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Eloquent Extract.
The following ar& the closing remarks
of the Hon. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, in the
speech recently delivered by him in the
city of New York, and in which he re
viewed the intolerant action of the Con
gress that recently adjourned ;
"The historian of Rome draws some
thing from his imagination when he pic
tures the proud Queen of Palinvra, Zen
obia, arrayed in purple, yet loaded with
golden chains; to aggrandize the pro
cession in honor of the conqueror of Asia.
It needs no imagination to picture the
Fite of eleven States, not of foreign origin,
but of one blood, language history and
religion, following with downcast eve the
triumphal chariot of Gongressional power!
States whose area is over 72.5,000 square
miles ;larger than England, France, Spain,
Portugal, and all Germany : having a
populatic of 10,000,000; whose annual
product from a little pod is greater than
the wealth which the Roman bore in his
stately galleys to Rome from the golden
and jeweled Orient! Virginia, too proud,
perhaps, but with such a glandeur of
great names on her rolls; the Carolinians,
weary of their wnvwardness, but still
the homes of the Pineknevs, who trave
the Constitution to America and those
who, at Mecklenburg, anticipated the
Declaration which, at King's Mountain,
consu mated our independence ; Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, whose
feet are kissed by the waters of a thou
sand rivers, which rolling through the
valley of the Mississippi, gather their
volumes of wealth from Minnesota to
Louisiana-these are the subject States
led in fetters at the car of the Imperial
Congress. Such exhibitions dishonored
the greatnes of even Pagan Rome. They
would not be tolerated by ambitious
France, which takes Venetia as a gift
from the Kaiser only to set it as a jewel
in the crown of a United Italy. It might
fnd its counterpat :is thie great land ani
mal of the North-Russia-in whose em
brace prostrate Poland groans. Forget
tin hr wn grasp of Ireland, England
assumesro be horrified at the spectacle.
Even in Turkey, the policy of strangling
brothers by th~e Sultan no longer makes
the traveler shudder as he crosses the
Bosphorus. But fur this Christian land
of America the people do not ask such a
mockery of triumph andl such a degrada
tion of lower. 'lhey will write the epi
taph of the Congress which proposes in
letters of fire :"IIere lies the fragments
of the thirty-ninth American Congress,
which, star~ting with a furtive conspiracy
against the Presidenit, with opportunities
nlever before vouchsafed for blessing,
post poned Union ; and putting the na
tion in peril of another civil war, it died
under the just indignation of an aroused
people, and is damned to an immortality
of infamy !"
THE SUEZ C.A-A---AII along the mari
time canal the greatest activity prevails.
Nor are the accessory fresh water canals,
meanwhile, neglected. At the end of
December 80),Q00 Egyptian workmen
were busy excavat,ing the line of fresh
water canal between Bulbeis and Abassie.
In clearing away the heaps of earth
beneath which the Rocks of Chalouf, in
the desert, have been buried for ages,
there has been discovered a quantity of
marine shells. Remains of fish, and
more particularly of the shark tribe,
have also been brought to light.
It is generally known that a passage
between them'has been effected, and
that it is the intention of the Canal
Company to throw it open to the comn
merce of all nations. Of course, for the
present, until a depth of twenty-six feet
and a width proportionate to that depth
are obtained, only the smaller class of
vessels will be able to take advantage of
hthe opening, and the Mediterranean ports
may find their commercial geographical
positions suddenly changed and brought
almost face to face with countries now
the most remote from them, that is to
say, to the harbors along the Red Sea,
on the Asiatic and African side.
The Raleigh Sentinel says :"Mr. R.
Rogers, of Monroe, Union County, wishes
information of his son, J. A. Rogers, who
was a soldier in Ripley's Brigade, on
Sullivan 's Island. H e was last heard of
inst prior to the battle of Averysboro, in
'in this State. after which he was missing.
Any intelligence concerning him will be
gratefully received by his distressed
lather. "Will the press please circulate
this notice ?"
Thisman,Brow iilow.
This man, as black of heart and as foul
of tongue as any creature that ever
prowled in former days through the stews
of Alsatia, seems desperately bent upon
provoking strife and bloodshed. He has
already brought about a state of things
in East Tennessee which exists no
where else. lie has sedulously fanned
into flames hatreds and animosities which
would long since have smouldered into
ashes. He has actively hounded on the
spirit of persecution and Iurder, and is
now malignantly goadilng unresisting
men to the la>t point of desperation. If
he only interlaryded his prayers to ieaven
with curses and fllschoods against his
fellow-men, he might he safely left to the
same contempt to wiich mnyV of his
co-laborers in the Convention [ave al
ready' been con s1n ed. But he still
wielIs the , ower whicb he so frauldu
lently and despotica:lly seized, and that
power Le is actively ~exArcising for the
gratitication of his ajbolic1l passi "ns
We have before us a piteuis lett:r from
a iady of East Tennessee, applying for
aid tor the chiiren of a Confederate
soldier, who, inl an aho 'st (lying^ condi
tion, was driven from his home in that
part of the St:ite.
After refr: in, briefly to th' reign of
terror which bas been I1iainItained there
by Brownlo, slW :(ds: "Even now are
scattered o'er these hills five Iiund(red
circulars issued at Jonesl)OrO' by the
Governor of the State, a few days ago,
advising the Radicais to horn every
fence rail, and re(ie' to - bes every
Rebel home, an1d exterrn.'nate every
Rebel in the Su.nth.'' How long are
men to be expected to permit this mad
man to pursue his (cStl uct ie career?
How long are the Anerican peIle to
tolerate the continluance it l;o? er of
this shameless ruffian ? There is no po
litical question inlvolved in this natter.
A tyrant is perseeuting ad oltragig
a defenseless people. How shall they
obtain peace for their familics, protec
tion for their prop rty, and security for
their limbs an(d lin- s ? Th-se are the
simple questions v. liih the people of
Tennessee are called (' to < answer, and
it is clear they cannot remain long mn
settled. Froi the most degraded race
on earth, Brownlow's antics would soon
force an answer, It cannot he, then,
that the once free people of lcnnessee
wili inuch longer he silent.-ialtilore
Gazette.
Ta ) .x 1'rI: M .ux, or the
great stone face, the in oflie ini the Fran
coma Mountain, which standS out fromi a
rocky preCipice t owein g a thioi5:itd leet
above the beautiful like near the Profie
House, is nioticed in the "Jour-nal of
Comm ierce," wiebc s:ays:
"hhe for-ehe:al(, 1; ,e, umuth,i chin, andl
even A dam's appl Pon the neck, all are
perfect. Many a man -ani be seun whose
face resembles it. The strange fahct -ihout
this profile,bhos~everi, nt genaera lly known,
is that the etieet is produc-ed, not by the
edge of one rock, buiit Si imlyI by the
social accidental ronIinlg of vat o0s
rocks, so me more (dist a t thian o ther:s. 1n
fact the fron t of the~ t op of the arecipice
is a group of reeks about eighty feet
high by a~ hurndred in breadth. The(
nose is fo:tv feet west of the for-ehea~d.
The miou th, wIihib seems1 an) oplenin ofO
two thin lips, is a sidlcong chasmn or
breakPn of fifty feet in Cx tent. iewed
from the front, the face vaniThes, while
the :ocks seeml inaccessible as they pang
in the air over the precipitous decent
below.
William B. Swett, a deaf mute, and
nloted for- his wandierings, educated at the
Iartford Asvlunm, a car-penter by trade,
during the past summuer, has produccd a
veiy remarkable work, being neither
mor-e nor1 less than a faic simile in plaster
of the gre.at stone fac-e. Ihis measue-tiC
men~fts wer! e ac-cur-ately made, not without
great risk and dauring exposure. The
w' rk is fram red, ubout i8 inches square.
The fruit view shows the r-eggedl, rocky
face of the precipiee, whtile a side view
gives the prohle. A curious fact, dis
coveredl hr this work of Mr. Swett is that
the view from the west, never- seen by
hu man eiy es, beca u-e i :acessibl e, gives
am ost Its g' od a pro fie as the wvell-k now n
view f'rmn the vast. The permianentC
guests at thle Prille lluse, (en inIg the~
last smnnl:er, raiVedl a stilm (If mlonley as a
testimonial of their :appr eci at in, andl mi
vised 1him to go to >tme cityV where lie
cold have it retroduced ini pilater copies
for sale. A sublsCri ptiotn book was
opened, and duingl) t he seasbon a lar-ge
nuber of silbscript ions for copies, at a
price not to exceed 810 each , w ere obtain
ed. llis a(dres~ is IIenniker, N. II.
A Nr:w Iinu w'rn A Lox; Num.-In
arecen t numbo1 enr of th le (Courier des Ett
U nis,w learn of the existence or aL new
'lln erh ilS avory dish low bJeing en]
jyd by e11~cilinre at F-ra nkfort, Geirmanyx.
TiL.le icjial inIgredienlts are 5tsanssage,
Irish poIdtameS, sotir krout and 1blo(1(
pdding. XV e w ill do thle spelling of the
word, lealving 01ur readers' to prThoonne
it. He[re is the xv d of thirty- two letters:
a,aucsnkartoffelbro.ssourkraut
A New Cmnven'ion.
The Richmond Dispatch suggests a
new idea, under the presert threatening
aspect of afiairs. It assumes, and upon
good grounds, that the rump Congress
will attempt to impeach the President;
but is no less confident that the President
will not recognize the authority of the
[louse, as now constituted, to impeach
him, or that of the Senate to try him.
As we have frequently predicted, the
Dispatch sees the inevitable result of this
action, and that is another bloody civil
war. The President will call upon the
military for support; Gens. Steedmar,
Fullerton,' perhaps Grant, and hundreds
of othcrrs-of the best generals in the coun
try, will rally around him. Perhaps an
eqtinlly large number will sustain the
pret ensions (f Congress. Civil war, then,
cannot well be avoided, unless one or the
other-of these partie; surrender.
When such a terrible conflict opens,
it is evident that the bonds and treasury
notes of the United States would become
worthless, and therefore capitalists are
deeply interested in preventing such a
result. The Dispatch, therefore, sug
gests that the capitalists of the country
hold a convention at an early day, and
agree upon a plan of combined action, to
defeat the radicals at the coming elec
tions.
We think the suggestion a good one.
Capital, so very sensitive on the approach
of civil war or political disturbance,
,:Louid put forth its power while it can
wiCld it, to prevent a catastrophe which
would undoubtedly swamp it. It can ex
ercise a powerful intiuence at the North
ern ballot-boxes; and if t e radicals
should be defeated, there il be no
danger of any disturbance.. The ad
vice - is gocd to the capitalists, and
it will not fail to have its influence on
even the more humble holders of Govern
ment securities. We believe further, in
this connection, that the success of the
radicals at the election, even before they
resort to any definite action, will largely
decrease the price of public securities,
and in the same ratio advance the rate of
gold. Those who were fortunate to have
plenty of (Government obligations, will
doubtless stand from under the antici
pated crash.
VinGINIA.-The star law and other
questions connected with the indebted
ess of the people is exciting no little at
tention in virginia. A writer in the Rich
n1ond Whig, of the 11th, has this to say
onil the ubject
The present .stay law is miierelyV a thin
veil, which stands between the debtors
und utter hopeless (desti uction. It is
the hair by which hangs the sword of
iamocles suspended over his head. Re
move it, and the wail of desolation will
be heard at many a hearth-stone. Large
numb ers of our noblest families will be
thrown out upon the cold charities of
he world, and their places supplied by
the Yankee adventurer and the miser
able Southern speculator, who has coined
lls gold, in the great time of his trouble,
from th12 blood of patriot martyrs ana
the sacred tears of the widow and or
phan.
in order to avoid this extremity, a
large class of people will, in future, and
are now miaking deeds (a proceeding, to
say the least, of qjuestioniable morality,
b)t thrust upon themn byv the force of
cicumIstanices over' which they' had no
control) conveying their property to
trustees, in trust for their wives and a
few favored creditors who have treated
them kindly and lenien tly, thus securing
the conting~ent rig~ht of dower, but in fact
virtuall repudiating the great body of
their liabilities. Is this right, or is it
wrong ? Let moralists detcide as they
will, tile world, in a great number of in
stances, will sanction the proceeding.
For myl own part, I neither recommend
nor endorse it, and yet it looks as thiough
it were a matter of self defence.I
A Row A IoNGrin: CH ERCnFls.-3r other
Ieechers one hlundredl-poulnder has kick
ed up a t remnendousi row among the
churches. Cheever is going to pitch
into him to-mo(rro w; but this irreverent
anite! will get thle worst of tihe dliSCusiSSon,
as poor' G reelv did thle other day. TIhere
is a fire ini iiro1 iher I eechler 's rear, Ihow
ever, niot so easy to silence. The parson
employed to ocen]py Beecheir's pulpit
durn hi s vacation Iha:s been preachmiiig
agains5t hun ever si ne his famous letter,
andl there will probably be a split in Ply
mouth chu rchl and in all the other
churches except the Roman Catholic,
which never bothers itself with politics.
If 1)r othier Beecher gets into trouble we
will have collections taken up for himnin
the Catholic churches to build him a new
church on Fifth Avenue, and present
im with a lot of groundl( for a private
residence at Fort Washlingt on, where he
(en 1timaie himself in the Garden of
Eden, barring thle serpent and the flam
ing swo:d---N. Y. IILerald.
The Aulguista ((.a.) Chromecle says that
Governor Jenkins will probably suspeCnd
the coIIection of taxes in thlat State for
the present year, owing to the imnpover
The ?Onnditionl of the people.
Mexico.
During the President's pilgrimage, he
has been faithfully attended by the minis
ter of the somewhat shadowy and intan
gible republic of Mexico.
In recognition of his devotion, the
President dropped for his consolation a
few words of comfort in one of his recent
speeches. "Hiow about Mexico?" asked
one of the sovereigns, in the midst of a
speech of the President. "Wait until
we get all the States back into the Union,
and we will take care of Mexico," was
the President's reply. And Grant, silent
as the grave upon all other subjects,
never hesitates to express his opinions
in favor of our interference in the af'airs
of Mexico. But what shape shall this
interference take ? When Maximilian
leaves Mexico and rejoins his Empress
at Miramar, shall we leave Mexico to the
prey of fierce and greedy factions?
What shall we gain by the masterly di
ploniacy which has at last resulted in the
triumph of the "Monroe doctrine," if we
look on while rival chiefs cut each other's
throats and render the lives and property
of all foreigners insecure! Unless we
propose to use the shadowy republic of
Mexico as a sort of John Doe or Richard
Roe, wherewith to acquire a good poss
essory title, what use have we for the
Mexican Minister?
When the Austrian decamps, we must
lose no time in the acquisition of Mexico.
The terrible passions which are hurrying
this nation to perdition must find vent
somehow and somewhere. Provid:nce
seems to have wisely provided Mexico as
the "sick man," whose case demands our
immediate attention. As a Christian
and highly civilized nation, we cannot
permit Mexico to remain at the mercy of
brigand presidents and guerilla chiefs.
Our speedy intervention is indispensably
necessary to prevent Mexico from falling
into far worse hands than those of the
amiable Austrian prince whose speedy
exit is predicted with so much certainty.
We see no hope of peace and union for
the South until the attention of the North
is withdrawn from Cuffee and directed
to the management and improvement of
the Mexican.-Richmond times.
A G.AMBLER's TELEGRAPH.-The Den
ver (California) News gives an account of
a signal machine which was found in an
cid house just pulled down, and formerly
used by the sporting fraternity for gamb
ling purposes:
"It consists of a long lever made fast at
one end by a swinging joint to one of the
joists upon which the floor rests; about
eighteen inches from this joint there is a
pece of board nailed to the top of the
lever and reaching within two inches of
the boards of the floor. Into the end of
this board a nail is driven, through a hole
in the floor, large enough to admit of its
playing up and down freely; when down
the~head of this nail is level with the upper
surface of the floor. At the other end of
the lever a string passes up through the
floor and between the walls of a partition,
subjected in some way to the control of
the hand or foot of the gambler's confede
rate.
"The mode of operating was simply for
the gambler to sit on one side of the table,
with his foot on the head of the nail pre
viously described, the pigeon to be pluck
ed sitting on the opposite side, and the
amlers assistant behind or on one side
f him, so as to see the c'ards in his hand.
Then by a jerk of the string he could cause
the nail previously described, to lift the
foot resting upon it, and by a series of this
kind of taps, could accurately inform the
honest sportsman just what he had to
play against. It is a beautiful arrange
ment for the purposes desired. Thbis
lever is p)added where it would strike the
joist below, so that in signalling, not the
slightest concussion or sound may be
p)rod uced."
A NoR~TH ERN CoRREuSPoNDENT'S ACCOUNT
or GENERAL LEE.-The correspoudent of
the New York Times, writing from Lynch
burg, Va., says:
The living Lee is, however, a misnom
er, for his is rather a life in death-in a
less degree holds the affections of this peo
pe in the hollow of his hands, for simi
ar reason. No man more courteous
than he, none more high-bred, none more
generous, none more kindly in his inter
ourse with his neighbors. And Lee
lives a peaceful, cheerful, unobtrusive
life among these mountains. So far as
he himself is concerned, he would pre
fer that his name should be dropped from
present talk and current news. H-istory
must mention him, he knows, but that
time has not yet come. Lee holds him
self utterly aloof from the disputes and
passions of the hour; and here is a proof.
On Saturday night, he was at Rock
bridge baths. Stalwart and erect as ever,
white-haired and rubby-hued, his eye
still briTht and kindly as of old, lie sat
among the ladies of the neighborhood,
chatting as any other man might do;
hut with him, with his past and present
hanging about him, it seemed like the
leal past holding converse with the
Muses. Presently, there was the confu
ion of the nightly arrival from Rich
mond, and one gentleman, oeing acquaint
ed with the General, greeted him, and,
after the commonplaces, tendered him
the newspapers of the day. "Thank
you," said Lee, '-but I never-read any of
them."
Manufacturing.
To show unmistakably the importance
of devoting more attention to cotton
manufacturing at the South, it is only
necessary to refer to the immense profit
resulting from the investment in cotton
factories in Lowell. The aggregate capi
tal invested by her ten large companies is
stated at $13,000,000. The amount of
cotton consumed is one hundred thousand
bales; the number of yards produced, ex
clusive ofyarns,something over a hundred
millions; and the number of operatives is
twelve thousand. The operatives are
mostiy women and girls. It would re
quire at least thirty thousand field laborers
to raise this cotton, and yet it is conver
ted into yarns and cloths by t.:elve thou
sand operatives. The process for manu
facturing the cotton, about doubles its
value, and the average dividends declared
by these companies is thirty-three per
cent. When we consider the saving in
freight, and the advantages which the
local buyer has over the agent for distant
companies, it is manifest that with the
same efficient management here which
characterizes the Lowell companies, a
profit of nearly fifty per cent. could be
realized on the investment. This leaves
out of view the general advantages re
sulting from such enterprises-increasing
our population-erecting local markets,
and diversifying industrial pursuits. It is
strange that the manufacturers of Europe
are not induced to transfer some of their
capital to the South. They would thus
outflank the tariff imposed f'r the bene
fit of Easterr manufacturers, and save
the immense amount expended on freights
and charges.
BIGAMY.-We are informed, by aletter
from a reliable gentleman in Robeson
County, of the particulars of a recent
villainous outrage. It appears that Mr.
Harvey, of Richmond, Va., a railroad
contractor, worked on the Piedmont
Road some months ago-having in his
employment one John T. Price, of Buck
ingham County, Va., as a blacksmith.
Price became acquainted with Miss Fan
ny Whittemore, a respectable young lady
of Rockingham County, and married her
last March, while thus engaged on the
railroad. Soon after Mr. Harvey moved
his business and hands to the Wilming
ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad,
in Richmond County, where Price and
his newly married wife lived until a few
days ago, when it transpired that Price
ha~s a wife living in Buckingham Coun ty,
Va., or elsewhere. Upon this being pub
licly known, Price absconced and his
whereabouts is unknown. The young
lady thus deceived and injured is intelli
gent, amiable, and possessed of excellent
character. It is greatly to be hoped that
the villain may be arrested and brought
to punishment.
Let our young women of all classes of
society take warning- Many similar oc
currences, within the past two years es
pecially, admonish them of the danger of
formi ng matrimonial alliances with stran
gers of~whom they know and inquire
nothing.-Raleigh Sentinel.
Tun SoLD1lERs' CoNvENTION.-CleVe
land, Sept. 19.-The Convention adjourn
ed last night. Gen. Gordon Granger was
appointed president. Resolutions were
adopted by acclamation sustaining the
Philadelphia (;onvention of August 14th,
and declaring also the object of the sol
diers in taking up arms to suppress the
late rebellion was to defend and maintain
the supremacy of the Constitution, and
to preserve the Union with all its dignity
and equality, and the right of the several
States unimpaired and not in any spirit
of oppression or for any purpose of con
quest and subjugation, and that when
ever there shall be any armed resistance
to the lawfully constituted authorities of
our National Union either in the South
or in the North, or in the East or in the
West, they will take up arms to maintamn
the Union.
A dispatch from Memphis signed by
Gen. Forrest and other ex-Confederate
officers was read, expressing their sym
athy with the purposes of the Conven
tion,~and declaring that the Confederate
soldiers are entirely willing to leave the
determination of their rights as citizens
of States and of the United States to the
soldiers of the Union, and on our part
we pledge our life, security of life, person,
property, etc., freedomn of speech and
opinion. To all a suitable answer was
returned.
Wagg went to the station of one of the
railro'ds one evening, and fi nding the best
car full, said in a low tone, "why this car
isn't going." Of course these words
caused a general stampede, and Wagg
took the best seat. In the midst of the
indignation the wag was questioned:
"You said this car wasn't going ?" "Well,
it wasn't then," repliea Wagg, "but it is
now. -Tndiana Journal.