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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1870)
THE WEEKLY 00HSriTDTI0HALI8T. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE I,IBTO Our New York Correspondence. New York, May 21,1870. The result of the election In this State has these remarkable features: The State has gone Democratic without the aid of New York city and Brooklyn, and the majority of counties have gone Democratic. Neither of these results has been attained before since the Spring of 1847, when there was a similar election to that now just held, namely, the choice of judges under anew constitution. The Republican talk of apathy, and of frauds in this city, therefore go for nothing. The vile element of this city is a real drawback to the Democratic party, although at times quite active at the polls. Ido not hesitate to admit that of the Democratic majority in this city, 20,000 wasclearlyffraudulent, aud in Kings county at least 4,000; “ but,” said an intelligent ob server, “ our boys learned this thing in the army, when they were transported from town to town, and from poll to poll, to vote for Lincoln against McClellan in 1884 ; it is hard to break ofF old habits; and besides, they want to get square for the violence done to their real sentiments then.” We have a bad set in the Democratic party of the great cities of the North, but it would be perfectly easy to keep them in check, except for the constant dalliance held with them - by the most respectable Republicans. The favorable result of the election in the rural districts is due to a revolt of that portion of the Republican party which were formerly States Rights and anti-Pro tection Democrats, against the more recent phases of Republican policy. The continu ation of the income tax, the refusal of Con gress to reduce the tariff, but instead an effort to advance it, and the infamous course pursued towards Georgia, are all producing a stampede to the Democratic party. The old Barnburner “free-soil” Democrats of this State, who, became the brains of the Republican party, were almost up to Mr. Calhoun in their view of State Rights.— Their antagonism to the extension of slavery had this basis: It was a State institution, and had no rights beyond the borders of the State—not more than the bank note issued by a State Bank, whose circulation might be prohibited by the laws of any other State. These Republicans are espe cially indignant at the repeated reconstruc tion practiced and attempted in the case of Georgia, and their free trade notions are grossly violated by the efforts of Greeley and Schenck to add to the “ protective ” features of our present most offensive tariff. Then again, the late Democratic Legisla ture, with all its faults, achieved much good and many reforms in State policy re specting the management of the canals.— The veto by Governor Hoffman of the many scandalous railroad jobs, against which legislative bodies seem to be no protection, did much good. Never in any case did a faithful executive perform a greater service to an oiver-burdened people. It is unquestionable, however, that much discontent prevails in this quarter. Ido not believe more than half the Democratic vote was polled. It will be the duty of the next Democratic Legislature to further re store our municipal functions, discontinue the “double-headed” commissions, and deprive Republican leaders of the means of using the worst elements of the Demo cratic party to create discontent and divi sion in its councils. Among the deaths of. the past week is Gen. J. Egbert Farnam. He will be re membered by many Georgians. An ad ven turer Os the Lopez-Walker-Qultman school, he attempted-, hi *BOO, to land a cargo or blacks from Africa upon the coast of Geor gia from the yacht Wanderer, which after wards became a part of the Confederate Navy. When the “ late onpleasantness ” broke out, he was strongly inclined to take the side of the South, but the Influence of his wife was sufficient to produce indeci sion, and he settled the matter by the toss of a copper. The result was in favor of the North, and he entered Sickles’ Brigade. He was badly wounded in Hooker’s butch ery, at Williamsburgh, in the Spring of 1862, and never saw much service after- The remarkable healthiness of the two great cities, New York and Brooklyn, is a pleasant fact. In Brooklyn last week there were only 116 deaths, in a population ex ceeding half a million, or not exceeding the the rate of twelve to a thousand for the year, whereas the average in large cities rarely falls below twenty-five to the thou sand. This excellent bill of health is gene rally attributed to the dull times and the closing of the liquor shops at night, which prevent over Indulgence in food, and dissi pation of all sorts. The breaking down of the elevated rail way, which has been in progress for more than two years, through Greenwhich street and Tenth avenue, is an event that may aid in curing our people of the many tempor izing expedients which have been resorted to for the purpose of facilitating travel between “ up-town ” and “ down-town.”— When we have a city railroad built upon its owner’s property, and operated without infringing upon private right, we are likely to have a success, and not till then. Un derground expedients are likely to have as little success as the elevated plans. A plan to promote a communication with Staten Island, by a railway over the Jersey flats, promises to give anew direction to the growth of our city, even if the Brooklyn bridge should never be completed. But the railway to Staten Island is to be built where the the water is now from four to ten feet deep. Despite all the predictions of the weath er-wise, who, as a compensation for the warm Winter, predicted a cold Spring, we have, instead, a Spring both warm and early. Hotel keepers, in consequence, the country throughout, are making lively pre parations for an influx of guests from the city, where the inhabitants are rapidly tiring of brick walls and stone pavements. Not a few of those owning country seats have gone, and in a few weeks more the majority will follow. Just now, however, is the season of seasons for the Park, where everything has come out fresh and beautiful, and where the lengthened ave nues-and numberless walks are none too extensive for the crowds who throng them. To-day, for the first time this season, there will be music, not under the direction, as hitherto, of Dodworth, but Grapulla. The odore Thomas has, a week or two since, commenced his garden concerts, which take place every night, and which have proved so successful and so popular. It Is In Brooklyn, though, that the grand sensation will take place, this being the Tournament of Knights from every State in the Union, which Is to take place next week at Prospect Park. Those who have entered the Hate are already here, and to day there Is to boa preparatory trial of skill on the part of the chlvalrlc worship lien of beeuty. New York will not subside Into the drowsy lethargy of Hummer without more Ilian one excitement as a fan-well to <l<<- Wirltßi Winter. It la proposed to hold a ualaal Festival somewhat similar to the Mammoth Festival which last year proved eueh a anrcaae In Huston, and the Idea will probably he carried out, though i*<rhsp» not on a scale quite so extensive. For this purpose the skating rink on Third avenue h ** '*?»J*S*&**' f «<> will be enlarged, and It Is estimated that a band of 500 pieces and a chorus of 3,000 can be gotten up The programmes will In general bear a re semblance to those of the Boston Festival, but with this difference, that they will em brace a much greater number of solos quartets ana operatic selections. In this musical entertainment, the Brignoli Troupe, now giving some touches of Italian Opera at the Academy, will take part, and for tlm solos, quartets, &c., there will be compart tively but little difficulty, as for the per formance of these are professional artists who stand always ready prepared, bnt it is in management of the choruses that the greatest trouble will be. This, though, can be overcome, especially as Mr. Gilmore, from Boston, will come on, and what he has before accomplished he can likely do again. The time fixed upon is the middle of June. On the first of June, the Revolution, hith erto edited by Mrs. Stanton and Susan An thony, will pass into the hands of an incor porated joint stock company, representing the new Woman’s Suffrage Association, of which Mr. Tilton is President. Mrs. Bul lard, of Brooklyn, is to be the editor, and Mr. Edward A. Studwell the business man ager. Another new thing also is the issuing of a weekly by the lady brokers of Wall street, under the title of Woodhull & ClaJUn's Weekly Upward and Onward. Willoughby. fSpecial CorresDC ndenee of tbo Conetitutfc.nalist From Washington. bullock’s defeat—will he resign?— ms STAMPEDE FOR ALBION, N. V. HOR ACE maynard’s valor—bard’s homolo- GATER—THE GEORGIA MUDDLE. "Washington, May 23,1870. The Bullock-Blodgett lobby has been routed, horse, foot and artillery. Their defeat is complete and overwhelming. For ney sought to stem the tide of public opin ion by three columns of dreary abuse of Senators Trumbull and Edmunds, but made an ignominious failure. It is worthy of note that Republicans and Republican papers are foremost in denouncing both Bullock and Forney. The New York Tri bune alone has -fhiled to censure the mem bers of the Georgia lobby as they deserved. It thinks Porter migfit have offered to pur chase a Senator’s vote; that the Chronicle’s prices were somewhat excessive; but, be yond all, the evidence of Bnllock's “ green ness ” strikes it as the most Important feature of the investigation. Bullock’s “greenness!” Ha! ha! Bullock’s knavery. Bullock’s trickery might do; but Bul lock’s “greenness” is too absurd. If that is the only defense that can be put forth for Georgia’s carpet bag mis-Governor— and I have seen no other—it will strike those who know Rufus as not beiug a par ticularly good one. All sorts »f rumors are afloat as to what Bullock will or will not do. Some have It that he will resign at once. Did he not say, in his remarks before the Judiciary Committee, on the 2d of March last! • “ So far as I am personally concerned, it is well known to my personal friends and business acquaintances that I retain the office I now hold at great pecuniary sacri fice to myself, and there Is certainly little comfort in being the target of Billings gate or ballets. But as I have heretofore assured the President and General Terry, I now assure you, that my resignation is at their service. My only ambition is to estab lish 'a republican government in Georgia, and if that can be promoted in the least degree by m# hluwmiV, it trill bo tzpftKMwrv for m yield the office." Unless Bullock deliberately lied when he used these words, his resignation should now be in the hands of the proper authori ties. Who can doubt that he has hindered the establishment of a republican form of government—or any government, in fact, save that of a ring of thieving carpet-bag gers—in Georgia. But for Bullock the State would have been admitted long ago, and the work of reconstruction completed. No one can doubt this. Did not Benator Ferry charge the other day that Bullock was dragging the Repnblican party throngh the mire to subserve his own ends ? Did not several Senators call attention, long before the Judiciary Committee commenced their Investigation, to Bnllock’s open and disgraceful lobbying upon the Senate floor ? If these things have not made it clear to Bullock that he can promote, in a very great degree, the interests of the Repnbli can party by tendering his resignation, then he must indeed be dull of comprehen sion. I say nothing of the interests of the people of Georgia, as no one imagines he has those in the least at heart. It is understood that Bullock leaves soon for New York, and there are many predic tions that he will never return to Georgia. Should this be the case, I do not suppose that Georgia would mourn long, or refuse to be comforted. As the train was leaving Baltimore for Washingtqn on Thursday last, with the Fifteenth Amendment celebrators, a mis chievous small boy threw a pebble against a window, near which the Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee—he of the flowing locks and tariff-afflicted brains—was sit ting. He was immediately struck, not by the pebble, which glanced harmlessly off, bnt by a mortal terror. The car was mostly filled with negroes, and to them did the valiant Horace lustily shout: “ Down on your knees, boys I Get down below the level of the windows, or every man of you will be murdered!” Such a getting on all fours was never seen before! The Hon. Horace illustriously set the example, and such a squirming and scratching, and docking and donbling-up as ensued, no pen can describe. They do say that it was not until the train passed the Relay House that the bold Tennesseean and his negro companions emerged from under the seats and ventured to look once more out of the car windows. Dr. Sam Bard is really in earnest about giving up the Governorship of Idaho. He has, in fact, tendered his resignation to the President, though it has not yet been ac cepted. The Doctor will leave for New York in a few days, to procure type and material for the establishment of anew daily at Atlanta, for the purpose of waging a deadly war on Bullock. The Doctor pre dicts it will be the biggest fight on record. He proposes to skin bis Bovine Highness without mercy. This new venture in jour nalism will be christened Dr. Sam Bard's Daily Homologaier, and will make Rome (and other sections of Georgia where Bui lockites arc found) howl. It is announced that Butler has again re tired to the congenial wilds of Massachu setts, and that the Georgia bill will not lie reported until Thursday. The Butler bill has not a ghost of a chance now; and, as I huve predicted, the extremists will en deavor to prevent any legislation by Con gress In relation to Georgia this session. How far they may be successful In this It Is linpowlhlo to ssy now. Ami. Washington, Msy M, 1870. Time are no new developments 111 rela tion lo Georgia. Butler la the engineer of lliv i'<construction machine, and as he liaa gone to Massachusetts the dree are banked, and win g° remain nntli his return II - expected to-morrow; bat there will hardly do *>* this week. Tims the weeks slip by. Weeks grow into months, and yet this Georgia question, thanks to Bollock & Cos., remains unsettled. And the present indications are that It will not be settled this session. Bingham is ready to pounce on Butler’s bill as soon as it is reported, and it is safe to say that no Bul lock-Bntler measure can be got through either House. The odds were decidedly against these political tricksters before the Senate Judiciary Committee made their re port ; but now their chances are more than hopeless. They will endeavor, as a last re source, to delay action, so as to leave Geor gia in the hands of Bullock; but even in this they may fail. The feeling against the carpet-bag Governor of Georgia is now so strong in Congress that I think a measure looking to his immediate removal would command a majority of votes in both the Senate and House. A close inspection with a microscope has failed to discover a single member of the Bullock-Blodgett ring in or about the Capitol to-day. Their present dodge is to remain iu seclusiou and write letters, which are not always printed uuless sent to the Chronicle job office. Bullock under took to enlighten the editors of the New iork Tribune, but they declined to print his letter, and gave him a rigging besides, which Rufus won’t relish, I lancy. Mean while, Bullock’s opponents are availing themselves of the advertising columns of the city press to ventilate certain not alto gether savory facts in his carpet-baa ex cellency’s career,; Hon. A. A. Bradley lead ing off with a terrific broadside. It is con solation to know that Bullock deserves it all and more. . Congress is getting its work well in hand. The House now meets dally at 11, a. m., under Its new rules, and remains in session until 5, p. m. The Senate holds three evening sessions, and both Houses manifest a really laudable industry. Having squandered so much of the session, it is high time Congress did get to work. Amt. A Reply to Bryant’s Manifesto. Washington, slay 21,1870. To the Editor of the Constitutionalist: I have just received a copy of Captain Bryant’s paper, containing his card, in which he denies certain allegations made in a letter to the Baltimore Gazette. The facts contained in that letter were furnished by citizens of Georgia now here. From the same source I have received the following statement, which 1 think is final and conclusive. [“ F," of the Baltimore Gazette. Washington, May 20,1870. In this correspondence, some time since, I gave “one of the many incidents illus trating the ingenuity ol carpet-baggers” in keeping up turbulence at the South, in order to put money in their pockets. The case referred to was the peculiar relations and arrangements of C. H. Prince and J. E. Bryant, of Georgia. The statement then made by your correspondent is thus characterized by J. E. Bryant, In a paper published by him In Augusta, Ga.: “The whole statement of the Washington cor respondent of the Baltimore Gazette is false, and the correspondent either knew it to be false when he wrote it, or he knew nothing of the facts. Iri either case, he should be severely censured by every hon est journalist.” Such assertions may do well enough for circulation Ih Georgia, but here, where it is known that “ the whole pass muster. What are the facts ? Ist- I stated that “ some two months ago, C. H. Prince, who occupied a seat in the last Congress, was nominated and confirm ed Postmaster at Augusta, Ga., in place of Bryant, resigned, but up to this time has not entered upon the duties of his office.— Bryant is still the Postmaster. Prince is still here, and has been laboring zealously with that model of a gentleman, Governor Bul lock." Well, four months have elapsed since Prince was nominated and confirmed Post master at Augusta, and he is still here labor ing actively with Bullock and Blodgett; iu feet, he is one of their most zealous and un tiring partlzans. No man has ever lobbied more earnestly for the accomplishment of any purpose than has Prince to secure the success of the schemes of “ that model of a gentleman, Governor Bnllock,” so-called. 2d. I stated that “the President or Post master General had appointed a man to a lucrative and responsible civil office, who claimed to be a member of Congress.” This Bryant denies. Prince asserts that he is now awaiting the issue of the Georgia ques tion—that he had reason to believe that the Bullock-Blodgett party would succeed, and the State be admitted, in which event he would be entitled to a seat in Congress. 3d. In my letter I said: “ Between them they managed to hold three or four lucra tive offices at the same time.” This Bryant also denies, and in doing so shows a forget fulness truly astonishing. Bryant and Prince first came on the political stage as members of the first reconstruction con vention in Georgia ; at the same time they were assistant revenue assessors for the 3d District of Georgia; thus holding four offices between them at the same time, neither of them, however, discharging the duties of the last named office either in Or out of the district. How these gentlemen enacted their part in the convention is well known, so as to make it a paying business. Bryant and Prince were made assistant assessors with the understanding that their influence would be used to secure to the assessor the nomination for Congress. It was ascertain ed when the convention met that by a little management these gentlemen could con trol the nomination, and accordingly Prince was nominated. Bryant’s vote was not necessary to secure this result, and he voted as he had agreed in order to re tain his pay as assistant assessor. Subse quently Prince was elected to Congress and Bryant to the Legislature. Prince, as Congressman, was instrumental in getting Bryant made Postmaster of Augasta.— Other negotiations made it necessary for Bryant to resign (his position, and Prince gets himself appointed, Bryant still retain ing the officeand emoluments, while Prince remains here looking after his seat in Con gress, and aiding his friend Bullock in lob bying through such legislation as will con tinue in office the present Bullock Legisla ture for two years longer ; and not only this, but It is openly asserted that he is paid by 8., B. & Cos., for the services be is ren dering them. I could thus go on and fill columns prov ing that yonr correspondent when he wrote knew of ths facte, and knew them to be true. Bryant asserts that he and Prince are not and have not been partners. If they are not they certainly play Into each others hands most admirably. The New York World says that A brain VV. Fox, a full-blOoded African, and for merly a stave In Mouth Carolina, ban pur chased an Intereet In the Detroit Free Press, aud will soon become Its managing wllior. The Pete Press lea Demoeralio paper . Hoppleggs Peace Dots. BY aobillm hofpleggs, oaq. mu. To the Editor of the Constitutionalist: With your permission I propose to fur nish a senes of articles ou the times* where in something of personal history and expe rience shall be interloped, and, perchance, some things will be said that may point unpleasantly direct at certain individuals, prominent iu position, officially and politi cally. If this should be done, and they are pricked thereby, let them pause aud reflect that the truth often stings. In the first place, then, who am I, to arro gate to myself the right to intrude personal history and experience upon a public whose patience has been so shamefully and re peatedly outraged by the party to which I have the honor (?) to belong ? This is an swered by the head of this article. Proba bly some may remember me from my “War Dots.” But suppose they do not, and lam unknown, what o’ that ? Need I, or others, care? Nay, fori have known larger and better pumpkins produced from new ground than were ever from old. Men, like pumpkin seed, “ will run out,” nnd pray why should writers be an exception to this rule ? But to proceed. I was a secessionist, a violent secession ist ; I gave my means to equip eight com panies of “Boys in Gray;” I advised the taking of forts and arsenals; I made inflam matory speeches; I drank, figuratively, much Yankee blood; I gallantly led to victory, over numerous Yankee regiments, a regiment ol old women, armed with broomsticks—in short, as I have said, I was a secessionist! Aud while 1 was that — horresco referens —I was something else. Yes, to be candid and honest, (what a jewel is that virtue)! I was a Hoppleggs man. Is this wrong, gentlemen ? Let us look at our Executive, our Judiciary, our Official Departments generally, before we answer. But, in being a Hoppleggs man, as a mat ter of course, I had to be a great many things. My positions and professions had to bond and yield in unison with the stirring times through which we were pass ing. Reader, isn’t the same thing being done now? Reflect a moment—look around you. Yes, I was a secessionist, a Hoppleggs man, but I was more, as soon as the cause went down; I was a Union man—one of the “ true blues.” To make this ipetamor phose plausible I said: I have been in the army, it is true; but while there I was care ful to get my ammunition one size too large for my gun, and it never happened (how true) that the “superiors” were smart enough to get me into “ the thickest of the fight.” No, sir, the first law af nature was too deeply imbeded In my breast, soul, mind and body for that. Well, I was a Union man, and "being somewhat poor and needy at the “ wind up ” of the affair, and not feeling disposed to " let loose ’’ my interest In cotton, bought for the State (?), just at that time, my feelings prevailed upon me to accept an office. I marshaled my forces, I applied, I bowed my knee to Baal, and—presto, change —I was appointed postmaster at Sippius’ X Roads, with a salary o( thirty-seven dollar? and thirty-seven cents per annum. For this I took the “Iron-clad oath I” Great God, how the little of self respect I have left tears me when I think of that act 1 A Southern man swearing that he lived in his own country for four or five long, bloody years, add, during all that dark time, was a secret enemy to her and her cause; that a feeling of never welled up lb Ills heart for her suffer- trial; that no feeling of love for sorrow went out from him and hovered about the departing spirit of a brave but fallen Con federate ; that no feeling, but of contempt and hatred, ever went from him to the fair daughters of the South, as they toiled and labored In hospitals and way-side homes for the sick and weary of our “ Lost Cause;” in short, to put himself upon re cord, by an oatb, before his God and his country, that he was a secret enemy to his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his kindred, his neighbors, his friends, his all that la noble, or good, or right! Read er, I did all this, and did It for the sake of thirty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents per annum ! That was the consideration that prompted me, and that was the con sideration I received for swearing to a lie ! But, reader, did you ever knowingly, wilfully, deliberately commit perjury? If you have, then, my good friend and brother, you can Join our party without the least re commendation, and be sure of a good office in less than six months thereafter ; and, be sides, you can appreciate the feelings of some of the rest of us. To think that I, Achilles Hoppleggs, Esq., once a man who stood Well in the public estimation, have sworn to a lie 1 Perjury 1 Perjury l Per jury! A damnable incubus that, hangs over me like a horrible vampire—that haunts me by day and broods over me by night—des troying my happiness, my principle, my honesty, and rendering me hopelessly unfit for other than the Radical party of the so called empire State of the South, and ex eluding noc from all decent society! But “ Shoo Fly” to such gloomy forebodings and melancholy reflections. We’ve a man at the helm whose liver will grow by night snffl ciently to satisfy our hanger by day. And, after all, to swear to a lie is bnt a small thing—a trifle. It’s a common occurrence in these times. Some of our prominent men do it without the least compunction of con science, and with a grace and air that Is re freshing. And more : after they have done it, they are backed and sustained by the “best Government the world ever saw.” To substantiate this I have but to state the fact, that, recently, I drew some back pay, as postmaster, which I knew I was not entitled to, and the men In the Post Office Department said they knew the same thing; “bnt,” said the chief dignitary, “you are one of us, have qualified yourself for an effi cient man in our ranks, and are, therefore, entitled to a share,even though it be small; and, moreover, 1 have an order, In these words: “ Feed my lambs!” Reader, did yon ever belong to a political party in which you were regarded a lamb? It is pleasant In some things, bnt not so much so in others. All Southern Radicals are so regarded and treated by our North ern brothers. To this 1 should not object, were it not for one thing; and that is, they say, as lambs, we must and shall live on the milk they give us, and that the sub stantial long forage must be left for them, as the rams ana ewes. This gives them a decided advantage, for, unless a fellow tracks the line and obeys their every beck and call, he receives monstrous little milk, and even that little Is thin and watery. I should like to have space tp enlarge upon this, somewhat, bnt I must not be too troublesome to the gentlemen editors, for, they being Democrats, I might arouse their Ka Klux Ire, and then—oh ! “ Rads, to yer holes 1" Ammous, Ga. lord Eldon, who recently died In Lam don, left Ids whole fortune to s lunatic asylum, alleging that lie hud gained It by pleading In chancery, and that, therefore, it should go to the fx'iiuflt of tit* madmen, allies no <m«> but a mailman would practice la a chancery court. 1 [For tho CoOktltatiocallot. “ The Bible in India.” Messrs. Editors: You directed my at tention some weeks ago to a work profess ing to be translated by Loots Jacolllot, en titled The Bible in India : Hindoo Origin of Hebrew and Christian Revelation. At the same time you did me the honor to ask an expression of my views of the same throngh your columns. I have been prevented by professional and other engagements from complying at an earlier date with your polite request, and I regret to say that even now I can devote only a brief space to a very large subject. I have read the work with some care, and with as much patience as I could com mand ; but I fear that of the latter the sup ply was hardly equal to the excessive and unexpected demands made upon it. The work offers itself as something new. It parades Its Oriental learning and ratio cinates its infidel deductions with an air of originality that would appear very beauti ful if it were not known to be very absurd. The truth is, the author’s facts have been familiar to the literary world for nearly a hundred years, and his inferences from them are but restatements of conclusions drawn by a previous generation of Free- ThiDkers. It is the utter ignoring of .this which tries the patience. For example, he devotes no small space to the matter of resemblance between the religions of Greece, India and other coun tries. He marches up to the point in full armor—laboring, like the rebnilders of the wall of Jerusalem, with a tool iu one hand and a sword in the other. He affects to think that the advocates of the Bible will contest everv loot of ground ; and hence lie exhibits page after page of most sur prising similarities discovered in most un pronouncable words, until the accumulated proofs force him, cautious philosopher, gradually to make up his mind that these languages and these religions had a com mon origin. His readers are evidently ex pected to conclude that such an idea bad never been broached before, or, if broached, had been scouted and condemned by be lievers in the Bible. To perceive the coolness of this it will suffice for the reader to turn to Dr. (uow Cardinal) Wiseman's lectures, p. 246, and note the following: “ The complete resemblance between the mythological systems of India, Greece aud Scandinavia, obvious not merely in the characters and attributes of their respec tive deities, but even in their names and in the minutest circumstances of their legends, is a discovery which belongs to the earlier history of these studies. Sir William Jones, Wilfort, and others, in the last generation, had abundantly established this point.” A little further on the learned doctor alludes to “ the growing accumulation of proof in favor of the common origin of na tions." These extracts will suffice to show at once the necessity and the novelty of Mr. Jacolllot’s proof?. Christians do not deny the common origin of humanity. They believe it. The Bible teaches It. And the accumulated evidences, drawn from extraneous sources, in proof of it, are but confirmations of their faith. These evidences are found mainly in comparative philology and in similari ties of most ancient traditions. Tbnt the reader may see the bearing and force of such testimonies, let us take, for example, the wide-spread tradition of a great flood. The existence of such tradition among dif ferent and remote peoples is well known. But this fact, so far from discrediting the Mosaic account, or IcadiDg to the oelief •that Moses copied it from India or Africa, simply goes to prove that his account Is 4AsisSmtmteoeoeioo^oEs9aoSsdsseo^soismesieisenssosdffUlAoamststsfiasseartmpossettoioeossltOHSSSooossn more or lose accordant with the facts were banded down through the generations of different climes and countries. So of other traditions pertaining to most ancient times. India msy have her story of the creation, resembling In Its leading features the Genesis, of Moses, and yet neither he nor the authors of the Vedas have copied the one from the other. The question should be, not which account Is copied from the other, or whether either is so copied, but which is correct ? And this is to be de termined upon independent grounds, and not by noticing similarities In the two. M. Jacoliot, with a credulity character istic of a skeptic, gives or seems to give full credence to the poetic rhapsodies of the Vedas, and the extravagant and long since exploded pretensions of the Brah mins ; or, If not, he certainly credits them In preference to the sober, concurrent and matter-of-fact statements of Moses. In his judgment, they take precedence In respect ability and priority in time. He appears to have no doubt that the Institutes of Menou were drawn up more than 3,000 years before the Christian era; that the Hindoo Madras covers an historical period of some seven million of years ; and .the Mnhra-Barada— which we, are glad to be assured, agrees with the former in doc trines—reaches bade four million of years— a chronology which he shrewdly suggests “strikes [mint blank at all our European ideas of matter.” Your readers, Messrs. Editors, will be comforted to learn that their Bible is de rived mainly from the venerable Sastras, and not primarily or chiefly from the compara tively modern Mahra-Baradn. For I am sure they could feel no respect for a book ou the score of its antiquity, albeit forty thousand centuries old, which leaves a clear blank behind it of three millions of historic years, all flooded with the light of law and liberty, philosophy and religion. But If, indeed, our Bible is but a faint echo, a sort of accommodated copy of the Sastras, which, according to the Brahmins, originated before the creation of the world, It Is In any cose a highly respectable old book, at least In its origin. This brings us to the real gist of the whole matter. The author’s argument, in a nutshell, Is this: The Bible resembles the Vedas; the Vedas existed ages before the time of Moses, and their contents were known to him throngh the medlnra of Egyptian sacerdotalism; consequently, the writings of Moses are but mutilated copies of Vedic learning. Or, In other words, that the Hebrew Scriptures are of Hindoo origin. It is amazing that any man who has the least respect for his literary reputation would have the boldness, not to say thy effrontery, to take such a position In this nineteenth century, and directly in the face of all that Is most surely believed by the most eminent philosophers who have Inves tigated the subject. Sir William Jones, for instance, a name which will not need to be commended to any lover of philosophy or of laws, Intro duces his published researches by saying: “Attached to no system, and ss much dis posed to reject the Mosaic history, if It be found erroneous, as to believe it, if it be confirmed by sound reasoning, from Indu bitable evidence, I proceed to lay before you a concise account of Indian Chronolo gy extracted from Sanscrit books." How different this spirit from that of our author. The one seeks to ascertain the truth; the other to carry his point. But let us bear Mir William's conclusion: “Thus have we given a skatch of Indian history tlirough the longest period fairly assign able to it i and have traced the foundation of the /intotn empire above 8,800 years from the present time I" That Is, the empire wav fouuded about the ttaarf the calling of Abraham, when Egypt had already an established dynasty. Now let It be remembered that the Vedas themael vee contain abandant evidence that they were not written till many aces after the foun dation of the Indian weSki to approach the region of probability. Blr Wm. Jones, after care/nl and earliest in- and seeking neither to write down nor to write np any religion, fixes their date at about the year 1200 B. o. Colebrooke “ takes as the basis of his cal culations the astronomical knowledge dis played in the Vedas, and concludes from such data as it presents, that they were not composed earlier than 1400 B. C.” Mill it was after the time of Moses. Other au thors, equally deserving of credit, might be mentioned, all concurring in fixing their date at about the same period. The testi mony on this point is singularly harmo nious. The reader will find ample satisfac tion in Wiseman’s Lectures, to which I have been greatly indebted for the facts above recorded. If not already convinced, I am sure, after reading these, all will agree with me that the Vedas were written not only after the creation of tbo world, but after the Mosaic account of the crea tion ; and hence, if there was any copying done, Moses was not the copyist. It is hardly necessary, after this, to ex pose the fraud which underlies the author’s Christna. He brings forward with his usual detail the Hindoo legend which he so names, and which is well known to resem ble the story of the Gospels. As usual, he attributes to It a marvelous antiquity, and infers, ns a matter of coarse, that the illit erate fishermen of Galilee, being eminently qualified by education, morals and oppor tunities for the task, surreptitiously copied the Chnstna story and patmed it upon the world for an original! Strange that the world was so long In making the discovery f Strange that the early opponents of Chris tianity should have been ignorant of a story which was so widely published that it was read by the common people on the lake of Genesareth! But let that pass.— We have heard this legend before. Origi nally the name of the legendary hero seems to have been Kirshrn. Subsequently it beclme Krishna —as now commonly writ ten. Under skeptical manipulation, it tfaa converted into Kristna; and It remained for our author—evidently with suggestive reason—to write it Christna. I take occa sion to intimate that if the next man who resurrects the old hero will only bethink him to leave off the na, It will be as easy to demonstrate perfect Identity *•' It now Is perfect similarity. But to the story. Let us admit that It is like the Gospel narratives In a thousand particulars—so many, in fact, as to make it evident that both stories had a common origin, or, rather, that one is original and the other an imitation. Iu seeking to as certain which Is the copy, we naturally ask which was first in order of time. We know when the Gospels were written; now, when was Krishna written? At one time this question was perplexing. Even Sir William Jones failed to find data which enabled him to reaoh a satisfactory conclu sion. This was was reserved for Mr. Beat ley. “He was fortunate enough to pro cure the Janampatra of Krishna, which con tains the position of the planets at the time of his birth. From computation grounded upon European tables, reduced to the meridian of UJein, it appears that the heavens can only have been an there de scribed on the 7th of August, A. D., 600. Mr. Bentley, therefore, concludes that this legend was an artful imttatton of Christi anity, framed by the Brahmins for the ex press purpose of withholding the natives from embracing the new religion which i itain-TWi .--i*- 1 —r~ - • -f- ■ voaAcisW trie yriAwniin. We may not be able to appreciate fully the argument from astronomy. But en dorsed, as It is, by the best ihodern mathe maticians, such as Delambre and Laplace, I can easily credit It in preference to the claims of Brahmins, which X know to bo unfounded and unreliable eveu when en dorsed by M. Louis Jacolllot. Here I beg leave to close. I have-omit ted much that I had noted for criticism. But surely it cannot be necessary to prove that Moses did not quote from the Insti tutes of Menou, seeing that these could hot have been written till long after the Vedas, which were themselves long subse quent to his age. Nor can I bring myself to consider seriously the authors discovery of a resemblance between the hame of Moses and those of Menou, Manes and Minos—a resemblance which consists, os I conceive, in the wonderful fiact that they all begin with the letter M. I have only to add that, in my judgment, the best medicine for any one afflicted with cither chronic or paroxysmal doubts of the Bible, is to read it. To the candid and earnest student it evidences Its own divinity. J. 8. L. “ Somebody Damaged, But not Sena tors.’’—The insolent attempt 61 the Chron icle to dictate to Republican Senators how they shall vote, in the interest of Us heavy advertising patrons of the Bullock persua sion, has not only signally failed, bnt is drawing down upon that paper some cen sures from high-toned Republican quarters sharp enough to pierce the hide of a rhi noceros. Sidney Andrews, well knoWh as one of the most thoughtful olid fair-minded Republican correspondents at Washington, thus writes to the Boston Advertiser con cerning the disgraceful Bnllock corruption fund business, and the attempts to cover H up by hard swearing: “The Georgia bribery report Mibmltted in the Senate this afternoon cannot fail to have a decided influence In determining the Georgia question, when it comes up for final settlement. The voluminous testi mony shows beyond all cavil that Bnllock and ids friends hare been plentifully sup plied with money and railroad bonds all Winter, and that they were not all scrupu lous in the manner of using their fends if votes could be obtained against the Bing ham amendment. The committee found that wholly unsuccessful attempts were made to buy Senators Tipton and Carpen ter. That reports of outrages in Georgia were furnished to order and paid for by fce Bullock party, that such influence as the Chronicle bad was purchased In a round about manner, that persons were hired to write letters for the pnrpose of Influencing the judgment of Senators, and that, In a worl, the Bollock party used sncn means as It coold, week after week, to dragoon or intimidate Senators into giving the Geor gia Legislators two years more of power. The committee is nnanlmods in all these conclusions, bat Senators Rice and Stewart, while strongly censoring the Chronicle for taking money, are very easy on Bollock for paying It. The chief witnesses were loth to tell what they knew, and some of them Indulged In the tallest kind of lying when first examined. Both branches of Congress will probably decline to continue the Bol lock ring In offlee beyond next Fall. The story Is generally current to-night that Bullock Is at the ChronleU offlee, and that •my two newspapers, both dally,’ will to morrow and henceforth pour their hottest shot Into Trumbull, Edmunds, Carpenter and Conkllng for the language they used lo the report."— WatHiitffion Star, Uny 21. A man In Columbus was poisoned by drinking from a oopiwrdiuad soda fountain.
