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that you fill up the
vckasm at your convenience.
Perhaps you wish to know how the
"".mad Englishmen” were really named.
We are yery sorry in this respect to be
’mswillmg to oblige you. The discovery
wwtrid toe of no use, as we firmly intend
never to set foot again in your memor
abletown, or in your inn. Do not trouble
yourself with any reflection upon our
The finance minister of Queen
JS&sabeth can aloue call us to account;
eand he, good man, has already given up
fais claims full two hundred years ago;
&o, 'upon his score, we slightly trouble
For the future, in laughing over the
’very questionable conduct you have
*s?hown na, we shall always bear witness
‘to the high esteem with which we are
iimpressed as your character as a man
.and an innkeeper. In hopes of never
seeing again, with our hearty fare
well. we give you leave to remember us,
mad i r* speak of us, as the
*. jfl* Mad Englishmen.*’
. .Tad Rvsvoort rolled his eyes and bit
2hls lips ; but to what purpose ? The first
transport of rage having passed away,
V.ke inkeeper ended the matter by an
observation which did honor to his per
ception "That these Englishmen, after
were not so mad as they seemed to
i&e.” ,
Sr 8. w. mason and cO.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1865.
SPiILUHE OP THE PEACS NEGO
TIATIONS.
As was to.be expected, and in accord-
with the anticipations of all who
'were reformed as to j tiie points upon
the Rebels weal j certainly insist,
xhe recent attempt to hy mg about an im
justliate suspension c hostilities, and to
. lay the foundation 0 f a S p ee( jy and per-
An men| peace, ave utterly failed. The
Xvrpsident aun s ecre tary of State met the
Rebel Saw but at * the ver y beginning
va&f. the’Co- a f erence an insuperable bar was
Spaced tQ f urt her consultation by the
tive demand ol the Confederate I
’Commissioners that a separation of the
Zyso sections be acquiesced in, and that
,&he Cootederacy be recognized as an iD
odependent nation. This, their initial
being too preposterous to re
ceive a moment's serious consideration,
was, of course, no occasion to take
llato account other and minor questions.
The idea of Southern Recognition was
once peremptorily rejected by the
Resident, who, with Secretary Seward,
Teturned to Washington,
Could the Confederates make up their
. 'oxunds to come back and content t-hem
s»«toes in the old Union, and to render
fealty to the old Flag, there is little
/*ioubt that all questions of lesser import
r swace, and all details of future intercourse
ooDiild be amicably arranged. Whenever
yield this one point, and signify
nheir willingness to submit to the Con
stitution and Laws under which* for
nearly eighty years, the country has
and grown great, diplomacy
*£An do th e rest; until then, bombs and
-bayonets must be between us the only
-.wfbitrators,' and Blood and Battle be our
sm! blest measures.
•"There is no hope of peace but in a
/successful war.”
The enemies ot their country must sub
figu, 'either before or after their complete
.rsacL utter subjugaliou. There is yet'
'ssflhihe for them to save their pride and
■(t* spare themselves the humiliation a
people must ever feel—there
-5* -quite time to dee to the one refuge,
"afaere no shame may follow them, be
iSteath the folds of the starry flag.
11l questions of Confiscation, Aboli
a -v a very, payment of the war
deite and other issues arising from the
attempt to subvert the Government
could be readily settled by judicious di-.
plontate selected from either of con
flicting parties, they can bo anct will
be so settled just so soon as Jeff. Davis
and his followers c mdude to abandon
their impracticable position on the sub
ject of Southern Independence, an 4 not
before.
Until then, Grant and Sherman, Bor- ,
ter and Farragut must be our only aibi
trators and our brave boys of the Army
and Navy will have enough to dq in
sending the oniy massengers whole
arguments will be effective, in the shape
of cannon and rifle bullets.
That Dog.— Our office, (office of Sa
vannah Herald, five cents,) shelter
a Dog, a wretched quadruped which wa?
presented to our Rolkdwt Boss, (who h
as long as a Railroad,) by some maiignan.
personal enen y, under a fiendish pre*
fence of friendship—Oui Rolled-up Boss,
(who is as round as a 15 iuch shell, and
about as amiable, if not more so.) and
the indignant writer hereofj disclaim 1 ail
title to that Dog., affection for that Dog,
or interest in the future of that Dog,
save in that Dog’s funeral, an event to
which we look forward with happy hopes
and gladsome anticipations. The news
of that Dog's death will be, shall be,
immediately, instantaneously published in
an Extra—price 5 cents
Os course, that Dog is a beast of a
Dog—all Dogs are, or most of ’em—but
that Dog’s special beastliness transcends
the most beastly beastliness, that ever
any Dog beastiied. That Dog isn’t as
big as halt a pound of sausages, but that
Dog’s dimimtive carcass, (or cwr-cuss ,)
is always in the way. If you want to
sit down, that Dog is in your chair, and
you sit on that Dog and he seemeth
squelched; but No! If you think to J
walk, you step on that Dog, and con
gratulate yourself that you have sqush
ed that Dog ; not a bit of it—People
spit on that Dog, evidently thinking that
Dog some sort of a new-tangled spit oon,
that Dog lies till he is half drowned,
then that Dog gets up and yelps. That
Dog always yelps—He yelps when you
look at him, when you don't look at him,
when you stumble over him, when you
kick him across the room, or when he
tails into the fire, and he is chronically
subject to all of these accidents.
That Dog was imposed on our Long
Boss under the impudent pretense that
he (that Dog) is a Scotch Terrier, and our
L. B. has emigrated to the North fondly
imagining that he has in that Dog a terrier
puppy Os the Scottish persuation grow
mg up to adult dugliood, ready to re
ceive him with fond caresses on his re
turn. (Pity him, Everybody.) ,J/ ‘ :
That Dog a Scotcn Terrier! Why, he
looks more like a Scotch Whiskey, only
he is’nt quite as dry. Dry —that dog
never was dry. lie's in a perpetual
state of wet; with milk, and out
side with— well, that Dog is always wet.
Sometimes he may he merely damp, but
as a general tiling, that Dog is dripping.
That Dog lies down before the fire and
lazily winks, and then —well, that Dog
winks. When the fire; snaps out great
coals into that Dog’s shaggy hair, that
Dog lies till the hair is burnt off and the
skin begins to scorch, then that Dog ex
tracts a lazy, half-cooked yelp from
somewherefiu his inside; he goes syste
matically up to, and burns his nose at
every coal that snaps out,’ then
he yelys—the little fool liain t sense
enough to get out of the
Yesterday his tail got a-fire and burned
off an inch and a half before he could
muster activity enough to even yelp—
for that dog is the concentration ot lazi
ness. Take ninety-one contrabands and
boil all their united indolence into a con
dened essence, and it wouldn’t make
a dog half so lazy as that Doj. He
fondly imagines he’s a Scotch Terrier,
and a&he lies before our fire he winks
one la ty eye (always the left eye), as
much as to say "I’m valuable—l belong
to S. W. M., your Long Boss, and you
dare not kill me.) Don t. I dare ? Just
wait till—but our L. B. is influential and
musn’t be offended—so I wouldn’t kill
his dog, especially that Dog: but I can
see that that Dog’s health is suffering—
he’s failing—he is yielding to the influ
ence of the climate—he gets weaker
every day—he lives, as Charles Lamb
would say, on "Whine and water.” He
favors us with the whine, also the water,
and we are walling to dispose of both at
a reasonable profit:
We have thought of dosing him with
half a pound of blasting powder and
touching him off with a slow match, but
Gen.' Grover would kick up the devil
with us for exploding ammunition on
ofir premises without permission.
At certain times of day we are very
blind in the Herald office—we partake of
the Hollandic nature, and we can t see
after‘4 o'clock; that is, we couldn't see
after(or before) four (or any other)o clock,
should any bold kidnapper come in and
endeavor to carry off that Dog.
He has a wonderful head—that Dog,
and as to his Tail, well, that Dog’s Tail
is—
To be continued.
SELECTED ODDS AND ENDS OP
NEWS AND INCIDENT.
An hoar glass which once belonged to Henry
H sold in Paris recently for four hundred dollars.
Another stver brick from Nevada to the Sani
tary Commission weighs 1102 oz.
A man in Austria has left a valuable estate to
his son on the ‘condition that he never reads a
newspaper.
Ohio produced the most wool and wine of any
State last year, viz : 1(1,698,927 pounds of the for
mer and 5C8,617 gallons of the latter
The recent cold “cycle" was very severe in the
Northwest. At St. Paul the mercury ranged
from -fi degrees below zero to 10 above for four
days; and at Madison, Wisconsin, it reached 20
to 24 degrees below, according to the locality.
The. practice is fast coming into vogue, in the
army of the Potomac, of burying with each
soldier who dies, a bottle, containing a slip of
paper on which is written Ids name, rank, com
p.iny, regiment, date, and cause of death, etc.
The practice is a good one.
A Russian nobleman in Paris is said to wear
his deceased wife’s remains in a huge finger-ring,
ii accordance with a vow made to her on her
death bed. A Gennau chemist dissolved and
compressed them within the required limits. He
always will have a wife on hand.
A photograph of old John Brown wreathed in
laureis is now hanging in the parlor of the man
sion formerly belonging to H. A Wise, who
hung the original in another part of the State.
The estate situated about eight miles south of
Norfolk has been confiscated by the govern
ment.
The largest conflagration on record is that in
Japan recently, when Aliaco was burned and the
tire raged two entire days, laying in waste nearly
one thousand blocks or squares, destroying
seventy-eight thousand houses and tern*
pies, and three thousand seven hundred ware
houses. About five-sixths of the city was in
ashes, aAd half a million people were made
homeless.
An able-bodied correspondent thus speaks of
the sound which issues from the throats of the
rebels as they rush to defeat: -‘lmagine a conca
tenation of equine, canine, bovine, porcine and
gallinaceous utterance.*-, with an Indian war
whoop thrown in, and you have only an approxi
mate conception of this howl yclept the rebel
battle cry.”
Letters from Rome state that efforts to exalt
the Virgin Mary to a still higher position than
that in which the doctrine of the Immaculate
Conception has placed her are being made by the
Uitramontanos iu that city. The latest title
whish h;Uf been thus addressed to her is that of
“Co-Redeemer ;•* and t’he Church is represented
as a tree, of v\ hich Christ is the root, the Pope
the trunlt, and the several Churches the
branches.
Gen. Butler’s arpearance on the occasion of
the fall of Fort Fisher is described as follows :
“For a few moments the silence of the grave
prevailed in the chamber, and all the members
pre-eut seemed to be wrapped in contemplation
of the irresistibly comical position into which the
principal figure in the group was thus suddenly
tlirown. Gen. Butler did not suffer his abstract-
I ed ness to last 1< >ng; but recovering his equanim
* ity before anybody had time to make a single re
mark, he . beuignauily took -a survey oi those
around him, and with the simple utterance, T am
glad of if majestically walked out of the room
—j'atwnui htfdligerxer.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT VMM
THE NORTH.
FAILURE OF PEACE JSIR
GCTIATUNS.
New York Dates to the 6th.
G O 1> 308 1-3*
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE NEW YOBK TMEC. V
Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4. Ay
you already know, President Lincoln and
Secretary Seward returned from their
interview with the rebel commissioners
at Fortress Monroe, this morning, at a
little after 10 o’clock. ’A Cabinet meet
ing was at once summoned, at which,
the proceedings and results of that inter
view were fully stated. I can give you
a reliable report of the leading points.
Mr. Seward reached Fortress Monroe
in advance of Messrs. Stephens, Hunter
and Campbell. Upon the arrival of these
gentlemen, they were at once inyited to
an interview, and informed Mr Seward
of their desire to proceed to Washington,
for the purpose of discussing the ques
tion of peace with the President Mr.
Seward informed them that it was the
President’s wish that the discussion
should take place at Fortress Monroe,
and that he had been sent to meet them,
at that point upon that subject.
The commissioners pressed, with con
siderable earnestness, for leave to visit
Washington, and finally alleged that their
Government had consented to send them
only in consequence of Mr. Blair's assu
rance that they should have a personal
interview with President Lincoln.
Mr. Seward assured them that this
pledge should be fulfilled, and at once
telegraphed to the President that his pres
ence was necessary. As you know,
Mr. Lincoln a t once left Wash
ington, and in due time reached
Fortress Monroe, and in company with.
Mr. Seward, gave the commissioners the
interview desired.
The conference lasted tour hours, and
was perfectly friendly and good tempered
throughout. Not a word was said on
either side indicating any but amicable
sentiments. On our side the conversation
was conducted mainly by the President;
on theirs by Mr. Hunter, Mr. Stephens
occasionally taking part.
The rebel commissioners said nothing
Vhatever of their personal views or
wishes, but spoke solely and exclusively
for their Government, and at the outset
and throughout, the conference declared
their entire lack of authority to make,
receive or consider any proposition
whatever looking toward a close of the
war, except on the basis of a recognition
of the independence of the Confederate
States as a preliminary condition. The
President presented the subject to them
in every conceivable form, suggesting
the most liberal and considerate modifi
cation of whatever, in the existing leg
islation and action of the United States
Government might be regarded as
specially hofetile to the rights and inter
ests, or wounding to the pride of the
Southern people,—but in no single parti
cular could he induce them to swerve
for a moment from their demand lor re
cognition. They did not present this
conspicuously as resting on their own
convictions or wishes, but as the condi
tion which their Government had made
absolutely indispensable to any negotia
tions or discussions whatever concern
ing peace. •
President Lincoln, on the other hand,
informed them, at every point that such
recognition was utterly and totally out
of the question; that the United State®
