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J. Wilkbß Booth Alive.
The following letter to the Picayune,
from Galveston, throws additional
light on the strange statement we
Some days since noticed:
Galvuston Texas, Mtty 10 1807,
To the Editors of the New' Orleans
Picayune) Notwihstandingtwo yer.rs
have elapsed since the assassination of
President Linoln, and the subsequent
Capture and death (as was officially
Announced), of the assassin, J. Wilkes
Booth, you are doubtless aware of the
Fact that there are many persons who,
during all this time have doubted and
still doubt the identity of the party
alledged to be Booth; and, believe
the identical bona fide John Wilkes
Booth to be in existence still.
Since my arrival here I have met
nnd gained the following information
from Capt. J. R. Johnson, who has
recently returned from China and the
East Indies, and whose name is will
known to many of the cit'zens of New
Orleans. Knowing hint as 1 have, for
a number of years, and always having
found him a man of veracity, I can
vouch for the truthfulness of his state
ment the substance of which Is as foU
lows:
■“ While lying at anchor in the port
of Calcutta, British India, prior to
flatting on our homeward voyage, in
the latter part of December, 186 G, my
attention was attracted by the arrival
of a magnificent clipper ship—the
most beautiful model I ever saw —car
rying English colors, and which drop
ped her anchor only a few rods form
tiiy vessel, I soon ascertained she was
'carjed the “ Bird of the Ocean/’ and
"was commanded by the notorious ,Lt.
W. Martin Tolbert. Having been
well acquainted with him during the
war, I dispatched a messenger to ap
prise him of tny close proximity, and
requested an interview. In reply he
invited ine to ‘‘come on board at once”
which I did. After half an hour speut
in social intercourse over a ..bottle of
wine, in her elegantly fitted up cabin,
he very politely begged to be excused,
stilting he had business in the city
which demanded his immediate atten
tion, promising.me he would visit my
ship the same evening.
The evening wore aloig, and I had
given him up coming for tho night,
and was making preparations to turn
anto my hammock when the splash of
oars greeted my ears, and in a ffcw
moments more the captain stepped
upon my deck, nccornponicd by anotli.
cr young gentleman whom 1 recog
nized as Mr. Robert Troth (formerly
an engineer in the Confederate navy).
The first remark Tolbert made was
this: “ Wake up, Johnson, you are
boarded by pirates." From uiv knowl
edge of the man, I knew ho was in for
a night’s sport, and decided to let him
have his full swing.
After reaching tho cabin, assuming
a confidential manner, said he : “Capt.
Johnson, you and 1 have always been
friends, and I have come on board
your ship to have a “good time" with
you, 1 have just won a bet of five hun
dred pounds, in Calcutta, from ono of
my Boston friends. When I was here,
just six months ago, lacking two days,
I laid a wager of £i>oo sterling that
Wilkes Both was alive, which was
accepted and the money staked. The
conditions were, that I Was to furnish
the proof of the fact inside of six
months. Two men were selected by
my adversary to accompany me, their
expenses to be paid by the loser. We
have just got back to-day ; and those
two men, after being duly sworn, said
“they had seen J. Wilkes Booth, tho
actor; had conversed with lim ; and
that he is alive and enjoying excellent
health. The judges, after debating
the question at length, finally rendered
a decision in uiy favor, and tho money
was handed over forthwith. Booth’s
whereabouts is known to five persons
only, who know that he is Booth. lie
is l'ving in obscurity, far from his na
tive laud ; and is perfectly safe, as his
disguise is so oompleto that his own
brother would not recognizo him. I
sailed from Calcutta on the following
day, and have not heard from the dash
ing young ex-lieutenant since. What
he told me made a deep impression on
my mind. I pondered over the mat
ter- on my return voyage, aud must
sav that I firmly believe Booth is alive,
ana Capt. W. sf. Tolbert knows where
he is.’’
The above are almost verbatim his
own words, and comment is unnecessa
ry by me.
Respectfully, etc, •
Your ob’t servant,
Andrew M. Wilson.
“ Black Republicans” of Georgia.
—The Loyal Georgian announces the
following names, as comprising what
that paper calls the “ Executive Com
mittee ol the Black Republicans of
Georgia”:
Ist Congressioiwl District—Rev. J.
F. Sims, Savannah.
2d Congressional District—Wm. H.
Noble, Cutliberf.
3d Congressional District—Oliver
Ss-oders, Columbus.
< Congressional District—Lewis
Smith, Macon.
sth Congressional District—Thomas
P, Beard, Augusta.
Gth Congressional District—Madi
son Davis, Athen.4.
7th Congressional District—E. B.
Rucker, Marietta.
Delegates at. Large. —Rev. If. M.
Turner, Macon ; Rev. T. G. Campbell,
Savannah ; J. f. Costin, Macon.
Cotton Exported from N. Orleans.
—she records kept by Collector Kel
-I°£E> the N. Orleans Custom House,
flhow that the amount of cotton ox.
ported from the port of New Orleans
to foreign countries during the period
commencing August Ist, 18G6, and
ending March 31st, 1867, is one hun
dred and sixty-nine million nine hun
dred and ten thousand three hundred
and seventy-fire pounds, valued at
951,445,044.
(Enterprise
(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : : : ; Editor-
THO MAS VILLE, GA-:
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 18G7.
“ CHATHAM COUNTY JAIL.
“Mr. J. E. llayes, of the Republi
can is still incarcerated in this famous
place. We think the majesty of the
law has been vindicated. Wo assume
that Mr. Hayes violated the law or a
Georgia Judge and a Chatham county
jury would not have condemned him,
We don’t think they did it because
they were rebels and he was a Union
man. It is expected that Mr. Hayes
will think so. If he says so, we nor
they, should bo offended. In no sense
can'justioe require his longer incarce.
ration. We therefore propose to the
Press of Georgia, to unite in a petition
to Gov. Jenkins that he be pardoned.
His detention can do no good, hi? lib*
oration no harm. One prisoner has
been released ift whom we of the South
Icel a great interest. No one can be
damaged if another fho added to the
list. We think that Mr. Cohen can
have no vindictive feeling now toward
Mr. IL lyes. His reputation has been
vindicated by tho law. Mr. Hayes
may have acted indiscreetly.' Those
of us that have not, may he jus titled
in casting a stone at him.
“Every man may be suppajfed to
have a selfish object in what he does,
We confess to ours. We are a little
jubilant that Fortress Monroe dies not
contain a prisoner, nnd can see no good
reason why Mr. llayes should longer
remain in “Chatham County Jail,’’
and hxrvc no fancy for striking a man
who is down, or one whose hands are
tied. We should be glad to know if
this is not tho sentiment of the press
of tlic State.”— Valdosta Times.
As our cotemporary of the Times
calls for an expression of the senti
ments of the press of the State on the
liberation of J. E. Hayes, editor of
the Savannah Republican, we, as a
.member of that body, answer as fol
lows : —The “ majesty of the law ” has
not been “vindicated’’ until the fine
imposed has been paid. Shall the law
or its prisoner triumph '! Mr. llayes
openly denounces the Court and defies
its power. Ho does not expect jus
tice in a Southern Court, was not dis
appointed when convicted—neverthe
less, he is not tlio first person ever
convicted in Georgia for slander, nor,
without prejudice, would he have any
reason to doubt that justice would be
done him as well in the South as in
the North. He has not sought until
recently, relief through the magnan
imity of the State —he has implored
it at the hands'of a dominant and un
scrupulous party. Believing that re
lief would finally appear from that
source, he declined to permit even his
friends to pay tho fine, that he might
triumph over rebels and 1 rebel Courts’
We do not believe Ire was convicted
“because he was a Union man"—if
Mr. Hayes thinks so, it only proves
the bias of his judgment. Either the
conviction was just or it was unjust
on one side is a jury of twelve' ‘loyal ’
men, on the other, Mr. llayes. Which
shall we trust ? The Court sentenced
him to pay a fine—he refuses-—is sent
to jail until it is paid—he becomes
contumacious —after several months
confinement he begins to repent, his
choice, but stiii defiant and resolute
in his refusal to pay tho fine. If he
was lawfully convicted, ho is lawfully
ponfined, and as long as he refuses to
pay tho fine, just so long is lie stand
ing in defnnee of the law. lie leave*
no room for ouf sycinathv, for he sets
our laws at naught, a..'d Deats our tri
bunals of justice with seoi'n u0:1 '
tempt. He repels our mngnai..'»iify
with his unreasonable contumacy, and
while he expects mercy at the hands
of tho Executive, he ridicules the
power invested in his keeping. The
laot that Mr. llayes is editor of the
Savannah Republican, or a “ member
of die press,” lias no weight oil our
mind, and as ho never did us any per
sonal wrong, we think we havo no
prejudice against him.' We should bo
glad to see him at liberty—but until
we are convinued that ho was unlaw
fully convicted of the crime for which
ho is confined, wo must decide to let
the “majesty of the law be vindicated.”
DEFEAT OP THE RADICALS.
Tlio news from the Kentucky elec
tion grows more and more interesting.
A burning up of the votes shows that
tho Democrats carried the State by the
magnificent majority of 42,000. This
is a defeat worth recording against the
Radicals, and ono from which they
cannot easily rooover. Not a single
Radical was elected in the Slate, in
deed, wo 'may say that in only two
districts did thoy get even a respect u
bio vote. This will be their fate in
all but two of tlio Southern States, if
the lawful voters are allowed to go to
tho polls, and wo havo strong evidence
that .several of tho Northern States
will follow tho noble example of Con
necticut and Kentucky. Tho Radicals
are beginning to feel it and many have
already been seized with alarm.
HEAVY FAILURE.
The telegraph reports tho failure of
the wealthy house of Fraser, Trenholm
A Cos., of Liverpool, for 84,000,000.
This house was well known through
out tho South during the war, and
many will regret the misfortune’ that
has overtaken iti It 6eoms improbable
that the small sum of four millions
should ruin a firm wo thought to be
wortli an hundred millions, and we
still doubt, and liopo its embarrass
ment is only temporary.
RECONSTURCTION CONVEN
TIO N .
The Savannah Republican contains
a call for a Convention, to be composed
of the “ loyal.” delegates of the First
Congressional District, 16 meet at
Blaokshear, on Tuesday, the 4t’n of I
June, “tor the purpose of adopting all :
the Bills recently passed by Congress
for the reconstruction of the Union.”
We do not know what the call means
by “ loyal delegates,” unless it is in
tended for the blacks, and the few
Northern Radicals scattered through
tho District. We regard all our peo
ple as loyal to the Constitution and
good government, and think it would
be better, both for the dignity of the
Convention and the object it has in
view, to call a Convention of the peo
ple simply. The “ loyal ’’ people of
Georgia have no need to '‘adopt the
bills passed by Congress ’’ Congress
“ adopted ” the bills and that is suffi
cient. Congress dictates—our pro
vince is to obey. When the voters
are registered, the people will be called
on to elect delegates to a Slate Con
vention to draft anew Constitution.
Until then we have no need of Con
ventions, and those idlers who are go
ing abuut the country, disturbing the
public tranquility by getting up politi
cal excitements, should be sent to a
place of correction. They get up
meetings and conventions, that they
may bray in the ears of respectable
people.' •
MR. DAVIS AT LARGE.
'flip Southern journals are urrivef-
Sally rejoicing wist the people gener
ally, at the release of the distinguished
Confederate I’resident. This single
act of the Government will do ftiorc
toward producing harmony and good
feeling in the South, than all the
speeches of all the Wilson’s and Kelly’s
with tho five Mil’tar.y Governors su
peraded. If now the Government
will taka the next important step iri
the path of wisdom, and repeal tho
disfranchising laws, tho road will be
completely open and the foundatiou
stone laid for speedy reunion and re
conciliation.
PERIODICALS.
Gomcv’s Lady’s Book. — This ox.
cellent periodical for J une, has reached
our sanctum and we find that it is the
last number of tho Thirty-seventh vo
lume. Think of it—a handsome. Ma
gazine in its thirty-seventh year, and
has been improved almost every year.
It has indeed, reached a state of ele
gance and perfection seldom attained
by magazines in this country, and is
to day ono of die most beautiful, inter
esting and valuable publications in the
world.
Land Wk Lovk. —Gen. D. 11. Hill’s
lately improved and most excellent
Magazine, from the “land we love,’’
also greets us for the month of June.
We always find in it something suited
to our taste —a good deal of anecdote
and fun, with a great deal of valuable
information. It is rapidly growing in
public favor, and wo hope it may be
permanently established, as the crown
ing good deed of its illustrious founder.
Scott’? Maciazink.—■The Juno
number of this elegant Georgia pro
duction has also arrived, and wo give
it tho right hand of welcome, as an
ostee-nod friend, long absent. The
“Gate City” may well boast of its lit
erature, if Scott's Magazine is to be
regarded as a specimen, and we ven
ture to state that the. South is no long
er dependent upon the North for good
literature. We now have it manufac
tured at . home, and tipping our hat to
the Yankees for bringing übout a state
of affairs so devoutly to be wished for,
wc close by wishing they may bo suc
cessful in their operations, until the
whole South shall become.a manufac
turing district.
Further of tho Mobile Distur
bance.
The Advertiser says : Tho distur
bance th.'B occurred at the meeting to
hear Judge K.'Hej' was the result of the
merest accident. R citizen who
had, been drinking mauV seYPral loud
comments on portions of Jua’gO -vol
ley's remarks that did not please in.A
It was very imprudent and improper to
havo been indulged iu at this meeting.
In truth, the best thing that the white
people can do is to keep away from
these meetings. The police endeavor'
ed to quiet tli ■ tipsy citizen. The ai''
rest provoked a souffle, and about
same time a carriage ami horses ran
eff through tho outskirts of the crowd,
producing a rush to get out ol' the way.
Tho two circumstances created the
impression in tho body of the crowd
that there was a fight begun, and (ho
whole muss broke up and dispersed at
(hiublc quiok. Meantime the freed'
men Commenced firing their pistols as
they ran, and, as wo learn, in the air.
The last account must, be tnio, for as
there were from one hundred and fifty
to two hundred shots fired, if they had
•been aimed in the orowd, nearly as
mauy hundred men must have been
hit.
From Mexico.
New Orleans, May 21.—-The Pica
yune's special correspondence, dated
Orizaba, May 3d, says tho City of
Mexico is surrounded by twenty thoiii
sand Liberals The huuilmrdinont has
commenced in earnest. The garrison
consists of 8,000 men.
Tho commander, Marquez, lias an
nounced his intention to resist to the
death.. Ho is impressing water car
riers aud porters.
No officer will receive nny quarter
from the Liberals. •
Orders have been issued that Mira>
uion, Marquez and Maximilian will be
shot, if captured.
Since tho surrender of Puebla tho
Imperialists do not number over 10 ; >
000 men, all told.
Wilkes Booth Dairy.
Washington. .'lay 21.*—Sccre*ary
Stanton has furnished a certified copy
of Bosh’s diary to the President,
which has been published, as follows :
“ April 13th and,l4th. —Friday the
ides.—Until to-day, nothing was ever
thought of sacrificing to our country’s
wrongs. For six months we had work
ed to capture, but our cause being al
most loßt,Boinctliiug,decisive and great
must be done. But its failure was
owing to others, who did not strike for
their country with a heart. I struck
boldly, and not as the papers say. I
walked with a firm step through a
thousand of his friends, was stopped,
but pushed on. A Colonel was at his
J side. I shouted “sic semper" before
I fired. In jumping* broke my leg. I
passed all his pickets, rode GO miles
that night with the bone of my leg
tearing the flesh at every jump. I
can never repent it, though. We hated’
to kill. Our country owed all her
troubles td. him, and Got! simply made
me the Instrument of his punishment.’
The balance of the diary is some
what incoherent, and without any al
lusion to the accomplices in the'assas
sination, except a boy who accompa
nied him. Certificates accompany the
document showing that the mutilations
ol the diary occurred beluie capture.
Emancipation in Brasil.
It appears t hat the emancipation of ;
the slaves in Brazil, as proposed by the
Emperor, bas been canvassed in the
Council of State, and it is understood
that the plan provides for the total
extinction of slavery in tlio year I9UU.
Thcf’ollowing are reputed to be the
basis of the plsn :
First: Slavery shall cease totally
in the year 1900, that is, in thirty-three
years hence.
Second : The State shall indemnify
those citizens who may still own slaves
at that period.
Third : From the date of the pro
mulgation of this decree, all children
born to-sJavcs shall bo lice.
Fourth : Those children-who may
beodtleatid i'n iljc houses of their
parents’ masters shall serve them till
they reach their twentieth year, and
will then he restored to freedom.
Fifth : There will be established
courts of emancipation in all the towns
to enforce the law and see to its proper
execution.
Sixth : A fixed amount will-be sat
aside for emancipation of the slavt-s of
the nation, and the same terms will be
agreed upon to effect the liberation of
the slaves owned by religious orders
as may be made to purchase the free
dom of those hold by the Government,
Seventh : There will be appropria
ted a fund for the annual purchase of
a certain number of slaves, so that but
few may be in bondage when the hour
of general cmacipatibn is at Inuicf.
The organ of the Brazilian Govern
moot says there is no doubt as to the
determination of tho Emperor in re
gard to this matter, and alleges that a
Step has already boon made which hon
ors his intention.
Judge Kelly’s Rooord.
The following interesting political
and religions record of Judge Kelly,
who is now canvassing the South in
the interests ol Radicalism, has been
resurrected by a New York ■ paper.
Read it:
LBTTER FROM JOHN OUTFFtN.
New York, Feb. 21, 18GG,
lion. 'William D. Kelly:
Sir: In your spceoli at a negro
meeting, on the 13th inst., at Wash,
ington, in the Ist Presbyterian church,
you stated that “if Fred. Douglas was
not qualified to vote in tiic City of
Washington, it trts very strange that
tho meanest of your race should be en
titled to do so for President.” This
was your language published in the
city papers. I have known you since
the year 1829 or 1830; huve\nown
you when you were studying law with
Col. Page; knew you when you were
a violent Jackson, antic Bank, anti-
VV big, anti<Clay, and a stroug Calhoun
and pro.slavery man, of the most Cop.
porhead kind; I knew you-when you
were one of Fanny Wright's followers;
an atheist of the most ‘damnable’ kind;
I knew yon when you were a leader of
the Philadelphia church burners in
1844 ; yourself and- Lewis C. Levin ;
I kno ! v ” ou w bcn you wanted to burn
down the t'lu.’relios that your father
worshipped at, a..'d where you received
your natmfat tile bap-:*s:n•«l folit. All
this you would have done, were it not
for the gallant few, Gen. Patterson,
Gen. Cadwalluder, ex-Mayor Swiit,
Josiah Randall, and lust, not least,
Col Du Sidle; all Protestant gentle
men, ail Americans, with tho excep
tion of i’aftefson, an luou-st Presbyte
rian of ’9B. You are a renegade in
religion as well as iu polities, and a
disgrace to the name and memory of
your honest father and kindred. A
bird that fouls his own nest is a filthy
bird.
Yours,- * John Griffin,
No. 84 Catherine st, New York.
Brick Pomoroy on Abraham
Lincoln.
“ Brick "’claims and exercises, (fie
right to speak ol the late President
just as he would of any other histoti
cal character. He says:
And, as wo spoke of him living, so
shall we speak of him dead. No man
who strangles Liberty iu her ciudle
shall hide behind a tombstone, and
elude our port- We connect AbrJhmn
Lincoln, alive and dead, with the par
ty that uuule him, tho party he joined
with in the war upon Rights, and shall
not sepefate the two.
Our duty is to tho living— t,e the
men of to-day; the children of tomor
row ; and. with TUod's help, we shall
do our best to educate the people to
know and believe that the statesman
Abraham was bat a joker, that their
saint was but a dinner—that their
great martyr was a humbug !
Don’t talk to us of respect for the !
dead!
Don’t prate to ns that we alone must
keep silenee over the tomb !
Why do tho Radicals denounce Ju
das Iscariot ? Why not let the grave
cover him ? Why do folks denounce
Haynau? Is he not dead ?
Why denounce and point with scorn
to Benedict Arnold ? Does not the
grave cover him also ?
Why denounce Burr and Calhoun ?
Are they not in their graves ?
Why war upon dead Confederate
soldiers, and refuse ladies'the privi
lege -of planting flowers over their
graves ? -
Are not they in graves as sacred as
the grave of the man who was carted
-from Washington to Springfield, as a
stuffed elephant is drawn around, lor a
show, and for political effect ?
Out with such nonsense I
This is an ago of “ progress ” you
say!
If all the*drops of the ocean were
teals, apd all the sands mourners', we
should still speak of Lincoln as we
saw fit, and should hold him dead as
wc held him living.
He was a part of our country. His
history was in a measure its history.
His birth vras no credit to it; his death
no loss ; it was simply the act of God,
done at His command by human agen-
Icy. Lincoln’s ad ministration was the
most corrupt, profligate, aud wicked
this country was ever cursed with.
He wove himself into history. Qis
going to Washington was a cowardly
comedy ; his administration an insult
to Liberty; his death a God-appoin
ted tragedy.
One of Mrs- Caudle’s Lectures
Mr. Caudle has Ventured a Remon
strance on His Day’s Dinner—-Cold
Mutton and no Pudding—Mrs.
Caudle Defends the Cold Shoulder,
“I’m sure! Well! I wonder what
it will be next ? There’s nothing
proper now—no —nothing at all. fet
ter get somebody else to keep the
house, I think. I can’t do it now, it
seems; I’m only in the way hero; I’d
better lake the children and go.
“What am I grumbling about now ?
It’s very well for you to ask that! I’m
sure I’d belter be out of the world than
—there, now, Mr. Caudle, there you
are again ! 1 shall speak, sir. It isn’t
often [ open my mouth, Heaven
knows ! But you like to'hear nobody
talk but yourself You ought to have
married a negro slave, and not a re
spectable woman.
“You’re to go about the bouse look
ing like thunder all day, and I’m not
to say a word. Where do you think
pudding’s to come from every day ?
You set a nice example to your chil
dren, you do ; complaining and turn
ing up your nose at a sweet piece of
cold mutton, because there’s no pud
ding.- You go a nice way to
extravagant —teach ’em nice lesson to
begin the world with. Do you know
what puddings cost; or do you think
they fly in at the window?
“You hate cold mutton. The more
shame for you, Mr. Uaudle I’m sure
you’ve the stomach Qf a lord, you
have. No, sir; I didn’t choose to
hash the mutton. It’s very etisy for
you- to say hash it ; but I know what
a joint loses in hashing it; it’s a day’s
dinner the less, if it’s a bit. Yes, I
dare say oth< r people may have pud.
dings with cold mutton. No doubt of
it; and other people become bank
rupts. But it over you get into the
Gazette, it Shan’t be my fault—no; I’ll
do my duty as a wife to you, Mr.
Caudle; you shall never have it to say
that it was my housekeeping that
brought you to beggary. No; you
may sulk at the cold meat —ho ! I
hope you'll never live to want such a
piece of cold mutton as wo had to-day !
and you may threaten to go to a tavern
to dine ; but, with our present means
not a crumb of pudding do you gi’t
from mo. You shall have nothing
but the cold joint—nothing as I’m a
Christian sinner.
“Yes, there you are, throwing those
fowls in tny face again ! I know you
once brought home a pair of fowls; l
know it; and wr'n’t you mean enough
to want to stop ’em out of roy Week’s
money? Oh, tho »(Ifislmess the
shabbiness of men ! They can go out
and throw away pounds upon pounds
with a pack of people who laugh ‘al
’em afterwards ; but if it’s anything
wanted for their (two homes, their
poor wives way hunt for it. I wonder
you don’t blush to name those fowls
again ! * I wouldn’t be so little for the
world, Mr. Caudle !
“ y'/uht are you going to do ? Going to
get up ? Don't make yourself rnticn
lous, Mr. Caudle; I can’t say a word to
i you like nny other wife, but you must
, threaten to get up. Do he ashamed of
! youself.
“ Puddings, indeed ? Do you think
I’m made of puddings-? Didn’t you
luive some boiled rice throe weeks
ago? Pesides, fs ibis the time of
year for pufcluiugs? it’s all very well
I it l bad money enough allowed inc
like any other wife to keep the bouse
| with; then, indeed, 1 inighf have pro
I servos like any other woman ; now its
| impossible; nnd its cruel—yes, Mr.
i Caudle, orue! —of you to expeet it.
“ Apples ain’t so dear, afo they ? I
know what npplos arc, Mr. Ca idle,
without your telling me. But I sup
pose you want something iu re than
apples for dumplings? I suppdse su
gar costs something, doesn tit ? And
that’s how it is. That’s how one ox
pensc brings on another, and that’s
how people go to ruin.
“Panoakes? What'S the use of
your lying muttering there about pan
cakes? Don’t you always have them
once a year—every throve Tuesday ?
And what would auy moderate, decent
man want more ?
“Pancakes, indeed! Pray, Mr.
Caudle —no, it’s no use your saying
five words to mo to set you g# to sleep ; !
1 slrau’t? —pray do you know the price
of eggs just uow? There’s not an egg !
you can trust to . under seven and !
eight a shilling ; well, you’ve only just
to reckon up how many c-ggs—don*t
lie sweating there at the eggs/in that
manner, Mr. Uaudl.e, unless you ex
pect the bed. to lat you through, You
call yourself a respectable tm'desmun',*
I suppose? lla! I only wish people
knew you as well as I do! Swearing
Wt eggs, indeed! But l’iy tired of
this usage, Mr. Caudle; quite tired of
it; and I don’t care how soon it is en
ded.
“I’m sore I do nothing but work
and labor, and think how to make the
most of everything, and this is how
I’m rewarded. 1 should like to see
any lady whose joints go further than
mine. But if 1 was to throw away
your money in the street, or lay it out
in fine feathers on myself, I should be
better thought of. The woman who
studies her.husband and her family is
always made a drudge of. Its your
tine la'-lal wives who’ve the beat time
of it,
“What’s the use of your lying groan,
ing there in that manner ? That Nvou f t
make roe hold my tongue, I eftn tell
you. You think to have it all your
own way-'bot your won’t! You can
insult my dinner; look like a demou,
I may say, at a wholesome •piece of
mutton—ah! the thousand of far bet
ter creatures than you are who'ct" be
thankful for that mutton !~»uud I'm
never to speak! But you’re mistaken,
I will. Your usage of.jue, Mr. Cau
<lle_, is infaiftous- -Unworthy of a man.
I only wish people knew you for what
you.are; but i’ve-told you again and
again they shall some day
“Puddings ! Aud now I suppose I
shall hear of nothing but puddingsd
Yes, and I know what it would end
in. First, you’d have a pudding every
day;—oh, 1 know your extravagance'
—rlien you’d go for fish—--then Ishoul .
dn’t wonder it you’d have soup; tur
tle, nodoubt; then you’d go for des
sert ; and—oh ! I see it all as plain
as the quilt before me—but no, not
while I’m alive! What your second
wife may do, I don’t know; perhaps
she’ll be a fine lady ; but you shan’t
be ruined by uie, Mr. Caudle; that I’ui
determined. Puddings, indeed! Pu
dding-s ! Pudu”—;
“Exhausted nature/’ says Caudle,
“could hold out no lopger. She wgnt
to sleep.” .
Cut This Out-
The Mercantile Times gives the
following seasonable rules for young
men commencing business.- •
The worid estimates men by their
success in life—and, by general con
sent, success is evidonec of superiority.
Never, under any circumstances,
assume a responsibility you can avoid
consistently with your duty lo yourself
and others.
Base all your actions upon a princi
ple 'of right; preserve year integrity
of character, and in doing this, never
reekon the cost.
Remember that self-interest is more
likely to warp your judgment than all
other circumstances combined ;-thce
fore, look well to your duty, when
your interest is concerned.
Never make money at the expense
of your reputation.
Be neither lavish n6r niggardly ; of
the two, avoid the latter. A mean'
man is- universally despised, but pub''
lie favor is a stepping stone to prefer
ment —• therefore geuerous feelings
should be cultivated.
Say but little—think much—and do
more.
Let your expenses be suob as to
leave u balance in your pocket. Ready
money is a friend in need.
Keep clear of the law ; for oven if
you gain your case, you are generally
a loser of money.
Avoid borrowing and lending.
Wine drinking and cigar smoking
are bad habits. They impair the mind
and pocket and lead to a waste of
time.
<©’■ A correspondent, after many
an-arrow escape from the Indians, has
collected the following characteristics
of tho different tribes :
A litigaous tribe ; the Sioux.
Boasting Characters the Crows.
Half-civilized—the Semi-noles.
Industrious classes —tho Diggers.
Sharp l elb ws—tho Cheyennes.
Good Pastry Cooks —the Pi-utes,
Individuals of capacity ; tho Sacs,
i Holding to their pledges ; the Pawn
j ees.
Sly fellows—the Foxes.
A sluggish race—the Creeks,
i Afoul-mouth set—the Chick-asp w.s.
A filthy tribe, offensive in warm
weather—the Black’feet.
Enotgetlo men—the Kick.apoos -
Men of letters—the Wv-an-dottes.
i A sinking evidence of civilisation
! is tho number of clubs that arc found
I among the Indiana. Some of them
wore in quite a destitute condition.
The Crows had eaten all their corn
and were unable to get even an Indian
meal. Our correspondent had a little
brush with the FoXes, and was nearly
1 bagged by the Sacs, besides being pep
pered by the Cheyennes. Msny of
thorn wear rich ornaments, and he has
had the war-whoop ring in his ears
quite often. —Poston Com. Bulletin.
MORE DEMOCRATIC
VICTORIES
The Philadelphia .ige rejoices that
two important towns in that State,
Wi Hints port and Wilk.abnrre have
changed their polites and defeated the
Radicals in thew Municipal election*.
More Hoads OfT
Mobile, May 22.—An order has
been issued this evening, by direction
of Major General Pope, deposing the
present Mayor and Chief of Police,
appointing Gu*ttavns Morton. Mayor;
aud Colonel Dirnin, Chief of Police, j
•. The Gentleman.
ITc is above a mean thing. He cam
not stoop to a mean fraud. He inv
vades no secret in the keeping of ano
ther. lie betrays no secrets
to his own keeping. lleNicver struts'
in borrowed plumage. He never takes
selfish advantage of our 'mistakes. Ho
uses no ignoble weapons in contcaveisy.
He never stabs in the dark. He is
ashamed of inuendos. He is not ono
thing to the man’s face and another
behind his back. If by accident lie
c mies in possession of bis neighbor’*
counsels, he passes upon them an act
of instant oblivion. He bears sealed
packages without tampering with the
wax. Papers not meant for his eyes,
whether they flutter at Fis'window or
lie open before hint in unguarded ex*
posure, are sacred to him. He invades
no privacy of otheis, however the sen.
try sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks and
keys, hedges and pickets, bonds anil
securities, notice to trespassers, are
none of them for him. He may be
trusted by himself out of sight—near
the thinnest partition—anywhere, lie
buys no offices, he sells none, he in-*
trignes for none. He would rather
fail of his rights thiyi win them thro’
dishonor. lie will eat honest bread.
He tramples on no sensitive feeling,
lie insults no man. If he hav* rc>
bu-kc for another, he is straightfbr.
ward, open, inan'y. In short, what
ever be judges honorable, he practices
toward every man.
£-.7-About two years ago, when .Mr.
.Jefferson Davis was first thrown into
prison, a vow was made by a vrterad
t.ypo, and a respected citizen of Char--
lesion, that he would neither cut his*
hair nor trim his beard until tile dis
tinguished captive should-he again set
at liberty. The citizen 1 referred to is’
a man of much 1 weight artul’ 'freed ro-*
tundity of person, and the- power of
endurance which Fie displayed in re-’
maining faithful to h : u vow during the'
terrible beat of last summer can be
better imagined than described. The
first summer it was not so bad; nei
ther his hair nor beard having then
grown to an inconvenient length, and
in the winter the additional covering
was only comfortable. The telegraph
boys were wild with excitement under
the effect of three such startling pieces
of intelligence, all in one day ; the in
junction bills were dismissed, Mr.
Davis was out of prison, and ijlr.
I ad cut his hair and shaved.—Char
leston Mercury.
Corn Marker —A farmer ad Ches
terfield, 111., describes a simple and
cheap corn marker. It is made ly
putting a short axle in the forward
wheels of a wagon and a long one in
the hind ones; couple them together
by a six feet stick, pinned on the hind
axle, and running to the centre of the
•coupling; the wagon tongue can be
put on the front axle by two small
iron bolts put through tho ends of the
hounds and axle ; the axles can be
made of poles. Put tho front wheels
four feet apart, and the others twelve
feet, though the length of the axle
can be mad'e to suit. Sixty acres a
day can be markCn with it. It runs
light and makes a good mark, and
one that will *how after a rain a* good
as a sled mark.
£6§“Gov. Holm, in a recent powerful
speech at Louisville, Kentucky, thus
‘ hits’the nail on .the head :”
“I tell you-thattho Northern States
arc refusing to let the negro vote on
their side of the river. They wish to
compel him to remove to the Southern
States, where he will be allowed suf
frage. This action* is based on tho
idea that the nogro will naturally go
where he has most privileges, and es
pecially if that climate beat suits him.
They wish, therefore, to ship the negro
upon you, because you dare not control
him without runing the risk of the in
terference of Federal powor.”
Departure of Negro Emigrants for
Liberia. —Charleston, May 20 —The
ship Golconda cleared to-day for Li
beria. She will convey about 300 ne
gro emigrants, many more had engaged
Siassago, but having since made satis
actory contracts here, or owing to
their changed status under the Recon
struction Acts, they now decline leav
ing for the present.
#iaS“A writer in a St. Louis paper,
who has recently travelled through the
States of North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama, says that deaths
fVom starvation occur almost daily in
the localities which .he visit'd, and
that many more must occur before the
corn crop matures, unless aid comes
from the Noftli. He says the destitu
tion throughout the South is wide
spread and faorful and relatoa heart
rending incidents of starving people
clamoring for bread.
SrP~ Pipes ma le of charcoal are
coming into use in Hartford. Thcv
are sakl to absorb the nicotine better
than meerschaum, and are purified by
holding them for a few seconds in the
blaze of a lamp.
Seal meg, editor of tiro
Memphis Bulletin, has been voted an
elegant secretary and chair, at Straw
berry Festival at the Baptist Church,
for being the most popular editor in
that city.
*®"Tbo London Telegraph allude*
to Banks as a mad wag, whose best
joke was undoubtedly that of trying to
pass himself off as a gtneral.
Situation as Teacher Wanted
•pill' will oa» of rmpl.-y.
I men! on the 1 h of June, and deejree a
Mioarioa a* Vhn-’l Tea her. ilavimt
l-ws rear* -xper oncr in Iw S-ttlor
mM-onnhto comnwitiiir, aud dcaire* an *»rlT
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