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VOLUME IV.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1870.
NUMBER 42
.Senator Sctiurz and the Democracy.
\ The Democrats in this State Tory generally,
we believe, claim the election of Gratz Brown
i l Missouri as a Democratic victory! And so
if ♦is, in one sensoat .east. The coalition
between the Sclinz-Brown faction of the Be-
pnblicens and the Democracy, resulted in the
defeat of the regular Republican ticket Thus
far, therefore, it was a Democratic triumph.
But beyond this, the Democracy cannot claim
it as a victory without a total abandonment of
their political principles. In national politics
there is really no issue bt twett the Brown-
Schurz faction and tho regular JtepaDlican or
ganization. That faction, which was simply
the balance power in the late election in Mis*
souri, stands, or professes to stand, pr
with the President upon the question of Civil
Service and Revenue Reform. In point of
fact, there does not seem to be a hair's breadth
between them-and any of the leading issues of
the Republican party. The anm of the whole
matter, then, Booms to be that tho Brown fac
tion wanted office; to 'secure this, it
v. ,-nt into coalition with tho Demo
cracy, as ngainst the regular Republican
ticket, and succeeded. There was no Surren
der of pii iiciple except by the Democracy, and
this seems to havo been only for a temporary
purpose. Schnrz still claims to be a Republi-
cru, Jo bare abandoned nono of the principles
of.ib- party. On the contrary, he assumes to
represent the party still, on all the leading
isv:-s that distinguish it from the Democracy.
Therefore, if there, is to he u Brown-Schurz
party in Missouri, it necesaanly follows that
the Democracy of that State makes a clean
- surrender, and, as an organization, becomes
wholly extinct. Is th.' t tho programme? Then,
why should Democrataboasts. A lotaland un
conditional surrender U a cheap method of sa-
curiug victory, certainly!
Pbr
inlogy In Court—An Extraortlln
"xpedlont.
A siugular scene transpired in one of the
criminal courts of New York city a few days
since. A man named Sullivan was arraigned
for the murder of a Mr. O’Brien. The evi
dence showed that Sullivan was guilty of oold-
blooded, deliberate, premeditated Human;
and there seemed no possible way for the jury
to shirk their duty by rendering a verdict ol
Not Guilty. The friends end counsel of the
unfortunate murderer, became elanned for
his safety. They knew ho must hang by the
neck, and thus pay the penalty of an outraged
law, unless some sehemecouldbe devised, and
that speedily, whereby justice could be
delayed, if not wholly eet aside.
A novel expedient was hit upon by the coun
sel for the defense. Sullivan, it seems, is a
desperate looking fellow. He is one of those
malefactors whose physiognomy betrays his
true character. There was alto something pe
culiar in the shape and general appearance of
his head. Professor Wells, the phrenologist,
was therefore put upon the stand to explain
the riddle of the prisoners '‘bumps” and the
constitution of his mind. Of oourse the pros
ecution demanded to know what Sullivan's
“bumps" had to do with the ease, and by
what authority the opinion of a cnniologist
was solicited iu a trial of murder. The
defense explained that the object was to
show that **io mental -nd physical orgAnixa
tlon of the prisoner was such that, under tho I
circumstances surrounding the killing, he j
-would bo so subject to the control or bl* ani
mal impulses that his will would have no pow
er, and that therefore ha could not bo held re
sponsible for his action, since icSl was
'wanting! Whereupon the counsel, pro and eon.
•get into u general wrangle over “authorities;”
and the Judge, it seems, had sufficient com
posure and patience of mind to listen to the
debate for some length of time. Meantime,
Prof. Wells stood by with itching fingers to
feel the prisoner’s cranium, and with ready
tongue to expatiate learnedly upon his
“bumps!” Finally, however, when the learn
ed counsel had exhausted themselves over the
quibbles involved in the proposition to ad-
Reconstruction anil tbe Democratic Pi
ty— An Unwarrantable Assumption-
It is quite natural that the old line {Demo
cratic journals and leaders in Georgia, should
take issue with, or condemn outright, the re
cent address of Mr. Hill. No other course is left
them, except in the total abandonment of the
Platform and Principles of their party, since
Mr. Hill’s position is so diametrically opposed
to the Principle set forth in that Platform.
To have followed Mr. HilL would, therefore,
have been nothing less than an unconditional
surrender of the stale dogma of State Sover
eignty. and tbe Constitutional right of disin
tegration by separate State action. And with
out these dogmas, and the hatreds ol the Past,
as manifested in tho opposition to the Oonsti-
® rational Amendments and the Reconstruction
Acta,-the Democracy would most certainly
cease to be an organization.
Nor does the position assumed by Mr. Hill,
in his recent Address, necessarially com
promise his former record, as some of our
Democratic friends would fain believe. Mr.
Hill did oppose Reconstruction, as provided
for in the Sherman Bill and Supplements; bat
he did this not as a Democrat, nor yet from a
Democratic stand-point Ha opposed the
measure, as thousands of tho Old Dine Whigs
opposed it, because, in his opinion, it im
posed terms involving self-abasement, in their
acceptance, by Union men, no less than on
the part of Democrats and Secessionists them
selves. The Whigs and Union men of 1860,
went with Secession in 1861, not as secession
ist* ptr *#, bat as revolutionists. They de
nied the “right” of secession. They based
their action upon the right of kxvolutxon.
Aud since the Revolution Hailed they recognized
the right of the conqueror, under the law of na
tions, to impose the terms of readjustment.
Congress claimed tile right, and it certainly
had the power to impose the terms; but that
Congress did a very nnwise thing in seeking to
obtain the endorsement of the terms by the
Tery persons disabled by them, no fair-minded
man of any political party has ever attempted
to deny. Wo showed, a few days since, that
tho measure itself was imposed upon tho
South, in the form that it was finally presen
ted, through the /^-operation of the Demo
cratic members with the extreme Radi
cals, in their joint opposition to all milder
forms that were presented. The Democrats
opposed all measures, other than those pro
posed by President Johnson. Hence it was
that their failure to co-operate with the
moderate or Conservative Republicans, put
the extremists of the Republicans in the lead;
and the best that could be done, under tbe
circumstances, was a compromise resulting iu
the Sherman Bill.
Very few Northern Republicans endorsed
this Bill as an embodiment of political princi
ples. It was not what the Republicans want
ed. It was never endorsed, as to its princi
ples, even by the Southern Republicans who
advocated its acceptance. It was adopted as
a compromise, and accepted as the less of two
impending evils. And those Southern Union
men and Republicans who rejected it, simply
preferred the alternative of Military Rule, to
what they honestly considered an act of hu-
railiu tion in voting to impose political di.-abil-
ities upon theius -i . - - b“ - i • i’-’- '"! ‘
it, did so only because they considered
the evil of acceptance to be less deleterious to
the interests of the State at large, than tbe
perpetual Military Despotism which was pro
vided as tbe penalty of non-acceptance.
In view of these well hnown facts, it is a
great piece of presumption to claim that be
cause a Southern man opposed the Sherman
Bill, that therefore he joinod tho old Looofoco
Democracy!' It is equally absurd to assume
that because they co-operated with tbe old
Democratic leaders, for this specific object of
defeating the Sherman Bill, that therefore they
sought to restore the old Bourbon Democratic
dynasty in Georgia! And yet this is simply
the position assumed by those Democratic
journals who now claim that Mr. Hill was
once a Democrat, and consequently that he
SPIRIT OP THE GEORGIA PRESS,
ran AUGUSTA covsrrnmOXIAST, (ora.)
In the absence of anything else to say, returns
to its personal warfare upon Attorney General
Akerman. It says:
He is a sort of a Yankee scalawag. He has
been a resident of Georgia for a number of
years, but out of tbe loins of the Puritans did
Amos Tappan come.
[All this, it should be remembered, was de
signed as an answer to the statements made in
Mr. Akerman’s recent address to the people of
Georgia.]
THE COLXTMHUa 8CX (PCX.)
Is hard to please. It don’t like Ben Bill. It
don't like Bob Toombs. Jt don't like Mr.
Stephens' book, written in defense of the
■right” of Secession. And it don't like At
torney General Akerman. Speaking indirectly
of Mr. Akerman, and in review of his recent
letter, the Son says:
Bat the supercilious, officious blue-cosed
Yankee who knows everything, and smells oat
everything, who comes here with a stomach
filled with codfish and a heart and head over
flowing with bile and hate, and insolence, and
joins the carpet-bagger and scalawag in a
crusade of wholsale slander against the
South, in spite of titles, power, or' birth
place, is a wretch whose name sb-uld stand
nigh on a pillar erected to infsir.
[These are masterly argvr~rf* We pre
sume, however, thatsMr. * rmsn will sur
vive the crushing blow.]
■ TBS COLUMBUS XXqUIXZU (DDL)
Admits Congressman Bowen, of South Caro
lina, to the witness stand, and admits that
for certain Democratic purposes, his testimo
ny is valid.
THE SAVANNAH EXPUBUCAH (DDL)
Diacussses “the Political Telegraph,” but not
in Allusion specially to the Washington Agent
of the Associated Press, who has succeeded
in making the Press Reports^ the vehiele of the
Democratic faction.
THE NXWNAN DXTZNDBL (DEM.)
Reviewing the recent address of Hon. B, H.
mi, soys: "r YV '
No man who remembers the history of re
cent events, growing ont of reconstruction,'
can deny that we havo been injured by an-ub-j
availing opposition to the will of the conquer
or. A policy like this can only meet tri-'h ap
proval and excite admiration when tho people
who adopt it are ready for such a sacrifice as
was rendered by the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Georgians hare not demonstrated such a spir
it, and, therefore, their opposition has been
futile folly.
The same paper doee not exactly indorse all
that Mr. Hill says about the validity of exist
ing laws, and the nature of the Government
under the amended Constitution; nor does it
take issue with him. *
THE TIMES ASS PUSTEB (DEM.)
Is very unhappy over what it deems Ben
Hill's apoetaey, and proceeds to “answer” his
points in the genuine Democratic style; that
is, by ignoring the points and discussing the
man! '” : - - " - *
the Armors watchman (deal)
Gives some evidence of reform. It says:
We have never yet been able to perceive the
jpstice or wisdom of saying harsh things
against any gentleman, simply because ho may
happen to tntcriaia views different from our
THE LATEST NEWS.
By Rail to the Em.]
Heavy snow in California.
Florida wants more Judges.
Cats bring good prices in Paris.
Paris has more wine than meat
De Bodas has left Cuba for Spain.
STATE SEWS.
SAVANNAH.
i The Republican of the 18th contains the
; following:
. , , In view of the recent action of Yiotor
flmmanuel, King of Italy, in invading Rome
, with anarmedforce, seizing the province, thus
abolishing the temporal power of Pope Pins
1 IY, the Catholics in all parts of the world are
The new King of Spain asks the Cuban (uniting their voices in condemnation of the
rebels to surrender and name their own term s. 1 spoliation of the Pope’s dominions. With a
view of lending their aid and countenance,
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, is in favor of flit*, and joining their protests to those of their fel-
Income Tax. *" low Catholics of the universe, a grand mass
„ , , v. , • . a. u* . meeting of the Catholics of this city will take
Fechter and Wallack are having tho bigge.it plac8 at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist
kind of personal difficulty. on Drayton street, at 7| o’clopk this evening,
It is proposed in Connecticut, to Abolish one. ^
of the two capitis and use the o. er. A good-looking young woman was found
The colored people of Cincinnati have re- .JjqqJj th 0 streets the other day, and carried
solved to bo independent in local politics. -nI^oST to the calaboose. .Yfaather very inelement.
A German official journal states that King ■ talbottox.
William will restore Napoleon. j ^ Bras3 TiU haTe a Christmas Tree.
Bismarck is to be created aDuke ofthe. caetebstille.
German Empire. . x
., , _ , , Miles Jackson broke jail the other day, but
Alexander Dumas was the reputed antho- 5 Dromptl y recaptured... .The Car Factory
of 1,200 volumes. w , i-o built at once.
Monster meetings bare been held in Eng-j fig niwrwn.Tr
land to express sympathy with the Pope. I _ _ _ . , ,. . , ...
„ _ , .. . . , i Mr. D. E. Evans broke his arm by falling
Our Northern contemporary credit Atlanta, , om q scaffo , d The ^ ^ Tronpa
vnth an earthquake. i aa eator tainment last week.
In St Donis over 6,000 gallons of lager beer , uacojt.
are drank daily.
The British Blondes are very successful....
There ere rumors of Kn Klnx outrages in
Two circuses coming Humph Bruin, a pop-
Kentneky. ..... ular colored musician, is dead....A Female
Swindlers practice the “ring trick in Nash- [Minstrel Troupe coming. .Three days of
ville. horrible weather Republican meeting last
Judge Silas Woodson of Missouri is spoken! Monday night
of for the United States Senatorahip. coLUJiacs.
Judge Vernon of South Carolina is to bo| The Sun has thofollowing:
impeached. Mr. E. C. Gordon, a yotfng man formerly a
Memphis is to have a Merchants’ Exchange ‘ Major in the Confederate army, and brother
. , _ : of the distinguished General Gordon, was or-
and, perhaps, a vigilance committee. dained as a Baptist minister in the church of
St Louis celebrated the one hundivdth that denomination iu this city on Sunday
birthday of Beethoven. Kev. D. W. Gwinn, of Montgomery,
.preached an able and highly edifying ordination
Great quantities of unfit meet haTO boon .; erm0 n. The Rev. Dr. Skinner delivered the
in the Chicago markets. charge, and tho Rev. T. B. Slade made the
„ _ . - . closing prayer. The church was well filled.
Gem Troehu has charge of the food aud Ther0 B w 1 ag J n0 during the evening at
drink in Paris. either of the Methodist Churches. Rev. Mr.
Tho German Catholics out West
the Pope. Baptist Theological Seminary at Greenville,
Tho estate of the late Thad. Stevens is ie C. He is a young man of talent, who made
go towards building a colored college. ■ • f^nt record in the Southern army.
„ , , . . , j Parties in this county are said to be pretty
CaUicot refuses to accept a pardon from the
President and therefore remains in prison.
eqnally divided.
. acousta.
Twelve foreigners were naturalized last Mon-
ay Hugh Haley, a news-boy, was acci-
mtally shot and killed last Sunday afternoon
. .Mad dog killed.
Scriptural quotations excito amusement in
Congress.
Another attempt has been made to assassin
ate a Revenue officer in Texas.
It is tho Charleston (West Virginia) Herald'
that Porte Crayon is to edit. election Tuesday was eouduoted in a
Vigilance Committees are still active in Cal- '■-quiet and orderly manner,
ifornia. :> albani.
Boxarris is Minister of War in Greece. Her circus coming... .Democrats electioneering
may borolated t<r Marco Boxarris. ■>' vvith alin03t f ran tio excitement.
IS dread another sortie from:
V
mit the Professor’s testimony, the Judge ruled.
that much evidence was inadmissible. So the | has gone hack upon hi* record. Mr. Hill wa*
Phrenologist went home, and the jury render
ed an old fashioned verdict of Gnilty; and now
the remotest possibility of an Executire par
don, is all that stands between the murderer
and the murderer's doom.
Bismarck, Unto of Slrasburg.
The eable informs us that King Wiiliam de
sires to create the Const Von Bismarck a
Duke of the German Empire. Bismarck is a
courtier by nature. He likes a title as well as
any man living, but he is, at the same time,
the proudest and most obstinate of men. He
is of couree, very willing to believe that
Prussia id indebted to him for the success of
her present campaign against France, and it
is reasonable to suppose that he considers
himself worthy of the highest honors within
the gift of his sovereign. But Bismarck’s
selfishness makes him, to a certain degree, in
dependent of royal favor. Ho regards Bis-
marck as
“The .foremost min of this world,'
and shapes bii course accordingly.
certaiuty never a Democrat previous to 1861;
and he certainly never said or did any
thing daring the war to lead to the sus
picion that he ever endorsed, directly or
by implication, the peculiar political te
nets of the Democratic leaders. On the con
trary, he seemu to have carried his old Whig
principles into the Confederate Senate, where
his speeches and his votes show him to have
been as much a “Consolidationist” then, as he
was accused of being whilst a Whig leader in
the United States Congress Nor does it ap
pear, from anything which he has ever spoken
or written since the war, thatjhe ever endorsed
even a single principle of the Democratic par
ty. His alliance with that party was for a spe
cific object, wholly independent of mere polit
ical platforms; and when the purpose* of the
alliance wa* iub*erved, or ceased to be practi
cable or even desirable, be coaid not, as an
honest man, do less than proclaim the alliance!
itself at an end.
f-oat:aacu
atifully with t!
journal, j
•ran macon TELEomgn (dxm.)
Speaks of Attorney General Akerman as “that
venomous reptile.” [Some of our Georgia
editors are expert at slang.]
The same paper says:
The fanatics and jackasses over in England
who are clamoring for the ballot, ought to
have been here Monday, and seen the practi
cal working of tbe swindle of free suffrage.
It would have sickened them ad nauseam, if
they are not past that point
[We should dislike very much to have it
said in England that such utterances oa these
represent the “virtue and respectability” of
Georgia.]
THE OUITTIN STAB (CEIL )
Says:
Messrs. Robti Toombs and Lint Stephens
have published a most imprudent aud imprac
ticable letter of advice to election managers,
advising them to refuse all votes offered by
men who have not paid their taxes for 1869,
also advising the people to prosecute all ille
gal voters.
A Philadelphia preacher
tho street last Sunday night
'OtXnr Unfortunate Assertion.
King William naturally feels elated at be-1 One of the Democratic organs of this State—
eoSmg the Emperor of Germany,^and in the I ^ one that has been so singularly un-
exuberanco of his joy proposes to make Bis- j r,-, rlnT ,„ l „ j n management of figures—makes
marck a Duke ofthe Empire. Bismarck is I ^ c harge that “the Bullock Legislature cost
.ready to accept the title, but with commend- UJ 0Ter a million dollars more than ten years
able pride insists upon retaining his own of Democratic legislation P
name. The proponed title is Duke of Stras- Now we can hardly be persuaded that men
Ibnrg. It is seldom that a courtier a’lows per- f witIl the legislation of this State,
would pride to stand in the way of promotion. won ld deliberately make snob an assertion as
If Bismarck remains steadfast end convinces tbis It ma y fadeed go down with a few ig-
the King, he will be greater than the King norant who are innocent alike of eith-
bimself—he will be tbe power behind 'Che | cr or thinking for themselves; but
throne. Wo desire to see genius and talent
rewarded, but it affords us pleasure to see
them prostrated before the footstool of power.
aiodesty Illustrated.
Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, of Tennessee, who
has been sued for tbe value of n lot of coal
seized by him in 1861, petitions the State
Legislature to step in between him and the
owners of the coal which was so illegally ap
propriated, and thus save him from bank
ruptcy. In other words, General Pillow pro
poses that the tax payers of the State, who
had no hand in the illegal procedure of ap
propriating the property of other*, and who
condemned his action at tho time, should share
with him the consequence* of his own unau-
horized and illegal act Those who may have
heretofore supposed there was a limit to hu
man impudence and presumption, will be in
terested in this very modest petition of the
Tennessee Brigadier. In this connection, we
may remember that General Pillow has been
an aspirant for Gubernatorial honors in that
State since 1848. Somehow the Democracy
never appreciated his transcendent abilities.
The agitation of the proposition to remove
the National Capitol, ie still kept up feebly by
a few Western capitalists. Tbe question was
thought to have been thoroughly squelched,
with the recent Convention failure at Cincin
nati. Nevertheless there are still a few per
sons disposed to agitate the matter.
Edwin Forrest is expected to visit Nashville.
among intelligent men, such assertions only
provoke a smile of derision. Everybody who
his felt sufficient interest in these matters to
enter into an investigation of the fads, knows
that the expenses of Gov. Bullock’s adminis
tration for two year* is nearly one and a half
millions t.«s than the expenses of Got. Jenkins'
administration for the same length of time.
Furthermore, it ie equally well known, to
readers of newspapers in this State, that this
fact has never been disproved, nor, we belieTC,
ever attempted to be disproved, by the Dem
ocratic organa. Every well informed man in
Georgia knows, and mont candid men are
willing to admit, that whilst the public debt
of the State waa increased nearly four millions
under Gov. Jenkins' administration, it has
not been increased a single dollar under the
present"administration. Id view of these well
known facts, eneb assertions as the one above
referred to, be:ray gross ignorance on the
put of those who make them. If not, then
they certainly betray an unwarrantable pre
sumption upon the ignorance of the reading
public.
Tbe New York Evening Post says that the
new sedative, hydrate cf chloral, is likely
result mischievously. It is said to form
compound with the soda of the blood, thus di
minishing its coagulability. Hence the con
tinuous administration of the drug tends
prodace decompositions of the blood, so that
in case of a wound or open blood vessel the
hemorrhage would be Tory difficult to arrest.
Rx-Presldent Johnson Interviewed,
The versatile and industrious correspondent,
'Avery," of the Cincinnati-.-Commercial, has
been to East Tennessee, and he fills three col
umns with the details of an interview with
Andy Johnson! Andy is still talking about
•the Constitution and the Uninn,” and he ad
vised our friend to “stand by the Constitu
tion,” not as it is, but as it tea*. In this,
Andy is at least consistent with his party in
Georgia. He and Mr. Stephens and Mr.
Toombs are substantially on the anne plat
form now, as they were in 1850, and even so
late as October, 1860. Then, as now, they
were as one on all the old Locofoco heresies
and Johnson kicked ont of the traces in 1861,
only to come back and champion the cause in
1868 and 1870. The odor of Democracy still
hangs close about him, even more rank than
ever; and he even has a precedent for his digres
sion in 1861, in his “White Basis” departure in
1849. Of all the successful floppists in the an
nals of demagogism, Andy is still chief]
He is not yet exhausted.
struck for higher wages.
Troehu's aide-de-camp has left Paris in a
balloon. '
The finest market in 'Washington City has
been destroyed by fire.
fourteen Philadelphia shoe merchants sus
pended last week.
It is reported that the Prussians are suffer
ing from lack of ammunition.
A big railroad riot occurred at Whitehall,
BL, on the 14th.
The Indians in the Northweat are on the
warpath.
Advices from Dublin state that the Lord
Liententant refuses to pardon the Fenian pris-
lers.
The Richmond, (Ya.,) contested election is
to be decided by Judge Bond.
The wife a Kentucky man has presented him
with fire babies in eighteen months.
Hon. Jos. B. Bloke, Mayor of Worcester,
Massachusetts, was killed by the recent gas
works explosion.
It is nntrue that Rev. Horace Cooke, the
deucal seducer, has been arrested for drunk-
An Uunfortunste Princess.
It appears tbateren royalty is not entirely ex
empt from “the ills that flesh is heir to,” and, in
the case of Victoria's daughter, the Princess
Louise, those ills have assumed an aggravated
form. The Princess was so unfortunate as to
sprain her knee some time ago, and the in
jured member obstinately baffles the skill of
the best physicians of the realm. We can easi
ly imagine that tbe Marquis of Lorn, who is
to be the “coming man,” as far as the Princess
is concerned, feels rather disconsolate over the
prospect of marrying a cripple, and it may be
that he will yet "fly the track" in regular ple-
bian style.
Generous and Noble,
President Grant will be rejoiced to learn
that there is one Democratic editor in the
South who is his personal friend, and who,
consequently, doee not propose to call him
names. We congratulate the President upon
hi* good fortune in thus being exempted from
the usual quantum of slang and personal
abuse. That be will sleep muoh sounder
consequence of tbis announcement, no one
can reasonably doubt; and hence, as an set of
personal kindness to the President, we make
a note of the fact that he is not to be person
ally attacked or abused, or maltreated by
least one of the Nestors of the Slangwbangera.
Owning Up,
One of the Democratic organs of this city
speaks of a “Voter Factory." It doubtless
refers to a certain Bone Mill outside the cor
porate limits of the city, whose employees
were brought into Atlanta and voted the Dem
ocrats ticket at our late Municipal election 1
Paladins* has gone horns in disgust.
New York Worki yen have
company loinhabit c.e’Induin Terrii '
-Gov. Letcher, cf Vi
The brakemen on the Erie Railroad Lave*to“^se* ball purposes, and which
SAVANNAH.
Tile Republican, speaking of the "Base Ball
Christmas day and the expected
Atlanta Civil, say::
Clali is a wide-
1 Wr-rfPiriag
respectable re-
Christmas day. Heretofore, the
been playing to an open, house,
play on a six and a half acre
Editorial Raids.
Bainbridge boasts of females whoaro adepts
in the art of “ornamental swearing.”
The Columbus Sun is growing worse. It is
a very nice paper.
A “demnition little Venus,” is what an en
thusiastic Savannah editor calls Sophia Wor
rell.
Christmas kills the Newnan Defender for an
entire week. The egg-crop will be small in
that village.
The Savannah Republican illustrates “tho
rarity of Christian Charity” by ridiculing “the
Northern pulpit”
The Augusta police arrest dirty vagrants
for stealing soap. Alas, for “man’s inhuman
ity to man P
A miracle has come to pas3 in Rome. - The
Daily of that place credits Capt. Scott with an
excellent speech!
“Iconoclasts” is the new pet name bestowed
upon the Republicans by the Albany News.
The same paper deprecates what it is pleased
to caU’‘*personal prejudice*."
The editor of the Houston Home Journal
promise* impossibilities is his salutatory—he
pledges himself to make the Journal dignified
and conservative, and decidedly Democratic!”
Savannah printers get along very well. Oc
casionally one makes a trifling mistake, such
as turning “Droid” into “Clarke," for instance
but the similarity between the two words is
enough to mislead any one.
The Rome Daily has half a column of
“Plain Truths” for Gail Hamilton. The Dai
ly gets a few of the same sort from its local con
temporaries, and that explains why it slops
over.
The sick editor of the Columbus Sun pro
poses to divert himself by exhibiting “the
Hon. Ben. Hifi-in two characters—the one of
an angelic beauty, the other of Satnnio de
formity." Nice recreation for a mind dis
eased !
The editorial “poick” of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist speaks of the Attorney General
of the United States as a “Yankee scalawag.”
This language is so elegant, chaste and digni
fied, aud so well suited to a poet that it will
doubtless carry conviction homo to those
who were alreedy convinced!
The Albany News is pleased to cell the
Attorney General of the United States the
“Administration’s De TinviUe.” This com
parison is not suggested by anything in the
history of the French revolution, as tho News
fondly imagines. Tinville, and not De Tin-
ville, is the name of tbe party referred to by
the Ngws.
A SPANISH ORATOR.
it is now enclosing with a high and substan
tial board fence at a cost of about eight hun
dred dollars, corner of Drayton and Anderson
streets. Seats are to be erected within the
enclosure capable of accommodating about a
thousand persons. At one corner of the en
closure there will be a ticket office, a door for
the admission of visitors and a gateway for
the accommodation of vehicles and persons
on horseback.
MACON.
Jim Fisk went to the Hebrew Fair in New
York, the other night, and amused himself by*
purchasing boquets at $10 apiece.
Parte Crayon is going to take charge of a
Charleston, South Carolina, paper on the first
of January.
The distribution of the Peabody fund in
Louisiana has been attended with some
wrangling.
A colored man in Virginia, who rejoiced in
a white wife,killed his step-son the other day,
by jumping upon his prostrate body-
An imposter, claiming to be the Bishop of
Persia, has beta swindling the people of Cali
fornia.
A Cincinnati Commercial reporter has in
terviewed Andy Johnston to the extent of
three columns, and didn't make anything ont
of it either.
An election riot occurred Tuesday. Several
negroes injured. 2,400 votes polled T uesday
Large Republican majority One hun
dred extra policemen have been organized...
The election rather injures tho British Blondes.
AUGUSTA.
Active electioneering and caucusing going
on. Fifty Deputy Sheriffs at the polls. The
ballot box was guarded by Republicans and
Democrats Tuesday night Last Sunday
evening the Catholics of Augusta held a meet
ing protesting.
COLUMBUS.
The skating carnival was advertised to come
off last night Quito a number of ladies and
gentlemen were to appear in costume... .Lau
ra Keene opens Friday night—Election pro
gressed quietly Tuesday Messrs. Wynn and
Smith, pastors of SL Paul’s and St. Luke’s
Churches, have been continued for the ensu
ing year.
SPABTA.
Federal soldiers have arrived They will re
main during the election.
SAVANNAH.
The election was quiet enough on Tuesday
. .The following is the programme for Christ
mas day:
At nine A. u., a grand parade of Fantastics
will be m -de through the streets; at half-past
ten, the knights, in costume, will repair to the
new Ball Park, on Anderson street, to engage
in a tournament. Several prizes halve been
offered—among them two handsome ones from
the Directors of the Ball Park. At twelve M.,
the match game of base ball between the At
lanta and Savannah clubs, for the champion
ship of the South. In the afternoon, there
will be a pigeon shooting match and a balloon
ascension. A fine band of music will be in at
tendance at tbe Park daring the day, and
glorious time is anticipated.
EAST TENNESSEE NEWS.
At a free school meeting, the other night,
on motion of J. A. Bayl, Esq., tbe chair ap
pointed a committee of five, consisting of
Messrs. Dickinson, Rule, Andrews, Rayl aud
Butler, to memoralize the County Court, at
its next meeting, to levy a tax lor the use of
free schools in the county.
P. Dickinson, Esq., offered, should the sys
tem become general throughout the city, to ed
ucate all the poor children in his ward, west of
the jail, at his own expense.
W. H. Pariser, who was seriously injured a
few days ago, is dead.
Four marriages last week.
Sunday Schools will have a Christmas jubi
lee next Sunday evening.
CHATTANOOGA.
A gang of burglars attempted to open the
safe of Holden, Humphries A Barns, Chat
tanooga, last Satnrday night, but were fright
ened by the arrival of several of the clerks,
and left without having earned out their in
tent
The Times of the 20th, says:
The rains ceased yesterday towards night,
and a heavy gale came on. Mr. Robinson’s
new brick house on the hill, near Maj. Car-
lile’8 residence, suffered seriously, the gable
ends having been blown down. Abont 11
o'clock at night the rain commenced again.
A correspondent of the Dshloncga Signal al
ludes to Dr. Brantley’s sermon against thea
ters, and admits his otter inability to acoount
for the popularity of Forrest daring the fol
lowing week.
Gossip.
It is believed in England that Eugenie, with
tho approval of Napoleon, will eventually
adopt a Prussian heir restorer.
Paris still holds out. A German sympathi
ser says that city reminds him of a dose of
•astor oil—it’s so hard to take.
The Vigilance Committee in Kansas has
grown so rampant that the people are anxious
to hang them off.
Mr. Cbarlc- YccY.Uc has resigned the man-
jagement of the Globe Theater,m - iiostun, on
account of difficulties with Mr. Wallack and
others of the company.
AfWr the suicide of Major Watters, the Nor
folk, Ya., hotel-keeper, it was discoved that
he had forged the names of several prominent
citizens.
Tho life of an editor is not always free from
•are. They have to stand this up in Newnan,
Go.: •‘Come and look, mother,” said a little
boy “there goes an editor.” “My son, you
should not make sport of the poor man; yon
•annot tell to what extremity you may come.”
The other day eight mighty men of Brattle-
boro, Vermont, spent five boors in hunting
down a ferocious wild beast, which, when
killed, proved to be only a grade Alderney
heifer which had lived on her own hook since
last spring.
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly says:
There comes a time when normal eyes find
their powers grown limited, and require more
light, or assistance from glasses, when looking
at small near objects. When this period ar
rives it is on error to persist in endeavors to
do as formerly with the eyes; but much uso
must be avoided except in a clear light or with
the required auxiliaries. It is a mistake to
suppose that glasses should not be worn while
it is possible to avoid doing so. On the con
trary, they serve to prevent straining of the
eyes, and preserve rather than injure vision.'
On tho extreme left of the chamber is a
young face that bears an unmistakable seal of
distinction. It reminds you instantly of
Chantrey’s bust of the greatest of the sons of
men. The same pure oval outline, the arched
eyebrows, the piled up dome of forehead,
stretching outward from the eyos, until
tho glossy black hair, seeing tho ut
ter hopelessness of disputing the field,
had retired * 'discouraged to the back
of the head. This is Emilo Castelar,
the inspired tribune of S£ain. This people is
so given to exaggerated phases of compli
ment, that the highest colored adjectives have
lost their power. They have exhausted their
lexicons in speaking of Castelar, but in this
instance I would be inclined to say that exag
geration was wellnigh impossible. It is true
that his speech does not move with the power
ful convincing momentum of the greatest
English and American orators. It is possible
that its very brilliancy detracts somewhat from
its effect upon a legislative body. When yon
see a Toledo blade all damaskeened with frou-
dage and flowers and stories of the gods, yon
are apt to think it less deadly than one glitter
ing in naked blnencss from hilt to point Yet
the splendid sword is apt to bo of the finest
temper. Whatever may be said of his endur
ing influence upon legislation, it seems to me
there can be no difference ot opinion in regard
to bis transcendant oratorical gifts. There is
something almost superhuman in his delivery.
He is tho culy man I have ever neonwho pro-
daces, in very truth, those astounding
effects which I have always thought the in
ventions of poets and the exaggerations of
biography. Robertson, speaking of Pitt’s
oratory, said: “It was not the torrent of
Demosthenes, nor the splendid conflagration
of Tolly.” This ceaseff to be an unmeaning
metaphor when yon have heard Castelar. His
speech is like a torrent in its inconceivable
fluency, like a raging fire in its brilliancy of
color and terriblo energy of passion. Never
for an instant is tho wonderfal current of
declamation checked by the pauses, the hesi
tations, the deliberations that mark all Anglo-
Saxon debate. An entire oration will be de
livered with precisely the fluent energy which
a veteran actor exhibits in his most passionate
scenes; and when yon consider that this is
not conned beforohand, bnt is struck off
instatly in the very heat and spasms of
utterance, it seems little short of inspira
tion. The most elaborate filing of a fas
tidious rhetorician could not produce phrases
of more exquisite harmony, antitheses more
sharp and shinmg, metaphors more neatly fit
ting, ull uttered with a distinct rapidity that
makes tho despair of stenographers. His
memory is prodigious and under perfect dis
cipline. He has the world’s history at his
tongue’s end. No fact is too insignificant to be
retained nor too stale to do service.
His action is almost energetic and impas
sioned. It would be considered redundant in
a Teutonic country. If you do not understand
Spanish, there is something almost insane in
his gesticulation. I remember a French di
plomat who came to seo him, on one of his
happiest days, and who, alter looking intently
at the orator for half an hour trying to see
what he was saying, said at last in an injured
tone, “Jfais/ eest un pdichinclle, celuila." It
had not occurred to me that he had made a
gesture. The whole man was talking from his
head to hi9 feck
Finally, as wo cannot stay even with Cas
telar all night, his greatest and highest claim
to our admiration aud regard is that his enor
mous talents have been consistently devoted
from boyhood to this hour to tho cause of po
litical and spiritual freedom. Ho is now only
thirty-two years of age, but he was an orator
at sixteen. He harrangued the mobs of 1854
with a dignity and power that contrasted
grotesquely with his boyish figure and rosy
face. Daring all theso eventful years he has
not for one moment faltered in his devotion to
be two hundred and fifty feet long, and lies on
her beam ends, with tho bow, bowsprit and
stem well above tho sand. This indefatigable
explorer has started out again for the fossil
ship, taking with him several barrels of water
and planks to cross the soft mud of Cavassono
lake.
MRS. SLIDELL.
Death, of a Queen of Society-Interesting
. Reminiscences.
The cabla announces the death ofMrs. John
Slidell, at Brighton, England. Whatever may
be thought of ner husband’s political course,
or of her own political sentiments, all who
knew this elegant and accomplished lady will
sincerely regret her death. Mra.Slidell was born
in New Orleans, of Freneh parents, and was as
thoroughly French in her education and man
ners os though she had been bom and raised in
Paris.
The Philadelphia Day, in announcing, her
death, remarks:
She was much younger than her husband,
appearing more like his daughter than his
wife, and was affianced to him, according to
French usage, without being even intimately
acquainted with him, and married him when
she was very young, the third time she had
qver seen him. But sh ; was a true wife and
mother, and her household was characterized
not only by elegance and refinement, but by
every mark of domestic happiness and peace.
Mr. Slidell’s house in Washington—called
by some the “second white house”—was the
center and focus ofthe most refined society of
the capital during Mr. Buchanan’s administra
tion, and guests were welcomed with a hearti
ness and treated with a hospitality uunsual in
what is called fashionable society. The family
was a most agreeable one, the two daughters,
Mathilde and Rose, who were then aged, re
spectively, about fourteen and sixteen, and who
were os unpretending and modest as though
they were not the highly educated and admir
ed daughters of a millionaire, contributing
greatly to its attractions.
Mrs. Slidell was a lady of rare social accom
plishments, and was most entertaining in
conversation. Her faculty for making her
guests feel at homo and happy in her honso
and presence was remarkable, and enabled
her, petite as she was, to outshine her rival,
political as well as social, the more magnifi
cent Mrs. Douglas, who, though an exceed
ingly well-bred lady, and well schooled iu the
art of entertaining, lacked tho sparkle and
genuine 6on homme of the vivacious and tho
roughly accomplished little French woman.
Do what Mrs. Douglass would, Mrs. Slidell
would draw the elite of Washington 'and tho
conntry to the second white house, and bath
these ladies, by tho way, aspired to the mis-
tresship of the first white house, now, howev
er, Mrs. Douglas has become Mrs. Williams,
the wife of an army officer, and Mrs. Slidell
has passed away lrom earth, leaving a host
of admiring friends in both hemispheres to
mourn her early death, for she was in tho
prime of life and womanhood. Her sister,
Mrs. Beauregard, died during the war.
The following correspondence was brought
to us by a small boy, who stated that it was
dropped iu the City Hall Park by an elderly
gentleman wearing a white hat, whose agile
movements prevented our informant from
overtaking him to restore the lost property.
From the fact that ho was flourishing a copy
of the World in an excited manner, the boy
fancied that he might be connected with this
office in some subordinate capacity. The let
ters being signed simply with initials, we have
no clue to the identity of the writers, and there
fore print them, trusting that perchance they
may in this way reach tho parties for whom
they were intended.
Dear Horry: As the easiest way of accumu
lating a few plums, I am thinking of raising
some d—sons in my garden, but don’t exactly
knowhow to set about Ik Do yon plow deep,
Rev. J. B. McGehee has been appointed
pastor of the Methodist church in this place
for the ensuing year. ...The Jewish citizens
have organized The Eureka Literary Society.
Editorial Raids.
The local of the Fort Valley Georgian is
mortified to see white women staggering
abont the streets in a state of inebriety.
Gainesville is progressing. The citizens of
that little burg like to see the “political dema
gogue” burlesqued by their amature Thes-
The local of the Cartersville Express apolo
getically admits that his “items” are “few and
fer between.” His “items,” it seems, are try
ing to follow the fashion set by his ideas.
The Savannah Advertiser man, having, in
an evil hour, ridiculed thoTalbotton Standard
man for going to parties, receives from the
latter source a scathing rebuke, surpassing in
its wealth of epithets, even the notorious Ga
zette of EatanswilL The stinging part of the
article, however, is contained in the insinua
tion made by the Standard man, that the Ad
vertiser man does not go to parties because
he can’t!
Ono ofthe editors of the Savannah Repub
lican commenced the study of “Tacky-
graphy,” as he styles short-hand. A feeling
of sadness comes stealing over us, as we
think of our contemporary, perplexed, puz
zled and bewildered, by circles, demi-circles,
and zig-zag deviltries, until, at last, ho seeks
refuge in the Insane Asylum.
liht-ralideas. Jn poverty, /'"lie and persecu- j and sow the seed as you dp oats or potatoes,
tion, as well as. s ■ ■ or ii t-ater to tW-pIants where^they
flattery and favor, he lias kept his faith unsul
lied. With his great gifts, he might command
anything from the government, ns the price of
his support. But he preserves his austere in
dependence, living solely upon his literary
labor and his modest salary as Professor of
History in tho university.—From the Atlantic
Honthly for January.
Naughty Boston.
A Boston correspondent writes: “We are
running into a sort of a literary and musical
Sabbath-breaking'that would have grieved in
expressibly our Puritan forefathers. Rather,
instead of having so mild an emotion as
grief, they would have broken up concerts and
ectnres instanter, in an nncontrolable out
burst of righteous indignation, and would
have clapped into the stocks, or even into jail,
tho offending singers and lecturers. We,
fallen from their high estate of Sabbatic ~—
] >riety, flock to hear sacred concerts in wl
;he sacred is mostly on the handbills, and
master in force to hear subjects that don’t fit
well to any texts that I now recall. Lately
Gem Kilpatrick gave a Sunday evening lecture
on “Incidents ofthe War,” full ofKilpatrician
rhetoric, declamation, eloquence, and what
ever else goes to make np a first-class popular
lecture. And last Sunday evening we had two
lay sermons on Dickens, one by Miss Kate
Field, from the pulpit of the Globe Theater,
the other by G. W. Curtis, from the pulpit of
the Boston Theater. I will not vouch for Miss
Field’s sermon, bnt Mr. Curtis’s was certainly
not less Christian than many a consecrated
pulpit gave that evening, and hardly one
pulpit m the land furnished speech more
winning and manly, or gave a healthier im
pulse toward living well.”
Cheese Beef tor food.
Aside from economizing labor, the cheese
factory system has developed another great
principle—the means of producing cheap food.
An abundance of cheap, nutritions food is es
sential to the highest civilization of any na
tion. Poverty and crime always accompany
a scarcity of food. Cheap food is one of the
elements of the intellectual progress of the
American people. The increase of our popu
lation is attended by a scarcity of meats, and
the price is already beyond the means of the
poor, and difficulty most be still farther
increased. It is an urgent question what oth
er form of ftnimal food can be substituted for
beef. In the opinion of the speaker, tho dairy
most be the means of solving the difficulty.
To illustrate his meaning more fully, Mr.
Willard drew a comparison between tbe rela
tive cost of producing beef and cheese.
A good steer at four years old will produce
1.000 pounds of beef; and three wonld pro-
dace 3,000 pounds nek A good cow will
yield from 500 to 600 pounds of cheese per
year. Taking her product at 450 pounds per
year for twelve years, allowing nothing for the
first two years of her life, gives 4,500 pounds
of wholesome food. In other words, three
steers representing twelve years growth give
3.000 pounds against 4,500 pounds from the
cow in the same time. *
A pound of cheese being equal to two
pounds of beef in nutritive value, increases
the difference still more, giving 9,000 pounds
of food from the dairy to 3,000 pounds of
meak The loss of bone and cost of cooking
add still another item to the difference.—Wil
lards address before (he Vermont Dairymen's
Association.
GEN. PILLOW’S CASE.
He Boas the State of Tcuncssec to Defend
His Case.
In the Tennessee Legislature on Monday
last, Mr. Townsend presented a petition from
Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, of Memphis, relative
to a judgment rendered against him for certain
property taken while acting as an officer of
he State. It is in substande as follows :
He respectfully states that, in 1867 _ ho
was'sued in the Circuit Court of the United
States, at Memphis, Tennessee, by Riddle,
Coleman &Co., of Pitksburg, for seizing by
military order and appropriating to military
uses, property regarded as enemy’s property,
consisting of coal, coal barges, etc. This was
done on the 20th day of May, 1861, while.the
State stood alone, and before, she had united
her destinies with the Confederate States. He
was defended by Judge Wright, Landon C.
Haynes and Isham G. Harris, Jndge Emmons,
United States Circuit Court, presiding. That
verdict was rendered against him for
$35,835 3G and costs of suik His defense as
a belligerent was overruled upon the ground
that the State of Tennessee was not nt that
time recognized as a belligerent; that he was
acting under and by authority of a commission
from the State, and was only doing his duty
as a military commander under it; that ho is
reduced to poverty by losses during tho war,
and is unable to pay the judgmant and costs.
He prays the State to take charge of the case
and defend it. He 3ays plaintiffs are willing to
take State bonds at par in the discharge of
said judgmenk If not relieved by the State
his last chattel would be sold under the mar
shal’s hammer. “Your petitioner submits to
your honorable body how far it will comport
with the honor of the great • State of Tennes
see to permit its officer and servant to be sacri
ficed for a liability incurred in the dischargo
ot a duty imposed by the State.”
Referred to Committee on Claims, and or
dered transmitted to the Senate.
grow wild, and stick them in hole3 ? Please
tell me what yon know about ik I don’t
want to have to wait too long for tho froit.
As the other Horace says :
G—<1—na igitur
Juvenai dum aumui.”
Yours truly,
Brooklyn, December 1, 1870. H. W. B.
Dear Harry: Fora fellow with as much top-
dressing as you sub-soil plowing is infradig.
You don’t sow plums. Tha best way u to get
a tree already grown and cut it off to tho
right height (from tho bottom, mind, you
want the branches for tho fruit to grow on.)
Then yon sharpen the lower end and hammer
it in wherever you like. If you.prefer to raise
the wholo thing yourself ah ovo, you might
try taking a few egg-plums and setting a hen
on them. I’m not sure whether the last plan
is mentioned in my work on farming, bnt sec
no reason why it shouldn’t answer. That’s
all I know abont ik Yours, H. G.
New York, December 2,1870.
Kew ■ York World.
Muffling the Throat.
What is the best mode of protecting the
throat from colds where a person is very sus
ceptible to them ? The common way of pro
tecting the throat is to bundle and wrap it.up
closely, thus overheating and rendering
it tender and sensitive, and more liable
to colds and inflammation before. inw
practice is all wrong, and results in much evil.
Especially is this the case with children, and
when in addition to the muffling of the throat
the extremities are insufficiently clad, as is
often the case, the best possible conditions are
presented for the production of sore throats,
coughs, croup, and all sorts of throat and
lung affections. _
It is wrong to exclude cold air from the
neck, and if it is overheated a portion of the
time, when it is exposed, some form of disar
rangement of the throat will be apt to occur.
The rule in regard to clothing the neck should
be to keep it as cool as comfort will alllow.
In doing so yon will suffer much less from
throat ailments than if you are always fearful
of having a little coid air come in contact
with the neck. Any one who has been accus
tomed to have his throat muffled should bo
careful to leave off gradually, and not all at
onee.—Herald of Health.
The Ship Of the Dc»ert.
The ship in the Colorado Desert still con
tinues to excite interest in San Francisco, par
ticularly as an exploring party of four persons
him just returned from a search after this won
der. As wa3 the case with previous explorers,
this party did not succeed in reaching tho ship,
bnt only managed to obtain a view of it
through a field glass. Tho leader of this par
ty, who, it is stated, is a man of veracity and
good sense, says that he found the ship about
forty-five miles southwest of Dos Palmos sta
tion and tho Cavossone lake, precisely at the
spot where it bad been reported to be by the
Indians and by travelers. . The party had
traveled fivo days and fonr nights on thirty-six
gallons of water for fonr men and five animals,
and was forced to return without succeed
ing in tho object of the explroration. Tho
leader of the party, however, pushed on before
his companions, traveling all night on foot,
and tormented with a raging thirst, and only
went far enough to assure himself that the
ship actually existed. He says that he saw
tho ship distinctly through his glas?, about a
i mile and a half diatank The ship appears to
Von Moltke.
Dr. Russell, correspondent of tho London
Times, thus describes the great strategist,
Von Moltke:
‘There i3 suddenly an uprising in tho eat
ing room of the Hotel des Reservoirs, where
we sit listening and pondering—a great clank
ing of Bteel scabbards and spurs, and clink of
glasses on many tables. Dukes reigning, and
Dukes who will never reign, and Princes
Royal and Sereno, and all tho uninformed
host at many tables rise, and stand, as it were,
at ‘attention,’ as a tall, thin old man, with
slightly stooped shoulders, walks ont hurri
edly with an abstracted air, puffing his cigar;
ronnd-headed, with many wrinkled brow, face
clean shaven and hairless, no moustache nor
whisker, only a thick eye-brow over a specu
lative eye, which looks out as if far beyond at
a distant object ‘Who is that?’ asks one of
the English refugees, 'he must be somebody?’
‘It’s Von Moltke.' "Oh, indeed! Well he has
driven ns out of Paris, any way.’ There is
the great painter Werner como to paint his
picture for the town of Kehl, where Von Roon
was boro. He is to be represented directing
the investment ot Paris, which is seen in the
background with tho German armies defiling
in the middle distance."
Napoleon with a Mask On.
Louis Napoleon in many respects made a
good ruler, bnt in all respects he made a much
better rogue. He has tho cunning to deviso
and the audacity to exeoute undertakings that
wonld scarcely occur to men less gifted in his
peculiar way; but what specially characterizes
him is the seeming indiscretion of his meth
ods. He moves toward his purpose like a
snake in the grass, and generally conceals his
real object behind a mask of well contrived
indifferenco. The last dispatches say that he
refuses to give his sanction to any schemes
for his restoration, dociaring that his part
is silent inaction, while all the while
the crafty little dissembler is work
ing byways that are dark and tricks” that
ain't plain, to compass the revival of the Empire
with himself at the head. That this is the
general opinion in England wo infer from the
great significance attached to tho visit of Eu
genis to Windsor Castle, and the distinguished
reception awarded her. She seems to have
been treated with a respect inspired more by
the possibilities of the future than by any
sympathy for her past misfortunes, and yet
her husband pnblicly discourages the hopes
thus raised, and pretends that he is only a
passivo spectator of the daily occurring calam
ities which poor France is now suffering aa tho
price of this Imperial trickster’s ambition.
A Santa Fee Tragedy.
Tho Daily Post, of the 16th, has fall partic
ulars of a horrible tragedy which took plaoe at
El Paso, Texas, on the 7th instant It ap
pears that Sapator Fountain got into a dispute
with Mr. B. F. Williams, a lawyer, who fired
a revolver twice at him, severely bnt not dan-
geronsly wounding him. Williams then fled
to his room, where he was followed by Judge
Gaylord J. 3. Clarke, of tha twenty-fifth dis
trict and a posse of men, who attempted to
arrest him. Williams seized a gnu and rush
ed from his room, and shot Judge Clarke dead.
Capt French, of the State police, returned tho
fire and killed Williams. Great excitement
prevailed, bnt public sentiment was entirely
against Williams. The funeral of JudgeClarke
was the most imposing affair ever witnessed
at El Paso.