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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST
I [Sp'dal Correspondence of the ConstitionaHet.
letter from Baltimore.
Baltimore, May 28, 1867.
Mrt. Editor: Owing to duties which could
not, be Ignored without impairing my future
prospect? in the University, to which I alluded
some time since, I have been unable to give the
attention to my correspondence which it should,
and in future, may receive, and consequently
my letters to the Constitutionalist were forced
to “grow small by degrees, and beautifully
less,” until they ceased altogether. J am not
prepared to say hew much was lost to your
readers by tny silence, but if they in any de
gree served—a# they were intended—to mir
row the “ signs of the times,” I am more than
compensated for the little time they cost me.
The Supreme Court, alas! supreme no long
er, ha» by a technical quibble, ignored the pa
triotic and legal efforts of Governor Jenkins,
to protect our people against the unconstitu
tional usurpations of a ncyro-Kepublican Con
gress, who would, If they could, subvert the
laws of nature’s god to humiliate the white®
ol the South, and obtain the vote of the negro.
If you could only manage to silence the
buzzing of your B’s! or, at least, send the
would-be , “ King” B, —Joe B.—to Milledge
ville—not to the Governor’s mansion, for there
he would go to raising “ cabbage,” if nothing
more—but to one or the other of the chief State
Institutions— perhaps charity would consign him
to the professional care of Dr. Greene in the
on**, rather than the directions of the superin
tendent of the other. At all events, treat him
mercifully, with a hope that a change “ might
conic over the spirit of hi- dream.” The other
two B.’s might very safely be left to your negro
correspondent from Burke county, and all
would then be well with the people of the dear
old commonwealth. A scientific shell has been
hurled from the classic halls of Cambridge—the
very “ hub of the universe’’—which will ulti
mately shatter into fragments hypocritical Pu
ritanism and its hydra-head ol isms. It is to
be regretted, however, that the great naturalist
had not the manliness to promulgate the vitally
Important truths which his laborious investiga
tions now free him to make known. Had he
done so eight years ago he might possibly have
stayed, if not arrested, the shedding of rivers
of blood. However, as it is “ never too late to
do some good,” I will extract from a medical
journal a portion of a recent lecture delivered
by Professor Agassiz, ol Cambridge University,
in winch he declares what every educated
‘physician of'the South has known for years.—
Coming as it does, however, from the immedi
ate environs of tlie “hub,” it cannot be other
wise, th yi highly interesting and important to
your readers generally. Prof. Agassiz said, “1
have pointed out over a hundred specific differ
ences between the bona! and nervous systems of
the white man and the negro. Indeed, iheir
frames are alike in no particular. There is not a
bone in the negro’s bod) which is relatively the
same shape, size, articulation, pr chemically of
the same composition as that of the white man.
The negro’s bones contain a far greater per
centage of calcareous salt than those of the
white man—even the negro’s blood is chemi
cally a very different fluid from that which
courses in the veins of the white man. The
whole physical organism of the negro differs
quite as much from the white man’s as it does
from that of the Chimpanzee—that is, in hi 6
bones, muscles, nerves and fibres, the Chim
panzee has not much further progress to be
come a negro than a negro has to become a
white man. This fact is inexorably demon
strated. * * * Climate has no more to do
with the difference between the white man and
the negro than it has with that between the ne
gro and the Chimpanzee, or than it has be
tween the horse and the ass, or the eagle and
the owl; each is a distinct and separate creatiou.
The negro and the white man were created
as different as the owl and the eagle. They
were designed to fill different places in the sys
tem of nature. The negro Is no more a negro
by accident or misfortune, than the owl is the
kind of bird he is by accident or misfortune.
The negro is no more the white man’s brother
than the cwl is the sister of the eagle, or the
ass is the brother of the horse. How stupen
dous, and yet how simplejs the doctrine that
the Almighty .Maker of the Universe lias created
different species of the lower animals, to fill
the different places and offices in the grand
scenery of nature!”
The convention for forming anew constitu
tion for Maryland is now in session, aud 1
look forward with confidence to the early and
complete emancipation of the State from the j
last vestige ol tyranny and oppression that j
was forced upon her during the war by an un
scrupulous pack ol negro-worshippers.
The people of Baltimore, and the State gen
erally, are still exerting themselves to send
food to our starving people. I say our people,
for whatever fate may have in reserve for
me in the future, I shall never be afraid or
ashamed to acknowledge that I equld once
claim Georgia as my State, and palzied be my
tongue ere it could ever utter a word that could
reflect dishonor, or mar with the slightest
shadow her bright and glorious escutcheon.
The dust of my loved ones slumbers within her
borders, near to all that was mortal of heroes
whose valorous deeds will, ere a decade of
“ weary summer suns,” Illustrate the name of
Georgia on history’s brightest page. We have
at last some pleasant weather and ou yester
day llie ladies that thronged the streets looked'
as beautiful ns the spring flowers which now
gladden the earth with their presence. But
how could,they appear otherwise than lovely,
when conscious of having “ fed the hungry and
clothed the naked ” of oiir down-troddeu land.
It is uot drawing too much upon fancy to sup
pose that their elastic steps and smiling looks
are due in no small degree to the orisons of the
hungry aud destitute of the South-land, which
come whispering to their hearts as softly and
gently as the flower perfumed zephyrs from
our native clime, as they kiss their checks in
their morning rambles or evening rides. Adieu
jusqu 'an revoir. 11. L. B.
[ From the Nashville Republican Banner.
A Brownlow Butchery.
The Militia Still at their Bloody Wot'k—An Un
offending Citizen of Franklin County Tied up
and Shot , Ac., Ac.
We have received intelligence lrom Winches
ter that a squad of Rickman’s militia company,
under the command ot an officer named Holt,
went to the house ot Mr. Brown, last Tuesday
morning, took him out into the woods, tied
him to a tree with thongs of bark, and literally
riddled his body with balls.
They also took a young man named Poe,
tried him bv a drum-bead court martial, con
demned him to be shot, and were about carry
ing the sentence into effect, when the tragedy
was prevented by ‘he timely interposition of a
gentleman who had been a Union mau through
out the war.
Our informant states that many ol the citizens
of Franklin county have been plundered and
maltreated within 'the past few days, and that
others have been compelled to seek relitge in
the woods. . ,
These enormities have all been committed on
n people whose conduct his been above even
suspicion. The only excuse for killing Brown
was, that he had served in the Confederate
armv during the war, and the indications at
present are that the best citizens of the county
will fall victims to the vindictive hatred of these
licensed assassins.
So great is the feeling of alarm throughout
the section of country named, that the people
have already begun to organize for mutual pro
tection, being determined ttyat ouc company of
Brownlow’s mercenaries sLmll not rob and mur
der them with impunity. A meeting was to
have been held at Winchester last night to con
sider what was best to be done.
A Plain Rice Pudding.— Boil a pint of rice,
add a quart ot milk, halt a cup of butter, four
ppoo sful of sugar, boil tliem up together, and
let them partiailv cool. Beat five eggs well,
and stir in, if raisins are added, let them be stir
red round after it has partly cooked, that they
do not settle at the bottom. Flavor with salt,
cinnamon, or nutmeg, and bake one hour.
The Germania beet-sugar company, at Chats
wortb 111 have used one-sixth of their last
year’s crop, and made eighty thousand pounds
ol sugar.
Military.
Headquarters Third Military District, >
(Georgia, AlarawjC ani> Florida,) >
Atlanta, Ga , May 2‘J, 1867. S
General Orders, )
No. 25. (
I. The late disgraceful riot at Mobile, due
nrVinly to want of efficiency or of inclination on
the part of the Mayor and Chief of Police to
perform their obvious duty, seems to render it
necessary that the military authorities of this
district should explain to«*ll such officials the
position they occupy under the laws of the
United States, and the manner in which they
will be expected toMiscbarge their trusts.
11. The late acts of Congress are prefaced
with the statement that “ no legal SJtate Govern
ment or adequate protection lor life or prop
erty now exists in the rebel Bt.a‘es of * * *
Georgia, Alabama and Florida,” and these acts,
therefore, whilst proceeding y. recognize the
existing State Governments as provisional
merely, establish also a Military Supervisory
Government, which is made responsible for
that security of life and property to citizens
which was not possessed previous to their pas
sage.
Tiie final responsibility for peace and secu
rity in the seveyil States in this Military Dis
trict rests, therefore, with the military authori
ties, and in case the civii provisional officers iii
any part of it prove unable or unwilling to pro
tect the people, it becomes necessary for the
military power, either to supersede them by
military officers or by other civil officers, or
organizations which will effect the object. *
111. In order that the civil officers in this
district may understand precisely what is
expected ol them by the military authorities,
the following rules are established :
IV. In cities or towns having municipal gov
ernment, tin*. Mayor and Chief of Police, or
other civil officers possessing their authority,
(where there is 119 Mayor or Chief of Police),
are required to be present at every public polit
ical meeting or assemblage which occurs within
the limits of their jurisdiction, with such police
force and arrangements as will render disturb
ances or riots impracticable. It wilUbe no ex
cuse to say that such.civil authorities did not
know of the meeting, or did uot apprehend
disturbance. It is easy, by municipal regula
tion, to require that sufficient notice of any such
meeting be given to the Mayor, or other proper
authority, to enable him to prepare for the sup
pression of disturbance; aud it is proper in tne
present excited state of the public mind to
make such arrangements as are necessary for
the preservation of peace at all public political
meetings, even it be really no danger ol
disturbance. In any event, the civil officers
above referred to, as well as those hereinafter
mentioned, will guide themselves by this un
derstanding.
V. At all public political meetings or assem
blages held outside of town*or city corpora
tions, the Sheriff of the county or his deputy,
or a deputy specially appointed for the occa
sion, will he present, and will, in case of need,
organize a posse from the people on the ground,
which he will hold separate from the body ol
the assemblage, to interpose, if necessary, to
preserve the peace; but in selecting persons to
serve as a temporary police force or posse, they
are instructed not to summon any of the offi
cers or public speakers of the assemblage.
Sheriffs, or their deputies, are empowered to
exact service from all persons thus summon
ed as a posse, and to require that due notice
shall bo given to the Sheriffs themselves of any
public political meetings or assemblages which
may bo called in their respective counties, in
time to make the arrangements herein indica
ted.
VI. It is to be distinctly understood that the
duty of the proper municipal authorities, and
the Sheriffs of comities, is to preserve the
peace, and to assure their rights and privileges
to all persons who desire to hold public melt
ings not in violation of law, and to take ail
precautions to prevent the invaeion ol such
rights and privileges.
VII. In case of any riot or disturbance,, if it
cannot be clearly shown that the civil officers
above indicated were present and did actively
and faithfully perform their duties, both by
word ann deed, such officers will be deposed
from their offices, and otherwise held respon
sible by the military authorities to the full ex
tent of the neglect or criminality manifested
by them.
VIII. All commanders of troops in this dis
trict are also instructed to render to the above
mentioned civil officers, on their application,
whatever military aid may be needed, and the
military commanders are directed to send a
judicious and careful qffleer, to be present at
ouch political meetings herein referred to, as
may occur within the limits of their jurisdic
tion. Every officer thus detailed, while not in
ter ferring with the civil officers in the per
formance of their duties, wiil stand ready to
interpose, and, if necessary, to bring such mil
itary force to the spot, as the necessities of the
case may demand.
IX. Post and detachment commanders with
in this district are directed to keep themselves
: advised of all public political meetings which
j take place within the limits of their jurisdic
! tion, aud during such meetings to hold them
! selves and their commands in readiness for im
mediate action at the call of the officer whoYn
they are directed in a previous paragraph of
this, order to send to such meetings. Com
manding officers are informed that they will be
held to their full share of responsibility for
any want of precautionary measures or prompt
action to prevent riots, or to arrest all disturb
j ere of the peace.
X. The commanding general believes that
ordinary good faith on the part of the civil
J officials above mentioned, in t king the precau
j tlonary steps indicated m this order, and in per
| formipg their obvious duty, will secure the peo
! pie of this district from riots or riotous pro
i ceedings ; and he sincerely hopes that no occa
| sion may arise (as none need arise) for any
active participation of the military in the exccn
; tiou of law and the protection of citizens in
their legal rights and privileges.
By command of
Brev. Maj. Gen. John Pope.
G.K. Sanderson,
Capt. 33d Inf’y., A. At. A. G.
Sailing of the Golconda.— The large ship
Golconda, belonging to the American Coloni
zation Society, which cleared a lew days ag ,
went to sea yesterday—having been detained
waiting for the tide. She has 320 emigrants on
board, of whom 116 are from Marion District,
19 from Aiken, 49 from Newberry, and 71 from
Charleston, 8. C.; 45 from Macon, and 8 rrom
Columbus, Ga.; 1 from Richmond, and 4 from
Albemarle county, Va; 1 from Baltimore, and 6
from Philadelphia. Their destination in Libe
ria is as follows: Monrovia, 10; Cauysburv,
53; Si non, 76; Grand Bassa county, 122, and
Cape Palmas, 59. The trades or occupations
are represented by 31 farmers, 5 bricklayers, 5
laborers, 4 carpenters, 4 engineers, 3 painters,
3 waiters, 2 shoemakers, 2 coopers, 2 cooks, 2
plasterers, 1 minister, i clerk, 1 stone cutter,
1 upholsterer, 1 cabinet maker, 1 blacksmith, 1
burner, 1 butcher, and 1 druggist.
Religiously, there are forty-two communi
cants of the Baptist Church, twenty-seven of
the Methodist, five of the Presbyterian,and two
Roman Catholic, making seventy-six pressing
Christians.
Three are native Africans returning to their
own country. One ol' the three was brought
into Savannah a few years sineejin the celebra
ted Wanderer. f •
We learn from Mr. Coppinger, agent of the
Colonization Society, and to whom we are in
debted for the above statistics, that a large
number have resolved to go in the fall and have
booked their uames in advance,
| Charleston Courier, 31st.
The art ot preparing skins so ns to make
“ Russia leather,” has never yet been success
fully tried out of that country, although the
details of the process are known. The peculiar
fragrance of the leather is given it by the use of
oil of birch.
We had a school master iu the days of our
youth who coulj impart the “ peculiar fra
grance.”
San Fraucisco epjoys a lucrative trade. The
Bulletin , of that city, says the established value
of foreign imports, for the three months ending
Marce 31, was 33,400,000. The value of exports
was $4,760,541, of which $3,579,827 Were for
about forty articles of California production,
$3,019,786 being for flonr and wheat. The ex
ports of treasure were $9,825,804.
[From the New York Herald.
The Reform Measure Adjusted.
Queen's Hotel, London, May 25.
In the House of Commons, at an early hour
j and after an exciting debate, the question ol
‘ Hie borongh franchise right, as embodied in
Mr. Disrael’s Reform bill, was settled on the
basis of household suffrage.
1 he compound householder plan, at first pro
! posed, is practically abolished.
As the measure now stands the tenant in a
borough town is to pay his tax rate personalty,
instead of through the landlord, and so secures
the right of voting.
In the matter of the franchise qualification in
the counties it has been voted ghat the setUed
occunants of lands or tenements worth the sum
of £l2 shall enjoy the right of voting when
duty registered.
The Government at first proposed that the
value of the lands or teneraents should be £ls.
.The Liberals, in opposition, wanted to have it
fixed at £lO.
A compromise took place in the House,
when £l2 was agreed on ok the amount of value
of the lands or tenements, after which the
Honse adjourned.
The result is a*gain to the people.
THE FENIAN CONVICTS.
Queen’s Hotel, London, May 27,1867.
Deputations of a very* influential character,,
with popular petitions numerously and respect
folly signed, praying for royal mercy to the
Fenian convicts in Ireland, continue to arrive
at the Ministerial residences in Downing street
and to be received at the Home Secretary’s
office in large numbers during the past two days.
His Eminence Cardinal Paul Cullen had an
interview with his Excellency the Marquis of
Abecorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the
subject, during which the Cardinal advised that
the lives of the men, Burke, Doran and Me
Cinre—iudeed, the lives of all the Fenians con
demned to death at the Special Commissions—
should be spared. As Cardinal Cullen has been
ever consistent in discountenancing, even de
nouncing the Fenian and other secret organiza
tions for political or party purposes, it is pre
sumed very fairly that his recommendations in
this instance had much weight iu influencing
the royal decision.
Prayers were offered up in all the Roman
Catholic churches in Dublin yesterday (Sunday)
invoking Almighty God to incline- the royal
mind to clemency. *
A public meeting is called in Birmingham for
to-day, having for its object the aid of the move
ment for a commutation of the sentences.
A deputation of the members of the House of
Commons, having the Right Honorable the
Lord Mayor of Dublin—himself a high conser
vative—at its head, was about to proceed to
Balmoral to present a petition to Queen Victo
ria in person on the subject of not executing
the death penalty.
Earl Derby’s government had previously de
termined to carry out the law in its utmost
rigor; but in view of the universally expressed
sentiments of the people and press of the United
Kingdom, and influenced to some extent by the
fears of a Fenian revenge in Ireland and else
where, the Cabinet was, af the latest moment,
compelled to remit the sentence on Col. Burke,
I. R. A.
Lord Derby tendered a Cabinet recommen
dation to that effect to the Queen On Saturday
evening, and her Majesty assented to it, it is
said, after anxious consideration, last night.
The ministerial announcements of the result
were received with loud cheering in the Houses
of Parliament, both by the Lords and Com
mons.
Lord Derby, iu making his statement to the
House of Lords, said that he saw no palliation
in the circumstances ol the case—either in the
deliberate treason or predetermined rising in
arms—but that the sentence of Burke was re
mitted because the Cabinet had received over
whelming testimony from the Irish people to
the effect that it would be politic not to allow
the law to take its course.
[From the Baltimore Gazette.
, Hayti.
The Haytien people, who sefemed for years
to be trying to bring every form ol government
into contempt, have again gone into political j
bankruptcy. Geffrard lias left the country aud j
a sort of “ Provisional Government” has been j
installed. It. has issued an address which cou- j
eludes as follows: “Let us have faith iu the j
future and in the institutions which govern us! 1
Lung live Liberty ! Long live Equality ! Long
live the Republic! Long live the Constitu
tion!” We did not believe that any human
being except an enligliteued American citizen
of the Radical persuasion could pen a similar
paragraph under such circumstances. We cer
tainly never dreamed that a liaytien negro
could possess those high and practical qualities
which distinguished Messrs. Thaddeus Stevens
and Charles Sumner. But it is singular that in
precisely analogous cases the Republican leaders
of Congress and the sable rulers of Hayti have
pursued the same identical course. No sooner
had the government been overturned than the
revolutionists announced their- faith iu the
future and in the political “institutions” under
which they lived. The moment the Constitu
tion was abolished and the Republic destroyed
they began to shout with great fervor, “Long
live the Republic! Long live the Constitution!”
Having found out that the various liaytien
Governments had been productive only ol \
“ evils which have left, as their result, the ruins I
of our cities, of our treasury and of our fami- j
; lies,” they have discovered that it is only neces
sary to cry out “ liberty and equality” in order
to restore the prosperity of the country. That
men entertaining such profound and sagacious
views will succeed in inaugurating an enduring
and enlightened system of government we can
i not permit ourselves to doubt. None of the
more intelligent of the prominent citizens of
i Hayti have ever been able to set up and main
i tain anything save a mere mockery of a govern
! meat. But now, if it shall be decreed that
I black and yellow are both white, and that every
i body in Havti shall be asked once a week what
| he or she desires the Government to do, anew
and glorious Republic will soon, it is said, take
a proud place among the natious of the earth
and the fields of that large and fertile island
will yield more plenteous harvests. All these
things may be expected to happen if the Hay
tiens have meu among them capable of writing
the proclamation referred to. We confess,
however, to some fear lest it may have been
prepared by the American Consul, *
The Proa’ost Court— On Saturday last, the
three freedmen who had been apprehended for
breaking into and robbing the store of Dr. J.
M. Rnshton, at Pleasant Cross, in this District,
were brought to trial before the Provost Court,
in sessiou at the military camp near this place,
found guilt}’, and sentenced to five years im
prisonment at hard labor in the Penitentiary.—
But on Sunday night, we regret to learn, they
made their escape, and have not as yet been ap
preliended, although Major Hastings, in com
mand at this post, with his characteristic energy
and great perseverance, has had a squid in hot
pursuit of them ever since the discovery of fheir
escape. That all or a portion of these notorious
rascals will be captured again, we have not the
slightest doubt, and hope to record the fact in
our next issue.— Edgefield Advertiser
.The Arson Case. —The ease of the State vs.
W illi.im H % Taylor, charged with arson, was
brought to a conclusion on yesterday evening,
at a late hour. Judge B. D. Smith, of the
County Court, and W. M. Butt, Jifetice of the
Peace, presiding. Col. L. J. Glenn and Gen. L.
•T. Gartreli, m-.de able and pertinent speeches
on the part of the State, and Col. L E. Bleck
ley. and Major John L. Hopkins made eloquent
Cy or -t? { or *ke defense. The Court acquitted
Mr. I ay.or of the charge, and discharged him
from custody. The trial of Mr. Holloman on
the same charge will come off to-day, we learn.
Era , 30th.
Killed bt a Bear. —The Messenger, Madi
son, Florida, states that a Mr. Manly, of Terry
county, was killed by a bear one day last week.
He bad >hot and wounded the animal, and ap
proacbed to finish him with ar revolver, when
the bear sprang upon him, caught Ms head in
his month and crashed the skull. When found
Mr. Manly and the bear lay dead, side by side.
Reeve Ics is the name of anew English poet
We hope he will have a good time of it amoa*'
the Reviews.
[From the New York IL ra'd.
Counter Revolution in New York and all
Over the Country.
! t laov emcnt of the Union League Club of
j r‘ ! T ( 'r!^!.° V - Cr Horace Greeley’s relations with
Jcti. D.ivjs, is another indication of the connter
revolution. It shows at once the protest of the
I popUi.u sentiment and the consternation of
■ party managers over the bomb that has burst in
j l “ tn Jeff. Davis' liberation was onlv the
I natural re , suit Hie view sos the war held by
j those leaders of the Radical party who control
us acts. It was au inevitable corollary of the
j Bad seal doctrine that the war was only a party
j contest, which a great blunder of the opposi
| t! °u uad caused to be canvassed with bullets in-
I stead of builots. Holding these views the Rad-
I ,cai leaders would have released him be
, fore, no doubt but they were afraid of the peo
i J JiC ~. U Scared to undeceive the earnest mass
-1 es. They kept hint two years, supposin'* that
the people would forget in that time alfthose
terrible sacrifices of the war that the politicians
forgot in two days. This expression of the
Union Leaguers, however lame, has two dis
tinct declarations in it— flue from the members
who sympathize with the masses, and one from
those who represent the thoughts of frightened
party managers. The last, feeling that this act
has, even after two years,let too much light in
upon the insincerity of the leaders, fear to touch
it; the former sei that they have been trifled
with, aud move *to free themselves from the
thraldom of heartless and incompetent leaders.
But this is not confined to the Union Leaguers ;
it is a feeling that is unsettling the political ele
ments everywhere, and foreshadows that deep',
positive change in public opinion that will carry
the election against the Republican party in this
State uext fall.
All over the country there is the same change,
the same unsettling of popuiar thought, the
same evidence ihat radicalism has reached the
turning point in its destiny, and that national
disgust at the ridiculous conduct of leaders and
at the hallowness, pretence and sham of party
acts, is" moving the coifbter revolution that will
not only hurl Radical leaders from power, bus
will go far to obliterate such traces asrthey have
left in the history ol the country through parti
san legislation. Within the Republican party,
even in the small circle of the men recognized
as leaders, all is chaos. Between the Republi
can National Committee, the Union League
Club, and Phillips, Butler, Stevens, Wilsou aud
Greeley, who can tdll what are the real pur
poses aud plans of the Republican party wft.ll
regard to reconstruction ? Nothing was left
to be done but to settle the country upon the
practical basis of making South abd North po
litically and socially alike ; yet the simple ques
tion ot how this result might best be brought
about, the determination of the question that
was the real sequence of the war, is not at
tempted by any, but each one is eager only to
secure the pre-eminence of his own extreme
views. Republicans have so managed affairs in
the South since the collapse of the rebellion that
the result of an election there will be to return
a representation composed of six niggers and
sundry uncertain white men—perhaps all origi
nal secessionists. All will be as it was before,
except, for the six niggers, and these represent
the results of the war. No Radical seems to
comprehend or to - be willing to acknowledge
that the war had any other or higher purpose.
There was no great issqe of national life, only
political difference ; and opposition was, of
course, no crime. Hence there was no treason.
Nothing was sought but to get these six niggers
into Congress. For that the nation spent three
thousand million dollars, and-thus our. nigger
Congressmen will cost us $500,000,000 apiece
Did ever a people before give so much for so
little ? Have we not shown a prodigality of
extravagance in paying such a price to secure
these privileges to a race that had no other
title to our attention save the clamor that it was
oppressed.
By its absolute failure to carry out the great
purposes of the war, by wasting the energies
of the nation in making its expenditure con
duce only to securing unworthy results —re-
sults that the people did not care so are
ridiculously incommensurate with- th£ sacri
fices made, the Radical party has incontestably
shown its unfitness for a great trust, and has
demonstrated to the people that their only
safety lies in repudiating it altogether—plans,
theories, delusions, leaders and all. There is
no other course. It is no longer the party of
the people, no longer the vital exponent of the
will and thought of the narion. Formed in a
time, of great danger, compacted into firm
political unity by the necessities of a tremen
dous struggle, that party carried the war to a
glorious issue because its views and purposes
were the views and purposes of the people, be
cause the spirit of the people filled and vital
ized all its acts. But its leaders misunderstood
the result. They thought the victory was not
the. people’s victory— not the great ultimate
aspiration of the country—but merely the tri
umph ol some pitiful party plans. In that
thought they set about prostituting tlie nation
al success—appropriating it to their small
uses—attempting to make it subserve purposes
of personal ambition and partisan tyranny.—
Having attempted to steal the national victory
and brand it with a party name, these leaders
are now quarreling over the spoil. Going
blindly away from the people, they have gone
too far ; going beyond the real purpose with
which the people waged the war, they have lost
the great bond of'unity—lost the great guid
ing purpose of popular will, and, like the bab
blers of Babel, confound one another with
strange utterances.
But they confound no one else. The pur
pose of the people are unchanged. They waged
war to preserve the nation, and it is their pur
pose that this shall be a Union of tree and equal
States ; that no great community of American
citizens shall be trampled down in order to
secure the supremacy of any party schemes.—
Strong in (his great purpose, with the same
power with which it waged war the nation will
rise in counter revolution against those violent
party leaders —against, any and every party
machine, plan or platform that would divert or
urge forward the great war and great success to
any other object than that of securing the
national welfare—the happiness, prosperity
and peace of the whole Union—the freedom of
every part of the people. This the politicians
already feel, and this the next elections will
show.
A Coincidence. —The release of Mr. Davis,
last Monday, took place on a memorable anni
versary—the two huudred-and-sixtieth anniver
sary of the settlement at Jamestown. That
settlement was the origin ol the grand old
Commonwealth of Virginia—“ the mother of
“tales,” and the grandmother (as she may well
be termed) ot that Federal Union, of which the
issues of war have pronounced her to be only
a territorial subdivision, or rather a mere tribu
tary province under present circumstances.
The seminal principle of State Rights was
planted on American soil with the settlement
at Jamestown on the 13th day of May, 1607.
We speak advisedly and considerately in saying
the seminal principle of State Rights , for the
Virginians, even in their colonial condition,
were always advocates of colouial rights. They
maintained them from the beginning on every
fit occasion, and especially in opposition to the
usurpations of Cromwell and the Puritan Par
liament. How strenuously they maintained
them from the time of the Declaration of Inde
pendence to the close of the late war, needs not
to be tokl.
Mr. Davis’ only crime consisted in his main
tenance of this principle, so long held sacred
bv the States. His release from-imprisounient
has taken place on the anniversary ol that event,
which may well be regarded as its origin. The
coincidence is at least remarkable.
[Mobile Register.
The body of our unfortunate young friend,
Mr. John C. Stubblefield, was found yesterday
morning at 11 o’clock, within a few feet of the
place where he disappeared in the waters of the
Oeinnlgee—near the last shoals just above Rose
Hill Cemetery. His drowning, as we announced
yesterday morning, occurred at about 5 o’clock
Monday evening. His many friends were in
search of his remains during the following
night, without success, until at the hour men
tioned.—Macon Journal and Messenger , 30/A.
“ What I most value I hide ,” said Brown the
other day when he whipped his wife \—Era.
There is a Brown we wot of that seeks to
hide what be most desires—an inordinate thirst
for office, as well as protection to ill-gotten
gains.— Griffin Star.
Judge Abell's Protest Against his Re
moval bt Gen. Sheridan.— Under date of Mai
ls, lion. Edmund Abell publishes in the New
Orleans Times a protest addressed to Gen.
Sheridan against his removal on the 27th ot
March last from the office of Judge of the First
District Court of New Orleans. He says the
order removing him was delivered to him more
than - two hours after the time fixed for it to
t ike effect, and he was thereby prevented from
»spreading on the minutes of the Court his
•protest against the constitutionality and legali
ty ol Lis removal,” He couteuds that the power
i ( 1 ’:, I rcit '° Tal 5 * expressly reserved In the military
bill to Congress, and that under Its provisions
the I resident of the United States, the several
j conirnimders ol districts, and subordinate
'’* ncers » are 118 much bound by its provisions as
I hum lest individual. The power ot re
moval trom or appointment to civil offices is
not given to the Commanding General hv word
or implication. He says :
The power claimed in your order wouid
i not only enable you to modify, control aud su
j l> er fede the present Government, but would
| enable you to create one of your own, a power
not prescribed by the act, and could not have
been contemplated by Congress. It would de
i sfi oy the independence of the judieiarv, aud be
tantamount to your self-holding plea of life and
liberty by deputation, removable at pleasure.—
Such courts, it seems to me, are inconsistent
with the liberty or safety of the people.”
Hts then alludes at length to his past course,
aud says he has at all times acted with fidelity
to the United States aud to his Suite; that he
fully accepts and recommeuds the jict of Con
gress, and has at all times used his personal in
fluence to forward its object. In relation to his
course in reference to the troubles on the 30th
of July last, he quotes a letter which head
| dressed to Gen. Slieridan soon after that time,
which, he says, fully shows how earnestly he
i desired to prevent that fatal meeting. Os this
; letter he says :
I furnished certified copies to both the Mili
tary and Congressional Investigating Commit
tees. They failed to publish them. Why, I
know not. I earnestly desire the publication.
I believe the meeting advertised to take place
on the 30th of July, 1806, to be illegal and dan
gerous to the public peace, and so charged the
grand jury. Having in all things, to the best of
my knowledge, honestly, faithfully, impartially
and firmly discharged my duty as Judge of the
First District I respectfully submit tlio
justice and necessity of revoking General Order
No. 5, in order that the First District Court
may proceed in the discharge of its functions in
accordance with the constitution aud laws of
the State, on the grounds that the order is ille
gal,-destructive to the independence of tlie Ju
diciary, and unjust, by depriving citizens of the
United States of vested rights.
N. B.—ls this protest falls to receive the fa
vorable consideration to which*! think it enti
tled, I respectfully make it part of a memorial
to the Government.
More Massachusetts Morality.— There
seems to be a mania just now iu Massachusetts
for the manifestation of the peculiar phase of
“ moral ideas ” exhibited by thg Reverend Se
reno Howe. It is now reported that a Mr. A.
A. Downs, a prominent member of one of the
Pittsfield churches, has been guilty of the same
revolting practices, and has fled from the town,
probably with the full consent of his fellow
moralists. Like Howe, Downs “felt a deep
interest in the moral and spiritual welfare of
the young.” His victims, says a local report,
“were small children of both sexes, mostly lit
tle girls, and of respectable families in ‘fact,
Downs seems to have been nearly as bad as
Howe, with the single redeeming exception that
he was not a member of the Massachusetts Le
gislature. And, like Howe, he has been terribly
punished-by being sent out as a missionary .of
“ moral ideas ” to instruct the innocent children
of other respectable families elsewhere in the
country.— N. Y. World.
A Ni.ce Little By-Play.—We understand
that the aud Augusta Railroad, in
conformity with their charter, intended, yester
day morning, to lay a crossing over the South
Carolina Railroad track. The officials of the
latter company (as a suit is pending as to the"
validity of the charter of the former, infringing
upon the vested rights of. the latter,) have
adopted a novel procedure to baffle the efforts
ol the new company in laying down their cross
ing connection. Early yesterday morning
they started an engine near the disputed point,
and singular enough, it has been playing all
day yesterday, but never out of sight of the
aforesaid intended intersection. Bath parties,
we learn, are in earnest, and the result will be
looked to with interest.— Columbia Phoenix.
Attempt to Murder. —Yesterday morning
two negroes in the employ of Mr. A. S. Jones,
on a rice plantation, about fivo miles from the
city, made an attack upon the overseer, Mr. L.
L. Davis, who was working m the field, when
they rushed upon and attempted to kill him
with a hoe. Mr. Davis, bravely stood his
ground, and succeeded in warding off’ the
blows, without sustaining much injury. Find
ing him determined and about to resort to des
perate measures to defend himself, the negroes
surrendered themselves, when Davis brought
them to the city and delivered them to Justice
Russell, who, upon examination, committed
them to the eouuty jail to answer the charge of
assault with intent to murder.
[ Savannah News, yesterday.
Bibb Superior Court.— The ease of Isaac
Harris, charged with the murder of Isaac Wing
field, colored, was tried on yesterday; Solicitor-
General Simmons for the" State, and Harris &.
Hunter lor the defense. The jury returned
their verdict, “ involuntary manslaughter.”—
The Court adjourned at 5, p. ig., to meet again
this morning. The next ease on docket is Wash
ington Price, for the killing of a female named
Madey—both colored.
[Macon Journal and Messenger , 31 st.
Superior Court.— The case of Mrs. Hat
field, charged with the murder of Isaac Heard,
was concluded on yesterday. Speeches were
made by Colonel John B. Weems, on part of
the State, and by General Cobb, for the defense.
Shortly after the charge of Hon. C. B. Cole, the
jury returned their verdict to the (-fleet that the
party was not guilty.— Macon Journal , 80th.
Gottsehalk makes money in Chile, and injures
no innocence, l«r there is none there to injure.
[ St. Paid Press.
The Louisiana Journal says a hen crossed be
tween a Shanghai and Brahma, belonging to
Mrs. John J. Arthur, near that place, has laid
several eggs recently which lay over all the
eggs of that region. They are about the size
of goose eggs, and upon breaking the shell of
one of them another egg of the ordinary size
and complete in all respects is found within.
The outer eggs have also white and yolks as the
iuner.
The Graud Master of Masons in Minnesota
has issued an earnest appeal to the brethren of
his jurisdiction, to contribute money for the
relief of the starving people of the South, the
amount to be forwarded to the grand Masters
of the different States for distribution.
“ If men may be ju Iged by their enemies,”
says I* rent ice, “ how can we too highly esteem
President Andrew Johnson, whose bitterest
enemies are General Butler and Mr. Ashley, of
Ohio, who ought to be in the blackest peniten
tiary- ol the earth, and Governor Brownlow,
who ought to be iu the reddest penitentiary in
heil.”
The London tailora are now sending to this
country with their coats little glass bottles with
pins attached, to hold the flowers, which would
otherwise be stuck iu the button hole. By the
use of these bottles filled with water, of course
the flowers can be kept fresh.
The Indianapolis Herald relates: A dentist of
this city, a few days since, took an impression
in plaster of a man’s mouth for an upper set of
teeth. The gentleman had a “ cleft palate,” and
the plaster was forced up into the nasal pas
sages —almost into the frontal 6iuus—and “set”
beautifully. After about seven hours hard
work, the plaster was fiuaily extracted.
Geranium leaves, it is stated, are excellent
for cuts or bruises, where the skin is rubbed
off, and other wounds of the kind. One or
two leaves must be bruised and applied to the
part, and the wound will be cicatrized in a short
time.
Sad Affair in Union County.—We regret 1
to learn from the Blairsville mail-carrier, Mr.
John Reese, that Charles Hill, sheriff of Union
county, was shot, on Wednesday evening, the
15th inst., by a man named Wm. Campbell. It
i appears that Mr. Hill had a warrant against
Mr. C., and proceeded to his house to arrest
him, w.hereuprtn he resented and fired upon
Mr. Hill, the ball taking effect in the bowels,
, from which he died the following Friday
morning. Mr. Hill was a young mau‘ and was
‘ greatly esteemed as an officer, and as a kind,
I clever and influential citizen. His sad demise
has cast a gloom upon all the citizens of the
j county.
Campbell made bis escape, and has fled to
parts unknown.
From the same source we learn that Mr.
Erwin, the deputy sheriff, arrested, after a con
siderable combat, Mr. Thomas Cooper, ami
two young men with him, by the name of Mor
gan—ouc ol the young men receiving a severe
wouhd in his attempt to resist. They, nre
charged with stealing, and niw eonflued in jail
at Blairsville.— Dahlonega Signal.
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Drowned.—We are pained to announce that
our yotfng friend, Master John Stubblefield,
the eldest sou of our esteemed friend, Col. M.
Stubblefield, while bathing in the Gcmulgee,
near Rose Hill Cemetery, yesterday evening,
about five o’clock, was drowned, tie was at*
tempting to reevoss the river, when, it is sup
posed. lus strength failed, and the rapid current
1 ? 1U1 down to a Watery grave. His body
has not been recovered. J
He was just 17 years of age, and bv his nleas
ant manners, intelligence, and moral dharoctS,
commanded the love of his numerous compan
ions, and the esteem of all who knew him. We
tender our heartfelt condolements to his aired
parents in their sad bereavement, and the svm
pathies of thercommunity. }n
| Macon Journal & Messenger, 29th.
Death of Morris L. Mayer.—With regret
we auuounce the death of Morris L. Mayer
son of our esteemed frieud, David Mayer Esn ’
on Monday night, from the effects of a wound
received at Columbus some time since. lie
was buried yesterday evening, attended by a
large number of friends and acquaintances.—
He was highly esteemed by all who knew him
for his manly ami generous spirit, and shining
qualities of head and heart.
[Atlanta Era , 29'*.
. i——
* Cowhiding.*- We learn that a little cow
hiding affair came off yeeterdav. It seems
that, a young lady had engaged' herself to a
millinery establishment to learn the business,
and at the same time make herself generally
useful about the store and house. Ye*sterday
cvening, while she was in the kitchen, drawing
tea, the husband of the milliner came iu and
madft improper overtures to her. She imme
diately ran out and informed her brother of
the facts, when he procured a cowhide, called •
out. the rascal, confronted him with his sister,
and then and there, in tlie public street, near
the market, administered a severe but deserved
whipping, only desisting when his arm be
came too weftry to do further justice to the
scoundrel.— Savannah Advertiser , 29th.
The financial and industrial problem threat
ens soon to absorb all other questions, and is
an element winch must seriously disturb politi
cal calculations. W r i?h an exhausted treasury,
it is certain that divers Congressional appro
priation? will remain unattended to. There
can be no lavish paymeuts of bounties if there
be no means in hand wherewith to pay them.
But will a Summer session mepd matters?
Will it remove the depression of trade ?—or
the poverty of the great body of producers ?
or the discontent which pervades industry
everywhere and seeks vent in strikes ?—or the
want of faith 4u tlie sagacity of the Government
which is visible in every financial circle ? It *
may. be easy to authorize an increase of the
debt, but can the national credit endure the
strain ? It may he equally easy to enact heavier
taxation, but is it probable that the country,
taxed to the verge of exhaustion as it already
is, will consent to carry an augmented load?
These are questions which- tlie ultraists, who
flunk tncj' can manage affairs according to their
sweet will and pleasure, should try to answer
before they go much further:— N. Y. Times.
* The Chicago Times says that Mr. Bancrolt “is
noted quite as much for bis willingness to ac
cept office as for anything else, save, perhaps,
his readiness to desert party and principles in
the hope to obtain spoil and, apropos of
his recent diplomatic appointment, adds : •
Why the President should elect him to fill
the vacancy occasioned by tlie death of Mr,
Wright is inexplicable, unless Bancroft Las
agreed to bring his history of the United States
down to the close of the present administra
tion.
Jefferson Davis and Mason and Slidell
at St. Catharines. — Odgensburgh , May 29.
Jefferson Davis, accompanied by Messrs. Mason
and Slidell, arrived at Prescott, opposite this
place, by Grand Trunk Railway, this morning,
from Montreal. At Prescott they took the mail
steamer Champion for St. Catharines. Their
presence created considerable sensation.
Kingston, C. W., Wednesday, Mag 29.—The
steamer Champion, having Jefferson Davie on
board, bound to Toronto, touched at this port
to-day, An Imtnense crowd assembled at the
wharf to sec him.
| Special Dispatch to the N. Y. Times.
The Revival. —The revival meetings at the
Methodist Church, in this city, which have
been held for the last six weeks, closed on Sun
day night last. Some seventy-five have con
nected themselves with this church, and among
them some of our most prominent citizens.—
During the short time the Rev. W. F. Cook,
and Rev. Mr. Pearce has had charge of the
Methodist Church here, and their labors have
been zealous aud constant, they have reaped an
abundant harvest,— Marietta Journal.
Personal.— Major Geueral D. E. Sickles, ac
companied by Captain Alexander Moore, A.
D. C., Major J. P. Roy, Inspector General,
Brevet Brigadier General W. VV. Burns, Chief
Commissary of Subsistence, Brevet Lieutenant
Colonel Chas. Page, Medical Director, and
Brevet Captain W. Prince, Chief Ordnance Of
ficer, left last night to visit Wilmington, Ra
leigh, N. C., and other points in his command.
\Charleston News , Ist.
Important Law Case.— The Mobile Regis
ter, of Tuesday last, say's :
We understand that Gen. Withers will im
mediately institute proceedings in the Circuit
Court of the LTnited States to test the legality
of his ejection lrom the Mayor’s office by mili
tary order.
The Hon. John A. Campbell, and R. H.
Smith aud Rufus Andrews, Esqrs., have been
retained as counsel for Gen. Withers.
Imprisoned.-^- John W. Spencer has been
arrested by the mili ary authorities, and con
find for safi* keeping, upon the charge of being
implicated >n the murder of George Wehunr,
ot this county, during the war, for which of
fense he was indicted at the last term of Lump
kin and bound over; but pro
bably the bond not being suflieieut, caused his
arrest raid confinement.— Dahlvnega Signal.
Gov. Brown reckoned Geueral Lee as a sup
porter of his policy, in his speech in
If he knows anything, he knows he uor no other
man has any authority to speak for General
Lee. General Lee speaks for himself, and ha
has not opened Ins mouth in reference to the
Sherman bill, so far as the public has any
knowledge. This declaration of Gov. Brown
ouly goes to show how fairly he is willing to
deal with the truth and the people.
\ LaGrange Reporter.
M e notice many orange trees looking sickly
the leaves turning yellow. The bark of such
trees will be found covered with orange lice.
Trim all the knots from the body of the tree,
and bodies of the principal branches. Wash
them with lie about 6trong enough to make soap,
or with strong soap suds, two or three times,
scrubbing them with a coarse clotb. Also put
plenty of old manure, and water plentifully with
soap suds. Poverty encourages lice on orange
trees the same as on a lousy calf.
f Planter's Manner.
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