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Home, Ga., Sepfcmber 1, 18G5.
Mr. Arteinua Hurt/, Showman?Sur :
The resun L write to you in partickler, are
bckaua you nre about all the man I know
in "God's country," so called. Tor sum several
weeks J hav been waitin tusay sutntliin.
For sum several yours wo rebs, so called,
but now lute of said country deceased, have
been tryin mity hard to do sumthin. We
? didn't quite do it, and now it's Tory painful,
I assure you, to dry up all of a sudden
and make out like wo wusn't thar.
My iriend, I want to say sumthin. I
suppose there is no law agin thinkin, but
thinkin don't help me. It don't let down
my thermometer. 1 must explode myself
generally so as to feel better. You see I'm
tryin to harmonize. L'ui tryin to soften
down my lectins. I'm cndcavorin to sub
jugate mysolf to the level ot surroundin
circumstances, to-called. Hut I can't do
it until I am allowed to say sumtlun. I
want to quarrel with somebody and then
make friends. I aint no giant killer. 1
? vr i ?;?f
mnb UU iiumi^uiu 1/aii a uiub Iiu uv?rti- |
conetriktcr; but I'll bo horus waggled if
the talkin and the writin and the sluiiderin
has got to be all doue on one side any longer.
Sam of your folks have got to dry up or
turn our folks loose. It's a blamed outrage
so-called. Aint your editors got nothin to
do but peck at us, and squib at us, and
crew over us ? Is every tnan what can
y write a paragraf to consider us bars in a
' cage, and be alwuys a jobbin at us to hear
us growl ? Now you see, my friend, that's
what's disharmonious, and do you jest tell
eni, ono and all, e pluribus unum, so culicd,
that if they don't stop it at ot.ee, or turn us
loose to say wbai we please, why we rebs,
?o called, have unanimously and jointly and
AAi*e*.>))u ? i in?f !>inlf vnre
w .w ~ ' -'J
hard of it, if not harder.
That's tho way to talk it. T aint agwine
to commit myself. I know when to put. on
tho brakes. 1 uint agwine to say all 1 think,
like Mr. Htheridgo, or Mr. Addcrig, torailed.
Nary time. No, sir. Hut I'll jest
tell yon, Artemua, and you may tell it to
yonr show; If we nint allowed to expriss
pur sentiments, we can take it out in hatin
and hatin runs heavy in tny family, sure.
I hated a man so bad once that all the hair
cum off my head, and the man drowned
himself in a hog waller that night. 1 kould
do it agin, but you sec I'm tryin to harmonize,
to ucquicsce, to become kale. and serccn.
Now I supposo that, poctikally speak in,
"In Pixie's fall
We sinned all."
ldut talkin the way I see it, a big feller
and a little feller, mo called, got into a fite.
and they lout and tout and lout a long time,
and everybody ail round kept hollcriu hands
off, but kep hclpirt the big feller, until finally
tho little feller caved in and hollered
enuf. lie made a bully fito 1 tell you,
b'elah.?Well, what did the big feller do?
take him by the hand and help him up,
and brush the dirt off his clothes? Nary
time ! No sur! Hut he kicked him artcr
ho was down, and throwed mud on him,
and drug him about and rubbed sand in his
eyes, and now he's gwiuc ubout huntin op
his poor littlo property. Wants to confiskatc
it, st called. Klame my jacket if it
nint enuf to make your head swim.
Hut Tm a good Union man?so-culled.
1 aint agwinc to fitc no more. I shan't vote
for the next war. I aint no gorilla. I've
done tuk tho oath, and I'm gwinc to keep
it, but as lor mv bcin subiutnitcd. and hu
ar ? O ? # I
milyatcd, and amalgamated, and enervated,
as Mr. Chase pays, it aint 80---nary tiiue, 1
aint ashamed of nuthin neither?aint rcpentin?aint
axin for no one horse, shortwinded
pardon. Nobody needn't be playin
priest around me. 1 ain't gut no twenty
thousand dollnrs. Wish I had ; I'd give it |
to these poor widen and orfins. I'd fatten
my own numerous and intcrcstin offspring
in about two minutes nnd a half. They
shouldn't eat roots and drink branch water
no longer. Poor, unfortunate things ! to
nnm illlo thin Hulilnr?nnrir wnrlit nt e!?K ??
liroo. There's four or five of 'cin thut never
row a sirkus nor a monkey show?never
Jiad a pocket knife, nor a piece of choose,
nor a reoain. There is Bull linn Arp, ami
Harper's Ferry Arp, and Chieknhoiuiny
Arp, that never seed the pikters in a spellin
book. I tell you, my freed, wo are the
noorost people on the foco of the earth?
but we are poor and proud. Wo made a
bully fite, Sclah ! and the whole Ainerikin
pation ought to feel proud of it. It shows
what Amerikins can do when they think
they are imposed on?"Mo^ollcrf." Didn't
our four fatiiors fite, bleed and die about a
little tax on f6n, when not one in a thousand
drunk it! Beknus they sukeeeded wasent
it glory T But if they hadn't 1 suppose it
would havo been treason, and tlicy would
have boen bowin and scrapin round King
George for pardon. 80 it goes, Artomus,
and to iny mind, if the wholo thing was
stewed down, it would make about halt a
pint of humbug. We had good men, great
men, Christian men, who thought wc was
right, and many of 'cm have gone to the
uudiskovercd country, and have got a pardon
as is a pardon. When I die. t'mmitv
willin to risk myself under the shadow of
their wing?, whether tho climate be hot or J
cold. So mote it be Sclah. j
Well, maybe I've said cnuf. But I dont
feel easy yit. I'm a geod Union man,ser
tin and sure. I've had my breeches died
blur, and I've bought a blue buokct, and I
very often feci Lie r, and about twice in a
while, I go to the doggery and get blue, and
then I look up at the blue scrulenn heavens
and sing the melankolly chorus of the J.line
tailed Fly. I'm doin my durndest to harmonize,
and think I could succeed if it
wascnt for some things. When I see a
black-guard goin around the streets with a
gun on his shottldcr, why right then, for a
few minutes, I hate the whole Vtnky nation.
Jerusalem, how my blood biles. The
institution flint wns lmnrtnrl ilnmn to in Ku
? ? "j
the heavenly kingdom of Massachusetts
now put over us with powder and ball ?
Harmonize the devil ! Aifit wo human be
nigs? Aint we got eyes and ears and feel
in nndthiukin? Why the whole of Afriky
has coino to town, women and children and
babies and baboons and all. A man cau
tell how fur it is to the city by the smell
better than the mile past. They won't
work for us, and they won't work for them
selves, and they'll perish to death this win
ttr us shore as the devil is a hog, no callmi.
They are now bask in in the summer's sun,
livin on roastin ears and freedom, with
uary idee that the winter will cum agin,
or that castor oil and salts casts money.
JSum of 'em, a hundred years old, arc
within around about going to cawedgc.
The truth is. mv l"r???n I iimluulr'u Vm.llir
- 7 ?j "I ""j " """V
fooled about this bizncsg. Sum body has
drawd the clctunl in the lottery, and don't
know what to do with 1 itn. lie's
throwing his snout, about ieo?e, a.?u by ,
and-' y hc'l hurt somebody. These nig
gers will hare to go back to the plantations
and work. I aint agoin to support nary
one of 'em, and when you bear any body
say so, you tell 'eiu " its a lie," ko cttllnl.
I ^ot nut bin to support myscll
on. Wo lout ourselves out of everything
cxccpin children and hmd, and 1
suppose the land are to be turned over to
the niggers lor gravo yards. ,
Well, my friend, I don't want umch. I
aint ambitious, as 1 used to was. You all
have your shows and monkeys and surkusses
and brass bauds and orgins, and can
play on the pctrolyum and the h.irp of a
thousand strin??S- nnil an nn unt I'm m.lu
<->-7 > V"V
got one favor to ux of you. 1 want enut
powder to kill a big yallcr stum-tail dog
that prowls round my premises at night.
Pon honor, I wont shoot at anything blue
or black or mulatter. Will you send it? j
Aro you nnd your foaks so skoered of ine j
and my I'oaks, thut you won't let us have 1
any amynition ? Arc the squirrels and '
crows and black rakoons to eat up our poor j
little corn patches? Are the wild turkevs
to gobblo all around us with impunity? If
a uiad dog takes the liiderfohy, is the whole
community to run itself to death to get out
of the way? I golly! It looks like your
pepul had all tuk the rebelfoby for good,
and was never gwine to get over it. See
here, my friend, you must send inc a little
powder and a ticket to your show, and me
and you will harmonize sertain.
With these few remarks I think T fool
bettor, and hope I haint made tmhndv ??? ? .
mad, for I'm not cn tlmt lino at this tiuio
I am trooly your friend?all present or ^
accounted for.
BILL A III*, caUcJ.
P. S ?O d man Harris wanted to buy
my fiddle the other day with Oonfcdcrik
money, lie said it would he good again. ;
Ho says that Jim Fuudcrbunk told him
that Warren's Jack seed a man who had
just cnin from Virginity, and he scd a man
told his cousin Mainly that Lee had whipped
cni agin. Old 11 urn? says that a utan
by tlio name ot Muck. C. Million is coming
over with a million of men. Put nevertheless,
notwithstanding, somehow or somehow
else, I am dubus about the money.
If you was mo, Artcmus, would yo\\ make j
the fiddle trade ?
When the Southern members of Con- !
gross left their scats in that body and joined
the rebellion, they were traitors. Now i
when they have left the rebellion, and ,
want to take their scats, they are traitors
still. The Hepnblicans tried to provent
their leaving their seats in the Hrst in fannn
^ ? ? ~ ? 41
?~hvv, uui iury uppose inetr resuming
thcin now. llow consistent!
A contented mind and a gocd conscience
will make a man happy in all condition.
i
[From ibo Missouri Republican."]
Letter from Kelt. Sterling Price.
Cordova, Mexico, Dec. 10, 1805.
My Ddar Sir : Your kiud ami much esteemed
favor of the 19th ult., was handed
mo a few days since, and I now proceed to
answer it, in camp and without shelter, but
t upon my own six hundred and forty acres,
near the town ot Cordova and the railroad
leaving from Vera Crus to the city of
Mexico. The lands in this vicinity arc not
surpassed by any of tho IMatte land in for
tility of soil, and in th# finest climate I ever
\ saw; the thermometer never above ninety
degrees, or below seventy, and in full
view of mountains covered with perpetual
j snor- I am gratifi 1 to bo able f<* ~ .y
| that as soon a:; the urvey was completed
I the thirty Confederates now here, uuani
i *?a >
uvuoi; IVUUVIUU UlU ill? CllOlCO oi sections.
I tliir.k I have made c. judicious selection
1 have donated to the colonists twenty four
acres t\>r a town site ou a rushing stream of
water und by a largo spring of excellent
water. Wo have laid off the ground into
town lots und named it Carlott.a, after the
Empress, and we arc all now upon our lots
clearing awav the brush to erect our houses.
L wrote 1113* family to-day to join tne here
as soon as they can raise the means to do
so. I cannot tlrink of returning to the
Slates and he required to ask pardon for
the action I took in the struggle. 1 am
entirely satisfied with the part I took. 1
; would do the same again under similar cir
cumsiancos. l ilul ail* that my talents en!
abled nic to do to avert the calamity ol
war. 1 was nut a secessionist, but when
| the struggle came I did uot hesitate t j take
.
| the stile of the South.
I pray to (jod that my fears for the future
J of the South may never be realized} but
when the light is given to the negro to
bring suit, testify before courts, and vote
lit elections, you all had better be in Mcx
ico.
There is no doubt of the stability of this
government. French troops aro arriving
every week, and the marauding 1 ands that
have info?tcd the country for ages past arc
fast being exterminated; no ({tuners arc
given.
When the character of our lands is well
pur or iwo, ami nicy manufacture j ublic ]
sentiment, which comes to (Yn^re.-T.oual
deadhead subscribers through th n.ai >, a<
the expression of a free anil iudipondent
press, isiiovt t i'etl into speeches, and of
course has its weight with the uninitiated.
The New Orleans Tribune, a paper of this
class, bound hand and toot to the Conway
cliquej >s regularly furnished to radical
members of'Congro- for the above natned
purpose. Since (den. l uilerf m's \isit to
the Louisiana district, an 1 his correction
of corruptions there, there l:as been cor.
siderahle discu> ion and softie ill feeling
ainuno the officers of the bureau in tl at
dihtr ie" nsni'idnllv innl I'll. i:..i
. , ? j , "j > 1111 ii null'
secrets have come out. It is evident tli.it,
not withstanding General Howard's efforts
to prevent if, the bureau Ins ootnc to bo
quite a political machine. I n ofSe' 1 news
from offieere of tho Ltn . ui and Southern
newspaper extracts quoted in < .'ongrcssional
speeches should he taken with a grain of
suit.
It is a secret known but to few, yet of
no small Use in lite conduct of life, that
when you fall into a man's conversation,
tho first thing you should consider is,
whether be lias a greater inclination to
bear you or that you should hear him
Tho latter it tho nn st general do n o m?l
I know very able flatterers that never
speak a word in praiso ot the persons from
whom tliey reeeivo daily favors, but still
practice n skillful attention to whatever ia ;
uttered by those with whom they converse.
What is the bert to prevent ol 1 maids
from des pairing ??T.tiring.
under*? ? > 1, immigration will to a lived
fact under any circumstances, an 1 th
finest lauds tl at en" ;jr h* rorurcd at low
rates \vi 1 cotiiuiand largo j rices. I have
never known tho cultivation of lands to
yield such large profits. My neighbor, Mr.
i-'ink (a nian u! science), cultivates ^0)
eighty acres in coffee with ten hands, and
sol I his l.ist year's crop for $l<?,00i). His
eoSco lichl, shaded with every variety of
fruit trees, in full bearing, and the walks
fringe 1 with the pineapple, is the most
beautiful sight 1 lnvo ever seen.
I am, dear sir, y>nr friend, truly,
^TK'.ll.lMi I'ltlCK.
O.'M'oitctilN of Itcconsfruction.
Tl..? W',^1,' ? ..
? .. ^ i ( *? -?? HI^vvii wi i : UI IUC
New York Herald writes:
Some of the iim>* indefatigable workers
again-t reconstrueti >n are to l>o found
among thesul ordinate officers of'ho Freed- '
men's llaroau in the South. They as yet
only supply members of Congress with
data for sp< eelies, and do not e -nfinc them- i
solves to the channels prescribed by the |
regulations in their transmission. Tins
proe? lure flanks l5encr.nl Howard, whose!
innate honesty would prompt him to sup 1
press many of tho exaggerated yarns if'i
they came through tho otii-'e of the bureau.
In M-vt-ral districts they control a newsr.a
District Assessors.
I The following appointments of Assistant Assessors
for the Third Collection District in
South Carolina, lmvc been made by the rrcaident,
viz :
Biehland?John D. Black, Anilrow O. Baakin.
Lexington?Bolivar J. Haves, Godfrey Leaphart.
Edgefield ? Richard C. Griffin, James O. Fcr
rell, William W. Adams,
t Abbeville?Georce Allen. John II- Marshall
Nevr berry?John S. Hair. Benson Joncn.
Fairfield?Richard W. Gaillard, Itob't Hawthorne.
Chester?Tlomas M. Graham, William llat
lcr.
Laurens?James M. Bojd, James J. Shumate,
Homer L. McGowati.
Anderson?Thomas S. (.'ritylon, William K
Walters, J. Scott .Murray.
l'ickens?Washington F. Holcombc, Benjamin
F. Morgan. .James R. Ilagood.
Greenville?William Goldsmith, Henry M
Smith. William T. Shumate.
Spartanburg?Joseph M. Flford, .
Union?J. W. McLuro, John C. P. Jeter.
York?H. F. Adicks, Robert M. Wallace,
Walter D. Mctts.
W\sU!m;ton. January 10, 18GG.
The Ncgvo Suffrage Bill passod the House
without qualification by a more than two-thirds
majority The negroes atnl their worshippers
applauded. From the galleries and floor
shouts of applause arose when the voto was
announced. It is a decree of "liberty und
e*iuality." '1 he question lmd been made one
of strictly party churacter, and every man in
the House who was tot prepared to forfeit his
party relations voted with the majority. Many
of the Republicans voted with a view to force
an issue between themselves and their political
opponent", before tho people, nnd also to force
1 resident Johnson to an issue with their party.
They know that they can keep the South out
of the Union in sotnc way or other, and that
for their own term at least, they will be able to
cripple and centrol the Executive power.
The Senate will pass the Bill, as it goes to
them from the House. It w >ttld thus pa*s iu
a shape that would serve to compel a vote from
he President. If he voto it, tho conservatives
triumph. If he sign it. the It .dicals will
use him as their own sta!lfirn?_ii.-.rva . v..
credit for purpose and consistency will greatly
aid them in their future policy.
The whole amount of tho matter ifthU :
Whether tiie N?gro Suffrage Bill be passed or
not. ttic Republican party intend to keep the
8outh out o,'tho Cuion as long as they can. The
most hopeful oftho Conservatives have come to
this eon-.'lnsion. Now will the President aid
them in this design ? If so, ho will oppose
this, their leading measure. You will see in
the proceedings of Congress, Senator Wade's
speech ugaints rcccnsu action, ana the interlo- |
cut ions thereon. Whether it be done by legislation,
nceoi ling to the idea of Mr. Sutuner,
or by the requirements of the President and
test oaths, the South is to be forced to adopt
the r.ulioal measures. So Mr. Wade declared
that the Southern States which had acted
under President Johnson's admonitions, that
they must adopt certain measures or be kept out
of the Union, will have the right to repudiate
dl tho e measures tliey adopiod under moral
or political duress. This is ulso Carl Schurz's
argument against present restoration.
* * * * LEO.
Tlic Administration at Work.
l'"iotn the following, which we clip from
I .t . V 1- ?
I me .mw i orK l nbuno, it would aecm that
I the Administration was at work in New
I England:
I 'Tin: Ai.ministration in Connbc?
1 ri' i'T-?!t has leaked out tliat the Federal
office-holders in Connecticut?postmasters,
revenue collectors, tide waiters, &c ?are
making strenuous efforts to get possession
oi the I n ion State Convention, which is
to assctublo at Hartford, on February 14.
The intention ia to have resolutions-passed
I thero, cmlor.siutfih3 Presidents reconstruction
policy, whatever tliat may be; to instruct
the Congressional delegation of the
1 Slate to vote for the early re admission of i
T- nnessev, and generally to have the Vii- ;
i n party ot Connecticut put forth a platfoim ;
calculated to secure the movers in the pos- !
j-vvion of their plans. Senator Dixon left
Washington for New York, a lew evenings j
' non *? ' L *1
uoirtc i, ior iric purpose of con- !
I rring with a delegation of Connecticut
oiliec holders upon the measures to be adopted
to iiisuro the success of this movement,
an 1 esp< cially ti e pla<forms to be adopted."
flic Tribune evidently fears that the
Administration will be successful in Connecticut,
and in advance is attributing u
responsibility to the oftiec holders that bolongs
riaiiy to the people.
To Hisiness Mf,n.?The Carolinian
says if you want to coin money, advertise !
Keep your runio before the dear public
Make it know y >u, think and talk abjut
you. Make it believe that you arc doing
a sma;-hing business. Now a da)-s the !
man who stops advertising might as well
tie crape Ol? his doors. Its the life of
, trr.de, the animus of competition. If your
nei: UDor has one column in tho morning 1
paper do you occupy two. A thousand
dollars in a newspaper always P * }' > and it I
is the knowledge of this fact, and the 1
courage to buy money (or the time being
in this manner, that has mado the fortune
of half the sardine aristocracy of the coun
try.
I?I ww?
An old sailor said that he supposed that
dan in * girls woro their dresses at half
mast as a mark of respect to departed mod flfy.
From the London Time*.
TIi? Fate of Poland..
Numberless aro the melancholy details
foreshadowing the ultimate extinctions of
the Polish raco which flow in from every
jiart of the Russian Empire! Gen. Kauf> '
man, the Governor of Lithuania, will not
allow the sound of the Polish idiom to be
heard in public. With a view to the re- * !
alization of this extreme ideal, ho is traveling
in the country receiving deputations,
and lecturing people oti ihcir omissions
and commissions in the past. The Polish
nobility lie lias repeatedly asked on suoh. A
occasions to become Russians from tlia
sole of their feet to the tip of their tenguos,
or if tbey want to be Poles, to be off at
once and emigrate to souse non-Russian
country. The townspeople, mort of whom
arc Poles, are inexorably fined for any
words in their native language uttered
aloud in a public thoroughfare, and quits
recently the General has also began to
chide the Lithuanian peasantry of the province
for talking Lithuanian when they
aro Russians, and when it is most shameful
for diem to be heard speaking anything
but the language sanctified by the
Imporial decree abolishing serfdom, having
been composed in it. It is in keeping
with this injunction that all instruction in
these provinces must be imparted in Russian,
and thut the teachers whose names
v._. . *
uu| jiuiis iu terminate in " Kl," tne clunu)*
teriatic ending of Polish patronymic bavo
been commanded to change the revolutionary
syllable for its royal Russian equivalent
" koi." It ia surprising that this Russian
fanaticism should be manifested by a General,
not a Russian by birth, but a German
servant of the Czar'(
In Poland proper the samo process is
going on, with even more immediate results.
Being the nearest to Germany, it
has been invaded by Gcrui&n capitalists,
baying up landed estates at nominal prices.
With them came German laborers, overseers
and mechanics, welcomed by their
numerous countrymen already residing in
the kingdom, ar.d like thcin, dispossessing
the natives of their available sources of
wealth. By thi? time there exist nont but
nerniati nulls and manufacturers in Poland,
and there arc whole towns, sueh as
Lodz, Wrocluwcc and others, where the
educated classes and a large portion of the
I jwer orJors arc either exclusively German
or more or less Germanized. The Government
seems to be well content with th?
growth of the German clement, which Is
instinctively hated by tho Poles, sod, on
its part, returns the compliment by supreme
contempt. A short lime since the
Warsaw authorities proposed to allow the
nobility sorao respite in paying up interest
for their mortgaged estates to the National
Banks; but though a considerable portion
if those estates bad been taken from them
and distributed to tbo peasantry in tho
course of the emancipation measure, and
there is no prospect as yet of the indemnification
money being handed over to the
former proprietors, the proposal was not
approved by the Central Government at
St. Petersburg This is first impoverishing
a man, and then obliging him to meet
ms engagements without d lay.
?
The National Banks.
The Washington correspondent of the
Constitutionalists, says:
There is a good deal of nervousness, (which
is kept out of the newspapers as much u
possible,) respecting the issues of the National
llanks. It is true they are secured
by the deposit of Federal securities, but
like the seven thirties and ten forties,
(which are much below tho par of greenbucks,)
they are not legal tenders except
to tho government. A man may not be
compelled to receive them for a debt. It
seems to bo the policy of the Treasury
Department to diminish ns rapidly as possible
the volume of " legal tenders," but
to swell with at least cqnal rapidity, tho
vnlumo ot currency that is not u legal tender.
Thus it is proposed to fund tho compound
interest legal tenders (amounting to
617-,(.MM),OOU) in gold bearing bonds ; and
to withdraw a hundred million dollars in
greenbacks, substituting tbein for an equal
amount of national ourrency. Tho result
tnav bo that v?ii??' rn
. xreasury and
State Hanks may resume 6pccie payments
very soon, and ail debts become payable in
cold or its equivalent, and yet these issues
ot' the National Hanks remain at an uncomfortable
discount. As soon as the
financial policy of the govcrnraaut shall be
fully inaugurated, the issues of tho National
Hanks may fall to a discount of fire
per cent. Tho difference between legal
tender, and not full legal tender, is known ?
by one tact. The ten forties, bearing five
per c.Hit. interest in gold, (or more than
Keven per oent. in currpnm? "y -*
J ?/ WVi*
The interest bearing legal tender bearing
but six per cent, in currency, soil at 101}
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