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Newspaper Page Texti jf^iTEn REPUBLICAN. ISK „S or subscription t „t,r,Ou.V.» THE , r ( MYAYSlXAI>YASCE.t» Volume 17. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1871. Number 49. ,,„J the purple clou.U h the mild and balm* a , bl:un»liice dow; .nereis 1**? "‘th golden ey<* k ,i, lg rain-drop* gently fall, r a blt-^singt from the nkioa. ,. .. iiully their shadows fall ■ drifting before the blast, TIIE SPELL OF A SONG. Landis McGregor and Margaret Ches ter stood together upon the piazza of the seaside cottage, leaning over the light railing, and idly watching tho play of the moonbeams under tho silvery waves beyond the beach. “What are the waves saying ?” qnotlied Miss Chester, with a light sigh. “Lan dis, don’t you ever wish you knew what the waves were saying ?” “I do, very often,” replied McGregor; “for they say various. thiDgs to me ac cording lo the mood i am iu. To-night ihey are saying that our sweet summer is ended, and we must part to-morrow.” ‘•But after the snmmer comes the gold en harvest,” said Margaret gently. “Yes.” But Landis sighed as bespoke, aud presently added. “This has been such a bright sweet summer ! I have a foreboding tlmt we shall not see its like again for many a year, if ever.” -- “Oh, fie! You are either superstitious, or a victim of the blues,” said Miss Ches ter. “Which is it V” “The blues I believe,” laughed Mc Gregor. “But you can charm them away with the spirit of music. Will you sing ?” “Yes,” readily answered Margaret. Landis drew her hand through his arm, aud returned to the parlor. And if he raised the slender lingers to his lips-uml kissed them, as they crossed the shadowy piazza, it was no one’s alTair but his own, and he had a right; for Margaret was his betrothed bride. “What shall it be V” asked Margaret, running her light fingers over the ivory keys of the brilliant toned Chickering “.Somethitg lively to begin with,” said Landis. Miss Chester rippled over a lively pre lude and began to sing “Its better to laugh than be sighing,” while Landis, leaning over the piano, watched every expression of the sweet, pure face, which he loved better than most men are capa ble of loving—for there were depths in the nature of this cool, easy Landis McGregor, not always apparent on the surface, or easily reached iu any time. Margaret sang three or four songs, aud then would have risen;but Landis with a gentle motion, stayed her. “Not yet, dear, please ! Sing ‘C’auta liua n’t v « uigbt Mud cold in the blast, ; “• the world is yet colder from the strouir, its burden to on »nd the grief laden shoulder. utiie:eyed nuiden wandered alum • old and darkness si dreary, Haku ox tue “Klerk.”—Several . miug ladies of Williamsport, Pa., have ,llc following choice hiMdaux : ’ite 7 ^° U Ut cbnrcb l* 8 - sundy 1 want to I° rm with you an Ac- i. • '“ as I am a yonge man of gude ,J_ r ’ ^lerk in a stoar, and git a 7 of *500 a annum—pleas address , x -.post oflis." reply* °* l * 1C yonng ladies returned this ^1°: Th YOU,1S ?,Ian with the Bad i.uce i ■ i . 10 Hl> J p)rm an ucquaint- at jv v \ ,Ut rt ‘ c , lpruca, « if you will call it,- „ 7 *’ OI,t ^ °’ cloc k in the even- ■ •f j ' r ° t ^ er "’ill make you uoqnaint- i* a " ltl 80,116 first-class calf-skin. Per ‘•‘1» Jou would prefer making the ■i instance of our dog. He will take to j ur ^ IIe a,w **y s ha d a taste k,trk *” w >th your “$500 a a f"°*! ier ’ in the Sa- f that from “yonng gallant (mm , ° 1,15 We sup. Ihatj,tV** which it ia written, be write „ ttle . 1 . want you to talk to ubout it i 7,°*’ 1 <lon t no foolin 1 nw dmt'* n 10 ‘^“^t al>ont this thing ‘or th, v L you ^ *frade to tulk to me :. , 7v,7 1 r t »« 'only now anythinJ°a JwtoI 'llT "? ‘? mo - 1 jn*t want -r , nle U " 1 “”<1 teUmcWhcth- , r v< ’, n.c good a miff For a hus- Margaret, struck the soft prelude, and then her voice drifted into the low melo dy, aud lingered dreamily over the tender Dream on ! Dream on ! Nor breathe a single sigh To waft the gentle zephyrs Which fan the starlit sky.” “I wish we might dream on,” said Lan dis, as she rose. “This happy summer has been like a beautiful dream to me, Margaret, and I wish we might never waken. I don’t waut to hear any one sing that song, dearest, until I hear you again.” They stolid out on the verandah again ; and we will not interrupt the lost moments which those who were so dear to each other might spend together. For on the morrow, with sad but brave hearts, they parted—Margaret to return to her Philadelphia home, and I^iudis to seek a distant city in the South, where he meant to contest for the golden prize of Fortuue,aud win the wealth that should fill Margaret’s life with luxury. “Blessed be the man that inveuted sleep,” said the immortalSaneho Panza. Lovers should say, “Blessed bo the mau that iu vented letters for what would be the dreary days of absence and sepa- 1 them without the consolation of saying, through the magic of the pen, what they have said so often by word of mouth—of repeating, over and over tli. r, which is ever now the story of faithful love. Margaret aud Landis kept these little winged messengers flying busily at first. But alas and alas ! Love, which is 1 essence of woman’s life, is often but episode in the existence of men—a brief page to be read, and then thrown care lessly aside for a new one. Landis McGregor loved Margaret sin cerely ; but the crowding cares of busi- i, for which he bad an nuusual capaci ty, filled his mind, until he grew cold and careless. Her letters were as warm and devoted as ever, but lie saw with pain, that his answers grew shorter and less frequent. She felt it keenly, but uttered no word of complaint—and onl tried the more to make him feel. heart always kept Love’s glowing for him. But one night Landis McGl heart was touched with a talisman nusealed anew the fountains of love in his heart. He was passing, with a rapid step, through one of the handsomest streets in the city, when tho sound of a piano and the notes of a soft, sweet sop rano fell upon his ear. Landis paused, in spite of himself, for the melody had a familiar tone, aud the words floated ont throngh the moonlight air aud reached him where he stood. “Then sweetly dream ! Dream on dream on ! Nor breathe a gentle sigh To wake the genial zephyrs. Which fan the starlit sky.” “Poor Margaret! my own Margaret!’ broke from McGregor’s lips. “ I hove left her to “dream on” while I—-will, if I must Le truthful with myself—I have neglected and almost forgotten her. I don’t deserve her pure love, for I have not proved worthy of it. ” i walked on more slowly, musing deeply as he went And a late hour that very night fonnd him sitting in his own room, with Margaret’s unanswered let ter beside him, writing to her from the fullness of the love which had awakened lew in his heart. A few weeks before, he had written hasty word to her saying he would like 0 her, but business would render it impossible for him to leavo the South for a long time. There is an old saying—“ Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” The truth of it I shall not attempt to argue here bat I am suro where there is love there a will aDd a way too, so now Landis McGregor wrote that he found he could leave the South, and that a few weeks ore would see him at Margaret’s side. And if he could have seen the bright glow which suffused her pure, pale face when she read the letter, or looked into the loving, passionate woman’s heart which l>eat tumultuously beneath her si ken bodice, he would have blessed the talisman which won him back to love and Mar aret. A few weeks later, Margaret Chester ;tood in her chamber, and tried with trembling fingers to clasp upon her white wrist a bracelet of woven hair, which had been Landis, gift to her. But it several minutes before her nervous fin gers succeeded, and she shook out the folds of gurnet silk which fell about her slender figure. One last glance at the mirror, where dient eyes aud glowing cheek hinted of the happy hearth beneath, and then Margaret went down to tho parlor to await the coming of her returned lover. She did not wait long; for scarcely had she time to compose herself when she heard his ringing step in the hall, and the next moment she was f.flded to his breast, and clasped there as if he never meant to let her go. 'Tis not for us to intrude on thesaered- ss of the pext hour. Those who have been lovers know already, and those who haven’t will he, and ’tisen’t for me to spoil the flavor of tho feast beforehand by telling yon what will be served up. An hour later, when they began to imo down to realities again Landis led Margaret to the piano, aud asked her to <ing “Oautalina” for him.” She snug; and, when she had finished, le had bent fondly over her, and isked.— “ Margaret, darling, do you love that ;ong V” “It was one of my favorities—I like it better because yon always like it,” ■ die answered wondering a little at the eager- 1 of his tone. I want you to love it, bccanso once it almost saved me to you, my darling,” he said. “Tell me liow?” she asked. And then, with his arms encircling *r, aud her hands in liis, Landis told her how the weeds of worldly care had sprung up in the garden of his heart, and almost smothered the tender plant of love, and how the spell of a song from stranger’s lips had saved and brought him back. And as be entreated her to douht him > more, Margaret kissed and forgave him; and when he pleaded with her to go back to the South with him, t« be bis sweet household angel, sho proved her forgiveness by giving her connut. TERMS OV BUfeCMPTIO*: On* Year,. . ** •• 8x Months, ........ j litres Months,. 1 »*. PAYMENTS ALWAYS TO BE HAl'V' IN' ADVANCE. Confederate Cotton Loan.—Under the Loading of “A Permanett Invest ment,” the New York/*os/ says: “The Confederate cotton loan, redeemable in gold by Mr. Jefferson Davis’ government in 1803, is still bought and sold on the London stock exchange. Th< re are £'2,- 435,700 of it iu tho London market, which cost the subscribers ^lout ninety per cent, of its nominal vain-. SirHeury de Houghton is said to have £380,000 which cost him nearly par. Sales were actually made during December at from three und three-quarters to five per cent., closing at the highest rate. The only value of the stock, it appears, lies in the hope of the sanguine purcha-ers that the United States will one day redeem it.” CQUln an after-dinner sjmucIi at At lanta the other day, Judge McCay said “Georgians are pretty smart. [Ap plause.] An old Dutchman once came down here who hod lived ia Switzerland. He said the people there had a proverb that it took tea Swiss, to cheat a Jew. .When ho came to New York they had a .verb that it took ten Jews, to cheat ikee, and now ho had come to Geor- that it would take L-n Yankees to it a Georgian.” {Applause aud .ughter.] Ct^uV/o regret to l&m that Hon., W. P. Chilton one of tho most gifted and useful citizens of Alabama died in Montgomery on Saturday last. Ho was Grand Master of the Masonic Fraternity of Alabama, an eminent Liwyer and jurist, a Christian geatleman and true patriot. Judge Chilton occupied the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama for' many years prior to the war aud during the war was a Representative in the Congress of the Confederate States. Fashionable young ladies have cerulean veins {<ointod on their exposed boats for evening parties. . Females not posted in anatomy who do their own painting look os if a Chinese puzzle were tattooed on their bosom*. ■Coramuuicated. THE “SAVANNAH EEPUBLICAN' ‘The Near Diltnot Judges.' Editor fcr viTKii Republican : In your issue of to-day there is an arti cle copie.1 from the Savannah liepullicun, iie* which tlie editor fulminates against the imm-'il* 11 * 0 practical organization o tho District Court of Gebrgia by tho re cent app 'itdnients of Judges ami Attor neys for i r by the Executive. The portion assumed is that Govern or Bnlhvk has not tho authority now to make appointments to these offices, sub ject to confirmation by tho Seuate, at the next S' xsion of the General Assembly, and hcuce there is legal and extraordina ry nect -uty for calling the recently elect ed mew’oors of the Legislature together for tin 1 consideration of these nomina tions. Unless this latter.is done, theSa- vaSncli Republican argues, the Court must remain in nbeyauoe uutil the aunu- al meeting of the Lcgkfatutt in next No- Thc question, your correspondent holds, is determined by the fourth paragaaph, under # the second section of tiie fourth article **f the State Constitution, which confers upon the Governor the j>ower to fill vacancies in offices, in these broad terms to-wit: \ 51(50. IY. When any office shall be come vacant l»y death, resignation, or othf raise, the Governor shall have pow er to fill such vacancy, unless otherwise provided by law ;and persous so appoint ed shall continue in office until a success or is appointed agreeably to the mode pointed ont by the Constitution, or by law, in pursuance thereof. Special attention is called to the wide scope of the word “otltencite," here used to eubraco all cases of vacancies in offices, which it is the duty of the Executive to fili by appointments to contiuuc ••until a successor is appointed agreeably to the wade pointed out by this Constitution, or by law, in pursuance thereof,” wheth er these vacancies occur by death, resig nation, judgment of impeachment, oper ation of law, or otherwise. The late Legislature passed “an Act, to organize the District Court,” the first •ection of which says, ‘‘That there shall be organized in each Senatorial District the State, a Court to be styled the Dis et Court,” and the latter sentence of the twenty-second section of the Act pro vides that “this Act shall go into effect the first day of January next,” that is, the first day of the present month. The ipecial time designated and prescribed for the beginning of the operation of the statute, is a peculiar feature, und one not ordiuarily found iu enactments, which usually drawn to go into effect “from and after their passage.” This Act, pass ed to igo into operation on the first day of January iustanter, organized the Dis trict Court on tho first day of tho new year, and the Court being thus organized as far as the power of the Legislature could organize it, by prescribing its ju risdiction and designating its offices, on that day, the date of the organization of the Court by the provisions of the bill, tho various offices of the Court resulted, d being thus in positive existence by operation of law, and some only unfilled, latter were vacancies by operation of law, and under the paragraph of the Constitution above quoted, the duty and authority of appointing to these va cancies devolved upon the Governor.— The fourth section of the statute pre scribes that tho Clerks of the Superior Courts shall bo the Clerks of the District Courts in their respective counties, and that the Sheriffs and Deputies of the counties in which the District Court may sit, shall be the ministerial officers of the District Courts for those counties, and that these bonded officers shall serve these Courts as they uow do the Superior Courts, receiving the same fees for like services in the Superior Courts. The offices of the District Court are four; that of Judge and that of Attorney, filled by Executive appointment with the ad vice aud consent of the Seuate, and that of Clerk and that of Sheriff by the suf frages of the people. The last two of these offices, those of Clerk and Sheriff, arc now and were on the dace this statute went into operation held and occupied by qualified officers; and we have, with out tho recent appointments of the Gov ernor, presented to ns the spectacle of a Court with half its offices titled aud half vacaut, and the missing officers, too, the superior officers of the Court, the Judge and the Attorney for the State, without whose presence no law can 1>« adminis tered, no rights of citizens maintained, no wrongs remedied. If the District Judges and Attorneys had been severally appointed by the pro visions of the bill, and the clerks and Min isterial officers of the Court not provided specifically and personally, wonld not the offices of the latter officers have been vacant ? Wonld not the Conrt have been organized? Would there mt have been vacancies ? Then how can the conclusion of the vacancies in tho offices of Judges and Attorneys of this Conrt be avoided, when by the facts of the case the offices of Clerks and Sheriffs of the Court are le gally, positively and personally filled to day, and were filled the first of January’ At tho time tho act went into effect, the offices of Clerks and Sheriffs were filled by operation of law, and the pffi< 3 ndges and Attorneys were vacancies by operation of law. It is true the appointments which Gov ernor Bullock has made in the District Court,-are but temporary aud subject to confirmation by the Senate ; because the law provides that these offices of District Judges and District Attorneys shall be filled for regular terms of fonr years by tbe concurrent action of the Executive and of the Senate; yet, at the same time, in organizing this Conrt on tho first of January, yonr correspondent holds, the Legislature, in the very words of the act, prescribes for and looked forward to the temporary filling of its vacant offices by executive appointment. When the Leg islature had completed all that it conld do in so for as the legislative organiza tion of tho Court was concerned, the bill was submitted to the Governoi for his consideration, aud, in the event of his approval, for tho execution of its provisions in so much as his authority, ; unadvised and unaided for the time being, donee and considered by the jury under the charge of the court upon tue law applicable to them. 5. Leading question under Section 3800 of the Code are within tho discre tion of the Jndge for the -purposes of jnstice, and when the presiding officer of the conrt permits them to be pro pounded: Jlrfi'i, That the court will not inter fere i . limit or restrict the Judge in the of his legal discretion. TELEGRAPH. fi When the jury* after retiring to th- v room, request the Judge to re- cl- t ,e them, or upon some point of 1 •- in the case, aud the Judge summons ti - a into court, and in the presence of •h counsel and accused complies with r request: Ifeld, That such act is not error, but is .per in tho discharge of his official dy- 7. Wheu the court, in u case of horni- by the Legislature, wurraateil; uud the bill 1 ’the ^7° preaum&l malice and it was incumbent upon the having been sanctioned, and this dnty of the Governor having been performed by tijJ temporary appointments of District J ndges aud Attorneys, the Court organized aud is ready for the ad ministration of the justice. unfortunate that so extreme is the hostility of some of the leading and influential journals of our State to wards tho men and tho party now hap pening to control the affairs of Georgia, that hardly a measuro of the Legislature, cely an act of the administra tion, can escape hasty, unadvised and un- auimadversiou. Will the day ecer arrive when anything good can come out of Nazareth ? C. Americas, Jan. 2Gih, 1871. DEOISI OZO-13 SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. REPORTER. J John Remley, plaintifl' in error, vs. Charles DeWall, defendant in error. Equity from Sumter. LOCHRANE, C. J. When a bill for accounts and settle ment, dissolution of copartnership, and appointment of Receiver, and the process of injunction, has been tiled in court, aud by consent of parties, the matter in controversy have been submitted to an auditor, and his report by consent made the judgment of thb Court, und the defendant fails to comply with such judgment in the premises, and retains the assets und business of the firm. Held, That the award and order of the Court is not such a judgment or decree for money, as deprives the chancellor of all further control or jurisdiction of the case, aud compells the complainant in the original bill to sue at law for the amount so awarded to him. But is such settlement under the order of the court, retained in the bauds of the chancel lor, full and unquestioned authority, ju risdiction aud power to enforce obedi- to the mandates of the court by at taching the party for contempt V When attachment nisi for contempt served personally by a constable, and process was not attached to the orig inal bill, or copy served : Held, That the service was sufficient to bring the party into conrt; and is not such process as requires to bo annexed to the bill or copy served by a sheriff, deputy or coroner of the county. •4. When a partytin response to au at tachment for contempt, appear lxifore the chancellor : Held, That he is not in a position to litigate on claims of credit, or discuss the merits of the demand. The naked question of contempt had primarily to be disposed of aud tho order of the conrt iu the premisesobeyed. 5. The matters of attachment for con tempt : Held, The order of the court requir ing the delivery of money in his hands on pain of imprisonment, was not an in fringement by the constitutional enliibi- tion against imprisonment foi defendant, but is in the nature of the performance of a duty, arising under the pleadings iu chancery, which holds the party amena ble to the power of the chancellor nntil discharged. In the exercise of the j*ower of the chancellor in matters of contempt: Held. That this court will be reluc tant to interfere with its exercise except there be a flagrant abuse of it, the inde pendence and integrity of the judicial office depends on the enforcement of the processes and powers of the courts below, and the legitimate exercise of them will be sustained by this court. N. A. Smith, A. R. Brown, for plain tiff in error. S. H. Hawkins, Hawkins, & Burke k Du Font Guerry, for defendant. When a party has been arranged upon good bill of indictment, and the jury tnpuneled and charged with the case, ad the Solicitor General alters the in dictment in the presence of the foreman and some of the grand jury: Held, That a motion for verdict of nc- quital ought not to have been granted by the court, although the act of tho Solici tor General was unauthorized and im proper in the premises. 2. Under the Code of this State, all exceptions to the indictment for form, or for m itters that may arise by ‘special demurrer, or by plea in abatement or in bar, mnstbe made in writing prelimina ry to the trial, aud if not made at the proper time are to be held as waived in contemplation of law. 3. When the Judge below caused the witnesses to have tlieir testimony read over to them to be corrected, if necessa- ry, in presence of the jury, or where the Judge himself suggested correction of what had been sworn : Held, That this practice is not e: aud that it is the right and privilege of the Jndge below to direct the progress of the trial, and see tho evidence is rectly taken down. 4. When dissolution is approaching, and the dying man has lost hope of life and his mind feels the full consciousness of his condition, the solemnity of the scene gives to his statements the sanctity of truth, and snch dying declarations, when made shonld be admitted in . defendant to show there Helil. That this charge was a well set tled rale of law. 8. When the defendant’s counsel re quested the court to charge all the grades of homicide, and the facts showed that the case did not rest for the defense up on all the matters of law governing homicide : Held, That it was not error in the court to refuse the charge as requested. It is only in cases where the facts require 8iicti charge that it -should he g.veu, !). When .the omission to give a charge by the court is supplied by the Judge giving a more favorable charge than the law of the case authorized : Held, That this omission was not er- 10. When the facts of the case show that the peisoncr shot at the deceased, and killed him, although no motion of anger or provocation is proven, the law will imply malace from such wanton aud reckless trilling with human life, and wheu the evidence sustains tbe verdict of the jury, this court will not set aside their finding. Judgment affirmed. Hawkins k Burke, Jack Brown, for plaintiff in error. C. T. Goode, R. H. Whiteley, Solici tor General by N. A. Smith, for defen* dant. William Webb et al, plaintiffs in error, vs. Bevely Parker et id, defendants in error. Equity, from Sumter. Where au action of ejectment was brought in the Superior Court of Sumter county to recover the possession of lot of laud, No. 127, in the 27th district in said county, and on the trial thereof, n verdict was rendered in favor of the defendants, and a motion was made for a new trial, which was granted by the Superior Court to which the defendants excepted, and 41 t case was brought up to this Court a writ of error; and upon the hearing of ttie case in this Court, it appeared from the evidence contained in the record that the copy giant from the State to William T. Scott, under whom the plain tiff’s cluimed to derive their title to the lot of land sued for, was to lot No. 107,in the 27th district, in said county, and not to lot 127, which was the lot of land sued for; and this Court being of tho opinion, from the evidence in the record before it, that the plaintiffs had shown no title to the lot sued for, that the verdict for tho defendants was right, and reverses the judgment of the conrt Inflow granting the new trial solely on that ground alone. After the judgment of this Court was made the judgment of the conrt below, tbe plaintiffs filed their bill for a new trial, alleging that, in fact, a grant was issued by the State to William T. Scott, nnder whom the plaintiffs in the eject ment suit claimed title, to lot No. 127, and that there was a mistake in the num ber of the lot in the copy grant, that it should have been to lot No. 127, and not to lot 107, and that the plaintiffs in tho coart below, now complainants, had no knowledge of the mistake in the copy grant until after the trial and the sigiug and certifying the bill of exceptions to this conrt. The complainants allege that the counsel for the defendants told the counsels for the plaintiffs that they had a copy of the plat and grant to the lot of land iu dispute, and that it would not be necessary for plaintiffs to obtain one, as the counsels for the defendants would furnish it on the trial; that relying upon this statement of the defendants counsel, the plaintiffs did not procure a copy of the grant, that upon the trial the counsel for the defendants in pursuance of said agreement did furnish what purported to be a copy of said original plat aud grant issued from the Secretary of State’s office, remarking at the time. “ Here is a copy plat and grant, we make uo {mint upon that,” tho counsels for the plain tiffs believing, as was stated by the coun sel for the defendants, that it was a copy of the original plat and grant to the lot of land in dispnte, did not critically ex amine it, and it was offered in evidence. The defendants demurred to the bill for want of eqnity, which was sustained by the conrt below, and the bill dismissed. Held, That the allegations in com plainants’ bill make such a case as enti tles the complainants to relief on the ground of mistake, surprise aud misplac ed confidence in the statements of the defendants’ counsel in relation to the copy, plat and grant, whether intention al or otherwise; the more especially as the judgment of this court reversing the judgment of the conrt below, was placed on the sole gronnd that the copy grant was to lot No. 107, as set forth s~ *’ record then before it, but which shown to have been a mistake, and that the lot in dispnte, No. 127, was in fact granted to Scott, nnder whom the plain tiffs claimed and not lot No. 107. Judgment reversed. B. Hill, N. A. Smith for plaintiff in error. Hawkins k Burke for defendant MOB IN PARIS—IMPERIALISTS RUNNING BE TWEEN VERSAILLES AND WXLHHLMSHOHX. Washington, January 28.—The Bona- partists are very active. Pietri Varda! and Gen. Floury are at Wilhemshohe. By tho terms of the capitulation tho National Guards captured at. Longwy are not prisoners of war. Conners pass constantly between Chiselhnrst, Wilhelm- shohoe and Versailles. The Marion Emerson, reported on fire at Bremerhaven was burned to the water’s edge; a small portion of her car go was saved. New Youk. January 28.—A Herald special from Paris 23d says that on Sat urday night a crowd of citizens of Belle ville and other quarters who had been threatening mischief since the failure of sortie on the 19th, gathered in numbers around the prison of Mazos, where Flourens, Milliera and other political prisoners are incarcerated, and after va rious riotous demonstrations, gathering courage, in the absence of opposition, made a regular attack upon the prison and beat down the gates with bludgeons, stones and iron bars. The jailor and turnkeys fled for their lives, leaving the jail free to the rioters who opened the cells, releasing the in mates, until they found Flourens, Mil- liers and their companions, who were carried forth iu triumph amidst cries of 'Abas Fattre / A bus Trochu !" After parading the streets ruffianly, lie crowd stopped and Flonreus made desoeut upon the Maire of the 20th Arrountissemeut, comprising the tur bulent quartern of Belleville, St Lar- gean, Pereela, Chaise and Charonne, in tending to establish the headquarters of revolutionary movement, which it was hoped wonld extend over the whole city. However, as the parade failed to draw any large numbers of followers into ac tive co-operation, and finding those willing to plunge into revolution, were badly armed and almost destitute of am munition, the rioters abandoned their movements. Before dispersing, Flourens called up- l ail present to make oath to meet on Sunday at noon, in front of the Hotel de Ville and there demand pots&sion of ihe Government in the name of tho people. The rioters took the oath with great ve hemence and excitement, aud then broke up into groups aud returned to their homes. London, January 27.—A Versailles correspondent of the London Times writes under date of the 25th inst„ that Favre had returned from Paris yesterday and had another interview with Bismarck. Another emute is leported to have oc curred in Paris. The people in large numbers appeared before the Hotel de Ville and demanded from the Govern ment more sorties, with the cry of “to Berlin !” Tho rising was suppressed I y troops who fired upon the mob, several of whom were killed and wounded. St. Dennis was bombarded on the 24th iust. The French replied feebly. Official dis patches from Paris of the 22d iust., an nounced the separation of the command of the army from the Presidency of the Government. Trocha retains the latter office. Vinoy is new commander of the forces. London, January 27, 5 r. m.—A dis patch from Versailles of the 26th to the London Telegraph says the bombard ment of Paris continues and shells have fallen near the Church Notre Dame. Tho total losses of Germans in the thr< e days, sortie was only two thousand. None of the German batteries except on southern and southwestern sides of Paris throw shells into the city. Fires are still occasionally kindled in Paris' by Ger man shells. The number of French prisoners in Germany on the first of January was 11,160 officers and 33,385 The ladies of Munich resolved to present a laurel wreath to Emperor Wil liam and erect a statue of Von Moltke. The Times says editorially that rumors respecting impending capitulation of Par- e conflicting. The only position seems to be that negotiations are in progress. Paris consents to a parley, and is there fore ready to capitulate. A correspond ent of the Times writes from Paris that there will certainly be more sorties, and probably it will require a firm hand to prevent terrible tragedies, for Paris loathes the word surrender to which it must be forced by its thousands of hun gry mouths. The number of deaths in Paris for the week ending 12th instant, were 4,465—an increase of 387 over the previous week. General Faidherbe is at Dunkirk, making preparations for the defence of that town. The French have destroyed the bridge of Greey, near the town of Laroohe, captaring a few prison- £&y~Tke colored debating club at Bainbridge seems to be flourishing. At tho last meeting the question for discus sion was, “Which is better for the la boring man, to work for wages or part of the crop!” One old veteran, whose head wasas level as a fryingpau, said he thought “bofe was de best, ef dey conld be brang togedder somehow.” There is a remarkable child now living in Detroit. It is a month old, abont six inches long, weighs one pound and two ounces and has never cried since it was bom. “Barrett*.* took tho Silrer Medal. Important Intelligence Paris Surrenders ! End of the French War ! (Special to Sumter Republican.) Washington, Jan. 29,—Official an nouncement of the surrender of Paris on the 28tu inst has been received. Tho German troops occupy the Forts around tho city, and the French troops in Paris are prisoners of war. An armistice of three weeks, by sea aud land, lias been sighed by Bismarck on port of the Germans, and Favre for tlieFrench. H.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, February 03, 1871, Image 1