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THB WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 12,1867.
TO OUR 3UBOREBERS.
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~~ MAXIMILIAN.
The history of the nineteenth century will not
have to recount another drama as affecting and
terrible as that which, in ail hum au probability,
Is about to be enacted by Mexican murderers—
for 43 such and as nothing, else have wc ever
been able to bring ourselves to think-of that
degenerate people. The likelihood of the
execution by Juar*z, of his noble captive
Maximilian must startle the entire civiliz
ed world and bring only too vividly beiore it
the ferocity of pretended Republicanism; but
should Heaven decree an ignominious death to
one of the purest-of European princes by fana
tical republicans of this latter day, we fear the
cry of horror will be as lou'dlj resounding
throughout Europe as when the Red Republi
cans of France murdered gentle King Lewis
XVI., and the effect will be farther reaching
than is now generally supposed.
The circumstances which have brought Maxi
milian of Austria to this present catastrophe
and imminent danger must be briefly remem
bered to' Lake in at a glance the gloomy prospect
iu its full force. Os Austria’s Bciona the very
noblest, eminent iu virtues and -attainments of
the purest character and the most remarkable
courage, he was called, shortly after our war
had begun, by theEmperorof JTrance and the
will of the Mexican conservative party to con-
golidate French conquests and to be the instru
ment of regeneration to a fallen people. The
Republican party ol Mexico through its sbift
lessness, extravagance and recklessuess had
brought that already uuhappy country to the
very lowest depths of national insignificance.
Napoleon had made to Maximilian great
promises; the* latter was to be supported by
French bayonets until his Empire was firmly
established. At that time, everything augured
favorably for such an issue: a bloody struggle
was waging in this country and at the precise
juncture when Maximilian assumed command
in Mexico this country was thought by many to
be in its. last throes. Nothing but the short
sighted policy of the French Emperor in rela
tion to this internecine strife prevented such a
catastrophe, but for it the late Confederacy
would now be “ un fait accompli" and French
dominion in Mexico firmly secured under
Maximilian. This, all the world knows; the
North has long 6iuce acknowledged, nor do the
French people know it any the less, despite the
lorced interpretation which Monsieur Thieks
gives to the sentiments of the French people in
this question t. e. the power of the United
States was.so great that France would never
have been able to establish herself iu Mexico.
That wc here know and feel differently on that
subject need hardly be stated.
With the downfall of the late Confederacy,
the certainty of success by France in Mexico
was most assuredly gone; whether there was
still a probability we will not now discuss;
enough, from that day, the imperial promises
of Napoleon to Maximilian were but scanti
ly fulfilled ; chivalry had left the Frcuch peo
ple and its ruler; France forgot her sacred ob
ligations, and was uow only inteut upon with
drawing, with the least possible loss in money
and in men ; her prestige was already gone iu
Mexico, for the exactions, bombast and vanity
of the French had converted already, in a few
years, her best friends to bitter opponents.
That the decision of France to abandon Mexi
co was mainly owing to her fear of the United
States, is amply showu by the subsequent do
cility which was paid by the successor of Na
poleon the Great to the epistolary orders of
our Mr. SeWauil How exalted Maximilian’s
conduct when contrasted with the pusillanimity
of the French Emperor. Refusing to leave
with the French expeditionary corps, he said
to his last faithful followers: “I have liuked
my fate to yours ; I will not leave you, but re
main with you unto the bitter end.” By this
heroic act, which shows uot love of a crown,
for to him it must have been a crowu of
thorns, but the most exquisite and rarest sense
of honor, he iuspired the hunting hearts ot his
followers once more; new men and money
were contributed ; but what could his scanty
resources do against the aid avishly be
stowed upon the Mexican banditti, under
Juarez, from the United States? Brave as a
lion, he put himsClf at the head of his soldiers,
and struggled manfully aud well. His army is
now dispersed, and himself a captive, with uo
security of life.
We Baid, probably in the midst of our own
disorganized and feverish condition as a people,
we undervalue or do not -perceive the conse
quences which the murjer of Maximilian
would have upon the world. The nearest and
most obvious result affecting us must be a still
greater horror of Republican passions, still
greater doblta whether any humanity at all can
be displayed in Republican warfare, or that the
slightest regard tor honor and international
obligations could be shown under Republican
institutions-*- whose tendency toward brute
force we are ever cailed oyon to etaeck.' Max
imilian has treated Ulr, captives .with the great
est possible kindness under, the circumstances
iu which he wus placed and be has therefore
the strongest right to demand that he be con
sidered a soldier and not an outlaw.. We would
quote international law in his defense, were there
the merest chance that that noble monument of
national moderation and forbearance toward
another nation in times of excitement, conflict
and war, be appreciated or -that it be known
by Mexican banditti. The faith of mankind in
the justice dnd durability of R insti
tutions has received the rudest shocks of kite,
not alone abroad bat even in this country. In
Germany, in France and other countries not
many years since liberty, Am ericau*liberty and
invitations, were the rallying ery of Liberals.
How is U to-day ? Baa not the currenttorned
strongly in favor of Conservatism, and is not
at this day a fanatic ou the subject of American
liberty looked upon with derisiou and dis
trust? With us, both North *aod South, the
question has been agitated in the breasts of
many. Is not Republicanism avast failure?
the idea that mau can govern himself a delu
sive phantom, and is not monarchy the most
—
I stable and the best ? The
very fact that eda bCcnicnain
j«ed <by any considerable portion /osLfcnj people, j
shows but too plailigjdjjjbt, uncertainty and j
gloom. Those, then, be real)
friends of liberty, i/r#? r &wy n down
and discountenance
iam, lest the hearts of j> jffl# till in (fie
alienated and open ta t|g'jif&friiUi|*ry tyrant I
—and of all human eScdi egrpatest and
most terrible is—murssrfo have
deftibiog u P<> n tbem
bow much greater the Gov
ernment of the United States id all its branches
—and should now Maximilian meet with the
sad fate threatening him, the question will, ne
asked here and abroad after the excitement of
the moment is over: What have Congress and
the Executive Department done in this matter
to prevent the catastrophe and to guard the
honor and interests of Republican institutions V
No, not merely for humanity’s sake, and for a
noble tuan, who, we are sure, has more admir
ers than detractors In these States, but
for a higher and farther reaching consideration,
neither more nor less than the maintenance of
RepuSlican influence oyer the world. The
fact that Maximilian occupied toward the
United States a quasi hostile position has no
thing to do with the question ; jie is fallen and
not au outlaw; a noble and unfortunate enemy
no chivalrous people will quietly suffer to
perish, when lie may be saved by their word
from an ignoble end. And more than one
word, we contend, it would not have cost the
Government of the United States to do it—that
is, a tford of command. For the honor of this
whole country we hopd that word has been
spoken. ,
While the United States have only an interest,
as far as Republican institutions are concerned,
in the preservation of Maximilian’s life, to
France it is a question ot national honor.
Called by her Emperor, mainly, for without the
support of a great European power he would
not have followed the call of a there party* the
Emperor’s act warmly seeouded by the people
of France, he accepted the trust. He failed
through the mistaken policy of Napoleon and
through that schemer’s bad faith. The French
people, lost to all ideas of chivalry in this
business, pressed Napoleon to leave Maximil
ian to his fate. If now Maximilian dies an
ignominioßS death, his blood must rest on
France and her children.
The French people have not bceu able
latterly to count many friends in Europe.
Their successes in the Crimea and in Italy
made them very proud, cousirg them to forget
that valor may reside with other nations as well.
Through the excessive laudations of their own
valor in the Crimea they forfeited the kindly
good will of the English ; through the same
cause, taking all credit to themselves, giving
none to the Italians, they lost also the good
will of their own foster child, and were to be
humiliated by seeing it draw its weapon with
Prussia against French Interests. All through
out French chivalry, we mean national, not mili
tary chivalry, (for none could excel the French
soldier in prowess,) appears to have fled from
that nation, and materialism taken its place ;
but national vanity and vain-glory are
greater than ever. These were the acts
of the people en masse— those of the
Emperor in his diplomacy have made
him unpopular at home and abroad; at
home, .because he was not successful; abroad,
because bis demauds and pretensions were ex
orbitant, comprising no less than the Unity of
the Latin Race. Those powers abroad, who
may bo still kindly disposed toward French
policy and her ruler, will inevitably tarn upon
La Belle France the cold shoulder, should the
last act of the Mexican business be sealed with
an atrocious murder. Standing so insecurely,
God must have striekeu with blindness the
Emperor Nacolxon, if he failed to do aught
to save Maximilian’s life. Aud, fickle as are
the French, who can assure him that, seeing the
universal condemnation of their Emperor, by
all Europe, iu regard to this bloody business,
they may not cry out, with oue ferocious voiee,
some fine summer’s day, along the broad boule
vards, oven during the spleudors of the Expo-,
sitiou Universelle; “ Dowu with him ! he did
it,” and fiuish the Second Napoleonic Dynasty ?
Germany has, of course, a national interest in
Maximilian's fate; but she caunot avert or
even ameliorate it, as things have gone. The
Germans may feel that oue of the reasons, and
perhaps the principal one, is- their utter iusig
uificauce as a navd! power, when contrasted
with England, France and the United States—a
deprivation clogging all her developments. But,
should Maximilian fall, he is Germany’s son,
aud as sueh his blodd will powerfully cement
natioual u&Ryand draw more closely the bonds
between the now separated two great powers,
Prussia and Austria. Finally, all over Europe,
the effect will be a still greater consolidation of
monarchical powers.
To the so-called Liberal party of Mexico,
nay, to that whole country, such an event must
become the germ of the direst calamity. Al
ready despised abroad, such barbarity would
alienate the few frieuds she has left. While
the great Powers of Europe and the United
States may now be disposed to let the Mexi
cans, to use a vulgarism, “ ran their machine
iuto the ground,” as best they may, and give to
the world A few more exhibitions of national
folly and contemptibleness, they will have, af
ter such a cruelty, an urgent reason to blot
Mexican bar.dittidom from the map of nations,
as a shame to the soi-disant civilization of this
nineteenth century, a result -Which may, after
?.) Dauc h nearer thau we now suppose.
\en Maximilian, with hia spotless character
and knightly qualities, would not have been able
o sate her permanently without a very strong
infusion of foreign blood? Gangrene ha* m*dt
inroads too deep upon the
1 »«ta«Wy: The ta* of i •
drdtforhcr restlessly ioto .ho bauds of hope!
ess aa»r j, for the day of. dissolution the
hand oUbe spotter that i. rMAnba is
ready stretched out, «and h „ ,
be that of a fnilftary district o| the United
States, undergoing the delightful process of
reconstruction.
HeAVT I>AMAGE& AGAINST TIIE MOAN'D O R
R.—Sometime w ithin the last two years Was
ley Thomas, a fireman on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, was so severely injured by a train
running off ths track that it was found neces
sary to amputate his right arm. His right leg,
too, isjsaid to have been severely scalded by the
steam.which escaped .from the locomotive. Mr.
?homas instituted suit against the Railroad
ompahy for damages to the amount, we be
lieve, of $40,000. The case was decided vester
dryin the Circuit Court,' Judge Rapier pre
siding—the jury awarding the complainant
damages to the amount of 115,000, with SI,OOO
for medicaj attendance, &c. Col. R. H, Smith
appeared foe Mr. Thomas and Messrs. George
N. Stewart and Pi ter Hamiltou for the rpad.
[ Mobile Ttegister, Ist.
The Financial Situation of the OounDT. I
Mr. McCulloch, the Secretary of the Trens- j
ury, in reply to an Invitation to a dinner ten
dered him by prominent citizens of Boston,
regrets his inability to attend, and makes a few ,
remarks upon financial matters. He says that
the bouuties to soldiers, preparations for the
Indian war, the intended large issue of bonds
to the Pacific Railroad, and other liberal appro- i
priations for miscellaneous purposes, together
with the partial failure of the wheat and corn
crops last year, the tardiness of reconstruction
in the South, the reduced taxes and general
dullness of trade, will prevent a reduction and
probably produce an increase in the national
debt for some time. He gives the following
reasons for not contracting the curreucy at the
.present time, but says he is as much in favor of
that poliey as ever:
First —TJhe views of a majority of the mem
bers of Congress, as indicated by a uumber of
votes last winter, were adverse to immediate
contraction, and I Lave not felt at liberty to
place myself in practical opposition to tbc- law
making branch of the government, without
whose support I must be powerless.
Second —There have existed IcVr some months
past anxious forebodings of financial troubles,
and while they contluued | have been apprehen
sive that a contraction of the currency, the ob
ject and effect of it being misunderstood or mis
interpreted, might produce a panic in the com
mercial cities, which, extending over the coun
try and beyond the speculative interests, would
injuriously affect legitimate business and the
revenue dependent upon it.
Thirds Large amounts of iuterCst-bearing
notes are to be paid or converted within the
present and next fiscal year, tQf which it seemed
prudent for me first to direct my attention,
leaving the question of a curtailment of the cir
culating notes to be determined, from month to
month, by the condition of the country and of
the treasury.
Fourth— Anticipating that the failure of the
crops and the other circumstances alluded to
would seriously affect business, I have consid
ered it important that the public mind should
not be diverted by the criticisms and complaints
of those who are opp sed to contraction, from
the real causes of trouble—that a sound policy
should not be put in peril by being made the
“ scapegoat ” for evils resulting from different
causes.
“ Won’t Do.” —Brownlow’a Nashville organ,
the Press & Times , in an article headed as
above, says :
“We notice in the Columbus (Ga.) Sun that
one G. W. Ashburn, of Georgia; is in that place
lor the purpose of organizing the Republican
party there. Is this the same G. W. Ashburn
who used to figure in a small way in this place,
during the war, writing bitter copperhead let
ters, extolling Gen. McClellan and abusing Mr.
Lincoln ? One or two letters on the copper
head model, with his signature, found their
way into our rubbish basket.”
The Press $ Time* is mistaken in supposing
that G. W. Ashburn “ wont do,” notwithstand
ing he is doubtless the identical individual who
wrote “ copperhead letters extolling Gen. Mc-
Clellan and abusing Mr. Lincoln,” during the
war. We know a number of “ the same sort ”
now actively engaged in the same work—“or
ganizing the Republican party in this State ”
who did the same thing during the war, and
“ more, much more” than we care to untold at
present, and why should not G. W. Ashburn ?
If Ashburn “wont do,” who will do, judging
from antecedents of the war? And judging
from those antecedents— political, wc mean—as
tar as our information extends, Ashburn is the
peer of any one of those engaged in the same
sort of work—that of building up a Republican
party in Georgia. This snubbing ot Ashburn,
by those no better than himself, wont do.—
Even the devil is entitled to his due—let Ash
burn have it, also!
„ [Atlanta Intelligencer.
Oberlin “ Goes Back ” on the Negro.—
The Cleveland Herald, of yesterday, has the fol
lowing, which indicates that the “ black and
tan ” element is becoming too rank even for
that nest of Cuffy’s idolaters:
When Conductor Bruce‘, of the Cleveland and
Pittsburg Railroad, reached a station some dis
tance beyond the limits of the city, yesterday
morning, he found a little colored girl among
his passengers without a ticket, who said she
was going to Washington. She claimed to have
beeu brought from that city by a gentleman
living inQbcrlin, in which place she has lived
over a year, and alleged that her oaggage had
beeu sent ou to Washington by the trustees of
the township iu which Oberlin is located. The
trustees, 6he 6aid, stated there were too many
colored people in Oberlin now, and that they
were determined to weed out all who were not
able or have no disposition to take care ol
themselves, remarking that she was one of the
class first named. Mr. Bruce transferred the
girl to Conductor Jenkins’ train, bound North,
at Alliance. Mr. Jenkins delivered the “ pris
oner ” to a negro wench from Oberlin who
chanced to be in the depot upon the arrival of
the tpain. The child is one ot more than ordi
nary intelligence, and remarked, when intormed
that she must go back, that she would go by
way of Buffalo, a route on which she was ac
quainted with all the conductors, aud one on
which she would meet no interruption. She
gave her name as Josephine Sister Lillie Dorothe
Terry, aud the name pf a distiuguishacTmffitary
officer as that of her father. ,
Cotton Growing in California —Much
interest is felt iu the attempts still making to
cultivate cotton on a large seale iu California,
and it is believed a considerable breadth of laud
will be planted to the staple this year. We
were showu to-dav some samples oi greet)
seed, or upland cotton, grown in Sacramento
county lost season, and representing a thip
ment of sixty bales, or about one ton in
weight. The staple is of a fair quality, and
will compare well with the medium grades of
the same variety grown in. the Southern States.
The fibre is about five-eights of an inch long, is
of good color and fineness, and remarkably
strong when twisted. In the absenee of know
ledge as to yield and cost of is not
possible to speak as to Ks profitableness as a
crop, but the quality of the cotton is good be
yond caf’il. It is now over three years since
the first experiaaents in eotton growing were
made in California, and its culture has siuce
been steadily prosecuted in several districts.—
One would naturally suppose that by this time
the business would have formed regular chan
nels through which some accurate knowledge
cquld be derived as to culture, yield, dec.; but
such is not the case. The sale of home-raised
cotton is confined to a very few parties in this
city, yet these parties ore so much iu the dark
as to the extent of. the crop of 1866 as,to be
unable to state whether if was 10,000 or 100,000
pounds; neither cau they give any particulars
connected with its growing.
[Sa» Francisco Bulletin.
of Jacob Barker.— Jacob Barker,
tbe banker, was arrested yesterday on an affi
davit made bv Alderman Pat. H. Cummings,
vr with embezzlement and fraud.
*r. Cummings had deposited in the- Bank of
date*of its failure, the sum of
-,’^7' 1 are not fully informed as to the
tn « ase , an d cun give no opinion as
carp ni* 01 ,° c innocenee of Mr. Barker. The
tion u n for preliminary examina-
»na e M Re^* rder At * on the 6th of June
tlO 000 tn.l' g ft ve bonds in the sum of
1 000 to a PPear.-AVO. Cbm. Bulletin , 2 9th.
Rllev who J„ arrestf(l a negro named Billy
ments of sevemi iSo*^" 18 ’ fro “ the 6^ e '
was a regular organized * hat tb^ re
unfortunate white man undPr y “ * ttie
testigated.— [SafatmtA JVpfes, 4th. i
{From the Anti- iavery Standard.
Wendell Phillips on Jefferson Davis and
Horace Greeley.
Mr. Jefferson Davis is released; Horace
Greeley gives bail for his re-appearance win n
called for. Mr. Davis has started on his travels
to return, no doubt, Whenever the farce of a
trial may still further disgrace the nation.
Unless we are grossly mistaken, there is a
deep-seaied, unappeasable indignation in the
hearts of the people at this act. The prot< st
inav not be loud-mouthed, but all loyal hearts
swell in secret with bitter hate which abides its
time* - " .
What more coold the Government have done
to encourage another treasonable outbreak ?
What more to bring law itself into disgrace—
to bring, indeed, republican government into
disgrace? For, if this be tril Republics can do
to punish treason, on how insecure a tenure
we hold peace! If such be the easy path of
trailors, why should not any disappointed and
baffled party chief thus achieve world wide no
toriety ? Surely, as they say in England,
“High treason is one of the cheapest amuse
ments one can now indulge iu.”
But there is another side to the medaL*- 4
Maimed ams wounded men will not thus pa
tiently drag out bitter years ; childless fathers
or, harder still, those whose sons survived Lib
by Prison and AndersenyjUe, in a state more
pitiable than mere death, will leave bloody in
structions for those who come after Ahem, vlf
law is thus a sham, the recourse will be to the
Mexican method, aud let rival chiefs sh-oot each
other after a drum-head court-martial. If this
be all the law can do to punish treason, the
next Jefferson Davis who attempts to escape
will be ruthlessly shot before he has time to lift
bis disguise or attain the sale shelter of a pros
tituted court. Mr. Greeley thinks the lesson
the people will learn from this disgraceful ex
hibition will be one of torgiveness. The saw n
ing spaniel is no emblem or teacher of forgive
ness. The survivors in the array of the Poto
mac—the men who remember McCook, Mem
phis, Fort Pillow and the murders of Belle
Isle —will read this act in a'different and redder
light. They will resolve to settle their own
wrongs the next time, and prevent beiug cheat
ed by law. When, during the war, soldiers
found that guerillas and other rebels, their
bands dripping blood, had only to take the
oath and get immediate liberty, they did not
learn the Greeley lesson to forgive murderers ;
they simply brought in noprisoners. No arrests
were reported at headquarters; only rumors
reached it of men shot iu the attempt to bring
them in. We think our baffled boys in blue
will lay up some such lesson from this occur
rence, in case they have another call to arms.
To beat down law does not always mean that
you set up Christianity; it sometimes makes
room for anarchy. Toward that gulf Mr.
Greeley calls the nation to take the first step,
and himself leads the way.
There is such a thing as right or wrbng.
Honest men and knaves are not identical. The
Government, Irom knavishness,and Mr.Greelcy,
from unthinking folly—the dupe of catch
words —are confusing the moral sense of this
nation. ’Tis a bad seed-sowing. Heaven grant
we may not have a fearful harvest. The nation
which pardons criminals because it has not
virtue enough to punish them, is on the high
way to ruin ; but the nation that opens its
prison doors on the pretence that there is
little difference between traitors and honest
men, has accomplished more than half that
journey.
The manner of this sad deed is as significant
as the deeditself. Grant, if you will, that such
is our form of government, such the difficulties
of our position that we cannot punish Davis,
but must release him, still he is a traitor, the
wretch who sought to crush the most beneficent
government in the world, deliberately did what
he could to kill freedom and perpetuate slavery;
still he is the chief cause why thousands are
childless and huudreds of thousands are
orphans. He is the man who turned a happy
land into a field of blood, and made the name
of American hideous with the murders of
Andersonville. This murderer of thousands
stands covered with blood. Who, then, is this
that rushes forward to snatch that bloody hand
aud offer congratulations? What decent'man
dares to stand up clasping hands, in the face of
the world,with the bloodiest, most heartless and
selfish vidian of the century V On what absurd
pretext does the leader of the dominant and
loyal party justify this fraternizing with crime?
II Booth’s trial had been long delayed, and at
last he had been brought face to face with a
jury, would Mr. Greeley have been found
grasping his murderous hand and offering con
gratulations ?
All the reasons brought forward to excuse
this national infamy are hollow shams. Those
who offer them do not, hi their hearts, believe
Davis criminal. This is the saddest feature of
the hour —a natiou whose' moral seuse slavery
has so poisoned that it no longer discriminates
between right and wrong. We have, so far as
mere law goes, abolished slavery ; but genera
tions must pass away before we get rid of its
poison. Half a million murders committed in
its behalf only make the murderer worthy of
an ovation ! \)f Mr. Greeley’s part in this mel
ancholy farce, we want words to express our
opinion. Sorrow masters indignation. He ha
done many things to try the patience of his
friends; but we think nothing has evei proved
so conclusively his entire lack of judgment and
common sense, his utter inability to compre
hend the epoch, the struggle through wlxieh tire
nation has passed, or the state in which it
stands. Generally obtuse in his moral sense,
we confess wo are obliged to believe him more
lacking the power to discriminate between right
and wrong than we had fancied in order to pre
serve faith in his honesty of intention. If his
friends can make out his claim to average intel
ligence in political matters, then is he responsi
ble for an amount of guilt iu this effort —vain,
we trust, to mislead and coufuse the nation —
which all his -well meant efforts in times past
-ean hardly outweigh.
“Wendell Phillips.
GrEeley vs. Phillips.— Greely turns sharp
ly upon Wendell Phillips in reply to the latter’s,
assault. He gives his record from an early date
to the present, and after quoting some of Phil
lips’ article, says; “Such Language from those
who-believe and feel thus, is rendered respecta
ble by its earnestness; from Wendell Phillips,
it is hypocritical ancl infamous. He panders to
m,ob passions.for the gratification of his own-
We leave him to that remorse which .calm and
| reflection must engender.” '
Southern Relief from Utah.— Strange as
it m a .T seem, a movement is on foot in, Utah so
raise .funds for the relief of the South. The last
number of the Great Salt Lake Telegraph re
ceived. contains the following : . ■
We draw attention to a card in to.day r s paper,
stating that subscription lists are now to be
found at the banking house of Nounman, Orr
& Cos., and the stores of Ross & Barratt and
Ellis Brothers, for all who wish to aid those
inhabitants of the South who are said to be in a
state of destitution. There is no doubt a very
great amount of suffering, and any aid that can
be rendered should be regarded as a duty and
I privilege—a duty because many thousands are
I no dQubt impoverished by a.-“ cruel war ’’ that
i the most destitute among them had no hand in
I creating, and a privilege because: they have
shown themselves as a race noble, heroic, and
in every way entitled to the highest respect of
their fellow being3. Now that the war is over,
that much can be said and a thousand times
more, for it is all true aud We sincerely sympa
thize with the unfortunate among them. If the
North would put forth its bands freely to heal
their wouncls a great’ deal of the past would
soon be forgotten.
Fire.— On Friday morniDg last, about six
o’clock, the kkchcn of Messrs. Batey & Hill
was discovered to be on fire. The building
was totally destroyed, and -for some time the
dwelling and storehouse of the proprietors
was in great danger ; bnt -fortunately the wind
aided the efforts of the citizens, and by great
exertions the building wae-saved.
[Cherokee (Dalton) Georgian.
The Hungry Rads.— The Washington
Chronicle, Forney’s paper, which, claims to be
the leading organ of the extreme wing- of the
Radical party, comes out in a long editorial in
favor of confiscation. There is nothing singu
lar ifi this position of the Chronicle-^ it is a rep
resentative paper, and only indicates the dis
honest instincts of its party.
*■ {From the Montgomery Mail, May Hat.
Milking the Southern Cow.
“ I do not question her right to reject my suit,” -
But why did she kick me down stairs <"
The Radicals, who now claim to be the
especial friend of the black man, have not only
refused him political aud social equality in the
North, but they have manifested their friend
ship bv levying on his peculiar industry the
heaviest tax fever laid upon any people on earth.
Fifteen dollars per bale of cotton! Jli.-tory
will be ransacked tn vain for a parallel. The
crop of last year is estimated at two million ot
bales making the tax thirty millions of dollars!
This tax for 1866 and 1867, and it witl probably
be more the present year, would purchase a
comfortable farm for every freedman hi the
South f i Let it not bo said that this tax is not
paid by the freedman. He goes to the field.
His labor grows the cotton and constitutes the
base of our industrial system and must bear all
the superincumbent weight. Labor, every
where, finally, pays.all taxes The Radicals do
not lay any agricultural tax upon themselves,
upon their hay crop, nor their com crop, nor
their wheat crop, nor any crop “ that is theirs.”
What is the object of this enormous discrimi
nating tax on eotton ? Is it to utterly pauper
ize the South by way of punishment ? What
the black man done to ineur Radical resent
ment? Is it laid for revenue ? If so, why
allow, by the same law, the manufacturer to
draw from the treasury three ceuts per yard as
a bounty for every yard exported ? If needed
for revenue, why give it away to a class already
swolieu with wealth ? Mr. Greeley says it is
wanted as “ local revenue 1” That is the secret,
and the locus is the Radical pocket! The other
day at Richmond, Gerritt Smith, who has been
a great Radical light in Lis day and seems to be
a frank tuan, likeued slavery to a cow, which he
said the South had held and the North had
milked. The South had ceased to hold, but the
milking process nevertheless goes ou. Well
might Mr. Kelley contrast our poverty with
the bloated wealth of the North, for the South
has been “ milked,” aye, nigh unto death, by
measures for local revenue such as tarifife, navi
gation laws, fish bouuties, discriminating eotton
taxes, &c., Ac., Ac., and the milking will go ou
while the Radicals rule. They are practical
slaveholders for the appropriate the proceeds of
the froedmau’s labor.
They come in the guise of charity, but what
is the pittance he receives through the Bureau
compared with this cotton tax ? It is, “ art
thou in health, my brother,” like Joab of old,
while a sword smites under the fifth rib. And
now they seek to appropriate his vote. No,
Mr. Radical, you cannot deceive even the con
. tiding freedman. There is so much of wolf in
you that all the wool on earth could not hide
it. You are so selfish and grasping, your pro
pensity to plunder and aggrandise is so great
and so well developed that you cannot keep up
even the show of generosity long enough to
make the deception succeed.
From the Southern Cultivator.
How we Manage.
“We desire to inform those of our readers
who are tearing this * raw head and bloody
bobes,’ that the Yankees are altogether too
shrewd a people to confiscate our lands as long
as we follow our present system of business ;
for they get every thing valuable that we raise
ou our farms, and we buy every thing we wear
from them, and every thing we eat except a little
turnip salad —aud If the Yankees would send
that here for sale our people wouldquit rasing
it-”
[Griffin Star.
That is so—wc see a demonstration of the fact
every day. See that farmer movitg cautiously
towards town with a load of wood, or with an
empty cart. “ Say, mister, have you any Irish
potatoes lor sale ?” “ No.” “ Any sweet ?”
" No.” “ Auy beaus ?” “ No.” “ Any peas ?”
“No I hain’t—too dry last year. I hain’t got
nothiu for sale but wood. J $ *vine to town
for a sack of corn.” “How yonr wheat
look?” “I hain’t got but little—that looks
bully.” “ I suppose you are going ahead gar
dening?” “ I hain’t broke up my Harden yet,
but some of these ere days I am gwineto brake
it up if it don’t get too hard for my' stock, and
fix for planting cabbages and cowcurabers.”
“Not going to plant any other vegetable?”
“No, rav folks won't cat any other yarb but
them. I intend to try to make corn enough to
do another year.” “ Don’t expect to make any
thing for market then ? “ No, I haint got open
ground enough, and if Iliad my nag ain’t able
to plow without corn, iam going to let him
run on grass half the day and work along that
way. “ Ob, yes, I see now." *
Now, Mr. Editor, I absolutely heard something
similar to the above the other day. Grape and
janister, fire, sword ,famine, thunder and blood
have not learned one half of us any ti ing.
« Nothing but rattlesnakes” will ever bring
many of us to repentanee. One half of our “ so
called” larmers never dream of making any
thing whatever for sale—just enough corn to do
them for bread—turn their “ nags” ou broom
sedge—so “on with the dance send on your
“ turnip salad,” Yankee, and we’ll be indepen.
dent of the ground until we mingle with the
dust.
We have the grass fields of Kentucky, but
labor is wanting to make such scenes at home.
We must forever gaze on broomsedge and crack
walnuts. Let every one carefnlly peruse and
practicethe suggestions of W. -T. Svkps in April
number of Cultivator , and see what a happy
change. The miserable Radicals are determined
that we shall not enjoy political freedom, but
we ean be agriculturally independent of all
north of Mason’s and Dixon’s line. Let us do
it at all hazards. Let tbem reconstruct us if
they please, but for God’s sake let us have noth
ing to do with it. Let politic? slide, aud be sure j
to make a living at home.
Yours respectfully,
Rome, Ga. Q: D. Harmon.
The Shaker Sensation at New Lebanon
—Marriage of Brother Harding and Sister
Cline. —A short distance south of thesouthern
boundary line of this county is located the set
tlement of the Lebanon Shakers, in Columbia
county. The settlement was fearfully agitated
yesterday, ou account of the marriage of two
members of the Family—Brother Daniel Hard .
higaud Sister Martha Jane Cline. The parties
had never spoken together beiore marriaere,
but bad carried on correspondence. The Elders
discovered the fetters and expelled Harding:—
Miss Cline then fled, and claimed the protection
of Henry A. Tilden/of Lebanon. Harding
sought her there, and they were subsequently j
married. A correspondent, writing from New
Lebanon, gives the following particulars of the
romantic transaction : On Saturday last, in the
morning, about 6 o’clock, wa6 to be Seen trip
pin"- through the meadows, in rear of Mr. Til
den’s residence,'a beautiful black-eyed Shaker
sister, about 19 years old, who sought Mr.
Tilden’s mansion and asked protection and
care, which was generously given. An inquiry
into the cause of a departure from the Holy
Fraternity so early h» the morning elicited the
fact that she had dared to receive letters from
the of the brethren, who was a prominent busi
ness man of the Family, and that they had been
watched ; that during the night of Friday the
letters had been taken from her pocket. She
discovered the loss while getting breakfast for
the family, and ascertaining that the elders bad
them resolved to leave at onee, rather than
take the hazard of Being sent to another family, ;
or shut up for a few months, and perhaps
forever, from the object of her affections. M itb
a quickness of decisiou that does great credit
to her temperament, she Sought the world tor
friends, and found them. The truant brother
was called to the Elder’s room, and charged
with the offence of-indulging m a sentiment,
that Shakerism does not tolerate, aud desired
to quit. Taking the chances of ever seeing the
cfster again, well knowing that she would be
carefullv excluded from his sight, and without
dreaming shat she had already flown, be left a
forlorn exile. What were liis feelings when he ■[
Sd on inquiring at a house near by, that she
had left before him, “ can be better imagined
than described,” as the novelists say. Suffice 11
to say that before the afternoon sun had gone
down*they, in full Shaker attire, were united
h£The clergyman of the village, and received
me goodwlshes and congratulations of numer
ous “Friends of the Family," who came to
gether and tendered them aid m every way' to
make pleasant their new journey of life, in, to
them anew world. The brother is an intelligent
aud active business man, and will make an
honest living any where. His bride is a lady
of fine culture and amiable disposition, and,
will win friends in pny circle to which she may j
be cailed. . '
What a Gentleman May do With his Hands
v. There is a vast deal of idleness iu the South.
A large number of our people are trying to live
by their wits ; a large number are only nomi
nally engaged in business, lounging and dawd
ling through each week ; a large uumber arc
roaming loose, waiting tor something to turn
up. We doubt if one-half of our population
are engaged in real hard work. The absolute
necessaries of life cost so little in a temperate
climate, where lands is abundant and rich, and
the population sparse, that it is not difficult to
live on half work. The production of the
South, we doubt not, if all the ransclc and brain
in the South were fully taxed and the labor
properly directed, could be just about doubled.
i There are young men pretending to practice
law or physic; young men instructing a half
dozen pupils ; young meu selling a few yards
of ribbon per day; young men who have no
business there, at college; ybuug men “ farm
ing,” all of whom ought to be differently occu
pied. There are young meu clerking it in ho
tels and bank companies where there Is not full
employment for them. There are youug I Hfes
by scores engaged in reading uoacls or enter
taining beaux. There are all sorts of agencies,
ten thousand shifts to live, no matter how, so
that it is uot by manual labor. In aw-oid, the
market of head-werk is glutted in the South,
while the hammer, the plane, the trowel, the
hoe, the axe, are crying for stalwart arms to
grasp them. , , , ,
The idea is that a trade is not just the thing
for a young man who considers himself as good
as anybody. It is thought a better thing to be
a jack-leg lawyer, or to murder people with a
doctor’s diploma, or to weigh butter, than to
build'a house, or make a sewing machine, or
construct a steam engine. The agent of some
body’s vegetable pUls is thought a more eligible
match for your daughter than the man who
prints a newspaper or a book. So it is
aud often a fatal pride which makes thousands
shrink from the mechanic arts; and those very
men who, by a life ot honest industry, have sc
cured a high position in the community, and a
respectable competence for theic families, turn
their backs upon their occupations, and trim
their sous out for something that will not soil
their white hands.
“ Farmiug” in the South is the most prolific
source of idleness, for we have few towns. In
all directions you meet not very handsomely
dressed young gentlemen on horseback, wbo
inform you that they are “ farming.” It is a
vao-ue, floating term that means, perhaps, strict
ly that they live in the country, and may be
overlooking a hand apiece. They have a tradi
lional idea that the farmer must con flue himself
to head-work. They sit on the fence until an
earlv dinner, watching a one horse plow, and
come to court, and read the market reports in
the Saturday’s Chronicle— and artlessly think
that they belong to the great agricultural fra
ternity, and rail at the freedmen for being so
lazy. The first thing yon know one of those
young fellows get married and has to borrow
a clean shirt to go to his wedding.
We shall not prosper in the South until all
these people go to work, nor till labor with the
hands is properly estimated.
[Charlottesville (l a.) Chronicle.
Words to Ladies—How All May Obtain a
Complexion,
The New York Evening Gazette says :
Madame Elise Duprez, of Boston, wishes lo
call the attention of ladies to two ol the finest
articles in the world, one of which, Turkish
rouge (made in Boston,) “ give 6 the most bean
tiful and life-like tint to the complexion of any
article now in the market.” Therefore, aDy
body who possesses “ any article now in the
market,” whatever that be, washtubs, patent
bee-hives, or whatever else, can have “ a most
beautiful and life-like tint” given to the com
plexion ; at least, that is what Madame Elisc
Duprez, whose real name is probably some
thing as prosaically Yankee as Sampson, saj’s
iu her advertisement, But there is more of
assurance to come. “The great value ol tiffs
article lies in the fact that it will not rub off.”
That is, it is water-proof; perspiration will not
loosen it, aud tears —if one is so unfasliionably
emotional as to shed any—will not streak it;
nor will a well restrained betrothal kiss spot it.
As for the pores of the skin, they are quite too
small to be regarded in the case, and the worn
out matter which they are intended to throw
off the system cap be carried inward to the vital
organs, which are vulgar things, but fortunate
ly out of sight.
There is a rouge older than any sold at the
stores. iLhas been very prodigally used, but
there is always a large stock remaining. It is
perfectly water-proof when once applied, and
is said, in a proverb, to lie thicker than water,
and yet It penetrates the most attenuated spaces.
It will not rub off. but the harder it is rubbed,
the more vivid it appears. This wonderful
“rouge,” not of Turkey, particularly, but of
everywhere, 4s called blood. Ik is something
that infuriates animals which see and smell it,
which has apparently transported Mr. Bergli
into unreasoning sorrow that it should ever be
shed, and at which it is the fashion to scream
prettily, or faint judiciously. It exists in the
human body, and, when not prevented by slug
gish habits and tight dress, circulates through
every part of it, penetrating every minutest
portion, performing the double work of a dredge
which removes the deposits of waste, aDd a sup
ply boat, which carries to every tibre of muscle
aDd every tiny vessel a fresh portion of nour
ishment.
It is precisely of such character as the quality
ot the food wnich makes it aud the assistance
or hindrance which it finds iu Us work. It
makes lily-white complextions with an under
flush ol rose, but it does not make chalky ones,
j nos does it consent to any artificial email, it
does not omit to visit the cheeks, but when the
deposits to be removed are targe and the sup
ply ot fresh organic matter to be dispensed is
scanty, this may easily happen, to-wit: that bc
: fore the blood reaches the checks, on its jour
! ney round the body, the little supply boats
| which carry the fresh matter are emptied, and
| the little dredges are tilled. Heuce arc pale
j cheeks and a demand for rouge ; aud forthwith
! appears Madame Elise Duprez, just from the
| Palace of the Rising Suu, where she was head
femme de chambre to Aurora, bringing the very
| thing which was wanted.
But is it wanted ? That is the question.—
Here is just the pith ol the matter : Blood was
made and its movements ordered long before
there were any looking glasses or chignons, or
fashions, and hence it does not pay any atten
tion t© them ; the mountain was the older, and
respectfully declined to go to Mahomet. Blood
docs not like elose dresses, or pastry, or con
fectionery, or hot rooms, or languor on cush
ions, or late hours and meals, or elegant indo
lence, or email, or any sort of disbQnesty ; but
it does like wholesome food in moderate quan
tities, pure cool air—particularly that which i£
found out of doors-and it likes exercise be e
of all things. It delights in robbing, and whes.
cold water strikes it out out of sight it rushes
back in the pluckiest way.
It would be thrilled in ecstasy if people would
only use their legs in brisk walking, particular
ly before six o’clock in the morning; it would
renew its youth for any woman who should
dare to swim, or run, or pull an oar, and would
bound iu the veins of any one who should ride
at a five barred gate. Like Madame Dupre z’s,
its rouge will not mb off. “ This is no hum
bug,” but the more it is rubbed the more it
will stay ou. Better to slap your cheeks, dear
young fragillissima , than to rub anything on
them from (he establishment o>f Madame Dup
rez. You will not be too &anguimry if you
protest that you must have blood.
A Cold in the Head.— A Dr. Palion, of St.
Foy, France, has discovered anew method of
caring the special malady of New England
cold in the head. Herewith is the prescription :
“ It consists in inhaling through the nose the
emanations of ammonia contained in a smelling
bottle. If the sense of smell is completely
obliterated, the bottle shouJd be kept tinder the
pose until the pungency of the volatile alkali
is felt. The bottle is then removed, but only to
be re-applied in a minute; the second applica
tion, however, should not be so long, that the
patient may bear it. This easy operation being
repeated seven or eight times in the course of
five minutes, but always very rapidly, except
the first time, the nostrils become lree, the
sense otsmell is restored, and the secretion cf
the irritating mucous is*stoppcd. This remedy
is said so be peculiarly advantageous to
singers.”