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A Hamily Paper, Devoted to Politics, News, Literature, and file Dissemination of Varied and Useful Imformation,
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VOL. 6.
NO. 1.
MARSHALL, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1865.
Bill Arp Addresses Artemus Ward.
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Gen. KIRBY SATE.—The president has grant-1 and ears and feelin and thinkin ? W hy
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and now in Cuba,to return home.
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everybody all round kep hollerin hands
oE,ut helpin the big feller, until finally
the little feller caved in and hollered enuf.
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From the Galveston News.
The State Convention,
guests, notwithstanding her symplicity,
and the party enjoyed both the joke am
their viands.
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it agin, but see I’m tryin , to harmonize,
to acquiesce, to becum kalm and screen.
Now I suppose that, poetikally speak-
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the whole of Afriky has come to town,
;women and children and babies and
among them, for which they are rarely
credited, it may be mentiened that two
years ago they raised $10,000 as the nett
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we may refer to the indolence of some —
the activity in business of others—per-
sonal inconvenience from situation, dis-
tance and space—.the want of inlormation
snd appreciation of its importance—and
the want of some stimulus to excite the
people to do an act to them entirely new
complain ; and that it was
commendation that the
for their failure to register, but opposition
to the Government is not one of them. in 1
a late article we suggested what we con- i
sider the principal cause. Besides that,'
man. sartin, and shore. I’ve had
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hearted, they left the land they loyed so
well, never since to return. They 'nave
wandered over Africa and settled on its
Eastern and Northern coasts ; have trav-
elled far into Asia, within the walls of
i and sharp, and even dangerous at times,
in the political arena, but the Southern
contestants were defeated here. At last
the power of the sword was evoked.
Here again they have been most signally
Russia, the beautiful lands of Spain and
Italy, and the wild mountains of Switz-
erland : have taken up their abode in
Germany and hollnd, in Franco, Eng-
land, Sweden, Norway— in fact, in every
land under the sun —everywhere abused
and persecuted with a severity and ma-
lignity that knew no parallel in bistory.
During the past century, however, one
Government after another has made con-
and strange. There is one way to impart
this stimulus—to rouse the people to ac-
tion and send them to the registry of vo-
ters —and that is—to call a Convention.
The people will then see that there is
something practical for them to do, and
will hasten to be registered as voters.
Let them know that in electing delegates
to the Convention they may consult their
own preferences and . send their own rep-
resentative men, and they will hasten to
the polls to cast their votes.
In other States this course has been
tried with complete success. It will suc-
ceed here. In no other State, as far as
we are advised, has the registry of ma-
jority of voters been required as a con-
dition precedent to the call of a Conven-
tion. .We trust that Gov. Hamilton is,
by this time, convinced that the test is
unnecessary, and that he- will yield to the
almost unanimous wish of onr people to
call a Convention without further delay.
If he would draw the hearts of the people
to him and to the Union, that is the way
to do it.
In a further article hereafter, we shall
attempt to show that weighty as the rea-
sons are for having our representation in
Congress, the restoration of our domestic
and State Government is, beyond com-
parison, more weighty and important.
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flict between extreme State rights opin- . ...
। ions and those favoring the supremacy of ported at the expense of the Jews, and.
know nothing of thief, watch, or convic-
tion "
" It can’t be possible that I have again
been deceived,” quoth the lady, “ but this
is the story : About one o’clock today, a
pale and rather interesting- younggentle-
man, dressed in a seedy suit of black,
came to the house in great haste’—alrfost
out, of breath. He said that he had just
come from court : that he was one of the
clerks ; that the great villian who ha
had the audacity to steal your honor's
watch had just been arrested : that the
evidevce was nearly perfect to convict
him ; and that aU that was required to
complete it was the turkey, which must
be brought into court, and for that he had
been sent with a . porter by your express
orders.”
“And you gave it to him ?”
“ Of course I did-iho cotild have
doubted him, or resisted the orders of a
judge J”
“ Watch and turkey, both gone ! Fray
what in the world, madam, are we to have
“ In Dixie’s fall
We sinned all.”
But talkin the way I see it, a big feller
and a little feller, so called, got into a fite,
and they font and fout a long time, and
was about $l 10,0 00.
This city also contains a hospital, sup.
ceedings of the Secretary of War justi-
fies the belief that Mr. Lincoln’s instruc
tions lo him, relative to the termination
of the war, were given in the same spirit ;
and the disavowal of the arrangements
first made bel ween Gens. Sherman and
Johnston indicates that the surrender of
Gen. Lee having intervened, the Govern-
ment at Washington were then unwilling
to make peace on the terms suggested by
Mr Lincoln at Richmond.
I make no comment. The facts are as
stated.
DUFF GREEN.
The South Carolina State Convention has ad-
journed, after a session of fifteen days. During
its session it repealed the ordinance of secession ;
abolished slavery ; established equality of taxa-
tion and representation in the senate*; gave the
election of Governor and Presidential electors to
the people ; directed that legislative votes should
be given viva voce; indorsed President Johnson ;
made provision for a code for the protection of
colored people ; appointed a committee to visit
the President in behalf of Jeff. Davis, Governor
Magratb, and Mr. Trenholm ; nominated James
L. Orr for Governor : fixed the election for Gov
ernorand Legislature on the 18th of October,
and the Congressional election in November ; and
provided for an extra session of the legislature
on the 25th proximo. Governor Perry, it is un-
derstood, will be sent to the United States senate.
— Chicago Hep.
Effects of the Rebellion.—A letter from Nan-
tucket, Mass., says the grass grows on the middle
of the streets that once echoed to the busy feet
of trade. Vast edifices—sperm candle manufac-
tories, oil cellers, ship chandler's stores—are
abandoned to the mercy of the elements. Whole
blocks and rows of buildings are deserted.
PARDON.—The number of applications for par-
don tiled at the attorney general’s office, up to
date, is about twenty-seven thousand. About
seven thousand pardon warrants have been sign-
ed bj the president. The applications rereivrd
average four hundred a day. -
I ain’t ambitious as I use to was. You ;
all have got your shows and monkeys
and sirkusses and brass bands and orgins
and can play on the petrolyum and the
bucket, and I very often feel blue, and
about twice- in a while I go to the dog-
gery and git blue, and then I look up at
the blue serulean heavens and sing the
melancholy choryus of the Bluetailed
Fly. I’m doing my durndest to harmo-
nize, and think I could succeed if it was-
ent for somethings- When I see a black
guard going around the streets with a
gun on his shoulder, why right then, for
a few minutes, I hate the whole Yankee
nation. Jerusalem, how my blood biles.
The institution what was handed down
to us by the heavenly kingdom of Mas-
sachusetts now put over us with powder
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cessions in, their favor, and under this .ce .1.7
milder treatment they have rapidlly ink 1‘
for dinner 1"
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proceeds of a ball given to sustain it.
Preparations are making to repeat the
______ . experiment. Six months ago $20,000
they have been twice defeated—once was raised by the Jews of this country,
my head, and the man drowned himself
China ; have sought the frozen regions of in a hogwaller that night. I kouid do
gave me at Springfield, viz : That
President, he wouldafavor no' measure
wbich the South would have cause
baboons and all. A man can tell how far
it is to the city by the smell.of’em better
than the mile post. They won’t work
for us, and they won’t work for them-
selves., and they’ll perish to death this
winter as shore as the devil is a hog, so
called. They are now baskin in the sum-
mer’s sun, living on roastin cars and free-
dom, with nary idee that the winter will
cum agin, or that castor oil and salts
costs money. Some of ’em, a hundred
years old, are whinin around about going
to kawlidge. The truth is, my friend,
somebody’s badly fooled about this bizi-
ness. Sumbody has drawd the elefant in
this lottery, and don’t know what to do
with him. He’s jest throwin his snout
loose, and by-and by he’ll hurt somebody
These niggers will have to go back to
the plantations and work. I ain’t agoin
to support narry one of ’em, and when
you hear anybody say so, you tell ’em
of our citizen?, from whom we obtained
the above facts, after the article -else-
where pnblisled in this morning’s paper,
on the subjec of a Convention, was in
type.— Gallon Ne'cs.
The Commisionerof Internal Revenue
has ordered tht publishers of newspapers
whose receipt) therefrom exceed $10,000
per annum, slall be licensed as manufac-
turers, and sch licenses will cover all
sales of theirmanufactures at or from
place of publication, and also the printing
and sale of bit-heads, circulars, &c.
From the New York Herald.
The Revolution in Southern Sentiment.
We know not which to admire most,
the wisdom of President Johnson’s policy
towards the South, or the frank and sen-
sible conduct of the Southern people in
accepting the arbitrament of the war.
In every one of the late rebellious
States—and especially in South Carolina,
as will be seen on reference to our news
columns of this morning—there is the
same candid acquiescence in the result,
and in the final settlement of those polit-
ical dogmas which underlaid and were
the cause of the rebellion. The few in-
dividual exceptions, and they are very
few, amount to nothing. In every com-
munity there is, and will be while the
world lasts, some intractable and narrow-
minded persons who cannot comprehend
the logic of events. The leading minds
of the South, as well as the mass of the
people, show themselves to be eminently
practical under the new state of things.
When such men as the Hamptons and
Hammonds of South Carolina, frankly
accept the fiat of the war and readily
conform to the change the sword has
brought upon them, we can have no
doubt or fear of the future. We feel
that.the words of confidence which the
President from his good and honest heart,
spoke to the South Carolina delegation
some time ago, were just and appropri-
ate. He told them they were a candid
and honorable people, and he could trust
them. How well he understood them
may be seen in the course they are pur-
suing. s
We might refer lo the other Southern
States in illustration of these remarks,
but we will advert to South Carolina only,
because her case is more to the point.
This State was the hot bed of Secession.
Almost every one of her citizens was in-
doctrinated with the heresy, and she was
the leader in the revolt. Her people had
less love for the Union and less sympa-
thy wit h their cocitizens of the North-
ern States than any of the Southerners.
With them the State was first, and the
Union second. Their State patriotism, if
we may use such a term, was excessive,
and their national patriotism was weak.
See now, what a change has come over
them. One of their eminent men, Mr.
Hammond, submitted the following reso-
lutions to the State Convention sitting at
Columbus :
“ Inasmuch as a fundamental difference
of opinion in reference to the character,
powers, policy of the government of the
United States and of the State govern-
ments, which existed in the convention
which framed the Constitution, and after
more than three-quarters of a century of
political contests, resulted in a bloody
and exhausting war : and whereas, when
a people draw the sword, appealing to
the last and highest tribunal known to
man, they should abide by its decisions
in good faith ; and whereas, it is neither
wise nor politic in the people of the
South to continue any longer a contest
in which they have been twice defeated
—-once by political majorities and once
by the sword ; therefore, we, the people
of South Carolina, in Convention assem-
bled, accept, as the results of the war,
the principles embraced in the following
resolutions, and will sustain them fully
and faithfully as a national policy.
Resolved, That the Union is the first
and paramount consideration of the Am-
erican people.
Resolved, That sovereignty, a unit,
absolute and indivisable, which in all na-
tions must exist somewhere, resides in
the American people, and its authorized
representative, within the {limits of the
organic law—the Constitution—is the
federal government.”
These resolutions have substantially
been adopted by the convention, and they
accord with the spirit and character of
the proceedings in other respects, and we
are persuaded the people will live up to
them. What a mighty revolution in a
people is this ! South Carolina to ac-
knowledge that the sovereignty of this
country lies in the people of the United
States, and not in the people of the sev-
eral States, and that the Federal Govern-
ment, and not each State, is the Supreme
Agent of this sovereignty, is, indeed, a
new thing under the sun ! It matters
little whether they confess that the sword
or any other argument has convinced
them ; it is sufficient to know they are
convinced of the fact, and submit to it
without equivocation or mental reserva-
tion. Henceforth the people of South
Carolina and the other Southern States
will be truly national in their views and
patriotism. -
Three-quarters of a century this con-
creased in numbers and in influence.
Even Russia has acknowledged their im-
portance as citizens, and 2,000,000 of
them dwell within her empire. In Ger-
many they are very numerous ; the chief
magistrate of Hamburg is a Jew, Po-
land is their stronghold ; within its for-
mer limits 1,000,000 of them may be
counted. Nearly half a million are in
Morocco ; 90,000 in Constantinople ; 70,-
000 in Italy ; 40,000 in England. The
whole number on the globe is variously
estimated at from to 12,000,000;
the probable number is 8,000,000. Of
course no pretensions to accuracy can be
made in such a computation ; there are
tribes said to be running wild in the in-
terior of Africa,
A movement has been iniated at Paris,
with the knowledge, ond possibly at the
instance of the Emperor Napoleon, for
the purpose of organizing the whole peo-
ple into associations-, and establishing
communication among them. They have
long cherished the expectation of return-
ing to the Holy Land. May some ’of
them not think that their restoration
draws near ? The signs'of the times en-
courage the hope. The Turkish Empire
is falling in pieces, and the occupation
of the ancient Canaan by an essentially
trading people, when the Suez canal shall
have been opened, will add to the com-
mercial facilities and wealth of the world.
It is said that Baron Rothschild is inti-
mate with the Emperor, and, ambitious
to distinguish hiniself in the service of
his nation, keeps the project constantly
before him.—-Journal of Commerce.
The Cincinnati Gazette says of Vallan-
digham :
“It cannot be denied, without a reck-
less disregard of facts, that Clement L.
Vallandighram is the representative man
of the Democratic party. The.enthusiasm
with which he is greeted by the rank and
file of the party, and the applause which
follow those utterances which are the
most peculiarly Vallandighamish, show
conclusively that the party, as a whole,
is with him, and that he spoke not at ran
dom on Thursday, in his speech at Bucy-
rus, when he declared that, in spite of his
persecutors, he had more friends than
ever before ; and he might have added,
but for the egotism, that he was the
thrice honored lero of the Democratic
party.”
TFE Convention.— We understand that
the last Auslin Intelligencer announces
editorially that an election for members
of a State Convention will be held be-
tween the 15th and 20th of next month,
December, aid that the Convention will
convene in ibout one month thereafter.
We have no seen the paper, our copy
having failed for some reason ; but the
article in question has been read by some
“its a lie,” so called. I golly, I ain’t got
nothin to support myself ran. We fout
ourselves out of everything except chil-
dren and land, and I suppose the land are
to be turned over to the niggers for
graveyards.
Well, my friend, I don’t want much.
ir. Lincoln’s Views.
IPORTANT FACTS BROUGHT TO LIGIIF.
The following communication appears
in the New York World of Sept. 29.
WVASIIINGTON, Sept. 26.
To the Editor of the World :
. In your paper of today is a .comment
on what purports to be an extract frm a
letter of the late President Lincoln to
Gen. Wadsworth in which letter it is
said he pledged himself to require a qual-
ified negro suffrage as a condition of gen-
eral amnesty After Mr. Lincoln’s firat,
election, in 1860, having ascertained that
Messrs. Davis and Toombs, of the S-n-
ate Committee of thirteen to whom the
subject was referred, had agreed to ac.
cept Mr. Crittenden’s resolutions as an
adjustment of the issue between the
North and the South, if offered in good
faith by toe North, anti that the proposi-
tion had been rejected after consulting
with the then President Buchanan and
others, I went to Springfield to induce
Mr. Lincoln to come to Washington, by
his influence with his friends, secure its
adoption, and thereby prevent disunion,
Mr. Buchanan authorized me to say to
Mr. Lincoln that if he would do. so ho
would be received with all the respect
due to him as the. President elect. Mr.
Lincoln declined going to Washington,
but, wrote, as Ire told me, to one of the
Senators from Illinois, giving his assent.
After the fall of Richmond, I saw Pres-
ident Lincoln there. He told me that he
came to Washington resolved to carry
out, in good faith, the pledges that he
avnitoc the
• Rome, Ga., Sept. 1, 1865.
Air. A' tonus Ward, Showman—Sur :
The reason I write to you in pertikler,
are bekaus you are about the only man
I know in all “ God’s country " so called"
For sum several weeks I have been want-
in to say sumthin. For sum several
years, we rebs, so called, but now late of
said county, deceased, hav been tryin
mity hard to do sumthin. We didn’t,
quite do it, and now its very painful, I
assure you, to dry up all of a sudden and
make out like we wan’t thar.
My friend, I want to say sunthin. I
suppose there is no law agin thinkin, but
thinkin don’t help me. It don’t let down
my thermometer. I must explode myself
generally so as to feel better. You see
I’m tryin to harmonize. I’m iying to
soften down my feelings. I’m endeavor-
ing to subjugate myself to the level of
serroundin circumstances, sa called. But
I can’t do it until I am allowed to say
sumthin. I want to quarrel with some-
body and then make friends. I ain’t no
giant killer. I ain’t no Norwegian bar.
I ain’t no boar constrikter, but I’ll be
hornswaggled if the talkin and the wri-
tin and the slanderin has got to be all
done on one side any longer. Some of
your folks have got to dry up or turn our
folks loose. It’s a blamed outrage, so
called. Aint your editors gut puthin else
to do but to peck at us, and squib at us,
and crow over us ? Is erory man what
can write a paragraf to consider us as
bars in a cage, and be always a jobbin
at us to hear us grow! ? Now you see,
my friend, that’s what’s disharmonious,
and do you jest tell em, one and all, e plu-
ribus unum, so caUcd. that if they don’t
stop it at ence or turn us loose to say
what we please, why we rebs, so called,
have unanimously and jointly and sever-
ally resolved to—to—to—to—think very
hard of it—if not harder.
That’s the way to talk it. I ain’t
agwine to commit myself. I know when
to put on the brakes. I aint agwine to
say all I thimk like Mr. Etheridge, or
Air. Add^rr j, so called. Nary time. No,
sir. But I’ll jestjell you, Artemus, and
you may tell it to your show. If we aint
allowed to express our sentiments, we
can take it out in hatin ; and hatin runs
heavy in my family, share I hated a
man so bad once that all the liar cum off
We must not only tolerate differences
of opinin, but we must cultivate the spirit
of respect and charity, when such differ-
ences exist. In this spirit, we protest
against a proposition which has been ads
vocated by some persons, that the Con-
vention of this State ought to be post-
poned until Congress meets and deter-
mines to receive or register the Southern
Senators and Representatives. The only
reason stated for this proposition is—that
if the Southern members are rejected we
shall know the cause of their rejection,
and our Convention can remove these
causes and remedy the mischif as far as
Texas is concerned. The proposition
covers a principle of evil, antagonistic to
the opinions and interests of the whole
South, from which, when expressed, many
of those who have favored it will feel in-
stinctively repulsed.
It is well known that the admission or
rejection of Southern members, will be
made by the Radicals to hinge upon the
status of the negro in the South. They de-
mand for the negro, political equality—
the right to vote, to hold office, and all
other political privileges enjoyed by the
wnitc people ; and, unless the South con-
cedes this demand, they vauntingly say
we shall have no representative in Con-
gress. It is announced in the leading
Radical journals, that this is the issue to
be contested and settled in the next Con-
gress—that it is the only great issue
pending between the North and. South,
and that all others are secondary or
feigned. If the Southern members are re-
jected it will be because the South has
not and will not yield this issue. The
proposition above quoted implies, there-
fore, that our Convention being postponed
until this result is known, can settle the
difficulty os to ourselves by conceding to
the negro, all that the Radicals demand
for him. Those who originated or en-
dorsed this proposition probably did not
contemplate such a result.
Who is prepared to accept it, as the
condition precedent of our admission to
Congress ? If such a result was now
known and the Convention was in session,
it would spurn the offer of such terms.
It would still proceed to organize the
State Government in conformity to the
“ situation,” but would " ordain and es-
tablish ” a Constitution for white people
■—discarding the negro from all political
and social relations with us—and making
him, as he ought to be, the subject of
kind and just, but special legislation.
There is, therefore, no 1orce in the prop-
osition—but mischief in the reason for it.
But there is incalcuable force and justice
in the proposition that our Senators and
Representatives ought, with the least
possible delay, to be at Washington de-
manding admittance to their places in the
Council of the Nation. From every other
State they will be there. A section of
that Council, powerful in talent, charac-
ter, and influence will be there to welcome
them. The President will welcome them
as the Constitutional representatives of a
people that he loves—of a peple that he
wants to see restored to their former
power in the Government—of a pecple,
who, in defeat and misfortune, preserve
their good faith, and have lost none of the
splendid characteristics of their ancestral
race. Are we content to be mere lookers
on, while the conflict rages? It will not
be in Congress halls alone that the con-
test will go on. All along from the White
House to the Capitol, the battle scene will
be acted and thousandswill gather to the
fray. Shall Texas have no representa-
tive there to vouch for her fealty—no
constituticn there upon which to claim
her membership in the Union ? Are we
not equally interested with our Southern
sister States in regard to the issues there
to be tried ? Is there a single question
that touches the interest, or honor, or
public sentiment of Virginia or Georgia,
that does not, in like manner, touch Tex-
as ? Is not negro suffrage as odious to
us as to them ? Are we less averse than
they, to admit the negro to a division and
equality of political power and social
rights? If they are overpowered and
■these offensive measures force upon them,
will they not be, also, forced upon us ?
In the South, upon these measures, we
are a Unit. State lines, latitude, longi-
tude, and difference of circumstances will
not break our unity. A few there may
be who have departed from the faith, and
joined themselves to our enemies. A
few there are who tremble at the thunders
of the Rrdicals and cower before their
threatening array ; but they are too few
and feeble to weaken our solid ranks.
There never was an issue--not even
slavery itself—in which there was so
much unanimity in the whole South. 1
Every other State is advancing and will
soon be in line to meet it. “’Tispity—
and pity ?tis, ‘tis true,” that Texas will
have no banner on that momentous field.
But it is said that no Convention ought
to be called until a majority of the peo-
ple express a desire for it, by being reg-
istered as voters—that they do not regis-
ter, and the presumption is against their
fealty to the nion. Undoubtedly, the
people are to blame for their apathy or
negligence in this important matter.
Long since, every voter in Texas ought
to have been registered. That they have
failed to do so weakens the force of all
that can be sajd on this subject. But it '
is not true, that such failure proceeds
from any want of allegiance and submis- '
sion to the Government of the United
States. It is not true that they do not
want a Convention. The people of Texas
• have fully made up their minds to live in
the United States, to bear an honest alle-
giance to its Government, and faithfully
to observe its Constitution and laws.
Whatever they may believe or feel as to
the past—it is the past to them—and they,
now, in perfect good faith, are willing to
tread out the last spark in the ashes of
our revolution. There are many causes
oiveuroteooc tn I
and ball ! Harmonize the devil ! Ain’t
we human beings ? Ain’t we got eyes
amendment, proposed by Mri Corwin as
a substitute for the one offered by Mr.
Adams, of Massachusetts, was adopted
by his friends in Congress, as follows :
“ That no amendment shall be made to
the constitution which will authorize or
give Congress power to abolish, or inter-
fere within any State, with the domestic
institutions thereof, including that of
persons held to labor or servitude by the
laws of said State.”
In reply to an appeal which I made to
him for peace, President Lincoln’s words
were, in substanse, as follows :
“ If you want peace, come back into
the Union. If you wish to keep your
slaves,come in and vote,as States, against
the constitutional amendment abolishing
slavery. I cannot recall my proclama-
tions. It will be for the courts to decide
whether they are laws or not. Of that
you must judge. But I have the pardon-
ing power, and will use it freely.”
This conversation was in the presence
of Gen. Weitzel, Judge Campbell, late of
the Supreme Court, one of Gen. Weitze’s
aids, and several others and I was told,
and believe, that in consequence of the
conversations held with Judge Campbell
and myself, and the pledges then given
to us, President Lincoln, in a letter ad-
dressed to Gen. Weitzel, authorized the
meeting of the Virginia Legislature, ac-
co ding to the notice subsequently insert-
ed in the Richmond papers.
Gen Sherman’s comment on the prg-
numbering but 150,900, for their breth-
ren in Morocco, who were suffering from
the war then raging,
in Philadelphia, 15,000 members have
established seven Hebrew congregations,
two educational and eleven charitable as-
sociations, and a publication society.
The Jews are scattered over the whole
country, but are more numerous in com-
mercial cities and tgwns. Throughout
the West, especially, wherever there is a
chance for profitable trade, they have in-
sinuated themselves. Two synagogues
were recently dedicated in Cincinnatti.
Wherever they go their institutions ac-
company them as invariably as the house-
hold gods went with the ancient Romans.
Sinceje commencement of the present
month the Jews in this city have been
almost constantly occupied in the observ-
ance of various solemnities. The Feast
of Tabernacles, the Feast of Palms, and
the Feast of the Law have followed each
other in quick succession. In a few
weeks they will be called on to observe
the Feast of the Dedication of the Tem-
ple, and then a Fast commemorative of
the Destruction of Jerusalem. What a
world of emotion the celebration of these
revered ceremonies must excite ! How
must the Jew murn over the departed
glories of a nation once so powerful and
renowned, now weak and fallen ! Is it
after all very wonderful that men who
can trace their lineage to such an origin
should cling with tenacious vigor to their
rites, and refuse to blend with others of
the race ? Is it strange that they wish
to preserve pure in their veins the blood
of David, of Solomon, and the Prophets ?
Jerusalem was taken by Titus on the
8th of September, A. D. 70. Ninety-sev-
en thousand prisoners were captured du
ring the siege, and eleven thousand died
of starvation. The loss of the Jews in
killed, wounded, and missing during the
war is computed in round numbers at 1,-
400,000. The Emperor Vespasian dis-
posed of the Jewish lands for his own
use, compelled the conquered people to
pay into his treasury the usual tribute of
the sanctuary, and cutoff the branches of
the House of Judah that he might forev-
er deprive them' of the hope of deliver-
ance from a coming Messiah. Broken-
An Adroit Rogue.
As a certain learned judge in Mexico,
sone time since, walked one morning
into court, he thought he would examine
whether it was time for business, and
feeling for hisropeater, found it was not
in his pocket.
“ As usual,” said he to a friend who ac-
companied him, as he passed through the
crowd near the door, “ as usual, I have
again left my watch at home under my
pillow. ”
He went on the bench and thought no
more of it. The court adjourned, and he
returned home.
As soon as he was quietly seated in
his parlor, he bethought himself of his
timepiece, and turning to his wife, re-
quested her to send for it to their cham-
ber.
" But, my dear Judge,” said she, “I
sent it to you three hours ago.”
“ Sent it to me, my dear ? Certainly
not.”
“ Unquestionably," replied the lady,
“and by the person you sent for it.”
“ The person I sent for it ! ” echod the
judge.
“ Precisely, my dear ; the very person
you sent for it. You had not' left home
more than an hour, when a well-dressed
man asked to see me. He had one of the
finest turkeys I ever saw, brought it in,
and said that on your return to court you
met an Indian with a number of fowls,
and having bought this one, at quite a
bargain, you had given him two reals to
bring it home, with a request that I should
have it killed, picked and put to cook, as
you intended to invite your brother judges
to a dish of molle with you to-morrow.
‘ And oh ! by the way, senorita,’ said he,
‘ his excellency, the judge, requested me
to ask you to give yourself the the trouble
to go to your chamber, and take his watch
from under the pillow, where he says he
left it as usual this morning, and send it
to him by me,’ and, of course, miquerido,
I did so.”
“ You did ? ” said the judge.
“ Certainly,” said the lady,
“ Well,” replied his honor, “ all I can
say to you, my dear, is, that you are as
great a goose as the bird is a turkey.
You have been robbed, madam ; the man
was a thief ; I have never sent for my
watch; you’ve been imposed upon ; and
as a necessary consequence, the confound-
ed watch is lost forever ! ”
The trick was a cunning one ; and,
after a laugh, it was resolved actually to
have the turkey for to morrow’s dinner,
and his honors brothers of the bench to
enjoy so dear a meal. Accordingly, after
the adjournment of court next day, they
all repaired to his dwelling, with appe-
tites sharpened by the expectation of a
rare feast.
Scarcely had they entered the sala, and
exchanged the ordinary salutations, when
the lady broke forth with congratulations
to his honor upon the recovery of the
stolen watch.
“ How happy I am,” exclaimed she,
“ that the villian was apprehended.”
“ Apprehended ! ” said the Judge, with
surprise.
“ Yes, and doubtless convicted, too, by
this time,” said his wife
“You are alwaas talking riddles,” re-
plied he ; "explain yourself, my dear, I
n r
by political majorities and once by the
sword.”
We believe now the question is settled
forever, and we have no doubt the South
cm people regard it so. Not that the
local self-government of the Slates is
destroyed : that will be preserved as the
gis of our liberties ; upon that principle
all the conservative elements of the coun-
try will rally. The war has vindicated
and established the unity of the republic
and the supremacy of tne Federal gov-
ernment. The elements of discord and
division are removed, and we start on a
new career of peace and grandeur which
will excite the wonder and admiration, of
the world.
Next to the good sense of the people
and the power of an enlightened press,
we are indebted to President Johnson for
the happy and promising state of things
that now exists. His strong common
sense, which is the essense of statesman-
ship, has brought out of the chaos and
bitterness of a tremendous civil war, har-
mony, good feeling and a most hopeful
prospect. It required a man of his broad
and far-reaching views to grasp the com-
plicated subject, and a man with such a
firm will as he has, to hold the ship of
State on her course amidst so many
breakers, and Providence has raised him
up at the right time. “ Go home and tell
your people,” he said to the South Caro-
lina delegation, that I have faith in them
and in their good intentionsand promises,
and will do all I can to aid them in the
work of restoration.” These were the
words of a statesman, and they have
touched the Southern heart profoundly.
Upon that basis the work of peace and
restoration goes on, and all the ravings
of partisans, selfish politicians and vis-
ionary theorists cannot stop it.
The Jews in i860.
The Jewish year 5,621 has just been
ushered in, and we have passed through
its opening solemnities. The Hebrews
of the metropolis, throwing aside for the
moment all worldly cares, join faithfully
in the ceremonies peculiar to the people,
which have been so perseveringly cele
brated, and so very carefully transmitted
through the many generations that have
lived since the destruction of Jerusalem
.and the banishment of its inhabitants
Not the least wonderful, even of the
many wonderful things of our .day, and a
living proof of the truth of Christianity,
is the distinct and separate preservation,
without the least shadow of a national
abode, of a people numbering millions of
individuals, scat’ered throughout every
division and district of the world, pos-
sessing talent sufficient not only for self-
government, but for the general advance-
ment of civilization, successful in any
branch of science or of art to which they
devote themselves, exhibiting a fortitude
in suffering and an energy in favorable
He made a bully fite I tell you, Selah.
. Well, what did the big feller do ? take
him by the hand and help him up, and
. brush the dirt off his clothes ? Nary time!
No, sur ! But be kicked him arter he was
down, and throwed mud on him, and drug
him about and rubbed sand in his eyes,
and now he’s gwine about huntin up his
poor, little property. Wants to confiscate
it, so called. Blame my jacket if it aint
enuf to make your head swim.
But I’m a good Union man—so called.
I aint agwine to file no more. I shan’t
vote for the next war. I aint no gurilla.
I’ve done tuk the oath, and I’m gwine to
keep it ; but as for my bein subjugated,
and humilyated, and amalgamated, and
enervated, as Mr. Chase says, it ain’t so
—narry time. I ain’t ashamed of nutl-
in, neither, ain’t repentin, ain’t axin for
no one-horse short winded pardon. No-
body needn’t be playin priest around me.
I ain’t got no twenty thousand dollars.
Wish I had ; I’d give it to these poor
widows and orfins. I’d fatten my own
numerous and interestin offspring in
about two minutes and a half. They
shouldent cat roots and drink branch wa
ter no longer. Poor unfortunate things !
to cum into this subloonary world at sich
a time. There’s four or five of ’em that,
never saw a sirkus nor a munkey show
-—never had a pocket knife, nor a piece
of cheese, nor a reesin. There is Bull
Run Arp, and Harper’s Ferry Arp, and
Chickalominy Arp, that never seed the
picters in a spellin book. I tell you, my
friend, we tre the poorest people on the
face of the earth—but we are poor and
proud We made a bully fight, Selah !
and the whole Amerikin nation ought to
feel proud of it. It shows what Ameri-
kins can do when they think they are im-
posed on—so called." Didn’t our four
fathers fite, bleed and die about a little
tax on tea, when not one in a thousand
drunk it? Bekause they sukseeded war-
rent it glory ? But if they hadent I sup-
pose it would have been treason, and it
would have-been bowin and scrapin, to
King George for pardon. So it are, Ar-
temus, an to my mind, if the little thing
was stewed down, it would be about a
half pint of Humbug. We had good
men, great men, Christian men, who
thought we was right, and many of ’em
have gone to the undiskovered country,
and have got a pardon as is pardon.
When I die, I’m mity willin to risk my-
self under the shadow of their wings,
whether the climate be hot or cold So
.mote it be. Selah ! *
Well, maybe I’ve said enuf. But I
don’t feel easy yit I’m a good Union
harp of a thousand strings, and so on,
but I’ve only got one favor to ax of you.
I want enough powder to kill a bigyeller
stump tail dog that prowls around my
premises at night. Bon honor, I won’t
shoot at anything blue or black or mulat-
ter. Will you send it? Are you and
your foalks so skeered of me and my
folks, that you won’t let us have any am-
munishun ? A re the squirrels, and black-
birds and rackcoons to eat up our poor
little cornpatches ? Are the wild turkeys
to gobble all round us with impunity ?
If a mad dog takes the hiderfoby, is the
whole community to run itself to deth
to get out of the way ? i golly ! it
looks liks’your pedpul had all took the
rebel tobo for good, and was nover-gwine
to igit over it. See here, my friend, you
must send me a little powder and a tick-
et to your show, and you and me will
harmonize sertin.
With these few remaks, I think I feel
better, and hope I ain’t made nobody fitin
mad, for I am not on that line at this
time. I am trooly your friend—all pres-
ent or accounted for.
BILL ARP, so called.
P. S. Old man Harris wanted to buy
my fiddle the other day with Confederick
money. Ih said it would be good agin.
He says that Jim Fonderbuk told him that
Warren’s Jack had seen a man who had
just cum from Virginny, and he sed a
man told his cousin Mandy that Lee had
whipped ’em agin. Old Harris says that
a feller by the name of Mack C. Million
is coming over here with a million of
men. But nevertheless, notwithstandin,
come hvw or somehow else, I’m dubus
about the money. 11' you was me, Ar-
temus, would von make the fiddle trade?
B. A.
amazement if not the admiration of all
classes. They mingle continually with
the business men of different nations, aid
in the formation and support of various
Governments, render their assistance al-
most whenever and wherever required,
and yet remain completely isolated, main
taining a pride of origin that almost for-
bids sympathy or pity.
In New York, and generally through-
out this countly, where their rights are
never invaded, they live so quietly that
unless one goes into their quarters he
seldom meets with them. Few of our
citizens know them socially, and all arc
too willing to believe Shylock their true
type. But altlough, as a whole, the
Jews have neglected education, and com-
paratively few have accepted the means
of mental improvement placed within
their reach by the Governments under
which they live, some have stepped forth
from the ranks, and, braving the Chris-
tian prejudices that have been accumu-
lating for ages, have drawn the attention
of mankind, and left their names on the
page of history. Such instances are not
very common, because the Jews for the
most part are content to live quietly and
unostentatiously; and those who are re-
markable for their intellectual powers are
so inclined to give their undivided atten-
tion to the study of ancient records and
commentaries. Still the Jews in Europe
frequently make valuable contributions
to literature and art, and it is not unu-
sual on the continent to find them hold-
ing professorships. Such names as Roths-
child, d’sraeli, Beethoven, Mendelssohn,
and Rachel illustrate the variety of their
talents and the greatness of their capac-
ity, and there is no reason to doubt that,
under favorable circumstances, and with
such incentives as a fixed national habi-
tation only could furnish, they would de-
velop the same genius that was manifest-
ed by their early lawgivers, generals, and
historians.
In New York their number at present
is about 40,000, of whom the majority
are rather indigent, and, either because
they begin the battle of life while very
young, or are disinclined to social inter-
course with others, (having no distinct
literary institutions of their own,) or
both, they remain uneducated. Their na-
tional studies, even if generally pursued,
could not give that knowledge of the sci-
ences without which it is impossible to
keep pace with the rapid strides of civil-
ization in our day. The minds of such
students may be cultivated, but they are
not enlightened.
There are seventeen synagogues in
New York. The first was erected in
Mill street, now South William street, in
1829, where the congregation worshipped
for more than a century. Some twenty-
five years or more ago they removed to
Crosby street, and recently have dedica-
ted a new synagogue in West Nineteenth
street, said to be more imposing in ap-
pearance than any oilier in the United
States. It is built of Nova Scotia stone,
in a style combining two orders of archi-
tecture—the Ionic and Corinthian. The
entire cost of the structure and its site
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