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I I I I ' - - - ■ The Greo3?gici; ^W"eehl'y TT©lo^Pci-jp ii £lhcL Journal & jVTosteGTiffoi« 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*
