The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-23

cause of that condition of mind which, as his
counsel allege, absolves him from legal res
possibility for the act for which he is in.
dicted.
That this is sound law nobody can dispute.
That it will materially narrow the field which
the prosecution will be allowed to traverse,
when they come to put in their rebutting and
explanatory proof, is seen at O glance. That,
if rigidly enforced, it will leave many per-
sons whose names figure conspicuously in
this trial in very embarrassing positions, is
painfully apparent.
THE WEALTH OF THE SOUTH.
From, the NJ Y. Times
The highest proof of the folly of slavery,
of the stern necessity of crushing the Re-
bellion, of the general wisdom of the recon
struction policy of Congress, and finally the
highest assurance of our peace and solidity
as a nation in times to come, is found in the
present prosperous and contented condition
of the South. States so lately rent by civil
war, their towns sacked and their fields devas-
tated, are now rich in resources. Men whose
motto was, only five years ago, "war to the
knife, and the knife to the hilt, now nego-
tiate amicably with the objects of their
former hatred, and appeal to them to supply
the two great wants of the South skilled
labor and capital The North responds with
hearty will-the 'era of good feeling is fully
come. Southern traders are again the main
stay of New York commerce, the old enmi-
ties pass out of the memory of men, and, best
of all, a sane secessionist is to-day as much
a TdrG d0SS as the ''undevout astronomer"
Ex-Governor Wise is contentedly arguing
cases in the United States Supreme Court;
Beauregard negotiates with Rosecrans for
new railroad connections Virginia, startled
at the colored emigration to the cotton States,
has found new question in "what shall we
do aoSthOut the negro ?"
The truest test of solid political triumph
is found in results like these-in general
absorption of the public mind in the material
concerns of life. Of course our national
bent of character, common to both sections,
has much to do with this. The happiest
omen at the close of the war was the rush
made by Confederate generals and leaders for
the vacant railroad superintendencies and
presidencies, and for the organization of new
express companies The terrific energy which
for five years expended itself in long cam
paigns and storms of battle could not die with
the Rebellion-only the spear has become
the ploughshare and the sword the pruning
hook. The South somewhat disturbed by
Bourbon FOOLS as it may be here and there,
is neither an Ireland nor Poland. 1t puts
on few airs of martyrdom.
In fact, there can be small pretense anon g
b6uSlDlo m6n Oh Un6 IlerclloSb tyranny OF
which mere demagogues complain in the face
of generally conceded agricultural and COM
mercial prosperity. The securing of good
cotton crop implies faithful labor and do
mestic quiet. Last year this crop probably
reached three millions of bales. At the
average price paid this season it will realize,
or is worth, about 1910, 600, 900, currency, or
over $3.50, ,00O, 900, in gold More cotton has
been raised in previous years, but never has
more money been realized in the aggregate
The crop of 1859-60, almost five million
bales, brought less money and had less pur-
chasing power than that of 1869-70. Cotton
has been deposed from the throne, but has
since accepted Office as First Lord of the
Treasury.
The decrease in the aggregate of the cotton
crop, therefore, does not imply any reduction
in the wealth it produces. 1t is attributable
to other causes than inability to plant and
harvest. The war left behind some salutary
lessons. 1t proved the folly of relying upon
the North for corn and bacon, and q great
breadth of land formerly employed in raising
cotton, sugar, and tobacco is now occupied
| by cereals-the result being that the South
has less to buy, while what she has to sell
brings the same returns.
Another feature in the new wealth of the
| South is the earnest and successful effort it
is making to establish manufactures, and
that is another of the lessons of the war.
Those who have fought along the splendid
water-power of the James river, who have
marched across Georgia, traversed the rich
coal and iron regions of Alabama, or have
seen in the far southwest Texas springs
which are rivers boiling out from under the
mountain sides, need not be told how much
| of power has lain idle or wasted itself away.
The Comal river, in Texas, is only two miles
long from its source to where it empties into
the Guadaloupe; yet it is as large as the
Merrimack, knows neither freshet nor
drought, and has a rapid fall Situated in
the centre of the finest wool-growing country
in the world, and surrounded by the indus
trious Germans of New-Braunfels, its sur
passing advantages for woollen manufacture
were never developed till during the war,
when splendid mill was erected and equip
ped with Manchester machinery. So, all over