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“WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”
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I'lTliDAV MORNING, Jan.
7.
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JIO.V. ALLAN C. THURMAN.
a putts now stand upon the _
jtalceuo that shine out with a purer
than shines the name of Allan
i an. If n it so brilliant as some
id athw: rt the political sty,
iitiie time less eiratic. No flicker-
cam lights up his track, but a sure,
coll marked light that a patri
, at any time and in any emergency,
f„!l iv. And the people of the Uni-
at?s have him to thank for a strong
ttnvering conservatism that has stood
them and the anarchy of Kepub-
Thc depots' scheme of centralization
- met at Ids hands a rebuke that makes
. reproach to the people. The oppres-
n workings of the tariff—building up
/interests of the manufacturers at the
irensc of the great agricultural in dustries
A: nation, has found in him a bitter
MV. and his voice was raised for the
r farmers shea it required the lungs of
•vat r 11 make it heard amid the din
ar te-,'inn that silenced all justice and
:bt. as sv.-il as policy. And again, when
.; r bleeding South lay crushed at the
it J the I'nion, his friendly eye was
last the only one that looked with a feel-
.- f justice upon her condition. When
'he horribli consequences of a desolat-
. nr, tra< added the urestrained rober-
.: alien politicians, ho always stood
■it as its friend, and denounced the out-
The Alabama iniquity in TSG8, when a
1 •a-'itatiun and its co-ordinate officers
ret forced upon an unwilling people, and
' -: > ia the face of the plain provisions
'fitscurs law. by Congress, this states-
t-. 1 '. remonstrated, but in vain.
When oar own State was kicked about
al’-a-ress like a croquet ball, he it was
v.. pleaded with the voice of a patriot for
And to his exertions we are in-
-t'.vd Ihr the defeat of Bullocks’ vile
'ki: f rr.ljngatiou and reconstruction.
When oar best men were disfranchised,
•—ae -rate mass of negro voters were
titn-t.lwv.ii tli i control and direction of
~ aJilrs. i;o pointed out the error, aud
■k.a- w 1 against the wrong.
Aid aow ti.at the unerring verdict of
tee hi, proved the wisdom ol his course,
al'lie justness of his act, we should not
Ititaaiod till of his patriotism.
■Ur that the South stands redeemed of
wsoti.ralliuent, and the voice ofSoutb-
Q D.'uocracy has again become a power
stheLad, tve should not forget the scr-
'•■'riot this, our steadfast friend. Ashe
ttaetWrcd us in the day of our hutnilia-
to nu weakness, let us now remember
*• Aud let the name or Allan G. Thur
51,11 bs uac that the Southern democracy
Y'kuv tu liuuor.
T|| E NEOV YORK IIERAtD ON THE
CANADA (tUEsriON.
He New \ork Herald of the 3d, con-
“ ,,J! ai ’ lc ‘‘ interesting matter relative to
ll! bhni'laquestion, so gratuitously stirred
Vbv al spooney Ben at his clam bake
ts fa! 1 .
this article both sides are presumed
'I'-k, and of course each tells quite a
8 reut story. The common rule in cases
*^te a conflict ol testimony arises, is to
the character of the deponents, and
1 c - ditability of the witness must deter
mine character of his statements. This
5s a’hing of the evidence is a matter al-
'.'-■ left to the discretion of the jury, but
* l .Particular case the Herald, while
. 1D ? a; Judge, has assumed the role of
; ,vt uso, aufl tells us that “your canning
, or PMfessional diplomat, knows how
. 1016111 v, ' r J plausahle case from very
” And of course this testi-
; * rj ^ le ’'Dominion statesman” has to
'■at-'' a5 '^ e ’ an< ^ cre fl |?nco given to the
Lt tdle P oor i J car Codder, who
w e ' eQ so much as a herring in his
Ih. .
hnn i the Heralds’ decision is
u 10 the following :
the navigation of the St.
i seventejn million six hun.
r "-Ighbors
of our Western people, look-
■oust ultin,, 0 ,! e I lor t l’ eir heavy products,
- their, e y * ,lve it in common with
i 0Vcr the border with the
SSjos
Southern 1 ^: . e,n P' 0 yed against our late
tt. e hton wa3 the Mississippi riv-
^ ’^ ea °P arrestin:
lb,
Ibat
S^gteat b;,.v -“"’““G bhe trade down
Mi ss jL : ff i ? * rom llle . O' 1 ' 0 and the
JJ »t a 0j ' f PP 1 a foreign Confedera-
tha attemm? ? abs “ rd 23 would have
em P l l » ‘nrn back the river it-
the natural highway to the sea to all the
communities of it3 basin, on all sides of its
tributary great lakes, and those indispen
sable St. Lawrence lateral canals are, alter
all, bat a mere bagatelle of dollars and
cents-
Tbc complaints oi Gen Grant, touching
the navigation of this river, and tbe un-
friendly dealings of our neighbors coneern
ing tbe Eastern fisheries, may be adjusted
with the Alabama claims, short of annex
ation; yet from tbe very nature of things
there can be, short of annexation, uo satis
factory adjustment The two peoples di
rectly concerned must be made one before
there can, be any real harmony between
them on these fishing or navigation rights.
This unmistakable utterance of the Her
ald goes far towards corroborating the opiu
ion of the Dominion statesman that the
fishing complaints of Gen. Grant are the
complaints of the designing wolf against
the innocent lamb. It also shows that
while “your cunning lawyer, or profession
al diplomat knows how to make a very
plausable case from very poor matcrM,”
that an expert journalist can sometimes
put forth vevy pernicious doctrines under
very fair arguments.
The idea that the St. Lawrence cannot
remain the property of any one nation, nor
the joint possession of any two, and there
fore the two must per force be united, ie
Canada be annexed, not united, is certain
ly equal to the Rhine argument of Bis-
mark.
If Gen. Butler, Mr. Grant and the Her
ald, find Canada so desirable, and have
fouud the South so troublesome, we have a
proposition to make that will settle the
question at once. That is to instruct Mr.
Schenck to propose a swap with the Court
of St. James, giving the whole of Dixie,
(excepting the free navigation of the Mis-
issipi as the Confederate Congress except
ed it.) for the dslightful land of Canada.
AVe of the South would be willing to the
exchange whether the poor Canadians would
or not. But as the rights of the peeple,
according to the Herald’s arguments, are
not to be consulted, it would matter not
whether we were willing o' - unwilling.—
Nothing of the kind is to he considered—
only a question of power enters into the
Heralds’ argument—which it conoludes as
follows :
But considering the troubled state cf Eu
rope, and the fermentation going on in the
American politics, aud the universal revo-
lutianary spirit of the age, tho historical
events of 1S71 in the Old World and the
New may be as astounding to all the nations
as those of 1870 in Spain, France, Germa
ny and Italy.
Which means that the Herald man would
have the United States ape Prussia. But
while it would envy the glory of Prussia,
it should remember the fate of France,
and if these fishery questions can be peace-
ably settled upon their own merits, without
any reference to annexation or territorial
raudizement, we would, as a matter of
right as well as policy, advise their prompt
and early settlement.
ACTA
PROSPER MERIMEE.
Snrely death has been busy with the
great of the earth. No year has witnessed
the demise of so many distinguished men
as the year just closed. In the world of
letters especially has this work ot death
been so sevetely felt. One after another the
reat minds of science and of thought have
been darkened, and the wizard pens that
have enchained the minds of thousands
have dropped from the pulseless fingers
that swayed them.
To the list of the great ones we have
heretofore given we now have to add that
of Prosper Mcrimee, who recently died at
his residence at Cannes, on tlm shore of the
Mediterencan. His death was the termi
nation of a long and painful illness, and he
died at the age of sixty-seven.
Mr. Merimee was by education a lawyer,
but the charms of literature were more at
tractive than forensic honors, and he soon
abandoned the professsion, and gave way to
the bent of his genius.
To the range of letters he added a pen
chant for politics, and held during the
course of his life some important positions,
to all of which he did honor.
But it is in the walks of literature that
he has left a distinguished path.
In thedspartments of archaeology, history
and romanoe,-he was equally distinguished,
and some of the most interesting works ev
er written, evinced his genius.
His death has created a blank in the
world of science and of letters that none
of his contemporaries can fill.
JUDGE O, A. I.OCHRANE.
This gentleman has been appointed by
Gov. Bullock to succeed Judge Joseph E.
Brown as Chief Justice of the State.
The vacancy, when it oecutred so unex
pectedly to the public, created quite a
scramble in Republican circles, and more
than one little backwoods lawyer passed in
his claims to the distinction. James W.
Johnston was the most prominont of these,
and his appointment wonld postibly have
given more general satisfaction than any
other.
Benj, Hill doubtless expected it—his
modest disclaimer to tho contrary notwith
standing, as a reward for his treason to the
Democratic party. That he has to chew
the cad of disappointment we are heartily
glad. His “Notes on the Situation” trill
be likelier to remain unforgotten by his
new associates than by his old. His trea
son, besides, was not worth the price, and
if he can secure a place at Bollocks’ feasts
he should feel himself amply rewarded.
Judge Loohianet’ appointment is per
haps as good an one as Bnllook could have
made, from the pooT material he had on
hand, but still he will fall far below the
standard of his immediate predecessor.
So unusual way the heat of the past season
that cotten seed plants at Stanford, Conn.,
in April, upon poor soil, and' receiving no at
tention, grew to maturity and produed some
bolls'of long staple cotten, and a handsome
profit could “have been realized if enough
ground had been devoted to its culture.
FOREIGN.
TueasuiV, Jau, 5.
Bourbaki and Ckaosy are in -notion, the
head of their columns facing the German
frontier.
Paris is still begirt with frowning can
non and implacable enemies.
Garabaldi is rt Dijou doing nothing, as
he always docs. The truth is, Garabaldi is
a first class humbug, and always was.
Frardeherhe is st Arras making months
at Manteul'el. -- —
A forward movement by the French will
soon be commenced.
The Presbyterians of Belfast, Irehnd,
are jealous of Mr. Gladstone’s attentions
to the Pope. A rather small thing for the
Presbytery.
DOMESTIC
General Grant’s brother Orville has to
tell an ugly tale upou Gen. Bloomfield.-J-
Tho happy family are falling out and queer
revelations will doubtless be made.
A destructive fire is raging In Lawrence
Kansas, to-day.
Schenck has resigned his seat ia tho
House of Representatives, and was sueceds
ed on the oommittee on Ways and Means
by Orth. Schenck goes to England as
Minister. Johnson and Motley failing to
settle the Alabama claims, it is supposed
that this western genius can do it. Well
it docs sometimes happen that a skunk
(Schenck) can whip a fight that nobler an
imals could not.
In the old case of A. Wood & Co., of
Cincinnati, and S. W. Perkins k Co., New
Orleans, against the government, it was
decided that the goverment, can collect the
true tariff when the goods can be found
hut no penal forfeiture of goods can be made
against the innocent purchaser.
The Christmas drunk does not set well
down South, as our Memphis dispatches of
to day should. It says: “A constable and
the father in law of a young man under ar
rest killed each other at Jacksonport, Ar
kansas,” which may have been very good
for the community, but rather had for the
killists.
A man cut another’s throat at Charleston,
Mississippi.
At Blountsville, Alabama, Lewis Ketch-
urn, who disembowel d F. Bargess, was ta
ken from jail by disguised men and killed.
William H. Danial has been appointed
collector of customs at Appalachola,
Florid?.
The Legislature of N. Carolina prays
Congress to remove the political disabilitie
of Gov. Vanco. It onght to have attend
ed to this matters before it elected him to
the U. S. Senate. The insane madness of
some people cannot ho accounted for.
Our seven Senators are invited to hand
in their doc.’s and say their speeches next
Saturday, when it will be determined “who
is who.”
A select committee consisting of Thur
man, Hamilton, Trumbnll, Howe.and Wil
ley will taka in hand Senator Sprague’s
blockade exploits in Texas during the war.
Jewett, the newly appointed Senator
from Missouri, who suceeeders Drake, is
placed upon the committee on Naval Af
fairs, and on the Paciffio Railroad.
Dr J. Milton Best is to be paid for hi-
housc destroyed during the war, at Padu
cah.
Indi tna Legislature is organized under
democratic auspices.
Mr. J. C. Stanton, Alabatnas special
benefactor, and wonderful railway builder,
has suspended the payment of the interest
upon the Alabama and Chattanooga bonds.
Gov Lindsay, of Alabama, notified the hol
ders that the State, as endorser of the
bonds, will foot the bill. So much for
uorthern enterprise and northern capital.
The Supreme Court of California has
kicked clean out of the harness, and flaunts
a defiant tail in the face of the 1-lth and
15th amendments. At a recent trial the
Court in the case of the people vs Brady,
reversed the decision of the lower Court
and ordered a new trial on the ground that
the defendant was convicted by Chinese
testimony. The court holds that the amend
ments cannot affect and do not abrogate or
annul State acts regulating practice in the
Courts of law. Jndge Rhodes, Democrat,
alone dissents.
LOCAL.
The weather, as if to pay back for the
recent cold, has for the past few days, been
as delightful as if it were Spring.
Business is rather dull. The low price
of cottoD, and a general scarcety of money,
conducing to make the times tight.
Friday, Jan. C.
For Foreign and Domestic news, see our
noon and night dispatches.
The morning opened with watery droop
ing clouds, but these soon cleared away and
a beautiful sunny day ensued.
The cry of tight times is still heard upon
the streets, and is still affecting business.
Hod. Tbos. B. Cooper, of Alabama, is
in the eity. So is Col. John H. Caldwell.
’ The Directors of the Alabama and Geor
gia Railroad held a meeting in this city to
day. Adjourned to meet at Cross Plains
on tho 12th.
Grant.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial has visited ex-President John-on at
his home in Greenville Tcnn., and elicited
from him the following very cand.d remarks
concerning Gen Grant:
-The intelligent men of the pat ty don’t;
know what to do with Grant It wou^d
r tify them much if be would resLo. bn-
wont. So far from refigntn.-.he’a work
ing and intriguing for a second term, tie
will never get it. He is no more fit for ty
President than a goose. He has got ho
ability—nothing but a little low canning:,—
His cunoing is of poor sort; it is mean
[ cunuiog. He is au insignificant little fel
low, a bundle of of je-sonal piques, petty
spites, and prejudice. He is as selfish as
the days are long.
He used the highest office in the gift of
the people to advance his private eDds and
those of his family, and intrigue for a sec
ond term.
He knows a little something about hocus,
but has not brains enough to make a fii-jt
c1m« horse joohey if turned oat to the bus
iness, although that is about all he is fit for.
Ifwe are to have a horse jockey for tbs high
est office in the land we ought to have a
good one.
“Grant’s coming to the sursace is the re
sult of an accident; nay, it is an accident of
an accident. You may search history from
the foundation of the world to the present,
and you will not find a caso like his—a
man who rose solely by the power of acci
dent.
In the boiling cauldron of war, tho scum
rises to the top. In the babbling off he
came op from the bottom and ran eff, as
scum always will, or wc should never have
heard of him. By a scries of accidents he
rose to the command of the army. He was
the creature of a peculiar combination of
circumstances.
“He rose to tbe top ia the general tur
moil and throwiog up. Tho rebellion would
have been suppressed without him. He
was an incident to thestrugg'e—like a bag
gage wagon, for example. A baggage wag
on had a part to perform, but without tbe
war sentiment and patriotism in the North,
it could have done nothing. Neither could
Grant.
Everything was furnished him that he
wanted. His armies largely outnumbered
the rebels. Every engine of war was placed
at his disposal.
The rebellion went down while he was ia
command. If anybody else had been in
command at tbe time time it would have
been the same, although the result would
most likely have been brought about with
less loss of life. His Wilderness campaign
was a perfect massacre.
His road was paved with skulls and wash
ed with blood. His conduct in regard to the
exchange of prisoners was iuexcuseable'.—
In his correspondence on the subject he let
cue sentence drop which illustrates his char
acter. A ray of light passing through a
crevice will often light up a whole roam.—
So it is with the character of a man.
We frequently get a clear insight into
his heart, as it were, by a single sentence
that he may write or speak. He is uttcriy
remorseless. Objecting to exchanging pris- :
oners with the rebels because our men in
their hands were weak and emaciated,
while the rebel prisoners were very strong
and able to go right into the army and fight
The New York Shipping and Oommer-
xial List of Wednesday, the 28th ult.,
siys :
The geuernl merchandise and produce
markets present tbe usual dullness incident
to the close of the year. M-.rchants and
businers men are quite generally occupied
iu the annual adjustment of accounts, and
until this proec.-s shall he completed, and
sufficient time shall have elapsed to et-able-
them to get the hearings for a new depart
ure, there is not likely to be much anima
tion in commercial circles.
The annual balancing of Ledgers does
not, in many cases, show a very flattering
result of the years’ business, yet those who
come out. about square with the world con
sole themselves with the philosophical re
flection that it might have been a great
deal worse.
The fact that the snui of commercial fail
ures during the year has been much less
than generally had been expected, is proba
bly duo to the fact that the mercantile clas
ses had tbe sagacity to make ample prepa-
ratioa to mitigate to the minimum of harm
the gradual shrinkage in value by curtail-
ing alike their credits and their debts.
History abounds in cases where fears
generally entertained in the beginning have
been falsified in the end. It has also taught
ns that the worst calamities have been
those that were not heralded by general ex
pectatioa. Business men with minds ou
the alert, have been able to compromise, so
to speak, with adverse contingencies of the
financial and commercial situation before
they arrived.
They have, as a general remark, had the
foresight to stipulate for safety with small
profits as the only condition under which
they could tide over the period covered by
tbe transition from inflation to the bed rock
of prices; and, as a consequence, they now
stand in a firmer position, probably, than
for a number of years.
.The money market continues close, but
btrrowers in good standing appear to have
little or uo difficulty in obtaining accommo
dation 11 the current rate of 7 per cent.,
on call. Time loans are decidedly slow.—
A stringent market is likely to continue
until after the first week of the new year,
when a return to comparative caso may be
expected, with plain sailing for busircsss
men, and an encouraging revival of trade.
It ‘is hardly probable, howevever, with
the gradual closing np of the gap between
gold and currency, that we shall witness
any genera! recovery of merchandise prices
even if the spring trade should prove
equal to the most sanguine expectations.—
As financial matters arc now tending, mer
chants and manufacture! s must hereafter
look for their profits to a reduced cost of
production and importation, rather than to
higher prices.
Gold is weak owing to a light demand
and liberal snpply, which latter will be
further increased by the January disburse
ments in the shape of interest on public se
curities. Foreign exchange lias advanced,
the accumulated supply having been eon
siderably reduced, while but a small amount
of new paper is eoming upon the market.
received the January number of this excel
lent periodical—the (New Eclectic,) and
confess that its new name sounds more
pleasant to our ears than ever before. It
is indeed a Southern Magazine, aud one
that the South has no reason to be asham
ed of. We beseech the Southern people to
sustain it. Address the publisher, Balti
more, Md.
The New TarltK
By the new tariff which went into effect
on the 1st of January, many changes are
made in the revenue, among the most im
portant of which are the following :
Teas, from 25 to 15 cents; coffee, from
5 to 3 centsjncw sugar, from 3 12 to 1 3-4
cents sugar above No 7, from 4 to 2 cents;
refined sugar, from 5 to 4 cents; cane mo
lasses, troul 8 to 5 cents; brandy, from 83
to 2, liquors, from 82,50 to 2 per proof gal
lon, wool, from 30 per cent, to II and 10
cents, steel railway bars, from 2 1-2 to 10
Hon. Alexander B. Stephens and the
Lease of the State Road.
We are permitted to publish the folljw-
ing extract of a letter from Mr. Stephens,
on the subject of the State Road lease. The
letter from which we quote, was addressed
to a gentleman in this city.
The histiry cf my connection with the
lease is this : After the advertisement of
the letting of the road, m pursuance of tha
Act of the Legislature,and after I had seen
in the papers that Ex-Governor Brown in
tended to organize a company tJ pot in a
bid for it, 1 wrote to him, stating that if
what I had seen was true, f should like to
be one of bis company, aud take an inter
est in it to tbe extent oi my property,which,
over and above all liabilities, I thought
was ten thousand dollars. He replied that
he had been engaged in organizing or form
ing a company with a view of making a bid
for tbe lease, that he did cot know wheth
er the parties with wh im he was confer
ring would be willing to extend the list or
per cent., to 11-4 cents, pig iron, 89 to 7
cast and wrought scrap are each increased
one dollar per ton. Fifty- two other arti
cles mostly drags,placed on the free list,and
the tariff upon forty is reduced.
Vice President Colfax has received from
the United States Consul at Jerusalem a
box containing a Speaker’s mallet ot Olive
wood, with a head of oak from Ab-aham’s
oak at Hebron, a chalice of olive wood
from the Mount of Olives, and an ink
stand and sand box of asphalt from the
the Dead Sea, all beautifully carved and
polished.
A fiend in human shape was engaged in
planking a sidewalk in a certain Western
city, when a woman in gorgeous apparrel
stopped near the scene of his labors to chat
with a friend. Her train hung over the
edge of the last plank he had put in position
and he quietly slid another alongside of it
aBd soeurely spiked it down. Tbe fiend then
went away to dinner.
Grant, sir, is a small man; he is little
every way you take him. He is a bundle
of small, contemptible prejudices. He dors
not rise to the dignity of a man. He lacks
courage as well as discrimination. Ho thinks
he is making tools of certain politicians,
when, in truth, they are making a tool of
him. But he does not know it, he is to be
pitied.
‘Befoto I would go into Grant’s Cabinet,
either in 1872 or any other time, I would
get mo situation as assistant hog drover, or,
as an old man in the country used to say,
I would tie a rope around my neck and then
round a tree, and walk off.’
Fatal Shooting Affair in Edgefield.
On Snnday evening last, about twelve
miles from Hamburg, on Stevens’ creek,
Capt. Geo. Butler, brother of M C Butler,
was shot and instantly killed by a young
man named Winslow Hamilton. From the
most authentic accounts we have heard of
the sad affair, it seems that Mr. T. J. Ham
ilton, the father of the young man who
fired the fatal shot, was on the eve of re
moving to Columbia county, in this State,
and in preparation therefor hid penned his
cattle ready to be driven. Among the num
ber seems to have been one steer, or calf,
to which Capt. Butler laid claim, which he
requested Mr. Hamilton to liberate, and, as
wc are informed, visited the house of the
latter to secure. While there an angry
discussion sprang up between them, which
eventuated in young Hamilton gathering
his gun and firing upon Capt. Butler, the
charge taking effect in his breast and caus
ing immediate death. Of farther details
of the sad affair we are not sufficiently ad
vised to speak positively.—Avgmta Consti
tutionalist.
North British Review.—The Octo
ber number of this great English review is
npon our table, and with its contents we are
delighted. A masterly article on Shelly does
credit even to the pages of this, the ablest
of British Quarterlies. Another article on
contemporary literature is an able review
of the most prominent works now before
the reading public. A scientific paper on
philosophy, psychology and metaphysics, is
also capitally written, and is instructive.
The North British is one of Leonard
Scott & Co’s, popular republications. The
London Quarterly, the Westminister, the
Edinburgh, and Blackwoods' Magaaine
composing the series. No series now pub
lished in the English language can possess
a more general interest than this.
HOW ONE OF GAMBETT A’S EYES
WAS PUT OUT.
A correspondent relates tbe following sto
ry about M. Gamhetta:
‘He has lost an eye ; they say so at least,
and certainly there is something queer about
oue of his eyes, bnt,however, this is the sto-
ry:
When a boy, Gamhetta was sent by his
father to a Jesuit’s college, where he was
to be educated. It would seem little Gam-
betta had even then a strong dislike for Jesn-
its, so he requested bis father to withdraw
him from that school, his father, however,
nolharkening to his request, the boy de-
clar ed that unless he'was taken away by a
certain day he would put out one of h is eyes.
The father did not for an instant believe
the lad capable of performing the threat,
and did not give the matter a second
thought.
However,a few days afterwards he receive
ed ar letter from the principal of the school
infoming him that the boy had put one of
his eyes oat.
still refased to take him home, upon which
Gamhetta declared that unless he did take
him home he would pat oat the other eye.
Upon this tho father thought it advisable
to givein.
Gambetta’s admirers cits this as ah iti-
staneeof the man’s precorious determine
lion andfirmenesj of character,others, how
ever, cannot see it in anything but »n evi
dence of an nndiseiplined and unruly spirit,
which has not improved since.’
Gen. Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame,
aud his family, ore living at Venice, and
do not intend' to return to America for
years. Hiss Isabella Anderson is a reign-
ing . belle, and said to ho the fiance of a
Duke.
Iutiuiideuon In Georgia.
Prominent republican Congressmen in
sist that the election in Georgia was carried
by iotimidation. Bat ou which side was
tbe intimidation—on the part of the Uni
ted States troops sent to enforce the new
election law or on the part of tb.e bloody
ku-klnx bent on a democratic victory ? If
the new law, which secured so fair and
peaceful an election here fails to succeed
in Georgia, there is something radically
wrong in the law itself. Some elections,
even in Georgia, may go democratic and be
fair and orderly too.—New Yorle Herald.
From the Ne-.r York Post, Dec.2S.
Capt, Balls’ New Arctic Expedition.
Capt. C. F. Hall, to whom has been en
trusted the government appropriation for a
voyage to the North Pole, is now fitting out
his vessel, and intends to sail next May.—
He proposes to sail iu a steam brig, prop
erly fitted and strengthened for a voyage
among the ice.
He means to train his crew to live up n
the country—that is to say, to eat raw seal
and walrns meat and drink train oil. Thus
only he thinks can men endnre the rigors
ot tho Arctic climate.
He appears to be sanguine ol reaching
the pole. We tract the government will
send with Capt. Hall a few competent sci
entific ot servers, for unless this is done the
expedition caa have nu valuable result. Mr.
Hall is a brave man, used to living after
Esquimaux manner, and thoueh be has nev
er, we believe, passed a winter, or even a
summer, within the Arctic circle, aad is
not a trained seaman, yet his knowledge of
tho Esquimaux language and dialects, of
the habits of these savages, and of the best
way to preserve lives among the Arctic
snows, make him valuable os a guide to
lead men capable of Scientific observation
to the far northern regions.
A Carious Story.
A late number of the Commercial Ad
vertiser, of Honolulu, relates tbe fact that
oue of the whale ships in the Larbor recent
Iy captured a whale in the Arctic Seas,
which had in its c&rcas a harpoDo. This
harpooD was known to belong to a ship
which was at that time cruising in the
Northern seas, on the other side of the
continent.
The whale had evidently passed from one
open sea to the other by way of the pole.—
He must have fouud open water, for even a
who,e must come up a short intervals to
ulow.
It is certain that tbe Polar Sea is navi
gable for whales from one side of the conti
nent to the other. Bat while it does not
follow that ships wonld follow the same
track, the fact cited is one of considerable
interest- Shipmasters may be able to nav
igate the Polar Sea when they know as
much about navigation in high latitudes as
the whale with a harpoon sticking in his
back.
People ore often deceived by appearances
Forgetting this scrap of philosophy, a De
troit hackman, who saw a man and woman
The father then went to see his son, but ardently kissing each other in his carriage
reasoned ont some unflattering deductions,
and demanded fifteen dollars instead of his
proper, fare: The pair proved to be lawfully
mated; add the drivers’ impertinence led to
hinheing dropped , in the gutter, and hia
extortion took him to the police station.—
He confesses now that he isn’t as good a
judge ot human nature as he used to think
he was.
Ashley admits having made au intem
perate speech against Grant, at a banquet
given to retiring members of Congress,
just after the Cabinet nominations were
sent in, and he attributes his removal to
this speech. He don’t remember exactly
what he said, for he was mad as hell; but
he knows the speech was a bitter one.
We don’t understand the exact degree of
intimation which the great impeachcr ad
mits, that it must have been sometiog terri
bly overpowering. Even in the milder
stages of mad as a bornett and bull mad,
an excitable man is liable to indiscreet eb-
ulitious ot temper, for which he may be af
terward sorry; and when he gets as mad as
hell, if we understand the situation, it
amounts to a sort of insanity which should
absolve him in some degree from responsi
bility.
TAUT HO.
There is no sport so exciting, exbiliarat-
iag and noble as that of the chase. Of a
sharp frosty morning, mounted on a charg
er that drinks in the inspiration, and dash
ing through fields and over fences, hedges
and bastes, to the spirited cry of the
hounds, is to feel life in its highest enjoy
ment. True this sport is a part of the hat
ed Southern chivalry, but for all that it is
a manly and noble recreation, and none
but a lazy loon would despise it.
The most remarkable chase that we have
heard reported since the war, was report
ed by our friend T. C* Duvall, who, with a
party of gentlemen, consisting of Messrs.
O E Payne, Geo. Payne, Dallas Turner,
John Aaron, W Brownson and Mr. Bolt,
went ont on the morning of the 2nd, and
struck i trail about 4 o’clock, which brisk
ly followed up, by 5 o’clock a fine red fox
was jumped, when after a continuous chase
until 3 o'clock in the eveniog, Reynard was
captnred, his brush being secured by Geo.
Payne.
In the chase ten hounds wero let loose,
and what with their music, and the excite
ment of the country people, as they dashed
by, the race must have been truly spirited.
The fox was a genuine red one—the
first ever captured in this section. It meas
nred over four feet from tip to snout, and
was a noble animal.
These gentlemen were quite proud of
their fete, and a right royal one it was.
In paying up the old scores of the past
year we must not forget the little entries of
gratitude that now aud then stand on the
ledger ngainst us. It is strange though
how apt men arc to ignore these debts, and
especially so as it requires such a little to
offset them. A kindly word, a friendly
notice, or even an encouraging smile, may
sometimes serve t> repay one for a mueh
greater service.
We desire to discharge a debt of this
kind, which we owe to the gentlemanly and
efficient telegraphic operators of this place
The favors we have received of them dur
ing the past year calls for a’l the leturn
that we cai make, and we hereby thank
them for their kindness, and desire to add
to ear thanks a sincere wish for their '.nip
piness.
In this connection, it may not be amiss to
state that the jocular allusion made to the
operators in our last issue, had no refer
ence whatever to either of oar friends in
the Rome office.
The cleanest city in the world is Broeh,
in Holland, where no horse or carriage has
ever been permitted to enter, and where
everything is kept with most scrupulous
neatness
A singular disease has been puzsling
tho physicians of Lowdes county, Ala. The
patient is taken with a spasm at regular in
tervals—say once or twise a day—bnt has
no fever, and except slight prostration and
debility, is apparently in average health.—
The spasms or fits show no signs of conges
tion, the eye being perfectly clear and the
pulse moderate.
A country girl coming from the field was
told by her cousin that she looked as fresh’
as a daisy kissed by the dew, ‘No, indeed,
was the simple reply, ‘that wasn't bis
name.’
A Newcastle, Ind., shoemaker recently
received the following order from Cadiz :
‘Cend me a pare of esq. Toad Shooze.—
N. K—
A surprise party lately at Fitafield,
Mass., broke a stove, three chairs, a sofa
and alotof crockery, daring their stay
at the house of the party surprised. The
family has no farther wish to be surprised.
In New York recently, a young forger,
heir to a million dollars, was sent to jail to
await triaL The jndge stedily refased to
bail him, not withstanding his wealth.
not, ifest individually hu was perfectly wi!-
l’ng to do so, and-would present my request
when the company met I wrote back to
him giving him full power ti> 2,ot for me in
the premises, as he might think proper, but
told him it was a matter that I did net feel
sufficient interest in for any urging to be
used in my behalf, t-nd that if there was a
single member of his company who showed
or indicated the slightest objection to my
taking an interest in it,my uatne should not
he presented by him.
I knew nothing ui the parties with whom
he was conferring—net oue of them; nor
did I care to know any more than I should
who are the stockholders in the Georgia
Railroad Company it 1 were going to vest
anything iu it,or any other Railroad compa.
ny. I believed he would be the controlling
man iu the afftirsofany company that might
be formed under his aaspices.
I thought,under his control,the road might
be made to pay the minimum amount fixed
by the Legislature, and even more, as well
as to pay the leeses something for their risk
aod trouble. So I wrote to him Iu re
ply, he said that he did not think any com
pany could afford safely to undertake to pay
more than the amount si t by the Legisla-
ture, and leave any margin for profits to
the company,in consideration for their trou
ble and liability,looting to the risks of flood
and fire, and the new roads, which would
soon take off a large port ion of the freights
which otherwise would, pass through this
chancel.
He said he woulJ not put tu a bid for
more than tbe 825,000 per month,set forth
in tbe act of the Legislature. This is the
substance of our correspondence. Subse
quently, after the meeting of his company,
a few days before the expiration of tho time
for putting in the bids, he wrote to me that
he had presented my name; that there was
no objection to my taking an interest,a small
one, as I expected it to be, on the basis of
the organization of the company, and that
the company had agreed to pot in a lid at
825,000 per month—no more.
He expressed doubts as to whether the
bid would be accepted or not; but said he
would give no more. The Dext thing I
heard was the announcement of the lease of
the road os published in the papers. Tbe
names of thclscsees arc different in the dif
ferent papers,and do not know yet know who
they really are. Some of them are men for
whom I have as little regard personally or
politically as any man can have.
Some of them I regard as men of as high
character for honesty and integrity, in bns-
idess matters at least, as any men' in the
State—men who would be as far trom coun
tenancing swindling of any sort as any I
knew in Georgia or elsewhere.
The road was paying nothing to the State.
It was used practically as a political corrup
tion fund. So far from paying anything
into the Treasury, the Legislature was'call-
ed npon to make a large appropriation to
keep it up. The cry was iu substance that
Bullock, Blodgett k Co., were corruptly us
ing and appropriating the income; that it
ought to be taken ont of their bands and
either sold or leased to responsible parties.
This was the Democratic cry.
The measures for a lease was brought for
ward in the House by one of the most prom
inent Democrats in it. The bill was pub
lished in the newspapers. It was sent
broadcast over the country. It was uefore
the public long enough to be thoroughly
understood and discussed by the press.—
My opinion was sought by the introducer
of the bilL I gave it to him frankly. I
was not in a position to know all the facts.
I was confined to my house,not able to walk,
and-conld not do more than give an individ
ual or private opinion, founded upon my
own reflections.
These led me to the conclusion that a
lease, under the circumstances, was perhaps
the best; but in no event, nor under any
circumstances, would I favor or vote for a
lease, if I were in the Legislature, for less
thrn 8300,000 per annum. I thought it
could be leased for that amount, or it ought
to yield that amount. This is the substance
of what I wrote to him. I suppose other
public men were consulted as I was. But
this I will say: That if there was a single
newspaper of tbe Democratic party in the
State that said one word, either editorially
or by communication, against the proposed
lease, under the bill so published, offering
the road for $300,000 p;r annum, except
the Atlanta Intelligencer, I am not aware
of it. If there was any opposition by the
Democratic press in the State to the lease,
with the exception stated, I did not see
or hear of it. After this opportunity for
discussing on the part of those who was
much more able than I was to look into
and investigate the supject, tbe bill past
both branches of the Legislature. The
Sun, a neutral paper in politios in Atlanta,
did oppose the measure and call upon the
Governer to vote it- He however signed
the bill, and proceeded to advertise the
lease according to the provisions of the Act.
It wss advertised for weeks, if nofmonths.
If there was a word said daring he whole
jeriod 6y a paper in Georgia characterizing
t a swindle, or eTen devouring it as a
measure of bay policy, it escaped me.
It seems to me that the proper time for
vigilant sentinels to have sonnded the a-
larm, if there was anythin so really corrupt
in the matter, was when the measure was
before the Legislature and before bids
were made for the lease. With the excep
tion of the papers stated, I do not hnow of
one on the Democratic side, or leaning to
that side, which opposed the measure while
pending before the Legislature, and not
one said aught, as far as I know, against
the lease while the advertisement was pen
ding, notifying honest and honorable bid
ders that it would be regarded in any quar
ter as a “swindle.”
Under the circumstances, I repeat, I am
quite as mnch surprised to see tins charge
now made as anybody possibly can be sur
prised to see my name amongst' those who
proposd to take the lease.
££A11 I have to say, in conclusion is, that
if there has been anything wrong or nr;
fair, much more, if there hu
t&ing corrupt in the letting of
nnder the lease^in the sSdfijBji
tion of bids, I know nothing of (he matter.
Nay, more, I hope it will be exposed
the guilty party, if any, brought to proper
punishment. Let the. attack be not by ia-
sinnation. Let charges and specifications
be mado and proved. My friends need not >
indulge iu any useless and unnecessary .>0
“pain” or “mortifietaion” at anything I jH
have done or shall do in referenes to tnis K
lease, or anything else.
My life naa been devoted mueh more to
tbe interests of others than it has bean to H
my own. In tbia matter, I waa looking in Ml
what I did quite as mnch to public taper- 3B
sonal interest. I knew Governor Brown
bad shown more efficiency in the manage- M
ment of tho state Road than any persoa 9
who had ever had it in band, or at least I 9
thought he hod. However mnch I have : j
differed with him, and do now differ with 9
him, on grave political questions, yet I have
never believed that he wae a “rogne” iu f;
any sense of that word. I considered him
a man perfectly honest in all pecuniary ' : ; i
transactions, both public and private. Un
der his management, I believe the S ale’s
interest wonld bs secured to whatever 81
amount he might feci willing to take Jbe
road at; and so far as any interest might,
under his management, fall to my small :
share, if any, that I expect to devote, ss I
have much the greater part of the proceeds
of my own labor, not to my own aggrao- III
dizement, but to the assistance, the relief, Bis
the comfort and well being of others.
Yoon, truly, Vfl
Alexander H. Stephens.
Tbe Views of Chief Justice Cbeee.
A reporter of the New Yerk Herald
professes to hare bed on Monday an inter- -i|
view with Chief Iustice Chaee, and that th s j
latter favored him with some slight intima- it;'
tions of his views on San Domingo, end
the general political prospect at home Re
garding the first subject, Judge Chavs is
reported to have said :
“1 thiut-Grant’s policy on this question U
does not warm cl Sumners’ opposition. 11' K J
the people of San Doming? desire to come ;
into the Union, we can dono bei&rito grat
ify their wish than to annex them to tbe IS;
United States. I think great advantages
wonld accrue to this couutry from the poa-
sessijn of an Island in tho West Indies.” U
Next the reporter desired to know if the !
character of the relations between the Pres
ident and the Chief Jnstico was friendly, gj
to which be replied :
“They are neither friendly t or other
wise. There can be no points of discus
sion between ns, as I do not in my official : g
capacity come in contact with him.
The Judge declined to express his opin
ions concerning the appointment of Gen.
Schenck as Minister to England, and tbe :
conversation closed as follows:
Reporter—Have yon any view oonosro- ! '
ing the next Presidential campaign T
Chief Jostice—This event is so &r in
the distance that I hare not given the sub
ject a thought. I anticipate it will be a
lively campaign on account of these dissen
sions that have sprung up in the Republi
can party.
Reporter—Does the manner in which :
the affairs of the country are conducted by ’■
the preseniJCabinet meet yonr approbotion* i..
Chief Justice—I can offer no views on
the subject. When t am restored to health, 1
I shall be happy to see yon. At present l
cannot burden my mind with each weighty -
matters.
Reporter—When do you expect to re
sume the duties of your office ?
Chief Justiae—Before the expiritioa of
the present term.
The Charleston Courier is now sixty-sight
years old, has twice been burned ont, thrice
affected by the terrible hand of death ia its
proprietorship, but now, as always, full of
rigor and unconquerable energy.
Bealtii l i. Moonlight.—The brilliant and
beautiful moonlight that shines npon our
evenings, is really charming, and well pays
one to wander out in the air to enjoy. To os
poor toilers of the night, who have to “home
ward plod” through thedimlv lit streets, in
the
“Wee sms bears ayant tbs twal,”
And wben the silence of sleep has fallen
upon all other eyes, it is especially grateful,
and as we inhale its loveliness, we are almost-
weaned to forget that a printers’ life ia aneli
a life of weary toil.
A pleasant slip of the tongue is recorded
by a French paragraphist. A lady was en
joying the society .of her lover, when the
bell rang, and the servant announced tbe
doctor. Tell him I’m ill, and can't seu
him,” was madame’s reply.”
It is said that Don Piatt and George
Alfred Townsen have purchased the Wart
ington Sunday Herald for six thoossod
doll rs.
The number of officers who will be effec
ted by the operation of the Hancock ar
my board, according to a war department
statement, is over two hundred.
A correspondent of a Conneticot paper
says: Tho lady who received a pleasant
hogging from a' stranger at bar unde’s
Wednesday night can receive a call from
the same person by addressing “Wallaoe.”
A Portland jail-bird has on his breset, ia
India ink, a splendidly.executed equestrian
portrait of Washington, tbe horse, with a
most vicious expression, being in the ati-
tnde of snapping at a bunch of wild flow
ers.
»;
SALARIES at Montgomery;
The City Council have affixed salaries as
follows;
Mayor $2,500 and fees Marshal $1,250 and
fees; Clerk $1,800 and fees; Treasurer $800;
Wharfinger $1,200; Weigher and Assistant
Clerk $900; Clerk Market and Magazine II-
200; Health Officer 1,200, Street Gverseer $1-
209; Hospital Physician $800: Hospital Stew-
ard $500; Lamp Lighters $1,200; Engineer
Steamer Linn 8500; Tending City Clock $300
Captain of Police $1,200; 8 day policemen
7,080; 16 night policemen, $15,360. The to- . jfl
tal amount of salaries for the yesr 1871 will
be $40,490.
These salaries are rather steep as compar
ed with the salaries of Rome.
In England all antitied geatlemsn’t
eards bear “Mr.” before the name. Iu the
two universities it is customary *to draw e
pencil mark through this titia when leaving
a card on an under-graduate friend.
A candidate traveling through one ol the
rural precincts of a certain county, rode up
to a farm honse, and thus accoeted a tow- *
headed archin who was seated npon the top
of a gate post: “Bub, where ia your pa}”
the youngster replied; “Paps jost goae
dewn beyond the cow-shed to dig • grave
to bury the old dog Towser. The daraed
old fool killed himself barking at candi
dates for Sheriff.”
The Chicago Times wants to know:
“Did Mnllins cease to be Mollias after hit
election to Congress? Is not the sua whs
is now Preridsnt of the United States proof
that the higher np tbe insignificant eluuh^
the more eonspicnoni becomes bis msstal,
and moral, and bodily repugnancy?” *
A Detroiter who took a flask of whisky ra m
with him on a snooting trial, strnsk s rats
track in the suburbs on his return, wslksd
round it all night, wondsring why hi
didn’t get to town.
It must have beeD consoling for sick sol.
diers on low diet in the military hospital
during the late late war to ring: “Whao
this gruel war is over wt shall mast
gain-”
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