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A PL ENDID T19IB UTE.
Heroism of the Southern People in War
and in Pestilence
[wLondon 8landard.3
The younger among us cannot
perhaps romembir the koon warm
sympathy with which the English
of 1861-65 witnessed the heroic
struggle maintained by their South.,
ern kinsmen against six-fold odds
of numbers, and odds of position,
resources, vantage ground, simply
incalculable. Even those who, from
sympathy with the Northern States,
were mfavorable to the cause 9f a
great nation revolting against a
real tyranny could not but feel
proud of our near kinship with that
incomarable soldiery-so desig
nated by their enemies-which, on
fifty battlufields, maintained a con
test such as no other race has ever
in modern times maintained, and at
last, when all hope was gone, held
for six months, with forty-five
thousand men against one hundred
and fifty thousand, a slender line of
earthworks thirty miles in length;
who marched out 28,000 strong,
and after six days' retreat in front
of a countless cavalry and over
whohning artillery and infantry
pressing them on all sides, sur
rendered at last but 8,000 bayonets
and sabres. It is this people, tihe
Ilower and pride of the great Eng
lish race, on whom a more terrible, 1
more merciless, enemy has now
fallen. There can be now no I
division of sympathy, as there is no I
passion to excite and keep up the i
courage needed for the occision.
Yet the n.en anld wolmen of tho I
Suth are true to the old tradition.
Her youth volunteer to serve and 4
die in the streets of plague- stricken f
cities, as readily as they went forth, r
boys and gray-haired men, to meet
the threatened surprise of Peters- I
burg-as they volunteered to ]
charge again and again the cannon- c
crowned hills of Gettysburg, and to -
enrich with their blood, and honor t
with the name of a new victory, a
every field around Ritiliveb-'I rpl -:- I
sisters, wives, mothers and daugh- t
ters are doing and suffering now as r
they suffered from famine, disease, c
incessant anxiety an( alirm a
throughout the four years of the N
civil war. There may be among c
the various nations of the Aryan f
lamily one or two who would claim 0
that they could have - furnished N
troops like those which followt d i
Lee and Johnston, Stuart and I
Stonewall Jackson ; but we doubt
whether there be one race beside I
our own that could send forth its
children by hundreds to face in I
town desolated by the yellow fever I
the horror of a nurse's life and-- the
imminent terror of a martyr's I
death.
Too iron OR HIM.
As Confederate war reminiscences
are the order of the day, here is
one too good to lie buried. The hero
of the joko we will call Jim. He
was attached to Rosser's Cavalry,
in Stuart's command. Jim was
noted for his strong antipathy to
shot and shell, and a peculiar way
he had of avoiding too close a corn
munion with the same, but at last
all plans failed to keep him out of
a "row," and he, with his comrades,
under a lieutenant, was detailed to
support a battery that composed a
e portion of the rear guard. The
enemy kept pressing so close, in
fact, as to endanger the retreating
forces, and the troops covering the
A retreat had orders to keep the
enemy in check, for a given period,
at all hazards, and the order wvas
obeyed, to the letter, though under
a galling fire. Our friend Jim
grew desperate. He stuck behind
trees that appeared to his excited
* vision no larger than ram-rods.
He then tried lying down. In fact,
he placed himself in every position
that his genius could invent, but
the "hiss' of the bullet hunted him
still. At last, in despair, he called
to his commanding officer : "Lieu
tenant, let's fall back 1" "I can not
do it, Jim," replied the officer.
"WVell, ITll be drat if we don't get.
cleaned up if we stay here I" "My
orders, Jim, are to hold this place
andl support that battery of guns,"1
pointing to the ai'tillery close by,.
"If we fall back, the enemy will
rush in and - capture the guns,"
Just at that time a well directed
bullet impressed Jim with the fact
that a change of base ,became nec
essary. Jim found another appar
en tly proteetivo spot, and, . as lie
recovered his mind, he sang out:l
"Oh I Lieutenant I what do you
think them ore cannons cost ?" "iI
don't krow, Jiin ; I sieppo-se $1,000."
"WVell," saidjdim, "lots, take- np a
collection anch pay: .for. th6 di-d
,uns. and let '.the -Yqankoien have
THE TAM2MANY IOCXETY.
A friend, for himself, and others,
asks us to toll him somewhat of the
origin of the Tammany Society,
reference to which constantly occurs
in New York political news.
The origin of the Tammany So
ciety is traced to tle rebel army of
the revolution which, needing a
patron saint to fight under-St.
George remaining with the British
selected for canonization a mighty
Indian brave, a Sachem who had
been known in life as Tamanend.
St. Tamanend did not sound well,
so Washington's soldiers for the
sake of euphony inscribed St Tan
many upon their banners, and they
selected the twelfth of May, which
tradition said was the saint's birth.
day, for appropriate celebration.
On that day in each year a wigwam
was erected, a pole crowned with a
liberty.-cap, and bearing a tomahawk,
wampum and other Indian parapher
nalia, was planted in the earth ; and
wound this after the representative
f the great Sachem, who was per
wonified by a comrade duly accoutred
iand painted for the occasion, had
unerged from the wigwam, to which
e u1gain retired, and delivered a
'talk" full of exhortations to love of
iberty and courage in battle, they
Li danced, with feathers in their
taps; and bucks' tails dangling down
>ehind. The pratice spread through
>nt the army; St. Tammany and
iis natal day were both adopted ;
'orts were christened with his name;
mnd the 12th of May was regularly
!oinmemoratod until, shortly before
lhe last war with Ureat Britain, by
)rdor of the then Secretary of War,
jeneral Deaiborn, the festival was
orbidden, as tending to debauchery
nong the troops.
"Nor was St. Tammany's early
)opularity confined to the army.
3atriotic poets sang his praise, and
ivilian societies bearing his name
prang up in any localities. Par
icularly was this the case in Phila-.
Lelphia and other Penns'lvania
ivity. There was a procession of
,en, women and children, all decked
>ut with bucks' tails and other fores4
dornionts, to a grove, where the
vigwam and liberty-pole had been
rected, and where, after an address
rom St. Taninimy's representative,
nd sometimes a collation, the time
vas spent in garmes and dances on
he green. At one timo it appeared
ikely that St. Taimiany's Day would
,xcel the 4th of July in popular
-egard."
The Tammany Society, however,
vhich still exists, has been in exis
once since 1789, beginning with the
,overnment and having continued
hrough nearly three generations of
nen, at all times exercising large
nfluence on New York politics, and
requently on National politics. It
vas known first as the "Columbian
3rder," but as its founder sui
.ounded Columbus, whose reprosen
,ative figured as the "Great Fa
iher," with a dozen Indian Sachems,
>r Ctonselors; a Sagamoro, or
Mahster of Ceremonies ; a Wiskinkie,
r Doorkeeper, &c., &c., the people
wYho had liked St. Tammany as much
is the soldiers did, supposed it to
eo one of the many St. Tammany
Societies scattered through the
land and so called it. As the name
wvas popular its founders threw
Dolumbus over, adopted the Indian
Dihief as their, divinity, and in 1805,
iixteen years after its establishment
it was incorporated as the "Tamw
many Society, or Columnbian Or der."
[ts charter describes it as simply a
sharitable institution, and in its
earlier days it did make provision
for destitute patriots, their widows
or orphans. But it has been a po
itical power from the first, organ
ized to~ that end by Aaron Burr, a
great leader of the oldtime New
York Democracy. Colonel Burr
was not a member of the society, but
directed its organization through
William Mooney, who was its, frst
Grand Sachem, and for yeai-as after
stood behind the scenes and moved
the machinery that conti oIled the
people. Fierce fight has been and
now is made against Tammany's in.
fluence by various rival organiza,
tions among the New York city
Democrats, but it4s power is unbro..
ken and likely to remain so,
The society may have done many
things, as its lees say, that were ill
done. But it has done good in its
day. In the second year of its ex
istence it was of essential service
to the government, having saved the
country from a bloody war. The
Creek Indians, on the Sotithwester
frontler, had grown -trou 1.esome,
and the governvmot, then just en-.
tering on its work with a heavy debt
and an' imnoverished people, 'was
induced to visit New York, tlen the
seat of the Federal government,
that a talk might be had with the
President. The result of the con
ference, it was supposed, would
greatly depend on the first impres,
sion produced on th minds of the
savages, and their entertainment
afterward. Luckily the Tammany
Societv )ad an abuindant Supply of
paint and feathers, apd Washington
hit upon the happy. expedient of
engaging it to do the agreeable to
the tawny visitors. Accordingly,
when the Indian embassy reached
the city, it wsis conducted to the
Tammany Wigwam, where all the
members of the society were waiting
to receive it with painted faces and
full aboriginal outfit. The Creeks
were delighted with their rception;
and as during their stay the Tain
many members retained their Indian
dress, and devoted themselves ex .
clusively to their entertainment, the
result was a very satisfactory treaty,
and the preservation of the peace.
Raleigh Observer.
ON TUESDAY TIE POLLS WILL OPEN
AT SIX A. M., AND OLOSE AT SIX, P. A. I
HIISTORIC NORTH 0AROLINA.
The Raleigh Observer, in noticing
a new child's history of North Caro
lina, says :
There is no State richer in inci
cidents that do honor to its people f
than North Carolina, and we regret I
to say none seemingly more indiffer- It
out to them. Most true, and almost.]
as criminal as it is true we think, is <
it that North Carolinians have been
satisfied to live on from generation .
to generation. without making any c
anduring record of their noble deeds. v
Take for example the brilliant cam-- f
paign that culminated in the battle s
Af Moore's ("reek on the 27th of
February, 1776. Who in the State e
:r out of it beyond the fmw who are
3nrious in such lore knows anything t
>f that splendid achievement ? It t
*dfui iin:' " ,' af Cor t
t well planned and bravely fought a
battle, in the defeat and rout of the
Royalists and the capture of all
their stores. baggage, ammunition, t
arms, and the greater part of the,
troops. And all this was no hap- t
hazard affair, but the fruit of thirty a
days marching and manouvreing
between Fayetteville and Wilming- I
ton, a campaign in which artiller3, f
cavalry and infantry were used, and r
in which the troops engaged wore f
drawn, as far west as from Greens- I
boro, and as far e;st as from 1
Newbern. It would astonish most
people to be told that as long as six<
months before the National Decla- I
ration of Independence, North
Carolina was so far advanced in her
preparation for the coming Rovolu
tion as to be able single-handed and j
alone to conduct such a campaign as (
that which ended in the groat vic
tory of Moore's Crok, but it is true
for all that. Every child knows
about Bunker Hill and Lexington, I
however.
T HE RADICALs MEAN MISCHIEF. THEY
ABE WORKING SECRETLY AND WE nE
LIEVE THEY WILL YET PUT OUT A TICEET.
T HE INDIANA JcroRY.-The recent
election in Indiana has been some
what overlooked in the eagerness to
examine the result of the election
in Ohio, on the same day ; but an
Indiana Republican, writing to the
Cincinnati Gazette, makes a very
intelligible summary of it as follows:
"That we have been ingloriously de
feated there is no doubt. I6tis the
grandest Democratic victory achiev-.
ed in Indiana since the existence of
the Itepublican party. The increas
ed majority in the State is- in itself
great, but not until we add to that
the loss of four Congressional Dis.'
tricts-and gain of but one-the
loss of three of the State Senatorial
Districts and thirteen of the Repre
se.ntative Districts, are we able to
estimate the extent of our defeat,
and it seems to one member of the
party, at least, that we had best
look the truth squarely in the face."
ON TUESDAY THE POLLS wILLt OPEN
AT SIX, A. M., AND CLOSE AT SIX, P. Ii.
ALMOST A MATCH FoR JUDGEu MAoKEY,
-Away back in the early history of
Georgia, when the laws were-admin
istered wvith dispatch and with com
paratively little ceremony, one of,the
commonwealth's noted sons, Walter
T. Colquitt, at the time which we
write a Superior Court Judge, con-d
demned a man to be hung, then
preached' a sermon, reviewed the
militia, ,nwried two couples'at night,
and then conducted with considera
ble unction a rousing prayer meeting
...a114n naay. -Who can trab out
A BrIL FEAST.
A tall woman, having a troubled
countonence, took the easy-chair
and led off with:
S"Mr. Joy, peoplo are getting mar.
ried every day."
"Is that possible, madam?"
"Yes, sir. My daughter Enielino
is to be married next week."
"Well, that hIe'ts all ! Do you
know, madam, I never even dretun
ed of such a thing ? She loves the
feller, of course, and of course you
will give them your blossings ?"
"Y-e-s, though I think she could
have done better. However, they
fell together, and 'twasn't no use
to talk to her. The more I talked
the more sot she was, and finally I
gave in.'
"And did you want me to happen
in like and happen to see Erneline
like, and happen to advance ten
thousand reasons why she should
break off the engagement and wait
For some prince or duke to come
ilong 7"
"No, sir. The marriage is all
iettled on, and what worries me
iow is the supper they want to got
1p. It's got to come out of my
>ocket, but Emneline wants to rush
n the extravagantest manner. Wero
rou ever at a bridal feast?"
"Ever I Why I've beon to five
mtndred of 'em !"
"Well, then, I'd like your opinion
a to what I shall provide, I've
,ot my ideas about it, and if you
.gree I'll go ahead, Emlino or no
P,mcline. It's going to cost me
nough, anyhow."
"Well," slowly responded Bijah.
fter a no.iiont's thought, "I'd put
n a clean table-cloth, of course,
nd I'd scour up the knivom and
arks, and borrow all the spoons
ud dishes I could."
"Yes-that's the way I should
t0."
"Then, I'd have a big bouquet at
lie head of the table, two more in
be contre and one at thin fnin
boy are a great deal cheaper than
weet cako."
"That's the plan exactly
"Some folks are just mean enough
o turn a bridal party away lin
r'y," reuimed the old man, "but
hat isn't my style. Sweet cako
Ud poppermint candy and ice eroam
re well enough for consumptivos,
>ut after a person has hung around
or three or four hours to soo a
arriago go oir lho's apt to feel a
oneness. Now. if it was me, the
M11ndat.ion of the bridal feast should
io meat and 'tat,rs."
"Just what I told Emolino I" ex
laimed the woman, rubbing her
kands in a delighted way.
"Yes, meat and 'taters. I'd have
rood, solid pork, fried rather hard,
Lanked by breakfast bacon and ham.
Phen I'd have baked 'taters warmod
>ver.
"I told her so-I told her so!"
)xclained the excited mother.
"Then, I'd have a plate of summer
iquash at tho head of the table, and
, plate of winter squash at the foot.
P~he edges of the plates can be
>rnamenited with slices of onions
>laced half an inch apart."
"I hadn't thought of that, but I'll
uave 'em-have. 'em, or bust the
wedding I"
"Well, then, the side-dishes may
sonsist of-of-let's see ? Buck
wheat pancakes are awful nico,
nadam, for one thing. A pickled
pig's foot, placed on a plate by itself
nid half hidden under stalks of
3elery, looks romantic and tastes
irst rate. Then cut your' pumpkin
pie up in-small pieces and serve it
with sweet cake. Then-'
"But isn't that about. enough ?"
nervously inquired the woman.
"All but some more onions,
rnadam. There's where they make a
groat mistake at bridal feasts. The
guest who comes with his mouth
watering for more onions goes away
a disappointed and crushed man.
I'd havn 'em raw, stewed, baked aad.
hashed up. Those who don't like.
'em wQn't touch 'em ; those who
hanker for them will bless you."
"I think I'll do it-in fact, know I
will," replied the woman. "It's me
who is running this bridal feast and
if Emeline doesn't like it she can be
married out out on the oornmons
WVell, Mr. Joy, I'm a thousand times
obliged, and you are hereby invited,
to attend'-the feast."
"I'll conme. Don't forget the
onione-.don't go back o i the 'taters
and tbe solids. And now may all
the blessings on earth attend you
and yours, and if you get stuck for
onions I can send you over a peck
any minute. Good. bye-have 'em
cooicd in all styles-,-so long-yum!"'.
.-..eroit Free Pres.
ON Tumarua . 'oLLB Wun oi'aw
V X'F 1.40 Awe .11 ,_y a.~
The Eightoonth Tinfantry, United
States Army, has boon ordored to
move Westward to look out for the
Indians. This regiiont Ias served
for some years in the department of
the South, mostly in this State and
Georgia, and for a long time the
greator portion of the command was
on ditky in Colurnbia, where the
officers and Inen gained the respeot
of tho citizens gonorally.
TiE RADICALS MEAN MIscuIEF. THEY
ARE WORKINO SECRETLY, AND WE DELIEV4
THEY WILL YET PUT OUT A TIOKET.
The latost outrago on tho part of
a Southern Democratic execntive
has been committed by the governor
of Florida. Ie has actually issued
an order directing the collectors to
take only a part of the taxes that
havo been aissessod, because the col.
lection of tho entire amount would
yield more than the administration
of the govornment roquiros.
It would be well enouigh for the
farmors to rom inber that the lie
law expiros by lituitation on January
1, 1879. It is not likely that the
law will be re-onactod, and dur
farmers should set about preparing
for the change by putting in a heavy
crop of wleat amd oats.
An old lawyer says that whenever
a witnoss under cross-oxamination,
takes to frequent spitting 1h0 is ly
ing, and takes to ex)etoration just
to gain time to think. Otherwise
witnessos rarely spit whilo giving
testimony.
A. B. Norton, Ropublican candi
'late for governor in Texas, is an
D)hio man who is still keeping at
>ld vow never to shave or cut his
lair until Henry Olay should be
3lected President.
Lose not thy own for want of
tsking it i Lose not your infant
'or want of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup,
Vhich any drtfiall sell'
VEGETINE.
REV. J. P. LUDLOW, WRITES
ITS BA LTIC 111ET, 001MWIYN, N. Y.,
61it. IT. It. S'r.I*F%': November 141, H74.
pear sti--'romi per.,onal benefipit, r. iv.i by
Is 11;e, as4 wyell as4 from porsoalitl I Ivl-- le of
'hose whoso cures have i" lI aim I l. Im *'n
ols, I can most heartily and sincerely recom,
111114 the Veget.in for the Complants which it
s claimed to euro.
JTAMES P. L,UDLOw,
Lat) Pastor of Cavalry iaptist churiih,
Sacralineito, Cal.
VEG E TINE.
SHE RESTS WELL.
801UTIl PolAND, ME., Oft6her, It 876.
%in. 11. it. ST-vV "S .
Dear Hlr-I have been slek two years with
he liver conpla il, anti during that t4me hiavoe
akoll n grlelit, n:ny Iiffereni. medicinos, buti
ione of ten did mei aiy good. I was restless
it nights. ni had no appettle. Since taking
tle VEETIN E I rest., well and relish my food.
-.In recommeni the voTIoniN for what it has
lone for me. Yours resplefllly,
M 118. ALHIERT itICKItR.
wit'ness of the above,
%.R. 0*oHolto M. VAlIo0'1AN.
Modford, Mass.
VEGE TINE.
GOOD FOR THE CHILDREN.
IOSToN HlOME 14 Ty3'l3lr streef.
B1OSToN, April, 1870.
Mu. II. ii. STEVENS:
D)enr Sir--we feel that the elhildren in ouui'
home hnvo been greatly benefited by the Vego
Linie you have so hCIndly given us fro time to
time, especially those troubled with the scrof-.
ula. WVith respect.
Mi IS. N. WVo1lCLL~, Matren.
VEG ETLINE.
REV. 0. T. WAL4KER SAYS:
PROvID)ENOEt, Ii. I., 1064 Transit Street.
II. R.5 HVixN4, Esq:
I feel bound to ex press with my stgnat ure the
hlgh~ value I place tIponl yOttr vEolf'l'INEI. My
family have used it for the last two yoars. Iu
nervous debIlIty it Ia inval'.iable, and I recomt.
met it to all wvho maly need( ani invigorating,
renovating~ t,o4i. o. Tr. WVALKERI,
Ferhmerly raster of Ifowdoin-sq4iare Churech,
Dostoni.
VEGE TINE.
NOTHING EQUAL TO IT.
SOUTII SA LEM, MAS., Nov., 14, 1870.
Ma. II. 1R. Ssvvs :
Dear Sir-I have b sen troubled with Sorofula,
Canker aind Liver Complaint for three years.
Nothing over did mei any 'ood until I COal,
monced ulsing tihe vEtoEITINE~. I am nIow t
ting along rt-rate, andI still ulsinIg tile VC,O
tino. I consider there ia nothing equal to it o
sitchi comphainte. Can heOartly reofJmlTead h
to overybody. Yoltus trly
Mits1. LIX7.hN M. PAQKAIID,
No. 18, Lagrange Street, South Salem, Maca,
VEG ETINE.
RECOMMEND IT HEABTILY.
SOUTH BOSTON.
Ma. STEvRNS
Dear Sir.-.I hamve taken several bottles e iy r
VE J~INE and am convinced it Is a valnal
remd r obPi Pt. Kidney 00111
recommend itt all Buff9lltrsroml)lIe above
complaints.
Youtrs reSpOti: MUt O PhKR
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