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THE ATJjANTaSUN
Frim^Ke"Daily Stin •rFVbrnary 4,1873
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
—Over 200 bales of cotton were sold in
Bom* on Friday, ranging from 18 to 19V cents.
—Cothbort prides herself upon haring
two fint-clwM fir* englaMa ud two wall organised
ytwpaaiM.
— Min Mary E. Beedey, M. A., grad
uate of Antioch Poitou*. has been lecturing in Edin
burgh on Aaertean schools and collages.
— Two handled boys under ten years
of aga have bean discovered at work in coal mlnaa
sear Bath, Ragland, contrary to law.
— Mr. John Bright recently visited
Mr. L»1 at Leeds Hia health appeared perfect,
and he waa enthusiastically cheered by the populace.
— In the new Earl of Galloway the
British House of Lords is said to gain “one of the
best dressed legislators of the day"—a sort of Bayard
tailor.
— A party of Mexican capitalists,
among whom la General A. Bnstamento. yesterday
arrived on the steamship Gosaa Queen, and are now
at the Hew Tork Hotel.
—The Borne Courier, of Saturday,
Bay. that the ease of the State vs. M. H. Winpee lor
murder, Med on Friday, and tka jury re turn ad a
verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was dte-
•tergad.
— Among the arrivals at the port of
Savannah, on Saturday lost, was a Spanish steam
ship, the Colon, trom Havana, and consigned to
Charles Green, Son A Co. The Colon la a superior
vessel, and will be Immediately loeded with ootion
lor Liverpool.
— Tbe Advertiser of Sunday states that
Ste Spanish steamship Old, also from Havana, is ax-
pec ted in a day or two. This vessel la the mate of
the Colon, consigned to Charles Greeu, Son'A Co.,
and la to be loaded with cotton for Liverpool.
—John Baker, a bright boy of two
years, In the pariah nursery, of Marylebone, London,
was picked up In a tunnel of the Metropolitan Bail-
Way when about two montha old, having been
dropped from a paaslng train, and escaped with
Might Injuries.
— An Iowa paper administers “cold
tomfort" to Its brethren lu Minnesota by publishing
die following: A country paper In Minnesota wants
to know who swindled the Indiana out of “ such an
Infernal oold country as Minnesota la, and who de
luded the white people Into U."
— On Friday morning, Messrs. Wilder
A Fullerton, of Savannah, cleared for Liverpool the
ahlp Screamer, with a cargo consisting of 3,983
bales upland cotton and 45 bags sea Island ditto, the
Whoie valued at $356,969 78. Meaere. Brigham
Hoist A Co., cleared for tbe same port the ahlp L.
B. Glllchreat, with a cargo of 3,621 bales upland cot
ton, valued at $314,649 37.
STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The resolution of Senator Gilmore, now
pending before the Legislature, calling a
State Convention for the revision of the
Constitution, is daily gaining strength,
and it is said that many who first oppos
ed the proposed Convention, are now in
flavor of it.
Be this as it may, the General Assem
bly shoal 1 be very discreet in the con
■ideration of any measure that involves
SO great au expense as the assembling of
a State Convention. The causes moving
thereto should be weighty and of a very
important oli aracter—for the people are
sufficiently borne down with onerous taxes
to induce their representatives to exercise
a great deal of caution in disposing of
measures inv living large expenditures of
money.
The question that should first arrest
the attention and consideration of mem
bers would be to be certain that the ne
cessities for changes in the Constitution
•re of sufficient moment and importance
just now to warrant an expenditure on
the part of the State so great.
Let oautiou and circumspection be the
watchword of our Legislative friends.
The people are patient to sustain all le
gitimate legislation, but they would be
come impatient in having to foot unnec-
asary expenses at this time.
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Young James Gordon Bennett,
we see it stated, contemplates publish
ing a daily paper in London after the
Style of the New York Hercud. He is
credited with saying that he is prepared
to invest one million dollars in it, and to
make it a model of what a newspaper
should be in enterprise'.
£3?* Our Georgia exchanges coming to
hand yesterday had less than their
usual amount of disoussiou upon public
questions. So little that we did not pre
pare oar column of “Spirit of the Geor
gia Press.”
POLITICAL CORRUPTION.
Tbe developments recently made id
Congress of tbe stupendous amount of
corruption incident to our national legis
lation, must create in the mind of every
honest American the most serious appre
hension. The revolutionary condition
of the country, for the past twelve years,
has brought to the surface men who
would not have dared to presume to fill
places of high responsibility in tbe better
days of the Republic. Politics, with
them, means personal gain, and party
organization only to secure the emolu
ments and spoils of office. Patriotism
forms no part of their creed, nor does it
in the least influence the average politi
cian of tbe day.
These evils have been brought about,
as we say, by the effects of the war. The
spirit of corruption permeates and per
vades throughout all the ramifications of
the country, State and national. Turn
whichever way we may direct oar eyes,
and the gangrene of politid and official
corruption meets our vision from all
quarters. Men filling the highest offices
known to the American government are
involved in some sort of scandal like the
Credit Mobilier, seeking to suck the life
blood of the Nation, by extracting illicit
gains from the public treasury.
How can these evils be remedied or
averted altogether ? is an important ques
tion affecting every interest of American
government and the material progress of
oar common country. We believe the
great masses of the people are honest
and desire an honest government. The
power lies in their hands of reforming
the government and hnrling from power
those who dare to speoulate and grow
rich from the labor and sweat of the
toiling millions. They most arouse from
their lethargy and endeavor to rescue
their government from the hands of
speculators who will eventually sell their
liberties far gold—for political corrup
tion begets licentiousness, and these are
but the corollaries of a waning public
sentiment.
How is the great and necessary reform
to be brought about ? Can it be accom
plished by calmly folding our hands and
look on with indifference to the progress
of centralization and corruption—twin
sisters that follow in the wake of a de
moralized public sentiment ? The people
are responsible, to a great degree, for the
corruption in high places. Let them rise
to the dignity of true American freemen
and hurl these political speculators and
money-changers from the temple of our
liberties. Let this work of rescuing the
government from the sticking fingers of
thieves and plunderers begin in the
South—in Georgia—by the election of
men to Congress who will have the sa
gacity to understand the machinations of
trading officials and politicians, and the
nerve to thwart them in their designs.
With all tLe denunciations that may be
heaped upon the Congressmen and office
holders of the South for their so-called
rebellion, by their enimies, none can
charge them with political corruption or
stealing in any manner, thepublio funds,
Let the South place none in office ex
cept for fitness and qualification, accom
panied with the strictest integrity of
character. Let snch men, fearless and
true, appear in Congress with the moral
courage to face these plunders and frus
trate their designs, and the day may come
soon when political corruption may
cease to be tolerated, and all guilty of
malfeasance in office or degrading a high
public trust may have justice meted out
to them.
Hm< Atexaadar H. lUpkaaa Car Ctagnaa
Editors Chronicle & ScnlincL-
• We call the special attention of
tiie Democracy of the Eighth Congres-
Bonal District to the able and pointed
letter of the Hon. Miles W. Lewis in thin
issue of the paper. It seems to us to be
conclusive upon the points presented.
Swinford, the slayer of Col. W.
P. Ramsey, has left Hamilton, leaving
his bondsmen in the lurch. The Visitor
says his board bill is unpaid. He car
ried away a pistol borrowed from Mr.
Glass and * watch lent him by Mr.
Barnes.
JftsS* - Since the 31st of August the man
ufactories oi Columbus have taken from
ttie warehouses of that city 2,548 bales
of cotton, against 1,708 bales daring the
same period last year, showing an in
crease of 840 bales in five months.
BSV The Standard says the measeles
sad the chicken pox are tbe order of the
day in Talbotton. Several of the citi
zens are wrestling with the mumps.
I®* The Griffin News is partly set up
by two young and intelligent ladies. The
editor attributes the increasing interest
of the Newts to that fact.
19* The Houston Home Journal says
the railroad is now running through to
Perry.
B. Conover, a Radical, was
last Friday, eleoted to the United States
8enate from Florida.
In a recent case of litigation, which
cuue up before one of our Justices, the whole sum
In controversy was fifty cents. The amount of
costs in the case more than quadrupled the princi
pal. Verily the colored brother loveth the working
of the law.
A sad sight was presented on yesterday
aa the State Hoad train came in. A yonng lady waa
brought down from her home In Chattooga, to be
carried to the Insane Asylum at Milledgeviile. She
waa in charge of Mr. J. W. Clemente, of that coun
ty, and attracted the pity and sympathy of all who
aaw her.
Jonesbobo Hotel. —This new and ex-
oallent houie has but recently been opened by
Messrs. Hightower A Johnson. Their table ia
always supplied with the beat. The porter la at the
depot on tha arrival of every train. The traveler
wUl find everything neatly and comfortably ar
ranged.
Our City.—Improvements preparato
ry to the ->prlng and summer seasons have just be
gun. The busy hum of the mechanics tools are
heard on every street, and painters are giving the
luaides aud outsides their nicest touches, rendering
heretofore dingy looking buildings as neat as new.
Look ont for Atlanta in her neatest attire before All
Fools Day.
Lively.—The beautiful weather we
are now enjoying, the consequent improvement in
pedestrianism on onr street!, with tha enlivening
strains of Dupres and Benedict’s fine brass band,
made things lively in town to-day. Besides, tbe ls-
dies, God bless them, in sU their loveliness, were
out to ado to the attraction. Business men, end
their gentlemanly assistants, from the crowded
e of their stores, ssemed to enjoy the Improved
condition of affairs.
Enterprise (Thomasville, CM)
Hon. A. H. Stephens has been
nominated as a candidate for Congress to
fill the vacancy in the Eighth District
This ig, perhaps, the secret of Governor
bmith s delay to order an election in that
The “Great Comtnotrtr” is
mersilore to resume his seat as a repre-
°* the people, and where 1
Sal, ~ diatinct'on in formas
\w^ lth £ ordon in Senate and
l *' ,n House, Georgia resumes
“,? e M U n \, PrOUd P°“tiou iu thenaion&l
£ • * n4 , w e may once more he heard
ugh our true
We observe by tbe action of the mexnr
bers of the Legislature and others from
the several counties of the Eighth Con
gressional District of Georgia, at a meet
ing held in Atlanta, on the night of the
22nd instant, and at which General
Toombs presided, that an urgent request
had been made of Mr. Stephens to per
mit his name to be presented to the vo
ters of the District for the Lower House
of Congress to fill the vacancy crested
by the death of the lamented Wright.
This movement we conceive to be op
portune, though informal, but demanded
by the circumstances, and which must
result not merely in a triumph, but man
ifest to the country the deep apprecia
tion in which Mr. Stephens is held by
those in whose interest he has given the
better portion of hia public life. It
would be ingratitude not to thus appre
ciate those services, and even the colored
voters of the district will have shown
themselves ingrates alter all that Mr.
Stephens has done for them and their
race, in times past, should they permit
themselves to be organized into a partv
in opposition to him in this race for Con
gress. It is not a contest for the estab
lishment aud maintainauce of some great
principle of political etnics, for these
were incentestably established in this
District in the election of Gen. Wright;
bat the appreciation and vindication ot
the great moral, intellectual and states
man-like ability which has ever adorned
tbe character of the man, whether in
private or public life.
We presume Mr. Stephens has ac
cepted the complimeut thus tendered
him, though we have seen no formal ac
ceptance ot the same; and that a generous
support will be given h'm by every
voter in the District, we cannot doubt.
No man is so well deserving l! this com
pliment as he of whom we write. No
one ha% certainly, stronger claims upon
the support of the people of this Dis
trict—certainly none could represent it
more ably, if even so ably, as Mr.
Stephens. Thirty-six years of his life
have been given, in a great part to the
private and public interests of his native
State in her councils at home, or those
of the Federal Congress. In all these no
man has reflected more credit upon the
State or the Union, or more strongly and
proudly represented Southern character,
morally and intellectually, than Alex-
and9r H. Stephens. Few, if any, are so
thoroughly and familiarly conversant
with the theory and science of govern
ment as he. Few men possess his pow
ers of intellect, his oratorical abilities,
his knowledge of human character, his
nonesty of purpose, and the universal
confidence of both friend and foe in the
high moral courage that actuates his
every act, Doth private and public.
With this elevated confidence, it is
not surprising to the outer world that
Mr. Stephens should, upon the eve of
his failure to secure an election to the
United States Senate, become at once
the universal choice of the people of the
Eighth District for the Federal House
of Representatives, for Georgia is, un
fortunately, at this time without that
legislative experience in Congress which
characterized her Representatives in
ante helium times, and which Mr. Stephens
will again supply. I would not dis
parage the moral or intellectual charac
ters of the men who now represent the
commonwealth of Georgia, for they
compare favorably with tlieir associates
on the floor of the House ; but one and
all of them will readily concede to Mr.
Stephens powers of intellect and legisla
tive capacities which they do not pos
sess.
In these times of almost universal cor
ruption in high as'well os in low places,
in Congress as well as out of it, Mr. Ste
phens will form the leaven, which, in
time, may leaven the whole lump. In
this light r Mr. Stephens’ election is
looked forward to with more than or
dinary interest by all good men
everywhere, and more especially so
by those here within the Federal capi
tal, surrounded, as we are, by the pol
luted atmosphere of the Credit Mobilier
rings, railroad rings, iron and manu
facturing rings, protective tariff
rings, San Domingo rings, postal tele
graph rings, local corporation and Board
of Public Works rings, and the thousand
and one other rings organized UDder
Presidential, Cabinet, Congressional and
municipal influences for the express and
sole purpose of robbing the Treasury of
its millions, and individuals of their
hundreds of thousands, that the few
within these rings may grow suddenly
and vastly rich at tne expense of the toil
ing millions.
it is not strange, then, that those hers
who earnestly desire a return to the
“ good old days of yore,” when public
honor in the people’s representatives was
the rule, and corruption the exception,
and which, when ueteoted, always met
with, in those palmier days of our Re
public, prompt condemnation and swift
punishment, should bail the prospective
election of Mr. Stephens to Congress at
this time with more than on mary feel
ings of joy and hop*. With his eleotien
a new era win dawn upon the country.
Metropolitan.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 26,1872.
CARD FROM M. W. LEWIS.
Guxmaoao, On, January 29, 1873.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: In your
issue of 27th instant I notice a commu
nication over the signature of “ Wisp,”
complaining of the action of those gen
tlemen from the Eighth Georgia District
who met at the Kimball House in Atlanta
last week, and requested the Hon. A. H.
Stephens to permit them to present his
name to the Democracy of said
District as their candidate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death
of General Wright, la yonr com
ments upon that article you intimate
that it might be the better policy for the
Executive Committee of the party to
take action upon the question of holding
a convention to determine the propriety
of a nomination. You also publish a
list of said oommittee. In that list my
name appears first. Having never met
the oommittee I know no* who is its
Chairman. Bat if you publish the names
in the order in which the members were
appointed, by parliamentary usage I am
the Chairman. For this reason, and an
other which I shall give first in order, I
address you this note for publication.
First, then, as to my motives and rea
sons for this communication. I was not
in Atlanta when the meeting at the Kim
ball House, above alluded to, occurred.
And as my name had been mentioned in
connection with the candidacy for Con
gress from this District, and two articles
had appeared—one in your paper and
the other in the Greensboro Herald—re
commending me for that position, it
would seem to be proper to give my
views upon the Atlanta meeting. Permit
me to say, however, by way of parenthe
sis, that I was not a candidate for nomi
nation, and told every one so who men
tioned the subject to me.
As to the meeting in Atlanta, I most
cordially endorse their action. As I un
derstand that action, they did nut as
sume to speas authoritatively for the
party, but merely in a suggestive or re
commendatory manner. To their recom
mendation tbe first dissentient voice I
have heard comes from “ Whisp:” The
truth is, not only the Eighth District
but the whole State, with comparatively
few exceptions, are clamorous for Mr.
Stephens’ services in Congress. As for
myself, I feel that it is doing him no
honor to send him either to the Senate
or the Representative branch of Con
gress, but that such an act on our part
would be an honor to our grand old
State, and would enure to tbe giory,
peace, prosperity and perpetuity of our
common country, and the re-establish
ment of constitutional liberty on this
continent.
Now as to the propriety of calling to
gether the ex-committee, I consider it
useless, or at least unnecessary. I£ you
publish in your article above alluded to
tho full list of the committee (and from
my recollection it is a complete list) there
are tnirteen members. Eight of these
thirteen members—to-wit: C. Heard/G.
T. Bristow, J. D. Mathews, D. M. Du-
Bose, E. H. Pottle, George T. Barnes,
B. T. Evans and myself—I have already
heard from either in the public prints,
orally, or by letter. They endorse and
sustain the Atlanta meeting, and are in
favor of no farther party action in the
way of a nomination. And I have no
reason to doubt that the other five mem
bers fully concur with the rest of us.
Besides these reasons, two of the com
mittee—Hons. D. M. DuBoso and C.
Heard—coaid not attend a meeting, if
called, without great inconvenience and
neglect of public duties. In addition to
these reasons, it would bo a useless con
sumption of time and incur needless ex
pense. I therefore decline to call
meeting of the committee, if I am chair
man, and if not, I here simply announce
my disapproval.
Yours, &c., M. W. Lewis.
P. S.—It is well known* that Mr. Ste
phens acquiesces in yielding to the re
quest of the Atlanta meeting. This I
learned from him personally on my ar
rival in Atlanta the morning after the
action of that meeting, and he will
doubtless soon announce it over his own
signature. M. W. L.
JNote by the Editors.—The Chair
man of the Executive Committee for the
Fifth District, now holding over for the
Eighth District, was the late General
Wright. We have the names of the
oth c r members of the order of their ap
pointment, thus indicating our corres
pondent. We think, however, with ail
due deference to our correspondent, that
effective organization may be quite.need-
ful to secure a full poll of the party and
to preserve its integrity, notwithstanding
it is apparent that there will be no
opposition to Mr. Stephens. This we
understand to be the view of “Wisp,”
who, notwithstanding he is not a “ Ste
phens man,” will support Mr. Stephens
cordially and actively, if the manner of
his support will contribute to the integ
rity and harmony of the Democratic par
ly, and not tend to its disintegration. An
effective organization, in accordance with
the time-nonored laws of thu party, may
be requisite to guard against surprise.
To our apprehension, the object of the
Atlanta movemeat was to harmonize the
P'irtT by burying all differences between
the two wings of the party. This end,
we think, should be kept steadily in
view.]
e
UtpUVc*.
I&* R. A. Hall, of Elmira, N. Y.,
struck bis bead against a beam about
three yeais ago, and, until a few days
ago, had apparently suffered no perma
nent iujury trom the conclusion. The
pain in his head has now been followed
by an entire forgetfulness in regard to
persons and things with which he had be
come acquainted since the accident, while
his memory remains on impaired in re
gard to those subjects with which he was
previously cognizant. His ease is a sin
gular one, but by no means unprecedent
ed. Snch works aa AhamHunhio’* Tntel-
lectoul Powers eontain oanwroiui. exam
ples of similar affLibtibnja. Mr. Hall’s
misfortune is nevertheless a severe one,
and all will sincerely hope that be may
recover. There are many persons—not
a few politicians among them—who
would willingly batter their heads against
lie rnsif they oould thereby forget, and
niik** < f^ers equally oblivious oi their
• • u .—t'auNwiii (jusrte
MR. STEPHENS FOR THE EIGHTH DISTRICT.
The Washington (Ga.) Gazette thus
discourses on the subject. The election
takes place on Monday, the 26th instant:
All the candidates who aspired to re
ceive the nomination for Congress to fill
the vacancy in the Eighth District have
withdrawn in favor of Hen. A. H. Ste
phens. He will have no opponent there
fore, and will walk over the track.
We greatly admire the unselfishness
and generous spirit which all the candi
dates manifested, and the actual cheerful
ness, delight and gratification with which
most of them yielded. Mr. Stephens was
requested by a large number of promi
nent citizens ot the Eight h District,
amongst whom were the members of the
Legislature and most of the numerous
aspirants for the place, to stand for the
scat. A meeting was held for the pur
pose, and Mr. Stephens consented to
yield to their wishes and become a can
didate. There will be no Convention
and no further nomination by the De
mocracy.
This is a just and well deserved tribute
paid by htofellow-citizen of the Eighth
Gopgrepsipnal District to her great and
Boble son. If the State of Georgia re
fused the honor of being represented ili
the Senate of the United States by this
distinguished patriot and wise statesman,
the Eighth District rejoices to send him,
as her great commoner, to tne House of
Representative*.
A BABY SONG.
Donato, baby.
DaaZnland la bright;
Fairies are lighting
It up tor tha night;
Five sugar klaaea.
From forehead to chin ;
Than bob off to aleep.
And they'll let you in.
Lullaby, bab*.
I wish I could see
Inside Me blue curtain
That parts you from me ;
Tbe warm little body.
Hew quiet it teems;
While the little white soul
la walking in dreamt.
LnUftbv. babv.
Within thy soft neat;
Strong is the angel
That blesses thy real;
Silent and loving
His vigil he keeps ;
And furls hia bright wings,
While the little child sleeps.
COL. C. W. nVBOSMS.
He Withdraw* In Favor of Hon. A. H.
Stephens for Congress.
From the Sparta Times and Planter.
We publish below the card of our es
teemed feilow-citizen, Col. C. W. Du-
Bose, declining the raoe for Congress in
this district, in favor of Hon. A. H.
Stephens. The suggestion of Col. Du-
Bose’s candidacy enme from many of his
friends in Hancock coanty, who recog
nized in him a man fitted in every moral
and intellectual qualification to ably and
worthily represent this district in Con
gress. His record in public and private
life is a most honorable one, and when
ever opportunity offers, his frends will
be anxious to exhibit their confidence
in his integrity and ability.
He has gracefully yielded to the
movement inaugurated last week in At
lanta in behalf of his distinguished
friend Mr. A. H. Stephens, and which
meets with such general favor at the
hands of the people. The need of a
great man; and thorough statesman in
tbe National Councils from Georgia—
a man who has represented her past
greatness and is competent to do so still;
a man profoundly versed in the princi
ples of our government, and competent
to maintain the rights of freemen at the
same time that he can expose the wrongs
of tyrants and of tyranny—this is an oc
casion of an uprising of all classes of po
litical thinkers m this District, and . of
their demand that Mr. Ste
phens should “stand for Congress.”
Let it be so. While not seeking place—
he will not disobey this voice of the peo
ple, calling for his services.
Messrs. Editors: The recent action
taken in the city of Atlanta by members
of the Legislature and prominent citizens
from this district, in reference to the can
didacy of Mr. A. H. Stephens for Con
gress, meets with a hearty response from
me. I hope ttiere will be no opposition
from any quarter.
Permit me, in this connection, to ex
press to my friends generally in this
county, and particularly to yon, my sin
cere thanks for the kindness manifested
towards me, in wishing to place my name
in nomination for this position.
Very truly yours,
Charles W. DuBose.
The Record of the Bonuparte Family.
A correspondent sends to the London
Times the following cutting from a
French newspaper, dated July 23, 1862:
“The register of the Imperial family,
on which has been inscribed the proces-
verbal of the birth of Prince Napoleon’s
son, is a large folio volume, bound in red
velvet, and having at the corners orna
ments of silver ^ilt, with the family cipher
‘N’m the centre. It was begun in 1806,
and the first entry made was tbe adoption
of Prince Eugenie by the Emperor. The
second, made the same year, relates
to the adoption of the Princess Stephanie
Beauharnais, who recently died Grand
Duchess of Baden, and who was cousin
to the Empress Josephine. Next comes
the marriage of the Emperor Napoleon
I., then several certificates of the birth
of Princes of the family, and, lastly, of
the King of Rome, which closes tne se
ries of the certificates inscribed under
the reign of the First Emperor.
“This register was confided to the care
of Count Regnault de St. Jean ct’Angcly,
Minister and Councillor of State,
and secretary of the imperial family.
It was to him, under the First Em
pire, as it is now to the Minister of
State under the Second, that was reserv
ed the duty of drawing up theproces-ver-
baux of the great acts relative to Napo
leon. At tho fall of the First Empire
Count Regnault de St. Jean d’Angely
carefully preserved the book, which at
his death passed into the hands of the
Countess, his widow. That lady handed
it over to the president of the republic
when Lonis Napoleon was called by uni
versal suffrage to tho imperial throne,
“In this same register, continued by the
Second Empire, may be seen the certif
icates of the marriage of the Emperor
Napoleon ] II, ar>d nf that of the Prin
cess Clotilde ; of the birth of the Prince
Imperial; of the death ol tho Prince Je
rome; and lastly, of the birth of Prince
Napoleon Victor Jerome Frederic, just
born. The name of Napo,eon commem
orates that of the head of the dynasty;
that of Victor is in the remembrance of
the House of Savoy; Jerome is that of
his paternal grandfather; and Frederic
was given in compliment to the family of
Wurtemberg.”
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The Alexandria (Va.) Sentinel, of W
day, tells a sad story of u released vZ
Kmx prisoner. It says: ivj '
About 6 o’clock Monday evenine
man William Woodfield, was called
by a citizen and informed that a man »° U
lying in the snow near the stone bridT
aoiosB Hooff ’ run, apparently unable
rise. Heat once went to his - • 10
Washington, Feb. 3.—Col. Price ad
dressed the Committee on Mines and
Mining of the Honsu this morning on the
subject of the endowment of a School of
Mim-s iu the North Georgia Agricultural
College. His bill was refeired to a sub
committee, consisting of Young, of
Georgia; Shan, of North Carolina, and
Kendall, of Nevada, who will report fa
vorably at an early day.
Annapolis, February 3.—The Whar
ton Jury has been out since noon on Fri
day and are now discharged. The poll
stood eight gnilty, four acquittal. No
demonstration iu the crowded court.
Mrs. Wharton was released upon a re
newal of her bail.
Wasatkgton, February 3.—The bid
for public buildings at Atlanta was intro
duced iu the House nearly two years ago
by General Young, when it failed. He
introduced it in this Congress, when it
passed. When in passed the House it al
lowed $100,000. General Young argued
in behalf of a larger appropriation be
fore the Senate Committee and was in
creased $10,000. It now goes to tbe
House for concurrence in the amend
ment.
Philadelphia. Feb. 3.—Cob James
Oof tier, a prominent lawyer and poli
tician of Oaio, a soldier of 1812 and first
Collector of California, died at his
residence in Stubenville on Sunday,
aged 84.
Pittsburg, February 4.—Seven men
were killed at the American Iron Works
explosion. The nail feeders were on a
strike—otherwise the loss would have
been greater.
To Merchants.—The card of D. Har
per t Co., of Louisville, Ky., which appears iu this
issue oi Thk Sun, is well worth the attention of
merchants all over the South. It is one of the best
houses In that great headquarters of Southern trade
—prompt and reliable, and ranks strictly A No. 1.
An instance of their way of doing business oc
curred last Saturday. They had an order lor two
car-losds of potatoes to be shipped South, into Ala
bama. The morning opened bright and pleasant,
and the 250 barrels of potatoes were early placed on
the cars for shipment. Boos after midday the
weather changed suddenly, and rapidly commenced
turning coll. The potatoes were placed in tight cars
selected carefully for the pur nose, but lest they
might freeze, Mr. Harper purchased! couple of heat
lag stores, and had one put up in each car, supplied
with fuel, and detailed one of the hands from his
large warehouse to go along with the train, and
keep up Urea in both cars as long u tha weather
continued cold enough to freeze, or threatens to be
so, even to the end of their destination, if nMeSesy.
All this at their own expense, because th^ erder
would not admit of delsy, and they bettered it
would to unsafe, tod a loss to their patrons without
this precautionary measure. . .
AS* The Democrats carried fee muni-
ami discovered that he was Buffering f/L
a hemorrhage, and was a stranger in ont
city, seeking to make his way through
when he had fallen from disease and 7?
hauation. He was conveyed to the all
tion-hocBe, where he still lies in a precT
rions condition and not able to
above a whisper, and is subject to
quent paroxysms and hemorrhages
He gives his name as j 0 ^
Sims, and states that he is originJu
from Appomattox oenn'y, Va., but
has been late a resident of Greeavilte
District, South Carolina, where he ha*
(or had) a wife and child; that he b*.
longed to the 7th South Carolina reri.
ment in the late war, and was severely
wounded at the explosion of the mine
near Petersburg, va., to which he at
tributes his sickness now; that about
three months ago he was sentenced bv
Judge Bond to the Albauy penitentiarv
as a Ku-Klux, and that a few weeks ago
he was turned out of that institution on
account of his health, and told to make
his way home; that he has, by working
and begging, gotten this far on the way
having been given a passage ou the
Washington fsrry boat yesterdav, aud
was trying to get along, his face still
southward, when he fell from exhaustion
yesterday evening. He is about thirty-
nine years of age. J
The Term •* Carpet-Bugger.'’
Many of the best Sonthera menmtiw
Southern States, says the New Orleans
Picayune, arc Northetn men—bom
in New England in Massa
chusetts. Many Northern men have
come to the South, before and since the
war, to do busin66B and to find homes.
And those who come with such views
respectable and well-behaved, will sel
dom fail to be appreciated and to receive
the welcome and the position to which
they are entitled. The people of the
South are desirous of having a3 many
settlers as possible of this description.
Men of this character are not carpet-bag
gers, however small their luggage or
empty their purses. They are u desira
ble elemeut.
The term carpet-bagger is applicable
to the needy demagogue whose stock
in trade consists of the number of colored
voters he can persuade that the South
ern white men are their relentless ene
mies and oppressors, and whose political
status and personal lorcunes depend
upon bis success in banding them upon
the basis of injurious falsehoods, to use
for his own official honor, profit and
plunder, under the semblance of legal
forms and backed by the bayonets of the
United States. These birds of passage
we have no use for.
Wesleyan Ftinule College.
A vacation of two weeks has been given
the pupils in the Wesleyan Female Col
lege. and the young ladies, who do not
reside in the city, left for their homes on
the various trains yesterday morning.
This step is not. taken because of sick
ness, or the apprehension of sickness,
among the youug ladies of the college;
but in view of the fact that there has been
some alarm here, aud much more abroad
—the latter occasioned by unfounded
sensational reports—growing out of the
prevalence of meningitis, and the few
cases of smallpox that have occurred in
the city, it is deemed prudent, at least,
to allow the young ladies tnis vacation iu
order that any apprehension that may
exist among them, or among their friends,
may be fully allayed.
There are now no cases of meningitis
in the city, and there is Untie tear of auy
excessive ravages by smallpox; hence, at
the expiration of their holiday, the young
ladies can return with minds fully at rest,
prepared to prosecute their studies to th^
end of the term.—Macon Telegraph of
Tuesday.
TtiaC $140,000 “Argument/’
The Chicago Times insists upon know
ing what use was made of the 8126,000
paid ont by the Union Pacific Railroad,
whicn was, according to the witness be
fore the committee, “used for the pur
pose of securing a reversal of the action
of the Secretary of the Treasury.” One
check for $24,500 was delivered to G. M.
Dodge, of Iowa‘ and one for 819,000 to
James F. Wilson, of Iowa, a Government
director. The committee propose to get
at the facts if the Times will have pa
tience, and to learn, too, what became of
the 8250,000 spent by Stewart. The de
cision of Congress against the Secretary
excited much surprise and comment at
the time.
Letter from Air. Colfax.
Special to tlie Commercial.
Pittsburg, February 1,
Schuyley Colfax writes, under date of
January 27, to a friend here, as follows :
“Dear Sir—I thank you lor your
kind and cordial letter of sympathy.
Whatever may be testified, or who or
how many may swear differently, I not
only never saw the check for $1,200 till-
last Friday, but till that time had never
seen aoy check signed by Mr. Ames,
nor have I ever received a dollar from
him on any occasion whatever.
Schuyler Colfax.”
Ik. Laat Word, ut Napoleon III.
The last words pronounced by the
Emperor, says the London Figaro, ia his
dying moments, were addressed to his
old and faithful Iritnd, Dr. Connean.
They were: “Eiiez vous a Sedan?’'
(Were you at Sedan ?) Subsequently
the Empress held his hand in hers, |and
gently kissed it; the Emperor smiled, and
his lips moved, as if returning his wife’s
embrace, but he never uttered another
word after that last thought;—“Sedan I”
cipal election in Lexington, on the 30th
inst., by the handsome majority of 460
votes. United States troops were sent
from Frankfort, bur as it turned out they
were not needed. The election passed
off quietly.—Paducah Kentuckian.
Etip- Appealing in behalf of the vet
erans of 1812, who resided in the Con
federacy, and since 1861 denied their
pensions, the veritable Ben Butler said
in Congress the otLei day; “ These old
veterans should have tneir dues, even if
during tne re»eibon they were led by
oircumstances to sympathize with trea
son. They had won the right to be
wrong once in their lives, and the Gov
ernment should deal generorely with
them.”: He closed by hoping “that the
tima.wfts near when the New Orleans of
1812 would be remembered, and the New
Orleans of 1862 forgotten.”
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Colfax deals in Credit Mobiliea
stook, and addresses Young Men’s
Christian Associations. If he can recon
cile these two things to his conscience,
we don’t know bat that the former line<
is his peculiar business.