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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1866)
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST. —— Louisiana p *Vlifi ■■ n RADICAL RAVING.'" “ ' * From a lengthened rqpaft in the, New Or leans Commercial we extract the following par agraph, illustrative of a Radical mass meeting and its incendiary purposes: From the Dryades street stand, in front of the vestibule, there were, as speakers, Jno Hendershn, Jr., Mr. Judd, Rev. Mr. Horton, Judge Hkeatand and Dr. Dorstie. Judge. Hawkins presided. The Secretaries, were A. Valias and Horace M. Jordon. Mr. Henderson madfe a speech at considera ble length, alluding in complimentary terms to Geu. Dee, and declaring that alter the con stitutional amendments were adopted, he would be one of the first to ask a full pardon, and become endowed with all the powers of a reconstructed citizen. Bad as it was to be a rebel in war, he regarded it as much worse to be a rebel in peace. The Convention will meet. He, as a member, wanted no arms. He had the arms.of the State and the arms of the military authorities. The Convention and the Consti tution had been supported by two Presidents, and by the army and navy. Mr. Judd, the next speaker, stftd the object of this assemblage of the people was to streng then the coming Convention, and to give it backbone. It would meet and hold its sessions spite of all the elements arrayed against it, with Judge Abell thrown in, as “la gniapes.” Most of those befoae me owe their .freedom to God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, tha Holy Ghost. (A female voice—“ Hallelujah! halle lujah ! Give God the glory.” We were beaten by the rebels, he said, till 200,000 native born men, now citizens, were enrolled, and then we licked then by the Grace of God. He urged education of colored children, and closed with “all honor to the soldier of Louisiana with a dark skin,—all honor to the little redheaded Phil Sheridan —“all honor to the flag -of our glorious country. Rev. Mr. Horton, the speaker who followed, held in one hand a fan with the advertisement of an Accident Insurance Company with Gen. Johnston at its head, and hence he thought there were all 6afehere. In the other hand, he held the resolution which had been adopted.— He alluded to the scene in Boston wuen An thony Burns, a fugitive slave, was marched down State street surrounded by a cordon of bayonets, to be carried back into slavery, and regarded the present scene as a counterpart. t ou, he said, who have been looking towards Canada for freedom, do not look that Way to night. You are citizens made so fey Congress in the passage of the civil rights law. We are here to-night as preliminary to reeon voking the convention ol 1864 and 1866. To night the speaker had rather shake hands with the vilest gambler in town, than with one of the unrepentant divinos who espouse the rebel cause. You who are here, have got -to demand your rights, and you will secure them. Look at the old flag—the stars are all there, and more are coming. After having met an honorable defeat-, they who,fought against the Government come back an say “ We’ll rule you yet!” | A voice—“ Did you ever fight ?” Other voices from colored tneu in various directions— fl have!” “I have!”] And so will I, added the speaker, sooner than they who have been conquered ou the battle field, shall rule us. At this point there was swaying to and fro, among 1 the densely packed audience. Colored' torch-bearers wended their way towards Canal street, the miscellaneous part of tile assem blage joined in the drillings, and there were in dications of violence. But quiet was sOon re stored, and peace reigned. Judge Heistand was the next, speaker. The decree Of'God, he said, has gone forth, that there shall be universal freedom and. universal suffrage throughout the South. The men who got up this war, effected universal freedom, and by the course which they are now pursuing they will be forced to yield universal suffrage. He spoke of the Convention, and said ia substance, that if the Executive of the State needed anything to enforce the law, that power was here. There great power of American citizenship is in obeying the laws. The is a certain power which claims the ex clusive right of all the voting. The people of the State of Louisiana are nearly equally divided—one-half wants to do the voting for the whole, and wants the other half to do the working for them. This de mand will not succeed, for no demand founded on injustice ever yet succeeded. He asked whether there was any justice iu allowing 25,000 to have all the political power and do all the voting for 60,C00 men in the State ? Congress is abused for not admitting the representatives from the South by the mass of those who have but recently returned from fighting against that very Government in which they claim a representatiofa. They have the modesty to say: “ We’ll do all the voting—you’ll do all the working.” You who have been lately emancipated from slavery, give the lie by your conduct, to the assertions of those who may say that you are idle, improvident, inclined to vicious habits. — Above ail, educate your children, and insis 'upon.it that they shall be educated. By your good conduct shut up the miserable recorders’ courts of this; town, except for the use of white tbifers. Carryout correct princi ples, and you will wield the power in this State by your moral forceand your moral power.— The upper crust of society are wielded and governed by what lies below. They who live by ill gotten wealth, if the earth should swallow them up, would never be missed in the community. Your former masters say that if you exercise the right of suffrage they can sway it by the influence over you which they still' possess.— They do not believe this. If they did they would be the first to avail themselves of the effort to confer that right upon you. Be prudent, be industrious, be good citizens, save your money, and as soon as possible cease working for other people, and work for your selves. That is the true way to maintain your position as American citizens and American voters. Dr. Dostie was the last speaker from this stand, and some of his expressions were more intemperate than those previously uttered. He said if the rebels dared to disturb the conven tion, they would be annihilated; and that the conquered should never rule as conquerors. From the Sublime to the Rediculous.— A writer in the Atlantic Monthly, commenting on the latter day habit of posting patent medicines, &c„ on the bedutiful rocks of the country, says: Last year, weary of shop, and feeling the necessity of restoring tone to the mind by a course of the sublime. Thomson and I paid many dollars, traveled many miles, ran many risks, and suffered much from .impertinence and from dust, in order that we might see the wonders of the Lord, ins mountain and his waterfalls. We stood at the foot of the moun tain, and- gazing upward at a precipice, the sublime we were ia search of began to swell within our hearts, when our eyes wm-e struck by huge Roman letters painted on the face of the rock, and held fust, as if by a spell, until we bad read them ail. They asked the question, '■ Are you troubled with worms ?” Illness op Gen. Jos. E. Johnston. —The public will learn with profound regret, that dis patches have been received in Montgomery from Baltimore, announcing the serious indis position of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. The Atlantic Telegraph, The following additional dispatch from Mr. .FiQd. (ietatto sonui.oi.the partintlara cotuuatu ed with the late successful laying of the Atlan tic Telegraphic eifele f “ !R' ! " - Heart’s Content, July 29.—The steamship Great Eastern ou Saturday at noon, June 20th, arrived at Bear Haven on Thursday morning, Snly sth, and received the balance of her coals and provisions. The other steamers joined the Great Eastern at Bear Haven as fol lows : The Unicorn and Terrible on Friday, July 6th, the Albany on the 7th, and the Med wavjjn Tuesday, 10th instanr. Ou Saturday, the ith of July, the end of the Irish shore eable was landed from the Unicorn. At 2:30 the next morning the laying was suc cessfully completed, trad the end'bnried in 94 fathoms; latitude 51 40, longitude 180. The distance from the telegraph house at Valentia is 27% miles; 29% miles of the cable was paid out on Wednesday, 11th instant. H. M. S. Racoon arrived at Bear Haven to render all the assistance in her power. Thursday, 12th in6t., the Great Eastern, Medway, Albany, Terrible and Racoon were near one another. Services were held at Velentia, and prayers offered up for the successful laying of the cable. Friday, the 13th, the shore end' was connected to the maiu cable on board the Great Eastern, at 2:40, p. m. The telegraph fleet started tor New foundland, and the Racoon returned to Valen tia. The telegraph fleet sailed in the following order: The Terrible ahead of the Great Eastern on the starboard bow, the Medway ou the port and the Albany on the starboard quarter. The weather was thick and foggy, with heavy rains. Signals were sent through the cable on board the Great Eastern and to the telegraph house at Valentin. Two thousand four hundred and forty nautical miles found perfect. Saturday, 14th—Distance run 108 miles ; cable payed out 116 miles. Sunday, 15th—Distance run 12S miles; cable payed out 139 miles. Monday, 16th—Distance run 117 miles; cable payed out 137 miles. Tuesday, 17th—Distance run 118 miles; cable payed out 138 miles. Wednesday, 18th-Distance run 105 miles: eable payed out 125 miles. »• Thursday, 19*«-Distance run 122 miles ; ea ble payed out 125 miles. Friday, 20th—Distance run 117 miles; cable payed out 127 miles. Saturday, 21st—Distance run 122 miles ; ea ble payed out 136 miles. Sunday, 22d—Distance run 123 miles; cable payed out 133 miles. Monday, 23d—Distance run 121 miles; cable payed out 138 miles. Tuesday, 24th—Distance run 121 miles ; ca ble payed out 135 miles. Wednesday, 25th—Distance run 112 miles ; cable payed out 130 miles. Thursday, 26th—Distance run 128 miles ; ea ble payed out 134 miles. Friday, 27th—Distance run 112 miles ; cable payed out 118 miles, which, with shore end oft Valentia, distance 27 miles, cable payed out 29 miles, makes the distance run'l,669 miles, and payed out 1,864 miles. Arrived at Heart’s Content at 8, a. m., Fri day, July 27th. Average speed of the ship from the time splice was made until we saw land, was a little less than five nautical miles per hour, and cable has been paid out at an aver age of five-and-a-half mffes per cent. The weather has been more pleasant than I have ever known it to be on the Atlantic at this season of the year. We have had alternate days of rain, sunshine, fogs and squalls. I have re quested John C. Dean, Secretary of Anglo- American Telegraph Company, to send you by the first opportunity, for the Associated Press, twenty-five copies of his diary, which will give you a detailed account of ups and downs expe rienced in laying a cable across the Atlantic.. — We have been inconstant communication with Valentia since the splice was made on the 13th instant, and have daily received news from Eu rope, which was posted up outside of the tele graph oflice for the information of all,on board of the Great Eastern, and signaled to other ships. After taking in coal the telegraph ship will sail for the spot where the cable was lost last year, to recover ,the end and complete the second line between Ireland and New Found land, and then the Medway will proceed to lay the new cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The cable will be opened in a few days, and all messages sent to Europe in the order they are re ceived at Heart’s Content. I cannot find words suitable to convey my admiration for the men who have so ably conducted the nautical, engi neering and electrical departments of this enter prise so successfully, amidst dangers which re quired to be seen to be appreciated. In fact, all on board the telegraph fleet and all connect ed with the enterprise have done their very best to have the eable made and laid in perfect conkition, and He who rules winds and waves has crowned their united efforts perfect success. Cyrus W. Field. A German Estimate of Yankee Swagger. —A late German paper published iu this coun try, thus speaks : The interest taken by the Americans in the present German war is greater than it has been in former warlike events of the old world, and we do not regret this is so. The Americans yet see before them all the details of their fiwn civil war. They have not yet forgotten the eudless time which, was required to strike heavy blows on the rebels. They know their own sacrifices in money, blood" and time for the capture of Richmond, Mobile, Atlanta and Savannah- They saw that even their most exalted generals could achieve great results only by slow process and with disproportionate sacrifices. They were ungrateful to the able German officers, and they did not protect them sufficiently against the infamous machinations of American Generals who systematically pushed the German Generals in the background, whilst they knew liow to make their own na tive ignorance and incapacity valuable. They were so much accustomed to worthless officers that they raised even the smallest of their suc cessors to the clouds, and they proclaimed any officer a Napoleon, a Hannibal and a Caesar for his most insignificant success, If he was only a native born American ; and’When finally, after a resistance of four years, the South could not hold out any lODger with its one hundred and seventy thousand men against the million of the North, they declared themselves the great est warlike nation on the earth ; and they burnt in the most ridculous manner such immense quantities of incense for their generals, that any body who did not look at the sight through the spectacle of national vanity was an object of pity and disgust. The events in Bohemia have opened the eyes of the Americans in the most cruel way. They have shows them how war should be carried on, and of what value the performances of Messrs. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and all the other American Napoleons ■ were. Compare only what the Prussian army achieved in seventeen days with the deeds of our greatest Amerii an generals. A Woman’s Revenge.— The Indinapolis Herald of Monday has this paragraph : A young girl, belonging to one of our best families, fancying that she had been badly treat ed by an elder sister, took a terrible revenge. Procuring a stick of nitrate of silver at a drug store, she dissolved it in her sister’s wash pitch er. The young lady performed her morning ablutions, and was horrified in the course of the morning to find that her hands had turned as brown as those of a mulatto. A look in the glass revealed the alarming fact that her lace was the same color. The younger sister now heartily repents her criminal folly, and would do anything in the world to remedy the evil she has caused. Time only can efface the "marks of the terrible bath, and in the meantime the affair is being kept quiet. Callers are told that the young lady is ill df a contagious disease,and she keeps her room, impatiently awaiting the tedi ous process of growing white again. Georgia News. *’ Early Cotton. —The Biinbridge Georgian -of the £sth in**, mentions sample* of setts a oi this year’s growth, and from two plantations in its section. This to more forward "than the cot ton crop in this region, and wq presume is also several weeks iu advance of the great bulk of the cotton in Southern Georgia. Georgia Gold.— We learn that the Wood Mining Cos., located ten miles from Dahlonega, Ga., working decomposed quartz, took out in one day lately, 1,900 pwt. of gold.- The fineness of Georgia gold is very high, rauging from 950 thousandth fine, while that of the gold from flulifornia. North Carolina and many other covatries is but 850 average. a# f New York Stockholder. Crops in Banks Count*.—Major Beil, of Banks county, says that tbe wheat crop of that county will not average more than a half crop, and the late dry weather has done much damage to the corn crop, He believes there will not be more than a half crop of corn made iu that county. A Word of Warning.— The Macon Tele graph has been requested by an old citizen to give a few words of warning to certain young men, who indulge in the reprehensible practice of using “ certain glasses u in • watching ladies iu making their toilets. This may be fine fuu to the yo'uugsters, but is neither ,geutlemanly nor agreeable to the-ladies, who are thus placed under surveillance. It is a contemptible prac tice, and will not be louger tolerated by several citizens, the modesty otthe female members of whose families have been thus outraged. We trust this warning will prove sufficient. Diamonds of Hall County.— Dr. M. F. Stephenson, has shown the editor of the Air Line Eagle several diamonds in their rough state, which he found six miles from that place in 1861. They have thjs appearance of small pebbles, aad if we had seen them on the ground, would not have taken them tb be anything of value. There is no doubt that the miners of Georgia have cast, aside unnoticed many of these valuable gems. Equality Exemplified.—A Federal soldier and a-black negro wench, attracted much atten tion as they walked, arm iu arm, down Fourth street, Tuesday afternoon. As they swung gaily along as big as life, the boys saluted them with “three cheers tor the civil rights bill”—“that’s what you fought for,” and similar expressions. The damsel looked rather ashamed, but the. soldier seemed more proud than otherwise. — Journal and Messenger. Rain! Rain!— After a drought of something over a month, on last Tuesday and Wednesday, this section was blessed with good rains, which, we hope, will do much good to the corn crop, wbieh has suftered very much by the drought. —Air Line Eagle. [Correspondence of the Union and American. From Mississippi-Oropa, Politics, fcc. Columbus, Miss;, iuiy fef;'lß66. The situation of affairs in this regiou fully proves what was predicted last year, and that is that tbe negroes will not work as they did for merly. Most of the planters in Mississippi, after having hired their hands for the year, stimulated by the high price of cotton, planted as much to the hand as they formerly did. Tbe weather was verf bad In the spring, betne ex cessively wet. The result was, the crops were not well worked, the corn particularly was ne glected to save the cotton, and in consequence both corn and cotton were very materially in jured. Too much eottofi was plahted to the hand, and account less will be made than if a smaller quantity had been planted, and it had been worked. This rqgion of coun try will hardly make half a crop. Our crop is doing well because we adopted a different pol icy from that generally pursued. We planted less cotton and more eom to tbe hand than was usual. I hope the §ottthem people will learn from the experience ot this year to plant less cotton to the hand, and they will, In most instances, make more by giving it good culti vation. vl .. A delegation will be sent from this State to the Philadelphia Convention, composed of the best and most conservative men in the State, I hope. That Convention will surely not per mit itself to be distracted by past issues, but Will, I trust, merely embrace iu its platform the President’s reconstruction policy. The South would, I believe, agree as a compromise, to adopt voting population as a basis of represen tation. The Conservative men of the North could ask no more. New England Radicals and men of Brownlow’i stamp would oppose this. But the North would sustain it as it would transfer the political power to the West, and would defeat all the Radicals in the North western States who would oppose it. 8. New York Hotter than fco de Janeiro. —A correspondent ot the New York Express writes as follows : The extraordinary heat during the mouth of July having generally been compared to that of the Tropics, the following comparison with the range of the thermometer at Rio de, Janeiro during a residence of upwards of twenty years may be interestingat the present time : The thermometer was there marked at 12, m., and the. average of the hottest month (February) was 87 deg. to 88 deg. The highest ever noted, and that very rarely, was 92 deg. The average range the first 17 days of July, at 5, p. m., has been 87 deg. 75 min., The difference between noon and 5, p. m., being fully 4 deg., the mean average of the month at noon would be fully 92 deg. Therefore, we have experienced from 4 deg. to 5 deg. greater heat than the average at Rio de Janeiro. A regular sea breeze sets in there before noon and continues till about 10, p. m. The days being shorter and nights longer by 1% hours, the latter are comparatively cooL and sleep is not interfered with, as it has been this month. J. G. Removal of the Dead from the C&ater Near Petersburg.— The Express of the 30th says : Since Thursday last, about four hundred bodies of Federal and Confederate dead have been removed from the immediate vicinity of the “ Crater,” and that still a large number re main. These bodies are placed la strong boxes, and re-interred in the cemetery at Pop lar Grove, where such Confederates as are taken up are buried in a separate square. In a few days digging operations will be commenc ed in the cavity of the “ Crater ” itself, where some two hundred or more Federal soldiers were killed and covered over. It is the inten tion of the Government to have the remains of every soldier, Federal or Confederate, removed from the lines of this vicinity and interred in the cemetery at Poplar Grove, where such of them as are known will be marked. g A Parental Letter.—The following letter was written by a father tolils Soil at college : “ My Dear Son : I write t<f send yon your new socks which your mother has just knit by i cutting down some of mine. Your mother j sends you ten dollars without my knowledge, and lor fear you would not spend it wisely, I j kept back half, and only send you five. Your I own mother and I are well, except that your i sister has got the mease is, which we think would spread among the other girl3 if Tom had not had them before, and he Is the 'only one left. I hope you will do honor to my teaching; if you do not, you are a donkey, and your mo-'l ther and myself are your affectionate parents.” [From the Charleston Courier. The South Carolina Convention. The State Conveudeo Isatmbled, pursuant to the Governor’s call, at the Baptist Church, at 11 o’clock, this morning. One hundred and eleven delegates were pres ent. AH the districts iu the State were repre sented, except Beaufort, Edgefield, Horry, Wil liamsburg and Tork. HU Excellency, Gqvernor Orr, who .was pres ent in the capacity of delegate from Anderson District, was chosen President ot the Conveu tiou by acclamation. The following gentlemen were chosen Vice Presidents: Geueral Wade Hampton, Messrs. E. H. Brown, C. H. Dudley and Gabriel Can non. The Convention then adopted the following resolution : Resolved, That this Convention approve of the restoration policy of President Johnston, as opposed to the Radical policy of Congress, and that we accept the invitation to uulte with the Conservatives of the whole country in the Na tional Convention, to be held at Philadelphia, on the 14th inst. Resolutions were also adopted providing that the Convention shall proceed to-night to the election of delegates from the State at large to the Philadeldhia Convention; and aUo that the delegates now present from the eeqeral Congressional Districts iu the State, shall elect two delegates from each of their respective Districts, and report the result of such elec tions to the Convention. later—evening session. Columbia, Aug. 1, 9.30, p. m. Tho Convention re-assembled at 7, p. m. Thirty additional delegates presented their cre dentials, and took their seats. These included the delegations from” Beaufort and Williams burg Districts. So that Edgefield, Horry and York are the only Districts that remain unrepre sented. The Convention then proceeded to ballot Ibr the four D 'legates from the Suite at large to the Philadelphia Convention. The first ballot re sulted iu the choiee.of His Excellency Govern or James L. Orr, Senator Perry, aud J. B. Campbell. On the second ballot, Senator Man ning was chosen as the fourth Delegate at large. The elections for two Delegates from each of the Congressional Districts ot the State result ed as follows: First District— F. J. Moses and Richard Do zier. Second District —Thomas Y. Simons and W. P^Shingler. Third District —D. L. Wardlaw and Geuerul S. McGowan. Fourth District —T. M. Dawklus and James Ffirrow. The Convention then adjourned sine did; the entire proceedings having been marked through out with the utmost harmony aud good feeling. That Glorious “Southern Loyalist,” General Gantt.— The following local para graph we clip from the Baltimore Gazette : “ Held for Trial—On Mondny tbe fact of the arrest ol Edward W. Gantt, of Arkansas, for an attemptedoutrage on a little girl of twelve years, at the Maltby House was stated. A far ther hearing of the case was postponed until 11 o’clock yesterday, but it did not take place, as the accused wuived a further examination, and gave hail in the snm of two thousand dollars to awiit the action of the grand jury. - , “ This man Gantt deposited two thousand dollars, and that is the ball upon which he is lib erated, which sum is trifling compared with the enormity of the crime with which be is charged,, and it is probable that no more will be beard of the matter. He stands high with the Radi cal faction In Congress, and is said to be 1 one of the most active, us well as successful, ot the Radical lobby members. Alice Reid, the little girl, was so unfortunate as to fall into the hands ol her brothcr-ln-law, and It Is not likely that she. will soon be visited In her distant home by the protector who started with her from Wash ington”, , - . . This fellow Gantt must be the most misera ble creature the world has held since the days of Benedict Arnold. A General In the Confed erate army, a member of the Confederate Con gress, and a man of high station and reputa tion in the State of Arkansas, with far less pro vocation than Arnold had, even admitting that any provocation will justify desertion—he quit tbe cause which he had espoused with so much eagerness, and became at once the most scur rilous of its pcrsecuters. In his zeal for the new faith that was so suddenly disclosed to him, he rapidly descended In the scale of hu manity till he became as great a blackguard os Brownlow, although he had formerly been a gentleman. His cose affords another instance of the truth of tho old saying, that while those who profit by it love the treason, they despise ths traitor. The writer of this paragraph hap pened to be passing through tbe North during the exciting election campaign of 1884, be tween McClellati and Lincoln. He found this man Gantt—aud a gaunt-looking and Cassius like figure h« was. too—stumping the r country for Lincoln: He spoke of Ills formes friends, neighbors and brothers in the South, in a spirit ot fiendish vindictiveness that could’ not have been exceeded by Stevens or Sumner. It was, however, gratifying to see that even the people there, Republicans as well as Dem ocrats, treated his harangues with contempt, and vied with each other In loathing the trait or.—Norfolk Virginian. Scandal about the Queen.— The London correspondent of the New York Tribune writes: There is a current scandal about Queen Vic toria afloat which seemed so prejiosterous that I did not care to mention it before, but as it waxes apace, and has even got into print, in Punch, and elsewhere, I do so. It may have crossed the Atlantic in other ways. Punch, then, in his last number but one, published the following Court Circular: “Balmoral, Tuesday. Mr. John Brown walked on the Slopes. He subsequejtly partook of a haggis. In the even ing Mr. John Brown was pleased to listen to a bagpipe. Mr. John Brown retired early." This Mr. John Brown is said to be a Scotch guardsman, who possesses a most remarkable resemblance to the late Frince Albert. The Queen affects his society, is said to be very fond of him—to believe that he is her late husband resuscitated In answer to her prayers, et cetera —to be, In short, crazy on the subject, if not On others. I shall not write, but you may easily imagine how tbe thing is talked about in pri vate. What are Your Religious Views?— The following it going the rounds of the Southern papers, though it is easy to perceive It originat ed In the brain of a “ down caster: ” About seven miles from Richmond I saw a man lying under the shade of a tree, assiduous ly chewing tobacco. After saluting him and asking him several questions, to which I re ceived lazy yeses and noes, I asked him to what churches the people in that usually went. v “ Well, not much to any.” “ What are their religious views ?” “ Well, not much of any.” “ W ell, my friend, what arc your religious views ? ” I asked. The man answered lazily and sleepily, “My own opinion is, that them as made me ’ll take care of me.” —— General Albert Rusk, of Arkansas, was se rioesly, If not dangerously, wounded by the accidental discharge of a pistol While getting over a fence. He was at his plantation in Loui siana at the time. The ball passed through bis stomach. The Report of the Radical Jcdiciabt- Committeb— We publish elsewhere in our cpIUHRM AAj) hi HHUX,JpfAhfijmpOft the Judi ciary Committee. The New York World says The Radical calumrtnators of human nature are letting themselves down gradually. SeCreta Pf Stauton was the person who originally charged Jefferson Davis with complicity In the assassi nation of President Lincoln. He was shrewd enougd to avoid the trouble of suborning evi dence to make oatra oaaet and to rid;himself of its odium, by passing over the whole business to the House of Representatives, which set Us Judiciary Committee to Hunting up mares’ nests, instead of securing to Mr. Davis ’ the prompt trial by a jury of his peers which Is his right were he thrice guilty or that infamy. The committee, finding no evidence which Would,,for a moment stand the daylight of a court of law, now make a report, at the tail end o! a session, boldly charging Mr. Davis with the crime of treason, quid insinuating his guilt of complicity in the assassination, or rather insin uating their hope and expectation of finding evidenoe of that complicity In the vflst mass of “ rebel archieves,*only a portion of which has yet been explained." , The Judiciary Committee is fast constituting itself for a fit companionship with the Secretary who ordered Mr. Davis to be shackled and de prived of sleep. It looks now as If they might reasonably hope to wear his life out In prison before beiug compelled to retract the charges, a responsibility for which they share, or to resort to the assistance of Judge Underwood, who, wheu the Reconstruction Committee asked him if he could pack a jury in Virginia to convict Mr. pavls, replied that it would be very diffi cult, but It could be done. I could pack a fury to convict him.” Which—Trb Knife or .the Fork?—Ex tract from an unpublished work on “Manners,” by a Prof. Osgood.: , Very often, iu both French and English lite rature of the lighter Bort, you meet with a vast dent of affected horror at the idea of eating with the knife instead of tbe fork. A French man just lauded, ou a first visit to the United States, was f so shocked at seeing a Western man conveying his food to his month with hlsknlfe, at the Astor House dinner table, In New York, that be rushed from the house and re-embarked for “dear France” without delay! We say much of this horror must be affected, for the reason that we have known some hundreds as worthy aud well-bred gentlemen as are to be found in Loudon or Paris, who have been using their knives in that “horrid” way all their llvqs without Inflicting a single scrutch. Be sides, Is there not quite as much danger In using the fork as the knife ? Is there not as much danger of sticking the fork lu the tongue or the gums or the lips, as of cutting the same with the knlfo ? This Miss Nancyish horror of using the knife at the table is about on a par with tbe marvel ous squeamishness of that flue old Virginia gentleman who forced his daughter to discard her plighted lover, alter giving his own con sent, too, because at breakfast, one morning, the poor fellow inadvertently cut his muffin pnen with a knife instead of tearing It in two with his fingers, as proscribed In tbe aristo cratic old gentleman’s “ Code of Good Beha vior." Unquestionably the tork Isas dangerous as the knife, iu the hands of a careless feeder, par ticularly If the fork boa steel-pronged fork, In stead of silver—which Is too often tbe case in our hardy Western world. ~.mm m 'A . Raw Meat and Spirits to Cure Consump tion.—An English paper prints the following ; “M. Fuster proposes to cure all cases of con sumption by tbe administration of raw meat and spirits. Although his method of treat ment has not been long employed by Contlnen? tal physicians, considerable testimony has been borne to the great success which has attended its employment. Tbe new treatment has now ■been tried satisfactorily In two thousand cases of phthisis. The raw meat Is reducted to a pulp, mixed with sugar to conceal Its unpleas ant flavor and administered in doses of one hundred to three hundred grammes per day. The alcohol (of tho strength of twenty degree# Baumc) Is given iu doses of one hundred gram mes a day.” The Prussian Commander.— There has been a good deal of Inquiry as tb who the real commander of the Prussian army Is, ns It Is not believed that either the King or tho Princes, though under fire, are actually the brains Os the campaign. Perhaps the following scrap of European letter throws light on tbe subject: “Still we must acknowledge that, In the present war, the Prussians had not only a su perior armament, but likewise dr' better plan of campaign, and the rapid execution of that plan can not be sufficiently praised. Old General Molkl has fairly won the most enviable fame as one of the greatest generals of the age.” Mr. Seward, lu bis dispatch to Mr. Field, committed an impropriety which, as is very often the case when a congratulatory occasion Is stflttsbiy abused, carried Its own retribution. He says If tbe telegraphic cable hod not foiled la 1858, the European States “ would not have bettfe led, iu 1861, Into tbe great error of sup posing that civil war ia Ameriea would per petuate African slavery,” dse. If they had not, It would have been because they did not be lieve %lr. Beward’s official declarations, through the Foreign Ministers, that the war would “ in no wise” affect the question of slavery In this country.— Whig. A Rebuke of Sherman and Grant.— Every one knows bow greeany Grant and Sherman have been the snappers up, not only of uncon sldraed trifles, but of gifts that amounted in value to hundreds of thousands of dollars. They are the great beggars and beneficiaries of tbe nation. If they have served tbe country, they have allowed their services to bd requited by money. Their claims on the gratitude of' any part of the people have been paid In frill. Yet, like a pair of Oliver Twists, they wish for more. Tbe citizens ot Tennessee, have purchased a house for General Thomas at a cost of sixty thousand dollars, but he declines the present, and requests that the money may be contributed to the Soldiers’ Widow and Orphan Fund. In spite of bis recreancy to bis native State, General Thomas has still something left ol Virginia principle, and his conduct Is in fine contrast with that of the present General and Lieutenant General of the United States army. We commend It to their meditations. f Examnier. Ohawi.s. —A London correspondent, says Dickens, is very careful about the arrangements made for his readings, havfog Invariably a little red velvet table, with a shelf on one side for handkerchief and water, and ou the other a lit tle block for the book, to which be almost never refers. He dresses in rather a conspicu ous way, flourishing a big watch chain with charms, large jeweled shirt studs, and a little bouquet in the lappet of a dress coat.
