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MILUED O-E VILLE:
Tmdif, Jamsrj SI, 1871.
Letter from Washington,
Tho Atlanta Sun in speaking of the
hanging in effigy of Bullock Blodgett &
Co., makes the following remarks, which
we give that the public may sec what
6tripe it is.
‘•Our eitfzens wero shocked aud mor-
tifiod yesterday morning to find four
prominent gentleman hung in effigy
on Alabama Street.”
“The entiro transaction has the hear
ty condemnation of all classes of people
who have any respect for good order
and decency.”
“Wo are certain there is not a man
in Atlanta, wlro would desire to harm a
simrle hair in the hoad of of any one of
them.”
“It was by no means a symbol of the
sentiment ot the Atlanta people. On
the coutraiy, on all hands we hear the
act denounced in terms of the most em
phatic condemnation'”
If the jSmm represents truly the
feelings of the Atlnnta people, then the
fate of Sodom is too good for than*
The idea of any decent person boing
‘shocked and wortifiod' by Buliock A Co.,
being bung iu effigy, is preposterous; a
man, who would be ‘'shocked” or “morti
fied” by the real bangiDg of this infa
mous clique, is not worthy of being a
citizen of Georgia.
From the bottom of onr hearts we
pity Atlanta if this is not a symbol of
her feelings. But we fool confident that
thla Lt a willful misrepresentation on the
of tbe Sun ; it must have been
bougUt up by Bullock, or such, an article
could not find a place in.its colutus.
Every man who Las “any respect for
good order and decency” feels that these
great desiderata cannot bo obtained
until this Bovine herd meets their just
de-erts; whether by hanging or other
wise is left to the laws of the laud to de
termine.
The French Situation.
We have made such a poor out here
tofore at prophesying on the European
war question that we have decided not
to try it again. Tho poet says “com
ing ovents cast their shadows before,
we are inclined to think now that the
poet didn’t know what he was talking
about. At least, the shadow’s we have
seen were not cast by tbe events we
foretold. We will content ourselves
for tbe future iu detailing tbe situation
not in foretelling events.
The three Freucb armies outside of
Paris aud to which Trochu looked for
relief have been defeated iu detai
Gen, Cawnzy commanding tbe army of
the Loire. The most numerous of all
the French armies was completely de
faated at Lemaus. Bourbaki. to whom
was given tbe task of breaking tbe Ger
man line of communication iu the East
has failed most sigually aud is in full
retreat before tbo Prusbians. The ar
ray commanded by Faidherbo Las been
defeated at St. Queutiu. Garabaldi
gained a victory at Dijon, but too insig
nificant to mention. Trochu has failed to
cut the German line of investment. On
the 19th he tempted -a nothcr soitie,
but was repulsed with a loss of 3000,
Upon the whole, affairs look dcspciate
(ortbe Ftench.
Uoi. A. 11. Stephen's Reply to Governor
Brown.
This long expected document has at
length been given to tbe public. As wc
expoeted, Mr. Stepbeus put tbe
whole question upon a moral basis. He
states that it has been a rule of his life
□ever to aland upon mere technical le
gal rights against public interests, and
gays, substantially, that he would not
have insisted upon his legal rights in tbe
premises when a bid was made for the
lease of tho road excecdin ghis own.
Ho only stands upon the high moral
ground, wh’eh every true patriot
oceupies. that the interests of tho indi
vidual aro subordinate to those of socio
ty. 'And standing there he not only
vindicates his own action in withdraw
ing from the rotten ring, but demon
strates to every honest mind that asso
ciation in any such business, is a
covenant with tho devil. We denounc e
Gov. Brown and bis associates as vilo
intrigaeis and sharpers. We pity the
tnan who condescends to cheat an in
dividual, bnt language cannot express
the full contempt we enter!ri for tbe
man, or set of men who would swindle
the public. We do not contend that
the lease was illegal, it is enough for
us to know that tbe Brown ring did all
they could to cheat the State of Geor
gia out of eleven thousand dollars,
monthly;
The Atlanta Eka, A few days
since, gave ns quite a complimentary
notice. A few weeks back it saw prope r
to apply epithets to us than which lan
guage could not bo more derogatory.
We are glad to find that tho Era is.
candid enough for one time to “own up
und give us our duo.
Mr. B. II. Hill reached Washington;
last night, probably coming here to
Washington. D. 0., Jan. 21, 1871.
The House has just passed a bill giv
ing to the District of Columbia a terri
torial government. This bill gives to
tbe President the power of appointing
a Governor, and allows tha District to
have a delegate upon the floor of tbo
House, who is to have co-equal powers
with all igembers, save only tbe power
to vote, which is denied him. It will
differ from the present form of govern
ment here, in form as wall %s in faet.
Under the psesent arrangement, the
only way ia which the people of this
District of Columbia ean reach Con
gress—their law making power—is by
a petition, or through a lobby, by
moans of which tbe master requiring
legislation is submitted to tbe commit
tee of tbe district, whieh committee has
only one hour in every third Friday of
the month, to attend to all business of
this kind. With tbe delegate upon the
floor, the people have a voiee. He is
paid just as the other members, though
like many of our leaders after tbe war.
bo is prevented voting.
This city is filled with vagabond ne
groes, who have no viaihle means of
support, spending their days in the gal
leries of the House and Senate heated
at tbe expense of the General Govern
ment, deriving their degrees intelli
gence from the clap trap speeches of tbe
Radical dead beats who here misrepre
tseuted the South, and the Northern
demagogues who continually spout bun*»
eombo over tbe miseries of tbe “wards
of the nation.” Tha power of appoint
ing tbe Governor was given Grant in
order to prevent tbese creatures from
electing one of tbeir own body * to the
highest office in tbeir gift.
In tbe olden time, when Toombs*
Stephens and Cobb spoke hare, there
was to be found iu these same galleries
representatives of the virtue, intelli
gence and worth of th* States, but we
can ouly feel now, ’tis a thing of the
past.
Tho bill Las yot to ran the gauntlet
of tbe Senate and tbe Presidential sig
nature.
The statue of Mr. Lincoln, executed
by Miss lleam, will be unveiled
Wednesday night next. It would have
been presented for public inspection
some days ago, but that Miss Viuuie
was suffering from the death of her un
do, Perry Fuller. Time having rea
lieved in a degree tha piqnaucy of her
calamity, she now consents to make
herself famous. This lady went to
Italy with tbe ostensible purpose of
completing her statue of the “late la*
merited,” but many maliciously say she
went there for the purpose of esesping
marriage with Senator Trumbull, of
Illinois. Disappointment Las not sour
ed the Senator, nor has he become des
perate aud ridiculous) as 4a always tha
case with tbe heroes of Miss Evans*
imagination iu similar circumstances.
In tbe Chronicle (Forney’s) of this
morning, occurs the following: “A. H.
Stepbeus has a uew disease uot spoken
of in medical works, nor is it Kkely to
become epidemio at tbe South. Its
name is tbe ‘cowardice of honor,’as we
learn from a Georgia papar. It ap
pears that be purchased from the State
a 94th interest in a lease of tha Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad,
“After the bargain he found be was
not the highest bidder, and though the
lease was awarded to biinseif and as
sociates, he refuses to accept tke situa
tion. ‘There is bouor for yeti,"’ II
mast have cost Forney a pang to Lave
paid this compliment to “the noblest
Roman of them all,” and he pays at th*
expense of other Georgians. He dt^
not thiuk it will becomo epidemic
There is a pungency about the lying of
Forney that attaches to 90 one else
and can ouly be the resalt of a life
;ong effort.
He vituperates the Sooth daily, and
tills tbo Chronicle with article* written
from the text—Southern outrages
Whilst giving extracts allow me to offer
another, which should have been read
in the Senate when reeo nstruetion was
being discussed )a few days ago. It
would have proved effective, and shown
up “outrages” in a neat inanuer. From
the Daily Stale Journal of Richmond
it is taken. “Wo fear tbe party will
put its foot in it, if it opens tbe ques
tion of reconstruction again. The na«
tion cannot afford to keep ap f con
stant war in one-half of the country
aud with one half of the pipple.
merely to oblige our ‘Mask Meddles’ in
the South, who are continually doing
and saying things calculated to annoy
tbe people; aud daily offering tbe most
respectable parts of tbeir bodies to be
kicked, that an actioo of assault may
be brought and damages recovered for
tho outrage.’ Let us have general am
nesty. That and a little more man
hood among the Republicans of the
South will bring ns peace. We must
stop tho thiDg of running to Washing
ton with every black eye apd bloody
nose.” This is evidence u Ex Cmtke%
dr a"—the Daily Journal being Simon-
pure Radical.
have bis disabilities removed. lie des ©nee or consultation with anybody.
nies very positively that ho is a Radi
cal. saying that nobody but a knave
will say it, and nobody but a fool will
believe it. As to the statement which
be made at the Kimball House party,
that he never was a Democrat, and if
so, one from necessity, he explaius by
styling himself an old line Whig, going
to the Democracy merely because be
was an honest man. In Georgia, he
says, there have been bat two parties
since tjie war—the Democrats, and
Rogues or Republicans, therefore of «c-
ceisity he acted with the former.
General Grant held his first recep
tion of this season on last evening, aud
the affair is described as' magnificent
by the Chronicle, which gives an ac*.
eonnt of the dresses of tbe ladies, ex
tending through two columns. This
kind of shoddyism exists here fearful
ly, no social gathering ever being with
oat a brazen faced reporter, v/ko al
ways tells who wore dresses en tram,
and who were affected with en yanier.
The women approve, or it would not
be done. Mrs. Fernando Wood gives
a grand party next week. No cards
as yet.
The case of Hon. R. R. Butler, of
Tennessee, will bo up next week. He
is chargod with having stolen widows
pensions. Ho is the same dear pbello
who was up for sale of cadetships.
No Georgia matter up to-day.
To «p.
{Chroii. fy Sen.
Ben Hill is out in another letter ex-
plaiuiug his connection with tbe State
Road lease. It ie so masterly puerile
we will not dignify it by giving it pub
lication.
Not all the sophistry for which Ben is
noted coaid ever prove to us that an bun
est man could be connected with soeb
a thieving gang for snch swindling pnr-
poses. Not all his logic cau wash the
stain from his guilty soul. “Like the
stain on tbe hands of the guilty Mac
beth, all ocean’s water* can never wash
it out.”
Letter from Hon. A. n. Stephens iu Reply
to Qon. Joseph K. Brown.
Liberty Hall., }
Crawfordville, Ga., >
21st January, 1871. )
Hon. Joseph E. Brown, Atlanta, Ga :
Dear Sir: Your letter to me o(
tii* 10th instant lisa been received,
both in manuscript and newspaper
form. No apology was needed eith
er lor its length or its having been
given to the public before it was re
ceived by me. I have read it with
interest from beginning to end, a3 I
d*ubt not tha p6on!s of the State
generally.
At first it was my intention to let
it go to the country as you sent it,
without any reply or comment what
ever on my part. It was evidently
addressed mainly to the public—
felat*d mainly to the public in
terests; ami contained nothing re
quiring notice Irom me. But, upon
reflection, in view of our long, un
interrupted friendly, personal rela
tions, entirely disconnected from
public questions and policies, and in
view of your allusion to these rela
tions, especially in reference to my
connection with the company to
which the lease of the Road was
awarded, end your service to me in
the matter, for which 1 atn truly
obliged, I have come to the conclu
sion that, perhaps, you may be ex
pecting to hear from me, at least
upon these points, and would fee!
mere aggrieved if I were to remain
silent on them.
I, therefore, think it proper (with
out discussing the merits or demer
its of the lease, or becoming in any
way a party to any discussion of this
sort, further than is absolutely ne
cessary for my present purpose), to
say to you, as I now do, that it was
not without due sensibility I read
those parts of your letter in which
you complain of me for not having
conferred with you, or consulted
with yon, and inquired into the facts
attending the letting of the lease, be
fore taking the course I did. You
express the opinion that I, by with
drawing immediately upon seeing
Mr. Seago’* ex parte statement of
facts, did an act of injustice to you,
tnd other members of the company,
Sec.
To this I have simply to say, that
[ regret you took such a view of it,
and think your feelings of complaint
arose from an entire misapprehen
sion of the objects reasons, and mo
tive* of mj withdrawal; and with
out giving due consideration and
weight to the words 1 used in my
letter to you, and the one for the
public on the subject at the lime.
Be assured nothing was farther from
my intention than an act of injus
tice ta you, or any member of the
company. By what I did it was
not my lnlenliun to cast the slightest
reflection upon the motives, charac
ter, integrity or honor of any person
whatever; much less upon you, or
any mernbei of the company. My
opinion of the members of the com
paay, as far as I had seen their
names announced, had been clearly
given in the publication setting forth
tny connection with the lease. That
opinion was not changed by the state
ment of Mr. Seago, nor did I mean
to bo understood as changing it, in
the least, by an act of my withdraw
al.
In my letter to you, inclosing the
relinquishment of my interest in the
lease, I expressly stated, that it was
•« immaterial with me whether all
the fact* as detailed by Mr. Seago
be correct or not;” and in this letter
to you, as well as the one addressed
to the editor of the Constitutionalist
for publication, I also expressly
stated, that in what I did under Mr.
Seago’s statement of facts I acted
only for myself without wishing to
be understood as passing any judg-
upon tbe coaduclof others.
This was broad and unqualified,
aad was intended to exclude all re
flection or imputation upon others.
I acted alone for myself I expected
you aad others te do the same—to
speak and act each lor himself, if
you and they saw occasion for it.
Tin* you have done.
k was not, allow me to say to you,
in my judgment, a case lor confer-
It was one in which my oDn act
couid not, and would not, have been
«.»v« rned or influenced by the opin
ions or judgment of ntheis, tew or
many. J felt aud acted just as I
should have done, if at public auc
tion, property had been knocked off
to tne, as the highest bidder under
the terms of the gale, by which it
was thought 1 bad made an advan
tageous bargain, and some one had
stepped up and said that he had
made a higher bid, which had not
been entertained by the crier.
In such case I should have made
no inquiry into the facts of the mat
ter. I should not have insisted for
a moment upon any legal rights 1
might have had ; nor should I have
thought of conferring or consulting
with any one upon the ceurse to be
taken. I should have acted prompt
ly for myself, and teld the auctioneer
to put up the property again. In so
acting for myself, I should not have
intended to refleet by my action in
the least upon the conduct of any
other person who, under exactly
similar circumstances, might have
insisted upon his legal rights.
These are the principles upon
which my conduct rn relinquishing
my interest in the lease was govern
ed. It was, you will allow me, m
this connection to say, from no over-
sensitiver.ess, as some seem to sap*
pose, to acrimonious censures, on
account of the smallness of the sum
for which the Road was let. I did
defend the lease, as you say, when
it was assailed barely on that ground,
and should have continued to de
fend it, and my connection with it,
perhaps, in perfect disregard of all
censures if the assault had been
confined to that ground ; just as I
should have defended tny purchase
of property in market overt, if it had
been assailed solely upon the grounds
of the smallness of the sum kid tor
it where competition was open and
fair. The question in this case was
totally changed with me, when the
fairness of dealing with bids prop
erly made was assailed.
It was proper lor me further to
state that you are in error in sup
posing that if all the facts of the
case as you gave them, and ns they
have since been published, had been
before me, I would have acted dif
ferently. On this point I say to you
most explicitly, that, if all these
faflts since given to the pnblic had
been before me at the time, Tehould
have acted just as I did ; and equal
ly without intending by my action
to cast any reflection upon the con
duct of others. I will say further,
if 1 had been in Atlanta, and had
known the state of the bids on the
27th of December—just as the facts
now appear before tho public—I
should have gone to the Exeeutive
and advised him to accept the bid
for S-36,500 per month, instead
the one for $25,000, in which I was
interested.
It is not a case in which I should
have insisted upon legal rights, even
if I had supposed 1 had them,
speaking thus frankly and candidly
to you of myself, I wish you and all
others to distinctly understand that
I do not mean to cast the slightest
reflection, either morally or other
wise, upon you or others who stand
in this case or any other upon sup
posed legal rights where I would
not. I only speak for myself, and
so in this instance solely for th
purpose of explaining to you
clearly as l can, the principles
upon which 1 was governed in th
course I took at the lime, and under
the circumstances it was taken
A rule of my life—one for the guide
of my whole conduct—has been
never to stand upoa bare technical
legal rights, even against individuals
much less against public interests
This rule I do not set up for others
but it is one I have ever acted upon
myself, and here state it for the sole
purpose of making yo* fully under
stand that my course in the matter
in question was not rashly or basti
ly taken, under a misapprehension
of important facts attending 'the
case.
You will pardon me for saying
further that such is now my esti
mate of your character, that if"you
had been in the Executive Chair
instead of a bidder, I think you
would not have awarded this lease
as the acting Governor did.
the rule regulating it is established ;
and to let you clearly understand
that in nothing I have done or said
did I, or do I, mean to cast any
i.ijarious reflection upon you or oth
ers.
It is certainly the course I should
have taken. But again I say that I do
not set up my conduct, or the course
which l should have taken, or tke
one which I think you, as Govern
or, would have taken, as a rule for
others. In all this I am but explain
ing to you the reasons of my own
conduct in the matter referred to,
and the principles upon which the
rule regulating it is established ;
and to let you clearly understand
that In nothing I have done or said
did I, or do I, mean to cast any in
jurious reflections upon you or others
In conclusion, I will add that, as
many persons seem, from letters re
ceived, to be anxious to know what
reply 1 have mads to your letter,
and as the public generally is cer
tainly entitled to the information de
sired, I shall send a copy of what is
herein written to the press by the
same mail which carries the original
to yourself.
With the same feeling of friendship
and personal regard with which I
have ever addressed you, I still re
main, Yours, truly,
Alexander H. Stephens.
FOREIGN N^WS.
Washington, Jauuary 26.—The Ger
mans have abandoned tho siege of Cam
brai.
The French have inundated tho
country around Donay and Arras.
Tho German army iu the north of
France is estimated at 80,000.
The bombardment of Longwy is sus
pended. The Prussians attribute tbe
failure to a heavy fog.
A French army corps is closed on the
Swiss border. The headquarters of tbe
Army of tbe south is at Beaumont.
A dispatch datod Havre 24th says the
Germans, after making a reqisition of
forty thousaud fiance, shot four inhabi
tants and carried off tbe Mayor and
three eouncelmen. Tho name of the
place is omitted.
Turkey declares scmi-offieially that
henceforth «ho will rely upou herself for
protection, not upon tbe interests and
jealousies of European Powers.
The London Times has a special, da
ted Versailles, 6aying Jules Favro was
there proposing to surrender Paris and
the garrison with the honors of war. The
attack en St. Denis and the disaster of
The vote of the Missouri Legis
lature for Senator was, Blair,J 10*2;
Henderson, 69; Benjamin, 5.
The total number of hogs packed
at fifty points in Illinois, Iudiana,
Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, Missouri and Tennessee,
to the Gth ol January, was 1,962,-
730, and the estimated packing for
the remainder of the season, is 616,-
000, making a total o( 2,57S,S30,
and the number of hogs packed at
all places not enumerated above, it
is thought will swell tbe number to
3,500,000 head. The increase in
weight over last season is from 10
to 12 per cent.
The stock of the Atlanta and Blue
Ridge Railroad wa3 distributed, as
advertised on the 12th inst. Mr.
George Cook, a gentleman of means
and high qualifications, is placed at
the head of it,
This road will start at Carters-
ville, and run up the Etowah Val
ley ,to the Georgia line. It has
State aid § 15,000 per mile. The
principal stockholders in the Car-
tersville and Van Wert Railroad
Company are also largely interested
in the Blue Ridge Railroad. It will
require tha resources of both com
panies on the eastern extension of
the Carlersviile and Van Wert Rail
road from Cartersville.
The object is to build this line of
of road even if it requires the two
to con}bine.
Atlanta is
tion iu a few
4°*r,hVT ,sen *>-
female type-setter, Mj„ H * ‘ a P e <>f a
ley, of Rome.
member of the typocraoh; i be &
(tb« only female fS
South,) and highly 1 ll ‘e
A paralyzed and wWowIS %nded ’
and two small brothers are^C^
ent upon her exertion*.
5 pend,
(ConUilutity
J F u U f E J m f Is
\ aldosta has been visited U
other fire. The South (2*
Tunes says: “About nine o’clock f*
Friday night, our citizens were-ir^
‘ by the cry of fire. - ■• rouj '
ed
to the
streets we
Rusbir
saw the
shooting up^ through the roof 0 f lh
A bill abolishing the franking
privilege was passed by the House,
at the last session of Congress. But
the Seriate did not agree, and thus
the reform was left in an incomplete
state. The Postmaster-General now
tells the grave Senators that it costs
the people two and a half millions
of dollars per year for franks, and
thus presents additional reasons for
an agreement with the House. There
are no good reasons why Senators
and Representatives should not pay
their own postage, and the sooner
such a change is effected, the better
for tax-payers.
The Legislature of several of the
Stales areal work upon the divorce
laws; and in some of them there is
a disposition to make the severing
of the marriage lie still easier than
it now is. In Massachusetts, a bill
is now pending, which meet* with
ln g in
flames
_ . me root of i
rear part of Dr. Pairamore’s d ri] „
store. The flames spread rapidly
and such was the close proximity'!
Mr. J. C. Wisenbaker’s store on.
' s store on orn>
side and Mr. John Smith'
s on il !8
soon ablaze.
other that they were
By great effort the fire was coufiS
to the three buildings
mentioned.”
CORKER’S ^ADMISSION.
Butler Eeaten.
tbe 19tb supposed to be tbe cause of tbe i s ^ rriC favor, granting to every mar-
a*
think you would have accepted the
hid offering to pay the Stale over
eight and a half millions of dollars
for the twenty years lease, instead
of the one offering only six million*
If tha parties offering to pay the
eight millions and over had failed to
comply with the terms of their bid,
in giving the security tendered, job
would*! think, then have re-let the
Road at their risk—as is usual in
cases of public sales or leases of
trust properly.
The company which made the
highest bid, as now appears, was
abundantly able to have responded
to the State for all damages at least
which would have attended the de
lay and expense of a resetting of
the Road.
In this I only ftate what I think
you would have done if you had
been Governor at tho time, and
watchful as you ever were of the
public interests during the long pe
riod you held that high and respon
sible position.
It is certainly the course I should
have taken. But again I say that 1
do not set my conduct, or the course
which I should have taken, or
the one which I think you, as
Governor, would have taken, as a
mle for others. In all this I am but
explaining to you the reasons of my
own conduct in the matter referred
to, and the principle* upon which
proposition. The Germans regard Fav-
re’B tcims inadmissible.
Trochu is sick, and Vinay commands.
The dispatch adds, tbo terms of surren-
dsr will take time, aud tho French de
mands are too large.
The Times say, editorially, if Favre
refuses to capitulate on German terms
Bismarck has tbe acceptance of them by
Napoleon and tbe Empress, aud threat
ens to restore Napoleon
The Conference again adjourned for
a week. A resolution io confine discus
sion to the Paris treaty was adopted
London, January 25.—A special
to the Telegram says: All the even
ing journal* confirm dispatches
published by the morning press of
the surrender ofPnris. The surren
der on the terms suggested by Bis
marck is approved here by the press
unanimously. The Committee of
Defense has entrusted Favre, I learn
on high authority, to make the best
terms he can, but to bring the con
flict t© a close. In any case there
is a general agreement in official
circles that the end is momentarily
at hand, as for as the defense ot
Paris is concerned.
The Imperialists are active. The
English Government is known to
favor the restoration of the Bonaparte
dynasty under the Regency.
Advices are allowed to leave
Paris, endorsed by influential resi
dents, approving this termination of
the war.
The Echo speaks aulboritativelv
•n the question of surrender, anil a
foreign officer and messenger who
has arrived from Versailes says it
has leaked out that he brought the
surrender, signed by Favre and
Bismarck.
Lisbon, January 26—The Por
tugese Government submitted a
new finance policy, founded upon a
renewal of the tobacco monopoly.
Copenhagen, January 23.—The
Minister of War, supporting the
budget, expressed the belief that the
condition of Europe is dangerous
Small Powers, however peaceably
inclined, might be forced into war
for the defense ot independence
ried pair who will live apart for five
years, or, as an amendment has it,
three years, a complete divorce,
without any other ground.
Congressional Representa
tion.—The new apportionment of
Representatives to Cangress, repor
ted by Mr. Mercer, from the House
Committee on the Judiciary, makes
280 the number of which the Honse
shall be composed. On a former
occasion the House assigned to itself
275 Representatives, while the Sen
ate named 300. The present prop
osition is a compromise. The ratio
of representation is fixed at 137,S00
and the only losses under it will be
borne by Vermont and New Ham-
shire, each of which will be depri*.
ved of one Representative. Mas
sachusetts, New York, Maryland,
Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi, California and
Minnesota, will each gain one. New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Tex
as, Kansas and Wisconsin, will res
pectively gain two. Missouri, Mich
igan and Iowa, will each gain three,
and Illinois four. The States Lot
here ennmeiated will retain their
present representation. Classified
as sections, the result will give the
West nineteen additional members,
the South nine additional, the Mid
dle Statos Six, and entail upon
New England a loss of two.
In Galveston, Texas, an indig
nant father, whose daughter had
married against his will, sent her
for a wedding present a patent burial
case.
London, January 25—2, P. M.—
The French Consul discredited the
report that Favre has arrived
England.
LAT-EST-
PARIS CAPTURED.
Armistice for Three Weeks—Prussians
Occupy the Ports—Great Excite
ment in Paris—Particulars of the
Surrender—The War Closed,
Washington, Jan. 27.—The State
Department has the following from Mr.
Moran acting Minister to England dated
this morniDg : Tbe German Ambassa
dor here has officially stated to me that
the capitulation of all the Paris forts
and an armistice of three weeks, by sea
aud land, was signed about 6 o’clock
last night at Versailles, by Count BiB-
marek aud V. Jules Favre. The army
of Paris remain prisoners of war iu the
city. But it is net known whether they
are to he disarmed or not. No details
have been received.
NEWS ITEMS.
Three Algerian Arabs arrived in
Charleston last week.
John H. Surratt lectured in Lynch
burg last week.
A bill abolishing the Admiral and
Vice Admiral of the navy, upon va
cancy, was passed.
The census shows that North Cars
olina has gained 70,000 inhabitants
during tho last ten years, and has
now a population of 1,072,000.
A great railroad meeting will be
held at the Court house in Char
lotte, N. C., on Thursday, 21st Feb
ruary next, to discuss the propriety
ty of building a railroad from Char
lotte via Lancaster, S. C M to Savan
nah, Ga.
Two colored women, charged
with voting at the late election, were
before the United Slates Court at
Charleston on Friday. Their names
were Hannah Fields and Nancy
Lawience, who plead guilty, and
were sentenced ta pav a fine of ten
dolla rs and costs in each instance.
There is not a single fensafe pris
oner in the prisoners of Kansas.
Virtue has found its home.
A Virginia girl has died of home
sickness at a Richmond boarding
house school.
President Davis has accepted an
invitation to deliver a lecture in
Cincinnati this winter.
Three men and one woman, ne
groes, have been arrested, 3usf»eeted
of the recent murders committed
near Columbia, S. C.
A Frenchman named Dc Lisle,
hailing from Charleston. attempted,
on Thursday, to shoot a y*ung lady
at Savannah who had rejected his
addresses.
Four thousand one hundred and
seventeen bales of cotton valued at
$285,266 78, were shipped from
Savannali for foreign ports, on
Thursday.
Vhe Sun gays the City Courcil of
Columbus will, at its next meeting,
appropriate $200,000 of city bonds
to building the North and South
Railroad from Columbu* to Rome.
Mr. Young presented the credenti
als of Stephen A. Corker, member
elect from the 5th Congressional
District of Georgia, and moved he l, e
sworn in.
Butler objected and presented me-
tnrial of Thomas P. Beard, contest
ant, and moved that the subject be re.
ferred to the Committee on Election.
The credentials of Mr. Corker were
in due form, and signed by Bullock.
Butler read a notice ot the contest,
claiming that the election had been
carried by fraud and intimidation.
He also extracted from a Democratic
paper of Georgia—the Chronicle, o!
Augusta—detailing outrages ofKu-
klux and breaking into a jail, takinn-
out seven prisoners, cutting off their
ears, and shooting another prisoner.
He called on the Union-loving men
on either side of the House to snv
whether, they would seat a member
until the matter \va3 inquired into.
The House should recollect that the
district in question was the home of
Alexander and Linton Stephens, still
unrepentant rebels.
Mr. Young said the remarks o!.
Butler were only a repetition of the
stale old story of Southern outrages.
He might send up the P dice Gazette
and show the same state of society
in the North. Corker had receive!
over G,000 majority. There ha!
been United States soldiers station*
ed at every precinct in the district,
so there could have been r.o intim
idation.
Mr. Niblack inquired whether the
whole power was not in the hands
of the Republican party.?
Mr. Youngan8 wered affirmative-
!y*
Mr. Niblack said—Then the fault
lies at the door of the Republican
officials, instead of at the door ot
Democrats.
Butler’s motion was rejected, and
Mr. Corker wa3 sworn in.
The fact that Colonel Tift’s cre
dentials are withheld by Bullock,
shows how much the Radicalsdreat
him in Congress.
We understand the legal queslicn
of his right to a ccrlificato has been
referred to Attorney-General Hi-
row, who is now in Washington, a—
that Colonel Tilt has gone on tor ho
decision.
People who advertise only once.i
three months forget that most
can’t remember anything longer than
about seven days.
Stealing shrouJs is the -a. -•
phase of kleptomania, in Savannah-
Diamond Diggings in Georgia*
—Questioning Dr. Stephenson, e
Hall county, whose book is n . ct -
in this edition, about the diao.•
diggings in that county, he
that the geological formation
these diamonds are found, i= a , p P u ‘ ;
ent in Gwinnett, Hall, Banks ft--
Habersham counties, in whiy.i
it sinks and crops out again m 1 •
Carolina and V irgima, in ai j 01
valuable diamonds have becn.oi-^
covered. In Hall, about !ort> I:i '
been found, but the most v ' aiua ,
have been destroyed or lust
ignorance of their character aa
value. Some negroes broke -
worth a hundred thousand l * (nl ,
to pieces, lo see what it '
A farmer describes one w.uci
given to him thirty years 1 3g°> ^
used by himself as a chi-o • 1,1 ‘ - _
boys subsequently for a ui'di c “
in marbles; but it vras 10 ~ V'. n
the place six months ago, a, “ ,.
are bunting for it now. -
was known about its value un 11 -
ilar stones were pronounced
diamonds, and then the larme.
that he and his boys had beenip*,
ing marbles with a diamonu ’
from description, the Doctor t
must be worth half a million
and be one of the most ^^
gerrs ui the world, a:e
says that labor and capital 0,1 ^ j
needed to prove that these i 1
fields in Georgia surpass 111 , , g
those of Brazil, and are yf
any in the world. Dianooa = j
also been found, as the rca( r e
in Bartow county, ia thisE?i a ‘
[Td. - le *
C'AKW-
friendship that^
Ste- I
Owing to the warm
ever existed between Jud^y ^^
phens, and myself, I deem it prop
the benefit of our mutual iricna*,
that as far a? I am concerned, my
feelings for the Jud?c have u “ u
change, they remain unaltered ami
minished. , ^(g-
I have nothing to do with oM
tion against him, and regret a J
else should L*vo had.
Joseph T>. Go»d»
Atlanta, Ga , Jan. 25th, 1S71-