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I "S 1: ,<J# .
IX)BTKY?
On* Loving Heart
if miraiii mun.
One taring kMH la mora to me
Than aught that fortune oaa baitow ;
Tha treasure* from tha distant sea,
That with suah radiant iaatra glow,
Tha gtaiy of a monarch'* throne,
Not half tha piaasura can Impart;
Of all aarth'a traaauraa, I would own
Ona taring haart I
Tha riotor'a orown, tha poet's wraath,
Tha baahlaa that tha world My fling,
A momautary fragrance braatha,
A momentary triumph bring)
But long as Ufa ramalns, shall lor*
Naw fragranoa and new jay impart,
E'en whan tha daisias bloom abora
Ona loring haart!
IIow swaat tha spall it throws around
Our homes, though humble thay may ba 1
ana ?d?? on* loving neart is rounds
'TU always Paradia* to m*.
0 fat* ! my hop** thoa may's! b*r**v*?
And bid my eh*ri*b*d dr*ams d*part;
Tak* all things *ls* I prit*, bat l*av*
On* loving heart 1
HUMOROUS.
A Western traveller came up
to a log cabin and asked for a
drink, which was supplied by a
good looking woman. As she
was Hie first woman he had seen
in several days, he offered her a
dime for a kiss. It was duly
taken and paid for, and the young
hostess, who had never seen a dime
before, looked at it a moment with
some curiosity, then asked what she
would do with it. lie replied what
she chose, as it was hers. " If
that's the case," said 6he, "you
may take it back and give me
another kiss."
Dclly Yarden Sermov.?A
fashionable clergyman recently
announced through the press that
on such a day he would deliver a
sermon to hie flock winding up
the notice with 41D. V." (Deo
Volente?God willing.) 44 Dolly
Yarden " bt/ing all the rage, 44 D.
V. " was mistaken therefor, and
the church was packed with ladies
anxious to hk,-i what Rev. Mr.
had to sav about the *4 Dolly Yarj
- 1 T * " ?'
uen - styles. imagine tticir disgust
when bo chose the 41 Prodigal
son " for his subject.
? . -4^^
A Sculptor was engaged to
carve a monument and select an
epitaph for a deceased manufacturer
of fireworks. He saw this inscription
on the tombstone of a eel
ebrated musician, 44 He has gone
to the place where only his own
harmony can he exceeded," and
thinking it was a very neat thing,
adapted it to his purpose by
changing one word, and carved
on the monument: 44 He has gone
to the place where only his own
fireworks can be exceeded."
?
A Clergyman created quite a
merriment the other da}', on one
of our steamboats, going over to
lay ont a new camp-meeting resort,
by the inquiry : 44 What pos
itive proof is there that king Da
vid and hi& son Solomon were tailors?"
No ono in the crowd could
answer, and the humorous divine
quoted the familiar passage:
44 A n d Solomon mended the
breaches which David his father
had made."
44 Doctor," said a lady, 44 I want
you to prescribe for me."
44 There is nothing the matter,
madam," said the doctor, after
feeling of her pulse?"you only
need rest."
44 Now, doctor, just look at my
tongue?just look at it. Now say
what does that need ?"
141 think that needs rest, too,"
replied the doctor.
Quilp and his wife had a bit of
centention the other day. 441 own
that you have more brilliancy
than I," 6aid the woman, ,4 hut I
have the hotter judgment."?
44 Yes." said Quilp, "your choice
in marrying shows that." Quilp
was informed that he was a brute.
-
If six men eat ten apples, how
many pumpkins can four cows
cat? Multiply the ten apples by
the four cows, and divide the result
between the 6ix men and the
gumpkius The true answer will
e the amount.
Eve was the only woman who
never threatened to go and live
with mamma. And Adam was
the only man who never tantalized
his wife about the way mother
used to cook.
44 What can be more harrowing
to your soul than the thought of
wasted opportunities?" asked a
teacher of a bright boy. A 44 peg
in my boots harrows my 6ole
more'n any thing else," replied the
bright boy.
A dandy, with a cigar in his
mouth entered a menagerie, when
the proprietor requested him to
take the weed from his month lest
It a nlt/mil/l m. a a! uah
ho diiuiiiu i cm 11 ?uo wmoi luullku^b
bad habits.
A Speiro poet discontentedly
. finds a safety-valve for bis afflatus
thnsly :
" Come on je frogs and bird*,
Metqnitoee, if yon pleeee;
TUU being froze for eight long month*
I* worm tben Wiling IUm."
? I ?p?
| FOR THE liAPliS.
The Engineer's Tettimony
BT ALVBBD BINKETT.
My name is Joel Robson, rail
road engineer. I have been 01
the D. ?fc T. road, off and on, sine
die winter of *49j was on doty ii
November, '01. On the eveninj
of tbe 15th of that month, I rai
the Night Express ont of Know)
ton with the 41 Pilot," Henrj
Stokes conductor, and Tim Cas
fireman. It only lacked two min
utes of starting time when I go
into tbe cab at the north switch.?
Tim was ont oiling op, and_I die
not notice Dim closely. Don1
think I should have suspectec
anything if I had. He had beer
with me a good while, and I knew
him to be trnsty. No, I wonldn'i
like to take my oath, bnt I think
he was perfectly sober. What
ever else may be charged to liquor,
I can't bold it responsible
for what happened that night.
Tim had been having trouble in
his family, and had been morose
for two or three day6, but I knew
him too well to set that down tc
his disadvantage. I never knew
the particulars, only that his wife
wasn't contented with him. and
wanted to go back to her folks.?
Tim tried to make her happy, and
loved her more than she deserved
But that made no difference with
her. How he came to marry her,
I don't know.
I didn't notice anything out ol
' the usual way with Tim, until we
had passed Weston station, and
were well under way again. Then
he stopped dead still in the centre
of the cab with a shovel of coal
in his hands, let it fall to the floor
in a black, dusty heap, and leaned
against the window with such
\ a shiver as I wouldn't like to see
again.
44 Joe," be said, witbont looking
up, 14 Mary is coing away at last,
going to live with lier brother."
44 Never mind, Tim," I said,
44 you have done your duty by
her."
I was sorry in a moment for
saying that, for it must have set
him thinking of the hard life he
had borne sub?-:isaivelv.
lie stood up to wait across the
floor, but stumbled half way over
the shovel.
41 Pick it up, Tim," I said, carelessly,
44 it might throw you
down."
He stooped down with a scowl
?the first I ever saw upon his
face?lifted it with both hands,
and hui-led it out into the night
with all his strength.
44 That's bad," I said, as coolly
as I could, tor his manner had
filled me with a strange excite
raent, 44 but there's an old one in
the tender."
He turned to the window for a
moment as if ashamed. nnH T
thought I had conquered his frenzy,
but nothing human could have
done that then.
At Clinton the conductor came
to the cab. saying that he had
promised to escort some ladies to
the hotel, and would not be back
until the last second, so Titn must
wait at the office for our orders.?
There had been extra trains on the
road, and we were not to leave
any station without dispatohes.
So Titn went in to wait, and 1
leaned out of the cab window,
watching a bridal party getting
aboard the train. There were a
great many farewell kisses for the
handsome bride, a great deal ol
happy laughing and hand-shaking,
and then Tim came with the
orders, and we moved on, leaving
the friends of the party waving
hats and handkerchiefs in the
light of the station lamps.
When we were underway again,
and Tim sat down opposite me, 1
saw that his excitement had increased.
He was white as s
corpse, and his eyes glared like a
maniac's.
" He is coming for her to night,
Joe, when I am awav." he casned
. * / D f 1
leaning close to my ear, " but li
shan't have her."
I knew it waa useless to talk tc
him in that state of mind, so I sal
still, and watched him close.
" That was a handsome bridal
party that came aboard at Clin
ton," he said with a shodder, but
more rational than I had seen him
since we started. " Going tc
their own doom !" be almost sobbed.
" Poor creatures."
"Come, Tim." I said, "you
must admit that all marriages are
not so very unhappy as "
" No, no," he groaned, " I
didn't mean that, but "
He stopped short, and the old
fierce look came back to bis strain*
ed eyes.
"If there should be any mismanagement,
any accident tonight,"
he added harshly, " would
it not be better for them, for you,
tor all, to lie dead in the wreck
than Jo live as??"
" Uynic I" I langl.ed in the old
way, as we nsed to joke and banter
before bis troubles had chang
ed him so.
u Oli I I forgot the orders," I
said, more to change the subject
than anything else, for 1 had always
trusted him. 44 Do we wait
at Latham for the Eastern Ex
press r
He shook his head.
41 We must run to Pino Grove
five minntea ahead of time, and
pass there."
I . c i
i posed to listen to the Adminfctrai
tion's proposition, hut. as a gener>
- al thing, they resolutely reject it,
and determine to take their chao>
r cee under the administration of
Horace Greeley and a friendly
I Congress, rather than tall into the
I trap. The popular sentiment at
' the Sonth i s growing more
\ emphatic tor Greeley and Brown
every hour, and a bargain by
wliinh tlio Q/>ntli**n
I put on more steam and kept f
f sharp look ahead. We bad beet
' going fast before, bat we Airl)
lew under the increased power.?
The rash and ring of the chill ah
i grew terrible.
a "A collision at this spee<l
' would be awful, and there would
a be hundreds killed and wounded t*
He was close at my side, locking
* inquiringly into my face.
" Yee, but we must obey orders
What is the matter, Titn f" I ad
9 ed, as a groan escaped his lips,
ending in a howl of mental age
t ny44
He is poing afler Mary on the
j Eastern Express, to-night, but 1
t will stop him lw He tnrned quickI
ly away, and ponred Shovel after
t shovelful of coal into the for.
nace.
't This trouble is too much for
: him, I thought, as I watehed his
face assume a fiendish look of determination
in the glowing fur)
nace light.
We were now dose upon Lap[
ham, and I conld see people and
i carriages waiting for the train.?
r We shot by in a second, but not
> too quick for me to see the station
, master catch and swing aloft the
( red lamp.
I Danger ahead!
I sprang to the lever, but Tim
I held me back, holding the order
close to my face. I saw in a moj
ment that it was Tim's writing.?
He had filled the blank for the op*
erator, as be had often done bef
fore, giving liim a made up order
t to sign.
Two trains running forty miles
an hour, were face to face on tho
| track, and I was caged with a
maniac!
Again I sprang to the lever,
but Tim was npon me, with the
strength of ten men in his arms,
and the look of a demon upon his
face He had me on the floor in
a second, and in another, had
doubled our speed.
My God 1 it was awful; a pain
worse than the torture of hell, to
lie there with his weight crushing
I the breath from m? i??n~o ???-?
----- "V
look out into the darkness.
I thought of the happy bridal
party in the car behind, whose
bridal trip would be their last?
of the hundreds besides?and the
roar, and spring, and grinding
roll of the iron wheels already
scemod grinding their quivering
flesh to atoms.
The bell at the check-string rang
a warning^ frotn the conductor.?
No help this side of the grave.?
How tiie darkness gave place to
our blinding light, whirled by, and
was inky black again.
A great white light shot into
view. How I shivered as 1 turn
ed my head painfully around, and
saw it shining through tho car
window upon the faces within.?
It was the light of death.
" lie will be ground, mangled,
murderedrin the wreck, and will
never take away in y Mary !"
shouted the maniac. "Jump,
Joe! jump old boy 1" he added,
springing from me.
"God help yon, Titn Cass, for
you are a murderer to night," I
gasped, 6cizing the lever. No
use. w iui a ecrcam of warning,
the (rain ruBhed down upou us,
and I leaped from the cab. Over
and over, and round and round?
would I never stop I Was there
no bottom to the darkness 9 I
! heard a crash as of an exploding
' world, and that was all.
) ' It was weeks before I was con.
ecious, even of pain, and months,
before I left the hospital; then it
t was as the wreck you see me now.
, I never knew the details of the ca
)amity. The papers gave a list of
' two hundred maimed and killed.
I think I should have gone stark
mad to have been on the ground
next day ; they tell rae the sight
was sickening, and I thank God I
k was spared it.?People's Literary
k Companion.
( Bold A dministration 8oheme.
, We have reliable advices from
> Washington concerning a bold
scheme meditated by President
> Grant and bis party, to secure his
; re-election. This is to ho accomplished
through a Democratic
I nomination of a third ticket
' at Baltimore, and to have this
i nomination made the Administrai
tion is exerting itself to the ut>
most. A number of influential
Southern tnen have beon invited
to Washington, without being ini
formed what they were to come
> for, and some of these gentlemen
are now in that city. Their presence
has led to inquiry, and it has
leaked out that the Administration
party has made them this
proposition: If they will send
delegations from t he Southern
States to Baltimore instructed to demand
a Democratic nomination, or
to bolt the Convention in case it refuses
to take that step, and make a
nomination, the Administration
party will pass the bill to refund
the cotton tax, grant aid to tho
Atlantic and Great Western Oa*
nal of Georgia, and grant aid and
subsidies to other Southern enterpises
and schemes now before Congress.
This is an ontline of the negotiate,
and if the country will
watch proceedings at Washing*
ton closely for the next few days,
it will see a bold development of
it. It is said that one or two of
the Southern men interested- iti
the enterprises referred to are die
. "...v- - ?w U MOIV^ai IVMIO ai
- Baltimore should vote for a third
, ticket would be a gross outrage on
> this popular sentiment.
This fa the first Administration
> scheme to defeat Greeley ; others
[ will follow in due time.
[&. Louis Republican.
Amnesty.
WHO II HOCTtO AND WHO 1KL1KTZD.
I The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, referring to the pee* 1
eege of the Amnesty Bill, which provides
" that ell political disabilities imposed by
the third Section of the Fourteenth Artiele
of Amendments to the Constitution of tbs
Uoitsd 8Ut-s ere hersby removed from nil
persons whomsoever, exeept Senators and
Representatives of the Thirty-sixth end
Thirty-seventh Congress, nod officers io the
judicial, military and navy service of the
United States, heads of departments, and
Foreign Minister# of the United States,"
seys :
The number relieved by this set is estimated
by well Informed Southerenere et
not less than 150,000 persona of capaelly
and expsrienee, who, for six year* past,
have been debarred from all participation
in the Federal, State, County or Munieipa!
governments. A number of prominent
pereons disqualified by the fourteenth
emendment are now dead, hot, nevertheless,
a large mate of active talent in the
South is thus rendered aveilable foi Federal
end local employments. The exceptions,
however, embrace e considerable number
of the conspicuous politicians of the .1
South.
Among those stilt under disabilities arc
ax-Senators Clay and Filzpatriak, of Ala- !
bamo: Robt. W. Johnson, ot Arkansas; 1
Yulee and Mallory, of Florida ; Iveson and
Tombs, of Georgia; Benjamin, of Louisl- |
ana, now a citizen of Great Britaio ; Jefferson
Davis and Albert G. Brown, of Miseissippi;
Polk, of Missouri; Chestnut, of South
Carolina ; Nicholson, of Tennessee; Wigfall,
of Texas; Hunter, of Virginia, and
the following named ex-members of the
House of Representatives: Pugh and
Curry, of Alabama; Rust, of Arkansas;
Scott, of California ; Hawkins, of Florida ;
M.J. Crawford and Jackson, of Georgia;
Lamar, Singleton and MoKay, of Mississip.
o :-i- a w s - ?
oiu i in una v oner, 01 jNortl) Carolina;
Miles, McQueen, Bonharu and Boyce, of
South Carolina; Avery and Thomas, of
Tennessee; Reagan, of Taxaa; De Jarneite,
Prvor, Bocock, Leak, Sailh and Boteler, of
Virginia, aod others.
The exemption of the Thirty-seventh
Congress was made expressly to include
General J. C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
who left his seat as Senator from Kentucky
to aid the Confederacy, and nerved first as
General, and next as Confedtrate Secretary
of War at Richmond.
The list of Judicial officers of the United
Stales still disqualified, comprises ex-Su
preme Court Justice John A. Campbell,
now in large prhctice at New Orleans;
Judges Halyburtoa and Brockenbrough, of
Vitginia, and others. It is a question
whether ex-United States Marshals or District
Attorneys are or are not embraced 10
this exception, and whether persona who
had ceased to hold judicial positions when
secession commenced, and subsequently
aided it, are or are not relieved by the
bill.
There were about 260 officers of the
United 8tates army and navy who left their
places to aid the rebellion, aod of these
probably not one-half are now alive. The
law, however, le ambiguous, and the exceptions
may and probably do ioelade all
those who had even been eduoated at W*st
Point, or who had resigned long anterior
to the rebellion in which they participated.
Of the number thus under digabil'
ilies are General Bamuel Cooper, Confederate
Adjutant-General at Richmond ; Generals
Joseph G. Johnston. Beaur-gard,
Brtgf?. Samuel Jones, Hardee, Pemberton,
Guatavna W. Smi'h, Hood, Stephen P. Lee,
Lovell. D. H. Hill. B. 8. Ewell, Jubal A.
Early, G. W. Cualia Lee, now President ol
Washington and Lee Uuiversity ; Dabney
H. Maury, Fitxhugh Lee; Colonels R. B.
Lee, Larkin, Smith, L. B Northrop, (0 S
Commissary-General; Myers, (Quartermaster-General,)
and others. Captain
Semmes, of the Alabama; Prof. M. F.
Maury, formerly Chief ol the Washington
Observatory ; Captain Brooke, inventor of
the Brooke gun, and of the system of deepsea
soundings, are the most noted exceptions
among ex-navy officers.
Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Secretary
of the Interior, ia the only Cabinet offieer
ol Buchanan now alive, who aided secession
. But the exceptions include also Gov*
ernor Wm. A. Graham, ol North Carolina,
who was Secretary of the Navy under Fillmore
; 0. M Conrad, of Louisiana. sx-Seoretary
of War, and poaaibly some others.?
Henry R. Jackson of Georgia, and General
Wm. Preston, of Kentucky, were foreign
ministers, and are, therefor, embraced in
these exeeptione. It is hsrd to estimate
precisely the number etill under disabilities^
but It wonld not be wide of the mark to
pat the number at from throe hundred to
five hundred persons.
The folly of rslsining these exoeplions, in
addition to the almost criminal error of an
ambiguous statute, upon a snbjsst where aev
sral penalties attach to an offender, is exhibited
by a glance at the number and
.k.?o.-r.?? 1 *?* "?L
wi |niwm wiiu ?re reiwTfo. i niH
engkriM, lot only many of tbe moat Mtive
advooetee of aeeeaefon, bat nlao aotno
who ainee tha war have b?jn peraiatent
" Bourbona," and in ona or mora aaaaa pars
aona who dtadain a pardon. If William L.
Yaney warn allaa ba would ba rallaaod by
thia Act. Alexander H 8t arena, of Georgia,
Viee-Prealdent of tbe Southern Con fed
eracy, la ralieved; alao Got. Henry A.
Wlee, of Virginia, who boaata that be never
aakad for an Executive pardon $ General
Forreet, of Teoaeeeoe; Governor La taker,
of Virginia, who ordered the eels
ore of Harper's Ferry; Oeneral Wade
r? iry i,,, >?. , Tnw rn
[ Hampton, of South Carolina j tha Hon.
| Br^amio HilV. of Qaorgm Hataahpl V. <
l Jahoaoo, who MP oiv tha Uet?* >l<h 8^
phao A.. Doaglaaa in 18fth; Robart Bam- i
wall Rhalt, o ( Sooth Carolina, tha oldaat i
NMNioDiit or tb* vbolo Booth ; Janes A.
Beddon, of Virgin!*, Confederate Secretary :
of War; L. P. Walker. of Alabatoa; Robort i
W. Barnwell, of 8outh C*roltn*, Confader* |
U Senator, and probably tbo moat ioflaxl- ]
b)? opponent of rooonatrootloo to tho winter
of 1S64-A ; Col. O. A. Honry, of Tenneaaae;
Hon. Allan T. Caperton, of ffwt Vlr
glnla. Confederate Senator ; Lyon, Clinton,
and Dargan. of Alabama; A. W. Garland,
of Arkanaan; A. R Wright, of Georgia ; J
W, Moore, of Kantneky; Do neon P. Ken
ner and John Perkina, Jr., of Loulaiaba ;
E. Barkadale, of Miaaleaippl; Bridgero. ct
North Garolioa; H 8. Foot*. M. P Gentry,
G. W. Joooe, and J. V Wright, of Tenure
aee; Jam** Lyoor, John Gooda. Jr., J. P.
Ueleorabe, John B. Baldwin, Walter R
Staple* Fayette MoMultin, of Virginia?all
tKn fonowntnr* Kalm/\al In moMaaa^ao *%?-.
WWIJ wo'uwn? V (UC | |
Confer ate Congress. Among the other (
prominent Confederates relieved by the Bill (
re Charles O. Merominger, ox Secretary 0. (
8. Treasury ; O. A. Trenholm, the Hon. I
Thomas H. Watte, of Alabama, 0 8 Attorney
General; Geo. Da via, of North Carolina, 1
ditto ; ex-Governor P. H. Ball, of North Oar '
olina Lewie E. Uarvine, of the Virginiai
eeaeion Convention; Messrs. A D. Dfckin- j
eon, Ch-rlee Bruee, W, W. Cramp, and '
other ex-membera of the Virginia Legtsla- '
tore.
All the membere of the Seeereion conven- ?
llooa at the South are relieved, save a very >
few who may be embraced under other 1
hoada, and thia fact, ad<!ed to the forego- I
ing liat of persons relieved, showa plainly,
how invidious is the distinction made hy
Ibis law between different classes and indi- j
victuals of the late Confederacy. When i
sueh as Robert Barnwell Rhett,ex->Qovern- t
or Wise, and Alexander H. 8t?vene are re- (
lieved of their disabilities, it !s hard to aee |
why others atill linger under diequalifica- i
tions for even the humbleet local office, who (
fully accept the results of ths war, as set i
forth in the Cincinnati platform. <
The passage of the Amnesty Bill will die- ]
pose of a great number of esses now pending
in the United States Supreme Court, <
and in the District and Circuit Courts j
where information has bean roads against I
persons holding ofBes contrary to ths pro> <
visions of ths Fourteenth Amendment to |
the Constitution. One of the most impor-. ]
tsnt of these is that of the Hon. A. 0. P. <
iMicnoieon, ex-umtea states Senator and t
Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee^ i
This case hao b. en carried to the United
State* Supreme Court, and would be reaehs t
ed early next winter ; but rinee the Amove- 1
tjr Bill haa passed, the Attorney-General ?
will, without doubt, enter a nolle proergui
in thia and all similer cases. The District ,
Attorneys throughout the country will also
probanly ha instructed to take the same action
in regard to similar eases in their
Courts.
GREELEY'S PLATFORM- 1
t
THE FDLL TEXT OF HIS LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE.
The following is the full text of the notification
to the lion. Horace Greeley of his nomination
by the Liberal Republican Convent on,
and of his reply accepting the nomination : '
Cincinnati, May 3, 1872.
Dear Sit?The National Convention of Lib- *
eral Republicans ot the United States have
instructed the undersigned to inform yon that I
you have been nominated as the candidate of
the Liberal Republioans for the Presidsney of
the United States. We also submit to yon ^
the address and resolutions, unanimously
adopted by the Contention. Be plsassd to I
signify to us yonr acceptance of the platform (
and nomination, and believe us, ever truly, I
yours, '
C. ScHcnx, Presdent. <
Geo. W. Julian, Vice-President. <
W*. E. McLban, | i
Jobn Q. Davidson, > Secretaries. ,
J. H. Rbodbs, J
To lion. Horace Greeley, New York City.
mb. onxblby's replt.
Gentlemen?I have ohosen not to aeknowl- j
edge your letter of the 3d Instant antil I conld ^
learn bow the work of your Convention was (
reoeived in all parts of our great country, and j
judge whether that work was approved and
ratified by the macs of onr fellow-citixens.
Their response has from day to day reaobod
me through telegrams, letters and comments
of journalists, independent of official patronage
and indifferent to the smiles or frowns of power.
The number and oheraeter of these unconstrained,
unpnrehased, unsolicited utterances
satisfy me that the movement which
found expression at Cineinnati has reeeived
the stamp of publio approval, and has been
hailed by the majority of our countrymen as
the harbinger of better days for the Republic.
I do not misinterpret this approval, as especially
complimentary to myself, nor even to
the ebivalrous and justly esteemed gentleman
with whose name I thank your Convention lor
associating mine.
I receive and weleome It as a spontaneous
and deserved sribute to that admirable platform
of principles wherein yonr Convention
so tersely, so lucidly and so forcibly set forth i
the convictions whioh impelled and the purposes
wbleh guided its course, a platform
which, easting behind It the wreck and rubbish
of worn-out contentions and by-gone
feuds, embodies in fit aad few words the needs
and aspirations of to-day. Though thousands ]
stand ready to oondemn your every act. hardly
a syllable of sritieism or eavil has been
aimed at your platform, of wbleh the sue
Mivw tmmj n lairij epitomised II ronows:
First. All the political rights sod franchises
which bars bus acquired through oar 1st*
bloody convulsion mast sad shall bo gnarantood,
maintained, sojoyod sad roipoctod ererMora.
Second. All the political rights and franchises
which bars boon lost through that convulsion
should, and must bo promptly restored
and re established, so that there shs'l bo
heneefortb ao proscribed elan, and no disfranchised
caste, with n the limits of oar Union,
whose long-estranged people shall reunite and
fraternise upon the broad basis of unlrersaj
amnesty with impartial suffrage.
Third. That subject to out solemn concilia*
tional obligation to maintain the equal rights
of all citizens, our nellcv should *! ? t~??l
aelf-goTerBmeat nod not M eeataalUetion j
that the olrll authority ikoaM be nprme oaer
the military ; that tha writ of habeae eorpua
abonld ho Jaaleoely upheld a| tha wftftii of
par tonal f readout; that tha ladirldnal eitiaea i
ahonld at)joy tha larfaet liberty ooMfetaat
with public order, and that thara ahall ba na
Federal aubreratoa of tha latarBal polity of tha 1
sererai fltatea and naaaieipallttaa, but that
each ahall ba left Area to enforce tha ri|hti and i
promote the well being of tha iababitaata bj '
nth miU u thajodgamnt o< iU ?w* paoplt
ball pnnHWi
Voarth. Tbora ah all ha a imI aad ??t
moroty afmalatod rafrrai ta tk? olall aorriaa
si tbo Rapoblia, to wbleh and it U lidir
poaoabht tko abiaf dlapaaoar of iU toot ot*
Beial potrnoaga aboil ho shlaldod from iho
mala temptation to dm bio povtr o?MUbly
by a ralo iatxorobly forhlddiog aad preelad*
lag hia re-election.
Flflb. That tbo ralsiag of revenue, either
by tariff or otherwiea, oball bo rooogoiaod
and troafcd at tko people's Immediate boeU
ooaa, to b? ahopcd and dirootod by them
though tb?ir representative# in Oongraaa,
whoa* oetioo thereon tbo Pro*Want tonot
tetUier ovcrrala by bio tola, attampt to
JkUU, dot presume to poniah by bestowing
><Baa only oa thoaa who agroo with blrn, or
withdrawing it from tboaa who do not
OU. L TL .? .1 t.??- a . * - a
CM*111. insi me puoiio IIHOl mail M IM
edly rercrvad for acquisition end oeeapulon
by cultivator*, and not reckleaalj
iquaadered on tha projector* of railroada^
ror which onr people have no patent need,
ind tha prematura nnnatruetlon of which la
mnually plunging uainto deeper and daap?r
a by area of foralco indahtadoaaa.
8erei.th That tha achievement of there
{rand par| o?e* of onivrwl beneficence ia
expected and a<>ught of all whe approve
ilmn, Irreapeetive of peat " (filiation*.
Eighth. That tha public iaith muet, at all
baxarda, be maintained, and (ha nation*)
credit be preferred.
Ninth. That tha patriotio derotednee*
ind inaeilmabla aerricaa of onr fellowoitican*
who, a* #oIdler* or aailor*, upheld the
leg and maintaioad the unity of the Repub*
ic, ahall ever he gratefully remembered and
honorat'ly requited.
There proporitionr, ao ably and forcibly
presented in the platform of your con van*
lion, hare already fixed tha attention and
commanded the arseut of a large majority
>t our counlr)men, who joyfully adopt
ihem, a* I do, a* the baaia of a true, beDeficient,
national teconalrnetion of a new
departure fiom jealouriea, rtrife* and hater,
i i
?niwii ? no mnger Mn adequate motive,
?r even plaueibl* pretext, into en atmosphere
<>f p?ale, fraternity and mutual good
will. Id vain do the drill sergeants of deraying
01 ganizationa flourish menacingly
.hrtr trunchenos, and angrily insist that ihe
lies shall be olosed and straightened. Iu
rain do the whiepers>in of parties onee *ial,
because rooted in the vital needs of the
hour, protest against straying and bolting,
leuounce men nowise their ioferiors as tra??
ors and renegades, and threaten them with
infamy and ruin. I am confident that the
Ameilean people have already made yoor
tsuse thele owb, fully resolved that their
brave hearts and strong arms shall bear it
in to triumph.
In this fsitb, and with the distinct understanding
that, if elected, I shall bs the
President, not of a party, hot of tba wh?ls
people, I accept yonr nomination in the
confident trust that the masses of our countrymen,
North and South, ara eager to
slasp hands across the bloody charm, which
haa too lung divided them, forgetting that
they have been enemies, iu the joyful con*
ciousneaa that they are and must henoeorth
remain brethren.
(Signed) Horses Greeley.
To the Hon. Carl. Scburs, president,
ion Geo W. Julian, viee president, end
Messrs. Wm. E. McLean, John G. Dsvidson
nd J. H. Rhodes, secretaries of the Nation.
1 Convention of Liberal Republicans of lite
Jnitcd States.
The Civil Rights Bill, as it pasted the
House, reads as follows:
lit it enacted. That whoever, being s corloration
or natural person, anJ owner or in
sharge of any publio loo or of any place of
public amusement or entertainment, for which
t lioenjo from any legal authority ia required,
?r of any line of stags coaobes, railroads, or
ither means of publio carriage of passengers
and freight, shall make any distiuotion as to
tdmlssiun or accommodation therein of any
sltisen of the United States, because of race,
solor or previous condition of servitude, shall,
in oonrietioo thereof, be fined not less than
ikaa ? * - - ?
fi/w uui uiurv mm 9J,UUU, lot OMb often CO ;
and the peraon or corporation ao offending
iball be liable to the eitiaetia thereby injured
In damages, to be reeorered in an action of
debt.
Sec. 2. That the offeneea under thia Art, and
aotiona to recover damagea, may be protecuted
before any territorial, diatriot or circuit
oourt of the United Stater, having Jnrladioticn
of Crimea at the place where the offence war
obarged to have been committed, with a right
of appeal to have a writ of error in any oaae
to the 8upreme Court of the United 8tatea.
Amrbstt awn raw Test-Oath A dlrpatcb
from the South, which repreaenta that the
leel-oath of March, 1802, atill continue* to
operate dirfraaehtnement, notwithstanding the
peerage of the amoerty act, la quite a mistake.
The test-oath act wae modified ia the last
Congress so as not to apply to those whoee
disabilities have been relieved by action of
Coogreee. Therefore every person who Is relieved
by the recent amnesty act is eligible to
any oBce on eimply taking an oath that they
will remain loyal to the constitution and the
government, and that they will so swear, without
any mental or other reservation whatsoover.
It la not trae, therefore, as the dispatch
alluded to etatee, " that the great mess are
till barred from holding the moat insignificant
clerkship in the gift of the federal government."
The only elase still disfranchised is
that specially excepted by the law, which went
Into effect on yesterday. The best proof of
the contrary is that it enabled Mr. Roger*, of
North Carolina, to take the modified oath and
his soat in Congress.
A call (s in circulation for i monster rat*
ifioation meeting, to bo hold in New Orleaoe,
thin evoning, in favor of Qrooley and
Brown. The sail ia signed already by Gen
rais O. T. Baauragard, Rlshard Taylor,
Wat. Hays, and Adeins, and by tha Baa. 0.
W. Conrad, Saerstary of War aodar Fillmore
j tha Uoa. Raadall Hunt, 8rat a I so tad
Uaitad butaa flanator by rasoaatr noting
Louisiana. and a oaaapiaiooa laadar of tha
Now Orlaaaa bat; had by many otbar influaatm
oltbaaa,
Joan T. Lowar tha bondsman for Dr.
Araiy, tha Xu Klax who daaaaspad daring
bla trial laat wiatar hafora tba Unltad Status
Cireait Court ia Columbia, paid ay tba band,
amounting to DW ooaia, 4a.
Caiay. Jorrioa Mmu baa baan unanimous*
ly appolntad, by tba Board of Visitors of tha
Uaitad Status Naval Aoademy at Annapolis,
to dallrar tba ad dross ts tha school aa cons*
cnencesorrt day.
Kx-Govern or Orr ud General Wade JIuspton
bad a loaf oonfeiaaoe lack tttk.
Judga T. J. Maokwr ie to tba Md for the
Kepablloaa Gubernatorial ooaiuiiofi
Lieu t?oaot?GOTeraar Rainier la egpoeed
to tba ?ztra mm loo of tha Legislature.
Spurgeoo, tba great London prtaabar, la
aboat to ba a aaodidata for Par Jiaaaaat.
dir. LltUefield, r#preventative from Cha?
terfieM, bee signed tba aall for aa extra no
Job.
Tba Iraadaiao'i Bataaa gats aad
Ioms aa tba Mth of Joaa. Ita ooftnUbad
boiinoM la traaafarrad to tba War Departmmbt
It la reported that loooata bare appeared
lb largo a am bare lo Bourbon oonntj, Ken*
Iwky, nd it h (ttr?d they trill do |Wt
damage. '
The Herald's epeeial eonuoiadon to look
nft-r Dr. Lirlugetone is trltbla twenty daye
march of him. He wai well at last adrleta.
A ship canal aeroaa tlie penlnaultof Florida
la proposed. The rente la op the St.
Johu's Hirer for 197 mllee, then np the
Ooklawaha Hirer lor aiaty ml Ira.
The Tenth Maaeaehaeetta District Demo-'
era tie Conrention ratified the CioolnneH! platform.
Ore#ley man were tletted to the Belt!-'
more Conrention.
OeeerU Young tuoeeedtd In getting through'
the House at Washington, oa the 24tb, appropriation
of an bandied thousand dollars $r
pnblio buildings at Atlanta.
A part of the construction and platform
of the Catawba Rlrar Bridge, Air Line
Railroad, naar Charlotte, N. C., fall oa the
21?t? killing Tbotuas Mays, of Thomasrilla,
N C. and badly crippling fire others.
Mr. Oreclcy, elways ready to tell what,
he knows about fsrmiiiff and irard..nincr
were Colfax'* inquiry, with ih* assurance
that " equaati wMon" wtll arrive this year
early in Norembrr.
Warren D. Wilkee, en em bar of the Honae
from Anderaon County, haa signed the call
for an extra eossion of the Legislature, alao
T. A. Davie and J. W. Lloyd, of Charleatoa
county.
That noble aoldler and aterling patriot.
Gen. John Cl Breckinridge, whom tha
whole South delight* to honor, urgea the
support of Greeley and Brown by the
Democracy.
The Colombia Phoenix recorda a peculiarly
hard care. A State official, who baa
not received any poitipn of hia aalary for
aevaral months, haa been oompelled to borrow
money to pay hia lioenae tax " on aalary,"
which ie etill due.
In the Preabyterian General Aaeembly,
at Richmond, on the 81 at, the resolution in*
troduaed by Col. Preaton, of Virginia, inquiring
into tbe expediency of preparing
litnrgical aerviee for congregational wor hip,
waa rejected by a vote of one hundred
and five to five.
The State Superintendent of education
haa issued a notice to the varione County
School Cummiastoncrs, advising them to
close the public schools at once, inasmuch
as hia drafts for the apportioatneuta of
school lunde for the Counties bad been refused
payment by the State Treasurer.
Tbe Pickens Sentinel of tbe 23d inat.,
aays: It is rumored that the Air Line
Railroad Company contemplate moving, at
an early date, the present location of their
road south of the Eighteen Mile Creek,
which ia aaid to ba much the cheapest
routs. If thia be true, it will relieve th*
county of all liability to tbe hundred thou*
nu uuiwn, xu Declined uy it, in ntd of the
road, and alill be m much benefit to lb*
County."
Ton Ata-LiRB Snore.?We eee that tbo
oitixena of Greenville, 8. C., are making a deeperate
effort to get the abops of ihla road eatabliahed
at that plaoe, and that an extra aeaaion
of the 8outh Carolina Legiatature haa
been called, the purport of that call la tbought
to be in thia connection, and it ia reaaonabie
to auppoae that the oitixena of Greenville will
leave no atone unturned to acoompliah thia
object. But little haa aa yet been aaid on the
aubjeot here in Charlotte, but we cannot be*
live that the oitixena of Charlotte will fold
their anna and allow thla important matter to
be anatcbed from them. It ia uaeleaa lor ua
to go into a detailed atatement of the advan*
tagee to be derived from the eatabliahment of
the abopa at thla place. Thia la too plain to
be miataken. It will not only bring to Charlotte
induatry and mechanical ingenuity, but
it will bring capital and labor, and will be tho
mean a eventually of building up oar now email
olty to one of huge dimenalono. We don't
claim that Charlotte haa many advantagea
over Greenville ia regard to the loeation of
the thopa, but we believe that with all her
other railroad advantagea and outleta, and
with her now growing population, thla will be
the beet point to locate them.
We hop* the citixena of Charlotte will
arouae themeelveo to their interact and open
their eyee to the greet advantagea to be derived
from thla enterpriae and go to work,
and, if poaalble, defeat the object of our South
Carolina rrlend*. It would kt botior for tbo
citiien* horo end tbo oity to giro tbo ground
on which to locate thoae chop*, and in addition
cobcoribo Ut,tM dollar* rath or thaa
bare the *Uopa located at any other point.?
Lot there (hope bo located at Qreearllle, and
In lee* than tea yeara, the capital and the
larger portion of tbo laboring mechanic* wlU
he oarrlcd to that place. We cay to the citi zen*
of Charlotte, aromc yonrcetrec to the
internet of your'now thrlrlng eity and yeer
State, and let the ring of tbo hammer aad the
whletle of the *tean> from the Air-Line Shop*
be heard roeoeadtng orer the oily through
your untiring efftrti^-OlcriotM Olwrwr.
In bla Autobiography, Borneo Greeley
any a:
Faroe i? n rapor; popularity an aeeidont ; .
riohea take wlage; the only earthly certain* a
ty la oblirioo?no man nan foreaeo what a M
day may bring forth, and those who ehear J
to day will often on roe to-morrow ; and yet Hj
I eherleb the hope thai tbo journal protect- 9H
od and cetahiiched will the and flonriah fl
long after I bar# mouldered Into forgo tun
duet, beiog guided by a larger wiadotn, a
mere enerrlog aegaeity to dlaeern the right, W
though not by a mar# natalUriag raedineaa W
to embraen and defond it at whatever per- I
tonal ooet, end thet the atone which tor ere <i V
my aehea may hear to fetnre eye* the etill wl
InUlligible InMrlptlon "Fonodrr of the ^
New York Tribnoo.- \
Ot a prtafcm i - *?
8*rt fMKi Ml iMnHlhla a mm,
Dm<1 Matter Ma mUltkm,
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