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Year: 1868

Correspondence of the Columbus (Ga) SUM-


BUCHANAN, 6. B. Country, Jan. 10, 1868.
I am happy to inform you that am we'll and
have been well ever since left home. as have
been all my family. | am very well satisfied
with the country-better satisfied than ever
was Id all the days of my life, thought | was
free in America, but | was not until stepped
ashore in Liberia; and thank God that l can
now declare my freedom without fear 1t was
twenty nine days after We left Charleston before
we saw any land and the first land we saw was
Cape Verde, inhabited by the Portuguese; the
next was Monrovia, and then we landed at our
station-Grand Bana Country; and Of all lands
that have never seen before [ have seen in
this country; and all the trouble you have in
getting your land is to walk about and pick it
out for yourself landed here on the 4th day
of January and came ashore on the 9th of Jam
uary, and on the Sth [ went out to inspect land
and found it good. On the 9th | went out
again and picked out my land between two
towns-one mile from each, Of all the fruits |
found on the land my tongue is unable to ex-
plain, but / viii give you the names of some.-
First, field thirty acres of coffee. Second,
eocoanut trees in any quantity Third, lemons
by the bushel. Fourth, the great palm tree,
the most important and precious tree in the
country from which We get nice oil, cabbage,


butter, then the kernel, shingles, then cord and
| thread. And then, best of all, we can get wine
| OF it to drink. All of these we have on the
farm. Tell my brother Washington that this
is the country to come to- / will now close BY
saying [ remain yours.


HENRY LEwls.
Year: 1868

Mr.. EDITOR 1t is with gloomy apprehen
sion, look upon the vast quantity of Cater
pillars through the county, and the apathy of
the farmers with regard to them. Unless early
means be used to destroy the nests, they will
overrun the whole county-destroy not only
fruit trees, but all vegetables


Their name will be Legion, if nat at once
destroyed,


let every man on his own premises go to
work, and extirpate them If the nest is easily
reached pour on it some Coal Oil ifqas, use a
long pole with sponge saturated with the OIL


The present appearance in the orchards
should suffice to alarm every ulan who cares
for his fruit They may not only destroy the
fruit, but the tree not ony the tree, but their
crops Set TO work in time w.
Year: 1868

The NORTHERN METHODIST CHURcH.-We
have repeatedly called attention to the insidious
efforts of that great Radical machine, the North
ern Methodist Church, to obtain o foothold In
the South. The last number of the New York
Tribune confirms all that We have said as to the
political character of this Church After giving
the statistics presented to the General Confer
enee as to the strength of the Church in the
South, the Tribune adds:


THE figures which we have quoted have a
pottttcalno less than an ecclesiastical significance
There are probably not dozen voters IN all the
Conferences named ,oho ,oW cote the Democratic
ticket. Thus, these Conferences represent a
considerable portion of the Republican party of
the South, and their rapid growth must be hail
ed as one of the most promising proofs of all
real reconstruction. -
Year: 1868

1t is a curious fact that the fine particles of
partially carbonized matter which give the
peculiar haze or smoky appearance to the
atmosphere of the Atlantic States during the
Indian summer come from region entirely
across the continent. Tne minute atoms, ex-
amined by the microscope, are found to belong
to vegetable organisms which are only produced
on the plains at the base Of the Rocky Noun
tains, and the atoms are waited hither through
some wonderful meteorological agency
Year: 1868

Gr The circulation of the SPECTATOR is
about as great as the combined circulation
of both the other papers published in this
place, and has as many subscribers in this
county alone as are contained in the whole
list of either of the other papers.
Year: 1868

isas.ns &*tuttA6 rf.ss2:


We clip the following from an exchange. 1t
contains some valuable hints:


We like to have people visit our Office but
like to have their calls few apd far between and
of short duration,


Be sure and commence whstling q grand
march with great gusto and keep it up with va
riations during your stay. This will give you
an opportunity to find out what profanity COM
positors are capable of on trying occasions


After asking the Foreman whether the daily
edition is printed weekly, whether the tri-
weekly is printed three Zines aweek, and how
many men are employed-be sure and examine
the contents of the copy HOOK and make rum
ming comments on the articles thereon. This
| will give the printers an idea Of yoHr literary
cspScitg.


1t would pe well then to accost compositor
as to show many types be Gan stand per day"
how much wages he receives, if it is hard work
and if SO what makes him follow it. This will
| be a diversion for him from the dull munetony
of his every day life.


You should criticise the newspaper, and if
you should happen to see letter turned, mag
nifty its results and be sure and show your ex
traordinary facility for orthography, to the ed
itor. Should it happen, that luck placed you
in printing office IN youth. cub be sure to
see that there are not too many rollers working
on the power press, and tell the editor of the
superior work that might be done with less :;
this will make him believe you are a printer,
and perhaps he may ask you to take charge of
| the concern.


Enally-Should you h4ppep 10 find any type
standing on the imposing stone" try to lift a
column, Just to see if it is solid. This will
enable you to calculate correctly upon the des-
tiny of western leather, and the momentum re-
| ouired by body falling down a tWenty-foot
staircase


Heaven.


A living diving says: when was boy,
I thought Of heaven as a great, shining city,
with vast walls, and domes, and spires, and
with nobody in it except white tenuous angels,
who were strangers to me. By and by my lit
tie brother died [ thought of great city
made with walls, and domes and spires and Q
flock of cold unknown sagals, ald one little feI
low taat was acquainted with. He was the
only one [ knew in that time


Then another brother died. and there were
two that knew. Then my acquaintances be-
gan to die, and the flock continually grew
But it was not till had sent one of my little
children to his Grand pareat-aoa-thst be-
gan to think had got little in myself A
second went, q third went, fourth went; ane
, by that time had so many acqualntances IL
heaven, that did not see any more walls ant
domes, and spires | began to think of th'
!, residents of the celestial city. And now ther
!. have so many of my acquaintance gone there


that it sometimes seems to me that l know
more in heaven than do on earth.
Year: 1868

when loose so that he could step on it.
The Emperor Charles the Fifth used to
divert himself by making John stand in
the open air amoag his courtiess, that he
might watch the wind make it fly in tho
faces of tho lords.


'Of Sir Thomas More it is said, that on
The scaifold he saved his beard by joke.
The executioner had already lifted the axe
10 strike, when his victim, looking up ior
u moment, exclaimed: at least let IN.
put aside my beard; that has committed
no treason, and it would be an injustice te
punish it.
Year: 1868

TRUE CoURTEsY.-Real courtesy is
widely different from the courtesy
which blooms only in the sunshine OF
love and the smile Of beauty, withcrs
and cools down in tho atmosphere OF
poverty, age, and toll. Show
me the man who can quit the brilliant
society of the young to listen to the
kindly voice OF age; who can hold
cheerful converse with ono of whom
years have deprived Of charms. Show
mo the man OF generous impulses,
who is always ready TO hcip the poor
and needy; show me the man who
treats unprotected maidcnhood as ho
would the heiress, surrounded by the
protection OF rank, riches and family
Show me- the man who never forgets
ior an instant tho dclicaey, tho re-
spoct, that is duo TO- a woman, in any
condition or class. Show me such {
man and you show me a gentleman
nay, you show me botter-you show
NO true Christian. -
Year: 1868

How TO BEINa II ABoUr.-Whcn
Dr.. Nathan Strong was settled in Hart
ford, he used, as was natural and proper
during the sessions Of the General Court
in the city, to seek TO bring some OF the
distinguished divincs of the State, by ex.
change or otherwise, to preach i'll his pull
pit. This was done not only to crafty
and please, but also to bring strong re-
ligious influence around tho legislators,
who in those s!ow-moviug days, would,
tho most Of them, remain in tho city over
the Sabbath. On one occasion DIR. Bel.
lamy carne from Bethlehem for this pur-
pose. In the morning he preached a
glowing sermon on the Millennium. lie
painted in warm and attractive colors, the
state Of the world when the great forces OF
evil should be in sutjection, and "the vol
should dwell with the lamb" At the close
lie promised to tell them in the afternoon
how all this might easily be brought atom
| In the afternoon, the audience gathered
with vague expectations of what was t.
come, when lie preached faithful an,
searching sermon on the text, "Except
man be born again lie cannot sec the king


dom Of God," in which he pressed hom'
with great power, the duty of personal re


lgion.
Year: 1868

A young gentleman happening TO cit al
church, in pew adjoining Que in which
sat a young lady for whom he conceived q
sudden and yiolent attachment, was de-
sirous Of entering into u courtship on the
spot, but rhs place not being suitable for
formal declaration, the ease suggesting
the following plan: He politely handed
his fair neifhbor Bible opened, with a
pin stuck in the following text: Second
Epistle Of John, verse 5-"And now |
beseech thee, not Us though wrote new
commandment unto thee, but that which
we had from the beginning, that We love
one another" ee,


She returned ii. pointing 10 the second
chapter Of Ruth, tenth verse: Then she
fell on her face, aud bowed herself to the
ground, and said TO him: Why have
found grace in thine eyes; seeing am o
stranger" ass


lie returned the book pointing 10 the
thirteenth chapter Of the Third Epistle
Of john "Ilaying many things to write
unto you, / would not write with pen and
ink, but trust shortly TO come unto you
aud speak face TO face that our JOY may be
full"


From the above interview marriage
took place the ensuing week. to
Year: 1868

A dreary place would be the earth


Were there no little people in 1T;
The song of life would lose iIs mirth,


We're there no children to begin IT.
No little forms. like buds to grow,


And make the admiring heart surrender
No little hand on breast and brow,


To keep the thrilling love cords tender
No babe within our arms to leap.


No little feet toward slumbe tending
No little knee in prayer TO bend,


Our lips the sweet words lending.
What would the ladies do for work,


Were there no pants or jackets tearing
No tiny dresses to emhToider


No cradle for their watchful caring
No rosy boys at wIntry morn.


With satchel to the sc schoOl-house hastlnS
No merry shouts home they rush,


No precious morsel for their tasting.
Tall, grave, grown people at the door,


Tall. grave, grown people at the table;
The men of business all intent,


The DANES lugubrious as they're able.
The sterner souls would get more stern,


Unfeeling natures more inhuman,
And man to stole GOODNESS turn.


And woman would be less than woman.
For in that cline toward which we reach,
Thro times mysterious, dim unfolding.
The little ones with cherub smile


are still our Fathers face beholding.
So said His Toice in whom we trust.


When in Judeass realm preacher,
He made a child confront the proud,
And be in simple guiss their teacher.
Life's song, indeed, would lose its charm,
We're there no babies to begin it;
A doleful place this world would be,
We're there no little people in it.
Year: 1868

Young women in America withdraw them
selves from society almost as soon as the
marriage vows are exchanged, and do not
expect to emerge from their seclusion until
they do so as mothers with manageable
daughters. This is one great fault Of our So
ciety. 1t consists almost entirely of girls,
young men, the mothers of the girls, and
the fathers, whom the mothers occasionly
drag into the drawing room. Women, at
the age when they are most interesting, very
seldom appear at ALL They shut themselves
up with their husbands and their young
children. They are not expected to be seen.
Society is supposed to be too much engaged
in pairing off the younger folks to pay any
attention to them In no country of the
world is society so truly and unmistakably
public matrimonial as in this. Mothers ex-
hibit their daughters in the prettiest possible
dresses, with ribbons and flowers.


Young men make their efforts-hearts
generally lly-sometime fortunes-and the fair
young creatures are led away, never to ap-
pear again until they have goods of their
own to offer. They are considered ''out of
the market, and seem themselves to lose all
interest in the social gaities which they
should do their share in sustaining Society
is thus robbed of its brightest ornaments.
Woman, when she is at the fulness of matu-
TlIy, YET Stlli young, Wnen Sle combines mat
rOnly dignity with the animation and wi gor
of girlhood, retires from the social world
She leaves society imperfect-there is va
cuum-a want of something in the drawing
room which we have all felt, and the place
of which dancing and small talk cannot sup
ply. How often we hear complaints of the
''frivorities' of society-not from those
only who think religion and social pleasure
antagonistic, but from those who long for
the intellectual sparkle of conversation.


What have we to compare with the wit,
the life, the brilliancy of French society2
This is due to young married women, who in
France enjoy society, and are, in fact its
life. We cannot afford to loose the society
Of women the moment they are married and
lay aside, if not the timidity, certainly the
verdancy of girlhood. 1t does our young
girls no good, either, to monopolize the
drawing ROOM We would not have them
secluded as they are, and foolishly, in Eu-
rope but we would have them stand mod
estly behind their older and more expert
enced sisters. They would be more interes-
ting themselves, and society would not be
Che incomplete and unsatisfactory thing tits.
Young married women are needed in society.
Year: 1868

A New York City lady founda powder
wrapped up in paper on the street, the
other day, and supposing it to be Yeast pow
der, used it in making cakes. Her death
and a post-mortem examination revealed
the fact that it was preparation of arsenic.
Year: 1868

The editor of a paper in Maine has lost
his wallet containing a torn three cent script;
two postage stamps that hadn beer used .a,
but once, and Confederate one dollar Dill
Dead broke" at last
Year: 1868

There is living in the Sixteenth ward IN
CiDcinneti. an old Frenchman who stood
near the scaffold where the great French ty,
rant Robespierre, was guiillotlned the BLOOD
of the victim actually spouting in his face.
Year: 1868




The American people. when they
hear the Copperhead orators bewailiug
the enormous taxes to which the public
debIic debt subjects us. should bear in
mind that of Sl26 900, 900 which we pay
annually for interest, at least three.
eighths is a tax directly forced upon
the people by the Democratic party.
During the war money had to be boT-
rowed, and we had to submit to such
terms as the money-lenders requtr-
ed. But since the armies were dis
banded there has been no ques-
ton in any part ofthe world as to the
ability of the United States to pay its
debt, and that, too, upon the ascending
scale of increased population and pro-
ductiou, with a constantly decreasing
rate of tax. Money is 10 be had in
London and in Frankfort at per cent.
upon long bonds. The United States
could borrow there at that rate if it were
not for the Democratic party. The
question in Europe is not whether the
United States can, but whether they
tcilL, pay the debt according TO the con-
tract.


So persistent, universal, malicious
and defiant have been the threats and
the efforts of the Democratic party to
keep the national credit at the lowest
possible point, that the money. tenders
OF Europe, who would cheerfullY take
any American loan at 4 per cent, re-
fuse to take it except at TX per cent,
for that is what we are now paying, ac-
cording to the New York EUenfng
Post. our. gold dollar being equal
TO only eighty cents in European
coin. The result is that we
are now paying in fact per cent for in
terest and 3H per cent as an insurance
against repudiation of the debt by the
Democratic party. We pay $l26. 900, 600
annually for interest, when, II repudta-
tionists were sileuced, the whole out
standing debt could be taken up with a
new bond at but little over half the
\ present rate of interest. We pay fifty
millions of additional interest annually
to cover the risk that the Democratic
party will gain power and repudiate
Year: 1868

The wickedest reprobate, when he
approaches the portals of death, is
overtaken by repentance aud a desire
in his last moments to make some
atonement for his misspent life. Can
it be that Andrew johnson, having be-
fore him the approaching end of his
public career and oppressed with a
consciousness of the enormous mis-
chiefs wrought by hin, looking forward
to the grave that is soon to hide the
political carcass which he labored for
three years to galvanize into horrid
life and desiring that the historian
shall record his administration as not
wholly infamous,is moved 10 withdraw
from his declared position of hostility
to the reorganization by Congress of
civil government in the South on a
basis of loyalty, and TO allow re-
sumption of peace and tranquility? II
so, this simple act of duty WILL by its
great contrast with past perversity, do
something to soften the judg ment of
posterity upon this bad man, and will
be the beginning of better days for the
Republic. Happy for the fame of An
drew Johnson would it have been, and
thrice happy for the country, il he had
used the great powers reposed in him,
not for the rekindltng of treason and
the renewal of strife, but for the culti-
vation of lasting peace by the sim
pie performance of his duty. His re-
parntion, if such it be, comes late, but
not too late to be welcome.
Year: 1868

The recent breaking up by mob of a 10y
al meeting in Texas, and the shooting of a
Republican orator, makes the testimony of
\. j. Hamilton, the first Provisional Cover
nor, as given in a recent speech at Austin,
peculiarly significant and timely


50 Upon the surrender of the Confederate ar
mics you all felt that you had lost the rights
that you once enjoyed under the Constitution
When entered the State as Provisional Cover
nor in 1868, citizens hocked to meet me to talk
with me about the condition of the country !:
and from my landing in Galveston until reach
ell this city heard but one expression from the
secessionists. They said frankly that they had
tried to set up government and had failed.
They had done their best They threw them
selves upon the cemency Of the conQueror
They would be content if their lives were spared
and what was left Of their property not taken
from them They thought it right that the work
Of reconstruction should be committed to the
friends of the United States Government. They
were willing to remain in the back ground An
who hear me know that | speak the truth. And
You know, too, that it was but little time until
all this was changed. Just so soon as a differ
ence between the President and the party that
elected him 10 Office began to develop itself YOU
changed your tone. | am speaking now 10 Sc
cessionists. And when the policy of the Presi-
dent ripencd into what you thought was a deter
mination on his part to form political alliance
with you, YOU became arrogant and denunciatory,
toward Union men, so much so that you pro
claimed openly, before | left the State in 1866,
that services to the Confederacy constituted the
best claim to official position"


There is nothing truer than this, and it
as true for the other Southern States as for
Texas The South at the close of the war
was ready to accept any terms short of uni
yersal confscation. The North on Its part
was willing to he lenient and generous to-
wards the late foes of the Government. The
change to sullen rancor at the South and TO
stern exaction at the North, is largely the
work Of Andrew johnson. and he has
heavy account to settle for it, with his coun-
try and his conscience, if he has one.
Year: 1868

We can't pyall the complimentary things
that are said of our worthy and popular
townsman, President Angel, but the follow
ing from the Woonsockct Or. ~ Herald on
a recent lecture by Mr.. Angel in that place,
is too handsome to 90 uncOpied;


We shall attempt no analysis of the lecture Of
President Angel. We cannot reproduce the
grace, the rhetoric, the undertOne Of sturdy
common sense, or the many sided philosophy
which pervaded it. II was contrasted with
most Of the lectures Of the season as one Of Bee
thOven's symphonies, compared to a band Of ket-
tie drums. The Conservative and the Reform
er ; their inevitable and necessary antagonisms
and their tendencies to excess in thought and ac-
tion,-this in substance, was the topic Of dis
course We all know how this subject. in 50 far
as they could comprehend it, has been handled
Of late years by the blatant brawlers who have,
under false pretences Of knowledge, occupied our
lecture rooms those who heard President Angel
now understand how it can be exemplIfel by
scholar and a gentleman


The Vergennes Vermonter SAYS of Prof.
NJ. II. Buekham's address at the close of the
term of the Academy in that city:


The address of Prof Buckham, was a very
scholarly, as well as interesting production, en-
tirely worthy Of the high reputation which its
author sustains among the educators Of Yer
mont Prof. Buckham took the ground that the
best education is that which best fits people for
all the duties of life, and that therefore, the
most liberal education Is really the most practi-
cal the scholar should pursue many branches Of
study which are not directly connected with
trade and money making and that school-lays
should continue several years instead Of few
terms, as many in this mis-caIed practical age
seem to imagine. We consider this address the
best exposition Of the question Of popular cul-
ture, that our citizens have ever been favored
Year: 1868

Der, and call back all the representatives who
went out from this Hall in 1861, clothed
with perjury as with garment, and who
lifted up their hands in violence against the
Government and Constitution, and this con-
test will be ended


Sir, | cannot speak for others, but for my
self, so help me God, living and dying, am
against any such proposition. Let the friends
Of the republic have the keeping of the re-
public IN their own hands. That being
done, all will be well, and the time will come,
within the lifetime, trust, of every man
now honoring me with his attention, when
the laws of the republic will be so Just, so
humane, so undiscriminating in their Justice
and in their humanity, that the poorest and
the humblest creature, between the two
oceans, wearing the badge of our common
humanity, shall find equal protection with
the loftiest, the noblest and the best