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VJK-* J*’ . ~ ; '-Jz Z ' - ^3BP - •r ND GEORGIA JOTJR.N.AXi & MESSENGER. IOUSBY, REID & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Joubnil.—-News—Politios—Litbratdbb—A gricultube—DomisticAIfra'ibs. GEORGIA TELEGElPH BUILDING i PUBLISHED 1826. MACON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1870. V0L.UIY—N01# I ^rgl# Telegraph Building, Bacon .u«TU)b and Messenger, one year §10 00 JjfSonU* 5 00 ^^kly Teiegraph and Messenger, i 200 300 1 50 i the money I \ IS0 iiSASOEMEKTS WITH J. W. BUSES & * CSSI " CO.’S PUBLICATIONS. J Telegraph & Messenger and Farm noth Weekly Telegraph and Messon- •^56 columns, 1 year ^SufwW and Messenger and F»im and Route •••""•J""' ^ • j.wvekly Telegraph and Mesfienger r 4r m and Home foStbern Christian Advocate with Weekly C Tkii arrangement is where remittances are i Jj, direct to the office of publication. consolidated Telegraph and Messenger iesents a largo circalation, pervading Mid. r? Rnnthern and Southwestern Georgia and £ item Alabama and Middle Florida. Adver- SfmenU at reasonable rates. In the Weekly • one dollar per square of three-quarters of ’* jnc i, esc h publication. Bemittances should Smade by express, or by mail in money or- j(js, orregistere^ettere^^^^^^^^^^^^^ $1100 5 00 5 00 4 00 “Cicely.** [ALKALI statiox.J n 1 eira you're a poet; may be; I ain’t much on TQ)6* • [ reckon you’d giro mo a hundred, and beat me ‘ ereiy time. | jjetry!—that's the way some chapa pnt np an r-ti uke mine “straight without sugar,” and that’s m vhat's the matter with mo. fgftty!—jaat look round you—alkali, rock and cage; I .vs-lmab, rock and alkali; ain’t it a pretty page! i^on the cast at momin’, sun in the west at night. j;l the tbadow of this yer station the only thing mores in sight. hetiT!—Well now—Polly! Polly, inn to your mam; tm right away, my pooty! By-by! Ain’t sho a limb ? hetrj!—that reminds me o' snthin’ right in that init: j,,t (het that door thar, will yer, for Cicely’s ears is cate. j, notieeJ Tolly—the baby? A monlh afore she was bom, - Ocely—my old woman—was moody-like and for- lorn; Oat of her head and crazy, and talked of flowers and trees; family man. yourself, sir ? Well, you know what a woman bo’s. Xirrons she was and restless — said that she “conldn't stay.” fur—and the noareat woman sevento n miles away. Eat I fixed it np with the doctor, and ho said he would be on hand, lad I kinder stuck by the shanty, and fenced in that bit o’ land. Oae night—the tenth of October—I woke with a chill and fright, for the door it was standing open, and Cicely warn t in eight, But a note was pinned on the blanket, which it said that she -conldn't-stay,” Bit bad gone to visit her neighbor—seventeen miles away! ' • . i Then sod how aho stampeded, I didn’t wait for to foront’in the road, next minit, I started as wild as she; Earning first this way and that way, Ilka a hound that is off the scont, Bor there waru't no track in the daikneaa to tell me the way she went. fro bad soma mighty mean moments afore I kern to (bis spot— Lost on the Plains in '50, drowned almost, and •hot; Boiooton this alkali desert, a banting a crazy wife, Vwra'ly aa on-satisfactory as any thing in my life. "Gealy! Cicely! Cicely!" I called; and I held my breath. tad‘-Cicely!” came from the canyon—and all was still as death. . lad “Cicely! Cicely! Cicely!" came from the rocks below, tad jest but a wbbpcrof “Cicely!" down from thorn peaks of enow. I ain't what yon call religions—but IJ cst looked up to the sky— tad—tliis ver'e to what Tm coming, and may be you think t lie s - ., - , Bat np away to the east’ard, yaller and big and far, luw of a sudden rising the siDglerist kind of star. &£ and yaller and dancing, it seemed to beckon to me;* taller and big and dancing, such as you never see: Big and yaller and dancing—I never saw such a star. ted I thought of them sharps in the Bible, and went for it then and .thar. Otct the brush and bowlders, I stumblod and pushed „ abesd: . Keeping the star afore me, I went wherever it led. It might bev been for an hour, when suddent and peait and nigh, . . , Out of the yearth afore me thar riz np a baby s cry. Listen! that’s the same music; but her lungs they are stronger now i than the day I packed her and her mother—I m dern’d if I jeet know how, Cat the doctor kem the next minit, and the joke o the whole thing is That Cia never know what happened from that very night to this! Bat Cicely eays you're a poet, and maybe you might some day, - . ' , fast sliog her a rhyme 'bout a baby that waa bom in a carious way. Tad see what abe says: and, old fellow, when you speak of the star, don't tell It how ’twas the doctor’s lantern—for may be 'twon't eound so well. Overland Monthly for Octbker. Foreign Motes. MET ABED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND ME8SENOEB. Julius von Wickede, the military correspon dent of tho “Cologne Gazette,” represents the loss of German officers in the recent battles as - .....RP— MKKKKKKi . .. three times larger than that of private soldiers. 2-montbs..... 2 00 The number of staff-officers and commanders nielli Tele oranh and Messon- of regiments killed is appaling. Being on horseback and heading the charge of their troops, they are, o. coarse, much more exposed l.^htTriwaysm advance, and paper stopped to the French bullets. Death has also deeim- I “•V.-TtLe monoy runs out. unless renewed. ated the ranks of the German nobility. Prince Salm-Salm with a nephew of his only 17 years old, fell at Gravellotte. Prince Reuas was killed in the same battle. Yon Boon, the Minister of War, laments the death of one son; Count Iizenplitz, the Minister of Commerce, that of his only son. Bismarck’s both sons are wound ed. The heir presumptive of Mecklebtirg. Schwerin is said to have been killed by the ex plosion of the citadel of Laon. The surrender of Metz is not so near as many anticipate. At least does the appearanoe of the besieged city, not indicate an early fall. The bivouacs of the French can be observed from the German intrenchments. The fortress is situated in a large valley, protected on three sides by powerful forts. The French are en camped inside these fortifications. There is s continual stir and bustle; bayonets are gleam- ing in the sun, the soldiers are marching and drilling os if there were profound peace. Dark masses are moving to and fro, horsemen are galoping in all directions, and the military bands aro playing the most popular airs, which a favorable breeze vory often wafts over to the German lines. Most of the villages aronnd Metz are entirely deserted, almost honse for home having been transformed into a fortress. A oharmiDg little castle, Mercy le Haut, near Metz, belonging to the Vicomte da Goetlosquet, presented the saddest commentary on the rava ges of war. Intrenchments had been' thrown up around the lower stories of the building; the windows were barricaded by tables, chairs, fire-screens, marble-slabs, in fact, anything that might serve the purpose. A large barricade was erected before the entrance. "While the stern necessities of war may excuse the destruction of valuable furniture, for purposes of dofence, the terrible devastation inside, defying any de scription, was scandalous. Tho Vicomte is said to have been opposed to the Empire; a great many tickets, bearing the inscription “No,” wero. in fact, still found by the German troops. The French soldiers, who occupied the building first, are accused of having made such terrible havoc with a peaceful home to wreak their ven geance upon the proprietor. A notice, in French, pnt np in one of the rooms, and signed by a German officer, stated that the Germans bad found the castle in this state. The Vicomte was evidently a man of superior breeding and intellect. There was a magnificent library, filling a whole room; beautifal collections of seleot engravings and pictures, of coins and dried plants, a large assortment of select German, English and Italian musio demonstrated tho ortis’ic taste of the Vicomte. The house and grounds were provided with everything a refin ed and cultivated mind may Irish for to pass his leisure hours in pursuits of a loftier order. And what had become of all this ? The floors were covered with books, drawings, music, picture frames, wrecks of furniture, old documents, children’s toys, fragments of ladies' and chil dren's wearing apparel, all lying about in the wildest chaos. They had been thrown there and trodden under foot in mere wautoness. A part of the collection of dried plants served, at least, some purpose, the German out-posts us ing it as ligUtwood. How may the proprietor feel when he ever thus sees again his quiet and happy home, where ho had built a temple for the muses! [Feel, did yon ask? Just as if Sheridan and his bummers had been there.] On the evening of September 14, a Prussian captain presented himself before the French outposts of Metz to conduct six captive French officers to the hostile camp in exchange of six Prussians Marshal B^zaine had returned. When he expressed hts desire to see the commander- in-chief, Bazaine, wrapped np in a long riding- cloak, suddenly emerged from the foremost bi- vouachut. Making himself known to the oaptain, he conversed with him for some time, assuriDg him finally that he did not entertain any thoughc yet of surrendering Melz. As an illustration of the lack of organization in the French commissary, wamay mention tho fact that, while the army at Sedan wa3 starving, there were whole trains of provisions in Mont- medy, only six kilometers from Sedan. Strag glers broke a part of the cars open, and, after having indulged in wine and liqaor to their hearts’ content, let tho casks run out. It was in the Exchange of Bordeaux that, in 185G, Napoleon pronounced his famous “L’em- pire e’est la paix.” Tho leadiog business men of the city caused these words to be engraved with golden letters upon a marble slab which was pnt np in the hall of the tribnnal of com merce. After tho surrender of Napoleon, tliis table of commemoration was broken in frag ments by the population. The London Daily News has reason to believe that 400,000 rifles and thirty millions of assert ed cartridges are being mannfactnred in Bir mingham, Sheffield and L radon on French ac count. ; Russian official reports intimato that the St. Petersburg cabinet is seriously thinking of at tempting to free Bussia from the obnoxious conditions of the treaty of Paris on the occasion of the coming peace negotiations betweenFrance and Germany. To give weight to her repre sentations Bussia has armed. Theso facts have probably originated the reports of a Turco-Bus- siau war being imminent. We think they are premature. The unruly populations of Thes- salia and Albania, Greece, and theVicoroyof Egypt must have torn first the Turkish empire asunder, before the Mosoovite will step in to divide the spoils, reserving to himself tho lion's share. . _ . . The population in the environs of Paris have strictly followed the orders of the Republican authorities. Everything eatable and drinkable has disappeared. There reigns a sinister si lence in the deserted villages. The doors of tho houses, which have been forced open by the Germans to quarter themselves there, stand ajar; pieces of furniture are lying about; the life-sized likeness ot some remote anoestor over the chimney, looks angrily upon the invader dust oovers Uie silken and velvet covers of the furnituro; the flowers in the rooms are droop ing ; here and there a half-starved dog watches tho premises; everywhere there is bnl ruin and desolation and the stillness of death. Some times the inhabitants have displayed very little ingenuity in removing or hiding their provis ions. In Couilly the German soldiers found a newly made cement floor in the house of a tradesman. A pick-axe was soon at hand, and after the removal of tho bricks an-ample stock of sausages, hams, cheese, rice, wine. and liquors greeted the eyes of the agreeably sur prised warriors. t . „ It is understood that the Prussian Govern ment w iii pmdently refrain from interfering with tho internal affairs of France, f King William and Bismarck will likewise i treat with any French Government, Kepublio j or Monarchy, which is stable and strong enough '■ to guarantee the faithful execution ot a treaty of peace. ' ‘ •' Tho Upper Chamber ot tho StaleB General of Holland have accepted the law nbolishicg the penally of death, by a trifling majority of two votes. 1 r ... | The members of the Kepnbhoan government 1 in Paris show a 1 revolting lack of delicacy in f bringing tho private correspondence and mo.it j intimate connections of Napoleon before the public gaze. We thins that the regard which The Wedding Gown. I said to Lucy one summer night. As she sat and worked at her wedding gown, Stitching away in the snneet light, Which sprinkled gold on her tresses brown— ‘•Lucy, answer and tell me true, What ofyonr old Iots, and what of your new? With Just a quiver upon her brow, And the white work rustled across her knee, tihe answered, “The old love remaineth now, As much as over it was to me: A dream—a something I could not hold; A fading fortune of fairy gold. “And I did nothing that I can blame ;” And then she rustled her work and sighed. 4 '0q6 thinks no btrm wbon I nimfi that dmh6, Right pronl she said, “Ono ie satisfied. First lovo calls for a smile and sigh; Life’s lovo call us to live and die! “Can you recall when I wore eome flowers— Fiowers he gave me to dock my hair ? Ere the twilight they dropped in showers, And naught but the stems remained there. Life’s love givotb a bettor crown, And I sit and work at my wedding gown. Behind ns, the eastern cloud lay dead, Ihe west was bright Re » golden sea. And Lucy gazod at it, as she said-—’ - ‘The old love is but a dream to me; In the twilight hours we bail a etar, But wo know tho eunehin© ia hotter iMT# knowledged the debt of gratitude. When small, sooled men have risen from obscurity they will tarn from those who aided them when low; for they will feel humiliated by being reminded'of their humble circumstances. Not so Napoleon, who, having acceded to supreme power, kindly remembered all those who had befriended him in his hours of need. Among these was a Miss Howard, belonging to the upper class y>f the “femmes entretenues” in London. She had as sisted Napoleon, when, owing to his extravagant living, he found himself in peouniary embar rassments. At last be had becomeEmperorof the French and Miss Howard presented herself in Paris! Napoleon received her kindly, conferred a handsome dowry npon his old friend, and mar ried her to a young Englishman. This, we sup pose, is tho Mine Miss Howard the Paris pa pers are alluBnig to now, Jabno. A BILL To be entitled An Act, to extend tbe'lien of set off and reenpement as against debts con tracted before the 1st day of Jane, 1865, and to deny to such debts the aid of the Courts, until the taxes thereon have been paid. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem- bly of Georgia, That in all suits pending, or hereafter brought in or before any Court of the State founded upon any debt, or contract, or cause of action, made or implied before the 1st day of June, 1865, or upon any other debt or contract in renewal thereof, it shall not be lawful for the plaintiff to have a verdict or judgment in his favor nntil he has made it clear ly appear to tho tribunal trying the same that all legal taxes chargeable by law upont same have been duly paid for each year since the making or implying of said debt or contract Sec. 2. In all suits now pending, or hereafter brought it shall be tho duty of the plaintiff within six months after the passage of this act, if the suit be pending, and of the filing of the writ if the snit be hereafter brought, to file with the Clerk of tho Court or Justice an affida vit, if the suit is founded on any debt or con tract as described in section first, that all legal taxes chargeable by law npon each debts or con tracts hnvo been duly paid, or the income there on for each year since the making of the same, and that he expects to prove the same npon tho trial; and on failure to file such affidavit as herein required, said suit shall, on motion, be dkmMd. Sec. 3. In suits upon such contracts in every case the harden of proof showing that the taxes have been duly paid shall be upon the party plaintiff without plea by the defendant, and the defendant may npon this point cross examine witnesses, introduce proof in denial and rebut tal to the plaintiff*8 proof without plea. Sec. 4. Xn every trial, upon a snit founded upon any such debt or contract as described in this act. provided that said debt has been reg ularly given iu for taxes, and tho taxes paid shall be a condition precedent to recovery on the same, nud iu every such case, if the tribu nal trying is not clearly satisfied that said taxes have been duly given in and paid, it 6hall so find, and said suit shall be dismissed. Sec. i. No execution founded on any debt or contract shall proceed to levy or sale until the plaintiff or owner thereof shall attach thereto his affidavit tnat all legal taxes chargeable by law to him have been paid from the time of making or implying of said contract nntil the day of such attaching of said affidavit, and any defendant or claimant of property levied on by said execution may stop the same, aa in cases of affidavits of illegality, by filing his affidavit de nying that said taxes havo been paid, and stud affidavit shall be returned and tried and have effect as in other cases of illegality. Sec. 6. In all suits now pending, or hereafter to bo brought in any court in this State, founded on any such contract, or upon any debt in re newal thereof, it shall be lawful for the defend ant to plead ^nd prove, in defense and as an off set to the same, any lo.sses tho said defend ant may have suffered by, or in consequence of, the late war against the United States by the people of the Southern States, whether said losses be from the destruction or depreciation of property, or in any other way bo fairly caused by said war and th9 results thereof. See. 7. No plea or proof under this set of damage or loss as aforesaid shall be held as set ting up damage too remote or speculative, if it only appeared that it was fairly and legitimately produced, directly or indirectly, by said war or the results thereof. Sea 8. No set off pleaded under this act shall entitle the defendant to any judgment in his fa vor for any such damages, only to far as to sot off the same against the plaintiff's claims. Sec. 9. In all cases where any debt, as de scribed in the first section of this act, has been reduced to judgment and is still unsatisfied, it shall be lawful for the defendant to set off against said judgment said loss or damage against the same as a credit on the same in the same terms as is provided in this act, when the debt has not been reduced to judgment, as fol lows : in term time the defendant may move in open court to have said credit made, setting forth in the notice the grounds of the same; upon this notice the plaintiff may join issue, and the issneshall be tried by a j ary whose ver dict shall be final on tho facts. Sec. 10. If execution be issued, and be pro ceeding, the defendant may file affidavit Betting forth his claim and the grounds thereof, it shall be returned and tried, and shall operate as is provided by law in case of other illegalities; provided, the said affidavit shall set forth that such credit was not plead or allowed in the orig inal trial; the fact that the said credit or set off existed at the date of the judgment, shall be no objection thereto; and provided further, that if the defendant in said judgment has al ready bad the said debt reduced under the relief act of 1868, the set-off or credit under this act shall not bo allowed in the same. j. Sec. 11. When a jadgment is proceeding against property which the defendant has sold, tho owner thereof may set-off against the same, his losses or damages by said war, on the same terms as are provided in this act for the defend ant. Sec. 12. In all suits now pending, founded on any such contract as described in the firslseotion of this act, the same shall not be ready for trial nntil the affidavit of the plaintiff required by the several sections of this act shall have been duly filed, in the Clerk’s office, or notice there of given to the defendant at least three months before tho trlaL Sec. 13. And be it farther snooted, That nothing contained in this set shall apply to, af fect or hinder any jadgment or execution, issned from any of the courts of this State, when on' the trial thereof, the Relief plea, allowed un der the act of 1868, was filed and sustained by the court, the foots submitted and passed upon by the jury,; nor to any note given in renewal of a note given prior to June, 18G5, when that debt was reduced to the equities agreed upon by the parties under the Belief act of 1868.it Seo. 14. Nothing In this aet shall be so con strued as to affeot any claim due any widow or minor, contracted prior to Jnne 1, 1865; but such claims shall be settled upon the principles A WOMAN VAN WINKLE. ;; The lady Who fan* Mvpt Tor Twenty Tears Brought Before the iwvau of at. LeaU —Who Will Hake Deport. From the St. Zeuit Democrat, 101A. [ The regular weekly meeting cf the St. Louis Medical Society was held in hall No. 1, Poly technic Building, Saturday night. Dr. John T. Hodges occupied the chair, and Dr. H. Z. Gill actodas secretary. Dr. J. T. Edwards, of Union City, Tennessee, was introduced, and by the permission of the President, proceeded to narrate some of the facts connected with tho life of the wonderful woman known as tu.f THE SLEETING 35EAUTT, The Northern Press Upon Gen. Lee. Supposing that onr readers would feel a strong interest to see what the Northern presshadto say about the model soldier and main of his age, we reprint below several extraota from leading papers. They are taken in every case from long editorials, but fairly refieot tbs spirit of the whole. The New York Herald has an eloquent notice which will be read with unalloyed satisfaction. We take the following from it: “On a quiet autumn morning, in the land which he loved so well, and, as he held, served who is- now in this city. For the benefit of i so faithfully, the spirit of Bobert Edmund Lee .y t laff IhA gIkv wkiftK it ImiI flnmnnk Aniwtkla/1 and those of our readers who have ..evtr heard of this extraordinary case, which has for more than twenty years puzzled the most eminent physi cians of this country and Europe, we describe tho woman and her condi'ion. Her name is Susan C. Godsey, and she ia twenty-nine years of age. She was bora in Ocion county, Tennessee, just across the State line, and about six miles from Hickman, Ken tucky. Her parents were extremely poor, and lived in a small log honse containing only one room. Until eight years of age the girl was strong and healthy,- and seemed in nowise remarkable. At that age, however, Bhe was 8TBICKEN WITH 1EVKB, bat was attended by an experienced pbysiolau, who soon checked the disease. The girl sunk into a slumber which lasted an unusually long time, and finally awoko weak, bnt welL To the surprise of the family and physicians, she remained awake bnt a fow minntes, when she again went to sleep. From then until the pres ent time, twenty-one years and three months, she has nevor been awake more than eight mi»- utes at a time. The lethargic state invariably lasts a certain number of hoars. She awakens at six o’clock in the morning and at three and nine o'clock each night, never varying one-half minute from the regular time. She takes but very little nourishment, and that only twice in twenty-four hours. During the tiino in which she sleeps SHE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BREATHE, < • . . ■ 1 and a mirror held against her nostrils remains untarnished. Her breathing, if, indeed, she breathes at all, is not sufficient to stir the slight est down suspended against her nostrils by a silken thread. When berremarkable condition becnmekn'own physicians flocked from all parts of the country to see her. None were able to satisfactorily account for the phenomenon, although many theories were advanced. Tho true cause has never to this day been determined, although the woman continues alternately to sleep and wake with the regularity of clockwork. Two physi cians, Drs. Rhea and Glover, aro now in atten dance upon her, and although the former has visited her constantly for sixteen years, he can still form no opinion regarding the cause. Sho is rather under medium size, and with the exception that she is sometimes troubled when awake with neuralgic pains in her head and neck and that one arm is slightly paralyzed, enjoys, as far as she can enjoy anything, good health. Her hands are extremely small and delicate, being scarcely lai gar than those of a child six years of age. Another remarkable feature in the case is that while her hair has grown to a great length, her Huger nails have not grown any since she was first Btritkan. HEB APPEARANCE. r'^ As before stated, she is slightly under raedf- nm hight, and is of slender but graceful figure. Her face is oval and the head wcil formed. She has a mass of dark auburn hair, well formed forehead, dark hazel eyes, fringed with heavy lashes, well shaped nose, and small mouth. Al though her complexion is clear and fine, yet owing to constant confinement toiher bed, her faoe is so white as to be almost ghastly. Far from anything repugnant in her appearance, even while sleeping, she would doubtless be considered a very pretty girl by those unac quainted with her condition. She retains what knowledge she possessed at eight years of age, bnt has not been awake enough since then to learn anything more. She knows her relatives and friends, and converses with them in her conscious momepte. Before falling asleep a slight hiccopgh or choking sound proceeds ap parently from her throat. She then so qniokly becomes insensible that sho is sometimes unable to finish a sentence or even's word while talk ing. When abont to awake the same choking sound is repeated from her throat a number of times at regular intervals. 'When this is heard eleven times without intermission her body shakes in a spasmodic manner and sho instantly awakens. Whether asleep or awake her hands tremble continually. She is attended by her mother, now an aged and feeble woman, her brother, her niece and two physicians, and is temporarily stopping at tho honse of Mrs. Davis, on Walnut between Fifth and Sixth streets. Dr. Edwards stated Saturdaynight before the Hedioal Society, that ho had known the family for a number of years, and knew that there was no deception or humbug. He asked that A COMMITTEE OF FIVE might be appointed from the physicians present to watch tho subject and see that the case was just as be represented it. On motion of Dr. H. Z. Gill, the President appointed the following gentlemen as the Com mute* : left the clay which it Jbad so much ennobled and traveled oat of this world into the great and mysterious land. Yesterday the expressions of regret which sprang from the few who sur rounded the bedside of the dying soldier and Christian will be swelled to-day into one mighty voice of sorrow, resounding thronghont onr country and extending OTer all parte of the' i world where hts great genius and his many yir- 1 tnes are known. For not to the Southern peo ple alone shall be limited the tribute of a tear over the dead Virginian. Here in the North, forgetting that the time was when the sword of Bobert Edmund Lee was drawn against ns—for getting and forgiving all the years of bloodshed and agony—we have long since ceased to look npon him as the Confederate leader, bnt bave claimed his as one of ourselves; have oberished and felt prond of his militaiy genius as belong ing to ns; have recounted and recorded his tri- nmpbs as our own; have extolled his virtues as refleeting honor upon us—for Bobert Edmund Lee was an American, and the neat nation which gave him birth would be to-day unworthy of such a son if she regarded him lightly. Never had a mother a nobler son. In him the military genius of America was developed to a greater extent than ever before. In him all that was pure and lofty in mind and purpose found lodgment. Dignified without presump tion, affable without familiarity, he united all those charms of manners which made him the idol of his friends and of his soldiers, and won for him the respect and admiration of the world. Even as in the days of his triumph, glory did not intoxicate, so when the dark clouds swept over him adversity did not depress. From the hour that he surrendered Us. sword' at Appo mattox to the fatal autnmu' morning,'he passed among men noble in bis quiet, simple dignity, displaying neither bitterness nor regret over’the irrevokable past. He conquered us in misfor tune by the grand manner in which he sustain ed himself, even as he dazzled ns by his genins when the tramp of his soldiers resounded through the valleys of Virginia. And for snch a man we are all in tears and sorrow to day, Standing beside his grave, men of the South and men of the North can mourn with alt the bitterness of four years of warfare erased by the common bereavement. May this unity of grief—this unselfish manifestation over the loss of the Bayard of America—in the sea son of dead leaves and withered branches which this death ushers in, bloom and blossom like the distant coming spring into the flowers of a heartier accord!” ,, : The New York Times reviewing Lee’s career in the Federal service says: Thus far the career of. Colonel Lee had been one of honor and the highest promise. In every service whioh bad been intrusted to his hands he had proved efficient, prompt end faithful, and his merits had always been readily acknowl edged and rewarded by promotion. He was regarded by his superior officers as one of the most brilliant and promising men in the army of the United States. His personal integrity was well known, and Ms loyalty and patriotism was not donbted. Indeed, it was in' view of the menaoes of treason and the dangers which threatened the Union that he had received his last promotion, but lie seems to bave been thor oughly imbued with that pernioious doctrine that his first and highest allegiance was dne to the State of his birth. "When Virginia joined the ill-fated movement of secession from the Union, he immediately threw np his commission in the Federal army and offered bis sword to the newly formed Con federacy. He took this step, protesting his own attachment to the Union, bnt deelariDg that his sense of duty would never permit him to “raise Us hand against his relatives, Us children, and his home.’ - In his torewell letter to General Scott, he spokeof the struggle whioh tUs step had cort him, and his wife declared that he “wept tears of bldod over this terrible war.” There are probably few who doubt the sincerity of his protestation, bnt thousands have regret ted, and his best friends will ever have to regret the errors of judgment, the false conception of the allegiance due to his Government and his country, which led one'so rarely gifted to cast Us lot with traitors, and devote his Bplendid talents to the execution of a wioked plot to tear asunder and ruin the Bepublie in whose services his life had hitherto been spent. The York World says: Every man is to be judged, so far as human judgment may be passed npon him at all, by the tenor of the motivea to, whioh the main cur rent of his days has responded. Judged by this standard, the career of Bobert Lee must com mand the deliberate admiration even of those who most earnestly condemn the coarse upon which he decided in the most solemn and im perative crisis of his life. Of his genins as a Drs. Bumbold, Gill, Johnson, Edgar and Me- ; m j[itary commander we do not now speak. To Phebters. .... , , . .' that the unanimous voice of all the true and They visited the girl at ten o olock yesterday | gau 4n t men who fought our long battle out with morning, and will remain with her 83 l° n 8 08 i him and his untiring army has borne abundant they may deem it necessary, be it one or more witne63 . ahe 6 vente which evoked it are still days. Their report, which wiU be handed in at too near to tl8) too many melancholly memories the next meeting of the SMiety, Saturday night, slil j about the names of those prodigious will no doubt be an interesting one. . baltle . flelda of Virginia, to make it natural or tVH.t vi,» r«„.h Koriitt on Wndne m ’ Po«®R>le for a Northern pen ,tq dwell with com- wtUfc * *•«“«“ on Heunes pUeenoy upon the -strageUo riwouroee, the in- day last Accomplished. exhaustible patince, the ealm determination, of Assuming that the news of the grand French oar most illustrious antagonist.. But'if the tes^ sorUe from Paris on Wednesday, the 12th, was timony of ail honorable men who contended a TT n t o i nu iko w against the great Southern General agrees with true, the Herald, of Saturday, sums ns there- t £ e ver(Jict “ f all eom peU,nt foreign critics in suits a9 follows: ■ •::■• awarding to him a place among the most emi- All aronnd the entire investing line a most de- gent soldiers of history, the concord is not loss strnctive bombardment told with deadly effeot; absolute of all who knew the man in the pri- and at the last word that we have received from yate and personal aspects of his life, as to his tho siege the Prussian line had been driven so gentleness, his love of justice. Us truth, and far back that it must bo drawn out to a fine elevation of souL wire to complete tho circumvallation. The bat- teries that were at Genevilliers, and thence The Tribune outpours itself as follows : commanded the northern part of the city of Bobert E. Lee.—The death of General Lee Paris, and conld, with gnns of long range, have will give occasion at the South for a marked dropped shell into the Parc Monceanx, or even display of pnblio grief. It will be without sig- within a block of the Tnileries have been com- nificance, and may not, perhaps, be thought polled to take refuge from the shot of the bos- wholly appropriate; nevertheless, it will boa tile guns of Aubervillier and Chignanconrt, demonstration in many respects remarkable, away bask as far to tho rear as Deuil, threo It in much to be donbted if any othor Govem- miles further from Paris; on the eastern Bide ment than that of the United States would per- tbe position at Bouligay, Cbampigny and Cre- mit, or any other people than onr own would toil and tho heights of Avron have been captur- countenance, the open expression of regret ed and occupied by She French, the Prussians which will bo made over the loss of a man who being driven as far back as the forest of had become prominent in s great conspiracy to Bond/; on the south Villejuif, Cachan, Cla- destroy the Government and divide the people, mart and Meudon, whence the shells of the Bat not only will the publio meetings, the offi- besiegers were to have pierced the walls of the cial resolutions, the publio parades in which Luxembourg Palace, have beon reclaimed, and the Southom people will express'their sorrow on the west the works at SL Cloud and for four be officially ignored, but loyal people will re miles in every direction have been demolished spect their grief. The beet loved leader of is paid to nny'private individual should not be appropriate j get ftyt j 6 towards a fallen Emperor. But tl e There ; is but little magnanimity in <t Tho Paris pioeis h ive jrablivhed, Vm- Appropriate.—The most totice of tho death of General Lee we °onie3 from tho Indianapolis Journal, •Lett whoso editor was twioe drafted during tho ^ ^ kto civil war, but wriggled ont both time&> this coiidaot Tho Paris p . ... it is. - Tho notice and the man fit exactly: among others; h report i hit Napoleon hid set- “General Bobert E.'Lee, the military chief oftied upon ^Dss Howard an er son a sum c ilia rebellion, and a promiaeatDeipocratic lead- six millions of francs. ,, ; % 6ied‘ yesterday. * It is charity to make the Napoleon is t> MM of one nobl i o.onhty j °«asion of his death the occasion for saying which, as a man, places r., ‘ ‘ j nothing of his life." ' average of the hum-ra kind. He has alwaysac- 1 of equity taking into consideration'the rela- 1 by the dreadful fire from Fort Mount Valerien, the South, Lee was not absolutely without tiva loss'of property sustained by the plaintiff J and the investing troops have been driven back honor and even affection ia the North; while and defendant » * to Versailles. The sweeping bombardment hot tears now for him there, a sympathy, not .See. 15 Be'it further enacted, That nothing , from this immense furt-the fort too, which unallied to pity, will be felt for Urn here, in the foregoing sections of this bill shall be so construed as to extend the relief contemplated ia the foregoing sections to any defendant or defendants who may be at ther time of the com mencement of such action, or who may have been at the commencement of such actions heretofore brought, in possession of the prop erty for tho purchase of which Baid contract was entered info; nor shall any administrator, ex ecutor, guardian, or trustee, be entitled to the benefits of this bill who msy have acted fraudu lently in such capacity, or who may have wil fully or negligently mismanaged the property ia their charge; Provided, The defendant may ok-ct to give up the property in Us possesion for which said oontract was entered into, and such election shall be a full discharge of such indebtedness. - •' See. 16. Repeals conflicting laws. Bismarck isreported to have demanded—is'said Time has sufficed: to give both North and to haTe swept away the works of the Prussian South a better idea of the personal character engineers like chaff before the wind. of this mao. It was difficult for ns in the heat tm of the war fever to Understand how it was poa- Rmit.t, by DxoRKts and Beautifully Less.—• giblo that a man could be a traitor to his coun- The Chicago Times stys: try and yji strictly honest toward his fellow The Democracy have carried Indiana by a men. It is still something of e mystery, but popular majority D*** may reach five thousand, none will refuse to admit that socially General In 1868, the R»dfa.l majority was 9,579. In Lee was above reproach. Though guilty of 1866, the Radical majority was 14,202. In 1864, weak and wicked acta, it cannot bo shown that the Radical majority was 20,189. The election he ever did a mean thing; and it was his mis- stati sties of tW State show a constant change fortune that he was less firm of purpose than by of publio sentiment since 1864. averaging abont nature generous and yielding. His popularity 3 000 votes in the two biennial periods preeed- was based on these attribute.; and uniform log 1868 bat amounting to Arable that number suooesscs in his defensive operations during tbe since the last Preaidenual election. And this, first year of the war won him such confidence notwithstanding the addition to the Radical of his troops as his repeated blunders and fall- natty within tbe last-mentioned period of the nres in his offensive eempaignt oowld not shake. Ethhpian vote. Thi* confidence remained so at-ongty wilh him to the end of the war that withhisfall at Appo mattox tho Cause he had defended fell forever. Now that he is gone, let us endeavor to for get his folly end his great crime, remembering only that he waa not wholly bad. False politi cal principles rather than false morals perverted Ins mind and wronght his rain, as they wrought that of his party. To forget is the greatest charity we could now extend him. Yet in the history of his oonntry he must live, not indeed as the ablest of her sons who sought her over throw, but as in many respects the least odions and the most prominent;—as a General great only in defensive-passive operations, bnt there nnequaled thronghont the war on either side— as a soldier stainless on every point save that on whioh a soldier’s honor should be the bright est, the Oause for which he drew his sword. It is a great and pathetio figure that he makes in onr annals. But the country pardoned Urn; he bore himself manfully .nd modestly after bis overthrow; and he will be carried to his grave amid the passionate sorrow of the gallant peo ple that made him their leader, and the respect ful Bilence of the people that conquered him. The New York Son has a very long article in the nature of a biographical sketch of Lee’s ca pacity as a soldier. The Snn says: It is not necessary to trace General Lee’s ca reer through the four years’ war, to which this waa the prelude, and in which it is but juBt to say that he displayed military ability and genius of the very highest order, and won a reputation that will live in history for all time. It is but recently, and in the light of the great conflicts now deluging France with blood, tnat a British authority pronounced General Lee the greatest general of the age. The passions aroused by the desperate struggle in which he performed so oonspicnons a part are not yet snffioientlj. allayed in this country to enable Americans to jndge impartially as to Us merits in comparison with those of the prominent actors on the Union side; but while there is no dissent to his title to a rank among the greatest of them in military ability, there is also no dispute as to Us superiority over all who served the Southern cause. i And the San concludes its article as follows :> His death will awaken most profound and honest manifestations of grief throughout the entire South, and very many people in the North will forget political differences' beside the open grave of the dead chieftain, and drop a tear of sorrow on Us bier. And whatever may be the verdict as to his career in public life, the universal expression will bo that in Gen. Lee an able soldier, a sinoere Christian, and an honest man has beon taken from earth. The 8t. Louis Republican says: ( As a soldier, General Lee, may be rated as among tbe very best America has ever produc ed, bnt the lustre of his achievements in the field is outshone by the purer and brighter light of a spotless private charaotar. He was, in the highest and beet sense of the phrase, a Christian gentleman. Actuated by no mean ambitions, influenced by no petty jealousies, ba was ever gnided by what he believed to be the dictates of duty; and, though there will be always a wide diversity of opinion as to Us oonduct in relation to our civil struggle, even his bitterest enemies have never called in ques tion the honesty of the' motives wMch led him to fight beneath the banner of tho South. Since the termination of the war, Us oonrse has com mended itself to the approbation of all, Tbe St. Lonis Democrat (radical) in. the course of a long article has the following re- mark : His best judgment is well known to have con demned the course of the seoeseionists, and when with ill-concealed hesitaaoy and; misgiv ings he first drew his sword against tho country of his fa! hers, he declared that he fought only for his State, and would join no war for a new ‘Confederacy. But tho first mistaken step in volved his subsequent career, and precipitated him into an abyss of rebellion from which he would at first have recoiled. He was an ac complished soldier and a noble man—but only noble as frail mortals are, with serious failures of judgment and weaknesses of will. The rev- erenee sod affection he inspired attest the fine qualities of his heart, and the confidence repos ed in him, as well as his protracted and stub born defense of the Confederacy against supe rior armies, and At least equal generalsUp, prove his mental power. A WO.kDEItH L CASE. A Thief Strlpned end Almost Licked to Death by Cows. ■ 1 A gentleman residing in the suburbs of Pitts burg, Pa., has an orchard of very choice fruit, and he was greatly annoyed by trespassers, who would visit tbe orchard at night and oariy off large quantities of the apples and other fruit. One morniDg two men passing along the road saw a man lying under a tree in the orchard, and near the roadside. He wab covered with blood, and his clothing reduced to mere .tatters. At -first it was supposed that the man was dead, but moans were heard, and the men went over to ascertain’what was the'matter. They found the man almost exhausted and unable to move himself. They prooured water, and after giv ing the injured man a drink, be recovered suf ficiently to tell them his name and place of res idence. He declined at first to tell them how he came to be iq .the oonditioq he was fonnd, but was finally persuaded to give an explanation. He told them that he had visited the orob&rd for the purpose of obtaining some apples, and had climbed np a tree to prevent detection. While engaged in picking the fruit, he sud denly missed his. foothold and fell to the ground. He was rendered unconscious, but did not know how long he remained so. When he recovered his consciousness he felt no pain, but on attempting to rise found that one arm and one leg were paralyzed. He did not call for assistance for fear he would be arrested, and concluded that he would remain nntil morning. He soofi felt a drowsy sensation, and would have fallen asleep bnt for a noise which aroused him, and upon looking up saw two cows near by. The animals advanced toward him, and one of them commenced licking Us face and hands. He tried to drive them off, but they had tasted tbe brackish perspiration whioh covered his hands and face, and he fonnd it impossible to frighten them. His tormentors persisted in lick ing him, and finally commenced tearing off his ooat and flannel shirt, thus enlarging the ex posed surface. This process was oantinued until his body was almost denuded, and the flesh lac erated by the teeth of the animals. The licking Creaateff th« Alps at SplUKra-l Bath—A Fear rat Gorge—Mount tala Ks ways—Italian Snowstorm In September— Lake Como? * WYteemtl ate.e • Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The fol lowing letter from your correspondent “Met ro so,” though not written for publication may prove’ interesting to some of your readers, end it is placed at your di-posal. G. Rellaoeo, Lake or Como,> September 18, 1870. f Mt Dear * * * We have been for the last three days coming in a carriage over the Spin- gen Pass in the Alps, arriving at this place at 4 o'olock. We started ou Wednesday from Zu rich in a steamer to the upper end of that lake, where we took rail to to Bagatz. This is a wa tering place of considerable note, and tttt hotels are magnificent and the grounds delightful Had I known what a pleasant place it was, I should have made my arrangements to Bpend a day at two there, bnt in passing I only stopped long enough to visit the “Pfafier Baths, ’ a very m markable sight in the neighborhood. Tbe spring is at the head of a gorge in the mountain, about a half mile deep, and from ten to twenty feet wide. In some places the sides, whioh town six hundred feet over your head, almost meet at the top. So you may imagine what a gloomy vale it must be. ThespriDg is reached by a gallery of wood fastened to the sides of the preoipice some forty feet above the river, which flows through the gorge; and though perfectly safe, yon can bnt feel a dread lest the great mountain should again close its jaws, for so many centuries opened for the passage of this stream. The water of this spring has a temperature of one hundred degrees, F ahrenheit, and the chamber in the io&k where tbe basiu has been excavated is so warm as to compel a retreat in a few mo ments. There is another spring only a few feet distant, the water of which Bhows a tempore- tore of fifty degrees, a vast difference, and showing how distinct are the sources of supply’. We return to Bagatz and take the cars again for Coire (German “Cheer”) where we arrive in half on hour. This is the end of the railroad^ and we next morning took a carriage and began onr journey over the Alps, by one of its grandf- est passes, perhaps the grandest of them all— tho Spingen. .. . . I should have mentioned that our old-'friVtfds, the Plants, of St. Lonis, who came OTeviiF'flB “China" with us. joined ns at Ztuieh,^ar)d- still with us. The scenery for the ficst half iff the ride was truly magnificent, but nothing more than we had seen frequently in the last month; bnt after passing Lusis, we enter the “via mala" which, indeed, must be: seen to.bh understood. How a road could be carried along such a gorge, only the engineer who bufl^ it can tell. For more than three miles th© rokfl is hewn out of the side of a perpendicular *MK of rook; sometimes on one side and then art Air© other of a gorge not more than one huqdtyd feet wide in the widest part, and often not more than twenty-four hundred feet below rnflis the classic Rhine, here only a rivulet in width, but a foaming torrent, scarcely audible at so great a distance. We stopped on a bridge looked down npon the river below, almost lost to sight in the deep distance, and amused our selves by dropping stones, and counting til© seconds before they reached th£ water. . Tbe average was a little over five seconds, w^ioh gives a height of 400 feet, agreeing with the books, and the Mghest bridge I ever saw. iW In some places the road is in a gallery hewn out of the rock whioh towers over your head for thousands of feet. The labor expended on this road is incredible, and yet there are many more almost as stupendous all through Switzerland. From this point to the village of Splugen, where we passed the night, the scenery is over powering in its constantly varying grandeur and subl'mity; but I must reserve a full de scription until I see you face to face. At 8plu- gen we found comfortable quarters, good fires, end weathor as “cold as Splugen,” considering it was only September. The next morning we started at 10 o clock for the top of the moun tain, which we reached about noon. Hero we passed into Italy, in a snow storm, on the 16th September; whioh may be readily believed, when you are informed that it is 7,000 feet above the sea level. — A little below the summit, ou this side is the Italian Custom-House, where our trunks were passed unopened by a “douceur” of a couple of francs, and our paseports wero not called for. At four o’clock we had descended to Chieveuna 600 feet lower by somethiny less than a million zig-zags, down the face of almost a precipice. I thought the road exhibited engineering skill on the other side of the mountain, bnt that was child’s play to that on this side. The idea of bringing a carriage at a full trot down the face of a preoipice was somewhat astonishing, though wonders are common things in this re* markable country. The third day, after a drive of three hours, we reaohed the Lake of Como, at a place called Colioo, where we took the boat for this point, acknowledged to be the prettiest on the Lake. The view from the villa just in the rear of the hotel is oertainly .unsurpassable, and I suspeot it is the point from whioh Mark Twain saw it. See picture of Like Como in his book.- I am not at all disappointed here af ter seeing all the Swiss lakes, and I shall sound the praises of “Como” and, be haunted by pleasant memories of its olive groves and charm ing villas as long as life lasts. Here the weath er is charming, jost cool enough to be pleasant without fire. To-morrow we go via the lake of Maggiore and to Milan, wMoh we will reach on Tuesday night We are all perfectly well. The Gbxat Tbxes or Caufobnia.—A Cali fornia correspondent of the Charleston Conner has the following: One of onr big trees has been out down and is to be forwarded East for exMbition. Bar naul, I believe, is the-projector of the scheme, the difficulties of which would certainly, deter a less enterprising man. The one selected is in Fresno county, and although' by no means a giant amongst giants, it will give those who see it s good idea of the mammoth proportions sometimes attained by our forest kings. After being felled it took three saws fastened together, (making in length twenty-four feet,) with two men to each handle, four days to saw off the butt.ont. The diameter of the stomp is twenty-three feet six inches, without bark, and the annual rings indicate an age of 1,500 years. Three men aocomjilished the felling in five and „ a half days, but cutting at the roots, which with tbe rasp-like tongues was continued until were interlaid like the consoles in the human blood oozed from his arms, breast and face, and tbe unfortunate victim sunk away from mere: exhaustion, after using every exertion in his power to keep the animals away. The men were convinced that the statement was true, and it was corroborated by the ap pearance of the man. They immediately con veyed Um to his home, and a physician sum moned to attend him. Tbe treatment at first was directed to the lacerations of the flesh, but before these were healed it was found Chat the fall had affected some of the internal organs, one of which was ruptured. The man was sub sequently removed to a hospital, where he is still under treatment, although no hopes of his recovery are entertained. A Strange Story.—A young man In New York found on a Brooklyn ferry boat last Au gust a satchel, which contained §1,000 in gov ernment bonds, unregistered, a portmonnaie holding §160 in currency, a splendid gold watch and chain, a broken ring, a gold thimble, a locket containing an elderly man’s portrait, a slip of paper, and in a' beautiful female hand written these words: “I have waited and wait ed; you do not come, and I have ceased to hope. E. P.” Upon a marginal piece of sdmo foreign newspaper was the address of an hotel in New York which does not exist. The young man consulted polico headquarters, ho went daily to tbe Morgue fex’so-ue fem&lj to come ashore, but now neatly two months havo gone by and no trace of the owner has been found. system. One of its neighbors measured one hundred and twenty-two feet and four inches ia oirenmfezense, and was nearly one hundred feet in height ' . The Negro Vote. • From the New York World.] 1 - The following is an estimate of tbe negro vote admitted to the ballot-box by the action of the Fifteenth Amendment, and which appears et the polls for the first time tUs Fall. It ie based on the negro population in the respective Suites ia 1860, and ia computed in the ratio of one voter to six persons: WNsw voters. 681 1,438 3,606 1,271 1,905 178 39,361 221 28,522 1,600 1,133 93 82 4,223 8.197 • 6,113 21 9,47* . 663 118 ■VA 198 :..k. -rtf; States. Negro population. California 4,036 Connecticut 8,627 Delaware....'...'....... ...... 21,627 Illinois 7,628 Indiana 11,428 Iowa.. 1,039 Kentucky. 236,167 Maine 1,327 Maryland............. ........171,131 Mgssauhuset. . 9,602 Miohigau. .-. 6,790 Minnesota,.... 250 ‘ New Hamp hir%... ........ 4M New-J fr-x'y...;.. 25,836 New Yo.k.'.rT W.v.vr. 49,005 Ohio......:.....:*. 86,078 Oregon .j J28 Penn .ylvams...... 56,¥49 -Uhcde Is!arid..; 3,852 . Vermont 709 Wisconsin ■ • • - $ i r 1 --- • -L—