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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1867)
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST * / WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOV. 27, 1*67 W TO OUR SUBORIBERS. Tiie Weekly Constitutionalist will here after be mailed on Tuesday instead of Wednes day morning. We make this change to accom modate many subscribers. It is oui aim and purpose to make the paper a first class news and family journal, and we confidently hope that the influence of our subscribers will be exerted to aid us in doing so by extending its circu ation. — A NICE BUSINESS. The following telegram from Washing ton is full of significance: «« Washington, November 17.—The tele graph is used freely by the Radical leaders here in their efforts to hold the Alabama Convention in check. The leaders in the convention de sire to place the State in Tennessee’s condition, whereas the Radical leaders here insist on near ly universal suffrage, taking the ground that the Northern elections showed hostility to ne gro supremacy but uot to negro suffrage. The leaders are uot hopeful of controlling the con vention. it is stated that numerous dispatches are passing between these leaders and Generals Rope and Bwayne.” Mr Tiiaddkus Stevens- having bowed to the popular will in the matter of finance, it is natural for the Radical “ leaders ” to pay some attention to the same popular will in the matter of negro domination. The very fact of attempting to control the furious madmen of the Alabama Conven tion is proof incontrovertible that the late elections have worked wonders upon arch fanatics who would have encouraged the Montgomery Quixotes, under a different state of the ballot. Instead of urging them on, we are told that the leaders are “ checking them.” The reason, too, is given, and it is un doubetedly the true one, that the “ Northern elections showed /lostility to negro supremacy.” Here is a distinct confession that times and men have changed since Bkown low organized hell in Tennessee; and that which was supposed to have been a splen did policy for Radical perpetuity in 1860 is shown to lie a fatal manoeuvre in 1867. We are not surprised that the aforesaid Radical leaders are baffled in their efforts to control the (Jonventionists. These desperate men know lull well that their lease of power depends upon a disfranchisement of the whites, and, without a sweeping Tennessee proscription, their power for mischief is absolutely gone. They did not wallow in the mire for nothing. They did not suffer the execrations of all good men in the South without the hope of reward. They did not conspire against their State and race for the purpose of ruining themselves by their own act.. Wherefore, we do not wonder at the obstinacy displayed in refusing to be direct ed by Washington wire-pullers and log rollers. “ Nearly universal suffrage/” .Great heavens! Do the Washington leaders wish these fellows to break their own heads? Do they wisli them to cat the dog’s vomit, and yet receive the dog’s kick? Was there ever such preposterous nonsense—such in fernal treachery ? * There would have been no such outside pressure brought to bear, if the Radical leaders had not been firmly convinced that the hour had arrived for at least a demon stration of magnanimity. In order that this magnanimity might have ample scope, the fervid hopes of the mean whites in Convention must be quenched and their aspiring Ethiopian coadjutors brought to a sense of inferiority. The effort to do this lias, so far, proved futile and for the best of reasons, viz : no man and no men like to be sacrificed for other people. The Alabama Conventionists are seriously alarmed at propositions Squinting at their downfall, and lienee, become stumbling blocks in the path of Jacobin distress and strategy. It is the terrible moral of Frankenstein re produced for the instruction of ambitious and unscrupulous men. These Radical leaders have spent one-half their lives in the creation of a monster; and the other half will be worried out in seeking to ex terminate him. Let them tremble, lest the monster prove too much for them; let them tremble, lest the pit they have dug tor others be not their own sepulchre. It will appear from this telegram that the Washington leaders are at one end of the line and Pope and Swayne at the other. These twins of diabolism are the veritable powers behind the throne, the magisterial workers of the puppet-show. We learn from correspondence, that the Alabama Convention had a clear moderate majority until these wily tricksters came upon stage and threw their swords into the balance. From the time of the Pope- Swavne apparition, all things changed from moderation to excesses; and men who had -hesitated at ultra doctrines became at once “ prompt, erect, resolute, working with an extreme majority of thirty one votes.” Whatever, then, has been ac complished in Alabama, of a nature to dis gAmt and terrify even the Washington lead ers, has been brought to pass bv the sover eign mountebanks Pope and Swayne. If these arbiters of fate refuse to modify at the bidding of Radical leaders at Washington, the> ha\e exhibited a formidable state of rebellion and probably conspire to dictate to the very men who put swords into their hands. Congress surrendered to the Sword —the Sword refuses to surrender to the lords of Congress. T e people of Georgia may learn an i m . port ant lesson from this Montgomery Con vention and its management. They should learn that however moderate the forthcom ing Negro Convention may promise to be in this State, it will—unless miraculous changes occur—be manipulated by the same dirty fingers that leave pollution upon the moderation of its Alabama prototype. We rejoice that such will be the case. The more odious Gen. Pope can make his tools, the better for us, at last. 11 the indomitable Pacha should prove victorious in this telegraphic battle, he will not fail to carry his triumphs from the menagerie at Montgomery to the promised menagerie at Atlanta. Some of those “ in corruptible patriots,” who courted obloquy and shame for the sublime motive of guid ing a bogus Convention in the paths of moderation, will find themselves floored by the stalwart arm of John Pope; and when the nice figure-four trap of Relief shall have been captured by Aaron Bradley, the people of the Cherokee district may, for a mere song, see that sooty Lord of the As cendant bearing oft' under his odoriferous arm-pit all that remains of a rabbit named Joseph E. Brown. THE RADICAL GAME- It does not require any vast deal of sa gacity to penetrate the present designsof Radical manipulators in the North and their active partisans in the South. Had these men the locked jaw of Gen. Grant, they might, to some extent, baffle the wit and ingenuity of ordinary observers; but there is, on the contrary, a feverish love of twaddle among their oracles and a charm ing frankness too admirable for mere eulo gy. Ever since the late Henry Winter Davis publicly acknowledged that his party wanted “ numbers and not intelli gence,” the country has been periodically entertained by similar confessions of faith. The latest effusion of this character ema nates from a prominent Radical orator of Pennsylvania, named W. M. Runkel. He has boldly blabbed the secrets that lie coil ed like snakes in the hearts of Forney and fellows of his ilk ; and when these cunning tricksters seek to silence the awful alarm bell of Mr. Runkel, the undaunted Run kel sounds a louder and more defiant peal. He unmasks the plotters and reveals the horrors of the charnel house. Com menting upon a criticism of his speeches in the Philadelphia Press , he says : “lam in favor of General Grant for the Presidency, and il you will take the trouble to glance at my remarks, as reported in the Even ing Telegraph of Saturday, you will find my reasons. I believe bim great and good. But upon that we agree. In your letter you speak of ‘ camp followers.’ If by that you mean the men who believe that the cause of.the coloured man is not yet popular, then permit me to say that, disagreeable as the fact may be, these men (who were not camp followers in any sense) constitute a large majority of the Republican voters in the Middle and Western States. “Again I differ with yon when you say that if the views published by the Enquirer as mine should be adopted by tfie party it will not carry one State. One fact is worth a thousand theories, and the recent elections are, in my estimation, good evidence in proof of my as sertions. In no one State have we gained. On the contrary, we have lost. In tny heart I wish this was not so ; but with the mass of evidence before me I am forced to believe it, nolens volens. “If the Republican party wishes to be the true lriend of the poor and lowly, and I believe it does, it should be in power. To be powerful we must first be successful. This being the ease, how shall we be powerful ? Surely not by adhering to the weights that have borne us down, or have forced issues upon us that are unpopular with the masses. No, our duty lies iu a far different path, and I think that every man who has the perpetuation of the great principles of the party at heart, will agree with me. By this I would not say or insinuate that you were against the party, but you are com mitted iu a different direction. “I do not consider myself well enough versed in the machinery and details of polities to speak intelligently upon the last paragraph of your letter—so far as the votes of the different States are concerned—because I have not taken the pains to study them, but I nevertheless feel sure that where you gaiu the vote of one color ed man, you will just as surely lose the votes of two white men, and these from the ranks ot the Republican party.” The reader will not fail to remark how openly Mr.' Runkel admits that the negro is too great a burden for Radicalism, and such is the verdict of the Middle and West ern States. He does not like to recognize the fact that Radicalism has. been beaten back everywhere; but lie can not help bending to an inexorable fiat. Having compelled himself to swallow this nauseous truth, he casts about for herbs to assist in its digestion. Exploring the whole field of political bot any, he agrees that from the nettle Danger must be plucked the flower Safety. The oracles of Flora tell him that safety can be purchased only by power, and power made tributary only by numbers. The numbers have deserted or are pre paring to desert his party. How must they be reclaimed ? That is the question; that is the rub. This philosophical Runkel inquires into the cause of such wholesale abandonment of Radicalism. He has not far to go, in his metaphysical voyage, before being confront ed with the Negro and the Debt. By pro pitiating the white masses of the East and West on these obnoxious points, he hopes to coax them back to the Radical embrace. Hence the Democrats must be out-Heoded in liberality to the dear people. Hence, Gen. Grant is taken upon trust. Hence, Thaddeus Stevens and Ben. Butler out- Pendleton Pendleton. Hence, Chief Jus tice Chase and his long tail of satellites urge a modification of the programme so as to exclude negroes from office, though favoring universal suffrage. Hence, the Radical leaders at Washington attempt the curbing of the Conventionists. Hence, the mongrel journals at the South hint at mod eration and relief. The Negro, the Debt— every burden will be thrown off’ and every thing to tempt the cupidity of man held torth in the way of promise—every thing for success. By out-bidding the Democrats, they hope to secure the masses; having secured the masses, taey will have power, success, safe ty* imperialism. It is a grand, a magnifi- cent stroke of policy ; but will it succeed ? It can only do so by the blindness and be- i sotted folly of the people North and South. \\ e believe that the Democrats will perform their pledges, if fortunate. We are just as firmly convinced that the Radicals will, in case of victory, put it out of the power of the people to revolt against their tyranny. Breth ren, this is the law of nature in perversion; it is the teaching of all time. There are faithful sentinels at the North to circum vent this tremendous conspiracy against the people. Let the journals and orators of the South admonish their white consti tuencies against this impending knavJry. Let no man be deceived by false pledges; let no man be deluded by artful temptations of Relief which can never be fulfilled. If the white men of the South stand together in this crisis, the day of deliverance will be uot long delayed. Even now, the shouts of the Democracy greet our ears and make our prison bars vibrate. Very soon the sturdy blows of freemen will resound against our dungeon doors. How will we turn those cheers to lamentation, if we echo them not with answering cheers of invincible forti tude, from hearts that scorn the paltry bribes of negro pimps and time-servers! How will we paralyze the hands that smite for our liberty, if we encourage the jailer a id help him barricade the portal against our friends ! You of North Georgia, who help ed secure the Radical Convention for the poor bribe of Relief—abjure the hideous alliance and strike home with your natural allies all over the land. The Radicals of the North hope to keep their seats of in famy through your influence and your votes. Will you consent to this disgrace? They hope to make ’their power perpetual by amalgamating you with negroes. Will you be decoyed by their disguises ? They tempt you with a relief that can never be permanent. Will you not resist the insult of the serpent? You have it ou record in such frank speeches as Mr. Runkel’s that power will be obtained at any sacrifice. You have it on the same record that power, once obtained, will not be easily let slip, and, when secured, the negro processes of Congress will be pushed forward. Think you that men who propose to sacrifice the negro temporarily for the sake of party success, will not sacrifice you as easily, if the case demanded it? The relief you crave can never come from such dishonest agents ; and, if you really wish substantial tranquillity, lock shields with your white brethren in the North and in the South — trust not, handle not the villainy of Con gress. Stand aloof from it utterly. The enemies of our country and our race can not succeed without your co-operation. If they so succeed, the everlasting brand will attach to you of renegades without reward and slaves without sympathy. THE BLODGETT EMBROGLIO. From our Savannah correspondence, rela tive to the case of Foster Blodgett, it will be seen that certain members of the grand jury were dismissed as incompetent by Judge Erskine, the ground of incompe tency being an inability to take the Iron- Clad Oath. It will likewise be seen that seven or eight of the remaining members of the grand jury expressed themselves equally disqualified, but were suffered to officiate. If, as our contemporary, the Chronicle and Sentinel , avers, the animus of the presiding functionary is apparent in this Blodgett case—he being in the same predicament as Blodgett himself- —it would be well for him and his memory had he never been born, or that a mill-stone were tied to his neck and the deep sea rolling over his mor ality. CONSEHVATIVE DELEGATES.— WiII the Conservative delegates go to the conven tion? The Louisville* Journal speaks our mind precisely about these unfortunates and the Radical plot generally. It says: “ About the only effect of the presence o; such delegates in the convention, according to our best judgment, will be to lend an apparent sanction to the outrages which they cannot prevent, and which even their efforts to pre vent will but render tbe more certain and the more intolerable. It appears to us that the better course would be for the people at once to wash their hands of the whole business.” Exactly so. There is the whole truth in a nut shell. We beg our Conservative del egates to resign their ugly honors. We beg the people at large to treat the whole Congressional plan of reconstruction with absolute contempt. Utter Folly. —Some old fogy Georgians expect to keep Pope in terror by legal pro tests and the'like.- The New York Day Book hits this nail on the head thus: “•All that General Pope does, or tries to do, is simply monstrous, devilish, beastly, and to cap the climax, absurd , and a time will come, and soon, too, when any man who stiives to keep him straight and compel him to carry out the law as it reads, will be regarded as fooling away bis time. The thing itself, the military despotism, the disfranchisement, slavery in fact, of eight millions of Americans to secure a white skin or white freedom for four millions of negroes, is such a transcendent horror, that posterity will doubt if there ever was a Gen. Pope, or Andrew Johnson, or Congress at all.” God and Morality. —Minnesota has re jected negro suffrage; and yet, Minnesota has but 259 blacks all told among a white population of 169,000. With sublime con sistency and virtue, Minnesqta sends Sena tors and Representatives to Congress pledged to force negro suffrage upon the South at the point of the bayonet, and negro supremacy at the command of a pair of military pantaloons. Much Ado. —Suppose the cotton tax be repealed ; suppose cotton, thereupon, decline two and a half cents per pound ; will not all the fuss about the tax be much ado about nothing r The best way to repeal the cotton tax is to stop planting the cotton. It’s a v ery poor business, as times go and aa they promise to go. A BAD POLICY. Some of the Conservative papers of Geor gia have already put forth mild protests against the policy of Non-Action. They squint at the possibility .of a model ate constitution on the part of the forthcoming convention. They more than squint at a favorable reception of any constitution em bodying qualified suffrage. They measura bly admit not only the possibility of a good constitution from such a source, but, thus admitting, concede the right of a Rump Congress to order a convention and the right of this convention to change the or ganic law. We do not pretend to any more wisdom or prescience than our contemporaries, but we consider the course enunciated abov e as singularly wrong. Does any sane man be lieve that a convention elected by universal negro franchise will dare to moderate the pretensions of the negro ?• But, even if the convention should run to an extreme of moderation, just as the Montgomery con clave has run to the extreme of proscrip tion—we hold that none of our people should recognize its authority, and, ov voting for its constitution, admit the jus tice of its origin and the virtue of its ac tion. All those who speculate about the probability or possibility of anything ac ceptable emanating from such a concern, may as well dismiss the hallucination. All those who have arrived at the point of ac knowledging the authority of cne concetit aforesaid, virtually surrender the best prin ciple we possess and confess judgment to an usurpation that can never be too vehe mently denied. It is plain enough that we should wash our hands of the whole business. It is a bad sign for the future when Georgians permit themselves to parley with a thing that comes from infamy, is pledged to in famy, and will, in due season, go where all infamous things find their consummation. Scorn it—deny it—abjure it utterly. The day of retribution will come at last. Mea sures forced upon a State by fraud and bayonets will be broken and abolished; measures imposed by consent are difficult to annul. Brethren, let there be no division on this question. The plain system of de fense is the strong one too. A minority that has had no hand in its own degrada tion is a perpetual terror and menace to tyrants: if compact and faithful, it always wins in the long run. BACKED'DOWN. The Radical leaders at Washington have proved victorious against the Negro leaders at Montgomery. But the victory is by no means complete, and the concession little better than a*sop for Cerberus. It will be seen by this day’s telegrams, that the pup pets of Pore and Swayne have yielded to the extent of abrogating that clause of dis franchisement which punished with a loss of suffrage all who contumaciously refused to vote on the question of the New Consti tution—so-called. The other clauses are proscriptive enough, and bills defunct pro vision was only a wholesale method of ac quiring absolute power, which can be more tediously-gotten by a neat system of retail. The moral effect of victory, however, is something. It demonstrates that the pot valiant PorE and his henchman Swayne are not quite equal to the task of bullying Congress; though their time will come as soon as their negro armies and pachalics are organized. The “ free Convention of Alabama ” —the “ loyal Convention of Alabama ” ordered to do thus and so by Radical leaders at Wash ington. Pah! Does anybody wish to make treaties with or interrogate such a menag erie as that? The Last Rose— Only one negro has been elected to the Massachusetts Legisla ture this year. Last year there were two members. So nigger has suffered reaction in the Old Ray State and declined fifty per cent. Thanks. —We tender our sincere thanks to numerous friends throughout the State, who I have written us letters of encouragement and commendation for the course we have pursued. Among others, we, on yesterday, received the following: Wilkes County, Ga., Nov. 17, 1867. Messrs. Stockton <Sr Cos : Dear Sirs: * "* * Your manly defense of your oppressed countrymen in their hour of greatest peril, and your bold exposition of the unheard of iniquities sought to be imposed on them, clearly entitle your paper to the patron age, and yourselves to the heartfelt thanks of every patriot. , , , , At the recent diabolical farce, you had the pleasing consolation of knowing that you weie almost unanimously endorsed by the legal voters of Georgia. May you and your excellent Journal long live to serve your oppressed coun trymen. ~ „ „ Very, truly, " The New Orleans Crescent gives notice of a “ Workingmen’s Convention,” to meet in New Orleans on the loth of next month, and to con- ; tain delegates from Louisiana, Alabama, Mis- j sissippi, Texas, and Arkansas. The Crescent j says : “ The members of this association are J all respectable colored men, raised in the South, and of no mean claims to intelligence and information. It is their earnest desire to withdraw the attention of their brethren from | the mad pursuit of office and politics to the j more reasonable, useful, and profitable occu- i pation of agricultural labor.” On Dit. —The latest and most excruciating rumor is to the effect that the Head Devil ot the Registration Bureau —E. Hulburt —will be the successor of Charles J. Jenkins. This is one ot those astounding reports that, in the present state of affairs, commands credence by its very atrocity. We are inclined to receive it on the alleged principle of some holy man’s belief in a miracle, viz : because it is impossible. We further learn that a puppet and pimp of the powers that be has sworn, in the classical utterance of Ben. Wade, that “he would be damned if the constitution framed by the con vention should not be accepted.” When the saints take to profane imprecation, they are ax*t to finish their prayers in the syna gogue of Satan. Poor Chase.—At a recent meeting of friends, Chief Justice Chase spoke of the Radical party thus: “ The American people will not abandon an organization that has so proud a record in the past, and so much responsibility in the luture, when, by so doing, it confesses judgment to a shame that will cling to us forever.” The Chief Justice forgets that he aban doned iiis former doctrines of States Rights for Abolition flesh pots. Does he expect the American people to be less human than a Chief Justice? Abandon the organiza tion! Os course they will. They would abandon Noah's ark if it proved unsea worthy. The United States Senate. —The term of twenty-one United States Senators will expire on the 4th of March, 1849, of whom fourteen are Republicans and seven Demo crats : but it is scarcely possible, says the Baltimore Sun, for the Democrats to break the two-thirds power of the Republicans in that body during the existence of the For ty-first Congress. They have, however, gained one in Ohio and another in Califor nia, but have lost one in Tennessee, Gover nor Brownlow having been elected over Mr. Patterson. The Ohio and California Senators have not yet been chosen. The Difference. —A few days since, we pointed out the difference between a modern revenue collector and an ancient tax gath erer. The monsters of the French revolu tion are just as distinct from the monsters of the American saturnalia. Robespierre lived on his pay of two dollars a day; Coutiton, Marat & Cos. were equally hon est in money matters. And yet, these men had irresponsible control of French trea sure. Compare such parties with Butler, Sumner, Lincoln, and the myriad lords of shoddy. The Frenchmen shed less blood and stole less money. A Big Drunk. —The New York Express says : “ The frenzy which brought Mr. Buchanan’s administration to a conclusion, was not in any true sense, a Presidential election —nothing but a Big Drunk— the South being as intoxica ted after its fashion, as the North, the East and the West.” Nations that get drunk with blood vomit crime. Repentance and siok-headache are now orders of the day. Look out for an other big drunk, after headache and re pentance have passed away. Refreshing Candcw. —The New York Tribune , after saymg “ most of the ignor ance, depravity and dirt to be found at the North votes the Democratic ticket,” with admirable and exemplary frankness admits that the “Republican party at the South corresponds in social position to the Demo cratic party at the North.” Royal Proofs. — Thad. Stevens says he needs but half a page of Yattel ter prove that the South is out of the Union. He needs only two lines of his own to prove that the Union is inside Thad. Stevens. * , Hurt his Head. —Ben Wade was thrown from his buggy, last week, and had his face mangled. He and Sumner are having ominous falls. Won’t they be a pair of beauties in the Senate Chamber ! [From the Mobile Tribune. Oount Us In. We have not heard yet what species of punishment the great Chicagoan pole pussy cat of tiie Bogus Convention means to In flict upon the people who abuse and ridi cule him and the other denizens o' the Rad ical den; we only know that the great cow ardly scullion is in favor of having sum mary punishment dealt out to all who dare call attention to the moral filth that sur rounds him like a halo. Packed juries are not enough for the loathsome earthworms who have assumed the role of tyrants. They doubtless desire shackles and whipping posts for the white people of the South. Let them beware! There is a point beyond which endurance ceases to lie a virtue. No other people in the world ever displayed, under similar provocation, such patience as has been shown by the Southern people under the hell-planned persecutions and* cowardly bul lying which they have borne at the hands of Radicalism. In tliis dity of Mobile our white women have been dragged through the streets by negro policemen ; our city government has been overthrown and the people's money put into the hands of irresponsible adventu rers ; a jury of negroes, necessarily igno rant and easily controlled by unscrupulous whites, has been empanneled to serve as a tool of the terrorists. We shall see how far the latter will suc ceed in using them. The negro barber Lankford, found guilty of a cowardly out rage, has been discharged with a nominal fine. It remains to be seen whether such leniency is partisan or not in its nature— whether Major Henry St. Paul, the editor of the Mobile Times , indicted for an imaginary offense, is to fare as well as the negro bar ber. convicted of a crime. We beg our neighbor's pardon for the connection in which we place his name as we do for our seeming indifference hereto fore in regard to the attempt of the terror ists to bring upon him trouble and humilia tion. We regard as our own the cause for the espousal of which the editor of the Times is arraigned—not before his peers. We may differ with him and with other gentlemen, of the press on minor points of policy, and give and take honorable blows, but when it comes to an issue with Radicalism the Tri bune will not remain neutral. It will be found by the side of its own people and their legitimate press; standing there and giving blows while here is ground to stand upon and a foe to strike. Nettle from Dean Swift.—lf a man will observe, as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest faces in mourning coaches. The who so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. The power of fortune is conferred only by the miserable ; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. Love ot flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves ; in women from the contrary.* If a man makes me keep my distance the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. Advertising. Publishers of newspapers should unite to fasten the conviction upon the public mind to diseounteuance a certain system of professed advertising that, is hurtful to them, and of no real service to business men. Let us give instances : A dealer is approached by some oily gammon person, who descants upon the advantage of having his business card presented with that of others, upon some sort of sheet, with a frame about it, and an outre picture in the centre. It is represented that great num bers of people look at these sightless sheets attentively aud constantly, and straightway go off and purchase ot the.dealers whose names are on the sheet in question. The latter are often flattered into the belief that their names, thus so conspicuously posted, really attract great attention, and bring marvellous remuner ation in the augmentation of their trade. If such a one will take the trouble of going to some leading hotel to ascertain how many persons look at the advertising sheet in ques tion, he will find that scarce a man in a day does so. Yet twenty or thirty, or fifty, or a hundred dollars are sometimes thrown away yearly in this worthless style of advertising. The same amount paid to established news papers, of the best kind, would infallibly bring thousands of dollars in additional sales. Much more could be saidas to wasting money by advertising on bills of fare at hotels, just as if business men idle away valuable time by long sittings at breakfasts and dinners at hotels. There are many other like forms of spurious advertising upon which, in the aggregate, a vast sum is east to the winds or the waters by the business community yearly. | Washington Intelligencer. There are advertising frames of the kind referred to set up in many ot our post offices, having for their centre piece the list of uncalled for letters, and men pay a round sum for having a card thus framed, under the belief that their business thereby comes conspicuously before the public ; whereas the very limited number of persons who have occasion to refer to that list, and the pecuniary condition and intelli gence of most of those who do consult it, render the investor in such scheme obnoxious to the old adage, “a fool aud his money soon parted.” Take the case of a frame of cards hung up in a hotel, and the reading-room table of the same hotel spread with newspapers, not one guest looks at that frame of cards where ten read the newspaper, advertisements and all. And then again the newspaper advertisement becomes just as many cards as that paper has circula tion. The newspaper goes to the reader, whereas the man himself, if he sees one of these card frames, must go to it. The newspa per is a daily fresh card, whereas these framed cards very soon come to be an old story, dusty and worn, and of no more benefit in catching a live customer than a last year’s nest iu enticing a bird. It is no wonder a business man who “goes into” such a scheme of advertising, meanwhile keeping out of the newspaper columns, be comes disgusted, and declares “ there’s no use advertising.” The only successful advertiser is the newspaper advertiser. His name goes daily before thousands of readers, some of whom may look for dealers in his branch, and thus fall upon his advertisement; others may he attracted by the name of a particular article that either utility or fancy may covet; aud others—and it is surprising how numerous this class is—who as- regularly read new adver tisements daily as they do news matter, aud for a like purpose—for information. The card in the street car goes before the same eyes daily; the card on a wqgon goes only into a few streets, even if the driver is honest; circulars are never honestly distribu ted, but stuffed by quantities in a few boxes at the gate, to go iu a roll into the grate, if not actually sold for paper rags by the agent em ployed iu their distribution. The newspaper goes before fresh readers constantly ; it goes ill over that section of country tributary to its place of publication, and wanders beyond that district, and every paper goes by itself, and is opened and read. The best investment a business man can make is to advertise ; but advertising signifies “to give public notice,” and unless you give such public notice you do not advertise ; you merely throw away your money. Hence cards stuck up in street cars, painted bn a wagon top, dis played on a theatre drop curtain, posted iu a post office lobby, and circulars, are but the very lowest possible species of advertising. The newspaper, which goes into one man’s hand because of its political articles, into another’s because of the news column, into another’s because of its telegraphic informa tion, into anotlier’-Vor the sake of miscella neous reading rnVflp- into another’s from curiosity to see w; ( | ne dead, who married ; • ito another’s to f , ~( , Jg«ay a leisure hour; yet every such pa ■ , JgSrtug before the eye of these diverse tafy/j s Wiame advertisement, is the highest and 1. JP« itable —and, indeed, the only really valua Wfwcies of advertising. It is the only way » _ -JELiisiug wherein the advertiser may not I ®p'ittied ; for the news paper advertisemenpf Repits own circulating, whereas every oty| )C0 p oco of advertisement depends upon ,sos an agent em ployed to circubjHtt . mf |Vi the advertiser cannot watek. —Y A SIiPJOI > bears, W qj}jAN Fi.EE ino from A or WhYSome rneu, says the New V of the Cincinnati states, ntly returned i from the PlaiiiM|p n os a young Englishman traffi , .*Rie West, who was made, the vie ‘ .-practical joke.— Like most of his countrymen, he was full of conceit, and thought because he lived in , London he knew the whole world. Several of his friends, out of jest, proposed to one of the principal _ chiefs for the hand of his daughter, assuming that the proposal came from the Londoner. The Indian accepted at once, and informed his dusky child of the fact. She relished the betrothal, and went to her supposed lo\ r er, saying in bro ken English : “Me your squaw; very glad. Go cross big water. Take squaw ?” John Bull did not understand what it all meant, until the aboriginal parent, who had mas tered a good deal of our language, assured him he could have his daughter in mar riage, and that their nuptials should be celebrated immediately if the lover desired it. The Englishman was shocked and hor rified, as well he might have been, at the idea of carrying home the child of the for est, who, among other pleasant habits, was addicted to standing on her head at the corner of the street. He was afraid, how ever, to decline, and when he asked for counsel the wags swore the savage would consider his refusal an insult to the tribe, and revenge it on the spot. The unfortu nate Englishman was in a desperate strait, and the same night bought a horse, left his baggage behind, rode off into the woods, and was not seen until a month after in St. Louis. He resolved never to return to the Plains, where he fancied he would be in stantly tomahawked. -f Special Teiegramjto the Herald. Porto Rico- THE LATE STORM-WHOLE STREETS IN RUINS—THE LOSS INCALCULABLE. Havana, November 15,1867. — Later advices from Porto Rico are received. The late tem pest wais more severe than the two terrible galesy.vhich visited the ill fated island previous to 1850. All the towns have been terribly des olated. One thousand houses have been laid in ruins and three thousand have been severely damaged. In some instances the houses along entire streets have been demolished and the roadway entirely’ hidden fay the ruins. No news whatever has been received regard ing the effects of the storm in the central por tion of the island, where, on the savannahs, numerous herds are pastured ; but elsewhere the cattle have been killed and the fields swept entirely bare. The loss is incalculable. The merchants of the island have .demanded that flour corn, provisions, &c., shall be entered duty free.
