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THE SUNNY SOUTH
The Outraged South.
The Mew York Herald on Recon*
struction, Slavery, Repu
diation, National
Credit, etc.
Reminiscences of the War.
Brooklyn Eagle, January 10.1S80.
In moments it seems rather quaint, and in
other moments diabolical to write anything
aliout the material now before me. But half
an hour ago I was in the room of a distin
guished Southern statesman, who was known
as such before, during and after the war, and
more than ever now. In the lining of his
trunk, concealed where you hardly ever go,
a sort of jiocket contained the Daily Intelli
gencer, of Macon, Georgia, und he did not
know it. But he gave it to me with explana
tions. It is a coffee-colored single sheet of
sized but inferior paper, and is dated Sunday
September 25, 1864. How singular the ad
vertisements read* Here are two:
$1,500 REWARD.—RUN AWAY FROM
this place on Saturday night last, the follow
ing (lescrilied negroes:
EDMUND, 5 feet 10 inches high. 55 years
old, black, slow spoken, weighs about 160 lbs.
MAYBURN, 5 feet 10 inches high. 303-ears
old, slight projecting teeth, brazen, defiant
look, weighs about 15° lbs- ,, , . ,
LEWIS, 5 feet S inches high, black, quick
spoken, down look when spoken to and weighs
about 15O lbs.
ELI, 5 feet 8 inches high, 20 years old.
down look, speaks very low, a little knock-
kneed, and weighs about 150 lbs.
These negroes were all well dressed and
shod, most of their clothing being of a fine
quality. $too each will be paid for their ar
rest and detention, so that we can get them,
or for the deliverv to Isaac Scott at Macon,
or to me at this place. The presumption is
that they are making tow ard Atlanta.
C. A. Nutting,
Seven Islands, Butts co., Sept. 2!), 1S64.
NEGROES FOR SALE—I AY ILL UON-
tinue until further notice, a branch of my
Atlanta business, on Cherry strett, two doors
below Zeilin & Co.’s drug store, and nearly
opposite the Macon Telegraph printing oflice.
I have a lot of choice negroes on hand. Ay
stock will lie kept replenished by experienced
buyers and by consignments. Cash advances
to regular traders as heretofore.
Robert A. Crawford.
My old jloiters Andrew and Antony will
attend the trains as usual.
Messrs. Editors: Allow me, through your
valuable columns, to respond to the Brooklyn
Eagle’s Washington correspondent, possessed
at the moment of a “ diabolical" spirit, with
a counter reminiscence from the New A ork
Daily Herald of September 4. 1S74. In re-
pn iducing the points presented by the Herald,
for brevity, treat them as allegations of a
bill in equity.
Calling for a national convention, touching
reconstruction, the institution of slavery,
repudiation, national credit, men and power
of the South, that great journal thus calls
and thus sjieaks:
“I,et us have a national convention of
peace and reconstruction.—Both sides of the
Southern Question," su3's the Herald. ‘The
men who a few short 3 ears ago were strong
enough 1>3' genius and valor to rule the coun
sels of the Nation, and subsequently to con
struct a power in the Southern Confederacy
that required four years of war to suppress,
and is still an historical power commanding
the respect and admiration of mankind—these
men have not passed away. AV e do not see I
them, but they live.’ ”
Respondent accepts this allegation as true.
‘ Kays the Herald. “If the Union cannot
he destroyed by war. it can be destroyed by
repudiation. No wholesome union lietween
Massachusetts and South Carolina, between
New A'ork and Arkansas 011 the financial con
ditions that exist to-day. Already the north
laments its existence, and to-morrow, if repu
diation continues to be the controling senti
ment of the south, we shall have the solvent
patriot states of the north crying: “Who
shall save us from the body of this death 1
Can we ever really reconstruct the southern
states without the aid of the real sous of the
south: AYe have been trying to do so. depend
ing upon the ignorant freedmen w ho yester
day were slaves, and the unscrupulous white
adventurers who yesterday tied from the
north, political mendicants and soldiers of
fortune. There is no reconstruction: on the
contrary we see disturbance, civil out-break,
corruption and disorder, and worse than all.
a war upon the national credit. This can lie
in no respect a wbolesonie. living Union, and
the end will be destruction by repudiation—
more disasterous than would have been the
destruction by war."
Respondent accepts this allegation, and en
quires. “how could honest reconstruction be
bad or exiiected through the ignorant freed
men, who yesterday were slaves and the un
scrupulous white adventurers who yesterday
fled from the north, political mendicants and
soldiers of fortune.” or through any such
agencies?
Savs the Herald:—“AVhat then is the rem
edy?' It is idle to talk of military power to
keep the peace in a country’ bent upon dis
turbance, unless by the extermination of the
people. Spain has been trying for forty
years to preserve order in her Biscayan prov
inces, and in the end she has a civil war as
irritating as it was when Espartero made
himself the Duke of A'ictory. The public
sentiment of this country would not admit of
the armed occupation of the south.
Respondent accepts this allegation as cor
rect and historically true, and avers some
what of confidence in the proposed national
convention of peace and reconstruction as a
jiossible medium of discovering the remedy,
provided especially that such national con
vention be composed mainly of those who
wore the “blue” and those who were the
“gray,” presided over by ex-president Grant
and Honerable Alexander 11. Stephens, in
viting also ministers-extraordinary from
England, France awl Germany.
Says the Herald,— 1 'There are certain inevit
able facts growing out of the war,—just as
they grow out of all wars and all revolutions.
—The English Revolution made Parliament
free and destroyed alisolute power. The
French Revolution made France the home,
the heritage and the glory of every French
man, and decreed noble and peasant equal
liefore the law. Our own Secession Revolution
consolidated (?) + the Union and emancipat
ed the slaves. These are the fruits of the con
test—the inevitable facts that canie from it—
that can never be destroyed or taken away,
and for which we should go to war to-mor
row as eagerly as England for the freedom
of her Parliament, or France forthepreservas
tion of the fruits of her Revolution. Rut
there are other questions in no way vital
which do not effect these inevitable results
and the consideration which statesmanship
would impose upon us. Have we not im
posed too heavy a fine u]K>n the South, as the
consequence of the war ? Have we not pun
ished her, although a sister commonwealth,
ten times more severely than France was
punished by the alien invader ? If Germany
astonished the world in exacting five mil
liards from France, what must lie thought of
of the fine of ten milliards which, estimating
each slave at five hundred dollars, was im
posed ujion the South by the Proclamation of
'’’mancipation'? Should not some compensa-
>n be made to the South for this enormous
ie ? Not in the way of actual money paid
former slave owners, but in development
industries in the South that were destroy-
by the war. If we of the Northern States
r generations sustained, approved and
ofited by slavery when it was an instil u-
>n should we not assume some of the ex
pease and responsibility of regarding it as a
crime? Because we conquered the South,
have we any right to desolate it ? Can there
be any form of desolation more thorough
than to compel the people to bear all the
burthens of the war which they assumed. Of
the abolition of slavery which we at one time
guaranteed to them as an institution, as well
as the debt we contracted ourselves to sup
press the reliellion ? We do not dwell upon
the events that now take place in South Caro
lina and Mississippi—the feverish movement
of the popular heart in Arkansas, the riots in
Kentucky-. the threats of civil war in North
Carolina, for they indicate now what they
have indicated at any time since the war—
they show that instead of an honest measure
of generous and pacific reconstruction, we
have reduced the conquered States of the
South into the condition of Poland and Ire
land. No known section of conquered terri
tory—not tho most lawless districts of Wost-
meath, nor the most inqiatient communes in
Alsace are as disturbed as many of the South
ern States. This cannot lie attributed to the
presence of war, for the war is over and the
harvests have long since enfolded with living
verdure the bloody fields. Nor does it come
from failure of crops—the frequent cause of
discontent—for all accounts tell us that cot
ton and sugar and rice promise an abundant
yield. Nor does it represent the fermenting
ambition that would rise in new re
bellion, for no Southern leader—not
Mr. Toombs himself, has hinted the thought
of war. The cause lies deeper. It has be
come a disease—a slowly growing, irritating
disease,—what might be called an ulceration
of the political system. Unless we remove it
there can tie no end but death. Already in
Arkansas and South Carolina we observe the
first tokens of death in the shameless repudia
tion which has become an accepted principle
of legislation, such examples should not be
overlooked. If the Union cannot lie destroy
ed by war, it can be destroyed by repudiation.
Some of our empirical statesmen tell us that
the cause of this is slavery. AYe are weary
of this refrain about slavery, fifeteen years
ago, and our most resjieeted citizens were
only too glad to applaud the violence which
greeted the orators and writers who opposed
slavery. AYell, Slavery was an evil, just as
the next generation in England will jierhap*
regard the crown, the aristocracy and tho
established church as evils. But, it was an
institution, an ! so puissant as an element of
political influence that it enabled a compara
tively small portion of the people to rule tho
union. For nearly two centuries, under our
Colonial and federal forms of government
we treated slavery as an institution. For
ten years we have treated it as a crime. Ihe
question arises, and it is a question of su
preme magnitude, as our readers will see
when they dwell upon it, whether it is the
soundest statesmanship to deal with any in
stitution as a crime. There is danger of re
action and inviting strife. This danger
Cromwell incurred when lie pronounced
monarchy a crime by sending Charles the 1st,
to the scaffold. A‘far greater danger the
French people invited when they denounced
royalty, religion and rank as so many grades
of crime. The same in a less degree, fell upon
the republicans in Paris, and Madrid: wnen
they denounced pro]ierty, capital and law as
crimes. The logic which animated Cromwell
in his dealing with Charles Stewart; the
logic which breathed through the French
Revolution: the commune uprising and the
Republic of Margai, were unaswerable, soul-
stirring, sublime. But it was not the states
manship of common sense: it recalled the elo
quent periods with which our own writers
and statesmen welcomed emancipation.
Nothing is easier than to prove that royalty,
aristocracy, standing armies, laws concerning
land, entail, primogeniture and the establish
ed church are all crimes. But custom and
law make them institutions. When we deal
with institutions as with crimes, we provoke
the excesses which comnelled the restoration
of Charles, the coup d'etat of Napoleon, the
suppression of the commune, the successful
conspiracy of Serrano and the growth of re
pudiation and anarchy in the South. Is it
not jiossible that by following this jiregnaiit
historical lesson to its natural teaching we
may see the real cause of the troubles now
pervading the South'? These are grave ques
tions. To the minds of some of our readers
they mav no doubt be novel, and it may lie
said that we take a giooniv or a fantastic
view of the situation in the South. But there
certainly is an evil in the South that we have
not reached. AYe are rapidly drifting upon
chaos, disorder, a war of races, repudiation.
AYe have made our brothers of yesterday our
enemies, and not only enemies, but we sur
render to their mercy the credit of the nation
and the happiness of the four million of slaves
we emancipated—more than all, we have
given them no motive for reconstruction;
but on the contrary-, wo have left them every
temptation to war ujion the union.
These are living questions. It is not for us
to decide them, but we do not see bow there
can lie reconstruction until they are decided.
Would it not lie the wisest statesmanship,
therefore, to call together a national conven
tion to consider the war. its causes, conse
quences and results, and how best the Union
can adjust itself to the new' and strange con-
diitonsit has left to us? Letushavea National
Convention of Peace and Reconstruction.”
Respondent accepts, with asingle exception,
(marked +) this fifth allegation as pregnant
with more of fact and forecast, in conception
of the ills, duties and responsibilities of the
hour, than all the ex-parte columns, volumes
and harangues read or heard since first the
thunder of our artillery awoke the echoes of
Fort Sumter. But at the threshold enters
protest and repels as inadmissable the imputa
tion that shameless repudiation has become an
accepted principle of southern legislation.
True, some of the states of the south, as Miss
issippi, who stood alone blushing with shame
for her false step of 1842, brought reproach on
the name of American states. True, certain
influential politicians in the south—Mr.
Toombs prominent—thus counselling and elo
quently insisting. It is yet to be seen, however,
whether the “Wisdom, Justice and Modera
tion” of Georgia accepts without discrimina~
tion the pall of repudiation. Should both sides
of the question be fairly presented to the peo
ple it is not believed that the repudiationists
can engraft this deadly Upas as an accepted
principle of southern legislation. Should,
how ever, such a calamity come, wherefore
astonishment? The south, a cordon of states
of a common nationality’, pinioned and power
less, beggared by ford of overwhelming
numbers, constrained to accept renewed, ever-
varied and more humiliating exactions—may
lie driven, in this as in other matters of mo
ment as n ay not be desired, foreseen or pre
vented. The scates of the south continually
goaded, just demands repudiated,unrequited in
any degree for spoliation in guaranteed prop-
erty—over four millions of slaves representing
her active capital, employed for common
national weal in production of five-sevenths
(as seen from authentic statisites) of the aggre
gate of foreign exports—affecting the com
merce of the world. Might this not furnish
precedent when presented by the repudiation
ists as an accepted principle of national repu
diation, injustice and wrong in an appeal to
the civilized world?
Not to plead Constitutional guarantees, nor
the manner, nor by whom slavery was
put upon the South against the protest
of leading (States of the South, nor speci.
ally to cite the States engaged with their
shipping in the carrying slave trade, further
than to include nearly all North and East, as
particeps criminis, if indeed, the South shall
continue to be punished for slavery as acrime,
but mainly present the fact of all accepting
the benefits and emoluments accruing from
slavery’, while as now repudiating and shift
ing the entire sacrifice and loss of capital in
vested in the institution upon their robbed,
ruined, prostrate brethren of the South. Can
this be of the fair dealing, generous senti
ment, lofty justice and honor of our all-pow
erful, gallant and noble brethren of the North
and East who wore the “blue,” as five to one,
and vanquished these no less gallant States
that now, in their extremity, cite the victors,
our noble brothers, to the laws of war, the
laws of civilized nations, and the laws of hu
manity which limit and prescribe the victor’s
right.
“Let vs have peace.” We desire not strife,
but peace, amity and good will, if that be at
tainable. Robert A. Crawford.
Addenda.—The following from the Rut
land (Vermont) Herald of recent date is but
another phase of the diabolical to which I
might not more appropriately reply than in
the language of ex-Attorney-General Jerry
Black, addressing the Electoral Commission:
BLOOD UPON THE SOUTH.
Rutland Herald, Vermont radical organ.
The Yankee burns slow, but he has been
heating up all these years of wrong, cruelty
and perfidy, and, unless we are greatly nus-
taken, tbe'people of the North are well-nigh
the boiling point of impatience concerning
the South; if she won’t live under law, thou
let her die under law! AVe are all sick of her
loathsome shape; her hands dripping with
the blood of the feeble and the ignorant, ,-ier
every-day life a tale of political murder and
fraud; the olive branch has been stretched
in vain year after year; her poverty and
sickness have been the signal for lavish gen
erosity on our part; she grasjis the olive
branch only long enough to divert our atten
tion and then tries to beat our brains out
with a bludgeon; it accepts everything; it
renders back no sign of reconciliation or
oliedience to law, and the North in sheer
despair says, give us once more a republican
congress to make our laws operative, and a
man like Grant to do his jilain duty, instead
of quibbling how he can dodge it, and we
will yet have either some respite from the
reign of terror at the South or a desert; the
South had better be ns barren as labrador
than as hellish as equatorial Africa. If the
South is not ready’ to let up on political as
sassination, terrorism and fraud thoy’ " ill be
compelled to retreat liefore those who are
willing to maintain a republican form of
government instead of tne despotism dubbed
a democracy by this gnnil iler and horsejockev
civilization that loafs and chops strav, call
ing it jiolitics, over corn whisky all iky. and
then turns its drunken energies to sh siting
anil cheating the only creature fist will
work, viz: the “cussed nigger.”
“At present, you have us down ant under
your foot. Never had you a better JgJfl to
rejoice. Well may you say: ‘We hap made
a covenant with death, and with heDive are
at agreement. When the overflowing courge
shall pass through, it shall not com to us;
for we have made lies our refuge, aikunder
falsehood have we hid ourselves.’ lit nev
ertheless, wait a little while. The wters of
truth will rise gradually, and slowly bt sure
ly, and then look out for the overowing
scourge. ‘The refuge of lies shall lieswept
away’ and the hiding place of falsohoo shall
be uncovered.’ This mighty and f'sait
nation will yet raise herself up like Strong
man after sleep, and shake her in’ucible
locks in a fashion you little think now.
AVait, retribution will come in due tip. Jus
tice travels with leaden heel, but st W w th
an iron hand. God’s mill griivfripr but
dreadfully fine. AY ait till the **:ate is
lifted and a full head if water cpi.j—;s.hing
on. AY ait, and you will see fine gifting
then.” !
For the present l am done withnese
diabolical spirits. As Mr. Toombs ytild
say. it fatigues indignation to notice em
further. Robert A. CrawfoX
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. i2, 1880.
A HORRIBLE TALE.
BY HEZKKIAH STRONG.
John Henry was “spoonj” on Jane Isabel,
The belle of Slumgummery street;
Her age was red and her hair nineteen.
And she had hippopotamus feet j
He’d serenaded Janee ght nights in the week
To the boundless delight of the boys,
For, between a cracked voice and a cracked
violin,
He managed to make quite a noise.
Blit Jane one night the music mistook
For the wail of e gentleman cat.
She threw up the window ami seized a brusii.
And hoarsely exclaimed, “Take that!”
And she brushed the skin from John’s lelt ear
And flattened his nose with a jug.
She put a watch-pocket over his oye,
And otherwise battered his mug.
Now John’was a ruined and miserable man,
He swore he’d commit suicide ;
He went to the ice and put on bis skates,
But neither to skate nor to slide,
He hovered around one particular spot.
While others were growing so rangerous,
And eyed with a long and wistful gaze
Theominous sign-board, “Dangerous!”
T* & A- -4
lie broke through at last, and under he went,
With a regular bull-dog yelp;
He suddenly forgot that lie wanted to die,
And lustily shouted ior help;
A policeman saw him and came to ills aid,
With a hop und a skipand a jump.
He lassoed John with a long clothes-line,
And landed him all in a lump.
Anecdotes of' llistinguisld
Persons.
Many yeats have now elapsed sineehreo
subalterns might have been seen' stroking
in the water off 8t. Helena, one of the pe
culiarly helpless. He was saved to !e as
Arthur AYellosIy, Duke of Wellington.
Doddridge, when Itorn, was so weaf an
infant, he was believed to be dead. Aurse
standing by fancied she saw signs of vdity’.
Thus the feeble spark of life was saveifrom
lieing extinguished, and an eminent ithor
preserved to the world.
Bacon, the sculptor, when a tenderly of
five years old, fell into the pit of soap
boiler and must have jierisbed hue Jot a
workman just entering the yard obseSd the
top of his head.
Some years ago a young man hiing a
subordinate jiosition in the East IndCom-
pany’s service, twice attempted to jprivo
himself of life by' snapping a loaded jtol at
his bead. Each" time the pistol miss fire.
A friend entering his room shortlafter
ward, he requested him to fire it outf the
window. It then went off without dculty.
Satisfied that the weapon had be duly
primed and loaded, the young mai}>rang
up exclaiming: “I must lie nresesd for
something great,” and from thnt omeut
gave up the idea of suicide, which * some
time previous had been uppermoin his
thoughts. That young man afterfd be
came Lord Clive.
The life of John Newton is but tlfcistory
of marvellous deliverances. As a Jith he
had agreed to accompany some Rids on
a man-of-war. He arrived too latt#ie boat
in which bis friends had gone watipsized
and all its occupants drowned, (Another
occasion, when tide-surveyor in tlport of
Liverpool, some business detained t>, to the
great surprise of those who were i(.e habit
of observing his undeviating ptRiality.
He went out in a boat, as hereto*, to in
spect a ship, which blew up before reached
her. Had he left the shore a fdminutes
sooner he must have perished wif^ie rest
on board.
When Oliver Cromwell was Infant, a
monkey snatched him from his cne, leaped
with him from a garret windoand ran
with him along the leads of the use. The
utmost alarm was excited anion^ inmates
and various devices were used tutecue the
child from his newly found jinJtor. All
was unavailing; his rescuers haiijt courage
and were in despair of ever seeiif he baby
alive again, when the monkeyiietly re
traced his steps and deposited* hurl ion
safely upon the bed. On a substent occa
sion the water had well-nigh iticbed his
insatiable ambition. He fell inbleep jki.kI,
from drowning in which aclergan was the
sole instrument of his rescue.
Many instances are recorded establish
the fact that sudden alarm or^ress will,
as Sir Walter Scott has said, “llcli at once
the hair.” The hair of Ludwif Bavaria,
who died in 1204, on his leaniinf the inno
cence of his wife, whom he had Used to be
put to death, on a suspicion of Idelity, be
came almost suddenly white jnow. The
same thing happened to the Ifcnist Van-
yilliers, in consequence of a tJble dream;
and also to the French cotn^n Blizard,
who, having fallen into the 111*, remained
for some time in imminent daif of his life,
clinging to an iron ring in one] the piles of
a bridge. A like change was mght in the
case of Charles I., in a single 1 it, when he
attempted to escape from Cari Kike Castle.
Marie Antoinette, the unforl its queen of
Louis XVI., fouud her hair sui ily changed
by her distresses, and gave toi tbful friend
her portait inscribed, “Whit 1 by afflic
tion.” The beard and hair ihe Duke of
Brunswick whitened in twei four horus,
upon his learning that his f sr had been
mortally wounned in the bat: < Aurstadt.
But poor John Henry was frozen stiff
As a stick, or a lord of the realm ;
The policeman stood him upon his legs.
And placing himself at the helm.
He pushed John homeward upon Ills skates,
And endeavored to thaw him out,
But all the fire in the neighborhood failed
To bring John Henry about.
They packed him iu sawdust aud sent him
South,
And hung him upon the equator.
He soon became limber—bis head grew soft—
His face like a nutmeg-grater.
Ho then went home in the warm spring-time.
And married his Jane Isabel;
And here let us ead this liorr.ble tale
The rest is too awful to tell 1
Hack Fares in tlte Mouth.
The New Orleans hack drivers are a race
who will listen to reason. For two-horse
barouches the fares are simply extortionate
—$2 an hour—but there are one-horse shan
drydans, a kind of compromise between the
Parisian victoria and the Cuban volante, and
I made a bargain with one of the “shay”
drivers to conduct us to the St. Charles Hotel
for the sum of 91. Four shillings and two
pence for a five minutes' ride is perhaps a
rather ororous tariff : but I did not grum
ble, seeing that only the other day’ I paid $5,
or a guinea, for a drive through the cow-
embellished streets of Augusta the prosper
ous.—O. A. Snla, in London Teleyrvpk.
Answer to CorreMpoadeats.
Bert says: A friend of mine showed me a
manuscript story which she intended to send
off to be published. In the description of the
hero she used the expression—“perfect as the
Roman Antinous” I told her she probably
meant Adonis as I had never heard of any
other model of Roman lioauty, but she says no:
she is sure she has more than once met with
the name Antinous used as a synonym, as it
were, for physical perfection. She agreed to
leave the matter to you so please say in your
next liumlier if you know of one named
Antinous who was considered so handsome.”
* * * We do know of one named
Antinous who was considered a model of
manly beauty. Two statues of him are now
to be seen in the galleries of the Louvre.
They show not only physical symmetry, but
that which is not always to lie found in the pic
tured or chiseled faces of the ancients, sjiiritual
elevation of look, a half melancholy thought
fulness. His eyes are described as large and
beautiful with a look expressive of ihe purity
of the soul. One of these statues was found
in the baths of the Emperor Adrian, anil an
other in his villa at Tivoli. Antinous, a young
Bithyian, was the Emperor Adrians’s favor
ite, and his companion in his journeys to
Syria ami the East. Once, while bathing in
the Nile, the Emperor came near drowning.
He was rescued by Antinous, but the act cost
the young favorite his life. Life-long was
the Emperor’s grief and gratitude. A new
star discovered in the heavens uliout the time
of the youth’s death was named Antinous,
and it was declared that the young Bithyian
had become one of the celestials. The Em
peror ordered his deification and that homage
be paid him in the temples which had lieen
erected to him by Royal command. Never
was a mortal so regally- mourned. Cities
were named for the dead hero, and history
tells us that the Emperor “summoned religion,
art and sculpture to combine in keeping his
name in everlasting remembrance.” So, you
see “Bert” that the young lady had a l ight
to speak of her story hero as “perfect as
Antinous”—if she chose to do so.
Elly Powers says: “Please answer these
three questions. What is the Queen of Eng
land’s full name ? Are pins stuck in the pa
per by a machine ? What must one do with
potato peelings and such tilings when eating
at table ?” * * * 1st. The Queen’s name
is Victoria Alexandrian. She was Princess
of Kent (daughter of the Duke of Kent, fourth
son of George III), before her elevation to
the throne. Her full title is now Victoria
Alexandrina, Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland and Empress of India. 2nd. Pins are
stuck in tho paper with a machine. Machin
ery is used in the entire manufacture of these
little articles. The wire is cut into proper
length, pointed and headed by machinery.
3rd’ There should rightly be a small scrap
plate or extra napkin when potatoes are
served unpeeled. If there is not. there seems
no other way to do hut to put the peelings, etc.,
on the table beside the jilate.
Culver says: “I am engaged to a beauti
ful girl of Louisiana, whom I met at the
White Sulphur Springs last summer. I sent
her a diamond engagement l ing last month
and received from her a jilain gold riug, in
side of which is inscribed the one word
“Adonai.” I am free to own 1 don't know
what it means, but I dislike to ask her its
signification. Can you helji me out ‘ I know
there was a beautiful Greek youth, called
Adonis, who was beloved of Venus: does she
refer to that do you think ?” * * * No,
your lady love does not'mean you are a
second Adonis; but she certainly must intend
to compliment you still more highly. The word
is Hebrew (from Adun), and s.gnified lord or
god. She means to say’ you are lord of her
heart. The Jews say Adonai instead of Je
hovah. They maintain that the projier vow
els of the word Jehovah have never been
found, so when they meet wit h that word in
the Bible, they cal! it Adonai iusteuil.
D, A. L. says: “Yesterday we were talking
over the recent attempt to murder the Czar,
and the other crowned heads, and 1 said to
some friends that Queen Victoria was the
only sovreign who has been exempt from
these attempts at assassinate n. A gentleman
present took me up and said that Victoria’s
life had lie-n attempted more than once: but
as he could give no details, I have my doubts
of the truth of his statement. Was lie right?”
* * * * He was. We can recall, now,
three attempts to kill the Queen of England.
One by a youth named Oxford, who was af
terwards adjudged to lie crazy; another, l>y
John Francis, was a noted instance. He was
sentenced to be hanged, but the Queen
graciously commuted his sentence to trans-
jiortation for life. Another attack was by a
man named Bean, and his only punishment
was eighteen months imprisonment. There
may have been other attempts at the life of
Her Majesty which have escaped our memory.
Dr. Chalmers had an eye to numerical ar
rangement in almost everything he did. His
biograjiher (Dr. Hanna) relates that “it reg
ulated every- part of his toilet, down even to
the daily stropping of his razor. Beginning
with his minnimum, which was two strokes,
he added one more stroke each day success
ively- till he got up to a uumlier fixed as his
maximum, on reaching which he reversed
the process, diminishing the number by one
each day till the lowest point was touched.
His staff was put down to the ground regu-
ularly at each fourth footfall; and the num-
lier of its descents gave him a pretty accurate
measure of the space over which he walked.
Habit had rendered the couuting of these de
scents an easy-, indeed almost mechanical
ojieration, so that, though meeting friends
and sustaining an animated conversation it
still went on.”
The Rise in i*p >ei*.
The rapid rise in print paper is bidding fair
to work serious injury to the publishers of
newsiiapers. They are the one class to which
it w-ould seem, the revival of prosperity does
not bring relief. That this is so, we must ex
tend our thanks to the present barbarous
system of tariff, an item in which is an enor
mous duty upon print paper and the chemi
cals emjiloyed in its manufacture.—Michigan
Tribune.
The Clement Attachment will soon be in
suueessful operation in Macon comity, Ga.
MAN OH,
— BY —
MARY E. UK VAN.
From the New York Keening Post.
The New York Keening Post, the highest
literary authority among Northern journals,
says of Munch: “Here we have a novel,
which for want of another word we may call
sensational, but which has a natural and ar
tistic right to be so. The colors of the land
scape which the author jiaints, give her the
artist’s right to use stronger pigments than
authors ordinarily may employ. The story
is strongly- dramatic and is told with great
vigor anil skill; its dramatic characters are
presented dramatically, the characters of the
personages are dearly discriminated; the
workmanship is remarkably good; the
handling of the difficult and complicated plot
is extraordinarily clever.
From the Chicago 7'ribune.
“Mancli” appeals powerfully to the sym
pathies of the reader. Dramatized it would
be classed as an emotional drama: as a novel
it is difficult to assign to it a projier classifi
cation. It is exciting, working ever to effect
ive climaxes, thrilling in many portions,
arousing the symjiathies of the reader and
holding his attention to the end.
From Mrs. Mary Ashley Townsend, author
of “The Brother Clerks.”
New Orleans, Feb. 16.
Dear Mr. Derby :
I have just finished the thrilling and beauti
ful story of “Manch.” 1 was profoundly inter
ested from the first chapter to the last: 1
find it full or vigor, originality ami dramatic
power. 1 am too fresh from the magnetic
influence of the story—too much stirred by
the heroism, too much moved by the pathos
there betrayed to attempt to criticise it in
any way. In fact, my present impression is
that it is above criticism. The characters
are admirably- drawn and well sustained, the
plot is novel, well laid and cleverly- earned
out, the story is told with much force: is un
clogged with dull descrijition and the reader’s
interest is not once allowed to Hag. 1 am
truly obliged to you for having recommend
ed to my notice so admirable a book.
Sincerely-,
Mary Ashley Townsend,
From the Neiv York Herald.
“Munch” is the singular title of an Ameri
can novel by Mary E. Bryan. The story
deals with Western scenes and subj -ets, and
that it is exciting, no one can deny. The
plot is intricate and the interest breathless.
To an Eastern reader the story seems hardly
within the bounds of possibility, still truth is
strange and so are the people of the West.
Mrs. Bry-an lay-s her local color on thick
and the scenes are life-like,”
From Hon. A. H. Stephens to the publishers.
I think “Manch?’ is one of the most inters
esting aud thrilling stories I have ever read.
Send me one hundred copies and I will remit
the price.
From the New York Evening Express.
D. Appleton & Co. have just published a
most unique volume by Mary E. Bryan, en
titled “Manch.” It treats of western scenes
and subjects in a most exciting manner. The
plot is exceedingly intricate and the interest
is sustained without faltering till the close.
The scenes are graphically and vividly de
scribed.
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Our hearts go out in grateful acknowl
edgements to all our noble Southern and
Western people for the thousands of kind,
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arduous labors. Every letter is read with in
terest and its kind icords are treasured in
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some clubs and hundreds of others have
promised to do so soon, and ice are assured
that a new interest is being felt everywhere
in the success of this paper. It has already
marked the most splendid triumph in ihe
history of Southern Journalism, audit is all
due to the vulture and that whole-souled ap
preciative element which is now permeating
all stratus of Southern society aud icorking
out a new era in the tastes and social ethics
of our much abused people. We love and
appreciate them more and more; and the
tens of thousands of cheering words and
material trip which have come up to us from
all portions of this great country since ice be
gan this enterprise have bound them f o ’.is in
ndissoluble bonds.
NEW STORIES:
AVe have is hand a large number of ex
cellent manuscripts, of which the follow
ing form only a part:
Don Joaquin and
His Flag;
OR,
The Spanish Buccaneer
By l-icut. T'elix,
The anther of “Sada and the Doctor.”
Tin:
Pirate's Daughter;
A THRILLING SEA STORY,
By 4'oloncl J. IS. Jliisiclt.
“As We Sow W‘‘Reap,”
Ky Mrs. Amelia V. Purdy.
One of oar most popular writers.
In Duty Bound,
By llrster E. Shipley,
One of our spiciest contributors.
Luti-Gull,
By Laura G. Penuel.
THE
Baroness Amatti,
By N. C. Mentis.
The Fatal Order,
B y Tlrsi. Annie L. Jarqurs.
The Dupont Heir,
OR,
A Revengeful Romance
By Re*a.
THE
Cast of a Lasso,
Essie Madden.
By Kate Walcalee.
In addition to these and a great many
others now in hand, Mbs. Bryan is digest
ing a plot for the finest story she has ever
written.