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Dear Little Elinor.
.. little Elinor, why will you
Jo pretty things and know yon do them?
cause, laughs she, the things I do
Hit- von moro mine, though yon see through
them.
little Elinor, now, it you
ically love me, why don’t you show it ?
aiise, laughs she, whatever I do
flskea you firmly convinced that you know it.
Tl»t hans °n memory’s wall,
r nneof a2im old forest,
& Tbat s'emeth the heat of all.
,. At , nr itfi marled oaks of olden,
^mritiitMhe mistletoe;
Sot tot the violets golden
^gSSSS3Slf m%
N TeaUew from the fragrant hedge,
CMuetting »II day.with the sunbeams,
(.toiling their golden edge;
Vot for the vines on the upland
3 lVhem the bright red berries rest,
\or the pinks, nor the pale, sweet cowslip,
It seemeth to me the best.
I once bad a little brother.
With eves that were dark and deep,
Id the lip of that dim old forest
He lieth in peace asleep.
Eight as tlia down of a thistle,
Free as the winds that blow,
IV,. roved there mid beautiful summers,
The summers of long ago—
But his feet on the hills grew weary,
And one of the autumn eves,
I made for my little brother
A bed of yellow leaves.
Sveetly his pale arms folded
JIv neck in a meek embrace.
As the light of immortal beauty
Silently coverod his face.
And when the arrows of sunset
Lodged in tho tite-tops bright,
H# feU, in his saint-like beauty,
Asleep by the gates of light
Therefore, of all the pictures,
That hang on memory’s wall,
That one of the dim old forest
Seemeth the best of all.
r little Elinor, say, have you
.keart, at all, for a faithful lover?
find oat that, laughs she, pursue
e all your life, and jou may discover.
[Harvard Advocate.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON,
new System of Telegraphing—Sontlicm
rpet Baggers—The Secretary of War
"Overseer of the Poor"—\o Negro
I rim this \Teeb.-9Ilseellaneons News—
Washington, Feb. 5,1870.
•or* Telegraph and Messenger :
The wires of tho National Telegraph Com
ay have reached this city from New York,
d the line will soon bo in operation. This
mpany has secured the exclusive right to use
entirely new system in the United States,
own as “The Automatic System,” which it is
cdicted will inaugurate a new era in tele-
pbing. It is claimed that by this system as
uch intelligence and bnsiness can be sent over
wire as can now be sent over ten or more
re* operated by the Morse system, and at a
ving of one half or more in the expense of
lerating the lines. This assertion is said to
ive been ocnlarly demonstrated on a telegraph
renit of over two thousand miles long. If
be fine, and we have little reason for
ibting these statements, a great step in ad-
nce has been made in telegraphing; and the
y for cheaper telegraphic facilities cannot be
distant. D. H. Craig, Esq., formerly Gene-
Agent of the New York Associated Press,
now connected with the National Telegraph
•mpany says:
have assisted attests of onr automatic
ichines, where they have been connected
th 2100 miles of wire, of which 1000 miles
through a heavy storm. The wire used
strong upon poles having numerous other
a in use bytheHor.se machines, and the
etd of the writing by the automatic machine
t tiro hundred word* per minute, with writ-
dear, uniform, black, and far moro accu-
1 and beautiful than could possibly be writ-
by any Morse operator, even at the slow
of fifteen words per minute, in a circuit of
miles.”
Other advantages aro claimed for tho Little
stem, which it is unnecessary to enumerate.
wiU soon be put to a practical business test,
A in the interest of cheap tolegraphic eom-
uucation, every one must desire its complete
It is intended to push tho lines of tho
ihonal Telegraph Company through to the
incipal cities of tho South without delay.
I have yet to meet in Congress a decent car
t-bagger. Those I have met, without excep-
D > are a gross libel on the people they profess
represent They put on more airs than the
ptimate Senators and Representatives; they
^ more eorrnpt, more bitter in their denun-
hons of the Southern people; and nre al
ls to be found on the side of the extremists
*njt comes to a vote. Shrewd, these men
7 he, in a business sense; keen on the scent
possible dollar; bnt politically they are
• Do they think there is no political here-
r. Do they imagine they have a perpetual
w °f political power? One would think so.
solhing esn be more certain than that with
completion of this reconstruction business,
she restoration of the Southern States to
1 nion, these carpet-bag Senators and Rep-
Istives will find the door of political prefer-
nt closed with a bang in their faces. Per-
4 it Ls a knowledge of this which make these
•so insolent and so aggressive now. Bnt
mnch more it would have been to their ad-
l«Ke had they acted a conciliatory and states-
®Mke part, at a time when such conduct
U have been appreciated. They have had
game in their own hands and have thrown
*ay. This will cause no regrets even with
people they have so cruelly misrepresented,
’opgress has passed a bill appropriating
,000 for the poor of the District of Columbia,
making tho Secretary of War “ overseer of
nnnp on tt.u t>?
P?° T - This defeats the City Hall Ring,
• 1 t<» have handled the money, and
•ild have used it for political purposes.
•his is tho first week for some time that we
£ not had one or more negro murders: the
*>_es are on their good behavior, evidently.
: 18 nntlerstood the Southern Senators are
the appointment of Thomas J. Durant,
bonisiana, for tho vacancy on the Supreme
®*h caused by the rejection of Hoar. The
’•onri delegation is unanimous in recom-
: !'• nator Drake.
nnn of booksellers and stationers of this
.1-> nled Prince Arthur with an elegant
J'olio, bound with red Russia-leather, lined
o white silk, and containing large photo-
*»of all the public buildings. It was in-
as follows: “Greeting: His Royal
wiess. Prince Arthur, on Ids Visit to the
Walof the UnitedStAtes—January 2C, 1870.”
, L® } a l .° be a new deal with regard to mili-
vs t' rs in the Southern States. It is to be
*0 the Knaves will be discarded.
°hn A. Willis, of this city, a lawyer, a close
*ot, and not a politician, is prominently
of for a seat on the United States Su-
!£* Bench.
Terry will return to Georgia, when he
oneluded his business here. Georgia can
ihu set very well without him.
Jhi-t ° n9e V e . ste rday directed the Committee
■ t” 1 , y Affairs to inquire whether any mem-
the v ee ? s °Uing cadetships at West Point or
dm^ aVal Academy. If the Committee does
h, ul y> w °n t the carpet-baggers catch it?
the
d
« coin balance in the Treasury is $103,000,-
^bich is represented by
^runcates. The currency balance is elev-
•aillions.
bat two millions of bonds will be
month for the sinking fond,
•amount of unregistered coupons paid at
^5^3 f 549 7 JuIy 110 Dec ® mbe v 3 l»_1869 }
Dalton.
Planting Prospects in Qnitman
Camp Hnnt in Early Connty.
Quitman Co., Ga., February 1, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger .'—Enclosed
I send yon a few dots relative to the prospects
of the planters of this portion of Southwestern
Georgia for the present year, together with
some of the many incidents of a camp hunt in
Early connty in December last
If we may be allowed to guess at the cotton
crop for 1870 in this section, and base our cal
culation upon the labor now employed and or
ganized, we will be forced to place a very low
estimate upon the number of bales. I know of
but three planters in this whole community who
have as many hands as they want, and some
have none at all. Tho great scarcity of hands,
doubtless, is owing, in some degree, to the hold
ing back of many who expect to engage in work
on the proposed railroad from Eufaula west
ward towards Vicksburg. The present prospect
is, that much of the fertile Chattachoochee
lands will lie out this year. Heavy demand for
commercial fertilizers by planters.
On the evening of the 14th of December, a
small party from Quitman and Clay counties
packed up blankets, quilts, cooking utensils,
edibles, guns, ammunition, hounds, eto., for an
old-fashioned “camp hunt.” We had powder
horns, blowing horns, tin horns, rye horns, and
tho horn of plenty. Thus packed up for an
early start next morning, late at night we re
tired to sleep, to dream of the pleasures of the
coming hnnt We were aroused next morning
by tho roar of heaven’s artillery, and, to our
sorrow and chagrin, soon the rain began to fall,
gently at first, but soon the whole canopy of
heaven seemed to vent a perfect flood of tears
but, determined not to be foiled in our trip, the
whole party were soon rigged and ready for tho
word “Forward!” which was soon uttered by
Capt. C., who, by tacit consent, acted as our
commancjgr. ,So off we trotted through tho
mud and falling billows. Two hours travel
brought us to the pleasant town of Fort Gaines,
thoroughly drenched to the skin and smartly
chilled, and in order to restore our equilibrium,
we added a few more horns to our already
heavy stock. After sounding the depth of mud
and water in the streets, and taking aboard a
few bivalves, we again took up the line of
march, at the rate of “one-twenty on a mud
shell,” the rain still falling thick and fast. An
other day’s travel brought us to the house of
our friend Lewis Gay, than whom a more clever
gentleman is unknown to ns in Early county.
Being now near our hunting grounds, we halted
and unpacked. Upon learning the object of
our debut, our friend Gay and Dr. M. entered
heartily into our hunt, and took the leadership.
Tho first day’s hunt was interspersed with many
laughable incidents. One of our party (who,
from his corpulence, we called Fatty) rode a
small, lazy mule, with an old-time saddle, the
skirts of which reached nearly to the mole’s ears,
and answered the double purpose of skirts and
blinds, his stirrups were rickety and one longer
than the other. Standing in an old field in wait
for a deer, near the writer, we soon heard the
hounds coming in full chase. Entering the old
field, the deer was likely to flank Fatty who
spurred his mule, kicked and bawled to urge
him on, bnt ’twas no go. Finally he kicked off
the short stump and down came Fatty with one
foot passed through the long stirrup dragging
mnley after him, which, with the music of
hounds, the sight of deer, and the reports of
several double barrels was a novel and laugha
ble scene.
The next day brought another outpouring of
rain, which materially lessened our sport. Dur
ing tho stampede for shelter one of onr party,
whose legs set so digging on his mnlo, he could
neither kick nor spur him without missing his
side and striking his upper flank, which kept
mule braying and kicking, much to tho amuse
ment of the party. After night the winds be
gan to blow with a vim from Jerkins’ corner.
The next morning was murky and cold, with oc
casional flakes of snow, and disagreeably cold.
Notwithstanding the weather we took an early
start, soon got a race but no venison. Onr per-
sons being very cold we dismounted, built a fire
to warm and wait for the dogs; while warming
we began to discuss tho failures of duty, bad
management, shooting, and other incidents.
Mac, a faithful freedman of onr party, who had
pulled off his boots to warm his feet, exclaimed:
Who's burning ?” Upon examination, it was
discovered that Mac’s sock was entirely scorched
off, and his foot baked as brown as a nut in au
tumn.
I cannot close without telling of my own mis
hap. Riding alone through the edge of a pond,
I sndddenly roused up a doer. My horse being
unruly under fire, I soon found myself astraddle
of a log instead of my horse, who wouldnot givo
me time to select my place on tho log. Wo
killed some fine venison, and though our suc
cess was not so good as we anticipated, onr sport
and recreation Were magnificent. Our whole
party was sadly surprised to find so many of
those fine Spring and Dry Creek plantations ly.
ing waste, growing up in straw and briers for
the want of labor. We saw some of the cele
brated Taylor plantations, containing thousands
of acres of open and very rich lands, over
grown with weeds and briers. Labor is very
scarce there. Yours, eta,
One of the Partt.
Tiie President and the Esquimaux.
Capt. Hall, the Arctic explorer, accompanied
by E-bier-bing, his wife. Tuk-oo-li-to, and their
daughter, Pun-ny, the Esquimaux family, call
ed at the Executive Mansion, and the President
received them in his private office. They were
there nearly half an honr, during which time
he conversed with the party and expressed his
great pleasure in meeting such intelligent rep
resentatives of their race. Capt. Hall remarked
that they were the first Esquimaux that had
ever visited Washington, while, perhaps, rep
resentatives of every other nation and race had
been weloomed at the Executive Mansion. The
President handed his autograph to the little
girl, for which she returned ner thanks. The
visitors were subsequently escorted through the
mansion and the conservatory, and expressed
themselves as highly delighted with the courte
sies extended, especially the interview with the
President. These representatives of the Arctio
region are from the vicinity of Cumberland
Sound.
New Method of Adjudicating Contested
Election Cases in the House.—The Commit
tee on Elections, by a vote of seven to four,
has agreed to report a bill providing for a new
method of adjudicating and settling contested
election cases. Each case is to be examined
and decided by a separate committee or jury
oomposed of members of the House. Seven
teen names aro to be placed in a hat and drawn
therefrom by a blindfolded boy. The contest
ants are to have the right to object to any
name, the same as a criminal in the selection
of a jury, but the drawing is to be continued
until a number not less than nine are chosen.
The object is to free, as much as possible, from
partisan influences, the examination and deci
sion of contested election cases.
THE DEAD SECRETARY.
lion. Jere S. Bluett Wings tlie Soaring At
torney General. .
A LETTER TO THE HON. EBENEZEB. *
Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.]
Washington, January 30. •
The following letter has been addressed by
Hon. Jere S. Black to Attorney General Hoar:
Washington, January 18, 1869.
Sm: I was not present in court yesterday to
hear your remarks on Mr. Stanton, but to-day
I was shown a newspaper report of them, which
I presume to be perfectly accurate. The fol
lowing paragraph has struck mo with surprise:
“But it is not of the lawyer, eminent as he
ij-as in the science and practice of tho law, that
men chiefly think as they remember him. His
service to mankind was on a higher and wider
field. He was appointed Attorney General by
Mr. Buchanan, on the 20th of December, 18C0,
in one of the darkest hours of tho country’s
history, when the Union seemed crumbling to
pieces, without an arm raised for its support,
when ‘without the public counsels was doubt
ing, and within were fears;’ when feebleness
and treachery were nniting to yield whatever
defiant rebellion might demand, and good men
everywhere were ready to despair of the Re
public. For ten weeks of that winter of na
tional agony and shame, with patriotism that
never wavered and courage that never quailed,
this true American, happily not alone, stood
manfully at, his post, between the living and
tho dead, gave what nerve he conld to timid
and trembling imbecility, and met tho secret
plotters of their country’s ruin with an un
daunted front, until before that resolute pres
ence the demons of treason an% civil discord
appeared in tb6ir own shape, as at the touch of
Ithuriel’s spear, and fled, baffled and howling,
away.”
This statement was carefully and deliberately
written down before you delivered it You
spoke for the American bar as its organ and of
ficial head, and you addressed the highest tri
bunal in the world, knowing that your words
were to go upon its records and there remain
forever. I take it for granted, under these cir
cumstances, that no earthly consideration could
mako you deflect a hair’s-breadth from the facts
as you understand and believe them. The in
evitable conclusion is that yon must have in
your possession, or within your reach, some ev
idence which convinces you that what you said
is the truth, and nothing but the truth. I am
sure you will excuse mo for asking you to say
what that evidence is. The paper I have tran
scribed from your address sounds like the au
thoritative summary of a historian, as be closes
the most interesting chapter of his book. You
can hardly Consider the curiosity impertinent
that prompts an American citizen to inquire
what your judgment is founded upon. Besides
I have some friends whose reputations are
deeply involved in the affairs you pronounce
npon with so mnch confidence. Moreover I have
a personal concern in your remarks; for I was
one of Mr. Stanton’s colleagues, and am as lia
ble as any of them to be taken on your state
ment for one of the “ secret plotters of their
country’s ruin.” Be pleased, therefore, to give
me the information I seek.
Do you find on the records of your office any
thing which shows that Mr. Stanton was in vio
lent or dangerous conflict with “demons of trea
son and civil discord," or any other description
of demons ? Did Mr. Stanton himself ever lay
claim to the heroic character yon ascribe to
him, or declare that he had performed those
prodigious feats of courage whilo he was in Mr.
Buchanan's Cabinet ? Has any other person
who was in a condition to know tho facts ever
given yon that version of them which you re
peated to the court ? If yes, who are the wit
nesses ? What particular danger was he ex
posed to which tested his valor and made his
“undaunted front” a thing so wonderful in the
description of it? Whoso “feebleness and
treachery” was it that “united to yield whatever
defiant rebellion might demand.” And how did
Mr. Stanton’s courage dissolve the combination
or defeat its purpose ?
You say that for ten weeks “he stood man
fully at his post, between the living and the
dead.” Now, when the first law officer of the
United States addresses tho Supreme Court on
a special occasion, and after elaborate prepara
tion, he is presumed to mean something by
what he says. How is this to be understood ?
You certainly did not intend to assert merely
that he stuck to bis commission as long as he
could, and gave it up only when he could not
help it! Standing manfully at a post of any
kind, and especially when the stand is made
“between the living and the dead,'' has doubt
less a deep significance, if one could but man
age to find out what it is. Who were the dead,
and who were the living ? And how did it hap
pen that Mr. Stanton got between them ? What
business had ho between them, and why did he
stay there for ten weeks ? These questions you
can easily answer, and tho answer is needed;
for in the meantime the conjectural interpreta
tions are very various, and somo of them inju
rious to tho dead and living aforesaid, as well
as to Mr. Stanton, who, according to your rep
resentation, stood between them.
I can comprehend the well-worn simile of
Ithuriel’s spear; but I do not see what on earth
w&3 tho use of it, unless you thought it orna
mental and original, for you make Mr. Stanton
by his mere presence, and without a spear, do
what Ithuriel himself could not do with tha nid
of that powerful instrument The angel with the
spear compelled a demon to lay aside his dis
guise, while a mortal man dealt with many de
mons and not only made them all appear in
their proper shape, but drove them “baffled and
howling away” out of his “resolute presence.”
I do not object to this because tho figures are
mixed or because it is an extravagant outrage
on good taste ; the custom of the times allows
men who make eulogies on their political friends
to tear their rhetoric into rags; and if you like
the tatters you are welcome to flaunt them. Bat
I call your attention to it in the hope that you
will talk like a man of this world, and give us
in plain, or at least intelligible prose a particu
lar account of the very important transactions
to which you refer, togother with the attendant
circumstances. I suppose you have no thought
of being token literally; your description of
Mr. Stanton conjuring demons is only a meta
phorical way you have of saying that he fright
ened certain bad men. I beg you tell mo who
they were and how he scared them.
I repeat, that yon are not charged, end, in
my opinion, conld not be justly charged, with
the great sin of fabricating statements like
these. You have, no donbt, seen or heard what
you regard a3 sufficient proof of them. What
I fear is, that yon have been misled by the false
accounts which partisan writers have invented,
not to honor Mr. Stanton, but to slander others.
If yon had known the trnth concerning his
conduct while Attorney General, and t*ld it
simply, you might have done great honor to his
memory. He was at that time a regular-built,
old-fashioned Democratic Union saver. He be
lieved in the Constitution as the fundamental
law of the land, as the bulwark of the pnblio
liberty, and as the only bond by which the
States could be rightfully held together. He
regarded liis official oath as a solemn covenant
with God and his country, never to be violated
under any circumstances; and he had a right
wholesome contempt for that corrupt code of
morality which teaches that oaths are not bind
ing npon the rulers of a free country where
they find it inconsistent with their interest to
tioe to all parties, and especially to the subject
of your well-meant, but unfortunate eulogy, re
quires somo amends, to be made. It will bo
for yon to say whether yon’will, or will not,
ask the court for leave to witidraw that part of
your speech from the record. ;
Very respectfully 'ours,
. , J. S. Black-
To Hon. E. R. Hoar, Attorfey General.
Swetlenboig. ,
In one of his lectures, J. W Fletcher says of
Swedenborg: (
Ho arose at a time when soue manifestation
of God was needed by the word—an age of cor
rupt morals and stagnant faih—an age when
the life had exhaled from the lurches, and the
dry bones rattled, and the glxstly eye-sockets
glared unmeaningly upon the nysteries of Time.
He came prefigured by no porent, heralded by
no convulsions. He did not dsh into the the
ological atmosphere like a blzing comet, at
tracting all eyes by the Strangeness of its ad
vent and the lustre of its fire. Ho rose like a
star, moved steadily in his appanted Orbit, and
melted off into the light of haven. • From his
earliest youth he did diligentb and conscien
tiously that which was set befofi him. He per
fected himself in all human cience, and ac-
quainted himself with all the terestial develop,
monts of Deity. His writing! are a library
in themselves, and display-ttil most careful
method and the most indomitable Energy. He
was eminently conservative; he quarrelled
with no church; he set himself in opposition
with no organized body. He did not stand
apart in all the loneliness of prophetic fury,
and denounce vengeance on degenerate man.
He was too catholic to found a soetj he spoke
the truth intrusted to him, and left it to per
meate the lives and opinions of succeeding
ages. His charity was broad os the ocean
which rolls its waves on every store, wide as
the firmament which foldeth al’ the orbs of
heaven within its ample boson. The most
magnificent scholar of the jigs, he was at the
same time the humblest Christian. Favored by
kings, intimate with nobles an! statesmen, and
the learned of every land, he vas without one
particle of vanity, and labond as assiduously
and devotedly as the humbled; parish priest.
And as he was never exalted ibove measure, so
he was never crushed by the terrors and the
glories—dark visions, such is Dante never
dreamed—celestial pictures, pore magnificent
than ever visited the immortal Milton.
Through the trackless paths of time, and
tho tremendous solitudes of elbmity, he pursued
his way with a courage that lever quailed, and
a wing that never tired, Hisjirain never reeled
as the nations of the damnedrose, rank on rank,
in all the ghastly splendor ot unfading fire; his
eye never blenched as the lfflg line of sapphire
palaces flashed back upon bis vision the unut
terable glories of Deity, lie was, of all men I
have met with, the calmest/wisest, deepest. He
was a profound scholar, a true Christian, a loyal
subject, a magnificent pool, an unrivaled phil
osopher, and a little child He has dissolved
the darkness that broodedtvertho Book of Life,
and from the tangled veb-work of sectarian
speculation he has given as again tho Word of
God. Swept by his fingea, the cathedral oigan
of the universe, so long 'silent, has again sent
forth a symphony, the reverberations of which
are ringing yet in floating notes, and dying
falls along the hills of time. He has touched
with his magician’s wandtho dark waters of death
and they sparkle with thcscintillations of immor
tality. He has flung a bridge across the baseless,
boundless chaBm which separated the present
from the to come, and brought us to an innn-
merable company of ingels, to the chnrch of
the first born, to spirits of the just made per
fect, and to our Redsemer, Father, God. He
has elevated woman to her true position, and
set once and forever the * perfect musio unto
noble words.’ He has built up the desecrated
temple of marriige, relit heaven’s fire upon its
sacred shrine, and round about the porch en
graved the sign and seal of heaven.
Wider than Wesley, deeper than Whitfield,
truer than Luther, he is the last great captain
of the church militant; and &s the army with
their blood-flecked banners and their dinted
armor defile across the bridge of death, and
range themselves, rank on rank, for tho grand
review by the Lord of Hosts;—among the fore
most, with peaco within lis eye, and on his
brow the morning star, mail stand the calm,
the cloudless, the unconquerable spirit of
Emanuel Swedenborg.
•- .1 FRIED -FRENCHMAN.
A Dinner with tho King or the Cnnuibal
Islands.
Twain in the Bujfalo Express.]
“Now, as regards those missionaries,” con
tinued the King, reflectively, scratching his
head with the fork which I had presented
country was-ordered. Many sympathizing
relatives and friends followed the palanqtun
ani did what they could to alleviate the suf
ferings of their unhappy sovereign.
It turned out afterward that the sweetheart
of the hrenchman had.made a surreptitious
j exchange of marketing in the Bang’s kitchen
^od nd d W S Iie 5 ad t e f dyle ? rnedt0 . u f
&>£OQQ deal, though not alwavs in a Rfnntlv Krwmlit » t at_ r> _ i. •
a good deal, though not always in a strictly
legitiinate way, “as regards those missionaries,
I will say . that their landing here was unex
pected, but I hastened to give them every
protection. And I gave them full privilege
to teach. They were the first whites that
some of my people had seen, and of course
bought the King’s brother from a wandering
tribe that belonged in tho great wilderness at
the other end of the island. She bought him
purposely to make that exchange, though of
course she did not know who he was. The
girl and the Frenchman escaped from the
island - —-- M '
to cyrimcnt unoa them! IcouH M re,-i w&T HS® taSf®
sonably _deny them this little gratification, \ Frenchman. W
t-hough I counselled them to practice as little
cruelty upon the strangers as was compatible
with a fair desire for information and the ne
cessity for _ wholesome amusement Theyre-
Weekly Resume of Foreign Affairs.
M1EPAKED FOE THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
moved Johnson’s ears, and that was a thirnr Gre ^ t Britain.—The first assembly for en-
I regretted seriously, until it was explainedto c ?
The Negro Vanishing.
Since the Tribune ias said we could better
spare Africa than Dr Livingstone, tho value of
tho African is likolyto bo fixed at a just esti
mate. Colonel Bloaton Dnucan, in a recent
speech in Kentucky, showed that tho negroes
of that Stato were last diminishing in numbers,
and now wo leam from the Auditor’s report
that the blacks of Kentucky who, in I860, num
bered 236,107, now number 140,455, a falling
off of nearly one-lalf in nine years, or an ac
tual loss of noariy 100,000. At this rate, the
last Kentucky nqgro will soon be reached. The
white population of Kentucky in 1860 was
920,000, and as they so largely overshadow the
blacks, there is no need of their showing
so much fear that the blacks, having the
suffrage, will override the whites. The ne
gro vote cannot exceed 25,000, and if that vote
went to tha Republican party in Kentucky, it
would still leave the Democratic party a gigan
tic majority. The nejroes have their first vote
in that Stato at the iugast election, provided
tho Fifteenth Amendnentis adopted before that
time, and the fact thlt they thus vote, will call
out a full opposition vote. The Louisville Jour
nal, disenssing this question, says there is a
chance that tho Radicals and the negroes will
elect the next Congressman from that district,
and it prefers a “kind hearted negro” for Con
gress “to many of the white Radicals it could
couraging emigration to Canada and other colo-
moThara^roaTchief’slittlcTsick'cldfd'de^cd I* Housei theLord
them to play with—and if you could have seen ^don presiding.
name.”—If. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Western 1’iess Telegrams.
I New Yobk, February 5.
AN INDISOmilNATE BATTLE.
Two scoundrels, assisted by a couplo of hun
dred thieves and mardorera, mashed each other
for an honr and a half, near the PaliMhJes, yes
terday. Dempsey, tho favorite with betting
men, was badly beaten, ant whon the referee,
Jerry Mulligan, announce^ the result of the
fight, the mob drew knivesand pistols, and be
gan an indiscriminate battle among themselves.'
Several men were badly woinded, and the whole
party returned to the metropolis breathing mu
tual vengeance toward each other. i
GBEAT RAID ON WALL STREET. i
Assessor Webster’s great raid on Wall street
street formally closed yesterday, in Judge Pier-
pout’s office. On Thursday nioming a commu
nication, containing an order of distribution of
the amount recovered from the brokers, was
received from Washington. The. order gives
the Assessor §24,000 as his moiety. Tho Assis
tant Assessor, and the various officers i of the
courts, are to receive small sums as fees for
prosecuting the respective oases. About $70,-
000 have been paid by the defendants in court.
BEARDING THE LION IN HIS DEN. '
Webster will begin war upon August Belmont
and the foreign bankers next week. This class
have not paid any tax whatever on their capital
in active use, although it is known that they
transact business amounting in the aggregate to
tneynnaKinconsisrem mast interest to hundreds of millions of dollars in a yfar. Tho
keep them. He nmforimy behaved with “mod- legal nanen and returns necessarvto institritn
est stillness and humility,” except when his
opinion was asked, and then he spoke with be
coming deference to others. From that part of
his life at least you might, by telling it, truly
have derived a “lofty lesson” indeed. But this
quiet, unpretending, high-principled Demo
cratic gentleman is converted by your maladroit
oratory into a hectoring bnlly of the abolition
school, rampaging through the White House
and around the Department, trying to frighten
people with big looks;
I beseech you to re-examine your authorities.
If you still think them sufficient to sustain you, I
cannot doubt your willingness to communicate
them for the scrutiny of others who are inter
ested. If, on the contrary, you shall be satis
fied you have made a great mistake, then, jus-
legal papers and retains necessary to institute
proceedings against these bankers are in pre
paration, and are to be filed next week.
Washington Cot, February 5th.
GRANT STILL OBSTINATE.
President Grant is decicedly opposed to ap
pointing a man from the Southern Circuit on
the Supreme Bench. Ail effort is being made
to secure the appointment of James F. Wilson,
of Iowa, to whom the President offered several
places in'his Cabinet;
THE MISSISSIPPI LEVIES.
The Senate Committee on Commerce met to
day, and considered among other things, the
levees of the Mississippi, and .finally determined
and referred the matter to a sub-committee con
sisting of Messrs. Buckingham and Kellogg.-
**»(* e/ej ,-asj m'isoTj
iioW much more contented and restful the
poor young thing was after it acquired them
you would have felt how blessed a thing it is
to be able to contribute to the happiness of
even a little child.”
. “It was the impulse of a generous heart—
it was a spirit of liberality as rare as it is
beautiful. And how did Johnson like it ?”
“Oh, Johnson said it was the will of God.
It was like Johnson to say that. But the
missionaries were right well treated on tho
whole. Tho natives tried various interesting
experiments upon them, such as scorching
them, and scalping them, and all that sort o
thing, and I killed one of them myself; not
m malice, but because I had a curious caprice
to see how he would go with onions. He was
a failure. . Old and tough. Underdone, my
tcahine said—a shade too venerable, I said.
Give me pungency and tenderness for a com
bination. Onions and infancy is my idea of
comfort. You people don’t know how to
cook. N<l as I was saying, the Kanakas ex
perimented a good deal on the missionaries in
the interest of science, and the experiments
were generally fatal, though I urged them not
to waste the missionaries, for we could not
know when we would have another lot. But
among those that survived was Williams, and
it was he that wrote home those damaging re
ports to your country, in which he spoke of the
treatment of his brethren in a peevish, fault
finding spirit, ill-becoming his sacred calling.
I suppose your people believed every word of
it, and just jumped to the conclusion that we
were a base, inhospitable race. Never ex
plained about Johnson’s ears, perhaps?—
never told why I killed that other fellow?—
confound me, it does seem to me that some
people take pleasure in misrepresenting things,
and bringing obloquy npon their fellow crea
tures. Sometimes I feel as if I had rather be
dead and at rest. The world seems so shame
less in its judgments, and one’s, life is so em
bittered by the malicious criticisms of those
whose hearts are not in sympathy with him.”
“It teas pitiful in that Williams after all
you had done for his party.”
“I should say so! But never mind, let’s
be cheerful, any way. How are you making
out? Let me help you to a fried plantain.
Take some more of the pup? No! Try
some of the human being ? By George, this
fellow is done to a charm. You’ll like him.
He was a Frenchman—splendid chap—young,
and hale, and hearty—beautiful to look upon.
Do you prefer white meat or dark? Let me
help you to some of the breast? Ah, me, I
have known this youngster for thirteen years—
fished with him, swam with him, sailed with
him, gave a couple of my sisters and four
aunts to him. I loved him. He was always
good. He is good now.”
Taking up a fragment of his late brother-
in-law, the King took a bite, and then gazed
long and pensively upon the remainder, till
by-and-b^ the muscles of his mouth began to
twitch with emotion, and presently two or
three great tears swelled from his eyes and
coursed down his cheeks. Then, in a choking
voice, he murmured:
“Alas, they have fried him f”
I laid down the breast-bone of deceased, and
burst into tears also. Such is the sympathetic
power of grief. It was nothing whether they
fried him or boiled him; it was nothing to me
how this poor foreigner was cooked; I was
only eating him out of vain curiosity, and not
because I loved him,, not because 1 respected
him, not because I wished to curry favor with
his relatives. Yet I wept
“They have fried him!” said the King.
“Alas, poor Gaultier. However, let us cheer
up; let us be content. ,-rBut I will have my
cook for breakfast, and I will fiy him, and see
how he likes it. There is nothing like a sharp
example to teach a man, my friend. But
don’t bo idle, sir; take some moro of thefried
Frenchman, I ought to be ashamed to offer
you such a dish, but you see how I am situ
ated. He ought to have been baked—this
follow ought. We always bake a Frenchman;
we never think of firing him. But I wish
you had known this fellow—so kind, so gentle,
so loving; and you see yourself how tender lie
is. But that Williams business; I wish you
would straighten that up for me when you go
back to America. If your people could omy
know the facts in the case, they would not
blame me. It is a little hard, after I have
spent aU these years in building up a good
name, to have it all knocked in the head by
this shabby adventurer; Now, what he called
a ‘hideous revel,’ and a ‘feast of devils,’ and
all sorts of vile and wicked names, was nothing
in the world, I give you my sacred honor, but
a timple barbecue—seventeen old crippled na
tives, no account Under the sun, just an ex
pense to the community, and T fricassed them
to give a little treat to some visiting town chicfo
(aldermen you call them in your country) who
were here for a day or two from the Fejee
Is£nd. Tp&st of devils,’ indeed—made of
dried and skinny old rapscallions that the
island is a thousand times better off without,
and I am sure it was honorable in us to be
hospitable to those strangers. Though be
tween you and me it was an awful swindle on
them—though, oh, don’t mention it!
suffering among those .chiefs, you never'saw
the like of it in your life 1 Now, Twain, you
see how much truth there was iu Williams’s
statements—all that row about nothing. You
can Eet this thing right in your country—you
can do it easy—simply just explain the facts,
and anything I can do for you I’ll do it—you
can depend on me. Send me a copy of your
weekly. I can’t read it, but a little literature
can’t hurt a man anyhow. Caesar’s ghost!”
“Oh, heaven! what is the matter, your
gracious majesty ?” *
“Oh, misery 1 oh, murder! oh, despera
tion!”
Oh, toTiat is it, your imperial majesty! I
beseech you?”
He had sprung to his feet, and his fixed eyes
were staring wildly at the fried meat before
him.
“Oh, my brain reels ? This hair a French
man’s hair? There must be some mistake!
A horrid suspicion burst upon me 1 Ah what
is this I see ?—this thing—this accusing mark I
A strawberry op the left arm!—\t is, it is my
long lost brother!”
Alas, it wag even so. It was his long lost
brother—what was left of him. < Poor fellow,
he was only fit to be shoveled into a basket
and given to the pow, now.
cholera morbus and indigestion and general Authentic reports regarding the provincial
suffering among those Chiefs, von nolersaw S 1 ® 041 ?? 8 not ? et rea< : bed Madnd * To judge
A new submarine cable is to be laid between
Panama and Payta, in Peru, along the Pacific
coast of South America.
The Times, commenting on tho purchase of
Domingo, argues that the United States Gov
ernment has finally adopted a policy of annexa
tion. The people of England, the writer con
tinues, though not at all interested in it, are
justly surprised at this annexation, adding still
more classes of negroes to those which are al
ready giving so much trouble to the “Great Re
public.”
The Alabama negotiations, according to the
Pall Mall Gazette, are suspended.
The suit of Jecker, of Mexican memory,
against the English “credit foncier,” is pend
ing before the Chancery Court. The suit was
instituted to recover half a million of pounds
sterling, which the defendants had promised to
advance the Mexican Mining Company. Jecker
is a wealthy French banker, whose financial
complications with the Mexican Government
led to the Mexican expedition.
France.—The debates concerning the Franco-
English commercial treaty in the Corps Legis
late have resulted in favor of its prolongation.
For some time past already the protectionists,
mostly residing in the north of France, had or
ganized mass demonstrations in the great manu
facturing cities, with a view of inducing the
government to give England timely notice that
the treaty which expired on February 4th would
be discontinued. At the same time, the free
traders in the South of France, where the wine
growers have been greatly benefitted by the
treaty, declared energetically in favor of its re-
newal. But the government, strictly adhering
to the new political programme, declined to in
terfere in any way, thus leaving the decision
with the legislative power of tho country.
Emile Ollivier, the Premier, is leaning towards
the Protectionists; but as this question threat
ened to break up tho new Cabinet, Emile Olli-
vier, sacrificing his personal opinions, in an im
portant speech, defended the principles of free
trade, which modem political economy has
pointed out to be the only course to develop all
the natural resources of a country. Only thir
ty-two deputies voted against the treaty, though
Schneider, President of the Corps Legislatif, de
nounced the English, who, as he asserted, had
instigated the strike of La Grenzot.
It is true many branches have suffered from
the treaty, but others have been greatly bene
fitted, and npon the whole, the commerce of
France has received a wonderful impulse since
the date of commercial liberty with England.
In the Chambers the opinion is therefore pre
vailing that laws, checking the import of En
glish goods, will not conjure the stagnation now
weighing upon French industry. France could
very well compete with her rivals did not the
enormous budget for the standing army consume
her strength. The repeal of the treaty, proba
bly, would have rendered the situation still
worse, if England retaliating, had levied again
a high duty upon French silks and wines and tho
so-called Parisian fancy good3. On tho other
hand tho majority of the country think also that
liberty at home necessitates liberty abroad to
remove all obstacles obstructing the free inter
course of nations.
Tho organization of tho new company for
piercing the Isthmus of Darien has been com
pleted. Four Frenoh and many American bank
ers are heading the enterprise. The company
will start the work at onco after having received
the report of the American Commission which is
examining the locality now.
North German Confederation.—Tho Prus
sian Minister of Trade having consulted the
Chambers of Commerce as to the plan of an
annual international exhibition in London, the
merchants of Berlin have pronounced against
it. They object to the proposed division of the
space and other details of the scheme. If an
nual exhibitions are to be held, they urge as a
proper place a neutral and more central capital,
as Brussels for instance, which can be reached
both from France and Germany with less incon
venience and expense. Tho committee of man
agement, too, must bear an international char
acter. Tho exhibition, according to the present
plan, would be essentially English, with an in
considerable appendix of foreign goods.
The commission of North German lawyers
who had been appointed to prepare the draught
of a new criminal code for tho Confederation
under the presidency of the Minister of Justice
concluded their labors. A copy of the revised
draught was forwarded to the Chancellor of the
Confederation. The penalty of death has been
retained.
The endeavors of the Duke of Coburg-Gotha
to unite the two States under his role have fre
quently been frustrated by the petty jealousy of
their inhabitants. Though the whole population
of both Duchies scarcely exceeds 180,000 souls,
they have had till lately separate ministries
and a separate administration. The govern
ment has now resolved to put a stop to this
most absurd state of things. The ministry of
Coburg has consequently been abolished, and
the administration of the Duchy committed to
the charge of Mr. Schwendler, the minister of
Gotha.
Spain.—An exciting scene took place between
Senor Figueras, one of the Republican leaders,
and General Prim, in the Spanish Cortes. The
former justified the late Republican rising, by
asserting that it had been but a well-directed act
of the people to defend its rights violated by the
Government; and he added, emphatically, that
the so-oalled insurgents, killed by the troops,
had been brutally murdered. “When General
Prim, rising, demanded a retraction of this in
sulting declaration, Figueras refused it. The
affair, probably, will be settled by a duel.
Authentic reports regarding the provincial
from the little we know, the Government seems
to have secured a decided majority in the Cor
tes.
Tbe Duke of Montpensier, who had been
nominated a candidate for the city of Oviedo,
was defeated.
The Spanish consulates in Mobile, Galveston,
Charleston, and Sydney, as well as the vice-con
sulates in Savannah and the City of Mexico
have been abolished.
Italr.—The deliberations of the Roman
Council are progressing very slowly. There
were rnmore announcing the death of Pius IX,
circulating in Rome, which, however, proved
to be unfounded; but he had another epileptic
fit, to which, from time to time, he is subject.
The same uncertainty about the dogma of in
fallibility still prevails. While many correspond
ents assert that the dogma will be proclaimed,
we hear from other sources that the whole
Council, in view of the strong opposition to in-
f&libility, is to be adjourned sine die in a little
while.
The Council was notified ot the decease of
the Bishop of Vera Cruz.
The Pope had declined to reoeive an address,
signed by 137 Bishops, protesting against
tbe proclamation of infallibility.
The Archbishop of Algiers had left for Paris,
to ascertain the views of Napoleon HI, in ref
erence to the Counoil.
the history of the Church, against the aims of
Romo, had caused great indignation in tho Vat
ican.
The attitude of the German Bishops generally
who, though comparatively- small in number,
wield a vast influence over their flocks at
renders the Papal party very uneasy. It is
even intimated that eventually the German
government will support them in any dispute
.with the Holy See.
The Ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopald II,
died in Rome, 73 years old. Jabko.
A Thrilling Adventure of an old New<
York Merchant.
One of our oldest merchants, who is soon to
pass away, and who formerly carried' on busi
ness in Beaver street, residing—as it was the
custom in old times—over his store, tells the
following thrilling narrative, which he occasion
ally relates with wonderful effect: “A party
had been collected at his house to give eclat to
one of those little family festivals which bright
en the dark trace of life and cheer the human
heart in every clime. It was his daughter’s
wedding day; crowds of her young acquain
tance circled round her, and as the father gazed
proudly on the face of the young bride, he
wished as bright a prospect might open for his
other children who were gamboling merrily
among the crowd. Passing through the pass
age connecting the lower rooms, he met the
servant maid, an ignorant country wenoh, who
was carrying a lighted tallow oandle in her hand
without a candlestick. He blamed her for this
dirty conduct, and went into the kitchen to
make somo arrangements with bis wife about
the supper table; the girl shortly returned with
her'arms full of ale bottles, but without the can
dle. The merchant immediately recollected,
that several barrels of gunpowder had been
placed in his cellar daring the day, and that his
foreman had opened one of the barrels to select
a sample for a customer. “Where is your can
dle ?” he inquired, in the utmost agitation. “I
couldn’t bring it up with me, for my hands were
full,” said the girl. “Where did you leave it? ’
“Well, I’d no candlestick, so I stuck it into
some black sand that’s there in one of the tnbs.”
The merchant dashed down the cellar steps; the
passage was tong and dark, and as he groped
his way on his knees, threatened to give way
under him, his breath was choked, and his flesh
seemed suddenly to become dry nnd parched,
as if he already felt the suffocating blast of
death. At the extremity of the passage, in the
front cellar, under the very room where his
children and the friends were reveling in felici
ty, he discerned the open powder barrel, full
almost to the top—the candle stuck lightly in
the loose grains, with along red snuff of burnt-
out wick topping the small and gloomy flame.
This sight seemed to wither all his powers, and
the merry laugh of the youngsters above strnck
upon his heart like the knell of death. He Btood
for some moments, gazing npon the light, una
ble to advance. The fiddler commenced a live
ly j*g> and the feet of dancers responded with
increased vivacity; the floor shook with their
exertions, and the loose bottles in the cellar
jingled with the motion. He fancied the can
dle was moved, was falling!—with desperate
energy he dashed forward; bat how was he to
remove it? The slightest touch would cause the-
small live coal of wick to fall into the loose
powder. With unequalled -presence of mind,
he placed a hand each side of the candle, with
the open palms upward, and the distended fin
gers pointed toward the object of his care,
which, as his hands gradually met, was secured
in the clasping or locking of his fingers, and
safely removed from the head of the barreL
When he reached the head of the stairs, the ex
citement was over; he smiled at the danger he
had conquered ; but the reaction was too pow
erful, and he fell into fits of most violent and
dreadful laughter. He was conveyed senseless
to bed, and many weeks elapsed ere his nerves
recovered sufficient tone to allow him to resume
his habits of every day life.”
Row in a Menagerie. — The Connereville
(Ind.) Times says: “On Friday last, about
three o’clock, and during the absence of the
keeper, Frank Nash, the elephant Jenny Lind,
belonging to the Van Ambnrgh Menagerie, now
wintering in this city, determined to free her
self from bondage and exhibit herself free of
charge. Her first performance was to try if it
were possible to upset the building in which she-
was confined, but finding she was unable to
push tho solid masonry from its solid founda
tion, she seized the zebra, which stood in close
proximity, deliberately lifted the frightened
aeast out of his stall with her trunk, held him
poised in mid-air, then dashed him violently
to the ground. Not satisfied, one of the sacred
cattle shared tha same fate. Everything was
in the wildest confusion; lions, tigers and all
the wild beasts, terrified by her nnusual fury,
made the building echo with roars and yells,
trying to burst their bars and escape. Mr. Win
ner, the lion-tamer, tried, both by coaxing and
threatening, to pacify her Majesty until the re
turn of her keeper, bnt without success, and at
one time Mr. Winner says she made her ehains
ting like a harp-string. If she had succeeded
in escaping, she would havo instantly demolish
ed the dens containing the animals, and the
damage they would have done in the surround
ing country could not be realized. Word was
instantly sent to her keeper, Mr. Nash, and he
arrived on the scene just in time. Her Royal
Highness was so blinded by her xage that she
did not recognize him, as usual, by his foot
steps; bnt, tho moment she heard his -voice,
accompanied by his terrible spear, he forced
her to immediate subjection, and she trembled
and begged for mercy most pitiably.”
How a Man Married His Own Sister.—The
Dedham Patriot says that a marriage once took
place at Canton, Massachusetts, under the fol-
owing circumstances: The bridegroom, when
quite a small boy, ran away from his parents,
who lived in Lower Canada. In process of
time, the father died, the mother married
again, and tbe fruits of this union were several
daughters. The daughters grew up, and the
parents not having the means to support them,
they went to work in factories. One strayed
to Canton factory, where, by a fortuitous cir
cumstance, the runaway happened to be at
work. He soon became acquainted with this
girl, and before a full history of each other’s
origin was developed, married her. In a few
days it was ascertained that they both had one
mother. This, of course, greatly confused and
astonished both parties, from which arose
strong conscientious scruples as to the propri
ety of brother and sister living together in a
state of matrimony; and upon mature consid
eration, they resolved mutually to dissolve their
connection as man and wife.
L-, The King fell
to the floor insensible. He grew worse and! The protest of Dr. DcelUnger, the greatest
worse, and. the next day his removal to the German' authority in matters connected with-
The Lessons of the Past Season.—The sea
son just closed, though an unfavorable one in
some localities and for certain crops, proved,
on the whole, measurably satisfactory—an am
ple sufficiency of food for man and beast hav
ing been produced in the country. The suc
cesses of onr farmers should encourage them,
and even their failnres may be made profitable
if they will but wisely heed the lessons they are
intended to enforce. It seems to us that the
plainest of these lessons are:
1. Drainage has been too much neglected.
During a portion of the season, in some parts
of the country, the crops were completely
drowned. In most cases a system of drainage,
not very difficult or expressive to put ia preo-
tico, would have prevented all loss from this
cause, and given excellent crops where so little
has been realized.
2. Deep ploughing and thorough cultivation
aro perfect preventives of injury from ordinary
drouths. Reports from drouth-parched regions
last year declared the crops “in fair condition
on lands well worked.” This lesson is so im
portant that we shall oontinuo to reiterate it in
some form till it shall be impressed upon the
minds of our farmers. The experience of thou
sands confirms it.
Let our planting friends remember these les
sons in making their plana and preparations for
the present year.—Juonro* Adver.
The walls ot Constantinople, completed fif
teen osntaries aao by the Emperor Theodosius,
are to be pulled down and their stones employed
in various municipal improvements.
