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AND OEORG-IA J OXJRTvT^VL & ' MESSENGER. rjjg^y j REID & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING l^jBLISIIED 1S26. MACON, TUESDAY, APRIL *26, 1870. VOL LXIV-m 36 for the Telegraph and Messenger. . jollier's Retrospection.. i. ^ gem of rarest splendor, X,ste from its casket elirine, IJjil gain'd w0 possession, I fondly called it mine. ir. I Visaed it with my treasures, Gj« it * rnhy’e place; It woke afresh my pleasures \ts I its glories traced. in. j *...(1 my harp for gladness. f.nvpt its cords of gold, jpjaot ar«7 of sadness C«ne o’er my tranquil soul. IT. Sli!a blithesome days were gliding like streamlets to the sea; A shade fell on my Tision, A darksomo shade to me. v. 2y Gem of sparkling beauty, All radiant with the light, lias from my presence riven, And hidden from my sight. VI. Ob God—I cried for anguish Are these thy wys to man! Axe there no treasures given Which may to ua remain ? vn. A voice of sweeteet cadence, Repressed my rising moan; ••That Gem to thee so preciona, Row uecks the Saviour’s Crown.” gtroiUMt, March, 1870. (Written for the Telegraph and Messenger.) ••Six O’ClocIi.” o’clock;” the lond bells are ringing, Atdthe*o ,tm an lowers his brawmy arm now, AdJ lbs drop o f water like crystals are clinging, I a* is !*«• l- 3 throbbing ’heated brow. j|»tbe a (ioaght in his heart is springing. Of a trigM little head at the window pane, jOjie the thought of a sweet voice singing, i j. /ending that smile to his lips again. ^“sir o’clock” and the fire is flinging, I jKfteoed light o’er a loving face; I asl tsch moment’s time is nearer bringing, I iiearous home to Ida resting place. I Asd a bright little face ’gainst the window is laid, Ilale the soft curls borrow the sun’s last ray, Jtd the laughing eyes that the dimpled hands shade, Appearing in eagerness over the way. line ’papa' has come,” and she bounds to the door, Asd be clasps her to him in a loving embrace; Here’s another's caress to add to his store, Far other lips ton* his brown bearded face. Oh! welcome so sweet to the dear toiling one, Hrice blessed repose from the world’s busy care; iod he locks on the comforts his labor has won. And he smiles for he knows that “his angels" aro there. Mvba. ifdco.i, (!a. Rower of Nhort Words. The late Professor Addison Alexander, D. D., is the author of the following remarkable composition, thick appeared originally in the Princeton Maga zine-. MOSOSYLLABICS. Think not that strength lies in tbo big round word, Or that the brief and plain mnst needs be weak. To whom can this be true who once has heard The ay for help, the tongue that all men speak, When want, or woo. or fear is in the throat, So that each word gasped ont is like a shriek Priesed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note, Song by eoma fay or fiend ? There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or span too fine. Which lias more height than breadth, more depth than length. let but this force of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may tako the slick, fat phrase, Which glows and horns not, though it gleam and shins— light bat not heat—a flash, but not a blaze! Koris it mere strength that the short word boasts, Itserves of moro than fight or storm to tell. Be roar of waves that clash on rock-bound coasts, The crash of tall trees when the wild winds swell, Be roar of guns, the groans of men that die Ua blocd-stained fields. It has a voice as well rorthea that far off on their sick beds ho; for them that weep, for them that mourn the dead; forthem that laugh and dance, and clap the hand; To joy V quick step, as well as grief’s slow tread. Be west, plain words we learnt at first keep time. And thcmzli the theme be sad, or gay, or grand, ski each, with all, these may bo made to chime In thought, cr speech, or song, in prose or rhyme. [For the Telegraph and Messenger.] Wlint Then. Aiyoa! to-day he loves me well—he said he did, hi I am to him what no other hath been, Thfifor to-dar, but when the summer dream is | M-. To-*ttrow—what then? ft* foolish heart, oh hush! oh happy heart be Mill! f* tnamer skies are not moro cliangeable than a®; *hils to-day one lives with joyous lovo they fill- To-oarrow—what then ? 0| if be should prove false who ever seemed so true, Andltiml all my hopes to-day to have been vain. Ill make a little garden and plant in it rue, To-aorrow—what then ? Fell be it eo. That’s one of “Woman’s Bights”— to shot Her eyes to all such faults and foibles in yon men, ltd novor dream to-day, yon moan to fool us—but o-morrow—what then ? hi then—and then—let’s se6—ahem! maybo r.’l find other charmer who will mitigate my pain; Aadwben we meet again next time, I wont remind might have been!” Ione. 14/A, 1870. •Yeriri telegraphic correspondence Courier-Jour nal. | Molest against the Funding Bill. HhsHisGiow, April 15.—Ton national banks c ‘ Hartford, Conn., representing a capital of "weight millions of dollars, havo sent hero a formidable protest against the passage of the funding bill. Alter denouncing the eighth sec- *°° to making a forced loan, they soy it will place in the market such u volume of bonds bearing a higher rate of interest as to defeat funding of those having a lower rate of in- fwest, a consideration deserving attention, in- Wmuch as compulsion is only imposed in the **** of the banks. They add that, if compelled *° accept the provisions of the eighth section, of the New England and country banks '■buld continue their business and pay reasona- dividends, and many which havo small de posits would have to discontinue banking alto- 8»lher, which resnlt would damage business. ‘My say they are not actuated by selfish mo- *"•*! bnt speak from conviotion, and go on to Mclare that business throughout the country is Paralyzed, not for want of competition, bnt be- “use business men see success or ruin insopa- abiy cinnocted with this funding bill. Why is •. thoy inquire, business is at a stand-still, new tterprizeg aro not undertaken, and that during ■ 9 *•** three month fifty millions of capital t . baen accumulated in the New York banks, •j.i n K : dle there and awaiting employment? «y estimate the losses daring the suspense er this bifi at a large amount, and as Congress adopt for its polioy “ let well enough alone.” Enoch Arden. BY “THE FAT CONTRIBUTOR.’ ’ Enoch Arden appears at Wood’s theatre every night Enoch was a seafaring inan, who, in his youth, fell in love with Annie Lee— “Tho prettiest little damsel in tho port,” as Mr. Tennyson so prettily informed ns. The prettiest little d—n sell in the port now is the logwood they make it of; bnt that is neither here nor there, though it is probably more here than anywhere else. Enoch had a rival in the person of Phillip Ray, whose father run a'grist-mill. Thi3 cir cumstance, probably, made Phillip a little mealy-mouthed about telling his love, and Enoch being a good talker, why, ’c blocked him dean ont of time. When little children, the three used to play keeping house in— “A narrow cave, run m beneath the cliff.” . Enoch was man of the house one day and Phillip the next, Annie being mistress all the time. As there was no other woman in the house for her to quarrel with, she was entirely happy, or would have been had it not been for the “men folks” carrying on so. Enoch wanted to boss tho house all the time, and Phillip thought they should boss it by turns. Then they quarrelled about the rent, and dis- E uted their gas bills. To make peace in the irnily she said “she would be little wife to both,” ignorant, apparently, of the prevailing laws against bigamy. But when they grew up, this triangular house-keeping wouldn’t do —of course not; and so Phillip never told his love, or anybody else; but Enoch did, and was accepted on the word go. And Ene. got to be a fisherman, catching great quantities of black bass, off Put-in-bay, white fish, Lake Superior trout, etc., which ho sold in the mar ket and put his money in the bank. Before he got to have a vote in his ward, he owned his own boat, which was a thimble-rigged schooner, with a top-gallant jitpoop, clewed abaft the keel to the mizzen-yard, and a very remarkable sailor it was, too, as we are. Then Enoch and Annie were married, all the fish ermen coming to the wedding, and dancing “Fisher’s Hornpipe” until nearly morning, when they had to go out and look after their night-line. Happy years passed away as the years will pass away, whether they are happy ones or not. Then Enoch met with an incident. In a match game of mast climbing, for the championship of the State and the champion mast (gold mounted and inlaid with pearl,) he fell and broke his leg. DuriDgtheillness that ensued he was offered the position of boat swain on a China-bound vessel. He accepted, and recovering sufficiently to climb a mast with the assistance of a pair of crutches, he went (first setting Annie up in business in a small grocery,) and that was the last heard of Enoch for many a long year. Mrs. Arden struggled on against adversity, the only ray of hope or happiness that lighted her dark path being Philip, who very generously sent her children to the select school to be educated at his own expense. When all hopes of Enoch’s return were relinquished, Philip, whose love was undiminishea, proposed to the Widow Arden, and was accepted. That night she had a vision. She dreamed she saw Enoch “under the palm” (like the surreptitious “Bower” in the hand of a corrupt euchre- player,) but this did not delay preparations for the wedding. They were married, and for the second time the bells they went ringing for Annie. But Enoch, what of him? His ship was wrecked, and he cast away upon the Island of Juan Fernandez, which, however rich in his toric associations, having been the summer re sort of the late R._ Crusoe, was rather lone some to one of social habits. There Enoch lived in solitude for fourteen long years, doing his own cooking, washing, ironing and mend ing. Occasionally he thought he descried a sail in the distance, but, alas! it would prove to be a sale in which poor Enoch was the only article “sold.” At length a vessel did put in at the island for wood and water, and found “the long-haired, long-bearded,” for it must be remembered that there wasn’t a barbershop ofl the whole island. Him they took on board ship and brought home. They found him strangely ignorant regard ing what had been going on in the world du ring the past fourteen years. He knew noth ing of the firing on Sumter, didn’t know there had teen a war, hadn’t heard of the Fifteenth Amendment, and wasn’t posted on the Bible question. He was incredulousin regardtothe Atlantic cable, didn’ t believe a word about the Pacific railroad, derided “Route No. 9,” and, great heavens! couldn’t sing “Shoo-fiy.” One pleasant afternoon Enoch reached his native town, where he learned that his present wife, supposing her late husband to be dead, had married another. What did Enoch do ? Did be get drunk, go tearing into the house, stand Phillip on his head, take gentle Annie under his arm and walk off on his ear ? Did he go into the courts to get possession of the “children,” who don’t want to be got posses sion of—as the most of the Enoch Ardens do who turn up in the newspapers—and make an ass of himself generally ? Not any. He took one look at them through a bow window, re alized at a glance that they were not at all— “Lonely to-night, love, without thee,” and so, like a sensible man as he was, deter mined not to say anything at all about it, and he didn’t, until he revealed it to his landlady jnst before his decease, as a partial recom pense for his board. Although a woman, she FROM WASHINGTON’. Designs or the Radicals Upon the South— Morton’s Speech and Edmond’s Dressing —Hamilton, Bo reman, Pooland Bollock "Washinoton, April 16, 1870. Editors Telegraph and MessengerThe Radical plot against tho South is developing itself daily. The carpet-bag journals in the South have taken their cue from Washington) and commenced the manufacture of Hu-Klax outrages—murders of Union men, and such other slanders upon the Southern people as their masters require. These parasite sheets, one and all, caU for martial law; for the organization of loyal militia, and for tho continued disfran chisement of tho white popnlation, tho tax-pay- lie knew these people ; he teas bom and raised among them, and they tcere themost bloodthirsty set of cut-throats that God had oecr raised on his footstool. It is generally conceded that no'man ever succeeded better in fouling his own nest than did Mr. Hamilton yesterday. If ever a man de served to wear hempen laurels he does; arid I know of no more fitting ornament to a Texas live-oak than Morgan C. Hamilton. The best proof of tho untruthfalness of hi3 statements, is that ho left Texas alive, and as a United States Senator! ■ . . ■ Mr. Boremar, (appropriately named,) made an argument on the organization of the Georgia Legislature, to which no one listened. If lis- thu, ia 5n toned to , K could not have been understood, for ers and the property-holders. All this is in. nc- i „ — ... . * ■, cordance with tho programme arranged by the I t was evident tna. Mr. B. did n t understand hunseU what he was talking about, ana he final- pei I 0 kept the secret (the only instance, we believe, on record,) until he was dead, when it was made known to the Ray family, and Phillip, with a liberality that did him honor, defrayed his funeral expenses with the utmost cheer fulness. If it had been his own funeral he couldn’t have done more. Carrier Pigeons. It has been proposed to send carrier pigeons to sea with steamers, in order that in case of accident notification might be sent to land. Wo might thus have had news of the City of Boston. There has, however, been adiscus- sion as to the distances which these birds fly. A great deal of popular misconception exists with regard to the powers of pigeons to per form great distances. It is commonly sup posed that it is only necessary to take carriers to a distance of several hundred miles from home, and they will unerringly return. This is contrary to the fact. Although pigeons of the carrier breed possess wonderful instinct, and are endowed with extraordinary “homing” powers, yet, to enable them, to fly great dis tances, they must be regularly trained. When properly trained, however, there is no doubt that they can perform marvelous journeys. At the present date, with the powers of the electric telegraph at our command, we ao not utilize the instinct of the pigeon nearly so much as was done in former times when no telegraphs existed. But even at the present day our neighbors on the Continent cultivate the powera of the carrier much more than we do. In Belgium tho annual pigeon fly causes as much excitement and is the subject of as much betting as the Derby. Last July up wards of 1,200 carriers were sent from Brus sels to a place 520 miles southwards, near T< u’ajsc, and the winning bird, starting at 5 o’tl >ck on a Saturday morning, flew into Brus sels at 11 o’clock on Sunday morning, having pi rormed the distance of 520 miles jn about rveity hours. More remarkable instances rhan this are on record. The journey from Davlish to London—200 miles—was perform ed by carriers in about three and a half hours. [Baltimore Gazette. Radical leaders here. Their design is to take Ihe South again by the throat. They know that with general amnesty proclaimed, and a fair election, there is not a Southern State which would not repudiate Radicalism. The election of a Democratic President in 1872 would bo a foregone conclusion. This would cause the complete downfall of the Radical party. It contains within itself even now the elements of disintegration. The discords and disagrement now partially smothered and concealed in the interests of the party, would burst forth, tho moment defeat stared Radicalism in the face. It is a struggle of life and death. The South will be throttled, strangled, and robbed, that the Radical party may live. It need not hope for garrisons of United States troops. The re duction of the army famishes the required ex cuse, that no troops can be spared to garrison the South; that they are needed on the frontier to protect settlers from the Indians. A negro militia, officered by carpet-baggers, will be or ganized in every Southern State, and their power will bo supreme. They will have full license to rob, bom, pillage and destroy; and bow ready loyal militiamen are to avail them selves of these privileges, the people of Arkan sas can tell. If, under these circumstances, a State should dare to vote down tho carpet-bag gers and scalawags who had fastened themselves npon her, Congress will again intervene and apply new tortures. The Southern people will not be permitted to vote for a Democratic Pres ident at tho next election. That i3the long and short of it. The dominant party will modify its policy to suit the exigencies of the case; bnt a negro militia for the Sonth, and the placing of that section under military rale, are the ini tial features of their present programme. Note the speeches of carpet-bag Senators and Repre sentatives. One and all, they urge these meas ures with aU the ability of the men they pay to write their speeches. . They want a national mil itary police for the Sonth. The glitter of the bay onet, the predatory raids on hen-roosts and barn yards, the evanishing of wardrobes, not to men tion the murder of Southern men by “loyal militia,” have for these carpet-bag heroes subtle and fatal fascinations. They cannot go home unless this thing is done. Every man of them wants a body gaard of negro militia to protect him from tbo Kn-EInx! Then, when they get this, they will clamor right soon for United States troops to protect them from tho “loyal militia.” With this martial array, and the car pet-baggers combined, the Southern people will have a nice time of it; and anything that is not stolen from them, will not be worth stealing. But* “loyal men” mnst be protected, yon know. Radicalism must be saddled on the country for yet another four years. These aro necessities of the Radical party. If, meanwhile, th^-South is again laid waste, her people murdered, or driven away, and their property stolen or des troyed, it matters little—to tho Radical party. Morton’s speech on the Georgia bill, on Thursday last, was truly a blood and thunder affair. It i3 generally thought that ho quite oversnot the mark. As the paid advocate of Bullock—for such he is considered here—it is believed he injured, rather than advanced the cause of his client. Mr. Edmunds, who follow ed, used his powers of sarcasm quite freely. Referring to the alleged outrages in Georgia, he said: “Now, I ask Senators to pause on this busi ness. Here we have these frightful outrages. Here we have the armies of tho United States and the Governor of Georgia and the whole of bis exeontive power and people behind him to the number of one hundred thousand or more who are onr friends, who are the victims, one by one, of tbeso outrages, who seem to havo folded up their arms and suffered, in absolute silence, without any retaliation, or effort at self-protection, except to blindly ask Congress to extend the term of office of two hundred legislators for a couple of years. Do not the laws of Georgia now provide' for tho punish ment of crime? Everybody agrees that they do. They are as .complete as any laws need to be. Do not the laws of Georgia provide for sheriffs? Certainly they do, and there they are. The Governor has a right to the posse comitoius in each county; he has a right to call on the whole power of the State and of the United States in a legitimate and lawful way, and why has he not done it ? Why have not the people of Georgia shown some spirit abont this matter and defended themselves ?” And again: “The people of Georgia are not to be asked to do anything to take care of themselves; the ar my of the United States which is kept there is not to pnt martial law in force, hang up these men as they can be caught, or shoot them when they cannot catch them; but you are to cure all this evil by the simple and silent force of de claring in two lines that Tom, Dick and Harry, who have been elected to the Legislature of that State, or not elected, as some of them were not, shall hold for two years more.” Mr. Edmnnds gave Mr. Morton a sharp .thrust. Referring to a former speech of the Indiana Senator, in which he had attempted to ridicnle the report of the Jndiciary Committee. Mr. Edmnnds said: “Envy is one of those passions of the hnman mind that sometimes takes possession of the noblest souls. It may be that this accounts for this method of complaining of our report in this respect, for I learn that the good Bottom, friend and companion of Snug, felt very badly because he conld not play the lion, and com plained of it loudly and insisted to his fellow- players that he should play the part instead of Snug; and he said—I quote from memory, and I may, therefore, not give the language exactly correct—“Let me play the lion too: I will roar that will do any man’s heart good to hear me; I will roar that the Chronicle shall, say, let him roar again! [Laughter.] Let him roar again! [Laughter.] I say, Mr. President, that this being an erudite matter, as to which I am not perfectly versed, I may possibly not have got the language correctly; but certain it is that my friend has given us the benefit of the second roar that the play to which he alluded author ized him to do.” The allusion to envy will be clearly under stood, when it i3 remembered that Morton thinks he should havo a place in the Judioiary Com mittee. Senator Hamilton, of Texas, made his maiden speech yesterday, and opened the debate on the Georgia bill. The speech is said to have been, written for him by Senator Revels, who erijoyed the reading of it‘exceedingly. The manuaferigt< mnst have been sbghtly illegible, for Hamilton boggled over it terribly.' He said the adoption of the Bingham amendment would be the death knell of Republicanism, not only in Georgiabut in all the Southern States. It was a mistaken clemency on the part of the Republicans to abol ish the test oaths and military commissions. He did not at present favor the admission of Geor gia, the people of that State were not yet fit for self-government. He wished to speak respect fully of the army of the United States, bnt he thought that it needed reconstruction as muoh as many of the rebel States. The rebellion was not yet suppressed, the intelligent and wealthy people of the South were still hostile to tho Government. They were now waiting with bated breath until the States were all restored, Jy came to a conclusion; and it was “that Geor gia is not in a fit condition to bo admitted.” Mr. Pool slopped over on all sides of the ques tion, bat eventually declared in favor of milita ry rale for the Sonth; and endorsed Drake’s amendment for legalizing tbo robbery and mur- dor of tbo Southern people. /.T-" J ( After deciding to take a final vote on the Georgia bill at C p. si. on Tnesday next, the Senate adjourned until Monday. Tho resnlt is considered very doubtful by those best informed. The vote Thursday on Williams’ amendment can hardly be considered a test. Quite a num ber of Democrats were absent from their post; several carpet-bag Senators dodged the issue by leaving their seats daring the calling of the roll, and bnt two-thirds of the Senate voted. The Biugham amendment is given up by most per sons, though some still ding to the idea that it will be adopted. A more general opinion is that Mr. Pomeroy’s substitute will be accepted. The question has assumed so many phases of late that it is difficult to follow it, or to predict the final result. Some friends of Georgia here are saying to Radical Senators: “Well, if we are not fit to be admitted, put us under military rale. We shall be content with that.” Bul lock persists in saying that it doesn’t make the slightest difference to him how tho matter tnras out, but of course no one believes him. If he is so careless as to the resnlt, why has he spent so many weeks lobbying here ? Bollock and Representative (and carpet-bag ger) Clarke, of Texas, were the only persons who congratulated Senator Hamilton yesterday on the delivery of his speech, in which he called the Southern people “cut-throats and knaves.” “Birds of a feather,” etc. The House was engaged yesterday on bills relating to the District of Columbia. Both houses have adjourned over until Mon day. The fifteenth amendment, anti-Bowen torch light procession last evening was a “big thing.” The President spoke his usual “stick-full.” Yesterday was summerish; to-day is win- terisli. _ Dalton. Clubs. In consequence of the prominent position as sumed by the Central City Club of Macon, among the institutions of the Empire State of the South, a dissertation on tho subject of clnbs in general, may not be inappropriate or unin teresting, especially to tho lady readers of the Teleobaph and Messengee. Clubs are institutions designed by Providence for the happiness of mankind. Satan has also asserted his prerogative and founded some par ticular species of tho organization for his own peculiar purposes. Clubs are of very ancient origin, and of mani fold characteristics, all of which will be served up in A 1 perspicuity and eloquence in this effu sion. The first Terrestrial Club of which we havo any authentic history, was raised in the neigh borhood of tho Garden of Eden—it was an Mel affair, and wsb first got up by Cain—he remain ed the chief manager while it waa flourishing, and when it went down, it busted Abel—who wa3 the Treasurer. It may be parenthetically remarked here, that Abel has bad many sncces sors, and therefore, that office is not much hankered after by his descendants. It is generally supposed that Abel played a “foul shot” on Cain, and pocketed the white ball, and that ended the institnlion as above de scribed. Hence, “holiDg the white” has been nniversaily dispised among respectable billiard- iats ever since. Clnb3 formed a very important feature in the body politic of the ancients, nearly all disputes being referred to some of these institutions, and their decisions were seldom ‘ 'reversed" or “car ried up," although the disputants often were, A few clnbs introduced into our modem juris prudence might be a good thing. My assertion th3t clubs are of divine origin, is folly established by the fact that Orion has run a club in the heavens ever since the world was originated, and it is one of the star institu tions of that celestial community, too. Orion is supposed to have made his money by getting a “comer” on a “great bear” and “skinning” nim; hence the popular astronomical allegory, to the effect that ho always has a lion skin with him—a pretty close approximation to the trath, as it would be very difficult to distinguish a lion from n bear skin at that distance. Skeptics need not accuse astronomers of “lyin,” on ac count of this slight inaccuracy. This also ac counts for the fact that, modern “operators” in stocles are generally encased in “lyin" slcins. Jim Fisk would be a dangerons rival to Orion if there was any chance of his gotting to heaven to operate on him. Hercules was a celebrated club manager, and he attained to so much renown in that line that history has celebrated bis arduous “Labors” in poetry and prose. Among other exploits, he cleaned ont the Augean stables, and this achieve ment probably inspired onr modern clubs with the disposition to “clean out” anything that comes in their way. He also cabbaged a cele brated “Golden Fleece,” and his successors are noted for fleecing their cotemporaries to this day, which illustrates the human tendency to admire and pattern after “the good old times." The Emperor Charlemagne hada tremendous club, and be introduced it wherever be went. Many of his most inveterate enemies had their heads full of it, in spite of their strenuous efforts to keep from joining it. It is generally believed that their domestic difficulties always terminated very soon after their first meeting with this club, whereas modern people find their’s commence about that time ; ail of which goes to prove that the ancients had the best of us in somo things, at least The ancients were always “clubbing” to gether, and this accounts for the enormous strength of their head pieces, and the facility with which they generally avoided meeting any “knotty" issues, that frequently arose in their discussions: also, for the enormons number of “ punches” they conld snstain without being “laid on the table.” Modern society has succeeded in introducing so many innovations npon the grand old club of ancient days, that it is a difficult matter for an unsophisticated yontb to do justice to all of them. We have the “ Literary Club,” which is heavy on “late suppers,” and “Green Beal the “■Social Qlulfr',*Which quarrels incessantly on all the topics of the day; “the‘•Temper ance Club,” which allows no “punches,” except on the very sly ; and last (one of Beelzebub’s best efforts) the “ Sorosis Club," which has for its object the total annihilation of well-cooked domestio provender, well regulated and full but toned garments, and the complete disruption of the proverbially sweet temper of Pater Familias of high and low degree. But, none of these pestilent institutions of Satan are any relation to, or reproach npon, the true old-fashioned club—that revered sanctum sanotoram; where the lord of creation seeks new inspiration after the toils of the day, by means of whioh he i intends to go home to his other fraotion, and perfectly overwhelm her with the now moral and intellectual delights which his bigoted opposition to these institutions, and thank their stars that the guardian genius their sex had established clnbs for their own special benefit. Nobly does the seif-denying head of the family straggle to secure the nec essary lucre to pay his monthly does, and thereby prevent his suspension and the consequent de privation of his unappreciative family from the untold benefits accruing from his association with kindred spirits, whose chief object is the promotion of happiness in the hearts of the gentler sex Oh 2 woman, woman! cease thy thoughtless persecution of this noble institution. Learn to welcome your lord and master when he returns from his club with that true spirit of thankfulness appropriate to his arduous labors in thy behalf. Let him feel that his good in tentions are fully appreciated, instead of allow ing them to fall down to Hades, to be used by old Pluto’s commissioner of highways in paving tho spacious squares of that gloomy doinain. Let him feel the blessed assurance, that though ho may “scratch” fearfully at his club, and re ceive unmitigated abase therefor, he can go home in conscious security of perfect immunity from any “scratching” there, where his heart has been all tho time, while stern duty called him away. There is no sadder sight than to see a worthy “Clubbist” seated wearily in the Club rooms, near the “wee sma’ hours,” afraid to wander to his home, because his heart tells him that his painful vigils and arduous search after new sources of enjoyment for his “dearly beloved,” will not meet with an appreciative welcome from the aforesaid beloved, on his return to that hearth, where he knows that cold ashes are lying in wait for him, and no gentle spouse peacefully watching for his return with cooliDg hand and tender words, to soothe that manly brow, which aches with its extraordinary at tempts to invent firstclass ely&ian happiness, for that same unfeeling Feminine, who has ruthlessly retired hours before and locked the front door, although she knows that his Club duties unfit him forascertainingthe exact where abouts of key boles, especially when the afore said duties are added to the heart-sickness con sequent upon his former experiences of her in gratitude upon such occasions. Clnbs have gone on multiplying in number and variety, until their name is legion and their natures multitudinous. They pervade every nation, and carry their blessed influence from pole to pole. They are seen npon our streets accompanied by ruen in uniform, to do them honor, and such’is the confidence inspired by these institutions, that I have seen policemen reposing in conscious security at the dead hour of the night, with no other protection than their Clnbs. But, it is the fate of all divine institutions to bo parodied by the diabolical ingenuity of Beel zebub; and onr cherished clnb organization hath suffered in the most aggravated manner from the pertinacious malignity of the Arch Fiend, who, not content with the innovations before referred to, hath culminated bis powers in one fell prodnetion—“ the Base-Ball Club." This Tartarean concern has spread over the land with all the virulence of the yellow fever, Snsan B. Anthony, Anna Dickinson, and other inventions of the Devil; and, if our time hon ored institution is ever squelched, it will be in consequence of the odinm cast upon it by this club of Base-ness, which “ flies” over the land, and though making “short stops,” it “puts out" the light of common sense by “fool strokes,” and spreads incipient insanity through out the country. May the might of Jupiter “pitch” this tor menting concern to the bottom circle of Dante’s Inferno and load it down with Ben Butler’s in iquities, fit companions for its fntnre existence. There is another enemy to the true Clubbian Elysium that I refer to with fear and trembling —its influence has robbed one institution of many of its highest ornaments, and its almost ’ itn^Yersal application renders it a prodigious ’ jV-nrcO of discomfort to onr society in general. ’ * i refer, of coarse, to tho “Domestic Club"—its distinguishing outward badge is a collection of broom corn at one end of it. It bath'a peace ful appearance to “outsiders,” but the initiated both know and feel its fearfnl power, when ap plied to compel absences and resignations from rival institutions. Bnt Clubs have a high and noble mission to perform, and they will continue in the fntnre, as in the past, to demolish all obstacles, anci soar aloft in their elevated aspirations, until, when the terminal smash comes npon terrestrial things, they will rise to Olympian height, and take the position assigned by the gods to benefi cent institutions that have well and nobly ful filled their terrestrial missions for the benefit of mankind. This is tho belief of U. R. Bobdino. and then they would amend their constitutions so j (tarn therein instills into his loyal heart and to suit themselves. Pass this Bingham amend- i brain. Alas! if unbelieving wives and sweet- ment and there will be an end of the Bepubli-' hearts oonld only see for themselves the tender can party aonth of the Potomac; these States ; assiduity with whioh their “better’-halves gath- will go as a unit for tbo Democratic party. No , er around the domestic looking tables, and strive Republican Representative will dare to go baok to inspire each other to renewed efforts towards to his own State. He oannot do it and live, homelike improvements, they would cease their The Columbia Rank Robbery. The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Tuesday, gives the particulars of the bold bank robbery at Co lumbia, South Carolina, Saturday night or Sun day morning: It appears that the banking house of Scott, Williams & Co., was entered on last Saturday night by means of a false key. A hole was then drilled through the wall of the building, and a wire ran through it, by means of whioh “tele graph” a man posted on the outside warned the two within the bnilding when any one was pass ing, in order that they might stop work. The brace of operators inside then with the aid of sledges and drills covered with India rubber, cold chisels, levers, crow-bars and other tools known to the soientifio burglar, opened the bank vault and the iron safe containing the treasure. ■While they were at work, however, a man named Gage, who lived in Columbia, and wbo, he himself states, was considerably under the influence of liquor, approaohed tho doorway of the bank for the purpose of sheltering himself from the rain which was then falling. As soon as he approaohed the burglars were telegraphed by the lookout, and, of oourse, ceased working. Bnt as the tipsy man did not leave, and the burglars discovered the condition he was in, they hastily opened the door and drew the man inside the bnilding—stopping him from raising an alarm by threatening to kill him if he made any noise, and promising him half of the swag if he kept quiet. The man accordingly held his peace, and the safe having been opened, the bnrglars rifled it of gold and silver to the amonnt of nearly two thousand dollars and abont eigh teen thousand dollars of bank notes, but left a large amount of bonds untouched. They then locked tho stupefied drunken man up in a closet in the room, and left the bank with the treasure. At a late hour oa Sunday morning one of the officers of the bank entering the building found the vault and safe broken ripen, a complete set of burglar’s tools scattered on tho floor, a man in the closet with a half emptied bottle of bran day by his Bide, and twenty thousand dollars in specie asd greenbacks and jewelry stolen. The mas in the closet was immediately arrested and examined, and told the same story which we have given above. Every effort was then made to get cine to the robbers, bnt even their names could not be obtained, much less their where abouts. Parties were sent up the Greenville and Colnmbia road to apprehend them, and the two messages alipve mentioned sent to onr Chief of Police Up to a late hour yesterday afternoon the affair still remained enveloped in profound mystery, and the chances are that the burglars remained in Colnmbia for a day after the rob bery, and then made their escape Northward. r ■ ... I -O' Mateimont is—hot cakes* .warm beds, com fortable slippers, smoking coffee, red lips, kind words, shirts abounding in buttons, redeemed stockings, boot jacks, happiness, etc. Single blessedness is—sheet iron quilts, bine noses, frosty rooms, ice in the pitcher, nnregonerated linen, heelless socks, coffee sweetened with ici cles, gutta-percha biscuits, rheumatism, corns, rhubarb and any amonnt of misery. Unwholesome Reading.—The letters of the woman Calhoun and Mrs. Sinclair to Mrs. Mc Farland, entioing her away from her husband, and painting np to her the personal and mental attractions of her free-lover, Richardson, are abont as unwholesome reading as has appeared sinoe the kindred Sickles triaL The letters of Mrs. Calhoun were justly characterized In court as unfit for production save in the cause of jus tice. ' . Weekly Resume or Foreign .4 Hairs. PEEPABED FOE THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. Great Britain.—Mr. Lowe, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has published the annual bud get, showing a surplus of nearly eight millions of pounds sterling. Though about half this sum has been expended towards paying the debts contraofed by the late Abyssinian expedi tion, the Chancellor is still enabled to propose a reduction of the income tax to four pence on the pound and to lower the dnty on sngar to one-half of the present tariff. Besides, the tax on soap and paper and the stamp duties on newspapers are to be repealed, while a consid erable reduction of the postage for all printed matter is urgently recommended. Surely, the tax-paying people of England havo every rea son of congratalatingthemselvesupon the econ omy practiced by the present Whig Ministrv in all branches of the pnblio administration, ihe statement of the budget would have proven a still more brilliant one, had not the tronbles in Ireland occasioned many extraordinary ex penses. It speaks well for the fast increasing national wealth of England that, despite tho commercial stagnation prevailing last year, the real income has exceeded the estimates by about two millions of pounds, thongh it must be borne in mind that almost one-balf of this snm was saved by collecting the taxes in a more econom ical manner. The first case under the new peace preserva tion bill occurred in Dnndalk, Ireland, where the authorities ordered the seizure of a farmer- almanac, written in insurrectionary language. The steamer City of Boston is given up as lost The nnderwriters are preparing to settle the insurances on the vessel. France.—Even the most inveterate skeptics mnst now admit that the Emperor is sincere in restoring, one by another, constitutional liber ties to France. He has certainly given proof of a great self-denial by divesting himself, volun tarily, of his prerogatives, which, only six months ago, he had considered as the founda tion pillars of his dynasty. Hitherto the Corps Legislatif was excluded from the constituent power, this important right being reserved to the Senate and the Emperor. The enemies of the empire, well knowing that Napoleon, rely ing on this prerogative, might choose at any time to re-introduce the dictatnre in France, looked upon the present liberal regime as a fleeting illusion. Bnt the Emperor seems to have arrived at the conclnsion that only consti tutional liberties can perpetuate bis dynasty, and be proposes that the Execntive, the Senate and the Corps Legislatif shall henceforth share the constituent power. By this reform the Sen ate undergoes a thorough change. This body was hitherto nothing bnt a Council of Stato on a larger scale—a servile tool of the government The new measure proposes to elevate the Sen ate into a House of Peers, which, in regard to the administration of pnblio affairs, is to bo placed on an equal footing with the Corps Legis latif. The ministers, who were dependent on the Emperor, and conld only be impeached by the Senate, shall be responsible to both cham bers. Thongh the draft is shaped in a liberal spirit, it has raised various objections, even on the part of such as are not, by principle, op posed to the Empire. This is the cause of the ministerial crisis. The Orleanistio element is seceding from the Cabinet, because the Em peror insists on appealing, by a general plebis- citnm, to the decision of the people, instead of laying the proposed reform at first before the Corps Legislatif, thus still leaving the preroga tive of ordering a plebiscitum with the Execu tive power. Buffet, the Minister of Finances, and Darn, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, have therefore resigned. The plebisoitum is expected to take place between the 1st and 9th of May. The Emperor, with a view of enlight ening the people on the object of the measure, has written a pamphlet to that effect, eight million copies of which will be distributed over the whole country. The party of the Left have not yet decided npon the coarse they are going to pursue. The strike at La Crenzot is said to be ended. A slight indisposition of the Emperor had un necessarily alarmed the susceptible men of the Stock Exchange. The Empress Eugenie, who has always acted an emancipated part, is said to smoke teu cigar- ettes every day. North German Confederation.—Tho Reich stag has adjourned. A German mercantile expedition is abont to start for Eastern Asia to introduce patterns and samples of the most important products of Ger man industry into the markets of those parts.— The Chancellor has warmly recommended the enterprise to the care of all consular representa tives of the North German Confederation in the East. South Germany.—The “Augsburger Allgem- eine Zeitung” has published the draft for a Sonthern Confederacy, which is to enter into a national alliance with the North German Con federation. The chief features of the semi-of ficial proposition are as follows: Name: “United States of South Germany.” Members: Bavaria, AVurtemberg, Baden and Southern Hesse. Object: Reciprocal protec tion against a foreign foe, peace at home. The army organization, the consulates, the law and the Superior Courts shall be common. Organi zation : A federal council, where Bavaria is to control six, Wurtemberg four, Baden three and Hesse two votes. This project has no better chances of sneoess than all the other political speculations proceeding it. Bnt such plans have a certain significance in so far as they prove that the Sonthern States feel how untenable their present situation is. In the course of next summer the celebrated miracle play, the Passion, the lastrelic of those religions representations from which the dra matic literatures of all the modem nations of Europe are supposed to have sprang, will again be performed in the Bavarian village of Ober- Ammergau. The play, which is enacted every ten years, has almost remained nnaltered since centuries. sh '■ .• There sre Lincoln streets to be found in seven German cities. Italy.—It seems to be certain that the dogma of Infallibility will be passed by the Conncu. The Archbishop of Baltimore has published severe letter in reply to the reoeut liberal pam phlet of tile Bishop of Orleans. There are later reports at hand concerning the speech of the eloquent and learned Bishop Strossmayer, de livered before the Council, which has already appeared in your columns. Hazzini, the incorrigible agitator, is plotting against the kingdom of Italy. Insurrectionary movements were attempted in Parma and Pia cenza, by which seven insurgents and several soldiers lost their lives. The King is again the bntt of the grossest in sults. There are pamphlets circulating bearing various enticing titles as f. i. “Nimrod IL, the Great Hunter of the 19th Century; or, Gallant Adventures of the Palace PittL” Spain.—The late risings are pnt down, the consoription has been enforced, and the law is once moro triumphant, bnt the country continues iu as deplorable a state as before. Ths split in the monarchistio camp may be considered a serious affair. After the secession of Topete, the friend of ( Hontpensier, from the Cabinet, Prim, the head of tha radical party, remains again master of the situation, Serrano having lost tho prestige which mads him the darling of tho people in tho beginning of tha revolution. Ever since tho expulsion of Queen Isabella, ths army has remained loyal to the Government, a faith without example in the modern annals of Spain, where all revolutions have been initiated by the army and navy, while the nation at large did not take any particular interest in the con test. This exhibition of loyalty is a forcible proof of the great infiuenoe Prim is exercising over the army. Whether h6 is really aspiring to supreme power by means of a “coup d' etat," is difficult to decide, but it is certain that, con cerning the eleotion of a King, ho has foiled all combinations which would have placed an inde pendent ruler on the throne of Spain. The star of the Duke of Montpensier is rather on tho ascendant sinoe his duel with the late Prince Henry, of Bourbon, because his conduct in this fatal affair has refuted the general impression of his being a coward. Some Oarlistio chiefs are said to have entered -Spain from Franoe, in order to prepare rising. Tho clergy, by order of the Holy See, decline to take the oath on the Spanish Oonstitrition. The Government will allow them a time of rifirt, rffl_nrrjf~i iym> A dispatch from DeRodas, reporting the flight of Jordan, the commander-in-chief of the Cuban patriots, and the surrender of many insurgents; was received with great enthusiasm in Madrid. The Cortes have passed a vote of thanks to the Captain-General, the army, navy and volunteers of Cuba. loriiej* f. vfcfc Russia.—The Grand Duke Alexander, who passes for the finest Prince of Europe, intends to visit the United States next summer. The government has distributed the writings of the Bishop Dupanlonp, of Orleans, oppos ing Papal infallibility, in many thousand copies among the Catholic population of Lithuania and Poland. Dupanlonp is a great favorite with tho Poles, not only on account of bis being a pions and learned Catholic, bnt also because he has always sympathized with the Polish nation. The Russians claim to have ereoted the long est railway bridge to be found in Europe, over tho Dnieper, near Kiew. It consists of twelve arches and is 3503 feet long. Turkey.—The Papal Legate, Monsignore Plnym, has left Constantinople for Rome after a total failure of his mission. The schism which ho had endeavored to stifle has bejfcme a faot He conld induoe neither the'-Snblime Porte nor diplomacy to interfere with the dissident Armenians. The Government has granted them the privilege of establishing a chancelry and nsing a seal of their own, thus recognizing their community in optima forma. Two churches have also been placed at their disposaL The French and Italian ambassadors -have been instructed by their Governments to use their infinence to farther the aims of the Ar menians. ___ Jabno. Cotton as A Surplus Crop. We extract the following from the report of the Department of Agriculture at Washing ton, for January: The folly of planting all cotton, and buying all farm supplies, was exhibited on an extern sire scale before the war, and has been abund antly exemplified since. _ 1. It is a precarious dependence; it is carrying an entire stock of very fragile eggs in one basket, over exceed ingly rugged roads. 2. It involves heavy ex penses for transportation and commissions of bulky supplies for men and animals of the farm. 3. It prevents the adoption of any system ofl rotation, and the most economical means of fertilization. It is a folly that in 1S66 and 1867 plunged thousands of struggling planters into utter bankruptcy. The wisdom of the opposite course is well illustrated by the following extract from a letter written by a representative of a very large class, who found themselves at “the surrender” without money or business, or the means of living—in this case a man with a large family of small chil dren, Calvin C. Jones, of Wetumpka, Ala bama: I will now give you (he history of my pro ceedings from the surrender to the present time. At the surrender I had nin. ty dollars in hard money. There were ten of us in the family, myself, wife, and eight children. I had no provisions, but had two horses and one hundred and sixty -acres of poor pine land —plantation gone down. I went to work for what we could eat, as it was too late in the year to try to make a crop. The first of Jan uary, 1866, 1 went to work to make a crop. I took my hard money and bought provisions with it ; and planted all my land, about fifty acres, in corn and peas. My neighbors wanted to know why I did not plant cotton; they said they conld raise cotton enough on ono acre to buy as much as would grow on five. I fold them that the first thing with me was some- tiling to eat and then I would raise some cot ton. It proved to be a bad crop, but I raised corn and peas enough to make my meat and to do me for the year 1867. I then planted about half my land in cotton and the balance in corn and peas. I made five bales of cotton, and com and peas and meat enough to do me for the year 1808. I then sold my poor land for $600, in three payments, and bought a plantation on the Coosa river, ten miles above Wetumpka, for which I promised^,000,in two payments. I and my children went to work; myself and one son big enough to plow, and four small ones not large enough to plow, were my force. We made 400 bushels of com and $1,400 worth of cotton. I had corn, peas and meat to do me for the year 1869. My eldest son quit me, and went to work for him self. I had one above eleven years of age, and pnt him to the plow; and we have this year made 11J bales of cotton, 300 bushels of ocra, 300 bushels of oats, 55 bushels of wheat ana sonic potatoes, and 1,600 pounds of pork. During the last five years 1 have lost four head of horses; still I have not bonded any cotton. My neighbors that went to making cotton to buy corn and meat with are still at it, and they are just one year behind. They have to sell their cotton before they make it at ten or twelve cents per pound, in order to buy meat and bread; and just as long as men pursue that course they will always be behind, t havo not worked any freedmen at all, and I think I came out best, for those who do work them in this neighborhood generally come out losers, with difficulties an i law suits. During the five years since the surrender I have not used any manures, as my means have been limited. If everybody, both white and black, would go to raising their own corn and meat at home wo would be a happy people. Both the Ring and Grown Prince of Prussia are noted for their pennrioosness, so far as matters of dress and toilet are concerned. They say in Berlin that the Crown Prince almost wears his uniforms threadbare, and when they will absolutely do for him no longer, he gets iris tailor to make out of them small uniform coats for his little Princes. * * ufllCiAiAliijV" aPs'rW HE mm * • i. Canton, Ohio, has the oldest editor in ths United States, probably in the world. His name is John Saxon, and he has edited and published the Canton Repository for 55 consecutive years. He is now eighty years of age, and has never been a day absent from Iris sanctum daring his long editorial life. Amiral Ramsey says, “in the coast country of Africa he once saw a regiment of rifle women— and blaok as they were he must say he never saw a finer regiment. All the effioexs were wo men, there was not a single man in the whole regiment. They were most courageous, fought bravely; in fact a friend told him that when they went into action they fought Him to many tigresses.” The actress most adored at this moment in London,, is Mrs. Rousby, who plays Queen Eli zabeth in Tom Taylor’s “Twixt Axe and Crown. ’ ’ People rave abont her beautiful -blu* eyes, her fair hair, her fine features, her en chanting smile, and, as an envions critic says, “everything that is hers, except her husband.” He was her teacher in elocution, and she fell in love with him; bnt.as an aotor he is not equal to his good fortune. - She is said to be an Ad* miral’a daughter, a native of Jersey, in Enas land. ■ - voini-Jttt A rural Iowa paper gives out that the (en grossing) hand of the fair dark of the Iowa House is to be bestowed npon a member from Monroe county, the match having been fixed during the present session. An alarming disease, thought to be spotted fever, prevails at North Haverhill, N. H., whioh utterly defies the skill of medical men. Person* of all ages in life have been striokea down by it, living bnt three or four hoars after tite ap pearance of the first symptoms. San Francesco Odd Fallows aro raising fua&l to assist in introducing the order fa Jtaarofc jit* sAitl j&jl -k? sUrpfit • -V* * V •. \y * . >.* .V* v -; ‘.y-Hr > * y. M ■ .■. r- ” -v', y. ’.tj . i * •*' Y' j C'i MTi 1 ..-dr-'m ti si ri: $