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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1866)
Cjje B§teckl& Constitutionalist Wednesday Morning, Jan.. 24,1866. ••GONE UP”—OR DOWN 1 After a pnhlica'ion of 'liirty-five years, Garrison’s Liberator h is given up the ghost. The hoary sinner that ran the filthy machine proclaims his work done. It is certainly done black, Asa specimen of his accom plished labor, we give an extract from the valedictory. Hear him: “The old covenant with dqath is annulled; a r d the agreement with hell no longer stands. Hail, redeemed, reg' ncrated America! Hail, North and South, East and West. Hail, the cause of Peace, of Liberty, of Righteousness, thus mightily strengthened and signally glo rified ! Hail, ye ransomed millions, no more to be chained, scourged, mutilated, bought and sold in the market, robbed of all rights.” By which is meant that the CONSTITU TION has been trampled open and defiled much to the exultation of this, the most ultra of ‘ Nigger Worshippers”—the Veiled Prophet of the whole gang. By which is meant that the UNION of our fathers has become almost, If not quite, impossible. By which is meant that millions of white men mnst take the place of emancipated darkies. By which is meant that the darkies themselves are to die as fast as they can. Every earnest man, of any decency in the North or in the South, in the East and irf the West, very far from hav ing a riotous “high jinks” over the matter, is sad to contemplate it, and sadder still to know that it must last so long. And yet, in spite of the most melancholy spectacle of the century, this hideous old demon grins and shouts and praises God 1 Yes : his work is done, as far as this world is concerned for him, but blood will cry out and wrongs be righted and—Jehovah is just. Such men are the disunionists and have been so throughout. Such men arc the Rebels and ought to be suppressed. Biding that time, wc are con tent to know that one foul organ has become extinct. PLEASANT REFLECTIONS FOR NORTHERN TOURISTS. Our gorge Ims risen at reading of the dis position made of many thousands of hospital blankets, sheets, mattresses and other bed furniture, at a recent sale of such plunder near Fortress Monroe. A correspondent of the News avers that most of this plunder was bought up with avidity by Baltimore, Wash ington and Philadelphia landlords, in order to replenish the stock < f their hotels. The savory fact of many negroes having died thereon, is specially remarked. Thousands, both white and colored, submitted to surgical operations upon them, and some of the sheets were still'stiff with gore when knocked down to the highest bidder. It was prudent for the New*’ correspondent to omit New York from his catalogue, but we have not the Icaßt doubt but that New York was on hand and a heavy hi ’dcr. Whore is there a large sale on tho habitable globe and a chance for bargains, and New York not there or thereabout? Perhaps, if tho whole truth could bo arriv. and at, New York trtis the most prominent pur chaser. In the meanwhile, our birds of pas sage, bound Noith, will have the delectation of sleeping upon couches where slept the bravo—soundly. SOUTHERN CORRESPONDENTS. If it were not so very amusing, we might feel i> diguant at the reports circuVrd about us by the correspi orients of Jacobin journals now squirming over the South. These itin erant mountebanks, p;ui< plied with'prejudice, fostering with rancor and bilious with conceit, assume all the aiss of Montaigne or Montes quieu, force! ting that splenetic verbiage and circus wit rather incline thinking men to doubt their philosophy and rank them with ilan Itiee or a panorama ehowmaft. Horace Greeley’s incendiary paper blazons with such bosh and the old trick of sneering at every thing in this section is kept up with a livid virulence. The Richmond Times, a journal betimes full of racy waggery, has had occa sion to step out of the way to rap the dirty coated disorganizers ov t the knuckles. It is such a clever whirl of the pen ferule that we cannot forbear from reproducing it fhns prominently. It would be “ gilding refined gold” to attempt nnything further by way of embellishment, and we are most happy to endorse our Richmond cotemporary by dis playing his ‘ cunning of fence” in this column. Says the Times; ••The late unfortunate aflray between several of the gentle” en coou-. cted w'ith the Richmond press, ha* made the correspondents of several of Jbe Radical papers turn absolutely blue with terror. Th< ir yells and squeaks over the event are diverting in the extreme They have been slandering, denouncing, villifying and libel ling »he people of Virginia for* eight months, and have thus far been neither shot at, nor cudgeled, nor kicked, nor lynched, when they have richly deserved all these brings in dis guise The forbearance of onr |<eop> has been commend* he; but the occurrences rs the last frw dav* have greatly alarmed the mendacious correapondens itr question Thev know th*» they nv-rit shoo lug kicking and cudgelling, and 'heT naturally fear the consequences ot the figb'ing and cudgelling epidemic beginning m spread We devontb hpe it will not. for in such an eve. t the Her Id's correspondent would haveH ha and time of tt ; f„ r jf kiekiag comes in vogue be will be kepi firing about town like « beiore fifty pdrsot indignant boots The ••special” manufacturer of pure fiction for the r, bue ‘A D M (th« initials, no doub', o a. Demented Munc* ausen, K*q.,) has alreadi announced in a hurried telegram tbm this piper wir.-cius the * maltreatment of the correepnt.deuteoi loyal journals.” We have done nothing of the sort, bnt we do regard the chastisement of the mercenary calumniators of a loyal snd noble people, as a solemn Christian dn*y. We should be exceedingly pleased to see gome “unreortnstructed rebel.” aged ten, pur chase a deadly rifle (at Sodini’s.) with a tin barrel eight inches long, arranged with a com pressible spiral wire for projecting peas and cherry seed—aud we should also be delighted to see him make therewith a felonious assault upon the person of Mr. A PcmeDted Munchau sen, of the Tribune, firing the aforesaid deadly weapon with terrible precision and alarming rapidity at said correspondent. What an as tounding telegram the aforesaid ‘‘A. D. M.” would make out of this ferocious onslaught ! Half of the leading news column of the Tri bune would blaze the next morning with sen sational and startling capitals after this fashion: “Attempt at Murder 111—Bloody Assault of a Young Rebel upon our Richmond Correspond dent—Ttie Volcano of Sedition bursting forth •fresh—Barbirity of the Young men of Virginia —A Demented Munchausen, E-q., shot at in the streets of tie Rebel Capital—A tin rifle loaded with one cherry stone and three peas fired at his back while be is flying from an infuriated fiend, aged ten—Mr. Munchausen not expected to recover, the cherry stone having stuck to bis overcoat, and two peas having em bedded themselves in bis back hair—Commis sioners appointed upon motion of Senator Sum ner, to inquire into the facts of the case.—ln tense excitement all over the Union—The back hair of Mr. Munchausen carefully probed by the Surgeon General, and the peas not found— They are supposed to have glanced arouDd into the vital parts of bis whiskers—Life of Munchausen despaired of—Affecting scene be tween the fat Gulliver of the Herald and the dying Munchausen—Gulliver vows to avenge his murdered friend by vilifying the Virginians more than ever I We sincerely hope that the Tribune may, somo bright morning, be able to astonish its readers with just such an array of startling sensational announcements as the above. THE COLUMBIA AND HAMBURG RAILROAD. Great efforts are being made to finish this important Railroad, but some difficulty is experienced in the lack of stock subscriptions from parties who are able to subscribe, and whose property must be considerably improv ed by a completion of the Road. We are sorry to heir that tho good people of Edge field are quite remiss. The landholders on the lio«, for ten miles on each side, have more interest in the Road than any one in Augusta, Columbia or Charlotte where the stock is principally owned. This appears to us an unconsionablc lack of public spirit. If each landholder living within ten miles, on each sido of the lino, would take one dollar per acre of stock for each aero of land, tho Road would go forward rapidly towards completion and, in twelve months at farthest, the engine whistle would wake the pine woods from their lethargy. To many of these acres the Road will add from five to ten dollars in valae, and, wo thipk, that the planters circumjacent should, if possible, come forward and help this enterprise which may otherwise languish, though sure of final consummation. Col. Wm. Johnson, the active and energetio President, does not intend to lot the matter fail; failure is an obsolete word in his lexicon, but he pre fers to have the ownership of the Road right here at home rather than foreign aid and capital. Many a man is investing in candy and other gtm-cracks large sums of money which had better go for public works than for pampering idle stomachs. By such Rail roads Augusta is to prosper, and it behooves us all to aid in their erection. now. A H. Stephens. —The Washington City National Intelligencer contaius the fol lowing extract of a letter written by Mr. Stephens, from his residence, at Crawfords* villo, dated the 25th ultimo : As to how 1 am doing, I can only sav that, : n the matter of health, I have improved great ly since my return home ; but the country I find in a worse condition—physically, morally and politically—than I expected. The general desire of the people is for a speedy restoration of civil law and harttfony. and I am engaged in doing all I can to effect that result. I do true' that wisdom, moderation and true pa triotism will rule the councils at Washington, a o o * Meanwhile it is the duty of every one to do the best he can. The wise and the good will always take things ns they find them, and do the bpst they can with them as they preseq^themselves. A Grim Joke —The Washington Star, of Tuesday, makes the following rich announce ment with semi-official gravity. It will sound right funny to those of our people who boarded for a while with the humane and gentlemanly commandants at Fori Delaware and Point Lookout. The Star says : The Commissary General of Prisoners h«s found, in examinat on of the reports of com mandants of our prisons for captured rebel sol diers, that so far from there having been any lack of food for the prisoner?, as alleged in rebel papers, there was an excess of provisions over what was consumed, in the rations issued, to an extent which realized by its sale a fund of over three millions of dollars, one-half of wl ich was expended for wines and delicacies in the hospitals for sick and wounded rebe s.— It his been established beyond the possibility fa successful contradiction that prisoners in our hands, either sick or well, were better fed and in every resrect more comfortable than when in the rebel army, or in their own hospi tals. Gen. R. C. Crawford, who is reported to be at Brownsville raising an American Division for Mexico, was acitixen of Tennessee about a year ago,and dismissed from service by a court martial noon charges of stealing money from a bank in R ig- rsvtlle, Tennessee. His chief o f stuff, Reed, was Lieut. Col. of a colored regi ment, and wag dismissed some time last sum mer for gross offences. It is not helieved bv those qualified to judge that Crawford or Reed have recruited a single man. T 1 e Pacific Mail Steamship Company an noonce that ther will re-open steamship com nutication between New Orleans and Aspin wall, via Havana, taking mails, passengers and freight to California. New York Underground Railroad —An extensive underground railway scheme is on foot in the city of New York, the cost of which is estimated at $8,487,000. Commencing at Bowling-green, the route would follow the line of Broadway to Fourteenth street, ther.ee, pass nnder Union square ad Broadway to Twenty third street, thence under Madison square to Fifth Avenne, and under Fifth Auenue to Fifty ni th street. It is proposed to construct the tunnel of the width of 25$ feet in the clear at the level of the window-sills of the cars, and 16 feet high above the rails at the center. This width would give room for two lines of cars, each nine feet wide, with spaces of two and a half feet in the centre and on each side. It is preposed to erect stations *.t interva’s of half a mile. Assuming thi3 as the proper dis tance, between the Bowling-green and F.fty nlnth street, eight intermediate stations would be required, which, with the two terminating stations, and the station at the South Ferry, would make eleven in all. Immediately within the front door would be two stair-cases—one for the entrance to the tunnel, the other for exit from it. These descend about 10 feet to a landing, where they turn and descend the re maining depth, landing upon the level of the station platform. For a distance of 150 feet at each of these stations, the tunnel mnst be widened to a clear space of 45 feet. Dummy engines, either permanently attached to the car or separate therefrom, are the proposed motive power. There is no doubt whatever of their economy as compared with horse power. These engines can be made to condense their steam to such an extent that the exhaust is hardly perceptible; and as the fuel would be coke, there would be no smoke or deleterious gases. The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader says that on Fri day morning last, before daylight, three men, with blackened faces and dressed in soldiers’ uni forms, entered the house of Mrs. Saxton, a widow aged sixty years, who lives in a lonely place, three miles from Lagrange. Lorain county. The only other iomate of the house was a boy of thir teen. The men demanded her money. She told them it was in the bank at Oberlin. They re plied that she lied, as she had SSOO in the honse. They then drew revolvers, but she seizid a poker and brandished it at them. One of the men threr tened to cat her throat, and actually cut a gash three inches loDg on her throat. She cried to the boy, who was in the next room, to give the alarm to the neighbors, bnt the villains told her that they had killed him. Believing the story, and her strength giving out, she at last revealed the hiding place of her money. Eighteen dollars were in her wallet in the pocket of a dress lying on the bed, and four hundred dollars in 7-30 bonds were rolled up in a mass of rags in a cup board near the bed. ' There were four one hun dred bonds, bearing respectively, the numbers 74,758, 74,759, 74 760, 298,247. After making sore of the coveted treasure, the fiends again turned to the defenseless woman and inflicted still further injuries upon her, and then left.— The little boy came in terrified, bnt it was too late to rouse the neighbors, and pursuit at that hour wonld have been fruitless. Cold Wzather in New York.— The cold snap in New York, Monday last, is thus da scribed in the Tribune : Yesterday was not only the coldest day of the season, but the coldest we have had, according to the old in habitants, for the last twenty five years. On Sunday, after midnight, the mercury fell to thirteen degrees below zero and stood but lit tle above zero during any pirt of yesterday The wind, sharp and cutting, blew fiercely and bitterly fiora the north, freezing ears and noses without mercy, and causing positive suffering to pedestrians and all those compell ed to be out-doors Bayard Taylor, whom we met in Broadway, brilliant in facial hues of crimson end violet, said he felt much colder than when he rode behind a reindeer in Lap land with the thermometer at fifty degrees be low zto. The great thoroughfare was com paratively deserted. There was no block ide of vehicles on the Russ pavement, no crowd or confusion of pedestrians on the sidewalks. Free Trade in the West. —An “American Free Trade League” has been formed in St. Louis. It comprises not only leading public men of that city, but also numbers among its members several extensive iron manufacturers, who say they do not need “protection” and do not ask for it. They have undertaken to or ganize Free Trade Leagues at points farther westward. Among the members of this league are Mr. Paschal!, editor of the St. Louis Re publican, Mr. Foy, postmaster of St. Louis, Mr. Blair, and other influentual citizens. Horrible Case or Cannibalism at Sea The brig C. M. Carver, Captain Treat, from Georgetown, S. C, was dismasted and Abed with water in a gale on the 21st ult. On the 31st ult" she was fallen in Wit •, seventy mile* from Cape Ann, by the schooner Emma, and the crew taken off,after being nine days on the wreck, without food or water. One mm was killed when the masts went over, and the stew art died on the 30th, of starvation, and, when rescued, the crew were living on his body. "We understand,” says the CoriDth (Miss.) Enquirer, “that the military have seized, and are now holding at this place, a heavy train of eitton, said to be the property of Gen. Forrest. Upon what grounds it was seixed has not been made known. It now lies at this point, hav ing been brought up from the prairie by ihe Mobile and Ohio railroad. We hope this is all a mistake, and that Gen Forrest, if it is his cotton, will get all hick without delay." The Atlanta Intelligencer says that silver and cipperore have been rcently disc vered in abundance on the lands of James B. Huff, o' R»d Clay, Whi'fidil county, Ga The mine is within two and a half miles of the East Ten nessee and Georgia railroad, in Whitfield county. Specimens of the ore have been sen' to New Yoik by an agent of a company from that place. The Days of the Giants in the United States Senate. CLAY, CALHOUN AND WEBSTER. A correspondent of the Times and Witness, of Chicago, who witnessed the United States Senate in “ the days of the Giants,” furnishes from Washington the following graphic picture of “ Auld Long Syne” in that city : Gibbon relates the celebrated story of the Seven Sleepers. During a cruel persecution at Ephesus, seven noble youths concealed them selves in a cave. They immediately, so goes the legend, fell into a deep sleep, which was miraculously prolonged for one hundred and eighty-seven years. On awakening they enter ed the city, but found, everywhere, Christians so degenerated, churches so conformed to the world, all, in abort, sochanped, tbatthey burst iDto tears and earnestly prayed to God that thev might return to their slumbers again.— Such are my feel r.gs as I sit here and lo«k upon this body, and listen to their debates, with the light of other days around me. Onlv a few years ago I occupied this very seat, and heard, with Measure, the gTeat men of the land deliberating for the general weal of the whole nation. Now, how many seats are vacant - ; and the discussions are about the late war, the treatment of rebellion, and the reconstruction of a shattered Union; topics, the very sound of which might cause the founders of this great Republic to turn in their coffins. Among many sad reflections, there is one which especially depresses my heart, as I look down on this conclave of grave, venerable and patriotic Senators. It is, that there survives not a single one of those statesman whose voices used to be heard and felt throughout the entire country. Once it was a great priv ilege to pass a morning here, when “there were giants In the land.” Yonder reposed, in si lent grandeur, the rnassv form of Mr. Webster. To his right, taking snuff and conversing pleas • antly with his neighbors, was the light, grace ful person of Mr. Clay ; while far to the left, dark, sombre, with keen, flashing eyes, was that incarnation of dignity and severe logic, Mr. Calhoun, looking like a cast-iron man. When ever either of these men was to speak, the chamber was crowded early in the day, and everybody studied their speeches. And with reason; for in genius and true parliamentary eloquence, they were men of pre-eminent great ness, differing intellectually and morally, very much as they did in their personal appearance. So Temarkable were the head and figure of the Massachusetts Senator that, when he was in London, the porters and day-laborers in the street used to cease from their work to gaze at him ; and here each day, as he entered the Senate, all eyes converged toward “ theman.” and the whisner was heard on all sides in the galleries, “ That is he.” Everything in his presence was imperial. For myself, I never looked upon that brow, that majestic aspect, those “ Altantean shoulders, fit to bear the weight of mighty monarchies,” that face, on which “deliberation sat, and public care,” without a something I know not what, of awe and reverence, which I could not shake off, even in a familiar conversation with him. Asa writer, his style Is the very best in our language; not so elaborated as Dr Channing’s, bnt easier, more flowing and transparent.— Mrs. Fannie Kemble told me that her father, a man of exquisite taste, need often to say to her, "Come, let us read Webster; his style does me good. “In many passages, especially in his argument on the trial of the Knapps, and in his reply to General Hayne, that was true of him which was said of Luther, “His words are half battles.” But he was a tame, ponderous speaker. In the peroration of his speech on Foote’s resolutions, be glowed as with ethereal fire; but generally he was dull, heavy, phlegmatic. He was a perfect master of language. Most public speakers find words exceedingly unmanageable things. At his command the best, fittest phrases came and fell " into pefect phalanx.” His logic was perfect, also demolishing everything like error, “hammering away,” “ smashing everything in its path,” (to nse the pithy words of onr two great, generals,) hut it was not “logic on fire ;” and his orations will always re eive more admiration when read than they did when delivered. His address at the completion of Bunker Hill Monument is itself a monument of classical taste, of profound thought, of ele va;ed statesmanship, which will ou'last the solid granite. Yet Mr. Choate, who was on the ’'latform with him, tells us that he never suffered more in his life, the delivery was such a failure Much has been said as to the morality of Mr Webster, but de morticis nil nisi bonurn Os one trait in h>s character I can testify. I mean bis great revereoee for the Bible. When I first came to this cit.v, I found that buying male slaves snd sending them South was a regular business, and I was so shocked that I went, to Washington to see if anything could be done to stop so nefarious a traffic. In consulting with him on the subject of slavery, I found that he was most noxious that some measure should be inaugurated for its gradual abolition. He confessed, however, that he could not se- any remedy, and thought it a vvlnus immedicabite. But whenever I quoted a passage from ihe Word of God, be always received it as the troth to which all should vield entire obedience! In this reverent submission to the sacred Orac'es I grieve to say Mr. Calhoun was as in ferior to Mr. Webster as he was superior to him in the unimpesobable purity of his moral char acter I knew him well, both in Washington and at K>>rt Hid. his residence in South Caro lina. snd T t ever knew a man more upright, con Mention* and virtuous. He was, too, a sotnewha' regular attendant of the Episcopal hnrch in Pendleton though never a commu nicai tin any Church. But his intellectual pri e ft'd independence made him intolerant of »nT authority higher than his own reason. He prnfes ed to believe in the inspiration of the Script ores, hut, forgetting that important part of knowledge which informs us of ihe limitation of the human understanding—jealous of faith, lest it should be credulity—accustomed- to in quire as to everv doctrine ro* whether it was conformable to G d's will, hut to his own ; loving truth yet loving system more than truth; ssil« r ving himself that he bad established hi* point, if he could show the oljectiona to any one position, without considering those to all others; in short, never suspecting his own judgment, always confident in bis own deci sions. and therefore resolved that no argument could be adduced which might change bis opinions he knew nothmg of thst humble, teachable spirit which is the great element in Christen faith. Ho sincerely regarded slavery as a divine and h nefleent institution. “The negro and the «M'e man,” he 6aid to me, ‘‘are b< tH elevated by it." If I qimnd a text which expressed his views he won'd give it his hearty assent, and dwell upon its certaintv Bat if it condemned bis cherished convict inns he as pmmntly questioned it. I was With him during his last illn ss, and upon one occasion, when I ci’ed that command, • Honor all men,” he turned quickly to me and said. 1 What, honor all men! Never, impos aih'e, God never said that. God cannot re quire me to honor the man in the White House, nor the unprincipled p liticians, the selfish demapouges now in hoth Bouses of Congress, who are bringing ruin on he country ” Os .his power of conversation a great many have spoken; but in fact he never conversed- he harangued as earnestly when alone with yon as wh en in the legislative halls. He loved the society of young men, and won their heart? by the courtesy and condescension with which he listened to them. It was, however, only that politeness which was a striking trait in his character. Ifhe paused to listen, it was but the interval between the flashes of lightning which soon blaze3-out again, Suiting and shivering all opposition. As au orator, he was a perfect contrast to Mr. Webster. It is well known to his friends that he proposed Demosthenes as bis model and studied closely those Grecian master-pieces to which all who knew what eloquence mears. how it is as high above mere rhetoric as the heavens are above the earth, will ever look up in admiration and rapture. If, in his well known remark about “Action” as the essential ingredient in speaking, Demosthenes meant graceful gesticulations, the South Carolinian was defective. There was sometbiug stiff, sin* gular, awkward in his manner. But nobody, unless it be a teacher of rhetoric, can ever thus degrade those .words of deep and noble wisdom. No, again, no. It was not by the puerile tricks and starts of an accomplished declaimer that the Athenian “Wielded at will the fierce demoeraty. Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artsxerxes’ throne.” By “Action” he meant Delivery, earnest, im passioned Delivery, in which the whole soul is fused into every utterance, and which can no more live and glow with anything artificial than fire and straw can dwell together in a heated oven; Who can listen to a more finish ed rhetorican than Mr. Everett ? His face and person were pleasing. Every movement had been practised. His beautiful passages filled the mind with admiration and delight. But who ever felt his heart burn within him; who was ever conscious of that “something im mense and infinite” of what Quintillian speaks: who ever found himself transported, melted to tears, fired to enthusiasm, while listening to bis elaborate compositions ? In straight-for ward, close-linked argument, in a noble con tempt for all trappings and decorations, in con densation. in a vocabulary terse and emphatic in energy, vehemence, passion, Mr. Calhoun resembled his illustrious model; while in all the moral qualifications of a great orator he rose immeasurably above him. For even his enemies confessed that he possessed a courage which no opposition could shake and an integ rity which no temptation could corrupt. In mental greatness, in learning, deep thought, and all the attributes of the highest order of genius. Mr. Clay was inferior to his two great contemporaries. But in the physical combinations, in all the natural furniture of a soul-stirring orator, he far surpassed them both. His mouth, that most expressive feature, was an organ created by Cod for the pronunciation of large and heroical thoughts. Then, what clear blue eyes, now calm in their azure depths then laughing in genial mirth, and then, when he was thoroughly roused up, sparkling, al most blazing. In his whole conntenance what play of all generous feelings; the soul of honor, friendship, chivalry, breathing in his face.— Above all, that magnificent voice ; at one mo* ment soft and breezy; presently swelling un til it beat the vaulted roof and reverberated far beyond the walls of the chamber, away in to the adjoining rooms and recesses. Rufus Choate had no superior at home, but going to Washington as a United States Senator, he, on one occasion, drew upon himself a single broadside from the Kentucky orator, and it so frightened him that he was afterward almost silent, crest-fallen, and (to employ his own fa vorite phrase) “ utterly flabbergasted.” Every body remembers Mr. Clay’s duel with Mr. Randolph. On his last journey North, in an almost dying condition, the Virginian was car ried into the Senate chamber. Mr. Clay was speaking. “ Stop,” said the sick man to those who bore him. “Slop, let me hear that voice. I came here to hear that voice once more be fore I die.” The grace and beauty of Mr. Cay’s elocution was consummate; his whole being informed with his subject, and instinct with the love of truth. And his warm, gush ing sympathies seldom failed to draw vou to him, and bear you along with him, causing you to feel that “one touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” The last time I heard him was at a meeting of the Colonization So ciety. As he reclined in the ch.-ir, he seemed to be an old man, “broken with the storms of State.” But when he arose and spoke, there were no traces of years upon him. All felt that his soul was still erect and young, and that, as an orator, his eye was not dimmed, nor the force and vehemence of bis strength abated. I had intended to say something of his death; but this communication is already too ex'nd and. His fath' r was a Baptist minister, and the sou never forgot “the faithful saying” which he learned from that father. And though he be trayed sad infirmity as to religion, saving to Dr Curtis, in Charleston, that “a public man ought to join no Church, if he wished to be popular” (a sentiment, by the way, on which thousands at t without the candor to confess it), and after he had identified hitnsalf with a church, frequenting the theatre; yet he lingered long under the salutary discipline of a sick room, his last pillow was wetted with peniten tial tears, and. of the time great compeers, he alone departed confessing himself a sinner, and reposing all his confidence upon the blood and righteousness of the Redeemer. I sit here and look at the places which once knew these three men, but now know them no more, and I say, O that they were with us yet! Whatever their errors once, were they now liv ing, I believe that in this crisis of our country’s history their coudfcls would be those of mode ration, wisdrgn and patriotism. Whatever their differences in other days, bad they been spared, I am confident that, after the terrible lessons of the last four years, they would have buried all animosities, and with one heart and one mind have sought to quell the pas-ions of the hour, and to lay broadly and deeply the foundation of a union, harmony, liberty, prosperity, which nothing could again disturb. Their absence at a time like this fills me with regret and sad nes -. But “the Lord reigneth.” “In the year when King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up.” The prophet mourned for the loss of a wise and able Prince; but be found consolation by raising his eyes to that King who aits exalted in the heavens, upon the throne of the universe, ordering all events for his glory, and for the accomplishment, of 'he designs of unerring wisdom aud unchanging love. Georgia State Bonds.— One hundred thru sand dellars of the new seven per cent. s»mi a-nnal coupon bonds, of the denominations of five hundred and one thousand dollars e rh, issu n d in conformity with the act of the late Convention, hare been placed on detwwdt for sale at the First National Bank of Macon. The Saturday Press ssvs the Fenians are so mnch amused at the row they have k'cked up on both sides of the water, that the ob* day they laughed till they split.
