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SI J DAY APPEAL
SUNDAY HORNING,
SEPT. 5. 1869
XE WSPA PER SA L ES.
On the Slsl of March last, the closing
day of what newspaper men all coucede
to be the busiest quarter of the year, re
turns were made by the several newspa
per coooerna of this city, show ing the fol
lowing result :
AppeaJ 9
Avalanche - 4S0i 00
A Washington correspondent says
that at a cabinet meeting held on the
81st ult., the removal of Senter Fed
eral officers in Tennessee was de
termined on. This is palpably mere
guess work. The correspondents of
newspapers are not usually admitted
to Cabinet consultation-.
In another column we reproduce ar
ticles from the New York Journal of
Commerce, and from the New York
.Xation, the latter the only pajier that
has yet attempted either t.i justify or
support the more than alrurd story
Of Mrs. Stowe. We give these arti
cles as the last and among the best yet
written pro or con upon the subject,
and with a view to afford the freest
and fullest investigating of the dis
graceful charge with which Mrs.
tTOWE seeks to sink the fair fame of a
woman who has long filled an hono
rable grave, and to execrate the mem
ory of the greatest poet of modern
times. As we have before stated in
these columns, the authoress of thi
vile slander and horrid imputation
upon Bykon and his sister ha.- been
universally condemned. All the lead
ing presses of New York, and
of the other largo cities of
the continent condemn her, and
adjudge her a panderer to the
desire of the many for sensational
matter. The Herald of Monday,' in
a lengthy editorial, attributes the arti
cle of the Atlantic Monthly to a grow
ing taste in Yankeedom for just such
suggestively bawdy statements, and
doses with the remark that were it
not for the corrective efforts of the
daily press there Ls no knowing where
the prurient Yankee would land in a
few years. Without church or creed,
law, constitution or justice these Yan
kee literateurs rove through the world
Intent upon one of two things,
sometimes both money or sen
sation. Generally they find, a
in the case of the " Uncle Tom,''
libel upon the South, that the former
follows upon the latter. This the
Herald boldly charges wa- the occa
sion wHh Mrs. Stowe and the pub
lishers of the Atlantic Monthly lor the
publication of an article for which the
authoress L suffering all the pain- anil
penalties of "Coventry,'' and for
which the New York World says her
name, "once the glowing synonym
"of negro weakness, mut henceforth
"be linked with the perpetration of an
"heinous a piece of lawdy as the lite
"rature of licentiousness in this coun
"try presents."
The Republican Banner reproduces
from the Nashville Prts of October,
161, by request, protest submitted
to President Lincoln "in behalf of
the loyal citizen of Tennessee against
the disfranchising proclamation of
the then Military Governor An
drew Johnson, ordering an election
for President and Vice President, un
der certain regulations and restric
tions. It is a remarkable historical
reminiscence not likely to be forgotten.
The protest sets forth that the law of
the State provides that each voter
shall be "a citizen of the county
wherein he may offer his vote for six
months next preceding the day of
election," and that the Governor'
order only requires six months resi
dence in the State, and permit many
to vote not entitled by law. The Governor'!-
order moreover requires an
oath declaring that the voter is an
'dive" friend of the Government
of the United States, and an " active "
enemy of the Confederate States, ar
dently desiring the success of the Fed
eral arms and the suppression of the
rebellion, and that the voter
will "oppose all armistices or nego
liatlons for peace " until the United
States authority shall be completely
established, and that be will " heartily
id and assist the loyal people in
whatever measures may be adopted,"
no matter what their character, for
the suppression of all resistance to
the Federal authority. They protect
against an edict requiring them to
swear that the voter " finds it in his
heart to ryoiee over the scenes of
blood, and of wounds aud anguish
and death.-' wherein bis friends, his
kindred,, his loved ones are slain, or
maimed, or made prisoners, whereby
the land of his birth or adoption is
made desolate, and lamentation and
mourning are spread over the whole
nation : " They prote-t against Ix-ini;
repaired to " oppose all armistices r
nigotiatioiis of fieace " until the war
shall end, when jieaee and an end of
the war is their very and most heart
felt desire, and when to oppose such
negotiations tor peace as the Govern
ment might see fit to set on foot, would
be, in their view, the first and rfcfefMt
of all treasons. President Liv-
.,lx had Just before issued his procla
mation declaring that " any proposi
tion which embraces the restoration
of peace, the integrity of the w hole
Union, and the abandonment of
slavery" would be entertained by
him. And yet their Governor re
quired them to swear they would op
pose it in ouier words that tliey
would make war to the knife, and the
hilt, and the bloody and bitter end,
without hearing, negotiation or quar
ter to any rebel in arms until the Fed
eral authority should be fully restored
over all the people of every State and
territory. Such was the require
ment of the Chief Warrior, who
did not fight! The names of
these protectant.-, comprised the full
list of candidates for electors on the
McClei.lax and Pendleton- ticket.
Their protest was without effect when
uttered. But facts make their indeli
ble impressions which cannot be ef
faced from the memory. When once
divulged they trill live in history, hurt
or help whom they may.
The Democratic victory in Cali
fornia creates a tremor in the Radical
camp for the fate of the fifteenth
amendment, on which its very exis
tence is now staked. Only twelve
States so far, are known to have rati
fied it, and part of these under force of
the bayonet. There is evident anxiety
in Washington to secure Tennessee,
upon which the issue may depend. A
special to the Cincinnati Commercial,
dated Washington, August 31st, is as
follows: i
It has transpired that President Grant,
carrying out the indorsement of the fif
teenth aineudment made in his inaugural,
Hnd demanding of theSetiter men in Ten
nessee a fulfilment of their promises to
ratify it. was among the first to urge an
extra session of the old Legislature of the
State for that purpose.
Private advices from Nashville have
been received here regarding this subject,
which contain the information that the
Constitution virtually destroys the power
of the old Legislature to act in the Premi
ses, by a provision which entitles the
Legislature elect to assume the duties ..f
ortice immediately after election. The
result of a proclamation for an extra ses
sion would;, under this construction, be
I he assembling of the new Legislature,
and the rejection of the amendment. The
State may therefore be counted as
against it.
That the old Legislature Ls not in
existence is plain enough, unless there
can be. two Legislatures at the same
time. The Constitutional provision is
as follows: "The first election for
Semitors and Representatives shall be
held on the first Thursday in August,
one thousand eight hundred aud
thirty-five; and foreer thereafter
elections for members of the General
Assembly shall be held once in two
year", ()n the first Thursday in Au
gust; said elections shall terminate
the same day." Another provision is
that " the first session of the General
Assembly shall commence on the first
Monday in October, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-five; and
forever thereafter the General Assem
bly shall meet in October next ensuing
the elections." , There is no provision
for members holding over, and the
certificate of election or the proof of
that fact is the only -round on which
they can apply for admission to their
seats, of qualification for which the
members elect, assembled as a
legislative Isxiy, are the only
comitetent judges. An election
at the last regular Angust election is
the only fart required to be made
known on a new meeting of the Leg
islature. A ce rtificate of election in
1 s.17 would le no more competent
proof of qualification for a seat in a
Legislature convened after the Au
gust election of 169 than a cer
tificate of having been elected in
1SC5 would be. And a newly
elected member will be entitled
to his seat against another elected
at any previous regular election. A
re-olei-ted member stands on the same
footing, mi far as any new convention
of the Legislature is concerned, as a
newly elected member. Everything
therefore depends on the new, and
not on the old Legislature, which is
now functus officio. There is neither
any provision in the Constitution for
holding over, nor, as in the case of
the Executive, any necessity for it.
The Legislature might not convene
for the whole year, or might only meet
and adjourn, and the Government
would go on under old provisions all
the same, and there would lie no in
terregnum. The telegram given above indicates
that (Jen. Grant was possessed with
the idea that the old Legislature
might meet and (Strry his pet amend
ment project airatnst the wishes of the
people, or without their expressed
and ascertained sanction. But,
as he is only about as great a
statesman as he is public speaker,
it may not be extremely immod
est to dissent from his opinion, and
to say that snap judgment game is
blocked so far as Tennessee is con
cerned. What the new Legislature
will do is another matter, and to be
seen. As the State has not yet voted
for universal suffrage, they may think
it proper to wait instructions. None
can pretend they are under Instruc
tions to vote to fix negro suffrage on
the whole country not even those
who contend they are instructed to
fix it on our own State. If that thing
is ever done it w ill lie from sheer tim
idity, or policy, or from fear of the
government, which has not spoken its
will, as compelled to do for once, un
der the forms of the Constitution. Bo
children fear hobgoblins and ghosts,
where there is nothing to fear.
VSR much as wo had expected. It
now turns out that the troubles in
Rutherford county were wholly defen
sive on the part of the whites. Pri
vate advices received here and at
Nashville all go to confirm the same
thing. Men who have taken the most
pains to Investigate all the facts now
afnrm that the negroes, incited and
misled by malicious and office-seeking
mean white men, were the aggressors
in the outbreak there, and that what
ever of punishment they received,
whether Just or unjust, was but the
natural consequence, and provoked by
THE SUXDAY
their own acts. We most earnestly
counsel s;ace aud quiet in all our
young men. If they violate the law,
that law must lie enforced against
tbem, with all its violators. But
black men are not privileged to be The
exclusive law-breakers, and irregular
acts In self-defence may be expected to
follow their assumption of such privi
lege for license.
The Union and American states that
seven negroes are now in jail at
Murfreesboro. Have they done noth
ing? The Sheriff of Rutherford
county certifies that he lias no diffi
culty In enforcing the law. Is It n; t
plain that this emeute, which so much
has been said and done about, as if it
was an alarming affair, was the work
of only a few individuals, and of no
such consequence as to indicate any
thing resembling a general disposition
to lawlessness on the part of the
whites'.' The citizens generally con
demn the lawlessness taken to sup
press the outbreak commenced by the
negroes. Do they not go as far as any
people the most peaceable could go?
Ten negroes began the afiair by firing
on a young white man, who
was quietly riding by, and
killing his horse. Where would
white men submit to such an indig
nity without instant retaliation. They
should have patiently made arrests,
and handed the offenders over to the
law. But flesh aud blood is weak;
and when bad white men work up
silly negroes, or sillier white men, to
such frenzy, they may expect to
take the consequences. Some of the
negroes are reported to have turned
State's evidence, and to have said
" loyal white men have told them that
unless they did something to attract
the attention of the Government, the
rebels would regain power, and the
uegroes would be returned to slavery."
The white men who have told them
this falsehood are the chief criminals.
And thev ought to be arrested and
punished, above all others.
In a laudable and praiseworthy
effort to secure a share of the cotton
trade of the Mississippi Valley, the
merchants of St. Louis have made up
a purse of from which is to be
distributed, at the approaching St
Ixiuis Agricultural Fair, prizes, rang
ing from foOO down, to the producers
of the best five bales of the staple, the
same to lie graded, classified and ad
judged, not by St. Louis cotton men
w hich the papers of that eity confess
they cannot muster but by cottou
men from Memphis or such other
place contiguous as they can lie had.
The curious part of this announce
ment and confession of the St. Louis
merchants, and that w hich will strike
our readers with some force is, that
they should seek to encourage t trade
in cotton without any persons compe
tent to conduct it. The cottou busi
ness, as much, jierhaps more than any
other, calls for experience in those
who follow it. Indeed we doubt if
there is a business that demands such
constant vigilance, so much care.
Our St. Louis friends will find this
out by dear experieuce il'thcy attempt
w hat by the great mill owners is only
entrusted to persons so experienciil in
the fibre and texture of cotton as to be
able with almost closed eyes to classi
fy' and purchase. Our St. Louis
friends had better confine themselves
to competition with Chicago for the
grain trade and the trade of the Pa
cific, and leave to us of the cotton
States the trade and traffic of the
great staple.
In another part of this paper we
publish a letter on the subject of
postal-telegraphy from the pen of Col.
Troi sdalf. It is worthy the eloacn
attention. Such we have given it.
The great fear of the Colonel, and that
which he eems to think the strongi-st
argument against a combination of the
telegraph system of the country with
the ostal department of the Govern
ment, is that the wires may be used
by the party in powerand against that
opposing: or that, as was the cs,.
during the war, the Government
may use the great engine as an in
strument for vengeance and a In cans
of espionage. The fact that the Gov
ernment did, during the war, so use
the telegraph lines does not, to our
mind, afford any great o!jrtion to
the scheme; for the reason that a sim
ilar emergency would beget a similar
course w hether the wires were owned
by the Government or not. The mere
tact of the telegraph being a part of
the machinery of Government w ould
not 1m' any more dangerous to the lib
erties of the press than the Mitel sys
tem which has al wayseen more or ies
manipulated by Governments. In
the days of the Irish Repealers and
English Chartists it was charged
that Sir James Ghaham, then Eng
lish Postmaster General, manipulated
the mails and opened letters at his
pleasure. During the early days of
the late war in this country the post
office was used for parti zan purposes.
Mail matter was stopped at the South
and newspapers sent back to their offi
ces of publication, while letters to
prominent Southern statesmen were
seized in their passage through
Northern post-offices and sent to the
General Post-office i. Wash
ington, and there opened for the infor
mation of the Government. This um
all wrong, gross wrong. No plea of
State necessity will justify so flagrant
a violation of private rights. Not
even the oft-repeated and stale plea of
"the nation's life in jeopardy" could
give color of reason forso gross an
outrage upon the reserved rights of
the people. Worse than this could
not possibly occur if the Government
owned and controlled every wire in
use or to le built. The Government
has shown its power and determina
tion and established a precedent
by which, in any luture emergency
it will tic fully justified in the most
arbitrary seizure and use of the tele
graph wires. As to the press. We
remember that during the war such
Democratic papers as the New York
World and Chicago Times competed
successfully with their Republican
contemporaries in the amount of
special telegrams they published, and
that in every instance such disimtchs
were written to suit the readers of
these papers. It was only within the
military' Hues that arbitrary distinc
tions were made, or in exceptional cases
of commanders like Beast Bctlek, a
brute who wa thrown to the
MORNING APPEAL.- SEPTEMBEE
surface as sue
scum always
is, and who ac
upon every
isissible occasion up to the-urgings
and prompting of his brutish nature.
The Government tluit can in times of
real or Imagined necessity take jiosses
sion of, and control the telegraph sys
tem of the country is to be reganiea
a at nnv time prepared to assume
such extraordinary powers, and it will
make but little ditfereu.ee. to the peo
ple whether such system is owned and
tlireeted by the Government or a pri
vate corporation; unless, indeed, that
in passing out of the hands of the
latter it is cheapened and popu
larized as the three-cent postage
stamp has popularized the letter
system. That such will be the result
of Government possession of the tele
graph wires w e are not permitted to
doubt, in the face of the reports to tne
British Commons, to the satisfaction
of which conservative and really
popular assembly it was proven that
postal-telegraphy was a necessity
growing out of the iucreasedsfjemand
of commerce aud the new system of
transacting business, which, antici
pating time, " sells to'arrive." Every
argument was urged against the
postal-telegraph system in the House
of Commons. But the friends of the
measure prevailed beeausr it was
show n that a union of the telegraph
with the post-offico was imperatively
demanded, and was necessary in the
interests of every class of people, poor
as well as rich; farmer, merchant and
mechanic. The arguments so
potent with the British House of
Commons will not have less weight
w ith the United States House of Rep
resentatives. The growing wants of
commerce, and the demands of Un
people for quick and cheap methods
of interchange of thought will force
postal-telegraphy from the Govern
ment, and uuder such rules, restric
tions and safe-guards as at present pre
vail in the post-otfiee department, and
invite the confidence of the great body
of the people, notwithstanding the
flagrant outrages of their rights dur
ing the war.
V publish the following com mu
nication that all sides may have a
hearing. We would give Mr. Eru
EKiuGE, Mr. EwtN'., Milton Brow n
or any one else the same chance. We
are independent, so far as men are
concerned, and, simply adhering to
principles, we intend to stay so:
W1H SHALL BE SENATOR?
It has seemed to me somewhat re
markable that a studied effort should
be made to disparage the " favorite
son of Tcnnewseo,'' even by those w ho
a very few months sim-o were forward
in endeavoring to do him honor, and
Wra employing every effort to bring
him before the pnonle that he might
explain " the situation " he had left to
be occupied ly u sucsessor for whom
be had shown himself to have expets
eucetl very little of his respect.
Not enjoying a ersonal acquaint
ance with "Andy .lohason," 1 have
to speak of him trom a public stand
point. It may be conceded, and I am
willing to aver that he committed a
most egregious error, when he declin
ed the Sherman-Johnston treaty.
That Ix'inir ratified would have
"brought in hack "in au incredihiy
short time, to be as we were, and fight
our peaceful battlos inside the Consti
tution. But we must reflect that Mr.
Johnson had tvs;n newly inducts!
into office, and had not understood or
appreciated the hirh prerogatives
with which he had bpen invested,
and above all, had not yet sounded
the men by whom he was surrounded
and w ho were thenceforth to form his
political family.
It was a mistake to reject the Sherman-Johnston
treaty, but visions of
glory may have led astray the practi
cal intellect of the man, when before
him lay the restoration of this dis
traught and disrupted Republic to its
pristine status. We, who inter
estedly looked on from a dis
tant standpoint, without power to
control a single move, aud not know
ing the pressure iioii the Executive
from those with whom he was so sud
denly brought into contact in the ad
ministration of the Government, may,
and doubtless did, imagine that he
was dilatory in asserting the preroga
tives usiirMsl by his predecessor, and
which, having lieen wielded for the
i. iooraiization, if not destruction, of
our system of government, might be
exorcised to its full restoration, with
every inculcation and hue of the Con
stitution intact save that which had
lieen abrogated U'vond ret-all. That
there .should be restfveueas on thepart
of those who s mpathisid with Pre
ident Johnson, In the maintenance of
the Constitution, when they thought
they perceived him reluctant to wield
the power for the public good which
had been exercised by his predecessor
for the public harm, and the eternal
Reparation, in feeling, of our peoples,
unless consolidated by the oppression
of despotism, was, to say the least,
natural.
Reviewing the field, the historian of
the period must award to him an un
flinching adherence to the Constitu
tion, and an abiding reliance uion the
people whose Government he was
called upon to administer. That he
did not fulfil the cxpectationsof every
one is true, for many of the most pa
triotic were apprehensive that he
might yield to the intolerance of fac
tion and robject himself a slave to bad
ambition. That he did not is attribu
table to the seeds of patriotism im
planted in hi.-; breast, and w hich grew
and flourished w hile he w as the recip
ient of popular favor that elevated
him from humble life to eminent sta
tion. When Henry Clay retired with the
administration of Mr. Adams he was
assailed with every obloquy and re
proach that could be heaped on the
head of a prominent individual. 1 he
charges of "bargain, sale, intrigue
ami management " were rung from
one end of the country to the other.
As a private and reti'red citizen, how
could he meet and repel these charges'.'
They were gaining influence over the
pobjic mind, and although the two
; parties nat neon arrayed against encn
other in theljegislature, so that R. M.
I Johnson and J. J. Crittenden had
failed to obtain a majority, and Ken
tucky was less one Sennt'or for a year,
i That noble State rallied to the relief
: of her " favorite son," and he was
triumphantly returned to the United
Bastes Senate, where hin clarion voice
could be heard in his own defense,
and in behalf of the great interests of
the country which u advocated.
It is thought that at this time the
State of Tennessee can do a similar
act by her distinguished and eminent
son, and place him where he can prove
. "a tower of strength." It is puerile
to talk of his having filled all the of
fices from the humblest to the highest
pinnacle of greatness, and bespeak for
him retirement after his arduous la
bors for the preservation of American
liberty He is in the very meridian
of life, full of unbounded energy, de
termined, strong, skilled in the rou
tine of government, and knowing the
men with whom he would have to
" cope withal." And where can one be
found more sturdily to stand up
for the people's and the State's rights,
battling against encroachment and in
novation upon the Constitution?
It is not desirable that another
h
-
should be disiianL'id to make a favor-1
He statesman appear the more promi
nent and -tand out -in itnUtrt relief.
Ten n---it- has many sons who would
do her honor Krpon the floor of the
l.'iuted States Senate; but this is a
time that appears mt appropriate to
plaoe there Andrew Johnson, that he
may vindicate himself and champion
her iuterests. Since the "glorious
victory" was achieved In August,
there has been an awful squinting to
ward a relinquishment of the good
which we have inherited and proved
for the desperate chance of something
better" premised by a new party,
combined of Radicalism, and such
Democracy and Conservatism as lan
guish to "get upon the strong side.
and that now would be willing to see
Governor Senter convene the late
Legislature that the "Fifteenth
Amendment might be adopted with
out forcing the new party (just form
ing and still in embryo) to incur the
respouftibility of adopting or rejecting
it. We want such a man as Andrew
Johnson in the Senate, that his voice
may be heard there in defense of ton
stitutional rights which some people
seem w iliing to barter or compromise
away, on the plea of restoring the
country to peace and prosperity,
neither of which can be secured to us,
while those rights are insecure and
liable at any moment to be des
troyed. It is begging the question to urge
that Mr. Johnson is vindictive and
would foment animosities, that
throuirh him Radicalism would be
provoked to frenzy, and could not be
conciliated to be generous that it
would incite President Grant to des
perate deeds, to show his revengeful
spirit, ami wouiu preciuue inai reci
orocitv of irood lifting which well
applied flatterv antl timely gifts might
propitiate. This is "the soothing
system " with a vengeance; and, well
manipulated, would tie the country
to the car of Radicalism for the next
century. When did tampering with
principle ever strengthen a party.
When did it elevate individual char
acter'.' We have a portion of the old
Constitution left, and shall lie loth to
part with it. He who would compro
mise or concede the little that is left.
to get back into the L nion. or for any
prospective advantage to be obtained
from Radicalism when all the powers
a a n i ? 1 .
oi government are ceuiranzeu in ura
uress. might lust as well put on a Rad
ical collar, and wear it brazenly if not
proudly. It is not disparaging i thers
to say' there is no man in the State,
from temper, character, political ex
periences and indomitable pluck and
perseverance, who could so well rep
resent the people, in the Senate, as
Andy Johnson, and his election to
that position wouiu oe naueu win;
unalloyed gratification by the patri
otic nnd Constitution-loving people
throughout the nation. Hampden
CHURCH SCANDAL.
That tall young fellow's hre to-day,
I wonder what's Ills name?
HI sve are Skc1 upon our pew
Lo total at Sully Rune.
Who Is that lady dressed In ipwn?
It can't he Mrs. Lescli:
There Mrs j.u, itl. Pcscii wiles!
I irouder if rsj"fl arcaehf
Leno me mir fau. 11 ls so warm;
We hoih vill si! to prayer;
Koarataa becomes the widow Ames;
How Mary baaaal flares!
Do look at Xancy sitnoper's veil,
It's full a hres.ith too aldc;
1 wonder II CSiujiu Ayres
Appears to-day as LridcT
Lord, what a voic e Jane MM kM sot:
Oh. how that orean roam!
I'm alad we've loft tne singers' seats
How hard Miss Johnson snores !
What ad shawls there In front!
Do vou bbser e Ann Wild ?
Her iie7 straw bonnet's trimmed with blacK
1 guess she s lost a child.
I'm h:ilf aIeep that Mr. Jones!
His sermon are so long;
This afternoon we'll stay at home
Aud practice that neu song.
Cniy for Women.
Pineapple dres.se are taking the
places of good-: more easily affected by
Jauip weatner.
White dresses continue as popular
a ever, and for two months to come
will be as suitable as anything else.
There is a positive mania for all
kinds of pongee., India foulards.
crajies, maniJlasand pineapple cloth
Brilliant lines on white grounds
and the richest crape, hanging in
wavy folds are more than fashionable
Cream white challies and finest
goat's hair trimmed with cil6. bars of
the gayest satins are among tne iiauu
some ilrossi's.
White jackets, wrought with the
gayest colors, and scarlet ones with a
network of embroidery in Turkish de
signs, are the most lashionanle and
expensive.
Scarlet, black and white shawls
are the most fashionable, though we
have seen one of the shade called
ecru, the peculiar unbleached color,
. . J.ll A - '
Which was most ueucuieniiu wnuiuui,
Long chains of coral, strung as
baby chains were wont to lie, are lash
ionable, as also short chatelaines of
cut coral with the watch hanging, ac
companied by many charm-.
Del icate silks of the variety for
mourning an' of black and gray:
three, five and seven finest lipes of
gray upon a black ground, or rice n raa,
black upon gray.
mie traveling dresses designed
for full wear are made of the Pauama,
and bamboo fibre, of a heavy quality,
quite rough to look at, but soft to the
hand. This material is in such de
mand that enough of it is not to be
had at any price.
isoarlet, blue and almond-brown
jackets of finest flannel are worn as
pardessus garments at the edge of the
evening just now, when one needs a
slight addition to thedressof daytime.
The more brilliantly and elaborately
they are 'embroidered the better.
Stockings of a linen web as fine as
Destlemona s handkerchief are worn
with these pretty shoes, and the sup
ply of Madame Merternich of 305 pairs
does not seem quite so fabulous. naM
beautiful scarlet shoes of this style are
seen with white peignoirs at breakfast.
The latest sashe3 are of the purest,
softest, India silk, which has a wavy
look aud an indolent grace peculiar to
itself. These sashes are very wide
antl long, and tie in immense falling
loops or a single large knot. Their
colors are not brilliant, and the de
signs are generally bars and squares.
Some small. quareshawls, scarce
ly more than handkerchiefs, are
wrought in lace patterns about the
edges are thrown carelessly over the
shoulders. They are more quaint than
beautiful, though lace embroidery
upon pineapple cloth Ls something
new, and of wonderful execution.
Shoes, quite low, with a high,
pointed heel piece, running off at the
back of the foot, and a square piece
overlying the instep, are now tolerated
out of doors at the seashore and coun
try place. They have large, flat bows
of kid, and square steel buckles shap
ing to the foot.
mi 1 I .......... I uliuila
IB" uresis IS OI a Ilfuwm cn,
gray, fawn, or almost brown, and
along the selvidge a bright border
runs, composed of uneven stripes of
gray colors. This stripe is cut off and
used for trimming, which is put on
fluted, by leaving a small space be
tween plaits to correajKHid. A pretty
addition is Tom Thumb fringe in col
ors to match.
Ladies who preserved -their Can
ton crape shawls, which were in fash
ion twenty years ago, are not sorry
for their prudence now. They are
among the most courted and stylish
of light crapes; they are no longer
worn in the simply folded triantrle.
however, but are cunningly draped
about the person in a manner requir- '
ing the skill of a modiste. )
1869.
a rz
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY."
I.oat in the dreics or the purn- us of -haaie.
runh.si neath the wreck of hvr leanty anil
name;
a from the haunts of the vicious she came
Cloihsi mean and squalidly,
ragged from the c ia-i c--" - ( horror and
sin.
ttajrs toul and scrtnlv where jewel.- had oeen.
ThU is the charge that against her goes In
Prank anu disorderly.
Spurned by the throng whom her grace had
led,
Slpurned by the poor whom her f-.unir had
led.
Purity, virtue and happiness dead -
L.1V10K so liomoiy.
Bitter the end of a once- Joyous life.
Deep the disgrace of a once happy wife,
Reekic.g with blasphemy, brawling with
slnre
"Drunk and disorderly."
This was the cause of the terrible stain.
He who shonld ever her honor marrilaiu,
Ruined by crime and desire for gala.
Though striving sturdMy.
Sin quickly enters through 1'overty ' gate.
Step follow step nntll thl Is her fate-
r.asv ner rao rrom lnue esinie.
irrunK ana aisorueny.
Oh! you, who. living in comfort and bliss.
Shrink as you would from some fearful abyss.
Thanking the Father you are not like this
.ontnnn n-r issniy.
Prav for hvr think well of what she has lieen
Pray for her cnt oir by friends and bv kin ;
i-ray lor ner steep o too- snenow oe la siu
uruuK aud aisorueriy.
Loathe rather him who, so greedy for gold
Honor, wife. home, and life's happiness sold ;
Loathe the fell lust which too often doth
mould
Nature so sordidly.
Strive to bring forth from her misery, love;
Strive in the creature the woman to move;
God never thinks of these charges above
" Orunk and disorderly.
THE TOASTJOR LABOR.
Hrt'ft the man with h6rnj- hand.
W ho tURN lit tii- hreHUiiust Allows;
Where auviN rlmz in every Lund,
He a loved by all good fellows.
And here's to him who goes afield.
A nd thr-jtitch the l-ltr ts i-jWins,
Or with stout arms the ax dor It wield,
While anc.eiit oak are bowing.
HVre's to the del ver In the mine,
1 he aallor on the ocean.
With those oi early craft and line.
Who work with true devotion.
Our love for her who tolls in gloom.
w-Uere crantts ana wiit-ei. are clanking;
Bereft ls she of nature's bloom, fc
Vet God In patience thanking.
A curse for blm who sneers at toil.
And shuns his share of lalor.
Tli knavt but rrrtw his native -il.
While leaning on his neighbor.
Here may this truth be brought on earth,
Orow ture and nior lu fawr:
There is no wealth but owe its worth
To handicraft and labor.
pledge
The I'nlM.T' of onr nation
We know thtr worth, and with their health
Lriuk we the acclamtttion.
THE BYRON SCANDAL.
The
Pro and Con of it from Consid
erate Sources.
FOB BYRON" AND His SLSTFB.
The terrible charge alleged against
Lord Byron and his si tor Mrs. I.eigh
by .Mrs. stowe is -UUI the prev-niin
topic. It tills all minds, and engages
universal attention. -neralIy, by
press aud public, it has la-en disbe
lieved, discredited, aud very ably re
futed. The critis- have put the onus
of proof upon Mrs. stowe-, who SB far
has given us but a vague and indefi
nite statement ot Byron s wife, embtt
tered as was against him and his.
The New York Journal of Commerce,
a staid, cool and discriminating jour
ual, discredits the whole itatement
from testimony furnished by yotes
and QMpfa which is to the effi-ct that
in a notice Oi a sketch of his father,
severely reflective upon that genth
man. Lord Byron wrote that if the
notice should reach Kuglaiid it would
give pain to his sister Augusta, whom
he characterised as the most angel ic
lieing upon earth. Again, after some
allusion to his ancestors, speaking of a
contemplated visit to hi- cousin, .Mrs.
Maters, he tens how he wa persua
ded from tt by his sister, who said
' It you will go you will fall in love
again, and then there will be a scene
one step wiH lead to another, 'tt cela
lera an eclat, etc. 1 was guided bv
these reasons, and shortly after I mar
ried, with what success it ls useless to
say.' .
Now. it seems to it- that these oara
graphs tend to establish the following
state ot tacts: that an artection sub
sisted between Lord Byron and his
sister more intense than is ordinary
between persons so related. The
beauty and strength of such a tie have
been the panegyric of poets without
end; but yet. in the actual world, it
rarely takes so enduring a form, or
everts so much power as that between
Byron and Augusta. He left Eng
land in 181.S, never to return, and nev
er again looked on his sister's face;
and yet we find him in liJ, seven
years later, paying this lavish tribute
to her moral U-auty and goodness in
a letter to a comparative stranger. It
reads like a spontaneous outgush of
pure brotherly affection for a deeply
loved sister, trom one whose heart
was full Of her.
Had Lord Byron been guilty of the
monstroias crime with his -Lster im
puted to him by Lady Byron in her
failing years, and now described by
Mrs. iStowe's piquant and imaginative
pen, it is scarcely credible that he
would have said of her " that there i
not a more angelic l?ing on earth.'"
Would he not rather have omitted all
allusion to her, than have so conspic
uously challenged an inspection of her
character? If consumed with re
motse for his own admitted offenses,
and always speaking of himself in the
most disparaging terms, is it probable
that he would voluntarily have paid
the highest possible homage to the
purity of one with whom he had com
mitted the atrocious crime of incest?
Judging from human nature, we
would say No. This letter, we say,
indicates that Augusta's influence
over him wason the side of morality
for she exerted herself to dissuade him
from visiting Mrs. Masters (.Mary Cha
worth,), evidently f-aring, from her
knowledge of her brother's passionate
and impulsive nature, that wrong
might come of it. Is it likely that a
woman who had committed in
cest with him would be so very
solicitous for his moral welfare":
or that she could have always had
over him the prodigious influence
which he ascribes to her? This seems
to us improbable impossible. Rather
would such a brace ol monsters have
hated and loathed each other, after the
tirst tumult of their guilty passion
was past. Pursuing the path of crime
upon which they had taken so terrible
a start, we mw np "g'na
of them plunging into the wildest e.x-
cesses of vice in the efforts to seek ot-
livion of each other and of their
mutual shame. But. on the contrary,
Mrs. Leigh, to the day of her death
so far as history recorc
is, lea me ute oi
a nattern wife and mother
oml r
Stowe's horrible accusation is the first
whisper that the world has heard
against her fame. Lord Byrou, as we
all know, continued in foreign lands
the infamous career which he began on
English soil, with a fresh desperation.
easily explained by the circumstances
of his quarrel with his wife, and the
hatred and scorn with which the
English public, in one of its "peri
odical tits of morality," as Macaulay
says, visited him, and which brought
into full play the defiant recklessness
of his nature.
AGAIN8T BY BOS AND HIS. SISTER.
The New York Nation, after review
ing Mr. Stowe's article on Lord By
ron, and showing that through her
mistakes in dates, etc., sone ot her al
leged facts are rendered improbable,
Hft VS
But there is another version of the
story which, while it does not change
the central infamy, is more honorable
to Lady Byron's character and mem
ory, and which we feel sure will be
ultimately established as the true one.
We were told the main facts of this
history something more than ten
years ago, and this i how it was told
tons: At whatever time the ineet
uou.s connection beturaen Byron and
his sister may have begun, Lady By
ron knew nothing ot it, a we heard
the story, until after the birth of her
child. Some time after that event.
probably about the beginning of Jan
uary, 1Mb, uyron ioiu ner or tne in
trigue, saying that he had newer
loved any other woman than the jart-
nerofhis guilt. rhe naturally sup
posed it to be a delusion of insanity ;
and it was under this impression that
-he consulted Dr. Baillie about him.
which is one ot his main charge-
against her in his letters and in " Don
Juan." It was while ander this be
lief that she wrote the playtul letter to
Bvron, after leaving him. win-h is
also one of the counts in fne indict
ments against her. After reaching
Kirkby Mallorv, her father's house.
she had certain proofs of the truth of
what her hustmnd had told ner, irom
which time she left him forever.
Now, we do not affirm that this ver
sion of the story is absolutely authen
tic. We tell it as it was told us; but
most certainly it la inherently more
probable than the one given by Mrs.
Stowe. It is a key to the whole my
tery, and the solution is greatly hon
orable to Iady Byron. It accounts
for her silence as to the cause of their
separation
Her lips were sealed as
long as Mrs. Leigh lived. It account-
for her consultation with Dr. Baillie,
and for her letter alter leaving Byron,
and before knowing that a separation
was inevitable. It accounts, too, for
Dr. Lushington's statements confirm
ing her own, saying that a reconcilia
tion was impossible, and that if such
an idea should be entertained he
could not, professionally or otherwise,
take any pa ft towards effrcting it. Of
couroe he could not as a man of honor.
It may le doubted, however, whether
he would have considered it impossi
ble, though eouallv he could hay
taken no part in it, if he had beeni
told by Lady Byron that she had con
tinued to live with her husband as ln
wlfe for months, weeks, or a single
day after knowing his guilt. We are
not sure if Dr. Lushington is still
alive; we believe he Ls not long since
dead ; but we trust that, if he Ls living,
he will now make a brief, clear, lawyer-like
statement of the facta in the
case, with which he Ls better ac
quainted as Lady Byron's counsel than
any other person, such as will put this
matter forever at rest, in the solid
foundation of truth. Indeed, it is due
to Byron, his wife, and to the public,
that everybody who i-an throw any
light on the circumstances should now
tell everything in relation to the affair
that they know.
MORE THAN ROMANCE.
The Life of a Gallant Confederate
A Soldier Hero.
A writer in the Kansas City- Times
tells part of the story ol" the life of the
wonderful St. Leger Grenfel, who for
ftp devotion to the Southern cause
was confined in the Dry Tortugas,
whence he e-caped only to tlnd, it i
feared, a watery grave." The writer
says :
The career of this man is as wonder
ful as it was alluring. Romance
seemed to have entered into his being
and given to the soldier of the nine
teenth century the personal di-ring
and adventure of the seventeenth. A
captain in the Crimea, he rode down
to the charge at Balaklava with l ar
digan, when the ninety-second High
landers won their bonnets, and when
since iia 1 1
Trembled so the t'intsM means."
An aid-de-ctltnp to Bazaine, the
French Emperor's commander-in-chief
in Mexico, he was desperately
wounded at Magenta in the celebrated
charge made by two brigades of Zou
aves upon the massed artillery of the
Au.strians. A private in China, he
was the secoud at the storm of the
Emperor's palace, and received a sa
bre stroke which marked his face for
life, from forehead to chin. A lieu
tenant of Saphis in Algeria, the man
who paraded his squadron one day for
review before Marshal McMahon.
The Frenchman's trained ey ran
down the swarthy ranks, and heealled
to au orderly, " Send that officer to
me who has a seat like an English
Guardsman." The officer came, sa
luted, drew himself up it was Gren
fel. Wandering on leave of absence
to any country where uennon floated
or sabre Hashed, he hau taken service
with this superb .yet merciless branch
of Chasseurs d'Afrlque, and had won
a commission by extraordinary dar
ing. Clothed in turban and trowsers, he
was found by some English tourists in
the army of the Sultan ; a lion-hunter
in South Africa; a soldier who wan
shipwrecked on the coast of Spain;
speaking a dozen languages perfectly r
scarreu oy niteen wounds trom Dan
and blade; having beautiful blue eyes,
long white hair; sixty-five, and as
straight as Tvcurusch; a ieerless
swordsman; capable of hitting his
own ball at twenty paces with a re
volver; temperate ; matchless in horse
manship ; generous to a fault; loving
war as sensuous men love double-
breasted mistresses;
tne uranu Army; handsome as
Lannes, the experiences of forty peril
ous year yet in mind unwritten ; un
tamable as an Arab; reckles to te
merity; tender to woman a hero in
every walk of life why should such a
man be driven down to the si-i when
the wind and the night had made of
that sea a vast expanse of populous
graves and no star anywhere in all
the heavens to light the plunge into
eternity?
Ah! it was but the old struggle
which had been going on for three
thousand years between Patrician and
Proletarian. Guarding that pestilen
tial island in ambush in mid ocean
were seen wearing the uniform of the
United States army plebians born
and bred, who hated the royal okl
soldier for his scars, for the orders ne
wore, for the strange tongues he
spoke, for that imperishable dignity
aud bearing which cling to a gentle
man when all else has deserted him.
For the honor ot our army be it spo
ken, there were no regulars at Dry
Tortugas. Popinjay lieutenants, crea
tures with souls of shoddy and man
ners ot Esquimaux, kept watch and
ward over the manacled lion ; drove
him to work when the battered frame
was weak; tortured him when the
(1iUnties.s spirit was on its knees in
phvsieai 1,,,,,; and at last, when a
storm orJt of tne
ibl th si battles. h wh
I h d t , d th f ,
. nu , ..hii., t(V- - , .
" "J - ' 1 ' vc a iw, Uru
io me sea or succor, and tne sa re
ceived him and gave for the tried
trame one or her immemorial graves.
to bo vacated never more until the
great test judges alike those who per
secuted and those who endured.
Such as we have sketched rapidlv
was the life of St. Leger GrenfeL
Coming to America at the commence
ment of our civil war, he espoused the
side of the Confederates, and took
service with Gen. John H. Morgan,
rapidly rising to the rank of a Colonel.
He was sjioken of by those who knew
him as the " bravest of the brave."
Foremost in pursuit and hindmost
ever in retreat, no man in any army
won greater or more perilous laureLs.
And then, had there been soldiers
among his jailors, how it would have
delighted them to talk to such a Pa
ladin. To talk of the Light Brigade;
of grim old Pelissier; of Dikerman; of
the JO! Highlanders forming only
two deep to resist the cavalry of an
army ; of fair-haired Nolan applying
a torch to the magazine which blew
himself and a brigade into eternity ;
of poor old si rang ways, who cried out
in a voice as sweet as a young girl's,
both lefp shot clean away: "Will
some of you he kind enough to help
me down my dismounting days are
over;" of Solferino and the Voltigeur
who gave to the grapes a prrrpter hue
than wine; of bivouacs under African
skies; of how the stormy trl-Oolor
rose and Ml ai "ut the slippery para
pets ot the Malakoff: of all the won
derful thing" he had een to delight a
-iM.er'- heart ami tire' a aoldier's
rdor.
VIRGINIA MATRONS.
Mrs. Ft. E.
Lee and Mrs.
Jackson.
Stonewall
The Rockbridge Springs correspond
ent of the New Orleans 7'imes sys:
Among thee, I found Mrs. Robert
E. Lee, whom I had not e.-u fir thirty
years. I had known her when a boy,
as tin- belie of Arlington, the daugh
ter of George Washington Parke Cus
tis, who was the adopted child of
George Washington, but no blood re
lation. Then she was an elgant and
attractive young lady, of great affabil
ity of manner and personal charms.
Alas! I found her greatly changed by
time and still more by dineaat . The
li'irtn if n. r mMimnK .till ix.ntin
but her body has been terribly afflicted
by rheumatism, which has made her
such a cripple that, for some yea: a
past, almost from the comuiencemett
of the late war, her only locomotion
is affceted in a chair with wheels,
which i- moved about by servants.
In spite of this affliction she is a most
agreeable and cheerful old lady, re
ceives every one with a smile, and
converses upon ail subjects with intel
ligence, vivacity, and good humor.
There is nothing of the laughter, quer
ralousness, or discontent of the in
valid in her manner or conversation.
Her time is occupied in social con
verse, sewing, writing, and playing
with her grand-child, a jolly little fel
low, the -sjn of Gen. W. H. F. Lee.
She is full of energy and industry, and
employs herself most villous". y to a
late hour of the night sewing for her
self and daughter. At present she is
engaged in making a dress for herself
and one of her daughters, out of some
calico sent as a present from the Phoe
nix cotton-mills in Georgia. Mrs.
Lee, though contented with her
situation, and deeply grateful for
the many tokens of love and admira
tion hich have been lavished upon
her hubaud and hers -If, very natur
ally sighs for her old home at Arling
ton, from whi-h she has been so ruth
lessly anil barbariously banished. She
expects to close her life amid the
-eenes of the happy das of her child
hood and girlhood. Even this most
Cherished desire, however, she will
cheerfully sacrifice to her dignity and
pride, and will never consent to re
ceive back her estates if tendered with
any conditions or as a charitable and
merciful condescension and favor by
the Government which so cruelly de
vastated and appropriated property
bequeathed by her patriotic father,
and never legally acquired by the
authority which now retains it Ar
ImgJ.iii in Us; iv.k to be a Federal
cemetery when the family ol Robert
E. UsoetaM it. The daughter-in-law
of Mrs. Lcc is here with her, the.
wife of Gen. W. H. F. Lee, one of tho
most elegant and beautiful ladies I
have ever seen in Virginia. She was
a Miss Boiling, of Pet-rsbnrg, of the
old Pocahontas stock, always famous
for beauty and high spirit. Her com
manding and elegant figure, her
bright and beaming face, and air ot
mingled dignity, grace, and gentle
nes. would make her in the largest as
sembly the cynosure of all eyrV, the
"observed of all oltserveTs." "Mrs. T
J. Jackson is ai -" making a sojourn in
the place. She is a youthful and hand
some widow of affable manners, and
her little daughter, a bright girl of
even or eight years attracts univer
sal attention, as the sole heir of the
illustrious hero of Chaucellorsville and
of a hundred other battles.
FRAULEIN TINNE.
Rumored Death of the
plorer.
German Ex-
A cable dispatch published on Sat
urday gave a report from Tripoli of
the murder of Frauiein Tinne, the
African explorer, and two of her at
tendants, by their own camel drivers,
while traveling on the Aburgoush
road, tietwecn Murauk and Ghat. The
report of her death needs confirmation,
but is not improbable. Kraulein Tinne
was a German lady of large fortune,
who has been engaged for several
years In explorations in Africa, under
taken at .her own expense. When
Speke and Grant were exploring th
Nile, Miss Tinne, accompanied by her
mother and her aunt. Baroness" von
Capellen, with a large number of ser
vants, attempted to penetrate with
their own steimer from the Chartoum
up the White Nile, in order to reach
the two explorers, hut, on account of
-iekness and thedifficulty of ascending
the rapids, were compelled to return
after reaching Gondokoro. Afterwards
when Von Henglin and Doctor Steud
er determined to exDlore theeountrv
a soldier tit toBhtween the Nile and the Lake Tchad
the ladies resolved to accompany
them. On this excursion Doctor
Steudner died, and after him the mo
ther of Frauiein Tinne. her aunt and
two waiting maids, fell victims to the
African climate, and the irauleln was
left to finish the Journey alone with
Dr. Heuglin. The dangers which
Frauiein Tinne experienced on this
Journey did not deter her from continu
ing. She started frora the Tripoli on
the 3)th of January of the present
year, nnd arrived at Morznk. in Fez
zan, after a journey of aboot two
months' duration. She traveled leis
urely, her caravan consisting of more
than fifty persons and seventy camels.
All her followers, with one exception,
were either Arabs or negroes, end she
herself dressed like an Arab lady.
She was looked upon by the Arabs
with the greatest respect, and they
called her " Beater Rey," that is,
"Queen's daughter." Her long so
journ and travels in the Orient pro
duced a total abhorrence of European
habits, and she became embittered
against everything European. Before
starting upon her last journey she de
termined to go even further in getting
rid of everything not African about
ner, and so left her own and ner ser
vants' watches in Tripoli, and used
the old fashioned Arabian sand clock
or hour glass. She was eccentric in
her abhorrence of civilization.
Woman's Greatest Soon.
Says the American Agricmlturitt :
" We would advise a farmer to forego
a thresher and thresh wheat with a
flail rather than to ee his wife wear
her health, vigor and life away in the
everlasting 'stitch, stitch, stitch,'
when a sewing machine can be ob
tained; " and what should he 9aid of
the city merchant who still dooms hU
wife to the drudgery of hand-ewing
Sewing by hand now ranks with
spinning, weaving, and all old-fashioned
ways of work, and is as much
out of place In our civilized times as
an Indian woold'he in Fifth Avenue.
It is a shameful waste or idling of
time a worse than waste of nine
hours out of the ten so occupied. Ju
dicious economy would put the sew
ing machine into every family that
can afford to keep house. No one now
need plead poverty or "tneexpense,"
as an excuse for not purchasing a ma
chine. At No. 250 Second street, one of
Wheeler Wilson's celebrated Ma
chines, the best in use, can be ob
tained bv paying ten dollars per
month.' No man, however moderate
his means, can longer have aa excuse
for denying his family the blessing U
a sewing machine.