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A Dream.
BY FLORENCK PERCY.
Hack again, darling ? O, day of delight 1
How I have longed for you, morning and night!
Watched for you, pined for you, all the days through,
Craving no boon and no blessing but you;
Craved (or you, plead for you, sought you in va*n,
* Htriving forever to find you again ;
Counting all angular) as naught if X might
Clasp you again as I clasp you to-night 1
Oh ! I have sorrowed and suffered so much
Hir.ce I last answered your 11 s’ loving touch ;
Through the night-watches, in daylight’s broad beams,
Anguished by visions and. tortured by dreams--
Dreams so replete with beWild ring pain,
Still it is throbbing in heait and in brain—
Oh ' lor I dreamed— 6e <p me close to your side,
Darling, Oh ! darling—X dreamed you had died I
Dreamed that I stood by your pillow, and heard
From your pale lips love’s Half-uttered word ;
And by the tight of the May morning skies
Watched your face whiten, and saw your dear eyes
Gazing far into the Wonderful Land
Felt your fond fingers grow cold in my hand ;
“ Darling,” you whispered ; “ My dat linr I” you said
Faintly, *o faintly, ana then you were dead 1
Oil 1 tlte dark hours when I knelt by your grave,
Calling upjn you to love and to save ;
i’h a mg in vain fur a sign or a word,
Only to tell me you listened and heard ;
Only to say you rem inhered nnAknew
Now all my soul was in anguish fcn you ;
Bitter, despairing tire tears that ! shed—
Darling, > <h ! darling, because you were dead !
Oh 1 the black days of your absence, my own !
* ih ! »o be left in ilie wide world alone 1 '
Long, With our little one clasped to my bread,
Wanden*! X, s selling for refuge and rest;
Vet all the wot Id was so careless and cold,
Vainly I sought-for a slieltenng fold ;
Tluj: e was no root an 1 no home for my head,
Darling, Oh ! darling, because you were dead !
Vet, in the midst of the darkness and pain,
Darling. 1 knew 1 should find you again !
K new ns the roses knew, under the snow,
liow the next summer would set them aglow ;
f?o I did always, the dreary days through,
Keep my heai t single and sacred to you, •
Ah on the beautiful day we were wed,
Darling, Oh ! dailing, although you have fled.
< Mi 1 the great joy of awaking, to know
X did but dream all that torturing woe I
Oh ! the delight that my' searching can trroe
Not hing of coldness nor change in your face 1
.Still i- your forehead unfurrowed and fair ;
None of the 1 gb't is lost of your hair ;
None of the light from your dear es were dead ; ■
Darling, Oil ! how could I dream you were dead ?
Now you are It .‘re, you will always remain,
Never, Oh ! never to leave me again 1
How it has vanished, the anguish of years !
Vanished—nay, these are not sorrowful tears ;
Happiness only my cheek has impearled,
There is no grieving lor me in the world ;
Dark clou Is may threaten, but I have no fear,
Darling, Oi> 1 darling, because you are here I
The Butterfly.
•
Thou little beauty, wafted by
Upon the summer’s gentle sigh ;
\Vh;u are thou 8 Tell me pray !
A sunbeam wan lcrb g from the sky.
That earthward found its way 8.
A eo’-geous flower, too rudely blown '8
A i eautifui bright bridling, flown
From some enhanted coast —
A winged rnosiac hut hath known
More a:t than man can boast f
Spring’s sudden flight brought to my view
Tliy form among the grass that grew
Along the garden wall ;
1 saw thee as thou didst renew
The fleeces of thy pall.
And from the horn ly common place
Os thy crude life I now can trace
Thy fair and wondrous powers ;
1 learn the secret of the grace
That brightens my long hours.
When folded in the noiseless gloom—
Lo ! the shut portals of thy room
Were opened wide, at last;
Sunlight had cleft the sealed tomb
Wherein thy lot was cast.j
Mav not the homely thought we find
Among the rudest of our kind
Yet serve an end complete,
If chance it. be but choicely lined
As was thy winding sheet t
Foiwo a poem will forsake
Its little hiding cell, to wake
In life’s delicious pain,
When sunshine of the heart sha’l break
The ehvys’hs of the. brain.
“ Little Jim.” •'
This patheti > little poem was recited hy Mr. Coul
dock. at the Walnut street Theatre, some years ago :
The cottage was a thatched one, the outside old ard
mean,
Yet everything within that cot was wond'rous neat
amt clean,
The night wusdatk and stormy, the wind was howl
ing wild,
\ patient mother watched beside the death-hed of her
1 child—
A little worn out creature—his once bright eyes grown
dim ;
It was the collier’s wife an’, child—they called him
“ Little Jim.”
And. oh to see the tears fast hurrying down her !
cheek,
As she offered up a prayer in thought—she was afraid
to speak,
Lest she might 'waken one she loved far better than
her li e.
For she had all a mother’s heart, had that poor col
lier’s wife—
With hands uplifted, see ! she kneels beside the suf
ferer's l>ed,
And prays that He will spare her boy, ayd take her
self instead.
She g tslier answer from the child—soft fall these
words from hi m :
t> \£o:her, the ang Is do so smile, and beckon ‘Little
Jim,’
1 have no pain, dear mother, n w, but, oh, I am so
L ' dry— *
bjiui, moisten poor Jim's lip < again, an 1, mother, don’t
HEk vc crv.”
le, tren.V.ing lies'o she b.eld a teacup to his
■K.lips :
to thank her as he took three little tiny
BaPmsii
grapbi father, when he comes from work, 1 said good
night to him :
■Rgl, mother, now I’ll go to sleep.” Alas 1 poor "Lit
w tie Jim.”
f
F She saw that he was dying—that the child she loved
so dear
Had uttered the last words that she might ever hope
to hear,
The cottage door is opened—the collier’s step is heard—
The father and the mother meet, but neither speak a
word,
lie fe t that all was over—he knew his child was dead,
lie took the candle in-his hand and walked toward the
bt and: •
His qif w ring lips gave token of the grief he’d fain
conceal —
And see 1 his wife has joined him—the slackened
couple kneel;
With hearts bowed down with sadness, they humbly
ask of Him
In heaven once more to meet again their own poor
“ Little Jim.” #
A New Discovert. —Oil stone, of a superior
quality, has been taken from anew well in L’ar
tcrsviile recently. We hope 60on to discover
the oil to go with it.— Express.
Ons New York Correspondence.
New York, May 9.
Weiiave a small rebellion brewing for our
entertainment in this goodly “ loyal” city. The.
Pharisaic Yankee, who, aided by the b-nckwoods
men of the interior, have gotten possession of
the reins of power, are carrying things with
such a high hand, their own followers
cry out against them; and if they do not modify
their proceedings, their edicts will probably be
visited by force, with almost the entire press of
the city in support of the malcontents. The
questions in dispute are the excise and Sunday
law, and the slaughtering and driving of cattle
through the streets. The excise laW is more
strict than public opinion sanctions. There
was undoubtedly too little control exercised
over rum-selling, previous to its enactment'; but
matters are now carried to the other extreme.
Licenses are awarded on the payment of one
hundred to two hundred and fifty dollars; but
the licensed party must keep hisplace “effectu
ally closed” between midnight ana and
on Sundays. It has lately been proposed to
add other restrictions and disabilities, which
will, if put in force, place the hotel and saloon
keeper down with the known thieves and pick
pockets ; he cannot carry on his bnsiuess, gx
eept under police surveillance. This is very
irksome, and the police are often resisted in
making arrests for violating this out-cropping
of New England legislation in our municipal
system. The closing of the German beer gar
dens Sunday is a great outrage ; the Germans
are most orderly, and they were willing to com
promise with having them closed till three
o’clock in the. afternoon. But the Puritffns
said no, and the German cannot have his lager
on Sunday unless he makes his journey toa dis
tant suburb.
Bat the difficulty of the Health Board with,
the butchers assumes an aspect even more
threatening than the collisions of the police
with the liquor.sellers. The butchers are a nu-
morons, wealthy and resolute class. An at
tempt is being made to expel them, and the
dealers in live stock from the precincts of the
city ; that is, the Health Board decreed that no
cattle t-ladl be sold or slaughtered in the city
limits. The Board has under its patronage an
extensive abattoir at Coimnunipaw, in New Jer
sey. In fact it is asserted that its members
'have a pecuniary interest in its success, and
that their persecution of th'e butchers is prompt
ed by a desire to compel them to betake them
selves to Coimnunipaw. Whether this be true
dr not, the decrees of the Health Board are of
the most arbitrary character. Certain streets
have been designated through which cattle may
be driven*on!y between eight o’clock, p. m. and
sunris?. One large cattle market is absolutely
closed by this regulation ; and of several of the
streets named it is hard butchers are not allow
ed to drive cattle through the streets by which
they may be reached. The consequence is
much ill-feeling, and there are mu!tarings of
resistance to these unreasonable exactions.—
1 he under elements of our population are in a
state that requires but a spark to produce-an
explosion that will sweep air the officers of
this Radical machinery to govegn a Conserva
tive city into the harbor. The Republican pol
iticians are alarmed, and declare that Cornrnis-,
sioner Acton and Superintendent Kennedy,
feeling their power departing from them, are
disposed to revenge themselves upon their
party by making its rule as obnoxious as pos
sible. If this be their purpose they are sne
ceecUag perfectly. But no such plea'will avail
them if they provoke public violence.
May has brought to our city the usual anni
versaries of our great missionary societies.
These are events of much interest to philan
trophists. The reports that are submitted em
brace little beyond their cash account; and ex
ception begins to be taken to the vagueness
with which their operations arc described.—
Anything that is calculated to excite suspicion
respecting the manner in which the affairs of
the great missionary societies are ordered,
would be unfortunate ; but more frankness is
necessary if that evil would be avoided. The
only event of importance connected with them
is the adoption, by committees appointed for
that purpose, of a plan for the re-union of the
old and new school Presbyterians. It begins
to be felt that without theoretical and more
practical Christianity, there is great danger of
the people failing away from the church into
Ritualism. It lias been very justly observed
that what is denounced as “ Ritualism,” is
nothing more uor less than effort to keep the
church in its old position respecting its tradi
tions and formulas. It is more apparent in
Europe, brit'ennnot fail to be noticed here, that
men are growing more ind more disposed to
refuse that obeisance to church requirements
which wqs once held iu the highest regard.—
The more people beeome informed of the basis
of contesting creeds, the more they demand the
sweeping away of all tint may not be accepted
by all. Again, t: ■ Protestant churches feel the
growth of Romanism in tmr midst; whose
compact organization, and simple, effective
machinery arc a perpetual reproach to the
petty differences which separate Protestant
societies, and harmony among them has be
come necessary to self-preservation. This is
undoubtedly the true cause of the action of the
Presbyterians, and the good example they have
set may be followed by other divisions in the
Christian" church.
Jhe Radicals are seeking to promote their
crusade at the South by various expedients.*—
One is, that the tax on cotton shall he taken off
if the South “ will do the fair thing.” This at
tempt at corruption with a whole people will
tail, as a matter of course. It is an idea bor
rowed from Mr. Seward. He thought, iu 1801,
that be could induce the South to forego re
sistance to abolition encroachments by a lavish
use of the Federal patronage. But the Radicals
have a scheme that will touch the sensibilities
of the Southern people, and they know it. It
is hinted that if (he South shall prove tractable
under the manipulations of cobbler Wilson, that
the chosen agent of the South in the late strug
gle—their servant, so to speak—Jefferson Davis
shall not be subjected to further violence, but
shall soon b-* set at liberty, with only fiominal
restraints. This is the secret of the late move
ments at Richmond to bring him before the
United States District Court on a writ of habeas
corpus. He will be dealt with just .as the re
ports from cobbler Wilson shall Require, with
oui regard to law or justice.
I have betore stated that public opinion at i
the North would have long ago justified Presi- i
dent Johnson in setting Mr. Davis at liberiy j
on his parole or on bail. No one questions !
that with either security, he would at once re
spend to a call to stand his trial on any allega
j tion that may be brought against him.* But
i Mr. Johnson entertains a violent personal hos
' tility towards Mr. Davis. During their career
I together iu the United States Senate, Mr. Da-
I vis, in a speech, made use of a tailor and his
| garment to illustrate* a poii# lie wished to
i make. Mr. Johnson took it as an offensive
! personal allusion, though it was clear that noue
j was intended. But for this, and the fact that
! Mr. Davis was made President of the Couled
eracy, I have no doubt that Mr. Johnson would
have been a leading “ rebel,” along with Gen.
Scott. Gc-u. Meigs, Major Anderson and others!
j The Radicals are impressed with the idea that
they arc doing a “big thing” down South,
and therefore it may be expected that in a short
time Mr. Davis will oe released from confine
ment.
There is a better look to matters that relate
to the South. The rise in breadstuffs ha3 evi
dently culminated. Corn has declined ten
cents per bushel, and cotton, in the face of
vigorous croakings, holds its own well. Monev
is easy and general trade improving. The be
lief in war io Europe iuereases, but the effect
of wa on cotton is believed to be fully dis
counted. « Willoughby.
AUGUbTA, GA., WEDNESDAY HOMING, MAY 22, 1867.
[From the New York Times, May 0.
A Startling Eeport.
Reported Organization *and Preparation for
Riots in New York—Discoveries and Dis
, closures'of the Police. „
We have received directly from the police
authorities r of the < ity information of recent
organizations, w’hich are now in progress, for
the purpose and With the distinct object of re
sisting by violence and bloodshed, if necessa
ry, the execution and enforcement of the E.t
cist* and other laws which are obnoxious to a
large class of our citizens. The information is
of a startling character, well eaculated tp ex
cite general alarm ; aud we should not make
it public on 4iny less reliable authority than
that of the police department, or for any
other object than that which prompts that de
partment to .give it, namely—to deter the par
ties concerned in the conspiracies from at
tempting to carry them into execution, by
warning them that the proper authorities are
fully prepared to resist tfnd defeat them.
It has been for a loug time evident that the
enactment and enforcement of the Excise Law
has engendered among the lower classes, espe
cially of our foreign-born population, a feeling
of hatred toward the police, upon whom tne
duty devolves of enforcing its provisions. We
have foreseen that this would be the natural
t ficct of such a law, and have done our best to
enforce the necessity of so taping ips provis
ions as to avoid so serious a public peril. This
feeling of hostility has been eagerly fanned by
sundry politicians and liquor-dealers,-wlto hoped
by this means to defeat the execution of the
Excise Law. The recent difficulty between
Superintendent John A. Kennedy and Police
■ Justice Michael Connolly has added fuel tq,t}ic
dame, and the entire body of foreign laborers
’are just now ripe for the tumult they have so
deliberately planned. The professional thieves
of the city are also active in the movement,
hoping to reap profit during the progress of
the riots.
For several weeks past the disaffected popu
lation in the different wards have held frequent
secret meetings at various points. At .these
gatherings the language used has been <?f the
most hostile and bitter character. Speakers
have alluded to the dreadful scenes enacted
during the draft riots of J*iy, 1863, with evi
dent relish, as though they regarded them as
triumphs. The police and the Excise Commis
sioners have been cursed and threatened with
vengeance for their strictness in carrying out
the provisions of the laws. A large number of
these liquor dealers who have been denied
licenses, have taken an active part iu
these gatherings, and they have spoken
with strong resentment of the destruction of
their business. In short, the meetings are de
scribed as having been wild and frenzied in
their denunciations and threats of vengeance.
Fully aware of these proceedings, the Police
Commissioners, through Superintendent Keu
ned.y, have placed a select number of reliable
special detectives on'the alert, and these offi
cers succeeded access to the meet
ings, in some instances taking active part hi
them, w’hcn they deemed themselves to be the
objects of suspicion.. The detectives have
“spotted” nearly every prominent leader in
the movement, and in some cases they have
kept continuous watch upon their daily move
ments. The Superintendent.of Police has the
names and residences of all these ringleaders,
and the, details of the entire movement are also
fully known.
Os course we have no positive details of this
projected riot for publication, as the police au
thorities consider them safer in their custody
than with the general public. Enough has been
topi, however, to warn our readers of the dan
gers which threaten the community, and meas
ures should be taken accordingly. In case a
riot should break forth in our midst, the public
may rest assured that the authorities will be
well prepared for such an emergency, and can
not be again taken by surprise.
It may be well in this connection to give a
few figures relating to the fatal casualties occur
ring during the riots of 1803. The police have
ascertained, beyond any doubt, that there were
eleven hundred and fifty-five persons killed or
died of their wounds received during the 13rli,
14tli, 15th and 16th of July, 1563. Os these,
there were twenty-five soldiers, policemen or
negroes killed, leaving the number of rioters
who met their deaths from wounds received,
eleven hundred and thirty. It will be well also
for those connected with this movement isl any
way to remember that none of the military or
ganizations of this city, all of which are at the
disposal of the public authorities in case of ne
cessity, are now absent, as they were in 1863.
What a Law-less Congress May Do.—At
torney General Stanbery, iu his speech on Mon
day-, drew- the following sketch of what a Con
gress may do when it disregards obligations
and oaths, and riots in lawlessness:
My learned friend, who first addressed your
honors, said that w-e cannot be de troyed as a
people or as a Government, unless, as I under
stood him, two co-ordinate branches of the
Government concur. The Legislative and the
Executive may do it. The Legislative and the
Judiciary may do it, but not < ne of these aloue.
I wish it were so. I can see how- the Legisla
tive power may destroy us, and destroy us for
ever, and it is the most dangerous feature in
our whole system. She may, by laws that this
court cannot touch, by proceedings that this
court cannot resist, plunge us info wars that
wili destroy us, or, in our domestic policy, al
together break up our institutions.
To be sure it would be all wrong, it would
be the assumption of unconstitutional authori
ty, but there is the power, and so long as that
power is backed by a majority of the people it
may defy your honors, and may defy the world.
What! even this court, sacred as it'i?, is in the
power of Congress. How? If Congress
choose to destroy this court, they have an easy
method. Withdraw your salaries, the very
means by which you come here arid sit here. —
Fail to make appropriations. Bat if that is
not enough, if notwithstanding that you will
come here, and starve rather than quit your
posts, they may impeach you on false charges,
by one recognized, established, acted upon by
the other, and every member of the bench may
be impeached and made incapable of holding
his office. What further?
As the members of this court disappear by
resignation or death, the coart at last goes out
: existence, unless one branch of Congress
confirms the nomination of some new judge.
I might carry this further. I might show, yon
, that, in the variety of powers exercised by
j Congress, and that no court can resist or coa
i trol, it is in the power of the legislative power
I to destroy us all, and to defeat this experiment
free government. We are not perfect. —
M ith this court lo judge, Congress to legislate,
and the President to act, we are very far from
being a perfect Government. There is no pow
er that can save r.s but the people, and when
that goes wrong, and sends agents here to carry
| out Us will, the Government is at their mercy,
and they will change it as they please.
A gambler’s den was broken up in Boston a
few nights since, and a closet in
it, with a small door having a colored pane of
glass. Inside the closet was a telegraph opera
tor, and wbeuever a countryman entered to
play and try his luck at cards, he was seated at
the table with his back to the closet door, there
by giving the man in the closet a fair chance to
see the cards he held in his hands. The tele
graph machine was supplied with a wire run
ning from the machine under the carpet to the
business man at the table, who was thus ac
quainted with all the cards he was playing
against, and enabled to fleece his victim.
[From the Macon Teegraph, Sunday.
The New Bishop of Georgia.
The Episcopal Convention, at their session
yesterday, made choice of the Rev. John W.
Beckwith, Rector of Trinity Church, New Or
leans, as Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia, to
succeed the late lamented Stephen Elliott.
The particulars of the election will be found in
! our report of the day’s proceedings, published
in another column. There was but one com
petitor, Rev. Mr. Scott, Missionary Bishop of
! Oregon, and, we believe, a native of this State,
who divided the clerical vote nearly equally,
i with his competitor, though the latter de
| rnanded nearly the entire lay delegation. • The
j ejection was conducted with the best of ordel*
I aljd feeling, and . the choice was made upani
| raous more in spirit than mere matter of form.
| It ought to, and we presume willycqmmand
j the hearty approval of the great body of the
Church iu Georgia.
Os Mr. R. kwith, personally, we regret .that,
from the sources of information at oyr com
mand, we have? been. able to obtain but little
information beyond his’well-known high quali
fications of mind and heart for the distinguish
ed position to which he has been chosen. As
a profound theologian, eloquent expounder
and zealous Christian, he is said, by those who
know him best, to have no superior iu the
South. He'is comparatively young, being but
thirty-seven years of age, and the fact that he
has-attained to the dignity and responsible of
fice ol Biscop thus early in life, is proof con
clusive of his high qualities as a man and
Christian. Ft also, in the ordinary course of
human events, gives promise of a long con
tinued enjoyment of his official* labors, a con
sideration by no means unworthy to lie taken
into account, when selecting an officer for
life.
Bishop Beckwith is a native of North Caro
Ima, and was born and reared in the city of
Raleigh. His family are well known in that
bti-.te, and highly- esteemed for their many ex
cellencies o: character. He is a nephew of the
late Judge George E. Badger, who felt a deep
interest in his rising young relative. Having
completed his academical course In the schools
of his native-State,.bre was sent for higher at
tainments to Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,
where he took a full course of instruction and
graduated with distinction. lie is said to have
been “ a close student,” but strong and quick
native intellect made up for deficiencies of ap
plication, and enabled him always to maintain a
highly respectable position in his class. His
nature is warm and genial, his temperament
cneeifu. and even vivifcious, and his manners
such as have ever given him a stronghold on
the popular heart. He is said to have been a
general favorite at college, both with professors
and students,
. his history i or some years after comple
ting his we can learn noth
ing. His first years iy the ministry were pass
ed as Rector of (he Church in Demopoiis, in
the State of Alabama, which grew and added
largely t-o.its membership under his pastrol
ministrations. At the close of the late war,
Trinity Church, of New Orleans, -which, like
every other religions interest of that devoted
city under the baleful influences of Federal oc
cupation, had become sorely crippled, called 1
niin to take charge of its pulpit and congrega
tion. iiie results of his labors, even mso
short a time, demonstrated his capacity for
practical usefulness. ' While the cause of re
ligion hasJt&*en bloused with a general revival
throughout th 6 South, in no church has the
spiiit of Grace been more abundantly poured
oiu than in his own. The sheaves he lias gath
ered are the best evidence of the fidelity of the
reaper. He is greatly beloved and admired by
the people of ins flock, and we feel sure the
news of his prospective?-call to another field of
labor will fall heavily upon their hearts.
While Bishop Beckwith will have a difficult
office to fill, and enter upon liis duties with the
disadvantage naturally arising from a succes
sors!) , k p to one of the ablest, purest, and best
of American divines, from all we can learn of
mm we feel sure that no one eoukl have been
selected that would fill the place with more
distinction to himself and satisfaction to his
people, ahe church in Georgia are prepared
to leceive nina with open arms, and co-operate
with him in the spirit of Christian love and
charity. In the pulpit we feel sure he will
maintain the high reputation that has preceded
him, while in the inculcation of doctrine and
general administration of the affairs of his
diocese, to be entirely successful in a work
most auspiciously begun and carried forward,
he has only to “ follow in the fo*otsteps of his
illustrious predecessor.” The liberal princi
ples, Catholic spirit, and abounding benevo
lence and good works of the lamented Elliott
have neutralized all opposition to the church
in Georgia, raised it within a few years from
infancy to a vigorous manhood, and blazed out
the way for even more extended greatness and
usefulness. The same spirit, and the same
energy, the same zeal, and practical piety, the
same religious regard for the established faith,
forms and usages of the church, on the part of
his successors, will crown his cause with un
told blessings, and himself with unfading
honors.
io this brief and imperfect sketch it may not
be amiss to add that Bishop Beckwith is a man
of family. His wife is a Southern lady, and is
said by those who have seen her to possess
many attractions of mind and person. They
have several children.
Nuts for the Happy Family—The white
man who subscribes to the Jos Brown doc
trine, must perforce subscribe to the Wilson
dogma. This is the gospel according to "Wil
son :
“ The first duty of the black man is to regis
ter. We have put the ballot into your hands
for the purpose of changing the constitution of
Georgia to give you equal rights. Vote Only
for such men as are pledged to change the con
stitution so that no one can tell whether the
people ol Georgia are white or black. If the
constitution don’t give yon equal lights, vote
it down, an:l save us that trouble, for we will
surely do it. [You hear me now.] I want you
to hear it. Vote only for such men for Con
gress as will vote, act and speak with the Re
publican party.”
The speaker then alluded to the fighting
qualities of the blacks, citing historical inci
dents, and stating that 33.000 iei! in the war.—
He praised them for aiding the Union soldiers,
and for not commuting violence upon defence
less women and children. He made the pre
diction that ninety-eight out of every hundred
would vote to eh mge the constitution And with
the Republican party, not only In Georgia, but
in the other States.
Running to Seed. —There is no mistake
about it—the signs indicate that the Radical
■>ariv Nona is getting in a bad way. The
thousands of unemployed mechanics in every
eitv and town, the stoppage of hundreds of
factories, the destruction of the shipping in
, terests, and the oppressive and crashing taxa
tion on labor and industry while bloated and
ill-gained wealth goes free—these, the work of
'Radical legislation and Radical policy, are do
i ing the busiuess lor the party, and will ulti
i mately bury it beyond the hope of resurrec
tion.
We would respectfully suggest to Mr. Wilson
I and his missionary co-laborers, now in the
Territories, that they had better hurry home ;
i their services are needed more in that direction
than this. As to those Southern men who,
! trader the mistake that the party is to endure'
i forever, are rashing frantically into its meretri-
I cions embrace, they would do well to call a
! halt occasionally, and go to thinking a little —
j their new-born zeal is only likely to.lead to
: disappointment—yea, to political death.
I [Atlanta Intelligencer, lOfA
[From the Waynesboro’ Times.
Joseph E. Brown.
“Onerisethby-another’s fail, and some do climb so
Tha hive t pa^ ,lßtheydo ****** climates un
political' regeneration is a‘matter more ensile
understood, these troublous time, than the re
ligious regeneration suggested to NecodeuiuV of
old, to, in the one ease the reward is immediate
while m the other it was distant. The noliti’
ticians who. undergo this thorough cleans ™
take “ theiy country’s good” as a cloak to hide
.their imbecile notions and dwarfish conceptions
and mislead many by this seeming unselfish
moflve. To remove the veil from one will be
but the unmasking of all., Joseph E. Brown
stands before the people as “beingborn anew ”
having re-entered the political womb and issued
forth a regenerate man. None but the river
Jordan could cure, so he was dipped and the
leprosy ol secession has left him. The man
Whom Howell Cobb declared as “mad with
secession, has taken a Radical emetic and dis
gorged the monster, and his leanness is quite
apparent. The man who, by personal influence
and gubernatorial power, termed more regi
ments than almost any other Governor, would
almost deny his part in the past revolution.
The man who sent his speeches to the army in
the pockets of.“red jackets,” and in the gu
bernatorial contest declared himself the sol
dier’s fniend, has renounced all bis past acts
and become identified with the party which he
endeavored by every means to destroy. The
man who turned over the State troops to the
Confederate Government is ready and willing
to turn over the citi/feus of tjje same State into
thg bauds of their bitterest ; and yet,
with his career before the public eye, he wants
the people’s confidence!
1 lie man who had one eye open to his coun
try’s good has at last, opened both to his own
individual interest The liofv.- “ secession” is
dead, and all political jackasses .give him a
kick. “ A live dog is better than ,a* dead lion,”
and so every 7 prosperous eur wags a secure tail,
ifike Paul, ot Tarsus, the scales have dropped
from his eyes, aud what was abomination be
fore is religions faith now. The leopard has
changed his spots and the other animals dojiot*
recognize him. He Has comedown from his
watch tower, where “ the nation's eyes were, on
but (ho nation’s eyes were shut, for they
did not regard J. E. B. as the important seer
lie would have them believe him. His words,
.hough as voluble as wisdom’s self, have lost
their power, aud the people begin to feel what
a dangerous citizen Is that loud-mouthed orn
toi, who lacks both discretion aud principle.—
Plunged in the cess-pooi of political filth, he
would persuade the people to share his bed of
ml amy and wallow in tiie mire of fanaticism.—
He forgets that the paths that lead to fortune
too often pass through the narrow defiles of
meanness, where a man of spirit cannot stoop
to tread. The people cannot affiliate with
those whom they have cause to feel beneath
them, nor will they lend they 1 support to those
who have deceived them.
The weak, the base, the hypocrite are the first
to turn with indignation from their fellow-mor-
Jals iu disgrace, while the pure and honest abide
Ty their principles until convinced of their er
ror, and endeavor to palliate the miseries and
misfortunes of their countrymen. To do ill, in
any eucumstances, is the effect, of a corrupt
heart. To do well, when (here is nothing to
feai, is the merit, of a common man ; but to do
-.yell, when a "man exposes himself thereby to
the greatest dangers, is peculiar to the truly
virtuous, jbe revolution has gone against us,
a " l< stand alone, devoid of present sympa
thy-1 had almost said future hope. The Radi
cals are successful, and success too often throws
a charm round injustice, like the dazzle .of the
necromancer’s shield in Ariosto, before which
many fall. Radicalism is an infernal deity,
who demands of his votaries such cruel sac
rifices, that every-one initiated into the mys
teries of his faith must make a solemn
and absolute renunciation of the use of his
morals —shut his eyes upon his integrity—
and deny to his heart the pleasurable emo
tions of honesty and truth. J. E. B. has
made the. sacrificial offerings and they have
been accepted. The man who, when the tide
ran in, in 1862, was buoyed up on (he flood,
now. when it is running out would ride on its
ebb, is quite an anomaly these curious times.—
He has surpassed Arazo in the juggling art, and
while deceiving others, is perhaps*himself de
ceived. lo understand his art, see the effect ;
he lias combined elements hitherto regarded as
incompatible. Tiie combustible element, term
ed “secession,” has united with Radicalism, its
opposite, and brought forth a spurious abor
tion—an hermaphrodite of principle. He has
damned himself to a prurient notoriety, where
his success depends upon the elements of char
acter he possesses to so high a degree—tricke
■nj. As well might the writhing obliquity of
the serpent bo compared to the swift direction
of the arrefw, as the duplicity of J. E. B.’s am
bition to the simple steadiness of genuine mag
nanimity. In his mind al! is shuffling—ambig
uous, dark, insiduous and little ; nothing sim
ple, notning unmixed ; all affected happiness
and dissimulation ; a heterogenous mass of con
tradictory qualities. He has, bv his own acts,
shown himself to be about the'last link in the
scale of political humanity. With such securi
ties as Ben. F. Butler and Thad. Stevens, his
success as a Southern Radical is certain. The
cock may crow, Mr. Brown, but don’t deny
thy present lord and master. P. E. Leg.
[From the Edgefield Advertise-.
Mr. Editor : It seems that some American
citizen of African descent, not having the fear
of either God, the Devil or the military before
his eyes reported that two soldiers had been
hung near Mt. Willing, within the last few days;
and that he saw the ropes put around their
necks, &e. This, of course, called out the mil
itary in force, but they brought the first and
only news of the horrible tragedy to the aston
ished citizens of the said Mt. Willing. And
another of the same class of citizens, I learn,
went so far as to say I told her that Captain
Doherty, of the garrison for this district, had
one of the dead bodies. lam sure the whole
thing is a canard of the first class.
By the way, Mr. Editor, the papers arc in the
habit of locating every lawless act that has been
committed in the lower part of the District at
Mt, Willing, I beg to enter my protest against
this. We are becoming very quiet, law-abiding 1
citizens, and if the Government will only give j
us a Post Office or two, and mail routes, so that \
we can hear the news and find out what the '
iaws are, there will be few violations ol the
same.
I have been induced to write this over my
own signature, as so many inquiries have been
made of me to-day about said murder.
Yours, truly,
E. W. Seibels.
If those journals which have so readily pub
lished the rumor of the hanging of two sol
diers will give the above publicity they will
confer a favor and render an act of justice to
our citizens.
Object of the Japanese Visit.—A New
York letter says: “Rumor is busy with the
names of certain well-known politicians and
speculators in connection with the errand of
the Japanese Embassy to Washington—and
tipsy, too, in a way that is anythiag but credit
able to them. The Japanese, it is said, seut
three millions of gold to this country a while
ago to purchase gunboats and other vessels, but
the parties to whom the job was entrusted, it is
alleged, did not keep their contract, only one
steamer having been sent, and even that was
almost worthless. The strangers come to the
United States now (so the story goes) to briug
the delinquents to account.”
VOI . 25. NO. 21
" The Opereero.”
Under this heading the local of the Vicksburg
Times, who wields by the bye a pen df no un
witty power, thus discourses :
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, of which
nature—the Opera— severely partakes, being of
that species. %
The Opera is a thing which is iffever enjoyed
unless it is heard. It is one of those promiscu
ous musical arrangements which is never un
lei stood unless it is duly appreciated. Iu order
<YYo* H,ricn< r e effectually, a libretto, an opora
TYrY ’ a Wt> N dressed lady, and a clean shirt are
tfuiessary V\ e obtained all these at immense ex-
K h Y n l Went - ° n , lookin £ at the back of
onr libietto, we saw the opera on this occasion
was “Ernanny.” On looking through out
glasses at the stage,we saw’a sentimental looking
bushwhacker standing on a small mountain
with several mibre bushwhackers at the bottom
Having asked the lady, of whom we were the
escorter, who that was on the mountain, and
she having replied “ Ernanny” in the affirma
tive, we were morally convinced that it was the
opera of Ernanny,” before whom we were ar
rayed m our paper-collar glory
'The orchestsa struck up like four hundred
tom cats in a back alley, and a brindle cur do
chained to the garden palings on a sweet moon'
light, night in April, and the bushwhackers at
,°®t Os the mountain nil of , e „dd“, S>,“
m ,- tQ 81 , ake ex P ensi ve silver goblets in the
soft Italian mr, and holler bravero, and nlav
draw poker on the rocks, and sing hymns to
“ Ernanny” on the top of the mountain, who
finally relaxed his sentimental expression and
sang out: « This is the Grandeero Opereero
Mexieaneero De Rio Janerio by yoigo,” and he
came down from the mountain, and mingled
freely with the common high private bush
whackers, and they all stood on their tip-toes
and tried lo sing louder than each other ; but
at last the man with the big red. fiddle played
foul on the high private bushwhackers, and
quit playing to give “ Ernanny” a chance, who
forthwith jumped upon a rock and sang : “Bra
veero. ctwaleero, I loveero, a ladieeroo iu yonrfeero
castel/eero, now put on your somfowros and
follow this gay gam bolero to finaVero bis bri
deero, for I’m (lie big mins o of (his here ope
reero hon seer o which belongs to Mr. Botto,”
and the they all went off between two pictures
representing frees, &e ., and the scene changed as
of by some human agency, to an elegant'bed
chamber in a big fine house, where three were
about thirty .chambermaids singing Lorena in
Italian to a bentiful girl, who had on a long
white veil reaching to the floor, and she sang
back at the chambermaids, and they all made
so much fuss, we couldn’t tell what they said,
though it sounded to us exactly like scrambled
eggs look ; and then they all disappeared sud
denly, and a fellow wearing red breeches and a
sky bluejacket, with almost as much gold lace
on it as a post quartermaster of the present day,
ran out and commenced singing. He was evi
dently embarrassed, we presume because in the
hurry of dressing his part, he had put on his •
shirt upside down and turned the wrong end
down over his shoulders for a collar. When
the applause, which this accident created, had
subsided he sang : “Hello, Elvira, I want tA
know where iu the hel feero is that dam sou of
a finko “Ernanny this is Carlo just got in
from the de pot and Ernanny is a white livered
miitoo who belonged'to the Freedmen’s Bureau
in Ohio, and kept a possodo in Cairo and then
Elvira rushed in by a s»’e door and sang:
“ He’s gone to I) ■ Soto,” and replied tunefully
Carlo: “He’d better keep on to Mexico or
Idaho, or I’ll give him a taste of my big toe,
just so, and put a reto on his Horning’here with
his tinso and his banjo any more, for he’s a big
pile of gu—an—no; and Elvira rolled up her
eyes and sang: “ Carlo you know you arc also
ditto and you smell of tobacco,” and then he
sang : “ You are a Virago.”
The scene changed, and in rushed “ Ernanny”
like a sirocco, looking quite mellow and swore
he was just from Morocco, where he lost every
thing he had with a yellow fellow at faro except
the- clothes he brought of Demo. Carlo -sang
out: “ So, so, dirty fellow, you must rush in
on us like a bull buffalo —go to you saucy beau,
or FI throw you out the door, probono public.
Then in ran Jaco and Ricardo, and Carlo asked
them, “ sing ly” what there was for dinno, and
each replied: “A sweet potato and some
g u mb o.
The curtain dropped on the crowd as they
were going into dinner, which ended the first
act, and we went gradually along down to the
Times office, to write them a notice, but going
back, we “ saw so many men” that when we got
to the opera it was shut up, and Bombodccro
had gone off with our Indeero ipso facto.
Spiritualism and Murder.— Prominent
among the latest and most starling “spiritual
manifestations ” is murder. From Rochester
nippings and Poughkeepsie revelations to an
assault by a Norwich spiritualist upon his
dadghter with intent to kill, and to a murder
by a Philadelphia spiritualist, the circle is now
complete. Williams-was sentenced at Norwich
last month to five years’ imprisonment in the
State prison, and Winnemore is on trial for his
life at Philadelphia. Now, it would he no less
unfair to hold the spiritualists, as a religious
sect, responsible for the murderous proclivities
of Winnemore and Williams than the Presby
terians for the recent diabolical murder by on;
j their parsons ol his child, three years old,
! because it refused to say its prayers. But the
plea of insanity has been put forward iu each
j f >f these horrible eases. And when one of the
I “mediums,” who was called on as a witness in
| the case of Winnemore, testified that in the
“circles” at which she and ten or a dozen
| more had been accustomed to be present with
the prisoner, “ we give way to whatever in
! fluence comes, none can retrain from serious
reflection on the possible and probable peril
j ous consequences of such utter abandonment
i of weak, undisciplined minds to the wildest
vagaries of the imagination. Insanity, accom
panied by murder, is too often the result. Un
less the chiefs of the spiritualists arc * blind
leaders of the blind ” they will see the necessity
of warning Jbeir followers by the dreadful ex
amples to which we have alluded
[IV. Y. Herald.
Melancholy Accident.— We learn from a
letter received in this city of a melancholy ac
cident that occurred in the town of Anderson,
8. C. On Friday last, Miss Sarah Rutledge]
a daughter of the late John Rutledge. Esq., left
her home in-Anderson to take a walk, purpos
ing to join her mother and sister, who bad pre
ceded her. Not returning at the customary
hour, her friends became alarmed and went in
search of her, but Without success, and it was
not until the next day that her body was dis
covered in Rocky river. It was supposed that,
having taken the wrong path, she had lost her
footing and fallen in the river, and no one be
ing near to rescue her had perished.
[Charleston News.
Frightful. —Yesterday morning as Dr. T.
N. Poulhtiu’s carriage was leaving his house,
and as the driver got down to shut the gate,
the horses dashed off with the carriage and ran
upon the public square—a distance of half a
mile, where they were halted. There wjere iu
the carriage at the time Mrs. Moore, of Augus
ta, Mr. and Miss McHenry, but providentially
they escaped uninjured.
f Greensboro Herald, May 11.
Prince Charles, of Bavaria, brother of the
Empress of Austria, has gone into a convent.
Grief at the death of his wife was the cause.
A lively discussion is going on in some por
tions of England as to whether it is consistent’
for Sunday school teachers to learu to dance.