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vS phidAY. MARCH 20^1868
jiOl’THKRW RADICALS Oil
<i^’*IlJ|CAl* KOMIWKE FOR GOV.
JjlsOB-
lloffiog cx«r*cU nro given upon tlic
fl**?* ritv and wo think none of them
c \"d'tfpo ,e<,:
B d*io»t*00 th(it will ruin and bank-
Sroxcn -
|M*V . (>i t intents of the people of Georgia
’**! Uifled with and jeopardized, (in Bul-
; B athfJf and I now enter an appeal,
^ juaeh proceedings, to the people oP.Geori
Ks.r.F«rnxe.
fiatti hy tho people, the ticket will
6t*t # to disgrace, ruin and bankrupt-
?. Ptrrov-
' i conclude to cut my throat, I may be
^ rh to cupportsuch a nomination.”
[IT. P. Farrow. *
£hbi)B.—'Vc feel constrained to sny
special dispatch to tho Augusta
from this city, announcing tho
* ion of Judge Rcci-e, on the motion of
a member of the Committee, does not
.j*ith tlic facts ns they appear on the
I* 5 **
4(j*m sending out their Constitution with j 0 f our city paid their respects to him, on
i&iief clause as a bait for fools, they were
Relating * cheat and swindle.
The Lir* of Jefferson Davis, by F. H.
iiitcil. iate editor of the Southern Literary
laager, has been furnished to us by Mr.
tor, the agent. It is n handsome book
it!) aspects, and we promise ourselves
ntiipicture in running over its pages.—
hut requested to say that Mr. Brunner is
wwdj to supply subscribers with the
td
•niocK* 8 Nominating Convention.—'Wc
i k^n at some pains to ascertain the true
and complexion of thnt precious band
•riots who nominated the Yankee Ex-
■ PnDt, Bullock, for Governor of. Geor
] liras composed as follows: 81 uegroes,
an* 1*1*8 Yankees, 23 apostuto Geor-
. B d 12 scallawags from other Southern
;yi'-a pretty sot to bo filling the public
£xjof the great Sfato of Georgia!
AfUK-vT.—'The Atlanta Rndical press con-
t tu misrepresent tho resolution of the
“nation appointing Blodgett and Parrott
flamissionersto Washington and appropri
ate* hundred dollars to pay their
ipenses They studiously mention but one
tot of the mission, and eonccpl the rest.
Ire benevolent one of prevailing on Congress
remove all disabilities from citizens of
*ofgio, is the only one assigned. A gcntle-
... w jjo was present assures us that the
ortiare also instructed the commissioners to
U pon Congress the importance of ncccpt-
the Constitution as it stands, while a
-Taler of the Convention informed us that
it wd object.was to prevail on Congress, if
■ntible, not to strike out the Relief Article,
tlitl a Rodieal Congressman had assured them
iVyrw «nU do, at it was in violation of the
Mitution of the United States. We have
•kk! authority for saying that a letter to that
iet wai received previous to the adjourn-
ami that the Convention knew, when
OCR CANDIDATE.
The expression of opinion here, so far at
we have heard, with regard to the recommen
dation of Judge Reese for Governor, is most
gratifying. We heard but one sentiment on the
street yesterday, and that a cordial and hearty
approval. It coutd not well be otherwise,
for the superior intelligence and exalted
character of our nominee cannot fail to com
mand the admiration of the wise and good.
There is no reason why every white man in
Georgia, and every intelligent black man,
should note vote for Judge lteese. He is a
Georgian, a man whose attainments and
high character all respect, who
closely identified with all that con
cerns the honor and interests of the state;
while opposed to him wc find an individual
hitherto unheard of, a Connecticut Yankee of
recent importation, who has never before ris
en above the dignity of Express agent, and
who, so fur as the world knows or has reason
to suppose, is entirely destitute of qualifica
tions for the high position of Governor.
Just think of such a man being the successor
of that illustrious statesman and jurist,
Chailjs J. Jenkins! Is not the Yen tiioughtan
insult to every man who lias the character
and welfare of Georgia at heart? And then,
who was it that dug up this wondeiful pre
tender of n atatesmtfn from the ground and
thrust him before the people of Georgia as n
candidate for Governor ? A nest of conspira
tors against the public treasury, who know-
little o f , and care less for, the State, numbering
94 in nil, and of whom 31 were negroes nnd
28 Yankee adventurers, spewed out from
Northern society, chiefly since the close of
the war.
Between two such men we cannot believe
the white men, or even the intelligent ne
groes, of'Georgia, can hesitate to choose.—
Even though a Georgian should vote for tho
Constitution, what earthly reason can lie
have for preferring such a man as Bullock to
Judge Reese to administer it? There is»noae,
and we shall be greatly mistaken if the white
native rcconstrnctionists of Georgia do not
by their votes rebuke those hunters after
plunder who have outraged the character of
the Stnte by presenting such a man for Gov
ernor.
New York Democratic Convention.
.Icflerson Davis.
This gentleman has been spending some
days in this city, on his return from a short
sojourn in the State wherein was his home,
nnd is now on his way to Richmond, where
he is to be subjected to trial for his leader
ship in the late war. While here he lias been
visited by a great many persons, whom he
has rc-ceived with that quiet and unostenta
tious courtesy for which lie is so well known.
As was mentioned hy us in Thursday’s
Picayune, two or three of the fire companies
r The President declines to receive
&iil pipers through Secretary Btanton’s
&,but desires them to be sent direct to
itfuntive Mansion.
Ita Southern Banner.”—This new re-
jstpiper, to he published in Auguste,
Tctt Ryan editor-in-chief, will appear
to the present week. Mr. Ciinrlcs J.
at is the authorized agent for Bibb coua-
. u.l *t *r« glud to hear that a very large
ewiftioo list has already been obtained.
■tmttsox Medicai. College, Phila-
wa.—.U the recent commencement of
kibovtuiraed Medical College, on die 7th
K«e hundred nnd fifty-nine young gen-
hid conferred on them the degree of
TO## Doctor, ;M. D., five of them from
to-wit; Wm. Gaston Armstrong, ni
ki ! >;S Henry Dessau of Macon; W. Crow-
Johnson, of Bibb county; B. R.Duster and
&3ua M:\nn, cf Houston county.
•t r Judge Chase styles himself in the sum-
P Chief Justice of the United States, aiul
l Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
y td States, which annoys some of the lin
ers. They declare that he has no judi
^position in the coming trial, and it is
*tnt that he will perform what he believes
!* his duty as presiding Judge.
-ipoiitant Announcement.—The New
k Citizea «ajs that Lieut. Gen, Wm. T.
jj run *Bi, if solicited, accept the Demo-
' t non,!:1 'ition. and become again in civil
M was the late war, one of the
-ist soldiers of the Union.
‘T Hon. Thos. A. It. Nelson, of Knox-
t" as been retained os one of the counsel
^President, aod is now in Washington.
"miutive Mortality.—In a recent
-w of Dr. Gaillard, at the Medical
*ge in Virginia, it was stated that in tho
■ J States armies, during the late civil
• litre died in action, or from wounds.
thirty per cent.; of volunteers,
J-5ve per cent.; of colored troops, only
“ per cent The death from disease
T of regulars, forty-two per cent; of vol-
??*> fifty-nine per cent.; of colored, one
T' i? #n< ^ f°riy-onc P cr cent.; and this,
'-“landing the latter were acclimated,
.‘'lie white troops were from different
climates.
their return from their parade on Wednesday,
and of this an effort 1ms been made to make
use as political capital, by certain persons
whose own political past, though very ob
scure, is not the most free from taint of dis
loyalty.
Perhaps the best answer to this is to bo
found in the history of certain proceedings
yesterday, in the Dryadts street Reconstruc
tion Convention, when one Cromwell, a
Northern negro, moved a resolution declar
ing Mr. Davis’ presence to be “detrimental to
peace and order,” and notifying him to leave
this State within twenty-four hours. It was,
by the order of that Convention, indignantly
returned to its authorand one speaker, a
Republican candidate fur Congress, declared
thnt he regarded Jefferson Davis personally
as a brave nnd candid man, but politically a
traitor, nnd that it was, to say the least, bar
barism to order Jeff. Davis—who is now, in
one sense, in shackles and a prisoner—out of
the State. That such a man, now wholly
withdrawn from public life, nnd held an ob
ject of sympathy even by his honorable ene
mies, should not receive respectful attention
from his personal friends and companions in
defeat und misfortune, without being barked
at by .camp followers from the army of his
conquerors and deserters from his own, is
certainly to be wondered at.
Wo w'ill here add that when it was sugges
ted lately to a leading Radical of command
ing influence and personal position, who has
declined of late to be .a leader among the
adventurers who have assumed tlic charge of
party affairs here, and not now a resident of
the State, that certain friends of Mr. Davis
were anxious that he should be put at the
bead of a certain enterprise of great public
use, but not at all connected with political
affairs, and that- fears had been expressed
that it would be unfavorably received by
Republicans at the North, who, at all events,
it was thought, would not embark their
means in it, promptly replied that? he knew
not a better man for the place; that they all
had confidence in Mr. Davis’ sincerity, integ
rity, ability nnd capacity to conduct a great
work of internal improvement, nnd that
nothing could be more satisfactory to them
than to see his great eneigics and untiring
industry thus employed.
We think that with such opinions respect
ing him and his deserts as a man, a score or
two of firemen may be excused if they pay
him the compliment, bestowed on many
others, of a few cheers, and the playing of a
timo or two of their bands. Mr. Davis
leaves to-day for Richmond.
[JK O. Pieiyune, 7 th.
Albany, March 11.—In the State Demo
cratic Convention to-day Governor Seymour
made an eloquent speech, closing with an
appeal to the bondholders to rescue our
country from the hands of corrupt and
wasteful men. By so doing they would not
only best secure their own interests, but
would gain the good will and gratitude of
tho oppressed laborers and tax-payers. The
speaker was warmly applauded at the close
of his speech.
Samuel J. Tilden spoke at length, review
ing the history of the two political parties;
contending that the policy of the Republican
party has been and is to impoverish the
country, centralize power, paralyze industry,
multiply taxation, elevate the negro and de
grade the white man.
The following are the resolutions:
The Democracy of New York assembled,
at this extraordinary juncture of public af
fairs, to deliberate upon the solemn obliga
tions they owe to themselves and their fel
low citizens in the other States of the Union,
and to express their satisfaction that the re
presentatives from every other State are to
meet again, as of old, in the spirit which ani
mated the fathers of the Republic to lay a
new foundation of civil liberty; the Demo
cratic members of this State, with a unani-
ty never before surpassed, have brought to
this Convention jhc assurance of their un
bending purpose to lay aside all personal as
pirations and local interests, and devote-their
entire energies to the work before them, so
as to secure, a? the first necessity of political
and social life, the restoration of the Union
and re-establishment of the Constitution as
the supreme law of the land, and to this they
arc impelled by the peculiar exigency of the
terrible peril to which they are brought, - for
they find that by a subversion of the time-
honored policy which the people of this
country established for the furtherance of
their high interest, both houses of the Con
gress of the United States, by successive vio
lations of her pledge and infractions of the
organic law and of the public faith, to en
compass mere partisan ends, have brought our
people to the very verge of ruin.
They have broken the resolutions, affirmed
so often in the face of the civilized world,
that the warlike measures and energies of the
government should be directed only to a
restoration of the States unlawfully sought to
be taken out of the Union. They have, after
tapping the life-blood of the people and ex
pending millions of treasure to accomplish
this end, driven the restored States out,
denying their existence in the Union, treat
ing them as subjugated provinces, and as
held by the right ot conquest, and now hold
ten sovereigns subject to the control and
military supervision and the guaranteed
dominion of an inferior race. They have
defiantly spurned the Constitution as the or
ganic law of the land, issued their decree and
erected their will ns the higher law, to which
the co-ordinate branches of the government,
the judiciary and the Executive are to rend
acquiescence, and to which the people, bound
in fetters, are to submit without a njurmur.
They have,under pretence of diminishing the
public debt,. imposed a heavy tribute upon
every citizen, saving always those who have
riches, and on the poor they have imposed
an exorbi’ant tariff, which lias driven our
commerce from every sea. They have para
lyzed our manufactories by excessive tax
ation; they have invented the most oppres
sive system ot taxation, to take from the
laborer his hope of reward, and they have
filled the land with swarms of public officials,
who harrass the people and eat out their sub
stance.
To insure their fatal dominance in the
pending canvass, and to complete a fonl con
spiracy to overcome the government of our
fathers, they resolved to depose the President
nnd install one of the chief conspirators in
his place—afi act which the conservative
freemen of New York declare to be without
justification or plausible excuse, and de
nounce ns an outrage without parallel in the
history of civilized government. By such
methods they conspire to complete usurpa
tion, which will subject the people of the
North, as of the South, to a military domina
tion, for which acts they are enemies to the
pence, prosperity and liberties of this repub
lic, and we invoke the aid of all lovers of
civil liberty in every State to join us in one
grand and successful effort to rid the country
of 6ucli tyranny, secure tho triumph of Dem
ocratic principles, and the restoration of the
perfect union of these States.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted,
and the convention adjourned.
REVERIES OF Aft OLD BACHELOR WHILE
PL A YISO NAPOLEON'S FA VORJTE GAME,
SOLITAIRE.
Alone, alone, I sit in my room.
And ehnffie, and cut, and deal.
Sipping my wine till ile rich maroon
A flame in my cheeks I feel,
Only a face like mine in the glass,
That glares at mine through the smoke.
That smiles at me, and bows os I pass,
Enjoying the silent joke.
The ashes fall from my spent cigar,
And half asleep in my chair,
I shuffle and think what fools we are
Who learn to play Solitaire.
I sigh for a lip to touch the glass,
And sip its nectar with mine.
The thrill of a voice and the sound of a kiss
To mingle with my wine.
I played a game in the olden time,
When hearts were trumps with me;
A man and woman, he in his prime,
Bendingto herhisknee-y
It matters not what sho said to him.
Nor the game she played him there.
Nor why ho sits in tho midnight grim
With his wine and Solitaire!
The steeple chimes ring tho midnight hoar.
The fire in the grate hums low:
The wine’s so flat and tasteless and sour.
And I know what makes it so.
It w;is not good in Eden alone
For Adam’s bachelorhood.
If they can rob my ribs of a bone,
I wish to heaven they would!
ily anxious heart has grown desolate.
Oh, ye unpitying fair.
For your gracious smiles must I longer wait?
I’m weary of Solitaire.
HAPPINESS.
BY J. B. LOWELL.
Wing-footed I thou nbid’st with him
That asks it not; but ho who hath
Watched o’er the waves thy fading path
Will nevermore on ocean’s rim
At morn or eve behold returning
The high-heaped canvas shoreward yearning;
Thou only tcachest us tho core
And inmost meaning of No More,
Thou, who first Showest us thy face
Turned o’ertho shoulder’s parting grace,
And whoso sad footprints we can trace
Away from every mortal door!
THE GHOST BOBBER.
On a evening in the spring of 1830, a
stranger, mounted on a noble looking horse,
passed slowly over the snow-white limestQne
road leading through tlio Black Forest.
Just as the sun was going to rest for the
day, when the gloomy shadows were begin
ning to stalk, lie drew’ rein, as he said—
‘This must be near the spot, surely. I’ll
stop here, anyhow, for awhile, and sec what
I can learn.”
He thereupon dismounted and entered the
parlor of the inn, where he sat down beside
a small table.
“How can I serve you, meinheer ? ” said the
landlord.
l Sec toniy horse outside,” replied the guest
carelessly, but at the same time eyeing the
landlord from head to foot; “and let me have
some wine—Rhine will do.”
The landlord was turning to withdraw from
the stranger’s presence, when he stopped and
said—
“Which way, meinheer, do you travel ?"
“To Nanstadt," replied tho guest.
*You will rett here to-night, I suppose ? ”
continued the landlord.
“I will stay here for two or three hours,
but I must then be off. so as to reach my desti
nation there in the morning. I am agoing to
purchase lumber for the market.”
“And you have considerable money with
you, no doubt ? ’’ asked the landlord inno
cently.
“Yes, considerable,” replied the guest, sip
ping at his wine disinterestedly.
“Then, if you’ll take my advice,” said the
landlord, “you’ll stay here till morning.”
“Why?” replied the stranger, looking up
curiously.
“Because ? ” whispered the landlord, look
ing around as if he were disclosing a great
secret, nnd was afraid of being heard by
somebody else, “every man that passes over
the road between this and Nanstadt for the
stand each other for the rest of our journey.
You are to continue on ahead of me, in the
right road, without swerving either to the
right or left. It I imi you do anything suspi
cious, I will drive a brace of bullctts through
you without a word of notice. Now push
on.”
The guide had started as directed, but it
was evident from his muttering that lie was
alarmed at something besides the action of
his follower.
In the meantime the thunder had increased
its violence, and the flashes of lightning had
become more frequent and more blinding.
For awhile the two horsemen rode on in
silence; the guide keeping up his directions to
the letter, while his follower watched his
every movement, as a cat would watch a
mouse.
Suddenly the guide stopped and looked
behind him. Again he heard the click of
the stranger’s pistol and saw his uplifted
arm.
“Have mercy, meinheer,” he groaned, “I
dare not go on.”
“I give you three seconds to go on,” re
plied the stranger, sternly—“One!”
“In Heaven’s name spare,” implored the
guide, almost overpowered with iem; “look
before me in the road and you will not blame
me.”
The stranger looked. At first he saw some
thing white standing motionless in the centre
of the road, but presently-a flash of lightning
lit up the scene, and he saw that the white
figure was indeed ghastly and frightful
enough looking to chill the blood in the
veins of even the bravest man. If his blood
chilled for a moment, therefore, it was not
through any fear that he felt for his ghostly
interccpter, for the next instant he set bis
teeth .hard while he whispered through them
just loud enough to be heard by his terror
stricken guide—
“Be it man or devil 1—ride it down—I’ll
follow. Two ! ”
With a cry of despair upon his lips, the
guide urged liis horse forward, at the top of
liis speed, quickly followed by tho stranger,
who held his pistol ready.
In another instant the horse of the guide
swept past the oreadful spot, and in an in
stant the report of a pistol rang through the
dark forest, and thestiaoger heard a horse
•allop off through the woods riderless.
Finding himself alone, tho'stranger drew
his pistol, took deliberate aim at the ghostly
murderer, and pressed his finger upon the
trigger.
The apparition approached quickly, but
in no hosiite attitude. The stranger stayed
his hand. At length the ghost addressed
him in a voice that was anything but sepul
chral.
“Here, Willhelm, ye move out of your
perch this minifte and give me a helping
hand. I’ve hit the game while on the wing,
haven’t I ?”
The stranger was nonplussed for a moment,
but recovering himself, ho grumbled some
thing unintelligible and leaped to the ground.
One word to his horse and the brave animal
Stood perfectly still. By the snow-white trap
pings on the would-be ghost he was next en
abled to grope his way in the dark towards
that individual, whom he found bending
over a black mass, about the size of a man, on
the road.
As the tiger pounces upon bis prey, the
stranger leaped upon the stooping figure be
fore him, and bore it to the ground.
“I arnst you in the King’s name,” cried the
stranger, grasping his prisoner by the throat
and holding him tight. “Stir hand or foot
until I have you properly secured, and I’ll send
your soul to eternity.”
This was such an unexpected turn of affairs
that the would-be ghost could hardly believe
his own senses, and was handcuffed and
stripped of his dagger and pistol before ho
found time to speak.
“Are you not my Willhelm?” he gasped.
“No, landlord.” replied the individual*ad-
dressed, “I am not. But I am an officer of
Webster ana Calhoun.
In bis recollections of the great men of th*
United States Senate, Horace Greeley says;
Mr. Webster was colder, graver, sterner, in
his general bearing; though he could unbend
and be sunny and blithe in. his intercourse
with those admitted to his intimacy. There
were few gayer or valued associates on a fish
ing or sailing party. His mental calibre was
much the larger; I judge that he had read
and studied more, though neither could boast
much erudition, or even intense application.
I believe each was about thirty years in Con
ress, where Mr. Clay identified
A Hebrew Rules in Ebigland.
From thRichmond Examiner.]
Somewhere about the year 1214, & king of
England, whose memory is not a savory one
extraeted money from certain Jews by draw
ing their teeth, without resorting to any of
those measures for the relief ot pain with
which dentists are now familiar; and from
the days of their infamous Kmg John until n
very recent date, there were certain disabili
ties attached to :he Israelites resident in Great
Britain. To-d ly, however, a Jew is the most
powerful man in England, and in all but the
title is kiDgof that lamed land. The Prime
“'.TT’., . . ' J Y“I“i , n '}!F e ■ Minister of England is a power behind the
with the origin or success of at least Haifa throne greater than the throne, for he shapes
° ne J h , US and controls the domestic and foreign policy
of the nation. He commands the entire pa
tronage of the government, and although her
requests are never refused, the Queen formal
ly solicits at the bands ot the Premier every
blended with Mr. Webster’s. Though Web
ster’s was far the more massive intellect, Mr.
Clay as a legislator evinced far the greater
creative, constructive power.
I once sat in the Senate Chamber when
Mr. Douglas, who had just been transferred
trom the House, rose to move forward a bill
in which he was interested. “We have no
such practice in the Senate, sir,” said Mr.
Webster, in his deep, solemn voice, fixing his
eye on the mover, but without risiug trom
his seat. Mr. Douglas at once varied his
motion, seeking to achieve his end-in a some
what different way. “That is not the .way
wc do business in the Senate, sir,” rejoined
Mr. Webster, still more decisively and
sternly.
The “Little Giant” was a bold, ready man,
not easily overawed or disconcerted, but if
he did not quiver under the eye and voice of
Mr. Webster, then my eyesight deceived me,
and 1 was very near him.
Mr. Calhoun was a tall, spare, earnest,
appointment in Church or State which she may
desire to make. She receives foreign embas
sadors. but the diplomatic business is con
ducted by the Premier; she reads a speech to
Parliament, but iiie Premier is the author of
it, and the same powerful official can plunge
the nation into war. Who can deny that the
world moves, when a statesman of one of the
oldest and most distinguished families of
England resigns the Fremiership ofEogland,
and a Jew, without the prestige of great
wealth,-aod the son of a literary back, takes
his place? The world is rapidly freeing it
self of nearly two thousand years of foolish
and wicked prejudices against a much viiii-
fied people, when the highest office which a
citizea of England can win is given to one
of a persecuted race.
The appointment of Benjamin Disraeli to
evidently thoughtful man with stiff, iron- tbc offic - of Primo Mini8ter of England, com-
gray hair, winch reminded you ot Jackson s, pletea the grejU triumvirate of cl ” ver a ’ d?etl -
nbout the time of Ins accession to the P.esi- t urera w ’ uo ncw control the governments,
and are virtually the rulers, of three of the
denev. He was eminently a logician—terse,
vigorous, relentless. He courted the society mogt p05Verfa) „/ moflcrn nations. But the
of Clever, aspiring young men who inclined otller flay Louis Xapoieon was a despised ad-
to fall into his views, and exerted great m- ven t ureri t P whom admission to the best Eng-
fluence over them. As lie had abandoned
the political faith with which I distinguish
ed and cherished as National, while I was
yet a school boy, I never met him at all inti
mately; yet once, while I was connected
with mining on Lake Superior. I called
lish houses was refused, and during the char
ter riots in England he was sworn in as a
“special constable,” and handed a badge and ■
a policeman'' baton. He has bettered his
condition somewhat since 1847. Bismarcir;
0,1 for years a brawling, gambling duellist, with-
iu the Iasi two years has transformed a rickety
kingdom into one of the most powerful
powers of Europe, nnd now Disraeli, who
commenc.d life as a Bohemian, and wrote a
multitude of sensational novels, takes the
place of Peel, Wellington, and Derby.
him, as on other leading members of Con
gress, to explain the effect 1 of the absurd pol
icy then in vogue, of keeping mineral lands
out of market, and attempting to collect a
percentage of the mineral as rent accruing
to the Government.
He received me courteously, nnd I took
care to make my statement as compact aod
perspicuous as I could, showing him that,
even in the lead region, where the system had
attained its full development, the Treasury
did not receive enough rent to pay the sala- , • , r •,
ries of the officers employed in collecting it. merc,;,! tolls the foI!ov ' ln £ canona stor y abouc
“Enough,” said Mr. Calhoun, “you are clearly an imuien-: crow roost near Lexington, Ky.
A Great Kentucky Crow-Roost—A Million
i or so of Crows.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Corn-
right. I will vote to give away these lands,
rather than perpetuate this vicious system.”
“We only ask, Mr. Calhoun,” I rejoined, “that
Congress fix on the lands whatever price it
may deem just, and sell them at that price to
those lawfully in possession; they failing to
purchase, then to whomsoever will buy.
them.” “That plan will have my Ifearty sup
port,” he responded; and it did. When the
question came at length to be taken up. I be
lieve there was not a vote in either House
against selling the mineral lands.
How Faraday Chose Poverty.
last ten years, has been robbed or murdered
under very singular circumstances.”
“What were the circumstances !” asked the I the King, at your service, on special duty, to
stranger, putting down his glass empty, and : do what I have to night accomplished.
■Washington News ami Gossip.
5 Atss on “Distinction of Race and
r H has been determined that no nc-
‘■ull lie admitted to the Senate galle-
’■'' r,5 S the impeachment trial. A Wash-
- Cu nvspondent says: “Theproposition
the African izens met the ap-
' J even Senator Suumer, and tho fact
^Astratcd that there may be great State
M when New England recognizes a
^»ioo between colors.”
^| SlDe Rights bill? The poor
* ; ‘l have bis eyes opened before long
ypucrisy of the Radicals.
Accession.--Ex-Gov.
k. 1 j f was received into itc com-
Cr.. 0 !* Methodist arch on Sunday
?,:***• Ohm.
ijmpafiize with this body of
*® this, their great affliction.
[Atig. Con.
y,, “Bond Frauds. Loga charges
L. wetnendoua ftmads nt'the Tn .
’ittr-Ji * ere disproved by the repo
Committee. Logan blus-
' “’fill tl in the debate.
...
JJJWitb a very large bald head was
4 on the- fact that bis caput was
-Why so?” lie asked,
***.great white hare place,” was.
A New IIeatixo Apparatus for Rail'
road Cars.—We were shown, Saturday last,
at life depot of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company, a complete heating ap
paratus for passenger cars. It was designed
by J. E. Wooten, engineer of machinery of
the nbove-mentioned company, and consists
of a box stove protected by means-of a case,
constructed ot galvanized iron, which sur
rounds it nnd which is securely fastened be
neath tlic car. A tube for the conduction of
the heated air is placed inside. T he arrange
ment iswuch that an equal amount of heat is
delivered to all parts of the car, and so equal
is the distribution, that the temperature at
the roof is never more than tsvo degrees hot
ter than at the floor.
The fire can be steadily maintained without
fresh coal for seven hours, and cas be run
from Philadelphia to Harrisburg or Potts-
Specialto Philadelphia Affe.]
WADE AND TUB PRESIDENCY.
Washington, March 8.—Tho statement
telegraphed North from this city that Mr.
Wade had been urged by his political friends
to resign the position of President pro tem
pore of the Senate, in advance of final action
by that body on the impeachment against
Mr. Johnson, so as to afford some other aspi
rant a chance for the Presidential succession,
is said to be wholly without foundation in
fact. There is no doubt a strong opposition
to Wade within his own party, especially
among those in tbc Senate like Wilson, Mor
gan and others, who are candidates for the
Vice-Presidency on the ticket with Graut,
which is also the case with Colfax, the
Speaker of the House. There is no way,
however, to get Wade out of his presenfpo-
sition, except by electing liis successor,which
will not lie done so long as he (Wade) chooses
to hold the office. He i3 as ambitious for the
Presidency as nDy man in the Radical party,
and knowing that he can never obtain it by
fair means, is willing to ride in on the revo
lutionary proceeding now in progress for the
removal of Mr. Johnson, and to that end he
will hold on to the office he now .fills, be
cause it affords a very easy stepping-stone to
the Chief Magistracy in the event of the suc
cess of the impeachment movement, which is
by no means improbable.
Special to the Louitville Courier.]
TIIE CABINET A UNIT.
Washington, March 10.—The Cabiuet was
a unit in its support of the President’s views
on these and other impeachment subjects, in
cluding the impeachment question.
Mr. Stanbery declargcd the charges against
the President do not even constitute a mis
demeanor, and the best lawyers in the country
concur with him in thnt opinion.
The debate in the Senate on the adoption
of the report of the committee about the dis
tribution of seats in the galleries during the
impeachment trial was interesting. Howard
attempted to secure places for the War De
partment officers nnd hangers on to the ex-
ville without attention, the stove being sup-, elusion of every other department, but it was
plied with coal previous to departure. He- J rejected. Admission can be obtained only
Death each seat is a horizontal tube, connect- j,y tickets from Senators and Representatives,
ing with a hot air chamber running along the i and tliU3 the mass of the people are excluded,
side of the car, which supplies sufficient beatSumner didn’t even protest against keepiD
and aUo serves for the purpose of foot rests.
Tuesday last, when the thermometer indi
cated seven degrees above zero, the tempera
ture of the car was raised ns high as ninety-
live degrees, and during tnc run from
Harrisburg to Philadelphia the extreme va
riation of the temperature was but three
degrees.— Forney's Press.
Removed.—Wc learn that the Sheriff of
Burke county has been removed from office
f r violation of General Order N °- * 1 i ’• e -» ra- n Beecher's farm, near Peekskill,
levying on property. Aug. torn. I lisa 35 acres. The sales amounted to about
.. i $0700 in 1SG0, and to about $4000 in 1807.
I-iT" There is a curious rumor m \V_as.nng- ^ laborers are employed upon the place,
“ -- - "Ulte i ...i.:_i. _ .t .1.. * : f «!o nrnrlurtive-
out negroes.
The State of New Hampshire was earned
bv the influence of money, the Radicals spend
ing a hundred dollars to every dollar spent
liy°Dcniocrats, and through this, with the aid
of State and Federal patronage, they have
achieved a success. It will not effect im
peachment. That case will he determined
according to the Constitution. The New
Hampshire election will have no weight or
iufluence thereon.
ne of the secrets ot its productive
jot about time to discard the
ton that Mrs. Senator Sprague, who is quite , wbicll is
a politician, sympathizes strongly witii■ DeS3# -
President, represents to lo r husband and her pj an working a 200 acre farm with one
father, Chief Jiuticc Chase, that it is an act man!—Rural Southerner.
o! nrailin’, and that Mr. Johnson has only
>f stl
tyranny,
icd up for his rights.
Kjtf' Prince Napoleon wants liis cousin, the
th* Emperor, to resort to war ns a means of
restoring hi- waning popularity, and as the
only iin-iins of saving the Napoleonic dy-
> nasty. He thinks a war with Prussia for tho
j Klduc Provinces would he a good movc-
! nient.
The lion. Portus Baxter, Representa
tive to Congress from Vermont, who died in
Washington on Wednesday, was only sick
three (lavs. His disease was pneumonia,
which seeuis quite prevalent iu that city.
He lias been a member of Congress since 1801,
was a Republican ill politics, and was in his
sixty-second year.
preparing to liii it again.
“Why, you see,” the landlord went on,
while he approached his guests tnbtc and
took a seat, “I have spoken with several who
have been robbed; all I could learn from them
is that they remember meeting iu the lone
some part of the wood, something that look
ed white and ghastly, and that frightened
their horses so that they either ran away or
threw their riders; they felt a choking sensa
tion and a smothering, and finally died, as
they thought, but awoke in nu hour or so to
find themselves lying by the roadside robbed
of everything!”-
“Indeed,” ejaculated the stranger, looking
.abstractly at tho rafters in the ceiling, as
though he was more intent upon counting
them than he was interested in the landlord’s
story.
The innkeeper looked at him in astonish
ment. Such perfect coolness he had not wit
nessed for a long time.
“You will remain then?” suggested the
landlord, after waiting some time for his
gnest to speak.
“I!” cried the stranger, starting from his
fit of abstraction, as though he was not sure
that he was the person addressed. “Ob,
most certainly not; I’m going straight ahead,
ghost or no ghost, to -night.”
Half an hour later, the stranger and a guide,
called Willhelm, were out on the road going
at a pretty round pace toward Nanstadt.
During a flash of lightning the stranger
observed thnt iiis guide looked very uneasy
about something, and was slackening his
horse’s pace as though ho intended to drop
behind.
“Lead on,” cried the stranger don’t he
afraid.”
I’m afraid I cannot,” replied the person
addressed, continuing to hold his horse in
until he was now at least a length behind his
companion. “My horse is cowardly, and un
manageable in a thunder storm. If you will
go on though, I think I can make him fol
low close enough to point out tiie road.”
The stranger pulled np instantly. A strange
light'gleam in his eyes, while his hand sought
his breastpocket from which he drew some
thing. The guide saw the movement and
stopped aback.
“Guides should lead, not follow,” said tho
stranger, quietly, hut with a firmness which
seemed to be exceedingly unpleasant to the
person addressed.
“But,” faltered the guide, “my horse won’t
go.”
“Won’t he?” queried the stranger, with
mock simplicity in his tone,
The guide heard a sharp click, and saw
something gleam in his companion’s right
hand. He seemed to understand perfectly,
for he immediately drove his spurs into his
horse’sflaDks, and"shot ahead of his compan
ion without another word.
He no sooner reached his old position,
however, than the stranger saw him give a
sharp turn to the right and them disappear,
as though he had vanished through the foli
age of the trees that skirted the road.
He heard the clatter of his horse as he gal
loped off. Without waiting another instant,
he touched his horse lightly with the reins,
gave him a prick with tiie rowels, and off the
noble animal started like the wind in the wake
of the flying guide.
The stranger’s horsc_ being much superior
to the other’s, the race was a short one, and
terminated by the guide being thrown nearly
from his saddle by a heavy hand which was
laid upon his bridle, stopping him.
He turned in his scat, beheld the stranger’s
face, dark and frowning, and trembled vio-
atly as he felt the smoothe, cold barrel of a
pistol pressed against liis cheek.
This cursed beast almost ran away with
uic,” cried the guide, composing himself as
well ns he could under the circustances.
"Yes, I know,” said my companion, dryly,
“but mark my words, young man, if your
horse plays such tricks again, he’ll be the
means of ieriously injuring his master’s
health,”
They both turned and cantered back to the
road. ' When they reached it again, and
turned the heads of their animals, in the
right direction, the stranger said to liis guide,
in°a tone which must have convinced his
hearer as to his earnestness—
Now, friend Willhelm, I hope we under-
Your precious son, Willhelm, whom you
thought was leading an innocent sheep to tue
slaughter, lies in the road, killed by liis
father’s band.”
Two weeks later, at Bruclisale Prison, in
Baden, the landlord of the sign of the Deer
and the Ghost Robber of the Black Forest,
who was the same identical person, having
been proven guilty of numerous fiendish mur
ders and artfully coutrived robberies, com
mitted at different times in the Black Forest,
paid the penalty of his crimes by letting fali
his head from the executioner’s axe, since
when traveling through Schwartzald has not
been so perilous to life and nurse, nor has
there been 6een any Ghostly Knight of the
Road in that section of the world.
A Novelty ot Parisian Crime.
At the last Bad de l’Opera, Paris, a com
mercial agent met a masked lady, as he im
agined of the great world. A carriage and
livery servants awaited her exit. She
graciously permitted her admirer to accom
pany her to her house, but on condition of
hU allowing her to blindfold him. Thedrive
lasted about an hour, at the expiration of
which time the carriage stopped at a house,
which they entered, and, ascending a s air-
case of thirty steps, M. B heard a
door open. On the lady taking off the
bandage from his eyes, he found himself in a
brilliantly lighted apartment, and in presence
of three men armed with poinards and re
volvers. “If you stir you are a dead man;
give us your money and yon shall be left at
the Pantheon.”
There was, of course, no alternative; the
victim laid his purse on a table, and at five
o'clock in the morning was deposited at the
Pantheon, the carriage immediately starting
off at full speed. Tho police- vainly en
deavored to trace out the affair, but no light
was thrown on the mystery till a few evenings
since, Mr. Paul B , a grocer, was walk
ing home by the Rue Soufilat, when a young
woman suddenly fell almost at his feet, and
in such a manner that Mr. Paui was obliged
to support her. She appeared to have
sprained her ankle, and therefore to be un
able to walk. The grocer had nothing for it
but to offer her his nrm, and assist her to her
lodging, RueMouffetard.
Arrived at the pvrtc cochcve, her sufferings
prevented her ascending the stairs without
aid. Sho lived ait sexism, on reaching which
story sho knocked at a door, which at ouce
opened, aDd M. Paul was instantly seized by
three men who enacted precisely the scene of
the Bal do la Opera robbery, with the slight
Iu a recent lecture at the Royal Institution
in London, Protessor Tyndall gave some in
teresting facts respecting the late Protessor
Faraday. At one period of his life the ques
tion was brought before Faraday whether he
should choose wealth or science, and he de
termined to reject the seductions of riches,
and to devote liimSelf to science, with its
comparative poverty. After the discovery of
amngneto-electrieity, numerous offers were
made to him by which he might have ac
quired a large fortune. In 1832—33, he did
gain, from the direction of his professional
knowledge, commercially, upwards of-£1000
per annum; and Professor Tyndall said that
he might readily have made £5000 a venr, but
Faraday afterwards confined his attention
almost exclusively to scientific investigations,
liis income from commercial applications be
ing limited to such small.suinsas£2oor£100
per annum. During the last ten years of bis
life he received nothing from that source, aud,
though lie might have acquired a fortune of
£150,000, he died a poor man.
In 1835 Sir Robert Peel proposed to grant
him a pension, and the offer was renewed by
Lord Melbourne, who sent for Faraday to
speak to him about it, but not being accus
tomed to deal with so unsophisticated a per
son, who paid little regard to money, Lord
Melbourne made some remarks which gave
offence to Faraday, who withdrew. A lady
who was a mutual friend of the minister and of
the philosopher, endeavored to reconcile
them, but Faraday told her that he would
only consent to see Lord Melbourne again on
one condition, with which he could not ex
pect him to comply, and that was, that he
should make an apology. In a few days, how
ever, the apology came,
Faraday entertained the notion that there
was Irish blood in his veins, and, as Profes
sor Tyndall observed, there was an enthusi
asm about him which appeared to counten
ance such an opinion, hut in other qualities
lie was not Irish. One of these was liis iove
of order. AH the experiments he made in the
laboratory of the Royal Institution were hum
bered, and they were often referred to in suc
ceeding experiments; he also kept a private
record ofliis-cxperiments; the last one beiog
numbered 16,541.
Professor Tyndall concluded by giving -an
affecting account of Faraday during his ill
ness, and read two letters which he had writ
ten, in one of which, dated in the Autumn of
1805, he alluded to liis loss of memory, and
of not being able to recollect at the end
of one line what he had written in the line
before.
»—<.<»•» .- . ■ —
The Fall of Fort Pulaski—How General
Lee told Jeflerson Davis ofthe Reverse.
And here nn interesting little episode re
lating to General Lee, whom I have never
since seen, may not be out of place:
Immediately after receiving mv apjioint-
ment I was with the President, in liis private
cabinet, when General Lee came in with a
telegraphic dispatch in his hand, and calmly
addressing Mr. Davis, said: “I have some
news from Savannah, Mr. President.” Mr.
Davis looked up quickly, a shade of anxiety
on his face, and replied : “I hope it is good
difference that they obligingly informed their dcws." “I regret to say it is not,” calmly n
victim that they belonged to a club scattered
over Paris; therefore, if ho betrayed them to
tlic jiolicc, his life would not be safe in any
quarter. The first part of their story has
proved perfectly correct, the police having al-
leady about twelve of their gang in sale
keeping.
B5F“The Empress Carlotta has addressed
to the Pope a touching letter, imploring his
prayers for the soul of her unfortunate hus
band. The letter, whidh has a deep_ border
of black, is written in very good Italian, and
creates the impression that the Empress is no
longer suffering from mental alienation, or at
least that 9he haslucid'moments.’
Optical Paradox.—A pair of spectacles
may, in certain contingencies^ be regarded as
a plagiary. Thus, the recent productions of
Niblo’s were olcarly suggested by the lines :
“And ‘crook’ the preenant hinges it*the knee,
■Where thrift may follow ‘Fawn’-ing.”
25F“Rccently a villager was drowned in the
Tagus. The May or ordered a search for the
body, and described the deceased as follows:
Dark complexion; tall; marked impediment
in his speech.
tsgf “Daughter,” said a fond mother, whom
oil speculations had made aristocratic, -has
Mr. Brown proposed to you?” "Yes ma, re
plied the daughter, “he proposes that we go
out this evening and get some oysters.”
sw We often hear the expression, “a rad
ical wrong.” Query—Was a Radical ever
known to be right i
plied General Lee. “Fort Pulaski is taken.” v _
A flash of vexation passed over the worn face j ^jgg p until"" daylight,
o&tlic President. “Should this have been,. be „j na [ 0 break thev
General Lee? You know that fort and ex
amined its defences a short time since.” “In
my judgment it was impregnable,” said Gen
eral Lee, and then he went on to state what
those defences were, adding, with his habit
ual fairness, “Our information as yet is too
scanty to allow us to judge of the merits of
the case. This thing only is certain : the
fort has surrendered.”
What struck us most in this interview was
the manner in which these two leaders took
this reverse; the unshaken fortitude,*1110
almost Indian stoicism displayed by Gen.
Lee, and the absence of all petulant complaint
on the part of the President. It was a iesson
in self-command and dignity, for both
doubtlessly felt more than they cared to show
or to confess to each other.
At that time Gen. Lee, unworn by the
anxieties and privations which afterward
aged him so rapidly in appearance, was, I
think, one of the handsomest men I ever saw.
The whitehead, which now gives a patriarchal
dignity to his appearance, he did not then
wear.' Uis face was closely shaven, and a
small, dark moustache shaded his upper lip.
Both in face and form lie looked a young
man, while the steady figure, carried with
military ercctncss, induced one who passed
him to turn and look again.—DcLeon's Let
ters in the IT. Y. Citizen.
Several of tlic Radical leaders iu Con
gress set themselves up as.dry jokers, and
certainly most of their jokes are old enough
to be dry.
He says:'
One of the most remarkable sights in?
Kentucky is the crow-roost’seven miies from
Lexington, cn the Danville pike. The roost
is so c!(l that- the mind of the oldest inhabi
tant of the blue grass region runneth not to-
the contrary. Many years ago the roost was
nearer Lexington, but as the trees were cut
away the crows moved southward, always-
seeking the next piece of timber. At the
present there are no large forests in the coun
try near the city, and many pieces of timber
have been called into requisition to lodge
their black highnesses.
Hundreds sleep in the open fields for want
of a limb, and the wrangle over a desirable
bed in a tree top is something fearful. Bsr;
the amount of cawing and jawing done every
evening, we should think the,question of re
constructing the roost, or moving it alto- ■
gether, was under discussion Whether the
crows will ever abandon their ancient roost is
a matter of some doubt, but judging by the
fact that hundreds, if not to say thousands,
have already given up the trees and roost on
the ground, we incline to the opinion that
when there are-no more trees all will content
themselves with a bed on mother earth. A a
gentleman wly> lives near the roost, and wlu>’
has a fine locust grove in front ot his house,
was surprised one evening to see it black
with crows. For a time all went on well,
but the roost became popular, and every
evening there was a wrangle to see who would
get it.
As the desirable plc?c would hold only a
few hundred, and there were some thousands
who nightly applied for lodging, the noise
aiul confusion became intolerable. Some
times in the middle of tbc night an over
loaded limb would break, aud then a battle
would ensue, lasting not unfrequently until
daylight. Tired out with tlic din that ban
ished the idea of sleep, one night the old
fellow and bis son sallied out with shot guns
and slew 9omc hundreds of their annoying-
visitors. Next morning the crows were all
gone, find returned no more to the grove.
The other evening wc drove out to the roost,,
and witnessed a sight we shall not-soon for
get. It was 4 o’clock when we arrived on
the ground, and already the crows had begun
to arrive. At sun down they were coming
from all directions, and long lines continued \
entering the woods from every quarter until
dark. Each crow had a filer or leader, who -
flew over the treetops until he found his rocs~
when the head of the column lighted, the
rest circling round and round and winding
ihemseivc3- about the chief. Only a few
Crows would light on the same tree where
the leader lighted, from which fact wo
judge li ■ ; s a sort of aristocratic personage
who doi-s hot associate with the common,
herd, and that the persons who slept on his
tree were his rovul family and crows high in
authority.
The crowB did not seem afraid of us, and
were evidently used to human visitors. Wc
drove up quite close to trees bending be
neath their weight, but these birds, usually
so sby, did not mind us much until my com
panion imitated the explosion of a gun,when,
a scene that beggars description followed.
Instantly cries rose from all parts of the
wood, and thousands of crows tiew into the
air, circling round and round us, cawing vo
ciferously. At times the noise was so great
that, although sitting side-by side in the
buggy, we had to speak loudly in order to
be heard by each other. Having raised great
distress among our black friends, we drove
off, but for miles saw flocks in the air still
coming to roost. The rustle of the wings in
flying was one of the most peculiar sounds
we ever heard; a large flock passing silently
over our heads, we paused to listen, and
could liken the noise to nothing but the
flutter of a million fans, or the rumpling of
vast pieces of silk.
When th .*.. it*: continues for any time
they will fly into the open Gelds and there
\s soon as the day
•y quit their roost and go,
no one knows where. It has been estimated-
that a crow will fly a hundred miles for liis
breakfast, and return after supper, and wc
have no doubt that many of the crow-s who
sleep in Kentucky are citizens of Ohio and
Illinois. We think that about one million
crows sleep at the Church Roost, and about
the last of March they will leave us aud
scatter themselves over the northern States,
returning again next Fall to sp^nd the Win
ter with us. A gentleman who has closely
observed them for many years, says that they
decrease in numbers, that they are slowly
passing away, and in time, like the poor In
dian, will become a defunct race on this con
tinent.
[ggr Two hundred and forty-two deaths
from lightning stroke have been registered in
England and Wales, during the fourteen years
between 1852 and 1865. Almost all of them
were cases of persons following out-door oc
cupations. ___
Tlu [monographers who reported the
President’s speech about Congress “hanging
on the verge ot the government,” have been
summoned to give evidence before the im
peachment managers as to precisely what
Mr. Johnson said. The reporters do not ex
actly iigioe as to the words used.
%£T Lord Stanley is forty years of age.—
His father, Earl Derby, calls him the old
man," because he is so excessively grave and
serious.