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WEDNESDAY MOKMVti, MAY 28.
Pihe Near the Sank Hills.—'The
residence of Mr. < ilendenning, near the
Sand Hills, was entirely destroyed by
lire Tlmrsilitv morning, lietween one and
t|vo o’clork.
Relief for the South.— A Fortress
Monroe dispatch, dated the 17th, contains
the following paragraph: “Brig John A.
l), rn < H-i, from Baltimore, iround to Sa
vannah, Ha , arrived here to-day with a
cargo of corn and provisions destined for
the suffering poor of the South. The brig
was loaded and lilted out at the expense
of Baltimore merchants, whose liberality
will be duly recognized and appreciated
by those whose misfortunes they are in
tended to alleviate/'
The Promenade Concert.—The enter
tainment at Masonic Hail Wednesday
night, in aid of the Church of the Atone
ment, was a grand success.
The Hall was crowded by a respectable
and delighted audience.
* The Orchestra, composed ol a number of
our young citizens, opened with an over
ture, acquitting themselves in a manner
creditable to professional players.
The Chorus by the Harmonic Yerein,
was received with protracted applause.
'This elnb is composed mainly of our Her- |
man fellow-citizens, who kindly consented
to maty their first public appearance for
this occasion.
The tableaux were very beautiful, but
not more so than the charming ladies who
took part in them.
The songs by the ladies were charming,
w hile the performance on the piano and
violin was highly artistic. The following
constitutes the evening's entertainment:
PROGRAMME— PART I.
Overture Orchestra.
Chorus Bv the Harmonic Yerein.
Tableau No. 1 : Needle and Bin Money,
Mrs. W., Miss K. and Miss 11.
Overture (Martha), Piano and Violin,
Mr. W. and Miss W.
Tableau No. 2:—Sale o[ the Circassian
Slave,
Miss 0., Miss K., Miss T>., Miss F„ Mr. I),
ami M r. C,
Song Solo) Mr. W.
Tableau No. II: Bast, Present, Future,
Miss K., .Miss K. P. and Miss K.
Instrumental Solo: (Jerusalem)—
Miss W.
ORCHESTRA —PART 11.
Tableau No. 4:—Oarrick Deciding Be
tween Tragedy and Comedy,
Dr. F., Mrs. it., Miss B.
Song (Solo), (lie Bast Man Miss S.
Tableau No. 5: < lame of Life,
Miss C. P„ Messrs. K. & I>.
Instrumental Trio,
Mrs. F., Mr. M., Misses 11. A B.
Tableau Nodi: Saturday Night,
Misses F„ 11., K. I'., Messrs. K., I!.AM.
Song The Hoard's Waltz Miss R.
Tableau No. 7 : The Siesta,
Miss S. W. and others.
Pot Poiirri (Faust), Piano and Violin,
Mr. W. A Miss AY.
ORCHESTRA.
There was the greatest abundance ofsub
stanlials on baud, which were cheerfully
dispensed by dignified ami courteous mat
rons, whose efforts were untiring to please
ami satisfy all demands. Itis scarcely ne
ably.
Alter the more staid portion of the au
dience dispersed, Professor llott and his
assistants touched their magic bows, ami
away went the votories of Terpsichore,
who enjoyed themselves amazingly for a
few hours in “tripping tholiglit fantastic.’’
The whole entertainment was, in every
respect, one of the most pleasant and suc
cess fill that has taken place in our city,
rellis ting credit alike upon its conductors
ami participants.
We take pleasure in publishing tlio
following card of thanks from the ladies
in charge of the < 'oneert:
The Committee of Ladies of the
Promenade Concert, of Wednesday, May
oe,|, by a unanimous vote, express their
thanks for tliogeneroiis aid rendered them
hy the Harmonic Verein, the Augusta
Amateur Musical Club, ami the several
instrumental, vocal and tableaux per
formers; also for the generosity of Mr.
\. Oates, Mr. J. K. Moslior and others
in sending articles of value for the even
ing’s entertainment; for the liberality of
Hie daily papers in their advertisements ;
amt with pleasure they acknowledge the
sympathy and assistance afforded by rep
resentatives from !St. Paul’s Parish, ami
from the several Christian denominations
)u this city. Mrs. Du. Pritchard,
Mrs. Jos. K. Marshall,
Mrs. Dr. K. Barry,
Mrs. Joshua Butt,
M us. .1. (Janahl,
Mrs. J. Dan forth.
Augusta, MayiCkl, 1»!7.
, , ;this occasion was
11. (tale A
•, New N loaned by
Mi. to si. A. < 'idea.
I'm- \ 1-1,1 MEMORIAL
< 'i:i,i:iikation. Yesterday, we briofly ro
4'erri'il to tbo llonil triliute paid to tlio
■ lory of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Snow
don, by tbo touohors and pupils of the
Augusta Free School, over .which institu
tion tho lamoutod doad presided so ae
reptably and sniTOssfnlly for a long term
of years. To-day it atfords us ospoeial
pleasure to be able to lay before our read
ers the beautiful and eloquent address
delivered on the invasion by tho llev. Jus.
S. Lamar, l'astor of tho Christian Chureli
of this city.
It is but proper to remark that tho ad
dress was not prepared with any expecta
tion that It would be published, but the
pupils of the School having, through
their teachers, expressed a desire to
possess it, the author very cheerfully ac
cedes to their request.
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Delivered by Kev. .lames S. Lamar, at the
t'ily Cemetery, May 22d, on the occasion
of ihe decoration of the graves of Mr. and
.Mrs. Thomas Snowden, tin* late lamented
principal and assistant of the Augusta
Free School. Mr. l.auiar, said:
I accepted tlio invitation of tho Principal
of the Augusta Free School to address you
on this occasion, because i sympathized
with the feeling which prompted the
tribute about to bopaid to the memory of
tlie worthy dead parties wlio labored
long, faithfully and successfully in the
good cause of education. It is certainly
meet and right that the virtues of those
vho have gone before us, and especially
of those who occupied places of public
trust and usefulness, should not only lie
enshrined In grateful memory, hut ex- 1
pressed by some token of public reeogni
tion. And surely there is no one who
more richly merits the gratitude and
honor of* the public at large than he wlio
laltlifully performs the humble but ar
duous •mil responsible duties of the sehool
room. For myself, I do-not hesitate to
say that, of ail tlio men connected witli
my past history whom I delight to honor,
there is no one whose image is more dis
linctly or more indelibly enstampod upon
the tablets of my memory than of Inin
who imparted to my youthful mind the
elements of learning;' wlio directed my
feet into the paths ol literature, science,
and art; who opened out before me tho
long vistas ot intellect, mid encouraged me
to explore and eultivato the holds of end
less Ik*ant v and ever increasing product
ivonoss beyond, and his name, his virtues,
ills kindness, and his labors, shall lie
green in mv ntemorv while memory it
self shall last.
A similar feeling. I have no doubt,
prompted tlie memorial of this day.
Mr. and Mrs. Snowden were bettor
known to most of vim than to myself, lie
was an Knglishman, and a true type, its 1
suppose, of the genuine F.nglish character.
It road and massive in physical outline;
moving with slow and measured steps
these external characteristics fitly repre
sented tits inner man—the breadth anil
strength, and, 1 may say, tlie slowness of
bis iinnil; lor it was not sprightly, but
vigorous; not brilliant, lint sound and
self-reliant. Vs a teacher he possessed, in
an emiuent degree, tlie faculty of attach
ing liis scholars to him by manifesting a
deep personal interest in them. They
were to hint as his own children. They
could sometimes irritate biiu, but they
could never betray him into an net of
injustice or eruelty". liis interest-in them
ili'd not cease with the instructions and
discipline of the school-room, but when he
met them on the street it was with a kind
word for one, an admonition tor another,
and a rebuke for a third. There lie never
forgot, as some teachers do forget, that
tin. world is but the stepping-stone to the
next; and that learning, like every other
earthly good, is only valuable a» the hand
maid w the higher interest of the soul and
religion.
If'v such fatherly care and interest -by i
bis 'faithful instructions —by his solicitude j
ismeerning their manners, their habits, i
and their eternal well-being, be bound his
scholars to him with cords stronger than j
hooksof steel, and emliatiued his memory ,
in their hearts.
I hud not the pleasure of a personal ao- I
ijvvainUuicc \vith Mrs. Snowden, but she i' j
represented to me as one every way
worthy to have been associated with the j
Lie and labors ~t her husband. 1 have .
no doubt she is remembered by those
whom she instructed, trained, and mould
ed, with the same feelings of grateful
pleasure which have moved one of the
..Id Students of her husband—now tlie
honored l rnuapat ot the Male Department
tii call together the scholars,patrons, and
friends ot tlie school, to express, in this i
simple, but pleasing nud appropriate
way, their grateful remembrance of do
worth.
To tlie children, whose privilege it now
is to be students in the Augusta Free
School, 1 will lake occasion to say that
while we arc all glad to see you participa
ting in ottering this tribute to the old i
teachers, and while ilia very sweet ami
lovely in you to cover their graves with
beautiful llowers, yet 1 am sure you will
not object if I remind you that tlio best
ti me to honor your teachers is, while they
are living and laboring for you ; and there
is no way in which you can do this so well
as by striving to please them, by thor
oughly committing the lessons they assign
vou, by receiving gratefully their kind in
structions, by being orderly and respectful
in your deportment, and by conducting
yourselves, in school and out of school,
like little gentlemen and ladies, 'i bis
privilege you can enjoy to-morrow, and
next week, and all the time—the privilege
of pleasing and honoring your teachers,
vour parents, and friends, by striving who
shall be the best scholar and the best girl
or boy in the whole school.
But for the old teachers who have passed
away, the only thing you can do is to call
up their virtues and honor their memo
ries, and show, by some token, your ap
preciation of their'work and their lalrors.
Then
“Bring flowers, sweet flowers, o'er the;r
graves to shed, , ~
A crown for the brow of the hon
For thus through its leaves hath the whit,
rose burst,
For ti.is, in the wood.-, was the violet
ThougHhev smile in vain for what once
They : are"lovc s last gift-bring flowers,
sweet flowers!
I 'vjvKßsrrYOf Georgia.--Arrangements .
having been completed for the re-organiza- !
tioD of the Agricultural Department of the
University of Georgia, the Lectures ofthe
Terreii Professorship will be resumed on
Monday, June 10th. Anew and commo
dious hall, furnished with requisite ap
pliances, has been fitted up for the use of
this department. Other auxiliaries, tribu
tary to the enlarged methods of instruction
in this branch of useful science, have been
secured. Feeling well assured that the
great interest now pervading the mind Y>f
the State on the subject of an Improved
Agriculture, calls for special efforts in’this
Department of the University, the Trus
tees have recently adopted such measures
as seem calculated to meet the public
wants. By means of these Lectures, they
hope to give the basis, at least, of a practi
cal education in Agriculture. The modes
of instruction will be thoroughly experi
mental, so as to enable any one, trained to
ordinary habits of observation, to apply
the ascertained results of science to the
work of the farm and the plantation.
Agreeably to the terms of the Terrell Kn
dowment, these Lectures will be free to
i the public. Farmers and Planters in
> Georgia and other States are hereby in
vited to avail themselves of the advantages
j thus offered. The course of lectures will
be delivered by W. L. Jones, M. D,, eon-
I tinuing each day for two weeks from the
| 10th of June.
Georgia Railroad Pic-Nic. —The
pic-nlc of the employees of the Georgia
Railroad at Bel-Air, Thursday, was one of
the largest ever known in this section. It
was really a mammoth affair. There were
about fifteen hundred persons in attend
ance. The train which loit the depot yes
terday morning,' consisted of eleven or
twelve cars, each of which was crowded.
After depositing its living freight at Bel-
Air, Col. Cole dispatched a portion of the
train which arrived hero at about half-past
ten, leaving again in a short time with
others for the scene of enjoyment.
The hugeness of this pic-nic can bo im
agined from the fact that about eighteen
hogs were barbecued for dinner. The
day was spent in the most agreeable way.
The whole party returning home safely in
the afternoon, delighted with the festivi
ties and wishing for many returns of a
similar occasion.
Co)onel Cole, the efficient Superintend
ent, was present, and to him the em
ployees are indebted for his exertions to
inakeoverytliing pleasant and salisfactoiy
to them and all others who were present.
Southern Banner. The Southern
Banner, Athens, lias been reduced to one
half its former size, and hereafter will be
published semi-weekly. J. A. Sledge re
tires from the editorial charge of the
paper, and Thomas I). Williams assumes
the duties thereof.
Washington News.
The following is from the Washington
correspondence of the New York Ileraid,
dated Saturday, 18th:
ALLEGED ABUSE OF THE FRANKING
PRIVILEGE.
lam informed on good authority that
Judge Marvin, of Florida, Senator elect
from that State, franks and receives under
frank all his mail matter. This is done, it
is also said, with the consent ot the Post
master General, that officer having agreed
to recognize the frank. This is thought to
he a very singular and rather a serious
matter by some, among whom is an emi
nent Senator, who thinks the Senate will,
or should, censure the Postmaster General
lor thus recognizing Senators from the
Southern States in advance of their being
admitted to their seats by. the Senate.
Thus this executive branch ofthe govern
ment undertakes to determine the rights
of the Southern States, and those who
claim to represent them, in advance of
Congress or the courts. Judge Marvin, it
is stated, tailed on the Postmaster General
and said he could not undertake to receive
and pay postage on return mails on all the
matter sent to him as a Senator in Oon
vrens. Thereupon the Postmaster (»etjeral
consented to the arrangement stated.
THE OREGON CENTRAL RAILROAD LAND
CLAIM,
The Acting Secretary of tbp Interior
has decided, in reference to an application
ol the Oregon Central Railroad Company
claiming the benefit of an act of Congress
granting lands to aid in ilm construction
of a railroad from the Central Pacific Bail
road, in California, to Portland, in Oregon,
to which the assent of such company was
required, that the department could not
accept the assent given by individuals styl
ing themselves "Corporators.” as the
assent required by law to be tiled in the
J iepartnient of the Interior ; but that the
assent should be given by the corporation
through the action ofthe Board of Direct
ors, or other governing authority of the
corporation, and that a copy from the
record of the meettng.showing such action
must be authenticated muter the corporate
seal of the company and tiled ie the De
partment.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS TO COMPEL THE REG
ISTRATION HE CERTAIN VOTERS.
An application was made to the Supreme
Court of this District several days ago for
a mandamus to compel the Juiags of
election to place the names of certain citi
zens on the registry of voters. The Court
to-day, through Judges Olin, Fisher and
Wiley, delivered separate opinions, all
arriving at the situie result, namely :
That the nut,/damns could not li»* nnti[
after the expiration of the two days allow
ed by law for the correction of the poll lists.
The particular circumstances ot the four
or live cases presented were discussed in
cluding that of Dr. Boyd, who had hereto
fore been convicted on two indiettiietfts ot
aiding and assisting the escape of slav*a,
and sentenced to imprisonment in the
Penitentiary for fourteen years ; but who,
after serving eighteen months ot the term,
was pardoned by President Lincoln. Dr.
Boyd, on being denied by the Judge the
privilege of having his name registered. .on
the ground that he had been convicted ot
an infamous offence, produced his pardon ;
but. this was not considered by them suffi
cient evidence of his right to vote. Judge
Olin, in delivering his opinion to-day,
held that the pardon restored Dr. Boyd
to tlie possession of bis civil rights, but
Judge Fisher held that the foot of pardon
would not permit him to vote it tiiv offence
of which he had been convicted was inta
motis. The statute under which he was
convicted was not io the nature of a penal
law of disfr.ttiihisem.eut.. and therefore did
not apply in this esse : bast the offence was
not known at common law as is infamous
crime, which applied only to ootHdssions
nudum ,'h s,’, or against the law of (but.
So Dr. Boyd was entitled to have his name
registered. No remedy, however, could
apply until after the expiration of the two
days allowed by law tor tin- correction of
poll list. The subject derives additional
importance from tlio fact that but n»4..-
paratively tew white voters presented
themselves for registration in the First and
Second wanis where the blacks have a
majority owing to the default jjf white citi
zens, many of whom are now desirous of
having tho books reopened in order that
they limy register.
FAIR IN AID OF OfXTmTE SOUTHERNERS.
The lair held in Washington for the past
:vro weeks, for the relief of the destitute
in the South, has netted between three and
four thousand dollars.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.
The amount of fractional currency issued
by the printing division of the Treasury
Department for the week ending to-day
was $f 42,i>00. The amount sent away
during the week was $352,041. of which
SIOO,OOO went to the Assistant Treasurer
at New York: $30,000 to the United
States depositary at Louisville, Ky. 4 and
the balance to national banks and others.
One hundred and ten thousand dollars
in notes of one and two dollars were for
warded during the week —$00,1)00 to the
Assistant Treasurer at Charleston, and
$50,000 to Jxmisville, Ky.
The Treasurer of the United States
holds as securities for circulating notes
$340,041,450, and as security for deposits
of public money $>5,902,950 —total, $379,-
544,400.
The disbursements from the Treasury
Department for the week ending to-day
were as follows:
War Department $ 445,430
Navy Department 311,000
Interior Department 486,600
Total $1,243,090
. The amount of national bank currency
issued during the week was $117,250. To
tal to date, $302,822,206. From this
!' to lie deducted the currency returned,
'JU'udjm? worn out notes, amounting to
v 0,865,735, leaving in actual circulation at
tlnsdate $298,956,474.
iho amount of fractional currency re
deented during the week was $323,500.
Ihe internal revenue receipts to-day
were $514,544, and for the week $2,595,-
m.'i The aggregate amount for the fiscal
year to date is $238,54b,541.
The Second National Bank ot Chicago
ha- voluntarily ceased to be a depository
of public moneys, and hasapplicd to with
draw the securities deposited with the
Treasurer of the United States.
The conscience fund of the Treasury De
partment was increased to-day by the re
ception of SSO sent from Gilbertsville,
Mass. The $ i 2, O'* ' in SSO and SIOO notes
ofthe First National Bank of Jersey City,
stolen from the office of the Comptroller
ol' Currency, were numbered on the right
hand corner No. 10,609 to 19,688; on the
lower left hand corner, No. 671 to 750.
Numbers the same on both denominations.
A Splendid Passage.
Several years ago, Darnel W ebster had
occasion to discuss the question of the fu
ture of the Government of the L nited
States, and in the course of his speech,
with that pomp and splendor of diction
that marked his matchless eloquence, he
warned his countrymen of the solemn duty
of guarding, with watchful jealousy and
care, the noble heritage of constitutional
freedom which their ancestors had won for
them. And he also depicted the perils to
which their grand birthright was exposed,
and how difficult it would be to recover
their liberties, once lost. As most ap
propriate to the times, we quate the fol
lowing passage from this grandiy Cicero
nian and prophetic speech:
“Other .misfortunes may be borne, or
their effects overcome. If war should
sweep our commerce from the ocean,
another generation may renew it; if it
exhaust our treasury, future industry may
, replenish it; if it desolates and lays waste
j our fields, still, under anew cultivation,
| they will grow green and ripen to future
harvest. It were but a trifle, even if the
walls of yonder capitol were to crumble, if
its lofty pillars should fall, and its gorgeous
decorations be covered by the dust of the
I valley.
“All those might be rebuilt. But who
shall reconstruct the fabric of the demolish
ed government? Who shall rear again
the well proportioned columns of consti
tutional liberty? Who shall frame to
gether the skillful architecture which
j unites National Sovereignty with State
I Rights, individual security and public pros-
I perity? Now, if these columns shall fall,
! they will be reared not again. Like the
j Coliseum and the Partheon, they will be
! destined to a melancholy, mournful itnmor
i tality. Bitterer tears, however, will flow
| over them than were ever shed on the
! monuments of the Roman or Grecian Art,
j for they will be the remnants of a more
] glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever
) saw—the edifice of Constitutional Ameri
j fean Liberty.”
ilow solemnly these words echo from the
midst of the accomplished ruin ho foresaw,
i while he yet lived in the glory and strength
! of th’e Republic!
Fraser, Trenliolm to.
The announcement of the suspension of
this house was received day before yester
day by Messrs. John Fraser & Cos. here,
and we understand it was as great a sur
prise to them as the telegraphic dispatches,
published in our yesterday morning’s
paper, were a subject of astonishment and
regret to our entire community.
Nothing is known as to the liabilities of
the suspended house, nor as to its pros
pects of obtaining a sufficient extension to
enable it to make the most of the large
stock of cotton known to be on hand.
The firm in Charleston, whose business
has been chiefly upon account of other
parties of known responsibility, will, no
doubt, become embarrassed by the Liver
pool suspension; but their heaviest en
gagements had run off, and we understand
their present liabilities are not large in
proportion to the supposed magnitude of
their business. Their ultimate position,
we should think, must depend upon the
event in Liverpool. Fortunately, the
house there is represented by a gentleman
not merely of high integrity, but of busi
ness capacity and nerve, equal to the
emergency.
For some fifty years this house has stood
amongst the foremost mercantile houses
of the United States; and, although by
the course of time, many of its members
have changed, the strong ground of integ
rity, fidelity and skill, on which it was
originally built, has carried it through all
the financial convulsions which, during
that period, have shaken the mercantile
world of England and the United States;
and never was it supposed to possess
higher elements of mercantile honor and
ability than now preside over its extensive
interests. Why the firm in Liverpool
suspended payments, we have no means of
accounting for except tire fall in the price
of cotton, with a failure to obtain the bank
ing facilities formerly extended in Liver
pool. It is well known that early in the sea
son the Bank of England deliberately
adopted the systematic policy of refus
ing accommodations, previously accorded,
to those engaged in this trade. The effect
has been to put the holders of cotton in
the power of the buyers; and the mer
chants, factors and planters of the South
have, in (J;,o depressed price of cotton,
throughout the Spring, felt the baleful in
fluence of this gigantic at,J controlling in
stitution. The suspension of this house,
g’fi believe, to be only the illustration of
facte which bear heavily upon us all. It
may-be that, father than sell the cotton
they held at the depressed prices, occasion
ed by this bank policy and f/rgravated by
the passing apprehensions or war in Eu
rope, the partners in Liverpool preferred,
both on uiMiiipnt of others as well as them
selves, to suspend payment temporarily,
and hold the cotton to realize the full
amount of advances acceptann.es, &c.
This would he an awkward and painful
alterpatjyfi; but, under such circum
stances., the sgsuension would in no con
siderabk- degree effect the resources of tiie
concern.
This great house seemed the .chief if
not the only steady light burning amidst
t he mercantile gloom which rests upon our
city and land. With a feeling of deep sad
ness weyAeord its suspension, yet we can
not but hope ttyt. im cjpr the guidance of
the able and honorable who now
rule its destinies, it will again -fri* iC j.li all
the splendor of its former enterprise a«u
usefulness and power. If they had acted
from motives of interest, they might
have left us, a* /Others have done, and gone
to other lands, to eejay the affluence they
possessed. But they fcaVa preferred to
stay with us in our ruin and striVa
to redeem the commerce and fortunes of
our deamlted city and country.—Charles
ton Mercury, ‘i&J.
The Kadlt^fTTrsatlc.
Judge Kelly has succeeded U> iw«y'}king
g riot at. Mobile which resulted in the death
of several citizens, black and white. lie
taunted ami irritated his audience by
boasting of hi* determination to say to
them just what he piei*ad. pnder military
protection, and to that end. it rite jj, 'me
diate force at hand was inadequate, tie
could .command the whole army of the
United tsuw*. By his intent perate re
marks and insultliig byyvado he urged his
listeners beyond the pteun: pf forbearance,
and violence followed which tetwiw.„4 in
the death of innocent parties, while the
instigtxter sought the comfortable shelter
of Ins hotel, guarded by government bayo
nets. Thus is cousuu’vpated what was
gi*.wu)ly predicted, and prqbfhV .designed
by the iiadlsvJs, the cousequenqe of the
work of self-coitsdLrted Northern political
missionaries who veal fopfjb under pre
tence of teaching the Bouth and
loyalty ! ’J he effrontery of these dema
gogues in going among a people deprived
ot i&gjr civil rights and property, held
down by udkdary law, suffering the pangs
of starvation, t»,<d Jaunting them with
their misdeeds and mocking si calam
ities, is as reprehensible as anything
cowardice could conceive or party hacks
p«*&r;p. The ready submission of the
South u. the Reconstruction laws of Con
gress surptiassd iui x«.p,C£tation, and the
work was advancing thraugLcy* South
witliout hesitation. The citizens or dif
ferent classes were fast adapting them
aqjyes to the new order of things;
the and whites were fast har
monizing in thou *&},?! and civil relations
and the restoration of prder and
fidelity to the General Government was
unobstructed. At such a moment, ex
treme Pyfty men—not men distinguished
for patnotism op any prominent virtue, !
public or domestic—not uep of consistent
political action—not men who Led risked
anything to defend the Government when
it wa» availed, but mere party deelaimers
and leeches—thrust themselves upon the
South as its dictators, wsejjejyely demand- ;
ing acquiescence in their wiii and threaten- I
ing proscription, confiscation as punish-,
meat for non-conformity. What but re- i
sistat.ee violence could result from
such proeecdifigs among civilized people
with one drop of Amerkan blood in their
veins ? And was not this the aim ct the
start, to sting to violent deeds and then '•
summon those deeds as evidence of the !
necessity of continued subjugation, the |
postponement of the peace of the country j
and of the restoration of the Union ? We
believe such persons as ITelly and his >
Kadieal associates are devilish enough for
any such design, and reckless enough to
attempt its success. If the American j
people are so far in love with such apostles
as to sustain them at the expense of the
burdens they impose upon the nation,,
civilly and pecuniarily, thee we may as
well all ‘ ‘ cry havoc, and let slip the dogs
of war.” Strife and taxes, arbitrary gov
ernment and the subversion of every
principle of true Republicanism will be
the cost of the contest. —Boston Post.
An unusual event occurred at Aslifield,
Mass., on the sth of this month. Rev.
David Pease, eighty-three years of age,
administered the ordinance of baptism to
John Williams, seventy-eight years of age,
tiefore a large number of people.
Joe Brown Rebuked by Radicals.
Ex-GoverD or Joseph E. Brown—“ Brown
of Georgia”—“tor the present the flower
erf the family” of Browns in America—has j
performed the wonderful, daring, stu- I
pendous feat in political acrobacy of vault
ing front, the -lack ropes of ultra-Dcmoc
! racy into the swift-running car of Radical
ism. “There are many Browns in the
world,'' but not a '‘Pottawassamie” of!
: them ever accomplished such a feat as this. ;
The people have wondered, and still
wonder, why he has risked so much? Why i
did he put in jeopardy his political life? j
Why dares he to advocate the “voluntary
! acceptance " of that which is being en
forced by military chiefs as military law ?
i The hazard was enormous—what had
he, full of honor, and in the plentitude
of his Atlantean law office, to gaty? Some
have been ill-natured enough to imp'ugn
his motives. They have hinted that the
Vice President from the South might be
desirable: and that the Governor knew
there was nothing like being in a proper
position as anew convert. The Governor
asserts and affirms his patriotism and good
faith. He has confessed his sins. He has
publicly recanted his Democratic heresies
(perhaps, with a reservation of the spoils
principle), and, from his new “forum of
reason,” he calls.upon all lustily, to join
him in his new faith —warns of coming
dangers—and, £ull of patriotism and
benevolence, and humanity, he exhorts
every one to do “voluntarily " that which
he and they are forced to do by law.
“There are many Browns in this world (as
the New York Tribune says truly), but
Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, is for the
present the flower ofthe family.”
It is, however, always a difficult matter
to decide wfiat may be the motives of in
dividuals, and this difficulty is by no means
lessened when the subject is a politician.
The Governor's missionary zeal in behalf of
the voluntary acceptance ; his efforts to
build up two parties, when there was no
issue in existence; no fr< edom allowed; no
call for a division of sentiment; and when
the strong arm of military power represses
such a division, gives the utmost latitude
for conjecture. Some charitably consider
the action of the Governor as the effect
of mental disease, and fear that he is
afflicted with Thad. Stevens on-the-brain.
A terrible disease, doubtless, and well cal
culated to warp the reason and produce
confusion in the Governor’s new “forum.”
However, the New York Tribune, still con
siders him as “by no means lacking in in
telligence,” and alleges the proof “in the
fact that he has found out the Democrats.”
Butifthe proof stands, then anothermotivc
which lias been assigned must be aban
doned. It that ex-Gov. Joeisonly
changing the name of his political party,
not his political creed, and that his object
is to lead by a road a little circuitous all
the “colored pussons who pays tax of
fifteen dollars per bale on cotton,” into
the Democratic fold, under the name of
Free Trade Republicans. But, if this be
true, the Tribune's proof of “intelligence”
fails. But, whatever may have been his
motives, every Georgian has always agreed
that, if Joe Rex has gotten into the
Radical party, he will out-radical the
boldest Radicals. He will reject all
accounts which balance to the iraction of a
cent in public expenditures. The 'Tribune
will recollect that “ there are many Browns
in this world, but ex-Governor Brown, of
Georgia, is the flower ofthe family and
he will show to Rads how to do thftigs up
Brown—with peaceable remedies. He
is entitled to position; he will obtain it. Al
ready lie is the conductor or superintendent
for Georgia. Soon, very soon, wc predict that
he will be director, leader, Rex. Already his
claims and pretensions have excited the
New York Tribune, who plainly tells the
Governor that he “goes further than
necessary.” But this is only by way of
caution, for the Tribune extatically ex
claims : “If only all the Browns of the
South were like this Brown how bright
our future would be !” But it is a pity to
spoil a good thing, so we submit to our
readers the whole article (whether a satire
or panegyric we will nolr decide) of the
New York Tribune, on
BROWN OF GEORGIA.
Centuries ago, tlio great Solomon assert
ed that ‘*Go<l had no pleasure in fools,”
and we are sure that human society finds
equally little profit. The value to “a
State lately in rebellion” of one able, sensi
ble, moderate and conscientious public
mail is beyond reckoning. Such a man
cx-Gov. Brown, of Georgia, appears to be.
Casting far from him the lingering non
sense of treason, although when it was
rampant he was as deep in it as anybody,
Gov. Brown say's that lie is for accepting
reconstruction upon the terms offered by
Congress, “I say,” says the Governor,
“accept them, and live up to them like
“men who were beaten in fair tight, and
“who are bound to take whatever terms
“the men who beat them offer.” The Gov
ernor goes rather further than is necessary.
Wo do not think the Rebels are hound
to acquiesce in ajiy terms; but they
have no right to be dainty, and
they certainly ought to accept prop
ositions which are fair, just and reason
able. For this sound advice, so cheer
fully given, Governor Brown deserves the
thanks of all liis neighbors. !f he wished
to he sour and sulky, incorrigible and im
practicable, melancholy or malicious, he
need not lack for examples. Ho might
sigh or swear over the “lost cause.” He
might he forever asserting that he is a very
ill-used individual, and refuse to he com
forted, fie irjight Be prophetic, like Gov.
Perry, and predict f.fcp enslavement of all
Southern white men. He might turn his
hack upon reconstructed Georgia and bury
himself in a Brazilian wilderness. He
might buy a sword and fall upon it, like a
regular Roman. He might do twenty
fqivtyi) tilings; instead of which he cries
out chseffly lljat he has had enough, and
means to he loyal gnq sppsible in future.
There are mspiy Browns in this world, hut
ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, is, for the
present, the flower of the family.
That this gentleman is by no means
lacking in intelligence, is proved by the
fact that ire has found out the “Democrats,”
and a vo* s that its wants nothing more to
do with them. Ua uops whether lie
considers them to he wise or fonljsif, good
or had, generous or selfish; he simply says
that there is hardly anything left of them,
apd (pat they are doomed to a still lower
d'jimnp)ten. TJieiraliiance is not desirable.
Their aequdtmvte-.C pot profitable. This
will be had news for the mjysiqparies of the
party intending to make, next summer, a
tour for tiie benefit of its health; but it is a
solemn fact that Brown doesn’t want to
sen them in Georgia, and it is extremely
S-Lefher anybody will want to
see them ajiys
If only ali the Browns >,t the Ijjquth were
like this Brown, how bright our 'future
would be! But no man' holding such
opinions under such circumstances can
long remain alone. The thousands who
think he does, needing only a spokes
man and a leato.)j will gladly give in their
adherence to a polity Nvteity queans peace
and prosperity. They want"bfeau, and
not reyenge; peace, and not another
desperate revolt: status in the Union, and
notan eternal abiding out in the cold. —
Brown speak the. pflnd now ; hut, give
them a c-naned, and we shite- L ear them
speaking it for themselves.
The in Ireland. —Mr.
Bright, in the House of Gommcns on
May 3J, presented a petition from a num
ber of English gentlemen of educatiorf and
pcgilion. attributing the Fenian outbreak
to tlie chrome of discontent which
prevailed in Ireland, ar.it praying for a
revision of the sentences already passed
upon the Fenians. Mr. Bright said he
eoncsi’i&f ip the views of the petitioners.
Several attempts wmeiptd-; to prevent tlie
reading of the petition, but ' they were
overruled. It is to be hoped that England
may some day open her eyes to the real
camte ui' Irish discontent, and by relaxing
harsh laws and auoptmg a generous line
of policy win the love of a race always most
susceptible to kindness aniNhumane treat
ment.
Truly Cso. —Tho Louisville Journal
says the white people of the South, being
manacled hand and foot and tongue, the
Radical apostles of the North, backed by
the Federal army, go among them to insult
them and stir up strife between them and
the blacks. The outrage is akin to shoot
ing defenceless prisoners of war in their
dungeons.
When Samson's eyes were put out. and
his strength was gone, he was employed
to 11 make sport for the Philistines.’ But
the Philistines found it in the end a bad
speculation.
The President to 4 isit Boston.—
The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
says that it is now expected that Presi
dent Johnson will accept the invitation ex
tended to him by the Masonic fraternity of
Boston to be present at their coming cele
bration, and will accompany tue two Cotn
manderiesof Knights lompiar from W ash
ington. A revenue cutter will be placed
at their disposal by the i reasury Depart
ment. Delegations front the \\ ashington
Commanderies were in Baltimore Thurs
day to complete arrangements with the
Templars of that city for the trip. <
Baltimore.
„ .. Baltimore, May -0, 18(37.
Contributions to the South are Stiil !
coming m. (Hie State Relief Commis
sioner.- kayo, received, since last report,
through Tnon.as Vs. Severing, from John
Mump, Cecil. county, fifty bush :1s of
corn; Benjamin Silvers, Harford county,
twenty-four busheis of corn; through \Ym.
11. Owens, from Henrv Owing-, ot Gol
vert county, fifty bushels of corn; Dr.
I houias Owing;. Bristol, Anne Arundel
eounty, one hundred bushels of corn, con
tributed by 1/ and neighbors; Tlio/.
Grail dock. Baltimore county, thirty bushels
oi corn ; and tiie following amounts in
cash through Israel M. Carr • From Goo.
\\. I pvtngton additional from Snow Hill,
Maryland, through Win. R, Seevers,
Horn a lady in Frederick, $10: Paymaster
L. J. Dana. U. S. Navy. $10: Henry J.
Howard, $10; through’Rev. J. B. Ross,
from Mrs. R. Clark, $5: through P. P.
Pendleton, unknown. $2; G. K., $5; “A
Let. i 0. J.. $11; through L. Lane
ston, irqtn H. D. Farnandis. $ 50; Miss J. E.
Lynch. Frederick. $5: John H. Williams,
through Richard Courtnev. S2O : a lady,
through Geo. W. Brown." $lO ; Maryland
Cadets, through J. B. Williams, $241.06.
4 bus far a handsome sum has beeu made
p,I J °y Maryland for the sufferers of the
south, and they should not forget us when
they come North to make their purchases,
tl'’ ever limited,
i°w our l' r ' en£ l s w ho may chance to
rea ”> this letter, and who happened to be
m Baltimore on Friday, the 17th inst,
soon after the rain-storm that swept over
us, had a fine view of one of the most mag
niaeent rainbows that ever spanned the
heavens. The bow was complete, the
colors surpassingly briiiiant. and its soft
ened reflection was plainly visible in a
second arcii. The oldest inhabitants admit
that its colors surpassed in brilliancy any
thing seen by them in the arch of a rain
bow. It was most beautiful to look upon,
and grand to behold.
A respectable looking woman drove up to
one ofourpoli6e stations a few daj-s since, hav
ing communication with the officer, deiiv
eredover to his charge her husband, named
VV illiam Hook, who was tied, hand and foot.
She stated that she had followed the Fed
eral army for three years as a washer
woman, and had accumulated some
two thousand five hundred dollars,
W’-th which she purchased a snug
little farm six miles from the city, on the
Hartford road. Thither she proceeded a
year ago with her husband and two chil
dren, but since that time lie had been dis
sipated, and, “ yesterday attempted to
kiil me and iny children with a pitchfork.”
At this she became indignant and, throw
ing him down, tied him hand and foot,
and, to use her expression : “Here he is,
and I want him sent to jail.” Her re
quest was complied with, despite the ap
peals of her fallen liege lord, and lie was
committed in default of bail. Poor fellow,
why was he so so naughty as to get drunk
and try to kill his wife ? See what he has
come to!
Speaking of helping our Southern
poor, reminds me of a project to that end
started by Miss Emily Y. Mason, in the
collection and arrangement of “ The
Southern Poems ofthe War," sometime
since, by our enterprising citizen pub
lishers, Messrs. Murphy & Cos., IS2 \V.
Baltimore street. The object of this pret
ty little book is to aid in tho education of
the daughters ofthe South, and as the poems
are all the offspring of Southern hearts,
sung by Southern firesides and Southern
camp-fires, and dedicated to the Southern
soldiers by one who admired their heroism,
sympathized with their successes, mourned
their sufferings, and shared their priva
tions, they should he sought after by our
Southern friends and treasured as a me
mento of that which has been, while war
spread its ghastly wings about them.—
Every book purchased but gives so much
to the aid in educating the orphans of the
fallen braves, who slumber in oblivion’s
tomb- Miss Mason says: “I appeal to all
good people to aid me in this ef
fort to provide for the women of the
South (the future mothers of the coun
try) the timely boon of education. Many
of those children are the orphans of
soldiers, from whom they have inherited
nothing but. an honorable name, and the
last hours of more than one of whom I was
enabled to soothe by the promise that I
would do something lor the little ones they
left behind them. That promise, I trust,
this humble effort may enable me, in part,
to redeem.”.
As this is a good opportunity for those
of our friends who are at all disposed to
aid the Southern suffering communities, it
is hoped they will not hesitate to consult
Messrs. Murpijy&Co., who have the books
for sale, either to booksellers, canvassers or
others who may be prompted to do a good
turn in aid of those who are and ever have
been their kinsmen and their neighbors.
More anon, “Baltimore.”
Important Decision. His Honor
Judge Munro delivered his opinion yester
day in the case ofthe First National Bank
and People’s National Bank against Fleet
wood Lanneau, Esq., Tax Collector. The
case involved tho question of the consti
tutionality and legality of the State tax
imposed by the Acts of the last General
Assembly on the gross profits of the
National Banks. The payment of the tax
was resisted by the Banks, on the ground
that it conflicted with the Constitution of
the United States and the Acts of Con
gress of the United States, organizing
National Bank Associations.
The case was argued fully and elaborate
ly by the lion. Henry Buis!, Solicitor lor
the l'ir/t National Bank of Charleston,
Hon. Charles IT. Simonton, Solicitor for
the People’s National Bank, and by the
.Attorney-General, Isaac AY. Ilayne, Esq.,
in behalf of the Tax Collector and the
State.
After assigning at length the reasons for
his opinion, Judge Munro granted the fol
lowing Order in each case:
“Tiie suggestion in this case having
been read, and after argument of counsel
thereupon, it is ordered that a writ of
prohibition do issue from this Court, to he
directed to Fleetwood Lanneau, Ksq., Tax
Collector of the Parishes of St. Philip’s and
St. Michael's, in the said State, command
ing and requiring him forthwith to desist
arid forbear from levying and collecting
the tax imposed by the Act of tiie General
Assembly mentioned in the said sugges
tion, and tfierein complained of.
[Signed] It. Muniio.
The question raised in this case is of
great interest and vitality to the banks,
and the Act of Congress organizing them
was fully sustained by the Judge.— Char.
Courier, 24(/i.
The Munificence of a Stranger. —lt
is peculiarly gratifying to note so praise
worthy atq act of disinterested generosity
as that which came under our notice on
yesterday, and since we are satisfied that
the benevolent gentleman had no object in
view imt t a alleyiate suffering, it is proper
that full credit should ho giver) him. The
facts are briefly these: Judge John Pear
son, of Danville,- Illinois, has brought to
this city, at his own expense, over one
thousand bushels of corn for distribution
to destitute _ widows and orphans, every
bushel of which is contributed by himself.
Accompanying the corn is about* one hun
dred dollars worth of clothing, sent by the
benevolent ladies of Danville, to be dis
posed of in a similar manner. Judge
Pearson ieft the ejty yesterday for Chero
kee county, carrying ‘with hih) three !;un
dreu bushels for the more needy of that
locality. He was accompanied’ by our
townsman, J. J. Thrasher, Esq., who will
assist him in the noble work. The re
maining geyett hundred bushels of corn,
and the clothing, have been turned over to
Rev. 11. C. Hornady, who will make a
proper distribution of Judge Pearson’s
munificence. — At. Intel.
! “ Bather .Steel-/ —We have it upon
1 the authority of a very reliable gentleman,
’ that one of tho negroes who was seduced
! to the West by tbo representation of big
j wages and a perfect paradise, has just
returned and reports that he was employed
i by a Y ankee hailing from New England
, upon a farm. He says that the employer
would hitch up two stout negroes to a
j largo pics', m!~J} another to follow it. At
night, when they were "taken oat,” corn
was issued to'them like other stock, We
j have heard that in some country the men
would hitch a jackass and woman to the
same plow, but had no idea anything like
| the' above wouitj ever be seen in this
country. When told ’by the negroes that
such a proceeding was very novel, this
good friend to the race replied, “ why you
have been accustomed to this ail your life,
and I guess you can stand it now: ” and
| yet those gygjt God and morality philan
thropists, who possess all tho wisdom and
goodness in the universe, have no idea as
to how negroes were treated in the South,
j We should not be surprised were we to
i learn that this 11 hopeful cuss stabled
J and issued oats or fodder to bis employees
j also. — Griffin Star.
j Horrible Accident. — Two young girls
j and anearo woman were killed at Quincy,
i Florida, a few evenings ago by the ex
i plosion of a can filled wirn kerosene oik
I The young girls were filling a lamp from
| the can, the negro standing by with a
lie lit wood torch, when the oil became igni
ted and there was an instant explosion,
i blowing out both heads of the can, and
: completely saturating the girls with the
j burning fluid. The terrible work was
j then done, speedily burning the poor vie
: tints horribly from head to foot. Every
particle of clothing, except their shoes,
; was burned to a cinder. They lingered in
| agony for an hour op two, and died in five
! minutes of each other.
Pickpockets. —l r esterday morning, a
gentleman from Augusta, while witness
, ing the performance of the trained canary
! birds on the corner near the Postoffice,
! had his pocket-book, containing about
twenty dollars,stolen from his breast pocket.
The perpetrator of this act is evidently
one of the two professional gents d’ indux
: trie who recently visited our city. We
| would caution our citizens to beware of
j them. Savannah News if- Herald , 23(7.
Young Africa.
BY ONE WHO IIAS SEEN IT.
M. du Cuailiu. the celebrated African
explorer, lectured on Wednesday evening,
before the Traveller's Club, Fifth avenue.
What he said, in regard to that remarka
ble country, and the still more remarkable
native who inhabits it, is piquant, fresh,
edifying, and so we quote:
* * * * * *
“I was struck in my explorations of this
vast jungle to find the population very thin
ly scattered. It abounds in tribes. I vis
ited myself more than thirty tribes, from
the cannibal tribesto the dwarfs —little men,
hairy men, covered with little tufts of hair.
They are from four feet three inches to
four feet four inches and four feet five
inches. They are. no doubt, the pigmies
of Herodotus, which he described to be
toward the head waters of the Nile. All
navigation has always»been from the east
toward the west. I have questioned the
negroes about where they came from when
they came from another village. and found
that they travelled west. They always
move from the east toward the west. I
never saw any exception to this. _ Some of
these tribes are exceedingly warlike; others
are very mild. The finest negroes are the
Cannibal tribes. They are _ lighter
colored and tall, and their superiority is
principally shown by the working of iron.
They work iron beautifully. The moun
tains are covered with iron; but, being
warlike in their nature, they make barbed
spears, arrows, axes, and all sorts of
implements to kill each other. In the
country they kill all their .prisoners.
Strange to say, they do not bury any of
their dead, except their kings. Those
that died of disease are eaten up. Now
and then they go into neighboring tribes
and steal their corpses. I gave an account
in my first volume of an instance where,
within one hundred yards of a settlement
of the missionaries at Gaboone, they stole
corpses and went back. These tribes are
very much feared. I had nobody with me
when I was among them; still I found
them very kind toward me. I told them
it was very bad to eat human flesh, hut
they all said to me that next to human
flesh the gorilla’s flesh was the best.
(Laughter.) I said, then, “Why don’t
you kill gorillas?” They said, “We
cannot, because they are too
powerful. ” They have no guns
there, and they cannot kill the gorilla
with their spears. I had grea.t difficulty
in learning the languages, and had to stay
among them a long time to do so. Not
only that, but to come down to their level
of thinking. The difficulty of a traveller is
to come down to the level of thinking with
those negroes. It is as difficult to come to
that standard as it is for the negroes to
come to our own level of thinking there.
I tried to have them explain to me their
superstitions and religion; but I never
could understand anything *about it, and I
at last gave it up in despair. I travelled
sometimes and often through the thick
jungles of this curious country for several
days together without meeting a single
settlement, and I have travelled through
this country several days without eating
anything. I have been as much as two or
three days without food, and had no com
panion with me but a monkey. I used
sometimes to eat. a few leaves or nuts, al
ways eating what the monkey ate, for fear
of eating something that might not be
wholesome (laughter), and sometimes the
monkey used to eat the bitterest nuts he could
find, and of course I would find that out.
(Laughter). I was always obliged to camp
in the forest, and in that country it rains
nine months of the year, near the coast,
and the whole year round in the interior.
So it was not always pleasant weather to
camp out in. (Laughter.) Night after
night you are wet through there. The
natives are very lazy and make their wives
do everything for them. (Laughter.)
Every particle of baggage is carried by the
women when the men are moving any
where. All that can be carried is carried
on a woman’s back. You will see a large
man, a big, strong, lazy savage, going
along with a spear, while the women are
loaded down with plantains, which are the
chief food of the country. The plantain is
a kind of banana, except that it is much
larger, and requires cooking before it is so
fit for food as the banana. The women
often have to carry food enough to last a
whole family for several days, and when
you consider that eighty pounds is
only about a sufficiency for three days,
and besides that the stalks and other
refuge have to be carried, you can fancy
how these men make their wives as
sist them. (Laughter). The men arc so
lazy that they will only think of the pres
ent moment, and never entertain the least
notion of providing for the future. They
will sometimes have to carry plantains,
and in the beginning of the journey they
will be throwing away as much as they
can at every step, when their companions
are not looking at them, but the moment
they begin to feel want the next day they
exclaim, “Oh,, if we only knew this yes
terday !—what will we do now?” (Laugh
ter.) So improvident are they. All these
people believe in the fetish religion. They
believe in good and evil spirits, particularly
evil ones. Whenever they are sick or in
any trouble they invariably accuse the evil
spirit of it. By the lied of the sick man
they fire off guns and pistols, and in fact
make all the noise they can; and when
you ask them what it is for, they say it is
to frighten the evil spirit away from
him—they do it to frighten the devil out
of him (laughter)—and they say that this
will make him well; but ho generally dies.
(Laughter.) This gives some notion of
their religious belief, They all believe in
witchcraft. Whenever a man dies, they
kill several of his relatives, because of
jealousy. _ The estate there consists alto
gether of'women and wives, hut principal
ly of wives. (Laughter.) Jealousy is the
cause of the murder of the relatives. The
property, which consists of wives and
women, never descends to the sons or the
children, but to the nephew, or son of the
oldest sister. He inherits the property.
(Laughter.) The sons never inherit but
the cousins do. It is: not a custom to
marry relatives. These people never do
it. They would express surprise if you
spoke to them about marrying a cousin.
They do not think much of their children
after four or five yean: old, As long as
they are children they are fond of them—
but when they are boys or girls they-care
very little about them, and generally sell
them. W hen a child is to be sold, the
parents attend to divide the price among
them, and the wives are sold to their hus
bands and the husband is to give presents
to the father-in-law, and compel all his
friends to do so. (Laughter.) In fact
they are great plagues, these African
tathers-in-law. (Laughter.)
In some places there arc many venomous
serpents—and no beasts whatever, because
they cannot live among these reptiles,
which are there by the million, and often
travel in droves. You can always know
when they are moving in this way by the
manner in which they drive the birds
before them ; and even men have to keep
a very close watch to protect themselves
from these reptiles. The gorilla, even,
cannot hold his own against them.
J lie temperature in the shade l found to
be about 98 degrees in this region, and 155
in the sun. I never had it higher than
that.
she Atlantic Cable. —lt is officially
announced jn a communication to the Lon--
don J ane* of the ifth inst., from Charles
jii. Stewart, Chairman of the Anglo-Ameri
can 1 e.egraph Company, that on the 4th
mst., a large iceberg grounded off the har
bor of Heart s Content, Newfoundland,
about one and a half miles north-northwest
of Northern Point and two hundred yards
east o. the 1800-cable, in about sixteen
iuihoms water. On the Bth insf, the ice
berg disappeared, but in passing over the
cable of 1866. it did it some damage, as the
signals through this cable became iinpor
fect ar,a had now pegsec).
ilie cable of ISfia, however, was unim
paired, and the capacity exceeds the re
quirements of the business, great as it is,
between the continents, The opinion is
itP5 eS '-ii i iiat l 'i c injury to the cable of
will be repaired without delay or any
considerable expense.
GJKO—
, * u >; ;0;; a Trite Soldier.—
7“ l ne Sa.t Works feside the widow and
turniiy of our lamented Stewart, that
prince a* cavaliers, as lie has been dubbed
by universal consent. With a delicacy of
respect uGservmf; imitation, Gen. Wilcox,
who was one of the party, requested per
mission to wait on this soldier’s widow in
testimony of* the admiration and esteem
with which her honored husband was re
garded, and, in company with a mutual
mend, tendered his respects. The visit
was received in the same' spirit by which
it was inspired, and terminated after a few
minutes spent in pleasant conversation. —
.Letter in Lynchburg News.
, ofisrthe head of “spontaneous com-
a paragraph is going the rounds,
telling of a man who caught fire from a
segar. It reminds us of the rhyme—
“ The fly on the ceiling—this ease was the
wust one—
Was blowecl all to hits with spontaneous
combustion.”
University of Virginia.— There are
now 490 studenfs at the University of 4 ir
ginia. The following States are rep
resented : Virginia, 219 students; 3!ary
land. 39 ; Tennessee, 36 ; Alabama, 38 ;
Georgia. 31 ; North Carolina, 24 : Mis
sissippi, 18; West Virginia, 15 ; lexas,
14; Missouri, 15: South Carolina,
Kentucky, 12; Louisiana, 10 ; ew
York. 3 Arkansas. 3; Uistri'-t of
Columbia, 2 . Florida, 1 ; Pennsylvania,
1 ; Illinois, 1; Nevada, 1.
Some weeks since the wife of a citizen
of Troy died after a bnef iUmss, saving
her husband something like - e > ,‘ v
she had carefully saved frem money which
came into her possession, au- of the exist
ence of which the husband was entirely
ignorant. Through a long life she had
lien a faithful wife and valuable help- ;
meet, and in death even was laitnlul still, ,
The railroad building race across the 1
continent by the rival Omaha and Kansas !
Pacific Companies is becoming exciting.— J
The Omaha line had reached its 322d mile i
post on Saturday evening, the f1 th inst., [
and the Kansas line had, on the 9th,reach- j
cu its 197th mile post. General Case- |
merit, the contractor on the Omaha line, ]
says el two and a half miles a day (the rate
of progress since the spring opening), ;
“we re going a little slow at first, to get
the new hands broken into their places ;
we’ll show you throe miles and a half a
day liefore long, and we mean to lay five
miles in one day before the summer is
over. ’ ’ Shoemaker & Cos. are the contract
ors on the Kansas route, and are pledged
to build 250 miles'west of. Fort Riley, or
to within 200 miles of Denver, by the Ist
of next December. They laid on the 9th,
with their ordinary track force, two and
one-sixteenth miles of track, and built
three small bridges. They say : “ This is
the first good working day we have had.
Our force is fully supplied with rails and
ties.” The Kansas road will probably
come on nearer to Denver than the 200
miles above named, for from that point
the road is to diverge southward through
Santa Fe to the Pacific.'
The Napa (Cal.) Reporter says: “About
nine o’clock last evening we saw a light
flickering on the creek. Drawing near the
bank we found several Chinamen with long
baskets, the bottoms cut out. They would
wade along, one man carrying a light,
another a basket inverted, who occasional
ly would set his basket down in the water,
run his hand in the aperture, and haul out
a large fish. They had by this novel de
vice caught about eighty fish.”
The Swedish Chambers have resolved to
send to John Ericsson, the famous engineer
of America, who is by birth a Swede, an
address expressive of the gratitude enter
tained toward him by the Swedish people
for the signal services which he has ren
dered to his native country. Ericsson’s
services have consisted mainly in furnish
ing to the government designs and sug
gestions for the improvement of the navy
of Sweden.
Ali Haider Bey, already known as the
author of two Turkish dramas, has just
finished anew three-act play, in verse, en
titled “The Princess Noon,” which is said
to be the first tragedy ever produced in
Turkish literature. The plot is of the time
of Semiramis, who figures in it, and, of
course, there is no want of romance and
love-making.
On Monday of last week, Charlie Smith,
a young man of about sixteen years of
age, who was attending school near
Beattie’s Bluff, Miss , while engaged in a
ball play, during the noon recess, came to
hisdeathunder most painful circumstances.
In the game he was running very rapidly,
looking back in the direction *>f the ball,
and thus struck the side of his face against
a tree with such force that death resulted
in a few hours.
Adispatchfrom St. Paul, Minnesota, an
nounces that M. A. Hawks, who killed his
wife to get the insurance on her life, has
been indicted for murder in the first de
gree- The lady was a young bride, and
was killed by the discharge of a pistol
which her husband was cleaning. No sus
picion was attached to him at t he time, but
subsequently ho was arrested, examined
and discharged. It now appears that he
has been indicted by a Grand Jury.
Antidotes to Strychnia.— lt would
seem, as the long series of experiments
conducted by Professor Bellini, that the
best antidotes against this poison are tan
nia acid, and tannin, chlorine and the tinc
tures of iodine and bromine. These agents
do not, however,. act chemically on the
poison, but only through the astringent
effects produced by the acid on the mucous
or inner surface of the stomach.
Another Strange Disease Prevail
ing at Long Island.— Within the past
two weeks another strange disease has
broken out on Long Island, in the vicinity
of Great Neck. It attacks animals in their
throats, incapacitates them from swallow
ing, and death is sure to ensue, if not in
twenty-four, in forty-eight hours. One
gentleman has lost seven fine horses,
valued at SB,OOO, within ten days. The
most experienced farriers have been at the
stables, and state that they have never,
during their experience, seen animals af
fected witli a similar disease. The horses
that have fallen victims to the disease are
of the finest breed.
From New York and Philadelphia.
• —The steamship San Salvador reached
her wharf yesterday morning at 10 1-2
o’clock, with 45 cabin passengers and a
full freight. The Wyoming came up to
her wharf half an hour later bringing a
largo freight. —Savannah Republican,
It is estimated that in the counties of
Halifax, Spotsylvania, Franklin and
Henrico, in Virginia, and Rockingham and
Caswell in North Carolina, the tobacco
now on hand is worth $12,000,000. The
crop of Spotslyvania alone is placed at
$3,000,000. These estimates are based on
careful researches of persons interested in
the matter.
Old John Bcnnchoff, the petroleum
king, of Bennehoff Run, Pennsylvania oil
country, returned an income of $150,000
last year. This is the largest individual
income returned in Venango county.
We learn that the Western & Atlantic
Railroad paid into the Treasury of the
State the sum of $50,000 for the month
of April. Thus are we furnished another
evidence of the admirable administrative
abilities of the able Superintendent of that
important line of railway. We may safely
say that this great property of the com
monwealth was never so judiciously
managed as now. —Atlanta 'lntelligencer.
The Superior Court was occupied all of
yesterday in the consideration of the oldest
case upon the docket, which was institu
ted as far back as 1854. It will consume
the time of the Court to-day, and probably
be continued to-morrow. This will cause
some delay before the trial of the criminal
docket. — Macon Jour., 23d.
Wesleyan Female College. — The
commencement will take place in Macon
the, second week in July, the sermon to
be delivered by Dr, W. T. Rrantly, of At
lanta, and the annual address by Hon.
Wm. 11. Chambers, of Columbus.
An Old Citizen Gone.— The Southern
Watchman announces the death of James
Orr, the oldest man in Jackson county —
being in his 93d year—at his residence on
the 15th instant. The deceased was born
in North Carolina, a subject of King
George II I. He was in the highest sense
of the term, an honest man—a good citi
zen, and an humble Christian—having
been connected with the Presbyterian
church some forty years.
Death of Samuel G. Hathaway.—
General Samuel G. Hathaway, one of the
pioneers, of Central New York, diod at his
home in Solon, Cortland county, on the 2d
instant, at the advanced age of 87 years.
Travel to Europe. —On Saturday
seven steamships. sailed from New York
for. Europe, carrying out over two thou
sand passengers.
The exports of wool last year from Cali
fornia exceeded 4,600,000 pounds, and the
local consumption 2,700,000. This year
the manufactories, it is estimated, will
consume nearly four millions of pounds,
giving an increase of almost fifty per cent
The most encouraging reports still reach
us from ali parts of the valley in regard to
fruit and other crops. Frost and cold
weather seem to have had no bad effect what
ever upon the crops. —Staunton Virginian.
Indiana Democratic papers name Sena
tor Hendricks as a good candidate for next
President, and Ohio Democratic papers
name air. Pendleton. Gov. Hendricks is
a man qf sound sense and a practical
statesman, and would, if elected, administer
the government to the advantage of the
people.
General Bherrnan, H. Ward Beecher,
Maggie Mitchell, the actress, Mark Twain,
the humorist, Henry Gwino. the negro
orator, and Robert Ilendershoot, the
drummer boy, are registered as passen
gers on the steamship Quaker City, short
ly to sail for Palestine.
Dr. Rufus King Browne, well known as
an anatomist and microscopist. will accom
pany tfie new Brazilian expedition, under
the auspices of the New York Association
fur the advancement of science, and in
connection with Prof. Ilartt, ,u recent j
co-laborer of c\gussiz.
A Heavy Cargo.—The ship Lancas
ter, which sailed yesterday from this port,
carried out 9,400 barrels of refined petro
leum, equal to 7,741 barrels of 42 gallons
each. This is said to be the largest cargo
ever carried from this port. —Philadelphia
Ledger, 17 th,. •
The Stockton (Cal.) Independent says: j
“The Brewster, which is to sail in a day or .
two from San Francisco for \ okohamo, :
Japan, will take a fire engine for the
American residents. Up to this time the j
only appliances to put out fires have been
small hand-pumps.”
Alice Cary has written a novel entitled j
“ The Bishop’s Son,’ nod the scene is j
laid in .New England.
Candles are made out of baybcrrics, at !
i Newton, N. J., and they are said to be j
j superior to the best tallow.
1 1 is estimated that four Virginia nr.d |
two North Carolina couptica have now j
on hand a stock of tobacco valued at sl2,- i
! 000,000: i
The Old School Presbyterian Board of (
foreign Missions report their receipts last j
j at ¥244,667, and its expenses $2? i,- j
'Japanese College, which is to be !
1- Caris, will have among its
earliest scholars the younger brother of j
le reigning Tycoon, lie is about sis teen,
ana wiUi other compatriots is to be initiated j
into the l-rench language and into Euro- i
pean manu.actures, arts and sciences. j
Accounts from Nice say that Lord
.brougham is very ill—perhaps past hope.
•Tl ' lc , e , r °y es Egypt is the richest man j
m the world. He owns a fourth of the en- 1
tire sou of the country.
Crops, eie., in Madison.
Danielsville, G.V., May 20, 1807.
-Vp”*’• Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Thu wheat crop in Madison and the
surrounding country', generally, is more
flattering than at any former period since
the great crop of 187>7. I have heard of a
little rust on the blade in some localities,
but not enough to do any damage y T et:
and the weather is now fine on wheat—
dr.v and cool. It no disaster befalls it, we
will soon have great relief on the bread
question. Oats look fine. Corn is small
but lias a healthy appearance. Cotton is
the poorest prospect. imaginable. Pro
visions are distressingly scarce, and will
operate materially against us in making the
present crops. The freedmen are work
ing pretty well and seem to be well
contented, apparently taking no interest in
the politics ot the day; in fact, politics are
at a considerable discount—the provision
question absorbing all others, and the people
generally feel that they have the right man
to steer the ship of State in the person of
Governor Jenkins. It is true Joe Brown
has a lew adherents, but they are few and
far between. Ploughman.
V heat. —TV e learn that the wheat crop
in some portions of this county will be
harvested the latter part of this week.
The crop is unusually good, and is not
injured by rust or otherwise up to this
time. —Monroe Advertiser, May 21.
The Wheat Crop of the South.--A
private letter, received in this city from
Memphis, dated 16th instant, refers in a
gratifying manner to the present wheat
crop of Tennessee, and the prospect of its
equaling in quantity the remarkable crops
of 1854 and 1855. — Charleston Courier,
23 d.
Rain and Cold Weather.— On Mon
day evening and night we had fine showers.
It had previously been quite dry in this
section, and the gardens, as well as the
corn and cotton crops, were suffering for
want of moisture. On Thursday evening
and Wednesday morning it was so c»ld as
to render fire quite comfortable. —Rome
Courier, 23d.
“Brick” Pomeroy has a performing dog
which accompanies him on his lecturing
tour. The intelligent animal has been
trained to stroll on the platform accident
ally, in order to give the lecturer an op
portunity of making some “exceedingly
clever impromptu remarks.” —Chicago
Post.
Very good. That “impromptu” is also
very good. And to make our show a sue
cess, we would like a performing Ass, and
the editor of the Post can have the situa
tion if the dog don’t object to the com
pany'. How’s that for “impromptu”?—
LaCrosse Democrat.
An English novel, ealled “Counting the
Cost,” has a heroine with the euphonius
name of Arabella Rew^traddle.
Iron Ship. —One ofthe finest iron ships
that ever visited our waters arrived here
yesterday. She, is a British vessel, named
the Allahabad, commanded by Captain
Stevenson, and is twenty-two days from
Guadaloupe, to which port she brought
a cargo of’ four hundred and fifty Coolies
from China, thirteen of whom died on the
passage. Her hull, masts and spars are
all iron, and her rigging is composed of
wire. She is consigned to C. Green &
Son, who will load her for either Liver
pool or London with cotton. — Savannah
News & Herald, 23 d.
The Richmond Examiner.—This jour
nal has changed hands, and is now con
ducted by the Examiner Publishing Com
pany, with Thomas H. Wynne as Presi
dent, and Dr. J. B. Brock and Mr. W. H.
Wade as managing editors. These gen
tlemen have, in conjunction with the print
ers of the establishment, taken the entire
stock of the company', and in their new en
terprise we wish them, in all sincerity,
every imaginable success.
Mr. A. M. Keiley retires from the
editorship of the Examiner, which will in
future be the size of that excellent journal
the Richmond Dispatch.
Important Decision.-— The Supreme
Court has decided that the Legal Tender
Act applies to contracts made prior to as
well as subsequent to its passage. And
secondly, that contracts in gold, or the
deposit with bankers of gold, constitutes a
mere debt which can be discharged by the
payment of legal tender notes.
In the case before the Court, the deposit
in gold was made in 1861. The Legal
Tender Act was not passed until 1862.
And in May, 1867, it is held that the
depositor is bound to take United States
Treasury notes for his gold.
Tiie Indian Springs. —Visiters to the
Indian Springs will be glad to learn that
W. J. Camp has in operation a hack line
and express from Covington to Forsyth,
Ga., via Newton Factory and Jackson.
All express sent to the care of Mr. Camp
at Covington or Forsyth, will be delivered
along the route at a reasonable charge,
and fifty pounds of baggage is allowed to
each passenger.
Collection in Aid of the Pope.—On
the Sunday preceding Easter a collection
was taken up in all the Catholic churches
in the diocese of Philadelphia, in aid of
the Pope. Right Rev. Bishop Wood
announces the result to be $58,000. —
Bishop Wood will leave for Rome on the
29th instant to personally present, the
offering.
The shad “pounds” at the mouth of the
Connecticut—enclosures in which the fish
were caught by the wholesale, big and
little, and shipped to the New York
market —wero almost totally destroyed by
tiie heavy seas of last week. The Hart
ford Times rejoices over this, and hopes
the shad will have a chance to grow for a
year or two.
A few days since a person in Newborn,
N. C., who had purchased an old army
mattress, ripped it open and discovered,
much to his surprise, a big roll of green
backs in it. Old mattresses are being
roughly treated since.
A Costly Work. —The Iloosaio tunnel
is again demanding more money. A state
ment made by the managers of the great
boro to the Massachusetts Legislature
shows that it will cost $32,000,000, and
that 45 years will be required to complete
it. The borers have gone one-thirteenth of
the distanco through the mountain, and it
has already cost $2,500,000.
“In all quarters (says the Philadelphia
Age) the current is turning toward the
Democracy. The people are tired of agi
tation, high taxes and dull business. They
know that the Radicals will continue ex
citement as a means of perpetuating their
political power without reference to the
good of the country, and hence the defeat
of their candidates in all portions of the
nation. The result of the election at Wil
liamsport is an indication of the “good
time coming.”
The Leavenworth Conservativi, of the
11th, says : The grasshoppers are hatch
ing throughout the country in myriads,
and the same accounts come from other
portions of the State. Within a mile of
town considerable damage to spring wheat
has been sustained, and below us, on the
Delaware reserve lands, their ravages are
becoming serious.
The Michigan Southern Railroad, to fill
a “sinkhole” of forty rods under its track
in Northern Indiana, has dumped in two
acres of earth, averaging ten feet in depth;
three acres of timber and brushwood; the
scrapings and ditchings of fifty miles of
railroad track for about eighty years past ; j
the old ties of about one hundred miles of
repaired track ; and about three thousand
car loads of gravel; besides the forty rods
of embankment, from four to six feet high,
that was made before the sinking occurred.
'The work of filling seems now to have been
accomplished,
“Hug Tip.”—A fierce patriot in Penn
sylvania, who was zealous to annihilate
the South by proxy, recently got married.
The other night he and bride were lying
in bed, talking over matters and things,
when a heavy thunder storm arose. The j
loud peals of thunder and vivid flashes !
filled them with terror and fearful appre- j
hension. Suddenly a tremendous crash
caused the loving couple to start as though j
they had received an electric shod;, when !
our hero, throwing his arms around his
dear, exclaimed, “Hug up to toe, Lizzie: I
let’s die like men. 1 '
A little son of James Blake, Esq., of
Litchfield. Ct., was found hanging by his
neck dead, from a schoolhouse window,
lie had evidently gone back after school
for a book (which was found near him),
and on getting out of the window the sash
had fallen and oaught him by the neck,
producing strangulation.
The Telegraph of Grata states that a
few days since some person entered the res
idence of Marshal Benedek and carried off
the insignia of all the orders of chivalry
that had been conferred on that warrior.
The theft was the more remarkable as
none of the other objects of value in the
house were taken.
There tyas ma&iJhoturid and sold in the
tow* 01 Cambridge, Yt., last year, over
three hundred tons of butter, which, at
34c., the average price paid, amounted to
two hundred and twe.nty-eiglit thavxmd
dollars. Did any New England town
beat that ?
Doping Killing. —On Monday, near
Madison Square, Bvron Betts shot and
mortally wounded Egbert Wiggins; and
on Tuesday Byron Betts was killed by
Lewis Wiggins, father of Egbert, ail
colored. Byron B.etts was said to be a bad
man ; was abusing his wife, quarrelled
with and tried to shoot Lewis, then shot
Egbert for remonstrating with him, tied,
was arrested, resisted, refused to be tried,
threatened Lewis, and was then shot by
the father of Egbert, who was considered
as perfectly justifiable, and gave himself
up. —Huntsville Advocate, \lth.
The construction of a suspension bridge
over the Niagara River, from the village
of Niagara Falls on the American side to
the Clinton House on the Canada side, has
been commenced. The bridge will be for
the use of foot passengers and for car
nages.
ieum the Snthmlhxr: — —
Tito Byotn uiarv.
report of the secret.,... ,
■ _ “to Ain of war.
So much has been - a ;,i , ,
tion of the Booth <W til 11llc fT°ha
was made by General BulleHn'r c large
that the people generally It f ess !
without an exception, the iV-ulbW • a mo ? t
demand that die book to,. ", ,'!'?• I. ou ™als
matter whether its contents no
or unimportant. Upon re-i-e. , ’jto'.ortant,
Mr. Johnson of all the (Wi-\w’? tatlons tl )
of the general demand tint the”*? 8 ’ a \ ld
printed, in order that the 1,1, ? dlary >
themselves judge of tlm fid' i lnay lr
L'Sir,a. ,E, " nhisw ” s<i » ti ***’«£
Mr. Johnson, never having himself seen
1 tofi Y had ’ SO T aand s a S°, ordered a
certified copy to be made, which was
accordingly furnished. We are permitted
to publish this record, as certified by the
Judge Advocate: -
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, D C., May 9, 1567. f
The Secretary of War will please furnish
the “resident with a certified copy of the
diary lound upon the body of J. Wilkes
Boote together with a succinct statement
ot all the lacts connected with its capture
and its possession by the War Department.
Andrew Johnson.
, TT War Department, >
Washington City, May 14, 1867. /
.“, IR ’ 1 h ave the honor to submit here
with a copy ofthe entries contained in the
memorandum book found on the person of
J. Wilkes Booth at the time of his caoture,
certified by General Holt, Judge Advocate
General (who has possession ofthe book),
together wrth his report in relation thereto.
ilie memorandum book was first seen
by me about the 26th day of April, 1865,
short!}'after Booth s capture, and a few
hours before his remains reached Wash
ington. It was brought to my house by
Provost Marshal Baker and another per
son, who was, I think, Lieutenant Colonel
Conger.
Ihe book was then examined bv me, in
presence of General Eckert, Assistant
(secretary of War, and was found to con
tain on y the entpies certified by General
Halt, also some photographs of females.
Immediately preceding the entries some
pages appeared to have been cut out, but
there was nothing indicating wliat had
been written thereon or whether anything
had been written, nor when or by whom
they had been cut out.
Immediately after careful examination
of the book and its contents, it was placed
in the hands of General Eckert, in (ho
same condition as when I first saw it, to be
delivered to the Judge Advocate General,
in whose possession, after its delivery to
him by General Eckert, I am informed and
believe it has continued until the present
time.
The last time I saw the book was some
time last winter. It was then before the
Judiciary Committee of the House of
Representatives, and was, in all respects,
in exactly the same condition as when I
saw it first, without any change or alter
ation so far as I could discover, in its con
tents.
General Eckert reported to 1110 that,
upon receiving the memorandum book
from me, he sealed it up, and locked it up
in his safe, and it continued in bis posses
sion until he delivered it to the Judge Ad
vocate General, and that it was then in
the same condition as when it was brought
to my house by Baker.
Very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
Edwin M. Suanton,
Secretary of War.
To the President.
The following is the copy of the writing
(which was in pencil) found in the diary
taken from the body of J. Wilkes Booth:
Official copy : J. Holt, Judge Advocate
General.
"Te Amo."
April 13-14, Friday, the Ides.
I Until to-day nothing was ever thought
I of sacrificing to our country’s wrongs. For
I six months we had worked to capture.
But our cause being almost lost, something
decisive and great must be done. But its
failure was owing to others who did not
strike for their country with a heart. I
struck boldly, and not as the papers say.
I walked with a firm step through a thou
sand ot his iriends ; was stopped, hut
pushed on. A Colonel was at his side. I
shouted sic semper before I fired. In
jumping broke my leg. 1 passed all his
pickets. Rode sixty miles that night,
with the bone of my leg tearing the flesh
at every jump.
1 can never repent it, though we hated
to kill. Our country owfcd all her troubles
to him, and God simply made me the in
strument of his punishment.
The country is not
April, 1865.
what it was. This forced union is not
what I have loved. I care not what be
comes of mo. I have no desire to outlive
my country. This night (before the deed)
I wrote a long article and left it for one of
the editors of the National Intelligencer,
in which I fully sot forth our reasons for
our proceedings. He or the Gov’r.
Friday, 21.
After being hunted like a dog through
swamps, woods, and last night being
chased by gunboats till T was forced to re
turn wot, cold, and starving, with every
man’s hand against me, T am here in de
spair. And why? For doing what Brutus
was honored for. What made Tell a
Hero? And yet 1 for striking down a
greater tyrant than they ever knew am
looked upon as a common cutthroat. My
action was purer than either of* theirs.
One hoped to be great. The other had
not only his country’s but bis own wrongs
to avenge. I hoped for no gain. I knew
no private wrong. I struck for my country
and that alone. A country that growned
beneath this tyranny and prayed for this
end, and yet now behold the cold hand
they extend to me. God cannot pardon me
if I have done wrong. Yet I cannot
see my wrong except in serving a
degenerate people. The little, the very
little, I left behind to clear my name, the
Government will not allow to be printed.
So ends ail. For my country I have given
up all that makes life sweet and holy,
brought misery upon my family, and am
sure there is no pardon in the Heaven for
me sinoo man condemns me so. I have
only HEARD of what has been done (except
what I did myself), and it fills me with
horror. God, try and forgive me, and
bless iny mother. To-night I will once
more try-the river with t iie intent to cross.
Though 1 have a greater desire and almost
a miud to return to Washington and in a
measure clear my name—which I f'oel I
can do. Ido not repent the blow I struck.
I may before my God, but not to man. 1
think 1 have done well. Though 1 am
abandoned, with the -curse of Cain upon
me, when, if the world knew my heart,
that one blow would have made me great,
though 1 did desire no greatness.
To-night l try to escape these blood
hounds once more. Who, who can read
his fate ? God’s will be done.
I have too great sou! to die like a crim
inal. <), may He, may Ho spare me that,
and lot me die bravoly.
1 bless the or.tiro world. Have never
hated or wronged any one. This last was
not a wrong, unless God deems it so. And
it’s with Ilim to damn or bless me. And
for this brave boy with me, who often
prays (yes, before and since) with a true
and sincere heart, was it crime in him, if
so, why can he pray the same ?
I do not wish to shed a drop of blood,
but “I must fight the course.” ’Tis all
that’s left me.
Upon, a piece of ps.pfcr found in the
diary, and supposed to have been torn from
it, is written the following:
My Boa— ,(piece torn out] forgive me,
but I have some little pride. L cannot
blame you for want of hospitality. You
know your own affairs. I was sick, tired,
with a broken iimb, and in need of medi
cal advice. 1 would tint have turned a
dog from rny door in such a plight. How
ever, you were kind enough to give us
something to eat, for which 1 not only
thank you, but on account of the rebuke
and manner in which to—[pi :ce iurn out],
ft is not the substance, but the way in
which kindness is extended that makes one
happy in the acceptance thereof. The
sauce is meat to ceremony. Meeting were
bare without it. Be kind enough to ac
cept the enclosed $5 (although hard to
spare) for what have rec’d.
Most respectfully, your obedient servant.
REPORT OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.
Bureau of Military Justice, 1 •
May 14, 1867. j
Respectfully returned with the eopy
asked for.
The “diary” purports to be one for
1864, and the leaves cut or torn from it
probably contained entries of that year
aud were thus destroyed by Booth himself.
It is absolutely certain that the diary is, in
ail respects, as it was when it came into
my hands, and Col. Conger, who was
prominent in the pursuit and capture of
Booth, after having carefully examined it
in my presence on yesterday, declared its
condition to bo now precisely the same as
when he took it from Booth s body after
he had been shot—the writing in it being
the same and all which it then contained.
Col, Conger was examined before the
Judiciary Committee of the House of
Representatives to-day.
J. Holt, Judge Advocate Gen’l.
I It is related of the famous Dragonetti,
that after net-forming a most fatiguing solo
; on the double bass, he obstinately refused
: t() obey the call for an encorj. The public
in vain insisted on thesolobeing repeated.
After considerable deliy the Venetian
patriarch of the contralto-basso explained
to the manager, in his own peculiar cos
mopolitan language, “Das I play eneora,
mais si paya eneora ? per Bacco ! Ang
lice —“Well I playencora, but you pay
encore?”) and ten guineas was the penalty
which the encore cost the manage;-.