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That Ducrot’s sortie had demonstrated the relative weakness of the besiegers, and be was confident of bis ability to break the German lines at the proper moment The operations of the Paris garrison hud compelled the besiegers to fall back and. extend their lines, so that they were relatively weak in point of men, although their field works had been enormously strengthened. Tiac iSetsI is Slone! Washington City lias lost Foraoy sure enough! How pregnant with woe nod J^ars is the simplo announcement! Losing Aiwa, she well aiigh loses her all. The loss is indeed irreparable, and to that afflicted community wo extend onr most lugubrious condolences. How the stricken hearts of that city will ever ba comforted, is mote than wo can imagine. Let us Lope that “God will temper the wind to the shorn lanib.” Grant should proclaim a day of “fast ing humiliation and prayer,” to testify a sor rowing Nation’s grief at such a stroke, and Bollock immediately follow suit with a supple mental order for cr.po on the left arm, and double stealage for thirty day s. Our feelings overcome us. G-o-o-d b-y-e, Forney. Boo-lioo-oo! At*iv Honks. Wo have to thank Messrs. J. W. Burke & C for two very readable books—“Cross Purposes” and “Dorothy Fox.” “Cro.^s Purposes,'by Mr. T. C. De Leon, late managing editor of the Mo bile Register, is n Christmas story told with nil tho writer's peculiar charm and brilliancy. We have read it wuh eager interest, and it fills the fullest measure of our expectation. We can imagine nothing mare luxuriously delightful this “bitter St. Agnts weather,” ihan a cosy corner flanking a roaring “sea coal” fire, an inlnbitabl * Htbana, “Cross Purposes” to read and a sjinpatbe-.ic soul—to appreciate end ap plaud tho author's cleverness as raconteur. Get a copy and try it. “Dorothy FoxJ’ is a genuine English story, very well told, and showing much more than average power in the tolling. It borrows more of its attractions from bigamy, murder, or tho violation of tho seventh commandment; and yet is none tho less interesting. It is'pure in conception, language, p.nd suggestion, and ought to be popular with the better class of fic tion readers. Talatozcficflnsru® Tho New Yorkers art about starling aPalaao- zoio Museum in Central Park—that is to say, a sonville, Florida, we have tin extra of tho 20tb, Significant.—The result of the Selma, (Ala ) municipal election, reported yesterday by tele graph, is very significant. At the State elect- tion in November, that city gave 1500 Radical majority. Now it goes Democratic by 200ma jori- ty. Tho canse and meaning of this revolution are both very easily explained. Power has de parted from tho Radical sceptre, and the ne groes, like a great many white folks, want to be on the strong side. Democracy is the winning card, now in Alabame, and the Radical negroes are backing it. They will do it in-Gcorgia and every other Southern State just so soon as the Democrats show their power thoroughly estab lished. When Georgia has a State Government Democratic iu all its branches, there will not be 30,000 negro Radicals in the whole State. Malicious.—The New York Herald of Inst Monday comes ont with a thundering leader . upon the Radical malcontents—Fenton, Gree ley, * Motley, Sumner, Carl Schurz, Trumbull and others, and exhorts Grant to play tho role of Old Hickory aud bring down upon them at ones all the power a id patronage of tho Gov ernment and crn->h them ont. This is a piece of treacherous counsel. What but a desire to kill off Grant, induces the Herald to counsel anoth er illustration of th9 old fable beginning, “ A certain ass, with a view to terrify the other beasts, did clothe himself in the skin of a lion,” and so on ? Tuo Herald has taken stock in the Ban Domingo job, and goe3 it heavy on enlarg ing the area of freedom. But ha ought to know that although Grant may carry it through in spite of the opposition of Greeley, Samner, Schurz, Trnmbutl & Co.—he can’t play Old Hickory. Not he. Mans Twain writes the following answer to a correspondent: “ Young Author—Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fisb, because the phosphorus in it make brains. So far yon are correct. But I cannot help yon to a decis ion about the amount you need to eat—at least, not with certainty. If tho specimen composi tion you send is about your fair usual average, 1 should judge that perhaps a couple of whales would bo all you would want for tho present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling sized whales.” The good peoplo who aro always establishing daily newspapers have another lesson before them. A few months ago some sanguine yonng men started a newspaper in New York, called the Free Press. It had a capital of $30,000, and it was designed to npset the rock of ages, bet ter known as Tammany. It started off with a fanfaronade and lively step. Witness the result: Last week it ceased to exist—exchequer collap sed. Its expenses were $1,500 per week, and its receipts $100. The greatest circulation that it ever obtained was six thousand copies per day. Tns Tien-Tsin Massacre.—Onr telegrams yesterday stated tfcat the Chinese authorities had exeouted sixteen participants in the massa cre of the French missionaries. This sustains the declaration of the Amarioan minister, Low, that tho disturbance at Tien-T6in, involving tho massacre was local and unpremeditated, and that the government at Pekin sincerely desired to prevent a repetition, and to preserve the peace.- Oasus Belli.—Tho Canucks are openly lam pooning and burlesquing Grant and Butler in their theatres—as Captain Bobadil, Friar Tuck, Don Furioso, Filibustero, FalstuJF, Ancient Pis tol, and what not. If this is not a national af front—a casus belli, whore the use of carrying sneha corporation as Butler does ? Batler threat ens to dig a canal around Niagara and then pilch all the eanucks, head and ears, into it. Comfobtino.—We feel easy under the assu rance of some of the Washington papers that the story of Fish’s flare-up with the negroes of the Haytian legation was all a bam. The entente cordial© subsisting between tho Haytian Empire and the United States of America has not been ruffled. Thd people may resume their com posure. The New York papers of Monday afford fair illustrations of warfare, spiritual and carnal. One page is devoted to the 6ermons and another to the news, murders, stabbings and shootings of tho previous Sunday. Mb. P. A. Mobbib (Democrat) is eleeted from Talbot county to the House of Bcpreoeutatives. Saturday. depository of fossil remains, wherein tho lights Of science wHl supplement octual discovery, and construct complete skeletons- from parts of skeletons found in different regions of the country. As Geology has.already settled that tho American. Continent is actually the oidost part of creation—the old world instead of the. new—no doubt this will eventually be the head quarters of natural science. The museum will start ont with a stock of mastodons, Saurians and other monsters of anti- deluvian eras, conceived to bo from thirty thou sand to millions of years older than Adam. Two Hydrosaurii found in tbo marl stratum of New Jersey are -respectively twenty-six and thirty- six feet in length—highly respectable lizzards in point of size. They also boast of a kind of carnivorous kangaroo, with crocodile jaw?, tre mendous incisors, claws a foot long, ana the whole animal standing eleven feet high, who must havo been a very uncomfortable fellow to meet with in bis time. Oar filial affection for Adam and Eve mokes us happy to think that they were never called upon to interview so un pleasant an acquaintance. Ho must have been physically far worso looking than the old ser pent; whatever might have been tbo moral as pects cf the case.- But the tempter no doubt assumed a very attiaclive appearance when he gave onr first parents that lbf ty moral fall which finally culminated in negro suffrage and oarpet- bagism. The Museum will begin With a main room fifty feet by one hundred, the walls of which will be covered wilh paintings representing the vegetation of different geological periods, while at one end will be presented a view of a section of the globe’s crust, showing at onco the various geologic il formations, from the oldest to the latest, in their nataral order. Galleries will be rua around the interior of the hall so that vis itors may be enabled to examine the restora tions from every point of view. • A Disturbance at Hat-on; It is very much to be regretted that the evil teachings of certain disappointed and unscrupu lous leaders of the Georgia Democracy should result in bloodshed, but such is, nevertheless, the ease. Tho election in MacoD, on Tuesday last, was attended with disturbances of a seri ous character. We do not know that any lives were lost, but it is certain that several colored voters were eeriously and perhaps fatally in jured. It is to be hoped that we shall not be again called upon to chronicle anything of the kind during the present election. The above atrocious slander was printed in Bullock’s Atlanta organ—tho New Era—yester day. It is so absolutely and meanly false, that we almost wonder at its appearance even in that sewer of lies. Hereafter we shall not be aston ished at anything the venal, .malignant pen that contributes to its columns shall write at the bidding of i*s purchaser. The facts of the dis turbance alluded to have already been given to the public. We reiterate themes follows: A negro who had voted the Democratic ticket was assailed by the negro Radical mob as ho left the polls with hoots, and yells, and threats of vio leoce, and one black rascal, who was particularly threatening in his demonstrations was arrested by the police, who started with him to the guardhouse. Instantly a mob of negroes, two or three hundred in number, surrounded and pressed upon tbo police with threats and dem onstrations of rescue. The latter, reinforced by a few citizens, kept tho mob at bay—acting with great forbearance—Hntil they were assailed by a shower of brick-bats and sticks, and the mob pressing more closely, and being evidently bent on bloodshed, one pistol shot was fired, and one negro painfnlly, but not seriously, wounded. The military then came up, and quiet was restored. These are the simple facts that Bollock’s per sonal organ has so infamously distorted, and which it charges are tho results of the “teach ings of certain disappointed and unscrupulous leaders of the Georgia Democracy.” We will not ask the perpetrator of the libel to give his readers the benefit of this antidote to bis poison, for any man who would indite such a falsehood would not hesitate to stand by it. But we do ask the respectable press of Atlanta to publish this statement in-the interests of truth and jus tice, that the people among whom the slander was ottered may see how entirely worthy cf each other are master and man. (. Greai Fire In Jacksonville. Throngh the attention of Mr. Corput, at Jack- from the offloe of the Union in that city, stating that a disastrous cpnflgration broke out aboct half-past. seven o’olock last Monday night, and resulted in the destruction of property to the estimated amount of $250,000. Oho fire broke ont in a wooden building behind Davis <fc Drew’s Furniture ware-house and connecting With it, and in a few minutes numerous build- 14 v Gorman E-iplre Delayed—French Ilittc rirst'oiuiuandllie Versailles Road—Ger mans Retrentinx front Havre- Fartli- , qnnkelniU. Thomas— Passage of Horton's 'V (-solution to send a Commissioner to San Domlna-o—Ifigh Times nmmi; the Faithful—Serlons-cinilroad Disaster on the Mississippi. -. ‘ .V- . - .. New York, December 22.—A Word special I dated London, 21st inst., states that; a dispatch idgs on the south side of Bay street were in from Munich says it is certain that the treaty flames. Tho wind shortly carried the fire across', between Bavaria and the North German Bund, to the wooden buildings on the Opposite side of the street, and. from thence to tho adjacent wharves and warehouses thereon which wire destroyed. The Union office was among tho- first destroyed. The other parties burned ont, or seriously damaged, were Hall, Ross & Hazel- tine, T. O. Holmes, Smith & Brothers, J. Huff, has been rejected by the Lower Chamber.- The Chamber will bo dissolved and a new onq chos en, which involves delay. This result is regard ed as an insult to Prussia. ' ~'-J Tours, December 10.—The army of the Loire hss joined the army of the wv-st near Lemans. TheDnke of Mecklenburg has passed St. Calais, The Kews. The poll run up to somewhere about 5,400 by 4 p. si., yesterday and speculations were van. OU3 about tho relative party strength it repre sented. The majority was claimed by both sides. We will not undertake to guess at the number of blades in a fodder stack. * * The weather was very cold and very dark, damp and cloudy. The Democrats who have been so sedulously at work round the polls fighting rampant fraud, will be glad that their dreary task is over, and had all set to work with a will Tuesday morning the figures would have varied very much. Wo presume the votes will not be counted until Friday. We are glad to see that although numerous Georgia Emigrant passengers were on board the steamer Nick Wall, when she snagged, pro bably none of them were lost. The collision between the magnificent steamer R. E. Lee and the Potomac will be very much regretted. The Sonata had a high time on Wednesday night over the resolution to send a reconnoiling parly to Ban Domingo, in which some of the President’s political allies handled his good name unceremoniously. But the resolution seems to have passed, after all, by a full party vote, with the exception of one or two dissenti ents. The nows from Paris is favorable. The city is represented calm and in good spirits, and Gen. Trochu was preparing for another grand assault on the lines of tho besiegers. Hantenf- fel’s expedition against Havre had terminated in defeat, and he was retreating'on Amiens—as sailed in tho rear by the French.' A severe earthquake is noted in the island of St. Thornes. A screw *-“«v Lruxen loose in Bismarck’s pro gramme for consolidating the German Empire. A disastrous fire occurred at Jacksonville last Monday, involving a loss of $250,000. Blakely, Ga., December 21, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: — I have just time to advise yon of the progress of tho election before tho mail closes. Yesterday the poll at this place was 276. Whitely and Tift supposed to run pretty well together, with odds in favor of Tift. Jones, for Senator, run ning without opposition. Both candidates for the House of Representatives are Democrats. The day passed off quietly—no troublo what ever. I think and hope that old Early will be all right again upon tbo final count. Yours truly, H. 0. F. A writer in the Atlantic Monthly says: “There oomes a time when normal eyes find their pow ers grown limited, and require more light, or assistance from glasses, when lpoking at small near objects. When this period arrives it is an error to persist in endeavors to do as formerly with the eyes; but much use must be avoided except in a clear light or with the required aux iliaries. It is a mistake to suppose that glasses should not be worn while it is possible to avoid doing so.. On the contrary, they serve to pre vent straining of the eyes, and preserve rather than injure vision.” Connecticut Eiveb Closed.—The navigation of the Connecticut River was closed by ice last Amiens. The French from Havre harraes Man tueffel’s r/ar. Garibaldi lefuses a sword of honor tendered him. Ha will wait until the end of the war for honors. London, December 21.—Tho siege trains be- » » » ' j AUCLMUXtJUl OlCCARIUUl J. Potsdamer, J. M. Fairbanks & Co., W. XL , and Frederick Charles'army is marching west Hubbard & Co , M. W. Drew, Davis & Drew, ; f ro m Blurs. The German reserves are. hurry- Spencer, Maxwell & Co., S. B. Hubbard, Polk, j j„g nn A. P. Holbrook, A. N. Pace, W. S. Dodge, H. j Bordeaux, December 22.—The Government Berlack, F. Sanches, Charles Fredenberg, R. balloon dispatches to tbo 17th instant. The T. Masters, G. Anderson, George Emory, ( news ; a f aTora hi e . The reported riots are false. George E. Sawyer, P. R. Jarvis, 8. Cohen, E. engagements with the investing Prussians S. Baker, R. XL Charles, T. 8. Ells, P. Bia- s i nc0 t j, e g d r p] !0 Paris authorities publish in mond, H. P. Fredenourg, R. Dorman, S Ri z- j Q the Official Journal avery favorable provision woller, Mrs. Jones, D. C. Garcea, II. H. Hoeg accoun j_ Gen. Trochu is preparing for another andR.P. McCants. Nearly all these parties ?rand sort!e . It ia reported that tho Prussians were mriro or less insured. oesapied Tours without serious resistance. Gen. THE GEDI5GI.4 PstESS; ! Chansey is-at Lemons, where he had received We clip the following from the Savannah Ad- b,iSV y reinforcements. Chansey has been re- vertiser: supplied with provisions and ammunition. Ad- Cruel.—A big, moon-struck youth a few . from Fraidkerbe’s army are favorable, nights since, was going around with a cracked Tho last advices show that Maatucffel is retreat- guitar and a squeaky voice singing “Put Mo in jug from Havre. Mantneffel is moving towards My Little Bed.” Finally a window was opened — — and the young man informed “if ha didn’t du9f, they would stand him on his little head.” He took up his “little bed” and dusted. Loan Association Sales.—At the regular meeting of the Workingmen’s Mutual Loan As sociation', held last evening, the following sales • ... , _ , were made: $1,000<®34; $1,000@3(S; $1,000 f°* e Pafisara largoly increased. Fon-bnrg De @3Gi; $1,000@3GJ; $1.000(5.31; $l,000@8l£. France, at Belfort, has been burned by tho Six thousand seven hundred and Bixty-sven Prussians. A thousand Germans were lulled boles of cotton, valued at $491,710 15,- wero and wounded at Nemits. shipped from Savannah, for Liverpool, oaTues- j Vebsulles, December 20.—The left wing of day. the German army is advancing on Tours, and Mr. Henry L. 8. Bnntz, an old and esteemed the rigtt on Lemans. The French abandoned a citizen of Savannah, died on Tuesday of para- hundrel wounded before the advance, lysis. j Havana, December 22.—a severe eatbqnako A number of the most respectable ladies of a t St. Xliomas. Columbus appealed at church, last Sunday, Tj. e oiffeo crops of the Southern Districts of dressed in Eagle and Phenix factory ginghams Hayti is a failure. There is an abundant crop and checks. ! in the Northern Districts. The Radical eleotioa managers at Augusta, j New Yobe, December 22.—A Herald special refused to number the ballots as required by sa y S reliable advices from Versailcs, report that the election law. Referring to the small num- ; the Frlnch batteries havo played on the slopes ber of white Radical votes polled at Augusta on c f Moint Valarian, commanding the entire road Monday, the Chronicle and Sentinel says: j to Versailles. One dozen voles will cover every scalawag j Washington, December 22.—Congress thin voto polled, and with these exceptions this nurning and proceedings unimportant. yesterday and cast a straight Democratic ticket. 1 tinned in session until 7 p. m., when Morton s The number of colored men who voted the ! resolution passed—32 to 12. This is the Pres- Damocratic ticket yesterday was unusually i ident ’s measure. There wis a struggle to have large, and shows that a healthy reaction has be- ! . . . ,.... .. „ - i4 . gun to take place in tho minds of many of the ; commissioners confirmed by the Senate, bat it colored people of this city. These mot with no j failed. The debate throughout was acrimom- difficulty and voted as they pleased without be- j 0 us. The purity of the President was attacked ing molested. For the first time since the war, j de f ende d wilh grer.t vigor—each party colored men voted the Democratic ticket with-l . .. , . . , . . ,, ont berng hissed, jeered and mobbed by Radical i m tho acbate belE 8 aU K publicans. Tho op- negroes. ! ponents of the resolution claim a triumph in An Indian State.—At the grand council of j this respect: that the resolution requires the all the tribes of the Indian Territory, now in i ec (; 0I1 Q f the House, which is impossible until session at Okmulgee, it has been determined i to unite together into a confederation, adopt a j " after recess. Tho President last night, respond- constitution republican in form, and in due time apply for admission as one of the States of the Union. A wing of the residence of Mr. Wallace How ard, near Kingston, with a quantity of grain stored in it, was burned last Friday by an in cendiary. The main building was saved. A chap calling himself Captain Rockefellow, who is one of the Radical leaders at Atlanta, was arrested Wednesday for inciting negroes to vote illegally. A Dalton correspondent of the Atlanta Con stitution writes under date of December 20th, to that paper, that out 552 votes polled that day four hundred were Democratic. One-half the negro vote was Democratic. The Constitution of yesterday tells how shamelessly the Radicals of Atlanta used the State road for importing negro voters. It says: Many have been caught,and proven guilty after voting. If mere bystanders catch them, why cannot the managers do so? We are told that the first day, out of fifteen hundred, composed in great part of this imported material, not one was reported by the managers. We learn that a negro from Chattanooga, who came down from there Tuesday night, and vo ted the Radical ticket here yesterday, was ar rested late in the afternoon, and confessed that he was one of a party of twenty-five brought down by a negro named Henry Cleveland. All passed free over the State Road. They wero all to return last night. This is but one case out of many. A party of our vigilant police went to the train, but arrived just as it was leaving, and found, not twenty-five, but two passenger coaches packed full—at leasts hundred—and some thought one hundred and fifty in all!! This on one train only. A white man, who appeared tho ring leader, was caught and is in custody, but the train was moving and the negroes got off. Our information is, that every train enter ing and going out of the city has the same kind of freight. The universal testimony of all hon est men, who have been about the polls, is that largo numbers of non-resident negroes go in and vote. Affairs Aroand Paris. The Herald, of Monday, has this interesting editorial note upon the situation: Our Versailles correspondent states that tho Germans havo evaded the truth in their reports of tho battles with Ducrot’s anny; that not only did tho French capture and hold the pen insula, repulsing every attempt made to recover it, but that they would have cut their way en tirely throngh had not De Foladines been beat en at Orleans. In addition, we learn that Paris contains a four months’ supply of food, and that such a thing as surrender is nnthought of. Preparations were making for another great sor tie, and the French were confident of success. Their field works had been pushed forward with such energy that their artillery and sharpshoot ers now command roads which wore entirely out of range at the beginning of the seige. While this report from Pans is most favora ble to the French, our correspondence* from Versailles is somewhat nnh*" 1 *. 1 , ‘®*e Ger-. mans. Ora— roars are expressed that the next sortio will be successful. General Von Moltke is apprehensive that new nrmies will be formed in the south of Franco which will bo difficult to ;ot at; and he is unwilling to allow Prince Frederick Charles to advance too far from Ver sailles. Thera was a great demand among tho Germans for tho bombardment of Paris, and three councils of war had been held to consider the question. Meanwhile Count Bismarck was pressing energetically the political movement for the destruction of the republic. He is said to be anxious for peace and ready to form a coalition with Napoleon or any other Power willing and able to make terms. Holden in a New Asmect.—The Baleighans have had a great revival under the preaching of Rev. Dr. Earle, Baptist. Five hundred persons hare been added to the Church. Dr. Earle left Raleigh last Friday, immediately after the fol lowing address by Governor Holden: Db. Earle—Your visit to our city has been of great and, I hope, of lasting benefit, and I know has been intensely enjoyed. I am pleased with this meeting to-night—am glad that it has been held, and am glad to see so many happy faces. Meetings of this character are calculated to do immense good, and I thank yon for inaugurating them. As for myself, I can assure yon that I am very much benefitted. I feel so and hope that the joyous effects of your services may be lasting. I am particularly gratified at the man ifestation of interest inmy behalf by very many of my fellow citizens. I assure them that I ap preciate it and will endeavor to profit by it. Assuring yon of my great pleasure in meeting yon, of my deep regret that you leave so soon, and that my prayc-rs and those of this commu nity will attend you through life for your spir itual happiness, success and prosperity, I bid you adieu. . . . ing to a serenade, thought tho Capital could only be removed by the same machinery re quired to adopt or repeal constitutional amend ments. The Boys in Blue (negroes) made a demon stration of welcome to Congress and visited the President, who made a short speech, stating that any attempt to remove the capital, in bis opinion, was nnconstitutionaL New Orleans, December 22.—At Natchez, at two o’clock this morning, the steamer R. E Lee and the Potomac collided opposite the city. Both are badly damaged. The Lee’s pilot ran her on a bar where she sunk in nine feet qf wa ter. The Potomao is unloading for repairs. No lives lost. It is raining here—mercury at 34 degrees. St. Louis, December 22.—Heavy ice in the river. Boats not ready to depart left the Levee for a safe harbor. Dispatches from the far West report extreme cold. Memphis, December 22.—The Nick Wall whichmet with a disaster at Grand Lake,took 74 passengers aboard here, mostly North Carolin ians nnd Georgians ea route for texas. Poughkeepsie, December 22.—The river is frozen over. The weather is intensely cold. Memphis, December 22.—Tho Memphis Ava lanche and Vicksburg specials to-day says no cabin passengers of the Nick Wall were lost.— Thirty deck passengers perished. Georgia Election. Speeialto the Telegraph and Messenger. | Dawson, December 22.—Tho Democrats are thought to be 400 or 500 ahead. All quiet It is snowing here. B. XL H. Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.) Fobstth, December 22.—Three thousand and seventy-five votes have been cast Contest close and result doubtfuL E. G. O. Camak, Ga., December 22.—Warren county gives 320 Democratic majority; Glasoook, 500 Democratic majority; Columbia, Taliaferro, Lincoln and Wilkes give large Democratio ma jorities. M. Augusta, December 22.—Tho Democrats carry Riohmond county, tho stronghold of Re publicanism -t— Democra(8 electing their full ticket. Atlanta, December 22.—The Democrats have elected their ticket by a small majority. Wal ton county goes Democratic by a largo majority. Rome, December 22.—Floyd and Polk coun ties go Democratio by large majorities. The whole of Cherokee has been swept by the Dem ocrats. Fobt Gaines, December 22.—Tho Rcpnbli cans are thought to ba i*» oiaj county. auodota, December 22.—The election is closed and passed off quietly throughout the State, both parties voting freoly and without intimidation so far as heard from. It will take a day or two to give tho result; still it is be hoved that the Democrats elect four if not five members of Congress and two-thirds ,of the Legislature. ■ ‘ .' Savannah, December 22. —■, The election passed off quietly to-day. Result not known. Camak, December 22.—The Democrats aro ahead in Warren, Taliaferro, Wilkes and Co lumbia counties. Montezuma, Dececmber 22.—Tho Republi- aus in this county are ahead. Dooly county largely Democratic. Columbus, December 22.—Tho Democrats carry this county. Washington, Deoember 22.—The Supreme Court has adjourned to the 5th, and both Houses of Congress to the 4th of January. Colfax called at the White House beforeseven this morning, to inform the President that the San Domingo resolution bad passed by a vote of 33 to 9. Many Senators and Representatives called.during the day to congratulate the Presi dent. The President in replying, said he be lieved the annexation policy wise and prudent, and thought it would gain strength as the facts became known. The President signed the su gar bilk .• ..j* -*. The Senate, after seating Jewett, from Mis souri, went into Executive session. In the House but 25 members were present. Jones, of Kentucky, spoke in favor of, andPor- tcr, of Virginia, against amnesty. • • J The sugar, bill which passed the Senate yes terday was signed *iy the speakor and sent to the President. J3ie-Hotise theft a'djourned. > The -nays op tho San' Domingo resolution wpro Cassexly, McGroery, Morrill of Vermont, Patterson, Schurz, Stockton,, Sujnner, Thur- mau and Tiptcm Tho Senate, in Executive session, passed a declaratory resolution that, under the Tenure of Office Bid, whsre . a new. nominee w-us re- j oted,! the old incumbent remains in .statue quo without furnishing* pewTiopd. Tue Senate confirmed- S.-hVnck Minister to England; Adams Collector u! Customs at St. Johns, Fia; Sbanghnessy, Marshal of Southern Mississippi; Mir.nts; Attorney of Northern. Ala bama; White, Postmaeter at Greensboro, N. O. The Senate reported Blanpli irfi nominated for the New Orleans Ppstofflco. ‘ This is regarded in political circles its a triumph of the Lieuten ant GoveruorDunn faction over the War month faction of Louisiana. _ \ New York, D cjmber 22i—Ex-Colleetor Col- ioot refuses to leave -prison under the Presi dent’s pardon. The Crispiu strikers havo finally compelled Mr. Burlof, of the Park Row Shoe Factory, to suspend and dismiss the son-society-inon whom he had employed. It is stated that the Atlantic erble officials despair of repairing the broken cables till June, when tho weather becomes permanently favor able. Robert Low, of the telegraph crew, was pulled overboard and lost by the parting cable. San Francisco, December 22.—The French have raided twenty thousand dollars in gold for a patriotic fund from Christmas gifts. Sheriff Jackson, of Trinity county, has lieon arrested by United- States authorities, for the violation of the 15th amendment in.exacting m ,; ners’ tax from Chinese. St. Louis, December 22.—A special from Vicksburg says nine cabin passengers were lost by the Wall. The body of E. W. Taylor, of Jefferson, Texas, has been recovered.. No other names ascertained. EaiE. Pa., December 22.—Tho railroad con vention hs3 adjourned. Complete arrange ments were made for uniform freights. No Southern roads are parties to tho agreement. New Yobk, Deoember 22.—Every theatrical manager and every actor of note in the city at tended Gao. Holland’s funeral. Richmond, December 22.—The Legislature adjourned to-day to meet again January 2d. The weather is intensely cold ; thermometer this morning 21—this evening 31. New Orleans, December 22.—It is" rainy and freezing, and little business doing. City of Mexico, December 22.— The passage of the Tehuantepec bill is regarded as a tri umph of Juarez over Ledro. The presidential contest is warming. Anti-American, Spanish and French elements are uniting upon Ledro. Havana, December 22.—The Tehuantepeo Canal concessions passed the Mexican Congress by a vote of 137 to 3. The bill conforms to the observation of Juarez, and is satisfactory to the railroad companies. Bordeaux, December 22.—Gambetta has gone to review the army at Lyons. Several vessels have arrived at French ports with arms. Well equipped troops continue to move to the front. The Government has determined to treat reac tionary journals with silent contempt. Bobdeaux, December 22.—The hopes of the Germans of re-victualling their armies from Deippe is defeated by the vigilance of French cruizers. London, December 22.—Dispatches, from Versailles state there aro no indications of a decisive battle until after the holidays. Dispatches from Vienna report the Turkish fleet under immediate orders for service. Ex tensive war preparations aro being made at Kartell. London, December 22.—Troops are pouring into Cherbourg for the defence of that port. At Havre an immediate attack is expected. The Germans are approaching in increased force. Berlin, December 22.—A dispatch threatens that, unless Paris soon surrenders, a regular attack will begin. , ^ The English ship, Snsasqnina, bound.^Val paraiso, was run into end badly damage'A-y tho ^ on fte , !icd wonld have cost fvni fime8 „ French transport, Harmonica, who ! much, the cotton seed would have been a clear for a Prussian vessel. She will ba repaii't-’^by j los=, h«!f of it being evaporated by the process the French Government. v j of heating and ki'iing the germ; the other half lost in the clean-culture s^s'em necessary to mike com. The Sisters. v ", ^ fiiYiJgi.'G wHiini-R: ■?' Ja. Annfe and BQbda, eistecp^jfeait}. Wokp in the Bight to the sound ofraiu. > -• Tbe tush of wind, the ramp and loar. * Of great wevea climbing a rocty ehoro. - ' Annie rose np ifvhsr bed gown white, ;• j-' And looked out into tliqstorm and uigjit “Hjjqh, atrXboarken I” sbe cried in fear, - ‘nearest thou nothing, eister dear?” “I hear the ee»; and the pl.ibh ctr-iifl, And roar of -tho northeast hum-ana ‘ ‘Get thee back to the bed so warm. No good comes of watching a storm. “What is it to thee, I fain would know, That waves are roaring and wiM winds blow?” “No lover of thine’s afl iat to miss v The harbor lights bn a night like this.” -r v “But I heard a voice ety otit my name. Up from the sea on the wind it came 1” “Twice and thrice have I-hrard it call, And the voice is the voioe of Est wick HalU” On her piltpw the sister towed b-r head, •*Ha.41di tlie Heron is safe,*” elie sail- •‘In the tauntest sdiOoner that ever swam ' He rides at anchor in Ane-quam.' “And, if in pnil from examping sea Or leo shore rocks, would ho cail on thee?” But the girl besrd only the wind and tide; And wringing her small, white hands, she cried: “O fcistor It hod a, thoreV. something, wrong; I. hoard it Bgtiu, so loud and long. “‘Annie! Annie!- I heard it call, And the voico is "he voice of Esiwick Hall!” Up sprung the elder, with eyes afluno, “ibra licet! He never would call thy name.- “If ho did, I would pray the wind and a-?a To keep him forever, from thie and me J” Then out of the sea blew a dreadful blast; Like tho cry of a dying man it passed. ' " . The yonng girl hus>hed oft hrr lips a groan, But through ber tears a strange light shone— The solemn joy of her heart’s release To own and cherish its love in peace. “Dearest!” aha whispered uadorher breath, “Life was a lie, but true is "death. ‘ The love I hid from myself away Shall crown me now in the light of day. “My ears shall nev r to wooer list, Never by lover my lips be kissed. “Sacred to thee am I henceforth. Thou in Heaven and I on earth!” She came and stood by ber e is let's bed, “Hall of tho Heron is dead!” sbe said. “The wind and the waves their work have done. We shall see him no more beneath thesun. “Little will reck the heart of thine, “ It loved him not with a Jove like mine. ‘-I, for his sake, were ho bub here Could hem and ’braider thy' bridal gear. “Though hands should tremble and eyes be wet, And stitch for stitch my heart bo set. “Bat now my soul with his eoul I wed ; Thine the tiring, and mine the dead !” The Oa Crop-Its Importance to the South. Dr. Pendleton in a letter to the Rural Caro linian says he is satisfied, by actual experiment, that the oat crop next to cotton is the most val uable product of the South, It not only re quires lessiabor to cultivate than com, but is less exhaustive to the laud; in fast is a great im provment to it so far as that invaluable princi ple, humns, is concerned; while corn, like cot ton, is a humus destroying plant. [By humus mean organic vegetable matter, as it is noth ing but th it in n rotted or decomposed state.] Cotton being tbo great staple of the South, he is the best la-mer v bo makes the most with the least expense. ..;.d at the same time im proves his laud. All ihe corn, fodder, oats, peas and meat that a cotton planter makes is only to feed his mntes and his laborers to make cot ton with. It becomes, then, a vital question, how can be make the most horse food with the least labor nnd the smallest draught upon tho fertility of his land ? This is a very important question, now that labor is so scaice and so high in the cotton States. During the last season I made enough oats to last six mules four months, with an outlay of about $26 for seed, ploughing in and cutting, not to estimate Ihe cotton seed, which more than paid for itself in the iocrensed vegetable matter, and consequently enrichment of the soil. The same amonnt of corn and fodder Law Planter, hsi.vtdj. tii . E p r aV, and fitly panud-4 "o^lSSl^ t *a J the ume vTtio gW*ped Bftrmuea .. it ML Mure Up - together .-aT ^ Bpsklr Workt^L jooK<i Wsa , beautifully. Oa' tho Slst If 80 / 1 $ growing, I thought, tocTfcL^ -Ill v topped. I measured a smou’ 1 3 exceptional about K^butAelfctedIt k; ’ ■ just where I entered the i t ,n t " H tiround if looking about as S.,"* ';*»• at sixty one dsy* of « a<t It Had. on it ninety.«*“ '■ ana bolls-of which twenty.'U —Being jmtt atthe entrance of tiTf 9 near my house, I observed every d..y ; noticed noaheddiL i laBt 4 qnence; some morning of ?«Jc> form, but nothing of conc" eo . )< „4 Boi ’f 1 S very considerable udditWcf on the 15th of August c wnS wi ing to find at Icastmnc C l d 8 '' lfn ' * one hundred and thirty for,,* m were only mnety-six, <*owm’ R th ’^ about as many as H had acquit 8 n ^ 4 it forty five were safe bolls* i a Faber’s Lead Pencils. In the year 1769, Kasper Faber settled in S:ein, Germany, and commenced the manufac ture of lead pencils. Daring his life the qnanti ty made was not so great but the products of tho week’s work conld bo taken on Saturday m a basket to Nnrcmburg nnd Foirth for sale. His son, Antonio Wilhelm, whose name the pencils now bear, did not incresss the business, and his grandson had little better success. On the death of the latter, in 1839, his son, the present proprietor, then twenty years of age, succeeded to the business. This young man had been spend ing three years in Paris,working at his trade,and devoting himself to improving the method of making pencils. Conceiving that he had made an important discovery, he returned home, and, with the greatest difficulty, by mortgaging all tho estate that had fallen to him, sncceeded in borrowing $S0, with Which to commence busr ness. Ho expended tbis small sum in making pencils according to his new method, which consisted in part in giving them different de- greesof hardness, a thing before unknown, which be distinguished as at present, by numbers. He took these to Munich and other cities where they were tried by the best artists, who were so much pleased that they all gave him very flattering certificates; bnt, on returning home, he found the proceeds of his $80 expend ed, and he had no other resource than to try the banker who had alreads befriended him. The banker, on learning that he not brought the money to pay his obligation, denounced him as a swindler and sent him away. The young man, however, afterwards succeeded, by means of his certificates, in regaining his confidence, and received from him another small sum. From that time he continued to enlarge his works and extend his business, until now over five hundred persons are employed, not inolu ding a large, amonnt of labor outside of the fac- torv, making weekly 2: , 5.G‘>° r=-“Us. He has tab— Lb tno mothers into the business, onoof whom has the management of a bonse in New York to which the leads, ready for setting, are taken from hero. He is now considered a mil lionaire, and has been made Baron by tho King of Bavaria—Library of Wonders. ■What Becomes of the Cigar Stumps.—The New York Commeroial Advertiser solves tho mystery of what becomes of the cigar stumps as follows: Early promenaders in Broadway and. Fifth Avenue, if they are at all observing, will, see an old man in a blue blouse, and carrying a dirty bag, engaged in picking np the . unsmoked up ends of cigars, known among the boys as “old sogers.” We had occasion to observe the in dustrious old man picking up these inconsider ate trifles the other morning, and to stop him and interrogate him as to the uses to which ho put the cigar tips. He related his story, and it ran to this effect: After a morning’s work he takes home what he has gathered up, -washes the tip3 out in a large tab, and when cleansed cuts them up and sells them to certain cigar makers, who use them for “fillings” in the mak ing of cigars. This old man can tell the genu ine Havana tobaoco from the ordinary Ameri can leaf; one is much more valuable than the other. We have no doubt it often occurs that smokers smoke the same cigar twice. Five Million Reasons why Georgia Should be Promptly Reconstructed.—The investment by Senator Cameron of five million dollars in new banking institutions in the State.—IfrraW of Sunday. x A brief statement of the Arlington Heights property ease shows that General Lee’s wife, not General Lee, owned the property and that General Lee never had any interest except in right of his wife, and that interest only for his life. The crumbling skeletons of ten human oeingn were recently discovered in a cave near Glas gow, Kentucky.. But is not the o it crop very uncertain, par ticularly as ro getting a stand ? Not by any means upon onr plan. By applying a good coat ing of cotton seed, as much a- you*have to spare, from fifteen to fifty bushels to the acre, sowing the seed with them, and turniog'all in together with a turning shovel, yon may so v eny time from October to February, and never fear about a stand. The depth of the seed, together with the warmth produced by the fermentation and rotting of tho cotton seed, prevents the freezes from killing them out whilo in the sproit; and the vigor given to the roots and plants by the manure prevents any freezing oat nft rward. Upon this plan also tho whole of the nitrogen and other volatile matters are saved in the soil; whilo tho plan of hoating cotton seed, and ap plying to the com in the spring, evolves a large per cent, of these important gases. The advantages of this plan to the land over that of the cultivation of corn is immense. For fifteen months the plough does not interfere with tho soil. Each living plant is allowed to grow, and mature and decay, except the oats, which you cut nnd take from it, leaving all the roots and stubble behind, whioh are luxuriant from tho effects of the cotton seed, as are the weeds and grass which come np in the spring. The amount of hnmus actually created for the m<xt cotton crop would quadruple that left after corn. And when it is remembered that, as a general rule, our worn-out soils require but three great prinoiple3 to be restored to them, viz: humus, nitrogen, and phosphorio acid, in order to make them productive, and when tho two latter are furnished in every good fertilizer, while the former cannot be, the wisdom of a plan which makes tho most humus to make cot ton, and th? most horse food, with the least labor, is apparent to every intellieent mind, I throw ent thou congestions to the'planters of tho South that they may net upon them if they chonao, tor I um well convinced that it is the only plan by which they can improve their lands and gather repeated crops of ootton from them. Tho rust, which of late years" is acting so disastrously, ia owing, no doubt, greatly to the lack of humus in tho soil. Wo must then either rest our lands more or sow them in small grains. Corn and cotton forms a bad rotation, as both of them are humus-destroying plants. 1 have no donbt that, upon the plan above in dicated, a planter may gradually improve his land, and gather a remunerative crop every year. The effect of cotton seed upon oats is more remarkable than even on com and wheat. By sowing a 1 trge acreage of oats, less com would be requisite, and any good ammoniated fortil- izer will supply the ph-.eeof the cotton seed for command in case of a drouth produce better re sults. The oats is a healthier food for horses and mules dnriDg the summer than corn, as I havo woll assured myself, and will snstain them about ns well. The black oat is the hardiest and much the most productive. Does Cotton, Frnit and Flower Si multaneously. A correspondent of the Deoember Rural Carolinian, maintains that cotton does not, as is commonly supposed, carry on all the stages of fruitage at the same time. He says: I tried some experiments this season whioh it seems to. me prove that the cotton plant does not carry on two processes of flowering and froiting both, to any considerable extent, at the I coanted-it aga.n-ir had onl J hve days, again, it hid more only wxty ; End oa the fik £ had only forty-seven, of wki„w safe. One only added \ and that one easily recognized. fourth grown boll, on oc» 0 f thrown ont where the co-.toa & 1 V Ua «fss l This result induced aTt?eZ.^ near this, and I found them r ,r * ; forty to fifty-two grown bolls, a Uv i‘ f;j about the same age, showing'' Tl0t ■■ August no fruit had adhered cs , it hod bloomed h-Avdy dariaiT^’ !i weeks of that month; andlh« tir! healthful all ihe time. ^ Scey Now, Mr. Editor, the aoswe-«• . made the blooms, etc., faU off . l! = T - be so, for in the same !<*, H portions, where there was abtmdmth' H plants continued to put fonli hi ^I” complete .tho forma'-oa oi Ln. !!?*" now on the stalks m such pi**, {£* ,. sizes, from the full-grown bo'l f/T which the flower h^ja^bS^ fc « difference being as to the o'd bo4s it, ■ c not op an well, and many have rot el How to Milk a Cow. The art of milking a cow w .!l b 6 by most people in Georgia, bat is'saimtZf that any goo! cow ia the hinds of an c q!j negro milker would be spoiled ia a fer£j We aro satisfied our Georgia cow vrJlj more than doubled in value if the) expeditiously and kindly. The Monk upon the subject are from the Moiling y,, The exact process of a good m>lke f 0 .„ obtains the largest quantity of ro.iyfami! regularly, keeps her in milk the W much easier explained by serin® thek™ practice than by any attempt with the oral instruction; and then one must barer J tico, as in any other trade, to obtain tj/j yet when one obtains it he is prone io tfevl a very simple one, and thinks tfca-tanjocsw" has sufficient strength in their his.is , can do it, without reflecting that it took,, practice and some thought for hia to^ sus the simple art. In the first place, to make milting ^ disagreeable as possible, it is neces4ir tjl tain and pre-erve the good will of ihe««i to treat her witlf the utmost kindness arj E ly. Wflece gentleness is used by the e: the cow seems to enjoy the pleasure o! ] milked as a relief to her overstrains’ and she will stand quietly chewing her rail the operation is fini-hed, in Mucmer tia 1 milking is accomplished in a reasonn'-b l when she will seek her accustomed pbte i lie down with, a grant of seeming svisfad to continue her rumination. Tkemiiriu-di always be done as quickly as possible fit-;] ing commanced, without any interraptiuj ta king, quiet'y. In order to milk with ease, the milker -to procure in the first place, a mifkiigbtoij have found one made as follows us conreci as any: Take a board or piece of dab, i twenty inoht-s long, ten inches whip ri tcpciiug to bix inches at tt-° otner, as! p threo legs to it, two «t ihe wide «J »b eight inches long, set slanting, thebotroae widest apart to stand firm, and one at tbe i rower end an inch shorter, to stand perpeni ular when the stool is finished; Ihe wiJerd will answer to sit on, while the n?rrov e:Jl thrust under the cow’s" udder to set the piS| while milking; this keeps the pad free I any dirt or filrh. I prefer to milk inpla summer weather, in the open air, wiikuta fining the cow, except in an open ytri I proach the cow on her right or of file, t gently touch her on the hip—il ehedeal freely of her own accord come into po-iiin and she will place her foot a little bifiij posing' her udder to the best utell for milking ; set yonr stool in position *d| down on it, piecing the pail $>n the ttdj■ the co v’s under, if it be clean aadfiSed- etc ; if not; first clean it wi-h a wispd bjl Straw, and then with c cloth for the p®p«J prefer this mods to washing with w®i *T quently tbe cow resents it by ht-ldisg milk; with properly arranged stables ding for winter, this is all that *““*?*? in keeping the cows clean, end rihbt better than to use water. When »» wt-rs teats are clean, bit quietly dorc-s««l arm’s length, but close as oonv*i;M. .-J the left arm may rest & £ IUD! *^ e while drawing the milk, and rill w save the milk, if the cow stars or “ J leaning it firm and strong J will throw the cows hind parts off and the pail uninjured. IiiatoAQtWo ^ one ia each hand, one fora&rd cm back, no matter whether both teats t 1 side or one on either side; c -* 5 ?.-.'jjl in the - hands, - leaving the to*? J project alitrle below the band, shutting the fingers, the iwie* <*** J then the outer ones, the mi.k if directed to the pail will most hifljPkl ia. When nearly through, bnt answer to the squeeze; take now *• one teat, one to gently press and ‘“to':, down the udder, and tho other to * 1* the teat as before; continue this -' G squeezing as long as any milk eaoh teat by turns; the last stnprpj^ J richest in cream, and shonld he a 'V. ; pJ only on that account, bnt for the go ' ing the cow longer in milk, free*fo ^ the udder or other ill effects. A “ : it would bo superfluous to 8 *7j~T — «j nails shonld be cut olosc, tbat 'to-' p,E tho means of hurting the cow** ; ing her uneasy. . Jf e j°j! l t?lfter a sharp voice, So! and s - ar ( .^ S -J ■ stool raieetl; hut nse gent .kindly, and thereby gain the 8°^ the ill-will of tho cow. Krndnea & . ness go much further in subaniej* . mal than any other course. Retrenching Expenses.—A exchango, occupying an infl aenJ ' journalism, says: ...1 Many of our business men *■;' ings threo or four yean ago ,- #r ij they are consequently now P-. j>h the present reduced scale ci j cases, this exoess amounts to ( '$sJl cent, and over. At the same ‘ been a decrease ia the voiutae<* yjjM acted. Net a few merchants c ~ ,.,l the past year, all their P rJ [*,j py!» : | landlords. Now and then, th«« ^,#1 bate, but the latter have, as a fj "..quasi dined to recede from the s. 1 bond. Owing to this snd other ^ houses begin to feel the nece ment, and many of theni have - a redaction of salaries Two c; to j drygoods firms in the cdy pavof their cierks frcm W^y) cent.; many more will foUn* Jen on tho first of January, and it 1=. that the reduction will be ' coming year. One **21 cation of this oonrse_«th 0 ; gold and the appreciation 1 m t ,f thereby enabling the salaried , same time. I have a little lot of two and a half acres adjoining my back yard and garden; thin, sand soil, bnt with a pretty good day near the surface. It was first planted in 1869, in corn, subsoiled and heavily manured with cotton seed ; the result being about twenty bushels of com to (he acre. In the fall I manured with stable manure, and sowed barley for pasture. Two milch cows and calves, and occasionally my carriage horses, were pastured on it all the winter. On the 10th of May I turned in the , barley and routed Dickson cotton, with a Dow r»n*-'h more with a dollar than terete It is not generally known th ^ * betrothed to M. fiossean, a 'arr*** of moderate fortune. Af “ r ,toto, n !, will not take place just •‘?£ si( ,o. to give npthe stage a* • P*f jjai ^ before their marriage, me r do this. , oa t ' J « A Cincinnati child knob to see if the ^ ^ take them out riding, M *“ 1 j across the street. th e ^ There is a whole sermon ^ ]e#T e - Peisian, “In ,? door of roeonciliahon.