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AUGUSTA. CGA.
FRIDAY MORNING. FEB. 28, 1868
CRISIS.”
The intense excitement pervading the
whole country, a few days since—more
« miaous than the times of ’6O-’6l has sub
s ided. But the calm is no assurance of a
pacific solution of tfie political imbroglio.
Both parties exhibit defiance, and are
ready, at any moment, to renew the angry
controversy, which, carried to extremes,
must lead to a collision. It is very natural
"that we of the South should feel a keen
interest in the progress of this drama. Be
ing lovers of constitutional freedom, we
anxiously pray for its triumphatitHasser
tion ; beng human, we are restiff at the
President’s caution. Always faithful to
liberty and the compact of our Fathers—
for the preservation of which we rushed to
arms—our passionate dispositions can
not understand how the people of Use
North submit so tamely to the con-
spiracies of a Rump Congress and the
despotism of the sword. In the vehe
mence of honest indignation, we grieve
that the Executive does not valorously
confront his antagonists, and, with a bold
confidence in the People, strike that first
great and electric blow with which the
Tamers of Men hew down opposition and
rally their clans to bind it fast. Thus per
plexed and irritated at the dalliance- of
President and People, we conclude that the
men of^lftt‘d^aSf , ahd t VV»Bt, having aide 1 in
the prostration of Southern liberty, are fas
cinated with tyranny and eager to embrace
it foj.;, thanijseivp and thaiy posterity. But
ind 1 slavish* • indifference can
hardly have a permanent habitation with
the great majority of Americans, and, if
not besotted beyond the power of resurrec
tion, the disenchanted masses will, sooner
or later, clemahd a reckomhg'with their be
trayers. This civil conflict may come this
year; it may be postponed for several
years;, but .came it will, since. Radical usur
pation must advance or die, and the De
mocracy' "arfc~ pquatly' aware* that*an un
curbed progress of fanaticism is the death
of liberty and the knell of iiope. Both par
ties have gone too far, it would seem, for
any satisfactory, compromise, and should
they join in a mortal struggle, the late war
will be but child’s play in comparison. It
will not be the formal strifeof sections, but
the jiwful conflict of neighborhoods. The
very foundations of the land would be up
heaved, and whatever there is left of order
resolved into chaos and the blackness of
darkness. In the first flush of vengeance, we
of the South may be pardoned for gloating
over this prospect of Northern butchery;
but, in more tranquil moments, if. is not un
becoming to pray heaven to avert impend
ing wrath. True, we are.bo wed down un
der poverty and misrule ; our former slaves
are insolently allowed to,rule over us ; men
of our own section and blood are leagued
against us ; the councils of the country re
fuse us a'voice; abandoned wretches from
abroiiK have come to lord it over us, in the
day of humiliation —yet, trusting in God
and the eternal principles of justice, we
feel confident of defeating our despicable
oppressors, if no fresh calamities should
compass us about. Wherefore, it is the
part of wisdom to hope that constitutional
rights may be restored without bloodshed
and ruin—through the instrumentality of
the courts and the ballot box, through re
turning reason in the minds and con
sciences of the Northern people.
The struggle, at present, is for strategical
advantage prior to the grand campaign in
November. The Radicals, having disre
garded all rights and precedents in gaining
and holding power, are determined to main
tain their supremacy; by the ballot, if possi
ble, by the sword, if the friends of the Con
stitution shrink and cower before the in
tunidation of Grant and his cohorts. They
are striving with all their might to entangle
the President in some fatal mesh of error;
the President is deliberatly planning to
harrass them into the commission of
an overt act of force. If the conspira
tors ip Congress cam only tempt Mr.
Johnson to flfe the first gun, they hope
to make a Fort Sumter affair of it and
rouse the masses to a second “ salvation of
the nation’s life.” Mr. Johnson, on the
contrary, resolutely refuses to lose his
temper, and thrusts a legal, process under
their noses, which is a dose of holy water
to these veritable devils. This species of
attack and defense, crimination and re
crimination, will probably continue, with
greater or less violence, until the Fall elec
tions shall have been decided ; or it may be
that the ides of March will prove as disas
trous to the Radical Caesar as they proved
to the Roman of old days. Failing to
carry the elections, the conspirators will
declare Congress a permanent Directory,
an.i all Who fail to come up to the standard
of latter day Saintship, according to the
order of Thad. Stevens, will be thrust
forth as Senator Thomas has been. Should
the Radical Congress have the courage of
first-class conspirators, they must inevita
bly drift to the assumption of supreme
power, and hold it by those bayonets which
once engaged in the sarcastic attempt of
saving the Union and the Constitution. At
such a stage of the game, if the people have
not sunk into utter baseness, they will be
obliged to crush Congress and the army,
or be themselves enthralled. When n disa
greeable necessity of this kind is forced
upon a potion, the sword is always suc
"ceeded by the halter.
President Johnson, however he may have
erred heretofore, is now stemming the tide
of usurpation and thwarting it at every
tnrn. He seems well anvare of the foul
purpose of his enemies to entrap him into
the commission of a serious blunder. Act
ing upon the principle that a good general
first discovers what his antagonist desires,
and then refuses to gratify him, Mr. John
son is prudent in declining to make martyrs
for the church when martyrdom
is so ravenously craved. He aims to up
hold his constitutional prerogative by an
appeal to the Courts. If Congress and
GRANTSeek the overthrow of the Judiciary,
in order to destroy the Executive, their
treason will be laid so,bare that evin a fool
paay see it. If the usurpers shrink from
the commission of these crimes, they con
fess their feebleness and must suffer moral
as well as political annihilation. If they
dare the utmost, the people of the North
most light for their freedom. If they are
afraid to flght, they are fit subjects for
chains and slavery, and, in their horrible
abasement, the most vindictive spirit in the
South will be glutted with a vengence
wliiah no mortal imagination can adequate
ly portray.
.. » POPE GOME AGAIN.
Gen. John Pope has been heard of since
his departure from the realm of Georgia.—
He is figuring as a Radical politician in
Michigan, and, as usual, engaged in his
favorite amusement of bluster and false
hood. He informs the Republican State
Central Committee of Michigan that “ phy
sical fear is the only thing by which the
Southern people are influenced,” and that
“the moral sense has departed from the
great portion of them.” The Baltimore
Gazette calls this the“ latest display of
puppy-dogism” and thus pays its respects
to. our quondam satrap:
“ These are accusations at which, considering
the source from which they emanate, the Sooth
cau afford to smile. General Pope’s own ‘mor
al sense ’ was held in very proper, though low,
estimation in that section long before the war,
when as a Lieutenant in Fort Pulaski, he was
himself made, by on outraged citizen of Savan
nah, to experience a sensation of ‘ physical
fear.’ His sense of truth was demonstrated by
tiis war bulletins, wherein he narrated the per
formance of Falstaffhn feats, and his common
sense was guaged by the country when he an
nounced that his headquarters were in the sad
dle, and that lines of retreat were tilings about
which Major General Pope did not trouble
himself. The idea that a man whom General
Franklin and others aver they would not be
lieve on oath, should be testifying to the want
of a 1 moral sense ’ in the South, is about as ab
surd is would be homilies by Mr. Stanton on
the sixth commandment, by General Banks on
the seventh, by General Butler on the eighth,
or by Judge Holt on the niuth.”
Had General Pope mourned over the
“physical fear ” and “ loss of moral sense”
displayed by the Southern renegades, by
whom lie was surrounded at Atlanta, he
would have accomplished a rare feat in his
record—he would have told the truth.
[' COMMUN ICATION.J
The Situation.
NO. VIII.
The profligacy of the white outcasts now
leading tin? Georgia Radicals, is, to speak
plainly and without harshness, unutterable.
We can easily understand their schemes of
plunder—their treachery to liberty, civiliza
tion and Christianity and the woe and
horror of mongrelism so easily foreseen as
inevitable upon the establishment of their
proposed constitution, that, its advocates
stand convicted of wishing, praying for and
abetting the infliction upon their own
people of a scourge worse than war and
subjugation —worse than famine—worse
than pestilence and plague. But to put
down on paper all the baseness of their
treason against country, treason against
modern progress, treason against the white
race, given from on high with dominion
over the world, conscious treason of. this
triple heinousness for no other end than the
temporary aggrandisement of the fiends
who plan to take the lion’s share when their
army of nijimer voters sack the property of
the country>js impossible.
A few ino\hs ago, but one argument
was put forth justify yielding equality to
the nigger ; your oppressors will have it so
and their strength and power are not only
sufficient to put this nauseating horror
upon you, but if provoked, they can and will
do worse—the North, now holt ling the reins
make this demand almost unanimously and
resistance is worse than useless. And
every adviser to agree with the adversary,
quickly repelled as a foul slander any ques
tion of his disinterestedness, and feigned
that his gorge heavod'at the sickening dose.
The sole reason for yielding was that the
whole of the victorious North were undi
vided upon the proposal of Congress, and
that the power which defeated secession
was ample to put’upon us the fullest in
crease and guarantee of nigger rights ; and
but. to oppose would bring us, not only
total disfranchisement of the whites, but
probably the vengeance of confiscation
added to worse Africanization.
But the elections showed a wonderful
change, and the most despondent took hope.
The good, who had advised acquiescence
before, at once recanted and urged ns to
make common cause with the Northern
Democrats. Our tried and proven states
men advised the same, and the worth and
liower of Georgia are now organized and
will soon be only known as Democrats.—
They are the white man’s party, and they
address themselves to save white civiliza
tion, to prevent intermarriage of whites and
niggers, and to make a fact forever, that
this Government is one of, and for, white
men, and that this land, conquered by
white men from the savages of America, is
the home of white men, w’ho will defend it
everlastingly from the barbarians of Africa.
God have mercy upon the foul-mouthed
renegades from their color, who are Af
ricanizing Tag-Rag and Bob-Tail of the
whites by preaching relief. It is no longer
advice to submit because you arc powerless
and helpless, but the scum and refuse are
urged to join the niggers, oppose tne white
man's party, and, by the votes of scalawags
and niggers, neutralize their white supe
riors and compensate the Radicals lor
Northern losses. Go to the polls with the
nigger, sit in the jury box with the nigger,
help him to office, see that he elevates you
by making you his father-in-law, oblite
rate all social and political distinctions,
and make thorough negroes of yourselves,
and the courts shall have no jurisdiction of
your old debts. God have mercy upon
them ! History stories her traitors and
deserters in imperishable infamy—the men
who abandon the arms or sell the liberty of
their country—but she must find new
names, more revolting and abhorrent for the
miscreants who betray civilization to bar
barism—who turn over men, women and
children of their own race—world renown
ed for trial by jury, Magna C'harta and the
Federal Constitution, to the rule of Afri
cans, shown by science and experience
the lowest grades of humanity and barba
rians, unalterable and incorrigible, save
when serving white masters.
Incest, sodomy jand bestiality are holi
ness compared with this uncleauness.
What reader of English can ever forget
the whirlwind of Chatham’s wrath which
swept away every Justifying pretext of
Great Britain’s making- allies of savages in
a war upon us which she conceived to be
just? The enemies of American liberty
have seized the Government, and, to per
petuate their power, deny the South repre
sentation. Under the Constitution, she was
reconstructed the moment she laid down her
arms. There is much idle assertion of
what was settled by the war. There was
but a single question—but one issue—name
ly : What was the general government of
the South ? She said it was the Confed
eracy ; the North said the United States.
The event of war settled that it was the
latter and that the Union was restored, or,
in more correct legal phraseology, that the
Union had never been broken—the white
Union of 1860, under the Federal Constitu
tion. But Congress now asserts by her
acts the right to cut up and sub-divide the
“ rebel States;” to disfranchise the whites;
to give unlimited suffrage to the niggersj
and, by these momentous innovations', gov
ern North as well as South; goveru all
America by the votes of Africans. The
Democrats of the North, still possessed of
free speech and suffrage, have taken the
alarm and all that land rings with the cry:
“ White men to the rescue of white rule !”
That candidate for the Presidency who re
ceives this year the largest white "vote will
be inaugurated, even if a million in arms
must escort him to Washington over a
pavement of niggers and scalawags. After
this year’s election, or next year’s war,
there will be another “ Lost Cause ” to set
tle, another question, namely: that the nig
gers are not a part of the sovereign people
of the South. Now, in the coming contest
on the hustings, at the polls or in the field,
what words can fathom the lowness of that
fallen, fallen, fallen white, who will, in
Georgia, canvass, vote or flght for the rigjit
of Congress to disfranchise himself and en
franchise the nigger.
Not in the legions
Os filthy hell can come a devil more damned.
There is but one justification of acquies
cence by the white in nigger equality—co
ercion insuperable. He who counsels his
fellows to guarantee permanently, by rati
fying votes, nigger suffrage, and that the
nigger’s social status shall never be the
subject of legislation, is an enemy to man
kind.
Our consciences will be clear if superior
force imposes this monstrous crime against
nature upon us and keeps it upon usj; but.
we are corrupt beyond hope if any bribe
can induce us to set it up over ourselves by
our own act. You cannot be in that dilem
ma of evils to justify its choice. It is itself
the most heinous crime in the calendar, and
the most asinine impolicy in the world—
and, in the name of God, what more can be
said against it ? At.bus.
Letter from Athens.
Athens, February 25, 1868.
The birthday of the Father of our once
Country passed off very quietly and pleas
antly. As is usual, an oration was deliver
ed by one of the students attending Frank
lin College. The orator on this occasion—
a young gentleman from Savannah—far
surpassed anything that I have ever heard
from one of his age. He pictured in glow
ing colors the perfect orator —his idea! of
the perfect orator—his duty and his destiny,
exhorting his young companions to press
onward to fame, to emulate Georgia’s great
statesmen and orators, many of whom had
the same Alma Mater with themselves; to
prepare themselves for the performance of
great acts; to undertake no unholy cause,
and to bend their energies to the regenera
tion of their noble old State ; to pause not
until the grand old temple of constitution
al liberty should have its pillars—wisdom,
justice and moderation—now crumbled into
dust, rise in all their pristine beauty, a shel
ter for the oppressed.
He told them that all resort to arms was
at an end, and that it was left to intellect
to build up the fallen fortunes of the South.
The young orator became at times impas
sioned in his eloquence, and was greeted
with thunders of applause. A bright ca
reer awaits him in the field of statesman
ship, and his Alma Mater may well be proud
of him. Glorious old University! Year
after year she sends out her sons to “ illus
trate” the Empire State in field and forum.
Long may she send them forth to diffuse
the fruits of her teaching throughout the
South.
The young ladies and gentlemen of this
place are enjoying themselves by perform
ing private theatricals. Saturday night
they acted the old play “ Still Waters Run
Deep,” and I may say to our Augusta ama
teurs, that they were fully equalled in the
rendition of the various characters of the
comedy, particularly those of Mrs. Mild
m.iy and Mr. Potter.
business, with the exception of the trade
in cotton, is very dull here. Stocks of
goods are very light, and but few of the
merchants intend, I believe, to lay in new
supplies, or if they do, only limited ones.
The great majority of the farmers, owing
to the pressure in money matters, were
obliged to sell their cotton at a very low
price, some as low as ten cents per pound,
and the consequence is that “greenbacks”
here, as well as every where else iu what
was once rich and fair Dixie, are entirely
too scarce for the comfort of the people.
I have heard a great many people here
express wishes that that eloquent and gift
ed son of the South, Father Ryan, could be
induced to deliver at least one of his in
spired lectures in Athens. I think myself
that he could do a great deal of good by
delivering lectures in the various towns in
Georgia, in behalf of the same for
which he spoke iu your city, on the evening
of the 22d.
I have learned that the Judge of the
Superior Court of this county did not ad
journ court because of want of jurisdic
tion, but by request of the bar. He is now
holding court in the other counties of his
circuit.
Yours, &c., M.
Mitchell on Daniel.—John Milchell. edit
or of the Irish Citizen , (N. Y.,) thus notices
the hook now being published concerning John
M. Daniel, by his brother, Frederick Daniel:
No man in all the South was more influential
in bringing about the war of secession, and in
supporting and stimulating it by all the power
of a keen intellect and a bold, incisive pen, than
John M. Daniel, proprietor and editor of the
Richmond Examiner, Daniel was no common
place sort of man; he was thoroughly educated,
and had large experience of life; he lived eight
years in Italy as United States Minister at the
Court of Turin ; he was intimately acquainted
with King Victor and with Count Cnvour, and
had a natural and violent antipathy against
them both—for the reason that he was an hon
orable man, and that they were the principal
cheats and falsest intriguers of Europe—except
Lord Palmerston only.
An advertisement, printed in another column
informs us that a collection of Mr. Daniel’s
writings in the Richmond Examiner has been
prepared by his brother. It is to be published
with a memoir of his life; and, taken altogf\ tl . er ’
it will form perhaps the most authentic
teresting picture of the late Confederacy nfift
anywhere exists, or is likely to exist. Os course
it is from a Southern point of view ; and in-,
.tensely, desperately Southern. He died three
days before the evacuation of Richmond, and
was happy to die before that day.
His Examiner articles will of course be ar
ranged in the order of their dates ; and as they
thus form a running commentary of the most
vivid kind upon all the tra isactions, military
and civil, Which constituted the short, passion
ate fife of the now dead Confederacy, written
from day to day us the thundering news came
in, the book cannot fail to take its place among
the most precious historic materials (on the
Southern side) tor the clear understanding of
our giant struggle, and its proper historic treat
ment, so soon as the day comes when sectional
fury and brutal vengeance shall have given place
to calm, judicial investigation of that terrible
strife.
Anniversary Exercise.—The anniversary
exercise of the Demostheuian Society occurred
at the Town Hall, on Wednesday last. It was
not our privilege to be present, but we learn
that Mr. W. S. Gordon, the orator, did full
justice to the occasion. The Hall was crowded
to its utmost capacity, and the close attention
of the audience gave evidence that the address
was highly appreciated.
On Saturday we had the pleasure of attend
ing the anniversary exercises of the Phi Kappa
Society, and were delighted with the address
of Mr.'P. W. Meldrim. His theme was “The
Orator;” and it has never before been the for
tune ol the Writer to hear a subject handled in
such an able manner, and with such ease acd
elegance, by so yoHng a man. The conclusion,
especially, was touchingly beautiful and appro
priate. The speaker was frequently interrupted
with the applause of the large audience, and re
ceived at the close many little tokens of the
approval of the “ fair ones,” a large number ot
whom were present.— Athens Watchman.
In a village “ away flown East,” so runs the
story, an exhorter at a revival meeting became
envious because a brother was his superior in
singing and praying. So he got up and said :
“ Brother can sing and pray; but there’s
one thing I can beat him at—l can fiddle his
shirt off.”
Pifty-Foprtli Day's Proceedings of the Geor
gia Unconstitutional Convention-
REPORTED FOR THE ATLANTA DAILY INTELLI
GENCER.
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1868.
. The convention opened with prayer—Augier
in the chair.
The journal was read.
General Order No. 27 from General Meade
was read.
THE HOMESTEAD LAW.
The discussion of the report of the Special
Committee appointed to report a Homestead
law, which we published yesterday, was resum
ed this morning, when H. V. M. Miller having
the floor from the previous evening, addressed
the convention at some length, aiid in a very
clear and forcible manner. He wai m favor of
the Homestead law for many reasons, and
argued his position- with elfarnt'terisiie elo
quence. v ,
J. H. Parrott then proceeded to address the
convention.
We omit the greater portion of Mr. Parrott’s
speech. He concluded as follows :
If we legislate at all we should not confine
ourselves-*© classes which will create jealousies,
conflicts, and unfair dealing amongst our peo
ple, but we should avoid all class legislation,
and place all our people, so far an law is con
cerned, on the same looting. We should lie
very careful iu interfering with the business ol
the people." The pecuniary matters of our
State affect so many people, and interests them
iu so many ways, and arc so intimately’ connect
ed together, that we cannot interfere witli these
matters without great risk of doing great in
justice to inanyof' otir best people. Wc cannot,
regulate men’s private affairs well in a body
like this. Hence we should have as little change
made in laws affecting their private affairs as
possible.
As all contracts made since the war have
been made iu most eases fairly, with due refer
ence to ihe surrounding circumstances and I he
laws then in force, 1 do not think it wise to
change the exemption laws of the State so as
to affect past debts, and as we have relieved the
people from their indebtedness created during
(he war and prior thereto, 1 therefore propose
a substitute which provides for a homestead
worth SI,OOO in really, and such articles of per
sonal property as Ihe Legislature may set
apart, to- be exempted from future debts. This
1 thind will secure a comfortable home for all
who have one, and will not prevent those who
have none from ever getting a home.
Lul ns leave our institutions as they have
been in the past., giving a fair chance to all,
both rich and poor.
I favor a'horaesterid law for we ha re always had
one, and it has worked well, but, I cannot sup
port a huge monster like the one proposed by
the committee.
Give us a homestead ol land of SI,OOO in
value, and such personal property as our law
makers may give us and the poor who need
protection will get it.
But iu my judgment the whole mailer should
be referred to the Legislature, where such mat
ters are usually 1 ousidered. Are delegates un
willing to trust tbe people V Will they not di
rect llieir representatives to do their will? I
am willing to trust, them, and think it best to
turn this matter over to them.
T. P. BaHold was in favor of a reasonable
exemption, but could not he induced to sustain
any plan that was retro active. The plan pro
posed was liable to that objection, nnd besides
it exempted a most unreasonable amount.
It had been said that every man’s -popularity
ami fitness for office was to he measured by bis
position on this subject. He was not in the
convention as a seeker of popularity, but. to do
what was right. Those who do not act upon
that principle may acquire a mushroom notorie
ty, but would never command the respect and
confidence of the country.
In all the. free governments men had sought
position and power by pandeiing to tile pas
sions and predjildices ol (he people. Tbe his
tory of Cassius, Stolo, and the Gracchi were
not without instruction upon the subject. They
were agralians, and advocated measures which
took from those who bad nud gave to those
who had tfot. For a while they were sustained,
but. in theend were condemned by tlieir cotem
poraries, aid have been handed down on the
pages of tleir country’s history as demagogues
and the oppressors of right, justice, and peace.
The eot-vention lmd before i! a great work.
What it dhes, ought to be, and will he, sustain
ed if foutded upon justice and right. It we
did not list our action upon that basis if will
be condemned, and, in that event, he trusted in
God, it vould he condemned. At. all events,
lie was ffiwiliing to have any man to support
and sustain it by exempting from levy and sale
property which he had bought and never paid
for.
The day was spent in speech making, and
argument a “of all kinds wire offered. There
was no euil to the points of order raised, and,
in fact, Irom two o’clock unlil three l!>e entire
concern was in a stain of disoiricr. Delegates
who offered amendments or substitutes and
failed, were even willing to move and vote in
contrary directions' by way of retaliation lor
not having carried their points.
Vfe con Id not well tell how many amend
ments wire offered, but we believe the yeas and
nays were called t wice on motions to adjourn.
The softie wan one of great mirth at this
period. Members laughed at their voles, and
voted evety way whim suggested, no much so
that the thing looked to us like a fine specimen
of person) legislating for fun.
Ilryant carried one motion to day, and it is a
matter of great regret that he who was “ first in
way” does not occupy the position of leader
of the Radicals, which used to ly his darling
ambition. How fallen is ihe mighty!
I. Blodge.tt makes no speeches;, but be is
gr«u on Substitutes and amendments, and
cones up every morning with a freshly laden
b.nktt of fruit culled the night before. He,
however, is very often successful in his points,
anl we can’t well see why, since he says nothing
th® could be supposed to “help them through.”
There is one grand resource, however, when a
failure is imminent, .and that is to move the
privious question or lay on thettabl a “ linp
pyjdisposition ” in which lie evidently delights
toinduige.
the affair comes up to-morrow again, and as
thl previous question has beeD moved, we pre
sume there will be no more speechifying, so
thjit we may hope to be able to lay all the facts
before our readers to-morrow in a business
like way.
Ybe yens and nay3 having been called for on
fWspeond motion to adjourn, the vote stood
year, 57 ; nays, 57.
The Chair decided in the affirmative, when
the convention adjourned.
Another Ciitcago Divorce Case —ln the
Circuit Court yesterday John and Catharine
Spellman were divorced, as the result of the
following somewhat sinpfular occurrences and
sircumstaiKps : Thirty years ago Spellman
the plaintiff in Ireland, where they
SWFWLmMaIHn- of years in happiness, three
cbildrenoeiug added to theirfamilv. Spellman
then concluded to seek his fortune in America,
whither he came about twenty years ago. His
wife heard nothing from him ; and his children,
having grown to manhood, determined to sec
if tbeir father was still alive. Coming to this
country, they began a search which ended in
lis discovery at Freeport, 111., in the possession
ot considerable of this world’s goods. This
vtas an agreeable surprise to the children; but
tieir joy was considerably damped when they
burned that another wife and other children,
calling Mr. Spellman “ husband” and “father,”
siood where they and their mother should
aland. Mr. Spellman agreed to return to his
fret love, and went to see his wife, who was in
Philadelphia. Bhe forgave him on condition
that be wonld cling to her. He agreed to do
eo; but alter a few weeks the love he bore
Mrs. Spellman No. 2 conquered bis dnlyto
Mrs. Spellman No. 1, and he again deserted
ler. This was more than she could bear.—
following him to this city, she sued for and
Obtained a divorce, and consolation besides to
the amount of ss,ooo.— Chicago Post, Feb. 18.
A Bridegroom Struck with Sudden In
sanitt.—An exciting incident occurred on (he
up train of the Pacific Railroad leaving St,
Louis at three o’clock ou the 18th instant. A
man named Nicolas at five o’clock that
morning, had married at, Jacksonville, 111., a
Mies AngelineLumsden, whose father resides
at Murraysville, 111. The ‘train reached St.
Louis at noon en route to Southern Kansas,
where Watson lives, intruding to stop at
Scdatia and proceed to Greenfield, Dade county,
wh re hie lather resides. On the trip Watson
appeared excited, and told his wife some men
were following him, and when within a mile of
Jefferson City, and while the train was under
full headway, he jumped through a window,
breaking the glass and falling to the ground.—
The train was stopped, backed up, and the con
ductor and passengers searched lor the.man
who it was thought would be found dead, but
being discovered lurking in tho bushes near the
riverside be sprang on the icc and ran at full
speed across the Missouri'riven, watched by all
the'passengers till be vanished in the woods on
the other side. He was evidently deranged,
but his newly wedded wife conld give no ex
planation of the cause.
The Texas Red Devils Loose Again-
MURDER,, MUTlfiAttON, CAPTIVITY AND ROD
berY—Neither age nor sfex spared.
Ihe Picayune, ol Friday morning, contained a
couple of paragraphs from the San Antonio
Gerald, giving in brief the story of one of those
Indian outrages to which the people of Western
Texas have become but too familiar. The
women and children of three families being cap
tured, all but one woman and the smaller chil
dren were earned into captivity. The smaller
children were murdered, as also the woman re
ferred to—happier fate than that of Indian cap
tive. And this took place a short distance from
San Antonio.
The Indians seem to lie undisputed masters
ol a large region in the West. They have been
making their appearance in Lampassas, killing
a man and a boy, and driving oft a considerable
herd of horses. They have also been plying
around loose through Kerr, Kendall and Ban
dera counties ;and the Austin Republican learns
that a party was seen reeenLiy on the San Saba
road, about 15 miles above the springs.
The Sau Autouio Herald, of the 11th, has the
following :
Last Friday, in the vicinity ol Bandera, they
committed more of their fiendish outrages.
Two men, and a boy and woman, were killed,
and another woman wounded ;two houses were
burned, and a number of horses, cattle, etc.,
stolen. These facts, which, we learned at Cas
troville, from a rejjabjc source, did not disclose
who were the viqgpß. XWMfieinity of Castro
ville was WfiseSi* llWfcinights after of
similar depredation vwmong horses, but no per
sons wen- hurt. - --
The following kilter, published in the Austin
Slate Gazette, and dated Liano county, February
11, gives the particulars of a horrible ontrage
perpetrated on the evening of the (Sl.li instant :
The Indians, numbering twelve or fifteen,
attacked the house of Mr. John 8. Friend,
about sixteen miles trom this place, in Legion
Valley. The only resistance made was by Mrs.
Friend, who contended as bravely as any wo
man that ever lived. The Indians succeeded in
getting into the house. Mrs. Friend attempted
to shoot one, but the gun was wrested front
tier hands ; the Indian attempting to shoot her,
she knocked the gun out of ids hands with a
cuair. She afterwards knocked tlie Indian
down with a smoothing iron. Mrs. Friend was
then shot in the breast with an arrow and fell,
perhaps tainted. She was also badly cut across
the hand, and shot through the arm. She was
then" scalped and left for dead. Fortunately
she recovered sufficiently to watch the lndiaus
start off. But one barbarous wretch thinking
there was possibly life remaining in bis victim,
returned and gave the arrow, sticking in her
breast, several severe jerks backward and for
ward, to see if she would flinch. Mrs. Friend
noticing the Indian returning, placed herself in
exactly the position she was while being scalp
ed, remained as if lifeless during all his torture.
She then saw the Indians take off as prisoners
Mrs. Boy Johnson and child, Mrs. Babe John
son and child. Miss Townsend, a little girl
named Gordie, and Mr. Friend’s little son,
seven iu all. Alter Mrs. Friend recovered
slightly she started to the widow Johnson’s
house, distant one and a hall" miles, where a
Mr. Bradford a*d family were, staying. Mr. 13.
pulled the arrow ont of her breast, placed a
cloth over her head and then lied to the woods.
Twenty-four hours passed before the physi
cian at this place was called ; at the same time
word was received here of the affair. Every
man that could possibly go started immedi
ately, a part going to the scene of the late fatal
occurrence. Arriving in the night we had to
wait until morning to see the trail, which was
by this time thirty-six Hours alter the occur
rence.
One child, that of Mrs. Boy Johnson, was
found next evening after taken, about three
and a half or four miles from Mr. Friend’s house.
The next morning we found Mrs. Babe John
son’s child with its throat cut from ear to ear,
and about 10 o’clock of the same day, after
trailing over one of the roughest mountains,
we found both Mrs. Johnsons, murdered and
scalped. The same evening Miss Townsend
was found murdered, scalped and horribly mu
tilated. These live of the sevi-11 were all scalp
ed and mutilated too horribly to lie described.
The little Miss Gordie and Mr. Friend’s son
are supposed to be still in the hands of the In
dians.
Parties have watched passes, and tiled to fol
low the trail, but the Indians have eluded all.
Old Mr. Smith was killed and scalped near the
Old Fort Mason crossing on the same day of the
other depredations. A great deal more could
be written, but time will not allow.
Respectful !y,
E. R. Beeson.
Referring to the deviltries committed in Ban
clpni, the Ban Antonio Herald declares such
daring wonderful, and asks when will it be
checked ? Not, it concludes until the Indians
are annihilated - exterminated. Who ever
reads the above details of savage atrocities must
a- ree that extermination is the duly safeguard.
At all events the United States Uroops on the
Texas Indian lrontier might as %dl be in Car
lisle Barracks.
Ephraim’s Last Shave. —Front Congress
to New England is an easy and natural
transition, and it brings me to an anecdote
illustrating the Puritan character that was
told to nte to-day by a gentleman who can
vouch for its truth. A short time ago a
New Englander was lying on his death bed,
and ltis wife, a woman with a splendid
faculty for taking care of money, was with
him. The man had not been shaved tor
several days, and a barber was sent for to
exercise his art on the invalid’s face. The
poor man was sinking rapidly, and when
the barber arrived he was nearly gone.
As soon as the knight of the razor made
his appearance, the woman addressed him
with :
“ How much do you charge?”
The barber looked at the man and saw
that he was near death, and then said in a
low tone to the woman:.
I sliarge von dollar to shave him now,
but I sliarge five dollar ven lie be dead.”
The stricken wife turned to the bed, and
addressed iter dying husband :
“ Ephr&im, he says he’ll shave you now
for a dollar, but if he waits till you’re dead
he’ll charge five dollars.”
The sick man moved but made no reply,
and the woman looked from him to the
barber and from the barber back to the sick
man several times, and then bending over
her husband she raised her voice and re
peated :
“ Ephraim, he says lie’ll shave you now
for a dollar, but lie’ll charge five when
you’re dead. Don't you think you'd better be
shaved now ?"
Ephraim turned his head weakly, opened
his glassy eyes upon his wife, and murmur
ed :
“ Wife, I’m very sick.”
His head fell back, and he was dead, and
his wife, poor woman, had to pay the bar
ber five dollars for a post mortem shave.
[New York Correspondent Mobile Register.
Waggery. —The Wire Grass Reporter
says: Some time«.go, on the Sabbath day,
we wended our way to one of our churches,
and instead of a sermon, heard an address
upon some missionary or other benevolent
subject. After the address was concluded,
two brethren were sent round with the
baskets for contributions. Parson L
was one of the basket bearers, taking the
side upon which we sat. Immediately In
our front, and upon the next seat, negli
gently reclined our friend Bill H , a
gentleman of infinite humor and full of dry
jokes. Parson L extended the basket
and Bill slowly shook his head.
“Come, William, give us something,”
said the parson.
“ Can’t do it,” replied Bill.
“ Why not ? Is not the cattle a good
one V”
“Yes. But I ant not able to give any
thing.”
“ Poh! pohl I know better, you must
give a better reason than that.”
Well, I owe top much money—l must
be just before 1 am generous, you know.”
’ “ But, William, you owe God a larger
debt than you owe any one else.”
“ That’s true, parson, but then He ain’t
pushing me like the balance of my credit
ors !”
The parson’s face got into rather a cu
rious condition, and he passed on.
The Niagara frontier police, of Buffalo, made
over ten thousand arests in the first ten months
of last year, and the department received 128,-
000 from fines. Before the organization of this
force the average of fines collected iu the same
territory was only about $3,500, while the
amount of crime committed was much greater
than at present.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
C on gressi o nal.
Washington, February 2(5.
Senate.—Four hundred citizens ol Louisi
ana set forth grievances and asked relief. Re
ferred to the Judiciary Commit tee.
The hill returning criminals from foreign
countries was discussed. Then- was consider
able opposition, and the bill was recommitted,
to be more cautiously worded.
Certain routine resolutions regarding im
peachment passed.
A bill selliug Harper’s buy passed.
Several Senators represented doubts about
conviction for violation ol tbe tenure-of-office
bill; therefore impeachment charges will em
brace seven or eight counts.
llopse.—A bill exeuptiug discharged sol
diers from payment of homestead fees passed.
The House concurred iu the supplemental
reconstruction bill passed yesterday by the
Senate. It provides that a majority of voters
shall ratify constitutions. Registered persons
shall vote nny where in the State after ten days’
residence, registration being proved by certifi
cate, affidavit or other evidence, and that Con
gressional and State elections shall he Held
with that for ratification of the
constitution- vote, 96 to 32.
The bill goes to the President.
The House took up civil appropriations. It
includes a survey of ihe Atlantic and Gnlf
coasts, $200,000; Florida reels, $25,000; Light
House service, 11,750,000.
Without action, the House adjourned.
W ashingt o n.
Washington, February 1; -Noon.
General Thomas appeared witli counsel.—
Judge Cartier issued a subpoena lor Stanton to
appear with his commission and other docu
ments. %
Pending its service the court proceeded to
other business.
Stanton’s lawyers asked a postponement;
Thomas’ lawyers objected. His ball surrender
ed him and Thomas was a prisoner. Habeas
corpus was demanded, but Judge Curtter toid
Thomas to go hence.
This closes the matter unless the Grand Jury
takes cognizance.
It is expected now a quo ivarranto against
Stanton will be applied for.
Washington, February 26.— P. M.
The Impeachmcut Article Committee of the
House examined General Emory.
Serious differences are reported in the com
mittee.
The idea that Radical troubles are thickening
prevails, though no tangible facts have trans
pired.
Stanton answered subpoena, that he would
obey at noon, but as Ihe ease was thrust out of
court no farther proceedings were bad.
The Governor of New Jersey has vetoed the
resolution withdrawing assent to the Constitu
tional Amendment.
McCulloch honored Stanton’s requisitions
to-day for various amounts on account of the
War Department.
Thomas did not go to the Department to-day.
JN ortb Carolina.
Raleigh, February 26.
Mr. Hedrick, of Orange county, offered the
following resolution in the Radical Nominating
Convention to-day :
Resolved, That no person shall receive from
this convention a nomination on the State
ticket who is disqualified from holding office
either by the reconstruction nets or by the 14th
article of the Constitution of the t f nit red Stales
known as the “ Howard amendment.”
Mr. Hedrick urged the passage of this reso
lution on the greuaid that 1 ccon.-li ut-lioii should
he in the hands ot tire■. i- who did not need to
lie pardoned for pailicip.itinß iu the rebellion,
and lhat the laws and Com-tit iilion of the Uni
ted States were in buev in North C-iredinn,
The friends of John Holden (who Is "disquali
fied under (he the I revs for his p-u tff-ipnlion in
the war) refused hre-utert on the resolution and
laid it on tbe table.
Captain Lee, tin: Holden candidate for Sheriff
of Wake County, riitaally moved to expel Mr.
Hedrick Imm lie corivctdiou lor utti-i iiig ibis
resolution, but al 'he insMii.-i- ol Col. Heaton
the matter was >'l 10 1.
The convention spent most ot the session
to day 111 pet somil explanations, Hint a.l|>turned
about, 18 o'clock.
The State Radcrel Convention io nominate
candidates under tlu: new eonsiiintlon, met
here to-day in Tucket’s Hill, there was a
large gathering of blacks at ihe convention.
Ex-Provisional Governor Hoideu was nomi
nated for Governor. Col. Heaton gets the no
mination for Congress from Now hern district.
South. Carolina.
Charleston, February 26.
Convention proceedings unimportant.
Georgia.
Atlanta, February 26.
iu (lie convention section thirty-two ofAbe
Bill ot Rights was adopted. It allows a home
stead ol realty worth two thousand dollars and
personal property to the value of one thousand
dollars iu specie, both to he valued at the time
they are set apart, and instructs the Legislature
to provide for tiie setting apart and valuation
of (he same,
A motion to adjourn sine dD on the seventh
of March was lost.
A resolution that mechanics and laborers
shall have liens upon the propertyof emp’oyers
for labor and material furnished prevailed.
The removal of the site of the Capitol to At
lanta was warmly discussed ; it will come to a
vote to-morrow.
Florida.
Tallahassee, February 26.
The Republican State Convention met last
night. The following State ticket was nomi
nated and the nomination made unanimous :
For Governor, Harrison Reed; Lieutenant
Governor, Wm. H. Gleason; member of Con
gress, C. M. Hamilton. Six delegates to the
Chicago Convention and anew StatoJExecutive
Committee were also elected. Three Presiden
tial electors were nominated.
IVEississ-ippi.
Jackson, February 26.
The convention, to-day, was engaged upon
its third tax ordinance. So far as adopted it
provides for the levy of a special tax of fifty per
cent, on the amount of the State tax assessed
upon real and personal property of the State
for the year 1867 to be added to the State tax
assessment, rolls, for that year half of one per
cent, on the value of stock now on hand
in each dry good, grocery, or provision
store, and stocks ol goods or merchandise,
and all other movable or personal property
not herein otherwise provided for; also fifty
cents on each hale ol cotton now in the
State. This was redqeed from one dollar after
much discussion. These taxes to be paid in
convention warrants or United States Treasury
Notes, to be collected by sheriffs and tax col
lectors of the State.
A clause providing for a conversion treasurer
was warmly supported by extrdtmsls, but it
was finally decided to allow the money to pass
in regular course through the State Treasury.
Ten more sections to he adopted provided
unimportant details.
Louisiana.
New Orleans, February 26.
The convention to-day adopted articles 82 to
Sfl, inclusive, with the amendments recom
mended by the special committee, not altering
their general tenor.
Marine !N~ews.
Savannah, February 26.
Arrived-Bark Ruby, from London; ship
Screamer, from Liverpool.
Cleared—Fanny, for Baltimore; bark Delhi,
for Liverpool.
Charleston, February 26.
Arrived—Bark Sitka, from Kennebnnk,
Maine ; schooner Clara Montgomery, from
New York; schooner Serene, from Baltimore.
JVdLarkets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, February 26-r Noon.
Securities unchanged.
London, February 2ti—Evening.
Consols, 9%. Bonds, 71%.
Liverpool, February 26--Noon.
Cottou quiet nud steady ; sales, 10,000 bale*.
Breadstuff's unchanged. Sugar firmer.
Liverpool, February 26--Afternoon.
Cotton dull and easier; declined %and.; up
lands, 9% ; to arrive, 9%"; Orleans, 9%. Lard
active; advanced 25.; quoted at 60. Bacon ad
vanced- 41s. Od.
Liverpool, February 26—Evening.
Cotton—sales, 10,000 hales; uplands 9% in
port, 9%@9% to arrive ; Orleans, 9%. Sugar
buoyant, at 245. fid.
New York, February 26—Noon.
’62 coupons, 1H%@111%. Gold, 141%.
New York, February 26 P. M.
Governments closed steady. ’62coupons, 11.
Gold, Ml. Sterling, 9%@10.
New York, February 26—Noon.
Flour 5@ 10c. lower. Wheat dull and droop
ing. Corn lower. Rye steady. Oats dull.
Pork dull; mess, 124 87. Lard firmer at 15%
@16%. Whisky nominal. Cotton drooping ut
22@22% tor uplands. Freights dull. Turpen
tine favors buyers at 72. Rosin firm at #3 50
for strained.
New York, February 26—P. M.
Cotton closed a shade easier; sales, 4,100
Hales at 22%. Flour heavy. Wheat l@2c.
lower. Corn favors buyers; whbe Southern,
$122@1 24; mixed, $1 18@1 20. Pork—new,
$24 50; old, $23 62%. Lard firm at 15%@
16%. Naval stores quiet. Freights firm.
Baltimore, February 26.
The markets show no decided Change.
St. Louis, February 26.
Provisions stiff. Mess Pork, $24 50@25.
Bacon—shoulders, 13 ; clear sides, 14%$ 15.
Cincinnati, February 26.
Provisions buoyant and higher. Mess Pork
—old, $24 ; new, $25. Bacon—shoulders, 11% ;
clear sides, 14%@15. Lard, 16.
Wilmington, February 26. g
Spirits Turpentine nominal at 70. Rosiu
weaker; strained and No. 2, $2 50; low No. 1,
$2 87%. Cotton weak ; middling, 20%@21c.
Tar, $2 35.
Mobile, February 26.
Cotton—market closed dull and nominal;
middling, 80%@21; receipts, 862 bales; sales,
600 bales ; exports, 150 bales.
New Orleans, February 26.
Cotton market quiet; middling, 21%; sales,
3,000 bales ; receipts, 4,863 bales ; exports, 531
bales. Sterling, 54@58. New York sight, %
discount. Gold, 141%. Sugar nnd molasses
firm and unchanged, it is raining hard to-day
and markets are generally dull. Flour nomi
nal. Corn firm at 95@96. Oats, 82. Pork
firm at $26 50. Bacon scarce ; shoulders, 13% ;
clear, 16%. Lard firm; tierce, 15%@15%;
keg, 16.
Charleston, February 26.
Cotton active and advanced 1%; sales, 1,700
bales; middling, 22@22%.
Savannah, February 26.
Cotton opened active and closed quiet bnt
steady; middling, 22@22%; receipts, 8,284
bales.
Augusta Market.
Orrtos Daily Constitutiowalist, /
Wkdnksdav, February 28--P. M. (
FINANCIAL
GOLD.—Buying at 142 and selling at 144.
SlLVEß—Buying at, 132 and selling at 188.
SECURITIES -Georgia Railroad Stock aold to-day
at 71®Tilt;.
COTTON-There was some demand this morning
an 1 sales made on a basis of 21@213f for middling,
but after noon dispatches were received nothing was
done, and the market closed tame, Sales of the day,
351 bales. Receipts, 608 bales.
BACON.—Shoulders, 14; B. B. Sides, 15; C R.
Sides, lOtf ; Clear Bides, 17c. Dry Salt Shouldtvs
1214 ; Sides, 15s.
WHEAT.—Very little bfl'erlng. We quote white,
at $2 76©2 90; red $2 40@2 60.
CORN-By the car load, |1 25; retail, $1 SO.
OATS—SI 06.
PEAS- $1 25.
A Colored Orator.—We find the following
picture of a negro delegate to the monkey
show in Atlanta, In the columns of the Louis
ville Courier. It is a picture of the orator not
of the negro. “ Nabob ”is the artist:
The speeh of the “ Honorable ” delegate from
Macon, the priestly nigger, Turner, was one of
the most remarkable oratorical efforts on any
parliamentary record extant. In rhetoric it
was not equal to one of Everett’s speeches, at
least it did not remind yon of the great Bos
tonian. In argument it was not as close and
convincing ns Webster’s reply to Hayne; and
in continuity of thought and intellectual power
it could not be ranked with the great speeches
of Calhoun. In originality, however, it excell
ed everything ancient and modern. It was full
of gems, though not of “ purest ray serene.”
But may 1 be condemned to be represented by
Bedford if I ever heard anything like it. Lest
your readers may never have seen the great
speech of our African Demosthenes, I select
from the rich and varied collection what I deem
the matchless jewel. I hope your printers wifi
reproduce it verbatim, and not venture to cor
rect either the punctuation or othography, as I
have copied the extract irom the manuscript
copy furnished by the author. Here it is :
“ War of races, When wire such an anoma
listic wonder, sweeps its scar crow besoms
over this country. I fear If gentlemen who prate
and babble so much about this dreamless di
lemma, knew that God were going to store
them away in hell, untill their fears and pre
dictions were realized, They would tell ns on
leaving, farewell friends for I am eternally
damned, Gentlemen on that side of onr polit
ical arena, have surely been educated in the
metamorphie halls ol some menagerie museum,
where whip poor wills chant the requiems of
the slain, and babboons delivers anthropologi
cal lectures, while monkeys with woodm
knives, disscc the dead, to prove man inferiority
because he hasent got a tail.
TITS WINTER FIBK.
We piled, with care, our mighty stack
Ot wood agaiust the chimney-back,—
The oaken log, green, huge, and thick,
And on its top the stout back stick;
The knotty loro-stick laid apart,
And filled between with curious art,
The ragged brush ; then boverlrg near,
We watched the first red blaze appear,
Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam
On whitewashed wall and sagging beam,
Until the old, rude furnished room
Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom.
[[Snow-Hound.
Macaulay’s enigma.
Out off my head, and singular I am ;
Out off my tail and plural I appear ;
Out off ho'th head nod tail, and strange to say,
My middle part remains, though naught is there,
What is my head cut off*—a sounding sea;
What Is my tail cut off »*-a roaring river;
Within whose eddying depths I ceaseless play,
The parent of soft sounds, though route forever.
Answer. —Con. (It Is universally known that the
sounds of fishes are air-bladders.)
Boston never will be easy. Just now the
“hub” is petitioning Congress to abolish the
offiqool President, on the ground that “ the
Presidency is a copy of' royalty” and because
“it Is not a republican institution.” This Is
very good for Boston. Summer was selected
as the proper man to present this document.—
It is queer what a faculty the inhabitants of
Boston have for smelling out royalty and un
republican forms of government. •
The increase of the Baptist denomination In
this country during tho past twenty-five years
has been sixty-nine per cent, in churches; sev
en ty-seveu per cent, in ministers; and ninety
eight per cent, inmembers. The number re
ceived by baptism during MS67 was 62,957 ;
the Whole number of meeting houses, 12,054;
of members, 1,094,806.
About a fortnight ago one of the soldiers sta
tioned at Albany, Ga., went out gunning, and
accidently shot himself in the hand and arm,
and last Friday suddenly died.
Laughable.— The Newnan Herald says:
John Erskine, Judge of the’District Court of
the United States for the District of Georgia,
in his decision, speaks of the “ so-called Con
federate States” like he was somebody. Where
is Bill Arp?
