absolute will of amajor-
ernment in which the actual power la)- ; j s e v £n more intolerable thin the absolute
was while be was inveighing against vv'ill of a monarch, since it may consist of re
course of those papers which bad etlecteu fin ; testran d s of individual tyranny twisted to-
evil by denouncing a radical Congress, tnat „ ether int0 one tremendous cable.
.1 « _ I Intorrimti'il nnfl nnClL'Cl DV ® — , i-_ nn t. Sn frt h
the interview was interrupted and ended by
the entrance of an official on business; bull
do not think be knew of my connection with
tbe press.” . .
We allude to the foregoing extract merely
to correct wliat is manifestly a wrong concep
tion of the views of our Commander-ln-cmet.
Because a certain party has a majority in
Congress and is bent upon the success of cer-
tain principle* of government, it cannot fol
low in Gen. Pope’s mind that the law should
not step in and protect a minority from ille
gal acts committed by tbe majority: Nor
can General Pope believe that the Press of
the opposition should muzzle itself so soon
os the opposing party attains power. By no
means. Free discussion, and an untrammel-
ed Press, are tlie ballast of the ship of •- ,‘itc.
When she careens too far on one side, or on
the other, the dead weight of the gray goose
quill brings her straight. . ..
1 If the idea attributed to Gen. Pope in the
above extract is correct in principle, then it
follows that when the Congress of John
Adams passed the odious Alien and Sedition
acts the opposition Press should have con
ciliated the Congress “in which tim actual
power lay.” But the Press dul nothing of
the kind. It denounced the iniquity aud
appealed to tbe Courts, just as the indepen
dent Press is doing to-day against a sim
ilar iniquity. The Courts decided against
the Congress of John Adams, and removed
the odious military acts. The people came
up to the assistance of the Courts, and crush
ed the Federal Adams party into atoms.—
That was a case precisely in point, and ne
recommend it to the study of the correspon
dent who misapprehended the views ol Gen.
P °If°the idea that it is right and proper to
conciliate the party in power is acorrect one,
we would ask t he correspondent of the Tele
graph whether Gen. Pope believes that it was
the duty of the Union delegates to the Seces
sion Convention of Alabama in 1 . 8G0 '
signed the ordinance of secession, because
tlie secession party had control of tbe State
-—•-— r ^"•'- and be-
partako ot the sacrament, who are prominent j a detailed account of the measures which had
in the church as well as in tho world, but who i been t a ken to protect the interests ot the
repeatedly commit murder with the coolness | bondholders. It expressed the opinion that,
and deliberation of a Borgia or a Medici. 1 if Americans might be judged by those with
These statements will be confirmed, because , w hom tho committee had been brought into
they are made by every experienced_ physi- j con tact, tho day was not fur distant when a
cian. Members of that profession in this ; settlement of the claims of the bondlioklcis
country have forsever.il years uttered their I wo;l ] ; i be effected,
warning against this crime, and have attrib
uted to it a large degree of the diseases
afflicting American women, to say nothing
of the demoralization which has proceeded
from it. In many cases, we presume in most,
the iniquity of the dead is not realized. A
distinction which has no ioundation in phys
ics or in ethics is drawn between the murder
of a child before it has seen the light, and of
one that lias not put forth tangible claims to
the love and protection of its mother. But
the distinction is a false one. Medical sci
ence and medical jurisprudence both pro
nounce against it; modern legislation has
abolished it; every principle of morality
condemns it. The increase of this crime,
favored by mercenary wretches that provide,
looth the mechanical and the medicinal agen
cics for perpetrating it, and in some cases by
physicians who are rightly looked upon as a
disgrace to their protession, calls for the out-
The
Great Disaster at the Clover
Hill Coal Fits.
“ Republican government is, to be sure, the
government of majorities; but it quickly de
generates into an engine of oppression unless
the will of tlie majority is restrained by a fixed
constitution. Constitutions are not meant
for the protection of majorities, who, in a re
publican government, can always protect
themselves through the ballot-box, but for
the protection ot minorities against the tyran
ny of the majority. So long as the majority,
or the government which is their agent, re
spects the limits thus sot to its authority, re
bellions can never be justifiable if the Consti- u ^ —, _
tution is just and wise. But if a hot headed S p 0 b ( n discussion and reprobation of it, on
and overhearing majority refuse to be hound . t)le . 0 f cvery friend of good morals, ol
bv the constitution and erect their own wiil ; j lea j t h of the very elements of civilization
into tbe supreme law, will tbe Times tell us .-_
what would, in that case, be the effectual
means of resisting oppression and redressmg
injustice ? The government ot an unrestrain
ed majority is tlie worst ot all possible tyran
nies When all constitutional restraints are
cast off and scoffed at, what arc the minority
to do ? For our part, we do not hesitate to
affirm that our people are fit for republican
government who have not in their composi
tion a spice of the rebel. The knowledge that
the minority will resist if injured, is a salutary
restraint on the governing power. It was
Jefferson’s opinion that there ought to be at
least one rebellion in a generation, to purify
tlie political atmosphere and remind rulers of
the necessity of moderation.
The Times’ notion that rebellion is never
iustifiable under a representative government,
is one of those hasty half-thoughts caught up
by looking at a subject in one of its aspects,
instead of a comprehensive survey. lbe
Federal Constitution itself indirectly recog
nizes tbe right of rebellion in extreme cases.
It declares that “the right of the people to
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The right of tbe people to bear arms implies
their right to use arms, otherwise tho guaran
tee would be as idle as tlie right to keep guns
without triggers. It is a good tiling for tte
people to have guns in their hands to use, in
it.el.ut resort, aaainst oppression; and it is
...i, . . , « * the lost resort, against oppression
Convention by a majority of four, aua ue- R ood t bi„ ? for governments to k» u .. —-
cause it would have been 'Jihnrt-iM^itcd^^ j tU * ple wWcb tiria
n it to have “sought to conciliate the branch , be rjgr whether ;Jjy p art ,cular occasion
ot government in which the actual P°wer • tifics rc ristan C e, isqnite a different question
lay? ” We pause for a reply. Is the admin- whether resistance is ever permissible,
istration to be the government, or 13 “| e ’ j The Times, by inculcating the slavish doc-
to be the government ? Is the will of Con- uinc tbat ,] le tyranny of the majority is never
grass to be the supreme law of tho land, or is j ^ b(j res j gtc j ) precludes all consideration ot
the Constitution good authority when it says: , ticular grievances as a ground of rebellion.
“This Constitution and the laws made m pur- re b e llion is never permissible in a repub-
suance thereof shall be tbe supreme law ot ; - t cannot be permissible against this or
tbe land I” We hope that General Popes wrong however flagrant and mdefensi-
eonversation will be more correctly reported ^ 8.
hereafter.
We comprehend.—[Eds. Tel.
Uolon Robinson Before tho Charles
ton Negroes.
This slavish doctrine is new in American
politics, but it is a natural enough corollaty
from the high handed action of the govern
ment during the last six years. All former
expounders of our institutions have recog
nized the right of rebellion. The Federalist,
Solon Robinson, of “Hot Corn” and grey j for example, in discussing
tbe means of the
be*rd°notorietv mid hanger-on ot the Tribune ; states to resist Federal encroachments, g^vee
office made liis appearance before a large . a prominent place to physical force nnd \
„ro’ meetin" in Charleston a short time ago. U p in this spirited strain of truly repubh
ilisTncedi was unique and characteristic.- j eloquence: “Let us not insult the free and
Asa P sampleof the manner in which be gallanti citizens of pencil wutli the^supp^ -
“piled up the agony,” we quote from an ac- tion, that they
count in the New Y ork Herald;
Tlie attendance at the freedmen’s meeting
has been estimated by impartial judges at
between 5.000 and 0,000, including men,
women and children. The crowd was very
orderlv. though their excitement was wrought
up to the highest pitch, principally, how
ever by the appearance on the platform and
address of Solon Robinson, of the New York
Tribune. His long gray liair, gray beard, in
addition tohiasepulcjiral voice and upraised
hands and eyes to Heaven as lie stepped forth
to address the assemblage, seemed to act like
electric shock on the multitude. As bis
the righto of which they would bo in actual
possession, than the debased subjects of arbi-
trary power would be to rescue theirs from
the hands of their oppressors. Let us rather
no longer insult them with tbo supposition
that they can ever reduce themselves to the
necessity of making the experiment, by a
blind submission to the long tram ot insidi
ous measures which must precede and pro
duce it.” Mr. Webster, in both of his great
speeches against nullification—that in reply
to Hayne and that in reply to Calhoun—eX^
plicitly and fully acknowledged the right of
rebellion as ul questionable, as did also Mr.
T^atm-nd it lie ■ Clay in connection with the same subject.
, I app.nd it. lle V, V ; n .liseussin<r the militia system,
speech was a brief one, i npp-.im iu j ^Seward, ; n discussing tbe uiilitia sysiem,
said; , . ,,,,.; "dd that among tlie three occasians for the
'Where am I! Will somebody pinch nm | exerci5C Qt tbo r jgLt of rebellion was, “1st.
kick me soasto awakeme. Aral dream ■••temut bv theGovernment or its officers
ing ? It cannot be true I am in Charleston. ^Suramlv 0^^^001,10” It marks
Why, this is where I ' come to wit i J - ^ (lcc ,f ne 5ll * tht . ?p irit P ot liberty in ihis
ness great slave auctions. Is tBU Sooth Ow ] ‘ ” betokens tliedcmoralizinginflu-
oliu.it Has Smith Carolina BtoogWall her ; t , im , tlirough which we have
slaves here to be s,rid? Y e *3L*®}}’j L,. n passing, that a popular newspaper has
gjSr f Si fiSffiJf I°ncvcr I l-W -»
separate children from their mothers, and I; servile.
will sell you all together. Now Idun grtng , jj cnDER g „ Bryan OotNTT.—We learn
to put you up. Here is a ! fmm <'entlcmen who arrived in this city yes
hand. [Great laughter.! ncre is a flrst-rate , rem g " two murders have been
house servant and good cook._Corac up , f 5 ’ ryan> ncar Stat ion No. 2,
nuunc o- committed in UrVRn, near
here,- strip yourselves, show that you arc ^ the t t \ v0 WC vks. The first cose
sound. Now, going, going, S™ n g- . , . oecurre( i nearly two weeks since. A man
Oh! lookup! Do.you see that spirit with. “ & , 3 h ^ d toia a wa gon for $23, for
us? It is the «p^ °f Abraham Lineal^ whic!) h / nt un ort ieron a Savannah house
Abraliam Lincoln ! ' He took this to a store and got $10 worth of
Lincoln! Hablds for al the . , r00( ) s nnt i *15 cash. With this he atarted
Carolina. He has bought you •nwithfris somc eight or ten miles di-
blood, nnd now declares yOT are : tan , 5n company with a negro named Tony
shouting, and ones of Hallelujah, j V . > Tonv savs ho left him when within
SokupT look up and bless Ood.th.t Ab ra-1 Ton,*!* of llome ,. bnt his body
ham Lincoln died for you W as found several days after in the bushes,
your bedside to-night ond ffiess Goc tliat (lecomposc d and much eaten by «ogs
Ko money was found <■»
lived to see this light. It is what I «ad ° f pL The second case was a few days since. It
all through the war I oftcn reacl that the l ^ ^ ^ f Fioricla, who
rebels were determined to die in tne ^ 5s ‘ r ^ ted bavehad abad reputaiion.liad
ditch. I believe this is it. This is the last. i J^ QT Bomo (]ayg in that vicinity, trying t6
tll *Ob* Air. Cliairman, that I had a vojee ^o j .t’ndVday^r^tl^aftor waafound
For it inflicts lasting and inconceivable in
juries upon domestic and social virtue, upon
the future strength and prosperity of the na-
tion. ., .
We are pleased to seo a long and able arti
cle (which we shall shortly publish) upon this
subject in the Northwestern Christian Advo
cate, of Chicago, an organ of tlie Methodist
sect, which carefully collates tbe evidence of
its extent, character and effects. Another
dissertation may be found in tho January
number of the Detroit Review ot Medicine,
contributed by Dr. Morse Stewart, ot this city.
It is a subject the wickedness and horrors of
which, however delicately the subject itself
be spoken of, cannot be treated otherwise
than candidly and without euphemism. _ It
is a heinous and an abominable crime which,
under the disguise offalBe names and suggest
ed by false motives, and defended by plausr
blc excuses, is committed without reflection
without remorse, and without shame. The
success of its perpetration and the relative
value of the methods are current topics among
those who practice it, and the good fortune
of those who can recount tbe greatest num
ber of victims is frequently a subject of con
gratulation. Private institutions are built
for its accommodation and supported by it.
Y T oung women who are looking forward to
marriage are also learning how to avoid what
they consider its inconveniences. For tbe
purpose of gaining.a few more months of so
cial amusement or fashionable frivolity, for
the purpose of escaping possible suffering,
and for the purpose of avoiding the pecunia
ry burdens of a family, thousands of moth
ers, both with and against the advice of their
husbands, murder their children. In regard
to the physical effects of this crime upon
those guilty of it, there is ample evidence
that they are feafully punished in their own
persons. More lives are lost in consequence
of it than of tlie natural process with which
it aims to interfere. Women are made inva
lids tor life by a complication of diseases that
break down the constitution and induce in
sanity. If by chance the attempt fails, the
child that escapes tbe tate prepared for it, or
the succeeding children who are suffered, to
live, are diseased, deformed, idiotic, and in
sane. The moral effects are too obvious to
need recital at length, but we copy from the
Advocate the following speculation upon its
psychological results : .,
“There is one more consideration be.arin
upon this relation of Foeticide to Homicide,
It is conceded that mental traits are trans
missible. Even mental habitudes and in
tense emotions of the mother during gesta
tion are transmissible to the child as perma
nent mental tendencies or moral susceptibili
ties in character. Not all nttempts at crimi
nal abortion are successful. Now, during the
period of gestation, meditated murder has
in that unsuccessful mother’s mind, not only
a habitude but an intense emotion, and these
may be transmitted to the child, who may
some day appear in court as a murderer, and
throw mild, unsophisticated philanthropists
into wonderment ‘why crime is so rapidly
increasing.’”
The Advocate urges “those two mighty
movers of reform—the pulpit and the re
ligious press”—to come to the rescue. But
tl?c duty is by no ifieans confined to those
agencies. The secular press has its duties to
dTschargc. A public opinion should 'be
created upon the subject, reflecting the trutli,
without fear and favor, Upon the crime.—
Even if legislation were practicable in auy
case, it can do little until this custom is
brauded as a crime ; until tho unwarranted
discrimination between the murder ot a child
in one condition of its being and that in
another as broken down, and social judg
ment shall condemn each equally as a viola
tion ot human nnd natural law; and until the
opinion of a celebrated physician everywhere
prevail?, that “the due course of maternity is
not a disease to be treated, but n course of
nature which cannot be interrupted without
calamitous results.” Nothing but moral in
fluences of the most persistent kind cau
diminish the uumber of American women
who, for selfish and personal ends, butcher or
poison tlieir children, while looking with
holy horror upon devotional mothers of Indm
who, in the conscientious discharge of their
religious duties, throw their babes into tbe
Ganges.
Tho committee had submitted to .;• •
Majesty’s Government a memorial drawn up
by an eminent American statesman, whose
knowledge of tlie American law and of the
law of nations had been available to them,
and had enabled them to lay a strong case
before the Government. In answer to a ques
tion, tho chairman said the memorial bad
been presented to the Government, who had
replied that the claims of the bondholders
might bo referred to tbe same tribunal as the
Alabama claims. On the motion of Mr.
Harris, seconded by Mr. King, tbe report was
received and adopted.
Tbe following resolutions were then passed:
“That, as legal proceedings have been taken
by the Government of the United States to
recover in English and French law courts
property and money belonging to tbe late
Confederate States, it is of tbe utmost im
portance that notice of counter claims should
be immediately given on behalf of the seven
per cent, cotton bondholders; that the bond-
Solders’ committee be furnished with the
requisite funds to enable them to take legal
proceedings as counsel may advise: and that
no bonds be dealt in by the Stock Exchange
unless stamped by the committee of the Con
federate bondholders as having paid 1-1G
per cent, to enable the committee to carry
this resolution into effect.’ “That, as
the holders of the seven per cc
cotton loan have committed no breach 01
international law by making advances to the
Southern States on the hypothecation of cot
ton, and the loan to tbe said States b e ' n S a
perfectly legal transaction, the bondholders
hereby most solemnly protest against the in
justice and illegality of the United States
Congress and the Legislatures of the Southern
States passing any laws to prejudice their
rights and the contract made with such States,
and that any such proceeding will be a direct
violation ot tho law of nations and fatal to
tho honor and financial credit of both the
United States and tho Southern States.” A
gentleman stated that the United States fi' e *
twenty bonds were not legal until they had
received tho confirmation of the Sputhern
States, and that probably a strong opinion to
that effect by eminent counsel would be pub
lished ere long.
Ex-Governor Brown, of Mississippi,
and State Rights
In a letter written by Es-Governor Brown,
published expensively in the Southern States,
a support of the late Military act reducing
the Southern States to territories, is advoca
ted on the ground—that by secession the
Southern States did go out of the Union of
the United States; and being hostile, inde
pendent belligerents, were conquered; and
being conquered, were, therefore, rightfully
amenable to the terms the conqueror has dic
tated in the Military act. .
No secessionist will deny the principle
affirmed by Ylr. Brown ; but his conclusion,
that the Military act is, therefore, constitu
tional and ought to be supported, is a non
Brown knows perfectly well, that while
we of the South maintained tho right of se
cession by a State, tlic Northern States and
the Government of the United States denied
it. Whilst denying, however, our right to
secede from the Union, the Congress of the
United States put forth tho following resolu
tioDs in July, 1801: .
“Resolved, That the war is not waged on
our part in any spirit of oppression, or for
any purpose ot conquest, or for interfering
with the rights or the established institutions
of these States; but to defend and maintain
the supremacy of tho Constitution of the
Unitecl States, and to preserve the Union with
all the dignity and rights of the several States
unimpaired.”
Now we presume that no one will deny
that the United States had a right “jlagraii-
tc bello," to offer any terms of pacification it
pleased to the Confederate States, without
any regard to abstract rights. And we sup
pose that it is equally indisputable, that the
people ot tho Confederate States had a ngnt
to ombrace them. This, resolution stood un
recanted and unrepealed ; a standing offer
of terms of pacification, to the Confederate
States, on the part of the United States dur-
in.r the whole war, after July, 1861. They
were at length embraced by the armies of the
Confederate States disbanding, and finally
by those that remained under arms, surrender
in«» Arc not these terms obligatory upon
the United States l And when they violate
tbeir faith, and treat us as a conquered peo
pie, are we to be told by one ot our own
people, that they havo acted rightly; because,
forsooth, we had a right to secede from the
United States, which right they denied I—
Wliat has tho right of secession to do with
this matter at all ? It is a question of peace,
not of war—of practical faith, not of abstract
rirrht, affected in no way by the question
whether we went out of the Union of the
United States or not— Charleston Mercury,
The Cuba Telegraph.—The steamer
Francis Wright, from New Y'ork tor Key
West, which putin at this port oa Sunday for
fuel and water, had on board about 130 miles
of wire and other material for the land por
tion of tho Cuba telegraph line. Y'esterday
she came up to Charleston wharf, and put
lar"e portion of tbe wire, glasses, etc., on
board the Sylvan Shore, which leaves this
Dknk&al Pope. — If our commanding morning lor Jacksonville. Tho W right also
general were a vain and self conceited man, it j took iu her supplies of water and coal, and
would doubtless, be very gratifying to him sailed yesterday for her; destination.
to notice the numerous highly flattering and We learn that an Eng 1 ' 611 company tas
complimentary allusions to him in some of charge of laying the cable between Key AY est
corapi.me j , ^ But as be and Huvana, which they expect to accom-
PARTICULARS OF TIIE CATASTROPHE.
We find in Richmond papers additional
particulars of the sad disaster at the Clover
Hill coal p’its, in Chesterfield county, Va.,
which occurred on YY'ednesday last, involving
the loss of sixty-nine persons,- including thirty
white and thirty-nine colored persons. Tho-
cause of the disaster is unknown, but is gen
erally attributed to carelessness. We take
the following from the Richmond Times:
The part ol the pit where the explosion is sup
posed to have occurred is eight hundred and sixty
leet below the surface ot the certh, aud about nine
hundred feet from the mouth of the pit. The
pit is about 3,500 feet long. At tne time ot the ex
plosion the miners were at work in both the north
ern aud southern portions of it. The report of the
explosion is represented ns being tremendous, and
w:\shearedtcnaudlitteen miles oil. As soon as
it was heard crowds flocked around, and there en
sued a scene, made by those who had to mourn tho
loss of some brother, husband or f.-iend, which
cannot be described, but will never be iorgotten.
Tbe force ot the explosion was very great, and
ina.-.t have caused a great d a. ot dsin.t£c to atl por
tions of the mice. Both ofthe »uu.i» »vre inutcr-
ially injured. As an instance of the forccofit, the
shoes, lamp and tin bucket of >ir. Hiram Magru-
der, who was nearly at the bottom ot the pit, seven
hundred feet below the earth, were blown upon
the platform, some distance over the mouth ol the
pit. The body could not be found.
The destitution paused by this calamity is very
great. The uumber of white persons who are left
entirely destitute is eighty-three, and there are one
hundred and fllty colored persons. For theiattcr,
ot course, the freedman’s bureau will provide, but
it some aid be not given Ut once t«tbe destitute,
whites the amount of suffering cauuot be con
ceived.
Tho following list embraces the nn.nes 01 the
white persons killed and the size ot lbe families
who were dependent upon their support for a live
lihood:
Thomas Layton, wife and six children; P. A.
Donohue, wife and two children; Jos Lockett,
wile and four children; Wo. Thomas, wife and
five children; Beverly Ammouet, wife and three
children; Jos. Conde, wile and our child; John
Anesko, wife and three children; Jas Anesko, wile
and one child; John Weale, wife and five children;
Peter Logan, wife: George Moore, wife and six
children; Jim Ilarper, wife; Albert Isaacs, wife and
three children; Na*. Roberts, wife; 11. McGrudtur,
wife aud three children; Wm. B. Robertson, wito
and five children; Jim Puckett, leaves a sister;
George Traylor, mother and two sisters; Sam Fow
ler, six children; Nick Hackett, tatlief aud mother;
Kobt. Bowman, wile and three chtldrun; tv imam
Goode, wite and three children.
In 1S5J, when the “Bright Hope” belonged to
tho Clover Hill Railroad Company, au explosion
took place, and nine men were killed. Cox s pit
exploded in 1850 and seven men were killed, in
1803 the Raccoon pit near by exploded, and killed
seventeen men. A number of other explosions
have occurred, but did not result In the killing ol
any one. Including tho recent disaster, there
have been eighty-two persons killed at the Clover
Hill pits since 1850. ,
Work will be commenced on the pit, and the
bodies removed, as soon as it is deemed sate tor it
to be done. It is still on fire, and those who were
not instantly killed, must ol course have suflered
a horrible death by Are. The untortunate victims
were all either miners or laborers, aud lor the re
lief of their families the coal company his made
au appropriation of 81,000. The explosion is one
ot the g.estest of the kind that ever occurred in
the United 8tates»
A Little Girl Beaten To Death ut her
Father.—Inlormation being given »t tbe police
station in Chicago that a little girl of ten years,
named Louisa Barkhaus, daughter “f William
Barkhaus, had died verv suddenly,' officers pro
ceeded at once to examine the esse. They found
the corpse in its night clothes, lying across a bed,
on its face. The dress being bared down Irom the
shoulder revealed a sight which might well cause
the stoutest heart to shudder with Ill-suppressed
horror. The back was one mass of b’.oody welts
and discolored bruises, while the garments were
stained with the blood which had been extravaea-
ted. and lay thick and clotty upon the surface of
the skin. Turning the body upon its back the
spectac e which met the gaze was yet more dread
ful Tho neck bore plainly marks as if a violent
hind had clutched it fast, causing the blood to
colleet in blue and purple spots, as under the
mints of a man’s fingers. The breast was disco-
iored by the same welts of gore which marsed the
buck and the abdomen was strenked with blue
and purple, such as blows Irom a rawhide cause.
The expression ot tbe face of the dead child was
such as to indicate that she had died in all tbe ag-
•ippfars'To^n sober, unostentatious g< ntle- plish by the middle of May. It is hoped that
, Jan and thoroughly understands the duties by the first of June the line will be in work-
iU Noa“ve been made, though out £2? *ViZSSSS3& ESSt-*-
toChartetona^atan^^OOOpEolie informiints say tbat suspicion poms rail or the^wnlnj, the charge ot Col. W. H. Heiss, whoso name
"J life- I wrongly to certain negrori*. lUk. | « scraping" now going on around and reputation arc well known m this sec-
pushed through with all possible dispatch
[Saravnah Advertiser, 0th.
^-Indictments are preparing in New Or
ainst Mayor Monroa and ex-Chief of
dams, for inciting, as it is alleged,
murder in the New Orleans massacre
1 • „ i, a h T shall look upou Seoator Snmner pretends to object
it upon my dyiOo - ^^lous of nil Senator Saulsbury because lie drinks. But,
Durin
\Eufaula. JVW*.
Butler axd Spoons in New Orleans.—
A letter from New Orleans says : “On Mardi
ony U ot a death paiatu! and violent in the extreme.
The half open eyes were yet staring, not with va
cancy, bnt full ot the expression of a wild terror
and the direst agony. From the lace all color had
vanished. The parents were gone uo one knew
where. Betore they had Icit however, and guided,
perhaps, by the thought that no inquiry would be
instituted as to the death of the child, a coflin had
been procured, and now lay open and ready to re
ceive toe dead, in ’.he outer room. The brutal
father has been arrested.
[Chicago Tribune, April 8.
The Y’exed Question or tub Postoffice.—The
agitation on the new Post office site appears to have
subsided, and we presume that nobody regrets it.
The location ■which the Common Council wero
generous enough to tender to the general govern
ment for one fifth of its value is universally regarded
as wholly nmit for the purpose, and even the few
sensitive old gentlemen who were so nervous
about the opening of Ann street begin to fee that
it the Postofflcc were built in lha < ity Hall Perk
tbe opening of Ann street would become an 1m-
mrative necessity, arising from 1U0 immense in
crease of travel in tint vicinity. For our mrt we
do not care a straw whether Ann street is fideiicd
or not- butus a matter of public c -mtorl, and on
sanitary grounds we seriously object to putting
up a pile of buildings on one of the most impor
tant breathing spots In the city. Wa object, tor.
thermore. because we do not believ t th^t the
office business could be carried on 'here for the
convenience oi the public. Il it is neces-ary to
locate it in this neighborhood at ill, why not tyke
the Five Points, and thus remove 1111 evil as well as
construct a handsome public bul'dlng on If* site .
St Paul’s church or the Astor Hod6o, cr Stewart s
marble block, could be purchase!, and with a
little modification cither of then might be con
verted into a Postofflce at an expanse y«y small
In comparison with the cost of anew building., In
fact it should be an object to give m> more brcatii-
in<* room in the City Hall Park, rather than to en
cumber it with piles of brick and mo' tor. It would
be a great blessing if the few sickly trees there
which breed .au annual plague of worms were all
cut down and one of those fine open plazas, such
as arc nupnOQ iu Fwt* und London and the cities
of Southern Europe and South America, subset-
tuted for the abortion of a park now casting.
jiY. x, lieraia.
The Wheat and Fruit Crop.—YVe havo
recently traveled over the greater ' portion of
this and to some extent in adjoininfe counties,
and from all that we could see and learn, wc
crjve it as our opinion, that the wheat crop
wasnever more promising. We conversed
freely with the best farmer? in the country, and
wc heard but one opinion expressed, vfc—
“The wheat crop was never more promising.”
YY r c are also much gratified to find tlie fruit
crop “yet in the land of the living.” There
is u sufficient quantity yet upon the trees to
meet every demand against this most excel
lent crop.—YY r e hope the cokl wcather is done
—if so the wheat ann fruit yield will go lar
towards rc-dlievig our necessitous people.
[SanderttilU Georgian, lOr/i.
Baknu.m’s KEVENGE.-Yfr. Bnrnum’s “unri-
valled” collection of curiosities is soon to re
ceive an interesting addition. By way of
inflicting a permanent and plea«nc retalia
tion, he has ordered a senes of wax figures
ili ustr.it iiv “striking" inch lent? in the life
of the editor of the Herald, who thus takes
a place among the “moral monsters” of the
Museum, and becomes a companion of the
learned seal and boa constrictor.
The Old Capitol.—'The arrangements for
the sale of this historic building were com
pleted this morning. The price js about
1*30 00d. It was purchased lor tlie New Y ork
Hotel company, who intend to erect a large
and splendid hotel on the site.— Washington
Star, 9th.
transmitting
to posterity a portion of that
speaker.