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REID & REESE, Proprietors. ggED 1826T T IIE F A HI L Y JoURNA L. N E "W S P O LIT I CS—Li IB RATUR E Afl BICULT UR E DOI ESTIC AFFAIRS. 1 . ■ ■■ : . ; GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BBILIHNG MACON. TUESDAY, MARCH I, 1870. TOE. IXIY.-HO. 31 ] For the Telegraph and Messenger. “ITiiqnita.” .. re»ai»S her recent poem, “Glorious Things jr'a Spoken of Thee, O, City of God." E t oeeu» »• ooEMAJt. L ‘•fliiaoita.’’ Wr enchantress of a land <rh»t chi® 3 thee as her own sweet child of song, T o ‘* lon beauty at thy fond command, Mbileionndlheo her thought-idyls willing throng. *gboni shapes flit through thy gladsome Java; £o shadow of a grief that diod in tears, Tfetnrb* the suushine of thy happy days, Or gloats upon tho pathway of thy years. IL Soft lead us where the Jewish maidens wept, _ ffliea they remembered Zion, mount of God; *hen they by tho distant waters slept, Did they forget their Zion’s Baered sod. Asnong tho orient bills the brightest crown, 0 Zion, thon 1 Perched in thine ancient eito, Itoa etand'st to all thy wandering ones a throne, gigirt with Mercy and Truth’s radiant light. IH. fog lead us hy Siloam’a sparkling flood, Vhcro maidens’ eyes have looked in their own hue, An! on whoso banks the bards of Salem stood, To catch tho first wild wind notes as they blew. Eren now, 0, Zion, softly as of yore, Blows ever tho breath of morning o’er thy hills, And through thy monntain gorges ever pour Continuous streams their wierd and lonely thrills. IV. Kot "lone and desolate” aro tby strong walls. ••Much loretb God tby gates," and “glorious things Arc ipoken of thee,” when thy inner halls Arc opened, and tho new hosanna rings. 0 Zion1 Truth and Mercy on theo wait r Tby paths are holy, and lead np to God; flhile Faith and Hope aro guarding every gate, Xbat ushers pilgrims on tby holy sod. TiSotton, da., February 16Ih, 1870. The Dead Confederacy. Pile, stark and cold, eho lies in utter silence. So pore to rise np from that deathly Bwoon, To weeping States that whisper in great anguish, “Dead, dead so soon." Ah! mourn for her with tender love and pitv, To men that strove to lengthen out her years! A little child, grown old and gray with sorrow, Demands your tears. A little child, with blood npon her ringlets, A Wed banner wrapping her tired arms, Braised feet, that faltered in tho sweet revealing Of Freedom’s charms. Hashed into mute and reverent emotion, Tho people pass beneath the heavy skies, Knowing, to-day nor yet npon to-morrow, Will sho arise. - Anse, to spread her banner in rejoicing, To beckon honor from tho waiting years! Who hints of faults with every stain upon her Washed Out in tears ? LETTER 1 HlHI WASHINGTON, j individual thus addressed threw himself back A Yankee Girl on Whito Slavery in Stnssa- ; m an highly indignant and pompons manner, chusetis-Feniando Wood after Grant’s J aha. simply ejaculated: “Hah! sab!” The Military Household—lildridgc (Spreads Bohemian saw his mistake, and I presume went Himself for the Fenians—A Radical Even, lng Par ty—The Negro Guests Mistaken for Walters—A Bit of Scandal—Bard not yet for the cold turkey himself, or.secured the ser vices of another negro who was not a guest. Truly, we have fallen on evil times when the Confirmed—Hill and Miller to be Admit* j President of the United States consorts with ted to Their Seats. negroes, and when a man who professes to be a gentleman invites them to his private residence. Of the guests who sacrificed their self-respect by remaining in sneh company, and who ate and drank with negroes, I have nothing to say. There are interesting developments at Howard University. A “highly respectable” colored hiohlv mnrRi inwi . L iuii_ a v .. female student finds herself in that condition mghly moral and purely philanthropic State. wMch saia to ba highly desired by married let but for tlio advent of Miss Jeannie Collins i females who lovo their* lords. A “highly re- "Washington, February 19th, 1870. It is something of a novelty, to say tho least, for a Yankee factory girl to travel all tho way from Massachusetts to "Washington to lecture on the wroDgs of tho whito laboring classes in that amoDg ns, we never should have known how de- spoctable” male 6tndent is the happy man Who plorable is tho condition of tho largo class of hn ° operatives in New England cotton ™ui<», of which sho i3 a representative. "We have novor beard from Mr. Sumner, or Mr. "Wilson, who has placed the female referred tc in this highly interesting condition. The female student is now temporarily indisposed. If any of the people of Georgia have informa tion relative to the traffic in cadetships, by whioh represent Massachusetts in the Senate, anything tho Southern States haye been defrauded of the bMpl««»(orltopoot, freeamen. They have had no time to attend Gen. Henry M. Slocum, Washington. The In vestigation. now going on promises to rid the The Unity idol of a faulty people, Wbo loved her better that her faults wero theirs, Who eee her deaf, blind, dead to all perfection, The future bears. As detd is those who sought to be her armor, Who held their hearts as shields ’twixt her and death. And died to cherish into fuller being *> Tho infant breath. Strong hearts, tli&t in tho rush and roar of battle, ronred out their noble blood like holy wino. Waning its wealth and richness on a broken And blasted shrine. A Matted shrine, yet oven in its blighting Crowned with the homage of a million hearts. Whose burning tears poured out the last libation That lovo imparts, A faded hope, yet fairer in its fading Than Victory's temples reared above tho dead. And sweeter blasftedt faded, broken, than rich in- eerse, 1 For conquests shed. * •We.palerhe lies; tho autumn comethgently, And clasps its crimeon fingers round her feet, And throws a golden spell npon tho Tores t, As is most meet- his most meet, that one "who died in childhood, Who sailed upon us from tho purple West, Should take amid tho crimeon and tho golden Iler final rest. n* ^ 6 ' le lies; tho Spirit of tho Winter flashes the careless river at her sido; Tw well, wo think, that thus should sleep in si lence A people’s pride. jj*th still; we dare not sing her requiem; Western star has faded out of sight, “ks her who was tho idol of our worship, Leaving us night. Violet Lea. rrineeton, Ark., 1865. * In School Days. ET JOHN 0 KEENER AT W1UTTIEB. Still sits tho school-honso hy tho road, A ragged beggar snnniDg; Around it still the sumachs grow. And blackberry vines -aro running. Within, the master’s desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, tho battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial. Long years ago, a winter sun Khono over it at setting; Lit up its western window panes And low oaves’ icy fretting. It tonched tho tangled goluen curls, And brown eyes tall of grieving, Aad ono who still her steps delayed, Wher pride and Bhamo woro mingling. fashing with rcstlees feet tho snow To right and left, sho lingered— A* restlessly her liny hand The bias chocked apron fingered. Ho saw her lift her eyes; he felt Tho soft hand’s light carreseing, And heard tho trembling of her voice, As if a fault confessing; "I’m eorry that I epelt tho word; I hate to go above yon, Locsuae”—tbs brown eyes lower fell— Because, you seo, I love you!" Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Drtr girl; Tho grasses on her gravo Havo forty years been growing! H® lives to learn, in iifo’s hard school, How few who pass above him, L^nent their triumphs, and his loss, Like her, because they love him. f UDt Talk in tub Pulpit—Radical. Admin- Ration Abbaigned.—Tho Crawfordsville Ro- ‘-v sa J8 that on last Sunday morning the Rev. Godfrey, of this city, who heretofore £n PPorted the Radical party, preached an fi,. . ent Eerm on to a large and 'attentive andi- la McthodUt Church in Crawfordsville. b the course of tho services he offered up the fol prayer, which we commend to a care- ** reading by those of onr fellow-citizens who tinner elections have bsen induced by false i -onuaea an g demagogical appeals to their pas- aca prejudices to help place in power the .... ^rrnpt and infamous administration that p caned a nation: —"O Lord! Thon knowest that the •fj p". in=n °f our nation, and those oocupying P n ^Ho positions, are thieves and t-a a P‘ un derers and murdorers, drunkards -t.ri i :luc ^ e es; that we have too many Harlans (fnrf\r,? 1 “ ny Beechers, O Lord."—Lafayette Dtyteh, February 18. to tho wants of thoir whito constituents. All their time and thoughts and labor have been absorbed in legislation for tbo African. Miss Collins has undertaken to do that which Messrs. Wilson and Sumner have studiously left undono. In a lecture on “Life in the Cotton Mills," de livered this city on Thursday evening last, Miss Collins said sho had always been a warm opponent of slavery in any form, and 6ho held that the men ip the North who oppressed and ground down the laboring people and the former slave-owner of tho South, were twin despots.— The combination of capital in the large corpo rations of New England operated to prevent competition and then crushed labor. She re viewed the operations cf some of these estab lishments, and said the “regulations" .stuck-up in the rooms of the factories were of a charac ter that would hardly bear to be printed. And this in moral New England! Can such things be ? Miss Collins said that in tbo old times of tbo Whigs and Democrats, the latter were the champions of the working classes, and the girls of that day were happy. As good ladies as there wore in New England worked in the mills. Then came the Kansas and Nebraska question; tho Anthony Burns excitoment; the difficulties in Kansas, and other kindred subjects, to occupy the public mind, and the laboring classes were overlooked. And then the overseers and the stockholders set abont reducing the pay and in creasing the work, until where the girls had had two looms they ran seven, and on less wages. The war broke out, and where the girls bad to pay two dollars for bread they had to pay six. Then tho Cotton supply failed, and the mills stopped. There were three classos of females— one, bred and heroic, who bravely struggled for a subsistence; one which suffered poverty and privation, almost too much to bear; and a third which went down, lost to society and tho world. Who was to blame because they went down? Miss Collins gave a graphic account of the great strike of the factory girls in November and its failure, which sbo said wa3 due to tho fact that the wages were so low that the girls must work every day or starve. At Libby pris- son they had a dead line, and if our soldiers crossed it they wero Shot. In Massachusetts three men dared to present a petition to the Legislature, and they were discharged. What was that but a dead line ? The factory girls were worked and taxed to dress tho daughters of tho stockholders in silks and satins to hide their deficient intellects, while their father took them around to the dif ferent watering places as a farmer took his stock to the cattle shows. [Applause.] Sho dwelt some time upon the antagonism be tween capital and labor, and said she had seen South of some of its carpet-bag mis-representa- tives, and is bringing upon "such men, as a class, richly merited disgrace. Tho Senate was in executive session four hours yesterday, but did not confirm Dr. Bard as Governor of Idaho. The Dr. is much exer cised over the recent attacks upon him in a Memphis paper, and is busily engaged in pre paring replies. 'The latest gossip abont the Georgia Senators, is that Messrs. Hill & Miller will get their seats; but that -they will be sworn in singly—Mr. Hill first. • Dalton. THE COUMON**SENSE OF IT. A School Girl’s Pica for Short Dresses. From Moore's Rural Sew Yorker.] Not long since,_ being tbo happy recipient of that “blessing in disguise”—a new dress— the feminine portion of our household was doomed to tho trying ordeal essential to tho making thereof; and it was that trial which hashed me to this expedient with the san guine hope that the wave of reform may re ceive an added impulse by my vehement- pro test. Such peering into magazines, and “in terviewing” dressmakers, and such unbear able measurings and tiyings-on, would havfe been the death of us had wo not been early taught the art of submission; but' thanks to that, we lived. - Lived until, at an hour when my long tried forbearance was just ready to fail entirely, an officious neighbor (Mrs. Grundy like) called; after inspecting every identical part, from the braid on the skirt to the band at the throat, sho informed us that it was “very well done, but shockingly short,” and then added the baneful inquiry—“Why in the world didn’t you allow it to trail a very little?” Trails be condemned 1 That last feather broke tho camel’s back; and my subsequent lecture upon the glories of short dresses, the follies, ana vanities of corsets and trails, and the wickedness in general of a meddler, ef fectually silenced the poor lady and put an end to her advice. The dear creature has never said “trail” to me since. Alack and alas! however, that such things are allowed to exist. Why. cannot a good thing in f&shion be retained—made a standing institution, which we may or may not follow for the ensuing year, as it may suit our indi vidual fancy? Not but what short skirts have their discrepancies; they may some times be ungraceful, inappropriate, and un lady-like; hut think of their superiority in ever so many situations—will it not overbal ance the The Fertilizer Question Again—Re joinder of “"Planter mad Coni* mission Merchant.” Editors Telegraph and Messenger t in your issue of the 20th inak, ‘‘ Planter and Merchant” replies to an or tide published by you a few days previous, over tho signature “Planter and Com mission Merchant ” ‘ 1 Planter” of the first part says “Planter” of the second part “ attempts to criticise tho Fertilizer Inspection Law, which ho very mnch misapprehends, if, indeed, he ever read at alL” . It appears to mo, in h is “ effor^to criticise" said communication, he “very mnch misappre hends it, if, indeed, he read it alL” At least, Planter of tho second part entirely endorses the gist and conclusion of my article; for while I say, “do not repeal the present law —impracticable, and so eisily and frequently violated as it is—unless something more defi nite, more practicable and - more truly protec tive to the planter’s interest is substituted”—he says, “ the present law is a step in the right di rection ; the law can be unproved npon, and doubtless will be,” and asks “ what additional legislation is necessary?” That was the only object of my article, and I proposed certain additional legislation,” and invited objections to it, or a better plan. Then since we are both after the same 'good end, 2 have nothing more to say than in my first article. I have not a doubt Dr. Means would corroborate every position taken by me. That the law provides for inspection and brand ing, and a fee of 50 cents per ton for the same, and yet is so imperfect and impracticable that not one shipment in ten ia submitted to him fox analysis, and that be does not receive one fee in every ten tons that come South, and that he has, as stated by me before, no adequate an* thority to enforce the law or. his rights. The idea is absnrd, that a cargo of 1000 tons of Mnpes, Rhodes, or that new but excellent can didate for popular favor, tbo Ashepoo Ammo- mated soluble Phosphate should be detained on the wharves at Savannah, or at heavy expense drayed to and from "Ware house after a month or two storage, until in their conrse and turn, (as by “mill rqje, first come, first served.”) Dr. Means can famish an analysis and brand the packages before shipping to their destination. The Expenses would be increased several dol lars per ton. Impracticable, theoretic, useless laws, are in their natnre, nail and void. But let me conclude by assuring Planter No. I, that I have sold and delivered all my consign ments, and paid Dr. Means’ inspection fee3 on thorn thirty days before he finished his analy sis of them. Flaxtkb No. 1, Commission Mebchant. Imagine the inability of a young lady, re- wealthy ladies wrangle with a consumptive sew- j turning from school on a rainy day, carrying ing woman over twenty-five cents to save five [ books and basket, and it may be with a ie- dollars to put with her name to a charity list. ; fractory veil to keep in check—imagine, I say, She dipped into politics, favoring the taxation the inability of such a beleaguered person to of bonds, and opposed the Chinese immigration, {manage all these and hold up the ample dra- the effect of which would be to degrade labor, pm-y which used to be indispensable 1 Think to degrade the brothers, sisters and orphans of 1 £ { - the majesty of promenading the Broadway ot £. dea °. i of our little town on a fine afternoon with an off aha ' ample cloud of dust following one at an un- soon to come off in JMew xlampsnire. wnere sno « * , j. . _ 1 .1 * ° • . . felt sanguine of the success of the labor reform P^ ei ? an * ; distance, and then having to come to ticket. an ttorapt stand still to disengage one s trail Such is the picture drawn by a Massachusetts | from dry goods boxes, sidewalk spikes, etc., factory girl of the condition of tho whito labor-; every few yards. Imagine the fun of hunting ■ — - - - hens’ nests in the old bam at grandma’s— climbing that queer ladder, and jumping from the big beam in a long dress! _ Think of reaching the grapes on that wild vine in the pasture, from the topmost rail of the high fence, and of running up stairain a hurry and both arms full, with a dozen yards of alpaca cliDging to your flying feet! Shades of Bloomer! Why, it destroys half the fun of ing classes in New England. Her description of New England charity is no doubt drawn from tbo life also. Wo havo no reason to doubt its accuracy. Daring a recent debate on the appropriatioh bill in tho Honse, Mr. Wood, of New York, of fered the following proviso, to come in at tho end of tho paragraph then under discussion: Frotided, That no officer of the Army or private secretary or clerk or for other civil ser vice at the Execntive Mansion.” Mr. Wood explained that tho proposition was simply to carry oat the existing law; and that it was designed to kcop officers of the army If _ we must needs. don ; with our woman hood, a bushel of dignity with an acre of cloth, let us bunch it up in soma way or other, and do away with the misery of a trail. Kind where they belong, in tho positions to which j fashion, have pity 1 Let our garments be they were appointed—officers of tbo army, and measured by the rule of common sense, and not clerks or secretaries or attendants upon tbo | may Justice hold the tape and Mercy the President. Mr. Ward said, further, that if the : scissors, when long skirts are once more put President desired additional clerks or secreta- ; -upon us 1 1*3. A. D. ries, give him all ho may require; but ho would ' c 1 — ■ not vote to permit him keep the service of five . A Boy’s First Boots. Brigadier Generals, who receive over fonr "thon-; Tho.boot period is tho dividing lino betwoen sand dollars each in salaries. and perquisites, . babyhood and boyhood. Before the boots one and some of whom aro special agents of tho • j 8 tramped npon by comrades, and stack with post-office department—besides being officers of j pins, and we walk with an air of apology for the tho army. Mr. Wood was choked off, howover, j f ac t that we wero bom at all. Robnst school* by parliamentary juggling; although his pro- 1 fellows strike ns across tho cheek, and when we position wonld havo resulted in:a saving of . tom to them they ory “who aro you looking at?” $25,000 per annnm. Yet these are the days of j G r what is worse than any possible insult, have retrenchment and poonomy, we aro told; and ; somebody chnck ns under tho chin and calls ns President Grant promised in his messago that “Bub” tbero should bo rigid adherence to the laws, Before the crisis of boots, tho country boy and a duo regard to economy. Bat the govern- carries a handkerchief. This keeps him in a mont evidently does not believe that economy, state of constant humiliation. Whatever crisis like charity, begins at home.. may come in a boy’s history—no handkerchief. In a speech tho olhor day in the House, on a ; This is the very unpopular period of snuffles.— resolution calling upon the President to inform ' But at last the period of boots dawns npon a Congress concerning tho Fenian prisoners, Mr. J boy. Look out how you call him “Bub.” Ho Eldridge said: j parts his hair on the aide, has the end of his ‘‘Hit be the last word I speak and the last, ■white handkerchief sticking out of the top of vote I Bhall ever give in the American Congress his side pocket as if it were recently arranged it sball bo in favor of this resolution, so that EO| has a dignified and manly mode of expecto- tho humblest citizen, native or naturalized, may . fation, and walks v down the road with long know that to bo an American citizen is to bo strides, as much as to say, “Clear the track honored and respeclc-d at home and protected for my boots!” • , npon every sea, in every land where the flag of ; We have seen imposing men, but none onr oonntry waves under the sky of heaven.” • havo so impressed ns as the shoemakor who, This is all very well; but why should so much with wavy hand, delivered into our possession eloquence be wasted on Fenians alone ? What of ' 0 nr first pedal adornments. As he put the awl American citizens murdered year after yearin ' through the leather, and then inserted tho Mexico, and somo recently in Cuba ? Cannot bristles, and drew them through it, and then, Congress expend some of its superfluous elo- ! bending over the lap-stone,' grasped the threads qnenco on them? That American citizens abroad | with a jerk that made the shop shape, we said need better protection than they have hitherto to ourself: “Here is gracefulness for you, and enjoyed, is.evident enough. In this respect power.” *' • r * their government is, and always has been, far , it was the Sabbath day when we broke them behind tho British government. The blood of in. Oh! the rapture of that moment when we the men recently murdered in Havana would lay hold of the straps at one end, and, with onr hardly have had time to have dried on the big brother pushing at tho other, tho boot went pavement, had thoy been British subjects, ere 0 n! We fear that we got bat littlo advantage a British fleet would have demanded and en- that day from the services. All the pnlpit ad- forced reparation. Secretary Fish, however, * monitions about worldliness and pride, struck simply amuses himself reading and receiving the-too of our boots and fell book. We tram- lengtlay ciblo dispatches of a milk-and-water pled under onr feet all good counsel. We have order; and everyday we hear of fresh mar- to repent that, whil$ some trust In horses and deri and fresh outrages on American citizens gome in ohariots, we put too much stress npon in the ever faithful isle. Next time Mr. Eldridge leather. Though our purchase was so tight in makes a Fenian speech, let him recollect that the instep that as soon as ws got to the woods, there are other American oilizens who need pro-’ we went limping on onr , way—what boots it? tection also. 1 We felt that ia such a cause it was noble to A few evenings ago a prominent Radical of suffer. Washington issued invitations for an evening \ For some reason, boots are not what they entertainment at his private residence. Your used to be. Yon pay a big price, and yon might correspondent wan the recipient of an invite- walk all day without hearing from them; but tion, bat business engagements did not permit original pair which I tell spake ont for them- him to attend. This he did not regret on learn- 83 i T6 a. No one doubted whether you had been ing the following day that among the guests to church after von had once walked np the aisle were a number of negroes, and U. B. Grant, company with leather. It was pure eloquence Tho presence of the “oolored gentlemen” led of df skiis.—Hearth and Home. "Bat Ir.h«L Tb.1 b 1« m»ttaimwor bring me some cold turkey!” The offended monoy# LETTER FROM TENNESSEE-WEST. A Georgian Gives a Lncld Description of His New Home In the nog and Hominy Country—Its Staple Productions—Its Pro ductiveness — Price of Land— Premium Girls, etc., etc. Dies County, Tenn., February 17, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Perhaps a letter from the section in the forks of the Forked Deer river wonld bo acceptable to yon, coming, as it does, from a native Georgian. Therefore, I beg to trespass on your space. In the vicinity of tho county site, Dyersbnrg, the land is very productive, and brings wheat, corn, potatoes, oats, rye, peas, clever, blue grass and cocklc-burs in abundance, and only tolerable cotton. Of the latter, some land brings from one to one and one half bales |o the acre, bat the generality will average abont ono half bale per acre. The timber on the river bottoms is very large, particularly poplar, oak, gam and hickory, with a dense undergrowth that is try ing to the hearts and strength of the pioneers who clear the land. The country is very densely settled. The people all seem to make a plentiful living, have generally good houses, barns, cribs, stables and fences, and barring tho awful muddy and miry roads in wet weather, aro about as well provided as any class of Southern farmers. There is an abandonee of frnit raised hero. Sheep husbandry does not receive the attention I anticipated. The hog crop is generally abun dant when it escapes cholera, as there is plenty of mast in the bottoms, and oh tbo hilly land hickory and beech nuts and acorns in abun dance. Tho range for cattle is good,"and much excellent beef cattle finds its way from this sec tion to the Memphis market. Hogs and sheep are also largely shipped to samo point. The Forked Deer is navigable from this place to the Mississippi river for a light character of boats, which make weekly trips to Memphis, and oftener to Halo’s Point. Wo commenced plowing with February, but will not plant com for six weeks yet. Tho spring-like weather of a few days past has caused the peach trees to commence budding, and I fear we shall be de prived of a largo part of the fruit wo expected in 1870. We put our cotton in about the 20 th of April, tho ground being well prepared by plowing beforehand. Wo need none of your guano orbone-dost, to make tho staple; only yonr climate. We grow on an average, 40 bushels com to the acre. Tho peoplo of this county aro going for a connection with the M. & O., and M. & O. Railroads, and tho able editor, CcL Tom Neal, of the State Gszetto, deserves much praise for the efficient msnnor in which ho has acquitted himself in his aid and encouragement towards the popular enterprise. Improved lands are in demand at $20 to $35 per acre, and will be higher still, as the railroad will bring more emigrants. There are an abandonee of excellent saw, grist and flooring mills, and-good schools, and churches of almost eveyy denomination, scatter- edthronghonrsection,andfor good-looking girls, CoL Reese, we always take the premium. The boys, though tanned, browned, and sometimes unprepossessing in ontward appearance, are healthy, muscular, temperate, indnstrions and affectionate, and seem to pass their livc3 in fall realization of Goldsmith’s couplet; ‘•How blest are they who crown like theso A youth of labor with an ago of ease.” The people of this section generally condemn the Radical poiicy as unwise, nnjust and uncall ed for, and are far from desiring an agency of the kind yon in Georgia boast. The appearance of the Telegraph is a weekly source of pleasure to onr cirolo, and we all ad mire the manliness of yonr arguments, and the keen satire pervading the editorial matter. Very sincerely, yours, A. B. J. It is said that the FrenchEmperor, while con versing with an ambassador, snddenly touched on the topic of the Antenil tragedy, and stated that he fully expected that Prince Pierre wonld be acquitted, as there was evidence to show that be had been struck. THE MONARCH. An English Wap Ship-Description or her . . 1 Armament. '' A writer in the Boston Journal describes the Monarch at great length. We copy what he says of her armament: - The armament of the Monarch consists of nine guns, or perhaps more properly, seven guns, as two of them are 12-pounder deck .howitzer*, of the Armstrong breech-loading pattern, stationed at tho stern, on the upper deck. The bow battery consists of two 115- pounder rifled “chasers,” as they are called. This part of the upper deck is well protected, andbtnie port holes tor theSe ghnsare recessed, so as to allow them to fire at an angle or straight ahead; and they can even be fired at an angle of three degrees across the bow line. With their muzzles protruding they give the Monarch’s bow a terribly savage look, and drie .oanmtt help thinking what terrible execu tion thoy Wonld 'do were the Monarch. to -run down an enemy. These guns have an eleva tion of lfi degroc3 knd a range of 4,000 yards. . The bow gun is a six and one-half ton gun: calibre, seven inches. It works on a slide and has a range of 15 degrees from the line of the ship’s keel. It is a heavy piece of ordnance, hut wonld be a poor competitor for a pumitor pegging away at dose range. But lot the curtain drop on these pigmies while we describe the monstrous occupants of the Monarch’s turrets, which have no peers on land or sea. Four guns, nominally weigh ing twenty-five tons, are mounted there?—two in each, turret _ At the breech they are- four and a half feet in diameter. After the guns were mounted they were found to be too even ly balanced, ahd^ a ring of iron about a foot wide, and weighing nearly a ton, was after ward slid over the muzzle of each one and serewed up to the breech enlargement to act as a counterbalance weight. The size of the bore is twelve inches, with a three-sixteenth inch rifling. The shot used are conical chilled Bhot, weighing ax hundred pounds, two hundred ] sounds heavier than those thrown by the lifteen-inchgunson our monitors. Shells of the same size as the. solid shot, and contain ing thirty-three pounds of powder, can also be used, and a quantity is provided. The range of these guns is tremendous, and far exceeds that of any other ordnance now in use. On occount of their immenie size, the vent is placed for convenience on the ride of the breech instead of on the top, as is customary with other ordnance. Both guns can be fired at once by means of a cord and spring at tached to the cartridges. The full charge of powder is seventy pounds, but the guns are usually fired with sixty or iess. None of the four have been fired more than forty or fifty times. A curious fact, which may be stated in this connection, is that the firing of both guns in a turret at once does not produce a greater jar or concussion than is caused when only one is fired. The recoil arrangement in the gnn carriage is essentially the same as in our turrets; bnt the recoil is akillfiilly regu lated by means of a compressor applied to the lateral surfaces of teak bars running beneath the carriage, and can be entirely prevented if necessary.. The machinery for running out the guns is admirable. Cranks are applied to spindles on the outer edge of the base of the turret, and are worked to great advantage by the men upon the lower deck. Nine men is the quota for each gun, but, by means of connections, the strength of twice that num ber can bo employed if necessary. The guns have an elevation of sixteen degrees, and a depression of seven degrees; butHby means of a novel arrangement in the carriage, a greatly increased depression is gained by raising or lowering the breech of the gun some twenty- two inches. This i3 done by two spar wheels and pinions in tho frame of the carriage, as sisted by a couple of hydraulic presses. It was originally intended that the guns should be ’■aised by the screws alone, but they were found to be incompetent, and therefore the hydraulic presses were put in. By the old principle, the whole carnage was lifted in or der to elevate the gun. The trunnion blocks were originally of brass, but one of them col lapsed on the occasion of the firing of tho gun a large number of times for practice, and iron was substituted therefor. On the return voy age tho guns will be fired twenty times each, for the purpose of testing the two metals and ascertaining which is best adapted to the pur pose. The facilities for loading are the best imaginable, and the time between firing one shot and the next is two minutes and fifteen seconds. Besides tho ordinary apparatus for moving the shot, a new patent carriage is be ing tested, and appears to be excellently adapted to the purpose. The range of the turrets is greatly dimin ished by the incumbrances on deck. The guns of tho forward turret cannot fire at a less angle than ten degrees forward, on account of tho forecastle, ana the same angle aft on ac count of the other turret. The guns of the after turret can fire at an angle of ten degrees forward and six degrees.aft. The height of the turrets from.tho water, joined to this in ability to use the guns directly in a line with the ship’s centre, would place the Monarch at a considerable disadvantage with an enemy like one of our low monitors close upon her, cither underneath her stern or at the how. An Exciting Race. Tho passengers on the morning train leaving this city for Cherokee on the Iowa Falls anc; Sionx City railroad were not only spectators, but partioipators in one of the most exciting races that has come within tho range of onr ex perience. On last Sunday morning, when be tween Lcmara and Cherokee, tho train, in round ing the carve, thundered down on a drove of elk, which, were quietly browsing on the open prairie, about fifty yards west of the trade. Startled thus suddenly from their quietude,they immediately started off oh a fall ran, no doubt expecting to distanoe the frightful and fiery monster that bad so snddenly broken in - upon thorn while thoy wore eatirig their morning meal. Forward daahcd tho elk, while closely following in their wake oame the fiery locomo tive and attendant cars. Every person on board the train’immediately rushed to the win dows and the platforms and became excited participants in tho race. At first the elk gained on the train, but engineer Prescott, not wishing to let mnsole distance steam, let on a little more of the latter, and the engine again commenced to gain. Occasionally the elk would sheer toward the track with the seeming intention of crossing it, bnt a “toot” from the locomotive’s whistle wonld deter them from their purpose. The race continued forabout six miles over the level prairie. Tho train coming to a down grade, gained rapidly on the affrighted elk. Becom ing satisfied that farther attempts to distance the never-tiring pursuer would he useless, they sheered off. into the open prairie, after having kept tho lead for upward of 6ix miles.—Sioux City Tim es. Nobtk Carolina has the champion old man. Ho has reached 143 years by dint of living on a purely vegetable diet and drinking spring water, and is likely to live as much longer from ail appearances. He has survived seven wives, ana as the last one died sixty yean ago he is beginning to feel lonesome and talks about go ing courting again. Conflict Between Juarcxand the Rev olutionists—Two Battles, Fonght— J a are a Dictator-Influence o t Sew ard’s Visit- * : *•:•? ■'.'•’.•-.•tverij'v-.a j on* New York, February 14—A Vera Cruz correspondent gives a summary of events ift Mexico till the beginning- of Februaiy. Ths. insurrection against Juarez is making rapid progress, The strength of the revolutionists is very far ahead of the republic’s. The Lib- erals, Conservatives, and Imperialists are uni- ted, and make a common cause against Jua rez. The Insurgents have complete possession of the States of San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Aquias, Calicates, aud Jalisco, and they are gaining ground in Quaretaro, Durango, Sina- oa. and Tamaulipas. An extensive conspiracy against the Gov ernment has been discovered w Puebla, and there are symptoms ofrevolu’ion even in Vera -Cruz. Tho city of San Luis de Potosi is the head of the rebellion. Gen. Negrete Is in the sierras preparing to sweep down on the na tional capita], and has registered an oath to shoot Juarez, Romeo, and Mejia on right. Two battles have been fought in .the neigh borhood of San Luis. The result of the first was doubtful. In the second the Government troops were badly beaten. Gen. Escobedo now commands the national army, and Gen. Oguirre is generalissimo of the revolutionists. _ .The Mexican Congress before adjourning invested Juarez with ample powers, thus mak ing him virtual dictator. The unpopularity of Juarez has been, augmented by his extrava gant outlay in entertaining Mr. Seward, and by the suspicion that there were some real estate transactions involved in their .meeting. It is believed in Vera Cruz that Juarez will not be able to retain power longer than four months. Official Robbery. Under this heading, a correspondent of the Sun from Washington exposes some of-the acts of the late Secretary Harlan, who scem- to have used his office as a means of feathers ing the nice little nest at his house. First a bill for a carpet, $281 83, is given. The car- jet is alleged to be for “use of Secretary’s of 1 1 ice.” but it went to his private parlors. Two bills, aggregating about $235, are for cards, envelopes, printing and engraving cards for family use. These were paidfor from the De partment funds. Servants also were on the family roll, but went once a month to the De partment to be paid. A span of horses and a carriage were taken from the Aqueduct, and they were boarded at $50 a month by Wm. A. Harlan, a boy of a dozen years, who also had a pony from the Aqueduct Bills for. hack hire amounting to about three hundred and fifty dollars are also on file. For three weeks of January, 1856, there was an expenditure <.f $164 for Hack hire, and for ten days in Feb ruary, $164 75, or at the rate of $328 75 per month. Two of the bills are as follows: Washington, D. C., January 1,1866. The Interior Department to Kneesai & Nor fleet, Dr.: For one pair liorse covers ... .$50 00 For ono pair gum covers... Jf. 40 00 For one whip 8 00 Total $93 00 Approved: E. Kiu.patbick. Chief Clerk. Received payment, (Signed) Kneessi A Nokfleet." A few months later the books show the fol lowing, all on account of those blessed horses: Washington, ft. O., August 1, 1806. Tho Interior Department to Kneeesi & Nor- * . fleet, Dr.: Jan. 20—Whip cracker, 25c.; repairing collar, 50c $ 0 75 Jan. 20—One pair clasps, $2 75; one water brush, $2 4 75 Jan. 20—One mane brush, $2; one horse brush. $4 -. 6 00 Fab, 6—One bar soap, $1; one can coal oil, $1257 .• 7 Feb. 6—One can neats foot oil, $175; one can harness oil, $1 25 July 3—One chamois, $1; leather yoke, $X 50. July 8—Repairing strap, 25c.; repairing hal ter, 50c : 7& July 3—Sponge, $1; collar pads, $150 2 50 July 9—Sponge, $1 100 Total $29 50 Approved: James Haul an, Secretary. Received payment, (Signed) Ksebssi A Nobeleet. These facts are brought out in an investiga tion into contingent expenses by a committee of the House of Representatives. It appears that the Seoretary of the Interior made agood thing out of the Government in having his private expenses paid. Mr. Harlan, in a fit of pious indignation, discharged Walt Whit man for having written “Leaves of Grass.” Had Walt been times a Congressman he could not have lowered himself to acts like these, that mark so frequently the administra tion of tho ex-Secretary.—JN. Y. Commercial Advertiser. What the Gold Committee Did Kot Investigate.. There was an animated discussion in the Committee about the propriety of summoning Gen. Grant, Mrs. Grant, Gen. Dent and Mrs. Corbin. The names of theso parties were frequently dragged in hy the witnesses in their evidence, and some of the members of the committee thought it due to them that they should be allowed to explain and clear up whatever had been said about them. Mr. Cox. at first offered a resolution re- spectfully requesting the President to appear before the committee and give any exjfianation he had. This was rejected, only two Repub licans voting with the two Democrats on the committee in favor of it. A motion was made that those parts of th3 testimony wherein Mrs. Grant’s name was mentioned, be read to her, and that her deposition with reference to them.be taken, not-before tb» committee, but at the White House. This was also defeated. Motions to summon Mrs. Corbin and Gen. Dent met with a similar fate. Gen. Horace Porter, the President’s Private Secretary, was summoned at his own request, it is said to give him an opportuniav to deny the allega tions made by some of the witnesses, about his being interested in gold speculations. He testifies further that the celebrated Liter sent by Corbin to tho President while the latter was sojourning at Washington, Pa., had been destroyed, and that no copy of it was on file. He did not appear to know anything about its contents. It came out that the correspondence which is said to have passed between Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Corbin during the gold panic, had also been destroyed. On tho subject of these let ters the comraittco are comparatively ignor ant—Herald. 2 75 3 00 2 50 Is the English Parliament on Monday, oor. respondents was called for with Canada and other colonies, in relation to the removal of troops. Canada was commended for her con sistent conservatism. New Zealand, it was „ 0 thought, was about to enter on a sew and pros- in a letter from the West Coast of Africa, sod peroos career. dated January 9th, 1870, Da. David Livingstone.—The foreign mails bring an examination hy Sir Roderick 1. Murch ison into the story that Livingstone had been killed and burned by the natives on the lakes at the head of Congo river, ninety days’ jonmey from the month. On comparing datefi, it ap pears that Livingstone on May 30th, 1809,wrote from Ujiji to Zanzibar, requesting to be sup plied from that point with boatmen and goods, to enable him to proceed to the North of Tan ganyika, so as to conneot the aonroes he had discovered with the Nile of Speke and Baker. On October 2d, 1809, Dr. Kirk, British Consul at Zanzibar, in his dispatch to Lord Clarendon, stated that he wonld lose no time in sending the men and supplies to Livingstone. Sir Roderick Murchison argues that Ltvingatone had not sufficient time, even if he had proceeded with out waiting for supplies, to proceed to Tangan yika and then round to the head of the Congo river by the date required to verify tho rumor of his death. The story, said to hairo hoen brought by a Portuguese trader, was oentained The Bal Jflwqne. .. “Ames’’ JENXIS8. A grand affair of a ball—tho PioneCrs’-^-oame off at the Occidental some time ago. The fol lowing notes of the costumes woro by the bailee of the occasion may not be uninteresting to tho general reader, and Jenkins may getan idea therefrom: ' — Mrs. W. M. was attired ih an elegantjsoio de foie gras, made expressly for her,.and woo greatly admired. Miss 8. had her hair doss np. She was the centre of attraction for tho gentlemen and the envy of all the ladies. Miss G. W. was tastefully dressed In E tout ensemble, and was greeted with- deafening ap plause wherever she went. ' , Mrs. C. N. was superbly arrayed ia white kid gloves. Her modest and engaging manner ac corded well with the unpretending simplicity of her costume, and caused her to be regarded with absorbing interest by every one. ’ The charming Miss M. M. B. appeared in a thrilling waterfall, whose exceeding grace aad volume compelled the homage of pionoers and emigrants alike. How beautiful she was! • The queenly Mrs. L. R. was attractively at tired in her new and beautiful false teeth, and the bon jour effect they naturally produced was heightened by her enchantment and wail sus tained smile. The manner of tho lady is oharm- ingly pensive and melancholy, and her troops of admirers desired no greater happiness- to get on the scent of her sozodont-aweetened sighs, and track her through hor sinuous course among the gay and restless multitude. Miss B. P., with that repugnance to ostenta tion in dress which is so peculiar to-her, waa attired in a simple white laoe collar,' listened with a neat pearl bntton solitaire: The fltee contrast between the sparkling vivacity of her natural optio, and the- steadfast attentiveness of her placid glass eye; was the subject of general and enthusiastic remark. The radiant and sylph-like Mm. T: won hoops. She showed to good advantage, and created a sensation wherever she appeared. Sho was the gayest of the gay. Miss C. L. B. had her flno nose--elegantly enameled, and the easy grace with;which sho blew it from time to time, ma ked her aa a cul tivated and accomplished woman of 'the world ;. its exquisitely modulated tone excited'the ad miration of all who had the happiness to hear ih Being offended with Miss X., and our ac quaintance having ceased permanently, I will take this bpportun i ty of observing to her that it is no uge for her to be sloping off to every bail that takes place, and flourishing around with a brass oyster-knife skewered through her. waterfall, and smiling her sickly smile, with her dismal pug nose in tho air. There is no use in it—she don’t fool anybody. Everybody knows she is old; everybody knows she is repaired (yon might almost say bnilt) with artificial- bones and hair and muscles and things, from the ground np—put together scrap by scrap; and everybody knows, also, that all one would have to do wonld be to pull ont her key-pin and she wonld go to pieces like a Chinese puzzle. There, now, my faded flower, take that para graph home with you and amuse yourself with it; and if ever you turn yonr wart of ariose up at me again, I will sit down and write some thing that will just make yon rise np and howL Mann Twain. Colossal CorporatiiaSr l The Vanderbilt combination of railroads is not, as generally supposed, the largest in the country. The Pennsylvania Central is now— if we are to believe Charles Francis Adams— the richest and most powerful single corpora: "tion in the world. In the beginning of last year the Erie Railway managers endeavored to cat off the former's connections and shut ii up within the limits of Pennsylvania. In this, however, it failed, aad the Pennsylvania Central now owns, by perpetual lease, a whole system of roads radiating to all pcontain the. West It is safe to estimate-the number-of miles of track embraced in this consolidation at 2,700, and the property at $160,000.. The New York Central or Vanderbilt combination is at present represented by nine hundred-and seventy-four miles of track, and: about $425,- 000,000 of paper securities. Should Commo dore Vanderbilt, however, be able, to effeet a perpetual lease or arrangement with the. West ern roads, which are now working in harmony with his interests, he will have the control of nearly five thousand miles of track, aad> more than $300,000, JOO of• capital. In .th&ease of the Pennsylvania Central the consolidation is complete, and a corporation is the centre. In the case of the New. York Central the-combi nation is temporary, and depends upon a tin gle life. The Erie combination controls 1,200 miles of track, and nominally represents some $200,000,000 of stock and indebtedaes*. Last year the Union Pacific claimed to. represent over $90,000,000, and the Pacific Central over $75,000,000 of assets, while each,, says Mr. Adams, “kept a mysterious unsubscribed stock capital of over $90,000y000- in. the hack ground against future contingeaoiea.*f All these colo- sal corporations aro (ho de velopment of a few years’ time. Thirty years ago there was no corporation in this country of any kind hut political;, which controlled more than five millions of capital, while that of the largest railroad company was reported at $4,379,225,. and the largest gross income of any such company, at $<el7„2S6.. Ten years later, in 1849, the capital of no company ex ceeded ten millions, butin lS59i the construc tion account of one was reported at thirty-five millions, and the period of rapid growth had just commenced. Were the railroad- interests ef the country ever to unite for any specific purpose, they would represent a-more powerful and terrible financial force than did ever slaveocracy in its palmiest days. Our railroads, if now brought under a single head, or the- controlling mind or the management of a single board, wonld yield-all the influence that is involved in the. control of $!£000,000,000 of property return? ing an annual gross income of $400,000,000^ ana supporting 450,009 employees. A Great Toads in Hooks.— 1 The Boston Com mercial Bulletin says: “A cargo of horns waa landed on one of onr wharves thia -week dire at from California. Tho number received, into Boston annually is immense, and uey vnwe from very distant lands. Sooth Americ%ganda the bulk of tfcam, though many come from Texas and not a few from California. TU»n l-rt lot received numbered 27,500. They are mostly ox horns, and are very large. Some buffalo horns aro received from tint in small qualities. There is quite a specula tire busi ness done in th ese articles, and thoy aro put to very many uses unknown to most of onr readers. A short distanoe from Boston it the factory were these are all sent, and at that plaqe they under go a chemical change, by which they aro trans formed into many articles which are both use- fnl and ornamental—combs, knife handles, pa per cutters and buttons. Resides these, they are now making a great variety of parlor orna ments, and pilea of jewelry^ some of which ia very elegant in its design. They have a pre paration that changes horn into nearly every color, and much of this jewelry, bought cheap for pure robber, ia made from ox horns ant oolored. A Face PaoposrnoN.—Under this head the New York Herald says: Foster Blodgett declines to accept the com mission of United States Senator from tbs State of Georgia, until certain charges mads against him aro ttthar cleared np we acknowledged to be simply the offspring ol political engineer- ing. Blodgett 1 oh! Blodgett 1 Don’t he too particular. Blodgett isn’t In faot, Bio jet* "Is not par. ticnlar enough. That’s what g6t him Into thot ittle perjury scrape.