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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday t May 2 t 1806.
The Tennessee Radical Senate.
Perhaps no State in the South has now less
of liberty in it, and peace within its borders,
than the noble old State of Tennessee. Her peo
ple, intelligent, enterprising, and patriotic, are
forced to submit to a tyranny that exists no where
else in the South, and is paralleled only by that
which exists in the National Legislature. From
the Union <t American of Nashville, we learn
that the so-called Senate of that State, will lefuse
to permit one of Tennessee’s time-honored citi
zens, the Honorable Cave Johnson, to take the
seat to which hehas been elected in that body.
This, too, is to lie done in the face of the re
port made on his case, that he had taken the
oath prescribed and required by the provis
ions of the State franchise law for candidates
—that lie received all the votes cast in his
Senatorial district—and that he is a man of age,
experience, great ability, and commanding in
fluence. And it, the report, substantially admits
that because he is not a radical it is proper to ex
clude him from liis seat, which is to be accord
ingly done. Commenting upon this proposed
iniquitous act of a radical majority, the Union
& American pays the folowiug just tribute to Mr.
Johnson, a gentlemen whose fame is not only
sectional, but natfonal. It save truly:
A seat in the Tennessee Legislature at the pre
sent time could add nothing to the fame or the
happiness of Mr. Jolinson. A large body of the
people demanded his services at the present pe
riod of our history—more important and more
pregnant with the peace and well-being of this
and future generations than any in the past—and
he simply obeyed. He cun have, therefore, no
more personal interest in the question; but, on
the contrary, the action of the Senate will relieve
him of labor and annoyances to which nothing
but the highest interest of his- country could in
duce him, at liis time of life, to undergo. In his
exclusion, therefore, one. and only one, great
point is raised and carried through—and that is,
that the members shall, hereafter, be homogene
ous in politics—and to accomplish this end en
tire counties anti districts are to be debarred re
presentation, and the voice of their people si
lenced in the progress of law making!
Wc have no sufficient language in which to
characterize this proceeding—to call it inlamons
—to denounce it as usurpation, despotism, revo
lution, a subversion of the established principles
of all free popular government, would be hut a
fecbleVxpression of the enormity thus perpetra
ted. It will be cherished in time to come as an
insult and an outrage to be redressed in the pro
per way and at the proper time.
“ The proper way, and the proper time! ” Let
Tennessee patiently wait for it! It will come,
surely come, and then, let those who now wan
tonly rule and trample upon the rights of her
people; who have attempted to degrade and rob
them of their privileges as citizens; “ hide their
diminished heads.” The storm will soon pass
over; the day of deliverance will soon dawn.
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The Credit ol'tlie Southern State* and
merchant*.
Mr. Opdykc, Chairman of a Special Commit
tee appointed by the New York Chamber of
Commerce—to whom petitions and other papers
had been presented, asking the Chamber to memo
rialize the President or Congress in favor of ex
acting from the States lately in rebellion, as a
condition precedent to their restoration, the ac
knowledgment of their respective State indebt
edness incurred prior to the rebellion—made re
cently the following report:
That the voluntary action of those States since
the suppression of the rebellion, furnishes grati
fying evidence that no interposition on the part
of the General Government i9 needed to secure
the results asked for by our petitioners.
No one of the States lately in rebellion has
shown any disposition to repudiate their liabili
ties incurred prior to the war. On the contraiy,
most of them have already reacknowledged that
liability, and many of them have also been en
gaged in devising ways and means for paying oil
the accumulated interest and providing for the
future payment of interest and principal.
Your committee are informed that the State of
Georgia has already authorized the issue and sale
of new bonds sufficient to liquidate their entire
back interest, to the payment of which the pro
ceeds of the new bonds are to be applied.
The State of Florida has done further than this,
in inserting her new Constitution, recently adopt
ed, a provision that all the individual indebted
ness of her citizens existing prior to the rebellion
shall be held as valid, legal claims against them.
Other of these States are taking such measures
for resuming the payment of interest on their
bonds issued before the rebellion as their present
limited means and impaired credit will permit.
Equally honorable sentiments have been man
ifested by the most of the citizens of those States
which are indebted to the North for purchases
made antecedent to the war. Few, if any of
them, have failed to acknowledge their obliga
tions, or to provide for the future payment of
such portion of them ns their reduced assets will
allow.
In view of these manifestations of honorable
sentiments at the South, on the part of both
States and individuals, it is believed by your com
mittee that no action on the part of the General
Government is called for.
The foregoing is highly complimentary to the
Southern States, as it is to their merchants. It
is just, too, to them. The New York Chamber
of Commerce is an institution exercising a vast
influence in the commercial and financial world,
and its testimony thus expressed in behalf ol
Southern honor, will not be treated lightly, even
by the enemies of the South. AYould that the
Congress of the United States could see and re
cognize in the Soutli the same adherence to hon
orable pledges, the same adherence to her pledges
of loyalty, as the New York Chamber of Com
merce testifies it has seen in regard to her in
debtedness ! If they would see this, restoration
would soon be complete. “But none are so blind
ns those who w ill not see!”
“Ever Beady.-’
Under the foregoing heading the Augusta Con
stitutionalist, says:
In our Atlanta exchanges we find the subjoined
appeal for aid from Rev. H. C. Horaady, pastor
of the first Baptist Church in that city, accom
panied with a request that the press throughout
the State would publish. For our own part we
cheerfully comply, and trust onr professional
brethren will be equally ready lo extend the fa
vor asked. Of course in thus speaking we would
not be understood as pleading especially for aid
in this particular case on any grounds of denom
inational preference, onr own bias being, on the
contran*, toward a far different form of faith,
but on the general principle that the press should
lie ever ready to extend any assistance in its
power to the cause of good order, morality, and
religion. Especially at this juncture do we deem
this duty doubly imperative, in view of those tre
mendous disintegrating agencies, which at times
would seem about to swallow up the last rem
nants alike of sobriety, good sense, and virtue.—
The demoralizations of the camp, the lowering
tendencies of that license which also prevailed
even in home circles during the war, and the
present bitterness of feeling engendered by po
litical animosities are, one and all, potent instru
ments for evil, and we never hear of a court to
be opened, a school to be begun, or a church re-
devoted to spiritual ministrations, but what our
most fervent wish is to aid such beneficent enter
prise in any way within the compass of our
power. Particularly is this so in case of any ap
peal made by our clergy in behalf of the altars
that they serve. The record of Southern divines
is singularly pure, and commended not less to
our people from the cordial sympathy ever
evinced with them by those pastors during many
past trials than by that devotion to the interests
of their great High Priest which forbade any
besmirching of their sacred office by political
participations. "We cordially, in this particular
case whereof we speak, commend the appeal
made, and will hold ourselves in the future, as
now, ever ready to wield the full power of our
pen in behalf of any like effort in so good a
cause.
AVc like the sentiments which animate our
Augusta cotemporary, and admire the manner in
which they are expressed. The record made by
Southern divines is indeed “singularly pure,” and
appeals made by them now to reconstruct what
has been destroyed; to rebuild and make room
for congregations to worship the living God, and
wherein to teach the youth of the land on the
Sabbath day; should not pass unheeded by the
news and political press of the country. Like
our cotemporary, we, loo, are “ever ready” to
promote such work, uninfluenced by denomina
tional considerations.
Important Financial Proposition.
AVe notice in a telegraphic report that the Sec
retary of the United States Treasury Depart
ment—who has displayed signal ability in the
conduct of that branch of the public service—“is
considering the proposition of putting a five per
cent, long loan on the market as a means of se
curing our rapidly maturing obligations. Such
lias been the successful arrangement of our
finances and the faith of the American people in
its national securities, that such a loan is deemed
warranted, and is thought to promise success bv
many of the best financiers in Congress. The
Secretary hits all the requisite authority, and it is
only the question of expediency which now
claims his consideration.”
To us it is a matter of surprise that any dis
trust should have existed among the people.Xortli
or South, in regard to the national currency, since
the war closed. We have at no time since the
South submitted to what was determined “by the
sword,” been able to understand why it was that
gold commanded so high a premium over “green
backs.” Recent and every-day events prove con
clusively that the American people have no dis
position, nor has the government, to repudiate
the United States debt. And when we consider
the immense resourses of the country, the enter
prise and industry ol its population, its extended
commerce, its manufacturing power, and its im
mense agricultural productions, the debt it has
incurred by the war should never have created
the alarm it did at any period within the past
twelve months. But we do not profess to he
skilled in finance, and this will probably account
for the conclusion to which we came, and still
adhere to, to-icit: that capital and speculation
have both combined to keep gold up, rather than
want of faith in the ability of the government to
redeem its issues, or fears of repudiation. There
is no such paper currency in the world as our
national currency, and in it every confidence
should be placed. It will not be long, we pre
dict, when United States Government securities
will be at par with the best securities of Great
Britain, France, or Germany.
COL. J0HN6ON, on a visit to Augusta, informs
the editor of the Chronicle that the connecting
roads beyond Cnarlotte will complete repairs by
the 10th of May, and that what is termed the
mountain route, via Columbia, Charlotte and
Salisbury, northward, will be running through
by that time.
Chief Justice Chase.
The iuflueuce which this Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court exercises over it,
however much influence he exercises politically
in (lie country, does not appear to be very great
—nay, it does not appear to be even respectable.
AVlien Marshall and Taney wore the robe3 of
the “Chief Justice,” how different the “situa
tion !” Take, for instance, the following, which
we copy from an exchange, as evidence of the
present Chief Justice’s dissensions from opinions
delivered by the Court:
A few days ago Judge Nelson delivered the
opinion of the court declaring that shares in Na
tional Banks were taxable. Chief Justice Chase
dissented.
A few days ago the court decided that the mil
itary court, or commission, or committee, which
sentenced tltree men in Indiana to death—and
who would have been murdered had not the Pre
sident interposed—“ had no jurisdiction legally
to try and sentence them.” Chief Justice Chase
dissented.
It is now pretty well ascertained that the court
will, at the next term, decide the test oath to
be unconstitutional. Chief Justice Chase dis
sents.
Before the late proclamation of peace, the
court, decided that the Southern States were in
the Union, and that it was proper to consider
cases coming from them. Chief Justice Chase
dissented.
Here are four cases, embracing important prin
ciples of a legal and political character, in not
one of which does Chief Justice Chase agree
with his Court—a Court, no one member of
which but has won more reputation for legal
ability than their chief. The great defect of
the Chief Justice consists in this—his political
ideas, and his political schemes, have warped his
judgment. The law and the Constitution ap
pear to be dead letters in the statute books, when
they do not accord with the one, and subserve
the other. How lamentable, and yet how true!
Mercer University.
AVe have beojj advised that at a recent meeting
of the Board of Trustees of this once flourishing
institution, the Rev. H. H. Tucker was unani
mously elected its President.
AVe also notice that S. Root, Esq., of this city,
proposes to bestow upon the University forty-five
acres of land in the vicinity of Atlanta, prodded
that institution shall be removed to, or a High
School established in this locality within five
years. The proposition of Mr. Root was referred
by the Board to the Prudential Committee with
power to act npon it.
Mercer University, previous to the war, was
one of the most popular and successful institu
tion of learning in our State. It was handsomely
endowed, ably presided over, and bade fair to at
tain celebrity in the South as one of its foremost
institutions of learning. Like unto similar insti
tutions, it has suffered from the sad results of war,
but will soon, we trust, assume all its former in
fluence in our State, whether it remain at its pres
ent location, Pennfield, or be removed to this lo
cality.
General Grant.
A\ r e are gratified at seeing that our able co-
tempomry, the Columbus Enquirer, agrees with
us in our recent allusion to General Grant. That
paper says:
The Atlanta Intelligencer thinks that the
people of the South do not appreciate fully the
friendship of General Grant, as manifested both
at the time of General Lee’s surrender, and sub
sequently in) his support of President Jolinson,
and his intercession for the release of political
prisoners. We believe that our cotemporarv is
right on this subject. The terms accorded by
General Grant to General Lee were such as the
enlightenment and humanity of the unprejudiced
world would have suggested. But we should
bear iu mind that they were not such as the fa
naticism and hatred of the radical party at the
North would have granted. They have suffi
ciently indicated this by their demands for harsh
and vindictive measures. General Grant then
stood and still stands between the defeated peo
ple of the South and the revengeful passions of
the Northern extremists.
The Enquirer is right in suggesting that we,
the people of the South, “should bear in mind
that they (the terms accorded to General Lee by
General Grant) were not such as the fanaticism
and hatred of the radical party at the North
would have granted.” This truth should indeed
be indelibly impressed upon our minds. It speaks
volumes in praise of that officer. Had he pur
sued the opposite course, who can imagine what
would now be the condition of the Southern
States and tlieir people ? It was the chimin/ of
the soldier, and the heart of the man that saved
the South from that state of degradation to which
she would have been consigned by her radical
foes. “Honor, then, to whom honor is due.”
Dally Cbattanoosa American Union.
AVe notice that our old Athens (Tenn.) com
peer, Sam. P. Ivins, Esq., has assumed the edi
torial and business management of this estab
lishment. Ably as this most excellent paper has
been conducted since the first day of its publica
tion, it will lose nothing by the change which
places Mr. Ivins at its head. This gentleman
is one among the first of the ablest journalists
in Tennessee, and when we say this, we say it
with a full knowledge of the compliment con
veyed. Wc congratulate the Union upon the
arrangement made, and the public Upon the ap
pearance again in the field of journalism of one
whose pen added largely to the reputation and
influence of the “corps editorial” in days that are
past and gone.
Washington, April 22.—The French Minister
had an audience with the Secretary of State
yesterday, and presented the formal adhesion of
TUc Cottou Supply from India—Failing [
Resource*.
At a recent meeting of the Manchester Cham-
Interming Letter Grom Baltimore.
[From the Richmond Emminwvj^y?
her of Commerce, the consideration of the pro-! Irrepressible Conflict—The Warm-Hearted Women of
spccts of cotton supplies from India was discus
sed. Complaints were made of the apathy of
the government respecting India, and the opin
ion prevailed that all that was necessary to ob
tain a larger supply was to develop the canal
and railroad communications in that country.
Air. Bagiev, member of Parliament, said:
Since the termination of the war in America,
they had acquired something of the former de
gree of the activity that once pervaded the man
ufacturing districts. Still, much remained to be
done. In 1860, the consumption of cotton in
the United Kingdom amounted to 2,500,000 bags
during the year, at the period of the greatest dis
tress—namely, 1862—the consumption had di
minished to 1,000,000 bags, and last year it bad
gone np to 2,000,000.
During this period there had been very impor
tant additions made to the means of consuming
cottoD, not only by the spirited determination of
spinners to repair their old machinery and pre
pare for a better time, but by the spirit of capi
talists who had invested new capital in new
works, the result being that there was at the
present moment the power to consume much
larger quantities of cotton than had been known
st any other period; and he apprehended not
less than 3,000,000 bags would be required to
supply the trade of the whole kingdom, when
cotton could be had in plenty, and at the same
time at such cheap prices as ruled previous to
the convulsion of 1860. It had been stated that
the exports to America with the revived trade
had been so large that our public finances were
likely to be seriously inconvenienced.. He dif
fered altogether from such an estimate.
It was quite true we had sent something like
20.000. 000 pounds sterling value of British ex
ports to the United States, but in estimating the
means of payment by America, it seemed to be
entirely forgotten that America, during the last
year, sent such ample supplies of cotton that the
value of them would be but little short of 25,-'
000,000 pounds sterling. But although this was
sufficient reason why we should apprehend no
danger from our trade with America, there might
be some reason why we should look to our in
vestments at home. There had been continually
created new joint stock companies, we had been
continually contributing to tlie foreign loans, and
lie estimated fairly that the home engagements
of tlie country last year amounted to a little less
than 20,000,000 pounds sterling. He put it to
the Chamber whether we were likely to be in
danger from speculative investments of that
kind, or with a legitimate trade of 20,000,000
pounds sterling with our friends across ihe At
lantic.
There has been no very important improve
ment in the cotton received from India. Larger
supplies, it is true, had been received during the
years when cotton had been so much required,
but it must be recollected that part of those sup
plies was cotton that had been cruelly taken from
the Indian home manufacturers, an that we had
not secured so large a portion of India’s aug
mented production as we should have received.
It was grievous to hear that in some instances
the home manufacturers of India had not been
supplied with their raw materials in consequence
of the exportations to this country. He felt con
siderable anxiety as to the supplies of cotton
from India.
In 1860 there were here consumed about 3,300
bags of India cotton per week. Last year the
consumption was to the extent of 20,000 bags
per week; but the quality of the cotton was so
inferior that the moment abundant supplies of
cotton from America could be obtoined, India
cotton would cease to be consumed, and India,
which already depended upon a great supply be
ing sent to this country at high prices, would be
greatly disappointed when she found that the
supplies and prices were diminished.
The time, he feared, was coming wherylistress
would be brought upon India, because it would
he more to the interest of the people.of this
country to obtain cotton from America than from
India. 100,000,000 pounds sterling already paid
was ample compensation for what we had re
ceived, and we had no occasion to trouble our-
seves with consequences as to what might accrue
to India, although it would be much to be de
plored if Iudia did not keep up in the race of
competition. Unless something could be done
in the administrative reform in India, there
could be no improvement in the cultivation of
cotton.
Something must be done to emancipate the
agricultural industry of India from the thraldom
of officials. India possessed ample means for re
pealing her custom duties. The whole revenue
of India is about 45,000,000 pounds sterling gross;
the net amount was perhaps from 35,000,000 to
38.000. 000 pounds sterling. The expenses of col
lection amounted to 8,000,000, and he submitted,
that this sum, deducted from the gross revenue,
was a sum altogether unnecessary, and it would
be possible to save as much as 2,000,000 pounds
sterling out of the expenses of collection. At all
events, the manufacture of cotton yarns contrib
uted to the revenue of India about 600,000 pounds
sterling that could be easily abolished; and as
the cotton trade has given India something like
180.000. 000 a benefit would^arise to India, if cot
ton goods were wholly exempted from duties.
It was to be hoped, therefore, an effort would
be made to repeal the duties upon cotton manu
facturers. If there was a large trade rapidly
rising in India, where spinning and manufactur
ing were being conducted, a protection would
arise to those manufacturers if something did not
alter the present condit ion of things. The whole
official revenue ot India required to be fully ex
amined and economized. Only 29,000,000 pounds
sterling was required for the real expenditures of
the country, and to collect 15,000,000 pounds
sterling appeared to leave a margin that gave
great scope for financial reforms.
Reproductive works of any kind, which would
greatly contribute to the revenue of India, has
made but little progress. True, 50,000,000
pounds sterling had been expended in about
3,000 miles of railway in India, but in America
there was 30,000 miles. Water for inland navi
gation and irrigation was, no doubt, the great
wealth of India. Great investments ought to be
made in the means of conveying heavy goods
from the interior to the ports; and water applied
to the land, it was well known, increased the pro
duction fourfold. Wherever irrigation was ap
plied the quality of the cotton was vastly in
creased—of course to the corresponding advan
tage of the agriculturist. The land tenure ques
tion was also of the highest importance to
India.
Washington Cor. New York Times.
Tlie Reconstruction Question.
The reconstruction question in Congress is daily
and hourly growing into prominence, however
much some of the extreme men may assert that
there is no hurry about adopting a line of policy.
The near approach of the summer and fall elec
tion campaign's is causing many members to
calmly consider the chances for their return to
the next Congress. As a consequence there is a
very perceptible increase ol moderate counsels,
and within the past week nearly all the great
Middle and AYestern State delegations have con
stituted themselves sub-Reconstruction Commit
tees, and have held caucuses to ascertain what
line of policy could be agreed upon and sustain
ed by the full Republican delegation of the re
spective States. The result has been to satisfy
these members that the extreme views of some of
the New England men must be abandoned or
voted down; that any policy of reconstruction
intended to compete with that of the President
before the people must be plain, fair and free
from complication, and that the attempt to force
negro suffrage upon the States by Congressional
action must be abandoned. In further confirma
tion of these statements it is known that General
Banks and Thaddeus Stevens are both opposed
to making negro suffrage a feature of the Con
gressional restoraion policy ; and a very radical
member of the Reconstruction Committee re
marked to-day that Air. Stevens was really be
coming Conservative. To-night the New York
delegation held a meeting to discuss the various
plans of reconstruction, but nothing positive was
agreed upon. Tlie current feeling among the
New York Republican members seems to be in
favor of a plan involving a constitutional amend
ment changing the basis of representation, dis
qualifying prominent rebels from holding office
for a term of years, and adhering rigidly to the
test oath, tin® leaving the subject of negro suf
frage entirely untouched, except so far as it may
be indirectly affected by the amendment to the
Constitution.
The Committee of Fifteen had another meet
ing to-day, which was of a stormy character.—
Two votes were taken upon certain features of
the Robert Dale Oweu proposition, heretofore
printed, which neutralized each other, and then
postponed the matter until Saturday.
The struggle in the committee is between the
Radicals and the extreme Radicals, or rather be
tween those who insist upon negro suffrage and
those who are willing to throw the question over
board. There is no telling what the character
of their report will be, but the current feeling
and conversation on this great subject I guaran
tee to be correctly stated in this paragraph.
Rules for Dog Fighting.—The Chicago
Republican devotes a column to a dog fight. AV e
copy a paragraph ;
Then AIcCloskey and Jennings went through
the important and’ somewhat perilous process of
Baltimore—Their Zeal, Nobility and Devotion—Their
Gentle Love and Sympathy—The Result of their Untir
ing Labors—The Magnificent Appearance'of the Fau
lts Unparalleled Success—Close of the Fairy SpeH—The
Sweet Illusion Gone—Alas l that the Sweet Enchant
ment could not Last Forever—The Curtain FaE*. but
Rises on many a Happy Southern Home—FaH Ladies,
Onr Blessings be upon You—A Devoted Lady Gives
Her Precious Life to the Relief of the South.
Baltimore, Md., April 20,1866
There are other irrepressible things in the
world besides the eternal conflict between nar
row fanaticism and enlightened statesmanship
.between ignorance and wisdom; between des
potism anti liberty; between the evil and the
good. There is the irrepressible good sense of
Andrew Johnson, for instance that firm substan
tial bulwark, against which the wild waves of
blind radicalism lash themselves in a vain inde
corous fury. There is the irrepressible rancour
of Stevens^ Sumner, et id omne genus, a Viperous
foul spite and malignity, eternally spirited venom
and gnawing the tile. * There is'the irrepressible
barbarism of John AY. Forney (who wished the
Ladies’ Relief Fair to be suppressed,) a dead
duck that stinketh in many nostrils, and whose
foeter spreads far and wide. There is the irre
pressible tergiversation of the Baltimore' Ameri
can, the kaleidescope of the press, no two views
of which are alike. But there are also some irre
pressible good things in this .world, and best of
all these, I take it, is the irrepressible warm heart
of the women of Maryland, which has just
budded forth, and flowered, and borne rare and
perfect fruit in the Great Southern Relief Fair.
God bless those noble women, and reward them
according to the rich flow of their generous im
pulses and their quick urgent sympathy. God
bless the warm hearts that felt, and the. quick
brains that conceived, and tlie nimble Angers that
helped forward, and the untiring over-zealous
energy that put in execution ftis noblest charity
of an age that has witnessed many noble deeds!
One must needs have studied the Fair closely
and under several aspects, to realize fully the
quality of iis charity, the heartiness and una
nimity with which it was entered upon, and the
entire devotion and perfect industry with which
it was carried through. It showed at once the
spontaneous impulse of a whole community, in
telligently brought to work, and artistically in a.
nipulated, and the individual labors of so many
active brains and fingers, each one toiling as if
for existence. The labor done is evidence of the
zeal that prompted it, and neither could have
been surpassed. This thing must not be meas
ured by the mere gross result in dollars and cents,
for which it strove; it must be estimated also by
the heartiness of the undertaking, the complete
ness of the zeal, the untiring quality of the devo
tion, the love and sympathy, and sorrow and
pity, that went forth with each stitch that was
sewn, each effort that was made, and which was
to the fair itself what fragrance is to the flower,
a gratuitous offering, more precious than even
the substantial gift itself.
The fair was a perfect success. Nothing oc
curred to mar its harmony; there were no dis
appointments ; there was no short coming. The
display had a certain embarrass de richesse, but
this did not prevent the attainment of the most
perfect effects that good taste could suggest, or
aesthetic judgment devise. AYhether viewed in
respect of the articles exhibited, the arrangement
of the bazaar, the floral display, the ladies in
charge, or the visitors patronizing, all ivas as
perfect as the most ardent hopes, or the moSt fas
tidious fancies could desire. The eye was charm
ed, filled, satisfied. There was a fear lest there
should be some rivalry between the animate and
the inanimate exhibitions; between the ladies
present and the articles on view, but the exqui
site good taste and devoted zeal of the ladies
themselves prevented this. They lent themselves
to the fair; they became a part and parcel of it
and of its display, so that he who saw it, remem
bers the bewildering beauty and the fascinating
grace of the Baltimore ladies, their rich attire,
their tinkling laughter and pearly smiles, as he
remembers the goods, the flowers, the throng,
the music—all integral elements and components
of the fair itself.
The enchanting scene is over, the fairy spell
departed, the sweet illusion gone, and we -wend
our way blind and stumbling along the paths of
the common day again. Alas! that the enchant
ment could not last forever! Alas! that the
sweet spell may not steep our spirits still, and
give our eyes continually such beautiful sights to
dwell upon! Commonplace things, are over
commonplace now, because of those sights we
saw, and, as we move along to our ordinary
tasks, the remembrance of all that beauty has
the bitter-sweet quality of loved thin-rs cone, not
to return again any more. AYe yearn after the
departed vision as Huon yearned after Vivian’s
fairy isle; we would still quench our thirst by
Jacob’s well, or cross with rash feet tlireshhold
of Beauty’s Bower, or weave again the exquisite
living, glowing, throbbing mazes ot all that va
rious lovely scene! Alas, it is over and done.—
The curtain has fallen, and the actors have gone
home to their cares. But, in many a Southern
city, in many a forest, by river brake and clear
ing, and where the fire has swept, and the inva
der’s foot has pressed, and the heart is weary
and soul despairing, and want and woe* care and
famine throng in like gaunt wolves cruel and
firery-eyed—mere this lair live*) there it moves
with its blessed chairty, its powers of renewing
hope, its substantial gifts, and its still more val
ued inspirations. There will its memory abide
ever green, and thence will your blessing come,
oh, happy ladies ot Alaryland, from the warm
prayers of those to whom you have given, and
in the tripple blesssing that descends upon the
giver!
It is sad to know that this zeal and devotion
in behalf of a noble cause has not been without
injurious effects. Too many of these generous,
unselfish women over-tasked themselves, and, in
their single-minded efforts to do the best they
could, forgot that there were limits even to the
indulgence of charitable impulses. Several la
dies have been made seriously ill by their labors
during the day and night, and in one case there
has been a sadly fatal result. One young lady,
the most zealous, the most faithful, the most suc
cessful worker, saw the fair over, stood at her
post until the end, and then, spent, fore-done,
worn out soul and body, just went home to die.
She was found dead in her bed the morning af
ter the fair. She had done her Maker’s work,
poor weary child, and must needs sleep well!
Yours, faithfully, E. S.
the French Government to the principle of Non- “tasting” their dogs. This precautionary meas-
x 1 enrff Fnn*;i
intervention as explained by the United States.
The French Emperor kindly and cordially re
plied to the note of our government, and engag
ed to withdraw the troops from Mexico in three
detachments, the first in November next and the
second in Alay and November, 1867.
sure consists in getting down on the knees and
lapping the tongue to the dog on the breast and
between the shoulders, in order to convince the
other side that he is clean, and that no poison
has been applied externally for the purpose of
injuring the other dog if he should bite her.
Each man has the right to require the other to
“taste” the dog in any part that be may hid cate.
From the Hartford (Conn.) Post, April IS.
Singular Case.—Another Salomon Wanted.
A singular case, and one which it is said has no
parallel in modern and but one in ancient times,
when it was decided by Solomon, is now on
trial before the Superior'Court in this city. The
circumstances are these : A lady, Mrs. De Shon,
now Airs. Alary Jane Rand, residing in Boston,
had a boy by her first husband. The boy had
several singular marks on his person, and also a
serious impediment in his speech. AYhe the
child was five and a half years old, it died sud
denly while its mother was asleep. Tlie singular
appearance of the boy led her to have an autopsy
made, and she afterward prosecuted the attend
ing physician and apothecary who had furnish
ed the medicines. Rufus Choate was her counsel
at this time. Some two or three years after, Airs.
Rand observed a child in Boston which resembled
hers so closely that she followed it for some time,
but finally lost sight of it and its attendants.—
Two years or more elapsed before she heard of
it again, and then found out that it was in the
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in this city,
being a charity pupil from the State of Alassa-
chusetts. A picture of her husband, whom she
claims was the father of this child, was shown
to him, when he instantly exclaimed, as well as
he could, in the presence of several witnesses,
“That’s my father; he lives in Boston.” A care
ful examination has been made of the boy by a
physician who -attended him during a three
months’ sickness, and he says that “God might
have made two persons so near alike, but this
was the first instance of the kind that had come
to his knowledge.” The marks upon the boy
now here correspond exactly to those npon the
one he attended, and who was afflicted with a
serious rupture, which the boy at the Asylum
haj also. Airs. Rand’s testimony occupied the
court during the entire day yesterday, and her
counsel, Air. Eaton, has considerable more testi
mony to introduce, which he thinks cannot fail
to convince any reasonable person that the child
of Airs. Rand was taken away while its mother
slept and another one substituted.
On the other hand, the putative mother, Mrs.
Phillips, Staples, AYilder, and Frost, she having
been married severaUimes, claim to be able to
substantiate her claim to the boy, who, she says,
is hers by Air. Frost. He was admitted to the
asylum some fonr years ago under the name of
Edward Frost, and is now thirteen years of age,
and, as we have said before, a3 a charity pupil of
Alassaenusetts, but during this time his mother,
or she who claims to be such, has paid little or
no attention to him.
The case is one of the strangest on record, and
will require the judgment of Solomon to decide.
It will probably last for several days, and a great
deal of interest is manifested in the result.
From the New Orleans Times.
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln—
Letter From a Ulan Who Knows all
About It.
The following letter, which came to hand yes
terday, is given for what it is worth. AYe have
no knowledge of the writer, and hence cannot
vouch for the accuracy of his statements or inti
mations, but give the letter as it was written:
AIontgouery, Ala., April 18,1866.
To the Editor of the Neic Orleans Times: I have
seen lately an account, taken from one of the
Louisville papers, (the Democrat, I think,) ot one
Sterling King; who pretends to be the man who
killed Abraham Lincoln. It is but right that
every one should know who this man King is,
and judare him accordingly. He was employed
by the United States Government as a detective,
or special agent, as they style themselves, in 1861.
He was the man who searched the greater por
tion of Morgan’s men who were sent to Camp
Douglas, and in searching them, relieved them
of any superfluous valuables they chanced to re
tain until then, and appropriated them to him
self. Alauy ot the Camp Douglas prisoners may
remember the long legged, sandy haired devil
who was so untiring in taunting them as they
entered their Northern prison. He had one dr
two teeth out in front.
In 1863 and 1864 he operated in and around
Cincinnati. Sam Thomas, the tailor, Cathcart,
the schoolmaster, and Airs. Parmenter, the wash
erwoman, those terrible conspirators who were
to have effected the escape of General John H.
Alorgan and all tlie prisoners then confined in
Camp Douglas, all know him well.
He passed himself generally there as a rebel or
Confederate spy.
Not being able to find out anything about the
escape of General Alorgan in Cincinnati, he
thought to “beard the lion in his den”—tligMor-
gan in his camp—and went to the general’s head
quarters in Western Virginia with some very
pretty and plausible stories from the Kentucky
rebels, trying to gain the general’s confidence;
but he was not very successful, for he was recog
nized by some of his former victims of Camp
Douglas.
He was arrested and tried as a spy by a court
martial and sentenced to death. What become
of him after that I do not know. Perhaps some
of General Alorgan’s staff officers could tell.
What his object is in sayiug that he is the slayer
of Lincoln, I cannot tell, unless it be to make
some further statements, to enrage the Northern
people against Air. Davis. Of course his confes
sion criminates himself, but then nothing would
be easier for his friends, whom I doubt not are
high in power, than to effect his escape and. give
him a nice sum wherewith, to live the rest of his
days in some foreign land. All t hat he is under
taking bodes no good to some one.
He was arrested in Kentucky for horse steal
ing and gives as his reason for making his con
fession, and there are parties in Washington who
knew of the part he had taken in the assassina
tion, and that on seeing his name in the papers,
he would be immediately sent for from there.
Now, if that were the case, he certainly would
not give in his right name when taken to Louis
ville, and then those parties in Washington would
never have known anything of so important a
personage.
Next, had he intended to bleed himself to
death, as the papers say he attempted, he could
have done it very easily. No! he merely wished
to give an appearance of ^truthfulness to his
statement. And now, the last and best reason I
have for knowing that it is all false, is, that I
happen to know every one connected with the
killing of Mr. Lincoln—was there at the time,
within ten feet of the private box, and know that
neither Sterling King nor Jefferson Davis had
anything to do with, nor knew of it until after
the deed. This you can take forj ust what you think
it worth; but publish this and let others do the
same. Its publication can certainly do no one
any harm.
There are three persons in the State of Louisi-
any who could testify to the truth of what I say
here. Why I do not fix a signature to this, you
can well imagine.
A Fenian Soldier Sentenced to be Shot.
FRESH ARRESTS IN IRELAND.
Sergeant Daragh, of the English army, tried by
court martial for Fenianism and planning a mu
tiny in Cork garrison, had been found guilty and
sentenced by the court to be shot. Her Alajesty
had, however, commuted the sentence to penal
servitude for life.
THE LATEST ARRESTS MORE FENIAN ARMS
FOUND AND MORE ENGLISH DESERTERS.
[Dublin (April 5) Correspondence of London Times.]
The police yesterday morning arrested a man
named Joim Harrison, autl loilgod trim in Iv.il-
nminham jail without troubling tlie magistrates.
They had good reason for doing so, for although
he called himself a compositor, he was prepared
to distinguish himself in a different field of labor.
At liis lodgings, in No. 3 Harmony row they
found concealed behind the window shutter, in
the space for the pulley lines and weights, three
seven chamber revolvers, new and of the best
make, a sword and three bullet moulds, with a
quantity of cartridges and bullets. They found
also in possession of the prisoner the “Life of
Robert Emmet,” the “Battle of Auglirim,” and a
number of seditious songs, whicli plainly indica
ted the use he intended to make of the arms and
ammunition. As in all similar cases, the arrest
was made in consequence of private information
conveyed to the detective.
Mr. J. Slattery, owner of the public house near
Dublin Castle, in which a number of persons
were lately arrested on a charge of Fenianism,
has been permitted to go out ou bail. The Lord
Lieutenant has also authorized the release of Mr.
Grace, a prisoner from Tliomastown, county
Kilkenny. His father applied to Air. AIcDonnell
yesterday, to see whether Mr. Hort, the resident
magistrate of Kilkenny, might take the securities
there, but he was told the bail must attend at the
Alountjoy prison.
Two more persons—Alichael Byrne and a pri
vate of the Tenth Hussars—were brought up
yesterday by the detectives as deserters. The
latter was given over to the others of his regi
ment, and inquiries are to be made about the for
mer, whose regiment is in England.
William Burrows, a tax collector, No. 4 Lem
nox Place, was charged at the head office yester
day of having a sword and bayonet without li
cense. He said he intended to have them regis
tered. He wa3 discharged on bail, but the arms
were retained.
John Barnes, taken up for using seditious lan
guage in a singing saloon, having excused him
self on the plea of drunkenness, was liberated
yesterday on his own recognizances.
Mr. O’Brennan, of Castlebar, proprietor of the
Connaught Patriot, who was re-arrested a short
time ago, has been released on liis own recogni
zances in £100.
The Limerick Reporter states that two more
national schoolmasters—Alurray and O’Leary—
have been arrested at Croom, in that county, on
a charge of Fenianism, with a person named
Thornhill, said to be a relative of the postmaster.
The Kilkenny police made an important dis
covery of arms and ammunition near the city of
Waterford, in a public house, on Tuesday. In
one of the rooms they found a beautiful revolver
(American pattern) and a dagger. On searching
in the garden they dug up an immense chest,
filled with rifle bullets, ball cartridges and a great
quantity of powder. The owner of the house
was arrested, and further arrests in that quarter
are expected. Kilkenny county reaches to the
city of Waterford.
A man named Qninn, said to have been ac
tively employed in promoting the Fenian cause
in Scotland, has been arrested in Sligo on a.war-
rant from the Lord Lieutenant.
A cooper named Horgan has been arrested in
Cork as a suspected Fenian.
The grand jury of the city of Cork have ex
pressed their warm approval of the conduct of
the government in putting down the Fenian con
spiracy.
From Selina Weekly Visitor.
Freaks of Fortune.
“The best laid schemes of mice and men gang
oft aglee.” The profoundest combinations are
often made unavailing by chance events which
can be guarded against by no human foresight.
The fate of communities, the destiny of nations,
are the playthings of fortune. The words of the
fool may confound the wisdom of tlie statesman.
The ignorance or unfaiyifulness of a courier may
thwart the plans of the general. A sentence
lightly uttered in a club-room has suggested
thoughts that were destined to fill the hearts of
a nation. The consequences of a thoughtless
act may perchance reach to the latest generation
and fill the world with joy or grief. There is
nothing little.
Two weeks ago, Senator Stewart was scarcely
known outside of the Senate chamber. A reso-
lntion, probably put into his hands by another,
and offered without a thought of its importance,
has made him famous; and that uiiconsidered
action of an obscure man may yet, possibly will,
mark an epoch in our political history.
Janies AI. Scovill, absolutely unknown outside
of New Jersey ten days ago, was, by a combina
tion of circumstances that could Lave been
neither foreseen nor provided against, played in
a position where tlie welfare or even the existence
of the republic depended on his word; and to
day his name is in the mouth of every citizen of
America.
Other examples in our recent experience might
be quoted; but the thoughts we have expressed
were suggested by a lately recorded event in the
late war, which has just fallen under our obser
vation.
It is known that the Federal forces at the battle
of Shiloh were completely routed on Sunday,
and utterly demoralized by the results of that
day’s fighting, and that only the opportune arrival
of ‘Gen. Buell with re-inforceuients saved it from
utter destruction.
Circumstances have called forth a letter from
that distinguished officer, in whieh his move
ments proceeding that terrible struggle, which
had been subjected to unfriendly criticism, are
explained and justified.
From that we learn, that the Federal com
manders did not expect to be attacked in their
position at Pittsburg Landing,—that they were
concentrating their forces there for aggressive
movements,—that to this end Gen. Buell, under
the orders of Gen. Halleck, was moving with
five divisions, about 25,000 men, from Nashville,
—that on the 4th of April, General Grant sent a
dispatch to Gen. Nelson, commanding the ad
vance ot this column, telling him not to hasten
his march, as he could not commence crossing
the river until Tuesday, the 8th,—and that on
the 5th, Gen. Halleck, from St. Louis, telegraph
ed an order to Gen. Bnell to mass his forces at
Waynesbprough, some thirty miles from Pitts
burg Landing.
This last order miscarried, and its miscarriage
decided the result of the battle and possibly the
fate of the war.
Not receiving it, Gen. Buell passed directly
through Waynesborough, and reached Savannah,
with the head of his column on Saturday even-
ing.
Had it been received, it would have been
obeyed; and with his forces on Sunday morning
at Waynesporough, he could not have saved Gen.
Grant and his army on Alonday.
The miscarriage of that order saved Gen.
Grant and his army, turned a Confederate victory
into a defeat, thwarted the well matured plans
of General Sidney Johnston, secured Tennessee
to the Federals, and changed the whole plan of
the Western campaign for the year.
Y erily,
“There is a divinity that shapes onr ends,
Rough hew them as we may. ’
A Procession of Elephants.
Of all the State ceremonies by which the sue
cess of the Nagpore Exhibition was signalled and
celebrated, the most imposing and effective, to
our mind, was the procession of elephants. It
was a fine illustration of that passage in De-
Quincy’s “Revolt of the Tartars,” where the au
thor describes the long line of camels fringiug
the distant horizon with a dusky hand. Strange
to say, though numerous and detailed accounts
and descriptive sketches of the exhibition adorn
ed the columns of our cotemporaries in the three
presidencies, yet this spectacle, which singly
combined all the historical elements of oriental
pomp and splendor, was honored with only faint
allusions, as though unworthy of a lengthened
notice. ft*
The long line of huge quadrupeds slowly, and
as it were with measured tread, wending their
way over the bridge, and thrown in strong re
lievo against the morning sun, was strking, and
transported the imagination back to the great
Alogul, when all the resources of the East were
brouglit into requisition in older to minister to
the Imperial vanity. After the chief commis
sioner, the brigadier, and the Nagpore raiahs,
came the principal nobility of the central pro
vinces. They had all arrayejJ, themselves in
gorgeous apparel, and seemed to vie with each
other in the costliness and richness of the ap
pointments of their elephants. There were also
many of tlie visitors to Nagpore riding on gov
ernment elephants, and a good sprinkling of mil
itary officers. The rear was brought up by the
deputy commissioner, and the line, which seemed
lengthening away interminably into the distance,
at last ended.
Tlie procession, after crossing the high level
bridge to the North of the exhibition enclosure,
came with all pomp, pride and circumstance
upon the Goorgum road, the chief commissioner
led the way by a temporary road across the plain
to the Bukhurgunge road, and it was, perhaps,
passing over the open county that the panora
mic grandeur of the State procession was felt in
full force. There were seventy-nine elephants
counted, mostly in gaudy and glittering trappings,
and carrying gaily attired natives. From the
Bukhurgunge road the procession wound up the
Pa Idee road, passed under the lofty arch of the
palace gate, and crossed the spacious square in
lront of the ruined palace. This was densely
thronged with well dressed natives. Such a
crowd was never before w ithin living memory
’seen in the city of Nagpore.
With stately solemnity the line wound up the
long street, from the palace through the Jooma
gate, and those who formed the rear of the pro
cession could descry Air. Temple’s tall elephant
emerging upon the elevated embankmeht ot the
great tank before their own elephants had passed
the palace. The stream of elephants, as it de
bouched from the city, seemed as though it would
never end. At the residency, the chief commis
sioner drew r up his elephant immediately in front
of the gate, and took leave of his cortege, as it
defiled before him. From this point the proces
sionists dispersed, and the ceremony w’as con
cluded.—Centra). India Times, Jan. 20.
Looking for a Berth.—While the boat was
lying at Cincinnati, just ready to start for Louis
ville, a young man came on board leading a
blushing damsel by the hand-, and approaching
the clerk, in a suppressed voice said: "I say, me
and my wife has just got married, and I’m look-
ingfor accommodations.” “Looking for a berth?”
Enrope—The Coming Storm.
The last foreign news shows that the peace of
Europe hangs, as it were, by a thread. As be
tween Austria and Prussia, there has been no
overt act, as yet, but everything at last dates ap
peared to be rapidly tending that way. Austria,
evidently, is unwilling to precipitate a collision ;
but if the Prussian Prime Minister, Bismark, is
to have things his own way, it is difficult to see
how she can decline to meet the issue. Alean-
while the minor German States are steadily arm
ing—and, on the whole, the situation is such,
that it is impossible to tell where the explosion
will begin. Where it will end, with so much
collateral combustibles all about, it would be
folly to prophecy. “What will France do ?” is
a question easier asked than to answer. The Em
peror characteristically keeps his own counsel—
but seeing that he lias a standing army of five
hundred thousand men, ready and willing to do
anything he may command, “ for the glory of
France, it is a matter of transcendent import
ance to ascertain whether he intends to remain
neutral, or take active part in the conflict. Some
think he will improve the opportunity to make
tlie Rhine the French boundary—others, that he
will do something else. Time wili show what
there is in these conjectures—but, meanwhile, if
these home complications but induce Austria
and France (“ a plague in both their houses,”) to
recall their troops from Alexico, and leave that
part of the globe to work out its own destiny,
one substantial good go far as American interests
are concerned, will have been achieved at the
very start.—JV r . 3’. Express.
hastily inquired the clerk—passing tickets out to ! Quil? requests the young fellow who passed
nnntiipr msssnirpr “ 4 birth ? thunder and his house long after midnight,
another passenger. . “A birth ? thunder and
lightning, no!” gasped the young man, “we ain’t
but just got married ! We want a place to stay
all night, you know, and—a beiL”
— 0 —— singing, “What
would Home be without a Mother ? ” to change
his tune. What can a chap care for home or
mother either who stays out so late o’ nights ?
From the San Francisco Californian.
A Strange Story—A Singular Reunion.
In 1847, a young physician, who had just
graduated from the Alissouri State University,
and returned to his home in Illinois to practice
his professsion, led to tlie altar a young lady who
had won his love. The young physician, with
that professional ardor which burns so brightly
in the hearts of all students, had on his return
home, procured a “ subject ” or cadaver for dis
section, by desecrating the village grave-yard.—
By some means this fact became known, and a
warrant was issued for his arrest and placed in
the hands of an officer to 3erve, which he did a
few moments after the marriage ceremony was
performed. The crime being a felony, the bride
groom’s position may be readily imagined to have
been extremely unenviable, and the prospects of
a prison cell being anything hut agreeable, he
determined to make his escape. The officer
having granted him tlie privilege of saying a
few w ords in private to his bride, he retired with
her to a room, bade her farewell, jumped from
the window and escaped. He was pursued for
many days, but finally managed to elude his pur
suers, and settled in Missouri. A year later he
wandered into New Mexico, and from thence, in
the course of a few years he found his way into
California. During his wanderings he had fail
ed to correspond with his wife, and she, believ
ing him dead, married again. After a time he
learned this fact, but determined to remain dead
to her, and it was not until a few months ago he
altered liis determination.
Happening to pickup a paper published in one
of the Western cities, he read an account of the
death of the husband of his wife, aqjj knowing
her to be. free, he wrote to her, stating that he
still lived, and cherished her memory as green
as when he kissed her lips in parting nine
teen years ago. He told her that he w’as still
free, "and asked her to come and enjoy with him
tlie fortune he had accumulated. The wife-
widow received the letter, and while she read, the
early love returned, and she determined to join
him. Disposing of her property, she, with a
daughter twelve years of age, took passage for
California, where they arrived on Thursday last,
and were met at the wharf by the old husband,
who conducted them to the Cosmopolitan Hotel,
where they remained till a license was procured
and a minister re-married the parties, after which
they proceeded to tlie house that had been pre
pared for them, and where they, on Thursday
evening, en’ertained quite a number of friends.
Truly, the incidents of real life ate more startling
and romantic than the wildest fancies ol the ro
mancer.
Decline of Religion in New England.—
The New York Independent complains that the
attendance ot churches in New England has rap
idly fallen off, and that the preachers drone away
to a beggarly acount of empty benches. No
thing else could be expected. The clergymen ef
that seetion of the county have turned their pul
pits into hustings from which they have deliv
ered the vilest political diatribes and indulged in
the most shameful blasphemy. They are now
reaping their reward.
The Ant* of Africa.
I do not think, says Du Chaffin’s Work, that
they build a nest or home of any kina. At any
rate they carry nothing away, but eat all their
prey on the spot It is their habit to march
through the forest in long regular line—a line
about two- inches broad and often several miles
in len«rth. All along this line are larger ants,
who act as officers, and who walk on the outside
of the ranks to keep this singular army in order.
If they come to a place where there are no trees
to shelter them from the sun, whose heat they
cannot bear, they immediately build under
ground tunnels, through which the whole army
passes in column to the forest beyond. These
tunnels are only used in the heat of the day, or
during a storm.
When they grow hungry, the long file spreads
itself through the forest in a front line, and at
tacks and devours all it overtakes with a fury
that is quite irresistible. Tlie elephant and go
rilla fly before this attack. The black men run
for their lives.
Every animal that lives in their line ot march
is chased. They 9eem to understand and act
upon the tactics of Napoleon, and concentrate
with great speed, their heaviest force upon the
point of attack. In an incredibly short space
of time, the mouse, dog, leopard, or deer, is
overwhelmed, killed, eaten, and the bare skele
tons only left '
They seem to travel night and day. Many a
time have I been awakened out of my sleep,
obliged to rush from my hut into the water to
save my life, and after all suffered intolerable
agony from the bites of the advance guard, who
had got into my clothes. .
When they enter a house they clear it of all
living things. Cockroaches are devoured- in an
instant Rats and mice spring round the
room in vain. An overwhelming force of ants
kills a strong rat in less than a minute in spite
of the most frantic struggles ; and in less than
another minute his bones are stripped. Every
living thing in the house is devoured. They
will not touch vegetables. Thus they are, in re
ality, very useful (as well as dangerous) to the
negroes who have their huts cleared of all the
abounding vermins, such as immense cock
roaches and centipedes, at least several times a
year.
When on the watch the whole of the insect
world flies before them, and I have often had
the approach of a bashikouay army heralded to
me by this means.
W berever they go they make a clean sweep,
even ascending to the tops of the highest trees
in pursuit of their prey. Their manner of leap.
Instantly the strong pincers are fastened, and
they only let go when the piece gives away. At
such times this little animal seems animated by a
kind of a fury which causes it to disregard, en
tirely of its own safety, and to seek only the
conquest of prey. The bite is very painful.
The negoes relate that criminals were, in
former times, exposed in the path of the ants,
a? the most cruel manner of putting them to
death.
From the Colnmbu9 Enquirer.
Tlie Georgia Dead at Gettysburg.
Dr. Camak, of Athens, Ga., who lias lately
visited the locality, gives us the following inter
esting information in reference to the battle field
of Gettysburg and tlie Georgia soldiers who fell
and are buried there:
Our army passed over a space seven miles long
by three wide, and our dead are buried within
these twenty-one square miles. The follow
ing list of graves of Georgia soldiers that can
easily be identified was furnished Dr. Camak by
Air. H. Warren, who lives in the vicinity. Mr.
Warren says that lie feels sure of the indentifica-
tion of these, and that there maybe more whose
graves can be distinguished :
Joseph Powell, 38th Regt. G W Gilbert, co 1,11th.
■ " ‘ Corp or Capt Winn, co II,
nth.
W H Watson, co K, 11th.
L J W Bunn, co K, 11th.
Capt J M D Bond, 53d.
Sgt Alfred Burch, 50th.
Lieut Col Kearee, 50th.
Capt Buckhalter, 50th.
E Newton, co A, 60th.
Capt E M D, co A, 60th.
J F Weekly, co I, 50th.
TII Lawrence, co G, 34th.
W F Brown, co B, 15th.
W F Noah, co G, 9th.
J Branch, 61st.
Lieut Wood, 38th.
Frank Boots, 61st.
Clint Buchaler, 61st.
J N Harboro, 61st.
Capt C M Ballard, 8th.
Wm Young, co A, 61st.
Alaj P Brenan, 61st.
Col J Wasden, 23d.
Capt J W Lander, 22d.
Capt Wm Lee.
Capt S W Glass, co E. 53d.
Capt Atkins, co A, 53d.
P Lynch, co F, 13th.
Lieut W Miclium, co B, 13th Sgt W L Brenner, co K, 51st
W B Butler, co H, 4th. G A Bagly, co A, 10th.
T Howell, co E, 3d. J B Tonesler, 24th.
Jas Connor, co H, 8th. J B Willonghby, co G, 38th.
J T Haden, co E, 13th. N S Pugh, Cobb’s Legion.
Richard Jault, co F, 51st. Lieut JW Cheesboro.
W Brnewell, co G, 49th. C C Brook, Georgia Legion.
Lieut C L Walker, co F, 26th Noah C Strrckland, Jackson
E F Johnson, co I, 8th. County, Ga.
E A Ward, co C, 50th. T R Barrett, co H, Georgia
J R Crosby, co B, 16th. Legion.
J L Reed, co C, 16th. Lieut E F Smith, co E, Geor-
J H B Nichals, Cobb’s Le- gia Legion.
gion. Lieut T Howzc, co C, Geor-
\v B Elrod, 10th. gia Legion.
J C Odom or Adam, 18th. W T Morgan, 35th.
J A Unis, Cobb’s Legion. T Harris, 35th.
W P Hubbard, co H, 18th. Lieut J T Key, co E, 10th.
J E Davis, co 1,11th. IIA Morrow, co E, 10th.
In reference to the present condition of the
field of battle, Dr. Camak says : “In some cases
the graves have been ploughed over, but in very
few instances; but l>y another year many will
be.”
Dr. Camak proposes the purchase of a spot on
the battle-field as a burial ground for all our
dead, and we commend this suggestion to the
consideration of the people of the State. He
says: “At the School House Hospital three hun
dred of our men are buried. This place can be
purchased, say six acres, at $50 per acre. Can
we not have all our buried soldiers removed to
this spot?” The purchase of the place is of
course an easy matter, so far as the raising of tlie
small sum required is concerned. But it is proper
that the question should be canvassed and pub
lic sentiment in reference to it manifested, as all
parts of the State are interested in anything that
concerns the honored Southern dead at Gettys
burg. If the proposition receives favorable con
sideration—as we doubt not it will—the means
of raising the sum necessary to improve the
grounds, collect the remains of the dead, and put
up suitable tombstones, can next be considered.
Those who desire further or more particular
information concerning the Confederate dead at
Gettysburg can address Air. H. Warren, Gettys
burg, Pennsylvania. Dr. Camak says that his
statements may be relied on.
Jacob’s Gadder—What It Emblematized.
If the reports we hear be true, there are some
of the earlier pupils of Grand Lecturer Drew,
(whose work the Grand Lodge of New York
declares to be “standard,”) who still, in alluding
to Jacob’s Ladder in the lecture, speak of it as
ascending to Heaven. Such ignorance is inex
cusable ; and persons so transgressing, ought to
be sent to a night school, instead of being per
mitted to expose their incapacity. If such per
sons are possessed of any mind, they should re
member, that “the crowningof the Lodge is the
celestial hemisphere; and Free and Accepted
Alasons hope to arrive at the dominions of bliss
by the allegorical assistance of Jacob’s Ladder,
one part of which rested on the earth, and the
other extended to Heaven, on which the angels
were ascending and descending; those ascending
carried the obligations of gratitude to the throne
of grace; those descending dispensed the mercies
of Providence to the whole creation.
The Ladder, symbolical of the nature of -man,
his body earthly, but his soul heavenly and divine,
was shown to Jacob in a vision, to remind him
that he could never attain its summit but by a
strict adherence to the laws and commands of the
Almighty—which would not only prove a source
of earthly blessing, but enable him to return to his
fathers’ house in peace and plenty; which in
process of time was folly verified. In an em
blematical sense, this ladder may be considered
as resting upon the Book of the Law; for by pay
ing implicit confidence to the doctrines contained
in that sacred volume, we are convinced bv
promises incontrovertible, more solid than the
earth, more permanent than the heavens, that, by
a steadfast faith in well-doing, a continual hope,
and a heart replete with chanty and benevolence,
we shall finally attain the summit of that ladder,
metaphorically speaking, the dominions of bliss,
anil mansions of pure delight.
Mexico—On r Relations With Fra nee.
The latest correspondence that has passed be
tween the State Department and the Minister of
France on the subject of withdrawing the Em
peror’s troops from Alexico, is published in other
columns of the Times this morning. It shows
the excellent results of firm and yet: friendly rep
resentations from our Government. Temperance
combined with frankness on our side has been
met by friendly, conciliatory and satisfactory
declarations on the part of the Government of
His Imperial Alajesty. Avoiding even the ap
pearance of threats, the Secretary of State re
ceives a fair response to an appeal founded in
reason and justified by considerations of national
honor and natioual safety. It was not, from the
first mention'of an intervention in Atexican af
fairs five years ago, open to us to question the
right of any independent power to seek redress
for grievances suffered at the hands of the Mexi
can. Government of that day. And our protests
against prolonged intervention have solely had
reference to the imminent peril of making such
intervention subservient to the overthrow of re
publican institutions in territory epntiguous to
our own, and among a people with whom we
are disposed to cultivate the most friendly rela
tions.
There appears to be no good reason to doubt
that what the Minister of France declares to be
the purpose of his Imperial master will be car
ried out in good fkitb. Within a period of les^
than eighteen months from this date the last de
tachment of French troops will be withdrawn
from the soil of Alexico.
We have also authentic intelligence that no
European Power will hereafter be _ permitted
to interfere with the domestic institutions ot
Alexico.—Nete York Times.