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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®