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WORK AND THINK.
Hammer, tongs and anvils ringing,
Waking echoes all day long,
In a deep-toned voice are singing
Thrifty Labor's iron song;
From a thousand fly-wheels bounding,
From a thousand humming looms,
Night and day the notes are sounding
Through the misty fact'ry rooms,
Listen ! workmen, to their playing—
There's advice in every clink:
Still they're sineing—still they're saying
' While you labor, learn to think!"
Think what power lies within you,
For what triumphs ye are formed,
If, in aid of bone and sinew,
Hearts by emulation warmed,
Mighty thoughts ye woo and cherish,
What shall hold your spirits down?
What shall make your high hopes perish?
Why shall ye mind Fortune's frown?
Do you wish for profit, pleasure?
Thirst at learning's fount to drink?
Crave ye honor, fame or treasure?
Ye the germs have—work and think!
Think! but not alone of living,
Like the horse from day to day;
Think! but not alone of giving
Health for pelf, or sonl for pay!
Think! Oh, be machines no longer—
Engines made of flesh and blood!
Think! 'twill make yon fresher, stronger:
Link you to the great and good!
Thought exalts and lightens labor,
Thought forbids the soul to sink!
Self respect and love for neighbor
Mark the men who work—and think!
Think!—and let the thoughts now nerve yon,
Think of men who've gone before;
Leaving lustrious names to serve you;
Yours the path they've plodded o'er!
Freedom fights and wins her charter
With the sword of thought—the pen!
Tyranny can find no quarter
In the ranks of thinking men.
Think ! for thought's a wand of power—
Power to make oppression shrink;
Grasp ye, then, the precious dower!
Poise it—wield it—work and think!
Hold your heads up, toiling brothers;
'Mongst ut be it ne'er forgot,
Labor, for ourselves and others,
Is for man a noble lot;
Nobler far, and holier, higher,
Than vain luxury can claim,
If but zeal and worth inspire,
And true greatness be our aim,
Power that forms the strongest link
Twixt an upright sonl and Heaven,
His noblest power—the power to think!
RESTORATION.
Views of the President—He explains
the Veto—ls not opposed to a Freed
man's Bureau.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
The following important letter was read
to-night by Governor Cox, of Ohio, to the
Union representatives in Congress from that
State :
WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 26, 1866.
General George B. Wright, Chairman of
the Union Central Committee, Colum
bus, Ohio.
Mr DEAR SIR —On Saturday last I had
the honor of an interview with the Presi
dent, which I regarded as of sufficient in
terest and importance to make it proper that
I should reduce to writing my remembrance
of his statements while they were fresh in
my memory, since he seemed to me, in a
perfectly free and unpremeditated conversa
tion, to exhibit, with peculiar clearness, the
processes of his own mind in reaching some
of his opinions and to express them with
such manifest candor and entire freedom
from personal feeling, that I could not but
think that if he would consent to it, good
might he done by making his statements
public. Accordingly I again waited upon
him this morning, to make known what I
had done, to ask his verification of the
truth of my report, and his consent to make
the same known to the country. Although
he was perfectly unaware of my purpose to
reduce his remarks to writing, and I mypelf
had no such intention when I first called
upon him, he most frankly gave his consent,
and assented to the accuracy of my report,
which is as follows :
He said he had no thoughts which he was
not willing to avow; that his policy had
simply aimed at the earliest possible restor
ation of peace on the basis of loyalty. No
Congressional policy had ever been adopted
and therefore, when he entered upon the
duties of his office, he was obliged to adopt
one of his own. He had, in some senses,
inherited that of Mr. Lincoln, with which
he thought he agreed, and that it was sub
stantially the one which he had carried out.
Congress had no just grounds of complaint
that he had done so, for they had not seen
fit to declare their views, or adopt any meas
ures embodying what could be called a poli
cy of restoration.
He was satisfied that no long continuance
of military government could be tolerated ;
that the whole country would properly de
mand the restoration of a truly civil govern
ment; and not to give it to the lately Re
bellious States, would be an admission of
the failure of the Administration, and of
the party which had carried through the
war, to prove the#selves equal to the exi
gency, now that the work of destruction
was over, and that of rebuilding had begun
Military Government alone would not pacify
the South.
At the end of la ong period of such gov
ernment we should be no nearer, and prob
ably not so near, the end than now, and
would have the same work to do. Hence
there is a real necessity of adopting a policy
which shall restore the civil Government
fully just as soon as the rebellion shall be
thoroughly ended, and conditions accepted
by the South which were to be regarded as
absolutely necessary to the peace of the
country. One central idea had controlled
him in the whole matter, and this was that
the proper system of pacification should be
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one which tended everywhere to stimulate
the loyalty of the people of the South them
selves, and make it the spring of loyal con
duet by proper legislation rather than to
impose upon them laws and conditions by
direct external force.
Thus in the case of Jjie Freedmen's Bu
reau, he was not against the idea of the Bu
reau in toto, for he had used it, and was
still using it. It might continue for a period
of more than a yearyet. He had contem
plated that either by proclamation of his
own, or by some action of Congress, as a
condition of peace, the technical end of the
Rebellion would be declared at some period,
perhaps not very remote, and as he under
stood the present law, the Bureau might
continue a year frqra that time. Meanwhile,
he could say to the South, "It depends up
on yourselves to say whether the Bureau
shall be discontinued at an earlier day, for I
will put an end to it just as soon as you by
proper action for the protection of the freed
men make it necessary."
Thus, said he, the hope of getting rid of
the institution stimulated them to do what
is right, whilst they are not discouraged by
the idea that there is no hope of an end to
what they regard as a sort of military Gov
ernment If, on the other hand, the Bu
reau were to be made a permanent thing by
legislation, which, on its face appears to be
part of the fixed law of the land, all the
objections he had urged in his message ap
plied in full force to it, and instead of en
couraging the South to loyalty you tend to
drive them to desperation, and make their
hatred of the Government inveterate.
The same principle of stimulating loyalty
was shown in the manner in which he held
martial law over them. Whenever they
should show so peaceful and law-abiding a
condition of their community that martial
law was not needed, it should be removed.
Their own conduct would thus determine
the matter, and the debt and interest of all
tne best people be increased to put down
the disturbances and outbreaks, to protect
Union men and obey the laws, because by
so doing they would hasten the withdrawal
of the direct interference of the military
arm in their affairs.
In precisely the same way and under the
influence of the same idea, he had acted in
regard to civil affairs generally in that sec
tion, regarding it as necessary and proper to
impose upon the rebellious States conditions
which would guarantee the safety of the
country; and regarding the then existing
affairs of the local governments as having
disqualified themselves, by their treason,
for continuance, in power, he deposed them
and established Provisional Governments.
Then he asked himself what conditions
ought to be demanded of them, and how
their disposition to accept them in good
faith might be stimulated. The conditions,
viz: The amendment of State #Constitu
tions, excluding slavery; the acceptance of
the same amendment to the United States
Constitution; the repudiation of the rebel
debt, and the admission of the frcedmen to
various rights, &e., everybody is familiar
with.
To stimulate them to accept these condi
tions, being such as, in his best judgment,
and in the absence of any Congressional
plan, he thought the nearest right of any
he could frame, he engaged that on their
acceptance, with evidence of good faith, he
would permit them to reorganize their State
governments, elects Legislatures, and so far
as the Executive acts could do so, would
restore them to their position in the Union
of States. They had so far accepted his
conditions, that he did not regard the ex
periment as a failure, but a success. He had
accordingly reorganized the Post Office De
partment everywhere among them, had re
opened trade and removed restrictions there
on through the Treasury Department, and
in like manner, in all the Executive Depart
ments, recognized them as States in the
Union, only keeping enough of a military
hold to protect the freedmen, as he had
before stated and to induce them to do some
thing more thorough in that direction.
Now but one thing remained in which
those States did not exercise the full rights
of States, and that is representation in Con
gress. In this he had advised that the same
principal of stimulating loyalty he applied as
in the other respects which he had named.
He would admit only such representatives
as were in fact loyal men, giving satisfactory
evidence of this. Whenever a State or Dis
trict sent a loyal man, properly elected and
qualified, he would think it right to admit
him the same as from any other State, and
he would admit none but such loyal men, so
that other States or districts might be thus
induced to elect and send similar men.
When they had all done this, their repre
sentation would be full, and the work would
be done. Such was his plan.
He did not ask to be the judge of elections
and qualifications of members of Congress,
or of their loyalty. Congress was its own
judge, and he had no dream of interfering
with its constitutional rights; but he feet
like urging upon them, and upon the coun
try. that this mode of finishing the work so
nearly completed in other respects, was the
only feasible one which had been presented
and that it was impossible to ignore the
fact that the States were exercising their
rights and enjoying their privileges within
the Union; were, in short, restored in all
other respects, and that it is too late to
question the fundamental right of-repre
sentation.
I then remarked to him that I had heard
it suggested that legislation could properly
be made by Congress, purely civil in its
character, providing for the protection of
the freedmen by United States Courts of in
ferior jurisdiction, in all cases where the
States did not do so themselves. He re
plied that such an idea would run exactly
parallel to his plan, but be had not thought
BEDFORD, Pa.. FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1860.
i it yet time to fix his own ideas of the preise
mode of accomplishing this end, jecause we
had a margin of time lasting til, after the
next session of Congress, during which the
present Freedmen's Bureau couli continue
iu operation; and if before that time the
Southern States should recognizo the neces
sity of passing proper laws themselves, and
providing a proper system of projection for
the freedmen, nothing further otj our part
would be necessary. If they did ot do what
they onght, there would then lie time enough
to elaborate a plan.
He then referred briefly t j th-, fact, that
men who have been disloyal were rejoicing
over his veto message, saying that if these
men in good faith adopted the views of pol
icy he had himself held and affted upon, and
which he had so freely elaborated in his an
ual message and explained to me, the coun
try surely could have no cause for sorrow in
that. If disloyal men and rebels eveywhere
North and South, should cordially give in
their adherence to the conditions of restora
tion he had uniformly insisted upon, he
thought that was precisely the kind of pa
cification loyal men everywhere should re
joice in.
The more they were committed to such
a course the better he would like it, for if
they were not sincere they would at least di
minish their power of dangerous opposition
in future. His whole heart was with the
body of true men who had carried the coun
try through the war, and he earnestly desir
ed to maintain a cordial and perfect under
standing with them.
This sentiment and purpose he regarded
as entirely consistent with determined op
position to the obstructive policy of those
extremeists, who, as he believed, would
keep the country in chaos till absolute ruin
might come upon us.
Such, my dear sir, is the conversational
statement of the President on this impor
tant matter, and if you could meet his
straightforward, honest look, and hear the
hearty tones of his voice, as I did, I am
well assured that you would believe, with
me, that although he may not receive per
sonal attacks with the equanimity and for
bearance Mr. Lincoln used to show, there is
no need to fear that Andrew Johnson is not
hearty and sincere in his adhesion in the
principles upon which he was elected.
Very truly, yours,
J. D. COX.
A Southern Hit at the "Yankees."
The Boston Transcript says : "The Pe
tersburg (Virginia) Index , stirred up by the
observation that Samuel Adams had a larger
share than Thomas Jefferson in bringing on
the Revolution, indulges in The following
strain of irony, which has the element of
fun in it —an ingredient not often found in
southern outbreaks against the North. If
the Index will always be amusing the most
bigoted descendant of the Puritans will say
to it: 'Fire away, my good fellow. Give
us more of the same sort
"Our private opinion and belief is that
there are authentic documents now in the
library of Yale College—or they will be
there when needed—to prove that Bunker
Hill Monument marks the site of Babylon
the Mighty, that Carthage was no more nor
less than Portland, Ostrium, -Sahant and
Boston, in fact, Athens; that Homer was
Professor of Belles Lettres at Harvard, and
Patinorus a member of the Cambridge
Yacht Club; that Priscian taught a gram
mar school at Montpelier, and Archimedes
was a private tutor of chemistry in Con
cord; that St. Peter was a Cane Cod fisher
man, and St. Mathew a collector ol' the
internal revenue at Stonington; that Phidias
owned a brownstone quarry in Maine ; and
Socrates founded the Atlantic Monthly; that
the Academia was the walk under the yew
trees at New Haven, and the Colussus of
Rhodes a statue which strided from Nan
tucket to Martha's Vineyard; that Ply
mouth Bock is all that is left of the Tower
of Babel, and the Connecticut River ran
through Paradise; that Stoningtrtn is the
site of Tyre, and Merrimac fast colors the
dies that made that city famous; that the
old Temple of Diana at Ephesus was not
burned, but it is now Faneull Hall, and that
Herodotus and Wendell Phillips were the
same persons; that the fable of Romulus
and his brother being suckled by a wolf
(lupus) arose from the circumstance,that
their mother was the first Vermonter who
looped her dresses; that Mercury was the
ancient name of Ben Butler's family, and
that like everything else in New England,
the family had gone on perfecting itself
from the start; that the sun shines six
hours per diem more on that favored spot
than on any other between the poles;, and
that Noah's family were so much elated at
an alliance with the Wcbsters of Massachu
setts they got np a dictionary to commemo
rate that fact; that St. Patrick was head
centre of a Fenian circle in Bangor, and St.
Andiew kept a distillery- in Lowell; and
finally that tne millenium will begin in Bos
ton, and will not be allowed to extend be
yond its limits, except by a two third vote
of the taxpayers of that heavenly city, exclu
ding all who have at any time in their most
secret thoughts expressed a doubt of the pro
priety of hanging Jeff. Davis and General
Lee on a sour apple tree."
KIDNAPPINGFRKEDMEX. —The Atlanta (Ga.)
correspondent of tie rebel sympathizing New
York News, make? statements which show
that the alleged kit dapping of and
sending them to Cuba to be sold as glares, is
but too well founded. He says:
"Your readers will be surprise*) to hear
that the slave trade has been revived in the
South. They will be more surprised to hear
that this odious traißc does not condst in the
seizure of wild Africans in their native state,
and their importation to this but in
the deportation of native freedmen Trom the
Unite a States and their sale to cukan plan
ters. The parties engaged in bnsitiss are of
course very cautious and secret intljeir move
ments, ana leave as few tracks beltind them
as possible: but however well their plans may
be laid, the truth will come to liglt in due
season. A trustworthy gentleman, he further
says, informed him thathehadbeenhpproach
ed in Atlanta, and offered $25 perfhead for
every able-bodied freedman he could get to
go with him to Arkansas. He had heard ru
mors of slave trafic, and thinking this was
simply a branch of it, refused the offer. A
letter has quite recently been reteived in
Georgia, from General Robert Toombs, at
Havana, stating that he had just met in the
streets of that city his former carriage driver,
a negro, who told him he had been inveigled
from his home in Georgia and eold to a Cuban
slave dealer for thirteen hundred dollars.
General Toombs further stated that slave
trade does actually exist between this coun
try and Cuba.''
JOHN QUILL VISITETHTIIE PURE- 1
NOLOGIST.
Our Gas Light Editor states that the j
quality of the hydrogen furnished by the ;
Gas Company, is so poor that it takes two j
weeks' gas to get up a sufficient amount of
brilliancy for his coliynns, so in view of his
failure to come to time, Mr. John Quill,
Guide, Philosopher, and Friend, Knight
before Christmas, Companion of the Sansom
Street Caths. and Contributor to Saturday
Night, has furnished us with his experience
at the establishment of a New York phre*
nologist.
He exteadfrth-lumaaLf us follows:
T liurn oltnniro Vioan i fiwwv I.ralinrrfiv in t-V.-i
I have always been a firm believer in the
science of phrenology. I used to believe
that benificent and careful Nature when she
gets up a human being, swells his head up
in k nobs in certain places, after the fashion
of bluenose potatoes, with lots of eyes, so
that his character may be read by them.
They are like the table of contents to a book
or the tin signs which shopkeepers hang out
in front of their stores, to tell the world
what may be found within. I have had a
knobby head from my youth up, and I have
one now. My skull breaks out into bumps
in the most unheard of places. Is covered
with lumps, just as the stone eater's at the
circus would be if he should be seized with
a rush of pebbles to the head. Had paving
atones on the brain, in fact. Can't comb
my hair with any degree of satisfaction.
Just like harrowing in a field when the
stumps are pretty thick. I thought the
thing over a good deal. Came to the-con
clusion that I must have some very remarka
ble characteristics. May be I was destined
to lead armies; control the fate of nations;
do the large thing in steering at the helm
of state. Perhaps a glorious future awaited
me. I would be a great author, write a
history of the war, for it hasn't been done
more than one or two thousand times yet,
or get off novels like Walter Scott, or Beadle
Dime, and people of that sort.
Made up my mind to call on a phrenolo
gist while I was in New York. Get him to
tell me [what Nature intended me for.
Whether I was cut out for a Member of Con
gress. or a gentleman. In short to feel my
cranium for me.
Found his place of business without much
difficulty. Had a picture of a man's head
in his window, divided up into squares.
Laid out in building lots, like the diagram
of a Michigan city, that exists only in the
fertile imagination of the fellows who want
to sell their land. Wondered if the fellow
was going to by my head out in sections like
that. Opened the door and went in.
Plaster of Paris busts of high priced parties
standing on the shelves. Skulls lying around
in a promiscuous sort of manner. Benja
min Franklin looked benignly at Jack Shep
pard, while Horace Grealey appeared as if
he would have thrown his arms around Tom
Hyer, if he had had any which he hadn't.
Pickpockets and clergyman, statesmen and
murderers, were all clustered together with
heads of every possible kind.
Felt somewhat nerveous, but summoned
up courage enough to tell the phrenologists
that he must be a smart man to get a head
of so many remarkable beings. Fellow
gazed at me impressively, and said that my
humor wanted development. Thought may
be he was mad. Small club lying on the ta
ble. Didn't agitate him any more. Afraid
he might try to enlarge my bump of humor.
Told him I wanted my head examined.
Said 1 was a candid man. Must not be afraid
to tell me the truth, even if it was disagree
able. Said I needn't be uneasy. He wouldnt
draw a flattering picture. If I was an ass
he'd toll me so.
I believed him.
Took off my hat and sat down. Fellow
ran his fingers through my hair two or three
times, like a barber, making ready for a
shampoo, or a Choctaw savage who wants to
scalp you at his leisure. Sniffled a little,
felt the back of my bead, and waded in.
Said I had a large brain. (Felt pleased.)
Said this was a characteristic of both great
men and idiots. Said I wasn't exactly his
idea of a great man. (Felt rather badly.)
I was of the nervous-sanguine temperament*
That is, I lacked nerve, and hoped for a
great many things I wouldn't get.
Said my Conjugal Love was very strong.
I would be violently attached to the other
sex. I didn't possess any attractive quali
however, and they wouldn't be affected in
the same manner, not by any means.
Alimentiveuess, very full. Said my appe
tite might well alarm my friends especially
those I might be speuging on. Recommen
ded me to engage board at three hotels.
Didn't believe any one man would let me
satisfy my voracity entirely at his table.
Suggested that I eat dried apples and drink
water, would swell up, and were both cheap
Self Esteem, he said, was tremendous.
Never saw a head that had such a perfect
Pike's Peak of a bump. Said L estimated
myself much above my market value.
Ought to cultivate modesty. Associate
with people who were not as dumb as my
self. Said they wouldn't be hard to find.
Combativenes3 needed development.
Said I hadn't much fight in me. Thought
I would run if anybody made at me. If I
didn't exhibit discretion at any other time,
I would then. Would adqise me to avoid
the draft, and never enlist. I said I never
would.
Imitation was very large. Said this facul
ty was quite full in both parrotts and mon
keys, but he never saw any like mine and
never wanted to again. Said it showed a
great want of originality.
Sublimity was small. Thought the sub
limely ridiculous would be my forte. Nen
tured to tell him I thought he was suffering
from a little of that himself whereupon, he
pulled my golden ringlets in a rather rough
manner. Said he was only hunting for my
bump of Conscientiousness. Fingered
around for three-quarters of an hour. At
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last, gave it up. Said there wasn't any.
Nothing but a deep dent in the skull where
it ought to be.
Said I was wholly deficient in all the high
er faculties. Wouldn't make a good minis
ter. Said if 1 wanted to do good I had bet
ter confine myself to sticking tracts under
people's front doors. Thought, however, I
might make my mark keeping tally at a
bagatelle table, but Nature pointed to a
clerkship on a slop-cart as my most natural
vocation.
As my Language was; large, perhaps I
might shine as a vendor of patent-blacking
oh the State House jmvement, but he*
wouldn t recommend this too strongly, for it
did require some brains.
Said I was wholly watting in Firmness.
That I had a good deal of the Roman kind,
but that was quite common even in four
legged asses. Felt a little savage, and asked
him what he meant? Said he supposed I
wanted the truth, didn't I? Didn't want
him to lie right in the face of the naked
facts, did I ? He guessed not.
I indulged in the same conjecture.
Said my Destructiveness was enormous,
but, he thought, would confire itself princi
pally to victuals and fine cut tobacco. I
hadn't heart enough to destroy anything
that was likely to show fight
I asked the fellow if he hud got through ?
Said he could tell rue lots more of things.
Said I had a very remarkable head. Told
him I believed in him, but didn't care very
much if he didn't go on. Wouldn't- feel
hurt or take it to heart much if he stopped
right short. Accordingly, he ceased claw
ing my head, and asked me for two dollars
and fifty cents. Paid him, and waited un
til I got the door open. Then told him
what I thought of him, and retired sudden
ly down the street.
Look here. I don't place much confidence
in these fellows. Pshaw, I believe that
chap was crossed in love, or ate something
that disagreed with him, and he took it out
on me.
To be sure some of the things he said
were partly true, but he exaggerated them.
I don't think it's a valuable science. There's"
a great deal ot humbug about it. I'm a
candid man, but if a fellow pays hit money
he ought to hear pleasant things, oughtn't
he ? I think so. I think these phre-nolo
gist are a little too free with their knowl
edge. That is if they have any, which I
don't half believe. The idea of laying a
man's head out, like a checker-board, or a
pair of plaid pants! It's all nonsense, and
I don't think I'll ever visit one of their gol
gothic shops again. I can feel my own
head for less money, and with more satis
factory results, I can.— Saturday Night.
THE OVERLAND ROUTE.
In Mr. Bowles's book, "Across the Con
tinent," the following description is given
of Mr. Holladay's great mail-coach line,
owned by a man whose mind is capacious j
enougli not only to grasp this gigantic enter- j
prise, but to manage two or three lines of
steamships, owned by himself on the Pacific,
besides: —
' The great Overland Stage Line, by
which we are travelling, was originated by
Mr. William H. Russel of New York, and
carried on for a year or two by himself and
partners under the name of Russell, Majors
and WaddelL They failed, however, and
some three years ago it passed into the hand
of their chief creditor, Mr. Ben Holladay,
an energentic Missourian, who had been a
successful contractor for the government and
for great corporations on the plains and the
Pacific. He has since continued the line,
improving, extending and enlarging it until
it is now, perhaps, the greatest enterprise
owned and controlled by one man, which
exists in the country, if not in the world.
His line of stages commence at Atchison, on
the Missouri River; its first section extends
across the great plains to Denver, six hun
dred and fifty miles; from here it goes on
six hundred miles more to Salt Lake City,
along thef base of and through the Rocky
Mountains at Bridger's Pass. From there
to Nevada and California, about seven hun
d.*ed and fifty miles farther, the stage line is
owned by an Eastern company, and is un
der the management of Wells, Fargo, &
Co., the express agents. All this is a daily
line, and the coaches used are of the best
stage pattern, well known in New England
as the 'Concord coach.' From Salt Lake,
Mr. Holladay runs a tri-weekly coach line
north and west nine hundred and fifty miles
through Idaho to the Dallas on the Colum
bia River in Northern Oregon, and branch
ing off at Fort Hail, also a tri-weekly line
to Virginia City in Montana, four hundred
miles more. From Denver, too, he has a
subsidiary line into the mountain centres of
Central City and Nevada, about forty miles.
Over al! these routes he carries the mail,
and is in the receipt for this servieo of six
hundred and fifty thousand dollars per an
num from the government. His whole ex
tent of staging end mail contracts—not eoun
ing, of course, teat under Wells, Fargo &
Co., from Salt Lake west —is two thousand
seven hundred and sixty miles, to conduct j
which he owns some six thousand horses
and mules and about two hundred and sixty
coaches. All along the routes he has built
stations at distances of ten to fifteen miles;
he ha 3 to draw all his corn from the Missouri
lliver; much of his hay has also to be trans
ported hundreds of miles; fuel for his sta
tions comes frequently fifty and one hundred
miles; the Indians last year destroyed or
stole full half a million dollars' worth of his
property —barns, houses, animals, feed, &c;
he pays a general superintendent ten
thousand dsllars a year; division superin
tendents a quarter as much; drivers and <-fn
ble-keepers get seventy-five doll:!: , n '
and their living; he has to men; and in.
some cases male his own roads —so that, ..
large as the sum paid by the government, | i
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and high as the prices for passengers, there
is an immense outlay, and a great risk in
conducting the enterprise."
"Mr. Holladay visits his overland linea
bout twice a year; and, when he does, pass
es over it with a rapidity and a disregard of
expense and rules, characteristic of his ir
repressible nature. A year or two ago, af
ter the disaster to the steamer Golden Gate
on the Pacific shore, by which the only part
ner he ever had, Mr. Edward Rust Flint,
son of old Dr. Flint of Springfield, lost his
life, and himself barely escaped a watery
grave, he am&o th quickest trip overland
that it is possible for any man to make be
fore the distance Is shortened by railway.
He caused himself to be driven from Salt
Lake to Atchison, twelve hundred and
twenty miles, in six and one-half days, and
was only twelve days and two hours from
San Francisco to Atchison. The trip proba
bly cost him twenty thousand dollars in
wear and tear of coaches and injury to and
loss of hortes by the rapid driving."
THEOLOGICAL VIEW OF NEGRO
TESTIMONY.
A very bold and telling speech in behalf
of the right of negroes to testify in the court
was recently made in the Tennessee Legisla
ture by a Mr. Richards, who said, in the
course of his argument:
"Why, Mr. fcpeaker, to touch very cau
tiously upon the domain of the theology in
which 1 am bftt little versed, is it not a fact
that the Methodists, Presbyterians, Bap
tists and other religious denominations of
the South have professedfor years to have
Christianized multitudes of the negroes and
made them fit for Heaven? And will these
food people have us believe that a man may
e a good Methodist or Baptist and yet not
fit tohe believed on oath? That he may be
worthy to take the sacrament and unworthy
to stand in the witness box? That he may
sing before the Almighty as a saint in glory,
but cannot go before the justice of the Peace
to swear to an account of five dollars for
work which he his done in the workshop or
cotton field? If that be religion, Mr. Speak
er, and the the principles on which it is
based, I tbink the less of it the better for
public morality."
THE FRUITS OF LIBERTY.
In his speech on Saturday nicht General
Howard reported that he had official notice
of seventy thousand negro children sttending
school in the southern states, and be knew
of many self-supporting schools besides. He
mentioned six colored schools in one tewn,
Tallahassee; in Lynchburg he found a
school taught by a colored man. The Freed
meu is Bureau had secured school privileges
in the labor contracts, Le added. The Ma
con Journal reports that more than four
i thousand colored, of both sesfcsntiS 'all ages,
are attending schools in that eity. "Whole
regiments of colored j>eople have learned
to read,'" said General Howard, "and I
should not be surprised to hear that on
every plantation at the South some of the
people know how to read.''
Six years ago men were hanged and wo
men imprisoned for teaching colored children
to read. Six years hence a great part of
these very colored people will be in the ex
ercise of the elective franchise with the vol
untary consent of the communities in which
they live, and as the natural result of their
intelligence, enterprise, and good conduct.—
Post.
VIRGINIA. —A correspondent of the Phil'a
Inquirer, writing from Warwick county,
Va., says:
I ha?e previously hinted that however
well in most parts of the State of Virginia the
negroes are protected and their labor remun
erated, that result is only kept up by the ab
solute force of the Government. Every day's
experience in my travels still more assures
me of this fact. Wereit notfor the officers of
?.he Freedmen's Bureau stationed in every
county and district, and the presence of some
military force it would not he a week before
the ex-Rebs would destroy the independent
labor of the freedwen aud invent some system
of paconage apprenticeship, pauper or Cooly
pretext, by whatever name (be rose might be
called, which would in fact make thecondition
of the jloor fellows worse than before. This
is avowed by many of their politicians, when
they can talk in apparent secrecy.
TEXAS. —The Commissioner of the
man's Bureau in Texas doses his report with
the following language:
"1 can also report that instances of shoot
ing cruel abuse and violent assaults upon
freedmea are perceptibly on the decrease, al
though quite frequent, especially where there
are no United States troops. No instance of
this kind, that comes to the attention of the
bureau is permi Red to pass without trial and
puuishment.
. " These oases almost defy any attempt to
record them, andare ivckemcd fry hmulmix,
rangingfrom downright murder, savage heat
ings, merciless whqjpings, hunting men with
trained bloodhounds, through aU the lesser
degrees of cruelty and crime.''
JOTIN BILL ON NEGRO SFFFR AGE.— .John
Bell writes: "I am not informed what qual
ifications are required at the present time in
Massachusetts; but. a few years ago, Ibe
lieve, property to the aniouut of two hun
dred and fifty dollars, and to be able to read
and write, entitlee free men of color to Vote.
A grant of the right of suffrage to the South
ern free men on such a basis cannot be
dangerous. lam persuaded it would be
perfectly safe and proper." Exchange.
THE House of Representatives on Monday
last adopted two resolutions, first that the
rebellion deprived the people of the disloyal
States of all civil rights: and second, that
it is the duty of Congress in such ease, to
enable the people of such States to establish
a Republican form of government. Both
of' these resolutions contained the exact lun
guagi used by (he President leas than a yeat
aao; yet every friend of tiro President in the
House voted ugajnsuheui! and it is consid
ered by them an act of hostility to him thus'
to enact the President's own words! — P'tts
bvrgh Gazette.
A traveller coming up to an inn, ami see
ing the host sta.iding at the door, said,
"Pray, are you the master of this house ?"
"Yes, sir." answered the landlottl, "my
wife has been dead these three weeks." :
FOLK things come not back ; the broken
word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the
nerlected opportunity.
IT NTH says that a Yankee baby will crawl
)ut of hia cradle, take a survey of it, invent
in improvement, and apply for a patent be
'ore he is six months old.