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From the Metropolitan Record.]
“FOLD IT IP CAREFULLY.”
The beautiful lines entitled “The Conquered
Banner,” have been extensively copied by the
Southern press, and are now classed among
the favorite poems of that section. The fol
lowing reply, written in England, comes to us
from a friend in Virginia, who says it was
sent by the author to a gentleman in that
State, and that it has not yet appeared in
print:
A Reply to the Lines Entitled “The
Conquered Danner.”
BY SIB IIKN'RY IIOtTUITTON, BABT.
Gallant nation, foiled by numbers,
Say not that your hopes are fled;
Keep that glorious flag that slumbers.
One day to avenge your dead.
Keep it, widowed, silent mothers,
Keep it, sisters, mourning brothers,
Furl it with an iron will ;
Furl it now, but—keep it still;
Think not. that its work is done.
Keep it till your children take it,
Once again to hail and make it
All their sires have bled and fougbt for,
Bled and fought for all alone.
All alone! aye shame the story,
Millions here deplore the stain,
Shame alas! for England’s glory,
Freedom called, and called in vain.
Furl that banner, sadly, slowly,
Treat it gently, for ’tis holy.
Till the day—yes, furl it sadly,
Then onee more unfurl it gladly—
Conquered banner—keep it still!
THE COTTOM CROP OF 66
A I’Saia Statement by a Planter.
A planter writing to the New Orleans
Crescent of the 4th iust. says of the com
ing cotton crop:
The estimates made of the growing crop
of cotton must be greatly lowered, and
placed at a figure which will astonish the
knowing ones. The merchants every
where in this country placed the estimate
at two millions of hales : or the half of an
ordinary year’s production prior to the
war. A fair deduction was made for the
loss of slave labor, but they failed to con
sider the casualties of the season, and tbe
grossly exaggerated statement of the man
ner in which the freedmen did their work;
and if these be looked at, it is safe to say
that the growing crop will not exceed one
million of bales, if it amounts to that. It
may bo safely estimated that not one half
of the efficient labor in the production ofl
cotton is actively employed, compared to
the labor exacted prior to 1 lie late war
Death and conscription in the federal ranks
took from the south fully one fourth of the
laboring men, if not one third, leaviuk two
thirds with which to cultivate the present i
crop. The women who were our best pick
ers, and now on the plantations, are in a
measure out of present service and entirely
idle. It is the general complaint that but
little work can be obtained of them. Prior j
to tbe war they constituted one-third ofl
tbe efficient laborers on a cotton planta-1
tion. That the diminution of hands has
been very great, one only has to open his
eyes to what is going on around him to see.
Large plantations ouce cultivated to their
utmost capacity, now lie a barren waste.
In the lied river valley not one-fourth of
the lands formerly cultivated in cotton, is
now employed, and the general complaint
over the whole cotton region is a want ofl
laborers. I venture the assertion, without!
the fear of contradiction, that this ratio of
cultivated lands at present compared with i
the times before the war, will hold good i
eveiywhere. Now if only one-fourth ofl
the cotton lands arc now being cultivated
which were cultivated before the war, I ask
where are the two million of bales to come
from?
And if the present system of employed
labor is inefficient and not to be relied on,
where is the million of bales to come from?
13ut, say the advocates of a crop of two
millions of bales, the deficiency in slave
labor will be supplied in a great measure
by the white laborers of the country—
that the advanced price of cotton will
stimulate this class of laborers to an in
1 1 n m
UTcaftUU piUUUUUUU UJ. UUttUU. 1U DUI1JC I
extent this is true, but not the full that b
i claimed. This population, in all cotton
climates, till the poor lands, which never
can produce a quantity sufficient to make
up the deficiency, and. as a general rule,
they are lazy and thriftless—all the cotton
they care to produce is enough to supply
their small wants. This is their history,
it will ever be the same, no matter what
the price of cotton may be.
If we turn our attention to the prospect
which the growing crop offers, we shall
find but little encouragement to tho hopes
of those who estimate the crop at two mil
lion, or even one million of hales. Never,
in the history of our times, has so unfavor
able a season been witnessed. To com
mence; great difficulties were experienced
in obtarning good seed. This greatly de
layed the growth and advance of .he crop
—and when an indifferent stand was ob
tained, the planter had to combat inces
sant floods of rain which obstructed his
progress and checked every effort to get
his crop in order. The consequence lias
been that up to the present time, not one
half of the cotton planted has been scraped
out and put in growing order.
It is now two months behind times,
| even in districts not overflowed. But the
; rains brought their floods and with incou
i siderable exceptions, it may be said that
all the plantations on Bod river and the
streams flowing into it, or connected with
it, have suffered to such extent that the
crop to be made on these lands will not
come up to one-twentieth of an usually
average crop.
But these difficulties which beset the
cotton planter dwarf into insignificance
when compared with the dreaded army
worm. They come with the rains and
floods, and destroy in a week the labor of
the year; and if this destructive element
is to he taken into consideration in the
calculation of what the present crop will
turn out, who can say what it will be ?
I leave this question with gloomy fore
bodings in relation to all the groat inter
ests of our beloved South, trusting that
abler pens will handle the subject, and
open the eyes of the North to the present
and future condition of our country.
THE SOUTHERN SENTIMENT TO
WARDS THE INTRODUCTION OF
NORTHERN CAPITAL AND SKILL
ED LABOR.
It is a great mistake that any material
part of the Southern people are averse to
the settlement among them, of substantial,
industrious, energetic men of the North
and West, who shall come among us as
equals—not superiors—to employ their
capital, and skilled labor, and business
aptitudes, thereafter, as citizens of the
community, in which tney may severally
locate themselves. We are satisfied that
all such will receive it hearty welcome, as
a desirable, useful addition to our popula
tion. Their capital and industry ate
wanted, and tvould he appreciated. We
believe that while some might be attracted
hither, whose officious, iutermCdaiing spir
it would make them annoying, disagreea
ble neighbors, yet the most of them, espe
cially, such as came from the Western
States, would quickly and pleasantly as
similate with our people; become truly
identified with our interests; and in time,
sympathize with the vital sentiments of
the native Southern people—as in times
mat.
Tlie South opens a broad and fertile
field, for the profitable investment of
Northern capital, while our cities offer oc
cupation, on the most advantageous terms,
to artisans of every description. Neither
capital nor labor need apprehend any bar
riers, on the part of the Southern people,
provided, we repeat, they come not upon
us with the air and bearing of concjucrors,
and the assumption of superior intelligence
and pkilauthrophy. Practical, superior
activity, energy and enterprise, made man
ifest by acts and results, will beget no spir
it of envy or hostility on the side of our
people, hut a healthy sentiment of emula^
tion, that the mass of Southern people will
be glad to see. Asserted, vain-glorious
superiority will he laughed at, and meas
ured by the failures of those foolish
enough to assume and display it; for none
but pretenders will be found, in the main,
thus offensively self-conceited.
We are sure that, to-morrow, men of
capital and enterprise from the North,
who shall come to Memphis, to seek op
portunity for investment, or the establish
ment of business, would be taken by the
hand, cordially, and afforded every proper
opportunity and facility, and all needful
civility in their operations, without the
least risk of offensive obstructions or disa
greeable relations with those around thcpi
When such things have happened in a
Southern community, it may bo invaria
bly traced up to causes in the persons
themselves; as before said, to some phuri
saical pretentions to superior morality and
self-righteousness, or to some offensive, ag
gressive affectation of superiority in point
of intelligence to those around. Our peo
ple are too anxious to see their country
rehabilitated in all departments of its
trade, industry and business, to give the
cold-shoulder to the really industrious and
enterprising, who may desire to come and
live among them, and take part in the
work of industrial reconstruction, of which
thev really think much more than noliti
cal reconstruction.
We beg that we may be understood by
the capitalists and working classes of the
North and West, and that they will dis
miss all apprehensions of an nnwelcome
greeting, should they come to the South
in pursuit of homes and new fields of en
terprise —[Memphis Appeal.
A Good Garden.—Wo think a good
garden is the best evidence of thrift in a
man. When we see a man, particularly
with a fami'y, sit down, year after year,
and never make any effort to secure a gar
den, we set it down immediately, that that
man is no account Let it be remembered
that God himself planted a garden, though
wc have no record that he ever did a farm,
or a plantation.—[Countryman.
A Juror’s name was called by the clerk.
The man advanced to the Judge’s desk and
said :
“Judge, I should like to be excused.”
“It is impossible,” said ike Judge decid
edly,
“But Judge, if you knew iny reasons.”
“Well, sir, what are they?
“Sir, the fact is—” and the nan hesitated.
“Proceed,” continued the,judge.
“Well, Judge, if I must say it, i vc gat the
itch.”
The Judge being a very sedate one, turned
to the clerk and said, “Clerk tfra'ch that man
out.”
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A \Yesti;un Politician.—The following
capital anecdote of Arkansas political life is
only an exaggeration of what inay be observed
in other Western States:
About t wenty years ago, Gov. Y-and
Judge VY—— were candidates for Congress in
their district. They were both far sighted,
shrewd politicians:—the Governor, by far the
more winning in his manners, as the sequel
will show. One hot day in July, while they
were traveling together on the canvass, they
came upon a party of twenty men, or more,
assembled ou the roadside tor the purpose of
having a shooting match. Thinking it a good
time and place for presenting their respective
claims, the Governor proposed stopping.
They halted, and the Governor soon made
himself at home. He bought a number of
chances in the match, and boiugw good '.narks*
mao, succeeded in winning quite a quantity
of beef, which 'Constituted the prism.
The Judge had conscientious scruples.as to
shooting matches, and did not participate, but
stood by, conversing with the moro sober of
the crowd, while the Governor was in high
glee withhis companions over tho beef. When
it was given out to the successful shooters, our
Governor ordered his to be divided out among
some widows whom he ascertained lived in the
vicinity, and then asked the b’hoys if they
were not dry? Of course they were, and the
Governor ordered a plentiful supply of the
“Oh be joyful.” Here the Judge had scru
ples and did not participate; but had it beeti
otherwise it would hajfuvuilednothing. Tbs
Governor was decide!^ the man nt the shoot
ing match, while the Judge felt hihisolf entire
ly in the vocative. Leaving their friends they
proceeded on their way some nfi.,cep.miles, and
halted at a camp ground, where an annual
camp meeting was being held. They separat
ed in the crowd, each electioneering with all
his might, with tlie bit; and young f. iends and
strangers—making hay when the sun shone—
for there was a tine opening.
Toward night tho Judge begins to look
around for his distinguished opponent, hut
could not find him anywhere. He waited pa
tiently till evening services began, and con
cluded he would go out, to tbelargeshed whers
tiie people had assembled,for meeting, think
ing perhaps lie might, meet his friend. On
going but, what his astonishment to find the
gallant Governor, the hero of the shooting
match, in front of the altar, surrounded by
ministers and class leaders, with a hymn book
in his baud, head thrown back, singing as
loud as his lungs woujd permit,
‘How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord.’
“k'rom that moment,” said the Judge, “1
gave up all hopes. I tell you—1 tell you, sir,
a man that’s good for a camp meeting and a
shooting match can’t be beat, for Cougressl
It cau’t be done, sir !” And so it proved.
Inc went at tub Whits House.—A friend,
recently on a visit to Washington, relates an
incident which fell beneath his notice at a
Presidential reception which ha had fho hon
or of attending, that is so illustrative of the
prompt business habits and kindly feelings of
Andrew Aobeson, that we are feign to publish
it as nearly as he related as possible. He
said:
Alter arriving in the ante-room of the Pres
idential mansion, we bad to wait UDtil notified
to enter the President's room. During the
interval my friend and myself noticed a dap
per little, Sandy-complcxioned, intellectual
looking, nervous man, pacing backward and
forward—ever and anon pausing and making
notes on a bundle of documents—then, pass
ing his hands through his hair, he would re
sume his march. My friend whispered:
“That geutleman seems peculiarly nervous ;
something of a deep import rests upon his
mind,” Just at this moment the usher threw
open the door, and wo entered, The Presi
dent after blandly receiving and passing ihe
compliments of the morning, said: “Gentle
men, please excuse me, two ladies are ap
proaching.” We stood back. An elderly la
dy approached, accompanied by one much
younger, who, from appearance, inigA be nor
daughter, with an inl’anl in her arms. Tiie
nervous gentleman approached the President
and said:
“Mr. President, this lady’s husband is Un
der sentence for a crime, which I have here
the document to show was not so flagrant as
was testified* and that one of the witnesses
perjured himself—”
“Stop, sir,” said Mr, Johnson, “1 received
those documents or their contents two days
ago, and have carefully examined them. This
lady’s husband is pardoned.”
The lady, so overcome with the feelings
which swelled up from her heart she was in
capable of utterance, and was likely to faint.
“John,’’said the President, “scat that lady.”
She took a scat, and attempted to speak her
thanks ; her emotions were too overpowering
for utterance, and the President cut her short
by saying:
“No thanks, madam—no thanks. I have
but dono my duty ; be composed and retire,
for I have other duties quite as urgent and
important as yours.”
“As he turned away,” said our informant,
“we observed a tear trickle down bis cheek.
No matter what we thought.”
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An Incident in the Life of Thad. Ste
vens.—Oho of our Pennsylvania exchanges,
in speaking of the revolutionary attempt of
Thad. Stevens & Co to overthrow the State
Government of Pennsylvania in 1BC8, when it
became necessary to call out the State militia
to put thelegally olected Democratictiovernor
in his place, narrates the following incidents
—[Cincinnati Enquirer.
••When there was really no danger—when a
speech was being made to a listening and re
spectful audience in the Chamber of the Sen
ate, Stevens, whose guilty conscience discov
ered in the broad, honest faces that lined the
hall, the features ofa band of assassins, jumped
out of the back wiqdow of the building and be
took himself to flight, lie ran through the
darkness to a remote corner of the ground,
and hid in a patch of bushes. Presently,
heariug his friends’ footsteps who badsougiit
safety in, the same way, and iauqyiug Unit the
1110b was. indeed coming, he cried out, ‘Don't
kill me—-for God’s sake don't kill ttie. To
which one of the refugees, more impetuous
than polite, fearingthat the noise would insure
their capture, responded, ‘Uuslt !’• y u d—d
fool—it's only me ! This is no fiction—it is not
even the truth embellished—it is simple fact,
within the personal knowledge of thousands of
citizens of this.Cowmon wealth, Many of them
have heard the particulars, as wc have detailed
them, from Stevens’ own lips.”
The bridge over Pearl river at Jackson,
. Mississippi, is to be rebuilt,
From tho London Times, May, 2(1. J • . .
Danger to the Thrones from War.
* * * We have much to hope from tho
strong dispofeititioh of t.ho greateb part of
Europe for peace. Of tho temper of the Ger
mans it is unnecessary to speak, and the
French are scarcely less unwilling to see war
again break out. A great and a gradual
change in their'character has long been in pro
gress, and the nation which for so many year*
was tho terror of Europe, is now—as a nation
—devoted to the pursuits of poaoe. Tb»
finance of the empire has given almost every
individual an interest in tho imperial fund,
and railway and other stocks aro■■held: very
largely by every class of the population.
The savings of every oho, whether tradesmen
art isan or peasant., have been imperiled'1>y the
fall in all kinds of sefiurUics since the first ru
mors of war. The people see with apprehen
sion the interruption ofCommepoe and eotn’iiur-r'
meat ion; the cause of Italy lias never, been ho
popular aS might, have been expected from ft
past alliance and the remembrance of common
victories, and Prussia has never recuvdrd in
Frat'Ce the memories of 181 1 and 1815. , Tho
Emperor Napoleon, too, as welt as the othor
sovereigns of I he continent, generally, may well
see with concern the dimensions and tho di
rections which this eontlief is taking. The
Italian.Government has called popular enthu
siasm to its aid, and, in continental parlance,
allied itself with the revolution. The King of
Prussia ia talking about universal suffrage,
and a radical reform of the German Cciuslitp-.
lion. iViiat may be the delations of the [Aus
trian Emperor toward liis less well-effected '
and non German provinces, threemoutbs,ft£ter,,
the outbreak of a war, is as yet hidden in tho
future.' Hut there is a feeling that this war,
if . once begun, will assume a revolutinary.
character, [f these millions of men meet in
contlinl, thrones will not remain whefa they
are—German, Italian. Magyar, (Jsseoh and
Pole will bo moved ns they never we Be moved .
before. Such convulsions may be inevitable
in the progress of natiout, but they are not
pleasing to Emperors and Kings. H'he posi
tion the fn'asses have taken in these countries,
the intense interest of all classes, the enthusi
asm of one country, the indignatiou of anoth
er, and the proof v/hioh has been given that iF
tho sovereigns raise a tempest they will not.
be able to lay it., must, have its effect upon,
every wide ruler, however exalted his rank and.
cxLensive his power.
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Tmomi’H of Sukukey.—Wo road in tho
Richmond Times ; The! thinoplastie operation,
or restoration of the noso, was recently .-per
formed with success by Dr, Isaiah H. Wldto,
Bembnsftrntor of ' Anatomy- in the Medical
College of Virginia, in Richmond. Tho 0p«-W*‘
ration consists in taking the integument: re
quired for tho repair of the lost, organ from
tho forehead. It requires a good deal of nice-1
t.y for its proper execution. The disfigure-,
mont. produced by tho loss of t^io nose is
painfully great, but Tif this 'operation tho nat
ural appearance 6f tho features is restored.
Tlio subject of this operation lost his noqo by
the stroke of a sabre, in the famous charge of
tho Light Brigade fof which he was iv nVcni-'
bor). a,t the .battle of Balaklaya. A singular,
fatuity seems to fie attached to the nose of
this gallant soldier A wax noso whleli liad
been presented to him by one of the noblemen
of his country, was shot off by a Jlinio ball in
one of the engagements fti front of Peters
burg. '
A MATrtiMONm, Thick.—A rich old widower
in Canada is said, to have practised a very art->
fill scheme to gain the hand of the belle of tl)»
villago. He got an bid glpsy’to tell I lie young,
lady’s fortune in words which' hu dieLaiod as 1
follows :
“My dear young lady your star will soon
be hid for a Short time by a very dark cloud,'
but when it re-appears,, it, will qv.Btinun to
shine with uninterrupted splepdor until the
end of your days. Before one week! n Wealthy1
old widower, weaving oi suit of black tand a
fine castor hat, will pay you a visit and re
quest your hand in marriage.—You will ac-'
cept liia oiler become his wife, and bo Deft n."
widow iu possession of all his property,.beforo
the close of this'year.—Your next husband
will be the young man of whom you think
most at present, , ; , ,
Tt.rce days after tho old gentleman, dressed
in tho manlier deeribed by the gipsy; presents
ed to the young woman, and the marriage
followed. The year is more than out, but tho
tough old widower still lingers.
Tho pompous epitaph of a close-fisted. citi
zen closed with tho following passage of
scripture :
“He that giveth to the poor londeth to tho
Lord.”
“Bat may be,” soliloquised Sambo, “but
when dut man died, de Lord didn’t, owu hint a
red cent.”
I think 1 have seen you before sir ; pro you
not Oaten Smith? On yeti': I’m owin’Smith,
arid owin’ Jones, and owin’ Brown, and owin’
everybody,
A young lady, having-‘set lior cap” for a
rather lar</e specimen of the opposite sox, and
having failed to win him, was telling her
borrows to a couple df her confidents, when
one oft lieiu cofortcd her with, these words;
“Never mind, Moll re, there is as good fish in
the sea as over yet was caught.” ‘Mdllie knows
that,” replied her little brother, ‘‘but she
wants a whale.”
“IVhat is that ?.” said the Sunday school
teacher, pointing to the letter O.
“Idunuo, said the urchin.
“What do you say when you stub your toe ?”
“D—n it,” was the precocious reply.
The editor of a country paper says that be felt
called upon to publish farther Lewis’ sermon on
the “Locality of Hell,” as it was a question iu
which nearly all of his readers were foe ply
interested.
•
Prentice says that the Southern {bates are
better represented in Congress now than some
of the Northern {jutes for the reason that
, noh-represcntaiibh js better than mis-repre
sentation. That is literally and rigidly true.
John asked Julia if she would marry, him.
“No,” said she “I will not have you,” but
before John could recover from the shock, aha
archly put in—“but you may have me!”
Sir, said n blustering man to a religions
opponent to what sdet do you suppose t be
long? Well. I don’t exactly know, replied
his opponent; but, to judge from your size.
I appearance, and constant buzzing, I should
: think you belong to the class generally called.
1 io-teci,