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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1869.
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Ju. 8. SUaghter, Esq.
In the last issue of the “Lagrange Report
er,” we find the card of the above named gen
tleman, announcing himself as a candidate for
Congress for the 4th Congressional District.
Thfe announcement, we presume, was made in
response to a call from a number of the most
prominent members of the American Party,
residing in the county of Troup. Mr. Slaugh
ter takes high ground against Mr. Buchanan’s
administration, and of course expects to get
the support of all the enemies of the present
national administration. Whether he succeeds
in this, time alone must determine. Col. Gar-
trell will, in all probability, be the nominee
ol the Newnan Democratic Convention by ac
clamation, and with fifteen hundred majority
in his favor, we think our friend Slaughter
will find “Jordan a hard road to travel.”—
That’s his business however, not ours.
Death of Dr. Boyd.
We are pained to be under the necessity of
chronicling the death of Dr. J. D. Boyd, Pro
prietor of the Trout House in this city. He
died of Pneumonia, on Friday, 27th inst. We
learn from Rev. J. Blakely Smith, who is the
brother of Dr. Boyd’s wife, that the deceased
was about 60 years of age; was bora in North
Carolina; united himself with the Baptist
Church in the year 1833, in which commun
ion he lived and died as an exemplary mem
ber. He leaves a disconsolate widow and four
children—three sons and one daughter. Dr.
Boyd was a man of many amiable qualities—
universally beloved by all who knew him, and
his death will be much regretted by many
friends and acquaintances, to whom ho was
much endeared.
The “Trout House” under his management,
lias been constantly growing in public favor,
and we are happy to learn that it will be con
tinued to be conducted by his widow, with the
assistance of Major Nickerson and our friend
“Bill Wiley.” Under this arrangement, the
public need have no fears that, at the “Trout
House,” every thing will be right.
SABBATH REFLECTIONS.
DECREES OF GOD.
“He hath also established them forever and
ever; he hath made a decree which shall not
pass. My counsel shall stand, and I will do
all my pleasure. I have spoken it, I will also
bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will
also do it. In Christ we have obtained an
inheritance, being predestinated according to
1 he purpose of him who worketh all things after
the couuscl of his own will. He hath chosen
us in him before the foundation of the
world.”
Whatever has been, is, or will be, is in ac
cordance with the eternal purpose of God.
The parts of scripture just read are proofs of
this doctrine.
God could not have foreknown everything
unless he had first determined how everything
should come to pass. The decrees of God have
been the subject of much foolish contention,
mainly, liecaus" they cannot be thoroughly
understood. We have no right to ask to under
stand them fully. Our belief once established,
that they are consistent with the character of
God, and we should cease to contend about
what the Bible declares to be purposed from
eternity. If in the spirit, we can say of what
we cannot fully know, “0, the depth of the
riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God—how unsearchable are his judgments and
his ways past finding out,” we would avoid
much perplexity.
There is nothing, which is the subject of in
telligent design, that is not more or less con
nected with decrees. A man designs to build
a house, he decrees how it shall be done. The
house is built. From his fallibility he fails in
accomplishing his whole purpose. God de
creed from eternity to build a world and finish
it off his own way, and govern it his own way;
from his infallibility, he has done just exactly
as he intended. A person not acquainted with
the full purpose of the builder of the above
mentioned house may examine it and condemn
the size and number and appearance of the
rooms of the house and many other things
about it may be enigmas to him and hence lie
condemned. But hr l»e reasonable ought we
not to know the whole mind of the builder,
else how can we be prepared to judge arightj?
If the builder does not tell him, the why and
the how of everything, must he of course con
sider all done wrong? How does he know
that he has any right to know the why and
the how of everything that is done. Perhaps,
it is for the interest of the builder to keep
part of his counsels to himself. If so is it any
of the fault-finders business ? So far as the
design of the builder, it appears to be good,
this should favor the presumption, that what
is not seen would be good if it could be seen.
So with God’s world anditsaccompauiments.
It is built and governed. What we know of
it, teaches us that it is good. Its machinery
works well, self-moving, why not find fault
with that, because it is a secret. He has de
creed that this world shall roll around tremen-
dendous fast and yet man walks upon it, to
do his desires, unconscious of its motion and
apparently ignorant, that he is fated to ride
in such a fine carriage at such inconceiva
ble rate. He has also purposed from eternity,
that a part of the beings, he has placed in
this carriage, shall travel the road to eternal
death and a part to eternal life and yet they
all ride on unconscious of their doom, each
feeling that he can take either road, when
ever he chooses.
How this predestination is in agreement with
our consciousness of freedom in action, we
cannot see and hence shall not attempt to ex
plain.
This is one part of the divine economy that
has not been explained. This is one of the
divine secrets, which it is folly to pry into.
We believe God has shaped our course and
yet we are continually acting as thorough
we were the architect our own fortune.—
The Bible tells us God’s decrees are eternal,
immutable, special, particular, and it also tells
us to “work out our salvation with fear
and trembling.” It calls upon all men
to repent, and yet it says, that from
eternity, it is certain that some shall be lost.
We believe the Bible This keeps us from
calling such doctrine inconsistent; It is
above and beyond reason. It is matter for
faith. Man lias his secrets and why not God
his ? We cling to the doctrine yet we cannot
explain it. It is the sheet-anchor of the
hoping heart. If it is rejected, in the words
of another, “The atonement of Jesus is made
precarious, the work the spirit uncertain, sal
vation doubtful, faith void, the promise of
none effect and the hope of eternal life is
made to depend on the *will and powers of
weak and vile sinners, instead of the grace
and truth of God.
Yet in every age men of corrupt minds void
of truth have opposed this doctrine of ever
lasting love an J eternal purpose. It has been
said as an objection, if God purposed every
thing he is the author of sin, supposing he is,
what then ? why, he has done something we
cannot comprehend. That is all we cannot
prove it unworthy of him, Why not be the
author of pin, as well as po create one vessel
unto honor and another unto dishonor ? Place
the author of sin on one side of an equation and
the per milter qf sin on the other, and how much
does there lack of being an eqnilibrum. One
sounds a little the worst. “God hath mercy
on whom he will he have mercy and whom
he will he hanleneth. I make peace and
create evil. I have made the earth, and cre
ated man upon it. I will direct all his ways.”
God is upheld by most in his conduct, in cau
sing natural evil, why not as well cause moral
evil. Does he permitmatiiral evil. The par
ents of him that was bora blind were not
blamed, but it was, that the glory of God
might be made manifest. Why not make
some, for his glory, to be bom spiritally blind
as well as physically ? Who made the serpent
that ruined Eve ?
So far as we are able to judge, all the con
tention, that has arisen, about God’s being
the author of sin, or permitter of sin, is a
mere logomachy. Those who choose “permits
gays Hopkins, do represent God as sin,
willing that sin should take place, or, on
the whole, preferring and choosing that it
should exist, rather than not. And this, as
has been shown, implies all that is intended
by his being the origin and cause of sin.
Permitting sin, is too soft a phrase. It
gives too much to the will of man. For God
doeth according to his will, in the army of
heaven and among the inhabitants of the
earth. What God wills he is the author of
To permit a crime, which one can easily hin
der renders one particeps criminis.
If it is a crime to be the author of sin, it is
equally a crime to permit it. Why was the infi
nitely, holy and just God, the author of sin ?
This iB another of the secret^in his doings
that he has not yet disclosed. It does not ex
plain the matter at all to say, he did it for the
greatest flood. It is by faith we are saved
from shipwreck when we come to such things
as these. ^ V. 1
Rufus Choate on Religion*
The Hon. Rufus Choate made a characteris
tic speech a few days since, in Boston, on the
occasion of the silver anniversary of the pas
torate of the Rev. Nehemiali Adams, in the
Essex street Orthdox Congregational Church.
After expressing himself regarding the nature
of the creed he professed, he inquired with
equal brilliance of language and pertinence of
thought:
And now, is there anything, my friends, in
all this, which if incompatible, in any degree,
vyth the warmest and most generous and large
and liberal and general culture, with the
warmest heart, with the mo-t expansive
and hopeful philanthropy, with the most
tolerant, most cheerful, most charitable love
of man ? Do we not all hold that outside of
this special, authoritative, written revelation
thus promulgated, collateral with it, consis
tent with it, the creation of the same nature,
which we may with greater propriety expose,
and which we may„very wisely and fitly study
and enjoy ? Into that system are we forbidden
to pry, lest we become, or be in danger of Ire-
coming Atheists, Deists, Pantheists, or Dille-
tanti, or Epicurean ? What is there to hinder
us from walking consistently with our faith,
and the preaching which every Sunday we
are so privileged to listen ? What is there to
hinder us from walking on the shore
of the great ocean of general truth and
gathering up here and there one of its peb
bles, andjlistening here and thereto the music
of one of its shells ? What is there to hinder
us from looking at the natural revelation
that shall bo true hereafter ? What is there
in all this to prevent us in trying to open, if
we can open, that clasped volume of that el
der, if it may be that obscure, Scripture ?—
What is there to hinder us from studying the
science of the stars from going luck with the
geologist to the birthday of real creation, and
thus tracing the line through the vestiges of
a real and true creation down to the later and
great i>eriod of time when the morning stars
sang together, exulting over this rising ball ?
What is there to hinder us, If we dare to do
it, from going down with chemists and physi
ologists to the very chambers of existence, and
trying thence to trace, if we may, the faint
lines by which matter rose to vitality, and vi
tality welled up first to animals, and then to
man ? What is there to prevent us from try
ing to trace the footsteps of God in history,
from reading his law in the States, in the
principles of morals, and in the science of gov
ernment. His love in the science of govern
ments. His love in the happiness of all the
families of the human race in animals, and
tn man. His retribntious in the judgments
that are * ‘abroad in all the earth ?’ ’ Is there
anything to hinder us in the faith we hold,
from indulging the implanted sem-e of beauty
in tracing the last tracks of a summer eve, or
the first faint flush that precedes or follows
'-nous rising of the morning? Because
we happen to believe that a written revelation
is authorative upon every man, and that
there is contained in it, distinctly and ex
pressly, the expression of the need of recon
ciliation—is there anything in all this, let me
ask you, my friends, which should hinder us
from thying to explore the spirit of Plato,
from admiring the supremacy of mind,
which is at last the inspiration of the Almigh
ty, that gives you understanding, in such an
iutellect as that of Newton ; from looking at
the camp fires, as they glitter on the plains of
Troy, from standing on the battlements of
Heaven with Milton: from standing by the
side of Macbeth, sympathizing with, or at
least appreciating something of the compunc
tion and horror that followed the murder of
his friend, and host, and king, from
going out without with old Lear, grey hair
streaming, and throat choking and heart
bursting with a sense of Alia ingratitude from
standing by the side of Othello, when he
takes the life of all that he loves best in this
world “not for hate, but all for honor;’ ’ from
admiring and saddening to see how the fond
and deep and delicate spirit of Hamlet becomes
oppressed and maddened by the terrible dis
covery, by the sense of duty not entirely clear
by the conflict of emotions, and by the shrink
ing dread of that life to come, as if he saw a
hand we could not see, and heard a voice wc
could not not hear? Do you think that Agassiz
that Everett, each transcendent in his own
department of genius, has became so because
he held, or did not hold a specific foith ? Be
cause you believe the Old Testament, as well
as the new, cannot you read a Classic in the
last and best edition, if you know how to read
it ? Did poor, rich Cowper think them in
compatible, one with another, when for so
many yea's he soothed that burning brow and
stayed that fainting reason, and turned back
those dakk billow- that threatened to over
whelm him, by his translation of the Illiad
and Odyssey ? What did he say of this incom
patibility himself ? ‘ ‘Learning has borne such
fruit on all her branches, piety has found true
friends in the friends of science, even prayer
has flowed from lips wet with Castilian dews.
fST* A dispatch from St. Louis, of May 23d,
says:
A private letter states that the starving
Pike’s Peak emigrants captured an outward
bound train, near O’Fallon’s Bluff. D. C.
Oaks, the conductor, was killed.
Griffith, the posimaster at Auraria, has been
hung.
The overland mails from Stockton, of Feb
ruary and March, were driven back from the
crossing at Colorado, by the Mohave Indi
ans.
Another dispatch from same place, and of
same date, says:
The overland mail of the 29th has arrived.
The American residents in Hermosilla and
Sonora have been ordered to leave the cities
under penalty of death.
Mercer University
We are indebted to sundry members of the
Faculty, for copies of a very neat Catalogue of
Mercer University. It shows, in the Collegi
ate Department, 123 students, and in the
Theological, 13—a total of 136. Its Faculty
comprises seven Professors; and, in point of
solid ability and reputation, is unsurpassed by
any in the State. The University has been
very handsomely endowed by the liberality of
the Baptist denomination in Georgia; its
course of study is extensive and thorough ; its
tuition fees low. Although not twenty years
in operation it lias already a prominent posi
tion and an extended sphere of usefulness;
and unquestionably has before it a still more
vigorous and rapid developement.—[Georgia
Telegraph.
The Quickest Trip.—The late trip of the
steamer Vanderbilt is the quickest on record
between England and New York; the distance
being three thousand one hundred and fifteen
miles, and the trip made in nine days and
three hours, apparent time.
The four quickest passages, difference of
time being allowed, compare as follows :
Davs. Htfurs. Minutes.
Baltic, July 8 ’56 9* 16 23
Persia, June 23, ’67.., .9 21 29
Vanderbilt, June 19, '58.9 20 —
Vanderbilt, May 21, ’59. .9 9 26
“Wife, I don't see for my part how they
send letters on them ere wires, without tear
ing them all to pieces.”
“La me, they don’t send the paper : they
just send the wrjtin’ in a fluid state.”'
MY OWIf MOUNTAIN HOME.
BY REV. L. T. DOYAXi.
Oh ! how I do love thee, 1
My own Mountain-Home.
Embowered with flowers,
Which fragrantly lffoom
Around me, wherever
I wander or stray,
’Mid the gloom of the night,
1 Or the radiance of day.
My soul thrills with rapture,.
As the voice of the breeze
Sports wild o’er the mountains,
Or sighs in the trees;
And swells with emotion,
As I hear, far away,
The notes of the wild birds.
So sweet and so gay.
When wearied with straying,
I lay me a-down,
Beneath the blue sky,
On the vine-covered ground,
To hear the sweet voices
Of the silvery rills,
As they sportively leap
Down the mountain and hills.
How SQft sigh the zephyrs,
How fragrant the air,
That fans the brigllt flowers
That bloom o’er me there ?
Oh! I could forever
In ecstacy roam
Amid the wild scenes
Of my own Mountain Home!
I love thee, I love thee,
My own Mountain Home !
Embowered with flowers,
Which fragrantly bloom
Around me wherever
I wander or stray,
’Mid the gloom of the night,
Or the radiance Of dav.
General Washington's first Lore.
A correspondent of the Century, in giving
some reminincences of the old country seat
called “The Cottage,” in Hanover county,
Va., gives an account of Gen. 'Washington’s
suit to and rejection by Mary Cary:
Her father was Wilson Cary, Esq., of “Ce-
lcys,” in the county of Elizabeth City, descen
ded from the noble family of Hunsdon, in En
gland. His relative, Col. Archibald Cary, of
“Ampthili,” in Chesterfield, was athisdeath
the heir apparent to the earldom. The wor
thy old gentleman seems, from all we know
of him, to have been as the Coneys or the
Somersent; and to have thought his family
the noblest in the land. He lived in great
state, with chariot and horses, plate and vel
vet and embroidery—a worthy of the old
school, fully satisfied with the “order of
things,” aud enjoying serenely the good gifts
of Providence. His beautiful daughter was a
great heiress, and had a great many suitors—
the accident which befel one of them has made
her remembered in many books. He was a
young man of very high character, a relative
of Geo. Wm. Fairfax, Esq., who lived at Bel-
voiv, on the Potomac; and here met Miss Ca
ry who came to visit Mrs. Fairfax, her eldest
sister. The young man at ardor characteris
tic of his nature. When Miss Cary went back
home to “Ccleys” on James river, he follow
ed her like a courageous gallant, and laid open
seige to the fair fortress. In the good old
times, however, something more was neces
sary than the consent of the young lady, and
so the youth duly asked a private interview
with the awful old lord of the manor, who
listened to him silently throughout. When
the lover had finished, Mr. Cary rose, made
him a low bow, and said that if this were the
young Mr, Washington’s errand at “Celeys,”
his visit had better terminate; his “daughter
had been accustomed to ride in her own char
iot.” And with this allusion to the younger
son, the interview terminated. Young Wash
ington bowed and turned away, and in
due time married Martha Dandridge Custis,
who “resembled Miss Cary,” saysmy authori
ty, “as much as one twin sister ever did
another.”
But the old tradition does not end here.—
51 any years lied away—Mary Cary was Mrs.
Ambler—and her discharged suitor was the
man who had just received the sword from
Cornwallis at Yorktown; whom the whole
civilized world hailed as the greatest among
the great—“th- foremast man” not only in
America but of “all the world” He passed
through the old metropolis, Williamsburg,
at the head of his victorious troops, and the
people were almost crazy with joy and adora-
tion almost. The vast multitude nearly pre
vented his horse from proceeding—the calm
stature on horseback passed oil serenely. All
at once he perceived at a window or in the
crowd, his old love, Mary. He raised his
sword and saluted her profoundly. Stic
fainted.
In Montgomery.—We cheerfully recommend
Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid to our citizens, and
would urge upon them the propriety of its free
use, in and about all their residences.—[Mont
gomery Advertiser.
IIanemann re-converted to common sense.
—At a meeting of “spiritualists,” an invalid
was brought forward dreadfully afflicted with
ulcerous scrofula, that all the doctors had fail
ed to cure. It was proposed to appeal to the
spirit land for advice, and a Homeopathic phy
sician present, interrogated the departed spir
it of Hanemann as to what remedy should be
taken. Loud and distinct raps, audible to the
whole audience, told off .4 y e r s Cat-ha r-
tic Pills.—[Homer (N. Y.) Whig.
“O Fortune! Fortune! all men calltiiee
fickle.”—-Thus wrote Shakspeare ; and prob
ably in his day the sentiment was well-timed
and appropriate; but in these times, the
“blind goddess” is more disposed to dispense
her favors than in “days of yore.” Those for
tunate persons who have recently received
handsome prizes in the lotteries managed by
WOOD, EDDY & CO., have no reason to ex
claim that fortune is fickle. I!y addressing the
above firm, at Augusta, Ga., or Wilmington,
Del., (who are the successors of the well known
firm of Sam’l Swan & Co.,) and enclosing $10,
$5, or $2,50, for a whole, half, or quarter
ticket in any ot their grand schemes, purcha
sers will be surprised to realize how poor an
estimate Shakspeare had of the character of
the goddess.—[Sunday Mercury.
Gold Digging and Gold Hunting.
It is estimated that we have taken out of
the gold fields of California, over $500,000,000
in gold. This only includes what has been
brought to our Atlantic States, and scattered
by the laws of trade. It may be safely com
puted at $700,000,000—taking the money re
mitted home on private account, and not
brought to light. But it is also said that on
an average this enormous sum has not paid,
to those who dug it, one dollar a day! Who
has drawn the prizes in the great California
Lottery ? Bring your wits to work ; study it
well, and then look at the advertisement of
the Georgia State Lottery, McKINNEY & CO.,
Managers; take your pencil and examine well
the Schemes, and answer the question wheth
er you cannot dig gold at home by your own
fireside, better than to venture in any other
speculation. Whether you have not a gold
mine nearer home. Every one must do, of
course, as he pleases about speculating. Some
people do not wish, and indeed do not find it
necessary to venture for more. They have
enough. It do.es not make any difference what
the sum is. Enough may be a thousand, while
$100,000 is not enough. This depends on cir
cumstances. But happy is the man who has
enough. If he has not enough, however, it
is natural for him to try to get more. If the
chances are not good and fair in this scheme
of the Georgia State Lottery, it must be set to
our ignorance of what those words import.
Immense Contract.
We learn from the official report, that our
old friend A. G-. Murray, of the “American
Union,” has entered into a contract with the
City Council of Griffin to publish the Proceed
ings of Council and the quarterly and annual
reports of its officers, one year, for the sum
of—twenty dollars! The proceedings of the
14th instant occupies about thirty-seven
squares, (nearly two columns and a half of
his issue of the 27tli,) which, at his regular
published rates, would amount to some $17
more than he has agreed to do the whole
year’s printing for. Now, is it any wonder
that the services of newspaper men are held
so cheaply by a portion of the community, op
that so many of them fail in their efforts to
procure even the necessaries of life by mens of
their profession ? Our friend Murray may be
abundantly able to publish his paper and sup
port his family independently of his income
from his paper ; but there are very few oth
ers in the business who are so well off, and he
should have some regard for the interests of
his less fortunate brethren—if he has none for
the respectability of the crafL—and adhere to
the rates he lias pledged himself to. There is
no justice in requiring one individual, or a firm
to pay a specified rate, whilst a deduction of
26, 50 or 100 per cent, is made ip fgyor of sm
other individual, firm or corporation, for the
same class of work. We regard all such con
duct on the part of newspaper proprietors as
the worst species of railing, and can never re
cognize those guilty of it in the light of fair
and honorable craftsmen.—[National Ameri-
r J UE8DAY, MAY81, 1859.
HF* We learn from Mr. C. H. Wallace, that
Dr. J. B. Badger died on the25thofMay,near
Alligator In Florida, aged 67. Mr. Badger
leaves, in this city, a widow and several chil
dren to mourn his loss. V.
Col. H. H. Waters.
As much has been said, in certain quarters,
against this gentleman, as an act of justice to
him, we publish to-day, entire, an article from
the Federal Union in his defence, which we
commend to the perusal of our readers.
[From the Federal Uniqn.]
Gov. Brown, Col. Waters and the
CASSVILLE MEETING.
Some time since an article appeared in the
Confederacy, assailing Gov. Brown for having
appointed Coi. Waters Secretary of the Execu
tive Department, and at the time we did not
think it necessary to pay any attention to the
charges contained in that article. We have
since seen the proceedings of the Cas ville meet
ing, and have noticed several resolutions in
troduced into the meeting by Mr. M- A. Har
den, but which were voted down by the meet
ing. As a portion of the Democratic press of
the State, in accordance with the request of
the meeting, and as a number of the opposi
tion papers, in their eagerness to give currency
to anything calculated to injure the Governor,
have republished the proceedings of the Cags
county meeting, we think it hut justice to state
the facts, as we are informed they exist, so far
as they relate to Col. Waiters and Gov. Brown,
which statement we think the same editors
should publish.
One of the resolutions introduced into that
meeting is in these words:
“Because 5tli, It becomes a deep mystery to
this Convention, and is entirely inconsistent
with our sense of right to fathom the motives
of Joseph E. Brown, or discover the claims of H.
H. Waters to his appointment to the high and
responsible position of Secretary to the Execu
tive Department—(as forcibly urged by
Joseph E. Brown before a respectable Jury of
Cass county, ) had twice runaway from the
State, once taken with him the Poor School
Funds of Cherokee county and converting
them to his own use; who was accused in this
Court House (by the said Brown) of forgery &
wilfully defacing the records of Cherokee
county: who was refused by said Brown a cer
tificate of character to enable him to practice
in the Supreme Court of the State.”
A brief reference to Col. Waters’ past history
and Gov. Brown’s conduct towards him, will
show that this resolution does great injury to
both parties. We are informed that Col Wa
ters, prior to 1845, was practising law in Can
ton, and that he had purchased property and
erected large and valuable mills on the Etowah
river, some 6 miles below Canton, and had al
so built a bridge across the river. These im
provements had involved him in debt, and fail
ing to realize the incomes he had anticipated
from them, he found himself unable to pay his
debts, and a number of suits were commenced
against him. In February 1845, he sold his
property and took what money he could raise
and left the State. This act was done when
he had just passed his nonage, and has been
ever since regarded and characterized by him,
as the great error of his life. To retreive this
error has already' cost him four-teen years of
hard labor, out of the very r prime of his life,
during which time no one can produce a clean
er record. The public can judge of the gene
rosity of the motives of those who now try 7 to
exhume from the grave of the past these mis
steps of early life, and to keep them alive,
when the community have forgiven and al
most forgotten them* Who has never com
mitted an error, especially in youth ? “Bet
him that is without sin cast the first stone,”
but let it not be hurled by the venom of dis
appointed politicians, some of whom would
even violate the sanctity of the grave, if by so
doing, they could affect the popularity of Gov.
Brown.
But to return to our narativc. Col. Wa
ters was absent from the State a little over one
year, during which time, in his efforts to re
gain his lost fortunes, he engaged in other
speculations that proved unfortunate, and
in which he lost what money he had. Thus
perfectly dcstitue, he returned to Cherokee in
1846, determined to work out the money, and
pay his debts, and conduct himself as an hon-
erable man and an upright citizen, aud if pos
sible to raise again where he first had fal
len. The people of the country greatly disap
proved his past course, and for a time with
held their confidence from him. Gov. Brown,
who had then just commenced the practice of
the law, strongly partook of this feeling, and
was decidedly opposed to him. Col. Waters
again commenced the practice of law, and in
1847 applied for admission at the bar of the
Supreme Court, while in session at Cassville.—
In view of his past course, then so recent, the
older members of the bar present refused to
certify him. He then applied to Gov. Brown,
who was the youngest member of the bar then
present, having been but a few months en
gaged in practice; and as the older members
had refused to sign his certificate, he also re
fused. Col. Waters did not despair, or throw
himself away even on account of this severe
rebuke, as many men undoubtedly would; but
on reilection attributing the refusal of the bar
to certify for him to the proper motives, as in
duced by his own former conduct, we are as
sured that the rebuff of that day only caused
him to redouble his efforts to regain by a lau
dable course of conduct, not only the confi
dence of his neighbors, but the respect of the
bar. From that day till this, ( over eleven
years,) he has by his labor supported his fam
ily in respectable manner, and has appliedt
every dollar of the proceeds of his labor no
actually necessary for his family, to the pay
ment of his debts. He is now almost out of
debt, and he applies every dollar of his pres
ent salary, which can be spared from the
maintainance of his family, to the payment of
his debts.
Wheu he left Cherokee county, in 1845, he
was County Treasurer; and a ballance appear
ing against him on the books, a fi. fa. was is
sued against him as Couuty Treasurer, in his
absence, lor such balance- On his return to
the couuty, and on his getting, through a
committee of Grand Jury, [ which at his re
quest had been appointed for the special pur
pose, ] a settlement of the demands of the
county, there was found to he due by him to
the county less than one half of the amount
for which the fi. fa. had been issued; which a-
mount he has paid in full and with interest;
he, also, paid on his own proposition all,
Court costs and refunded to the Inferior Court
an Attorney’s fee of $50, which had been in
curred by the county in the prosecution of the
claim against him. Is it probable his present
accusers would have done any more than
this ?
The people of Cherokee county, who have
watched his course and approved his honora
ble conduct for years, have since taken him
up and elected him to an honorable and re
sponsible office in the county, by a very deci
ded vote, at a general election, which was
strongly contested, and against a popular op
ponent. This office (Justice of the Inferior
Court,) he held when Gov. Brown was elected
to his present position. The Masonic Frater
nity have a very respectable Lodge in Canton.
They received him as a member some years,
since, most of them having been his acquaint
ances and neighbors and having known him
through evil as well as good report: and he is
now in good standing as a member of that
honorable Fraternity.
lender these circumstances, did Gov. Brown
do wrong in appointing Col. Waters one of his
Secretaries ? No one denies his competency.
He is industrious, laborious, and performs his
official duties with as much facility as any per
son could, Is it consistent with the theory of
our government, the religion of the Bible, or
with common sense to say that no reforma
tion can ever atone for an error once commit
ted ? If so, Gov. Brown was wrong to en
courage reformation or to countenance ope,
who, in his early days, had made a misstep ip
pecuniary matters, and who, in maturer years
has by his talents and uprightness reinstated
himself in the confidence and respect of all
who know him best. Of the accusers we
would ask, is there no limit to punishment ?
will vengeance never sleep ? Is not fourteen
years probation long enough ?
A statement of the facts will also show the
impropriety of the charge contained in the
above resolution to the effect that Gov. Brown
had charged Col. Waters, in the Court House
in Cassville, with forgery and with having de
faced the records of Cherokee county. As to
that charge, we are informed the facts are sub
stantially as follows: Col. Waters married a
daughter of the late Dr. John Brewster of
Cherokee county, who was formerly Surveyor
General of this State. Soon after his mar
riage, Dr. Brewster died, and Mrs. Louisa
Brewster, his widow, became his administra-
tix. The estate was something debt, and Mrs.
B., as administratix, after due and legal no
tice published in a public gazette, of her in
tention, applied to til 6 Court of Ordinary of
Cherokee poupty, for leave to sell several lots
of land belonging to tlie estate, but pot
connected with the home plantation, to raise
money to pay these debts. The Court gran
ted the order. One of the lots embraced in
the application for leave to sell, was known
as the Mineral Springs lot, in Cass county,
now known as Rowland’s springs. The lots'
embraced in the order, including the Mineral
Springs lot, were then. advertised for sale by
Mrs. B., as administratix. The /Mineral
Springs tot was exposed to sMe m" Cassville, in
a public sale day. Col. Samuel Smith, for
merly a representative in the legislature from
Cass county, attended the sale, and stated
to the bidders that he represented Mrs. Brew-
ster, and that he was instructed not to permit
the lot to sell less than $300. With this
statement, Col. Smith, in behalf of the ad
ministratrix, bid for the lot ;and, as none hid
the $300, it was knocked offtohim. He then
stated that he would hang up his bid to be
transferred to any one who would pay $300
for the lot; and, with the advice of Col.
Smith, visited Mrs. Brewster, made the trade
with her and paid her the money. He after
wards took a deed from her to the lot, which
was made by her individually, and not in
representative character. He then improved
the lot till it was worth some ten or fifteen
thousand dollars.
After some years Mrs. Brewster obtained
another order from the Court of Ordinary,
and again advertised the lot for sale. Col.
Waters was then in California, whither he had
gone with the consent of his creditors, openly
and above board, and took no part in the liti
gation which followed. Maj. Rowland em
ployed Col. Aikin and Col. Brown, (now Gov.
B,) as his counsel; and filed a bill in equity in
Cass Superior Court to enjoin the sale and
quiet his title. In Ithis litigation it became
important for Maj. Rowland to shew an order
of ths Court of Cherokee couuty authorizing
the sale at the time^the lot was knocked off
to Col. Smith. Upon examination of the
Court of Ordinary of Cherokee county an order
was found which contained all the other num
bers of lots embraced in Mrs. Brewster’s no
tice of application for leave to sell, except the
Mineral Springs lot; and at the place on the
face of the record where this number should
have appeared there was a blank and an era
sure. Maj. Rowland and his counsel, and
others who examined it, were of the opinion
that the number of the Mineral Springs lot
ha<l been in the record and had been erased,
and the inference was natural, without expla
nation, that some one of the legatees, or some
interested party, did it.
The original book of records was taken to
Cassville and on the trial was tendered in
evidence. It was objected to by the opposing
counsel as irrelevant, to the issue, because it
nowhere contained an order to sell this lot,
and the number of the lot nowhere appeared
upon it. Col. Aikin and Col. Brown insisted
before the court in the hearing of the jury
that the record book was admissible; and
stated that they expected to satisfy the minds
of the jury by the production of the original
advertisement and by other circumstances,
that the order as granted by the Court of Or
dinary, did contain this number, and that it
had been erased; that Col. Waters lived in the
town where the records were kept and was a
legatee, and that he or some other inter
ested party did it. And to make the state
ment have as much weight with the jury as
possible, each in his argument referred to the
fact that Col. Waters had acted badly with his
creditors only then a short time previously,
and had left the county. They insisted that
such an erasure if made willfully and fraudu
lently, was no better than forgery.
The court admitted the hook in evidence,
and when the counsel for Rowland closed
their testimony, the counsel of the heirs of
Brewster introduced a witness, Mr. Posey
Maddox, Esq., who was Clerk of the Court of
Ordinary when the order was granted contain
ing the erasure, and who made the record;
who swore in substance, that when the order
was drawn up by Col. Waters as counsel for
Mrs. Brewster, the paper containing the ad
vertisement was not before him, and that
neither he nor Waters recollected the numbers
of the Mineral Springs lot, as it lay in another
county ; that they recollected the numbers of
the lots in Cherokee, and inserted them in
the order, and that Col, Waters left a blank
to bo filled with the number of the Min
eral Springs lot, whenever ascertained:
that the Court granted the order in this
shape and gave Col. Waters leave to fill
the blank with the number wheu known ;
that some days after when he was Clerk went
to record the order, lie wrote till he came to
the blank, and then commenced writing the
word after the blank without leaving any
blank on the record, and that he then thought
of the necessity^of leaving a blank to be, filled
by the number of the lot on the record; that
that he took his knife and erased the last
word he had written and left a blank space
where the erasure was made to be filled with
the number, and that he never afterwards
learned the number, or indeed thought fur
ther about it, and it was never filled in. This
explained the erasure and showed that no one
had been guilty of any offence in making it as
Maj. Rowland and his counsel and indeed all
believed, till Mr. Maddox, who is a man of
irreproachable character, had given in his tes
timony.
Upon this state of facts, the court was of
the opinion that the order had been granted
by the Court of Ordinary of Cherokee count} 7 ,
though the number was not at the time insert
ed in the order, and that as Maj. Rowland had
paid what was proven to have been the full
value of the lot at the time of iiis purchase,
and the money paid by him had been applied
in payment of the debts of the estate of Dr.
Brewster, he was entitled to recover and the
jury found for Rowland.
These we are informed are substantially the
facts in this case, which was tried some six or
seven years ago. We think it very clear that
Gov. Brown did nothing more than his duty
as counsel, and that no criminality attached
to Col, Waters. We think the enemies of
Gov. Bown are hard pressed for charges against
him wheD they arc driven to such expedients
as the one here refereed to. ’Die best they
can do is to say that one of his Secretary act
ed amiss over fourteen years ago, when he
was quite a young man, though they can al
lege nothing against him within the last thir
teen years, only that he has worked li ard to
pay his debts, which it was once thought im
possible for him to pay, and that by hard la
bor he is now almost out of debt. We think
there are other men in the world who
might profit by his example in ‘this particu
lar.
This statement we have made, from facts
furnished us by those who ought to be famil
iar witli them. We publish it as an act of
justice to Gov. Brown and to Col. Waters,
•just as we would for any man or men whom we
believed had suffered unjustly.
Virginia Elections.
Richmond, Va., May 28.—Nothing has yet
been received to authorize a reliable state
ment as to the result of the election for Gov
ernor. Estimates, however, on last night,
place Letcher’s democratic majority between
two and three thousand.
Enough is known to render it certain that
the following named gentlemen have been re
elected in their respective Congressional Dis
tricts :—1st, M. R. Garnett; 2nd, John L.
Wilson ; 4th, Wm. 0. Goode ; 5th, Thos. S.
Bocock; 7th, Wm. Smith ; 10th, Shereard
Clemens; 11th, A. G. Jenkins; 12th, H. A.
Edmundson. »
In the 3d District the returns received indi
cate a doubt as to the result between Mr. Cas-
kie and Mr. Dejarnette, both of ■whom are
democrats.
In the 6th district, Mr. Leake, an Indepen
dent candidate, is probably elected over liis
•democratic competitor, Mr. Powell.
In the 8th district, Mr. Botelar of tfie oppo
sition, defeats Mr. Faulkner, the regular dem
ocratic nominee.
In the 9th district, (formerly John Letcher’s)
Skinner, democrat, is elected over Harris, an
independent candidate.
In the 13th district, Floyd, democrat, is
elected.
Washington, May 28.—The returns of the
Virginia election come in slow. The Demo
crats claim from 5,000 to 8,000 majority for
Letcher. The opposition say that the majori
ty will be only three to five thousand.
There are only about sixty counties beard
from so far.
Homicide by a Negro.
We learn, by a letter from a friend in Tal-
botton, Talbot county, that a couple of neg
roes, belonging respectively to Cel. Jack
Brown and Monroe Dixon, Esq., got into an
affray on the 16th inst., and that Col. B.’s
boy stabbed the other so severely that he died
on the 18th. The murderer was at large at
last accounts.— Upson Pilot.
Thoughts on Paper.
The paper having the largest Circulation.—
The paper of Tobacco,
Paper for the Roughs.—Sand Paper.
Paper containing many Fine Points.—The
paper of Needles.
Ruled Paper.—The French Press.
The Paper that is full of Rows.—The Paper
of Pins. 1
Spiritnalist’s Paper.—(W)rapping Paper.
Papers illustrated with Cuts. —Editorial Ex
changes.
Drawing paper.—The Dentist’s bill.
The favorite paper on Railroads.—Car-pot
paper.
A taking paper.—Sheriff's Warrant.
The paper that most resembles the Reader.
—’ Tis-iou—Tissue-Paper,
IIP Among the Roman citizens, so much
importance was attached to the art of swim
ming, that it wus one of the first accomplish
ments taught to children.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1859.
Third Wednesday In June.
Tliis is the day, ami Milledgeville the place,
agreed upon by the Democratic Executive
Committee, for the meeting of the next Demo
cratic State Convention.
First Tuesday In June.
This is the day, and Newnan the place
agreed upon for the meeting of the next Dem
ocratic Congressional Convention, for the
fourth District .
CAMPBELL COUNTY.
A meeting of the Democracy of Campbell,
will be held in the Court Honse, on the 1st
Tuesday of July, for the purpose of organiza
tion in reference to the October election. All
are requested to come and participate in the
meeting—a full attendance being desired.
May 4th, 1859. MANY DEMOCRATS.
HENRY COUNTY DEMOCRACY.
The Democracy of Henry County are request
ed to meet at the Court House in McDonough,
on the fourth Saturday of this month, 28tli
inst., at 11 o’clock, A. M., for the purpose of
appointing delegates to the Congressional Con
vention to be held in Newnan on the first
Tuesday in June next.
Gov. Brown addressed the Sunday School
Children of Savannah, on last Sabbath, at
Trinity Church. V.
And still they Come !—$30,000 Again,
On Saturday last Col. Benj. May, Treasurer
of the State Road, remitted to the State Trea
sury thirty six thousand dollars, nett earn
ings of the Road for the month ol May.
Internal Improvement Convention.
We suggest that a meeting of our citizens
he held at an early day, to make suitable ar
rangements for the Internal Improvement
Convention, proposed to be held in this city
on the 1st Wednesday in August next.
“Eyes Open.”
We publish to-day, an article under the
above caption, which we find in the Augusta
Constitutionalist. It narrates incidents which
illustrate in a very strong light, the power of
the Gospel, when faithfully and honestly
preached, and the kindnesS of womunt heart.
There are many such examples to le found in
the conduct of the female sex, especially
among those who are the true professors of
genuine religion. Such a woman is a “jewel
of priceless value.”
“Will you have the Democracy and Union,
or Black Republicanism, as embodied in Sena
tor Seward, and dismemberment ? Disaffected
Democrats and other shrewd politicians will
endeavor to divert the minds of the people
from this issue; but it is an inevitable one and
every man who loves his country should at
once prepare to meet it.—[N. Y. News.
Let the above be seriously considered. We
are on the verge of Disunion. Yet the South
seems to be calm and even the Opposition
(that nameless party) is doing its best to beat
the only party that can save the Union. Has
the South in the language of Banks, deter
mined to “let the Union slide ?” If so, defeat
the Democracy and the work will be done. —
The South united may not be able to stay in the
Union and save her honor, much less her
every right. The South divided can do neither.
We are now in a minority. Minorities to ac
complish anything good and great must agree.
If we cannot agree in the Union, can we
unite out of it ? We would rejoice to see a
united South'. “United we stand, divided we
fall.” With a unity of interest can we have
a unity of action ? * V.
Redaction.
The subject of reducing the number of Sen
ators and Representatives in the Legislature
of Georgia, has for some time past, been the
theme of many newspaper writers, as well as
of primary assemblies of the people in several
localities. We have thus far forborne to ex
press our views upon this question. As the
time is near at hand when candidates for the
State Legislature, will be in the field, and this
subject will, in all probability, enter into the
canvass of the election, to some extent at least,
it may not be amiss for us to say a word or
two in reference to this question. That our
Legislative bodies are becoming too ponderous
for efficient action, calm deliberation, and wise
legislation, is a fact which none, wc think, can
successfully deny. A similar inconvenience
existed prior to the year 1843, when the Sen
ate was reduced one half by forming Senatori
al Districts composed of two counties each.—
The House of Representatives was reduced to
130 members ; 37 counties had two members,
and the remaining counties each having only
one. 'rhis state of things worked very well
for eight or ten years. During this time, our
Senate was composed mostly of men of age,
experience and wisdom. The House also con
tained a good number of efficient and talented
members. The sessions of the Legislature,
we believe, were not protracted beyond two
months, but the people became dissatisfied
with this arrangement, and returned to the
old plan, which is the one now in existence,
giving to each county one Senator, and retain
ing the new plan so far as tlie House of Rep
resentatives is concerned. In 1853, the first
session was held under the present arrrange-
ment, and was protracted, if we mistake not,
nearly four months. The same was the case
at the succeeding session, when the present
system of annual meetings went into opera
tion. This succinct account of how the num
ber of members affects the length of the ses
sions of the Legislature, will serve to show
the advantages of a small deliberative body
over a large one, in point of efficiency in ac
tion. As regards the question of expense, the
advantages are equally or more glaring. Re
duce the number one half, this will reduce the
time one half, aud three fourths of the expen
ses of our State Legislature will be saved, which
is no inconsiderable item. This view of the
subject, according to our judgment, settles the
question as to the necessity of reduction. How
this is to be effected, and do justice to all the
people of the State, is a problem more difficult
to solve. We have no hopes of ever seeing a
plan adopted that will bear upon its face the
semblance of perfect equality. Nevertheless,
we believe an arrangement, by proper effort,
can he effected, which will approach much
nearer to equality than the present, and avoid
many of its evils and inconveniences. We ex
pect to refer to this subject again as occasion
may require, during the approaching cam
paign. Various plans will, doubtless, be sug
gested by the political economists aud states
men of the day. We shall speak of them as
our judgment may dictate, and govern our
self accordingly.
Meeting of tlie Board of Directors of the
Georgia Air Line Railroad.
Messrs. Editors :—Soon after it was ascer
tained that our city authorities had refused to
co-operate with the Georgia Air Line Railroad
Company in carrying forward tne work, some
of the country directors desired that a meet
ing of the Board should take place. A meet-
ting was accordingly appointed to be held at
Gainsvillc on the 15tli of June. On receiv
ing notice of the same, the Hall county direc
tors requested to take place in Atlanta on tlie
I7th which request lias been acceded to and
the meeting will therefore take place in this
this city on Friday the 17th day of June. The
desire for the meeting to take place in the
city seems to lie to afford the country direc
tors an opportunity to become acquainted more
fully with the feelings and determination of
the people of Atlanta in regard to this enter
prise.
For the sake, therefore, Messrs. Editors, of
affording the Directors of the Company, a fa
vorably opportunity of knowing the feelings
of our people on this matter, we beg leave to
suggest, that the citizens of Atlanta be re
quested to meet at the City Hall on the 17th
and to take such action in regard to this work
as may be deemed proper, and which occa
sion will afford an opportunity for the citizens
to hear from the country directors such infor
mation as they may be prepared to impart.
FRIENDS OF THE MEASURE.
Railroad* iu
“Wo are indebted” says ‘the Cincinnati
Times, to Auditor Mathews for a copy of the
second annual report of the Commissioners of
Statistics to the General Assembly of Ohio.—
The law in relation to statistics was passed
April 12th, 1858, and provides that the As
sessors in the different counties should return
to the Commissioner or Statistics through the
Auditor of State, their assessments. We copy
the following important statistics
We give that portion relating to Railroads :
RAILROADS.
The Railroad exhibit in the State is as fol
lows : Length 3,948. The capital stock sub
scribed and paid amounts to $70,638,215. The
aggregate cost, $t55,705,807. The number
miles run foots up 6,645,843, while the aver
age number of miles to each locomotive, is
14,000.
The aggregate of the different roads con
sists in first mortgage of 30,590,550; second
mortgage, $17,235,250 ; third mortgage, $8,-
129, 800 ; floating debts, including all debts
not secured by mortgage on the road $13,332,-
395- Aggregate debt, 85,600,176. Number
of passengers cairied over the roads, 1,010,725.
Number carried over a part of the road, 2,-
341,415. Tons of freight carried, 2‘144,839.
Gross receipts, $13,903,225. Net receipts,
$5,204,582. Number of locomotives, 495.—
Cords of wood consumed, 209,416. Number
of employees, 5,298. Number of passenger
cars, 395. Number of freight cars, 6,435.
Now, when it is borne in mind that Geor
gia with one-fourtli more territory than Ohio,
and nearly as large a population, and with
commercial relations similar to Ohio, and
that Georgia has only about 1200 miles of
Railroad against 3948 miles in Ohio, which
have cost about $25,000,000 against $154,-
705,307 in Ohio, it cannot he said that Geor
gia has a large show of Railroads as yet or
that the State cannot be vastly benefitted by a
live hundred miles more. V.
BY JOHH O. 8A
X*.
“Good tack is all *7 the ancient
Proverb prj.
[communicated.]
Tlie Bar of Jonesboro’.
Messrs. Editors: Permit me through your
columns, to say, the legal gentlemen of this
place, viz: Messrs. Johnson & Arnold, Mc
Bride & Fears, and J. V. Woodson, (though
generally young men) are setting an example
worthy of imitation by the bar throughout the
country. They are emphatically temperance
men, and, moreover, all are now engaged in
the Sabbath School; supporting the republi
can institutions of their country, by commenc
ing at the proper point; instilling, by precept
and example, the principles of a sound moral
ity in the minds of the young, which alone is
the basis of our democratic institutions.
The citizens of Clayton county may well be
proud of their Lawyers, and point the “Fra
ternity” to their example, and say 7 , “go and
do likewise.” Surely, men at a distance need
not fear to entrust business in the hands of
such men. PROTEUS.
May 30th, 1859.
For the Intelligencer.
Sad Memories.
Have you ever risen from a sleepless couch,
when you felt that all, beside yourself, were
wandering in dream-land, and looked from
your window at tlie soft sad moonlight, as it
came glistening and sparkling through the
smooth green leaves of the tall yard trees, and
fell with a calm and holy radiance all over and
around you ; and, while there, did you think
how, long, long ago, you sat beneath those
same old trees with the “loved ones” near to
talk to, amuse and instruct you, or laugh at
your innocent gambols, and seem pleased when
your joyfulness burst forth in merry peals of
laughter or short snatches of songs ? Oh ! too
well do I remember it, but where are they
now? What has become of all those “loved
ones ?’ ’ Two bold, adventurous brothers have
crossed the briny deep; another brother, and
a sweet, laughter-loving sister have left our
little band, and made homes of their own,
while one, our mother, lies all alone in the
quiet grove, with her pale, white hands meek
ly folded above her still heart, that heart that
once throbbed with love and pride for us ; but
never, since death closed her dark, beautiful
eyes, so expressive of truth and kindness, am
I look at the moon’s hazy, silvery light, with
out thinking of the dreary mound that hides
her from my sight. Oil, mother! dear moth
er ! I would that thou couldst know how I
love and bless thy memory, and how I have
learned to appreciate, the greatest of all, a
mother’s love. In thy fondness for thy child,
thou hast reared me too tenderly ; thou didst
shield me from all the cares and storms of life,
and now thou art gone, I am compelled to
quaff the bitter cup of woe and sorrow, alone,
and without sympathy, until ray heart aches
and longs to lie beside thee in thy cold and
narrow bed. Have you lost a mother ? and
have you felt that sickness of heart that in
creases with time, steal over you, when the
world, the hasty world, looks coldly upon you ?
and have you turned to hide your grief in a
mother’s bosom, aud found no mother there; and
then did the great sobs rise in your throat,
and stay there until your grieved heart was
well nigh bursting ? Have you felt all this ?
Then I know that when you gaze out upon a
lovely moonlight night, and watch the tall,
ghostly shadows fall across the white yard,
and cause the past, the bitter past, to well up
in your heart, till nothing can stifle its pain ;
then I know you have felt how sadly the moon
shines, when its rays fall upon a mother’s grave.
ZOE.
General News.
The steamship Jura and Saxonia had arriv
ed out.
There had been no battles fought, so far as
was known up to the time of tlie sailing of the
New York.
The Austrians were negotiating to obtain a
loan of seventy-live millions of pounds ster
ling.
The headquarters of Emperor Napoleon
was at Alessandria.
There were many failures reported in the
London Stock Exchange.
The ship Thames, from Savannah, lias been
partially burnt in tlie dock at Liverpool.—
The fire was confined in the cotton in the
after lower hold.
Many failures are reported to have occurred
on the continent.
Cresswell Co., of Birmingham, have fail
ed.
At London, on the 15th inst., French
red wheat had advanced from three to four
shillings during the previous week.
Queen Victoria reviewed the English troops
at Alderxliolt, on the 16th.
Count Persigny, tlie new French minister,
arrived at London on the 14th.
Prince Gortschakoft had also arrived at the
seat of his mission.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times, says that confidence in the success of
the army in Italy is so great that the prep
arations will soon bo made at Notre Dame fora
Te Drum of thanksgiving for the great victory
expected to be announced next week.
All the officers of the Regiment of Sappers,,
to be commanded by Prince Napoleon, left
Paris on tlie 14th, for Toulon.
A train siege of artilery had also left for It
aly.
It was rumored that arms had been sent to
Hungary, and that Hungarians abroad were
actively employed in fomenting an insurrec
tion in their countrv.
Opposition to tlie Democracy.
Tlie opposition to tlie Democracy sail under
a variety of names in different sections of the
country. It Massachusets they are Jefferson
ian-Ameriauis republicans ; in Missouri, free
democrats ; in Virginia, whigs ; in Maryland,
know-nothings; in California, Broderick men;
in Pennsylvania, the peoples party ; and in
Kentucky, Tennessee, and some of the other
southern States, where proper names have all
been used up on niggers, they call tliemseltes
simply the opposition. Here is material lor
fusion.—[ Newark (N, J.) Jouunal.
The highest and most characteristic glory of
all earthly beauty is to make us aspire to a
hoavenly one, and a woman is great in pro
portion to the ideal she suggests.
Love, while it warms the heart and fire*
the imagination, enlightens the mind and pu
rifies the sonls it never emaculates it; it not
only inspire? noble thoughts, hut stimulates
to great and noble deeds.
Love, like any true, noble, holy feeling that
warms expands apd ennobles the soul, is its own
exceeding great loss and being an infinite and
heavenly nature, «»a blessing independent of pos-
Trust not the lazy lesson that it teaches
For, as it Btands, the musty maxim fog,
That lock is something, were a truer ator-
And in life’s mingled game of skill amlf"
The cards that win the stake of wcaltli or ’
Arc Genius, Patience, Perseverance. Piu^
To borrow still another illustration.
A trifle more specific and precise—
Small chance has luck to guide tlie operat
Where cunning Wit has loaded all tfo d -° n |
The real secret of the certain winner
Against the plottings of malicious Fate
Learn from the story of a gaming sinner’
Whose frank confession I will i lero
“In this business, as in any other
By which a chap an honest living earns
You don’t get aU the science from y 0Ur m '
Bdt as you foller it, you lives and learn., ^
Aud I, from being much behind the curtain
And getting often very badly stuck ’
Finds out at last there’s nothing so uncertai
As trusting cards and everything to i UC jf,
So now, you which nat’rally enchances
The faith in Fortune that 1 used to feel
I takes good care to regulate the chances
Aud always ha3 a finger in the deal - ’
TELEGRAPHlo
[Office in the Intelligencer Building ] '
[Reported expressly pok tiie I.VTKuj (itvct
Latest News from Virginia
Our Telegraph, yesterday evening, L
ces the fact that Letcher’s major tv'i» -!**'
J 0,(]
Fight with the Camanches.
St. Louis, May 30.—Intelligence has 1
received here that Major Van Dorn but
a severe fight with the Camanches at th r*
of the Arkansas. There were forty
killed, besides thirty-six of them taken ■
ners. Only three soldiers of Maj. Ya n
command were injured. ‘ 0It !
®ajoritt
Virginia Election.
Richmond, May 29.— Ninety-five
liavebeen heard from, and Letcher’:,
for Governor is four hundred andTZ!/
eight. There are forty-eight counties yeti'
hear from, which gave Wise two thon*L3
and forty majority.
Latest Dispatch.—One hundred and eta
counties heard from. Letcher’s majoritr?
thirty-five. The remaining thirty-five^
ties gave Wise one thousand four hnndrrt
and thirty-nine majority.
•‘Eyes Open.”
“Our minister said in his sermon last ever
ing,” said Mrs. Beach, the wife of a prosne
ous wholesale dry goods merchant on ilarU
street, as she dusted her mantel of porcelain
and marble, on Monday “that he who want!
to do good must keep a constant look out f
opportunities; that God does not tind 1 *
work, and bring it ready fitied and prepare,!
to the hand ; but spreads tlie world before®
and we are to walkthrough it as Christ aid 1
tlie apostles did, with ‘eyes open,’ lookin' 7 !,
the sick and the suffering, the poor and ol
pressed.” ‘
“Now I am certain,” continued the ladv
as she replaced a marble Diana iu the cc®-
of the mantel, “I should like to do gome
good every day ; one feels so much better
when they 7 go to rest at night; and I’ll ^
my ‘eyes open’ to-day, and see if I come act®
any opportunities that under ordinary circtmi-
stances I should let slip.”
Half an hour later Air. Beach was lathe
nursery 7 with the washerwoman who hadcota
for the clothes.
“I wish Mrs. Simms,” said she, as she heap,
ed up the soiled linen in the basket, "tlat
you would get Tommy’s aprons ready for mi
by Wednesday ; we are going out of town t,
remain until Saturday, and I shall wantagool
supply on hand for such a carelss little sea®
as lie is.”
“Well, I’ll try, ma’am,” said the washer-
woman ; “I’ve got behind hand a good deal
since Sammy had the whoopping cough; hut
now he’s better, I must try to make up fe
lost time.
“Hashe had tlie whooping cough? Poor
little fellow ! How old is lie ?” questioned the
lady.
“He was three last April, ma’am.
“AndTom is four,” mused the lady. “Lai
here, Mrs. Simms, won’t you just opentik
lower drawer of that bureau, and take oat
those four green worsted dresses in the come’
Tom has outgrown thaun ymx aoo sir
winter, hut they are almost as good l
Now, if you want them for little S
they’ll do nicely, without altering, 11
“Want them, Airs. Beach !” answer
washerwoman, with tears starting in 1
eyes ; “I haven’t any 7 words to thank
tell what a treasure they’ll be. Why-
keep the little fellow as warm as toast
winter.”
“Well 1 11 place them on the top
clothes,” said tlie lady, smiling to herself as
she thought , “My eyes have been open once
to-day.”
Not long afterwards Airs. Beach was on her
way to maiket—for she was a notable house
keeper—when she met a boy who had lived 1
short time in her family the year before, to do
errands, wait on the door, &c. He was a brigh;
good-liearted boy, and had been a great favor
ite with the family, and Mrs. Beach had al
ways felt interested iu him ; but this morn
ing she was in quite a hurry, and would have
passed him with a cordial but hasty, "How,
are you Joseph, my boy ? Do come and see us."
had it not struck her that Joseph’s face did
not wear its usual happy expression. She
paused, as the memory 7 of last night’s sermon
flashed through her mind, and asked: "Is
there anything tlie matter with you Joseph 1
you do not look as happy as you used to.’’
The boy looked up a moment, with a half
doubting half confiding expression, into the
lady’s face—tlie latter triumphed. “Air. An
derson’s moved out of town,” he said, push
ing back his worn, but neatly brushed cap
from his hair, “so I've lost my place : then
Alary 7 ’s sick, and that makes it very bad just
now.”
“So it- does,” answered Airs. Reach, her
sympathies warmly enlisted. “But never
mind Joseph. I remember, only night before
last, my brother said he would want a ne«
errand boy in a lew days, for his store, a&l
he’dgive a good one two dollarsa week. Sow,
I’ll see him to-day, and get the situation tor
you, if you like.”
The boy’s whole face brightened up. "Oh!
I shall be so glad of it Airs. Beach.”
“And see here, Joseph, I’m going to mar
ket, and perhaps we can rind something ni«
for little Mary.” The lady remembered that
Joseph’s mother, though a poor seamtnss.
was a proud woman, and felt this would le»
delicate way of presenting her gift.
So she found some delicious pears and grapes
Aid a nice chicken to make some broth tor
naary, who she learned was ill with fever be
fore she proceeded to do her own marketing-
But it was a pity that the lady did not see Jo
seph as he sprang into the chamber where lit
tle Mary lay 7 moaning wearily on her leu.
while her mother sat stitching busily in one
comer, and held up the chicken and the frail
crying: “good news! good news! lvegoi
all these nice things for Alary, and a r-lace at
two dollars a week !”
O! how little Mary’s hot fingers closed oyer
the bunches of white grapes, while the sewing
dropped from her mother's fingers, ns tJ ‘
tears ran down her cheeks.
It was evening, and Airs. Beach sat in tne
library absorbed in some new book, wheu she
heard her husband’s step in the hall, ’fhoug
the morning had been pleasant, the afternoon
was cloued, and the day had gone down in a
low, sullen, penetrating rain. .
Now Airs. Beach loved her husband w> !
the love of a true wife, but he was not a dem
onstrative man, and the first beauty and poe
try- of their married life had settled down mw
a somewhat bare, every day matter-of-fact^
istence ; but her heart was warm to-night"*
warm with the good deeds of the day,
remembering the resolution of the nionung,
she threw down her hook and ran do\
stairs.
“Henry, dear,” said the soft voice
of the
wife, “has the rain wet you at all'll 1
take off your coat for you.”
“Thank you, Mary ; I don’t think I m *r-
wise injured, but you may 7 help me. J® 8 *
the pleasure of it,” and he stood still wn J-
she removed the heavy coat with all that sw
ness of touch and movement which hew -
to a woman. She hung it up, then her n
band drew her to his heart with all the 0
■love’s tenderness. . r *
And there was music in Mrs. Beach s n
as she went up stairs—music to the w
“Eyes open! Eyes open!”
A Difficulty in the German Diet, h
should pause before pitching into those *•
dines. If Hungary- should rise, she
other fish to fry.
A noble love calls forth man’s highest
ere, and he knows himself the sea 1 ®
dearer to her whom he loves, the 11101
tliv he is.