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GALLAHER’S INDEPENDENT,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT
QUITMAN, O .V. ,
by
J. C. GALLAHER.
tkhmh or scbuchiption >
TWO DOLLA RS per Annum in A drone*
OUR KATE'S WEDDING.
BY a. VK B.
When Herman Gross came home from
Germany, where he bud completed his
studies, and the new sign with “H. Grow,
M. D.,” was hung out on the window shat
ter, all the young girts iu town went wild
■over his advent, “Such eyes ! Such a fig
ure t Such a manner 1” they cried, while
the old girls said litUe, bat many grew
suddenly indisposed, and needed medical
attendance 1 Later, when both young and
old discovered to their keen disappoint
ment, how little the new-couier cared for |
flirtation, in its geaem* sense, they became
the more eager for his attention; for the
■unattainable is preeaxis fc mankind, und
maddening hs gilts'!
Things eteod in this manner, the girls
■all "pidtrng caps” (and each other’s ears)
Iforfliß “Herr Doctor,” and he calmly,
coolly and composedly lookiug on at the
toumameut of “Caps aud Belles, , when, \
just after Christmas times, it was an
nounced by the doctor's sister that “Her-1
mm was to marry hate Hiller iu the
spring, aud take her to Europe on a wed- I
ding tear 3” A tidal wave of wonder
swept over the ■community at this startling !
piece of news. “Where could he ! How j
did she! Why did he !” were the breath
less questions t hat surged far and near.
And when the plain, true answer came fol
lowing back on the ebb of the disturbing
tide, tliat it all happened through the
machinations of a little blind boy, Love
ibj name, the young girls determined to
Jurat up this same enfant terrible, while
the old girls sickened again hut needed no
medical assistance this time. Some of the
married people even “talked, aud said
his marrying was “extravagant,’ and a
transatlantic tour “insane 1” But Her
man Gross was neither the Ol *e nor the
other, and when lie asked for oar Kate, he
proved to the mother that be was not only
in a position to marry and take ft wife to
Europe, but to take eare of her excellently
well while there, and ever after; aud (hid
ing that she could not demur on that
•score, the mother promised him our Kate’s
hand, for he already held her heart.
It was finally settled for the early Rum
mer, as Hernnru was to accompany a com
mittee of physicians who were going
abroad concerning some scientific subject, ,
at that time, and so after the soft April j
:ftbower hud kissed the frost-bitten ground, j
wild the warm May sunshine had coaxed !
out the blossoms, June eunie with all her
sweet summer airs, aud fiow'ers, and lusci
ous fruits, and it was then we had “Our
hfte’a Wedding.” Every one declared
.afterward that it Was the very loveliest ot
weddings. We girls had agreed, long j
ago, when we had dreamed of the possible
future—as all girls have a habit of doing j
—H w t when the “time” came no on. :
■should do a thing toward it but’ourselves. ’
Therefore, five pair of hands did a great j
steal of work in a short.space of time. I'ui
weeks there was a rattling of machines and •
zme-rrytougues; for days there was wonder-
Jfui beatings aud stirring going ou down
iin the kitchen, and finally a general re
.freshing, reflutiug, anti re-ribboning, of
•curtains and drapery, and “the day nr-j
rived. Early that morning, after we had
arranged the parlors, each one declared '
that ‘‘it couldn't look prettier 1 i\ itel'-
ever a flower could be, a cluster bloomed.
We took off the piuuo cover, und in the
centre, and on each four corners we placed
shells, and filled their great white scal
loped mouth with blossoms, which wen
all reflected back from its polished surface,
as from the bosom of some woodland lake.
On every bracket a bouquet breathed out
incense for the bride, of rose and lily-sy
ringa, and jessamii e, and it was a very
bower of Eden.
The minutes seemed to fly away that,
morning (“on the wings of love,” Fan de
clared) and it soon grew time to hurry to
the mother’s room, where we were to dress
our bride. We all helped at the ‘ ‘grande
toilette," Nell brushed and curled and
coiled the soft brown hair; Fan lanced the
little white boots; Lue looked up the long
white drapery with lilies of the valley and
orange buds. Someone knocked at the
door at last, saying that “Herman and
minister were waiting.”' Then, as Nell
hurried to place on the Veil and wreath,
Kate put out her hands, crying, “No, the
mother,” and turning to where she sat
watching us with dim eyes, Kate knelt at
her feet, and in half broken sentences
asked pardon for her child-hood's willful
fun Its ami follies, now failing into the post,
and dimmed already by the glorious light
of wife and mother hood dawning in the
distant future ! The mother fastened on
bet bridal-wreath, and asked a blessing.
Then we all kissed one another, and went
down.
Wo Lad no groomsmen. Only we girls
stood; Kate said it should be so, and Her
man assented. The parlors were filled,
and tlis rooms seemed to swim in a deli
cious sea of pretty flowers and faces,as we
entered. The doors were wide open; and
Dick, the canary, who hung out in the
ball, sang loudly all through tlie ceremony.
■When the minister asked, “Who giveth
this woman to be this man's wife ?” Gyp.
our little tau terrier, started up somewhere,
.and gave out one little shrill bark. Fan's
white shoulders at this began to shake,
but uncle Perry stepping forward and an
swering quickly, and Doctor Cheevea’s
going immediately on, there was a check
to the little ripple of smiles that thratened
to break out into wavelets of nervous
laughter. When it was all through, and
everybody had shaken Hermen’s poor
hand, and kissed our Kate, and called her
“Mrs. Gross,” and seen her dimples come
out to laugh at the strauge new name, Fan
came rushing up with Gyp struggling in
Tier armes, and said to Herman, “There,
thank him, brother in-law, for you wife !”
We all had our laugh quite out then, and
■Gyp was “engaged” for several weddings
ahead.
We were rewarded for rmr “heatings and
stirrings” and aching wrists, when every
body said our table was “so beautiful. ”
The cakes were all wreathed and gar
landed with flowers, the jellies one
could “see through,” aud aH were as
delicious to the palate as they were to the
eye. When the “wedding cake” was cut,
and Kate helped each girl, and Herman
each young gentleman to a slice, the girls
all began to crumble their pieces up quite
mysteriously which curious way of dispos
ing of bride's cake was fully explained to
the gentlemen later, when Fan cried out
joyously, “Oh, look ! it’s me ! and, sure
enough, she had the ring! A hearty laugh
followed her evident delight over the|pros
pect of being the next bride, add it was
considered a joke, with three elder sisters,
and ton times three more marriageable
girts in the room! We hoard the carriage
VOL. I.
rattling outside, and Herman began to
consult his watch after the usual impatient
manner of bridegrooms—is it because on
such occasions they are of only secondary
consideration, aud want to hurry away
from the scene ?
All the girls went np with Kate, to help
her change her white dress for the pretty
traveling suit of dove color, and though
we sisters laughed and chattered with the
rest, we felt a numb pain at our hearts
when we remembered the “How long
before we should be together again and
the “Never more” that was already soun
ding through the vacant olmmber of our
girl digvs ! When all were dressed and
ready, 'Kate looked all through the old
rooms where we had slept aud risen
together all our lives, and with a trem
bling voice he said, half smiling, “Good
bye, sweet home; Good bye, girlhood;
Good bye!’’
The trunks were on the carriage; kisses
were given; good wishes uttered; some
prayers went up to Heaven for the happy
uew life started; aud soon they rode away.
Nora threw the slipper after the carriage,
crying, “und sure an, we will kape the
mate for Miss Fan !”
Then the guests all departed, and we
were alone again. \Ve looked at one
another with tearful eyes, and then the
mother smiled a little sadly, saying, “It
is but right, so ldid; so will her dangters
do some day !” And though we all never
would leave the dear, mother, she shook
her head and looked iineredulous.
A Shadow of the Future.
The political prospect just now is very
perplexing, aud the outlook, to the ordi
nary navigator, is far from pleasent.
Hugh, ill-defined electrical masses are
gathering like clouds we often see in the
n est aud south whence come the cyclone
and the hurricane, aud no one can say
when it will burst. Actual, old-fashioned
organizations with such a trembling
weather gunge had better tend down
their light spars, batten their hatchets
aud make everything very snug. Drop
ping nautical illustration, it is clear that
we are oil the edge of a great crisis. At Gen.
Graut’s second inauguratory, nay, even
as recently as the beginning of the present
Congress, who would have suid that there
was any clmnc-e, on a question of economy,
ot the formation of anew party quite as
sectional as ever existed in the days of
slavery aud abolition ? Doctrine is the
parent of all intolerance, and there is no
philosophical reason why economy should
not have its fanaticism as well as religion
and philanthropy. We see many signs of
initiate intolerance. No one will question
our fidelity, aud we think the fidelity ol
tins community to the principles oi com
mon honesty and good laith as to the
paper currency and the public debt. !\ e
ave K)>nken # very decisively on the suh
j et; hut w, are ! y no menus clear that
a is the part of good policy just yet for
our more Northern and Eastern friends to
use quite so strong language of personal
den unci: ion as they have begun to do on
this subject. We regret as much as they
do that any of our Southern Democratic
friends in Congress should be infected by
the heresy of inflation. Hut we are not
prepared to denounce as “traitors” and
“cowards” such men as Gordon and
Goldt.iwuite and Alerrimon und Norwood.
One smiles indeed at "coward” as applied
to John B. Gordon. But let this pass.
We can perfectly understand, in the
desolate ami desperate condition of the
reconstructed South, that these gentlemen
may honestly err. We credit them with
better motives than Morton and Logan,
to say nothing of Butler. UnjuC’y to
denounce Southern Democratic statesmen
lor mere error of judgment is to cut the
feeble strands which bind them to Democ
racy. Be all this as it may, the new com
l)i nation a of a “cheap money party" and a
“hard money party” are looming up.
That the former is doomed to ruin by the
operation of rules, just as certain as those
which govern the planets, we religiously
believe. But we dread, and do not
presume to measure its transient and mis
chievous vitality. There is no difficulty
in its local extent, and, we fear, its early
triumphs. Look at it for a moment
geographically. The party that holds to
hard money and honesty as to public
credit would be limited to New England,
New York, Delaware and Maryland, and
possibly, under its new administration,
Virginia. All the rest in the great Wes
tern sweep, with two exceptions round
from North Carolina to Oregon and back
again to the Ohio, would be one great
surging mass of inflationists. California
and Nevada would be as powerless to
resist as the former was beyond its limits
jto arrest the flood of paper in the war.
| Pennsylvania and New Jersey, now slaves
i to the railroad ring, would join the dread
army. Who can doubt the temporary
[ result ? That the compact capital and
iuteligence of the Atlantic seaboard com-
I munities would struggle herd against such
, combinations we do not doubt. But the
issue, the pestilent result, is so for within
the range of possibility that we may be
pardoned for contemplating that possibility
with alarm.— Baltimore Gazette.
A Race of Men Who have not yet
Learned to Talk
On the Island of Borneo has been found
a certain race of wild creatnres, of which
kindred varietes have been discovered in
the Philippine Island, Terradel Fuege. and
in South America. They walk usually,
almost erect on two legs, and that atitude
measure about four feet in height.
They construct no habitations, form no
families scarcely associate together, sleep
in caves, feed on snakes and vermin, on
ants’ eggs, and on each other. They can
not be tamed or forced to any labor, and
are hunted aud shot among the trees like
the great gorilla, of which they arc a
stunted copy. When captured alive one
finds with surprise that their uncountable
jabbering sounds are like articulate lan
guage. They turn up a human face to
gaze at their captors, and females show
instincts of modesty. In fine, these
wretched beings are men and women.—
Siam Advertiser.
Selfishness. —lt issaid selfishness has
no soul; that it is a heart stone encased in
iron. Though the spirit of selfishness
aims to grasp all, there is, in reality noth
ing so self-sacrificing. It robs its own
grave; mortgages its own bones, and sells
its own soul. The man who is all for him
self, is no better to himself than a suicide.
He perils all the future for the present grat
ification; he borrows pleasure at an exor
bitant rate of usury, and pays by immola
tion of himself, body and soul..
QUITMAN, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1874.
[From the New York Tribune.]
A FEMALE STRATEGIST.
Mlm Anna Ellen Carroll** Claim to Hav
ing llroken the Power of the Con
federacy In the Southwe.t.
This year, hh for several years past. Miss
Anna Ellen Oarroll cornea before Congress
with her claim for compensation for ser
vices rendered during the civil war. For a
while tins claim was laughed at on general
principles, because Miss Carroll was a wo
man. Afterwards it was frowned upon,
as disrespectful in its essence to some of
our great captains. But it gathered
strength and consistency all the while,
until at last it obtained the suffrages of
many Congressmen and the favorable re
port of a committee. It is by no means
impossible that it may yet bo recognized
by considerable parties in both houses,
aud even that Miss Carroll may some day
obtain the compensation sho asks. Her
claim is certainly au extraordinary one.
She asserts and assumes to prove that she
originated and suggested to the Govern
uieut the plan for opening the Mississippi
aud breaking the rebel power in the
Southwest, which was finally adopted and
carried out. She claims to have made
out a detailed plan of the campaign in
which our armies ascended the Tennessee
river to the decisive position which they
occupied on the Memphis and Charleston
railroad. She claims further to have writ
ten an important series of papers on the
rebellion, for which the War Department
promised her u compensation which she
lias not received. The latter claim is not
so serious, and will scarcely hold, but the
proofs she brings to sustain hej assertions
in relation to the Tennessee campuigu are
of a cliaraoter which it is almost equally
difficult to admit or to deny.
The Hon. Thomas A. Scott, Assistant
Secretary of War, certifies to tin-justice of
the claim iu the most positive and unqual
ified terms. His statement is worth giv
ing in his own words:
Prtn.ADEi.rmA, June 24,1870.
On or about the 30tli of November, 1861,
M iss Carroll, as stated in her memorial,
called on me, as Assistant Secretary of
War, aud suggested the propriety of aban
doning the expedition which was then
preparing to descend the Mississippi river,
and to adopt instead the Tennessee river,
aud handed to me the plan of campaign,
as appended to her memorial, which plan
I submitted to the Secretary of War, and
its general ideas were adopted. On my
return from the Southwest in 1862, 1 in
formed Miss Carroll, as she states in her
memorial, that through the adoption of
this plan the country had been saved mil
lions, and that it entitled lier to the kind
consideration of Congress.
Thomas A. Soorr.
Col. Scott repeats this unreserved decla
ration in two or three different forms.
The Hon. B. F. Wade isequally emphatic.
He says that President Lincoln and Mr.
Stanton both informed him that the credit
of the Tennessee campaign was due to
Miss Carroll. The Hon. O. H. Browning,
Senator from Illinois, gives the same ev
idence with equal distinctness. Chief Jus
tice Evans, of the Supreme Court of Texas,
goes farther into details, giving the case of
the memorialist far more fully and strongly
than she presents it herself. The venera
ble Elisha Whittlesey joins in the same
representations. Such legal authorities as
lteverdy Johnson and Truman Smith say
that the evidence is complete in Iter favor.
Finally, the Military Committee of the
Senate in XLlst Congress, after maturely
weighing the case, reported through their
chairman, Senator Howard, of Michigan,
that Miss Carroll had established her
claim.
The case thus supported is one of the
most remarkable ones which have ever
come before the National Legislature.
The decision is of importance to more than
the memorialist. If it is in her favor, the
country will, of course, give her ungrudg
ingly the compensation she deserves, al
though others have already been munifi
cently paid in money atiil glory for the
work she claims to have done.
Taking Off the Shoes.
In Syria the people never take off their
caps or turbans when entering a house or
visiting a friend, but they always leave
their shoes at the door. The reason is
that the floors are covered with clean mats
and rugs, and in the Moslem houses the
men kneel on the rugs to pray, and press
their foreheads to the floor, so that it
would not be decent or respectful to wa k
in with dirty shoes and soil the sijjady on
which they kneel to pray. They have no
footmat or scrapers, and it is much cheaper
and simpler to leave the shoes, dirt and
all, at the door.
It is very curious to go to Syrian school
houses and see the piles of boots and shoes
at the door. There are new, bright red
shoes, and old tattered ones, and kob
kobs and black shoes, and sometimes yel
low shoes. The kob-kobs are wooden
clogs, made to raise the feet out of the
mud and water, having a little strap over
the toe to keep it on the foot. You will
often see little boys and girls running
down the steps and paved streets on these
dangerous kob-kobs. Sometimes they
slip aud then down they go on their noses,
and the kob-kobs fly off and go rattling
over the stones, and little AH or Yusef, or
whatever his name is begins to shout,
“Yu Imme ! Yalmme !” “Oh, my mother!”
and cries just like little children in other
couu tries.
But the funiest part is to see the boys j
when they come out of school and try to ,
find their shoes. There will be fifty boys, ,
and of course a hundred shoes, all mixed
together in one pile. When the school is
out the boys make a rush for the door.
Then comes the tug of war. A dozen boys
are standing aud shuffling on the pile of
shoes, looking down, kicking away the
other shoes, running their toes into their
own, stumbling over the kob-kobs, and
then making a dash to get out of the crowd. I
Sometimes shins will be kicked, and hair;
pulled, and tar booshes thrown off, and a
great screaming follow, which will only
cease when the teacher comes with “Asa,
or a stick, and quells the riot. That pile
of shoes will have to answer for a good
many school-boy tights and bruised noses
and hard feelings in Syria. You will won
der how they can tell their own shoes.
So do I. And the boys often wear off each
other’s shoes by mistake or on purpose,
and then you will see Selim running with
one shoe on and one of Ibrahim’s in his
hand shouting and cursing Ibrahim’s
father and grandfather until he gets back
bis lost property. The ll 'vm'in of die
. Arabs,
[From the Atlanta Countitution.]
HON. BENJAMIN H. HILL.
Ilia Reply to Mr. Dtrphrm
Atlanta, Ga., April 21, 1874.
Editors Constitution: On my return from
Twiggs Court, 1 find the letter from Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens, dated April 11th,
and being number 1 of a promised series,
purporting to review the address delivered
by me before the Southern Historical
Society. With the bad temper and worse
language of this letter, 1 do not now pro
pose to deal; nor will I allow myself to
imitate either, except to fix upon the gentle
man his own epithets.
Mr. Stephens tenders a direot issue of
veracity upon facts, and leaving for the
present all other questions involved, I
advance promptly and accept that issue.
If l have been guilty of the charge which
he makes of stating what I did not know
and could not know, then I deserve all the
denunciation which this enraged gentle
man has employed, and shall confess that
I ought not to be believed in any matter
whatever. On the other hand, il Mr. Ste
phens has stated positively and repeatedly
what is false, and wliut he was bound to
know was false, then he is shown to be
utterly unworthy of credit—liis Dock of
foul epithets must return home to roost
singing their wild “carmagnole,” and
whether his falsehoods originate in an
imbecility or an evil nature, I will, in
charity, leave for him aud his friends to
determine.
He quotes from the address as follows:
“The full history of the Hampton Roads
Commission and Conference, haß never
been written. I will not give that history
now. Much has been said aud published
on the subject which is not true. I know
why each member of that commission, ou
our part, was selected. 1 received from
Air. Davis’ ow n lips, a full account of the
conversation between him and tho com
missioners, before their departure from
Richmond.”
This paragraph is correctly quoted by
Air. Stephens except iu one particular.
In the address, as printed, there is a com
ma after the words “conversation.” This
sentence of the paragraph is twice quoted
by Air. Stephens—tlie last time it is
italicised, mid both times tlie comma is omit
ted.
I was allowing that Mr. Davis gave the
commissioners no written instructions,
but held a conversation with them before
atid preparatory to tlieir departure from
Richmond. He gave me an account of
that conversation afterwards, but whether
before or after the departure of the com
missioners was wholly immaterial, tuid
was not stated. Hut to give force to the
charge of untruth which was to follow,
Mr. Stephens thought it important to
make mo cay the account of the conversa
tion was given to me before tlieir depart
ure, and why should a comma stand in the
way of this boasted paragon of truth and
accuracy ? However men may differ as to
the mints of otlior achievements by this
wonderful mail, it must be conceded by
friends and foes alike for all time, that he
did certainly effectually, and most gal
lantly demolish the comma and it is not
on reci rl that either Barerc or Munchau
sen ever performed that feat! But,
after all, this demolition will prove to
have been very unnecessary. It was |
preparatory to his main charge, and this I
main charge 1 will show is utterly false |
whether the comma be in or out, und j
whether the word “before” refers to the |
conversation, or the “account” of it. So j
tlio comma is a small matter and 1 let it
pass. I
After making liis preparations Mr.
Stephens proceeds to his main charge in
Barere’s favorite style, thus:
"The shameless impudence and reck
lessness of this statement could not
possibly have been exceeded by Barere.
* # *■ ].t is utterly impossible that Mr.
I Hill could have known what he says he
] knew or received from Mr. Davis what he
j says he received from him. Mr. Hill was
: not in Richmond during the time the sub
ject of the commission, or the appoint
{ ment of commissioners was under consid
-1 elation by Air. Davis. He had left that
| city before the conference or commission
i ers had been determined upon by Air.
! Davis. * * * . *
j * * Mr. Hill, at this time, was in Geor
i gia, and did not return to Richmond be
| fore the general surrender. With what
amazing effrontery, then, does he now af
firm as an historical truth that he knew'
“why each member of the commission, on
our part, was selected, and that “he re
ceived from Mr. Davis’ own lips a full ac
count of the conversation between himself
and the commissioners, before their de
parture from Richmond. Well, if Mr.
Stephens has told the truth I plead guilty
of the most amazing effrontery. I will
ask no mercy, and accept no pardon.
When I delivered the address I did not
know Mr. Davis had left for Europe. I
expected he would see, at least, ah account
of the address in a few days. And if, in a
public speech on such an occasion, aud on
such a subject, I have made false state
ments of fact—and especially have repre
sented myself as having had a conservation
with Mr. Davis, which I did not have,
which I could not have had, and when he
was in Richmond, and I was in Georgia,
then, in the language of one of his silly
anonymous echoes in this city, “Mr.
Stephens has floored his antagonist” and I
will confess that “I am a liar and the truth
is not in me.”
But if Mr. Stphens has not told the truth,
what then? Who, then, shall wear the epi
thets “shamelessness,” “impudence,” “ef
frontery,” “shameless- facedness,” etc.,
etc.; who, then, has exceeded Barere and
Munchausen combined V If he has told
the truth, I accept infamy. If he has told
a falsehood he must take the same penalty,
will not a truth-loving people say this is
fair, equal aud just V Now, I stand before
the public responsible, on pain of infamy,
to make good the following statement of
facts:
I was not in Kichmod during oil the time
| “the subject of the commission and the
! appointment of the commissioners was un-
S der consideration by Mr. Davis,” but Mr.
Stephens knew I was there, saw me almost
; daily, talked with me, knew the interest I
! took in the commission, and could not
\ have forgotten these facts unless he has
; become imbecile indeed. I was at the
I man’s room aud told him that I should in
sist on his appointmeut, on the Peace
! Commission.
It was at my earnest instance that Mr.
| Davis consented to his appointment, and
this Was all done before Mr. Hunter noti
tied him of Mr. Davis’ desire to see him
at 12 o’clock M. on the 27th of January.
Stilt further, I had promised to go to
I Georgia on a special mission and at Mr.
■ Davis’s special request. For this very
I mission Mr. Davis deemed it important
j that I should know all about the progress,
prospect and results of the commission.
The commissioners-left Richmond on
Sunday, the 29th of January. I remained
in Richmond, before leaving for Georgia,
to ascertain if our commissioners would
bo received by the other side, aud at what
place, and to confer with whom. On Fri
day morning, the 3d of February, Mr.
Davis received dispatches making known
that our commissioners were going to
Hampton Hoads, and not Washington,
and that Messrs. Lincoln and Seward
would meet them. I spent much of the
morning of Friday the fid with Mr. Davis,
and received from his own lips all I have
stated in the address, and much more pre
paratory to leaving for Georgia. And
then, with the assurance from Mr. Davis
that he would himself send me a telegram
to Macon announcing the result of the
conference, I took leave of him and came
to Georgia, and received the promised
telegram on my arrive! at Macon. The
conference, in fact, took place on the 3d,
and 1 heard the result through the press
before getting to Macon. Air. Stephens
lias made more boastful pretensions to
accuracy than any public man in my
knowledge. His flatterers are all tutored
like parrots to repeat these pretensions.
He is, in truth, tho most artfully inaccu
rate and unfair man I over met or heard in
discussion. Ou this particular issue of
veracity which he has chosen to make on
me, and to repeat with a real “carmagnole”
of epithets, 1 raise the black flag, and
will neither give nor take quarter. If tho
public incline to think I press Mr. Ste
phens too heavily, my reason is that there
is a purpose, scope and malice in the issue
of veracity made upon me which the public
do not suspect, but which I fully under
stand. It has also a public significance
which time will develop. Ml'. Stephens
consents to lead offitia fierce “carmagnole”
and a troop of according anonymous scrib
blers reinforced by certain editors, are to
take up the reckless refrain. The same
conspirators lave engaged in the same
work on several occasions during the last
three years. The pretences that there are
unkind allusions in the address to mem
bers of the Georgia delegation in Congress
as “negroes, knaves or imbeciles,’' are
too ludicrous to need notice. In that
delegation are some of my most personal
friends, aud 1 do not believe that there is
one among them, besides Air. Stephens,
who would protend that such allusions ap
plied. or were intended to him. Every
statement of fact in the address is true,
and I will return to the subject on its
merits hereafter. But for the present J
address myself to this issue of veracity in
the most positive form iu which it lias
been made, and 1 meet the icredited
leader of the slanderous tribe at the very
threshold, und charge back upon him the
guilt of falsehood in fact, lie so vauntingly
prefers against me, and insist that I ho issue
thus made shall tolerate no solution but
proof, retraction or infnni/.
Bi:kj. H. Hill.
Doubt and Faith Contrasted.
Doubt disintegrates, disperses, repels.
Faith attracts and knits together. It acts
as a kind of center of gravitation in the
planetary system of things ideal, controll
ing the most erratic orbits; .standing to the
intellect in much the same overmastering
relation that (Iressidn’s love stood to all
her other feelings, when she declares—
“My love
Tb as the very center of the earth
Drawing ail things to it.”
Faith is the tonic of the poetical scale,
the key-note to which the most widly dis
cursive imagination must return in the end
before the ear can rest satisfied. Hence J
wo have absolutely no poetry in which
doubt is anything like the centrul’or tlomi- J
nautinterests; while we have, as in the
Hebrew poetry, as gorgeous palaces as im
agination ever sanctified, whose material is
supplied, and whose genius is inspired
from faith alone.
When doubt is made use of at all in poe
try, as in that highest quotable example,
the Book of Job, it is introduced more as
a foil to faith—the intense shadow of an in
tenser light—a wrestler brought into the
arena only to be overthrown by his migh
tier opponent. Doubt can command no
prolonged sympathy, and consequently
can find no permanent footing in any of
! the higher places of poetry. Faith, on the
contrary, seems to clothe itself with poetry
without effort; attracts all poetry to it as a
seemingly natural consequence;interwinds
and interweaves its life with it, until—to
use the strong Shakespearian phrase—the
two have “grown together, ” and their par
ting would be “a tortured body.”
They are the dermis and the epidermis
of the ideal anatomy, and their severance
means mutilation. Poetry can find no
more than a partial and passing attraction
in anything that is doubtful; she is, at
best,but a stranger and a pilgrim in the de
batable land. Her final election and abi
ding home is faith. She clings to faith as
a child to a mother, and will not, be shaken
off’, as plainly as if she had declared, once
for all, thy God shall be my God, and thy
people my people.
Death of a Miimbek of the Lee Fami
ly.—The venerable Mrs. Ann M. l’itz
hugh died at her residence in Alexandria
on Friday night last, in the sixty-seventh
year of her age. She was a Miss dolds
borongh, daughter of Governor Golds
borough, of Maryland, and a family long
distinguished in that State. Her husband
was William H. Fitzhugb, of Bavensworth,
Fairfax county, Va., a gentleman of fine
promise and rare accomplishments, but
who died young. George W. Parke Custis
married his sister, anil thus came the con
nection of the Lee and Fitzhugb fannies.
Mrs. Fitzhugb has been in delicate health
for some time. She never had any child
ren, und has distributed much of her im
mense estate among the Lee family. She
held much property of her own, and much
more for life under her husband’s will. A
claim for $375,000 damages to the Ruvens
worth estate is pending before tliu claims
commission.
The offer by Ply moth Church to Mr.
Beecher of a six months’vacation, with un
interrupted salary and the expenses of a
.European tour paid, has been declined by
him. He says that so long an absence
would be irksome to him and unjust to
those who have paid high prices for pews.
He will not go to England, and will take
only his usual vacation of three months on
his farm next summer.
Why is blind-man’s-buff like sympathy
Because it is fellow feeling for a fellow
. creature.
NO. 52.
* [From the Aufpots -Goni-UtutiolialUt.l
Drifting.
That large bodies of recent Republicans
l are drifting uway from tbe infamies of
i their parti organization is unquestionable.
It is equally patent that the revolt is more
pronounced among those persons who
were abolitionists. The New York 7Vt
bune doubt leas speaks the sentiment of
thisclns% atijpiu a recent editorial of more
than its accustomed vigor, the Republican
party is arraigned before the American
people as recreant to trust', and there
fore worthy of being extirpated or replaced
by better elements. From being a party
of mprality and principle, it is shown
that the lkidiful organization liks become
corrupt in' morals, g\ided sohly by the
greed of gain, and, instead bfiljnntaiiiing
its position ns the reliever of so-called.op-'
preasion, it is now tli vilest deapotiaimpu
God’s green earth. The Tribune doe* not
see that the principles it formerly advoca
ted were themselves calculated to breed
untold mischief, however honestly enter
tained. It does not see that the revolu
fiotiary theories of Sumner, Garrison and
Phillips depended for success upon civil
strif , and that the men of the sword ul
ways replace the doctrinaires, just as Bona
parte replaced the Jacobins. Because
slavery was something foreign to New
England that pestilent section substituted
its consicence for the conscience of the
South, and educated a generation of men,
in the pulpit, the Sunday school, the
literary iusitutes, among poets and roman
cers, as well as the daily press, to hate the
South und force her to risk her cause iu an
arbitrament of blood. With the destruc
tion of the South the reign of the doetpinai
res eoased and tho domionation of the
military and the camp-followers began.
The military did not seize, at first, the
reins of power; the people, under the lead
of Sumner and the ideaologists, surrend
ered the liberties of the country to the
Man-on Horseback. That sploiiciid paper,
the National Mail, of Philadelphia, shows
most clearly how the infamies consequent
upon the war were continued as part of
the programme when armed conflict ceased.
Ii says:
The rebels must be kept in subjection.
This was the cry. The Southern States,
prostrate aud helpless, were still likely to
renew the contest, and imhuman cruelty
and oppression must he resorted to “U ip
them under.” Such has been tbe policy
of the Republican party from the tlrst.
The tree has borne its natural fruit. The
stream was corrupt at its fountain head.
Whenever an individual or party assumes
to violate established law to carry out pet
ideas, revolution and not reform is the
object. And, once the law departed from,
it ceases to command the respect of its
subject. The Tribune need not therefore,
be surprised, after having sown the wind,
that it reaps the whirlwind, nor believe
that tbe party of moral ideas has fallen
sudden! v from grace.
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It is a good sign that many nten are be
ginning to see that they were in error, and
that, Senator Tipton so epigrauimatieally
expressed it, “in saving the Union the
States have been lost.” A pretty Union
to save—a heaven without sun or stars,
only the black elouils and fiery meteors
made up of unsubstantial gas. No honest
man can compare the Union before the war
and since without hanging his head in
shame at the damaging contrast. Sumner
& Go., for the sake of a malignant and
insane hobby, precipitated chaos, and now
where is honesty in private and public life,
where is happiness in any quarter, and, we
are almost tempted to ask, where is the
purity of religion ? That the present con
dition of things can endure much longer
we do not believe. Either a peaceful solu
tion will be found at the ballot box, or else,
as Sumner himself predicted, there must
come, at the North itself another revolu
tion to help regain the liberties lost iD the
first crusade. Alirabeau found it com
paratively easy'to start the ball of revolu
tion; but he could not stop it when he
wished. Bo with Stunner and Greeley,
the twins of disaster to the American Be
public. What an end did they have ?
How were they punished for their sins.
What madness and misery to both at the
very last. No wonder the New York
Tribune stands aghast at its own work,
when the crazy theorists are remanded to
the back-ground and all the spoils are
i reaped by the campfollowers, the bum
j mers, the renegades of all parties, and the
j “sashed and girded sphinx.” The Tribune
!is made at the loss of booty, the more so
j because the military lions it employed to
capture tlie prey have determined to retain
the mastery of it and devour at leisure,
while the jackal theorists whine at a safe
distance and wait hungrily for a nibble at
the bones.
A Touching Incident. —A recent letter
from the chaplain of the Auburn prison re
lates the following affecting incident:
“There died in thisprison, during the past
week, a young man of good parts, member
of a highly respectable family in another
land, and who became involved m the
meshes of the law through moral irresolu
tion rather than innate depravity. His
thoughts, which had wandered much du
ring the latter days, on the last oue of all
centered upon his home, and he imagined
that the most eager wish of his heart in
this extremity had been realized, and that
his loving mother soothed his dying bed.
A few moments before bis soul took flight,
he raised himself slightly, and extending
his attenuated arm, drew down close to his
lips the shadow conjured from his own af
fections, while with a look of ineffable con
teut glorifying his pallid features, his last
breath was surrendered (as he thought) to
the parent who bore him.”
A correspondent writes from Rome: j
The excavations at the Coliseum are still j
continued, but a stream of water which |
has been found there seriously interrupts !
the labors of the workmen. The Roman [
Catholics are still indignant at the recent;
; profanation of the Coliseum in the removal
of the Via Crucis. They held a triduo or
three days’ prayer of reparation at the
\ Church of the Minerva, and another in that
jof St. Andrea della Valle. Opposite the
| organ in the latter church, in an improvis
j eil altar, surrounded by a dozen wax lights,
was the crucifix which was formerly under
the arch lending to the Laterun. Not
withstanding the invitation of the Cardi
i uni Vicar, the number of the faithful was
| small, and a great contrast to the throng
j which assisted at the triduo three years
ago.
Four armed and masked men over
powered and gagged the jailer at Ohelikn,
Alabama, on Tuesday morning, and libeva
-1 ted a man named Frank Moone” charged
i with runnier in Tallapoosa county.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Why are cashmere shawls like deaf peo
ple V Because you can't make them here.
Counter Irritants nenple who eT-’-'in*
the whole of the stock and buy nothing.
New York wants bettor light for Heu
Gate at night. Lucifer mutches would be
appropriate.
“Molly,” said a farmer to his dairymaid.
us ahe was atiuui to commence cuceso
making, “you’ll never bo able to proceed
if you don't see your whey clear,”
A negro hoy was driving a mule, whentha
animal stopped and reused to .hurt'w
“Feel grand Ido yon? I s’pose you forgit
your faddor wag a jackass!”
A Duubury lady of lately acquired wealth,
who visited Dr. Myers. Friday, to be vuc
cinated, said she wanted, the highest-pnoed
xcub —un Alderney, she believed.
A jury in Han Diego, California, the
other day brought in a verdict of not
guilty, with a request to the defendant to
rcstoro the sheep.
A law court in lowa lias fined u funner
twenty dollars because ho made his sou
turn a grind stoues sixteen consecutive
hours, for going home with au old maid
from singing school.
Sir George Rose's doctor once gravely
assured him that he would live to.be a hun
dredevhereupon the baronet promptly rm
markqdvV’l’hen I suppose my coffin may be
ealleil a “century box."’
Speaking of birthdays at the club, the
other night, Nogg, a very talkative mem
ber, said lie was bom in Mnreh. “That’s
the reason, perhaps,” said Jogg’ “that you
are such a blowerl”
One of the young ladies at the Elgin
watch factory, it is said, is at work upon a
patent watch; which will have bunds so
made and adjusted as to seize the wearer
by the coat collar every evening about ton
o’clock, und wulk him off'home.
A little Aberdeen boy, who had been
taught that time ia money, appeared at tho
bank the other day, and remarked that he
had an hour given him, and he would like
to spend a quarter of an hour and would
take the change for tho other three quarters.
A eotemporary says: “A young lady in l
Lancaster, Pa., broke her urtp the other day
while turning a somersault." Young ladies
are geneally clumsy at such things, aud we
have often warned them never to attempt
such performances until they have learned
how.
A correspondent of the Winchester News
says one of the most important acts so far
pi® - by tho Virginia Legislature is “am
a'/ ir the prtection of deer in Frederick
county,” und adds: “Gen. Washington
Wiled the last deer in Frederick a little
over a hundred years ago."
A well known lord was attached to *•
certain princess some time before he ven
tured to propose. This became known to
ller royal mother, ami she invited him to
dinner. During desert she handed him a
very tine pear, with the simple words,
“Marie Louise.” He took the hint.
For sixty successive years Windham
county, Connecticut, has sent an anti-
Demoeratic Senator to the Legislature of
that State. At the licit election she elected
a Democrat, indicating the utter disgust
of the people at the comption and misrule
of her “powers that bo” at Washington..
At a party once the conversation turned,,
as it naturally does among voung folks,
on marriage, the next convenient subject
besides the weather when every other fails.
One of the belles, addressing a beau (quite
unconsciously, as she explained) said: “If
I were you, I would have married long,
ago.”
The epitaphs of Dacotah papers arc not
pathetic. Jim Barret had been shoveling
snow, and he enught a bad cold, which
turned into a fever. The fever settled l
Jim’s mundane affairs, and a local paper
says most affectingly in his obituary; “He
won’t have to shovel snow in the country,
he bus gone to !”
“Where’s that twelfth juror?” ex
claimed an Idaho judge, on the court’*-
resuming business after a recess, scowling
as he spoke at the eleven jurors in the
box, one of whom rose and said. “Please,,
judge it’s Ike Simmons as is gone. He
had to go on private business; but he’s
left his vuddiek with me 1”
Mr. Peter Harvey, of Boston, lias pre
sented to the Alassachusetts Historical So
ciety the Washington medals, eleven in
number, among them is the Boston medal,
iHsuod in honor of the evacuation of that
city, and a Franklin medal. They were
owned by Washington, and.subsequently
by Daniel Webster.
A lady who offers to furnish “some
storys” to a Michigan paper, says in a
postscript: —“N. b i can send you some
poems to, sum real protty verses if you.
desire that i writ myself, for i can writ
poems as well as storys” The editor is
mean enough to decline on tho ground of
poverty superinduced by the panic.
At a recent reception given by the Lieu
tenant Governor of South Carolina, among
the delicacies of the season, some ice-cream
in a rather liquid condition was passed
around, upon tasting which one of flip.
ne*ly-elected State Senators, to whom,
ice-cream was as great a rarity as his polit
ieal office w as a novelty, exclaimed’ “Golly,
chile, dis am de coldest soup I ever ate!"
A Sign on Broadway resdß. “Potatoes,
for sail hole sale and retail.” One on the
city market reads, “Hickri-nuts for sail.”
An intelligent old bore, who invades our
sanctum occasionally to get the news in
advance, rend the above in manuscript,
anil said be did not see any joke in it,
except that the fellow hud spelt "nuts”
with one t.
A clergyman at Clarinda, Ohio, was
away from home when the crusade began.
He returned in the evening, and saw his.
wife standing at the bar of a saloon sing
ing ns loud us she could yell. He sup
posed she was drunk, and entering the.
the saloon, the tears rolling down his face,
lie said: “Come home, wife, yon have
ruined me—druuk--drunk—drunk.”
Mr. Story, of the Chicago Times, is a
vigilant journalist. An evening newspaper
reporter receutly called to learn the truth
|of a rumor that he had killed Dr. John
son, with whom he has had a better con
troversy, and received in reply: “Young
man, do you think I’m d—u fool enough
to do aucli a thing In time for the evening
: papers to get tho news first ?”
A little urchin seven oreiglityenrs old, in
school where a Miss Bloilget was teacher,
composed the follwing and wrote it pc his
slate at prayer time, to the great amusement
of the boys: “A littlemouse ran upstairs to
hear Miss Blodgett say her prayers.” The
teacher discovered {lie rhyme, and called
out the culprit. For punishment, she gave
him his choice tp fliuko another rhyme iq
live minutes or be whipped- ho, after
; thinking and scratching his head till hia
time was moat up, and the teacher was lift
i ing the cane in a threatening manner, at
| the last moment lie exclaimed: “Here T
stand before Miss Blodget; she’s going tp
I strike, and I'm going to dodge it’”