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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGUSTA, GA.
SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 9, 1867.
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THE PERILS OP ORATORY.
At Chapel Hill, North Carolina, President
Johnson is reported to have said :
“ When we depart from the Constitution our
institutions will relatively suffer. A g .
ment which has no power to enforce the l.« a
fails; its great object and public i lghtb aic an
at sea.”
From the construction of this sentence, i»
would appear that though we are in danger < I
drifting away from that venerable document,
popularly supposed to be concealed at this mo
ment as a nest egg in Judge Gkibh’b breeches
pockets, we have not, up to date, taken an
rious departure. Alas aud alas', has the Exec
utive turned his back upon memory and for
gotten that the sword has found its way to t m
bowels of the Constitution, while the few
parchment shreds remaining have served to
line the unmentionables of a frightened Justice.
The President’s sentence would read mon:
correctly thus qualified : “ When we departe,
from the Constitution our institutions relativel y
suffered.” As two coordinate branches ol what
was supposed to constitute a republican sot m
of government have “ no power to enforce tic
laws,” the government itself not only has failed
and gone to sea, but is actually swamped.
Gen. Sickles, of Order No. 32 notoriety,
said, on the same occasion :
“ In the difficult and, as he might say, ar
duous duties he had to discharge, he had had
the aid aud encouragement, and had been sus
tained by the opinion, countenance and co
operation of a vast majority of the citizens ol
the Carolinas.”
We think the great Daniel had come to a
wrong judgment. Rut, if lie labor under no
delusion, the people of the Carolinas have
been enchanted by some magician of the fail y
tales and rest under a spell not specially delight
ful in the present or worthy of their glorious
past.
A “Humble and Submissive Spibit.”
Chauncev Burk thus writes in the last num
ber of the Old Guard:
A Southern man, or rather a Northern man
long time residing in the South, writes us that
he is “ satisfied the only thing which can save
the South is a humble and submissive spirit.”
Alas, what stupidity! No oppressed people
was ever yet saved by a “ humble and submis
sive spirit.” Manhood and pluck are the only
things that ever saved a people from oppres
sion. We are reminded of a story, told by
Livy, of the Privernates , who had been sub
dued by the Romans. Their city was taken by
Plautius, the consul, after their leader, Vitri
vius, and great numbers of their Senate and
f people had been killed. Being reduced to a
low condition, they sent ambassadors to Rome
to desire peace; and when a [Senator asked
them what punishment they deserved, one
of them answered : “ The same which they de
serve who think themselves worthy of liberty."
The consul then demanded what kind of peace
might be expected from them if the punishment
should be remitted. The Ambassador answered:
“ If the terms you give be good, the peace will be
observed by us faithfully and perpetually; if bad,
it will soon be broken." Though the least gen
erous were offended at this brave answer, the.
most sagacious portion of the Senate said it
was worthy of a man and a free man, well
knowing that no people would long consent to
be oppressed, and acknowledged that “ they
only were fit. to be made Romans who thought
nothing valuable but liberty." Those who think
that a cringing and submissive spirit will ever
be a remedy for the South, have neither read
history, nor understand the character of the
Mongrel party. • There will ever be found
weights of humiliation and indignity for all the
humility and submission the South can put on.
Radical Assertion op State Rights.—
When, says the National Intelligencer, it was
proposed to foist negro suffrage upon the
States in the North, the friends of the bills of
Messrs. Sumner and Wilson alleged that the
Constitution confers the power upon Congress,
and pretended so get it from the clause relating
to a republican form of government and from
the amendment abolishing slavery. But in
Mississippi, General F. P. Blair, having been
denied his vote because of his declining to
take the iron-clad oath, is refused any redress
by the Supreme Court of the State, which pays
no heed to the decision ol the Supreme Court
of the United States, but contends that it is not
applicable to voters, averring the right of each
State to regulate its own conditions of suffrage
in the following unqualified terms. We put it
on record as the broadest assertion of State
rights seen from any court during the war, and
in order that the. followers of Radicalism may
mark the gross inconsistency of their leaders
whenever a special object is to be accom
plished :
“ Prior to the adoption of the Federal Con
stitution, the respective States possessed un
limited and unrestricted sovereignty, and re
tained the same ever afterwards, except so tal
as they granted certain powers to the General
Government or prohibited themselves from do
ing certain acts. Every State reserved to itself
the exclusive, right of regulating its own inter
nal government and police.”
Wku. Put. —President Johnson’s pathetic
allusions to the Constitution ought to make the
relics ol that venerable instrument scorch the
breeches pockets of Judge Grier. llis position
is happily illustrated by the following anecdote,
which “ Quondam ” relates as occurring conver
sationally between Judge C ——and a young
lawyer, Mr. G., of Atlanta. The Judge was
advocating the passage of a law to wipe out all
indebtedness and to enable the people to begin
anew, aud was very earnest in his support of
wholesale repudiation, when the young lawyer,
very modestly, drew his attention to the fact
that the Constitution forbids the passage of any
law which impairs the validity of contracts.—
The Judge, after regarding his young friend for
some seconds, with evident compassion, re
marked, “My friend, your talk about the Con
stitution and validity of contracts reminds me
of a parcel of boys riding stiek-korscs in a cir
cus, after circus is gone.” The young attorney
made no reply, aud the Judge remained master
of the situation.
Female Supfuage.— The New York Times
says: “Blank petitions are in circulation for
signatures, praying the Constitutional Conven
tion to concede suffrage to women. The speech
of Mr. Mill in the British Parliament and the
vote of seventy-three members of that body in
favor of female suffrage, have excited a new in
terest in the subject here. To the objection that
comparatively few of the women of the coun
try desire the ballot, the reply is made that
many thousands of women have signed the pe
titions for it and have done every thing in their
power to secure it. ft will not Ji*waisy, cer
tainly, to give any good and substantial reason,
based on auy fling higher than party necessi
ties, for refusing to women what has been con
ceded to three millions of ignoraut negroes in
the United States ; but we do not believe it will
be conceded to them nevertheless. If either
party felt certain of being able to control the
female vote , it would give women the suffrage
very readily ; but they do not feel all safe on that
point.
The Milk in the Cocoa-Nut.—Judd, of
Chicago, and Thad Stevens have been examin
ing the gold miues in North Carolina, with a
view to working them. It is believed these
mines can be made to pay, and “ appropriate
legislation”can easily clean up any little cloud
on the title of Stevens and Judd.— World.
If anybody has failed to discover why Thao
Stevens writes letters urging confiscation,
the above paragraph may prove an eye-opener.
anfj' v Miss Eller, of Hamilton county, lud., after
is set >) evei T °f horrible suffering from hydro
' obia, gradually became more tranquil under
'•romide of potassium,” treatment of her
and is now reported to be eonva-
Letter from Greenesboro.
Greenesboro, June 6, 1807.
Gentlemen: Presuming the hours to be long, (
tedious and hot to you and your readers, and (
that you all feel a little dull in mind and busi- (
ness, and that you would like lor some friend (
to take up his pen or his pitcher to amuse and (
cool you off, we have concluded to undertake |
the job, aud will charge you nothing for the es- (
fort. Consequently, we will not play Chester
field, and tax your patience by making a thous
and and one apologies, usually made when a
fellow can’t scratch up an idea to take him
from one to the next station without getting
out of wood aud water, but will take you by
the hand, aud lead you out from the city ol
bricks and mortar, where the wind and water
will blow and refresh the institution ; and if,
in the performance of your journey, you should
become a little tired or fatigued, don’t coin
plain, as we have much to say and show you,
for wc wish to take you in and around the
home of our childhood, and through the old
fields and ravines, and meadow scenes of our
early youth. Don’t blow, don’t give out and
ask to be excused ; but, however, this would be
too much for you to bear all at once, lake aseat;
city folks ain’t much at walking, unless they
have along some of the inspiring element aud
ice, to relieve and accelerate their motion, and
to travel eighty-three miles without taking su
gar, ice and mint in them, would certainly
weaken the propelling machine. So we will,
for your convenience and pleasure, dispense
with the long journey, and not take you through
fields, ravines and meadows, but will take you
along and talk to, cool and refresh yon the best
we can, aud then ask you how many miles
abriglit, and if you can get there by teu.
Perhaps you have never seen or heard much
i of Greenesboro and Greene county, the land
and place within a quarter or half quarter where
Jim Howland burnt the woods, aud where the
Dawsons, Longstrect, Fosters, Kings, Gone and
Pierces’ stocks laid out the energies and pleas
ures of their best days, and where the Georgia
Scenes and the Hilly Mittens originated their
creative sports. If you have not, you have lost
at least one-half of the pleasures of your life,
aud the other is not worth living for or an Oco
' lice Goon. Rut we will not delay you, as wc
wish to introduce you to our city and county
without passing around the equator, then,
1 without further delay and formality, permit us
• to introduce to your acquaintance our old, ven
■ erable and much esteemed Greenesboro, which
1 was once an humble and unpretending village,
but now a city, with cathedrals projecting to
i the skies, containing a large, intelligent and
thrifty population, located on. a beautiful
eminence, overlooking surrounding country,
5 five miles from the beautiful Oconee and seven
r from the Apalachee, whose combined waters
kiss the Ocmulgcc and roll majestically on, re
joicing, unawed by the thunder and lightning
1 of Heaven, to the Atlantic. Greenesboro,
Greene county, was so called in honor o( Gen.
Nathaniel Greene, of revolutionary memory,
. was laid out and located in J7SG, and once burn
ed by the Indians ; and in 17!)t it continued
about a dozen cabins, built on the ruins of the
old town. The first framed building erected
i in the plane was erected by Col. Jonas Katieb,
l and stood where tl ; e Presbyterian Church now
stands. William Aimor, ap old respectable
I citizen, was one ol the first settlers. The fort
’ to defend the town from Indian depredations,
, stood, in 1794, where Wakefield aud CoJ. Joe
Maury’s storenow stands, on thecorner opposite
C. G. Norton. The couuty was surveyed in
y 1784, aud part of it lies in the fork of the Oco
- nee and Apalachee, and the northern bound
,, ary ol this part of the county is a line from the
rnoutlT of Rose Greek, at jL’oullain Bridge, to
" Walker Ford on the Apalachee. For a num
y ber of years the people were compelled to live
in forts. General Thomas Dawson was the
, first person horn in the county, and in this
county Peter Early began and ended his politi-
II cal career, and his bones new rest one miie be
a low Poullain Rridgc. So says Adriel in brief
1 history. But we will return to the city, which
can rejoice more with airy streets, shades,
" gardens, mineral water, business houses and
• more pretty women and intelligent girls and
’ better educated, socially, religiously, politically
and domestically, than Athens or Rome, in pal
miest days, “ even dreamed of or contained.”
■ The population is not quite two thousand souls,
: aud notwithstanding the wreck of matter and
, crush of worlds and the sad incidents of war,
she still gives evidence of vitality in her im
-1 provements. Since the war she has built one
carriage shop (large brick), with carriage, har
: ness and blacksmith apartments, which turn
out fine specimens of work, equal to any in the
State, and three huge soda fountains, which
consume ice, from the North Pole, which is
much used in our climate to freeze out the heat,
notwithstanding the rain-bow (whisky) is fre
qu'cntly thrown in to impart its beautiful colors,
to wake up the wits and make pleasant com
pany, and has one male academy and one large
brick female colloge with beautiful flower
grounds, one Baptist, one Episcopalian, one
African, one brick Presbyterian and Methodist
Church of surpassing beauty and finish, and
their parsonages’ one eleganthotel and the Saint
Charles (kept l>y Judge Dorherty), seven
brick stores With cellars complete, and three
drug stores. The Doctors have no use for
shops, as the city aud surrounding country are
distressingly healthy, and the people here live
(unless they are killed by rye and corn juice)
until they dry up and blow away. There, are
three mineral springs within convenient dis
tance, which have extraordinary curative
powers and qualities for earing many diseases,
which were once much resorted to by the peo
ple of the Slate, ns their celebrities were pro
verbial throughout Georgia, and many came to
Silvarn to be dipped, refreshed and healed by
these waters, in reference to the future of
these springs we would say that if there were a
line of stages to eonueet at Greenesboro’ we
know of no investment that would pay better.
There is one well containing nine and one half
grains of irou to the pint of water, in the city.
Greenesboro’ is accessible by rail to all points,
and is most convenient to the seaboard, and the
people ol Charleston and Savannah and Augusta,
aud all the low country, in one grand caravan,
would seek this Mecca, and retreat, to be bene
fited by our salubrious climate and water.
The Rads, it is true, have made us poor, and
taken away from us the substance of our youth
and left upon us the foot-prints of decay ; but
energy is not dead or perseverance and economy
laid in the grave. With these three elements
and ttie blessing of health energized by fruitful
minds, iho springs and country again can be
made to germ, bud, bloom and flower.
If wc cannot create, we must make and vita
lize the agencies around us, whether we live in
the Union or in a territory. Then hope on,
God Almighty is omnipotent, merciful and re
constructive. Look up about and around you,
pass over the Bermuda fields, the best lands in
the country, and see the mercy of God and how
lie reconstructs those fields by sending the
Shamrock and clover to reclaim from the Ber
muda our best lands. Be wise and diligent in
your business, and through His inscrutable
powers and wisdom lie will eventually overrule
the fanatical despotism of the North, and briug
the persecuted children of the South across the
the sea of trouble and place them in the Happy
Land ol Canaan, to again cultivate and rejoice in
its fruits and flowers. R. J. D.
Death of Judge Lumpkin.
Athens, June 5, 1807.
This community consigned to earth to-day,
with sorrowing hearts, and the deepest sympa
thy for those who mourn and refuse to be com
forted, the remains of Joseph Henry Lumpkin,
for nearly quarter of a cent ury Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the State, who died here
yesterday morning, at 10 o’clock, of paralysis.
Born In the expiring days of the eventful
eighteenth century, in the county of Oglethorpe,
he would have counted sixty-eight years, full
of honor, had the Master whom he loved and
served with no variableness nor shadow of
turning, spared his life till the twenty-third of
the coming December. More facile pens, point
ed with an eloquence and pathos that mine dare
not hope to reach, will hereafter do full jus
tice to his life and eminent public service.
This brief paragraph is my humble offering
upon a bier that encloses much, very.much, that
honored human nature, and nobly and endur
ingly illustrated Georgia. Henceforth his name
lakes its rightlul place high up on the shining
roll of those Georgians whose lives and works
are “ familiar in our mouths as household
words.”
The Rev. Dr. Lipscomb preached the funeral
sermon, to the largest assemblage ever gathered
within the walls of the Presbyterian Church,
taking as his text part of the 23d verse of the
first chapter of 2d Samuel: “I am distressed
for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant
hast thou been unto me.” It was an eloquent,
impressive and eminently just tribute—worthy
both subject and orator. Peace be to these hon
ored manes, aud may the God of the widow and
the fatherless, in the pleuteousness of His most
benelieent love and tenderness, bind up their
bleeding hearts. K
Letter from Hancock Oounty.
Sparta, Ga., June 0, 18fi7.
Messrs. Stockton & Co.: The prospect in
old Hancock for a good crop is rather flattering
at this time. Wheat and oats are good. The
former is better than it has been for a uumber
of years; but unfortunately there was a small
crop planted in comparison to former years.
Corn and cotton, as far as 1 have heard from,
is doing well. Some farmers were troubled to
get a stand of cotton in consequence of the
cold weather, and had to plow up and plant
over in some instances, hut the late rains,
warm days and nights, and “Cher’s manipu
lated aud other fertilizers, (large quantities of
vylucli are now' used in this county) are having
the happiest effect upon the growing crops.
Our esteemed fellow citizen, James 11.
Middlebrooks, died suddenly at bis place near
Culverton on Tuesday evening last. He was
truly “a good man.” He had many warm
Ineuds and but few enemies—in fact none—and
was universally respected by all who knew him.
Hancock.
The Austrians are going to fortily the city of i
Vienna. I ,
Paragraphic.
Colored immigration is expected in Arkansas
the present year. Nearly two bundle s\ from
Georgia will locate on Government lan d under
the homestead law next autumn. In Franklin
county, near the Arkansas river, tli .ere is a
colony of tweuty families, located » lev r months
since. They have about five hundred acres in
corn and cotton.
A Nashville mechanic has rcc< ,ntly applied '
for a patent for a new style o i locomotive ?
smoke-stack, so constructed that, no sparks are
emitted from the top ol the stavk, a finite being
fixed to carry them downward, aud they fall
harmlessly upou the earth beneath the locomo
tive, thus insuring safety '.o all articles of a
combustible nature on the. train or in its imme
diate vicinity.
Rev. Dr. Gurry, Editor of the Methodist
Christian Advocate , says the Atlantic Monthly
is the organ of free-thinkers ; the New York
Tribune has always been anti-Christian ; the
Nation is edited by polite infidels ; the 'JUmes
is “ reckless of truth, poetry and decency,”
and the Evening Post has “ Unitarian proclivi
ties.”
One Haul Bagley, who calls himself a mis
sionary, and who ought to be one in Borri
boolaGha, has tried to get Jeff. Davis to beg
pardon.
Maryland Convention. —The Maryland
Constitutional Convention has settled the sec
tion relating to slavery in the bill of rights by
adopting the following :
Art. 2, That slavery shall not be re-estab
lished in this State, hut, having been abolished
under policy and authority of the United States,
compensation in consideration thereof is due
from the United States.
There were twenty four votes against this
clause.
The Denver Gazette is informed that Gov.
Gilpin lias sold his grant in the Southern part,
of Colorado for two millions to a New York
company. The same paper reports the prob
able driving off of J. W. Smith’s stock by the
Indians near Julesburg. Further information
is to the effect that three of his men have been
killed aud scalped.
The trial of a new railroad constructor on the
Central Pacific, in California, lias proved a com
plete success. The machine levels the track,
lays the ties, deposits the rails, and u fils them
in their places. It is esmnated that with a
complement of twenty men it will do as much
work in a day as two hundred men without the
aid of the constructor.
Preaching and tiie Heated Truw.—The
New York Express is out in an article on va
cant pulpits in the summer season. It is said
that many of the churches are closed in New
York during the summer, while the minister
who is drawing a large salary is enjoying the
gay world at Saratoga or some other faspkin-.
a bis suimuvr resort. The injunction to preach
the Gospel was not restricted lo the pleasant
: seasons of the year, but is as important and as
effective in mid-summer as in the balmy spring
time. The congregations arc to blame, as they
could keep their minister at his post if they
! desired to hear blip iq the hot, sultry summer
' time.
i The Colorado Times says it is reported on
i good authority from Waverville, that on the
i 3lst ult., one Indian—a desperate character—
- killed four men on the west side, viz : Robert
■ L. Stockton, (Indian agent, Hoop Valley,)
! James Latham, William Griffin and Isaac Stover,
i at a point two miles above Willow creek. The
lour were trying to arrest the murderer, when
i' they were slain. Stockton was a brothcr-in
i law of Senator Couness, ot California.
| Some delay occurring during a recent presen
tation of the Black Crook in New York, the
[• stage manager explained it by saying that “ the
, ladies of the ballet were not dressed." The
joke was fully appreciated.
1 The Emperor Napoleon has presented to the
University at South Bend, Indiana, a superb
.and powerful telescope, valued at 25,000 francs,
it lias inscribed upon it in French: “Present
ed by his Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111. lo
the Catholic University of Notre Dame du Lac,
Indiana, United States.”
The Southern harvest of Republicanism is
White, hut the laborers are few.
j Cleveland Leader.
We though that the harvest was black and
the laborers many. The Government lias cer
tainly put in its Sickles.— Prentice.
Rumor has it that Count Von Bisma-k has
asked and obtained leave to retire from office
as soon as the Western German States ratify
the new Federal Constitution.
William Riddle, Brevet Lient-Col. IT. S. A.,
late of the staff of Maj. Gen. Meade, died at the
’residence of his mother, in Philadelphia, on
Sunday, 2d hist. Some days ago the deceased
had a difficulty in an assessor’s office in that
city about a hasty word spoken by some body
in the room, and it is alleged was struck upon
the l.ead with a billy, lie was taken to bis
home, aud his injuries resulted iu death. He
was born iu Pittsburgh, and early in the war
joined the regiment of Pennsylvania Reserves
from that eily, tinder Col. Simmons. After a
short experience ot the Peninsular campaign,
he was taken prisoner, and sent to Libby. Es
caping with others, lie reached the Union lines
with much difficulty, and was selected by Gen.
Reynolds as one of his personal staff. After
that officer’s death at Gettysburg, lie served
on Gen. Meade’s staff until broken health com
pelled him to leave the field. He was wounded
at Antietam.
Air. Ernest C. Wallace, who lias been con
nected with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
since the Spring ol 1854, died at Yonkers on
Monday morning, 3d inst., of consumption,
from which disease he has been tor some months
a sullerer.
A machine for destroying the potato bug has
been invented out West. It is very simple and
resembles a sulky plow, having two wheels to
drive a fan, which sucks up the insects and
dashes them against a board, which kills them.
Turkey being bankrupt, and having imposed
taxes on every other imaginable thing, has at
length resorted to a tax on babies, because they
are “ exempt from military service.”
A dollar in gold will not to-day purchase as
mueli dry goods, iron, groceries, farm products
or labor as before the war, notwithstanding it
was quoted then at. par and now at, one hun
dred aud thirty-five for currency. The credit
of the Government lias depreciated about twen
ty-tive per eent., whilst merchandise and labor
have, appreciated from fifty to one. hundred per
cent.
A project is on foot among the Germans resi
dent in England and elswkere, toward raising a
fund for the benefit of the poet Freiligarlb, the
object of which is to enable him to quit the
toils of business life, aud to return to his first
love—poetry—for the rest of his days.
Ourlotta Patti is likely to bring the world of
Paris to her feet, ft is more than probable she
will grow to be the special favorite of the sea
son, and to become as much sought after in the
concert room as Adelina is on the stage. It is
fortunate that the two renowned sister-stars can
revolve separately in their orbits without inter
fering with each other. Two such burning
lights on the sfage or in the concert room
would threaten the demolition of one. Now
each has her allotted sphere, and may illumine
her share ol the world apart.
The mass which Liszt has composed lor the
coronation of the Emperor of Austria as King
of Hungary, was to be conducted by himself iu
person; but an ancient custom confers the
honor, on all such occasions, upon the Capell
meister of the Court of Vienna, and, from the
result of the usage, it is understood, no depart
ure will be made iu favor of Liszt.
[From the New York Herald.
Mr. Davis.
Montreal, May 30, 1807.
Jeff Davis, accompanied by Mr. Mason, left for
Canada West by steamer on Tuesday. His stay
in Canada West will be, I am informed, only
temporary, and he lias not yet settled on bis
future and permanent abiding place. His pres
ence in Montreal has not been marked by any
public demonstration. None but his personal
friends and a few Canadians, intimate and
favored acquaintances of bis family, have been
presented to him. Mr. Davis attended divine
service at St. George’s (Episcopalian) Church
last Sunday evening. The Rev. Mr. Duinoulin
preached, and, by a curious coincidence, bis ser
mon was applicable to many of the incidents in
Davis’ life and captivity. After service quite a
crowd c.-Heeled round the door to catch a
glimpse of him; many pressed forward to ex
press their pleasure on seeing their illustrious
hero, and one enthusiastic lady pressed through
the throng, touched him on the shoulder, and
said, triumphantly, “There, I’ve touched him?”
She called next day at Mrs. Howell’s to say that
she was the party iu question.
A Canadian gentleman who called on Mr
Davis says that, although weak and nervous in
appearance, lie still retains his old vigor of i
mind, and chatted affably with his visitor^on a |
a variety of subjects. (
I have heard such a variety of stories about ]
Mr. Davis’ future residence that 1 begin to think <
he is like the Irishman’s bird—capable of being 1
in two places at once. The reporters have made ]
him invest in real estate promiscuously, and ’
have also caused an enthusiastic and wealthy 1
Southern lady to purchase him a country seat I
at St. Catharine’s. lam however, able to state, 1
on good authority, that his mind is not as yet t
made up, and that he will return to Montreal 1
ere he finally settles on his plans tor the future. ‘
His son and namesake, coming in from Len- *
noxville the other day to meet his father at 1
Montreal, was considerably bored by an inquisi- t
tive Yankee from Boston. a
The boy promptly appealed to the conductor s
to protect him from the insults of a vandal r
and the scene was, I understand,
amusing. /■ J v
DE4TM of a Well-Known Character.—
Jam oß M. Beard, an eccentric character, died
at Ihe City Hospital on Wednesday night.
Jaracs was kind-hearted and very devoted to
those whom he considered his friends. For
m any years it was his business to fashion the
“• uarrow bed ” lor those who preceded him to
the grave—for “ the tall,'the wise, the reverend
head.” Now his lies as low as theirs. The
God who shadowed his intellect will call only
for the talent entrusted. lies est sacra miser.
A New Thing.— One of the most novel as
-well as most excellent inventions of the day,
■is the cork hat. It recommends itself to the
public as an exquisitely beautiful article, as
well as a most useful one. Made of the light
est material known, it is durable and pliable in
the highest degree; a non-conductor of heat,
cannot be penetrated or injured by rain, and il
soiled, can be cleaned-with a sponge and soap
and water ; in a word, the very thing lor our
Southern climate.
Williams & Co., opposite Masonic Hall, have
a supply. _____
Dividends.— The President of the Augusta
and Savannah Railroad announces that the
regular semi-annual dividend of three and a
a half per cent, (less the United States tax) will
be paid to the stockholders on demand at the
Central Railroad Bank in Savannah.
The Central Railroad management announces
a dividend of live dollars per share on the
capital stock of this company has been de
clared from its earnings ol the past six months,
payable on and after the 15tli instant in United
States currency.
The company will pay the Government tax.
Jefferson Davis.— The proprietors of the
Springs, iu county, North Caro
lina, it is reported, have invited Hon. Jefferson
Davis to visit, with his family, that famous
watering place, on his return from Canada, and
that he has accepted the invitation, and will be
there in July or August, as he is returning to
the State of Mississippi. Right good advertise
ment for blank spring.
— •
Sale of Old “ Vigilant.”— -The old hum!
engine of Vigilant was sold on Thursday to tliJ
city of Milledgeville. One thousand doll:\fl
was the price. M
The mother of Gen. Win. T. Wofford,
park'd ibis life, at his residence, a few
Radical Estimate of It. —The
Press says ; “ The more we study Mr.
bery’s opinion the less we like it.”
Whereupon I lie New York World i
“ This is not suprising,” and adds :
“ No rogue e’er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.”
In the course of its comment on the opinio
the World says : “No one is disfranchised fJr
mere disloyalty, lint only for disloyalty sub*
quent to taking the oath of office. And till
interpretation exempts ail local, municipal ail
military officers.” And, that “Congress is
bound to acquiesce in the official inlerpretatioi,
or else inform the South wliat the requirements
really are, which will he finally insisted upon.'*
Tiie Negko Vote—ASej,f Evident Truth.
—We are indebted to the New York Times, a
leading Republican organ, lor (lie following
sound opinion. It says: “It is impossible
that Ihe whites and blacks of the South should
be mustered into opposition camps politically,
without a consequent hostility in all the rela
tions of life. Their only hope lies in harmony
of sentiment, based on a conviction of harmony
of interest. And the systematic crusade which
is now going on, and which tends directly
to a disturbance ol thesendatinns,
cause, disquiet and rcscntnMfc to the
the Southern States.” ■*.
Tim Amiable Raker.—The
says “Detective” Raker was
story concerning the President ftQMPp
doa “brokeresses.” It is now y., 1
President never saw these wom^Hf*” 1 < ‘
pardons were granted in the rcglßb
and that Baker is a miscreant whoso —JfcA
be clipped. If the iiutlioi its ,widely sufßfc«f
or “ warns” newspapets at the
suppress his disgusting book it
iuterlerenee in behalf o( the public morat.C
A League in Alabama Come to Grirf. —
We clip the paragraph below from the Mont
gomery Mail:
The secret society framed by the Yankees for
the purpose of controlling the votes of colored
people lias come to grief at Autangaville. The
honest portion of the members, who joined as
they believed a simple Union society, finding
that it was intended to bind the consciences ol
men, and compel them to vote the Republican
ticket, have bolted the concern, and broken it
into flinders in Autauga county. Wyatt Golson,
a renegade Confederate soldier, who is reported
as having participated in the hanging ol shine
Union citizen near Blue Mountain, during the
war, and who since the war has been a ‘/loud
mouthed Loyalist” so-ealled, and right bower
of Gen. Swayne’s party for that county, Living
nia.le threats against the respectable clizens
who refused to join his secret league, f large
number of the whites and negroes tumeettgainst
him, ieft the society, and denouncedltha whole
thing as a swindle, gotten up by the Raqrals to
control the votes of colored men. f'
We arc glad to make the announce!!* and
would caution all respectable people hav
ing any connection with so nefarious j ern
A Startling Discovert—A Fsnre aX>uR
Inches Long Taken from a Yoi»*. loingiv’s
Stomach.—A parly of young peopanto, audit) y
amusing themselves at the house < Mr.
White, near Terre Haute, Indiana, i aid
den ly somewhat startled on hearing 1 ”?? tak
ing of a frog in their midst.
While they were vainly search! the
strange visitant—an unwelcome on NHunly
in a front parlor—they noticed that ■their
number, a young girl of seventeen, na i W'.lary
Copaxi, turned as white as a sheet a. J*(l her
hand upon her breast*. w’ f
The.croakingcontinued, and Miss CWixißud
denly uttered a terrible scream audswooued
away. As her young companionsigathered
round her, applying tiie proper respratives,
they made a startliug discovery tlift thrilled
them with horror ! !
Mr. White coming in at this juifction, in
quired as to the meaning of the strange tumult,
aud was informed that the croaking ȣ a frog
was heard proceeding from the stomach of Miss
Copaxi.
Yes, the*-c could be uo mistake ; the noise of
the frog came from the young girl !
She swooned away three times beflre the
kind minister could inspire her witli srfHcient
hardihood and coolness to endure hfr mis
fortune as became a Christian ; and her com
panions were obliged to carry her bane in a
carriage.
Dr. Williams, a promising young surgeon, on
a visit to some relatives in this place, was im
mediately sent for. He perceived at once that
his patient was a difficult ease ; hut with re
markable self-possession and a steaily hand, he
at once proceeded with the work which could
alone save the girl’s life, before night, he had
made an incision in the flesh jnaf below the
breast, and extracted a large, green, speckled
frog, almost four inches in length.
Tire girl is now doing well and will recover.
[ Rochester Union.
The End op Jullien.—ln 1857 his cornet-a
piston player, Krcnig, died insane at Paris.
The loss of one with whom lie had been so long
associated had a serious effect on Jullien, anil
from this period his energies seemed to fail him;
he was most anxious to return to/ranee. His
last concerts in London took place at the Ly
ceum in 1858. His last appearance in public
was at the Free Tradeball, Manchester, iu the
early part of Febuary, 1859. After this he left
England, broken in health and spirits. He
went to Paris, where he was imprisoned for
debt at Clichy. He was arrested as an English
man, at the suit of an Euglshmsn. This greatly
increased his mental excitement, which had
been for some, time apparent. On being libera
ted, he arranged to give some conceits on a
grand scale at the Cirque Imperial, in the
Champs Elcsees. The first was to have taken
place bn March 12, 18G1, but it was found ne
cessary to put him under restraint some three
weeks before that time. He was sitting at the
piano-forte one morning,when hcsuddculy rose
with a knife iu his hand, and addressings young
lady who was ou a visit in the house, told her
he had an inspiration from Heaven to kill her.
With wonderful presence ol mind.she declared
she was ready to die, hut asked him to grant
her one. favor before fulfilling his mission.
“ What is it V” he replied, “ I have power to
agree to wiiat you demand.” She begged that
he would let her hear him play some of his own
composition on the piccolo. lie consented,
aud went into an adjoining room to fetch the in
strument. She turned the key ppon him and
_jau for assistance. He was taken to Dr. Pinel’s
nunfOHjiesante known as La w 'ie St. James,
where he died raving mad o %ych 14, 1860.
fm How Strange It Will Be.
Jf BT FLOBBNCB PERCY.
lilt strange it will be, love—how strange when
? wo tw.o
riliall be what all lovers become—
■yVu rigid and faithless, I cold and untrue,
Y<ji thoughtless of me and I careless of you,
Oir pet names grown rusty with nothing to do,
IgWe’s bright web unravelled, and rent and worn
through,
And life’s loom left empty—ah, hum I
Ah, irte I
How strange It will be I
I|/W strange it will be when the witchery goes
jWhich makes me seem lovely to-day ;
When your thought of me loses its couteur cle rose ;
When every day serves some new fault to disclose;
When you find I’ve cold eyes and every-day nose,
And wonder you could for a moment suppose
I was out of the csmmon-place way ;
Ah, mo I
lfow strange it will tie I
<w strange It will be, love- how strange when we
Ktß just a chill touch of the hand;
■' W pulses no longer delightfully beat
Hr thought of your coming—at the sound of
■•our feet;
Bn I watch not your eoming far down the long
Btreet;
RV y*r dear, loving voice, so thrillingly sweet,
Irows harsh in reproach or command;
Ah, me!
How strange it will be I
flow strange will it be when we willingly stay
Divided the weary day through;
Or, getting remotely apart an we inay,
git chilly and silent, with nothing to say,
(Or cooly converse on the news of the day,
(in a wearisome, old married folks sort of way !
I shrink from the picture—don’t you-?
Ah, me I *
( How strange it will he!
Dear love, if our hearts do grow torpid and eold,
- As so many others have (lone ;
If we do let our love perish with hunger and cold,
ff we diin all life’s diamonds and tarnish its gold.
If we choose to live wretched and die unconsoled,
’Twill he strangest of ail things tiiat ever were told
V As happening under the sun I
I Ah, me 1
jV How strange it will he !
m Tribute of Respect.
•EETING OF THE llAlt OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Milledgeville, June 5, 1807.
! At a meeting of the bar of the Supreme
Court, held this day, on motion of N. J. Ham
mond, Esq., Hon. Joseph E. Brown was called
the eliair, and on motion of Amos T. Aker-
Inan, Esq., Charles W. Dußose was appointed
kcretary.
■Hon. R. F. Lyon announeed the death of the
Jos. 11. Lumpkin, Chief Justice ot the
Bteiiu; Court ol' Georgia, and moved the ap-
SHftmcnt of a committee of ten by the char -
|Hto dralt suitable resolutions upon the oe-
with instructions to report the same to
during the present session, in order
may lie spread upon the minutes.
motion was adopted and the following
Bennjii were appointed as the committee:
■ Excellency Gov. C. J. Jenkins, lion. E. A.
H let, lion. Hiram Warner, lion. Henry L.
Y -jiing, lion. Ebenczcr Starnes, Hon. Riclt
*F. Lyon, Hon. Linton Stephens, lion. Win.
aUghcrty, lion. Junius Hillycr and Hon. Jas.
vJSinnnous.
bn motion of J. R. Parrott. Esq., the raeet
i g adjourned.
Jos. E. Brown, Chairman.
I Chas. W. Dußose, Secretary.
Headquarters District of Georgia, )
Macon, Ga., May 27th, 1807. )
[ (General Order, No. B.]
With a view to avoid, as far as practicable, a
suspension of civil administrrlion oi justice
throughout this State, the officers upon whom
the duty devolves are requested to report with
out delay to these headquarters any vacancy
that may now exist in civil offices in tiie State,
whether State or loeal, and as they may occur in
iuture.
By command oi Col. CalebC. Sibley, U. S. A.
|Signed| John E. Hosmer,
Ist Lieut. 10th U. S. Inf., and A. A. A. G.
I Official.]
O. C. Knapp, Ist. Lieut. 33d U. S. Inf.,
Brevet Capt. U. 8. A., Post Adju’t.
Murder and Robbery—Bloody Work on
tub Nolensville Pike.—News reached here
ou’yesterday, that on Thursday, a farmer return
ing to his home by the way of Nolensville pike,
after having disposed of a large number of
sheep in this city, was set upon by several
highwaymen aud deliberately murdered in cold
blood, the assassins rifling his pockets and
leaving his body in tiie road,
k.. It is further reported that two fanners who
traveling tiie same road on the same day,
Are also robbed, though no bodily harm was
\ie them.— Nashville Union.
% %
SLarine Disaster in Mav.—Forty-five ma
s disasters occurred during the month of
Of this number three were steamers,
were 6hipa, seven were barks, three were
■tigs, twenty-four were schooners, and one was
W sloop. Seven vessels were abandoned, four
r werc foundered, one was burned, one sunk af
ter collision, aud six are missing, supposed to
lie lost. The lotal value of property lost and
missing is estimated at $3,585,000. The total
losses (luring the first five months of this year,
are estimated at $18,103,000, which is $750,000
less than during the same period last year.
The Shenandoah Valley is said to have almost
recovered from (Ue desolations of (he late war.
Notwithstanding the ravages of the many ar
mies that passed through it, and the almost
total destruction of houses, fences and agricul
tural implements, it is said that this year the
farmers will probably have the finest and largest
wheat crop ever raised in that region. The
lower counties are filling up with Pennsylva
nians, who are quietly buying up all the farms
they can get.
Fine Wheat. —Some one has left on our
fable a bunch of wheat heads, purporting to
have come from the farm of Mr. S. U. Craw
ford, at Cone’s Station, Clayton county. If a
specimen of the wheat crop of Middle Georgia,
there will be uo lack of good bread the com
ing year. The heads range from four to five
inches in length, and are well stocked with
large, plump grains, that give promise of a fat
harvest. We hope there are many crops in
Georgia of the same sort. - -Macon Telegraph.
A Sad Accident.—We are pained to record
the death of our late estimable friend, Thomas
Hill, a native of this District, who recently
went to Mississippi on a visit, and while out
hunting, was shot by the accidental discharge
of his gun. We knew Mr. Hill personally, aud
eau say Spartanburg had no better citizen.
f Spartanburg Spartan.
Cotton for Liverpool.—E. A. Houllard
yesterday cleared the British bark Queen, Capt.
Stuart, lor Liverpool, with 721 bales of upland
cotton, weighing 1158,3(58 pounds, valued at
$8(5,808; 282 bales ot sea island cotton, weigh
ing 92,538 pounds, valued at $28,051 00 ; and
258,300 feet of timber, valued at $5,519 83. To
tal value of cargo, $120,479 53.
[ Savannah Herald , 7th.
Justice in Delaware.— One man was
publicly pillored and whipped on Saturday.
Till, a whitish black man, who in a lit of
drunken rage killed his brother, after the lat
ter had struck and kicked him, was convicted
of his crime. This was his sentence : “ That
you pay a fine of $5,000 ; stand iu the pillory
one hour ; be whipped with sixty lashes, and
be imprisoned for life.” He stood, a public
spectacle, the mark for the meanest man’s
taunts, with his head thrust forward, his arms
lixed iu the pillory, under this broiling June
sun, one hour. lie was then taken down,
stripped to the waist, and his wrists pinioned,
to the whipping-post. lie underwent the
sixty blows of the cat. Its nine thongs in
creased his punishment to live hundred and
forty strokes.
A Baby Show. —The baby show comes olf
on Saturday next, at the grove opposite the
Methodist parsonage, at four o’clock, p. m.,
provided the weather is favorable. If, however,
the weather proves unfavorable, the following
Saturday is appointed. Let those who are
charged with the arrangements make ample
preparations ; for we hear that all the babies
will be there, and many other persons. It will
be interesting to see. The mothers must go to
look alter their babies, and the fathers must go
to look after their wives. The young ladies
must go to kiss the babies and see the fun, and
the young men—ah—what must the young men
go for ? Why, to see the young ladies, of
course.— Thomasville Enterprise.
A boy named Muzzey, at South Paris, Maine,
is affected with a singular and terrible disease.
He first complained of a severe pain in his heel.
Soon the flesh seemed to become dead, and
commenced to slough off', and has continued
until the ankle bones and both bones ol the
leg have become exposed, as well as the cords
and teudens. The disease is still progressing.
When the boy is lying on his side, with no
support for the foot, the joint will fall open so
that the whole inside of the joint can be seen.
This disease is pronounced phlegmatic erysip
elas.
An elopement occurred on Friday from
Poughkeepsie, the parties being Robert Hender
shoof, formerly known as the “ Drummer Boy
of the Rappahannock,” and Miss Alice Blanch
ard, daughter of a prominent merchant of that
town. At last accounts a marriage certificate
and a revenue stamp had made matters all right;
but the young coupple were still absent from
the bride’s paternal roof.
Professor S. F. B. Morse, the venerable in
ventor of the telegraph, is now residing with
his family at Paris. His health is good, and he
is busily engaged upon a history ol the tele
graph.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Prom IN’ortli Carolina.
Chapel Hill, June 6.
The Presidential party to-day attended the
Commencement Exercises at the University.
They were escorted hither by a procession, in
cluding the scholars and officers of the Institu
tion, and the Governor of North Carolina.
Beiore the war the average number of pupils
was live hundred, but now it is not more than
one hundred.
A hall, given to-night to the Graduating Class,
was attended by a portion of the Presidential
party.
The President and his friends leave here on
Friday, and will return to Washington Saturday
afternoon.
Raleigh, N. C., June 7.
The University Exercises are over at Chapel
Hill. The Presidential party left there this
morning on the return trip. Everywhere they
are met with marked hospitality and respect,
but the public demonstrations are calm, com
pared to those N ortli on reception occasions.—
Every one expresses themselves pleased with
the excursion. Major Gen. Sickles and staff and
Gov. Worth accompanied the party back to
Raleigh.
Prorn Petersburg.
Petersburg, June 7.
Tiie President and party arrived here at seven
this evening on the return to Washington,
having been escorted thither from Jarratt’s de
pot, thirty miles from Petersburg, by Mayor
Collier and a committee of the City Council.—
The Mayor renewed the tender of hospitalities
formally offered by the municipal authorities.—
The President, while grateful for the manifesta
tion of kindness, regretted his public engage
ments compelled hint to decline the desired so
journ for a day, as business required his imme
diate return to Washington. The large con
course at the hotel received the party with re
peated cheers, and the President, having been
called for, made a few remarks, in which lie said
he had tried to discharge his duty faithfully.—
He had made conscientious conviction lies cour
age, public good his aim, the Constitution his
guide, and by these he would stand. He ex
pressed his gratitude for this reception, and
the hope tiiat when he again came here it
would he under more favorable circumstances,
with the country whole and peace and prosper
ity everywhere prevailing, lie was heartily
cheered.
Secretary Seward, in response to calls,
merely remarked tiiat they had heard from the
President exactly what he would say were he to
make a speech.
Postmaster General Randall was required to
speak, and he briefly admonished all to forget
the striie of the past and to unite for the luture
iu all tiie country’s prosperty.
As the party remained an hour in Petersburg
they were handsomely entertained with supper,
aud were the recipients of marked attention.
The party will remain at Richmond to-night
and leave for Washington ou Saturday morn
ing. "
From Charleston.
Charleston, June 7.
General Sickles has published another order,
of which tiie following is tiie substance:
Paragraph first requires sheriffs, chiefs of
police, city marshals, chiefs of detectives and
town marshals, to report to Colonel Rinks,
Provost Marshal General of this District, the
names, duties, salary, &e., ol each officer and
the authority by whom appointed.
Second. Repoitsto lie made of the commis
sion ol all officers, of arrests, etc.
Third. Reports to be made of the escape oj'
prisoners and the attending circumstances;
also, ot the recapture of escaped prisoners.
Fourth. Sheriffs are required to report the
conditions of the jails.
Filth. Civil officers in charge of a jail, prison,
or work house, are to make monthly reports to
the Provost Marshal General.
Sixth. All sheriffs, constables, etc., are re
quired to obey and execute the lawful orders of
the Provost Marshal General, and any resist
ance to or disobedience ot the lawful orders or
authority of the Provost Marshal General will
subject the offender to trial by a military com
mission.
Seventh. Requires duplicate reports to lie
sent to post commissioners.
Eighth. This order will not relieve civil offi
cers from the discharge ot duties now required
of them.
Ninth. Regulates sheriffs and constables’ fees
for services performed under the orders of the
Provost Marshal General.
Tenth. Requests all persons who may know
of any threatened breach of flic peace to make
complaint at once to the chief ol police.
Eleventh. Imprisonments for default in pay
ment of costs, fees or charges of court, attor
neys or public officers, shall not exceed thirty
days.
Planters report that, the recent heavy rains
have seriously in jured the cotton crop.
The lirst consignment of new wheat reached
Charleston to-day for shipment North.
F rom IN ew C) rloa i is.
New Orleans, June (i.
The following is just issued, 10 o’clock, p. m.
Headquarters, Fifth Military District, >
New Orleans, La., June 6,1807. \
' Special Order, )
; No. 152. \
| EXTRACT.]
Mr. Thomas J. Durant having declined the
appointment of Governor of the State of
Louisiana, conferred upon him in Special Or
ders, No. 59, extract 5, from these headquar
ters, Mr. Benj. F. Flanders is hereby appointed
’ in his stead. Air. Flanders wiil at once assume
the duties of his oflice, and all records, &c.,
1 pertaining to it will be turned over to him
1 without necessary delay.
By command of Major General P. 11. Sheri
dan.
(Signed) Geo. L. Hartscff, A. A. G.
New Orleans, June 7.
Benj. F. Flanders, the new appointee for
Governor, called on Governor Wells this morn
ing at the Executive office and made known
that he came iu obedience lo an order from
General Sheridan, and that he was ready to en
ter npon the duties of the Executive of the
State. Governor Wells declined to voluntary
vacate the office, and protested iu writing
against the action of the military authorities.—
At 3, p. m., an order was received at the Gov
ernor’s office addressed to Flanders, but he was
absent. The nature ol the communication was
not ascertained.
From AV'asliin.gton.
Washington, June 7.
The following is the concluding paragraph of
a letter read from Buttler to the negro meeting
last l ight: “Is it not a self-evident political
truLh that where the land is held in large tracts
by the employer to be tilled by the employed
there can be no just and true field for the exer
cise of Republican citizenship ? And it is one
of the pressing exigencies of the country, as
the very basis of reconstruction, that some plan
must be devised by which the lands of the
South may be divided among those who shall
occupy and till them.”—[The loyal whites
should divide with their brethren. |
From ISTew York.
_, New York, June 7.
The-Southern Famine Relief Commission is
still vigorously carrying on its benideent work.
In addition to loading the United States store
ship Purveyor, which left this port on Tuesday
last, the Commission has since shipped eight
thousand bushels of corn to Charleston and
Savannah for interior distribution.
Yesterday the Treasurer, Mr. James Al.
Brown, received from Clarendon District,
South Carolina, an appeal for relief from the
heads of sixty-seven families, the name of each
person being given, representing two hundred
and ninety individuals, some of whom are
now suffering for bread. Unless relief be
afforded immediately much suffering will ne
cessarily ensue. So long as this cry for food is
heard, so long will this Commission cry for
money.
F* oreign.
fBY THE CABLE. I
#
Paris, June 7.
The carriage containing Napoleon and she
Czar, returning from the Cham)) do Mars, where
a review had been givcu in honor of the Czar,
was tired into; whether to kill the Emperor or
the Czar is unknown.
London, June 7.
Van Bon Jasper’s Lecturer won three great
prizes at Ascott.
In Crete the news is highly unfavorable to
the Turks.
Fi’om Mexico.
New Orleans, June 7.
Mexican uews received to-day confirm pre
vious reports that Lopez sold Queretaro tor
three thousand ounces. These are no new de
velopments.
Marine News.
Liverpool, June 7
The ship Ceres, from Bordeaux, for New
York, which put into Fayal leaky, has been
ond earned.
Quebnstown, June 7.
The City of Dublin touched here to-day.
New York, June 7.
Arrived —Minnesota and City of Washington,
from Liverpool; Corseca, from Havana; the
Leo, from Savannah.
Glasgow, June 7.
The steamship St. Andrew has arrived.
IVlarkets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, June 7—Noon.
The bullion in the Rank ol England has in
creased £537,000. Money is quiet and steady.
Consols, 94%. Ronds. 73.
Liverpool, June 7—Noon.
Cotton—According to the Brokers’ Circular
the sales of the week amounted to 05,000 bales,
including 34,000 hales for speculation and ex
port; stock, 853,000, including 403,000 bales
American. Recent rccipts unusually heavy for
the past week, being 140,000 bales; the market
to-day opens quiet; the probable sales will
amount to 8,000 bales; upland, 11%', Orleans,
11%d.
London, June 7—2, P. M.
Consols advanced %. Others unchanged.
Liverpool, June 7—2, P. M.
Cotton is easier. Provisions and produce
unchanged Corn declined.
London, June 7 —Evening.
Consols, 94% ; Ronds, 73.
Liverpool, June7—P. M.
Cotton closed quiet; middling uplands,
Orleans, 1 I%<l. ; sales, 10,000 bales.
Manchester advices arc not favorable. Goods
and yarns arc all heavy. Breadstuffs quiet with
a downward tendency. Corn, 375. (id. Pro
visions unchanged. Lard advanced, 50s.
New York, June 7—Noon.
Stocks strong. Money, 7. Gold, 136%.
Sterling--time, 10@10% ; sight, 10%@10%.-
Coupons of ’62, 100%.
New York, June 7—Noon.
Flour, 10@20e. lower. Wheat, 2@3c. lower
Corn quiet and unchanged. Pork quiet at
#33 75. Lard dull at 12@13%. Cotton dull at
27. Freights quiet.
New York, June 7-P. M.
Stock strong ; Money, 7; Gold, 130%@136%;
’62 Coupons, 100%.
New York, Line 7—P. M.
Cotton dull and unchanged ; sales, 1,400
bales at 27c. Flour, demand improved under
decline; State, #B@ 11 25. Wheat easier but
active. Corn quiet. Pork, $22 62. • Lard
heavy. Whisky quiet. Naval stores drooping.
Freights quiet and unchanged.
New Orleans, Juno 7.
Cotton dull and lower; sales, 750 bales ; low
middling, 24%@35; receipts lor the week,
2,358 bales against 4,003 bales ; exports, 13,871
bales ; stock on hand, 1)0,147 bales. Sugar and
molasses no quotations. Flour extremely dull;
superfine jobbing, #!() 75; double extra, sl2 75;
choice, #lB 25. Corn active and lower ; mixed
and yellow, $1 10@1 15; white, #l2O and
scarce. Oats light; supply, !)s@#l. Hay un
changed. Pork, #34; prime mess, #32. Bacon,
good jobbing shoulders, 0% ; rib, 12% ; clear,
13%. Lard very firm ; asking, tierce, 13% ;
keg, 14%@14%. Gold, 136% ; Sterling, 147%;
York Sight, % premium.
Baltimore, June 7.
Cotton quiet at 27(0)27%. Coffee dull and
favors buyers. Flour—demand limited; su
perfine Howard street, #lO 50. Corn declined
2@3c. ; white, #1 03® I 05 ; mixed Western, #l.
Provisions dull ami unchanged'.
Cincinnati, June 7.
Flour firm and unchanged. Corn dull and
unsettled. Whisky dull. Colton dull and
nominal. Pork offered at #33 35. Bacou firm
and in fair demand ; shoulders, 0; clear sides,
>3%.
Morile, June 7.
Cotton in fair demand ; sales, 800 bales; mid
dling, 23%(d)24 ; receipts,33 bales. Sales of the
week, 350 bales; receipts, 1,117; exports,
11,698; stock, 23,411 bales.
Savannah, June 7.
Cotton opened dull and heavy with small
business, and closed with a better feeling ; mid
dling, 24%@35 ; receipts, 575 bales v receipts for
the week, 3,054 bales; exports for the week,
3,550 bales; stock on hand, 14,378 bales.
Charleston, June 7.
Colton has declined %@le.; middling, 24%
@35 cents; sales, 175; receipts, 485; receipts
ol the week, 1,750; exports of the week, 1,590;
stock, 4,750 bales.
Augusta Market.
OfPIOK J>AI!.Y OoNSTITUTfONAI.IHT, ?
Friday, June 7 I*. M. s
FINANCIAL
COLD Brokers :in* Inlying at 130 ami Killing at
137.
HILVLGIt Broken* are l»nym%al 128 ami Belling at
132.
KXCIIAN(7K —Our National Bank eliecks at par,
ami ImjH at oil’.
COTTON -There lias been a light demand to-day
at about 24 cents for middling, yet the market was
dull and sales limited, amounting to 53 bales only, as
follows: lid 20,15 at 23, 28 at 24, ssd 24)6, and 4 bales
at 25 cents. Receipts, 67 hales.
Was Martin LutLev Insane ?
T)H. FORBES WINSLOW’S OPINION.
In a will case recently tried in London, two
physicians named Williams and Wood testified
as to the alleged insanity and testamentary inca
pacity of Mrs. Anft Thwaytes ; but not content
with the Thwaytes ease, went a step out of their
way to declare that Martin Luther was insane.
Exactly what Luther had to do with Thwaytes
will ease does not appear, but the evidence of
the doctors rouses Dr. Forbes Winslow, an
eminent medical authority in England, to offer
a defense of Luther. As everything that Dr.
Wiuslow writes and has interest and value, we
copy the principal part of his letter to the Pall
Mall Gazelle.
“Luther never was, in the right medical,
psychological and legal signification of the term
a lunatic. It, is an abuse of language to impute
mental disease to this distinguished ecclesiastic,
it is true that, in consequence of severe bodily
indisposition, and as the effect of an over
wrought brain and nervous system, he suffered
from a transient illusion of the sense of sight,
and imagined that the devil appeared to and
conversed with him in the. middle of the night.
‘ 11 is logic,’ says Luther, ‘ was accompanied by
a voice so alarming that the blood froze in my
veins.’ This aberration of vision was similar in
character to the ocenlar spectra that so often
follow the administration of chloroform, Indian
hemp and opium, and which are so frequently
seen associated witli temporary attacks of de
lirium and puerperal fever caused by a poisoned
state of tlie blood. These momentery and iugi
tive eccentricities of sense cannot with any re
gard to philosophical accuracy, lie designated
as insane delusions. Luther may have landed
that lie not only saw the person of the devil, but
actually spoke to his sntauic majesty. In reality
there was no fixed or abiding impression ot this
kind on his mind. A delusion in legal phrase
ology is a persistent belief in some extravagant
and irrational idea, out of which the patient can
not be reasoned, and the absurdity of which he
is unable to perceive. If a person suffering
from a transient attack of illusion of the senses
is reasoned with as to the bona fide character of
his mental impressions, he willj except in far
advanced conditions of brain disorder, at once
acknowledge the existence of a disturbed state
of the visual organs.
*' Had any sensible physician pointed out to
Luther the probable physiological connection
between a disordered stale of the stomach, liver,
and over-excited mind and brain, and the devil
which lie conceived had appeared to him, I en
tertain but little doubt that be would have
immediately exclaimed, ‘ There is no sneh
thing,’ and have laughed heartily at the ridicu
lous absurdity of the fancy, and without hesita
tion have admitted that lie was suffering from a
perversion of sight. Had lie, however, persist
ed in maintaining that he saw and spoke to the
devil, and it was fonnd that uo argument ad
dressed to liis reason, or course of physic ap
plied to his body, had the solutary effect of dis
lodging the absurd idea from bis imagination,
then the presumption, 1 confess, would have
been in favor of the theory of ids lunacy.
“Coleridge,when referring to this period of
the Reformer's life, says he was a martyr to
great physical irritation, caused by his unremit
ting mental activity and sedentary habits. It is
evident, be says, that Luther suffered from
severe nervous irritability, the common effects
of indigestion and intense thinking in men oi
a recluse mode of life. This, added to a revivifi
cation of tlie impressions made upon him in
early life and fostered by the theological system
ol his manhood, is, according to the distinguish
ed writer previously quoted, sufficient to ex
plain all his apparitions and nightly combats
with evil spirits. ‘ I sec nothiug,’ says Coleridge,
‘ improbable that in one of those uucouscious
half-sleeps, or rather those rapid alternations of
tlie sleeping with tlie half-waking state which is
tlie true * witching time,’ ‘ the season wherein
the spirits hold their wont to talk’ tlie fruitful
matrix of ghosts—that in oue of those moments
of slumber into which tlie suspension of all
thought, in tlie perplexity of deep thinking, so
often passes, Luther should have had a full view
of the room iu which lie was sitting, of his
writing-table, and at the same time a brain image
oi tlie devil vivid enough to have acquired an
apparent outness, and a distance regulated by
the proportion of its distinctness to that oi' the
abject really impressed on the outward souses.” I
John W. Carrington, Janes Gardner,
President. (Os Augusta, Gn.,
Constitutionlist.)
Vice-l’rcs’t & Sec’y.
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