A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH.
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Ilia I nllrS matcrn.
Uor Citi.-en f Ceorgia and of the
l intel States :
Pv n Convention hold nt Macon on
tne inn una iui oi I'occnincr, j.-ui,
representing tho Conservative people
ot Georgia, tlio undersigned wero ip
pointcil a Committee to prepare nn
Address to you, retting forth t hoi r
Sentiments, their condition, their fonr
fnl apprehensions of future ruin, and
the final overthrow of Constitutional
government. In discharging this im
portant duty, we bring to the tusk an
earnost and patriotic desire, not only
to promoto the welfare of our own
State, but also that of our whole coun
try hen the late unhappy war termin
ated and tho Confederate arms were
surrendered, a Binglo condition only
was required, which was that we should
return to the pursuits of peace, and
obey tho Constitution and laws of the
United States, under tho plodgo, by
the victors, that, so long as we contin
ued to do so, we should be protected
in tho unmolested enjoyment of tho
rights and privileges which that Con
stitution and those laws guarantee to
each State and to every citizon. e
have kept our promiso in letter and
spirit; and, from that day to this, no
resistance has been offered to tho Fed
eral authorities. The laws of the
United States are quietly obeyed,
ithout the necessity ot military pow
cr to enforce them. Their Courts are
open and their processes respected.
Crime can bo punished by tho regular
and established modes of judicial pro
cedure, w ith magnanimity and hope-
fulness, our people united in an honest
effort to build up their ruined fortunes
and re-establish their lost prosperity.
The war left our homes saddened with
beroavement, and, in thousands of
instances, in ashes. It brought uni
versal sorrow and poverty. Our fields
were desolated, ou r lubor d isorgan ized,
our industry paralyzed, all our enter
prises destroyed or crippled, and our
capital sunk, lowns and cities were
plundered and burned, and their inhab
itants driven, in destitution, from their
homes. But these were the fruits of
war not legitimate, to be sure such,
however, as usually attends its march
of lire ; and, therefore. we submitted
to them with patience and fortitude.
cheered by the Lope, that the quarrel
ana carnage having ended, the return
of peace and prosperity would begin,
and that, at least, political fraternity
would be restored. Under this inspi
ration we endeavored to forget the
bitterness which the struggle had en
gendered, to cultivate a spirit of con
ciliation and harmony, and to evince,
in every possible way, our desire to
have Georgia restored to ber constitu
tional relation to the Union. Terrible
has been ourdisappointmcnt. Uaving
been baffled in the attempt at seces
sion, upon the idea that such attempt
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was reutuion, we supposed that its
suppression left Georgia a State in the
Union, Btill possessing the inherent
right of self-government and the con
stitutional right of representation in
Congress. Instead of this, however,
the 1'resident of tho United States
required that we should organize a
new State government, ratify the Con
stitutional Amendment, abolishing sla
very and incorporating the same pro
Tision into our fundamental law; that
we should repudiate our State war
debt and abrogate the Ordinance of
secession and all the laws in further
ance of the Confederate cause. Ani
mated by a determination to mukeany
nacrifico but that of honor, suppressing
-even the spirit of complaint, for the
sake of peace, we did all that he re
quiredeven fcurrendering our most
valuable property, that of our slaves
and consented to become almost
paupers. Supposing that such deport
ment might challenge the magnanimi
ty of the victors toward a fallen foe,
we then thought surely the dawn of
peace was in sight, and that our right
to the protection and bene fits of a com
mon Constitution would be recognized.
We elected our Senators and Ilepro-j
aentatives, thus demonstrating, not I
uujjr our expectation, nut aio our
earnest desire, again to Participate in
the councils and promised blessings of
l jin restored. Jiut, as beloro,
disappointment was our fute. Our
members were spurned from the Halls
f Congress and our people denounced
S traitors and rebels. We have been
persistently charged with hostility to
ihe Constitution and Union, and treat
ed as outlaws from both. Whilst we
do not thus allude to the deportment
and temper of our people in a spirit of
boasting, j-at we challenge contradic
tion of our statements, und fearlessly
array them before candid world, as
evidence of the injustice, unkindnoss
i;nd falsehood of ho charges nruinst
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good government, wo did not dash it
hastily from us. On its faco it pro
fessed to respect our wishes : it pro
posed that wo should vote freely, for
oragainst it accept or reject it and
thus, by implication at least, invited
us to examine, and consider it. We
did so, in tho light of the Constitution,
and we found not ono word in that
instrument to warrant tho pasigo of
tho Jieconstruction Acts. Thev rest
upon tho assumption that Congress
has the power to construct oovkrx-
ments lor tho States. Thev abrogate
the Government of Georgia, which the
people organized in deference to tho
President's wishes, and, in its stead.
pltco us under a .Military Governor
clothed with tho power of despotism,
undor which tho sovereignty of tho
people is ignored and the principles of
Magna Clutrta, incorporated iuto the
Constitution (or tho security of prop
erty, mo ana nuori-, are troddon un
der foot. They disfranchise a large
portion of the most intelligent and
virtuous citizens, as a punishment Sot
alleged crime ot which they have not
been legally convicted, and confer
universal suffrage upon tlio emancipa
ted negroes. Hence, the Conpressioral
scheme is not only violative of the Con
stitution, but grossly cruel and nniust.
and devoid of that far-seeing and com
prehensive statesmanship which seeks
good government, in contradistinction
to (tartisan ascendancy. For who can
fail to see that tboso Acts must lead,
and were intended to lead, to nenro
supremacy f Else why such disfran
chisement ot the white as to throw
tho power of the ballot-box into the
control of tho enfranchised black race ?
Such is obviously their design, de.
duced from th eir letter and spirit, not
deniod by their authors and fully illus-
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iraiea oy mo manner 01 ineir enforce
ment. Having placed us under mili
tary law, and tolerating our organized
government as merely provisional, it
civil officers were compelled to support
them, on pain of dismissal. Judges
and other officers were deposed for
refusing to violate the Constitution
and laws which they bad sworn to
obey and execute; all civil and mili
tary officers were ordered to publish
their legal advertisements in such pa
pers ouly as sustained the ConTe-
sional scheme. Thus the puri'v and
independence of our judiciary have
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m,-cu puiiuuMj ana sincKen down and
the sanctity of the jury box desecrated
by compelling jury lists to be made up
of whites ad blacks indiscriminately ;
and thus the liberty of the press'is
fettered and tolerated at the will of
the District Commander and Military
Governor of the State. To these we
mijrht add numerous instances of the
violation of personal liberty, hy arrests
without legal accusation orwarraut,
and imprisonment without an imnar-
tial and public trial by jury. In con
sideration, therefore, that tho estab
lishment of nC'trj suprcnuiry was their
intention, and fiat, from the mode of
their enforcement, it would inevitably
be consummated, we firmly and delib
erately opposed the Iloconstruction
Acts, as most compatible with our self
respect and our duty to the dead and
the living to tho present and future
generations.
But power has, thus far. triumphed
over reason, justice and right; and
the Convention provided for, repre
senting negroes only, with the excep
tion of a few thousand whites, now
sits, to crystalizo into constitutional
forms the policy ot bringing ihe State
of Georgia under the dominion oinrnro
supremacy. It is without parallel in
the annals of I he world. Foralthongh
history furnishes instances of aboli
tion, yet it affords to cxamplo of an
attempt by military force to elevate
the emancipated slave above his recent
I master, to subordinate the superior to
me inienor race, and clothe the latter
wit h the political power of the State.
It is the most outrageous policy ever
advocated by a Christian ncotife. It
should arrest the alarmed attention of
every f riend of constitutional govern
ment throughout the Union, as it must
awaken the astonishment of the civil-
hended. We have submitted, almost
withoutcompltiint, because every whis
per of protest has been construed into
disloyalty by our oppressors.
Wo have offered tho feeble opposi
tion of scarcely uttered remonstrance,
only because outnumbered at the ballot-box,
and therefore impotent for
successful resistance. The Conserva
tive peoplo of Georgia feel that tame
submission has ceased to bo a virtue,
and has become a crime against their
country, their race and future gener
ations. Tho ruthless arm of unhul
lowod power may enslave and degrade
them, but they will never, by word or
deed, active or passivo, consent to the
outrage oflcred to their manhood, but
they will struggle against it by every
legitimate means which they can com
mand. Tbey appeal to tho friends of
Constitutional government through
out the laud to rally to its rescue from
the grasp of relentless centralism.
It is the province of enlightened
statesmanship to search for the cause
of political maladies, with a view to
fieir removal. It is easy lor any can
did observer to detect the origin of
those existing evils which threaten
such calamity to our country. We
have previously remarked, that tho
Reconstruction Acts assume that Con
gress has the power to construct gov
ernments fur the proscribed Stulcs.
This assumption is the fruitful parent
of all our political troubles. It is not
pretended that the authority is to be
found in the Constitution, on the con
trary, it is asserted to be outside of the
Constitution. This is an admission of
the nullity of tho whole scheme.
How can Congress act outside of
the Constitution!' Outside of the
Constitution there is no Executive, no
Judiciary, no Congress no Govern
ment of the United States. Outside
of the Constitution, Congress or
rather the men w ho compose it have
no more authority than any other
body of individuals voluntarily assem
bled. Outside of tbe Constitution,
they have no commission to legislate
upon ony subject., lur any purpose or
in any manner whatsoever, tvery
act otitfido of tho Constitution ia us-
nrpation and utterly void. What vi
tulity, then, can there bo in a State
government, constructed in pursuanco
ot laws passed by authority claimed
to be outside ot the C onstitution 7
How long can it stand after the bayo
nets lhaL prop it up shall have been
removed? It is a fabric without
foundation and mint fall. These arc
all self-evident propositions, too axio
matic to admit of argument; and they
necessarily present, for tbe consider
ation of the people of the United
with power to construct envcrntnents 1 rule orn-arour-liii.-u ;, i.
for the States. Instead ef being con-1 to bo enforced upon us ami our ciiil
lerred by the Constitution, it is palpa- j dren, in defiance of the Constitution,
lily inconsistent with it. The dut v.and j and in contempt of the civilization of
the whole duty of the United States j the ago and opinions of mankind
with respect to the Slate Governments j Fellie-citi:rM of the Aarth : With
m clearly defined in tho 'institution, in tho last few months, tho attention
that duty is to gvarariiet to every
Stato a republican form of govern
ment ; to guarantee it, not to create it,
to preserve, not destroy mid then re
construct it. Can you guarantee what
does not exist f Ibe very idea of
guaranteeing u government implies
necessarily, the pre-exit-tence ot tho
government. And lhif. U precisely
the duty which the United States owe
to each State started in the Union,
whether that start was made nt the
beginning or nt the latter period of
our history. Whenever bo start was
mado, each State started in the Uo
with a republican fortu of govern
ment. This isccrtninlv true of Georgia
and all tho original thirteen; and tho
admission of other States, at subse
quent periods, was a confession bv the
Government, which it is estopped from
of negro suffrage has boon bcl'oro you
at tho ballot-box. In a voice not to be
misunderstood, you have decided
against it. Yon decided voluntarily. It
Iihs been decided for us, against our
xrill and againut our convict ions of what
is compatible with good government and
the Constitution of the United States :
and decided by those if ho do not expect
to live under the Stale governments they
propose to establish by force. You de
cided against it, although the number
of negroes among you was too small
to constitute a considerable, much
less a controlling, element in politics
It is ordained by our oppressors that
wo that! have it, notwithstanding that
it win lead to negro tupremacy over
us. 't are powerless : you are potent
to forbid tbe outrage. Will von stand
aloof and calmly see us subjected to this
denying, that tbey, too, were republi- damning wrong ; and that. too. when
iuc nw.i:ruuu!iiu, iiiereioro, wim u win imperii tho J.cpublie and snread
i .1 j- i j .
States especially the peoplo of those
JUMltd, 111 Lb i. Un. a!
ized world. The perpetuation of sm h
monstrous wrong bus been reserved
for the dominatiL lifti-tv nnv fin.!!
s, Cred as n pretext for our oppres- ing tho destiny of tins country for
Proscription from the Union, wo
r-'uld endure ; the chargo of hostility
i it were tolerable; from our pros
; -lion we might rise; our poverty
w might surmount if we could be left
iniisturhed and permitted to enjoy
' r inherent right of self-government.
( it ndblo State abounds with the
i mcnts and resources of mnterial
f 'alth ; her peoplo are enterprising
I full of the consciousness of unsul
i ; 1 honor and unsubdued manhood.
i t-e piay to their capacities, unfetter
men, ttrorn to support and obey the
Constitution of a Government pro-
ics-H'uiy deriving, as a lundamcntal
Mates dcsigniuc
the day, as loyal this grave and mo
mentous qnestion. If the State gov
ernments, now being constructed by
Congress, are thus invalid, and can
be maintained only by force, are they
prepared to incur the expense and
hazard to liberty of a standing army
for such purpose T Aro they prepared
for a military despotism over ten great
States of this Union, for the mere pur
pose of oppressing the white race and
sustaining n'gro tupremacy f Will it
be seriously maintained that the Gov
ernment can retain ilafederul charac
ter and vet sustain such a policy ?
Will any candid man assert that it it
consistent with She confessedly reserv
ed rights 0." the Stales ? Who docs not
perceive that it will bo their entire
absorption and the conversion of our
constitutional Republic into an elec
tive oblignrt;hy, whose trill, instead of
the Constitution, will I tbe "supreme
law ol the land V And all this for
what T For the sake of rajro tuprem
acy over the Southern State; for the
sake of degrading eight millions of
white people, that four millions of ne
groes may I forced into a status for
which tbey aro utterly unfitted. We
appeal to the people of tho North,
who have the power, to reserve tbe
constitution. Jro you prepared to
put in jeopardy our wise tahnc of gov
ernment and the liberty of more than
thirty millions of your own race, for
sake ot enfranchising four millions of
illiterate and m-mi-civilized Africans?
"We speak as unto wise men ; jude
ye what we say."
We beg to offer another view for
tho calm consideration t!io North
ern people. They almost univcrsally
which a State started in tho Union is
the government which the United
States is obliged to uphold. It may bo
modified in the legitimate way that
is, oy me people ot tlio State, but a!
ways under the limitation that it must
remain republican, in form. And since
tho failure of secession and tho decis
ion by tbe sword, that secession was
a nullity, as a question of practice, it
would seem that each State is bound
to preserve Its original relation to the
Union, as well as to have a republican
form of government. When there is
a breach of either of these limitations,
tho thread of legality or constitution
ality is dropped. All that mar come
afterward is on an illegal ba-is and
void. Suc h is tho incvitableconclusion
viewing tho subject from tbe North
ern standpoint. What, then, is tbe
remedy! Is it for Congress to step in
and construct a new government ? We
have already shown that they have
no such power. I5ut the remedy is to
go back and pick up tho thread of
legality right where it was dropped ;
or, in ouu r words, restore the govern
ment which was wrongfully displaced
it was not destroyed bv seccsuon to
be void ; its functions were suspended
ouiy ; us ouiccs were vacated, but not
extinguished. Hence, it follows, that
as soon as the disturbing cause (which
was secession and its results) was re
moved, the legitimate Constitution of
the States, which wcie in force at tbe
time of accession, stood in thcirorigi-
nai vigor, and the oltices ol their gov.
ernmcuts should have been immedi
ate filled by the proper constituency.
Thi I"" -n f,C minin. tl. ......
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cession oi legality in t tie Mate govern
mcnts is precisely what was decided
by the Supreme Court of the United
States, in the case of Dorrs rebellion,
in J.liodo Island. The duty belongs
noi to congress atone, nor to the
'resident alone, nor to the l'ederal
Judiciary alone, but to all of them,
each acting iu its appropriate sphere
it U longs to the Undtd States. All
of these owersofthe United Slates
tand pltdged.to its wrlonr.anre the
duty ofn a.ntaining tho Suite Govern
ment with which each Stato entered
the Union, with such modificuti jus as
it may have received by the freo and
voluntary action of iu eople, consi.
tently w ith the Constitution ot the
United State. Whenever there is
broach of the limitation imposed by
the Constitution of tho United States,
everything thereafter too becomes il
legal and void. The remedy there
fore is a remission back to tho inter
rupted Lgal status. Now the late war
has decided, as a question ol fact, that
secession brokcthe thread of coiistitu-
baleiul disaster over every in tut est
Jiencwing our pledge of unsullied
honor and our tender of frank and
mauly obedience to tbe Constitution,
wo uppeal to you, in the name of the
Conservative peoplo of our State, to
unite together in the patriotic ctfurt
to restore and perpetuate constitution
al government. 1 our recent elections
encourage our hopesand challenge our
gratitude. Jlay truth, justice and
right, "terrible as an army with bau-
ners, gathering strength in every
conflict, march on "conquering and to
conquer," antil its friends, recuing it
from tbe grasp of centralism, shall
restore, to its appropriate supremacy,
TUE CojiSTITl'TIWt OF Till! UNITED
SrATrs, so that Georgia, together with
her sisters in oppression, shall enjoy
the samo protection which its honest
enforcement would givo to every State
in the Union !
HtRscnrL V. Johnson,
Au.salom H. ClIAl'I'tU,
1!f.nj. II. J 1 1 i.i,,
Wamkkn Akix,
T. L. Glerbv,
January 3,
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bt jii a, i.An.
Whi-n limply in love .lh Mi- Kinllv Pryncj
I Trtwi-H it ttip mriid-n wnM milv tir intii
I wnulij alwHVH tii'li-ni'iir tit l,.-aiM tiir
Shi- l.lu-hi"l tier mn-rnl, th' ih,. ftuin rln Inn
risi'l iwir ft woril. ror,t "Vuu'n an a
An aM an a.K-idiwnj trcxrr!"
Put when w- nn- inrri..l, I foim l tc, hit ruth
Tlif taminrring I ,. v hud .I'l't. o the trulb,
Fur tllt-n in i.Mmi,tm tu'lrcrin,
Hlie'd uiv il t vi-ni'itcl iy jrivo hir a jnf
In lb wuyof ri-pmof '-Vou'ro a di g you're
A d'3 a ilwu-jiati'-al enrniutleon !"
flnil nnn. irhi-n I iinl, "Ho c:m Iiar.llv aTnrJ
tin extrai ant at vie, with our mmlerate lwarl
Anil !iiiit-'l we oulit to Im wirt-r,
Fli- iMki'1, I aMurv ymi, eir-wrling hlne.
Anj fri'tlully crinl, 'l ou'rea .li-w you're a Jew
a very ju-ilinoui alvirr .
A:.in, when it li.-en-l tint, winliln to ihirk
fitmn rattier unile:mnt an.! artluuui work,
J bepvd hur fo to a nenrhW,
She wanted to know why I uiadn uch a fuM,
And panrily Mid, "Vou're a mti c.u. hju.
You were alwayi aiuualuiueil to labor.
Ool of lemp. r at lart wilb the in.olrnt djme,
And fi '-ling OiHt uindanie wen prrntly to Llama
To aoohl me in.N'ad ol rarenmni;.
I miron-aul her i-h like a churl a! I am
And angrily i:ud. "Vou're a dam 'lniuil.ni
A dain-Fo instead of a bleuing!"
THE BENNENGHOPF EOEBEET.
principle, "it just powers from the , contend that secession was nlulity. The
Fellow-citizens, shall neirro sunrem.
acy be jicrmanently enthroned in tlie
State of Georgia f
thisUiiion be surrendered, at the point
of tho bayonet, to the dominion of the
African race f Shall eight millions of
whiles bo subjected to tlierulo of lour
millions of blacks r Shall thev become
i our Magistrates, our Le!isIiitors. our
r clastic energies, remove unneccs- J udges, our Governors and lieiiresent-
y and unjust bnrdens from their atives in Congress ? Shall seven linn.
ir, and they will achieve prosperity J drcd thousand ignorant negroes,
war having so decided it as a Question
of practice, it is not necceasary now to
contest it as a question of rirht. Then
Shall ten States of i let the assumption le granted. It
toilows, then, that not only the Ordi
nance of Secession was void, but that
all the subseqnent proceedings the
entire fabric erected upon it were
also void. This fabric was the State
governments which were in existence
and in oporation when the Confeder
ate arms were surrendered and the war
r themselves and the blessing of
ilea civilization tor their posterity,
t. our oppressors are not willing to
this. They claim to make us the
.imsof their political polity worse
.a that they require us to be inslru
ital in executing that policy, upon
peril of their vengeance ; that a
"iid and gallant peoplo, upon whose
or none but tbo tongue of slander
r breathed anght of shame their
ft brethren by race, by ancestry and
political ties shall vote for their
degradation or forfeit the rights
itiierican citizens. iemanu
r demand having boen made and
flitted to, with as much compla
" y generous peoplo conld bring
t .". performance of humiliating du
. tbo scheme proposed by the iMili
r7 Act for Reconstruction is tho
r chalice offered to our lip, a the
: mum of tho victor's magnanimity,
b we are to drink to the dregs, on
4 of political death for refusal.
ernments were illegal because thev
were built on a breach of tho true
constitutional relation between the
States and the Uederal Government.
who : was terminated. These Sti imram.
vn iiviiiiii ,v.uu .iui njiiv, ailUKIlOW
nothing of the principles of tho Con
stitution or of legislation, agrarians
by instinct and taught by political
drillmastors that they have injuries to j These propositions are true, upon the
avenge against the while race, be . assumption that secession was a nulli
admitted to tho ballot-bos! These ty, as misted upon by tho Northern
are the momentous questions which ' people. It follows from them that the
demand solution and distiirn the peace States were never out of the Union,
and harmony of our country. Ifthcy and that they retained their right to
are to be decided affirmatively, what continue a such, however their visi
pen or tongno can portray the dire ble organization and constitutional
calamities which we shad reap at no j relations may have been disturbed by
distant day! Tho present derange- secession. So' far, all is plain and easy,
tnent of Government will continue'to i The next stop is the beginning of the
grow w orse, our material prosperity, j difficuty. If these State governments
already arrested, will I destroyed J were void, and therefore fell with the
inrerer ; society, already shocked by Confederate canse.how can their place
suuuen ana lorceel tnangea. wilt he te constitution, r niin!i.,l C
tioual relation between tho seceding
States and United States, and the
Slate governments founded on seces
sion w ere illegal and void, and fell
with the Confederate cause. These
fabrics having thus fallen, the peopL
of the Stales, as a logical necessity,
are remiaed back totbeirConstituliort
and Governments which existed at the
time of secession. All that was neces
sary all that the United States, un
der the Federal Constitution, had the
right to do (and that they wero
bound to do) was to restore those
governments and constitution back
to the people. This was their solemn
constitutional obligation. If it bad
been promptly recognized and per
formed, the L uion would avo been
immediately harmonized anU all polit
ical disturbance settled. Tho remedy,
therefore, for present ills and the only
preventive of utter future ruin is, for
each department, in its appropriate
sphere, and nil tho departments com
bined constituting the Government
if the I'nited States to return in
good laith, to the Constitution. That
instrument guarantees tho equality of
the States in rights and dignity, and
recognizes tbe fundnmcntul" prin
ciple that each, for itself, shall confer
and define Stato citizenship, and pre
scribe tho qualification for exercising
the elective franchise and holding
office.
In making this earnest protest'
against being placed, by lone, under
negro dominion, we disavow all feeling
of resentment toward that nnfortunato
raco. As we aro destined to live to
gether, we desire harmony and friend
ship between them and ourselves ; and
as tney arc matlo tho dupes of unscrup
I'rolfdton in a .Vulshtll
Tho Hartford Time boasts that the i
thread works at Willimantic. owned
chiefly by Hartford capitalists, are the
most extensive in the country, and
says that their new mill, four hundred
feet long, five stories high, and built
of granite, costly ns it is, trM built oj
the Company' $ proits of overthrec hun-
tred per cent, without disturbing their
capital, which is now a million of dol-
It further admits that "tnrcau tnnt
used to cost tho needle-woman four
cents a spool, now cost ten the same
as the imported Lnglish thread of J.
k V. Coats. Ono reason whv Coats'
thread works more smoothly on the
machine and is bettor liked than our,
is in the fact that the greater damp
ness of the hnglisli climate is more
favorable than our dry air to spinning
cotton. Again, tho highly electric
condition of tho atmosphere of the
western world is probably unfavorable
to the necosan compactness and
smoothness sought for in the fabrica-
ton of this article, tho strands and
films being more inclined to rou"h tip
and 'fly ofT.' "
Here is a manufacture which from
physical cause cannot be brought to
erh'ction in this conntn-; but which
by enormous protection, ha; been
made to pay three hundred per cent,
profit. Specific ovtvior dulicsliave
been piled upon each othcrto keep out
the better good mado in climates
adapted to this delicato work. Tho
taritf on imported thread has been
raised until it is equal to seventy per
cent, in grid, on the cost. The tax on
domestic is six per cci.t. in currency,
and all this dill'erenco is for tho fos
tering of such enterprises as this,
whereby a single company has within
the past three years accumulated n
million of dollars, besides building a
very costly fuctury. Who puys for il ?
The poor needle-women of tho United
States, the millions who have to patch
and darn to make their old clothes
hold out through these times of high 1
prices. Jiut for it the best of threads
A Daring Krt of Rohbrra '2lo (MX) Car
ried OB I'arllrulara ol ibe Kuhlirry.
From ihe I'lttuburR Coinineieial.
Our 1'ionccr correspondent tele
graphed the fact on Thursday evening
that tlicdwollir.gof John liciuiinglion;
on JSotiiiingholl run, was entered by
roolici-s that evening, and robbed of
?J10,(IO. .Mr. Iietiiiinghoff's house
stands near fho road, not frequented
much of late, either by travel or teams,
anu me nearest neighbor is a quarter
oi a mne uistant. Mr. lieiininghoff is
a Pennsylvania German, a plain, hard
working farmer, and about sixtyyears
oi age. no nas u largo iumily of
grown up children, many of them
staying at homo. The old gentleman,
all of a sudden, had riches thrust upon
him by the discovery of oil on his ster
ile ncres, and is ono of our petroleum
millionaries. We believe the first well
was struck on his farm on Pioneer
Hun, in tho fall of sb-); the produc
tion of his whole farm for tho last six
months was six hundred bands a day.
and ten new wells are now going down
on il. Mr. P.'s income for December
last, was reported ut Jlti'iflO. but bis
sudden and dazzling fortune never
made a fool of him, and they say he
euros nouiing ior appoaraticos, and
wants to livo us frugally and work as
uniipeniiy as when ho used to cat h
urcatf in the sweat of his brow. Put
ho had taken tho notion in his bend
to be his own banker, and to deposit
bis bonds and greenbacks in bis own
safeand house. The particulars of tbo
robbery arc thus related by the Titus-
viue ji,rai,i oi Saturday:
i.r.rily?fr.rRnr,,n 0v0ck the fam
ily, consisting of -Mr. John Penning
holT, bis wife, niece nnd two hired
men. were sitting in the kitrhen.whcn
tho door was opened and four men
walked in. Three of these men were
of medium sizes and the fourth was
tall and heavy and all of them were
I I il 1 r . . .
uiuiHuu kiiii iianuKcrciiieiH. cloths or
comforters. On entering the mom
the men drew pistols and presenting
them at the heads or breasts of the
family, threatened them with immo
diuto death if they should make the
least noise. So completely wero the
family taken by surpriso that but lit
tle resistance was offered except b
Mr. PcnninghofT, who cried out lustily
on their first appearance. The first
cry that ho raised had scarcely left bis
lips when he was attacked by ono or
twoot tho others. Mr. lieiininghoff
is now in his sixty-seventh year, but
notwithstanding his advanced age,
ho is still possessed of considerable
strength, nnd bo exerted it to the
utmost. II is strength was, however,
entirely inadequate to copo with that
of two or three middle iiged men, and
he was soon thrown to tho floor. The
ruflians then struck him in the lace
and stamped on various parts of his
body, und then half dragged, half car
ried him to an adjoining bod room.
All this timo Mr. 1$. was bv no means
idle, but was pulling forth his best
endeavors to escape, and to attract
attention from the outside. After
they got Mr. P. somewhat under their
control, they tied bis arms and legs
and threw him on tho bd and wrap
ped the bed clothes lightly about him.
Tl 1 ! .1 ... I I . ' I. . , .
jinn inty riiieu ins pocKOlS nilH 100K
tamed ni nt'h F ... i " i, n, , ,r villains
succeeded in taking y.'lil.tl'Mi. dl iho
f.'lO.IMMl, tin te wcie f M,iniii j, (;,,v.
eminent bonus, nnd the rest in green
backs and niitioii.il currency. Tho
drawer that w as overlooked contained
a quantity of gold nnd silver coin,
amounting in nil to a compa.nlivcly
stnall sum. In the haste of tho search
after plunder, n package containing
$1,MH) was laid among a quantity nf
papers near tho sale und left, and in
aunt her part of tho bouso a second
package, containing about 80,00(1, was
dropped,
After ransacking the safe, the whole
party returned to tho kitchen, and af
ter ascertaining from a member of tho
family that Mr. Joseph PoniiiiighoflT
hud gono to church, and that no other
person would bo likely to visit tho
house during tho night, tho villains
proceeded to make themselves com
fortable. During their stay, which
lasted about an hour, they appeared to
be awtiitingtlie return of Mr. Penning
holf, nnd they consumed a quantity of
bread and milk.
Finnally, tho villions concluded to
leave, and making a slip-nooso, they
put it around the neck of one of tho
hired men and led him to tho barn and
forced him to harness a horse to a
cutter. Tho limn was then led bnrlr
to the houf.o and relied. Two olhcr
horses were taken from tbr; barn, and
the whole party started off nt n brisk
pace. As soon as tho last mun loft
the house, Mr, Pciininghofl's niece
mnnaged to loosen the cords with
which her arms were bound. The rest
of the family were then reloased, and
tho men started out and alarmed the
neighbors, after which telegrams were
tit in all directions to the authorities
of the differnt places, apprising them
of tho robbery.
Alter leaving the house, the five
men with the horses and cutter pro
ceeded upPenninghoff Pun about ono-
hulf of a mile, when the cutter was
smashed and the horses were turned
loose, where they were found yester
morning. Prom where tho cutter and
horses wero abandoned, no further
traces of the party could bo found.
I ho snlo that was not opened, con
tained a much larger amount than that
carried off.
Yesterday mornincr a reward of
810,000 was offered for tho nrreft of
tho robbers and return of the money.
and later in thedavin the day it was.iu-
creased loJJilJ.iuO. About two o'clock,
a dispatch was received by Mr. Pen-
ninghoff, from Oil City, stating that
three men had been arrested on stispi-
cion of being mplicated in the robbery.
-nr. j.. ana i'o mty Micritl Jlu il le It
'ctroleum Centre for Oil City, on tho
train that loaves the former nlaee at
.2.") P. M., for the purpose of seeing
if the men who wero arrested could be
Jontified.
would now. whila fold is 1 PI hn an ,1 I
at sis cents a spool. I from one of them bis pocket book,
This docs not show thewhole extent containinfi 8"1"11 tT'Oiiiit of money
of tho protection. In Pngland the i flnJ a k(T ,0 m, pf ,,,e "''fr- Air
three cord glazed threads, such us are ! "'"S that the cords which bound his
made by this company, cost much less ninos i e lasi nnn covering him more
Grammar ron Tnr. Little Folks.
Three little words wp ollon sec,
An A i title, a, on, and the.
A Noun's the name of any thing,
As school, or yard; n, hoop, or su ing.
Adjectives tell the kind of noon,
As great, sm;U, pretty, white, or brown.
Instead of Nouns tho Pronouns stand
John's bead, his face, my arm your hand.
Verbs tell of somet hing being dono,
To read, write, count, sing, jump, or run.
How things nre done tho Adverbs tell,
As slowly, guicJy, ill, or well.
A Preposition stands before
A Noun, ns in, or through a door.
Conjunctions join tho Nouns together,
As men and children, wind or weather.
The Interjection shows surpriso,
As Oh, how pretty 1 Ah, bow wiso.
In reply to Ike's question of "what
Mr. Seward mcnt when ho said ho
wanted St. Thomas for a coaling sta
tion, Mrs. Partington (after rubbing
hero forehead thoughtfully for a mo
ment with tlio bow of her silver spec
tacles) replied. "It must bo because
it shakes so, Jsa.ic, and therefore a
good placo to sift ashes."
'What air woman's spear!" nsked a
woman s rights man of a literal old
codger, nnd then nnswored himself
"it air tho domestic hearth, sir." Tho
old codger scratched his head a mo
ment, and then said. "Put if her bouse
is boated with furnaces, nnd she aint
got no hearth, what nirher.)frtrtlien?
An F.nglish army officer writes from
Abyssinia that campaigning in Theo
dore's dominions is decidedly unpleas
ant. Thermometer 1'P; snakes in tho
beds; scorpions in tho men's boots;
camp fevers; epidemic.
'My opinion is," said a philosophi
cal old lady of much experience and
observation, "that any man ns dies
upon washing day docs it out of pure
spite.''
In Greenland the vnnnir normta irlin
' ..I I :.l..t 1...1... .... i " - , - i
ana arc sola nt lower prices thnn the : ,wvy " l"" '"i"cs, nicy ion mm woo each other eat tens pounds of tal
in n I'uuL-iu-rs eomjiiiou.
Whilo Mr. Peniiiiighoff was strug
gling with two of tho ruffians, the
other two hail intimidated tho two
hired men, and they were soon tied
in the chairs in which thev sat nt the
time when the robbers first made their ' gels
appearance J hese men offered but I
very little or no resistance, and in a I Wo have noticed that men who c
of timo they found out "on the lark often como hor
"on their beer."
s't-cord goods : but hero, as tho man
ufacturers aro protected, tho sewing
women must pay as much for tho ouo
as for the other.
The revenuo of the country bus
also suffered to pile-up this three hun
dred percent. of profits. Spool cotton
used to pay an annual revenuo of half
ft million in rroltl in the Tr,nmirv in
the last fiscal year it paid a triflo over I vorJ' ,"',0, 'Pi,co
. . . . .- " . 4 1....
three hundred thousand dollars.
Such protection as this rob the
revenue and robs the poor, but it pays
tho lurk- few three hundred percent.
low ever' day to prove their devotion.
S-cnndleotis 1
Ir. Hall says that for tho period of
a month before, nnd n month after
(teat n men regard the wives ns nn-
themselves in a helpless condition.
Ptiring the fracas, Mrs. Peiininghoff
managed to secure n revolver, which
she banded to one of the hired men,
but ho, through fear or some other
. . , ., , emotion oi a like character, did not
It is hardly worth while, say-.the ,0 it( nlK immediately afterward ono
Greenville lenn.,' nwn, for tbe Pad f ,,0 m,is rot ,IO!W.Hin f it
teals to talk nny more about the con-1 Mrs. Bcniiingholf was seized, dragged
fisoat,.,n of Southern land. Those into nn nirvMnl, ronm. nni ll(m,u.
-"--"'.'' .." n-iiH- jIr. iJ,.ninghoff's niece was taken
catcd already, fhry sell for a mere iut0 - room nPar i-:,,.,,,,- ,,,, f0.
thrown into the most deplorable con
dition of insecurity, and property, life
and liberty will be exposed to irreme
diable peril.
If our silence, in tho past, has been
const rued into apathy and indifference,
ulous partisans and designing adven-! oneT-. A nimble negro in a favorable tono, to ft 0UI,.j0
turcrs, we pity them ; as they nre ig- '"""n can stent enoitgt, properly After even-person in the houso wn
norant, dependent and helpless it is OTC,r nlp"' irty acres oi grourut ; m.cilri,iv fastened, and an attempt bad i low tar
rt,m m. ir.. .. --.. ...a i ,i tvtriv inn rntl innrninn1 I . i
. -u. p io nvnt un-m mine j b- Deen nintie to open a combination-ock
safe, two of the party went up stairs
No wonder graveyards yawn, when
there are so many sleepers there.
Pomoily for corn got j-our log
taken off by n railway train.
To givo animals medicine throw
physic to the dog.
If yon want to rise in tho world go
up in a balloon.
Hatchers' valentines should bo Ten
der lines.
To pitch your voice properly swal-
d ! Can it i eniovment of all ilicir riirl
no aon ry rrconstmftton 7 Jr new and nroirtv to whirl, th.xir frh.m TV.; : .....:... u .
Stale governments constructed by the entitles them. negroes aro in a great rago at the 'safe was kept, without asking any
J n. of Georaid : preachers who tell them they must be ' Questions, whilo tbe other tim tnv..i
President, Congress or any ohter pow- j Conservative
"i .-lurviy noi. .o aeoarimeni OI Awaken to a timwr loun l vmir'U-n Ti... .c.: i . u. .1. - ' 11 .1. ....
, 1 -" . W , ... . , 1, " ,"" .i v i.n.iin 1n.11 me i--ii" nun 01 euaru m or me latnii v.
the Government of the I n.ted State danger ! Organ.zo for self protection next time thev might 1 born white i The key of the safe on the second floor
nor all of tbem combined, 1 inveMedand ccaseles opposition to tho direful , men. had been taken from Mr. Benninghotr.
best thing out An aching
Tho
tooth.
A cold snap Breaking your, leg on
the ice.
Carpenters pay heavy board bills.
Homo defence nn irwo chair.
A dry remark Let's liquor.