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THE PRICE OF TRUTH.
Great truths are dearly bought, The com
mon truth,
Such as men give and take from day to day,
Comes in the common walks of easy life,
Blown by the careless wind across our way.
Bought in the market, at the current price,
Bred of the smile, the jest, perchance the
bowl:
It tells no tales of daring or of worth,
Nor pierces even the surface of the soul.
I
Great truths are greatly won. Not formed by
chance,
Not wafted on the breath of summer dream;
"But grasped in the great struggle of the soul,
Hard buffeting with adverse wind and
; stream.
. Not in the general mart ’mid corn and wine;
Not in the merchandise of gold and gems ;
Not in the world’s gay hall of midnight mirth,
Nor ’mid the blase of regal diadems.
But in the day of conflict, fear and grief,
When the strong hand of God, put forth in
might,
Hows up the subsoil of the stagnant heart,
And brings the imprisoned truth-seed to the
light.
Wrung from the troubled spirit, in hard
hours
Of weakness, solitude, perchance of pain,
Truth springs, like harvest, from the well
plowed field.
And the soul feels it has not wept in vain.
THE SOUTHERN SITUATION.
Evidence of Restoration as Witnessed by
Republican Correspondents.
The Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina correspondents of the
New York Times furnish that journal the
following statements, in reference to the
Southern situation “as it is
Those who attempt to represent the
present condition of public sentiment at
the South toward the North as disloyal,
resentful, rebellious, because it is not full
of love, admiration and cordial desire
for increased intimacy, forget that the
Southern people have been conquered,
stripped of all their property, spoken of
and treated as “whipped rebels,” and sub
mitted to all the privations and indignities,
and most of the disabilities which common
ly attend defeat in civil war. They exag
eratc also the extent of what they call the
“hostile feeling” of the South. They
think that the people are ripe for another
revolt, and only refrain from it because
they have not the power to engage in it.
There is not now a disloyal man of any
influence in the entire country. The peo
ple swore to bo loyal, and have faithfully
complied with their oath. But the feelings
of kindness and conciliation which existed
in the early days of submission have been
effaced by the contumely, the harsh treat
ment, the threats and unceasing desire to
punish and crush and humiliate, which
have marked the acts and speeches of those
who pretend to represent the Northern
people. Every man yields obedience,
to the United States Government and the
laws. Every man regards secession as
stowed away forever with the battle flags
and insignia of separate nationality which
he loved,and cherished, but has lost never
to regain. No one thinks or dreams of
resistance to the Federal authority. Every
man clings to the Constitution as the only
safeguard he possesses against utter de
struction. Kvory man knows lie must be
1 taxed and that his children after him must
be taxed heavily to pay the national debts;
and no sane man thinks of repudiation as
possible or desirable. As a mass, the peo
ple regard the sudden emancipation ot the
negroes as both a political mistake and a
gross injustice; hut no one thinks of a
restoration of slavery in any shape, or de
sires to punish or ill treat the negro, Or
! deny him any of the rights which belong
to freedom and are necessary to his secure
enjoyment of life, liberty, property and
reputation. The conditions laid down by
1 the President as precedent to the rehabili
tation of the revolutionary States were
I promptly and fully accepted, not from a
feeling of concurrence in their justice,
wisdom or propriety as abstract questions,
' hut from a feeling of the necessity of sub
mission, and a willingness to do every
thing that was honorable to obtain the
promised restoration of peace and self-gov
ernment. Immediately after defeat in the
' field, when the South lay at the feet of the
North, crushed, bleeding and powerless,
' kind words, kind treatment, forgiveness,
’ forbearance and a helping hand would bar c
5 evoked a gratitude which would have grown
’ i rapidly into a feeling of fraternity and good
,1 will, and would have endured forever,
' effaced animosity from the most inveterate
secessionist, made many doubt the propri
ety of revolution, and done more to wipe
out sectional feeling than all the bureaus
t: and Constitutional amendments which the
,■ I fertile brain of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens can
II devise in a century. From the moment
•! the South submitted, her people were hon
r cstly and bona fide loyal in deed and word,
1 aud they arc and will remain so, and every
day gives strength to their determination
to obey the Constitution and the laws.
Poverty in every shape from “straitened
circumstances” to absolute want, pervades
this once prosperous country. There is
no money anu none is coming. Trade
languishes. Enterprises half commenced
are arrested. Lands are untillcd. Appre
hension fills the popular mind and paraly
zes the popular arm. The people have
exhausted all the remedies within their
reach to restore the national health but
they have found them inefficacious. They
ask for bread and they arc offered a stone.
Seed time is now come. Many a man who
had made arrangements for planting on a
large scale has changed his plans, and hun
dreds, nay thousands of acres prepared for
the seed will not receive it, but be allowed
to lie waste. Many causes conduce to
produce this sad result, but chief among
them is the uncertainty of the future*
While the punishment of traitors is still
the means of reconstruction enforced by
the majority of the legislative branch of
the Government; while popular majorities
approve these means of restoring, the
Union; while confiscation of property is
still possible, and a war of races a not re
mote contingency, prosperity is unattaina
ble. The desire to work and work hard
is general. But there is no money, no
means of borrowing, and no disposition to
borrow, where the investment is so uncer
tain to be profitable either to borrower or
lender. Let the Constitution, the whole
Constitution, and nothing but the Consti
tution be the law and government; let the
bugbear of confiscation and punishment
and disfranchisement and compulsory ne
gro equality be removed; let amnesty,
without conditions or bargains, bo extend
ed, and the effect upon tbo national well
being will be like that attributed to the
fabled Elixir of Life. Prosperity, vigor,
strength, peace, will be the fruits, which
not the South alone, but the entire North,
wdll enjoy. “The war pow'er” can bring
forth no such fruits.
I see every day evidence of the sinking
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and I can trace the causes of the decline.
I live and move among the people. I
see their acts. I hear them talk. I
know their sentiments, aud I think I see
the calamitous results which must ensue
unlest prudence and justice and mercy are
allowed to resume the places which are
now occupied by motives of diametrically
opposite influence, and unless the policy of
President Johnson is allowed to prevail
over that for which the radical party so
loudly clamor.
The prospects of the crop are not as en
couraging as they were by any means.
Planters are “turning out” a large percent
age of the land which they had laid out
for cotton from inability to procure mules,
tools, etc., to cultivate property, and also
from the increased uncertainty of labor.
The number of manufactories of differ
ent kinds in operation is certainly aston
ishing to the stranger. We have been
led to believe that the whole South is be
hindhand in this particular, hut so far as
Richmond is concerned, it is not true, for
iron works, cotton mills, sash, blind and
door factories, and in short, buildings
where goods and wares of almost every
description are made, can be found. The
lack of skilled labor is, however, the great
drawback, and the majority of the iron
fronts of buildings now in course of erec
tion, are brought from New York cheaper
than they can be bought here, notwith
standing the fact that some of the largest
iron works in the country aro located in
this vicinity. The famous Tredegar works
arc now in full blast, with the redforked
flames belching forth from the tall chim
neys night and day, and nearly a thousand
umvl'vunn nnrvirrml in fll/WI an.
cliester Cotton Mills are also in full opera
tion, employing a large amount of labor,
and several now factories will soon be
built, among which is one said to be the
property of Ex-Gen. llutler.
If one wore to listen to the tales told by
the people of this section, or to read in
their newspapers about the scarcity of
money, the natural impression would be
that business is stagnant, and that there is
no capital actively employed here. To
disprove such an inference it is only nec
essary to walk through the “burnt dis
trict” of Richmond, and sec the immense
improvements now progressing. Some
body has money, and that money will soon
find its way into the pockets of the mass
es, for hundreds of buildings are being
erected in this city, furnishing employ
ment for thousands of laborers. As yet
the poorer classes aro not as a general
thing, as well off as they were before the
war, and consequently they complain bit
terly, while many of the wealthier people
made money out of the rebellion, and are
better off now than in ante helium times.
Northern capital finds ready market here,
although on account of the failure of the
Legislature to remedy the usury lawd,
there is some difficulty in arranging the
matter of interest. There are plenty of
opportunities for lucrative investments,
and the people are anxious to have it
come.
In the North Carolina towns I have
visited, as throughout the whole South,
; indeed, there has been, since the begin
inn" of the past winter, what is termed, in
I theological parlance, a religious awakening,
I or more properly ..peaking, a revival, in
the Methodist and Baptist churches. Or
thodox clergymen have informed mo that
so many conversions have not been made
within their recollection as during the past
four months, and that the “good work’' is
still progressing gloriously.
Labor at the Sooth.
Letter from John II. Reagan, Ex-Post
master General of the Late Confeder
ate Elates.
From the New Orleans Crescent, March 29.]
The following letter, a strictly private
one, written to a gentleman of this city
without any idea of publication, has been
thought worthy of being printed. Besides
being of interest to the general reader, it
affords an example of industry in a gentle
man who has occupied high public sta
tions that others would do well to imi
tate :—
Fort Houston,
Near Palestine, [■
Texas, March 13, 1800. )
My Dear Friend—To-day I received
your letter of the 3d inst., and was very
glad to hear from you, and hope to see you
in Texas before long.
On my return home I determined that
it would comport most with my self-respect
and with what was due to my friends for
mo to avoid all participation in public af
fairs, and'I choose not to engage in the
practice of my profession—for the present
at least—and have quietly settled myself
down to farming. 1 found my farm in bad
condition, though I am now getting it into
a good state of cultivation, and have im
proved it much since tho 1st of January.
1 havesone white man and seven freedmen
at work; have planted some fruit trees
and shrubbery, and most of my vegetable
garden and Irish potatoes, and bedded out
mXT uurnnf rwrfnfnAO anil v.lanlml
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acres of corn, and have as much more
ready to plant; have sowed down twelve
or fifteen acres in small grain, and shall
plant about thirty-five acres in cotton. I
am orchardist and gardener myself, and
when not engaged at this, or in the neces
sary superintendence of the freedmen, I
work on the farm constantly with my own
hands, and can do as much work with
apparently as little fatigue as any of them.
I make fence, grub, pile and burn brush,
plough, &c., and am as thoroughly bronzed
as other laborers.
You can hardly imagine the sense of re
lief and repose of mind I enjoy in the ab
sence of the cares aud perplexities of offi
cial and public life, or the great interest I
take and the enjoyment I experience in
my retired and quiet life. And if our
country was again blessed with constitu
tional gavernment and civil liberty, and
my loved chief and a few othordear friends
were restored to their liberty and families,
I should feel perfectly contented and
happy.
The letter which I wrote from Fort
Warren to the people of Texas, and which
met with much disapproval here, was per
haps the most important, as it was certain
ly the most carefully prepared paper, I
ever addressed to my fellow citizens. It
announced simply and plainly the results
of the war, and its necessary and logical
consequences, and advised them to a
prompt acquiescence in them as tho surest
and speediest means of securing their re
turn to a condition of civil liberty and self
government, the admission of {.heir mem
bers into Congress, and the withdrawal
from among them of the military and the
Frccdmen’s Bureau. It was written from
a thorough knowledge of the facts of their
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what is true, no deduction but what I
think wise, and no argument but what I
think sound. It was not accepted and
acted on simply because our people had
not seen their country ravaged and deso
lated as I had seen others; because it was
not occupied and garrisoned with standing
armies as other States were, and because
they did not accept the fact that they were
a conquered people. But they are learn
ing these facts now, and as they do they
appreciate and approve the advice I gave
them. And our convention is doing most
of the things which I was condemned for
advising them to do. I stand, as I always
did, on simple truth and right, and I know
my judgment will meet ultimate approval.
Very truly, your friend,
JOHN II REAGAN.
Gen. N. B. For rest-His Military Genins.
Thcreport that General Forrest had left the
country, probably in the direction of Mexico,
though not fully confirmed, is still generaly
believed, says tbo Memphis Bulletin. Tho
arrest AdmiralSemmes and the proposed arrest
of General Forrcat, may be taken as significant
indication ofthe course the Radicals of Presi
dent .JHinson's Cabinet, backed up as they
have been by the unexpected exhibition of
over whelming strength in Congress, intend
to pursue unless checked by the strong hand
of tho President.
We quite agree with a city cotemporary in
its high estimate ofthe military character of
General Forrest. Wo are confirmed in this
opinion by the decisive testimony of General
Joe. Johnson, who during the war, said to a
friend of ours: ‘-Sir, I have studied tho battles
of General Forrest closely, and have come to
the deliberate conclusion that he is the most
remarkble millitary genius the war has pro
duced ou either side.”
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
-There i» many a man whose tonguo
might govern multitudes, if ho coAld only gov
ern his own tongue.
-.It is said that alady, on putting on hor
corsets, is like a man who drinks to drown his
grief, because in so-lacing herself she is getting
tight.
-Tt has been asked when rain falls, does
it got up again? Of course it does in dew
time.
-Why arc young ladies like arrows? Be
cause they never go off without a bow (beau,)
and they are always in a quiver till they get
ono.
-As tho words “dead duck" sound barsh
and unrefined, tho letters “D. D.” after For
ney’s name will heroafter bo read “defunct
diilaper.”
-If your mothor’s sister were to run
away and get married quietly, whqt class of
animals might be suggested by such an act?
A(u)«?-elopes, we suppose.
-No one loves to toll atalo of scandal but
to him that loves to hoar it. Learn, thon, to
rebuke and silence the detracting tonguo by
refusing to hear. Never make your ear fho
grave of another’s good name.
-A sleepy church warden"? wlio some
times engaged in popular games, hearing tl|0
minister use tho words, “shutlle off this mor
tal coil," started up, rubbed his eyes and ex
claimed, “Stop, stop 1 It’s my deal,"
-Pride has a greater share than goodness
of heart, in tho remonstrances we make to
tliote who are guilty of faults. We reprove,
not so much with a view to correct them, as to
persuade them that wo are exempt from those
faults ourselves.
-A very considerate hotol-kooper adver
tising his “Burton XXXXX,” conoludos tho
advertisement: “N. B,—Parties drinking more
than four glasses of t his potent beverage, care
fully sent homo on a wheelbarrow, if required.
VI , 1
——A wag says of woman : To her virtuo
we give love; to her beauty wo give admira
tion; to her whims we give indulgouce ; to her
tongue we give liberty; to her wantB we givo
our purses ; to hor persons we give ourselves;
to her hoops, the whule pavement.
-A young member of the bur thought ho
would udopt a motto for himself, and, after
much rclleotion, wrote in large letters, nnd
posted up against the wall, tho following,
“Suum Cuigue,” which may bo translated,
“let every one have his own.” A country cli
ent coming in, expressed himself much grati
fied with tho maxim, but added, “you can't
spell it right.’ “Indeed! Thcnhowought.it
to be spelt?” The visitor replied, “Sue ’em
quick.”
-A good-natured follow, who was nearly
eaten out of house and home by the constant
visits ofliis friends, was one day complaining
bitterly of bis numerous visitors.
hShure an I’ll tell yo how to get rid of’em,”
said an Irishman.
“1’ray, how?”
“Lend money to the poor ones, and borrow
money of tho ricii onos, and naither sort will
ever trouble ye again.”
-At a recent festive meeting, a married
man who ought to havo known better, pro
posed: “The ladies—the beings who divide
our sorrows, double our joys, and treble our
expenses.”
Upon wbicb a lady proposed: The gentle
men—the sensitive individuals who divide our
time, double our cares, and treble our trou
bles.” Tho married mau didn’t stop to hear
any more.
-“Will ycz come homo?” said a bonny
wife to her liege lord, whom she had followed
to a groggery, where be was in the habit of
passing his leisure time, looking at matters
through tho bottom of a tumbler. <‘No I
shant.” “Will you tome for tho love of God?*’
“No.” “Will yo come for the love of the chil
dren?” “No.” “Patrick, darlint, will ye
conic now?” said tho wife at last, partly pull
ing a black itpt tic from under her shawl. Och,
and shure I will; but the devil a step I’d go,
if it wasn’t for your winning ways, Mary,
darlint.”
The Ladies Alphabetically,— What a wo
man thouhi ho.—A woman should be amiable,
benevolent, oharitablc, domestic, economical,
forgiving, generous, honest, industrious, Ju
dicious, kind, loving, modest, neat., obedient,
pleasant, quiet, l-efiecting, sober, lender, ur
bane, virtuous, wise, xemplary, yielding and
zealous.
ivi,1,1 x. .I....1.1
not bo artful, bold, cross, deceitful, envious,
grovelling, hollow-hearted, idle, jealous, kna
vish, lazy, morose, nonsensical, officious,
prudish, quarrelsome, rude, snappish, talka
tive, unreasonable, vain, wavering, xtrava
gart, yawning, or zealous.
Against tub Current.—A waggish chap
whose vixen wife by drowning lost her precious
life, called out his neighbors all around, and
told them that his spouse was drowned, and in
spite of search could not be found. Heknew,
he said, the very nook were she had tumbjed
in the brook, and he had dragged along the
shore, above the place a mile or more.
“Above the place?” the people cried; “why
what dy’c mean?”
The man replied—
“Of course you don’t suppose I’d go and
waste time to look below? I've known tho
woman quite a spell, and learnt her fashions
tl’ble well; alive or dead, sho’d go, I swow,
against the current anyhow!”
Beautiful Answers,—A pupil of Abby
Sicord gave the following extraordinary an
swers:
“What is gratitude!”
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
“W'hat is hope ?”
“Hope is the blossom of happiness.”
“W'hat is tho difference between hope and
desire?”
“Desire is a tree in life, hope is a tree in
flower, and enjoyment is a tree in fruit.”
“W'hat is eternity?”
“A day without yesterday or to-morrow—a
line that has no end.”
“What is God?”
“The necessary being, the sun of eternity,
the merchant of nature, tho eye of justice, the
i watchmaker of the universe, tho soul of tho
| world.”
I “Docs God reason?”
i “Man reasons, because he doubts ; lie de
1 liberates—ho decides. God is omniseieuW-—
i He never doubts— He therefore never reasons.”