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By J. A. SELBY. . COLtJMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1865. VOL. l.-NO. 43.
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ELOQUENCE OK WO.
The eloqueni extremity of wo.
Strike* >Jumb, nor eufi'ers speech, or tears
^.o flow;
The amazement, in the unexpected shock,
Thc bolt thai shatters from us height the
rock.
Robs language of all utterance, and leaves
Iso voice for sorrow that forever grieves;
It lives ita grief, conceals the living
smart,. j
The blasted oak, with ruin at its heart;
liven while its tujjs are green, and iu ita
boughs,
The young bird builds her nest, and singes
her vows.
cr.Ejf/ EKS.
Creepers are emblems of that timid lov<?,
lidi a of d?pendance, and ?he sense of fear.
That only seeks permission. They will
creep.
And ulimb, and c'ing, ?yid spirally in?
volve
Their feeble muscles,?so to spring at last,
As to take captive, and, in fond embrace.
Rind, close as fate, the grand and mossy j
lorin,
Thal never felt- their growing, 'till to- i
gelber
Their fates grew one.
norn.
Sho comes, when ail is gloon.1; unsum- i
mon'd, conies
To the poor drooping, doubting soul of
sorrow,
A"d thrill? it. through a fahey, into fnith;
Will come, as st eals a messenger ?f apriugj J
Oa dewy A>u?^tet>s, ut til? hour of dusk.
And bane .1 single bright star in the ?ky, 1
And woo the eye lo glitter like its own.
Kv en through irs tears; will at the mid
II ight come,
WiLh tier own song, a breeze from off the :
sea. j
Where it is blacks?!; as the rainbow, :
come,
Arching the grand dark caverns of thc !
storm,
So sweet, serene of beauty; ami will grace, |
With modest s-unshiue, the most shady !
place. .
Ax ARMY'S MARCH.-Gen. Sher-j
man's army, in ita hist march to m?/et j
Johnston, would if it occupied a (single
road require 125 miles of road to
stretch itself upon. The wagon trains '
fd this ?trmy cannot march on less than i
?orty miles of road. Thc bal tories will
cover seven miles, its ambulances five,
lt carries 1,800,000 rations of bread,
the same amount of sugar, and the
same of salt'. 800 'wagon loads .of !
bread, and 3,600,000 rations of coffee :
aro provided for the trip, and for a few !
days rations of salt meat, 375,000
pounds, are deemed a fair allowance.
The single item of ammunition re- j
quires 1,000 wagons-a train of itself
ncarl}* twelve miles long. The men,
in fours, could not march well, closed
up on le-s thin twenty-five railes of
road. 2.500 pack mules follow its
regiments. And these calcul?t:, ns do
' not include the intervals betwixt: dif?
ferent commands, nor allow anything
for the great gaps which any slight
delay will make tn a moving column.
-?-*.*
'There is a story going of a yoting
man who was once invitetl to dine
with a gen tie tuan of rather sudden tem?
per. The dining room was on thc
second floor, and the ' principal dish a
tine roast fowl. Wlfen the# old gen?
tleman undertook to carve it lie found
the knife rather dull, and, in a sudden
passion, flung it down stairs after the
servant who had just brought it ;
whereupon tho young m??n sei/.ed the
fowl, and with admirable dexterity
flung it after the kuife. 'What on
earth do you mean?' exclaimed the o;d
man, as soon as he could speak. 'I
beg your pardon,' was the cool reply,
"I thought you v.'cre gf>ing to dine
idowu stairs.' ?
Tbe Richmond correspondent o? the
New York Herald, writing under Hate
o?' June 8th, fcays:
i I stated in my letter of yester
j day that Extra Bi??y Smith, 'latu Go
i vernor!, of Virginia, was hovering
arouncrthis city, and would surrender
bim self ns soon as he saw a prospect
of a speed}* trial. I learn to tiny that
he is in Hanover Uotinty. some twenty
miles iron) hero, and will be in this
city within the next forty-eight hours.
I Understand he has been furnished
with a passport to secure him from
arrest on his way to Richmond, this
"being given-on the assurance of his.
friends that he was coming for the pur
i pose of surrendering himself. He is j
j not willing that any one should make j
twenty-five thousand dollars by his
I arrest, believing, no doubt, (hat thc
I demands upon the public treasury are
already more than the condition.of '.he
country, would justify. Patriotic to
! the, last. Heretofore lie was prover
i bially a claimant for 'extras;' now ho
! seems to be on the side of ?e'couotny.
j What a change!
There is no truth in the rummel hat
ex-Governor Letcber was disguised in
an old suit of farmer's clothing at the
i time of his arrest. He was attired in
j a plain homespun coat and pantaloons,
i such as gentlemen in the country
j usually wear, and such as he wore for
! several days before, as I am informed
[ by gentlemen who were at his place at
th? time of bis arrest and for a week
previous. Letcber knew he would bs
arrested, and he made no effort to dis?
guise himself or escape. He looked
upon escapo as impossible, and he
complacently waifed tho approach of
his captors, determined to abide what?
ever tate was in store for him. He
had been pecuniarily ruined by ihe
burning of his' house and whatever
else of value lin possessed on the
occasion of the Hunter raid-through
that section of-tho State, and be bas
continued ever since perfectly indif
iVrent as to what course the Govern?
ment might choose to take in regard
to him. The statement that lie dis?
guised himself in any way ia wholly
un founded.
R dimond is perhaps at this moment
the dullest city of its sizn on the con?
tinent, liiere is very little trade and
no prospect of any material improve?
ment, at least before the Fall. Thc
burnt district stands as it was two
months ago-asad spectacle o? chaotic
ruin, with no signs of any progress in
the work of reconstruction save an
odd shanty hrre and there, v.hi- h
scarcely serves to relieve the sombre
and desolate aspect of the forbidding
scene. The people seem utterly pros
trate. Their energies are almost en
tirely paralyzed in view of the total
inadequacy ol their means to perform
'.he colossal labor of reconstruct.ng
the ruins of their once commodious
business marts. Many enterprising
business men, who came here from the
North in the hope of carrying on a
profitable tracie, have returned disap?
pointed. They found that there w:.s
no money here, pud nothing to make
it with, and instead of reaping profit
from thpir business speculations, they
lost heavily, having to sell their goods
below cost to wind up their affairs and
return. So utterly bare of cash are
tba farmers of the surrounding country
that thev cannot pay for the labor to
cultivate their faims, and are compelled
fo hue upon time-that ts, to hire
with a stipulation to pay when the
harvest sets in. Meanwhile they have
to furnish food for the laborers out ot
their scanty supplie?^ and procure on
credit, at exorbitant prices, whatever
articles are now indispensable to then'.
A year at least must elapse before the
South will show even,anv si?*i?s of re
turning 'prosperity. The prostration
has bonn very great, and the proc?s*
of fecoveuy must be plow. The cart!)
must get timo io jiekl its treasures
before the fruits ol these yields can bc
made available.
It ?J kno-v? her? that for many year:
before (lio breaking ont of the late war |
Napoleon entertained .-? purpose of cs
taWisr/ing a foothold either in Mexico,
or Central America, hy way of offset I
for England's possessions on toe North
of us. Ile went, so far as to intimate
to the Hon. Wm. G. Rives, while that
gentleman was Minister from tl i i ~? i
count tv at hi^ court, that he did intend, !
upon the first fitting' opportunity, to
secure some interest in the rich pos- j
sessions South of this jonntry. That !
opportunity was presented, as he sup- I
pwd, by th?' late war, -md ho lost no
lime to avail himself of it. So con?
vinced was he of the indispensable
necessity ot toe success of thc South
in this conflict, as a means io accom?
plish ids great scheme of aggrandize?
ment, thai hu left nothing tyidone to
induce England to co operate with
him in recognizing t?i< independence
of the South. 1 have, it upon triebest
authority that l.e directed . Baton de
(iros, iii:- Minister at. the Court, of St.
Jame-, to into:m Earl Russell that he
was a standing applicant fur langland's
union with him in formally r?c<ioniz?
ing the Southern Confederacy. When
informed by Slidell, in a private inter?
view, of thc almost absolute necessity
to tiie success ol' the Southern cause
of au increase of tho Southern navy,
he . auctioned lite construction, by his I
own chief naval constructor, of two
formidable ranis and four corvettes.
He wa?, however, induced, lo prevent
their departure from France under the
influence: of a remonstrance or protest
from tiiis country.
Rumors are pr< valent here; of an
effort being made on thf part of thc.
French agents io induce thc emigration
io Mexico ol' thc disbanded Texan sol
diers, with a view to ihcir enlistment
un it r tin- French bar..nor to maintain
M jj xi in i I ?.ii i's prr.tc-tit ons. It' is san!
that Gen..Magruder has consented to j
take comm.ind of such as may choose ,
to engage in this expedition, and the \
hope ts said to be entertained that
large accessions Will bc made from this ;
side ot't.ii.> Mississippi to the rank:; ol'
these Tex m adventurer?. If these ,
run ors prove correct, Mexico will be
cumie the theatre 'or a renewal, under ?
different auspices, ot the conlli t which
has just, terminated hore. Mosby, tuc
guerilla chieftain,"is said to entertain
high Lopes of a brilliant future in ibis
new field -d' action, and rumor lias ii.
that iie is busying himself to obtain
recruits ?or this daring enterprise. In
view of those movements, om Govern?
ment would do well to mam!.aiu an
efiieient patrol along the Rio ( irande j
and Mississippi . Rt vers. If these |
adventurers are not foiled'in their
mischievous designs, serious complica- j
lions may be the result, for the indica j
fions show a determined purpose on 1
tie pa.-t ol' Nap'.,'.-on to mai ti tain J
Maximilian al al! hazards.
Tm: Pi. A ut'ii-A (Vi; roes CHAIN OK 1
Puoi'-HKCY.-lt would appear that tho !
plague or some, other fea rio 1 epidemic
has long been anticipated iuGermanv.
Thefirst Napoleon, who was very super?
stitious, as many great men have l>e*en,
and an; placed great reliance in thc
"predictions of the celebrated .MM Ile,
Lenorman, we!! known as a profession?
al prophet, itr Paris, for nearly forty
years, -and also trio confident of bis
wife.
At the Congress of Aix in Chapelle,
held in 1817, winn Napoleon wai ai
captive at. St. Helena, lins same Lenor- !
man nttif,eled attention among the*'
sovereigns', and succeeded in particular?
ly interesting the Emperor Alexandria,
of Russia, who indeed, had a strong
tendency to mysticisms, and pietism,
which was fostered by his friendly
intercourse with Madame Krudener, a
religious visionary, as well as an
avowed seer. Lenorman and Krude
uer nui, only told fortunes but predict
ed boldly and largely, as to the events
ot' the nation-, am! it cannot be denied
that their mysterious sentences had
weight with the a>u?tt? particularly
iu Cfcrixany.
In I8?3, a small pamphlet was pub
lished i;i Germany, professing to con?
tain a series of prophetic, rev?lateos
found among tho papers of LenormaTid,
who had died ten years before at an
advanced age. lt is notorious that
the publication excited great attention,
and obtained large credence through?
out Germany. It announced, among
other events, that in the year i85:>, j
th. re would he a European war upon I
Russian soil, in which the eagle and i
the leopard would closely inter the ;
bear, (the elder Napoleon having
always declared that the leopard, i*>t j
thy lion, was the symbolic animal of I
England;)'that after peace had boen \
restored, the elephant (India) would
attempt to trample down the jeopard
(England,)-but would, not succeed;)
that following the-war between En?
gland Russia- and France, would be {
an in m-nse emigration from Germany
to the West (United States) for many ?
years; that the emigration would pros
per in their new home, but a time
would come when 'civil war would
make them desire that they had not
left their fatherland; that after the
civil war had fearfully raged for four
years-, peace would be restored and
remarkable prosperity ensue, and that
about the time the war in the West
bad ended a fearful sickness, com?
mencing in Russia, would extend
across the Hallie, desolate Germany,
cause immense mortality in England,
and then simultaneously spread to thc
East and to the West.
PAROLED SOLDIERS.-It has been a
curious question with some persons,
whether the number of applicants for
paroles is as great at other points as at
thal of Macon, and if so, what must be
the total number of Confederate sol?
diers yet. "alive and kicking," of whom
coinmauders in the field could have
known nothing? A gentleman re?
marked in our presence the other dav,
that tho daily crouds at the Provost
Marshal's "office, socking paroles, ex?
ceeded what ho had been led to
believe the entire active force of tho
Confederate army, and asked where
they could 1?,ve come from. Some
one, standing by, facetiously replied,
"why, don't you see from the mud on
their sir?es? and breeches, that they are
just, out, of the swamp!" Perhaps
these aie a portion of the two-thirds
absentees from the army, to which
Mr. Davis alluded to in one of his
speeches in this city. Many of them;
we doubt not, have been perfectly
harmless as belligerents during the
war, and can linvo no j ist grounds of
apprehension that they will beheld ac?
countable as arius-1 earing rebels. When
a full return of all Confederates who
have been paroled >inee trie surrender
of Conclu?s Lee and Johnston shall
be made, it will present some cugious
statistics, more, flattering, perhaps, to
the numerical strength than the moral
heroism o! the Southern people. We
shall then he.able to learn, not what,
was the attainable, but the unavail?
able force of the South.
I Macon Journal.
AMNESTY.
THE TEEMS OF PARDOft
Proclamation by the President of the
United States of America.
Whereas the President of the United
Stat. .-, <..-i the Sdi dav of December, A.P.
18i?3, and on the StHli day of Mardi, A. I).
18i>4. with the object to suppress the ex?
isting rebellion, to induce all persons to
return to their loyalty and to restore the
authority of rhu United States, issue pro?
clamations ottering amnesty and pardon to
certain persons who had, directly or by
implication, participated iii the said rebel?
lion; and whfreHS many persons, who had
gu engaged in said rebellion, have, since
the issuance of said proclamation, failed
or neglected to take the benefits offered
there hy; und whereas many persons, who
have been justly deprived of al! claim to
unmesty ami ['ardon thereunder by reason
. if :! dr participation, directly or by ?ni
libation, instill rebellion and continued
hostility ?o the Government of the United
States cilice the date of said proclamation,
now s-hv to apply for and obtain tonnes
ty anvl pardon:
" To the ei.J, i-.erefore, that the authority
of the Government of thc United States
may be restored, and thnt peace, order and
freedom may I?; established, I, Andrew
.TohtiSQC, President ot the United Slates,
do proclaim <?UU? dellar*: that 1 hereby
grant to all persons who hu ve directly or
indirectly participated in the exislin?
rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted,
ri m nest y ami pardon, with restoration of
all rights of picperty, except a^ to slave?,
and except in cases whore legal proceed?
ings, tinder the laws ot" the United Stat"?
providing for the confiscation of property
of persons /?ngatred in rebellion, have been
instituted, hui on the condition, neverthe?
less, that every such person shall lake alni
subscribe the* following oath or a'.lirma
tion, aod thenceforward keep and main-?
tain said oath inviolate, and which oath
shall bc registered for permanent; preser
vation, and shall be ol" the tenor and effect
following, to wit:
1,-, do solemnly swear or
affirm, in presence of Almighty (?od, that
I will henceforth faithfully support and
defend the Constitution of the United
Stales and the Union of the States there?
under, and that I will in like manner
?ibid.: by and faithfully support all laws
and proclamations,which have been made
during the exist in tr rebellion with refer?
ence to the emancipation of slaves. So
help me fi od.
The following class of persons are ex?
empted from the benefits ol this procla?
mation:
. 1st. All who are, or shall have been,
pretended civil er diplomatic officers, or
otherwise, domestic or foreign agents of
the pretended Confederate Government;
2d. All who left judicial stations under .
the United Statts to tdd in the rebellion.
3d. All who shall have been military or
naval officers of said pretended Confede?
rate Government above the rtink of colonel
in thc army or lieutenant, m the navy.
4th. All who loft neats in thc Congress
oT thc United ??lates to aid the rebellion.
5th. All who resigned or tendered resig?
nations of their commissions in the army;
or navy of th.- United States to evade duty
in resisting the .rebellion.
otb. Ail who have engaged in any way
in treating otherwise than lawfully a* pri
souers uf war persons, found in the United
States service, as officers, soldiers, seamen
or in other capacities.
Tth. All persons who have been or are
absentees from thc United .States for th?a
purpose of aiding the rebellion.
8th. All military and naval officers in
the rebel service who were educuted by
tho Government in Che Military Academy
at. West l'oint or the United ?States Naval
Academy.
9th. All persons who held the pretended
offices of Governor ol" States in insurrec?
tion against the Uni ted, States.
10th. All persians who lett their homes
within the jurisdiction and protection of
the United States, aud [Hissed beyond the
federal military lin?s into the so-ealled
Confederate States for th? purpose of aid?
ing the rebellion.
lilli. All pmsens who have leen en-'
garred in the destruction of the commerce
<d" the United States upon the high seas,
and who have made raids into the United
States from Canada, or_been riigr.trod in
destroying the commerce of tin.- United
States upon the luke:'- ami rivers that sepa?
rate the British provinces from lim United
States.
12th. All persons who, at lix- time when
th'-y seek to obtain the benefits hereof by
taking the oath herein prescribed, are in
militar}-, naval or civil confinement, or
custody, or under bonds of th.- civil, mili?
tary or naval authorities ol agents ?.f the
United States, ns prisoners of war or per?
sons detained for offences of any kind,
either before or alter conviction.
13th. All persons who have voluntarily
participated in said rebellion, and the esti?
mated value of whose taxable property is
over twenty thousand dollars.
14th. All persons who have taken the
oath of amnesty as prescribed in the Pre?
sident's proclamation of Dvcernber s, A.
1). lSGf>, or an oath of allegiance ?to the
Government of the United States since the
date of said proclamation, and who havo
not thenceforward kept aud maintained
the same inviolate.
Provided, that special application ivtay
l>e made to the President for pardon by
any perron belonging t<> the excepted
classes, and such clemency will he libe?
rally extended as muy be consistent With
the facts of the case and the peace ai.d
dignity of the United Stales.
The Secretary of Slate will establish
rules and regulations for administering and
recording, the said amnesty oath, so as to
insure its benefit to tin? people and guard
the Government against fraud,
[n'testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set
my h.ind and caused the teal of thc
Uuifril Stat-"; tn he a?j? v d.
Done at the city of Washington, the 29lh
day of May, in the year of our Lord
iso-.'., and ot' the independence of tte
United StutCo the ? i>; ty-ninth.
A>TDliE\V JOHN SOX.
By the Prfsid? nt:
WM. il. SEWARD, Secretary ot State.
June 9 . .