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1 A YARW FOR TE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE 1 N $QL IV. ~~WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 15,16.6O1; WIIRARLW m U~Lsmn WEDNESDAY MORNING, At6Ew%eiry & I.,) 1' O "U, IN CUEr Y WON,eraWMInUVUUO, Obit ..mmis.ib-a.esag private sard is advrUmements. Relief Iniquity Exposed. ROiM HON. R. H. HILL. JG,A re-$,188 t offid-Iwill ndeavour -i oro , in a brief space, the t enti against.the "relief feat- J v othe groposed negro con- t - thxe fs place, all the .v this ikegro eonsti- ic o t suject ai-e, con- r to the Constitution of t the lvi~d States, and there- t not afford the relief -prom- C b, i'rs and judges setees hve differed as to the b at -are calHed -Stay -Uetthe relief proposed by t iegro eonstitution is to de Wte diractieither by - solit5 jurisaltioD * :byexempting prop eiydaresey liabe from continuing -M& for their ginent. Now, 1 ara that ud ioO*t, no judge and se !eqpectablQ pfei ha been t wko wif pr-temd' that a A an destroy pri either of these o t aer.way. The hxostiom-is examined, tes&OS to be de is - itsatio says I law impair hf contraets." , y ahiause insert "ti th' iinatution? -Mr. Mad t] is awplWms inserted. beeause "OW . eriee"taught us it was "aeeessary." WIma experience This - after the diotntionary war the people were ldbt and hard Theqmsv-e saysffr. d A - n internal admin e% el Matation 4tates a violation is of degreiated paper I teiader~ of property{ ~p~kd-for' money, of instaki ~qP~Ufs d'of the ocelusions of ~~b!jUaie." Now, read tes of-jastlee ? Why, elos th~p ~orenying themju on a put in~ the y titwfr the express pur- 31 pose ~of tng the States from - aet what this negro a proposes todo!I And 36stha the~ wathoi-ity sovers & of repadiation -men *4thb. egnstitution. I will r ~e5~emoi-e -sentene: "the tl g*otglietof tIe framers of the t camstitutaoe undoubtedly was to M4hadvielability of COn dkhe principle was to bej garwectd in whatever formit y whichcontracts m btbeimpaired. .The iiitention was to probi?it every mode or de I. ginteth if itis eld kmown that the men who were t di.~isaumIental in putting these relief provisions in thib ne-t gro eengtRieo dida not intend teoddI hare effect.. The~y e dW. eierately devised as a cheat. This is now well estab lishaf. I bave heard men engaged a in.sg4eat admit it. I have the ., highest authority for satying that a assagssewere sent from the rj Radical leaders in 'Washington that relief might be put in the con stitution to get ivotes, but would bVit4lckea out after the votes wereobind #nk'ofit reader! Ouepeo pie to be'ceated into submitting 4 to negro dominationl by a false pro vili of relief, and the negroes to beauued to make suecess certaia.! But the half is not yet told. I lhis false promise of relief in the K I aegro constitution is not only it-'i ;elf a cheat, but it is to defeat all I egitimate relief, and prevent our 1 yeople from doing what they i )therwise would do to improve It 1heir condition. Let us enumer te some of the evils that must re- I oult from this agitation: t 1st. A large majority of credit,- I >rs are now willing to act liberally I vith their debtors, and take a rea- V onable portion of their debts. r 3ut debtors, by this relief agita- I ion, are encouraged to pay noth- a ng. Creditors will be compelled o hold on to their debts until the I aws can be enforced, and all the c ime interests is accumulating. i he time will eome when courts rill be open and law will - be ad- e iinistered. These creditors, out- e aged by the efforts of the debtors o o get rid of all the debt will exact p he last dollar and listen to no r ompromise. 0 2d. Very unfortunate bitterness f feeling will spring up among ur people. Efforts which ought - o be given to production and im- n rovement of propdrty, will be n iven to conceal, hide and cover a p property. There are unscrupu- ii )us lawyers now engaged in en- n ouraging this business. I know a f lawyers who are now promised ti Wge amounts to defeat the collec- 1 on of debts. I know some fool- t4 h debtors who are paying law- h ers amounts to defeat debts, y ,hieh the creditors would accept E d give up the debts. s Why, you will say such men are r razy! So in one sense, theyare. n tey are crazy wits a passion N iainst creditors. They prefer to E ay the money to lawyers who t( atter them to creditors who v rusted them. So, many men are n uan crazy. Every man who votes g )accept negro dominion to get ri Jse relief is erazy I Every man si ,bo so votes is selling his chil-; b ren's -hopes and his wife's happi- ai ess for a cheat-worse than a 1 seat. a 3d.'While all this is being done ti -e shall have negroes and Yan- h ees in the Legislature establish- f< ug free-schools for negroes, to be p xpported by taxation upon the o ~hites, and taught by New Eng- r mid teachers to increase the ha- r id between the races; and, while e ur industry will be paralized and o or products almost destroyed, s1 ur taxes will be fully doubled. h 'roperty will also be depreciated e< till more and more, and our peo- bn Ie will lose more in increased tax- t< tion and by the loss of property n alues, than would be sufficient to n ay their debts three times over.p 4th. In the meantime.the Bank- h~ u.pt act will have expired, and e Eousands will have failed to avail i Eemelves of it. 1: 5th. Every man who vo'es for c his negro constitution to avoid aying his debts, will never be v ble to get credit again. Many r ive by credit; but, having shown fi hemselves willing to defraud, no r sne man will ever after trust v hem. The rich man can live b rithout credit, or get it on his a iroperty. The poor man is depen- t tent on his character, anid when v hat is gonme he is ruined. t ?th. Those who are agitating t his question of relief are not the . ippressed men, or the -poor men,c >r the men of industry, or men of g ,ny class who deserve relief and j eally merit protection. They y re: 1. The wealthy men in debt j rho desire to hold their property I l ud evade their debts also. 2. R "hey are unprincipled, ambitious l emagogues, who are seeking to lt ake advantage of the people's|d nisfortunes, to inflame their pas ,ions and create false hopes, td en- 1 l ble them and the thieves who al- t w'ays follow them to obtain the I >ffices of the country and get pos lession of the resoui-ces of the peo- 1' >le. 3. They are the men who|t mave draden.d nph ane a ndl I1 widows and wards, and have made ortunes using trust property, and iow wish to live in luxury and ;urn off these orphans and widows ith nothing. A special provis on is put in this constitution for his very class. Was ever such a constitution ieard of before in a civilized coun r.y? Who now can doubt it was nade by negroes, felons, carpet )aggers and renegades to deceive mid destroy all honest, decent and espectable people, and to provide dunder for rogues, robbers, thieves ;nd New England vagabonds? Pardon me my dear sir, if I iave made my brief letter a long ne. I could increase the damn ng features and effects of this ne 7To constitution until not a book ould oontain the true record. I annot close without again sum !ing up the loss and gain pro osed to our people if they will atify this constitution, because f this promise of relief. Here is the bargain in few words: If we establish the constitution re get negro voters; negro jurors; egro legislators; negro judges; egro magistrates; negro mayors nd municipal officers; negro sher Is, clerks, ordinaries, constables, egro militia and militia officers, nd negroes in every other posi on which renegade and New Eng Lud whites will :not appropriate themselves. A4so we shall ave New England Governors; lew England Congressmen, New ngland judges; New England iperiutendents of our great rail )ads, of the Asylums for our lu MfiC.. deaf- dLdu-mjaya a d ii4 ew England tax collectors;,New ngland treasurers; New England achers, and New England ad enturers in every other position ot occupied by a negro- or not iven to some miserable Southern enegade who has agreed, in con deration of getting the office, to e dirtier than a corn-field negro, nd meaner than a New England Mdical, and to go further and lie iore unblushingly than both, in je work of degrading and robbing is own people. As the direct ef ict of this rule, we shall have our roperty depreciated ; nearly half f our State rendered unfit for the esidence of white people ; our or hans ro bbed ; our widows impov rished; our society demoralized ; ur credit at home and abroad de troyed ; our taxes doubled ; our iws ineap)able of protecting per an or property. Strangers will e our rulers ; thieves our legisla ars, perjured and bribed crimi als our judges. We shall have o peace save in the presence of a erpetual military power, and no ope of reco.very from our' fallen ondition except through a despot m accompanied with the exterm iation, banishment, or re-enslave 2ent of the African race. And -what is the consideration re get for all this degradation and uin ? This-only this: a promise rom rogues that we shall not be equired to pay our debts ; and ihich promise we know before and these rogues are neither ble nor willing to keep, which hey do not intend to keep, and ihich they merely make to en rap us ! Georgians, read this pic ure ! Turn sack and read it gain! Think of your wives and ildren; our buried dead ; our lorious past, and our once bright uture, and read again ! Then rou will be able to .understand this vild, mad, brigand promise of "Re ief!'' relief from honest debts by utting your wives, your children, -our property, and your all into he protection of rogues and un er the domination of the negro! rn thie first place. revolutionary eaders in other times and coun ries have been supported by the iople of their own race, colour >r blood. But the revolutionary eaders of this country are using he ignorant, semi-barbarous atid ng enslaed negro tn destroyv the liberty and government of the A white race. Without these ne groes what support would the Radicals in Georgia have? They t( have literally no decent native iE white supporters. The report 0 that over thirty thousand whites voted for convention is the dirty E lie of a Radical. It is well known ci that those whites who voted for tE delegates in some counties, but c< who refused to vote for or against convention because they wished el to be counted on that question f with those who did not vote, were t< falsely counted for convention ! There are not, this day, one hun dred white Georgians in favour of cc negro suffrage or the reconstiuc tion measures of the Radical Con gress. P( In the next place these revolu- er tionary leaders, of this country, s do not permit even the negroes to. act upon their natural instincts, P. or to vote according to their vol- it untary preferences. al Miserable agents flood our State, S( m whose only business is to organize machinery to get control of the it ra negro, and compel him by force, r fraud and deception to vote the Radical ticket. We all saw this P work in the election for conven- it tion and now dirty agents are go- Pl ing over the State employing black and white hired stbordi- P nates to manage the polls and t "scour the country," and compel, ev %nd deceive and frighten unwil- gc [ig negroes to help in this work of S su political, social and moral destruc- s bion. hi In the third place, thousands of of ntelliaent educated white ien th tre disnsed and not allowed ey to vote on the constitution under by which they are to be forced by th negroes and strangerl to live ! hi Ignorance, vice and pauperism of rh very grade and character are to r be fo; ced, frightened and entrapped m bo the polls, and intelligence, vir bue and property are forced away! th The blackest annals of revolu- t on ionary hate and crime in coun- e ries civilized or savage would be v searched in vain for a parallel. White men ! vou who are still soncious that Go>d madeyou white, in will one of you join in such a work, t and only in order to get a chance -a hopeless ~ehance-to cheat tr your neighbor? ?i Yours, very truly, s B. H. HILL. s J. R. SNEED, Esq., Macon, Ga. A PLAIN-SPOKEN ENGLISHMAN. -Mr. Goldwin Smith,in delivering P a lecture at Brighton , (England,)t spoke out with more directness on the subject of hereditary mon a~rchy than we remember any pub- t lie man in England of mark to i have done in our day. He said very plainly that the root of mon archy is dead, and that the tie be- t tween Queen Victoria and the th English people is purely of per. sonal affection. Were this true PC the prospectsof the Prince of Wales te would not be of the best; but the " re words are likely to lead t'o an ex- tr aggerated estimate of the situation. tb name, an idea, a show, no doubt t is dead. The monarchy of Eng- It land is supported in other ways. i A large proportion of the middle tu .Sez firnly believe that some hocus-pocus such as a sovereign without power is the best arrange- t ment for the security and comfort u of society ; and to the multitude al the notion of a republic is distaste ful. Under certain conditions, theW hereditary monar-chy of England is decidedly the safest in Europe; but those conditions may be want ing. A bal, an obstinate king, would be weighed. and got rid of with very slight delay. Mr. Gold- oe win Smith's lecture, meanwhile, o is a significant even t, as betokeningis the new form of open questions which are to be considered when the reign of democracy is fully ini: augurated., ar ddress to the Colored Peo ple of South Carolina. Amongst the papers submitted the Convention was the follow ig address to the colered people 'South Carolina. It was after ards referred to the Central xecutive Committee, with dis etion to publish. The Commit e has kindly furnished us with a )py : The Convention of the Demo. -atic party of South Carolina els it a high and bounden duty i speak to you candidly and ear tly, and with no further apolo ( than that our intesests are to a rtain extent identical. You have been suddenly put in )sition to, exercise certain pow s, the abuse of which may re It disastrously to you and to us. is impossible that your present wer can endure, whether you use for good or ill. The white race ready .out-numbers you in the >uth. Disease has made the rtality among you twice what is among the whites, and the te is daily increasing. Emigra )n has carried off thousands of iur color to distant States, while already begins to fill their aces with whites from Europe. it, not your pride, nor yet your etended friends, flatter you into e belief that you ever can or er will, for any length of time, vern the white men of the uth. The world has never seon ch a spectacle, and its whole tory, and especially the history your race, gives no ground for e anticipation. Perhaps, how cr, you expect to attain power the aid of the radical party at e North. The Almighty, in i wisdom, (perhaps to prevent e amalgamation of the separate ces which he created and irked,) has implanted in every man breast, a sentiment called e prejudice of race; and when is feeling is once aroused, it is e of the strongest and most uni rsal passions of our natures. hen your race was among us as Lves, this sentiment slumbered, d only a compassion for you fuenced every honest heart ose among your masters-to eat you kindly ; those who be ved you wronged, to~ desire to L your free. - When you were t free, compassion ceased to ex .When undue power was een you by t.he radical party, -om motives which all men ap eciated and despised,) prejudice race sprang up. The whites of is State endeavored to allay it here, at least-by inviting you a course and a compromise aich would have given it noth g to feed upon. But their efforts sulted in such an utter failure, at it would be mortifying had it t been a Christian duty to make e effort. Every step of your li tical career, so far, has cultiva I this prejudice, until it now eaks aloud in England and is al ady rapidly changing the poli is of the entire North. This is e odium which must soon prove e death of the radical party. is too strong to be resisted, be g the operation of a law of nla re. Do you not see it even in >ur white radical friends, in ite of their industrious efforts conceal it so lone as they have e for you ? Is it not apparent, so, in the officers, and even the ry private soldiers, of the army ose bayonets still prop tip your swer, only because they are paid do it ? Do you flatter your lves that your "Loggsl Leagues" n prevail against it ? "Blood is icker than water," and the gue which the Almighty has ganized is one to wh'ch there ill be no traitors, when one an ;ue is fairly made. To repeat, then, as we began ; >Urn present pdv er must surely d soon pass from you. Nothing at it builds will stand, and no ing will romnin of it but the prejudices it may create. It is there- I fore, a most dangerous tool that I you are handling. Your leaders, c both white and black, are using z your votes for nothing but their v individual gain. Many of them, g you have only known, heretofore, s to despise and mistrust, until com- a mantled by your leagues to vote a for them. Offices and salaries for v' themselves are the heights of t their ambitions ; and so that they f make hay while the sun shines, d they care not who is caught in a the storm that follows. Already, i they have driven away all capital ii and credit from the South ; and I h while they draw eleven dollars a s day, thousands among you are n thrown out of employment, and o starve simply for lack of work. I b What few enterprises are carried p on are only the work of Southern n men, who have faith that the a present state of affairs is but tem- v porary. The world does not offer a better opportunities for the em- li ployment of capital than are to be h found in the South, but will your fl radical friends send their money r here to invest ? Not one dollar. I They would just as soon venture k on investments in Hayti or Libe- o ria, as commit their money to the a influence of your legislation. Cap- r ital has learned to shun it as a a deadly plague. t We, therefore, urge and warn tJ you, by all the ties of our former t relations, still strong and binding t in thousands of cases, by a com- t mon christianity and by the iu- f tual welfare of our twb races, h whom Providince has thrown to- v getlr, to ei.'o -cou on i wiic your leadei-e are urging y you, in a blind folly whiih will d surely ruin both you and them. t We do not pretend to be better m friends to your race than we are a to ourselves, and we only speak v where we are not fiVited because si your welfare concerns ours. If t] you destroy yourselves you injdre a, us, and though but little, com- r pared with the harm you will do p yourselves, we would if we could e avert the whole danger. s We are not in any condition to I make you any promises or to pro- o pose to you any compromises. We ti can do nothing but await the d course of events-but this we do a without the slightest misgiving ti for ourselves. We shall not give d up ou'r country, and time will e: soon restore our control of it. But ft we earnestly caution you, and o: beg you in the meanwhile, to be- h ware of the use you make of your t< temporary power. Remember that ti your race has nothing to gain and ti everything to lose, if you invoke n that prejudice of race which, since p the world was ,made,thas ever driven the weaker tribe to the wall. Forsake, then, the wicked and stupid men who would in volve you in this folly, and make to y -rselves friends and not ene mies of the white citizens of South Carolina. Cause of Lamp E?plosions. ri The Boston Journal of Chemis try, in an article on the chemistry " of kerosene speaks as f*ollows. As& an explaiation of the causes of i lamp explosions, it is worth study ing, that these accidents miay be avoided :3 As has been stated, keroseno isa not explosive. A lighted taper may be thrust into it, or flame ap plied in any way, and it does not explode. On the .e.odtiary it ex-r tinguishes flame, if experimented ti with at the usual temperatures of i our rooms. Kerosene accident 'k occurs from two causes:. First, ti imperfect manufacture of the 0' article jsecond, adulterations. G An imp'erfectly manufactured oil e is that which results when the b distillation has been carried*on at h a too low temperature, and a pore tion of the naptha remains in it. r Adulterations are largely made by unprincipled dealers, who add 20 to 80 per cent of naptha after p it leaves the manufacturer's 54 ands. The little napthas which ave been spoken of, as known in' ommerce under the names of ben ine, benzoline, gasoline. etc., are ery volatile, inflamable, and dan erous. They, however, in 'them. elves'are not explosive ; neither re they capable of furnishing ny gas, when placed in lamps, rhich is explosive. Accidents of his natue are due entirely to the icility, with which vapor is pro uced from them at low temper. tures. But, the vapor by itself not explosive ; to render it so, must be mixed with air. A trp may be filled with bad kero mne, or with vapor even, and in o possible way can it detonate, r explode, unless atmospheric air as somehow got mixed with va or. A lamp, therefore, full, or early full, of the liquid, is safe ; ad also one full of pure warm apor is safe. Explosions gener Ily occur when the lamp is first ghted, without being filled, and ite in the evening, when -the uid is nearly exhausted. The ason of this will readily be seen. ft using imperfect or adulterated erosene, the space above the line f oil is alWays filled with vapor; rid so Ioig as it is is warm, and sing freely, no air can reach it, ad it is safe. At bed-time when 3e family retires, the light is z. nguished; the lamp cools, a por on of the vapor is condensed; iis creates A partial vacuum in be spabe, which is constantly lied with air. The mixture is ow more or less explosive.: and rhen, upon the text evening, Ee hamp is,lighed without xe. febishing with oil, as Is often one, an ekplosion is liable to kke plae. Late in the evening, ,hen the oil is nearly consumed, nd the space above filled ,with. apor, the lamp cannot explode long as it remains at rest upon ie table. But take it in hand, Ditate it, carry it into .a cool )om, the vapor is cooled, air asses in, and the vapor becomes Kplosive. A case-of lanp explO on came to the writer's know dge a few years since,which was acasioned by taking a lamp from ie table to answer a ring of the aor bell. The cool outside air 'hich impigned upon the lamp in e hands of th,e lady, rapidly con. @nsed the vapor, air passed in, splosion occurred, which resulted stally. if the lamp had been fall E' fluid, this accident could not ave occurred. Befo re carrying it the door, flame might have been' irust into the lampI with safety, - e vapor would have ignited, -but a explosion would have taken * lace. Spoons. When Butler reached that por on of his oration touching upon ie President's speeches in the rest, he attempted to play the in-lic, and to repeat in manner id voice the insdilting remarks ade to the President by .Radical. wdies in the crowd, such as Bully for you, Andy.," "Traitor," 3., when some one in the rear of ie reporters- called out in unison, spoons. - (Cor. Baltimore Gazette, MafrcA [DICULING BUTLER IN THE SENATB CHAMBER. A Western Senator amused seve LI of Butler's colleagues by rela ng an incident which occurred the great Park meeting in New ork. Butler was then addressing io crowd, when some one called it, "Greeley," "Greeley." Mr. reeley came forward and after sarching out the individual who ad called for bi-ni, ~in4e "what e wanted?" Only to tell you, sir, keep your hand on your watch,'4 asponded the stranger.-I bid, In Colorado, servant women are aid ten dollars a week, and are. ~area even on those terma.