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Headq’b 3d Military Dtsr., 7
(Georgia, Alabama, and Florida,) (
Atlunta, Ga., April 23, 1867. )
General Orders 16.
The following paragraph from Gen
eral Order No. 1, from these Head*
quarters, is republished for the infor
mation of a;l concerned :
“Paragraph III.—It : s cl sarly to be
understood, however, that the civil of
ficers thus retained in office, shall con
fine themselves strictly to the perfor
mance of their official duties, and
whilst holding their offices they shall
not use aDy influence whatever to de
ter or dissuftde the people from taking
an active part in reconstructing their
State Government under the Act of
Congress, to provide for the more ef
ficient government of the Rebel States,
and the act supplementary thereto.”
The words, “shall not use any influ
ence whatever," shall bi interpreted
in their widest sense, and held to nnym
advice verbal or written, given to indi
viduals, committees, or the public.
All officers in the Military District
arc directed, and citizens are reques
ted to give immediate information of
any infraction of this order; and to
prevent misunderstanding on the sub
ject, it is distinctly announced that
any civil official (State or Municipal,)
within this Distrct, who violates the
above order, will be deposed from his
office aud held accountable in such oth
er manner as the nature of the casede
mands.
By command ot' Bvt. Maj. General
I’ove.
. G. K. Sanderson,
Oapt, 33d U. S. Inf. k A. A. A. G.
Official:
(Signed) G. K. Sanderson*,
Oapt. 33d IL S. Inf. kk. A. A. G.
State Con rent ion of the Teachers at
Tallahassee The Teachers of all
public schools in the State, and of the
neighboring counties of Georgia, and
all others who as teachers, feel an in
terest in the cause of education tho’h •
not now aetupllv engagud in teaching, 1
are earnestly requested to attend a
Convention to be held in Tallahassee, I
on Monday the 20th of May.
All persons expecting to attend the
convention, will notify the Ilev. Chas.
Kenmore, of Tallabassc, the chairman
of the comittee of arrangements of
such intention, on or before the 15th
of May, and report themselves imme
diately upon their arrival at Tallehas
see to this committee, who will be in
Waiting at the Capitol.
Toady ism.--If there is one weak
ness of human nature more contcmpti.
blc than another, it is that which
prompts us, for place or favor, to cringe
and fawn around our superiors, it
exhibits u want of brains—a want of
firmness and self-respect. Again, it
produces in the mind of our superiors
a consciousness of our weakness, and
a spirit mingled with pity and coni
tempt. The exhibition of this toible
lowers our estimate of our race, and
produces a feeling of distrust in the
integrity of mankind.
During our recent visit to Atlanta,
we were humiliated to aee men of
whom we had expected better things,
bowing and smiling, and cringing, and
ready to promise anything to gain an
interview with Gen. Pope. While we
reepect and shall reverence Gen, Pope
ob our ruler, and render strict obedii
cnce to all his behests, yet we cannot
ignore our sell-respect, to that degree,
which would permit us to flatter and
fawn around him, and, as many hare,
express a great grat fioition that he is
here among us. It would be a false
hood, and Gen. Pope, a man of saga
city as he is, could read it in our coun
tenance, as be docs in those patronis
ing place sockers who constantly an
noy him.
General Pope acknowledges that the
cause which brings him among us is
as distasteful to him as it is oppressive
to us Ho readily and justly con
cludes that those who hang around his
room and dog his footsteps, have “axes
-to grind," and ho disposes of them
with an air altogether becoming a high
toned officer. Ho has no more respect
for these vaporing patriots and brawl
ing philanthropists, who would freely
barter their country —their race—their
own souls for the profits of an office,
than he has ior the poodle at his feet.
It is a reproach upon our common hu
manity, that men bankrupt of all vir
tuous reputation—men who would
flatter old Satan himself, for the smile
of his patronage, and crouch at the
feet of a despot to obtain favor and
place—who would lower their kindred
to the level of the ignorant aud vicious ,
—should seek to control the destinies
ot a brave, but fallen people. “ Oh, j
shame! where is thy blush V’--Albany !
(Ga.) News.
Abraham Lincoln’s Opinion about
the Negro. —ln September, ’SB, Abra
ham Lincoln delivered a speech at
Charleston, Illinois, in which he ex
pressed his convictions on muny of the
questions which arc now pending. He
said :
“ I will say that I am not, nor ever
have been, in fav >r of making voters
or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying
them to hold office, nor to intermarry
with white peoplo ; and I will say in
addition to this, that there is a physi
cal difference between the white and
the black race, which, I believe, will
forever forbid the two races living to
gether on terms ot social and political
equality. * * I, as much as any
other man, am in favor of having the
superior position assigned to the white
race.’’
Just Punishment.—At Zug, in
Switzerland, a land owner was recently
tried and convicted of putting water in
the milk he sold, and was condemned
to eighteen months’ imprisonment,
the payment of the costs of the suit,
and a loss of civil rights.' It is a pity
that some of the Savannah milk ven
ders did not 'reside at Zug ! - Herald
Honljjmt Enterprise
(SEMI WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : t : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
FRIDAY, M AYS, 1867.
REMEMBER YOUR PROMISE.
Will those person* who have bor
rowed books from our library, now re
member their promisee and return
them ? Soire of our books were bor
rowed before the war aud have not yet
been returned. Did you borrow to
retail! seven years? Don’t suppose
we have forgotten the books. Wc
would not forget a good book if we
should live a ihcusaud years and re
tain our senses. We have had such
had luck lending hooks, that we shall
be driven to the necessity of doing one
of two things—either to permit our li
brary to be broken up, or decline iu
future to let them be carried off for
any purpose Law books aud literary
works have all shared the same fate.
Friends, this is not right. It may pa;
you, but it is a losing business to us.
We buy books for the use of them,
and oo person should ever borrow a
book without promptly returning it-
You forget that hooks are not “ um
brella*," although bosh cost money.
Books have a value beyond their price.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CELEBRA
TION.
The pupils of the Methodist, Pres
byterian and Baptist Sunday Schools
in town have united, and will have a
celebration to-morrow. We have not
been favored with a programme of the
proceedings, but we suppose the usual
speeches by the little ones, addresses
by the Superintendents, award of pri
zes, &c., &c., will be gons through
with, and of course, wind up w.th a
splendid feast and much fun and en
joyment.
RETURNED.
Wc notice that Hon. James L. Sew
ard has returned homo from his visit
to Gen. Pope, at Atlanta. As wc have
harfno conversation with him, we know
nothing of his mission, nur what im
pressions the General may have made
upon his mind. If, however, tho Col
onel has learned anything which ought
to he communicated to his fellow-citi
zens, wc have no doubt that he will so
communicate it in due season. It is
rumored that Gen. Pope oflered to
make him Governor of Georgia, in
place of Gov. Jenkins, and that he
declined the honor for very politic and
proper reasons. Wc do not pretend
to aay that rumor is correct, but such
is the understanding of some of the
Colonel’s frieuds.
CROPS.
The weather has recently been so
fine and seasonable, that the crop pros
pect is consideied good. Some of our
farmers have had the foresight and
good sense to plant heavy crops of
provisions and the soason promises, so
far, to reward their labors. It is not
too late yet to plant corn in this section
and those who liavo not, should take
warning by the wail of distress that
comes up on every breeze from the
starving poor, and plant every acre
i they can possibly cultivate in provis,
ion*. Peas and Potatoes may he made
in abundance, and gardeu vegetables
of all kinds.
SCARCITY OF HOGS.
We do not know what our people
arc to do for bacon next fall and win
ter, unless they pursue tho plan of a
few farmer* who sell Cotton to buy
bacon. From every quarter we hear
the general complaint that there arc no
hogs in tho country. They all disap
peared upon the advent of freedom.
It seems that hogs and freedom are
not congenial elements and do not
thrive well togethor.
The same complaint prevails in ref.
oronco to catile. No more beef to be
had. Farmers arc selling off their
young heifers to prevent their falling
into the hands of thieves, and to such
an extent doc* this prevail, that this
whole section of Georgia is becoming
a fine cattle range. Now is the time,
therefore, for the raising of stock in
tho woods, by men who will follow up
and protect tlieir stock from depreda
tion*.
THE GEORGIA SOAP AND
CHEMICAL COMPANY.
We call the espeoial attention of our
merchants, fanners and Soap buyers
generally, to the advertisement in this
issue of the Enterprise,o{ the Georgia
Soap and Chemical Company, establish,
cd in Savannah. Much has been said
among our people about home or South
ern Manufacture. Now, friends, show
your faith by your works. Let Colgate
and all Northern Soap makers go to
thunder, so long as yon have good
soap manufactured at your own doors
by Southern men, your neighbors. If
you havo not tried this Soap try it by
all means, and at onco. If you will
patronixo them Southern men will
make as good and as ohcap Soap as
Northern men. Give this Savannah
Manufactory a fair trial. It is a Geor
gia institution established by Geor
giana. Will you patronize your frienda 1
We shall see.
Bouthbrn Cultivator ror May.
—Kvery Southern farmer should have
this number of the Southern Cultivator.
It contains valuable information on
several subjects of peculiar importance
to the farmers in this section.
AGRICULTURAL WORKS?
We acknowledge receipt by mail,
from the well known publishing house
of Orange Judd &Cos, 41 Park Row,
New York, the following interesting
and valuable works on Agriculture :
American PoMor.oa\vby Dr. Jno.
A. Warder, President of the Ohio
Pomologieal Society—Vice-President
of the American Pomologieal Society,
kc. The work is perhaps, the most
valuable one in America ou Apple*,
and affords all possible knowledge de
sired in their culture. It is extended
to 744 page*, and eootains 890 splen
did illustrations. The science of gniA~
»«</ is here fully explained and illus
trated, and this alone should entitle
the work to a wide circulation; but
every specica of the Apple is also, not
only illustrated by sections, bat their
characteristic* and comparative values
are satisfactorily decided, and full re
formation furnished for successful cub
tivalion
(for Apple growers should not fail
to poasews themselves of this cheap and
valuable work.
Toe übadb CofcTt arsT :—A tren
tiM oo the cultivation of the Native
Grape, by Andrew Fuller, practical
Horticultural!*!. Ridgewood, Bergen
Couaty, New JcracT
Tb is work contains 283 page*, veil
hound and filled with beautiful iMes
trations of the various sodas ot craft
ing. setting, pruning, training, and
otherwise successiu'iy cultivating the
various species of the Grape. Out
farmers who are attempting to raise
Grapes, will and this work a valuable
assistant. It will simplify and shorten
their labor, remove she perplexities
arising from the want of knowledge oo
the proper cultivation of tho Grape,
and wonderfully improve the appear
ance and value of their vineyards.
Try it by all means—the work is
cheap and easy to obtain. Much val
uable time as well as money, are an
nually thrown away by many firmer*,
who "go it blind’' in their attempt*
at fruit growing. “ Going it blind”
will never raise fruit—it wears out the
laborer, impoverishes the proprietor
and leaves him disappointed and igno
rant as be commenced. This work
will furnish the desired information.
Try it if you would succeed.
The Illustrated Strawberry
Ci lturist * —By the same author a*
the Grape Culturist—a pamphlet of
4S pages, very neatly bound, and as
tho caption indicates fully illustrated.
What we have said in the foregoing
articles on the Apple and Grape, may
truthfully be applied to tho Strawberry
in this work
Everybody is acquainted with the
Strawberry, and exceedingly fond of
its delicious flavor, and yet how few
put themselves to the slight task of
properly understanding its cultivation.
First procure the best kind of Straw
berries, and then apply yourselves an
hour or two to this valuable little book,
and your Strawberry beds will spring
into luxuriant vigor and reward you
with a plentiful harvest.
Don't send to borrow, the hook of
some neighbor, but send to Messrs.
Orange Judd Jc Cos., 41 l’ark Row,
New York, *nd they will not only fur
nish you with this little work, but
with valuablo books on the cultivation
of any other fruit or vegetable. Then
you will have a book of your own, that
you oan consult while perfotming the
labor required.
Gardeninn for Profit.—A Guide
to tho successful cultivation of the
Market and Family Garden , by Pe
ter Henderson, South Bergen, New
Jorsey, This work contains 243 pa
ges, also fully illustrated and replete
with valuablo information on tho sub
ject of Gardening, which every person
in the country, whether male or female
should well understand. A good gar
den, it has truthfudy been said, “ is
half the support of a family bat
how can any family have u good gar
den where none of its members under
stand the principles of gardening
Anything that is worth doing at alibis
worth doing well, and if ignorance and
half attention will produce a tolerably
good garden, how luxuriant and fruit
ful must bo the garden of that man
who brings to his aid tho virtue of in
dustry and the splendid acquirements
of wcientifie knowledge. In compnrii
son with the former, his garden would
be civilization to hurbnrio rudeness.
The whole wo Id would be inconceiva
bly better off, if mankind would but
avail themselves of tho blessings which
the God af Nature has placed in their
power.
Nkw Book or Flowers :By Jos.
Brook, newly eloctrotyped aud splen
didly illustrated.
Now, here wo have something benu
tiful and interesting, especially for the
ladies. Almost nnothor Flo-a, but
vastly superior, comprising a oolitic
tion and variety never dreamed of by
ancient Botanists, and teeming witli
all the gentleness and beauty of diver
sified nature. Who does not admire a
beautiful flower garden. There is
something so ineffably sweet, gentle
and soothing, iu the contemplation of,
and reflection upon flowers, that we
are wont to connect thorn with Hea
ven, and call them “tho language of
Deity.'’ They speak to the heart, in
silent tones, it is true, but muiiistake
nbly.and impress their influence upon
mankind. Fondness aud care for them
also marks human character, and ena
bles us to distinguish the refined and
cultivated taste, from the rude and un
cultivated, without any other sourco of
information.
Thie little book is a valuable guide
and instructor in their successful cul
tivation.
No War jn Europe —Telegraphic
dispatches from Europe say. the diffi
culty between Prussia and ’Yranoc is
about to be amicably settled. Prus
sian Diet met and the King made no
war specoh, The dog is dead, and
Cotton ought to go up.
GEORGIA and THE SUPREME i
COURT.
Some of our exchanges contain the
argument of Mr. Charles O’Connor,
the famous New York lawyer, before
the Supreme Court, os Counsel for the
State of Georgia, in the Injunction
case now pending before that tribunal.
It is altogether too lengthy for our
contracted columns, and if it were not,
few of our readers are lawyers, or feel
any interest in the matter, except in
the decision itself of the Supreme
Court. Tho Attorney General, Mr. j
Stansberry, opened the discussion *nd |
Mr. O’Connor replied to him. From
the reply of the latter, wo imagine the
Attorney Geueral’s irgumonts a very j
lame affair, not even an ingenious ef
fort to defend the wrong. \l e may
not boa competent judge ot such mat
ters, hut we most confess that we are
somewhat disappointed in the effort of
Mr. Charles OVoonor Hi* arguments
were certainly forcible, and to Nadi
eaU unanswerable, bat the reputation
of the Counsel for Georgia, raised our
expeetit'oas to wometking grand and
irresrsuMe. If a Layer of already
great reputation, could not immortal:**
himself on such a* occasion, aud in
defence of i*>4 a care. he coaid have
littie hope for future fame. We may
not be lawyer eneugh t' appreciate
his mighty geroas. bat we certainly do
nut see :t in the rguinea - .
AN UP HILL BUSINESS.
The Rainbridrr Geargiitn is in much
distress about lire backwardness of the
citizens of Decatur in subscribing
$150,000 for the extension of the At
lantic A Gull Road to Bainbridgc, and
pitches into them very spitelully, call
ing them * mean ’’•in want of " com
prehension.” Sc:., Sc a. A meeting was
called and three thousand dollars sub
scribed. The Argus thinks the meet
ing was disappoin ed by the absence
of Maj. Screven, and attributes the
failure to that cause. It promises
better at the next meeting, at which
Major Scieven is expected. Our
neighbors ore engaged in an up hill
business for this dull season, when
money is so extremely scarce, and we
think brother Russell will yet acknowl
edge the wisdom of our views, a short
time ago expressed on the subject.
You cannot draw “ blood from a tur
nip,” friend Kussstf, and the matter
may as well rest qirat for a season.—
Even it you should get the amount of
subscriptions required, a single cash
payment before next winter would be
out of the question.
CRAB GRASS IIAY
The May number of the Southern
Cultivator contains a valuable commu
nication from IV. Tony, of Eufuula,
Ala., on the production of Hay from
Crab Gcuss.
He claims that it will make excel
lent hay when properly cultivated
an 1 mowed at the right soason, and
argues that as it is a cultivated grass,
it must be cultivated to make bay.
Will not cur farmers give it a fair trial
and increase their forage by home, pro
duction, instead oi sending to Savan
nah to buy Northern hay '( 'Ve are
sorry to see carts anil wagons con
stantly hauling Northern hay from
Thomasville to farms in'the country.
It seems that we are constantly be
coming more and more helpless, and
more ni.d more dependent upon the
North. Will this state of things never
cease ? Cotton ! Cotton ! is the cry
and ruin of the South.
PERENNIAL SOUTHERN
GRASS.
A Texas writer in the Southern
Cultivator , represents to the Cultiva
tor and recommends lor introduction
in Georgia, a species of Perennial
Grass for grazing, known in Texas as
tho “ Bearded Mesquite.'’ It contin
ues green througbowt flic year, in sea
sonable climates, and is highly recom
mended for stock and makes excellent
huy. Such a grass is much needed in
this sootion of Georgia, where we have
only crab and win; grass for grazing,
and wo hope tho 'l'exus grass will be
speedily introduced and given a fair
trial. Tho greatest difficulty with our
farmers, and perhaps, the only reason
why they do not make hay crops, i«,
simply, that they will not give ihciu
selves the trouble to raise hay, or if
they attempt it nt all, they do not go
about it underatandingly and properly
Where there is a will there is a way,
but we Vi-.ry much fear that Cotton has
smothered up the souls of many of our
farmers in Georgia, and bound them
hand and Foot as slaves for life, so that
they have no wills but Cotton. We
imagine the dying speech of some
would be, if brought to the tost, “ let
my mules die for tho want of hay, and
let tne br.ve poor cows, but give me a
few bales of Cotton
SENATOR WILSON.
The Atlanta Intelligencer makes
some pointed remarks, and quotes
oome curious ihingsabout Senator Wil
son. Our renders will bear iu mind,
that Sonator Wilson is now traveling
through tlie South, glorilving the Ke
publican party, and preaching that he
has for “thirty years ” been consistent
in advocating the freedom of tlte
slavs, 4re. How strange then that no
further back thuo the yeat 1855, the
records of the Senate Journal bear tes
timony to the following language used
hj him :
“ Wo betievo that slavery in the
States is a local institution ; that w«
are not responsible for its existenoe,
and that tee hope no legal authority to
interfere with it in any way whatever.
I uiu content to leave slavery to the
prople of the States where it uow ex
ists. 1 reoognixe the Democratic doc
trine of States Rights, in its applica
tion to slavery, as well as to other lo
eal affair*, and, while I have a seat in
this chamber, 1 shall resist all attempts
to encroach upon the reserved rights
of the sovereign States of the Union l
I will stand side by side with my De.
moeratic friends in vindication of the
Virginia and Kcnttioky resolutions of
1798-’99, which they endorsed in Bal
timore in 1862 P*
What do his colored friend* think
of hie record ? Has he been their
••eooaistont” friend for "thirty years?’'
Only eleven years ago he was opposed
to interfering with slavery in any way
whatever.
RADICALIZING THE SOUTH.
The Louisville Journal says, no
Southern State will he admitted to the
Electoral College, before the nfcxt Pre
sidential election, unless she votes for
the Radical Candidate, and he who
does not sec it must shut bis eyes to
it. Therefore, if tho* Southern -States
accept the terms of Congress, they
will be admitted, not indeed, into tho
Cnion, hut lo a servile place assigned
to them, only to add 70 or 80 votes to
the electoral strength of the Radicals,
thereby swamping the Conservative
eaud date and riveting their own
chains. If the South reject the terms
of Congress, continues the Journal ,
they will cut rff those 70 or 80 votes
aud thus leave the Radical candidate
unaided to cope with the Conservative
candidate. The Journal advises a re
jection in toto of the Congressional
reconstruction scheme, and reliaucc
upon the Supreme Court to extricate
the South from her humiliating and
degrading tendency.
W • will not advise non-action, but
we may express our opinion, and we
only repeat what we have maintained,
tbit the Radicals have no idea of ad
mitting the Southern States into the
Union until they have elected a Radi
cal President.
Personal. — We had the pleasute
yesterday of meeting in our sanctum
Capt. K. W. Davis of the Lake City
Fla., Press. The captain appears in
splendid health and shows unmistake
anlc signs that tho “Land of Flowers"
has agreed with him well. Hu speaks
cheerfully of matters and things in hi*
section and take* the world philosophi
cally.
#as“Wc arc indebted to and return
our thanks to W. E. White, Express
Messenger by the Atlantic & Gulf
railroad, for Augusta papers in nd
vance of the mails.
Grass Cradles—Messrs. A. & R.
Smith, have just received a good lot
of Grass Cradles, which they now offer
to their customers ou moderate terms.
Mr. Stevens’ Protest.
A letter of lion. Thaddeus Stevens,
protesting against tho assurance given
by certain Republican orators that the
Southern States would be admitted to
all their rights under tho Constitution
as soon a* they reconstruct thuinsclves
in conformity to the Sherman bill, is a
significant document. Mr. Stevens
says, and he say* truly, that no man is
authorized to make any such pledge
in beliulf of the Raateal party —that
the rcctrnstmotion measure*, ns they
are called, are not the ultimatum of
the Government (which mean* Con
gress) but simp'y initiatory steps in
tho direction of restoration. Wendell
Philips, also, in a speech made a few
days ago, in the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, takes the same ground, and
maintains that the only safe plan of
reconstruction is ‘to hold the South
five or seven years, until new ideas
take root’ - —in other words, New Eng
land ideas.
That Stevens and Phillips speak the
sentiments of a large majority of the
Fortieth Congreß*, we have not a doubt.
They clearly represent the views of
the Thirty-ninth Congress, which pass’
ed the Sherman bill, and but few
changes have been made in either
House. It is a matter of history that
the latter body, though oltcn impor
tuned by conservative members, xrrd
by the Northern bill a finality, per
tinaciously and to the’ end raluacd to
make any such pledge. They purpose
ly intended that the question should
be left au open one, to be decided one
way or another as might best suit the
exigencies of their party when the
day arrived. The great object was,
and is, to preserve their organization
in power, and they never intend to do
an act that will sorely ro-ult in its
overthrow. If the South should be
come Radical aud send representatives
of that political complexion to Wash
ington, they will he admitted and their
States restored, but reconstruction will
never be agreed to by the Radical
party on any other. Os this we may
rest assured, and every sensible man
nt the South will acknowledge the
force of tho conclusion. This thing
of guessing at results aud hoping for
the best by a people who proposo to
make tromendoi s sacrifices and bind
themselves to their action, is, to our
judgment,foolhardiness iu its cxteuicst
form.
In this, however, w« do not mean to
be understood assaying that the South’
ern people should not acquiesce in
everything they have no power to
prevent, and even act under the Sher
man bill so tar as shall be necessary to
themselves iu a position to take advan.
tsge of every turn of the whod ot For
tune in their favor.— Macon Telegraph
Petr A special messenger, it is stated,
has peen dispatched to Atlanta, to
serve the writ of the Supreme Court
on General Dope, in tho Georgia case.
Mont. Ado.
Gov Jenkins brought out the sub
puMia himself and served it on Gen
Dope when they were at the same ho
tel in Atlanta, last week. Get:. Pope
replied that be would obey the order
of the Court.
The Hebrew Race.
The Norfolk Journal, in speaking
of the Hebrew race, says: There is,
perhap*, no more striking ethnological
phenomenon showing the tenacity of
blood and race, than is exhibited in the
history cf that people that traces its
origin for forty centuries through tho
revolutions of empires, hack to that
period when Abraham and Lot fed
'their flock* together in the great plain
of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Atthis very day, in whatever clime this
peculiar people may be found, whether
amid the snows of Canada,or the burn
ing sands of Arabia ; or if we trace
them to the dim twilight of the early
ages or view them in the broad civili
zation of the nineteenth century, the
blood of the Hebrew raco preserves its
purity, and like the pillar of fire in the
wilderness, is a standing miracle thro’
all clinics aud time*.
They are in truth, the same people
to-day, marked by tho same peculiari
ties, tho same physical conformation,
the same Abrahamic features, and the
same religious faith that their ances
tor* possessed, when Moses led them
through the waters of the Red Sea,
and Pharaoh aud his host were engulfed
I beneath the returning flood.
No man can account for the strange
preservation of this race, except upon
j the hypothesis of the interposition of
, a Divine Providence. Within the
1 period of tneir historic existence ora
i pires hive arisen like short-lived mists
] arise from the sea, and have goce
down in the long night of ages to rise
i no more, and even whole races have
1 sprung up and have disappeared, hav
| ing been swept from the face of the
! earth.
They are, indeed, the chcsen of God,
and unless all inspiration is a lie, they
are preserved for a more glorious ex.
hibition of Diviue power than the Gen
tile world ever saw. Wherever we
trace them, whether on the fertile
banks of the Nile, the absolute slaves
of a cruel task-master, or basking in
tho sjdendors that surrounded the
glory of the temple of Solomon, the
same indomitable, unfaltering faith in
that God who had preserved them, is
one of the most sublime exhibitions
that he lias displayed upon earth.
Upon the ruins of that rude sacrifi
cial altar, which in laith Abraham
erected nearly four thousand years ago,
a mighty city sprang into existence,
rivalling the splendors of Thebes and
Tadmor. In the revolutit ns of empires
Jerusalem perished, and tho survivors
of the decendunts of Israel were driven
from the homes of their fathers, and
scattered over this broad earth. Still
their faith is as strong to-day in the
God of Jacob as was that of tlieir
fathers when Joseph welcomed his
brethern in sight of tho Pyramids of
the Pharaohs. Amid the mutations of
time and the vicissitudes of life, they
still worship at the same altar, arid
kneel with reverential awe before that
God, who on llorel’s rugged mount
disclosed to Moses his eternal self
existence in the awful words, I am
THAT I AM.
Expelled at various periods from
almost every clime, prescribed and per
secuted by the whole Gentile world,
they still cling with unwavering faith
to that law which God delivered to
their fathers amid tho thunders of Si
nai, and believe with a tenacity which
time cannot destroy, that lie will one
day restore them to that inheritance
now desccraUd by tho infidel Turk. —
In short, they have been oppressed,
imprisoned, banished, r--bbed, outraged
auu murdered for centuries past, and
yet, in the meekness nod humility of a
spirit that finds no parallel on earth,
they have bowed submissively, under
tlieir numberless afflictions, in the firm
belief that Heaven will yet avenge
tlieir wiongs.
A religion which gives sueh signal
examples of the splendors of moral
worth and intellectual grandeur dis
played on every page of the inspired
record, ought to teach us of what grand
materials the Hebrew nature is compos
ed, and we may bol lly challenge the
history of Greece, Rome, France, Eng.
land or any other nation of ancient or
modern times, to show ns a people ex
hibiting so many virtues and adorned
with such varied talents as we can find
everywhere and at all times emblazon
ed on the annals of the Hebrew race.
Interesting History of a Loyal
Leagiior.
The Petersburg (Va.) Index pub.
lishes the" following letter regarding
the former life of Rev. J. W. Ilunoi
cutt, a pious individual who has taken
tho negroes of Virginia under his
special and affectionate guardianship:
Petersburg, Va , April 10, IdGf.
Mr. Editor: Having many years
ago known a man by the name of J.
W. Hunnieul in Lunenburg county, I
was attracted to Poplar Lawn on Mon
day Inst to determine whether the
great Union shrteker and abolitionist,
so earnest of late in his attempts to
gain the confidence of the colored
people, could be the same individual
with whom I had been acquainted at
a time when the entire country in which
he lived despised him for his cruelty
to slaves, among other flagrant crime*.
Arriving at the gathering, I caught
the same shrill tones winch many a
time had echoed blasphemy through
the little country church in Lunenburg,
and saw writhng with malice tho very
same face which had been the signal
for muttered curses whenever seen by
a negro in former days.
Just ns I arrived on the ground the
reverned hypocrite was reciting the
reasons for which he loved Virginia—-
one given being the whining statement
tl at in her soil lay all that was mortal
of a darling wife, whose soul bad gone
before to heaven—the best woman,
Ac.
My mind recurred to facts which
should cause his hoary head to bow,
and his false tongue to palsy with re
morse. whenever he remember* the
woman who bore his name. Hunnicutt
married Miss , of Lunenburg,
some thirty years ago, being the owner
by Lis marriage of a comfortable farm
and quite a large number of negroes.
He was a Methodist preacher at the
time, but was subsequently expelled
from the Conference for doctrinal
heresies, and became the founder of a'
new sect—a branch unrecognized by
the Baptist pe suasion. He wag known
for miles around as a cruel master, wa#
undoubtedly a negro trader, and for
the slightest offence would buck and
and gag his slaves, and lav them out
in the sun lor hours. Finally, he sold
all his negroes, and invested the pro
ceeds in a stock ol groceries, and car
ried on a small country business (the
usual routine of cheating negroes aud
encouraging theft) until he failed.
But to return to the subject of his
dear wife in heaven. The closing act
ot his residence in Lunenburg, and
your correspendent’s acquaintance
with him, was in this wise : He had
taken into his house as a servant a
poor whito girl of the country, whom
lie seduced Concealment becoming
impossible, after awhile his wife made
discovery and complaint, whereupou*
this model of Christian and philan
thropist horsewhipped the injured wo
man, and ran off with the girl he hart
ruined, leaving his family perfectly
unprovided for and dependent upon*
the charities of the people he now'
abuses so roundly.
I heard of him once afterwards at'
Fredericksburg, but saw him no more
until his whine about the “dear depar
ted’’ recalled these facts of his life to
my miud.
'They may aid iu removing the
sheep’s clothing from this wolf who
invades our fold. The truth of this
statement can he attested by numbers
of persons yet living near Lunenburg
Courthouse, and my name is at the dis
posal of any one anxious to sift this
matter.
Yours, Sc:., ’
A Poor White Max'.
What I Saw—As I was going np
tho street, I saw Mrs. Petroleum with
two barrels and a half of oil, made into
a cloak, which hung in graceful fold*
from her ample figure; on her head*
was nearly half a barrel ot’ the same
fluid, and yet she held bet head so'
high that one would almost Imaglnffit
was ns empty as a blnstrd head of
wheat.
Bell nd her I saw a woman with
two mowing machines in the folds of
her dress, and yet how gracefully it
swept the street A young girl wss
with tier, who had around her neck
ten barrels of flour. A little further
up the street, I saw a lady with four
revolvers, at ten dollars apiece, swing*
ing from her ears.
Lady number five was enrolled in
fifty bales pf shoddy, and she marched
into the store us though she was at the
head ot a rogimrnt, and with a voico
sueh as a colonel might use, when
i speaking to all his men, a*kcd of the
clerk,“be them the silks you adver
tisc for evening wear ?"
With a solemn look and a profound
bow, he answered, “them do he,
madam.”
It was the last named lady who
asked an acquaintance to write a list
I of books, with pretty bindings, that
she nfglit ‘fill our new library in tur
new house.’
As I turned to go out the store, I
met an old acquaintance who, a few
years before, was an old schoolmate,
and whose last composition was given
me to correct, and the word ‘be,’ was
spelled ‘bee’—but she had on so many
pairs of boots for avail, that she was
afraid to bend her hrad, I suppose, for
fear of some kind of a downfall.
I wcut home pondering in my heart
these words of the preacher —“ V*ui»
ty, vanity, all is vanity.”
The Printer s Estate. —The Prin
ter’s dollars—whore are they f A
dollar here, and a dollar there, scat
tered all over the country, miles and
miles apart —how shall they be gatlw
1 ered together 7 The paper maker, the
building owner, the grocer, the tailor,,
and all assistance to him in carrying
on his business, have their and .-mands,
haidly ever so small as a single dollar.
But the mites from here ami tfew
must be dilizenlly galhcrcd and pa
tiently hoarded, or the wherewith to
discharge the fiabilitties will never be.
come sufficiently bulky. We imagine
the piirrter will have' Jo get an address
to hie widely scattered dollars some
thing like the following :•
•‘Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes,
and all manner of fractions into which
ye are divided, collect yourselves and
come home! Ye arc wanted ! Com
binations of all sorts of men that help!
the printer to b-reoine a proprietor,-
gather such forces, and demand, with
such good reasons, your appearance at
his countor, that nothing short of »
sight of you will appease them. CoL
lect yourselves, for valuable as you arc
in the aggregate, single you will never
pay the cost of gathering. Come in
here in single Sic, that the printer
may form y- u into a battalion, and
send you forth again to battle for him,
and vindicate feeble credit !”
Reader are you sure you haven't a
couple of the printer’s dollars sticking
about your clothes f
View of Gen. Pope. —A csrrespon.
dent, who m a Virginian by birth,
writes t” th* Selma (Ala.) Tim**, an
intsresting letter about Geo. Pope, in
which he says :
Ito not be prejjliced against Pope,
for I had many c>nvenations with
him, and fully understand his view*.
He is a Rad eal—that is, be goes with
Congress —but he is very desirous oi
doing right in his new command, and
is disposed to be kind and considerate.
He did not desire the position, and I
know h* has accepted it with an earn
cm wish to do good and to execute tho
law with as little oppression of the
people a* possible