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HSR*LD.
OP THK
Thn Pontage Law of tbe last seneion of Con-
grena, while largely reducing the rates on
newspapers, requires that in all canes after
January 1. M75, thn postage shall be paid in
aifcreaceat .the place of mailing. It will
therefore beoome necessary for publishers to
attend to th i a payment instead of subacri-
fete-
Tha postage heretolors paid by subscribers
nw the tr.wi.r., has been at the rata of
ft 30 per year on the Daily, and 20 cents per
yrn* on the Weekly. Hereafter, on snbocrip-
0nns running after tbe 1st of January, sub-
anribars will pay no postage at their home
pastoffloea, but in remittances to this office it
will be necessary to add to the nsnal subscrip
tion price of the paper tbe following rates for
the prepayment of postage:
On Daily, one year 00 cents
** six months ..00 cents
•• three months ....15 oents
In other words, the price of the Heealij, to
mail subscribers, will hereafter be at the rats
fX'jstJBT MW tent.
In our 'artiole of yesterday wo advocated a
reatorr.'iion of the Usury Law* because itin-
orerjed the non-producer^ by increasing thg|
number of money I mders without making
money cheap. To-day we will endeavor to
show that money being the general medium
of commerce and exchange is more uni
versally needful than any other species of val
ue, end therefore should be so regulated that
it may do the greatest good.
A banker possessing two hundred thousand
dollars, which is In general circulation among
tbs people, can oppress tbe community at bis
will more than be coaid do with ten million
of any kind of property. All that is neces
sary is for him to say to each debtor as he
oomes up to renew his note, “Times are very
hard, money is scarce, the bauk needs money
and it is impossible for me to renew at the old
rate cf interest. I would like to accommo
date you, but I can do better with my money
and 1 must charge you the rate that street
brokers are charging if you can t pay."
poor debtor cau’t help himself,and he straight
way agrees to the terms. This at once fright
ens the banker, for he knows fall well that no
man can live at the rates he is already charg
ing and he therefore demands additional se
curity. The security is given and the time
for payment again comes round only to make
the banker feel that as bis hazard lor collect
ing is increased be must increase
his premium. This thing goes on with
accelerative foroe until very often both lender
and borrower are involved in common ruin.
We bean) a famous money-lender remark that
he was wilting to go before a magistrate and
swear that he had broke lending money at 5
per cent, per month. He said, like Sampson,
he had broken everybody who borrowed irom
CONGRESSIONAL.
Second Session op the Forty-third
Cokgbess.
THE WAR OF RACES.
Bostobt op tbe Vicksburg Affair.
WASHINGTON
Seoond Day’s Proceedings.
Citizens under Arms and all tbe
Roads Picketed.
of $10.60 for tbe Daily and $2.15 for the him, and they had ali gone down in the gen-
Weeklv, which wilt include prepayment of
poitige—payment in all cases to be made in
advance.
The saving in the snm thus paid for postage
by snbscribers is clearly apparent in these
figures, amounting to one-half in the Daily,
mil nearly as much in the Weekly edition.
In ciaims of failure to remit the amount thus
charged for postage, the difference will bo
charged against the time for which the paper
is gent. And in *t.t. cases where subscribers
ere delinquent, we will be compelled to erase
their names, as it will require a daily outlay
on our part larger than we can afford to pay
poetage for delinquents.
CoL G. W. Adair, in his able letter in fa
vor of the re-enactment of the usury lutts,
said that the whole world had been living too
fid, and that fate re generations had a mort
gage upon their industry which never could
bg paid. This led us to ascertain the nation
al debt of the principal nations of the world,
and below we present a statement compiled
from the New York Daily Record, which fools
*P“ “ onnon » » monEU Tbe °‘ lLe | Lid>1en away until the Htonn blows over,
n^ional debt in this country.reqmreB the an- \ ^ the „ ott „ u .. rop Hn<1 Um grain
noal tax of *3.75 per head. This dm* not, cQm6# , o JIiarket _ lhf . HtmeI net , ds
include the State debt, or the county , or mu- a[i1matitwlU i9t ^ as
nicipal obligations. In Georgia, which has 1
eral smash.
How are panics brought abont ? By the
power which free money gives. A few capi
talists get together and determine to bring
down the price of wheat or cotton. They
have their agents or t spies in every bank.
They learn that A has a hundred thousand
dollars lying in bank at 4 per cent. They go
to him and say we would like to borrow this
money, and will give you 1 per cent, per
month. A readily agrees, provided the se
curity is satisfactory. They reply, we don't want
the money, just leave it where it is for sixty
days and here is your interest if we should
be compelled to draw it lrom bank, will de
posit sufficient collaterals. Iu this way A’s
money is locked up, and this process is re
peated until millions are locked up. Money
at once becomes scarce, stocks are thrown on
tbe market until tbe market is glutted, tho
saving of mechanics aie drawn fiom
tbe banks in consequence of the want
of confidence thus produced, and
capita! which was thus massed to ai,l the law
ful business iff this country is scattered by be-
as small . debt in proportion to her resources
..a population, as any other titata, tbe annu
al interest is fifty cents per bead, which added
to tbe national allotment, makes $4.25. Now,
take the city debt of Atlanta, and tbe county
debt of Fulton, and it will appear that the
avenge tax which every American citizen of
Atlanta pays to discharge tbe annual interest
amounts to neatly tan dollars per head. This
tax lalla at last upon tbe labor of tbe oountry,
and it oertainly is a very heavy one, reaching
at least tujgtw tenth of tbe productive power
of every laboring man, because there are few
laborers who eaa clear more than one hun
dred dollars per annum. Let ^cities, as well
a* individuals, adopt Jon Randolph's motto,
whioh ha said was the philosopher's start,
“Pay as yen go,” and there will be fewer bor- j Congress,
rowers.
these money kings see fit. to give him.
Now it may be asked, what has tbe usnry
law got io do with this? A greet deal, be
cause if it had not been for the increased rate
ofinterestofieredtoA.be would have pie*
ferred a low but safe rate of interest, rather
than have his money locked up; ao it is very
plain that it requires but little riflection to mb
that money is not like property. Its posses
sion gives qu amount of power that does not
belong to real estate, stocks or auv species
whatever of property. We say thorefo.-e, to
the Legislature, hamper it, take control of it,
and keep it under all the restrictions which
the Constitution of the United States will
allow.
SENATE.
Washhioton, Deo. 8 Spencer, of Ala-
bama, introdnoed a bill to provide for the
transfer of certain cases from the district to
the circuit oourt in tbe State of Alabama.
Ordered to be printed and lie on the table.
A large nnmber of publishing firms ask for
a change in the postal laws.
West, of Lonisi&na, introduced tbe follow
ing bill : direots the Postmaster General, with
out delay, to construct a line of telegraph
from Washington to Boston via Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York and Hartford, to be
operated in the post- offices of those cities by
appointees of the Postmaster General, under
such regulations and at such rates of tariff as
be may presonbe; provided that the rates
shall be uniform to all persons, with such
uniform redaction to the newspaper press as
may be deemed by him advisable; and pro
vided the rates shall be adjusted to meet and
not exceed the expense of operating and
maintaining said line, etc., providing a net
income equal to 5 per cent, interest on the
original cost of tbe same.
The bill proposes to appropriate $600,000
for the foregoing purposes.
Chtndlers bill amendatory of Section 110,
of the National Currency Act of 1864, and
Section 9 of the act ot July 13, 1866, provides
that they shall not be construed either in
pending cases or otherwise to apply to evi
denoe of actual indebtedness issued by any
mining, manufacturing or other corporation;
or by individuals, except banks and bankers,
prior to the enactment of this bill ; but Bball
apply to such evidences of indebtedness is
sued thereafter on positive proof ol their be
ing calculated and intended to circulate as
money,
Wright's Dill proposes to reduce the salary
of the President, after this term, to 25,000
dollars.
Harvey’s bill provides that homestead and
pre-emption settlers, whoso crops have been
seriously injured this year by the grasshop
pers, may be absent lrom their lands till June
1st, 1875, without forfeiture of their existing
rights.
Spencer, ot Ala., introduced a bill to pro
vide lor the transfer of certain causes from
this district to the circuit court iu Alabama.
Davis of West Virginia submitted a resolution
calling on the President for information, which
will enable Congress to bring the Freedman's
Bureau functionaries to tee front. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Reports from various committees are being
read and aoted on. None of them important.
Poland made a report in regard to Arkan
sas, which was ordered to be printed.
The bill reducing tbe allowances to hank
examiners, passed.
The hill amending tho national bank act,
in tbe matter of proceeding in liquidation,
was postponed till to-morrow. A large num
ber ot bills were introduced And referred and
then the House went into a committee on the
geueral callendar, and took up the bill intro
duced last session by Kelley, of Pennsylva
nia, providing for the issue of 3-C5 bonds,
convertible and reconvertible into currency.
A long and important debate sprung np on
this bill, whicn was advocated by Kelley and
Butler, of Massachusetts, and opposed by
Garfield,, of Ohio, and Dawes of Massachu
setts. It . naily went over without action
Adjourned.
Notes and
Jottings
Capital.
ABOUT THE
THE MESSAGE.
Comments of the New York Press.
'Not rer Joe**—Milt Gaudier s scut in
-Joe Mills and the
EXIT DLHRKii.
Judge Dun-el, who is now in this city, was
interviewed by a Tribune reporter, by whom
he is represented as seeing that “he was tbe
victim ot a party exigency. That the head
and front of his offense was the literal con
struction of the enforcement act—a bad law,
and known te him as inch, passed by a Re
publican Congress, seeking to perpetuate the
Republican party—which he lound on the
RtatnteBook, and executed impartially. He
gave in detail his objection to the law as etrong
as its worst enemy coold desire, and said that
when its popularity and inexpediency had
been exposed, he was deserted by those who
passed tbe law, and by them accused of~over-
•teping his anthori|y.
• And—when I am forgotten, m I shall b«
And Sup in doll cold Marble, whera Bo mention
Of am waW be heard of—My I fought thee—
Bey, WoelMy—that oacetrod the way* of glory,
And sounded all tbe depth* end ahoele of honor—
Found thee » way. out of Ms wrack, to rise la;
▲ sure end Mfe one, though thy master mind'd K.
Mark but my fell, and that that ruined me,
Cromwell, I charge the. fling away ambition;
fiy that ala fall the Angeli; ( how can man then,
The imtge of hie Makar, hope to win by it ?
Love thyself last: Cherish those hearts that Latr- thee;
Oerrupttoo wins not more than honesty
Rttll iu thy right hand earry gentle peace
To Mleaee envious tongues. Be just and fear not. j
Let all the end* thou almost at, be thy country's
Thy Gads, and trnth’a; aid then If thutT lair at.
O, Cromwell,
Thou faU'st a bleaaed martyr. Serve thee the King;
and prithee lead me on;
Then take an Inventory ef all I have.
Te the last penny; 'tie the Xing's: my robe
had mj integrity .to heaven is ali
1 dace sow call mine ewa. O, Cromwell, Cornwell
Had I but served my God with half the z ai
I served my King. He would nok In miue age
Have left me naked io mine enemies.”
The Siamese Twins.-]
Hon. John A. Wimpy.
Tbe Washington Capital makes tbe follow
ing allegations respecting President Grant:
“The President assisted ifl a private box at
Toole’s performance last Thursday n.gut, and
tbe opinion prevailed among the disiiiierested
of thu orchestra chairs that, judging from np-
pearu2.ee, ho would not be troubled with tbe
third term. His Excellency, we are pained to
write, is not iu the best ot health; and, al
though poa&etksing an iron constitution, if not
more earefoTTT Imasrtf, he will not be about
much longer to tr^nLle the, politicians.
late, we learn tbut he has U-efi extremely care
less ot his health, 1 ' - \
This means in plain language that theTrea-
ident was conspicuously drunk at the theatre,
and has ot late been ireqaently seen in that
condition, and we dare ®ay it is tiuc. Rut
the idea that his health is undermined by
anefai pyacUci.s is mistaken. He is a man ot
j extraordinary sticii^tn and endurance, and
1 ultnoug j lie is in danger ol becoming a con
firmed drunkard again, as he was when he
was obliged to resign from the nrtny in Cali
fornia iu 1851, there is no probability that his
lile will be betiomJy abbreviated by that
caute. Such is ihe quality of his nervous
system that he can got drunk pretty olten and
coxae fresher oat of it than other men; and so
it will probably be to me end.—X Y. Oun 26th
Such paragraphs aro simply scandalous. If
they are trne, President Giant ought to be
impeached. II they are false, and in all
probability they are, tho Ameticxn people
ought to bo ash&Uio<l to patronize papers
whieh indu'ge in such slanderous publica
tions. The Northern people have been ac-
[bx telegraph to the herald. ]
New York, December 8.—The Herald says;
The message of Grant is a more creditable doc
ument, both in point of reasoning and literary
execution, than its predecessors from the same
source. The President makes it clear enough
that in his views the three principal causes of
his party are, a prostration in business, the
condition of the Southern States, and the un
successful experiments in reforming civil ser
vice. This is not directly stated, but it is
necessarily implied in the texture of his views
on those subjects. The sum of the message,
so far as it has a party bearing, is a commit
ment of tbe President to the restoration of a
sound currency, a prom iso to treat the South
with justice and abandon civil service reform,
unless Congress supports it by legislation.
This is the programme of President Grant for
reinstating the Republican party. The Presi
dent has got the Spanish question into such a
state, that it can be fanned into a flame when
ever he thinks it expondient. He relics on
the country to support him in war when the
abolition of slavery in Caba and the breaking
of the yoke of colonial servitude will be the
leading ideas, but General Grant makes a stu
pendous mistake if he thinks he can play this
game with success. If he has pigeon-holed
our just complaint against Spain with such
purpose, he will havo cause to regret the day
that he meditated such a trick. Financial re*
commendations of the message are sound in
principle but defective in details.
The Times considers the President’s views
on finance to have undergone no change, and
a proposition to repeal the legal tender clause
is sound. The President in stating that he
will sustain Kellogg does not say what he will
do about Packard or Casey which is a pity.
The Times thinks the President’s reterance to
Southern matters is plain advice, given in
kindness and frankness. We are sorry that
he announces his intention of abandoning the
civil service reform, unless Congress distinct
ly supports it by legislation. It was an at
tempt that promised much, and might have
been made to yield great fruit. With his re
commendation as to specie payment and free
banking, we are in entire sympathy.
The Tribune consideis this the best mes
sage of the Preoident, probably because writ
ten under the chastening of the late elections.
It condemns his position towards Louisiana,
but commends nearly all the rest of the mes
sage.
Tho San says the President’s message is
reasonable, sound and theoretical on hard
[by tklzoraph to the herald.]
Vicxbbubo, Dec. 8.—There has beeen for
some time troable brewing between the tax
payers association, citizens and county offi-
cials. The sheriff was aotiDg without a legal
bond and,the board of supervisors refused to
order a new one, although the time for paying
taxes bad arrived.
Two or three other officials wero under in
dictment for forgery and embezzlement, and
citizens, despairing of any relief from parti
san courts, held a meeting last Wednesday,
and in a body proceeded to tbe oourt house to
demand the resignation of the sheriff; chan
cery clerk, auditor and coroner. All fled ex-
oeDt sheriff Crosby, a negro, and he signed
his resignation. Saturday a card appeared in
the streets signed by Crosby, calling on all cit
izens of tbe county, Republicans, white and
black, to come to his aid and support him in
his position. Crosby, publicly and through
the newspapers, denied the authorship of the
card, yet this morning armed bodies of ne
groes appeared, advancing on the city from
six different roads. The alarm was sounded
about 9 o'clock, and the citizens gathered en
masse armed, and immediately advanced to
meet the negroes on Baldwin's ferry road. The
negroes were met jast outside the city on Grove
street, about 200 strong. The negroes were
warned to disperse, but they refused aad fir-
ing immediately began on both sides. The ne
groes retreated about one mile and again made
a stand in the old breastworks and house, but
were soon routed.
The loss in this engagement was one citizen
Oliver Brown, who was killed. There was
about twelve or fifteen negroes killed and s v-
eral wounded, and about twenty prisoners
were taken on the Hill Ferry road. About
two hundred and fifty negroes wero met and
routed after a short engagement, with several
killed and wounded. Andrew Owens, who
cemmanded the negroes in Baldwin’s ferry
road, was captured and committed to jail. In
an interview with a reporter, Owens says he
was ordered by Sheriff Crosby to come to the
city to-day with all the armed men he could
get together. Andrew Stockhouse from New
ton, one of the captured negroes, sajs an or
der for all the negroes to come to Vicksburg
this morning, was read in church Sunday.
Crosby who is under guard at tbe court house
denies that he gave any such orders as repor
ted this evening. The negroes are commit
ting depredations in the country. The intense
excitement that prevailed this morning is sub
sided to a great degree, yet many citizens are
under arms, and all roads are picketed. The
latest evidence just received renders it abso
lutely certain that governor Ames end his at
torney general George E Harris, incited and
advised an invasion of this city by negroes to
day. This evidence hA&_ been laid before the
ablest lawyers of the efty with a view to arrest
and briugiug these parties to this city for
trial.
LATER.
Vicksburg, Deo. 8.—It is reported this a. m.
that the negroes will renew the attack on the
city to-day. The citizens are all under arms,
and have been largely reinforced from i he ad
joining towns. The companies that have
been sent to the country are well armed. The
prisoners captured yesterday are closely
watched to prevent lynching. The negro loss
yesterday is estimated at abont seventy. The
white loss is one killed and two wounded.
Crosby is still under guard. The whites hold
1 the entire city.
THE LATEST.
Vicksburg, December 8.—The excitement
about the court-house this morning was in
tense, but the commanders of the various
companies restored quiet, And the live6 of
Peter Crosby and the other prisoners are safe.
Lieutenant Colonel O. 8 Lee, aid-de-camp
to Adjutant General Packer, and a committee
of citizens met in the court room to-day to
decide on the course to pursue. In a private
interview between Packer, Lee and Crosby,
tbe latter expressed a desire to tender his
resignation as Sheriff. General Packer pre
pared the resignation to take effect immedi
ately, which Crosby signed, Lee and Packer
signing as witnesses, and the document is
now in the possession of Packer.
Abont fifty prisoners are now in jail.
SconU from the country report all quiet
for miles aronnd, and business gradually be
ing resumed.
Colonel John D. Baird, of the first cavalry
regiment Warren oounty State militia, issued
the following orders :
Headquarters. Court-house,
Vicksburg, December 8, 1874.
General Order No. L
All commanders of organized companies of
Warren county militia will report at once for
duty to Colonel William French, 4th regiment
Warren county militia, who nas been placed
in command, and whose orders will be obeyed.
By order of John D. Baird, Colonel 1st
regiment cavalry, commanding.
John T. Finney,
Assistant Adjntant General.
ffiTbis order was received by Colonel French,
when he issued the following :
Headquarters Fourth Regiment
Warren County Militia.
At Court-house, December 8, 1874.
Speoial Order No. 1.
I assume oommand of the military forces
in this county. Commanding officers of
companies will report at once to these head
quarters for orders.
By order of Wm Fren(B,
Colonel, commanuing.
SENATORIAL CAUCUS — THE LOUISIANA AND AR
KANSAS QUESTION DODGES—AH INSANE
COMMODORE — ANOTHER ARC
TIC EXPEDITION,
ETC., ETC.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.]
Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.—The Senate
caucus to-day was confined to some changes
in committees. Senators are not communi
cative, but indirect questions elioit tbe fact
that though Louisiana, Arkansas and bellig
erent Vicksburg were casually mentioned, the
caucus dodged the question as too heavy for
them. It is but fuir to say, however, that
these question* were merely broached. The
impression is that Lonisiana and Arkansas
will be let alone, and as there are no Federal
soldiers to spare Vicksburg may hold her
own.
Washington, Dec. 8.—Commodore Wm. G.
Cashing, who cut out the Alberinarle, ha*
gone to the Insane Asylum.
Full Cabinet. Dr. Hays will urge Congress
to tit out the Arctic expedition act to connect
with that of Great Britam, Secretary Bris
tow s report says regarding CoL McCartes’
management of the printing bureau: A care
ful consideration of the manner of preparing
tbe bonds, notes, and stamps issued by the
United States has led to the conclusion that
the work can be more satisfactorily and
safely done in the Treasury Department than
elsewhere, The bureau of engraving and
printing is now supplied with tbe best ma
chinery whioh has been acquired at great coat,
and the most skillfull artists are employed by
the Government without difficulty; the sys
tem of checks now in use in that bureau, to
gether with a special paper adopted by tbe
department, to furnish all proper and reason
able protection against duplication and other
frauds.
nee, once proudly christened the fourth lyric
theatre ot France, but shortly to be given up
to the lascinanons ot the Ofienbachian reper
toire. Tbe Varieties aLo gives short seasons
of opera bon fie during the year; and the mag
nificent revivul of “ Qrphee aux Eulers ” at
the Gaite may bo looked upon as tbe very
apotheosis of this style of theatrical repre
sentation. The most promising of the lighter
voiced uiong the youthful Parisian singers
of the present day no longer look upon the
Opera Comique us the goal of their aspira
tions, but cultivate the peculiar dash and vim
which are necessary for a successful opera-
bonffiste to possess. In like manner are the
young composers seduced from their alle
giance to the higher forms of music, and won
to penning mirthful melodies to suit the ten
dencies oi the hour.
And what of the power that ha6 brought
this new element into the theatrical world,
that has, to some degree, revolutionized the
minor music*1 estate in Pari*, and that has set
its seal upon the theatre-going Uhte of the
day? This iDtloence, this power, may be
bummed up in one world, viz—Offenbach !
JijFifty.four years ago Offenbach was born at
Cologne, the son ot a modest Kapellmeister.
His father gave him a thoroogh musical edu
cation; and, at the age ot thirteen, tho youDg
Offenbach, already a remarkable performer
for his years on the violoncello, was admitted
into the Conservatoire. On completing his
studies there, he entered the orchestra of the
Opera Comique, with a salary of eighty-three
francs (sixteen dollars and sixty cents) per
month. While there, he attempted, iu con
cert with his fellow-violoncellist, M. Selig-
raann, to put into practice an ingenious
method for diminishing the fatigue ot then*
joint labors, which was, not to play the mu
sic as it was written, but lor Offanbancb to
play the first note, Seligmann the second,
ana so on. Naturally, the trick was discov
ered, and tho ingenius young musician came
near losing his place. At this period ot his
life, he spent k all his leisure time in composing
operas, which he had then but little hope of
ever having performed. The first of his pieces
which ever oaw the lLlit, was an opera enti
tled “The Alcove,” which was played at the . - .
little theatre of La Tour d’Auvergne, and at- uT®? ? D , °*
tracted no attention. The day of his grand sac- 1
cess bad not yet arrived. In 1847, Arsene ‘
Houssaye became director of the Comedie
Fraucaine, and lrom him Offenbach received
the appointment of leader of the orchestra to
■ ...
A Few Plain Words.
-AS-
RETRENCHMENT
Is th« order ot the dm;, end with meBy
JA. 3STB5CBSSITY,
FURTHER REDUCED THE PRICE OF OUR CLOTHING.
OPERA BOUFFE.
All About It and Its Originator,
The Popular Offenbach.
The Genius of tho Can Can.
THE NEW ENTERTAINMENT THAT HAS
REVOLUTIONIZED THE THEAT
RICAL WORLD.
The teaudv Devilment of the Mer
curial Frenchman.
IM A BAD ■riCCUI.ATIOV.
Our good friend Mr. Joe Mills, is, we regret
to *>jr, engaged in a bad speculation. Indeed,
we are tempted to believe, that what money
be spend, in contesting Candler's seat will be
sfant with as little foresight, with as little
chaaee of fruition as that lucre which he sajs
he spent in helping Bam Bard to get the At
‘nr’* poefoffic j. If the journal which tbe ill-
fated Joseph published in the IUkilu con
cerning that unfortunate venture was true, it
dees seem that it should have deterred him
(sees leaping again before he had looked.
Aed yet here we have him, before the tears
whieh that catastrophe most have educed
have dried upon his cheek, plunging into a
project that promises not s whit better.
Ha eoasaa to the front with a big list of
i means why hs should be stated in the plane
whieh Hon. Milton Candler fairly and gal-
iaatly won. At the proper time, that is, when
the “eontest" is imminent, we shall review
. the foolish allegations that Mr. Mills makes,
and show thair emptiness and onfaimess. Ha
baa ao case, and even before the present
■ewa eonld not, in our opinion, get a bear
ing. Bat w* shall defer this disoossion until
the sobjeot upsca
le the meantime, we shall simply express
onr safrignl sorrow atone leatoro of this
barium that is latent, bat nevertheless trne.
te appears that the notioe of contest waa hand
ed te OoA Candler by the Hon. John A. Wim
py. In feat Sands j* Hebald we advised this
hat hfotefl gentleman te tear hbaself from
tha latsmieg discussion of politics, aad tame
hte telentiidsea to pastorals, We even spec- _
Mod tor him a eelm aad;soothing subject on pwmfoat. rising inuporatu^.’ ’’aon’tkaMt to
wMsfc he might dwell in peace and eoariaot.
And now, ia the lace of this advice, tendered
Urn te a pteos spirit, he shacks off bis coat
honor, hot we have lived in a society that
recognized it* lawn, and unfortunately we have
Uved to see it pass away with other "relics 0|
Southern barbarism," bat we have no hesita
tion to express onr preference for each "bar
barism." and the code of morals, enforced by
it, to ihe "civilization” which rnthleasly in
vades the private household, and tramples
upon thn dearest and most sacred feelings of
honor, under the cry of "free speech," and s
"free preen. We vent ore to axuert that there
are more scandalous assaults upon private
character contained in one week a issue of our
modern dailies then can be found in search
ing the files of Charleston papers for s hun
dred years. And why't Because there socie
ty held a roan to peruonal accountability, and
a refusal to render satisfaction excluded the
offender from decent recognition. A prompt
ness to repel aggression engendered equally a
sensitive cartfolnem about giving offense.
STRIKES.
[by rtihiairii to ■xaauD.j
Prrrsuuaii, Deo., 8.—The poddlers of this
place are on a strike. Fonr hundred tm na-
eoe are oold, and 15,000 men are idle.
Nxw Yobs, I>eo., 8.—The longshoremen
have rescinded tbe order, that members shall
not work with the non-society men. The
strike was an niter tailore,
Dcndev, Dec., 8. -Thirty thousand opera
tives have quit tho jute mills. They struck
against the reduction of wages.
WIND ANd’wBATHKR.
pboba an JTIBS*
WasuniaTON, December 8.—For South At
lantic Stales, olesf end coot weather will con-
tititie, with northwest winds end high barom
eter dnriog the night. For the Golf States,
Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, generally clear
Those who wish to make a Substantial and Useful
CHRISTMAS PRESENT
)ULD de well to c*U o» oa and maka Mtoctlona for themaolTM or «ona. We have abont forty or fl
broken suit a, which we offer at prioee to salt tk« caatnntr.
Oato Olty OlothlxLg Store.
A. & S. ROSENFELD,
58 WLlteliall flit.
dark-eyed, witching Judic, who left tha ctaseic
boards of the Gymnase to seek oat the home
of the comic song end the operetta. She was
the original Prineess Cunegonde, in "La Roi
Calotte;" the originsJ Molds, in "La Timbale
d Argentand is Bhortly to create the leading
part in Offbanch’s forthcoming opera of "Ma-
d.me l'Arcbiduchesse." The blond and win
ning little Tbco, a star of tha Cafe Chantant,
transferred to the stag* of the operetta—a sort
ot Parisian Lotta, with all Lotta’a child-like
Finally a man has actually caught a fish in
the Seine, et Paris. Many men have, how
ever, been after that fish a great many years.
It wss a salmon that was sold to tbs keeper
of s restaurant on tbe Pal sis Royal for forty-
three franca. This will give a new impulse to
fishing from quay, the pursuit in whioh Paris
“loale and indulges its soul.''
A hue portrait of William Inman, the senior
member of the firm owning the line of the
fascinations and none of her vulgarity—is I steamers bearing bis name, appears in the
tbe second of tbe bewitching trio- Mme. I Liverpool Town Crier of November A A ootn-
Peschard, a tall, handsome woman, with a i plimeutasy notice of the Inman Company—
hue and powerful soprano voioe, is the last, j the first to introduce screw stemera for the
though by no means the leant. She plays mas- | aliimitable purpose of emigration, and the
online parts together, and is ths most ohann- | first to show tee possibillity of navigating the
FOREIGN.
The Latest News From all Points,
‘ . , , money and the return to specie payments; but
customed to ridicule the houthern code of his arguments are not as urgent as his theories
are sound. While some of his plans for retir
ing our paper money and reviving gold and
silver as a circulating medium, will provoke
severe critioism, not only of the inflationists
but of the bard money men as well, with the
exception of his recommendation of .the free
bankiig view he now expresses concerning the
currency, are bat a reiteration of his veto of
the greenback bill of last session.
Tbe World says President Graut and Sec
retary Bristow are less in donbt than the re
publican press and politici ms as to the sig
nificance of overthrowing their party in the
late elections. They have reached a clear
opinion, by what moans, if by any means at
ali, that the political revolution can be stop
ped end the Democratic party can be hinder
ed from taking possession of every department
of the State Government in the elections of
1876. Immediate specie payments ere not
promised; which exeentions are perpetually
postponed, and a reform of the tariff to end at
obtaining a targe revenue, by lower duties on
(ewer articles. This, their concurrent advice
exhibits the President's and Secretary's appre
ciation at last, of great evils from which the
country is Battering und their admission, thst
these evils are of legislative origiu, aud admit
of legislative remedy added to the exhorbitm-
ces and nrsnrpatious of power, on the part of
federal government, and Geueral Grant and
Secretary Bristow will have discovered precise
ly vunersblc points in Kepnblicsn policy, and
upon Democratic assault, has been concentra
ted and irraaisled. They advise Congress to
abandon in defence, of what is undefensibls,
and to frustrate further Democratic victories
by themselves what the dispairing people have
sleeted the next Democratic Congress to do.
> talks Honorable John A. Wim
southwest winds, stationary or telling barom
star. For New England aud the Middle
States, continued cold and clear or clearing
weather, with northwest winds aad rising be-
rwflBsawa "^.^^..-0,.^.^
. . . - .. ike lAreeiMlnvi, as,«i 1 sius sdna*tlv itnrtnn Iriri rinnn nfinlnfltiLtl tA MflDflftV.
lbs temperature will rise steadily daring
Wednesday.
Lotta has been playing daring this w*
Ford's Opera Hones Washington, D. C.
Hew York.
DEATH or SN EDITOR—SENT TO THE PENITEN
TIARY—OTHER ITEMS.
[btteuoriph to tbe herald.]
Mew Yoee, Dee., g-Georgs Hunter, editor
of the Scotchman, waa found dead on the
street. His .kail was fraetnred.
A negro woman plead guilty to incindiarism
She waa senteneid to .tan years in the pani
tentiary.
Teot, N. Y., December 8.—Tbe new mill
at tha Bomieilar Iran Works resumed at re
duced rates. Strikers assaulted several work-
ton oaae postponed to Monday.
Tbs Mamphls Daily Appeal is taking strong
grounds in uvor of liberal appropriations to
sustain tha baa school system in Tennessee
RITUALISM IN EHOLAHD—SPAIN AND HE
TROUBLES—THE CUBAN WAS.
[BT TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.]
Sant Andre, Deo, 8.—Advices from the
Carligt general's headquartesr have been re
ceived. General Dowegarary has returned
there and been appointed to the command of
the army of the center. General Tristany
commands in tbe North.
It far expected that Serrano will order a gen
eral attaok on the Carlist lines in Navarre.
Madrid, Dec. 8—The Bishop Urge), until
recently adherent of Don Carlos, has written
a letter a letter announcing his abandsnmeht
of tbe Osrlist cause, and stating that he has
advised Don Alphonzo to take toe same conre.
He declares he will remain in his diocese,
even if the Repnblioan troops regain posaes-
sion.
Havana, Dec. 8 —Mr. Diaro reports by
telegrams that Spain is preparing to reinforce
Cum.
London, Deo- 8.—Rev. Mr. MaKonehi,
a well known ritnaliet, has been suspended
for six weeks from the exercise of his clerical
functions.
Paed, Deo. 8.—The scheme for a coalition
of the Right and Left Centres in tbe Assem
bly is weakening in its progress. Much de
pends on the election of a President of tbe
Left Center, whioh is to be held et caucus to
morrow. Tbe Mends of coalition Bnpport
Mr. Christophs, and those opposed have made
Mr. Came their candidate.
It tsiprobnbte that, to prevent division on
this question of polioy, a liberal candidate,
Yantrain, Will be nominated. Meanwhile ne
gotiations are going on fora union of tbe ex
tretee aad moderate Right, in opposition to
ComtttntiooaJ bills.
Tin—hn, December A—At a meeting of the
conservative members of Parliament last
Saturday, it is asserted that it was far from
being harmonious on the queetion whioh was
discussed—tho successor to the premiership
in esse ill-haelth should oblige Disraeli to
retire. Tbs Earl of Derby bed a very slender
majority. Indications are that the Duke of
Richmond or the Marqnis of Salisbury would
be Ota choice if tha so-called reactionary
wing of ths conservative party. There was
also manifested at the meeting considerable
differs Doe of opinion — one of the eoolesias
Ths Mark Lane Kxproas, in its review of
the breedetnfb market, say* the weather
throughout Europe daring the past week has
base wintry. Many of the Russian ports art
closed, and wtU remain so until spring. Tbs
European wbaat markets havo boon firm, and
flnetnotions generally small. In some plaoes
a rise of one shilling te rep gated. Through
out tho lowest rotas ham been passed. Tbs
weather everywhere io tevotsble fcr tho now
crop. ... a a •.
| FROM APPLETON'S WEEKLY.]
When first, some seven or eight years ago
the opera-bouffe made its appearance in our
midst, the popularity of the new style ol en
tertainment was as unbounded as it was sud
den. Though voted unclean and absurd by
tbe pious and tbe wise, it was nevertheless tbe
lavorito amusement of the Lour. Tue French
Theatre in Fourteenth Street became sudden
ly possessed of a popularity it bad never
known before, or siuco, and Tostee, Geoffrey,
Duchesne, and Lednc, became popular im
mediately. To be sure, tbe opera in which
they appear d was tbe ch*(-atruvrt of all ef
forts in that line, a work which remains un
surpassed and even uuapproacbed, tho
"Grande. DuchesseldeGerolstein." The head
long character ot its tun, the taking nature of
iLs melodies, tbe excellent constrnctien of its
libretto, enobanted those who overlooked, or
were unable to appreciate, tho delicate satire
of its pictures ot a pretty Gorman court, with
its army, one regiment strong, whereof the
general cannot venture to shoot a rascal-ci-
trant soldier, for tear of dingerously dimin
ishing his forces. Nor did we, in those days,
understand the more deeply-hidden political
meaning which made the malcontents under
the empire behold in GsoeraPFritz an artfully
veiled caricature of Napoleon III., and which
led them to applaud vehemently the passage
wherein Fritz says if he does not win the bai
lie, he will lose it—like “anybody else” being
construed by the republicans into meaning
the emperor, whose military tastes were said
to be more decided than were his talents in
the line. We in the United States merely
laughed at the fun aud applauded the music ;
find, if we shrank in dismay from Mdlle.
Tostee’s coarse behavior in the wooing scene
with Frilz, the attractions ol the piece were
sufficient to overcome our repugnance.
There is do donbt,that the opera-boufle.as a
form of amusement, possesses many claims
to admiration, it hroaght back to our stage
the element of good, old-fashioned, hearty
merriment, almost banished thence by the
lack of good low comedians, and of fresh and
attractive comio pieces. Langhing "holding
both his sides,” came hand iu-hand with mirth
ful music, graci ful nnd finished acting, and
all the charm which the French know so well
how to throw around a theatrical performance
of any kiod. Bat it is not to be denied that
its influence on our stage has been, upon the
whole, decidedly injurious. It brought to
onr boards the indelicacy of French double-
entendre, and it introduced there the immod
est and son—stive cancan. Nor was this all.
It led after it' foven devils, each worse than
itself, the‘o#l?fot which, the English bur-
lesqne, is a cleaving demon, and hard to shake
off Its great success, too, gave rise to a host
ot imitations, which possessed all immodesty,
and five times tbe coarseness, of the original,
while exhibiting none of its graces, and finish,
and artiatietic 'qaalittes. Every theatre was
toll ot brazen-faced women, prancing around
in an exaggerated imitation of Tostee’s kicks
and wiggles, and scorning to copy the finer
points other acting. Even the negio minstrels
took np the thefl)e, and burlesqued the inimi
table burleiquefl of Offenbach, and tried tobe
funnier with black faces than were Ledno and
Duchesne with white ones.
-Esthelically speaking, this brief rage for
Offenbach did but little harm. The real
lovers ol mubic cared not one jot the less for
Beethoven and Monzart, far "Fidelio” and
Don Juan, than they did before Offenbach
came into fashion; and, as to the reet, the
perfumed multitude, who go to the opera
merely because it is tbe fashion, and who
talk at .he top of their voices while Ntlsson is
singing, {the less true art has to do with such
waU-rfiios the better. The vo*ue of opera-
bouffe is an empbeneral one, and was certain
to pass quickly, while tbe grander forms of
art are unchangeable and indestructible. Bat,
at the time when all • heatre-gning Europe,
and America as well, were going wild over
La Graude-Duchesse and l.a Belle Lelene
many true lovers of music were convined
that popular taste was going to wxaok and
min. They could not see that the set who
wanted to laugh and he umnsed were not the
true devotees of music after all, and they even
took the absurd step of denying that opera-
buffee was half so funny ns tbe operoa ot
Tooiiui or Auber. Especially do I remember
an eminent English critic whn labored bard
to convince a skeptical British public that the
Barber of Seville oontained more roil tnn
than did the Graode-Duchessc. Of course,
ho failed, knd he deserved to fail, for endeav
oring to maintain such an absurd and unten
able postlotr.
But, though so many years have passed
since first the rage for this fotm of .imnscment
took sudden bold npon the tbeatnoul-going
portion of tbe world's population, nnd though
the excitement of Its novelty, the first fervor
of its sucoess, have long since passed away,
opeta houffe, has tokeu its place among the
recognized forms of theatrical amusement,
and there Is soarocely a large city In the civil
ized world where, in some form or another, it
has not found a home- Vienna, Beilin, Cairo,
Milan, New York, are all as well acquainted
with its merits ss is Paris itself, it has, how
ever, been reserved for this last named city,
its birthplace and abiding place, par excel
lence, tc extend to it Its warmest and most
enduring welcome. Among ihe twenty first
olass theatres of Paris, there aro no fower
than three whieh are permanently devoted to
Offenbach looks very unlike the pietnres
one forms of him while listening to hi* com
positions. A slightly built, refined looking
gentleman, with a decided Jewish physiogno
my, and a general aspect of ill health and
melancholy sack is the outward presentment
of the composer of "Genevieve de Brabant.”
Up to this lime he has written some eighty
operas, comprising two hundred and fifty
acts.
Besides the suppressed "Duchess of Albs,”
Offenbach onoe wrote a comparatively
serious work. It was an opera celled "Yert-
Vert,” for the Opera Comique. It failed to
attract, and since that time, Offenbach has
adhered strictly to his own peculiar line.
Lucy H. Hooper.
North Atlantic Ocean in water-
in tbe same number.
I also given
GEORGIA.
The State—Condensed Tor the “ Herald 99
by Mail and Telegraph.
GENERAL NEWS.
that classic establishment. There, listening to
the long-winded tirades ol French classic
tradegy, and beholding Dightlv those wooden
Greeks and Romans, the liks of which surely
never existed iu flesh and blood, he conceived
tbe ideas which atterward took shape in “Or-
phee aux Enters” and “La Belle Helene,” a
result of which Racine and Corneille wero far
irom dreaming when they wrote their dreary
plays. We can imagine what the fntnre king
of opera-bonffe, his braiu teeming with ima
ges of Inn and frolic, of burlesque aud merri •
ment, watching, in the intervals of his duty,
those imitation heroes, and listening to the
stilted cadencesjof the tragic verse, gathering
in materials for fntnre mirth from the very in
tensity ot his ennni.
Alfred de Musset, then in the very height
of his popularity, made thel acquaintance of
the young musician, and confided to him the
task ot setting to music the song whioh tbe
poet introduced intojhis play of the Chan-a
delier. This song was the germ of # one of the
most charicing ol Offenbach’s minor works,
Le Chanson de Fortuuio. It was about this*
period that Offenbach composed a grand trag
ic opera, called the Duchesse d’Alba; this
work, which must certainly be a curiosity iu
its way. has never seen the light, and proba
bly will never bo performed, lor the composer,
now a wealthy mau nnd the director ol two
of the most popular theatres of Paris, shows
no desire to bring it before the public. Off.
enbach waa not long in discovering that, if he
wanted his operas performed, he mu9t bring
them out himself, for no director was willing
to give the future author of La Graude-Duch
esse, a chance tor a hearing; and, in 1855, the
little TheatreComte, on the Passage Choiseul,
being" in rent, ho engaged it, and obtained
from the mimstiy a permission to prodr.c a
little operettas, containing from two^to !onr
characters each—five were not to be thought
of, so strict was tho ministerial orders.
The Theatre Comte was first opened in
1820. Strange to any, its first destination was
that of a moral aud religious place of ami.se-
m< nt, specially dedicated to tbe delectation
of ihe young girls and family parties It af
terward became the Theatre Enfanfin, the
whole troupe being composed of children from
the ages ot seven to fourteen. These per
formances were really charmirg, and many
celebratedPansian perloiraer undo his or her
first steps in tbe paths of professional sncces:
upon these boards. But this dairy oi nnik tor !
babes was soon to become a restaurantt where
strong meat tor men was to be served up the
Theatre Comte became tramsformed into the
Bouffes Parisien-.
The merry little theatre. w r ith its excellent
troupe and amusing repertoire—the ono com
prising, among other members, Schneider aud
berthelier, and the other including “Les Deux
Aveugles,” “Lea ^Pantius de Violette,” and
“Tromb-al-Cazor”—s^on became a favorite
place of public resort. But it w .s not till
1858 that a really immense success came to
make theatre and composer alike the fashion
and the rage; it was “Orpin e aux Enters”
that first gave a Offenbach a widespread renown.
This piece, in many resptets the best that Of
fenbach has ever written, had a series of two
hundred and twenty-eight consecutive repre
sentations, terminating by a special perform,
anee given by command of the emperor at the
Italian Opera House. Poor little Tostue, who
died a few months ago, heart-broken for the
loss of her only child, was one of the original
representatives of Eurydice, and the role of
Cupid was once assumed for
a brief series of representations by that j u „. Wm . P . u i k „ u . r hom , in lrmia coanlJf
«vtl oelebnty, Coia Pearl. Tins j , bollt a n e ea mils, from AUpsha, on Th antes, mom-
ing .LI inatant. She was a moat eaUmablo lady.
IN MBMORTAM.
Hau or Atlamza Fibs Comtamt, No. i,
December 9, 1*74.
At a meeting of the Company, held this trenin*,
the toliowing preamble and resolutions were sflipStd :
Whereas, Almighty Qod. in his vudom, has seen At
to remove from onr midst onr estssmsd friend sad
brother flremsn, George Rash;be it therefore
Resolved. Teat we deplore the eed event, thus cut
ting off the deceased in tbe prime of life. It has de
prived oar compel y of a good and ueeful member,
and thft community of a worthy and upright citizen,
j Besoived, That we condole with hl« afflicted rela-
! tives in their t ad bereavement, and tt nder te his txn-
| mediate family In particular oar heartfelt sorrow in
the loss they have sustained, and trust that God may
beitow upon them grace and Christian fortltsde to
bear np under their sad affliction. «
Besoived, That the foregoing preamble and resolu
tions be entered on oar record book and published
in the city paper s, and the Becreiarv directed to fur
nish a copy to the family of tbe deceased.
John Brnru.
os Damn..
MYAINAH 8CH.
The “Sun” thicks gambling ought to be licensed-
It K»>e: “In the face of these facts, now but barely
suggested, th« writer is of the firm opinion that the
evils which reBUit to the community and to indlvidu-
aln trom this policy in the direction of well-mrant
efforts to check, to restrain and to exterminate this
pop'*i >r vice, are more ini«ioitoue, more demoralizing, {
molt- dishonorable than lb e vice itself. The bear can >
be better encountered when allured lrom its den; the 1
iger can be more successfully assailed when brought *
out from ite lair; the wolf is more easily overcome
when attacked without it§ hole; and »o c*u iht« vio*
he more effectually comliatted when induced to com*
out into the light of day and into an aieua where all
eyeg will rest upon it-
•• ‘Vice is a monster of such hideous mein,
1 hat, to be hated, ueeia but to l»e seen !'
“The way to let tine * monster be seen' la to let th*
■UDrihiue into it» now thadod lairs; to i-ar down tbe
curtains, to unbolt the doors and r«raovb the birathat
now shuts out public invasion, public ionpeot ou xi <3
5 ublic gszo; to take away from gambling the oba ru .rt
the stolen fruit, the mystery of eecreay, the ban of h*
law. by a well regulated at d properly proportioned
license, piovldert by State law »t l municipal regnla
tion."
ROM* COMMERCIAL.
Tlir* ••('oimnerciar' i* still bitter ot Felton. It
saye: “We believe that I elSr*n has been elected by
diligent 1> nig. deception and fraud . That h- will, if
be ait* in Congress, occupy a w^-.t ag%in
of a mij-irity of thousands of tho white pe pie and
Pemrcratri ot this Tnstrict. We know he »as elect'd
by bsitiDg the Degree* cut to vote for him in this
county with a barbecue >' 4 lees then eight hundred
negroes voted for him iu county. There were
probab’v an mauv more in Bartow. He is then tha
repreient&tive of Ihe uegrAea. They elected him.
Without them he could not have been sleeted. He
solicited their votes—ajud ho got them htre. What
mpudence In his claim to be the representative of tbe
Democracy : We repeat onr conviction that all Irreg
ular. illegal and lrautlulent returns of vote*, no mat
ter for whom given, should be thrown out, and that
candidate declared elected who abail be found to have
received a majority of the legal votes properly cast and
duly returned in conformity with the law. There
should be do relaxation in this respect tc favor any
body or any party “
AJLAPAHA VOZIUUTMM.
Mr. John Smith, of the 6th dist r ict of this countj,
went out this week alone, and killed thrse fin* deer.
He shot one, put It on his shoulder, and while walking
towards home the others tamped up before bite. He
fired both barrels, killing two mere and wounding j est in the National Hotel, he avails himself of this
one. In tbe language of tbe immortal “ ‘
New Advertisements.
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| y~^ON*T dust np rooms like other ooal, because ths
ASHES ARE HEA VY.
It's the nloest, cleanest cool for richly farntoted
houses, roams, parlors, offices, etc., ever need la this
city. It is first- class in svery particular.
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DeGlVF/S OPERA BOISE.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1«.
PROF.i HERMAN,
Of Manchester, England,
withes | The world renowned sad popular Necromancer and
Tsntrxloquist. in his popular and laoghab.*
entertainment, entitled,
BEGONE, DULL CARE!
Every one buying a Reserved seat from 2 to * o'clock
will bare three opportunities for tbe large and leading
oreeeot, and may set 60 DOLLARS IN GREEN
BACK*, a Go d Watch, a Rat of Farmitare, a banal of
Flour, a Ion of Coal, a Set of Furniture, a New 8bawl,
or one of the 1-ading presents to be given away.
Buying a ticket la the afternoon, you may gat three
Ticket Office open this day at t le Hall, from Stef
’dock. Secure your tickets now. Avoid the rush.
Procure a front seat and three oppor unities for the
present*.
in rainy or stonuy wee bar you wm have a batter
opportunity than oa a pleasant day, as fewer persons
will be present.
Admission S6 cent*. Reserved seats 15 cents
extra. If sold in the afternoon three opportunities,
free, in ths evening for leading preeetits. Aatd <J2t
NATIONAL HOTEL.
KPOBTd having been circulated to tha affect
the!Mr. J. E. CWEX8 has sold his proprietary Ihter-
R
nowneil damsel could neither sing nor act,
nor even pronounce French tolerably, she, as
everybody knows, being by birth an Knglisli-
woui.in. 8de is wealthy, and paid, it is said,
eome fabulous sum tor the pnvelege of ap
pealing in the dress, or rather the undress, ot
the God of Love. Her costume was mainly
composed of diamonds—fourteen large and
beautilul brilliants being used to fasten up
her claesioal cetaurae. To the credit ot the
Parisian public, be it recorded that this exhi
bition was too mnch even for their strong
nerves, and Mdlle. Com reeieved unmistaka
ble notioe from tbe andience that she had bet
ter retire fortuwitb into private life. She took
the hint, and has never since essayed to win
theatrical laurels on any stags.
In 1851) was produced •‘Genevieve de Bra
bant,” und so certain waa the management of
its overwhelming success, that a special guard
of policemen were engaged to keep order
amid the throng of carriage* which, it woe con
fident ly expected wonld choke up all avenues
leading to the Booties. Bnt, strange to say,
that opera, which has been on onr boards one
of the moat popniar of the Offenbachain reper
toire, and which certainly contains some of
the composer’s freshest aud most charming
melodies, came near ’ proving a total failure,
and whs withdrawn lrom the boards after a
comparatively brief ran. It most be stated,
however, in psrtul explanation ot this ft ot,
that the piece as originally written did not
contain the highly-aouio parts ot the two
ijing a'armes. These grotesquely typical roles
were added when “Genevieve" was reprodu
ced eight years after at the Theatre dee Menus
Plaiaira, and it then obtained all the suocees
that had at first been anticipated tor it.
It was at tbe Theatre dps Varieties, however,
that Off, nbach achieved his greatest triumphs.
“La Belle Helene," "Barbe Bleue,” and
La Urandc-Duobesse," came in rapid succes
sion to set their seal npon his reputation, and
to aid iu giving him a world-wide fame. Dur
ing the Franco-Prnssiau , War Offenbach was
bitterly roproached with his German birth;
his operas were hissed from the stage, and he
was driven from France, notwithstanding the
fact that he is in his heart and sonl and feel-
ing, and especially in talent, a thorough
Frenchman. He set matters all straight,
however, by composing a patriotic hymn, and
by sirenously disowning tbe land of his birth,
aud he was not lODg in regaining all his van
ished popularity.
To-day Offenbach is oue ol tbe moat weal
thy and suocesslul of Parisian manager a, as
well aa oue of the most popular of moderu
compoaers. Hit management of tbe Gats
Tbeane has been a seres of managerial tri
umphs, aud that, too, in the highest walks
of the drama.
Tha grand revival of " Orphan aux
Enters,” with added musio aud with a bal
let corps oi sixty dancers, oomprisea over six
hundred performers, and give* employment
to over a thousand persons, including sotno-
shifters, machinists, etc. Twelve hwudred
costumes, all of the rioheet materials and per-
feet artistic beauty are need. The oer of
Apollo, with ita four white hortea, whioh ris
es into the air at the end of the seoond out,
modeled by the celebiatedkcolptor.Corpeaux.
the- opera-bouffe, namely, tbe Reneiseuee, , All that taste end expemiiture eonld offset
(a new end very beentifal lltile theatre,
near the Porte tit. Martin,) and tbe Folfee Dra-
matiques, where "La Ftlle de Madame
Atiauf" still bolds sway.. To these
will shortly bo added the Theatre
(Scribe, lata the Theatre do I'Atho-
has been lavished on this gorgeous spectacle
Nor has Offonboeh, in bestowing
suob care end attention an hie
new enterprise, forgot leu ths scene
of his earlier triumphs.
Pint and mote Important of tho three is tho
COYIXOTOK XNTKLPIUSP.
CapUic Wm. Deinc#, formerly of ARgHAR bat oov
of Oxford, extended to two of bi« Augusta trleua* an
invitation to ttke a qaj’* aport in hunting with him
onTknraday. The kind invitation wm ptotteatiy ac
cepted, and according to agreement the genial and
accommodating captain met the gentlemen at the de
pot before day In the morning, and eecorted them to
hli hospitable home near Oxford, where an elegant
breakfast awaited them. After breakfast Mejor Jamas
H. Griffin and H. W. Means made their appearance*
having two of the finest and beat trained pointer* in
Middle Georgia with them. Thejgsatlemen from An-
fiuata were provided with good hortea, and the party
left the house in search of bird*. Tan small ooveya
were found, and fifty slight full grown paitridgea were
bagged Babbit*, doves and lark* ware kilted bnt not
counted. Tbe whole party returned highly elated at
the sport and amusing incidenta and aooidanUef tha
day. After tea the gnesta were carried to the depot,
and after the usual parting ti^haand tear*, the aad
“good-bye” was softly ■ poked. Captain rearing
swung to Colonel Van Buren’s claw-hammer ooat tai
until he sobbed out the sweet words. “ we will com*
again 1” The Auguna gouta carried the game home,
aud now speak iu terms of admiration ef Oxford and
her hospitable people."
WASMiVoroK wazkttr.
Speaking of the homestead law, the “Gazette” says:
“This law was passed by a set of Radical thieve* iu
convention assembled, whan the sword was at ths
throat and the bayonet at the hraaat of every oeoeat.
honost man in the State, and it wj» enacted by these
thieves and tcoundrels to protaskthi
friends of like character through**! the
will be no credit and no genuine businei
in this State until tide and other infamous acts for the
protection of cheats and thieves era repealed. Them
paper* sad politicians who are expeedhs# their tise#
and gammon In trying to induce the inootettig legis
lature to re-enact the usury laws, could work te much
better purpose by striving to have a convention called
.or the purpose of framing a constitution for this
State, which shall be free from the many obnoxious
lectures of ihe present bogus instrument.”
MAhinTA JOURNAL.
The grand Jury cf Cobb county are very severe upon
the homestead tew as it now exist*. They allods to ft
as one of the crying evils Of the times, working hard
ships upon all honest men, rich and poor, and espec
ially upon the poor. It destroy* or edit and Isamus
court deuce, disarms the enterprising poor shite mau,
incurs litigation and breeds dtehonatty. It to a Pan
dora’s box full of evil, thrust upon the people ef
Georgia for poll tidal purposes and for party
While it to embodied iu the Oonetttal
sot of Georgia Tha jury trust that
legislators will ao modify and change the
law so aa to relieve it of all the objectionable
possible, and draw from the heart of the bad
this Josh's blade, sapping tee life bleed ef to
uuder tbe specious hut false cry of relief,
QIQMIlHWaiULA
Mr. John V. rertlne, of Boa*, end 1. B. Oraat, of
Hebei them, aro candidate! foe Clark of th* Honee.
Mr. R. L. Bodferr, of tko Sndemt!)* ' Herald," la
a candidate for Xealatant Bocralarj oi th* feoate
Senator Oordon. of Georgia, to oat otth a letter
advocating an moteaa. at greeoherik oarrwiCj, hoping
eleo to eeo them made luUtrchaogoaMt with bond* at
i In IW d tale reet The BtehiaMl -Whig."
which prea.ee hi* view ef the two
medicm to inform hte potroae end tbe poblie
ally that be it eUl] prepeietor of tho National Hotel
at Atlanta’ Go., aad inland! to roraaia BO. Ha woold
be pleaetd to meat hi* former caetomerf. eed a*
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