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A Farewell.
FOR MISS S. G********.
When in the rose-wreathed festal hall,
Where youth and beauty meet,
Enraptured suitors lowly bend
In homage at thy feet:
When pleasure’s goblet, crowned with flowers,
Unto thy lips is pressed;
And song and music chase the hours
With repartee and jest;
Will thy heart turn with memories kind
To the fond friends thou hast left behind t
When bright new faces ’round thee crowd,
Each vieing for thy smile,
And breathe into thy listening ear
Boft, flattering words the while,
When friends perchance, loved long ago,
And met with joyous hearts ;
Will memory speak of her, who sighs
To breathe the words: “We part,”
Wilt think ’mid friends the old—the new
I’ve left behind me hearts as true.
I sit within my lonely room,
The sky is overcast
With clouds—an emblem of my heart ;
Because this is the last
Os those bright days when thy soft eyes
Bhall beam on me with love.
Oh! why should one, so much beloved,
To other scenes now rove 1
Why should’st thou leave those friends sincere
Who fain would ever hold thee here ?
Ah ! well, since thou must go, I trust,
When thou art far away,
Thy heart will turn with fond regard
To those thou lovest to-day;
And when thy gentleness and worth
Still win thee many a vow
Os ardent love, and friends sincere
Shall low in homage bow,
Remember none could love the more
Than those with whom thy stay is o’er.
AraiL 14, 1868. _ H A. L.
My Lady Love.
BY BLIZA COOK.
See! my longing eyes b hold her,
She has come and I am blest;
Nearer ! .nearer— till I hold her
To my warm and doting breast.
Never yet was maiden truer
At the olden, trysting shrine;
Never maiden met a wooer
With a love surpassing mine.
What a winsome, dainty creature
Is my charming, darling one;
See ! she dresses her fair tresses
With the gold braids of the sun.
See how gaily she is wreathing
x Green with white
Buch a sweet and fresh perfume.
Harkshe speaks—soft sounds are coming,
Rich and varied music floats;
Now below, in brooklets humming;
Then above, in wood-lark’s notes.
Look upon her dimpled fingers,
Gemmed with apple-b ossom ring;
Wonder nut my fond kiss lingers
On the hawthorn pearls that cling,
Round her neck with dewy lustre,
Adding fairness to the fair ;
While the young bees swarm and cluster,
Feasting on the nectar there.
Hand in hand we blithely ramble;
She may lead me where she will;
Tripping now o’er heath and bramble,
Resting then on bosky hill.
Beautiful she seems wh»n sitting
With her face one happy blush,
Till her gauzy cloud-veil, flitting.
Softly shadows down the flush.
Wistfully I watch her treading
Where, beneath each slip she takes,
Deeper tints of green arc spreading,
Arfd a brighter earth-st ir wakes.
Now she breathes through mossy valleys,
Shaking every lily-b. 11;
Now she treads the tangled alleys ;
Now she tracks the cow-slip dell.
See! her light filled eyes are beaming
Where the woodland runnel plays;
And the ripples now are gleaming
In a flash of diamond rays.
On she wanders —all who meet her
Pouring welcomes in her ear;
Every bud becoming sweeter
As it feels her presence near.
Cherished one! I bend before thee
With a homage saints might own ;
Blest and blessing 1 I adore thee,
Messenger from God’s high throne.
I am yet thy constant wooer,
Doting with a fervent zeal;
Never wi t thou have a truer
Worshipper to serve and kneel.
Never will my soul’s affiance
To a brighter idol cling;
Never own more pure alliance;
For my “Lady Love” is "Spring.'"
[From Ballou’s Magazine, for April.
April-
Oh I gladdening is the vernal time,
When buds expand and gay birds sing,
Bounding the soft precluding chime
Os airs that April’s minstrels fling,
And nature speaks in words sublime
From the melodious lips of spring.
Now, ’neath the sun’s inspiring rays,
The grasses spread in emerald sheen;
The streams, unlocked, resume their ways
Through valleys of enchanting green,
And all the rtfild, auspicious days
Pour benedictions on the scene.
The cowslips spangle all the meade,
In affluence of green and gold;
The sweet anemones, snow freed,
Swing joyous censers manifold,
And violets the summons heed
That calls them from their secret hold.
The farmer with his heart aglow,
Turns the rich sward with hope and trust;
He secs, in faith, the herbage grow
In beauty from the teeming dust;
He heeds the promise of the bow
Bet in the cloud by one all just.
though man sow the grain,
1 he increase is alone with Him
Who sends the sunshine and the rain,
To work in earth’s recesses dim ;
Crowning with bounteous wealth the pain.
And glorifying leaf and limb. V
The blood asserts a kindling sway
And quicker pours through swollen veins,
Its torpid du Iness giv.ng way ’
As ice bes re the vernal rain’s •
The genial attributes have play,’
And healthful happiness obtains.
W« welcome with a gladsome heart
The dawn of April’s natal day ; ’
For though, with a coquettish art,
She trifles with our hope alway,
We see with her the germs upstart
That culminate in flowers of 1 May.
And as we feel the genial air
Our brow with grateful touch invest,
The spring-time effluence we share ’
And breathe one hope above the rest,
That time and worldliness may spare
The hope of summer in the breast
To the People of Georgia.
The solemn issues upon which you are
soon to pass, and the grave consequences
which must result from your decision —af-
fecting your character anti interests as a
people—induce me once more to address
you.
During the past ten days I have traveled
through quite a number of the counties of
middle Georgia, and have personally seen,
conversed with and addressed multitudes
of the people. I have also received the
most reliable information from many coun
ties which I could not visit. The evidence
everywhere presented, that the white people
are awakening to the dangers that threaten
them, and consolidating to avert those dan
gers, are of the most conclusive and grati
fying character. In some counties the
number of white men who are supporting
the negro constitution are reduced to
three, and these, ashamed of their isolation,
are skulking from decent society and herd
ing with the deluded negroes, begging for
some petty office at their hands. In several
counties it is believed not a single white
vote will be polled for the constitution, and
in many counties not one for Bullock.
1 am now fully satisfied that the rumor
which prevailed at one time, that the white
people were willing to adopt a constitution
otherwise odious, because it contained a
promise of “ Relief,” was always false, and
was originated as a miserable Radical elec
tioneering scheme, under the hope that it
would alarm the timid and weaken the re
sistance to the constitution, and that, by
reason of the short canvass allowed, the
scheme w’ould have its effect before its false
hood could be exposed. Even if the relief
proposed had been constitutional, the people
Have not been willing to accept it as a con
sideration for negro equality, for negro
suffrage, negro juries, negro legislators and
judges, for double taxes, and for the social,
educational and marital intermixture of the
white and black races. It is a slander upon
the white people of Georgia to say they ever
have been, or ever can be willing, for any
consideration, real or pretended, to join de
luded negroes and corrupt, enegades in dis
franchising educated white men, and then
to take advantage of that disfranchisement
and establish a fundamental law which
would enable pauperism to fix the burdens
for property, and ignorance and vice to
make and administer the law’s for intelli
gence and virtue. None but one who is in
principle a thief, and in purpose a traitor,
could possibly approve, or even entertain
such a proposition, after understanding it.
But the white people have discovered
that the promise of relief is a cheat—was
intended to be a cheat—and solely design--
ed to entrap them into the acceptance of
negro equality with all its political and
social oils. As a natural consequence,
they are spurning the bribe and despising
its authors. The wicked men who engaged
in this attempt to deceive in de-
s AUi «.« aifeady oppressed people, w’ill
soon find themselves driven from ali decent
society in the State. I find this determina
tion rapidly becoming universal. A vir
tuous people will not only reject a bribe
and scorn a cheat, but the vindication of
their virtue will render it necessary for
them to hold in contempt and social dis
grace, those who offer the bribe or engage
in the cheat.
People of Georgia, you can now compre
hend, at one glance, the entire scheme by
which a constitution which you hate, is
sought to be forced upon you, and that, too,
through the pretended forms of your own
consent. It consists of three chief distinct
propositions:
, I. By enfranchising the whole negro pop
ulation without discrimination or excep
tion, and only because they are ignorant
and may be deluded and forced to vote all
i one way.
1. By disfranchising over twenty thous
and of the most intelligent white men in the
State. By refusing to permit white men a
vote on the constitution under which they
are to live, and for no reason except that
they are distinguished for intelligence, and
have been deemed worthy of trust and con
fidence, and cannot, therefore, be deceived
or bribed.
2. By false promises of relief, intended to
buy up and entrap to the aid of the negro
a sufficient number of the remaining white
population to make sure the accomplish
ment of the wicked purpose.
They may delude and force the negro to
their liking. By the aid of the bayonet
they will certainly exclude from the polls
the twenty thousand intelligent white men.
But even then they cannot succeed. . The
remaining whites, whom all their w.ckeel
cunning could not find a pretext to exclude,
outnumber the negroes. Therefore, some
of them must be bought up and entrapped.
How many white men can be bought and
entrapped ? That is the whole question.—
Answer it, white men of Georgia! How
many of you can be bought up to aid the
I negroes and apostates in the work of de
grading yourselves—degrading your wives,
your sons, your daughters and your race ?
The poll lists will answer, and your names
shall be preserved ; and if ever virtue shall
be loved again, or truth become strong
again, your children and your children’s
children will disown you, or remain where
your tainted blood has placed them— the
social equal of none but the negro !
The attempt to use the black race in or
der to force upon the white race a hated
constitution, is a crime blacker than any
recorded in the annals of barbarism, and
every white man who rebels against his
blood to aid in the work, should be driven
from the white race, as Lucifer was driven
from Heaven, into a social Hell from which
there shall be no return.
Not satisfied to rest the success of their
proposed constitution upon the three odious
measures above mentioned, the Radical
leaders in Georgia are resorting to numer
ous other fraudulent devices to effect‘their
purpose. To some of these I desire to call
your attention.
1 In the first place, there are many of
the better class of negroes who see that
their true interests lie in acting with the
better class and the great body of the
white race, and in their natural spheres.—
These desire to vote the Democratic ticket
and against the constitution. Bad negroes,
prompted by worse white men, are endeav
oring to alarm them with many threats of
violence. It is our duty to see that these
negroes are protected, and in all the rela
tions of life favored and preferred, and that
those who dare harm them shall not be for
gotten.
2. In the second place there are thousands
of negroes who confess they do wot under
stand the duties of suffrage, and are not
willing to be used to aid in a work which is
to array them against the white race; and
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1868.
therefore these wish to remain at home and
not vote at all. To prevent this, dirty
Radical white men are visiting every por
tion of the State, and are organizing forces
of black and white strikers to “ scour the
country,” and to frighten, deceive and force
in the unwilling negroes. It is as great a
crime to force a vote as to prevent one. It
has not suited Radical purposes or their
military aids to say so.
Now, I beg our friends to see to it, that
the name of every one of these deceivers,
strikers and whippers-in, shall be taken
down and carefully preserved, and also the
different falsehoods and other means em
ployed to alarm, deceive, and compel un
willing negroes to the polls. Allow none
such to come upon your premises, either
now or hereafter, and let them know they are
marked! If the blacks are not forced to
the polls against their will, the constitution
will be defeated fifty thousand votes, and
the whole blame of a contrary result must
rest upon those who force them. There
fore, I repeat, it is all important to mark
this class.
3. In the third place, if all other frauds
fail them, in the last resort, another false
count is relied on. Also, false voters are to
be brought from adjacent States, and many
negroes are to be voted at different pre
cincts. It is even believed that tickets will
be changed and substituted, and that the
obnoxious word, “ Against," will be erased
and the word “For,” will be written in its
stead. The rewards which are to fall to
some of the managers of this election are
so great, in the event of ratification and of
Bullock's election, and said managers, in
many instances, are so notoriously shrewd
and corrupt that no device will be too low
if it can be made successful.
Now, let all our friends be on the alert—
We can expose this fraud if again com
mitted, and we shall have some issues
which will compel full examination even of
the specific ballots and of the voters who
cast them. Be sure and know every white
man in each county who votes for the con
stitution, or for the New England candidate
for Governor. This will be an easy task,
for they will number but few.
People of Cherokees Next to the negroes,
the chief reliance of the Radicals is upon
you. Among your hills they expect to
make their chief to their villainy. They
' have devised special falsehoods to deceive
you. Li lo ver Georgia the Radical speak
ers are giving the true version of the con
stitution, and are telling the negroes who
abound there that it gives them the right to
hold office and enjoy perfect social equality.
But it was necessary to give a different and
false version to you. A ready deceiver was
found. The Belzebub of the fallen was
deemed eminently fitted for the work, and
chiefly so because he had deceived you so
often before. He was sent to tell the white
people of Cherokee that, under this consti
tution, negroes could not hold office nor be
euciiieil xo social equality I Anct wnilethis
falsehood is still echoing in your moun
tains, his Radical co-laborers, in middle
and lower Georgia, are actu illy nominating
negroes for office, until the number in the
field already exceeds fifty. Special bids
have been made to buy you. In addition
to the false promise of relief made to all,
you are promised a removal of the Capitol.
But I -warn you, that if removed, you will
have to pay the enormous taxes to build it,
for under negro rule lower Georgia will be
come a vast lazar house.
Yon are promised certain railroads from
Radical beneficence. But I warn you, that
you will not only not get the railroads
promised, but under the administration of
your State by a New England Governor
with negro votes, you will be in great dan
ger of losing the control of the great road
which middle and loxver Georgia built for
your development. It will be a splendid
work to buy with a surplus failing curren
cy, and Puritan greed and cupidity have
already markedit for New England invest
ment. The men who are willing to betray
your .State government into the hands of
New England rulers will not hesitate to
sell your great road to New England stock
holders—themselves taking a liberal share.
The people of middle and lower Georgia
anxiously wait to see if you can possiblv
be induced to vote them under the domin
ion of the negro. They do not believe it,
and will not until compelled.
If force and fraud shall finally ratify the
hated constitution, then, people of Chero
kee, we at least ask you to give us one of
your own sons to administer it. We ask for
the gallant Gordon. He was born in your
own valleys. He was reared under your
own oaks. His ancestors went out and
came in among yon. He won a glorious
name in your defense. Nobler blood than
his flows not in the veins of Georgia’s chil
dren. Will a single white man in Chero
kee vote for a New England express man
in preference to the noblest and purest of
her own sons ?
And now Georgians, all, one more word,
and I am done.
If you ratify this constitution it cannot
stand. It may live or seem to live for a
time, but it will breed nothing but discord,
corruption, degradation and burdens, until
it shall be cast aside as an ignominious
thing.
I know not what else is in the future. I
know not whether free government, or em
pire, or anarchy, or despotism, is before us.
But one thing I do know: a government
made and administered by negroes, outlaws
and apostates, will never be respected nor
long obeyed by a decent, educated, brave
white race. Let us, therefore, reject it. —
Then let us wait patiently and peaceably.
Our deliverance is coming if we be brave
and true. The liberty which Washington
won at Yorktown one October will be re
established and proclaimed from the Lakes
to the Gulf an 1 from sea to sea by Demo
cratic freemen in November. If this be not
so, then we need not trouble ourselves lon
ger on the subjects of suffrage and freedom.
They will be questions forever of the past.
B. H. Hill.
Macon, April Bth.
In a certain family, not lomr since, a pair of
twins made their appearance, and as a matter of
course, were shown to their little sister of four
years. Now, it so happened that whenever a
rather prolific cat of the household had kittens,
one of them, of course the prettiest, was saved
and the rest drowned. When the twins were
shown the child by their happy father, little
M looked at them long and earnestly, and
at length, putting her little finger-tip on the
cheek of one of them, looked up and said,
with all the seriousness possible: “ Papa; I
think we'll save this one."
A Calvinistic old lady, on being asked about
the Universalists, observed, “ Yes, they expect
that everybody will be saved ; but we look for
i better things.”
The Approach of the Reign of Terror.
The New York Herald is nothing if not
sensational, and the editorial from its issue
of Tuesday, which we publish below, was
doubtless prepared with no other object
thau to create a sensation. The pretense of
an interest in the personal safety of Mr.
Davis is simply preposterous. Neverthe
it must be admitted that the arguments
used are too serious to be sneered at. If
Ben Wade becomes President through the
success of impeachment, there is nothing
improbable in the supposition that the exe
cution of Mr. Davis will become as much a
party necessity as the removal of Mr. John
son. Political executions commenced,
where will they end ? Fortunately Wade
is not President yet, and may never be.
THE DANGER OF JEFF. DAVIS—AN IMMEDIATE
FLIGHT HIS ONLY SAFETY. I
Jeff Davis is bound to make his appear
ance again for trial, at Richmond, on the
2d of May next. Greeley, Gerrit Smith,
John Minor Botts and others, stand as
sureties for his appearance in the sum of
one hundred thousand dollars. He will
doubtless be on hand to show that their
confidence in him has not been misplaced ;
but w’e can tell him that so far as their bail
bonds are concerned, he need not be appre
hensive of any loss from his failure to put
in his appearance. Let him be off to parts
unknown, and this aforesaid bail will be
made all right in the release of Greely,
Smith and company from payment. But
why be off? Let the accused give us his
attention for a moment, and we will tell
him why.
By the 2d of May Andrew Johnson will
be out of the White House, and “ Old Ben
Wade” will be In. From that hour Radi
calism will be rampa it in the Executive
Department. The removal of Johnson, at
the same time, for the “high crimesand
misdemeanors” of attempting to remove
Stanton from the War Department, and to
put Thomas in his place, and of a few Pres
idential stump speeches of the Tennessee
pattern, will cause these inquiries among
the people : “ While Andrew Johnson is be
headed for these petty offenses, how is it
that Jeff. Davis, the very head and front of
the late rebellion, from beginning to end,
goes unwhipped of justice ? Is it because
Greeley stands at his back? Is this jus
tice—this sacrifice to Radicalism of the
only Southern man in Congress who stood
out manfully against the rebellion and this
mockery of a prosecution against Jeff. Da
vis, the head chief of the rebel Confederacy,
for whose capture Johnson proclaimed a re
ward of one hundred thousand dollars ?’—
To guard against such damaging commen
taries, to keep UI) a show of consistency
and oT equal justice, the removal of John
son will require the hanging of Davis.—
And “Old Ben Wade,” as President, is the
man who will see it done. Davis has been
a sort of white elephant to Johnson and to
Chief Justice Chase. They have had no
desire to keep him, they have been puzzled
how and where to try him, and they have
been afraid to let him go. But President
Wade will not stand upon technicalities or
trifles. His first great card, in order to
strike terror among the unreconstructed
rebels in the South and to revive the Old
John Brown war spirit in the North, will
be the hanging of Jeff. Davis.
The new indictment against him, with
its numerous speculations of the overt acts
of levying war against the United States,
looks like business. It is an indictment
framed to convict and not to release the
prisoner. The removal of Johnson, too,
will revive among the Radicals a thirst for
blood, as the execution of Charles 1., of En
gland, inflamed the Roundheads to bloody
settlements with other parties; and as the
beheading of poor Louis XVI. give a new
impulse to the Jacobin reign of terror and
blood in France. The accidents of Anglo-
American civilization and its refining''in
fluences have, so far, in the penalties
against the treason and traitors of this late
Southern rebellion, made the Government
of the United States a model of clemency
and humanity. Nevertheless, the same
spirit exists here that marked the bloody
vengeance of the Mexican Liberals against
Maximilian and his devoted followers.—
There is a powerful faction at Washington
and throughout the country which will
not be satisfied with anything less than t-he
hangman’s rope for Jefferson Davis. This
faction, within a few weeks, will come into
complete possession of the Government
with Johnson’s removal, and then the un
fortunate Davis, in coming to trial, will do
well to prepare for the scaffold, for he will
surely be hanged. It will be held necessa
ry, as a warning to traitors, to hang Da
vis, and there is one man at Washington
who. will remember that proclamation of
Davis of outlawry on the head of General
B. F. Butler, and that man is Butler him
self, the acting head manager of Johnson’s
impeachment.
We would therefore advise Davis to be
off, and off at once, to Canada, Cuba, Mex
ico, Brazil, or anywhere outside the juris
diction of the United States, and to stay
outside, at least till after our coming Pres
idential election. Never mind about tiiat
straw bail. It will be no loss to anybody.
Greeley does not like hanging, anyhow;
but if Davis should be handed, habeas cor
pus, over to the tender mercies of President
Wade, Greeley’s intercession for his friend
Jeff, will be all moonshine. Hence we
say to Davis, as the best advice we can
give him—skedaddle, depart, be off to a
healthier political atmosphere, save your
self, and “ stand not upon the order of your
going, but go at once.”
A Fact to be Noted.—Bills of exchange
on England made payable to the order oPa
woman are almost invariably returned if they
are indorsed with the prefix “ Mrs.” by the
person in whose favor they are drawn, it being
the law in England that, provided the prefix
"Mrs.” is used, it is not forgery lor any one to
attach the name of a woman to* a note or bill
of exchange. Bill of exchange should not,
therefore, be drawn in the name of the hus
band of a married with the prefix “ Mrs.,” and
to leave off the “ Mrs.” would be to misdirect
the avails of the bill. The only way, therefore,
is to use the husband’s sjrname with the lady’s
maiden Christian name prefixed, without any
title. — Boston Advertiser.
“ My son, would you suppose that the Lord’s
Prayer could be engraved in a space no larger
than the area of a nickle cent ?”
“ Well, yes, father; if a cent is as big in
everybody’s eye as it is in yours, I think there
would be no difficulty in putting it on about
f ur times.”
Murder of Thomae D’Arcy McGee.
HE IS SHOT BY AN UNKNOWN ASSASSIN—
SKETCH OF MR. MCGEE’S LIFE.
The Hon. Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Minister
of Agriculture in the Canadian Administra
tion, was assassinated in Ottawa yesterday
morning. The foul deed was perpetrated
by an unknown assassin, who discharged a
pistol at the Minister as he was entering
his boarding-house after the completion of
his Parliamentary duties. The fatal ball
passed through his head, and must have
caused instant death, since when his land
lady’s son, who holds the office of page to
the Parliament, reached the tragic scene a
few minutes later, the vital spark had fled.
Thomas D’Arcy McGee had led a varied and
eventful life. He was a native of Ireland,
having been born in Carlingford, April 13,
1825. His father, Mr. James McGee, was
subsequently appointed to an office in the
Custom-House at Waxford, and there Mc-
Gee, jr., was educated. In 1842 he emigrat
ed to America, and obtained a position on
the Boston press; but the moment the
Young Ireland movement commenced in
the Green Isle he returned thither, and
joined the staff of The Nation newspaper,
and that band of patriots who sought to
rouse the Irish people to battle for their
rights. After the suppression of the
Young Ireland emeute, Thomas D'Arcy
McGee, more fortunate than some of his
compatriots, contrived to elude the vigi
lance of the British detectives, and once
more embarked for our Western Hemis
phere. Having arrived in New York, he
established a journal, which he christened
The American Celt, and in that journal’s
columns he vindicated the claim of Ireland
to nationality. When Mr. McGee first
came to this country he was an ardent ad
mirer and advocate of republican institu
tions ; but during the “ Know-Nothing”
excitement his political views underwent a
material change, and from the period of his
removal to Canada, he avowed himself a
steady royalist, and by letters and addresses
did his utmust to turn the tide of Irish im
migration from the United States to the
New Dominion. The exile’s reputation for
ability fold eloquence insured him a dis
tinguished reception from the Canadians,
who raised him to the highest dignities
which it was in their power to bestow. In
1857 the citizens of Montreal chose him as
their representative. In 1864 he was made
President of the Executive Council. He
figured as chief Canadian Commissioner at
the first Paris and Dublin Exhibitions,
and took a prominent part as delegate in
all the conferences held to promotethe con
federation of the British North American
Provinces.
Mr. McGee had not completed his 43d
year, and was in the maturity of bodily
and mental vigor when the pistol of the as
sassin shot him down. He was a Htan of
refined culture, and of marked ability as an
orator and writer, while his geniality and
wit won him troops of friends. He has
left a number of literary works of conside
rable merit, the principal of which are his
“ Lives of Irish Writers” and a “ Popular
History of Ireland,” published in New
York, in 1862.
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS —INQUEST —ACTION
OF THE AU THORITIES.
Ottawa, April 7.—The assassination of
the Hon. Thomas D’Arcy McGee excites
horror here and throughout the country.—
The authorities have taken every means in
their power to secure the murderer, and a
number of arrests have been made, but as
yet no definite clue has been obtained. An
inquest was opened at 10 o’clock this morn
ing, but adjourned without taking testi
mony until 7 o’clock this evening. The ju
rymen, meantime, attended the House of
Commons in a body to hear the eulogies on
the deceased Minister. The Government
of Canada offer $5,000, the Government of
Ontario and Quebec $5,000, and the Mayor
of Ottawa $4,000 reward for the apprehen
sion of the murderer. The authorities at
all points have been directed to use their
best diligence in seeking the assassin, and
to arrest all suspicious persons. Business
is almost entirely suspended, and flags are
flying at half-mast. Preparations are being
made for the removal of the body to Mon
treal to-morrow. All the members of the
Cabinet are taking a deep interest. Crowds
are in the streets, and expressions of sym
pathy are loud and frequent.
In the House last night, two hours be
fore the assassination, Mr. McGee delivered
an able speech on the position of Nova Sco
tia. It is said to have been one of the most
eloquent efforts of his whole life.
How to Raise Early Cucumbers.—A
good method to raise early cucumbers is
the following:
1. Make a trench in the warmest place
of the garden; into this put old manure,
about three inches; on this plant the
seeds and cover them with sawdust, two or
three inches. Cucumbers thus treated are
said to come earlier, endure rain, drouth,
and even a little frost, far better than
those treated another way. Against se
vere night frosts they should be protected
by boards.
2. Take middle-sized flower-pots, fill
them two-thirds with good soil, put the
seeds on this and cover with sawdust;
sprinkle with warm water, and put the
pots near the stove. On the appearance of
the plants, place the pot near the window.
Care should be. taken to harden the plants
before transplanting them into the garden,
by admitting air to them both day and
night.
3. Take egg-shells (the hole to be in the
upper end, three-quarters of an inch), fill
them with good soil, and therein plant the
seeds. Plants thus raised, kept either in
tlie house or hot-beds, are easier trans- ;
planted.
It is stated that Irish potatoes, in great quan
tities, can be grown by any one having four by
eight feet of spare ground in their back yard.
The process is simple: Procure a crate, such
as chinaware is imported iu, and place in the
bottom about six inches of straw, then drop
potatoes on this surface, say six inches apart,
then six inches more of straw and then more
potatoes, and so on until the crate is full. Wet
the contents of the crate thoroughly, and every
evening afterward throw a bucket full of water
over the top surface. The potatoes will grow
and produce abundantly. When they are large
enough to eat they can be easily drawn out,
and will be found to be perfectly white, with a
very thin skin!
Bullock, the Stranger, vs. Gordon, the
Georgian.—" One from among thy brethren
shalt thou set King ovei thee; thou maust
NOT SET A STRANGER OVER THEE
which is not thy brother.”— Deut. 17c, 15v. ’
VOL. 27. NO. 17
Bastek Eggs.—ln almost all Christian
countries the custom still prevails of eggs
being given as a present at Easter time In
Germany they are generally hid by the older
people m the gardens under the young
gooseberry bushes and other early plants
are l°°ked for by bevies of little’
children and great is the joy at finding one
of peculiar richness in ornament, for they
are all decked in gay colors and covered
with gold and silver devices. In France
the eggs, although still so called, have de
generated into costly boxes of bonbons or
even more expensive presents, which are
exchanged by iriends according to the
French proverb, that “little presents keen
up friendship.” In Russia alone they have
maintained their sacred character, and are
given with the words: “ Christ is arisen»”
Everybody, at home or abroad, has a supply
of Easter eggs about him; every passer by
is thus accosted, and the two eggs are
knocked against each other. The owner of
the harder one, which has succeeded in
breaking the other, carries off both In
spite of this association with the reason of
Easter and the sacred character given to
the custom by the Greek church, these eggs
originated in the far East, and are of hel
thern nature. In the Orient the egg is well
known to be the symbol of the primitive
state of things, of the creation which de
veloped the germ of all things. Now there
the New I ear begins still, as it has ever
done, with the spring equinoxes, and the
festive occasion is celebrated by the girin«-
away of eggs. At this period, when th?
year and all nature begins anew, gilt and
gaily painted eggs are sent from friends to
friend as tokens of the renewal of all things.
Biom there the custom found its way to the
Western part of Europe, where for centuries
the year also began with the opening of
spring, and the egg remained an appropriate
symbol. Since the time when Charles IX.
of France first fixed the beginning of the
yeax upon the first of January, the custom
has gradually lost its ancient signification,
but Easter eggs are still well kndwn in all
parts of the world.
A Bad Thing of Which the R. R. R. i s In
nocent-
The Gadsden Times says that on Monday
last we were in Jacksonville and witnessed
a sight sickening and revolting in the ex
treme. After the arrest of Judge Pope
who was so feeble from ill health that he’
could scarcely walk, and as the guards
were conducting him to jail, an aged, grey
haired man so afflicted with paralysis that
he had uot walked for years without the
aid of crutches, too outraged to contain
himseif, cried out, “Judge are they taking
you to jail ? Well, d-n me if I’d go with
them, ror this monstrous utterance, a
soldier made a tilt at him with fixed bayo
net. Ihe choloric old man bestowed a
shower of oaths on the. soldier, who turned
away and left him. His friends now com
ing up, got the old gentleman in his bug
gy and started out of town with him.—
Lieut. Johnson, commanding the post,
came up about this time and ordered the
buggy stopped and arrested him. As he
was being conducted to jail he again cursed
the lieutenant and guard, and for this was
beaten with his own crutch until it was broken
over him.
Another is breathing the tainted atmos
phere of the dungeon there for even a less
offense than this.
These are no exaggerations. We could
mention other victims for even lighter of
fenses still, if offenses these be at ah. Citi
zens arrested and incarcerated at the
caprice of this small tyrant who by the
potency of a first lieutenant’s shoulder
straps, lords it over the patient and toler
ant and law abiding citizens of that sec
tion.
The Fate of Those Who Condemned
Mrs. Surratt to the Gallws.—The Cam
bridge (Me.) Democrat alludes to the infa
mous witness for the Government upon
whose testimony an innocent woman, Mrs.
Surratt, was murdered upon the gallows,
by the order of an illegal packed military
tribunal. It says :
•°P°A Ve , r l the Particular friend and asso
ciate of Ashley, is now residing in the peni
tentiary ; Cleaver has been once convicted
oi an infamous crime, and is awaiting a
new trial; Baker is an absconding criminal
and fugitive from justice, and Richard
Montgomery has been arrested and is to be
tried for embezzlement and swindling.”
Preston King, who, it is said, pre
vented Miss Anna Surratt from having an
interview with President Johnson on the
morning her mother was executed, commit
ted suicide a few months after, by throw
ing himself into the waters of the Hudson.
There are others in the bloody drama who
will have fortunes equally bad with those
already spoken of. There is a retribution
always in the moral as well as in the phys
ical world for those who commit outrages
against humanity and sin against the law
of justice.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
Native Radicals.—Thad. Stevens’ wife
is a colored woman, who was the wife of a
negro barber in Harrisonburg, from whom
Thad, stole her. Os course it is natural he
should want his mulatto children made the
equals of white children, civilly, politically
socially, &c., sit side by side at schools, and
all the rest of his negro nastinesses of
Radical legislation. But why any other
man, as Governor Pierpont, for example
whose mother and wife and daughters are
“ white” people, should desire to degrade
them and their children to the level of in
feriors. seems to us horrible treason to the
name and memory of his mother, and an
insult to his wife and daughters—as well
as open postacy to his own race. Surely
the educated men among the Radicals will
pause before they finally consent to and
sanction the infamies of this proposed con
stitution. The low, base, ignorant white
knaves may, from want of sense, turn into
negroes in order to gain temporary power
and pay; but why any other white man
whom uot an office seeker, should be a
Radical, is beyond our comprehension. It
is “a fathomless profound” of follv or
knavery, or both.— Fred. News.
At a public school exhibition in a Michigan
village, one of the visitors made a brief ad
dress to the pupils, ou the necessity of obey
ing their teachers and growing up loyal and
useful citizens.. To give emphasis to bis re
marks, he pointed to a large national flag
spread on one side of the room, and inquired-
Boys, what is that flag for ?” A little urchin
who understood "the situation ” of the house
better than the speaker, promptly answered :
“ To cover up the dirt, sir.”