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rRIeuTE nc aEnERAt LA.

h appended verses appeared in the Con
sittutionGIssf, last Saturday, after General Lee
arrival in Augusta. They are by no means
faultiess, but give expression 10 the impulse
and feelings OF most -southerners:
"LEE Is IN TOWN.
General Lee is in town. And yet
1 hear no sound fhappy bells
Proclaim the peoples JOYFUL pride,
l see no bonfires on the nils.
"Why are no banners on the walls
To bid the Christian chieftain hail?
Our kings among us, yet no sound
OF welcome rises on the gale.
What have the City Fathers done
To mark this memorable day?
Why all the shouting cannon dumbe
Where are the arches for his wayT"
Nay, friend, you do our rulers wrong;
It Is not thus OF their accord.
Foe he HATH II and we O show
our reverence for His lightest word.
Nor does the day go needless by,
Nor all unmarked by p-ageantries;
BEHOLD the glad flush on each face,
The onhre in the peoples eyes.
And see the clouds of yester eve
Have fled rom all our Summer skies
How bright the sun! The trees are clothed
In all their new sweet draperies.
AAG i1dAh NJ AGEh VI StdNbElbA AuW tIN
Along his line OF Southwark march
The lane with all its bloom for this
Our skies for his triumphal arch!
Oh could our love bring health to him,
No heart would leave a prayer unsaid.
Long be his life, and may the God
Or blessings bless that good gray head.
Nor praying thus would we forget
The lady with him. II there be
Aught that can add TO the rich lot
That God hath gfveu-'ChiId Of Lee!'
God and the people speed them on,
And wh-eresOeVer they may roam
May waiting welcome ever prove
That all his grateful South IS "home."
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contained t~hirty-twO houses, and five
hundred and thirty-eight inhabitants, of
whom n hundred and hfty-nine were
men, about one-half Of them able to bear
arms, and three hundred and forty-nine
women and children. The houses were
well built and CONFERENCE.-The result of
many years of hard work by their inhabi-
tants.
The United States military post of
Wrangel is on the opposite side of the
cove on which the village fronts, and is
less than half a mile distant.
The Indians of this village have been
regarded as peculiarly peaceful aud indus
trioUs. They live, or lived, by selling
game. fish and vegetables to supplYSitks,
aud lumber to theiUnited States quarter
master, and wefs very superior in civili-
zation to most native tribes. They were
especially remarkable for their skill in
initiative art, their houses being adorned
with painting, and carving in wood, Of
ONE merit.
The one great drawback TO their pro-
gress in wealth and in peaceful arts is
said by such authorities as DIR. f. J. Bal
lev. the United States Medical Director of
the department, and Mr.. Vincent COlyer,
the Special Indian Commissioner, to be
the presence Of large numbers of troops
among them. The Indians are broken
down in morals and in health by inter-
course with the soldiers, who spread
every form of debauchery around them.
Mr.. Colyer shows that the Indians have
been shamefuIly abused by soldiers at
Wrangel, and they appear to have no
means ofobtaining redress.
On the night Of December IS, 1869, a
drunken Indian bit of the finger of a
laundress at Wrangel, and ran away.
Lieutenant LOucks started with twenty
armed men to arrest him. The Indian,
whs was at home. made preteXts TO avoid
going with b officer, and finally threat
ened blows; the detachment then fired
into the house, killing the offender, and
seriously wOunding his brother.
The next morning a trader, Mr.. Leon
Smith, was shot and killed by a kinsman
of the dead Indian, as an act of revenge
on the whites. The Indian chiefs delayed
or refused to surrender the murderer on
the demand of the commanding officer,
when the troops bombarded the village,
destroying three houses and injuring
others. The Indians finally yielded, and
gave up the accused man, who was at
once tried by a drum-head court-martial
and hanged. On December 30th, when
the report of Lieutenant B0Rerwe, the
commander, was written, aIraTemained
quiet.
Two views are taken of the affair in the
official reports Just laid before the Senate.
Gen. JEFF. G. Davis, in command of the
department, approves the conduct of his
subordinates; and thinks that a less de-
cided course would probably not have set
tied it with as little bloOdshed as the one
pursued. But be adds: " In my opinion,
the chief cause of this affair was the sale
of liquor to the Indians by two white
men, +" who are under arrest; and that all
the offenders were drunk when they COM
mitted violence.
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Saved.

The following interesting story is
told of Sir Evau Nepean, formerly
Under Secretary of State Of Great
Britain: Zone summer nightaAe was
affected with an unaccOuntabIS 1'eep
lessness, and, being quite weaQs OF
lying awake, he got up, dressed,Nd 1
went out at three o'clock in the norm
ing, strolling aimlessly, more from
daily habit than anything else, down
to the Home Office. Entering his pri-
vate room, his eye caught the follow
ing entry in a memorandum book:
A reprieve to be sent to coiners or
dered for execution at York AL
though he knew that he had done his
W part of the business, he was
seized with a nervous uneasineSs, fan
cying that perhaps the other people
had not done theirs. The feeling was
so strong upon him that he called up
the chief clerk in Downing street,
who said that he had sent it to the
Clerk of the Crown, whose business it
was to forward it to York. But have
you his receipt and certificate that it
is gomez mo- Then let us 90 at
once to his house in Chancery Lane
They did so, and found him in the
act of stepping into his gig for a coun-
try holiday. He had forgotten the
r~eprieve, and left it locked up in his
desk! The feetest express Bgocurable
was dispatched, and reached York
just as the criminals were mounting
the cart. 1t too often happens that
familiarity with such trusts bsgets a
corresponding Indifference to them.
The signal men employed on u rail-
ways declare that the hardest thing
for them to bear in mind is the fact
that hundreds of lives depend upon
their constant vigilance, and at the
most critical moments sleep, or even
recreation, sometimes prove almost
irresistible temptations to the neglect
Of duty"
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Relic Worship.

There is somewhere in England a
table at which Wesley once dined,
and on which he spilled some soup
and left a grease spot. 1t has never
been disturbed, but is shown with
great veneration to pious ladies, who
60 down on their knees and kiss it
with great devotion. Some time
since his wig, and apiece of the black
gown in which he preached, were
publicly exhibited to the faithful, and
now l read that in laying the founda-
ton for a new front in the Wesleyan
Chapel, at Burslem, there was de-
posted in a cavity beneath one of the
stones " a bit 6f the coffin, a piece of
the shroud, and a lock of the hair of
John Wesley" as Rev. H. Hastings,
the resident minister, informed the
spectators, who received the an
nouncement with enthusiasm.
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THE Washington National Bepu6-
HcaR, a Radical paper, seems to be
getting disguised with the idleness of
the "man and brother" We clip the
following from its Tuesdays issue;
Captain Bridges is issuing, at the
present time, between seven and eight
thousand ratiOns daily to the poor of
the District, and yet the emigration
agents from the South, some of whom
are to be found in our city at all
times, fail to secure the labor for
which they come and for which they
offer liberal wages.
Only Saturday an agent, who had
spent some ten days OF two weeks in
endeavOring to collect a hundred la
bOrers for a Southern public work,
was able to send off but thirty men,
and most Of them white, although his
orders were to give the preference to
cOlOred men. These agents assert
that the cOlored men refuse to leave
the city, saying they are told they
must stay here 10 vote, and that they
will shortly be given work till cleo
ton time. Would it not be economy
TO credit the present city officers in
advance with the votes Of those who
leave, thus allowing them to 20 where
they can earn their own support, save
the city the cost Of this suggestions
labor, and reduce the number of the
dependents upon the charity of the
Government?
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THE Troy On. " Daily Press
sums up the latest Congressional idea
Of a Republican form of govern
naent," as follows:
We have become so used to all kinds
of usurpations that the last proposed
one-greater and more infamous than
any other-has excited but little COM
ment. The bill was introduced by
General Nye, and virtually dispos-
sesses the States of all rights, and
makes Congress master of the people,
with a power to ~perpetuate its rule.
There are six short sections to it.
The first provides ar the appoint
ment Of three commissioners by the.
Secretary Of the Interior in every
place Of election in each Congression-
al district Of the Union. This, for the
State of Maine, for instance, would
give fourteen hundred and ffty-three
such commissioners. These officers
may call on the Marshals of the sew
-eral districts Tor at least an equal num-
Der of deputy marshals to aid them.
and the latter are to fall back on the
army. OF the commissioners them
selves there would be, in round
numbers, fifty thousand in the entire
Union. An equal number of deputies
will swell the army Of officials who
are appointed to oversee and control
the election of Congressman and Elec-
tors to OUer a hundred thousand men.
The United States Marshals are 10
have the right to call on the nearest
commanding officer of United States
troops to aid 10 preserving order, and
the Secretery Of War is required to
station troops at convenient points
adjacent to the polling places, encamp-
ing them in the larger cities in the
parks and other suitable places.
Can it be possible that General Nye
is in earnest about such a bill, and
it be possible that it will be
passed? We fear that it will be passed
and the yoke firmly fixed upon our
necks. Can it be possible we wiifsuh-
init without a struggle? We ask thisiT
question ia all sincerity. Even Com
gress can 60 too far and tempt the
people to what we all dread-a revcx
Sometimes nothing else viii
49, Is---I--.
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We insert in another column a
card calling on the different Commit
tees for the Stonewan Jackson Monu-
ment Fund to meet on Tuesdaynext,
for reports and further arrangements.
We are pleased to see that the matter
is to be attended to. We have been
told that in Little Rock a thousand
dollars was raised a few days since in
two hours, that the country in Ar
kansas is responding literally, and
indeed, in other quarters and gen.
orally, and that in the northern cities
subscriptions will be without stint.
Yet Memphis lags. We are
poor. But we are neither
so poor nor so mean that we will not
give cheerfully our mites in proper
ton to our ability. And we hope the
Committees will now organize for a
thorough canvass of the city.
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Important Discovery.

The Emperor Napoleon, as may be
remembered, some time back pur-
chased the site on Mount Palatine,
formerly occupied by the palace of Au-
gustus Cesar and his widow Livia.
Excavations in the ruins have been
made by His Majesty's order, and
many interesting objects of antiquity
have been brought to light. A more
important discovery, just made, is
that Of three underground rooms,
which apparently belonged to the
baths, and ofwhich the walls are adj
mirably dec, rated with trescoes.
Copies of these paintings have been
made by M. Layraud, a French art
list, and have just arrived at the
French Institute. The relics from the
villa of Augustus will eventually oc-
cupy a ro9m at the museum in the
Palace ofSt. German.
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Miracle Plays.

Those who feel curiosity to witness
a Miracle Play given with the pomp
and primitiveness of the middle ages.
may be reminded that the passion of
Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World"
is played every 10 years in the Ammer-
gau, Bavaria, " for the iurtherance of
grateful devotion by the eontempla-
ton of the same, and that thereby all
may be edited; and that the decenniaI
representation falls in 1870. Ammer-
grau is to the southwest of Munich.
nd the journey from the capital to
within a short distance Of the spot
may be accomplished by rail in about
two hours. The days Of performance
are as follows: May 81, ~, June 6, u,
%, July 8, 10, II, "A, sgust z,
q, d Sept. 8, II, y.
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DON'T STAY LATE TONIGHT.


The hearth of home is beaming
With rays Of rosy light,
And lovely eyes are cleaning.
As falls the shade OF night;
And while thy steps are leaving
The circle pure and bright,
A tender voice half %grievtng,
Says; Don't stay late tonight"
The world In which tho movest
Is busy, brave and wide;
The world OF her thou lowest
Is on the ingle side.
She waits for thy warm greeting;
Thy smile Is her delight;
Her gentle voice e~ntreating,
Says: Don't stay late tonight"
The world Is cold. inhuman,
VIII spurn thee in thy fall;
b love of n pure woman
Outlasts and shames them all:
Thy children viii cling round thee,
Let fate be lark or bright;
AT home no shaft will wound thee,
Then, Don't stay late Tonight"
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THE extirpation of the Indian ra-
ees goes steadily and surely on. Hav-
ing purchased Alaska at seven mil
lions, which the New York Post sug-
gests might be improved as a bargain
by giving Russia seven millions more
to take it back, Eve have more of
these unfortunate creatures to control
and crush. The Post shows the pro-
cess by which we are doing it, as fol-
lows:
Wrangel IS, or was on last Christmas
'ARI, an indian trading village upon an
on the seashore in Alaska, one
y &thirty89iass north of the
pish CoNsambia, "a
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The Washington correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Commercial makes the
following point upon the Julian:
Representative Julian to-day Mon
day. introduced in the House a joint
resolution proposing the sixteenth
amendment to the Constitution,
establishing female suffrage and the
right to hold Office without distine-
ton of sex. 1t will be supported by
Julian and all the other old women in
CONGRESS.
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For Judges of the Supreme Court,
men of eminent ability seem to be
looked for by common consent in the
eastern and middle as well as in the
western divisions Of the State. 1t is
very evident that first-class men will
be selected, and that no others need
apply. The Knoxville Wing eantains
the following call:
The undersigned, members of the Knox
vile, Greeneville, JOnesboro', Bristol and
TaZewell bars, believing that Hon. 4. A.
r. Nelson and James w. Desdrick, Esq,
by integrity and eminent fitness, would
honor the position, and bring TO their sup
port the cordial cooperation of all parties,
herewith solicit them to become candi-
states for the Supreme Bench, at an cleo
ton to be held on the first Thursday in
August next, under the new Constitution,
to represent the Eastern Division of Ten
nesSee.
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d 1Nnn T. bEdlAENs VI ~ JILL CIV
There is nothing so destructive TO Radi-
calism as an April snow-stOrm-partieU-
4 Isrly a Uhite one. Last Monday a fear
/ full one swept over Connecticut, and at
this moment it is impossible to tell the
exact amount of damage one by the
empest As an old fashioned poet thus
describes the popularity Of the fakes
that recently whitened the soil of the
land Of steady habits:"
There is a weapon surer set,
And better than the bayonet-
A weapon that comes down as still
As sg0g takes fall upon b sod,
And executes a treeman's will,
As lightning does the will O God.
A weapon that No bolts, no locks,
Can BARR Is THE BALLOT-BOX!
The Gallatin Examiner sf Thursday
has the following items about the crops
and things: The wheat is generally look
ing finely throughout this county. A
fair average breadth has been sOwn. The
oats are generally in and those above
ground look well. The grass is not, upon
the whole, so far advanced as usual az
this season, which is to be attributed to
the cold, wet weather of February and
March. The quantity OF cattle is rather
slim at this time. The same remark NAV
be made Of horses and mules, the surplus
having gone forward to market. The
uDEs nave sulcESu greatly rum CuOAtId
the past year, but we suppose that a suth-
cheney is left. In the way of fruit, the
peaches have suffered severely from the
spring frOsts, but we hope that plenty are
left. There has been no damage thus far
30 the apples or other fruit.
A Mr.. Martin, of Seneca, Ohio, who has
made a tour through Middle Tennessee,
in a letter to the Seneca Advertiser, says
the reconstruction Of Tennessee would be
a great wrong, characterizes the state
ments as to outrages by interested Radi-
Gals as abOminable ~falsehOOds, and adds:
Il have spent the last two weeks in the
very locality in which these great out
RACES and prosecutions of Union men are
said to be committed, and L can assure
your readers that / have failed to hear of
a single instance OF oppression OF threats,
for opinions sake, not TO speak of the
crime of murder. 1 have con-
versed with men who were prominent
Union men during the whole difficulty,
and they own that all these reports of
numbering and prosecuting Union men
are base fabricatiOns, gotten up to order,
Tor the express purpose of getting a RadI-
cal Congress to put bayonets in the State
to control the election so hat certain men
NAV ba e1octad IN Ofiea-N
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Treasure TrOVe

In 1902 the English attacked a feet
OF Spanish galleOns near Vigo, when
seven of them were sunk and nine
burnt. The g~alIeons e~ontaiAed the
tribute Ofthe Spanish colonies for the
years FOOL, amounting, it is stated,
to go, 1900. The greater part OF,
this enormous sum is presumed to bel
still at the bottom of the sea, and ~
French society has been formed<~
the purpose of recovering
treasure. Operations haH
begun, and the divers hav
ten of the galleOns. They -
encrusted with a marine - "
the chief engineer propose
them up to the surface of
curious articles,
armOr and weapons, a sir !
and numerous cannon balls a
found by the divers on the 8so
the vessels. The Spanish W@uAE
ment has stipulated that e7enNH
per cent. Of the recover
must be paid into its tree
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Romantic Career of a Cadetship
PeddIer.

The New York San says that Whit
temore, of South Carolina, the cadet
ship peddler, has a romantic history.
He is a New Highlander by birth; in
herited a small fortune; travelled IN
Europe and ran through the money;
became a clerk in Boston; was con-
verted in a camp meeting; preached I;
Joined Ben Buffers New England
brigade a a chaplain; got funds and
other property from the American
Missionary Association; was charged
with misapplying the funds; exhort-
ed and lectureG the negroes; success
fully led in a street fight between ne
groes and soldiers in Darlington,
South Carolina; received about $500
from the National Republican Execu-
tive Committee, to be distributed for
electiOneering purposes in South Car
DINA; admitted that he appropriated
the greater part of the money for his
own use, to compensate himself for
his services while on the stump;
charged the negroes who voted for
him ten cents each for the ballots they
received; got to Congress and sold
that ~cadetship, ana is now up for
another trip to the notional capital.
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A modern writer says that the dog
has been the companion of man for
more than five thousand years, and
hsalearned but one of his vices; and
is to worry his species when in
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the crowd, exclaiming: "Father, give me
absolution; / am dying" The man was
At first believed to be insane, but when he
knelt before the friar blood was seen
flowing from a wound In his breast. The
preacher then pronounced the formula Of
absolutiOn, the spectators kneeling and
repeating with him the prayers for the
dead. The unfortunate soldier had been
stabbed by q political enthusiast.
Our tobaccO-growers hardly know what
a zsalOus advocate they have in Mr. Chan
cellor Lowe. Formerly the tobacco trade
of Ireland was quite extensive, the soil
being admirably suited for the growth of
the cOarser kinds Of the weed ;" but the
British lawmakers thought 1t best 20 kill
out tina trade, and they did 50. Recently
an Irish member asked Mr.. Lowe why
this legislation preventing the growth Of
50 profitable a luxury should not be re-
pealed. The chancellor, admitting the
ungraeious character Of the legislation,
said that il helped 20 secure the British
revenue an income Of $3.50 600.
The Supreme Court is now completely
ne dhern and sectiOnalized, there being
no member from the southern States on
the bench. The following is a list, with
their ages and time of appointment:
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him for dead on the battT--
But how came he here
ca History says he wan
death in France. Mr.. Ney'ssn nn
ton is about this, in as few wOf
can give it. He was caugb1
and condemned to be shCt.
who were to execute him were bls
by his friends, and blanks were t
Ney himself giving the cOmnliace
Hnen the guns fired, Ney fell
pronounced dead, put into a carriaiece
ami conveyed away. He was corr
eealed and helped off to the United i
states, where he had previously made
up his mind to go. A coffin was
buried, and the grave guarded by his
friends nde the p~retense that some
one might disinter him for one reason
or another. France said New
believes to this day that L was J
buried"
The PhGHGr adds: The above COR
respondence, written by a bigh (
minded and honorable gentleman. IL ,
to the credence of the COM
munlty. Each n can draw his a
inference from this subject. OF tbse.
however, who are still skepticaL. I'VE
may be permitted to ask, that ifthe
above described parsonage was not
Ney, who was he2 -
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,, MANAGERS,
rect, Memphis, Tenn.