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SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1869.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, Feb. 2C, Noon.—-House. —The
deficiency bill of the Senate for the payment
of Southern Senators for the full term, was
taken up. Objections were made that some
of them had been Federal officers during the
time. Mr. Kellogg stated that he had held of
fice, and could not avail himself of a Senator’s
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TIIF. MORNING NEWS.
FROM ATLANTA.
LEGISLA-
Tbe Senate Finance Committee reported on
Schenck’e bill strengthening the public cred-
i it. withont amendment It was, made the
special order for oue o’clock to-morrow.
The naturalization treaty with Mexico pro
vides reciprocally that five years uninterrupt
ed residence secures alienation and citizen
ship. A declaration of intention will not se
cure the rights of citizenship. Naturalization
is. voided, and original citizenship renewable
by two 3'eurs’ residence in the original coun
try.
The extradition treaty of 1861 remains in
force.
A Spanish man-of-war is outside Sftnd Key,
watching a Peruvian monitor.
Washington, February 26 — Evening.—
House.—The Military Committee reported
evidence in regard to the army, showing that
the Quartermaster General has fourteen thou
sand men under his control. The Committee
recommend that the staff should receive or
ders from the General instead of the Secre
tary of War; the consolidation of the Quar
termaster, Pay and Subsistence Departments;
also, tbe consolidation of the Ordinance, Ar
tillery and Engineer and Signal Corps. The
report makes other recommendations.
The Deficiency bill was again considered.
It amounts now to $20,000,000 appropriation.
The pay of Mr. Harvey, Miuister to Portu
gal, was again erased.
The Senate postponed the consideration of
paying Southern Senators and considered the
Conference report on the Suffrage amend
ment to recess. The Defiiency bill will be
renewed to-night.
It is understood that tbe Senate will amend
the Memphis and El Paso Road bill, requir
ing its completion within a certain time.
General R. S. Granger bos been ordered to
report to Stoneraan for duty.
The following are among the various ver
sions of Grant’s reply to McClure, of Peun-
>ylvania, when he ventured advice regarding
THE NATURALIZATION LAWS.
M«ai Meeting or German Democrat* and
Republican* In; New York—They are
Oppocetl to any Change* to be made by
Congreas — Kntliuslastlr Speeches—Me
morial Adopted, &c.
.1 Tolr^raphlc Correspondent:* to tbo Uoanino
New a]
lanta, February 2G.—The Senate used j his Cabinet officers to be chosen from Penn-
session in the discussion of tbe Mit-
claim, Mr. Candler opposing the bill,
ats tlo lloor to-morrow.
House took up the bill to croataa new
ml Circuit ot the counties of Tatnall,
.ornery. Johnson. Laurens, Telfair, Pu-
Wilcox and Irwin, to be designated
•ouee Circuit It was passed—yeas 57,
fioo was giveu of a moti
ition of the Governor’s
municipal election,
vetoed on the ground
>n for tin recon-
»>ito of the Ma-
The bill had
that it required
tu voter to present a certificate of registra-
• a when voting. It requires twelve mouths
■ lcii«*e in tho State before voting at city
r.' i: The passage of the bill over the
.,[ i was made tbs special order tor Monday.
A lull io limit ih* liabilities ot promissory
, tes was lost
A lull authorizing planters to obtain loans
KloS
A bill givmg merchants a lien on the grow
ls. crops was re-coui mit ted to the Judioiary
A hill increasing the fees of Sheriffs, Ordi*
caries and Clerks was lost.
A 1:11 creating the offie* of Stats Geologist
~^3 bat.
A bill to appropriate money of the State to
:r,# Agricultural Society was indefinitely post-
sylvania: “I am not the representative of a
political party, although a party voted for
me.” McClure said: “Then, in my conver
sation on the subject of your administration
1 Lave spoken from a mistaken stand point,
and they’ have been illogical to you. I Lave
nothing more to say on the subject”
General Sherman has arrived. He will
maintain his domestic establishment till
June.
General Cliuguian. of North Carolina, visit
ed General Grant.
The Clerk of the House has excluded Louis
iana, Georgia and other contested States
from his initiatory roll of the next House.
Naval Paymaster Winslow, a son of Com
mander Winslow, is dead. He died of ma
lignant scarlet fever.
Itepi eseutati ve Drlauo had a very long in
terview with Commissioner Rollins to-day.
The habeas corjms for the Tortugas prison
ers was argued to-day. Philip Phillips for
prisoners, Assistant Attorney Ashley oppos
ing.
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A bill authorizing the Ordinaries of several
-unties to levy au extra tax for county pur
ses whs passed
A bill making it penal to dispose of person-
.! property under mortgage, or lieus without
!;« consent of the mortgagee was lost.
A Idl requiring all tax-payers to give in
: . J and silver at the value of currency, was
A bill to regulate the manner of farming
at convicts, the same person to have not
:ore than twenty, and to authorize tbe prin
ted Keeper to appoint his own overseers,
I.•.) ruunt be master mechanics, was passed.
1 he iiew^ from Washington is considered
' cable to the Democrats in regard to the
■I rani to call the roll of Georgia’s represent-
FOHEION NEWS.
d inaiD, February 26.—The ministry have
lu an important statement of measures for
it ligioua interference.
The St. Vincent Jesuit College has been
suppressed, because its members conspired
H^aicst the government.
The civil authorities have been ordered to
Like charge of certain church property, be-
miho the conduct of the clerical party ex
uded the object* of art in tbe churches to
detraction. Sex* no urged the minority to
pursue a conciliatory policy in view of the
firmly rooted and inexorable principles held
by the majority. As for himself he promised
them loyalty and patriotism.
F...WS, February 26.—The bullion has in
creased eleven millions.
The Sultan has issued a circular thanking
thu Great Powers for the attitude taken in the
Ute Conference.
FROM HAVANA*
Havana, February 26.—Rodus* superceding
I>ulcu Captain General censes excitement
fht) hteamor Orionket, from Charleston for
Haihuh on the 9th, has not amved. It is
supposed sho landed provisions on the coast
The government has ordered all the avail
able troops to Cienfugos and other menaced
*0WUS. 1 «
A delegation of Baltimore ladies visited the
President to-day in behalf of Lieut. Brain.
The President’s reply is regarded favorable.
In the Arkansas Legislature, the House
passed a. bill outlawing members of the Ku-
Klux. The Senate is considering pensions
and the House appropriations.
Indefinite
Purported* Imprison
ment.
It is certainly time that we should be at
the end of ah those irregular and unnecessa
ry personal persecutions which, amidst the
passions of war, are likely to be indulged.
Yet, now, nearly four years after peace has
l»een restored, we find in the case of Lieut.
Drain, as related in bis statement to the New
York Tribune, lamentable proof that these
things ore not entirely at an end. His case
seems oue of unusual hardship. For two
years and a half he has been confined in a
penitentiary, and has suffered so much from
imprisonment that, at the age of twenty-nine,
he has become gmyhaired and completely
broken down. The facts as stated by Lieut
Brain show that be was n regularly commis
sioned officer of tbe Confederate navy, that
ilia seizure of the Chesapeake was under
the orders of his superior officers, and
that personally be committed no act in that
seizure inconsistent with the rules of war.
Ilia prompt return to this country in 1865,
and engaging in business in Savannah, show
ed that he was not conscious of having com
mitted any deed which should expose him to
molestation any more than other officers of
the army and navy. In fact, ho was not ar
rested till nearly a year’after his return,
when, visiting the North, some person, prob
ably of that class of patriots who mistake ma
lignity for loyalty, caused him to be seized
aud thrown into jail, where, without any
trial, he has been suffering ever since. All
other political military and naval prisoners
have been dismissed long ago, a universal
amnesty kma included all the cliiqfc of the
Confederacy; even the dead men retained in
custody by Mr. Stanton, after their execution
for the murder of Mr. Lincoln, have been re
leased, and the living, accused of complicity
with that crime, but having apparently notb-
.ing to do with it, are, it is believed, about to
be pardoned; yet this mere subordinate,
for obeying, in the line of his profession,
the orders of superiors who have never them
selves been so much as arrested, is still use
lessly wearing out his life in a prison cell,
A mass meeting of German Republicans and
Democrats was held in New York on Mon
day last to adopt measures to remonstrate
against the restrictions proposed in Congress
in regard to naturalization. The meeting
was attended by at least five thousand per
sons, and was, it is stated, as orderly as it
was important; and, representing as it did
the opinions and wishes of the Germans in
both political parties, it is reasonable to ex
pect that the address which they adopted for
presentation to Congress will receive at least
respectful attention. Speeches were made by
Oswald Ottendorfer, Democrat, and Gen.
Sigel, Republican, aud by othor leading meu
in both parties.
General Sigel, President of the German Re
publican Central Committee, who was greet
ed with applause, spoke iu substance as fol-
lowa:
OENEBAL SIQEL’s SPEECH.
Friends and Fellow Citizens: In the name of
the German Democratic and Republican
Committees, who have deliberated on the
proposed alteration of the naturalization laws,
I bid you welcome. The preservation of the
liberties of the adopted citizens of the Uni
ted States is called into question by the
measnres now- before Congress. Whatever
alterations of the existing laws are required
by us yon will find iu the resolutions to be
laid before you. I do not believe we liavt
committed an error in calling for the co-ope-
ration of our democratic fellow citizens. Nc
political party qnestiou is to be discussed, in
mau to be commeuded, no candidate for Pres
ident or Governor to be supported here, but,
in tbe name of the adopted citizens and of
those coming after us, we will defend our
rights. We will guard agaiust injustice be
ing done to us. We will have no laws pro-
louging the time necessary for naturalization,
but a law which will remedy existing abuses
without prolonging that time; which will noi
make naturalization more difficult; which
will not contain a heap of clauses unintelli
gible to immigrants; which will not necessi
tate a new and expensive class of officials.
When Germans fought to preserve the Union,
wlieo the German soldiers fell on the battle
field, no question was raised then as to the
political creed of an immigrated soldier.
They shall not inquire about this point now
when the rights of those adopted citizens are
at stake. The question now is no more the
abolition of slavery; it is the distribution of
political rights to men who formerly have been
in slavery. A people that does not know
how to protect its rights is not worth the lib
erty it enjoys. Each class of citizens shall,
at the proper time, demaud what is due to it,
aud shall, writh all its might, strive to attain
it. This time has now come for ns. Now is
the time to express our views, while Congress
is discussing our rights.
MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.
Mr. Marcus Otterbourg, of the Republican •
Central Committee, then read the following
memorial, to be laid before Congress, and
also a preamble recommending it to the con
sideration of Congress:
To the Congress of the Fnited States: The un
dersigned beg leave to represent:
1. That the European immigration always
has beeu and still is a source of incalculable
advantage for this country, and that in eon-
sequeuce thereof all Jaws and measures
tending to invite and facilitate the sumo u-ill
promote the progress and interests of this re
public.
2. That all alterations in the existing
naturalization laws should he made with a
due regard for the importance ami the value
of the adopted citizens aud the liberal ten
dencies of the times: that the period of time
now prescribed by law, for which an alien
must have resided iu this country, before In
can be admitted as a citizen of the United
States, should fcc shortened, aud no ob
stacles whatever should be placed in the way
of applicants legally aud rightfully entitled to
admission, and the undersigned therefore
respectfully request that tor the loregoing
reasons the process of naturalization should
not be exclusively conferred npou the courts
of the United States to the exclusion of the
courts of record in the several States.
3. That, on the other hand, we will unhesi
tatingly approve of all modifications of the
existing naturalization laws which may be
made by your honorable body, which shall
provide for the effectual punishment of all
persons who are concerned in any forgery or
fraud in making, obtaining, orasing any false
or wrongful order or certificate of naturaliza
tion, and for the purpose of preventing ille
gal and fraudulent naturalization; and tlmt
we deem it our duty not only to respect tho
provisions of a law enacted for such purposes,
but to aid and assist in its execution by all
the means in our power.
And j'our memoralists will ever pray, Ac.
The resolutions and memorial were adopt
ed by the meeting with great enthusiasm.
This timely and manly stand in defence of
the white man’s rights of suffrage in our rev
olutionized Republic, on the part of the pow
erful German element, will not fail to put a
stop to the Kuow-Nolhing movement in Con
gress, which has for its object tbe restriction
of the rights and immunities of immigrants.
ESTABLISHED IS
SPAIN.
FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
Harrisburg, February 26.—Gen. Geary de-
ritres that he never wrote or telegraphed to
‘mi. Grant in regard to his Cabinet, if pre-
tent «d they were forgeries.
Philadelphia, February 26.—A bill creating
* tueiropolitan police for this city was de
nted in the Legislature.
FROM TENNESSEE.
Nashville, February 26.—The Speaker of
the House was inaugurated Governor to-day.
Iu Lis inaugural address he foreshadows no
policy; . ’• ’•
FROM WEST VIRGINIA*
" ureuno* February 26.-—A bill ^locating
Capital of West Virginia at Charleston
R «nxwha county, passed the Legislature.
FROM KENTUCKY.
I-ocisviUiX, February 26—Thus. 0. Wil-
senior partner of Wilson, Eater A Oo.,
aru gtfiat, committed suicide, aged CL
and is likely to die there unless some act of
executive mercy saves the country from such
a reproach to humanity. This man. who has
so long been held in prison, has neither been
tried nor convicted. Why has he not had a
trial ? If there is any purpose in his impris
onment, why not act upon that purpose ? If
there is no perpose, as would seem to be evi
dent from his being deprived of the privilege
of a speedy trial, which is accorded to the
vilest criminal, then his continued* detention
is a cruel outrage, and he ought to be dis
charged. No oue is probably insane enough
to suppose that he is going to do any mis
chief after hi* release. Reason, justice and
humanity demand either the trial or the dis
charge of this prisoner. A trial, doubtless,
wjll DS but »: wasting’ of the means of the
government Let then, the prisoner go
tree.—Balt Sun.
Adulterated Mtlic.—Four alleged wflk
adulterators were arrested in New York on
Saturday, and about eighty cans of milk in
their possession were seized. Specimens or
the water which they ore accused ot having
mixed with the milk were placed on exhibi
tion awaiting analyzation. The water is said
to be very muddy, and is filled with animal
and vegetable matter.
„ Several English gentlemen who: want last
September to Virginia to spend some tuns in
hunting in the Blue Ridge, were so delighted
with the oountxy that they purchased a large
tract on the Manassas Railroad, near Gaines
ville, A colony of English will settle on the
sad in the spring.
I
Startling Mystery.
We copy as follows from the Knoxville
Press and Herald of the 16th:
On Saturday morning, the 13th im»t., as
Mr. Glenn, of New Market, Jefferson county,
Tenn., was engaged plowing on a side hill
on the farm of Mr. Hill, a half mile from New
Market, he suddenly perceived his team of
horses disappear into the ground beneath,
leaving the plough and harness on terra firma.
Upon examination he discovered that the
ground had first given way under the hind
feet of the horses, thus “skinning” the har
ness over their heads as the dumb beasts sank
into the bowel* of the earth.
One of the horses was buried some eighteen
or twenty feet deep, and of course died in
stantly from suffocation. The other remained
in sight about twelve feet below the surface.
Mr. Glenn and his son, who also witnessed
the occurrence, attempted to save the living
animal by descending into the cavity, but
the earth kept giving way beneath them
and they were soon unable to save them
selves, and were rescued from their perilous
position by neighbors whom their cries
brought to the scene. Both of the horses
were lost. .. i
The cavity is circular, and twenty feet in
diameter. * This dirt and horses fill the
centre, while on each side is a lag© fissure,
into which log* have been thrown, disappear
ing from view, and it has been found impossi
ble to fill the cavities. There are no rocks or
stones to be seen, yet the whole aide seems to
be a mere crust beneath which is an apparent
ly unfathomable abyss. c . \*j.
The Friendship Existing Between the
Piriuee Imperial and the Prince of
Asturias—The Candidate* for the
Throne—.Montpen*ier*s Supporter*—In
terview Between Don Carlo* and Ex-
• Queen Isabella.
[Correspondence Naer York Herald.]
Madrid, January 18, 1869.
Great uneasiness is felt, especially among
the Republicans, at the entente cordiale sub
sisting between the Tuileries and the Pa
vilion de Rohan—visits interchanged and an
undoubted intimacy existing, especially be
tween the Priuce of Asturias and the Prince
Imperial. Ou Christmas Day the former was
invited to the Tuileries, where a Christmas
tree, laden with pretty presents, was pre
pared for the amusement of the Prince Im
perial ami a few of his yonng friends, the
sons of General Flenry, Ac. The greatest
gayety prevailed. Priuce Alfonso climbed
up tho tree, with the others; and as the
presents were very handsome, Queen Isabel
la, not to be outdone in generosity, sent the
little Prince to the Tuileries the following
day with some splendid gifts for his young
companion. Moreover, tho two boys ride
together, are devoted to each other, and
Prince Alfonso’s partisans here are much
pleased to learn that he rides more feailessly
than the Prince Imperial, and is what the
Prussians call un petit demon on horseback.—
He is already entered as a pupil in the
College Stanislas, one of the best schools in
France.
The revenge taken by certain members of
the Republican party on the fallen dynasty
is certainly of a most unworthy nature, and
is loudly condemned by all the respectable
portion of that party/ The most obscene
songs are sung about the streets, of which
Queen Isabella is the heroine. The most in
decent caricatures of her and of her adherents
are paraded at the shop windows, so that I
have seen many Indies pull down their veils
and .hurry by, that they may not see these
offensive exhibitions.
With regard to the candidates for the
throne, it may now be said that the two most
likely to succeed are Moutpeusier aud the
Priuce of Austria. But the former is despised
and ridiculed by more than half the nation,
while the latter has agaiust him all the ene
mies of the Bourbon dynasty. Nevertheless,
I believe that both Prim and Serrano are in
his favor. Prim is now in great intimacy
with Queen Christina, who naturally desires
the accession of her graudsou to the throne.
Her agent, Senor Carriguiri, and her son-in-
law, the Marquis of Carnpo Sagrado, are here
at present with a mission from her to General
Prim. But strauge to say, this plan may
prove unsuccessful through the firmness, or
as some say, the obstinacy of Quean Isabella,
who positively refuses to abdicate her throne,
veil in favor of her son. Queen Christina,
finding all her persuasions ou that subject of
avail with her daughter, left the Pavilion
tie Rohan in disgust aud 1ms retired to Mar
seilles. Senor Beltran de Lis, formerly in
the Ministry, aud much esteemed by the ex-
Queen, made a journey to Paris for the same
purpose, aud with a similar result. The
Queen’s answer is the same -she will not
j.lieate the throne of her fathers. ’
it'she persists in this resolution it is prob
able that tin* union liberal party will compro-
>vith Montpensier, who, avaricious as
advanced immense sums to help ou
volution, and that he will be the candi
date proposed bv them. If so it is generally
believed that a civil war will be the conse
quence.
M»-nnwhile nothing but ruin and misery
has as yet resulted from the revolution. The
ancient edifice is thrown down, and none
erected in iia pluoo. Xerion^ nuoAmuatm in
felt as to the state of alioiis in Cuba. Five
hundred of the prisoners taken iu Malaga
have been embarked for that island. General
I lub e, (he. new Captain-General, is iu bud
health. His interests are there since his
marriage with the rich widow of the Count of
Santa-Vcnia. His antecedents, ns various
newspapers here remark, are not of a nature
to inspire great confidence in his loyalty.
The conduct of Mendez-Nimez, at a mo
ment when all are graspiug at places aud
greedy of money, is worthy of notice. He
has refused the nomination of Vice-Admiral.
He giveH no opinion as to tbe political affairs,
but merely declines with modesty any favors
from the Provisional Government, alleging
that he has already been sufficiently rewarded
lor his services in the Pacific.
It is said that an interview took place some
time since in the Pavilion de Rohan between
Queen Isabella and Don Carlos. The Prince
expressed his desire that the two branches of
the family should he reconciled. The Queen
assured him that this had always been her
most earnest desire, and added that should
she he restored to the throne of her fathers
she would, iu conjunction with the Cortes,
take measures for restoring his family to their
proper position. One may see that the poor
Queen fives in a vain illusion.
A friend of mine, who has just returned
from Lisbon, and has had an interview with
Montpensier, assures me that the Duke re
tains all his hopes of mounting the Spanish
throne, which I also believe to be an illusion.
{From the Memphis Avalanche, Feb. 12.]
SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.
An Old Man of Eighty Year* Take* a
Pop or Two with his Grandson* and
Son-in-law—Spirited Fracas—Five Per.
aon* Wounded.
An old family feud came to a shooting focus
last Mouday at Abbeville, in Lafayette count v,
Mississippi, about sixty miles from Memphis,
which, from the depravity of the parties en
gaged, and their peculiar relations, rather
takes the lead of all the shooting scrapes we
have had the raonrnfhl pleasure of recording
in many years. There is something so in
credible and solemnly ludicrous in an old
man with wintry hair, and little of it, turning
back from the open grave to have a deadly
conflict with his grand children, that we
would not tell such a story without the most
satisfactory evidence of the fact. But yester
day we met a prominent citizen from Missis
sippi who gave us the following authentic
statement:
Last Monday one John Clarke, aged eighty,
of Liilftv ette county, Mississippi, and bis son,
a mau of years aud family, had a difficulty at
Abbeville with Mr. Wm. Wimberly and Wim
berly’s two sons, both young men. Now,
Wimberly, senior, is tbe son-in-law of Clarke,
senior; hence the young Wimberlya are the
grandsons of old Mr. Clarke. . The fracas
they had was tho result of an old family feud,
which has been on hand many years, but the
History of it we are unable to give.
They met in town, perhaps by chance, per
chance by a concerted plan; any way they
met; they skirmished, they flourished re
volvers and bowie knives, fired several shots
at each other, aud slashed vigorously with
their knives. It is to be regretted that the
spectators interfered before any work was
made for the coroner. Wheii the smoko of
battle cleared away, it was ascertained that
there was killed, none; wounded, five. Every
one engaged was wounded. Old Grandfather
Clark received a shot in the head that might
have killed a young man, but he will proba
bly recover and live yet to kill bis man. His
affectionate son-in-law, old man Wimberly,
was well shot in the neck; he also may re
cover. The three yonng men, Clarke versus
his nephews, the two Wimbarlys, were sliced
aud hacked with the knives, but not danger
ously. It is said that they all intend to
recover as soon as convenient and finish the
battle.
The Clarke family became famous in the
line of tragedy mauy years ago. Not long
before the war old man Clarke had two sous,
John and William, killed by a neighbor
named Thomason, and his two sons. The
peculiar feature of that tragedy was that one
of the Clarkes killed was Thomason's son-in-
law. In the fracas Thomason was beaten
nearly to death, but his sons came to bis re
lief and the two Clarkes were shot down like
beeves. The Thomasons fled to Arkansas
and never returned to Mississippi. This makes
a family history, when all put together, that
is without parallel. Match it.
LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH.
The Best Spot lu Florid*—River Scenery
—Game—IIow It Seem* In the-Wood*—
Bird-Voices—Climate, Soli, Ac.
[Correspondence of the Hartford Timi
On thk Si. Jobs's.
A Man Killed bt an Explosion or Buandy.
In Barton, Ohio,., a few days ago, J. E.
Johnston, the proprietor of a atore, was iu-
stantly hilled while testing nooffipIonife oiL
The aicninstance, ere about ha follower 'A '
To teat the oil he need a cask partly Blled
with brandy, for a pedeetaL While placing
the oil can on. the pedestal, some oil was
spilled upon the head of the teg. Tbe keg
had a bang hole in that end, covered with
tin. To prevent tbe fir, from communicating
with tire brandy, the top of the keg wee wiped
with a cloth, which removed almost every ap-
pcaranco of oiL
To ascertain whether any of.it remained
npon the keg; be touched a match to the eat-
u rated part, A load explosion followed, end
when the shock wee over it wee discovered
that the heed of the keg had been blown oat
etriking Mr. Johnston on ike head, with the
result above stated. The . accident is attrib-
Q ted to communication of the fire with the
gaa in the partly filled keg, by means of the
bung-hole, which was considered closely
covered with tin.
Tlie Cuba Troubles.
Tho rebellion in Cuba does not seem to be
prospering. The grant military and naval
resources at General Dulce’s command, and
the.skill of his management are apparently
begiuuing to get the better of the rebellion.
Unless the face of affairs changes very sud
denly, Mr. Rohinson’s resolution iu the
House to acknowledge the independence of
Cuba will be out of place, except as a com
pliment to tho dead. There must be now,
including volunteers, an army of more thau
sixty thousand men under the command of
the Captain General, though it must be ad
mitted that tbe volunteers give him almost
as much trouble as the enemy. Tbe ferocity
of these truly loyal men everywhere except
in the field, is almost irrepressible by the
combined military power and characteristic
fact of General Dulce. These holiday sol
diers are howling for blood, while the real
soldier, the man whose profession is war, has
to muzzle then frathy jaws and inculcate
prudence, self-restraint, deliberation and fra
ternal feeling. Cowardice and cruelty go
hand-in-hand, and, except for garrison duty,
we apprehend that General Dulce would find
his volunteers rather an incumbrance thau
an aidrin the present contest It is to be
hoped that he will persist in his announced
purpose to effect the pacification of the island
within the limits of the law.
It will be wise in him to extend the utmost
clemency to the rebels, considering the real
grievances under which Cuba has suffered,
the danger of rendering permanently disaf
fected aud vindictive an element of the pop
ulation which has shown itself possessed of
so much strength as the rebellion has devel
oped, and also by the reflection that tho gov
ernment against which Cuba has revolted is
itself a rebellion, and a rebellion mostly car
ried on by the military class to which Gen.
Dales belongs, and which therefore, ought to
have some toleration for those who adopt
that mode of redressing grievances. Gen.
Dulce, it appears, has declared that he counts
the syropathv and morn] aid of the
United States, ancl Madrid cable dispatches
of February £ l represent the press of Spain
ns urging up- i the provisional government
the necessity of preserving the friendship of
this country. The roost efficient means of
effecting that object is by adopting towards
tbe Cubans a policy of conciliation and clem
ency, for tlie sympathies of oar people are
universally with the insnrgentH. DcuL Sun.
At tiro first performance of the Spanish
•Protestant ‘service in Madrid, hundreds of
persona were unable to obtain admission,
owing'to the want of room. The owner of
the house in which worship is hfildhaip-
ceived an anonymous letter threatening him
with assassination. • ... ~
Intemperance has become *6 prevalent in
Sweden that tbe Legislature is considering
the propriety of forbidding the manufacture
of spirits. ‘ ' /
A petition is now before the French Senate
asking for the removal of the mortal remains
of LouisPhillipp© from England to France.
Tile Kifieenth Amendment—Beginning
to See it* Effect*.
The constitutional amendment adopted by
the United States Senate is denounced bv
some of the prominent radical journals, who
see that it is time to resist the encroachments
of Congress upon the rights of the .States.
The tendency towards centralization is be
ginning to be rebuked by republican party
organs. They see the danger that must re
sult from stripping the States of all power,
aud conferring the same upon Congress. The
Providence (li. L) Journal saj s:
“Should this amendment be confirmed by
the States, and go into effect, it cannot fail to
work a very important change in the govern
ment and institutions ot the country. Tbe
article anunL.iorerei «J1 Kpeclal tpuUification*
for holding office iu any of the States, aud
will inevitably require very important altera
tions iu several ol the State constitutions, as
well as in ti»e relations of all the States to
the general government It will provo by far
the longest, step that 1ms thus far been taken
tswurd tbe consolidation of our political
power and tire virtual overthrow of State iu-
stitutibns.
“ A change like this which is proposed by
the Senate is fundamental and far-reaching.
As was earnestly contended by several lead
ing members of that. body, it is esseutiaTly
revolutionary in its tendencies aud results.
Our political system will be very greatly
modified by its operation, and with the facili
ty which will thus be introduced of making
still further changes, it is impossible fully to
estimate or even to anticipate the ulterior
consequences that are likely to flow from it.
Out of a necessity which the rebellion forced
upou the States of the South, and which
really pertained only to them, the champions
of a particular theory of social rights have
carried through the Senate a eimuge in the
fundamental law which strikes down every
thing like local independence iu State uffiiiffi,
aud abolishes all power in a State to protect
itself against any social or political evils to
which it may be especially exposed. The
constitution of the United Suites as thus
amended, will clearly no longer be the con
stitution which was adopted by our fathers.
With such a provision, even as a possible an
ticipation, it could never have passed the
convention of 1787; still less could it have
been accepted by the popular conventions of
any of tbe States. If it is now confirmed, it
will be only an overthrow of State constitu
tions, under the spurious guise of a consti-
tional amendment iu favor of freedom.”
The Chicago Tribune also has a bold article
on the subject. It says:
“State officers are not, like voters, constitu
ents of the national government. Their
qualifications may be safely left to the people
of the State. The constitutions of the several
States provide various qualifications for their
officers. The Governors of some States are.
required to be native-born citizens. Under
each State we have a variety of offices to be
filled by persons having a knowledge of par
ticular sciences; we have judges and attorney
generals; we have prosecuting attorneys,
State geologists and surveyors; we have hos
pitals for the insane and for the treatment of
other forms of disease. Why should not the
State of Illinois require that persons
elected or appointed to these places shall
be able to read or write ? that her judges
and attorneys shall be educated by law ? that
her public physicians and superintendents of
hospitals shall have a medical education?
Yet the amendment proposed by the Senate
prohibits the State from establishing any
qualifications, and makes eligibility to office
coextensive with the right to vote. All citi
zens, of oil colors and race's, whether they
read or write, or speak the language, or hold
property, are made eligible to all offices in
the State. Can any person give any good
reason for tljis proposition ?
“We do not think such an amendment can
be ratified at the present time. We do not
believe that it will secure the requisite num
ber of votes in Illinois, Indiana or Ohio; we
do not think Connecticut, or Rhode Island,
or New 1 Hampshire, will ratify it, and it may
fail in New York and Pennsylvania. The Pa
cific States will undoubtedly reject it. The
universal suffrage clause cannot carry itself
and the office-holding clause.
Ups and Down*.—A young couple of Rock-
port, Blaine, while courting, walked out to
gether arm in arm, fell through a hole in
the sidewalk, each breaking a leg. Their fall
set them up in the world—a jury awarding
them a verdict of $12,000 against the town.
Pjeach Crop, —It is supposed that the freeze
of Tuesday night,was fatal to tho peach crop
in this vicinity to a large extent—Macon 7W-
tgraph, '25tk.
Feb. 10, 1860. .
The place called Enterprise, on the nortk
shore of the beautiful Lake Monroe, 235 miles
up the St John’s, is seemingly destined to
become the Saratoga of the South. It will
take the best of the increasing tide of winter
travel from the North. It is the terminus of
most of the steamboat navigation on the St
John’s, and the well-kept hotel cannot ac
commodate half the visitors, even now. The
mau who buys the adjoining property* on this
lake front and pnts up a large hotel will
make money. Mineral springs abound. One
is a sulphur spring, circular in form, 20 or 30
feet in diameter, of. a deep blue-green color,
and 90 feet deep, Its outlet is a consider
able brook, and a hydraulic ram would give
the water to every story of a hotel if one
were built near it Its remedial properties
for bathers are already well known. Auother
spring is strongly impregnated with sulphate
of sodium, salt and other mineral matters-
Lucious .oranges grow nearby, in a grove
that produces $2,000 worth of fruit annually.
The oranges sell readily at the hotel and to
visitors at three cents each, and if the supply
were larger they could be shipped per steamer
to Jacksonville and Northern cities at a hand
some profit. This grove was not badly hurt
by the Christmas frost, and the frait is very
tine. The trees were brought some twenty
years ago from Cuba. Florida is r.aid to im
prove the Cuba oranges. Those I havo tried
from Indian river are certainly heavier, juicier
and better than any Havanas ever offered in
the Hartford market; aud this grove at En
terprise, one mile southeast of the hotel, pro
duces to-day as good fruit as the Havana, in
spite of the December frost, which was lighter
at Enterprise than at Palatka, 130 miles fur
ther down stream, to the north—for this
strange river flows to the nortn.
It is a wonderful river. Slowly and darkly
it keeps its majestic course, for hundreds of
miles between low shores densely wooded
ith an almost tropical growth ot'primeval
oods. The palmetto, the cypress, the ma
ple, the live-oak, the water-oak, and a hun
dred other trees, some deciduous aud some
perennial green, grow to tho very edge of
the water. They are covered with huge
growths of the green mistletoe of old Eng
land, and air-plauts, and the ever-present
festoons of the Southern moss making alto
gether a scene of wild, wierd beauty unlike
any other in this country. Some of them
are just putting out their young leaves of
tender green, which push off the old leaves
of a duller green; others are nearly in full
leaf. Such are the maples; and their fresh,
vivid green affords one of the most charming
contrasting effects to be seen on the rivet.
The palms, of course, are always green; and
so are the live oaks and many others. The
river bends in the most sudden and extraor
dinary sinuosities. It expands at some points
iuto lovely lakes, like Lake George, on which ;
I now am—a lake nearly 20 miles in every ,
direction. At other points it exhibits broad
marshes, all dotted over with the great white
cranes of this section. As the steamer gels
near them they rise and silently wing their
lazy flight across the water.
These water fowl ate. innumerable. They
constitute a feature of the scenery. Herons,
ducks, cranes, eagles, great fish hawks, and
a multitude of other birds, waders and divers,
are always in sight. Guns are popping from
the steamer's deck every minute, especially
above Lake George. I saw a flock of wild
turkeys in the woods, a few miles back. They
walked coolly off, disregarding the bungling
shots of tbe amatfnr sportsmen on the
steamer. At most of the clearings where the
steamer stopped, there would be backwoods
men waiting with their turkeys and their
venison. We live well on board. Sweet po
tatoes I have tried in all styles and of nil
kinds. Here the yam is esteemed superior
to the common sweet potato. It is rich in
saccharine matter, and when baked it exudes
a sweet, thick, gummy syrup. We have just
taken on board a large lot of them—none
smaller than a quart “junk bottle”—at sixty
cents a bushel. Oranges, of course, form a
part of the dessert, lam writing with a wild
turkey quill, made into a pen with my jack
knife.
The weather is delightful. Sailing up or
down this picturesque and more than semi-
tropical stream, with the shores all green in
February; the jungle-like woods on the
swampy shores presenting every stage aud
aspect of vegetable growth, with the grace
ful palmetto lifting its smooth trunk and
lofty green plume in tho midst of the grey-
bearded live oaks, the glossy-leaved magnolia,
soon to be in bloom, and the wealth of tropic
water-plants at their roots; with the airs of
Paradise fanning ones brow—these are the
sights and sensations of a sail up and down
the St John’s. It is one long dream of
beauty; the luxury of rest I could not help
recalling to my mind, time aud again, the
sensations which in schoolboy days I used to
fancy must be experienced m a sail up the
river Zenegambia, with its African palms, its
tangled jungles, and its abounding crocodiles.
The continual popping and banging of guns
on deck becomes, after the sport of alligator
shooting has lost its novelty, rather a nui
sance to the contemplative traveller; and it is
a relief to sail into the broad bosom of some
one of the chain of these great silent lakes,
where shooting ceases, and the spirit of
beauty reigns supreme.
The thermometer at Enterprise, at this
time of the year, stands at about 60 deg.
every morning at breakfast, and from 73 to
80 deg. in the middle of the day. To a trav
eller fresh from the Arctic winter climate of
New England this is very pleasant. We had
a long ramble yesterday, tnrough the woods.
It was at Enterprise. The forest is much as
it must have been since the dawn of creation.
It is a wilderness of palms, some very lofty,
and others interposing their immense green
fanH against the pedestrian's progress, at a
height of six feet Gum trees, wild bee-trees
full of honey, water oaks, and trees and en
tangling vines withont number and without
name, would make walking difficult even
were the ground less swampy than it is. In
some places the air will be suddenly filled
with the odor of sulphur, showing the pres
ence of a spring. Unknown birds are heard
all around you. Enormous hawks, as large
as eagles, sail silently ovei* your head, close
to the tree-tops. Wild flowering shrubs and
vines exhale perfume. The balmy air breathes
soft and low, and makes a. faint murmur
among the pines, like the dying wash of
waves on a tropic island shore. Now there
bursts upon the delighted ear the wild, sweet
note of the mockingbird. Soft and low it
begins, like the dulcet murmur of a flute;
anon it swells and rises to a copious volume
of wild, various and wonderful harmony, in
which toe enraptured ear takes in all Rtrange
and wild sweet sounds that be, in grove, and
stream, and glen. • It is silent now; and you
look to discover this regal wildwood songster.
Ah, there he is. A shy, graceful, slender
bird, in appearance not unlike the New Eng
land cat-bird, but. not quite - so dark a slate-
color, and in shape more graceful, with a
tawny-white bosom and one or two white bore
of white on wiugs and tail. He sings at
morning and at sunset, and all day long be
sides. The southern woods would be doubly
solemn and silent without tiro mocking bird.
He is the nightingale of our land; ana those -
who flee from the rigors of toe northern win
ter, may hear him in his native woods in the
amidst of January.
at any season, and the only spoi - : .
Johns capable of improveniMiT m<- •<-
sional low bluffs, rising froi \ mv ?• • • c
high from the water, and aff .i, , « , <.
a house and orange grove. ^
nin)r« again, above and be!- v y snrh ;5 •>
into toe general swampinesi ir:< om;: trv.
Thebluflfe are composed >f the strange
mixture of sea-sand and fcely puBvrU^:.
shells, like flour, which forms the -oh
northern aud middle Florida ' n the lace ot
the bluff the shells arc still whole-: bnt kick
tip toe dirt with your foot, sad they arc seen
to be perfectly pulverized apd a part of 'be.
soil. They are mostiy snai^ sheila, ‘''here
did they como from V They may be gathers
by the acre in all parts ol Florida They
make a good soil for fruit, acd jierhaq - r
nearly everything else—-though the g vy-
whiteand brown-grey furrow's turned up by
the plow do not look like it. Tet the” do
produce enormously; espScwily ' 1 ' 1: *
known hereas “hammock,” or darktr-col 're<
sand and shell. Of everything hot Ca >\
and timothy it produces abunch:
mous oaks aitcst its fertility • t‘ al
the river sell for from $30
improved—according to ty-»
hay, at $3 per 100, is bron ;bv fix
Tbe Iithma*
It would seem from » paragtfipl
recently that while Mr. Cashing,
the United States, was securing trow, -j-
lumbian government tho right ol m /.
canal across the Isthmus of Pane '*
Ayon, of Nicaragua, was arranging
Emperor Napoleon the condinot:.
French canal through that State, '
the San .Tuan rivor and its great l fa
and favorite project with tile Emp<o > i
Nicaragua has not occupied much att
since Walker’s unsuccessful att ere;/ -
a lodgment in the country and Jim •*.
execution. It is, however, entitle/,
geographical position and resouri >3.
as the first State of Central Auv*vi
ated on a narrow isthmus bet we' n ‘
lantic and the Pacific, its ports >r *
one hand to Europe and on tt
America, and about midway bet
and South America, Nicaragua h
scribed as seeming to “realize t -<
idea of the geographical centre c'C. '
The subject of the facilities fo; v t .« •* r
munication between the seas, *-w
supposed to be superior to those v
part of the continent, was occuj
tention of Lonia Napoleon in L
the news reached him of the dow >? r
Philippe. From a work which 1 !
upon the subject it appears tb
was proposed to commence a
San Juan, (Greytown,) on the A .
and terminate at the port of R<
Pacific. Beginning at the befor
it follows first, the river Sau Jv; .
estimated at from ninety to one i ui.- '
four miles Joug; second, the Lai
gua, ninety miles in length; th: r*t -
Tipitapa, twenty miles Jong, ..In•. 1
the lakes of Nicaragua and Leor f.
Lake of Leon, thirty-five mile b
the isthmus, which separates tli>
from Realejo, twenty-nine mile
making a total of 278 miles. It •
added by the author that ove
it would be necessary to excav •
distance of ninety-two miles,
the work of Napoleon was writt
.San Juan was easy of entrance
the sea has since broken throi
bank which forms the outer pre
harbor, and has filled up the for
so that it carries only vessels o’
The Pacific port, Realejo, is sa
cious and secure, but difficult
But the Lake Nicaragua is adm
to the purpose.8 of a canal, t
water being amply sufficient to
munication of whatever dim*
for by the exigencies of con
stated that observations made
the lake, at its lowest stage ot
year 1851, showed that the
715,800 cubic foet per minut
highest stage it was sornewh
double that amount Indeed,
pronounced by high authority t
of water capable of supplyin
levels of any canal that may b<
across this continent. If Fren
could accomplish both the N
Reduction of thk Abet.—Butler’s bill re-*
during the army, which has passed the House,
cuts it down ene-half. The whole force re
tained will not exceed' iwenty-five thousand.
The grand and imposing Masonic Temple
recently erected in North Charles street, Bal
timore, was opened on Mpnday evening last
with appropriate exercises.
Yet there is something lacking in the-bird-
mu sic of these Florida wood*. Expectation
is not quite satisfied. Perhaps there is not
An elxchange chronieTte the extraordinary A . , —
fact of Queen Victoria'* wearing her hair in in three decades; but how i* it to be got to
enough of it Most of the birds have no foil
song, but only titter-one or jtwo^ melodious
notes.- Even the mocking-bird himself but
seldom gives us the evidence of his full pow
er, but is apt to cut short hi* song, ere it has
fairly began. *
The immense lumber production of theso
shores esn never be made very-available.
“ iw is lumber to be cut in water two or three
t deep. Here Is cypress enough for all
toe shingles that could be used by toe North
tlie same manner m she did twenty-five year? market? True, the river is now uncommon-
ago. v '* ly high; but the whole oountry is a flat marsh
Suez canals, "it would be
ment than any of a military^hi
the first empire or the present,
be doubted whether such a wc
tempted whilst France feels
keep up her present enormous
A Ringle year of war would be
her as much an the construction
ami yield no consideration for
true.
Colonizing the Plunderers.
of converting Alaska into a pen
lately been revived by the New ’
Congress is called upon to pass a law to put
Alaska to this use, and provide that every
State in the Union may sentence all offenders
above a certain grade, males and females—
all vagrants who have no visible means of
employment—to be transported thither, such
transportation to be made at certain specified
periods every year, in government vessels, at
so much a head to be paid by tbe State send
ing the convicts. In this manner, it is urged,
the community would get rid of its robbers,
burglars, thieves, incendiaries, and stout,
able-bodied, lazy vagrants and beggars, both
domestic and imported. Now, while this
penal colony business is rather a relic of ab
solutism than - anything else, and scarcely
suited to the age, in a republic especially, wo
think if it is to be resorted to, that the best
plan would be to send the members of tbo
various rings now engaged in plundering the
Government, to this American Botany Bay.
If the Secretary of State had this
Alaska in his mind when he purchased it, it
was a sagacious act There being nothing
there to steal, there would be some chance of
their becoming honest men, or, at any rate,
by intermarrying with the savages, their de
scendant* might be an improvement upon
the original stock. There are processes by
which some of the foulest substances may
be manufactured into agreeable periumes.
The felons transported from England to the
British oolonies have been improved in
morals and manners by their exile, and be
came, in many cases, toe ancestors of a re
spectable progeny. It is therefore within tho
bounds of possibility that even the corrup
tion of our own public plunderers might be
arrested by enclosing them in Alaska ice.
Extraordinakx Effects of Neuralgia—A
Man Throws Forty Thousand Dollars into
the Fire. — W. /. Bradley, who for some
time; past has been in the employ of J. G.
Reading «t Co., spoke-dealers of Frenchtowu,
Hunterdon county, and who acts as agent in
buying lumber for toe firm, started for the
South not long since, partly in the discharge ■
of his business engagements and partly to
settle up an estate of hi* which had been hr-
ing for a long time past in an- unsettled ctwh
dition. Having arranged matters satisfacto
rily, he started for Frenchtown. where he ar
rived on Saturday last, laboring under a se
vere attack of neuralgia iu the head, brought
by exposure aud cold. Arriving late m the
evening, he had jio^ opportunity to deposit
his money, and so placed it in toe bottom of
hi* trunk, in bis bed-rpom, with the inten
tion of depositing it in the bank on Monday
morning. Grndtndly the neuralgic pains in
creased until Mr. Bradley was rendered tem
porarily insane; and while at the height of
one of these severe spells on Sunday even
ing he took the money from his trunk and
threw it into toe stove in the bed-room, and
in an instant a fortune was lost Hi* wife
had just left the room; and upon returning
found,'tb her astonishment, nothing left but
the envelope which bad .contained the pre
cious stuff Madato Rumor ifas -her usual
number .of stories, and the exact amount is
KMoarfe J) Ftb. 4.
says (hey drive their vahxr-
_ the streets or that city, th*t.
results in the total dissppesr-
ridere and machines.. No
'
ever found.