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$ISBY, REID & REESE, Proprietors. ESTABLISHED 1826. V^HJ GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENC^ER. The Family J o u r n al.—Nevrs—Politics—Literatore—Agbiculture—Domestic Affairs.//"' *' QEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING MACON, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1870. 'VJU'l. i 1.; ItTF I iJUtt bootadna it J VOL LXIV.-W. 37 {For the Telegraph and Messenger.) Onr Rest. ., fiodwe praise Theo for this day of rest; jjwntoS IoUs back aU the week of care, *, letrW such heavenly quiet in the breast, not a fe°hng that the world may share. The tired traveler that onward goes with bra&i feet hia weary journey’s length, e r« toward the promised sweet repose, stopping place," where ho may gather jfrreSth. ., ^ p ^ ear souls on Thy blest Sabbath day, $jp off the travel stain *he week hath made; (o pin we strength to journey on ouj way, jjwud that world whose glory ne'er shall fade. Util! precious day of rest to toil-wom spirits given! OO sacred songs shall rise upon thy wings, jjJ swell beyond the golden mists to Heaven, perc sits onr gracious master, Ring of Kings. fitoii, Ga., Hxba. People Will Talk. j ca may get through the world; but 'twill be very slow t; we listen to all that is said as we go; wVll bo worried and fretted, and kept in a stew, for meddlesome tongues wiU liavo something to do. if qiiet and modest, you’ll have it presumed jLt your humble position is only assumed; foo'r* » anoep’s clothing, or else you’ro a fool. Bat don't get excittd, keep perfectly cool, For people will talk. If Mamma and noble, they’ll vent out their spleen, you'U bear some loud hints that you're selfish and cun: 11 rartt and honest, and fair as the day, THtilcallyou a rogue in a sly, sneaking way, 18! For people will talk. inj tbea if yon show the least boldness of heart, Or j slight inclination to take yonr own part, jE. till call you an upstart, conceited and vain; BjtjjMP straight ahead, don’t stop to explain, For people will talk. If threadbare your drese or old fashioned your hat, Some one will surely take notice of that, tad bint rather strong that yon can’t pay your way, Bat don’t get excited, whatever they say, For people will talk. I If nm drees in the fashion, don’t think to escape, For they criticise then in a different shape: lon're ahead of your means, or your tailor’s unpaid, Bat mind your own business, there’s naught to bo m&do, i For people will talk. Sow, the best way to do, is to do as you please, For yonr mind, if yon have one, will then be at ease; Of course you will meet with all sorts of abuse, Bat don’t think to stop them, it aint any use, For people will talk. I Ore’s RoseaJ^ BY ALICE CABT. When the morning first undoses, And before the mists are gone, And the bills seem bright as roses, Just a little farther on. Eoses red as wings of starlings, And with diamond dew-drops wet. “Wait,” says patience, “wait my darlings— Wait a little longer yet.” So with eager, upturned faces, Wait the children for the hours That shall bring them to the places Of the tantalizing flowers. Wild with wonder, sweet with guesses, Vexed with only fleeting fears; So the broader day advances, And the twilight disappears. Hands begin to dutch at posies, Eyes to flash with now delight, And the roses. O! the roses, Bnming, blushing full in sight! Now with blossoms softly beating, Heart in heart, and hand in hand, Tooths and maids together meeting, Crowd the harvest land. Not a thought of rainy weather. Nor cf thorns to sting and grieve, Gather, gather, gather, gather, All the care is what to leave. Noon to afternoon advances. Rosy red grows msset brown; Sad eyes turn to backward glances, So the sun of youth goes down. And as rose by rose is withered, Sober eight begins to And Many a false heart has beep gathered, Many a true one left behind. Hands are clasped with fainter holding, Unfilled souls begin to sigh For the golden, glad unfolding Of the mom beyond the eky. Hope. Never despair 1 the darkest dond That ever loomed will pase away, The longest night will yield to dawn— The dawn will kindle into day. What if around tby lonely bark Break fierce and high the waves of sorrow, Stretch every oar! there's land ahead! And thou will gain the port to morrow. When fortune frowns, and summer friends, Like birds that fear a storm, depart, Some, if the heart hath tropic warmth, WiU stay and nestle around thy heart. If thou art poor, no joy is won, _ No good is gained by sad repining, Gems buried in the darkened earth May yet be gathered for the mining. There is no lot, however sad. There is no roof, however low, Bnt has some joy to make it glad, Some latent bliss to soothe its woo. The light of hope will linger near, When wildest beats the heart’s emotion, A talisman when breakers roar, A star upon the troubled ocean. The farmer knows not if his Add, With flood or drought or blight must cope, He questions not the fickle skies. But plows and sows and toils in hope. Then up! and strive, and dare, and do, Nor doubt a harvest you wiU gather; Tis time to labor and to wait, And trust In God for genial weather. Will You Take a Sheep.—An old form er about the time that the temperance reform vas begining to exert a healthful influence in the country, said to hia hired man: ''Jonathan I did not think to mention _ to you when I hired you that I think of trying to do my work this year without rum. How nrach more must I give you to do without it?’ “Oh, I don’t care much about it,” said Jonathan, ‘‘you may give me what yon please.” “Well,” said the farmer. “I will give you a sheep in the fall, if you will do without “Agreed,” said Jonathan. The oldest son then said: “Father, will you give me a sheep too if I do without rum?” “Yes, Marshall, you shall have a sheep if you do without” _ The youngest son, a stripling then said: “Father will you give me a sheep if I do without?” . “Yes, Chandler, you shall have asheep also tfjou yflll do_without rum.” n train • sheep FRO.VI WASHINGTON. A Little About Georgia Matters—Tlie Son th em Pacific Railroad Schemes. Washington, April 23,1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: After the storm there comes a lull. Georgia has been quietly shelved to await the pleasure ~ c “Beast” Butler. The House has disposed numerous private bills and some sections m the tariff bill. The Senate disposed of some fifty bills yesterday, making a very perceptible redaction of its calender. Both Houses seem now to “mean business.” The Senate has ad journed over till Monday; but the House in session to-day. The following letter was prepared by a Sen ator for transmission to the Chronicle, but on reflection it was thought that the effect of con tradicting one falsehood would be the cause of its other utterances to be_ accepted as truth, which would be a result involving too much danger to morals to be permitted. The letter was therefore handed to the correspondent of a New York newspaper for publication: Presently Chandler spoke again: “Father, hadn’t you better take too?” A New Haven' school ma’am, instructing her class of girls in home geography, the other day, fod to explain what a Mormon was, and brought oat this pertinent remark from a little chit of •aao years of age: “ Well, I don’t see how they taanage it. I should thiuk that when ho kissed °ao of his wives, the others would all get jeal ous and pnll every hair ont of their head. My mamma would, I’m sure.” United States Senate Chamber, 1 Washington, April 21, 1870. J John W. Forney, Editor Daily Chronicle: Dear Sib: In the Chronicle of this morn ing, in an article on the “Georgia bill,” I find the following statement: “The minority of Republicans who voted with the Democrats to obstruct the reconstruc tion of Georgia have the largest share of re sponsibility for the result” The Journal of the Senate shows, as does the Globe, that on the adoption of the amend ment of Mr. Pomeroy, of which you complain, the votes of the Republican Senators stood thirty for the amendment to twenty-four against it. Thus you will perceive that a “ma jority of Republicans,” instead of a minority voted, as you call it, with the Democrats, and I suppose that the Democrats in the Senate must be permitted to vote on one sido_ or the other of questions presented; that being so, the majority of Republicans cannot very well determine on which side they shall vote. Yours, truly, A. Senator. If the South is cheated out of a Southern Pacific Railway, it will be through the machi nations of carpet-baggers, who have failed to secure black-mail from the legitimate projec tors of such an enterprise'. When it was an nounced that Gen. Fremont was coming to Washington in the interest of the Memphis and El Paso road, and it was further whis pered that he was well supplied with funds, the lobby rubbed , its hands with great glee, and, in immagination, fingered bonds and greenbacks galore. But Gen. Fromont would have none of them. Ho had neither bonds or greenbacks to distribute among the lobby; and so the lobby set to work to defeat the en terprise of which Gen. Fremont is the head. Prominent in this disreputable business are the Southern carpet-baggers. Bills have been introduced in Congress for building Southern Pacifie railroads which contain either the, names of men of straw as corporators, or no corporators at all. The objeet of the intro ducers and backers of these bills, is to secure black-mail. Only this, and nothing more. It It may seem strange that men who are sup posed to represent Southern States, Should endeavor to defeat the only enterprise likely to successfully construct a road from the At lantic to the Pacific through Southern territo ry; bnt it should be recollected that these men really represent only themselces, and that their sole aim is to fill their own pockets. This they generally succeed in doing. A bill is now before both House of Congress granting the right of way and other principles to the Southern trans-Continental Railway. This road embraces the Memphis and El Paso, and connecting lines to Norfolk, Virginia. The Memphis and El Paso and Pacificrailroad has a valid, subsisting charter, intact, super- added to a munificent land grant to construct a railroad through Texas, on the 32d parallel, to the Rio Grande. A large amount of money has already been spent by the Company m grading in Texas, in purchasing locomotives and iron rails, some of which have already reached the line of road, and in securing val uable and controlling interests in connecting and continuing railroads west of the Missis sippi, and also west of Texas; and in the ac quisition of lands in and around the Day of San Dicao, for the use and profit of the Com pany. Much has been said concering the lapse of land-grants made by the State of Texas to this road, but without authority or foundation. The affidavit of Chief Engineer Daniel and E. H. Epperson, then its Presi dent, show the point where the eastern point ot the road is loeatedi and the work done on it; also the steps that were taken to secure the land-grant prior to the war, and they also show that the work was resumed in the summer of 1866, after the war was over. It is held by the Company that there was no cause of for feiture before the war, and there has been none since. The interval of time covered by the war, when work totally ceased, has never been claimed by the authorities of Texas as cause of forfeiture. On the contrary, the Leg islature of Texas passed a law on the 11th ot January, 1862, securing the rights of the Com pany, and not allowing the time of the contin uance of the war to be counted against it. Although this law was passed by a Rebel Legislature,” the new Constitution of Texas recognizes it as valid and finding.. Nor. is there anything in the new Constitution whicn impairs the validity of this Company’s rights under its charter and the subsequent laws re lating to it. All reports to the cpntrary.are the work of the black-mailers and lobbyists, who want to be bought off; but whom General Fremont does not consider it profitable or proper to buy. . „ ..aj The Senate sub-committee on Pacific KaL- ways to whom the trans-Continental bill was referred consists of Messrs. Thomas, of Ohio, Rice, of Arkansas, and Howard, of Michigan. Howard is interested in the Northern Pacific Railway scheme, and of course, ad verso to a Southern road. Mr. Rice, though a carpet bagger, is understood to have held aloof from the anti-Southern Pacific railway carpet-bag ring ’ while Mr. Sherman favors the Southern trans-Continental. The chances for a favor able report from this Committee are under stood to be good- , , , .. Mr. Howard presented yesterday, what is understood to be his individcal protest against the bill, and not a minority report from the Committee, as some supposed it to be. . * In the House the trans-Continental bill is before the Committee on public lands, of which Mr. Julian, of Indiana, is chairman. Alavor- ablc report is expected from this Committee. The friends of the road are confident of getting the bill through both Houses. The Baltimore Gazette of Monday next will contain a letter calculated to have a good ef fect on the Georgia question. It shows up the Radical conspiracy by which Georgia has been made the football and unwilling agent of the dominant party; and gives a coraprehenave review of the political history of roster Blod gett, “seventh Senator-elect’” The facta are for the most part so well known in Georgia that I consider it unnecessary to furnish you with an advance copy. The letter will, how ever produce as much excitement here as did a former one,now known as the ‘ ‘Georgia Mani festo,” of which an early copy was transmitted to the Telegram and Messenger. The correspondents here, with scarcely an exception, are opposed to Bullock and his schemes, and their influence will do much to ward bringing him to.grief. So mote it be. Dalton. AN ADDRESS. Delivered Before the Entiles' Memorial as sociation at Rose Hill Cemetery, April SCtll, 1870. UX BID NET LANTEB, ESQ , OF MACON. In the nnbroken silence of the dead soldierly forms that lie beneath onr feet; in the winding processions of these stately trees; in the large tranquillity of this vast and benignant heaven that overspans us; in the quiet ripple of yon der patient river, flowing down to his death in the sea; in the manifold melodies drawn from these green leaves by wandering airs that go, like Troubadours, singing in all the lands; in the many-voiced memories that flock into this day, and fill it, as swallows fill the summer; in all these, there is to me so voluble an eloquence to-day that I cannot bnt shrink from the harsher sound of my own human voice; and, if I might bnt follow where these silver tongues lead me, far rather would I invite your thoughts to their spiritual guidance and keep mine stilL Indeed, I will pursue this preferable coarse, and so com bine my duty as orator and my inclination as man; for if I have rightly interpreted the sen timent which supports your memorial organiza tion; if I have accurately comprehended the enduring idea about which your society has grown and wound itself, as a vine about some firm piHar of white marble; then, in giving ut terance to this most musical converse of Death and Nature and Memory, which goes on in this place by night and by day, so will I best utter those emotions which animate your association, and which call for some month-piece to-day. I take it, the very words which I have employed in describing the elements and circumstances of this scene, do most accurately symbolize and embody the precise virtues which it is the direct tendency of your association to perpetuate and keep alive in our midst. Believe then, that in the few words I have to say, I shall but translate to you that formless and sonndless rhetoric of which I spoke in the outset, aye, that majestic oratory of death’s si lence, of the forests’ stateliness of the Heaven’s tranquillity, of the river’s patience, of the mus ic of winds and leaves, and of the strange com mingling of grief and glory and joy that lies in our memories of the days when these men died for liberty. I spoke first of the silence of death. My countrywomen and countrymen, I know few wants that press upon onr modem life #tith more immediate necessity than the want of this same silence. In ibis culmination of the nine teenth century, which our generation is witness ing, I tell you the world is far too full of noise. The nineteenth century worships trade; and Trade i3 the most boisterous god of aU the false gods under Heaven. Hear how his railways do thrill the land with interwoven roanng and yell- ings! Hear the clatter of his factories, the clank of his mills, the groaning of his forges, the sputtering and laboring of his water power 1 And that is not half. Listen how he brags, in newspaper and pamphlet and huge placard and poster and advertisement! Are not yonr ears fatigued with his loud bragadocio, with his braggart pretensions, with his stertorous vaunt ing of himself and his wares ? Nay, in this age of noise, the very noise itself, which is usually but the wretched accompaniment of trade, has positively come to have an intrinsic commercial valuo of its own. It is a fact that some trades succeed by mere force of noise, by mere auc tioneer’s strength of voice, by more loudness of stentorian advertisement, without possessing a single other element of recommendation or success. Now, far bo it from me to condemn the sounds of hammer and saw and anvil; far be it from me to censure advertisements, which form tho legitimate appliances of success in trade. I am not hero for that, to-day. This is not the place or the time to draw the distinction between the legitimate and the illegitimate rush of commerce between what is ■rile brag and what is proper self-assertion in tho merchant’s advertisement. But I know that there is an evil in aU this noise. Out of this universal hubbub there is born a great wrong. A certain old homely phrase ex presses this evil in vivid terms: In these days, there is so much noise that we cannot hear our selves think. "What time have I to enumerate tho signs and evidences of this evil, of not hearing ourselves think? They are on every hand. Crudity, im maturity, unripeness, acidity, instability—these things characterize onr laws, our literature, all our thoughts, our politics, our social life, our loves and hates, our self-development Permit me, then, to felicitate your Memorial Association, because, among many other rea sons, one of its immediate consequences is to counteract these evils of noise which I have depicted. You, my countrywomen, invite ns once in the year to escape out of the tuxbulen- cies of trade, and to come here among these silent resting-places of onr dead soldiers. You lay a tender finger on-the blatant lips of trade, and bid him be still in the august presence of the dead who speak not. You help us to hear ourselves think, for a moment This is well done. If there be in this company one broken heart; if there he here one who has her dead lying in this Cemetery; if there be here one who haslearned from silence the divine secret whereby a man may harmonize the awful dis cordant noises of life, I invoke its witness that my words are true, that silence is the mother of a thousand radiant graces and rare virtues, and that if one will lean for one hour over these graves of our dead Confederate heroes, there will well up into his soul more “Large, divine and comfortable words” 1 than ever feU from living human orator. Ah, old comrades, who lie sleeping about this yard beneath tomb and hillogk and sculptured piHar, you fought for us in your lives, you died for us in your love, and now—if our hnman voice might float over the dark river to where you are gone on the other side—we would cry across to you that still, after death, your unsel fish ministrations to ns continue; stiU, after death, your graves send up benignant blessings to onr souls; stiU, after death, your dumb Hps answer the tributary flowers that we bring you, with responses and strengthening benedictions that rain sweet influence on our distracted life. For this, my countrywomen who compose this Memorial Association—that you enable us to appropriate this after-death beneficence of onr silent dead—for this, in the name of an age half insane with uproar, I thank you. I spoke, next, of the stateliness of the trees. In these davs, stateliness is an antique virtue. This age is not grand ; it is, rather, activo. Me have substituted adroitness, in the modern, for the massive strength of the old times. ’Where the antique man was strong, the modem man is supple; where tho antique man was large, the modern man is keen. In such an age as ours, how extraordinary was the stately grandeur of those noble figures that arose and moved in splendid procession across the theatre of our Confederate war! Lookwith me down the long temple of history, and I will single you out two figures, wherewith I amwilHng that my beloved land ahull front the world, and front aU timo, as bright, magnificent exemplars of stateliness. Mark them! Whether their swords gleamed in the hottest smoke of the front of battle, or their peaceful hands waved from the professor’s chair, stately always: stately in victory, stately in defeat: stately among the cannons, stately among the books: stately in solitude, stately in society: stately in form, in soul, in character, and in action; aye, each of them, “From spur to plume, a star of tournament'’ Do yon not know them ? One is stHl stately in life; the other Hes stitely in death. Their two oolossal statues are already set up in fame’s glittering gallery of the stately souls of time. The convulsive tempests of the war-ocean have lashed and lashed at them, and they have not moved. Multitudinous arrows, shot by the in genious malignities of a thousand enemies, have fallen blunted from their mighty sides. The insulting fulminations of tyranny have light ened about their tranquil heads in vain. There they stand, high-reaching, eternal sculptured images of stateliness, in the sight of aU the na tions. Glory has set but a simple inscription upon tbdis* It is the same inscription which love has writ ten on every heart in this land, On one, Rob- ebt £. Lee: and oa the other, Stonewall Jack- son. For this, my countrywomen who compose this memorial association, that yon bring ns to con template the stateliness of the chiefs, and the stateliness of the mswerving private soldier, who fought or fell in the Confederate war—for tins, in the name of in age when stateliness is { rare, I thank yon. Weekly Resume of Foreign Affairs. PREPARED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, Great Britain.—Mr. Laird, tho celebrated ship-builder, has signed a oontract for building two more steamers for the New Orleans and Hamburg steamship line. The Sankey paper mills are using wood for j the manufacturing of paper, instead of rags, I spoke next of the tranquility of the over-j success, spanning heavens. The, too, is a noble quality • Ten stea^mers with 6,500 emigrants have sail- which your association tends to keep aUve. | e d from Liverpool for the United States within Who in all the world feeds tranquillity more I the course of one week. , than we? I know not adeeper question in our I There is muoh uneasiness felt about the new Southern life at this present time, than how wo i steamer Sirius, which left Calcutta for Liver- shall bear our load of wipig and insult and in- | pool already three months ago. jury with the calmness anl tranquil dignity that 1 . Fbanck.—The Senate has started the discus- beeomes men and women vho would be great i oa toe plebisoitum. ■ ’ in misfortune; and, beliets me, I know not The Committee of the International Working- where we will draw deeper inspirations of calm S naan’s Association has passed a resolution to ab- strength for this great emergency than in this t Btain from toting altogether. A manifesto place where we now stand, ii the midst of de- signed by seventeen deputies of the “Left" and parted heroes who fought agiinst these things ! seven representatives of the Frenoh press advi- to the death. Why, vonder les my brave, bril- ses 4110 P 60 P Iq t0 vote ‘SNo” on the plebisoitum, liant friend, Lamar; and yonier, genial Robert I whiclx 48 now May 8th. There is a ru- Smitb; and vonder, generoti Tracy—gallant! mor ttat > after toe adoption of the plebisoitum, men, all; good knights and stahless gentlemen. Prince Napoleon will be sent to Petersburg to How calmly t/i<ysleepinthenW3tof it! Unto this calmness shall we come, atlast. If so,why shonld we disqniet our sonlsforthe petty stings propose a general disarmament. “La Marseillaise” and “Le Gaulois” have published a letter of Pascal Grousset to the of our conquerors? There comes a time when 1 President of the High Court of Justice, while conqueror and conquered shall alike desoead tois tribunal was sitting in_Tonrs to pro- into tho grave. In that time, 0, my country men, L> tl At time the conqueror shall be ashamed of his lash, and the conquered shall be proud of his calm endurance: in that time the con queror shall hide his face, and the conquered shall lift his head with an exultationin his tran quil fortitude which God shall surely pardon I O, happy Lamar, O, happy Smith and Tracy, O, happy heroes all 1 Yo who died whilst lib erty was yet a hope in onr bosoms, and whilst tyranny was yet only a possible speck on our future 1 If we may not envy yon your death, we may at least solace ourselves in the tran quillity of your graves until we, too, shall join you in those regions “Where beyond these voiceB there is peace 1” For the contemplation of this tranquillity, my friends of this association, in the name of a land stnng half to madness, I thank yon. I spoke next of the patient river. See there how it draws on steadily to where it shall min gle with the salt sea and be lost in it through fair or foul weather, by night and by day, un der snow or snnshine, by rugged hill or alluring valley, reckless of obstacle, patient of opposi tion, nnhasting yet unresting, it moves onward to destruction. Was it not like this, that these soldiers walked their life of battle, patient through heat andcold, through rain and drought, throng bullets and diseases, through hnnger and nakedness, through rigor of discipline and laxity of morals, aye throngh the very shards and pits of hell, down to the almost inevitable death that awaited them ? For this; that you bring ns to contemplate this vast patience, I commend you. And I spoke of the music of winds and leaves. I like to figure every event as a tone, and all events as one many-tonedhormony that arises to the great music-master and composer, np yon der. That the tone of this day may be round and melodious, we come here without resentment, without doom or hate or any vengeful feeling to mar onr love for these dead. That we can dc this—that we can contemplate these dead face3 without unseemly revenges bnming in onr souls, is to me a most marvellous triumph of divine Christianity. I have had occasion once or twice to speak of certain antique virtues we which the ancients excelled ns. Here now, bn rise immeasurably above the classio people, in onr new wings of divine faith in yonder great Forgiver and great Avenger. Listen to Mark Anthony, when he looks upon dead Caesar’s face, his murdered friend 1 “O pardon me, thou piece of bleeding earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy. Which like dumb mouths dc ope their ruby lip s To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue! A curse shall light upon tho limbs of mon; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadfnl objects so familiar That mothers shall but smile, when they behold Their infants qnirterod with the hand of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds; And Cffisar’8 spirit, ranging for revenge, WithAte by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice , Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. So, Maro Antony; but not so gaze wo upon our dead. To-day wo are here for love and not for hate. To-day we are here for harmony and not for discord. To-day we are risen immeasura bly above all vengeance. To-day, standing up on the serene heights of Forgiveness, our souls choir together the enchanting music of harmo nious Christian civilization. To-day we will not disturb the peaceful slumbers of these sleepers with music less sweet than the serenade of lov ing remembrances, breathing upon onr hearts as the winds of Heaven breathe upon these swaying leaves above ns. Lastly, I spoke of the memories that throng this day and this place. . Here, my heart and my tongne fail me. In the presenoe of these mighty remembrances of those strange, sad, glorious moments when the land was full of war, i falter. Who is here that needs help to recall the glory of those days when yonng Liberty sailed in front of onr arms, and her radiant eyes beamed upon onr victorious armies, as a maid en’s upon her lover in the first blnsh of love ? Who is here that needs help to reoall the suffer ings thatfollowed those early victories, the stern endurance of defeat, the sickness of long ap prehension, the weariness of prolonged expec tancy, the hardships of straitened circumstance. nounce judgement upon Pierre Bonaparte. The letter, which is dated March 22d, contains grave evidence against Pierre Bonaparte. The Presi dent, however, has never produced the docu ment in the Court This course is bitterly cen sured by the papers.' Ever since the trial of Pierre Bcnaparte the “Ecole de Medicine” has been in a perpetual state of exoitement, because one of the profess ors, Tardieu, had given evidence before the Court in favor of the Prince. Whenever Tar dieu attempted to lecture, the students created snoh a disturbance that the Professor was obliged to leave the room. The establishment has, therefore, been provisionally, closed until the 1st of May. Tardieu is supported by all his colleagues. The son of Juarez, the, President of the Re- publio of Mexico, has arrived in Paris. Rochefort’s children have been allowed to visit their father in his celL Tibaldi, who had been deported to Cayenne for being an accomplice in the Orsini conspira cy against the life of Napoleon, has been set at liberty. He has arrived in England. The duchess. of Berry, the mother of the Count of Chambord, the Bourbon pretender to the throne of France, died in Venice, Italy, 72 years old. The strikes in Paris have begun on a large scale. The foundrymen and moulders, about 15,000 strong, the tailors, sugar-refiners, and hat makers of the capital have all struck within the course of a few days. The so-called “So cialistic Societies,” which are secretly connected over all Europe, are said to be at the bottom of this surprising spectacle. They aim at nothing loss than the destruction of the modem State, wishing to establish on the mins of tho Euro pean world the “United States of Enrope," where there will be eternal peace and happiness evermore. Spain.—The trial of the Dnke of Montpen- sieur for the murder of Prince Henry, of Bour bon, was brought to a close before a court-mar tial in Madrid. The frank confession of the Duke, and the expression of his regret hav ing been received as extenuating circumstances, he was only banished from Madrid for one month. Besides, he has to pay a sum of six thousand dollars to the family of the deceased. The tribunals are pronouncing unusually se vere sentences against all those who participa ted in the late riots occasioned by the conscrip tion. The Spanish republican papers demand the separation of tho Church from the State, and urge the banishment to Rome of such' Priests and Bishops as refuse to take the oath on the Spanish constitution. Italy.—The Roman Council has adopted the “Schema de fide,” by an overwhelming majori ty. The Papal authorites apprehend an attack of Mazzini and his partisans on Rome, Forty sus picious characters had been arrested in Rome and the environs, and the investigations tend to show that there exists a conspiracy in the churches of the State for the purpose of over throwing the temporal power of the Pope. The leaders are acting in concert with the revolu tionary parties abroad. The Pontifieal Government need not fear Mazzini as long as the Frenoh tricoloro is wav ing from the battlements of Rome. There are further difficulties to be expected with the Worldly Governments. Spain insists that the Clergy shonld take the reqnired oath on the constitution. Prim has, moreover, emphatically declared that all decrees or regulations of the Holy See contrary to the Spanish constitution were null and void. Ao- coiding to a telegram from Pest, Hungary, the Hungarian House of Lords has passed a resolu tion \o exolude the Hungarion Prelates, who will vote in favor of infallibility from their body. \ g in Germany the cradle Protestanlsm.of the con viction is growing upon many zealous educated catholics,tbat the church must be freed from the influence of Rome. In Rhenish Prussia, and also in Switierland, numerous meetings have been called to itart catholic ecclesiastic^ reform associations. - The “Cologne Gazette ” has published an interesting sketch of Srossmayer, the Bishop of Bosnia and Servia. who is attracting the gen eral attention by his truly humane principles, his love of troth, aid the irresistible charm of his speech. Hi3 appearance is the more re the broodings of love over beloved ones absent; markable, as he has issued from a race which iu battle, tho hope, the fear, the prayer, the ; is hardly recognized as a civilized nation, tear, tho frequent agony? Who is here that. Joseph George Strosspayer is a Croat. He needs help to recall tbo dreadful thrill of that j was born in Essck, tbs capital of Sclavonia, last blow, when tho laud, like a strong men t where his parents lived hi humble ciroumstan- stricken, bowed head and sbronded face in j ces. As the child exhibited already an extra mantle and wept, knowing beyond donbt that [ ordinary mind at an earl) age, his father des it could not he free ? 1 tined him for the Church. .After having finished To these memories I commend you, as you his studies in Pest and Vienna, he returned to proceed to your reverent employment. They his native land, and was appointed Bishop of exhale from these graves to meet and greet the Bosnia and Servia at the ag? of 34.- In this fragrance of your flowers. lofty station he has always endeavored to onlti- Before I leave yon to your most loving task, vato the true spirit of religion, the love of God I have one word which these departed soldiers, and man, and to promote the civilization of his if they were in life, would certainly wish to be people. There being no schools of a higher spoken. I know that I am here to-day as your order in Croatia and Solavonia at that time, he representative, to honor my dead comrades: bnt gave 100,000 florins towards the establishment now I take heart of grace, and I become for of a university at Agram. His total donations this brief moment, tbe representative of my for similar purposes amount to 700,000 florins, dead comrades to honor yon. My country wo- 1 Every year, from 50 to 60 boys and youths are men, these men who have gone into the silent educated at his charge. In Dyakovar he is land; these men also have their memories of building a grand gothic cathedral, which is to the war, which they have carried with them. I bo adorned with beautiful fresco j painings. speak for them when I thank you that for every , Wherever he finds a remarkable talent, he is wonnd, and by every sick-bed, in camp and ' endeavoring to develop it by word and deed, hospital and home, there came tho white hand Painters, sculptors and musicians owe their ar- of woman, soothing and tending and comfort- tistio education and fame to his liberality. The ing. I speak for them, when I thank you that lady singers Wallinger in Munio and Polska in there was no brave man in battle who did not Vienna, both being native* of Agram, are in- reoeive the liberal glory of yonr woman’s smile debied to his kindness. Every lofty aspiration, for his reward, and that there was no coward in every humane principle, will find on echo in his battle whom yonr woman’s sonl did not frown heart. into merited contempt. I speak for them, when His theologioal and social education is chiefly I thank you for a myriad graces that beamed German. He speaks and writes the French from you in a time of darkness—for a myriad and German fluently, and masters • the Latin tendernesses in a time of cruelty—for a myriad with the same ease as he does hia native tongue, kindnesses in a time wild with revenge. I speak He is only of medium bight, but his whole car- for them, when I thank you for this annual tri- riage denotes energy and firmness. Though 56 bate of the early glories of the spring which years old, he looks muoh younger. He has you bring to lay upon their graves. O, ye prepossessing features, bright eyes, and a beau- bright companies of the martyrs of liberty! tifully shaped forehead. The Groatians will O, ye glittering battalions of the dead that died call him with pride their “ Maoenas.” in glory! O, ye stately chieftains that lead in j • - Heaven as ye led on earth 1 One day ye shall! The following may be cited as an example of witness for yourselves, in burning acclamations a scrupulously honest testimonial to character. of gratitude, how ye remember, tod how ye The writer says: “I have known Mr. for aiiaii eternally remember, theunoorrapted souls, several .years. I consider him eminently quali ties gracious hearts, the brave characters, the fled for every post he seeks. He possesses a stainless eyes, the radiant smiles, and the ten- . fine voioe. His taste in liquors is remarkable, der fingers, of the women who glorified and He plays whist with singular steadiness. He sanctified the Southern Confederacy! knows as muoh about everything as most men. — . . . He is frequently sober, and occasionally indus- The cold weather of the last week destroyed tricras.” nearly aU the fruit, but the apples, in the Alton (Illinois) district, and probably two-thirds of -WIN the Brooklyn Convention on Wednesday, the entire peach crop of Southern Illinois. Rev. Dr. Jeter delivered an address onthe pow- M. D. Hawes, a ten-year old citizen of Dan- er of the press, and Bev. Dr. Curry one on the ville, Ind., has left the bar and gone to preach- condition and prospects of education in the ing in the Methodist church. South. Southern Press Association. From the Savannah Keuss. J Savannah, April 25, 1870. The annual meeting of tho Southern Press Association was held this day in this city. The following papers were represented : Chronicle and Sentinel, Augnsla—Messrs. A. R. Wright, Henry Moore and Fat. Walsh. Constitutionalist, Augusta—Jas B. Randall. Columbus Sun—A. R. Lamar. Mobile Register—W. D. Mann. • Savannah News—W, T. Thompson. Savannah Republican—J. R. Sneed.. ! - Montgomery Advertiser—W. W. Screws. Charleston News—R, B. Riordan. Wilmington Journal—Jas. A. Englehard. Macon Telegraph and Messenger—J. Clisby and A. W. Reese. • .1 I.. . The report of the President was then reed, and after some desultory discussion, partici pated in by Messrs, Mann, Walsh and the Presi dent, was adopted unanimously. In the course of the debate Mr. Riordan, of the Charleston News, gave his experience of the practicability and advantages of the cash sys tem for subscription and advertisements. He said, proved that it was emphatically the best for both patrons and newspapers, and the only system that promised a profit to the,proprie tors. Maj. Englehard then offered the following resolutions, which were adopted: Resolved, That all complaints preferred against the New York Associated Press by mem bers of this Association shall be transmitted, through the Executive Committee of the Asso ciation. Resolved, That the Secretary of this Associa tion be directed to get from the members there of the assessment levied upon each by the New York Associated Press. A discussion then arose embracing a wide range of subjects, and without developing any new facts or decisions, was terminated by the adoption of the following resolution, offered by Col. W. D. Mann, of the Mobile Register: Resolved, That a committee of five be ap pointed for the revision of the Constitution and By-Laws of the organization of the Southern Press Association, to the end that its efficiency for the good of its several members be increased. The following gentlemen were appointed un der the resolution: W. D. Mann, of the Register, Chairman. J. R. Sneed, of the Republican. A. R. Wright, of the Chronicle and Sentinel. Jos. Clisby, of the Telegraph and Messenger. J. A. Englehard, of the Wilmington Journal A. R, Lamar, Chairman Ex-offioio. Mr. Sneed then moved the adjournment of the Convention till Tuesday, April 26th at 10J a. si., which was carried. A. W. Reese, Secretary. ■> Georgia Press Association. The second semi-annual meeting of the Geor gia Press Association assembled at the Masonio Hall at ten o’chck yesterday morning, Joseph Clisby, Esq., of the Macon Telegraph, Presi dent, in the Chair; and S. A. Atkinson of the Sontbezn Banner, Secretary. The journal of the last meeting was read and approved. . ' i . The following journals were represented: Albany News—Carey W. Styles. Americas Courier—W. L. 'Perry. Bainbridge Argus—J. R. Sneed (proxy). Columbus Son—Thos. D. DeWolf. Chronicle & Sentinel—A. R. Wright.: Constitutionalist—J. R.’ Randall'"’ H Dawson Journal—S. R. Weston. ’ t Griffin Star—F. S. Fitch. Hawkinsville Dispatoh—D. W. D. Boully. LaGrange Reporter—C. H. C. Willingham. Macon Telegraph and Messenger—Joseph Clisby. Monroe Advertiser—E. G. Cabiness. Madison Farm Journal—J. F. Sahecut. Rome Daily and Weekly—R. A. Moseley; Jr. J. F. Shanklin. : Rome Courier—M. Dwinell Savannah Republican—J. R. Sneed. - i Savannah News-^. H. Estill \ ; \ Southern Watchman—J. H. Christy. Southern Banner, and Farmer and Artisan— S. A. Atkinson. Southern Recorder—R. M. Orme.. : .2 Talbotton Standard—J. T. Waterman. West Point Shield—E. R. Sharpe. ' On motion of F. S. Fitch, of the Griffin Star, the report of the Committee on Advertising, laid over from last meeting, was taken up. On motion of J. H. Christy, of the Southern Watohman, the portion of the report containing the schedule of rates, was adopted. On motion of F. S. Fitch, of the Griffin Star, the balance of the report was referred to the Committee appointed at the last meeting to draw np a bill regulating legal advertising, to be re ported to-morrow morning. Oh motion of Mr. DeWolf, of the Columbus Sun, O. H. O. Willingham, of the LaGrange Re porter, was constituted Treasurer. On motion of O. W. Styles, of tbe Albany News, the Secretary was instructed to print two hundred, copies of the proceedings of the As sociation for distribution. On motion of Gen. Wright, the meeting ad journed until Tuesday morning, half-past nine o’clock. S. A. Atkinson, Secretary. The Rothschilds Robbed.—An employe of the Rothohilds, of Paris, has just robbed these bankers of a very large amount. Details of the case, though not complete, are still sufficiently clear. It is stated toat a careful scrutiny of the accounts and books of the bullion depart ment has shown a deficit exceeding 2,500,000, or £100,000. The perpetrator of the robbery is Chas. Tassius, a man forty-nine years of age, of German birth, bnt long resident in France. He was the President of the Liederkranz, a musical association, and a partner in a brewery. His position at Messrs. Rothschilds’.' was that of manager of the Bullion department, and in that capacity it was his duty to purchase ingots of the precious metals which were offered for sale. The discovery of his fraud' was accidentally made in consequence of his delay in forwarding a bulk of 1,000 English sovereigns, for which a customer had paid 25,00% Upon his failure to reappear at the bank, his till and chests were searched, audit was discovered that neither the 1,000 sovereigns nor the 25,000 francs were there. . The police were immediately informed, and they succeeded in arresting Tassius, who is partly paralyzed, at the house of a relative. A search was also made at his own residence, and a sum of about 20,000 francs was found, as also some correspondence, which proved that the prisoner had been concerned with a Prussian physician in Bourse speculation which had not boon profitable. The Prussian doctor has also been arrested on a charge of complicity in the frauds committed by Tassius, and both prison ers awaited judicial examination when the mail left H. J. Samsdell, the Washington corres pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who first published the charges regarding bribery in the Georgia bill, telegraphs as follows to the Commercial of the 22i inst: The Bullock lobby is still busy in circulating the report that the investigation into the bri bery cases has come to naught, and is discon tinued. An at tempted explanation was placed in the hands of every newspaper correspon dent in the city, last night, and the report went broadcast that the explanation was satis factory to the committee. There is no shadow of truth in this ; but on the contrary, it is as false as a deliberate falsehood can be. The gravest facts have been already proven before the Committee, and the investigation is but just begun. It is not at all unlikely that the efforts at" bribery will be found not to be confined to the influencing of Senator’s vote3 against the amendment. Some suspicious cir cumstances are connected with a draft or check of a very high official of Georgia, in favor of a newspaper, whose record in the Alaska job is not wholly clear. A loafkb left his wife in a rage, telling her that he would I<6vsr come back until he was rich enough to coma in a carriage. He returned Urn same evening in a wheelbarrow. ,7y-. La Letter from Texas. * Davis County, Texas, April X5,1870. . Editors.Telegraph arid Messenger.: Reoeiving your magnificent 1 journal weekly, reminds me that perhaps friends at home would IBce'to hear something of our party, and how we are pleased. On the: 12th of January last, abbot twenty of ns left Maoon, bound for Jefferson ,county, Texas. 4Ve had a gay and pleasant time throngh; reached New Orleans onthe 14th; remained two days-long enough for some of our party to be fleeoed of their loose change,—sight seeing, etc. Here we^net some five hundred emigrants, all “ bound for Texas.” The night of the 15!h' found us on board of the fine, large steamor Grand Era. Most ex cellent accommodations, good fare and kind at tention from the offioers of the boat, together with agreeable traveling company, rendered the trip delightful. On the 22d we landed safely at Jeffersbn, from where our party dispersed into different parts of.the country:“to seek their fortunes.” I am t now cultivating a small farm and am well pleased. The land is not altogether as pro ductive as in some other portions of the State, yet it is good and cheap—from one to three dol lars per acre. I believe all who came out with me are well pleased. An energetio, working man can do better business farming hero than in Georgia, from the fact that mother earth yields so much more abundantly. Say to my friends in Georgia who are seeking new homes, Texas has room enough for all. A terrible rain and hailstorm passed through this section on Thursday and Friday last No special damage done. With the hope of sending you a good list of new subscribers, I am, Yours, etc., W. F. M. -V, * . ’ Stay in the Country. The frequent letters we receive from young men in the country about coming to the city, and asking relative to the chances of employ ment, advancement, etc., constrain.us to say, with emphasis, Stay in the Coun try!. And tins admonitory advice is foundod uponsome actual knowledge of both country and city life and avocations—the health and competence which the one assures, and the uncertainties, disap pointments and failures attending the other. Our large cities are over-crowded, and the present is a most unfavorable period to change firom country to town life and occupations, even if such is ever advisable. In New York city alone tens of thousands of intelligent and skillful people are out of employment or only living from hand to mouth; and the times are such that the prospects of those who depend upon occupation in stores, offices and manufac tories are becoming more and more discourag ing. Many who have growing families depend ent upon their labors for support are wisely re moving to the country, and not a few capital ists and business men are manifesting shrewd ness and foresight by securing small farms or landed estates for their sons, with a view of placing them beyond the temptations and chances of: town life and speculation. And we believe theie are to-day at least a quarter million of people Ip,this city who would mate rially better their condition by going into the country—on farms, or to new and growing towns in the West,- South, etc ,-where land is cheap and fertile, and labor in demand and well rewarded. Maits*- Young men, ,and especially farmere sons, who are looking city-ward should carefully consider the changes of success—which, ai the best, are poor indeed, as statistics amply dem onstrate—and ponder well the life-long conse-' qiiences of a change from country to city life and occupations. Those looking for employ ment in newspaper offices, (either as clerks or brain-workers) as are many who write us, are particularly cautioned to look before they leap into the tempting but uncertain and laborious whirlpool of Journalism;- Bor in this, as in most city professions and trad s, tbfcke is little or no room—except for such geniuses as are rare indeed. For one brilliant .success, like that of Greeley or Raymond, there are a thou sand signal failures—failures which not unfre- quentlv render the aspirants and their families both destitute and miserable. An advertise ment for a competent newspaper man or edi torial writer, would rat once be answered by scores of city residents, qualified by long prac tice to occupy the position; hence how poor the chance of an inexperienced countryman, unless he possesses superior capacity, or is hacked by influential friends—and the latter can only aid him in starting, for persistent labor and decided bjain power are requisite to achieve even average success in a field so filled with active competitors. Let us cite a case in point On removing the principal office of the Rural to New York, we advertised'in. a morning paper for an ex perienced book-keeper—one thoroughly con versant with the newspaper business, etc.— Before five o’clock of the same day we received seventy-four written applications for the posi tion ! And many of these were from men who had been in business and foiled 1—men for merly well-to-do, if not rich, but now poor, with educated and refined families to support, and that two in a city where to live decently requires hard, well-remunerated work, or a surplus of means. And what is true in regard to journalism is to a great extent true concerning other pro fessions and branches of business—for nearly all the so-called respectable city avenues to competence, fortune or fame, are filled with industrious, ambitious and persistent aspirants and • competitors. Hence the chances to be come Stewarts and Vanderbilts, or Harpers and Applctons, are indeed._few and for be tween. Better far try agriculture, whioh is truly the most honorable and useful, as it is the most natural and healthy pursuit of man. Yes, stay in the country, and avoid the iotteiy- like change to city life and habits, and from out-door to sedentary employment. Remem ber that though few—alas, how very few— business.and professional men succeed in ac quiring and retaining wealth aqfi position, the many fail of securing even a com petency—while thousands who began life with high hopes and brilliant prospects, annually die in poverty and obscurity. Bear in mind, also, that the farm is the natural nursery of health, virtue and contentment, and that it guarantees oompe tcnce if not wealth—while the city (with its avocations, associations and temptations) in juries and often destroys the health, corrupts the morals, and not unfreqnently leads to bank ruptcy in cash, conscience and respectability. Avoid tfie turmoil of the poisonous town by staying in the tranquil, pure, invitrorating, life- giving and sustaining country- We venly be lieve that, as a general rule, every young maa who leaves tbe farm for the counter, dedr, physio or law, forsakes a certainty for an un certainty—and as to the extent of than uncer tainty, let the idle, starving thousands of out large cities answer. For the above and other cogent reasons we earnestly reiterate, Stay in the Country ! [Rural New Yorker. * > -i! f • • uV-’ ■ VUi ’' ;V’ « r V 'ixt A Judge Becomes Insane in the Coubt Rook. In the United States district court at Trenton, on Tuesday, daring the progress of an argu ment by the district attorney, Judge Field, who was ou the bench, rose from his seat, and with his face to the westerly wall of the court-room, lifted up his hands, beat the air wildly with them, and shouted out, “It It aw ®se, it is ns use, gentlemen, you will have to indict tho judge 1” and then he shrieked and fell toward* the wall but was, fortunately, caught and oon- veyed, in an Insenhible condition, to hi* chap*. bers in the State house. The atone great confusion. Medical aid was obtained, and it was learshd hbeat,’"' afterwards that the attack over trjq.je .. Mix-' jri-b. HbBhh