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Who is the Liar ?—The following is from
i letter written to Forney’s Chronicle from
!bi« city with reference to the late unfortm
aato occurrence in Rutland district:
Although this is n crime that would shock
the feelings of your Northern men, it is treat*
td with laughter in this lawless community.
The man who wrote the above knew when
he did it that all right thinking good citizens
A this community not only reprobated tho
itt, but desired that the guilty parties, who-
iverthcy bo, should be punished. This should
convince our people that there should be an
woidanen of everything like this occurrence,
is such events are readily and eagerly seized
upon by our enemies to misrepresent us.—
We have yet to hear of a city large or small
the North that baa not proven itself more
lawless in the last two years than our quiet
:ity. .<
f The New York Commercial Advert!
;it says General Grant has recently given a
ignilicant intimation that such characters as
fonw, Toombs and Pike will hereafter be
cquired to strictly observe their parole,
gJT Georgia Railroad stock sold in An
ruts on tho 6th, at eighty-five dollars per
hare. ■ - >
Sanford Conover.—Sanford Conover,
»ho was convicted of perjury before the
udiciary Committeo of the EIouso of Repre-
entatives, when they were investigating the
ilkgrd complicity of Jefferson Davis in the
sssssination conspiracy, has been taken to
he Albany Penitentiary, to which he was
enffcneed for ten years.
Kentucky to be Excluded.—The recent
ertion in Kentucky i .-suited in an over-
[beltniog triumph of Uu< anti-Radical ticket,
f, however, we are to itedeve the Kentucky
orrespondent of the Cincinnati Gnzctte, the
nionists of the State are of the opinion that
heir candidates will not bo allowed to take
heir seats. He writes:
We expect them to strain every nerve to
ring np an overwhelming majority, bnt in do
ing this they are destroying themselves.—
'heir largo majority will not defeat ns. We
ave a little plan for checkmating them—
ne that will make them open their eyes in
•tonishmont. Not one of their candidates
ill be permitted to take his office, even
:oagh he be elected.
W# cannot, in dnty to ourselves, onr State,
id Government, permit these self-styled
democrats, traitors alike to their State and
’■‘tion, with their hands still reeking with
* blood of loyal defenders of our country,
tike tho governmental reins of onr State
their grasp to drivo us to eternal destruc-
on merely to gratify their inordinate Just
ad desire for power. Nor can itbe reasona-
!j sepposod that our Government, against
nose very existence tbeso selfsame rebel
erancrata have been fighting for years, will
»nd idly by, and permit its would-be de-
rojere to gain a foothold nnd an ascendancy
* power here that might require years and
st oceans of blood nnd millions of treasure
remove and crush out. We have every as-
rance that among the firstacts of Congress,
its reassembling in November, will be one
disfranchising every person that in any
y took part in the late rebellion against
o Government, and forever excluding them
•>d depriving them of the right to hold
See, civil or military, in the United Stares,
not immediately puts a quietus to our rebel
; stc officers elect They arc all men who
we Wn in some way connected with the
hellion, and will have been elected by
(gal votes. In that case onr course will be
'(■■ry plain and easy one. We have but to
(sent our claim, show that our candidates
wived a majority of the legal votes in the
ciaimt the places for them, thus
;-tmg Kentucky again on a loyal,footing.—'
expect this to raise a great howl in the
« of mobocracy, bat we do deny and in-
* i to dispute the right of .rebels to vote
j, o!l ‘ ce in this country, the laws ,of
’ (ate to the contrary notwithstanding.—
e advise rebels to stand from under when
eojt drops, or some one might get hurt.
&ny one doubt that Congress will decide
^matter m our favor ? It cannot fail to
AMERICANIZING vs. MEXICANIZING.
Quo of the problems of thefuture, says the
Baltimore Sun, which we propound to tho
altruists of this country for solution,
whether Mexico is more likely to be Ameri
canized than the Southern States of this
Union to be Mexicanized. The general im
pression has been that the influence of our
people, by example and emigration, will
gradually properly civilize Mexico, but at
present the signs are not hopeful. In the fe
te n;ious butchery of Its opponents in the civil
war which that government has been lately
carrying on, it shows no improvement in hu
manity from its early history. The same bar*
barism which it has always practiced toward
tho fallen, with no other result than making
anarchy chronic, it still practices, and really
seems to be behind Hayti, which shows prog
ress in humane deeds at least Whilst tho
government of Hayti extends universal am
nesty to political offenders, the government
of Mexico puts them to death, and the Gen
eral-in-chief, Escobedo, writes a letter like tho
following, addressed to the Governor (Go
mez) of Nuova Leon, which our readers will
not fail to contrast with the noble address of
tho Haytien Assembly, in favor of universal
amnesty, published recently. [Hero follows
the letter of Escobedo which we have pub
lished already.]
This specimen of Mcxicanism certainly
shows no progress in civilization, nnd instead
of Mexico being Americanized, wc find a
disposition evinced there to hunt our people
from tho country, and a grim threat thrown
out that the Yankee notables will one day be
Setter from Bon. S. F. Perry.
Tothe Editorsof the Columbia. Phamix:
The action of the rump Congress, the other
day, in extra session, ought to convince every
one that the Radical party have no intention
of restoring tho Union until the Southern
States are thoroughly radicalized, and will
elect Senators and members of tho House of
that party. The Kentucky representatives—
nine in number, and all Democrats—have
been denied their seats in Congress, simply
because they were not Black- Republicans. If
the Southern State--, under the reconstiuc-
tion policy of President Johnson, had elected
Radicals, and given any assurance of their
adhesion to that party, no one can suppose
that their representatives would have been
excluded from Congress. In the fall of 18G5,
one of the first things done by Congress was
to purge tho Senate, and exclude Demo
crats enough from that body to give them a
two-thirds majority.
The question will be for the people of the
Southern States to decide, in the coming
elections, whether they prefer to remain as
they are, or by calling conventions, adopting
negro suffrage and electing Radicals, go back
into the Union. What advantage to the
South will it bo to increase the Black Repub
lican majority in Congress ? How can we
be benefited by strengthening the hands of
our oppressors ? What interest can wc pos
sibly have in being represented in Congress
by traitors tothe South—men whom we must
scorn and despise as Judas Iscariots in poli
tics ? It is a sad and melancholy reflection
on human nature, to see men who inaugura
ted the war, and were going to die in the
in the last ditch, now seeking to go back into
the Union, stripped of every principle and
right which they vowed to defend, with
Black Republican collars around their necks.
How disgusting to sec base, unprincipled
white men seeking office and position by hy
pocritically pandering to the jgaorant, crim-
Albert Pike, editor of the Memphis
finding a statement in-tbs papera tfcat
M’-tution of General Grant had been
I t0 some of his incendiary articles, and
‘lOtstioa asked whether lie (Pike) had
t vlol4t ed his parole," says : ‘-Wo do not
to have given any parole to General
il Were neither the military or
^ (rri:e of the Confederate Government
«ir.r l>er * ’ an< ^ General Grant
' do with us ns a corporal of a
Tulare has."
J *Tf ^ " * "W ■
■ le cases of IL G. Dobbins nnd Madison J
- cer tain banks in Savannah, wcio|
e; the January term, tbe inert of
' for the present term of the Superior
k ,n 6 hill-holders.
i ti p** ief ' J _ U8 t> c eCliasi-, daring a recent
li Mt . ^wick, Maryland,Expressed --the
rel' .f 1 t '° n * re63 be prompt in nfford-
' :.l men JTfiryh.nd, by
.1,5 . Un >vcrsal Suffrage Bill, when it
vcn « in November." • ‘
0 tbt<| TUAT io J, '~^ e ^’ stra ^ on * n Chatta-
v -’aa closed ou the 8th. The
. * »s follows: Whites, 440; colored,
cssiwf' 8 --
tk'.-s -The fit.'ii
08* aonth of July were
a e «urnbir Wri total > 80 - ot the
■li«r,oS»'tS. er, “ Pd
begging for their own heads. It is true, inal nnd ruinous prejudices and aspirations
t-verv one knows ]mw to value Mexican gas- ! 1,1 'be mgro 1 I would greatly prefer seeing
conade, but the ferocity of the dominant fac- K b ? th °
, . ’ . , , J . .. , , I intelligent negroes, tlinn by such unpnnci-
tion in Mexico has been actually applauded p i e d an d s i, a fooles3 men.
by a number of journals in this country, and I once said to President Johnson, in reply
even upon the floors of Congress, where Es- I to a dispatch sent me, about Union men being
cobedo has been made the subject of special excluded from office under the Provisional
. . i-... . -a- It Government, that I bad made it a rule
compliment by some of the speakers, as through life to confide in the politics of no
knowing how to deal with traitors. This one who was not morally honest and trust-
seems to indicate that so far the genius of worthy in private life, and that my experi
Mexico is becoming more influential in tho ? DC . e taught me the fact that a man who
„ .. .... . . , c TT had no moral principle could have no pohti-
Lnited otr.tcs than that of the United States principle. Hence it is that we see those
in Mexico. Then, if we look at tho condition who were foremost in secession, whilst seces-
of some of tho Southern States, we sec, sion was in the ascendant and the road to
strongly marked and palpable, the Mexican honor and. distinction, power and position,
disposition to look to force as the means of / awnln ° at , tho feet . of tho oppressor,
..i- i-.- , j- . whilst tyranny and oppression are all power-
settling political disputes. Moreover, an foL They care not whom they serve, or what
antagonism of races is beiDg recklessly ex- principles they advocate, provided they can
cited for party purposes, which may one day promote their own selfish views. But they
end in scenes of more frightful apd wide-1 ' von ^ even have us believe that the great in-
. , j i r.7 terests of the country were foremost in their
spread carnage and desolation than even thoughts.
Mexico has yet exhibited. Immediately after it was known that
Already in Tennessee, during the late politi- slavery would have to be abolished, I cx-
cal campaign, there has been a series of what pressed tho opinion that it would be wise
might bo called small battle, in which num- an ? P radent to J* nn * t vriiobad ac
, ° V ‘ , , ’ ' • " , quired a property and educational quabfica-
bers of men bavo been killed and wounded, tl on, to vote in all tho Southern States. I
in one engagement as many as twenty. The thought this would bo a safety valve for po-
Governor issues bis pronunciamentos occa-1 litical society. It would gratily and appease
t ii •_ ...... t- I the intelligent and most influential of that
sionally m the true Escobedo vein, and seems, ^ and ° ake them good citizcnSi instead
like that gourmand in blood, to relish the 0 f being disturbers of the peace. It would
death of rebels as “good for digestion.” If [ bold out an inducement to all who had any
the other Southern Btatesshall be reconstruct- disposition or wish to rise above the com
cd on the same principles as Tennessee, we mo T n 1,erd ! And no evil could result from ii
, , J .i-i rr as I supposed very few, comparatively, would
may expect that they too, like Tennessee, will I ever jj e a (,i e to attain the privilege, nnd when
become Mexicanizcd, and that tho only law they did, they would always vote with the
will be that of the strong hand. This is no higher and better educated class of whites,
spectre of the imagination. Wherever in f expressed a similar opinion many years ago,
r . . ... _ , . , in regard to recapturing fugitives slaves. I
any State there is a minority m power which thought it well for society that when a slave
determines to retain its power at all hazards, acquired such a love for freedom as to
whatever may bo the will of the majority, prompt him to flee to tho Northern States,
and excites for that purpose antagonism of possessed intelligence sufficient to make
.. . . . .. , his escape, ho ought not to be brought back,
races, it is easy to see that the peace and the Jb thig ,i, c bold, daring and reckless-
order of the community must be in constant they who were most likely to disturb the
peril, which only the presence of a military publico peace—would bo out of the coun-
force, like that which was thrown into Ten- there would be greater safety from
ncssec at the late election, will l>o able to j ‘ 'opinion thus expressed was de-
averL L nounced by those who are now urging uni-
It will be a profound humiliation to our versal suffrage for the negro, or at least ad-
Iiational pride if we. who looked upon it ! v-'- iting the c dl of a convention, by which
•»i «■« <*»- iSSSSRSRS5S:
tinent, shall fina our own condition WUVil- jiropriety of permitting negroes to give tes
ted to that of the most barbarous and degra- timeny in all cases in onr courts ofjustice.
ded people within its limits. Wc believe This, too, was sternly resisted by those who
that American influence will ultimately tri- a . ro ao ^ ' viI, ’. n o to confer on the negro the
, ■, r • nght of holding oflice, to get back into the
umph, and that Mexico, instead of impress- L. J, orioUfl Uoio 5” which they once hated and
ing her image upon ns, will be gradually despised so cordially. > •
moulded into a higher shape by contact with In one of my previous communications, I
a superior civilization. But this can only be stated that Professor Agassiz had proven con-
wl.cn the readjustment of the Union, upon cluBiyely that the negro was of an inferior
tlio principles of justice nnd the Constitution, f crcn t origin. In saying this, I did not iu-
shall give full scope to American influence tend to insinuate, ns some of the negroes
abroad, and prevent onr country from being I seemed to think Idid,tbnt God was not their
subjected to such taunts and jeers as those “father," as well as tho white man’s father.
contained hvtlio „„„ of E*ob£o. JH&tSSF Tb^STn^
»«* <» • Tl10 Affi* > h “ I qtberes-.fbere. in „Uicb He plaeetf them
and for which he made them. The horse and
tho jackass are both alike the creations of
God. Ho did not create them of the same
type, or make them ope and the same animal.
He gave to one beauty of form and symmetry,
spirit and fleetness; and to the other strength,
endurance, and other valuable qualities. So
He distinguished between the negro and the
white man. To the former He has given a
black skin nnd wooly head, gieatcr strength
and less brain, nc lias adapted him to labor,
and given him pores which dely malaria and
fevers. To tho other He lias given a white
skin and a head of liair, less strength nnd n
larger brain, adapted to higher thoughts and
greater intellectual improvements.
But God loves his whole creation equally,
and it is to be presumed that he lias the same
regard for the owl that he has for the eagle,
and so with the jackass the white man and
the negro, provided always that the onoisas
faithful in the discharge of his mission on
earth as the other. It is by no means a crime
or fault on the part of the jackass, that he
cannot run as swiitly as the horse. He was
not created for such ilcetness; and so with the
negro, he has not been endowed by God with
the same volume of brain that the white man
has, nnd be is not to blauic for being unable
to compete with him in science and knowl
edge. He is an inferior animal to the white
man. God made liini such 8s ho is for wise
purposes, as ho made the ass inferior to the
horse. It is as foolish to think of making
poets, artists and statesmen out of negroes as
jt would be to make a race horse or a spirited
charger in battle but of a jackass. You may
give the negro the right of suffrage and the
right to hold otlice, and make him a legisla
tor, and so you may enter the assi for a four-
mile heat with the blooded horse, or you may
mount him in battle for a charge cn the
enemy; but both would be equally unwise and
disastrous, for you arc attempting to pervert
nature and tbe laws of God.
Professor Agassiz, of Harvard College,
Massachusetts, tho most learned and scientific
portion of Georgia have passed through one
of tbe most trying times this year, that lias
ever been experienced Eincn my recollection,
and most of them bavo learned some lessons
that will, perhaps, do them good hereafter.—
They have laarnod how to do without money
or credit, and many luxuries they bad always
been usetl to, and many of us came very near
learning to do without bread ; but I am hap
py to inform you that we now have the best
crop of corn that wc have had in twenty
_ ears. We have many fields of corn that
will make from thirty to fifty bushels to tho
acre. Here can bo seen a field of fifteen acres
of upland—the hills are planted 30 by 40
inches, one stalk in each hill; the seed corn
was of a very large white kind; the cars are
cry large and stand from six to eight feet
from tb<T ground. A majority of the stalks
avo two of these large ears, and I think I
may safely calculate on six thousand large
ears to the acre. There are some other small
fields that will produce more corn to the
acre than the above, but I lmve not seen any
larger corn.
our cotton is also promising a good yidd,
nnd some open bolls have been seen. L our
warehousemen may look out for new cotton
from old Morgan and Jasper in September
•arly.
Sblling Jerusalem.—European corres
pondents at Belgrade give currency to a re
port that while the Turkish Council were
considering by what means they might ol itaiu
money to defray the expense of the Sultan’s
visit to Paris, a proposal was made by one of
the high officers to sell -Jerusalem to Russia.
It is further said that the report is generally
credited, and that. Turkey is believed to be
willing to sell Jerusalem and Jaffa for one
hundred millions of piastres. General Igna-
vieff and Ali Pacha are reported to be busy
with &e preliminaries for the purchase now.
Kg?- It is stated that General McClellan
will bo homo in November; also, that Grant
is his choice for President.
naturalist the world has ever produced, de
clares most confidently, after a life-time of
thought and observation on the subject,
<** That the negro and white man were created
as specifically different as the owl and the
eagle. They were designed to fill different
places in the system of nature. Tbe negro is
no more a negro by accident or misfortune
than the owl is tho kind of bird he is by ac
cident or misfortune. The negro is no more
the white man’s brother than the owl is the
sister of the eagle, or than the uss is tbe
brother of the horse.” “ There ojryU ays the
same g.e:.t authority, "•over one humjred
specific differences between tbe bonal and
nervous system of the white man and the
negro. Indeed, their forms are alike in no
particular. There is not a bone in tbe negro’s
body relatively of the same shape, size, ar
ticulation, or chemically of the same compo
sition, as that of tho white man. The negro’s
bones contains a far greater per centago of
calcarccous salts than those of tho white man.
Even the negro’s blood is chemically a very
different fluid from that which courses in the
veins of the white man. The whole physical
organization of the negro differs quite as
much from the white man as it does from
that of tho chimpanzee—that is, in his bones,
muscles, nerves and fibres. The chimpanzee
has not much further to progress to become a
negro (ban the negro has to become a white
man. This fact science inexorably demon
strates.”.
It is agreed by all scientific men who have
turned their attention to this subject that the
capacity, by measurement, of the skull of the
white man is ninety-seven cubic inches, that
is, the average of one thousand or any great
er number of skulls. The negro lias sixty-six
cubic inches; the North American Indian
has sixty-three cubic inches; tho native Aus
tralian has fifty-six cubic inches. Sir Cbas.
Lyall, than whom there can be no higher au
thority, says the feet and bands, the arms and
legs of the white man and negro are unlike
in measurement. The hand of tho negro is
one-twelfth larger and one tenth broader than
the hand of the white man ; his foot is one-
eighth Iongi r and one-ninth broader than
tho white man’s ; his fore arm is one-tenth
shorter, and the same is true of the bones
from the knee to the ankle. The skeleton
is unlike in the whole in weight and meas
urement, and unlike in every bone of it.
In the most admirable speech of the Hon.
W. Mungen, of Ohio, lately delivered in Con
gress, (and to which I am greatly indebted
for much that I have said,) it is boldly as
serted, on the authority of scientific men,
that the world does not afford an instance of
a mulatto in the fifth generation. The hybrid-
race becomes extinct after the fourth genera
tion, unless they have intermixed with one or
the other of the original races. So it is with
all animals. The mule does not breed at'all.
The wolf and jackal, the dog and fox, have
produced hybrids, which always become ex
tinct in the third generation. These animals,
like the negjfo and white mi)u,. were regarded,
at one time, as only different varieries-ol the
same species. But experiment shows them
to hare been different creations, as it does
the negro and white man.
I repeat what I have said in a former
article, that I have ever been the friend and
protector of the negro through life. This
my former slaves will vouch for me. My
house servants, eight or ten in number, have
never left me, and are still living with me on
the same terms they did whilst slaves. It is
because I wish well to the negro thtt I am
unwilling to sec him placed in a false posi
tion. He is unfit to exercise the right of
suffrage, and will become the dupe and tool
of base and designing men. A war of races
will ensue, and the negro, being the weaker
and less intelligent, will be exterminated in
such a war. Extinction will be the result of
this great boon, bestowed on them ior the
sole purpose of strengthening the Radical
party. Gen. Benj. F. Bntler said to me,
eighteen months ago, that all the Radical
party wished was, to have “impartial suff
rage.” He said that we might declare that
no one should vote, unless he was a graduate
of the South Carolina College. All thnt the
Radicals then thought of was equality between
the races. But now, they arc determined to
have tho negro vote, in order to radicalize
the South. " „
I In the negro convention which sat tbe
other day, in Columbia, it was claimed that,
in tho nex t Presidential election, there should
be placed on tho Radical ticket a negro
either for President or Vice-President. It
was contended, too, that the lands should be
divided into small farms,so that each head of
a family might get a homestead. If tile land
owners refused this division, then their lands
should be taxed so heavily as to force them
to part with them. There is considerable in
genuity in this scheme of confiscation. The
whites who vote for a convention to avoid
confiscation on the part of Congress, will
find themselves nicely caught by the negroes
in convention. As I have already said, they
Will find that, after sacrificing their honor,
the rights of the State, and tho principles of
self-government and constitutional liberty,
the have lost their lands into the bargain.—
Another scheme of the negroes, promulga -
ted in their recent convention, is to have
nothing taxed but property. This will re
lease the negroes from all taxes, as.
not own property. Then, the property of
the Stato is to be taxed, to establish free
schoolsand colleges all over the State, lor the
education of their children, without expense
to tlic negroes! Again, they declare in con
vention, and have made it a part of their
platform, that thc'old negroes, .and infirm ne
groes and paupers, are to be supported by
tbe property of the white men, instead of
taking care of their own aged parents and
pauper kindred.
lu the twelfth article adopted by this Rad
ical negro con ventien, they avow openly their
purpose of disfranchising all who have served
in the Confederate army, or aided and abet
ted the war. They are disposed to take a
step, and a wide one, beyond the Radicals in
Congress. The white Radicals have disfran-
clii.'ui only tiio.-e who have filled puhlic
offices ; but the black Radicals ore determin
ed to extend it to all who were in the army,
n-hicb includes almost the entire population.
This will be accomplished in that convention
which the white people are going to vote for
—a convention to disfranchise themselves,
confiscate their property, and place the State
absolutely under the control of the negroes.
Was there ever such folly and madness heard
of before in the civilized world'? In sack
cloth and ashes they will have to repent of
their stupidity and dishonor.
This negro Radical Convention further de
mands a revision of our laws, and the reor
ganization of our courts. They, a set of pau
pers, ignorant and debased, are to govern the
State, and the white men, who own all tho
property, arc to pay the expenses of the State.
They speak of building railroads!_ No doubt
u thousand schemes will be concocted for
spending tho white man’s money, for the
benefit of the negro, before they proceed to
take it from him by force or fraudulent legis
lation. Horrible, most horrible, is the future
pf our poor State and degraded people. No
one seems to realize our true situation. It is
now as it was in tlie days of secession. We
are .standing, like idiots, on a magazine of
powder, flourishing in our hands a firebrand,
and laughing at the beautiful ring of ribbon
it makes. In the dark. The explosion will
come, must come, sooner or later, and bring
with it universal death and destruction to the
people and property of the State.
In Liberia, where there is a nation of ne
groes, sent from the United States, and where
they have formed a Government, no white
man is allowed to hold office, or voto at any
election for any office. This is wise and
proper; and they have thought it necessary
to make this exclusion for their own peace
and prosperity. Have not the white men the
same right to exclude the negro from the
right of suffrage, when they know that the
negroes have a majority in ibe State, nnd
will seize the government of the State if per
mitted to vote ?
It is idle folly to tell the people of South
Carolina that capital and immigrants will
flow into the State when reconstructed on the
Black Republican platform. On tbe contra
ry, as soon as this negro government is or
ganized, every dollar of foreign capital fo
South Carolina will be withdrawn, and not
one cent will come here seeking investment.
Nor will any foreigners move here to settle,
under negro rule and the confusion and dis
turbance which it will give rise to in the
State.
Mr. Calhoun predicted, years ago, that if
the negro was set free, the Northern people
would insist on his right of suffrage, and if
allowed, the negroes would seize the govern
ment, and the white people would have to
leave the State! ^He further said, that the
former owners would lose all influence over
their freedmen, whose sympathies and par
tialities would be for Northern men and vile
emissaries sent here to control them. I think
it is pretty generally acknowledged, even
now. that all control ot the negro, in tbe
coming election, is already gone from their
former masters. Gen. Hampton and his
friends had just as well try to control a herd
of wild buffaloes in the vast prairies of the
West, as the negro vote of Columbia.
! V- ’ B. F. Perry.
Greenville, S. C., July 27,1807.
’TWAS THUS.
I never reared a young gazelle;
(Because, you Nee, I never tri$d^ f:
But, had it known and loved me well.
No doubt the creature would have died.
My rich and aged Uncle John
lias .known me long and loves me well.
But still persists in living on—
I would he were a young gazelle!
I never loved a tree or flower;
But if I had, I beg to say.
The blight, the wind, the sun, or shower.
Would soon have withered it away.
IVe dearly loved my Uncle John,
From childhood tu5 the present hour,
And yet he will go living on—
I would ho weto a it oe or Sower!
The Worthern Press on the Ten-
' neesee Election.
The New York World thus concludes
an editorial on the “ Republican Exultation
over the Result, of the Election in Tennes
see'’ : I V. - , u • ; r-
The joy of the Republicans at the prospect
of securing the whole negro vote, shows how
insecure they consider their ascendancy in
the North. If they could hold what they
have in the Northern States, it would be of
ho consequence to them whether the South
elected Republicans or Democrats. The
States they control at present elect a majori
ty of both Houses of Congress; and can elect
the President.. But they see that slight
changes in the North, changes much smaller
than often occur from year to year, would
shake their power to its foundation. The
change, for example, of about six thousand
votes in each, would give the Democrats the
two Great States of New York and Pennsyl
vania, with their fifty-nine electoral votes;
and taking fifty-nine from one side and add
ing them to the other would make a differ
ence of one hundred and eighteen in the
result.
Although the Northern Democrats have
but a few members of Congress, they form
nearly half of the Northern people. This is
wliv the Republicans attach such supreme
Stanton Requested to Resign—Pres- importance to the negro vote. But the negro
ident Johnson and the Assassina
tion Record. ? \ I
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington*, August 5.—There is no long
er necessity for speculation as to the purpose
of the President with reference to Mr. Stan
ton’s continuing in the Cabinet Mr. John
son this morning notified him in writing
that his resignation as Secretary of War
would be accepted. So far Mr. Stanton has
not been heard from on the subject, but his
friends say he will resign, and that he is pre
paring a written response to the note of the
President
In case Mr. Stanton goes out of tlie Cabi
net, General Grant will be appointed to per
form the duties of Secretary of War until the
President shall h.ayo.iimo to consider who he
will name as the successor of Mr. Stanton.
It is understood that Mr. Johnson unequiv
ocally denies that the papers and findings of
the court in the assassination trial were first
submitted to the Cabinet before he signed
his approval of tho action ol the court. He
says the official record was presented to him
by General Holt, and it was signed in his
presence; that at the time no recommendation
for commutation of sentence of Mrs. Surratt
was attached to the papers.
The approval of the sentence by tbe Presi
dent was commenced on the next to the last
page on tho last sheet of the document, and
finished on the other sido of the same paper,
instead ot only writing on one side of tho
sheet, as on the other sheets, and this was
done because there was no other sheet re
maining, and fastened to the document pre
sented for his signature. As the document is
now found in the War Department, the re
commendation for commutation of Mrs. Sur
ratt’s sentence follows all the other matter,
and is the conclusion of tho document.
In tbe official report of the trial by Ben,
Pittman, who had access to tho records and
documents, by permission of Mr. Stanton
for the purpose of making up his book,
everything appears except the recommenda
tion for commutation of sentence. Mr. Pitt
man says in the introduction to bisbook that
it contains all the.orders, findings, sentence,
documents, etc., connec :ed with the trial.
It appears that the papers were not present
ed to the Cabinet until the application for
habeas corpus was made, and after approval
of tho sentence by the President. Tho re
commendation for commutation is not in the
handwriting of Mr. Bingham, as is alleged
by some.
Since writing *tlie foregoing, I learn that
certain friends of Mr. Stanton, who called on
him to-day say he assured them he would not
resign
The Trip to Europe.—A voyager to En
rope gives the following account of, the pas
sage in the steamer
Tbero arc several ladies who keep their
state-rooms from the beginning, eating noth
iug, holding nothing, crying to the captain
to stop the ship and put them on shore, and
asking piteously whether the next wave will
he as big as the last one. These are liauld np
on tho fourth day, and have a sensation of
being bounced into the air and left hanging
there. But none are so utterly miserable as
the ship’s bride,- who came on board with
her groom in a new traveling dress of silver
colored poplin, with a tear on her white veil
as she bade her mother good-bye, dropped
upon her groom’s arm, and thought of love,
protectifln, Paris and presents.
In two hours she has a sensation, as she
stands oni the hurricane deck, of having eaten
too much frnit cake. This increases as the
ocean draws nearer, and finally resolves itself
into. a great ache, both in tho head and
stomach. Proud as a Sioux brave stands her
husbaud; pale as a captivp squaw is she.. At
last she fades below, like the spectre of a
mermaid, and sobs her pillow-case full. Poor
dear 1 She thinks that John will be disgust*
<-.l : while John, like a born surgeon, is run
ning for hartshorn, salt-, Congress water and
brandy, all of which ore thrown at him out qf
the depths of her distress, and she lives to
believe that the first week of marriage is the.
weariest of life.
———
Women.—A writer f om the Paris Ex
hibition lias a few words on the womcii who
are seen at the great Fair. He says:
England tends us several misses, whose spe
cialty consists In letting themselves tie courted by-
all the world, then finishing by marrying some
rich end Idiotic nobleman. Russia sends pnntseS*
Ees, created and sent into the world for thu ex
press purpose of marrying artists. Spain sends
guitar women, reported morose, and unworthy of
their reputation. Here tho eye rests upon, an
Italian, with black c-yes and purple black hair, and
coilied with this graceful nv.zzoo, which is oue of
the most ravishing head-dresses ever inveuted by
a coquette. There is a Swede, with golden hair
nnd complexion white as ivory, with indolent step
and dreamy eye*. Alittle farther, tbe blonde Ger
nun, melancholy, to bo consistent to national
character. But among all, it is the Parisian who
is the most feminine ot ali wornem She is always
invested with a charm peculiarly her own. 8h
vote cannot save their party from impending
overthrow. The North in the hands of the
Democrats, ns well as theNorth in the hands
of the Republicans, is strong enough to con
trol the government; and the disorders and
disgusts which will flow from negro rule in
the South will be the chief means of gaining-
for us the votes we lack to make the Demo
cratic party a majority.
Th6 New York Commercial A’dvertiser, in
an editorial on the same subject, says:
The lesson we learn from all this is, that a
new danger threatens our Government. It
lias encountered and survived tlie most for
midable rebellion the world ever witnessed.
We are, with broad shoulders and strong
hands, carrying a national debt, the magni
tude of which excites the astonishment and
admiration of the Old World. And now. in
tbe very crisis of our affairs,' at the culminat
ing point in our existence, wo enter upon a
career of demoralized suffrage—of watered
stock. Our boast, heretofore, has been that
“intelligence is the life of liberty.” We are
now submitting ignorance for intelligence,
taking the chance of losing in strength what
is gained in numbers.
With four years of war, and another tour
years of strife and dissensions, the people be
gin to desire repose. The country needs it.
It is time that the strain upon both the pop
ular mind and our institutions should.be re -
laxed. There is but one path leading to res
toration, prosperity, and happiness. That
path is through General Grant as President.
Ou the Ladies.
When ladies vote, candidates will always
be elected by <l handsome” majorities, and
sometimes by “ sweeping” majorities.
“I have the best wife in the world,” said
long-suffering husband; “ she always strikes
me with the soft end of the broom.”
Nantucket has furnished lady principals
for five of her leading private schools. The
raising of “ school inarms ” is the great busi
ness of the place, and as large as is the supply
it is unequal to the demand.
A lady fainted a few days since in the cars,
A medical gentleman who went to her relief
exclaimed: “Has any gnukman a flask of
whisky or brandy?” Over thirty pocket
pistols flashed is: the air at once.
The fellow that was told that the best cure
for palpitation of tbe heart was to stop hug
ging and kissing the girls, said, “ If that is
the only remedy which can be proposed, I
say, let ’er palpi tate.”
A case of courtship of forty-five yeais’
standing is reported at East Lynn, Mass,
The gentleman has paid his visits on each al
ternate Sunday evening..'
A young lady being engaged to be married
and getting sick of the bargain, applied to a
friend to help her untie the knot before it was
too late. 44 Ob, certainly,” he replied; “ it’s
very easy to untie it now while it’s a beau.”
Men, dyine. make their wills,,but wives
Escape a woik so sad:
Why ihould they make whntnll their lives
Tho gcntlo dames have hau ?
An acquaintance of ours, a mother,
too, not long since, was lamenting tho loss of
a child.(one of a family of eight" 1 “iwwmnan n
Gen. Lee at the Virginia Springs.
Special Correspondence New Orleans Crescent.]
White Sulphur Springs, )
Greenbrier Co., -Va., July 25, 1867. J
Gen. Robert Edmund Lee arrived here yes
terday. It had been previously announced
that he was coming, and as half-past eleven
approached, (the hour at which the stage
coaches usually come in), the visitors com
menced assembling at the office from all the
cottages on the grounds. Ladies and gentle
men, black and -white, Federals and Confed
erates. and even the little children—all as
sembled to welcome the old hero. While we
were waiting for the arrival of the coach, a
horseman was seen descending the hill—not
a “solitary horseman,” lor this horseman was
accompanied by another one. The latter,
however, attracted no attention. All eyes
were riveted upon the noble and majestic
form of the cavalier who bestrode a large
and beautiful iron-gray. “ There is General
Lee coming on horseback,” said some one
who recognized him in the distance. “ Yes,
that’s him,” said others, oblivious of the
rules of grammar in the excitement of the
moment. “Oh, what a fine-looking man l”
said all the ladies in chorus.
But the most eloquent recognition of all,
in my opinion, was that given by one of his
old soldiers, who had followed him ior four
years on many a weary march and through
many a bloody figbt, and who had been
twice dragged off the field, supposed to be
mortally wounded. This soldier occupies
some subordinate position as laborer about
tbe grounds, but seeing a crowd assembled
had come to find out what was the matter.
“Ef that ain’t Marse Robert,” said he, “then
d—n my Confederate soul!” The remark
may appear profane ; but no one who saw
his'eyc kindlo with pleasure, as he gazed
upon his old leader, could have helped excu
sing his rough but honest welcome. “Marse
Robert,” as is known, was the form of en-
endearment by which the rank, and file of
General Lee’s army were in the habit of de
signating him.
Gen. Lee had preferred coming on hoise-
back to riding in the stage coach—and I
never saw a man who looked more at home
in thesaddlo than he did. Ridmg up to the
front of the hotel, lie quietly dismounted and
shook hands with several of his old friends
who were present, and walked into the office
and registered his name. He was dressed in
a gray coat and white linen pantaloons, and
with cavalry boots on. A broad-brimmed
hat protected his head and face from the
sun. In the coach which came soon after
were Mrs. Lee, his daughter Miss Agnes Lee,
and his son, Gen. Custis Lee.
At night the ball room presented a bril
liant spectacle. All the guests—some three
hundred in number—assembled together,
with about two hundred ladies and gentle
men from the surrounding country, who
came to the ball given in Gen. Lee’s honor.
The General was in the ball room most ofthe
time, and it is my duty as a faithful historian
to record the fact that lie seemed to be fond
er of the society of ladies than of gentlemen.
After the ball was over a party of visitors got
the band and serenaded him. This morning,
however, bright and early, he was cut,
dressed in a full-blooded white linen suit,
taking his way to the spring to drink of its
sparkling and life-giving waters.
Gen. Lee’s portraits do not do him justice.
His face has a more genial and animated
look than is represented—and his eye is clear,
brilliant and almost fiery in appearance.—
His hair and beard are nearly white, but he
is as erect as an Indian. His suave and ele
gant manners arc the admiration of all who
converse with him. Hois extremely reticent
(and properly so) on public affairs—but no
one can look at that honest face nnd say that
Gen. Lee ever did anything that he thought
was wrong. They may call him “traitor”
and “rebel,” and everything else that is false,
and they may disfranchise him and deprive
him of his rights, and plunder him of his
property. He makes no allusion to this,
much less complains of it—but who had not
rather be Gen. Lee to-day than many of those
in high places who are stigmatizing and de
nouncing him ?
“More true jojr Marcellus, exiled, feels,
Than Cresar with a Senate at his heels.”
A World of Delusion.—Geo. Alfred
Townsend gives the following naughty sketch
of life at Newport ft.
Here is a bathing scene that struck mo yester
day: A lady dressed all in azure, even to her
boots, which were of the same cthvreal hue ; like
wise her parasol, her gloves, her little flat function
ot a hat, and the only relief to this rare uniformi
ty, was the golden chignou of hair that looked as
if it might be the reservoir ot. all this azure dye.—
She had that pretty walk and sti-lish manner of
the New York belle, and coming down the sand
trippingly, 6he looked only more real than those
French lithographs we see of superbly shaped,
dead ripe ladies, peach tinted, and with the dean
cut feet of sea-birds. Tnis creature disappeared.
I waited with guilty anxiety for her reappearance
from tlie little sentry-box of a bathing-house.—
Merciful Pan! what is this? alow-set, bald-head
ed, bare-footed, apparition, rigged out in blood-
red smock and breeches, with green veins around
the arm-pits and down the breast, and a green belt
like a sea-weed bisecting her like an insect
debout. The nightmare of the auto-dc-fc
went straight down the beach into the
sea, as it to meet the anthropophagi, and I stole
to the bathing-box down by the rear side, and
looked in. There hung a little skirt and jacket of ,
azure; little azure boots with azure strings were ’
set down coquettishly on the sand; the little hat,
like a leaf, was dangling from a nail; and a ball
of golden hair as big as a pumpkiD, swung freely
from a beam. I .could account for tlie diminished
height of my lady now. She had been decapitated.
Directly, all clasped by her wet masquerading
garb, so thnt the roundness of youth was half
come back, she re-entered the box. Of course I
ha«l quitted it. lu live minutes an azure sylph,
fit for Thetis herself, came da ntily out upon the
sand, gqlden ball and all. ' I thought Ovid or the
Davenport brothers would have n hard time to
beat this metamorphosis.
because,
said she, “there was just enough for a cotil
lion, and they did dance so prettily.”
The annexed has a sufficiently wide appli
cation to be appreciated by tbe married jico-
ple of either sex: . * d A 4 U;
Traveling husband.—Scene 1st. Room ia
hotel. Spittoons full of segar stumps.—
Rourbon whisky. Husband in a hurry td lie
off, writing home-: *
Dearest Susie -Mv. time is so occupied
with."business that I can hardly spare a mo
ment to .’write td yotf. Oh, darling, liqwX
miss you, and the only thing that Sustains me
during my absence is the thought'that every
moment thus spent is for the benefit of my
dear wife and children. Take good care of
yourself, my dear. Feed the baby on the
cow’s milk. Excuse haste, etc.
Wife at Home.—Scene 2d. Parlor. All tho
gas lit. Thirteen grass widows; Fred, from
around the comer, with his violin; Jim, from
across the way, with his banjo; Jack, from humin natur don’t awl go out with regenerashin.
above, with his guitar; Sam, from, below, with They iixu the rate of awl evel, and often say
his flute; lots of other fellows, with their in- j Ser w“n ml saliry'will be rased?” •
struments. Dancing and singing, sideboard — - * '
Jim Kuank on* PitEACinuis.— Preechers are a
good eel like uthcr men, only sum uv em are a
littel more so.
They hev there weeknesses and there wanities,
and will bare wachin.
Ofen wenjthey are prayin. they ea to themselves,
Satin assist in them :
“Wei, that’s fust-rate,'apd I’m doin’ it-np
brown.”
And so when they think they hev preeched a
extry cerwon, they air auxjut. td hev you prais it
to their fais, jest like enny other cinner.
They luv the wirnmiu of their kongregation
better than they luv the men, wieh shows that
Da ah Hubby—IIow lonesome I am in
Our absence. The hours pass tediously. No
body calls on me, aiid I am constantly think
ing of the time when you will be at home, and
your cheerful countenance light up the now
dreary routine of every-day life. My house
hold duties keep me constantly employed. I
am living as economical as possible, knowing
that your small income will not admit of friv
olous expenses* But, now dear, I will
say good by, or I will be too lute for tlie
- . , monthly concert of prayer. In haste, yours,
lias eyes made to see everything, ears made to hear I ,
t Tervthlnu, a mouth made to say everything; and I Vahv T.txit Th«
iu the mountime, the man tho most rude would j ON ^ UK • ‘- m .
never dure to address her otherwise than respect- ' steamship Cleopatra wjII foave tn:s point on
fully. The Parisian is the woman, the most i Tuesday next, the loth, bhc is on the Mur-
dangerous and the most devoted, the most ardent j rav p ne an( j commanded by Captain S. F.
and the most fickle, the most spiritudU, nnd the ! p h ; Ui ” a ( i-
least Instructed, in the entire world. 11 miu P s - ^ av ‘ *
Dancing and singin^
with nuts, fruit cakes, cream, wine, whiskey,
&c» Wife in a hurry- to dance, writing to end walk outofner in the strete then wen they hed
husband : 01,1
They like to ware fine close, and wen they get a
nu suto they will admier themselves in the glass.
old close.'. . L . _ - . . ,
.1) And wen anuther precchcr okipies hiz pnlpit,
and he betes him awl to peees, and his kongrega-
. shun are pleased, and prajs the uthcr man, then
1 his hart is angry within him, and he is jells nv the
more gifted brother.
He often prepairs a cermon mee.rly becos hehes
to, and wen hiz hart iz not in the wurk.
lie ofton thinks and sez wiked to himself, even
tho his lips move not, and liiz tung gives not
jangwidgs thereunto.
For the preacher is but a man disgiJjed cz a
saint, who deceves himself ez ofen ez he decayes
enny body els.
Wheat.—Brownlow’s Whig, of the 7th,
quotes wheat, at Knoxville, at $1.50 per
bushel.
JgT°Tlie names of W. H. Suratt and An
nie Surratt appear in the published-list of
those who sailed for Europe last Saturday.