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SEMMES* SWORD.
“Shatnc,” cried Amyas, hurling his sword
far into the sea. “To loso my right—my
right, when it was in my very grasp. Unmer
ciful l”—Amyas Leigh, Kingsley.
Into the sea he hurled it,
Into the weltering sea.
The sword that led so often,
The onset of tlie free,
And like a meteor cleaving
Its pathway through the watery way,
Went down the gory falchion,
To lie in the depths for aye.
Go sword! no hand of foeman
Shall grasp the peerless blade ;
On thy path of lire I follow,
With a spirit undismayed,
Even in the hour of anguish,
With my gallant ship a wreck,
’Tis comfort that, no captor
Shull ever tread her deck.
’Tis comfort that in freedom
I draw my latest breath.
And that with thee my brethren,
I drink the cup of death ;
Wc have roved the sea together,
We have proved our country’s might
And we leave to the God of battles
The rescuing of the right.
The noble Alabama
Was sinking as he stood,
Her cross end stars still dying,*
Her bulwarks stained with blood,
Down with her band of martyrs,
She settled to her doom,
While the coward cannon thundered]
Above her living tomb.
But as a desert courser
Bears his master from the fray,
So the billows bore their hero
On their foaming crest that day.
Forth plunged the gallant Deerhound
To snatch him from the wave,
For the hand that ruled the tempest
Was stretched above the brave.
Beechmohe, 1800.
*It is acknowledged tliat. she sunk without
striking her flag.
j-Tlic Alabama was fired on while sinking.
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B^“There are men who say that seces
sion caused slavery to be abolished, that if
the Southern States had never attempted
to established an independent government,
slavery would still be in existence; and
they are ready, either privately or publicly,
to east censure upon those whom they call
the leaders of the secession party for the
loss of their slave property. Such men
have certainly never read what the Repub
lican papers say on the subject of abolition.
They “with one accord” assert that the
abolition of slavery was one of the great
objects of their party, aud they now con
sider it one of the great achievements of
the age. This shows what was their inten
tion all the time. The South, in order to
prevent the abolition of slavery, attempted
to secede, but by force of arms was pre
vented from doing so. Mr. Seward and
Mr. Lincoln both declared, prior to 18G0,
that it was the purpose of the Republican
party, sooner or later, to abolish slavery.
Mr. Lincoln said slavery must be placed in
such a condition that tho “public mind
would rest satisfied that it was in the course
of ultimate extinction ” It was on this
account that the proposition made b}' Jef
ferson Davis, then Senator from Missis
sippi, to Mr. Seward and other Republican
Senators, in ISG1, was rejected—namely,
that if they would make the Missouri
Compromise apart of the Constitution, as
Mr. Crittenden’s resolutions contemplated,
although this was much less than he
thought the South was entitled to, yet he
would use his influence to induce his own
and the other Southern States not to secede,
but to remain in tho Union. Had bis
proposition been accepted, there would
have been no attempt at secession, the
ordinances which had been passed would
have been revoked; there would have been
no war, and the Union and the Constitution
would have been preserved. It was reject
ed and we knew the result. It is for im
partial history to decide upon whom rests
the responsibility. We’ll admit that Mr.
Lincoln and Mr. Seward did not intend or
expect to abolish slavery immediately but
in the course of a few years. It is now
aDolisueu, ami wo propose to snow mat it is
much better for it to be as it is than to
have been put oft' fifteen or twenty years,
and then to have been abolished In the
year 1SG0 it was estimated there were four
millions of slaves. Had things remained
as they were there would have been in
twenty or twenty-five y»ars near eight
millions of slaves, so rapidly did tlio negroes
increase under the humane system of sla
very as it existed in the Southern States
The whole slave population in the United
States in 1800 was 893,000, which had
increased to near 4.000,000,, as beiore stat
ed, up to 1860. Now suppose the abolition
of slavery had been postponed until there
were eight millions of negroes in the South
ern States, with perhaps a decreased and
decreasing white population, what would
have been the cousequences? It is bad
enough as it is, when there arc only four
■ millions and they are scattered from the
j Ohio and the Potomac to the Gulf. The
I evil would have been increased the longer
| it had been postponed. The idea of gra
dual emancipation with colonization is a
’ mere dream. It never could have taken
! place, The negroes themselves would
I have preferred' slavery to forced eniigra
1 tiou, and the abolitionists, who1 controlled
: the Government, never would have per
! mitted it. We were compelled to have?
the negroes among us, either as freedmen
or slaves. If, as we believe the negro
race will perish under tho system of free
dom, so-called, it is better that a few
should perish than that twice or three
times the number should be on hand,
merely to die out, as the Indians and all
inferior races have done when brought in
contact with the white race, which is al
ways the superior and governing race.
The social evils growing out of the emanci
pation of the blacks would have been incre
ased immeasurably if the number of blacks
had been twice or three times as great ns it
now»s. If as the Abolitionists contend,
the negroes will be more industrious, more
prosperous, more valuable members of so
ciety, mqre quiet and orderly, and will
increase more rapidly in freedom than in
slavery, then, of course, the sooner it was
abolished the better. Hut those of us who
know the negro character better than those
Abolitionists, do notbelieve any such thing.
Hut, if our view be correct, if the negro
will degenerate and perish, as a race, under
the operations of the Abolition policy, if
there is constant danger of conflicts be
tween them and the white race, especially
if an attempt is made to place them, by
law, on an equality, then it follows that,
the smaller the number of negroes in the
country when abolition took place, the
better for all sections and all races- The
idea of gradual emancipation was a myth
Neither the North nor the South would
have agreed to it. The Southern people
were determined never to give up the in- j
stitution of slavery without a severe and ;
terrible struggle. The North was equally
determined that they should give it up, and
a collision of arms must, sooner or later,
have been the inevitable result-.
The longer it was put off the weaker the !
South would have been relatively, and the
more certain and speedy her defeat and the
more terrible the consequences of defeat.
t. i n i 1 , 1 i • n . 1 • l 1
XI »Vilo J-UUJUlUiU mat U IO.HIC ii.iv* (
to bo made, and,slavery bad to be abolished j
that the sooner the better. What will he
the result of abolition even now is problc !
inatical, The future is dark and uncer
tain. There are great trials tor the coun
try even now, growing out of the abolition
of slavery, all of which would have been
immeasurably increased by delay. We of
the South hope that the evils which we
anticipate may be warded off, that tbc ne
gro may do well as a freeman, that he may
be an industrious laborer and valuable
member of the body politic. We are dis
posed to give him all justand proper rights,
to aid and assists him in his new, untried,
and we think perilous condition We arc.
in a word, his true friends. But we have
no f'aitli in the abolition experiment, If
the leaders of the secession party precipi
tated the issue, it was well for the country
that it was made now*, as it had to come.
Belays were dangerous and putting off the
evil day would only have made it move
terrible when it did come. We are aware
that it is difficult for a man who has lost
his property in slaves to reconcile himself
to the loss, but we should look at this ques
tion in a broader and higher view than our
own immediate selfish interests. The wel
fare of our childrenSitid the general good
of our section in the future, and that of
humanity to the negro, should bo looked to
in determining what was the wiser policy
to he pursued. The original secessionssts
arc the true men of the South and if their
councils had been heeded twenty years ago,
slavery would have been forever perpetuat
ed—without war and without any attempt
to dissolve the Union. II'the issue had
been made twenty years ago when the
South was united and the North divided,
triumph would have becu certain. The
struggle came too late; but the fault is not
with the original secessionists. Slavery is
abolished and the result is attributblc to
the weak and timid who opposed resistancej
at a time when triumph was unquestiona- i
hie —r.Menmhis Avalanche.
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A dispatch from Fortress Moriroe,dated
August 2, says Mr. O’Conor went North
this evening on the steamer George Leary
having brought to an end his protracted
interview with Davis. From the moment
of his arrival here, three days ago, he has
remained constantly iuside the fortress,
closely engaged with his client. From the
length of the visit and the sudden manner
in which it was made, it is believed that
it was mainly attributable to the recent re
port of the Judiciary Committee to Con
gress, and the urgent necessity thereby
created to decide upon a plan of defence in
view of the approaching trial.
-The Nashville Dispatch says that
Messrs. Yaryan, Walker & Co , of that city,
struck oil in a new well they were sinking*
iu Overton county, on the 7th inst., at a
depth of only thirty feet. This well is
yielding at the rate of sixty barrels of
heavy lubricating oil per day, worth one
dollar per gallon.
fifSgu Three hundred leading United States
railroad 8,232 miles, cost $190,000,000, an av
erage of $00,000 per mile. Their gross earn
ings $1,337 per mile, 80 per cent on the cost j
of the roads. Fifty eight millions were their j
nett earnings, cloven and a half per cent, on j
the amount invested. These facts prove the i
profitableness of their investments, and how
wrong Congress was in permitting railroads to
assess internal revenue lax on passengers.
Loafer—llellew, old gander 1 why did not j
the Lord give thee a short neck like mine, oh? j
I Quaker—Perchance thine was made for i
Btreteking. •
The Cable <t Medium of Peace.—II is pleas
ant now, after all the fever and uncertainty of
the undertrking have merged themselves in
the quiet satisfaction of complete succoss, to
sit down and estimate tho prcciousnoss of the
thing we have gained. Tho long, long battle
has been fought, and wo arc now at liberty to
survey tho fair dominions which have been
won. It is truo the noble band who havo
gained this victory for us arc just about to re
new their toil, designing to fetch up tho bro
ken cable of last year, and carry in a state of
completion to the farther shore. Butlhepub
lic are satisfied to know that the Atlantic is no
longer a fatal barrier to the electric inter
change of thought. The gulf is bridged over
whether it is by one bridge or two. That
which past generations only dreamed of in the
idle tales of magic and romance—that which
for twenty years has been hut an idea, is at
lengt h an accomplished fact. Of the manifold
results to be accomplished it were hard to
speak. This is more than the mere connec
tion of two countries. Such is the distribution
of land and water on the surface of the globe
that the wires w h ich now traverse tho Atlantic
may he said to place all the nations of the
world in electric communication with each
other. How great is the charm, as well as
the practical value, of tiiisinstantancous com
munication! Our readers may soon reckon
on tho pleasure of seeing on their breakfast
table every morning an epitome ofthe leading
events which transpired on th* previous day
throughout tho globe. The telegraph office
will become tho great brain of the world, to
which will be transmitted by an instantaneous
influence, intelligence of that which takes
place at the remotest extremities It is al
most impossible to think of these results as
being in the nature of a mere commercial
speculation. And yet we cannot but rejoice
that those who have incurred large pecuniary
responsibilities in this matter are now about,
to reap a rich reward. They well deserve it.
Happily the terrible financial embarrassments
of the last few months have not prevented the
carrying out of this cosmopolitan enterprise.
A year of commercial disaster is in some sense
redeemed by this brilliant conclusion of a long
pending adventure. Tho electric squadron
nas won lts^vietory; me “ciick, ciick ot me
telegraph instrument tells us that Britain and
Columbia are whispering to each other across
the dark, deep waters, and that the daily tele
grams of “Canning to Glass’’ have pioneered
(lie way for messages of peace arid good-will
to distant continents. Let us hope that as
nations thus become more and more united in
the bonds of mutual intercourse, they will un
derstand each other better and quarrel less.
ll would be a cruel perversion of the Atlantic cubic
that it should ever be the medium of a declaration of
war.
Horse cleaning by Machinery At tlie works of
the Manchester Carriage Company, at Pendle
ton, there is nowin operation a novel system
of cleaning horses by a steam brushing ma
chine, invented by Mr. Haworth. The idea
is derived from t.iic revolving Imtslf which
many hair-dressers have had in uso. In the
lower stable-yard at Pendleton there is a large
shed, where a dozen horses can lie cleaned at
one time. Along the centre of the roof is a
long shaft, from which hang several endless
straps. Each strap gives motion to a horizon
tal pole, at one end of which is a conical brush
that rotates rapidly. On a horse being bro’t
into the stable, after bis three hours work, lie
is taken to this shed and a man applies to him
the machine brush. In about, half an hourthe
animal is thoroughly cleaned and only the
head requires finishing by hand. The clean
ing effected by the machine is linicli more
searching and effectual than the most diligent
hand-currying can possibly be, and to the ma
jority of animals tlie greater cleanliness of
their skins, as well as the. improved circulation
of the blood which is produced by the machine
brush, appear to be acceptable. Most horses
undergo tlie operation quietly and patiently,
but in some animals timidity is produced by
the rattle of the machinery. In a large es
tablishment, the result oftbo adoption of this
invention is the economy of labor which re
sults from it. Under the old system a man
was thought to have done a fair day’s work if
ho cleaned ten or a dozen horses, but by the
machine he can clean thirty in the same time
and with considerable less bodily labor. When
it is remembered that from Pendleton several
hundred horses are daily sent, out to work, it
will be seen an important saving in money is
effected by the employment of this new pro
cess.—Manchester (England) Examiner.
—
The Good Wife.—How much ofthis world's
happiness and prosperity is contained in the
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once is immense. The power of a wife for
good or evil is altogether irresistable. Home
must bo the scat of happiness or it must be
forever unknown. A good wife is to a man
wisdom and endurance A bad one is confu
sion, weakness, discomfiture and despair. No
condition is hopeless when a wife possesses
firmness, decision, energy and economy.—
There is no outward prosperity that can coun
teract indolence, folly and extravagance at
homo. No spirit can long resist bad domes
tic inilueuces. Man is strong but bis heart is
not adamant. He delights in enterprise and
action, but to sustain him he needs a tranquil
mind and a whole heart. He expends liis
wliole.moral force in (he conflicts of the world.
Ilis feelings are daily lacerated to the utmost
point of endurance by perpetual collisions, ir
ritation and disappointment. To recover bis
equanimity and composure, borne must be to
him a place of repose, of peace, of cheerful
ness, of comfort; and his soul renews its
strength, and again goes forth with fresh rig
or to encounter the labor and troubles of the
world. But if at home he finds no rest, and
is there met by a bad temper, sullcnness, or
gloom; or is assailed by discontent, complaint
and reproach, the heart breaks, the spirits
arc crushed, hope vanishes, and the man sinks
into total despair.
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General Beauregard's I’akole.—A cor
respondentof a New Orleans paperwrites from
Alexandria, La., as follows with regard to the
report that General Beauregard has offered
his services in the European war: “General
Beauregard is under parole to the United
States military authorities, and has visited
Europe under the special permission of the
President of the United States, and he will
abide especially by that parole and by that
permission. In this regard lie will not engage
his services to any of the European belliger
ents without the express permission of the i
President.
Preposterous.—Expecting an old sweet
heart to marry you on the death of your third
wife.
LUCK.
BY J08II BILLINGS.
I don't believe in ‘-good luck,” or “baii
luck.” being branded on a man's brow at liis
horning, that ho haz got tew wear, az a dogg
duz a collar, without knowing whi.
Tharc iz sicli a tiling, (in words,) az good
luck, so tharc iz sich a thing, az energy, pluck,
and enduranse, that prompts a man tew pon
toon a swamp, rather than git stuck in it; and
tharc iz sich a tiling az bad luck that prompt?
anmn to git his liouso insured, for 2b hundred
and 60 dollars, tho next day after it gits burnt
up.
I never liav herd enny bodily who wax pros
perous in their enterprises giv tho credit of
it tew good luck; but i have known thousands
ov men tew spend awl the day long, in a cor
ner grosery, bragging about their had luck.
Good luck iz like virtue, something tew ho
gained, and bad Ink izsumething tew be gain
ed too, but it iz like a bad kold, that a man
must expekt tew gain, if ho iz carcloes enuff
to sleep (in a cleudy night,) in a 10 aker lot
that aint fenced in.
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BS5t»Tlio number of languages spoken 1?
8,004. Tho number of men is about equal t<4
women. The average of human life is thirty
three years. One-quarter die before the ago
ofseven. One-half before the age of seventeen.
To every ono thousand perhaps, oue only
reaches ono hundred years. To every one
hundred only nine reach sixty-fivo years;
and not more than oue in live hundred reaches
the age of eighty years. Thore arc on earth
1,000,1)00,000 of inhabitants. Of these 83,
883,333 ilic every year, 7,780 every hour, and
sixty every minute—or ono every second.—
These losses are about balanced by an equal
number of births. Tho married are longor
lived than the single; anil above all those who
observe a sober conduct. Tall men live Ion
fTm* f linn tilini'f rmno Wnman l.nvn mniut
chances of life previous to the age of fifty
years Hum men, fewer after. The number of
marriages is in proportion of seventy-five td
ono-buuclred. Marriages are tnoro frequeiit
after thfc equinoxes-—that in, during the months
of June and December. Those born iu spring
are generally more robust than others.—a
Births and deaths arc more frequent by night
than by day. Number of men capable of bear
ing nrms is calculated at one-fourth Of thd
population.
About Fit Mon.—Our corpulent readers Will
not object if we say a few words in their favor,
it is said to be a fact that no fat man was
ever convicted of murder. Stout people are
not revengeful, nor, as a general rule, are
they agitated by violent gusts of passiort:
To parade a fat housebreaker in (ho criminal
dock at the Quarter Sessions would be a phe
nomenon indcod. The fellow who works with
skeleton keys is generally a.loan and wiry in
dividual, as he only can force himself through
holes scarcely largo enough to admit a cat:
Imagine a fat man doing these things, add
then imagine him alarmed and running away
with a policeman after hitu! Corpulency is
not the sign of villainy, but rather of good na
ture and good will to all men.
-At the close of the war many dissatis
fied Southerners proposed to emigrate td Bra
zil. Some went. One of them writes to the
New Orleans I’ionyune, and represents that
going to Brazil ‘-is not what it is cracked up
to he.” He says: “1 am a man of seventy
years old, and came out here to explore the
country and see the chances for emigration,
and have no object in deceiving my people, a
true state of affairs should bo khoVn, and not
have Americans conre out here and be reduced
to pauperism which is the cusc of almost all
instances. Dr. Blue is the only one oU his
own settlement, and is a laughing stock here:
He is in a state of starvation.”
-A clergyman was once sent for in thrt
middle of the night, by one of i lie ladies of his
congregation.
‘•Well, my good womrtn,” said he, you aro
very ill and require the consolations of relig
ion. “What can I do for yefti ?”
“No,” replied the old lady, ‘*1 am Only ner
vous and can't sleep.”
“How can 1 help that?” asked thq parson.
“0. sir, you always put me to sleep so nice1
ly when I go to church, that I thought if you
would only preach a little for mo !”
The parson “made tracks.”
-Wo wonder that travelers do not carry
with them a little bottle of solution of perman
ganate of potass, a few drops of which would
speedily purify any water. A friend of ours
who has just returned from India, tells us he
lias ucrivca uio greniewi nerieni mini ns em
ployment. Atslations where the waters were
turbid, and smelled and tasted of decaying
organic matter, he found that a few drops of
the solution of permanganate made it, in a few
minutes, as clear and sweet as spring water.—
[MedicalTimes and Gazette.
Pill for an Aching tlollorc Tooth.—Take half
a grain each of opium and yellow sub-snlphu
rate of quicksilver, formerly called turpetk
mineral; make them into a pill, and place it
,in tho hollow of tho tooth some hour before
bedtime, with a small piece of wax over tho
top, which, it is said, never fails effecting a
complete cure. It, w'ns originally communica
ted with many other medical receipts, by a
learned physician at York.
-A Paris banker was recently presented
to Prince Demidoff, who, to prevent, conversa
tion from dropping, said: “You have a beau
tiful breastpin.” The banker delighted, for
he was proud of his breastpin, said, “Yes, it
is a very rare stone.” Prince Demidoff re
plied, “Very rare and very expensive. You
cant imagine the trouble 1 had to get my chim
ney pieces at St. Petersburg, for they are made
of it.” The banker turned as many colors ns
a dying dolphin.
-An impatient Welchman called to his
wife, ‘‘Come, come, isn’t breakfast ready!
I've had nothing since yesterday, and to-mor
row will he the third day!” This is equal to
the call of tho stirring housewife, who aroused
her maid at 4 o’clock with, “Gome, Bridget,
get up ! Here’tis Monday morniug, to-mor
row is Tuesday, tho next day Wednesday—
half the week gone and nothing done yet!”
-An Irish glazier who was putting a pane
of glass in a window, when a groom who was
standing by began joking him, by telling him
to mind and put in plenty of putty. Tho
Irishman bor.e the banter for some time, but
at last silenced his tormentor by, “Arrali!
now, be off wid ye, or else I’ll put a pain in
your head without any putty!”