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ADDRESS OF THE “ UNION CONGRUS- 1
SION^L REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE/'
THE TERMS OK WHICH TIIE SOUTHEItX STATES
WILI/ RE ADMITTED TO REPRESENTATION.
The Union Congressional Republican Com-
i mittee have issued an address to tbe_ South-
| cm people entitled, “ The Policy of Congress
: in Reference to the Restoration of the Union,”
of which Gov. Baul^’cll is said ty.&eihe au-
tbor. IV ith the address is printed the two
iUco>' DULT-TsutORAPn: gia OO perjmmi.^ J Reconstruotion. Acta of CongrSs. Several
JOB PRINTING.' : hundred thousand of these documents have
^-Particular attejtlon will Be given to tbe.j ^ en printed for circulation. through the
t ;"cutioa of JOB. PRINTING of every tier crip-j Southern States, and are important asanin-
tioa. ’ dicirtion of the policy to be pursued by the
---■■■ r. ," • Republican party in Congress.
Not One. In e u ‘ n S orla t ie, j This Address is particularly important as
other day, we stated that the Northern States, j an j ndex of Congressional Republican princi-
Kith. one exception, though under Radical ple3 and pobcy . Thc following extract is
rule for many years, had refuse* to gne t o s ig n ;g can t_ a3 relates to the finality of the
right of suffrage to the negro pot tion o t eir ;R econs t rU(d ; on jy c t s — a point the uncertainty
population. We were under tio impression j 3 eating, day by day, like a cancer
that universal suffrage prevailed in Blassa- U p 0n tb c v j ta ] s c f tbo country, and it not
rhusetts, bat find that this is a mistake, and
that there was not one exception to our re
mark It seems that in Massachusetts only
those negroes are allowed to vote who can
read and write-a qualification not required
of a white man.
{VOL. II.—NO. 28
A Visit to the Tomb of Lazarus and
the Garden of Gethsemane.
The Rev. R. A. Holland is contributing to
thc-Louisville Courier a series ot interesting
Refusing to Make Concessions.
The history of Presbyterianism in Scotland
under Janies II is replete with instructions
to the people of the South. When the Kini
r ., „ , , , ,. , , , , transmitted to Scotland his third Indulgence,
letters from the Holy Land, winch he lias tolerating the free exercise of religious wor-
been exploring for some mouths past. We-; ship, the Scottish Covenanters refused to ac-
present below graphic pictures of thc Tomb tyept it. The reasons given by them were
of Lazarus and the Garden of Gethsemane : tb *r, e: . . „
which we 'select from his letter of March 23d, , f fl,ey Cnnsidered u “ {“"J 1 * fro ™ abs °-
• . jiuigu^ou, j n t e p 0we r f a power which all were to obey
written Irom Constantinople: • without reserve, which cannot be limited by
tiie tomu of LAZA.KUS. , laws, and therefore tfcey could not accept of
But I digress. The path is precipitous.— ! ^ witljout acknowledging a power inconsis-
We dismount and lead our horses down. We ! teut the la ws of God and the liberties of
have reached the tomb of Laz'arus. We enter mankind; they considered that, the proper
by a low opening, and feel our way down a !'tendency of it was to introduce a lawless
long, winding dilapidated staircase to a loyalty, establish the King’s tyranny, and
small chamber, the walls of which are partly unitu the hearts of Protestants to Papists.—
plastered, partly the naked rock of the cav-, above a A they considered the nature of
ern. From this chamber a few steps led tbia ’ pretended liberty tiTviirr-t dishonorable
into a low vault, I imagine not more than I t0 the caasc of Christ: for though nothing is
nine feet square. Therein lay the body of I mor ? desirable than when true .liberty is es
soon arrested, must end in social and politi
cal death. The Address says:
“Congress reserves to itself full and unre
stricted right of judgment whenever a State
presents itself for admission into thc Union.
That right will be exercised fairly and gen
erously even, but in the interest of peace and
loyalty. Certain conditions precedent are
laid down in the laws. These must be met;
but beyond these conditions, Congress must
be satisfied, also, that thc people of thc pro
posed States respectively are, and arc likely
to be, loyal to the Union by decisive and
trustworthy majorities.”
What is a fair and reasonable interpreta
tion of this language ? There is no party in
the South that is not “loyal to the. Union”
and most anxious to see it restored; yet this
Congressional Committee persist in maintain
ing that such a party exists, and show con-
Gratitcdb.—The Thomasville Enterprise
savs ■ “ The editor of the Savannah Repub
lican has been pardoned by Gov. Jenkins and
• 13 n ow at liberty. As a token of his gratitude,
in a paragraph announcing thc fact, he closes
:l5 follows: “In the language of St. Paul,
•they have beaten us openly uncondemned,
being Romans, and have cast ns into prison;
U J now they do thrust us out privily.’ ”
. ■ .—■»#« - ’
The New York Herald.—This high-
toned sheet has become extremely Radical in
its utterances in thc last few days, the object. . , „ „
Li.-to secure any Kudiunl putronug. Hint >>J the language quo cd tliut .liny
Sj»uylo» l, l,iacourse in Out D.vi. '“‘“ d boutb
y j - J j -who votes against the Rcpnblicnn party—
that is the - Loyal Leaguers, composed of the
Lazarus.
The closeness of the atmosphere limits our
inspection to a mere glance. We retired to
the larger room, and sitting upon the floor,
Bible in hand, one of us reads aloud, by
candle-light, St. John’s account of the miracle
and of the Saviour’s intercourse with those
whom it most affected. How touchingly
simple, how surpassingly beautiful that Gos
pel sounds when read on the spot it com-
J tnblislied by the Government, but nothing
can be more vile than when the true religion
is tolerated under" the notion of crime, and
when thc exercise of it is only tolerated under
such restrictions.
The following passage is also singularly
applicable to thc present condition of affairs
at thc South. The historian of Scotland says
of the year 1687 :
“The proceedings of Scotland at this time
memorates. The scene is not finished, but! exhibit thc natural evils of despotism, in the
transpiring. Right there in that cell the sf range mixture of severity and laxness that
corpse has been lying four days, and every marked its wayward operations:—its favors
day Mary has been here to weep. The noise wc f c precarious. Us mischief certain. The
of conversation, as of many persons above, I smiles of the Court were now lavished , on
Be^an to hear. 1 .tliose men whom it had formerly persecuted;
A shadow is in the door. It is His. The and its fo * mer rcad y instruments were irrita
long-expected and prayed-for has come from j * cd and estranged, without, any support
beyond Jordan. His mellow voice, tremu- i bein S derived from the others, who perceived
I lous with emotion, but loud with authority, theivery slippery ground on which they stood,
peals down thc arched staircase and echoes :und.knew that they only preserved their
among these sepulchral walls, “Lazarus come i looting so long as subservient to a purpose,
forth.” It goes deep beyond, reaching into j ^ 11 • when they had contributed to effect,
the regions of death. Hash! do vou hear ! tbe J tvould speedily be discharged. The
that rustling! See! he comes stooping, i c «“ rt was endeavoring to render the friends
“bound hand and foot with grave clothes ' of freedom thc instruments of its destruction,
and Ins face bound with a. napkin.” Slowly ! while they were endeavoring to efiect the
he is on the threshold. He has passed out overthrow of the tyranny by which they had
Trade Reversed.—The telegraph an
nounces the arrival of fourteen thousand two
hundred bushels of wheat at New York, from
Liverpool^ yesterday.
gf” Advices from New Orleans state that
the colored men in Louisiana have a majority
of filteen thousand in the State, so far as the
registration is completed.
Severe Illness of Chief Justice Lump- I she should comply with all the terms of the
its.-The people of Georgia, without excep- Reconstruction Acts. If the English lan-
tioD, will be deeply' pained to learn that gunge means anything, this cannot be
Judge Lumpkin has been stricken with paral- doubted.
«is, and is quite ill under the affliction. Thc | 1° the same address wo find the following
Athens Banner, of Tuesday, says lie has lost language:
the use of his left side entirely. Though ad- . “Tbe Republican party expects and de-
T - , , ..... sires the reconstruction of the Union, but up-
unced in years, Judge Lumj 15 S . | on such terms and conditions only as shall
negroes and a few office-bunting whites—as
disloyal fo the Union. Therefore, should thc
Conservatives, as contradistinguished from
the Radicals, triumph in any State in the
coming elections, or even if the Radicals
should triumph but by a majority that is not
“decisive and trustworthy,” we have the
pledge of thc majority party in Congress that
such State shall not be admitted, even though
health was good up to thc present attack, and
tre trust he • has yet strength to carry him
Mfcly through tlio trouble. We learn, pri
vately, that he was attacked on Friday last
while walking in the garden, and fell sense
less. The latest account from him is up to
Monday night, when he had recovered
to sonic extent thc usc-of his hand and arm,
and would speak when aroused, bijt thc brain
was still laboring under prostration.
livery stable keeper is responsible for dam
ages caused to a lady by an unsafe horse from
his stable.
gf A North Carolina paper says the
wheat crop in that State is unprecedentedly
Sue, and if no accident happens to it, the
yield will be better than for years.
Savannah.—Some five hundred negroes of
Savannah, led on by Campbell, Sims, and a
white man who calls himself Dr. Clift, have
petitioned Gen. Pope to remove Mayor An
derson and put Clift in his place. This fel
low, it is said, has promised thc negroes to
divide the city offices between them and the
whites. A nice style of things, indeed !
Death of Prof. James P. "Waddell.—
The Southern Banner.28th says: Prof. Wad
dell died at his residence this morning at
four, o’clock, of paralysis. The deceased
was a son of Moses Waddell T one ot the early
Presidents of Franklin College, and was him
self a member of the Faculty f>r many years.
Hundreds of graduates of the University
will rend with sorrow that their kind old
preceptor has gone. Hp had been in feeble
health for more than a year, and liis death,
though sudden, was not unexpected.
EP~Thc Chicago Times says: “From a
traitor's prison Jefferson Davis lias gone forth
render it impomUe for its enemies to renew
the civil war, or to involve the country in
sectional strife.”
Now, nobody Sooth is for “renewing the
civil war,” and the-only party in the country,
who are keeping up “sectional strife” are the
very people who wrote and issued this ad
dress. But look to the condition. They
would place matters in such a posture that
the Southern people, even if they should de
sire at any time to make civil war or
*a Maine court has decided that a sectional strife, ^sliall find it “imposgf&fe” to
do so. The condition, wc maintain, is im
possible, unless you throw into a dungeon
and chain to the floor, and gag every man in
the South, and thus make it physically im
possible for him to move or speak. So long as
men can use the powers God has given them
they can stir up strife and create war, and
these Republicans have either written them
selves down asses, or are for universal en
slavement at the South. Moral assurances
are all that any people can give to a govern
ment, but thi3 Congressional Committee only
feel safe so long as they can keep .their old
enemies in chains. Such a condition,as that
wc have quoted is a disgrace to the national
already suffered, and beneath which they
could never be secure.”
So, to-day, the favors of the Congressional
under thc sky. Listen again! “Loose him
and let him go!” And Lazarus the dead
brother, no longer dead, is in the arms of, , - .
liis bereaved sisters, no longer bereaved.— | rieapotrsrn arc precarious and its mischiefs
Neighbors gather around and passionately i . srnl cs , re , avlE1 ^ d tbo
greet him. Bethany is "glad. The news ®trs, the 1 attons, and otliere, whomit form-
11 ies throughout Jerusalem to see “the man” , persecuted. Do these perceive the shp-
who has wrought the wonder, and believe ; P er y ground on which theystand . Do they
him God. | know that they only preserve their footihg
Reluctantly do wc tear ourselves from the as sub . 3e . ndt ' I ? t to a purpose— recon-
liallowed place. "Wc go from the grave to struction—wlneli^ when tliey shall have con-
tlic house of Mary and Martha, and that of Abated to efiect, tnoy will speedily be dis-
Simon the leper, where, while Jesus sat at - , , , .
supper, Alary anointed- his feet with costly U 11 : ^ le persecuted who sealed with
spikenard, and wiped them with her hair, dieir , b l°od u P“ n . tbe scnftold the cause of
and, as the room then was, even so to-day I * ee 6omand rehgiion, wasJumes RenwucK, a
thc world is “filled with odor of the oint- P re , ac, ! cr . lon S obnoxious to Government,
men (.« "who had set a reward of £100 sterling on
' TUE garden of G ETHSEMANE. ' | head, as be was almost the only_min-
Selley, the Coward.
It lias transpired since Judge Kellcv left
the city that he told a Northern gentleman,
who went to call on him, that he expected a
riot; that he had already sent dispatches to
his friends at the North, and to his family, to
fix the responsibility where it belonged it he
should fall. Certainly we have heard of no
one besides himself who anticipated a dis
turbance, and if he expected it, it was his
duty as a man cither to have forborne to
speak or to have asked for the presence of a
military force to preventit. He did neither,
and when from accident a causeless panic
seized the crowd he took excellent precau
tions against the possibility of “falling” in
the affray, by nprecipitate retreat. The next
<jay the Mayor of thc city waited on him to
say that if lie desired to conclude his speech
he would pledge himself personally and offi
cially to his perfect safety. He declined—
he was not concerned foi himself personally,
but “he had a wife and a darling child”
whose happiness he would not risk. It is to
be regretted that he did not remember that
there were a good many other gentlemen in
the city of Mobile had wives and darling
children just as dear to them, and whose safe
ty was put in peril by his lmranguts.
It is evident to our mind that Judge Kelley
had accomplished his utmost wishes in this
meeting. He had done better than finish
his speech—he had raised a muss and
crammed the ammuntion chests of his party
for a fresh assault upon this poor, down
trodden and helpless people. He had also
made, as he supposed, a reputation as a hero
and a martyr, and in order to keep up the
show of his danger, he chartered a special
boat to take him across the bay to the depot
of the Montgomery railroad, which left the
wharf only twenty minutes before the regular
mail boat. » • ■
And in this connection we must state, in
the cause of truth and for the benefit of.the
Northern press, that as long as a month since,
it came to our knowledge, from a Northern
source, that it was a part of a premeditated
design in their Northern speakers to create a
riot somewhere in the South for the purpose
of Radical agitation, and in that letter Mobile
was indicated as the probable theatre for the
execution of the plan.
Judge Kelley may have accomplisncd his
political designs to liis lieart’scontent, but he
has left but one opinion among all gentlemen
here, and that is that his personal bearing in
the execution of it was disreputable and un
manly in the last degree. Even his negro
friends are obliged to confess that he inglo
riously fled and left them to shift for them
selves.—Mobile Register.
She Mendenhall Loom.
the BOMBAY crop of 1866-7—its monky ! Air. Jefferson Davis, now in Canada, i 39a id
value ■ ninteen millions of POUNDS to Davc purchased an estate at St. Catherine’a
A newspaper is published at Jeddo three
character, nnd affords proof conclusive that | supposed to have shadowed the Victim in His
the Republican party of Cotgrebs are desti
tute of thc first principle of good faith, and
have not the slightest desire or purpose to
reunite the country, and give peace to the
^ ^ e . tbse maoe,-over the south- ; gospel, wherever he had opportunity, uncon :
ern shoulder Of Olivet, by the road Messiah J Pliable by any human ruler.”
followed on the morning of liis triumphal When t f ie t £ lera tj 0 n was granted, and so
entry into Jerusalem. Our raps are more . manv had complied, he lamented that good
successful this time thau before for the heavy ; mcn througll timidity or love of ease, should
iron gate soon swings open with a creak, ex- | have ’ 3trcng b t h e ned the hands and encouraged
Inbiting the tonsured head of Padre Louis, tiie claims of arbitrary power, bv consenting
who invites us in o the garden It disap- to accept of an unC enain indulgence from
points at first. There is too. mjich ot art, too tho cai / rice o{ a tyrant, in place ol" that
little of nature. The happy medium, so de-; s tit u tional liberty which had been so repeat-
sirable and so rarely obtained, between cnl- , ec py an dso solemnly secured bv thc acts of
pable neglect and excessive care, is not found j the Legislature and the oaths of'thc Nation.
" C m . ,. , . , , ' He came to Edinburgh “ to protest against
The fancy winch has already prepared a the dereliction of principle which such con-
Gethsemane of its own does not at once re- duct evince d." In January, 1688 m which year
cognize the claims of tms ; objects to the ; tUe lc rei of tyr ' aIK \ persecution
imprisoning walls to the trim parterres, I was to ° nd , £ e burned again to Edinburgh,
to the front yard neatness of tbe rail-,j waa arrestc(1) accU3ed of disowning the au-
10 o’ tbe P ra f er s . fll . 1< ? ns ar fthmcti- j thority of tho King and keeping field con-
cally calculated and marked by crucifixes on VCLt i cles in opposition to the law, denied
tbe Stuccoed enclosure, to the air of perfect- : neither, and “ being found guilty, received
readiness for-tlic-scrutiny-of-connoiSseur ship : lhe st . nte nce of a rebcL” He would not save
111 ™ whole. Bis life by complying, when the Court had
But the eye speedily becomes respited him in ordTr to indue* him to do
to what it cannot alter, and concentrates its } so / H e “constantly refused to make anv
attention upon the olive treesdoublygrand-. conccfision w])ich « bt be construed into
grand lrom their own palpable antiquity, \ own ing a power, which ho considered the do-
i rom a ^ 0Cla ^ lon incidents of} sorted cause of God and the violated const!-
which they are the sole surviving spectators t tution of Ms country called upon him to re-
on earth. These treea are eight m number, j
Their gnarled and massive stems, and far . ij e was executed, his last words being
j, I have
from inc
maintain-
the testimonv: let them not quit nor
sire to understand, if an illusion lovelier than , f ore go one of tlioso despised truths. Keep
lie truth is to be dissolved by the explana-, your ground and tbe Lo V d wiU provide yo u
turn. I abandon criticisms to erudite cava- i teacbersand ministers;.and when He comes
lie will make these despised truths glorious
in the earth.”—Memphis Appeal.,
liers, and recline under tbe foliago of the
largest and most ancient ot trees—the one
people. We believe that a large imrjtyitY of
the Northern people have no sympathy for
this double-dealing and protracted ^vnr up
on thc South, and that wherever this Repub
lican Address is rend and understood it will
be the death knell pi fheir party, as it ought
to lie. * j
STniKiNO tiie RtcnT Note.—The New
York Times, in discussing tlty question ot
relief for the South, says:
To help the South it is not necessary ‘to rc-
- , , , •„ iduce evervthing to thc level of charity. Frbjii
to assume the place which thc future will | thc dtUy 0 f relieving the destitution which
issign him, as the most colossal character in j t . x ists the humanity of thc North* cannot c?-
Ae history of his time.” cape. It is meet that we should give guner-
ously until the period of famine end. But
Military Instruction in the State j there is another form of help needed quite as 4
T . ' .. . .i „ „f urgently, and the rendering of which may be
0U.EC.ES.-Ii is said that die Secretary of ^ a ’ wttcr of business interest. The ag-
has drawn up a plan providing lor the r j cn it U rists of many sections have employed
establishment of {Military Professorships in tlixr their limited mcans'in planting large areas of
' ‘leges of the country The plan is to de- [ com and cotton. They are now left without
i;i • ; ‘ «^«/,n»i,lfoodort*iemeansofprocuringfoodforthem-
'*>1 competent officers from the army to teach | jjml* ^ d J ng the period
“Rather Steep.”—Wc have it upon thc
authority of a very reliable gentleman, that
one of the negroes who was seduced to the
jVcst by representations of big wages and
prostrations of agony. Here, then, with soul
exceeding sorrowful unto death, Ho fell on the
ground and prayed, while His disciples slept
a stone’s cast lienee, too fatigued to watch
with Him. Here thrice lie bo\vedIliraseifj- pe {.f CC [ Paratljge, lias just returned, and re-l.
and groaned the entreaty to be delivered por‘ 3 fh;'.t he was employed by a Yankee
from the mysterious cup. Oil, the intensity Uniling from New England, upon a farm. He'
of .that struggleL It wrung the^crimson per- ■, 3ays dl!d t ] le en i p ] oyer would hitch up two
spiration from his temples .and forced rim stout negroes to a large plow, with, another
strengthening succor of anxious Heaven; hut , fpH 0W jt. night when they were “taken
its issue was victory, and its irpit eternal ;'9ut,'’.corn. was issued .to them like other
‘“®*. ’ : . ," i stock. -Wu have heard that in some country
I will not trespass upon your patience by j the luen would hitch a jackass and a woman
detailing,my reflections while resting under to tlic same plow, but had no idea anything
that venerable olive, by telling how with . the above would evcr .be seen in this
mental, vision I saw Judas, one ot the-twelve, j country When told by thc negroes that
come, accompanied by a great multitude with 3a jfh a proceeding was very novel, this good
swords and staves, from the chief priests and ft-jend to the. race replied, “why you have
elders of the people; and bow, after the kiss been accustomed to this nil your life, and I
of murder was planted on his pale cheek, 1 gm-ss you can stand it now;” and yet these
saw the bon ot Man rudely grasped and leu great Ood-and-morality philanthropists who
away to Caiaphas, to Calvary; for, once upon j possesses all the wisdom and goodness in thc
the tide, i should be borne by it beyond ntv ' Uuiverse, have no idea as to how negroes
intentions—beyond your wishes. 'When we ; u - ere treated in the South. "We should not
were about to withdraw, Padre Louis P re— ■ be surprised were we to learn that this “hope-:
seated each of us a delicate boquet, com— Ml cuss” stabTed and issued oats or fodder to
posed of roses, jonquils, marigolds aud other | llis emplbics als^—GriMn Star.
flowers, 4 which he had culled and arranged ' ,
during our short stay. I took pine to my j Don’t Drink i 4 o Drivli Away Care.—
room in the hotel, and by putting tliemin man j s safe who has once formed the fatal
water, enjoyed tinir beauty and aroma for b a bit of looking to drink for solace, or
several days. Ihey died too soon, as a 1 - 1 - cheerfulness, or comfort. Tyhile the world
lovely things do, but their meaning still "goes well they will likely be temperate, but
blooms in my being, and I the habit is built, the railroad to destruction
"Their frasranco.hath nude | is ready for use, the rails are laid down, and
military science in each college whose faculty j ; n t C rvcningbefore harvest. “Com and bacon
make provision for a military branch of rau3 t be had,” says the Macon (Ga.) Board of
location. Two competent officers will be j Trade, “ and they have not the money to . A ^acVwTtiiVnlifcVhctymeiAory straya . ; ihoTt^iion' tr-iin G
seat to meli poIIpo-p—one as Professor of'procure them; and there are thousands ot , Ererinon. with faint footfall i, down hio.vomuu: the station bonse- erected , au the train is
0 04011 college-one as i roie«or oi ho8e J- urt b e r culture must be aban- 1 wwi’ „ . „ 1 l«nc waiting Only the- locomotm-.
-titicsand strategy, and thc other of cugineer- ^j 0 ne d and their laborers discharged, unless! _ R. A. Holland. IV ell, the first great trouble or hopeless grief
^ai gunnery, fortifications and goneral mili- their crops can be harvested.” A movement I — is the locomotive-; it comes to. us and grap-
tir I science. It is stated that Major Whit- has been instituted in Georgia to induce loans Revival of the Slav i, Trade-Coolie {flea us, away we go in a moment .down the
fiesey has alreadv started on a tour among the i bv Northern capitalists with thc view of af- Emigration.-At this date in the progress me we bavo^ been years- constructing,, like a
tolk-Mt J- - „ tllf , y-Bcnn- i fording the assistance necessary for tbeculti- 0 f civilization, when slavery has been abolish- l -b ut lightning.
Vo get ttar r v, on U rnUnn am! of the Ml, crop,, j ^ Uoi . cll Sutl:s . atd ; ™ b b' iie Af , Jr u, Doc -
' hls re P° r t bc fi lv orable a bill V -d be | taking a3 security a lien upon the crops, £ bewildcring.to End that the laxi- .y ^ter bi the National iSellSraccr^avs
J^uced to Congress next session 4 .rovul- : which the laws of Georgia authorize, ani such of ^ g0 vci nment, notwitlistand- ? f hartshorn J a certain tcmcdv for
Vor putting the plan in oporatmn. The other secuntj as may he available. M itli t ic .f g a , l its ?0 isy prolef-.iom.m favor ot negro t j; e bh „ of ,,, ud d(ig X!)e wound should be
^ctarj proposes to commission as- oflicers ‘^ cuini ! ' ' “ wr monevt-d emaDcipation, is directly responsible lor a bathed constantly with it, and three or four
■ ! this cty, what shonUVMncIer onr inoncycd j ofthc slave trade between Africa and . doseSi diIu tcd, taken .inwardly during the
men from a r ' ^ ' the West Indies. The Jmnaica papers m- lb iy. The hartshorn decompose chemically
a_ business °P e 4 , . i • I form us, upon what seems to be gooel authori- tbu v ; rus insinuated into tho wound, aud im-
ting m s oc s, anc * - • ■ ^ c o | ty, that since the arrival of the new Goternor mediatelv a'tcrs and destroys its deleterious-
to stimulate I dustry and trade tea measures conld be ^ Qcneral of Cuba the slave truffie with Africa miss
■ more advantageous. ; has considerably increased, and that a num- Mr. Youatt, the famous veterinary surgeon,
i ~ , , , - I lier of steamers with large cargoes of bozales w ho has been bitten eight or ten times by
Gen. P. D. Roddy has established himself t a j- c continually arriving in the island. These
1 toe aruiy five members of every graduat—
a class excelling in general and military
tolarsbip, aud it is expected that these
"tUnisaons.will serve as prizes
-- uludcnta. '
t ®eWiur Valley Railroad.—The Ohat-
|' ao °ga Union, of the 28th, says the Direc : j
^ of tiie Wills Valiev Railroad met yester-
la that city, and adjourned to meet to- |
>1 Trenton. Business’ of considerable i
A'-i'tance, looking to the speedy completion
file road, is to be transacted.
... . .. _ ribid animals, says that crystals of nitrate of
1 steamers are ot American build, and run from 3 jiver, rubbed into the wound, will positively
i thirteen to fourteen knots an hour. ^ They prevent hydrophobia in the bitten person or
I carry at least one thousand slaves eacn. Sev- aa itnal.
young lady of Montgomery, who ! oral of these slaves me repo rted to have been
a banker in Wall street, New \ork. Gen
I Airing has done tbo same on New street.
as a reason tor the act
as though there was a man aro’jnd.
arc it 1 Fcen by her s cruiser?, but they steam It is not, perhaps, generally known that
so rapidlv that it is impossible to overtake
them.—New York Herald. Orleans in 1841 and 1842.
From the Tallahassee Floridian, May 17,1887.] _
This extraordinary invention is still on
exhibition at Heir" & Craig’s store, and lias
been visited by scores of people of all occu
pations, wbo have with one voice joined in
expressing their admiration of it. Wc un
derstand that orders are being rapidly rc
ceived from parties who desire to introduce
it into their neighborhoods—in one instance
as many as fourteen being ordered .by one
gentleman and six by another. But we learn
that the gentleman exhibiting it will fill no
orders until it is found that the right for the
State will not be purchased. A company is,
C0D_ however, we believe in contemplation to effect
the purchase, which it is to Loped wifi be
successful. It is just wliat is needed in such
a State as our’s, and in the hands of practical
energetic men, will pay better than cotton
Simple in construction and easily understood,
rapid in executing work, with a capacity for
weaving an almost endless variety of goods,
it has but to be seen in operation to make it
desired by every household and cause it to be
introduced on every plantation.
The Governor of the State, who has seen
this Loom at work and who is familiar with
the wants of our people knowing the advan
tageto be derived in 'introducing tbe Loom
generally among them, has addressed the fol
lowing emphatic endorsement to the propri
etors, Messrs. Purse & Cunningham, which
we publish with pleasure:
Executive Department, ).
Tallahassee, Fla., May 14,1867. f
Messrs. D. G. Purse and A. T. Cunningham:
Gentlemen—It gives me pleasure to ac
cord my unqualified endorsement of the
Mendenhall Patent Loom. I think it is des
tined to perform a conspicuous part in recon
structing the domestic industry and in resur
recting the prosperity of the South. Tlioso
of our females who, prior to a recent date,
were unaccustomed to rough labor, will find
in the use of this machine a refined and
agreeable occupation amounting to a positive
enjoyment, and at the same time ensuring
genteel competence. It requires but little
physical effort, is sufficiently curious to keep
the mind awake and • yet so simple that any
intelligent person may soon, learn to manage
;/ 5! ’< 7 1 f :00tJ.s]
Every faipily that possesses one may-dis
miss the apprehension of want. It manufac
tures every article from a silk 4 dress to" a rag
carpet with an ease, perfection anil rapidity I
have never witnessed before. The different
sorts of fabrics I saw it making are Uqual if
not superior to similar articles purchased
abroad, and L am tbld may be purchased at
a nmcii less price.."
The simplicity cud compactness of the
Loom—it docs not occupy more space than a
piano—are such as bring its ownership within
the reach of nearly all onr people.
In the present impoverished condition of
the South, and particularly in its present
dearth of manufacturing facilities, I look upon
the introduction of this Loom-as a great
blessing, and liope our people will not be
slow to avail themselv’-s of it. Enough at
least of the cotton nnd wool of the South
should be manufactured in the South to
clothe her qwu people. I should rejoice to
see one of these Looms in every family.
D. S. Walker.
Cotton in India
News Items.
STERLING—GREAT PROGRESS IN THE CUL-
tiv ation—cleaning and packing—ex - j times a month to let the Japs know what is
CELLENCE OF THE NATIVE SEEDS, ETC.
going on in the world outside their own
country.
“Brovvnlow’s nielisli” have arrived at
Brownsville. The Memphis Avalanche s’atps
that their first act was to capture some fifty
dollars” worth of lumber at the depot on their
arrival. Afterwards they directed" their
attention to the robbing of hen-roosts. ■ One.
more decent than the' rest, 4 deserted on the
•first day; but was captured and brought back,
and, lias the gloomy prospect before him of
ljaviiig “to serve out his time.” Their time
is mostly eihployed’in stealing chickens, and
the officers take exercise by wrestling with
the men. If they do nothing worse they will,
certainly ' 4 disappoint thc expectations of
Brownlow, their m/iSter.
'rom the Times of India, April LJ
Tho report of Mr. W. Walton, tho acting cotton
commissioner on tho cotton .crop of thc northern di
vision, complotee the statistical account of tbo pres
ent position of cotton cultivation throughout this
presidency. This portion of thc report is even moro
encouraging than that ontho.southcrn division, where
the increase in area under cotton in 1S68-7 is, in exotic
cotton seventeen per cent, and seven in native.
In the northern division the increase in area for
1888-7 is for exotic cotton 9Sh< per cent, subject to a
decrease in native growth of 8 per cent. Then us to
out-turn, tho inercaso in thc southern division was,
for indigenous cotton 21JL per cent., and for exetia
; but in the northern portion of the presidency
tho increased yield this vonrin lSlti-li is. in exoticeot-
ton 870 per cont., subject to a decrease in the naiiv-u
variety of 22 per cent This enormous increase in the
hotter variety is due nearly as much ttr. LtajwnvcJ
ield as to increased breadth undor cultivation!* "Mt-T
Valton tolls us that the exotic cotton this year has
produced elevon pounds clean cotton per acre, as
compared with 20 pounds in thc previous season.
These statements need some explanation, and care is
required lost the public at home should be misled
on tho important question of exotic versus indigenous
cotton cultivation.
In writing of Mr. Wilton’s report on tho southern
division wo remarked that it seemed to fnrnish a dem
onstration in favor of cultivating exotic cotton in
prcferenco to any nativo variety, but we ventured to
anticipate that evidence tending to qualify such con
clusion- would bo gathered by the commissioner when
in tho northern division. In face of the great in
crease in the turn-out, and the enormous improve
ments in thc field of "exotic” cotton as returned in
the report now before us, our surmise would appear
to bo a very mistaken one. And yet when the mat
ter is looked at more closely, it will be seen that there
is no mistake, unless it be the misuse in tho report of
that very excellent and distinct term—exotic. The
report says, by far tho greater part of tbo exotic cul
tivation was carried on in Khandeish. It will, how
ever, bc soen that tho said “oxotie” cotton is not for
eign cotton at all. nor is it even so derived.
The report goes on to say that “tlio collector, Mr.
Asbbumer, introduced a superior cotton from Berar,”
and it is tho 'transplanted variety which has shown
such splendid results. Wo are not referring to this
fact with any wish to discourage the cultivation of
New Orleans and Egyptian, wherever the soil and
climate are suitable for those exotics.
Those interested in the Stability of our cotton trade
will look forward with great interest to tho result of
the large and carefully conducted experiments in thc
Ahmedabad Zillah, with New Orleans and Egyptian
seed, us mentioned by Mr. Walton. Yet bespeaks
■with some caution as to tho prospects of exotic cot
ton in Guzerat: and probably there, as well as in
Khandeish, some carefully selected indigenous seed
might even succeed better than the foreign varieties.
In Khandeish. taking tho simple test of yield to
breadth sown, wo sea that Dhurwar, Egyptian, Peru
vian, Sea Island, and even the New Orleans acclima
ted. have all failed us conjured with the native Ilin-
gunghat and Berar.seed, which has produced some 70
ounds of clean cotton to thc acre. So successful has
icon this introduction of tho new nativo plant, that
thc yield of tho old Khandeish variety once so conve
nient for “milking purposes.” hns dwindled literally
to a handful of eight pounds. Khandeish is the only
eeUon producing vill i in the northern division In-si.Ies
Guzerat: and Mr. Walton, with all beforo him that
has been done in the ancient home of “Snrats,”
thinks that the new field cf Khandeish may become
"the most important cotton district of this presiden-
ey.”
No doubt tho very full report on the Khandeish
collectorato has been duly pursued by our readers, so
that wo need not dwell on tho specially interesting
facts recorded in it ; but we are desirous to keep in
view that this great agricultural triumph has not
been accomplished by means of "exotic” seed—as for
want of a moro correctly descriptive term it is writ
ten by Mr. Walton—but by “tho improved Oomra-
wuttersced that has been introduced into Khandeish
by Mr. Asbbumer,” and tho cultivation of whioh has
been so assiduously promoted, not only by the collec
tor himself hut by Mr. Uewett, thc cotton inspector,
and others who could not bc named. Thc collector of
Khandeish stntes in his return that there are in tho
district 1,407.083 acres capable of producing cotton, of
which only 436,238 arc under cotton in this abundant
year: and wc observe that from these figures in the
report thc Inference is drawn that “cotton planting is
not yet onorihird'of what it oan reasonably be in
creased to,’ in Khandeish.
It is not clear whether tho collector or Mr. Walton
is responsible for this inference, but there must be
some fallacy in it. When tho commissioner, in his
former report, stated the .total extent of land capa-
■ »I•• "l 4 pr.iducing C.ittim in the Dharwar district, he
reminded his readers that tho necessary rotation of
crops forbids more than one-third of the whole area
of such land being occupied with cotMn in any one
year. If that rule be applied to Khandeish, it would
seam that the 436,328 acres now under cotton nearly
approach the proportion that the cultivation "can
reasonably be increased to-.”
It will bo serviceable if wc here bring together thc
chief statistics of Mr. Walton’s report on the north
ern in thc sqmo way as we did for tho southern divis
ion. Tho comparison between tho present year and
tbo last may bo stated H3 follows :
Acres under cultivation:
> 4 Erotic.: JTativo. Total.
1865-6 .2.19,61-5 .5,38,170 . 7,57.785
1S66-7 .o..w...r......-..4,37,307 4.94,397 9,03,765
Showing an increase in 1S56-7 of 98}4 per cent, in
oxotie cotton, and a decrease of 8 percent, in native.
Ont-turn in candies of 784 lbs. cleand cotton :
Exotic. Native Total
Candies lbs. Candies his. Candies lbs.
1867-6 98.826 760 33,-540 70 50,307 085
1S00-7 .38,919 2S0 . 37,432 • 1S7 • 76,381 473
Showing for 1800-7 an increase of375 per cent, of cx-
oticcotton and a decrease of 12 per rent, of nativo.
Having given tho particulars for tho two division*,
it will suffice if we merely give the totals lor the
whole presidency, as tho aggregate shows an increase
m every item. There are non - under cotton in tlio
wnolo presidency 19,73,TS2 acres of land, "of which
7,51.814 are planted with "exotio”_ cotton—subject to
the important qualification required in the ca*e of
*he Borar-Xvhandcish: -Theso figures show 24 per cent,
moro land than last yearTlS55-6) enllivnfcd for supet
rior varieties, and something lcs3 than 1 per cent, in
crease for tho nativo plant. Tho total out-turn for
1808-7 of cleaned, cotton is estimated—by the cotton
commissioner, aided by the opinion of the various
collectors—at 1,48,448 randies (of 7S1 lbs.) being equal
to nearly 3,00,000. Of that total number of candies
65,33} consist of tho exotio nr superior acclimated va
rieties, the remaining 83,059 being the unimproved—
though a largo proportion of.it, the better class of—
indigenous cotton.
These figures show forlS06-G7 an incrcaso of 125 per
cent, in out-turn of the superior varieties of the sta-
pleandalittle over 3 percent. 4 increase in the quan
tity of native ootton. We need scarcely remark that
this estimate of threo lakhs of bales of new cotton
refers strictly to what is grown within this presiden
cy, and takes no account of the increasing quantity
that may bo expected from t!;o, eenfral provinces and
Berar. Thc great value to oiir commercial classes of
these agricultural statistics -must be apparent toevery
ono who hns gone through theso full and clear reports
furni.-hed by the cotton eomauss-i.iiicr.
There is yet some little uncertainty as to the actual
yield of thc American crop, but wo know certainly
that a large crop may bc re:koubd for from oiir owq
fields, nnd the scope for speculative risk isso fnr nar-
rowed. We must not omit to mention that Mr.
Rogers estimated the total money value of thc crop
for iS66-7 in tho northern divison of nineteen millions
sterling. |( j.—,K>ltt;
Ono of tho most interesting portions in Mr". Wal
ton’s report is his description of lhe projects that are
in such efficient operation in Guzerat for the cleaning
and packing ■>!' cotton, nnd we are glad to «eo justice
done to these well planned nnd energetically worked
undertakings.
Mr. Rogers endeavors . to say the bail ho can for
Khandeish in this respect; Ibut them is vot very
much to be done, not only in regard to cotton gins
and presses, hut agricultural plants generally, before
that collectorato receives from our Bombay capital-’
ists the attention and outlay for which its soil and in
dustrious population will.vield an ample return. Wc
trust these reports may have their influence on the
public mind in thi- direction, and that when next the
wealth of Bombay is seeking investment, a consider
able portion of it may he turned like a fertilizing
stream into thc thirsty and neglected, hnt richly pro
ductive fields of tho Mofussil. The proposed cotton
exhibition nt Broach may cosily ho contrived so as to
o.i»du- 4 c to this important end.
As to cotton production itself, wo_ quite beliovc with
Mr. Walton, that it has already gained sitch position
in India as will enable it to "hear the full force of
commercial depression ” and tho lower prices that
must come. And yet, there is as much occasion as
ever for tho following reminder given by the commis
sioner: “It cannot be too strongly borne in mind by
all who take an interest in this important branch of
trade, that many years and a vast wealth of money
were expended beforo the Southern Shires of America
became—as they were anterior to the war—thc prin
cipal cotton producing country of the_ world, and
The United States District Judge for the
Texas lias decided that the order
of Gen. Griffin, requiring jurors to take the
"iron-cladoath,” is illegal.
Mrs. Chase, the mother of Sam Chase, the
lad. who was hanged for murder in Cincin
nati, a few weeks ago, died on Friday last of
shame aud grief.
A husband ninety years old, accompanied
by a wife ot 17, was lately observed on Main
street, Buffalo, drawing his infant in a babv-
chiuse.. J
ty ” °/ aB kinds of fire-works is to be
prohibitfd in Boston on the coming fourth of'
Jul}\ That city heretofore has annually ex
pended §60,000 for fire-v. orks.
A. citizen of New Orleans, on applying for
registration, tbe other day, was required to
produce bis certificate of baptism before he
would be admitted.
It is stated that half of Charleston, S. C.,
was owned by Fraser, Trenliolm & Co., who
recently failed in England. Last year they
puid taxes upon fourteen millions of property
in South Carolina.
It is reported that Parepa is to sing in the
choir of Dr. Tyng’s Church, New York, at a
salary of §3,000 a year.
President Johnston has offered a plat of
ground to the freedmen of Greenville, Tenn.,
to be used lor schools and religious purposes,
if the freedmen will select the ground.
Among the income returns in "Washington
this year, the largest is-that of H. D. Cooke,
banker, §60,000; W. W. Corcoran, the well-
known banker, returns §35,333, aud G. W.
Riggs, his partner, $57,050.
Edwin Booth has purchased a lot on the
corner of Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third
street, New York, upon which, it is. his inten
tion to erect thc handsomest theatre in the
United 4 States.
A man in St. Louis was placed under a J>ond
of §150, the other day, to keep the peace
toward a dog which ho had threatened to
kail! __
1-if™ In collisions between white tolks and
negroes, the whites, if tbe Radicals arc to be
believed, are never, right, and the blacks nev
erwronrr. If the latter commit what is gen
erally considered crime, their color conse
crates it.—Prentice.
was recent l\ caught " -'^Jbat it made i"t smell so rapidly” thaMt is impossible to overtake Henry Ward Beecher taught school in New j said a witness'.on a trial, “but, it I were
do not say that man will steal.”
id a witness on a trial, “but, it I were a
chicken, Ed roosl high when lie waa about.”
A Fhue Roolcs.
Mew6ick is 1 of the Arts A sighev.tses. A singer
is a artist, & a siDgin master is a siglientist if he
teaches sigbentifically, untherwise he’s a humbug,
to them as wants to excell, a phuc rooles will be
very perceptible, & by follerin wliitch you ken
succeed:
1. If you sing in a quire olhvaze hold tbe last
toan after the rest are dun, so that people can
Ueer you- seperelght.
2. When you come to a liigh uoat thro yoor bed
back& shet yoor izc, it marks it the moar expres
sive.
3. When you get done with the hi tone and want
to see the next line open yoor ize again.
4. If enay boddy else looks on the book with
you, hold it stratein frunt of your own face,.and
then it wont be in their way.
5. Ollwaze objeck to the toon the quire laeder
selecks and chuse a pirtior one yourself, it shows
your good taste.
15. Uckachunly sit still and let the rest of the
quire sing the him without you; it spoils the ef
fect of yours to have it too common.
7. Dooring tlio sermon and prayer keep a turning
over tho leeves of your book—it shows you are
devoted to mewsickle persoots.
7}£. Spend some of your time in writen inbooks
aud riten noats to sum 1 else in the quire, for if
you want to sing clear you musent weary yoor
mrnd and vois bylesteniu two close to thc servis.
S. If its in the evening beet time with the hand
with whitch you hold thc candle with—the oddi-
ence can see it planer.
9. Doant forget to whisper some—it taiks awa
embarrassment and helps to pass time awa.
10. Fill your pockets with peanuts before you
go to meetin, and throw the shells on the floor—
the seckston ken tell then where the quire sets
when he sweeps out.
11. Olwaze take the best sect—somboddy must
hav it, and it may as well bc you as any buddy
else.
13. "While you ar signin if you meet the i of i -
yoor friends in thekongregashen, smile & bow—it
shows you aint too much sot up to recognize and
old iriend even jf you are in the quire.
13. Never sing egzactle with the leedcr—keep s
leetle behind out ol respect for him, or else keep a"
leetle abed which will encurridge him with yoor
egzirpple. It the rest of thc quire sings abed of
the leeder, you keep behind; and thc rest smgs be
hind, you keep abed, "this will give variety.
14. Follow these rooles daly eveiy Sunday, ct if
you have good suckscss, you will he sure to suck-
seed. P. Benson, Sr.,
with the Sr. it a tans for singger.—Song Mca^ciujo-.
Confiscation.—The New York Times, a
leading Republican journal, gives the follow
ing assurance:
Our Georgia correspondent states that the
worst efiects have been produced upon the
negroes by tbe harangues of the Northern
politicians who have recently been traveling
through tbe Southern States. lie says they
have got the i*.ea, more or less widely, that
the confiscation of Southern lands is certain
to take place for their benefit sooner or later,
and that they have became correspondingly
indifferent to-evervthing else. We are not
surprised at this prediction of very bad re
sults from such an impression. But we think
he overrates its impoitance. It is quite nat
ural that the negroes ot the South should for
a time be led to_ regard, themselves as mas
ters of the political situation, and as entitled
to dictate a policy to the General’ Govern
ment. But this, it must be borne in mind
will be temporary. The next Congress, at its
first session, will end all this controversy
about confiscation, and put at rest all the po
litical speculations that are noiv based upon
it. The negro voters in the South cannot
long be misled in this matter. The example
set them in Louisiana and Mississippi, where
the colored people are taking possession of
the unoccupied public lands, instead of rely
ing on confiscation, is well worthy their imi
tation. This is a perleetly legitimate mode
of gutting possession Of land. All others -will
very speedily prove to be a delusion and a
snare.
No Finality, if the South Assents.—
The Philadelphia North American frankly
says —the Republican party is not pledged,
and should not be pledged, to admit tho
South into Congress, even it" it swallows the
Five Monarch?, Sherman Law, and all:.
“We insist (says tbe Editor) that no ‘final
ity’ arrangement shall be set up to prevent
the action of 4 Congress. We prefer to be
. , __ T „— D ress.
there is nft iloubt bat that well-directed means and | frank in this matter.”
onerjry will provo as successful, in the lonz run. in I ■ J -
thi-a-they nave done iu that country.” >
* »■ ——— About the Ladies.—What lady is good
A gentleman, termed, by the Eutaula I to eat ? Sal Ladd. What lady is good to
News, “an intelligent and well-posted old I eat with her ? Olive Oil.
planter, living in the central portion ton Wliat lady preaches in the pulpit? BIin- 4
Barbour county, Ala., informs tbe editor that 1 iiie Stir.
the corn and Lotton of his neighborhood, iu ‘ What lady has to fight the Indians ? Etn-
consequence of the cold, backward Spring. 1 ma Grant. What lady heips her? Minnie
is the smallest ever known for tiiis time ot I Rifle,
the year. And what i.s worse, lie says the \\ hat lady
greatest scatfitv of Corn exists in Irs and the i Ann Atomy,
surrounding neighborhoods, nnd expressed i What lady
the fear, that if some of his neighbors were i Tisliun.
not assisted in getting a supply of corn for What lady votes ?
work stock, they would soon be compelled, to j
abandon their young crops. j
acquainted with surgery ?
fond of debate ? Polly
Big Haul.—Thirty-five thousand herring (
were taken at one haul from the locks of the j
Chesapeake and Delaware canal, at Delaware
City, on. Monday (lash It is estimated, as ,
many escaped on account-of the tide being '
very high..
Della Gate.
What lady paints portraits ? Blinnie A.
Choor.
What lady is much talked of now ? Ame
lia Ration.
What lady is used to war ? Btilly Tary. «
What lady is lively and gay ? Annie Ma-
tion.
Whst lady is voraclofis" ? "AnTiTe Condor
and Allie Gaiter.
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