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WEEKIIF NEW
VOLUME IV.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 28, 1870.
NUMBER 6
Hon. Alpooria Bradley, Laving visited
Washington in thc interests of the Bryant
Democracy, has learned that iwliiidodii like
* 'Republics are ungrateful.” '• j, •
He is said now to be in Washington, without
"risible means of support,” and has written
urgent appeals to Dr. Angier and Hon. Dnnlap
Scott for immediate relief.
Has the Bryant Belief and Missionary Fnml
given out? Come, gentlemen, Wt leave
yoor colleague in distress, but sen! him funds
aud let him return to your bosons and affec
tions !
The Georgia. legislature*
The Legislature met yesterjky at 12 v., nc-
cording to adjournment on l^onday last; and,
after some discussion aa U the time they
should adjourn over, adjonrled until Monday
next, at 12 M.
This was in order to Allow time for the
Honae to take action updi the Senate’s sub
stitute for the Georgia bit
What wfll be the actio* of the House on this
issue, is of eonrse a nutter of conjecture, con-
etruing which the r«der can make his own
speculations. 1
In ease the House should concur, and the
Pomeroy .nbutitute *k-W<l l«oomo the Uw,
the Legislature, liing still ProvWoual, ran
proceed to no geiy'ral Imsiness further thau it
may be enabled under the act of Congress. #
Uollmlay *nd tl»c Drmorrntlr Press*.
The Cad* investigation in Congress, result
ed in the “xpulsion of one man (Whittemore)
for corruption; and iu the resignation of an
other ruu (Golloday) to forestall bis disgrace
and <rpul*iou.
Tte first named, was a Republican; the last
ft jbmoernt.
On the first, the Democratic press comment
roely; and assume that, because Whittemore
traded in Cadetships, and was therefore ex-
IKilled for corruption, all Republican# are
guilty of the same practice! On the last, the
Democratic press maintain a denth-like si
lence; thereby tacitly assuming that, because
Golloday did a smart thing in resigning in
order prevent the just penalties of his crime,
all Democrats would lie justifiable in doing tbe
Mamo thing!
Another Mbit'i West!
The leaders of the same party that discover
ed Governor Bulbick to be "without visible
means of support,” and who telegraphed the
miinchansen story about the Georgia National
Bank having honored his individual draft with
funds belonging to the Western aud Atlantic
Railroad, have found another mare’s nest.
They assert (they are Buncombe at assertion!)
that Georgra Bonds or the Bonds of the Bruns
wick and Alliany Railroad, or something of the
kind (they seem not to know exactly what,)
have 1>een corruptly used to defeat the Bing
ham Amendment
These astute champions of antiquated theo
ries, and representatives of a defeated political
faction seem to be sorely pressed, just at this
time, for some tangible issue whereby thoy
may “me the State!”
TUc Pomcrojr Amendment,
As originally introduced, is already familiar
to the readers of tho Exa. Subsequently, and
before the vote wo# taken on Tuesday,there were
some alterations, principally in dates, as will
be seen by extracts elsewhere published from
the Congressional Globe of the 15tl» and lfitb
instant
The remarks of Mr. Pomeroy himself, and
the extracts from the debate, had on the days
named, may enable the reader to form his own
conclusion us to the scope and meaning of the
Substitute ns passed.
Two important adjuncts to the Pomeroy
substitute, it seems, were adopted after its pas
sage -the first, offered by Mr. Drake, making
municipalities responsible iu damages for in-
juriea to persons and proj**rty within tlieir
limits, and not suppressed l»y them; the sec
ond, by Mr. Tomerey, repealing certain laws
so as to jiermit tbe organization and calling
into service of the State Militia, during the ex
istence of the present Provisional Government.
New Sect.
A new religions sect has ariseu iu .Boston,
the meml»crs of which call themselves "Bible
Christians.” They think they have an insight
as to the meaning of the Bible that has been
giveu to none liefore them, and from this they
have learned the mistake that has lieen made
in the observance of tlie Lord's day. A con
verted Methodist minister preaches to them.
He and they hold that he is a prophet of the
latter days, and thoy point to a verse in Main-
chi in which his coming is foretold. The Lord
has them in special care, as they beliove, aud
they need take no thought for to-morrow as
The whole Christian
History and Re all tic*.
The romance of war owes its fascinations to
distance of time or space. "If the date is re
cent or the scene of a bloody conflict is near
by, war ceases to charm the imagination by
"its pomp and glorious circumstance.” The
actors in great historic scenes, by our personal
acquaintance with them, depreciate and loose
in our esteem, much of the practical heroism
that so delights when we study the characters
of men of ancient times.
Not only is oar admiration for a great and
good man often diminished by clone contact
or familiarity, but our horror for the bad man
diminishes from the same cause. If we know,
personally, the felon that nnder circumstances
indicative of great atrocity on his part, has
slain Lis follow-man; or if we have visited the
spot where a dastardly murder was committed,
the horrid nature of the crime is sometlnng
ameliorated in by sympathy for the homicide
or his family p or by the realization of the fact
that we can safely stand upon the spot where
the crime was committed.
Since the late bloody civil war, the people
both North and South, have less desire to seek
a refutation at the cannon’s mouth than ever
heretofore in the history of the country. The
bttle unpleasantness, which nnder the Fabian
policy of George Washington, resulted in the
independence of the thirteen colonies, served
for two generations to excite the martial spirit
of our people to a point of poetic,exaggeration.
Now, few men, who have been in the smoke
of battle and witnessed the devastating trampl
of mighty armies, are " spoiling for a fight.”
Peace, glorious peace! in tho imagination of alj
sensible men, is clothed with a wreath more
glorious tliau the laurels that hind tbe brow of
the military hero.
What change may come over the spirit of
the people two generations hence, if the staid
and sober associations, and the blessings of
continued Peace shall satiate and tire with
their monotony, it is now difficult to fore
tell.
The historic muse will have been busy dur
ing this interim, iu painting the scenes of
blood, and exaggerating the picture by group
ing heroic and the self-sacrificing instances,
in such a manner as to leave far in the back
ground the ghastly horrors of the wonnds that
war inflicts as often upon the innocent and
nnoffending, as upon the guilty aggressor.
The McCanleys and Prescotts and MdUeys
that will succeed us, will rummage among the
records of our time. Patting their pens to
work, they will, in enphonions sentences, ar
ranged to charm the imagination, draw moral
pictures of the men we have seen, and the bat
tles we have witnessed, that will bear little re-
Hemblance to the originals or to horrid reali
ties. What now seems to ns common-place,
may thus lx* made to appear to our great grand
children romantic aud faei unting: thus exci
ting them to make pilgrimages to the tombs of
the heroes of our day, and to visit the locali
ties of their exploit#.
How much the inconveniences of travel, and
slow transmission of intelligence from one sec
tion of the country may liave had to do in
heightening in onr imaginations the romance
of the battle of New Orleans; or how much the
old song of the Hunters of Kentucky may have
contribntftd to educate us into a belief in our
invincible prowess, who can tell ? So it was
by history aud tradition the people of this
country were educated to a point of military
ambition, that' in 1860 they rushed into a con
flict of arms, ^without (ou either side) an ade
quate or intelligent regard for consequences.
The great mass of them have now arrived
at a sober realization of the horrors of war;
and the most noble, heroic and self-sacrificing
of them, are determined that there shall be
peace!
The inexperienced aud the rash may work
their imaginations np to fever heat; they nmy
allow passion* to lead them to make silly
threats: but sober thinking men have placed a
proper estimate upon the horrors of grira-vis-
aged war, and they will have none of it
It will take a longer time for the muses of his
tory and poetry to override the sober judgment
of our iposterity by unnatural exaggeration of
this imagination, thau it did to unsettle the
common-sense of ourselves and our lathers.
For there is reality in the tramp of tho iron
horse that goes snorting and screaming over
hill and vale. There is reality in the swift
wings of the iron steamer that bids defiance
to old (#c«*an. There is reality in the click
of the magnetic telegraph that belts the
earth. These afford work for the
mind and work for the lnxly. They instill
into the soul that charity that will suffer long
before it can b8 provoked to bloodshed.
The material interests of men are becoming
wore bound together by the influence of these
great powers. The Moral Sense of mankind
is becoming educated to a higher appreciation
of tho Golden Rule. The diffusion of knowl
edge is more extensive and general. Men
way calculated to work a change in any man’s
religious belief, particularly if it had an
atheistical tendency, aud it is abundantly evi
dent that some such change was wrought.
On his leaving Springfield for Washington he
said.
"I feel I cannot succeed without the same
Divine aid which sustained him, (Washington)
and in the same Almighty Being I place my re
liance for support, and I hope you my friends,
will all pray that I may receive that Divine
assistance.”
In his first inaugural address he speaks of
"the Almighty Ruler of Nations,” and says
that:
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a
firm reliance on Him, who ha3 never yet for
saken this favored land, are still competent
to ndjust, iu the best way, all onr present
difficulties.
We cauuot pretend to give all tho extracts
that have come nnder onr notice testifying to
his sincere, even fervent belief, in an over
ruling Providence, but a few more of the most
striking mast suffice.
After tho fall of Vicksburg he publicly
thanked Almighty God for the event. On the
15th of July, in his proclamation appointing a
day of thanksgiving and prayer, ho iuvites
the people "to render the homage due to the
Divine Majesty,” and "invoke the influence
of His holy Spirit” Another proclamation,
issued on the third of October, breathes a
spirit of tender piety that could only have
come from a heart surcharged with its spirit
"I have been driven many times to my knees
by the overwhelming conviction that I had no
where else to go,” he once remarked; and on
another occasion spoke of how presumptuous
he would bo if he thonght he could discltargo
his duties without the aid and enlightenment
of God.
But the event which, of all others, drew Mr.
Lincoln closer to his God, was the death of
his little sou Willie. It was a heavy trial when
we consider the terrible burden resting on his
shoulders as the head of the Republic. To
a Lvly who condoled with him on the morn
ing of the funeral, he said, "I will try to go
to God with my sorrows.” A few days after
wards the same lady asked him if he could
trust God. He replied, "I think I can, and I
will try; I wish I had that child-like faith yon
speak of, aud I trust He will give it to ino.’
Only a few months before he died, the Chris
tian Commission waited ou him. In reply to
a complimentary address from Air. George II.
Stuart, he proceeded in the simplest way to’
say that all gratitude was due to the Great Giv
er of Good. Mr. Stuart asked him if lie bad
any objection to a player being offered then
and there. Quietly, cordially, gratefully lie
assented, and Bishop James uttered in the
East Boom a brief aud fervent pelitiou. Ou
another occasion he said that if it were not for
his firm belief iu an overruling Providence, it
would l>e difficult for him to keep his reason
But as we have said, we could fill much
more than onr allotted space with, this sub
ject. We think, however, that sufficient has
been said to prove our position correct, that
whatever may have l>een Mr. Lincoln’s views
once, in the Litter years of his life he was an
humble, sincere, prayerful Christian.
the McFarland trial
The View of sl Northern Democra
The Citizen and Round Table, of New ’
in its issue of the 9th instant, contain,
folowing under its editorial head:
All good citizens and peaceable inemlx
society will join with us iu the sincere
that McFarland will be hanged. It is tim<
a stop was put to the assassination by ir
husbands of their wives* lovers. Were i
practice to become universal, Broadway wo
resound hourly to the soft note of the ]>isi
and women would indeed have to complain
a deprivation of their natural rights. Im
proper public sentiment be established in t
place of the ahsurd dogma that a wicked v
man can disgrace her marital companion,'' a
divorce will usurp the place of murder, u
law be substituted for violence. Hang, mi
derous husbands, and they will seek couso
lions for their troubles in the courts: all
them to go free, aud no man will be safe fit
assassination if he is attractive to a lig
winded woman, or supposed to be so. Tb<
is already getting to be a very loose mod?
proceeding on the part of the husband wt
his better half has fallen into the same hat
aud unjustifiable as it is to shoot a man whfc
he is guilty, it is doubly inexcnasable when 1
is innocent. Jealousy is not a reasoning p;i
sion, aud although the implicated party inti
instance nmy have lieen criminal, in otl
cases tho evidence of such a fact has not 1:
equally clear. *1
The blood-thirstiness indicated iu the alio*^
astonishes the denizens of this part of tl. 1
country. A state of society to which the peo
ple of this section are strangers, ^acknowl
edged and avowed in the sentences: "It is
time that a stop was put to the assassination. 3
by irate husbands of their wives’ lovers. Were
this practice to become universal, Broadway
would resound hourly to the soft note of the
pistol, aud women would have to complain of |T
rvganl* worldly matters.
world is soon to join tlimn, and tlii* year, Urey , .. ... . .
say. will hardly pus before that result is made | so .dentrfied in my
manifest Holding these views, a teacher in
one of the public schools—said to be a most
T*#, •
The Bryant Organ denies that Angier tele
graphed to Wushinghtou that Governor Bul
lock’s draft upon the Georgia National Bank
was honored by the payment ***
iug to the State Road. Tho Organ says it has
‘looked into” this matter, and finds that An
gier did scud the following telegram:
Within the List five weeks, Bullock has
drawn twenty thousand dollars on the Georgia
National Bank, of which John Rice is Presi
dent, where tho State Road deposits are kept
The.se drafts are drawn payable to the order of
Sykes, Chadwick A.Co., endorsed by them to
Riggs A Co. All of these men are in Wash
ington.”
Now what was Mr. Angler's nhjrct iu send in;
such a dispatch, just iq*m the eve of the vot*
upon tho Bingham Amendment? Was it to
cast discredit iqxm the Governor, ami also
upon Mr. Rice ? That it was intended as an
imputation upon the personal character of the
parties named, no sane man doubts. Per
haps a further explanation may relieve Air.
Angier of this construction; hut us the matter
now stands it does him very little credit The
people want evidence, not snake like insinu
ation.
This dis]mtcli is an implied imputation
npou the officers of the Ruik, and the Treas
urer of the State Road, as well as upon Gov
ernor Bullock. And the Organ closes its no
tice of the affair with this dubious expression:
The expenses of the Executive in Washing
ton have not l>een light, evidently. He re
turns no property iu Georgia. Who foots the
bills?
The innocent manner iu which Air. Angier
thus "puts his foot into it,” and the verdant
Htylc of the Organ’s indorsement of the blun
der, is refreshing.
THE POMEKOY AMENDMENT
!t iiiTOiucj a Substitute for tbe Original
Bill fur tlic Admission of Georgia.
.... DISCUSSION OVEK IT.
In the United States Senate on the 15th Air.
I'oifieroy said:
Mr. POAIEROY. It is in order now, I take
it, to submit an amendment ns a substitute for
tho proviso known as tho Bingham amend
ment, and also for the bilL I am aware, how
ever, that the amendment which I urn going
t.. i -ifer is not strictly in order as a substitute
fur the Bingham amendment, but it is ns a
substitute for the whole bill, and I want the
sense of the Senate on that question. I liardly
know how to vote ou any of these amendments
until I know the sense of the Senate on the
angle proposition to continue Georgia with its
present Legislature under the reconstruction
laws of Congress.
That is the real point Hint I want the sense
of the Senate upon. Without saying anything
about the law of the case, for that has been
discussed by others, knowing the condition of
Georgia, knowing its people, knowing the di-
yiriems and tho irregularities there, I think it
is ^better that they have a new election this
fall finder the reconstruction acts with a good
military commander, under the supervision of
Congress, and come here at the next session
under anew organization so far as the Legis
ire is concerned, and then, if it is found to
regular, how easy will be tho question of
lission. ' '
here is no way of making this questii
leorgia clear, in my opinion, by admitting
aem in their present state. I do not think, if
re compel! an election there this fall, uuder
ln» constitution, with this Suite government,
.tat wo can hojio for any {ieace, or order, or a
3* election. I do not believe that; but I do
believe that if we can have an election in
Georgia, under tho law of Congress, with onr
nilitary commander controlling, with the
forces of the United States to preserve order,
ad to protect the ballot-box—not to control
way men shall, vote—that is not what I
the deprivation of their natural rights. ^ | K aean _j lU ^ gj vo every one a fair expression
Is it possible that adultery is so common in.|bf his sentiments at the polls, we can liave an
Gotham as these sentences indicate; oris it j Election iu Georgia that will be creditable to
n jealous V ~ C! *~* ’ .— *—*-_* <-«
true that the men of New York are so jealous
hearted as to be no rashly inclined, if AIcFar-
laud and other sufferers of his ilk are acquitted
by juries of the oonutry ? Will they thereby bo
emboldened to commit murder every day and
hour of tho year ?
To a resident outside of the great commer
cial Metropolis of this country, the views of
tlic Citizen and Round Table appear anouml-
; and they are unaccountable except upon
the supposition that its editors are in some
way, or ou some considerations, partizaus of the
Richardson side of the great trial now almost
absorbing the entire attention of the people of.
this country!
The tmth is, the AIcFarland trial is opeuing
the way to an insight into the corruptions aud
corruptable nature of society in our large
cities, which Is strongly directing public at
tention to great principles that lie at the very
foundation of civilized society.
The prestige of a great metropolitan den ter,
the tyranny of fashion ami the reticence and
privacy which a crowded city affords, cannot,
in presence of the activity of the press,
and the moral sense of the virtuous, longer
conceal corruptions of so-called good society
iu many of our large cities, nor evade the just
condemnation that awaits corrupt practices at,
the hands of the good and true everywhere.
Alarriage is the basis of Christian civilization.
The adulterer is the criminal that would, and
dares to break through aud steal the treasures
Unit make the family state valuable.
Omnipotence has pronounced judgment
against the Adulterer and the Adulteress. first organization and in the ex-
, . . _ ... „ 1 tert.uii nu-ml*or**s well also as in its organ-
wShhsjUs?
Jhe State and satisfactory to Congress.
1 I do not think it is a hardship for us to de
clare now, as we have a right to do, that their
present government shall be considered pro
visional still longer until they have had a fair
Election this fall. It will not delay them, be-
OULse it is only a question as between April
atni November, and the object to be attained
i* to create, if possible, harmony and union
among the Union people of Georgia; aud I do
believe that if they can have another election,
well protected and carried on regularly, as it
can be done now under the laws of Congress,
they will find harmony among themselves at
the ballot box, and it will promote lmrmouy in
tic State. It is a peace offering to Georgia.
Bat if you send them down there with their
Legislature as now organized with the power
ifTperpetuato itself, or if you legislate part of
them out of office, and compel an election this
fiul, you send down there an apple of discord,
tc*i*©, quarreled over, that will cause division
-v ig our own friends, and you send down a
context there which may lead* even to blood
shed. I do not think wo ought to do it Let
everything be held in abeyance for a few
mt uths, until they can have an election. I
understand that our„own friends, if I may be
allowed to speak of our party friends, have no
hesitancy, if they can have protection, to hav
ing an election this fall What they fear is an
election without protection, an election not
under tho laws of Congress, but under the
lawVof the State of Georgia, which a great por-
t i.)ii of the people of the State dispute. I want
an rlec ion under the laws of Congress. I do
qjjjjffLink it is a measure of hardship, but of
ri ^uLhip to the loyal people of Georgia. I
fhslc ihe Secretary to read my amendment.
TUi following is the Amendment hero re-
ferfl£rto as it was originally offered, und as
app^ rod in tba special dispatches at the lime:
. rcas great irregularities have been nractieed in
fit tiiuation of the Legislature in
.Mtiuuvble, practical, and nenaiblc lady, at m»T-
«ml year, of service in her profession -has re
signed because of conscientioox scrapie* as to
teaching on Saturday. This new sect sppoars
in this particular to tread on the heels of Ju
daism.
Do They Knilor.. It I
And now, since the •• Democracy " have re
corded their votes in favor of remanding
Georgia to Military Bole, shall we hear any
more of their doleful mouotony about
pies” and ail that? Will the Democracy of
Georgia make issue with their ftiends in Con
gress; or will they go back npon their own
record and applaud the action?
There is, we learn, much division of senti
ment the “ faithful, ” in this latitude,
respecting the action of the Senate on Tues
day. Many of the adherents of the Bryant-
Scott-Candler-Bmdlry faction have been nub
enough to «press their unqualified condem-
• nation of the Pomeroy Amendment Others
of Ihe faction profess satisfaction with it un
der the supposition that •• it is not what Bul
lock wanted."
. - . Jt wonld he difficult, we imagine, to find
ony two doxeu of them in accord npon this or
any other proposition. They ore hopelessly
divided among themaslvsa, not only in the
Northern States, bnt in Georgia as well. A*
•“Brick” Pomeroy says, “when a political
party starts down hill, everything
greased to facilitate its rapid descent!"
Mr. Disraeli*# N«vr Novel.
After many stormy v year* of political life,
Disraeli turn* aside for awhile to the fountain
of romance which refreshed him io hi# youth
No doubt "Lothnire” will he a politico-philo
sophical novel, crammed with worldly witulom
and epigram# —perhaps with hit# at public
character*. But aa a novel, it will afford one
more proof of the activity of Mr. Disraeli
imagination. The world abuse* him, and
calls him "trickster” and "adveutnrer,” but
he lives his own life apart, and conquers that
tendency to despondency which must often
have besieged him by the aid of his wonderful
■imagination.
with each other by the realities of Uieir condi
tion, that they will be forced sooner, or later,
into an unity of aim that must lie, when re
alized, a bond of perennial Peace.
Iirsbsm Lincoln and HU Religious
Views.
It is not at all remarkable that at this sea-
sou, the anniversary of the assassination of Air.
Lincoln, his name, his sayings, doings and
opinions should occupy the attention of the
American public.
This disposition has broken out at this time
in the discussion of Mr. Lincoln’s religious
opinion^ Without expressing any judgment
upon the good taste or charity of the discus
sion, we deem it of sufficient public interest
to say a word on the subject.
The most important document in this con
nection is a letter written by the Hon. W. H.
Herndon, Mr. Lincoln’s former partner, which
appeared in The Index. Mr. Herndon main
tains that Mr. Lincoln was by education a
skeptic, and states that in 1835 he wrote a
small work on "Infidelity,” which he intended
to publish, but it was destroyed by Mr. Sam
uel Hill, for whom Mr. Lincoln was then
working. In 1837 Mr. Lincoln was one of a
society of "free thinkers,” and boldly avowed
himself an infidel. In 1848, while mnning
for Congress against the Rev. Peter Cart
wright, he was accused of being an infidel, if
not ku Atheist; he never denied the charge—
wonld not—"would die first” Air. Herndon
afinis up his opinions in these words.
From what I know of Air. Lincoln, and from
what I have heard and verily believe, I can
say: first, that he did not believe in a special
creation, his idea being that all creation was
an evolution nnder law; secondly, he did not
believe that the Bible was a special revelation
from God, as the Christian world contends;
thirdly, he did not believe in miracles, as un
derstood by the Christian world; fourthly, he
believed in universal inspiration and miracles
under law; fifthly, he did not believe that
Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, as the
Christian world contends; sixthly, he believed
that all things, both matter aud mind, were
governed by laws, universal, absolute and
eternal.
Now admitting the truth of all this, it simply
brings us down to the time when Mr. Lincoln
was elected to the Presidency, the most im
portant event in his life, and one in every
Woman's KlgHts in England.
When a Countess of Beauchamp, with a
lievy of high-born ladies about her, appears on
Woman’s Right#’ platform, tho cause may
be said to be iu a promising condition ; and
uot alone for women iu general, bnt for that
same British aristocracy itself. nobly-
born and wealthy women will learn to sym
pathize with their less-favored and humbler
sinters, and instead of living the wearisome
and worthless lives of women of fashion, they
will have objects in life and cultured aud pop
ular ambitious to occupy Uieir leisure. In
deed, they would still bo the * glasses of fash
ion ;’ but the fashion would have its good aud
praiseworthy features, and the better half of
the world wonld have the chief benefit of if
fiat of the Creator.
The question that divides the opinions of
men, is not wlmt shall be the penalty of Adul
tery, bnt who shall execute it?
If society in New York is so corrupt, aud
Adultery so common that the hand of the ex
ecutioner must lie employed every day and
even* hour of the day, then let it be, say the
humble residents of the provincial district#!
If the executioner hike* life without warrant
of law, or take# life without proof of the Adul
tery, then let him die. lint to entertain a jury
called upon to try such cases a# McFarland's,
for five long weeks with quasi proof of insan
ity, is simply ridiculous.
The fact of adultery, according to the Di
vine Command, is justification enough for
slaying the adulterer. The legislative power
of the country ought to so decree. Fast
women and lecherous men must be estopped
their insidious plot* and damnable practices
that undermine the very foundations of
ciety.
These assertions are only the honest expres
sion of the convictions of true men and wo
men everywhere; (and even in New \ork, they
ought to be so held,) the partisan utterances
of the Citizen and Hound TaUe to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Such utterances as those quoted above, justi
fying the enemies of society, are in keeping
with the animus of the same paper that pleads
the cause of the revenue defaulter, Bailey, who
has lied from justice !
stive# of tbe United States of America in Coi
llstrimoujwintl thi- Pulpit.
The following is put forth as a verbatim ex
tract from a recceut sermon by that clerical
apologist of Fourierism, the Rev. O. B. Froth-
ingham, of New York:
"The laws of matrimony should be so re
modeled that the husband aud wife could not
be jealous of one another—so that the bond
should not be merely a legal one, bnt that a
condition of marriage should be a permission
to each to act as he or she thonght praper, and
at tho dictates of the feelings and affections.”
Who is Airs. Frothingham ?
Coldnel J. E. Bryant was in tho city yester
day from Washington.—Aurjnsta Chron
iefe. *
Before this same "Colonel” Bryant of Geor
gia renegaded from the Republican party the
paper quoted above denounced him as "Bry
ant, the infamous scalawag.” Since his
ciation with the rebel Democracy of Georgia,
however, not content with hugging him to
their bosoms, they must needs promote him
to the full rank of "Colonel”
Democrats are fond of -quoting from -the
Washington letters of Don Piatt, the able and
independent correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial. In a recent letter Piatt defined
tho Democyacy as "the organized ignorance
of the country.” The unterrifiod will please
take notice that the journalist has been ungrate
ful for their many well-meaning favors, and
that he has no desire to train in such company
i at log-
Fart a»»tl Fancy.
The woman# right* champions
gerheads.
Church sneak thieve# have made their ap
pearance. in Cincinnati.
Alelviu Foster has challenged Joseph Dion
a match game of billiards for $1,000.
Yallandigham again aspires to Congress,
and will run against General Schenck.
A contemporary thinks AIcFarland will bo
acquitted ou
HtheSta
the acts of Congress of March two, eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven, and March twenty-three, eighteen
htfhired and sixty-seven, aud ot July nineteen,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seveu. until the admission
of slid State, by law, to representation in Cougress;
andfor this purpose the State of Georgia shall consti
tute the Third Military District.
tacnoN 2. And be it further enacted, That in ae-
lanee with the provisions of, and under the powers
legislation provided in, said acts, au election shall
Itebeld iu said State on the first Tuesday of Septem
ber eighteen hundred and seveuty. for all the mem-
ben of tbe General Assembly of said State provided
fo- in the Constitution of said State, adopted by its
Cipvention on the eleventh day of March,
••ipiteen hundred and sixty-eight. And said
G4u-ral Assembly so elected shall assemble, at the
cajitol of said State, on the twenty-third day of No-
venber, eighteen hundred and seventy, and organize,
preparatory to the admission of the State to represen
tation in Congress; and the powers and functions ol
th« membejs of the existing Ceneral Assembly shall
ce^e and determine on the said twenty-third day
No ember, eighteen hundred aud seventy.”
Mr. POAIEROY r . I desire to modify my
auendment so far as those dates are concern
ed I propose to strike out in the fourth line
of the second section tho word* ‘ ‘first Tues-
djK* of September” and insert "15th day of No-
viiiber.” I find that November Is tho best
nbnth in which to have an election in the
Stite of Georgia as well as in tlic South. The
cops are then gathered, the people have more
lesure, and you will get a better and larger
eLction l»y having it iu November rather than
September. Then, after "1808,” in line eight,
Ipropose to insert the word* "at which elec-
ton all persona who by said constitution are
cectors shall be entitled to vote.” I make the
dialificatiou for voting the same as in their
State Constitution. Then, in the tenth line, I
jropose to strike out the words "23d day o
November” aud to insert "13th day of Decern-
ler.” I also make the same modification iu the
thirteenth and fifteenth lines. Under the
tinendment as thus modified the election will
le iu November, the Legislature will meet in De-
ember. and tbe terms of the present members
<f the Legislature will expire at the meeting
if the Legislature in December. Then the
legislature will be a new* Legislature, the Gov-
imor continuing.
On the lGth, the presiding officer announced
lat the pending question was on the motion
f the Senator from Nevada, to strike out the
lingham Amendment Tho Senator from
Kansas (Air. Pomeroy) moved to amend that
nuytmma nernruna «ui o. ^eudment b y striking out the proviso uud
the grotfud of “justifiable \ nseMu(; thc followicy;
Congress to do; and my deliberate conviction
is, that they should again require the question
to be passed on by the people of Georgia un
der full and ample protection, and that should
be done under the established and w ell-defined
legislation of Congress, and should be done
this very autumn, as I have provided, ou the
16th of November, because if you admit thc
State, the question is not closed then. A ques
tion will then arise whether the Legislature
shall be prolonged or not; then the contest
will come np between three or four aspirants
for seats here, and the whole matter will be
gone over again.
' I think tins is best, iu view of the complica
tions of the cose and iu view of the irregulari
ties we have seen. I will not say that there
have lieen crimes committed; I will not say
that the people have intentionally done wrong,
but there are great irregularities, so great that
I think tho people of Georgia should pass
upon this matter again. I have consulted iu
this regard several Senators from the South,
my friend from North Carolina, [Mr. Pool]
and others, in whose judgment I have great
confidence, and they concur in the opinion
that it is better to recommit this question again
to the people of Georgia. I do not intend to
argue it; I only say that that is my judgment,
and I want a vote of tho Senate on the sub
ject
Mr. SUAINER. I should like to ask my
friend if he has any objection to a direct vote
on the proposition of the Senator from Neva
da. It seems to me that naturally and logi
cally that stauds iu order first Let ns vote
upon^it It is to strike out. what is known
familiarly os tho Bingham amendment If
that is not stricken out then the proposition of
the Senator from Kansas will be perfectly in
order as a substitute. If it is stricken out,
theu it will bo also in order as an amendment.
Air. POAIEROY. It Is in order now.
Air. SUAINER. I know it is in order; bnt the
question is whether it wonld not be better in the
disposition of this snbject to vote first on what
is known as the Bingham amendment.
Mr. POAIEROY. I submit to the Senator
from Massachusetts that in thAt amendment l*
the question whether the Legislature shall be
prolonged or not In this amendment which
I submit Is the question whether we are to
have the old Legislature at all. I submit to
the Senator from Alossachusetts that the ques
tion l* to decide whether we will liave that
Legislature at all, whether we will admit the
State under it Afterward the question will
come whether we shall prolong it Bnt that
a subsebuont question; the first question is
on the admission.
Air. SUMNER. It seems to me the first
question is ou the Bingham amendment That
is logically first in order; aud if that is voted
on and kept in, the way will then be clear for
action on the proposition of the Senator; if
the Bingham amendment is voted out, the way
will aLso be clear for the Senator to make his
proposition. I think we had better vote on thc
Bingham amendment alone and without any
substitute.
Mr. SHERAIAN. Air. President, my own
opinion is that now, after the long debate on
the Georgia bill, we ought to decide thc pre
liminary question, which, in my judgment, is
the proposition now made by the Senator from
Kansas. The preliminary question is whether,
or not we shall admit Georgia. If that is de
termined in the affirmative, then will come up
as subsequent questions the terms and con
ditions and qualifications of admission.
I have made up my mind, I confess with a
good deal of hesitation, with more doubt than
I have had about anything connected with the
whole fabric of reconstruction, that Georgia is
not in a fit condition to be represented in Con
gress and to l>e armed with the full powers of
a State government I do not believe that the
present Legislature lias been so elected and is
so organized that it ought to be intrusted with
the powers of h State government in Georgia.
I am in hopes that our Republican friends
here—I speak of them without any desire to
moke this a party question—will concur iu the
proposition made by the Senator from Kansas
which will continue the present Legislature
in power until November next as a provisional
Legislature and provide then for a new election
ana a new organization. We can then admit
can contend that to this time there has been a - ,
NASBY PAPERS.
From the Tolclo Bhule.]
Tlic Fifteenth Amendment—The Dcmoc.
racy or tlie Sixth Ward Meet in the Back
Room of the “Harp uv Erin S’loon” to
Con«ldrr What to do in the Matter of the
Negro Vote—They Come to a Decision.
Hasp uv Esin S’loon. 6th Wabd, \
Noo Youk, April 2, 1870. )
The proclamation uv the President an-
nouncin the ratification uv the Fifteenth
Amendment perdoosed a profound sensasheu
in this Ward.
It wuz told to our people by a reporter uv a
daily paper at 11 o’clock this morning, and it
got pretty well around among us by 3 this
afternoon, wich wuz tollably rapid, considerin
that intelligence in this Ward lias to be con
veyed orally. In the afternoon it wuz resolved
that a meeting be held in the evenin to con
sult es to what ackshen thc Democriay shood
hike iu the matter, wich wuz akkordingly ao
done. I hed the back room lit up, the barrels
mooved into a side place under the strongest
kinds uv locks, and the bar closed and dropped
in inournin in token uv the hoomilioshen wich
I felt had fallen onto the people in consekence
ifv this outrage. I hung crape onto the door;
I put crape around the portraits uv J&xson,
Chief Justis Chase, Bookhannon, and Fer-
uandy Wood, and likewise around the bottles
and over tho red-headed barrel, wich gave the
establishment a highly funereal aud mournful
lfcok wich wuz entirely satisfactory.
. In the evenin the Democracy assembled,
and more enraged gatherin I never saw. They
wuzn’t jist clear ez to wat the President hed
done; in feed, the most uv em wuz labrin
under thc impreshun that the enfranchise
ment uv the nigger wuz the work uv the Dim-
ocratic Legislachcr at Albany, and ther wuz
indicashens uv determinashen to go thro
some uv the houses of the Dimocratic mem
bers in this city, but I stopt em by tellin em
the starte uv it.
I osoomed the chair uv course, and hed, in
oddlshen, to do the dooties uv sekretary,
being the only one then in the meetin who
cood write.
Teddy McGinnis remarked that he felt a.
hoomilioshen which wuz actooally beyond ex-
preshen. The dirty nager was now his ckaL
The only difference between em hed ben re
moved by this infamus law. Does any one
suppose that he’d iver consint to vote all day
beside niggers? Niver! He called upon the
Democracy to jine him in a croosade agin em.
"Follow me,” sed Teddy, "and in Noo Yor-
rick, at least, wc won’t be bothered with
nagur suffrage, bo gomv”
Pat AIcLaughlin held similar views. Sooner
than vote beside nagurs he’d reliquish the
biznis uv voting altogether, and go to sawin
wood. Itepcetin is a good enuff biznis, and
the small conthract wich he hed ez a reward
therefor wuz betther, but he coodent stand na
gurs, nor woodcut His voice wuz for killin
uv em.
The others made similar speeches, when
Sandy McGuire offered a resolooshen that the
offerin uv a vote by a nagur be considered ez
a declar&shun uv war agin the Democracy uv
Noo York, and that they theu be immegitiy
exterminated. Sandy wuz for for no half-way
measures. He remembered the glorious Jooly
days in 1863, when the Democracy uv Noo
York ossertid itself! He hed assisted in de-
stroyin the nagur orphan asylnm; with this
good rite hand he hed beat ont the brains uv
two nagurs, to say nothin uv the wimin and
children, which he didn't consider worth
countin. He longed to get at them agiu.
The meeting bein all so yoonanimus in their
feelin, I wrote the follerin resolooshens:
"Resolved, That the Dimocrisy nv Noo
Y’ork, considerin and beleevin the nigger to be
a beast, a burlesk on lioomanity, and incapa
ble uv dischorgin any uv the dooties uv citi
zenship, do hereby protest agin his bein given
the ballot on a ekality with white men.
"Resolved, That the Dimocrisy uv Noo
Y’ork, ruther than submit to this degredaxhen,
pledges itself to the exterminaahen nv the ac-
cussid race.”
The resolooshens waz adoptid without a dis
seutin voice, and the enthoosiastic McGuire,
brandlshin his shillala, rushed out and attackt
a couple of niggei* which was passin, aud
aped onto ein vigr^iitflv
said Ktate provided for in the constitution of said State
adopted by it* convention on the 11th of March, 18G8;
at which election all persons who by said constitution
sanity. \ That the existing government in the State of Georgia
S*u Frisco no longer depends on AlnO. “Ve“
for its ice supply; its ice now cornea from the Congress of March 2,1867, and March 23. 1867, and of
J {July 19, 1867, until tho admission of said State, by law,
Sierras. to representation in Congress; and for this purpose
, r ii x: * the State of Georgia shall constitute the third military
Victoria has been unsuccessfully negotiat-. di#trict
ine to mam- one of her dnngldera to a Prince 1 And be it further enacted That in accordance
iug mm i j um, o with the provisions of and under the powers and limi-
of Orange. uti°ns providedjn said acts, an election shall be held
Some j’ouug men of Defianco have former
an association for the prevention of tho use o
tobacco.
The St Louis Agricultural and Mechanic^
Association intend making $100,000 worth oj
improvements on their fair ground this year.
Garibaldi say* the Pope and the Sultan arj
the chief enemies of mankind, and must 1j
annihilated. 1
Base ball ha* commenced. On Alondif
lost the Bed Stocking* beat the "First Nincj’
of Cincinnati, by 34 to 5.
The parents of a little girl, who was killj
by a fire engine, have sued the city of Sa
Francisco for $125,000.
The three things America detest* most c<J-
dially just now are said to bo rattlesnakes, te
income tax and Captain Eyre.
They make three Yankee clock* every mi-
nte in Bristol, Connecticut; and the smalir
the clock the fiercer tho "tick.”
The proclamation making American sdlir
a legal tender at 20 per cent discount, in Cu
ada, took effect on Friday last.
A twenty-one pound trout, two feet and nie
inches long, has lieen caught in Lake Wini-
pisiogee. j
Notwithstanding tho declared insanityof
Lady Mordaunt, Lord Pensanz still declies
to proceed with the suit of Sir Charles A&r-
daunt for a divorce. •
said State on the 13th of December, 1870, and organize
preparatory to the admission of the State to represen
tation in Congress; and the powers and functions of
the members of tbe existing General Assembly shall
cease and determine on the said 13th day of December,
1870.
Air. POAIEROY. I have submitted this
amendment for the sake of getting a vote, to
ascertain the deliberate judgment of the Senate
whether they propose to admit Georgia with it*
present Constitution or not, because this ques
tion of whether we shall prolong this Legisla
ture, or whether any amendment shall be made
to the bill as it passed the House, in that re
spect cannot properly be consideecd until we
settle the question whether or not we ore to
admit the State; and a vote on this amend
ment of mine I think will settle that question.
My deliberate judgment is that there have
been such irregularities in Georgia, so that
there ore several claimants for seats in this
Senate from that State under the various or
ganizations, that it is better for the people of
Georgia and for the cause of the. country that
this question be agnin recommitted to the peo
ple of Georgia under the existing laws of Con
gress, and have full and ample protection to
all the citizens there during this next election,
to occur, as I propose, on the 15th day of No
vember.
I am strengthened in this conviction by con
sultation with members from that section of
the country. I have no hostile or hard words
to pronounce against this Legislature, or
against the Governor, or against anybody. It — —
is a question with me what is best, what ought greatness.—Punchinello.
fair election in the process of reconstruction
iu thc . State of Georgia. The state
ments made yesterday by the Senator from In
diana (Air. Alorton) show clearly that even the
present Legislature, although we might for po
litical reasons be willing to trust them with the
power of the government, have not been
elected iu such a mode and mauuer, and are
not composed of such material as entitle them,
under the reconstruction acts, to the powers of
a State government. I can, therefore, with a
clear conscience, vote for the proposition of
the Senator from Kansas, and let the matter of
the admission of Georgia go over until the
next session of Congress.
What advantage shall we have in this ? Ii
there is not a fair election next fall, we then
have the power still further to exclude Georgia.
We control, in a maimer, the election there —
not the result of the election, but the mode of
holding it, so that we can secure a fair elec
tion.
After further discussion, it was agreed to
bring the issue to a vote on Tuesday, the 19th,
aud the result of that vote is now known to
the readers of the Eka. ^
Ilow On** Woman Should Meet Another.
There are certain polite fashions, with
which every woman who aspires to the highest
style ought to l>e familiar. There is this, in
regard to meetiug a stranger of your own sex.
Unless the individual is unmistakably a per
son of "position,” there is a form of elegant
scrutiny, a looking-over process, if I may so
speak, which it is of the utmost importance to
go through with. Begin at the hat aud de
scend, with more or less deliberation, analy
sing as you go, scarf, gloves, boots, Ac., never
omitting furs, or laces, as the season may be —
these last being particularly suggestive, to
borrow a term somewhat iu vogue for grander
uses. It is not at all uncommon, as the work
proceeds, to throw into the expression of the
countenance a delicate shade of that contempt
hich it is often so eminently proper to feel.
If it Is pretty soon evident that the person is a
“nobody,” the inspection may close abruptly,
though much talent may be shown in the ex
tension of the process, even iu cases of this
kind. In concluding the interesting ceremo
ny, most people satisfy their consciences with
a severe letting alone, a quiet ignoring. But
I have known ladies of most decided "style,”
who would go so far as to make overt demon
strations, withdrawing the skirts from the
possibility of contamination, Ac.
But nothing of this kind should be ventured
on, except by a woman whose social claims
are beyond question. In a person of ordinary
pretensions, anything of this kind would be
reckoned vulgar, as you well know. I may
add that, if the inspector is under the pleasing
necessity of using an eye-glass, thc embarrass
ment of the victim is considerably increased,
aud the general effect admirably lightened. —
This operation Is a fine thing for coolness. —
Of course one pities the individual thus put to
torture. But it will not do to let feeling run
away with one. Naturalists to the contrary, I
shall always believe that insects are incom
moded, when thrust through with pins or the
like. But of what account their sufferings,
when considered in relative to the progress of
science ! I should not, perhaps, fail to men
tion that one is liable to blunder, some times,
and that it is very awkward—in the case of
certain odd persons, whom it Is fashionable to
notice—authors, artists and thc like, and
some others, rich as Jews, yet, strangely and
stupidly enough, dressing like beggars.
But the danger of such mistake cannot,
of course, be permitted to interfere with the
course of well-established social laws. There
are people, I am aware—either weak or iU-
taught, they must be—who pronounce the style
of behavior which I am advocating, indicative
of a coarse, hard nature, or at best criminal
thoughtlessness. They are forever quoting to
you, "The mind is the measure of the man,”
and simular antique sayings from Pope or some
other dry old fellow. It is really most absurd,
in this day of light and progress. It is pro
voking, too. What, I ask, would become of
the world, if such foolish creatures should
have their say? The acts which they condemn
ought to be looked on as public benefactions,
each doing its part in fixing the boundaries
which separate the elite from tho vulgar. Were
it not for self-sacrificing efforts of this kind,
how soon might we find ourselves in a state of
social disorder, absolutely irretrievable.
and it did not take place till the mill was set
agoing. For the same reason, the manager of
some vast iron works, who slept close to them,
amid tiie incessant din of hammers, forges
and furnaces, would awake if there was any
cessation of the noise during the night To
carry illustrations still further, it has been no
ticed that a person who falls asleep near a
church, the bell of which was ringing, nmy
hear tho souud during the whole of his slum
ber, and be, nevertheless, aroused my its sud
den cessation. Here the sleep must have been
imperfect otherwise he would have been in
sensible to the sound.. The noise of the bell
was no stimulus; it was its cessation which,
by breaking the monotony, became ao, and
caused the sleeper to awake.—Macnish.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Wednesday, April 20, 1870.
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment at
12 m. to-day, and was called to order by the
Hon. B. CONLEY, President
Prayer was offered by the Rev. Wesley
Prettyinan.
The roll was called by J. G. W. Mills, Ev,
Secretary, and the journal of the procedin-
day read by Mr. Bishop.
. Mr. DUNNING moved to adjourn the Senate
until Monday next, at 12 u.
Mr. CANDLER moved to adjourn sine die.
The CHAIR ruled the motion out of order,
unless it were a joint resolution.
Mr. CANDLER said it was a joint resolu
tion.
Mr. BROCK supported the motion of Mr.
Duuning; but said if ou Monday next, they
were not in a condition to go to work he should
be much inclined to support Air. Candler’#
amendment, as he was tired of coming to At
lanta to do nothing.
A discussion ensued, taken part in by Air.
NUNNALLY, Mr. CANDLER, Air. BROCK,
Mr. HOLCOMBE, and Air. FAIN.
On motion of Mr. BROCK, Air. Candler’s
amendment was lost
Tho original motion was carried and,
Tbe PRESIDENT declared the Senate ad
journed until 12 m., Alonday next.
HOUSE.
The House met pursuant to adjournment
and was called to order by the. Speaker at 12
o’clock, noon.
Proceedings were opened with prayer by
the Rev. Mr. Fuller.
On motion of Air. S. A. DARNELL, the
calling of tho roll was dispensed with.
After the minutes of Monday had been read,
Mr. BETHUNE, of Talbot, moved to ad-
ourn until Monday, the 25th instant
Mr. O'NEAL, of Lowndes, offered a substi
tute to adjourn until July 1st, and supported
his motion by a speech of some leugth.
Mr. SCOTT, of Floyd, offered a motion to
adjourn sine die, and was about to make some
remarks, when
Thc SPEAKER declared that the motion
was not debatable.
Air. SCOTT then withdrew his motion, and
made a lengthy speech against adjourning till
any particular day, and in concluding his re
marks again moved to adjourn sine die. .
Air. LEE, of Newton, offered n substitute
for thc whole, but not being in order, it could
not be entertained.
A vote was then called, and thc yeas and
nays taken—Yeas 48, nays 68.
Air. COSTIN, of Talbot, moved to lay the
resolution of Air. O’Neal, of Lowndes on tbe
table.
The yeas and nays having been called, the
vote was: Yea# 67 and nays 45. The resolu
tion was accordingly tabled.
On motion of Air. DARNELL, of Pickens,
the use of the Hail was tendered to the Work
ingmen# Association for Saturday night next,
when Air. Jonathan Norcross is to deliver u.
lecture iu the interest of the carpenters and
joiners.
On motion, the resolution as offered by Air.
Bethune, of Talbot, adjourning the House un
til 12 o’clock, u., on Alonday, tho 25th iu.st.ant,
was carried.
Tho House then adjourned,
A MEMPHIS ROMANCE.
The meetin wnz about to break up, wen Tim
O’Grady, a man uv Femandy Wood’s, come
rushin’ in. He had heered nv the meetin and
come imejitly to see about it. I told him in
broth wat Lad bin done. "Thunder!” he ro-
markt to me in a whisper, "this won’t do.
Y'ou eggrejis old ass, the niggers hev a vote and
will vote now in spite uv us. We must git em,
for without em, with all the rebels disfranchis
ed, wat kin we do in the Southern States? Call
tlie meetiug to order agin.”
I didn’t like the tone uv his alloosiou to i
but I called the meetin to order onct more.
O’Grady remarked to ’em that there lied bin
a misunderstanding He felt ashoored that the
Dimocrisy uv Noo York, alluz the friend# nv
the oppressed and down-trodden, wood now
generously extend a helpin hand to our colored
brethren just elevated to fyli citizenship. The
Dimocrisy hed not assisted in their elevashen,
but they hed no feelin agin our brethren uv col
or. When onr colored brethren come to analyze
the matter they wood love the Dimocrisy the
more for not doin uv it He wood move the
substitooshen uv the follerin resolooshen for
the one wich hed been unadvisedly passed:
"Resolved, That the Dimocrisy uv Noo Y’ork
bail with a feelin nv pleasure wicli we hev no
words to express, the elevashen uv our colored
fellow-citizens to full citizenship, and that we
pledge ourselves to protect ’em in thc enjoy
ment uv ther newly-found rites.”
The meetin didn’t want to pass it Tbe
feelin agin em wuz too deep sot to be rooted
out in a mint but O’Grady was determined.
O wat a mini! wuz that! Wuz the niggers to
be killed by us, or wuz they to be taken to onr
buzzums. Their fate hung tremblin iu thc
balance ! Finally it wuz put to vote aud tlie
niggers wuz Bafe.* By one majority tfio reso-
lushen wuz passed.
At that minit a groau was heard outside.
“What is that?” asked O’Grady.
“Some nagurs I jist now bate r remarks Mc-
Guire. -
‘Beatin niggers!" sed O Grady; “Good
Lord, bring em in.” .
And he rushed out nud brought m the two
unfortunates. They were badly banged np
about the face, and breast, and stnmick, and
legs, bnt O’Grady was ekal to the emergency.
He washed their wonnds and revived em with
whisky and hound up ther sores, and filially
sot em on their feet.
“McGuire;” sed he, when he hed the work
finished, “McGuire embrace em.”
McGuire hed his shillala iu his hand. Never
did I see a man so torn with contending emo-
shens. Nateral instinks impelled him to drop
that shillala ou their hod ez usual, but politi-
kle considerashuus restrained him. _ Twict un
der O'Grady’s eye he lowered it until at last he
dropt it and fell sobbing with emoshen onto
their buzzums. ..... ,
I took the crape off the door, bottles and
picters, nnd immejitly illoominated in honor
of the event, aud the next mornin I pat np a
placard at my door, “ No distinckshen at this
bar on account uv color._ Ekul rites! ”
The ward committee is takin prompt and
vigerous ackshen to secoor this vote. They
hev adoptid the same means they yoose to con
trol ther other vote. They hev already startid
ten s’loous, run by colored men, to winch they
give all the profits, and are arrangin for ten
more. There will be a nigger or two put onto
the police to wunst. The force will be in
creased ennff to make room for these new ones,
ez we daren’t discharge any nv the Irish. Tm
goin for em also. Those wich I kin git to
drink my likker will vote my ticket. It w
fetch em sore.
Petholeuv V. Nxsby,
(wich wnz Postmaster.
Mayne Keid is announced as having a lec
ture on Byron. At this rate we shall soon have
Byron’s memory embalmed in Stowe-Beid
Sleep xml Habit.
Sleep is much modified by habit Thus an
old artilleryman often enjoys tranquil repose
while the cannon ore thundering around him;
an engineer has been known to fall asleep
within a boiler, while his fellows were heating
it out on the inside with their ponderous ham
mers, aud the repose of a miller is in no wise
incommoded by the noise of his mill. Sound
ceases to he a stimulus to such men, and what
would have proved au inexpressible annoyance
to others is by them altogether unheeded. It
is common for carriers to sleep on horseback,
and coachmen on their coaches. Daring the
battle of tho Nile some boys were so exhausted
that they fell asleep on deck amid tho deafen
ing thunder of that dreadful engagement Nay,
silence itself may become a stimulus, while
sound ceases to be so. Thus, a miller being
very ill, his mill was stopped that he might
not be disturbed by its noise; but this, so far
from inducing sleep; prevented it altogether;
lI lielilml th- Foatlighlx.
From the New York World.]
A* the_antkority for the following story is a
clergyman of this city, no les# noted for liis
eloquence as a theological moralist than for
his manifold literary attainments, it maybe
accepted as something without alloy of either
exaggerated factor sensational fiction: Sonic
years ago a minister of the gospel, who some
times undertook the arduous duties of a vol
unteer city missionary, discovered, in the fam
ily of a poor laborer, in one of the most mis
erable tenement houses of New York, two
youthful sisters, whose appearance aud
natural abilities wore, apparently,- much
above their squalid lot iu life. By
bis agency they were placed in a
school, their home rendered more comfortable,
and their desire for a future of better sur
roundings made practicable to them. All went
well until the period of schooling was over,
when the elder und more interesting of tin-
two, in an hour of blind, girlish folly, became
the wife of a young mau greatly her inferior in
intelligence and general worth. To her the
story now belongs, and the romance, of her life
began with the mad act by which she threw
away every opportunity to ripen her existence
into a better reality. Love’s first fitful lover
being over, she became aware of her great
mistake, and after a brief, inharmonious
perience of matrimony, withdrew from L-:
mismatched husband and disappeared from
the city. Her family and their good friend,
tho clergyman, were in great distress there
at, fearing that the unhappy young wife
had been driven to some desperate resource;
but at tbe end of some weeks, there came
to tho minister a letter from the mis
sing one. After confiding to him the
story of her intolerable matrimonial sorrows,
and'declaring that she had renounced her un
fit husband forever, the writer confessed that
she had become au actress in a theater of
Memphis, Tennessee, under on assumed name.
In this uew capacity she was gaining much
success, and begged her old friend to keep her
secret and act as her agent in a friendly watch
over the huslmnd she could no longer live,
with. She promised to send money from
time to time, which the clergyman was to ap
ply, as from himself, to such aid as the hus
band might absolutely require; but begged
that no effort should be made to persuade her
back to the life never to be. hers again. Con
vinced that all such persuasion must bo use
less, the recipient of the extraordinary letter
sadly yielded to the inevitable and wrote to
the actress that he would act .as she desired.
Consequently, while the detached wife led
the life of a player iu Tennessee, she was still
able to keep an eye, through her friend, upon
her husband in New Y’ork, aud see that he did
uot fall into abject want One day, a few
weeks ago, a letter from the clergyman told her
that the man whom she vowed to love, honor
aud obey was lying sick of relapsing fever, in
a wretched garret, to which he had retreated .
On the day after the arrival of this news she
abruptly closed her engagement at the South
ern Theater, aud disappeared from Memphis.
Two days thereafter, a nice benignant old lady
appeared in the New Y’ork tenement honae iu
which lay the fever patient, distributing tracts
and inquiring for sick persons to visit—
The people of the lower floor told her
about the dying man iu the gar
ret, and, with basket on her arm, she weufc up
to see him. There he was, tossing and deliri
ous in a burning fever, with naught to smooth
his pathway to the grave, or cool its scorching
air. She filled his room with comforts, em
ployed a physician and a nurse, and made
daily visit# to the place thereafter. No one
knew who she was, uor where she came from ;
but the rough men of the rookery raised their
shabby hat* to her, and the slatternly women
blessed her when she passed. Nothing could
save the sick man ; ho grew worse, ana in his
delirium often called for his wife. Just before
death, the old lady disappeared from his bed
side, and in her place sat a young lady richly
dressed. The sufferer was too far gone to re
cognize her, but she was his wife. In the dis
guise of the old woman she had relieved his
last wants, and in the end she gave him Chris
tian burial The last act of her married life
being finished, the dramatized woman reveal
ed herself to her sister and their friend the
clergyman, bnt only to say good-bye before
returning to the South. Her last words as she
started for Memphis were: " I hope I shall no
die iu a theater, as poor President Lincoln
did.” It was a presentiment On the very
night of her re-appearance os an actress, she
fell violently ill in the theater, and before
morning dawned had gone to join her husband
in another world.
