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The Greorgia 'Weekly Telegraph and. Journal &C Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
WAQQK, FEBRUARY 8, ‘870.
Tlie Postal Telegrapli BilL
A correspondent, “Stage Coach,” replies
elsewhere to our article of yesterday on this sub
ject We cheerfully give him a hearing, though
we still hold that the control of the telegragh
linAg of the country by the government is wrong
every way, and can have no other result than
more firmly fixing upon the country the hateful
yoke of partisan despotism. The saving of a few
dollars cannot and should not weigh against the
tremendous power for perpetuating radical des
potism that this bill, if passed, will give the
wicked men who now rules onr unhappy coun
try. Wo ara hastening fast enough by mere
force of gravitation towards centralization- Let
the brakes be put on whenever and wherever
it is possible.
Going Back on tlie “ll.AB.”
The Mississippi papors say that Ames, one
of the so-called Senators from that State, is op
posed to the admission of his black colleague
Revels; and the Chicago Tribune (radical) op
poses it also, on the ground that as Revels was
not a citizen until 18GC, the year of the pas-
iage of the Civil Rights bill, he does not meet
that qualification of the Constitution which re
quires a citizenship of nine years.
This is all very characteristic, but it won’t
keep Revels out To reject him would break
the back bone of Radicalism at the South.
Pomp and Cuff would quit the party like black
birds scared out of a swamp by a gun fire.
As for Ames objecting, that’s the “cheekiest”
thing of the season. After being put in by the
solid ballot of the negroes/he turns round and
kicks at their representatives. The man is os
ungrateful as he is mean. We have’nt a doubt
that an honest vote of the true people of Mis
sissippi would pronounce Revels much the
more respectable man of the two. We do not
hesitate to declare our preference for him. He
got in by fraud—Ames added brute force be
sides. He was lifted to his position on the
points of his own bayonets.
Singular Accident.—Coming up the Bruns
wick Road Tuesday night a singular mishap oc
curred to one of the cars of the excursion trains
about thirty miles below Macon. The train had
been divided into two, for traction over a
new road which is, of course, somewhat rough.
All of a sudden the forward tracks of the hind
most csr of the advanced train, became detached
from tho car and disappeared very marvellously
without throwing the hinder truck from the
track. The car which was filled principally with
ladies was drawn some little distance suspended
as to the front by the coupling chain which
. never broke. Nobody was hurt. The passen
gers were all crowded into the advanced train
and the rearward train left to remove the ob
structions.
The Alexander Free School.—We are in
formed that the Alexander Free School in Ma
con now numbers eighty pupils, and about forty
have keen turned away for want of space in the
school building to accommodate them. The
Trustees, to economize the fund, converted tho
late residence of Col. Alexander into a school
house with two rooms. It would, perhaps, have
been better to have sold the house and con
structed a building with more space and of bet
ter design for that purpose. The school is un
der charge of Mr. Sylvanus Bates and Miss
Flora Smith, daughter of the late Col. George
Smith, killed, we believe, at the battle of Nash
ville. Both are excellent teachers, and the fund
in present hands seems likely to answer well
(Va Jaaimk r.nl /InviAV
A few evenings ago, a distinguished lady of
this city, passing through plane near her house,
was violently assaulted by a negro man. The
struggle was very brief—the lady heroically and
successfully defended herself, and the negro
fled abruptly so soon as ho heard her name ut
tered in a threat as to what her husband would
do, and the lady then continued her way home.
This is tho sum and substance of an unhappy
event which has been exaggerated by rumors
and contemporaries into a much more fearful
and injurious story. But, we are happy to say,
none of the statements, beyond these, have the
slightest foundation in fact.
Vegetation is East Florida.—Mr. Raleigh,
one of the Green Line Excursionists, brought
with him as a trophy from East Florida a cluster
of seventeen bitter sweet oranges, which was
very beautifaL We have received this winter,
through the kindness of Mr. Corpnt, one cluster
of sweet oranges which numbered over two
dozen—the precise number we do not remem
ber. Mr. Raleigh says all the fruit trees in
East Florida are in blossom, and be showed ns
a quart of well grown green peas, which he sta
ted were abundant near Jacksonville.
Judge Warner os the “Eligibility” Ques
tion.—The Constitution of yesterday, has a let
ter from this gentleman addressed to a com
mittee of members of the Agency. We will pup-
lish it soon if onr space permits. In the
moantime, we may say that he fully sustains the
views of his colleague, Judge Brown, on the
question of eligibility to membership in the
Agency under the lost reconstruction act, and
knocks out the little life that was left in the lu
minous opinion of Mr. Bullock’s.Attorney Gen
eral.
Yea, Verily.—Referring to the recent anti
slavery meeting in Boston, the Herald says: If
these anti-slavery people, now that slavery is
dead and gone, can think of nothing better to
do than to harp upon that old string of tho ab
olition agitation, we would suggest that they
turn their attention tc tho condition of the op
eratives in the New England factories. Perhaps
they might find in those institutions a fine field
l for their philanthropy.
Projected Canal.—A writer in the Brunswick
-Appeal thinks that a canal through Florida,
from the St. Mary’s river, Georgia, to somo
point on the Gulf, would create a great revolu
tion in the carrying trade of the Gnlf and West
ern States, and benefit not only the Sontb, but
tho whole country. It is believed by many that
a canal joining the waters of the St. Mary’s and
Suwannee rivers could be made at comparative
ly little coBt.
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Danger of the Orange Crop.—Tho Pensacola
Herald very much fears that the orange crop of
this year will be seriously injured by the late
unusually warm spell of weather. During this
entire month tho trees have bndded. Unless
unchecked by a return of cold they will soon be
in blossom. It would be a sad calamity for this
section, where hundreds are dependent upon
their orange crops for a living.
Not fob Joe.—The Herald recommends Gen.
Thomas as the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency in 1872. The South would as lief
have the devil as a renegade Virginian like
Thomas, who, as BfU Arp says, “fell fur and
fell heavy.”—Constitutionalist.
Stinking Fund.—The Charleston News has
an article upon “the Stinking Fond” of that
State. That fund must be exceptionally large
about Columbia daring the session of tho Leg
islature.
Mb. Edward J. Belser, of Montgomery, who
shot and killed W. H, Hogan, of that aity, a
few days since, foj seducing bis (Bober’s)
Brighter, died there on Sunday night
The Apparition i; Saw Yesterday.
It is not often, Mr. Bolus, -that I am guilty of
the imprudence of eating a supper. That prac
tice should be confined to field hands and fast
young men; and therefore I protest,in advance,
against any inference prejudicial to my narra
tive which might bo founded on alleged surfeit,
unless you will call a cup of tea and a piece of
dry toast a surfeit There was no humbug, or
dyspepsia, or whisky about it None of your
John Banyan stuff—prefaced with lying in a
double sense, and winding up with “Behold it
was a dream.”
I saw her and talked with her distinctly, just
as I am talking to you. She rose before me of
a sudden, as if she had flashed up or down, or
across, like light Yon could not tell when she
came, or where from—but only that she was
there—a magnificent, august and beautiful ap
parition—tall and shapely—with flowing ring
lets—a dazzling complexion—a lofty forehead,
encircled by a golden fillet, bearing tho device
“Wisdom, Justice, Moderation”—piercing dork
eyes, and a noble countenance with a certain
divine and sorrowful indignation upon it
I knew at once she was the Genius of Geor,
gia; but before I could move or open my lips,
I beard a voice as melodious as the song of an
Angel. It was not so much, after all, what she
said as what she showed mo, apparently with
the waving of her right arm. I saw pictured
as if by magic Georgia ten years a ago—a free
commonwealth, with an unburdened, elastic,
proud and free people, and then with her fore
finger pointing downward she showed me Geor
gia as she now is—enslaved and the sport of a
tyrannouf and irresponsible knavery—a help
less captive, bound to the oar of dominant vice,
ignorance, and avarice.
Her eyes flashed fire as she pointed to the
woful contrast, or looked around in mournful
enquiry as if in search of apology or defence.
Indeed, friend Bolus, the sight struck me with
such horror, you may be sure I hastened to put
in some plea of irresponsibility. I was just
about to explain how, step by step, the domi
nant States of the North invoked quarrel and
war, and then reduced us to poverty and an ig
nominious vassalage ; but before I could utter
a word, her countenance turned upon me with
an expression of scornful pity. “I blame your
statesmen not for impossibilities and crimes,
but I charge them with blunders—shameful
blunders—worse than crimes. It is the busi
ness of statesmanship to count the cost in ad
vance and avoid ruinous conflicts.”
But it is now too late, said I, and what of the
fature? .With another majestic wave of her
hand she showed me the future—a future of
long and patient toil and endurance. A future
to bo as strongly characterized by sound discre
tion as the past has been by misjudgment and
rashness. We demolish with ease and rapidity
—we rebuild with care, labor, suffering and long
delay. The future is of your own creation—go
to work. With that she disappeared as she
came—how, I know not. But she was gone.
Impolicy or Silence.
There are a great many people in this world
who, although they have lived a long time in it,
seem not to have learned the plain lesson that tho
way to prevent or estop damaging and exagge
rated rumors is to forestall them by the simple
truth. It is to this day, for example, in the case
of the prevalence of any epidemic, a favorite
piece of prudential strategy by a good many
people to induce the “city papers” to say noth
ing about it, with the inevitable result that state
ments a thousand times worse than the actual
truth are carried abroad on the tongue of rumor
and find their way into distant papers, and
the correction becomes very difficult, if not im
possible.
Thfl nftronnql r\f trrifar
been attended by several very strong Illustra
tions of the suicidal impolicy of editorially ig
noring disagreeable facts publicly known, with
the idea that they will be less disagreeable or
damaging to the interests of the commnnity if
they are only left out of print. A verbal repoit
gathers magnitude with immense rapidity, as it
passes from mouth to month even among truth
ful people. One whose profession has led him
to sift such reports for publication soon learns
to attach the smallest consequence to them.—
The poet’s story of the three black crows is a
very modest illustration of their worthlessness.
And yet it is the fashion to berate the press
as a fountain of misrepresentation and error.
Instead of that, it is the indispensable conser
vator of truth. An event cannot be told by
word of mouth for the length of a block, with
out becoming at the end of its journey some
thing qnite different from what it was at the
start; bnt a press report, even if somewhat in
error, does not magnify its own misconceptions,
and fixes the shape of a story so that mistakes
can be corrected so far as they have had cur
rency.
There is no proceeding, therefore, more un
wise and suicidal than one which remits to gos
sip and rumor what should bo a distinct, clear
and responsible statement of tho press; and
though such statements may be very unwel
come to communities and individuals, they
ought to be made as the most easy, proper nnd
profitable method of forestalling thousand-
tongued rumor, and the wild and ridiculous
publications which will be founded upon it, in
the absence of an authoritative record.
Senatorial Election Orders.
Radicalism, or at least tho worst part of it,
won’t thank Grant for those orders from Wash
ington, about tho Senatorial election, spoken of
in the press dispatche. If it is not a queer
business for a so-called State Legislature to be
receiving orders from the War Department about
the election for United States Senators, then
what would be a queer business ? If there's a
white man in America who can read it and not
bang his head for shame for his country, he is
to be pitied either for the lack of intelligence
or the lack of virtue. Ho either don’t know
what free government is, or he don’t care.
However, lamentations are of no account
either to the friends of liberty or the friends of
Blodgett. Liberty went up a good while ago,
and the order lays Blodgett out cold as a wedge.
Who was it telling ns to look for this order some
time ago; and spoke about a conversation be
tween Grant and Sherman which would lead
to it. Grant says “Sherman, this business of
filling np the Senate with such a set of six penny
vagabonds, as are crawling into it from the
South is disgraceful and must be stopped.” “So
you say," replied Sherman; taking a big rega
lia from the Presidential box and fighting it;
“and yet yon have just put tickets into that
man Bullock’s hands to send two more from
Georgia.” “But I’ll stop it, Bill 1” “And how
will you stop it? write him a letter begging him
to send decent men ? No Sir! leave it to me.
They’ve got two decent men elected already,
and I'll stop ’em just there—stop ’em with or
ders from the War Department, by Gar. ' They
may do what they please with their domed old
State, but they shan’t come the provisional over
us here by sending any more of those black
guard wretches from the Sonthto the Senate?”
Whether the order alluded to in the dispatch
resulted from any such conversation as this, we
are unable to say, bnt like enough.
Professor Loomis, of Yale, has written a let
ter in favor of the scheme for taking observa
tions of the approach of great storms. He says
they usually come from southwest to northeast,
and can be easily traced. He reoommends the
appointment of a competent meteorologist to
superintend the matter, and believes that the
increased security to commerce will more than
compensate tor the expense.
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The Georgia Press.
Mr. Robert Habersham one of the oldest and
most respected business men of Savannah died
in that city on Sunday, aged eighty-six. He was
the son of the Hon. Joseph Habersham, the
first Post-Master of the United States, and had
been in business in Savannah for sixty years.
The Atlanta City Conncil has given ten acres
of the Fair Grounds to Oglethorpe College. The
city is to be canvassed to raise the sum neces
sary to bring the College there.
Another cotton factory is in contemplation at
Columbus—so says the Sun.
Some of Talbotton’s best citizens are leaving
•for Texas—among them Mr. L. Davie, and Dr.
Keating.
Madison has that dread disease, meningitis.
The Elberton Gazette leams that the survey
of the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad has been
commenced.
The following are the officers of the Agricul-
iural and MechanicsFair Association of Augusta:
President, W. H. Tutt; Vice-President, R. Y.
Harris; Board of Managers, P. J. Berkmans;
T. H. Nelson, T. P. Stovall, G. A. Oates, F. H.
Rogers, A. R. Wright, Jas. W. Bones, W. H.
Warren, Dr. Beckwith.
Tho Rome Courier says that place has 22
business houses of every description—among
them twenty lawyers, eleven doctors, and nine
bar rooms.
From the Monroe Advertiser, of yesterday,
we extract as follows:
The Weatheb.—The weather for the past
week has been redolent of spring, bad colds,
and pulmonary complaints generally. Vegeta
tion has responded to the genial snnshino, and
plum trees, ns well as various other early kinds
of shrubbery, are budding and blooming. If the
“signs” hold good, we are to have a remarka
bly early spring.
After Laborers.—We leam that Mr. C. A,
King, of this place, has gone to Virginia, for
the purpose of procuring farm-laborers for the
plantations in this apd adjacent counties. Wo
are not informed as to the number of hands Mr.
King proposes to secure. It is to be hoped he
will bo successful, as there are reports of a very
great scarcity of farm hands in the agricultu
ral districts.
Sudden Death.—We are pained to learn of
the sudden death of Mrs. S. G. Hillyer, wife of
the venerable President of tho Monroe Female
College, which took place last evening. We
have barely time to allude to the sad occurrence
which has cast a gloom over our whole commu
nity.
Mr. Ben Roan, of Fayette county, was robbed
of several hundred dollars in Atlanta last week.
He had not recovered it, either, at last accounts.
Robert Lumpkin, negro, and a so-called
member of the Agency, from Macon county,
died in Atlanta on Monday. Will Terry seat
the man having the next highest number of
vettes, provided he is a Democrat ?
The Griffin Middle Georgian gives the follow
ing prrticulars of a recent outrage by Federal
myrmidons in Pike county:
Last Saturday N. Sellers Hill, J. W. Scott, R.
W. Jones and Thomas Hardaway went to the
premises of Thos. Moore, an orderly, worthy
and law-abiding citizen of Pike connty, and pre
tending to act under orders seized several stills
that were in the still house of Mr. Moore.—
After removing the still they set fire to tho still
house nnd destroyed it. The fire was commu
nicated to the plantation fence of Mr. Moore,
and that of Mr. John A. Wilson, and before it
could be stopped, consumed 150 or 175 panels
of fence for those parties.
Before going to Moore’s, they went to the
house of one Joshua Lassiter and seized stills.—
Mrs. Lassiter was in bed, sick. Lassiter was not
at home. These delectable chaps, Mrs. Lassi
ter says, cursed her and we are reliably informed
said they would burn Lassiter’s still-house if
she were not sick.
Saturday evening Moore sued out a warrant
against the parties for arson, and just before
the train from Atlanta to Macon passed this
place, they were arrested by Sheriff DoyaL One
of the parties went to Atlanta Sunday morning,
and tins Monday morning Sheriff Doyal was
served with a onny of an order from General
Acidising tnese nouBo-numers, uuu iur-
bidding that they shonld be interferred with in
the discharge of their “legitimate duties.”
They left town Monday morning and went up
the railroad by private conveyance—wo suppose
on another house and fence burning expedition,
We are informed by some of Mr. Moore's neigh
bors, whom wo know to be reliable and truthful
men, that Mr. Moore has not distilled any
liquors since the summer of 1868, when he was
regularly licensed as a distiller.
Tho Constitution of yesterday says :
Deaths.—Dr. J. P. Logan's son died last
night at 10 o’clock, and Mrs. Overby's this
morning, from meningitis. It is with regret
that we make the announcement. Onr sympa
thies are with the bereaved parents in their af
fliction.
We learn that there are bnt few cases of men
ingitis in the city.
I George Carlton, formerly a merchant of this
city, died at Athens, a few days since, of con
sumption.
Wm. Mell, son of the venerable Dr. P. H.
Mell, of Athens, died a few days ago from the
effects of a fall from a gymnasium pole.
A fire at West Point, Troup county, on Sun
day morning, destroyed property valued at $25,-
000. Supposed to ba the work of an incendiary.
Peter Chambers, a member of tho Agency,
from Meriwether, county, died at bis home in
that county a few days since.
Columbus is waking up. A wooden store
house was commenced on Friday last, and on
Saturday, thirty-six hours after the beginning,
it was completed, painted, rented, stocked and
sales were being effected in it
We quote as follows from the Columbus Sun:
Cotton from a Sand Plantation. — The other
day one of our manufactories bought a bale of
cotton weighing 1050 pounds. When opened it
was found to contain 5621 pounds of sand, dust,
etc. Adding to this 28 pounds of bagging and
rope, and subtracting from the whole amount,
it was found that of the 1050 pounds only 459£
were cotton.
Liquor Licenses.—Thus far fifty have been
granted—ten first class and forty-four second
class. The last can charge ten cents and under
per glass; the first what they please over 15
cents. The city is comfortably off for bar
rooms, there being one to every three hundred
inhabitants.
The Enquirer says:
By Grapevine.—Report has it that we are to
have another monster factory in the course of a
twelve-mouth in tho vicinity of tho “Muscogee.”
Also a magnificent row of iron front buildings
on the burnt district of Broad street. Three
now churches are proposed—one for the old-
fashioned Weslynn Methodists, up town; one
for the Catholics, and one for the Israelites.
Besides these, St. Luke and Trinity are to be
vastly improved. These improvements, togeth
er with the new hall and fair grounds, which are
to be attended to the present summer, promise
some work for mechanics and a lively time gen
erally. We should like to see all these sugges
tions and probabilities assume the shape of cer
tainties. With the exception of the new facto
ry, we'vo done little in the way of substantial
improvements for a couple of years, daring
which time our neighbors, Macon and Atlanta,
have been “wide awake and duly sober.”
We find tho following letter in the Savannah
Republican of Tuesday. It stamps all the life
out of the Radical lie that Capt. Brunt was Ku-
Kluxed:
Blacksheab, Ga., January 29, 1870.
Editor Savannah Republican ;
Dear Sib.—A very Bad occurrence took place
in our little village last night. Early in the*
night onr citizens were alarmed by the%ries of
Mrs. Brant and hastened to her relief,and found'
that Capt. Wm. Brunt, her husband, had been
shot dead in the garden noar the house, in
which the family lived. He was fonnd lying in
the garden, near the house, with a buliet hole
penetrating the body directly over the heart.
There was considerable excitement as to the
affair among onr citizens, as Capt. Brant was an
United States officer, beingassistant assessor for
this and adjoining counties. The coroner, Mr.
Nathan Dickson, was sent for, and a jury of old
and respectable citizens empaneled to investi
gate the affair. The jury, after a thorough in
vestigation, returned a verdict of “suicide.”
The facts, as far as I can lepra make a clear
case. Near where the body laid the pistol be
longing to the captain was found, all the barrels
loaded, except one, that had been freshly fired.
The situation of the wound being directly
over the heart, and the fact thst the coat and
•til
vest, which he had on, were neither of them
pierced by the ball, having evidently been rolled
up and drawn out of the way by him, and the
print of the pistol barrel being plainly visible
on the breast,- the shirt burnt with the powder
and the wound filled with it, clear np all doubts
on the subject. It is thought that he used his
left hand in holding the weapon, as from the
direction taken by the ball he could not have
need the right. He had on his pistol belt, and
his wife says it was unusual for him to wear his
pistol at home or at night here. Several of our
citizens who were intimate with him had noticed
for several days a marked change in the man,
as he was usually jovial, talkative and lively,
whereas for several days past, he had seemed
moody, melancholy and distressed in mind.
As a man he was liked by all; I do not be
lieve he had a personal enemy in the county.
As an officer, in the performance of his duty,
he was a good man, and respected by all, and
the citizens of his distriot never refused to as
sist him at all times in his duties. And, how
ever much they might have disliked his politi
cal opinions, he stood high in the opinion of all
as a conscientious, honorable man. He leaves
a large family to mourn his untimely end. v
Yours, eto. A. M. Moore, M. D.
Tweedy and Fitzpatrick, for their brave as
sault on Bryant, were fined, by an Atlanta Dog
berry, $5 and $25 and costs, respectively.
Darnell, of Pickens,the member of the Agency
who was published yesterday >s being ill with
meningitis, was reported better yesterday. A
Mr. Martin, of Atlanta, died of it Tuesday.
We find the following in the Constitution of
yesterday. We send onr hearty congratulations
to onr old friend and comrade:
Horace P. Clarke.—This gentleman has
been appointed Agent of the Macon and West
ern Railroad Company at this place, vice R. A,
Anderson, Esq., r.signed.
THE JAPS IN CALIFORNIA.
An Interesting Sketch of tho Colony Near
Gold Hill.
[From the San Francisco Morning Call.]
Up to this time the Japanese have accommo
dated themselves in their household matters at
considerable inconvenience, but this will soon
be at an end, and in a few weeks they will be
settled down as comfortably as you please, with
houses of their own, each family reposing “un
der its own vine and fig tree.” Among their
number are four carpenters, and these men are
now engaged in erecting buildings for tho use
of the party. The houses are to bo twelve in
number, dimensions 3Gx30, each containing
four rooms, and built after tho real Japanese
fashioD, with low, pitched roofs, the eaves ex
tending far over the sills, and forming a balco
ny or awning around the entire house. The
outer walls and partitions are all of sliding pan-
nels, that can bo shut together at the corners
and folded into boxes, leaving nothing but the
roof and its supports, daring the hot summer
days, affording a luxury that can only be exceed
ed bj “taking off your flesh and sitting in your
bone3.” The partition walls are of paper, the
outer walls of wood; one room is to be used as
a sleeping room, another as a kitchen, and the
two others—in eachhouse—for silk-raising, where
the worms will bo kept and nursed and the silk
weaved and otherwise manipulated.
I hid omitted to mention that silk culture will
form an important branch of this enterprise,
50,000 mulberry plants have already been set
out for a beginning. The Japanese carpenters
are ingenious workmen, and their work is done
with marvelous neatness. A curious feature of
their houses is that they do not contain a nail,
all of the joints and timbers being dove-tailed
together by many ingenious devices, and tho
whole work, even to tho rafters, is as smooth as
if it had been polished down with sand-paper,
and tho Japanese are a neat people, for they use
no paint to hide any blemishes of construction
or ornamentation, no filigree work or plaster
of Paris gewgaws, but every stick in the build
ing isexposed. Every morning, as regularly as
she cooks the breakfast, or sweeps the floor, the
Japanese housewife takes a wet cloth and scours
the whole interior of the dwelling, leaving no
part untouched, and no stain or dirt spot to mar
its cleanly appearance. Then the Japanese do
not come into the house with muddy boots, af
ter the style of the American “sovereign,” bnt,
having covered the floor with a neat matting,
always move tho dirty sandals before stepping
upon it. I stood and watched the Japanese car
penters at their work for some minutes, and
noticed the peculiarity of their movements.
Tlio Japanese works “toward film''—that is,
instead of shoving a plane from him, he reaches
out, sets the plane upon the board at arms’
length, and pulls it toward him; and he cuts,
chops and saws, in the same way. His saws are
fixed in handles, like a butcher’s cleaver, and
the teeth slant or “rake” toward the handle.
Tho planes are constructed like ours, but the
wooden portion is very thin and wide. The adze
is fastened to the end of a hooped stick, like
tho handle of one of the crooked canes that are
worn on the arm on Montgomery street, and al
together, their tools are different from ours, yet
I cannot observe that they are awkward in ap
pearance or awkwardly handled. The men are
bright, intelligent and" polite, lifting their hats
and bowing gracefully to strangers, and the
women stay at home, do tho cooking, take care
of the babies, keep the house in order and man
age pretty much as American housewives do,
even to the wearing of the Grecian bend. Take
them all in all, they are in every respect a su
perior race to tho Chinese, and resemble them-
in no manner except in their physical ap
pearance.
A VIRGINIA TRAGEDY.
A r.ady Killed While Sitting: in Her Boom
Surrounded by Her Children.
From the Itoanokc ( Va.) Fines, January 28.]
We learned yesterday evening of a most ter
rible and diabolical murder which occurred on
Thursday night in Brunswick county, Virginia,
about seven miles above North Gaston, the un
fortunate victim being Mrs. Rawlings, wife of
Basset Rawlings, and sister of Mr. W. P. Tay
lor, the latter well known in this community
and now connected with the Petersburg Road.
The circumstances of the murder are as follows:
About 7 o’clock on Thursday, while Mrs. Raw
lings was sitting in front of the fire in her room,
with some of her children sitting near her, a
shot was fired from an unseen hand through a
window in the rear of Mrs. Rawlings, the whole
load (slugs) taking effect just below the shoulder
of the unfortunate victim, killing her almost
instantly. The murderer made his escape with
out being seen. Mr. Rawlings arrived at home
from court, where ho had been attending
through tho day, a little while after the occurrence
to find his wife a corpse and his motherless
children weeping over the dead. Yesterday
morning strenuons exertions wore made to dis
cover and capture the human fiend, suspicion
resting on one Harrison Hammock, a negro,
who made certain threats because his wife had
recently been disbharged from the service of
tho family.
Allowed to take Their Scats.
Wo find the following order in the Constitu
tion of yesterday:
Headq’rs Military District of Georgia,^
Atlanta, Ga., January 31, 18G9. )
General Orders No. 13.
Whereas, by the terms of General Orders No.
9, current scries, from these Headquarters, A.
T. Bennett, of Jackson connty, was declared to
be ineligible to a seat in the House of Repre
sentatives of Geergia; and whereas it appears
that it is doubtful whether the name of A. J.
Bennett, of said Jackson county, which appears
in tho list of persons relieved by the act of Con
gress from their disabilits, was not intended to
be A. T. Bennett, therefore, ordered, that Said
Order No. 9, as far as it applies to said A. T.
Bennett, be, and the same hereby is, revoked.
Whereas, the application for an investigation
into the eligibility of Mr. Frank Wilcbar, of
Taylor connty, to a seat in the Honse of Repre
sentatives has now been withdrawn: There
fore, ordered, that the Board convened by Gen
eral Orders No. 3, current series, from these
Headquarters, be, and it hereby is, discharged
.from farther consideration of his case, and, so
muoh of General Orders No. 9, current series,
as relates to him is hereby revoked.
By order of Brevet Major General Terry:
J. H. Taylor,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Official:
R. P. Hughes, A. A. A. G.
*
Killing Indians.—Concerning CoL Baker’s
expedition against the Indians in Montana,
which the telegram reported as a “complete
success,” the Philadelphia Press says:
A report comes from Helena, Montana, of a
wholesale slaughter of Indians by a detachment
of troops under Colonel Baker, which rivals in
atrocity the famous Chivington massacre. Thir
ty lodges of men, women and children were
surprised and mercilessly bntohered, only six or
eight esoaping. It is a sad commentary on our
civilization, and a reproach to Christianity, that
such fiendishness should be practiced under the
sanction of authority, and with tike approval of
public sentiment in at least a large portion of
the Union. •' > ;■■■ - >
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Weekly Resume of Foreign Affairs.
I* REP ABED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
Great Britain.—The British Parliament will
assemble on February 8th. Gladstone, the Pre
mier, has addressed the customary invitation
to the supporters of the government in the Lower
Honse to take their seats on February 8th.
The Times, discussing the French commercial
treaty,pronounces in favor of unconditional free
trade.
About five hundred European clergymen will,
probably, be present at the Evangelical Assem
bly to be held in New York, September 5th.
In Thomcliffe, Sheffield, violent disturbances
have broken out, threatening serious conse
quences.
A false fire alarm was raised in St. Joseph’s
Chapel in Liverpool. The bnildingbeingdensely
crowded, a panic seized the whole congregation,
who, in wild confnsion rushed to the doors.
When, at lost, order was restored, fifteen peo
ple were found to have been trampled to death,
while a great many others were dangerously
wounded.
The miners of Cheshire, Lancashire and North
Wales have suspended work to force a reduc
tion of their working time to eight hoars.
The New Bishop of Oxford was consecrated
in Westminster Abbey in presenco of the Greek
Archbishop Lycurgus.
A meeting of working men for the purpose
of promoting a more intimate connection be
tween England and her colonies, has been an
nounced. The Earl of Grey will preside, while
Raskin and Fronde are going to make speeches
on the occasion. Carlyle, Mill and Tennyson
have expressed their sympathies with the move
ment.
A “ Progress Church ” has been founded in
London. Considering tho present way of pass
ing the Sabbath as demoralizing, the new
ohurch, imitating the customs of Continental
Europe, wishes to make Sunday a day of joy
and pleasure. The teachings of the love of
man are to bo inculcated by education, while
the introduction of good music is destined to
elevate religious minds. Many people ttf high
rank have joined tho Progress Church, the
meetings of which are always closed by a-
dancing party 1
On the other hand, the way of keeping Sab
bath in London is denounced from the pulpit.
Pamphletshavo keen distributedin the churches,
informing tho publig^raat on Sunday 3G, 880
places of business and amusement are opened,
and 100,000 railway and 20,9G1 post-office offi
cials, 29,000 coachmen and 2GO.OOO waiters are
required to work on Sunday in London.
The official reports show the great number of
2,759 marine shipwrecks for the year 18G9.
France.—The preliminary examination of
Pierre Bonaparte i3 being conducted before an
ordinary magistrate. The High Conrt probabiy
will hold its sittings in Versailles. Rochefort
had been summoned to give his testimony.—
The farther development of tho case is not in
favor of the defendant Though the Prince
has always professed very democratic princi
ples, this political programme has not prevent
ed him from looking down with utter contempt
upon the people. He is a very overbearing and
passionate man; and often already he would
have come in conflict with justice, had the
Majesty of the Law not bowed before the pres
tige of his name. As a young man of twenty-
one years he killed a Papal officer and wounded
two soldiers, because they attempted, executing
their instructions, to escort him beyond the
Pope’s dominions. Another time, when m Al
bania, he stabbed his adversary with a dagger.
After having resided a little while in Corfu,
the English Government was obliged to banish
him from the Island to pnt a stop to his per
petual quarrels.
The public and private life of the Prince be
ing very far from deserving the epithet “aristo
cratic,” the Emperor has always hesitated to
confer the title “Imperial Highness” upon his
cousin, whose conduct does not reflect much
credit upon the dynasty. Noir, who lost his life
by the Prince’s hand, is represented as a quiet,
well behaved young man of twenty-one years,
and having being on the eve of his marriage.
To judge from tho standard of possibility, it
seems very unlikely, that a young man so pecu
liarly situated and being but the bearer of a
message, without any provocation, should com
mit an act of violence.
The strike of ten thousand workingmen in the
works of La Creuzot, belonging to Schneider,
President of the Corps Legisfiitif, has caused
great uneasiness in Paris. They had thrown up
barricades and were prepared to resist the
troops who had boon oenfc from Paris to restore
order. But, according to the lot cot news, the
strike had already been amicably settled.
The Provinzial Correspondenz of Berlin, a
semi-official paper, comments on the new min
istry of France as follows: “ The circumstances
under which the change has taken place, and
the character of the statesman who has been
entrusted with the formation of the new minis
try, are a guarantee for the preservation of the
peaceful and friendly relations between France
and the North German Confederation, which
the friendly sentiments of Napoleon haTe still
maintained.”
In the summer of 1867, one year after the
Austro-Prassian war, Emile Ollivier traveled
through Germany, and afterwards published his
impressions in his organ (La Liberte). Some of
his remarks are now particularly interesting.
“The North German Confederation,” he said,
“will be organized without difficulty, as Prussia
has only to raise a finger to change it into one
great annexation. Bismarck seems to intend
to leave the smaller Princes undisturbed, and
this is fortunate for the intellectual and ar
tistic development of tho German nation. I
have nowhere fonnd anything like hatred to
France or a wish to come into collision with
her; at most, I have only met with a little irony
and a good deal of suspicion. The German na
tion really wishes to live at peace with us, and
only fears our policy may render this impossi
ble. If it should come to a war, they are re
solved on a terrible and obstinate straggle. All
sensible men therefore regard this eventuality
with horror,- as it would draw a boundary of
blood between two of the most civilized nations
of the earth; it would drive Germany against
her will into tho arms of Russia, thus forcing
her to abandon the great task she must under
take in harmony with ns—that of restraining
the Slavonian world which is pressing through
the gates of Europe. In the South, Baden is
already the ally of Prussia; Wurtemberg is
partly Republican and partly attached to Bis
marck ; Bavaria is wavering—when she has to
decide whether she will be Prussian or Austrian,
she will answer, Prussian.”
North German Confederation.—The {Prus
sian Landtag has passed a law abolishing the
restrictions imposed npon the press.
The functions of tho Prussian ministry of
foreign affairs, since the begining of the pres
ent year, have been included in the attributions
of the North German Confederation.
According to tho Federal Constitution, the
Crown of Prussia, in exercising the hereditary
Presidency of the Confederation represents the
FederalStatesintemationally. She has the power
in the name of the Confederation to declare war,
conclude peace, enter into treaties with foreign
States, and accredit and receive ambassadors.
In accordance with these stipulations the foreign
affairs of the Confederation were provisionally
committed to the Prussian foreign office. In
the meantime it has been decided, in conformi
ty with motions made in- the Prussian * Landtag
as well as in the Federal Reichtag, to transfer
the functions of the Prussian ministry of foreign
affairs to the Confederation, with a view to the
farther development of the Federal institutions.
The hundreth anniversary of Ludwig von
Beethoven’s birth, tho immortal master in the
empire of music, will be oelebrated in Bonn on
Rhine, where he was bom, December 17tb, 1770.
A musical festival is to be arranged, and the
greatest vocal and instrumental artists will be
invited. The musical performances wifi last
three days, and only the works of the great
masters, particularly those which aie acknowl
edged to be the most perfect and such as are
most rarely performed, will be produced. An
excursion on the Rhine on the fourth day .will
conclude the festivities.
Italy.—The German bishops have resolved to
present an address to the Pope, protesting
against the regulations imposed on tho Council
and claiming the right to propose independent
motions. They consider it intolerable that two
commissions should have the extraordinary
privilege of examining, changing and eventually
rejecting every proposal before its discussion.
The eight bishops who have separated from
their countrymen, preferring the company of
the Spaniards and South Americans, will, of
course, refrain from this step} Similar repre
sentations will also be made by the French bish
ops. The North American and Eastern bishops
are now said not to be so pliable after all. The
latter assert that the proclamation of Papal in
fallibility would alienate their churches from the
Holy See and unite them with the Synod at St.
Petersburg and the Patriarch at Stamboul. The
North Americans are said to ask: “How can we
reoonoile our position as free citizens of the
United States to the principles, neoeasarily fol
lowing the aooeptanoe of Papal infallibility,
such as religious persecution, the right of Ca
tholicism to exclusive power in the State, and
the temporal supremacy of the Pope ? Our fel
low countrymen would consider »nd treat us aa
pariahs, and all other religions parties would
unite against the common enemy to exclude us
from every public offioe.”
The election of the oommittee, for matters of
belief, resulted in the complete defeat of the
opposition. They did not succeed iu seating a
single member of their party. Neither the
Frenchman Dupanlonp nor the German Hepele
was chosen. Tho propaganda carried their list
of names by the help of their partisans from all
parts of the world. The regulations of this ex
traordinary Council are wisely drawn up, so as
to prevent the possibility of a parliamentary
spirit arising, and to secure the proposals sub
mitted to the bishops being passed with the
greatest unanimity. The most submissive of
the Cardinals presides over the committees—a
surprise is impossible. All opposition may be
easily crashed, and those who still remain firm
wifi be solemnly denounced.
Spain. — No news worth mentioning from
Spain.
The motion made in the Cortes to exclude all
branches of the Bonrbon family forever from
the Spanish throne, was defeated by 151 to 33
votes.
Russia.—The latest accounts of the Russian
conspiracy have come to hand. Bakunin, the
Russian Mazzini, seems to be the originator and
head of a conspiracy spreading over the whole
country. It aims at nothing less than the de
struction of the State, the abolition of personal
property, and the establishment of an independ
ent socialistic community. This insane project
is advocated in numerous proclamations which
jhave fallen into the hands of the authorities;
hvery means of realizing it, even murder, is
recommended and approved of. The 19th of
February was fixed for the outbreak of the rev
olution, this particular day probably having
been ohosen, because it is the lastterm on which
the former serfs can pay the emancipation
money imposed upon them; for thoso who nre
unable to meet these demands will be deprived
of their property and settled in the Caucasus.
In one proclamation the rusticated students are
invited to join the numerous bands which al
ready haunt the Russian forests, while, in an
other, the young men of the country are re
quested to support, at least for the present^ the
aspirations of the Poles for independence. It
is even said that the plan of assassinating the
Emperor on his way through Odessa, has only
been frustrated by the activity of the police.
Jabno.
The Hoar Nomination—The President and
the Senate.—The New York Sun says:
A letter exceedingly damaging to the reputa
tion of President Grant has obtained publicity
in the Tribune. A Washington correspondent
of that paper asserts that the Presidents intends
to take issue with the Senate on the confirma
tion of Judge Hoar; and that if he is finally re
jected, the Republican Senators who are instru
mental in bringing abont that result may look
for little favor or patronage at the White Honse.
In support of this view of the matter, it is men
tioned as a fact, that one Senator has already
been notified by the head of a department that
those who vote against Judge Hoar cannot have
their friends retained or appointed in his de
partment.
Time alone will show how much truth there
is in these statements, bnt they cannot be put
forth by the leading Republican paper without
some basks. One thing is certain : the Presi
dent has not withdrawn Judge Hoar’s nomina
tion ; and it is almost equally certain that the
Senate is resolved not to ratify it.
An Eloquent Speech.
On Farden’s bill in tho Senate, to provide for
the enclosure of stock, the Reverend Senator
from Coosa spoke substantially as follows:
Mr. President : This bill allows the people in
the low country to put up fences to keep out
stock, and provides that if any stock gits over
that fence the owner shall pay the damage, ah.
Now, Mr. President, I hope that bill won’t pass,
ah. It would cause more squabbles than any
thing that has been got up since Adam was cre
ated, ah. And, sir, speakin’ of Adam, I would
say that we have no account in the Bible that
he had any fence around the garden of Eding,
ah. No, sir; and the commonality of the peo
ple don’t want any fences around every little
township in the lowlands, ah. The Senator
from Autauga speaks of his people, ah. Sir, I
know more about his people, as ho calls ’em,
than he does, ah; and 1 take the liberty to say
that tho people of the broad piny woods and
rolling hills oi Autauga don't want their stock
fenced out of any part of the countiy, ah.
No sir, they, and all we people in the hills an
mountainous country, want our cattle and on
stock to go whar they please, ah. Sir, the low
lands is free roar:!.- 0 grounds for the stump-tail
bulls end Tot g-tail heifers of the mountains, ah;
for the bioken down horses and the gaily fillies,
ah; for tho turkeys and the geese, ah; for the
sheep and the goats ab; and whar the pigs and
the old hogs can root holes and crack acorns
free from trouble and vexation of spent, ah.
The Union flag floats over it all, ah; and wher
ever that flag floats, thar our stock and cur poul
try havo the right to cackle and beller and tare
up the ground, ah. Sir, if this bill passes, the
whole country will get into a state of involva-
tion, ah: and things wifi be worse mixed up
than they was in old times when the children
removed the ancient landmarks of their fathers,
ah. I would vote for a bill on this subject, but
not for the one before the Senit, ah. My senti
ment is—
Let tho thunders roll from pole to pole,
The lightnings flash across the sky, ah,
But freedom for all our cattle and hogs,
Or else forever die, ah.
The speaker carried his point by a large ma
jority.—Montgomery Mail.
An account was published in yesterday's Her
ald of the death of a woman named Dacdler, a
few days ago, in Hudson City. An inquest is
being held on the body by coroner Valhardt, as
it is charged by Dr. Berger that the woman's
death resulted from injudicious treatment by
the doctors who attended her after childbirth.
Yesterday morning tho husband of Mrs. Dand-
ler arose as usual, dressed himself, and ate
some breakfast. Ho sent for Mr. Henry Gmde,
a prominent citizen, and told him that he had a
presentiment of approaching death, and that he
desired to have his will drawn up. Mr. Gmde
endeavored to persuade him that his fears were
groundless, that he looked quite well and would
be all right after a while. Mr’ Grade then left,
and half an hour afterwards Dandler was a
corpso. Tho physician's certificate set forth
that he died of apoplexy, and Coroner Yalhardt
accordingly gave a permit for burial. The in
quest on the body of the woman will be resum
ed to-day. Five small children, including the
infant born a fow days ago, aro thus made or
phans, and the only means in store for them is
a life insurance policy of $2,000, whioh Dand
ler took out some time ago. The case is very
strange in all its features, and ha3 caused quite
a sensation in the neighborhood.—H. T. Herald.
The Plots to Blow Up the Ecumenical
Council.—A Rome correspondent of the New
York "World says: An officer of the Zouaves,
who has just given me a notice of the exercises
which are to take place in the gardens of the
Villa Borghese, tells me that there was cortainly
discovered under the transept of St. Peter’s, on
the day before the opening of the Council, a
small mine, and that in consequence of this
discovery the number of. troops detailed for
service on the opening day was suddenly dou
bled by Geu. Kanzler. He also assures me that
a similar discovery was made only a day or two
ago under one of the pontifical barracks by one
of the engineers charged with ascertaining
whether the rains and the rising of the Tiber
had done any mischief to the foundation. Ha
made light enough of the matter, but I think
that you will agree with me that the persistency
with which the Italians pursue their purpose of
rendering Rome a disagreeable residence for
the Papal authorities is of no good augury for
the peaceful permanence of the temporal power.
The Bill to Abolish the Franking Privi
lege.—The following is an official copy of the
bill wbioh passed the House, on the 28th .ult.,
to abolish the franking privilege :
Be it enacted, etc., That all laws and parts of
laws giving the right to any officer or depart
ment of the Government, or other person, to
either send or receive, tbrought the United
States mails, free of charge, any letter, docu
ment, or other mailable matter, are hereby re
pealed. f
Seo. 2. And be it further enacted, Thst this
act shall take effect on and after the 1st day of
July, 1870. ‘ . ***' < 10 j -.-A:,
•-J • ■' *< -'-5^3 j Jfv.
Fisk & Hatch, the bankers, who retained in
comes of over $300,000 each, last year, were
clerks in banking houses at the commencement
oi the war. They contrived to save from their
salaries $5,000 apiece, and set np business aa
dealers in uncurrent money. Then they ob
tained the New York agency for the sale of
Governments and fortunes followed.
Ont in the lUiu.
BY SOBS DORA SHAW.
Oh, I loved him long and I loved him well
Nwv with hate I burn like a. fiend of holl, ’
And curse the day in his arms I fell,
; Not dreaming then of pain—
No; not dreaming then what the years would 1»
For my soul was white aa an ange'l’s wing,
Now, here I am wand’ring a love-lost thing
Out in the sobbing rain.
_ was no false city maid with eyes
Burned black with passion, looking lies
No, mine were as bine as the bluest skies
And spoke—ah 1 wondrous plain—
The innocent thoughts I’d gathering hold
Like spotless lambs in my bosom’s fold!
But the shepherd slept and the thief grew bold
Oh! sob, thou sobbing rain. ’
Aye, the thief grew bold! Now my peace is gon,
* God curst thing I keep wand’ring on. *
Nor heed the black Btorm as it breaks npon
’ t My weary, weary brain—
I but clasp my hands o’er an aching breast
And shriek out a prayer for the grave and rest
The winds laugh aloud down the dark’nin" west
At the sobs of tho sobbing rain.
Alas! for my home on tho distant moor;
Alas ! the dim eyes that watch by its door—
That watch for a pale face they’ll see never mot'
Heart, cease, oh, cease this pain! “
Alas, for thoflow’rs that bloom on the heath’
The froBt, like a lover, kisses to death,
Would I were a flow’r to fall ’ncath its breath
Oh l sob, thou sobbing rain. ’
I passed to-night by his castle old—
The one he bought when his heart he sold—
In his arms his young bride I saw him fold
Near by tho window pane; ’
But her white loco droop’d ’noath his glowin<*
Like a northern flow’r under tropic eky— ° •'■
A withering bud ’neathhia blasting sigh—
On! sob, thou sobbing rain.
Her round arms Were veiled in laces rare
While mine aro so thin, and blue, and bare
To the o’er keen knife of tho midnight air
My fingers ache with pain; ’
While hers with jewels aro e’en weighed down-
Jewels fit fo flash in an empress crown—
Of hunger I die, and in tears I drown,
Here in the sobbing rain.
Aye, his bride is she! and what, then, am I
That tho world with itB scorn shonld pass me by
With its jeering lip and its mocking eye? '
I loved, alas, in vain!
And yet though no saintly prayers were said.
No, nor bride’s veil hid my lovc-how’d head,
Yet a God looked down and wo were wed;
Aye, sob, thou sobbing rain!
See! The lightnings flash in tho low-hung sky
Like a bold, bad thought in a villain’s eyo!
What a night for death! Oh, that I could die
And so end all this pain;
My feet are so weary, my feet aro so sore;
Would they bear me, I wonder, as far as the ms
Would they lake me in that watch by its door,
Out of the sobbing rain!
What darkness is this that veileth mine eyes ?
Oh! its my tears—or tho mists to the skies—
But thee—my heart—and—my breath—how it ffis
And yet I feel no pain.
There! Starry lights gleam by that open door-
But ’tis not the one on tho distant moor—
And strange voices call me I ne’er heard before.
Out of Jbe sobbiDg rain.
Two Yards oi Earth.
Two yards of oartb, and a marble bust
Beared aloft from tho common dust,
And a hero’s sabro covered with rust;
And the sunset’s splendor streaming aronti jj
And a thousand glories under tho ground.
Two yards of earth and the potter’s field,
With the merciful angels along to shield
A murderer’s grave, a convict fled
Into the Future to meet the dead;
And the rank wild grasses scattered aronni
And crimes and curses under the ground.
Two yards of earth, and heaven’s air
Fanning the lilies, white and fair;
And modest violets gathered around.
And spotless virtue under tho ground.
Two yards of earth, and a woman’s name.
Whoso life was woe, and whose dealli was siiad
And the cold rain heating a naked mound,
And a thousand m ; series under tho ground.
Two yards of earth! Oh, who shall say
Whether of these is the better day I
God give us grace in onr hapless round
That leads to this kingdom under the grom!
\Fdgar L. Paxton, in Old andSee- k
An “’Obbid Country.”—Tho following <&*'
versation took place at Rutland, between two:/
Prince Arthur’s retainers and a citizen:
“Could wo get a glass of ale, now ?”
“No, an’ they don’t sell it ’ere.”
“Good Gawd! r.n’ donn’t they sell it inSi
York, either ?”
“Ho, yes, they sell it there.”
“An’ what do they charge, now ?”
“Ten cents a glass.”
“Good Gawd! an’ I could get a dinner:
Lnnnon for that!”
“Come, now,” said one, “an’ ’ow are s
’ousemaids ’ere ?”
“Beastly,they are so undewoloped, you 1
You musn’t tolerato them.” ■
“’Orrid country!”
A Graceful Act.—Wo are requested byo
Committee of Arrangements to make a pub!
acknowledgement in their behalf of a
friendly and graceful act. The delegations fro
Macon, Atlanta and Rome, who accompaniti
the Green Line excursionists to Savanni,
promptly reported themselves to the Conns-
tee, protested against being considered
guests, and insisted upon uniting with ties 'i
entertaining their Western friends. They
leged that they camo here, as Georgians,Jj
that pnrpose; and the request being grant:
they proved themselves most active and v£j
able assistants in the work of hospitality. ”
labors aro warmly appreciated by the Comtl
tee and citizens generally, and we'hope they rl
accept the sincere thanks of us all.
[ShrannuA Republican, lfi!
Working lien in New Yorli.
Tho complaint of hard times among the v
ing men is not confined to any particular c
of trade, but is heard on every hand. Ami
tho members of the building trade (says t
Star, the organ of tho Trades’ Unions,) the erf
plaint is particularly widespread. Comp"
tively few buildings aro now being erected,!
consequently carpenters, bricklayers, mar _
plasterers, laborers, plumbers, painters, ^
stairbuilders aro aliko suffering from stagnati"
The various institutions for tho relief of t
poor aro taxed to their utmost capacity to
ford relief for the thousands who are const: ~
applyingfor aid, while tho intelligence offices t
labor bureaus are daily overran with applies:
for situations. A general cutting down of Mj
by the cigar makers has been in progress:
several weeks past, and in many of the Bkjfl
which formerly employed from twenty to tirf-
hands, not more than one-half of this nn®W
now to be seen.
A queer commentary upon scarce labor isti
praotice of “striking,” some new instance <
which seems to be telegraphed every day.
business of all kinds stagnant, the volum* c
employment diminishing every day and plW
of food and clothing falling, strikes for High
abor prices appear to be ill-timed.
X Woman's Kiss.
A ballet dancer who turned the heads of
amorous gentlemen of the Russian capital £
winter, is a native of Cracow, and reputed to^
the illegitimate daughter of a Polish count. Si
received presents by the score from her adfflf
era, among whom was a very wealthy nobleE"
He made her acquaintance,- and was ch&"
with her. He offered her a diamond he'
upon his finger for a. kiss. She accepted, >
he gladly gave her the jewel, believing, F
haps, with Ovid:
“Who gains a kiss and gains no more,
Deserves to lose the bliss he got before.
His suit did not prosper, however, as h* 1
hoped. At the end of a month he presented b
with a second, and received a second salute, t
beyond that he did not go.
At the end of. the year he had parted’*
nearly all of his diamonds, and was as far i#
success as ever. Irritated by her stubborr"^
he sought an interview, and upbraided her 1 ]
her resistaneaittHi
“I have no more diamonds to give jot,
said.
“Then,” she replied, “I have no i ..
“What am I to do ? Your heart is »»*' j
ice. Give me some word of hope.”
■“I can’t do that, but I’ll give you s i
counsel.”
“What is it?”
“Never buy your first kiss of a worsen
you do, though you were the czar him*®"’ j
would be bankrupt before you reach**
heart.”
Pim.Aiiiig.Twra, January 29.—Aboatj’J
men, employed in the navy yard, rocaivf%
doe of diaeftfrge, to take effect Monday-
construction and steam engineering, “