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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST-
[From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Order Reigns in Warsaw.
The dispatch of bloody old Suwarrow to
the Empress Catharine, of Russia, has ac
quired a world-wide fame because of its de
testible significance. It indicated, in its
sardonic words, the desolate tranquility of
a people subjected to his sword, and the
success of Polish “ Military Reconstruc
tion.” But it has been the ill-fortune of an
officer in the army of the United States
to send a dispatch, recently, to his sover
eign. whose intrinsic atrocity surpasses
the memorable communication of the Cos
sack warrior.
General Canby, commanding the district
numbered two of the five military allot
ments, into which the Southern States have
been partitioned by the Radical Congress,
has conveyed official information to the
Headquarters of'the Army at Washington,
that the State of South Carolina—one of the
original thirteen—the land of the Pinckneys
and Rutledge, of Legare and Petigru, of
Lowndes, McDuffie and Calhoun —no longer
exists as a five white Commonwealth —but that,
obeying the Congressional rescript, he has de
livered up the State into the absolute possession
of its future negro masters. When General
Canby thus announced that he had caused
the white race of one of the States of the
American Union to pass under the degrad
ing yoke of helpless captivity to their late
emancipated slaves—when he announced
his, perhaps, unwilling agency in consum
mating the most infamous act that modern
civilization has witnessed in three centu
ries—we can imagine the red blush of
shame that mantled his cheek's and the
sombre frown upon his forehead. We pity
him from the bottom of our heart, and only
feel surprised that he did not prefer suicide it
self io the performance of his base and coward
ly office.
Ail that we need say further is this, and
we say it seriously and conscientiously, that
we had rather be the bound and iinpover
ished “ rebel" that we are to-day, than to be
the General in command of the army of the
United States, or any District Commander
of them all, were we compelled, in virtue
of our office, to execute the military Re
construction Acts. If the Radical politi
cians in Congress desired, for their selfish
purposes, to carve so much political power
out of the very hearts, as it were, of the
Southern people, they should find some one
else to do that work for them. If they
wished, vindictively to punish and insult
the men and women of the South—our
fellow-countrymen and country-women—
we would indignantly decline to be their
agent in such a business if it cost us our
commission. For suppose Military Recon
struction to be in all the Southern States,
as in South Carolina, a perfect success, and
these wretched States to be thus placed in
the unchecked control of negroes and ad
venturers where would be the triumph ?
and where the consolation? Tell us Gen.
Meade.
[From the Baltimore Gazette.
General Meade's Partiality.
A negro named Bradley, and hailing from
Massachusetts, has taken up his abode in
Savannah since the close of the war and
has just been elected to the State Senate of
Georgia by negro votes. He has been liv
ing at the house of an abandoned negress,
and he and his followers have conducted
themselves in so turbulent a manner as to
keep the citizens ol Savannah in constant
apprehension of some disastrous and
bloody tumult. He has attended mass
meetings with a body guard of negroes,
armed with clubs and many of them with
pistols, and has been diligently organizing
the blacks throughout the country around
Savannah, the most of whom are possessed
of and constantly carry muskets. This
man has been delivering the most incen
diary harangues, and very lately caused a
hand-bill to be issued, in which he called
on the “ loyal leaguers ” to follow up any
white man who might strike a blow at a
negro, and burn over his head the house in
which he might take refuge. All this
dusky demagogue’s proceedings General
Meade seems to have tolerated. But this
Radical General is horrified at what he calls
incendiary publications in newspapers.—
As far as we have seen—and we have looked
somewhat closely into the matter—the Sa
vannah journals have done nothing more
than protest vigorously against the right
of Congress to govern them despotically,
and urge the people to organize and resist
by every lawful and peaceful mode the suc
cessful inauguration of the project to place
them under negro domination. Neverthe
less, General Meade has thought proper to
fulminate an edict in which he warns one
of these journals that if it persists in its
course its office will be closed. Under the
General’s regime the negroes have carried
the elections in Savannah, and the recon
struction business will in all probability be
carried out in the manner in -which it has
been begun. To what a ruinous and fear
ful end affairs in the South are thus tending
it requires no gift of prophecy to foresee.
Radical Destruction of Commerce.—
Radical government, or rather migovern
ment, has destroyed, or nearly destroyed,
three of the great interests of this country.
Ist—Sugar. Before the war the census
showed that, man to man, Louisiana pro
duced more values than even Vermont, the
next highest State in the scale of produc
tion. History records few examples of so
stupendous and rapid a destruction of a
great branch of national industry as has
befallen the sugar interest of the United
States. The crop of 1861-62 was one of
the largest ever made. The number of su
gar estates returned as in operation forthat
year was 1,292, and the product 459,410
hogsheads of sugar, and 36,752,800 gallons
of molasses—now the crop is little or no
thing.
2d—Cotton. The United .States crop in
1859- 60 was 4,657,770 bales; in 1860-61,
3,656,086 bales. The crop in 1867 was im
mensely diminished, and is likely to be di
minished more and more every year. The
labor on cotton is scarcely one-half what it
was, and the planters are so discouraged
that they are turning their energies into
cereals.
3d—The Shipping of the North. Our
foreign commerce is not altogether, but
nearly annihilated —and but for the monop
oly we have in our coasting trade, the
American flag would almost cease to float
upon the ocean. From having been the
first shipping nation in the world, we are
running into the fifth and sixth rate pow
ers in foreign shipping. When a nation
thus ceases to raise and nurse seamen for its
ocean defense, it puts itself and its com
merce in a fairway to be the prey of better
governed States.—TV. Y. Express.
A poor woman in the Prussian province of
Posen, being about to die, sent for a priest, and
confessed to him that thirty years ago, havin rr
been delivered of a boy, she exchanged him for
the child of a Countess, in whose employ she
was, and was undetected. Her own son was
educated as a Count, and married the daughter
01 a very proud nobleman. The real Count
grew up in poverty, went out to service, mar
ried, and is now living not far from his own
princely estate of Komorink. The case is be
ing investigated.
[Front the N. O. Picayune
Providence Smiles on Us.
We are glad to record that the news from
every quarter continues to betoken the
''eaping of large crops during the year
1868. Cotton is always so precarious, and
beset with so many dangers, from the seed
to the reception of the cash balances, that
it is hard to predict anything respecting it;.
but corn, and such fruits as we have plant
ed and in bearing, will, .this year, yield
bountifully, beyond anything we have en
joyed for years.
We could wish to hear of more diversified
farming, of more attention to wheat and
barley, live stock and all the multitude of
things which make home desirable, and
which tend to prevent emigration, which
store up a man’s wealth and gains upon
his homestead, inducements to rear there
his children, and thence bury his dead, and
to learn him to regard it almost like sacri
lege to permit it to pass into other hands.
This, perhaps, will soon come in due
time. As men learn to confine their efforts
to smaller tracts of ground, they will also
learn to make each foot of ground more
productive, and to plant on it such things
as are either perennial in their yield, or
which will the more continually minister
to their sustenance and gratification.
Mobile has lately tried the experiment of
sending early vegetables ahd fruits to
Northern cities. We can all, who are ad
jacent to water communication or railroads,
do the same. All we want is system and
proper managel's to be statione'd at all
points of transfer and sale. On the Illi
nois Central Railroad there are fruit trains
which run through, witiiout break or trans
fer, to the farthest cities of the North and
East.
We can have the same on our railroads,
and our steamboats can at Vicksburg,
Memphis and Cairo, connect with roads so
as to cause very little detention at such
points. There is no reason why Louisiana's
peas, potatoes, and other early spring vege
tables, should not be placed on the markets
of New York from two to three months
earlier than they can get them from their
own neighborhood.
Providence smiles on us. Let us go to
work under such encouragement, and make
ourselves first, independent, then rich, with
in the precints of our own home, and then
of our abundance feed the ice bound North
for half a year, bearing home with us the
tribute we were wont to pay into its trea
sury.
The Slumbering Volcano.
Cob John Forsyth thus writes to the Mo
bile Register :
Political assassinations can never be jus
tified in the code of morals, but they are an
inseparable accompaniment of revolution
and the tyrannical use of irreponsible pow
er in certain of their stages. Men hopeless
ly pressed to the earth, without the power
of organized resistance, have in all times
obeyed the instinct of the worm, and turn
ed upon the heel of the oppressor. That
was not such an era when Booth struck
his blow, as he thought, ,l for the good of
Rome.” He was not a man made desper
ate by a felt tyranny, but an enthusiast,
whose brain was turned by his country’s
woes. But the normal period of assassina
tion may yet be reached in the history of
this revolution. I speak not now of the
South, but the whole country, and I can as
sure you of my belief that the unsated pas
sions of the North are nearer to it than those
in the South, which have been chastened by
adversity and endurance, and their fever
cooled by a copious flow of blood. But I
hold nothing to be more certain than this
—that if Radicalism persists in its mad
designs to the end, there will be civil war
in the North, sooner or later. Some man,
or some unforeseen spark, will be develop
ed, to “ fire the Northern heart and precipi
tite a revolution.” Somewhere or some-
I how the coal of fire will be found to scorch
I to the quick through the popular turtle’s
i back. And when I think of the race and
! traditions of the people upon whom this
i Radical Congress is trying its experiments
i of despotism, I wonder at the hardihood
j and daring of the experimenters. Blood
j will tell, and be sure that, sooner or later,
the commingling streams of the fighting
races of the earth which meet in American
veins, will assert themselves and the right
of such men to be free.
Not Generally Known.—Martin Van
Buren is the only man who held the offices
of President, Vice-President, Minister to
England, Governor of his own State, and
member of both Houses of Congress.
Thomas H. Benton is the only man who
held a seat in the United State Senate for
thirty consecutive years. The only instance
of father and son in the United States Sen
ate at the same time, is that of Hon. Henry
Dodge, Senator from Wisconsin, and his
son, Augustus C. Dodge, Senator from
lowa. General James Shields is the only
man who ever represented two States in
the United States Senate. At one time he
was Senator from Illinois and subsequently
from Minnesota. John Quincy Adams held
positions under the Government during
every administration from that of Washing
ton to that of Polk, during which he died.
He had been Minister to England, member
of both Houses of Congress, Secretary of
State, and President of the United States.
He died while a member of the House of
Representatives.
——♦ —I
Mr. Nelson’s Alarm.—Mr. Nelson, the
counsel for the President, is as uneasy in
regard to Butler as Senator Sumner is; but
1 his uneasiness is of another sort. Sumner
smells gunpowder, but Nelson has his
thoughts on spoons. Sumner sees the fierce
and bloody-minded Butler leading up his
powder ship to the great concussion and
; says to himself, “ What will this man not
do ?” Nelson sees Butler as the hero of
New Orleans ; he hears injured housekeepers
crying out for missing silver on Butler’s
departure, and he muses, “ What will this
man not take and keep?” Thus the figure
I of Butler, as conjured up in the mind of
Nelson, is quite dissimilar from that con
jured up in the timid soul of Sumner; and
Nelson, in refusing to trust his “ original
papers” in Butler’s hands without calling
public notice to the circumstance, proves
that he best understands the hero of all the
battles of the war.— Herald.
Killed by False Teeth.-—Enos Mote, of
West Milton, Maine county, Ohio, died twelve
years ago. He was subject to epileptic fits and
had one on the night of August 20, 1855.
Next morning a plate of false teeth which he
had in his mouth at the time of retiring was
missed, and never could be found. He com
plained of a severe obstruction in his left lung,
as if some hard substance had lodged there,
but the physicians and others thought it im
possible this could be the missing teeth. From
this till the time of his death he had severe tits
of coughing, ahd spat blood freely, and at the
end of a year died. No postmortem examina
tion was made. Recently the relatives con
cluded to solve the mystery. They exhumed
the remains and found the teeth on the left
side of the spinal column, about where the
left bronchial tube branched out into the left
lung. The plate is gold, with clasps at each
I end, contains three teeth and weighs three
i dwts. At the time it was lost the medical men
expressed the opinion that it was impossible
| lor a foreign substance of such size to have
entered the traebte or windpipe; yet the sequel
• proved the opinion erroneous.
[From the Columbia (8. C.) Phoenix.
The Remarks of Gov- Orr.
During the recent meeting of the stock
holders of the Greenville and Columbia Rail
road, a political passage at arms occurred
between Colonel Aiken, of Abbeville, and Gov
ernor Orr, which we desire to notice. Gover
nor Orr having speculated somewhat in rela
tion to the probable action of the incoming
Legislature upon the fortunes of the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad, Colonel Aiken chose
to allude in unmeasured terms to the character
and pretensions of that body. Iu reply, the
Governor, we regret to say, after discussing the
business point involved, put himself forward
somewhat as the defender and apologist of that
Legislature soon to misrepresent this State.
His language was bold, and if our comments
partake of the same spirit, it will be acknowl
edged that we have not provoked the issue.
The Governor said, in effect, that the gentleman
from Abbeville might join in the current de
nunciation of the Radical convention—might
sneer at “ the great ringed-streaked-striped
and-speckled,” and all of that, but he would tell
the gentleman from Abbeville, that the acts of
this convention were the law of the land, and
would remain so for three, yea, perhaps for ten
years—that the gentleman might scorn to obey,
but that the convention had the power, and he
and all would have to obey—tnat there were
some things in that constitution that he did not
approve ; but that there were others that he did
approve ; and in conclusion, that it was for the
gentleman from Abbeville to consider whether
his course was calculated to remove the fetters
from off our limbs. In his opinion, opposition
and denunciation would serve but to rivet them
the more timely—and hence, as we presume,
bis Excellencj’ would suggest to the gentleman
that it becomes him and us to be as gentle as
doves and as mild as lambs.
Upon these remarks of Governor Orr, as a
public journalist, as a sentinel on the watch
tower, humble as we may be, we intend to
make our commcuts. We shall not impugn
the motives of his Excellency. We concede
to him the same purity of motive that we claim
for ourselves. But we ao contend that it
ill became the Governor of the State to utter
the sentiments that he, with so much feeling,
put forth on the occasion referred to. It ill
became him to proclaim the power of an ille
gal body and to announce the years of its swaj’,
and to taunt the high-minded gentlemen of the
State with the fact that, nolens volens, willing
or unwilling, they' would have to obey what
was the law of the land. You will have to pass
under the yoke, says the Governor, and he
seemed almost to exult in the thought. At
least his air, as he announced this, was proud
and menacing.
Nor do we think that his Excellency should
suggest to his people that they must make up
their minds to endure their badge of servitude
for three, and perhaps for ten long years. We
would, with becoming deference, suggest to
his Excellency that a moment is too long for us
to wear the yoke; that whilst we shall have to
bear it, the spirit of opposition should be kept
up, its illegality and outrageous character con
stantly proclaimed, and the resolution repeated
and repeated, that in all peaceful ways, in all
methods, under the constitution and laws, we
will oppose this negro-Radical rule, until we
regain the heritage which is ours. Nor has the
Governor, we submit, any right to assume that
this will last three or ten years. We hope to
shake it off earlier—at least, we intend to try,
and it is our bounden duty to try, and to try
by every legitimate method that God and the
laws permit. Nor think we that this course
serves but to rivet our fetters, as his Excellen
cy supposes. If you want a man to shake off
his shackles, would you put him to sleep with
a narcotic ? If Sampson is to husband his
strength and recover his power, would you lay
his head in Delilah’s lap, and let him be shorn
of his locks ? We reply, no; and we say that
the policy suggested by the Government is a
policy that plays into the hands of Radicalism,
and would bind this State, hand and foot, to
the car of that Juggernaut of negro rule which
is driving over the mangled limbs of all that
is left us of constitution al liberty and of white
men’s rights.
It is our duty to say to the Governor, with
no personal ill-will whatever —but rather with
feelings of genuine sadness and regret—that his
course, in our opinion, does not reflect the sen
timents and opinion of those who elevated him
to the Governor’s chair. When Gen. Canby
stretched forth his hands to seize the public
funds he aid not, like the noble Jenkins, of
Georgia, Metellus like, resist it, and protect the
Treasury of the State. He has not, as we con
ceive, vindicated the high prerogative of his
office—though the vindication referred to, we
admit, may have had a moral effect only. He
may have meant well, but he has not always
done well. His political thoughts and views
are of the earth earthy. In his course as a poli
tician he will hover about the table land of
expediency, whilst he might, as the exponent
of the people, who put him in office and gave
him their confidence, rise to the elevated heights
of principle. The Governor is our senior in
our years of political experience, but not our
superior in devotion to State and country. We
would recommend him to ascend in his poli
tical role to the mountain heights of an elevated
and elevating line of action ; and we would
suggest that he seek to escape the noxious
vapors that spring from the weedy low lands of
a shifting policy.
The Amendatory Bankruptcy Bill.
A bill iu amendment to an act entitled An act
to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy
throughout the United States,” approved
March 2, 1867.
Be it enacted, Stc., That the provisions of the
second clause of the 33d section of said act
shall not apply to the cases of proceedings in
bankruptcy commenced prior to the first day
of January, 1869, and time, during which the
operation of the provisions of said clause is
postponed, shall be extended until the said first
day of January, 1869, and said clause is hereby
so amended as to read as follows:
In all proceedings in bankruptcy commenced
after the first day of June, 1869, no discharge
shall be granted to a debtor whose assest shall
not be equal to fifty per centum of the claims
proved against his estate, upon which he shall
be liable as the principal debtor, unless the
assent in writing of a majority in number and
value of his creditors to whom he shall have be
come liable as principal debtor, and who shall
have proved their claims, be filed in the case at
or before the time of hearing of the application
for discharge.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said
act be further amended, as follows: The phrase
“ presented or defended,” in the 14th section
of said act, shall read “ prosecuted or defend
ed ;” the phrase “ nor resident debtors,” in
line five, section 22 of the act as printed in the
statutes at large, shall read “no resident credit
ors ;” that the word “ or,” in the next to the
last line of the 39th section of the act shall read
“ and ;” that the phrase “ section 13,” in the
42d section shall read “section 11;” and the
phrase “or spends any part thereof in gaming,”
in the 44th section said act shall read “ or shall
spend any part thereof in gaming.” And that
the words, “ with the senior register, or,” and
the phrase “to be delivered to the register,”
in the 47th section of said act be stricken out.
Sec. 3. And be it f urther enacted, That the
' Registers in Bankruptcy shall have power to
administer oaths in all eases, and in relation to
all matters in which oaths may be administered
Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the
United States, and such Commissioners may
take proof of debts in bankruptcy in all cases,
subject to the revision of such proofs by the
Register, and by the Court, according to the
provisions of said act.
Butler and “Mack.”—Butler and “Mack,”
of the Commercial, have had a spicy corres
pondence. Butler found his match. A Wash
ington letter says that B. F. B. boasted of his
purpose to give the aforesaid “ Mack,” who is
one of the President’s witnesses, a severe rasp
ing on cross-examination. “Mack” respond
ed that he should provide himself with a spoon
tied to a handkerchief, and if made to blush,
should use the handkerchief at the risk of
showing the spoon. Butler declared that such
conduct would be insulting to himself and an
expression of contempt for the Senate. “Mack”
rejoined that Butler had avowed his intention
to offer the first insult. Butler promptly dis
avowed any such purpose, and expressed his
exalted esteem for the pugnacious correspond
ent, and “ Mack ” agreed to dispense with the
spoon. Beast was tamed and “ Mack ” satis-1
tied.— Wheeling Register.
Death of Mrs. George D. Prentice.
Died, between 1 and 2 o’clock, a. m., April
27, Mrs. Harriette Benham Prentice, wife of the
editor of the Louisville Journal.
The wife of the poet-editor is dead. But a
few days ago we saw her upon the streets of
Louisville full to overflowing of mature and
beneficent life. To-day she sleeps beside her
eldest born in the quiet Cave Hill Cemetery, to
which, since Courtland's death, she has made
so many, many sad pilgrimages. Personally
we did not know her, but one near to us, and
who was near to her through affection and ad
miration, has discoursed to us so glowingly .of
her wonderful charms of person, mind and
heart, that, in her passing from earth, we too
feel we have lost a friend.
Mrs. Prentice was the daughter of Colonel
Joseph Benham, a distinguished lawyer, whom
many of the older members of the Indiana bar
recollect with pleasure. More than thirty years
ago she married that most gifted of all South
ern editors, George D. Prentice, and lived to
see him exercise more influence in Kentucky
than any other living man, not excepting even
Henry Clay himself. Possessing a fine educa
tion, and endowed with the rarest personal
charms, her fondness for society made her its
Queen. She never had but one approximate
rival in her sphere of fashion and elegance,
Mrs. Robert J. Ward. But as royal as was
Mrs. Prentice’s sway in the most gorgeous and
dashing society in America, she kept her heart
ever warm towards suffering humanity. Her
true womanly graces and sympathies were the
substrata of her eventful life, and were never
broken or defaced by the vicissitudes which
billowed above them.
A little incident is told us at this moment, by
one who knew her and loved her, which reveals
her noble nature. Mrs. P. was some years ago
seated in the well-filled parlor of a fashionable
watering-place, when, in the midst of a most
exciting pastime, she heard the casual remark
of a person near by that an old acquaintance
was dead. She immediately burst into tears, re
gardless of the gay throng. Her charities were
almost boundless, and dispensed with Chris
tian quietness and unostentation.
Born, we believe, iu Kentucky, her warm na
ture sympathized with the Southern cause, md
she sealed her devotion to it by the gift of her
oldest and splendidly gifted son, who was kill
ed at Augusta, Kentucky, during the war. Her
joys in life were many, and so were her sor
rows. But she has gone through the opening
in the mystic curtain to the home of the blest,
leaving sorrowing but hoping friends behind,
who will soon, very soon, go too. As she was
the sweetest singer of the city of her adoption,
may her songs ring out loud and clear in the
choirs of the Golden City which has adopted
her. To our old friend, who has so often
cheered us with his warm words of eneburage
ment, and to his bereft children, we extend our
most earnest condolence.
Death is the crown of life.
\La Fayette {lnd.) Journal.
Scientific Wonder.
ANATOMICAL PRESERVATIONS BY M. MARINI,
THE GREAT ITALIAN EXPERIMENTALIST.
Translated from the French, for the Louisville Jour
nal, by Mons. Auguste d’Ouville, Professor of the
French Language.
A few words have already been said in the
series of the Journal the Wolds, of the 21st of
November, 1864, vol. VI., page 505, about the
admirable anatomical preparations of Mr.
Ephysio Marini, of Cayhari, Sardinia. The in
comparable embalmer has made an immense
discovery, of which he yet keeps the secret;
but which he will reveal when the moment shall
have come. He preserves, momifies or perti
fies at bis will the bodies or portions of bodies,
and all the solids or the liquids of the living
organism, the flesh, the blood, thejwhole brains,
the bile, &c., &e.; beside, so long as the desic
cation is not absolute, he restores at will to the
bodies or the momified members their volume
and their natural forms, outside or inside, in
such away that an arm, for instance, the flesh,
the muscles, the tendons, the nerves, the arteries,
the veins, resume entirely the aspect and the
transparency which they had in a sound body
a few hours before death.
Since his departure from Paris, Mr. Marini
has so admirably perfected his incomparable
art that they saw him at Cayhari, iu February,
1865, preserve so perfectly the body of a cele
brated historian, Mr. Pierre Martini, that four
months after his death, thanks to the revivify
ing liquid whose action is so extraordinary,
they had been able to restore to his members all
their supleness, to dress him, to seat him in his
arm-chair and take his photograph, which we
have under our eyes in writing this, and which
would be thought to be of a living man.
On his return to Paris, at the beginning of
last December, our friend asked of his Majesty
the Emperor of the French, an audience, which
was granted to him last Saturday, and which
overwhelmed him with joy. His Majesty has
for a long time considered and admired the mar
vels of the new art. A fragment of the arm oi
an Egyptian mummy, to which Mr. Marini has
restored, after five thousand years, perhaps, if
not its color, at least its suppleness and its ap
pearance of a human member; an arm which
the Dr. Sapey had sealed with his own seal in
1864, and which a hundred times had been
dried, and a hundred times softened, keeps all
the appearances of a living arm ; the whole
body of a dried up rabbit, but which, through
its substance, has remained transparent, lets
visible, the most intimate details of its organi
zation ; in short, a table of a lugubrious aspect,
but a true prodigy, which will soon be the
most precious ornament of one of our mu
seums, a strange mosaic, formed of brains,
blood, and petrified bile, in which are encased
four human ears, and upon which the foot of a
young woman arises with a complete preserva
tion of its color and transparency. Science
and art here put nature in so new and so pure
a light that all feeling of horror had disappear
ed in order to give place in the highly elevated
mind of Napoleon 111. to admiration only.—
That admiration must have been exempt from
all after-thought, for, after having left the
palace of the Tuilteries, about 3 o’clock in the
afternoon, Mr. Marini was recalled at 9 o’clock
in the evening, in order to render her Majesty
the Empress a witness of the half-triumph
which he had conquered over death.
F. Moigno.
K. K. K.—The Richmond Dispatch is respon
sible for the following:
. The Ku-Klux-Klan are kalled upon to kus
tigate or kill any kullered kusses who may ap
prove the konstitution being koncocted by the
kontemptible karpetbaggers at the kapitol.—
Each Klan is kommanded by a karniverous
kernel who koliects his komrades with kare
and kaution kommensurate with the magni
tude of the kause. Whenever konvened, they
must korreetly give four kountersigns. These
are: Kill the kullered Russ; klean out the
karpet-baggers ; krush the konvention ; karry
konservatism ; konfusion to konsrress ; kon
federates will konquer. Os kourse the Klan
kreates konsiderable konsternation among the
Kongos and their kunning konduetors, who
kalkulate that their kareer may be kut short bv
katastrophies. Kowardly kurs, they kan’t
komplain.
Dr. E. H. F. Peters writes to the Utlea Herald
that a new planet belonging to the group of
the asteroids, and the ninety-eighth of them,
was discovered at the Litchfield Observatory of
Hamilton College, on Saturday night last, in
eleven hours, seventeen minutes, fifty-one sec
onds of right ascension, one degree, thirty
eight minutes, thirteen seconds of Southern de
e.ination. It has the brightness of a star of the
twelfth magnitude, with a slow retrogade mo
tion about twenty seconds of time per day in
right ascension, and a motion of six minutes
towards the South.
r The great scandal case involving the name of
, L ° r< w-H mbc y . :un of the t i' leen of England,
Lord Willoughby, and Madame d’Alteyrae, his
reputed wife, was submitted to au arbitrator
appointed by the Lord Chief Justice of Eng
land, and has been decided. It provides that
», orc * Chamberlain shall pay to the Comtesse
d Alteyrae £5,000, and an annuity of £1,200 for
the term of her life. And thus ends this dis
graceful scandal concerning an official so near
the throne of England. The award is doubtless
just, so tar as it goes ; but it does not recognize
the woman as wife, and iu this respect does
not right her most grievous wrongs.
[From the Hindsboro (Mia.?.) Democrat.
Another Outrage by a Negro’-
A FEDERAL GENERAL’S DAUGHTER THE VICTIM.
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE NEGRO ?
We are reliably informed that a most horrible
affair transpired on Ship Island in the early
part of this month. It appears, so far as we can
learn, that a young negro soldier gained access
to the sleeping apartment of General Mower’s
daughter, a beautiful and accomplished girl,
about sixteen years of age. What was accom
plished we know not, and can only surmise
from the subsequent results. It appears that a
younger child called her father, and he and the
officer of the day, who, upon arriving at the
spot, found the negro in possession of the guard,
which was stationed in the vicinity of the Gen
eral’s quarters. It appears that a court martial
was at once organized and the negro soldier
sentenced to be executed by hanging. But the
General interfered and the sentence was sus
pended, but it is currently reported that the
negro was killed inside the fort, put into a sack
and thrown into the gulf. While bloody knives
and other weapons, bearing the signs of being
used, were seen on the Island, and the under
officers spoke freely ot his aispatch and his
well deserved death, yet the negro soldiers on
the Island were still led to believe that the dead
negro was sent to Mobile on a vessel leaving
about that time for Mobile.
While we look with horror upon transactions
of this kind, and believe that the brute who
would attempt the chastity of a white lady
could not be visited with too severe a punish
ment, or one that could be considered cruel,
under any circumstances, yet we might be ex
cused for thus thinking for we have always
deemed the negro as property, as., our fathers
did before us, and we fought to tile best of our
poor ability to keep them as property—the
place that God and nature designed them to
keep—but Gen. Mower et id omne genus sought
their freedom, and by might of numbers, suc
ceeded, and taught Sambo that he was as good
as anybody, and a little better ; he made coun
cilmen, policemen, and other civil officers of
-them, and thereby inculcated the idea that the
negro was, socially, the equal of the white man.
And now, Gen. Mower, after doing more than
perhaps any other officer of his class to instil
this idea into the negro’s head, has, with a ven
geance, felt the application of his doctrine.
His lovely daughter, just blooming into l wo
manhood, clad in the white, loose, tasty habili
ments of night, with her hair loosed to the
winds of the Gulf, reclines upon the couch,
and there in that position, is desecrated as to
her person, by the embrace, clawing and feel
ing of a disgusting negro. No wonder he com
plains. No wonder the negro is missing. But
had it been some Southern born lady, who had
lost a princely fortune by the craft, legislation
and social teaching of Gen. Mower and his fol
lowers, it would have all been well, and had
the negro been troubled, as in this instance, the
party or parties, even suspected of breaking
the law, would be held to strict account, and
so we wish to hold Gen. Mower.
We again ask, where is the negro that com
mitted this outrage upon the daughter of Gen.
Mower ?
Judge Underwood’s Court and the
Davis Trial.—The United States Court, Judge
Underwood, met Saturday morning, at eleven
o’clock, but the room was a doleful looking
place, as even the soupeating vagrants seemed
to avoid it. Evarts wasn’t there, O’Conor
wasn’t there, Davis wasn’t there, and, in fact,
nobody that anybody cares hearing mentioned
was there. We wanted a drum and fife sent
round just for appearance sake to drum up a
crowd. General Lee and Governor Letcher are
in the city as witnesses. The form was gone
through with requiring bail for the appearance,
of Mr. Davis to-day, but he is not expected.
The recognizance of Mr. Davis was renewed,
and the Judge stated from the bench that as
soon as the impeachment trial at Washington
closes Chief Justice Chase, after taking a recess
of a day, will come to Richmond and proceed
with the trial of the Confederate Executive.
The Judge further gave it as the opinion of
Judge Chase that Mr. Johnson’s trial will close
this week. What an eventful judicial experi
ence will be that of Judge Cliase if he presides
at the trial of both Andrew Johnson and Jef
ferson Davis—one a persecuted unionist and
the other a badly-treated disunionist.
The recognizances of a number of parties
indicted lor violating the revenue laws were
declared forfeited, unless they appear this week
and renew them. Sundry parties from Fred
ericksburg and other prominent towns are in
cluded in the number.
The grand jury adjourned at 4, p. m., after
finding a number ot presentments which have
not yet been made public.— Richmond Whig,
4th.
Circular.—ln reply to the resolutions
adopted at the meeting of the Democratic party
of Edgefield District, the undersigned Executive
Committee deem it expedient to state that they
do not think it wise or proper to invite any
other convention of the people of the State at
this time. The convention recently assembled
represented, we believe, the sentiment of the
State, and any other line ot policy now would
be disastrous to the unit}' and harmony so ne
cessary to success. The resolution adopted
by that convention was based upon the right
of each State to regulate for itself the question
of franchise, and in giving an expression of
what they believed to be the opinions of our
people, the convention acted deliberately,
calmly, and, under the circumstances, wisely.
The action of the convention meets with ap
proval everywhere in the ranks of the Demo
cratic party, and we are disposed to abide by
the action of the convention as politic, prudent,
and just. As the organ of that body our duty
is to uphold its action and lay it before the
country and the State, accompanied, neverthe
less, with our solemn protest against the in
strument called a constitution, which is about
to be forced upon us by Radical rule and mili
tary dictation.
Wade Hampton,
J. I’. Thomas,
F. W. McMaster,
Joseph D. Pope.
For Central Executive Committee.
[Charleston Mercury.
A New Trade.—The shipment of a car
load ot early vegetables from Mobile to Chica
go, that was made a few days ago, over the Mo
bile and Ohio Railroad, marks thebeginning of
a new era of what may become a very import
ant branch of trade between the Gulf coast and
the shores of the great Lakes.
The freight that went away in this pioneer
ear consisted, as was stated in our issue of
Wednesday evening, of green peas, turnips, cu
cumbers, radishes, snap beans, carrots, beets,
celery, dew berries, parsley, thyme, etc., etc.
We hear that the starting of this one car for
Chicago has raised the price of vegetables in
our market, not because it has reduced the
supply ou hand below the demand, but be
cause the enterprise has demonstrated the
fact that there is a market for all the early veg
etables that can be raised in this vicinity.
In future, four-legsred hogs will get fewer
vegetables than used to fall to their share.
We hope to see, at no distant day, cosy farm
houses and richly-cultivated farms, where now
there is only the dreary monotony of the pine
barren, the abode of gophers, rattle-snakes, and
“light-wood” niggers.— Mobile Tribune.
Disastrous Floods in Echols County.—
A correspondent writes us from Statenville,
that in eonseqv >nce of the high waters that pre
vailed during < setion, many voters were pre
vented from attending. The oldest citizens
states that the Alapaha river has not been as
lull in thirty years. Great damage has been
done by the drowning of stock, sweeping away
of fences, and washing up of corn and cotton
in the river bottoms.
Captain J. W. Staten lost a fine flock of sheep
and some cattle, besides having his river lands
damaged.
The plantation of Colonel Jesse P. Prescott
was completely submerged, and his tenants
compelled to fly to the hills for safety. Many
were cut oft from retreat during the night, and
had to be rescued with the aid of boats.
The flood will prove very disastrous to the
crops of many of our largest planters in that
section.— Savannah Republican, 4th.
“ We’re in a pickle now,” said a man in a
crowd. “ A regular jam,” said another.
“Heaven preserve us I” mourued au old lady.
The “Pani
These are the latest n
hooped skirts have been f .
bustles to wear under them,
sists simply of a gathering of the
T Su ,? h away as t 0 allow tllcm MI
skM upon tUe lower of the
absurd i ar r ran^.emetlt simple as it is
absurd, but it requires to be done correctly or
it is supremely ridiculous, and not a few vo’uhir
ladies have attracted the attention of a crowd
by their effort to effect amateur panzers, and the
groteequeness of their appearance when thev
ventured courageously into the streets. J
i ” a ?. l er ? a short dress are effected bv
lengthening the upper skirt somewhat at tha
back, and running a drawing string from one
side to the other, through the centre of the
back breadth is inserted plain, and of the prop
er length, the junction at the sides being con
cealed by rosettes, bows and ends, sashes, or
some other ornaments.
I would not advise any one to attempt a pan
lers on their own account, without first having
seen a correct model.
_ln full dress, however, many ladies impro
vise them very respectably by tying up the train
with a wide sash, and arranging the folds over
the .toumure, for I am ashamed to say the old
fashioned bustle is revived—sometimes in stiff*
haircloth, sometimes in springs, which are
shaped to form the bustle at the back of the
hooped skirt.
The latest styles of hooped skirts are horri
ble. In addition to the enormous bustle, or
wide shelf, which sometimes extends to the
sides, as well as across the back, there is a broad
train, which destroys the beauty and elegance
of the trailing dress. Fullness at the back,
stretching off into a long, narrow queue, is the
effect required; but hooped skirt manufactur
ers, in endeavoring to make the trail, have
broadened the skirt so that the length of the
dress is taken up unnecessarily, and the pecu
liar grace of the style wholly lost. There are
better shapes to be had, however, and I advise
ladies to search for them. Don’t take a large,
ugly, ungraceful hooped skirt because some one
tells you it is the “ latest style.” Large hoop
skirts are not worn yet, and when next they
are, it will be the signal for their entire over
throw. Such an outrage upon decency and good
sense will not long be permitted. If hooped
skirt manufacturers wish to perpetuate the in
stitution, let them adhere to a small, graceful
shape, covered—not made like a cage—such a
one as will be advantageous to health, and save
a superabundance of weighty underskirts. Ah
exaggeration like the “ tilting ” skirt, for ex
ample, may be successful for a little while, but
it came very near abolishing hooped skirts
altogether.
Ladies have fashions in their own hands, and
can control them just as well as be controlled
by them. Not unfrequently they say, with a
start of fright and astonishment on the appear
ance of a new and eccentric mode, “ Good
gracious! is that what we are coming to ?”
Yes, it is what we come to if we choose; but
it is not what we come to if we don’t choose.
Women of the highest intelligence, and many
of those belonging to the very first class of
society, pay no attention to the eccentricities
and caprices of fashion, simply because they
are interested in questions of much greater im
portance. Women of mere fashion are pitiable,
because it shows what a sad emptiness of heart
or brain must have existed before they could
be content to fill the void with such husks as
these.
Fashion is simply a question of supply and
demand. As longjas the majority are content
to take the result‘of a whim or an accident,
and shape their own bodies and souls to it, so
long shall we be at the mercy of “ caprices” in
fashion. — Jennie June.
—— »
Who Wouldn’t Be an Editor ?—Editing a
paper, says the Church Union, is a pleasant
business.
If it contains too much reading matter, peo
ple won’t take it.
If the type is too large, it don’t contain
enough reading matter.
If the type is too small, people-<won’t read it.
If we publish telegraph reports, people say
they are all lies.
If we omit them, people say we have no en
terprise, or suppress them for political effect.
It we have a few jokes, the people say we are
a rattle-head.
It we omit them, they say we are old fossils.
If we publish original matter, they condemn
us for not giving selections.
If we give a man a complimentary notice,
then they censure us for being partial.
If we publish selections, they say we are lazy
for not writing more, and giving them what
they have read in some other paper.
If we remain in the office and attend to busi
ness, folks say we are too proud to mingle
with our fellows.
If we do not, they say we never attend to
business.
If we publish poetry, We affect sentimental
ism.
If we do not, we have no literary polish or
taste.
In Bankruptcy.—Petitions in bankruptcy
have been filed by the following named per
sons :
James W. Covington, Columbus; attorney
per se.
Robert Irwin and Charles S. Hardee, Savan
nah —involuntary.
Petition filed by Stovall & Edmondston, Au
gusta, Ga. John M. Guerard, attorney.
Dexter B. Thompson, Columbus. Thornton
& Williams, attorneys.
Julius G. Tucker, Augusta—involuntary.
Petition filed by E. S. Jaffray & Co., New
York. John T. Shewmake, Augusta, and T.
E. Lloyd, Savannah, attorneys.
John J. Sparrow, Hawkinsville. Ely War
ren, Perry, attorney.
John H. Lee, same place and attorney.
John G. White, Houston county. Ely War
ren, attorney.
Warren E. Saunders, Dooly county. C. C.
Duncan, Perry, attorney.
Wm. A. Ferguson, Hawkinsville. Ely War
ren, attorney.
*A Georgia Buzzard Arrives in South
Carolina. —The Wilmington Star says :
A gentleman living near Kingsville, South '
Carolina, observing a bright and shining piece
of metal of some sort, attached to a buzzard
flying over his house, was induced to shoot the
bird, and an examination showed him, fastened
to its neek by a small wire, a piece of tin rudely
fashioned into a shape resembling a shield,
measuring probably two by four inches. L T pon
the tin was scratched, in distinct letters, “ Geo.
S. Smith, Monroe county, Georgia, August 4,
1866.” We have often heard of “ belling the
buzzard,” but this is the first practical exem
plification of the saying which has ever come
under our immediate observation. The tin is
in our possession, and to save the curious the
trouble ot coming to our office to see it, we
will carry it in our pocket for two days for ex
hibition.
N. B. No one allowed to ask more than three
questions concerning it, under penalty of a
treat to soda-water.
The Loudon Owl furnishes the following late
naval intelligence: "The Ark was built in
Messrs. Shem & Japhet’s yard, the foremost
shipbuilders of the period. At her launch,
thotio-h from her size and build, it must have
been'clear that she was destined for rough ser
vice, and not for mere coasting, which was then
the only trade, no remonstrance seems to have
been addressed to those in authority. She was
a three-decker and copperplated. She was fully
provisioned; evidences were ample that she
had no intention of putting into any port, but
that her mission was to keep the seas for au
indefinite period. At the end of her cruise
nothing besides herself was left on the surface
of the ocean. She held undisputed sway. Yet
her owners were never called to account for
these results. There is a tradition that one of
the firm on board, named Ham, wanted to hoist
the black flag, but was speedily rebuked by his
commanding officer.”
The candy essences, so nice to the taste, are
the most remarkable examples of the power of
chemistry to transform very repugnant mate
rials into' delicacies. Fusel oil is the base of
the pear essence, and pine apple essence is ob
tained by diluting ether with alcohol. The
chemist, in his laboratory, with great cunning,
manufactures scores of these essences, which
are supposed to be the veritable product ot
delicate fruits.