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DECEMBER 14, 1869.
zz^^dConl Transportation.
( ° B flr from Atlanta, dated December 9th
Writes ns to attend a meeting of coal
‘‘'Scalers and proprietors of mannfactur-
KSments ng coal, and of railway
t0 bo held in Atlanta next Tnesday
*f otsl December, the objects of the
1 being an increase of supplies from the
i '= , j j' 10 facilities for transportation
^Station among the people.
ting of onr own locality, the coal trade,
j dealers, or coal monopolists have tripped
• e n p this year. Coal, last winter, was
f t jn jiacon at eight to nine dollars nei
j'is very scarce this year at eleven dol
_ ; rjany of the people are going back to
‘ Jler having made their arrangements for
3 * ; nR . Fow, indeed, would bum coal at
i t for the expense and trouble of getting
",^ an a split. Sambo can reduce a
* 0 ° to ashes on his own acconnt faster
v other human agent; but when he
-To’ redacing it to fire wood for the parlor,
** ° ^ costly business. He stalls at it
„ resume. The circular sets forth that
' ' transportation of the State Road for the
ling September 30th, 1867, was 7,485
for ISO®, 8,967 tons, and for 1869, 23,388
j.,,1 the coal mining companies complain,
Trading this increase, that the means of
negation are still vastly deficient. The
i„ Augusta, Macon, Columbus and
TTierv are ver ? inadequately supplied,
qfco consumption would be doubled, if the
. n f transportation were adequate. An an-
' . liply °f at ,eaat 50 > 000 tona “ neetl ed for
T* purposes alone; and the entire con-
J„n could require the constant employment
tut -100 cars. The number now in service
‘™ 0 f which eighty are supplied by the
and Atlantic Railroad.
-relief it seems, must come from the rail-
companies, who ought to contribute more
J quotas of their rolling stock for this
> aiid we hope they will meet in Atlanta
rjree to do it. ^
I.ot the Judiciary Speak.
V received yesterday from onr friend the ed-
.jf the Albany News, Cob 0. W. Styles, the
ning dispatch:
Albany, Ga., December 11, 1869.
Md and Messenger :
j Radical Convention at Macon and Gov.
A charge that justice cannot he obtained
j civil courts of Georgia. Is it so ? It is
•sled that nil the Superior Court Judges,
of Bullock, repair by request to
5-ton to testify before the Reconstruction
ittee, and that Georgia will abide their
any. Carey W. Stylus,
Editor Albany News.
(Tc may, indeed, earnestly, and, thank God,
appeal to every judicial officer—from
ceof the Peace to Chief Justice of the Sn-
t Court—to rebuke this foul calumny.
, from where it may, it is an atrocious slan-
ajion Georgia. If a gnilty man, we would
ur take the chance of a negro, than of a
man, before any court in Georgia; because
m sure that justice is more universally tem-
«} with mercy in courts in the case of blacks
of whites, wht are presumed to know bet-
md punished accordingly. We call the at-
mi of our judiciary to the suggestion of
Styles. __
Noue to Deliver,
letter from a prominent Democratic mem-
of the House, to the Editors, say: “None
.war people are hero. Your best men ought
here. Your State is in great danger.” No
about the danger. The assault is with
y weapons and it has been secretly and
ssfnlly planned; but what onr “people”
ill do in the premises, except to hasten the
ii, we are unable to see. With the Execu-
iind Congress in full accord against us, no
resentation or entreaty from the people
lid be availing.
fnromn is Congressional Elections.—
• Herald's Washington special, of Thursday,
i the Committee on Elections have agreed
a t hill which provides that the day for hold-
sections for members of Congress shall he
iform throughout all the States. As it will
i some change in the laws of several of
^ States to conform to this act, the billpro-
«that it shnll not take effect until the first
lesday in November, 1872. The bill has two
Iffis: first, to insure a full representation of
•the States at the organization of each new
ppess on the 4th of March, and, second, to
pent persons from one State going into ano-
fto colonize. ■ *i
ffounoAL Disabilities.—A Courier-Journal
[Aingtou special of the 8th inst. says the de-
F in the Senate that day on the removal of
j political disabilities imposed by tho Fonr-
tah Amendment, and the informal discussion
members, leave no reasonable doubt
• Congress will soon pass some one of the
r«al hills pending for that purpose. The
psnre may be so amended as to abolish all
o»ths, as proposed in the Senate, though
i is not quite so certain. Tho Southern
Eberg generally oppose the passage of any
b till nntill the Fifteenth Amendment is rat-
I'br of Grant's postmasters recently neglected
Jttrtify on oath to the correctness of his re-
_report, and wrote to the Department in
fixation: “If i bant give oath enuff then
3 610 take the office and i shall be very glad
••—I shall do the best i can for the united
p* fbat i don’t think it p*ays to go so fur to a
Pf* onc ® in 2 years is a nnff—I should have
I bier a horse it is up hilL”
I** one of-his late letters to the Cincinnati
reml, Don Piatt very offensively reminds
J- Radical readers of that journal, that “the
philanthrophy is that which frees
r else’s nigger. Had these slaves be-
1 to us, instead of to tho South, is there
16 simple enough to believe that we would
= had a war of emancipation ? Not much.”
|-*n:uBrn 0 if.—We learn that J. P. Jawitt,
original publisher of Uncle Tom’a Cabin, is
. *°rking as a journeyman printer in Phila-
paia, and ifinton Rowan Helper, the author
infamous “Impending Crisis,” is a pau-
pin New York. “The mills of God grind
yet they grind exceeding small.’’
t has gono into a now business. Wit-
1 this from the New York World: “Divorces
t Indiana good in New York, and cor-
ia J of marriage performed between clients,
charge unless successful. Advice free,
for circulars. Address H. W. B., Ply-
-•a Church, Brooklyn.”
| Blatb has been warning the New
■-• Democrats not to consider Grant a fool.
. Grant was tin obstinate man,who wonld
10Wn way, and, after the four years of
ministration had passed, would give ample
*0co of his obstinacy.
—Farragnt wants his name
■S® 88 ® Farragew. How about catycio fid-
r.’^mgs ?—Columbus Sun.
L*? 1 and how about that greedy-gut business
■ ( “2 prize money at New Orleans, when a
‘•a of bad Porter wa3 nncorked?—Const it u-
Hot
—Commissioner Delano has
and subordinates reporting to him.
General Terry’s Report.
' We reprint from the New York Tribune, the
most of General Terry’s report on the condition
of Georgia, because it is important, if not pleas-
ant, that the people should see just what kind
of official statements go before Congress and
form the groundwork of their action.
No citizen of Georgia could possibly credit the
existence of such statements as these unless he
saw and read them. Every intelligent and can
did resident of the State knows, so far as his
own observation and reading extend, that she
is as quiet, orderly and law-abiding as in any
previous period of her history. Not one Geor
gian who reads these lines, ever saw any thing
of the outrages ana denial of justice of which
General Terry complains. And we may say
more than this—that the administration of pub
lic justice in Georgia, so far as the negro is con
cerned, is universally more scrupulous and
guarded than in the case of whites, because
there is a disposition among our people and judi
cial functionaries, natural to persons of generous
minds, to guard especially the rights of the ig
norant and more defenceless members of the
community.
But Gen. Terry asserts, on the contrary, that
abuses of the blacks are universal—“too com-
mon to excite notice,” and that a system Of ter
rorism exists which not only fatally obstructs
reform and rerdess, but absolutely compels the
witnesses of the government to give in evidence
with bated breath and- under injunctions of
secrecy, which, if not respected, wonld consign
these witnesses to the fiery vengeance of the
tyrannous mob.
Thus he says (substantially) that Georgia is
under a reign of terrorism instituted by a reck
less, ignorant and wicked white minority,
against which the respectable portion of the
people dare not rebel; and even his parties in
evidence as to the existence of this desperate
state of affairs cannot he disclosed, lest they
should be victimized to Kuklux vengeance. We
have heard of this plea before. Every wretched
creature who wishes to batten on the public mis
fortunes and disorders seeks to cover his slimy
trail of slander and defamation by the plea of
personal peril!
Now here, according to Gen. Terry, is a state
of things in which violence and wrong are the
rule, and justice, peace and order the excep
tion. Crimes are as plenty as blackberries in
June, and yet it is well known in seven or eight
months’s command in Georgia, with all power
and every facility to arrest offenders, not one
has been brought to justice by Gen. Terry, or
through his co-operation. He should, upon his
own statement, have raked them np by hun
dreds, but he cannot show a single case. All
his military expeditions and seizures, searches
and investigations, have resulted in absolutely
nothing.
It is true he sets np some plea of want of
power—but he was not only backed by all the
executive power of the State, but would have
been backed by the vast majority of the people
in every fair attempt to detect and pnnish
crime.
And if he had failed in bringing even one of
such a mass of offenders to justice, he surely
could have amassed by bis own personal inqui
sitions and those of his officers, such accumula
ted evidence of crime and disorder, as to com
pel conviction of its existence, and dispense
with his invisible witnesses who cannot be
brought to light lest they should be killed off by
the Ku-Klux. He certainly would not have been
compelled to come before Congress with little
or nothing more than his unsupported assevera
tion of a state of faot3 in Georgia, which he
could, by his own official inquiries have proved
beyond reasonable controversy, if it really ex
isted.
The failure of all adequate proof and evi
dence, however, puts Gen. Terry’s report among
the mass of party slanders got up in the service
of the Congressional majority to disfranchise
Georgia, simply because her people will not
vote the radical ticket; and to gorge the few in
significant adventurers at home with money and
officoby re-inaugurating political disorder, while
the intelligent people of tie Stato are disarmed
and silenced for all purposes of self-protection.
The Last “Fashionable’* Washington
Marriage.
A Herald correspondent—who, a Times cor
respondent says, was invited because ho was “a
special friend of the bride”—gives that paper a
long account of the Gerand-Wormloy nuptials,
wherein the contracting parties were a miscege-
nating and mercenary Frenchman, and a mu
latto girl at Washington, whose dad is rich. The
correspondent says the “lady” wished to be
married by a “negro Presbyterian parson,”
while the “gentleman,” who is a Catholic, in
sisted upon a priest of that faith, and finally
carried his point The affair was kept a great
secret, says tho correspondent, but he was let
into it of course. The marriage took place at
the residence of the minister, which, says the
correspondent was filled' with “colored belles
and beaux.” Among the whites present were
ex-Mayor Barrett, and Messrs. Piatt, Sheppard,
Ramsdell, Brooks, Borseau and the correspon
dent-all, but the first named, Washington re-
portorial ear wigs. “Miss” Wormloy, we are in
formed, “was arrayed in a beautiful white satin
dress trimmed with lace, and wore on her head a
wreath of white flowers, from which hung a
costly lace veil, also white. She carried in her
hand a beautiful bouquet. Large, dark swim
ming eyes, jet black hair, delicato peachy com
plexion, a full, plump figure, and stature rather
above that of ladies in general, make up a very
rough description of tho bride. Sho is quito
pleasing altogether in appearance, though not
what properly could be called beautiful. Her
white robes were hardly calculated to set off to
advantage her peculiar style of features. Tho
bridegroom can be briefly described as a dark
little Frenchman—in fact, darker than his bride
very young, and with most of tho French
characteristics in appearance and manners. He
was dressed in a plain black suit, white necktie
and gloves.”
For which graphic description we suppose
papa Wormloy, who is in tho restaurant tine,
will give the correspondent the run of the kitch
en during the winter.
The Bnrdcll Murder.
Just before John J. Eckel—who, it will be
remembered, was tried for the murder of Dr.
Burdell, but acquitted—died the other day in
the Albany prison, an interview was had with
him, for the purpose of drawing from him any
disclosures he might feel disposed to make in
regard to the murder of Dr. Burdell. It is
stated that Eckel emphatically declared that he
was entirely guiltless of any connection with the
crime, and that he did not know who commit
ted it. He added that he entered the house
about eleven o’clock on the night of the mur
der; that lie was met by Mrs. Cunningham in
the lower hall; that he noticed she appeared
confused and excited; that she preceded him up
stairs to his room; that she stopped on the way
up stairs and closed Dr. Eurdell’a bedroom door;
that she accompanied him to his own bedroom
door, where he left her, locked his door and re
tired to bed, and that he was entirely ignorant
of the murder until after the discovery of the
body. This statement was made a short time be
fore his death, and in view of the fact that his
physician had informed him that his end was
near and that lie could not possibly survive.
Given under such solemn circumstances, it will
doubtless be generally believed, especially as,
while it exonerates himself, it adds one more
link to the chain of testimony which pointed to
Mrs. Cunningham as the murderess of Dr. Bur
dell.
Immigration.
Eably County, December 6,1869.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : “A cargo
of cotton, 1000 bales, was cleared for Genoa
from Savannah, oh Saturday last”—Telegraph
December Zrd.
Here Is the true key to our immigration prob
lem- Southern, not Northern Europe, is where
we of Georgia, should look for an increase of
population, and of all Southern Europe Sardinia
and Lombardy particularly. Geographically the
countries are very similar. From the Alps (onr
Blue Ridge) Sardinia andLombardy sweep down
to the .Italian peninsula (Florida,) and are
washed on the one side bj)the Mediteranean,
(the Atlantic) on the other by the Adriatic (the
Gulf of Mexico.) A tropical heat, mitigated by
a happy union of sea and monntain breezes;
streams, torrents in winter, diminished in sum
mer ; mild winters, long and delightful sum
mers are common to both. The Sardinian and
Southern Lombard would find in Southern G*eor-
gia his crops of sugar, rice, cotton, olives, silk,
indian corn, and oranges; the Vtgneron, from
the foot of the Alps, his hills and vines in
Cherokee.
Lombardy has a population of over four hun
dred to the square mile—Sardinia, over three
hundred. The Lombards, next to the Belgians,
are the finest agriculturalists in continental Eu
rope. Sardinians and Lombards both till a soil
vexed for two thousand years to return a crush
ing rent; they both, like all peasants of Western
Europe, yearn to possess a few acres—would
they resist the temptations that Georgia holds
out, were they informed of them ? We would
find there a hive of industrious, skilled and law-
abiding immigrants, unbiased against us by
prejudicial roports industriously circulated by
interested and mendacious agents; immigrants
careless of all that bosh about the inability of the
white man to labor under our sun; immigrants
who would make gardens of those wastes
which now swallow up the Macon and Bruns
wick, the Brunswick and Albany and the Atlan
tic and Gulf roads; and should they bring with
them a hatred of trans-montane politics, so much
the better for us.
A road runs out from Genoa to Milan and
Turin, from Milan to Verona, from Verona to
Venice, and from Verona to Trent, so that im
migrants from any part of Sardinia or Lombar
dy could easily by rail reach the sea at Genoa.
If there are to be cotton ships from Savannah
to Genoa, would it not be well to look for a re
turn cargo of cotton makers? Geobgia3.
From Texas. .
Richmond, Texas, Novembeb 20, 1869.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger’. Your State
Fair, which is now about closing out, was no
doubt the grandest aad most brilliant affair of
the kind ever inaugurated south of the Potomac,
and will confer more practical benefits on
Georgia than any assemblage, great or small,
that has occurred within her bordeis in the last
quarter of a century. The value of State Fairs,
to the multifarious industries of the country
not yet fully appreciated, but it will be in good:
time.
We have had several County Fairs in Texas
this year, reflecting much credit on the ingenu
ity, skill and industry of the exhibitors.. De
spise not the day of small beginnings. Our
mammoth State Fair will be held in good? time,
when visitors from distant States can eaa some
thing of what even the partially developed re
sources of tho State are capable of exhibiting.
At the recent Fair at San Antonio, a oow yielded
thirteen quarts of milk on the Fair-Ground one
morning, having been milked tbp-evening be
fore. She was fed on the native grasses. She is of
the Durham breed, weighing only a little over
COO pounds. That cow is a jewel.
The Registrar’s office has at loagth been opened.
The Commissioners have fifteen bayonets with
in easy calL It is to be hoped there will bo no
occasion for calling them. Their Commandant-
seems to be quite a gentleman, and the men are
white; so if any bad men of either color should
succeed in getting up a disturbance during the
election, wo may hope that “blood is thicker
than water.”
An old man was murdered not long since on
the Bernard in Austin county, by a young man
who rode np to his house and shot him down.
The affair oaused great indignation where it oc
curred, and oven beyond. If we ever get re
constructed, and the good old common Jaw once
more assumes her sceptre, the reign of violence
will cease. It cannot cense too soon for the
good of the Stato.
Candidates, white and black, are pressing
their claims on their colored constituents, for
as tho whites in this county are nearly all dis
franchised, they cannot properly be numbered
among the constituents; In this county the
whites, very unwisely as I think, take but little
interest in the election.
Cotton continues to come into Galveston and
Houston pretty freely. Tho roads being in su
perb order, everybody that can, avails himself
of their fine condition.
Frost, the first of the season with us, made
his appearance the morning of the 17th instant.
His advent was as heartily welcomed by your
correspondent, if he will only squelch the chills,
as tho first shad of the season is by the epicure
where these finny luxuries aro to be found.
Pah Fois.
Consolidation the Death of Liberty.
TTimm Walbridge, a Now York Radical politi
cian, in a speech before the National Board of
Trade in Richmond, said:
A great revolution has been consummated,
and wo should bring ourselves in harmony with
it. That revolution has constituted the national
government almost without limitation, the
sacred repository of the honor, the integrity,
and the future prosperity of all the States. The
centralization of this federation is now an ac
complished fact It is the part of wisdom for
this generation to accept the inexorable logic of
events, and to conform to the situation. -
To which the Philadelphia Age replies, as
follows:
More than thirty years ago, a Frenchman,
Alexis de Tocqueville, traveled in this countp’
and wrote the best book ever written about it.
Its prosperity, its liberty, he traced to the tnie
cause—the de-centralized administration which
was the product of our Federal system. As he
wrote for the instruction of his own country
men, he showed them how they had missed the
road to liberty. The French revolution, he
said, was a failure because it declared against
provincial institutions, which liad gathered
some odium from’abuses. A consolidated gov
ernment was continued in France, and, whether
worked bv Republicans, Monarchists; or Impe
rialists, it has always proved a despotism.
Against that, French intelligence is now strug
gling, and we do not think American intelli
gence is likely to submit to it tamely.
Mining Statistics.—The United States Com
missioner of Mining Statistics reports that the
product of the precious metals in the Pacific
States and Territories, during the past year,
will fall below that of 18G8. In Califomia the
extraordinary droughtinterfered with placer and
hydraulic mining, and in the quartz mining dis
tricts the strike of the workmen closed several
of tho most important mines. In Nevada the
exhaustion of various old workings and disas
trous fires materially reduced the yield in the
Washoe region, but this deficiency, it is assert
ed is counterbalanced by the increased produc
tion of the White Pine district. The prospects
for 1870, however, it is believed, are favorable,
in consequence of the gradual introduction of
Ohineso labor. In Oregon, Montano and Idaho
the placer and hydraulic mining have been in
terrupted by the drought, and very little quartz
mining is carried on in those regions. In Colo
rado the yield for 1869 has been very encourag
ing and tho Commissioner is of the opinion
that tho Territory will advance rapidly in popu
lation and wealth, since the inhabitants are de
voted to steady industry and not to mere specu
lative activity.
BY TELEi 3-RAPH
FROM WASJ iHXGTOlT. .
Washington, December 10. — Eevenu*i to-d»Jy
8250,000.
The awards made by the Court of Claims Jor. cot
ton captured by the mffitar y, aggregate $734,000 for
twenty-nine cases. Thegc >vemment iris,appealed
them all.
Commodore John Roger s succeeds Admiral R?W-
an in command of the Ash itic squadron.
The New York Tribune <? is patches Item Cuba con.
firm the defeat of the S] laniards at San Jose, «»■*
also give an acconnt of the severe punishment oft
negroes at Lagua, the number of stripes being freer
two hundred to eight hundred.
Diarro de la Marina saya the Spanish in the d»r
trict of Hal quin are unable to inoreJor want of
inforcements—three thousand troops being neces
sary. The troops are suffering . from, severe-
sickness.
Seven sugar estates have beau destroyed in. Ra,
medi&a district; fire in Tricadod, and,.threaia
Cienfuga.
Col. Camara, with six bvndaed snen .and fir*,
pieces of artillery, attacked Cohans at Regju*
del Castellano.' The fight looted, four hours, ™'i>
the Spaniards were repulsed with great loss—fcaiy T
seven were left dead on the field.
Official statistics published, .at Havana show tram
the commencement of the - warg Spanish less.of
eight thousand killed in batttoefive thousands by
disease; two thousand deuestad to.the Cubtns>£
three thousand now sick.
Thirty-five prominent Catena,have .been aprestod
in Havana, supposed to he,.iasympathy wiiMhe
Cuban insurrection.
The Supreme Court hue,dismissed the appeal
from Louisiana, in the cagqnf .New Orleans,varaoe
the New York Steamshin^iomgany.
Washington, December-10.—In tho Houe^-a.pro
test against the admission; of Booker, from^khe
fourth Virginia district,.was referred to the. Ejec
tion Committee.
The struggle betw«en.th» Banking and .Currency
and Ways and Meanp- Conmittees, regarding; the
reference of financial bills, is increasing...
The census bill was resumed.
Washington, Dcsembfr 11.—In the.,Rpsoxatruo-
tion Committee ijatter was read fronkEx^Oover-
nor Welles, of Ybginie* urging immediate, admis
sion of Virginia .and opposing the exaptiosiof the
test oath from the Vhjinia legislators..
The best ov-ipion a that a bill wQhbe.Teported
from the committee cn Tuesday for tlio.riatoration
of the State, tmd that the Senators and Representa
tives, except Hooker and McKenzie, whose seats are
contested, wlllhe admitted to seat s-jTbebill will re
quire a plecgp from tho officials, that there shall be
no further disfranchisements on recoup.! of race or
color.
The statements of Governors Welles and Walker,
were ordered to be printed. :
A subhcomisattee was appointed to prepare, a-,
statement-of the alleged election frauds, but not to
print it,.as She voice of the committee is against;
serioqsly entertaining any cuggtioq regarding.too
fairness of. the. election.
jfq.tlia Bouse, a motion to table Iagersoll’s forty-,
five million additional currency bill was defeated,
hot was referred to tho Committee on Banking, and
Currency, instead of tho Mommitteo on Wafa, and
Means, winch is regarded i as equivalent toils ulti-
imate defeat, as the Banking and Currency.Gommit-
tee is understood to be hostile to its provisions.
Revenue to-day, 8362^HX).
Robert Clarke has been appointed Assessor for tho
Second Georgia Distrisl. <
2t is stated that Judgo Grier has resigned) to take
effect on February l$t*
The Star says: The Senate Judiciary-Ooromittea
had another sessionyesterday, on Georgia. Abillwas
agreed upon for carrying out the suggestions of the
President’s message. Gov. Bullock was before the
Committee and made statements relative to the.
condition of affairs in .that Stato K which ho repre
sented to be little better than it was during the wa*
tbat is, so-far as Union men ara.concerned. The
bill will he raported next week.
Tho Attorneys of the Tehuantepec Ship Canal
Company,, and tho Mexican Pacifio Railroad Com
pany, filed claims before the Mexican Commission,
aggrogaejeg $322,000,000.
Mr. Wardweil, Superintendent of the Virginia
Penitentiary, stated befors tho Reconstruction Com
mit ieo, that that institution contained 493 negroes,
»iyl 44 whites who had served in the Federal army;
Sgevwho bad been in the Federal employment; 15 or
30.who had been in the Confederate servico—total
nqmber of; prisoners, 621.
News , from Cuba, from Spanish sources, to the
New. York Tribune, report the insurgents in the
countiy adjoining-Trinidad, and burning estates. A
number of plantations have been fired, aqd the
greater number reduced to ashes—one losing cane
that ought to produce elovon hundred hogsheads'
of sugar and molasses; another thirteen hundred.
There has been general destruction thus far. Mora
than ono-b<%l| of the cane crops have been entirely
destroyed.
FOREIGN NEWS.
London, Decanter 8-—The London News, com
menting on President Gnat's message, says Amer
ica wants indemnity for their feelings on the Ala
bama question- rather than for tbeir trade or
pockets.
Roms, December 8s—Tho (Ecumenical Council
was opened by the Pope. Seven hundred Hsbops
followed the Pope irvtho- procession.
St; Johns, N. Bj, December Pk—Laat Night bet
ing-.very cold,.the crew of the schooner Keichom
built a fire in. the stove and dosed tlx* hatches,
Four of the crew were-found dead in rgnongnonto
London, December M.—The stsamship Brazilian,
built expressly, for the Suez GAnai traffic, hod to die-
charge hall her ooigo before get* tag, through.
The Dole of-Saxo Coburg is dying. PVisce Alt
fried,'of -England, is htoheir.
Paris, Deeember-11.—THe officii# yellow Ieoh to
published. IBs relations of Franco-vrith otlwr pow-
ers, and their relations with oadi other, are peace
ful. Begtedtogribe Ecxmenieal-Canned,.th» book
Bays: It is-beyond the pale of tho political' power,
so the Empemria resolved not-to use his ihcsntesfc-
ible right tointervene in. ito deliberations. Alb tho
Catholic powtre -approve-thia-conra*:.
The movement in the- GOrps-Legiatotif to impeach-
The Gove
Be-
i he Minister of the Intoriercreatedtawiolbnoeaever
before witnessed. The sitiiiig.of-the-Corps woe- ad,
j burned amid great excitement;
The FrenehiGovernment- has maib-known to-ttie
(Eeumeniosl Council, that iB/alfibilily. js-an inoppor
tune questioa-from a rehgwua view; .and. politically
places France othorwia&than ascending to the con
cordat, aad rdoases henfromihe obligatibna-tfaera
ccepted.
Bomb, December ll.—The Pope delivered mu Elo
cution before the asestobled Bishop* to-day. Be
said that false human > science and- impiety were
never before 80 strcNgaa- at the .present dby;.fte»
they ware well organized and hid them*el vee. behind
pretended-aspiration, for-liberty;; but- throe was
nothing to fear, because the. church, was. stronger
than the heavens. Tliae would remedy. the>yroeent
evils...
Tha Ecumenical Council in adjporaingiaras- the
Ephipbany, the Pope s&id he wea suro of Ste co
operation of the American Bisheps.
London, December-11—Burlingame hee-ihfbrma-
tioniiat the Chinese.Government has. xritfied the
American treaty.
l&xfisment moots-on the 8y>of,Fobruaqyi
The Times condemns the Grange Lodges as only
perpetuating.theidoas of two,races..
Motuzs, December 11.—Tho-Anti-Eapal Council
has assembled. Two. hundred. Italian, and twenty
other.delegatee-were present.. BiccartSiwaa elected
President.
Letters werz- read from. Victor Riga, Garibaldi,
;and others, amid much enthusiasm..
St. Fsxebsuubo, Decembes Ilk—3he navigation
of the Baltio-isxlosed.
MAmtm, December 11 The Cortes rejected the
bill for indemnifying.exiles-under *monarchy.
Havana.,. December —There, was a sharp skir
mish yesterday near Trinidad. The result is un
known.
The Cleopatra arrived today from Yera Cruz;
also a steamer wiibi a thousand troops fro^q.
Cadiz, __
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Nets-Qbleans, Decembers.—Gen. W. T. Clarke,,
member, of Congress, elect from the third district of
Texas, passed through this city yesterday for
’Washington. He claims that Davis is elected Gov
ernor. The probabilities are that all the candidates
foe- Congress oa the Davis ticket are elected,, with
gcod majorities, in both branches of the Lefp^&tnre
fee-the same party.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
San Fbancisco, December 10.—The Gwremor’B
message recommends State aid to facilitetoemigra-
tion from Europe and the Eastern States^ Ho sayb
the Legislature has the power to prphfhto Chinese
mmigratkm. Ho favors the removal of ail-barriers
Chinese testimony, not only ts,£q,pe>.of justice,
but of sound policy.
tent Department
parts.
The annual reports of the heads of-the Gov
ernment Departments, together with the Presi
dent's message and the-- commencement of- the
session of the Forty-first Congress; are the ab
sorbing national topics of the day. Thevepet ts
of the Secretary si War, the Postmaster Gen
eral, the Secretary of the Navy, the Commis
sioner of Internal •Revenue, United States
Treasurer Spinner and the Comptroller of the
Currency, are unusually full and exhaustive,
and present an interesting exhibit of the affairs
of the Government for the past year.
According to tho-report of the Seoretary -of
War, a farther reduction of the army toreeom.
mended. He asks tor authority to retire at
least seven per cant, of the offioers of the-whole
army. The present maximum of the army is
52,324 enlisted-men. > About 29,750 man - may
be relied npoafor actualserrioe, and below that
standard it wonld. not be prudent to go. - The
paymaster’s noils show disbursements for the
year to 'the amount of $38,782,144 81*.: The
operations of the Frdedmen’e Bureau haver been
dosed,- except the educational and bounty divi
sions, and too hospitals for freedmen. The
General of the army shows that everyiregjnaent
is on duty, and 1 that he cap scarcely supply alt
the urgent demands made upon him fur troops.
He says that if the forces were, withdrawn from
certain localities “a condition of afflura wonld
result amounting to anarchy.” '
The Commissioner of Internal Efevenoo ad
vises a continuance of the income tax and states
that the present whisky tax .will yield. & revenue,
of sixty millions,, although,/‘the government has
been generally and almost syste mattoally cheat
ed” under the present mode, of collecting the
tax. He estimates that the internal revenue
from all sources umia.Do ®ivs,poo.oo«
nually.
The Saeretary-«f the Navy thinks that our
naval force- in, toseign waters ia wholly inade
quate to the. demands of American, commerce.
(We thought that,had perished long,ago.) , But
for the protection of the rights-of American
citizens in, foreign lands, we think -tins state
ment of the Seiastary .admits of ao, discussion.
The condition, off the navy.is at a uesy low ebb.
The report recommend? vessels which can be
propelled: by. sairing as well- as steam power.
Our iron-, clads, are only-fit-for home service.
He urgqa-the encouragement of fleet claw ocean
steamarsforconnnercial purposes, .as they would
be oi gjeat.bcaefit in case of wax. The Darien
Ship Canal is-also strongly recommended.
Tho,BoBtmaster General shows that the reve
nues of the department for the- past fiscal year
were $18,34.V>1Q and. the. expenditures. $23,-
698,131, giving a deficit of $5,355,621. The
deficiency is caused by the depreciation of the
paporcutseocy, unpaid postagpiOn printed mat
ter and the franking privilege- These are evils
whiqh can. he remedied. He .also urges the re-
establishment of AmericanHnas-of ocean steam
ers.. These are twenty-sewn thousand onis
hundred and six post-officeaan operation.
The,Comptroller of the Gowency states that
th^ro are one thousand' six, hundred and twenty
national hanks in active operation and that the
total number of notes of all; denominations out
standing are $299,789,85fe He Also offers soma
important suggestions on various subjects com-
nee ted with his denartcaonlw
5 The, United States Treasurer says that if the
present rate of purchase of tbepublia debt .he
maintained and the accruing interest be sestir
annually invested in bonds, the whole debt will
■be paid off in less than thirteen years.
{jilfcte York Telegram.
600,000
200,000.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate—No session.
House. —A bill was int roduced prohibiting the sale
of coin by tho Treasury.
Also, that tho Committee on Foreign Affairs bo
directed to inquire into the circumstancoa attending
the landing of tho French cable.
A bill was introduced for the removal of obstruc
tions in Bayou Teclie, La.
Also, for repairing and furnishing the New Or
leans custom house.
The census bill was discussed all day.
Two efforts to consider the Cuba question failed.,
Tho House adjourned.
Washisoton, December 11.—House—Tho Com
mittee of Ways and Means were instructed toon-
quire into the expediency of relieving the provision
trade from taxation.
Five members of tho Banking and Currency Com
mittee, to which Ingersoll’s forty-four millions ad-,
ditional currency bill was referred, voted to lay it
on t'ne table till the bill was introduced.
A bill was introduced dispensing with spies in tho
revenue service.
Tho Census bill was considered till adjournment.
FROM ALABAMA.
MoxiGOMEBr, November 10.—In the House to-day
Brown, of Chambers, Democrat, was voted out of
his seat, and was refused tho privilege of spreading
his protest on tho journal. A motion to seat lYard,
his contestant, was voted down.
McKinstry, Representative from Mobile, waB vo
ted a seat today in tho place of Mageo, Democrat,
who was recently ejected on tho ground of ineligii
bility, for having been a Boad Commissioner before
tho war. The namo of McKinstiy was in tho list jo
persons whose disabilities were removed this week
by Congress
GENERAL NEWS.
Louisville, December 10.—Congressman Galla-
day, a prominent candidate for the Senate from
Kentucky, favors repudiation on moral and legal
points, citing precedents in support of repudiation
in our own and foreign countries,
been robbed and the cashier killed. The jrobbers
got only five dollars.
were released to-day, and will proceed to sea imme
diately.
St. Loins, December 11.—The steamer IV. B. Ar
thur, hence for New Orleans, sunk near Burnett’s
Island with a valuable cargo, which is a total loss,
including three hundred and fifty head of live stock.
New Yoke, December II.—Father Hyacinthe
sailed for Franco to-day.
Chicago, December 11 The jury gave Mary
Walton $3300 in a libel suit against the Chicago
Times. A new trial was granted without argument.
Augusta, December 11 The reported Cuban ex
pedition from here is a hoax.
There has been no disturbance between the whites
and blacks in Edgefield, S. C.
The press of Georgia is almost a unit in denoun
cing measures looking to a reorganization of the
State. The attitude of Congress creates uneasiness
in agricultural and commercial circles.
Halifax, December 1L—The Chronicle says that
Grant's meesage breaks off all hopes of a recipro-
cocity treaty, and renders annexation more desira
ble, but believes that independence has become pop
ular.
TEXAS ELECTION.
- Galveston, December 8.—Returns from forty
counties give JIavis 3489 majority—Flanagan, for
Lieutenant Governor, 8260.
The Confederate Armies.
Debow’s Review gives the .following figures
concerning the Confederate armiaa during the
war:
Confederate forces actively, engaged.
61 5............ J.
Total deaths in O. S. A...'.,,
Losses of O. S. A., in prisoners, 1861-
’5, which may be considered as total
losses on acconnt *of. the. policy of
non-exchange by .tha United States. 200,000
Losses of C. S. A., by, discharge, dis-__
ability and desertipn. w „..„ r ' 100,000
“If this calculation, which is given only as
an approximation, be correct, one-third, of oil
the men actively, engaged on the Confederate
side were either, killed outright upon the field,,
or died of disease, and wounds; another third o{.
the entire number were captured and held fpr
an indefinite period in Northern prisons; and
of the remaining four hundred thousand, at
least one-half, were lost-to the. service, by &S;
charges and.desertion. ■ , , .
“At the close of the war the available force, of
the Confederate States numbered scarcely 100,-
000 effective men.
“The resolution, unsurpassed bravery, and
skill, with which the. Confederate.leaders.con-
ducted.this. contest, is. shown by the fact that
out of 500,000 men in the field, about 500,000
were lost to the service.
“At the close of the war the lOftGOQ Confed-
erates were opposed to one million (1,000,000)
Federal troops. - ■ i
The North Georgia-Conference.
Special Correspondence of the
Rome, Ga.,.December 8; 1869.
’ Tho North Georgia Conference‘of the M. E,
Church South met this morning at 9J o’clock,
in tho City Hall, Bishojj, Doggett presiding.
Conference was.,opened by singing and prayer
by the Bishop. After tho opening tho Dishop
delivered quite an impressive address to the.
body. '
The roll was then, called. Key. A. G. Hay-
good was elected Secretary; Rev. J. W. Heiat
was elected as Assistant.
After a little discussion, it was agreed to meet
at 9 a. m., and adjourn at 1 P. M. The .Confer
ence proceeded, to appoint committees and fill
vacancies iu the standing boards. It was agreed
that tho Conference should set with open doors.
Communications were then received and read
from the Secretary of the Board, of Domestic
Missions, J. B. McFerrin; Y. G. Allen, Mission
ary in China, and the President of the Wesleyan
Female College, at Macon, Ga.
Examination of character was then entered
into. W. H. Potter, A. Wright, Geo, Pattillo,
C. W. Key, J. M. Armstrong, Leonard Rush, A.
J. Jarrel, Josiah Lewis, Sr., M. Morris, Julius
T. Curtis, Thos. F.-Pierce, Clement A. Evans,
Richard J. Harwell, E. W. Spear, Wm. R. Foot,
Cicero A. Mitchell, D. G. Myrio, Morgan Cala-
way.
Supreme Couri^Morning Session.
From the Atlanta Constitution.]
Atlanta, December 9, I860.
Argument was resumed and concluded in No.
C, Southwestern Circuit.
No. 10 is Roe and Jno. Henry, plaintiffs in
error, vs. Doe ex. dem., Granniss, administrator
et. at. Ejectment from Lee.
Vason & Lewis, W. A. Hawkins for plaintiffs
in error.
F. F. Snead, R. N. Ely for defendants.
It was dismissed because prematurely brought
up.
No. 11 is Samuel Lindsey, Sheriff, plaintiff
in error, vs. B. F. B. Cook, et. al. Rule, etc.,
from Le?.
F. H. West, C. B. Wootten, Lochrane &
Clark for. plaintiff in error.
Hawkins & Burke, R. F. Lyon for defendants
in error.
Pending the argument for defendants ia error,
Court adjourned till 3 o’clock p. al
evening session.
Argument was resumed and concluded in No.
G, Southwestern Circuit
No. 9 is Covington Duma; , administrator,
plaintiff in error, vs. Jesse Roben, et al., “Mo
tion to open fi.fa.” from Calhoun.
Vason. &-Davis, Lyon, for plaintiff in error.
T. L. Dunn, O. B. Wooten by S. D. Irwin and
W. A. Hawkins, for defendants.
Pending the argument of W. A. Hawkins, the
Court adjourned till 10 o’clock a, m. to-morrow.
Cincinnati La gee.—We were indebted yes.
terday to Sherlitz’s Lager Beer Depot, comer
Third and Poplar streets, for a dozen bottles of
Cincinnati Lager—very fine. We # think some
body drank every bottle, thus furnishing cor?
elusive evidenco of appreciation.
THE OUTRAGES IN GEORGIA.
Report of Major. General Alfred Xeory.
lYttn the New York Tribune, 8th.]
Washington, December 7.—The annual re
port of the Secretary of War is accompanied,
jy numerous sub-reports, some of whiah are of
the first importance. That of Major General
Alfred H. Terjjt, commanding the District of
Georgia, is, in ,-iiew.. of the recommendation of
the President’^ message, and in further, view of
the bill to be tgken up.in'the Senate .tomorrow,
of the highest, interest. It is dated .August, 14,
1869, and is axfailows:.
SENATOR WILSON ON THE OUTRAGES..
Soon afterjl assumed command of this Depart
ment, a letter from the Hon. Henry- Wilson to
the President of the United Statsao»as referred
to me, with, instructions to investigate and re-
iort upon, matters therein mentioned. The fol-
owing ism copy of that letter,, and of the en
dorsement placed upon it by the - General Com-
mandingdha army.
! Naiiox, Masi, May 12* 1869.
Dea^Eiu : Can nothing bo done to stop the
outrages in Georgia ? Thesapolitical murders
should cease. Nothing animated, the people
more in the canvass than the idea that the rebel-
outrages should be stopped, They were checked
muchjby your, election - >; still they go on, and
manyof opr best friends,say that we do. nothing
to. stop them, and that wa had rather say nothing
about,them. I fear that- unless something is
■done many of onr most devoted friends will
rgrow dissatisfied. Cannot a proclamations re
gard to Georgia be.issued? Cannot these crimi
nals bp caught by the army aud punished ? I
am sura something should be attempted. Mar
tial law is this day needed in that the worst of
all the States for the security of the friends of
the country. Yours truly, Henby Wilson.
HEADQTJAitTEns a» the Aemy, Wasjbngxon,)
• I* 1 Jane 7, 1SC9. f '
Respectfully referred’to Commanding Gener
al, Department of the South, fox thorough in
vestigation and report
W. T. Sheehan, General.
I have delayed making report thus called for
until the present time, in order that X might be
come acquainted with the condition of affairs
in Georgia before expressing any opinion. Now
I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that
the situation here demands the interposition of
the National Government, in order that life and
property may be protected, the freedom of
speech and political aotion secured, and the
rights and liberties of freedmen maintained.
This opinion is based upon complaints made to
me, reports of offioers detached to investigate
the alleged outrages, and upon the statements
of many persona of respectability and high posi
tion from different parts of the State. In those
representations I must repose confidence, some
of whom have given me information only under
pledge of sccrecry, the state of affairs in their
section being such that they feared extreme
personal violence should it become known that
they had been in communication with me.
THE KU-KLUX ELAN.
In many parts of the State there is practi-
oally no governmRit; the worst of crimes are
committed, and no attempt is made to punish
those who commit them. Murders have been
and are frequent, and the abuse in various ways
of blaoks is too common to excite notice. There
can be no doubt of the existence of numerous
insurrectionary organizations known as the
“Ku-Klux Klans,” who, shielded by their dis
guise, by the secrecy of their movements, and
by the terror which they inspire, perpetrate
crimes with impunity. There is great reason
to believe that in some cases local magistrates
are in sympathy with members of these organi
zations. In many places they are overawed by
them, and dare not attempt to pnnish them. To
pnnish offenders by Civil proceedings would be
a difficult task, even were magistrates in all
cases disposed, and had they courage to do their
duty, for the same influences which govern
them eqnally affect juries and witnesses.
HOW THE CRIMINALS ESCAPE.
A conversation which I have had with a
wealthy planter, a gentleman of intelligence and
education, and a political opponent of the. Na
tional Administration, will illustrate thi&diffi-
cnlty. While deploring tho lamentable condi
tion of affairs in the county in which he lives,
he frankly admitted to me that were the most
worthless vagabonds in the county to.be charged
with crimes against the person of a Republican
or a negro, neither he or any other person of
property within the county would dare to refuse
to give bail for the offender, nor wonld they
dare to testify against him, whatever might be
their knowledge of his guilt. That very many
of the crimes which have been committed have
no political bearing, I believe; that some of
the numerous outrages upon freedmen result
from hostility to the race,, induced by their en
franchisement, I think cannot he controverted.
The same difficulties which beset the prose
cution of criminate are enoountered by negroes
who seek redress for civil injuries in local
courts. Magistrates dare not da their duty to
ward them, and instances are not wanting
where it has. even been beyond the power of a
magistrate to protect a negro plaintiff from vio
lence in his own presence, while engaged in the
trial of his case. I desire it to bo understood
that, in speaking ot magistrates, I in no degree
refer io Judges of the Superior Court. They are
gentlemen of high character, and I have every
confidence that they will do their duty fearlessly
and impartially. But it i3 to be observed that
even they cannot control grand and petit juries;
they cannot compel the former to induct, nor the
latter to render unprejudiced verdicts. The ex
ecutive of the Stato would gladly interpose to
i give all citizens the protection which is their
right* but radar the ■ GoMtifatfon mid laws, ha
has power neither to act directly in bringiixg the
offenders to justice, -naerto’Oompol subordinate
officers to their duty.
sc»ua'BX!miaanc>iit.THa snun.
I do not suppose that the groat majority of
the people of the Stateof either race approve
of the commission of these crimes. I believe
that nof only would they gladly see good order
restored; peace and quiet maintained, and law
vindicated, but would lend their aid* to secure
these* end*-were they.no* controlled by their
fears. Governed, however, by tbeir apprehen
sions, and having no confidence that the civil
authorities -wilt afford thenvproteotion, in many
conn ties-they suffer these e-rile to exist without
an effiert to abate them, and meekly submit to
the rnleof’A disorderly and otiminal minority.
tYhile I have been< in commend of the,Depart
ment, Ik have endeavored-to. take no aotion
which could not be justified, by- letter of law,
evert if Georgia should be- held to be restored
to its original relations- to-the General Govern
ment.' I have confined myself to-giving sup
port testhe civil authorities, and moving detach
ments ot troops into some, of -the disturbed
countkw- where their presence would exert a
good itehtenoe, and where they would' be ready
to act if -properly called upon.. I think that
some gped has in this way been accomplished,
but the greet evihhasby nonneana been reached.
As Department Commander,-I can do no more,
for, whatever may be the status of Georgia,
and whatever may be the-ppwers which, an offi
cer assigned to the command of-the Third Dis
trict, created by the Reconstruction acts, would
posseas^ifc'is only an otS&er so assigned who
could exercise them. They, are. sot vested ia
me by my .assignment to.the command of the
TlapartmAnt. Where, ihorafovo, tko. atTil ao
thorittes are in sympathy with, or are overawed
by time*-who commit crime, it is-manifest that
I am powerless. In thia-oonnoction I respect
fully call the special attention of the General
Commanding the Army to the reports in regard
to tho "attempt made in.Warren county to secure
the arrest and punishment of persona, charged
with crime, which are this-day forwarded.
vweraux government , should interfere.
It appears to me that the national honor is
pledged to tho protection of loyalists and freed-
menof the South. Lam, well aware that pro
tection of .persons and property is not ordinari
ly one of-the fnnetioss-of the national govern-
moat; bat when it is. remembered that hostility
to the supporters of, tho government is but a
manifestation of .hostility to the government it
self,. and that the prevailing prejudice against
blaera.results fronvtbe^ emancipation act of thq
gqwernmeht, it would seem that each-protection
cannot be denied them, if it be within the pow- .
erof the government- to give^ I.know of no
way in which such protection, cambe given in
Georgia except by,an. exercise, of; the powers
conferred on military- commanders by the con
struction acts.
[The General then enters intoa. long discus
sion whether these powers can stiUibe exercised
In Georgia, and-treats of all laws bearing upon
the question with much vigor «f- Judgment and
clearness of expression, coming to the oonclu-
sion that they may still be decreased and closing
bis report aufeUowa] :.-
HOW,TO RESTORE OC£Q ORDER.
In conclusion, I desire to express my convic
tion that the only, way to restore good order in
the State is- to resume military control over it
for the time being, and ultimately to provide by
law that the Legislature shall re-assemble as a
Provisional Legislature, tom which all ineligi
ble persons shall be excluded, and to which all
eligible persons elected to it, whether white or
black, shall be admitted- Such legislature would-
!.believo, enact such,laws, and invest their Ex
ecutive with such powers as would enable him
to keep, the peace, protect life and property,
and punish crime. The process of resuming
military control wo«l$.it appears to me, be a
very simple one. All that would be required is
an order from the President countermanding
General Orders No. Gtr, Adjutant General’s
Office,. July 28,. 1863^ and orders No. 1Q3, head- ,,
quarters. Third Military District, July 22, 1858,
and assigning an officer to the command of the
district, excepting the States of Florida’and Ala- :
bama.’ This action I respectfully recommend.
GENERAL *ALLROX ! S INDORSEMENT.
General Halle ck, commanding Military Di- .
virion, of the South, indorses this report of Gen.
Terry’s as fallows:
I: cannot concur entirely in the views of Gen.
Terry. After-the recognition for so long a time
of the Stato- Government of Georgia by the
President and highest military authorities, for
these officers to retrace their steps and declare
their own cots illegal and void, wonld not only
seem inconsistent, hot might produce muon
Should Congress, However, decide to retain
the State to the condition of a military district,
under the Reconstruction laws, on the ground
that it had not been fully reconstructed, the case
would be very different. I therefore respeot-
fnliy recommend that the matter be left for ae- '
tion of Congress.
"Washbubne at Compeigne—He Dances with
the Princiss Mathilde.—The Emperbr; v, dne
evening this week, ordered MM. WaldiejfieM,
who with a violin and piano are almost equal.to
a full band, to play the “Carillon' deTT)un-
kerque.” His Majesty then led the dance, which
is a sort of Sir Roger de Coverley combined
with figures of the cotilion, and made feii^tho la
dies, young and old, follow his example.'^ The
ministers joined in, the Prince de!a.Tour-d’Au
vergne having for his partner one of the most
brilliant valseurs in France. H. da.Foread®
Roquette displayed his athletic graae lb dR its
amplitude. Gen. Chaucard led tho .gallop, and
Mr. ’Washburn described around, fke Princess
Mathilde, the elegant entrechats cf^’.IS&a For
nearly two hours the dancers whirled round the
drawingroom without a moment's pause, and
the arms of the musicians were-tired before the
Emperor had sat down. Tho Qompany danced
again on the following evening/several ladies
of Compeigne being invited. The guests joined
in the feto with suoh a spirit-afc-’about eleven
o’clock they began to feel somewhat hungry.
The Emperor inquired what could be had for
supper, and was told that there remained no
thing in the pantry but two fowls and some
ham, but no bread! The pastry which re
mained after dinner hadlpeon distributed among
the orpheonists. 'All the shops in the town were
closed, so some soldiers’ bread was sent for to
the barracks. “ Meadames/’ said the Emperor
gaily, “ I have only simple.faro to offer yon.”
And then those elegant ladies might be seen
eating their sandwiches with the appetite of
haymakers. Champagne mixediwith water mois
tened this frugal sqpper/w^ich was the merriest
eaten for a long time in' the palace.— Com
peigne Correspondence Liberte.
Georgia in-Congress.—A special dispatch
of the 8th, to the Charleston News, says:
The Georgia Conservatives are making efiorts
to counteract Bullock’s representations regard
ing that State, and haye furnished records show
ing Joe Brown’s inconsistency on the eligibility
question.
Two . Irishmen were in prison, _ the one for
.stealing, a cow, the other for stealing a watch.
‘‘Hollb, Mike, what o’clock is it r said the
coy-stealer to the other.
“And sure, Rat, I haven’t any time-pieco
handy, But I think it is most milking time.”
Enthusiastic Entimologist.—“I say, Brown,
did.it ever strike you what an insane looking
.word ‘Fruiterer’ is? Why could’nt we say
* Fruiter ?’ ”
Brown (punster as above)—“Well, yes;
looks very like an ever, don’t it?”
Emile Ollivier declares that in order to
guard against popular excesses, the Corps Leg
islate must rally around the dynasty.
Da. Paul Schoejppe has written a letter to
Governor Geary, in which he denies that he
poisoned Miss Stienecke, and argues his case
upon the evidence adduced at. the trial which
resulted in his conviction.
Col. John Kino, a lawyer from Arkansas,
committed suicide at the New York Hotel, Fri
day night, by shooting^himself through the head
with a piatoL ■
Don Piatt pleasantly speaks of Grant as “a
stolid, brass-mounted political howitzer, whose
bore is in reverse magnitude to his caliber.”
Small Pox is about becoming epidemio in tho
Fifth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Wards of
Brooklyn. _
Power of Spider's Silk.—A bar of iron one
inch in diameter will sustain a weight of 28
tons, a bar of steel 50 tons; and, according to
computation, based upon the faot that a fibre
only 1-4000th of an inch in diameter will pus-
tain’54 grains, a bar of spider’s silk air inch
diameter wonld gvjpport a weight of 74 tons.
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