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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1867)
BY STOCKTON & CO, ou II TKH MS . ' ■-■ following are tli*- rat< sos Sabecriptlon: I)a;i.y, one year., flO 00 ' "kbki.v, one year $3 00 Sons of Nature. Mme are the night arid morning, The pits of air, tie gulf oi spaife, Tie sportive sun, th- gibbous icoon, The innumerable days. I liide in the tolar glory, I am dumb in the ts-allng song, I ie-t . » ttie pitch of tin- toirent, In slumber 1 am strong. No numbers li iv > c met and my t dlies, So tribes my house can fill, 1 sit by the - tuning Fount oi Life, An f pour the de.uge still; An 1 ever by delicate powers, ( tut fieri ~ along the centuries Fr*'m race on me-1 e mrest llowere. My wreath shun nothing miss, And many a thnu«nud Hummers My apple* life ne t well, And light from meliorating Stars With tinner glory fell. I wrote the past ir. characters ' tt r <-k and fire the scroll, The iiu.l iiuu in tit' coral sea, The planting oi the cval. And theft- from «at«- hies and rings And broken stars I drew, And out of spent and au r -d things 1 formed tie: world at.ew; Wis:.! ti re 'Vi g ds In j.t car'rival, I't i Ucb out hi - ar and flower, And in cramp efi an <i ulau forms ile y -v. at:. e l L.-.-ir v o much power. Tim and Tie agio v re mfy suiveyoi-, ’lit \ i,dd their cour~es well, They noil and tire - e:i and baked the layers Ol granite, marl and seed. B it lie, the man-chiU! glorious— W her-- tui-i'-H he the while '< Tii rainbow shines ho* harbinger, Tb" si’ g.eanv hi: smile. SJ.v lure it lights leap upward, Forthright my p.airets roll, \ml fill trie mu child i ■' 1 orn, Tie- -u-a mil of tlie whole. 1 -i time arid tide ion ver run ? Will never my wind- lo bid pin the west? Will never nr ' .-inch whirl the sun And satellites liavt re-*, < I'-" much of do ig and doffing, Too slow the nfiimuw fades, I w. uiy of my i •- ol snow, My i-- ives fvn i my casc id- s ; J tire of g one,- and races, Too 'oi tire game is ;-lr w and : iVtiat ''la -ut him is Seii.nier : s pomp, Or Winter's frozen s.b nle ? I trv dl in pa- Or mi :, My - fe it m s 'v. \ ... and wait; •I:-com -in (Tin « ;snua irons ; He < i me» not the ynte. Twice f In - ■ moulded an.iina And ’hike outstretched my n.-md, M 1 1c one Idi and mo of nig! And one (if the sal. ea sand. n fod%rn raaege”, ;n ore: la. A VO: St real. . •' »:n> ovei aguj:.-t the mouths of the Nile, And one in the Academe. I moulded kings and sav'ours, And bards o’er kings to rule; li it fell the starry Influence short, The cup was never full. Y it whirl the glowing wheels once more, And mix the bowl again ; . See the, K.ito ! the ancient element-hfld'3 I Leaf, coal, wet, dr, , and peace and vLj^B Let war and trade and creeds an ‘ Blend, ripen race on race, • The sunburnt world a man shaf 1 “ Oi all the zones, and countles'.j' X ' ray is no atom M y oldest force is good as A'.d the rose on yonder t! 1 back tlie bending hoary An Unsurpasseij^'t^^^^^L . • ■ - \ ; i i ! V' 1 wlio March, 1 . Trembling before thine awful throne, O Lord! in dust my sins I own, Justice and mercy for my life Contend! Oh! smile an 1 heal the strife. The Saviour smiles 1 upon my soul New tides of hope tumultuous roll— His voice proclaims my pardon found, Seraphic transport wings the sound. Karth lias a joy unknown in heaven— The new-born peace of sin forgiven ! Tear* of such pure an 1 deep delight, Ye angels ! never dimmed y'our sight. Ye saw of old on chaos vise The beauteous pillars of the skies : Ye know where morn exulting springs, And evening folds her drooping wings. Bti lit heralds of the Eternal Will, Abroad bis errand ye fulfill; Or throned in flood* of b -nmy day, Symphonious in hi* presence play. Loud i? the song—the heavenly plain Is shaken with the choral strain— And dying echoes, floating far, Draw music from each chiming star. But I amid your choir shall shine, And all your knowledge shall be mine ; Ye on your harps must le rn to hear A secret chord that mine will 'oear. Daisy Day—A Reminiscence of Travel. BY JOHN O. SAXB. Carpe Diem .’—llor. i It was in an Irish city, « In the pleasant month of May, That I met the clever, pretty, Lively, lovely Daisy Pay. Like myself, a transient ranger From Columbia's troubled shore, Could I deem her quite a stranger, Though we never met before f Love of country—so despotic In our precious native land, Find us doubly patriotic, Straying on a foreign strand ; Hen e, perhaps, her friendly manner, An t my pulse’s quicker play,' When, belli atli St. Patrick’s banner, I accosted Daisy Day. Bless me! how all eyes were centered On her, when the parlor door Opened, and the lady entered Like a queen upon the floor 1 ’Twas as if, that summer even, Some superlative perfume, Watted by the breath of Heaven, Suddenly had filled the room I Happy favorite of Nature, Hebe in her sunny face, Juno in her queenly stature, More than Juno in her grace, Eyes befitting Beauty’s goddt ss, 'Mouth to steal vour heart awaj-, Bust that strained her ample bodilice— Such was charming Daisy Day ! Well—what then t—Ah ! Holy Mother! Pardon one pathetic sigh ; She’s the “ partner ’ of another, And—l own it—so am 11 But a poet owes to Beauty More than common men can pay, And I’ve done my simple duty, Binging thus of Daisy Day 1 [From the New York Express. White Man's Government. This paper has always maintained that the governments of this country, as well National is State, are white men’s governments. Our ifellow-citizens of the Southern States have j grievously erred in rebelling against the estab lished government of the country, and griev : ot,sly have they been punished tor their error. It is quite too much to adet to the punishment by subjecting them to the government and ! political control of the negro race ; we protest 'gainst it, and we say that every white man j who does not unite in this protest is false to j his blood. In vindication of this view we give place to the lollowing letter from an old Whig, addressed to the late ratification meeting. lie has touched the true note —the negro is to he protected by hue in cdl his essential rights , but :hull uot be admitted to the governing class : LETTER FROM IIO\. 11l RAM KBTCII CM. TANARUS.) William Street, Oct. Si), 1867. Douglas Taylor, Esq., Chairman of the Com mittee of Arrangements , *yc. ; Dear Sir : I am honored by an invitation of your committee to address the Democracy c 1 New York at the grand Democratic jnbik and ratification meeting on the Mist ol October in stant. I hope that meeting may orove a julile of the whole people ot the city of New York, and of all the citizens af oilier States who may happen to 1 present in the city at that time. I h- 1 > e . ad with high gratification the pro j needing* of tiu- nominating convention, which ' the cl- eti:.g will b asked to ratify. These pro j feedings were dignified, intelligent, and highly | p ttriotic. I rejoice to know that they have ! been pu'dished in pamphlet- form, and hope ; that they may have wide circulation through ; out be State and the whole country. The ut : t era nee -of that body, and the distinguished ?p -aker.s who addressed it, are worthy of the : St ite ot N v- York. All good citiz ns should unite in putti tg j down a party, now having the ascendancy in j Congress, which dares to act outside and re | gardiess of fundamental law, embodied in the Constitution of the United States. What bond have we, as a people, but- the Constitution ;and what .security for liberty for us and our chil dren can there be when a political party, hap pening to be in a majority in Congress, shall be allowed to dispense with the restraints and 1 obligations of the Constitution ? What right j has such a party to be called a Union party, j when it breaks the very bond of Union ? I Besides, there is a question of deep interest j involved, incidentally, in the expression of popular opinion to be made ut the ensuing i election. Shall the descendants of the African race among us, recently emerged from a state T bondage, be admitted to the governing class? I object not to their freedom, to their educa tion, and to their being protected in their essential rights of life, liberty, and property; '■ if. to admit them to the governing class I do object; for in all past time the negro race have proved themselves unfit- to govern States or communities. The governments of this eoun v. and of all the States of which it is compos- ed, have hitherto been governments of white men; and in my judgment, it is better for the preservation of liberty to all races in this coun try that the governing class should remain as it was in the time of our fathers. These are views which I should take great pleasure in elucidating and enforcing could 1 comply with your polite invitation to be pres ent and address the meeting; but absence from the city will deny me the pleasure of uniting in the great popular demonstration. I am, very respectfully, your fellow-citizen, Hiram Ketchdm. [From the New York Union Church. Fred Douglas- A LEADING RELIGIOUS JOURNAL W’ANTS HIM TO BE PRESIDNT. “ Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of the least of these, ye did it not unto me.” We desire to make the word of God the map of our counsel in all important movements. It is upon this word, then, that we base our rea sons for advocating a simple act of justice to five millions of American citizens, generally re garded as the least of the family ol man, low liest in position, and so humble as to have but recently escaped from bondage to they; master aud ruler. Our reasons for suggesting the name of Frederick Douglas as worthy of the suffrage of this nation are these : 1. He represents by his race a sixth part of the population of this land. By the simplest principles of justice to all the people who must share the burdens aud the blessings ol this Government, we ask candid men, and no ' others will care to read this article through, if j it is not time this endless blarney about equal ; rights to all should be put to some practical ] test ? "3. It is expedient. Nothing would sooner settle this disturbed country than a test like this. It would elevate and make* honorable a race that must otherwise remain as it is, em barrassed by the aristocrats and the selfßb, and all who hate the principles at the foundation of thi» Government. It is expedient because he can be elected more ■ asiig than ang other Ttadical candidate. We can’t trust the white men in this emergency.— Sheridan is very well, but tie was nn old-line Whig, and Andrew Johnson ought to be a warning to all future time to u*. We believe Frederick Douglas could carry every State lately iu rebellion, the entire Western States, including Ohio, and all New England, except Connecticut ; New Jersey, New York, Penn sylvania, Maryland, Kentucky, and the Nut meg State, we believe are all the States which would vote against him. 3. Finally, we believe Frederick Douglas ought to be elected President ol tlie United States, because he is both capable aud honest. The only objection any one can urge is that he is black. Aud we ask if a free aud enlightened nation can claim merit for liberty and refuse him upon such flimsy grounds. Thank You ! — As usual, at a Female Sewing Society in this city, a few days since, the church members there had “ Brick ” Pomeroy up for discussion and dissection, when it was suggest | ed that he could make better use ot his money i than building such an extravagant printing i office, buying Brussels carpets for it, Ac. One of the deacons present voluntered to suggest j to us that we give a liberal donation to their church. Thank you! Now, we suggest that you keep your ministers out of jails, love Jesus more than lambs, let politics alone in the church, keep your sisters from gabbing scan dal, and not try so hard to reach Heaven by the use of other people’s money. [LaCrosse Democrat. Original Name. —Brick Pomeroy says ■ Rhode Island was founded by Dr. Wolf aud other African slave traders, who made immense fortunes from the business. It was originally kuown as Providence Plantations , and was the range of so many thieves, robbers, and such outlaws that it was named Rogues Island, and likely would have been thus named to this day, had not the engraver who made the first map of it for school purposes changed it to Rhode Island for some reason known to himself. The Round Table tells horrible tales of the prevalence of the social evil on the Hudson river steamboats. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING; DECEMBER 4, 1867, [From the London Ti: .*, November 5. The American Elections. ENGLISH APPRECIATION" OF THE GREAT POLITI CAL REVOLUTION EXETER HALL SURREN DERS THE NEGRO AND EX' LAI MS AGAINST REPUBLICAN RUIN. The lesson of the American autumnal elec tions, whatever it may prove to be, will soon be completed by the result of an active contest in the State of New York. The negro suffrage party has hitherto b-'-en defeated everywhere in the North, and all but one or two of the Radi cal journals have called upon their leaders to abandon principles which are evidently odious to the bulk of the people. So critical an event, at the present juncture, is the election in New York that the Republicans have not ventured to put forward any of their violent partisans. If their candidates are again beaten and the representatives of the Democrats elected, the Butler aud Stevens faction will receive a blow from which it can scarcely hope to recover. All parties arc aware of this, and hence the State is being canvassed with an energy which was not exceeded even during the attempt to win the Presidential office for McClellan. This very day the event will be decided, and should the telegraph announce the news of a Dc.rno ''•r.itie victory it is not too much to anticipate tint the whole current of polities in the United States will be changed in its course. The scheme of confiscation which Mr. Thaddeus Stevens is ready once more to urge upon Con gress, aud the other measures of verftjeance which Butler aud Ashley have threatened, must inevitably kill to the ground. That the Radi cals should have gained in Georgia and Virginia is not surprising, seeing 'that they placed a clear negro majority on the registry of one of those States, and in the other have brought the test oath to act upon the white citizens so skilfully as to render failure impossible. But that they should have lost in every recent elec tion where it was possible for a true expression of public opinion to be obtained, and that they should be expelled in disgrace from their former strongholds, is a commentary upon their policy far more conclusive than the adverse criticisms of their political opponents. Their friends, in deed, affirm that these successive defeats mean nothing, and that the legislation oi the last two years will not be reversed. To any one who has watched the progress of events in America the second of these assurances will be superflu ous. If ever the ac-ts passed by Congress in reference to the South are repealed, it will uot be until the South itself regains admission to the Capitol and can send to the halls of the legislature true and faithful exponents of its opinions. But the Republican losses do “mean something,” for they have sensibly reduced the Radical majority in Congress. It is convenient for the Republicans and their friends to under rate the importance of the Ohio election ; but when we find a Radical journal of acknowl edged power aud respectability admitting that the consequence must be the expulsion of Mr. Wade from the Senate, unprejudiced observers must perceive that it may portend nothing less than the dissolution of the party. * * * The defeat iu Ohio is ascribed to two causes—the disgust of the people with the enormous and unparalleled corruption of the Radicals, and with the tariff bills with which the Eastern States are crushing the commerce of the whole country. In this latter grievance a far more serious issue is involved than tlie re sult of a single election. It is fraught with alarming menace for the future. The Republi cans have built their party upon the lallacy of protection, and, as a compensation for the in jury sustained by the country, they offer it the boon of negro suffrage. They are ruining trade and crippling the West in its energies, and then hope to retain their supremacy by forcing upon the Northern people a moditica tioiLof the elective franchise to which they are bitterly hostile. This double extravagance would instantly ruin any party which was judged by its policy of the hour, and which was not regarded by the people through the distorting medium of the glory of victory. The Republicans have been living since the spring of 1565 on the popularity they gained by the prosecution and management of the war. Two years and a half, in these present days, is a long time for a great party to subsist on the recollec tion of oue achievement, especially when it acts upon general questions with a reckless disregard of the best interests of the nation.— Protection is undermining the prosperity of the United States, and the Republican party is not merely for protection as it used to exist iu England, but for excessive tariff bills and pro hibitory duties such as no nation has ever at tempted to live under. Negro suffrage and re construction are comparatively trifling matters. Radicalism is protection, and the West is vital ly injured by protection, and seems to be gath ering itself together for an effort to shake it off. Is it possible to doubt that a party is doomed to dissolution which adheres to a system di rectly disastrous in its operation to more than half the people? “The trade of the country is nearly at a stand-still; the laborer is abroad iu search of employment; taxes and the cost of living are enormously high ; the profits of labor are almostjunpreeedeutediy small.” This is the present state of the country, as described in the columns of an American Radical news paper. A party must be singularly deluded by the pleasures of hope that expected to be per mit* ed to perpetuate the follies which have al ready aroused wide-spread irritation and dis content. A Girl Pursues her Father’s Assassin and is Fatally Wounded by Him. — Cairo, Nov. 18-—An old family quarrel, with a woman in the ease, culminated terribly Monday, at Bland ville, Ky. A. J. Warden, county clerk, con sidering himself deeply wronged by O. D. Campbell, formerly sheriff, threatened to kill Campbell on sight. Campbell heard of the threats ; business compelled him to come to town ; Warden advanced ; Campbell retreated, warning Warden not to follow. After retreat ing teu or twelve paces Campbell shot Warden in the mouth, at sixty yards, with a pistol. The ball lodged in the back of the neck, and was taken out. Warden may recover. After War den fell, his daughter, aged eighteen, took her father’s pistol and rushed at Campbell, who ran, begging her to let him alone. After run ning fifty yards, Campbell turned, shot a piece out of her ear, and continued ruuuing. She then shot aud missed. Campbell again turned and shot her iu the bowels. She is still living, with but little hope of recovery. Campbeli is iu jail.. Mr. and Mrs. Sumner. —A lady who former ly acted as governess to the child of Mrs. Sen ator Sumner by her first husband has received a letter from the latter, directing her to be pre pared. to resume her duties as governess in Washington this winter. Mrs. Sumner’s visit to Europe was for the purpose of attending upon a sister who was lying verv ill iu the South of France. The object of this visit be ing known, and the fact that she was accom panied by Mrs. Hooper, her first husband’s mother, and that her husband and herself will occupy their house in Washington this winter, makes any other denial of the truth of the un pleasant reports published relative to the do mestic relations ofahe parties unnecessary. [ Washington Star. A woman in France, iu good circumstances, knowing that the man she loved was in love with another woman, and too poor to marry, destroyed herself and left her property to the man, that he might make her rival his wife.— She is certainly the most magnanimous woman the world has yet produced, and her name was Elise de Bareille. ; bpeech oi Napoleon to the French Assembly. The French Senate and Corps Legislatif as sembled last Monday. A long speech was made by the Emperor, opening as follows : The necessity of resuming the discussion of important laws has obliged me to call you to gether earlier than usual, and your assistance since you separated. Vague disquietudes Lave arisen to affect the public mind ol Europe ; and restrict the movements of industry and j commercial transactions in all quarters. “ Xoi withstanding the declarations ot my Govern ment, which has never varied from a pacific at : titude, the belief has been spread that a modifi : cation in ihe internal system of Germany must I become a means of conflict. This uncertainty ; could not endure much longer. It is necessary ; to accept frankly the changes which have taken j place off the other side ot the Rhine, and to proclaim that so long as our interests and <jtir dignity shall not be threatened, we will not in terfere in the transformation affected. ' The disquiet that has been displayed is diffi cult of explanation at a period in which France has offered to the world the most imposing spectacle of conciliation and peace. The uni versal exposition, where nearly all th*e sove reigns of Europe have attended, and where the representatives of the laboring classes of all countries have met, has drawn closer the ties of fraternity between nations. It has disappeared, hut its traces will have a deep impression upon our age; tor, after having majestically risen, the exhibition has uot only shone with a mo mentary brilliancy, but it has destroyed a host of prejudices and of errors—the shackles of labor and intelligence, and the barriers be tween the different people, as well as the differ ent classes of international hatreds —these are what the exhibition has cast behind it. But these incontcstiblc pledges of concord do not allow us to dispense with improving the military institutions of France, it is the imperious duty of every government to follow' progress, independent, of circumstances, in all the elements which constitute the strength or a country, and it is for us a necessity to bring to perfection the military organization. Os the Roman complication he says : Revo lutionary agitation, prepared in broad daylight, threatened the Papal States. The convention of September not having been carried out, I have been compelled to send again our troops to Rome to protect the Hoi}’ See from Repub lican invaders. Our conduct could not partake of anything hostile to the independence ol Italy, and that nation, fora moment surprised, has not been long iu understanding the dan gers th se revolutionary manifestations caused to mouarehial principles and European order. Calm is now almost entirely re-established in the States of the Pope, and we may calculate the proximate time when our troops will be re called. For us the convention of September, 1805, exists so long as it is not replaced. The re lations of Italy to the Holy *See interest the whole of Europe. We have proposed to the Powers to settle these relations at a conference and thus perfect new complication. The speech concludes with the following em phatic declaration : For iny own part you may rest assured I will uphold firmly the power conferred on me, for no obstacle nor unjust opposition will shake either my courage or my faith in th<o future. Pope’s Negro-Radical Convention.— \\ c shall never recognize it, in any event conceivable, as a legal legislative body for the people ol Georgia, or respect its action, except so far as we may be compelled to do so by superior force. , if it should act badly we shall oppose its action to the full extent of our power. If it should act well, we shall leave it to en joy’ its own glory’ and give practical force to its edicts, if it can. We regard it as a body founded in force and fraud, and unknown to our laws, and shall ever hold it as such. We believe no other course is right, or safe for us as a people, and as we would act ourselves, so shall we advise the people. Their accept ance or rejection of our counsel is their mat ter, not ours. We never intend to do wrong because it may be popular, and knowing that right we flnllly triumph, we shall never shrink from vindicating it, even should a united world oppose. But our views on this question are not confined to mere principle. Coming down to the stern policy’ of the case, we warn our countrymen of the South against all participation in Radical-Negro reconstruc tion, come to them in what form it may. It is a delusion, a snare, a “ Grecian Horse,” filled with worse than armed men—with devils armed by ourselves—who, when once taken to our bosom, will turn and rend us. If our friend of the Journal and Messenger is satisfied with his position, we are with ours. We have nothing more to say on the subject. — Macon Telegraph. A Black Fiend—Horrible Brutality of a Negro Father—He Stamps to Death a Disobedient Son—Escape of the Murder er.—A most terrible instance of the brutality of the negro race, when fully aroused, occurred in Williamson county a few days since, at a country place bearing the more significant than elegant title of Lousy Level—a settlement made up of a little grocery and several straggling buildings, occupied by an interesting variety of tenants, and not likely 7 to compete success fully with the general run of commercial cen tres and fast towns in other parts of the State. John Crafton, a negro resident of this unpre tending neighborhood, in endeavoring to com pel his son, a little bov about seven years ot to go and water a horse, became so enraged at the persistent refusal of the child to comply with his demands, that he seized it, threw it upon the ground, and with his coarse, heavy shoes stamped upon it until life was nearly ex tinct. Not satisfied with this, the brute seized the boy and forcibly placed him upon the horse aud attempted to make him ride. The mother, at this juncture, ran out and caught the boy in her arms, removed him from the horse, and in a few moments afterward the little fellow ex pired. W r hen the wretch discovered the fatal result of his foolish anger, he fled precipitately, made good his escape, and nothing to indicate his present whereabouts has yet transpired. [ Nashville Union and Dispatch. Concord Factory.— We are gratified to know that there is an extensive woolen manu facturing establishment in course of construc tion at the above named place, fifteen miles from this city. The location is in Cobb coun ty, and i3 situated within two or three miles of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Messrs. Ruff, Daniel, McEntire and others are at the head of the enterprise. They also have in course ot construction a large granite building, which is to be used for an extensive floar mill'. The machinery for putting in motion and pro pelling both of these enterprises will soon ar rive, and it is the intention ol the proprietors to commence operations at an early day. This i« a step in the right direction. We feel confi dent that the patronage which will be extended to this enterprise will induce other capitalists to follow the example, and ere long many of the rapid streams which flow through onr State will be decorated with manufacturing establish ments, imparting new life.— Atlanta Opinion. Josh Billings says a man running for offle# puts him in mind of a dog that’s lost—he smells of everybody he meets, and wags himself all over. [From the Cincinnati Commercial. A Three Hours' Combat with an Elephant- Mr. Hyatt Frost, of Van Amburgh’s mena gerie, gave us the particulars of a terrible fight with Tippoo Sahib, the well known elephant, w hich occurred at Connersville, Indiana. The menagerie has gone iuto winters quarters at that place, aud the colossal animal is chained in a small building, where* he will be kept nntil the show; season .opens next year. Tippoo Sahib, by the way, is now the largest elephant in America. He is thirty-six rears old, and weighs ten thousand pounds. dye battle with 1 ippoo resulted from a change m his keepers. Frank Nash, his keeper for ten years, was supplanted by Chas. Johnson, form erly of Barnum’s -Menagerie. The elephant will not accept anew master without a battle, and Mr. Johnson fully prepared himself for an exciting encounter. The elephant was in par ticularly bad humor with all mankind. He w'ould allow nobody in his quarters, striking at every intruder with his trunk and tusks most viciously. On Tuesday morniug, at teu oclock, the com bat opened. The new keeper, with nine assist ants* had fully equipped himself with chains and cables for tying, and spears and pitchforks lor subduing. Tippoo. The first thing done was to fasten a brickbat to the end of a rope and throw it over the end of the tusk-cliain, which latter is fastened to one leg aud one tusk. By means of this rope a twenty ton cable chain (formerly used to subijue the famous was slip-noosed around the tusk. Next, an ex cavation three feet deep was made under the sill of the house, and while the elephant’s atten tion was attracted to the other side of the room by a pail of water poured into his trough, the cable chain was passed through the excavation and fastened to the heavy stake outside. All this time the infuriated monster struck all around him writh terrific -ferocity, and tugged at his chain with incredible momentum. The next thing accomplished was the snaring of his hind legs. This was consummated by the slinging ol fresh ropes around those two stately pillars of elephant flesh, bone and muscle, and finally, by the stealthy strategy of the keeper and another man, these ropes were fastened to stumps outside. The elephant was now suffi ciently pinioned to allow the order, “ charge pitchforks” to be given. Two men armed with these ugly implementsof offense, plunged them into the rampaging beast, taking care, of course, to avoid penetrating his or joints. The ten derest spot in an elephant is just behind the fore legs, and that locality was prodded unmer cifully, By means of a hooked spear sunk in his back Tippo was brought to his knees, hut he surged up again w'ith such awful strength that he swept his tormentors off their feet and made their chains whistle like fiddle strings. After an hour’s fighting he was brought down on his side, but for two hours after he tugged at his chains with frenzied obstinacy. lie [Hill ed so hard at times that his hind legs were straight out behind him, a*d three off the ground. At the end of three hoars .§*e giant gave in bv “ trumpeting,” whicli k .fts :; .elephaut way of crying “ enough.” The liipnleat this peculiar cry was heru-d the battles Jteased.' The keener made Timygte.get up an’d-Jie down a number of times. nanßSiff-ysfe as obedient to the word of pony. The animaL.was then giVHPMRUrubbe tt offwith whisltyj' He allowed all manner of liberties without so much as flapping an ear. He was a subjugated ele phant. At one stage of the fight the dog “ Jack,” a companion of the elephant, thought some of the trying business foul play. He flew upon Johnson’s back and tried to sink his fangs iuto his neck, but was pulled oft’and dragged out ol the room. “Jack” evidently sympathized with his big friend. [From the N. Y. Herald. Negro Barbarism —Experience of the West Indies. , There is now scarcely a telegram that reaches us from the West Indies that does not tell oi horrible atrocities and servile outbreaks by the black sons of Africa—outbreaks dignified by the name of revolutions. Yesterday we an nounced anew rebellion in Jamaica, and the fact that in one parish alone four hundred negroes were ready for revolt. The island is in panic, the white population seriously menaced, trade and commerce stagnant, and civilization buried still deeper under a load of barbarism. — Hayti presents the same ajid revolting picture of a movement in the direction of barbarism.— On the 12th of October the scene iu the legisla tive chambers was very violent. Even the negro President, Salnave, “ became so auda cious as to incite a rabble of women and boys to attack the House of Assembly. This they did amid loud vivas for Salnave, and cries of ‘ Down with the Assembly!’ hurling, at the same time, bricks, bottles, sticks, &c. The dwellings of many were vigorously stoned. — The American Consul was fired at, but escaped unhurt.” These are the pictures of negro rule, of negro independence, of negro suffrage. These are the pictures of a country governed by the blood of Africa. Iu Jamaica more than a gen eration has passed since the negroes were thrown to the front and forced to make an effort to maintain themselves at the level of the white man. How well they have succeeded let the present troubles demonstrate. They have not only’ been going on from bad to worse, but civilization itself has been dying out even where it existed among the whites. TLebiccks, instead of rising to the level of the white popu lation, have gradually lowered the whites to the basest standard of morality and intelligence, u itil we have the picture of a magnificent West lndia.island sinking to the fearful barba rism of Central Africa. If Jamaica presents this in one light, Hayti and St. Domingo pre sent it in still bolder relief. Here we have the full focus of negro efforts at civilization. Firff a war against the whites, then a war between blacks and mulattoes, then what may be de nominated a kaleidoscopic war, in which color has warred against color in all the endless changes, forming magnificent revolutionary combinations, very beautiful to look at at a distance, but death to participate in. In drawing the picture of Hayti, St. Domingo and Jamaica we are only photographing upon the American mind in advance the picture that Congress is trying to impress upon the United States by false and barbaric legislation. Radical rule as exposed to-day means down with the white man !up with the negro! Down with intelligence !up with ignorance ! Down with civilization! up with barbarism! And they ring all the changes on the skull of the negro which, were it not as tough as a drumhead, would burst under the blows. Never has such miserable legislation fallen to the lot of any nation. Never in the most degraded days of Roman history did they descend to forcing barbarism to the surface that it might swamp intelligence. Never did a nation try to throttle itself by voluntarily placing the black band of Africa at its throat. Never did statesmen be fore descend to the dregs of humanity to bathe their hands in its worst filth that they might besmear with it such a civilization as we have reached in 1867. But they are not statesmen ; they are mad demagogues who, to prolong political power, would willingly plunge the nation into fifty years of civil etrife. They mast be overturned before they effect our na tional raid. The people, the common 6ense of the country, must stand between them and the ruin toward which they drive. It is not yet too late ; but four years more of such legisla tion would ruin any country, though it had ten times the backbone of the United States. A Southern barber wants the “champion ship ” for shaving twelve men in twenty-five minutes. VOL. 26, NO. 46 Ancient Civilization of America. AN ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERT. The hon du Lac Commonwealth of a late date says : Dr. \\ hittier, of this city, yesterday showed us some ancient relics, which, together with i focatiou in whicli they were discovered, * Wll ‘ be ol -reut interest to the scientific and . antiquarian world. Discoveries have recently I l,een .made at Nashville which have led to the i * al some day this country has been | I “ h ® b !‘? d b Y a race further advanced in the arts | ot civilization than the Indian, and this discov ; cry, away out ot the plains of Kansas, will add i another link to the chain of that belief. Tae doctor has been spending some months in Kansas, and among other places visited Butler county, which lies in the Southwestern part of the State. 1 The county has not been very extensively j settled in, at present containing only about one thousand inhabitants. \Y hitewater river runs through this county, and while walking along ks banks, the Doctor discovered near the atewr’s edge what appeared to be bones Im pelled by a natural curiosity, he investigated the subject, and was Rewarded by finding that his surmises were correct. He found quite a number of bones, some of which he thought were human, but as they were all more or less decomposed it was hard to decide whether they had belonged to human beings or to animals.- Ke found one, however, which was four or five leet m length and about fifteen inclu-s in eir cum ereace. This bone hud been broken off and had some day belonged to an animal larger than now known on this continent. Stimulat e l I>\ these discoveries, he pursued his research es further, and commenced to exc irate the bank ol the river, whore the bones were first discovered protruding out, as if the encroach ments of the river had exhumed them from their burial place. lie dug into the hank where he found an apartment about three feet, wide, and five feet dee]), thirteen feet below the surface, the walls or edge ot which were oi a hard clay substance, evidently the work of human hands. In this, apartment he found ■ several urns. Each urn was provided with two handles, had evidently been made of hard clay, and was filled with a substance which looked like ashes. The vessels were somewhat broken, but one of them tv as about two feet high, the balance smaller. The Doctor showed us pieces of two urns, including the handles, which he brought home with him and are now at his office.— They are rudely constructed, yet there is a dis play of ornamental work on the handles which shovvs that whoever made it—whether before or after the flood—had an eye for beauty, rude though it was. The top of oue of the urns is also ornamented. The Doctor is of the opin ion that some day this apartment was used as a burial place by a race of which we have no his torical or traditional knowledge. He is also of the opinion that the urns were filled with the ashes of the dead. If his theory’ is correct— aud there is no reasonable doubt but that it is —this discovery establishes the laet that the prairies of Kansas nave at some time been in habited by a race of people superior to the American Indians. r ike uucivuize.: Indians have no knowledge of pottery of any kind.— Their burial customs are also known to tit far different from that indicated by ibis discovery. Heavy on Tournaments.— The New Or leans Crescent is “heavy ”on the modern tour nament (so-called.) The following is from its article on one held in Selma recently : Selma has done herself honor. The number of persons who made fools of themselves last week at her grand tournament is past belief.— As this has been the “greatest ” of these silly exhibitions, it is to be hoped that it may be the last. Cotton-picking is a more honorable oc cupation than such tomfoolery under Melbri no’s helmet, and in a decorated, flowing shirt. There may be amusement iu it, but it is boys’ play, as dignified as leap-frog, and not half as commendable. It is not mimic war, but ab surd and half-developed gammon. Don Quixote’s mad endeavor to revive the deservedly defunct institution of chivalry was a million times more respectable than the inef fable silliness of the modern tournament. He acted from motives, honorable in themselves though the progeny of a crazed brain. lie saw evils to be overcome, though they were only evils to his distorted and distorting fancy. He attacked them with courage. He bore de feat with dignity. The modem Knight of the Sorrowful Figure makes a goose of himself to amuse bystanders. He means nothing, repre sents nothing and accomplishes nothing. He simplo makes a donkey of himself. A Presbyterian Divine in II ion Dudgeon -Dr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, is a fighting Presbyterian. He is ready to prove his doc trines orthodox at ten paces. “If any man don’t like what I say. he knows where I live.” Such is the reverend gentleman’s style—such are his words used in the Convention of Pres byterian divines assembled at Philadelphia to endeavor to put all the Presbyterian disputes at rest, to reconcile Old School with New School, to provide generally that the branches of a great religious sect shall cease to quarrel in their prayers. Aftek the Battle. — Cantalupo , November 9,1867. —1 t is late in the evening, and even since yesterday afternoon the retreating G u ibaldian3 have been passing through this place in gangs of five and ten. The earlier arrivals were boys; the latest are strong and slightly wounded men. This afternoon ten cavalrymen, all that are left of a troop of forty, rode through on their way to Terni. The fugitives are footsore, cold and miserable ; but they are not hungry, and the most of them have money enough to procure supplies of food and tobacco, and even to hire conveyances from the country people. They arc all unarmed except those who prevailed upon the regulars at Corese to allow them to retain their private pistols. The cavalrymen wore their swords and one bad a repeating rifle which he had captured from the Papal Zouaves. I never before saw men so badly beaten. They do not care to talk about the fight and have not the least inclination to renew it. Undoubtedly they have been fully, fairly and thoroughly flogged, and their only desire now is to get home. They have nothing to say against the Government, nothing against the Pope, noth ing against Garibaldi, except a little grumble that he did not make a speech to them before he left Corese. The very men who passed through here four days ago crying “ On to Rome !” and who fought bravely at Meutana, have been whipped to meekness and indiffer ence. When the Fenians returned from the Canada frontier they were full of threats of what they would do when they went back. These Garibaldians are too much used up for that. They will never go back. A young man by the name of Thomas Man ning died suddenly on the levee in New Or leans a few day ago. He went there to get em ployment as a clerk, but failing to do so, sought work as a common laborer on the wharf, and died the first day. He is kindly spoken of by the New Orleans papers, and is said to be re lated to the Mannings of Georgia and South Carolina —Montgomery Advertiser. Leonidas Moses, a mail carrier in Arkansas, was assassinated recently, by some unkown person, while riding along a lonely road. His body was not found until eight days after the murder, and all this time his male stood guard over the corpse. The faithful animal had to go a mile and a half lor water, but invariably re turned and resumed its singular vigil.
