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VOLUME XII. " YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1868. NUMBER I&
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IPkfllanwtts.
THE CONQUERED BANNER.
Oo Wednesday last Mr. Wilkins, a school
teaoher of Norfolk, was arrested by the
military authorities and taken to Richmond,
beoause he allowed the display of a minature
Confederate flag daring the reoitation
of some verses at a school celebration by
some little girls. The flag was made of pa
per. The Norfolk Virginian of Friday
saya : "On Wednesday, by order of General
Terry, acting beyond a doubt upon instructions
from Washington, Mr. J. T.
Wilkin* vu released from Libbv Drison.
without the shadow of a trial upon any
charge justifying his seise re by military
authority, and confinement in a common
guard-hooM."
As some of oar readers may never have
eeen the vereea in question, we reprint them
herein-T5uE
C02JQUEEED BMNEB.
BY MOINA.
[The Hev. A. J. Byan, Catholic Priest of Knoxvtlle, Diocese
of Nash vilie Tenn.]
Furl tint banner, for 'tis treary ;
Bound lta stat' lis drooping dreary;
Port it, fold U, it la best;
For there's not a man to wave it.
And there's not a sword to save it,
And there's not one lett to lave it.
In the blood which heroes gave It;
And its foes now scorn and brave it;
Furl it, hide it?let it rest.
Take that banner down, his tattered!
Broken Is Its staff and shattered!
Over whom it floated high.
Oh! tis bard for us to fold it?
Hard to think there's none to bold it;
Hard that those who enrolled it,
Now must furl it with a sigh.
. Fori that banner?furl it sadly?
Once ten thousands hailed it gladly,
And tea thousands wildly, madly,
Swore It should forever wave?
* Swore that foeman's sword would never
Hearts like theirs entwined dissever;
Till that flag should float forever
O'er their freedom or their grave!
Furl it 1 for the bands that grasped It,
And the hearts that fondly crasped It,
Cold and dead are lying low;
And that banner?it is trailing!
While around it sounds the wailing,
UI 113 pcc,7tc in U1CU WW.
For, though conquered, they adore it!
Love die coid dead hands that bore it,
Weep for those who fell before it!
Pardon those who trailed and tore it!
But Oh! wildly they deplore it,
Now who Airl and fold it so.
Furl that banner! true 'tis gory,
Yet Us wreathed around with glory,
And 'twill live in song and story,
Though ha folds are In the dust;
For la name on brightest pages,
Penned by poets and by sages,
Shall go sounding down the ages?
Furl Its folds though now we must.
Furl that banner, sofUy, slowly,
Treat It gently?it is holy?
For it droops above the dead,
Touch it not, unfold it never,
Let it droop there furled forever.
For its people's hopes are dead!
LIFE INSURANCE.
Its Objects and Aims?One of the
most important objects a man oao have in
this world is to make sure his family will
be provided for when he is taken away, and
that they shall not be left homeless wao
derera, having to get their living by toil or
charity.
To enable yon and every man to effect
that, is at once the great aim, object, and
pride of the institution of Life Iosnrsnoe, and
yon effect it the moment yon take a policy
on your life, in favor of your family.
Creditors oannot attach it,?reverses in
fortone oannot deprive yon or yonr family
of it
Life is proverbially uncertain. Every
man most die. No man can say that he will
live another year.
Fortune is proverbially fickle?reverses
come suddenly, when most unlooked for?
even to the most prosperous. All business
men are subject to them; and then in case
of death of the head of the family, who is
to provide for its future wants ? and how
well adapted a Life Policy is to meet just
suoh a contingency!
Life Insuranoe effected by every man,
there would be but few poor widows, or des
titute orphans, friendless boys, to be battered
by the oold world, and daughters to be
killed by work, or ruined by wickedness;
there would be no need for poor-houBes, and
want and orime would in a great measure
be prevented.
It is accomplishing, and is destined to accomplish
the greatest possible good to society,
and is one of the best and most beneficent
institutions of the age.
Benjamin Franklin, noted for his wisdom
and prudenoe, gave a bright illustration of
his foresight and discernment when nearly
one hundred years ago he thus wrote of
Life Insurance:?Policy of Life Insurance
is the Best and Safest Provision
which a Man can make for his Family
Its Basis and Principles.?Life Insuranoe
is based upon principles established
by nearly two hundred years' experience
and observation. The average duration of
life has thoq been definitely determined,
and, with the soienoe of interest forms a
sure basis for the calculations of companies
effecting insuranoe upon life. In oonsidera 1
tion of the receipt of the premiums, they
are enabled to guarantee the payment of a
stipulated sum at a stipulated age, or at the
death of the party insured.
Death is sure to oceur, and though the
time when in reference to each individual
is wholly unknown, yet the average time of
a large number, may bo ascertained with almost
prophetio or mathematical certainty,
and tables formed which are entirely reliable.
Life Insuranoe is simply an investment of
a certain sum steadily by thepersoD insured
to be applied for the benefit of bis loved
ones after bis decease, which investment is
sure to be returned to them at a time when
it will be the most needed. When large ;
numbers of persons unite together for this,
purpose, eaoh one is enabled to receive his
proportion of the total average benefit of j
such annual investment, no matter when he i
' j
may be taken away, so that those who do j
not live their average time shall bo sharers ,
in the good fortuno of those who exoeed it.
It is this feature which makes Life Insurance
so much more desireable than aocumu :
lationa by means of savings banks. By it i
is secured to the family of the iudividual, j
the value of bis future labors for the average
duration of life, even should he die the j
next daj. The amount of this value will be'
estimated by the individual himself aooording
to his circumstances, the wants of his
family, or his ability to pay, a larger or a
smaller premium.
Life Iosuraoce substitutes the certainty
of a long provision for ones family for the <
uncertainty of a long life in which to ac- j
quire it.
The Certainty of Life Insurance.? i
Based upon fixed laws of mortality which j
have been determined by two centuries of j
observation, transactions in Life Insurance
are not attended with .the uncertainties attached
to all other branches of business,
and it is now a conceded fact that a life
policy is the most reliable investment that
is offered to the public. Prof. De Morgan,
one of the best authorities in the world, observes
:?There is nothing in the commercial
world which approaches even remotely
to the security of a well established and
prudently managed life insuranoe oompanB
79
ny.
Life Insurance a Duty.?No man has
a right to hazard the interests of his loved
ones. The object of labor is to provide for
the present and tbe future wants of those
dependent upon us.
Tbe great Lord Lyndhurst, High Chancellor
of England, said in one of his judicial
opinions:?"A Policy of Life Insurance
is always an evidence of prudent
forethought, and no man with a dependent
family is free from reproach if his life is
not insured "
A Generous Offer ?Suppose some
kind friend should offer you a deed of conveyance
to your wife or children, of a piece
of property good at your deoease. A house
and lot or a farm worth five or ten thousand
dollars, and constantly increasing in value,
on condition you should pay the taxes thereon
during your life-time. Would you hesitate
to accede to such a proposal ?
Or would you hestitate to accept the of
fer of a few thousand dollars secured for
the future benefit of your family by the pay
ment of less than one-third the interest on
the same. Would you value it less because
you could not spend it or use it during your
life time for vour own present wants.
? I
Id fact, would it not be far more vala
able, because secure from any infringement
or liability whatever ? The security would
add greatly to its value. A few thousand
dollars, fully secured against ac approaching
want, is worth millions of uncertainties.
My friend, avail yourself of this certainty
(while you are in health and can), by ap
plyiDg to a Life Insurance Company and se
curing a policy upon your life. A half hour
thus spent may be worth more to your fami 1
ly than a whole life time of speculative ef- '
fort. While the well being of your family
and the education of your children are at i
stake, you should not let procrastination, 1
that great thief of time which has stolen '
many of your best interests, still oontiuue to 1
rob your loved ones.
"Never leave until to-morrow what should
be done to-day."
"Who can observe the busy ant, '
And not provide for future want ?" I
None too Poor to Insure.?At the ,
age of thirty years about six cents a day ,
will insure your life for SI,000. There are j
few men in health in this country but can j
spare that amount if they will, to protect j
their family against destitution and want in ,
the eveDt of death. And who is there. .
knowing the scarcity of charity, who will (
not abstaiu from some nseless luxury for
the valuable consolation of securing the in- |
dependence of bis family? t
Truly, we should live and die for our loved
ones.
Who ought to-Insure.?Everybody
who has any one depending upon him and
oan possibly pay a premium, and there are
few who cannot. It is almost the only way
a poor man can secures protection for his
family and an education for his ohildren in
case of his decease.
The man in moderate circumstances
out to insure, because his wants are always
nearly equal to his income, and he cannot
spare from his bosiness or salary a large sum
for permanent investment, and yet desires j
to provide against leaving his family in absolute
want at his death. In no other way ,
can he do this so easily and so surely. Eg
pecially ought every clergyman and salaried
man to be insured, indeed, every one whose
income is dependent upoD his life. j
The rich, because it is a good investment '
They can pay the premium without sacri- .
ficing a luxury, and be sure of a return with j
a fair interest added.
The amount of a Life Policy in rendy !
money frequently saves an embarrassed es- ;
f 1 _r . ^ I
[ace irorn me sacriuce 01 an amount two or \ (
three times as large. | ,
But few men die rolled up like a silk- !
worm, who have Dot more or less obliga- \ (
tions to meet, requiring ready means to , ,
prevent great sacrifices; and oftentime a (
few thousand dollars thus t.mely contribu ; |
ted saves the earnings of years of hard la- i ]
bor Truly a Policy of Life Insurance is i
a golden link, firmly binding, sure supply to ' (
approaching want. j
When ought an Insurance to be Ef 1,
pected ?Now. First. Because it costs j
less than it will when you are older. ! |
Second, Because if in health you will ,
pass a medical examination nna oeaccepted 1 ]
which you have no guarantee you will be '
able to do hereafter ' |
Third, Life i? uncertain; you may be in \
the grave in a siogle month, and your fa mi
lycaoDCt afford the loss of your labors ,
Fourth, There is uo other way for you to (
accomplish the much desired object as easy ,
as by Life Insurance. ' ,
la proof of the first, we have only to say
that the premium rates, year by year, are i I
increasing as you grow older; so long as 1
you remain insured you continue to pay du- 1
ring life the same rates which are charged i
at the age you make the first payment, al- '
though, by the addition of the dividends ]
your policy may more than double its origi-; <
al amount. <
A man at the age of 45 years pays as 1
much per year for 92,000, as one at 20 rears i
of age pays for 94,000, anpl at 50 years of ]
age as much for 82,000 sb one at 20 does <
for 84,750. I
This, with the accumulations made to i
each person inenred in the form of divi- I
dends, alone offers great indnoements for in. I
soring yonng. i
In regard to the second, no Insurance
Company will take a risk when the person i
applying is not in sonnd health, with a fair |
prospeot of a long life; henoe it behooves all i
to avail themselves of its advantages before i
the ravages of disease have marked them i
and rendered their obanoes of acceptance i
dumcful. I
Id regard to the third, words are almost |
useless; nearly every day faroifihes striking
evidence of the danger of delay. Death
suddenly overtakes those who least ezpeot
it, and no one oan say I am certain to live
a single week or even a day.
. In regard to the fonrth it is easy to pay a
small preminm, requiring but a few oents
a day, to seonre a handsome policy, while
it is exceedingly difficult to secure an amount
equal to the policy in any other way
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
Dr. J. McF. Gaston and Brazil.
Upon the invitation of oitizens of Cothbert,
this gentleman lately delivered a lec
ture, in the Presbyterian dhorcb, upon the
government, religion, institutions, manners
and cn8toms, olimate, soil and productions
of the empire of Brazil, having spent sinoe
the downfall of the Confederacy, about five
months in that country. I propose here a I
short review of bis lecture, for tbe benefit i
of those who may feel an interest in that
sobject. As to myself, I am a native of
Georgia, and entertain a steady pnrpose of
adherring to her through all her changes
cf fortune that may befal her daring my |
life. As to Dr. Gaston, he is evidently a i
gentleman of integrity, fairness and candor,
and of no ordinary intelligence and power \
of discrimination. His person is agreeable, <
his manners pleasing, aod style of impart- ]
ing his information, while it is Dot oritori- \
oal, bat conversational, is brief, perspioQons, I
instructing, and entertaining. While there
is no effort at display, there is none at concealment.
The attractive and unfavorable
features of Brazil, as a home for Southern
ers, are stated with apparent fairness; no
persuasion is used, but all are left to form
their opinions and shape their course upon
their oonvictions of duty and the promptings
of interest, after listening to a plain
and unadorned narrative of facts.
" The Government he defines to be a welldefined
constitutional monarohy, resembling,
in many of its features, that of Great
Britain?having subsisted nearly fifty yearB
since the revolt from Portugal, the mother
country, and the establishment of Brazilian
independence. The Legislative branch of
Government, consisting of a Senate and
House of Deputies, much resembling the
British Parliament The Senate is chosen
for life of the members, but it is not hered
itary. Each province in which a vacany
may occur nominates three persons out of
which number the Emperor selects one,
who is the Senator for life. The Empire
is divided into provinces, somewhat like our
States, regulating to some extent, their own
intfci &] affairs, and over which the Emperor
has but little control Their judioial
jystem is well defined and well subserves
the ends of justice. a
Charges for violation of criminal law are t
preferred by Magistrates instead of Grand t
Juries, and then tried by a jury as here.? <3
rhe Catholic is the established religion of the
Empire, bat other religions are freely e
tolerated. Slavery exists in Brazil on a \
similar plan to that we bad before the late c
mancipation. Their slaves are as good la- n
borers, or, perhaps, rather better, and are b
lbont us subordinate aB those we held in fc
the Southern States. Their prices floctu- I
?te macb recenty, in consequence of the r
?enerally prevailing notion of the people o
hat, at no distant day, the institution will b
39 abolished Dr. Gaston gave it as his opin- <j
on that such would be the case within a t
:ow years. n
Free laborers can be hired in Brazil, of 1
x class which is not reliable for the perform- I
iuce of a oontraot of any considerable length a
>f time?but who work well for a short a
time. Arrangements have been put on foot t
by enterprising individuals who propose to q
introduce as many European laborer as b
may be demanded?and of a class that is s
reliable. fi
The officials and intelligent citizens b
warmly favour emigration of people from li
the Southern States, but are not disposed t
to do any thing whiob might give offence li
to the Government of the United States. r
The laognage of the country is compara- r
tively easy, especially to those who under- ii
stand the latin. Dr. Gaston learned in the ii
sourse of four months, to communicate with tl
the people without an interpreter, which he b
had had up to that time. o
Ho divides the population into threo a
classes. The first is ao educated aod intel- o
ligent class who compare very favorably v
with the best class in this country, in learn- tl
iug virtue and integrity, benevolence and C
hospitality, and all the virtues that tend to v
uake ihem agreeable companions and re- c
liable friends 1
The second is a class of honest and indus- b
:ricus people, not much educated and far j c
less uoliahed in their manners. ! e
The third and lowest class is made up a
jf.idie and indoleut people who live with- ti
jut labor, for which the country is well e
idapted, and who are igooraut, filthy and li
worthless: li
I was much astonished to bear the Doctor e
tay, what I think it probable be most be e
mistaken about, that the proportion of the !<
5rst class to the aggregate population, si
s as great as it is in the Southern States, e
rLis may be true io a few localities, aud p
possio.y throughout the Empire. If so, one I
)f the greatest objections to emigration is si
ibviated. A stranger unable to speak tbe n
anguage and to some eztent-a guest of tbe b
authorities as Dr. Gaston was, and whose \
personal intercourse was necessarily re- a
rtricted by oiroomstanoee, and who was led t
to judge from appearanoee, and liable to be I
misled by the extraordinary civilities shown
to him, may probably be mistaken upon
this important point as to the true state of
society in Brazil. 1
The province which by common intent, 1
seems to be regarded as the plaoe for our <
people is that of St. Paul's?bordering on 1
the coast extending for several hundred 1
miles to tbe interior aeroM navigable
streams, embracing lands tbe most fertile
in tbe world, with good water, about in I attitude
25; with aboot nine months summer
sod three of very mild winter, with a temperature
never above 85; abounding in all
the tropioal fruits, yielding largely of migar,
coffee, ootton and all the grains of this
oonntry ezoept wheat, without the use of
tbe plow, and almost without labor of any
kind. Dr. Gaston gives many interesting
details as to animals, fowls, inseots, system
af agrioultore, modes of life by tbe natives,
price of lands and animals, and the different
productions of tbe oonntry, the disposition
of their people towards us, their honesty
and fidelity among themselves, the health
end disease of the oountry, the cost of transportation
thither, and upon many subjects
which would well repay any enlightened
tudieooe in the country to listen to.
Dr. Gaston, I learn, is a South Carolinian,
who was a surgeon in our army, and
is now residing temporarily at Fort Gaines,
Gleorgia, whenoe be expects to take bis
eave permanently with his family for Bra
til about next October. H.
CUTHBERT, August 1.
Battle Scene.
Tbe correspondent of a Frenob journal
gives tbe following grapbio narrative of
what be saw at Custozza.:
I found behind a hedge two dead bodies,
which at first sight might have seemed in
>aoh other's embrace; they were merely
aying close to one another; they were officers
who had fonght as in a duel; tbe Austrian
lad passed his sword through the abdomen
)f the Italian, and be had plunged his
hroogh the body of tbe Austrian as far as 3
;be bilt, and botb bad lallen face to raoe.
We began to ezpenenoe some difficulty (
d walking, for the groand was farrowed by (
jaonoo balls and shells. Not a tree had
Deen left standing, or intaot, and not one
:raoe of the rioh vegetation of corn or flax,
>r grape vine remained. We fell baok io (
mother direction, carving our way among *
:mpty knapsacks, Keppie* and mnskets, (
vhich were strewing the groand all over? 1
rhere a duster of grenadiers overthrown 1
)y a charge of lauoers; farther on a company 1
)f Croates mowed down by grape and oan- '
Hter; on our left a dozen beesaglieri," '
with one half of their bodies carried away; 1
>n our right a few Jagers disembowelled 1
with bayonets. Tbe cavalry rushed on and J
jut to pieoes the Hokenlohe infantry regi- *
nent, says my traveling oompanion. Not |
>ne Italian dead soldier left with bis silver v
nedal hanging on his breast, and all the
lorpses shoeless, oaroases of dead horses
aying upon or near the dead bodies of
heir riders Abont thirty Italian and Aus
rian dead soldiers fallen pell-mell apon
me another, struok our sight; we drew
lear?''water, water," cries a voice. We
aised the dying soldier, while the Count
pplied to bis parobed lips a bottle eonaining
a mixture of brandy, ooffee and waer;
the wounded soldier swallowed a
Iraught with intense avidity, then fell back
?dead. Oo opening his ooat we discoverd
that a musket ball bad pieroed bis breast.
Ye had scarcely gone fifty steps when we
ame to a lake of blood, looking like an im
nense slaughter pen. Great God, what
ias taken place here ? The dead bodies by
inndreds concealed the ground to our view. '
t was a square upon the top of a hill, aound
a house demolished byoannoo balls;
ver a first stratum of dead bodies mangled
y the cavalry there laid a second stratum
rushed by the artillery which had run over
hem, then other layers, and then again I
oore. All was silent confusion and horror 1 '
?bere they had fought with all arms.? t
fragments of human bodies scattered all v
round, spoke of the fearful work of grape (
od shells; horrible gashes in the face, on p
he neck, on the shoulders, told too elo S
[uently that the cavalry had there dealt t
<lows with frantic rage; and shattered c
kalis gave evidence of the share revolvers v
ired point blank bad bad in the mighty n
utchery. The open ohests, the torn bel- tl
ies showed tbe terrible hand to hand, face C
o faoe, fight by bayonets, swords and il
ances. Dead men, dead horses, muskets, J
evolvers, cannons, swords, caissons, shakos, y
ifies, cartridge boxes, koapsacks, cavalry, v
atantry and artillery, an tniogiea id app&*> i<
ag confusion ; the soldier apoa the officer, r
be caisson opon the horse, streams of 8
lood trickling on all sides along the flank
f the hill. We were about to le&7e, when t!
vivid dash illumines, on & sadden, the si
pposite hill strewed with corpses. We \
ralked to it through a path oovered with 1<
be dead bodies of handreds of bersaglieri.
) one side we behold a heap of bodies r<
rhich once belonged to the Alessandria ri
avalry; on the top we found a number of si
Austrian artillerymen cut to pieces. The e
attcry placed on that hill had been silen- t<
ed by a cavalry charge, and the men butch- a
red to the very last. The Italian soldiers a
re cut in the face, on the head; the Aus- o
rians sabered, run through with the bayou I
t. Horses without number lay with tbeir I
>mbs in the air; four or five gun carriages b
iy scattered in pieces Here, too, another u
vidence of life stops our career : we list y
n ; a voice groans from under a pile of S
javes and stocks. "Help, help for God's si
ake." It is a bersaglieri from the Southrn
provinces, wbo is dying, and calls for a p
riest; he asks me if be is exoommnnieated tl
addressed bim io his own dialect; he w
eemed soothed and consoled, for he believes c<
je. Wounded in the faoe and io the ohest Y
y the explosion of a shell, he cannot lire; ii
ve can do nothing for him. Bat we were
slready satiated with horrors, and the first
)lash of the morning was upon op. At
lalf-past four we were baok into Qvito.
Interesting to Freedmen.
We find the following letter from the Pilaneial
Secretary of the American Colonisation
Society published in oar Georgia
izehanges. In connection with it, we oopy
he following comments of the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel.
Many of the colored people are inspired
with a laudable ambition to rise ia the social
icale above the general degradation of their
nee. jls u very evident tut, do mattor
low many civil rights bills sod declarations
)f equality camber oar statute books, the
ffhite race is boand to be the governing
slass. It is so in New England, where most
if the pestilent obampioos of eqoaHty originate,
and it baa been so from the ime
Noah entered the ark, wherever the wiriio
ind black raoes come in contact. It is not
itrange, therefore, that the colored people,
vbo wish to have a fair and open field io
he race of advancement, should seek the
and of the blaok man, where all the aveoies
of advancement are open, and where
here can be no jostling of raoes. The his
:ory of Liberian progress, it is true, is not
if the most cheering charaoter It is mooh
airer, however, than the history of those
ooalities where the oolored people have
longht political power in connection with ,
he white race.
The only plaoe in history where the oolired
man, as a raoe, has made any progress
n the scale of oivilisatioD, has been in the
sondition of servitude. The voice of civilisation
and philanthropy (so called) have torn
rim from that congenial and happy sphere,
md inspired bim with restless loogipgs for
i condition of equality whioh is inoompatble
with the stractare of oar society?ablurent
to reason and repugnant to nature,
[t is better, therefore, that those who aspire
,o rise above a condition of dependenoe,
ihould be colonized and removed from the
listarbing influences which attend tbeir
present condition. It is for these reasons
hat we commend the ciroalar of the Colonisation
Society to the attention of all freed
nen who have imbided the teachings of
jquality which have obtained misohievous
jnrrenoy among tbera :
Colonization Rooms,
Washington, D. C., Aug 6, 1866.
My Dear Sir : In your paper of a late
late, yon mention that many of the colorid
people of yoar State are agitating the
}neetion of going to Liberia, and yon want
;o*know where are the agents of the Colonisation
Society. It ip true, we have no agent
it present in your State, but we have not
jeen idle. We have written to many, and
lave Sent copies of the African Repository,
md of our last annual report and of varioas
racts and abort articles to thousands in
roar State. We have bad many letters
torn persons in Maoon and in Sparta ; and
ire have promised to have a ship ready at
lavannah the 1st of November, to take one
lundred people from eaoh plaoe, and about
ifty to seventy five from Newberry Distriot,
loath Carolina, and we promise them a free
iassage to Liberia, and six months support
here. And we are prepared to promise
he same to as many worthy people as will
>e read; to sail by the 1st May, 1867.
We shall be happy to have yoa state these
acts in your paper, and say to any one who
rants to go this tall or next spring, that if
hey will inform as, we wiH give them all
nformstion and every facility in oar power.
I send yoa herewith specimens of the
raots we are circulating among the oolored
teople. Yoa may find in them material for
, paragraph that will do good.
We will send you the Repository regoarly,
if yoa desire it, that yoa may see
that is going on in this clime.
W. McCLAIN,
Financial Secretary, A. 0. S.
The Testimony of a Candid Man.
In bis recent great speech at Saratoga
few York, Senator Doolittl9 said :
Having received a letter from a man of
he Sooth who was ooce in Congress, and
rhom I knew very well?I refer to Mr
)urry, of Alabama, and who is now the
iresident of one of the colleges in that
Itate?-and he having stated in bis letter
o me that the South was completely carriatured
in some of the testimony whioh
ras given before the Reoonstrootion Com- i
aittee in Washington, and having made i
hat statement on the authority of Mr. i
lurry in the Senate of the United States, '
t drew from a gentleman in the State of i
Tew York, who may be known to some of
ou present, and whose name 1 will not 1
rithhold? I refer to Colonel Tarbell?a <
atter, an extract from which [ will now <
ead. Speaking of the condition of the
loutb, he says:
'Allow me to say that I have been in
he States of Georgia, Alabama and Mia- <
issippi, since December last; that I was a
7hi? and am a Renublican. And hence I
joked oloaely at Southern society.
"I have no hesitation in denouncing the
aports in the Northern newspapers of outages
upon the blacks and upon Northern
ottiers as utter fabrications or malicioas
xaggerations. I travelled by rail, by wa;r,
ou horsebaok, on foot, in company, and
lone?by day and by night?totally unrated
except a pocket knife?purposely,
peoly, and frankly declaring to every one
was a 'Yankee and a Black .Republican '
met others who bad traveled on horseaok
from Florida to Mississippi, who like
ie, were Republicans?and I do assure
ou I would sooner travel throughout the
outh than the North, so far as personal
ifety is concerned.
"To go from here to the South is like
ossing oat of the work of the week into
ie Sabbath?all is quiet?all are trying to
ork for a living?for all are on a level and
ampelled to work with their own hands,
ankee laud does not present a more active,
idustrious scene than the whole South,
or could Yankees display more energy, is* I
tegrity, and recuperative power in standing i
on nothing. " 1
"To say that the Soutb is 'caricatured' !
in the North, does not express it. She is i
slandered', villified, wickedly, iofamoasly i
belied. Were the Sooth to oome North <
she would not recognize herself?if she did,
she would disown herself. Were the North
to go Sooth, she would be astonished at the <
misrepresentations and falsehoods, and with i
the cruelly on just and erroneous sentiments
prevailing here." i
Fusing over many facts whioh he mentioned,
I send the otodng paragraph:
"I assure you, air, that this terrifio pub
lio opinion that is driving the North to the
support of the stoftliog end dangerous
centralisation of power in Congress is
based upon falsehood and misrepresentation.
"Af I expect to be judged by my Maker
on the great day of final judgment, I state
to yon solemnly, that from extensive travels
in these States, from conversation with all
classes and colors, and after listening to
hundreds, I believe, before high Heaven,
that all these newspaper reports of hatred
to and outrages upott blacks by whites, and
of the molestation of Northern settlers, are
baselees, wicked fabrications, concocted and
reported expressly to crash this fearful
public opinion which should sustain the
change of the fundamental principles of the
Constitution."
The State House of Sooth Carolina.
The mot* beautiful buildingin the South,
if not in the United States, would have
been, when completed, the Capitol of South
Carolina. It bad before the war assumed
dimension and given tokens of the rare
taste dit^l'syod in its construction, which
bad elicited the warmest encomiums of the
oritio and traveller. But to-day it stands
chief among the monumental ruins of
Colombia, an emblem eloquent with unnttered
ourses upon Sherman and his
horde.
Presenting a conspicuous mark to the artillery
of the enemy planted on Lexington
heights, the edifice received ten shots.
The finely soulptured oak leaf decorations
of the marble door pilasters at the main
entrance, were defaced. The beaks of the
eagles have been knooked off and the corner
stones on the South-west corners were
damaged by fire. But the injuires to the
strooture itself are insignificant oompared
with those done by fire to the finished marble-work
and rough materials in the precincts
of the State House yard.
Forty of the Soulptured Corinthian
Capitals designed for the porticoes and
wrougnt id oar own Desatiiai granite, are
destroyed. Oat of sixty-fire Coriatbian
Capitals, worked in Italian marble, intended
for the great marble ball, only five are
saved All tbe polished shafts of Tennessee
marble are destroyed, and nearly all tbe
otber marble work and paving tiles in both
kinds of marble designed for the interior
construction and decoration, with a large
portion of tbe balustrade to crown the bailding,
and the terrace designed to surround
tbe lower part. Besides these, were destroyed
hundreds of immense and valuable
nnwrongbt blocks of granite and marble,
machinery, workshops, tools, colossal jnodels
and unfinished statnes. In the loss may
be included tbe baao-rdievo likenesses of
Hayne and McDuffie, and one of tbe latest
and best basts of Hon. John C. Calhoun.
But one store-bonse, containing a quantity
of polished Tennessee marble remains uninjnred.
Of the old State House and its valuable
library, nothing remains bat blaokened
ruins. The railroad traok to tbe Granby
quarry has been destroyed and tbe wood 1
work carried away.
Major Nlernsee, tbe accomplished arobi- 1
tect, to whose report we are indebted for 1
these details, likewise suffered a severe loss 1
in architectural and scientific books, pic- 1
tores, engravings, instruments and several 1
thousand drawings, all the valuable documents
relating to the New State House,
maps, drawings, reports, calculations, specifications,
oootraots wbioh had aooumnlated I
1 aL- l?i 1 1
during me last teu yeara.
The total loss to the State is estimated
by Major N , to be $700,000. The debris
was gathered by the architect in charge as
far as the means at his command would
permit, and deposited in one of the sheds,
and the Capital, lonely and deserted, is now
surrounded by a plain board fence. It is
thought that the sum of one hundred aad
forty-sis thousand dollars would fit op and
secure the building for the purposes of
Legislation and Stale offioes; and that three
hundred and sixty thousand dollars would
oomplere the edifice is nearly the manner
originally designed?South Carolinian.
A German Estimate or Yankee
3wagger.?A late German paper publish3d
in this country, thus speaks:
The interest taken by the Americans in
the present German war is greater than it
has been in former warlike events of the
old world, and we do not regret this is so.
rbe Americans yet see before them all the
ietaiU of their own civil war. They have
in* vpf fnrcnttfin the endlftfin timn whinh a
tras required to strike heavy blows on the c
rebels. They know their own sacrifices in
noney, blood and time for the capture of
Richmond, Mobile, Atlanta and Savannah,
rhey saw that even their most exalted generals
could achieve great results only by
ilow process aod with disproportionate sac
ifioes. They were ungrateful to the able
German officers, and they did not protect
;bem sufficiently against the infauious maohi>
rations of Amerioan Generals who systenatioally
pushed the German Generals in
;he background, whilst they knew how to
nake their own native ignoranoe and inca- c
raoity valuable. They were so muoh ao- a
instomed to worthless offioera that they 2
aised even the smallest of their suocesses Q
o ;he clouds, aud they proclaimed any b
ifficer a Napoleon, a Haonibal and a Caesar p
for Ma most insignificant saooees, ff be WM
ocly a native born American ; md when
finally, after a resistance of four yeate, tie
Booth ooold not hold oat any longer wfth
its one hondred and seventy thousand men
against the million of the North, they declared
themselves the greatest warBke nation
on the- earth; and they barnt in the
most ridiculous manner sveh twmw
quantities of incense for their general^ that
my body Who did not look at the nght
through the spectacles of national vanity, was
an object of pity and flisguet. The eieiita
in Bohemia have opened the eyes of the
Americans in the most erne! way. They
hare shown them bow war ahodd be earned
on, aod of what value the perfoman
cm or Messrs. tfrant, Sherman, Sheridan
and all the other American Ifspoleons wen.
Compere only whet the PhMMW army
aohiered in seventeen days with the deeds of
oar greatest Amerioao generals.
' '
Rates or Postaqi.?The rates of postage
on letters to be forwarded in the oaflsj
to any part of the Dinted Atatea, is three
cents per half ounce, pre-paid.
The postage on letters dropped fw tbe
poet offioe for delivery is two oents per
half oaooe, pre-paid.'
Transient newspapers, pamphlets, proof*
sheets, book- mannsoripts, sample-cards, photograph
oards, cards, maps, blanks, blank
paper, engravings, envelopes, seeds, roots,
scions, and printed matter, (except oiroolara
and books,) are rated at two oents for
overy fonr oanoee, or fraction thereof, penpaid.
v- - ?
Doable the above rates oharged lor
books
Unsealed circulars, one and not easediog
three in notnber in one envelop*, are
oharged two oente; and in that proportion
for a. greater .number, to one addns^ prepaid.
-stf- ?'.! '
Canada and the British provisoes,-tan
cents per half ounce, pro-payment optional.
? '... a:
Newfoundland, ten oents per hallovnee,
moat be pre paid. -*?*
Great Britain and Ireland, twenty- kr
oents per half oaooe, pre-paymeat optional.
- : .
France, fifteen oents per quarter oaooe,
pre payment optica*!
The postage on all letters depoaitadlot
delivery or to be forwarded by mall to any
part of the Uuitod States, (or to any foreign
ooaotry to wbioh pre payment is required,)
moat be pie paid by postage stampa. Letters
deposited without being properly prepaid,
are sent immediately to the dead
letter office, Washington.
Money orders upon any money order
office may be procured
The financial Prospects.
Notwithstanding oor political troubles,
the brief statements we publish from tima to
time, issued from the Treasury Department,
are quite enconraging. From one of the
most recent of these bulletin*, we learn that
the national debt has been redaeed daring
the year ending the 1st inst., to an amount
nearly of $125,000,000 Aod after all
this has been done, there ia still left in the
Treasury, according to the report of the
Seoretary, the sum of $187,317,382.?
These are highly encouraging figures, sod
dispel any apprehension with regard to any
disaster arising from the large amount of
the debt of the Government Had it not
been for radical legislation, reckless sa it
was, both politically aod financially, this favorable
exhibit would have been dill stronger
than it even now is.
With the restoration of all the States,
and the ooaseqaent prosperity of snoh notion,
with the overthrow of the radicals,
aod their reokless extravagance, and wader
the wise management of saoh a prsctioal
and clear-headed financier as the head of
the department, Secretary McCuiloch, there
need not be anv fear of aov deDreniation in
w 7 af ? . "+m.J?C?
Government securities, or the decline of the
eations's oredit, in any stock market in the
world.?Phoenix.
^
A Singular Case.?Mr. Charles T.
Cbamblin, at the time he wae wounded, a
lieutenant in the 8th Virginia regiment,
soughed from his throat a few days since,
i minnie ball that had been lodged there
Eor mora than four years. He was shot at
"Seven Pines," June 1,1862, the ball entering
the side of the nose just below the
eft eye. It was probed four inches, and
round to have passed nearly perpendicularly
o, scarcely missing the brain. It dinbled
lim for duty, and has ever sinee eanssd
nuch pain in damp weather, frequently
rendering it almost impossible to swallow
it all. When ooogbed up on Tuesday evening
lasi, it seemed to have oome from just
jelow the right ear, uoder the jaw bone,
tod caused but little pain, and was followed
>y no blood. It was an ounee minnie, not
l a _ i r* t _t _ t.i a
nasnea out 01 original a nape, aitaoagn
looted by conouaaion with the booes in the
ace. The oomiog forth of the ball caosed
i soreneas in the throat aod a giddioeai in
be head for a day or two, bat nothing more.
Leesburg ( Fa.) Mirror.
Cotton at Sea.?According to official
tatistios published in Liverpool* the anoaot
of cotton on its way to Liverpool, at
aat aoooonts, was as follows: FromBom>ay,
403,022 bales; from Madras, 19,240;
rom Trinoomlee, 0,178; from Coooonda,
1,988; from Rangoon, about 6,000; from
iurrachet, 11.891: from Calcutta, 128,
>13; from Tatioorio, 2,575: from Shangiae,
15,874 piouls; from New Orleans,
.1,337 bales; from Galveston, 2,694; from
\palacbicoIa one ship, oargo not stated;
rom Pensaoola, one cargo not stated; from
jharleslon, 978 ; and two ships from New
fork and Savannab, also with onestimated
argoes. To London there are 22,766 hales
,t sea from Madras; from Oalootta, SI,123;
from Bimlipatim, 369; from China,
loohin and Totioorin, 20,280; from Bomay
and Korraobee, 11,350; and from Jaan,
310 bales.