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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JANCARY 27, 1871.
lion. Linton Stephens. .
As is noticed elsewhere, the trial of this gen
tleman whioh has been in progress here several'
days, for alleged violation of the infamous Con
gressional “Enforcement Act” terminated yes
terday, in his being bonded in the sum of §5,000
to appear at the April term of the United States
Circuit Court, to be held at Savannah. This de
cision by the United States official before he was
tried, was entirely unexpected by those who
heard the evidence in the case, and who did not
know, or rather had not reflected, how utterly
impossible it was for any Democrat to obtain
justice at the hands of those who, however dis
posed they may be to deal fairly, hold office
upon the implied understanding that they will
make it subserve partisan purposes, and not
the ends of justice. It is the unanimous opin
ion of all who heard the testimony in this case
—the bar and the public generally—that the
case of the prosecution was overwhelmingly
broken down, and yet the prisoner was held to
bail! Bah! what a mockery!
' Apropos of this trial, the effort of the learned
and distinguished barrister who appeared for
the government, deserves special mention
For denso stupidity, thorough ignorance of the
law, and foul murder of the English language,
it may at some period have been equalled, but
cortainly never was excelled. As jurist, advo
cate, rhetoriciap, and grammarian, the ex
Confederate wagon master, attorney for the
United States, certainly reflected great credit
upon his employer. Such graces and accom
plishments deservo permanent and more sub
stantial recognition by that other ex-Confeder-
ate wagon-master at Washington City, whose
health wo have recently seen so miraculously
re-established by the emetic of a sweeping
Democratic victory in Georgia.
The Pabty of the Name of Clabk.—That
sweet specimen of the Puritan loilist surnamed
Clark, of New Haven, who is the special patron
of Smith, the mulatto West Point cadet, and
champion liar of that institution, in his letter
about Smith's many marvellous virtues says,
“he (Smith) was an inmate’ of my household
for several months,” and that he was altogether
lovely in every respect. Clark goes on to say,
however, that Smith sat at the table with the
coachman and gardener!—which statement
stamps Clark as one of the most disgusting hy
pocrites going. He describes hi3 mulatto pro
tege as a pattern of all (he graces and cardinal
virtnes, and therefore fit to eat and sleep with
any white boy at West Point, bnt still not good
enough to eat at his table with his family! When
the devil gets Clark, the Badical hypocrite and
bloodhound, what will he do with Clark, the
pretended philanthropist ? But Clark is abont
the average of bis tribe, we suppose. We al
ways wonder when refreshed in memory as to
the peculiar virtues of tho Paritan race by such
occurrences as these, that the Mayflower didn’t
go to the bottom with her cargo. That she
didn’t is the direst curse ever inflicted upon this
or any other country.
The Mobile Begisteb.—This paper having
gracefully withdrawn its charge against tho
Teleobaph and Messengeb, of beiDg “fishy on
tho white quostion,” we have, of course, no fur
ther controversy with it on that point. We
trust that, hereafter, the editor of the Register
will keep the point of his lance directed towards
the common enemy, and not allow its sharp
Bteel to be deflected to the attack of those who
are touching elbows and closing up ranks with
him to the final charge, upon the robbers and
raiders who are plundering the treasury of the
American people, and desecrating the temple of
American liberty. Tho Democratic party is
not strong enough to allow such eccentric
assanlts inside its lines, and receive no detri
ment there from. .
Sabasing of General Grant the New Yoik
Bun says: “A large number of the most lucra
tive offices 'have been given to those who have
bestowed upon him costly presents in houses,
lands, money, bonds, plate, horses, carriages,
dogs and other valuables.” This is false. We,
the friends of General Grant, cheerfully admit
that ho has exchanged lucrative offices for cost
ly presents in houses, lands, money, bonds,
plate, horses, carriages and other valuables, bnt
vre deny the dogs, most positively. The only
dog ever offered him iir exchange for a lucra
tive office was the celebrated Cleveland pup,
and everybody knows that the President re
fused to pay the freight on him.—Courier-Jour
nal.
Lfiteb fbom Mb. Stephens.—Hon. A. H.
Stephens addresses a short letter to Ex-Gov.
Brown in the Atlanta papers, in rejoinder to
tho Governor’s letter upon the State Boad
lease. Mr. Stephens, while declining to set up
his own conclusions as a guide for others, says
that were he in Gov. Bullock’s place he would
have awarded tho lease to the Dobbins-Blodgett
bidders, and he thinks Ex-Gov. Brown, had he
been Governor instead of a bidder, would Auto
done the same. Wa will give ilx. Steph<m.’«
letter in our next.
Dooly County.—In our catalogue of Bepre-
sentatives elect, Dooly county was accidentally
omitted. Dooly retained our old friend John H.
Woodwabd—a life long, old fashioned Demo
crat—good luck to him. His majoritywas 437
—beating Tift, the Democratic candidate for
Congress, 114 votes—although Tift’s majority
was increased on his previous vote 52 votes.
Dooly made a gallant fight. The Badicals were
strongly organized and did their best; bnt tho
Democracy did better.
Selma Daily Bepobteb.—A noto from Mr.
James P. Armstrong to the editors, announces
that he will, on the 14th day of February next,
revive the Selma Beporter as a daily paper. The
Beporter was published from 1858 to 1805, when
the office was destroyed by Wilson’s raiders,
and during the seven years of its publication
was under the management of Mr. Armstrong.
Wo hope it will meet with a glorious resurrec
tion. . *
The Baltimore Gazette’s Washington corres
pondent says Morton will accompany his report
on “Southern outrages,” with a bill virtually
suspending habeas corpus throughout the South,
thus placing despotio power in the hands of
Grant and his myrmidons in this section. 'If
this be true, Morton had better supplement
that bill with another,largely increasing tho Fed
eral army. Verb sap.
“Groans of tlio Britons.”
Our Washington telegrams in yesterday’s edi
tion Were eloquent over the plaints of tho suf
fering carpet-baggers from the South, who aro
represented to be crowding the capital, and
making night hideons with their groans.—
They are said to be crying, ‘‘The rebels hate
got the upper hand of us again, and ice are suf
fering more than you can imagine, and more
than the Northern people can be mads to be
lieve /” Those must be very bad sufferings,
indeed—equal, we might say, to tho cholio—
the pains of which are said to be indescribable.
And that affluence of description which repre
sents them to be “greater than the Northern
people can believe,” is wonderful. The North'
era people have shown such a capacity for be
lieving the lies of these rascals, heretofore, that
one scarcely knows how to characterize car
pet-bag sufferings “too great for the Northern
people to believe.” We may suppose them to
be equal to cholic, toothache, rheumatism, and
lumbago, with a few parturient pains thrown
to finish np the agony.
All this would be very dreadful to think of,
we did not know that the groans of these scamps
are just like the tears of Alfred Jingle's servant
and partner in deviltry—all “put on for effect”
and as part and parcel of an ingenious piece of
private enterprise by their master. Grant
the Alfred Jingle of this plot, and these carpet
bag howlers who come up to Washington in
drove, yelling like the devil with both hands on
their abdomens, are playing tho part of victims
to the rebels in order to work through Congress
Grant’s scheme to disfranchise the Southern
whites, so they can not vote against him for the
next Presideney. When they have played out
their part and get their money, they will cease
what Mr. Weller called “ the water-cart bnsi
ness”—dry np and feel better directly.”
The question now is whether this little pieoe
of Chinese dramatic performance will succeed ?
We are glad to see that some of the leading
Northern Badical papers, aro getting heartily
sick of these wretched ecoundrels and impos
tors, and do not hesitate to coma down upon
their heads in unmitigated wrath. The New
York Tribune, as wo judge from the headings
of a telegram to that paper furnished by the
same dispatch, utterly scouts this plot for
fifth reconstruction, and several other leading
Radical papers of the North and West have
come down upon these Baseals in some.degree
as they deserve. We are inclined to believe
that Grant, Morton and Butler will break down
this time, in respect not only to the absurdity of
these howls, but also to the manifest atrocity
and danger of persisting in schemes to dragoon
the Southern people into the support of Radi-
calism. Farther efforts to destroy the elective
franchise in the South may, and we believe
will, cost more than they come to, by concen
trating the Northern States in irreconcilable
opposition to Grant and Eadicalism,
Meanwhile, it is clear that some grand coup
d’etat upon the South and the country is in con
templation by Grant and Butler, and let us see
what comes of it.
From Across tho Atlantic.
The senior received, a few days ago, from
Mr. B. A. Wise, tho enterprising crockery im
porter of this section of 1 Georgia, a very neat
and valuable present. It was an extensive and
complete set of Stone China Ware, made and
presented, to Mr. Wise, as a valued correspond
ent, by the hous9 of Clementson Brothers, Pot
ters, of Hanley in Staffordshire, England. Upon
being informed by the house that they were
making the ware for him and desired his mom
ogram to place upon it, Mr. W. directed our
own to be substituted upon the pieces, and
when they arrived, turned over to us a hogshead
of crockery—enough to last a generation or
longer, provided servants “didn’t break things.
As a specimen of the common stone China it
is remarkably clear, fine, and tasteful in design
and decoration—so that good housewives say
they would as soon have it as French China,
while it will sustain much severer usage. We
have an idea that it ought to be plased on ex
hibition to let tho people see that they can have
very neat tables with nnexpensive ware.
The old House of Clementson Brothers’ is
now in its second generation and drives an im.
portant trade, in the common table crockery,
with all tho Southern States. Most of our
readers, we dare say, will find the card of the
firm stamped on the bottom of their dinner-
plates, and associated with many a hearty
breakfast, dinner, and supper. Only upon the
condition of extremely cheap labor could these
Cincinnati Southebn Bailboas.—A Frank
fort correspondent of tho Conrier.Journal says
that George H. Pendleton is there, and it is
rumored that the trustees of tho Cincinnati
Southern Bailway have made satisfactory offers
for tho purchase of the road from Covington,
through Lexington to Nioholasvillo—the Bale to
be conditional upon the passago of the Cincin
nati bill through the Kentucky Legislature.
The “Univebsal Amnesty” of the Washington
Badicals threatens to wind np in a general de
floration of war against the Southern whites,
which, so far^from giving them equal rights,
will take away what they have left. What good
fellows these Southern whites would be if they
would only vote tbe Badical ticket. But they
will not do It, and that’s what’s the matter.
cumbrous wares bo produced m the English in
terior, transported to Liverpool, reach our ports
after three thousand miles of transportation,
and pay a duty in gold absolutely more than tho
invoice cost of the goods. But these wares are
in great part produced by the labor of women
and children, and we are told that the dexterity
of the little juveniles in fashioning the dishes is
marvellous. Thus, with all the labor, transport
ation and tax, they are furnished to us at prices
which appear almost inconsiderable, and miti
gate the exploits of the darkies inflow and then
dropping a waiter load of them, by the oonsol
ing thought that no irreparable pecuniary dam.
age is done.
By timely and heavy direct importations
through Savannah, by sailing vessels, at low
freigflta, Mr. Wise is able to sell these goods to
dealers and couoo m6rs a t prices whioh are con
siderably below the co»v of procuring them
from the New York jobbers. It takes a great
deal of time to get goods in this way—« 0 me
times six months—before an order can be
filled by manufacture at the Potteries, and then
wafted across tho ocean by uncertain winds;
but experience shows it to be the cheapest
method, and a very low profit on • large sales
makes up the compensation.
Always in a Crisis.
The Columbus Enquirer says a number of the
merchants in that city have been crippled by
furnishing plantation supplies on credit, and
the leading commission merchants have resolved
they will stop credit after the first of March, to
all who have unsettled scores. The Enquirer
says it is “a crisis in the credit system,” and
we never knew any part of that system which
was not in a crisis. It ia a double orisis—a cri
sis to creditor and a crisis to debtor, and it
makes all parties cry before they are done with
it. The fashion in Georgia to pass every few
years relief laws forbidding tho collection of
debt3 one might think would operate as the
knife to the ulcer, but it soon gathers head
again and the crisis is just as bad as ever.
Pabtial Pbvteb.—'The Chicago Times of the
20th, says:
At the opening of tho morning session in the
house, at Springfield, the other day, the chap
lain prayed that the Lord would preside over
the Kepublican cauous for the nomination of a
United States Senator.
A resolution was sent to the speaker reciting
this fact, and asking that a prayer be offered
that the Lord would preside at the Democratic
Senatorial caucus. The resolution was objected
to and thrust aside.
Doubtless this Chaplain knew where prayer
was particularly needed.
The Selma, Borne and Dalton Bailroad are
now giving through bills of lading for cotton to
New York from Selma, for three dollars a bale.
How King Wadley competes with such rates as
these is a mystery to us, but he does it, and
successfully, too.
In reference to the orange, crop, a Florida
paper says that the damage done by the oold
weather has not been sufficient to prevent a full
crop next year.
Seating or Corker.
Tho press telegrams very agreeably surprised
our readers yesterday by the announcement of
the seating of Corker, Bepresentative-elect of
the 5th Congressional District of Georgia to the
41st Congress, against the opposition of Butler
and all the “outrage” clamor, by a vote of 41 to
148 against a motion to refer the question—
perhaps to the Elections Committee—the dis
patch does not say.
This result, in view of the protest of Gov.
Bullock and the clamor raised in Washington
by the politicians and newspaper correspond
ents, was wholly unlooked for. It is true the
objections raised applied to only one county of
the district, and if conceded, could not fairly
have vitiated the eleetion; but then we were
not looking for anything like fairness; and so
when we get it we are as much surprised as a
man who receives a voluntary tender of princi
pal and interest from a debtor who has taken
the benefit of the Bankrupt law. No species of
misconstruction or injustice from the hands of
Congress hitherto has been able to surprise us;
because we look for nothing else. Long expe
rience has taught us to anticipate injustice and
misconstruction from that quarter, as a matter
of course. .
But when Congress does anything by us
which looks fair, just and right, we are dumb
founded. We don’t know what to make of it.
We want explanations. We desire to know
how they came to do it and, what are the oc
cult reasons and motives which have induced
the majority in Congress for once to be fair to
Georgia? How came the House by such a ma
jority to seat Mr. Corker, notwithstanding the
violent opposition of Gen. B. F. Butler & Co?
Now we will venture to say that was the ques
tion which presented itself to every reader yes
terday, and the most of them are inclined to
look suspiciously on the transaction as if some
new and treacherous blow were intended under
cover of a righteous proceeding. Nothing is
more puzzling than to hear the downright truth
from a notorious liar, or to see generosity in a
miser, honesty in a thief, or candor in the habit
ually deceitful .
But we shall look for no treacherous or un
friendly reasons for this proceeding. We will
not puzzle our brains to assign unworthy mo
tives, at least while it is cheaper to accept better
ones. We will therefore take this vote as an
important indication from the majority of the
House that they are tired of the unprofitable
effort to dragoon tbe Southern whites into sup
porting radicalism by the tortures of endless
reconstruction, and have concluded to let the
will of the people prevail
We hope this is the case; and, if so, then
the Badicals of Congress have now taken their
first step in the right direction, either for them
selves or the country. We hope, therefore,
Georgia Is now a State of the Union, in the
same way and to the same extent that any other
State is a State of tho Union, and that a Geor
gian ia just as much a citizen as a New Yorker
or a man from Ohio. Let the quid nuncs tell
us whether these hopes aro or are not well
founded.
War Drawing to a Close.
The morning dispatches in this editioh report
prevailing rnmorsthat the French have opened
peace negotiations with Bismarck. At all events,
it is evident French affairs are in extremis,
arid the day of the Paris capitulation ia near at
hand. The statement that Trochu has tendered
his resignation or placed himself at the entire
disposal of the government, saying, “Do with
me as yon will,” seems to ns pretty conclusive
of the condition and the state of publio feeling
in Paris.
Hitherto Trochu has maintained an indomit
able front and declared he would never Barren-
der. He led the bitter end party and would
probably bo still leading it, if he saw any con
ditions for protracting the straggle. But the
last vain effort for self-extrication from the fa
tal meshes of the Prussians occurred on the
19th instant, and was attended by a slaughter
of the French equally shocking and fruitless.—
The National Guards then refused to bo any
longer led to unprofitable slaughter, and no
hope of breaking the lines of circnmvallation
remaining, no valuable end whatever can be
proposed by holding out a few days until tho last
morsel of food in-the beleaguered city is con
sumed. We expect news of the capitulation of
Paris, therefore, in the course of a few days.
It has been said very frequently that the ca
pitulation of Paris would not be the end of the
war. This was true, as affairs stood a few
weeks ago, when the French armies in the open
field were stillunsbatterod and unnerved by de
feat. But matters have very mnch changed
within that time. Every outside army has been
defeated and is retreating before a victorious
foe, while a new German army of 200,000 men
has been placed in the field. When Paris falls
and the immense force of tho besiegers is set at
liberty to join the pnrsnit, it will be impossible
to protract resistance, even if Ftench Govern
ment desire to do so. Every one of their armies
will be overwhelmed in a short time; bnt we
have no idea that the government will seek to
prolong the war under such desperate condi
tions. r
Looking, therefore, to a very speedy end of
this needless and destructive war, we may rea
sonably anticipate Some resulting improvement
in trade; but it is not worth while to indulge
in sanguine anticipations. France is a ruined
nation and will not recover this work of folly
and destruction for a generation. Before the
war her national revenues fell behind her ex
penses, and a yearly halanoe on the wrong side
of the ledger was added to her national debt.
That debt is now enormously increased and
must be collected out of a ruined people. How
can be done—how the indemnity money caff
be wrung out of the ruined French masses as to
interest, or borrowed as to principal upon the
faith of a government predestined to revolution,
are questions we will not pretend to solve. But
seems to ns it must be a long time before
Franoe can again be an extensive consumer of
foreign products.
Germany, as to her people, is also greatly
impoverished, and all the channels of industry
and business are disordered and dry, and we
shall be agreeably disappointed if Germany
turns her attention, in any great degree, to the
arts ef peace. While, therefore, we may look
for improvement, let us anticipate no very
marked change in affairs on this side of the At
lantic in consequence of the termination of the
war.
ThePabdoned Fenians.—A ridiculous con
flict occurred on board the steamship Cuba, be
tween the Fenian Committees and an Adminis
tration Committee headed by Collector Murphy,
and claiming to represent ttyj Government of
the United States, to get possession of the par
doned Fenians, as they were about entering the
porf of New York. The Fenians, however, d«-
dined to be taken possession of, and refused
the infliction of a public reception.
Man an Ikfbovzd Abe.—Darwin’s new book,
The Desoent of Man," in which he “proves?”
the human species to be only an improvement
on the raoe of apes, will be out from the Apple-
ton press in a few days, and i£is said “will cre
ate a sensation.”
Pacts by the Census.—According to tho cen
sus of 1870, the population of the United States
38,307,398, against 31,443,321 in I860.—
Georgia ranks as the thirteenth State in point
| of population, and numbers 1,179,8SG. .
‘ SEWARD’S LITTLE BELL.”
Inside a Federal Bnstlle—Ho-.v the “ Best
Government tlie XV rid Ever fraw” Treat
ed an Eminent Cltisen of Kentucky.
The Courier-Journal, of Monday, publishes
for the first time a letter written in February,
1862, by ex-Gov. Morehead, of Kentucky, to
Hon. John J. Crittenden, of that State. Gov.
Morehead was, as will be remembered, arrested
at midnight at his home in Louisville by a band
of Federal soldiers, and hnrriedoff to Fort War
ren without warrant, and witliont over knowing
what his offence -was. How he was treated
there we let him tell in his own words, found in
the following extract from his letter:
Seized like the vilest criminal, at tho dead
hour of night, and dragged from my native
State in defiance of the great writ of liberty—
the forms of law resorted to only for the basest
prostitution—official oaths shamefully violated,
thrown into worse than a Neopoiitan prison-
furnished with fourteen pounds of coarse straw,
carefully weighed ; put into a tick just four feet
six inches in length, without a sheet or pillow,
with one filthy, shoddy blanket-, to a room with
thirty-six others, with a brick floor, without
fire, so damp that your boots would be covered
with gum each morning, locked up at six o’clock
in the evening, without any of the usual night
conveniences, with two candles (afterwards re
duced to one) for the whole number, which had
to be extinguished at nice o’clock; with a
scanty supply of water, filled not with wiggle-
tails, but myriads of tadpoles—can you be sur
prised that I should feel deeply and speak
strongly ? As you may well suppose, my health
has been seriously if not fatally shattered. I
have suffered the agonies of many deaths from
rheumatism, with my leg swollen almost to
the size of your body. But this is not tho worst
by far. My bladder has been seriously in
jured, and when I wrote to you that I wished
to have a surgical operation performed,
I was under the impression that I had
stone, tut, on a strict examination, I am
assured by my medical advisor, that such is
not the case, but that it is a chronic ccntrao
tion of certain muscles, the result of forced
bodily habits which time alone can cure. It
would take a volume to detail all the vile con
trivances set on foot to humiliate me and break
my spirit. Among other things, a newspaper
was sent to me, announcing that my wife had
become a maniac. Oh! God, what a blow was
that from an unseen band! I confessed that I
was stunned and" crashed, and felt that my vi
lest enemy had achieved a triumph. It was no
donbt wicked, bnt no Christian ever uttered a
more fervent orison to heaven than I did that
God would relieve me by death if it should
prove to be true. For the first time in my life
I appreciated the feeling which would induce a
man to commit snicide. Col. Dimmick, who is
a good man, came home and shed tears like a
child, and immediately sent an express to Bos
ton with a dispatch from me. An answer came
next day in the following words: “Not a shadow
of foundation for the vile slander. Bear your
imprisonment as becomes yon, and never give
np your principles.” - •'
Why all these infamous indignities and cruel
ties were visited upon him, we learn from an
other portion of his letter. After an interview
with Lincoln, in which the impression was made
on his mind that there wonld be no coercion,
he talked with Seward, who voluntarily pledged
his honor that there sbonld be no collision. "We
qnoie again from the letter:
“Nay,” said he (Seward) to me, “if this
whole matter is not settled satisfactorily to the
South within sixty days after I am seated in the
saddle and hold the reins firmly in my hands,
I will give yon my head for a foot-ball.” These
were the identical words used, as I put them on
paper in less than two hours after they were ut
tered. ’ When I happened to mention this con
versation to a very distinguished Republican,
he denounced him in very bitter terms, and told
me that only the night before he (Mr. Seward)
had held very different language to Bepnblican
caucuses. I believed what the last named gen
tleman told me, and meeting Mr. Seward at a
dinner party at Senator Thompson s, of New
Jersey, I intimated to him, remotely, it is true,
that I know what he had said at that canons,
and used some pretty strong language toward,
any man who, in this crisis, wonld act a double
port. This conversation, sir, teas the cause of
my arrest and imprisonment.
BY TELEGRAPH
Washington, January 24.—A Herald special
reports that the Prussian frigate Medusa fought
the French gunboats Oarrienx and Benoix in
tho Pacific, stoking both. The Prenoh frigate
Circe has left' Montevideo in chase of the
Medusa.
Three persons were killed by a boiler explo
sion at St. Paul, Indiana. . Twenty-five cars
loaded with silks and teas, from China, are
coming from California. There is uneasiness
about the ship Lookout, one hundred and
eighty days out from New York for San Fran
cisco.
The Prussians unsnceessfnlly attacked Dijon.
The bombardment has nearly silenced St. Den-
And learn farther, worthy brother, that the
Constitution bad abont determined to fling np
the printing of those needless and costly pro
clamations as a wrong to the people, and as
mild sort of participation in Governor Bullock’s
criminal' and profligate waste of the public
money.—Constitution.
What a great pity for the Constitution it is,
exclaims its city cotemporary, the Sanj that it
took it so long to make up its mind! What
prop to its virtne it wonld have been if it bad
not only “abont determined,” bnt had fully and
irrevocably determined to “fling np the print
ing.” How sad it is that there was no emetio
at hand powerful enough to enable it “to fling
np” just before tho Govomor administered his
dose. The Constitution is jast now virtuoas
under very disadvantageous circumstances. We
heard of a woman once whose homeliness was
the greatest safeguard to her virtue. We also
heard of a rogue who suddenly became too vir
tuous to steal, when he discovered his inability
to force the door of a safe. •* In both these oases
virtne was the result of contemporaneous cir
cumstances. We don’t liken the Constitution
to either of them. It moans to be virtuously in
clined. Trne, it did tbe Executive printing
and accepted the pay for it, bo long 03 it
was retained npon the list. It only waited
for a good chance to decline any more of
it. The chance came. Governor Bollock no
tified it that it need not print any more
of his Proclamations and Orders. This sealed
its determination to be virtuous, and vir
tuous it has been ever since. Happy virtne 1
Happy Constitution! Tho people will believe—
they mutt believe—that it was about “to fling
up.” It is necessary to the virtne and peace of
mind of the Constitntion that everybody believe
it. However, if our neighbor really wishes to
place its virtue on an unassailable foundation,
let it get down its ledger, add up the sums re
ceived at different times, out of the State
Treasury, as payment for the “printing of
those needless and costly proclamations,” and
then pay the aggregate amount into the hands
of the State Treasurer, to be used for and in
benefit of the people of the State. This will
set a seal upon its devotion to tho people, and
avoid the necessity of employing a biting dog
as a safeguard to its virtne.
Mercer University.
The citizens of Macon aro anxiously awaiting
the decision of tho Supremo Conrt of Georgia,
in regard to the removal of Mercer University,
to their city, according to the vote of the laTge
and influential denomination who control it.
This question has been deoided in favor of the
Trustees by Judge Cole, npon a motion to so
amend the Charter that the committee on re
moval might legally locate the institution in
Macon. The case is now pending beforo the
Snprem9 Conrt npon a bill of exceptions, bnt
in the meantime, the Trustees have appointed
Bev. H. C. Hornady, of La Grange, as their
Genoral Financial Agent,- with instructions to
work" for the increased endowment of the Uni
versity. That gentleman has entered npon
the discharge of his duties, and may be ex
pected to visit onr city at an early day, in the
prosecution of his labors. Onr citizens, when
ever he shall come, will extend to him a most
cordial welcome, and do all they can to speed
the noble enterprise in which he is engaged.
Beasqn3 fob Domingo.—Tho Chicago Tri
bune (Badical) interviewing Colonel Horace
Porter, of the army, pats into his month the
following good reasons why Sherman, Porter
and all the Federal Army officers are Domin-
goes:
“Well, now,” said Porter, “I will tell you.
Dominica is only half of San Domingo. The.
French lost 40,000 men in dead and diseased
when they tried to take Hayti. If we go into
this job, tbe regular army of the United States
will have to be raised to 150,000 men. There
fore, as Congress is now abont breaking up the
regular army, we are all in favor of San Domin
go, because it gives the United States a chance
to keep a permanent army.”
Snow northward has not interrupted railroad
travel
A special to tho Herald says, by a deocree
the houses of absentees from Paris will be
searched and tho ontants used for publio pur
poses.
Washington, January 24.—The House is
hearing personal explanations regarding the
consideration of the bill giving the distriot a
territorial government
Tbenton, New Jebsey, January 24.—Both
Houses, this morning elected Frelinghusysen
United States Senator by joint note—42 against
32 for Randolph. Six members and one Sena
tor were absent.
Gen. Albert Pike has withdrawn as a Commis
sioner to superintend the drawing of the Grand
Diamond Gift Concert He has, however, no
suspicion of the honesty of tho affair, but will
not give that personal guarantee for the action
of others, which a Commissionership is sup
posed to involve.
Washington, January 24. — Senate — The
Territorial Bill was referred to a committee of
conference.
Blair’s credentials were presented.
Forty thousand dollars has been appropriated
to defray the expenses of the Outrage Commit
tee. .
The bill to aid the construction of the Atlan
tic and Great Western Canal, was referred to
the Committee on public lands.
The death of Norton was annonneed.
House.—S. A. Corker, from Georgia, was
seated after debate—Butler leading the opposi
tion, and alleging outrages. A motion to reform
was lost—41 to 148.
The protest of Cincinnati underwriters
against the Cincinnati and Newport Bridge was
introduced.
A bill was introduced to make Shreveport,
La., a port of delivery.
The House went into Committee on appro
priations. An amendment that no part of the
secret service fund be used for the Dominican
Commission, failed. Adjourned.
Washington, January 24.—Collector Murphy
has not been asked to. resign.
The Outrage Committee will examine North
Carolina before entering npon a general inves
tigation. Nominations: Leroy Tattle, Assist"
ant ’Treasurer, and several Indian agents. There
was no executive session.
San Fbancisco, January 24.—It is believed
that sufficient rain has already fallen to secure
an abundant wheat crop in California, and the
farmers are planting as rapidly as possible.
Work has been stopped on the building of the
University of California for want of funds.
Thojstage from Morphy’s Camp to San An
drews, Toslnm county, was robbed yesterday
of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s express box. There
were no passengers in the coach.
The ten thousand dollar coin prize in the Ne
vada lottery, was drawn by ticket number
10,943, which is supposed to have been sold in
one of the Eastern States.
St. Louis, January 24.—The Kansas Legisla
ture has a bill before it to restore the ballot to
all disfranchised persons by reasons of the war.
It will probably pass.
New Yobk, January 24.—A house was burned
in Bergen, by the explosion of a lamp contain
ing Desoto oil A woman and child were badly
burned.
Raleigh, January 24.—The Board of Mana
gers filed to-day their replication to Governor
Holden’s answer to the articles of impeachment,
and tbe case is regularly at issue. The trial
will commence in good earnest on Monday.
Habttoud, January 24.—David Lyman,
President of the Air Line Boad, is dead.
London, January 23.—Bismarck having re
fused, on political .grounds, to pass Favre,
Favre applied to the military powers, who
granted a pass, carefully worded, to avoid politi
cal significance. Favre. has probably already
left Paris.
The French army of the North is arriving at
Arras, Dorai, and Lille in a totally disbanded
'and discouraged condition.. The citizens of
Lille are indignant with Gambetta, whom they
charge with driving them on to this state of
affairs.
A dispatch from Lille, of the 23d, says the
bombardment of Cambrai has commended,
Gambetta presided at a long council of war.
General Robin, who commanded a division of
the army of the North, was dismissed.
Paris advices to the 22d state- that the French
losses in the-sortie on the 19 th, was less than
3,000. Trochu issued an order on that day,
speaking in the highest terms of officers and
soldiers.
A dispatch from Lille of the 23d, sayB Gam
betta fcas received a telegram that the Garibal-
dians gained a victory on Sunday near Dijon,
and the enemy abandoned a strong position. A
large amonpt of material and many prisoners
were captured. The Garibaldians are actively
pursuing the enemy. Faidherbe made a long
report to Gambetta, covering recent operations
of tho army of the North. He says he lost no
artillery and no prisoners in the battle at Luen-
tin. The only persons captured were stragglers.
Gambetta has gone to to Layal to see Chau-
sey.
Twelve hundred Germans have been expelled
from Marseilles.
Semi-official deqjpation has been received
from Vienna that, while, the Austrian Govern
ment appreciates the duty to strive to restore
peaoe, yet she deems it advisable to await a fa
vorable opportunity.
London, January 24.—Several members of
the Conference are instructed not to allow them
selves to discuss any question foreign to the
programme. Longwy replies feebly.
London, January 24, 5 a. m.—It is said that
Count Bernstoff has telegraphed to Versailles
that, the plenipotentiaries present at tho first
meeting of the conference, are unanimous in a
resolution to prevent the discussion of questions
not connected with the East.
London, January 24, 7 a. m.—The Germans
aro before Cambrai. They have established
soige batteries at Rumilly, near Paris. Gari
baldi's operations have been suspended in con
sequence of Bonrbaki’s retreat.
a Paris correspondent of the London Times,
nnder date of 21et, says, Trochn is generally
considered incompetent. The Council of De
fence only failed to accept his resignation be
cause they were unable to find a successor.
It is impossible to make the Paaisians con
sider tho question of surrendering. They aro
anxious to fight nnder competent leadership.
Tho rations of flour is now half a pound daily
per man. The poorest people receive bread
gratis, with a pint of wine eaob, and a little
soup daily. The middle classes suffer most
sevorely of all Potatoes are sold at a frano
apieoe, and dog flesh is worth one dollar per
ponnd.
Bobdeaux, January 23.—The Prussians com
pleted the occupation of Touts yesterday. In
the East Bourbaki has been engaged since the
17th in a series of outpost skirmishes with the
Prussians, in which he has generally been sue-
At St Quentin, on the 19th, Faidherbe’s
troops maintained their ground until night, and.
and then retreated to a position behind town. ’
The Prussians attaoked Dijon yesterday and
were repulsed and beaten after a battle which
lasted five hoars. Kicciotti Garibaldi oaptuxed
the flag of tbe Pinssian line regiment
The following dispatch has been received and
made public by the Government here:
.“D»on, January 22, evening.—The French
repnlsed an attack of the Prussians to-day along
the whole line. Tho enemy were pursued, and
positions held by them at Daix and Hanteville
were seized. Garibaldians entered Dijon amid
immense enthusiasm. The Prussians, in their
flight, abandoned their wounded.”
Kingston, Jamaica, via Havana, January 24.
—The Panama news at hand is unimportant
The West Indies and Pacific Company’s Steam
ship,- Crusader, was wrecked on the 6th, off
Caragera. The mails and passengers were
saved. A telegram from the British Cabinet
annonneed the ereotion of Jamaica into a prin
cipal military and na ral station for the West
Indies. Private letters confirm the fact that,
the Hornet, with Col. Byan on board, had
arrived at Port an Prince,- and was waiting fora
cargo of arms and ammunition from New York.
Three Spanish gunboats are watching her.
Saint Johns, January 24:—The cable between
Placenta and St. Pierre, has failed. It will not
interfere with tho European business that goes
direct from St. Pierre to Brest, France.
Bnmored Negotiations for tire Cnpitnlatlon
- ofParis. -
Washington, January 25. —The Longwy
f arrison made a successful sortie. Three
'russian batteries were silenced. 'It is stated
that Favre in a dispatch to Odo Bussell, de
clines to leave Paris. The Herald’s. Paris
special reports a call fbr a riot in Paris, bat
only 500 disorderlies responded. Subsequently,
however, the force for the protection of tho
Hotel de Villo was strengthened. A new .war
committee is abont to be organized. Trochn
is understood to have plaeed himself in the
hands of the Provisional Government, saying
with tears in his eyes, “do with me what yon
will!” Meantime, rumors prevail that Trochu
has resigned, and Favre has opened negotia
tions with Bismarck for a capitulation. The
special gives a terrible account of the slaughter
on the 19th. The Prussians allowed the French
to approach within deadly distance when, with
in an incredibly short time the ground wa3
covered with dead and wounded. It was the
bloodiest day since the commencement of the
siege.
War is imminent between Salvador end Hon
duras.
A Havre dispatch say3 the Prussian cavalry
have advanced to Bazronges, Favenel, and
Noarb3.
Washington, January 25.—In the Senate, Mr.
McDonald introduced a bill providing for the
payment of Spnthera claimants.
The House proceedings were uninteresting.
The headquarters of tli9 department of the
South have been transferred from Atlanta, Gx,
to Lonisville, Ky.
Rear Admiral Lee has written a letter favor
able to the annexation of Domingo.
William Yar’ey, known as “Beddy, tho Black
smith,” killed the notorious James Haggerty.
London, January 24.—The Germans captured
Dale, with two hnndred and fifty cars loaded
with army stores.
The Franc-tirenrs destroyed a bridge over the
Moselle between Nancy and Toni
Garibaldi’s operations have been suspended
in consequence of Bonrbaki’s retreat. _ .
New Yobk, January 25.—Arrived—San Ja
cinto.
Washington, January 25.—Rudolph Evald
Heide has resigned as Consul to Norway and
Sweden. At Wilmington the sales of ordnance
have been stopped. /
The trial of Bowen, memberof Congress from
South Carolina for bigamy, has been fixed for
Februaiy 13th. Pleasanton recommends a
change in the warehousing system which will
equalize the tobacco interest thronghont the
country. Objection will be made to seating
Governor Clayton as Senator from Arkansas,
on tbe gronnd that the Legislature which elected
him was illegal No Southern nominations or
confirmations to-day.
The Judiciary Committee will report against
the repeal of the resolution convening the next
Congress on the 5 th of March.
The trial of B. R. Butler, member of Con
gress from Tennessee, for forgery, commences
to-morrow. Bontwell argued before the Ways
and Means Committee to-day against the repeal
of the income tax.
Bepresentative Cox entertains Democrats, in
honor of Mr. Hendrix, who is here, and Sena
tor Blair, to-m.orrow night at the Arlington.
Governors Seymour and Hoffman, of New York,
and Byler, of Pennsylvania, aro coming.
The contest yesterday for the. seat from the
Fifth Georgia District attracted much atten
tion. General Young, of Georgia, managed
the case for Corker (Democrat), while General
Butler was the champion of Beard, colored
Badical The resnlt was 148 for seating Corker,
to 41*adverse. It shows that a majority of the
candidates from the Sonth, provided they can
take the oath, are tolerably sure of seats. Gen.
Young is much applauded for the shrewd man
agement of tho case.
James T. Randolph, for many years editor
tho Brunswick Freedman, is dead; aged 80
years.
House.—The biQ defining the meaning of the
26th section of the act to reduce taxation, pass
ed and goes to the President. Among other
things, it makes the duty on imported spirits
uniform at §2.
Sundry pension bills passed; also a bill for
the disposal of useless military reservations.
also granting right of way through the Pensa
cola military reservation to the Pensacola and
Barraness Bairoad. Indian appropriations
oocnpied the balance of the day.
In answering questions, Mr. Dawe saw signs
of repealing the law requiring the new Congress
to meet on the 5th of. March. He thought the
session wonld extend to the 1st of April
Senate.—Blair was seated, and was appoint
ed npon the Committees on the Pacific Railroad,
Education and Labor. The bill for the repeal
of the income tax was discussed. The balance
of the day was occnpied by Fenton and Conk-
ling in discussing the New York Cnstom-honse
bill
Jackson, Miss., January 25. — The Yerger
case still excites mnehinterest. No trial before
the civil authorities has ever transpired. The
Grand Jury ignored the bill for mnrder, which
THE GEORGIA M U;is
The garrison at Atlanta has
largely recruited. CCWj J
A convention of railroad ticket
session at Atlanta. *»*“" is j
Sophie Worrell ia taking Atlanta w
The mule trade of Griffin i, ystona -
Prices are twenty-five per cent. lowev^S
season. wei li»|
> , The Star h9S thia mour nfal paragraph
Disappointed!-We are inform^'
eral young men who fell i a lovew, f ,h 5 at «*,
Sisters and Little May, and soueh? . h * V »»!
ment from Templeton to “gofioJ
as amateurs, scene-shifters, ‘sunes -M
else, were peremptorily refnseT’ I WW »J
weeping, wailing and scatchin-Tomu,* 6
on account of this afflicting
Degmtilm non est dispute ndum sneoJ.'-
right here. 8868(31
Price’s (Dem.) majority f. jr Con n «- 0 • .
Sixth District, for the 42d Congreaf “ “JP
over Wimpey—the great Radical ™
detective—and 9,513 over Bays
bolter. That will do pretty well
Somebody stole the ballots of fo
tion in Spalding county, from the d«v!'
Saturday night
The two O'Neils, charged with the a®*. J
Dr. Anthony, at Jonesboro, and who - I
their escape from the jail there, a short'fr
since, have been caught and bronght ba-V ,
reward of §2,000 was offered for their cm * I
The new Episcopal Church at Griffin u n I
ly finished, and will present a hanfe^Tj
pearanco. " '-I
We credit the following items to the tiwl
Constitution, of Tuesday: '■
Legal Eloquence —A noted barrister i, ■
scent important criminal case, in Faltonr^JI
ty, used the following eloquent and ina^l
language: “When a man forgits his naZfl
and acts the dog and the law savshe mast ill
killed, I can’t help that. The Bible saw th I
when a man does this thing he mast be ««I
derecL” °*|
Of the Air Line Railroad the GainesTiaBhl
glesays: I
Who is it getting np that Ustimonui J
George W. Evans, late Conductor on theStol
Boad? The Variety girls or the colored m-.-J
he imported? ^1
It is reported that General Robert TooaJ
has been retained as counsel by the l
Blodgett leasers. A rapid “shelling
woods” may now be looked for. I
After the first of February the price of n|
will be reduced to §4 50 per thousand \VfcjJ
parties nse 200,000 feet will be reduced $4 «|
per thousand feet. 1
The Aib-Lxne Baxlboad.—We are j
note the rapid progress being made in the si I
struction of this road. The track is oowk;|
and cars running to Suwannee, and as soona|
the bridge is put np, which will be done hi|
few days, the work of laying the track wilj
pushed forward with the utmost rigor, hj
grading is abont finished to Big Creek, tel
miles from'here, and is three-fourths done fnc|
that point to this place. The iron to lay |u
track to Gainesville has all been pnrcdiased,s|
it will be seen that the time is close at Utl
when the shrill whistle of the iron-horse wiflb|
reverberating in onr valleys.
is regarded by legal professors and journals as
equivalent to acquittal The “Pilot," (Radical)
admits that Yerger can never bo convicted, and
advises a nolle prosequi as a finale. Special pleas
have been filed, but the case will not be tried
this term of the Conrt' Yerger has been at lib
erty since last May.
Boedeaux, January 24.—After the battle at
Dijon, the Prussians retreated towards Mes-
signy. The Prussians appear to be falling back.
Alencon is evaouatecL The enemy cut the railway
between Lyons, Besancon and Byans.
London January 24, 7 p. m.—Extensive cod
flagration in Longwy yesterday. The Himes
were visible all night; to-day the. fire .was still
burning. In the meanwhile the bombardment
goes on without relaxation.
Dijon, January 23.—The defeat of the Prus
sians on Sunday was complete. The troops nn
der Rejoiotti Garibaldi destroyed.tbe 61st Prus
sian regiment. The French behaved heroically.
Havana, January 25.—The merchants of this
city complain of great delay of the mails from
the Southern cities in the United States since
they have been sent by the Cedar Keys route.
Letters from Charleston, via that route, take
from 14 to 20 days to reaeh Havana, while let
ters via New York and New Orleans take only
from 5 to 10 days.
Havana, January 25.—Only three of the fil-
libnsters who disembarked at Ynelta Abajo re
main alive.
Visible {Supply of Cotton-
The following table, says the Financial Chron
icle of last Friday, shows the quantity of cotton
in sight at this date of each of the two past sea
sons. On account of the irregularity in the
cable despatches, we «ro again without onr fig.
nres for stock at and afloat for Liverpool, and
we, therefore, for those items give the figures
of last week: . • •
1871. 1870.
Stock in Liverpool. 645,000 341,000
Stock in London....; 69,077 115,671
Stock in Glasgow 450 250
Stock in Havre.*. 45,150 72,700
Stock in Marseilles 6,500 4,150
Stock in Bremen 3,550 • 2,700
Stock rest of Continent 25,000 33,000
Afloat for Great Britain (Amer
ican) 290,000 141,000
Afloat for France (American
and Brazil) 58,067
Total Indian Cotton afloat for
Europe...". ’. 88,000 *87,000
Stock in United StateB ports...54G,476 -486,725
Stock in inland towns 117,179 101,045
Total 1,736,382 1,443,308
Those figures indicate an increase in the cot
ton in sight to-night of 293,074 bales compared
with tho same date of 1870.
His Fiust Appeabance.—Tho editor of the
Atlanta Snn was in the Supreme Court Boom at
Atlanta, Tuesday, to see how the new Chief
Justice, Lochrane, wonld perform in his first ap
pearance in that role, and here is what he says:
The Judge seemed to have been awaTe of the
necessities of the occasion, and so came pre
pared to do the work assigned with a proper
degree of cantion, exactness and harmony. In
the mellow flow of his gifted maimer of speech,
the new Chief Justice did the work well, though,
we confess, that the utteranoes, while vigorous
and pointed, were rather over done in the dress
and trim of the style—somehow rather syallable
and drawn out; not more so, however, than was _
the manner of one or two of his most distin- ^ pinta ot brother and sister have g reew “J^(f|
guished predecessors on the same bench. The ^ ntf „ hor6 . Mw a, e God of aB «2EhS*I
new Chief Justice made character with tne bar
by hia clever and lucid statement of faote.
Albeit some of the principles annonneed this
morning were’regarded as rather new, if not
more.
Affairs in Falmettodom.
A Colombia correspondent, (Jan. 18th,) i|
the New York World, says:
The troubles loathe np counfry ara lo be»l
cribed to the unprincipled and malignant Bill
ical leaders and the negro militia In Unic:|
Laurens, and adjacent counties, it is patents!
any impartial observer that this is tke<ait|
Passing through that section not long tiro
Saturday night found me in the neighbor^:
of a large country church, which d attendeil
next day with the family of mine host. Itnl
a tranquil, beautiful Sabbath, ami the c.r"e-|
gation was a large and well-dressed assent's.-! j
of the white population-. The pre-aehsi«i|
the midst of his decidedly able- disconr;e,iV:I
a commotion was heard outside th;- chnrci, nil
although the people did not leave the 1 n:|
the service was effectually-interrupted tjitsl
followed. ‘ I
A party of negro militia who had been loth I
village the day before for muster and drill, till
who had there been addressed in the model
flammatory style by their negro captain, oil
afterwards freely supplied with whisky on rtiil
they had been carousing all Saturday night, a|
their way home Snndeay morning, and «j|
passing the church, saw two ladies promenade
nnder the trees endeavoring to quiet theirh
biex The negroes at onc»presented their gn
at the frightened women and ordered them!
halt, which they at once cbar.'.e:crK.:.v|
-obeyed by screaming and rushing into thl
church. . *
The negroes then commenced yelling '
war has commenced, and we’ll begin it rijtj
here,” and continued for some time marctil
round the building and firing their guns at&l
church, bat fortunately bitting no one. Rl
preacher retained his calmness, and kept hi
congregation well in hand, bnt it was diffieo|
to keep the men qniet while tho negro HnN
were dancing and yelling like demons
the house'. Failing to provoke any mtaWl
actor word of reply, the band finally went cl
and qniet was restored. * . • |
Bnt to such treatment as this the whites c|
constantly exposed, and if they resent even 01
greatest possible outrage, or kill a nesroin- 1 !
fending life or female honor, a Radical h* I
follows, and Grant’s troops are put in'ao:;:n I
Washington Society and the “M axdB. -1
The Washington correspondent of the h" :, l
York World writes as follows : j
It is given out on good authority that Bew-l
has been invited not only to Executive
but to others equally stately, bntthe sameanu-J
ityadds: ‘“Bevels always had the good I
decline.” Thatisto say, perhaps instead ot-J
customary “an answer is requested,” fu**” I
ia the negative is expected was appended. ^-1
admission of our colored brethren into I
ciety is not yet; at least two Cabinet laaiea 1 -- ■
clared last winter that Bevels should never ■
admitted into their parlors, and on I
when a false report spread abroad that a -I
had introduced him at another lady s recep^-; j
the latter declared that if the report g 01 |
the newspapers she should deny it in pnri-
And learn farther if Governor Bnllocky-^ I
offer the Constitntion to-day his proclaaa-- , i
to publish, we would decline them cr “' Wj I
unalterably. We would not yield ^
stand we can now oocupy in fighting ta m ^
nalities of his administration.—tensip
Neither would Jack eat his supper- I
take? .
At a recent Chicago wedding the °^ , ^j
played “Put Me In My Little Bed,” 83 fte
dal party marched out of the chnrc
wretch is still alive, too.
OBITUARY.
Died, on tho morning of the 6th insti
62d year of her ago, Mrs. Gabmella A._S- ■
wife of Ewel Webb, of Crawford connty, e&- I
Mrs. Webb was a woman endowned vntn I
qualities of female character, which render i . I
able and attractive. She was a woman c ^1
mind, and of great energy of character, c ‘ , f I
with a spirit of patient endurance
meanor, truly commendable. In all there ^,,1
life .she manifested a warmth of affection,
depth of devotion worthy of all imitation. -• ^ I
the friend of the poor, and to the wants i y I
titute and suffering her hands were ever ■ I
administer. . .
She had never attached herself to any I
church, but for years previous to her de ^ ^ I
bed professed the Christian’s hope; p? I
knew boro, ever 'doubted the sincerity cf I
fession. Several months ago sho was °
down with paralysis, snd from that 11316 I
death was almost helpless. But she horo^^l I
tions without a mnrmer, and frequently ^ I
herself as perfectly resigned to the win _ i
She died as the Christian dies, falling awee . i
in Jesus. She was a sister of Deacon John ■ ? l
ders, late of Bihb connty, Georgia, whoaa
will be long cherished by many * hoB6 Jf?", t o ti*|
it was to know him, and who I""** ^*,#1
tomb some eight or ten months. D° nD . . ,wl
sinning shore. May toe God °£j^J^i»tive« *
the event to the good of all surviving
friends. ^ jj.
Index and Baptist pleaseeopy.
HusttlviUe, Qa., Jan. 31, Bn*