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eljc Wccldu (Constitutionalist BY STOCKTON & CO. OUR TERMS. The following are the rates of Subscription: Daily, one year |lO 00 Wihlt, one year |3 00 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.”