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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.