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■ -■ -"U . ■ M.'UUI—>3— The Georgia Weekly Teleg nCTMjgrJl jcmmal <fc Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger MACON, JANUARY 13, 1871. Gelling Warlike. Tho Sunday dispatches say that the British Ministry has assured Turkey of their determi nation to adhere to the Paris treaty, and some strong popular demonstrations have occurred in Liverpool demanding a re-organization of the army. Thepapers alsoannonnco that theDuke of Cambridge ia to be succeeded os Commander- In-Chief of the British army, by Lord Napier, who led the Abysinian expedition, and is con sidered a very accomplished soldier, while His Grace, the Dnke, was always suspected of crack in the brain. Earl Derby recently made a speech at a regi mental shooting in Lancashire, which breathes a lively concern for the national defence, while itscontsthe military system of Prussia. The Earl says a nation was made for something else than a camp, and war carried on by whole masses of the people is not an advance, but retrograde step in civilization. He very saga ciously remarks of England: “ TPc have no frontiers. No enemy can pour 7ialf a million of men into Hus country. The utmost strength which we.can he catted upon to rep A is only that which can be carried across the G/iannd by a hostile fleet.” The tone of the English press is notably mnch more warlike than it has been since the outbreak of the Frusso-Prench struggle, and there is evi dently a growing sensitiveness to the political and military demands of the situation. In short, it will be no marcel, (and let the people of tho South heed it well,) if, instead of peaco next summer, all Europe shall be a seething caldron of war. Bagged at Last. "We were much tickled to see from a Raleigh Sentinel that came to hand yesterday, that one George W. Swepson, was in custody in thatcity, and that the law proposed to interview him with reference to his many and flagitious efforts to -. steal all the railroads and railroad bonds of North Carolina. We have an idea that, tor his inches and op portunities, Swepson is about tho biggest rascal that ever made a track in the old North State, and comes nearer being a first-class developer of Southern resources than any man living. At one time, he and a chap named Littlefield car- riod around in their carpet-socks pretty nearly all the franehise and bonds, and all the credit of North Carolina, and a high old time they had, buying Legislatures and Governors, and swill ing and stuffing the best things, potable and edible, the land afforded. Swepson owned Hol den from tho start, and he bought Reed, so- called Governor of Florida, for the sum of $12,- 000. That was his worst bargain, for $3000 would have answered every purpose, and it is said that he has had bad luck ever since. Wo suppose ho has made way with pretty much all his plun der, so the North Carolinians will not be able to squeeze much -out of him.. They can put a striped suit on him, however, and make him earn an honest living the rest of his days at least we hope so. If he euchres the law, how ever, and gets clear, we beg to recommend him to Grant for a fat office in the revenue de partment He’ll suit that like ho had been measured for it. ' Paris —’Lnpo»TANi- TF True.—General Dncrot, (says the New York Evening Express of the 3th) is said to have sent a parliamentaire to headquarters at Versailles to-day, with instruc tion, to ask that a German officer should be sent to confer with General Trochu. It is supposed that' tho subject proposed to bo discussed at this conference relates to an armistice to which CTochu is suppose'd to bo inclining, but nothing definite has yet keen elicited on the subject The request—so the 6toxy goes—has been trans mitted to King William for his decision. Florida Fish Guano.— A German gentleman named Coombs has located himself at a point below New Smyrna in Florida, and proposes to engage in the manufacture of fish guano on on extensive scale, and with heretofore compara tively unheard of appliances. Mr. Coombs has a largo supply of peculiar torpedoes, which are worked by electricity—whenever a school of fish approaches the torpedo is exploded, and the result of the wholesale massacre goes into the grinding mill of the manufacturer. “Christian Moral Science Association.”— Under the lead of Rev. Dr. Cather, of England, many of the popular clergymen of New York are organizing an association, as above, tho basis of which is a contribution of a tithe of inoomas byits members to objects of charity. The first movement was a splendid supper at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel, and a fine breakfast was eaten over the subject at another New York hotel the latter part of lost week. This modus operands is not unphilosophic. A good dinner expands the heart as well as the stomach. The State Road Lease.—Hon. A. H. Steph ens abandons all connection with tho State Road lease on the information that the lease was not made to tho highest responsible bidders. He bos been put in possession of a statement in writing that A. K. Seago and others, in At lanta, offered $86,500 per month for it, where as, the lease was effected to Governor Brown & Co. for $25,000. See Mr. Stephens’ letter. Of course, if Mr. Stephens’ information be cor rect, the lease is indefensible, and must be void under the law. Let ns have the facts. Febrnnry Convention or the Georgia Stine Agricultural Society. Mr. Lewis, the Secretary of the State Agri cultural Society, has been in our city a few days in consultation with Mr. Mayor Huff and other - , - . - ; J many of whom are here agitating this very ques- leading dtiaSns upon arrangements for holding jj on 0 f setting aside the election. Many disap- the February Convention of the Society here, and alt things being made satisfactory and con formable to the instructions to the Secretary, given by the President and Executive Commit tee, we are authorized to announce that tho Convention composed of three Delegates from each County Agricultural Society, will meet in the City Hall at ten o’clock Wednesday morning, -the 22d of February. The county societies should immediately elect their delegates and forward their names to the Secretary at the office in Atlanta. The railroads having agreed to carry delegates free both ways, it is important to the perfect working of the schedule that tho Secretary should comply with the conditions preequisite of the road, that he should make out and forward to the Superin- intendenls of the several roads, tho ticket of each delegate to be signed by them and then remailed to the delegates. That all delegates may receive their tickets in time, it is apparent that the names of delegates should be sent for ward to the Secretary as early as possible. The approaching Convention give3 the plan ters a valuable opportunity to meet and consult upon the causes and remedies for the"present disastrous situation of the Agricultural interest. A valuable feature in this new organization of the State Sooiety is that delegates elect to the the Spring or February Convention are also delegates of the Fall Convention which will meet at such time and place 03 the Spring Convention may decide. Standing committees on all sub jects that directly or indirectly are allied to or bear upon the great primal interest—the tillage and the products of the soil—should be appointed from the ablest and most experienced and practical men that the planters and farmers cansend,and these committees after a six months examination and stndy of the matters refer red to them should come to the Fall Convention with well directed reports and recommendations upon matters referred to them. The retirement of the officers and executive committee of 1870, then take3 place, as well os the installment of the officers of 1871. The incoming President, General A. H. Colquit, in entering upon his administration, may be ex pected to make an able, practical and suggest ive Inaugural. We have no doubt our city au thorities and citizens generally, will do ail in their power to give interest and attraction to the occasion. We will take the liberty-hereafter to refer to some of the topics which should claim the* at tention of a large and intelligent convention of Planters. Would it not be well for those gentlemen who take an interest in the action and policy of the coming convention to broach, at an early day, through-the Press, some of the questions which will, or ought to claim its attention. We invite them to do so through our columns. The New Geoboia Legislature.—According to the best lights before us, the amended Geor gia Senate will consist of twenty-five Democrats and nineteen Radicals, which include four ne groes. The new Houso will consist of 121 Democrats and SO Radicals, including three from Bibb who. will undoubtedly go up. Of these thirty-nine Radicals, eighteen are negroes. Jones, Wayne and Calhoun counties—no elec tion. The table before as is imperfect, as there aro 175 members of .the House, and this accounts for"bnly 163. Bat it i3 approximately correct. ‘ PouBixa On. on His Wounds.—The Rome Courier very kindly hastens to relieve Major O. H. Smith (“Bill Arp”) from censure and injuri ous suspicious for having, at the recent elec tion, voted for Bumett, Radical candidate for Congress, against Gen. Young. We rather like to see such neighborliness, and really it would seem to bo necessary. A Democrat who voted for a Radical against the nominee of his party, and who had the pleasure of seeing his man beaten by 7900 or 8000 votes, needs consolation, if anybody does. Smashed.—The commission house of Gard ner, Bacon & Co., one of. tho most prominent in Now York, suspended on the 5th inet. The causes aro losses on cotton, and too free dab bling in Southern railroad stocks and property. The supension caused great surprise, and will be seriously felt. - r Gbeeley, commenting on the portion of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture re garding “stocks for grafted cherry troes,” says that’s all nonsehse anyway patting stocks upon cherry trees—they won’t hold up their heads any better, and besides ^stocks are out of fash- Calomcl r.t a discount. Defiance fo Southern Fevers. Good digestion secured by using Sim mons’ Liver Begnlaior. Politics In Soutk Carolina. We clip the subjoined paragraph from the Philadelphia Age of the 2d In dissolving tho Executive Committee of the Union Reform party of South Carolina, its Chairman, General Kershaw, mentions some of the causes which make such a step necessary. In the first place, ho says the party “entered the contest by laying down a platform on the rights of race, identical and co-extonsive with the legislation of the Republican Congress upon mat tmvjCPV But they failed to make any im pression npon the negroes, who followed tho lead of such carpet-baggers as Scott and others. General Kershaw then continues: “All our ef forts have failed to conciliate the colored vo ters to any hopeful extent. Nay, it is even evi dent that, as a people, they are more embittered against the white race than after tho Demo cratic campaign of 1868, and very much more so than at tho beginning of the late canvass.” There ia among them “a fatal animosity to wards us which cannot now be overcome by gentle and kindly overtures.” In other words, the Radicals, to suit their own purposes, have inaugurated a contest between the races in South Carolina, which may yet produce most deplorable consequences. This shows the des perate character of the men whom General Grant is backing up by bayonets in the South. But there is hope even for South Carolina. When all the other Southern States are under the rule of white men, she will not continue to worship at an altar of ebony. We certainly are in no condition or mood to counsel the South Carolinians. In the last canvass they made (with no avail) an honest effort to conciliate the support of the negroes to a State administration not democratic, but republican. The single proposition made by the whites was for an honest State government in lieu of one so corrupt and rotten as to beggar the State—make every honest white radical hang his head for shame—reduce government to mere barter and sale—and the Legislature to a mere huokster shop. But this proposition simply evoked contempt from the negroes as a confession of weakness. So did a similar one from the Democrats in this county, and so it will universally. Indeed, if any thing was moro patent than anothor in the last election, it was the impatience of the ne groes of even that small and wretched faction of whites enlisted as drill-masters in the in terests of the subjection of their own race, and what emoluments might be picked up in such a melancholy enterprise. As a mero matter of policy we conclude, therefore, that it is little better than suicidal for the Southern whites to be trying to patch up compromise bargains in political power, candidacy and offico with the negroes. Such proffers only inspire contempt, and weaken and demoralize the makers. The whites should bring out their best men—men competent for office—men who ought to bo elected, and then do what they can for them on tho highest grounds of public policy and tho common wel fare. So soon as results establish that the whites have tho power, and can exercise it wisely and humanely, the negroes will relin quish the contest, and generally even vote with the victors, while the white drill sergeants will very speedily abandon positions which hold no promise of profit. ,; The Macon MauulactnrinE Company. Tho annual meeting of the stockholders of this company was held at their offico in this city on the 9th instant. The exhibit made by their able and efficient agent, J. E. Jones, Esq., was very minute and highly satisfactory. It will be seen by the annexed statement that although the mill has been in operation nearly twenty years, the number of yards of cloth produced is nearly equal to that of 1854, and greater than the product of 1860. Tho actual profit for tho year was twelvo and a half per centon the cap ital, and this bos been made on a constantly de clining market. From tha profits of tho last six months the Directors have declared a divi dend of five per cent. Wo make tho following extract from the report of the Agent for tho past year: PEODUCnON OP COTTON MUX, MACON MANUFAC TURING COMPANT FOB TEAS 1870. Production of 4-4 Sheeting 1,291,144 yards. * 7-8 Shirting..:.... 127,779 « “ Ball Thread....... . 4,037 libs. Number of days run...... 299 Average yards of goods per day *.,..4,745 Average yards of goods per loom.. 36.50 Number of bales cotton consumed .-..1348 ?-* pounds consumed .....I....582,328 PRODUCTION COMPAEEli TO FOEMEB TEAKS. Total yards produced in year 1854. 1,422,545 Total yards produced in year 1860 .1,277,625 Total yards produced in year 1870...(..1,418,923 THE GEORGIA PRESS. The editor of the Athens Banner writes from Atlanta as follows: Atlanta is full of “ distinguished visitors”— pointed seekers for nine dollars a day in the .Legislature, or nineteen in Congress, are dissat isfied with the result, and are prepared to out- swear several armies in Flanders, to prove that there were frauds, violence, and all sorts of out rage. But the ins exercise a conservative and restraining influence. I heard a Radical Con- gressman elect, declare, with a forcible volley of oaths, that he wanted the foolishness stopped. “I am elected,” said he, “and by— I know I will be beat if it is tried over.” An- other is stated to oppose any interference with the result, for the same reason. The Banner says: | BeidAn.—Miss Callie Cobb, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of the late Gen. T. R. B. Cobb, and A. L. Hull, Esq., son of Dr. Henry Hull, of this place, were married at the Presbyterian Church, on Thursday evening, by Rev. Mr. Burkhead. The bride is universally beloved by oar entiro community, and the church. was crowded with those who went to witness the crowning event in the lives of the happy pair. The firemen attended in a body, and 03 a token of appreciation of her efforts in behalf of their company, the members of the Hook and Ladder Company on yesterday pre sented tho bride two beautiful solid silver gob- lets and a waiter. May her wedded life boas happy as her girlhood has been lovely and noble. The new territory added to the city of Augus ta by the late Agency, for the purpose of elect ing the Radical municipal ticket,has only $120,- 000 worth of real estate within its limits, tho tax upon which, if all collected, would only amount to $2,000. As the two policemen on duty in the new territory cost the city over that sum, annn ally, the tax-payers down there aro using “cuss” words. After serving twenty-eight years as Chief and Assistant Chief of the Colnmbus Fire Depart ment, J. L. Morton has retired from service. Mr. Sanders B. Sims, one of the oldest citi zans of Merriwother county, died at Greenvillo on election day, just as ho was about depositing his vote in the ballot box. Mr. Peter Curran while somnambnlizing Fri day night at Columbus, walked out of a second story window, and smashed himself pretty badly. The store of Bonner & Cotter, at White Sul- pher Springs, Merriwother county, was robbed of money and goods valued at $ 100. The same night H. D. Tucker, living two miles from the Springs, had a fine horse stolen. Mr. George Bates, of Columbus, was halted, and his money demanded by an unknown rob ber, on Broad street, Friday night. He attempt ed to draw his pistol when the robber fired, tho ball passing through Hr. Bs cane. The robber ran and Mr. B. fired three shots, but without effect. ... -; v - ' . ; The Columbus Sun of Sunday says: Some young men of Opelika got into a row with the working men of Robinson & Co.’s cir- ci-. after tho close of tho performance in Loach- apoka, Monday night. Frank Bailey received a pistol shot in the hand, Edwin Harris a out in the collar bone with a knife, and Eaily, Harris and Crawford various blows. One showman was dangerously shot, another badly cut and others injured. It is reported that the circus eople commenced tho assault. A fire at Brunswick on the 29th tilt, destroyed one story storehouse on the corner of Bay and Gloucester streets, used as a bar room, shoe shop and paint shop. The owner of the shoe shop, G. Montgomery, was burned to death be fore he could be rescued, audP. G. Hawkins severely burned. The body of a man, supposed to be George Bartlett, of 46 Park Place, New Yoik city, was found on the plantation of Dr. Screven near Savannah on Friday. His face and a portion of his body were imbedded in the mud and water of a small branch which flowed over him. It had not been ascertained, at last accounts, whether his death was the result of violence or from disease or accident. Wilkes Bass, negro, was shot and fatally wounded, early last Tuesday morning, by Asinh Terrell, negro, who was acting as watchman at Mr. Martin's gin house, in Hancock county. Bas3 was in tho act of leaving the gin house with a basket of cotton when he was shot. Good mules sold at from $125 to $140 at Talbotton last Tuesday. Negroes are hiring in Talbot county for one third and one-half the crop, and sharing ex penses with the employers, Gbkat Excitement in Hayti.—Tho Haytians have been thoroughly aroused by the reception of Mr. Grant’s message. They havo put for ward a Monroo doctrine of their own, that “an nexation of any part of the Island of Hayti means war on Hayti.” Gold preriously quoted at 200 has risen to 270. Haralson county elected W. J. Head to the Legislature by five majority. In 1868 he was beaten 160 votes. After four years of able and arduous service as editor of'the Cnthbert Appeal, Col. H. H. Jones has rotired from that position. John Bancroft cut and seriously wounded Frank Flint, with apoeket knife, hist Wednes day night, at Cnthbert. Tho lioness and seven cubs belonging to. Stone & Murray’s menagerie, died at Cnthbert last week. They wero valued at $3,000. The Western and Atlantic railroad agent at Dalton, was robbed of $5,000 onSatnrday night. ' Two trains ran into each other on the West ern and Atlantic railroad on Saturday,* and Pres ident Brown suspended all the officials on both for thirty days. One of tho negroes elected as Alderman of Atlanta made his mark the other night when the new council was organized. T. G. W. CrussellandR. T. Simons, Radicals, were elected Superintendent of Streets, and Sexton, respeojively, by tha City Council of At lanta, Saturday night. We though tho Demo crats had a majority in that body. The Constitution of Sunday fires tho follow- ingshot; Governor Bullock Begins the New Yeas by Opening the Treasury Bung -Frightfully.— We had hoped to have no moro need to pay our respects to Governor Bullock as a public money waster. We made a fervent appoal to him for Georgia and himself. We made it in ood faith and amid somo growling. What will the people say, when we tell them that Governor Bullock has given his warrants to John Rice for fifteen thousand seven hundbed dollars? Of this trivial sum $5,100 was for interest and stamps on loan negotiated accord ing to act approved August 21, 1870. .And $10,- 600 was for “commissions and expenses, negoti ating and guaranteeing loan,” according to the samonct. Verily,itisv&luable to be a State agent under Bullock. And commissions are good things —yea, good thiDgs. And then the necessity of tho Governor’s getting Mr. ltice to guarantee the bonds of the great State of Georgia before they could bo negotiated, was'something, however humiliating it is to think that the Governor has brought tho State credit to that pitch, that a private banker’s guarantee is needed to sell or borrow money on our bonds. 109 148 166 Dodge County. Mr. Bussey, agent of tho Macon and Bruns wick road at No. 12, sends us the following re port of the vote of the new county of Dodge at the election on the 4th instant for county organ ization; m y. *»•; "V; ; Ordinary Burch 221 Rozier Clerk Harrell 242 Rollins Sheriff Brown 214 Smith Tax Keceiver.Lapp 485 (no op.) Tax Collector.Bohanan 251 Rollins Surveyor Coffee 190 Evans Treasurer Wilcox 190 Livingston 165 25 Coroner Lapp 220 Wiso 133 87 The county has gone Democratic handsomely. An Illinois grocer tried to bum out an empty kerosinc barrel by dropping a matchinto the buUg-hole. His friends are gathering up tho fragments yet. 132 119 183 16 State Aid Explosion In Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser of Saturday, copying and commenting upon the dispatch announcing the failure of the Chattanooga and Alabama Railroad to meet their January interest payments, says: The above comes to U3 by telegraph. The de falcation in payment of January interest is un luckily not confinedto the first mortgage bonds of the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad upon which the State is endorser. The company also failed to meet the interest on the two millions of bonds issued directly by the'State as princi pal.but turuedover to the Alabama & Chatta nooga Railroad Company as the beneficiary. It therefore follows actually and technically-that not only the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad Company is under protest, but that tho State of Alabama is virtually in the same humiliating position. It is not unreasonable to assume that under present circumstances neither the State of Al abama on its own obligations, nor any of the railroad corporations with the State as security can borrow a dollar either in'this country or in Europe. It has been suggested that it is the policy of the present direotors and managers of tho Alabama and Chattanooga Road to suspend and break down, with the view of having their road seized and sold, and that parties in inter- est with tho present direction stand ready to purchase it at half prico and to leave the Stnto to hold the bag as principal or security for the whole debt contracted, up to this time by the sale of bonds. The probability is, if indeed it be not r. certainty, that the other roads now in process of construction will cease to move for ward. Unless thoy can obtain funds from some quarter they must inevitably stop. It therefore becomes necessary considering the situation in which we now find ourselves, suddenly to all, and unexpectedly to many, that the people should counsel with their Represen tatives in the Legislature,, and endeavor agree on what is best to bo done. The subject, in its treatment admits of but three conditions: 1st. That the Legislature shall be willing to take measures to pay or cause to be paid the interest on that portion of the State Debt in whioh it now stands in default either as princi pal or security, through tho operations of the Alabama* Chattanooga Railroad Company. 2d. To consider the propriety and policy of repudiating the whole or a portion of the Debt, 33. To consider the propriety and policy of levying taxes to meet hereafter in good faith the interest on so much of the direct - and indi rect State indebtedness as the corporations bearing the State endorsement cannot pay. • Tlii3 is* we are sorry to say, our present fix precisely, and it is needless to express our in dignant regrets at tho humiliating and painful predicament. Fortunately we are not, in any sense, responsible for such a state of affairs. Those who aro so must settle their several ac counts with the people in the best way they can. In the meantime we lay before our readers an account of tho State indebtedness in as ac curate shape as we have been able to obtain, Tho State owes, in bonds, - , $770,500 at 6 per cent.; $3,295,600 at 5 per cent; $1,316,700 at 8 per-cent. Total $5,382 800. . Tho yearly amount of interest on this amount of the debt is $316,346, and the whole princi pal and interest is irrespective of railroads. In addition, and also irrespective of railroad corporations, the State owes $3,095,210 75 for Umversily Fund, School Fund, Stato Certifi cates, and other floating obligations, making in all, outside of railroad endorsements, the sum of $8,478,010 75. In February, 1870, an Act was passed by the Legislature creating what is known as! tho two million bond loan to the Stanton Railroad and afterwards anothor act was passed, loaning $300,000 in State bonds to the Montgomery anc. Eufaula .Railroad Company. Thus the total bonded debt of tho State will reach $7,682,800. The Auditor’s Report shows the amount of endorsement of railroad bonds up to tho 30th September, 1870, to 'be $8,480,000. We aro not informed of tho amount of endorsements since that date. Tho entire Debt of the State of Alabama, both direct and indirect, on the 30th September last amounted to $19,25S,- 010 75. No doubt, however, there have been endorsements since to tho amount of one or two millions. This exhibit is bad enough but it might be infinitely worse; and while wo have oyery con fidence in the good sense and integrity of tbe Legislature and of our people Repudiation is the last dreadful alternative to which Alabama should think of permanently resorting. Some Hope for Alcorn. Gen. Jas. L. Alcorn, though elected Gover nor of Mississippi by the negroes and. baser whites of that State, and now in full commu nion with that party, is a whiter man than some of hi3 comrades. He has not'yet fallen full length—snake fashion on his belly—in the mire, though he may come to it. Let us hope not, for really there seems sturdy germs of future repentance, conversion and atoniDg works in a letter he has recently written to one R. W. Flournoy—a Georgian, it shames us to say it, and well and infamously known in this State—though now a resident of Mississippi. It seems that Alcorn had promised to appoint Flournoy a Brigadier-General of Militia, and that before tho latter received the commission, ho still farther earned it, as he thought,' by ma lignantly assailing the memory of Gen. Lee in a public harangue, and at another time as meanly villified the State University. Those infamies reached Alcorn’s ears, and in his letter refusing the commission ho scourges Flournoy a3 follows: Gen. Lee was, perhaps, a “rebel” yet, in much humbler position, I myself stand guilty of the same offense. Neither must I overlook the fact that my party embraces in its ranks men who havo been amongst the most devoted soldiers of tho South. I cannot, therefore, seem ingly approve of any slnr cast npon the memo ry of Gen. Lee, because of his participation in the “rebellion.” A wise conciliation would lose sight of the “rebel,” in presence of tho noble qualities of the man and shining achievements of the sol dier. The University of Oxford is one of tho tradi tions which patriotism holds it a duty to cherish. Precious ns it is to the cultivated minds of the State, that noble remnant of the past contains a strong hold upon the affections of the mass of citizens of any race. Against that inheritance of my people no man or set of men shall, with my acqr.ieaenco dare to raise a saeriligious hand. I can never forget that I am a white man, with ffil the pride oi the race that has given to tho world that crowning glory of civilization, lib erty. And if I cannot push the negro forward on tho glorious pathway opened before him by God, without arresting the Caucasian in his Heaven inspired progress, then must negro lib erty learn, so far as I am concerned, to take care of itself. May cot Time, the Avenger, and its minister ing. spirit and oxentionor, tho pen of History, when they shall como to reckon up tho heavy account against Alcom for his many and griev ous sins against the good men and women of Mississippi, hold these word3 in rememborance to temper their wrath? SILVER WF.DDIXG8. An Improvement on the Common Style, It being just twenty-five years sine© my first wife died, I thought I .couldn’t better celebrate the event than by having a grand silver wed ding. '»--- The great trouble in silver weddings ia that you are apt to get two or three presents alike but I flatter myself that I fixed ’em there. Ii the first place, Mrs. Skinner and I looked over our stock of silVerware to see what we were out of, and found that we could take about twenty- five' square presents without becoming bilious; and then we invited a few children, in refer ence to nut crackers^ butter-knives, and other small fry. I issued my invitations two weeks beforehand, to give every person a chance to buy a present, and in addition hinted in a very deiicate manner what I should like each - one ' bring. So tbe invitations read very much like this “Mbs. Chabity Phueabotiom and Husband You are both asked to Mr. and Mrs. Mose Skin ner’s silver wedding, January 17. Please bring silver castor with extra mustard jug.” “ Mes. Joann Beezum and Her Husband :— You are both asked to Mr. and Mrs. Mose Skin ner's silver wedding, January 17. We cherish fond hopes in your direction in reference to silver teapot.” On the back of each invitation was a neat gold scroll, inclosing the words: “ Please avoid dol lar stores.” To say the affair was a success wonld be de frauding the dictionary. I have looked that venerable pamphlet through, bnt fail to find word that meets tho case. Nothing short of seventy syllables and a French root will'do, ao I give it np. On the arrival of the guests I took charge of the presents with as much emotion as the value of the present called for. A silver pen-knife I received with a husky tremor in my voice, while an elegant silver teapot caused me to entirely break down with emotion; but I recovered, and wont through the trying ordeal with unflinching bravery. Those that didn’t bring any presents were told that we were not at home, which, of coutso, made the gathering more select We received some veiy fine presents, includ ing a share in a siver mine, a lock of gray hair streaked with silver, some silver tones from i maiden’s voice, a silvery beam from the moon, and some castor oil made from a silver castor. Then my wifo and I stood up and received the silver-tongued congratulations of our guests on our happy married life. But I didn’t need ’em. No I should say not. When I see a man utterly crushed in spirit and bald-headed at the prematuro ago of fifty, with a black eye con stantly on hand, and a wife who is ready to fur nish him with more black eyes at the lowest market price, I pause ere I congratulate him on matrimonial bliss. Not that I wonld insinuate that Mrs. Skinner is not as gentle as a dove in the olive branch business. Not at all. I sim ply say that in a case like this I should probably pause to.the extent of two semi-colons and comma ere I congratulated him. A ROMANCE OF THE EAST. How a Renntifnl White Girl Became tlic Slave of Two Black Women, and then tlie Wife of Count lienedetti. Louise Muhlbach, in her “Letters from Egypt,” tells a very romantic story about the wife of Count Benedetti, tho French minister plenipotentiary at the Prussian court before the outbreak of the present war. A very rich Greek, merchant, resident in Alexandria, had two black wives, whom he loved dcarlyj' and for whose service he provided a large retinue of beautiful girls. One of bis wives one day chanced to see a charming white girl, and was so pleased with her that she coaxed her husband into buying her, Tho beautiful slave became a confidentiaTser- cant and companion to her negro mistresses, and conducted herself toward them in such a saga cious manner that she became indispensable to them. She sang to them, : and gossipped, and frolicked so gracefully that ennui wa3 banished completely. She won their affections, and through them, also, the affection of their mas ter, the venerable Greek merchant.' I Bat unfortunately the black wives suddenly fell sick one day, and before nightfall thoy wero both dead. Their disease was known' to; no body, and they wore hastily buried. The beau- lifal young slave, who had not left their side for a moment daring the few hours of their illpess, seemed inconsolable. She did her best however to assuage the grief of the ancient merchant, and in this way so endeared herself to him that he adopted her ns his child and heir, since ho was just a little too old to marry her. In the course of time tho venerable sage rejoined his swarthy wives in tho other world, and the fortunate nymph came into possession of his millions. At this stage of her existence, Count Benedetti, who was'then only a penniless attache to the Frenoh consulate in Alexandria, offered her his hand and heart, and having mar ried her, with tho aid of her wealth, cut for himself a road to fame. In this way she, who was once a slavo to slaves, became a star in the circles of the French world of fashion. Paragraphic. The Herald, more than all tho other big New York dailios together, is tending very notably towards tho paragraphic style of editorials. It, as usual, is ju3t a little ahead of its cotempora ries in catching the set of the current of popular taste. The following are fair samples of what it con do in this line: The reconstruction of the Southern States on Republican basis has been very unfortunate for the Radicals. All the States threaten to go Democratic in the next Presidential election, and some of tho extremists in Washington seri ously contemplate a fresh reconstruction. They ought to seriously dread any further handling of the subject. Impobtant Rumor peom Washington.—It is reported that the administration is perfecting a plan whereby the government shall resume specie payments before the 1st of January, 1872. The game of Schuyler Colfax for the next Presidency, it appears, is the old game of Ho ratio Seymour. Colfax, in other words, has peremptorily and positively withdrawn from the conrse in order to make a flank movement upon all his rivals, not excepting General Grant. We fear, however, that this trick of Seymour is playe d out. What thickest thou, Horatio ? King William has tickled his phlegmatic fancy with a No w^fear’s reception at the Palace of Versailles. He can be excused for a little conceit in this matter, but he will very likely havo a much warmer reception when he goes to Paris. English Govebnment Sale op a Telegbaph. —The English Government has just sold its property in the deep sea cable which oommuni- eates between Malta nnd Alexandria. All the stock and material, submarine and on land, con nected with the undertaking h&3 been purchased by an incorporated company. The line cost the Government, it said, 'over two millions of dol lars a few years since. It has realized onehun- dred and twenty-six thousand dollars by tho sale. Somebody loses. C0LHMEU3 Appaibs.—Col. Maud advises ns as follows of city court proceedings under Mayor Oleghom: ~ After disposing of several minor cases, the case of Mayor and Council vs. Hon. William McDougai, “quaroling and fighting” daring the election.’ Defendant plead guilty, but urged in extenuation that he was trying to carry the comity for tho Democracy, and there was so much illegal voting by the Rads., that ho had to whip three or four of them. Mayor Cleghorn sentenced the defendant as follows : “CoL McDougai, it becomes my pain ful duty to make an exemplary caso of you. Your high position in sooiety, as well as your official position, should havo detered you from a violation of the law. Although this court, as an individual, may sympathize with yon; yet, as a court, we know no North, no South, no East, no West, no white man, no nigger! Tho court fines yon fifty dollars and costs!” Defendant: “Never mind, Sara.; I’ll give you credit for that amount 1” Court: “The court fines you fifty dollars for contempt! Marshal, take charge of defendant until ho pays npt” Exit Col. Bill weeping!—Griffin Star, Gth. A Gebman fell into an open pit in the princi pal street of Memphis tha other night, and re r xnained till the next afternoon, in company with two. unfortunate dogs who had fallen in previously. When extricated, he was nearly frozen 'and famished. V Mobe Reoonstbuction.—The Herald of Thurs day says: General Grant, it is understood, will shortly send such information to Congress touefiing the late Southern elections as will change the amnesty bill ponding into another reconstruc tion bill. The reconstruction, however, most needed is, we fear, a reconstruction among the Republican managers down Sontb. Tho tclogram in our last edition stated that the President wonld send in his message Mon day, the 9th. We hope, therefore, that this edition will give us some further light on the subject. The World of same date says: A re-reconstruetion of the South is hinted from Washington, bat will hardly amount to much. The bayonet can upset what the ballot has done there; but tho moment the voting re commences the ballot trips the bayonet in turn. J3X TELE GKR-^iPBL | ' fully aocorded to a gentle : = -'J TT nt di3tinotio * and great ; Bordeaux, January 9.—The Germans onFri- I Motley, having closed hia rubs! tj: M day attacked the Frenoh position at Yillechauv, j mission, but assumes as a jj t; j Ville Borcher, St. Cyr and Surgault, and forced statement on record. Qaeatiom l ° ^1 the French lines at Neuville. Subsequently the | and denying the right of this ^ l “ e; French, assuming the offensive, reoovered these nevertheless, allow a pl aca positions and entered SL Amaud, the Prussians records of the country t 0 , % retiring toward Vendome,.leaving many wound- of end of his mission, op ? 8k c'd and prisoners. 'The Germans recruited La- me to question the measure 0 * \ forche and threaten Nogent leRotrun. I 6 ? 8 a ^ reoi . ation of his po3it; on • , London, January 9.—A dispatch dated the fiu0nce of his Government, but r ° ^ j evening of the eighth reports Bourbaki march- ® e P fc 1118 statement, that no shajo^ ing on Nancy'and Belfort The Prussians ro- I Terence of opinion existed between ■ ocoupied Auxionner. The French entered Le- dent of his Government and himself ^ mur. The Prussians are generally withdrawing rel ations with the Government of ^ from Northern Departments. ' The FrencS ma- Th ® Secretary then reviews, with e^ rine infantry repulsed a Prussian detachment I seventy, Mr. Motley’s coursa at i near Breiare. Favre still waits an invitation to j statea that-the instructions gi T6n to ^ ^ I the Conference. The Uhlans have appeared I at timo ot his appointment wc-p., under the walls cf Lille. Great destitution pre- carried but by him as Minister, a- j ' !l vails in Amiens and vicinity. Gen. Faidherbe him for submitting to Lord C-lareca' officially says, he thought the Prussians would patch for verification, before suWt! 3 j not deny a French victory this time, but finds his own Government. The Sccreta M the German bulletins, for a seoond time, anni- commenting on Mr. Motley’s statem-f hilate his army. Faidherbe proceeds to discuss unanimity of the Senate on the v^ ' the more glaring inaccuracies of the German his confirmation, and as to the e?-. r ., ‘ '1 report. The French, on the night of the third, “oval: “It remains only to notice Hr y J occupied a village they had conquered, and adoption of the rumor which haj i{ 3 went into camp only on the following morning, this city, in a source bitterly y. r . . : l As to the Prussian pursuit, the only support of Actively hostile to the President” *^L that claim is the fact that, on the morning of] hit Motley says it has been nnaorej the fourth, two squadrons of cavalry charged waa removed from the post of Minister lyj the French rear guard—when one was annihil- tand on account of tho opposition mey !.] lated and tho other wheeled off and fled. eminent Senator, who honors him with I Paws, January 9.—Advices to the third have friendship, to the San Doming ... -J been received. Trochu proclaims that the ef- ca P be no question as to the idenUtv .p •• *1 forts to destroy that union and confidence to inect Senator, at whose door Mr. v ■ * which Paris owes its prolonged resistance will ^ n S to deposit his removal, and it is fail. Tho army is preparing to. act and will do of-Mr. Motley’s real merit and ability, S£ j| its duty. There are no dissentions among tho “justice to tile honorable Senator alijFyj members of the Government. The Generals *° 'whose influence and urgency he T commanding the fortifications report only slight indebted for his nomination—to ut-J damages to suburban villages by the bombard- cause of his removal. Mr. Fish J ment. The National and Mobile Gnards are ^ r * Motley must know that many Senator, J being incorporated with the regular army for a P ose d the San Domingo treaty openly,^] more vigorous defence. , , as much efficiency as did Mr. Sumner, arj j Versailles, January 7.—The Germans be- they continued to enjoy the confidence cij yond Yendome encountered two French corps. I President. Mr. Fish proceeds, at corfj After a severe encounter the Frenoh wero re- a ^ e l°ugth, to point out the untenable & pulsed, and tho Germans occupied Azey, Mon- tbe ground taken by Mr. Motley, tnds toire, and intermediate villages. that the time chosen for Mr. Motley’s i . Hayee, January 8.—Gen. Roy, defeating ten was the proper one, on diplomatic thousand Prussians, mostly from-Rouen, oocu- ri° n - pied Bonrgackard, and Bourg lo Rould, and Washington, January 9.—Non threatens to drive the Prussians from Pont j Robert W. Fitzhngb, Collector of Cca,-| Audenier. • Natchez; Wm. Hunter, Appraiser of ] London, January 8.—A Times special from diso at Mobile. Versailles, says the American Consul, being Tho Judiciary Committee considered til permitted to leave Paris, has arrived here. portionment bill. It also considered ftral The Prussian guns could easily shell the city, the amendment'to the bankrupt bill, pro and several houses in Paris weieseton fire, it should not divest the dower of the bu] There is not much firing to-day. The French wife, and provided it did not com!: : . j redoubt at Notre Dame de Clamant wa3 captured laws, arid the guns turned upon- the French. The The • Court of Claims decided to-day fl Prussian loss is insignificant. document, certified by a depart meat oi l The Times special, with Prince Frederick Government, could not be offered in eui Charles’ army, describes the fighting along the unless there was proof as to its auLhei Loire, in the forest of Vendome and at Montaire I This question originated in respect ttj on the 6th, and says the French retreated west- archive’s of the Confederate Governmentd ward—the Prussians following them, and met ing the political status of claimants i»j little resistance. ••-* roourt. Havana, January 8.—Tho Spaniards claim New-York, January j).—Tho City of I having captured the wifo of President Cespedes lyn, hence for Liverpool, was spoken, paid and another woman and a man, carrying a large disabled, proceeding under canvas. Here amount of specie to the insurgents. Also the and part of her passeagors were transfenej insnrgont mail intended for Nassau and New the Hansa. York. The Oil Refinery at Greenpoit hs New Yoke, January 9.—A Herald special says burned. Loss $1,000,000.- eight suspected BonapartiM agents ivero arrested Lieut. Gov. David E. Floyd is deal in the Department of the Same and elsewhere, I Thos. Rills’ paper mill at Newiou - j and will probably be court-martialed. The Her- j been burned. aid adds: “A reign of terror is commencing.” I New Yobk, January 9.—The TamnmyC: Private advices from Versailles express confi-1 mittee, to receive the Fenians bytheOaM deuce that only Fort Valerian will he able to to-day—Richard O’Gorman presiditg. withstand the Prussian bombardment. committee appointed to solicit The Fenian prisoners are coming ou the had but little of subscription to display, steamship Cuba. Halpin still refuses to accept of it will be applied to the substantial relit! j tbe cognitions. comfort of the objects of the demonsiratic Washington, January 9.—The Senate is en-1 Boston, January 9.—A committee of crei gaged on a bill revising the. mint laws. Tho 011 Oskes, Ames & Co., report the assetse House Committee on Foreign Relations agreed the liabilities 58,000,000. The creditors \ to report as a substitute for Bank’s San Domin- granted an extension with 7 per cent. M go resolutions, the Senate joint resolution for . Savannah, January 9. The newspaper the appointment of a commission to proceed to ers “ are 0Q a strike for sixty” San Domingo and inquire into the situation P er thousand ems. Tho proprietors h--| there, fused to pay it. The pries now is fiftys Washington, January 9.—An earthquake at j and printers who work a full wees Ariquipa, December 31, damaged the buildings §30 to $50 per week at that price, but no lives were lost. .Wilmington, January 9.—An election j New Yobe, January 9.—Arrived, the Erin, I aldermen took place to-day. Thee Denmark and Austria. | Republican ticket was elected. London, January 9.—The Standard i f editorialiv that if the now Alabama Congressional. Washington, January 9.—Senate—Numer- j tions fail, the fault will be with AmericA ous petitions for removal of political disabilities I The Government of Paris has issued a wero introduced. announcing the consolidation of all militej 1 A memorial from the New York Chamber of ganizationsand the entire able-bodied male? Commerce, upon the importance of a cable nlation with tho regular army for the deft from the west coast to Asia, was presented. the city. A Commission is appointed to The Judiciary Committee reported a bill that j out this decree, consisting of tho Goien-j Presidential Electors and Members of Congress Paris, the'President, and Commanders dt be elected by ballot. artillery and Engineer Corps. The Motley-Fish correspondence was then] A Spanish Republican insurrection h*s disoussed. • . ,- j . The House bill appropriating: $2,500 for an amanuensis for Sehenck passed. The Motley-hill was considered to executive I telegraphs to the Queen, from Versailles, session. Adjourned. . | nary 8: “ Frederick Charles conth®. victorious advance on Lemans. Evei-p- out in Bamia and Granada. The moveist'| considered unimportant. Berlin, January 9.—The King of 1 House.—Bills introduced and referred: For. additional federal judge in Alabama; f 0E | has been quiet granting right of way through public lauds to ^ ’ *“ the New Orleans and Northeastern Railway; for giving money arising from sales of public lands for five years to the common schools of tho South; for reimbursing Texas for frontier defence expenses; for relinquishing the Gov- bardment here is proceeding favorably- racks in Fort Vavres on fire. (Signed) Wb8»»| Romantic Story of a “Gm-NisrssoL somewhat curious case was recently ne fore a New "Orleans court, in which a su- ernment title to certain lands in East Baton I brought for the property left by a Rouge; for defining the swamp laws; for the rietta Newham, whoso historyw-u •- ^ ° was not without its romance. , reuef of grapo and brandy distillers. to New Orleans from Vicksburg on a A bsolution constructing a Joint Committoe during tho war, accompanied by her cous'M.. of five Senators and oight members of the I was said also to be her lover. UpontM“- House on an ocean telegraph, with power to tbe “ Now Orleans, Henne , , . ° r r the carb of a bov. and became ane*=^. j send for persons and papers, passed. continued to sell papers ana to dress The motion to take up the San Domingo bill attire, unsuspected by her a_ssociateVrMi failed, receiving a'two-thirds vote. All the order from Gen. Banks ordering adratt Democrats, and Ambler, Beatly.Bira, Finkling- burg, Hoar, Peters and Willard, voting, nay- ^rl“ews-lmy. In 1864 she died of 4 (It requires only a defection of seven Republi- pox. In the following year her cousin^-(1 cans now, to defeat any measure requiring a the same disease, and in 1865 h*. two-thirds vote.) The bill came up again. Am- ^ere^eft by °tho giri bier moved an amendment that nothing in the | the sub now brought is by a person ssT-? at-~ TToYavintfa. ana vriio ^ The Fbanelin Fund.—In 1791 Dr. Franklin bequeathed to Boston and Philadelphia,- each, the sum of one thousand pounds sterling, to be loaned to mechanics in small sums. He calcu lated that the fund would increase, so that in one hundred years it would amount to^l31,000, or over $G50,000, and he gave directions as to its future use in each caso. His expectations to its increase have not been realized. The fund left to Boston at the beginning of the pres ent year amounted to $142,0G3 90, and it is well and safely invested. Tho Philadelphia fund is still smaller, some of it having been lost by the failure of the United States Bank, and it now amounts to less than $50,000 Opposition to Dominica.—Senator Thurman, of Ohio, has received a letter from'one of the highest judicial officers of bis State, and s prom inent Republican, commending his course in opposing the annexation of Dominica, and stat ing that outside of the office-holder and expec tants of pap he does not believe there ore a thou sand persons in Ohio who favor the soheme. resolution be construed as committing Congress fo be the mother of Henrietta, and to the policy of annexation of Dominion. Sev-1 her estate, eral Republicans cried “that is right” The Democrats flllibustered. It was finally agreed that a vote be taken at 2 o’clock to-morrow. Adjourned. . . It is understood that Ambler's amendment will be defeated, as it wonld cause delay, and the resolution will pass as it came from the Senate. Abbott contests Vance's seat in the Senate on the ground that the votes east for Vance were null, as being cast for an ineligible person, and that ha (Abbott) received a majority of tho legal votes. \ — j*-*".-, The Motley-Fish correspondence covers thir teen thousand words. The details are mostly personal. Motley declined to resign and at tributes his removal to Sumner’s conrse upon the Dominica question. The foHowing illus trates the animus of tho correspondence. Sec retary Fish to Mr. Moron, December 30th, in reviewing Motley’s course, says: “It may possibly occur to some sensitive persons that delicacy, not to say propriety, would suggest to a retired official of the Gov ernment, wishing to place his views on its offi cial archives, to make a request to that effeot, which certainly would have keen most oheer- An enthusiastic Connecticut Deffl ocra * the following propositions: I 1st. $1,000 that John T. nominated and elected President. - that-Gilbert C. Walker, of Virgin?, J nominated and elected Yi c0 M t re3 ,.., e ;p> $1,000 that Walker will receive W fS H ular vote. 4th. $1,000 that the neeticut will give a majority for -b Walker. ; Woman Suffrage in Sorrfa CabolE^- Charleston Courier of Thursday £&J S • By reference to the proceedings in 4 States Court, jesterday, it will bo st■ ,'%d Grand Jury brought in true bills ®S a , ia . e ber of colored women for V°! an S, a ! lf9S t5 i 1 eleotion. One of them said, he tan he husband was one, he bofe oonld u - ting.” The jurors thought otherwise- Those politicians (says the Besfoa are alarmed at tho prospect of tha , to our country of foreign territory, ^ consolation in the knowledge tna dream of Mr." Jefferson’s farsighted- y: all-North America, from Davis_ btr» Isthmus of Darien, and from the „ fl the Pacific Oceans, including dies, will eventually oompoae the -t Dji United States, under the same with perfect free trade among all.
