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“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS AYHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COAIBAT IT.”—Jefferson.
VOLUME XVIII.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY", JUNE 20,1866.
NUMBER 24.
I'l'ULISHKDiDAlLY AND WEEKLY BY
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
Proprlct or.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, June 20, I860.
JTIr. I.lncoln in 1802.
The reproduction of Mr. Lincoln’s letter to
(’utlif)ert Bullitt, Esq., of New Orleans, written
in July, 1802, at the present time, is, for many
reasons, appropriate. It will lie found appended
to this article, and to’it we invite public attention.
The letter clearly demonstrates, Jtist, that the
writer understood well these so-called Union
m> n in the South, who, w hen protected by Fede
ral bayonets, boasted largely of their never fal
tering devotion to the “Stars and Stripes,” and
of their opposition to the secession movement—
t heir devotion in ninety-nine eases out of a hun
dred, consisting in “ laying low and keeping
dark ; ” on the Confederate side when it was up
permost, and on the Federal side when it was in
the ascendency in their several localities—doing
nothing tor either, but claiming protection from
both, as circumstances suggested, to save their
property and to make money—Union men for
sooth who acted with the Southern Co-oj>eration
flirty ; who voted w ith that party ; who maintain
ed with that party the right of secession, but who
feared to encounter its hazards, until all the
Southern States in convention should pledge
themselves to secede. We assert it as an histo
rical fact that the contest in the South was not
between Union men and Secessionists, but be
tween “ Co-openitionists” and Secessionists—the
Union men, by which we mean those who de
nied the right of a State to secede from the
Union, and who were for perpetuating it, being,
save in one of lh<* subsequently seceding States,
too iusignilicant in numbers to form a political
party. It was so in Georgia, it was so in Louisi
ana, it was so in all the States of the late
Confederacy, save Tennessee. Mr. Lincoln un
derstood this well. Hence he writes in his letter
to Mr. Bullitt, in answer to the appeal made by
AI r. Durant, a so-called Union man, in behalf of
himself and others professing to entertain Union
sentiments and holding to a Union position:—
“Why did they allow the ordinance (of secession)
to go into effect't Why did they not exert them
selves’ 1 ' Why stand passive and allow them
selves to he trodden down by a minority ? Why
did they not hold popular meetings, and have a
convention of their own to express and enforce
the true sentiments of the State? If pre-organ-
izatiou was against them, then why not do this
now that the United States army is present to
protect them?” None of these tilings having
been done, Mr. Lincoln wisely came to the con
clusion, showing that he was not deceived by the
pretensions of these so-called l nion men, that
“the paraly/.er—the dead palsy—of the govern
ment in the whole struggle is, that this clans of
nnn will do nothing for the government—noth
ing for themselves—except demanding that the
government shall not strike its enemies lest they
he struck by accident." What Air. Lincoln be
lieved iu 1802, and what he was justified iu be
lieving. was true in regard to the same class of
men during the whole war; was true of them
following the surrender; and is true of them to
this day. Had the Cmiilederate States succeeded
iu their efforts to form an independent govern
ment, they would assert themselves to have been
secessionists and boast in the name of “rebel
now they are “ Union men," and are prepared to
receive office, no test oath restraining them from
acceptance of the same. Alas, for poor human
nature, how imperfect it is!
But the second point in this remarkable letter
of Mr. Lincoln, is the important point; one
plainly and unmistakably declarative of liis
policy towards the seceded State's iu the event of
their being overpowered by the armies of the
“Union.” Rebuking the so called Union men of
Louisiana for their do-nothing position, Mr. Lin
coln suggests a remedy in their behalf. “Now,”
he writes in his letter, “1 think the true remedy
is very different from what is suggested by Mr.
Durant. It does not lie in rounding the rough
angles of the war, but iu removing the necessity
for war. The people of Louisiana who wish
protection to person and property have but to
reach forth their hands and take it. Let them in
good faith, reinaugurate the national authority,
and set up a State government conforming there
to under the Constitution. They know how to
do it, and can have the protection of the army
while doing it. The arm v will be with
drawn SO SOON AS Sl’ClI GOVERNMENT I'AN DIS-
t’lCNSE WITH ITS PRESENCE, AND THE PEOPLE OF
the State can then, upon the old terms,
GOVERN THEMSELVES TO THEIR OWN LIKING.
This is the policy of President Johnson in re
gard to t lie late Confederate States. He is hut
carrying out wliat was, and would, were be
alive, be the policy ot Mr. Lincoln. And mark
the concluding paragraph of the letter : “I am,”
he writes, “in no boastful mood. I shall not do
mote than 1 can, but I shall do all I cau to save
the Government, which is my sworn duty as
well as my personal inclination. I SHALL DO
NOTHING IN MALICE. WIIAT I DEAL
WITH IS TOO VAST FOR MALICIOUS
DEALING.” How noble these conclu
ding sentiments! How rebukeful they are
of the radical congress, and the radical
press of the North! Beyond a doubt, Mr.
Lincoln was most earnestly desirous ot
restoring the Union, admitting the Southern
States into it upon "the old teems," with the
" privilege of governing themselves to their own
Hiring." There was no "malice" in him—the
subject of restoration, or re-union, was "too vast
for malicious dealing.’ ” AA hat will the congres
sional radicals say to this? What will the Suin-
ner-Stevons men say to it? Is then' no malice
in their hearts? Is the subject of re-construc
tion or restoration so small an affair, as to justify
their indulgence of malice in their hearts against
the South? Can they not see in the restoration
of the Union, upon “ the old terms," something
vast, something grandly sublime ? Will they
not recognize and maintain their late leaders
policy, cease their opposition to President on-
son’s, and banish all malic, against the South
from their hearts? Let them and all others read
the letter we append, that they may see aud un
derstand what Air. Lincoln’s policy would have
lieen towards the Southern States ; see aud un
derstand that in no respect would it assimilat e
itself to wliat the radical republicans would
force upon them.
Below is the letter to which we have relerred,
and to which we again call public attention:
CHARACTERISTIC LETTER FROM .ABRAHAM LIN
COLN.
Washington, D. C., July 2S, 1862.
Cuthbert Bullitt, Esq.. New Orleans :
Sir : The copy of a letter, addressed to your
self liy Air. Thomas J. Durant, has been shown 1
to me. The writer appears to be an able, a dis- !
passionate, and an entirely sincere man. The j
first part of the letter is devoted to an effort to j
show that the secession ordinance of Louisiana i
was adopted against the will of a majority of the |
people. This is probably true, and iu that fact j
may be found some instruction. \\ hy did they •
allow the ordinance to go into effect? Why did !
they not exert themselves ? W hy stand passive,
and allow themselves to be trodden down
minority ? Why did they not hold popu lar
meetings, and have a convention of their own
to express and enforce the true sentiments of the
State. It pre-organization was against them,
then why not do this, now that tlie United States
army is present to protect them? The paralyzer
—the dead palsy—of the government in the
whole struggle i-. that this class ot men will do
i nothin" tor the government—nothing for tliem-
The Dead of Sherman's Army Around
Atlanta.
We copy from the St. Louis Democrat the fol
lowing letter. Appended to it is a long, long list
embracing some three hundred and seventy-live
names of officers and soldiers of Sherman’s army
selves—except demanding that the government w ho fell around Atlanta, their last resting place
shall not strike its enemies, lest they be struck by , OE eal qh marked by head-boards, or other signs
1 by which the “sleepers” may be identified. How
many more of the same army “sleep the sleep
I of death" around this city, “no monument, in-
accident.
Mr. Durant complains that, in various ways,
! the relation ot master and slave is disturbed by
j the presence of our army; and he considers it
is done
particularly vexatious that this, in part is aone ; • tio n, stone-their race, their forms, their
under covf?r of an act of Congress, while consti-i 1 ’ , ...
tutional guarantees are superadded on the plea names, almost unknown, it would be impossible
of militaiy necessity. The truth is, that what is j to tell. No search after their remains will ever
done and omitted about slaves is done and j reveu [ where hundreds of them “sleep to know
no waking” till the last day shall come, when
MEMPHIS CORRESPONDENCE.
omitted on the same military necessity. It is a
military necessity to have men and money; and
we cannot get either in sufficient numbers or
amounts, if we keep front or drive from our
lines slaves coming to them.
Air. Durant cannot be ignorant of the pressure
in this direction, nor of rny efforts to hold it
within bounds, till lie, and such as he,shall have
time to help themselves.
I am not posted to speak understanding^ on
the public regulations of which Air. Durant com
plains. If experience shows any of them to be
wrong, let them be set right, I think I can per
ceive, in the freedom of trade which Air. Durant
urges, that he would relieve both friends and
enemies from the pressure of the blockade. By
this he would serve the enemy more effectively
than the enemy is able to serve himself.
I do not say or believe that to serve the enemy
is the purpose of Air. Durant, or that he is con
scious of any purposes other than national and
patriotic ones. Still, if there were a class of
men, who, having no choice of sides in tlie con
test, were anxious only to have quiet and com
fort themselves while it, rages, and to fall in with
the victorious side at the end of it, without loss
to themselves, their advice as to the mode of
conducting the contest, would be precisely such
as his.
He speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of
none, resting upon Union men. He even thinks
it injurious to the Union cause that they should
be restrained in trade and passage, without tak
ing sides. They are to touch neither a sail nor
a pump—live merely passengers (“ dead heads ”
at that) to be carried snug and dry throughout
the storm, and safely landed right side up. Nay,
more—even the mutineer is to go untouched,
lest these sacred passengers receive an acciden
tal wound.
Of course, tlie rebellion will never be sup
pressed iu Louisiana, it the professed! nion men
there will neither help to do it, nor permit the
government to do it without their help.
Now, I think the true remedy is very different
front wliat is suggested by Air. Durant. It does
not lie in rounding the rough angles of the war,
but in removing the necessity for the war. The
people of Louisiana who wish protection to per
son and property, have but to reach lortli their
hands and take it. Let them in good faith rein-
augurate the national authority, and set up a
State government conforming thereto under the
Constitution. They know liow to do it, and cau
have the protection of the army while doing it.
The army will be withdrawn so soon as such
government can dispense with its presence, and
the people of the State can then, upon the old
terms, govern themselves to their own liking.—
This is very simple and easy.
If they will not do this—if they prefer to hazard
all for the sake of destroying the government—
it is for them to consider whether it is probable
I will surrender the government to save them
from losing all. If they decline what 1 suggest,
you scarcely need to ask what I will do.
What would \ - ou d<> in my position? Would
you drop the war where it is; or would you pro
secute it in future with clderstalksauirtscharged
with rose water ? Would you deal lighter blows
rather than heavier ones ? Would you give up
the contest, leaving every available means un
applied ?
1 am in no boatsful mood. I shall not do more
than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the
government, which is my sworn duty as'well as
inv personal inclination. I shall do nothing in
malice. What I deal with is too vast for mali
cious dealing. Yours, very truly,
(Signed) * A.‘Lincoln.
The Tent Oatli.
The following correspondence we copy from
the Charleston Courier. From other sources,
too, we learn that Secretary McCulloch is deter
mined to require the resignations of all his ap
pointees to office in the South who cannot take
the oath required by tlie law. As will be seen
iu t he following correspondence, he does so “ re
luctantly.” And well lie may, for the instances
are numerous iu the South, where the officers of
his, and every other department of the Govern
ment, can be filled, in every case as well, and in
most all of them, better, by men who cannot,
than by those who have taken or who would
take the required oath ; by men, too, who though
they did take part in, and favor the “rebellion,”
are more loyal now to the government, than
those who have taken, or would take the oath :
Treasury Department, June 4,1806.
Srn : On account of your inability to take the
oatii required by law, I am reluctantly compelled
to suggest that I shall be under the necessity of
requesting you to forward me your resignation,
to take effect as soon as your successor is appoint
ed and qualified.
The Department will make a communication
to Congress upon the subject of the compensation
tor services already rendered by officers who
have been unable to take the oath, and 1 trust a
suitable provision will be made in some way for
such payment. Very respectfully,
(Signed) H. McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury.
F. AI. Robertson, Esq., Examiner of Drugs,
Charleston, S. C.
Chari eston, S. C., June 8,1860.
Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your communication of the 4th instant,
requesting me to forward you my resignation as
Special Examiner of Drugs for the port of Charles
ton, S. C., “in consequence of my inability to take
the required oath.”
As 1 am aware of the embarrassments which
the appointment of persons to office who could
not consistently subscribe to the retrospective
portion of the “test, oath” lias occasioned the
Department, I cheerfully comply with your re
quest, and hereby tender my resignation, “to
take effect as soon as a successor is appointed anti
qualified.”
With many thanks for your expressions of
sympathy anti courtesy, I remain very respect
fully your obedient servant,
F. AI. Robertson, AI. D.
Hon. H. McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury,
Washington, D. C.
Stans of tlie Times.
The National Intelligencer says: “Every da}'
brings us additional proofs that the friends of
the President will stand shoulder to shoulder in
the fall elections. No matter what party they
have acted with heretofore, a common enemy
and a common cause will induce every true pa
triot to make any sacrifice to restore the Union
and stive the couutry from another war. The
iron heel of fanaticism in its mad career is now
attempting to crush out State rights, and it suc
cessful it will soon seek to extinguish State lines.
If there ever was a lime that eternal vigilance
was the price of liberty it is at the present mo
ment We believe that the soldiers ot the coun
try will rally against any attempt at centraliza
tion.”
These are cheering signs. We have confidence
in the soldiers, confidence in the people. Fanat
icism may do its best; corruption may do its
worst; but with the masses of the people North
and West, neither fanaticism nor corruption, -we
feel confident, will prevail to overthrow the
President’s plan ot reconstruction, or a restora-
tiou of the Union. Reason left free to combat
fanaticism, as it must be in the North and \\ est;
and vigilance exercised to detect and expose cor
ruption, as we feel certain it will be; we are like
our AYashington City cotemporary in the belief
that the President will he sustained in his policy
at the fall elections in the North, and that State
Rights will still live.
A Cincinnati white woman recently attempt
ed to abduct front the bosom of liis family a
Nashville neirro barber.
the trump of the Archangel shall summon all to
appear for judgment. Upon the letter itself we
offer no more comment:
Atlanta, Ga., May 25,1806.
It is with pleasure that I am able to inform
your many readers and the friends and relatives
of our dead soldiers, that the ground has been
selected at this place for a National Cemetery
fittv acres, lying between the city limits and the
battle-field of the 22d of July, three miles from
the City Hall. No better selection around the
city could be made, as the ground is well adapted
for that purpose, and is susceptible of a great
deal of natural ornamentation. As soon as the
requisite order can be received from the Quar
termaster General, the work of laying off and
preparing the ground will commence, and it is
hoped that in a few weeks preparation for re
moving our dead heroes to their final resting
place will he made. Will Ohio, and the other
States whose dead will be buried here, evince
their gratitude by the erection of suitable monu
meuts ? For the day will certainly come when
a better feeling will exist between the people
of this broad republic, and thousands from
both sections will make pilgrimages to the
National cemeteries as the shrine of truth, honor
and invincible, loyalty. The aged sire will point
to the honored flag, and teach his children to
emulate the example of our dead heroes, and
that the love of country is man’s noblest duty.—
Some men cavil at the Southern women for dec
orating with flowers the graves of their dead. It
is woman’s pride that teaches her to love and
reverence the memory of the brave and gallant
soldier, and I, for one, sincerely hope that the
ladies of Atlanta will succeed in raising sufficient
funds for the purpose of carrying out their noble
undertaking of gathering together the Confeder
ate dead. I am sorry though that I cannot
speak so favorably of some people in the South.
There are some people, but 1 sincerely hope very
few, who seem to be possessed of the instincts
of the hyena, and who are without respect for
God, man or the devil. 1 mean men who make
targets of the head-boards of Federal dead, and,
as happened near Resacca a few days ago, some
person or persons pulled up ten head-boards and
threw them into a ditch, so that it will be itn
possible to identify the bodies, and, as yet, it has
been impossible to discover the perpetrators of
the fold crime. The English language possesses
no word sufficiently strong to express a man's
contempt for the abortion on humanity that will
desecrate a soldier’s grave. Stringent or
ders have been issued by General Thomas,
commanding the Military Division of the
Tennessee, and also by tlie Secretary of
AVar, forbidding persons owning lands upon
which Union soldiers are buried from mutilating
or obliterating the traces of such graves by plow
ing or otherwise, making it the duty of post com
manders to send any information of any breach
of these orders to the Quartermaster General.—
I am sorry to say that, in several places, I have
found graves plowed over, and head boards
knocked down by plowing, but, with the excep
tion of a very few cases, it was not the fault of
the owners of the land. A great deal of land
has been rented to the freedmen, and, strange to
say, that, in almost every case of the kind that I
have been able to follow up, 1 find that it was
tlirough their willful carelessness and indifference.
The pulling up of the head boards, though, at
Resaca, was not the work of the freedmen ; they
may be careless and indifferent, but I am certain
they have too much love for the memory and
graves of the dead men who won for them the
priceless boon of liberty to commit so foul a
crime. I send you another partial' list, arranged
by States, of soldiers buried iu and about Atlanta.
E. McB. T., U. S. Agent.
Western &. Atlantic ltailroad Season
Tickets.
AVe are much gratified at seeing in our adver
tising columns a notice from the efficient “Alaster
of Transportation” of this Road—John I>. Peck,
Esq.—in which the public, and especially parties
residents of this city, or of any point between At
lanta and Kingston, whose business requires
their daily presence here, are deeply interested.
From the notice it will.be seen that the opportu
nity is now offered them, to procure “ Season
Tickets ” at reduced rates, and on most accom
modating terms, which will enable them to at
tend to business at any of the points daily and
remain with their families at night; or be used
for pleasure trips as purchasers may desire.—
There are many business men in Atlanta, who,
from the lack of family residences here, have
been compelled to rent such at various points
on or near tlie Road, as far as Kingston,
upon whom the regular travel charges fall heavi
ly, and who, consequently, instead of repairing
to their families daily, could not afford to do so,
perhaps, but once a week. These will all be grate
ful for the proposed accommodation, which, in
tlie end, we believe, will prove more profitable
to the road than the old system. In fact, with
the disposition to accommodate, sight has not
been lost by the management of the road of
what it deems the arrangement will prove, to
re it, a source of increased revenue to it, of which
we have no doubt.
The offer, we notice, is also made to sell com
mutation tickets at three cents per mile, and that
those now holding them will be allowed the
amount paid for the same in exchange for the new
ticket.
Now, too, that the hot dais have set in, the
foregoing arrangements must prove grateful to
the people ot Aliddle, Southern, and Southwest
ern Georgia, who would resort for the benefit of
their health, or for pleasure, to the mountain re
gions of Georgia, where pure good water may
be had, and cool breezes blow; where no mosqui
toes prevail, and where even a blanket is notun-
comfortable during the short nights of summer.
All such may benefit themselves by the proposed
arrangement.
Sontberu masonic Female College at Cov*
iugton, Georgia.
AA'e have been advised that the Commence
ment Exercises of this institution will take place
on the 24th instant, on which day the Com
mencement Sermon will lie preached by the
Rev. J. H. Elliott, D. D.; public Literaiy and
Alusical exercises on tlie 20th and 27th; Annual
Address by General A. R. AYright ; and Liter
ary Poem by Miss C. AY. Barbee. AA’e learn,
also, that an address will be delivered by Colonel
E. F. Hoge, of this city, on Tuesday, the 26th
instant.
The approaching exercises of this noble Ma
sonic institution, we are advised, will be as in
teresting as on previous similar occasions. The
Masonic Fraternity throughout the State are in
vited to be present, especially are those who will
assemble in Atlanta on the 24th instant. Our
State exchanges are requested, to extend this no
tice.
At the late tobacco fair in Louisville, Ken
tucky, all the tobacco-growing States were re
presented. Over three hundred hogsheads were
entered. The cash premiums amounted to over
$1,500. The first premium hogshead of manu
factured leaf, grown in Hart county, Kentucky,
sold for $550 per 100 pounds.
Chas. A. Cook, of Milton, N. H., entered
tlie army as a volonteer, and of course passed
muster, before he was twelve years of age. He,
served about one year, was wounded four times,
and now at fourteen years, he draws a pension
of ninety-six dollars * a year. So says the Ro
chester Courier,
Memphis, June 12,1866.
The weather is extremely warm. A consider
able rain storm last Friday', gave promise ol a
change in the atmosphere, but to the discomfort
of all, it had no other effect than to lay the dust
—the weather since being several degrees warm
er than it was before. The filthiness of the city,
together with tlie debilitating warmth of the
weather, suggest what a nice fix we are in for
the advent of the cholera, or some other epi
deinic. The late arrival of more cases of that
dreadful disease on ship-board in New York
harbor, and its actual appearance in that city,
should be cause for preparation against it here.
But our city fathers seem perfectly callous to the
complaints or comfort of the inhabitants. Mem
phis can certainly boast the filthiest streets and
alleys of any city I know of, and to one whose
business or pleasure keeps him at late hours of
the night, the stench from back yards and pri
vate gutters leading into the public sewers is per
fectly intolerable ; this, too, in the heart of the
city. I have been particular, heretofore, to say
nothing in disparagement of our city officers—
believing that they have already received more
than their share condemnation at the hands
radical enemies, in other matters, than they de
serve ; but in this culpable negligence as regards
the health of the city, they must bear great cen
sure. They labor; I know, under many difficul
ties, one of wliiebds, the almost bankrupt state
of the city finances; but the present chief exe
cutive has been ip power for the past five years,
and may it not be through his mismanagement
that the city is brought to such a strait ? Au
election is to be held on the 5th of July for the
qualified voters to ratify an ordinance authorizing
the issuance of tame bonds to the amount of
$200,000 for the fitnding of the due debt of the
city, and $500,000 for the improvements of streets,
etc. This is the only relief at present, and the
ordinance will doubtless be unanimously ratified
by the few who are allowed to vote. But, then,
have we any assurance that it will place our
finances in a perfectly healthy condition? I
think not. The men who have impoverished the
treasury heretofore, will be very apt to do so
again, and under the infamous franchise law we
are utterty impotent to displace them. AVhile
the one-sided legislation of our law-makers at
Nashville, as a general thing, keeps men in office
over us distasteful to a majority of the people, I
do not mean to say that our present city officers
are of that class. They are all good, clever men
—not radicals—but men of no firmness or stabil
ity of character. The mere fact that they can
vote and be voted for is sufficient evidence of
this. The staunch, reliable men of the city who
are qualified to fill these responsible positions,
and ivho would control successfully her affairs,
could the voice of the whole people be heard,
are debarred this privilege, and our only hope is
in the triumph of the honorable and conservative
principles of President Johnson, which alone
can cause a healthy re-action in this doivn-trod-
den State and allow' us once more to enjoy the
privileges which a free government guarantees
us. As was anticipated, Messrs. Beaumont and
Hepburn have been appointed, by the Governor,
commissioners under the provisions of the me
tropolitan police biljl. Mr. Beaumont, as super
intending commissioner, has advertised for ap
plications to appdmftnenVs on the police force
under the new regime, and has received over 300
calls for the 108 appointments at liis disposal.
Tlie names of two captains and four sergeants
of this force are all that have been announced.
It is expected that during the week all the places
will be filled, and the new' guardians of our in
ternal peace and well-being will take the place
of the present incumbents. I understand, with
out an exception, the present police lorce will be
thrown overboard, and as an evidence of the
character of the men being appointed to take
their places, I learn that one ot the captains
made himself particularly obnoxious to our citi
zens, as a detective, during tlie war.
Tlie negro stevedores on our levee attempted
to force another increase of their w T ages a few
days since, but although tlieir demand was more
moderate than before, they did not fare so well.
About fifty of them were arrested by the police
tud taken before a recorder, who fined each in
the sum of $10 and cost for disturbing the peace.
All who could paid up and were released; the
balance are retained to fill the ranks of the chain
gang. Tlie shoemakers have been on a “strike”
for the past month. In tlieir case, however, it is
different. The “ bosses ” having reduced tlie
price asked for their work, ask a corresponding
reduction on the part of the journeymen, which
they refuse to accede. Both parties hold out re
markably well. In view of the extreme dullness
iu business of all kinds, there seems to be a gen
eral disposition on the part of employees to re
duce the pay which has been heretofore accorded
tlieir employees. If a man’s services were worth
$5 a day last wintei I can see no reason w’liy
they are not worth as much now, though it may
be questionable whether an employee should not
suffer in proportion with his employer on account
of the dullness of the season. Capital and labor,
however, have always been at variance on this
point, and these ruptures are to be expected so
long as it remains so.
The Fenians In this city are not so badly dis
heartened as it might be supposed from the re
sult of their late attempt at the invasion of Can
ada. AVe have been told to place no reliance in
half we hear in regard to the movements, and
that the United States Government is friendly to
them ; but the proclamation of the President and
subsequent arrest of many of their leaders has
thrown a damper upon their hopes and spirits,
which no outward show of confidence aud faith
in tlieir final success can entirely obliterate.
Small detachments for “the front” have been
leaving almost daily, and I hear and see the pre
parations of several more to leave for that point
shortly; but the dispatches of yesterday and the
day before are calculated to leave so much doubt
as to where “the front” may now be found, that
we doubt not before they are induced to start for
such an uncertain locality, they will have seri
ously bethought themselves of the true situation.
I learn that General Forrest has sold out his
plantation interests in Mississippi and returns to
the city to live. I am pleased to hear, also, that
the sale of his plantation realized him $200,000,
so that he does not feel the effect of the war as
bad as most “rebs”—having a magnificent for
tune still left—and to which his patriotic devo
tion and distinguished services so much entitle
him. I have not heard of his intention to en
gage in any business here, but suppose he will at
an early day. He is at present in the city, stop
ping at the Gayoso. J. B. L.
Oar Cherished Dead.
What, tho’ no stately column
Their cherished name may raise.
To dim the eye and move the lip
With gratitude aud praise !
The blue sky hung with bannered clouds.
Their solemn domes shall be:
All Heaven's choiring winds shall chant
The anthem of the’free.
Tlie spring with vine-clad arms shall clasp
Their hillock'd resting places.
And summer roses droop above
With flushed and dewy faces.
For daisies, rayed and crowned, shall spring
Like stars from out their dust.
And look to kindred stars on high
With eyes of patient trust.
And vainly shall the witling's lips
Assail with envious dart
The fame of our heroic dead,
Whose stronghold is the heart;
The Nations heart—not crushed,
Tho’ each throb be in pain ;
For Life and Hope must still survive.
Where Love and Faith remain.
A sensational American is now in Paris,
whose profession is that of a face-maker—in the
atrical parlance a grime. He places himself be
hind a frame hidden with a white cloth, and
beside a table covered with wigs, false beards,
and paint brashes. As soon as his toilette is
made, he suddenly draws aside the curtain, and
exhibits to the spectators the head of AVasliing-
ton, Napoleon, Charles I, AYellington, Louis XL,
or that ot a madman, an idiot, a fury, a criminal,
Ac. The principal merit of this curious specta
cle is the rapidity with which the artist changes
his head, for each transformation is perfect in its
truthful resemblance! As yet has only exhibited
his powers in private, and the Paris public is
waiting for him with interest.
The Way to Keep Him.
“Out again to-night?” said Mrs. Hayes, fret
fully, as her husband rose from the tea-table, aud
donned his great coat.
“Yes, 1 have an engagement with Moore, I shall
be in early; have a light iu the library. Good
night.” And with a careless nod, AVilliam Hayes
left tlie room.
“Always the way,” murmured Lizzie Hayes,
sinking back upon* the sofa. Out every night, I
don’t believe he cares one bit about me now, and
yet we’ve been married only two years. No man
can have a more orderly house, I am sure, I never
go anywhere, I am not a bit extravagant; and
yet I don’t believe he loves me any more. O,
dear, why is it? I wasn’t rich ; he did not marry
me for my money, and he must have loved me
then; why does he treat me with so much neg
lect?” And with her mind filled w’itli such
frightful queries Lizzie fell asleep oa the sofa.
Let me paint her picture as she lay here. She
was a blonde, with a small graceful figure and a
pretty face. Tlie hair which showed by its rieli
waves its natural tendency to curl, was brushed
smoothly back, aud gathered into a rich knot at
the back—it was such a bother to curl it, site said
—her cheek was pale, and the w’hole face wore a
discontented expression. Her dress was a neat
chintz wrapper, but she wore neither collars nor
sleeves. “ What’s the use ot dressing up just tor
AVilliam ?”
Lizzie slept soundly for two hours, and then
awoke suddenly. She sat up, glanced at the
clock, and sighed drearily at the prospect of the
long interval still to be spent before bedtime.
The library was just over the room in which
she sat, and down the furuace-flue, through the
register, a voice came to the young wife’s ears.
It was her husband’s.
“AYell, Moore, what’s a man to do? I must
have pleasure somewhere. Who would have
fancied that Lizzie Jarvis, so pretty, sprightly,
aud loving, could change to tlie fretful dowdy slit
is now ? Who wants to stay at home to hear his
wife whining all the evening about her trouble
some servants, and her headache and all sorts of
bothers? She's got the knack of that drawIhty
whine so pat, ’pon my life I don’t believe she can
speak pleasantly.”
Lizzie sat as if stunned. Was this true ? She
looked in the glass. If not exactly dowdy, her
costume was certainly not suitable for an eve
ning with only William to admire. She rose,
and softly went to her room, with bitter, sorrow
ful thoughts, aud a firm resolution to win back
her husband’s heart, and then, his love regained,
to keep him.
The next morning AVilliam came into the
breakfast room with his usual careless manner,
but a bright smile came on his lips as he saw
Lizzie. A pretty chintz, with neat collar and
sleeves of snow-white muslin, with a wealth of
soft lull curls, had really metamorpliised her;
while the blush her husband’s admiring glance
called up to her cheek did not detract from her
beauty. At first AVilliam thought there must be
a guest, but glancing around, lie found they were
alone.
“Come, William, your coffee will soon be cold,”
said Lizzie, in a cheerful, pleasant voice. - ’
It must cool till you sweeten my breakfast
with a kiss,” said her husband, crossing tlie room
to her side, and Lizzie’s heart bounded as she re
cognized the old lover’s tone and manner.
Not one fretful speech, not one complaint fell
upon William’s ears through tlie meal. The
newspaper, the usual solace at that hour, lay un
touched, as Lizzie chatted gaily on every pleas
ant topic she could think of, warming by his
grateful interest aud cordial manner.
“You will be at home to dinner?” she said, as
he went out.
Can’t to-day, Lizzie. I have business out of
town, but I’ll be home early to tea. Have some
thing substantial, for I don’t expect to dine.—
Good-bye.” And the smiling look, warm kiss,
and lively whistle were a marked contrast to liis
lounging, careless gait ot the previous evening.
“I ant in the right path,” said Lizzie, in a low
whisper. “Oh, what a fool I have been for the
past two years! ‘A fretful dowdy!’ AVilliam,
you shall never say that again.”
Lizzie loved her husband with a real wifely de
votion, and her lips would quiver as she thought
ot the confidence to his friend Moore ; but like a
brave little woman, she stifled back the bitter
feeling, and tripped off to perfect her plans. The
grand piano, silent for months, was opened, and
the linen covers taken from the furniture, Lizzie
saying, “He shan’t find any parlors more pleas
ant than his own, I’m determined.”
Tea-time came, and AVilliam with it. A little
figure in a tasty, bright silk dress, smooth curls;
and oh I such a lovely blush and smile, stood
ready to welcome Will as he came in; and tea-
time passed as the morning meal had done.—-
•After tea there was no movement as usual to
ward the liat rack, AVilliam stood up beside the
table, lingering aud chatting until Lizzie arose.
She led him to the light, warm parlor, in tlieir
pretty glow of tasteful arrangemeut, aud drew
him down on the sofa beside her. He lelt as it
he were courting over again, as he watched her
fingers busy with some fancy needle work, and
listened to the cheerful voice he bad loved so
dearly two years before.
“Wliat are y T ou making, Lizzie ? ”
“A pair of slippers. Don’t you remember
how much you admired the pair I worked for
you—oh ! ever so long ago ? ”
“I remember—black velvet, with flowers on
them. I used to put my feet ou the fender aud
dream of blue eyes and bright curls, and wished
time would move faster to the day when I could
bring my bonny wife home to make music in
my house.”
Lizzie’s face saddened for a moment, as she
thought of the last two years, and how little mu
sic she had made for his loving heart, graduily
weaning it from its allegiance, and then she said;
“ I wonder if you love music as much as you
did then ?”
“ Of course I do. I very often drop into Mrs.
Smith’s for nothing else than to hear the mu
sic.”
“I can play and sing better than Mrs. Smith,”
said Lizzie, pouting.
“ But you always say you are out of practice
when I ask you.”
“ I had the piano tuned .this morning. Now
open it, and we will see how it sounds.”
AVilliam obeyed joyfully, and tossing aside her
sewing, Lizzie took the piano stool. She had a
verv sweet voice, not powerful, but most mu
sical, and was a very fair performer on the pi
ano.
“ Ballads, Lizzie.”
“ Oh yes, 1 know you dislike opera music in a
parlor.”
One song after another, with a nocturne, or
rather lively instrumental piece occasionally be
tween them, filled up another hour pleasantly.
The little mantle clock struck eleven !
“Eleven! I thought it was about nine. I ought
to apologize, Lizzie, as I used to do, for staying
so long; and I cau truly say, as I did then, that
the time has passed off so pleasantly I can scarce
ly believe it so late.”
The piano was closed, Lizzie’s work put up in
the basket, and AVilliam was ready to go up stairs;
but glancing back, he saw his little wife near the
fire place, her hands clasped, and her head bent,
and large tears falling from her eyes. He was
beside her in an instant.
“Lizzie, darling, are you ill? AVhat is the
matter ?”
“Ob, William, I have been such a bad wife, I
heard you tell Mr. Moore last evening how I had
disappointed you; but I will try to make your
home pleasant Indeed I will', if you will forgive
and love me.”
“Love you! Oh, Lizzie, you can't guess how
dearly I love you!”
As the little wife lay down that night, she
thought— _
“I have won him back again! Better than
that, I have learned the way to keep him!”
A Ncsro Empire in the South.
SIKGUI.AU OFFSHOOT OF THE FREEDMEN’s BU
REAU.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
writes from Jacksonville, Florida, under date of
May 23, an account of the freedmen in tlie Sea
Islands. AVe extract the following account of a
negro empire that was established there:
A full blooded negro, named Tunis G. Camp
bell, a son of a preacher hailing from New Bruu
swick, British America, possessed of some little
education and much cunning and unbounded
ambition, was appointed an agent of the Bureau,
under General Saxton, and assigned to the charge
of St. Catherines anil Ossabaw islands, at that
time occupied exclusively by the negroes who
had lived there as slaves and by colored refugees
who had come there to avail themselves of Gen.
Sherman’s order. A very simple form of gov
ernment had been improvised tor tlieir guidance,
and some three or four of their number Jhad been
appoifed to see justice done among them. The
system of government was far too simple for Air.
Campbell's ideas. He at once upset and turned
the old resident negroes out of their cabins, tell
ing them they were only “refugees” but they (the
new comers) were “American citizens.”* He
then set to work and organized a little empire of
his own, taking for his model the constitution of
the United States, but reserving therein so strong
a spice of autocratic power for himself that lie
was ever afterwards known and spoken of as the
Tycoon. I had the felicity while in St. Cathe
rines ot looking into the laws and constitution of
the empire. There was a Senate composed of
eight members, four elected from the North side
of the island and four from the South side of the
island; a House of Representatives, compris
ing twenty memtiers, ten representing the
North, and ten the South; There was a Su
preme Court and a court of common pleas.—
There were magistrates, sheriffs, town clerks,
coroners, and every officer down to a road mas
ter. It has provided that all bills must originate
with the House of Representatives, be passed by
the Senate, and approved by the Superintendent
(or Tycoon.) A majority of two-thirds carried
a measure over the head of the Senate; but tlie
right of veto was, in all cases, reserved to the
Superintendent. This saving clause was repeat
ed with emphatic iteration at the end of every
important article of the Constitution. The Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court was empowered,
among other duties, to preside in the police
court (in conjunction with tlie Superintendent,)
and to charge five-and-twenty cents each for the
issuing of summonses. Appeals from this de
cision might be taken to the Supreme Court (in
conjunction with the Superintendent.) To se
cure the observance of these regulations, King
Campbell T. raised a standing army, placed
guards and pickets round the coast, and forbade
any white man to land under peril of his life.
Everything being thus established to his satis
faction, lie convened liis Cabinet together and is
sued the following:
PROCLAMATION.
AVhereas we, through the goodness of God,
the Supreme Being, have prospered upon this
island, and whereas we feel now the influence of
the boon of freedom, which we believe emanated
from God:
Therefore I, Tunis G. Campbell, agent of the
bureau of freedmen, refugees and abandoned
lands for St. Catharines and Ossabaw islands, by
virtue of the [lower vested in me by tlie Presi
dent of the United States and Brigadier General
Saxton, do issue this my proclamation, that the
people do assemble on December 5,1805, at their
churches, and invoke Divine aid and return
thanks for His mercy in delivering us from the
bonds of slavery, and all other mercies vouch
safed to us.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal.
Tunis G. Campbell, Superintendent.
Howard, Secretary.
It was only with great difficulty that General
Tilson succeeded in deposing Tycoon Campbell
from liis throne and reducing him to the subor
dinate position lie was more qualified to fill. I
met tlie ex-monarch at Savannah, where he was
playing the humble role of delegate to the Con
vention of the African Episcopal church, as
sembled in that city. lie seemed to bear his
misfortune with pious equanimity, contenting
himself by insinuating groundless charges against
the agent of the bureau who succeeded him. I
saw, also, at Sapelo island, the ex-chief justice ol
the supreme court—a full blooded Congo, attired
in a brown, mottled blouse, dark trousers and a
dirty shirt, but bearing withal an aspect of dig
nified reserve which Mr. Chase could hardly sur
pass. 1 restrained my risible tendencies, not
knowing whether Congress might not soon rein
state him in liis judicial position, and thus sub
ject me to the dire pains and penalties of a con
tempt ot court.
2 50
40
60
1 08
99
1 00
33 00
From the Ouachita Telegraph.
Cotton at Twenty-Five Cents—Wliat will
it Net tlie Prodnccr ?
Tiie following accurate figures will show the
net proceeds, per pound and per bale, of mid
dling cotton at 25 cents per pound.
The average rate of the Louisiana bale is 400
pounds, including the weight of bagging and
rope.
It must be remembered that the internal reve
nue is assessed on the cotton only—a deduction
of 20 pounds per bale being made for bagging
and rope:
UROSS PROCEEDS PER BALE.
400 ths at. 25 cents $100 00
EXPENSES.
River freight, ^ hale 3 50
River insurance, 1 y. cunt, on $130 1 95
Fire insurance on gross sales, per cent, on $100 15
U. S. internal revenue, 5 cents lh on 8S0 tbs 19 00
V. 8 excise tax on gross sales, per cent, on
$100 13
State tax on gros^sales, X i? cent, ou $100 25
Brokerage on gross sales, K per cent, on $100 ... 25
Commissions on gross sales, 2y t cent, on $100
Government weighing and branding, a bale
Merchant’s draynge and weighing, bale
Six yards India'bagging, at 28 cents
Six ths rope, at 16j<r cents
Average cost of repairs, V hale
Total expenses f) hale ($33)
Total expenses. ~f>. Tb. 8>.I cents.
Net proceeds, t-1 hale , ,. 07 00
Net proceeds, tt>, 10)* cents.
It thus appears that one-third of the cotton i
required to pay the expenses of selling tlie crop.
Now let us see what it will cost to produce
this cotton.
PLANTATION OF FIFTY HANDS
Wages of 25 men at $15 per month
Wages of 25 women at $10 per month
Risk of loss and value of labor of 34 mules
2500 bushels of coni, at $1 25
12 tons hay, at $30
17 double plows, at $20
20 cultivating plows, at $12 50
13 sweeps, at $10
12 Yost’s plows and scrapers; at $12 50
3 dozen Iioes. at $15
2 dozen axes, at $25
Gear for mules and harness and wagons
00 barrels mess pork, at $30
Rent of 600acres lanji, at $10
Wages of the overseer or proprietor
500 bushels cotton seed, at $1 50
Two dollars per head tax on Freedmen's Bureau
Total cost $23,450
Probable crop 7 hales to the hand—50 hands
at 7 balds each; 350 bales.
350 bales cotton, at $67 per bale. $23,450
It will thus appear that it will require 25 cents
per pound gross on cotton to pay the cost of pro
duction.
The value of the corn raised, will not exceed
the incidental plantation expenses and the inter
est on the money invested.
Who can afford to raise cotton at such figures?
The House of Forney.
AVe clip from the last published letter of “Alack,”
the vigilant and piquant Washington correspon
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial, the following
resume ot the disinterested doings of the Forney
family in behalf of their country. The head of
the house of Forney is a matchless political
scamp, aud a man of no mean ability, lie lias
aquired a national notoriety, and deserves, as
newsmatter at least, the attention which he re
ceives from the press of the country. He is of
that class of characters, like Chiffinch of English
history, the [purveyor of the Alerry Alonarcli’s
private pleasures and political jobbery, conveni
ent and necessary to those in whose employ lie
may be for the time, but so utterly infamous in
himself aud in his occupation, that even those
who sympathize in and profit by his rascality
dare not outrage public decency* by defending
him.
AVe have had doubts, however, whether the
conservative and virtuous journals of the day
are not impolitic in their frequent notices ol this
man. Notoriety is the pabulum of existence to
such creatures. Conscious that they are corrupt,
and that the world must be cognizant of the fact,
they are insensible to shame, and become reckless
in braving public contempt. They care not how
much they may be loathed, so sufficient lucre is
acquired to retire into a purchased respectability,
when they become blaze, and impotent longer to
pursue their disgusting trade. Forney is already
conspicuously gibbeted iu the contempt of the
nation, and, if it were possible, it would be better
to let him quietly decompose aud exhale away
from public notice:—Nashville Union & Amer
ican.
FORNEY', TIIE DISINTERESTED PATRIOT.
Every once in a while the great American
Toady, John AV. Forney, speaks of the party
which supports the President as made up of
“ hirelings,” a word which he borrows from the
vocabulary of the late Southern masters. The
public may like to know how purely disiutcrest
ed Forney is, and has been, in support of the
Republican party—how much self-sacrifice he
displays in the premises, in fact.
Firstly, then, there is John AV. Forney, the
dead duck in propria persona, Clerk of the Senate,
at $3,500 a year and stealings.
Secondly. There is 1). C. Forney, publisher
of the Chronicle, cousin of the dead duck’s, in
pay of tlie Senate, drawing a salary of about
two thousand dollars a year for work which he
never performs—a clear swindle.
Thirdly. There is another Forney, a brother
of the duck’s, mail agent between here and
Philadelphia.
Fourthly. There is another brother mail agent
on the Pennsylvania Central Road.
Fifthly. There is a junior Forney, who all
through the war was a staff officer, on duty in
Philadelphia.
Sixthly. There is another son of tlie dead
duck’s Yvho, early in tlie war, was got a commis
sion in the navy, under a solemn covenant never
to be sent to sea, nor exposed to the rude tire of
rebel guns—and he never was.
Seventhly. Forney is carried about the City of
AVasliington in a vehicle owned by tlie Govern
ment, aud driven by a man paid as a laborer in
the Capitol grounds. All of which may be
strictly patriotic, but it is not legal.
Eighthly. Forney has for a private servant a
man who is paid as a laborer for the Senate,
which is contrary to the law in such cases made
and provided.
Ninthly. Forney gets the Chronicle edited by
men who are paid as clerks of the Senate, which
may be patriotism, but looks like swinding.
Tenthly. Forney will employ nobody as clerk
or messenger, in the Senate, who will not help
to edit either the Chronicle or the Press; which
is good economy but bad morals in the dead
duck.
Eleventhly. Forney wrote a begging letter to
the President about six months ago. The Presi
dent did not grant the prayer of tlie petitioner,
and the Chronicle immediately came out against
Andrew Johnson and his poficy. AVhich may
be disinterested, but doesn’t look that way ;
looks rather like au unsuccessful attempt to
Crook the pregnant, hinges of the knee,
When thrift may follow Fawney.
AVhat a self-sacrificing patriot Forney is, to be
sure I AIack.
..$4,500
. 3,000
. 1,700
. 3,125
360
310
250
130
150
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50
150
. 1,800
. 6,000
. 1,000
750
100
An American young fady was reading Don
Quixotte, and came to the place where the fellow
whom the Don prevented from beating the lad,
promised to pay the latter’s wages in “perfumed
money.” “You see he only owed the boy some
cents,” said the lovely Columbian.
Pious, Strategy.—The strategy by which
men sometimes get into office, even in religious
organizations, is illustrated by a correspondent of
the Columbus Statesman, who writes from the
Old School General Assembly at St. Louis, as
follows :
Dr. Stanton is moderator. He is a most un
relenting radical. lie was recently professor to
Danville, Kentucky, Theological Seminary. His
presbytery ret using to send him to the General
Assembly, he got dismissed from it to a presby
tery in Ohio, which w as as radical as himself,
and so in this way secures liis appointment to
the Assembly. Nor is this all. A convention,
tlirough him and others, is called to meet in this
place two days before the Assembly, to cut out
radical measures for the Assembly to mature
when it subsequently met, and, lo and behold!
one thing determined on by this ‘convention for
prayer’ is the election of Dr. Stanton to tlie mode-
ratorship of the Assembly. So there he now' sits
by this pious strategy. His competitor was Dr.
Gurley, of Washington City, the pastor of the
late President Lincoln. The loyalty, piety, and
charity of the doctor may be Inferred from the
following: Not long since, in a public speech in
his synod, he is reported to have said, ‘I hope to
meet Drs. Palmer, Robinson, AA’ilson, &c., in
heaven, but not till alter they have been hung,
and I first having the pleasure of adjusting ' the
rope.’ And this man is called to preside over
the great General Assembly of the United States.
‘ O, tempora, O, mores ! ’ to w hat are we coming ?
But enough.”
Tlie .41 enken Eclipsed.
The Detroit Tribune of the 2!)th contains the
following:
On Friday evening last, as Air. Levi Longley,
of Raisinville, was going home quite late, ac
companied by Lyman Plues, he noticed a
couple of horses in his meadow, one of them
being saddled. As the horses did not belong to
him, their presence there at that time, ami in
that condition, excited his curiosly. So Longley
and Plues watched until just aLbreak of day,
a woman emerged from the shelter of a neigh
boring haystack and mounted the saddled horse.
The men at once made their appearance and
detained the damsel. She said she was in a great
hurry to get to Monroe, where her father was
very sick and would be alarmed at any delay on
her part. The men announced their determina
tion to accompany her to the city, and took her
to the house. AVhile they were making some
necessary preparations for the trip, slie stole out,
at the back of the house, mounted the horse
which was saddled, and followed by the other
horse, made a break for tbe woods at break-neck
speed. As soon as it was known that the bird
had flown, there was burring to and fro,” and
“mounting in hot haste,” etc. Soon the neigh
bors were started in searclt of the missing fail-
one, who was in the meantime making as much
of her start as the strength and speed of her
horse would permit. Away she went, over
fences and logs, through swamps, woods and
fields, in a style UDSurpassd, even by John
Gilpin. Only once she stopped for any obstruc
tion. Coming to a high fence, she ordered a
man near by to lower the fence, which, as it in
closed his cornfield, he “respectfully declined”
to do, but the prompt appearance ol her “shoot
ing-stick” persuaded him to do so, and he did it,
and off she went. But all things must end, and
her ride was terminated, and she herself captured
about noon. It is said that her indignation and
scorn at the pursuit and capture of “defenseless
woman” were expressed in terms quite worthy
of the original “J. D.” himself. She was brought
to this city, and examined by prosecuting Attor
ney Raleigh. A telegram was sent to Toledo,
and an official from that place soon arrived, and
identified her as a common prostitute of that city,
by the name of Aliss Geiot. It seems that she
was married about 15 years sinee, aud was sub
sequently divorced from her husband. Her
business not prospering very well in Toledo,
owing, no doubt, to the good morals of the city,
she determined iipon a plan for “raising the
wind,” which succeeded beyond her most sau-
guin expectations. It was to make a “raid” on
her former husband, which she did, and abduc
ted two of his horses, which she rode, one at a
time, from his home in AA’illiatns county, Ohio,
to tliis place, a distance of about 95 miles. She
is now reposing in the county jail awaiting tlie
arrival ot the owner of the animals. Adah
Isaacs Alenkeu must look to her laurels. A new
Alazeppa has arisen.
An Important Discovery.—The Pall Alall
Gazette has the following:
A discovery, of at least as vital importance for
Egyptology as the celebrated Rosetta stone itself,
was made about three weeks ago by a party of
four German explorers—Keiniscli, Rosier, Len-
sius, and AVeidenbach—at a place called bane,
the whilom Tanis, the principal scene of Ra-.
meses II’s enormous architectural undertakings.
A stone with Greek characters upon it was
found protruding from the ground, and when
fuliy execavated proved to contain a bilingual in
scription in no less than thirty-seven lines of hie
roglyphics and seventy-six lines of Greek, in the
most perfect state ol preservation, and dating
from the time of the Third Ptolemy, Euergetes
I, in 238 B. C. The stone measures two metres,
twenty-two centimetres in length find seventy-
eight centimetres in width, and is completely
covered by the inscriptions. Their first attempt
at editing this important inscription having failed,
the travelers returned to the spot, and during a
stay of two days, the 22d and 23d of April, co
pied the inscription most carefully, and photo
graphed it three times. The next post will bring
particulars as to the contents, and copies of the
document itself.
The “iron-clad” car ot Adams Expres C om-
pany, over the New York, Hartford and Spring-
field road', on Alonday night, contained about
$7,000,000, on its way to Boston and the East.
It was accompanied by two trusty messengers,
and one of the best New York detectives. Two
well-known burglars were know to be on the
train, but found no ,opportunity to operate on
the car during its transit.
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“A man can’t help what is done behind liis,
back,” as the scamp said when kicked out of,
doors.