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Tlie Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.
Journal & IVTessenger.
Telegraph arid Messenger.
MACON, MARCH IS' 1870.
Aaeabch Kassis, the Cow-A Romance of
modern Egypt—by Edwin DaLem, U. 8. Con
an! General for Egypt.
The publishers, J- B. Lippincott A Co.,
through J. W. Burke & Co., send us a copy of
this now Eastern tale, which has just been re
ceived at Burke’s. We have no idea of the
eharacter of the story which is developed under
this mystic title. The preface tells us:
“Haunted by the memories of that dreaming
laud, in which I was so long a sojourner, I can
not refrain from rending and relating some
passages from an Eastern life—the facts of
which, even without the coloring of romance,
would seem stronger than fiction—and weav
ing them into the threads of a tale, now of
fered to the reader."
The book contains nbont fire hundred pages,
and is beautifully printed on tinted paper.
TEcJatest marital assignment made to Gener
al Sheridan by the gossips is “a Sonthern belle
of great beauty, and greater wealth," and vien3
well stored with rich African blood.
It costs an Indiana barber, tho other day,
$76 to cut a customer’s hair too short. Ho used
a razor, and took about a pound of scalp.
New Yoke Town Elections.—The World an-
aonnoes uniform Democratic gains and triumphs
in the New York town elections throughout the
State.
Senator Ferry’s bill for the abolition of the
test oath has been reported back to the Senate
by the Judiciary Committee, with a favorable
eoommendation.
A nitro-olycebinb explosion at Morrisania,
New York, on Friday, cansed the instant death
of one man and the grevions bodily hurt of 11
others.
Tee Detroit Tribune says that Washington’s
autographs are higher now than they were a
few months ago, as the man who makes them
has been in jail at Philadelphia ever since Oc
tober.
Thebe is a negro in Holly Springs, Miss.,
whose only name is Charles Lewis William
Augustus Cox, and refuses to be set free. He
has been sold twice since the war, and still ig
nores Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.
THxEIgefield District folks “went their pile*
on the South Carolina cocks at the late grand
gaffing at Augusta. The Constitutionalist says if
the South Carolina birds had been whipped,
Fdgefield would have been bankrupt.
The Philadelphia Press says it is the general
impression that a majority of Congress are op
posed to the enactment of another income tax
law after the expiration of the present one in
Jane next.
Those drivelling idiots and asses who are con
stantly preaching the fnneral of the “dead
Democratic party’’ of conrse will be immensely
disgusted with Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts,
who has just been telling the New Hampshire
Radicals that the Democratic party only slum
bers—that it is not dead, and that it may yet re
tain to power.
Patting on Big Airs.
The negro, Revels, has instructed the door
keepers not to deliver the cards of any visitors
to him during sessions of the Senate, as he
does not wish to be disturbed in the considera
tion of the pnbiio business. He has visited
the departments, urging the appointment of
negro clerks.
Heavy Robbery.
The Montgomery Advertiser recapitulates the
anmmary of the work done by the piebald
Legislature of that State as follows: Seventy-
Are divorce esses—eighty-five free dealers—
twenty county liners—and State aid to five rail
roads. All this legislation costs the State only
one hundred and eight thousand dollars.
New Hampshire Election.
A State election comes off to-day in New
Hampshire. There are fonr tickets in the field
—Democratic, Radical, Labor Reform and Tem
perance. The usual Radical majority is abont
3,500, but the Labor Reform party claim from
eight to ten thousand votes, and it is stated they
and the Democrats will nnite forces to-day.
Here’s Inck to the coalition!
Tee Philadelphia Press suggests a grave diffi
culty growing ont of the possible drawing of
women for juries. Suppose a case of eleven
men and one woman on a jury. If she be a
wife, will not this alone be sufficient ground for
an application for divorce on the part of the
husband? He certainly would not willingly con
sent to his better half being locked up for any
length of time with one man. What would he
aay to eleven?
Visitors to West Point.
The President has selected the following per
sons as members of the Board of Visitors to
attend the aannal examination at the Naval
Aoademyin May next: Thomas Csdwallder,
Hew Jersey; Stanley G. Trott, South Carolina;
General W. F. Reynolds, United States army;
John R. Bartlett, Rhode Island; Moses Taylor,
New York ; Paul Dillingham, Wisconsin; Pro-
feasor H. B. Wilson, Minnesota.
A woman named Tice, living at Phillipsport,
Sullivan county, New York, deliberately mur
dered her own danghter, a little innocent, too
years old, on Saturday the 26 th of February.
She placed the child's neck on the edge or rim
of an open trank, and then with a dull, common
table knife, deliberately hacked into its tender
neck until the bone was cut, and it was held
together only by the chords. A whet-stone dis
covered near the body, indicated that the woman
had stopped in the work to sharpen her knife.
“Macx,” of the Cincinnati Enqnirer, having
been interrogated as to his views on a certain
point, answers thus:
“Washington. Jan. 30, 1870. Dear Sir, In re
ply to your ‘demand’ as to whether I am what
yon call a ‘Chase man,’ I have the honor to say
that it’s none of—your business. Trusting that
the impertinence of your ‘demand’ will be a
saffioient excuse for the strength of my reply, I
am, etc., “Mack.”
Two Hore.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald writes that two negroes will likely
anoceed Deweese and Whittemore, who were
caught selling cadetships. Jim Harris, a negro
preacher, is set down as Deweese’s successor.
We suppose another negro preacher will step
into Brother Whittemore’s shoes. Preachers
are rather nnlncky abont Washington, somehow,
especially those who howl with that branch
of so-called religionists, the Northern Meth
odists.
Does the “Old Wahoo” Leave Us ?—The
Charleston News of Saturday says:
_ ^ Alpeoria Bradley, the negro Senator from
Georgia, visited Judge Carpenter’s Court yes-
torday. He was known only to a few persons,
and ffid not attract any attention. It is reported
that Bradley intends becoming a resident of this
State, as his reoent visit to Columbia proved to
him that the present negro paradise was the
legislative halls of South Carolina. Bradley is
srfd to be a native of Edgefield Distrust, and a
former slave of the Hammond estate.
We think the News favors immigration, and
••toe population of the old Palmetto State is
totting off, we <onld spare Alpeoria on a pinch.
Pea-Mat Protection.
Senator Abbott, (so-oalled), of North Caroli
na, presented in the Senate of the United
States last Thursday, jointresolutions from the
Legislature of North Carolina, asking Congress
to impose a protective duty on pea-nuts—or
ground-peas, pindars or goobers, as we call
them further South. Who, after this, will fail
to see that “protection to American Industry”
has been fairly ran into the ground ?
Senator Abbott is a New Eogland protection
ist, and in this important movement he repre
sents, in part, a Now England constituency, who
have sottled down in North Carolina to grow
pea-nnts! They naturally want their labor in
growing pea-nnts “protected,” not only by Di
vine Providence and good fences, but by such
artificial scarcity of poa-nnts as may be pro
duced in the- market, by imposing a heavy tax
on African ground-peas. It is a shame that
“American labor should be brought into compe-
tion on American soil,” with the savage concu
bine and slave labor of Africa 1 Tha native
African chief sits under the shade of the feath
ery palm, and, with one slave to fan him and
anothor to bring him joints of tender roasted
girl, smoking from tho fire, while he looks on
and sees his fifty or ono hundred wives cultivate
pea-nnts for the American market, to come in
competition with the combined New England
and African labor on Tar River in North Car
olina ! Shades of Greeley and Carey, can such
a thing be permitted! Shall Tar River be
longer degraded by snoh ignominious compe
tition? No, gentlemen, no! Pat on the tariff,
and make those Bowery boys and g’hals pay
their five cents additional for the glory of eat
ing pea-nnts grown on free American soil by
white men and niggers sensible of the “dignity
of free labor.” Pea-nnts and protection for-
Bnt this is not the only aspect of this “high
moral question.” The South cannot get her
protection for “peanuts" without conceding
a little to other great interests of “American
labor." “Peanuts" are very important, but still
they do not comprehend the sum of human ex
istence. There are, ns is well known, a great
many little things North of Tar river, snch as
coal, iron, calico and nutmegs, upon which the
liberal people of that region desire additional
protection in a spirit of cordial reciprocity for
the “tariff on peanuts,” vhich the North Caro
lina Legislature and Senator Abbott aro now
clamoring for.
It is “give and take. ” We get onr protection
—they get theirs. “Senator Abbott” doubtless
understands the matter, as he has lived there.
A clamor for “protection” from the South is a
God-send, therefore, to New England, and we
don’t wonder at the prominence given in the pa
pers to the demand for “peanut protection.”
In fact, if the trath could be discovered, Mr.
Abbott and the North Carolina Legislature aro
only illustrating in this matter the “shiftiness”
of the New England protectionists. The cry
really gets to Washington from Massachusetts
via Raleigh. Doubtless the Massachusetts men
wonld be willing to extend the demand for pro
tection so as to inclnde “ huckleberries and
’simmons,” as well as peanuts. Who knows ?
Tbe Angnsta Fair—A Race.
The Angnstans are going to show the Geor
gians how to hold a Fair. They have organized
the Cotton States Mechanics’ and Agricultural
Fair Association, with a name too long for con
venience, but with a capital of $50,000. They
have leased from the city government seventy
acres of land, on tho South Commons, within the
city limits, and they have appropriated ten
thousand dollars for a premium list. Their fair
will commence on the first day of next Novem
ber and continue five days. We supplicate good
weather in their behalf. The premium list is now
in conrse of publication.
The Committee say Angnsta will ship this
year 130,000 bales of cotton. Railroads all
centre there—river navigable to their doors, and,
they might add, it sometimes gets over the
door stones. Water power inexhaustible—some
times overflows nearly the whole concern—hotel
accommodations ample—situation beautiful and
salubrious. They see no reason why Angnsta
shonld not rise to glory, nor do we. They might
have said something very justly upon the beauty
of that city—for it is one of the handsomest
places in the world.
Now we shall see a pretty race between At
lanta and Angnsta. To offset the prestige of
the State Agricnltnral Society, which Atlanta
will enjoy, Angnsta will show the forco and en
ergy of an organization of business men, and
she has abont five or ten times the moneyed
capital of Atlanta, with perhaps considerable
less disposition to use it, and not so mnch local
pride and spirit as Atlanta, thoughmoro reasons
for both. »
We like the wonderful amount of pride the
Atlantans take in th6ir city. There's not a
man, woman or child, in the corporate limits,
black or white, who is not thoroughly grounded
in the opinion that Atlanta will, in a short time,
go ahead of London or Paris. Chicago is the
only American town which can rival Atlanta in
local pride, and Atlanta is fond of comparing
herself with Chicago. Moreover, Atlanta, if
we may credit the Boston Post, is ahead of An
gnsta and most other places in newspapers.
The Post says Atlanta has three dailies, each
with the largest circulation in the States.
We council onr Angnsta friends, therefore,
to pnll np. Don't trust too much to your su
perior location—your water power—yonr 130,-
000 cotton bags—yonr accumulated profits and
weighty capital. Use the money power yon
have liberally, and distance these donghty boys
of the “Gate City," as they call it.
There is one point on which the Angnstans
will, we fear, show the Atlantans a clear pair
of heels—and that is in the magnificent display
of the gentle sox. When those old black belt
counties turn ont, as they will do to the Augusta
Fair, good-by John to Atlanta. She may rake
down all North Georgia and not be in hailing
distance for a start. The display of fair women
in Angnsta will be marvellous. We don’t mean
to deny that Atlanta will make a fine display,
because pretty women are to be found every
where in Georgia; bnt all those old counties
within hailing distance of Angnsta are a garden
of them—a regular nursery in full bloom. There
fore, we say, Atlanta, look to yonr laurels. An
gnsta stir np and avail yourslves of yonr advan
tages.
The Placer to Worli.
The Columbus Sun calls attention to
a letter written to the Jackson (Miss.)
Clarion, by one of its editors, E. Barks
dale, who has been spending the winter in Chi
cago as a representative of the Mississippi
Central Immigration Association. Through his
efforts and others associated with him, more
than ten thousand laboring men have been in
dneed to pnll up stakes and try Mississippi.
Chicago appears to bo tho great receiver of the
foreign immigration to this country—especially
the laboring portion. Weleam also from other
letters to this gentleman that thousands arrive
at Chicago who, finding employment hard to
get, are easily induced to try the cotton States
of the South.
Was Peace eveb Declared.—Judge Carpen
ter decided yesterday that a note drawnpayable
six months after the declaration of peace be
tween the United States and Confederate States
of America could not be collected, as no peace
had been declared between those governments.
Exeeptions have been taken to this rating, on
the gronnd that the dose of hostilities was a
virtual declaration of peace, even thongh one
of the contending powers ceased to exist—
Charleston News.
Grant Rebuked.
It is a habit with a certain class of small pol
iticians beyond Mason and Dixon’s line to sneer
at the chivalry of the South. ' Gen. Grant Was
guilty of this bad taste the other day when a
delegation of Virginians called upon him. to
plead for the interests and rights of their State.
In the conrse of the interview he told them that
“manufactures were better worth cultivating
than chivalry.” Even the New York Tribune
has felt constrained to rebuke Grant for this
petty slur upon the magnificent civilization of
tho old cavaliers of Virginia The Tribune
W«ekly Resume of Foreign Affairs.
PBSPARED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. .
says:
“Gen. Grant, (he other day, in effect assured
the Virginia delegation that ‘manufactures were
better worth cultivating than chivalry.’ But
while it is worth their while to remember this,
it is worth ours to consider that there was some
thing inherently good and worth saying in that
mnchlanghed at chivalry. The Northennew
comers may bring capital, intelligence and en
terprise into Virginia, but they should beware
lest they ignore and destroy something which is
there as valuable as any of these. Civilization
is not more a matter of railroads and factories
than of honorable instincts, of pnre domestic
life, of sincere hospitality and of gentle manners.
The Northern people have suffered themselves
too mnch to j udge of Virginia by her slave-breed
ers, her blatant politicians and would-be duelists.
Bnt behind these was the great land-holding
population, a people simple mannered, bearing
the traces of generations of care and cnltnre;
kindly, hospitable, genial. Onr crude and cha
otic American social life can illy spare so sincere
and good a type. It is these people whom we
shonld welcome back again, overlooking any
temporary bitterness among them. Judge Un
derwood’s words were eminently sensible and
fitly spoken. We commend his example to
all new eettlers in the South. Let them conch
their eyes in the beginning, and be willing to
recognize ambng their foes men “who bear
without abuse the grand old name of gentleman.”
A friendly and pnre social life is worth as mnoh
as a stable government; and the man who went
with the heartiest, highest motives into the war,
will be most zealons now in establishing with
his old enemies the basis of a real and Christian
brotherhood.
Tbe Cubans an«l Grant’s Administra
tion.
Telegraphic Cor. of the Courier-Journal. J
New York, March 3.—A large number of
Cnban sympathizers called npon Gen. Qnesada,
late commander of the Cnban forces, at the
Hoffman House to-day. The General said that
the Republicans of Cuba are gratified with the
American people, for whom they have the most
sincere affection; bnt they are sadly disap
pointed in the United States Government, es
pecially in Secretary Fish. When he (Qnesada)
took command everything pointed to speedy
support from the United States for the insur
gents ; and the tergiversation of the American
Government has done more harm to the Cnban
cause than declared hostility conld have done.
It is said that Qnesada will issue a manifesto to
the American people, calling npon them to stand
by the infant republic, independent of Enropean
diplomacy.
Grant’s refusal to recognize these people is
abont the only commendable act of his admin
istration, according to onr notions of doing busi
ness. They have never deserved it from the
first day they set ont to Radicalize Cuba down
to the present. They make a tremendous blow
bnt accomplish very little. If Gen. Qnesada had
any great faith in the future he wonld have re
mained in Cuba. Why is he here, and why has
Jordan resigned ? It looks very mnch like a lot
of rats deserting a sinking ship.
A RICH BOY.
Tbe Josbua Scars Estate—Who Made it and
who will Oct it.
Boston Correspondence Chicago Journal.J
The trustees of the Joshua Sears estate com
plain that they are annoyed by newspaper men
and others relative to the estates connected
with the Sears property. The faetthatayonng
man abont fifteen years of age, the only child of
Sears, is largely interested in the property, has
cansed a good many people to become inquisi
tive on the subject. Joshua Sears died in 1857,
possessed of abont $2,000,000 worth of prop
erty in this city, and it is now worth abont
$G,000,000. Sears came to Boston from Far-
month, Mass., just before the last war with
Great Britain, and went into business with the
view of amassing $20,000, at the end of which
time he intended to retire to private life. After
he got that sum he thonght he was very poor.
Possessed of remarkable shrewdness and indus
try, and with very frugal habits, “he made
money like dirt,” in the commission business,
until he could draw $800,000, and not disturb
his banking account. Sears was a peculiar
character in his way, and was every inch a Cape
Coder. He was always off-hand, blunt, not al
ways strictly commercially square, bnt not dis
honest, however; and he was so absorbed in
his business that the god Cnpid made no im
pression on his heart till he was post sixty years
old, and then it was he sought a wife, more for
the sake of having an heir to his large posses
sions than on account of any passion of love
that burned in his bosom.
He married a Brewster lady of thirty-five,who
died in a short time after the birth of the child,
in consequence of the neglect of her husband
to procure sufficient wood to keep her room
warm, he being “too poor” to provide it. Sears
died in an attio in South Boston, in the presence
of only one person, an unhappy man, regretting
that he had not sixty years more in which to
make money. Young Sears is being educated
i i Germany. 'When he becomes of age he will
toieive $30,000 and at thirty-five he will have
control of the entire property,bnt the nse of only
a portion of it, receiving stated snms from the
income when he will at that age manage tho es
tates, bnt share only a portion of them, the
terms of the will giving a certain portion to two
brothers. It has been generally erroneously
supposed that young Sears is the sole heir, bnt
it is not so. When ho arrives at his majority
the property will be worth at least $ 10,000,000.
The income is yearly reduced to real estate in
Boston. Old Joshua never had much faith in
stocks or paper representing values. Lands
and buildings are deemed the safest investment.
The city tax on the property last year was in
the neighborhood of $65,000. The trustees,
three of them, have a “fat” thing of it; they re
alize some $20,000 each for the trouble of look
ing after this property.
Young Sears has none of the traits that dis
tinguished his father, and it is said by those
who know that he is a precocious youth. Ho
may turn out, however, to be a smart young
man; bnt it will require a large bnsines3 mind
to manage such a vast property.
Easily Remedied.
Tho Washington Republican says:
President Grant has carefully perused the re
port of the special committee on the decline of
American commerce and ship-building, and ha#
expressed his hearty approval of all its recom
mendations. He will probably shortly send in
a special message recommending immediate acc
tion npon tbe subject. He thinks that with onr
extended coast line, it is a shame that all onr
commerce must bo done in vessels of nations,
whose friendly feeling toward the United States
may be questioned; and that Congress shonld
without delay toko measures to remedy the evil.
So it is a shame. That’s jnst what we have
all said scores of times.' Bnt who’s to blame?
Certainly not Democrats and rebels, for they
have not been in power while the work was
done. When they were, American commerce
was in the flash of its fullest and most success
ful development. It swept the seas as with a
besom, and made envious rivals sick with des
pair. What has become of it ? Let those who
have murdered liberty and bankrupted the
treasnry, answer. If Congress is at a loss for
a speedy remedy for this evil, the country is
not. Torn Congress and the Radical party
ont to gross, and the thing is done. There can
be no real peace or prosperity for either the
States or any State, nntil a new political deal is
made.
Ain. James C. Southall, one of the most vig
orous writers in the editorial corps of Virginia,
has retired from the Richmond Enqnirer, on
account of a difference of opinion with the pro
prietors on the snbject of the settlement of pri
vate debts.
Homicide in Eatonton.
In a personal rencontre at Eatonton, on Tues
day last, T. G. Perryman vu shot and instantly
killed by Sandy Snther. Both were citizens of
Potaam oounty. . .;.l ' 'j
Great Britain.—Terrible galea have been
blowing along the coast of England. No vessel
ventured to leave the sheltering harbors, and all
communications with continental Europe were
suspended for awhile.
The debates in tho House of Commons are of
little intorest. A bill amending the existing
laws for life insurance companies, was Intro
duced. Mr. Torrens brought in a bill empow
ering the promoters of emigration to Canada to
raise funds for that purpose. Gladstone
strongly opposing it, tho proposition was re
jected by: 153 votes ta 48. Mr. Reynolds gave
notice of a proposal to reduce the Afrioan squad
ron. Gladstone promised the speedy introduc
tion of practical measures to promote popular
education in Scotland and Ireland. Tho system
of economy is faithfully practiced impll branches
af the Government. The free city of Hamburg,
Germany, having become a member of the
North German Confederation, Binoe 1866, the
appointment of a British Gonsnl in that city has
become snperflnons; the office of a British
Consul-General, at a salary of £2000 a year,
has consequently been abolished.
The House of Lords discussed the bill advo
cating a better observance of the Sabbath. A
bill for regulating the number of working hours
was also debated by the Peers.
Gladstone’s Irish Land Tenure bill is meeting
with an unfavorable reception in Ireland. His
proposed measures will hardly be able to alle-'
viate the sufferings of Ireland, the exclusion of
almost a whole people from the soil of their an
cestors. The English press urges the most se
vere measures for suppressing the disturbances,
in the Sister Isle.
Mr. Bright’s ill-health is creating mnch un
easiness.
The “City of Boston,” whioh sailed from
Halifax on January 28th, has not been heard
of yet. When leaving New York, she had about
thirty first cabin, and fifty steerage passengers
on board.
A dispatch from Marseilles, France, reports
that a steamer had foundered near the West
coast of Africa.
France.—The Ministry has suffered the first
defeat, and the blow came even from a quarter
where it was the last to be expected. It has
always been the system of the Government to
appoint for tbe Corps Legialatif official candi
dates, whose eleotions were seenred by the
most- corruptible means. In this manner the
Government always succeeded in commanding
a servile majority in the Chambers. The pres
ent Assembly, elected under the same circum
stances, is maiily composed of men who are
blindly devoted to the imperial dynasty.
Ollivier, true to his programme, proposed in
the Corps Logislatif to renounce that system
of appointing and supporting official candidates
for the Chambers. This declaration was met
with great opposition by tho “Right,” who ex
pressed their indignation by load protestations,
suspending tho debates for several minutes.
Order being restored, the Premier went on to
argue the necessity of the reform he advocated,
bnt not without being repeatedly interrupted.
Ollivier having concluded, the “Right” made a
motion to proceed with the bnsiness of tbe day,
and continue tie system of official candidates.
A stormy debate arose. The Minister gave
them to understand that this proposal was equal
to a vote of lack of confidence. The members
of the “Left" supported the ministry because
they had defended the liberty of elections. The
motion of the “Right” finally prevailed, by 187
to 50 votes.
The papers supporting the deputies of the
“Right”liave started their attacks npon Ollivier.
The man in the Tnileries must grow accustomed
11 the idea of dissolving the Chambers.
Though the present deputies have been follow
ing the star of Ollivier, they have no sympa
thies for him. Now he does not command the
confidence of either party. He is too liberal for
the “Right,” too imperialistic for the “Left.”
The Premier, surrounded by the most conflict
ing interests, has achieved everything possible
within the short time of six weeks. His path
is beset with intrigues, ill-will and suspicion.
A new Corps Legialatif, introducing new men
npon the scene, wonld probably render his po
sition mnoh easier. There are also signs of the
brewing storm to be found in the pnbiio press,
whion is growing impatient of the present stag
nation.
Another murder is reported. Meggy, an en
gineer, twenty years old, accused of high
treason, shot the police officer who had come to
arrest him. The victim expired immediately.
Many Americans were present at a ball given
in the Tnileries.
North German Confederation.—The Federal
Keichstag, despite Bismarck’s strennons opposi
tion, abolished the penalty of death.
Dr. Strausberg, a man risen from nothing to
fabnlons wealth has well deserved of the Berlin
poor.
The earlj part of the present winter was ex
ceedingly mild through the whole North of Ger
many, bnt after Christmas the cold became ev
ery day more severe, till even the best lodged
and moat comfortably clothed people fonnd it
almost insupportable. Tha sufferings of the
poorer classes were great. A committee of gen
erous citizens was formed to lessen the suffer
ings of the poor. Dr. Stransberg taking the
lead has not only distributed to fonr thousand
poor families a quantity of fuel sufficient for the
remainder of the winter, together with a small
snm to pay the cost of removal, bnt he has like
wise opened four kitchens in as many different
parts of the city, where for three hours each
day warm soup and meat are famished gratis
to all comers daring the bslsnoe of the cold
weather.
Many brilliant festivities, on account of the
Carnival season, had taken place in the capital.
The most brilliant was a ball given by the
Crown-Prince, for which nine hundred invita
tions had been issued.
Perhaps it may interest the lady readers of
yonr paper to know that the Crown-Princess ap
peared simply dressed in white, her only orna
ments being a few flowers in her hair and a set
of emeralds.
The programme of the great carnival proces
sion at Cologne, on the Rhine, where this popu
lar festival is regularly kept np for three dajs,
was very bizzarre this year.
Prince Carnival, who has witnessed the inau
guration of the Suez Canal, invites the Khedive
to Cologne. The latter accepts and presents
the city with a pyramid and an obelisk which
figured in the procession. There W6re farther
to be seen the soven fat and the seven lean kine,
the Sultan end hie harem, the Queen of the
night, Joseph in Egypt, the pavillion of Semi-
ratais, the Colossus of Rhodes, Potiphar’s wife
guarded by ennuchs, eto., etc.
Spain.—Don Carlos, th9 Pretender, is at
work, and the Carlists will again take the field
at the first opportunity. The Pretender, while
raveling with an Austrian passport, through
France, was arrested at Lyons, by the French
authorities, who recalled to his mind that he
was only allowed to sojottm in the North of
France. He was then esoorted to the French
frontier. Before his arrest he paid a visit to
theJex-Dnke of Modena, and made all prepara
tions to go to Spain and to rally bis partisans
around his banner.
The situation of the country is growing more
gloomy from day to day. Another dissension
is threatening in the Cortes between the parties
of the revolution and the defenders of the
Church, in consequence of a proposition to
prosecute the Archbishop of Santiago for high
treason. Misery and poverty are fast spread
ing over the land. In Madrid the workingmen-
thrown ont of employment, made a peaceful
demonstration by assembling before tbe Minis
try of-pnbiio works to- demand employment
Four thousand business places and manufacto
ries have been closed in Madrid, since the Sep
tember revolution. The destitution is so great
that many young women are crowding to the
hair-dressers’ shops to obtain the necessaries
of life from the sale of their tresses.
Italy.—The Roman papers have published a
Papal decree calculated to hasten the delibera
tions of the council.
Tho Bishop of Laval, France, has written a
letter to the effect that he would rather die than
subscribe to tho projects agreed upon in Rome.
France has cautioned tho Holy See. against the
proclamation of Papal infallibility. Alfonso,
tho Prince of Asturias, has received the first
holy communion from the hands of the Pope.
Nothing transpires as to the close, of the
connciL The Archbishop Darboy has written
to Paris that he expected to pass Easter at
home. There is a growing jealousy among all
foreign bishops against tbe Italians who prevail
everywhere, thongh the Catholic church is a
common one for. all nations.
The lower clergy are very dissatisfied to find
that the strictness of ecclesistiosl discipline is
likely to be increased. Some bishops have gone
so far as to propose to compel all priests to live
like monks in communities, thus forming con-
fra tern ties, as was the case in the earlier ages of
the church. The lower Italian clergy, who have
long been accustomed to a free and pleasant
life, wonld chiefly feel the weight of the reform,
whioh is principally supported by foreign
bishops.
A strange swindle is reported from Naples
and some other Sonthern cities. There have
been established banks which promise to pay
on all deposits interest at the rate of 10 to 20
per cent, a month, and some are even said to
have made good this extravagant promise. The
news that a bank in 8cilla has collapsed, bring
ing rain npon many families, can therefore
hardly surprise ns.
Russia.—In conseqneiloe of the conspiraoy
recently discovered in Russia, all travelers en
tering the Empire are snbjeoted to the most
rigorous examination. The anthorities are par
ticularly searching for revolutionary proclama
tions. The peiseontions of the Catholic Church
continue. A Catholic priest who had Bojourned
awhile abroad, as was alleged in Prussia, was
arrested after his retnrn in Wilna, under the
charge of having been in Rome, no priest being
allowed to go there without a special permission
of the Government. If he cannot refnte the
oharge he mast expeotto be banished to Siberia.
The intrepid conduct of another Catholic prelate
deserves to be mentioned here. The Bishop of
Samogitian has deposed a priest, Rnbsza, under
his jurisdiction for having introduced the Rus
sian servioe into his chnrch. , Jarno.
Admissions Into the Union. | Beport or the JaMthry
We take it for granted that in the space of a on the Reconstruction or
^sw days at farthest, Georgia will be again ad- j In compliance with resolutions ofT*
mitted into the Union. She is needed to make ate instructing its Judiciary Connni ^
np the tally for the Fifteenth Amendment, ex-! quire and report whether the Leeip*
elusive of Indiana and New York. But she Georgia has been- reorganized in -J
ratified the Fourteenth Amendment and was j , provisions ot the act passed'
’ resent session “tftnrnmntoik
A POPULAR DELUSION,
Early Rising: an Ingenious Humbug—let
tbe Snn Rise First.
Prom Appleton's Journal. \
There is no greater delusion than that which
imagines early rising important for health; no
greater error than that which places it among
the virtues. While early rising has been sang
in poetry, and advocated in proverbs from time
immemorial, it has been secretly and rightly
enrsed by its unhappy victims ever since civili
zation conceived the idea of comfort. Bnt we
are all so bound by law of custom, so endeared
to a proverb or a mnsty sentiment, that onr lips
continually give faint assent to the valne of
early rising, even while we long to resist the
tyranny which it imposes npon ns. What a
frightful aggregate of discomforts accumulate
npon a man who practices it through life—who
every day is ushered from sleep into the raw,
blank, chill, dull atmosphere of early morning,
and begins his day's existence before the snn
has dispelled the fogs, dried np the vapors,
warmed the air, and made ready, like nature’s
great servant of all work, as it is, the earth for
onr use.
Early rising means a harried dressing in a
dim, half-lighted room—a sleepy, yawning,
stnmbliDg descent down dark, cold stairways—a
rapid breakfast in a gray, cheerless, Bunless
room, while oold shivers ran down the back and
a sensation of dizziness creeps over the entire
body—and then a precipitate plnngo into the
mists, and vapors, and general rawness in the
day began in this way, and no health either.
The snn shonld be np before ns to give ns light
and warmth, and comfort; onr breakfast-room
should be cheerful with his beams, and onr
breakfast shonld be partaken with the ease, the
comfort, the deliberation, the social enliven-
ment, that can come only when we rise at a
rational hour. A breakfast eaten by candle
light, or snatched in the gray, chilling dawn, is
an abomination. Early rising, hence, opens
the day with keen discomforts. It is produc
tive of numerous social ills; it soars the stom
ach, promotes irritability, disorganizes the
nerves, creates bad temper, and makes domes
tic bliss a mockery. A voyager, long suffering
from sea-sickness, declared that, if once on
land again, he wonld devote the rest of his days
to hunting np and flogging the man who wrote
“A life on the ocean wave.”
Similar sentiments animate onr heart when
we recall that ancient distitch, “Early to bed
and early to rise”—bnt it is not necessary to
quote what we all know and have suffered from.
Another Kicking.
And now comes the Philadelphia Inqnirer,
heretofore one of their staunchest champions,
and “boots” the carpet-baggers as follows:
Let the South be represented in the councils
of the nation by the Sonth, and not by aliens of
the North whose ideas and principles are in di
rect and obnoxious antagonism to their own.
The experiment of sending “carpet-baggers” to
Congress has not thns far been snccessful; it is
only proper that a representative shonld be
what his title implies, and not exactly the re
verse of that
Poor devils! We shall have yet to protect
them, against their quondam friends. The
Inqnirer prefaces its snub of the O. B.’s with the
publication of a bill, introduced in the House
by Bnrchard, (Rad.), of Illinois, and some com
ments thereupon, whioh prove that Radical
sknlls—it is a pnre question of policy, we are
persuaded—are not quite so thick as they were
a year or two ago. Here are the bill aqd com
ments.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica, in Congress assembled: That whenever
the fifteenth article of amendments to the Con
stitution of the United States shall have been
duly ratified by the Legislature of any State of
the United States, and the Constitution and
laws of snoh State shall conform to the provis
ions of Baid article, all of the citizens of snch
State under any of the disabilities imposed by
the third seotion of article fourteen of amend
ments to the Constitution of the United States,
shall become, and thereby be, relieved of snch
disabilities.
The bill reoognizes the fact that has been
too long unrecognized, viz : that the rebellion
closed five years ago, and that all bnt a single
State among those which went ont in 1861 are
now again within the Union. All legislation
tending to favor the few against the majority is
wrong, and shonld in no instance be successful,
and the bills now before Congress which ask
that certain ex-Confedorates shall have all po
litical disabilities removed from them, while leav
ing them to remain npon other parties no less
guilty, are both improper and objectionable. If
one thousand rebels are to be pardoned, let
the same grace be extended to all political of
fenders, so that the restoration of tho South to
its place in the Union may consist not alone in
certain partial enactments, bnt in such general
legislation as shall convince the Sonthern
people that the era of good feeling accompa
nies their return to their old federal relation
ship.
counted on July 25, 1868, the Committee on
Elections, Dawes, Chairman, reporting the res
olutions of Georgia to Congress, with a recom
mendation that they be filed in the State De
partment, which was done. Following this pro
ceeding, Representatives from Georgia were
admitted to seats in the House, and prior to
that, in Jane, 1868, an act.of Congress passed
formerly declaring the Constitution of Georgia
republican in form and admitting hor right to
representation in Congress.
So we see that when Georgia is again admit
ted into the Union, nothing more will be done
than what was done before, and what may in all
hnman probability be done ag»in and often
done, whenever any party design is to be ac
complished. For it is substantially stipulated
and agreed that these so-called Sonthern States
shall be pnppets in the hands of tho Radical
party, not only as the helpless subjects of ex
periments in sociology and government, bnt
also as cat’s paws by means of which to inflict
these experiments npon the other States.
Thns this Fifteenth amendment is deliberate
ly imposed npon States acknowledged to be in
the Union, by a fraudulent manipulation of
States declared to be ont of the Union; and,
therefore, if they desired to do it, certainly not
entitled to prescribe fundamental law to govern
ments of whioh they are not components and to
which they hold no oo-eqnal relations. A vol
untary movement by one of these excised States
to amend the Federal Constitution, would be
treated with contempt as a piece of imbecility
and impudence. But a movement of that char
acter extorted and forced npon them by Con
gress, can have no greater force or validity. It
is alike a crowning insalt to these quasi States
and a flagrant usurpation and imposition upon
the others. The Fifteenth Amendment may
and will be dedared the fundamental law of
the Republic, bnt every man of honest heart
and sound head in the country must forget his
tory before he will case to blosh for it The
taint of fraud will attach to it so long as it re
mains in the Constitution; and if Integrity
hereafter asserts her snpremaoy in American
affairs, she will draw black expunging lines all
around and across it, to brand it with eternal
shame.
Bnt so long as Congress remains overwhelm
ing Radical it wonld be folly in the States of
the Sonth to infer that admission into the Union
confers the right to self government, or to any
thing like her old influence in the common pub
lic affairs of the country. A perpetual power
and right of surveillance over these States is
avowed by most of the leading Radicals in Con
gress, and it is 9xtremely doubtful whether any
election will be recognized, the results of which
will be importantly adverse to Radicalinterests.
The vote of Georgia in the last Presidential
election, which was as honest an election
as was ever held, wonld have been annulled if
of any consequence in respeotto the general re
sult. So will be the votes of all the Sonthern
States.
We therefore attaoh little or no consequence to
the admission of Georgia as securing any polit-
cal right to the people. Better days and great
changes most come before it will ever have that
effect. We may be in and ont of the Union
half a dozen times yet. Whenever the intelli
gence and patriotism of these Sonthern States
assert themselves by ballot, they will be in great
danger of going ont of the Union—that is to
say, when they don't vote the Radical ticket;
and as Georgia is not going to do that in a hur
ry, her situation, as Marryatt’s master carpen
ter said of his masts, most be considered as
vary “precarious and not at all permanent.”
Messrs. Bingham and Farnsworth.
The people of Georgia owe a debt of grati
tude to these gentlemen for their gallant de
fence of right, liberty, justice and republican
ism in the matter of the Georgia bilL Substan
tially we have no doubt Georgia and Messrs.
Bingham and Farnsworth seek the same end.
Georgia asks nothing bnt what is right We
wish to live in peace with all mankind and work
ont onr own salvation with the sweat of onr
brow. We are anxious cordially to co-operate
with the United States Government to secure
the ends of justice, peace and order.
The infamous falsehoods of the destructives,
that Ve seek to undermine the authority of the
Federal Government, or to deprive any citizens
thereof of life, liberty, property or the benefit
of equal rights and equal laws, we' hurl back in,
the teeth of the slanderers. These wicked men
seek only to batten on rain and disorder. There’s
not a decent white man in Georgia who is not
anxious to be a good citizen—to do justice—to
live in peace and to thrive by the arts of peace.
There can be no trouble with Georgia if the
Government is willing to aocept the duty and
the liberty of qniet citizens. Bnt the effort to
chain them as prisoners to the chariot wheels
of a miserable and corrupt faction, controlled
by worthless and characterless men, can never
succeed. When Congress evinces the slightest
disposition to be jnst, the hearts of the people
will leap np in grateful response to that indica
tion. Bnt pains and penalties—denunciation
and villifioation will evoke no other sentiment
than contempt.
We are glad to acknowledge the manliness of
Messrs. Bingham, Farnsworth and their col
leagues, who stood by them <in the test vote of
114. They have saved ns from mnoh loss and
trouble. They have done much to disarm onr
resentments and make ns feel that the United
States Congress is not dead to reason, patriot
ism and justice.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 7th, says
there is great excitement in the extreme South
ern counties over the discovery of new, rich
gold fields abont sixty miles from Santiago.
The quartz exhibited is free from Snlpherites
or other metals, and is literally fall of free gold.
People from the counties of Santiago and Los
Angelos have gone in large numbers for tho
mines.
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Bailor. Bollock, Blodgett.
Unexpectedly we find ourselves called npon to
condole with this illustrious trio npon being laid
flat on their backs. We My unexpectedly, for we
had made np onr minds that they would at least
carry the House, and the chances were rather
in their favor that they would get their bill
through the Senate. It is not often in these
times that an honest man, who looks for nothing
bnt misery and misfortune, is disappointed.—
According to onr best opinion Satan was un
chained in the year 1860, and has now nine
hundred and ninety years to ran riot
through the universe; and how he happened to
fail Bntler, Bollock, and Blodgett last Tuesday
in the House of Representatives, is a point
which requires explanation.
But from present reports it certainly appears
that Satan broke down in the House of Repre
sentatives. The Georgia bill, so-called, passed
with the Bingham amendment, which takes ont
its sting. The Bingham amendment knocks
swelling Bntler spang in the head. It provides:
1. That the offices now filled in Georgia,
either by election or appointment, shall not be
vacated.
2. That the official terms shall not be extend
ed beyond the time limited by the Constitution.
3. That tho eleotions as appointed by the
Constitution and laws, in 1870, shall take place.
This amendment was adopted by yeas 114;
nays 72, and the bill as amended passed, yeas
125; nays 55.
Onr confidence in hnman nature revives a lit
tle npon this intelligence. The demon of wrong
and miarole, is sometimes unhorsed and does
not always ride roughshod over the people.
Some little, feeble glimmering of sense, reason
and oonscienee is still left in the Congress of
the United States.
Bntler, Bollock and Blodgett are unhorsed,
and all their “reconstruction,” like the apples
of Sodom, has tamed to SBhes on their lips.
Doabtless they will do the State immense wrong
in the brief interval left to them. They will
gather together their bogus Legislature, and
flash their insane and malignant fury over the
State daring the brief interval of a single ses
sion and of ten months. Daring this time they
they can inflict immense mischief on tbe people.
Half the world oonld be burnt np in that space.
Bnt they needed a new lease of power to ac
complish all their schemes, and that they have
failed to obtain.
Let the people of Georgia, therefore; be
patient and prudent. Next fall, by the blessing
of God, we will elect a Legislator* which Bhall
redress the injustice and misery whioh may be
inflicted npon ns, and protect the interests of
the people as far as possible. Meanwhile, the
knowledge that the people of Georgia will pass
npon the doings of the Atlanta agency daring
the current year, may go far to save the State
from wrong and misfortune.
present session “to promote the rceon , '■
ot that State,” and whether any f u „rl
lation is necessary upon the subject It
ganization of the provisional Leebi''
Georgia, the committee this moraine
report, whioh was presented by 3l r f 4
. '-The report recites the manner oftfc?!
ization of tho provisional State eoverr
1868, the tact of its approval by the *
commander of the district, the subset
pulsion of the negro members of the I
ture, and the consequent passage lwri
ot the act of December 22,1869? whl?'.
upon the General Assembly of the Rsi
exclusive right to perfect its oreaiSr
I here, being no room for interference i
struction conferring such authority tit h?
the Governor or military commands?
this act, the Governor of Georgia
the persons elected to the Legkwl
named in a proclamation of Gen M
assemble in Atlanta on January l(j
a quorum of the Senate took theW-L 1
scribed and organized as prescribed bvttl
. Jno report details the circutnstaiJ.r 1
ing the organization of the House oil
seutatives and the part taken by o~!|k
not a member or officer, but who W i
desmated to call the body to order by T -1
ernor, and calls attention to theiacttUt
continued to preside and to adjournth
from time to time, at his own pleas®*?'
out consulting the House. He «ik 1 '
mined what persons who appeared?!?
bers should be permitted from daytl
take the prescribed oath and take 42 ■
. This proceeding was ratified by theiks
in command at Atlanta, who, subsemS
the passage of the act of December^!
had been appointed to the commands?
gia as a military district, under the ■
March .2, 1867. A statement ri then tm»
the action of Gen. Terry in directing tkl
elusion of certain parties from the Le»tir
until their cases should be favorablyiesl
upon by a military commission which jj
ganized. Three members elect were tkl
eluded, and the admission of other iff
was delayed until they should be relievjl
their political disabilities.
Upon this history the committee iij
strained to say that, in its opinion, theh
above mentioned action of the militaryq
ties was not authorized by law. The lL
ture elected in Georgia was intended hjfl
gress to take the place ot the provisional
ernment as a permanent one. This see®!
feotly clear, and the same view was talJ
the General of the army by his order tea
Meade of March 2,1S66.
The correction of any misapprehcu,
the act of Congress could be made l?]
gress, but not by the military. The com!
argue further in support of this view, fal
“It is due to the General in command J
that circumstances j ustify the committee J
porting that his whole conduct in the]
was under the sincere belief that he i
ing within the scope of his lawful anL
and that under the circumstances oil
difficulty aud delicacy he conducted!
although outside of the law, in such at
as to command the personal respect ul
fidence of all parties concerned. {
The committee also believe that th|
sons excluded, who desired to qualify, s
have violated the act by taking the <k
that there was no actual injustice done.]
action of the House in afterwards
persons who had been candidates mis|
persons who had been excluded, but res
only a minority of the votes cast, iit
ered by the committee unwarranted id
and the persons then admitted areuiq
fully entitled to seats in the Georgia\es
tore. The committee therefore report a
the first resolution that in the folloral
spects the organization of said Leeiilirel
not been warranted by lawFirst, ill
control and direction of its proceedings byl
second, in the exclusion from takinil
oaths and from seats of the three
elect who offered to swear: third, in the!
ing of the persons not having a major!
the votes of the election. In respect :|
second resolution, before recited, rallisyf
the committee to report whether any fd
legislation is necessary in respect to thed
ization of the Legislature of Georgia |
committee report that a full hearing ml
en to both sides of the controversy therJ
the representatives of the great body of {
who contend that the proceedings i
said have been illegal and irregular exp
their willingness that Congress should r
from further interference with the ora
tion and composition of the Legislatinl
leave it to proceed in the exercise of itik*
tive functions, notwithstanding the:
above mentioned, if the provisions of thee?
tution of Georgia and the organization :,
convention could be carried out, providit?!
fresh election ofone-halfof theSenatonsf
the members of the House of Representu
in November, 1870. The other party j:
what has taken place, and, of course, >
to any action on the subject.
In this condition of affairs, inasmuch^
errors of the General in command of
do not appear to have worked any |oio*'
j ustice in point of factj and as the error
ing the minority candidates was cornmid!
the House of Representatives in exerij
right ordinarily belonging to it, in thesi
stance; and inasmuch as itappearscerffij
the terms of office of the members of thef
gia Legislature and of its State goversstf
expire at the same time that they ww»J
done had the State been fully restore! j
place in the Union in July, 18GS, andf
commence or run from the date of its S
admission to representation without
to what might be tbe legal or literal c-g
tion of tbe last clause of the second wwjL
of the first section of the third articiejj
constitution, the committee, feel jusoT
omitting to recommend any further ]®]
on the subject of organizing the Legis-'
Senator Hill.—We hear that Senator Hill
has received a dispatch from Washington to
come on there as affairs are lighting up. We
shall be glad if Mr. Hill finds it sunrise when
he gets there.
Cold.—Yesterday morning the mercury stood
at pins twenty-eight, when we first loeked at
it, say a little before seven o’eloek. Of coarse
the lowest point was much lower than that.
The trial of McFarland, who shot and killed
the free love adnlterer, Richardson, will com
mence in New York on the first Monday in
April
These are sensible words from th« 1
Democrat:
If the present decline in the prt<*“
ton will have the efTeot of causing the r_
to plant more corn, it will be fortanate -Jl
country. We donbt' the prosperity »|
farmer who has his bread to bay et wjj
Certain it is that the price of cottas u •*’1
carious that a man ehonld expend *U “‘J
of a year, relying npon it alone for tr
supply of breadstuff's. We have not
any one yet who, if he can eat ootton«
self, will be willing to feed his family,
attempt to fatten his stock on it. Tbs
of making sure of bread and then
whatever else the farmer might choostl
cidedly the best, and it will have a greil
in bringing np the price of cotton, too.
The hope of the safety of the steasj
of Boston is by no means abandon
London.
North Carolina imposes no restf
upon the marriage of first cousins, a® ! i
already received several emigrants
Hampshire. I
The caisson for the foundation of “jj
pier of the East River bridge will cost"
000 when delivered ready for sinking.
The submarine cable from Bombay
to Aden, at. tbe mouth of the Red,'
been successfully laid by the Great J
There is a movement in Ne»
bring down the price of “bar drinks
ante-bellum standard of ten cents.
The Suk-ly of Ice.—The New YorkP]
Post says:
Ice speculators, contractors, cos
the Southern manufacturers must, hi frj
be in quite a muddle over the cos
counts about the crop of the coai&fj
The average of these acoounte
thru promises ft full supply—to***' f
supply ftt the usual prices. The
talk abort an toe fever now eptdemw
|ton. A Lewistown journal ss3^®^ fl
few York are in that pUoe, '
and as nervous as a person in
that all the aaw mills are engaged
enough to pat up toe bouses along
The Prerident signed, on Saturfay, a bill es- j Z^&K™***** J
tabliahisg a large number of new postal route* | ^ hM*nte u will be trots
at the Sooth. hat river thl* winter.
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