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y "‘••••s v's. ww-in. mm**. c-f The Gre-orecia, TV"eekly Tele^ra.-ph and. Journal & JVTessenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACCN. JANUARY 4 1670 London dispatches aver that the tenor of the news from Borne indicates that the doctrine of Papal infallibility is losing ground in the coun cil. The New York World aptlyfcalls Mr. Trum bull's speech in the Senate, on "Ms bill'for the- regulation of the Supreme Court, “an obituary notice of that tribunal.” Thbee United States Senators are to be elecfc- ted by the Mississippi Legislature at its coming session, two to fill the present vacancies and one to succeed the term which expires on the 4th of March, 1871. a Glynn Sufebiob Cotnsr adjourned on the 20th, after a laborious week to the first Monday in February. Tho Court sentenced three convicts to the penitentiary, as follows: John Dukes, convicted of burglary, for the term of five years, Henry Jones, bnrglary for the term of five years, and Tom Jones, convicted of forgery, for the term of two years. IinnoniTioN to South Carolina.—The Laur ens villo Herald says: “About twenty German laborers have arrived at this place within the last ten days, through the agent of the Newber ry Society, Mr. F. W. Brnggeman, now in New York. They consist of young, halo, strong, and intelligent men and women, familiar with agri cultural pursuits. They appear in good spirits, and tho parties engaged in their introduction are delighted at their arrival.” Dr. David Livingstone.—The foreign mails bring the full extracts from Dr. Livingstone’s letter, dated July 8tb, 1869, near Lake Bang- weolo. The important points have already been received by the cable. As far as matters of personal interest are concerned, it is gratify ing to learn that Dr. Livingstone does not in tend to run the fearful risks he has heretofore encountered. lie says: “I shall not follow the Luababa river in canoes, 'as we did the Ram. best. This was insanity, and I am not going to do any more mad things, merely to please geo graphers, who are mostly insane.” The Laws Against the Drummers.—The Commercial Travelers' Association of New York held their regular annual meeting on Tuesday last. The subject under discussion was the Wood “test case,” with reference to the law in the Southern and Western cities, which prohib its a commercial traveler from offering goods for sale without sample, unless he take out a license from $100 to $400. The Association has engaged to raise $10,000 to defray the ex penses of carrying the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. Members have al ready, it is said, paid in some 20 per cent. In consequence of the recent seizure of all the sugar in the bonded warehouses of New York and Brooklyn, for alleged frauds in weigh ing, trade in that article has been seriously in terfered with, and the price has advanced from two and a quarter to two and a half cents per pound, according to grade. A contemporary hopes that it will not turn out by and by, that the officers, engaged in making tho seizure were in a combination to get up a corner in sugar, and invoked the power of Government to do what they lacked the nerve and capital to ac complish in the usual way. But stranger things have happened. A letter from Virginia states that the de mand for negro labor in tho far South increases, and gentlemen are now in various parts of Vir ginia hiring hands for the plantations in Missis sippi and Louisiana. There are also agents there for whole communities of planter in the Gulf States. Mr. C. E. Moore, of Selma, Ala., is in Virginia after one thousand laborers, and fifty families for the Borne and Dalton Rail road—offering $1 25 per day, and free trans portation. In Richmond a labor agent adver tises for negroes by thousands at from $15 to $22 50 per month, and some offer in addition separate houses, rations, garden patches, the privilege to raise pigs, fowls, etc., and free transportation by rail. All of these hands are for the cotton and cano plantations. Another Gold Panic.—The New York World, of Saturday, says: “Wall street wit nessed another gold panic yesterday, the most exciting since tho famous affair of September. For two hours the excitement in the Gold Boom * was intense, and within half on hour the trans actions must have reached the neighborhood of rty millions. Gold fell to 120£, the lowest it *8 reached since September 25, 18C2. The quotation at G r. m. was 120|. Secreta ry Bontwell’s action in selling Government gold was tho cause of the panic. It was generally believed last night that there would be a further decline to-day. The flatness of gold is bringing down wholesale prices throughout tho country, and spreading disaster in the commercial world. Failures of large houses continue to be reported. The stock market yesterday was un settled and lower. The Government bond mar-J-with the object to be accomplished, ket was heavy, and prices declined.” Cotton Gardening.—The experiment has been successfully tried in Georgia of starting cotton plants in a hot-bed, and setting them out in the ground when already somewhat grown, as cabbage and tomato plants are treated by mar ket gardeners. Considerable advance and im provement in the crop is thus secured. The foregoing appears amung the items in the Charleston News. It is a matter of fact that in this county 487 matured bolls were counted at one rime on one stalk of cotton, seventy-one of which bolls produced a pound of cotton in the seed. Suppose by this method, suggested and practiced to some extent by Mr. Poullain, cot ton a foot high or more could be transplanted into a well enriched and deeply mellowed field in April and begin producing lint in June, with say four and one-half bearing months before it. Suppose ample distance were given the cotton in the check so that thero were no more th»v> 2,500 plants to an acre. Suppose good cultiva tion, and no extraordinary accidents—what would be the product of an acre ? We submit the problem to the Farmer's Club. Masonic Calico Ball in Albany.—We are in debted to the managers, and the courtesy of Colonel Styles, of the Albany News, for an in vitation to attend a Masonic Calico Ball in Al bany, last evening. The invitation came in rime but found us in bad plight for thebalL— The junior member of the editorial staff was stretched on. his bed with rheumatism. The next in order of years is a Presbyterian and of too serious a turn of mind, we fear, to turn his foot in that way. The third wa3 two hundred miles off. The fourth, the veritable “old un' himself was bom too old to dance aud has not yet arrived to years of discretion on that sub- jeot. The case, therefore, was desperate and we were obliged to givo our Albany friends the go by—but wo did the next thing to going—we wishod them well with all our hearts. The same response is in part, also applicable to the courteous invitation of our friend Colonel W. D. Mann, of tho Mobile Register, to attend the great dinner of the croft, provided by his munificence at tho Battle House in Mobile. The hospitality of tho warm hearted Mobilians would have filled our hearts with gratitude and our heads with champagne. We are much obliged to them for remembering ns. The Situation in Georgia. We copy from the Chronicle and Sentinel, of Tuesday, an editorial call for a meeting of the Democratic Executive Committee and a gener ally. advisory constellation of the Democratic stars therein named. Perhaps in such a fog combination of these intellectual luminaries may create a radianco which will pierce the gloom and show ns the path out of our difficul ties—who knows? At all events it conld not well add to the embarrassments of the crisis. We also copy from the same paper a very alarming statement of the dangers which me nace the State, growing ont of the Georgia Bill and the proceedings to be had thereunder? We say in all courtesy and kindness, that we conld wish these alarms had been more timely, not only npon the part of tho Chronicle and Senti nel, bnt also npon that of many other of the Georgia Democratic presses. We wish they had been in time to curb the precipitate action of the Georgia Legislature—or in time to reverse it—or in time to have brought the whole moral power of Georgia npon Congress, with ample assurances of reversal so as to have deprived that body of the last pos3iblo pretext for the Geoigi i Bill. True, it might have been no use, and true also it might have staid this proceed ing. We could wish, for further illustration, that this demand for a meeting of the Executive Committee might have long preceded, instead have followed the action of Congress, and called for prevention, instead of cure. But when con cern and precaution might have been of nse, they were not called for by any considerable portion of tho press, and tho efforts of tho rest to awaken a just apprehension were stigmatized as the conceits of timid souls and servilo and truckling minds. But valuable counsel most be predicated npon a just sense and apprehen sion of impending peril, while that which pro ceeds from too lively an idea of present and actnal danger, serves only to confuse, bewilder, embarrass and cripple. We recall to tho minds of the Chronicle & Sentinel, and other contemporaries, that even since the passage of the Georgia bill was assur ed they have failed to realise the alarming ap prehensions now expressed. That many of them have declared the Georgia bill far bettor than that amonnt of alleged self-degradation which wonld have been incurred by tho Legislature in reseating the negroes for tho “balance of the session,” and the Chronicle & Sentinel itself, as late as the 19th instant, has declared that there was “no special cause of alarm” and the ap prehension among the people was far greater than the occasion called for. We do not propose to endorse these last opinions to the full extent—by no means. We would have done and advised almost anything which could have been done in conscience and honor, to have avoided this cnlamity—for we hold it is bound to prove a great one. But still we may snmmon our confidence and say with the apostle “we are cost down, bnt not destroyed —we are perplexed bnt not in despair.” Some of the alarms of the Chronicle and Sen tinel we think are more or less groundless.— Among these is one that the Congres3iotihl agency established as a Legislature by the Georgia bill, will annoy the people by laws for mixing colors in railways, steamboats, churches and theatres. Fortunately, the Constitution of the State declares in section 11, article 1—the social status of the citizen shall never be the subject of legislation—and under this provision the Supreme Court of Georgia has already de cided all such laws null and void. Then, too, about the subversion and destruc tion of public justice by negro jnries, the Con stitution provides, section 23, article 5, that selection shall be made “of upright and in telligent persons to serve as jnrors.” The truth is, and let onr people realize and take comfort in it, that the great over-rnlieg force in our political community of Georgia is Fnblic Opinion. Thi3 public opinion asserts itself with almost the s&mo silent and irresisti ble power which is displayed by tho Forces of Nature. It may, for a time, be confronted, opposed and thwarted by tho machinations and contriv ances of ontsiders and their representatives, but these inventions act much like tho contriv ances by which the little boys dam up a branch in order to make a miniature lake for their toy- boats. Tho water soon rises—overleaps the dam and resumes its way to the broad level of tho ocean. The power of man cannot retain it, except at a prodigious expenditure and loss which creates so vast a reservoir as to bring into operation only another resource and force of Nature which exhausts the ever recurring con tributions by the processes of evaporation and absorption. Now, it is just so in Georgia as a political community. Public opinion is the steadily ac- cumulating power which must control public af fairs. The contrivances of Congress and the Destrnctionists are the juvenile dam to stop its way. But it will soon accumulate its volume and power and overleap their dam, and they can't stop the current to any serions extent ex cept at an expense altogether incommensurate They may legislate and proclaim and order and quarter soldiers and bristle bayonets rill they are ont of breath and out of pocket and worn out, and all this time public opinion has been accumulating head against their contrivances, and at the very time they are most tired ont with trying them on, it is ready in its greatest energy to assert and resume its own course and sweep away their obstructions. It is the old story of Mrs. Partington against the rides. In Georgia we have a sound public opinion. Congress may obstruct it a while, and that is all Congress can do. Congress may flout bad laws in onr faces—harass ns by fraudulent tax ation—waste—knavery and maladministration. This we must anticipate and bo prepared for. But let ns do the best we can to diminish these evils, and be patient, quiet, vigilant and care ful. See that we make no more blunders. The party strategy of such rimes as these is not to be determined by the books—it is not estab lished by precedent—or settled by legislative res adjudicates ! We say, then, never fear for the grand future of Georgia. Congress cannot bedevil her as it haB South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi— bnt they will emerge in time. The whites will control this State in spite of all Congress can do. Oar correspondent of the “Notes,” in an other part of this paper, takes a very encour aging view even of the immediate oondirion; but whatever may be the immediate condition, the ultimate condition is assured. Let no man doubt it. Tennessee.—The Nashville Banner says Ten nessee is in danger of sharing the fate of Geor gia, and reports Senator Fowler as of opinion that a bill to remand the State back to a territo rial condition is in course of preparation, and will be passed in Congress so soon as it reassem bles. The^Banner calls npon the approaching Convention to be on their guard, and says the first blunder will be seized npon as a pretext to retnro Tennessee to nnreconstrnction. The Mobile and Girard Railroad.—The Co lumbus Sun says though the structure is ready for them, the rails over the bridge across the Conecuh have not been laid. The officers of the road hardly expect to reach Troy before ibe latter part of January. The contractors have promised and disappointed nntil there, is no tell ing when anything will be finished. . I Advice' Gratis.' "”'” We are vastly more pnzzled than enlightened, or edified, by the conflicting counsels of news papers and correspondents about what Georgia ought to do in this muss into which Congress has plunged us. One insists that the members shonld pay no attention to the proclamation— stay at home—mind their own business and treat it with silent contempt. Another says they should all resign. Another insists they shonld go and refuse to take the oath and thus carry ont the maxim, that one man can lead a horso to water, but no number can compel him to drink. And besides these and numerous other recom mendations at home, we see a good many from Democratic newspapers abroad. The Now York Express of the 24th has the following: AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA. Gov. Bullock is urging on Gen. Grant to nse the bayonet in Georgia to onst the Legislature and, says a correspondent— “ intimations have reached Washington to the effect that the white members of the Legisla ture, who cannot take the iron-clad oath, will not allow themselves to be onsted and the ne groes reinstated, unless they are compelled to do so by military force.” We trust this is so. A member of the Legis lature should surrender his trust only on, and under, the bayonet There shonld be no resist ance—no fighting—but what the people need to see, especially the people of the North, is a dis placement of the Legislature by tho nse of force, as Buonaparte displaced the Legislature of France. The Northern and Western people can only be nroused to a sufficient comprehension of the condition this Government is in—now in mili tary hands—by the exercise of such powers as these. All that would be very dramatic. To prick out the recusant andnonjuring members of the Georgia Legislature with bayonets in the rear, might make a readable passage in history for future generations—to go alongside of the dis solution of the Rnmp Parliament, but the New York Express misses it a great deal when he thinks it wonld arouse the Northern and West ern people “to a sufficient comprehension of the condition this Government is in.” Every Radical among those people would say l ‘saned 'em right,'' and every Democrat wonld only raise his hands a little higher in holy horror; bnt as the Radicals outnumber the Democrats, the po litical situation would remain essentially un changed. But some will ask, “well, what have you to advise.” We are doubtful whether any advice is worth one cent, and whether we, as a people, are not remitted only to tho chapter of acci dents and contingencies. The troth is, wo do not know how tho manipulations of the great firm of Congress, Terry & Bullock, will leave the Legislature. How they will interpret and how apply the purge, and what will be the re sult of the application. Whether it will leave both Houses the remorseless and helpless regis ters of edicts against right and reason—or whether, when the very worst is done against these bodies, there may not still be left, in one or both, such a remnant of grace and conscience as may serve to protect the State, to an extent, from the worst designs of these parties, and save her from being the utterly helpless prey of the spoilers. But however this may be, one plain and in evitable assumption should settle the impolicy of all the recommendations that Democratic members shonld resign, stay away, refuse to take the oath, and so on. It is a fact that no efforts of this kind will prevent a quorum. There is bound to be a quorum. The nine dol lars a day alone would bring a quorum, advise how you will. Assuming this fact, then, all the schemes on the part of Democrats to frustrate their own representation in either body, become simply so many schemes to assist the Destroctionists. They will be much pleased to have every Dem ocratic Senator and Representative stay away. Then what better course remains than that all shonld go and as many get seats os can. That they should agree among themselves to do the best they can to prevent all threatened evils, and nse their utmost influence to induce mem bers of the majority to pursue the same course. The State now appeals to these Democratic members to be on their very best behavior.— To quit their everlasting sponting—to be quiet— observant—watchful—prompt and patriotic.— The least that they can do for Georgia, after all their calamitous mistakes, is to see that she sustains no injury which may be prevented by caution, skill and address on their part. In brief, we have no other advice in the premises than that we shonld do the best we can do, and no very well assured hope that much can be done at best. But we feel well as sured that nothing can be accomplished by any of the devices of resistance, either passive or active. We must do what any man would do when his house is on fire. Go in and save what we can, and trust to time and opportunity to ad just our difficulties with the incendiaries. One of our old farmer correspondents says they may do their worst—if they can’t stop tho «nn and rains, and growth of corn and cotton. The forces of nature are a little too much for Radical malice—if they were not, we shonld have to emigrate. ~tDn*lerMilitary Government Again. We were told yesterday that in the course of its bright and sunny hoars, Gem'Teby would issue an order re-establishing military govern ment. We said nothing about it at the time— first, because we had no opportunity.!# speak as editors do, and, secondly, did not like to dis turb the night’s', rest of any reader. He conld know nothing about it if not told. Some have pretended to feel a pain in the hip or left leg every time they are transferred from one kind of government to another; but now we put It to them seriously—did you feel such a pain yesterday when you were transferred from Bullock to Terry? H yea, describe it ? It is important to science that this curions af fair should be investigated; aud it can be well settled in Georgia, where we have had a dozen different governments in the last five years, and may have twenty in the next Wo pop in and ont like the clown in the empty hogshead—how you see us, and now you don’t. We know little about Terry, but suppose, like most of tho old regular army officers, he would bo a gentleman if Congress wonld let him alone. But he is forced into bad associations which have more or less a damnifying influence on his mind and morals. However, we’ll make the proposition at a venture. If Terry will take this Government of Georgia as a permanent job, we’ll agree to enlist under him as a “loyal” subject—pay the -regular taxes—give up our share in Congress—never be represented there •keep the pence indefinitely and absolntely, and let him boss the whole concern, work the State on an economical basis, and pocket the balance as pay and profits. And further, we think we could secure a majority of votes to sign this agreement, and thim put a final end to construction, and dc-stroction, and all thestruo- tions. We had rather take onr chance under Terry at a venture, ,than.under Bullock or Congress. We don’t know him, but the others we know too well. We hope he will lake this scheme under consideration, and when ho once gets the government again, hold on to it like a snap ping-turtle and never let go. Vivo le Terry! Georgia, nnder his sway, will rival the viceroy alty of the renowned Sancbo. If He Had Only Known. The Newark Journal contains a speech from a Mr. Noble, a real hard-homed fiery-mouthed abolitionist, who has lately been South and says: “If he had known as much in the past of the character of tho black race as ho knew through his visit to the Southern States, his conduct might have been different. While there, he took notice of what ho saw and made inquiries everywhere. The black people were not as well off as previously, and they were so thriftless that if they got a dollar they spent it in gewgaws and finery instead of providing for their actual necessities. He said they would not work steadily long, and conveyed the idea that there was little hope of their elevation.” There is not a doubt in the world that if all the abolitionists “had only known” what they are going to know before long, they would have been the last men on earth to have freed the ne groes and started “manhood suffrage,” which like enough will cost them all they’ve got. And no doubt these wretched Radicals who are pulling down the pillars of constitutional lib erty, if they only knew that their own heads would at last be smashed by the falling stones, they, too, would quit the business. But they don’t know, and the worst of it is, they come of breed who will not be informed. They are great deal too wise in their own conceit to learn wisdom from history or philosophy, or anything else but their own crude notions, and must learn from experience. Then they will find out what is what “if they had only known,” and quit the monopoly of instructing. S'ST TELEGBAPH. Works of Col. N. C. Munroe. IVe have a letter from Mrs. Hutton, in which she writes: “I have copied and collected a great deal of my dear father's writings, and wish to bring out an edition of them to honor his mem ory. I think I can have them printed and sold at about $2.50 the two volumes. The first of hese volumes to contain the memoirs, poems, and a portrait, and the second, tales, essays etc., with possibly a picture of his home. The books to be neatly bound; and all I could make over the expenses of printing and binding, I would devote to having a life-sized bust of him sculp tured ihere for the “Munroe Library,” in Macon. I am trying to induce some friends to procure subscribers. Can you assist me in any way in the sale of the work 1” Probably the most effectual way in which we can render assistance is to publish the proposi tion and thus call the attention of the numerous friends of Col. Munroe and his family to the proposition. Subscriptions, we have no doubt, would be numerous in Macon, if any body can find time to collect them. They might be left with Mr. Boardman or Messrs. Burke & Co., either of whom, we doubt not, will take pleasure in assisting in so pious and patriotic a work. Cuba.—The New York Tribune of Monday has a report from Washington that the adminis tration has now nnder earnest consideration the propriety of changing its course with regard to Cuba, and to speedly recognize tho belligerent rights of the insurgents. This course is impell ed by the evident feeling of the people of tho country and the temper of the majority in Con gress. The report farther states that Secretary Fish and Senator Sumner have expressed with in three days such views as would indicate a changing policy toward the Cabans and a high er confidence in their fntnre. Goins Up.—The Cuban patriots are in a bad way. The latest advices from Havana say : “ The news from tho interior is unfavorable to the insurgents. Many are soliciting pardons; and where they continue to resist, the troops are slowly bnt surely driving them back. A battalion of Cuban volunteers arrived to-day from Spain. Mr. Davis.—The newspapers say that Mr. Davis has just received ten thousand dollars by devise from an Englishwoman. A Christmas Row in Savannah. The Morning News, of the 27th, tells the fol lowing : On Christmas afternoon, between the hoars of three and four o’clock, our community was startled by the report that a serious and dis graceful riot had occurred on thf corner of South Broad and East Boundary streets, and that one policeman was killed and another dan gerously wounded. We at once repaired to tho Police Barracks, where we were given all the information which we desired by the polite offi cers who were on duty. Upon arriving at the Barracks we found His Honor, the Mayor, who, upon hearing ol tho unfortunate affair, hastened to the police station, and seemed much affected at the occurrence. We conversed with Mr. Taylor, »ne of the policemen, who was present daring the riot, and almost miraculously escaped being killed himself. From him we gather tho principal facts of the case, which are are as follows: It seemstbat policemen Riley, Taylor,and Sul livan were off duty at the time,and on the corner of South Broad and East Boundary streets they saw two negroes engaged in a fight, one having a club and the other handling a butcher knife, the blade of which was thirteen or fourteen inches long. At this point there are two gro ceries, one kept by Henry Fields, colored, and opposite, there is one equally as disreputable kept by a white man by the name of Burch.— Policemen Taylor and Riley seeing the distur bance attempted to qnell the same, and arrest the actors. As soon as they attempted to dis charge their duty they were assaulted by forty or fifty other negroes, coming from both Bides of the streets, using clubs, staves, stones and pistols. Policeman Sullivan at once went to their assistance, with pistol in hand. Ho was at once struck on the head, his pistol wrested from his hand, and by bis own weapon shot dead np on the spot. Up to this time the real perpetra tors of tho deed are unknown, bnt our detectives ore npon their tracks and we trust before anoth er edition of tho News appears we shall have the gratification of announcing to onr readers the capture of the murderer. We take the following local items from the same paper: Over two hundred arrivals occurred during the past two day8. Savannah accommodates at present an un usually large number of New York business men. Col. Nickerson, of the Screven House, feasted his guests on Christmas. The river is rising very rapidly, and we can expect a heavy freshet. Another English steamer arrived here yes terday. A freight train on the Central road ran off the track on Saturday morning. The accident delayed the passenger train down two or three hours. A run off also occurred on the Atlantic and Gulf railroad the same day. Nobody hurt in either case. It is stated that the first trains will run through on the Savannah and Charleston rail road on the ,3d of January. \ A Significant Admission. Our merchants and planters are doubtless as competent to estimate the competive strength of American descriptions of cotton as the Lon don Times. Nevertheless, the admission by that journal of the impossibility, nnder present or contingent ciroumstances, of displacing cot ton of, Southern growth with cotton of British India growth, is very significant. Opinion among English cotton spinners, after a long al ternation of hope and disappointment as to tho feasibility of such a development of cotton cul ture in British territories as wonld render them independent of the American supply, has been verging of late towards tho view expressed by the London Times, which paper, no doubt, is well persuaded that it reflects or anticipates tho general conclusion of the cotton-buying classes in England when it acknowledges the invincible tenacity with which American descriptions of cotton hold, and are destined to hold, their place in the English market. Such an utterance by so prominent and influential an organ and leader of English thought cannot fail to turn the attention of the active manufacturing inter est of England more earnestly than ever to the importance of promoting an enlarged produc tion of cotton in the South. There is but one way of rationally; approaching ihis. subjeot—it is to send English capital to the South for tho purpose of increasing the amonnt of labor and the area of land devoted there to the production of cotton.—N. 0. Com. Bulletin. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, December 28.—A heavy earthquake is reported in Eastern California, and -throughout Nevada. The shocks were felt on the lowest levels of the minee. The vibrations were from north to to south. Tho regular session of the French Corps Legisla- tif opens to-day. The steamship China brings thirty-six thousand cards of Bilk worm eggs from China and Japan, for Lyons, Franco. They will come overland to New York, thence by steamer. ' ,> ; ' Postinaster-General . Creswcll has gone to Now York to attend to European mail transportation. Tho steamers refuse to carry the mails at the re duced rates. The Protestant and Catholic mission houses at Nankin, China, have been destroyed by a mob, and and the inmates barely escaped. The new translation of BurliDgame’B credentials shows that ho was accredited to lesser powers, and accorded no plenipotential powers. The departments close at noon—little buEiness transacted. Rufus R. Wade has been reappointed special agent at large on mail depredations. There was no Cabinet to-day. Gold in-tho Treasury, $107,000,000; gold certifi cates, $37,000; currency, $10,500,000. The Treas ury statement will show a decreasoof probably $7,000,000. Tho Tribune says a test case, selected by the brokers, has just been decided by tho Court of Ap peals in this city, reversing a previous judgment of the Supreme Court, and fixing the principle that when a broker buys stock on a margimfor. a cus tomer, he is not at liberty to sell it because it falls below the margin, without giving notice of the time and place of sale. Considering the stock as tho property of tho customer, the Court in this instance makes tho broker who sold under such circum stances liable for the highest price tho stock may hayo reached, even to tho date of this trial. This will be new doctrine to Wall Street. It is reported that E. J. Oakley ha3 been embez- lipg tho funds of tho Merchants’ Exchange Bank for a long time. The deficit roaches two hundred thousand dollais. The surplus of the bank amounts to eighty thousand, sfter paying the dividends. In the case of Romain Lawrence againstB. F. But ler—the Twiggs Sword case—a motion was made to vacate the order of arrest, on the ground that tho taking was nnder orders of the United States, and that there was no conversion. Decision re served. The Postoffice authorities are negotiating with Inman, Aucher and several other lines, to carry the mails at reduced rates. Tho negotiations are not yet concluded. Washington, December 29.—Tho Mexican Com missions have as yet mado no legal decision—in fact, the Court is not yet organized, tho Umpire being absent—Cushing, who represents Mexico; objecting to Ashton—the latter, who represents America, is objecting to tho Mexican nomination of Umpire, which is referred to the Englishminister, Thornton. This morning's Chronicle says that the statement sent from this city to the New York Tribune, and published in that paper of yesterday, imputing cer tain views and purposes on the Cuban question to tho President, Mr. Fish, Secretary of State,-and Senator Sumner, is, in all its assertions and infer ences, utterly without foundation. Bevenne to-day $320,000. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, RichardsoD, positively quits January 1st. Senator Pratt, of Indiana, has resigned. It is now said that the decrease of the public debt will hardly reach three millions of dollars. The agricultural report just out makes the cotton crop 2,700,000 commercial bales, fully equal to three millions bales of four hundred pounds each. FROM VIRGINIA. Richmond, December 29.—The Stalo Central Com mittee of the Seceding wing of tho Republican party has prepared a bill to he submitted to Con gress, providing that tho Legislature shall meet and take only the oath prescribed in tho Fourteenth Amendment, and go on to elect State officers aud Judges, after which it shall adjourn, and its work bo. submitted to Congress, and if approved, the State shall then be admitted. The Chamber of Commerce to-day adopted a pe tition to Congress to release from payment of reve nue tax. whisky or tobacco which may be destroyed by firo orwreek. ,i , Dr. James Dave, a well known physician died to day. FROM SEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, December 29—A large number of vessela from foreign ports with cargoes have ar rived. AmoDg them is tho new steamship States man, of the New Orleans and Liverpool line. Tho regular session of the Louisiana Legislature begins On Monday. A match game of base ball was played to-day be tween the Mutuals aud the Lone Stars, at which three thousand spectators were present. It becom ing daTk at tho seventh inning, tho game wo3 called, with the following result: Mutuals—1, 2, 2,1, 6, 4, 0,—1G; Lone Stars, 1,0, 3,1,3, 0, 2,—10, The Mutuals will play tho Lone Stars again Saturday, the Southerns on Sunday, and start for home on Monday. FROM CUBA. Havana, December 27.—The holidays are paseing tranquilly. -- Jobs Crcspcles and Jose Bubo, convicted of at tempting to incite tho Catalan volunteers to rev olution, were garroted on Saturday. Arrived, City of Mexico, from Vera Cruz: Rap- idan, from Now York; Teutonia, from New Or leans. GENERAL NEIVS. St. Louis, December 23 Fearly five hundred Chineso will arrive hero to-night. They will imme diately proceed to Texas to work on railroads. City of Mexico, December 23.—Mr. Seward has departed for a tour to interesting points in the in terior. He will leave Vera Cruz on the second day of January. The government troops havo gained several im portant victories over the Malcontents, the most formidable of whom have fled to the mountains. Augusta, December 28.—A serions row occurred at Dcering, Columbia county, yesterday afternoon, in which A. N. Hodo and Ellis Adams were shot and killed and Diap Hodo wounded. Whisky was tho cause. There was no politics in the qn&rreL New York, December 28.—The investigation of the Merchants’ Exchange Bank irregularities show a deficit already of $150,000, and it will probably be muck largor. The names of the defaulters havo not transpired. The bank claims ability to meet liabilities. Charleston, December 28.—The officers of the fleet of thirteen Spanish gunboats now anchored off the Battery, were entertained at a collation to-day, given by the municipal authorities. The fleet will remain here for three or four days, and, it is ex pected, will m&ko this port their rendezvous. The frigate Fizarro and three gunboats are expected to night. Philadelvhia, December 28.—Rev. Father Du an is dead. He was pastor of Phillip de Norr church in Southwark during the native American riot. Chicago, November, 28- — Gov. McDougall is about abandoning North-western Canada, leaving the insurgents in quiet possession. New York, December 29.—It is reported that Creswoll has contracted with tho Williams and Gnioa and National steamship companies for At lantic mails. St. Louis, December 29.—Two hundred and fifty Chinese departed on the steamor Mississippi, for Texas railroads. Convention or Vengeance Hire. A special Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution indites a flaming letter to that paper of the 28th, calling upon the Conser vatives to hold a State Convention—pledge the Legislature to adopt the Fifteenth Amendment, or prepare themselves to endure the following troubles set forth seriatim: 1. All emigration to Georgia will cease. -2. All persons living beyond the limits of Georgia will not likely invest their means in district controlled by military authority. 3. All persons residing in the limits of Geor gia who possess ready means will certainly mcrve to a place of security. 4. The construction of railroads and factories will cease. ■ ■ ■ 4 , 5. Labbr will be disorganized, and as a con sequence, no crops made. G. The lands of the State depreciated. 7. The credit of business men seriously in jured. 8. A general loss of confidence, followed by lawlessness and violence. Such must be the inevitable effects of the act “to promote reconstruction in Georcia What will Bullock do ? b ' 1. He will organize a Legislature that will do whatever he says. Does not the act give him this power ? For the day has passed to say, so and so cannot ha done. Men said, in solemn accents, that Congress dare not pass this very act. Notwithstanding, it has been done. ■ ■’ 2. After having a Legislature organized to smt him, the Governor” win settle his obliga- Ji° n lA 0 Cvugtess by ordering the adoption of the fifteenth Amendment. That done, Congress loses sight of Georgia and turns its attention to Tenessee, or some other field for vengeance and rapine. .- 3. “The Governor” will order the passage of an act to organize a colored militia for the bet ter seourity of life, liberty and property, andfor the further prevention of Ku-Klux outrages. 4. He will fill every office in the State with his particular friends. 5. He will have an act passed for the purchase of the Opera House, for half a million. 6. He will have an act passed ordering the sale of the State Road. 7. An enormous tax will be levied to. build new lines of railroads, and to perfect a system of free schools. 8. An enormous amount of State lands will be issued, simply to be sacrificed in the mar kets. 9. The State will be plundered and bank rupted. A hungry swarm of Bullock’s attachees hov ered around the Capitol pending the passage of the Georgia outrage, and now that the deed has been consummated, with sharpened beaks and voracious stomachs, tho dock is beginning to move Southward. Their threats of vengeance and gain found free utterance after the passage of the Act. Poor Georgia will be denuded of the last ounce of flesh and robbed of her last penny. Ten thousand carpet-baggers are now ready for the journey to Georgia; many on the way, and the rest only waiting to procure transpor tation from the head of the Freedman’s Bureau. They will be at the meeting of the Legislature. We submit the writer is inconsistent when he says immigration will cease, and then threatens ns with ten thousand carpet-baggers. We should take whole list of his troubles—the en tire Pandora’s Box—rather than vote for the Fifteenth Amendment—on the principle that it is better to starve than steal. FINANCIAL AND OOMMERnr^j Duly Review of the Market. A Leaf from History—The Secrets of the Impeachment Trial Revealed. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette has recently revived some of the corruption stories that have hung about the impeachment trial of President Johnson ever since the result of that famous attempt to thrust a President of the United States from the magisterial chair for po litical and party motives. The names of Gen. Butler, Cornelius Wendell and other prominent politicians, figure extensively in this story, which will wind np with the details of a political compact alleged to have been entered into with Mr. Johnson, by which he was to give assur ances of good behavior, and make such Cabinet changes as were suggested to satisfy the Sena tors that would vote for acquittal. TIIE MONEY CHARGES OP CORRUPTION are three—one of $50,000, in the form of a bet by Radicals, ostensible -impoachers, that Mr. Johnson'would be arquitted, the theory being that the President’s friends would cover thebet, and that the Radicals would see that there wa3 no conviction, in order to win—that is, a pur chase of acquittal for SoO.OOO ; the second pro position involved $165,000, which, it is asserted, was raised by Johnson’s friends, from operators chiefly in New York, without the President’s knowledge or wishes, by the advice of Cornelius Wendell, who said the way must be bought out, and thought it could be clone for $200 000. The money was handled by middle men, but it is not shown that any Senator touched a dollar. The third inoney proposition, it is charged, came from General Butler, the imiieacliment pros ecutor, who, it is alleged, wished to buy off Wendell with a check for $100,000, signed by a prominent Senator. Wendell’s came was to en trap Butler in this offer if it conld be made di rect, and expose him in open Senate. It is as serted that General Butler drove in a close carriage to the rear of Wendell’s house and waited some time to get him out, hut was un successful, and that Wendell, on his part, could not get witnesses to the $100,000 proposition, and so both matters stood off. OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER 11 December 29—Evening, 1869’! j Corros.-Veiy little offering. No ch jjl yesterday’s quotations. A strict article of New Y^l middling commanded 22* cents. It fractional from that figure to 20 cents. t! ® Cotton 22@22*. Bacon.—Clear sides 21*<322; dear sides 21@2iwl dere lS^ 17 '^ dCarrib bu!k 8idei3 18: bulk sho^. j Dard—by the keg 22@22*. Salt—Liverpool, per sack, $2 25. Corn—white $1 40® $1 45. Business has been active in all branches of tra^J LATEST-MARKETS BY TELERRap Domestic Markets. New York, December 29, noon Cotton steady 25*. Fionr 5 better. Wheat 1 lower. Com 1 low». Pork quiet: mess 30 00030 25. Lara quiet. Tori pontine quiet at 43*. . Rosin steady; strained 2rv- @2 10. Freights quiet. ■ Stocks weak and unsettled. Monev 7. Exchanm, long 9: short 9*. Gold 19*. 1862s'l2*. Tennev see 6s. ex-coupon 53; new 47*. Virginia'Gs, ex-con pons 47*; new 54. Louisiana 63. old 70; new crv. levees 6s 64: 83 82. Alabama 8s 91; 5s 61. G eo 3' 6a 61 asked: 7s 94 asked. North Carolinas, old 401V new28*. South Carolinas, new 80. New York. December 29. evening Cotton dosing quiet; sales 3300 bales at 25*. Flour 6@10 better oh low grades; superfine o f , f . 4 75@5 00; common to fair., extra Southern i 6 00. Wheat a shade better but quiet; the timm,. of holders restricts the export demand 1 83@1 37 Com heavy; old mixed Western1 u? Pork unchanged. Lard, firmer at 18®lSk WhiA, 98@1 00. Turpentine 43@45. Rosin 2 OOfflS orf Freights firmer; cotton, per steam *. Money very stringent at 7 for gold. Sterling heavy and lower at 8*@S*.' Gold dull and hew? at 19*@19*. Bonds weak. 1862s 12*. Stools active bnt weak, dosing quiet. Baltimore, December 29—Cotton nominal » t 2i j f lour dull; business light. Wheat steady. Cor active; receipts small; white 85ra87: vellow 88 Oats and Rye dull. Provisions'very dull and'™! changed. Whisky 1 00. Virginias, old 31*; 1867s 46 bid. Savannah, December 29.—Cotton receipts 255; hales; sales 350; exports 6539; middlings 23*; nut. ket firm. Avan bales; w mand, but dosed quiet and*easier; middlings 22*|J -ott^xa, December 2D.—Cotton receipts 580 j 8; saTea 560; market opened firm with a fair de-j Charleston, December 29.—Cotton receipts ll^i bales; sales 450; exports to the Continent 3601 coastwise 1476; market quiet; middlings 23*. | Wilmington, December 29.—Spirits TurpentictJ quiet. Rosin dull and lower; strained 1 50@1 Crude Turpentine unchanged. Tar steady at' 15'| Cotton steady at 23023*. • * A Louisville, December 29.—Provisions firmeJ Mess Pork 30 00. Bacon, shoulders 14*; clear Bid 18. Lard 18. Whisky 95. Cincinnati, December 29.—Com firmer at 7og“l Whisky 947295. Mess Pork 29 00. Bacon in fair d~| mand; shoulders 14; packed sides 17. Lard higlj| St. Iouis, December 29.—Com, yellow 82; choisH liifA 00. \VMslnr ATaca T>rv**lr OQ kaiH 30 00. Bacon, shoulders.nominally 14014* Lit!! 16*@17. Mobile, December 29.—Cotton sales 1000 hdoj receipts 1612; exports 6473; market dull; midi ■ 23*(<i23*. New Orleans, December 29.—Cotton receipts2i bales; sales 5600; exports to Havre 3235, to Eos! 1383: market active; high grades scarce and fiir middlings 24@24*. Flour firmer; superfine 5 25; double extra 51 treble extra 6 00(26 25. Com dull at 88(290. Ox stock light; choice 68; St. Louis 70. Bran 115. Hi 24 00. Mess Pork 30 00@30 25. Bacon unchanged Lard, tierce 18*@18*: keg 20(221. Sugar and W lasses quiet. Whisky 90(21 00. Coffee unchanged Gold 20*. Sterling 30*. New York Sight** count. 7+ Forelgn Markets. London, December 29, noon —ConBOla 92k 3 rmSo SR J Bonds 86. Later.—Consuls 92. Bonds 85*. Tallow firmer at 45. Liverpool, December 29. noon.—Cotton mark! opens steady; uplands 11*@11>.<; Orleans 115£@ 119*; sales 10,000 bales. Later.—Cotton unchanged. Lard flat at 75s. Bacon 63s6s. Liverpool, December 29,. evening.—Cotton closed heavy; uplands 11*; Orleans 11*; sales 12.W hales; for export and speculation 3000. Bed Western wheat 8s3S8s4d. Paris. December 29, noon.—Bourse opened quiet Rentes 72f70c. THE POLITICAL BARGAIN is said to have been made at Mr. Reverdy John son’s house, between Senator Grimes and the President, when tho wishes of Senators Hender son, Ross, Fessenden and Trambudl were made known, that tho President would give assurances that he wonld do nothing for vengeance after acquittal, and that he wonld change his Cabinet, so as to make it less objectionable. The Presi dent, it is stated, consented to this, and his case was insured. In the conference, it is stated, Mr. Evarts was cast for Secretary of State, Reveidy John son for Attorney General, Groesbeck, of Ohio, for Secretary of the Treasury. The President made known his intention to place General Schofield in office as Secretary of War, which was satisfactory. Of these names, Hon. Rev erdy Johnson, it is alleged, withdrew at his own request, and Evarts was substituted. radical inferences. FOREIGN NEWS. Paris, Dceomber 28.—Tho Emperor accepts tho resignation of tho Ministry. Tho Emperor's loiter to Olliver requests him to name persons who, with himself, wfil form a homogeneous Ministry, faithful ly representing the legislative majority, and resolved to apply, in letter and spirit, the “senatus consul- turn” of September 8. London, November 28.—Tho new Austrian and Chinese treaty forbids Consols engaging in trade. Bristol, Eng., December 23.—In the theatrical panic eighteen were killed and many hurt. Paris, December 28.—The new French Ministry, under the leadership of Olliver, will probably soon be announced. In all th'13 story it does not appear that money had any effect. It is not shown that any Sen ator’s vote was bought, either for or against re moval, but there is some reason to believe that a good deal was pocketed by irresponsible lob byists; who, in their greedy career of gain, have soiled alike the names of President and Sen ator. ’ That some Senators, as the New York Post well says, “feeling bound to vote against the removal of the President, yet thought it prudent to see him before the vote was taken, and get his promise to conduct himself with propriety, appears not to us improbable. But even this story must be held in doubt until Mr. Grimes returns to this country, and has the op portunity to speak for himself and Mr. Fessen den.” The New York Post, also says in this connection that it is a little odd that out of this whole impeachment scandal, Andrew Johnson has so far come with clean hands; and that the person whose reputation has been most severely touched by the “revelations” made from time to time, is Johnson’s most bitter prosecutor, General Butler. It is probably true; as Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, once told several of the Congressmen most prominently concerned in the impeachment—“You made a blunder in charging Jolinson with corruption in money The story of George Peabody’s love is au thentically told by a writer in the Providence Journal More than thirty years ago a Provi dence school girl, of rare beauty and good fam ily, found her first love in a youth of a neigh boring city. They were “engaged,” but he failed in business, could not afford to marry, and re leased her from her engagement, she going to Europe with her friends. There die met George Peabody, then, comparatively speaking, a young man, but one who was already making his mark, and whose wealth was beginning to pour in on every side. He became enamored of her beauty and grace, and finally made to her an offer of marriage. After some hesitation, she accepted her new suitor, and returned to America his affianced wife.' Here she met her former lover, the old affeotion returned, and she began to pine away in an appropriate manner. At length she told all to Mr. Peabody, and be, with that man liness that characterized his every action, gave her up, and, in due time, she was married and settled. This is the one romance in the Ufa Of the great philanthropist. The lady was left a widow not 1 many years of whether Mr. READ WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY OF THE 8. S. 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