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i /// I //y j its // THE 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.