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MILLEDGEVILLE:
Tuesday March, 7, 1871.
BASCOM MYB.ICK, Editor.
The Germans entered Paris on Wed
nesday,-March 1st.
Another battalion of witnesses against
the bigamist Bowen, have left Augusta,
Ga.. for Washington.
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The talented actress, Laura Keene,
lias just closed an engagement in New
York. The Herald thinks she is hard
to beat.
Peace has been concluded between
France and Germany. King William
returns immediately to Berlin.
Fighting still continues in Cuba. A
bout 80 were killed last week and 4000
gave iu their adherence to the Spanish
Government.
The Constitution of Saturday contains
an article from a New Orleans paper
showing that it would be advantageous
to Atlanta aud the whole State, to buy su
gar. molasses, Ac., from the former place
rather than from the North with the
freight added. This is good advice, and
the people ou^ht to heed it.
Charles Sunnier has been nominated
lor President in 1S72. The person who
nominated him says: He is true as steel,
and no one can utter a word to his dis
credit as a statesman. May be so.
A frightful accident occurred ou the
Montgomery & West Point llaihoad
last Thursday. An Engine and si*
freight cars were precipitated into a
small river about twenty miles west of
Opelika. Several persons arc reported
killed and wounded.
Mrs. Yictmia C. Woodhull is still a
candidate for President in 1872. She is
exerting herself to the utmost to get the
woman suffrage act passed by Congress.
If this pisses, she will try to be the first
“Presidentess.” We sincerely hope she
may be elected. She can do better than
Grant—ceitiinly. She can do no worse.
the Radical party Las been its element
of weakness, and its rapid decay is at
tributable to this cause. Villainy will
ever recoil upon itseiC^-tT hi settle fiivt
step towards hi it ging about that bar-’
mony and good feeling sa-iudispensably
necessary to the well beiDg and securi
ty of the country-, d he'Democracy will
never compromise short of this.
!Uft.YUlO IS SISSOISI.
Great Storm in Jefferson City—.1
Portion of the State Penitentiary
blown Down—The Guard Fa tally
Injured.
HON. D. W. LEWIS.
We are glad io learn that Hon. D. W.
Lewis has been re-elected Secretary of
the State Agricultural Society. After
devoting bis whole time to the inaugu
ration of the Society, it is right that he
should reap the fruits of his own labors.
Mr. Lewis is a native of Hancock, ot
whom we are proud, and whom we de
light to honor. May he live long to be
an ornament to society and a blessing to
his country.
The San Dumingo Commission.
The U. S. Commissioners to San Do
mingo, composed of politicians, lawyers,
geologists; doctors and botanists, from
all reports, aie having a high old time.
They aie traversing the island in all
directions making botanical examina
tions, medical researches, exploring cop
per regions, and bunting after geologi
cal curiosities. They report that a wid
er field has been opened for investiga
tion than was expected, and hence that
they cannot return before the middle of
April. The attention of the Commission
is 'directed at present to the llatyian
complication — a matter which threatens
to be a serious difficulty. Biez has
called the attention of the Commission
to the fact that the second payment for
Samana has uot been made. It is the
unanimous opinion of the Commission
that the money should be paid immedi
ately.
Our opinion is, that the w'hole thing
is a farce. The New York Sun publish
es a letter from one Quixauo, a surgeon
in the Spanish army during the invasion
of San Dom'ngo. He states that out of
forty thousand soldiers that Spain sent
to San Domingo, only twelve thousand
eft the island, the rest having died from
the effects of a malarial fever there—
“fibril palvd ia." The fever is fatal to
foreigners end natives. So Grant's idea
about this island being a sanitarium, are
all “bosh.” Then, in case of annexa
tion a war with Uayti is probable, and
any one who will read the account of the
French attempt to conquer that Repub
lic, and the thousands that perished
through the influences of the deadl cli
mate, will be decidedly averse to the
annexation of San Domingo just at t! ,s
time
Fur tb« Recorder.
The new Congress was organized on
Saturday, March 4tli. Five members of
the House are negroes—one full blood.
Republican nominees were elected. All
claimants for seats that presented them
selves were admitted. The House ad
journed until to day, Tuesday.
In the Senate of the 42d Congress the
following Senators were sworn in : Cra
gin, West, Hitchcock, Caldwell, Davis’
Kelly, Ferry, Logan, Frelinghuvsen,
Wiocebam, Cooper, Saulsbury, Robert
son anl Stephenson. Old Foster Blodg
ett, our pet, presented his credentials,
but they were laid on the table to await
investigat’on. The more investigation
there is, the blacker will this imp of per
dition appear. If his skin gets black
ns fast as bis heart, charcoal will sood
make a white spot on his face; and as
to character, if lie has any, a bed of
charcoal is a drift of snow, compara
tively.
ANOTHER JLN1LS.
The shade of Junius, ever since the
death of that celebrated writer, has been
wandering about, finding no place to
rest; l-ut at last it seems to have found
a borne in the person and character ol
‘‘Nemesis,” whose terrible strokes of sat
ire on Bullock, are attracting the atten
tion alike of press and people. We
publish the first letter to “His Excel
lency” this week : we would have done
so before, had not In article been mis
placed, and no other copy been procura
ble. The second letter from the pen of
this sarcastic writer, Las ju6t appeared,
which we will give next week. The
publication of these letters is a good cri
terion by which to judge the Democracy
of our papers : “It k being a significant
fact,”sa} s the Savannah News, “that not.
a single Democratic paper—so called—
that has been publishing official procla
mations, has even mentioned, much less
given publication to this remarkable pro-
d uction.”
It has been suggested to us by one
who is well acquainted with the style,
and peculiarities of the gentleman, that
‘•'Nemesis” is no other than the Hon.
Hcrschel V. Johnson. How true this
may be, we are not prepared to say ; but
we can say, that if he really be the
author, it only adds another laurel to the
brow of him whom Georgians delight to
honor.
It is estimated thattwo huudred thou
sand men are enfranchised in the South
by the tesLoath bill which became a law
last week. It is generally believed that
before the close of the session of the 42d
Congress a bill of general amnesty will
be adopted. The proscriptive policy of
St. Lttok, Peb. 24, IS7I.
A tornado passed fiver J< ffersnn
City Ijs! night, lasting about thiity
minutes. Portions of the Peniten
tiary were unroofed and part ol the
walls was was blown down, injur
ing the . engine room so much that
work must be stopped in the shops
operated by steam. The damage on
the building is about $1-5,000.
The roofs of the Lincoln Insti
tute ar.d other buildings were par.
tially ^removed, and considerable
other damage was done. A
guard at the Penitentiary was se
vereiy and perhaps fatally injured
by falling timbers.
tt'r’Aecording to the Journal de
Paiis the Prussian Government is
much more moderate iu the amount
of money demanded from France as
indemnity than was anticipated—
live hundred million Thalers, or a-
bout $350,000,000 in gold. This
sum would not support the Prussian
army on a war footing more than
four months, nor pay the excess o(
army expenses since the beginning
ol the war over the regular peace
establishment. If the money de
mand is no greatet than that report
ed by the Journal is may be assum
ed that the purpose is to pave the
way for territorial concessions and
a material g : sritee. To German
views they seem entitled to such
modifications of the frontier, as they
think will deprive the French at a
future day of the ability to make
war upon them successfully.
A writer in a Georgia paper intro
duces the American eagle, which lor
five years has been a comparative
stranger in these |>arts, in this style,
preliminary to the fourth of July:
“The American eagle is looking
at us. His tail feathers have beei.
plucked out, but still be is on his
roost. Miss Columbia is also stand
ing with tier Hag staff and flag onto
it, but she looks a little passed Fourth
of July comes but once a year, but
its dall We must fix up the eagle,
ge* the goddess a new set of teeth
and a waterfall, and have fourth of
July got ip regardless of expense.
W< oust give all the Moran n wo-
... i a husband apiece, marry the
uixious schoolmarms that come
1 down Soul!) to teach the darkies, pul
; the niggers to work, build a horse
: railro: d from New Yolk to the Civ
of Mexico, dam the Gulf stream,
I iick England, (Old and New,) annex
/ F.dai tin An» h‘>i CliOmH !e and Sentinel.]
Pen Phetognph sf an Extraordi
nary Bullock.
To IPs Excellent-)/, !(tifns B. Bulloch:
'File dignity of vour office and the
sacred rights of a nohle people,
mourning under your wicked rule,
can aViue excuse me to my self-!
respect for breaking ihe silence in
which I have, with the proloundes 1 .
contempt, observed your ministerial
eourse.
It has been a theory of our Gov
ernment that the personal advices
and private revenge of a man eleva
ted to the highest office which he
might hope to reach, will at least be
checked by the desire to leave be
hind him an honorable name. Test
ed by this theory, your Excellency
has still higher aims and political
aspirations. And as personal de
pravity is the shibboleth of your
party, you need not despair. Since
Sickles has gone abroad, a foreign
appointment may be in store for you
when nepolic Grant shall have fin
ished the vulgar list of his prolific
kin.
When, under Radical usurpation
and tyranny, a choice was to be
made for Governor of Georgia, had
her intelligence, wealth and virtue
been free to speak, you, of all her
citizens, would have been the last
selected for that office. For her
people, with, perhaps, one compar
low artifice no longer has power to
deceive. Its resemblance to your
ancestral prototype, who could
“smile and sanilerand be a villain ”
is so striking that even “treachery
will not trust” you.
: And yet it may bean interesting
question, in ethics, to - the curious,
whether your Excellency is so de-
spura the acquaintance, because of your j anticipated the noblest Truth f
superior attainments. But you should . “Declaration of Independence 0 ” ° Ur ,
not decline it, as the difference in your | lW enty-five hundred vean ’ “” d
favor is only in degree. Should yon
seek the society of equals only, you must
end your solitude by suicide.
N TYNDALL ON THE SKY AND C3MBTS.
The wonders' of the Iicavecs seem
serving of perdition as your rfe'da.^ uex ^ aa3 ^able; each new adventure o'
imply. The man is but the child * c ‘ e “ ce taaks tlie ima£irlaiior ‘ aul al ‘
grown up—you were born a mon
ster not of due time, and you are
but the child acting in the man. Up
on this theory alone, can your pres
ent eminence be explained? You
were by nature rotten, and you had
to rise. And unless the antiseptic
of public virtue shall arrest the cor
rupt current of the times, your Ex
cellency continuing to rise, because
you continue hourly to rot, may
drift into the Presidential chair in
1872.
Perhaps your warmest supporter
did not suppose when you assumed
your present office that you contern
plated the peipetratton of one half
the crimes which have made your
name so infamous. But opportunity
is fruitful of conception. You be
gan with fraud in the count of the
election returns, through an accom
plice trained for the work, proclaim
ed yourself Governor on a minority
vote, and have already attained an
honorable distinction among such
worthies as Nero, Jonathan Wild*
and Benedict Arnold. You confed
Cuba, and we will be again a great
One of ti o triumvirate of tbo Mficou - (donou- country.”
A capital joke, and all the belter
, f , J ’[ because it is true, and can be vouch -
beiiei that the wa»on oi the , . . . . ~ .
ed for, took place a few bum I ay*
since, in a prominent church in a
Western city. It seems that a wor-
1 thy deacon had been very industri
ous in selling a new Church book,
costing seventy-live cents. At tire
service in question, the minister,
just before dismissing the congrega
tion, rose and said : “All you who
have children to baptize will please
present them next Sabbath. The
deacon, who, by lhe way, was a
little deaf,supposing his pastor was
referring to his books, immediately
arose, and announced, at the of his
voice: “All you that haven’t got
any, can get as many as you want
by calling on me, at 75 cents.”
Telegraph, or it may Le the veritall
Local himself, whose office, by the by,
creates x
present day has established its necessity
fora fifth wheel,—is anxious to know
what kind, of a day was the 14 tli of Feb
ruary lust at Mat on 1 'This information
is sought only to support, it possible, the
luxury of air cipation—inasmuch as an
old inhabitant aud weather watch of a
sister State, has announced as his unex
ceptional experience, that if certain in
dications pn v filed upon St Valentine's
day, they ni ght be taken as the unfail
icg sign of ai abundant fruit year.
I cannot satisfy ycur luother-typo as
to Macon’s Diary—but I can approximate
her condition sufficiently* close to keep
the glorious ; ro pacts raised to his hopes
from rcced i g fiom his vision. If he
could live and tbrivo upon one, I will
insure him against all loss by the other,
for one year's subscription to his paper !
But, Mr. Editor, you know there’s not
one of your f.ateruity who will admit
that he draws his pap through any such
camtlion-like endowment. If there be,
then Illyiia’s Duke that feasted upon
music, was no idle phantom.
The 14th cf February in this vicinity
(Milledgevilh-),at 6 o’clock, A. M., was
raw and cloudy—wind pvesterly, but
moderate, and Thermometer 46 deg.
At 12 M., clear, with an increase of wind;
and at G I\ M., Thermometer 52 deg.
The previous days, that is, the 12th and
l3tb, were very changeable—a i-.lorni of
wind, rain, lightning and thunder, hav
ing prevailed at 7.15 minutes A. M., on
the 12th, coming from the West and
lasting all d y. The 13th was cloudy
at 6 A. M., Thermometer 52 deg., with
a sluggish upper current from the West;
at 10 A M , rain opened afresh with
moderate N. E. wind lasting nearly all
day—at 2 P. M. Thermometer receded.
The 15th, at G A. M„ there was a dense
fog, Thermometer ranging low down in
the 40’s ; by 9 A. M., fog lifted, and the
day throughout was bright and bracing.
atively recent exception, have chosen j eruted with brutal negroes and every
as their Executive men of inteilcc:, j thieving adventurer from the region
education, refinement and personal i of your nativity, to destroy the peace
virtue. When you, who affect all
and possess neither, were announc
ed as candidate for Governor, the
news was received by the public as
a cruel jest,
manners am
g
most stegg rs die rei-GR. We have
been 1 »ng oppressed by the eel s ial
imafi nwliej, and now begin to be con
founded by toe inconceivable minuteness
cf some of it- phe ioiueiia. In search
ing for the secret of the bluenesi of the
sky. Professor Tyndall cla ms t> have
got hold of important data tor die ex
planation o! certain curious facts regard
iog comets.
It was long held diat air, apparently
colorless in a small mass, is blue iu
large masses, and hence the color of die
sky. Again, it has been shown that
pure water i-> blue, and the color of the
-ky has been also inferred from its wa
tery Vapor. But from a long series of
researches Professor Tyndall maintains
that the blueness of die sky is due to
reflection of light by solid particles of
a most infinite tenuiiy suspended in the
atmosphere. The experiment which
seem to prove this are such as the follow
ing: A grain of resin is dissolved in a
hund.ed grains of alcohol, aud a d op
of the solution is put into a glass of
pure water What then takes place is
this: the alcohol leaves die resin, which
is precipba‘ed, and the wat.r turns
taindy blue. Again, a compound gas
consisting of sulphuric acid aud oxygen
is placed in a tube in a dark room, anl
a beam of electric light shot through it.
At first nothing is seen; the tube seems
as empty as a vacuum, Soon, however,
and properity of those who, in your j a beautiful sky blue line is seen along
days of obscurity and need, had re-* j track of the beam. That this is
ceived you vyilU an unreserve sur- t ' uo -° H 10 liberation of minute particles
passing hit Ihe confidence inspired » r «"'P hl ' r is P r0 ™ J , l> J ll ,'= J“* "■*' «
.... , , - i r ' c- , j ' I the effect accumulates the blue grows
With natural capacity, | by your face._ Eager to do them ilUenS e, and at length the tube is filled
education adapting I wrong, but too stupid to conceive
you to the rank of Butler to a gen-j the plan r you became the vile tool
tlcmen of moderate means, even j and political pimp of cuuning knaves,
your Excellency must have stagger- j through whose devices and your op
ed under the appalling announce- portunities you hav* made your
ment. But your peculiar capacity name classic in the annals of crime,
was underrated by the people of History has recorded the name of
your adopted State (lor, thank God, j but one Erastratus. But your Ex-
you are not a Georgian). A corrupt ; cellency has eclipsed his fame. It
party demanded a fair exponent, and j was reserved to your genius to des-
il required the acumen of your in- troy yourself in attempting to destroy
the temple. The aspect you pre
sent to the world is pitiable in the
n j last degffce. With «very opportunity
limate companion—‘-the man and
brother”—who is proverbial lor bis
quick perception of every vice i
men to discover your latent genius
for evil. He scrutinized the galley j lunate
of rogues with a master’s eye, and,
without dissent, proclaimed you
leader.
History furnishes no parallel to
the effect produced by your eleva
tion to the office you have so elabor
ately disgraced. Israel did not
gaze on the brazen serpent, raised
in the wilderness, with more joy
than enraptured the breast of every
felon in the land when you received
the baptism of “His Excellency.”
with a dense white cloud of sulphur
particles. The conclusion warranted
by these facts is, first, that the particles
at first set free and which give the azure
color aie amazing minuteness, and that
they then steadily and rapidly aggregate
into larger and larger molecules. But
after this process of cohesion and growth • .. .
, j „ *! ( r,. - . poor.—Atlantic Monthly.
nad goue on for in teen minutes, I ro- j * J
fessor T) ndaii found that they coul i not
be detected by the microscope, which
wou
rea
part ot an inch in diameter. Of this
result the Professor remarks: “The eis-
enty-u vc nun,ire a years ago tauebt
agamsi the o tto system of I„ d i„
the doctrine of the equality of men-
and, in that region of influence’
higher than that in which either
philosophy or statesmanship works
he founded a religion which i 3 no w
professed by two-fifths of the human
race, and which thus exceeds, i n
the number of its votaries, that of
any other religion in the world.
Buddhism has been corrjpted bv a
fantastic mythology, but its essen
tial principle, derived | r om j ls
founder’s disgust of existence, fi
that life is not worth living, and that
the extinction of life is the highest
reward of virtue. To pass, in the
next world, through various penal
or purifying transmigrations, until
you reach the bliss of Nirvana, or
mere nothingness and nonentity,
that is the Buddhist religion. W e
have said that it was professed by
two fifths of the human race, but
its fundamental principle, that life is
not worth living, is believed, if not
professed, by a large majority of
mankind. Not to speak of the hun
dreds of wailing books which misan
thropic genius has contributed to
all modern literatures, not to re
mind the reader that the Buddhist
Byron is the most popular British
poet of the eeitury, that person must
have been singularly blessed with
cheerful companions who has not
met followers of Gotama, among the
nominal believers in Christ. The
infection of the doctrine as an inter-
prelation of human experience is so
great, that comparatively few have
altogethor escaped its influence. In
basing his religion on this disease of
human nature, Gotama showed pro
founder sagacity than that evinced
bv any other founder of a false re-
ligion; and iu the East this disease
presented its most desparing phase,
fir there weariness of life was asso
ciated both with the satiety of the
rich and the wretchedness of the
The Japanese Mission.—The arri-
to honor your name and your unfir- i tances^ot stoh n- space give us simply a
j J h ,IPI! Inrlll.f cun « ..
offspring—whose greater
crime is then* paternity—you
have perverted y ? our feeble abilities
in one senseless, persistent effort to
make rogues respectable. Even
your deep personal interest in the
success of the vile endeavor, cannot
pal.iale the baseness of the in
tent.
My purpose in addressing you is
not in the hope to mitigate your ab
horrence of a virtuous act. The
leopard cannot change his spot
aeiccteu Uv IliC aiicioscope, wuicti l i e r n a J j t ... . ,
,• i u i .i u i .i | val ot a full fledged Japanese Minister it
aid have been the case hau thev 0 .. - ° ,
, , , . , , ., t ban r raucisco, accredited to W ashmet a
3! e i the one cme-hunaied-tbou-a'idth : , . ,. , 6
j accompanied by his suite and «ecr«U
lies, and holding in his own person tbt
rank of a prince of the imperial family
; of Japun, being indeed uncle to thi
Mikado himself- is an event of great im
portance. It is the first mission of the
bewildering sen.-e of vastuess without
leaving any ai duet impression on the
mind and the magnitudes with which
we have here to do bewilder us equally
in an oposite direction. We are deal
ing with infinitesimals compared with
Like the circling of an advance vul- Nor do I expect to produce any pu
tare, your Excellency’s position ! *n your administration. Her-
A party of hunters in S'.yria, Aus
tria, found a whole family of wild
people concealed in a mountain cave.
It consisted of a man, a woman and
three children, who were ulterly
naked, but covered with dense hair.
They could not speak, but only ut
tered unintelligible sounds. The
cave they inhabited was in an almost
inaccessible part of the mountain,
and they must have lived there ma
ny years. They were taken to a
neighboring town and cffirls are
being made to improve their condi
tion.
Earthfjuake at Ar/cadelpfha, Ark.—
Says the Tribune : A slight shock of
an earthquake was felt at that place
on the 29lh ult. It was attended
with a rumbling noise, similar to
distant thunder. Buildings were
shaken considerably for moment,
but no lurllier effects were produced
except that iu a few seconds after
the shock was felt, a noise like the
roaring of a heavy waterfall was dis
tinctly heard.
The Louisville Courier-Journal aays
that “if anybody had met Christopher
i Columbus in the middle of the Atlantic,
1 aod told him that he was in the act of
' discovering a country that would ulti-
The foregoing I admit is something : mately fall into the hands of such an
like “carrying coals to Neweastle”--but, I Administration as the present, he would
T . - - , 1 .1 ; have pone b; ck home and stayed there.”
I am not consigning them to bother j 5 ( ^ t J
J. M, Boa hum an, and vyould remind the j M.nister to Liberia.—The Presi-
Telegraph that B. keeps a little card • clout has appointed Milton Turner, a
which might greatly illustrate t!»e , colored ma.11 from Missouri, who is quite
“weather statements” published in its
daily columns, from the Chief Signal
prominent among his own people in that
! 8 ;t(., minister resident and consul gen
eral to Liberia, thus ieiieving J. W. Ma
Officer at Washington, so emiueLtly son, who fills the position now. Turn
couducive to the development of truly , er’s appointment was asked-by ex Sena
serviceable data.
Its approximation* ! ‘ or Dr f k , e ar u d llie ■dmioistndon mem-
.. , , . bers of the House.
, , , . 1^.0 w. Me is the second
tot ese detai '-d synopses and f heir , diplomatic representative of color now iu
pnnmprfltpH <4 nrnhn 19 u/i 11 ‘ .1 _ * „ TT,
enumerated “probabilities,” will bo 1 th« service of the United States,
foaud wonderfully analogous—such at
least, have been the result of observa- •
A strike for higher wages among
tions at this meridional point
; the workmen in the rolling-mill at
IMPARTIAL. 1 Rome 1S re P orleti *
your
gave assurance to ail jour kind that
a fat carcass lay at your feet. From
Sbohegan, through Sing-Sing, to
moral Chicago, they flocked to your
side like iron filings attracted by a
magnet. As long as there were
offices to be filled, at great personal
sacrifice, and the treasury was not
empty; while the State Road was
able to run by itself, and Before its
Superintendent developed his ex
haustive, absorbent capacity; while
the patriotism and prayers ot the
Executive, Chief Justice and Leg
islature, were gratuitously offered
to secure, at four prices, for an un
grateful people, that huge blessing
—the Opera House—from the re
luelant Kimball, whose philanthropy
was devoted to “developing the re
sources of Georgia,” and while Kim
ball had money and wine, harmony
prevailed and riot reigned. How
discord ever entered the happy fam
ily, we may see hereafter. But in
this preface I must not anticipate
the matter of your biography.
That one so unfit should have as
pired to be who did not know yojt
character. An express agent raised
in a night to the dignity, the power,
the opportunities of Governor! Who
wonders that everybody wondered?
Coxcomb though you be, no one
knew belter than your Excellency
that vou possessed not one qualifica
tion for the office. In legal attainments
you did not know Blackstone from
the Georgia Justice, nor a fieri faci
as from a ca. sa., except by personal
contact with the latter; while the
distinction between a dcdimiis and a
mittimus might have been expound
ed to you through the kindness of a
custodian in the person ol some
learned bailiff. Through the facile
counsel ofan occasioual Chief Jus
tice who, before the election, could
see no office for the negro in the
Constitution, but after his appoint
ment and confirmation found a plain
provision for one in 1 lie Code; and
by the aid. of a full faculty of rheto
rical doctors under the name of pri
vate secretaries to purge here, am
putate there, and dissect every
where, your Excellency has been
partially able to conceal your di
minished head. The remainder of
the ostrich, except the head, has al
ways been offensively in view. Your
capacity, compared with your office,
finds a happy i'iustration in the pic
lure of Hop O’My Thumb strutting
in the Ogre’s seven league boots,
find vour Excellency stuck to your
agency, by the use of your faithful
mirror, through whose aid you have
brought that angelic smile to such
charming perfection, you might have
calcs, with a thousand rivers, could
; not diminish its incrusted filth. Au'
gece istud stabulwn npurgare would
be as futile as your daily atternpl to
hide the jackdaw under the plumage
of the peacock. Nor need I look tor
for one sensitive emotion. The blood
ot a man who can ruthlessly op
press the down-trodden,, promote
vice, honor rascals, insult women,
malign the good, aud glory in the
prostration of Executive privihge,
is too thick and too dark to tinge his
cheek with even the aurora of a
blush.
Bui l have a purpose which, un
like your reformation is not eniiielv
hopeless. It is to assist you in your
determination to live iu history. You
need not quake and cry out lor your
military guard. I have no intention,
however much desired by some, to
hasten your apotheosis. I wish to
reserve you for future sittings as the
happiest subject, living or dead, for
an artist’s brush. And as nothing
but good should be said of the dead,
were your Excellency translated, my
occupation would be gone. Virtues
are recorded for imitation. And vice,
when so gross as to shock the sense
of the abandoned, loses all power to
corrupt, and should beheld up as a
heacm to posterity. Without em
balming, your suicidal policy will-
soon decay ; but I hope, with the
abundant spices of our vernacular,
to save it from the sewerage of his
tory. For the present generation
the work would be superfluous.
With them its charnel perfume will
never pass away. But with even
the proudest triumph ol the last
Egyptian art, in my humble effort,
posterity must slid mourn the loss of
the cbiefest charm of the creature
while in life. I need hardly say I
mean your Excellency’s practiced
angelic smile. They will, notwith
standing, be measurably compensat
ed for the loss by escaping the Joab-
blade which now follows that sweet
smile a3 surely and'quickly as the
boh succeeds the electric flash. The
evil you have done will outlive your
iiijj)erisliable ignominy; but Geoi-
gians will rejoice that your malice,
though surviving the grave will be
impotent to oppress and malign the
children ot your former benefactors.
Nemesis.
to iud#ge iu si,me bold conjectures re
garding comelary trains.
•‘From their previousness to steil ir
light aud other considerations. Sir John
Herschel drew some s-nrdim; conclus'ons
regarding tu? density aud weight of
comets. You know that these extraor
dinary and mysterious bodies sometimes
throw out tails 100 000,000 cf miles in
length, and 50,000 in diameter. Now,
suppose the whole of this stuff to be
swept together and suitably compressed,
what de you suppose bs volume would
kind that Japan has sent forth since diyi
now far back in ancient history. She
La- r,ot bad a Minitt.-r, Minister Resi-
d -nt, consul or commercial agent anj-
nation of the world far
and we have not jet
lar embassies ■ eing for
warded at this time to any other nation
h'in ours. In view of our increasing
commerce with Japan and her great twin
nation of the far East, China, this una-
f ual expression of regard for our iosti-
utions must be considered iu a very
complimentary light iudeed; and ia view
ot our rivalry with England for the com
merce of these two bound giants of the
Orient, we have a right to credit oar
selves with having the inside track. In
deed, this mission may be considered
more complimentary to us than tbo »p-
• , c- T . „ . , ... .. point ment of Mr. Burlrngamo as hcadof
oer bir John Her:che probably tell you C r ,• . d , p ,
-i^ - * J _ iho Oniuese Embassy wh:ch was so re-
'hat t'oe who!? mass might be carted off
at a single effort bv one cf your dray-
horses. Jn fact, I do rot Know that ne
would require more ,than a small frac
tion of a horse-power to remove the com
ceutiy roaming about Europe making
treaties; for while that was rather a per
sonal compliment to u ne of our citizens,
i this is a gfmoral compliment to the
t , . ... 1 • , ,, j whole nation as the first and youngest
etary dust. After this you will hardly „ .... , , » d, 8 n
J A t 3 - T . * Power of the g obe from one of ffie old-
regard as monstrous a notion I
sometimes entertained concerning the
quantity of matter iu our sky. Suppose i
have j y
Y. Herald.
- .... Property of Coufcderales to be IU•
a sh-11 to eurround the earth at a height J s{ored —The Supreme Court of the
above the surface, which would phro i>
beyond the grosser ma'ter that hangs in
the lower reg or-s of the air—say at the
height of t be Matterhorn or Moot Blaue.
Outside this shell we have the deep-
blue firmament. Let the atmospheric
spree beyond the shell be swept chan,
and let the sky matter be properly gath
ered up. What is its probable amount? ? citizen of’ that place, but then a re3»-
I have sometimes thought that a lady’s c j cut within the | il)e - D f llie Confer!-
United Slates lately rendered a de
cision, in which the Court declared
to he null and void, certain legal
proceedings taken before a court in
.Memphis m 1863, while that city
was in possession of the U. S. troops,
agiins* one Thomas A. Nelson, a
portmanteau would contain it all. I j
have thought tnat even a gentleman’s
portmanteau—possibly bis snuff-box—
might take it in. Aud whether the ac
erate army.
I* was pronounced by Mr. Justice
_ ! Bradley’, all the Judges concurring
tual sky becapafle of this amount 0 t ex cept Chief Justice Chase, who was
condensation or not. I entertain no doubt
that a sky quite as va-st as ours, and as
goid in appearance, could bo formed
from a quantity of m;.t'er which might
be held 10 the hollow of tha hand.”
The Founder cf Buddhism.
Seven centuries before the Chris
tian era, a prince of one of the royal
families oflndia, having exhausted,
absent.
It wili be observed that by this
decision, no sale of property, mort
gaged or not mortg *ged, belonging
to absent Confederates, made by
virtue of a decree of any court with
in any place held bv the forces of
the United States, conveyed any ti'
lie to the purchaser thereof. All
such sales and proceedings are null
in his twenty-ninth year, ali the I void, and the property rmistbf
pleasures of the world, and havin» I delivered back to the owner thereof,
him one of the deepest, most provided he was a resident in the
m
comprehensive, and most creative
of human intellects, suddenly aban
doned in disgust his palace, his j
treasures, and his Slate; took the
name of Gotama, which means, “he
who kills the senses;” became a reli - j
gious mendicant; walked about in a
shroud taken Irom the dead body ot j
a female slave; taught, preached,
and gathered about him a body jf
Confederacy and adhered to tb*
Confederate States Government, ana
thus unable to appear in court tabu
own defense. This, on principle*
of international law and under th*
laws of war.
At Washington, SrrEdw’d 1 horn-
ton has a secretary, a private secre
tary, a naval attache, two second
secretaries, two third secretaries
a courier.
* Though your faithful imitation of
this hero’s virtues almost preclude the
thought of your ignoiauce of bis history,
I beg, nevertheless, to introduce him to
your acquaintance, through the courtesy
ol two respectable authorities :
“He was the greatest raacal, coward, trai
tor, tyrant aud hypocrite,’’ etc.— Thackeray.
“A picture of complete vice, unrelieved by
anything of human feeling, and never by ac-
acquired credit for the single merit I ciden;; deviating into virtue.”—.Scott.
ol Amiability. But now that shal-1 Your Excellency may very justly
enthusiastic discipies, bound toceth- , ’ - ,, , „; n eieen
, . £ • ’ n 6 , and a courier. He has ninne^ 1
er by the most efficient ot all eccle- D , r» 1 1 v,:-^ iari?e,
- f. , • • „ ,• 1 British Consulates under his c.iarg c »
siaslical organizations; dictated or i r u i - , XT v„rh nets
- , • , ‘i of the best paid at Ne-.v York g e ' 5
inspired works which, as nuiv pub-1 , 1 „ rn ., r u rtl ,-prent,
flA - 1 $7,000 salary, $4,oOU lor hou^e rem.
lishcd by the Chinese government ■ , -A* ’ „ - . more
c J ° - , I and nearly $20,000 in tees,
ho
000 'or bouse
household
j ceives collectively |$10.750 in 8°
j salaries besides. He belongs 10 1
, , un . u . ,fle class of faithful, pains-lakir.p. of 1
proudest names ... Western ph.loso- ; bH|liaul bulha ,dialing®*
it their lustre when , . , r
r 1 *. aiiu ucatiy in
n four languages, occupy eight . . •
11 1 ° „ 1 i- 1 . 1 l * ,an the Minister, w
lundied volumes; and died at the L.„„„ , . A- A
r • i- 1 r , ?>2o,000 salary and bo.O
,ge of e.gh y, the founder of the , Mr . T fi orn , on -, h
age
Buddhist rel.gion. Compared with
this man, Mahomet was an ignorant
and ferocious barbarian; and the
i ed himself here for amenity.
phy lose a little of
placed by the side of this thinker, I T-j ' j' m hj e post*
who grappled with the greatet ! ^ iU
problems of existence with the
mightiest force of conception and
reasoning. As a philosopher, he
anticipated both the idealism of
Berkeley and the positivism of
Comte; as a political thinker, he
tion. He is a tall, white bait ^
wiry man ol the middle age, wl ^
serious face, a rapid walk, ant
ostentatious manner.— flash.
Was young Grant a Ku f
the late “outrage” at West T 01