LIT 10 1UTU K E
JVATmoTic Fokmh. By J. II. Dp Ilaes Janvier. J. B.
Lii'plncott ACo., fhlladelplila.
The little volume bcfoie ub Is the most perfect
Tid beautiful ppeclnien of typographical execu
tion that baa ever fallen under our notice. It
Is neat, but not gaudy, printed with the most
exact care, on rich, cream-laid paper, and bounl
In that tasteful tvle which none know better
liow to apply than Messrs. Lippincott Co.
The public win not fall to treasure tha volume,
If only m a proof ot the unrivalled excellencies
cf American publication. But the work does
not rest lla only claim to appreciation on its out
ward beauty. It is valuable became it Is the
imprint and reflex f the popular heart at
a time when the future will be looking
eagerly for any evidence of tho feeling which
existed durine the days now past. The poems
were all popular excessively popular In their
lime and although they do not possess any par.
ticular amount of literary ability, and abound
too much in what is vulgarly denominated
'buncombe," yet, at the same time, they have
ft stirrlnjr power; and when we recall tho time
of their first appearance, and the circumstances
which called them forth, we do not wonder at
thoir widespread lame. They include "The
Bleeping Sentinel," "The Cumberland," "Eliot,"
"Th" Widow's Son," "TheStiema." They have
all appeared in the journals of the day, and
lience we need make no extrncts.
JlAIDF.N AND MABRIED LlFB OF M 4RT PoWKLL.
M. W. Dodd. Philadelphia Agents: J. B.
IJppiucott A Co.
We noticed some time since "Cherry and
Violet," by the same author as "Mary Powell."
The same characteristics are noticeable in each.
Both have tbclr plots laid about the time of the
great plague in 1I43. Both are quaint, plsasant,
and possess a peculiar fascination to all novel
Tcadcis who lovo the simple and natural. The
tales have hardly any plot, but truly depict the
condition ot society at tho date at which they
pretend to be written. It is printed in the quaint
old style by Dodd, and its form as a Journal
makes its appearance yet more unique. Lippin
cott & Co. have it for sale, and will have a large
demand most speedily to supply.
The Bound Table has been publishing a
Series of sketches of the leading publishing
louses of our country. Some time since it gave
us a history of J. B. Lippincott A Co., Hurd &
Houghton, and others, which we have already
Xuade place for in our columns. The present
number of the magazine contains a sketch of
Ceorpc W. Chllds, Esq., which we give below.
Jlr. Childs is a gentleman oi great enterprise,
discretion, and liberality, and the Hound Table's
notice no more than gives him his just due.
OEOROK W. CUILDS.
The hooks published bv the firm of Child & retor.
sou, now soloiy represented by forgo W. Childs,
are mure important in cost and merit than in mere
sural er. Toe amount whicu ther realized for their
authors has been uuusuullv largo, and ths position
which Mr. fluids now additionally occupies as news
paper proprietor is another roaaon way he should re
ceive personal notice in too series of papors to which
this belongs. Mr. Childs, a native of Baltimore, now
about 87 years old. caino to Philadelphia at the
are of fourteen, and entered the bookstore of Mr. f .
1 bompson, then nilnatpd at the north wast comer of
ixtb and Arch streets. He continued there lor
tour yeais, when, though not of axe, he began busi
ness on his own account in a small place corner of
Inird and Chosnut streets one-half ot the office of
the great building now occupied br his own cashier
aud assistant in the husiuess nianaeem-nt ot tha
J'ubtic Ltdger, ot which he now is proprietor At that
time, marly twenty years atro, ha had made un his
sn'ud to own the Ledger, and frankly stated his de
termination to the proprietors. He never once aban
doned this purpose, and the writer ot this artiole has
frequently heard him speak of it, years before he suc
ceeded in realizing it One is reaundod in this suc
cessful I e'tinacity of Warren Hasting' resolve, be
Joio he lett England for India, to repossess himself
of the manor which had passed from his iamlly. In
1849, beinp then in his twenty-first year, Mr. Childs
was adm.tted into partnership with Mr. Robert E.
Peterson (the firm wa 11. K. X'oterson & Co.), at
the northwest cornor of Fifth and Aroh streots.
Soon after the firm became Childs & Petorsou
a nominal chance, lor tho partners were the sumo;
tl.e principal business management was undertaken
and successfully executed by Mr. Clmds. toe rirst
book they published was "Peterson's Familiar
fooience," of which 200,000 copies have been sold. It
was adopted, in 1851, as a text-book in the public
schools of Philadelphia and a'so ot Brooklyn. It
was baaed upon a book, written bv an eminont Eng
lish scholar, which was not well adapted lor (his
country in many points and was duleetively ar
ranged. Mr. Peterson, a gentleman of high cul
ture (he bad boen admitted to thn bar, and is now a
member of the Academy of Natural Soitmces of
Philadelphia, and m-aduatcd M. D from the Uni
versity oi rcnn.ylvani.i), made the nooossary altera
tions and additions, aud suoeeeded so well that the
Her. Dr. iirewer, author oi the book, warmly
thanked him tor tho improvements and pobucly
Signified bis approbation thereof. In successive
editions the book has been made to keep pace
with the most recent discoveries in soionoe,
and there has latterly boen Incorporated
-with it, as a suitable appendix, occupying 150
jaes, Fiolessor Pepper's "Scientific Amusoiuoats
Jor Young Peoole " Being a personal lnend of
Judge Kane, Mr. Childs obtained a promise from
lilm that should Or. Ehsha Kent Kane return from
the Arotlo regions (whither he had cone on a second
exploring tour to discover traces of Sir John Frank
lin and hi crew) and write a book, he (Mr. Childs)
should publish it. Dr. Kane did return, wrote tho
2ook, and Childs & Peterson published it, soiling
nearly 70,000 comes within a year, and paying a
royalty ot ono dollar on each copy. Thev subse
quently purchased the stereotype plates ol the "First
Gnnuell Expedition," by Dr. Kane. Improving it
2y the addition of manv new illustrations, a tino
steel portrait of Frnnxlin, and a sketch of his
life by Mr, Allibone. The three volumes
of Kane's "Arctic Explorations" were attractive
from tho Interest of the subject, iho adveuturous hu
manity of those who designed aud carried out tao
cearch after Franklin, and, in a literary point of
Tiew. for the earnest simplicitr of Dr. Kane's jour
xa a. The numerous illustrations, too, trout Dr.
Kane's own designs wero valuable; those on wood
were engraved bv Van lngeu & Snyder, and those
on teel, consisting of finished views by Mr. Jatnoi
Hamilton, the eminent marine painter, from
oti.tr sketches by Dr Kane, were executed under
the superintendence of J M. 'Butler, ol Philadel
phia. The woik is Hill In denianu the more so,
pci haps, because the author died, a martyr
to humanity and science, not long alter the publica
tion ot the second and concluding Journals ol his
"Arctic Explorations." Uoifoim with ihis publica
tion was a splendidly illuHtratod volume, "Brazil
auu the Brazilians," by tue Key. J. c. Fletcher,
who had been Uuited (States chaplain at Kio
Janeiro, and tor a lime acting secretary to ths
American legation there, and agisted bv the Rhv.
Dr. Kidder, long a resident in Brazil. Of the first
edit on of this costly work 5O00 copies wore sold.
''Bouvier's Law Dictionary," ol which ths twelfth
edition, revised and much enlarged, is now in the
press, was another successtul publication, on which
$40,000 have a ready been paid lor oopvriglit. An
other original publication bv Childs & Peterson,
which has justly obtained the highest reputation, is
thus noticed in Trubuer's "Bibliographical Uuide to
American i.ltcratute:" "In this list (of eminent
American scientific writers) we must not omit men
tion of a remarkable American woman who has
achieved signal success In the science ot astronomy,
who, iu fact, may be justly termed the Mary Somer
Ville oi the United Mutes. Hannah M Potorson, the
only child ot the late Judge Bouvier, reseived her
early training from her tuthor. was first introdueed to
the study ot mathematics by her very accomplished
Iiuslana (spoken ot above) and ba nines oaltivatud
the study of astronomy with suooess. Her (great
work, entitled 'Familiar Astronomy,' has won her
the applause of loading men of science on both
ides the Atlantic." Mr. Childs sofgoutod and
plaif Judge Bharawood's edition ot "Black
itomnmntarlos," two volumes royal octavo,
vitu Very valuable notes, emphatically the Ams
f an edition, which is now a text-book in all
1 p law-schools of the United States. Ue planned
tt A published "The National Almanac and Annual
Jmeord,'' and edited the first vol um tor ths year
3G3. 1 his i a work of great merit, on aooount of
kite accuracy and great fulness of its itatutio&l
iutormation. A forthcoming work, on which he
Iks spared no expense, also undertaken at his sug
gestion and en hut pecuniary outlay, U Loaning'!
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY",
"lilnstratrd History of the Civil War," in the pre.
face to which tho author warml acknowledges li
obligations to Mr Child, lmioed, that ventlo
man's relations with bis authors hare been unl
(oi mly agreeable, lor he never has had dispata or
difliemty with any oi them, and letalns their frind.
ship to this day. One ot them, ceitaluly, onght to
feel grateful to Mr. Childs ws allude to the
Iiresent Governor oi TeunMe for whom, In
nudnrss, tie pubiinhtd "parMin Brownlow'a
Book," which, by tt real and inexplicable good luck
for It has email literary mTit obtained a great sale,
and put $20,000 into its author's pockets when
ho was a fugitive driven by force out of his
own Mate. The magnum oput of this firm, how
ever, i'r Allibone' "Dictionary of Authors." more
accnraleiy to be named as "A critical dictionary of
English literature, and British and American authors,
living and decensed, from ibeear iest ace mnts to the
middle of the nineteenth oeutury, containing up
wards or thlrtv thousand biographies and htoiary
notices, by S.Austin Allibone. LL D." Or this,
the first volume, pp. 1008 super roval octavo, com
plete from trie letters A to J, inoiusive, has been
before the public for some tnno, aud there is every
rroipect that the second and cone uding volume
Will be pnb ished this year. It is all that it prolesscs
to bo, and a great deal more. Dr. Allibone, much
to his credit, dedicated this great work to his pub
lisher, Geoige ViUlam Childs, "who has greatly
furthered mv labors by bis entorertse and
zealous and Intelligent intei est." IolSOO Mr. Peter
son retired from thn firm, and Mr. Childs entered
into iartnerhip with J. B. Lippincott & Co., a busi
ness connection which continued lor loss than a year.
Mr. Childs then commenced business by himsult, at
os. (528 and 630 Chesnut street. Ia Mar, 1403, be
purchased the Publishers' I ircuar and American
LHirary Gazette, which had been previotMly pub
lished at Hew York as a more advertising shoot, Dut
which, entuely remodelled, and edited witu gteat
care in every department, has becomi acceptable
and appreciated in foreign countries as well as in
this. Its 1'arisiau correspondence, giving a large ,
And anMakkla va.lmff rt hiiipap. n..n - '
J .. i.uu.v. i ... . r . , v, .... . . j uu0, RIIDU"
dotes, biography, and gossiD, Is lull or spirit and
breadth. On tho 3d of December, 1861, Mr Childs,
lullllliiig the lonjr-cheriBlied ambition of Irs life, put
chased the goodwill of the rubtio Ledger, ua ly
journal, with a very largo circulation, and most
extensive and Incrat.ve advertising connection.
The former proprietors retired upon a fortune
estimated at 6,000 000. In the purohase were
included tbe entire "plant" or type and steam
presses, and a weekly, outitlod the Dollar JVeios
paper. Mr. Childs has unproved as well as en
larged tho Ledyer sinco u passed into h s hands,
and thereby considerably increase I iu clroiila.
non. It is judiciously and ably edited, and has '
carefully avoided the publication, in peace as well I
as in war, of sensational nows. 1 he Dollar A?ew.i
paptr, considerably augmented In site and improvod I
into a good lauuiy paper, is now widely cireuiated j
under its new ana more appropriate title of the
Hum Weekly; and tho Jmrtran Literary Gazette
and Publishers' circular, oublis icd twice a month,
has a respectablo aud remunerative oiro.iiution, with
no small influence among pubii-'hora and purchasers.
'J bo job-printing office counectod with the Ledger is
very largo ana luirhlyremuneraiive tr.m its treat "usi
ness. Mr fchlios continues as book publisher at Nos.
628 and 630 Che-nut street, but is about crectini a
building, 64 by 180 icet, on the southwest corner of
lixth and Chesnut, near tho State llouso, at a
cost of about 5500,000 To this the publication of
his three Journals will in due time be removod.
Exactlrone block more wost ward y, also on Ches
nut street, the proprietor or the Press had established
biB printing and publication office six months airo,
and tho Evening Jtulletin has also removied wost
ward. As a publisher Mr. Chiids has shown tact,
euterpnso, and liberality, and everything lie has put
bis hand to seem to flourish. In fact, he Is p.udeut
as well as bold, never putting his Imu i so lar lor
ward that ho cannot safely withdraw it when and
bow ho pleases;
The Dead Ship ol Ilnrpswcil.
BY JOHN O. WUITTIER.
The Atlantic Monthly, fur June, will contain
the followirif? beautiful poem by VYhittier. Our
readers will at once notice the? resemblance be
tween its idea and rhythm, and that of the
'Dream of the Ancient Mariner," by Coleridge.
What fli.eka the outer grey beyond
Tbe sundown's golden trail f
Tho wbito flush of a sea-b rd's wing,
Or g cam of slaniing san ?
Let young cyej watch from Nest and Point,
And sea-worn o dors pray,
Tbe ghost of what was once a Bhip
Is sailing up the bay I
From prey sea-iog,jfroni fey drift, ,
From peril and from pain,
Tbe homo-bound fisher greets thy lights,
0 hundred-harbored Maine I j
But many a keei shall seaward tarn,
And many a sail outsiand,
; Wben, tall and wbito, tho Dead Ship looms
Against the dusk of land.
She rounds tbe headland's bristling pines,
She threads tho isle-set bay;
No spur ol breeze can spec J her on,
Jior ebb ol tide dolay.
Old men still walk tho lalo of Orr
Who tell her date and name,
Old shipwrights sit in Free port yards,
Who bewed her oaken frame.
"What weary doom of bofilod quost,
Thou sad sea-ghost, is thine?
What makes thee in tho haunts of homo
A wonder and a signT
No foot is on thy silent dock,
Upon thy helm no band;
No ripple hath the soundless wind
That smites thco lrom the land!
For never comes the ship to port,
Howe er the breeze may be;
Just when she nears tbe waiting shore,
Mie drifts again to sea.
No tack ot sail, nor turn of helm,
Nor sheer of veering side,
Stern-lore she drives to sea and night,
Against tho wind and tido.
In vain o'er Harpswell Neck the star
01 evening guides her in;
In vain for her the lamps aro lit
Within thy tower. Seguin 1
In vain the harbor-boat shall bail,
In rain tho pilot calls,
No baud shall reef ber spectral sail,
Or let her anchor fall.
Shake, brown old wives, with dreary Joy,
Your grey-head 'bints of ill;
And o'er sick-beds, whispering low,
Your prophocies fulfil.
Come home amid yon birchen trees
Shall drape its door with woo;
And siowly where tho Dead Ship sails,
The burial beat shall rowl
From Wolf Neck and from Flying Point,
rom island and lrom main
From sheltered cove aud tided creek,
Shall glide the funeral tram.
The dead-boat with tho bearers four,
The mourners at hor stern
And one shall go the silent way
Who sba'l no more return!
And men shall sigh, and women weop,
Whoso dear ones pale and pine,
Ana sadly over sunset seas
Await the ghostly sijm.
They know not that its sails are filled
By pitv's tender breath.
Nor see the Aug. I at toe holm
Who steei s tiip tthip ot Death !
Atlantic Monthly ion June.
The Atlantic for tho ensuing mouth contains
even more than its usual supply of interestinir
reading mutter. Am oner which we notice parti
cularly, "In the Hemlocks," by the author of
"The Snow Walkers." The concluding account
of the "Last Days of Water Savage Landor,"
by Miss Kate Field, contains several letters by
the old poet, som relating to our late war, and
much interesting anecdote. "The Passaces from
Hawthorne's Note-Books" continue tho charm
ing narrative of liia lifo at Brook Farm. "A
Pioneer Editor" is a valuable biographical
aketch of Dr. Bailey of the A'utional Era. Char
acteristic poems by J. G. Whlttier, II. W. Long
fellow, and E. C. Stedman.
Our Young Folks ia also more than ordi
narily enteitainiuir. It has crown to be an insti
tution expected regularly in every household.
Both of these periodicals are lor sale by T. B.
Pugn, corner of Sixth and Chesnut streets.
The memory of William Henry Ireland, the
Shakespeare forcer, was lately revived lor a
moment in London at the sale of a library of
Shakespeare'a works, in which was a copy of
Ireland's own collections relative to his forge
ries, and a manuscript of his "Confessions" in
bia own handwriting. The value of the latter,
which could never have been much at any time,
was not enhanced by the fact that several simi
lar copies of it are known to exist in England.
We have somewhere read that Ireland supported
himself in the last years ot his life by maklnir
tnanucrii)t copies of bia forjerlep, each one of
which was, of course, the genuine original
Simon Turc. ; We believe one of these copies was
sold here alien the library or Burton the actor
came to the hammer; and we know of another
which, in addition to Ireland's own balderdash,
contains a number of poems in the autograph oi
his mother.
The, expenditures of the British Museum
during the past year amounted to over half a
million ot dollars, viz., 101,808 14s. 4d., and I
the sum required for the present year is esti
mated at a larger figure. The number of per
sons, exclusive of readers, who visited Its gene
ral collections duiin the twelve months was
3C9.0C7, and the number or readers 100,271 a
daily average of 349, each rea ler consulting
twelve books daily. Valuable acquisitions have
been made to the department ot Oriental. .Bri
tish, audmedlipval antiquities and ethnography,
and the Greek and Itomnn departments have
been enriched by a number of antiquities from
the Pourtalis sale. Ptofessor Owen reports
10,700 additions to zoology, 10,079 to geology,
and 3C23 to mineralogy.
The report which obtained currency some
time t-ince, that Gustavo Dure was niuking il
lustrations lor Tennyson's "Idyls of tbe King,'
which be ennnot read, by the way, in the lan
guage in which It is Viritten, turns out to be
true, we are sorry to say, for if there Is any ono
thing which Dore cannot do, we fear it U to
illustrate Tennysoa properly. Browning he
might, or that portion of Browning which is
represented by such poems as "Childe Roland
to tho Dark Tower Came," haviag much in
common wila his dark, weird, and irregular
genius. Wrhat must be, must be, howevtr; and
Moxon & Co., Tennyson's publi-hers, aro nego
tiating with Dore for his drawings, which are
thirty in number. They are to be engraved in
London, we cannot see by whom, unless it be
by the Dulziel Brothers, and will probably b
rendy lor the next holiday season.
George Fllot will soon delight the world
with another novel, to be called "Felix Holt,
the liadical." Messrs. Blackwood are the pub
lishers ot the book, which will bo out early in
June.
Mrs. Allied Gatty, well known for an ad
mirable scries of mystic moral fables for the
young, and aomo other writing, has begun a
new monthly magazine for the young, to be
published by Bell A -Dally, ami called Aunt
Jwhj's Marazine.
M. Kenan's new book on the "Apostles"
has piven great oiJonBe to the Liberals. In a
chapter ou "Freedom Uuder tbe Roman Em
pire," M.- Kenan expresses his conviction that a
sovereignty is more favorable to freedom of
thought than a rebublic. If, under the Empire,
philosophers were meddled with, it was, M.
Kenan thinks, only because they had the indis
cretion to mix themselves up with politics.
The drift of the chapter, as interpreted in Paris,
seems to show a wuut of sympathy with popular
libeitics, which M. Renan treats as of very littlo
consequence so long as philosophers have
the leisure and the means ot prosecuting their
mudits.
MIsa Frances Tower Cobbe has written to
JPall Ma2 Gazette the following note:
"Sir: Permit me to add another and peculiarly
interesting case to those oited by Dr. Forbes Wins
low ol intellectual vigor In advaucod one. Iho vene
rable Mrs. Somervillo. now in her eiyhty-sovcnth
year, has just completed a vast work, embodying all
; be latest results oi science in relation to the ulti
mate panicles ot matter. Those who have seon the
MS aro assured that when the book appears this
summer it will bo touud to surpass rathor than lall
hhoit of the merits oi tho 'Physical Ueogiaphy' and
Connection of too sciences,' which hall a century
aco gave her the hist rank among intellectual
women."
Turbner will publish one of the most unique
and valuable books ever published, "A Histoiy
of Dervishes." It is by an American, a Mr.
Brown, who is at present the interpreter to the
American embassy at Constantinople.
Dean Stanley delivered at the Royal Insti
tute a profoundly entertaining lecture on
"Westminster Abbey." There was a dMin
guished company of aristocrats, culminating in
the Prince of Wales. Old Dr. Faraday very
infirm entered, and was supported to a seat.
Ho was received with a round of applause.
Amongst others present were Mrs. Governor
Sprague and Miss Chase, from the United Btates.
Captain Ferguson, author of many valua
ble philological works, is lecturing at Carlisle
upon his late visit to the Southern States.
Another delay has taken place In the publi
cation of Vol. II of the French Emperor's
"Life of Ca'sar." The different versions were
to have appeared in the several European capi
tals on the 1st of May; but, as they will not
all be ready to appear at that date, the 8th of
May has been fixed upon by the imperial
author as the day for simultaneous pubbcation.
The late Count Gurowski left behind him an
immense mass of manuscripts, consisting of cor
respondence with the notabilities of this country
and Europe, besides a great many unpublished
memcranda ol his own. It is reported that this
material will be arranged and edited for the
bcueht of a surviving daughter.
Tbe Bienop or Oppoud on Dull Books. The
Bishop ot Oxlord made some vory plain-spoken and
piactical observations at tbe meenng of mo Society
tor the Promotion of Christian Knowledge on the
30th u It. The main and distinguishing woik of the
society, the bishop said, was in connection with
its literature. It was more dillicult to get boons
and tracts read than to got them written. In this
matter there was a terrible danger ahead, a danger
which could never be escaped, a fauit which could
never be lor pot ten. They could forgive almost
anything iu a man who came to thorn if he avoided
that one unpardonable offense of dulnesa. ihey
might not aeiee w.th him, but so long as he
avoided dulness, that was ol littlo importance. The
bishop could not defend a U'jil hook; indeed, he
should consider himself a hoirible hypocrito If ho
attempted to do so, lor be never, if he could help it,
read such a book, through. If they wanted a good
commodity, thev must pay writers well, and not em
ploy cheap jacks, lor be was sorry to say there were
cheap Jacks In literature as well as in everything
else. Then, again, with their books and tracts, il
one member ol i be committoe refused a book, bow
ever good it might bo, simply because it contained
opinions that were not in accordance with bis own,
and another member rejected a book because it con
tained opinions of an opposite character, they would
very soon reduce all taeir publications to one deli
cious neutral tint of drabness. He thongnt it would
not be difficult to admit books which expressed the
view of loyal members of the church, whether they
were high churob, tow churoh, or middle, no to admit
them, that all parties might find ihe best things they
wanted in the society's depot.
ljthrary CuKioBiTtKS. A very important col
leoilou ot autographs and historical documents
comprising state papers bearing signatures ol Kings
and Queens of England, groat ilim-ters of state
Archbishops, military commanders, and other nota
bilities, frm the leign of Henry VIII to the present
time, was sold In London on the 28th. One curious
leatuiein the gathsnng was "a very complete Col
lection of AutocrraDhsat the Begioides, temp. Charles
I, and oi the Ladies of the Court of Charles II "
ljt 91 was "Tradesmen's Accounts lor Articles sup
plied to Madame Gwynn (.Nell Gwvnn), lnolmlmg
the Apo'hecary's Silversmith's, Wax Chandler's
Nights of ber attendance at the Theatre, Chairing'
and O lovers," seven very curious papers, with three
aignaturts ot her son, Charles, Duk ot St Albaus
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
KfilTORIAL OPINIONS OF LEADING
JOl RIVALS Ul'ON CURRENT TOrltS.
COMPILED EVKUT PAT FOlt BVK1IIKO TELKlBAPn.
ftotth and South Let us Understand.
from the Tribune,
There Is at present a general and laudablu de
sire among the better portion of the Southern
whites to be fully and falily comprehended at
the North. Instead of tho old formulas "If
jou'don't (top talking that way, we will with
draw our trade and starve you," or, "If we can
ever catch you on our soil, we will hansr yod,"
(Southerners sayr"Hear and understand ns at
the North I Had this spirit prevailed six to ten
years ago, it would have saved the blood and
desolation of a terrible war. Let it be uphold
and encouraged, and we shall never have an
other such calamity."
The Christian Index, Atlanta, Georgia, insists
that the South is not understood at the North,
aud, in order that it may be, sets forth what it
deems tbe real sentiment of tho Mouth in an
article which we here copy by reqaest, to render ;
it as conspicuous as we may. it is as follows:
FOTJB MISTARK8. I
ft... nil 1, .i rt ' .. . ...... n .,mnt. I .
and Stato, in fact aud in feeling, lies in mutual mis-niider-tandmg
ot the faois in regard to each other bv I
the f or thorn end Southern people, if the truth
wero known ot the Isorth as to what is said, and
done, and thought, and felt m thee Southern Statess,
we be ive that a controlling number ot the peop e
there would be luo ined to extend to us suoh treat
ment as we dctire aud as we think we deserve. Tnoro
aie lour leading particulars in which we think their
judgments of us are entirely wrong, and if thoy could
be correctly informed on these points, we believe
that a vast stride would be maiie towaid real peaaa.
With a sincere desire to do good to our fellow-men,
nd to g only our Father in Heaveu, we proceed to
nientK'iii these lot r mines, and to put on record our
solemn iiiuiony iu regard to them.
iirt. It is believed at the fiorth that the reop'e
here consider tho lato dispute still unsettled; ttiat
they are anxious for another opportunity to resort
to arms; aud that thoy are ready and ripe to avail
themselves of the first occasion to make another
cltort for Independence.
In all tins our .Northern friends are entirely mis
taken, l ucre is not a word ol truth in it. There
mav be individuals ot whom it is true ; oi course we
cannot say that there, are none; but we can and do
say that we know ol'nono and hava heard of none.
1 ho people here are not thinking about arms nor
about independence; the ideas tor which the war
was fought are considered obsolete and are seldom
spoken of. The great idea with almost every one is
to tuke cite of himself and improve his own condi
tion, devolution is, ot all things, tho lurthoit from
their wishes or thoughts.
hocond. It is beliovod at the North that there Is
here a general disposition to oppress and persecuto
the neero raco, and if possible, to re-enslave them.
i. nothing coma be lurtner irom the truth. t)ur
, ing tbe war the slavts lor tbe most part stood by
J their masters, labored lor them without overseers iu
i mousniKiB oi instances, auu gympatuizea with tjem
.4 and sustained them in uvrrv uos-ible nftv totlin iiut.
Mnco iho war they have couducted themselves with
a decree ot propriety which, under tbe ciroum
stances, is a wonder to the world. These things
have increased tiio kindness ot feelings which were
kind belore, and the negro race is he'd in higher
estimation at iho 8outh this dmv than it avap hm
been. Ihe rights oi suffrage, ot holding office, and
ol sitting on juries aro doniod them by our laws,
but in all other respects thoy are (in Georgia) pru
cisoly on a footing with tbe white people, and so we
think It is In most of tbe other States. The people
ot the Noith hare been so often told that tho oppo
site of all this is truo, that tuy may find it liaid
to bel eve what we tell thorn; but tue facts are as
w p ato,
Tb rd. It isboiicvod at the North, that the moment
tho Southern people are clothed with political
power, they wi I u. e their influence for the repudia
te ol the national debt.
We have never heard this schome proposed by a
Southern man, and it brobably would never have
been thought of here if we had not reooived tha tuea
from Northern newspapers. We 1 av aever heard it
spokdn ol except with cnndemo&uoii. .Vtost ot us
aie wise enough to know that it is to our interest to
sustain the Government under which we expect to
live.
Fourth. It is behoved at the North that the South
ern people, it invested with political power, would
endeavor to lorce uj.on the Government, lbs assump
tion of tbe debt of tho late Confederacy.
We do not believe tnat this Idea ever entered into
tho wildost dream of the most visionary man in
these bouthern States. Wo have never heard tbe
subject mentioned, exoept with ridioulo. and, as in
tbe preceding caeo, we boliaye it never would have
been mentioned at all, if 'R haa not been thru-it
upon our attention bv the Kortliorn press.
If the poop e at the North oouiu only know the
truth in reuaid to the tour poin s above spoken of,
wo believe that there would be an immonse change
in public opinion, and in the state ol public feeling
there, and that tho lesult would be a restoration ot
friendly relations and of material prosperity. Few
oi them, perhaps, will see tuese lines; ot those who
see them, some, we have no aoubt. will believe all
we have said, lor somo of them know that our testi
mony can be relied on ; somo, wo fear, will say that
we willully falsify ; and others ill probab y say that
we aro mistaken as to the tacts We earnestly en
treat thoe who doubt our evidence to tell us what
evidence would be satisfactory; aud if they demand
evidence, which tbe nature oi the caso admits ot,
we think we can pledge ourselves, in advance, to
produce it.
This article may be copied by Northern newspa
pers, ai d it Is just possible that some ot thoir readers
would uke to obtain more mil lniormatiou irom too
same source; if so, lot them address a letter to tho
editor of tbe Christian Index, Atlanta, Ga , aud they
shall be promptly responded to, publicly or pri
vately, as they may dosire.
Comments by the "IHbune."
I. We are quite sure that the Index is right in
disclaiming lor the Bouth any desire or purpose
to relight the names ot civil war. xne experi
ence ol the late war is too recent and terrible.
Yet we see that tbe South is constantly and pow
erfully incited to do that very thing in a dulerent
way but in the tame spirit. Bhe is openly ured
bv Northern Copperheads to send Senators and
Representatives to Congress, who will take seats
Dy lorce una violence; iu ucuautc ui mo iuw oi
the land, and thus constitute an opposition or
second Congress, which will involve the country
airesh in the horrors ol intestine convulsion
and war. We entreat the Index to watch and
warn against this pioject. It is certain, if
pressed to realization, to deluge the laud in fra
teiuul blood, to no good end whatever.
II. We quite aeree with the Index that the
better portion of" the Southern whites do not
mean or wish to oppress iho blacks. Yet this
rather uepative good feeling dons not shield nor
save the blacks from lntoieruoie wrongs ana'
oppressions, as we have lutely seen at Mem
phis and other points. The low-bred Southrons
do love to opprtes and abuse the blacks; und
the better class do not acttvuiy interfere to pro
tect them, and they never will, so long as the
lawsot tbo South are not jusi aud equal. So
long as the South allows tho niott ignorant
and vicious white loreigner to bucomo a citizen
and a voter alter a lew years' residence, and
denies those i-ame privileges to intelligent ex
emplary blacss born ou tho soil, she never
will, and never ran be, just to two-tilths of h-r
people. That ' blacks have no rights that whites
ure bound to respect." is an aiiom ingrained in
the very core of Southern society and jurispru
dence. The Index doubtless thinks the blacks
of Georgia have all the rights of whites
except those of votirie, nolding ollice.
and sitting on juries (rather Important
exceptions!); but it is mistaken. If a black,
having a case in a Georgia court, wished his
own brother to appear tor him as counsel in
that court, it would not be allowed. And this
is but one instance out of many ot the inequality
and injustice ot the laws of Georgia. That they
have bean and would still be worse, if President
Johnsou had not insisted on meliorations, the
Jnaex either knows or can learn. The tacts that
pure and refined Northern women, who go
South to teach black children, are very gene
rally treated with hostility by the whites, re
fused board m their families, aud olten insulted
aud abused, and that negro school-houses have
been burnt bv scores, and in widely separated
localities, and "that, while hundreds (at least) of
blacks have been murdered by whites in the
South since the war ended, ana nof one of the
murderers convicted and punished as such bv
the civil authority, are conclusive on this hea (
111. Wp nrrpnt what the Index savs of the
1 National and Confederate debts respectively, as
MAY 19, 18GG.
ft
roof that manv Southern whites feel and nien
uslly and loyally with regard to them; but
Governor Wise Is also a Southron, and bis
recent proclamation that "greenbacks will soon
dp worthless" is testimony qmto as eogent and
significant as that Of the Imler, Each repre
sents, doubtless, a phase of Southern oplmou
We fear those who hold with Wise are by far tho
bolder party. ' t
Finally, we wish, oa the main point, to ro
further than the nek. It assures u that the
South does not intend nor seek to break out of
the Union. We agree to this, and add that a
majority of the Southern whiles never aid, before
they were maddened by lies and bloodshed, wish
Vie Union dissolved. The revolutionary party in
the South was never more than a daring, un
scrupulous, domineering minority, until the
Southern heart was "Ured" to madness by the
bombardment of Fort 8umter. Jiut there is
just such a minority in the South to day; and it
is as likely to clutch and misuse power in the
luture as in the past. We entreat the Index,
w ith all Irlends oT peace, to keep an oye on this
cabal, and be prepared to counteract its machi
nations. Mr. Gladstone on National Debts.
From the World.
The most noteworthy utterance (If one would
but take the trouble to reflect a little upon it)
made by any statesman, in this age, is that part
of Mr. Gladstone's recent speech, In which be
touches on what he cal's "the chapter of national
debts." It is, in substance, a confession that
Eneland has reached the summit ot her great
ness; that sho will presently be on the declivity
towards a subaltern rank; that she is now better
able to beaif ihe. weight of ber colossal debt than
she will be two generations-hence ; that unless she
takes ndvanYagt'6f heftrfescht prosperity to re
duce it, sho will eventually be crusn?d under
the burden.' The uininsprhig oi' England's ercat
nsss is her steam-engines. We have no sta
tistics showing their number, biit it is
probtibly a safe conjecture to place it lrom thirty
to Blty thousand. Tho labor done by these
exceeds that done by all the human muscles iu
the United Kingdom. It Is these which euabl
her to undersell all nations, to command ull
markets, to gather into her collers the bust share
of the profits ot the commerce of tue whole
world. Stop all those herculean, non-consuming
workers, wntch, ' unlike the lilies of the field,
both toil and Bpia, but are arrayed iu less clout
ing than a tropical savage; let those stop, otid
the proud rank of P.ngluud will have departed
forever. But what keeps them in motionr Tho
English coal-beds. England outrivals the whole
world in all the coarser manuiactures because
her coal-beds lie so near the suriuce, and iu
such proximity to her metallic mines, that the
natutal cost of propelliug machinery and smelt
ing ores is less in England than in any otuer
country on the globe. But ber dratt3 on her
coal mines are so enormous that they aie rapidly
approaching exhaustion. In one or two gene
rations more she will have to bnntr up coal Irom
such depths, and at such expense, that steam
engines can be driven more cheaply in other
countries than in England: and then ihe United
States will crowd her out oi all the markets of
Ihe world, and conbne her to ber own Ulauds.
This result is as inevitable as fate, although it is
impossible to predict the prceise period.
it is not In tbe order oi Providence that coil
and other mineral riches shouid have been bo
profusely distributed in various quarters of the
world, jet the supply in one petty spot be the
permanent resource of the w hole world's indus
try. If all the coal in ihe earth's crust had been
aepoelted in one country, and that country
England, her supremacy in wealth aud indastry
would be as lasting as the human race. But as
it is, Eneland is destined to occupy a relation to
industrial development similar to the historical
relation ot Palestine to religion, and of ancient
Greece to intellectual culture giving au im
pulse and setting an example wtiosc force will
not be spent till the end of the world, but
retiring herself to comparative insignificance.
The importance of the Christian religion bears
no proportion to the geographical area of Pales
tine, nor tho influence ot esthetic culture to tne
area oi Greece. In like manner, England, small
in extent, is ths parent of a movement which
assures to her in history a pro-eminence whose
brie. bt cess will not be effaced, even when
she shall be reduced to a rank in commerce,
industry, and wealth, similar to that of modern
Greece in intellectual and that of modern Pales
tine in religious life.
The mission of Great Britain is one of the
most glorious in the annals of mankind. Tho
first to reconcile political freedom with order
and stability; the first to recognize and adopt
the principles of free trade; the tlrst to discover
and apply the expansive lorce of stoam; the
country of Adam Smith and James Watt, the
two mightiest names in what is most peculiarly
modern in the modern world, she has contri
buted more to carry the human race forward
than any other nation of modern times. But
although her relative rank will necessarily de
cline, she will be eclipsed only by the.Lruita of
her own discoveries, the influence of her own
example, and the spread of principles which
tbe w as the first to act upon.
Not only will the approaching "pxhaastlen of
her cheap coal supply displace Eneland lrom
her commercial supremacy, but her relative
rank will also decline by the approaching inde
pendence ol her colonies. Even at present
they make no direct contribution to her re
venue. Although her territorial possessions are
almost boundless, her taxes are all levied on the
inhabitants ot the British Islands. Our own
successful revolt acatost imperial taxation
taught her a memorable lesson; and, instead of
attempting to tax her remaining colonies, she
avowedly regards them as in a state of political
pupilage, out of which they will sooner or later
eraeige to lull independence. At present they
contribute to her .wealth by. the produce of their
markets, and by the return to Emrlund of men
who have been most successful in the colonies,
bringing their wealth with them. As the colo
nies become independent, the home yearning
towards England will become extinct, and
social, as well as political ambition will sect
gratification in post3 under the new national
governments. England wiil have exhausted her
htreuptb in becoming the mother ot great
nations the United States being the eldest oorn
and the moft powerful and will pass, by a
gradual decline, into the decrepitude of a vene
ruble and venerated old age.
The Euslish ioumals are reasonably struck
with the disproportion betweeu Mr. Gladstone's
premises and the practical superstructure he
proposes to build on them. If, iu half a century,
the British debt will be too beavy to be borne,
and ought, therelore, to be greatly reJuced
vthile the sources ot Britifh wealth are yet un
exhausted, the proposal to pay it at the" rate of
one million a year is, indeed, 'a most lame and
impotent conclusion. The probabilities are,
that thedebl ol England will never be verygieatly
reiiu.,ed, aud that when the enhanced cost of
running her steeni engines begins to transfer
the great seats of manufactures to this country,
the crushing burden of her debt will cause pro
perty and population to emigrate to such an ex
tent that the debt will be ultimately repudiated.
Mr. Gladstone's account of our own debt,
though accurate enough in words, is calculated
to eive an erroneous impression. The rapidity
of its accumulation is, no doubt, a marvel; but
the wonder is considerably reduced if we will
but recollect that it was incurred in a currency
so enormously inflated that gold sold, at one
time during the war, at 28". W have paid, on
the average, twice the ordinary prices tor the
articles we have consumed during the war. Mr.
Gladstone's astonishment at the amount of our
revenue admits of a similar qualification. A
turmer who pets a thousand dollars for crops
w hicb.in'.ordfuary limes.biiughiiu only five hun
dred, can pav very hiuh nominal taxes. Our reve
nues are 'Hall by walking on tip-too." By calling
fifty cents a dollar we have made a sum which ia
really large seem enormous. With a return to
ordinary prices, our taxes must be either re
duced or become oppressive. It our debt, which
was incurred in a fictitious currency, could ba
paid in a currency equally inflated, we might
easily excite tbe wonderment of foreign finan
ciers too careless or indolent to ask whether our
dollar means a hundred ceuts or btty. But,
unlortunately, belore we have made much pro-
press In the extinction of our debt, we shall
have to pay real dollars; and we had perhaps
better wait till then betote we give way to much
e.xtjUation. Our debt will yet try as, and try
us Sorely. But if we hive no further political
troubles, it can be easily carried after (ha first
ten years, nnd easily extinguished within the
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