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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. ■■ • — 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. rhwafk w»w-T«*( i 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. •' > ;■■■ - > 0 ■ \ .*?• 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, “