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pushed Every Thursday Y 'HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, USA WED BY ISFL HENCE AND UNBRIBED BT QAIN.' ^DnJMhnhr Volume 6 BAINBRIDOE, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 3.1876 flie Weekly Democrat. 0EN. E- RUSSELL, - Proprietor. guNBRUHJE, February 3„ 1876. terms of subscription. jvt »nniiin. In a ! l'"*nce, months, in advance, Yri ihree months, in advance, , osrleropy. ' n advance. $2.00 1.004 60 10 among our neighbors Every few vreeke Mrs. Victoria Wood- 1,1,11 mails to our address a marked paper, <„nt lining long expressions of her pecu liar social theories. Were it not for the l, r j-k liusiness we are driving in the wrnp- ping paper trade, we could almost wish tu.it Vic wouldn't litter up our sanctum irith her free-love trash; hut so long as there is a demand for old newspapers here abouts, we gladly welcome her literary in stillments. Members of the Georgia Legislature get seven dollars a day, and tacked on to this is mileage of five dollars for every twenty miles traveled. When it is lemembered tlmt nearly all of them have dead-head ti'-keta over the railroads, it will be seen that the average Georgia law-maker lias a very nobby thing of it. The Tulbolton 8tandard says that it is an outrage to pay the Attorney-General of the State $2,000 per annum, and adds, that there are plenty of lawyers who would take the office for $800. No doubt of it —Mumford, for instance. Tiie Second Congressional District has the best weekly papers in the South. Not title of them hut is lively and spicy. The S T ewn sft-s the proposed completion of the II. & A. It. It., to Eufuula, is ail the l dk in Albany. in the recent prize drill of the Thomas, v:!'• Guards, Sergeant T. N. Hopkins re- c ’ve.l the white plume as the best drilled mm, and Mr. James Evans the red pluinc :i» i • best shot. t):i Sunil iy evening last a negro whs .'•iot i i kumpkin by Mr. Lucius Mansfield, t ie l> ill striking him on the head knock- in: him down but not seriously hurting him il insfiehl thinking tlie negro was a goner, tied. ('mill. rt. iless'nyer: “The other night a im-ry of negroes p.iviod our house singing “iiiil John Brown’s March into Virginia,” pilch "1 to thn tune of “Bully I’.ov Bah!” li i :n led like drawing a cow-hide over a loo e paling.” The young Mripling of the Talbotton ' ford has a new pet name for Georgia Legislators, lie calls them “Spendthrifts.” II ■ fitrdier remarks that “the average leg i dal or will vote for or agaiff5t|any bill if there is a drink of brandy or an oyster supper in it.” If what the young editor says in this particular were tiue—which it is the right of every American citizen to ilou'd—would it not be the old case of the po: charging the kettle with having a dark complexion? The young editor an nounces John II. James as his choice for Governor ■ This—well—but we believe it was ten dollars James paid for that sketch, was it not ? Well, that’s so—ten dollars would buy sereral drinks, wouldn’t they ? The usher will please seat those ladies— we can stand. When a Fort Gaines negro bought a mule, the sheriff levied on him before the trade got cold. .tnJ w Carlton B. Cole, one of the most prominent citizens of Middle Georgia, is dead. The Spring meeting of the Georgia Ag ricultural Society will take place at Bruns wick, on the 8th day of February. The railroads again agree to pass free both ways three delegates from each county, an 1 a full attendance is promised. Cuthbert had a destructive fire last Tuesday night. Five stores were burhed. Thomas county has more oats planted than ever before. Col. Torn Hardeman denies that he has withdrawn from the Gubernatorial race. “Honest Jack Jones” is out in a long defence against the insinuations contained in the Governors late message. Hang your ^newspaper “defences.” Let the people know where their money has gone. The Young Ciseero of the Talbotton 5 indard says Georgia has the “most cor rupt government on earth-” It would pain ns monstrously to think that the youthful curmudgeon was telling the truth. The Southern Farm <£ Slock Journal is the name of a new eight-page paper start ed in Madison by Messrs. Billings & George. We welcome it as an exchange. The Tliomasville people have begun preparations for their annual spring fair. Count Decatur In. The forty-first gin house burned this season is that of Mr. T. H. Willingham, of Dougherty county. The South Georgia Conference of »be African Methodist Episcopal Church met in Savannah last Saturday—Rev. Bishop Wan! presiding. This is the most influen tial body of colored Methodists in the Southern States. As a Church they are doing good service in the moral, social and mental elevation of the race. We enjoyed the last issue of the Talbot ton Standard. We haven’t witnessed such wonderful eloqueace since Mumford quit making speeches at school. “Oh, ye Geor gians!” The bill introduced into the Georgia Legislature, and which Will probably be come a law, proposes to have all the dogs in the State registered in a book provided by the Ordinaries between the first of April and the first of June, the owner pay ing one dollar for registration, declaring the registered number. The dog so regis tered shall wear upon his neck a collar bearing on it the name of his owner and the registered number. A violation of this order subjects the owner to a fine not ex ceeding $50, or imprisonment not exceed ing thirty days. The money arising from the registration qfalogs goes to the public school fund o^f” jhonnty. Any person killing a dog not registered is entitled to receive one dollar. Albany Newt-. “The westward bound lumber train on the Brunswick and Al bany Railroad ran off the track, at half past six o’clock Monday moning last, 20 miles east of Waycross, burying the en gine in the sand and wrecking five cars. The cause of the accident was a changed switch, the work of unknown parties. This accident caused the delay of the up passenger train on Monday night. The Columbus Sun says the Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Company have de clared a dividend of eight per cent.—$4 per share being paid after May 1st and $4 after November 1st. This speaks well for the management to be able to declare a dividend under the depressing trade influ ences of the past year. It also demon strates the superiority of the South for manufacturing. The Northern mills have barely lived. The directory have bought a large lot of new and improved machine ry to add to the productive capacity of the mills, besides erecting a large brick warehouse. A suggestion to Gov. Smith : A con vention is too expensive just now. Give Hon. Mr. W. E. Mumford fifty ceDts and a bunch of violets to write a new Consti tution, and stop this howl about Conven tion. We’re tired of it. The Early County News calls the “fast young men” of Blakely, whiskey-headed simpletons. Mr. C. J Mason, a deck passenger on one of the Columbus river steamers, fell overboard and was drowned. Hon. Geo. 11. Pendleton, of Ohio, made a spech in Savannah on Saturday to a large assemblage of people. He expressed the wish that though the people of this country are as numerous as the waves, yet he hoped they would he as the ocean- one. lie spoke in glowing terms of our “city by the sea,” and of the common wealth of Georgia. Camilla Enterprise -. A few weeks since Messrs. Joseph Ellis and Thomas Palmer of this place, bought out the stock of merchandise, stand, etc., of Messrs. J. A. Jones & Co., in this city. Only a few weeks elapsed, and Messrs. J. A. Jones & Co. opened another store, two doors away from their old stand, and began merchan dising again. Whereupon Messrs. Ellis & Palmer, by their attorney, J H Spence, tile their bill, praying for an injunction restraining Messrs J. A. Jones & Co. from opening another store in Camilla—alleg ing among other things that said J. A. Jones & Co. did agree to leave off selling goods in said town—saying that they were going to move away from the place if they sold out. The case will come on to be heard at chambers on Friday, (to morrow) the 28th inst., before Judge Wright. Messrs. Davis & Lyon represent the Respondents. There is but one case reported in the Books of a similar nature, and will doubtless go to the Supreme Court for final adjudication. The Sumpter Republican makes a propo sition to the effect that a number of farmers, say one hundred, make up a purse, to which each shall contribute five dollars. This would make the sum five hundred dollars. Now each one of these farmers is to select one acre of land which he is to put in cotton. At the end of the year the farmer whojmakcs the biggest crop on his selected acre is to have the purse of five hundred dollars. This, it will be seen, would be practically the same as showing the yield of cotton per acre at a fair in order to take the premium. The good feature about this plan is that each one will have a chance of jvinning in a fair and honorable way the rather large sum of five hundred dollars. Another plan is also proposed in which the stakes are somewhat larger. This second plan is that each of these hundred farmers attree to give to the one showing the biggest yield on his acre the product of all the other acres. By this plan, while each one. should a very good crop be made, will risk losing half a bale, the suc cessful competitor will win fifty bales of cotton. Reports being in circulation that small pox was prevailing to an alarming extent in Savannah, Dr J. H. McFarland, Health Officer of that city publishes tho follow ing card in the News: I am induced to make the following statement by the erroneous reports in cir culation which are injurious to the inter ests of this city: On the 10th of January I made an official report to the Mayor and Aldermen of every case of small pox known of up to date, having then nine teen cases under treatment at the peat house. Since the 10th Instant up to this date, inclusive, I have had three cases sent out of town, and know of no other case or cases, excepting the on e in my last statement, and which B nearly or quite well by this time. Humber 17- current EVENTS The Emperor and Empress of Brazil will visit this country in the Spring. The Boston Post advises Blame to put on the bloody shirt and pull down his vest. The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and Superintendent of public instruction of Mississippi are all to be impeached. A hill making education compulsory throughont the State of Mississippi has been introduced in the Legislature. The ice crop is a failure up North.— Twenty thousand men in New York are waiting for a freeze so they can go to work. The stereotype plates of the Congres sional Globe up to 1873 have been offered to the Government for sale by F. and J. Rives, sons of the founder of that ponder ous publication. The House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee have made a majority report in favor of one Presidential term only. The amendment will be discussed next Tuesday. Street ears of a heavy, unweildly kind are now run in Constantinople. Each car is preceded by a half naked Turk who shouts or blows a horn to warn the people to get out of the way. The New York Times, the leading jour nal • of the Republican party, in an nouncing the place where the next Nation al Convention is to be held, stigmatized Cincinnati as “Porkapolis. ” Charles Francis Adam3 is suid to be worth $2,500,000. And yet some people blame him for being aristocratic. Give nine-tenths of us two millions and a halt each, and the poor man who dares to come betwixt the wind and our nobility had better been born a dog than answer our waked wrath. The Plymouth Church Ring has made of Mrs. Tilton a very unnatural mother. Her daughters Florence and Alice went to sec her on New Year’s Day with presents, which they sent up stairs to her, but she sent them back and refused to see the girls. “Lightning,” an exchange reminds us, “never strikes twice in the same place.” And yet Grant is foolish enough to think that he knows a place in which it is going to strike for a third time Schroeder’s celebrated air ship, which was designed to take the mails from New York to London in twenty-four hours, was reduced to splinters by a severe gale in Baltimore the other day. The vessel was not completed. Several companies of Federal soldiers arrived in New Orleans, and more are ex pected, while a cavalry company has been sent into Southern Mississippi. Yet, Gen. Grant says there are no troops to send to the Rio Grande to protect the Texans from Mexican raids. The Hartford Post declares that the newspapers of Washington are worthless. But they are not. They are not worth reading, it is true ; but for wrapping up cheap packages they are little inferior to the common run of newspapers.—Courier- Journal. The local reporters mention a man who was saved from burglars by the barking of his dogs, the rascals being frightened off by the sagacious brutes. The burglars must have been a pale and inexperienced set. The thief who could not manage a dog would soon either starve to death or be compelled to accept a Government po sition. We adopt the words of the Vicksburg Herald, and say that the current action of the Mississippi Legislature in expunging from the record the base resolution of the former Legislature, indorsing the well- known infamy of General Phil. Sheridan in Louisiana, is worthy of all praise. The New York Legislature has taken a practicable step towards discouraging the tramp who will not work, but insists on eating, by adopting a hill which provides for the relief of all applicants, conditioned on their performance of a certain reasonable task. If they do not accede to this they forthwith declare themselves vagrants, and become liable to the customary penalties. Courier-Journal-. The Cincinnati Gazette tells its readers that “in the popular branch of Congress no Union soldier, or friend of Union soldiers, was elected” to office. Colonel Adams, chief clerk of the House, has long labored under the impression that he was a Union soldier, having been an offleer in the Union army; but as he was never much in the rear, especially when there Was a fight going on, and spent none of his time with bummers in plundering the women of their jewelry and embroid ered petticoats to send home, it is, of course, impossible that the Gazette people could ever have met him during the war, and therefore may not have known that he was a Union soldier. LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. | Ways and Means of the last Congress in Jefferson Bavis t Htunuit J Vjfdj- . The Legislature is still at work, with no probability,’it is thought, of an adjourn ment short of Jhe Constitutional] forty days. SENATE—BILES OFFERED. By Mr.JHarris—To amend sections 242 aqd 243 of t he Code, so as to require Judges of the Superior Courts to alternate so that no Judge shall bold two different terms in the same county consecutively. By Mr. Black—To repeal so much of section 1272 of the Code as requires the Governor to issue new bonds in lieu of those cancelled. By Mr. Simmons—To require guardians to settle with female wards on marriage; also to define the liabilities of life and fire insurance companies to persons insured. By Mr. Kibbee—To define liabilities of the State as owners of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad; also to empower Judges of the Superior Courts to employ stenographers in their courts; and also to provide for juries in trials of cases of for cible entry and detainer. The following bill was lost: To declare dogs not to be subject of simple larceny. Mr. Harris—To amend sections 920 and 934 of^the Code so as to require Tax Col lectors and Receivers to keep a standing advertisement of their appointments; also to authorize the issuing of garnishments in distress warrants. “There exist,” says the Atlanta corres pondent of the Augusta CXrotieie, a grow ing conviction that all exemption laws ought to be repealed. Men of business experience say no capitalists in the world will seek Georgia as long as she maintains such a system of laws—laws that will not secure creditors in their investments unless they bs dealing every time with honest men.” BILLS INTRODUCED. In the HouSe, the following new bills were introduced: Mr. McGill—To relieve plaintiffs in fi. fa. cases from paying advertising fees in certain cases. Mr Shelnut—To amend section 529 of the Code, so as to require a license of $100 to retail spirituous liquor and $50 to sell in any quanties. Mr. Jones, of Buke—To appropriate money to the purchase of arms for volun teer military companies in this Stale; also to appropriate money to meet expenses incurred by certain counties in quelling recent disturbances. Mr. McAfee—To amend section 1844 of the Code, so as to require judgment in Ordinaries courts against guardians to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court. By Mr. Bacon, of Bibb county—To reg ulate the mode of trial in certain civil cas es, and providing for a special verdict in cases named. By General Lawton—To amend the law of injunctions so as to require bonds to be given before the granting of injunction to stop the sale of property under execution; also, to provide supplement proceedings against judgment debtors after the return of executions satisfied: By Mr. Black—To require municipal corporations to levy a tax tc pay interest on the bonds and to prevent the resigna tion of officers to avoid services of legal process; also, to compensate Ordinaries for returns of marriages, births and deaths. By Mr. Rudicil—To establish a depart ment in the deaf and dumb asylum for the reception of colored deaf mutes. The Convention question is creating great excitement in the House, ami the Speaker cannot keep down the applause. Col. Warren made an eloquent and forci ble speech in favor of a convection. The discussion will continue to-morrow, and promises to be heated and exciting. The convention men call forth prolonged ap plause, but still the result is not certain. The wire-pullers are at work here quite lively manipulating for candidates for Governor. The air is full of political prognostications, and a lively contest is at hand. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS- Washington, Jan. 25.—In the Senate, Sargent presented a petition to allow women in the District of Columbia suf frage. He said the movement was making progress. He knew no better place to make the experiment than in the capital of the country. Referred to the District Committee. There were additional petitions for the Texas Pacific Railroad. The citizens of Wisconsin petition for the abolition of the Senate of the United States. Referred to the Judiciary Com mittee. Gordon introduced a bill for the relief of Wm. S. McComb, of Georgia. The Finance Committee of the Senate agreed to report favorably on the nomi nation of McGrew as Auditor of the Post office Department. The House committee agreed to report a bill to allow criminals to testify in cer tain cases. The object is supposed to be to learn what Joyce knows about the whiskey frauds. In the House, several finance bills were introduced, one funding lngal-tendere by forty-year four per cent, bonds, not over three millions per month. By Ward—Protection of life on steam boats. _ Mackey.—Improvement of Charleston harbor. Riddle—the improvement of Cumber land river. Blount—The improvement of the Alta- maba and Ocmulgee riven. Morrison, from the Committee on Way* and Means, reported a resolution directing the papere laid before the House and the testimony taken before the Committee of regard to the Pacific Mall subsidy, be taken from the Speaker's table and re ferred to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to enquire what action should be taken by the House in reference to per sons now members of the House who are charged with complicity in a corrupt use of money for that purpose or with giving also testimony in relation thereto. Adop ted. The Election Committee were ordered to inquire into the nature and history of the real estate pool in which Jay Cooke & Co. were interested. Rainey offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a full and complete report from the Commis sioners of the Freedman’s Bank. Adop ted. Holman offered a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether improper and fraudulent means were resorted to to Influence legislation on the Texas Pacific Railroad bill of the 3d of March, 1871, and whether contracts and combinations were subsequently entered into by the company in violation of that act. Adopted. Morton introduced a bill for the relief of General Rouseau. On motion of Mor ton certain papers purporting to be the credentials of Mr. Eustis as Senator from Louisiana, were referred to the Committee Privileges and Electiona. Adopted. Davis’s Treasury investigation resolu tions were resumed, and the resolutions amended that investigations be made by the Finance Committee of the Senate instead of a special committee. Adopted by a vote of 28 to 23. Booth,of California, voted with the Democrats in the minori ty. The bill removing the disabilities of Geo. G. Hawkins, of Louisiana, was passed. The bill creating a liquor commission was discussed. Cox introduced a bill to abolish the Bureau of Education. The Railroad Committee of the Senate agreed to recommend the passage of a bill to extend the time of the completion of the North Pacific Railroad eiqj^ years. The Postmaster General wti# before the committee of the House explaining certain operations of the department. It is intimated in certain well-informed circles that three ex-Trcasury officials are indiclud for complicity in Parkman. Brooks & Co.’s transactions. Nothing of ficial is accessible. Defeat of the Stearns Ring- Oar telegrams from Tallahassee give the gratifying information that Stearns and his organised gang of plunderers have been defeated in their cunning and per sistent attempts to take posession of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Rail road. It was the intention of the ring, provided they had carried out their purposes, to place the road once more under the corrupt control of that well known bond thief and fugitive from justice, Milton S. Littlefield. Under his manipulation the road would become a mere instrument in the hands of the Radi cals to defeat the plans and purposes of those who desire to see the State adminis tration once more in the posession of hon est and capable hands. For several years it has been under the control of a set of corrupt and unblushing aliens whose in terest in the welfare of the State is bound ed by the amount they can steal from the tax-payers. The decision alluded to in our special telegTams is a very severe -blow to the Stearns crew. It takes out of their hands a large and important amount of official patronage, and leaves them, so far as the road is concerned, to depend upon other resources of their knavery. The decision is also important in relieving the tax payers of Florida from paying the uncon stitutional bonds issued by the State to the road, and appropriated to his own use by Milton S. Littlefield, who is believed to have sold them in Germany and other countries and pocketed the proceeds. Altogether the victory is a notable one, and as a triumph of right and justice over fraud and corruption, seems to be a fore runner of the complete redemption of the people of Florida from Radical and carpet-bag rule.—Sav. News. os ted—The Injustioe Done Eia. [From the Baltimore Sun ] We have before stated that the Rich mond Examiner, the leading newspaper opponent of Jefferson Davis during the war in the South, as well as the moat extreme in its denunciation of the Northern invaders, constantly attacked Mr. Davis for his merciful disposition towards Northern prisoners. We call ed the attention of Mr. Blaine to this fact, which is so irreconcilable with his attempt to identify Mr. Davis with al leged cruelties and attoeities to North ern prisoners in the Sbuth. As Mr. Blaine may not have access to the files of the Examiner, we ask his attention to the following extracts from that journal; They are collected from a volume enti tled “The Richmond Examiner During the War; or, The Writings of John M. Daniel (the editor), with a Memoir of his Life, by his brother, Frederick 8. Daniel: New York, 1868.” Said ths Examiner on one occasion : “Retaliation is the principle at the foundation of criminal law. The Uni ted States are conducting the war in a style which can only be characterized as diabolical. The Senate of the Con federate States seems to have fully reo- ognized this truth. But, while it has promised, preached, denounced and vapored, we are yet to hear of one sin gle practical act of that nature on ths part of the Confederate authorities, mil itary or civil. What will the civilized world think of us ? These and the like puerile conceits constitute the key to much of our conduct in this war.”— Richmond Examiner, September 2, 1862. “The South wants no more ministers or ageute smuggled into Washington (to treat on the manner of conducting the war) to be insulted there and dismissed. The proposition to mitigate the horrors and severities of the war is curiously introduced into the Confederate Con gress at the very, moment our armies arc passing into the enemy’s territory It proposes a sentimental appeal to the people of the North, calls them ‘our brethren,’ and declares that we would Still moke thorn out (Plio li-no for this stuff about brotherly love is past.”—Examiner, Sept. 11, 1862. “But a short time since Mr. Davis came out with a solemn publication of his intention to punish the vio’ation of the rules of civilized a wby Pope and his officers. Our brave troops having taken h number of these officers prison ers, they were brought here to Rich mond and placed in confinement. Only threats.”—Examiner, Decant bar , 10, 1863. “If the Confederate capital has been in the eloeest danger of maantire and conflagration *if the Preiridewt and Cab inet have run a serious risk of being hanged at their own doors, .do we. not owe it chiefly to the milk-sod-water spir it in which .he war has beeit hitherto conducted ? It is time to ask in what hght are the people of the Confederate States regarded by their own govern ment. It is time that oar kind and re ligious rulers shall begin to show mercy to us and put robbers and fire-raiders to death. The government is nerve less and vacillating as usual.”—yTho Examiner, Inarch 5 and Maroh II, cm the Dahlgren raid. “It is sad when your leader hafSW^ ’ dragged and goaded to make him *> much as follow. A government ought to be the head and heart of ft national movement, not the tail, nor the poste rior.”—Examiner t March 26, 1664. “The President’s stern aei£-wUl is for us, his confederates; his gracious gentleness for our foes.”—April8, 1864. “With regard to t.;e brutalities com mitted by the enemy upon otr dftffinse less old men, women and ohildren the President (in his message, thinks there is a mode of redress and eventually re* paration. ‘Sooner or later,’ he says ‘Christendom must mete out te them the condemnation whioh such brutality doserverf.’ Upon which the editor re marks, ‘We doubt this; we ihouid like to have a better security,—May 4, 1864. , In the Examiner of Jnly 22, *1864, appeared an amusing burlesque pur porting to bo a letter from a Japanese commissioner visiting the South’, to'his government, in whion the following sa tirical allusions are made to 1 Mr. Davis: “My interview- with the Tjrooon (Davis) was highly satisfactory, and be* fore I left his presence I was convinced that of all barbarians be is the ' great est. He is mild aud'geade towards his enemies bit governs his people sternly sad firmly. Should your Impe rial Majesty desire, in times of wmt, to increase the efficiency of yonr troops, you have only to allow a band of your enemies to ravage and destroy their homes, murder their fathers, sad out rage their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. Occasionally some of those ho commit such deeds here are taken tPlio »i.np nriaoners, Instantly a fev son trot tan In the Christian Index appears a report signed by Rev. C. M. Irwin, Secretary, from which we glean the following facts : Of 1,000 churches connected with the as sociations represented in the State con vention, 500 have adopted some syste matic method of collecting funds, while 400 have contributed something to the mission and Sunday School work. Only five associations ignore missions and Sun day Schools. $33,000 were contributed for missions, which includes the State Sunday School work. The result of mis sionary labor for the year was : Baptisms, 3,700 ; c hurches organized, 49 ; Sunday Schools, 50; evergreen Sunday Schools, 390 ; Schools that close pvt of the year, 480; new Schools organized by Superin tendent Boykin, 227 ; conversions in Sun day Schools, 640; scholars and officers, 34,800. The international lessons are in general use, aad the conventions and in stitutes popular. Gratiot Washburae, who has just been appointed secretary of the United States legation at St. Petersburg at a salary of $4,000 in gold, has been acting as travel ing agent for Myers’ circus in Paris, where he was an attache of the American lega tion. last week the resolution of the Presi dent melted down. Pope’s officers were all sent home on the cartel. - ”—Exami ner, Sept. 29, 1862. “Hainan experience has yet disoov* ered but one means of preventing vio lent crime. It is by violent punish ment.” “The Confederate Government knows the right and still the wrong pursues. Sir President Davis’s proc lamations and pronunciamentoe, his horrible threaten! ngs and gloomy ap peals have been so often repeated that hey are the sneer of the world But never have they resulted in one solitary performance. He is very obstinate, very bitter, when he gets in a quarrel with some Southern officer, over whom the law gives him temporary control. But wbem his duty brings him in con tact with the enemy be is as gentle as the sucking dove. “Lately the question of retaliation has come up in a form singularly di rect, Two Confederate recruiting offi cers in Kentucky were captured and hung, on the ground that Kentucky was one of the United States, a prece dent which, as all the other States are claimed by the UnioD, would, if unpun ished, hang every recruiting officer in every State of the Confederacy. The point was too plain to be evaded, and the government ordered two Yankee of ficers to execution. But instead of hanging them, it commissioned no less considerable a personage than Mr. Stephens, the Vice President of the re public, to arrange a back door of mercy to the enemy, and of cruelty to its own people. Mr. Stephens was sent to Washington with a letter of credence to Mr. Lincoln, and another of instruc tion to himself from President Davis, in which it was indicated -that if the Fed eral Government would mitigate the horrors of war the Confederate Gov ernment would be happy to indulge in boundless compassion to the two Yan kees aforesoid.’ The Vice President was not permitted to proceed farther than Hampton Roods.”—Examiner, July 16 1867. Commenting on President Davis’s message of December, 1863, the Ex aminer says : ‘‘The story of the Yankee cartel is clearly told, bat no reasonable excuse is aaade for the unprecedented indulgence which permits the enemy to send luxu ries to Belle Isle, while our soldiers This is about the only important local starve in captivity on Johnson’s Island, item in the Dawson Journal this week: An eloquent recapitulation of the bar- “Paris and New York ladies have discard- barities of the enemy concludes the mes- ed f»l— hair. Dawson lsd’f* will do so sage, which induced Mr. Davis to threat- abprn spring ” retaliation aad not to fulfill hia persons det be put to death. At once'the Tyooon takes them under his protection, treats them, with the greatest kindness, aad, as soon as possible, sends them back to their own country. There , are many persons among the barbarians who vio lently oppose the oonduot of the Tyapos, but they are had and unpatriotio qwn, who are unwilling to lose their all that. the Tycoon may have an opportunity of exhibiting his wonderful humanity, which is, indeed, the most remarkable ever exhibited by any earthly ruler.” From the beginning to the end of tho war ridicule of the moderation of Mr. Davis to . Northern prisoners was the constant burden of the Examiner: Who can believe that such a miut was privy to crueltyat Andersonville or any where else f Yet if the editor At thn Examiner, who constantly sneered at his humanity, were living. Would have been amnestied yea?,, while Mr. Davis continues to be ‘ exolq^ed from its privileges! - r jiaiotr* It is a Colorado girl who is spewing. in the Laramie Sun to her bashful lover; “Nobby, you’ve bin foolin’ 'round this claim for mighty near is year, an’ her never yet shot off yer mouth on the marryin’ bis. I’ve cottoned to var on the square clean through, an’ her stood off every other galoot that has tried to chip in ; an’ now I want yer to come down to business or leave the ranch. . If yer on the marry, an’ want a pard that’ll stick rite to ye till ye pea* in yer cheeks, an’ the good Lord calls ye over the range, just squeal arf we’ll bitch; but, ef that ain’t yer game, drew oat an’ give some other feller s' show for hia pile. Now, sing yer flong or skip out. You bet he sirog. ’ . A young gentleman met a lady friend in the street, and seeing a roll in her hand, which he supposed to be' mono, asked her what it was. “You'Ve been Drinking,” she curtly responded. “Why —why—” stammered the youth, blush ing prodigiously and overwhelmed with confusion, “why, I have not touched a drop today. The young lady looked him steight in the fate and repeated, “I my, you’ve been drin—Mi before she could finish he fled seroas the street, and she was compelled to send him a note the next morning explaining that “You’ve been Drinking” wna-the titte of the piece of taiMie she earned. The first newspaper, says Figaro, which appeared in England, W«s pub lished at the time of the threatened 8panish invasion la 1683. It waa la* sued by die government for the resaw, asstetad, “that the publication is the sorest means of making the truth knows to the people,aadofoonteadtsgagainst the sin of lying sad exaggerations ef ealomny.” Tho .oldest anber ef thin journal extant • No 60, July *, 1MB*. now in the British Hutto*.