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ATLAHTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, October I8 f I860.
Good News.—In the Augusta Const it utionalist
of Thursday morning we notice tlie following
telegraphic dispatch:
Washington, Oct. 11.—Messrs. Alexander H.
Stephens, of Ga., Geo. A. Trenholm, of S. C.,
Judge Campbell, of Ala., and Ex-Gov. Clark, of
Miss., having applied to the President for pardon,
he has ordered that they be released from close
custody on heir trespective paroles to appear at
such time and place as the President may desig
nate to answer any charges he may direct to be
preferred against them, and that they remain in
tlieir respective States until further orders.
The pardons of the members of the South
Carolina Convention have been signed by the
President and forwarded to Gov. Perry for dis
tribution.
The release Jrom their prison-houses of the
gentlemen referred to above, by President
Jonsson, is another evidence of magnanimity
on his part which cannot fail to make a deep
and favorable impression upon the whole South.
Especially in the case of Mr. Stephens will it
be hailed as an evidence of the President’s gen
erous clemency by every true-hearted Georgian.
Long may Andrew Johnson live to realize—in
the confidence and affection of the people of
Georgia, and of the whole South—what his gen
erous clemency to them, and to Georgia’s favor
ite eon, demands! And long may Alexander
II. Stephens live to aid in the great work of
Civil Restoration, when he shall lie freed from
all political shackles, which, we-trust, will soon
lie the case with him, and io uphold and sustain
him, who, in the darkest hour of the over
whelmed South, said to the fanatical of her vic
tors, “ thus far shall thou go, but no farther.”
Atlanta and Chattanooga Varieties.—
We notice in the New York Clipper that Mad.
Virginia Smith, of Cincinnati, offers theatrical
‘‘situations for five months,” commencing on the
25tli instant, for the cities of Atlanta and Chat
tanooga, to professionals, ladies and gentlemen.
The Madame with her corps will receive a hearty
welcome in this city of ‘'varieties.”
In connection with t lie foregoing our attention
was called on yesterday to huge and attractive
circus posters on the walls of one of our finan
cial institutions, late in ruins, but now converted
into another attractive institution, where deposits
arc frequently made during the day and night by
imbibers of liquid distilments. The boys and
girls have begun already to save their quarters,
•while the “niggers'’ crowd about the posters,
gazing at the bills. One of the latter said to us
on yesterday, “Massa, do you tink dat ’oman can
trow her foot so high a9 dat?” pointing at the
picture. ‘‘By golly, if she can, she beat natur.”
We made no reply, but thought, like the “nigger,”
if she could, “nature designed it not.”
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Official vote of Cass county for Delegates
to the Convention:
J. R. Parrott, 540
J. R. Wikle, 449
N. Howard, 402
C. W. Howard, 388
H. F. Price, 343
R. II. Cannon, 333
H. P. Farrow, 127
A Glance Forward —Taking “ a glance for
ward " the New York “ Bound Table ” says:
The inference is inevitable that many years
cannot elapse without some fundamental changes
in the structure of our Government. There is
no danger that in our day, at least, we shall be
ruled by a king or an emperor. Our habits of
thought and our national prejudices will prevent
so vital a change as this. We will alwavs have
elections and freedom of speech and of debate;
but the element of force which has been tacitly
recognized as inherent in the general government
will, of necessitv, crystalize into institutions
wholly different from those which the American
jieople held so dear previous to the late war.—
Startling as this speculation may appear, is it
not warranted by the occurrences of the past
few years V
Don’t.—Please, dear ladies of Augusta, sweet
ladies, the fame of whose beauty and whose grace
lias gone abroad in all these parts, please don’t
disfigure yourselves and violate every rule of
aesthetics so far as to wear this last hideous de
vice in the shape of a head covering, this abom
ination of desolation of a hat—the name whereof
we know not, hut the material of which is straw,
and the form after the manner of a musliroon,
running up into a sort of rounded peak and run
ning down in the similaritude of an inverted
dish. Don’t do it, please.
The foregoing appeal to the ladies of Augusta,
is made by the Constitutionalist of that city. We
present it 10 the ladies of Atlanta, and trust that
it will have some influence in keeping from their
heads the “ inverted dish” so awfully ugly to gaze
upon. Don’t ladies, please don’t, wear so poor
an apology for a bonnet!
Restoration of Property.—In obedience
to inst ructions from General Howard, under date
ol the 3d instant, Colonel Eaton, Assistant Com
missioner of Frecdmeu, for the District of Wash
ington, is making preparations to restore to the
original owners a huge amount of property, situ-
atod in Alexandria, and counties adjacent thereto.
Home of this property which is held by the bu
reau, was libeled for confiscation, but the pro
ceedings were stopped by order of the President,
and the restoration ordered.
While the memories of the past will survive
long, still it is the duty of our people, and espe
cially those of them upon whom gifts are be
stowed, beyond, in an intellectual sense, the
masses whom they must instruct and will lead
to look well to the future; to glance, not too of
ten back, and then only to profit by experience
but to glance forward; to foresee, if possible
the destiny of their people, of their government,
and provide for that destiny. There Ls, indeed
no danger that the American Republic will ever
be ruled by a king or an emperor. The princi
ples of democracy are too deeply engraved upon
the hearts of the American people, take them as
a whole, to permit the indulgence of any such
idea on the part of any who might otherwise en
tertain, it. There can live no king, no emperor
to reign over this democratic land; the people
would never stand it. The popular voice must rule,
and constitutional law must control. Glancing
forward then, it should be the first care of all who
are either called upon to legislate for the people
or who assume to instruct, or to speak for them
never to yield the constitutional rights of the
people, and ever to maintain the principles upon
which the “Union” will soon be restored. The
conflicts of the past are settled; what was sub
mitted to the sword’s arbitrament, has been de
termined by the sword. The South was van
quished and she has yielded; yielded with the
honest intention of accepting what has been die
tated unto her. It will now become her duty, or
through the magnanimity of the man of iron
nerve and honest purpose who stands at the helm
of the Ship of State, it will soon become her du
ty, as a member of the “Union,” to see to it that
the government in its foncard movements shall
not be one of usurpation and wrong, but one
faithful to the constitution and to those princi
ples engrafted upon and in it. The prophecy of
the journal from which we quote, that it, “the
general government, will, of necessity, crystalize
into institutions wholly different from those which
the American people held so dear previous to
the late war,” is “startling” indeed to us. We
trust it may not prove true. So far as the South
is concerned, we believe what we now write will
prove to be her position in the “Union”—a steady
maintenance 'of the constitution of the United
States, and a stem opposition to any effort at
crystalizing the States of the “Union” into any
form fit only for king, or emperor, to preside
over. If the democratic North will only do its
duty in warding off all such attempts, the South
will be her ally, and successfully the forward of
the American Republic will be one’ of prosperity
and peace—one that will place it in the scale of
nations far beyond any in the new or in the old
world.
“Flora Temple’s” Time Beat.—Several of
our exchanges make the following statement:
“The bay gelding Dexter, whose feat of trot
ting a mile in 2:18 1-5 is the best on record, is
the property of George Allay, of New York, who
purchased liim for a mere song two years ago.
Flora Temple’!? Kalamazoo time—2:19J—has,
heretofore, been the best Dexter had a fine day
and a splendid track for his feat. The best time
he ever made in a race before was 2:24.”
It seems that Dr. Mudd, in his attempt to es
cape, not only got into the fuel-bunkers of the
steamer Thomas Scott, but was covered by a
stratum of coal, with only a small aperture for
breathing. Had it not been that one of the offi
cers searching the ship thrust his sword into the
coal-pile in such alarming proximity to the Doc
tor’s face that he cried out, his stratagem would
probably have been successful.
The cholera is now fully declared on the
eastern coast of Spain, and is raging with con
siderable violence. Advices of the 16th ultimo,
from Barcelona, state that the epidemic in that
city i9 increasing. Business of all kinds is sus
pended, and half the population have left. It is
still true, however, that the disease has not ap
peared, during its present visit, at any point re
mote from the Mediterranean basin.
The New York Tribune says that Governor
Brownlow would make a pretty mess of Tennes
see : “He would disfranchise all the small rebels,
hang all the leaders and banish all the negroes.
This would leave about four thousand men to do
all the voting aud hold all the offices. Brown-
low would be sure of re-election for the next ten
years.”
A FIRE OCCURRED at Philadelphia on the 8th
instant, destroying the United States bonded
warehouse ou Dickerson street wharf, containing
40,000 barrels of coal oil, belonging to various
parties. Loss $96.000; insurance about $50,000,
mostly in New \ ork and New England Compa-
ines.
The Asiatic Cholera.—The appearance of
Asiatic cholera at Southampton, England, is an
nounced in the London Times. This announce
ment has created some excitement in New York,
and the press there is urging that sanitary pre
parations be made at once by the health cornmis
sioners, and city councils, to meet the invader
when he comes. Only two cases had occurred
at Southampton upon the sailing of the steamer
that had arrived last at New York. Of the dis
ease itself, the London Times says:
‘At the moment when we were congratulating
ourselves, with every appearence of reason, that
the outbreak of cholera in the Mediterranean
pretended no immediate danger to ourselves, we
are wakned by a paragraph in our impression of
this morning agaiust being too hasty in presum
ing upon immunity from this mysterious plague.
Two cases of decided Asiatic cholera are said to
have occurred at Southampton, at least one of
them having been fatal in thirty-six hours, after
exhibiting all the symptoms of the most virulent
l’onn of the disease. The two cases are said to
have occurred in different parts of the town, and
it is to be supposed, therefore, that they were un
connected with each other. The two sufferers
would appear to have been inhabitants of the town,
so that the case cannot be explained away by
supposing that the disease had been contracted in
the Mediterranean, and had only developed itself
after the arrival of its victims on English ground.
If the two cases have occurred as reported, they
■must be considered as an appearance of cholera
among us, and it is possible they may prove to be the
first two drops of a storm.''
The following good one is told upon “Massa
Greeley” by the New York Herald:
“The late letter of Massa Greeley to his col
ored brethren of North Carolina has inspired the
recipients with great respect for him. A resolu
tion thanking the young colored men who had
edited papers in the cause of universal freedom
was lately passed by the North Carolina Negro
Convention now in session at Raleigh, when a
question arose as to whether or not it applied to
‘Brother Greeley.’ A leather-colored character
explained that ‘Massa Greeley was not a colored
man,’ when an individual, black as the ace of
spades, remarked ‘dat he always supposed Brud-
der Greeley to be a full-blooded nigger, but dat
if he wasn’t den he deserved to be.’ ”
We received a notice on Saturday night, after
this journal had “gone to press,” from Capt. R,
T. Coverdale, A. Q. M., announcing that the sale
of Government Property, advertised to take
place on the 15th instant was withdrawn, and
to insert the same on Sunday and Monday mom
ing. As we issue no paper on Monday, and as
our Sunday issue had been published before the
receipt of said official notice, we make this ex
planation of the non-appearance of the notice in
our advertising columns.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that Gen
eral Grant has returned to Washington, and is
sues an important order, making new disposi
tions of the Regulars, and preparing for the dis
charge of the bulk of the colored troops. Only
enough of the latter will be retained in service
to garrison the sea-coast forts south of Fortress
Monroe. Our Washington special says that the
anny will be reduced at once to 75,000 men, and
in a short time to 50,000.
By General Orders from the Headquarters
of the military district of Middle Tennessee, the
sentence of death has been pronounced in the
case of Champ Ferguson. The sentence will be
carried into effect on the 20th day of October,
1865, at Nashville.
It is stated that an agent in Texas, appointed
for the purpose, has purchased thirty thousand
acres of land in that State, for the establishment
of a colony of Poles. The tract is situated near
the town of Palestine.
General Thos. Francis Meagher arrived
at Salt Lake City, in Utah, on the 16th of Sept.,
on his waj to his new home in Montena. He
was serenaded by the Mormons.
A gentleman from Santa Fe, in St. Louis, re
ports the arrival of Juarez at that place, supposed
to be en route to the States. The report is doubt
ful.
Col. Charles is elected a delegate to Con
gress from New Mexico, over Col. Pesea by
1,500 majority—so say our New York exchanges.
Rev. L. D. Huston, the martyr, has returned
to Newport, and preached yesterday, the 8th in
stant, in the Taylor street church.
The papers in the case of Champ Ferguson,
which were forwarded to Washington for ap
proval, were returned to Nashville on Monday,
the 9th instant The sentence was read to the
prisoner in his cell by CoL Shaffer, the comman
dant of the post, and was received by him with
out a movement in the muscles of his face. He
is sentenced to be hanged on the 20th instant—
So says a Northern exchange.
The President, on the 13th instant, after an
interview with Gen. Thomas, issued a proclama
tion revoking martial law in Kentucky.
It is taken for granted that Gen. Palmer will
be retained in command.
Returns from Virginia indicate the election
of several Union Congressmen, including one
from the Richmond district In the Alexandria
district an ineligible candidate is probably elected.
Not Despondent.—Mr. W. D. Porter, of
Charleston, in his letter accepting the nomina
tion of Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina,
speaks of the labor question in this sensible fash
ion :
I do not despond for the future. The qualities
our people have heretofore displayed will carry
them through the difficulties that surround them.
The entire disorganization of their system of la
bor puts them to a great disadvantage, but they
have compensations in their soil and climate':
and the young men of the State, inured to hard
ships in the field, are earnestly seeking work in
any shape and in every direction. This spirit,
with patience, will inaugurate a new career of
industry, which, under the favor of heaven, may
yet result in unmeasured blessings to our people
[communicated.]
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 12th, 1865.
Editor Intellige ncer :
The drought which has been reported as raging
with a severity destructive to the ripening crops
North and East, seems to be making a tour South
ward, and in consequence, our river Las lieen for
several days too low for even boats of the light
est draught. Our fair city is almost obscured
from morning until night in a maze of dust, and
its denizens are taking by the inhaling- process
liberal instalments of the “ peck of dirt” which
is said to be allotted to all. In consequence of
the low river our merchants are not in receipt of
the heavy purchases made for this market, and
the active trade of the last month has run down
first arrivals until the market is quite bare of
many leading articles. This is especially true of
hardware, iron, bacon, lard, and butter, which
articles are ruling high. Bacon 33 to 35, lard 40
and butter 50 to 60 cents.
The heavy advance in cotton in Northern and
foreign markets has induced holders to raise their
figures several cents, and buyers have not yet en
tered the market at the advanced rates. I can
not, therefore, give quotations. The establish
ment of several leading banking houses here is
giving our buyers good facilities, and will be
likely to maintain the favorable repute our city
has long enjoyed as a cotton market The morn
ing papers to-day announce the card of Branch
& Sons, a reputable Virginia firm, who have
opened an office in the Georgia Railroad Bank,
and who propose to make liberal advances on
cotton and tobacco.
Gold went up on yesterday to 152, and sellers
usually demanded 155. Good judges are of the
opinion that the tendency will continue upward
until Congress meets, and the questions of repu
diation and the readmission of the seceded States
are disposed of. The repudiation party will be
noisy and quite formidable; and under tlieir in
fluence it would not be strange if gold advanced
to a figure beyond any reached during the war.
But the government which has achieved so much
through the prowess of its arms and the sagacity
of its financial policy, will scarely tarnish its
escutcheon with the blot of repudiation. So let
nobody be alarmed by the temporary advance
gold. Greenbacks will be the national currency
and will in a few months approximate very
closely to a gold standard.
Our people are felicitating themselves on the
appointment of Gen. Davis Tillson as Assistant
Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Beaureau
this District.
Our city was visited two days ago by a de
structive fire, in which a greater portion of the
Augusta Machine Works were destroyed. The
property of the 159th New York Regiment, who
were quartered in the building, was consumed
and one of their number perished in the flames,
pet bear which they had brought from Louisiana,
was also consumed. The men, who were the
next day to be mustered out ot service, lost all
their personal effects, including, also, guns, and
the regimental property. The origin of the fire
is unknown. Lt. Col. Waltermire, who com
manded the regiment, evinces tlie deepest sym
paty for the loss sustained by his men, which
shared by our citizens generally, between whom
and the 159th the kindest relations have existed.
Col. Molineaux was in command of the regiment
until breveted for gallantry, and during their
stay here, and in Madison, where they have been
recently quartered, they have preserved order
and evinced a spirit of civility and kindness
which A titles them to respect. Col. Waltermire
is so much pleased with his stay in Georgia that
I am informed that lie has made arrangements
engage in planting in Floyd county. He is
cultivated and agreeable gentleman, and well
understands the character of the negro.
The election for the Convention passed off qui
etly, and though only a few hundred votes were
polled, our citizens are generally well satisfied
with the delegation from old Richmond. And
well they may be. Jenkins, Walker and Kin,
are nam§s honored by all familiar with the polit
ical or judicial history of the State. The names
of members elect, as far as reported, indicate
that the Convention will be composed of sterlin,
material. I observe a number whose names are
widely known as editors. Among these are
M. Barnes, Esq., who edited the Chronicle & Sen
tinel with signal ability during the secession cam
paign ; John H. Christy, of the Athens Watch
man—a self-made man, and an excellent editor
George W. Adair, the energetic, practical and
witty coadjutor of Smith in the old Southern
Confederacy of your city, and Judge Whitaker
of the Intelligencer, whose good taste would per
haps render compliment in these columns dis
tasteful, but whose record, both as lawyer, and
public officer, speaks for itself There may be
others of the “fourth estate” whose names
have not observed.
In this connection allow a typo, of some expe
rience to congratulate you on the appearance of
your paper. It is the handsomest daily in the
State. Its columns indicate able management
and a surprising amount of enterprise in your
business circles, which must soon restore the
Gate City to her former high rank among the
cities of the South.
Appropos of the Convention, I observe the
name of S. J. Saffold, Esq., announced in your
columns as a candidate for Secretary of that
body. It is my good fortune to know Capt. Saf
fold well, and I am sure a more thoroughly com
petent and worthy man could not be selected.
He is a brother of T. P. Saffold, Esq., member
elect from Morgan county and a man of talent
and promise.
The white labor question is attracting a good
deal of attention in this part of the State. The
negroes do'not yet realize that freedom carries
with it £ny of the old obligations to labor which
rest on all who “eat bread,” and farmers and
many of those who employ domestics are look
ing to immigration for relief from the perplexi
ties and uncertainly now attending the supply of
labor. I observe that Messrs. Atkinson and She-
cut, Employment Agents here, propose to send
one of their firm North to make contracts for la
borers and domestic servants, male and female.
Any of your readers wishing to secure farm la
bor, mechanics or house servants would do well
to confer with them. Augusta.
From tha Federal Union.
“Can you tell me how many seconds there are
in a minute, and how many minutes in an hour?”
Mrs. Marsh asked her little son Harold.
Harold was seated on a stool at his mother’s
feet -. he considered a little while, but he could
not remember.
“I think you are old enough to learn some
thing about the divisions of time,” said his moth
er ; “so I will tell you wliat they are, and you
must repeat them idler me.
“Sixty seconds make one minute.
“Sixty minutes, one hour.
Twenty-four hours, one day (which means
Messrs. Editors : When aman gets his neigh
bor’s com, or meat, or flour, or cloth, or other
commodity ’on a credit, and gives his note for
payment a£t future day, and afterwards pats his
property out of his hands, or is guilty of other
fraudulent practice, or takes advantage of a tech
nicality of law to avoid the payment of this just
debt, we say, and say truly, that he is not honest,
and in our transactions we will avoid him, and
refuse toi^b him for anything, or if we do
credit himjwe will add enough to the price of, -
the article sold, to justify us in naming the risk of “f™ night)
losing the debt by some dishonest trick of his. I ' _ yen days, one week.
A State is a whole people, or large number of
persons united in one body politic, for the pro
tection and defense of the rights of all In other
words, it is a large number of persons acting in a
corporate capacity as one person. That which is
dishonest in one person, or ten, or one hundred,
is equally dishonest in one whole number who
compose the State. If then, it is dishonest and
disreputable in one person to take advastage of a
legal technicalitv to avoid the payment of a just
debt, it is equally dishonest and disreputable in the
whole people of a State to do the same unworthy
deed. The man who will do it is not worthy of
confidence orecredit, but is disgraced, and justly
so. The peopk of a State who will do it, while
many of them may be hone9t, are, as a people,
disgraced, unworthy of credit in future, and de
serve the scorn and rebuke of all honest men and
communities, till they undo the foul deed, and re
sume and pay tlie honest debt for which they get
value received.
I regret that these remarks are applicable, if
tlie reports in the papers are correct, to the hith
erto proud State of Alabama. During the late
war in which her people engaged with remarka
ble unanimity, and her sons distinguished them
selves on so many hard fought fields, by their
intrepid valor, it was an honor anywhere for a
From the Boliver (Mo.) Sentinel, of the 6th.
Shocking Tragedy—A Sheriff and His
Aid Killed.
The Grand Jury of the county of Cedar, hav
ing found an indictment for murder against two
men, named Stow and Earnest, a capias was
laced in the hands of Captain John Paynter,
heriff of the county, to arrest them. The Sher
iff having summoned six men to assist him in
making the arrest, proceeded about twelve miles
from Stackton, on the Oseola road, where they
came to the house in which Stow was. The
Sheriff and two of his assistants entered the
house, and found Stow in bed; he then went to
the foot of the bed, and laying his hands on Stow,
said: “I am the Sheriff of Cedar County; you
are my prisoner.” At that instant Stow fired,
the ball entering Captain Paynter’s heart, killing
instantly. Lieutenant Harvel, one of the men
summoned to assist Paynter, was standing at his
back, when Stow fired a second time, killing
Harvel. Sir. Noble, another of the aids who was
in the room at the time, fired three times at Stow,
but without effect
A party of men, supposed to be friends of Stow,
were seen approaching the house, which had
been guarded outside by the remainder of the
aids; but owing to the excitement occasioned by
the killing of the Sheriff and Lieut Harvel, Stow
made his escape, about an hour afterward, the
bouse containing some two or three doorways.
“Four weeks, one month.
“Twelve months, one year.
“In the year there are three hundred and six
ty-five days.
“And one hundred years make a century.
“It will be some time before I remember all
that” said Harold.
“Perhaps you can learn it quicker in verse,
said his mother; and she took a paper from her
work-basket and read as follows
Sixty seconds make a minute.
Sixty times the clock ticks it;
Sixty minutes make an hour.
To stay its flight we have no power;
Twenty-four hours one day and night,
Some hours of darkness some of light;
Seven days there are in every week,
To keep the seventh day holy seek;
In every month the weeks are fonr.
And some have two or three days more ;
And twelve months make up the whole year.
Spend well each one God grants you here.”
Harold thought he could remember the verse
much better than prose; he repeated the first
four lines several times after his mother, and
found he knew them quite well.
“That will do for this morning,” said Mrs,
Marsh. “If you remember these lines to-mor
row I will teach you some more. Now tell me
the days of the week.”
Harold repeated, “Monday, Tuesday, Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.”
“You know, mv dear Harold, why we keep
the seventh day (Sunday) holy ?”
“Yes, mamma, ‘In six days the Lord made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the
the greatest hardships for want of comfortable I Lord blessed tlie seventh day and hallowed.’ ”
clothing, or wholesome food. In this condition | “Quite right, Harold: and be sure if the day of
of things, the Stage of Alabama, stepped forward, I rest is truly valued, and rightly used, it will
as a corpora tr iWfty or whole people, and said I bring a blessing to body aud soul. You may go
these suffering ferives and children of soldiers to pnty now, aud we will talk about the time
shall have bread;, and these, our gallant sons in | again some other day.”
the field, shall have clothing, and we wifi pledge
the whole wesfeh of the State that those who I “ Proceed With Thy Elephant.”
furnish these necessaries, and the money needed In Columbiana county resides an old fellow re-
to pay the other expenses of the State, shall have I nowned for his belligerent disposition, who
it repaid to them. This whole people, whose generally known as Friend Shavcy. Bom and
faith had always been sacred, offered their bonds bred a Quaker, be was long since read out of
in the market tor such things as they needed, 1 meeting on account of liis quarrelsome propensi
ty 1 *-** the solemn pledge, under the broad seal of I ties, but he still pertinaciously clings to the plain
the totate, that the bonds should be redeemed.— j clothes and plain language of his early days, pos-
Trusting to the good faith _ of a people whose I gibly as a protection against the wrath which he
honor had never been tarnished, persons who I j s continually provoking by his over-bearing and
had the ability advanced the money, and took irritating demeanor. He has always the crassest
the bonds or notes of the Slate. How humilia- I flog in the neighborhood, the most troublesome,
ting it will always be in future, to a proud spir- 1 - -
ited honest citizen of Alabama, to tell the balance.
The Convention of that State lately solemnly de
termined, upon a mere legal technicality, to repu
diate the debt, and ordained that it shall never
be paid. A State cannot be sued without her
consent, and compelled by law to pay her just
debts, as a private individual can be. The Con-
man to say, I am an Alabamian. Even in the
Northern States, the announcement would have
extorted respect But while these brave men
were fighting and making so many sacrifices in
defense of the «0use espoused by their State, their
families at home were suffering for the necessa
ries of life, and they were many times enduring
breechy steers, &c., and is continually in hot
water with some of liis neighbors in consequence
of the depredations committed by his unruly live
stock. A few weeks since Yan Amburg’s Menag
erie, traveling through Columbiana, was obliged
to pass his residence. A little before daylight,
Nash, the keeper of the elephant Tippoo Saib.
„ ., . , , as he was passing over the road with his ele-
vention ot Alabama knew that fact, and relying phant, discovered this pseudo Quaker seated upon
no doubt upon that legal technicality, did the I a fence by the roadside, watching a bull which
disgraceful deed. I he had turned out upon tlie road, and which was
I am unacquainted with the members of that I pawing, bellowing and throwing up a tremen-
Convention, butj will venture the assertion that dous dust generally. In fact, from the fury of
two-thirds of them never exposed their dear lives I the animals demonstrations, one would have
m battle in the late contest, while their fellow- readily taken him for one of the identical breed
citizens, most of whom had but little property that butted the locomotive off the bridge
at stake, were fighting the battles. These gen- « Take that bull out of the way,” shouted Nash
tlemen, who, no doubt belong to the richer class, as he approached.
were at home ^peculating or making money, “ Proceed with thy elephant,” was the reply,
much of which is probably invested in land and “ If you don’t take that bull away he will get
other good property. If the honest debt of Ala-1 hurt,” continued Nash, approaching, while the
bama is paid, the property of those who grew bull redoubled his belligerent demonstrations,
nch during the war must be taxed for that pur- “ Don’t trouble thyself about the bull, but pro
pose. For every man of sense knows that the C eed with the elephant,” retorted Friend Shavey,
poor pay but a small fraction of the tax. It is rubbing liis hands with delight at the prospect of
paid mainly by the rich, who are often the least an approaching scrimmage, the old fellow having
patriotic, and the least willing to pay. What I great confidence in the invincibility of his bull
will the honest, brave soldiers of Alabama say which was really the terror of the whole country
of this shameful act ? The answer is easy. A around.
brave man is generally honest, and an honest Tippoo Saib came along with his uncouth
man is willing to pay a just debt, as soon as he shambling gait; the bull lowered his head and
is able, If the question were submitted to a made a charge directly upon the elephant. Old
vote of the gallant soldiers of Alabama to-mor- Tippoo, without even pausing in his march gave
row, I doubt notfihey would say, by overwhelm- his cow-catcher a sweep, catching the bull on the
mg odds, the debt shall be paid. The honor of I aide, crushing in his ribs with liis enormous tusks,
the btate shall not be tarnished. It was in fact I and then raised him about thirty feet in the air
contracted for the benefit, in a great measure of I the bull striking upon his head as he came down
themselves and their families, while they were breaking liis neck and killing him instantly
hazarding their fives for their State, and they “ I’m afraid your bull has bent his neck a lit-
would not allowtihe rich speculators who own tie,” shouted Nash, as he passed on
the property to >*>id payment by repudiation. “Bent the devil,” cried old Shavey, with
Who, in futurCwill credit the State of Ala- troubled look at his defunct bull; “ thy elephant
bama ? Who, within the next half century, with is too heavy for my beast, but thee will not make
open, unjust repudiation upon her record, will 1 so much out of the operation as thee supposes
give lifty cents in the dollar for any bond she I was going to take my family to thy show but
may issue ? Capitalists will naturally say, a peo- I’ll see thee and thy show blowed to blazes before
pie who have once repudiated, are not to be I go one step, and be d—d—pleasethe “please”
trusted, till they have again assumed and paid the being added as Shavey took a second look at the
debt. She will lose more in her financial trans-1 proportions of the stalw'art elephant keeper.
actions in half a century by want of credit, than
the whole amount she has repudiated. How dif
ferent the course of South Carolina, whose peo
ple, whatever may have been their political er
rors, have always kept public faith as sacred as
virgin purity. Her Convention has met, acted,
and adjourned, and we hear not a word about
repudiation. In future when South Carolina
Arabian Laughing Plant.—In Palgrave’s
“Central and Eastern Arabia,” some particulars
are given in regard to a curious narcotic plant.
Its seeds, in which the active principle seems
chiefly to reside, w hen pounded and administer
ed in a small dose, produce effects much like
Jwnws'mouey'at'iive'or’slx per’cent, Ata I 'JT.ZlOH,!,? *£5T P ^’ S D ‘V
will have to pay ten, if indeed she can borrow at I f h ’ i J , V'n a'tP’ and 'performs a
all. Even Mississippi, which once repudiated, ’ i * h ™ r «f gr l cat
basset afar better example. The Convention a to 1 the 1 by-
there left the question of the public debt to the hv? ° n a ? vakl11 ? 11413 lost
Legislature; and I am informed, it is said by ^
leading men there, that they intend to pay it, no __ i • . , J P ut a P mcll 0 f this
matter what it costs, as they have suffered Enough ShSSl ZLT? » nsus P e . ct “S
already by repudiation. 3 ° fw d ^ a n P °l^? COnl , m , J ° ke ’ “ 01 ' 13113aid
It is reported that the Convention of Alabama cycr ^ OWf ; d & ser !°™ COI f e 0 ue «-
attempts to shield itself behind the pretext that j T] „ thnr^pUi, mi ® b 1 P e f ll ®P s he
the Government of the United States requires , two mdiviaii-
that the debt be repudiated. It is a sufficient re- hon i 1 ®'
ply, to say the State debt is a matter with which fe T l. 1 , 16
that Government has not, and cannot have any- J enoiI . h \ t , , ,,«<> P °t> au = babl6
still we see it announced that the President ap- I „i_, t t . ^I° r ’-M nd P innale ^> ' Vllb
proves foe action of both these conventions. ^ ^ 9lde ; ^ Stalk ?
President Johnson is a man of too much sound j, he U ° WerS are / e11 ^’ a . nd
practical sense and statesmanship, and with all, a ' th numerous, the fruit is a
too good a State rights man, to interfere in any , , Wlth ^eemsh pacldmg, m which
such matter, or to make any such requirement.of bl , aCk seeds ’. m SLZe
any State. He will leave that, ashe has the I and muck . llke * rencl1 beans 5 tbeir
uestion of negro suflrage, to the respective
tates, where it properly belongs.
It may be pleaded, as an excuse for the bad
faith of Alabama, that she had issued part of her |
bonds, and treasury notes, when the currency
was depreciated, and that she did not receive
sweetish, but with a peculiar opiate flavor; the
smell heavy and almost sickly.
Slavery in Cura —A meeting of wealthy
slave-owners, capitalists and well-known mer-
, , chants, Creoles and Europeans, was held at the
gold value for them. If so, this may have been I boi!8 ° °( Mr. O. Farrill, to take into considera-
a just reason for settling them down to gold value, f ^ ou various projects for the abolition of slavery,
but none for repudiating them entirely. I am I *"' ok Montaos suggested-a plan based on the pur-
not prepared to sav that this scaling process may I ® base o1 their freedom by the labor of the slaves,
not be just The rtile in that case would be for It w ? s also proposed to effect a loan of $180,000-
the State to pay infold, as mnch as she got in [ 111 or<ler to indemnify the proprietors at the
gold value, for the ifotes or bonds when issued j I rale $600 for each emancipated slave,
what since have been their market value, wheth- I Sorin, on behalf of a number of planters
er above or below, that being immaterial to her. I owning among them one hundred thousand
If she got one hundred cents in the dollar in I s .ves, advocated the policy of immediate einan-
gold value, let her pay that; if seventv-five or I cl P all °o and the conversion of the slaves into
titty cents, let her pay that. This would be hon- j P _ ala rion^apprentices bound to labor ten years
est and equitable, but repudiation is neither
equitable, honest nor honorable, but a disgrace
and a reproach to any people guilty of it
Georgia.
for their old masters, and to receive wages dar
ing that period at the rate of $4 a month. At
the end of the ten years the emancipados would
have the option of changing their places of labor,
or renewing their former contracts.
The number of slaves in Havana is estimated
at 378,000.
The Cuban planters are well aware that it is
impossible to resolve so difficult a- problem with-
Novel Place of Amusement.—Here is an
anecdote extracted from the London Telegraph's
account of the building of the new bridge at
Blackfriars, and worth qaoting:
At the building of Westminister Bridge diving I out the consent and co-operation of themetropo-
bells were used, but a difficulty arose of a very I fis; hence they will send to Madrid a eomruis-
unexpected kind. The men in the bells, com-1 sion of eminent men, headed by Mr. Durand,
fortably out of sight of their employers, found I Rector of the University of Cuba, and deputed
themselves under no compulsion to work. One I to lay before the Queen a memorial, dated the
would not think at first the bottom of the great 128th July last, and bearing over twelve thousand
London sewer was a pleasant place, for the liquid I signatures.—N. O. Bee.
which flows in the Thames, and is courtesy I -* ► ;
called water, is so thick that in a bell a few feet j Sentiments of Gen. Lee.—The Index, of Pe-
below the surface it is as dark as night, though I tersburg, publishes the subjoined extract from a
men have been down in sixty feet of sea-water I private letter to one of its editors from Gen. Lee,
and worked by daylight. But the divers at West- I prefacing it with the remark that “ These words
minister did not mind the gloom. of wise counsel from the best beloved man in
Lighting up their candles, they used, instead I these Southern States, are-common property, and
of working, to play cards and read newspapers. I they receive conclusive force from the noble ex-
They took down beer, and even tried smoking ample he has set of faith in his own views and
during these sub aqueous debauches, but the efr I obedience to his own convictions of duty. As
The World.
3Y ELIZA COOK.
Talk who will of the world as a desert of thrall;
Yet—yet there is bloom on the waste;
Though the chalice of life has Its acid and gall,
There are honey-drops too in the taste.
We murmur and droop ahonld the sorrow-cloud stay,
And note all the shades of our lot;
But the rich scintillations that brighten our way,
Are bask’d in, enjoyed and forgot.
Those who look on mortality’s ocean and aright,
Will not moan o’er each billow that rolls.
But dwell on the glories, the beauties, the might.
As much as the shipwrecks and shoals.
How thankless is he who remembers alone
All the bitter, the drear, and the dark;
Though the raven may scare with its .woe-boding tone.
Do we ne’er bear the soug of the lark f
We may utter farewell when ’tis torture to part,
But in meeting the dear one again
Hare we never ^rejoiced with that wildness of heart
Which outbalances ages of pain r
Though the eye may be dimmed with its grief drop
awhile.
And the whitened lip sigh forth its fear,
Tet pensive indeed is that face where the smile
Is not oftener seen than the tear.
There are times when the storm-gusts do rattle around,
There are spots where the poison shrub grows,
Yet are there’uot hours when nought else can be found.
But the south wind, the sunshine aud rose ?
O haplessly rare is that portion -that's ours,
Aud strange is th*jiath that we take.
If there spring not beside ns a few precious flowers,
To soften the thorn and the brake.
The wail of regret, the rude clashing of strife,
The soul's harmony often may mar;
But I think we mnst own in the discords of life,
’Tis ourselves that oft waken the jar.
Earth is not all FAm, yet it is not all gloom,
And the voice of the grateful will tell,
That He, who allotted Pain, Death and the Tomb,
Gave Hope, Health, and the Bridal as well !
Should Fate do its worst, and my spirit oppress'd
O'er its own shattered happiness pine.
Let me witness the joy in another’s glad breast,
And some pleasure must kindle in mine. ,
Then say not the world is a desert of thrall;
There is bloom, there is hope on the waste:
Though the chalice of life has its acid and’gall,
There are honey-drops too in the taste.
Correct Transcript of the Sentence of Death
Pronounced Against Jesus Christ.
[Translated from the Cablishe Zeitnng.J
The following is a copy of tlie most memora
ble judicial sentence which has ever been pro
nounced in the annals of the world—namely, that
of death against the Savior, with the remarks
which the journal LeDroit has collected, and the
knowledge of which must be interesting in the
highest degree to every Christian. Until now we
were not aware that it had been made public in
the German papers. It is word for word as fol
lows :
Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilate, late
intendant on the Province of Lower Galilee, that
Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by the
cross.
In the sevent eenth year of the reign of the Em
peror Tiberius, and on the 25tli day of the month
of March, in the most holy city of Jerusalem, du
ring the pontificate of Annanias aud Caiaphas.
Pontius Pilate, intendant on the Province of
Lower Gallilee, sitting in judgment in the Presi
dential seat of the prietor sentences Jesus of Naz
areth to death, on the cross, between two robbers,
as the numerous and notorious testimonies of the
people prove—
1. Jesus is a misleader.
2. He has excited the people to sedition.
3. He is an enemy to the law’s.
4. He calls himself the Son of God.
5. He calls himself false the King of Israel,
6. He went into the Temple follow’ea by a mul
titude carrying palms in their hands.
Orders the first centurion Quirilus Cornelius to
bring him to the place of execution.
Forbids all persons, rich or poor, to prevent
the execution of Jesus.
The witnesses who have signed the execution
of Jesus are—
1. Daniel Robani, Pharisee.
2. John Zorababel.
3. Raphael Roboni.
4. Capet.
Jesus is to be taken out of Jerusalem through
the gate of Toumes.
This sentence was engraved on a plate of brass,
in tlie Hebrew’ language, and on its sides are the
following words : “A similar plate has been sent
to each tribe. ”
Andrew Johnson.
A new book haajust been issued from the
publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., entitled
“The Speeches of Andrew. Johnson, President
of the United States, with a Biographical Intro
duction by Frank Morse.” We condense the
following facts.—Columbus Sun.
Andrew Johnson was born on tlie 29th day of
December, 1808, at Raleigli, N. C. In his fifth
year his father was drow ned, while successfully
endeavoring to save the Editor of tlie Raleigh
Gazette. Left a destitute orphan, he was, at tlie
age of ten years, apprenticed to a tailor in liis
native town. In liis few leisure hours he learned,
by bis own unaided efforts, to read and spell. In
1824, he went-to Laurens Court House, S. C.,
where he worked as a journeyman tailor till May,
1826, when he returned to Raleigh. In Septem
ber of the same year, he removed to Eastern
Tennessee, and soon after liis settlement there,
married a woman whose attainments and devo
tion have contributed much to liis success in fife.
She read to him as he plied the needle, aud ut
night instructed him in writing and arithmetic.
Self-reliance and energy were early developed in
his character, while the method of his education
sharpened and improved ids reasoning facultii s.
He conceived and nourished the idea that tlie
government is by the people and for the people, and
beginning to put this idea in a practical shape,
jn °liis town aroused the people to assert their
right to representation in the two councils. The
result was, that in 1828 the young tailor was
chosen Alderman; and in two years after, Mayor;
and, in 1834, w’as successful in liis efforts to se
cure a new Constitution for Tennessee, by which
important rights w r ere guaranteed to the mass of
the people, the freedom of the press established,
and other liberal measures adopted. This was
the real commencement, of liis public life. From
the year 1835, in which he w’as elected a member
of the House of Representatives of the State, till
1843, he filled various offices of trust and influ
ence in the State. In 1843, he was elected to
tlie natioual legislature, and for ten years repre
sented his State in Congress. In tlie ensuing
years lie was Governor of Tennessee, and in 1857
was elected to the Senate of tlie United States,
which position he held until the spring of 1862,
when he was appointed Military Governor ot
Tennessee. Of his subsequent election as Vice-
President, and tbe circumstances which raised
liim to the first place in tlie land, it is needless to
speak. Bom of the people, thrown upon his
ow r n resources, stimulated by a w orthy desire not
only to advance himself, but to benefit the class
from which he sprung, he has steadily risen,
proving himself equal to every position in w hich
he has been placed, and modestly but firmly dis
charging the duties of his numerous and difficult
posts. No better illustration of tlie working of
American institutions, and their amazing advan
tages to those w ho are willing to improve' them,
can be furnished, than the record of such a lift.
An Incident at the White House.—On
Thursday last, an unusual and quite romantic
incident occurred at the White House among the
squad of pardon-seekers there. The suppliants
were waiting around as your correspondent D. D.
described a few days ugo, and among others
were two persons, a closely-veiled young lady
and a gentleman somew hat bronzed, (a rebel sol-
<lier once, quite likely,) with a heavy beard and
a careful dress. They had not paid any atten
tion to each other during the hour or two they
had been so near, and w ould not have done so
for all coming time had it not been for the usher.
He came with a document, and in a sharp tone
called out the name subscribed on its envelope.
It w as a prominent one once in Georgia, and w as
familiar to most of the ears upon which its tones
fell. The gentleman, w’ith an air of pleasure,
stepped forward to take it, when the lady, w ith
a little scream, pressed forw’ard and clasped him
tightlj in her arms. He at first seemed surprised
at such an unwonted proceeding, but when she
several times excitedly asked, “Don’t you know’
Jessie?” “Don’t you know’ Jessie?” “You
can’t have forgotten me in such a short time,”
and removed her veil to show a fresh, piquant,
pretty face. Recognition was instant, and with
the one word “sister,” he was quite as demon
strative as she had been before. “ Why, Jessie,
what are you doing here ?” he asked. “ I am
here for father; he is very, very sick,” she said,
with a little elision of the “r,” and a sob. “ But
he wants to die, if he has to die, a citizen of the
Union again.”
The young man seemed affected, but in the
. It was discovered in the year new found joy of meeting a sister long lost, the
1289, in the city of Acquilla, in the Kingdom of I cloud that time did not darken his heart. A few
Naples, by a search for the Roman antiquities by moments after she also received the grant of her
the commissaries in the French army of Italy, application.
Up to the time of the French campaign in South- it seems that the young man went out early
em Italy, it w’as preserved in the sacristy of the in the war as major of a Confederate regiment.-
Cartnusians, near Naples, where it was kept in a He was taken prisoner in a skirmish just after
box of ebony. Since then the relic has been kept | Bull Run, and spent two years in a Northern
in the chapel of Castrty. The French transla
tion wes made literally by members of the Com
mission of Arts. Denon had a fac simile of the
plate engraved, which w’as bought by Lord How
ard, on the sale of his cabinet, for 2890 franes.
There seems to be no historical doubt as to the
question of authenticity. The reasons of the
sentence correspond exactly w ith those of the
Gospel.
Louisiana Intelligence.
Tiie Recent Storm on the Gulf Coast.— I
Full Particulars.—The Vermillionville (LaFay-
ette Parish) Advertiser, of the 30th ult., has the
following:
We saw a gentleman from the Cheniere who
prison. Returning to service, the cause of the
“Confederacy” needed all the men for support it
could obtain and lie w^s forced to stay in the
ranks. Letters he had sent home failed to reach,
and he, despairing of finding his family after the
march of Sherman over the State, came North
to see after a friend. This good work done he
returned to Washington to look after his pardon.
All this time his family gave him up as dead,and,
saving his sister, who met him so strangely,think
so yet.—Phila. Press.
A young Englishman, whilst at Naples, was
introduced at an assembly of one of the first la
dies by a Neapolitan gentleman. While he was
there, his snuff box was stolen from him. The
informed us that during the storm which swept I nexl cla y> being at another house, he saw a per-
the Gulf coast on the 13th inst., the buildings at I lakln S snutt out of his box. He ran to liis
Calcasieu Pass were all destroyed except one, I , en<k " There,” said he “ that man in blue,
and all the people were drowned except one man, | ' vltb S olcl embroidery, is taking snuff out of the
who saved himself by getting on top of a house. I J* 0 * that was stolen from me yesterday. Do you
There were twenty-four lives lost. At Sabine kn °w him ? Is he not a sharper?” “Take
town everything was sw r ept aw a y, and the resi-1 care >” sal(1 llj e other, “ that man is of the first
dents to the number of sixty-one were drowned. I c l ualb y-” “ I cl ° not care lor his quality,” said
The water rose tw’enty feet above the surface of tbe Englishman, “ I must have my snuff box
the ground at Calcasieu Pass. The people of the 5 ru £° and . ask liim fo r it.” “ Pray,” said
Grand Cheniere were not injured on the Island, I 1118 friend, “ be quiet and leave it to me to get
but we understand one man lost six hundred back y our box.” Upon this assurance the Eng-
Lead of cattle. Generally every thing animate I fj^man went away, after inviting liis friend to
and inanimate were swept away. Texas also I c ‘^ ne t ^ ie next day. He accordingly
suffered immense losses tlirougliout the country came > an(1 83 lle entered, “ there,” said he, “ I
lying between the Sabine and the Brazos, and I |??7 e brought you your snuff box,” “Well, how
we are told that the lower portion of Galveston did you obtain it ?” “ Why,” said the Neapolitan
city was under water. nobleman, “ I did not wish to make any noise
The Baton Rouge Gazette states that Brigadier about 5t > therefore I picked his pocket of it.”
General Fonda is to remain in command of that _ ♦
post until further orders, and that no one more I Life Compared to a Clock.—Our brains are
acceptable could be in command. seventy year clocks. The angel of life winds
The Baton Rouge Advocate learns from relia-1 them up once for all, then closes the cases and
authority that the election of parochial offi-1 Sj. ves the key into the hand of resurrection.
! will not be delayed beyond the time of the 1 '} c ' tac * tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our
legal delay necessary from the date of the paS - Wl11 cann °t stop them; they cannot stop them-
sage of a resolution to that effect by the coming 3617153 i slee P cannot still them; madness only
Legislature. I makes them go faster; death alone can break in-
The Advocate says the dengue is veiy preva- 10 tlie case ) ancl seizing the ever swinging pentiu-
lent in that vicinity. I lanl which we call the heart, silence at last the
Gen. J. G. Prat, of St. Landry, is a candidate I cllc king of the terrible escapement we have car-
for Congressman in the Fourth Congressional I rlecl 80 lon S beneath our aching foreheads. If
District. ° I we could only get at them as w r e lie on our pil-
Another Car Disturbance.—A disturbance ra d T* the d £ ad beats o/thought after
which looked at one time decidedly squally, took Jhe over Hr^i^r^n^w/fi 18 ^’, t j' rou S‘ l
place yesterday on Rampart street, opposite Con- wwTf 1 W d • nobod ^ b P ck
go Square. A crowded car—not a star—was wwPrPiqPiP t >Llr - P im ° n » J** 11 tbe string
passing alon 0 * when a colored soldier named Fn- I ^ bolds those weights. \\ hat a passion
gene Julian,° of the Twenty-sixth W S C L I p°. mes sometimes for silence and rest, that
iiimneil in and aeted in a . • lo . ’ I 11113 dreadful mechanism, unwinding tlie endless
SS!5i if “ad teea pSdbedre“. %
every one at first supposed to be a revolver, but | halfday 1 ?— O. Holm™* 1 b ° nC bnCl
ble
cere
which afterwards turned out to be a merchaum
pipe in a case. The difference, however, was not 1 q.„ E Tnwi , a „„ ti.„ i. i
discovered until there had been a complete evacua-1 nn ft, | EL ' Tbe Tower of Babel,
- F I on which late accounts announce that a cross was
the driver, Jas. Murphy, was half frightened to [
death.
feet upon the breathing was not agreeable, and I be never ordered any man to go where he feared
they took to chewing instead. By giving a ran- j to go himself, so he never advises any course that
dom signal every now and then to the men di- I hels not fully prepared to follow. We feel that
recting the movements of the bell from above, I we give expression to a wish as wide as the
they could convey the impression that they were I Union, in hoping that he may five long enough
working, and their little amusements were unin- to see his cheerful prophecy abundantly accom-
terrupted for some time, till at last they were I phshed in the full restoration of our land in every
| found out. Diving dresses and helmets were part, to even more than her former prosperity ana
Capt Paynter was an active business man, and i then introduced, and the use of bells was given freedom: ”
was much esteemed by his fellow citizens. He [ up with very beneficial results. I “ It should be the object of all to avoid con-
formerly belonged to the 6th Missouri Cavalry j —^ ^ J troversy, to allay passion, give free scope to
Volunteers. j Concernig Doors.—When you go into your I reason and every kindly feeling. By doing this,
• [ neighbors premises, be sure to leave the doors as and encouraging our citizens to engage in the du-
“Ma,” said a little boy, “has aunty got bees in j you find them. If you find a door shut, you I ties of life with all their heart and mind, with a
her mouth ?” “No, my dear, whv do you ask ?” i may reasonably suppose your friend wanted to determination not to be turned aside by thoughts
“'Cause Captain Jones caught hold of her, and said have it shut, and therefore yon have no right to I of the past or fears of the future, our country
he was going to take honey from her lips; and ! leave it open; and if yon find it open, no matter will not only be restored in material prosperity,
she said, “Well make haste!” j how cold the weather is, do you leave it open, I but will be advanced in science, in virtue, and in
Sherman and Grant were both at a "rand ■ ^ or 1113 but reasonable to conclude that it was relitoon.
banquet given to the English capitalists in St ' frtt open for some good purpose. And the same “Wishing you every success lam most truly
jjoute 6 ’ t advice is good for all places, whether they be yours, ^ “ R. E. Lee.”
t M /vvn . .. .... ! houses, stores, factories, offices, or whatever they ———
Lewl Gass has^ycmjlLOOO to the $1(50,000 inay t, e Remember the rule; it has no excep- A gentleman, walking with two ladies, stepped
tion. Leave the doors as you find them. If the on a hogshead hoop, that flewup and struck him
owner of the door don’t know how he wants it, in the fac*. “Good gracious!” said he, “which
how do you know fiaw he wants it? I of yon dropped that?”
soldier’s monument at Detroit
New Yotk city days as taxes this Year $18-
325,936 15.
i^l
only two of the eight stories formerly erected.
Special Officer Boullosa happened to be near I are ’L’ b °. We J7’ Tl, ble & T a
the spot, and at once collared thesoldieF, whore-1 ^f cb , sld f of the quadrangular
sisted desperately, and was urged to further vio-1 w^t UreS f tw ,?- y artl3 111 length, ancl
lence by a colored woman, who followed tlie of-1 ^ ucb 13 com P° 3e d are of the
licerand his prisoner along the street. Boullosa Pfy 86111 wrote clay, with a veiy slight brownish
however, at last got his prisoner locked up in the’ i. nt ’ wb icli in the sun assume a wonderfully rich
Treme Station, and then arrested the woman. I 9Ca [ C6 jy b * beirn, t a tccl by tlie painter. The
The case will come up before the Provost Court I , ck8 > before being baked, were covered with
to-day.—N. O. True Delta. characters, traced most surety with the hand in a
The Louisiana delegation, which called upon I c ear regular style. r l he bitumen which
the President the other day, was composed of I fHH? 1 » ™[ l cern . en t was derived from a fountain
Miles Taylor and Judge Lee. They represent I « 1,cb exists near the Tower, and which
Gov. Welis, and desire to have the present State j ft° ws h such abundance that ft soon torni3 a
Government constitution thrust aside, and his I w ® ultl mvade the neighboring river
present Excellency appointed Provisional'Gov-1 fti, n . * be n ^. n " es from time to time set lire to
ernor. I the stream of bitumen, and then wait quietly
Another party, representing Senator Hahn and j ® ames should cease for want of aliment,
his friends, have also had several interviews with j uaugani.
the Resident. They ask that the election,which A Brave Girl.—The St. Malo (France) jour-
has already been called, be allowed to go on, al- nab, reC ord a courageous act by a yonng lady of
legmg that the State Government is as legitimate that town, M’lle, U P , who w^a the mJans
as that of Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee; of saving the life of a lad/the sonofM Hamon
that a new convention would make a worse con- one of the editors of the Progress. It appeare
stitution, and that Wells has already quite as that young Hamon, when bathinc on the beach
much power as it is safe to put in Ins hands. I «v.f .n.:. ,i .il
They further ask if any provisional Govern- j
or is to be appointed that Robert C. Wickliffe be
the man. The party is headed by Hon. A. P.
Dostie.— Washington Dispatch.
got out of his depth, and was being carried out
to sea by the retiring wave, when the young lady
heard his cries for help and swam to his assis
tance. She managed to keep his head above
water for some time, until the youth in his terror
The continual rain, day and night at a season clung to her and rendered her'perfectly helplSs
the vear when we almost We -W I They then botfa ?ank together ** At th ^ t moment
two of the bathing men arrived in a boat, ac
companied by a foreigner, who immediately
dived and brought up the two young persons in
a state of insensibility. They were, however,
soon revived by the use of the usual means, and
have since perfectly recovered.
There is a young man in the lunatic asylum
at Flatbush, N. Y., who was made insane by the
July riots in New York city in 1863, when he
was compelled by the mob to join their ranks.—
Although the boy’s mental powers appear to be
entirety destroyed, his physical development since
his confinement in the asylum is realty astonish
ing. From a slight and delicate youth he has
become a giant, at least in stature, aud now
stands near seven feet in hight.
“My dear,” said a gentleman to a young lady
whom he hoped to marry, “do you intend to make
a fool of me V” “No,” replied the lady, “Nature
has paved me the trouble.”
of the year when we almost invariably have dry
and delightful weather, is destroying both cotton
and com, and to add to our calamities, the worm
is making its appearance again. Our people are
heartily discouraged, and many are talking se
riously of selling out at any sacrifice and emi
grating to some other land.—Terrebonne Civic
Ghuard.
A Quid for Negrophilism.—We are reliably
informed, says the Columbus, (Miss.) Index, thar
one of the wells on the “ barrack ” grounds, that
is used by the freedmen and women, having be
come unfit to drink from by reason of a strange
scent and nauseating taste; it was ordered to be
cleaned out, when the bodies of fifteen negro in
fants were found in the well! This comes too
direct to admit of any doubt; there is no “grape
vine” about it.
THq conductors of the Philadelphia street
cars are accused of “knocking down” over
$100,000.