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ATLANTA, GA., APRIL 4, 1871
Rt41«al Brtberj.
Steven Meson, a member of the Virginia
Legislature from Richmond, was arrested
on the 28th, charged with corruptly approacli-
—Ing the officers of the City Court to influence
them to summon jurors favorable to the ac
quittal of ex-Mayor Cahoon. He was held
to tuft in $10,000 to answer the charge.
Horrible Dlaloyslltj,
"When the Santo Domingo party were
about to sit down to dinner on the 27th, in
the steamer Gcnrgiana, on the way from
Acquia Creek to Washington, the officers of
the boa* refused to allow Fred Douglass to
take a seat at the table, on account of liis
color. Tiie Commissioners were highly in-
<lL'n.-tnt at thia outrage, and immediately left
the table.
flan Domingo Sacrificed for Radical
Harmony.
The Tribune's Washington special of the
23.li rays, rumor is current that the adminis-
t rati ui lias decided to drop the San Domingo
bu in -s for liic sake of harmonizing the Re
publican party. To u.Tord a reason for this
change of policy, the report of the commis-
sioner* will conclude with a recom
mendation liiat nothing further be
<b>uc to ward annexation at present, on ac
count of eivii war existing in a iarge portion
of the Maud.
This report can lx; traced to no trustworthy
‘'O ir i, a:i 1 hoapiohiibly been occasioned by
the sJ..tc;nent of Senatoj Morton in his
sp. cell, that if the report is adverse to annex
ation, he would be in favor of abandoning
tk • pro; t-!. This declaration was sought to
have some important significance, in view
of the fact tn.it correspondents with the
r h'.i • l i . \ announced that the commia-
• i '» • unanimously in favor of an-
* 51 urfler of Fish.
’ vies learn a good many
: park, bars of the assassina
. 1 i h, in Southwestern Geor
rticulars have just been dis-
• have b*on working up tlie
-/toy and shrewdness.
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION;
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VOLUME Ill.i
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1871.
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INUM^PE 53
Georgia .Hatton.
Farm work is rather backward in the coun
ty, but so far as fanners have progressed in
their labors, they are hopeful. The wheat is
improving wonderfully, while the grasses are
doing finally.—Home Courier.
The 8j>arta Times says Hancock has an
old planter that has never seen a railroad
train.
The Constitution.—The Constitution of
yesterday morning announces that Mr. J. IL
An dor-on has withdrawn therefrom. Mr.
Anderson was one of the founders of the
paper, and to his fine business capacity is due,
to a very large extent, the success of that
paper. He is a hard-working, sensible, prac
ticable business man, and we have no doubt
that his loss will be felt in the management
of that paper, though we have no doubt of
the entire ability of the present management
to sustain its former business life and energy.
It is understood that 0*1. E. V. Clarke is
the purchaser of Mr. Anderson’s interest.
Col. C. is one of the must estimable and
assortment of stolen plate is suffered to be in
tact, and he has lost none of that superabun
dance of low cunning which is characteristic
of the police court shyster. But he has been
terribly abused and spat upon of late, even
by his former associates; and his once ready
brain no longer gives the quick and crushing
retort He sits dazed and paralyzed under
the daily attacks upon him, simply distend
ing his cheeks with impotent rage, and roll
ing his straight eye up to the gilded ceiling of
the House.
Here is a little passage at arms between
Dawes and Butler, taken from the official
reports:
Mr. Butler—I wish to ask a question. Is
this the same resolution which the Democrat
ic caucus agreed to report here on Friday,
and which was to be handed to Mr. Dawes
to submit? I so saw it stated in the Demo
cratic papers.
Mr. Dawes—My colleague seems to know
more about me than I know myself.
Mr. Butler—I saw it in the papers.
Mr. Dawes—I am utterly unable to answer
my colleague about the Democratic caucus.
g3rued as a rising mcmiier of the legal pro
fession, was a gaiiaut Confederate during the
w ar, anu bears a personal character of which
any young man might be proud. It is not
thing
Mr. Bntler—I only know what I see in the
newspapers.
I Mr. Dawes—So far as I am concerned, I
1 ■ • i ( . .’ll. 1. *• W *.• OU i>.i X u.il v’llivCI livli, 1
i,.a to abWon lo, profession to know notliinff <,r what has been done by the
connect hnnielf will, the press; but, we .re Dcmo ,. ralic * in . lny caucus . n „ r , ,j/ ha9
advise. 1, thatlos purchase ot »n interest in b ^ u J gubmi tte d to me from that
t n the two
-isoners dis
in jail at
iosed the
I -divorced man, whose wife
• ;n him on account of his
nud ^*1.; riI worthlessness. Th<
y pr tty and giy, and the di
;■• ! Van still enamored of her,
her. Lloyd, who, it sccin
• District Judge, fin d Ilolsom-
i-.V, and in ig.itcd him to kill
• • l.: it gentleman w.xa supposed
tlu; Madam.
ucec.bd in getting IIol-
' -.1 »ip to the prop: r point, and
cvl him.
p : ii of the statements of tlu.se
i a’xuit the transaction. They
• J*. Tlu-re was, therefore, no
e tr nMCtion. It was a case of
y on Hol-ombake’s part, and
on Lloyd’s past. Lloyd is the
l; Solicitor-General of that Cir-
ki!l have.a preliminary trial next
Jjiii(!« rlng Tariff*.
W
IV
ropy c
which gives u. a
.grinding bunl a
Tari'f.
Tin- illii*sir.ilion
Rolls die Farmer
X our < .manges a
torial Tax Payer,
nits illustrating the
present Radical
IIowtlM
g Man tc
Tarill
Bene-
W.
>f ri p.
ilc- .seas,
cent.; ci
cais but
knife v.i
taxed K
■d JI5 |"T
cuts, hut we give
g explanation of
kfnetion, and as
thought of good
morning end puts
1 C5 j er rent; bis
nt.; his vest,* taxed
»:it, taxed—cloth 60
rent., braid 60 jx-r
., and padding 150
is boots, taxed 35
taxed 0 ) per cent,
r c- :i», with a pipe
c«*»h* his breakfast
salt, taxed 108 pel
120 per rent; am
ent., with
jxr
•cut.
II'JCM
■ loved :
vhosc paper
cant., and
MT. Butler—I am glad to hear it. I saw it
in the newspapers.
31 r. Dawes—/ see a great many thing* in
the neic*p iper* which ainnot be more accepta
ble to my collectgue. [Laughter ]
This is not equal, however, to the retort of
Mr. Cox, of New York, a day or two ago.
The President's nnsssge recommending the
passage of a Ku-Klux bill was under con
sideration ;
31r. Butler, of 3Iassacliusetts, asked if the
gentleman [Mr. Cox] would desimate whom
he meant by tin; honorable g^mieman from
Massachusetts,” whose measure he had sup-
purchase
The Constitution was merely a buain^s . source
speculation. We wish both 3lr. Anderson
and the new firm, ail the success they desire.
[Atlanta Sun.
The Columbus Sun mentions the death, in
Charleston, of Hal Johnson, an old resident
of Columbus. Dr. Ware has two Brahma
hens that laid 61 eggs in one month.
The Forsyth Advertiser says a tornado
passed over Forsyth on Sunday evening, into
Pike county. It blew down the gin-house
an l out buildings of Stephen II. Swan, and
the residenc e of 3D. Willoughby, killing one
of his children, and wounding the ten other ! ported.
mctnWa rf Ills family. Monroe is to have I 1Ir ; <*■=! al,u , cM *? gentle-
. fI „ _ ,/ , , . . i man from 3Iassachusetts, M. Dawes. fLaug-
a new jail. The Ordinary has awarded the j ler j ** °
contract without calling for bill*. The i The retort was clever, b»it the scene was
fa not in- everything. Butler’s face blazed crimson in
lu Monroe ' a s<;con d’** tima. He made several irresolute
j motions, like a man partially stunned, and
wlieat ami .oats look finely. A smaller area i turning bis back on the Democrats, he
sown. Not much fertilizers used. Corn shambled off to his seat, and sank into it
planting going on actively. I without uttering a word.
. T , , , | Later, Butler p ferred, in the course of some
-Moi.rou county so., arc sharp rhapt. One reU):irks on hi , Ku-KIui bill, to Lis “ friends
toukattvo gallon jit", put a gallon of water on ! on tli* other side,” only to lie reminded by
it, an 1 lia«l the liquor man poor n gallon of j Mr. Niblack. that (lie Democrats did not
rood whisky on top. As Lc couldn't pay, the '• | *‘'ii or desire the friendship of th# gentle-
*. . .* , • , . . „ inaa from dlaasachusetts
l.quor man lookback lm wmsKy, and the’
sol triumpli.iiuJj disappeared with his re
farmers
vested
r>f
Butts county 1,
i in fertilizers.
inaining gallon of half grog and water as a
clear make.
The America . Republican announces that
it will suspend its tri-weekly about the first
of April, unless business gMa belter.
The McDnffie Journal says McDufiV coun
ty hug had a storm, blowing down fences.
The Albany News says the tornado on
Sunday was terrible, uprooting giant trees,
unroof in
has gin
bell worth weighing 7o0 pound
J. C. 31 cBurney, charged with 1
rcveuue defaulter for $00,000, writes to the
3Iaron Telegraph that the government owes
him about $5,000.
The-Savannali Repuldican says 3fr. A. S.
Alden is temporary Collector.
The Albany News estimates that twenty
per cent, more corn is being planted this
Spring than in any season since the
The Early County News says the planters
are beseeching the merchants for advance
make their crops. 3Iany are in debt. That
pa{x;r pieads with the planters to raise pro
visions.
GBOHU IA MATTEKS
j have not >*een prominent at the Capitol of
j late. On Thursday, the Goldthwuite-Blodg-
ett resolution was talked over, literally, and
I again yc-terday—on both days, the expira-
i tioa of the morning hour cutting olT its fur-
tu
Ml
n Ids hat taxed 70 per cent,
i- i-. .id 150 per cent, hitches
l with nails taxed ?»7 per cent,
•d 15 per cent., with chains
cent., ail 1 harness tax d i»5 per
dUcr hi.
‘ 1 P r
ent.; a !
the v ilage .-tore and buys for
. f, taxc 1 25 per cent;
•:it.; a woolen dress,
l im 1 ltx> per cent.; a hat, taxed 4:) percent;
a pair of storking*, taxed 75 per cent; an
lmtaxed b0 per coat.; a package of
needles, ta « d 25 pt r cent.; a spool of Coats’
thread, taxed 72 p- r cent., a paper of pins,
taxed 25 per nil; a writing pen, taxed 10
per cent.
I hate to link the name of so honorable arr’
} able a man as Judge Goldthwaile with that
of the infamous Blodgett; but as Senator
J Stewart has cunningly and maliciously linked
I them together, th^re is no help for it. 3lr.
! Thurman proved yesterday, very dearly, that
' houses, etc. The Rev. Dr. Hicks I Blodgett had not a prima fttcie right to' a seat.
; the Albany Mciln Ibl Church a j while Judge Goldthwaitc lias, an l should at
j once be admitted. I enclose the GloJ>e r«>
! port.
| Stewart seems to bare changed his Uctics
lie endeavors to avoid Cue appearance of
pressing the pressing tiie resolutions, and
would fain have people believe that it is a
matter of supreme indifference to him wheth
er Blodgett is admitted or not. This won't
go down, however.
Blodgett, on the other hand, is pledging bis
vote (when he gets it) to all the jobbing
schemes fathered by certain, truly loyal Sen
ators. This is worthy of the fellow.
31 r. Hill ia making a rather lame and im
potent light, and has not impressed any one
here as being much above mediocrity, lie
represents Alaska quite as ably as ha does
Georgia, ilc seems to have no ideas beyond
getting offices for Ids friends and relatives;
and the White House ring are beginning to
think him anything but a valuable acquisi
tion.
Tiie House lias not been In session for the
past two days, and there. Is nothing new to
report from that quarter Volt.
C. A. I*.
DOUGLAS AND Sl.Tl.MiU.
AN USTKKESTING ANECDOTE OV TIIE LITTLE
GIANT.
Stephen A. Douglas was a member of the
Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs when
Mr. Sumner was made its Chairman. 31 r.
Sumner expressed to ** lVrley” (Ben Pcrley
Poor) a wish to secure his services as clerk,
but desired the assent of tiie Democratic
members of the Committee to his appoint
ment. Pei ley ” had criticised Ih uglasvery
severely, and thought he would probably op
pose tiie apiH.intmcnt. “T> ascertain his
views,” say» “ Pcrley ” “ I went to liis house,
and was ushered into the library.
The. i/itiia Ci^ut’ w.is s!laying, I was in
formed, but would scon ut dr.S’n, and in a
few* moments he made his appearai-.ee, iu Ids
shirt sleeves. I at once stated my errand,
frankly alluding to my newspaper criticisms,
and concluding by asking if my appointment
as Clerk of the Committee on Foreign Rela
tions would be acceptable to him. * Accepta
ble,’ said be, ‘ why of course it will be. My
only objecti >u L) serving on the Committee;
bos been that I feared iii’uner would send to
Boston for a d—d free nigger f**r clerk, juhI I
all lie delighted to h i\c you in the com-
raittee-room.’ ” »
ue Savannah Advertiser says Jos. K.
Spear, an old resident of Savannah, has died
in Charleston.
The Savannah papers are trying to fathom
lue Davenport tricks.
Among the damages of the storm in Sa
vannah was the following:
Tiie tin on the roof of the freight ware
house was torn off for about twenty feet.
l'xrl of the roof of Captain A. P. Welter’s
cotton pres was blown off and lodged on the
deck of the ship Richard III.
OUR »V AS AI NG ION LETTKK.
TIIE EXECUTION OK GRADY—TIIE HUMAN
TUI ns r J\»R WITNESSING TIIE 1IOIUMHLK
BEAST IHITl.ER BATTi.REp INTO SILENCE—
GEORGIA Al t AIKS—HI.UlXlETV GOING II
HEAVY ON* PLEDGES—MK. liILL EOT DOING
cks Lis r
43 |vt <
lie 1
j.nyvrs
try with ri-'O, SS |
.1 TO jkt cent.; canulct, J
l; starch, ta\ej 50 percent !
>L of tools; An av
-knife, toxej 50 per cent.; a
• 1 CO |HT cent.; a apndc, taxed
uv. taxed 75 per cent.
;a, t .x. 1 57 ]K-r cent. He
ivi'li ptisr, taxed 55 per
: :vv i, iaw! .771.< r cent,
hands in a crockery bowl,
S: m.i t' rr '.poi.. oe of Tli. Coni UUUa.
Wauuxutox, D. C., March *TC, 1871.
The strange taste of mankind for the mis
eries of others is one of tiie mysteries of hu
man nature, it is manifested nnder all circum
stances, in all scenes of suficrings, whether
soietmi or grotesque, among mull and women
of high and low degree. The peerless Lord
Bacon went to the Tower to sec Pcaeliam
put to the rack, an.l listened to the groans
and shrieks of the wretched olil man. Even
William Penn was an interested spectator at
the execution of a woman under circumstan
ces of peculiar savagery, and “learned and
painful pious” men are slid to. have wit
nessed the tinal agony of luaay a doomed
wretch.
It is undoubtedly true that thp world grows
steadily toward a niuli perfection, and “llie
thoughts of men are w id "lied with the process
of the scene.,.'' But, in some particulars, the
nature of man suffer* no change, and among
their peculiarities stands prea.ninently the
morhid desire of men ami women to look
1 ptni the sufferings of a hapless fellow dicing,
pulsiv
ent; drawn In
i anil sends it to market
a mile; in cars, taxed 50
engines, taxed 45 per
the
s all a'.ssir!*- his funds. Ilc pays all
taxes ms he buys these articles. lie is
■onsumcr, and the consumer foots ail
these heavy taxes—taxes paid every day of
the farmer's life, on every tool used, and on
every thing eat, drank anil worn,
When he understands it, he gets sick, think
ing of how Iladioal taxation robs him for the
benefit of a few rich monopolists. He takes
to his bed, made of wood, taxed 20 per cent.,
draws over him a sheet taxed 55 per cent.,
and a blanket taxed 240 per cent. He takes
quinine taxed 4.7 per cent.
But it docs no good. The tariff kills him.
and is buried In all sorts of taxed
Ylir fate is recorded on a marble
-] 70 jrer cent, and he goes where
Tariffs.
xd« thus: “Here lies the
■"ward to Death by monop-
llie sigl. .
flection must have lx eu forced on
any curious person who ventured, on Friday
last, to reconnoitre the vicinity of thcjail-
d 43 j yard the day and place for lie execution of
James Grady, the murderer of a poor okl
woman. The v:ist crowd of men, w omen
and children of all nationalities, which
surged around tiie walls, stretching their
m-eks, standing on tip-toe, and vainly striv
ing, by means of bricks, stones, door
step and house-tops, to add the neccssary
calTbre to their statue, in order that tlu-y
niiglit get even so brief a glimpse of the con
demned wretch as lie dropped into the trip of
death, was but a repetition of that which
hath been from old.
Sweep away the illusions of lime, and one
might easily fancy he was at the old Bailey,
where the crowd hooted unit cheered “ Thief
>'n. u, London Bridge,” os he was swung off,
or at the Tolhorth, where the gaping, jost
ling mob bantered the brave souls that leaped
to Heaven from the gory scaffold.
The clamorous, persistent endeavors to see
the taking of the doomed man’s life on this
last hangman's day was a study for the
curious. The trees, the attic windows, the
house-top 11 , and even the chimneys, as far dis
tant as the Patent Office, were studded and
bristling with humanity, all peering hreath-
n? "
thing
stone
there are Xo
His cpit .pl
American Farmer
. .. , , -ole down to death
So let him retnhxte and . s%t thus crushes
the infamous Kadica! party L-
bim. ’
SkcTIOn.\i.izkd.—The St. Louis Den?°^^
of Thursday, says: The corn trade is a ,
permanently sectionalized and divided upon
the question of color. White and mixed
white goes " South,” and yellow and mixed
yellow goes “East.” Yesterday the Eastern
demand was active and the Southern demand
dull. Corn for the South at present is shipped
I a sack: hut. in time, as tiie South becomes
more and more extensively penetrated by
railroads, “ hulk corn” will be wanted.
The same paper says; Mr. B. J. Drecson,
a practical cotton growerof Jefferson, Texas,
lias invented a hand cotton picking machine
whirli was exhibited on 'Change yesterday,
attracting many lookers-on
taf- Grant’s hifaintin proclamation corn
’s Hiding “ unlawful combinations” in South
Carolluii to “ disperse,” came aliout ten days
t»<. t, lle They all dispersed the very mo-
nw-nt Governor Scott took his Winchester
rule* out ot tue hands of the negro militia.
lessly into the inelosuie which hid the gal
lows tree. In the streets the crowd stood
anxiously, intently looking upon the impene
trable walls, as if in the vague hope that it
would topple down, or gape apart when the
drop fell, or that the body would rebound
high enough to clear the wall, and give them
aifinstantaneoua view of the dying man.
About 12 o'clock one or two boys got down
from their perch on G street au4 started for
a tree at the corner of Fourth street. Others
followed, and then the whole mass started,
.'ell niell, sweeping hoys, men, women und
policemen, and all, arounl into Fourth street.
To the disgust of the frenzied rabble, noth
ing was to be seen ; auu no one could tell
why the futile charge had been made.
After a time it became known that al! was
over. Poor Grady, after taking leave of his
I«;jow prisoners, blessing his friends, forgiv-
ing everybody, and leaving an incoherent
tirade againat the Attorney-General and jury
for publications, fiad expiated his master-
deee of crime.
h ,,'be outsiders had never *eon, or heard
of the hanging, after all. Slowly
1y they departed—clerks, appreh.
women and children—looking
if' thefSd r-niswd one of the sweet and
tender experiences °* ... on
As in the case c'f the wedding feU<m
Sixth street on the proceeding day after a
member of the worthy Chief Justices family
had completed the conquest and absorption
of the balance of Bhode Island—a fadhful
few lingered around when the glory had de
parted, and did not retire until the aun shone
with level rays upon the fatal enclosure.
POOR OLD BEAST BUTLER.
Poor I mean in a sympathetic sense—
noth ink,
land sullen [
ticcs, longers,
|/UAM£ BLAIR.
he rirrs in a word about the ku-klux
HL’blNEbS, ON THE Sis*,
resolution specifying certain legisla
tion as the exclusive business »>f the present
session was taken up, the question being on
the amendment to provide for legislation on
the South.
31 r. Blair, in the course of his remarks, nt-
Liited the apparent great anxiety mani
fested on llR* fiNmt the tnmqiiility <»f
the South to the fa« t that ut last election
tin: Radicals had been turm d obi of pqwer
in North Carolina and Alabama, and they
wanted some legislation to put them back
again
Mr. Pool said because he had asked for
legislation to repress assassination and mur
der, the Senator trom Missouri (Blair) had in
timated that tiie purpose was to put down
the Democratic party. If the Democrat iu
party could not exist except by such meas
ures it ought to be put down. He would see
the Democratic party and eyery other hum
bled, before he would see them maintain
themselves by plunder and assassination.
3Ir. Blair retorted, that the murderers and
assassins convicted in North Carolina, by
proofs before the Senate, were Republicans.
3Ir. Pt>ol— Because Republicans punish
such men and Democrats do not.
Mr. Blair—The only persons in office in
North Carolina, Judges, District Attorneys
and all the rest, are l&publicans, and if there
were any Democrats to pnnish for commit
ting crime it would be done.
[Excitement and calls of order from the
Republican side.]
Pool—But the jurors are Democrats.
They are the men who punish.
[Renewed calls to order from all parts of
the chamlier.
Blair—Vociferating—The Republicans hare
the selection of jurors. They have it by the
laws which they have made.
[Calls of order; question.]
Mr. Blair continuing: That is the fact, and
no man shall charge it home upon me that
these men are not punished becauj»6 they arc
Democrats, when it is shown that the only
men who break laws, so far as discovery has
been made, are Republicans.
Ihs Sfe'fT Hampshire Election.
Weston’s plurality over Pike foj* Governor
is 821, while he lacks of a majority and ap
election 295. Pike is in a minority of 1,987,
where Governor Steames last year had a ma
jority of 1,252. Net Republican loss, 3,189.
The total vote of the State is 69,701, against
69 ; 442 last year; an increase of 1,259. It is
the largest gubernatorial vote ever cast, ex
cept in the years 1860 and 1868. The Dem
ocratic vote is the largest ever cast, with the
single exception of that of 7868. and exceeds
that of 1860 (the largest excepting 1868) by
nearly 1,200.
CfT DIsr&fcii is reported to be in better 1
spirits than for the few years, because he
sees an excellent cha*c4 to worry the Ministry
on the Black Sea question, and to make him
self generally disagreeable to his political
opponents. _ _
The Franco-German war is said to be
the cause of frequent duels between the
French and German officers in the army of
the Khedive of Egypt.
* ‘ He&dqoarten-la-the-9ad41« w Fvp*.
The Senate, Saturday, hod under consider
ation the deficiency appropriation bill, which
finally passed. One amendment (tabled after
long discussion) called for an appropriation
of $800,000 for building stables for the use of
the military service at Fort Leavenworth.
Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, referred to the fact
that John Pope had recommended the erec
tion of such buildings. • The venerable Sen
ator from Kentucky then proceeded to say:
44 This recommendation reminds me of an
anecdote 1 heard in relation to General John
Pope during the late rebellion. It will be
recollected that after the battle of Shiloh,
General John Pope advanced to Grenada and
achieved some remarkable feats about that
locality. He published a proclamation that
he haa taken, I think, ten thousand arms and
thirty thousand prisoners. When the thing
came to be explained, his army had occupied
a certain portion of country, and he conjec
tured the amount of population within that
area of country, men, women, and children,
and he claimed that the whole of them were
his prisoners. About that time one of his
soldiers, a most gallant young fellow, who
had been wounded or had camp fever, from
disease or the casualties of battle, was in ex
tremis. i Io called for one of his camp-fellows
to read him some Scripture. lie said he felt
he would not be here long, and he wanted to
be making liis peace with Heaven. His friend
took the Bible and opened it casually, and he
happened to open it where there was an ac
count of Samson having slain a thousand
Philistines with the jaw-!*>ne of an ass.
Said he, “Stop, John ; isn’t that signed John
Pope, Major General of the United States
Army?” [Laughter.]
31r. Blair—Will the Senator from Ken
tucky allow me to interrupt him for a mo
ment?
Mr. Davis, of Kentucky—Certaiuly.
Mr. Blair—I desire to say that the recom
mendation for the construction of these
buildings at Fort Leavenworth was made by
General Sheridan and General Sherman long
anterior to the assignment of General Pope
to that department; and although I dislike
very much to spoil a good story, I think it is
due to General Pope to give my knowledge
of the transaction which has been referred to
by the Senator from Kentucky.
3Ir. Thurman — About the Philistines?
[Laughter.]
Mr. Blair—Oh, no; not that.
Mr. Davis, of Kentucky—I l>cg pardon ; I
thought that was the very point my honor
able friend was rfring to. [Laughter.]
Washington Crime.
While Washington is not more immoral
than many other places, one is occasionally
startled by the apparitions of crime which,
in the usual sunshiny flow of life there, is as
though you had encountered a ghastly corpse
in some limpid and placid lake or stream.
The d* dh of Henrietta Paddon, a di
vorced and incontinent young woman at the
hands of one ri. T. rihuman, a professional
aViorlim ; -t, aided by an ignorant woman
named “ Madam” Turner, and the commit
ment of Shuman and Turner to jail, are
amongst Washington events of the past week.
The deceased person, it jippcars, was a Sun
day- school teacher, and she had more than
one lover.
Commenting on this s;ul and sickening
case, one of the Washington Sunday jour*
luds says:
44 While no terms arc severe enough to ar
raign the disgusting business of Shuman and
the old woman, some reflection should also
b“ od*led upon the causes which appear to
give Washington more than its proportion of
loose girls and widows. The late raids upon
houses of ill-flame touched only the last stage
of libidinous practice here. An excess of
unraarri* d females, the decay of a ce rtain
crust of social life, promiscuous mingling at
receptions, easy adventuring at a capital city,
the irregularity of employment here, the
loitering, listless sort of sight-s'. eing life cur
rent, and the freedom of lodging-house civil
ization are some of the cause* which lead
v, mien astray. It appears probable, besides,
that the high prices o? living, Hi® ptentiful-
utiss of poor money, and the ourfeit of news
papers and plays full of leg?, hare harmed
all American society' more or less. Every
stationery shop is a library of lewdncsK.”
froMen Words.
We have repeatedly denied that the South
ern Democrats were guilty or llu-Klux out
rages; and Inve charged that the Radicals
were the true Kn-Ivlux. They li.ivg dabbled
in a business planned for Democratic injury
and Radical benefit, and carried out by ltad-
i .d agency i.i scent. Senator Thurman
made a masterly expo- ire of this matter on
the 21m, in reply to Alorton. We copy a few
paragraphs. We call attention to two points
made: that the Southern Democrats stand in
their own light in committing these outrages,
apd therefore have the strongest self-interest
not to do them; and t'aai iho*o vhu dw then;
are not representative Southern men.
1 know very well that every outrage that
is committed there is magnified a hundred
fold for party purpo-es, and that every such
outrage that'w committed there serves as a
pretext to put the lieel of military power
upon that pro.-trale people, and to crush out
anything like freedom ef election. I know
it, and [ hgow that those people stand in
their own light i know that tiicy aro doing
what tla ir adversaries cannot do: they are
cndnng ring themselves and endangering
their people and endangering their country
by these outrages that are committed. But
I deny that the persons that commit those
outrages are representative people of the
Southern t'.-'-Ci,. I challenge any man on
this floor from ti.u khiyilvtji States to ear
whether the truth Is, or 1 * rwt, that (his grunt
s of the people, the education, the wealth,
the social standing of the South Is just as
much opposed to these Ku-Klux outrages as
any man tlia* treads this earth!
Why, sir, it is not a year ago since we had
a speech from the Senator from North Caro-
“na, (Mr. Pool.) Ami what did lie tell us?
Did bv, toil us that the education, the wealth,
the social standing of !;;; State gave counte-
ance to these outrages r If my recollection K
right he told us precisely the reverse. Why,
sir, it is human nature that that class of peo
ple shouM be opposed to them. Those who
have an interest in the prosperity of their
riuile, tiiosv a ho have property to be pre
served by law and o h .iu fc , those who have
liberties to be protected, those who have
rights that they cherish, arc the last men In
^ive sane-
placid and as gentle as 90 many turtle doves!
Oh, no, Mr. President, it will not Mo.
Mr. Thurman thus wound upJhis strong
speech
But if we are to hare an investigation, let
us have it. And when we do go Into this in
vestigation, and when it comes to be consid
ered by the Senate, I beg Senators to look
once more at history, and to find 'that by no
armed tyranny, by no treading of people un
der the heel, has order ever been restored,
unless it was the order of despotism, the si
lence of its reign.
No, sir; if you want the peopto of the
South to be orderly, give them guild govern
ment; let them govern themselves according
to the nature and spirit of our free institu
tions; let the intelligence of the country
have fair play; let the honesty and that
economy that everybody will admit existed
in those States before the civil war, whatever
faults they may have had, once more take
place. Let mere adventurers retire to the
back-ground or hide themselves in Ijie holes
from which they came; let once weft the
people feel that they have a Conotiuiriui
that will be enforced, laws that they respect,
and once mote you will have peace and order
there, as well as you have anywhere^ ?
PERSONAL.
Ex-Sccretary Seward, has been
from paralysis, to lift a glass of watej
lips for two years.
Bismarck now enjoys the highest' rank
which *♦ »• possible for a Prussian subject to
obtain—a prince of the realm.
Colonel Marnuel Feyre is the plenipoten
tiary from Bolivia, to the peace congress to
be held in Washington.
Mr. Carlyle, Mr. Buskin and Mr. Tenny
son have cordially united in the movement in
England for the relief of the French suffer
ers by the war.
If the Connecticut murderer, Wilson, per
sists in his refusal to take food, he will be
handed over to the physicians, who will ad
minister nourishment by compulsory process.
MinisterTorbott, of Salvador, has addressed
a note to San Salvador, in behalf of America
and England, asking the country to except
the Honduras Railroad from the hostile ope
rations during the war.
A Female Printer —In our daily visits
to the printing office of Mr. Toon, at which
offic*: the Plantation is printed, we have been
struck with, to us, an unusual sight It is
that of a young lady, standing at a printer's
desk, and diligently engaged in setting type.
Modest, retiring ami industrious, she com
mands the respect of all in the esi iblishrn^at,
from the proprietor downwards.
This is a Georgia girl, who learned hex
trade in Rome, and who ha* been attracted
by higher wages to Atlanta. Mr. Toon, in
forms us that her work quite equals that of a
man, and that her wages are the same ax that
which is paid to a man. In this wnr, this de
serving young lady is enabled to support in
digent relatives who are dependent upon
her.
This is nn example fit to be imitated. It
is a cop firm alio u of views expressed by us
some time since, in an article in The Planta
tion, entitled, “ What shall our young women
do?” Why shall this example not bo fob
lowed in other cities in the booth ? There
are many bright girls, whose parents arc
struggling with hopeless poverty, who might
in this war obtain n competency. But they
will not think of this resource. It must be
suggested by the informed and the thought
ful.
If the establishment be judiciously selected,
an apprenticeship mny bo passed through
without hazzard to purity or character, and
a steady and creditable source of support be
attained. Wc none of us live for ourselves.
It is a noble charity which suggests,if it can
not give remunerative occupation to the
need y.—Point ilion
VST*The lion. Frank Blair did a good
thing the other day iu the Senate Commit
tee, before whom testimony was being taken
upon the condition of the South. One of
these generic thieves and raac ds, a hybrid
ized Republican polit ician, wasgiring his tes
timony. He was unfolding a fearful talc A
rapine, slaughter and ^atrag*?. “I
you to say, - ’ said Mr. Blair, that no Repi
lican can live in safety in your •^♦-otion of til
country“Thclifoof a liemittficiin is n«
worth a straw there, sir,” vastLe humble re\
use. “Well,” continued Mr. Biair, ‘‘I
observe that you are fat and happy. You
ion’t seem to have suffered a great deal of
anguish. It strikes me that about the be^t
evidence that wc can have that the South is
docjle and tractable is that such felloes as
you can go do^n there gr.d get t?£ck in
safety.”
tW~ In a Western village a charming, well
preserved widow had keu courted anu won
bv a physician. She had children; among
them, a crippled boy, who had )*een petted,
and, if not spoiled, certainly allowed great
“ freedom in debate.** The wedding day waa
approaching, and it was time the children
should know they were to have a new father.
Calling the crippled boy the widow said :
** George, I am going to do something be
fore long that I would like to talk about with
yoq. I am intending to ninny Dr Jones ip
TELEGRAPHIC.
rBAAK BLAIR,
this world, in any community, to
tion to acts of violence of this kind. And
when you undertake to attribute to the whole
Southern people the acts of a few bad men,
ti .»re simply seizing hold of ihese casual or
ideutul outrages to blacken whole commu
nities and to misrepresent whole States.
That is the truth of it
Mr. Thurman then defended th© Demo
cratic party from the charge cf lawlessness.
He struck a strong blow in th> followini
paragraph:
But these outrages thus committed are but
drops in the bucket compared to organized
outrage in the name of law, compared to or
ganized outrage where the military force of
the Government puts its heel, or attempts to
put its heel, upon the free elections of what
is called, by courtesy I suppose, a free coun
try.
3Ir. Thurman called attention to the fact
that all of the Southern States had ample
stringent laws against these yery outrages.
He ridiculed the idea that history showed
no parallel to Southern disorders, an£ illus
trated the point, complimenting the South
on its remarkable quiet.
He showed that after waging a war to pre
serve me Union, the party in power had thus
acted
Instead of fulfilling it, you put them down
under martial law ; you abolished their State
constitutions; you compelled them at the
point of the bayonet to adopt their constitu
tions ; you set their lately freed slaves above
them, and gave tiie control of State after
State to the most ignorant, the least informed,
and the least interested portion of the com
munity.
He made a happy point on the case of
North Carolina, that always voted the Whig
ticket. It has 80,000 negro voters, and voted
mi! Does Dr. Jones
a few days, and—
Bully for you,
know it ?”
31a caught her breath, but failed to articu
late a reapo—e.
dir. Spriggin* is a little forgetful some
times. lie counted his children the other
night, but could only make fourteen. 44 llow
U thig?” he asked his wife, 44 1 thought there
were fifteen of them.” *« So there are/’ ans
wered his wife; “but little Sammy was
drowned since then.” 44 Indeed/’ said Sprig-
gins, meditatively ; 44 why, it seems to me I
heard of that at the time.”
The above recalls a joke on an Atlanta
gentleman, who forgot the name of one rf
his children, when visited by his pastor.
ttB <&■
Wnr tiie Dutchman “Jinhd mit db
Drmperancr.”—“ I sail tell you how it vas.
I drink mine lager; den I put mine hand on
mine head, and dere vas von pain. Den 1
put mine hand on mine body, and dere vas
anoder pain. Den I put my hand in mine
pocket, and dere vas notting. Bo I jine mit
dedcmperarce. Now dere is no pain more
in mine head, and de pain in mine body vas
all gone avay. I put mine hand in min©
pockets, and dere vas dwenty dollar. So I
sbtay mit de demperance.”
DT Andrew Jackson, of St. Louis, applied
to a justice the other day for the arrest of
Brownlow Johnson. He said he 44 done went
on the ;u£f Johpeon’s house jis to frow
some bricks down de chimufiv to scare a
young cullud gal dat slept in de house, and
Johnson done lock de scuttle, and made him
stay up dar till 8 o’clock de next morning.”
lie didn’t get the warrant.
££T The New Orleans Times of the 24th,
says: “ We learned, yesterday, that several
very destructive crevasses have occurred, du
ring the last few days, in the upper parishes
of the Btate, and that, fears are entertained
that they are premonitory of other similar
calamities elsewhere, which must inflict great
damage upon some of the most productive
portions of our low land delta.”
Violent Scene in tiie Insurgent Absrm
blt—Pari*, March 24—A violent scene oc
curred at the meeting of the Comite Central?.
A member of the Committee differed from
General Lullicr, Commander of the National
Guards. Lullier became violent and threw
chair at the head of his colleague, for which
conduct he was dragged out of the meeting
and immediately deposed.
ty The Providence Herald thus parodies
the 44 Heathen Chinee ” by way of illustrating
the reception of the news from the New
Hampshire election at the White House;
And Grant looked np at N,e.
And Nye gazed upon G.,
And then rope with a eigh.
And tfeej paid, “Can thia ba 1"
ty Pierce Burton, the recently defeated
Radical candidate for Lieutenant-Governor
of Alabama, having become satisfied that the
reign of carpet-buggers in that State is about
closed, lias folded bis tent and taken his flight
Northward, to the gratification of the white
people of West Alabama.
19* An acquaintance called on the Presi
dent the other day, and, the conversation
turning on Sumner, Grant said: “ He says I
_ _ don't know anything, I know we have been
W ££«»' against aaiQOO Demo-i ‘S 6
crats, thus showing that only 3,000 white men
were Radical, the negroes all voting Radical.
He thus clinches the point.
i-ss a syaa:*. president.
And the domination of that party for yeayi
and years, the plunder of the State, the ruin
of her prosperity has been the result of a
fW jj r# Blaine says he believes now that 1 combination of three thousand adventurers—
Mr. Lo"-an will be the next nominee of the with eighty thousand negroes; and yet the
his conduct.” Of course, Grant had nothing
to do with bringing about the disaster,
£|f A little girl, when her father's table
was honored by an esteemed guest, began
talking very earnestly at the first pause in the
conversation. Her father cltcoked her very
sharply, saying: “ Why is it that yon always
talkso much?" “Tause I’ve dot somesin to
people are expected to be as mild and aa say,” was the innocent reply.
Wasiiln-qtov, Starch 88.—In the House,
the special committee reported a bill which de
fines a new class of crime, known as Ku-
Klux, which shall be amenable to the Fed
eral courts—the jurors to take the iron-clad
oath. In the 6 ates where insurrection, in tiie
judgment of the President, exists, and where
the Governor or Legislature decline to apply
for Federal aid, the President may intervene
under the plea of enforcing the 14th Amend
ment
The Senate.hae been discussing the order
of business. The Dominican report was not
made, as there is a difference of opinion ex
isting. The majority^ of the Commissioners
t|vaf^^portin^categ*iteil answers to ques
irons without recommendation for or against
annexation.
Waskctotoh, March 28.—There has been
no Cabinet meelingto-day, the members visit
ing Mt Vernon with the High Commission.
No important nominations.
No Southern confirmations.
In the Senate, resolutions were discussed
to adjournment.
In the House, A. T. Smith presented a me
morial, claiming a seat from the Fourth Mis
sissippi District, and protesting against the
entire Mississippi delegation. Ref«rr*<i to
Committee on Elections.
* Uabmrerr, from the special committee
j* on the President’s menage, reported a bill
for the enforcement of the 14tli Amendment.
Argument conUnucs.tf.1 Motfffay. It pro
vides that any person who, under color of
law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom
or usage of any State, shall subject, or cause
to be subjected, any person within the juris
diction of the United States to the depriva
tion of any rights, privileges, or immunities
secured by the 1st section of the 14th article
of amendments to the Constitution of.the
United States, shall any such law, statute,
ordinance, regulation, custom or usage of
the State to the contrary notwithstanding,
b« liable to the party injured in an action at
lawMiit in equity or other proceedings for re
dress, such proceedings to tie prosecuted in
tbs several District or Circuit Courts of the
Lnited States, with sad cuuject to the same
rights of appeal and review upon error and
other remedies provided in like cases in such
courts under the provisions of the act ot
April it, 130:4, and other remedial laws of the
United Stales, which are in their nature ap
plicable in such cases.
Tiie second section provides that if two or
more [tersons shall band, conspire, or combine
together to do any act in violation of the
rights, privileges, or immunities of any per
son to which he is entitled under the Consti
tution and laws of the United States, which,
if committed within a place under the sole
and exclu.ive jurisdiction of the United
States woid.t, under a:;v law there iu force,
constitute the crims of either murder, man
slaughter. msyh-m. robbery, assault ttad bat-
tery, ]*erjory, subordination of perjury, crim
inal obstruction of legal process, or resistance
of officers in discharge of duly, arson or
larceny; t.nd if one or more of the parties
to atid conspiracy or combination snail do
any act to effect the object thereof, all the
parties to or engaged in said conspiracy or
combination, whether principal or accesso
ries, shall be deemed guilt}' at a felony, and
upon conviction thereqf, shall be liable to s
penalty of not exceeding $10,000, or to im
prisonment not exceeding ten years, or Istth,
at the discretion of the court: Provided,
That if any party or parties to such a con
spiracy shall, in furtherance of such common
design, commit a crime of wilful murder,
such party or parties so guilty shall, upon
conviction thereof, suffer death: and pro
vided, siso, that any offense punishable under
this act, begun in one judicial district of
the United States, and conn-1' ;ci! i-t another,
n)ay he dealt wild, inquired of, tried, deter
mined and punished in cither district.
The third section anthorixes the President
to employ militia, land or naval forces of tiie
United States to suppress insurrection, do
mestic violence or unlawful combinations or
conspiracies in any State, if tiie constitutional
authorities of such State shall be unable to
or shall from any cause fali or refuse lo give
protaction to the people in the exercise of
their rights or privileges.
^fourth section authorizes the President
pend the writ of AiCMiU corpus Ana to
declare martial lsw in any State where un
lawful combinations exist, and be so power
ful as to overthrow or act at defiance
tiie constitutional authorities of Hie State
or in any State where .the authorities ahull
canniva at or ba in complicity with'such un
lawful combinations : Provided, that the
President shall first have made proclamation
ns now provided by law, CU.tcnait liug such
insurgents to disperse; and provid'd also,
that the provijioqs of tilts section rhs!', not
he ia fores after the 1st day of June, 1B72.
Synopsis sf ths Weather Imports for ihs past
Twenty-four fwurr.—The low barometer over
Massachusetts on Monday evening has passed
to the Northeast hevoud our coast. The area
of high pressure on Monday night, in . Ten
nessee, now covers Ohio and Lake Michigan.
Tiie pressure appears to iiave decidedly fallen
wilh a large increase of temperature. In the
extreme Northwest the barometer is station
ary and iu I lie Rocky Mountains
and on the Pacific coast dear weather
with occasiatial cloudmcga lias prevailed lo
ony. of ths Rooky Mountains, and
North of tiie Gulf States, on the immediate
Gulf coast, the barometer has fallen slightly,
itli threatening weather.
Fresh Southeast and Northeast winds, with
falling barometer, is probable for Wednesday
>n tiie upper lakes, and tiie same, with cloudy
or rainy weather on the Gulf States; pnrtialiy
cloudy and clear weather wdl probably pre
vail on the Atlantic coast and lower lakes.
Richmond, March Jy. The jury in the
ex-Maydr Cuhqnn case, has been discharged.
Tiie Jury stood nine for acquittal and three
for conviction.
A member of the Legislature and a lawyer
have been arrested for corrupt practices in
the case.
Moiin.n, March 28.—Colonel Ndligan's
sorrel colt won the two-year old stake, beat
ing the celebrated Saucebox. Williamson,
tlmuiri of My Heart and Captain Jinks.
Time, l:4tf.
The track was very heavy, and the rain
falling in torrents.
Raleioh, March 28.—The House im
peached Edmund \V. Jones, Judge of the
Second Judicial District. The charges arc
drunkenness and disgraceful conduct in
Raleigh, similar conduct in Goldsboro, ditto
inTnrboro, ditto in Williamston, where he
went to hold court. The Senate received (he
charges, and the trial edmmenee* next Fri-
dav.
New Oki.raks, Msreii 23.—The steamboat
Belle of Alton was burned to the waters
edge. Tiie hull and machinery was sate-1.
Pants, M uch JJ.—Layoite sqya a new
Ministry will soon be formed which will iti
elude Broglie as Minister of Foreigu Affairs
and McMahon Minister of War.
The riel: generally abstained from visitin'
the polls, and the merchants voted the Con
servative ticket,
The individuals elected are obscure, with
the exception of Flourens, Blanque, l'igatt,
and Gambon.
Barricading contiues, and the utmost vigi
lance is manifested by the insurgent National
Guards. Place Yendome has tiie aspect of a
camp.
It is said the Versailles government ia ne ;
gotiatiqg with the Prussians to allow an in
crease of the number of French troops on this
side of tiie Loire.
A rumor says that General Cromer was
suspected by the Committtoe, and is gone to
Versailles.
Versailles, March 28.—Thiers made a
brief address in the National Assembly. He
defended the wisdom of his policy, and took
a solemn oath that he would not betray the
Republic.
Wasiiinqtok, March *8.—The Dominican
Commissioners have agreed upon the report,
except upon the matter of health and the debts
of the island. They will be ready to report
on Thursday—possibly to-morrow. The
Commissioners will present no opinions or
arguments, but confine thcmsejvea to direct
answers to the questions contained in the
resolutions under which they were organized.
bharp passages were made in the Senate
to-day. IIowc, speaking against the Sumner
resolutions, said, alluding to Sumner: The
mission of the Republican party is not end
ed, and he would beseech the man who would
engage in its destruction to taks his position
with the common enemy, and not, Judas-like,
stab in the back the party to which he pro
feased to belong.
Mr. Scliura said: If It was proven that
orders bad been issued to our naval
commissioners in gross violation of the
Constitution, then something more than mere
rhetorical flourishes about General Grant’:
eervtcos, or about the Secretaries of State and
Navy, would be required to answer the proof.
Schurz proceeded to argue that, under the
constitutional clause, vesting in Congress the
war-making power, the Executive could not
commit an act of war unless of setusi inva
sion of the territory of the United State* or
ire express'congressional authority.
The instructions of the President to our
naval force, directing them in certain con-
power with which we are at peace, was most -
clearly a usurpation of the war-making power. I _
In reply to queries by Howe ana Stew-1 n * a sound-^sttkk
* • I 1 r. . - ' rosn-fl ” ■tt a t t wv hat
V>K B
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4 DEAD
art as to \fliether discretionary power I
was rot y?st(*d in the President,
Shura added that if these Senators I
would turn to the debates of the Senate!
in February, 1859, they would find that
President Buchanan had asked for discre-
ISSUES”—SHALL WK HAVE A CONSTITU
TIONAL UNION OR AN AB«9Li
ME NT—THE ABOLITION OF
FBAGE NOT THE ISSUE.
Washington, 3Iyh 18,T^1.^
To M. M. Cooke, Editor ojjTu Monigormcy,
City and Suburban A
Anew locomotive, the “ Chambers.” tat
th. &>M Ai,b*nra and Clnolmratl luUrSi Sung
through her* roitrday. 1 " l *
Tra annual S^kh‘„ Ucffi . Convention of
th.CArt~.riUe a* Vs, w « RAilrozd. ^ SG^
«t OsrtMTlll., on the 13th of April. '
ScBBCRiprionaj—From .1! direction* nob-
rertjilpnrt.ro strtdlly pouring in . They reach .1
from California sad many of the far WeeteenSutre!
Tun Atlanta Presbytery" meets in West
Point, of April. Erom the well-taiown
hospiralUfcof the citizens of West Point, w. fe«iro7
fldent thet^hr oeembera of the Presbytery will ...
their sojourn three, both pleasant and sgreeshiw
lyMAXhtRjpnx H. Dkst, l\ mounted'V* .
dkthe If|nte Commeratsrt.
nt is^ dneut an.J forcible wtflhr, a p‘sctt3f%
V “d » f P<8j£i«t udtf^euuin. We extend the
tionnry power to protect our citizens in Ala., Mail—Dear Sir: Yours of the 11th
transit over the Isthmus of Panama, and the instant has just been received^ I am flattered
Senate had indignantly refused it. It was: by your request that I stjpnld endeavor to
np to him npon his secession to
most audacious to contend, for that was the
logic of it, that the President had
tlia power to steal the war nuking
power from Congress. Tim fact was tlteV
President Grant had falletfhjfto^fte mistake
of supposing he was the United States of
America, fi sntackcj strongly of what was
called in Fraaoe personal government.
Washington, March 30.—In ihe House
the Ku-Klux bill was discussed. Wood read
from the messages of Souther* Governors
to show that peace prevails in all those States,
with but a few exceptions in several of them.
He denounced as infamous, the incendiary re
marks of Kelly, delivered t c..terday, and ex-
pre-.sed the hope that if ever there should be
war of races the negr >»s would select a
man more valiant than K- i! r, who, during
the disturbance in Mobile, Mil under a tabled
pretending that he was dead.
The Senate adopted AathooyT resolution
allowing the* ontidcratioa of any bill on the
South, passed by the House.
D.tvis made a speech refuting Sherman’s
charges against the South. Previous to its M.
conclusion, an incident of unusual character j or not, and it does
occurred, which excited considerable com j put the Government in t
ment in the galierias and upon the floor. 1 *' —* '
Butler, of Massachusetts, who was OCCU*: valid or invalid.
compose the “ dead issue ” ccntrovepty among
Our friends in the South, $nd PyiiigUt be
tempted to proffer^fltv djvTbe toTh^ni if 4
thought It would be effective. But our peo
ple don’t like to be advised. They prefer
discussion, and to perform their opinions on
public questions by that process, i have con
tributed in that way, and shall continue to
«o so to the utmost of my abilitv.
In my judgment the actual 'issue of the
campaign is the broad one, whether we have
» Federal Union on a constitutional basis, or
»n absolute Government with [toner in the
hands of those who possess it to prolong its
own existence indefinitely. This draws in
review the past, and continuing process by
which the arbitrary Government of to-ikiv
has been established and is to be maintained,
and the reconstruction sets and the amend-'
menu must necessarily figure in this review;,
hut the question of whether they went
through tlto forms that entitle them to be put
<11 the statue book is really an immaterial
an?. It does not change the argument a par
ticle whether the forms w-re ...i.-,', with
eet our ability to
. . ■bauds of the peo
ple if we carry the electijj, whether tli-v are
pying the scat of Senator Thurman, immedi
ately adjoining that of Davis, had been fori were adopted, and tli
some time intently observing Davis as he ! measures passed und
prococ-ded. Davis growing restive, and 1 ' —^ ’ -
with his usual warmth and earnestness, sud
denly faced Butler, and continuing his argu
ment against the credibility of aggravated
Ku-Klux stories, said:
“ These fictitious charges are originated by
tarries to affect the coming elections. The
Legislatures to be elected are to gfiooge one-
third of the members of this Senate, and it
The manner in which these amendments
till more significant
, . . 'posed for their <n-
roreemeut, ought to satisfy men u f „][ Sl . c .
lions and parties that liberty itself p. s ; „; r- | ;e
in the coming conflict. No thoughtful oh-
server of the present cptet of public aff M tr S
who does not, from timidity, willfully shut
ins eyes to the conclusion': bis reason can
doubt, that those w-. fo power hrve
subverted the orgatii, law. In dwi nice of thi
known Will of the people v, ,11: fail toad,.pi
iuu-u ima ocnuic, auu ii Known Witt OI tile pel iV; v, ii::,. fail toad, ■ -l
is with a viewof using this political capital any other measures of L . : ! o- ,i,.
for these diabolical and devilish ends that which may be fomuj r.: t:> w'uVi’ii'
the.e vile and slanderous stories of outrages 'dipin in posession of it, and'tint our oillv
emanate from tlte brains of political scouu- Nceuritv against new and gr.-ater vioh-i,-
emanate from the brain* of political scouu- .ceuritv against new
drels and ruffians." than has heretofore be
After taking his seat, observing Butler still timely awakening of t,,
staring at him, Davis rose and, addressing j dangers which surround
the latter, w :s heard to say : " What do you ‘ spirit may
mean by attempting to browbeat me in that tiseuibark I
way ? you are a d d scoundrel, sir!" add- j or lo effect not to see this d ;n „ ,
ing, after a pause, “Yes, sir, I repeat it, you j gage the public mind in ;L.~u
ore a d——d scoundrel, sir." j economic and civil service mo::-
At this juncture, Wilson came from his belittle the Iron man who so i
be arovt ;ed will-
ark those d.-.i,-. 1
ter vioiem
n practiced, is bv the
'pie to the' real
em—so that a
1 i that Senate to his feet which h ,
at their bar, U to
seat on tiie qjlier side of the chamber, an
endeavored to prevent a ccittinuaqce of tho I cesser plead in
scene. Duller soon after left the chamber. I a lien there is
It is reported that he replied to Davis, “1 j betray ihe country,
don’t know you, sir; I don't care for you, If our friends won
and I don't want to speak to you.”
The Senate adopted a resolution instruct-
iug tiie Secretary of War to cause the Engi
neer of the Department to extend the survey
of the Etowah rp-er, already ordered, to the | \lrcadv see it, tn spi
Octnuigee river, so as to embrace the eat' ‘
mates for
•verawe and
Not to sec
and to ca-
icussiou of
ires, and to
-ly brought
liis prede-
erv “ peace
tribute io
ijght hen* of fijilo
ths frjtm-nity.L
Tiie Mayori^c'Vu t was largely attended
yesterday. ItrAVjJuqg mca accidentally happenep
*p there to tea Two of ths dmi mends
plead galltj- and?aU|hfiyr'.Jiiea, While other* plead
to the jqriadloiiori <if the Mayor, aud tlieir rues go up
to ths Senatorial l^st^'Court.
YkstkriSat, while Cliiefi Justice Brown
was at diancr, a negro fa^c-thief entered the halt
and carried off the overcoat of ou*'young friend Jn-
Hus L. Biown. valued iff fortviollare.
Some sneak-thief also stole the harness belonging
to Dr. IV. F. Westmoreland, jfom hia soflile.
Verily, aneak-thieting la the order of the day.
Tub April number of the Southern Farm
and Homs ie on our table, filled witlj excellent matter
and haudsomely illustrated. Gen. Browne, iu aoeom"
piiahed editor, wields a trenchant pen. and is iui‘
tain si by an able corps of contributors. The May
number a ill ceutaiu th* commencement of an Inter
esting serial, “The Netted," from the pen of Mery
Faith I-’loyd, the gifted and popular author. An In
teresting letter from Miss Elizabeth Dusthrueh will
Iso appear in May. J. W. Burke Sz Co., Maeon, pub
lishers. Tonus, $2 per annum.
w hen there D no peace,” an l .
tiff unite In an earnest
effort to arouse tiie cduutiy, -.11 v. ill he well.
And to this end it is only ne- - -ary to let the
people see what tiie real is.-ne j... S„, have'l
fears that they vyill {ail to see it. The-.
spite of the mistaken efforts
f some of dhr friends tv hi counsel w:,;.i
Last night, tome imjiecunious wretch,
•om* villain doubly dyed, entered the hall of th«
retidcnco of L. B. Daria, Eaq , while the hoarder*
were- at supper, aad abstracted from ibe rock the hot
of the l<>coi editor of Th* Cojcstititior. and that of
another gentleman. Aa tho hot cf this local waa a*
old one, he cares but little for ft; though the hat waa
fell, it* lost will not bo. Though tho name of tho
other unfortunate is Heard, hia hat haa not boon heard
from. Look out for aut-ak thieve?. ]lat* will be re
ceived up to 8 o'clock for tho relief of the hatleaa.
Ticket Agents' Convention.—'Three
mtfwftuant sleeping car?, the “ State of Georgia,”
“Cityof Memphis,** and “Qity of Galveston," were
attached to the regular passenger train of the hlaeoa
and Western Railroad yesterday, for the accommoda
tion of the delegates and guests to the Ticket Agents’
Convention at Savannah. There were a large nurnbar
of railroad officials from ether States, many of them
accompanied by ladies We noticed frarn Atlanta,
B. W. Wiana, of the Western and Atlautic Railroad;
W. J. Houston, Atlanta aud West Point Railroad ; J.
R. Peck, H. T. Phillips. Dr. J. N. Simmons, E. N.
Kimball and family, Sidney D«ll and others. The ar
rangements for tiie comfort of the delegates and
guc&ts were ample and luxurious.
;ip»i OKWretiog these two rivers j they thins is policy, as if it was a matter of
ipetiiag unobstructed water| .-onvciHion among public mon what the issue-,
sippi river j riiouM be, aqt} not a matter <»f fart, which
they cannot control any more than they can
plllk £
cosnnumiottiou l c*tween tho Misi
and tlte Atlautic.
tij/aoj** of Hit Weather Report for the part the'ail vent of the seasons. They muv not sec
f.o, r It SO plainly, either because th.-v d,,' u „ t
Twenty four Hours.—It is probable that the it
clouds and rain will, on Friday, be broken . sc
>re or less, from the Middle 8tat
e with sufficient
r shrink from
1 he diffeKnccs among our friend'
you refer are not serious, Tn- y ai
pandit urea of the Stale g<
A preamble and nsoluticnj were adopted,
declaring that the bonds h< rdoforc issued
without legal sanction, and thc&o-cVilcd
lin*4 loan, or any other liQipju lu fwKd'ore is
sued wi/hjviU function, and the
(>4*-ealled sterling loan or any other
bonds or obligations hereafter issued,
purporting to be under and by virtue of the
authority of the present State Government,
will not be held binding on us; and that we
ahull in every manner, and at all times resits:
the payment (hereof or'-tho enforcement of | 1,. ^ . , , , w r . PP
any tax, to pay the same by al! iegitimate ! tr ici of Columbia. w)‘» , J ii wa* first stortcii. I iu e>‘P. At tl»
neve, el)hfly froui ihe niiKtaken idea that
tboM who continue to as u.l rcuruction
and the amendinente intend t»> abolish negro I v rtia s f*>r tlhs prize. We
suffrage. This is not the object, and it is a | we cou-rafUstc the eomp:
ry inadequate view of tiie subject.
suhra^e really depends very little on the ]
amendments, because, among other things, it
lias not accomplished Urn object of those who
imposed it, (which was to j;ive them control l
The Knights of Jericho liavo lieen re-
•rganizwl n Atlanka. At a meeting held at the room
of Capitol Louge, Odd Fcliows', corner of Mitchaii
and Broad strcuU, last cvaelng, the foUowing officer*
were cWted:
Elder P. Perdue, Chief.
C. A. Bowen, Chaplain.
W. G. Fo;-syth, Scaratary.
J, J. Font, Treasurer.
K. T. l'dui.iaiar, ileraid.
J. y. Recv. a. Marshal,
G. S. ClanSy, On*rd.
W. Kelt par, imtim
Ja»u<« P. Perd'uA, Preceptor.
Tli^ next meeting will be held on Saturday night,
f Cajdtol Lodge.
The Wilcoxes Manupacturino Comta-
—The Newnan Herald eava: “ W’e are pleased f
hat on last Tuesday, Capt. H. J. Sargent
diploma from the Cincinnati Industrial
on, certifying that at the Exhibition held at
unall, October 23, 1870. the first premium on
ifliting and Cotton Yarns, had boon awarded
to the WUcoxen Manufacturing Company, of thia
county. This fact will be recogniaed a* very compli
mentary to the Company, when it is recollected that
y every factory in the United States was com-
bsUvre the award just, and
inny upon this high reoog-
This j ait i° n of the merit of the lr good*.”
at the r
means within our power.
A resolution nlso provides fora State Con-
I ention of tbx-payers to meet in <’ohunl)ia,; fldent, unless, after .4 fair iri
lay 9th, which Will confer with the CJov-1 he necessary for
eminent on the dangerous fiscal condition of I5lh amendment will, in this event, bc casi;
negre
the Stale.
Paris, March 30.—'Th© manufacturers of \ ready cs;*
Paris have received permission from the au
thorities nt Hotel de Ville to resume work.
The men must keep their arms stacked ready
L>r use, as a conflict is very probable.
The communists stiil disagree among them
selves as to future movements.
No courts are open in Paris, all the Judges
having flcxl from the city.
In the National Assembly, Thiers has de- i tion of t ! ,
dared the withdrawal of the Germans from
France for the moment suspended. More
German troops will enter Paris, and the
French, forces will be increased proportion
ately.
London, March 85.—In the House of Com
mons, to-night, a petition was presented,
bearing the signatures of a quarter of million
of persons, asking for the repeal of the Con
tagious Disease Act
City I\JFiu>VKintNTS.—In a lengthy stroll
through the Fourth, Third and Second Wards, a few
t ^ fV4-n'v\i; » ago, vcc ml* a\uU«a targe numbot of houaca
of the Southland they have begun" ihcm^J J' ae * shwted, and in proccas «>f construction. Not a
©t7v0f», ■J.c.np,' ff> *V *, **'- *- ; .n i>*- > atrectvUiat we r*a??ed through but had new honse? go*
^.-nrr of IVjor and Fair atrecta. a
nence near Raw?onv..Ie, W. A.
as comn'.enct'd Luilding a r.eat and
ce. A'line view of the city i? had
d we have not m*en a inure eligible
Th • bulidlrg v ill combine both
But the States which Imre •
; propose to revoke it,
od Gove
cd it do i
t, I am con
is shown t<
•nt. Tin
disjKx^e.i of, for the Hudica s, who have al-
•ady caused to have a motive to maintain it.
ill have ceased to cant on Ihe subject.
It is not, therefore, to get rid of negro suf- J
j Hemphill. Erq.,
hubrlantia! reald
I from thi? point,
t-lta In the city,
beau
utility, comfortable t
The grading around the City Ilall i
prorrmeut of many street?, ?hov
wtivtJy rt work. V<
ae ornamental,
ire. and the fm-
l:at the Street
, u _ , he condition of
frage that we continue tt» assail and refuse to I Hccatnr street, a great thoroughfare, and the corner
acquiesce in. usurpaliou ', by which the Gov- j of Calhoun and Railroad ttreeta should ba &t:cndod
err.menta of the peopic have been-, and will f to at once by the Contmiticu.
continue to lie, wrested from them. The l ~
contest is not to take away suffrage from the Contagious Disease of Plants.—In
i, blit to preserve that wise distrihw- | late iasue of the Plantation, lir. E. Vo
i the renowned florist, contribute? i
t() prove.::
fionariek v,
and wilt in
and ensi.-m
Youib
wers oi in uovuMuncHt with-
. : suflrage is but a mockery, and
l control Ia/ ‘‘he national’ func-
j. h is sure to civaie imperialism,
v iably degrade, impoverish and
the toiling masios.
r tly, Frank P. Blair.
Georgia Affairs,
vali;
ii Goit?no\an T
ihi- a: tide on
its,in hieopiik-
us. a» varied,
contend* that
of caloric are
the contagloH? diseases of plants, l’la
ion, are subject to diseases as ntunor
and as fatal as those or animate. He
the law? which govern the distribution
more frequently thau it is supposed, disturbed by aa
extraordinary concourse of astronomical circanjstan-
cc* whose apjmcciation may escape even the observa*
tion of the naturalist, and thero undergo, then, in
meteorology, revolutions which startle agriculture
V,. . ... IL Bewitching Bullock has issued a writ j aad compromise, with startling effect, the health of
•I atiihorUing the Oidinary of Floyd county to . vegetable as well as that of animated beings.
~ A ~ ” “der an election to fill the vacancy occa-
the right of the House of Lords <o. r..gHiiv’c
a bill which had bee»; passed by the House of
Commons, ami expressing the opinion that
such action on the part of the House of Lords
is inconsistent w ith the system of a represen
tation of the bill.
Sir Charles Dilke denounced the action cf
Ilu*da in repudiating the treaty of Paris of
1856; and also the tone of the dispatch of
Prince Gortsclmkoff, announcing the aban
donment of the treaty. He blamed Earl
Granville for consenting to re-open the
Euxine questior^n the London Conference;
and asserted that, owing to collusion between
iiussia aud Prussia, the result of tU? ConfeF-
ence wi;-. ineviubl.'?.
Paris, March 80 —The copies of the Fi
garo, which were on sale at all news stands,
were aeized by th© Nationals to-dav. The
fllce of the paper has been occupied and its
*occa-j
.^A.. GartrelL
sioned bv the death of Capt. II
[ Home Commercial.
Another Villa ny.—It. Bad Bullock has com-
mitted another conspicuous villainy! Some
time ago, (when Ku-Kluxes were worth
$1,000 in domestic markets.) it will be remem
bered that It. Iiad B. offered one thousand
dollars for the arrest of Aaron Lamb. Lamb
was arrested ; the thousand dollars paid; and
now, in less than two months, the infamous
Governor pardons the said Lamb out of jail.
[Home Commerce id.
A party calling himself “ Ali writes to
the Constitutionalist, without, however, giv
ing Ills name, stating tli u some years ago.
while he was in the f \r West, a Frenchman
who was dying loft him the diagram, on
piece of ivory, of a house and premises in
Augusta, where a box of treasure had ori" > -
publication forbidden. . ,r. , „ , ,- *7
Tin: Crl du lVupl* and Francai. both make j n ‘ ll ,' y Juried hr tho I renchman and l,ii
tl.o announcement tlmt General Lalemand ; ^ . m ~ ;in ' ! »*'« '>«-
ha* comj'lelely suppressed llie rkia^ in Al-! J} , , . patten n> .he d.niee, until one
--'-ia Lday the sight of his little boy playing with
Iii. expected that the Peace Conference! * l , ,e lTor >' theeircumrianees “AU is"
1 — - - - at onee adopted a peculiar course to deter
mine the location of the lucre, and finally, on
thS night of the 22d, excavated the yard -
Ilere a tin Ikix contsminj $'J,:t7.7 and some
diamonds was found. “Alias” al onee hanged
KUilty alleaipt against the existence of the ° ff wi,h
committee. General Du.al was at tho same Ito^^er o sen, a lonj expose to the Angus-
K rtii U Constitutionalist
At the laying of the corner stone of the
Germania Fire Company’s Hall, in Sav.in-
n di, Mr. Fallignnt drew a parallel between
the peace of Emperor WlllUiu and Emperor
at Brussels will continue its sessions for a
long time.
At 1 this evening, the sub-Contral Commit
tee passed sentence of death on Wilfred Fou-
i<*Ue for itelng engaged in an obstinate and
lime authorized to search out and arrest all
the enemies of the Commune.
The Cri du People, Vengeur^and Nouvelle
ItepnWique attack the Assembly in violent
terms. There are, however, no sign* of au
attack on Versailles.
The Executive Committee appointed by Grant. Her»j is a paragraph
the Sub-CVn'ral Committee, ia compiled of
Tridon, Eudes, Vaillalt, Le Francaise, Duval,
Pyat and Bcrgeret, and wiU have charge of
aflair* for one mnntlv
s in the category of thoee impohiug phenomena
Unfit we must trace back the cause? of those counties*
and unaccouutable disease# which have stricken firs^
p_>ut>cs ami many herbaceous plant-, aud lately tho
grape vino.
BCTLEtt.
AN ANECDOTE AIIOUT HIM AND HI6 INFAMOUS
NEW ORLEANS WOMEN ORDER.
A correspondent who professes to know a
great deal about the history of General B. F.
Butler, writes to say that the chief reason for
Butler’s animosity against England was the
comments of the English journals, und more
especially of Lord Palmerston, then Prime
Minister of England, upon Butler’s cele
brated woman order, issued while he was in
command of New Orleans. Our correHpond-
ent says that when the New York journals
containing Palmerston’s speech arrived in
New Orleans, where Gen. Butler was then in
command, the General happened to be at din
ner in the house formerly occupied by Gen.
Twiggs, of the Confederate army, 44 and very
prominent en the table was the silverware
of that exiled Confederate.” In the midst of
the dinner the New York nerald was brought
in containing Palmerston’s speech. Having
read it, Butler cursed Palmerston violently,ad
ding that “ he would be d to li ir the
time would not yet come when he would
iasue the same general order in the streets of
Liverpool.” Our correspondent requests us
to communicate his name to General Butler
if the General desires.—if. Y. Sun.
ttT*The Washington Patriot says: 44 There
are fresh intimations llmt Senator Morton
will soon rotire from his present position,
and the question arises, where is he goin^ ?
The l>elief that he will retire, results from m-
formation entitled to credjt,”
tSy* The eternal mares’ nests the Republi
cans discover South, make one think of Bill
Arp’s lamentation in 1865— 44 This is the most
hardest war to wind up that history records.”
[Hew York WorUi.
tSF” A Sedalia editor says that a girl who
is now called 44 a beautiful blonde” would a
When the Pros id cut of our Rc-public says.
Let us have peace,” he does not mean
i peace—but, rather, discord and *»nar» liy and
sectional hate. lie lifts the banner of
cal tunny and falsehood, and marshals thi
fiercest passions of men to the perpetration
of a crime against the civilization of the age.
liis peace means a vanished constitution, the
tramp of armed men in the Temple of Liber
ty. the forced elevation of the inferior race,
the forced degradation of the superior.
Lieutenant J. II. Bradley of the Federal
toops, in Atlanta, forwarded to Colonel F. G.
Wilkins, of Columbus,
taken in 1861, on the Laurel 11111 retreat, in
West Virginia. Thus says the Columbus
Enquirer.
The Newnan Defender is proud of the new
jail in Coweta county. The little blind
daughter of Mr. Tliomasson, of Carroll
county, through an operation of Dr. Abner
Calhoun, sees for the first time. She was so
delighted at light, that she called for every
body to help her feet grateful for the boon.
Columbus Busineu for 1869 and 1870.—In
1869 our merchants paidTaxes on sales to the
amount of $4/560,000. T)ollections for 1870
arc not yet completed, but the books show
$4,440,000 worth of goods sold. The tax on
sales is one-half of one per cent. The amount
that remains to be collected will probably
make the total amount about equal to 1869.
This shows that the business last year was
much larger than that of 1869. because the
prices were much reduced. Columbus, wilh
difficulty, holds her own in general trade;
though she is advancing slowly and steadily
in sending out the products of tier own man
ufacturers. What she needs is railroad en
terprise.—Columbus tSun.
Three companies will soon begin to wash
for diamonds in Ilall count}*.
The Athens Watchman savs a negro has
Colonel Albert Smith, brother of Lar
kin Smith, of Hi!? city, died in Nar/av!lle. on Tuaaday,
uf tvphold fev«r, uftor r.o illnofts of two wceka.
He was horn in Norfolk. Virginia, in 1821. « He an
t**red the United State? army In the Paymaster*? De
partin^nt at cweutj yearn of age, and •-pent twelv*
year? on the plains of New Mexico and California in
tteo service of the United StatM Government. On the
breaking out of the late civil war. he wan on duty at
Key Weft, Florida, when, in obedience to what he, in
common with tnaay of the officer? of the old army
who were of Southern birth anil kindred, con
ceived to be hi? duty, rroigticd bi* commis
sion and took service in the Confederate States
army, repotted at Richmond for duty and was as-
rigned to the lat« Geneial Albert Sidney Johueton,
who appointed ..ini Chief quartermaster on his Staff.
He was ou the field with General Johnston when tho
latter was slain, received Lis fal’. n cl.iuftaiu in hi*
arms, and waa delegated to eacortthal herou't remain*
to New Orleans. During the wsr he was married itx
Atlanta, Georgia, to the second daughter of Mm. HI lex*
I). Hough, cf Nashville. He wi? a brutterof General
Larkin Smith, Assistant <^uartennns:er-Gen-
e:al of the Confcderatv State? during
the war, and also of Dr. C'harie? H. Smith, formerly
surgeon in the United Slates Army. Hi? father waa
ateo an officer of ths old army of the United State**
and divd in Its terrice At the close of the war. Col.
S.uith made hi? residence in Nashville, and t-ince the
•esaatlon of hostilities, had received final papers of
setllemrnt from the United States War Department,
in full discharge of his obi ration* as a dteburring of
ficer before the war. Br*d to the profession of a roL
dicr. the close of the war found him with his occupa
tion gone, and the tats of a little lAwily de
pendent upon his individual efforts. lie
was not a nian, even under such ci ruinstance#
to fold his arms iu lia!less despondency. Ho
applied at the office of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad Company for employment, aud
signified his willingness to take the humblest clerical
position rsthsr than be unemployed. He proved a
most efficient and valuable officer, and at the time of
his death wae agent of the “Virginia and Tennessee
Air-LJin,” and by untiring industry and energy built
np for thi? line a large and prosperous business, tho
number of articles i fruits of which he wa? about to share, wh«*n death's
i untimely baud retnovsd him from that sphere of uee-
; fulness, at s time when his hopes wore highest and
prospect# brightest.
Rumored Cabinet Changes.—I learned,
from a «*onrce entitled to credit, last night,
that immediately after the Connecticut elec
tion Mr. Bout well will vacate his place in tl •
Treasury, and O. P. Morton be appointed
Secretary. I told you this some time since,
and I am persuaded that it is entirely true
When the Joint High Commission terminate
its arduous diplomatic labors, the Hon. Ham
ilton Fish will be returned to his family vault
io his cemetery on the Hudson, and ex-Sena-
tor 31organ, of New York, will take his place.
It is said that 31r. Akerman may go out at
any time, and has been anxious to U' relieved
for months past. In this general breaking
up of the Cabinet I should not be surprised if
the Postmaster-General receives i>ermis-
Aon to retire also. He is regarded wilh well-
founded suspicion since the Chorpenning and
oilier exposures have been made, by the party
at large, while a steady pressure is* felt from
Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania always looks
upon cither the Interior or Post-office Depart
ment as belonging to herself, and she is irri
tated, jealous and unhappy if these positions
are assigned to other States.— Washington
Cor. Cincinnati (tymmercial.
tingencic* to fire upon the vessels of Hayti, a hsad.
Ls? Lc Soir says the terms of peace were
m 4 j- . l | strongly opposed by the Crown Prince, who
been arrested for burning Richardson s house, thought they compromised the future inter-
few yean ago have been termed a 41 tow- This negro had.been wronged by Richard- cstsof Germany, The Prince is now on the
” — I worst terms with Count Bismarck.
