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THE ATLANTA SUN Alexander n. Stephens, Political Editor. A. R. WATSON. New* Editor. , 1. HENRY SMITH, General Editor and Busmens / Manager, Agents. L. F. BRANTLY Traveling J. M. W. HELL, Agents fertile San. .Tame* Aimes S.MiTn, Knoxville, Tenn. Dav* Bull, Athens. Gs. J. L. Wright, Woodstock, Ga. J. O. Caldwell, Thompson, Ga. H. C. Hamilton, Dalton, Ga. W.O. Davis, Jr.. Eatonton, G». Tappan, Map? k Co., White Plain*. Green co., J. L. Smith, Chattanooga, Tenn. J. C. Parham. LaGrange, Ga. R. A. Vasnxdos, Thomasvdle, Ga. E. G. Williams. Union Point. VOL. 2, NO. 36.} ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY THE ATLANTA SUH rUITiY and WEEKIiT, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally—Single Copy—Twelve Months, $10 OOfc ■Six Months, 5 00; Three Months, 3 00; Guo month/ 100. Clul>-> for Dally—Per Annum-ThreeO*. pies. $27 00; Four Copies, 35 00; Five Copies, 43 00; Right Copies, 63 00; Ten Copies, 84 00; Single Copy, 5 cents. "Weekly—Per Annum—Single Copy, $3 00; Three Copies, 5 00; Five Copies, t>00; Ten Cagtnm» 15 00: Twenty Copies, 28 00; Fifty Copies 65 00; One Hundred Copies, 125 04. Weekly for Six months—Single Copy, $1WU Three Copies. 2 80; Five Copies. 4 00; Ten Copies 7 50; Twenty Copies, 15 00; Fifty Copies, 34 00; Cm | Hundred Copies, 65 00; Single paper 5 cents. CONTENTS “ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,” TOR TEE WEEK EXDIKG WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 1872. page 1.—The Political Situation and Prospects. CoL U. F. Maddox. Tho Democratic Party—It dies Dally, yet LiVos Perennially. Washington Letter. A Relish for Breakfast or Lunch. Poor Dick Yates. Georgia News. Etc., etc. Page 2.—A Movement in the Right Direction. Jail Delivery—Joseph Fry Escsped. Over $100,- 000 of State Funds Discovered—Georgia Na tional Bank attached—Its Asset? under Seal and under Guard—Bullock telle a Tale. H. L Kimball House Sold. San Strokes. Georgia Matters. One by One they Fall. E. T. Blodgett becomes Patri otic. Recorder’s Court. Making a Desert and Galling it Peace. Pretty Good. Correspondence. Washington Letter. Conley’s Greed. Etc., etc. Page 3.—Tho Pith of tho Matter—The Recent Frauds on the Stato and the Stato Road. Educa tional Matters. Dr. Thompson's Hotel. A sign In the Heavens—What was It? Local Notes. Tho Anti-Bullock Republicans—They discountenance the Action of tho State Republicanl Centra Com mittee. Washington’s Dog. Is the World growing Better? Georgia Matters. Georgia Settlement in Miisiasippi. Smnggling in High Q’mrters. Etc., etc. Page 4.—Judgo Pittman's Decision—He Discharg es Cook. The Education Bill—Speech of Hon. A. T. Mclntirc. Tho Alabama Claims. Carious In dian Custom. Georgia Matters. Cockbum’s Po sition. Election of Speaker in tho British House of Commons. Poetry—"Rhaglan Castle.” Sun Strokes. Local Notes. A Lucky Negro. What shall we Eat? Scene in a Railway Carriage. Etc. Page 5.—Book Notices. Georgia National Bank— Its Officers making an effort to regain possession of the same. Philadelphia Correspondence. Lo cal Notes. Sun Strokes. Georgia Matters. Tele grams. Etc., etc. Page O.—College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Card from tho Slate School Commissioner. The British-Araerican Difficulty. Poetry—Ono by One. Sun Strokes. Local Notes. Telegraphic News. Etc., etc. Page 7.—Telegrams. Dastardly Assault upon Gen. Dabney H. Maory. The Bonds of Georgii Official Notice to the Bondholders. Obitnary. Ad vertisements. Etc., etc. Page 8.—Telegrams. Advertisements. Etc., etc. The Political Situation and Prospects. We republish to-day an article from the Mobile [Ala.,) Register, to which we in vite tho attention of onr readers. Its A supposition to the contrary is derog-! occasions on which the Democratic party ... .... . . .. , atory to the character of the people of' has been hilled, buried, and damned, utterances are of the ngbt tone and spirit States. If mZl UkELtS how often funeral orations have been throughout. * We take occasion to sub- ] misdemeanors; and ask that condemna tion which their misdeeds deserve, and which no people, with any devotion to free institutions, would fail to render. From the i Mobile Register, February 9. The Democratic" Party—It “Dies Daily” Yet JLives Perennially. When we consider the innumerable upon such an issue, the muerai orations nave Deer — . . . . n , . . . preached and funeral obsequies celebrat- mit some reflections of our own on the ^ escnfc Oj^rnty shouid be sustained, j ^ over its dead corpse, we cannot fan to then it matters but little who succeeds to be surprised at the affluence of the ad- present situation and future prospeots. In the first place, then, let it be re membered that the Jeffersonian Democ racy of the United States were never, in Our DifTerances with England. Let those who wish to understand the I real point of difference between England and tho United States at this time, read j the article of onr Washington correspon- Ident in onr paper this morning. SUN-STROKES. , —A Mr. Quaver, of Florida took poi- kion, and now he is not much more tan a emi-Quaver. -A Radical paper, referring to Hoar’s Education speech, soys “it brought down tho House.” A few more such will “bring lown the House” to tlio level of common blackguards. —Tho Supreme Court of California ins granted Mrs. Fair a new trial, though it is not denied that she had a Fair trial efore. She will go free this time to shoot another “poor, dear Crittenden.” lur Special Mardi Gras Corres pondence. On the Wing, S. & M. R. R. 1 M ■H.V. m#■ rtir. iocs rbicfc idU s«dW vW £r i f tb* 1 ’ j-., 51' 1 - ver^ 1 as v* by. * *•' or° |A Saturday Night, Feb. 10, 1872, Editors Sun: The two hundred excur sionists to the Mardi Gras which left tugusta, Macon and Atlanta, have all >eeu reminded of the old time supersti tion that “Friday is an unlucky day.” ’he grand excursion train of seven pala tial coaches had not left Atlanta moie iau a half hour before a defect in the uck machinery of the sleeping “Milwau kee” (containing many Atlanta passen- >rs) was discovered. We consequently ■ached Rome two hours behind sched- time. Some irregularities in the •ks of one of the first-class passenger |ns, required continual attention. These avoidable embarrassments occasioned Inch delay, until now (6 r. m.) the ex- jion is seven or eight hours behind le. To facilitate the excursion, the “Mil- rakee” was left behind on the Selma, >me and Dalton Railroad, and Messrs, 'renn and Campbell, with their laracteristic enterprise, telegraph- to Montgomery for the sleep car “Olive Branch." Upon arrival at Selma, we found awaiting us, and now the Atlanta pas- igers who were aroused from their slum this morning, have been provided even more elegant and comfortable immodations than were afforded by Milwaukee. number of the passengers who were to witness a New Orleans Sunday somewhat despondent, but Major and Mr. Campbell, assure them it the excursion will reach New Or is by Sunday at noon, and in case 6y fail, cars for the accommodation of >se who wish to remain until the fol ig Sunday will be promptly provi- le passengers are provided with all i comforts that could be expected on , excursion, and the entire party are in jli spirits. snspicnous among the delegation are [isses Gussie M., Nellie P. and Mary B., Atlanta; Miss F. of Philadelphia; G. and W., of Augusta. More on. NTmpobte. Empire. We speak the words of sober ness, with earnestness. When the ques tion i3:, “ “Uider which King, Bsnzonian?” the whole history of the country, defeated I "\yg jj^yg no choice to make, on any question or policy, when they We take occasion further to say, and were not divided among themselves on we g^y as a warning to the Democracy? personal or other matters than those in- everywhere, upon the point that they are volved in the issue; or when they were j n t be minority on the issue between not betrayed as they were in 18G8 by Centralism and Constitutionalism ; oh those who pretended to be of them, j t b jg igg Ue squarely made, and boldly sus- while in fact they were against them. tained, we venture the deliberate opinion, The only dangers which now jeopard I ( w Mchtime will or will not verify, aceord- their success in the next Presidential j i ng ^ -whether the issue is thna made and election, spring from, a like quarter, sustained or not,) that the Democracy With anion and harmony among their J will carry not less than four millions of leaders and fidelity to principle-on the I t b o popular vote, and not less than, two part of those who control the movement hundred and twenty of the Electoral vote, and destiny of the masses, they can and This certainly would bo a triumph signal will achieve as signal a triumph as Gen. enough. On the contrary, we also ven- Jackson did in 1828, and, perhaps, not fore the like deliberate opinion, to stand far short of that of Gen.'Pierce in 1852,— upon record, (and to be verified or not to say nothing of their ever .memorable hi like manner by time, according as victory under tho lead of Mr. JeffertoD events may turn,) that if the Democracy himself, in 1800. shall (attempt to come into Power by Of the two dangers which now peril | adopting Radical principles and aiding their success, the last mentioned is most in the election of some other Radical to be apprehended. It is a fact which to the Presidency, Grant will succeed cannot be ignored, and one which ought by a larger majority than he did in to be fully realized at once, that there 1868. are now quite a number of prominent These are our views upon the present men in the country who hold themselves situation and probable prospects of the forth as Democrats, and assume positions coming future, in the contingencies as leaders and organs in the Party, who stated, never professed a distinctive feature or They are given for the consideration of principle in the Democratic Creed in their those true Democrats who are now plan lives. These men have no other object ning the campaign, and who have the in the coming election so far as Party power to control its policy. We earnest- is concerned, than the defeat of the re- ly desire that their wisdom may be equal election of General Grant. In principle to their patriotism, and that both may be they are just as Radical or Centralizing equal to the exigencies of the crisis, as he. With them, the spoils of office I A. H. S. and its emoluments are all they are look ing to, or , caring for; and with most of this class even the spoils of office have a I We are in receipt, by express, of a less controlling influence than a fixed rare specimen of Havana cigars from determination on their part never to per- this extensive tobacco dealer in Atlanta, mit, if they can prevent it, another Presi- We acknowledge the present thus made dential eleotion to be carried upon the as a token of the regards of a most Jeffersonian principles of the essential worthy gentleman and a highly esteemed Right of local Self-Government on the personal friend. Ho may be assured that part of the several States of the Federal this kind memento of other days is not the Union. They, are opposed to General less appreciated, though onr days of cigar- Grant, not because of his principles or smoking ended daring the blockade of acts, but because of their personal dis- the war. The Meerschaum, with “Kill like to him, and their love of lucre— ickinick,”“LoneJack,” “Chanticleer,’’and with ambitious designs for their own “Durham” took the place, at that time, elevation and aggrandizement upon the of the choicest “Havanas.” same Platform of principles on which he To these we have since adhered, as we ascended; and on which they expect to have to all the other conditions of the rise still higher in the rapid progress “situation” accepted by us, when the making under his administration towards Southern States abandoned Secession as complete Centralism and Empire. a remedy for their grievances, and Among the guileful arts of these J agreed that the Federal Union should be wolves in sheep’s clothing” in the Demo- restored “with all the dignity, equality, cratic fold at this time, is an attempt to and rights of the several States unim- persuade the masses of the Party (com- paired, posed of “good men and true” every- I n 0111 disuse, however, of the cigar, where) that they are in the minority; and thus occasioned, we have by no means that tho only hopeful prospect of their lost either our taste oi relish for the fla- successfully coping with Centralism and vor °f a genuine article of the best defeating Grant, is to sanction the usur- quality. potions by which he ascended to Power, To all, therefore, who are less acquies- and to support some candidate for the cent than we are, in the condition of af- Preddency who stands upon the same I fairs in which “the war for the Union” Platform with him. This is the logic of l e f fc US J and w ko have the means to in- these wily politicians. - dnl S e in the luxnr y of «n°king a cigar, equal to any ever puffed by the Royal Rn- Wliether they will succeed in mislead- j er Q f Q uba> ^ 0 uld say call upon CoL ing the honest masses, time alone must i^ddox, and inquire for his “Havanas, determine. We speak only of the pres- bearing tbe brand 0 f « THE PEOPLE’S ent situation and the dangers which now CHOICE—GEORGIA’S GOVERNOR.” threaten and imperil Democratic success j Beside g the cigars o{ an exceedingly rice it receives from pretended, luke- Wasliiugtou Letter. THe Rupture Between England and America—Tile Case of tlxe United States —What is Claimed — "Why Catacazy was Dismissed—Frauds Upon top of Frauds — $50,000,000 for Fraudulent Pensions. Correspondence of The Atlahta Sux. Washington City, D. C. Monday,) February 5th, 1872. j Editors Sun : When Great Britain f proposition be made that is supposed to benefit the South—then your ears are deafened with indignant and patriotic outbursts. But you never once hear any body say, “stop, thief.” And thus it is, mv countrymen. Banquo of Castle Grey. »-*-4 From tho Southern Recorder, (Ga.,) February 6, ’12 The Missouri Compromise. Col. R. F. Maddox. in the ensuing Presidential contest. flayor inside the box> they ^ Personally, we take no other interest in find oQ the OQtside a Tery good ii keiie ss the matter than that which any well- l f Jameg mt011 Smith> Georgia’s most wisher of his country should take on all ^ Governor, questions in which Public Liberty is in- \ Tq Colonel Maddox bimself> we return volved. It is with these views and feel- j our sincere thanks for his kind remem- A. H. S. Poor Dicfc. Yates. ings we earnestly desire the defeat of | ljrance in our afflict ion. General Grant, not, however, from any personal objections to him, but because of his public policy and official acts, based, throughout, upon the principles of his Party. ' Dick Yates, once Governor of Illinois j and Senator in Congress, is fast going to Entertaining the desire we do in this the bad. The other day he visited a matter, and solely for the reasons stated, banking house in Springfield, Illinois, we take the occasion to say to all who en- an d demanded $50. It was refused lum, tertain a Jike^b, that "there does »* seem to us to be much, sense in the pro- j told him he had none, whereupon he position that the surest way to defeat grew so violent that he was put out by Centralism and Empire is for the De- f oroe. Forsaken, friendless and an out- mocracy to abandon their ConsUtntionat principles, and aid in the election to the that the only service he can render is to Presidency of some other Radical over j die. Grant—both standing on the same Plat form. • | A Relish for Breakfast or LrmcM. We proclaim the great truth, often. Take a quarter of a pound of cheese, heretofore expressed by us, that the good and {resll . cufc it up ^ ^ surest way, and the only successful way, aQd put itina „gp iderj » turning over it of a rescue of the liberties of this country a lflXge cup . ftd i of sweet butter-milk; add from the grasp of the unscrupulous usurp- quarter of a teaspoonful of dry mustard, ers who have borne sway at Washington a dash of pepper, a little salt, a piece of for the last six years, is for the true friends butter as large as a butternut; stir the of the Constitution every where, in all mixture all the time Have at hand three * . Boston crackers, finely pounded orrolled, the States, to make a direct is and sprinkle them in gradually; as soon them before the people, and arraign as they are stirred in, turn out the con- them at the bar of popular judgment, for tents into a warm dish and serve. It is all their Mgh crimes as well as smaller' ver y delicious. warm, or renegade friends and pro- and the United States created a High nounced enemies as to its present and Joint Commission, with the authority to forget two things—first, that if the De- difficulties existing between the respec- moeracy is truly dead, buried, and tive Governments, tho result was the damned, it cannot, through their med- “Treaty of Washington.” TMs Treaty, dling with what does not concern them, specially stipulates that the respective be made any dead-er, buried-er, or “High Contracting Parties,” shall, by a damned-er; and, second, that if, in spite certain date, have prepared their “case” of their amiable efforts to cause it to for submission to a High Court of Arbi- “sliuffie off this mortal coil,” it still lives, tration, to be holden at Geneva, Switzer- it is quite capable of taking care of itself land, composed of ruling Sovereigns, without their superaerviceable assistance. And it .was further stipulated that the This venerable, renowned and patriotic respective “High Contracting Parties,” party is not a minor, and therefore in the preparation and presentation of stands in no need of self-appointed guar- their “case,” should be governed by dians. It is not dead and intestate, and /acte, established usages, "and the well re- therefore does not require self-constitu- cognized principles of international law. ted administrators de botiis non. And of The United States being the plaintiff this, we have the best evidence in these in the case, in brief, charges and corn- torrents of disinterested advice. In plains that Great Britain as a Govern- trutli, it is because the tremendous reac- ment, during the late war between the tionof the past few months shows how States, was: 1st, a friend of the South ; splendid a vista is being opened for the 2nd, that belligerent rights were accord- rehabilitation of the Democracy in all its ed to the South without the consent of historical glory as a champion, savior and Lincoln’s Administration; 3rd, that the restorer of the liberties of the people, Alabama and Capt. Semmes escaped from that outside tide-waiters are so anxious English waters, and thereby destroyed to direct its course. The recent and ex- the commerce of the United States; traordinary popular reaction against 4th, that the Qneen’s proclamation recog- Grautism, the undeniable scMsm in the nizing the Confederacy as a Government late powerful and united Republican par- de facto, with the escape of the Alabama ty, caused by the shock of djsgust and and other cruisers, prolonged the war alarm in the minds of its most honest for two or more years, and for such viola- aud enlightened members, at the dan-1 tions of the laws of neutrality, and inter- gerous and daring innovations of the national comity—Great Britain is cqji- Grant administration upon integrity in structively responsible for all losses and office, and upon the fundamental princi- expenses incurred by the Unite States, pies of free institutions, have unquestion- in suppressing the “rebellion” after or ably pnee more brought the Democracy, from a certain date, &c. with its three millions of staunch and un- The “case,” as it is called, prepared terrified voters, to the front of the strange by the United States and printed in book revolution through which the country is form, having been submitted to the passing, and has given to it the balance British Government, is so arrogant in of power to shape the future throes of tone, and extraordinary in its statements that revolution. The Democracy has of the law and the facts, that it is not eyes to see. It is not dead—nor even only condemned, but denounced in the does it sleep. Quiet it is, to be sure, strongest terms by the British public, but watchful with its Argus eyes, A cable dispatch of the 3d inst. says: and ready at the opportune mo- “Chief Justice Cockburn has officially ment to treat or to fight for its counseled the Cabinet that England claim, as the only faithful and must recede immediately from the Treaty unfaltering constitutional party, to have of "Washington, leaving America to de- a leading voice in shaping the destinies cide between a new treaty or war.” of a constitutional government. Nor is The fact is, the “case” a3 presented by it wedded to a sterile Bourbonism, as,its the United States is so insulting to the enemies charge. It hangs no “body of English Government, thath.er statesmen Heath”‘‘around its neck to’ impede the and public press declare that their free action of its limbs in its straggles for Government cannot maintain its dignity the right. It carries stern lights as well and self-respect by a submission of the as. head lights, but still the standard of case to the arbitrators, as the matter now constitutional principles, wMch are co- stands. English journals received by the eval in life with itself, at its peak and last steamer are unsparing in their criti- truck; and so the old ship sails on, much cisms on the American case, and as expo- battered by ten years of conflict with the nents of public sentiment are unusually battle and the breeze, but still staunch denunciatory and defiant, and unconqnered, with her three million The sudden and unexpected attitude of crew undaunted in courage, to renew and* Great Britain in this matter, has produc- continue the fight for ten times ten years ed very,considerable excitement in Wash- longer. Aye, forever, or until the love ington. The probabilities of war and of liberty is utterly extinct in the blood its effects and results, is the all-absorbing of races that have cherished it for a thou-} topic. Of course, there will be no war, sand years. And now what do our “dis- for reasons which are unnecessary to enu- isterested advisers” recommend ? Sim- merate. It is said, however, that an in- ply to extinguish the lights of the old tense Radical politician said to a Cana- craft, to haul down their flags, and for dian gentleman on yesterday, that “Eng- her own crew to scuttle her and see her land dare not go to war with the United go down in mid-ocean. And to do this States, for any reason, because England now, of all times. The American De- had, lying at her very door, a sleeping mocracy, with all dutiful thanks, declines lion, in the Emerald Me.” The Cana- the advice, and respectfully beg3 leave to dian responded, “ that such was the phy- be let alone to ^attend to its own affairs, sical fact, but,” 3aid he, “is the United It is proceeding with great caution, States any better situated ? If England is making no sputter on the political has lying at her door a sleeping lion, in arena, but bides its time, which a long j the Emerald Me, has not the Washing- political experience teaches it is sure to I ton Dynasty a caged lion in the Ireland- come. It is ready for all alliances that ized South, waiting an opportunity to will strengthen its hands against Imperi- break the bars and chains by which it is alism, and still conserve its honor and at present held?” The Radical enthusiast its vital principles. Above all, should it said he “guessed” our folks would fix it up, ever see the sad time when an Imperial and “as for Mmself, he did not much be- sceptre might be wanted to maintain lieve in wars.” public order, it will not seek its eagle in It has transpired that the real cause of an upstart crow’s nest. It will hail as the dismissal of the Russian Minister, an ally and friend of sound government Catacazy, by the Government of the any man, of any political party, who is United States—was the Perkins claim, genuinely alarmed for the safety of free- The Perkins claim originated during the dom in the country, and it will make Crimean war, in 1855. Perkins, a citi- generous terms of alliance with any con- zen of Massachusetts, agreed with the siderable body of men who, like the Russian Government to deliver arms and liberal Republicans, may show that they fixed ammunition by a certain date, at a are truly after reform and not mere party certain place, for which he was to receive power, bnilt on Democratic ruin. When very extravagant compensation. Perkins naively invited, on the score of self-sac- did not comply until after the fall of Sc- rifice and patriotism, to disband its forces bastopol, and the close of the war. The and relinquish to others the duty and the Russian Government refused payment for task of saving the country, it will reply, failure of contract. Negotiations were “act upon your own advice, and show opened and the Czar finally referred the yourselves ready for self-sacrifice and case to the representative of his govern- patriotism first, and then yon may call ment at WasMngton, Mr. Catacazy.— on us.” When told that your three Minister Catacazy gave the case a thor- million of Democrats, enlisted under ough examination and reported against one banner, are unfit for and unequal the payment of the claim, to the task of regeneration, and that you The claim, in the meantime, had fallen must get out of the way for an honest I t be hands of politicians and specula* party of the people, .hat is not led by wb0j after exhausting overy device demagogues; we reply, we are the people, I and appliance to influence a favorable and of the people, who constitute politi- re p 0 rt, the ring set to work to have the cal parties m this country; and "weliurl incorrigible and unpurckasable Catacazy your insults back in your teeth. When removed . Millions being at stake, the you tell us you must keep your Southern « rin „.> finally succeeded. Such are the “rebels” out of the National Democratic I although Secretary Fish has placed Convention, because the odor of your a d j£f ere nt phase ou the matter in the treason will damage the prospects of the publication of a garbled correspondence, cause, we answer, ourfrienuls from Mame ij be Russian Cabinet, however, will soon to California do not think so, and scorn to imitate the cowardly Jacobin example of disfranchisement, excommunication and protracted disunionism. In short, be it known that in the grand struggle of all good men in these distracted States to restore honesty and justice, and law and liberty, and Constitutional Govern ment in this land, in the year 1872, the Democratic party is not to be “counted out.” The cause cannot spare it, and Democratic consciences forbid the cow- The Atlanta Sun of 30th ulk, has a four column article from tlie pen of Mr. Stephens, setting forth the history of Congressional action relative to the ad mission of Missouri in 1820-1. Wo hope it is the precursor of other detach ments of the legislative history of the country. Whilst the past generation stfll survived there probably lived no man more extensively, intimately and accu rately acquainted with the inside history of those early times, than Mr. Stephens, The compeers of his more active life have, mostly, passed away. Tho records are as a sealed book to the masses. And the compounded ignorance and venality of.» partizan press have enveloped in error, ev ery portion of ohr history, Federal and State, sparing not even the most interest ing and important. Within a fortnight^ a respectable journal of this State has at tributed to Mr. Clay the authorship of the slaver>/ restriction (8 section of the Missouri Enabling Act), when, in truth, Mr. Clay was not then a member of Con gress at all, nor in Washington City?— We • cite this as an instance only of the popular fallacies, whose name is legion^ relative to the political and legislative history of the Government. If Mr. Stephens will open the vast storehouse of his memory for the information of the people in this behalf, his green old age will be no whit less valuable to his coun try than his more vigorous prime, when himself was making history. The sketch under consideration is, with a few addi tions of detail, a popularized edition of his great Kansas-Nebroska speech of 1864, The South Sea applying for An nexation. It is announced that papers have reached the President and Secretary of State requesting them to take possession, in the mime of the United States, of tho Samoan group, known iis Navigator Is lands, in the Pacific Ocean. These pa pers are signed officially by nil the chief* and many foreign residents of the islands^ These islands contain 3,600 square miles, and a native population of 30,000. The people are copper colored. The produc tions are cotton, sugar eaue, dyewoods, aud every species of tropical fruits and plants., The Australian mail steamers have selected the island as a port for coal ing purposes, and men have gone there to erect/ buildings t$ad wharves. The natives are friendly and Christianized, American missionaries having been there twenty years. Merchants of California have petitioned. Secretary Fish to appoint a commercial agent for the islands at once. These are the only valuable islands iu the Pacific Ocean not absorbed by France, England, Germany and Russia. The na tives say they are more favorable to tho United States than any ether country, because they believe the American reli gion is the same as theirs. A Mistake by aia Orator. ardly abstention from duty. Marriage is come to be looked on as such a temporary arrangement in Indiana that Justices’ fees for the ceremony have been reduced to twenty-five cents for customers. Now sherrys are fasMonable. give the facts in detail. Corruption has become so brazen-faced in the very shadow of the Capitol that its discovery and exposure scarcely ex cites a passing comment. Mr. Garfield informed the House a few days ago that the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Pensions had just ap peared before his Committee, and ac knowledged that at least one-fourth of the pensions granted were fraudulent. Mr. Garfield declared that the Government had thus, in pensions alone, been defraud ed oififiy millions of dollars. Hardly a day that some such discovery is not made, yet the cry is still, “rebel,” “the murder ous Ku-Klux,” “traitor,” &c. You see nobody excited about plundering rings or tlnoving officials, but only let some Mistakes are made by the best of men. Mr. Jones was running for Congress in a Western district many years ago, and, while filling his round of appointments, made a speech, at the close of wMch, by way of commending himself to the “bone and sinew,” and regular “soverings” of- the country, he told the people he was a self-made man, of obscure birth and humble origin, that,in fact, he was sprung from the “very dregs of the people.” “Why fellow citizens,” said he, warm ing up, and elevating his voice, “my parents were so poor that when I wan eighteen years old, my mother used to have to tie me to the bed-post to keep me from falling into the fire whenever she went to the spring for a pail of water!” Of course he intended to say eighteen. months. The Hon. , now in the United States Senate, and at the time running for the Legislature, was present and cried out: “Ah, Jones, Jones, what a thumping baby you must have been I” It is said that the unfortunate speaker broke down at once, amidst the jeers of the crowd. ► * M Julius’ Use of Bath Tubs. Jnlins, a Western darkey, having land ed at Chicago, saw an advertisement no tifying those who wished to be clean, that they might get a good bath for a quartern Julios inquired the use of them to anoth er darkey, who told him they were used to wash in. Accordingly, Julias started with a bun dle under his arm, and being shown into a bath room, was left to ablutions. Considerable time elapsed, and J alias did not come forth. After waiting about an hour, the keeper of the baths went to the door and screamed out: “Say, darkey, are you coming out ?” “Yes, as soon as I. can get troo my washing.” “How long will that be ?” “P’raps to an hour or an hour and & half,” coolly answered Julius. _ With that the man burst into the room, and' there, all around, was the darkey’s freshly washed clothing hang ing up to dry; but not noticing it just then, he remarked to him ; “See here, yon clear out at once—you have been in over two hours!” “Look a here,” said Julias in an en raged manner, pointing to his drying clothes, wMch rather took the bathing man, “I’d like to see you wash and hang up two dozen pieces in less time than I’ve been at it!” _ , In another moment Julius was landed in the middle of the street, surrounded by his wasffing. A short while ago England was anx ious to treat on those Alabama Claims and now she wants to re-treat, or retreat, will