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Telegraph and Messenger HAOON, JAN DAKY 13, 1871. “Swell” Englishmen Marrying Amer ican Belles. What are called the “higher classes” English men seem, of late, to bo specially fascinated by what the New York Snn designates “the light, graceful geranium Btyle of beauty,'' young American belles.. The other day Miss Kitty MoVicker, the bright and lively daughter of Gommodoro’McYicker, was married to Major Norton of the British Army, a son of the Hon. Mr. Norton and nephew of Lord Grantley, and now we find Mins Motley, the fascinating daugh ter of our late Minister Mr. Motley, wedded to e son of Mr. Bichnrd Brinsley Sheridan and grand son of the celebrated wit, orator, and dramatist that name. The present Sheridan seems to have inherited from his grandfather nothing bnt his name, and his propensity to get into disreputable scrapes. He eloped, when-quite young, with an heiress, and his last exploit was in connection with cer tain disgraceful insurance frauds, so we fear Miss Motley has carried her pigs to a bad mar ket. If all the*-young American belles do as badly in the matrimonial market, we reallypity them. But just so long as American shoddyism flaunts its riches in Europe, jriSt so long will there be found plenty of foreign roues and dead beats who will jump at the chance of swapping their tarnished titles and besmeared names for Shoddy’s money with the daughters thrown in. m -• State Aid Explosion. Tho recent explosion of State aid in Alaba ma is, wo fear, only the beginning of trouble in our sister State, and the harbinger of similar woes in Georgia. The collapse in Alabama has occurred at what we supposed to be tho strong est part of tho machine, and so far indicates a total wreck. In Georgia State aid bills have been passed by a bogus Legislature making pro vision for a contingent State liability of some thirty or forty millions; bnt the projects in many cases are so preposterous that they will not bo undertaken and of those s itually in progress, we heard a railway expert express the opinion some months ago that not more than one or two at most could, if built, be kept in operation on any possible sum total of their business receipts. It will bo, perhaps, the most pressing business of tho next session of the Georgia Legislature to overhaul this State Aid Legislation, and make some disposition of it which will not in volve the credit of Georgia in total ruin. Governor Bullock on the Election. We copy from the New Era of yesterday, a letter from Governor Bullock, in which he as sents to the resnlt of the late election in Geor gia, saving and excepting that in the 5th Con gressional District, wherein he makes the action of General Toombs and Jndge Stephens, in in sisting npon tho application of the provisions Of the Code of Georgia to the election, ground for demand on Congress that the verdict of the people be set aside. Omitting all editorial comment on the letter, we pnblish it merely to show the attitude of the Governor, which maybe more or less important as foreshadowing that of his party in Washing ton. . Construction and Re-Construction.—Con structed Sonth Carolina seems to ns near the point of a grand catastrophe—anarchy and a war of races. The peace will have to be main tained there by United States troops, for the whites seem goaded beyond the point of endu rance and self possession, by an insolent and blood-thirsty domination of the blacks. Bat as it is a reign of barbaric tyranny in the interests of Badioalism, we suppose, in his forthcoming onslaught npon North Carolina and Georgia, the President will have nothing to say to the dis credit of the Congressional construction of Soath Carolina. The effort will be to re-con- struct Georgia till it shall have been brought to the same pass of subserviency to Radicalism, perhaps at on equal expense of public order and private security. ' - - We supposed yesterday’s edition might con tain Akermnn’s onslaught on Georgia, subscribed by Grant; bnt it is probable Georgia will not be bronght on the Congressional tapis nntil the San Domingo commission has been legislated into existence and sent off. It has been well said that the Badicals seem to have fallen heir to the old slave plantation policy—more cotton to buy more negroes and more negroes to make more cotton. They base fill hope on the negro power. To pnt it uppermost in all the Southern States and bring more and more of it into the Union seems to be their summum bonum In political policy. Caucus oh San Domingo.—The Democratic members of Congress held a conference last Wednesday at the capitol on the San Domingo question, and decided unanimously to oppose the annexation-project. They admitted that the manifest destiny doctrine of the Democratic party had been the acquisition of territory, bnt that the objections to San Domingo were too great to be overcome. Some of these were that Dominica only represented halt tho island; that its population were a half civilized and ignorant negro race; and that the scheme was shrouded in corruption. They decided unanimously to oppose tho scheme. Judge Twiggs.—This gentleman publishes a letter in tho Atlanta Constitution, of yester day, folly vindicating himself from the charge made by “Enquirer,” in that paper a few days since that ho (Judge T.) was not eligible to the office, not having lived in the circuit one year, nor practised law seven years. The Judge, also, denies that he was appointed, be cause bo wonld prove “a valuable accession to the Bepublican party,” as was also charged by “Enquirer.” Aswequoted“Enqnirer’s”changes on these points, wo give tho accused the benefit of the denial. “Keceiving Evert Vote.”—Modesty compels tho Senior to disclaim the laurels mischievously tendered him in the local column yesterday npon his extraordinary race for School Com missioner in Vineville on Saturday last. The facts of the case are briefly theso: Afternoon having come, and no polls yet opened, a few of tho neighbors got together, opened polls, and cast nine votes for that gentleman, because he was the only man in Vinevillo who would con sent to take the office. That is the way he came to be elected unanimously for the first, and probably the last time in his life to a polit ical office—for it is a rule with ns never to run for any office which anybody else will take. Crawling to Again.—Abbott, of New Hamp shire, hailing as a Senator from North Carolina contests Vanoo’s seat in the Senate, on the ground that the votes cast for Yance, being cast for a disqualified person, were null, and he therefore reoeived a majority of the legal votes. Will the United States Senate sanction such a doctrine as this ? How worthy of the men who have “crawled up” into that body from the Sonth J Oath tor School Trustees.—Wo are request ed to call attention to the fact that under the school law the Trustees elected on last Sat urday must take an oath within five days after their election, to faithfully discharge their duties under the law. They may administer this oath one to another. Excessive Taxation. Wo printed, a day or two ago, an awf ol groan from the Cincinnati Gazette , (ultra Eadical) abont the excessive taxation in that State, which that paper said had thrown the State of Ohio so far into the rear of the Western dolman, that its increase in population in the past decade averaged only one per centum per annum, and the prospects ahead were far worse. The peo ple could not sustain a taxation equal to abont three per cent, on their values every year, and would be foroed increasingly to seek relief by emigration. So there is a point reoognized, at last, where in taxation is impracticable—wherein it con sumes its own resources and must eventually kill itself ont; and that point in Ohio-is three percent. But in Georgia, what with the income tax, State and county tax, license taxes, texes on sales, etc., we suppose the demand far ex ceeds three per cent, a year; and when we reflect that at this day surplus capital in Great Britain is thought to be making a fair return, if it bring three per cent., and six per cent, is the average in America, we are prepared to ap preciate the burdens of a system which, in Eu rope, would take all a man’s loaf, and in Ameri ca more than half of it for the uses of govern ment, by so-called “direct” taxation. Bat when wc have done thinking over “direct taxation,” we have not gone much beyond tho threshold of the public burden. That which even more than the direct tax eats into Ameri can life, is so-called “indirect taxation” through a tariff levied, not so much for revenue, as for the iniquitous purpose of raising prices for the so-called “protection of American labor.” The average tax on imported articles under the old tariff used to be stated at about sixty-seven per oent., and we presume can bo scarcely less than fifty; and this tax comes upon the consumer burdened witb exchange, premium on gold and importers, jobbers and retailers’ profits, so that, doubtless, on the average, more than two dol lars is paid by the consumer to get one into the Treasury. This is the tax which rakes down the poor man, whoso necessities for purchasing imported articles, and domestic articles upon whioh the price has been correspondingly raised by the tariff duly, are frequently greater than those of the rich. It is the poor man who gen erally has a large family, and the poor man who must purchase the various implements of Urn handicraft whioh supports him. It is, therefore, a difficult matter to say what is tho actual aggregate burden of taxation bome by the American people. We can only see how vast it must necessarily be, and in the present paralysis of trade, and pecuniary prostration of the people, need not look a step beyond it for one grand cause of the publio distress. Nor is poverty, bad as it is, the worst result of over-taxation. It injures a people in so many ways menially and morally that a long continuance of these inordinate burdens inflicts a greater mental than physical ruin, and dead ens their minds to every sensibility essential to the preservation of free government. The only hope of the American people lies in shaking off this inenbus with tho party which has imposed it ^ A Strike in Georgia. A telegram from Savannah in yesterday’s edi tion stated that tho newspaper compositors in that city, who have been paid since the war at the rate of fifty cents per thousand ems, were on a strike for sixty cents per thousand, or an increase of twenty per cent, on their wages. This is a singular time for such demands, when trade of all kinds is at a low ebb, money very scarce, and prices throughout the whole list of human necessities tending downwards. At fifty cents per thousand a diligent compos itor, of average ability, can earn, with ease, from thirty to forty dollars per week, and re ceives his compensation promptly every Satur day, so soon as the weekly account is audited by the foreman of the office. It will be seen that, in point of emolument, there are few em ployments in the ordinary mechanic arts which can compare with it, and hence a permanent position as a regular compositor on a reputable duly newspaper is often sold out at a consider able premium by the occupant, when he is ready to give it up. For, under the rules of the Union, the propri etor is not the employer, although he pays the wages. He is allowed neither to employ nor to discharge, and the rate of wages is fixed by the Union without regard to his business and under a penalty, as in this case, of a universal cessa tion of labor and a sworn pledgo of the union to prevent, as far as possible, any other persons from occupying the places which they vaoate. We wonld be ready to qualify, to the best of our knowledge and belief, that for the past year a fair balance of books by the Georgia dailies would show that the printers and paper makers have made all the profits which have been real ized by these concerns, taken as a-nnit; and such an exaction as is demanded by the Savan nah printers, universally applied, wonld break most of the daily newspapers in tins State. We trust, therefore, in the general interests of the craft in Georgia, the Savannah papers will not only stand ont against this exaction, but insist, before a compromise is made, upon the reassertion of some equitable principles of trade, such as no business can oonsent to give np bnt at the sacrifice of the plainest rights and the zuouf-. obvious principles of self-protection. Let the Savannah, capers issue such editions as they can, under the circumstances, and throw themselves upon the publio sense of justice. In so doing they will subserve the interests of the craft and the ends of reason and equity. What is His Name? Can anybody tells us the name of the Acting Commissioner of Patents at Washington City? We much desire to know it, for it is illustrated byoneof the meanest specimens of small-souled malignity we ever heard of. Let the following from the New York Herald prove oar asser tion: The Acting Commissioner of Patents has ren dered an adverse decision in the case of the ap plication of John B. Bead for an extension of iis patent for projectiles. He had worked dil igently on his invention till 1861, when, on the breaking ont of the war, he joined tho Confed erate service, and under that government took out letters patent. The projectiles were used largely by the Confederate armies. He has re filed his letters patent in this city, with an ap plication for an extension, while on their face is the seal of the Confederate States attesting the fact above mentioned.. Negative replies to all applications, without being in the shape of an official decision, were given at various times; but now, as Bead inquires as to the truth of a report circulated that he has been refused an extension on account of his services in the Confederacy, the Aoting Commissioner replies, “That is just the reason exactly/’ Why does not Grant promote thi3 creature? Suoh superserviceable loilty is out of place in that lowly station. A Foreign Mission or a place in the Cabinet wonld scarcely fill the measure of his deserts. Nay, canonization as tho embodiment of the genuine spirit and pur poses of Badicalism, would hardly be too much honor. Let us have his name. Senators from Georgia.—The Atlanta Con stitution, of yesterday, has the following special dispatch from Washington City: Washington, January 9.—In a conversation held since his return from Georgia, Akennan expressed a very decided opinion that Hill and Miller were the legally eleoted Senators from Georgia, and Bhonld be admitted to their seats. It is predicted to-day that the Jndioiary Com mittee will report unanimously in their favor. Akerman says that ho does not intend to ra- sigt}. , Governor Bollock’s Letter. In making room for Governor BfiHock's letter yesterday, at a late hour, we had space only to call attention to it as a pnblio admission by the Governor of the general fairness of-the late -election, and an avowal on his part, that he did not intend, as he did after the last election, to array himself against the result in a general ap peal for Congressional intervention to set it aside. Without pretending to measure the amount of the Governor’s influence with his party in Congress, we are glad to understand from this letter that the rumored attempt to re construct Georgia for the fourth time will not meet his co-operation. He declares distinctly that the State has complied with the Badical conditions precedent for restoration, and he is in favor of admitting her to the Union withont delay and seating ail the representatives in Con gross elect, except those of'the Fifth District. Now, we, on the other hand, are quite free to admit, with the lights before us, that we do not consider the last election a fair and legal one. It was, perhaps, pretty nearly fair in the general resnlt of it—that is to say, suph would have been the proximate result of a fair and legal poll confined to every qualified voter in the State. The aggregate Democratic majority would have been greater—for it is really be tween forty and fifty thousand, at least. But the law under whioh this election was held was itself, and in the sober judgment of tho people and of every impartial mind, formal notice that all the resources of colonizing and repeating were to be tried— that no fair election was in tended / As an inevitable result, Bharp prac tice on one side called for sharp practice on the other. It is hard to fix up a soheme where all the cheating shall be done on one side; but in this ease, the bulk of it was obliged to be with the radicals. They could oolonize and repeat indefinitely with their black voters, bnt the re sources of the whites* in that particular were necessarily very limited. \Zi- • Between both, a large number of illegal votes were polled, but with a very heavy preponder ance against the Democracy. -We do not, there fore, agree with His Excellency that the late election was “as fair an election as could have been obtained at this time.” On the contrary, had a good registry law been passed, and the polls opened for only one day, and thftt at all the usual voting precinots, and the appointment of inspectors been left to the county authorities, wc are confident the election would have result ed in an almost perfectly fair and free ballot by all the voters, white and black. And this brings us to what the Governor says of the recognition of the right of tho blacks by the whites to the free exercise of the ballot. We have yet to hear of a well authenticated case of any attempt by the whites-of Georgia, since the blacks were voters, to prevent them from cast ing the ballot. There have been two cases in which the negroes took possession of the polls and, attempting by violence to drive away the whites, were afterwards themselves driven away as the inevitable resnlt of their own lawless au dacity. But nobody can except to that. So far as our personal observation or information ex tends, there has been nothing like intimidation practiced at the polls, except by the negroes, and exercised by them chiefly against those of their own color. And about the Fifth District, wo have this to say: Whatever opinions may be entertained as to the expediency of the course of Messrs. Toombs and Stephens, in asserting the actual existing law of the State at the polls of Sparta, no man can doubt that they had the law on their side, and that they enforced it withont turbulence and in perfect fairness. The vote of Hancock county was in no wise affectedby their proceedings, and even had it been, how can it be jnst to set aside the election of representatives in the Fifth Dis triot, who received majorities of five or six thousand votes, in respect to alleged illegalities at one poll in a single county, whioh contribu ted but a few hundred to those majorities ? The Governor will undoubtedly find plenty of sym pathy in Congress with his personal animosity to Mr. Toombs; bnt if there be no better rea son than this for refusing to seat the members from the Fifth District, let it be fairly stated that the movement turns on hatred Co General Toombs! , Let Him Rip I A Washington speoial to the World, of Satur day, says: Tho President’s message on the condition of affairs in the Sonth is expected to be sent to Congress on Monday next, and is well under stood to be the basis of a proposed committee to send fer persons and papers regarding the so-called outrages, and to serve as a pretext for the attempted semi-reconstruction of the States of Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. In fact, so far is this programme developing itself in advanoe that it is given ont that it is intended particularly to strike at Alabama and Georgia, and in the case of the former State to refuse the admission of Senator-elect Goldthwaite. “Whom the Gods wonld destroy they first make mad.” Grant can no more surely secure his annihilation in 1872 than by pushing ahead with this wild scheme. Possibly he feels that his renomination is ont of the question, and so, like Samson, he is feeling for the pillars, the pnlling down of which will bury everybody in his party in a common rain. If he can’t lead- it, he may have made up his mind that the man who does, shall only lead it to signal defeat We await the result with the serenest faith and equanimity. He may compel Georgia and Alabama and all the other Southern States to register him as their chcice in 1872, bat what he gains down here, he will assuredly lose across the line. We are fully persuaded that there are enough doubtful Western and Northern States whose vote will be assured to the Democraoy by this polioy, to more than balance all the gains credited to him at the South. Therefore wo snap our fingers at all such devices to cheat tho people, and stifle their voice. They are bora Gf an accursed ambition, the cherishing of which has never yet foiled to destroy those who sought its gratification by such unholy means, and of a low animal cunning that is sore to react upon and finally overreaoh itself. If Grant had a penny weight of wisdom or a grain of common sense, he wonld put far away from him such a polioy and till who counsel it. Bayonets and fraud cannot be tramps, always. Another suit must lead some day, and he cannot so stock the cards that that suit won’t be ballots. What sort of a hand will Mr. Grant hold in that suit, he has already learned. We say again, and with foil faith that the future will vindicate and jus tify our contemptuous words: Let him rip. Mock Marriages and Modest Gills.—A New Yoik paper says that at a recent sooial gather ing in Albany mock marriages were proposed for a source of amusement. Two yonng couples stepped forward and were united by the per formance of the marriage ceremony by a lawyer who was one of the party. So far so good. The performance was regarded as something done “just for-the fun of the thing," until the party broke up, when the girls who had consented to play the parts of brides claimed to be legally married, and insisted upon their partners in the “joke" taking them home. The yonng men, seeing the sorious turn the affair was taking, fairly broke cover, took to their heels and ran away. The girls threaten a suit, and if they fulfil their threat it may be that the oourts will decide the ceremony to have been properly per formed, and of. binding and full force. The negroes of Natchez, Miss., eleoted a negro Mayor and three Aldermen, a day or two since. That’s the medicine to make the o b’s and scallies sick. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Radical Protest Against the. Re-Re- | construction or Georgia. Mn Dennis W. D. Boully has retired from , ^ Baffalo AdTOrti6erj & leading Badical organ in }IVe8tern New York, gives the Georgia Badicals some good advice. After congratulating them npon electing two Congressmen it slips the Hawkinsville Dispatch, and is succeeded by Mr. Geo. P. Woods. Bullock has again respited Book Dominead. thenegromuraerer nowunaersentenceof death j ^ ^ and aks out frankly and in Hawkinsville i ail, and ordored him sent to, .Y, ^ , - J ’ 1 sensibly, as follows: e pem n iary. ■- j “This congratulation will be turned into dis- Mr. R- F- De Lamar, a well-known citizen of , a pp 0 intmont, however, if the sore-headed poli- Pulaski county, died last Sunday. ! ticians in that State persevere in their declared An unknown disease is killing the poultry in intention to’ bring Georgia again before Con- ana around Hawkinsville. g****- eleclio ° : u- 6 hea , rd fron ^ otl ? -D >r ir-t v 11 -tt .-HioWf sides that the voting was taking place without Dr.B. N. Mitchell, of Hawkinsville, will short- or riot. Now we are informed that some ly remove, with his family, to Florida. 0 f the defeated Republican Congressmen intend St U»w « ~ j outrages committed at the polls. One cor- tempted to commit suioide Sunday morning by says that ‘thousands’ of negro voters shooting himself with a pistol. were driven from the ballot-fcox in one distriot. Five thousand eight hundred and ninety-six ! “Now, to be somewhat expressive, that sort bales of cotton weighing 2,780,858 pounds and | of talk fa ‘playwl ouV and the Northern peopl® * a . - V. % r , a are heartily sick of it If, after all, the pro- valued at $413,729 26, were shipped froin Sa- SgSna that have been taken, and the laws vannah for foreign ports on Saturday. | have been passed for his protection, the The second story of the Powell building on ■; negro voter is not yet secure, why, he never Peaohtree street, opposite the National Hotel, Atlanta, was burned yesterday morning. Loss about $3,000. We clip the following from the Monroe Ad vertiser of yesterday: Thrifty.—Mr. Amos Nobles, who is now sev enty-six years of age, with,theMsistanceofhis| I “n e d'' E ometh i n g by experience, and they son, raised the past year 180 bushels com, six j mow that no anti-Bepubfican Congressman- will be. We do not believe that he will be, in fact, so long as those who coddle him feel that they can run to Congress with their everlasting grievances. We take all such stories of intimi dation and violence with a strong dose of doubt. There is good reason to believe that the old ‘rebel element’ is willing enough to act ugly towards the freedmen. But the Southern.men have bales of cotton and 1100 ponnd3 of pork. Fire.—The dwelling on the premises of Mr. A. M. Weaver, known as the “Lyon place,” in Bed Bone District, was destroyed by fire Friday night The particulars as detailed to us leave no doubt that the fire was the work of aninoen- diary. Coincidence.—At the election in Butts coun ty six white men voted the Badical tioket—four at Indian Spring and two at Jackson. Long’s name was struck from four tickets, and Dr. Whitehead's was substituted on the two cast at Jackson. This is a coincidence that deserves the attention of tho “colored troops.” When scalawags want office Sambo is petted and flat tered ; when he wants office he is discarded like an old shoe. Returned Home.—We learn that Dr. Luoien Sanders, and the brothers Blaten, who emi grated from Jackson to Mississippi over a year ago, have returned to their old homes, folly sat isfied, by their migratory experience, that the Empire State is good enough for all practioal purposes, or at least good enough for them. CoL Tom Howard retires from the editorial conduct of the Plantation, the Atlanta weekly agricnltnral journal, and is succeeded by Bev. C. W. Howard. CoL C. Peeples “defines bis position” as po litical editor of the Atlanta Sun, in yesterday’s issue of that paper. He will “sternly and de cidedly oppose Badicalism in all forms,” and is “the determined foe of centralism.” Welcome on that platform, ColoneL It’s good enough Democracy for ns. Jas. P. Harrison offers that capital weekly, the Monroe Advertiser, for sale nntil the 25th inst. Failing health is the cause of his wish to retire from business. The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, understands that the Central Bailroad, has also thrown up its interest in the State Boad lease. The pews of the Presbyterian Church at Co lumbus were rented Monday afternoon for $3500. We clip the following items from the Sun, of Tuesday: Burned to Death.—lie eldest daughter, aged about 12 years, of Mr. James Anderson, residing in the north-east part of Chattahoo chee county, was so badly burned a few days ego that s‘he died Sunday. Her body was brought to this city and interred yesterday. Her clothes took fire whilst cooking. Mr. An derson, we learn, had his hands badly burned in his efforts to extinguish the fire. Bobbed of $165.—The money drawer of the store, on upper Broad street, occupied by S. B. Baldwin, was robbed jof $165, Saturday night abont 9 o’clock. There was a number of customers in the store. Mr. B. stepped in the backyard for something. On examining his drawer he found the money gone. How Much More.—We heard Iasi week of a river plantation in which there were some thirty bales of unpicked cotton in the fields. The river lands yielded splendidly last year. Mrs. Charles Gordon, an old resident of Ea- tonton, died last Friday of a congestive chilL The Eatonton Press and Messenger says large numbers of negroes have made contracts for form labor for the ensuing year within the last ten days—some for part of the crop, others for standing wages. Most farmers have secured as many as they want. The Bichmond county bar at a meeting held on Monday adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that those cases on the docket of the Superior Court of Bichmond county, whioh come within the purview of the relief law, passed by the last Legislature should be generally continued. A negro boy fell from the bumper of a shift- elect has a ohanco of admission if any charge of illegal proceedings at the polls can bo proved against his party; and hence the majority of the Southern people are too shrewd to give their political adversaries any such chance to make capital against them. “The fact is, that the Southern States arc overran by a lot of political adventurers, who have lived on the Bepublican party until they have sucked all the life ont of it in that.qnarter of the country. Such men are nothing without office; they have taken no pains to live on good terms with the Southern people, as they felt sure that political honors were theirs so long as they desired them. Now that the whe el is turn ing, and that they have demoralized their own party by tlieir selfishness and unserapulousness, they cling with the grip of dying men to the profitable places that are slipping away from them, and they hope to make Congress do for them what the ballot-box has failed to do. They are mistaken. The Northern people have submitted to suoh tactios until forbearance has ceased to be a virtue, and they will submit no longer. If. the defeated candidates in Georgia are wise, they will bear their overthrow with good grace and keep their disappointments to themselves.” A Fire at Plainfield, New Jersey, on Monday morning, destroyed a large four-story brick building, owned by Elston Marsh and occupied by Baldwin & Schefflen, clothing cutters, and A. D. Eaton, dry goods merchant. Total loss $204,000, of which $1.75,000 falls on Baldwin & Soheffien, who are insured for $71,500. Over five hundred sewing women in various parts of the State were thrown out of employment by the burning of this factory. - The Herald’s Last Splurge.—The -Herald is running away now with the idea of a new Cab inet for Grant. It strikes us a new President is needed a great deal more. The Herald’s slate is Beast Satler for Secretary of State to stir np a war with Edgland, and Beize Canada— Ben. is good at seizing—and Morton for Secre tary of the Treasurer. If the Herald is in earn est it has gone back on Grant. Such a pro gramme would kill him deader than Badicalism in Georgia. Prices in Iowa.—An emigrant from Connec ticut to Iowa, writes the Hartford Times that last season he raised 200 bushels wheat, 200 of oats, 200 of corn, and cut 20 tons of hay, Marketing there would be refreshing to Hart ford folks. The retail prices are, butter 20 cents, eggs a cent each, turkeys 8 cents a pound, best beef 12£ cents, veal 8 cents, potatoes 40 cents a bushel, flour $5 a barreL He bought a quarter of beef two weeks since for 5J- cents a pound. The season was dry, which made a light wheat crop. They ploughed up to the 10th of December, when severe cold weather set in, and the thermometer sank to 40 degrees below zero abont the middle of December. The people there do not take much interest in poli tics-know little and seem not to care much about what is going on at 'Washington Hieing in Alabama.—The Montgomery Mail says: The matter of hiring freedmen for the pres ent year is still engaging the attention of plan ters, and on the street corners may be seen daily small sqnads of freedmen and one or two whito proprietors of lands grouped together ar- uing the point All sorts of arrangements for ibor are being entered into, bat from what we can learn the larger portion of the laborers are contracting to work for a part of the crop. The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks the daughter of General Anderson has taken her duoks to a ing train, at Augusta, Sunday, and was ran poor market, like the majority of English and over and mortally injured. Little, the hotel drummer who was shot by Edwards, another drummer at Augusta a few days 8inoe is reported in a critical condition. The Federal Union of Tuesday says: We were conversing with a gentleman who had lately been on to North Carolina to hire white laborers, and had succeeded admirably. He says in the upper part of Sonth and North Carolina good able-bodied, industrious white men can be hired from eight to ten dollars per month; and with a little encouragement hun dreds and thousands of them will move here with their families and become good citizens. A post mortem examination of the body of George Bartlett, of New York city, which was found a few days ago near Savannah, was made Monday night, and resulted in establishing the fact that he had been first knocked down and afterwards strangled. A Wilkinson oounty correspondent writes the Federal Union that there were about four hund red white men in that county who did not vote. The same correspondent also offers Bullock $1,000 to let the people have the election over. Twelve or fifteen hundred emigrants bound West, have passed through Atlanta, within, the past ten days. Mr. Hall, dairy farmer near Atlanta, had his house burned last Saturday. Loss $15,000, and no insurance. There was $40,000,000 of capital represented in the dinning room of the H. L Kimball house, at Atlanta, on Tuesday. The first regular meeting of the directors of the Western and Atlantic Bailway Company was held in Atlanta, on Tuesday. The,proceedings were confidential. The following persons were present: Messrs. J. E. Brown, Delano, Jr., Cameron, Jr., Scott, Walter, Dunning, Plant, Cole, Kim ball, Cook, Peters, May, Johnson, White, Nut - ting, Holt, Hill, Morrill. The Atlanta Son of yesterday says: Hon. B. H. Hit.t..—We had a call from Mr. Hill yesterday, and listened to his explanation of the points made in his late letter to the peo ple of Georgia. Mr. Hill disclaims most earn estly any intention of uniting, or in any man ner sympathizing with, the Republican party. We have been mortified to learn from Athens, that daring his absence from home some thoughtless young people went to his house and gave offence to his elegant family by crying “traitor," and doing some antics, which, we submit, was in exceedingly bad taste anywhere, and more especially in that refined locality. According to the Bome Commercial, the hotel drummers of that town are playing it high on the traveling pnblio. It says: A tremendous war is being waged at the in coming of the trains by the agents of the city hotels. One establishment (Coleman’s) sent ins American women who have married Italian counts. “The Italian count, os a general thing, isablaek-whiskered beast, addicted to drinking, gambling, and occasionally beating his wife when she fails to provide him with money enough to pursue his elegant recreations.” Facts for the Ladies.—I have used one of Wheeler & Wilson’s Sewing Maohines (No 2,762) nearly fourteen years, making cloaks for the last eleven years, and doing all other kinds of sewing down to book muslin. It is now in perfeot order, has never had any re pairs, and I have not broken a needle since I can remember. I appreciate my machine more and more every day, and would not exchange it for any machine that I know. M. Budlono, Utica, N. Y. Carrollton Masonic Institute.—We invite attention to the advertisement of the Carrollton Masonic Institute, under the charge of that ac complished instructor, Major John M.- Bichard- son. N It is a sohool organized on the Polytech nic plan, and the rates of board and tuition are very low—three to five dollars a month for the one, and twelve to fifteen.dollars for the other. A Month’s Notice.—According to the Second Adventists of New England, the world has only a month and four days to laat. They assure us that this earthy sphere will be destroyed on the 11th of February, 1871. People will please take notice, and aot and govern themselves accord ingly- Missouri Marble.—A ridge of beautiful black marble, ninety feet high and three-fourths of a mile long, has recently been discovered in Girardeau county, Mo., abont a mile from the Mississippi river. It is said to be susceptible of the finest polish. Trade Stagnation.—The New YorkJExpress says one consoling faot in connection with the stagnation in trade, which prevails at all our centres of business is, that if nobody is making money bnt few are losing it. Frozen to Death.—The Now York Standard and doing some antics,' which,' we tells a piteous story of a family consisting of one woman and three children frozen to death in New York in the cold snap just after New'Year. A hard place for the poor. The latest cause for divorce is credited to a female theologian, somewhere ont in Ohio. She demands to be uncoupled, because her hus- drammers to the depot clad'in faultless raiment band “does not believe in the damnation of and strawcolored kid gloves. Atthe next train j still-born infanta.” the representatives of another hotel (the Choice House) sported not only nnexceptionable kids, but also rejoiced in castor beavers and natty walking canes. The war thus rages fiercely. One wild bnt sagaoious yonng drummer cli maxed matters by capturing Big John Under wood and onr friend Qovan. He led these lambs to the depot, and when the trains came in he led them to the front of tho passengers and screamed ont triumphantly: “TTiis man (pointing to Big John) boards at our house, and this one (pointing to Mr. Govan) boards np town. Pay your money and take your choose!’ The Ball at Gordon.—We again invite at tention to this festive affair, which takes place to-night. Guests can go down by the Central evening train and get back by the morning train at a seasonable hour. A gentleman from Mobile informs the Mont gomery Advertiser, that six thousand people in that city were afflicted with the yellow fever at one time, daring, the month of September. VISIT TO A JAPANESE PEINCE. A Gorgeous Palace and a Royal Entertain- meat. (Yokohama Correspondence of the Ban Francisco Bulletin.) I am not abont to bore yonr readers with court scenes, or with anything in the line of usual oc currences, but for your amusement-1 propose to portray simply a little inoidenttbat fell in my way, and as it resalted in the greatest pleasure to rue, my recital of it may afford amusement to yon: Eit route from Kobe to Yokohama at early dawn after being only a few hoars oat, our steamer suddenly stopped just as the sun was rising over the emerald mountains; and with a rash away went the anchor. Naturally enough, with ths few other passengers, I was hastily ont of bed and on deck anxious to know what was up, and was told in reply that the machinery had weakened and wonld require a few hours to repair. My attention was next attracted by seeing one of our ship’s boats, bearing our minister’s flag, pull out from the side of the Bhip, and make way for a little village to be seen near theshore. My wonder grew at this, and upon inquiry I learned that Mr. De Long, who was on board, had sent a note on Bhore to .the prince of Koshiu (by the borders of whose province we then were,) informing him of the accident to our vessel, and requesting permission of the prince to land tfith some friends, pay him his compliments and enjoy a few hours’ hunting. Obtaining a glass, I could see, away beyond the village, the batting walls and towering for- tatice of a grim old castle, hidden away in tho forest on a mountain, and, in the innooence of my heart, I said to mysglf, how very fortunate a thing it is if we were to break down at all that we should meet with the accident at such a place. Bat then I reflected that the said prince of Koshiu was reputed as being one of the most retired, powerful and savage of savage barons of Japan—a man who never, sinoe the fall of the tycoon, left his domains, where in sullen anger he nursed his vengeance - against the present government, and having no treaty ports in his domain, kqew nothing of foreigners, and I questioned very much the security of landing at such a place for a hunt, through fear that we would become game for other hunters. However, curiosity overtopping fear, sought to become one of the party, if possible, and succeeded in my aims. Very soon our boat was seen returning, escorted or rather fol lowed by two native barges of princely mien, and we had no doubt but onr request had been granted. Sure enough, and with princely hon ors, also; for in the barge were two of the min isters of the prince, in their official robes or robes of state, who came to greet the American minister, and in the name of their lord to bid him welocime to the hospitality of his palace and its grounds, but with the very earnest request that none but he and his staff should land. Hence, I had to pass in as a member of the official staff, and soon we neared the shore, where we found house-jops and trees filled with wondering natives, and at onr landing place a squadron of lancers mounted on wiry little po nies, with flaming pinions, and shining lances drawn up, to reoeive us, whilst also awaited us horses for our party—that of the prince him self, with all of its gay apparel, for the minis ter—and soon, with an escort surrounding us, we commenced onr march for the castle. Bopes stretched across the corners of the streets kept baok the surging crowd, and soon first one and then two regiments of infantry, all armed with Prussian needle-guns, formed, saluted, and then fell in the line of march, so that by the time Ve reached the outskirts of the castle grounds we were at the head of a little army. Prince Koshiu’s castle, 200 years old, with its grand walls and giant towers echoing with the tread of horses and troops over its gravelled walks and resounding with bugle calls, really made up a picture such as I had read of in fan- oy tales, but never expected to behold. After passing over the outer moat we went through gate after gate, each guarded by troops, and frowning in their barbaric sulienness of two centuries of time upon us, until at last we now halted in front of the grand entrance and all dismounted save the minister, whose horse was carefully led np the stone steps to the door it self, and he was carefully assisted to alight so as not to tonoh the earth on his descent; thence into the castle, np flights of stairs, through winding corridors, filled with armed retainers and cringing servitors, until all knowledge of the route we had come was completely lost, we were led to the grand reception hall where, seat ed in barbario state, surronnded by guards and ministers, was this Prince Ko3hiu. Onr recep tion was very courteous but exceedingly brief, all being almost at once' shown into an adjoin ing room, where^his prime]minister received us whilst our minister remained with the prince. I did not get to see enough of this august per sonage to gratify me. I saw enough, however, to make me feel that we were safe; that we had not been invited in for slaughter, but for hos pitable purposes, and so felt at ease. From here we were allowed to ascend to the tops of the castle’s towers, where wo conld look out upon a most wondrous scene of beanty, composed of city, country and sea, with our ship rolling at her anchors in the distance. On our return from them we were informed that we were to remain during the balance of the day and tbatnight in the castle, and on the morrow go to the hunt. This was very pleasant, but I was filled with wonder to know what we wonld be given to eat, and how we should sleep. I was soon put at rest on this score on being asked into a banquet hall, in which was spread a table in European style, and all onr dishes were' served in courses in approved style of French cookery; and when we were ready to retire at night, I found splendid European beds awaiting us, each being cat off and hemmed in by magnificent screens, forming many rooms out of one. This struck me as being eiceed- ingly Strange, but it being very agreeable, I asked no questions, and took my share. I was amused by the bedding, however. It consisted first of a silk mattress and pillows, and lastly of a largo dressing-gown of silk at least four inches thick, with sleeves eto., in which yon were first dressed and then laid out on the mattress like a huge giant. They looked cumbrous, but were really light and veiy agreeable. At early dawn we were aroused, given toast, cheese and coffee, and again marched out with squads of cavalry and infantry for a hunt. I was lost in wonder to know how it was expected that we were to kill any game thus escorted with all of that pomp and confusion; but very soon we reaohed the bank of a river, crossing whioh in boats awaiting us, we found a little hastily-constructed.road had been made daring the night, leading into an immense tractof rice- fields. Then our guard halted, and we fonnd ourselves in the presence of a large delegation of country esquires, each of whom, it seems, had reoeived orders to stop all work in his rice- fields for the day, and summon his laborers to do duty as setters and pointers for the guests of the prince.. Then followed the hunt. Such another scene you never saw. The rico-fields were alive with obliged to forbid his Majesty’s visits to the wild geese, duck, ourlew, snipe, and the most wonhded at ih« Palace. The sound of • magnificent cranes that ever stalked the earth. Wholly unused to being shot, at, they fell easy victims to ear barbarian arms, and, as they wonld fall, away would go the naked coolies in a rush into the water to hunt up and bring back the game: whilst others raked and "swept tho walks clear of all leaves and dirt; and some surrounding themselves with bundles of rice- sheaves, would walk ahead to serve a3 shelters for our near approach upon the game; and others, with chairs and refreshments, were con stantly at hand to accommodate you with both when you wanted to rest. The least wish was anticipated and instantly gratified. Of such a royal pleasure it was never mine to taste before. You were not allowed to carry gun or game, to get from under the shade unless you wished to do so, and at every hand boats, chairs, or what ever you might wish were yours. Thus we sported until noon,, when we were taken all of the way back in barges, and again regaled with a banquet as a parting meal, es corted by the troops and ministers, ahd sent off to our ship with piles of fruits, meats and nick- nacks enough for a ship’s company for months. The Law Under Which the Radicals Carried South Carolina. The editor of the Scott organ at Charleston, like others of his class, has no conscience to speak of, and a stomach capable of digesting al most any amount of political villainy; bat the election law by whioh his party got control of the State last October seems too strong a dose even for such *a seasoned vesseL Remorseful reflection upon the unparalleled and inexousa- able wickedness of that scheme has stong him into the following confession: ‘-The election law should be changed speedily. It is not too much to say that it is the loosest and rotte&eat law ever framed by any State for the conduct of an eleotion. It is notorious that in oertain portions of the State there were such frauds, rendered perfectly easy by the existing law, that should make South Carolina blush all over, and whioh should oonaign scores of people to the penitentiary.” ^ The Alabama SiateB^r^- The Bullock and Blodgett railroad J- Georgia are no doubt the instigato^, " a 8 of lowing dispatch, which appeared in ft® 9 ®* papers of yesterday: • Ule ne*j. Atlanta, January 6.—There is n-n v ment here in business circles over failure of the Alabama and Chattanoo!?^ road to pay the January interest on ^ mortgage bonds, endorsed by Alabama fL* 8 * statement that the Governor cannot pro via 1 ^ the payment of the interest by the Kilt'* the Legislature meets. The laws of make it the duty of the Governor fat** interest on endorsed bonds whenever topay, so that holders of bonds endows^ Georgia are sure of interest being paid ly, Without waiting for special legislation f*- . This dispatch is calculated to deceivah^ ness men as to the real state of the case V . aa Alabama is concerned, in this matter defalcation of the Alabama and ChatL^ Railroad. Although the general endorS? law was carried to an extreme by a set era through the grace of Congress and ? P ' State Government which was never electeSt! the people, the legal State corporators! they came into power' in November hJ 11 wish and have no intention te disown orw 110 diate the endorsement except when thev legally (under the scaUa^ag laws themsli' issued. The Alabama and ChattanoomTSn road stands on a somewhat different w.’ from the rest of the roads. There LsyZ? doubt whether the original State bondS even the endorsed State bonds, neirotiatl/r that road were legally issued under the existing We understand that Gov. Lindsay has -v been able to find the personal security Wa which the road was to give as a condition cedent to the issue of the $2,000,000 bonds. Tt may be that no Buch bond was ever given, r! may be that it was a straw bond. It maybe that the bonds have never been sold. It ii! be that the holders of the bonds have no'rirvt to claim gold interest. As long a3 such nan doubts exist as to the condition of thess bondi Gov. Lindsay does well to postpone the viS matter nntil the General Assembly convene next week. They are the people, and tie* protect the credit of the State. We say to these BulIock-BIodgett sharpers that the credit of fl. abama can never be preserved by paying eliiis at random, without a calm and honest examiu. tion into their validity. But we tell them tint the oreditof Alabama wouldhave been damaged by a usurping', bayonet attempt to hold Saltl in the Executive chair until ho should hare helped this defaulting railroad out of its trouble [Montgomery Mail,HX' Vicarious Decapitation. — The New Toil Tribune says: . ; ; The custom in China which allows a criminal under sentence of death to buy a substitute threatens to be raised from the rank of a u’. tional eccentricity to the importance of an in ternational complication. It turns ont that many of the persons executed forthe Tien-Tsa massacre were not the guilty men at &IL The mandarins arrested a few of the meaner crim inals, carefully allowed all the rest to escape, and filled up the list of victims with substitutes who were quite ready to suffer decapitation ia consideration of 500 taels a piece. Perhaps t more correct way of putting it wonld be to say that there useful gentlemen were hired of theii respective families, at so much for the day, and returned after their heads had been ent off tots decently buried. They had the satisfaction of knowing that they could provide much mete liberally for their wives and children in this mj than any other, and by their vicarious atone ment save the Government a great deal ct dreadf&l bother. Of course the Western nation! will not submit to be cheated of their demaid: by any such fictitious satisfaction as this. The; are not to be fobbed off with counterfeit corpse!. We are afraid the mandarins must try again. Grant’s Domingo Does not appear to move off with that olesi nous velocity which is predicated of hot cakes and greased lightning. In the House, on Tnes- day, after a bitter debate, an amendment was tacked on to theSenate resolution authorizing a commission- of inquiry to be sent out, a declar ation that this aotiqn should not commit Con gress to annexation. The vote upon this amend ment was 106 to 76. The Senate will no doubt concur, and the commission start off at onceia a great hurry, to get back perhaps in a month The time is short between date andtheSdot March. Meanwhile, the measure is evidently losing strength, and will have to be driven through at last, if at ail, with a very tight rein and a cracking whip. Bnrke’s Weekly. This sterling child’s paper is hereafter to be published as a monthly magazine, very elegant ly printed and illustrated, and containing forty- eight pages. Contributions from a score of the best Southern writers have been secured, ail it will be, in all respects, a first-class publication. The terms are two dollars a year, and, speaking experimentally, we can say that the fathers aid mothers among onr readers, can hardly please the little folks at home better than by subscrib ing for it. Burke’s Weekly was always a great favorite with our juveniles, and in a montU; form it will possess increased attractions. I W. Burke & Co., Macon, Ga. An Important Decision.—We quote the fol lowing important decision from the Montgom ery Mail, of Sunday: . At a recent term of High Court for Escambii county, at Pollard, an important question va! decided. It appears that an old sow, eating corn on the railroad track, collidedvrithafresgit train; result, the train slightly damaged aM the sow defunct. The owner of her porksbi? brought suit against the road for killing hef. The case wa3 argued long and well, manyknon; points were discussed and decided pro and ax Finally, the sage justice said the whole question turned on whether the railroad train was trav eling on the sow’s time, or the sow running ca jthe railroad’s time. Being as how the sow vas on the road’s time, the owner of her porciM majesty must pay damages to the road for tres pass. Court adjourned to the nearest groWjf and *‘fired up” at the expense of counsel for tn- sow. ^ A Sensitive Man in the Wrong Place.—P f - Russell, the war correspondent of the Loslca Times;, writing at Versailles, says: lam told that King William is <*» «f“| most sensitive men in the world. Hisf«-iap are bo acute that his medical advisers wounded at the Palace. The sound march, ortho sight of a military funeral in duces a deep melancholy, and the aspect ot battle-fields on which were won his l nl .P c , Crown and the immortal glory of of his honse and name, has made him sick u-g unto death, and quite unmanned him for m . hours afterwards. • If that is true King William is certainly «.- unfortunately situated. Boutwell’s Financiering. — The Lon u ° a Times, in an article on Secretary Boutwells 16 port, expresses the opinion that: Tho vast resources, the patient tax-payers with whom the American beer \ of the Treasury has to deal, would give a ora Gladstone tho opportnity of making*® great strokes in finance. The United ^ however, it seems, do not produce eapaDie , ciers, or, at all events, they have not got ^ Mr. Bontwell. He has done noUnng . e mentioning with all his opportnities, an ; results achieved could hardly Lave been by the grossest blundering. When a g 3 * 6 . isterof finance takes up the functions wW Bout well now discharges he will find s0 ^l!n t» better to do with his surplus revenue t throw it into a sinking fund. A Sensible Ruling.—In the trial of * named Buloff for murder atBinghampk®? York—now in progress—the usual difficult? experienced in getting a jury who had no about or formed an opinion of the merits ° case. The presiding Judge—Hogebeom— ever, took a new departure by decides ^ j “when a juror is found to have no settled 0 ?^ of the merits of the case, and believes be without bias or prejudice, he is comp« notwithstanding any opinion he may bav ® t' Viouslyformedorexpressed.” Whichdecta - to our mind, seems very sensible, indeed. Ice.—The Northern icemen are n°^ fcr “' gathering in their harvest. It is abundant-
