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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9,1868.
this capital m»nio»
An article upon this subject in the last
Milledgeville Recorder closes with this sug
gestion, which we think a fair and just one.
It is monstrous that in their poverty-stricken
condition the people of Georgia should now
be taxed for a new capital outfit—that the
old one, in excellent repair and ample for all
purposes, should be thrown away. We ap
peal to the Legislature to give the people a
chance to say whether or no they will impose
this needless burden upon themselves:
Let the Legislature pass a bill to take a
vote upon the question at the approaching
election, putting on the tickets “Milledge-
ville” or “Atlanta.” We call the attention of
our Representative to the measure; also to
the Senator from this District.
Carnival op Falsehood.—The Tribune
of the 26th, and other leading Radical pa
pers of the North, teem. with such atrocious
misrepresentations of the Camilla affray, as to
distance all attempts at correction. Our do
mestic Radicals must laugh in their sleeves
at these monstrous perversions. Even the
turbulent and riotous prelude at Americus,
which alarmed all the good people in that
town, and was stopped just short of amisera-
ble scene of general disorder and havoc by the
remonstrances of Judge Clarke, who left the
bench for that purpose, and the cool and ju
dicious conduct of Mayor Furlow and the
city authorities—we say even that prelimi
nary scene, where peace was preserved only
by the greatest moderation and forbearance
upon the part of the whites of Americus, is
tortured into a display of high handed intol
erance and oppression of the blocks, and
Judge Clark, an appointee of Gov. Bullock,
is stigmatized as one of the “rebel oppres
sors.”
From such a starting point as this, the
reader may judge of the nightmare account
of the “rebel atrocities” at Camilla, when
these lamblike Radicals, black and white,
got there to show the white folks in that
little village what they dared to do. The
couplet about the voyage of the wise men of
Gotham, may, with a little amendment, be
applied to the Camilla row.
Had the fight been longer.
The tale might haro been stronger.
But the brief skrimage in Camilla respon
sive to a Volley of a hundred muskets from
the blacks, is protracted in these veracious
narratives to a “massacre” of many hours’
duration, and the victims, by an ingenious
mixture of fact and fiction and killed and
wounded, swell to near a hundred.
Falsehood and misrepresentation of the
South are now traveling in seven-league
boots, and it is not worth while to try to
overtake them. When the North feels it for
her interest to believe and to encourage any
thing but villification of the Southern whites,
we presume she will do so.
Hon. B. B. deGraffenbied.—It is re
ported that at a Radical private meeting of
the twelve negroes in the little school house,
night before last, James Fitzpatrick was
“taken down” several pegs, and Hon. B. B.
DeGrafFenreid nominated in his place as
Radical candidate for Congress from the
Fourth Congressional District. This is a de
cided change for the better. DeGraffenreid
is not of the genu3 carpet-bag, but a man of
talents and intelligence, and a native Geor
gian. Although a member of the bar in res
pectable practice, he has been perhaps better
known to the people of Georgia as Secretary
of the Executive Department under Govs.
H. V. Johnson and Brown, and now under
Gov. Bullock, and one of the old line Demo
crats of the State. We fail to comprehend
precisely how Mr. DeGraffenreid got where
he is now in polities, but nevertheless he
seems to be there. He lacks no qualification
for a respectable and useful member of Con
gress, but we trust and believe our friend
Lawson will save him from that perilous and
responsible position.
Rapid Traveling.—A directors’ train on
the Chicago and Northwestern railway on
Saturday made the run from Fort Howard to
Chicago, 242 miles, in six hours and fifty-two
minutes, deducting stops, or at the rate of
thirty-five miles per hour, which is claimed
to be the best trip ever made in America.
From Woodstock to Chicago, fifty-one miles,
the run was made in forty-four minutes.
Charleston.—The Mercury says the busi
ness of Charleston is more active and prom
ising this Fall than at any period since the
war. This activity pervades the entire busi
ness interest. “Steamships, railroads and
drays are kept constantly going. Dry goods
boxes obstruct the sidewalks, and shoes and
boots never seemed to be in greater demand,
if we are to judge from the large number
‘turned out’ every day by our neighbors.
China and glass are lively; hardware sharp
and active. Fancy goods of every conceiva
ble description are in good demand. Cloth
ing, hats and millinery goods find ready sale.
.Drugs, oils and paints hold their own.
Leather and Eaddlery are not forgotten, and
even books and stationery get their share.
What is particularly gratifying, is the fact
that most of the merchants in the city thus
far this season have been from Georgia and
Alabama, giving fair promise that ere long
Charleston will again be the chief mart of
the South, a3 she was for years before the
war.”
Banquet to the Legislature.—Atlanta,
like cousin Sally Dillard, “gin a treat,” to
the members of the Legislature last Tuesday
a splendid banquet—where Rads and
Democrats vied with each other at the table
and in the ball room. Hundreds of the fair
daughters of Georgia graced the scene and
smiled on the Legislative Solons. Query.—
How would this social gathering have
worked without the “purge ?”
Western Pork Trade.—The Cincinnati
Price Current says;
The avices from the Western States indi
cate that there will be a large increase in the
pork crop’ the coming season. Stock hogs
are plenty and in excellent condition, owing
to the abundant pasturage daring the sum
mer, and as the corn crop is an unusually
large one, and the general belief with farm
ers that pork will be bigb, there can be little
doubt that hogs will be fed largely and lib
erally throughout the entire West.
Two attempts were made last wetkto burn
the White Sulphur Springs (Va.) property.
Three of the cottages were entirely consumed,
and but for the timely assistance rendered by
the Summer visitors all thebuildiogs would
have been destroyed. Two negroes, have
been arrested on suspicion. .
At Vienna, for some'time past, an orchpsr
‘ of f(
(f. exclusively composed of female execu-
tan b, has been giving concerts, with suc~
freparatiox for another crop-
ideas OF THE PEOPLE.
The cotton crop of 1868 will be.very soon
disposed of. It is like a short horse, soon
curried. It is opening with prodigous ra
pidity—what little of it there is will be soon
gathered, and the price now offering will put
it generally into the hands of operators in a
few weeks. Existing quotations offer to buy
ers an excellent margin. Reasoning upon
any general premises, they have every right
to look for an advance equal to that of las
Spring, and this will give ten or eleven cents
a pound. Producers satisfied with a fair
compensatory price and anxious for a sure
business, will generally prefer to sell at present
prices than run the hazards. On the whole
the cotton trade is now in a satisfactory con
dition all round. Producers are pretty well
satisfied and dealers are hopeful. But this
is aside.
The early disposition of the crop will give
planters an excellent chance to get ready for
another. Take the earliest occasion this
Fall to break up your lands for corn and
cotton deep and well. Turn in the grass and
let the frosts of winter mellow the soil.
Break up with two strong mules hitched to a
good broad turn-shovel twelve to fourteen
inches long. All points considered, we
think that is the best and least expensive in
strument for breaking up. Well made, and
secured upon a good stock, it will stand very
rough usage and endure frequent collisions
with roots and stumps without injury. Land
thoroughly broken up in this way will be in
a good condition for the ordinary ploughing
in Spring and the manure and seed for new
corn and cotton crops.
The planters will next year be generally
disposed to modify the old system of culture.
They will go for smaller areas, better culti
vation and larger crops. Experience is
showing our farmers that it is easier and less
expense to produce a bale of cotton on one
acre than upon three. And the thoughts
and purposes of all intelligent planters are
now turned in that direction. The saving in
fencing and in labor, in cultivating and gath
ering the crop will pay for heavy manuring,
and the certainty of production is largely in
creased. A robust and vigorous plant, like
a robust man, will defy disease which would
be injurious or fatal to the weakly. Thin,
starving cattle and weak plants become lousy,
hide-bound, sore-shinned, jaundiced, rusty
and decrepid generally, while the lusty and
vigorous scorn all mean foes. We are going
to improve vastly in Georgia planting from
year to year.
Planters should also lay in heavy crops of
the small grains. Wheat at $2 SO per bushel
is a noble crop, and why should not every
Georgia planter look forward to a Spring, as
well as a Fall, income. When we can dis
pense with Western bread and meat there
will be no scarcity of money in the South.
To do it we must begin with abundant grain
crops and gradually introduce the improved
stocks of the North and West. We must
learn to feed them in pens and lots a3 the rest
of the world do, and enrich our soil from the
offal.
Lastly, we must raise our ideas to the mag
nitude of this single proposition, to-wit: the
dispensing with fences to keep stock out of
cultivated fields. We must reverse the rule
and fence our stock in, but let our crops lie
out. Fences cost the State of Georgia, every
year, more than the whole yearly stock pro
duct is worth. We suppose they cost tb»
State ten to twenty millions a year.
How Planters may become Xndepen-
dent-The Labor Question.
GRISWOLDVILLE.
Deponent borrowed a few hours to look at
Griswoldville, and breathe the pure air up
there. People commonly say down : but Gris
woldville says she is two hundred feet higher
than Macon, and correspondingly elevated in
the scale of a purer and cooler atmosphere.
There are now not a hundred thousand
people in Griswoldville. The monuments of
her greatness are to be seen in chimney-stacks
standing lone and dreary, in rusty bolts,
shafting, cog-wheels, axles, boilers, heaped
here and there, the debris of once busy ma
chines—in fenceless lots—tall weeds—shape
less piles of mouldering bricks and many
other expressive but silent mementoes of a
more active and prosperous past.
Amid these scenes Maxwell’s planing mill
screams away a vigorous existence, sending
its shrill howl through the soughing pines.
This mill is none of your vulgar sort, con
tent with doing one thing at a time, bnt
dresses both sides, planes, edges, tongne3 and
grooves all at a stroke—fit type of the bus
tling all-pervading Yankee. Then it has, too,
another useful idea in the preparation o
weather-boarding. A weather-board is sawed
to double thickness, dressed all round and
then ripped to a proper bevel—that is to say,
with an edge half the thickness of the back,
so that it fits closely and traly in the lap like
a Northern clap-board. When a man once
uses weather-boards prepared m that way, be
will be satisfied with no other.
A mile and better of private railway leads
from the station to the saw mill, which is
one of the most improved of its kind, and
capable, with a single saw, of producing
eighteen thousand feet of lumber a day.
These two establishments, in vigorous ope
ration, compose, with their employes, (some
where about fifty men,) the business and pop
ulation of Griswoldville; always excepting
our friend, G., who is Lord Paramount of the
place, and, with his accomplished and ele
gant lady, illustrate, as they are well able to
do, the polite and liberal hospitality of the
ancient regime.
In viewing the relics of the past—the ac
tivities of the present—in pleasant inter
changes with host and hostess, and in paying
particular respect to some dozen gigantic
Scuppernon grape-vines—a pleasant, balmy
and breezy day wound up the month of Sep
tember, 1868.
The Scuppernons were in their glory—the
best fruit on earth—their tough, palc-green-
isb, rusty coats inclosing a rich, mellifluous
juice fit for the gods. Some fool speculated,
the other day, upon whether there was “sac
charine matter” enough in the Scuppernon
to make g9od wine without sugar. He
should have been there. The best loaf would
have turned yellow with envy at those Scup
pernons.
Griswoldville is a great place—in a cool,
breezy, Fall day—with plenty of Scuppernons
and cigars, and Mr. and Mrs. G., Maxwell
and all the rest to talk with.
Poor Pillicoddy was very 111 Indeed, and had
rundown to a mere shadow. Receiving the con
dolences of his friends, which made him worse,
and medicines that didn’t do him any good, his
feeling were of a very dismal character. He didn't
care much about living, aDd yet was not very anxi
ous to die—a state of Betweenity so to speak—and
bis lips gave expressions to many Jeremiads, some
of which were dismally funny. “This world,” said
he, to one who was sympathizing with him, is, to
me, just like a sacked orange, or a lemon that has
served for a dozen on the half-shell. It has no at
tractions for me. I have nothing to care for now,
bnt my daughter and a erased old dog, and I wish
to Heaven somebody would kill him.”
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Fort Valley, October 2,1868. .
Messrs. Editors: The lively interest mani
fested by yon through the Telegraph in the
welfare of the planters, will, I doubt not, re
sult in a large increase of your subscription
list among that class.
That the prosperity of the South depends
mainly upon the success of agriculture, or, if
yon please, cotton culture, will be admitted
by every reflecting mind; and it is equally
as evident that unless remunerative prices are
paid for the cotton raised, the culture of it
must cease.
Last year the crop in this and other States
was a good one, and could those by whose
labor (under Providence) the crop was raised
have realized the value thereof, the condition
of our country would have been very different.
Bnt instead of having onr pecuniary condi
tion improved by the profits of the labor of
the past year, we are absolutely poorer as a
class—all the proceeds having gone into the
pockets of the speculators', who realized, we
are told, about one hundred and twenty-eight
millions of dollars profits; and unless the
planters can devise and adopt some measure
for protection, a similar result will ensue with
the present crop.
And now, Messrs. Editors, the question, the
very important question, comes up; is there
a remedy, and what is that remedy ?
We have organized, in this place, a Plant
ers’ Club, and have bad, and still have under
consideration, this subject. It has been pro
posed to raise an amount of money necessary
to meet the immediate wants of the planters
by hypothecating a portion of their crops, so
much as each one may think necessary to
raise the amount he may need; make a joint
stock of the cotton subscribed, and draw
thereon one-half of its present value, the
money drawn to be paid within twelve
months, thus enabling the planters to hold
their cotton until Spring or Summer, if
desired. A correspondence has been had
with different houses and very flattering re
sponses received, proposing to furnish the
funds at very reasonable rates.
But it seems to me there are difficulties in
the way that render this plan altogether im
practicable. Our object is to retain control
of our cotton—keep it out of the hands of
the speculators until we can realize fair
prices. Bat from whence can an amount of
money be procured, sufficient to meet the
pressing wants of the planters generally, that
will enable them to hold their crops until
Spring. A few might do so, even to the ex
tent of a few hundred thousand dollars, but
many scores of millions would be required to
meet the immediate wants and necessities of
all. I think the better plan will be to dis
pose of a part of our crop at present remu
nerating prices, pay pressing liabilities, and
then hold the remainder, if any. Let a part
of the crop pass into the hands of specula
tors, who will become with us interested in
the advance of cotton. And then, in order
to becomq and remain independent of all
combinations in the future, let every man
raise bis supplies at home and be compelled
to buy bat little, and thus be able to control
his cotton and sell when he chooses to do so.
Let us get and keep out of debt; otherwise
we can never be independent.
Upon the success of tbc planting interest
depends our prosperity, if not our existence.
We very much need system, and concert. I
am gratified to learn of the formation of
Planters’ Associations in many places. Let
these become general all over the SoutL.—
First, District Clubs to be convenient to all—
these to constitute a Central Club, at the
Court-house, or some other central point,
and those County CIub3 auxiliary or tributa
ry to a State Association.
With some such arrangement a3 this, en
tered into with zeal and perseverence, and
with less trouble and concern about Radi
calism and that mythical absurdity, negro su
premacy, we would soon see better days, let
whoever may be elected President, or which
ever party predominate. Moderation and
toleration in politics—more reason and less
passion, with industry and economy, will
very soon make our country recuperate and
become more prosperous, and our people
more happy than ever before.
The caterpillar has passed over many of
our cotton fields, and done, of course, consid
erable damage, but I think not so much as
was anticipated. Our crop, though short of
last year’s, will be, I think, sufficient at pres
ent prices to make our people easy.
Our association has also. under considera
tion, the highly important question of the
management of the labor system in our
country, a subject now of more vital interest
to the South than any other, and, Messrs.
Editors, I have on this subject, but little fear
of entire success.
Mildness, forbearance and kindness, with
firmness, in our intercourse and dealings
with the black man, will soon root out the
evil planted in their hearts by bad white
men, v and gain their confidence and love.—
At the Presidential election, now near at
band, I fear, most of the freedmen will vote
the Republican ticket; but after that, a very
large majority of them will vote with the
South, and instead of being as was doubt
less intended and expected by the party
which enfranchised them, an clement of
political strength to them, they will be, if
properly treated and managed, an accession
to our strength politically, as well as our
friends and laborers in peace, and alies in
war. W. A. M.
Indiana Democratic—The Radical Center
is the Northwest Broken.—“If there ever had
been aDy doubt ns to the vote of the State of Indi
ana, last Wednesday has effectually dispelled It.
Indiana is sure for the Democracy in October and
November next by rousing majorities! There is
not only no doubt of the fact, but there isn’t
even a shadow on which to hang a doubt upon!
The demonstration last Wednesday has struck ter
ror Into the hearts of the Rads. They see the
hand-writing npon the wall, and their knees, Bel
shazzar-like, smite each other as they read their
doom. The Journal of this city, while strongly
endeavoring to produce the Impression that our
meeting was a failure, could not fail, nevertheless,
to show its trepidation and dismay, and calls loud
ly upon ‘indolent Republicans’ to go to work and
try to save the State to Radicalism. Vain effort!
Let our friends abroad folly understand that Indi
ana is inflexibly, unalterably, and largely Demo
cratic, and will give such a sweeping majority for
the Democratic ticket in October as will put be
yond all further doubt the result of the Presiden
tial contest.”—Indianapolis Sentinel.
“We have privateinformation lrom high sources
in Radicalism that their high priests give up the
State. Henceforth their efforts are to be bent
mainly in “saving Ohio,” the situation of which, to
them, is anything bnt flattering. A month ago
the Radical canvass, os we happen to know, showed
bnt the small edge of a majority In' Indiana of
4000. Even a less figure was claimed bv Mr. Col
fax when here. We are satisfied that jacobinism
has gone up In the central State of the Northwest.
Right in the heart of that great power in politics
—the Radical column gives way, menacing, of
course, the worst fotm of disaster to the wings—
Ohio on the right, and Illinois upon the left.
.“ It is a great thing in military strategy or tac^
tics to pierce the center, as did Bonaparte the .al
lied Austrians and Russians at Austerltiz.”—Intelli
gencer.
Improves tents in Bainbridf e-Demo-
cratic Mass Meeting.
Bainbbidge, September SO, I80S.
Messrs. Editors: As it has been some time
since my lai from the Oak City, it would be
well for thejbenefit of your many readers to
digress froi my purpose of giving you an
account of the great mass meeting of the
Democrats rt Decatur county, and write a
fejv hurried kne3 in regard to the improve
ments of Banbridge. There are five or six
new brick stores in course of erection; three
or four wooaen stores and some six or eight
fine residences, both brick and wood. Mr.
Sharon, proprietor of the Sharon House, has
remodelled Ms hotel from top to bottom—
repainted, rjpaired and refurnished it—so
that now it Stands unsurpassed by any hotel
in the State, in regard to comfort and fare.—
He has labored hard to merit the patronage
of the travelipg public, and should be re
warded. j i
The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Company
have completed their wharf at the river, and
are now able to facilitate the unloading of
cotton from ike steamboats by the appliance
of steam. J
The peopl^ of this busy little city assem
bled here to-cay to listen to the exponents of
Democracy. At an early hour they began to
pour in from ill directions, and at 8 o’clack
quite a crowd! of white and black were to be
seen around tie court-house square. At this
hour the roll of the drum was heard, and the
procession formed in the following order and
marched to Rosedale Park, where the stand
was erected:
1. Marshal of the Day, Col. J. B. Griffin;
1st and 2d Assistant Marshals, Messrs. Way-
field and Dauvergne.
2. Young Men’s Democratic Club.
3. Committee of Arrangements, with Guests.
4. Colored Democrstic Club.
5. Citizens.
The procession took up its line of march
after formation to the park, where the most
beautiful sight met mr gaze that it has been
the lot of this poor mortal to see for some
time. I allude to the representation of the
old Galaxy of States, personated by thirteen
of Bainbridge’s fair and beautiful daughters,
as follows:
Miss Mamie T. Cox, as Union; Miss Mattie
L. Cox, as Delaware; MissHallie Parsons, as
Pennsylvania; Miss Sallie Lassiter, as New
Jersey; Miss Ida Dickerson, as Georgia
Miss Georgia Bowne, as Connecticut; Miss
Florence Maxwell, as Massachusetts; Miss
Lou Bates, as Maryland; Miss Mary Farish,
as South Carolina; Miss Francis Crawford,
as New Hampshire; Miss Sallie Bowne, as
Virginia; Miss Ella Darden, as New York;
Miss Lillie Dickerson, as North Carolina;
Miss Octavia Maxwell, as Rhode Island.
They were dressed in spotless white, with
the exception of Union, who wore a gray
barege, trimned with green, which fitted her
exquisite form to perfection. On their heads
they wore a wreath of white flowers,
surmounted by a crown, on which was
emblazoned in golden letters the name of
the State they represented. Union’s crown
was of a blue ground with silver letters. You
may imagine how imposing this sight must
have been. They were seated in the rear of
the stage, from left to right. On the extreme
right the Marshal of the Day and assistants.
On the right center, Union and her escort.
On the extreme right the Presidents of the
club3 and guests. In the right hand corner
hung the banner, the work of their fair hands,
drooping in its majesty over the assembled
crowd. All being assembled, the Marshall
announced the order of the day’s proceedure.
First. Presentation of the banner, by Miss
Mamie T. Cox, formerly of Perry, Ga. Miss
Cox acquitted herself nobly, and in a short
and eloquent address presented to the Club
the banner.
Acceptance of the banner, by Mr. B. B.
Bowers, in behalf of the Club. Words are
inadequate to express the eloquence dis
played on this occasion by Mr. B.
Original Poem by T. R. Wardell, especially
for the occasion, and read by Prof. M. Cum
min, on account * indisposition of Mr. War
dell. Mr. Cumm.d did justice to the poem.
He is a splendid reader—a natural genius.
He combines in himself the artist, the scholar,
the mechanic, the poet, and is at present ed
iting the Southern Georgia.
Then came the address of Mr. John C.
Rutherford. He bandied his topics with a
masterly power, making one of the best polit
ical speeches I have heard during the cam
paign—free from vituperation and abuse, but
fall of gentlemenly and decorous dcnuncia
tion.
Then came the colored speakers from Sa
vannah, Francis O’Neal and Fred. P. Law,
who kept the audience in a roar of laughter;
and lost, though not least, that veteran of the
Bainbridge Bar, Col. F. W. Sims, announced
to the audience that the Democracy had re
ceived within its folds a prodigal son who
had returned from the Radical ranks.
Then came dinner and the good things—
oh 1 oh 11
I append the poem alluded to. Yours,
Rambler.
O’er the nation’s defenders, see, proudly defiant
- O’er her decks At the masthead, upon tjie blue sea,'
This banner floats gaily, the fear of the tyrant,
The pride of the land of the bravest and free.
Around thee have rallied, brave patriots and sages.
Heroes have worshipped at this hallowed shrine;
A halo transcendent on history’s pages
Illumes thy career, that shall gleam for all time.
Then do wo net Bwear by this banner forever,
This banner our fathers bequeathed to our care;
Ve swear it, we swear it, no rccrant ever,
Its folds shall pollute, or its lustre shall share.
Tho Bnglsh iMdo.
HOW. QUEER VICTORIA CUT UP IN PABlS ■
HER INCIVILITY TO THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.
From the Washington Chronicle.]
The purpose of the Queen in proceeding
to Switzerland was to preserve, a complete
Falling ofthe Ph*^ BulhnZ
CHEAT LOSS OP property—ranvT„»L-
escape op occupaX 1
From the Atlanta Intelligencer oftheZd 1 *
This morning, at about fifteen ‘ minutea
n o clock, the eastern wail
A Virginia Negro’s Opinion of Unloi^
Leagues and Carpet-Baggers.
A correspondent writing to the New York
Herald from Lynchburg, Va., under date of
the 20th ultimo, relates the following inter
view between himself and a negro, whom he
met during his travels. The correspondent
says: ' .v
The antagonism formerly existing between
the races is nearly extinct, and whites as well
as blacks are beginning to realize that they
are mutually dependent on each other, and
that unless they live peaceably and friendly
together both will “go to the dogs.” Sambo
is sensible enough to see all this, and there
has consequently been a reaction agaipst his
pretended friends, the carpet-baggers, many
of whom so cruelly deceived him in the mat
ter of “forty acres and a mule” to get his vote,
and now that there is no voting to be done,
be is fiercer in his denunciation of this mi
gratory tribe of office seekers. Meeting quite
an intelligent specimen of the Congo, whose
name I found to be George Washington, one
day recently, I remarked to him:
“Well, George, how do you get along
now ?
“Berry well, massa. Got plenty work,
plenty to eat, good clothes, comfortable cab
in, whar de ole woman is, and the cbilder’n
an’ reckon dat’s much as any nigga wants.”
“Who do you live with?”
“Old massa Jim Thompson. Been libin
wid him since de war, all de time; neber lef
him ’cept once, but I soon cam back.”
“Why did you leave him then, George?”
“Well, Use most ’shamed to tell ’boat dat.
All of us niggas turned fools an jined de
League, an’ ’tended meetins all ober de coun
try, an’ left work an didn’t ’tend to nuffin
So old boss cum to me and say: ‘George, dis
ting won’t do; you got to stay here to work
or quit.’ So I takes an’ quits an’ kep’ on
runnin’ ’bout after de speakers; but I nebber
got no lan’, so I cums back and tells ole mas
sa I dun tried doing nuffin, an’ wants to go to
work. So he say; ‘Go to work, George, and
stay at it.’ So I been to work, steady since,
sir.”
“Do you belong to the League still,
George ?”
“No, sab. De man what do all the talkin’
dun gone, lef dtse diggins. Got no use for
him. an’ everybody gits along better widout
him.”
“But you are a Radical still, aint you,
George.”
“Ise a ’publican, but day say a good many
cullud folks are turniu Democrats, and Itink
I’ll g’long and see ’bout dat. De white folks
all dimnerats, an’ shu’ an’ certain dat mus’ be
the most ’spectable, an’ I know we gits no
lan’ less we pays for it.”
Such are the sentiments of the negroes in
all localities where they are free from the de
moralizing influences of Northern adventur
ers and Southern ex rebels, who are devoid
of all common self-respect, and who are by
no means respected by the simple-minded
people they attempt to dupe.
.,v ... - , . . r .ete ten o’clock. the eastern wall of m past
incognito, and therefore she traveled under building, occupied bv Messr* at -lir® 11 '*
the title of the Countess of Kent. Her in- Rams &Bro, fell with a tertbie^T ? Vil ~
tention was communicated to Lord Lyons, ing in the ruins four individuals and ft bDr f-
British Ambassador in Paris, with an intima stock of staple and fancy «roceri M n ^. t ^ e . fine
tion that, having a few hours to remain in j in that establishment The entire i° ! ?, tame< i
that city, she, her family and suite would rest feet in length—save a few feet on ti; " 158
at the embassy house, which is a palatial or Decatur street end. was entirely
mansion, situated in its own grounds, in the ished. The joists of the roof JL j
Rue des Faubourg St Honore, with the from the opposite wall which senarJJ/-^ 11
Champs Elysees adjoining the back or garden liams & Bro.’s store from the saddle
facade. neS3 establishment adjoining, as were D i *5*
Napoleon, respecting her desire to avoid I joists and flooring of the second fitn 0tbt
ostentation or publicity, had proper arrange-1 fact, the floors of both stories save ^
menta made for her reception at Cherbourg, the entire supportof the eastern tJu? 85
the port at which she landed, on Wednesday, j the cellar of the new building of lD ^
August o. _ There is a railroad thence to I Marsh, in process of erection." The n° fe ^
Paris, but its “rolling stock” does not include in the store at the time of the casn«iS? 80n
a sleeping car. To remedy this, Napoleon Messrs. W. M., Thomas and Samuel w ?r Wet
had one sent on from the Paris and Havre Col. Wm. M. Nichols, of HevannJh ,
■ ' w TLoir , and,
at her Napoleon | Httle negro boy. Their escape from'ah 1 ' 11
himself was far away, at Plombiers, but a ble death, either from falling timber/n.. •
telegram from him, expressing welcome and focation, is truly providential. ° r sc ‘
good wishes reached her on landing. On Col. Wm. M. Nichols was engaged in
arriving at the Paris terminus early next versation with Col. Samuel William - ; CQ '
morning, Lord Lyons received her and, the counting room, which is, or was on UhIt
moment she got into his carriage, she pulled street front, when the crash came- f a m„ 6
flown ita hlinrla 4-e\ msiwAnt S 1 . . . '
Renomination of General Butler.
ADDRESS TO THE BANNER.
BY THEO.B. TTABDELL.
Hail, glorious banner; thy bright stars unfolding
Enrapture our hearts, spotless emblem of right I
The oppressed cf ail nations in theo beholding
Justice enrobtd in blest Liberty’s light.
Fair banner, we Mess thee, Hope’s constellation.
On thy broad field, the glorious thirteen we view!
Our trust iu the past, the future, the nation,
United as one, ’neath the red, white and blue.
Our Forefather’s Gift, famed on history’s pages,
Baptised with the blood of the living and dead.
Adored in our hearts, noble banner for ages,
By thee, may our country to glory be led.
Unfurled in tho hour-riell tyrants remembor,
o’e
When Liberty’s sun o’er our country arose I
When Washington breasted, in icy December,
Delaware’s waves, and the foreign paid foes.
Trenton and Bunker’s Hill, hallowed in story,
Thero, shoulder to shoulder, beneath these loved
stars,
The men of the North and the South rushed to glory (
Daring death for this banner, on the red field of
Hars.
Boston, September 28.—The Republicans
of the Fifth District to-day nominated Gen.
Butler. He received 75 votes, the remaing
four scattering. The nomination was subse
quently made unanimous. Alter General
Butler’s nomination he made a speech to the
ConvontioD. He alluded to the opposition
to him personally in severe terms, and said
opposition to his nomination was legitimate,
but that asy further opposition after his
nomination by the Convention was treason
to the party, and all taking part in it would
be traitors. They may be anything else, but
are no longer Republicans. In the party, as
well as in the country, the will of the majori
ty must govern. All opposition thereafter is
treason to party fealty. Contests of a suc
cessful party can be carried cn only as an
army is governed. Welcome results, but
shoot deserters.
I will make the ambitious gentleman who
signed that call, and arc anxious in their own
persons to go to Congress, an offer. If
either of them will produce a letter from
General Grant, now or hereafter written, or
from any one of his confidential friends
ruthorized to do so, and place it in your
hands, Mr. President, saying General Grant
wishes the Republicans of this district not
to vote for me. much as I prize your nomina
tion and its great honor, I will cheerfully
resign it. Nay, more, if our candidate for
Vice President, who, as Speaker of the House
of Representatives, lias honored me with his
friendship and given me so many proofs of
his confidence m appointments to positions
upon responsible committees, will say the
same, I will withdraw.
down its .blinds to prevent any one seeing their faces, they were caught between" 0 !
her, and, in this churlish manner, was driven of the first and second floors where V s
to the British embassy, where rooms had with great presence of mind, remained
been tastefully prepared for her accommoda-1 until they were enabled to take in the ci £t
tion. tion. Having their “backs up,” they with
Of course, no certain account of what oc- much presence of mind managed with com
curred there has been published, but there parative difficulty to extricate theusehT
has been much gossip about it in Paris and from the “confusion worse confoundei' 1 and
London. It is stated that, on entering her make their egress from the ruins bv crawling
room at the embassy, the Queen angrily, bnt under desks, tables, etc., to one of tie donr“
silently, waived every body out of it, and re- ways on Line street. Beyond a fev contr
mained there, wholly solitary, until break- sionsjand damage to wearing apparel thr-s
fast, at which meal only such of her children injuries are slight. ° ’ 1
as were with her, were allowed to join her.— Mr. Wm. M. Williams was stationed bp.-
The moment that repast was ended, Victoria the center of the store and received more
betook herself, still entirely alone, to the severe, though not serious, injury. Hisri°h‘
garden of the embassy, without making any arm and hip are considerably bruised and lm
change in her traveling dress, and sitting wa3 somewhat stunned by injuries received
beneath the shadow of a great tree, applied on the head. He was a little longer time
herself to a book which had belonged to her getting to the light than were his
late husband. and Col. Nichols. ^
Napoleon was at Plombieres, which is one I Mr. Thomas E. Williams, as we learn was
hundred and ninety-three miles distant from I near the Decatur street front at the time of
Paris. But Eugenie was at Fontainbleau, I the accident, and made good his exit unhurt
and had intimated through Lord Lyons that The little negro was about midway the store
she proposed to have the pleasure of paying and near the western wall, when he fonnd
a visit to Victoria. It is declared and has himself suddenly blockaded by the debit on
not been contradicted, that Victoria, in a either side. He soon came out allri»ht but
very positive manner, refused to change the badly scared. ' L “'
dress, considerably rumpled, which she had The cause of thb casualty was the under-
worn during her voyage to Cherbourg and mining of the wall by the workmen eo^ed
daring her night’s journey from Cherbourg in the foundation of the proposed bufldmg
to Paris. The Empress paid her the prom- just east, which is being erected for Messrs
ised visit, which lasted about three quarters Moore & Marsh. The building which has
of an hour, and was attired as usual in an ele- been so completely destroyed was the prop-
gant dress. The Empress’ carriage was pre- erty of the sisters of Messrs. T. JL & R. C.
ceded by a courier, and when he reached the Clarke, and was built in the Summer of 1866,
embassy word was conveyed to the Queen, The name “Phoenix” was given in considera-
who, throwing down her book, went into * ion of the fact that it was the third build-
the hall of the mansion and received her. ing erected on the spot since the city of At-
Then their respective suits went into one lanta was founded. The first erected was de-
drawing room, while the two sovereigns stroyed by Saerman during bis reconstruc-
conversed together by themselves in an tion march 1SG4: the second, a brick struc-
adjacent apartment. The children were ture, built in 1865. was subsequently burned,
sent for, and Victoria, when she intro-1 and to-day the third has fallen, because the
duced them to Eugenia, is reported to j eastern wall failed to stand on—nothing,
have said: “Use your gracious influence on The alarm of fire wa3 given, and the gal-
the Emperor, madam, to prevent , a war j lant men comprising our fire department were
which tears children from mothers.” This I promptly on the spot, rendering assistanceto
hint rather damped the conversation, and the police force in keeping back the thou-
Eugenie returned soon after. Victoria re- sands who had gathered about the scene, and
turned to her book in the garden and who were thoughtlessly endangering their
Eugenie returned to the Palais de FElysee lives by their near approach to the standing
Napoleon, which is within a few doors of walls on Decatur ard Line streets. These
the British embassy. There, it is alleged, walls were palled down or rendered safe by
Eugenie, who had changed her morning or props applied subsequently by the members
traveling costume for “a dress of violet satin of Atlanta Hook and Ladder Company No.
and black lace, with a bonnet of lace and an 1, aided by other firemen,
aigrette of feathers,” (one portion of our The workmen engaged in the cellar of the
readers may desire information on this) when building of Moore <fc Marsh, having been
she went to call upon Victoria, waited for an I doubtful of their safety for some days, were
hour and twenty minutes in expectation of a on the qui tire and made good their escape
return visit from Victoria, and then, her I At this writing it is impossible to ascertain
patience exhausted, changed her dress and the loss in goods or building
returned to Fontainebleau. The leading
St. Martins, Brown County, Ohio, )
September 21,1868. j
Nymphs.
From the Saturday Review.]
Between the time of the raw school-girl and that
oi the finished young lady Is the short season of
the nymph, when the physical enjoyment oi life is
perhaps at its keenest, and a girl is not afraid to
use her limbs as nature meant her to use them,
nor ashamed to take pleasure In her youth and
strength. This is the time when a sharp run down
a steep hill, with the chance oi a tumble midway,
is an exercise by no means objected to; when clam
bering over gates, stilts, and even crabbed stone
walls is not refused because of the adveuture in
volved; when leaping a ditch comes in as one of the
ordinary accidents of u marshland walk; and when
the fun of riding is indefinitely enhanced If the
horse is only half broken, or bare-backed. The
Dympb, an out-of-door, breezy, healthy girl, more
after the pattern of the G.'etk Oread than the Ama
zon, is found only in the country; and lor the most
part only in the remoter districts ot the country.—
In the town she degenerates into fastness, accor
ding to the law which make evil merely the mis
direction of force.
Paris journals complain of Victoria’s marked The Restoration of the Southern States—
incivility, and public opinion warmly sym- Letter from Gen. Rosecranz.
pathizes with Eugenie. Among the responses to invitations to at-
It is farther stated that after the departure L a ta *• - T ,.
of Eugenie, Lord Lyons ventured to approach tend the Democratlc mas3 meeting in Indian-
Victoria still in the garden, and to remind a P°hs, last week, was the foUowingfrom Gen,
her that the Empress expected her visit, as Rosecranz:
had previously been arranged, and that Vic-1 general hosecranz’ letter.
toria replied, very petulantly, that the Em
press, who must have seen how very ill she
(Victoria) was, could not be so unreasonable■ „ , T . . r ,. ,, _ .
as to expect her, and that, in a word, she I ^ er ‘ era ^ John Lore, Indianapolis, hiu.
would not go. She then abruptly left the General—Indispensable duties prevett
garden, retreated to her room, and remained me from attending the gathering of officers
there until summoned to dinner; to which and soldiers at Indianapolis, to which your
meal, as to breakfast on the same day, none | letter invited me, on the 23d inst. But be-
but her own children sat down with her.— yond the great gratification I should experi-
Even Lord Lyons, her Embassador, her own ence in meeting so many of my old compan-
personalandpolitica’ representative to France ions in arms, and mingling our memories of
was not asked to join that very exclusive par- the past with recollections of future efforts
ty. After dinner they started for Switzer- aQ d sacrifices for tho honor of the land and
land, taking the Strasburg, which is a IoDger flag we love, my presence there would ac-
route, rather than the direct route by Lyons, complish little more than a simple statement
It is given, as a reason ior this, that the Ly- of my views on the chief issues which now
ons railway passes by Fontainbleau, where agitate the country. I believe onr free insti-
the Empress was residing, and that etiquette tutions and highest material interests are in
would have required the Queen to stop there, grave peril. I shall, therefore, perform s
Stand Aside.—The Louisville Journal solemn and responsible duty to my fellow
says Black Boys in Blue want to attend the soldiers and countrymen who love thisnatio*
grand national soldiers’ and sailors’ demon- more than party, by Btating what I think the
stration to be held shortly in Philadelphia, most vital issues before the public in the ap-
but the Radicals give them the cold shoul- preaching Presidential election,
der— in fact, reject them—and the negroes Above all other questions—expenditure!
are quite indignant thereat, taxation, bonds, “greenbacks,” or anything
else—stands that of restoring the people s
TTnnnrnr w . T . i tile Southern States to hopeful, cheerful self-
Hobrible Butchery AT Sea.—An Italian government. Restore them this, and as cer-
vessel, the Theresa, trading on the coast of tainly as day follows the sun, our politics!
/-a.: .. , ' , __ ii nros-
Beneath these proud folds there’s a glorious morrow,
From Southern Gulf wave3 to the wild Western
gorge;
Brethren united, for the glory, the sorrow,
Of our fathers at Yorktown and drear Valley Forge.
Halil Banner regenerate! This day truest greeting;
God bless the bright stars, for freemen a guide,
Thy stripes for the tyrant—hero, peacefully meeting,
Dwell Friendship and Love, 6’er our.fatherland
wide.
Oft hast thou led us is red charges of battle,
Cerro Gordo’s famed heights, Montezuma’s wild
plain,
Mid battle’s wild wreck, the musket’s dread rattle,
Thou’st nerved us to strike, starry banner, again.
We meet 'heath these stars, as brothers fraternal,-
North, East, West. South now kneel at this shrine;
Here flowers of peace, entwining eternal,
. With flowers of friendship, bloom on for all time.
Of Liberty Emblem, o’er wild wastes of ocean, •
Where shines the sun, tyrants trembling behold,
. . . Where shines the sun, tyrants trembling behold,
RoBERT Bahiia^. one of print- Froedom . 8 broad emotion J
era in Philadelphia, died last Saturday. Our hearts as we View thee majestic unfold..,
peculiar way.
grace of unconsciousness which belongs to savages
and animals belongs to her also, and she moves
with a supple freedom which affectation or shy
ness would equally destroy. To see her running
down agreen field,with thesunlight falling onher,
her light dress blown Into colored clouds by the
wind, her step a little too long for the correct
town walk, bat so firmly planted and yet so light,
so switt and so even, her cheeks fleshly flushed by
exercise, her eyes bright and fearless, her teeth
just shown below her lip as she comes forward
with a ringing laugh, carrying a young bird which
she has just caught, or a sheaf ot wild flowers for
which she has been periling her neck, is to see a
beautiful and gracious picture which one remem
bers with pleasure all one’slife after. Or youmeet
her quite alone on a wide bleak moor, with her
hat in bvr hand and her hair blowing across her
face, looking for plovers’ eggs, or f oms and orchids
down in the damp hollows. She is by no
means dressed according to the canoDS of Le
Foilct, and yet she always manages to have
something picturesque about her—something
that would delight tin artist’s taste, and that is in
perfect harmony with herself and her surround
ings, which she wears with a profound ignorance
as to how well it suits her, or at least with only
an instinctive knowledge that it is the right thing
lor her. She may be shy as she meets you; ifeheis
passing out of the nymph state into that of con
scious womanhood, she will bo shy; but if-still a
nymph, with no disturbing influences at work,
she will probably look at you^with a fixed, per
plexing, half-provoking look of frank curiosity,
which you can neither notice nor- take ladvantage
of; the trammels of conventional life fettering
one side heavily, if riot the other.
Shocking as it is to say, the nymph may some
times be met on the top of a hay cart, and certain
ly in the hay field, where she3* engaged in scatter
ing tho “cocks,” if not in raising|them, and where
even the haymakers themselves—and they are not
a notably romantic race—do not grumble at the
extra trouble she gives them, because of her evi
dent delight in her misdeeds. Besides; she has
a bright word for them as 6he passes, for the
nymph hag democratic tendencies, and is frank
and affable to all claeses alike. Bhe needs to be
a little looked after in thi6 direction, not for
mischief but for manners; for, if not judiciously
checked, she way become in time coarse. There
are sunny sides to everything, and the nymph
does not escape the general law.
A California paper - speaks of an enter
prising and highly successful murderer -as 1
China, was recently the scene of a fearful stability will be assured, or financial P ros
slaughter, committed by Coolies. The par-1 perity will speedily follow; the value of prop-
-.lie Theresa left Macao on the 9th of I backs will become par; coin and currency
February, with two hundred and ninety-six counts, with all their evils and complications,
Coolies, and a cargo of silk, tea, etc. At the will disappear from the books of our busi-
end of sixty-two days, she arrived in sight of ness men. Believing, with all my soul, that
the shores of New Zealand. While the crew I the preservation ot our Government from
were occupied in the forepart of the vessel, despotic changes, and all these inestimable
the Coolies rushed to the cabin and seized blessings depend upon the restoration of the
the arms lymg^ there. They then attacked Southern people to wholesome, cheerful self-
the crew, and in about ten minutes a dozen government, I am equally certain that it esu
sailors (Italians) were killed, hacked to pieces I be done, arid dare pledge my honor and lire
and flung into the sea. The second mate, for them that they will give and observe all
who defended himself bravely, received the proper guarantees to renounce secession,
contents of a gun fired close to him by a sailor slavery, and their dependent issues to pro-
wliowafc forced by the Coolies to commit tect, educate and elevate the freedmen to the
the murder. The boatswain’s mate received exercise of all the franchise they enjoy»
nineteen wounds and was putin irons.— Ohio, Indiana or Illinois; arid faithfully to
After eighty days of horrible tortures, (nails perform all the duties incumbent on them as
being driven into his head) he was killed! good citizens under the Constitution and
about forty-eight hours before the vessel laws ot the United States,
arrived off the coast of China. I And what more could be asked of them,
After having exterminated nearly the or what greater results could patriotism de
whole of the crew, the coolies began fighting sire for the country than depend upon this
among themselves, and fifty were killed. The issue! Not even the prosecution ef the war
victorious party then proceeded to decapitate challenged a more thorough renunciation ot
the dead, whose heads, packed in boxes, party preference and personal dislikes on in®
were stowed away in the hold. The unfortu-1 altar of our country than does the attainment
nate wife of the captain was confined be- of this great good. The desolate and ru '”fr
tween decks, and was subjected to the most South, the oppressed tax-payers, of the Nona
cruel treatment an( j West, generosity, mercy, lore of country,
The majority of the coolies were pirates, apjirehensions of evil to come, every motif®
and were perfectly acquainted with the use that ought to'move the hearts of true ana
of the compass and with the charts. They J noble men, appeal to- us to say by our vote
compelled the captain to steer for the port pf| we will stop the hopeless folly of attempting
Timpack. On arriving there the Theresa was I to' govern the .Southern States by what w
pillaged by them, and the mandarins aided call “loyal blacks,” and give the people una
in stripping the vessel In this condition the just guarantee the right, peacefully ana--
vessel, abandoned by the pirates, arrived at gaily, to proceed to reorganize their o
Macao, haying on board the remainder of the Governments within the Union. With su
crew, consisting of eight sailors and the wife convictions I hold the man who would n
of the captain. express and act upon them a traitor to n
n, I self and-his country, and despise the P a “ '
Miss Mary Hurlbkrt, from whose body Uanwho would find fault with any reason
Miss Maby Huhlbebt, from wnose body hrimrabout so greats
physicians have extracted during the last ten ste P? J*® Commending mv con-
years, at least one thousand needles and pins, 8.°™ *° 0 • . them to the
was found dead in her ■ bed at Susquehanna,’ Vff 0 ** “^^X^ldtrs^SVuntry-
N. Y., last week; She would never give any judgment of my fellow-soldiers ana
account of the manner in which they were men > 1 re™ 8111 ! ^ g Bo3ECKA s3.
introduced, whether she swallowed them or j . \ o- < • '
thrust them directly into her flesh, nor did} ~ ■ . . . fh0 f ),»nge
her friends, by watching her, ever find out. ,th«al£!d» beau,»“ d *
They were found_at-different times working ® 1 “/ I d ^L i \ nd y J oIned ’ t i e gayest aoenM. ^
bn the surface of almost every part of the I l0 ve« now kve ceased to vow; noway
body, but chiefly on the limbs. A lady,-who —— *“ or drown tnems®^
refused to believe the stories about their re
moval, states that she went to satisfy herself,
and,saw a physician extract .-nearly fifty from
one arm. . The girl seemed to be very little
having “a Wonderful talent for bereaving any one arm. I be gitl seemed t<
j^tnily he does not fcRppemiixlikeL” . V r ! affected by the operfctiojl.. ,
* .. ? • • ■*_ >. * ?
—because I’m'thirty-five- Onw, if the MS
aver so bright, I ne’er abroad conki . 0 a
oS£-.“the Vise, the “onor. Miss, of srfng ^
cafe home.” But now I »p, trough ^
sapw-feUgnoA and scarce aUve-throngn »i
aark, without a spsrk-heeause I’m thirty nv*
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