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M\COK PECEMBER^i870.
“Knocking Dows.”—OnMonday, eleven
doctors of the 7ih Avenue streetrailroad in
York were arrested on charges of embezzlement
technically called “knocking down”—with
holding part of tho money paid by passengers
in various turns from eighty-five oents down—
probably tho stealings of the single trip in
which the embezzlomont was fixed npon !*“*“
by the detectives. The estimate was that —
corporation lost seven hundrod dollars a day by
this abnse; and it is said this practice among
street railroad and omnibns conductors is so
immense that tho companies expect about a
third of their rightfal revenues togo forjstealage.
The New York pupors complain that the com
panies pay insufficient wages and pick np men
everywhere, withont any regard to character
and should expect to bo plundered. If they
would pay high wages and select men of char
acter, they would savo money. But, as a gen
eral thing, we suppose people best know their
own business. The Now York street railways
have had ample liaio to understand the situa
tion, end choose their remedies.
Russia and the United States.—A World
dispatch from Washington, 28th nit, says that
Russia has maintained a cold and unbroken si
lence towards the United States during all this
European agitation; and it is understood that
her relations with the United States, once so
cordial, havo become so cold and distant that
nothing but the most pressing routine business
communications take place, and the minister
resident has ceased his official and social visits
to the President and Secretary of State entirely.
This, it Ls alleged, has grown out of a gratuitous
and unwarranted pledge by tho President not to
press the Alabama claims during the pen
dency of the Eastern question; which is inter
preted by Russia as a violation of neutrality
on the part of this government. The World
Bays that Sumner, Butler and other Republican
leaders have done their best to induce the Pres
ident to recall this untimely pledge; bntButler,
the other day, coming away from an inter
view with Gen. Grant, said he was inflexible
and his sympathies for England were unmis
takable ; and therefore the result of these re
monstrances has been still more to embitter
Russia and alarm the Radical leaders.
Curiosities op Politics.—One of the Repub
lican counties of Missouri—Harrison—present
ed some curious freaks at the recent election.
It gave McClurg, Radical candidate for Gov
ernor, six hundred and one majority. It also
gave four hundred and nine majority against
the proposed amendment of the constitution,
to allow disfranchised whites to vote, and eight
hundred and forty-eight majority against per
mitting negroes to hold office! A part of the
litany of the Republican voters of Harrison
evidently reads: “From rebels and negro
officers, good Lord, deliver us!”
What Else is It?—The Commercial Adver
tiser scores Horace White, because at the Del-
monico Revenue Reform Dinner he character
ized Protection as robbery. What else is that
which under a professedly equal government
compels oqe industrial interest to pay tribute to
Another? y. '
Miss Lillian Esoabton, who has put Miss
Anna’s nose out of joint as an “oratress,” is said
not only to be “the most beautiful woman in
public life,” but to support old-fashioned no
tions of marriage and the family.
The mercury at New York last Tuesday and
Wednesday was 53 at noon.
The As tor House took to the “European plan"
on the 1st. That is to say, yon hire your own
room and eat like a hermit or a hog.
Snow was nine inches deep in Highland coun
ty, West Virginia, last Taesday.
The Northeaster of last Wednesday was very
violent around Charleston, knocking things
round generally. Many persons went to the
Battery to see the breakers.
The tricks of the Radicals to outwit the peo
ple are many and “wariona.” The last one was
done in Nevada, where Fitch, Radical, having
been defeated by Kendall, Democrat, for Con
gress, they held a U. S. Government survey
and discovered that several of the Democratic
precincts heretofore in Nevada were really in
Utah, and could not be counted. In that way
they got Kendall out, not by “counting” in, as
they do in most places, but by counting oat.
The Radicals are ingenious and fertile in their
devices, beyond any other members of the hu
man family.
Taxing Cast, of His Kin.—Bollock, on an
humble scale, is a pretty good imitation of
Grant He has just about as much brains, and
just about as much regard for laws and consti
tutions, and the rights and interests of the
people. He turns up now as standing by his
kin as Grant does. Last Thursday he drew
his warrant on tho Treasurer for $500 to
Robert H. Brown—his uncle from New York—
for drawing the title to the James house. Ho has
also made Brown one of the Commissioners to
revise the Code. As it was the Attorney Gen-
oral’s duty to have drawn this title, the people
don’t see why Brown, just because he is Bul
lock’s uncle, should have been paid for it.
The Widow Guelph—Queen Victoria, aa she
grows older, betrays, it is said, more of that
restlessness which haB, since widowhood, char
acterized her life, and is thought to be a mild
form of hereditary insanity. She can rarely be
induced to prolong her stay over a fortnight in
any locality, and never seems contented under
other than continued change of scene.
A Financial Caucus of re-elected Radical
members is to be held early in the session to
determine what is to be done. The Journal of
Commerce correspondent says since the adjourn
ment a complete revolution has taken place in
the views of many, and the general idea now is
that the less tinkering the better.
Patrick Fabley, of Cleveland, Ohio, recent
ly started to Tennessee with $10,000 in his belt.
He fell asleep on tho train and when he awoke,
both belt and money were gone. Patrick in
dulge jin a. huge debauch of “cuss” words, and
has gone back home to thiolc the matter over.
New Orleans, is oa tho pinhouks about the
mixed schools soon to bo inaugurated there.
The people inairi that the milk and molasses
won’t mix, and tho schools will be left to the
supreme occupation of the negro.
Ho;i. M. B. Gerry.—We learn that the Sen
ate hat cCpStmed theappointmeat of Mr Gerry
as Judge of tho Municipal Court of Macuii. He
is a'good man and will judge righteously, as we
.hope and believe.
County Inspectors —Wo aro informed that
Messrs. W. P. Goodall and W. L. Ellis were
nominated by Judge Ward for County Election
Inspectors of Bibb county. Pair and good men.
Hon. B. B. Hinton, of Merion, was in our
office yesterday on his way Lome. Hu reports
that the Senate adjourned yesterday or will do
so to-day. \
“What I know of Farming" has at length
taken effect in Connecticut. A farmer there has
jtut finished a $2,000 hog-pen, grained and pa-
PWd. ' , '
Bullock Pardons a Man GatHy of
"Wicked. Reckless, Causeless Mur
der.”
Among the criminals lately turned loose on
society by Bullock’s shameful abuse of the par
doning power, was a man named Long, wno
killed a Mr. Echols, of Gordon county. His
case was appealed to the Supreme Court, and
the decision of the Court, as given by Mr. Jus
tice McCay, will be found in Georgia Reports,
Part 2d, Volume 38 and page 511. Judge
McCay, after a calm review of the whole case
summed up as follows:
"This was a plain ease of murder—wicked,
RECKLESS, CAUSELESS MURDER—.AND THE PROOF IS
positive and dxbxox. Jf eater a jury was right,
this one was."
And yet this “wicked, reekless” murderer
was deliberately set free by a man whom an
inscrutable. Providence allows to occupy the
first position in the gift of the people of this
State! Not content with devising and pushing
ahead the most monstrous schemes for plunder
ing the people's pockets, he turns loose on them
a horde of murderers and burglars to cat their
throats and plunder their houses. Can there
be, is there any safety either for their persons
or their pockets while suoh a state of affairs os
this is tolerated? Let them crush Radicalism
at the coming election, and thus give warning
both to Bullock and his pets, like Long, that
they cannot much longer stay on Georgia soiL
Georgia Bonds in New York*
“0,” a New York correspondent of the Chron
icle and Sentinel, writes that Bullock has some
difficulty in negotiating the new Georgia seven
per cent. State bonds. Bankers and capitalists
will not touch them, because, os they aee and
say, the demands of the law have not been
complied with. Some of the first bankers of
the city who have been aproacbed, will send a
confidential agent to Atlanta to investigate
matters before they will even discuss a propo
sition to purchase. They snpeot it is another
North Carolina swindle.
The correspondent saysBoIIockalso announces
“that it will be necessary to call the Legislature
together in January, to perfect some unfinished
matters, as the Legislature cannot meet before
next falL He says also, that at that time he
will have some suggested alterations in the au
thority granted by the act passed, and shall in
sist that the Legislature free him from the
Treasurer’s malicious influence, which is
damaging to the State. Be this as it may, there
are too many Southern bonds on the market."
X Crowd of Georgians for Texas.
On yesterday, (says the Columbus Enquirer),
a colony of about one hundred persons, from
Chattahoochee and Stewart comities, left here
per Western Railroad for Texas. That part of
the delegation from Chattahoochee was under
command of Mr. Simon Dean. Among those
who left were Simon Dean and family; Rich
ard Dent and family; Charles Rogers and fam
ily ; A. R. Lunsford and family; Knox Clark
and family; Pet Parkman; Pack Webb and
family; Carter J. Willis and family; Ephraim
Key and family; Mrs. Betty Lunsford and fam
ily, and a number of others whose names we
could not learn. Mr. A. D. Hammock and fam
ily, of this city, and perhaps one or two others
accompanied the party. Mr. Jim Baggett mar
ried Miss Lunsford (both of Chattahoochee) at
the depot, preparatory to starting. The crowd
arrived here Taesday, with wagons, mules and
household effects, but failed to get off till yes
terday morning.
We are sorry to see so many Georgians leav
ing this good olJ State, to encounter the perils
and inconveniences of a frontier life. They
leave behind them all that nativity and habit
have so endeared to them; and, in this way,
they are making sacrifices which they will keen
ly appreciate after they are gone. They are
leaving a State for which almost every body out
of it predict a more rapid improvementthan al
most any other State of the Union. Go where
you will out of Georgia, and especially in the
North and West, and yon will be struck with the
universally high appreciation of the natural ad
vantages and the future prospects of this great
State, and the confidence felt and expressed
that a vary brilliant and prosperous career is
immediately before ns. This idea alone will
prove practically of immense value to our State
and people, and we-wantonr population to re
main and reap the benefits of improvement
and progress.
Long observation has satisfied ns that com
paratively very few emigrants of mature years,
from our oider to frontier States, improve their
condition or are ever reconciled to the change
they have made. With most of them it is a mat
ter of life-long regret, and they sigh for the
scenes and associations of the good old home.
To tbo People or Georgia.
It is the fate of all humanity to err, and un
happy is that people whoso fortunes are pitched
npon such sharp crises, and contingencies that
errors of judgment take the form of great and
common calamities. That has been our case
since the war. Our misfortunes, both political
and financial, have been sadly aggravated by er
rors of judgment—errors honestly committed,
but none the les3 misehievions. Errors almost
universal. In fact, we ore all so daubed with the
blunderstick, that no one can make faces at his
brother. But we all now see that in our forget-
fullness of the old Roman maxim that the laws
are silent amid the clash'of arms—in our vain
and feeble attempts to interpose the restraints
of law and the maxims and principles of free
government, as a shield against the aggressions
of a party holding the victor’s sword and flash
ed with the passions of a triumphant enemy,
we committed a groat error of judgment. We
fired them np to follies and enormities they did
not originally contemplate, and which onlmina-
ted in throwing all the State institutions of the
South into the hands of plundering adventur
ers, and plunged them into the most extraordi
nary financial and political embarrassments,
from which they may not be extricated in the
course of a generation.
But our errors political havo not transcended
our errors financial. Looking back over the
post five years, we can all now see how much
we have lost by failing to adapt ourselves at
once to the Bystem of independent farming
which the change in our labor condition de
manded. Who can overrate what would have
been the prosperity of our oondition this day if,
after the war, we hod began at onoe to provide
for all our great necessities of food and stock
from our own teeming soil, instead of shipping
our supplies a thousand miles or more into
Georgia? We should have pocketed and held
the vast inoome from five ootton crops, at prices
ranging down from fifty-odd to twenty-odd
oents; and what we had failed to produoe in
quantity would have been made up in price; so
that this day we should have been overflowing
with wealth. But, in our suicidal baste to be
rich, and under the delusive Idea that every
man oonld swell the crop without materially af
fecting the grand aggregate or the prices, all
united in inflicting so fatal a blow upon our own
resources, that they are practically dead to-day,
and cotton growing has ceased to be fairly re
munerative.
The ootton crop of 1866 was two million
bales, and we were told that was the acme of
Southern production, and it oonld not be in
creased, because labor would every year grow
scarcer and deteriorate. And we bear this
same old song, year after year, although last
year we grow three million four hundred thou
sand bales, and this year we shall send four
million or more to market; and we shall doubt
less continue to hear it when, in ten years from
now, the crop will be seven millions of bales or
more. People can’t seem to comprehend that
white labor is gradually supplementing and
substituting negro labor; and is bound to be
the chief productive element in the ootton crop
before they are many years older. We don’t
seem to comprehend the changes going on un
der bur own noses, or to aeoept the lessons they
ought to convey.
But these changes are going on, nevertheless,
and he only is wise who will xeadand under
stand them. To count on cotton any longer as
a profitable crop, under any other system than
one of judioions, independent, self-supplying
farming, seems to us mere folly. If we will
not raise our own food, we must be sold out by
the sheriff. Not one year longer can Georgia
stand the export drain of fifteen or twenty
millions for Western corn and meat; and the
sooner this solemn conviction is fastened on
our minds, the more healthy will it be for us.
Tfie North Georgia Conference J _
Met in St. John’s Church, Augusta, on Wednes
day. As neither Bishop Pierce nor Bishop Kav-
anangh were in attendance—the former having
been thrown from a buggy in Atlanta and re
ceived injuries that prevented his arrival, and
the latter not having returned from the North
Carolina Conference—Rev. W. H. Potter was
elected President on the second ballot J. W.
Heidt was chosen Conference Secretary, with
G. W. Yarbrough, assistant; B. W. Brigham,
Statistical Secretary, and B. H. Sasnett, Con
ference Reporterfor the elty papers. The Con
ference Committees were appointed as follows:
We quote from the Chronicle and Sentinel:
Committee on Bible Causes: Robert Heater,
T. S. L. Harwell, A G. Worley.
Committee on Southern Christian AdTooate:
W. P. Pledgor, R. J. Harwell, M. M. Crumley.
Committee on Education: A. Wright, M. Cal
loway, E. M. Speer, J. B. Hunnicut, H. R. Har
ris.
Committee on Memoirs: J. L. Pierce, W. P.
Rims, A. M. Thigpen.
Committee «n Ministerial Support: T. M.
Merriwether, G. M. Lester, C. H. Johnson, H.
P. Bell, J. B. Dubose, Garnett McMillan.
Committee on Publishing House: C. A
Evans, W. B. King, Jr M F. A. Kimball.
The following candidates for admission to tho
Conference were admitted on trial: B. II. Sas
nett, Thos. H. Gibson, J. B. McFarland, W. B.
Branham, Jr. P. DPEvans, Alex&nderjOdom, J.
P. Wxrdltiiv, Allen C. Thomas, David L. Ander
son, J. M. Hardin.
The following remain on trial: Ben. E. Led
better. Thos. H. Timmons, Wesley G. Harrison,
Jno. W. Baker.
Homicide of Colonel Ames.
The following special dispatch from Dawson,
giving the result of the trial of John Kelly for
the murder of Colonel Ames, will surprise the
public; but we know nothing of the evidence
before the jury:
Dawson, Ga., December 2.
Editors Telegraph and Mewtnger : The ver
dict of tho jury in tho case of the State against
John Kelly, for the murder of Colonel C. T.
Ames, proprietor of tho New Orleans Circus; in
November last, was “Notguilty." i 1
Rural Carolinian.— 1 Tho Deoember number
of this prompt and able agricultural uioitbly is
to hand, with its usual full table of couter.s
It opens with a communication to Cob D,
Wyatt Aiken, on tho “Maintenance of Fertility
in Soils.’’ by Eug. W. Hilgard, of the Univer
sity cf Mississippi, On the first of January a
list of premiums will bo issued for subscrip
tions, the same to be furnished to. parties
writing for it beforo that time.
The New York Express tolls its readers that
Akorman used to fraternize with Robert
Toombs, of Georgia. This may be true, but
Mr. Toombs would much ratbor you wouldn’t
mention ik—Courier-Journal.
Awake, Ye People!
Superadded to the emergencies of our indus
trial and financial condition, we have now bear
ing npon ns, with a more immediate and press
ing importance, a great political crisis. For
years the whole political power of Georgia has
been substantially wieldedby men without per
manent interest in the State or care for its wel
fare; and who through their bumble instru
ments and tools, by an utterly subservient ma
jority in a Legislative Imposture, have directed
her revenues and credit to suit their own pur
poses.
In these years, Georgia, which did not owe &
year’s income has been planged into an actual
and contingent debt of suoh immense magnitude
and extent, that the estimate of it in the news
papers varies about fifty million. Should this
debt be fastened on Georgia by the courts, it is
a mortgage on every man’s property; and, in
the last resort, under the powers now claimed
for the Federal Government by the radicals, the
State would be swept by executions to pay it.—
In event it cannot be shaken off, tho interest
will eat into the business and industrial welfare
of the people worse than-a canker-sore, and im
pose suoh burdens on trade as will prostrate the
oountry. - > . ,
Such are tho tremendous evils with whioh, in
a comparatively few months, bad government
threatens to blast and mildew every interest of
Georgia. They spring primarily from a practi
cal abrogation of the fundamental principle of
Republicanism — of, a representation which
bears no taxation, arid, in its eggregious folly,
thinks it can overwhelm property and the tax
payer with burdens, and escape harmless itself,
because it has no property to tax. We have
shown how absurd is that idea; and that bad
government and excessive taxation, wbilo they
embarrass wealth, eat into the very flesh of
poverty. They mean, in the one case, disor
dered trade and unsatisfactory balances—but
they mean, in the other, misery, suffering and
starvation. The interests of a community, so
far as these things are concerned, are a grand
unit They cannot be separate! by reckless,
dishonest and partial legislation.
Suoh is the condition of affairs—and, now
after so long a time—after years of construct
ing—reconstructing and nnreoonstrnotmg. After
years of a jumble of Federal usurpation—mili
tary, provisional and mixed governments, in
whioh ignorance, folly and misrule have stalked
triumphant, Congress in very shama pnts a
stop to prolongation and ordains the ballot Is
it possible than freomon with two ideas in their
heads—with one recollection of the past or a
single hope of the future, will omit au effort to
restore the rule of law and popular accounta
bility ? Can it bo ? Wo hear complaint of
apathy! Surely a man might be apithetio
while his crop was eaton up by worm?—or his
house burning down. But here he is threaten
ed with far greater evils and has a much pore
far-reacliihg deliverance to achieve.
Have you failed, then, or aro you failing as ah
intelligent, patriotic Georgian, to do all you
can by effort, reason and argument, to set forth
to your neighbor,white or black, tho importance
of identifying himself fully in this gTeat strug
gle fox tho safety and prosperity of Georgia,
and the happiness of her people, one and all?
Aro you working as you should do for this
mighty deliveranoe? If not, set about it now.
In two weeks comes the eleotion, which is to
lift the cloud from Georgia, or plunge U3 more
hopolossly into the abyss of bankruptcy and
ruin.
Senator Fenton declares that the Radical
party mast follow in the foot steps of the Ad
ministration. If this thing most be done, then
Cuxan Emmtssames in Washington report that
the insuiTeclion can neTer bo put down, and i. ■- - . - . . . »
,, .. ’ “ by the first of August noxt, we shall have the
they would conclude the war next summer if -whole party betting on a hotse-raoe at Long
the j could get arms. -• 1 Branch.—Courier Journal.
• $ The French' fiiiccesst s.
Our yesterday morning’s dispatches establish
thisfact that tho French, within tho pest Week,
have been doing some valiant and successful
fighting. The army of tiie Loire has repulsed
a grand combined onslaught of tho Germans
under Prince Frederick Charles, tho Duke of
Mecklenburg, and Gen. Yon Der Tann, and not
far from simultaneously a general sortie from
Paris forced tho besiegers’ lines in several
places, and took and held their positions, while
Garibaldi has made a successful fight at Antnn
Whether this is the firre-up of the lamp before
it goes out, or is the beginning of a series of
victories whioh shall raise the siege of Paris
and deliver France from the invader, we are
unable to say.
If it were possible for republican Franco to
throw off the German heel we should like to
give one good, long shout for liberty and popu
lar prowess. The contest has got to be one of
Monarohy vs. Republicanism. The European
presa have been illustrating, by the example of
Franoe, the inadequacy of a republican govern
ment to protect its people against the superior
energy and concentration of monarchy; and if
tho French oonld now whip the Germans off
their soil, popular government would be nobly
vindicated. But for the critical, situation of
Paris we should have brighter hopes, ’iho de
cline of cotton is due to the French successes,
and the conseqont apprehension that the wav
will be prolonged.
Sunshine from tho t’ensns.
We extract several plums of hearty comfort
and sweet anticipation of getting even with Now
England, from the censns returns. Those re
turns show, emphatically, that that pestilent
section is surely losing its poDnlat ion, aud there
fore, losing its power for mischief. In all New
England there has not been as much increase as
in the two cities of St. Louis and Chicago.—
Whentho next apportionment is made shomnst,
therefore, lose in representation. Her Radioal
representatives in Congress have warmly abot-
ted all sorts of illegal and oppressive amend
ments to the Constitution. The time is hasten
ing when the West and South, closely allied, and
with memories of common wrongs to avenge,
will give them several more doses of tho sama
physic. They will quickly deoide that when a
State has only the population of a respect
able city, it shall not be allowed as many
Senators as a State with fifty times the popula
tion. We hope to live to see the contortions of
the Puritan face, and the gneping and gagging
of the Paritan throat over this dose, anyway.
Head Scratching. — We know the publio
scratched its head over the war dispatches in
Saturday morning’s paper. There were the
French, on the one side, claiming a great victo
ry on the Loiro, over Yon Der Tann, Mecklen
burg and Pxinoe Charles, and there were Ger
mans claiming, with a little less show of exulta
tion, a great victory over the army of the Loire
under de Paladines. There, too, were tho
great sorties from Paris, all of which the Ger
mans say they defeated and drove back within
the fortifications of the city, and all of which
the Frenoh say, broke the lines of the Germans
—drove them from their advanced positions,
and not only held these positions triumphantly,
bnt actually effected a junction with the army
of the Loire, and broke np the siege of Paris.
Farther dispatches must tell us all what to think
of these contradictory stories. Meanwhile, it is
noticeable that the French are holding To De-
urns, while the King of Prussia omits to thank
Providence as usual. We trust later news in
this edition will make us wiser. Meanwhile, it
is clear that the question whether Paris is to
fall now, hangs on the events of a few days.
Should the Germans meet any serious disaster
round Paris, they must leave France by the
through train. _
White Shad.—Stephen Melton put two white
shad in the buggy of the writer yesterday morn
ing. Stephen Melton remarked to the driver,
as he did this, that they were very fine shad,
just from the St. Johns River, in Florida, and
by no means tho first shad of tho season, as he
had reoeived them this year as early as the 1st
instant, and would now have them, as well as all
other kinds of fish found on our coast and in
our rivers in large quantities, in the Macon
market every day; that Felix Corpnt, who was
now in East Florida for that purpose, would
ship fish and fruit by the ton, and if anybody
in Middle Georgia was hereafter found without
them, it would be simply because they did not
make proper application, accompanied by the
vouchers, to him, the said Stephen Melton, who
stood ready and anxions to hear all memorials
and petitions on that subject, and respond free
ly without discount, for cash.
The Columbus Enquirer says a huge eagle
was killed a day or two since in Barbour coun
ty, Alabama. The olaws are an inch and a
half in length, and. the bird measured seven
feet and one inch.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor of Savannah, has
been sick several days.
Among the wedding presents at a recent wed
ding in Savannah, was an antique silver cup,*
formerly owned by Major-General Forman, o j
Georgia, and used by him daring the Revolu
tionary war.
We dip the following from the Savannah
Republican, of Friday : __ _
A Murder Cass in the United States
Court.—A case of murder is to be tried in the
United States Court to-day, in' which several
interesting legal points wifi be discussed pre-
limiary to the trial of the issue. Hears. Hart-
ridge and Sammy have been appointed by the
Court to defend the prisoner, who is 'a person
of color. The offenoe was committed at Fort
Pulaski, and is, therefore, within the jurisdic
tion of the United States Court.
Marriage.—Ad immense oonoonrse of friends
assembled at Christ Church yesterday afternoon
to witness the nuptial ceremonies of Mr. Thom
as Arnold, of Bryan county, and Miss Bessie
Screven, daughter of our esteemed Mayor, and
by general consent, one of the belles of the
city. The services were conducted by Kt. Rev.
John W. Beckwith, and the happy pair, after a
pleasant reanion with tbeir friends at the resi
dence of the bride’s father,' loft on the train
for the North. ;
The Ordinary of Richmond (a Radioal) ap
pointed as election managers, Thos. R. Rhodes,
Radical, and Alexander Philip, Nemocrat, one of
the best citizens of the county. Not wishing a
fair eleotion, Bullock’s Senate so-called, con
firmed Rhodes, but rejected Philip.
The Columbus Sun reports that city os good
missionary ground for tbo tomporanco folks.—
Several men were helplessly drunk on Broad
street Wednesday night, two or three having
gono to had on the pavement.
Mr. Jonathan Donalson, one of the oldest and
most esteemed citizens of Balnbridge, died last
Saturday. •
Attorney General Akeruan.—A new ar
rangement to dispose of Attorney General
AkermBn is thus announced by the New Yoik
Commercial Advertiser of tho 20th ult.;
It is reported that Attorney General Akorman
will yield his plaoo to Senator Williams, of Ore
gon, and. neeept, as per arrangement in Wash
ington, the'Georgia SenalorsMp. It mast bo a
delicious reflection for the good people of Geor
gia, that they Hava such kind friends at Wash
ington, who are willing and anxious to take from
their shoulders, the heavy burden of choosing a
representative for themselves.
What is to become of Hill, Miller, Ftfrrow,
Whitely, and Blodgett, all “ duly elected" Sen
ators for periods running somowhat less than a
generation into the future ? Where is Attorney
General Akerman to come in ?
Chief Justice Chase was reported worse, as
to health, last Tuesday.
HIB dilOROIA 1PREMS.
. Tbo annual meoting of the stockholders of
the Central Railroad will be held qt Savannah
on the 20!b instant. A dividend of five dollars
per share from tho oaruings of thp road, paya
bio oa and after tho 20th, IiR3 been declared by
the Directors.
A now Savings Bank and a new Mutual Loan
Association, are announced as among the latest
business enterprises of Savannah.
The rice threshing mill of Mr. C. White, on
Back river, opposite Savannah, was burned
Tuesday night, with three or four thousand
bushels of rough rice. Loss on the mill §6000,
partly insured; oh the rice, not estimated.
The total value of exports from Savannah for
the month of October was: Foreign §1,921,680;
coastwise §3,116,369.
Says the Hawkiusville Dispatch:
Longevity.—Mr. Raiford, Superivsor of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad informs us
that there aro now living in Lowndes county five
generations of his wifo’s family—groat-grand-
mothher, grandmother, mother, daughter and
child.
The Democrats of Columbu3 oa Wednesday
night nominated M. M. Moore for Clerk of
Council; Matt W. Murphey, for Marshal; and
J. M. Hughes, for Sexton. They failed to
nominate a candidate for Mayor, whioh will be
done her. ..Dor. S. B. Clc-ghorn and John Pea
body were the highest candidates.
A correspondent of tho Columbus Enquirer
wishes to know why doves and other birds are
so scarce about farms this yoar. The Enquirer
thinks it i3 because they can’t live on cotton
seed, which is about all there is for them to eat.
Tho Son says:
IIay.—Large quantities of Northern hay are
sold here. Gan. Toombs, in his speech at our
Fair, said Southern people were always grumb
ling about not being able to raise hay; and yet,
three-fourths of tho year planters spent in en
deavoring to keop grass out of their fields. He
also added that the sun, i. e., climate of Musco
gee county alone, was worth moro than all the
hay fields in the North.
Tho Chronicle & Sentinel is informed that
the Directors of the Augusta & Hartwell Rail
road, at their meeting on Tuesday, determined
not to press upon the City Counoil at present
the question of subscribing five hundred thou
sand dollars to tho capital Btock of the compa
ny. The Board decided that it was best not to
agitate this matter any further, until the North
ern capitalists who are interested in the road
could reach Augusta, and demonstrate to the
City Council the perfect feasibility of the en
terprise, and tho fact that they intended lend
ing to it all their aid and power. In the mean
time the surveyors have been instructed to run
two new lines from Augusta to Hartwell—one
along the ridge, the other up the valley of the
Savannah.
Tho Chronicle chronicles tho following about
a very plucky female :
On yesterday morning morning a gentleman
riding along the Columbia road about three
miles from the city witnessed a scene illustra
tive of that “groat grit” which Southern women
are said to possess. It appears that a woman
living in that neighborhood had reasons for be
lieving that she had been robbed of several dol
lars by a certain male monster. On yesterday,
walking along the road near Rae’s creek, she
happened to meet the suspected robber. As
soon as she got within range she drew a revolver
and brought Mm to a halt. She thendemanded
her money, and npon his denying having it in
his possession, she compelled him, through
the infiuence of the loaded and leveled weapon,
to sit down npon the road-side, turn his pockets
“inside out,” and divest himself of shoes and
stockings and outer clothing, until she was sat
isfied that he was not the party who had robbed
her.
The Augusta street railroad and the Central
Railroad are at war—the latter having, on Sat
urday, tom np about one hundred and fifty
yards of the former’s track wMbh was laid in
October across the track of tho latter for the
purpose off connecting the Fair Ground with
street railroad track.
Oao of the nearly extinct family—which Ms
given name is H. L—has been nominated for
Mayor of Rome.
Says the Constitution of yesterday:
The Treasurer is now receiving large pack
ages of the currency bonds issued by Governor
Bullock, a short wMle since. These aro the
ones whose conpons had the Treasurer’s litho
graphed name without his authority. They
come back cancelled, and are returned by the
Governor's order.
Dr. Innes has been found guilty of rape in
Fulton Superior Court, but the jury reoommen-
ded Mm to mercy.
We clip the following items from the Dalton
Citizen of yesterday:
Emigration Westward.—Quite a number of
emigrants from this section and North Carolina,
passed np the State Road a few nights since en
route to Texas, Arkansas aud Louisiana. Poor
deluded mortals!—they will find the West and
Western life quite a different thing from what
they expect. Instead of plenty and a life of
ease, they will find living hard and money dis
tressingly scarce, and will doubtless often sigh
for the comfortable homes left beMnd. We
have tried it, and speak from the book.
A Dalton Negro Killed at Cleveland.—
Mao Owens, a negro resident of this place,
wMle on a visit to Cleveland, Tenn., was killed
by a party of negroes for some money he nad
on his person! His body was brought down
Sunday and buried Monday. His murderers
were arrested and are now lodged in jail.
The editor of tho Greensboro’ Herald has
been presented with a sweet-potato weighing
eleven pounds and six ounces, gathered from a
fourth of an acre, which yielded 75 bushels.
The Atlanta Georgian, of yesterday, has the
following notioe of a negro now in the Senato
rial branch of the Agency :
Excitement in the Senatr.—Yesterday morn
ing, the Senate chamber waB made the scene of
considerable commotion among the members,
by Bharp words and threatening demonstrations
between two colored members, Bradley and
Wallace.
Bradley moved a reconsideration of the vote
by whioh Henry Sperrin was confirmed as one
of the managers of the voting precinct of Sa
vannah, and urged as a reason, that Sperrin
was a noted blackleg; that he was not respected
by either black or white citizens of Savannah,
and was never known to do an honorable day’s
work until employed by Mills.
This, and other assertions, brought Wallaoe
to the floor, with the remark that he wasrespon-
sible for anything he said in the 8enate or out
of it. Whereupon Bradley went down into Mb
breeches pocket, and. fishing bn a revolver and
bowie knife, laid them deliberately npon the
desk, and proceeded, or tried to, with hia
speech. But pistols came ont on the other side,
and a general uproar ensued.
Ttio President at onoe ordered the parties put
under arrest. It was moved to expel Bradley,
and the vote stood seven for expulsion and nine
teen against. Another resolution was then of
fered that both parties be reprimanded by the
President of the Senate, and being carried, the
little unpleasantness took a short recess.
The Salaries or New York Clergymen.—A
correspondent of the Troy Times writes from
New York city as follows:
Dr. Ilall, of the Episcopal Church, receives
§10,000, not all salary^ but perquisites and do
nations will reach tins figure. His salary is
marked by a distinction peculiar to his own
case, being payablo in gold. TMs arose from
his being called from Dublin, where all currtn-
cy is on a gold bnsiB, and also because h9 came
at a time .when our paper money was fluctuating
in .no small degree. In order, therefore, to
place his cal? on a gold Iwis, it was made pay
ablo in gold. Tyng’s ofilca in worth §7000 per
atmini^ rmd a comfortable rectory. Dr. Potter,
of Gtasd Church, 1 takos in not less than.§10,000,
besides tho .use .of the best rectory in Now
York Dr. Addifis, being very rich, is not well
paid, his berth not being worth more than
§6000.' Howard Crosby, who is also rioh, is
paid in a manner equally poor. Dre. Dewitt
and Ormiston, of the Dutch body, get $7000;
Dr. Dix, of Trinity, gets his $10,000, and Yin-
ton, his right hand man, must receive nearly as
much. . • -r
' As Trinity has an estate worth twenty mil
lions, her olergy ought not to go hungry. From
the rates above mentioned, clerical pay declines
to the pittance reoeived by the city missiona
ries, which is about $S00 per annum.
But, after all, the expenses of living and on
extensive hospitality considered, none of these
high-salaried clergymen do more than moke
ends meet.” *
In mated
Prom All ifie Year Round, j
^tidbowera d thiuioM to th e0Untri( ‘.
There stands a coOs™ on f ho 8 ? Qntly B5 »,
FnH in the flush of the early
Over the porch tho roacs erwn
In at the window the rose/™**’
O’er all the place there^e^a? 1 .
The spirit of happy soUtnd® ° bro ° a
"Here would I dwall" thinks bsani ,
here,” ujg cere, ‘Td ^
Pm from the world, and beat^“ y n «t,
Open the door behind the flow*-, t
Tread softly through to tb> ***«
Mid there you wuffind
Pining under a load of car* ’
A lovely women wed to a in™
Unworthy to wipe hersandaf aw-
Lovely, childlees, waeting awav° 0D ’
For want of a mate on hi we&eg
BloeeouL ye roeee, on her path •
Pew and short are the tmaSl ..,
Perot her eyes with beauty and w th!
Bathe her .custom sw$S 0 ,“.
Are oil she bath (we hw 03 long,
To keep her heart from gro^ *
(Cassia Will Win ^<71^ w
*» Fight. "ifoont
The Journal of Commerce of Tnsod..
ipates the probable result of the d ^
ay
Prince Gortschakoff having
fora peaceful settlement of
withdrawing his note. This 1 is \
motto victory for Russia. R
without the risk of a war the K
she aimed—the modification^MberMh^
the treaty of Paris. For weoonfidL^W^
that unless England, AnstrtoTd &t??
January is an early dote for the conW,.
but it is not improbable that by that
Franco-German war will be settled. WwZ
Foreign motes.
(prepared for the telegraph and messenger.)
Bazaine’s staff has published an official re
port, giving an aooount of the negotiations
wMch preceded the surrender of Metz. The
substance of the document is about thisAll
efforts to raise the siege or to out through the
German lines having failed, Bazaine called o
council of war, which almost unanimously, one
vote only being excepted, agreed that the exist
ing circumstances compelled the army to sur
render. Changarnier was then sent to the Ger
man headquarters in Ars but Moselle to nego
tiate the conditions of the capitulation. Prince
Frederick Charles, who received the aged Gen
eral in a cordial maimer, declared that the ne
gotiations, which must exclude any political
questions, could only refer to looal details.
“I know,” Frederick Charles continued, “that
your provisions will only lost three more days
and, pointing towards a railway train in the
station, loaded with various goods, he contin
ued, “this is for tho city of Metz and yonr
army. We will put a stop to your sufferings.
Wo always knew wliat you were dong and what
you intended to do; immediately after each
council of war you held I was informed of its
resolutions.”
And to prove Ms assertions, the Prinoe re
peated day for day the propositions advanced
by the Generals assembled in oonnoil as well os
the replies made to the suggestions offered.
Changarnier returned to Metz, and Bazaine sent
now General deCissey to the Prince, who de
clared in this interview: “We have 820,000
soldiers in Franc? ; in this moment an army of
150,000 men is marching Hum Dijon to Lyons;
Paris and Lyons will fall as Metz will be starved
out and compelled to surrender. Nous irons a
Marseille, s’il le faut, nous irons parlout, par-
tout.”
General de Cissey having replied that the sur
render of the army did not necessarily imply
that of the fortress of Metz, the Prince said:
“Already before tbe declaration of war we knew
as well as you did the state of defenoe of Metz,
even down to the minutest details; then the
forts were hardly defensible, and the city could
only make a .feeble resistance. Only since the
presence of the French army the city has be
come what she to to-day; it is your soldiers who
have finished and armed the forts. Metz, wMch
has become a fortified place of first class by
your exertions, to consequently included in the
conditions of a capitulation wMch must also
extend to the city and army. It to this we con
sider just, and what we demand.”
To de Cissey’s inquiry, whether the French
officers would be paroled on certain conditions
like at Sedan, Frederick Charles replied: “No,
two Generals and S00 officers whom we released utmost reach of her abilities m ~£uK^- 14 ^
on parole at Sedan have re-entered the Frenoh France. °
army to fight ns again.” The conditions of ca
pitulation were finally stipulated with the Prince
by General Jarras,GMef of Bazaine’s Staff-Gen
eral.
When Gen. Coffinierea, the commander of
the fortress of Metz, a man who enjoyed the
general esteem, was about to enter the railway
carriage to proceed to Germany, he was attack
ed by the editor of the “L’Independent de la
Moselle,” who bestowed a number of unpleas
ant epithets npon tbe General, adding “If you
had followed my advice, if you had been will
ing to listen to the voice of a patriot, yon would
not be here now—an infamy and disgrace to
your country.” But the enraged patriot had
hardly finished his eloquent address before stem
fate, personified by a Prussian Colonel of gens
d’armes, secured Ms person to give Mm an op
portunity of continuing his fiery appeals in sol
itary confinement.
Immediately after the entry of the German
troops in Metz, Gen. Yon Kununer, the new
commandant, had issued a decree that ell weap
ons shauld be given up at the Maine. The men
declining to deliver their arms, the women
might have been seen offering the rather novel
spectacle of carrying all sorts of weapons part
ly concealed under their shawls and cloaks to
the appointed place.
The Germans found in Metz 1,100 cannon of
all descriptions, 66 mitrailleuses, 180,000 chasse-
pots, together with an enormous amount of war
material generally.
The re-opening of the Grand Opera in Paris
had been fixed for November 3. The perform
ances were to consist of concerts and plays,
dancing being excluded. The women have to
appear in dark-colored dresses reaching very
high around the neck. The “Comedie Fran-
caise” had been re-opened by “Horace” and
“Le Misanthrope,” tbe actors playing in ‘‘habit
de ville” and yellow kid gloves. The ' ‘Ganlois, ”
from which paper the foregoing description to
taken, adds: “Two years ago the ‘Comedie
Franchise’ played ‘LeTartuffe’ before the Qneen
of Prussia in Baden-Baden in yellow kid gloves;
in the same dress they will play ‘Misanthrope’
before the Parisians, besieged by tbe King of
Prussia.”
Unless an overwhelming disaster beyond hu
man foresight befall the German armies in
France, the surrender of Paris is near at hand.
Nothing short of a miracle can save the capital
from opening her gates to the hated enemy.
All reliable news from the besieged city confirm
the report that the provisions begin to fail.
When we consider that Paris was completely
invested on September 19th, we cannot help
aoxnowledging the energy of the provisional
government wMch has succeeded in provision
ing a city of over two million people for almost
three months witMn an inaredible short time.
Like before Metz, the Germans, in view of
the anticipated early capitulation, have collected
enormous stores around Paris, to supply the'
city at once with provisions. A bombardment
will probably not take place at alL We believe
that the fall of Paris will close this greatest
military campaign, alike distinguished for the
countless warriors put in the field as for rapid
movements, undaunted energy, and bold, un
surpassable generalship on the part of the Ger
mans. The victories of the First Empire pale
before -the battles of Woerth and GraveUotte,
and the military annals of all times and nations
have nothing to oomparo to the capitulations
of Sedan and Metz, wMch will be followed by
the still greater capitulation of Paris. If the
signs do not utterly fail, the French are prepar
ing to aue for peace. Even tbe press is growing
disheartened, and the Paris Figaro, whioh has
always preached the war a Youirance, eDtreats
the Government to make peace, the defenae of
Paris being impossible.
It seemed almost certain that an Assemblee
Constituents would at once declare for peace;
bnt, though Bismarck had offered every faoility
for holding the elections through France even
In the departments occupied by tbe German
troops, the Government, chiefly influenced by
Gambetta, postponed the elections indefinitely.
In the absence of any reasonable motive we
must ascribe this refusal to tbe love of power, as
the “Assemblee Conatituante" would have prob
ably elected another government, thus unseat
ing the present rulers who really owe their posi
tions to a street entente. A speedy peace can
only save Franoe from further vain sacrifices.
Tbe Eastern fortresses have fallen ; Paris to on
the eve of capitulation; the army of tbe North
baa been defeated near Amiens, while Paladines
attempt to raise tbe siege by the army of tbe
Loire has utterly failed; at the same time Prinoe
Frederick Charles is boldly striking for Tonrs;
where shonld aid oome from ? Unless imagina
tion which Lamartine considers to be the hered
itary fault of his countrymen still beguiles the
French with fond illusions, they must recognise
that a further prolongation of a hopeless strug
gle to almost equal to a crime.
There to every prospect that the Eastern
Question, as we had ventured to advance, will
be amioably settled. The British Government
having, in principle, consented to a revision of
the treaty of Paris, it is only left to find the
suitable diplomatic forms, to come to a full un
derstanding. Russia, though prepared for war,
does not wish to enter into any contest now;
but, looking towards tho fature, she will at all
events insist on tho abolition of those restric
tions which interpose a barrier between her
ambition aud Cocs’antinople.
According to theLondon “Athonreum”a 5Iis3
Fox has had the good fortune of discovering a
literary treasure, comprising threa autograph
letters of Francesco Petrarca to his'patron, Car
dinal Colonna; a little manuscript. (copy) of
Savonaroa’s “Esposizione sopra li Psalmi,”
with autograph corrections of the celebrated
Dominican monk ; and a copy of the first print
ed edition of Oamolens, with notes and correc
tions on the margin in tho poet's own hand:
wiiliog. On tho tiflo page there is an aooount
given by aa old friend of Ms, who, as an eye
witness, describes the miserable end of the great
Portuguese in a hospital in Lisbon. Jaeno.
repeal one or non nt
the sections of the treaty of ’56 mod odksat!
Russia. We look to England fornolewKaS
ness to stroke down the rugged eoatoi theft*
Man bear, and keep that d&ngerotu endm
peaceable for a while longer. Eogluid hatrota
do this.
In other days, before fat eommenul a»
parity had tamed her warlike spirit; tad PraTO
had dwarfed her military stature by her (rim.
tic helmetod bulk, England would bare dnfij
war against Russia in forty-eight houre after
the reception of the threatening GortshhS
circular, and put her vast fleet M notion forth*
Black Sea. With the'old British bulldog com.
age she would not have waited for Prince u»a
auy, bnt would have gone into the conflict with
Austria and Turkey. But along peaceindthe
absorbing preoccupation of ii«n1» concuss,
and conscious inferiority as a continental povtr,
make England cautious if not timid now.
Gortschakoff did not reckon M vain npon the
changed English character when he pnt ont hie
audacious note. He knew that Engltnd did not
want a war; that she would do almost anything
to avert one. But even he, with all his mitk
knowledge of the altered disposition of Engine!
since the days of the Crimean contest, must
have been surprised at the meekness with which
Russia’s old antagonist, after the little blaster
of the Granville note, began to give in to his
threat.
He must have been at once amued and
amused to hear the publio sentiment ol England
with the voioe of the Queen at its head, rebuk
ing Granville for sssoming a tone of boldoes
and indignation wMch, only a few years tgo,
would have been regarded as the only proper
one in wMch England should respond to t Hes
sian menanoe. We repeat that Bassis will
have achieved a great diplomatic triumph if
the Congress yields, as it most prohabiy till,
only one of the minor points which she nekJ
for. That point will be another step in her
onward path; and she oan afford to wait with t
calmness possible to no other European ration
for the opportunity to break another and then
smother of the restrictions which fetter her
destined progress.
German Labor ia Louisiana.
The Planters’ Banner says that Walker sad j
Bronson, of the Teche country, have just return-1
k ed from Chicago with sixty-five picked GtmB I
laborers to work for thorn three month*, at (30 » j
month and board—75 cents a night *
ed. Passage pud by Messrs. 'SValker i
'son. The whole fare from Chicago to the Teetol
costs less than $25 for each laborer. These were I
selected from five hundred laborers wbo te^l
anxious to oome. Mr. Bronson informal ml
that he can get ten thousand white laborers at I
the same paico. He can telegraph tEiiiJi>-*|
thousand landed oa the Teche in ■ week. * I
pays no commission for getting the® I
: s needed is a little more enterprise an*®*® f
planters, and these labor strikes in I
ing, and labor troubles, will best nr' 1 . J
dishonesty and blindness of the negroes is® I
ing the planters to extremes, and before . I
years the colored race will see, wh® ” , I
late, that it would have been better ^1
deported themselves in a maimer to set I
confidence and goodwill of the substantial
men of the State. The planters now
look to Cnina, Canada and Germany tor I
ers. T -
Can a Woman Keep »
The NineteenthSeotury a periodical |
in Charleston, thas treats this aisch r*
point: , j,.
“Men say women can’t keep* ^1
just the reverse—women o*®) ln ®“ M HjjOll
men catty with them secrets that *® ^ I
Woman never tells;
Woman Buffers sod dies; man blow A
Man cannot keep a secret; woman®" 1
it known. What is sport to the
to the woman. Adam waaasoero- ,^^1
have kept the apple s rooret. ^ j
Whoever heard a woman taikabont hcr^l
fiascos? Everybody ^ *“S&?5|u5|
Man delights in telling of his
woman wonld eat her tongue outj 1 ^*1
coarse in their dab room ****’,. \?bo" 1 |
fined in their parlor oonverwMr_ , -
heard of a woman telling of her .
has not listened to the diwp* nev»H
Men boast; women doa t.
tales out of school; men are ai**j
So down with another old adage. .^1
keep a secrect,
by the condnot of a St. John
girl, who did not tell her lover
four millions in her own right unu*
senis^
The Paris Mitt.—A Paris correspondent of
the New York norald writes on the 14th of No
vember :
Another carrier pigeon, blood-stained arid
weary, has arrived. The wounded bird barely
escaped with its life from tho Prussian musket
ry fire whioh was directed against it i.s it passed
in; bnt it convoyed, in safety, news which rais
ed tho hopes of tho besieged people vastly.
Wedding and Visiting Cards Engraved and
Printed in tbe latest styles. Call and examine
specimens. L. H. Wing, 48 Second street
marriage.
The Frncs-tirevbs.—A Dane
corps of Francs-tireurs near Pa™ *
particulars of the mode of ca ®?P. *L art’'I
by these free corps. He says tMt . s£BS js>|
vesting Paris is itself invested, ^ 1 ' jQgj
ed on all sides by Fraccs-tireUK^ ; ;; ^
Formerly tbo Prussians used
or four uhlans cm their
now ft whole squadron is E0 * JThrong-
ever there to a bridge <£*****2jOsA
they may depend on finding urcfT*
or less numbers. In many ph *
full of palisades, are cot
times these ditches are defeod^ - -^1
The Franos-tireurs ne ver ta ^Letter
When they see a cavalry
tbo man and/3pate the horse,
give an equivalent for his 1
now generally avoid 1
roads and advance in sufficu® 1
able to resist au ambuscade. frajj
Often a Franc-tireur lies al ‘ D ‘° on p3,
m. to four a. ii., on the ^JSJVfbis c^.]
striot orders not to stir or taiA ^
—a great sacrifice, obs ° r , ves J ror ee5i *•* .
Frenchman to make. The
commanded of tbe Frano-t-r j,asJr -
known as tbe “Mocquaros- j_f 0
numbers 1,200 “ 0D >
ions, and consists chiefly of w ^
regiments which capitura ftnJ) ed ^ e
Hire very ragged, but »«b«^
sepots, end they do a geest
enemy.