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ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHES REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson.
VOLUME XVIII.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2,1866.
NUMBER 18.
PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY
JARED I. WHITAKER,
Proprietor.
iMin H. NTERLK, MJtor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, May 2, 1800.
The Heleaae of the H«n. C. C. Clajr—fiei
erml tUrmnt.
Our readers have already been apprised of the
release liy the President from prison, on parole,
of the distinguished Alabamian, the Hon. C. C.
Clay. This gentleman, we see it stated in a
telegraphic dispatch, is now en route for bis
home in that State, where he will doubtless be
heartily greeted by a host of friends who have
deeply sympathized with him in his misfortunes
confident as they all were and are of his entire
innocence of the odious charge preferred against
him. For his release from confinement, Mr. Clay
is doubtless mainly indebted to Lieutenant Gen
eral Grant, who interceded with the President
to that end, as he has done in many other in
stances with the like success. While it is true
that to him the South owes her defeat in her late
attempt to establish an independent government,
i t is also true that at the surrender of General
Lee, and ever sinee up to the present time, his
conduct towards the South has been most gen
erous, nod iu individual cases, most magnani
mous and just. But for this distinguished mili
tary 1..TO—for, however much the South suffered
at l;i» hands, Ire is and will be recognized as such
in all time—wbat would have been the fate of
General Lce.and of all the other Generals in tire
Confederate service who are now at lilierty to
pursue civil pursuits—restored to their families
and homes? Perhaps within .some prison w’alls
they would uow be languishing, if no other pen
alty of a more distressing nature had not been
executed upon them—the penalty ol death.—
The youth, iu these respects, owe much to Gen
eral Grant, and it should not be niggard in its
acknowledgments of w hat is due to him. The
Southern press too has been cliary and tardy in
its acknowledgment of the favors bestowed by
this General upon the leaders of our armies in the
late terrible conflict. We feel that we have been
so, and would now make the amende. History
does not make record of magnanimity displayed
by military hero greater than that displayed by
General Grant to General Lee, and the forces
under bis command. The faith too plighted by
him on the day of Lee’s surrender, he has kept in
violate.
BuL if we are not misinformed, and we feel
confident that we are not, the South will owe
more to General Grant than she does on account
of what we have referred to in the foregoing,
lie is now, and will continue to be, a firm sup
porter of the President's reconstruction policy,
and will bring to it, as against the radicals, all
the influence and prestige of his name with the
masses, and with those whom he led in the late
war with the South. The reader is assured that
we do uot make this statement idly; we do so
with assurance of its truth, and augur from it a
happy, it uot an early, termination of the great
work in which the President is engaged. For
a time, the radicals in and out of Congress may
triumph ; they may delay the great work ; they
may embarrass the President in his earnest
and patriotic lal>ors to promote early restoration;
but when he goes betore the masses, aud is sus
tained by General Grant and tbc hosts that will
follow their great leader in peace, as they did in
war, who can doubt the complete overthrow of
the radicals who now “ lord it over all ’’ in w T hat
should be, but is not, the National Legislature?
For oue, we leel confident of the result.
Th« Fint Operation of the Civil Right*
Bill.
The Yew York Herald states during the pro
ceedings in the Senate Chamber, when the eulo-
giums on the late Senator Foote were being pro
nounced, a pompous negro entered the diplo
matic gallery aud took a seat iu the midst of the
foreign representatives, ne hail evidently, says
the Herald, “ studied the Civil Rights bill care
fully, and thought that a uegro was as good as an
ambassador trom any ot the foreign courts. He
was in presence ot the radical Senators who
voted tor the passage of the bill over the Presi
dent’s veto, and very naturally concluded that
his rights were equal to those of any man on the
floor of the Senate or iu the gallery set apart for
the foreign representatives. Now, although this
colored person was prevailed upon to retire, after
some effort on tlie part of the doorkeeper, be
cause he happened to get into the wrong place,
it is questionable whether, under the provisions
ot the Civil Rights bill, ho was not justified in-
concluding that he had the same privilege to sit
in the gallery as any body else. If he fell into
a mistake in this matter, he only shared in the
error committed by the radical Congress when
they voted for an equality which is obnoxious to
the great mass of the people, and never can be
recognized, though a thousand laws were passed
to make it legal. The poor negro who took his
own rude interpretation of the law, might be
pardoned for the breach of etiquette; but what
shall be said of the intelligent white men who
made the law ? How must the diplomatic corps
have fell at this untoward incident arising from
our new legislation ? The first practical opera
tion of the Civil Rights bill must have proved
rather disagreeable in their estimation.”
Sinee the foregoing occurrence, we have no
ticed that, in many places North and West, the
privileges extended by the Civil Rights bill to
persons of color have been claimed, in a practi
cal way, much to the discomfiture and disgust of
ladies and gentlemen of the white race, attending
places of amusement, by colored folks. In the
cases referred to, the latter fairly drove the for
mer from their seats, not by violence, or by in
tent even, but by the odorilerousness of the at
mosphere created by their presence. All we
have to say to our Northern friends, by way of
sympathy, in trials such as they must undergo,
and which we of the South must also endure, by
reason of the effects ot this Civil Rights bill, is.
it is no work of the South, or of Southern repre
sentatives. In the lauguage of one of Shake
speare’s creation—."thou onuf not sag I did it.'
Lulled State* Supreme Court for Georgia.
The Baltimore Sun states that Justice Wayne
of the the United States Supreme Court, is about
to proceed to Georgia for the purpose of holding
a court.
It also says there is nothing to prevent Chief
Justice Chase from holding a court at Norfolk or
Richmond, if he pleases. But ho will not do it,
it seems, until the /<.//« .!> corpus shall be reston'd ;
and ttiat he is in favor of that restomtion is to
l*e doubted.
General Robert Toombs.—The Montgom
ery Ledger relates that General Toombs is in
Havana, negotiating for a sugar estate. The
General says that he intends to make Mexico Ids
future home, but first he would proceed to
France, procure an interview with the Emperor,
and leam from him his line of policy. If the
Emperor promised to sustain Maximilian, he
would tell the Emperor that he had still a little
money left with which to make a home in Mexico
for liia family, while the balance of his fortune
he was willing to invest in powder and lead.
How True.
For the sake, says a Northern exchange, “of
three millions of negroes forty millions of
white people have been involved in civil
war; half of a great nation has l*een crip
pled and desolated; a lleavy debt has been
placed upon the shoulders of our citizens; blood
has been poured out like water; precious lives
have been ruthlessly sacrificed; but all this is
not enough. Now, for the sake of three millions
of negroes, the white people of this country are
asked to submit to the abrogation of the Consti
tution; to the exclusion of eleven States from
the Union; to the supcrcedure of the State judi
ciary ; to the j*etty tyranny of irresponsible spies,
]*aid to prefer complaints, whether justly or un
justly. More than this: we are asked to give
the scmi-civilized negro a preference over the in
telligent immigrant who lands upon our shores;
to punish a parent who refuses to allow a negro
to many his child ; to cast into prison any judge
who decides the dicta of Congress unconsti
tutional ; to submit to a social association per
fectly revolting to all sensible persons, and to a
national future like that of Mexico or of the mon
grel South American republics.”
And all this is done, the South, or the-eleven
States of the South, being denied a voice in the
matter; the President declaring it to la* uncon
stitutional ; and we doubt not a majority of the
people of the North sustaining him in that de
claration. We have indeed fallen upon evil
times, or rather live in evil times, when such a
decree emanates frrm what is claimed to be the
national legislature. It uproots the very founda
tions ot the Government; it destroys all the forms
of society; it disregards the order of nature; it
promotes discord and is -sit variance with divine
teachings aud command. But the South is not
alone the sufferer from this, the Civil Rights bill,
enactment, and we build hopes thereon. It af
fects, though to a much less extent, the people
and States of the North and West—social life
there as well sis here, and the administration of
State laws as well in every section of the Union.
Thus far, we have noticed in what have hereto
fore been termed the “Free States”—there are
now no “Slave States”—that the practical opera
tors of the so-called Civil Rights bill have crea
ted more discontent than they have in the South.
Here the negro does not assume upon the privi
leges bestowed upon him by the bill. As far as
our observation and knowledge extend, thefreed-
man is content with having secured to him liis
legal, his civil rights. He will not presume to
punish the white parent who refuses to allow him
to contract marriage with his child. He will not
aspire to social association with the whites, nor
intrude into seats appropriated forwhites in their
churehes, or places of worship. This, the ne
gro has done, and will do in the “Free States.”
It lias been done in Boston, and is of daily oc
currence in the National Capital. We, of the
South, therefore, must be patient under the pen
alty inflicted upon us by our late inheritance ol'
an institution entailed upon the South by New
England, and especially the Boston slave traders
of hardly u eeutuary ago, and until the early
earn ol the present century. As time progresses
we shall be rid of the evil now imposed. We
feel confident of this, and therefore do uot de
spair. To the people of the North, an appeal will
shortly be made, which we doubt uot will result
in the South’s deliverance from the yoke of a po
litical bondage, which the radical forces of Con
gress impose upon us. The question will soon
be submitted to them,whether the President’s re
construction policy shall prevail or not; and
when this is done, we have the most unbounded
confidence that the ballot box will declare in his
favor. Till then, let thq. South be patient and
hopeful!
Characteristic.
We referred on yesterday to the magnanimity
displayed by General Grant in the cases of Gen.
Lee, and the Hon. C. C. Clay—in preventing the
arrest of the first, and in recommending and urg
ing the release of the latter from his confinement.
How different his course has been from that of
Thftd. Stevens, the leading aud ruling radical of
the rump Congress ; and how characteristic has
been the course of this radical in the case of Mr.
Clay. If the telegraphic report of the part lie
took in the release of Mr. C. be true, it will be
seen that he is, true to his instincts, after property
in any event—confiscation is the main principle
of his creed. The report states that the “Hon.
Thad. Stevens says he would try Mr. Clay its a
belligerent, unless he was in the conspiracy to as
sassinate Mr. Lincoln, which he does not believe;
he would confiscate his property and let him
go.” And so it is with Mr. Stevens and those of
his political school. Confiscate, confiscate!—
Take from the people of the South their proper
ty ! This will satisfy their rapacity, nothing less.
Try them as belligerents and then confiscate!—
Is it not well that all men are not like this radi
cal leader ? Is it not well that all in the North
are not influenced by the ruling principle that
governs the action of this Pennsylvania Con
gressman ? Verily it is so!
The Ladle* Relief Society of Baltimore—
Circular of Governor Jenkins.
We have already referred to the extraordinary
exertions and benevolent munificence of the la
dies of Baltimorer and the success attendant upon
their efforts to relieve the deserving poor and suf
fering women and children of the South. This
morning we lay before our readers a circular
issued by Governor Jenkins, to which we invite
the special attention of those designated therein,
who are charged with the trust of distributing
the flour, meal and bacon so generously contri
buted for the relief of the said deserving poor
and suffering women and children in our State;
while we also call the attention of our people
generally to the same, that they may invoke
Heaven’s blessings upon the noble women of Bal
timore, “ the dispensers ot this munificent boon.”
The circular of the Governor will be found,in
another column.
The Asiatic Cholera.
The New York Neves of the 23d instant says
that a letter from Dr. Bissell, on board the hospi
tal ship Falcon, lying near the Virginia, at Lower
Quarantine, reports the arrival of the England
with oue thousand two hundred and two steer
age and sixteen cabin passengers, and a crew of
one hundred and twenty-two men. Fitty passen
gers died of cholera on the passage, and at Hali
fax one liunred and fifty died. Four more deaths
on the Virginia were reported, and ten bodies
were buried from the steamer. The number of
sick bow in hospital is sixty-seven. The Gov
ernment hospital steamship Illinois went down
to the cholera ship on Saturday, to take off the
well passengers.
Qcekx Victoria lias presented to the British
Museum one ot the Roman tombs recently dis
covered upon the Crown property at Old Wind
sor. The other tomb is presented to the town of
Windsor, and is to be deposited in the contem
plated local museum.
It is stated that Queen Victoria has sent an au
tograph letter to tlie Pope, thanking him for his
action against tlie Fenians, and offering him an
asylum within her domains, sho'dd he be com
pelled, through political convulsions, to leave his
own.
Col. David R Scott died at his residence
near Athens, Alabama, bn the 5th, at the ad
vanced age of 70 years.
From the Southern Recorder.
Tribute of Respect.
Milledgevtlle, April 18,1866.
At a meeting of the physicians of Milledge-
ville and the vicinity, and other friends of Dr.
Benjamin A White, deceased, on motion,
Dr. Thomas F. Green was called to the Chair,
and Fleming G. Grieve requested to act as Secre
tarv.
It was then moved by Dr. George D. Case that
a committee of five be appointed by the chair,
(thechairman of the meeting being chairman of
said committee) to prepare a suitable preamble
and resolutions, properly expressive of our re
spect and regard for our deceased friend and
brother.
Committee Appointed.—Dr. George D. Case, Dr.
Wm H. Hall, Dr. E. F. DeGraffenried, and Col
Miller Grieve, Sr.
It was then moved by Dr. E. F. DeGraffenried,
that the preamble and resolutions adopted by
the committee be published in the city papers,
and a copy thereof furnished the family of the
deceased
On motiou of Col. Barnett, the meeting ad
journed. Thomas F. Green, Chairman.*
Fleming G. Grieve, Secretary.
The committee above named, respectfully sub
mit the following tribute to the memory of our
deceased friend and fellow-citizen :
Whereas, Almighty God, in His Providence,
has been pleased to remove from our midst, by
death, Dr. Benjamin A. White, one of our most
useful, and universally esteemed fellow-citizens.
While in all sincerity, we would most submissive
ly bow to the decree of that Beiug “ who dogth
all tilings well and wisely,” we regard it not only
a duty, but a privilege, to give expression to our
feelings and couvictions+n reference to the worth
of the individual, and the great loss sustained by
the community in his death. Dr. White became
a citizen of Milledgeville iu the year 1821, and
lor forty-five years has been identified with this
city as his home; and during almost the entire
period, laboriously devoted himself to the active
duties of his profession, in which he acquired an
eminence equal to that of any physician in the
State, but peculiarly^ modest in advancing his
claim to such position. This fact was fully un
derstood, and appreciated only by gentlemen of
the profession, who were well acquainted with
him and familiar with his practice. For twenty-
five consecutive years, the position of President
of our State Medical Board, was unanimously
assigned to him.
He graduated with distinction at Harvard Uni
versity, in the class with some of tlie most dis
tinguished men in the United States, and received
his medical diploma from the old Pennsylvania
University in tlie palmiest days of its existence.
But notwithstanding lie had enjoyed rare literary
aud professional educational advantages, under a
high sense of duty, he was a student, in the full
est sense of that term, up to the hour of his last
illness. So long as he was physically capable of
performing the labor, lie was conspicuous for his
devotion to the poor in their sickness, never
shrinking from prompt attention to their calls,
under anj’ circumstances; and not content with
giving them liis services and his medicines, lie
very frequently supplied, in a quiet and unosten
tatious manner, the mean* evidently necessary to
secure for them proper diet and other comforts.
The blessings of many a widow and orphan fol
lowed him along his pathway through life, to his
grave. In his professional career, it was always
a peculiar pleasure to him to give aid and coun
sel to tlie medical student, or any member of the
profession, while he was careful that their suc
cess should in no way be attributed to him.
Feelings of rivalry, jealousy or suspicion, nev
er found a lodgment in tlie breast of that noble
man.
As a friend and companion, lie was a most re
markable man. His friendships, in the highest
sense of that term, were comparatively few; but
■tliey wore saorod, Ami unseHlSll, 10 tills
utmost degree. As a social companion, liis va
ried and extensive attainments, his exceedingly
gentle and urbane deportment, and his vivacious
disposition, rendered him at all times one of the
most agreeable and desirable. As a citizen, lie
was ever useful, not only coming up to tlie full
measure of his duty os one of the body politic,
but always prominent, in advancing anything de
vised for the moral or mental culture of his fel
low citizens, or the welfare of the community in
any respect; entering with the utmost activity
and energyjinto everything, having in view the
public good; seeking nothing, but assuming
cheerfully any position, no matter how onerous
that might be' assigned him.
In all his dealings with liis fellow men, he was
always conscicncious, upright and just, to an
extent never surpassed by any man. And in the
fulfillment of that which liis conscience and
judgment, deliberately consulted, convinced him
was right, and involving principle, he was as in
flexible as the mountain rock. But by no means
dogmatical or obstinate, or even unduly tena
cious in adherence to his own opinions on gen
eral subjects. As a patriot none were more de
voted or self-sacrificing than Dr. Wbite; some of
the finest traits of his character were conspicu
ously exhibited during tlie late unhappy' war.—
Of an ardent temperament, identified in all his
feelings and interests with the South from liis
birth, and firmly convinced of the justness of
our cause, though about seventy’ years cf age, he
voluntarily entered at tlie outset, heartily’, into the
struggle, laying everything upon the altar of his
country’, and not only devoting liis means, but
subjecting himself to the hardships and privations
of camp-life with tlie alacrity and cheerfulness
of youth. Never have we seen a more noble
example of patriotism. “Hoping all things, be
lieving all things,” he did liis whole duty with
out regard to tlie dereliction of others. For a
considerable period lie discharged with the ut
most satisfaction the duties of Surgeon General
of the State, remaining in camp with the troops,
and on several occasions was with much difficulty
restrained from arming himself for the contest.—
His practical benevolence, conspicuous through
life, and his kindly recollections of his fellow sol
diers, was illustrated in his will, written during
his hist illness,'wherein he solemnly enjoined
that not one cent of expenditure should be incur
red in connection with his burial beyond the
most absolute necessity’, and that the amount
which would be ordinarily expended in .the inter
ment of an individual in his circumstances
should be carefully’ ascertained and paid over to
the Inferior Court of Baldwin county, for the
benefit of orphans of Confederate soldiers, and
lie deeply regretted liis inability’ to do more for
them.
His moral character, was a most beautiful and
imposing illustration of all that is pure and love
ly ; without spot or blemish; he was never known
in word or deed to say’, or do anything that did
not comport with such a standard. And in this
regard, he was worthy of the imitation of all
who had the privilege to know his work and
conversation. But after a long life of usefulness
(.having exceeded by some four years, the allotted
period of man’s existence on earth) he has passed
away. As we humbly’ trust-, and confidently be
lieve to the rest and reward that remains to the
good, in that brighter and better world, beyond
Tlie skies. Leaving us, to mourn his loss aud to
hope and pray, that his bright example of integ
rity aud virtue, may not be lost, to those who yet
remain, to struggle with the afflictions, trials and
temptations of this file. Iu further discharge of
our duly,
It is resolved, That while we would approach-
wit h becoming delicacy; we
tendering our most sincere and heartfelt sympa
thy to the bereaved family of the deceased and in
expressing our earnest hope that He, who alone
can give consolation and support under circum
stances of so deep affliction, may abundantly sus
tain, comfort and bless them.
Thomas F. Green, j
George D. Case,
Willlam H. Hall, J- Committee.
E. F. DeGraffenreid, |
Miller Grieve, Sr. J
Are Greenbacks a Legal Tender?—In
the Superior Court yesterday, Judge Hook de
livered his decision in the case of Trustees of
Janet S. Montgomery, vs. Gray, Mnllarkey is
Co., submitted to him'at the adjourned term in
January last. The defendants tendered to plain
tiff the"amount in greenbacks claimed to be due
on a lease for rent made in 1860. The plaintiff
refused to accept the tender, claiming that he
was entitled to receive payment in gold, or its
equivalent in currency.
Judge Hook delivered a very able and elabo
rate opinion on the point raised, in which be
sustained the position of the plaintiff, and deci
ded that in all cases of contracts made before
the 25th of February 1862, (the date of the act
making greenbacks a legal tender) coin, alone,
or its equivalent in currency was a legal tender.
Business men would do well to bear this in
mind when settling their claims or contract or
purchases made anterior to the date mentioned
above.—Chronicle <£ Sentinel.
Lin Leave*.
The day, with it* sandals dipped in dew.
Has passed through Hie evening's golden gates,
And a single star, ia the cloudless bine.
For the rising moon in silence waits:
While the wind* that sigh to the languid hoars
A lullaby breathe o'er the folded flowers.
The lillies nod to the sound of the stream
That winds along with lulling flow,
And either awake or half a-dream,
I pass through the realms of long ago;
While faces peer, with many a smile,
From the bowers of memory's magical isle.
There are joys and sunshine, sorrows and tears,
That check the path of life's April honrs,
And a longing wish for the coming years v
That hope ever wreathes with the fairest flowers.
There are friendship* guileless: love as bright
And pare as the stars lu the halts of night.
There are ashen memories, bitter pain,
And buried hopes and a broken vow,
And an aching heart hr the reckless main,
And the sew-breearauming a palid brow;
And a wanderer on the shell-lined shore
Listening for voices that speak no more.
There are passions strong and ambitions wild,
And the fierce desire to stand in the van
Of the battle of life—and the heart of the child
Ia crushed in the tsast of the struggling man;
Bat short are the re-Jfets, and few are the tears,
That All at the tomb of the banished years.
There is a quiet amt-fence, and domestic love.
And joys, arising from Faith and Truth,
And a truth unquestioning, far above
The passionate dreamings of ardent youth;
And kisses of children on Tips and cheek,
And parent's bliss, which no tongue can speak.
There are loved ones lost; there are little graves
In the distant dell, ’Beath protecting trees.
Where the streamlet winds and violet waves,
And the grasses sway to the sighing breeze;
And we mourn for pressure of tender lips,
And the light of eyes darkened in death eclipse.
And thus, as the glow of the daylight dies,
And the night's first look to the earth is cast,
I gaze 'neath those beautiful summer skies.
At the pictures that hang in the hall of the past;
O, sorrow and joy! chant a mingled lay
When to memory’s wildwood we wander away.
cimnlar.
Executive Department, )
Milledgeville, Ga., April 23,1866. )
Information has readied this Department that
the Managers of the Ladies Southern Relief So
ciety, of Baltimore, in the exercise of an abound
ing and elevated charity, had caused to be shipped
to Savannah, subject to my order, five hundred
barrels, containing flour, meal and bacon, “for
distribution among our truly poor suffering white
people ” and that they “desire that the appropri
ation should be so distributed as to afford the
reatest relief to the greatest number of the really
eserving poor and suffering women and
children;” to effect which distribution, they have
also appropriated the sum of two thousand dol
lars. Apd the consignees, ’as well as the Presi
dents of the Central and Atlantic and Gulf Rail
roads, having generously offered to aid the en
terprise by personal service, and by transporta
tion free of charge, (as other persons and Presi
dents of Railroads doubtless will do;) for the
purpose, therefore, of distributing in Congres
sional Districts, as the most eligible primary di
visions of the State, they being organized with a
view to the nearest attainable equality in popula
tion, I make and publish the following order and
requests:
1. In the name and behalf of the whole peo
ple of Georgia, and especially of the destitute and
suffering, I tender mpst hearty thanks to the dis
pensers of this munificent boon, whom I would
designate, by a borrowed appellation, which
blends in touching association the ideas of a ten
der womanly relation and of a divine attribute,
Sisters of Mercy.” Such, indeed, are these
noble women of Baltimore. Heaven’s blessings
wait upon them.
2. Messrs. Crane & Gpybill, of Savannah, the
consignees, are requested to divide the consign
ment into seven parts, as nearly equal as possi
ble, reference being had to the kinds and quanti
ties of the articles composing it. And delivering
one portion in Savannah as hereinafter provided,
will Snip mic of the sis v^m.aninK to. each oftbo .
following points, viz: To Oglethorpe, consigned
to Hon. Philip Cook; to Newnan, consigned to
the Hon. Hugh Buchanan; to Macon, consigned
to the Hon. Thomas Hardeman, Jr.; to Augusta,
consigned to Porter Fleming, Esq.; to Athens,
consigned to the Hon. J. H. Christy; to Atlanta,
consigned to A. K. Seago, Esq.
3. The following gentlemen (the first named in
each case acting as chairman) are requested to
take charge of the several consignments for their
respective Congressional Districts, and act as
committees of distribution therein, viz : For the
1st District, Messrs. Solomon Cohen, John Scre
ven and Jas. L. Seward; for the 2d, Messrs.
Philip Cook, A. S.^Butts and David A. Vason;
tor the 3d, Messrs. Hugh Buchanan, R. A. T.
Ridley and J. F. Johnson; for the 4th, Messrs.
E. G. Cabaniss, Thos. Hardeman, Jr., and Jere
miah Beall; for the 5th, Messrs. J. D. Matthews,
Samuel Barnett and Porter Fleming; for the 6th,
Messrs. J. H. Christy, J. S. Gholston and Thom
as Morris; for the 7th, Messrs. Wm. T. Wofford,
J. A. W. Johnson and A. K. Seago. The con
signee in each District will notify the other mem
bers of bis committe, so soon as he may receive
the consignment, and appoint a day for their meet
ing at the place of delivery. Each committee is
authorized to appoint necessary assistants, and
sub-agents, and will act with special reference to
the declared wishes of the donors. Bills of ex
penses unavoidably incurred, will be presented
at this office for payment
4. Editors, throughout the State, willing to
connect themselves with this laudable charity,
are requested to give this order a few insertions. -
5. Let a copy of this order be forwarded to
Wm. Crichton, Esq., Baltimore, who is request
ed to present it to the Managers of the Ladies
Southern Relief Fair, as a truthful, though im
perfect, expression of Georgia’s gratitude. Let
copies be forwarded also to Messrs. Crane &
Graybill, Savannah, to each member of the seve
ral committees appointed, and to each President
of a railroad in Georgia.
Charles J. Jenkins, Governor.
Trichinosis.
John Mitchel, in a letter from Paris to the New
York News, thus discourses on trichinosis—the
disease that has spread so much concern and
alarm in Europe, and not a little in New York
and other cities of the United States, among pork
and sausage dealers and consumers:
I hope you are not troubling yourselves over
there about the trichinosis. It is a matter of little
or no consequence. The French Government
lately sent two learned commissioners to Ger
many to examine into the affair and make a re
port. They were Monsieurs Diepech, Professor
of the Faculty of Medicine at Paris, and Regnal,
Professor in the great Veterinary establishment
at Alfort. They have returned and published
their report. It appears by this report that the
cases of disease produced by trichina in the hog
population itself are a very small percentage.—
For example, in Hanover, during twenty-one
months, of 25,000 hogs there were but eleven af
fected. In Brunswick the proportion was greater
—16 out of 14,000. The cases of human beings
attacked by the trichine are also, it seems, veiy
few on the whole. The causes of these latter,
say the commissioners, may be traced to the dirty
habit common in Germany of devouring raw
bacon, or sausages imperfectly cooked. They
report against any particular governmental meas
ure being taken in France on the subject; be
cause here, they say, people are in the habit of
cooking their bacon welL And apropos of bacon,
the great ham fair of the Faubourg St. Antonie
Heverdy Johnaon, Trumbull and Cowan.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Post draws the following pen-pictures of Sena
tors Johnson, Trumbull and Cowan :
REVEUDY JOHNSON.
During the delivery of Johnson’s reply to the
smart sophistries of Trumbull, Mr. Bingham
never left the Senate, sitting most of the time in
’the seat of Senator Doolittle, and occasionally
conversing with Wilson, of . Massachusetts.
Johnson is now accepted as the leading constitu
tional lawyer of the country; and it was pleas
ant to see Bingbam enjoy the argument of his
political opponent, though, in this case, agreeing
fellow-legislator. As Johnson would pause after
one of his quickly uttered gleams of legal light,
Bingham’s eye would brighten, and he would
nod his head in enforcement. Johnson’s deliv-
ety is peculiar, and the very antipodes of
Bingham’s. He is not over five feet seven, white
haired, with one defective eye, and a person
rather inclining to obesity. To a reporter in tlie
gallery he is the most tantalizing of speakers.
He commences in a voice so low that not a word
can be caught; gradually increasing its volume,
but also the swiftness of liis enunciation, till in
a very passion of logic, shaking his right hand
and keeping his left in his pocket, he strains the
power of phonography to its utmost; then his
voice, suddenly dropping, renders it almost as
difficult to catch his last clause as it was to secure
liis opening. This is the more tantalizing, thift
his oratory, like DeQuiucy’s writing, is so built
up that not one reporter in a thousand can sup
ply the unheard word, and no other will do.
Intellectually, lie needs no description. What
was said of Daniel Webster as a lawyer is ex
actly applicable to Johnson in senatorial debate.
“ He never can win in a bad cause, and can
never lose a good one.” His logic is a despot to
himself. His mind won’t work illogically, try
what he may; and in this he is sometimes a
most amusing contrast to
TRUMBULL, OF ILLINOIS.
This gentleman, younger than Johnson, lack
ing also his senatorial experience, possesses a
mind that debates against truth just a smartly as
for it. He can argue just as well that black is
white as that white is not black, and as readily
convinces himself of the one as ot other. Em
phatically a casuist, whose style of argument
would be best described by one of Pascal’s para
graphs on Escobar or any other ot the Jesuit
school of casuisits. He is what, in the British
House of Commons, they would call “a clever
speaker,” and what we generally mean by a “a
smart talker.” His hair and beard are brindled,
not exactly gray, but a mixture of white and
black which does not fuse into one positive
shade. _ He wears spectacles always. In speak
ing he is clear and loud, and therefore much
liked by reporters in the gallery. He stoops
much, and when warmed into quick speaking,
screeches to avoid a huskiness to which his voice
tends from over exertion of the larnyx. It is not
a pleasant voice at all, reminding one of the fal
setto by which a failing tenor strives to supply
the place ot tlie natural tones in which he could
once reacl>a coveted C. As Trumbull and John
son occupied the leading position in the exciting
debate on the Civil Rights bill, I find I have left
myself too little space in which to strive to con
vey some fair idea of
COWAN, OF PENNSYLVANIA,
measuring some six feet three inches, possessed of
a voice like the diapason of a small church organ
and a habit of using it in two distinct octaves.—
Senator Cowan is certainly a most peculiar and
impressive speaker; and posseses one great merit,
that of never speakiDg unless he has something
to say. When he rises in the central aisle, and
with his tall figure dwarfing everything about
him, sends his rolling voice sailing on the waves
ol foetid air that form the atmosphere of the ill-
ventilated chamber, he reminds one of the de
scriptions Carlyle gives of Mirabeau in the
French convention of ’89. He is to the conserva
tive republicans what Johnson is to tlie demo
crats and Trumbull to the radicals, the oratori
cal exponent of policy. If he is less philosophic
than Johnson, and if he be as casuistic as Trum
bull, he possesses more of that peculiar quality,
clear common sense, and a practical way of stat
ing it than either.
IMPEACHMENT.
Such are the three leaders of the present Sen
ate ; such are they who, if ever the threatened im
peachment of tlie President is attempted, will
tight for and against. History, after all, does re
peat itself—for now, when we hear talk of plac
ing an American President in the position of the
French Louis, we find in the conservative repub
licans a counterpart of the Girondists, with
Cowan for a Verquiand, a perfect picture of the
Jacobin or Mountain, with Trumbull for a leader,
and a party striving to preserve intact the Con
stitution of the nation, with Johnson for an Is-
nard.
the sacred precincts of private grief, such as this,j J us t taken place here, and there were plenty
teel warranted th»
ol buyers and sellers—nobody thought of the
little trichines—so pyramids of hams from Bay
onne, and mountains of them from Mayence,
went off as briskly as usual.
Important Dceliio n.
Anderson, Adair & Co. 1
vs. V Trover.
J. A. Ansley. )
This case finally resolved itself into one point
only.
The defendants, in April, 1863, tendered to the
plaintiffs the amount due them in Confederate
notes. The currency was not objected to, but
’.he tender was refused on the ground that more
was due. The defendants kept tlie money and
deposited it in bank on their general account.
The plaintiffs now’ claimed a verdict for the
value of Confederate money, at the time of the
tender, which was admitted to l*e at the rate of
five for one.
The defendants insisted that the money re
mained in defendants’ hands at plaintiffs' risk:
and, having become valueless, the defendants
were entitled to a verdict.
The court charged the jmy, that if the identi
cal money tendered had been kept separate from
all other, and marked as the plaintiffs’, it would
have been at their risk; bnt, having been used by
the defendants, as their own, they must abideT>y
the depreciation, and be held liable for the value
of the Confederate notes at the time of the tender.
Verdict for the plaintiffs accordingly.
Gould for plaintiffs; Miller for defendants.—
Augusta Chronicle.
Tlie Minnesota Gold Mines—Great Rush
Thither.
The Superior Gazette, of March 31st has the
following:
During the whole week there has been a con
tinuous stream of gold seekers leaving here for
the Vermillion mines. Quite a number of these
gold hunters are citizens of Superior, but the
majority are strangers, who come with their horse
or ox teams, aud after loading up with provisions,
tools and house keeping articles, push on for the.
Eldorado of the North. Thus they come and
go, and so quietly is it all done, that] but few
of our readers have any conception of the number
of persons who have passed through here en
route since the opening of the roail.
ROCK TAKEN.
From Mr. Sweet, of the Chicago Gold Mining
Company, who was in town earl}’ in the week,
replenishing their stock of supplies, we learn
that shafts were being sunk on the locations of
the different organizations, and work generally
being pushed forward as vigorously as the sea
son will permit. Up to the time of his leaving
the lake, considerable gold and silver bearing
rock had been taken out, which was pronounced
rich enough to pay for crushing and amalgamat ing
Mr. S. brought clown some two hundred pounds
which went forward by express on Monday, and
will be thoroughly tested.
We have also seen some others who have
reached here during the week, and all unite in
giving glowing accounts of “the show.” From
what we^lean from these sources, silver bearing
rock seems to predominate.
This tallies with the stories told by the Indians
inhabiting that section, and which, until lately
have been regarded as fables.
RICH SPECIMENS.
Some essays have been made at the lake by
Mr. Rj’ersou, ot quartz from the different loca
tions, which have turned out an amount of bul
lion beyond our expectations, and up to the mark
of the most sanguine—going as far as six hundred
dollars per ton. Our informant presented us with
one piece that came from a vein that assayed
five hundred dollars to the ton.
• Correspondence of the New York Express.
From Washington.
"Washington, April 12.
An American gentleman, now in Europe, in
forms his correspondent in this city that Mr. Fill-
mere lias recently written to President Johnson
in tlie strongest terms of commendation of his
policy.
The fine portrait ot Stonewall Jackson, drawn
by Mr. Corcoran, of this city, at the Baltimore
fair, will tie placed by that gentlemen in the pub
lic gallery which he Intends to open in the great
edifice now occupied by the Quartermaster Gen
eral, whenever he shall regain possession of it.—
It is said that Mr. Corcoran lias expended $45,-
000 in private and public charities since his re
turn from Europe, a few months since.
The comparatively insignificant position occu
pied by Chief Justice Chase on the Bench of the
Supreme Court, is the subject of general remark.
Marshall almost invariably carried the court with
him. Taney generally did so. But Chase never,
in any case where the court is divided. Thus is
this partisan Judge almost daily humiliated and
rebuked by his own associates! So the “whirli-
<r\t» of time has its revenge^,” and the fanatical
sower of dissension and promoter of discord l*e-
tween the different members of the American
family, though raised to the loftiest pinnacle of
the Federal Judiciary, finds himself without in
fluence and without obedience. Like Lear—that
“poor, discrowned King”—lie already begins to
learn that the hornors which “should accompany
old age" are not for him, and that his future ca
reer is to be as barren and as profitless as though
he were consigned for life to the remotest corner
of New Mexico.
Blind .Tom.—This musical prodigy was in
New York on the 13tli, but we infer from a re
mark of the News that he was to embark for
Europe soon. Tom was performing every night
to crowds at the Irving Hall, who regarded him
as an incomprehensible miracle.
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.
Tlie Freedmen In Georgia.
THEIR PROTECTION BY T11E STATE'AUTHORITIES
—THE CHARGE OF JUDGE WARNER.
Atlanta, Ga., April 13.
The freedmen, I am told, by leading and the
most intelligent men of the State, both rebel and
old Union men, are, everywhere, as a general
rule, working well, and especially in this the case
when the employers are able to pay them for
their services. Our boss carpenter tells me that
he now carries on work with blacks with far less
trouble than when they were slaves, and that
the same kind of hands do twice as much work.
Iu this city there are over twenty colored men
who were slaves before the war, who own
and live in their own houses. I have talked
with several whom I knew as slaves in 1860,
who say they own property clear of debt, to be
tween three and tour thousand dollars, and are
still making money. As to the protection from
the State of Georgia extended to the blacks, it is,
in the first place, embraced iu the law passed by
tile Legislature on the 17tli of March last, the
second section of which reads as follows:
“That persons of color shall have tlie right to
make and enforce contracts, to sue, be sued, to
be parties, to give evidence, to inherit, to pur
chase, and to hare full and equal benefit of all
laws and proceedings for the security of persons
and estate, and shall not be subject to any other
or different punishment, pains or penalty /or the
commission of any act or offense than such as
are prescribed for white persons committing like
acts or offenses.” This enactment, I am inform
ed, was brought into existence !>)’ the influence
of ex-Governor Brown and Hon. A. H. Stephens
In the next place, tlie Superior Court of the
State is now in session in this city, Hon. Hiram
Warner, of Supreme Court fame, on the bench.
The following is a part of his charge to tlie Grand
Juiy :
“Gentlemen : The status of the black man,
under tlie present circumstances, lias been fixed
by the Legislature of the State. His civil rights
are the same before the courts as the Whiteman’s
—the right to sue and be sued, hold, possess and
own prorerty, and give evidence in all cases,
either when a white man or a black man is be
fore the court, on the civil or criminal side of the
court. And I charge you that, if a black man’s
testimony becomes necessary to elucidate any
matter before you to-day, you shall have the pro
cess of the court to compel his attendance as a
witness. And I further say, that this court will
exercise all its powers to enforce all the civil
rights of the black man in all and every partic
ular. In fact, every sympathy of our nature is
aroused to protect the black man from the fraud
of those who would take advantage of his ig
norance. This court will see to it that this class
of our citizens have all their rights protected.”
If this be the practice, as it is the theory,
which, from my knowledge of the people, I have
no doubt wiH be tlie practice throughout the
Stat<?, what more has the most radical of Radi
cals to ask of Georgia ? It has even been a com
plaint that Georgia juries decided for the poor
against the rich, and for one I am more than
willing to trust them with the interests of the
black man, with all their prejudices against the
race.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Austria and Prussia—Count Biimark and
his Master.
London, March 31,1866.
AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
It seems almost impossible that war can be
avoided between the two great German Powers.
Each day’s telegrams from the Continent are
more bellicose than those of the preceding, and it
would now appear that nothing but an accident
can prevent hostilities breaking out on a colossal
scale. The sympathies of this country are unan
imously on the side of Austria—not merely be
cause that Empire is considered to be the weaker
ot the two, and that Prussia has long disgusted
Europe with her perpetual gasconading and mil
itary rowdyism, hut because right is apparently
with lie- opponent and rival. Prussia, under the
leadership of Bismark, has been perpetually
“breaking the peace” for years past. The war in
Schleswig-Holstein was her doing solely, Austria
having been led into it unwillingly and with
great difficulty ; and her present policy is known
to be based upon the idea of self-aggrandizement
•at the expense of tlie smaller German Powers
and tlie disruption of the Austrian Empire. The
English press, thus far, has not dived far beneath
the surface ot this question; but Her Majesty’s
Government and tlie better informed portion of
oifr public men have an uneasy feeling that
France is silently backing Prussia, and that Na
poleon III and Count Bismark aie a political
partnership. If we apply the sound old legal
query Cuibono to this partnership idea, good rea
sons will be discovered for such an undertaking
between the Gallic and Prussian eagles. The
two countries may be said to have the same pol
icy or policies which a mutual understanding
may assist in carrying out. One country stands
in the way of the other’s ambition, and, there
fore a good understanding between them will
naturally advantage both. “Rectification of the
frontier, “Natural boundary lines,” are the of-
tenest used diplomatic terms for French and
Prussian projects. Tlie two Governments stand
alone in Europe threatening the general peace.—
True, Russia lias been devoured since the time
of Peter the Great with the ambition of planting
her flag on tlie shores of the Bosphorus ; and al
though her “manifest destiny” seems for the mo
ment to be in abeyance, yet she is everlastingly
pushing her cohorts further and further from her
original confines, and absorbing the territories of
petty chiefs and kings. But these Muscovite in
vasions and annexations do not endanger the
peace of Europe; and may', to a certain extent,
be palliated and excused on the ground of any
change in such regions as Bokhara and Turkistan
being for the better. Italy, again, has her “des
tiny” in the direction of Rome and Venice; but
she has not the status, capital or credit among
her tellow-sovereignties to act as more than a
subordinate. France and Prussia are the only
two Governments which have anything to gain
by the arbitrament of war; the former looking
to the Rhine frontier, the latter to the absorption
of tlie smaller German principalities and the
eventful empire of Germany.
There is another and very strong reason why
Napoleon III and Count Bismark should desire
and determine upon Hostilities. The discussion
of domestic reforms by the French and Prussian
people is giving much cause for anxiety to their
respective rulers; and it has always been a win
ning game with European governments to post
pone such debates by exciting the military ardor
of their subjects; The democratic tendencies of
the French opposition, the accession to its ranks
from the Government adherents themselves, and
the “shying the traces” by the Emperor’s oldest
supporters, are very likely to convince him that
an appeal to the nation’s ambition and love of
conquest are the only means by which these ten
dencies can be stopped. Such a policy is still
more likely to be adopted in Prussia, where the
Legislature has been sent about its business in.
the most unconstitutional manner, and the peo
ple are all but unanimous against a minister who
has all the attributes of a Strafford,'and is equally
hated by the nation at large.
TnE Civil Rights Bill—Its Effects in
Baltimore.—The Baltimore American, a rabid
negro organ, in its issue of Monday, says :
There have been several occurrences within
the past three or four days which, it is expected,
will bring before the courts of this city the ques
tion as to what are the rights of colored persons.
The first was that of a colored man, on Friday,
taking a seat among other passengers in one of
the York road railway cars. The conductor in
vited him to go to the front platform, where col
ored persons had always the privilege of riding.
He insisted on his right to remain in the car, but
the conductor, as also tlie passengers, required
him to leave. He noted down the number of the
car and then departed. On the same night,
James Williams, colored, appeared at the ticket
office of Holliday Street Theatre and asked for
a ticket The agent, on learning from him that
it was lor himself, refused to sell a ticket. He
went oat on tlie sidewalk and acted in such a
disorderly manner as to comj*el policeman itay
to conduct biut to tlie Middle District Station,
whence Justice Spicer, after an examination the
next morning, committed Him to jail. On Satur
day niglit a colored man, name not learned, ap
peared at the Eastern District Station, claiming,
protection. He stated that he had gone into a
public house on Eastern or Canton avenue and
asked for a drink, but the proprietor refused him
the liquor. He claimed that as a citizen he was
entitled to the same privileges as white men.—
Neither the officer in charge nor the magistrate
would afford him the protection asked for, and
consequently he retired.
The latest style of gentlemen’s dress is to
appear without a waistcoat, and the coat very
open, with an exposure of elegant embroidered
linen cambric, lined with rose colored silk.
Mexico.
Passengers who left San Francisco March 30,
state that on their arrival at Acapulco, April 0,
they learned that a collision had occurred be
tween the Liberal forces, under Corona, and the
French troops occupying Mazatlan. It appears
that Corona had for some time closely invested
the place, but finally withdrew, when the French
marched out, with the intention, it is presumed,
of giving Corona battle, if he could be overtaken.
Corona let them get well out of the city, when
he fell upon their rear and commenced a vigor- ,
ous attack. When tlie steamer which brought
the news to Acapulco left Mazatlan the fighting
was still going on, the officer in command of the
French troops having been killed while endeav
oring to rally his men, who were being severely
worsted by the rebels. It was thought thnentlre
French force would be killed, as prisoners are
not taken on either side. Yet, as the last ac
counts from that quarter stated that the Imperial
General Lobasas was marching a force of from
.three to four thousand to tlie relief of Mazatlan,
he may have come up in time to turn the tide ot
battle. The military situation at Acapulco re
mains the same as it has bee® for the past year.
The French troops have a garrison in the fort
and a man-of-war in the harbor; white tlie Lib
eral General Alvarez commands a force which
occupies all the surrounding hills, and prevents
communication with the interior. His encamp
ment is in plain sight from the harbor, but the
French manifest no desire to dislodge hijm. In
deed, the French are obliged to keep close within
their lines during the day, and at night to lock
themselves up in the fort The town, which
never numbered more than a few hundred souls,
has but about one hundred in it now, and those
are of a class too poor and miserable to get
away.
The United States gunboat Saranac was lying
in the harbor on the 6th—officers and men all
well. The officers appear to be much amused at
the situation at Acapulco, and commiserate the
French, who, despite their inability to dispense
with their customary airs, are nevertheless not a
little humiliated at their position.—New York
Tiinis.
Frightful Disaster.
San Francisco, April 16,1866.
A terrible explosion of what was supposed to
be nitro-glycerine occurred at a quarter past one
o’clock to-day, near Wells, Fargo & Co.’s build
ing. The explosion shook tlie earth like an
earthquake for a circle of a quarter of a mile.
Samuel Knight, Superintendent of Wells,
Fargo & Co.’s Express, died in half an hour of
injuries received.
G. W. Bell, Supervisor and Assayer, was in
stantly killed. Mr. Wallub, Wells, Fargo & Co.’s
Assayer, Joseph Elliott, John Gallagher, Frank
Webster, and William Justin, were also killed.
Eight dead bodies were so mutilated that they
could not be identified.
Louis McLane, Captain Eldridgre, of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, and Judge Hoffman,
were bruised and cut. Felix Lamax, D. Stacy,
Jefferson Taylor, H. Blane. clothing dealer;
Captain J. E. Ayres, Fred Leiz. Frank Morris,
and others, were injured, but not fatally.
Some will never be identified, as fragments of
human flesh, bones, and brains were found near
ly two blocks distant
Montgomery, Sacramento, and California
streets were lined with broken glass, scarcely a
window for several hundred feet remaining
whole.
Wells, Fargo & Co.’s horses, and eveiything
in the vicinity, animate or inanimate, were blown
into fragments.
The damage is estimated, at least, at $200,000.
William Havens, a book-keeper of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, is ascertained to be
among the killed.
The cause of the explosion is a mystery. The
freight agent of the Pacific Mail Company says
that two boxes, each measuring about tour cubic
feet, were taken from the steamer’s dock to the
place where the explosion occurred. One box
was consigned to Idaho City, and the other to
Los ADgelos. Both were stained with oil. The
contents were not known. Forty men are now
engaged in removing the ruins.
A Leaf from the History of Loyal Massa
chusetts.—During the war of 1812, Massachu
setts was busily engaged in deciying the war,
villifying its supporters, disheartening its troops,
encouraging and comforting the enemy, threaten
ing their fellow citizens, bullying Congress, and
attempting to depose the President of the United
States. Their Governor took tire front in this
crusade, the Legislature supported tlie Governor,
and the people by a majority cheered and ani
mated both. But the opposition was to receive
a more imposing and solemn character. If was
moved in the Legislature by a Mr. Low:
“That a commute be appointed to confer with
all the New England States, and see if they will
agree to appoint a committee to join them and
repair to the city of Washington immediately,
there and then personally to make known to the
President tlie general opinion of the New Eng
land States in regard to the present war, and the
manner in which it lias been conducted, and in
form him that he must either resign his office as
President, or remove those ministers and other
officers of the general government who have by
their nefarious plans ruined the nation.”
The nefarious plans of these New England
disorganizers were not carried out, because higher
destinies for the time awaited the country. Peace
was restored, and the Union preserved. It was
reserved for a later day, to give Massachusetts
and the rest of the New England States the op
portunity for which their souls have so long
panted, to undermine and finally overthrow the
Union and the Constitution, through the agencies
of a sectional fanaticism. And now, after a long
and bloody war provoked by the fanatical plott
ings of her own meddling, officious and uncon
stitutional policy, she stands to-day, through her
Representatives and Senators in Congress, in
fierce opposition to the restoration of the Union,
and the advocate of all the abnormal acts by
which the Constitution of this country has been
made a dead letter. As she was in the past, so
is she in the present. She prayed and labored
for disunion in 1812, she was praying and labor
ing for it in 1861, and succeeded ; and now, in
I860, through her Sumners, "Wilsons, Fosters,
Polands ana Spragues, she is endeavor' ug to es
tablish, as the policy of this country, the reduc
tion of the Southern States to the condition of
conquered provinces, and the substitution of a
vast centralized despotism at Washington, for
the Constitution that our Fathers gave us.—New
York News.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Vhait the Murderer Probet Did with the
Money.
Our theory is that, leaving the house ot the
Deerings during the day of the murder, he struck
for the westward and crossed oyer into the Twen
ty-fourth ward, either by Gray’s Ferry bridge or
the Penrose Ferry bridge, and setting apart the
ten dollars of Mr. Deering, and the supposed
gold watch for a debauch of a few days, he se
creted the one hundred and twenty dollars to pay
his expenses to Europe, and then came to the
city for “a spree.” Every soul of the Deering
family was dead, and the convenient hay would ■
cover up the dread secret for a time—there would
not even be the cry of a little infant to create
suspicion, for all were dead, and he would have
time for a sate debauch. On Thursday he learn
ed that the crime had been discovered, for he
heard the officers of the law inquiring ior him,
and it was then time for him to lookout for his
own safety, and telling his old crony that he was
going to Germany the day following, lie left him
at tea-time, and at eight o’clock he was stopped,
as he was about to cross the Market-street bridge.
Take this view of the case, and his strangely
careless and aimless wanderings were not with
out plan and purpose. We believe the one hun
dred and twenty dollars taken from the murder
ed girl are now secreted in West Philadelphia,
and that this sum was set apart for the final es
cape to Europe. Tlie story of an accomplice we
do not consider worthy of a moment’s consider
ation.
A Vert Old Vessel.—A late English paper
has this paragraph: “Last week there sailed from
Hull, amid the cheers of a great multitude, the
bark Truelove, the only vessel dispatched this
year from Hull to the Davis Straits whale fisher
ies. The Truelove is under the command of
Captain Wells, a name associated with the most
successful period of the whale fisheries. The
Truelove is one of the oldest vessels afloat. She
was built at Philadelphia, United States, in tire
year 1764, and is consequently one hundred and
two years old. At that time the spot on which
she was built was one of the plantations from
which much wood was taken for the building of
British vessels. About half the long life of the
Truelove has been spent in the whale fishery
trade, but she was formerly in the Oporto me
trade.”
—
They talk of General Sherman as Secretary
of War. It would be a great change for the bet
ter. . >.
