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JtflfiMin Davis on die Future of
the Southern Blacks, and I'eu
iani*ni.
From the recent vrork of Surgeon ('raven
entitled the “ Prison I.ife Jefferson Davis,”
we extract his views on the subject of negro
emancipation and its result, and the lase
abortive invasion of Canada in behalf of Ire
land :
Sir. Davis referred to an account he had
been reading of an attack on a negro named
Davenport, in Connecticut, for marrying or
living with a white woman. Also to tin
>’ew York riots, in w’-ich limbs rose sudden
ly upon the blacks, hanging them, to lamp
posts and roasting them at slow fires The
papers bore evidence, from all sections, of
increasing hostility between the two races,
and this was hut part . f the penalty the poor
■negro had to pay for freedom. The more
political equality was given or approached,
the greater must become, the social antago
nism of the races.
In the South, under slavery, there was no
such feeling, because there could be no rival
ry. Children of the white master were often
suckled by negroes, and sported during in
fancy with black playmates Old enough to
engage in manlier exercises, it was under
black huntsmen the young whites took heir
first lessons in field sports. They fished,
shot, and hunted together, eating the same
bread, drinking from tlie same cup, sleeping
under the same tree with their negro guide.
In public conveyances, there was no social
exclusion of the blacks, nor any dislike en
gendered by competition between white and
negro labor. In the bed-chamber of the
planter's daughter, it was common for a ne
gro girl to sleep as hall attendant, half com
panion ; and while there might he, as in all
countries, and among all races, individual in
stances ol cruel treatment, he was well sat
isfied that between no master and laboring
classes on earth had so kindly and regardful
a feeling subsisted. To suppose otherwise
required a violation of the known laws of bu
man nature. Marly associations of service,
affection and support were powerful. To
these self inti re-t j lined. Toe hors- hired
for a day may be led or not fed, gnome i or
■not groomed, when returned to the livery
stable. Iho lr. rso owned by us, and lor
which we have paid a thousand or fifteen hun
dred dollars, is an object both of solicitude,
and pride, iI is groom in-, stab loin-, and feed
ing are eared lor. It sick, he is doctoreu and
cured if possible. When at work it is the
owner's interest that he shall not he over
taxed.
The attainment of political equality by the
negro will revolutioniz - all this. It will he irs
if our horses were given the right of intrud
ing into our parlors, r brought directly in
to competition with human labor, no'longer
aiding ir, but as livals Cut large gangs of
white laborers, belonging to diff-rent nation
alities, at work beside each other, and feuds
will probably break out. Endeavor to sup
plant a thousand Irishmen working on a
ievco or canal by a thousand Germans ready
to accept lower wage s, or tore i; rsa, and mili
tary powi rs will be required to keep the
peace. Kmancipation does this upon agi
gantie scale, and in the tno.-t agravated fbrin.
It throws the whole black race into direct
and aggressive cuinpcti; inn with the laboring
classes of the whites, and the ignorance of
the blacks. |.re-timing on their freedom, will
eiribitp r ibi- difference. The principle of
cuiip-nsiti.'ii prevails everywhere through
nature, and tie- negroes will have to pav, in
harsher social re-irictions and treatment, for
the attempt to invest them with political
cquati'y. To endow them with the ballot
hy art of C oigriss was impossible, until the
trunk of the Constitution already stripped
■of many branches once full of shade and
plea-ant singing birds, was torn up bv tlie
roots. Each .State Lad the privilege of dr
-tiding tlie qualifications of its own citizens ;
audVt some t lie States most, clamorous for uni
ver.-al negro suffrage in the South, where
such a measure would send unlettered blacks
to both Houses of' Congress, and pass the
State Legislatures and judiciary altogether
into their hands, themselves refused the bal
lot to the negro, though not numerous enough
in any district, to decide the majority of a
poundkeeper.
A €L 8.1 qsrty —Ono of the most curious
yet simple instruments of late y ears is a little
wooden barometer, invented f>y a Mexican
guitar-maker a few years since. It con
sists only of a strip of cedar, very thin, about
two and a half feet in length, about, an inch
wide, cut with the grain set in a block or
fort. This cedar strip is backed or lined
with One of white pine cut across the grain,
and the two are tightly glued together. To
bend these when dry is to snap them, but on
the approach of bad weather, the cedar
curies over until the top at times touches
the ground. It is said this simple instru
ment will indicate the coming of a “norther”
full twenty-four hours before any other kind
■£>'. barometer known on the coast The phi
losophy of the thing seems to be that the
pine dries and contracts under the influence
of fair weather, and curls over on its side ;
•white in foul weather, swelling and expand
ing its side, the cedar yielding to the pres
sure because cut with the grain and is not
susceptible to the influence of dryness or
.humidity of atmosphere.
Perfectly Delighted, —Many of our
pflouthern journals appear to be delighted
With the clause in the new Army Hill pro
hibiting any person who served the lute Con
federate States, either in a civil or military
capacity, from entering the army of the Uni
ted States. The Yorkville Enquirer savs :
“i\ e can now listen to war rumors, and hostile
Congressional debates against Great Britain,
Mexico, and other offenders,without any fears
being dragged out again to dig trenches, or
of become targets for rifle practice. We shall
now advocate war fiercely and persistently,
whenever the slightest provocation for it
arises. C\ e think the United States ought
to lick Great Britain at once for her past
offences. Cuba might, at the same time, be
wrested from that crazy old power, Spain,
a nd Maximilian unseated in Mexico. Our
toicc ft fur war, decidedly and emphatically.”
SOUTHERN HERALD.
BV I), X. lAWIX & CO,
£ o u t jj r r n it) trail).
Giiflin, Georgia, July 1-2. lS(ifi.
Shall tlie South be Iteprc-cut < and in
the Philadelphia Convention I
We feel that it ;s hiimilia'ing that such
a question as the above should be a subject
of discussion among the .Southern people.-
The question would be Letter stated in
another lot in. Having lost all of our rights,
shall we longer undertake to maintain our
self respect ? W e separated from the
Northern Democracy in 1800 because thev
denied us the right to carry slaves into the
new teiritories; now, after they have set
the ncgrc-es fteo l>y force, and plundered ns
of all our earthly possessions, burned our
houses, armed the negroes, and taught them
that it was their duty to kill us, and denied
us all our rights, even the sacred and inali
enable right of self defence, we me now in
vited to meet them in Convention, and eon
cede all these inhuman demands, in order
to join hands with the so-called conservative
party of the North to enable them to put
down the radicals.
The South can claim a few friends at the
North, but the v are as powerless as we are,
and if ever allowed to sit in the Convention
at Philadelphia, will have little or no influ
ence there. They arc proscribed, con
temned, and despised,—spoken of by the
leading journals North, both republican and
democratic, so-called, with the utmost, con
tempt am! detestation, being called traitors
and enemies to the country. The great
head and front of the < oaservatives, Mr.
Seward, declares that there is really t.o es
sential difference between the conservatives
and the radicals. And yet we are invited
to join Mr. Seward who originated the irre
pressible conflict-, and Mr. Ravn o-nl who
has voted for most of the radical measures
during the present session of Congress, to
help them squelch Mr. Stevens and Mr.
Sumner '
If some trifling difference of opinion
should arise among the busts of the infernal
world, about how thev should best proceed
to make the ruin of this world more com
plete than it now is, and a Convention
should 1 e called bv the moderate party, for
the: purpose of organizing, thereby to enable
them to gain the victory over the other
party, who were largely in lire majority,
would it be wise-, in the people here to meet
them in Convention to assist them in their
purpose I \Ye wouid not wish to
sented in such a Convention, and still there
would be almost as much sense ill it tis to
be represented in the Philadelphia Conven
tion. No, no, let tlie South maintain what
little of seif respect she lias left —she lias
no rights to maintain. She has been
. heated, and swindled, and troden under foot
ever since she went into the Union ; what
can she expect to gain by further acts of
voluntary submission to an unholv associa
tion with her enemies? The Ulan who de
nies me every right which is inestimable to
a freeman “and formidable to tyrants onlv”
is my enemy, and self respect demands that
lie should be so regarded and treated.
It is not ncces-ary t" g-t the South in
Convention with any Not'.h.-rn party to in
duce her to vote-right ; ail that is wanting
is to let her have a vote, she will not east it
against I er friends and in favor of her ene
mies, and she needs no association with
northern parties to prevent her fioin doing
a thing so unreasonable and so suicidal.—
Let the tricky trading North fight her own
battles, we have been humbugged bv her
ioug enough. Let the South stand aloof,
and act as a unit, and not, as . heretofore,
cripple herself hv entangling alliances with
northern parties to he victimized and sold'
by everv political trader. Lot ns escape,
if possib'e, from the intolerable race of com
promisers with which we were ever afflicted
before we seceded ; let us maintain what
little of manhood escaped the destruction of
the war—o let us be men if it kills us!
Does anybody suppose that Jefferson
Davis, were lie how at. liberty, would go to
the Philadelphia Convention? or permit
himself to he represented there? Never, no
never. \\ e are satisfied that republicanism
in this country has proved an utter failure, !
and that the South will never hare any
rights while attached to the government, (
but she is unable to help herself—she isj
simply a prisoner of war, having the power
to demand nothing; her true policy is to
wait with patience until she has the power
to demand her rights. We have confidence
in a super-ruling Providence, and we think
we have been wronged too much for the
authors of that wrong to escape unpunished .
their day will come, either l.v divisions
among themselves, or by trouble with some
other ration —a lime when we may hope
successfully to demand our rights —but it
will have to bo an occasion moro oppor
tune, and a power more potent than the
Philadelphia Convention.
The St. Louis Democrat promises that
within three works Pacific Railroad trains
will run through to Leavenworth, Kan-as
m Tlic IV n i« MHclilier Ihr.ti the Sword.* 4
CRimX, GMil l, Till Mill llolimil, JI L 1 I* IStifi.
Far t lie Southern Herald,
Our Captive C flit f.
Linen *ugg-*tvd reading the *’ / r*e n Life of
Jrjfr rte/n Dan*," by Dr. ('rave n.
BY M!s* M. I). I».
I dreamed, that in the and inreon’s dimlm *<»,
I stood U 5 he shack*.• 1 lay.
And I thought of the hounds that kept him,
Like n royal stTg at bay.
And ruy hot blood, like molten lava,
Surged all boiling tin -nigh my veins.
And my torn l:eait with hate was madd’ning,
Wildly maddiiing with its paint.
And my voice I lifted to Heaven, —
Vo the Just, the I’plight One—
And l asked, with a heart all broken,
44 If deeds like these should be done***
No, no ! —by the graves where slumber
Our slaughtered—aye, murdered sires.
By our widows, and our orphans,
Ily our altars, homes, and fire* ’
No, no!—by the ashes sacred
Os our young and daring braves, —
By the bones all scattered, —bleaching.
Or mouldering in dens and caves.
No, no ! —by the God of Mer< y,
Yen, of Justice ami of Might.
If the dungeon doors are opened not.
He’ll with vengeance swift requite!
Shame, shame ! to the craven dastards—
Did malice e’er stoop so low ?
To wreak the lusts <»f their hatred
On the Chief of a fallen foe!
Shame, shame! that this land of Freedom, —
No, no! ’(is but Fietdom’s grave—
Should see, ’thout a tear, the dungeon drear
In iis tomb enclose our Brave!
Shame, sham* l ! that this land of Bibles
Should see with what fiendish art,
They pile the lingering tortures
Chi his bleeding, bursting heart!
Shame, shame! that the serpent’s venom
Man's heart should turn t«» steel,
Or tl.e lambkin's tleecy coating,
The form ol the wolf conceal!
Shame, shame! that the voice of weeping
Is heard through our Dixie dear,
For the captive Chief sore pining
In a dungeon dark and drear!
And though that voice of wailing
Be hushed when the foe is near,
Tis only to hid*' the moaning
I hey would joy,—av *,joy to hear.
To the shackled prisoner I whispered,
With my lmna on his thin gray hair,
Oh ! Qod of jit Ht ice, free the captive !
Is thy moaning people’s prayer.”
Guilin, (la. July 11 111, 18(16. *
Prison Life of Jeffkson Davis.— Ur.
Craven’s book which gives an account ot
the prison life of .Jefferson Davis is creating
quite a sensation in the whole country. We
have quoted largely from it, and may here
after again do so. Our present object in
referring to this remarkable book, is to cor
rect a misapprehension that may oxi.-.t in
the minds of some of our readers in regard
to our opinion of it, for the reason that we
admitted into our columns on yesterday a
communication from a respected friend,
which embraced a severe denunciation of if.
We incline to differ with our aforesaid cor
respondent. \\ e did not think this neces
sary at the lime we published his communi
cation, for we hold to the rule, that Editors
arc not rcspon-ihle for the opinions of oth
ers that may appear in their journals, in the
absence of their endorsement, by them
Lest, however, wo repeat, misapprehension
may exist, as to our opinions of this work of
l)r Craven, we pen lit -e linos. The spirit
of the work, in our judgment, and the same
view is taken of it by journals of the high
est respectability, is commendable ; and says
the Charleston iX-ux, “ reflects the greatest
credit on the anther’s heart. An auti-slave
ry man all his life, and a Republican from
tire inception of that party. Dr. Craven provs
himself true to the noble instincts of hu
manity in so thoroughly divesting himself
of the prejudices of a life-time, and publish
ing this book in the face of his fierce breth
r nos the Radical press uud party. The
book has been very well received almost
everywhere, and it is only such ultra sheets
as Forney’s (.'hronie/i Carl Schurz’s Post,
and others of that ilk—that are lost to all
sense of shame and decency—who carp and
pre'end to sneer at this spontaneous exhibi
tion of good feeling in a manner that can
redound only in disgrace on their own heads,
and on the heads of their entire faction.”
We agree with our Charleston cotempora
ry, and cannot theforc join in the denuncia
tions off >r Craven’s book which appeared
in our correspondent’s article. —Atlanta In
telligencer.
A Life-Saving Bathing Apparatus.
A French engineer named Desen is exhibit
ing in London a bathing apparatus whieh is
also a life preserver. It is of simple con
struction, resemples a child’s cradle, the
upper part having a cylindrical cork-float,
canvassed over, nearly surrounding the ma
chine, which keeps the bather afloat with
the greatest ease and safety. The body con
sists of a net, with light iron tubular pipes
for supports ; and the bottom or bed piece
of twilled tick, at the foot of which there is
a/screw copper rudder, which turns upon a
swivel with a pair of cork soles the shape
of the foot. Against this the bather places
his feet, and is thus enabled to guide or
steer himself in any direction, while by the
use of a handle attached to the left side of the
apparatus below the cylinder, he is enabled
to propel himself or recede. This invention
can be used in the open sea, as well as on a
river or lake.
A Great Roof. —A roof is in process of
construction in Detroit, over the Michigan
; Central depot, which will cover three hun
dred thousand square feet, or over seven
acres.
NEWS. FACTS. &C
Elm u.f. Srrrit.viE ix Kxiii.ASD.—Fif
teen hundr il women have petitioned,
through Mr Mill, fur the extension of the
franchise t.> widows and unmarried women
having a property qualification. Antony
the petitiomrs are Mrs. S micrvillc and Miss
Martin, an.
M. di It itheliilds has refused to give Aus
tria a credit of five millions of francs, which
was asked flu by l’rince Mctternieh on be
half cl his u ivernment.
The recent elections in Oregon and Wash
ton Territory show considerable Democratic
gains, and the same appears to be the ease
in Nebraska and Illinois.
According to a letter from Vienna, pub
lished by the Europe of Frankfort, a thous
and nightingdes have been caught. at the
request of Maximilian, and will bo speedily
shipped for Mexico
There are 2,SOD miles of new cable cn
board the ( in at Eastern, and the machinery,
both for paying out and picking up, is said
to he the product of the best skill that Eug
land can bring into requisition.
Citizens.of Vera Cruz have given Maxi
milian a sceptre ol gold ornamented with
diamonds.
The Atlantic cable has been completed
and the Great Eastern left Sherness on the
loth ult , to commence the work ol connect
ing the Old World and tlie New.
Hon. Robert Toombs is in good health
and residing in London.
A railroad conductor, at Buffalo, has been
fined SSOO for ejecting a man from a ear
because lie refused to give his scat to a wo
man.
General Cass was estimated to be worth
four or five millions.
Geo. A. Munson, a Presbyterian, and D.
11. Murphy, a Methodist, both clergymen
of Cape Girardeau, Mo., were convicted of
preaching without taking the test oath, re
cently, and sentenced to pay a fine of SiDil
each.
There arc five newspapers at the South
edited by lie, roes.
Tiiaii Sti:vi:np. —The Oxford (Miss.j
Falcon says that a tax assessor of a neighbor
ing county reports 127 negro babies born
since the present Congress has been in ses
sion, 78 oi' the number arc named Thad.
Stevens. Tlie assessors asked the mothers
the reason for naming their babies that name,
and they universally replied that they had
been told that there was a great man in Con
gress by that name whose wife was a negro
woman.
A robber's cave has been discovered in
Cornwall, New York, fitted up with beds,
cooking utensils,-Ac.
Maps of Europe should he di-posed of at
once, as after the war, there is no knowing
what the boundaries of Prussia, Italy, or
Austria will be.
It is stated that Dr. Craven's account ol
Hon. Jefferson Davis in Fortress Monroe,
was not written by the Dr. at all, hut by the
enterprising Bohemian, Col. Halp.ne, better
known as “ Private Miles O’Reilly.”
The Robert E. Lee is the name of a great
boat building at New Albany, Indiana, for
the New Orleans and Vicksburg trade. She
will he tlie finest and fastest boat ever built
there, and her outfit is said to bit iu unison
with her majestic proportions.
Forney is a candidate for tlie I'nitcd
States Scnatorship to succeed Senator Co
wan. The election of members ol the Legis
lature is to be held in October, ami it is be
lieved that Forney’s party stands but little
chance, and he none at all.
Walter Sampson, in his history of the
Gipsies, estimates that there are 2f>o 000 of
these strange people in Great Britain, and
in Europe and America not less than four
millions.
A man lias been arrested in ..Covington,
Ky., for beating his grandmother. Fined
SoO and costs.
Gen. S. 15. Buckner has been elected Vice
President of the Southern Telegraph Com
pany. The construction of a line of tele
graph from Cincinnati, through Louisville,
Nashville, Memphis and Vicksburg to New
Orleans and Mobile, is the first object of the
Company.
An Austrian officer has arrived at Mobile,
empowered to off r positions in the Austrian
army to ex-Confcdcrates. It is thought
that quite a number will avail themselves
of the oppoitunity to plunge again into the
exciting sccnc3 o! war.
Blind Tom, the prodigiously musical ne
gro of Georgia, made some of the “loyal”
people of Trey, New York, as mad as a
March hare the other night by giving them
“ the Battle of Manassas ” on the piano.
“Amateur” writes to the Troy Times that
“ when the audience were invited to listen
to Blind Tom, they did not expect to be re
galed with the story of their own defeat.”
He adds that the thing was a “ deliberate
insult” to the audience.
President Johnson has been made a LLT>.
by the University of North Caroliua.
Mercer, the philanthropist, is being sued
extensively in Washington Territory for
not finding husbands for the spinsters.
Prince Napoleon is “ my good cousin ” to
the" Emperor once more. The reconciliation
is sai l to he complete ; the Prince will re
sume the Presidency of the exposition, and
will make no more naughty republican
spcchcs.
\ north Carolina paper says the City Coun
cil of ft ewbern has voted against raising a
flag on the City Hall, on the ground that as
their members of Congress are notadmitted,
tbc United . < ntcs cannot ask them to do
homage to the flag.
M. de la Chatrc has taken pains to pub
lish seven octavo volumes, and more are
promised, under the frightful title : “ The
History of the Popes; Crimes, Murders,
Poisonings, Parricides, Adulteries, and In
cests of the Homan Pontiffs, from the Time
of >t. Peter Down to <"*ur Own Pay.”
VOL 1. NO, ft
The contract for carrying the United
Stst.s mail between Milton, North Carolina,
and Barksdale depot was recently awarded
to a colored man, w ho, after having tlie test
.«a:h read and explained to him, threw up
the contract for tl.e rcasoti that Lis own
conscience wotiUtiT lit hint take the oath !
Cor ms Ri.wvi:n. —G. \V. Palnor, who
ran away with the Confederate funds from
Srn Antonio, Las been appointed United
St it<-s Judge at - - rt Leon, under the treaty
for (be suppression of the slave trade. Si ere
Leon - the head quart. .* of tl.e Liberian
Colony in Africa. Judge Palmer should
have a place near Judge Underwood, in
Livingston'* biographies cf distinguished
Jurists. The ex-Texian will doubtless pro
duce a profound impression among his sable
brethren by bis proficiency in tl.e oeeult
science of spirit-rapping.
Nvwspapk-r Oonr.rspoxnfevnt is- the
At STitiAS Army.—Tlie Austrian command
er, Gen. Reiiedek, has issued an order bear
ing especially up n new»pa|>er correspond
ents. He s:iys that lie sha 1 in |-,o way tol
erate, cither at headquarters or with other
commanders nr corps, paid or unpaid rows
papet correspondent*, either civil or milita
ry ; and he requests iho .-oiiiiu andrr* to see
that no one 1.. long.tig to the army lends
himself to supplying artiel-* de- gned for
the journals, unless, ho has received a mis
sion so to do from the government.
Thtnl. Stevens is an old bachelor.—Er
cha ii./e.
Thorn is a “ colored lady ” at Lancruter,
Pennsylvania, who will fight y. u on that
question “until your eyelids cease to wi>g."
Mob le Ada.
The Constitution of the State of North
Carol ti,a requires a property qualification
of $7,500, and a residence of five years, to
make a person eligible to the office of Gov
ernor. A proposition was made in the
convention recently to modify this provis
ion. but it was lost l.y a decided majority .
Win. P. Mungum, of North Carolina, bus
been appointed by ti c President Consul at
Nagasaki, Japan. He can take the tost
oath that lie m-ver ad -d or sympathized
with tlie South.— Exchan/r.
Then, Naga-aki is not too fyr off to send
him. Rut tiie President is very unkind to
Nagasakians.— Mobile Adrertisrr.
People who live in the neighborhood of
Mount Vesuvius say that the volcano is
again exhibiting signs of internal commo
tion. ILe small cone recently threw quan
tities of stones into the air, and on the large
cone two new craters have been formed.—
A considerable body of lava has »!?o flowed
from tlie small cone.
It is said that advices have been received
at Washington fioin I’aris, that the Empe
ror Napoleon repudiates Lining in any war
been cognizant of i-lie propositions of Aus
tria to send tro ; s to Maximiflian, nnd lie
repeat* h a detei initiation to withdraw the
French troops from Mexico.
W hile Albert Pike, accompanied by his
wife and a Miss lil anciiard, was riding, on
the 10th instMit, along tlie bank of the
I teerfield river ir. Whittingham, Vt., the
horse backed into the river, -and the two
ladies were drowned.
The Editor cf the Nashville Gazette , who
has been tura'.izing extensively in Tennes
see, reports very unfavorably upon ail the
crops except fruits. Ho adds :
Among all those who have hired negro
labor extensively , vvo have lieatd but one
expression that of a determination never
to repeat the experiment. Alas, for the
poor negro.
A wealthy Baltimorean, writing to n
friend, say* that hail to the amount of two
million dollars can he procured for Mr.
Davis in that city on five hours notice;
already iwentysfive thousand dollars have
been qiuetly subscribed there towaids de
fraying the expenses of hi« trial, and that a
huudred thousai and more <an he raised if
necessity.
Under tiie new postofliee law, just ap
proved by the Pte-Menl, dead letters are to
he returned to the writers free of postage,
and prepaid lefo-rs may he forwarded, at
the request of the parties to wl in ml
dressed, from one office to another, without
additional charge.
A proposition is pending in Congress to
place sixty Ihotisoiid do’lais in the hands
of <ren. B. F. Butler, to he held in trust for
the purchase of a National Asylum. If
!• utier is to hobi the money, asks the Balti
-1 more Transcript, who is to hold him !
ibis is a question which demands 3«riou»
consideration. Wo should hate to invest
• five dollars in the enterprise unless some
body is to hold him.
The Emperor of Austiia is said to be de
voured by a deep melancholy which he only
shakes off in moments when most occupied
by business. Abandoned by so many in
this hour of trial, and surrounded by dnrrg
ers of w jich he cannot fajliou the.depth, it
it not strange that at his age he should feel
jro lituvHy the weight of his position.
Elias Howe, the inventor and patentee of
the sewing machine known by bis name,
has declared his purpose not to apply for
an extension of h s paten', which runs out
this year, on the ground that he has made a
million and a half dollars on it already.
In the Sena'e recently, a resolution was
passed appropriating *1,500 to Mrs. Abbie
Green, of Richmond, for having aided one
hundred and nine officers and soldiers of
the Federal army to escane from the Lithe
prison.
The Rome Con Per is informed by one of
the justices of the Inferior Court of Floyd
county, that there are now in that county
between eight hundred and one thousand
while persons destitute of bread—most of
them widows and children—who are not
included in the classes for which the Legis
lature has made an appropriation.
A country exihange notices the fact that
a man s:opped his papers on Saturday and
died on Tuesday, Moral—couldn't get
along without Lies paper.
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p*ij fur if not i.r«vjoo*ly renewed.
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Ad*«rti*e,ne*U uncrWd at tbe r-W* at On*
Ix.ii»r *r. ' fifty Out* |>«r-quart of Ten Ida**, ior
the Lr»t ir.***"rlio»i, «nd SeTaatvfre OoW fbr
r*cb suL*. quctil insertion p*vat>U in aiix
Litiernl .eduction* made on n.ntraeu for alt*
• i«<-men’* running three month* and longer.
To the 1-rculiU sos the South.
The following eloquent appeal to the Iste
alites of the Njulli, iu behalf of a patriotic
and noble undertaking we notice in our
Richoiond exchanges :
Rinnwxv. Ya , June 5, While
the world yet rings with th« naraUva of a
brave p.-"pie - struggle for independence, usd
while the story of hardship so nobly endured
for Liberty’s sake is yet a theme but half
exhausted, tho countless grave* of the myr
iads of heroes who sptifed their noble blood
in defense of tlut glorious cause, lie Mg
lectcJ, not alone* unmarked by tablet or
sculptured urn, but literally vanishing before
the relentless finger of Time. Within the
past four weeks, there bav« been formed hy
the ladies of Richmond two aaeociathma, via ;
I he “ Holy wood ” and the “ Oak wood,” hav
ing for their object the care and renovation
ot tho soldiers' graves iu thuae oemeteries.
C’otemporaneously with the abova, wo, the
Hebrew ladies, formed a similar association,
with a view of caring for the graves ofJew
ish soldiers ; which, of coutae, would not be
embraced in the work of either of the first
named societies.
In our own cemetery repoae, alas! the
sacred remains of many a loved brother, son,
and husband, to whose relatives in the far
sunny South, it would be a solace to know
that the pious duty of preserving from decay
the last resting place of their lost ones, al
though denied to them to perform, is yet sa
credly fulfilled by the members of the “ He
brew Ladies, Memorial Association.”
It is our intention to mound and turf each
grave, aud to place at the head of each a
simple stone, im-cribcd with the name, Btale,
time and place of death ; subsequently, to
rear a monum nt commemorative of their
brave deeds.
In order, however, to successfully accotn
plish our object, wo need some pecuniary
assistance. (lur scant and somewhat needy
community, already so heavily taxed, has
done well ; hut we find this “ work is fob
great for us,” therefore, with a fall con
fidence in the sympathy and co-operation of
our people elsewhere, we make thin appeal
for aid, well knowing that as I-realitcs and
true patriots, they will not refuse to assist in
rearing a monument which shall serve not
only to couimenioruto the memory of our dead,
but the gratitude and admiration of tbe living
for those who nobly perished in wbat we
deemed a just and righteous cause; and
whilo, os Israelites, wo mourn the untimely
loss of our beloved ones, it will boa grate
ful reflection that they suffered not the»x call
in vain.
In time to come, when our grief shall have
become, in a measure, silenced, and when
the malicious tongue of slander, ever so
ready to assail Israel, shall be raised against
us, then, with a feeling of mournful pride,
will we point to this monument and say,
“ There is our reply.”
Mrs Abraham Levy,
Corresponding Secretary of the Hebrew im
dies' Memorial Society.
A Patent Vaccinator. —We learn
from the .V itntific American that Ileary
Minton, M. D ~ contrary to the practice of
regular physicians, whose practice it is to
give to the world the benefit of their inven
tions and discoveries, last week procured a
patent for u vaccinator. The instramrat
con-i-n in th ; arrangement of a puncturing
tube in a barrel which contains a spring, in
com! inatiou with a plunger passing through
the puncturing tube, and provided with a
momentum spring, so that when the punc
turing tube is filled with the vaccin Rating
matter and drawn back in the barrel again’st
tbc action of the spring contained therein,
and then released, after the barred has been
placed on the spot where the vaccinating
matter is to be introduced, the tube punc
tures the skin and the plunger flies out, over
coming the power of the momentum spring,
and causes the matter contained in the pune
turing tube to discharge into the wound
opened by said tube.
Citric Acid in Cancer— The coding
effects of lemon juice are well known.- Ci
tric acid is to all intents and purposes crys
talized lemon juice, and is often used aa a
substitute for lemons in making lemonade,
etc. An Italian physician, Dr. Brandina,
finding that a patient, with a cancer on the
tongue, received great relief in eating lem
ons, was induced to try the effect of citric
acid on other cancer patients, which he did
much to their relief. Iu a ease es hopeless
ly incurable cancer, it has been used with
the happiest results, and afforded greater re
lief from pain than any other application
that has been tried, and w e give it for the
benefit of our medical readers. Tb*6#jjatal
ized acid is used one part by weight, to 90
parts of soft water. The weight of a common
nickel cent to a pint of water eomes sufficient
ly near. The solution is applied by moisten
ing a piece of lint, and renewed when the
pain returns.
Missing Confederate Soldiers.— -Th#
following we extract from the Macon Trie
graph :
“ An anxious widowed mother, who has
been left alone and destitute, desires inform
ation concerning her two sons, who hare
not been heard from since the close of the
war, viz :
David S. Arthur of a Mississippi Regi
ment, Johnson’s command, who was wounded
at the battle of Atlanta.
Columbus W. Arthur, Company G, Ist
Regiment MneJssippi Cavalry, Forrest's com
mand ; was captured and sent to Camp Doipg.-
lass, from which he made bis escape, and
not since been heard from.
Whether living or dead, any information
concerning these parties, addressed to their
mother, Mrs. Mary Arthur, cars of Mr.
Watts, Exchange Hotel, Montgomery, Ala.,
will be gratefully received. v
Our brethren of tho Southern and Weatr
ern press mil please extend this notice.
The work of widening the track on the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad is
progressing ss rapidly as cirrssj-tsftcs* sfSI
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