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COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1872.
Volume XLIV.-No, 16.
The Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN H. MARTIN .^...Edito*.
COLUMBUS:
THURSDAY APRIL 11, 1873.
|2.80.
The Rhode UUaJ Herttea.
The election in Rhode inland laat week
was the third State eleotion of the year,
ami in onr judgment waa more significant
in its results than thoee of New Hamp
shire and Connecticut. Of the two latter
it can only be said that they exhibited no
considerable change in public sentiment
since last year; that the triumph of the
Radicals waa due simply to the superior
organisation and exertion that enabled
thorn to poll nearer their full party
streugth than the Democrats brought out
of theirs. The Democratic rote was not
diiuinirthed, but it waa simply not in
creased quite as mneb aa the Radioal in
crease. All candid politicians must re
gard New Hampshire and Connecticut as
among the doubtful States in the next
Presidential contest—their late elections
showing so close a contest that work and
activity must decide the elections of next
November as they did thoes of this
Spriug. But in Uhoda Island the case
was quite different. Here the Democrats
made large gains in the popular vote, and
the Radicals sustained loasea correspond
ingly large—showing a marked and con
siderable change in publio sentiment.—
At the Presidential eloction of 1808, in
Rhode island, the Radicals polled 13,933
votes, and the Democrats 6,546. At the
clout ion last week, the Radical candidate
for Governor received 9,379, and the
Democratic candidate 8,321 votes—show
ing a Democratic gain nearly correspond
ing with the Radical loss. For Lieuten
ant Governor, the vote last week stood —
Cutler, Deni., 8,348, Stevens, Rad., 8,139
—a Democratic majority of 423. Iu this
case it is evident that a considerable
number of Radicals would not support
the nominee of their party for Lientem
ant Governor, and it la probable that a
very few of them supported the Demo
cratic candidate. In 1871, the Radicals
elected their cundidata for Governor of
Rhode Island by a majority of 3,441
votes; but the vote wsa small on both
sides, and did not afford reliable evidence
of a decided party change. This year
tbeir uinjority ia only 1148 in a nearly
full vote. The general noticaabla change
is that the Democrats now have 8,200 to
8,300 voters in Rhode Island, whereas
they had only 0,500 in 1806, and that
their increase has been made from a Rad
ical low of folly as many. This change
does not give ns any strong hope that
Rhode Island will not vote for Grant
next November; but it shows that there
is a current sotting against the Radioal
party, which cannot be confined to Rhode
Island, but must extend to other States
id* which a per centage of change one
fourth as great as that exhibited iu Rhode
Island will suffice to defeat the Radical
p* rt y- v r ,
We leant from the Atlanta papers that
on Saturday last Jared I. Whitaker, for
merly proprietor of the Intelligencer, and
William Wilson were arrested on a oharge
of swindling the State out of $18,000 in
printing kills for the State Road. The
arrest was made at the instance of the
Investigating Committee. They gave the
bond required, and the Constitution ex
presses the opinion that Judge Whitaker
will be able to vindicate himself. We
hope so, for be is a gentleman in bis
manners and associations, and waa for so
long a time honorably connected with the
press of the State that his conviction on
such a charge would cease mortifloation
to many.
The phenomenon of the living “head
less rooster” appears to have stirred op
the enterprise of some persons to see
what can be done in that way. Wa have
not heard of their experimenting on any
of the hnman family yet; bat the number
of poultry of various kinds % that have
beeu thus comfortably docked for the
benefit of science most be large,
Atlanta negro made a lucky lick with his
axe or knife, the other day, in decapita
ting a gninea chicken, severiog its head
at the exact place that would allow its
continued life without that heretofore
considered indispensable part of the
anlthal anatomy. The gninea ia now on
exhibition at Atlanta, and ia apparently
as lively as ever, and without a head!
Who knows to whst extent this discovery
may be instrumental in reconstructing tbs
brute and perhaps tbs human fi
possibly in the production of new apeoias ?
Where's Darwin, with his theories ?
Bail. Road Guaqes.—Senator Robert
son, of Sooth Carolina, proposes that Con
gress shall undertake tbs regulation of
the gnsga of railroads. He has intro
duced in the Bonate a BUI providing that
the Postmaster-General in all oontracta
hereafter to be entered Into with any rail
road company shall have a gnage of fonr
feat eight and ona-hatf inches by the ex
piration of one-half the duration of any
snob contract, except in the case* of nar
row guage railroads, whose guage dose
not exceed three feet eix inches. While a
uniformity of guage in railroads ia certain
ly desirable, it is hardly within the pro
vince of Congress to regulate aueh mat
ters ; and if it waa, the method proposed
by Mr. Robertson for attaining the de
sired result would not be likely to prove
effectual.
Supreme Coubt op Georgia, April C,
v 1S73.—No. 2, Augoa’a Circuit. John
Anderson vs. Moses P. Green, executor.
Equity, from Burke. Re ord ordered
K rfect by next term of court. E. F.
wson, llnok Sl Gardner, for plaintiffs
in error. J. J. Jones. A. If. Rogers, con
tra.
No. 3. Margaret A. Them moo, next
friend, etc., ve. creditors of R. Osnoll
A Co. Homestead, from Richmond.—
Continued from tbs Mot l«s-with
drawn.
No. 6. Margaret A. Thompson vs. Rob
ert Carroll, at aL Equity from Rich
mond. Continued from the Mat tons-
withdrawn.
No. l. J. J. A Sarah J. Bathing vs. the
Soldiers' Loan and Building fimoristton.
Certiorari from tbs Court of Ordinary,
from Richmond. Argued. Hook A Gard
ner,for plaintiffs in error. Joseph Osnahl,
Eeq., contra.
Govt adjourned until 10 o'fitofka. If.
THE M HA*XEB SATISFACTORY TO BOTH
RATIONS.'*
A dispatch of Monday, reporting the
London Jbet as having published a rumor
to the effect that a telegram from Wash
ington had bash received at the British
Foreign Office holding ont hopes that the
differences growing out of the claim for
consequential damages could be settled in
manner satisfactory to both nations, ii
no doubt fresh in the mind of the reader.
Wa have in the dispatches of Mondsy
midnight a report from New York that the
Keening Pont of that city (Republican
paper) professes to have more definite
information on this subject. The gist of
its information is that the claim for con
sequential damages is only to be consid
ered as an argument to support the direct
claims, not as a real part of the bill of
damages! In other words, our Govern
ment only urged it for the purpose of
magnifying its “case" and thus giving it
more imposing appearance, and not
because it sought or expected to receive
auy award on that score, and is now wil
ling not to press it if it be only allowed
to go before the conference! And this,
we era told, Great Britain is likely to
agree to. Such trifling with important
questions, perilling the peace of nations,
is too monstrous almost for credulity.
Evan nations and people that we are
aocustomed to deride as iguoraut heathen
will receive it with scorn and oonteinpt.
Here is whut the New York Keening l'o*t
of Mouday is reported as saying :
“The important diapstch from London
which we print, indicating that au arnica-
cable agreement between Eugland and
the United States is likely to bo made at
once, deserves more attention uttd more
credcuoe than its exceKsivoly cautious lan
guage would commonly attract. Inde
pendently of this London rumor we have
strong reason to believe that our Govern
ment has conveyed to Groat Britain its
willinguuss to exclude by agreement the
consideration of the claims for indirect
damages from tLe work of tho arbitrators,
at least so far as to demand no award
upon this ground. Thnso claims indeed,
or rather those representations of iujnriue
which we have suffered at the hands of
Great Britain, must remain in the cane ns
they are there presented as arguments iu
favor of an award of a gross sum, but not
ai claims for money to be paid us. Thu
] iroposition, as we are informed, is in a
orm iu which the British Government
can hardly fail to aocept."
P. 8.—A dispatch of yesterday says that
tho London Post's report is “authorita
tively denied" there. This may or may
not cover the New York Keening Post's
information, as tho proposition which it
“believes" hss beou forwarded may not
yet have reached the London Foreign
Office. Be that aa it may, there in good
reason to suspect that tho differences iu
relation to the claim for consequential
damages will be settled by sotno jugglery
akin to the Keening Post's proposition.
How High latsrest Enriches Capitalists, anil
the Kemetfjr.
Our attention has beeu directed to the
following table and remarks by the Gro
cer s' Knee Current (one of the “depart
ments'' of the New York Mercantile Jour
nal, and a valuable publication):
Believing that it is a matter of very
great importance to ull classes of our fel
low citizens to have a full appreciation of
the great difference in the power of capi
tal to increase at low and high rates of
interest, (uot forgetting that our national
wealth has only increased the past fifty
years at the rata of about per cent, per
anuurn), wo ugaiu present the following
statement:
If one dollar be invested, and tho in
teract added to the principal annually, at
the rates named, we ahall have the follow
ing result as the accumulation of one
hundred years:
One Dollar, 100 years, at 1 p cent.
do
do
do
wok
1,174’Si
18,145,007
In the light of the foregoing figures we
ask the thoughtful consideration of the
fact that the rates of interest paid in this
oonntry are altoays exorbitant and some
times, as at the present, terribly oppress
ive. And also that all this can be reme
died only by the issue of National Paper
Money made stable in value and of proper
volume by its interchangeability at the op-
lion of the holder in sums of one thousand
dollars or its multiple with bonds of the
Government bearing a fixed equitable rate
of interest.
Wa have not bad time to revise the
^bove calculations, bat doubt not tbeir
correctness, surprising as they may seem.
It is the remedy proposed which we de
sign briefly to notice. Wo have no confi
dence in it. The system which the Price
Current proposes ia now jHirtially in ope
ration, and interest, according to its own
statement, was seldom so high before.
We may add that in this section of the
country money wss ndver so hard to bor
row at any rate of interest. The National
Bank system falls far abort of our old
State Bank system in furnishing credits
end extending aooommodatione; and the
failure is not so much attributable to the
indisposition of the loeal National Banka
to extend the accommodations aa to the
control over them exercised by the
stronger corporations of the same system
at the North. AU are bat branches of
one overshadowing Government estab
lishment, which signally fails to regulate
the finances, to make money abundant, to
bring it up to a specie standard, or to
lower ibe rate of interest. We need to
give an indifferent support to the old
Whig project of u National Bank, and wa
still believe that under the management
of an old Whig administration, and in
such times aa we then had, it wonld have
been a benefit to the oonntry. But things
are greatly altered since then: Honest
administrations, sectional equality, free
dom of trade, end omnmertial integrity-
all are lacking now. The Sonth no longer
controls the sale of her cotton crop,
which control wonld greatly oondnee to
her commercial stability and independ
•nee, nor ia it designed that any each
Banking system as that which we now
have amended, intsodsd or tie
•d as it may W- shall even aariat her to
regain the control. Wa betteve ftlmt ike
rsonpsraticn and pwnyithj ef the Sonth
wonld be more edvaaoed by the abolition
of the system than by any ease
that can be made. Ibe Prit§ Currents
atartUagly cnmnMUve labia aa regard aa
a seals somewhat similar to feat whtob
wonld he axhibttod by a tabular statement
Washington, April 2.—The keenest
politicians here seem to think that the
Democracy will uot endorse the nominee
of the Cincinnati Convention, unless that
body so attaches the Democrats to tbeir
ticket os to throw the balance of power in
the latter's hands. A contingency like
this is entirely unexpected. The opposi
tion to the reuomiuation of Gen. Grant,
iu the Rcpublioau party, is regarded as a
formidable affair, and while it is not as
strong, numerically or iu influence, with
in the party as the offioe-holers, who arc
all for Grant, yet it is quite formidable,
and increases in strength each day. But
it labors under tho disailvautago of divi
sion iu its owu ranks in the matter of
chobiug a enndiiato for the Presidency,
while the office-holders’ wing, the strong
est, is united upon President Grant, first,
last «nd all tho time.
Many of the Democrats arc of opinion
(hut under any ordiuury circumstances
the Democratic parly should abandon its
organization so fur us to acquiesce iu the
Cinciuuuti Humiliation, iu faut a large
majority of tho representative Demo-
crants here advise thut policy, believing
that they cau safefly trust tho leaders of
the Republican disaffection in the mutter
of fair dealing. But of course they will
uot committ themselves to a poaitivo ac
quiescence before baud. They even go
so far as to s«y the political reform move
ment should begin among Republicans,
and the reform be enforced by addition
of the entire Democratic strength to that
of the dissatisfied Republic ms. They
wituo%s with satisfaction tho work going
on iu Peuusylvuitiu, where McClure’s raid
has scattered the confident hosts, and
where citizens' reform associations are
paving the way to carry the State at
the October election. They see the office
holders of that State bcudiug low with
sorrowful countenances, aud want to help
the work on. But they tell us of n draw
back in which they apprehend trouble.
For many years the Democratic party has
kept its name through victory and defeat,
and to divest iiself of that name they
fear wonld be a task too hard to perform.
They any tho people at home, aud not the
politicians at Washington, are the throne
aud the power. The ruuk aud tile of the
Democracy have seen its principles disap
pear one by one, till uow its platform is
essentially the same as thut of the party
it opposes. The lust act contemplated is
to tuko away tho name “Demooraoy"
itself. Aud Ibis (hey fear cannot be done.
Iu other words, “Mohuiuet will not go to
the mountain ; tho mouutuiu must come
to Mohamet."
On the oilier hand, tho Republican dis
senters say they must lie the managers of
the content; that the fight will bo “Grant
and anti-Grant"; thut it must bo treated
as au eminently Republican quarrel; aud
that tho Democracy must, by ucquics-
’ouce, throw their whole strength for a
man of their selection ut Cincinnati, or
they will go back to the patry they tiro-
pose to leave, and tho buttle will result iu
an easy victory for Grant. Tho Demo
crats, they say, must abandon their or
ganization us a uutionn! party ; or, if they
will uot do that, fly the name of the Cin
cinnati nominees at their muslhoad, with
out regard to bis politics.
This dose, the Democratic prophets say,
is too much for tho Democracy ; that the
rank aud file of the party will not yield
on this occasion ; and that, if tbeir pre
dictions are to be verified, as they believe
they will be, we will have four years
more of Grant.
From tho recent statistics issued by the
Census Bureau we compile tbe following
figures of woultli and taxution in Georgia
and Florida : The true value of personal
aud real ustute in Georgia in 1830 uuiouut-
ed to $333,123,711. The aHsessed value
of reul estate iu 1800 was $179,801,441;
of personal estute was $438,130,940. To
tal assessed value of real and personal es
tate iu 1800, $018,232,387. Tho true vul-
no of real and personal estate iu 1800 was
$045,895,237. Tho assessed value of real
estate in Georgiu ia 1870 ainouuted to
$143,948,210; showing a depreciation
within tho ten yearn iu the assessed value
of $35,853,223. Tho assessed vulue of
persouul estate in 1870 wan $83,271,303;
showing the terrible difference with 1800,
ia tho asscHCHcd value, of $355,159,013.—
This vast discrepancy represents slaves,
Ac., and is iu a measure the sum of Geor-
utatorial losses by the war. The
true vulue of real and personal estato iu
Georgia in 1870 was $203,109,207. Com
paring this with the true value iu 1800, ft
falling off within the teu years of $377,-
"20,030 is shown.
T he total luxation in Georgia in 1800,
State,couuty und town combined, amount
ed to $797,885. The total taxution iu 1870
was somewhat linger, to wit: $2,027,029,
divided as follows: State tax, $945,394 ;
county, $700,290; town and city, $775,-
305.
In Chatham couuty wo find in 1870 tho
assessed value of real estate, $14,272,103;
assessed value of personal ustute, $8,477,-
219. Total ussessed vulue of $22,749,*
322. True value of real and personal
estate $25,257,940.
Total luxation iu Chatham county in
1870, $350,254, divided up as follows:
City, $200,959; county, $52,880; State
$90,415.
In Florida, the true value of reul and
personal estate iu 1850 amounted to $22,
852,270. In 1800, tho ussessed value of
real estate was. $21,722,810. Assessed
value of personal estate $47,205,875.
Total value of assessed estate $08,929,585.
The true value of reul and personal estate
in 1800 was $73,101,500. The assessed
value of reul estate in 1870 was $20,197,-
091, allowing a depreciation in teu years
of $1,525,119. The assessed value of
persoual estate in 1870 was $ 12,283,It
depreciation of $34,923,723 iu teu years,
representing slave property, Ac. Total
assessed value in 1870, $32,480,843. The
true value of retd aud poisonul estate in
1870 is put down at $44,103,055.
The total tuxntion in Florida in 1800 was
$159,121, but in 1870 qnite a difference ia
shown, viz: $409,100, divided us follows:
State tax $248,758; couuty, $108,389;
town aud city, $79,009.
It appears that the total real and per
sonal property of the United States was
$30,008,518,507 in 1870, as against $10,-
159,510,008 m 1800, und $7,135,780,228
in 1850.
The percentage of increase in wealth
during the last decade is found by calcu
lation to have been over eighty-six per
cent., notwithstanding the immense di
version of productive energy during the
war, and the enormous destruction of
property consequent upon the war.
\Hacnnnah Adctrliter.
Harrowing Coen.—A correspondent
of the Western Farmer gives the follow
ing description of how he harrows his
corn:
“I commence just before the corn
comes up and continue as needed,to keep
soil loose and weeds out of sight, until it
ia so tall the harrow will break it off if
used. There is nothing so needful to na
ture a crop of corn, with onr abort sea
sons, aa frequent stirring of the soil' when
it ia in its first stages of growth, and
tool will do this so cheaply or so thor
oughly in the bill aa a rightly oonstraetsd
harrow. I harrow back and forth till I
hats asy laod aa I desire. If the corn ia
vowed both way* of the field, the second
harrowing should eroaa the first, the third
the eeeoad, and so on. I have not had a
failure in fear yean with Dent oora ofl
my white, heavy cold coil.
at tfc* mnplUiaH gOH £rtb«.j ^ W ^r^^T~ bo . f.w
ntort Ik* Homan I nontb. ago taught hi. parrot to oojr
] “putt. CM.tote" to onr; Lady who ou-
11«*4 Ut Hw ii tsv • mWwix*.
Gov. 8miHi anil tko land Srrip of (tvoryts—A
I Fall Matcnirnt of tkv Cast*.
Editors Constitution By an act, ap
proved July 2, 1802, Congress granted to
the several States an auiouut of publio
laud, to be apportioned to each State iu
auautity equal to 30,000 acres for each
Senator auu Represeutntive in Congress
to which the States are respectively enti
tled by apportionment uudor the census
of 1800. Under this act, the proportion
duo to Georgia was 270,000 acres.
By tho terms of the graut, the fund is
to remuin undiminished forever, and tho
iuterest must be inviolably appropriated
to tho endowment, support aud nmintiiin-
anco of at least ono college, to bo estab
lished within five years after the date of
thiB act; but by a subsequent act, further
time was given—until tho 2d of July,
1872, to the States which huvo not ac
cepted under this net. Tho leuding ob
ject of this Was declared to be, without
excluding other scientific and classical
Btudios, to tench kuch brunches of learn
ing ns are related to agriculture and the
mochanio arts, in such manner as tho Le
gislature may prescribe, iu order to pro
mote the liberality aud practical educa
tion of the iudustrinl classes in tho several
pursuits aud professions of life. By a
subsequent section of Congress, an ex
ception is made, which allows a sum not
exceeding teu per centum of the fuml to
be expended in the purchase of lands for
sites, or experimental farms, whenever
authorized by the Legislature of the
Htato ; but this is coupled with an inhibi
tion against tho appropriation of any part
of the fund to the purchase, erection, or
repuirs of any building or buildings.
By nu act of tho Legislature of Geor
gia, approved March 10, 1800, tho Htato
accepted her portion of the land scrip.—
By a subsequent act, approved Deooniber
12, 1800, the Govoruor >vas authorized to
apply for, receive and sell these lands
aud laud scrip, and to invest as ho might
deem best, the procoeda of said sale or
Halos, in the bonds of this State, aud dis
burse the interest of the iuvestmeut in
tho support and maintenance of a college
hn contemplated by the act of Congress,
lie wus further authorized to provide
rules aud regulations for tho organiza
tion, governance aud operation of said
college until the next ensuing session of
the Goneral Assembly, and to do and to
perform all other such nets ns might bo
necessary aud proper to securo tho Htato
tho full benefits contemplated by tho act
of Congress.
During Acting Governor Conley’s brief
administration lie obtuiiicd tho said laud
scrip under the provisions of tho forego
ing act, und sold it for $243,000—$50,000
cash and the bnlnnco on eighteen months
crodit. Buoli is the condition in which
Govoruor Smith found this scrip interest
of the Stato. He knew that unless a col
lege was organized uud put into full ope
ration by the 2d day of July next, the
proceeds of this scrip would be forfeited
to tho General Government.
The writer of this article has never con
versed with Governor Smith, upon the
subject embraced, and does not kuow his
reasons for giving the proceeds of the
sale of this scrip to tho Stato University;
but he feels well assured that in doing so,
the Governor hss acted with the prudence
of wisdom, and the best intents of the ag
ricultural and mechanical portion of tho
Htato.
Thero is no doubt that the actiona of
other States upon this siihjoct were fully
and thoroughly investigated heforo any
steps were takou in the matter, for Gov
ernor Smith does not act hastily or rashly,
but always thoughtfully, and lifter duo de
liberation, looking to the interests aud
common welfare of tho people of his na
tive State.
lie doubtless haw the action of the
great Slate of Now York on the agricul
tural land scrip. If so, he found that the
Legislature gave this scrip to the State
Agricultural Society, who held it
ighteen months, and after a vain attempt
to establish an agricultural college, re
turns it to the State. It was then given
to tho Cornell University, at Itbica, under
tho auspices of which ilH investment lias
proved successful beyond tho most san
guine expectations of the warmest antici
pations of its beneficial results.
In Kentucky, where this scrip was giv
en to the State University, near Lexing
ton, he could see that the most extensive
mechanical and manufacturing shops to
be found iu the West, are earned on and
operated by the students of the Universi
ty, and under these uuspices are manu
factured the best and most approved pat
terns of mechanical and agricultural im
plements, such asjiavo given precedence
to this country us one of invent ion and
progress. These implements, scattered
throughout the North und South, tell tru
ly of the advuutugos thut have arisen from
the placing of the scrip funds in the hands
of u university. Iu addition to those
manufactures, thoro is successfully man
aged, ucur tho sumo place, a large and
flue experimental farm, once the home'of
Kentucky's learned sou Henry Clay.
The Missouri State University, too,
was the reoipiont of this endorsement of
laud scrip, aud isto-duy standing proudly
among tho peerage of such institutions,
the wealth and honor of whoso States
spring from agricultural and mechanical
pursuits. In this connection, it may uot
be out of place to mention thnt in all but
three exceptions, the colleges or univoi
ties of the States lmvo received tho bene
fits of this agricultural land scrip provid
ed for by the act of Congress referred to.
Under theso circumstances Governor
Smith has undoubtedly performed this
public duty, due from him to tho peoj 1
of Georgia, without in the least way con
sulting his owu personal focliugs. As the
Chief Executive of the State ho hus
taken into consideration the advantages
arising from making the disposition he
has of the land scrip, and wo enn very
easily conceive the great and lasting ben
©fits arising from this action. Tho State
University, alroady grandly eloquent m
its history of achievements, shall, wim
this endowment and its new advantages,
yet become the Mecoa to which tho eyoa
of genius aud labor will not look iu
and from which the pilgrim scholar shall
turn away laden with the just award of its
beneficence.
In this country, Agricultural Colleges,
are, an yet, experiments; yet, with ex-
Governor Charles J. Jenkins as President
of the distinguished Board of Trustees,
end Chancellor Lipscomb at the head of
ati able and learnod Faculty, what may
we not expeot but the full roulizutiou of
all that Governor Smith hus anticipated
and striven for iu his disposition of the
land acrip of the Slate.
Agricultural.
We elip the the following from the At
lanta Hun of Tuesday:
This Ausconderh.— 1 Through a gnntlo-
man jnst returned from New York, we
leam that II. I. and E. N. Kimball are
both roaidlng in New Haven, Connecticut,
li. I. has been, and still continues to bo,
quite ill.
Bullock is frequently to he seen at the
Fifth Aveuae Hotel. He in oscillating
betweou New York city aud Buffalo.
Coming to Atlanta.—We learn that
the office of Supervisor of Internal Reve
nue, for the district comprising Georgia
and Florida, will at an early day be re
moved from Macon to Atlanta.
Among the railroad notablea at the
Kimball House, are Messrs. George M.
Pullman, of Palaoe Oar fame; w. J.
Tewabemr, E. H. Paine and General
Hart L. Stewart. Large numbers arrived
last night to attend the ooavention to-day
on railway affairs.
The first pieoe of artillery waa invented
by a German, soon after the invention of
gunpowder, and artillery waa Aral used by
the Moon at Algeriraa, u> Spain, over fits
thuHWpmtfo.
“TlMieo D«it*on ft Doris I'rrrnten.''
Editor Enquirer: The Southern mind,
from a habit which has grown and
Lengthened with nil the years since tlio
termination of the late civil war, seems to
he now ignoring the opportunity pre
sented by tho complications of Radicalism
on the one hand and the plausible over
tures of faction on the other—or else my
political diagnosis is incomplete—and dis
gusted with the performances of a Govern
ment, whose practical workings our ’75
Ancestors sadly mistook, they differ only
from Macuwber iu that they hardly care
“w hat turns up.”
The decay of a groat nation, when tho
result of that slow' process incident to all
human organization, is a ami spectacle ;
but it becomes simply disgusting when
tho impotence of ago marks its youthful
career und premature decay fastens upon
its vitals—for these symptoms are alouo
tho offspring of ignorance and corruption,
alike iu the Ruler and the governed.
No prophetic inspiration is required to
foresee the speedy downfall of tho Auieri-
ystem, oven in irnmo, and there are
few, among tho most ardent of its
admirers or the most credulous of its vota
ries, who will deny, that, for the pant ten
years, its administration upon this conti
nent has been u solemn mockery. Per
haps tho most striking illustration of this
truth is to be found iu tho prescut disor
ganization of tho dominant party in this
country. A gilded bait is now throwu to
tho Conservative element of the nation
(if thoro be auy such) by tho disaffected
wing of thut party, which for years has
beou warring upon the South aud destroy,
iug the OoUKtitutiou, for the purpose of
luriug it within the radius of its influence
and filially of absorbing its power. Is not
the alliance so unholy thut all holiest men
must forbid the bans? Tho question is
one of serious consideration, as it uiuy be
come one of precipitate action.
Tho first meeting which guvo any im
portance to this effort, and of which wo
are udviscil, was held in the Slate of Mis.
sotiri Home month or more since. Its
specific objects were embodied in a speech
of tho lion. B. Gratz Brown and a letter
of Carl Scliurz—iu both of which universal
amnesty figures distinctively ; the corrup
tions of the present Administration and
the honesty of Brown and liis associates
appear in glittering generalities;—the
tomahawk is buried, tho pipe of peace
smoked, and u speedy political uiilloniuiii
predicted if uot ussurod. To the same
purpose, uud perhaps in terser English,
are tho sonorous explutivos uud free tun
professions of a later Congregation in the
North-Western l'orkopolis. (Parentheti
cally we beg to observe that our scepti
cism rejects every element of this later
demonstration except as a simple pecuni
ary speculation). Feuding tho prelimi
nary meetings of thiH new departure,
while the Brethren are singing a 4th of'
July hyiuu with a Constitutional Doxolo-
gy, full of this new-born love for our dour
Southern Brethren, the iuimaciilute Sum
ner, whoso differences with the Grunt Ad
ministration originated tho movement and
whoso cunning contrivances have grown
it to its present proportions, meets every
holiest effort in tho Heiinto to restore the
Southern people to their Constitutional
rights, with a provision as fatal to its suc
cess ns it n odious to the more respecta
ble portion of his party. At tho very out.
set, Ihon, (hero seems to bo au irreconcil
able difference iu tho proposed organiza
tion, and limy uot tho Democratic party
and its Southern portion more particu
larly, well pause, before it consents to a
coalition of such doubtful import? If
thero really exist iu the Uadiuul party an
tngonisms us groat us now indicated, let
them work ont their own results,
which will certainly bo their failure in tho
next presidential contest, if Conservatism
is united, it may ho that tho debris of
the wreck is worth tho saving. It may ho
that even now, when gathered togother,
wo may make of it some fuint patch-work
resoiuhlunco of the original. Wo cannot
hope to float again that goodly ship that
once, with streaming banner uud full-set
Bail, rode tho billows triumphantly—a
political urk freighted with huinnu libelty.
That ship went down seven weary yours
ngoue. Revolutions novor go backward,
and it is worse than idle to hope that a
people who havo submitted to iuiiovatioim
upon their system of government mo
either wise or bravo or honest enough to
restore it uow. The popular apathy
which silently submits to tyranny speedily
becomes its slave, and the Ruler who
governs, whut her iui a party or au individ
ual, outside of Constitutions and law, hus
not fur to go before universal despotism
will prevail. Seale.
Tho “Clanton Fund Committee"
Montgomery, Ala., publish a statement
showing that tho amonut collected
is $3,581.20. Tho Ainoiiut is for tho
present deposited in buuk, at iuterest,
aud will be invested in some permanent
form for the benefit of tho widow aud
children of (ten. Clanton.
Tree-Culture on tub Flainh.—The
Senate Committee on Fublic Lauds have
agreed on a bill to encourage the growth
of timber on the Western prairies. It
provides that any person who shall culti
vate the growth of trees for five yours on
one hundred aud forty acres of laud ou
any quarter seotion of United States laud
shall too eutitled to a patent for the whole
of said quarter section.
The South Carolina Negroes Attemut
Equality in Georgia. -A good deal of
excitement pervaded the city yesterday,
over certain rumors about the sleeping
car ou the Georgia Road having beeu iu-
vaded by certain negroes. The facts are
theso:
Night before last the conductor of the
sleeping car on the train coming from
Augnatu to Atlanta, received word to re
serve four berths for four gentlemen.
11m did so. lie found wheu the traiu star
ted, tho four seats occupied l.y four ne
groes, who wero bound for the Ncgre
Convention in New Orluuua. They were
Cardozo, the uegro Secretary of State of
South Carolina, Pinchbeck, and two other
negro Carolina officials.
The conductor ordered them ont of the
car to the uegro ear. They refused to go,
and declared they would only leave when
forced. The conductor, Mr, Allen, upon
reflection, came to the conolnson that
them negroes wished just such a difficulty
for uae at their convention, and finaliv et
then remain, refuting to let them have
bertha, or hava any privilege beyond their
forced stay iu tho oar -sitting on tha
seat a. He also refoaad thair inouev.
Theae are the facte of tine high-handed
outrage by this quartette of Booth Cerolv
m bWtmu-Manta (VimI-, 7«A,
I*roin tin* Piiviinmill News. 8»l».
I10W 8AYANNA1I WA* TO 1IAVK BKO
TAKEN!
AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF TUF. PRO
POSED PLAN—A REMINISCENCE OF
THE LATE WAR.
Our readers will fool no liftlo interest
in tho description of tho plans ami pro
tects for the capture of Savannah by tho
Federal forces, during the early part of
the war. Tho acknowledgment from tho
second highest officer in the Federal army
that Savuuuah never could bo taken by
water attack ia moat creditable to tho
skill und energy of our officors who had
charge of tho erection and manning of
tho various batteries.
Onr information is derived from official
reports on the conduct of tho war.
In the first year of the war of the “re
bellion," after the capture of Fort lloyal
had been accomplished, it was proposed
ploy the fleut of Admiral Dupont in
conuoutiou with the laud forces ou the
Southern coast iu tho conquest of Fer-
liaudiuu ns nu additional base of opera
tions. The strategic hues, however,
hich the Confederates had formed, ex
tending from Grecu Island, along Thun-
dorholt, Fort Jucksou, Savannah, aud
thence along the lino of the Chariest ou
and Savannah Railroad, indefinitely, to
wards Charleston, iuduced tho Federal
authorities to forego the prizo and turn
their attentiou more immediately to the
capture of tho city of Savannah. It wus
thought that with this city aud Fort Pu
laski iu their posscssiou, ull the foitH be
low, ut St. Simons, Brunswick, Forimudi-
na and tho St. Johns would fall without
tiring a gun. Tho grout point, therefore,
was to get Savnnnah, and it was proposed
the first instance to ho brought about
this wise : Fort Pulaski was to bo vig
orously shelled, lit the sumo time the
gunboats of tho naval squadron were to
muke a demonstration on the garrisons of
the forts on Vernon and Augustiuo riv-
be closely followed up by tho
landing of tho lund forces in tho vicinity
of Montgomery and Beaulieu, thus taking
Augustine creek, tho Fort Jackson batte
ries and Savannah in reverse, this opera
tion to he connected ut the sumo time
with a movement from Port Royal on
Bluff ton, Now River bridge and Hurdeu-
villo to' get possession of tho railroad
crossing, the Savannah river, and prevent
reinforcements arriving at. Huvauuuh from
tho centre and left of tho Confederate
line. It was thought that the successful
result of an operation of the sort would
not only occasion tho fall of Savannah,
but, if followed up in force, would have
KluiUeu the Southern Confederacy to its
very centre. Tho force to be employed
iu this enterprise wus to consist of ono
regiment of cuvulry, one of urlillery,
twenty regiments of infantry, a siege
‘iiin, and us many pontoon bridges us
mid be got together for the occasion.—
his plan was submitted to tho uuthori-
os at Washington, but tailing to meet
ith tho approval of the War Depart-
inid, was abandoned.
Subsequently nnoihcr plan was gotten
up by which Savannah might have been
••laken” without incurring tho time uml
.xpen
involved
tho first
entu
Alt.nit the first of JutiUury, 1852,
conuoisanco was mudo ol all tho plats,
marshes, creeks and surrounding country
with tho view of ascertaining tho best
mode of getting into tho Savannah river.
It wus iotind that the passage from
Wright's river into tho Savannah was not
so deop us hud been expected, and it was
impracticable to occupy the head of Elba
Island ns had been intended. A topo
graphical engineer was accordingly sent
to reconnoitre tho Savannah river further
down, and in doing so he examined Wall’s
Cut closely, lie sounded the Savnnnah
river iu tho night, passing around tho
south end of Jones' island. This officer
reported that if Wall s Cut could be open
ed vessels drawing from twtdvo to fifteen
feet might he taken through into the
main river at high tide. Ail export was
at once put to work with u newly inven
ted machine and proceeded to saw off the
pilos below water thut were obstructing
the creek, and to get nn old hulk out of
the way so as to enable vessels to pass
through into the Suvannuh river. Ou tho
14th of January Wall’s Cut was opened.
Whilst this work was iu progress somo
prisoners from Savannah wero taken who
informed tbe Federal commander of the
state of the defences around the city; that
thero were no batteries except Fort Jack-
son, which hud eleven guns only mounted
on its Imrbotte; that the “rebels'’ were
building a fort on tho south end of
Hutchinson's Island, and uuother upon
a little islaud directly opposite Fort Jack-
sou, but that there was not a single gun
mounted except at Fort Jackson, und that
there wore not over ten thousand men in
und around Savanuuh. Theso statements
were at ouce communicated to Admiral
Dupont commanding the fleet at Port
Royal, rocommending a joint naval and
military expedition uud a coup de. main
through Wall’s Cut upon Savannah. Tho
Admiral thought it was an excellent thing
and proposed u conference upon tho sub
ject, which was accordingly held tho next
tiny on board tho flag ship iu presence of
Captain Davis, Captain C. R. P. Rodgers.
General Wright, Captain Gilmore and the
commanding General.
The matter was fully discussed, and it
was agreed that a combined ariuy and
nuvy force should go right into the Suv-
itiuudi river, capture Fort Jackson aud
take Savannah. Evory officer prtsent re
garded tho thing us very feasible, and tho
commanding General was so Hinguiuo of
success that ho declared he did not
about the Fort Jackson batteries, all hu
wanted was to have his men landed thero,
and in partiug with the Admiral tho lust
thing hu suid a ns : “The point is Savan
nah, and immediately." The council wus
dissolved that afternoon, and prepara
tions for tho work in hand immediately
begun.
A fow days afterword a change came
over the spirit of the dream. The Admi
ral sent a private note to the military
commander, stuting that iu tho intcrvul
he had given the subject iuoio serious
consideration, and had some suggestions
to make which lie thought would be satis
factory, and he proposed to send au offi
cer over next day to explain it; that in
consequence of a discussion of the mat
ter between tho officers of the flag-ship
and himself, tho conclusion was reached
that Fort Jackson could not be taken.
They decided that not more than two gun
boats could act upon tbo fort at the sumo
time, aud that two gunboats could not
tuko such work aa thut. And, uot only
that, but it wuh represented that tire rafts
wero being prepared by the enemy, which
would make it difficult to take wooden
vcmroIh into tho Suvsuuah river, and us
tho project was a uew thing thoy thought
it was very hazardous. Tho Admiral
therefore caiue to the conclusion that he
could not attempt it, and the plan was thus
given up. That the Admiral was correct
in bis conclusion not to risk his ships in a
bout w ith tbe river batteries may lie infer
red from a dispatch from Gen. Shormau
to Gen. Grant, written iu the field, near
Savannah, in December, 1854, iu which ,
hu Huya: “I think Hardoe has good artil
lerists. * * In anticipation of leav
ing this conntry I am continuing the de
struction of their railroads, and ut this mo
ment have two divisions aud the cavalry
at work breaking up tho Golf Railroad,
from the Ogeechee to tho Altaiuaha, ro
that oven if I do uot tako Savannah l will
leave it in a bad way. But I atill hope to
take Savannah, ev«n if I have to assault
with some loss. I am satisfied that un
less we take it the gunboats never will,
for thoy can make no iiupresaion upon the
baUariaft which guild every appeoaoh
A STAllt 1.1 M* EXPOSE !
A HUNDRED MILLIONS SPENT WITHOUT AU
THORITY !
CorrrspnnitttRco New V'*rk IVorM.J
Washington, April 5, 1872.
One of those pointed and aggressive
debates which often spring Up unfore
seen when the House is in committee of
tho wlrblo on Rome appropriation bill,
marked tho feature of that body to-day.
It is ebo on such occasions thnt the Dem
ocrats get an opportunity to make some
telling hits by au exposure of the protli-
gacy and corruptions of a Republican ad
ministration. In tho debate on the Army
bill to-day Mr. Reck, of Keutuclcy, made
a startling exhibit. He declared, and
produced tho figures to prove it, that
thu Quartermaster's Bureau had ex-
PENDED OAER SIXTY MILLIONS AND
the Ordnance Bureau over SEVEN
TEEN MILLIONS or dollars in excess
UK AmtOPltlATlONH MADE FOR THEM
ry Congress since July 1, 1855. A Ici
n' the Secretary of Y>’ar, in answer to
n call for im account of this, failed to
v what hud been done with tho
motiey, only that, it had been spent to
pny what the department officials call
“the debts of vutioUH bureaus.” Yet tho
letter did show thnt these expenditures
in gross bad been even underestimated
by the Democrats, for tho Hecretury says
page 4 of Executive Docnmeut No.
2tM), just sent to Congress, that tho total
amount received by the department siuce
Juno 30, 1855, in ixress of its ajiproj.rlo-
thorn feo.it Congress, was the enormous
sum of $107,959,115.52. Ail of this hus
ion used except barely $2,000,000.
It will thns !>o seen that the Quarter
master's Department nit me, leaving out
all the others, lias in the last six yems.
, the do.se of the iror, spent over ONE
111 Nil HU) AM) El YE Ml hUoMs
ived from public property Hold in
ADDITION to nil djijinipriittiohs mode
b.V ('on grew. “ lie arc hot told” added
Mr. Bock, “irhot debts bore been paid.
irl.nl t chit nee bos bun required, irhot
portion bos gone Ibe. agents anti lobby
ists and. jots of the departments. Tin
irhote matter in summarily disposed of
iril/t a mere statement that it husjmid de
tain debts, and it is mentioned Uml it U
none of ti r busimsi of Vongnss to inquire
ir/mt ditds bare lift n void, to -irboia Huy
acre paid, and for ir/mt they i re re paid,
irhcthi r to firuritts," dv?. This exhibit
shows how hollow all pretences are that
tho expenses of the government can be
iisctilu'.nud by examining tho up propria
lions made by Cuugross during thust
3ears. Yet no muni.nr of the Republi
can majority iu Congress ever admitted
that u dollar lms been expended beyond
what tin* appropriation bill shows. We
have become ho accustomed to talk about
millions mid hundreds of millions lately
llisit even tho vast sum squandered by tho
Quartermaster's Buieau is treated ns a
small mailer, just us the $250,009,000 out
of which the impoverished South has
been plundered by thu c.rput-hi.g omissa-
vivs of Congress is regarded as a mure
bagatelle. **\ el,” says Mr. Beck, “$lt)5.-
<810,0000 is n voiy ei.usidarable sum. All
members of this Houm could not
count it in two weeks in gold dollars if
• worked from sunrise to unmet every
da\. it weighs in gold over 255 tons,
ami if loaded into wagons with a ton
each, the teams could not stniul in dotiLIe
rows on Pennsylvania avenue between
the Capitol and ike Whito House. Yet u
qiiarteruiin-tor in the War Department
can divide it out and thu Hecretury of War
become indignant if Congress ventures
to ask him what Ins been dono with it!"
Mr. Beck proceeded to show Hint tin*
total ixpeuditures of tho government
front 1791 to 1812, twenty-one years,
amounted to about one hundred millions,
or $5,990,099 levs than Ute Quartermas
ter’s Department alone has squandered iu
the last six years, in udditiou to all thu
vast sums Congress has annually appro
priated to support it. lie was not coiu-
p Mining of tlie frightful amount stolen
and Mj iandtrcd during the war, but was
showing that hundreds of millions worth
of property purchased had buen sold since
the war and the proceeds unaccounted for.
“When a Representative of the pooplo,"
said ho, “in this hall demands information
on this subject, as 1 have done repeatedly,
ho is resided, harassed with objections as
though ho were nn officious inturmcddlcr;
uml when at last, by dint of threats to
stop appropriations if the inquiry is not
allowed which thu Democratic party in the
House authorized mo to make und pledge
their support to inako good, I ut last got
tho resolution passed, Congress, whoso
act the resolution became, is snubbed by
a Secretary of War, and a secoud resolu
tion only brings a general statement of
tho amount received, without deigning to
tell us either what has been sold or what
has been done with thu money. But with
thu investigations going ou the d«y of
reckoning will soon be at hand.” Air.
Dawes ossnyed to answer these facts, but
found it quite impossible. General Mur-
gau rupea’edly ch.i'leuged him to explain
or deny tin m.
“A ib dcii or Death.**
This is thu title not inappropriately
applied by the New Y«<ik Stuinlurd to thu
Fourth Wurd, tho sceuo of so many bru-
tul mmdurs of late in that city—
Murders follow fast iu that section of
our city, at ull times notorious for its
deeds of crime, its scones of dissipation,
of misery, of death. Tho baud of vio
lence iu never ut rest there, but sways
aud lunges continually, und sometimes
withawtul effect.
Those who huvo occasion to cross any
of the ferries between Fulton and Catha
rine, trnvirstug the dark and filthy streets
that? lead to the river, must notice, if
they bo observant people, gangs of young
ruffians, ranging in ago trum 15 to 25
years, hanging, like bca-ts of prey, about
the street corners. Like wolves, they
hunt in packs, and woo to tho unlucky
Inflated traveler who fulls within thoir
olntehi s.
Thu story of the poor sailor, whose
mangled body was discovered yesterday
moruing, is easily and briefly told. Coin
ing hero from a long voyuge, perhaps, ho
receives his hurd-eurned wages, spends
enough of it the first day for ruin to set
liis braiu ou fire; hu visits thu bucket
shop at night, is lured front it by soino
agent of these do idily marauders to a
place secure nguinst detection, is set up
on by the gang, robbed, and on milking
an effort ui resistance is done to death uh
swiftly and as securely as though ho hud
fallen among Arabs iu the solitudes of the
Sahara.
How many of tho bodies thut thu rivers
give up are victims who huvo tuct a liko
drcudlul uud ?
Swicipk.-—On Monday evening an old
gentleman named Cook was found in tho
woods, sumo two or three miles from
town, and near his home, hanging by tho
neck, to a tree. All tlio circumstances
point to it ns snicido, although no ouu as
yd has been able to give » trno solution
for tho cause of so dreadful a crime.—
Air. Cook had been a citizen of Opelika
for a number of years, and was, we think,
eousidorod a quiet and inoffensive geu-
tleman. At the timo of bis death he was
engaged in the cnltnro of grapes, fruit,
»ic. Was married to his third wife Rome
four or five mouths ago.—Opelika Loco
motive, 9th.
A Burk Cube for Neuralgia.—A noted
Germau physician gives us a remedy fdr
the horrible tortnres of neuralgia, a poul
tice and tea made from out common field
thistle. The leavea aro macerated and
used ou tbe parte afllioted, as a poultice ;
while a small quantity of tho leavea are
(wiled down iu the proportion of a quart
I to a pint, and a small wine glass of tha
t dtowtipg drank btf wt tach meal.
A Corner in topper.
Copper has boon successfully “corner
ed” in this city. Within teu days tho
prico has risen 10 cents a pound. It ia
now quoted at 41 cents, cash, and 35
cents for future delivery, from Juno to
October. Tho price iu England is T97 a
ton, net, or a little over 20 cunts, gold.—
Wo would inelii.c to womlor that so com
mon a thing as copper could bo cornered
did wu not remember that lust year there
was a corner in coal. The explanation of
this corner is very simple.
Tho Ueula and thu Calumet .copper
mines can produce copper at 12 or l.*»
cents a pound. Theso mines aro unde?
the control of a few monopolists, who, to
protect home industry uml keep -thu
American copper mines from sinking to
the degradation of tlio copper mines of
Europe, have obtained from u kind Con
gress tho boon of a duty of 5 cents a
pound iu gold. Foreign copper cannot
therefore bo laid down m New York for
loss than 27 cents a pound, gold. At ovo:i
25 cents the liccla uud Calumet lnilllion-
airos would have a bonus of 100 pec
cent. But they nro not satisfied with
that, and by combining with a copper
firm iu Now York, shipping their surplus
copper to Liverpool, where they sell it
for 2t) cents, gold, they make their corner
and sell their copper in Now York fur
from 35 to 41 cents. It is tho salt swin
dle over again.—N. Y. World.
lion WoHliburno Allied the I'niSNiniis,
Cincinnati Cuiiunoliial New York ’JVIogriini.]
A series of vigorous communications,'
written by nu American who xvna iu Paris
during tho Franco-German war, aro ap
pearing here, which undertake to prove,
circumstantially, that Aiiuister Wnshlmrne
is guilty, as charged by Al. Favro in the
French Assembly, of culpable complicity
with German partisans iu Paris, and that
Graut gave him tho ouu in order to concil
iate the Gcrmun voters. The writer says
Grant allowed arms to bo sold to tlio
French, on which sale ail iinuiouse mar
gin of money remains unaccounted for,
while ho secretly wrote to Wushburno and
Bancroft to espouse tho Gemum cause in
all possible ways short of open action.
Wushburno uiado highly onthusinstiu
speeches to its partisans. .Just utter tho
Republic was declared, but after Burn
side’s uppearauco with hints from Grant,
Washburno quit talking and treated the
new-lledged Republic coldly, and there
after, it is charged, allowed altogether too
much latitude to bo taken with tho privil
ege of the American mail-bags. It is also
alleged that, a young man who had been
put on the French General Ducrut's staff,
at Washburne's solicitation, revealed an
important night march, thereby saving nn
isolated Prussian division. This staff'offi
cer, was arrested, but Washburno interce
ded for him peremptorily. Tho writer
concludes by saying tL.it, after Burnside’*
mysterious arrival, not only ut the Lega
tion of tho I'nilcd Mates, but also in uu
American ambulance, there was a regu
larly organized staff of spies in communi
cation with Yeisailles. Names, dates, Arc.,
can bo given. And all to sacuro tho Gor
man vole tor Grant.
Tlie Fight Near Zmalenis l ily. Mexico.
A letter from Yeru Cruz, dated March
21st, gives tlio following description of a
sovero fight near Zacatecas City :
Thu grand battle for tho possession of
Zacatecas City, prophesied iu my last ns
about taking place, bus been fought, and
was wou by the Government troops. It
happened ou tho 2d, near the little village
of Guadulupe, one lenguo south of Zaca
tecas City, nuil proved by far the most
hotly contested, important aud sanguinary
engagement of this war. Because the
main fighting was dono on IhoCerro (hill)
do la Bufn, which wan occupied, fortified
mid stubbornly defended l»y the revolu
tionists, it is now known as the battle of
La Bufu. The Government troops num
bered from 9,090 to 10,000 men, mid tho
revolutionists had about 8,out)—the first
having, therefore, tho advantage of num
bers, but the disadvantage of having to
attack tho nnoiuy in uuturaliy strong aud
partly fortified positions. Gen. Rocha
commanded tho Government troops, as
sisted by Gen. Corolla, while Gen. Trev
ino acted as rauUing officer of the revo
lutionists, next to hnu and iu tho ardor
given being Gens. Guerra, La C.idenn,
Pedro and Ignacio Martinez.
The battle began nt 2 p. m., and lasted
five hours, or until 7 p. iu. Up to 5:30
the advantages were nil on the side of tho
revolutionists, two attempts of tlio Gov
ernment troops to curry tho hill of La
13ufa having buen successfully thwarted*
to tbeir grout loss, and nu attack upon au
ml joining hill—Las Balsas—occupied by
Pedro Martinez and his followers, having
boon repulsed. Afterwards, however, a
third attempt against La Bui a proved more
i uccessful, uud the bill was taken, tho
First Light lufuutry of Guanajuato, un
der Col. Alacios, being tho first military
organization to break the onemy'w lines.
This loss of the hill disheartened tlio
revolutionists, so thoy gave up tho con
test and commenced a general retreat,
being much favored therein by the setting
in darkness of the night. Tlio revolu
tionists holding Los Balsas wore tho last
to abandon thoir positions, aud did so iu
pretty good order.
Zacatecas being topographically aud
naturally an indofcusible city, tho revolu
tionists made no stand there, but passed
out of the pluco ou their retroat a few
hours after thoir abandonment of Las
Balsas, and on tho snine night of tlio fight
it wan entered qnd occupied by tho Gov
ernment troops.
Tbe lossoB of tbe revolutionists in tho
buttle wore ubout eighteen hundred men
killod and wounded, uud over twolvo
hundred captured, including among the
lust homo eighty officers, but not one of a
grado higher than colonel. Tho Govern
ment troops having proven •victorious
their losses in prisoners were very insig
nificant, hut iu killed and wounded thoy
suffered more than their opponents by at
least two hundred men, which is easily
accounted for by tho fuel that during
most of the engagement thoy were the
attacking party, fighting • upon open
ground, while tlio revolutionists were par
tially covered by fortifications. Of eigh
teen cannon iu possession of Gcnorol
Trevino's men at the commencement of
tlie battle, but ton of thei-o were spiked
by the revolutionists ere they lost them.
The dead-lock on tho Alabama treaty
leaves the fisheries question between tho
United Htatos and the Dominion of Cana
da in statu quo. Canadian-caught fish
cau only be imported into the United
States on the payment of duty, and Mas-
chusatts skippers cau only ply their call
ing in Dominion waters l>y taking out a
license therefor. As respects our tariff
the Canadians seem to po.-sess their souls
in patieuoo, but the skippers of Massachu
setts revolt at the idea of a Canuck license.
The season is just opeuing and they avowr
a doteriniimtion to arm themselves and
fish where thoy will, license and treaty to
the contrary notwithstanding. As a
Gloucester smack can hardly bo expected
to prove a match for a Dominion revenue
cut tor, the upshot will bp somo hoavy
seizures of Yankee schooners, and no end
of international complications wrist fol
low. Tho entire annual value of Massa
chusetts fisheries is not equal to the prop
erty valuation of that wretched Territory
Arizona, and yet for such an interest tho
skippors of Capo Cod are ready to violate
the national faith as pledged in treaties
and plunK* the whole country into war.
UV. r. World.
An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate
tbe Mikado of Japm has been made by a
party of twelve persons in Yeddo. Tw<*
of the assassins were captured; the others
escaped. Tho affair causoa great uneasi
ness to the coverurnout. Foreigners are
now forbidden to go bsyond the limits of
taoitjot Y*Mo,