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The Greorsia 'Weekly Telegraph
Telegraph and Messenger
MACON, DECEMBER 28, 1869.
The Advertiser calculates that Montgomery
will receive 12,000 more bales of cotton Jthis
.season. Receipts np to date, 55,000 bales.
Mary Murphy, stewardess of the Boston
*nd Savannah steamship Oriental, died
wery suddenly on Wednesday, at the Marine
Hospital in Savannah.
The historic estate of. Chancellorsville, eon*
taming one thousand acres, ten miles from
Fredericksburg, has been sold by Mr. George
Guest, of Baltimore, to J. H. Wald, Esq., also
wf Baltimore, for $^200.
Excelsior.—The local of the Era, of yester
day, mentions among the street gossip of that
place, the name of Superintendent fiulbert as
being spoken pf for United States Senator for
the long term. What is to become of Blod
gett?
Stock and Bond Sale.—In Charleston, on
Tuesday, 011,000 City of Charleston six per
.cent, bonds, sold at $55; $5,000, at $54; and
$4,000 at $53J. South Carolina Railroad and
Bank stock, brought $584 to $58$; and Bank
of Charleston, $24$.
Classic.—The citizens of Montgomery pro
pose to make Christmas merry with a tourna
ment and an old fashioned gander-pulling. If
name of their loyal oppressors—spoliators in
State and municipal affairs—could be made to
eland for the gander, what sport there would
be; eh, Hodgson?
Another.—The Valdosta Times says* the
gin-house of Captain B. B. Johnson, near
Station No. 12 Atlantic and Gnlf Railroad,
was burned on tbe 10th inst., contain
ing five bales of cotton, two gins, a McArthy
and asaw-gin, with other valuables. The fire
caught in the breast of the saw-gin while run
ning, and was supposed to be from a match,
Loss all on the owner of the gin.
Death of Stanton I
Stanton the Cruel is dead! Stanton with
Woodless lips and cold eyes. Far be it from ns
(• rejoice in the misfortunes of any human be
ing. In the sight of God we are all guilty and
ill-deserving; but if somebody bad to die, wo
am glad it was Stanton. Stanton devised the
cold-blooded war of starvation and hooseboming
against the women and children of the South.
The cold wintry skies of Virginia looked a
thousand times upon the Inrid glare of burning
homes and the almost naked bodies of little
children, snatched from their burning beds to
wander houseless, without clothing, in the piti
less tempest, all by the orders of Stanton.
Sheridan made his campaign of matches,
brimstone and camphene by order of Stanton-
am rendered in the words of Grant, that the land
should be so devastated that a crow flying over
it should starve.
Sherman made his “great march” by the or
ders of Stanton, on the dead bodies of the
slaughtered domestic animals and by the light
of burning habitations.
JSo man can sufficiently appreciate these
•achievements in warfare until he reads hiato-
Ty. Tbe ofcer night we took up Lighthorse
Harry Xee’e History of the Revolutionary War
in the Southern States. Now, our forefathers
were eloquent about British cruelty in the Revo
lutionary War; but Lord Cornwallis in his
•march through Virginia, which ended in his
•capture at Yorktown, issued orders, that no
house riboald be-entered or family molested on
pain of death. That nothing shonld be taken
jtrom tbe people, unless such an accumulation
-of stores should be discovered as made it clear
that they were supplies for the rebel army. And
whm, in one case, violence was done to a family,
&e had his army paraded, the perpetrators iden
tified and bung. This was King George’s cru
elty to jrehfik.
<Bo£ Stanton deliberately devised and elabo-
raVcd s war against women and children rivaling
the worst achievements of savages or Turks or
the Goth. Ho made the war upon the
South such a war as shonld put Hell to the
blush and make its demons hang their heads.
The record of his inventions mil make American
history stink to the end of time. This is the
only obituary we can give of Stanton.
Tennessee Next.
This erstwhile fully reconstructed and most
ioyal State, who avouched her fidelity to radi
calism by sending a Brownlow to tbe Senate,
and a Stokes and a Mullins to the House of
Representatives, is threatened with the Con
gressional boot-toe as soon as Virginia and
Georgia are disposed of. She has repudiated
those “high blossoms” of loyalty aforemention
ed, and taken her place where she belongs—in
the Democratic ranks. Her property owners
and tax-payers, wealth and intelligence and
virtue are soon to come to their own again.
The hated and poisonous yoke of the meanest
most malignant despotism that ever enrsed
the earth, has been substantially shaken off,
«nS go she is doomed at Washington. It is
boasted there that her return to provisional and
provincial horrors is bnt a question of time.
Already a memorial signed by Brownlow and
all her present representatives in the House has
been presented in that body, setting forth that
the recent election in that State was carried by
fraud and violence; that the registrars appointed
•fey Gov. Senter issued certificates to every dis
franchised rebel, and to thousands of boys who
are not twenty-one years of age; there is no re
publican 'government within her borders, and
that tho present Legislature is illegal, and con
sequently the election of Cooper, Conservative,
to the Senate null and void.
So rages and roars the tide of tyranny. Where
ft will stop, God only knows. This much is
olear, however: Either thatit must abate before
very long, or a deluge whoso waters shall never
recede settle for good and all over this fair land.
The People, moro powerful than Canute, can,
at will, drive it back forever. When they rise
in their wrath, there will be a reckoning of
which even the bloodiest and most terrible reac
tions in Old World history furnish no example.
We shall not lose faith in thatseqnel till the last
chain is riveted, the last gyve fastened. We
rfndl continue, as heretofore, to counsel a calm
dignity and patient manhood—a strict fulfilment
of every duty and obligation of good citizen
ship; but we shall, at the same time, tell those
whose ears and hearts wo can reach to write
upon, their memories as with a pen of fire the
story of their wrongs.
“ 1*6 A Low, Mass a.”—A reconstructed Afri
can at Washington, arrested for stealing, was
upbraided by the magistrate: “I thought, Sam,
you belonged to the loyal party; that’s on its
good behavior, you know." “Dat’s just so,
massa; we’s two classes—de high and de low.
Be high takes what's guv to 'em, like massa
Grant; de low takes what’s not ijuv to'em, like
massa Butler. Ta a low, massa, dat’s all.
And he has the majority of his party with
him, too. • * _
Ihfk and Fire Insurance.—Sec card of Joseph
E. Johnston & Co., agents for the New York
Life, and the Liverpool, London and Globe Fire
Insurance Companies, elsewhere found. Both
oimpanies are among the staunchest and most
liberal in this country, end offer guarantees as
to capital and management not surpassed any
where. The name of Johnston, itself, should
.he endorsement enough for any corporation at
he South. •
A Compromise Proposition.
Tho following appeared among the press tele
grams yesterday:
Many members of Congress, who voted for
the bill to promote reconstruction in Georgia,
have given assurances that a Convention of tho
people of Georgia, pledging the adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment and reseating of the ne
groes, will secure the immediate repeal of the
act. Senator Morton says the whole object of
this legislation is to secure the adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment
A special of the same date to the Atlanta'
Constitution puts it in this shape:
If the Democratic parly in Georgia will hold
a State Convention not later than the tenth of
January, and the Democratic members of the
Legislature will freely unite in that Convention
and will pledge the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment and the reseating of the negroes,
and will memorialize the President and Con
gress to that effect, I am assured by those high'
in authority that the act just passed in tho case
of Georgia will be repealed immediately.
If the act to promote reconstruction in Geor
gia is carried into effect, it will bankrupt the
State, as well as seriously injure every other
interest.
Georgia is in a state of duress and must yield
to the demands of the Radical party, or be
sacrificed.
I believe a prompt Convention of the people
will avert the calamity. Of this I am assured
by influential Republicans. J. P. EL
Various ideas occur to us in explanation of
these telegrams. One is that the Radicals in
Congress, since the Georgia bill bas passed, may
be afflicted with some doubts whether any good
is like to come of it to themselves either in or
out of Georgia, and are willing to take shelter
under a specious and delusive and impractica
ble proposition for compromise.
Another is that, in the Georgia bill, tho atro
cious policy of amending the Constitution of
the United States by coorcion, bribery and in
timidation, is disclosed in perhaps a moro unde
niable and offensive form than in any other of
the acts of Congress. It is plain enough in the
amended reconstruction acts; bnt in this case
we may say a State is first kicked ont of the
Union in order to compel Jjer to vote for the
Fifteenth Amendment, as a condition of re-ad
mission. The press telegram represents Sena
tor Morton as saying: •‘The whole of this
(Georgia) legislation is to secure the adoption
of the Fifteenth Amendment,” which is a direct
verbal admission of tbe fraud upon the State
and nation.
The same admission in substance was repeat
edly made in tbe Senate during the discussion
of the bill, until Senator Carpenter remonstrated
against it as likely to be dangerous to the valid
ity of the amendment before the courts. Upon
that, Senator Williams, responded, in sub
stance, that they would tie np tho courts, and
it wonld be an intolerable piece of impndence
in the courts to decide any amendment of ^the
constitution invalid which Congress upon their
oaths had declared constitutionally incorpo
rated into the fundamental law.
But in spite of all bold talk, we may well im
agine that even the most radical of the mem
bers are willing to avoid tbe scandalous specta
cle of an amendment incorporated into the Con
stitution of the United States by force of the
assent of the so-called Legislature of a State
which has been turned ont of the Union, and its
Legislature packed by Congress and declared
provisional only, in order to compel its assent
to this amendment as a fundamental condition
of release and freedom. Such an assent they
are aware is no better than a forged certificate.
It is bogus in every aspect. The opposition will
never rest under it; and as it is probable that,
under the grant of power to Congress to enforce
the amendment by appropriate legislation, which
Senator Wilson calls tbe “cracker at tbe end of
the lash," the Radicals mean to inaugurate some
of the boldest interference with the freedom of
elections in all the States, it is manifestly unde
sirable that the amendment itself shonld be the
bald and ntterly indefensible fraud which such
proceedings wonld make it. It is not surprising,
therefore, if, after all, Congress shonld be will
ing to substitute for the assent to the amend
ment coerced by this bill, something which at
least more nearly resembles the voluntary action
of Georgia.
But so far as we are concerned, we should be
compelled to remain out of the Union forever,
if the price of our admission were the support of
constitutional amendment which destroys the
whole federative system, and puts popular elec
tions in the hands of a supreme Congress. The
proposition, if it were admissible, comes too late;
nor is there the smallest assurance that Con
gress would accept the tender if made. Let
Congress work its will upon Georgia, and upon
the government and people of the United States
through her, if }t can. Using all lawful means
for self protection-doing our best to thwart
these infamous schemes to destroy the State and
defraud the people of the United States, Georgia'
will go forward committing her cause to a God
of Justice, and to the intelligence and patriot
ism of the people.
The Atlanta Coal Convention.
We presented yesterday reports of the two
days’ proceedings of this Convention—copying
those of the first day from tho Constitution,
which reaches us in tho morning, and those of
the second day from the Intelligencer, which
comes by the evening mail. In the Constitn-
tion’s report of the second day wo find certain
proceedings set forth more at length in respect
to establishing a Marino Coal Station at Bruns
wick, as follows:
Col Hulbert offered the followingresolutions,
which wore adopted:
Resolved, That this Convention, fully appre
ciating the importance of establishing and
maintaining a coal station for Atlantic steamers
on our coast, will use every effort toward ac
complishing this desirable object.
Resolved, That the Chairman of this meeting
appoint a committee of five to confer with.Le
Barron Drury upon the practicability of supply
ing Brunswick with coal with a view to making
that port a regular coal station for Atlontio
steamers.
The Chair appointed as that committee Col.
E. Hulbert, G. H. Hazelhnrst, President M. and
B. R. R.; A. J. White, President M. and W.
R. R.; Milo Pratt. Etnas Mines; A. S. Mariner,
Coal Greek Mines.
We may add, in this connection, that the
scheme of a Brunswick coaling station for
steamships originated with the steamship com
panies represented by Mr. Drury, and Bruns
wick has been selected for its accessibility and
depth of water, while it is also said that the bit
uminous coal of Tennessee and Kentucky prove
to be belter than the Northern coal for the gen
eration of steam.
We find also that the following paragraph
from tho report of the Committee on Demand
and Supply, was omitted:
The demand for the incoming year will un
doubtedly be so great as to double that of the
current year, and, conseneutly, the number of
ears required will not be less than seventeen hun
dred.
Now, the Convention actually provided three
hundred cars to do this work—that is to say,
about one-sixth of the number which the Com
mittee say will be required. It seems to us
there is a good deal of room for a general rouse?
ment among the railway companies concerned.
Most people in these times are wishing to do all
the profitable business that comes to hand. The
roads should shape their plans so as to do tho
business of the country—they should either
shoot or give up the gun.
Acquitted.—CoL Tom Taylor, formerly com
manding tbe first Kentucky regiment in the
Confederate army, and who killed a Captain
Cleveland, in Mobile, several months since, was
acquitted last week, after an exciting trial, last
ing several days. - v'
The Georgia Press.
Augusta.—The Constitutionalist, in an article
on the “ Georgia Bill," refers, as follows,'to
the probable action of the Democratic members
of the Legislature:
When this illegal body of Congressional tools
shall have assembled together, it may be the
duty of all tho true men thus accidentally con
nected with it, to refuse participation in its pro
ceedings, jnst as it may be proper for them to
abandon it altogether. In such a case, the
Congressional conspirators who formed this un
lawful Assembly may, by the power of a license
which defies all limit, rake up, after a fashion,
dummies to take their places. But in this
event, the fraud perpetrated will be all tho
more glaring and the force employed all the
more abominable. Mr. Morton himself, the
author of this last iniquity, let ont the secret
when he said, in his seat in the Senate, that
“Georgia never would adopt the Fifteenth
Amendment except under compulsion.” The
“ compulsion” has come; we are saved from
stultification at last We have to thank him
for another thing. He has afforded the first
square issue with reconstruction. Henceforth,
in Georgia at least, Congress must assume re
sponsibilities which were once so adroitly thrust
upon our people. AU that Congress can do in
future must be done by “compulsion”—and
compulsion invalidates consent The day is
coming when Mr. Carpenter’s fears shall be re
alized—the day of retribution when the “South
files her bill of Exceptions,” and there will be
just judges to hearken to her claim; or the day
is coming when tho cause lost in Georgia shall
be lost everywhere in the Union, and a military
despotism and popular serfdom begin their iron
task.
From the same paper we get the following
local items:
At an early hour yesterday morning, Assist
ant Assessors E. A. Corry, David Porter. H. S.
Belcher and W. F. AoldeD, Deputy Collector,
J. E. H. Couturier, Guager, and Tho3. R. Har
per, Assessor’s Clerk, <Jf the revenue office of
this city, seized a still, of the capacity of 120
gallons, for alleged violation of the revenue
laws, in Columbia county, on the Fury’s Ferry
road, about eight miles from Augusta. The
still was the property of Mr. James Burrough,
who was arrested by Assistant United States
Marshall Porter, ana gave bond subsequently in
the sum of $2,000 for his appearance when re
quired. About five thousand gallons of corn
mash, ready for distilling, were turned into an
adjacent creek, and the building destroyed.
A very stable adherent of the former military
City Council, declared, confidentially, yesterday,
that he had received dispatches from Blodgett
and Bullock, urging him not to leave the city
under any circumstances, as their old city gov
ernment would be reinstated, and they desired
him to take charge of the city stables, which
were to be re-established. .
Atlanta.—The Constitution, in calling atten
tion to tho 5th section of the Georgia bill, which
provides:
“That if any person shall, by force, violence
or fraud, willfully hinder or interrupt any per
son elected from taking either of the oaths or
affirmations prescribed, or from participating
in the Senate or House of Representatives, af
ter having taken one of said oaths or affirma
tions and otherwise oomplied with this act, he
shall be deemed guilty of felony, may be tried
therefor by the Circuit or District Court of the
United States for the District of Georgia in
which the offence is committed, and shall be
punished by imprisonment at hard labor for
not less than two, nor more than ten years, and
the jurisdiction shall be sole and exclusive”—
Says very aptly that “ hate is always short
sighted. A relentless Congress over-reached
itself. The above sertion applies as well to Rad
icals who would displace legal Democratic mem
bers as to Democrats.
“ Let Governor Bulllock and his creatures be
ware how they seek by force, violence or fraud,
to wilfully hinder or interrupt Democrats from
taking tho prescribed oaths, or participating in
the legislative proceedings, or an indictment for
felony in Judge Erskine’s Court will be the re
sult.
“Let them watch well their proscriptive ten
dencies. Let our Democrats feel that this sec
tion of an odious bill furnishes them unexpect
edly and unintentionally the strongest sort of
protection against Radical machinations.
“Let the Radicals remember also that an er
ror in construing tho law of disability will not
save them. The very act of wrongful exclusion
means prima facie force or fraud. And ten
years’ labor in tbe penitentiary don’t compen
sate for the luxury of illegally triggering a
Democrat out of the Legislature.”
The Peachtree Street wall of a new building
going up on the Norcross comer in Atlanta, gave
way Thursday afternoon with a terrible crash,
tho bricks and mortar falling outside, the timber
inside. There were some twelve or fourteen
workmen on the building at tbe time, and all
succeeded in escaping without injnry, except
Mr. John Boutwell, who had his arm dislocated;
Mr. John Parish, who had his head fractnred;
a negro mortar-carrier, who was severely injured
about the bead and breast, and another negro
slightly injured.
Columbus.—The Sun concludes an article on
tho Georgia bill with the following cheering
words:
Everything is not lost. There is much to be
struggled for, and much to bo saved to men not
afraid to struggle. It wonld seem that the pas
sage of such an iniquity as the Georgia bill
through the House, with but two dissenting
votes from a great and powerful party, sounded
tho death knell of the State, and ushered in a
consolidated despotism. This, the future alone
can determine. Bnt as there is a ressnrrection
for those who die in the Lord, so will men and
States rise again who go down clinging to prin
ciples that can never die while human hearts
send life blood to bnman brains.
The Enquirer says that on Wednesday a horse
attached to a buggy conveying Mr. A. P. Redd
and lady up tho Girard hill took fright, yester
day, at some boys firing crackers, and in bis ef
forts to run threw the lady and gentleman into a
ditch. No serious damage done.
Savannah.—The News devotes a colnmn and
a half to a discussion of the probable conse
quences to Georgia and her material interests
of the new reconstruction bilL It thinks that
the co-operation of enough Conservative mem
bers of tbe Legislature may be secured to avert
many very serious ills. It calculates that with
the negroes reseated, there will still be a Demo
cratic majority in the House of seven or eight,
and that if thirty Democrats are ousted by the
new oath, there wonld still be hope that proba
bly twelve or fifteen of the twenty-seven Radi
cal majority thus secured, would not abet Bul
lock, in all his schemes for our ruin. Premis
ing, however, that the Legislature may be
so purged as to give a hopeless majority againBt
us, the News thinks the proper way to block
Gov. Bullock’s game is for the Democrats to
resign before the Legislature meets. Its argu
ment is as follows:
Gen. Meade declared them to be elected;
Bullock’s bill recognizes all as members of the
Legislature who were declared so by General
Meade. They are members of the Legislature
as it now exists, and if after having been so
recognized, having served in that body, they see
fit, for private reasons or reasons satisfactory to
themselves,they see fit to resign, by that act they
create a legal vacancy, and wo know of no law,
either of Congress or in tho Code, that authori
zes Bullock to appoint their successors. As they
have been declared elected by the recognized
authority, if they resign and give no reason for
so doing, there is no legal way to fill the vacancy
thus created but by an election, in whioh event
the proper persons, who could take the now tost
oath, would be returned without doubt; On the
other hand, if these Democratic members of. the
Legislature, in response to Bullock’s proclama
tion, appear at Atlanta, and decline to tako tho
new test oath, then, according to the late act of
Congress, Bullock would have a pretext, (but no
authority whatever even under that act,) to ad
mit others, minority Radicals-whom they had
defeated in the eleotion by the people to their
seats. By- resigning previous to the assembling
of the Legislature, giving no reason, they will
estop Bullock or any one else from inquiring
into their'eligibility or ineligibility, and all that
Bullock can “legally” dp, either under the Code
of Georgia or under the late act of Congress, Is
to order an election to fill the vacancies caused
by resignation.
Atlanta.—We get the following item from
the Era
Mr. J. B. Stewart, formerly connected with
the Southern Express office in this city, was
drugged and robbed while coming up on the
Macon and Western road yesterday. He went
to sleep on the train, as he supposes, and knpws
nothing further that occurred until he arrived
in Atlanta. He had been here some time when
he was aroused from his stupor and discovered
that his money and some valuable papers were
gone. Only a few persons were on tbe train
with him, yet he has no idea who committed
the robbery.
Snow fell in Marietta on Saturday last.
A young man named Hawley died in Cherokee
county laEt week, from an overdose of benzine
whisky. He had never been drunJT before.
The store of Carter & Hardaway, at Bnmes-
ville, was entered and robbed on Sunday night
of a lot of clothing, jewelry, bats, eto.
Henry G. Cole, of Marietta, has given $6000
to the Female College there.
Four Oaks.
In a work recently published and for sale by
Mr. J. W. Burke, entitled “Southland Writers,
we meet with the following notice of “Four
Oaks,” a recent novel—the production of Mrs.
E. W. Bellamy (Kamba Thorpe), of Alabama:
Mrs. E. W. Bellamy (Kamba Thorpe) has not
as yet accomplished a great deal in the litera
ture of her oountry; but wbat she bas published
she has cause to be proud of. Her novel of
“Four Oaks” was published by Carleton, New
York; 1867. The Round Table, under the im
pression that Kamba Thorpe was of the mason
line gender, thus alludes to “ Four Oaks:”
“This is a story of every day life, in which
all the incidents are probable, and what is yet
more rare, the characters are all perfectly natu-
raL A number of men and women, differing in
age though not in station, are brought together
on terms of pleasant acquaintanceship, and there
is a more liberal allowance than usual of intelli
gent men and brainless nonentities; of sensible
women and those torments of modern society,
women of an uncorf-'-i ago on the lookout for
husbands; and althi a there are no diabolical
villains, there are m:sohief-makers enough to
occasion unpleasant complications, which, to
gether with mysterious miniatures and family
secrets, combine to sustain an interest which
the events of the story would not otherwise
suffice to keep alive.
“The scone opens in the pleasant town of
Netherford, whore, after a severe round of in
troductions to the forefathers and relations of the
heroine, we are presented to a charming, good
hearted and beautiful girl, a little spirited, rath
er self-willed, and somewhat too self-reliant, bnt
so true and honest, so free from all the vices
which attach to the fashionable and fast young
lady of the day, that we are grateful to the au
thor who awakens our interest for a woman
equally endowed with vitality, modesty,and com
mon sense. There is an absence of all romance
about a life passed among snch restless and ill
assorted people, as form the society of Nether
ford, bnt tbe author has refrained from giving
ns any exaggerated or extravagant scenes; he is
thoroughly consistent and natural, and his im
agination has evidently been greatly assisted by
personal observation.”
From an extended notice of the book by a
Southern editor and critic of experience, (Maj.
W. T. Walthour,) we extract the following:
“We have subjected this volume to a careful
reading—a reading much more carefnl than we
are in the habit of giving to any new novel.
We confess having commenced ‘Four Oaks’ with
some nervous apprehension—fear lest it might
prove like too many books by Southern Authors,
which task the ingenuity of an indulgent review
er to effect an awkward compromise between
candor and charity in the expression of his opin
ion. They have to be ‘damned with faint praise’
or eased off with unmeaning platitudes. ‘Four
Oaks,’ we are happy to say, is not one of such
books. 'Wo have read it through with continu
ally increasing interest, and have laid it down
with that paradoxically pleasant regret which
busy people rarely have the luxury of feeling
in finishing a book—a regret that it is ended.”
“We have never read anything more thor
oughly and unaffectedly natural than the char
acters, the conversation, and incidents of this
book. It exhales the very odor of the groves,
the fields, the forests, and the ancestral homes
of Virginia or tho Carolinas; and yet, as we
have already said, neither Virginia nor Carolina
is mentioned. There are no tedious and elab
orate descriptions of scenery or analyses of
character; the touches that set them before us
so visibly are imperceptible. The humor of
some passages is delightful. It must be a dull
soul—totally insensible to mirth—that can read
unmoved snch scenes as the account of the first
meeting of the Quodlibet, or that of Mr. Dun
bar’s courtship, or his prescription of earth
worms and turpentine, or soma others that
might be specified.”
“The sum of the whole matter is that ‘Four
Oaks’ is the most delightful book that we have
read for a long time. It is the very book to be
read aloud either by the winter fireside or the
summer sea-sido, with one congenial listener or
a circle of snch listeners, and to leave all parties
more genial, more happy, more thankful to the
Creator for his good gifts, more charitable to
wards his creatures. It is very rarely that wo
conscientiously recommend the author of a new
novel to repeat the effort, but in this ease wo
very mnch hope that ‘Four Oaks’ is only the
beginning of a series. ‘Kamba Thorpe’ has not
mistaken her vocation.
“Wo forbear to say anything moro in praise
of ‘Four Oaks.’ What we havo said is not said
from any unduo partiality, for wo know the
writer only by reputation—scarcely even by
name.”
Mrs. Bellamy is a widow, and is a teacher in
a Seminary at Gainesville, Alabama. Her es
says contributed to the “Mobile Sunday Times”
are beautiful and elegant articles, and we im
agine she is an ardent lover of “nature and of
nature’s God.” The book will shortly be on
sale at J. W. Burke & Co.’s.
Items.
Provision and fuel cars are to be run on
the Pacific Railroad during the winter, to keep
the passengers from freezing and starving.
Hebe is a funeral speech which a Paris paper
assures us was actually pronounced at Mont
martre the other day, by a father at the grave
of his son: “Gentlemen," said tho father, in
a voice full of emotion, “the body before me
was that of my son. He was a young man in
tho prime of life, with a sound constitution,
which ought to have insured him a hundred
years. But misconduct, drunkeness and de
bauchery of the most disgraceful kind, brought
him in the flower of ago to tho ditoh which you
see before you. Let this be an exnmple to you
and your children. Let us go hence.”
The average daily attendance in the pnblio
schools of Ohio, during the year ending August
31, I860, was 431,885. Tho total number en
rolled was 739,971, showing that 305,0S6 chil
dren did not attend school at all.
Berlin dressmakers havo remonstrated with
the Prussian Queen, because she ha3 her good
clothes made in Paris.
The cotton brokers of Memphis, last Satur
day, resolved to form a stock company to com
press their own cotton rather than compromise
with the consolidated companies. They re
jected the offers of Cincinnati presses to com
press at seventy-five cents.
The death of Cardinal Fentini, a native of
Rome, is announced. There are no^r sixteen
vacancies in tho Colloge of Cardinals, and it is
understood that the Pope will make no nomi
nations to fill them during the sossions of the
Council.
The Last Coal Mine Catastrophe.
Tho Pennsylvania coal mines are furnishing
some horrid episodes in history. The last acci
dent, at Stockton, Luzerne county, was terrible.
The miners wero working the colliery too near
the surface—leaving a crust of only twenty feet
in thickness, upon which was located two blocks
of houses numerously tenanted—there being on
an average two families in each house. All of
a sudden, at about three o’clock in tho morn
ing of the 18th, this crust gave way for the
space of one hundred foot wide and one hundred
and fifty feet long, and the houses and their
sleeping tenants sank down into -tho abyss.
More awful still—tho debris of these houses soon
took fire from tho stoves in them, and_ the by
standers were compelled to listen to the horrid
shrieks of the victims below—hopelessly en
tombed and burning to death. Some were res
cued or saved themselves, but at least ton per
ished in this awful manner.
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MORE PROMOTION FOB GEORGIA
Alleged Crimes—Outbreak Threatened—
Radicals Waiting for the Outbreak—State
to t-c put Under Martial Law and the Ont-
bronkera Hanged—Georgia to be Hang
np as a Braised Monument of the Rebel
Ifon—A BUI to be Offered Effectually to
Disable the People,
Leo, the Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, has the following, which, if
not true in any or all particulars, at least shows
what idoas Are floating about on the surface at
Washington, and possibly suggest some expla
nation of that proposition in the press dispatches
of yesterday that the people shall hold a Con
vention and pledge the State to reseat the ne
groes and pass the Fifteenth Amendment,where
upon Congress will repeal the act promoting
reconstruction:
Washington, December 20. — Asensational
rumor circulates among tbe supporters of the
Georgia Coercion bill, to the effect that a seri
ous outbreak is threatened in that State against
the Federal authorities and in opposition to the
President’s plan for reconstructing it The
Radical Senators place confidence in the rumor,
and are consulting npon the additional measures
which may be necessary to meet the exigency,
As soon as an overt act shall be committed, it is
proposed that the State be put under martial
law;, and, farther, (that several of the most
prominent leaders in the movement be arrested
and tried for treason. The Georgia Coercion
bill, which has passed the Senate, will be hur
ried through the House to-morrow, and will be
signed without delay by the President. This
bm provides for the employment of the army
and navy to enforce the exeention of the act,
npon the call of the Governor. It is intended
that Governor Bullock shall proceed at once to
call the Legislature in conformity with the
Force bill, and to carry it into exeontion.
Such is the state of feeling in Georgia, as we
know from other sources, that some excitement
may be expected, but no action that can proba
bly be considered as treasonable. It is urged
thatit will be unsafe to withdraw the United
States troops from Georgia, even after her ad
mission, and her compliance with the terms of
Reconstruction, imposed by Congress and the
President.
The opponents of the Coercion Bill in the
Senate showed that there was really very little
ground for it. As to the expulsion of negro
members of the Legislature, it appears that
there were but four or five of such members,
and that their votes wonld not have infln-
enced the majority of the body; and, fur.
ther, that Governor Brown had assured tho peo
ple of the State that the reconstruction measures
only required that the negroes Bhonld be allowed
to vote, and not that they shonld be eligible to
office. As to other ' members, it was also al
leged that they were all, or nearly all, duly
qualified, and were entitled to their seats. Be
sides all this, it was declared that the Legisla
ture, as constituted, intended to accept the Fif
teenth Amendment, if it was left to their dis
cretion.
Congress would like to keep Georgia out of
the Union, and under military government, as
a memorial of the war. They will do this if
they can spare the vote of Georgia for the Fif
teenth Amendment. This again depends upon
the action of the Ohfo Legislature this winter.
Senator Sherman says that if the members from
Hamilton county vote according to the sense of
their constituents, then Ohio will sanction that
amendment. It is admitted by bim and by all
jurists that a legislature may rescind the act of
a prior legislature in regard to the constitutional
amendment, as well as anything else.
Another bill is to be offered in relation to
Georgia, which will be an effectual law against
the eligibility of any citizen previously involved
in the rebellion to any office, unless his dis
abilities be removed by Congress, and also in
flicting penalties npon those thus conditioned,
who may have taken office. This law is to be
retrospective and will punish members of the
Legislature and others, who have heretofore
held or now hold offioe in the State.
This very honest provision was to have been
adopted as a part of the coercion bill, but Sena
tor Morton withdrew it, proposing to offer it in
a separate bilL
“WOGANJtOO.”
A Note from tbe Hon. J. A. Wimpy.
To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir—In' to-day’s Tribune I notice a corre
spondence between certain parties in New York
city and mysel_f, from which it would appear
that 1 was acting in concert with them in cir
culating spurious money. In justice to myself,
I beg leave to say to your readers that I am the
author of the letters, and the identical person
represented in them. But the motive which
prompted me to engage in this correspondence
was just the reverse to that you attribute to me.
About the first of October last several of the
most worthy and respectable citizens of Dahlon-
ega (among whom were M. H. Van Dyke and
Thomas H. Kilgo, the former a miner, the .lat
ter a merchant, and both well known in New
York City as gentlemen of undoubted integrity)
stated to me that quite a number of confidential
circulars were being sent to persons in and
about Dablonega by these parties in New York,
proposing to sell counterfeit money, and ex
pressed to me a belief that an illioit traffic of
this kind was then going on between persons
abont Dablonega and these men in New York,
from the foot that there was at that time an un
usual amount of spurious money in that neigh
borhood; To guard {the good people of my
county against this evil, it was agreed I
should employ myself in tracing up and
bringing to justice these New York coun
terfeiters. And for this purpose I wrote the
letters you publish, and would, I doubt not,
in a short time have not only given the whole
thing publicity, but secured the arrest of the
guilty persons, with sufficient evidence to con
vict them. On or about the 1st inst. I gave my
views and purposes in this matter toP. O.
O’Conner, a .prominent merchant in Atlanta,
well known in New York as a gentleman of un
sullied character. I say this much, and will
send statements, as soon as practicable,-from
those gentlemen above named, verifying the
same, to place myself right before those who
have no acquaintance with me. Those who
know me, even in the absence of confidence in
my integrity, will not do my understanding such
gross injustioe as to believe I would hazard my
sooial and political standing by writing snob let
ters and trusting them to the mailbags and Neyr
York counterfeiters, without ample evidence to
establish my innocenoe. Very respectfully,
your obedient servant, John A Wntpr.
Washington, B. O., December 18, 1869.
We publish this morning a card from Mr.
John A. Wimpy, the Dahlonega lawyer and Con
gressman, whose correspondence with Messrs.
Wogan & Co. on the subject of supplying Geor
gia with counterfeit money has already been
aid before the public. Mr. Wimpy says that
he was actuated by a laudable desire to bring
the rogues to justice and entrap them into some
act which conld be used is evidence. If he bad
read The Tribune as carefully as all lawyers
and Congressmen shonld, he would have known
that his schemes “to give the thing publicity”
were superfluous, as the swindlers have repeat
edly been exposed in our columns, and the chief
difficulty in the way of convicting them of cir
culating counterfeit bills is the fact that they
don’t circulate any. They only take the money
of men who want to be rogues. Mr. Wimpy
has probably discovered that the occupation of
an amateur detective has its dangers and dis
comforts, and that a Dablonega lawyer who un
dertakes to beat the eminent firm of Wogan &
Co. at their own game is not likely to get any
body into trouble bnt himself.
The foregoing appears in the New York Tri
bune, of the 21st. We commented on this piece
of special pleading yesterday. Wimpy styles
himself “a greenhorn” in his voluminous cor
respondence with “Wogan k Co.”—and we do
not believe he misrepresented himself. Bnt
people generally are not so green.
From the Maryland Farmer. ] * >P **U.
We have so often referred to the .a
i.
of deposit, that home-Ll^® V.
•“ft! economi calof any
quality of these may be vastly the
mg due attention t° the
^ hl< * ^Icontain all or
j-, in nothing uU&f fXri’ghUf'
our farmers found more wantm„ it
preservation of his manure pile® ^ in ti e
number of instances the liquid ^
manure, containing in a concent*™f* 1 ? 11 of tL
out into the bam-yard loffiftS
wasted by drying winds, and suffered to &
fire-fanged and comparatively ^
inattention and neglect EvereTr?/Hi
from the barn-yard is an acre Zeldin
profit at harvest and
rendered fertile by the
game and inorganic substances «.
sources outside of the bam-yird ^ fr °*
menting the manure thus obtained .a? 5 *-
only to the general productiveness of aS •<*
but to the market value of the ’and. u-
underrate the advantage of rommerciti&f*
zers, for we know that, in a concentrate/^'
theyfnrmab, whenprepared by the best J/ 0 ^
trustworthy manufacturers, anam 0 nr,t A
plant food to the soiL BntromCS^e
when libentily applied, utheyoffigfr
aotion is to last through several
they are to assist in thf 8115
restoration of the soil—such fertilizer
cost a considerable amount of monev
main reliance of every fanner who deril T
economise his means should be upon wA 5
manures and well made composts
stock is housed, well fed, and keDt ’in
dition through the Winter, ever? tea
of manure, saved as it should be with all i ^
riching.salts, will convert twenty additSj *
loads of rough fibrous material, woods iS 1
etc., into a compost that will be eanal
load, to the bam-yard manure itself’ Zja.
properties of his compost will not be’ fw-
but will assist greatly in tbe permanent ra
tion of the soil Here thenflre thirty
first-rate manure made upon the farm ortrf
every ten loads piled up in the bam-yard Tfc 1
are few farms of a respectable size
reasonable quantity of stock is kept, that1
not turn ont two hundred cartloads of marr^
annually, and this two hundred cart loads W
be made six hundred by collecting an adeiS
quantity of materials for compost and conVwt
ing the whole by fermentation with bam
manure into a fertilizer of the best qnjitr
Does any man doubt this ? Let him read
admirable pamphlet, “Dana’s Muck Manual'•
which, though issued years ago, still remains',
standard authority on the subject.
The process, too, is easy. It involves no
extra outlay of consequence. It is simply k l
ting to excellent use the permanent hands of the
farm, in collecting materials for compost, and
the horses of the farm, that might otherwise he
standing idle, in bringing those materials bom*
The following process, published by thewrita
of this article nine years ago, has stood the left,
and, if strictly followed out, will satisfy aar
fanner of its unquestionable value. It is pnj.
per also to add that the suggestions were deriv
ed from the Manual to which we have alreti?
referred.
Beeclier on Woman’s Suffrage.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher defined his
position on female suffrage very gingerly, at a
Brooklyn woman suffrage meeting. We clip
the following from the Tribune’s report:
Mrs. Burleigh opened the meeting, intro
ducing Miss Anthony. Referring to the absent
Anna as “that great and heroic young girl,” she
proceeded to say that it was a false theory that
all women were born to be supported. Her
voice was low and her manner listless. Sud
denly she turned to Mr. Beecher with a char
acteristic shrug: “Mr. Beecher, I can’t speak;
the spirit doesn’t move me. I can face a lion’s
den—walk through it—but I can’t speak here
to-night. Do get up a fight—then perhaps I
can speak.” —
Mr. Beecher, with happy facility, sprang to
the rescue, declaring that this confession of
Susan’s was a most humiliating one. He had
believed women competent to take care of
themselves, and if he had been asked to point
ont the woman who could do this with the great
est ability, he would have named Susan An
thony. This unexpected burst of modesty and
diffidence ought to delight the old fogies. After
all, however, though women may put on the
airs of men they’re not. men. While men are
oaks and pines, women are beautiful, twining
vines. He expected to be called to account for
these viows; nevertheless, he felt that woman
was made to be a helpmeet, a dependent crea
ture. So it must be, and I hope for one it al
ways will be. Ho could.not concur in this
movement if it was to make woman unwomanly
—to make her a man. Wo have enough men
already. What we want are women of noble
moral elevation, of rich and pnre affectional
sensibility, of delicate and sensitive percep
tions, who will intelligently bring these quali
ties to bear in pnblio affairs. It has long been
believed that the virile clement'alone is com
petent to control and direct. Do you suppose
that any one could give such noble counsel to
young men beginning life as Lncrotia Mott—a
model woman, a mother ? It’s as disgusting to
unsox a woman and make her a man, as it would
be to make a woman of a man; wo don’t seek
to change woman’s sphere—only to enlarge it,
to increase the breadth of her functions. Sho
must stay these tides of brutality, these tides
of selfishness that afflict both tho civil and so
cial worlds. He specially opposed, he said,|the
social philosophies imported from abroad, which
tended to disorganize the household. Because
he advocated the liberty of woman to exercise
all her powers, he didn’t believe that 401)
out of every 500 women wonld become
public speakers. Is every man an orator ? Be
cause. men can. vote, does every one of them
run away from his business toettend the primary
meetings ? If God gave woman power as artist
or preacher, she should exercise it; but this
doesn’t imply that more than ono in a thousand
will do it. He advocated the fullest and freest
education for women. To make woman a good
housekeeper, he argued, Bhe should be made
intelligent. He held that to place a row of pins
straightly on a paper, it was better to have a
college-bred man than a dullard. If the day
shall come in which woman shall be released
from these thralls that now bind her, we will
find that they’ll have grander ohildren, make
sweeter homes, and have a brighter, nobler in
fluence than the world has ever known. There
are many things that he wonld criticise, had
critioised, but ho felt that the cause was so just,
so good, it was bound to succeed in spite of the
mistakes of its best friends.
Mr. Beecher again referred to the broader
education of woman, and said that a sad com
ment npon her present condition had been made
by a mother, who, when told that her child was
a daughter, had simply said “O, God!” Her
own life had been so scarred with misery that
Bhe conld but bo unhappy in bringing another
woman into the world to suffer. He hoped that
women were to bring to the conduct of the world
tho influence of tbeir best judgment, their no
blest culture, and their purest prayers.
The audience applauded Mr. Beecher enthusi
astically. Miss Anthony again attempted to
speak, evidently in weariness of spirit. Sho
denied that woman would ever unsex herself,
and thought faithlessness in God was evinced in
the idea that woman, left to the instincts, of her
own moral nature, wonld ever cease to be
woman. Her work was not speech making but
agitation. She prepared the way for others. In
explanation of her “diffidence,” she said that
the audience was bo dreadfully disappointed
that Miss Dickinson wasn’t there it scared her
out of her seven senses. She declared that
married women wero at the bottom of the whole
thing. As long as they voluntarily give to
anothorthe.earnings of their hands they de
grade the labor of all other women. Retiring,
Miss A. said, sotto voce, to Mr. Beecher, “Isn’t
that good pluck, eh ?”
A Georgia family has arrived as emigrants in
Kansas, consisting of father, mother and sixteen
children, none of them under six feet tali
“FETCH HER OUT.”
A Rare and Blessed Speetade In CsUfomli
Twenty sears Ago.
In those days, men wonld ffoek in crowds to
catch a glimpse of that blessed spectacle, a wo
man ! Old inhabitants tell how, in a certain
camp, the news went abroad early in the morn
ing that a woman was come! They had seen a
calico dress hanging ont of a wagon down at
the camping ground—sign of emigrants from
over the great plains. Everybody went down
there, and a shout went np when an actual bona
fide dross was discovered flattering bb the wind ?
The male emigrant was visible. The miner
said: “Fetch her ont 1” He said: “It is my
wife, gentlemen—Bhe is sick—we have been
robbed of money, provisions and everything, by
tbe Indians—we want to rest.” “Fetch her out!
We’ve got to see her!” That was tit* only re
ply. He “fetched her out,” and they swung
their hats and sent np three rousing cheers and
tiger; and they crowded around and gazed at
her and touched her drees, and listened to her
voice with the look of men who listened to a
memory rather than a present reality;. and then
they collected $2500 in gold and gave it to the
man, and swung their hats again and gave throe
more cheers, and went home satisfied. A year
or two ago 3 dined in San Francisco with the
family of & pioneer and talked to his daughter,
young lady whoso first experience in San
Francisco was an adventure, though sha herself
did not remember it, as she was only two or
three years eld at tbe time. Her father said
that, after landing from tbe ship, they were
walking np the street, a servant leadRng the
party, with the little girl in her anus. And
presently a huge miner, bearded, belted, spur
red and bristled with deadly weapons—just
down from a long mining campaign in the
mountains, evidently barred the way, stopped
the servant, and stood gazing, with a face all
alive with gratification and astonishment. Then
ho said reverently: “Well, if it ain’t a child!”
And then he snatched a little leather sack out of
his pocketand said to the servant: “TheTe’s a
hundred and fifty dollars in dust there, and Fll
give it to you to let me kiss the child!” That
anecdote is true. But see how things change.
SittiDg at that dinner table, listening to that
anecdote, if I had offered double the money for
the privilege of kissing the same child, I would
have been refused. Seventeen added years had
far moro than doubled the price.
[ Correspondence Buffalo Ex.
Opening of the French Chambers.
The scene at the opening of the French
Chambers is described as dazzling in the ex
treme. A gilt arm-chair served as the throne,
on the right of which was the Empress’ stand.
In front of the throne were cardinals, ministers,
members of the privy council, marshals, admi
rals, grand crosses of the legion of honor, pre r
sidents and members of the Council of State.
This was a very brilliant sight, from the various
costumes worn by these functionaries, and
adorned with ribbons and crosses, some of
them mounted with diamonds. M. Rouher’s
grand cross of the legion of honor, given bim
by the Emperor, cost $12,000 (gold).
As soon as tho Emperor's arrival at the Lou
vre’s portal was announced, Princess Clotilde,
Princess Mathilde, and the Princesses Murat,
followed by the ladies of their household, came
ont of the drawing room, where they had been
waiting, and, preceded by a master of ceremo
nies, took their seats on the Emperor’s stand.
Her Majesty’s armchair was nntenanted. Prince
Napoleon headed the procession, followed by
the Imperial Prince and the Emperor. It was
observed that his Majesty appeared to be in ex
cellent health; he is regaining fleBh, walks
firmly, and with an elastic step. The Imperial
Prince still looks very delicate, and with a
strong tendency to consumption. After the de
livery of the speeeh, which was printed, the
newly elected deputies were called to take the
oath of allegiance. Rochefort's name was greet
ed with peals of ironical laughter. He is being
severely left alone by his associates.
In the first place, the bam-yard should be 10
constructed as to retain all the liquid portion
of the manure that is derived from the stables
and cow sheds. It should be hollowed in tie
centre, and the soil of which it is compost
should be made »»compact and retentive w pee-
Bible. It shonld have a firm broad roadway en
circling the hollow provided for the reeeptin
of the manure, so as to allow the passage ot
carts and wagons for convenience of loadirg,
and also for the better accommodation of tie
stock, when turned out either for water or&iritg.
All the central portion of the yard shonld tie
deeply bedded, with refuse straw, woods’ earth,
and every variety of rough fibrous material that
it is possible to collect together, and npon which
the voidings of the cattle are-to be thrown. Fie
underlying stata of rough material will sens to
absorb the liquid portions- of the manors tad
thus prevent it from running to waist Feu to
the bam-yard may be heaped up, for subie-
quent use, an abundance of the same material
—woods’ earth, the scrapings- of ditches, maid
weed, turf of hedge rows, sea ore, where it ii
to be had, and, in short everythingabont a fsa
of vegetable origin that is capable of being de-
oomposed.
“Daring the winter, as the manure accnm-
lates from the stable, and catile-sbed, and bog-
pens, fresh additions from the heap colleoiei
outside, Bhould be made to it in the proportion
of two-thirds of rough material to one of bus
yard manure. These additions shonld be regs-
larly made from time to time, until spring is
about open, when the whole contents of fit
bam-yard should be thoroughly mixed and in
corporated together, and then thrown into
heap, to undergo the process of fermentation,
without which the substances of which they an
composed wonld fail to be sufficiently solabbto
meet the immediate wants of the spring crop.
“Another, and, perhaps, with some fanners,
a more desirable mode of preparing eompsts
is to haul the materials for the compost heaps
to the fields which are to be fertilized, anita
haul out to the same place the manure which
has accumulated in the barn-yard, andthe«
buildup tbe compost heaps, layer bjUytt
taking care to make the first layer entircijc-
rough material, then following with the Mu*
drawn from alternate layers, making each suc
cessive layer thinner than the one which pre
ceded it.”* After fermentation has well sc!
break down the heap and mix as before.
Wendell Phillips on the RampP
Newbubxpobt, Mass., December 1.—
Phillips, in a speech at the Lyceum last mg--
demanded of Congress to assume the
ment which the Executive had abdicated; t-y
it compel the States lately in rebellion to &•
ucate its eight million dunces, and that_ if
fuse to do so, then the government ite**;
the expense of all the people, shall assume t-.
duty, afterwards sending the bill to the •'
ent States. It must protect the citizens as
as legislate for them. The war has not en “vt’
it has just begun. In the latter.P 01 ^ 0 ? 0 ^
lecture, the speaker severely criticised the
bune for virtually saying, on Saturday _
that we could not carry on this gofcrniuec
les3 we entreat Jeff Davis to come aiid he-P
Mr. Phillips said the Southern whit« s _
got tbe business and the wealth, and hare t
tured the Supreme Court. A worse
Taney wields its thunderbolt to-day— a r .,
Republican—a man who drags tb ® f,
through the infamy of Tammany aiUJ - ^
means to contest the election with the can j
of the Republican party. If the I
party had a brave man at its bead,' ^
marshal its forces and nail its colors, - .
givene8s,”~to the mast, and absolutely
nate every Northern mind With ths*®J\
speaker oonclnded with a demand that t •
should be given to the blacks as free*? * m
ble, and spoke with great force of tiie _vUis |
tide of Orientals to tho Pacific
to be a greater act of American civilize" |
anything it has yet experienced.
Making a New Sea
JL del*-'
The Ibbepbessebus Andrew.—A late Wash
ington letter gives the following: ‘‘From Ten
nessee recent advices have been received here
to the effect that Andrew Johnson is in no wise
dismayed or east down by the late election. He
is said, on the contrary, to be in the most buoy
ant and rosy frame of mind—McGregor on his
native heath. The result of the election has
caused a very decided manifestation of popular
good will for the ex-President, and an equal ex
hibition of displeasure for the leaders, by whose
jealousy and ambition his defeat was secured.
That he will come up again is not doubted, or
that he will stea’dily increase his hold on tho
people. If Brownlow should die. it is said that
the present Legislature would elect Mr. John
son to the vacancy.”
The manager of a country theatre, peeping
through the curtains between the acts, was sur
prised by a glimpse of the empty benokes.
“Why, good gracious,” said he, turning to the
prompter, “where is the audienoe ?” “He has
just stepped out to get a mug of beer,” was the
brief reply.
The London Spectator defends Messrs. Motley
and Johnson from the charge of subserviency to
English interests in tho Alabama question, and
says that the English people believe that the
latter impartially took in them and their din
ners. ' -a . ••-
The Italie, of Florence, says that i
seps, after having connected {Lascf
proposing to create a new one. R
gested that the Sahara is the bed of I
displaced by some natural convulsion- ^ I
led M. de Leaseps to send engineers to ^
the region, and their report has
that the Sahara at the point nearest “ " f 0
is twenty-seven metres below the w
sea, and that the depression increase*.^
towards the interior. He believes, .Jystt*.
that a oanal seventy-five miles long jsl I
flee to flood the Sahara from the R* I
thus restore the desert to its pniaev I
' It wonld be rash to assert that I
impracticable; bnt it is not likely_ to . ^ is-1
npon without a careful
flueuce it might havo upon the clini 0 f tW I
boring regions, and especially upon
Mediterranean and Southern -“ ar0 .rT s nt^|
not venture to say precisely-how ^ I
tion of a great sea fora great desert
the meteorology of large portionso
and Europe, but we doubt whethe .
interested will decide to risk th« uelu *
experiments . ^
General Pnm publioly d fi ctof S Q ffli«6,
has been no change in the opinio .
ish Government or Cortes on tho 0^ prob*']|
monarchy. The Duke of Genoaffi j^l
receive the crown, but should h
government will not favor the es»
a republic.
A Sacramento ordinance niiS^jS
ployment of women in 8 ®*9“ 1 fhat jt is o
but the naloon-keep^™ claim to ,„ P n
tatiosal mad©r tho.