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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE, JAS. A. WRIGHT, AGENT. THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. Titans—Three Dollars a year, io advance A PARISIAN TRAGEDY. The Baron Alfred de S., whose mother now lives in Tonrraine, came to Paris last winter in ail the pride of title, youth and fortune. He was soon allured into very bad company, when he fell in love with an actress whom he called, in course of time, Sosie. The baroness, oar young hero’s mother, did all in her power to put a stop to the wicked penchants of her son, for a baron who love* an actress, it is clear, is on the road to ruin. Her persuasion, advice and promises were vain ; she told Alfred that their fortuue was not adequate to his expenditure, but still the misled youth took Sosie everywhere ; he had her dressed up like a doll, and she looked like a doll i at the races, the opera, aud even in worse places still. Sosie liked the life she led, she was very fond of herself first, and of a little while pug dog afterwards, but what site enjoyed above ail things was her elegant open ba rouche sum; tuously linen with blue satin and covered with the downiest white rug in which she and her dog would suug’y bury them.-elves and drive round the Buis j behind a fat coachman, sometimes in Al- - fred's company, sometimes without him, ! as the case might he, hut that did not i much matter. These were the —I was' going to say baiony days of life, only I re- ; member it ail happened last winter.— These were, therefore, the feverishly loved, j hitter cold days, though everything was bright, as seen under icicle and gaslight. j One morning, a few days before the \ artists’ ball at the Comedie Francabe, So j sie made Alfred promise her a set of dta- j inondsj all her theatrical associates w ere to attend the fete, jjt which she intended to cicate an immense sensation. Alfred promised witha sore heart; hut he did pro mise, for all that, and ordeieJ the dia monds. Sosie was so deligl ltd that she! published her j.;y far and Many , bUtjpthat was r*jtat-.-jfi<*sre-: aimed <£. Sb&cywr proclaimed would not mind ending his days at Chuhy ‘ for her sake. The eve of the bail earn®,] when, io and behold, the jeweller tent j word that the diamond necklace could not he ready for the following day, but that lie would lend her a splendid set for the occa sion—in paste. Sosie flew into a passion. , Paste, indeed, on her shoulders. (Milk, j she had besmeared them with nothiug else for years.) Then she said some very un feeling things to poor 4^ r ed about the “acting being good,” aw are that she was dishonored in the eyes of her friends, and that there was nothiug left to te done hut jump from the Pont-neuf into the Seine. Allred was wounded to the quick. Sosie’s taunts about the ‘acting,’ as if he had de ceived her, and the, idea of the Pontueuf were too much for him. He seized his hat, which he drew very low over his eyebrows, and Sosie, seeing j him seriously annoyed, would have gone off in a faint if he had not muttered, ‘You shall have real diamonds, Sosie, cost what what they t»ay. He drove home, asked for his mother, and on being told that she was out, walked into her quiet neat boudoir. There he paced up and down in mental anguish, such as the yonng alone feel. ‘ Sosie bad suspected him —ho who had borne so much from her, and had nev er accused her of shortcomings ; hut he loved her, and the diamonds she should have. Suddenly he stoped before a quaint old cabinet in one corner of the room ; his eyes flashed ; he was conceiving some project, and no sooner thought of than he put it in execution, by opening the cabinet door with a small key which he selected from a small bunch in bis mother’s work box, A moment after a wordrous set of diamonds glistened in bis band3. They twinkled through his fingers as he hurried ly slipped them into his breast. Not long after Ke stood before Sosie. She was all bloom and smiles. She knew the man she had tortured with taunts. He was true; be had promised, and would rather die than draw his given word back. “Here they are, Sosie, after all,’ said he, bitterly smiling. Sosie jumped for joy, bared her neck, tried the precious gems on aud looked queenly. “They are my mother’s,’said Alfred, ad miringly. Soaie’s face beamed as threateningly as a thunderbolt. “Your Mother’sl’ “Yes; but she bas lent them to me,’ faltered forth Alfred. ‘You can keep them till your set is sent home; they are finer than those I have ordered.' Sosie’s good looks returned, and on the night of the ball she told all that the dia monds were her's. Towards two o’clock on that eventful night, when the cotillion was merriest, a lady in a shawl and black bonnet made her appearance among the dancers. She walked straight up to Baron Alfred, whose eyes were fixed on Sosie. “Mv son,” said a voice behind him. lie started and trembled from head to foot. It was his mother! “What have you done pith py dia monds ?” asked she, suddenly. ‘For God’s sake, mother, not here,’ an swered Alfred, looking fearfully around. ‘Sosie— they are safe— come away.’ “Have you pawned them, Alfred } We are nearly ruined, you must know. Tell me where lliey are ; I will redeem them instantly.” Just then Sosie stood by his side. ‘•She has them on !” shrieked the mother. “Oh 1 Aihed, your father's first gift to me 1” Alfred seized his mother's arp and draggej her to his carriage. The next day when the Baron Alfred de S.’s servant copiously entered his bed room, he found his master's corpse across the bed, and the following is the contents of a letter from which I copy: Dearest Mother—Forgive me, I can never lift up my head again. My dis grace was public. In the opinion of all I am a thief. I die repentant. ALFRED DE S . The mother's story cannot find room here; but to this day she accuses herself of being the cause of her son’s sucieide. Sosie—and here I loiter; Susie had a pon-r science—on hearing what had happened, rushed to the house of death, flung hermit, at the Bootless’s feet, craved for pardon, passionately thrust herself into the room where Alfred wrs laid out, cast the dia monds on his pillow, w ent home, and al oightdightedrii chalccal stove find stifled the futility VatltFlHf'JHrns hi vnalse, Sosie, too, was hurried; hut, being an actress, the was not allowed to test in hallowed ground, and her remains aio still decaying in the drea miest part of the cemetery. OFFICIAL HI3TORY OF THE CAPTURE OF SURRATT. CONSUL OENEAL MALE'S REPORT. Washington, Jan. 8. —The following is Consul General Halo’s letter iu full rela tive to tjje arrest of Surratt. It is dated at Alexandria, Pgrpt, and addressed to Secretary Seward : “Agency and Consulate General") of the United States of Amur i jca, Alexandria, Egypt, Nov. 27, j 1860. j “Sir—l have the honor to report that in consequence of a telegram, received via Constantinople, from Mr. King, United States Minister at Rome, and of several letters received from Mr. Winthrop, Uni ted States Counsul at Malta, the Mediterra nean wire being unfortunately broken be tween Malta and this place, I have arres ted a man calling himself Walters, dressed in the uniform of a Zouave, who arrived at Alexandria on the 23d inst., in the Steamship Tripoli, from Naples, and who is beleived to be John Harrison Surratt, one of the conspirators for the assassina tion of President Lincoln. “The telegram and sopte of the letters having been delayed in the transmission, I was fortunate in finding the man still in quarantine atpotig the third-class passen gers, of whom there is uo list whatever. It was easy to distinguish him among sev enty eight of these by his Zouave uniform, and scarcely less easy by his almost un mistakable American typo of counte nance. “I said to him at once, ‘You are the man I want, you are.an American? “He said, ‘Yes, sir. I am,’ “I said, ‘You doubtless know why I want you. What is your names “He replied promptly, ‘ Walters.’ “I said, T believe your true name is Surratt,’ and in arresting him mentioned my official position as United States Con sul General. “The director of quarantine speedily ar ranged a sufficient escort of soldiers, by whom the prisoner was conducted to a safe place within the qua rantine walls. Al though the walk occupied several minutes, the prisoner, close at my side, made no re WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, G.-ti FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1867, mark whatever, displaying neither surprise nor irritation. “Arrived at the place prepared, I gave him the usual magisterial caution that he was not obliged to say anything, and that anything he said would be at once taken down in vsritling. “He said, ‘I have nothing to say, I want nothing hut what is right.’ “He declared he had neither passport nor baggage, nor money, except six francs. His companions coofitm his. statement in this respetA- ' They say he came to Naples a deserter from the Papal army at Rome. I find that he has no papers and no clothes but those he is wearing. “The appearance of the prisoner an sweared very well the description given of Surratt t.y the witness Weiehmann, at page 110 of Pittman’s report, officially sept to me by the Government, aud is accurately portrayed in the likeness of Surratt on the frontispiece of the same volume. “Mr. King am! Mr. Winthrop speqk in confident terms of the identity ot the Zou ave Walters with Suratt, and after seeing the man I have not a ‘shadow of a doubt of it. “According to the well established pub lic law of this place, as the prisoner avow ed himself an American, and submitted without objection to arrest by me, on my statement that I acted for the United Slates, and especially as he has no paper to sug gest even a prima facie claim for belong ing to any other jurisdiction, there is no other authority which can rightfully inter sere here with his present •fcastodr, and I good reason for saying that no at tempt at interference will be set cn foot by any jiutbority, whatever pretensious lie urnr make. ‘Tthe prisoner’s quarantine will expiae on the 2!flb. He will tlieu be received into the prison of the local government, which cordially gives me every assistance.’ Steak Ploughs for the Cultiva tion of the Snip.—lt is now proposed to cultivate the soil by steam ploughs- This does appear like something new ’• 'AhipiK-.l from?H9H| pLoi.aridnms been landed at the levee W As the rude mode qf agriculture in years gone by, lias yielded Io the implements of invention generally in use, so it is proposed to supersede these and animal power by the application of machinery and steam. It is stated that Mr. John Fowler, of Leeds, England, in 1836, introduced his patent steam ploughs. Steel ropes are em ployed for the moving of the ploughs, while the engines are stationary, or only moving along the headlands of tho fields. Several hundred sets are said to be iu op eration in England and also it; the Nile Valley of Egypt. The New Orleans Crescent says; “We have the pleasure of announcing that in a short time this machine will be set in mo tion near the city in a manner to afford ample opportunity to planters to te3t its power and its suitability for the greatest agricultural region in the world, tho rich and inexhaustible Valley of the Mississ ippi” , , , “What’s the difference between the late Sultan of Tuikey and the present Sultan 7 One is the Sultan as was , and the other the Sultan Az iz. If you go to a hail in France, abstain from talking to your partnar; and, if you are a young lady, do Dot stare “with effrontery,” but reply civilly when spoken to. A late poet rays: “I gallop up the steeps of fame To win my lady’a hand.” Precisely ; he does it to give a gal a pup (gallop up.) Mr. Henry C. Belden, a member of the bar at New Orleans, has Leen committed for perjury, for swearing falsely that he had property to the amount of 810,000, in order so stand for one Cronan. He has been admitted to bail, the security being fixed at 8500. William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor and W. W. Astor, arid a great many more rich men, ere in Washington. 'They are said to be frightened at the extremes into which the Radicals threaten to plnnge the country. SoareNew England ship pers and capitalists. The people of Chicago, who went into ecstasies over the supply of pure water recently introduced into the city from Lake Michigan, are now puzzling their brains with the problem of how to get rid of the dirty water. They are afraid to turn it into the lake, lest it will return through the tunnel, so they propose to send it southward to enrich the Illinois arms. EXTRACT. From advance sheets of “Alexander 1* Jtaihens, in Public and Private,^ & -ijvKtinry Cleveland, Esq. courage was as undaunted aa hL Jltfsical was unyielding. He came home—ynt before the people—neither asking Sorters nor giving them. “It A reported to him, that Ire had been pjlclairaed a traitor to the Soutll, in a pubwApeech made by one who had held hign p-iilSh in the State. In a personal interv. -with this person, he inquired whether the charge had been made as re ported;:. and though tho charge was de nied, and the parties separated in a friendly manner at the time, yet the words used by Mi. Stephens on that occasion led to a subsequent demand upon him for a retrac tion. lids was refused, and a rencounter ensued. Mr. Stephens was unnripei), while his assnlant, who was more than twice his size and weight, was duly prepared for the reneo»eter which he sought. Upon the refusal to fstraqt the words, an assault, was made upon Mr. Stephens with open knife. 1 his hi? for some lime carried with an umbrella, receiving several wounds upon his aims and breast; but his assailant, rushing upon him with nil his superior force and weight, threw him upon his hack. One blow with the knife, aimed at the heart, would have done its fatal work hut for the fortunate position of the blade of the knife. Another blow, on the other sida, passing between two ribs, severed an intei.vstslery artery. The strong' man thc.q with his left hand on the forehead of his edvereary, and the kuife in his right hand, said, “Now retraot, or I will cut your throat!” The reply was, "NB, never I Cut !”■ A? the knife came, Mrlbrephcns caught it in his right hand, and|witll his left seized the right elbow of hires who wielded it. In this way the struggle lasted until both parties were on ibaj' feet again, and others emne to the rescue. Tho right hand, that, seized the knt> ns it was aimed nt the throat, was peW-kly mangled hy.tlio turning and twist it .*4 tho blade in efforts to get it out of The hemorrhage from the sever have icsulleJ in speedy HHPrTcr the foVfntnttf pieWiictTuf Caßwifebcock, of the United Stains Army, whfse skill arrested it. “The scene occurred in the piazza of Thompson’s Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, on the 4th of September, JB4B. Mr. Ste phens was kid up for several weeks with these wounds. Tho right hand was thought to be permanently disabled. The tendons of several fingers and tho thumb were sev ered. He could not use the hand at al! for about twelve months. In the meantime, he accustomed himself, to write with his left. But to the permanent injury of the right, his bad phirogfaphy is now partly owing.” BOW THE CABLE 10 WORKED. The other day a telegrapher, who had looked into the matter, told me in a few words how the Atlantic cable is worked, I had road column nfier column in the papers in a vain effort to understand how it was done, and was astonished enough, I assure you, to see how simple a thing was tho instrument which talks across the sea. Imagine a small needle—it weighs only three—seventeenths of a grain— set so that either end points to a powerful fixed mag net. Over this needlo is a board in which is a small hole, above and behind which is a blackboard. One end of tho needle, or rather one magnet, is the positive, and the other the negative one. The battery is tajten off’ at one side of tjie ocean by the action of the magnets themselves when the operator at the other side is writing. The batteiy used at either end contains only three cups; a wonderfully small number when yon know that it takes a thousand or more to work the various wires leading out of No. 145 Broadway, the head office here. The application of a current from the battery to the positive magnet at Val eulia induces an attraction of the needle by the negative magnet at Hearts Content, or vice versa. The movement of the nee dle, however, is so very small that it could not be detected by the naked eye. A pow erful magnifier, however, carries the reflec tion of the motion of the needle through the hole in the board above, and transfers it in an enlarged, and with the aid of light, and enlightcd form to the blackboard. The alphabet is similar to, though not ex actly like, the “Morse,” and a motion of the needle one way implies a dash, or the other way a dot; of course as many of each can be made use of as is desirable. The magnets being equally attractive bold the needle statiomvry, ■vyben no other influ ence is applied. Ands'now for the reason why a small battery works the best. It is nctxhat a large battery, as has been pop ularly supposed, would-eat up the conduct ing wire, but that it would make the mo tion of the delicate needle too violent, to use a vulgar pluase, it would be perpetu ally “wabbling about." The small current used has no such effect. I have tried to explain the matter,’in as few words as pos sible, as I heard it myself, from an eminent telegrapher, and trust I have made myself perspicuous to the readers of the Courier. —Evening Post. IMPORTANT PUBLICATION. We are glad to learn that tho National Publishing Company, 407 Minor street, Philadelphia, have in press and now near ly ready for delivery, a history qf the late war, written by the Hon. 4' e sander H. Stephens. There are sow men living so thoroughly competent in evety way to write a com plete and truthful narrative of stirring eveuls of tho late war, as Mr. Stephens. We are assured that lie has spent -much time and labor iu preparing this wotk, and. lias had access to papers and Correspon dence connected with rha’iiy interesting features and incidents of onr lato struggle, which no other writer has ernoyed. Ilia own private correspondence during the few yeurs immediately proceeding hostili ties as well as during their progress, affords a fund of valuable, material for the comple lion of snob a work' as he has underta ken. Mr. Stephens was also for many years a prominent actor in tho scenes and legisla tion which immediately preceded the war, and knows much of tho secret history of those stirring events which precipitated the country into one of the most stupend ous and sanguinary struggles which has ever marked the history of the world. His knowledge of men and measures ac quired from personal observation aud par ticipation in the action of tfie Gjovefn mein, enables him Io biiug beforo the pub lic many of the secret springs which set in I mcnion't he meat revolution through which we have ju»4 The history ot the earlier days o! the Confederate Government, and particularly that portion cf its existence as a “Provis ional Government,” while located at Mont gomery, has never been given to the pub lic. Mr. Stephens was in Montgomery as a delegate to the Provisional Congress from this State, and took a leading part in the legislation enacted there. Many ques tions of immense importance to the then seceded States were canvassed and acted upon thou. The Southern public has long sought a truo record of those days, and opinions have been formed of tho men and measures of that period, which doubtless, a a full, candid and comprehensive statement of tho actual condition of the country and the various measures proposed will tend very much to eolten auil modify. No other rrinn now living, except, per haps,Mr. Davis, can give to the world the true character of the “James River nego tiations” with Mr. Lincoln, during tho lat ter part of the war. The people of the United States, North and South are deeply -nteresled in haying a full arid complete his tory of their transactions, and we nre very confident that in Mr. Stephens’ forthcom ing book we shall an impartial and strictly truthful narrative of all that will be of in terest to the public in relation to these ne gotiations. The character of Mr. Stephens’ mind, his habits of thought, and splendid powers of analysis, together with Ids great hon esty and trulit fulness as a statesman, con spire to point him out as the proper histo rian of the times in which he acted so con spicuous ft part. We know his indomita ble energy and industry, and will be great ly mistaken if his history does not at once place blip n) the head of those whose la bors heretofone in this field of literature hove given them the highest rank in the world of letters. The forthcoming will bo in one volume, of about eight hundred pages, and will he issued from the pfess during the coming year. YVe advise realersand others who desire to have early copies, to send iu their orders to the publishes at once, in order that there may he no delay in securing the work. San Francisco is increasing in size with wonderful rapidity, and a visitor of teu years ago would hardly know the place Where ia Butler? Sis Fredrick Bruce bad all his spoons stolen the other night.— Prentice. VOL. I.—N0 r 41, THE RADICALS AND THE SOUTH -LETTER FROM HORACE GREEDY. Some weeks ago, a genntleman from Jefferson county, Mississippi, addressed a letter to Horace Greely, asking him, m one of the leaders of the Republican party, what the intentions of the party were wit!) reference to the South. Mr. Greely prompt; ly replied in the following letter; Rochester, N. Y.,(Oct. 28, 1866. Dear Sir : —Your letter finds me away from home, engaged in our political canvass. Leaving, with many others, I roust answer hurriedly : 1. I know of no considerable or influen ential portion of the people, North orWest, who expect op desire any general (or other) confiscation of Southern property. I an) perfectly acquainted with most Abolition ists of note — Gerrit Smith, Chsrlps Sum ner, Governor Chase, & 0., and not one of them favors a policy qf confiscation,— Tliad. Stevens and Gen’ Butler may be exceptions, Gen. Butler being anew con vert from the Democracy. 2. Even the lax on cotton—though I think it falls (esgecially) muinly on the consumers, not the producer—is oertain to be' taken off very seen. It is sustained only because of a local rrevenue. 3. I am very sure (hat no Southern man, who remains quietly at home sud at tends to his’bnsineas, will ever be troubled because of his part iu the late rebellion Assassins and house-fcurnprs m»y some times be prosecuted, but oftener those who professud to be Unionists than those who were Rebels. 4- I think the general prevalent senti ment of the North was adverse to any ex action of the South, with regard to polit ical rights for the blocks, till after the New Orleans riots effected a decided change, and I think it pow tjie more prevalent opinion berg that the better portion of the Southen whites will never protect the from murder arid ytrage at the hands of the low-caste whites, and that the right of suffrage for the blacks is indispensable to their safe ly- 5. I think you mislead yourself by a misuse of perms when you talk of the “equality of tna whites atjd blacks.’’ Ia five of the New England States their Con-* stitutiona and laws make no difference, and kuows none between whites and blacks, and yet | think there is far less intercoura or political intermixture between the whites and blacks in Boston, for instance, than in New Orleans. You do not ask the for advice outside your questions, yet I ventuere to proffer this counsel : Let Southern Stoles resolve to establish and mantain, henceforth, a thor ough good understanding with the South; ern blacks. Encourage the latter to hold conventions and select their best men to conser witli your best men, resolved that a perfect good understandino between the two races ohtsll be had. I trust there is no more trouble a-hssd ; but in any case, such nn understanding is of the gravest consequence to all. Yours, truly, Horace Greklj. Loyalty on Picket. —What the Nas tiona! Intelligencer says below of Forney’s Chronicle is equally applicable to the radi cal p-ess generally : “The virtqe that is eternally paraded i| usually and justly considered a spurioul article. But when itjis trumpeted forth on all occasions, and when occasions are in cessantly created for its blatant self-asser tion, it becomes worse than 4qbious. If it adds to tbis a perpetual onslaught on the reputation of others, right-mjpiied men will not only suspect but despise. The staple subjects of the Chronicle are, “ot?r loyalty" and your tteason. Published iu the city of Washington dqring the tyar, with an in cessant dread of the consequences of inde pendent criticism before its eyes, it never dared utter a word, save of fulsome praise and servile adulation, even when conscious that judicious censure would be of service. Then, as now, it systematically slandered every individual and press that did not measure up to its own shameless standard. 1^ Sugar Crop. —Tho New Qrleana Times says the sugar crop of Louisi ana will reach 50.00Q' hogsheads, against 16,009 last year; that only unusual obstacles will keep it below 100,000 next year, and that the old average of 450,000 will be restored in three years. The ,United Presbyterian Church have a College at New Wilmington, Pa. The Rev. Dr. Audley Brown hat declined the chair of Preaiden^.