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UACON, FRIDAY. MARCH 12, 1869.
"TTwcOnKlit Reasonably to look
ff hn j n (;en. Grant’s Administration.
not a Democratic administration.
* grant was elected as the nominee of the
^ .. —and will, doubtless, hold a
party,
-al fealty to his party, unless that party
r\, break with him as it did with Andrew
In the cose of Johnson, it is undent
^hTtroe that he was forced out of the Radical
* '■ jza tion by the institution of new party
and dogma® growing out of reconstruction.
received with favor by the military and a large
portion of the people.
It is proper, in this connection, that I should
refer to the almost unlimited additional powers
tendered to the Executive by the measures rela
ting to civil rights and the freedmen's bureau.
Contrary to most precedents in the experiences
of public men, the powers thus placed within my
grasp were declined as in violation of the Con
stitution, dangerous to the liberties of the peo
ple, and tending to aggravate rather than lessen
the discords naturally resulting from our civil
war. With a large army and augmented authori
ty it would have been no difficult task to direct
at pleasure the destinies of the republic, and to
make secure my continuance in the highest office
known to our laws.
Let the people whom I am addressing from
the presidential chair, during the closing hours
--^ical organization may very possibly of a laborious term, consider how different
lhe Ka<u _ _ . ._. would have been their present condition had I
yielded to the dazzling temptation of foreign
r'after split into factions upon issues arising
'"the reform and retrenchment policy of
Grant, or upon his measures to reconstruct
Executive Department upon its ancient
dations; but that will not make him
[Vmocratic President, although,beyond a doubt,
Democracy, from patrotic motives, would
^ him in all his efforts to re-assert the Con-
jjtiilici
rw Gen. Grant and his most conservative
-pporters are still so far astray from the Dem-
standard of constitutional republican-
" that support from that party must come as
iijaero choice of alternatives, in the way of an
--roach to the Constitution against a farther
jjpsitnre from it. No sensible Democrat,
htrffore, it seems to us, will cherish the hope
f being able to endorse and support Gen.
administration upon anything like gen-
doctrinal grounds, or feel disappointed in
iding it a Republican administration.
Xhe most we can reasonably hope for, under
circumstances, is that the new administra-
”on shall not be in the hands of the radical fire
"rinds. This is the sum and substance of the
faction we take in appearances thus far.
The ultras—the aggressives—the Reds—the
3 , v jjo are for inverting society in the South
.putting the negroes atop and crushing the
whites, have not got the reins. On
. contrary, they have been coldly ignored and
s ,[ready in quasi war with the now adminis-
ulion. Every leading aggressive Radical—
wrv man who has figured as a fugleman in the
jjrnpon the white race of the South, has been
llW d by; and thus far the language and the
of the administration towards the South
j^r the interpretation of good intent
Vie have the angnry of a government in the
.nth not incompatible with peace, order and a
pouble degree of prosperity, instead of what
* might well dread—a government persistent
«J unscrupulous in its efforts to build np a
p{r,) party power at the sacrifice of every sub-
tiil interest of the whole people including
^ negroes themselves. Sensible men will see,
■.iont going fnrthor, this alone is reason saffi
an for gratulation. It involves every snl>-
ustiiil interest of this section and remits our
anndfi—social, civil and pecuniary—to the
.olifying and healing influence of time.
Our own tme' policy will be, by the exercise
[> vise prudence and forbearance to encourage
iis (imposition on the part of the powers that
>, and get through the next four years of
rant's administration with as little loss and as
inch gain as possible. To sum all np in a word,
c are not to measure a Repnblican adminis-
ition by what we would have it to be, so much
dy what past experience and observation have
ught ns it might be. We must make the best
a political misfortune, and it will be, in our
ndgment, equal folly—to travel beyond the re-
ord to curry favor or to provoke antagonism
ram General Grant. There is just as little oc-
-ision fnrnstosing hosannahs to General Grant,
• to indulge in silly and vapid denunciation of
,s administration in advance.
THE OI’TGOIVG 11W51MSTRATIOX.
Washington, March 3.—President Johnson,
s one of his last official acts, issues the follow-
PKESIDENT JOHNSON’S VALEDICTORY.
lTXWEU, ADDRESS OF THE RETIRING PRESIDENT
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES—REVIEW
Of THE CLOSING ADMINISTRATION—THE POLICE
0? THE PAST, ETC.
and when once deprived of their rights how I A Southern .Mammy.”
powerless they are to regain them. We copy the following clever sketch from an
Let ns turn for a moment to the history of the ' ar | ic le in the “ Land We Love” for March, by
majority in Congress which has acted in such Mi®® French.
utter disregardof the Constitution. While pub- \ . “This good old family servant had one dis-
lic attention has been carefully and constantly tinctive peculiarity—a direct consequence of
turned to the paBt and expiated sins of the . her force of character and independent habit of
South, the servants of the people in hieh places ! thought Being herself of a most substantial
have boldly betrayed their trusts, broken their i constitution—a kind of feminine Colossus, corn-
oaths of obedience to the Constitution, and un- ‘ bining physical abundance and muscular force,
derminded the very foundations of liberty, jus- ] with a heart at times the teuderest, and hands
tice and good government i at times the gentlest, she had been appointed
When the rebellion was being suppressed by i to nurse and watch over the late Mk. Wertner,
the volunteer services of patriotic soldiers, | during the last five years of her life, and she
amid the dangers of the battle-field, these men i had almost literally (as she expressed it,)
crept, without question, into place and power in j “ carried her in these _ arms. Such was
the national councils. After all danger had ■ the tender adoration with which this gen-
passed, when no armed foe remained, when a j tlost of gentle-women had inspired in her
famished and repentant people bowed their faithful nurse, dunng theso long years of pa-
heads to the flag and renewed their allegiance
to the government of the United States, then it
was that pretended patriots appeared before
the nation and began to prate about the thou
sands of lives and millions of treasure sacrificed
in the suppression of the rebellion.
They have since persistently sought to influ
ence the prejudices engendered between the sec
tions to retard the restoration of peace and har
mony, and by every means to keep open and ex
posed to the poisonous breath of party passion
the terrible wounds of a four-years’ war. They
have prevented the return of peace and the res
toration of the Union, in every way rendered de-
wrested from the President his constitutional
power of supreme command of the army and
navy; they have destroyed the strength and effi
ciency of the Executive department by making
subordinate officers independent of and able to
defy their chief; they have attempted to place
the President under the power of a bold, defi
ant and treacherous Cabinet officer ; they have
robbed the executive of the power of pardon ;
rendered null and void acts of clemency granted
to thousands of persons under the provision of
the Constitution, and committed gross usurpa
tion by legislative attempts to exercise this
power in favor of party adherents. They have
conspired to change the system of our govern
ment by prefering charges against the President,
in the form of articles of impeachment, and con-
thus added to the burden which already weighs
upon the people; they have permitted the nation
to suffer the evils of a deranged currency, to
the enhancementin price of all the necessaries
of life ; they have maintained a large standing
many; they have failed to act upon important
treaties, thereby endangering our peaceful re
lations with foreign powers.
The course of usurpations has not been limit
ed to inroads npon the Executive Department.
By unconstitutional and oppressive enactments
iSMSSg TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
The robe of office,by constitutional limitation,
hi' ihy falls from my shoulders, to be immedi-
trivulsmnod by my* successor. For him the
operation and forbearance of the American
We, in all bis efforts to administer the gov-
•anent within the pale of the Federal Consti-
don. are sincerely invoked.
Without ambition to gratify, party ends to
Verve, or persons! quarrels to avenge at the
rifico of the peace and welfare of the country,
' earnest desire is to see the Constitution as
Sned and limtied by the fathers of the repnb-
: again recognized and obeyed os the supreme
i* of the land, and the whole people, North,
:h, East and West, prosperous and happy
ler its wise provisions.
Vi (Tendering the high office to which I was
3rd fonr years ago, at n memorable and terri-
crisig, it is my privilege, I trust, to say to the
•pie of the United States a few parting words
vindication of an official course so ceaselessly
■ailed and aspersed by political leaders to
>ose plans and wishes my policy to restore the
son has been obnoxious.
'•a a period of difficulty and turmoil almost
vhont precedent in the history of any people,
sseqnent upon the closing scenes of a great
hellion, and the assassination of the then
ident, it was, perhaps, too much on my part
Upeet of devoted partisans, who rode on the
Wes of excitement which at that time swept
J Wfure them, that degree of toleration and
-‘JMnimity which I sought to recommend and
-orte. and which I believe, in good time, would
we Advanced ns infinitely further on the road
;■ permanent peace and prosperity than we have
-".'hr attained.
Dontole* had I, at the commencement of my
en#of office, unhesitatingly lent its powers or
fitted them to purposes and plans outside of
*? IfiMtitution, and become an instrument to
denies of confiscation, of general and oppres-
disqualifications, I would have been hailed
that was true, loyal and discerning, as the
.e head of a party, whatever I might have
as the Executive of the nation. Unwilling,
tTf r, to accede to the propositions of extre-
tad bound to adhere, at every personal
■ ,0 my oath to defend the Constitution, I
perhaps, be surprised at having met
« ! *te of others whose only reward for uphold-
*5 institutional right and law have been the
of having attempted to do their
the calm ana unprejudiced judgment
J t ’ me 8 m y®terious Providence assigned
(thfC °ffice of President, I was by the terms
*irlv ^° n *^tntian the oommander-ifi-chi ef of
^million of men under arms. One of
roe»ti >rts disband and restore to the
KTMt 0 ^ 5 life this immense host, and to
elflj so far as I conld, of the unparal-
i»ea w? t * ien incident to the office and the
itj i" aether or not in the step I was right,
Nple if r deserv iug of the approbation of the
: ail can HGXtr rvn rpflAt'finn ?nr?rrP wlipn
can now on reflection judge, when
■ -!Vi condition of public affairs that
^suited from the continuance in the
v .-va-c of such a vast number of men.
our domestic conflict found the
to distinguish itself in a new field
itricoT) to P un i®u European intervention in
**• teis r man y it was believed and urged
r° m the assumed justice of the pro-
N4§,-‘J" ei ew war in which both sides
tie unite to vindicate the honor of
i°6il mYi and further illustrate thena-
»ij 0 A j'’® ss ’would be the surest and speediest
. ••*nkening^national enthusiasm, reviving
'tetrnin ° v- e tfrw 011 ! and occupying a force
^ w “ ic b great doubts existed as to its
tf. w • alt er four years of active campaign-
‘ i° return to the pursuits of peace.
Kill Lb - t “ ese speculations were true or false,
that they existed, and that
vitc ; n °i toe army were, for the time
^e nf tv- ^reetion indicated. Taking ad-
tiV cf , feeling, it would have been easy,
^*14 wv er ‘ in ‘ due f of toe army and navy
■‘i'fintki * power and patronage of the
Httntratli at disposal, to turn the
“toiUry strength of the nation
tuterference in Mexico, and to
a movement which would have been
conquest, of personal aggrandizement, and the
desire to wield additional power. Let them,
with justice, consider that if I have not unduly
“magnifiedmine office,” the public burdens have
not been increased by my acts, and other, and
perhaps thousands, or tens of thousands, of
lives sacrificed to visions of false glory. It can
not, therefore, be charged that my ambition has
been of that ordinary or criminal kind which, to
the detriment of the people’s rights and liber
ties, seeks to grasp more and unwarranted pow
ers, and to accomplish its pnrposes panders too
often to popular prejudices and party aims.
What, then, have been the aspirations which
have guided me in my official acts ? These acts
need not at this time an elaborate explanation.
They have been elowhere comprehensively sta
ted and fully discussed, and become a part of the
nation’s history. By them I am willing to be
judged, knowing that, however imperfect, they
at least show the impartial mind that my sole
ambition has been to restore the Union of States,
faithfully to execute the office of President, and
to the best of my ability to preserve, protect and
defend the Constitation.
I cannot be censored if my efforts have been
impeded in the interests of party faction, and if
a policy which wa3 intended to reassure and
conciliate the people of both sections of the
country, was made the occasion of inflaming and
dividing still further, those who only recently in
arms against each other, yet ns individnals and
citizens were sincerely desirous, as I shall ever
believe, of burying all hostile feelings in the
grave of the past.
The bitter war was waged on the part of the
Government to vindicate the Constitution and
save the Union ; and if I have erred in trying
to bring abont a more speedy and lasting peace,
to extinguish heart-burnings and enmities, and
to prevent troubles on the South, which, re
tarding material prosperity in that region, in
juriously affected the whole country, I am quite
content to rest my case with the more deliber
ate judgment of the people, and, as I have al
ready intimated, with the distant future.
The war, all must remember, was a stupen
dous and deplorable mistake. Neither side un
derstood the other: and had this simple fact and
its conclusions been kept in view, all that was
needed was accomplished by the acknowledg
ment of the terrible wrong, and the expressed
better feeling and earnest endeavors at atone
ment shown and felt in the prompt ratification
of the constitutional amendments by the South
ern States at the close of the war. Not accept
ing the war as a confessed false step on the part
of those who inaugurated it was an error which
now only time can cure, and vyhieh, even at this
late date, we should endeavor to palliate.
Experiencing, moreover, as all have done, the
frightful cost of the arbitrament of the sword,
let us in the future cling closer than ever to the
Constitution as our only safeguard. It is to be
hoped that not until the burdens now pressing
npon ns with such fearfnl weight are removed,
will onr people forget the lessons of the war,
and that remembering them from whatever
cause, peace between sections and States may
be perpetuated.
The history of late events in oar country, as
well as of the greatest governments of ancient
and modem times, teaches that we have every
thing to fear from a departure from the letter
and spirit of the Constitution, and the undue as
cendency of men allowed to assume power in
what are considered desperate emergencies.—
Scylla, on becoming master of Borne, at once
adopted measures to crush his enemies; and to
consolidate tbo power of his party, he establish
ed military colonies thronghout Italy, deprived
of the full Roman franchise the inhabitants of
the Italian towns who had opposed his usurpa
tions, confiscated their lands and gave them to
his soldiers, and conferred citizenship on a great
number of slaves belonging to those who had
proscribed him, thus creating at Rome a kind
of body-guard for his protection. After having
given Rome over to slaughter and tyrannies be
yond all example over those opposed to him and
the legions, his terrible instrument of wrong,
Scylla could yet feel safe in laying down the in-
signa of power so dreadfully abused, and in
mingling treely with the families and forms of
his myriad victims.
The fear which he had inspired continued af
ter his voluntary abdication, and even in retire
ment his will was law to a people who had per
mitted themselves to lie enslaved. What but a
subtle knowledge and conviction that the Ro
man people had become changed, discouraged
and broken in spirit could have induced this
daring assumption ? What but public indiffer
ence to consequences so terrible as to leave
Rome open to every calamity which subse-
S aently befell her conld have justified the con-
usions of the dictator and tyrant in bis start
ling experiment ? We find that in the time
which has since elapsed human natures and
exigencies in governments have not greatly
changed. Who, a few years past, in contem
plating onr future, conld have supposed that in
a brief period of bitter experience everything
demanded in the name of military emergency,
or dictated by caprice, would come to be consid
ered as a mere matter of course ? That con
scription, confiscation, loss of personal liberty,
the subjection of States to military rule and dis
franchisement, with the extension of the right
of snffrage merely to accomplish personal ends,
would receive the passive submission, if not ac
quiescence of the people of the republic ? It
has been clearly demonstrated by recent occur
rences that encroachmentsnp on the Constita
tion cannot be prevented by the President alone,
however devoted or determined he may be, and
that unless the people interpose there is no
power nnder the Constitution to check a
dominant majority of two-thirds in the Congress
of the United States.
An appeal to the nation, however, is attended
with too much delay to meet an emergency.
While, if left free to act, the people would cor
rect, in time, such evils ns might follow legisla
tive usurpation, there is danger that the same
power which disregards the Constitution will
deprive them of the right to change their rulers,
except by revolution. We have already seen
tbo jurisdiction of the judiciary circumscribed
when it was apprehended that the courts would
decide against laws having for their sole object
the supremacy of party, while the veto power
lodged in the Executive by the Constitution for
the interests and protection of Die people, and
exercised by Washington and his successors has
been rendered nugatory by a partisan_ majority
of two-thirds in each branch of the national Leg
islature.
The Constitution evidently contemplates that
when a bill is retained with the President's ob
jections it will be calmly reconsidered by Con
gress. Snob, however, has not been the practice
under present party rule. It has become evi
dent that men who pass a bill nnder partisan
influence are not likely, through patriotic mo
tives, to admit their error and thereby weaken
their own organization by confessing it under
unofficial oath. Pride of opinion, if nothing
else, has intervened and prevented a calm and
dispassionate reconsideration of a bill disap
proved by the Executive. Much as I venerate
the Constitution, it must be admitted that this
condition of affairs has developed a defect which,
under the aggressive tendency of the legislative
department of the government, may readily
work its overthrow. It may, however, be reme
died without disturbing the harmony of the in
strument. The veto power is generally exer
cised upon constitutional grounds; nnd when
ever it is applied, and the bill returned with the
Executive’s reasons for withholding his signa
ture, it ought to be immediately certified to the
Supreme Conrt of the United States for its de
cision.
If its constitutionality shall be declared by that
tribunal, it should then become a law, but if the
decision is otherwise, it should fall, without
power (ti Congress to re-enact or make it valid.
In cases in which thereto rests upon hastily and
inconsiderate legislation, and in which no con
stitutional question is involved, I would not
chance the fundamental law, for in such cases , .
no permanent evil can be incorporated into the I yield of the precious metals m
federal system. It is obvious that without such
an amendment, the Government, as it existed
under the Constitution prior to the rebellion.
lnsive the pnrposes, promise's and pledges by ^} ir i^rp, granny, while yon s a totin ov
which the army was marshalled, treason rebuked ■ Miss Lilly’s?” Ugh! the resources of the Eng-
tience and pain, that “Mammy,” conld form no
higher idea of the heavenly beatitudes than
that of still “tendin’ on poor dear Miss Lilly,”
listening to her as she read the Bible promises,
and carrying her golden harp for her amid the
splendors of the New Jerusalem! She enter
tained an abiding faith that this was one day to
be her happy and enviable lot;—and woe to any
imprudent Ethiopian who, unadvisedly, dared
intimate a donbt of this (to her) most consoling
and comfortable theory. An irreverent grand
son of her own—a sort of ‘Imp of the Perverse’
—once had the ill-judged temerity to venture
the quenr, “ Eh! an’who’s gwine for to tote
and rebellion crushed, and made the liberties of j M 8 * 1 language are quite inadequate to a descrip-
the people and the rights and powers of the Pres- j tion of the “length and the breadth, the depth
ident object of common attack. They have j ^dthe “ducking, ’ received by this “noble Bo-
man,” Julius, npon that unfortunate occasion;
it can only be expressed in his own peculiar lin
go. when he sputteringly asserted that he was
“a dem-dem-demol-obolished nigger!”
“Poor dear Miss Lily!” Mammy would solilo
quize, as she pensively leaned her Havelock
upon a colossal hand—“poor dear Missus—I
trus’ in the Lord she’s got her strength. Harps
o’ gold mus’ in reason be heavy, hit will be too
great an ondertakin’ for her, poor baby—an’
crowns o’ gold is heavy likewise—too burden
some I’m mistrustin’ for that little pale head
that us ad to learn back onto my busom so faint
like, as she said—‘Oh! mammy—my head aches
so, mammy!’ Lord love it! hit never was
strong. Now, hit’s a pleasant place thar—and
so ’twas a pleasant place here, for Mas’ Carroll,
templating before hearing or trial that ho should God bless im, (that s old master, I mean,) made
be placed in arrest, held in durance and? when it : h er wa y mighty easy—ef crowns of gold an’
became their pleasure to pronounce his sentence j harps of gold could a saved her precious life,
driven from place and power in disgrace. They i he d a had them fixed up right centre,^ shure!
have in time of peace increased the national debt ' never got no strength for all his lovin
bya.reckless expenditure of the public money, and of her, an my nnssin of her,—an though I
reckon the Good Master above will make it all
mighty pleasant for her; the main question is,
will it gin her the strength ? I often wonders—
to meself like, jisi as I’m a doin’ now—ef hit
will be easier an’ plainer, walkin’ on them streets
army for the enforcement of their measures of i ° 8°I d in toe Nc\v Jerusalem she used to read
oppression; they have engaged in class legisla- j me about, than ’twas on all these party paths
tion, and built Up and encouraged monopolf— ! ** waa nuutn rnnn’ im rnnn’ fbia bit, Vinnsa iin’
that the few might be enriched at the expense
encouraged monopolies j was made roun’an roun’this big house j is’ feet. Who says Texas is a dry country? Less
niched at the expense of J ® pnrposefof her tired little feet? I reckon rain fell in 1862 than in any year of tenpre-
’twill be all springy and velvety like—Poor Miss
Lilly,—she was one of the chosen—she was.
That good man, Bruther Sanford, is often a tell
ing of us,’ ‘As thy days is, so shall thy strength
be,’but’twasn’t so with that sweet creature—
no ’twasn’t. The more days she had the weaker
the people of ten States of the Union have been ' ®k® got, an at last she jis’ naterally faded away
reduced to a condition more intolerable than j a lily—as she was. I hopes the good Mas-
that from which the patriots of the Revolution tor will arrange it so as to make the harps an’
rebelled. toe crowns, an’ things easy; an’ the burden
Millions of American citizens can now say of j J*gkt, or else that he 11 arrange, it so as to gin
their oppressors with more truth than their ! her strength—at any rate, ontil I gets thar to
Texas Correspondence. | number bt sheep was 149,(537, valued at $168-
General Politics—Let us have Peace—Business 087: the number of cattle 188,688, valued at
of Galveston—Meteorological Memoranda of • $ 6 T?> I7 “ Tk®®® valuations may seem low, and
- _ " I OSt I nAV Q FA Dnt — n in 1 n T»n A M —, Aa La AaI.)
Texas—Newspapers— Weather, etc.
Correspondence Macon Daily Telesraph.]
Richmond, Texas, February 24, 1809.
A few more days of patience and the public
will know something authoritatively of the com-
so they are.
that when
But your readers are not to be told
that when property pays an advalorem tax, .it
is not often valued by its owners altogether as
high as it “mought be.”
The county whose land sustains the highest
average value, bears the ever to be honored
name of Washington, which is $8 37 per acre.
position of Grant’s Cabinet, a subject that has ■ Pretty good for these distracted times. The
for some time exercised the minds of the most lands in Webb are valued by their owners at
lynx-eyed and knowing of the Washington cor- I®®® than any other county in. the State, being
respondents, whose concisions have been as
various as the different shades of political pre- [ conld own a lordly number of broad aores with
ferenees entertained by the writers. ( a small capital, but whether it would be a good
Had the “comingman” seen proper, he could placo for him to keep his scalp on his head, is
have saved a vast amount of brain-racking and
type-clicking, by not keeping his opinions quite
so hermetrically sealed and carefully bottled up.
But whether ho makes a good President, or the
reverse, he has given the public one favorable
omen by exhibiting the rare good sense and
sound discretion of being able to keep his own
counsel.
The great General—for it is the veriest child
ish twaddle to say that he is not this—enters on
the duties of President at a time most auspicious
for his lasting fame and glory, if he will only
wield judiciously and for the good of the coun-
try, those prerogatives that are constitutionally
his. No man that ever warmed the Presiden
tial chair, since the days of Washington, ever
had it in his power to do the country as much
good as Grant has. If he will wield his in
fluence to softening the asperities of sectional
animosities, the prosperity and happiness of the
country are assured facts, and he will find
no warmer supporters, nor men more loyal
to the Government than among those who
once occupied front places in the ranks
of secession. Let us hope and trust that
he will seize the golden opportunity—an oppor
tunity such as does not occur once in a thou
sand years—to confer such great benefits on his
country, and earn the gratitude of all sections,
not only of the present, but of all future gener
ations.
“Peace hath her victories no less renowned
than war.”
Let Grant- add this also to the chapter of his
bays, and the arch is complete, symmetrical and
lofty, that supports his fame and immortality.
Notwithstanding the land crops, the com
merce of Galveston is nearly three times what
it was before the war.
The commercial year, ending with last Au
gust, there were shipped from that point 117,-
89!) bales of cotton, and 191,720 the year pre
ceding.
According to Richardson’s Texas Almanac
for 18G0, more rain fell in 18G6 than in any one
of ten year’s preceding, the quantity being 41,-
95 inches—that is, nearly three and one-half
Galveston is the richest county in the State,
its taxable property being over $14,000,000.
Harris comes next, lacking little of being $10,.
000,000. Next in the list is Bexar, being over
$0,000,000.
The total number of horses returned by the
Assessors omitting twenty-three counties for
which no returns were made is 507,163 valued
at $18,993,984. Every one has an interest in the
beef question. Total cattle, with the above
exception, 3,853,029, valued at $16,856,075.
The wool question concerns everybody of a
cold day. The total number of speech omitting
the counties left out in the count of horseB is,
1,323,556 valued $1,875,406. It is hardly ne
cessary to repeat that the real value of proper
ty is greatly depreciated in its owner’s estima- .
tion when taxed according to its value. The tune ‘
total property in the State taxed omitting the
twenty-fivo counties alluded more than once is,
$170,005,545, according to the Assessors return.
Of couse the real value is largely in excess of this.
The above is taken from Richardson’s Texas
Almanac, to which I again beg to refer the
reader who feels an interest in anything that
relates to the material condition of the State.
But I suppose I have given enough on the sub
ject to surfeit some of your readers.
The weather is still bad and unsettled. Last
week the mercury ranged as low as 25 degrees.
That was low for this latitude, and the coldest
snap we have had this winter. Coming as it
did on the heel of a warm spell, it made one
wonder how they manage to get through the
winters in Siberia and live. Pab Fois.
fathers did of British tyrants, that they have
forbidden the State governments to pass laws of
immediate and pressing importance unless sus
pended until their assent should be obtained.
That they have refused to pass other laws for
the accommodation of large districts of people
unless these people would relinquish their right
of representation in the Legislature, a right in
estimable to them and formidable to tyrants
only. That they have made judges dependent
on their will alone for the tennre of offices and
the amount and payment of claims.
This catalogue of crimes, long as it is. is not
complete. The Constitution vests judicial pow
er in one Supreme Court, whose jurisdiction
shall extend to all cases arising under the Con
stitution and laws of the United States. En
couraged by this promise, a refugee from tyran
ny and a citizen of the United States, also by
the order of a military commander, given under
the sanction of n cruel and deliberate edict of
Congress, had been denied the constitutional
rights of liberty of conscience; freedom of the
press and of speech: personal freedom from
military arrest; of being held to answer for
crime only upon presentment of an indictment
of trial by jury; of the writ of habeas corpus,
and the protection of a civil and Constitutional
Government. A citizen thu3 deeply wronged,
appeals to the Supreme Conrt for the protection
guaranteed by the organic law of the land. At
once a fierce and excited majority, by the ruth
less hand of legislative power, stripped the er
mine from the Judges, transferred the sword of
justice to the General, and remanded the op
pressed citizen to a degradation and bondage
worse than death.
Upon those who became young men amid the
sonnd of cannon and the din of arms, and who
quietly returned to the farms, the factories, and
the schools of the land will principally devolve
the solemn dnty of perpetuatingthe Union of the
States, in defence of which hundreds of thous
ands of their comrades expired, and hundreds
of millions of national obligations were incur
red. A manly people will not neglect the train
ing necessary to resist oppression; but they
should be jealous lest the civil be made subor
dinate to the military element.
The generation just beginning to use the bal
lot, it is believed, only needed that there atten
tion should be called to these considerations to
indicate by their votes that they wish the repre
sentatives to observe all the restraints which
the people, in adopting the Constitution, intend
ed to impose on them.
Calmly reviewing my administration of the
Government, I feel that, with a sense of ac
countability to God, having conscientiously en
deavored to discharge my whole duty, I have
nothing to regret. Events have proved the cor
rectness of the policy set forth in my first and
subsequent messages. The woes which have
followed the rejection of forbearance, magna
nimity and constitutional rule are known and
deplored by the nation.
It is a matter of pride and gratification in re
tiring from the most exalted position in the gift an
of the people, to feel that in a long, arduous and
eventful public life, my action has never been
influenced by a desire for gain, and that I can
in all sincerity inquire, whom have I defrauded ?
■Whom have I oppressed? or at whose hand have
I received any bribe to blind my eye there
with ?
No responsibility for wars that have been
waged or blood that has been shed rests npon
me. My thoughts have been those of peace,
and my efforts have ever been to allay conten
tions among my countrymen. Forgetting the
past, let ns return to the first principles of the
Government, and, unfurling the banner of our
country, inscribe upon it in ineffaceable charac
ters, “The Constitution and the Union—one
and inseparable.”
[Signed] • Andrew Johnson.
Washing
Washington, D. C., March 4, 1869.
Legislative Proceeding*.
Atlanta, Friday, March 5.—The Senate was
not in session. In the House, a motion to re
consider the vote by which the bill creating the
Muscogee Judicial Circuit was lost, was recon
sidered. Mr. Z. D. Harrison was authorized to
print three thousand copies of the laws of this
session, within twelve days after the adjourn
ment, at 40 cents per copy. The general ap
propriation bill was made the special order for
the afternoon. Various bills came up on a third
reading and were lost The following passed:
To make valid the acts of certain Notaries
Public. To allow parties to perfect service on
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. To incor- B
porate _ Athens Mutual Loan Association. For | bing style of conversation: and a series of
’sist her—poor baby!”’ The idea that she, her-
self, would ever miss the golden gates of the
Celestial City, had never once intruded npon
good Mammy'8 brain; she was just as certain
that her “calling and election” was made sure,
as that her beloved Miss Lily had gone before,
and was even now waiting for her. If she en
deavored to follow the kindly teachings of her
Mistress and Brother Sanford, it was not so
much as a means of attaining heaven—but rath
er that one who was so sure of going there, ought,
in reason, to conduct herself here in a manner
consistent with so happy and respectable a des
tiny!
From mammy's attendance on her lovely mis
tress arose another marked peculiarity. It so
happened that npon two occasions, Mrs. Vert-
ner had visited a “AVater-cnre,” in search of her
lost health, and “Mammy,” of course, as an in
dispensable requisite, accompanied her. Here
she was bitten by the “Cure,” and became an
almost fanatical disciple of Pressnitz. Mrs.
Vertner being, for a time as it seemed, bene-
fijjed by the treatment administered in her
nurse’s tender way, the said nurse, to the last,
maintained that “ef poor, dear Miss Lilly could
only a made out to live long enough to a tried
hit all on complete, hit would, in the Good Mas
ter’s time, a gin her the strength.” Mammy,
from that time forward, constituted herself an
entire “corps d’Afrique,” under especial orders
to administer “the treatment” to all diseases,
moral, mental and physical, which appeared
upon that plantation.
Water was the universal panacea for all “the
iils that flesh is heir to.” Madame Romayn fre
quently observed that it was a blessing the river
was so convenient, as without it, Mammy would
have been to all everlasting in a fever of dread
lest the supply springs and cisterns should sink,
Ariel-like, into the “‘middle earth” and leave
her without the slightest amelioration, either
for moral or physical evil. Evidently her direst
idea of the horrorsof a hell arose from her belief
that in such a sphere existed nothing of her fa
vorite element—but on the contrary, that fire,
its antagonistcal principle, reigned supreme.
“ Plenty of water in Heaven,” she would for
cibly announce, “the Good Master knows what
He’s about. Four big shining rivers into the
Paradise aint all for nothin’—an’ then thar's that
‘sea o’ glass like onto a crystal'—that's water
too. ’Taint glass, no how,—what folks want wi’
glass in heaven ? Cheap, brickly stuff—an’
them a walkin’ onto diamonds and all sieh! No,
bless the Lord! that’s sea’s water—hit is!”—
And then she would go on to argue, (not without
some show of reason it must be confessed),
“ What would be the sense of havin’ a hell-fire
an’ plenty of water right on hand ? Water s
fire's master, an’ with hit we could cure hell and
drown the devil—or squeneh ’im out, one.—
Only give me grace for to pour rivers enough
down that sink-hole, an’ I’ll ’range hit all abont
centre. I’d engage to git ull the meanness
outen’ old Sam himself, by proper and jew-
dishns treatment. I’d pack ’im, an’ douce ’im,
plunge 'im: or I’d drownd ’im, an’
naturally put his pipe out for ’im, bodily; I
would, the owdashus ole fiery flyin’ cuss! Hear
me now?”
In pursuance, therefore, of the idea that
water was nothing less than a sort of liquid
“philosopher’sstone,” by contact with which all
things evil were to be transmuted into the pur
est possible good, Mammy had established a
certain regimen for not only routing disease
from the ebony body, physical, but of driving
the “often infirmity” of “badness” out of the
juvenile ebony body, moral. She had imbibed
in copious draughts, the principle that water is
a purifying, refreshing and ultimately regener
ating agent, and she was not an individual to
think a thing, and then allow it to remain quiet
ly laid np in lavender in the regions of thought.
Like a woman of will, as she was, she was for
putting all such thinkings into vigorous, not to
say rigorous, practice. Holding it firmly as one
of the “thirty-nine articles” of her faith, that
African childhood and youth demand nothing
less than the exigent watchfulness of dragons,
gorgons, etc., she constituted herself a guardian
of that type to such an unlimited extent, that
the horrified juveniles considered her no less
than an entire brigade of the aforesaid monsters.
But no one could doubt the fact that her regi
men had its advantages. The little urchins
verily improved nnder it—they were sleek, shin
ing and “6onsie”—the consequences of scrub-
bingoft', and rubbing out the “badness” in
herent in youthful Ebony. They improved vast
ly nnder her superhuman efforts towards bring
ing the blood into a state of healthful circula
tion, after a fit of that chilly and sullen iniquity
denominated “the sulksa searching attrition
of their ears with rasping hnckaback after a fib-
ceeding the present, the amount being 23-17
inches. More rain fell in August-, 1860, than in
any month in the last ten years, the amonnt be
ing 10-88 inches. Pretty good for one month.
Texas likes to be superlative, even with regard
to the weather.-
The thermometrical table makes the coldest
day we have had in ten years to have been in
January, 1864. I have a chilling recollection of
the time, being then in Mobile. The thermom
eter marked 06. Wood was a mighty nice thing
to have about the house in great abundance.
The highest point that the mercury reached
in the same decade, was in July, 1860, when it
was up to 107. Whew, where is my fan ?
Those wishing to know anything about the
climate, soil and productions of Texas, should
get the Texas Almanac. It contains 288 pages,
abounding in information, invaluable to the em
igrant. The statistical information relating to
the other States is varied, and well worth the
money it costs, being a dollar for the Almanac
and map, with fonr cents for postage, to be had
by addressing the publisher at Galveston.
There are seventy-three newspapers published
in the State. Of these nine are dailies with
tri-weekly and weekly editions, of these four are
published in Galveston, two in Houston, one in
San Antonio, one in Austin, and one in Jeffer
son. There are two German papers in the State,
both Republican. In all, there are ten Republi
can in politics, two are religious and one is an
agricultural monthly. The others are conserva
tive. In the newspaper line, the State makes a
good showing for her population. All of them
are well edited and some of them are conducted
with distinguished ability having a large corps
corps of correspondents, and a few have regular
European specials.
Speaking of newspapers, a grand convention
of editors and publishers comes off at Houston
next summer. The Mayor of the city has ten
dered them its hospitalities during the session.
That will be a grand assemblage of sparkling
wit and solid talent.
But if the wit sparkles, the champagne will
too, and the merits of a little otard may be
tested, while villainous “fusil oil” will be at a
beggarly discount. Stage coaches, railroads,
steamboats, and other public functionaries, will
of course emulate the example so nobly set by
the Mayor of Houston, and see that the “fra
ternity,” who cater so zealously for the public
good, and who aro never burdened with a super
abundance of fractional currency, have a pleas
ant trip on the route going and coming. There
is no doubt but the convention will be largely
attended, and one of the most agreeable and
jolly assemblages that ever took place in the
State. I wish I was a Texas editor.
The weather is still bad for farming opera
tions. Rain! rain! Will it never cease ?
The Convention has at last- adjourned. No
one is disfranchised for participation in the late
scrimmage. The people are mainly indebted to
“Colonel” Jack Hamilton for this, if he is
Republican or Rad. Par Fois.
A NOVEL RELIGIOUS CEREMONY.
the relief of Zachariah Thomson. To change
the time of holding Superior Court of Bryan
county. To change the line between counties of
Carroll and Campbell. To make it penal for
owners of Billiard Tables and Ten Pin Alleys to
allow minors to play on the same. To amend
the charter of the town of Lafayette. To allow
J. D. Wilkes to settle with A. C. Fulton as guar-
dian.
Mr. Sisson—A resolution that the Governor
be, and he is hereby authorized to draw his war
rant on the Treasurer for five hundred dollars in
favor of Samnel Bard, State Printer. Boles
suspended and resolution adopted.
pererogatory slaps in connection with a douche
(vulgarly styled a “ducking,”) when the har
mony of the infantile corps had been disturbed
by that domestic enormity, a free fight all round.
The Deluge met with “Mammy s” most un
qualified approval. She regarded it as a master
stroke, a splendid coup d'etat of the Good Mas
ter for getting “the bad” out of “a world lying
in wickedness,” one gone to the unmitigated
“bad,” sotospeak. Tobesure, the experiment
resulted in the destruction of a world of people,
bnt that, in her opinion, was a matter of sec
ondary consequence, since their “owdashus
badness” went down to destruction with
„ _ —— _ . . ...... I them. It was related of her, that Upon one oc-
The Precious hfaAis.—ms admitted that the j casIon> when Brother Sanford was holding forth,
the States and | nloanentlv. in nhAnpl. nnnn this.
two-thirds majority in Congress. It is not,
therefore, diffiult to see how easily and how ra
pidly the people may lose, shall I not say have
lost, their liberties by an unchecked and un
controllable majority in the law-making power,
—. . ... ! eloquently, in the chapel, npon this, her favorite
Territories of the United States for 1863 was • Scripture subject, and depicting the creator's
abont $72,000,000. The year before (1867) it j stem punishment of an evil world; her irre-
^ was $75,000,000. Since the discovrey of gold in , possible enthusiasm got the better of her dis-
mav be totallv subverted* and overthrown by a California in 1848, it is supposed that $1,800,- j cr etion, and she electrified both minister and
troLtVifi-Sa mainritv in Consrress. It is not, 000,000 worth of the precious ore have been dug • audience by springing to her feet, clapping her
ont of the earth. 'colossal hands with “the emphasis of a pistol-
If the Government had eveiy cent of this—if And exclaimed in a triumphant shout
it owned it all—it would not half pay the Nation- “ Glory to God.' he had’em thar / Jiehad’em
n*. /"
ul debt!
thar I"
Planting Operations Backward—Huge Effort*
for Cotton—Famine Prospects—The Articles
of “ Lawyer ”—Texas Statistics.
Correspondence of the Macon Daily Telegraph.]
Richmond, Texas, Februniy28, 1869.
This is my fourth year in this country, bnt I
have never seen planting operations as back
ward as they are at present. This is owing to the
vast amonnt of rain that has fallen during the
winter, preventing fanners from planting. Very
few have more than half their com land bed
ded, and no one has touched his cotton ground
with the plow.
The high pnee that cotton now commands will
induce eveiy one to strain his last link in its
production in this section. No doubt the same
unwise course will be pursued by farmers East
of the Mississippi
But here the fanner can stand a short crop of
com better than with you. His plow stock can
winter it on the prairies, and for subsisting his
family beef is never lacking. If no disaster be
falls the coming crop of cotton it will certainly
be a mammoth one, considering the inefficiency
of a largo portion of the labor engaged in its
production. Then down topple the prices to
twelve or fifteen cents, and those engaged in its
production to the exclusion of com almost en
tirely, are bound to be bruised, if not buried in
the debris of the wreck, beyond the hope of res
urrection.
Unless the Southern people have the self de
nial to practice those lessons which past expe
rience has taught them on the cotton question,
there never was as promising a prospect for a
future famine as the present price of cotton
holds out. But if those engaged in farming
will only be wise, and determined to make pro
visions enough for their own use, and a little to
spare for the use of new prodneers, no matter
how strong the pecuniary temptation to deviate
from this wholesome rule, the future of the
South is an assured success—one that may be
considered as already accomplished.
The good advice and sonnd suggestions con
tained in those elegantly written articles in the
Telegraph, signed “Lawyer,” ought to bear
tho legitimate frait of causing those engaged in
agricultural pursuits to profit by the wholesome
and timely advice they contain. “Lawyer’s”
knowledge, Whoever he is, is not confined to the
science of law and the preparation of legal
briefs. He has certainly kept his eyes open as
he traveled through life, and has not deemed
knowledge outside of his profession unworthy
of his consideration. To my mind, there have
not been compressed in the same space, since
the new era of labor, more telling troths and
and practical sense than are contained in the
Nos. of “Lawyer.” As the subject is one not
easily exhausted and of-almost paramount pub
lic interest,, it is to be hoped he will continue
his productions.
There are only 160 counties in this large
State, bnt some of them are almost States in
themselves. They are divided into 17 Judicial
Districts. The largest county is Cameron, con
taining, according to the tax assessor’s state
ment, 1,74.1,589 acres, for which taxes are paid.
Of course it contains more than this. There
are two other counties containing over a million
Conversion of a Christian Maiden to
Judaism and Her Marriage to an
Israelite.
The second instance of a Chicago Christian
adopting the Jewish faith and being admitted to
membership in that Churdh, is that of Miss Ma
ry Gilmore, formerly of Detroit, Michigan.
Particular interest is attached to this case, from
the fact that she was a Catholic, it being gener
ally conceded that that Church has a stronger
hold on its members than other denomination
of Christians. As in the other instance, a pros
pective husband was the paramount reason for
desiring conversion.
The ceremonies were held in the Brothers of
Peace Synagogue, located on the comer of Third
avenue and Harrison street About ten minutes
after eleven o’clock the convert came up the
main aisle, accompanied by Mrs. Julia Barnett
and Mrs. Sarah Sqider,taking a seat to the left of
the altar. She was attired in a neat fitting white
tarltan dress, with no ornament except a white
silk scarf, which encircled her neck. She wore
a “Grecian Bend” hat, trimmed with blue, with
a large white feather in front. Miss Gilmore is
decidedly good looking, and unquestionably
will make Mr. Bemey Berlyn, the gentleman
whom she has selected as a life partner, happy.
The advent of the Rabbi, the Rev. Dr. Mes
sing, was looked for with anxiety. He entered
the church dressed in his robes, in a short time,
and took a position in front of the altar. There
were now abont 300 persons present. Miss Gil
more was conducted to the altar by the sexton,
Mr. Louis Bacharach, when the following col
loquy took place, the young lady answering the
questions in a clear and distinct voice, the au
dience maintaining the strictest silence daring
the exercises :
Rabbi.—Miss Mary Gilmore, as you present
yourself with the intention of joining the Jew
ish faith, are you ready to answer me, in the
presence of these people, the following ques
tions :
Miss Gilmore.—I am.
Rabbi.—Then please answer them. Do you
freely and of your own accord join the Jewish
faith ?
Miss Gillmore—I do, in the presence of all
these people in this House of the Lord, and in
the presence of the Almighty, declare my pur
pose to join the Jewish nation and recognize
the unity of God.
Rabbi—Are you acquainted with the articles
of faith of our nation?
Miss Gillmore—I am well acquainted with
them, and hereby do declare them. She then
declared the thirteen articles of faith of the Jew
ish nation, as follows:
1. I believe, with a perfect faith, that God
(blessed be His name) is the creator and gov
ernor of all created beings, and that he alone
has made, and ever will make, every produc
tion.
2. I believe, with a perfect faith, that the
Creator (blessed be his name) is the only God,
and there is no unity whatever like unto His;
and that He alone is onr God, who was, who is,
and who will be eternally.
3. I believe, with a perfect faith, that the
Creator (Blessed be His name) is incorporeal;
that he is not subject to any of the chances in
cident to matter, and that he has not any simil
itude whatever.
4. I believe, with a perfect faith, that the
Creator (blessed be His name) is both the first
and the last of all things.
5. I believe, with a perfect faith, that the
Creator, (blessed bo His name) yea, to Him
only, is it proper to express our prayers, and
that it is not proper to pray to any other being.
6. I believe, with a perfect faith, that the
words of the prophet are tme.
7. I believe, with a perfect faith, that tho
prophecy of Moses, our instructor, (may his soul
rest in peace) was tme prophecy, and that he
excelled all the sages who preceded him .or who
may succeed him.
8. I believe, with a perfect faith, that tho law
which wo have now in our possession is the
same law which was given to Moses, our in
structor. May his soul rest in peace.
9. I believe, with a perfect faith, that this
law will never be changed, and that the Creator
(blessed be His name) will never give ns any
other law.
10. I believe, with a perfect faith, that the
Creator (blessed be his. name) knoweth all the
actions and thoughts of men as it is stated, all
their hearts, and is fully acquainted with all
their works.
11. I believe, with perfect faith, that the
Creator (blessed be his name) rewards those who
observe His commandments, and punishes those
who transgress them.
12. I believe, with a perfect faith, that the
Messiah will come, and although His coming be
delayed, I will still, in daily hope, patiently
await his appearance.
13. I believe, with a perfect faith, that there
will be a resurrection of the dead at a time when
it shall please the Creator, (blessed and exalted
be His name forever and ever.)
The Rabbi then took Miss Gilmore by the
band, led her into tho altar, opened the door,
and exposed the Taurah to view, at the same
time asking the question: Do yon know the
meaning of this, and the origin thereof ?
Miss Gilmore.- -It is the Taurah, the holy law
of God, given unto Moses on Mount Sinai, for
the children of Israel
Can you inform me of the most important
words of this holy law.
Miss Gilmore.—I can. The most important
words are those in the Second Book, chapter
nineteen, sixth verse; “And God said unto
Israel ye shall be of my kingdom of priests and
a holy nation.”
They then resumed their former position in
front of the altar, and the colloquy was contin
ued, as follows:
Rabbi—As you have joined onr nation, it
now becomes you to cast off your old name and
take a name among Israel, therefore please state
which name you choose.
Miss Gillmore—I choose the name of Leah,
being the humblest of the mothers of our na
tion, and who neverfalteredinherfaithin God.
Rabbi—I declare you, then, Sister Leah, here
in the house of the tho Lord our God, and in
the presence of the people, by the power in
vested in me as minister of this congregation,
as accepted a member of onr nation, in which
I congratulate yon, sister Leah, in the name of
Israel, your nation, and accept from me a share
in the blessings of the Lord onr God. May the
Lord bless and preserve thee; may the Lord
make his face dime npon thee and be gracious
unto thee; may the Lord lift up his countenance
upon thee and give thee peace. Amen.
The Rabbi then shook hands with her, and
the ceremony was over.
At one o'clock the bride and groom presented
themselves before tbe altar and were married,
Death of Lamartine.
This celebrated French Statesman and man of
letters, died at Paris on the 1st day at March.
He was 78 years old.
But few men of his day enjoyed a more world
wide reputation. In the initial throes of tho
great French Revolution of 1848, his " <IIW rang
high above every one’s else in the pass at lib
erty. Bnt with the advent of the present Na
poleon, he fell under a cloud, and dies almost
nnlamented.
He has left many poems and books which will
long survive him. ax'.O. "* ■:.&
Alphonse de Lamartine was bom at Macon in
1790. His father was an officer of cavalry un
der tbe Bourbons, and his mother a daughter
of Madame de Bois, under-governess to the Or
leans family. Young Lamartine was educated
in the College of the Peres de la Foi, within the
cloisters of which the future poet and historian
received the education which developed his re
markable and peculiar powers of mina. On the
fali of the First Empire he offered his services
to the restored Bourbons and entered the Gar
des de Corps, but after the Hundred Days quit
ted the aruiy. In 1818 he published “Medita
tions Poetiques,” which had an immense circu
lation and placed him at once in the front ranks
of the poets of the time. He afterwards accept
ed the post of Secretary to the Embassy in
London, and soon after was married to Mimt
Birch, an English lady of a very large for
tune. He was subsequently Charge d’Affaires
at Florence, and while there became involved
in a duel with General Pepe, caused bv a politi
cal controversy, in which duel he was severely
wounded. On tho eve of the revolution which
drove the Bourbons a second time from France,
he was nominated Minister Plenipotentiary to
Greece. After Louis Phillippe ascended the
throne he offered to confirm Lamartine’s ap
pointment to the Greek Embassy, bnt the pro
posal was rejected. The poet afterwards spent
many months in travel throughout' The East in
a ship which he fitted ont for himself, and npon
his return to France he became prominent os a
member of tho legislature of his native country.
It was at this time that he published his famous
“History of the Gtrondins.” His history, dur
ing and since the revolution of 1848 in Paris, is
well known to every student of the affairs of
modem times.
Tho Coming Destruction ot the Rad
ical Party.
Don Piatt, of the Cincinnati Commercial thus
discourses of the coming destruction of Radical
ism and the causes that will bring it about:
I suppose that were our Government confined
to its legitimate uses, a man of ordinary intel
lect and average honesty conld bo a successful
Congressman. But, with onr affairs as they aro
now, with the floors of Congress converted into
an arena for conflicting private interests, we.
need the ablest and the purest men in our law
making department If our party have such,
they had better hurry thorn np. we are being
mined by such twaddlers as Moorehead, Kelley,
& Co. We have seen the Democratic party,
with its load of sin, ignorance and prejudice,
gaining on us day after day. Each election
grows closer and more doubtful, and the time
is not distant when tho men who tried to destroy
our Government will have control of it with
the sanction of the people. *
The burden of taxation is shifted from the
capital to the labor of the country, and tho la
borer, if he does not reason at heart feels,
and instinctively puts his trust, in his friends.
A gentleman, and an old protectionist, just
from a visit to Yankee land, told me last night that
going from the West to the East was like pass
ing from a graveyard to a busy thoroughfare.
He left bemud him a laud where money was
scarce, trade dull, and general stagnation like a
miasm settled on the whole country. And he
went into a region alive with work and noisy
with trade—every drop of water is turned to ac
count, and all night long, as the train swept an,
the skies were illuminated with glowing fur
naces and on every side crowded upon him new
evidence of moneyed prosperity. We of the
West are mortgaged to New England. And
take the poor operative of that busy region, and
are his wages any higher than they were before
tbe war ? Not a cent. But the capitalists, the
lordly owners of those huge factories, pocket
their millions.
And our so-called Representatives from West
and South sit in their places and vote, day after
day and night after night, for this legalized rob
bery of their own constituents.
One of the Ashbuens Detected Robbing
the Mail.—The Atlanta New Era, of yesterday,
says:
For some time past thero have been suspi
cions against a Mail Messenger in the employ of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad. On the 8tl»
of last month envelopes were found near the
line of the railroad, addressed to Philadelphia
publishers, and which were mailed at Columbus
on the 6th. This led to the conviction that some
one connected with the mails, who went up the
road on the night of the 7th, had abstracted
letters therefrom. Suspicion rested upon Geo.
P. Ashbum, Mail Messenger, and he has since
been watched very closely. On Wednesday
night, special agent W. T. Howell who was con
cealed in the car, detected Ashbum in the very
act of abstracting letters, before' the train had
left the car shed. When arrested letters taken
from the mails were found in his pocket.
Yesterday he was taken before United States
Commissioner W. B. Smith, and npon the testi
mony of special agent Howell he was required
to give bond in the sum of fifteen hundred dol
lars for his appearanoe. We deeply regret that
the young man has suffered himself to be led
away from the path of rectitude and strict integ
rity. We always hear of such things withpity
for the wretched weakness of our race. Hith
erto he has borne a good character, and it-was
only the most convincing circumstantial evidence
that directed suspicion toward him. *•" We sorely
regret his misfortune.
The Pacific Railroad.
It is announced that the Pacific Railroad hks
been impassable, on account of snow, since the
12th of February last, and yet tho winter has
been one of extraordinary mildness. Snch inter-
uptions as this will speedily settle the question of
the availability of that hyperborian route to the
Pacific, as a permanent and reliable channel for
the enormous traffic between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts—the great East and the great
West. An entire stoppage of communication
for a month, and perhaps for two or three
months, liable to happen at any time during
the winter, will not only produce a ruinous de“-
rangement of trade and credits, but be attend
ed with vast losses of the merchandise itself,
which will bo buried up in the snows for an in
definite period. The chances are that, after
tho route is built, it may have to be abandoned
in favor of one more Southerly.
“Ail Infiunons Practice-*’
Editors Telegraph : Under the above caption
you well characterize the action of “farmers,
so-called, who sneak round their neighbor's
plantations, trying to cajole negroes into break
ing their labor contracts, ” and every right think
ing man puts his seal to your estimate that they
are “the meanest thieves loose,” “unworthy
the name of men,” deserving to “have their
ears cropped and a good coat of tar and feathers
applied to them.”
But if that be the estimate put upon the con
duct of parties in the back settlements, who
perhaps know no better, what should be thought
of a factory man, enjoying the enlightenment
of city life, who does the same thing by bis
emissaries at nigbt, prowling around and getting
| hands by cajoling and enticing away his neigh-
■ bor’s operatives ?
In what respeot is such a one better than the
“miserable creatures" to whom yon refer ?
EttQUXRXB.
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According to the tax returns for 1867, Nuices ! consummating an event, an account of which,
county was ahead of all others in live stock, from its not being drily witnessed, will be read
having 15,568 horses, valued At $243,425. The with pleasure and interest.
Browtilow’s Militia
In Tennessee, are patterning stricty after the
“loyal militia” in Arkansas. The town of Pa-
laski last Friday was the scene of a horrid rape,
of a young negro girl of thirteen. The negroes
turned out and killed the militiaman and threaten
to hnnt down the loyal melish with guns, hatches!
and axes as they would so many tigers.
Tee Boston State Hoass contains a statue of
Washington, which a bold critic, without the
fear of Boston, before his eyes, says “conveys
to one who looks upon it for tho first time the
anaesthetic impression that it represents a sun
up in his night shirt and attempting to
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