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AtJtUJHTA. OA :
tVKDNtityiAY MOIINING, MAY 15.
Ai Qi rmci). —Dr. Sponstcr, who was
charged with tho commission of an outrage,
had a hearing on tho oth, and was honor
ably acquitted, it having boon proven
tli.it the charges against him were ground
less.
Hoy. 15. F. Perry’s Letter.— Our
renders should not fail to read tho manly,
straightforward letter of Hon. Jt. F. Perry,
who lias not '‘bent the suppliant hinges
of ttie knee that thrift might follow fawn
ing.” A life-long Union man, his words
and actions must be a severe rebuke to
the whipped spaniels who aronow joining
hands with tho Radicals of the North to
plunder ourpooplo of their property and
rights.
The Oi.i) Charleston and New York
I.ink ok (Steamships Kr-kstaiii.iskki).-
The Merchants and travelling public of
Augusta, and our neighboring cities, will
lie gratified to know that tho old line
of steamships, communicating between
I Tiarlcslon and New York, lias been recent
ly re-ostnblkihod, and that tho Steamships
placed on tho reconstructed line are A No.
1 in every respect.
Tho Manhattan, (.'apt. Collins, and the
Champion, Capt. Murray, leave either port
each Saturday, atul no two liner or more
seaworthy vessels ever kissed the brine.
'«*4r BCisnil if
superb, and wo notice that tho Manhattan,
on her trip Saturday last, carried 105. The
Champion is commanded by tho old fa
vorite of the Nashville, Capt. Mike Mur
ray, so long known qn this lino. Messrs.
Street llros., of Charleston, are tho Agents.
Wm 11. Sts ixt vs. the Central Rail
road and Ran kind Company.—The New
York Timctt says:
Ail action of much interest to Northern
men holding stock in Southern railroads
and hunks, was tried yesterday before
Judge Davis without a jury. Tho action
is entitled Win. H. Scott vs. Tho Central
Railroad and Hanking Company of Geor
gia, and was brought to recover the sum
of s'>,44o, the aggregate amount of certain
dividends made by the Company between
.July, 1861, and January, 1865. The plain
till' is the assignee of So shares of the
Company's stock formerly owned by Mr.
Edward I’. Crowell. The defence was
twofold —first, that no demand had been
made, and secondly, that the Company
tillered to pay in Confederate money, which
oiler was not accepted. The Court held
that the defendants had waived a demand
by writifig a certain letter, and decided to
rendor judgment for all the dividends de
clare I except the two or three last named,
in which by therosolution of the Company
it was particularly staled that the money
was to be paid in Confederate notes or
bonds, 't’lio case will be taken to the
General Term.
Money Market, North and South.—
The money market in New York was
never more fully supplied than at present,
and tho rate of interest is four or live per
cent, on call loans, and six or seven on
stocks or other securities. The current of
money now sets strongly front the interior
towns to the commercial centre. The war
cloud Ims passed oil'also, and the prospect
of good crops throughout tho country in
spires hope for the future. Tho early re
habilitation ofthe excluded Southern States
will remove the last and chief obstacle to
commercial confidence. The present case
of Jlie money market appears to be owing
to the fact that business is still very dull.
The banks, however, find enough to do in
furnishing money to stock-jobbers to en
able thorn to sustain their load of railroad
and other stocks, which they hold in ex
pectation of a rise. Speculation is again
becoming rampant, in consequence of the
abundance of money and the prospect of
1 letter railroad and other dividends next
fall. Meanwhile the South is bare of
money; Northern capital is idle, or engag
ed only in speculation. It is refused to all
applicants from the South, in consequence
of the general distrust which the Radical
org ans have inculcated in relation to every
thing South. From ten to twenty-live per
cent, is frequently offered bv planters and
factors upon as good security as any that
Wall street could give, for funds required
in the cotton and sugar culture. Large
and formerly very productive estates,
some with very line improvements, in
Georgia and other cotton-growing States,
are evorv day sacrificed under the hammer
at forced sales. This distress for money
will greatly aggravate the suffering for the
want of food. Money is necessary to pro
mote industry and encourage and pay la
bor. — Sation'tl Intelligencer.
Senator Dixon on Senator Johnson.
—Senator Pixon. in his recent speech in
Hartford. Connecticut, gave the following
opinion of Senator Johnson’s vote for the
Southern Military Bill:
“The saddest excuse, the most lament
able reason for consenting to this legisla
tion, was that given by a distinguished
Senator front Maryland (Mr. Johnson).
I am by no "means sure he was not right,
when he said he was compelled to vote for
the act, though utterly opposed to it— j
because he feared, if this act was not pass
ed, some more terrible outrage would be
inflicted on the South, in the shape of con
fiscation laws and other measures which
should deprive them of the little they
have left. A sad reason, iudeed. if true !
It is as if your neighbor should permit
your house to be robbed and burned, lest
if he should interfere to prevent it your
family might be murdered.
Whipping.—The Boston correspondent
of the Evening l’ost says that tho senti
ment in favor of abolishing the practice of
whipping children in the publie schools
has received anew impulse from a ease of
cruel punishment which just occurred in
the Dwight School. A young boy was
whipped nearly half an hour, until his
clothes were cut as if by a knife, and until
his teacher's strength was exhausted.
The teacher resigned and fled, but a con
stable is after him.
The Three Great Western Cities.—
The Cincinnati Commercial, in an article
claiming for Cincinnati the largest popu
lation of the great cities of the West, says
that at the recent city elections Cincin
nati cast 23,000 votes, Chicago 10,000, and
St. Louis 14,000.
Our (It) Circulation.
in oar issue of the Si instant, appeared
I the following :
\Ve publish elsewhere in our columns
! this morning a communication from the
employees of this office in relation to a
statement made by the Daily Pram in its
issue of the Ist inst. It will be seen, by
) refefrnee to tlie'conUnunication, which is
signed by all our employees, that they
prove the statement in the press to be un
founded and false.
When we read the statement in the Press
we sent a note to E. H. Pughe, the
publisher of that sheet, asking' for the
1 name of his informant. We thought it
was due toour employees that this demand
should be made, and that tho author of the
statement should be exposed.
The Publisher of the Pres declined to
furnish the name of his pretended inform
ant, thereby assuming the responsibility of
the charge which hud been made through
his columns.
K. 11, Pughe, therefore, stands convict
ed, by the evidence of ail our employees,
of deliberate falsehood. —Chronicle <t Hen- ,
line/, M May.
Chronicle and: Sentinel Office, f
Augusta, Ga., May Ist. 1807. j ;
Having seen a statement in the Daily |
Press of this date, that an employee of this
office had communicated to someone con
nected with the Press, a statement as to
the number of the«dailj- issue of this paper
distributed by the carriers, we take occa
sion to say that so far as ttie ifndersigned
are implicated, the statement is without
foundation and false.
I. P. Asmiv, K. C. McCarty, , ,
T. J. Avkreli., J. M< Cakty,
J. V. Johnston, A. M. AvkukluJ
J. Anderson,, J. V. Kennickell, I
H. Rawls, M, W. Antony^
R. A. (jALDCLKt'pn, H. A. TTTOTcRkxziE,
(I. Bi Coffin, Edw. Hktt.
F. P. Gentry, * Pat. Walsh.
I certify that tlift above list contains the
names of all the. employees (white), con
nected with this office.
B. C. McCarty,
Book-Keeper Chronicle & Sentinel.
May Ist, 1857.
The Press oP the sth, contains an article
in which it reiterates the False and slander
ous statements contained in its issue of
May 1, alleging as a reason for not giving
the name of its pretended informant, j
that the truth of its statement was j
not denied. If to pronounce an as- [
sertioif as unfounded and false be not a |
denial, then the publisher of tho Press i
fails to understand the meaning of the ■
English language. Being too obtuse to
understand wliat we intended as a contra
diction and Hat denial, wo now pronounce
all the statements contained in that paper j
in reference to the city circulation of the )
Chronicle. & Sentinel, as false in every !
particular.
That any information was voluntarily
given to the Principal Book- Keeper and
Collector of that paper, we also deny, and
assert, if such information was obtained, it
was obtained dishonestly, and is withal de
void of truth in every particular, as the
daily reports of our Pressman and Mail
Clerk will prove.
The employees of this office did not sign
the card in Friday’s issue without fully
understanding its contents and meaning,
as the following letter demonstrates, which
was voluntarily written and signed by thorn
yesterday morning without the knowledge
of the proprietors of this paper :
[copy.]
Chronicle iS Sentinel Office, )
Aituuhta, Ua., May 6th, 1867. J
K. f[. Pughe, Esq. :
Dear Sir:—As you have thought prop
er, in your controversy with tho Proprie
tors of this paper, to implicate ono of the
employees, thereby, until the mystery is
cleared up, implicating each and every |
ono of us, rendering us liable to the sus- j
picion of being the guilty party, will you,
do us tho justice, in view of our denial, j
over our proper signatures, of saying i
whether either of us conveyed tho infer- i
mation alleged ? It is duo to justice, due
to us, that our skirts should bo either
cleurod or we branded with tho infamy
such a charge would render ns liable to.
A prompt answer, in writing, will much
much oblige yours, <Ve. I
It. A. Oalduleugh, L. 1\ Ashby, i
M. W. Antony, .1. Anderson,
H. A*. B^b-KEN/AE,
Pat. Walsh, J. McCarty,.
E. U. McCarty, F,wr>. Hktt.
A. M. Avkrkll, J. V. Johnston.
11. Rawls, prH.F.R.
The foregoing was banded the Publisher !
of the Press by Mr. E. (J. -McCarty, with j
tho request for a written reply, giving the
information desired, to which the former
answered, verbally, that he had none to
make, other than that contained in his
paper of Sunday, refusing to disclose the
name of his pretended informant.
We regret the necessity of bringing this
matter so prominently before our readers
but justice to ourselves, as well as the nc
cessity of exonerating our employees from
false and slanderous accusations, left no
other alternative. That we have proven
tho statement of the Publisher of the
Press “unfounded and false," is, we be
lieve, patent to all honorable men. But
that there may not bo the slighcst doubt
upon the mind of any one as to the
truth of our statements, we produce the
following affidavit of E. C. McCarty, Book-
Keeper ; Edward Hett, Pressman, and J.
McCarty, Mail-Clerk, sworn to before
D. L. lloath, Esq., yesterday. These are
the only men in the employ of this office
who know the circulation of the Chronicle
<£• Sentinel, and they have sworn that the
statements in the Daily Press are false in
every partietdar, being devoid of tenth from
beginning to end. We, therefore, dismiss
the publisher of the Press and his willful
and malicious slanders, content to let tho
people of Augusta decide between us :
[copy.]
STATE OF GEORGIA, 1
Rich mon u County. )
Personally appeared before me, Edward
O. McCarty, Edward Hett, and Jeremiah
McCarty, who, being duly sworn, say that
the statement in the Daily Dress newspa
per giving the circulation daily of the
Chronicle ,f: Sent in el, as delivered by the car
riers, ns four hundred and forty-two, is ut
terly! false; and that tho statement as to
gratuitous circulation at Richmond Fac
tory is also false : and that tho whole state
ment is entirely false in every particular.
Edward C. McCarty,
Edward 11k ft.
Jkrkmiah McCarty.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
6th May, 1567. David L. Roath,
Not. Pub., R. C„ Ga.
Strong Language—The New York
! Day Book, in speaking of the Sherman
! bill which is now in operation in the South,
j says:
| It is no law—it is a crime. Suppose Con
gress should demand of the President to
commit murder, would lie. therefore, be
compelled to obey? Rut the bill is worse
; than murder. Every man who voted for
: it deserves to In? taken out to Capitol liill
ami shot! Such would be a moderate
i punishment; and if Andrew Johnson will
| refuse to enforce it, and needs assistance
to save the Government from these mon
: sters and outlaws, lie lias only to call for
■ men, to get a million iu 24 hours.
Thf. Price of a Worthless Woman.
—The recent trial and decision of an
aristocratic divorce case in London strik
ingly illustrates how differently these
matters are managed in England and in ,
this country :
“ The parties, plaintiff and defendant,
were men of the highest social position
and officers of her Majesty’s Oxford Blues.
Captain Westear took possession of the
pretty wife of Mayor Maxwell. Mayor
Maxwell, placing, we think, too high a
valuation upon a worthless wife, sued for
a divorce and claimed damages for the
wrong which he had sustained to the
amount of SIOO,OOO. The defendant took !
matters cooly. telling his eouusel that " he
was used to that sort of thing and did not
mind it.” The jury found a verdict for
the plaintiff and gave him $50,000. with
: costs. As the income of the defendant
was $35,000 per annum he trenched some
what upon his property, paid the amount,
and retains the Mayor's wife. There were
no pistols, no bowie-knives, and no guns
heavily charged with buckshot, and the
wife and $50,000 changed hands, and thus it
all ended. The English are a commercial
and practical people—very. But the price of
unfaithful wives in that highly civilized
and favored land is unreasonably high.
The market "rules” higher than in New
York and Boston.— Richmond Times.
Crops, etc., in Walton.—A correspon
dent from Walton county informs us “the
| wheat crop is looking finely and that the
: present prospect indicates a good yield.—
j other crops are very backward.
1 “ The freedmen are behaving well.
«There is a great deal of suffering on
account of the scarcity of provisions and
money. It is the hardest time that we
j have ever had iu this section. Without
relief some will starve.
Sot a Question of Veracity but of Theft
and Duplicity.
The statements of the Daily Press , in
reference to the city circulation of the
Chronicle & Sentinel, having been proven
false in every particular, we had determin
ed to take no further notice of the libellous
assertions of that paper, but the affadavit
of 0. F. Gregory, Principal Bookkeeper,
Collector, Mail Clerk, &c., of the Daily
Press, makes it necessary for u.s to advert
to this matter again. And we do so now
merely to say that wo have great confidence
, in the Mail Clerk of this office, Jeremiah
; McCarty. We do not believe him false to
his trust, and hereby exonerate him from
all complicity in the accusations of dis
honesty to our interest, alleged iu the
: Daily Pest.
That paper rests the whole matter upon
the affidavit and Christian deportment of
! Gregory. We re3t the issue upon the
word, and well-known integrity of _Jere
- miah McCarty, the Mail Clerk of the
Chronicle & Sentinel.# $ 4
The Press of yesterday'publishes the
following : ... * *
State eti- Georuia, f
Richmond County, j
I, Oliver F. Gregory, Bookkeeper and
Mail Clerk of the Daily Press* hereby
solemnly swear that on tho - ol Jan
uary, 1867, I went to the office of the
*Ch eonicle to obtain a copy of that niorn
inghiiaeue. It wan about SJ«. m.y and I
sat talking with Jeremiah McCarty (Mail
Clerk of that paper; about “Gazelle,” the
engine to which we both belong.
On the table lay several “Blank Morning
Reports.” I took one up, and asked : “If
Military Law was in force there?” Think
ing the idea a good one, in many points, I
I asked J. McCarty if Ifeould take one (in
tending so to amend it as to surt myself).
He said : “Certainly.”
As I arose to leave, he turned a Report
(which he held in his hand) toward me,
and said : “That’s what our City Circu
lation is.”
T could not help noticing, with surprise,
I that the total number given to Carriers, on
i that morning, was 442 papers, and total
j number printed .
i then returned immediately to the
I Office of the Daily Press, and meeting Mr.
Pughe, handed him the Report, telling him
tho figures I had seen. Mr. P. took his
! pencil and put tho figures down imme
diately. This information having been
given voluntarily, would have been for
ever a secret, had it nut lice a forced from
11s by the unjust attack made in the
Chronicle. Oliver F. Gregory.
Sworn mid subscribed before me, this !5d
I day of May, 1867.
David L. Roath,
Not. Pub. R. C., Geo.
The foregoing establishes, if it establishes
anything, that a system of espionage has
been carried on, and that the man who
swore to it, has been guilty of duplicity in
testifying that on any day during January,
1 1807, the total number of papers delivered
to the carriers of this office was 442.
In an article in Sunday morning’s Press,
it is stated that the Publisher has in his
possession a copy of the Mail Report of
the Mail Clerk of the Chronicle ik Sentinel,
on which is recorded the number given
to carriers as well as the total circulation,
leaving the impression on the readers of
his paper that a verbatim copy of the
Mail Clerk’s report was in his possession.
Gregory swears that “he noticed with
surprise the total number given to carriers
as 442, which falsifies the statement in
Sunday’s Press that the Publisher has a
copyof the mail report of this office, giving
the number of papers delivered to carriers
J and the number mailed.
J Gregory further avers, in his affidavit,
; that 110 handed the proprietor “ the
| report,” telling him the figures he had seek,
which the proprietor put down in pencil
immediately. This proves that either the
statements iu the editorial of the Press or
those in the affidavit are false. The same
article also asserts that the papers sent to
Richmond Factory are gratuitous, which
statement is false, tia proved by the affi
davit hereunto appended.
It is with considerable reluctance this
matter has been brought before,our read
ers; but there was no other alternative
than to place it squarely before the public,
giving the whole facts in the case, thereby
disproving assertions made for the purpose
of libelling the Proprietors of this paper,
and damaging to their interests.
With the following affidavits and cer-
tificates we dismiss the subject:
STATE OF GEORGIA,)
Richmond County. J
I, Jeremiah McCarty, Mail Clerk of the
Chronicle & Sentinel, do solemnly swear:
Ist. That, on tho morning of January,
1807, about 51 o’clock, Oliver F. Gregory
came into the office of tho Chronicle A Sen
tinel while I was engaged in writing the
mail, and that the said Gregory handed
me a copy of the Daily Press, and asked
mo for a copy of the Chronicle & Sentinel.
2d. That the said Gregory, seeing several
blank forms of morning reports on the ta
ble. upon which there was not a word
written, asked me “if there was any harm
in looking at the form?” I replied “No. 1 ’
lie then asked me “if he might have one,
as jio w ished to show it to the old man
(meaning E. H. Pughe) of the Press office?”
as the said Gregory liked tho plan, and
wanted something of the same kind for
the Press.
3d. That not a word passed between us
in reference to the Gazelle Fire Company,
and that the said Gregory did not ask, as
sworn in his affidavit, “if military law was
in force there?”
4th. That Gregory did not sit down, and
that I did not say “That’s what our city
circulation is.” At that time —51 a. m,—l
was engaged in writing up mail, and did
not make out tho morning report until be
tween 7 and 8 a. m.
sth.*That I gave no information, either ia
January or at any other time, to Gregory
as to the circulation of the Chronicle &
Sentinel.
6th. That I asked the said Gregory on
two occasions who the party was that
gave the information. I asked “him did I
ever give him any information as to the
city circulation of the Chronicle & Sentinel,
accompanied by a report?” and Gregory
replied “ no.” This was on Monday, 6th
May, and was the second time I asked
him the question. The first time I asked
him, he replied by saying that, if his
informant was discharged by the pro
prietors of the Chronicle & Sentinel, there
was a place open for him at the Press
office. This was the only reply he gave
to the first question. To the best of my
knowledge tho first conversation took
: place near Warren block, on Friday, May
i 3d, and the last on Monday May oth, near
| the Postoffice.
7th. That the said Gregory, if he ob
i tained any information at all in reference
to the circulation of this paper, did steal
it, and it is false in every particular, and
that said Gregory has sworn to a false
hood. Jeremiah McCarty,
Mail Clerk Chronicle <t Sentinel.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
1 tliis Bth May, 1867.
David L. Roath.
Not. Pub., R. C., Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA,)
Richmond County, j
Personally appeared before me, Edward |
C. McCarty.' Edward Hett, and J%remiah
McCarty, who being duly sworn, say that
the statement in the Daily Press newspa- j
per giving the circulation daily of the
Chronicle A Sentinel, as delivered by the
carriers, as four hundred and forty-two, is j
utterly false ; and that the statement as to j
gratuitous circulation at Richmond Fac
tory is also false; and that the whole state- j
snout is entirely false in every particular.
Edward C. McCarty,
Edward Hett,
Jeremiah McCarty.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
6th May. 1867. David L. Roath,
- » Not. Pub., R. C., Ga.
Office Chronicle & Sentinel. ]
Augusta, Ga., May 8,1567. \
Being requested, as entirely disinterest
ed parties, to examine the daily reports of
the Mail Clerk of this office for the month
of January, 1867, we find that upon no day
during that month, whereupon there was
au issue of the Chronicle and Sentinel, was
the number of papers given to carriers, as
set forth iu such reports, four hundred and
forty-two (442 .
' Claiborne Sneed,
Salem Dutcher.
I certify that when the statement appear
ed in the'Daily Press setting forth the city
circulation of the Chronicle and Sentinel as
four hundred and forty and in a subsequent
issue as four hundred and forty-two the
number given to carriers! the daily repor s
of the Mail Clerk of this office for the
month or January were taken in charge by
me, and that the figures contained iu said
reports have not been erased or altered.
Patrick WalsP.
May 8, 1567.
Mississippi.—Our advices from Mis
sissippi are encouraging. A gentleman
writes us that the planters of Amite
county have finished planting. It says :
“One very encouraging Act is that our
farmers are putting a greater part of their
lands in corn, potatoes, peas, etc. We
like to see this policy adopted. Better to
have plenty of food without money, than
plenty of money and no food, particularly
when all of your nighbors are in the same
‘ fix.”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1867.
The Confederate Dead.
The ladies of the Marfreesboro Memorial
Association r'efjucst the publication of the
following address e cheerfully lay it
before our readers, with- the hope that
j their appeal may meet with a generous t
response from our people :
address *
of the Murfreesboro Memorial Association
to all who honor the Confederate dead.
Mußfreesboro, May 1,1367.
In the providence of God this plaoe was j
i the scene of one of the fiercest conflicts ot j
the late war. Here thousands upon both
! sides fell in battle, and here died thousands
more, in camp, in hospitals, and in our
houses. The U. S. Government has al
ready cared forthe remains of those who
i died in the Federal service, and a beauti
ful cemetery hard by does credit alike to
the heart and the hand of the'nation. But
tho Confederate dead—our own dear dead
—lie round us here, uncared for, wjtn
hurried and imperfect burial, on the bat
tle-field wheie they fell; some are buried
in private lots, some in open fields, and
some sleep by the wayside.
This ought' not to be ; not would it nave
been, but for our poverty.
This alone prevented us from gathering
our dead together, “and burying them out
of our sight.” Witifiour dear ones, God
look away our wealth, otherwise the first
spring that came to us after our beloved
slept should have covered their precious
bodips with :i mantle green and wrought
with flowers. It is not too late yet to re
cover the most of these remains. There
fore, we, the ladies of MOjsfrpesboro, Ten
nessee, haye organized ohrselves under
tiie name of“lhe Murfreesboro’ MeuioriaiL,
Association,” for the purpose of collecting
the remains of the Confederate! dead wholie '
around us here, and givetßem a plain but
enduring burial in some appropriate spot
near our town. Encouraged by our suc
cess at home—for the people of Murfrees
boro and its vicinity have responded most
nobly to the call—the work will be com
menced immediately. But the number to
be removed and buried is so great, we i
cannot accomplish>it unaided.
Weappeal, therefore, fellow-countrymen
to you—to you for whom these brave men
fought and fell —to you who stood by them
while living, and promised them burial
when they died. Especially do we
appeal to the immediate friends and
neighbors of those slain. Here they lie,
from every Southern State—away from
homo and mother—away from wife and
sister. Gentle, Southern sisters, here are
the bones of husbands, fathers, brothers,
friends. Come, let us bury them, and ere
another May day comes, sweet flowers will
mark their graves.
We design having erected, in the central
square of the Cemetery, a monument to
all, upon which shall be inscribed the
names of all those who fell upon the
several battle-fields of Murfreesboro, forthe
reason that many graves can be identified,
though the names are unknown. The
friends of all those departed heroes are earn
estly requested to furnish us their names.
Any contributions which the people of the
South may think proper to send to aid in
our sacred work, as well as the names, will
be received, and appropriately acknowl
edged, if sent to the address of the Pres
ident or Secretary.
Editors throughout the South will con
fer a favor by copying.
Mrs. D. D. Wendel,
President.
Mrs. J. H. Morgan, Cor. Sec’y.
Coolie Labor.
We invite the attention of our planting
friends to the following article which we
find in the Mississippi Clarion :
The undersigned have made arrange
ments i'or procuring Chinese Coolies who
have served their apprenticeship on sugar
plantations in the Island of Cuba, and are
prepared to furnish planters with this class
at short notice. They can be employed,
under contract, for one or two years, at
twelve dollars in currency per month, and
rations of two and a half pounds of pork
per week and ten ounces of rice daily, and
will be delivered here at a cost of fifty or
sixty dollars each.
So far as these laborers have been tried
in this State, they have given entire satis
faction, as they are accustomed to planta
tion work.
Any one desiring this kind of labor, can
send their orders to Messrs. Darby, Mou
ton & Cos., 180 Common street, which will
receive immediate attention.
Lyle & Wickes.
New Orleans April 3 d, 1867.
To the information contained in the fore
going circular, we will add,.. that cx
penenced planters of Louisiana have
visited Cuba and examined the plantations
cultivated by Coolies ; that they were satis
fied with the result of their investigations,
and have engaged laborers to work on their
own places at the prices above stated.
The advantages claimed for the labor of
these Coolies cannot fail to command the
approval of practical men. They may be
stated as follows:
They are encumbered by no women and
.children, or non-producers, idlers and in
valids.
They are easily controlled, quiet and
peaceable.
They are frugal and industrious, strong
and athletic.
They are experienced in the use of agri
cultural implements, and in the cultivation
of rice, sugar and corn, under the severe
training of their Cuban employers. It is
a reasonable inference that they will readily
learn to cultivate cotton.
Crops, Ac., in Southwestern Georgia.
Milford, Ga., April 28, 1867 —Editors
Daily Telegraph—Oar crops are looking
well, notwithstanding the backwardness of
the season. This has been one of the most
unfavorable years (at least the beginning
of it) that has visited our sunny land for
many years.
Damascus, Early county, was visited on
Thursday last by a very severe hail storm.
I have visited the counties of Early, Miller,
Calhoun and Mitchell lately, and find the
prospects for good crops exceedingly prom
ising.
The freedmen throughout those counties
and our own, are working well. Carrie.
CROPS IN PUTNAM.
Eatonton, Ga., May 1, 1867.—1 have
not been out much among farmers, but
where I have been I have seen many signs
of industry, and some prospects of better
times if the husbandmen are blessed with
j a good season.
I have heard hut little complaint about
| the freedmen working. Where they are
treated well (and that is now pretty gene
ral), and well fed, they seem disposed to bo
industrious and contented. One thing I
fear, as producing, or rather continuing
difficulties for next year similar to those
which now surround us, and that is, I fear
our farmers are planting too muoh cotton,
or not enough corn.
Many of our most discreet farmers are
putting in about equal quantities ’of corn
and cotton. I think there is much wisdom
in such a course, and if they allowed corn
to predominate largely it certainly would
be to our advantage.
There is another difficulty we have to
contend with here, which I presume is
general ; I aliude to the scarcity of pro
visions to carry our first calculations among
the farmers. Many have commenced on
* a much larger scale than they can “wofk
up to.” A great many are now out of
, corn, bacon and money, and some without
even friends to help them in this great
j hour of their need.
Salt Lake advices to the _Bth instant,
give the particulars of a shocking massacre
near Glenwood, in Severn Valley. A man
and his two daughters, aged respectively
fifteen and eighteen years, were captured
by a party of Indians, led by Black Hawk,
ablood-thirsty fiend. The old man’s brains
was beaten out with clubs, but the fate of
his daughters was still worse. After vio
lating their persons, the Indians put them
to death with extreme torture, by thrust
ing rough-knotted pine sticks into their
bowels, causing a most horrible death.
Their bodies were soon afterward dis
covered.
General Grant Refuses to Gratify
Gov. Hahn. —Gov. Hahn’s effort to in
duce General Grant to authorize General
Sheridan to set aside the recent election of
the Mississippi Railroad Directors has not
been successful. General Grant declines
to interfere, and refers the applicant to the
President. So General Beauregard and
his associates still hold control of the road.
The Crops.—ln Delaware everything
looks favorable at present for the yield of
large crops of W heat, Oats, Ac. The
peach crop is likely to be one of the most
abundant ever known in this State.
Clayton Herald.
“I Have no People but the Southern
People; I Have no State but Virgin-
IA I”—These were the words of Claiborne
Scott, an African freedman, in a public
meeting at Salem on Saturday last. He
was defining his political position and giving
expression to his attachment to the people
among whom he had been raised, and his
determination to seek counsel and advice
from them rather than from foreigners.
Let the sentiment of Claiborne Scott, “I
have no people but the Southern people ;
I have no State but I irginia. ’ be the
watchword of enfranchised freedmen
throughout the length and breadth of the
‘ mother of States. ’ ’ — Roanoke Times.
Madame Ristori, who expects to return
! to Europe about the middle of May, and
i who is now playing a farewell engagement
at Boston, is said to have already per
formed 108 nights in America. The gross
receipts of these performances have been
$450,000, of which Ristori’s share was
about $270,000.
Letter from Ex-SOTernor Perrj.
To the Editor of fine Columbia Phrenic :
The people of South. Ciurolina were per
suaded, six or- seven jjearl ago,that their
only hope of maintaining slavery
was in the dfStrucnoUoi the American
Union and the fortnafipfl of the Southern
Confederacy. I did not think so, and raised
bv warning voice- agafost thig,fatal delu
sion. I said to them’'that slavery was
safer in the 1 nion than it could be in a
separate confederacy. I told them that
i the extinction of the Tffiton would be the*
deat-knell of slavery, j hey _ spurned iny
counsel, and madly rushed itjto a bloody
civil war, which ended in the abolition of
slavery. "Sow they are being persuaded,
again, that the only wayxO save their lands
from the confiscation of Congress, is iu
adopting the provisions of the Military
Bill, giving universal suffrage to the negro,
and disfranchising their -leading public
m?n. It is with a sad heart that I see in
dications, all over the State; of a prepara
tion to adopt this second*delusion, which
will prove more fatal to the State than the
first has been. It is true, they lost by the
first, their property in slave?; and involved
their country in a iotg and bloody war,
which desolated the State -and saerifioad
thousands of their most gallant sons ; it is
true, also, that they were*<Jonqueretl, and
have been placed under ft ailitarysgovern
ment. , But now they aregoing to sacrifice
their honor as $ people and lose tlieirlajjds
into the bargain' Thevjare going to en
franchise fiO.uOtfcbluck votes, and surrender
suit of this delusion and criminal folly will
be the establishment of the'most atrocious
government and horrible state‘of society,
that a civilized people were ever subjected
to. *
Already the negro which cry in Virginia
and elsewhereis, “Lands for the landless!”
“Homes-for the houseless !’ “Political
‘equality to all men, regardless of caste or
color!” What avail will 40j000 white
votes have in South Carolina, with thi?
watufi-cry ringing at the polls? .It is
against nature and reason to suppose thfffc
an ignorant and debased majority, will
not pursue their own interest, regafdless
of right, and carry out their wicked pur
poses, whatever they may be. It is im
possible to restrain tliem at first, before
they acquire concert' of action. Hence the
importance of defeating the call of a con
vention at tho first election, before this
majority is organized and emboldened by
agitation and evil counsels. It cannot he
controlled afterward, but will make
South Carolina a political and social pan
demonium. Is there an instance in the
world’s history of a class of men, invested
with political power, who did not unite to
promote their own interests ?
Just as sure as general suffrage is given
to the negro in South Carolina, he will feel
his numerical strength,and, sooner or later,
under the vile lead of Black Republican
emissaries, seize the political power of the
State and exercise it to oppress and plun
der the white race. There thousands
of unprincipled white men amongst us who
will unite their destiny with tho negro for
the sake of spoils and plunder., They will
easily be persuaded, and persuade them
selves, that it is right and proper that the
lands of the State should be divided out
equally amongst all of her citizens. Every
one should have a home —the poor frecd
man as well as his former rich master.—
Having the powerin their hands, with this
belief, it is folly and_ stupidity to.,suppose
they will not execute it. They must serve
on juries and hold offiee, ride withvou and
your wives and daughters in the cars, and
cat with you at the hotel and sit with you
in the church. All this, and ten times
more, you must endure, front our black
political masters. A,nd can it be that the
pride of Carolina has sunk so low and been
so degraded as to vote for this voluntarily,
for the purpose of getting back into that
Union whieh her citizens professed to hate
and despise so cordially a few years since ?
Are they willing to go to the polls and cast
their vote for a convention, with this
destiny staring them in the face, in order
to save their lands from confiscation ? No.
They will be voting the ultimate confisca
tion of their lands and their political rights
as surely as they are voting away their
honor as men and Carolinians
There are in the State only ten districts
out of the thirty in Which the j-lift'd voters
are in the majority, and these districts arc
the smallest—consequently two-thirds and
more of the convention may be negroes or
Black Republicans. The Legislature will
be similar composed. Do the people of
South Carolina really think of these conse
quences, or are they prepared to accept
them? Better a thousand times let Con
gress confiscate your land and entail such
a government and such degradation and
misery on yourself and posterity. Do your
duty and leave the consequences to God.
Act like men and Carolinians. Declare,
by voting against a convention, that you
will never voluntarily yield the right of self
government, or place yourselves under the
control of your former slaves. Better —
far better—to remain as you are, under
the military rule of your conquerors, and
await their returning sense of justice, I
feel assured that but a mistaken appeal to
base fear, and that bastardly virtue called
prudence, could have wrought so wonder
ful a change in the public sentiment of
South Carolina. And it is melancholy to
see the people—a proud, gallant people—
scared into their own ruin and degradation
by the false cry of confiscation, like the
consumptive lunatic, who had such at error
of death that he butted his brains out
against the wall of his cells to avoid it. In
order to save our lands from Congressional
confiscation, we are persuaded to let the
negroes parcel them put amongst them
selves.
Let no one charge me with disloyalty to
tho Anterican Union, or infer from what I
have said, that I am not in favor of recon
structing the Union of the States. My
whole political life lias been spent in fight
ing for the Union, and trying to ward off
that fell spirit of disunion which has
brought all these unnumbered woes upon
South Carolina. I wish to see the Union
restored under the Constitution. I know
the American people never can be free and
happy, great and prosperous, without the
Federal Union ; but I will never degrade
, myself, or my State, or surrender my con
| stitutional rights or republican principles,
|to get back into the Union. 1 will live
under a military government, no matter
how absolute and despotic it may bs, and
j bequeath it to my children, sooner than
| vote a negro government for South Caro
j lina, which every man will do who votes
for a convention.
It is a source of proud satisfaction to
j me to see such Union men as Governor
; Sharkey, of Mississippi, Governor Jenkins,
of Georgia, Governor Worth, of North
| Carolina, and Governor Marvin, of Florida,
| who never ceased their opposition to the
spirit of disunion till the Union ceased to
exist, stanuing firmly, and breasting the
| storm of tyranny, oppression and degrada
tion which has been hurled at them, whilst
leading secessionists and disunionists are
counselling the people to their own
degradation and destruction, for the
purpose of getting back into the
j Union; and, in order to accomplish
| their purposes, holding up to their
! view the “raw head and bloody bones”
lof confiscation. Such counsel comes
with a bad grace from those who boasted,
at the beginning of our civil or sectional
war, that they had drawn their swords and
thrown away the scabbards, determined to ;
; die or live seperate from the vile, accursed j
Yankee nation. .
Let nooneeharge me, eitner, with unkind- 1
’ ness to the African race. I have always j
been their friend and protector, and, as they j
show themselves] capable of exercising the
right of suffrage, by their intelligence and
property. I am willing to concede the right
to them. Bat lam not willing, in their
present debased and degraded condition,
to throw the political power of the State
into their hands. I know the result will
be disastrous, both to them and the white
, race. It will end in a moody contest of
extermination to one race or the other.
In very few of the Northern States are
the negroes allowed to vote, where they
have only a few, and they far superior to
those in the Southern States. It is mon
strous, that the representatives of those
States, in Congress, should attempt to
force us to yield the right of universal suf
j frageto the negro, when they refuse it to
I him themselves.
J There is no danger of confiscation by
> Congress. The members of that body may
not be superior to the negro in honesty,
, but they have not the same motive to vote
| a division of the lands. They will get j
none of them. A man is not so likely to
rob or steal for another for himself.
But is it not better to be robbed and plun
dered by Congress than by a convention of
South Carolina ? As wicked as Congress
is, the members may have some regard for
the opinion of the world. They may, too,
have some apprehension of agrarianism at j
home. ...
I greatly fear there are many white per
sons in South Carolina who will vote for a
convention, under the hope of rts repudiat
ing the indebtedness of the State. This
class may influence the negro vote to unite
with them, and then, in return, they ran
unite with the negro in parcelling out the
lands of the State. One step leads *o
another. Stay laws first—repudiation
i next; and then follows a division of lands :
I and an equal apportionment of property 1
amongst all persons.* And last of all, the
honest, hard working, industrious and
prudent class must support theJdle, dis
sipated, extravagant and roguish class.
Who cares so be represented in Congress
by negroes. Bfcck'Republicans or perjured
; Southerners ? All others are excluded by
; “-the iron-clad,, oath. ‘ ’ And this is the
] great boon South Carolina is to receive for
| her voluntary abandonment of honor and
; principle, and constitutional liberty ! W e
pare to be-represented in Congress by men
whom we despise, and wlio will only in
crease the Black Republican majority in
that body; whilst at home we shall have a
Legislature composed of negroes and their
vile representatives! . ,
Congress has left it discretionary tvith
the people of South Carolina whether so
cal! a convention or not. They have order
ed a registration of voters and an election,
and authorized every one to endorse onhis
ticket “Convention” or “No Conven
tion.’” Therefore, let every man who is
not disfranchised, as he values Lis life, and
honor, and property, and the peace of so
ciety, go forward and -register his name',
and then vote at the election, endorsing on
his ticket “No Convention. ' In this
way alone can we maintain our boner, pre
serve tlie peace of sdciety,. prevent black
suffrage and division of lands amongfet the 1
uegr«3. B. F. Perry'.
That Astringent.
We hardly thine that Dr. William
Arp,” of .Rome, Gl., anticrpSfed thenlti
operated with a i>ower beyond the antici
pations of the most sanguine, and in a
manner which the illustrious Doctor had
not conceived of. The agent of the Nrw
Era has, we learn, been for several days
canvassing this city for subscriptions,
.especially among the newly enfranchised,
voters, and we have heard of a little cir
cumstance which occurred to him lately in
-this city, which we publish for the benefit
of our Georgia cotemporaries.
On, Tuesday, the agent of the New Era
entered a barber shop in this city, and
while the barber was engaged in removing
the supcrflous hair from his face, attempted
to combine pleasure with profit by gaining
a few subscribers to his valuable journal.
He assured the colored gentleman that his
paper was an excellent paper, full of news,
and as good in politics as it coqld be under
all the circumstances, “Is it a Radioal
paper?” inquired the barber. “We 11,.”
said the representative of the New Erap
“It is pretty radical. You see we can’t
come out right now, and be as radical as
we’d like to be, but,” said he, with a sud
den burst of hopeful anticipation, “in a
week or two, we are going to come out
strong and bo very radical.” That, he
thought, would settle the matter, and he
was just upon the point of stating that he
would let the Shave go for part payment of
a subscription, when to his consternation,
the colored voter he was addressing, who,
we have no doubt, takes the American
Union, replied, “ Well, if it’s a Radical
paper, I don't want anything to do with
it, I wan’t it understood that I ain’t a
Radical!” The gentleman from the Gate
City was dumbfounded. lie wasn’t on as
high a mountain as he had thought he was,
and the kingdoms which he saw were op
tical delusions. IJc subsided. Wc don’t
know whether he sought consolation in his
new fall of the flowing bowl,- or in the
Loyal League, but if he did not do either
or both, we fear the horrid example of
the effects of Dr. Arp’s unfortunate pre
scription will hardly be able to reach his
home again- - Chattanooga Union.
. Plainly Avowed.
The Radical position is very distinctly
laid down by the New York Times. It
says: “ We are now living under" the Con
stitution of 1789, but under an unwritten
Constitution which represents the national
will as embodied in the action of Congress.
The limitations of the old Constitution have
ceased to have binding force.”
This extremely' offensive and infamous
doctrine is now the foundation upon which
the whole superstructure of the Radical
policy is erected. Public opinion is the
law, and whatever that opinion approves
is right. Tho position is at once alarming
and dangerous. It can only lead to an
... lias*
wrought a revolution in public sentiment,
Which in its turn wrought a corresponding
revolution in the practical administration
of the Government. Congress represents
the revolution to-day, and acts under the
inspiration and in the exercise of power
which it confers.”
Congress is controlled by no power ex
cept the inspiration of revolution! It is
the representative of the revolutionary
power which has swept away the Consti
tution of 1789. What do the people say
to the assumption? The Times is very
moderate in its support of the Radical
cause, and its claims for the revolutionary
powers conferred upon Congress arerather
below than above those set up by the more
extreme men of that party. Rut we ask
the people to examine these declarations,
and ask themselves if they are what they
conceived they were supporting when they
elected Radicals to Congress.— Detroit »
Free Press , U 7 th.
A New System op Labor.— Several
planters in Hinds and Madison counties,
Mississippi, believe that they have dis
covered this most desirable modus operand.!,
and as it cannot fail to be interesting to
our readers, we will briefly sketch the
system. They don’t believe that working
large gangs of hands, with one or two to
watch them, is the best way with free
blacks. They don’t believe in having a
negro quarter. They don’t pretend to un
dertake the raising of meat for their hands.
They fence out their woodlands, and then
place the blacks in cabins several hundred
yards apart, and on the borders of the
woodland. To each family of blacks they
assign such amount of land as they can
cultivate well, and loan to each three
laborers two mules and other needful
articles. The blacks grow corn, cotton,
or other things, and half the crops, after
deducting the cost of supplies furnished,
is given to the black producers. Living
on the border of the woodland, each
family of blacks, without trouble, raises its
own pigs, which fatten on the ma3t in the
woods. When, owing to tho drought,
there is a partial failure of the corn crop,
the wood buds on the trees are certain to
be checked, and thus throwing the strength
of the trees in the fruit buds, there is
always a most abundant crop of acorns
and other mast. Where there is a gang
of sixty hands the supplying of meat has
been a great trouble. If the meat was
purchased from a commission merchant,
its cost reduced greatly plantation profits ;
and if it was grown on the plantation it
cost much trouble. Heretofore one of the
greatest annoyances of plantation life has
been the difficulty of getting the blacks to
take care of the plantation stock, but when
each family of blacks look after its own
stock and raises its own meat, the difficulty
is surmounted. Ip. every gang of a hun
dred hands there is certain to be at least
fifteen lazy ones, and in the field ordinarily
the whole gang is content with the pace
of the fifteen most lazy ones. Where
a family has its own allotment,
and is to profit by the amount
of the crop, the head of the family is
pretty certain to keep the others well up
with the work! Each working family,
having its humble home at some distance
from others, that pilfering, which is so
prevalent in and about quarters, is pretty
much done away. The friends of this
system are sanguine that its general adop
tion will give to the South such an or
ganization of labor as it needs—will tend
to stimulate production, wiil advance the
physical, social and moral condition of the
negro, will harmonize the interest of
employer and employee, and cause the
Southern States to blossom with pros
perity. This system of labor is not unlike
the cottier system of Scotland. Its ad
vocates claim that it is infinitely better
than efforts to import foreigners and to
learn them to cultivate cotton and to
harmonize their modes of working with
those only familiar with slave labor.
“Marriage ix High Life. —The
London Court Journal has a bit of gossip
upon an American lady: It is reported
that the princely representative ot one ot
the oldest families in Rome has proposed
to the beautiful Miss W , relatea to a
noble English house, whose head is now
high in authority. Differences of religion
form an obstacle, and it ts hardly expected
that the voung lady will change her creed
for a coronet. The current of true love
runs smoother between young 1 nnce Kus
poli, son of the head of that house, and
Miss Davis, of New York, whose union
will not be prevented by any difference of
creed. Two of Miss Davis sisters are
married in Rome —one to Marchese Gayotj,
i and another to a member .0, the Duke
j Lante’s family. Yet the girl who gets
Prince Ruspoli will get little else. His
father lives in the garret of his palace, on
the corner of the Corso and the Vla Con
dotti, and rents the lower stories for res
: taurants and billiard-room3. That rent is
his means of subsistence.
The consecration of the first Episcopal
Bishop of Montana, the Right Rev. E.
j Sylvester Tuttle, took place on Wednesday,
at Trinity Chapel, at New York.
Julia Dean is playing in St. Louis this
week.
It has been decided to begin the trial of
j burratt on 27th inst.
. Caleb Stetson, Esq., of Boston, has re
i signed the position he has>ofcupied so long
! as president of the Shoe and Leather Deal
i ers National Bank.
The usual four millions in greenbacks
were not retired from circulation last month.
Ihe public debt was reduced about six
millions, and the Treasury holds one hun
dred and thirteen millions in gold.
During the month of April 3,700 appli
cations for an increase of pensions, and 700
for invalid pensions, were received at the
t of, and 750 of that number were rejected.
Anew yacht, for Mr. Perry Lorillard,
was launched at New York on Wednesday.
It is-eaid to be the largest yacht ever built
in America. She goes to the French re
gatta.
One of England's representatives in the
European Peace Conference, Lord Stanley,
Secretary _of Stqte for Foreign Affairs, is
to preside ‘over the deliberations of that
body.
The trotting match at the Union Course,
Long Island, on Monday, between J. D.
McManus s black mare Cora and D. Pfifer’s
.black gelding Lew Pettee, for SI,OOO, re
sulted in the mare'winning three out of five
heats, the quickest time madp being 2^7J.
. TSscvvisions.—We Icajp that Twelve
thousand bushels of (corn whs shipped from
New York to-day Tor this city, consigned
to'General : Scott, Commissioner of the
Freedman's Bureau, which will be dis
tributed, as soon as it arrives, throughout
the State to those who are in need. A
cargo of pork will also,soon follow.— Char.
News, 6th.
Tho impeacement investigation, it is an
nounced by a northern paper, is to be re
sumed by the House Judiciary Committee
at Washington next week. Several wit
nesses have been summoned, and the evi
dence heretofore taken on this subject by
the committee has been printed. The
committee expect to finish the impeach
ment investigation during the month of
May.
A curious case has presented itself under
the registry law of the District of Colum
bia. The law prescribes that no one who
has been convicted of an infamous crime,
shall vote under the clause named, and
William Boyd was refused, he having been
in the penitentiary for the crime of run
ning slaves out of the District.
Thirty-six American mercantile sea-going
crafts and fifteen foreign (bound to or from
United States ports) are reported during
the current month as either totally lost or
missing. They comprise three steamers,
six ships, ten barks, nine brigs and twenty
three schooners—total, fifty-one. Os these
twenty-eight were wrecked, thirteen aban
doned, four foundered, one run down and
five are missing.
The Tremont Mills and Suffolk Manu
facturing Company of Lowell, Massachu
setts, have given the operatives in their
employ notice of a partial stoppage of work
in their mills. One-half of the work of
each corporation is to be stopped on the
expiration of the notice, and the manu
facture of woolen goods is to be entirely
suspended. The operatives are leaving
daily, and there is no disposition to fill
their places, and those out of employ find it
very difficult, if not impossible, to get
work.
Liberal. —We are informed that a
deputation of citizens from Choctaw coun
ty recently visited Mobile for the purpose
of endeavoring to obtain some assistance,
by way of advances of) money or supplies,
toward making a crop for the ensuing
season.
The result was that one mercantile
house in this city agreed to make the
necessary advances fora dozen small plant
ers, or more. We are not authorized to
mention the name of the house with
which this arrangement was effected, but
it is an example that ought to be followed.
A judicious liberality, under present cir
cumstances, may prove to be the best
policy—speaking of policy only in a selfish
and commercial sense, — Mobile Advertiser
tfc Register, 'id.
• Wednesday was moving day in New
York. The Tribune says: “The prices
asked by truckmen and carmen, with ears
carrying about the same quantity, averaged,
for the full load, about $lO for any distance
within a mile, and $4 for every additional
block more than a mile. But in many cases
as the demands for services multiplied,,
prices went up much higher— S2O and
even $25 being paid for single loads.”
Claims for Captured Property.—
The Secretary of the Treasury has em
ployed ex-Senator Cowan to aid the Solici
tors of the Court of Claims in several large
and important cases soon to come before
the tribunal, involving claims for property
captured by the Union forces during the
war. Unless combatted by the most
vigorous opposition, there is great danger
that the Treasury may be overwhelmed by
an avalanche of these claims before it is
ready to meet them. The Secretary em
ployed Mr. Cowan because he knew of no
man so able who is unconnected with any
proceedings against /he Government, and
who would at the same time he so reason
able in his charges for professional service.
—Dispatch to the New York Times.
The whole number of convicts in confine
ment in the Connecticut State Prison on
the 31st of March, 1867, was 207. The
gross amount of the earnings of the prison
ers for the pastyear.has been $23,324 69,
and the total expenses $22,345 84, show
ing a net gain of $1,078 24, after expend
ing some SSOO in repairs and improvements
about the prison.
A swindler calling himself A. Stanfort
is going through South Carolina collecting
•money from persons of color, and giving
them in return certificates for land, which
he says will be taken from the white people
in about fifteen days and delivered to them.
He represented himself as an agent for the
government.
With regard to the comparative fertility
of England, Franco and the United States
it is stated that France obtains fifty per
cent, more wheat from the acre than the
average crop of the United States, and
England 100 per cent. more. The reason
of this is said to be superior cultivation and
manuring.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald , who is playing the part of .Ten
| kins for Mr. Seward at Auburn, says that
| the present return home of the Secretary
| is only preliminary to his retirement from
i public life. As he is now sixty-six years
old, he feels that the time has about ar
rived for him to seek quiet and seclusion.
In private circles he is very enthusiastic
over his recent aehivement in securing for
Uncle Sam the Russian-American territory,
whoso possession he deems a crowning
triumph of his diplomatic career, the bene
fits of which, though now involved in ob
scurity, will, he claims, become of incalcu
lable value at a not very remote period.
The San Francisco correspondent of the
New York Herald says that lie has infor
mation to the effect that a system of slavery
exists on the Society Islands, under the
j auspices of the F-onch Government, un
j equalled in barbarity by any former plan
! tation system down South. The"victims are
j Chinese, Coolies, and natives of the Pacific
J islands.
| Anew Telegraph Company, to be named
, the Southern Telegraph -Company, and
1 General E. Kirby Smith, as its Presidenr,
has been organized, with a capital of $500,-
! 000, and is pushing ahead with consider
able vigor. It win connect Cincinnati and
St. Louis with New Orleans and Mobile.
At Cincinnati it will connect with the At
i lantic and Pacific Telegraph Company,
and with the insulated line will make a
continued line from Canada to the Gulf of
Mexico, competing so far with the .West
ern Union. Over $50,000 of the stock has
been taken by merchants of Louisville and
Cincinnati interested in the completion of
this line, which has secured the right of
way, and is beyond consolidation.
Completed.— The first train of the M.
& C. R. R., since the completion of the
Bridgeport bridge, was brought over by
Conductor Hawk on Sunday night last.
The bridge is constructed of most sub
stantial timbers, and has been put up with
remarkable celerity. The East Tennessee
bridges are all up, and old time connections
are now being made throughout the
length of the Great Southern -Mail route
from New Orleans to Washington. —
I Huntsville Independent, 30th ult.
Richmond Car Queston. — The ques
! tion as to the right of negroes to ride in
\ the street cars in Richmond has been de-
I cided, after an interview between the
President and Directors of the Street Rail
way Company and General Schofield, and
! that decision is, that of the six cars of the
j Company, four must be appropriated to
j the use of blacks and whites indiscrimi
nately, and two may be kept for the ex
: elusive use of ladies and children. These
latter cars will be designated by ball on
! the top of them. This regulation goes into
effect to-day .—Richmond Dispatch, Wed
! nesday.
Rev. E. P. Walton, agent of the Lee
Endowment Washington College, sends
the most encouraging reports ot his suc
cess in Texas, where he is now soliciting
subscriptions.
NEW SERIES NO. 20.
ISABEL’S CHOICE:
THE RIVAL LOWERS.
Label Wyndham lay lazily back on her
soft-cushioned fauteuil, with her hands
clasped behind her head, looking dream
ingly out of the curtained window. Slowly
and serenely sailecfup the full round room
behind the misty Kentucky hills, and the
roar of a rapid river very near rose above
the sighing of the melancholy night wind.
The stars cleaving bright and keen through
the blue black arch, looked bleak and
wintry, and a hard black frost backed the
earth.
But to Miss Isabel Wyndham, nestling
cosily among the rosy cushions of* her
chair, the outer coldness and desolation
only made the comfort of her pretty
chamber more luxurious. It was the
prettiest, the daintiest of maiden bowers,
perfect from the mossy carpet, where rose
buds bloomed, to the plump, snowy bed
and the oval pictures on the fluted walls.
It was all charming, but nothing there
was more charming than herself, as she
lounged with negligent grace in that gold
colored morning robe with its black belt,
and her trim slippered feet resting on an
ottoman. Her black hair fell, all tumbled
and loose, over her shoulders, and her dark
eyes were misty with languid thought.
“I wish I knew jfcat to do. Miss
Wyndham was tkinkimr, gather ruefully
“l don’t want •flprried that I kngjfc
of, and I’m not inlove I’m certain;
and yet it seems I must be Mrs.
Somebody, before long,- or my dear
absurd old uncle will go distracted. I
wish I could take to matrimony in the
natural way like other girls, and have done
with it. I’ve had the measles, and whoop
ing cough, and scarletina, and the rest of
the diseases'common to juvenility, but I
can’t fall in love. The nearest approach I
ever felt to the tender passion was at the
age of fifteen. Now I am three-and
twenty, and—come in.”
A rap at the door disturbed the current
of her thoughts. Miss Wyndham sat
erect, and a tall, thin old gentleman, got
up in faultless evening oostume, entered,
and paused in the doorway aghast.
“Miss Wyndham, are you aware it is
half-past six, and we dine at seven?”
‘ ‘ Good gracious, uncle! Half-past six !
I never dreamed of such a thing! Has
anybody’come?”
“ Our guests arc all down stairs. Mr.
Raymond and Mr- Warner arrived this
moment. This negligence on your part,
Miss Wyndham, is absolutely disgrace
ful.”
Isabel jumped up and rang the bell.
“Don’t he cross, uncle Tom, that’s a
darling, and I will be ready in fifteen min
utes. I know it’s disgraceful, and I’m
dreadfully ashamed of myself, but I—oh,
Susie! hurry and make me as pretty as
you can. lam afraid I shall be late.”
Susie, a bright quadroon girl, hurried
through the boudoir into the dressing
room, and her mistress was following her,
when her uncle laid his hand on her arm
and detained her.
_ “Isabel, you will have a proposal to
night—in fact, two proposals.’’
“Two proposals! Now what on
earth —” Mr. Jordan gave his niece an
impatient shake.
“You understand very well, only you are
the most aggravating l -.)! r. Raymond and
Mr. Warner, have both done you the
honor of asking my permission to address'
you. Both are unexceptionable in point
of family and fortune, both are young and
good looking. What more can any woman
in her senses require?”
“Nothing,” replied Isabel, meekly.
“Am I to accept them both? Shall I
marry one first and the other after, or
both together, or how?”
“Don’t be absurd! Accept which of
them you please. (Mr. Raymond is more
polished and considerably the wealthiest,
but please yourself. I know both will make
you an offer to-night, and one or the other
you must accept under pain of my deep
displeasure.”
Mr. Jordan strode with dignity out of
the chamber and down to the drawing
rooms where his guests wore assembled,
waiting for the dining bell. Walter Ray
mond and John Warner weie waiting for
something else—)vbat dn young men in
the last stage of love care for their meals?
They fidgeted and made objects of them
selves, John Warner particularly, and
watched tho door, arid answered at random
when people talked to thorn, and sat on
nettles generally.
Mr. Raymond, who was slender and ele
gant, and had a beautiful moustache and
Parisian manners, managed to conceal his
anxiety tolerably, and to talk to a passe
lady in red velvet; hut Mr. Warner could
not. He was a tall, fair haired young
man, this John Warner, who blushed
when Miss Wyndham spoke to him, and
had a crazy notion that the angels in para
dise could not be much more beautiful or
perfect than sbe.
Presently she came in, radiant in bright
blue glace and misty lace with jewels
sparkling about her, and her dark curls
flowing. Mr Raymond was beside her,
somehow, directly, with a flush on his
cheek ; and Mr. Warner coloring up as if
he had stolen the spoons, stood afar off,
and looked and longed.
The blunders that that young man made
all through dinner were shocking. Noth
ing, but being hopelessly in . love with a
young lady sitting opposite could possibly
palliate his atrocities. Mr. Raymond—
oh, thrice blessed Mr. Raymond !—sat by
her side, and poured soft eloquence in her
listening ear. He could’t eat any more
than that unhappy John; butMiss Wynd
ham took her soup, and • her fish,
and her desert as calmly and with as
good an appetite if they had been at the
antipodes. Still she had rather liked it;
and Mr.'Raymond’s eager rhapsodies and
Mr. Warner’s blunders and distressed face
amused her. She was inclined to prefer
the former ; a husband who would blush
whenever she looked at him to the roots of
his whiskers, and who drank frantically
out of his finger-glass, and overset the
gravy, was not desirable. Besides, he
had fair hair and no moustache, and Isabel
liked moustaches, and raven locks, and
men who knew how to use their tongue.
Yes, she decided before she rose she pre
ferred Walter Raymond ; and yet—poor
John ! He had bean her playmate long
ago, her brave, true-hearted hoy lover, and
she had always liked him. It did seem a
little hard.
In a corner of the long drawing-room,
something in a shadow, Isabel sat at the
piano, playing brilliantly, with Walter
Raymond turning her leaves, and bending
over her with such a rapt face. The storm
of music ceased, and then there was an idle
strumming on the keys, and then—out it
came —one passionate, eloquent, impetuous
appeal. She listened half frightened, yet
pleased, too —it wist so romantic, you
know. The Corsair never wooed “Medora”
more eloquently than this. Poor John
Warner, sitting melancholy and aloof, still
saw and understood it all. Isabel, lifting
her eyes from the piano keys, saw him
too, and the half sacred “Yes” trembling
on her lips died there. Poor John ! Her
heart fluttered a little, and then stood still.
She had come from a race of heroes, this
dark eyed Kentucky maid, and the blood
of her forefathers rose in her veins.
“Mr. Raymond, I—you are very good
to care for me so much ; but I—l am
afraid I don t like you ; you know just as
much as 1 ought, if you will wait, if you
will give me time—’ ’
He caught her hand and kissed it in a
rapture. Give her time—of course, he
would give her eternity, or anything else,
if he had it.
“ Thank yon. Isabel said gratefully.
“ Give me six months, and then you shall
have your answer.”
Mr. Raymond looked rather taken back.
Six_months was longer than what he had
anticipated. But no matter ;he would be
gallant and wait.
“In three months I expected to sail for
Europe,”,he said; “but your will, lair
lady, is my law. I will postpone the jour
ney, and when I go, fairest, and dearest
Isabel, I trust, I believe, you will go with
me. ”
That poor John Warner!—didn’t he
see and understand all this in his remote
corner, and gnash his teeth with impotent
rage and jealousy.
“ The lights were fled,
The garlands dead,
And ihe banquet hall deserted.”
But still he sat there, silent and sulky—
that’s the word for it. Miss Wyndham
wrapped herself in a crimson shawl and
stepped out on the verandah with a yawn
that was not very encouraging. He started
up, goaded to desperation, and stood be
side her. Ah, how pretty she was! You
might have fallen in love with her yourself
had you seen her there, her long dark curls
fluttering, her eyes like stars, and the
moonlight falling like a tender glory around
her. There Mr. John Warner told his
story—rather incoherently, rather hysteric
ally, not at all as the Corsair or “Count
Lara” would have told it.
Miss Wyndham listened and looked at
the moon, and felt a little sorry for him,
poor fellow, but the words were cold that
fell from her rosy lips- Still there was
hope in them, hope Mr. Warner had
hardly dreamed of. He was to wait six
months—at the end of that time, she,
Miss Wyndham, would have made up her
miud.
Y ai*® rode home that night in
the silvery ifoonligbt, an'ecstatic man. lie
couldn t sleef, of course; be could do notli
ing’ but smoke segars and think of Isabel’s
black eyes. Mr. Raymond, more sensible,
went to bed like a Christian, and Isabel
dreamed with her rosy cheek pillowed on
her white arms, that she was being married
to them both, and likely to have a perplex
ing time between them.
Five montia&ad passed away, and the
great rebellion had broken forth. The war
cry frem Sumter had echoed through the
length and breadth of the land. The South
cried aloud to her young men to gird on
the sword aid" Jjtec their lovely land from
the tyrant yokjp sis *tho oppressor. With
one heart thet dj&wer—an army of braves,
ajid went forth from kindred and friends,
to fight for theilHbeedoni and their right.
In the
the shadows of climbing round
the open window#'coming and going on
her thoughtful fijeeVJ Only one month left
now and as far frtbr i decision as ever.
“ Itdoesn’t matter much,” she thought,
“this is no time ihr marrying or giving in
marriage. Now n the opportunity of
proving what wefce they ase made of,
when their countr#ealls. When the South
is freed from the Morthern yoke let them
return, and • my Aromise will be'kept.
‘None but the bnwe deserve the fain’”
While (he thought was, yet in lier mind
the Raymond,
beTore her. Miss
Wyndham arose with a welcoming smile,
and an inquiring glance. She had seen
neither of her suitors for the past three
weeks, and there was a certain anxious
expression iu Mr. Raymond’s face now
that told her, before he spoke, his visit
meant more than a mere lover’s call. A
few desultory common place, and then he
struck into the heart of the matter at once.
“ Isabel,” he said nervously, “ the busi
. ness I spoke of five months ago, cannot
any longer be postponed. I must depart,
at once for Europe, but before Igo will
you not give me that promised answer ?
Oh, Isabel! will you not come with me?”
Before Miss Wyndham could roplvthe
door was flung open by a servant, and J ohn
Warner strode into the room. He looked
eager and flushed, and he wore the gray
uniform of the Confederate army. Tho
flush faded from his face at the first sight
oflsabel and Raymond seated side by side,
her hand in his, that down-cast look iu
her face. She hastily snatched her hand
away, and stood up as her second suitor
came forward.
“Pray don’t disturb yourself, Miss
Wyndham,” Mr. Warner said, coldly, and
with a very pale, stern lace. “I shall not
remain a moment. I merely rode over to
say good-bye. ”
“Good-bye,” Isabel faltered, ‘.‘you mean
you are going—”
“Where glory leads me, and all.that
sort of thing, ” trying to speak carelessly,
“I am Captain Warner now, very much at
your service, and off to-morrow to face the
foe. Good-bye, Miss Wyndham—say fare
well to Mr. Jordan for me.”
With a nod to Raymond, he was gone
—standing over the f moonlit lawn, with
his cap pulled over his eyes, and his heart
plunging tumultuously behind the Con
federate grey. It had all passed so quickly,
this interruption, that Isabel scarcely,
realized he was there, before he was gone.
She drew a long, shivering breath and
sat down, white and still.
“Isabel, dearest, your answer.”
She looked up in Walter Raymond's
handsome face, with a searching glance in
her deep dark eyes.
“How long will you be away?”
“Months —a year perhaps. You wiil
comcwithme, Isabel—mylove—mywifo?”
He would have taken her hand again, but
she drew it away and stood up. 1
“No,” she said; “now, when bravo
men are fighting and dying for freedom—
when homes are desolate around us, there
is no time for wedding festivities. When
the war ends, come to me again and you
shall have my answer.”
With the last words she was out of the
room, and he stood alone in the dying light.
* * * * * *
* Four years ! The long weary struggle
of might against right was at an end—the
end that so often,closes such struggles in
this werLk had cowpiefef -
powered-by numbers, the heroes who had
fought so long and so nobly, laid down their
arms at last, and peace reigned again in
the land.
She was hack in the old homestead. Isa
bel Wyndham changed in these years from
a gay girl.to a thoughtful, saddened woman.
In the hospitals she had been a ministering
angel; in the prisons she had been a com
forter and a friend ; but it was all over
now, and she was back Mi ere the old trees
waved, looking at the sun go down once
more behind the misty, purple hills.
She sat under a heavy elm, dressed in
deep mourning, paler, thinner, and with a
sadder beauty than of old. Her uncle was
dead, the old servants gone, and she sat in
the tender spring twilight, desolate and
alone.
The gate opened. A man came up the
long avenue, and in the pale cheek a rosy
light came. Handsome, well-dressed,
more polished than ever. Walter Ray
mond had just returned from abroad, with
the old love stronger, if possible, in his
heart. In all these years they had not
met before ; now he bent over as if they
had parted but yesterday.
“Isabel, I have come for my answer.”
A tall figure that had been walking
amongst the trees, drew near, but stopped
as he heard the words.
Nhe looked up, very quiet, and very pale;
“The answer is no, Mr. Raymond.”
“ O, Isabel! After all these years?”
She smiled faintly. “You are vert’ kind,
but I cannot marry you.”
“And why, Isabel? Is it for any one else?
Is it for John Warner I am rejected?”
She flushed up proudly. “You have
no right to ask that question, Mr. Ray
mond !”
“I have the right. I insist on an
answer! Is it for John Warner, maimed
and mutilated, you refuse me?”
“Maimed and mutilated in a glorious
cause, Mr. Raymond! I adore heroes,
and Colonel Warner is a hero.”
“Then you mean to tell me you will
marrv that scarred, one-armed man ?”
“ Don’t distress yourself, Mr. Raymond;
I have not seen Colonel Warner since I
last saw you ; but let me tell you, his sears
would be to me a most perfect beauty, and
a one-armed hero worth a dozen carpet
'knights! Please to go, Mr. Raymond—l
wish to be alone.”
He went without a word.
The figu.-e lingering among the trees
stepped forth—-a sun-burned, stalwart
young man, with his right coat-sleeve
dangling empty.
Isabel started up with a scream at sight
of him.
“Have I frightened you, Isabel? I
did not mean to. I wanted to tell yon I
have been listening. Mean, was it not?
But I could not help it.”
She covered her face with her hands to
hide her tears, falling so fast at sight of
that empty coat-sleeve, Oh! she knew
now which she loved best!
“ I have come to say good-bye again,
Isabel. lam off to Spanish America. I
have lost everything I possessed here, and
a one-armed rebel like me must earn his
daily bread somehow. There is an opening
out there, and so ” —his words grew husky
as he held out his hand—“ good bye, and
God bless you, Isabel, for the words you
spoke five minutes ago, though I know
you could not mean them.”
Her fingers closed in a sort of fright
over the hand she held —going away and
forever ! She did not know how hard she
held the hand he extended, but all the
blood in John Warner’s body surged in a
wild transportation to his face.
“ Oh, Isabel! did you mean it?”
“Yes, yes—every word! Oh, John!
don’t go!”
There!—that’s enough, isn’t it ? John
didn’t go. He staid in Kentucky, and
took charge of the old place and the
j young lady for life; and elegant Mr. Ray
mond can’t see to this day how any woman
: in her senses could prefer a man with one
| arm to a man with two.
Some Testimony. —ln a.suit in Georgia,
in regard to the delivery of some corn, a
freedman gave the following extensive evi
dence : “I know no mor’n dis. De per
tractyrs, de commanders and the allamand
ers, sent me on lor to answer to de corn. I
delivered de corn at Williams’ stable and
disclaimed—here’s Muccoy s corn. Dey
! sent on de answer all right, and dat’s all
! the prefixes of the circumstances known
! byde dray-man.”
j The jury in the Gardiner-Tyler will case,
! tried before Judge Lott, in tho Circuit
: Court of Richmond county, New lork,
i came into Court Monday night last and
j returned a verdict on all the issues sub
mitted in favor of. David Gardiner, the
contestant. A motion for anew trial will
be at the General term, the motion
beingmade on the ground that the verdict
was against the evidence
Gen Grant has ordered that a company
of cavalry shall accompany a number of
professors from Bloomington, Illinois, on a
scientific tour to the Western slope of the
Rocky Mountains. The expedition wiil be
absent about three months, and will be
furnished with transportation and subsist
ence. *