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Herltty Jntflligfarrr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, May I, 1806.
Consistency,
The history, as well as the traditions of men-
politicians, statesmen, call them what we may—
is full of remarkable illustrations that consistency
is a virtue of which lew of them may boast tbs
possession. If we take up Senator Wilson, of
Massachusetts, him, who has now come South to
instruct, and teach, and in fact, dictate as a “ Sir
Oracle" to the people, and who, in Virginia, has
been indulging in vain boasts of his consistency
tor “ thirty years” as a politician, what may we
not find recorded of him ? Among other posi
tions assumed by this prominent Senator in the
past, directly in opposition to his more recent,
and present political attitude, we find him, in the
Senate of the United States, on the 23d day of
February, 1855, as per Congressional Globe oi that
(late, under all the solemnities and responsibili
ties of the oath imposed upon him as a Senator,
saving •
•• We believe that slavery in the States is a lo
cal institution; that we are not responsible for its
existence, and that we have no legal authority to
interfere with it in any way whatever. I am con
tent to leave slavery to the people of the States
where it now exists. I recognize the Democratic
doctrine of States Rights, in its application U) sla
very, as well as to other local affairs, and, while I
have a seat in this chamber, I shall resist all at
tempts to encroach upon the reserved rights of the
sovereign States of the Union f I will stand aide
by side with my Democratic friends in vindica
tion of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of
1798-99, which they endorsed in Baltimore in
1852!’’
If the Massachusetts Senator, ot his friends,
can show in liis recent Senatorial record, or in
nis efforts upon the stump recently made, any
resistance of attempts “ to encroach upon the
reserved rights of the sovereign States ” of the
Union ; if he or they, can show when and how
lie has stood by his “ Democratic friends in vin
dication of the Virginia and Kentucky resolu
tions of 1788-’9, which they endorsed in 1852
the public North and South would be greatly ed
ified thereby. Consistency! why it is a jewel
as rare with politicians as virtue would be in
dens of yicc, or as honor is among the aban
doned and degraded. With Senator Wilson’s
political record before the country, it is wonder
ful that he should assertconsistency for thirty
years ” witli his present position as a Radical
leader of the Republican party—a party with
principles and policy as opposite to the “ Demo
cratic doctrine of State rights,” and the “ Vir
ginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798-’9,” as
good is from evil, and as history is from fiction
Tulk not of consistency—in the vocabulary of
the mere politician, or party leader, there is no
such word.
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Ilie Freedmeu aud their Marriage Rela
tions.
We notice in the New York Times a letter
from one of its numerous correspondents in the
South, in which occur the following passages
relative to the condition of the freedmen and
treedwomen in the vicinity of Beaufort, South
Carolina, and on the Sea Islands near to that
locality, and where radicalism has had control
of the blacks for nearly five years. The corres
pondent referred to says:
“ The greatest fears are to be entertained by
every thoughtful person concerning the luture
condition of these Sea Island people. * *
* * 1 am liviDg with my family on a plan
tation among them, where I have lived lor the
lust four years.”
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“ It was not so when I first came here. This
fearful condition was brought about by Union
officers and soldiers. No persons were so who
were under my supervision, because 1 was care
ful to keep them away from Beaufort and from
camps. Husbands and wives are constantly re
turning to their former companions to find them
in new relations of long standing, and with now
sets of children. * * *
* * Divorces are granted by permission of
church authorities, composed entirely of blacks.
* * * Under the Freedmen’s Bureau there is
no practical system of divorce adopted—at least
not iterc. Persons legally married separate at
will, and again marry other parties in all the
forms of la \v. Persons by the score live together
•just so,’ without any form of marriage. These
people * * * have recently attained to lull
civil rights, and will rapidly become independent
ami defiant, in their way ot thinking and acting,
and so will soon be beyond the reach of all re
straining influence to rot iu their own corrup
tion.'’
Fears, and “ the greatest fears ” may indeed
“ be entertained by every thoughtful person con
cerning the future,” not only ofthe freedmeu upon
tlie Sea Islands and mainlands contiguous to
them, but of their condition throughout the in
terior of the Southern States. The licentious
ness that prevails among them is not confined to
any part icular locality—the marriage relation pre
sents no obstacle to their vicious licentious indul
gences, and as those indulgences entail disease, it
is frightful to think to what a state of degradation
and woe those of them who in large bodies are
left to take care of, and, as it were, have license
to govern themselves, free from the control and
uninfluenced by the example of the white man
will finally be reduced. Soon will all such fall
back to the primitive condition of their African
ancestors unless prompt, and philanthropic, and
determined measures, be adopted to stay and
suppress the vices of licentious aud intemper
ance that prevail among them.
The White an* Black Man In Connell at
Mobile.
We transfer to our columns, from the Mobile
Advertiser, without comment, the following ac
count erf the proceedings at a mass meeting re
cently held in that city, over which the Hon.
Richard Bcsteed, United States District Judge
for the State of Alabama, presided, with the re
marks of the Advertiser appended, and to which
we invite the attention of our readers:
Whereas, The Congress of the United States
has au act known as the Military bill, and
an act supplemental thereto, which provide
for the division of the ten Southern States into
five military districts ; and
Whereas, Major General John Pope has been
assigned to the command ot the Third District,
of which Alabama forms a part, and said Major
General, in assuming command, has issued his
“ General Order No. 1,” in which he continues
Major General Swajpe in command of the sub
district of Alabama, and further ordered that the
civil officers now in authority should not be dis
turbed in the discharge of the duties pertaining
to their offices so long as they continue to so ad
minister the laws as to secure to each individual
their rights of person and property ; therefore
Resolved, Without expressing any opinion as
to the legislation referred to in the foregoing
preamble, we hereby manifest our gratification
at the spirit of moderation which the Major-
General commanding the Third District brings
to the discharge of the responsible duties and to
the exercise ot the great powers committed to
him ; and that we feel called upon to meet him
in a like spirit and hereby to express to him our
purpose to throw no obstacle in the path of his
official duties, but that in all that tends to a gen
uine desire for the restoration of the Union un
der the Constitution, including all the States, we
pledge ourselves to a most earnest aud cordial
co-operation.
Resolved, That we recommend to all who are
qualified to register and vote under the provis
ions of the law, to do so as early as convenient
after the opportunity is offered for that purpose,
and to scrupulously abstain from any act which
might be construed into a disposition to hinder
or disturb any other person in the discharge of
any duty or the exercise of any privilege con
ferred by law.
Reserved, That we shall so demean ourselves
as a people that it shall not be our fault if,
pending the effcfrts at reconstruction under ex
isting laws, the civil officers of the State are dis
turbed in the exercise of their public functions.
Resolved, That we find nothing in the changed
political condition of the white and black races
of the South that ought to disturb the harmoni
ous relations between them; that we are ready
to accord to the latter every right and privilege
to which they are entitled under the laws of the
land; that we sincerely desire their prosperity
and their improvement in all the moral and in
tellectual qualities that are uecessary to make
them useful members of society; that we are
their friends, both from gratitude for their fideli
ty in the past—in war as well as in peace—and
because our interests in the future are insepara
bly connected with their well being.
THE MEETING
Last night was a success crowning all the hopes
and wishes of the patriotic citizens who inaugu
rated it. The moral taught by it was that the
citizens of Mobile, without distinction ot race,
are prepared to meet squarely in the face the dis
pensations of Providence, aud the decrees of
war and political necessity in the present emer
gency. It was a withering rebuke to the scoun
drels who are striving, by wicked agitation, to
add to the calamities ot the South, to deepen the
gloom of the inevitable present with the horrors
of intestine and domestic strife, and, by mar
shaling in hostile array different classes of the
community, who, forced by the march of events to
live together, are counseled by every considera
tion of policy, humanity, political and social inter
est, to live together in peace for the common good.
It taught that Alabamians should move together
to control the destinies of Alabama and that a
broad distinction should be drawn between the
men of Northern birth who come here in good
faith to take their part and lot in our political
destinies and the prophets of evil who come
like the intruder into the domestic circle to put
asunder those whom the decrees of God and the
destinies of fortune have joined together. The
latter, as one colored speaker remarked, are
serpents who should be watched, marked
scotched and trampled upon. We have taken
new departure and a bold, forward and gigantic
step toward tbe realization of the duties of the
hour. “Glory be to God on high ; aud on earth,
peace, good will to men !” This is what this
meeting teaches, and henceforth let Southern
men, black and white, take care of them
selves a»d spit in scorn and contempt upon all
intermeddlers who seek their own vile advance
ment by trafficking in bad blood between them
Mobile Advertiser.
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Tk« Pww Anetollaa. n« Soitk-Vlemof • N«rUeni Ku.
[From the Uscom Telegraph.] Below will be found an interesting cortespon-
Did we pretend to go into detail, and recount f i„ nrp .
the various courtesies and attentions that were | 7, ’ , g from *““*■» the New York
showered in profusion upon the representative! I -“J^*** ***“ presumed to be written by KraStus
of the Press, we might fill a page of the Tdt-1 Brooks, the talented editor of that paper, who
graph with the recital; but time and space both was in attendance here at the recent Press Asso-
forbid, and we shall but glance at the surface ot ciation ■
a munificent hospitality and beg our Atlanta 1
friends to be assured that we appreciate and
shall gratefully remember all their kindness.
Their journalists, their landlords, their mer
chants, their railroad men and city officials have
all run up a long account against us, and we on-
▲ LOOK AT THINGS IN GEORGIA—THE WHITES
AND THE NEGROES—THE BALLOT AND THE
POLITICIAN—SUFFERINGS AT THE SOUTH.
Atlanta, Ga., April 16,1867.
. „ w This is called the “Gate City” of the South,
ly add that we would settle in full if we could. and certainly nothing outside of the oil regions
All took an active interest in our comfort and has equaled its growth since its great disaster by
pleasure, and no effort was spared to minister to firo during the advancing march of Sherman to
both. I the sea. Immense will and energy are every-
Our cotemporary then speaks in the hiriwat I where apparent, partly to be attributed to the
terms of iheNitioaal tutd oU.erho.els oi AU»- SrTSe"
t&, and of the supper as a grand an air, and con-1 of the town, which is the focus of trade, not only
tinues : of Georgia, but of the surrounding States. What
Nor were the visitors provided for only when I ®I a ® c he8ter is to New Hampshire, Lowell to Mas-
at business or at rest. The cavalry arrange- °. r t h®,N°rth and East Rivers to New
ments of Drs. Simmons and Orme were com-1 * ork, Atlanta will be to Georgia. There is min-
plete. Carriages, buggies, and saddle horses I wealth all around, iron near at band, coal
were at our disposal, thus enabling our party, at I no * ; . close bj, and everything which
leisure hours, to visit all the objects of interest I ®? n ® prosperity to a settled and thrifty peo-
in the far-reaching domains of Atlanta. The P e ' T “ c b*®® of society springs from two
extensive Iron Works and Rolling Mills of J. I cau p® 9 one the failure of the crops, which
D. Gray & Co., on the State Road, about a mile mahes provisions enormously high; and, second-
and a half from the city, were visited, and at-. j ^ disorder incident to the Congressional
tracted much attention by their novelty. Many
of our party had never witnessed the operation
of the powerful machinery used in such estab
lishments, and were wonder-struck at the facility
with which a glowing and jagged mass was con
verted in smooth and -solid rods or bars. The
terrific furnaces in full commotion were sugges
tive, and conveyed intimations, the wholesome
effects of which we hope will be practically il
lustrated in the lives of some of the beholders!
The work of the company is at present confined
to the manufacture ot bar and rod iron and rail
road spikes, though the machiuery for rolling T
rails for railroads is going up, aud will be in op
eration in the course ot the coming month.
Sucli an establishment is an acquisition to the
State, and we wish Mr. Gray and his company
every success, besides returning to him our
thanks for his courtesies.
Among other places visited was the new Cem
etery, on the Georgia Railroad, a spot admirably
selected for its solemn purpose, and which wifi
prove an object of great attraction in years to
come.
Atlanta has risen as if by magic from the des
olation and ashes of war. There has been notli-
principle ot reconstruction. Bread and meat
for this section of the country command enor
mous prices. Added to the disaster of half a
famine, has come a flood, the like of which in
its destruction of property, land, aud labor, has
hardly been equaled. The loss of a railroad
bridge across the Tennessee, has cost the owners
of corn not less than seven cents a bushel for fer
riage alone; and com sells here at $1 60 a bushel,
ana is scarce at this price. The food is not equal
to the mouths to consume it, but I am happy to
say the prospect is favorable for tbe wheat crop
for 1867. Not only has a great deal more land
been sown, bat the cultivation in all respects
will be more thorough. While society is,
in maoy respects, tamed upside down, there
is enough regard for that principle of self-preser
vation to appreciate the fact that the soil
alone can prove a remedy for the greatest
of all human miseries. The negro is begin
ning to learn that he is his own master, and
that to be a master even of one’s self re
quires provision for all the necessaries of life.
Unfortunately for the negro, his wants enter
but little into tbe consumption of anything be
yond very simple food and very indifferent
very
ing like it in the past, and the matchless energy I As. however, he becomes more civil-
, B ., . v ’ , _ I ized, he will think more of increased comtorts.
Now he earns from five to fifteen dollars a month,
that has thus spoken a large city, with massive
and costly blocks for business and every neces
sary public building on a grand scale, into sud
den existence, is passing all comprehension. Such
enterprise need not stagger at any undertaking.
It has been, too, a most beneficent movement
Thousands would have suffered and hundreds
starved, but for tbe labor opened up to them in
the rebuilding of the city. We would be glad
to specify many Dew structures and comment on
them and their purpose, but fear to make tliis <
hasty sketch too long.
On Friday afternoon the Association was
complimented with an excursion by special train
over the State Road to Marietta, a courtesy for
which we were indebted to the accomplished
Superintendent, Major Campbell Wallace. Mr.
J. B. Peck, Master of Transportation; Ira E.
Taylor, Audits, and Mr. John Flynn, Master
Machinist, acffknpanied the party on the trip,
which was, in all respects, a most delightful one.
The road and rolling ,£tock are in better con
dition than we have ever seen them before, and
reflect the highest credit upon those officers.
There are no rough places in the track, the en-
gins are kept bright and clean as if just from the
manufacturer’s hands, and even the freight cars
are well painted and in an excellent state of pre
servation. The road, too, is pouring thousands
monthly into the treasury, thus proving the
hitherto disputed fact that there is more than
one man in Georgia who has the ability to man
age it successfully. In Mr. Wallace and Mr.
Peck the Governor has found real treasures, and
we hope no inducement will be wanting to keep
them on tbe road. The railroad depot, and offi-
and is in the main content. The very best ser
vants, indeed, rarely command more than ten
or twelve dollars a month and board. Many es
timate that the labor of three industrious negroes
is about equal to that of two white men.
On my way here I saw many hundreds who
were idle, but this is in tbe neighborhood of the
large towns. In the country they are more
thrifty and more industrious, but perhaps not so
well-informed. To bestow at once the sight of
suffrage on such persons, is a monstrous perver
sion ot the ballot. It is, indeed, to give the very
life and symbol of freedom to those wholly unfit
ted to enjoy it. Our sons and daughters—yes,
the humblest and meanest of the white race—
would exercise it with more discretion, more
wisdom, more honor and profit to the country.
Better, ten times better for tbe South would be a
diminished representation in Congress without
the negro vote, than the larger number ot repre-
rentatives with it. If, too, this question of suf
frage could have been something in prospect,
and dependent upon qualification, whether of
property, or education, or both, the case would
be different; but as it is, the negroes will vote,
and the vote will be divided. In the rural dis
tricts, it will be mainly with the masters. Iu the
interior, more with the Radicals. Au iutense
system of proselyting and electioneering will be
kept up to the great injury of the negro, and
without benefit to the white. In the ten exclu
ded States there are, according to the best esti
mates, 4,500,000 whites, and 3,750,000 blacks,
and the latter in the majority, in ihe States ot
South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and
Voting Strength of Rite South.
A correspondent of the New York Times gives
some interesting particulars concerning the prob
able effect of universal suffrage.
In the election of 1860, be says, tbe total vote
ot the Confederate States, exclusive of Tennes
see, was 714,000, and of this number Virginia
and Georgia gave one-third. The negro popula
tion of the Southern States was then about
3,500,000. If the negroes were to vote upon the
simple manhood and residence qualification they
would be able to poll about 550,000 votes; and
the total vote of the Confederate States would
then be 1,260,000. It is estimated by the corres
pondent that one-fifth of the whites will vote
the Radical, aud that a like proportion of the
negroes will be Conservative. This would give
the following result:
Conservative whites 570,000
Conservative negroes 110,000
Conservative vote 680,000
Radical whites 140,000
Radical blacks 440,000
Radical vote 580,000
“ As Virginia, Arkansas and Georgia contain
the largest portion of the white vote, it is pro
bable they will be carried by the conservatives;
South Carolina may be carried in the same man
ner, because it probably contains the largest
portion of negroes who can be influenced by
their old masters.”
Noting this statement, the Charleston Mer
cury says, these are not our views, and it is cer
tain that the results looked for by the corres
pondent would not be realized; still, such
speculations are of value, as showing the atten
tion paid by observers in tbe North, to the
condition of parties yet to be created in the
South.
Cuthbert Manufacturing Company.—The
Appeal has a detailed account of the operations
of the Cuthbert Factory. Alter giving the loca
tion and dimensions ot the structure it says:
Above aud below, iu the body of the building
may be seen the looms, spinning and carding
machines, reels, bur mill, and the other thou
sand aud one contrivances by which the “human
form divine" is cloth-*!, all moving smoothly
aud with lightning celerity. At present 600
spindles are at work and eight looms. Seventeen
ot the latter, however, are in position ready for
use, and the number of spindles can also be
doubled if deemed expedient. One hand man
ages aud directs throe looms, the product ot
each ot which is 50 yards of cloth per day. The
Mendenhall Power Loom is also in successful
operation, and being easily propelled by the
turning of a hand crank is peculiaty adapted to
family use.
Poisoned by Mistake.
The telegraphic item from Mobile, which we
published in yesterday morning’s issue of this
paper, stating that “ Mrs. Van Hagen, wife of
merchant ” of that city, “ was poisoned by m«s
take of an apothecary, and died instantly after
taking a prescription with prussic acid as an in
gredient, instead of tartaric," ought to be a sol
emn warning against carelessness on the part of
those who are entrusted, in drug establishments,
with making up or compounding prescriptions
for the sick, and a warning also to all against
the employment of either careless or ignorant
individuals in the making or compounding of
them. We have seen, recently, so many such
mistakes reported as having occurred, we are
constrained to believe that ignorance has had as
much to do with the fatal consequences attend
ing tbe mistakes, as tbe mistakes themselves bad.
We do not know which to condemn most, care
lessness or ignorance, in the preparation of a
physician’s prescription. Both merit the se
verest denunciation.
[FOB THE INTELLIGENCER.]
Where Are You t
Union men of the South: Where are you?
have lost sight of you. Has any one done vio
lence to your persons ? Perhaps some vigilance
committee has silenced you ? I never hear from
you now. I sometimes talk about the old Gov
ernment like we used to talk while the war was
going on; but it is like talking to the dead. No
response comes forth. When I strike the strings
of the harp, that once vibrated in unison with
tbe Constitution and tbe Union, no sound comes
forth except the harsh jargon of discordant
notes.
Secessionists sometimes meet me and say:
“ Stewart, you were right—we wish we had fol
lowed your advice;” and when this occurs, I
feel so proud to think our old secesh neighbors
have cooled down and come to their senses, that
I at once tty to find some old Union friend to
share my happiness with him. But alas! I can’t
find one. Perhaps they have ail turned hermits,
and secluded themselves in gloomy caverns, deep,
dark cellars, or musty garrets. It may be
Cousin John” could tell their whereabouts.
He is reported to have been on the hunt for them
not long since. May it not be possible that the
Union men who have so mysteriously disappeared
have discovered some new light, which is too
brilliant and blinding to be presented, all at once,
to the eyes of those who, for many years past,
have been groping their way in the dim lights
which guided the steps of a Washington, a Jef
ferson, or a Jackson.
By the Eternal!” Union men, where are
yon? The Constitution and the Union must
and shall be preserved, if it takes the votes of
every negro in the South to do it. Perhaps that is
what you are after—oft instructing the negroes
how to vote? Well, if this is so, all well. And
when you get through drilling, I expect to see
you bring up your fellow-citizens and vote them
right. Not only vote impracticable secesh out
of power, but hold in check the radical abolish.
We have had enough of impracticable theories,
and of their consequences; and now, perhaps
my lost, or missing Union friends, ha.ve discov
ered some grand, infallible panac< a tor the re
storation of tbe Union under the Constitution.
Hope they have. If “Cousin John” has any
clear light on the subject, I would be glad to
hear from him.
Seriously: have the people of oar great coun
try gone mad, or am I, myself, gone crazy ?
J. A. Stewart.
Robbery.—The house of Judge Clark, at Al
bany, was entered a few nights ago and a good
many valuable articles stolen.
..... t.„ HJtJSi I ^Florida. Everywhere South, Ihe negro vole
will secure the balance of power, and it needs
no imagination to foreshadow the result of such
etta, were destroyed by Sherman’s army when
they evacuated it. It was a hard and undeserved
fate for that beautiful little city, but we are glad
to see that it i9 slowly rising from its ashes. The
National Cemetery just back ot tbe town and in
full view, is being improved at an enormous ex
pense, and will be in time one of tbe most attract
ive, in appearance, in the Union. Many thousand
Federal dead now repose on its bleak sides, and
the remains are being brought in daily from ev
ery battle field from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
[From tbe Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.]
The Southern Preee Convention.
The proceedings of the Southern Associated
Press having been published, it is unnecessary
to refer to its deliberations in detail. Tbe meet
ing was harmonious and satisfactory. Existing
relations with the New York Associated Press
are continued, as being most likely to subserve
the best interests of the Southern Press.
The city of Atlanta is still progressing. Pub
lic edifices, stores and dwellings are being erect
ed. In less than two years it has arisen from its
ashes, presenting unexampled enterprise and en
ergy far surpassing almost anything of the kind
in the history of any city on this continent.
The friendly hospitality extended the members
of the press was unexpected. Every attention
and accommodation that could be desired was
given and provided. The complimentary ban
quet from the citizens to the members of the
Convention, prepared by the hosts of the Na
tional Hotel, was a magnificent affair. It was
literally a feast of reason and a flow of soul.’
To the proprietors and editors of the Intelli
gencer, New Em, and Daily Opinion, the Chroni
cle & Sentinel, through its representatives, stands
under obligations, for which an acknowledgment
is now made with the hope that, at some future
time an opportunity to reciprocate may be pre
sented.
Under ordinary circumstances, we would be
more profuse of our indebtedness to tbe people
a stale of facts.
There is a constant arrival of these politica
proselytes at the South. They are zealous men
but their zeal is not according to knowledge. It
is tbe negroes’ vote that is demanded and not
tbe negroes’ welfare, and some of the colored
race are shrewd enough to understand this, and
to cry “hands oft! ” The old masters who were
kind to their slaves, and who exerted a good -in
fiuence over them during the war, will find their
reward in that return taMo^flhj|Mwhich will
show itself at the
SUFFERINGS IN THIS STATE.
Since writing the above I have been waited
on by two citizens of tbe State, in reference to
the great sufferings in the interior. One of them
is an old planter in Polk county, who felt the
ravages of the war in the destruction of all his
property. His slaves did not leave him then,
and remain with him now. He reports 2,700
white people suffering in his county alone from
severe want. The other gentleman, a State mis
sionary, reports 50,000 Georgians also sufferers,
and in need of absolute and immediate relief.
Watchman, What ot the Night t
[Correspondence of the N. T. Express.]
Atlanta, Ga., April 17,1867.
General Pope is here, and has made a satis
factory speech to the people. If they obey tbe
law of Congress, well. If not, then it may not
be well. All the men he has here, and coming
here, is but a few over the third ot a regiment;
but one company would be enough to carry out
the law of Congress, and as good as 10,000 men.
The most subdued men are some of tbe old seces
sion leaders—like Ex-Governor Brown, whose
home i9 here, and whose influence has been im
mense throughout tbe State. Such men counsel
submission to the law, and regal'd it as irrevo
cable. Gov. Jenkins counsels, not resistance, but
non-action, and from all I see and hear, will be
and press of the Gate City for their generous I overruled by au immense majority of the peo-
hospitality, but the fact is, the occasion in which I pie. The heart of the people is broken, and their
we participated last week was an extraordinary I spirits humiliated. Two years of drought, one sea-
one—so extraordinary, indeed, that its pleasant gon of floods, months of positive hunger, have
but somewhat sad and depressing effects^ remain j followed four years ot war, madeupof bom bard-
with us still. Its memories will always be plea
sant, but the effect—“aye, there’s the rub”—our
Atlanta friends can understand and are responsi
ble for. Hence our inability, even at this lapse
ot time, to do full j ustice to the occasion. The
subject has already been overdone.
The Way It la Bone In Louisiana.
The article below, which we copy from the
New Orleans Times, a paper which enjoys an
enviable reputation for fair dealing and consis
tency of conduct, will show the way in which
the work of registration is being earned on in
Louisiana:
The disgraceful exhibition of tbe utter tramp-
ments, sieges, fires, loss oi life and property.—
Congress, with its harsh policy of negro suffrage,
military monarchies, registrations, arrests and
punishments, stay laws—as in South Carolina?—la
an easy master of the situation; only you must
not expect the smitten, to love the smiter, for
as blood is thicker than watei, nature stronger
than coercion, this is simply impossible. “ Do
with us as you will, and we will obey,” is the
general purpose, and Georgia is good for it by
20,000 or 80,000 majority, notwithstanding the
letter from Governor Jenkins. It I were a
Southern man, with my home and friends de
stroyed, a war prosecuted against me two years
after I had laid down my arms, with no pertna-
„„„ uent peace or stability in prospect, with a hope
ling upon all law, right and decency—known as I °_f 301116 thing permanent and established by fur-
the registration in this city, is still continued.— I ther concessions, I would do the same thing, for
More than a half ofthe white citizens fully qual- un , there is-an end ot exactions by obedience
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ified under the law are turned away, whilst ev-
every negro who applies is immediately accepted
and registered. Naturalized citizens are not only
required to produce their papers, but to leave
them with the registrars, with a very dim pros
pect of getting them back. Old citizens who
have lived here a quarter of a century, and who
pay individually more taxes than the whole Rad
ical party in the State.pay collectively, are tamed
to decrees, there can be no peace. ’ War is not
politics, but revolution. The South is iu the hands
of Government as clay in the hands ot the potter.
In seeking to overthrow the Government of the
United States, it destroyed itself. President
Lincoln has been overruled. President Johnson
is overruled, the Congressional policy of 1861
and 1862 is overruled, and now all the civil, pro
visional and elected Governments ot ten States
I The Great Crista—Opinions of Foreign
Josruls on the Impending War,
All the leading journals of Europe seem to re
gard war between France and Prussia as inevi
table, and that Austria will be likely to form an
alliance, offensive and defensive, with the former
power. We copy extracts from two popular
London papers as showing the current opinion
on the subject in Great Briatin. It is understood
that the English Government will not suffer that
country to be embroiled in the struggle, but will
maintain a condition of neutrality:
[From the London Standard, 11th.]
So far as the King of Holland is concerned the
arrangement about Luxemburg has gone off—
It does not seem, however, that France acquiesces
in his withdrawal of his proposal, and whether
or not the Emperor accepts for the moment this
rebuff, it is quite certain that the cause ot peace
has really gained nothing by it. The question of
Luxemburg must come up again, even if France
abandons all design of annexing the duchy. It
has yet to be determiued by what troops the for
tress shall be garrisoned; and we may be sure
that France will not allow the Prussians to hold
such a position, now that their title to it is so weak.
The particular treaties between Prussia and the
King of Holland subsequent to the Treaty of
Vienna were all based upon the provisions of that
treaty erecting Luxemburg into a Federal for
tress, and must fall with them. All the rights
given by the King of Prussia relative to Luxem
burg were given for Luxemburg as a Federal
fortress. They will otherwise have been in dero
gation of the treaty of Vienna, and so, null and
void; because beyond the competence of the
contracting parties. Here will be room enough
for dissension—a magazine of pretexts of war, if
war is wanted, and wanted we are very much
afraid it will be. The irritation in France at the
aggrandisement of Prussia, and at her offensive
language and demeanor, was becoming almost
uncontrollable before this last slap in the face was
given to the great nation by Count Von Bis
marck. The Emperor does not wish for war.—
He knows well what would be its perils and bow
small at best its advantages. But the Prussians
are making bis position almostu nendurable, and
he may find that he will have to choose between
war with Prussia or a loss of authority which
would be fatal to his dynasty. We cannot con
sider that the Prussian Government has been
well advised in the policy it has pursued
in this question,—unless, indeed, it is con
vinced that peace cannot possibly be main
tained between tbe two countries. Tbe loss of
Luxemburg would have been a cheap, price to
pay for the satisfaction of French uniated amour
propre. The unity of Germany is. necessarily a
serious abatement of French power in Europe;
it is feltrto be such by the French, and by every
other people; but the French would have ac
cepted without too much, grumbling this fait ac
compli if some small solace had been given her
in tbe way of accession of territory. That
would have allowed them to consider that they
still* played a principal part in Europe; they
might have flattered themselves by treating it as
gain, because that loss was certain to come in the
end ; and even if the country bad not been per
fectly satisfied, the Emperor would have been
enabled to hold it in check. The Prussian Gov
ernment, however, does everything It can to ag-
f ravate the sore. It might have conciliated
'ranee by giving way with regard to Luxem
burg, and yet have given way in such a manner
as to prevent the transfer from entailing on Ger
many any substantial loss, but it has, on the
contrary, threatened the King of Holland, and
sought the assistance of the other Great Powess
to baffle France. The Emperor may perhaps
put up with this humiliation for the moment,
but war between France and Prussia within a few
months, has become inevitable. It is very fortunate
for England that in these dangerous times, the
conduct of her relations with foreign countries is
iu the hands of a minister whose sagacity and
temper are a complete security against her being
involved in any quarrels which do not directly
concern her; and it will be disheartening indeed,
if, at the moment that the tempest gathers thicker
round about her, the ship of tbe state should lose
a pilot so clear-headed and so self-possessed.
[From the London ^telegraph.]
The Great Crisis.
However unwilling we may be—and we are
most unwilling—to acknowledge the possibility
that Europe may be once more’ convulsed by a
war between the Latin and the Teuton races, we
cannot conceal from ourselves that the position
of affairs is extremely critical. Petty ana trivial
as this Luxembourg question is in itself, it ap
peals to those national jealousies and suscepti
bilities which, to a far greater degree than the
ambition of rival dynasties, have been the cause
of the great wars that from time to time have
devastated the continent We cannot wonder if
the Germans view the annexation of Luxembourg
by France as a national disgrace. For genera
tions the great Fatherland—which, in geograph
ical position, in numbers, in the character and
intelligence: of its population, was fitted to be
one of the chief, if not the chief, of continental
powers—was practically nothing more than? a
“ geographical expression.” At last, by causes
into which we need not enter now, there has
sprung into existence a great German nation,
destined obvionsiy, in no long period ot time, to
embrace the whole of the Fatherland. At this
moment the Germans, who have always consid
ered the French possession of Alcace as a proof
of their national humiliation, and who, rightly
or wrongly, believe that united they are more
than a match for the Latin empire, are asked to
witness quietly the annexation to France of
province which is undoubtedly German. The
legal or moral claim of Prussia to Luxembourg
may be very questionable.; but it would be ab
surd to blame the Germans because they view
prospect of its cession with anger.
The Military Btotrtet mt Georgia.
We notice the following order In the columns
of our city cotemporaries, and copy it into the In
telligencer as a matter of general information;
HtiDSDiims Dimiot oar Gtoboia, I
Macoh, Oi., April 19th, 1867.1
General Order No. 5.
L The Military District of Georgia is hereby
divided into (8) eight Posts, as follows:
Post of Savannah—To indude the counties
of Chatham, Effingham, Bulloch, Bryan, Tatnall,
Liberty, Mclntosb, Glynn, Wayne, Appling,
Pierce, Ware, Coffee, Charlton, Camden, Clinch,
Echols, Lowndes, Brooks, Berrien, Colquitt,
Thomas, Decatur, Mitchell, Miller, Baker and
Early.
Post of Augusta—To include tbe counties
of Richmond, Columbia, Warren, Glasscock,
Washington, Johnson, Jefferson, Burke, Scriven
and Emanuel.
Post of Atlanta—To include the. counties
of Fulton, Cobb, Campbell, Carroll, Coweta,
Heard, Fayette, Clayton, Spalding, Henry, New
ton, DeKalb, Milton, Gwinnett, and Butts.
Post of Dahlonega—To include the coun
ties of Lumpkin, Fannin, Union, Towns, Rabun,
Gilmer, Pickens, Cherokee, Dawson, White,
Habersham, Hart, Fosyth, Banks, Franklin, and
Hall.
Post of Rome—To include tbe counties of
Floyd, Dade, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Mur
ray, Chattooga, Gordon, Polk, Paulding, Haral
son, and Bartow, (formerly Cass, recently changed
by an act of the Legislature.)
Post or Athens—To include the counties of
Clark, Jackson, Madison, Elbert, Oglethorpe,
Morgan, Walton, Wilkes, Greene, Taliaferro,
Lincoln, Jasper, Putnam, and Hancock.
Post of Columbus—To include the counties
of Muscogee, Troup, Meriwether, Harris, Tal
bot, Marion, Taylor, Schley, Webster, Stewart,
Tatnall, Quitman, Randolph, Clay, Calhoun and
Chattahoochee.
Post of Macon—To include the counties ot
Bibb, Jones, Baldwin, Wilkinson, Twiggs, Lau
rens, Pulaski, Montgomery, Telfair, Wilcox, Ir
win, Worth, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Crawford,
Upson, Monroe, Pike, Sumpter, Lee and Dough
erty. By command ot Col. Caleb C. Sibley,
United States Army.
[Signed.] John E. Hosmer,
1st Lieut. 16th U. S. I., and A. A. A. G.
OfficialO. C. Knapp, 1st Lieut. 33d Inf., Brv’t Capt.
United States Army. Poat Adjutant.
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Th » Dylnx Word* of Blah op Tlmon.
The Buffalo Courier says:
As everything relating to the last moments of
the lamented Bishop Timon will be interesting
to those who had tbe honor of bis acquaintance,
it may not be improper to publish the following
imperfect synopsis of the remarks made by
Bishop Lynch, of Toronto, in a very eloquent
discourse delivered at the Cathedral on Wednes
day night. The Bishop, in referring to'the de
ceased prelate, says:
I have a painful duty to perform. Our good
Bishop is dead, but he is with our Lord. He
died happy, and oh ! my God, would that the
death ot every one might be as happy. To the
last he ever and invariably murmured that beau-
icai paiiy in im: oiaiu.pay wnc-.iirciy. me luincu l .. , , . - T - . — ~
away because they have been, at some remote | in United States Military
period of their lives, school directors or alder- f Governors. .” nting here in sight of Stone
men under the city government, and are suspect
ed of having sympathized with the rebellion.—
But few naturalized citizens are registered on
any terms except that of adherence to the Radi
cals. That virtue will purge all vices. Rene
gades who fought in the rebel ranks and deserted
when the cause became desperate and joined the
Radicals—even some who were punished by
Butler and Banks for their rebellious excesses—
and who possessed the disqualification of having
held Federal or State offices previous to tbe war,
are admitted to the honor (!) of registration with
out questions.
But why dwell on the enormities of this mis
erable farce ? Are those who have got np this
shameless scheme to defraud the people of this
city and trample upon the acts of Congress, weak
and credulous enough to imagine that they can
profit therefrom? They will soon awake to a
lull comprehension of the infamy, the detesta
tion, the bitter hostility of all the honest and re
spectable of the community, which alone they
will secure by their lawless course. Let them
Mountain and Lookout Mountain, and the Kene-
saw, watching where Sherman swung his army
in one direction, and General Johnston in an
other—resting at the headquarters of Hood and
Polk—walking over the ground where the heave
McPherson fell—seeing yet the smouktering
ruins of war all along from the borders of the
Tennessee to this “Gate City,” & thousand miles
above the sea,—one can 'better imagine the
necessities and penalties, than upon nursing
under his own vine and flg tree at home. I am
not surprised, therefore, at the eager desire oi
brave and mistaken men to rebuild what has
been torn down. The needs of thousands of
widows and orphans demand this, even it there
were no higher appeals. “You take my lite
when you do take tbe means whereby I live,”
is as true at least of the Christian as ot the
Hebrew. Therefore let no Northern man ven
ture to blame the South for submitting to in
evitable necessity. The principle laid down
by Blaekstone, that “any Government is better
than none at all,” in this case decides the issue.
persist therein, and the time is not distant when Military monarchy, in our part ol North Ameri-
the word “ registrar” will fix upon the luckless
incumbent of that office, a stigma which will ac
company him to the grave aud descend to his
posterity.
Maximilian.—The New Orleans Picayune
has the following in regard to Maxhnilian :
ca, is so repugnant to all our ideas of liberty,
that any peaceable means of getting rid of it is
excusable, it not commendable.
One thing, however, creates a burning fever
at the South, and that is the demand made up
on the people, through tbe Constitutional
Amendment, to dishonor tbe leaders of tbe
rebellion. All these leaders were made so bv
As tor Maximilian, he was, at last accounts, at the people themselves, or by their repreaenta-
Queretaro with about 6000 men. The chances , tivea. It Congress chooses to dishonor them,
of his success, or ot his escape, have been so j they will submit with becoming grace, and
fully set forth that nothing further can be said H the end secured through this act, like many
on the subject. The United States messenger, ; others, will be in violation of the Constitn-
however, will to-day or to-morrow be with ! tion ; but do not, they implore -us, com pell tbe
Juarez in San Luis Potosi, while a United . Southern people themselves to strike down
States gunboat is at Vera Cruz to take him off. men they placed in the front rank bv their own
It is said, moreover, by those who are latest from j acts. Such an appeal, surely, ought to be ap-
Mexieo that, in auy case, the Mexicans will act preciated, since almost every other demand,
the part of true Castilians and proudly conduct: au d indeed, every other exaction, will be con-
the Austrian Archduke to the frontier, and, con- j ceded.
tent with having captured a live Emperor, send j — ♦
him home in safety. His permanent return to Dougherty County.—Judge Yaaon will hold
a special term ofthe Superior Court of Dougher
ty county, on the fast Monday inrjMay.
Public Opinion In Texaa.
Governor Throckmorton, whom Gen. Sheri
dan, it is said, proposes to remove for reasons not
evident to any one but himself, recently published
the following advice to the people of his State:
“ By prompt action in accepting the terms pro
posed, we can promise ourselves a release from
the terrible suspense, so injurious to every inter
est of the country, in which we have been in
volved since the surrender. By non-action, we
leave the State government to be controlled by
the military a9 long as it may please Congress to
permit it, with the certainty in the future that it
will be suspended or abolished. By such a poli
cy we invite further proscriptions and discrimi
nating legislation, when we are utterly powerless
and unable to avoid anything that may be im
posed. By availing ourselves of the terms
offered, we may not preserve liberty, yet we may
preserve life and prevent further humiliation
We may also lay the foundation for futuie resto
ration to perfect equality with the other States
of the Union; and we may place ourselves in a
condition to aid the great patriotic masses ot the
nation in restoring the government to its original
parity, and once more making it the pride and
'lory of every American heart, wherever found
in whatever clime or section. * * * * ]_
feel am abiding confidence that tbe people of
Texas will net falter or prove indifferent. Every
citizen of the State, however exalted or humble
bis sphere, should feel that his country demands
of him prudent and efficient service, and that his
services may be more potent for good now than
at any future period. No impediment should be
thrown in tbe way of the newly enfranchised
class. Hereafter they are to be to tbe people ot
the South an element of political power and
strength, if wisely and properly treated.”
What more could the most rigid reconstruc
tionist ask than is here tersely presented by Gov
ernor Throckmorton.
power, in the city of Mexico, is not to much
as dreamed of
Bryan Superior Court.
A correspondent of the Savannah News &
Herald gives that paper the following informa
tion of the proceedings in Bryan Superior Court,
which was in session the past week :
The State vs. Sandy Maxwell and Lawrence
Brown, charged with the murder of John P.
Maxwell, was tried, agd the defendants found
guilty. His Honor sentenced them to confinement
in the Penitentiary for the term of their natural
lives—tbe evidence being of a circumstantial
character, in which case the law authorizes tbe
Judge to commute from death to imprisonment
for life. The defendants were represented by a
lawyer, who, upon tbe finding of the verdict,
moved the court for a new trial, so far as the
defendant Lawrence Brown was concerned.
The motion will be argued at an early day.
Counsel for the State, Solicitor General A. B.
Smith and T. M. Norwood, Esqs.
The State vs. Lincoln McAllister, Elijah
McAllister and Wm. McAllister, persons of
color, charged with the same offense, and as
being principals to the murder, was next in
order. The evidence not being sufficient to
justify a conviction, they were discharged and
set free.
The State vs. Frank Jackson, colored, charged
with the robbery of tbe peddler at Way’s Sta
tion, was next in order. Tbe defendant plead
guilty to the charge, and was sentenced to fifteen
years in the Penitentiary.
A Proposition.—The New York Times has
got a new crotchet It wants the freedmen to
go North, and [to send the “dem foreigners”
down South. It expresses an opinion that the
exchange would prove mutually beneficial. We
are not advised at this journalistic hour that the
proposition of the Times will meet with serious
opposition on the part of the whites in the
Territories.
tions as “Jesus, I love Thee! Jesus, I adore
Thee! Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, pray for me!”
For twenty-seven years I knew him. He was
my friend, and when on Monday night I receiv
ed the telegraph of the good priests ofthe church,
I felt, indeed, that now the Bishop’s hour had
oome. Early Tuesday morning I said mass, and
hastened here as scon as I could. I found the
Bishop very ill, and I asked him did he know
me? He feebly raised his head and said he did.
Then falling back on his pillow be continued to
repeat: “Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my
spirit” Gradually he became less conscious,
but 1 could see his lips in constant motion, as in
prayer.
Oh I my brethren, he is gone from you now.
I did not come here to preach a sermon, but to
console you ; to expect you to pray for his soul.
I would recommend that you oner up at Lent
one Holy Communion tor his soul; or have a
mass said and pray for him. It is the least you
can do for him, and should he not need your
prayers, then others may have the benefit ot
them.
The speaker then alluded briefly to his labors
in the field of religion. There were few priests
when Bishop Timon came here, but now he has
left a noble record after him. For fifty years he
wore the livery of the Lord. He also said a
farther and more detailed review of the Bishop’s
life would be given in the panegyric sermon.
The Visit of the President to Raleigh.
The Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier alludes to the President’s contempla
ted visit to Raleigh, probably to Columbia, South
Carolina, and that it is not designed as a political
tour. He says:
It will be difficult, however, for the President,
and tbe friends who may accompany him, to
avoid some expressions of political opinion in
regard to the Congressional plan of reconstruc
tion. Whenever they may go to the South, Mr.
Seward is to accompany the President, and his
oratory is irrepressible. He will no doubt be
heard with interest upon the paramount topics
of the day. Hopeful and sanguine, as he al
ways is of the future, he will probably open to
view a great career of power and prosperity for
the Booth.
Some of the military men stationed here will
accompany the President. But General Grant
will not be one of the party, for he has declared
that he should not leave Washington for ten
days at a time this year.
It would be interesting to witness a meeting
and a political discussion between Mr. Sewara
and Senator Wilson in the South. They will
not fail to meet, it is hoped, for want of invita
tions. Mr. Wilson is now attempting to revive
the old Clay Whig party in Virginia, and is ral
lying the freedmen under it.
Mr. Seward broke off from the Whig party and
avowed that he would be revenged upon it, when
he wa9 cheated out of the nomination for the
Presidency, at Chicago.
The leading Radicals are sensible of the fact
that their party cannot stand upon the late po
litical issues much longer. They are endeavor
ing to provide a course of party policy with a
view to secure the next Presidential election. If
they cannot carry the South, they will be de
feated, and they know it. Some Northern Con
servative speakers ought to follow Wilson in the
South. Leo.
DlstreM and Rain at the South.
The following terrible picture of distress and
rain appears in the Planters’ Banner, of Frank
lin, La., and is fully corroborated by all the
papers of that section :
Few can realize how terrible is the calamity
of the overflow now scourging the inhabitants
of tbe lower Mississippi. By these invading
waters multitudes are reduced to want anc
almost starvation. After five years ot bard
ships, including four years of war, in which
they were barely able to live, when they have
no money, and no means to pay their way
among strangers, many have to leave their
homes and lose their last means of suppoi t. In
their distress, and almost despair, who can be
found to help them ? Their neighbors are ruin
ed, the country is ruined, there is no money, no
credit, but little bread, and no hope of checking
the mad career of the merciless waters. Could
we but behold the hundreds of families now
seeking safety by flying from their homes, the
waters rolling over their fields and crops, and
entering their very dwellings, we would see
distress such as was seldom tyen except on a
battle-field, or in hospitals, even during tbe
war. From appearances it looks as though the
Mississippi coast will have to be abandoned on
account of the utter inability of the planters and
the State to keep up the levees. How can the
levees be kept up without multitudes ot la-
borres ? Where are those laborers coming from ?
Terrible necessity is driving tbe planters away,
the negroes are aying off, or yearly leaving for
tbe city, in large numbers, to serve politicians,
and to enjoy themselves, and the mean» neces
sary to keep up the levees are daily becoming
weaker. Who can devise a plan to save the
coast plantations from rnin, and its inhabitants
from the calamities which threaten them ? We
have yet to see the man who can solve this
question.
tiful verse of the Psalmist, “Into Thy hands, O
Lord, I commend my spirit!” and such ejacula-., f r0 m the pallet on which she had spent so many
Prom the Constitutional Union.
Waa nri. Snrra.t entity ?
Mr. Editor—A wise and good man stated to
me oq the day of the execution of Mrs. Surratt,
“ that in less than ten years the name of every
mm connected with her murder would be held
in execration by the American people.” This
prediction was uttered at a time when the minds
of men (and . women too) were heated with pas
sion, and when to accuse was to convict.
Little did I think then that this prophecy of
my friend was to be fulfilled, and still less did I
think that a great leader of the Radical party
Who hounded her on to her martyrdom, would,
in less than two years from her death, be heard
on the floor of Congress proclaiming her inno
cence, and holding up to public execration the
man, who, next to Holt, is responsible for the
murder of this innocent woman. In vain, Mr.
Bingham, will you appeal “ to the charitable con
sideration of your contemporaries and posterity.”
That mercy which you dealt out to this poor and
friendless woman will be shown when you and
your colleagues in guilt shall stand before the bar
of a public opinion, unswayed and uninfluenced
by tbe passions to which you pandered for the
purpose of procuring the conviction of your help
less prisoner. The torture, the agonies of her im
prisonment, unsurpassed, unequalled by anything
recorded in the dark annals of the Inquisition,
excited no tear of sympathy in your bosom. How
can you therefore look for “ charity ” when you
shall stand arraigned for the prominent part you
took in the cruel persecutions and more cruel
death of your innocent victim ? Your ready wit
and quick repartee enabled you, to some extent,
to parry the blows of Gen. Butler, but let me
tell you, sir, that when he proclaimed his belief in
the innocence of Mrs. Surratt, his words were
caught up and echoed back by millions of gen
erous hearts in this country, North and South,
who are ready to join in the chorus of execra
tion, awaiting you and your aiders aud abettors
in this legal murder.
But my object in writing this article was for
the purpose of availing myself of the returning
sense of justice in the minds of the public and,
to offer a few words in defense of this unfortu
nate woman. That “ she wa9 a Christian lady ”
is testified by tbe Judas Iscariot of the prosecu
tion, Weichman. Her demeanor in the prison
er’s dock drew from the pen of the Radical edi
tress (Mrs. Swisshelm) encomiums which never
would have been given unless they had been
richly deserved, while the serenity and compo
sure with which she bore the yet unwritten hor
rors of her prison cell, won the admiration and at
tracted to her the sympathy of her bearded jailors.
I do not consider now the solemn declaration of
her innocence made by that fearless and stoical
prisoner, Payne, as he Rtoou in tbe shadow of
death, but I pass to an incident in the last act of
this bloody drama, which, to my mind, more
than any other, confirms the assertion of Butler,
that “ innocent blood has been shed by this ille
gal tribunal.”
Her appeal for a few days in which she might
prepare her soul for eternity, had been denied.
In twenty-four hours the cruel sentence of the
law was to be executed. She met her fate with
the same Christian resignation which had marked
her conduct during her severe imprisonment.
She availed herself of the services of the minister
of religion, who was admitted to see her “ on
certain conditions,” and when, on the morning
of her execution, she was raised, by two soldiers,
hours of agony, her calmness and resignation
gave evidence that she had made her peace with
her God. As she went tottering to the gallows,
she turned to her clergyman and said, “ Father,
I am innocent. May I not tell these people from
the gallows that I am not guilty ?” “ No, no, my
child,” said he, “ it will do no good. It might
disturb the present composure of your mind.
Do not fear; justice will yet be done to your
memory.” She nodded her assent, and, with
this declaration of her innocence, she mounted
the scaffold and passed from there to eternity.
Christian men and women of this country,
will not this dying declaration of a Christian
lady have some weight with you when you come
calmly and without passion to review the sen
tence of the illegal tribunal by whose order she
was strangled to death ? General Butler has but
anticipated your verdict, and to his credit be it
said, has placed himself in the van of those who
will yet “ do justice to the memory of an inno
cent woman.” E.
The Head of a Dead Man.—The Paris cor
respondent of the Pittsburg Gazette tells the fol
lowing story:
A poor fellow was guillotined here a few days
after oHr arrival. According to the custom his
head and body were given to the surgeons for
the “advancement of science.” An experiment
was tried with the head with a very interesting
result. They injected into its arteries, fresh ar
terial blood taken from a dog, and shortly after
wards the head gave unmistakable signs of life.
The color returned to the cheeks and lips, the
eyes opened brightly and gazed upon those
around, the lips moved as it attempting vainly
to speak, and the entire face bore the semblance
to active life. So soon as the operator ceased to
inject the life blood of the dog, the appearances
ot death rapidly succeeded. It was earnestly
held by the eminent surgical gentlemen in atten
dance, that during the operation the brain was
in full and natural action, and that the lips tried
to utter the last thought which found resting
place in the mtyd of the condemned.
Con fiscal lonlat a. \
The Raleigh Sentinel, noticing the fact that at a
radical meeting in Randolph county, North Caro
lina, Congress wag especially appealed to, to pass
the ‘ Stevens ’ confiscation bill, makes the follow
ing remarks, which are applicable in other locali
ties than that of the old North State:
If we were called upon to spot one of these con-
fiscationists in North Carolina, we should describe
him thus: He was either an original secession
ist or a violent war man in the start. He didn’t
go into the fight himself, but he urged others to
He abused the Yankees at every cross-road
m morning until night, and swore that he
would never rive np, as long as he coaid get any
body else to fight for him. He boasted of what he
had done tor the “ brave boys ” in the field, and
how much he contribted to the “ sacred cause.”
He would leave the country rather than submit
to live again under the “ cursed old gridiron.”—
But when he saw that defeat and disaster were
impending, he whipped around, vowed that be
had always been a mend to the Union, perhaps
joined the “ Bed String,” and to cover op his
own treachery, waa as blatant in his abase of
rebels as he had ever been of Yankees.
The Honors to tiie Dead.—We clip the
paragraph below from the Columbus Enquirer
of Saturday :
The ladies of Columbus yesterday paid their
annual tribute to the Confederate dead who sleep
in our city cemetery. All the proceedings were
befitting the solemn occasion, and characteristic
of woman’s holy devotion and patriotism. At
noon, Temperance Hall was crowded to hear the
address ot the occasion. Alter an impressive
and fervent prayer by the venerable and beloved
Dr. L. Pierce, Dr. E. F. Colzey delivered a beau
tiful and appropriate euology of the fallen brave.
The floral decoration of the graves of the soldiers,
in the afternoon, waa very handsomely and taste
fully pertormed, and the whole pageant was stri
kingly illustrative of the sentiment of the South
ern poet Henry Timrod—
“ There ie no holier spot of ground,
Than where defeated valor lies,
By mourning beanty crowned.”
Newspaper Criticism.—General Hurlbert, of
Memphian notoriety, delivered a lecture in Chi
cago a few nights ago, wliich is pretty liberally
criticised by the press of that city. For exam
ple, the Times says:
Under the skin of a republican—no matter
whether he be disguised as a major general, a
lecturer, a legislator, or a lawyer—there is always
the fanatic. Such a one whether speculating in
cotton, suppressing newspapers, getting glorious
ly drunk, or running away from an enemy, al
ways doe9 it with *an eye single to the glory of
his faith. In all that he does, he manages to
binge it somehow on the “ interests of God and
humanity.” He cannot even lecture before a
crowd of unfeathered students without an eulosv
of the pilgrims and the- tiuwer; and an
apotheosis of the •• great moral ideas ” which
underlie the raid ol fanaticism against the gov
ernment, and the rights of States and citizens.
Charles O’Conor.—The Home Journal of
last week has the following notice in reference
to Mr. O’Conor whose name has been'so promi
nently before tbe country for the last few weeks
in connection with the Georgia Injunction Bill:
McDonald’s bust of Hon. Charles O’Conor
was presented, last week, to the Supreme Court,
with appropriate ceremonies. It is one of the
artist’s best specimens of portraiture, and em
bodies the essential characteristics of tbe emi
nent lawyer with a success highly satisfactory
to those who kno.w him most intimately. The
bust was executed by order of prominent mem
bers of the New York bar, including C. B. Mor
rison, A. Oakey Hall, James T. Brady, S. F. B.
Morse, Edwards Pierrepont, Gilbert Dean, C. G.
Gunther, Clarence Seward, Fernando Wood,
and others. Its cost was two thousand dollars.
Jail Delivery.—The Savannah Advertiser
of Saturday says:
At the last term of the Superior Court for
Bryan county, several parties were sentenced to
various terms in the Penitentiary. As there is
no jail in Bryan, the prisoners were ordered to
be sent to Chatham jail for safe-keeping. While
waiting for a safe conduct to Savannah, they
were kept in the court house, being hand cuffed
and chained, and a guard stationed to watch
them. Daring tbe night the guard got rather
•sleepy, and detailed one of their number to look
Lfter the prisoners. He got sleepy also, and
when he awoke to look after his charge, he had
a long look to make, as they had gone beyond
his sight.
The Black Douglass.—It is reported in the
Rochester papers that Fred Douglass, since the
radicals refused to let him run for the New York
State Convention, has abandoned all hopes of
the nomination for the Presidency in 18G8.
Senator Wilson, who is now angling for negro
votes in the South, is said to be the most formi
dable aspirant for that position at this time.
Gov. FTaruts-—Says the Paris, Tcnu., Intel'.',
gencer of yesterday: “We are in receipt ot a
letter from ex-Gov. Harris soon after his safe ar
rival at Liverpool, his future place of business.
Hi« thousands of friends on this side of the At
lantic will be delighted to bear of his continued
good health, spirits and prospects.