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S j£ 9 consolidated Telegraph and Messenger For the Telegraph and Messenger.] j But the negro not only shnts out capital and TO THE GEORGIA AtJKici'i.TCUil COX-' checks the spirit of enterprise, but bis presence VE5TIOS. j in our midst is a barrier to the iDgress of popa- Tlie Lnlior Question—Negro Enbor Wholly .lation, and keeps down the prico of our lands. Unreliable, anil Slnst become Increasing- ' After the lapse of five years of freedom, there ly Injurious—The I* _ . - * --- - ---- • - cal, and Financial State Agricultural Fairs. From tho Rural Southerner.] The question bns recently been sprung, and is exciting considerable interest in this section: Whether the claims and demands of tho great Uy. •The Negro a Social, Follti- j has been no such influx of population as we bad incial incubus—The Rome : good reasons to expect. Fi^SKS there w» [ g*””” 0 ” *o expect For certainly there was i ~ * b and satiaflcd by a sin gi e Annual ilateFair, whether heldin Atlanta or Macon? The pnrposo of this article is to commend j cepting the drawback of negro laborers) than the labor question to tho special consideration in any other section of the United Statos. For of the Agricultural Convention soon toassem-j with a mean temperature of about CO degrees, bleat Macon. Something must be done, and . permitting ns to work the year round— a healthy done speedily, it seems to us, or wo shall be irro- and well watered country, abounding in tho trievably rained. We can no longer depend ’ richest resources of mineral and agricultural upon the negro. After an experiment of five ! wealth—a snn which nowhero brings all of tho years with the freed negro as a laborer, the re- i bestfruits to so high adegreeof perfection—and suit has been, as we might have anticipated, | cheap lands and excellent facilities of trade—our wasteful,thievish, with an invincible repugnance ; country presented a combination of advantages to exertion, because insensible to its ultimate not to be found elsewhere on the continent, advantages; he is indolent because, with free- ] perhaps on “tho planet.” Yet tho tide of pop- dom, he has no adequate incentive to work. | nlation has not set in to our country, nowith- If, by naturo, ho bad not been organized upon ! standing all theso superior advantages. And a scale too low for the effect of those motives j the obvious reason is that tho negro has given ibje ' ,,-c euU n i 4 rge circulation, pervading Mid- which prompt the superior race to preserving j tho crazy people of the North a subject for sen- itself by industry, he would, at some period of ! sation; and they have not scrupled to publish, his African history, been civilized. But not j both hero and in Earope, not only every out- only has he never been civilized in Africa, butj rage which, by wicked laws, they have impelled jfctcmAlabama and^Midffie Florida. Adver- reasonable ratos. In the Weekly k’r-g dollar per square of three-quarters of “inch each publication. Remittances should SJn.do 1-y express, or by mail in money or- or registered letters. 1 For the Telegraph and Messenger. Tiioa Hast Forgotten. BY CIIIQUITA. Jboolast forgotten! Yes—yet promised theu to Oat life tracks for a soul that sighed for rest, thought, to find it folded in tby arms, 0r i^d to dreams cf beauty on thy breast. Yes—and yot melhinks if lUulnst forgotten! tboa Proa storms should of earth’s bosom ask a place, Her tears through withered leaves that heap thy after getting the civilization of the French in San Domingo, and the English in Jamaica—so for as he was able to absorb it from contact with his masters—he no sooner became free, than, at once, he began to lose all that he had learned, and to gravitate back to his normal barbarism. Snch, at least, is the effect of the accounts of travelers who have visited those islands since emancipation. And now, we ask our planters if it is not true that as tho freed negro has receded by the lapBO of time from the spirit and habits of servitude, he is growing more inefficient as a laborer, every day ? How many ungathered crops were there all over tho country at the end of last year ? It now a month and a half since the 1st of Jan uary, and a month and a half of the most beau tiful weather for preparation for another crop has just passed by, that has ever been known to our peace and good order, degrading to our grava ffonU teach and kiss tby cold and faithless face. Yea—Love has but room lain hast forgotten! enough in narrow hearts to fold his wings and die— Bat AugcU sweep tho freezing drifts away. That on the heart Hope’s white corpse may not . Ft hr nary 14,1871. My Little Fairy Queen. TO 51183 K****, OF TWIOOS. I. .ir Oemulgeo’s rippling flow There dwells a lovely maiden, With treasures puro as drifted snow Ihr princely heart is laden. II. And here amid magnolian bowers With mystic power she sways her wand. in south, elie is a Qaoea of Flowers, The peerless favorite of her band. III. behold her now, in regal splendor, A wildwood chaplet decks her brow, Ecr cyos beam forth compassion tender, For love hath made her heart to glow. IV. At twilight near a babbling brook She summons np her elfin throng, Till every cave and glen forsook, Gives echo to their mirthful song. V. Mef hints I yet those notes can hear, Sweeter far than Apollo’s lyre, They inspiro thoughts of another sphere, Which teaclieth mortals to aspire. VI. • Ttmpns fugit,” and we must part, Though fairy maiden it pains my heart, • Yet to each and all a fair good night And rosy dreams and slumbers fight.” Herbert. in Georgia. And what has been done ? Where is there a planter who has repaired his fences, and where is the plantation which is not suffer ing for repairs of its fencing ? But not only have the fences been let alone but np to this time, there is nowhere lo be seen a field that has been ploughed. A large number of negroes have employed much cf this valuable time in lounging abant towns and public places, in per fect idleness, making contracts only when ne cessity has forced them to do so. And jnst as many as could possibly arrange for it, have quit all regular occupation, and aro holding tliem- solves ont as day-laborers, that by working a few days ont of every month they may give up to ease, self indulgence, and general devil tries the balance of the time. While those j answer by setting forth what has been done, who have gone back npon the plantations to ! One fact is better than a folio of speculation, work, move slowly, and as eyo servants, aud | A few enterprising gentlemen of Jones county, have literally accomplished nothing worth tho j to-wit: Messrs. F. S. Johnson, Jr., H. S. Bar- name. All of which facts, with many others | roa and others have already brought into Jones unnecessary to detail, go to show that as a gen- county about seventy Swedes^nicnjmd women. now llic Bnllottsrille Female Con venlion was Demoralized. L It was as fine a spectacle as any one could see, lie meeting of the Ballottville Female Society; Fort' o Sisters they wore spectacles, excepting trilling few. And sorno of them (the spectacles) were green and some wero blue. n. Eat women aro not properly represented every where, And eo it was a low design tbat was concocted there, An infamous conspiracy for to demoralize TLat splendid convocation and to break it up like wise. III. Miss Clinks arose and said it was enough to vex a enint, The nay boiuo women carry on, and how some croa tares paint; file also was ashamed to see ’em wearing eaflor bats, •And thought tbo sistcis should not come accom panied by cats. IV. Ren Mrs. Brown remarked that she could not pre tend to eay How old the previous speaker was, exactly to a day; Ect elio would Iiko to know (and here she made a ecomfal face,) . . How cats coubl be avoided while Miss Blinks was in the place. V. ILcn Sarah Smith got np and said that Mrs. Wil- liam Crown, because she was a wife, conld not put other people down; The man that eho bad manied was a moan old dingy clown . who first had been refused by almost every girl in town. VI. Those hitter words brought on a dreadful storm, and pretty soon Each sister at that meeting, eoemed as crazy as loon; . The chairman she rapped bard and tried some order _ to restore, . . - Ent tho row bad got too lively, and at last eho tried no more. vn. The way the fixings flew, then, was a caution to behold. A it wero in vain to tell it, for the half cornd not bo told, .. , Bet the Secretary’s documents wero scattered all around, And the Chairman lost a chignon that has never since been found. YIH. Then suddenly, and wbilo tho conflict raged most fmiousiy, . ■ . A delegation entered that was shocking for to see. For the husbands of tho sisters who wero manr . wero all there, . And each man had a baby that was hungry as hear. IS. •And they pinched those little infants with a view to cuk'o ’em yell, , And bow tho mothers went for ’em I won’t pretend „ to tell; , . ... Bat theie was no moro discussion about anything , thatday, . , , - And the meeting was adjourned in a quiet and un expected way. . Since that disgraceful game was playoi on tho eo- Tbe members have pursued their avocations quietly; Assembling in convention Is a thing they do no mo™ And upon that simplo subject they now feel tremely soro. Cases op Conscience. — Speaking of tho “Southern Outrage Testimony” a dispatch in the New York Tribune of Saturday says: The Committee still refuse to give any of the testimony to the public. The ground for this [licence is the safety of those icno testify. Mem- hen of the Committee say that tho testimony is generally of a startling character, and will war rant and demand stringent repressive legisla tion. Judge from this what lies theso fellows have been swearing to. ns to commit, but a great many moro which never have occurred, and have oxisted only in their wicked imaginations, until now they have pretty well convinced themselves “ and the bal ance of mankind” that a stranger cannot pass through our country bnt with imminent peril of his life. Again, the idea of foreigners respecting us is that labor is a degrading occupation, only fit fernegroes and jaU birds. That we are lazy, effeminate, proud and vindictive. We may thank the Yankees for this impression of us. So long ns the negro is with us we shall not be able wipe it ont, and so foreigners will not like to come hero; and so long will tho prices of our lands keep down, for population alone can run them np. If it is bad economy then to keep the negro, and his presence with us is hurtful social state, and ruinous to our prosperity, it is certainly not wise to hold on to him any longer than we can dispense of him. With snch a country as ours, what but a bad government and the freed negro .could retard the progress of onr prosperity?’ Displace the negro by the substitution of white laborers in Ms place, and we rid ourselves, in a good degree, of both evils at once. For since emancipation, As it is likely to be a question for the consider ation of the approaoMng State Convention, and perhaps of .new the Executive Committee, we take ibis occasion to give onr views on the sub ject. The difficulty of uniting and harmonizing tho interests of the Northern, Middle and Southern sections of our great State, with their widely diversified climate, soil and productions, so as to seenre their hearty co-operation in onr State organization, has long been felt. It has been but too plainly demonstrated by tho existence of rival or local institutions, weakening the central society, and greatly detracting from its nsefclncsa. Wo all know tho destructive ten dencies of these divisions. Tho-history of the Scate society shows how nearly they have been her ruin. Three years ago she saved herself only by a compromise with the “Cotton States Society,” by which the two wero merged into one, with the full expectation that a quietus had been put upon all rival organizations in that quarter forever. But no sooner doe3 the State Fair leavo this section for a tingle year than they spring into life again. Why do these rival societies spring up in different seotions of our State? Many aro disposed to regard the organization of the Central Georgia Fair at Macon, and of the Cotton States Fair at Augusta, as attributa ble to a hostility wMch these sections had to the location of the late State Fair. We, on the contrary, believe them to have boon caused by the inadequacy of ono annual State Fair to meet tho wants of tho two great seotions re ferred to. A fair at Atlanta is too remote from tho great cotton-growing section in the South, while a fair at Macon is equally inconvenient for tho great grass and grain growing region of the northern part of tho State. Whenever, on this itinerating system, Atlanta has the State Fair, Macon must havo her local fair, and thus, to some extent, become onr rival. At lanta, too, must have her local fair whenever Macon has the State exhibition. It oannot be expected that the beautifulFair Grounds, fitted np at such vast expense by our city, will be al- as wo have shown the negro, from being “the ^“dTo'remaM mudsill” of our whole economy, and the source investment ls t00 great for Atlanta to do with- of nU onr prosperity, m now jhe source of all J ^ gome profitj w g 0o tho whole of North Geor gia will demand tho holding of a fair in tMs our troubles, and is the principal means of the Government of tho United States to annoy, irri tate and oppress us. What can we do to get rid of him ? We will eral rule, tho woik that the freed negro has done for us, is the result rather of the habit of obedience to a master, or the urgency of press ing want than any settled purpose of bettering his condition; and, that as the habit of assert ing himself under a sense of his freedom has grown npon him the habit of working well and regularly, is dying ont. We conclude, therefore, that regular, persevering, self denying work is so wholly incompatible with tho nature of tho negro that to expect it of Mm when he is free to work or not, is to ignore all that we know of his nature and history. To expect it is the same as to look for a change in the laws of nature—for the Ethiopian to change Ms skin, or the leopard Ms spots. Wo know that Radicalism looks with equal as servants and laborers. Their plan was to send over to Sweden a native of that county, who had been long a citizen of the Southarn States, who had become thoroughly identified in feeling and interest with onr people. Through his acquaintance with the views of Ms country- men in Sweden, and their wants, and his thor ough knowledge of our people, ho had no diffi culty, as he reports, in getting ns many to come as he had means of transportation, and many more than he could bring out wero anxious to come with Mm. And what is more, they pre ferred coming with him to going with the agents of Northern companies. According to the plan of these gentlemen they had to import through steamers destined to Northern.ports, which added to tho expenses indifference npon a law of God and a law of tho fare from thence to Georgia. Now, what man. where either conflicts with the impious J Is dearly indicated as onr policy, is either . .. « a ni. a : n i. ii— nF UTacom .Tnfincnn firm audacity of its dreams, and with daring effront ery it is just as ready to abolish a law of God as a law of man. But our argument is not ad dressed to the philosophers of that atheistical school, bnt to those who look with reverence npon the laws of nature, because they aro the laws of God, and would never dare to say, “what doest thon?” To such we would say, no longer work in the harness of those crazy fanat ics who have liberated the negro with the expec tation that freedom will make him a better maD, for yon hope against yonr own well matured convictions of his natnre, and against all tho lessons of history and experience. As a free man he will no more work than a cork will float np stream. He never has and never will do it. So much for the main reason why the negro in his state of freedom can never be made an efficient and reliable laborer. But he is not only averse to work because of Ms insensibility to the motives which usually prompt freemen to work, but he does not like to work for Ms old master. It reminds Mm of his bondage, and be feels that somehow he hasn’t got all that freedom implies. --That free dom means an exchange of places with Ms mas ter. And because he has never got his “forty acres and a mule” and a general outfit, he feels as if he bad not realized the full measure of Ms rights and that his master is a usurper, and in iii° heart ho hates him and will take none of Ms counsel, bnt is tho easy dupe' of every blue- coated adventurer from the North who suggests tbat his old master is his enemy. Again, the negro is unfaithful in requiring Ms employer to watch against his thefts and to supervise all tho details of Ms work lest he may neglect or slight it. But with all tho vigilance of the employer he can hardly prevent the pillage of Ms com— for it is stolen even from the troughs where the animals are fed—and he has been obliged to give up all idea of raising Ms meat. We are, therefore, warranted in the conclusion that it is bad economy to rely upon the free negro as a laborer, and this conclusion is strengthened by tho fact that before emancipation our most practical and calculating planters were of the opinion that very few men made any clear profit on onr plantations, except by tbo increase of our slaves. TMs was certainly true in by far tho larger portion of onr country. If that was true when wo had the power of enforcing obe dience by summary punishment, is it hard to understand how that, with higher prices since emancipation than wo ever had, we have made less clear money, and that we are now buying com and meat and shingling onr coming crops and plantations all over with merchants and fac tors’liens? ‘ But thl3 is not all. Tho negro is now the pet of the Federal government, and so long as he remains with us he will be a source of never ceasing irritation and annoyance through the unwiso and wicked interference of Congress in onr affairs on Ms account. Again. Now that ho is entitled to vote, his fa vor will be courted by office seekers at the ex expense of the social superiority of tho whites, through tho agency of Messrs. Johnson and others in Jones, or that of Mr. N. B. WMte, of Jasper, on the same plan, and just started, to import Swedes. Or what would be better, let us form joint-stock companies, and buy one or two good steamers to be engaged exclusively in the business of importing laborers and servants and foroign emigrants who may desiro to come here; for by such an arrangement we would very greatly diminish tho cost of importation and increase the profits of the speculation. Then, as to the necessary agents, let us fol low tho example of our friends in Jones, if we wish to have an independent arrangement, or make their enterprise tho nucleus of an arrange ment for more enlarged operations if agreea ble to the gentlemen to whom wo have referred. As to the profits of such an enterprise, wo refer to the facts following: That tho people of J ones and Jasper who have been so fortunate as to get tho Swedes who have been brought here, aro so much pleased with them that tho orders for them this year, from the number wMch wo understand, are already in from Jones and the adjoining connties, will be limited only by the means of the applicants. And it cannot bo otherwise bnt that every planter will want white laborers if there is any truth in the foregoing views supporting tho increasing worthlessness of the negro. AVo can’t do moro than hold on to the negro. We may do better, and doubtless will do better, if we import Swedes or North Germans, Norwegians, Scotch, or ^ Protestant French; for in religion, they agree, in all essen tial points, with the people of the South, and many of them are a great deal better peo ple Uinn we are. That is to say they are quite cs devout in roligion, moro economical and more orderly and quiet than the mass of our ^ It may be that as a consequence of changing our labor system we will be obliged to give np the plantation and adoptthesystemof tenanting. This is no objection worth a thought. Wo aro holding on to the plantation now under circum stances wholly incompatible with the conditions which are necessary to make it profitable. For when it was profitable the women and children who were on it were onr property, and the com, and meat, and peas, ana potatoes, and poultry which fed them were not lost, even if they stole it. But now we are compelled to keep tho women and children to get tho services of tho men, and somehow, whether they are to find their own families or not, it is certain that we have no com or meat to sell, and much to buy, and that through waht of proper control of the negro wo suffer in snch a number and variety of ways that it is believed by many of onr most sagacious planters that even with negroes we should make most by a proper system of tenant- 1D If we have time we propose to discuss this subject in another article, only remarking at the olose of tMs that there is no good reason to donbt that we can, with wMtes as laborers, hold on to the plantation system so long as tho inter ests mutually of the planter and laborer shall section. Tims it is that the strength and efficiency of the State Society are divided and diminished. How are wo to obviate this- serious _ difficulty and harmonize all theso conflicting interests ? In onr judgment, CoL D. W. Lewis, the able Secretary of the State Society, who has unques tionably given more thought to the subject than an^man in the State, has solved the problem, and suggested a plan by which these desirable ends may be accomplished, viz: to hold two State Fairs, one in Atlanta early enough to em brace the fruits, grains and vegetables of North Georgia, and another in Macon, a little later, to meet tho wants of the cotton interests. TMs plan secures to each section a State Fair every year, wMoh will warrant, both in making pre parations wMoh they would not make under the old order of this things, and does away, too, with all necessity for local organizations. A fair, however deep may be the local interest, requires an outside support, snch as only tho prestige and influence of a State organization can command to secure any great success. (The last fair at Macon is sufficient proof of this proposition.) If wo should have two State fairs, there is but little dobbt th#V**.ch of them would attract ns much support from abroad as a single one conld. The Atlanta fair would draw con tributions from North Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and some of tho other Northwestern States; and these contributions would, in all probability, be forwarded to Macon, in view of the advantages of a double exMbition. The Macon fair would attract support from Southern Alabama, Florida and the other cotton States. Thus each section may enjoy all tho advan tages resulting from a connection with a_great central organization, without detracting, in tho least, from the interests of tho other; wMle the society itself may, by thus harmonizing all con flicting interests, seenro to itself the more cor dial and hoarty support of the whole State, and roap a double advantage from her annual exhi bitions, without incurring scarcely a dollar’s extra expense. Two fairs can bo advertised as cheaply as one; but one central office would he required, and only tho same macMnery that it required for ono. We do not consider it neces sary in tho presont article to attempt to elabo rate a plan for these double fairs, but would suggest that they bo made as nearly equal as possible in attractions and advantages to exhib itors, that the premium lists bo the same and that some wise and equitable plan be adopted by wMch tho expenses and receipts may bo di vided between the State Society and the cities at which the fairs aro held. We leave the subject, most earnestly com mending to the attention of tho Convention and tho Executive Committoo, the suggestion of Mr. Lewis, as ono fraught with groat interest, both to the Agricultural Society and tho State at largo. and bv insensible degrees society may gravitate ; require it, and when a change becomes uece3- towards Ms level. 1 6ary the interest of both parties will prompt it. Again. The negro is now an incubus upon the j Futnam. j ™ priso which involves tho outlay of capital or l weeks ago that the United States Court at Ha- labor in a country subject to bo ruled by no- ; j e jnb N. G., had rendered a decision, in which groes? Where is tho capitalist who is willing*. & ’ tma£tor in that stato waP defendant, that t0 It islraoThatf^Nortimrn men havo projected . a postmaster being a United States officer, he and carried forward a good many enterprises in was compelled to receive United States curren- onr country sinco tho war, but they have been ■ cy> however mutilated, in paymont of postage, sharp enough to base their operations upon onr ^ _ 08 t mas t er a t Kingston has written to the capital and onr credit, without exposing tnoir a t Washington and has received tho own to the slightest hazard. And it is trao that some Northern men have made very largo in- , following reply : p , 1R7 , vestments in onr pin© lands, bnt at nominal Post Ovncn DEPAnrapT, February 8,1871— nrces and with a certainty that they could, Sib: Your letter of 2d instant is to hand. In at once turn all their pines into money. But, accordance-with tho rules of the Treasury Do- so far ’no investment of any magnitudo has partment, the Po3lmoster General directs you been made within onr knowledge wMch puts ( to receive in payment for postage stamps and caDUfdnpon tho slightest hazard, and which in- stamped envelopes, United States notes of the slightest confidence in the Govern- wMch not more than one-twenUeth is missing, ment Our creeks and rivers afford facilities : and fractional notes of which not.mote than for machinery of all kinds, and onr lands afford one-tenth is missing, if clearly genuine, for maenmery an a abundance of ores, I You aro not reqmrod to receive mutilated tho greatest v Y raw material of all notes, (by the term mutilated is meant notes not minerals, timberand the to this worth their foil face value undone subjoined sorts of manufa C lures,and to^ be£gaow in wMchnotes are redeemable by the Treas- wo have a mwt salubnons and ueugoum^ , the United states, and by no other offi- mato. And with all oinr tho cer. Nor will you receive notes so much soiled factoring it is said by P can ho or defaced that their genuineness oannet be Europe; yet our waterfalls send forth no din of JJp 0 - - _> busy wheels, but only tho dirgo of desolation. H. H. Tebbell. Butler’s Outrage Bill. Gen. Butler’s bill, (says tho Tribune of Sat urday) to prevent and punish outrages upon loyal citizens at the South, and to provide for taking and preserving evidence to support the claims of such citizens for property taken dur ing tho war by the army, was freely criticised by members of the House in conversation to day. It is found that if all tho Commissioners authorized by the bill aro appointed, there will bo moro than 950 of these officials, one for each county in 12 Stato, and one for each city of over 20,000 inhabitants. As these officers will he paid only by fees, they will naturally en deavor to create business that they may derive some profit from their places. This they win ho able to do in but two ways. First, by en couraging people to prefer claims against the United States; and second, by arresting per sons suspected of Ku-Klnx offenses or affinities, and bihding them over to the United States District Courts for trial. The result, it is argu ed, would be to insure the filing of an enormous number of claims, and to make more criminal business for the District Courts than conld be dispatched in the next 10 years. Another argu ment made against the bill is that it will virtu ally take from the Stato courts all jurisdiction over criminal offenses. Gen. Dntler announces Ms determination to call np the bill early next week and push it to a voto. Foreign Notes. PBEPABED FOB THE TELEGBATH AND MESSENGEE. Pending the resolutions of the Erench Nation al Assembly, the belligerents have continued in a status quo. Franca has, at' last, confided her destinies again to a statesman, the Assem bly having appointed TMeis as CMef of tho Ex ecutive. Though it was TMers who, under Louis PMlippo demanded the Rhino frontier, wo tMnk ho is too clearheaded to advocate a pro longation of tho war by joiningtho declamations of the inviolability of Prench soiL Peaco may soon thereforo close tho struggle. There Ls nothing that dies so hard os a lie. Minute Mstorical researches have long estab lished tho fact, that tho famous reply of the French Guard when summoned to surrender in the battle of Waterloo, “La Garde no se rend pas, illemeurt,” as well as the often quoted ex clamation of Kosciusko, “Finis Poloniae,” to gether with many other celebrated sayings aro- but too offsprings of a fertile brain. But being surrounded by a romanic interest they aro re vived from time to time and passed as gonuine coin.' The protended proclamation of the King of Prussia to the French people when about to enter France, staling “that he made war npon the Imperial dynasty, not npon tho French people,” has famished a host of writers with : nexhaustible material for condemning the prosecution of the war after Sedan. And though this version has also been repeatedly denied,' wo find it still circulating in many ex changes. These aro tho precise words of tho original document: “Jo fais la guerre aux soldats et non aux citoyens francais. Cenx-ci continnexont, par consequent, a jonir d’une seenrite pour leurs personnes ot lours Mens, aussi longtemps qu’ils ne me priveront pas cux momos par des entreprises hostiles contre les troupes allomandes dor droit de leur accordcr ma protection.” On December the 31st, 1870, there were 10,031 officers and 265,884 French soldiers im prisoned in North Germany. Ono hundred and eighty thousand six hundred and thirty- nino of them corild read and write, while the balance of 78,995 had not oven acquired these very first rudiments of education. Theso num bers famish tho best commentary on the stato of popular education in France. Enrico Croce, an Italian author of consider able reputation, has had dealings of a quite pe culiar kind with tho King of Saxony, who. ranks among the most eminent Dante commentators living; in fact, a German translation of the “Divina Comedia,” with explanatory notes, published by King John anonymously, may, perhaps, bo considered the best version of that great poem, and is frequently quoted by Ger man and English critics. Crooe, having pub lished tho “ Itinerario di Dante,” the King through Ms Secretary requested the author to send Mm a copy of his work. The Italian has tened to respond to this wish by forwarding the book in a magnificent binding. In the mean time two things had occurred ; first, Croce a3 a volunteer had followed Garibaldi to France; secondly, the “Itinerario di Dante,” as a book prohibited, bad been put on tho index at Rome. Croce, not having received an answer from the King after the lapse of six months, made inqui ries whether the work had been received. King John replied in the affirmative, adding, how ever, the book, being to be paid for, was too costly; he therefore relumed it, wishing a sim ple copy in paper cover at the ordinary price in exchange. The offended author, who received this communication in Anton, telegraphed at once as follows: “King John, Saxony, Dresden: Author Itinerario Dante is fighting side by side with Garibaldi. You wrote for work; refuse now bocauso too costly. Pretext. Real motives: first, work in Republican spirit; secondly, put on index in Rome; tMrdly, author of work in the field for France. Make a present of tho work.” Thus Enrico Groco relates the occur rence in Italian papers. Several times wo have been startled by re ports stating that the Prussian Government, the war being closed, would undertake to restore the temporal power of the Pope. These rumors, in which we never placed the slightest reliance, seem to owe their origin to a'telegrapMo corres pondence between Versailles and Florence wMch has been published in- the Italiau Green Book. On the 7th of October the Pope requested Count Von Amitn, the Prussian Ambassador at the Vatican, to inquire whether the King of Prussia would uso bis influence with the Cabinet of Florence, to secure to His Holiness the moans of leaving Romo freely and in a manner suited to Ms dignity, in case he should resolve on tak ing such a step. Tho Chancellor of the North German Confederation, after having replied in tho affirmative, sent another dispatch to Count Brassier do St. Simon, tho Prussian Ambassador at Florence,‘wMch concluded about thus: “His Majesty is convinced that tho liberty and dignity of tho Pope will, under all circumstances, be respected by the Italian Government, even in case he should, contrary to all expectations, re solve on a change of residence. The King re quests yonr Excellenoy to express these hopes. His Majesty does not consider that tho North German Confederation is authorized to engage in an uncalled-for interference in the political affairs of other countries, bnt he believes that it is a duty he owes to the Catholics of Northern Germany in caring for tho dignity and indopend- ence of the Head of tho Catholio Church.” To this telegram the Italian Government immedi ately replied that “no donbt oonld ho enter tained of tho sincerity of their intention to re spect and protect the independence and dignity of the Pope.” The transformation of Rome into a modem city continues. Tho first Protestant Church was opened on January 12th. Above the door of the building there is this inscription to be seen: “Free Church in a free State.” The diplomatic complications between Italy and Tnnis, will probably be amicably settled. The difference does not date from a quarrel of old standing, but it has arisen because tho Bey of Tunis does not fulfill tho commercial treaty con cluded with the Italian government. Accord ing to a dispatch from Singapore the command er of the Italian frigate “Princess Clotilde” had exchanged the ratifications of the treaties made between Italy and the Kingdom of Siam. The Prussian Government is prosecuting the reorganization of the army. The effective strength of tho national forces amounts to 744,- 000 men now. There will be particular atten tion paid to tho military training of tho troops. The wholo standing army is in possession of breech-loaders, while preparations have been made to have them also ready for the reserves at a moment’s notice. Tho artillery is provided with four and nine-pounders breech-loading cannon and a considerable park of mitrailleuses. Ordinetz, a captain of artillery, has been sent to America to receive 20,000 revolvers ordered for the Prussian army. Mrs. Woodhnll Catches Gen. Pleas anton in a Delicate Position. From the Cincinnati Commercial.] The other day, General Pleasanton, a deli cate, sensitive little gentleman, was dressing for dinner. He had divested Mmself of every garment except the ono spoken of by Hoad in that melancholy song called “Tho Song of the Shirt.” He was sailing about under bare poles, when ho heard a knock at tho door, and sup posing it to bo his man -who ought to have been there, and was not—ho sang out, “come in.” To Ms utter consternation, that constitu tional female known as Mrs. Woodhnll, with a peaked hat and a man’s overcoat, terminating in unmistakable crinolino, stalked in. As she did not immediately stalk ont, but stood looking at the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the abstract, the last named gentleman, hiding beMnd an arm-choir, stuttered cut, “Excuse me, madam!” • “I want to see yon on business, Genoral Pleasanton.” “Well, madam, won’t you ho so good as to come to my office. I am not in a condition to see any ono on easiness just now, and I beg of you to desist and come to the Bureau.’ “I don’t care anything about your condition, General Pleasanton; bnt it is a matter of some importance that I wish to see you npon, and thin is as good an opportunity as any.” “My God, madam,” exclaimed the agonized Commissioner, shifting his financial person from ono leg to tho other, “won’t you permit me to dross for dinner ?” “I have no objection to your dressing for dinner, but what I want to know is, what are you going to do about this Vanderbilt case? That Vanderbilt case is a great ontrage, sir, and I can see that somebody is to be swindled ont of half a million of dollars,” and hero followed a statement of the Vanderbilt case, that occupied just twenty minutes by the clock, and was very forcible and emphatic. At the end of it, when the strong minded constitutional Woodhnll paused for breath, the Commissioner said: “I don’t know anytMng about the Vanderbilt case, madam. I have not looked at a single pa per. I have not heard anything but what yon have told me. I havo not had time. My God, I don’t get time to get on my breeches. I don’t want to be rude, bnt I wish you would go away and let me dress.” At this moment a knock was heard at tho door, and Pleasanton yelled louder than over ho gave command to a battalion, “Come in.” Tho door opened, and the substantial figure and handsome face of our Commodore Aldon appeared upon the entrance. So soon as ho did tMs, the Commissioner chassezed from the rear of his arm-chair to the back of a sofa, and AldcD, thinking that he was intruding npon some tender scene between the General and the female, beat a hasty retreat. But the Commis sioner was not to bo forsaken, and he ran to the door, jerked it open, and, with the tail end of Ms linen flying the wind, seized Commodore Alden and brought Mm back, whon the cool and courageous Wcodull rose in a majestic man ner and wished them a good day. Pleasanton sank exhausted into a chair, and begged Alden for a little brandy to try. and rally from tMs tremendous attack of woman’s rights made np on Mm. “With the brief garment of a weak defense, He stood appalled.” < hiuewe Absurdity—lusane Wor ship of the .’•Sotlier-iu-Iaw. From the Found Tahiti] Tho Chinese aro certainly a very singular people. Living as they do, on-iho opposite side of the earth from any civilized nation, they seem to have reversed all the habits and customs of other people. The old men fly kites and the children work. They keep the most undesirable animals as pets, and save dogs and rats for the larder. Ia many other ways do they run pre cisely counter to our own customs, and prove themselves as opposite to ns in mental habits as they are antipodal in residence. Bat the most extraordinary instance of the manner in wMoh the relations of life are tamed topsy-turvy in CMna, appeared in a letter from the Celestial Empire, published in tho Times of last Thurs day, wherein an account was given of the efforts made by tho Chinese authorities to force a oer- tpin criminal to confess. The unhappy wretch bore all tho torture that could be inflicted upon him, but steadfastly refa9edto confess; where upon they seized his mother-in-law and put her to the rack. Then tho obdurate criminal yielded. Incredible as the story may seem to us, it is doubtless true. But what a wide gulf does it show between ns and the Chinaman I What civilized man is there who could not bear with Christian fortitude tho torture of his mother- in-law ? We have oven known men who, like tho early Christian martyrs at the stake, would sing liyms of triumph wMle the limbB of their own mother-in-law were stretching on the rack. And yet it would seem that the cruelest blow a Chinaman can receive is that whioh is strnok at Ms mother-in-law. What a wonderful people l How precisely our opposites! How completely upside down havo they turned the European in stitution of marriage 1 . - Since learning this fact wo are strongly in clined to oppose Chinese immigration. We conld endure the introduction of most of their customs into this country, but if they are to in troduce the insane worship of the mother-in- law, it is time that every married man shonld tako his stand against them. If the Chinese pnblio sentiment on this subject shonld prevail here, the mother-in-law would become more domineering and oppressive than ever, and the fate of tho sons-in-law would bo too terrible for contemplation. The Partridge Eater. Mr Henderson who, it will be remembered, is eating one partridge each morning between 9 and 10 o’clock for thirty successive mornings, on a wager of $500 a side, is still engaged in that agreeable business at Miller’s Kloman House, and tMs morning put Mmself outside of his twentieth bird. He commenced by taking the birds broiled, bnt at No. 12 got tired of that style of cooking, and has since taken them stewed. It would appear that he is begin ning to get surfeited with the stewed also, as this morning when tho bird was sat before him he cut it in halves, oating one moiety, and then taking a rest until Ms hour was nearly ont be fore he ate the remainder. Thus far he has fallen off 21J pounds in weight, and Ms com plexion is like that of “a clean shirt.” If he is troubled with nausea he keeps the fact to him self, and is confident of accomplishing the feat. Some who saw Mm devour 13 dozen raw oysters and three dozen fried do. at one meal on a wager a few months since, aro putting up their money on Mm; and others who put up money that ho would not accomplish the present feat, having watched him closely every morning are now be coming shaky about their stakes. It is said that a man who conld eat half .a bushel of cut straw iu wMoh three dozen raw eggs were mixed, failed in a similar feat to this.' The time will be up on the 25th inst., and as it approaches the interest increases.— Washington Star. Maxixowebs as Common as John Smiths.— The Tribune says tho Mayflower that bore tho Pilgrims across the ocean to tho Rock at Ply mouth was not, after all, employed in the Slave trade. Dr. Dexter, of tho Congregationalism who is now in England studying early New Eng land history, writes that “ there were 20 vessels named tho Mayflower in England at that time, and that the slaver wMch sailed with 450 no- negroes for Barbadoes was another of that name, and of 350 tons burden, while onr May flower measured only 180 tons. Let ns bo grateful that the hark whioh was the Cradle of the Republic was never prostituted to the serv ice of slavery. Bat will Dr. Dexter and theTribune deny that tho Pilgrims themselves, and their * ‘ boub went very hoavily into tho slave trade, and turned many a penny by bartering rum, glass beads, muskets and gunpowder for “human'souls and sinews ?” If not, why tMs sanctimonious grat itude over tMs particular “Mayflower?” Advertising will not sell worthless medicines lone as many persons havo doubtless discover ed* but a medicine that recommends, itself, as Simmons’ Live? Regulator does on trial, only requires to bo kept before the pnblio to insure success. w A jjeID & CO., Proprietors Maoon (Ga.) Daily Tel eg. a pb. A “Critic” Criticised. Eofauea, Ala., February 19,1871 Editors Telegraph and Messenger : I notice from yonr issno of tho 18th that a correspon dent of your valuable paper from Albany, Ga., tmder the nom deplume of “Critic,” made a ter rible attack npon your local for misrepresenting tho actions of tbo celebrated cow “with the crumpled horn,” in that he made* that much loved cow “toss the maiden all forlorn” instead of “the dog that worried tho cat.” All of your readers wero no doubt shocked at the misrepre sentation, and I havo serious fears that it filled many a poor inilk-maiden with direst appre hension for fear that celebrated cow had again made herself notorious by reversing her former mode of proceeding, and instead of tossing tho dog had tossed tho maiden. I am certain that tho reading public at large, and most especially the milk-maidens, feel profoundly grateful to yonr correspondent for. correcting this grave mistake of yoUr local, and that celebrated cow feels much moro exalted since she has been vin dicated in snob an able and statemanhko man ner from this slander. * It is wonderful how a man possessing only tho attributes of a human, conld compose such eloquent sentences even npon such an elevated subject as tbat far-famed “cow with the crumpled horn.” No doubt when “Oritio” read Ms article over to Mmself his heart dilated with its seeming greatness, and “he stood transfixed.” If “Oritio” had stopped when ho had so satis factorily vindicated tho character of that cele brated cow, Ms future greatness would have been witMn bis grasp, but alas for human na ture, he went too far. He could not stand upon tho ground after that mighty effort; so perch ing Mmself npon some high eminence ho began to talk to a woodman, who was either about to destroy a moaningpine, whose evergreen leaves had shaded his fathers cot in tho days gone by, and then sung a reqoiem to the departed great ness of his household, or who was about to sever from its trunk tho moss-covered oak, be neath whose shades ho had spent tho happy hours of cMldhood, and wMch remains a living monument of departed happiness, and instead of taking tho beautiful words of tho celebrated author, George P. Morris, wMch are “ Woodman, spare that tree— Touch not a single bough; In youth it sheltered me. And Ill protect it now — he mado a change in -the words by putting “early” before “youth,’’ whioh destroyed the poetry altogether, as any one can see, who is at all acquainted with tho rules for scanning. My advice to “Critio” Is: learn to repeat poetry correctly, most especially when criticizing “po etry,” and never, after writing a piece, stato .what your point is at tho close, for if the piece is any piece at all yonr point will bo scon. Juno. An Ossiiietl Face. A Nashville paper says that one of its repor ters has just seen, at tho St. Vincent Hospital, on South College streot, a case almost taxing credulity itself. Tho patient was admitted to the institotion on the 9th of this month, and is on tho list of pay patients. She is a Mrs. Car ter, from Carroll county. Some years since, near the close of the war, while suffering as an invalid, she was sitting in her room before a glowing fire. Suddenly a species of helpless ness come upon her, and she fell forward with her face upon a heap of burning coals. Her entire face was bedded on the heated fire. Un able to arise, she endeavored to scream, bnt the very voioe was drowned in the fire, that smoth ered her breath, and was sucked in for air. WritMng in agony there she lay, burning and helpless, till some of the family came to her relief. m It is enough to make tho marrow freeze m one’s bones to think of the agony she endured during that torturous space of time. On being removed, it was discovered that the face was literally burned away. Tne lips, the nose, the eyo-Iashes were crisped, and the eyes themselves, so to speak, were inverted. She reoovered of the illness under wMch she was laboring at the time, and survived the fearful aooident. AU mobility of feature, lineament of countenance and facial expression, however, are virtually ob literated by the eating fire. What 13 most sin gular is, that the face seems to have a^med a species of ossification, and. is hard, mfleable and impenetrable to ordinary touch or punc ture. SEEDS AND SHOTS. , < - . A Reminiscence of Crockford’s, in-London. From the Washington Patriot.] The announcement that the buildings known i “Crockford’s” in London—the “Crock- ford’s” of 1627—is to be let, recalls a singular story of a duel wMch arose from a oircmnstanca that happened at the London “ Crockford’s” of 1809. In these club-rooms, habitually resorted to by tho bloods of that day of knee-breeches, long boots, ruffled sMits, and cravats of dupli cated fold3 of soft muslin, which Brnmmell, to Ms credit be it said, kicked ont of fasMon when he introduced tho present stylo of cravat, in August, 1809, three young gentlemen were dining. .They were heated over their wine, and . ono of them amused Mmself by tossing water melon soed3 at a stranger who sat near them, an elderly man, wearing a shabby gray surtout, but toned up lo the throat, and who was discussing a modest muttonchop and a glass of ale. Three seeds chanced to strike the stranger, on the right ear, on the elbow, and tho breast of his coat respectively, and .as they fell, bo qui etly pickod them up, wrapped them in a piece of paper, and placed them in his pock et. After finishing his meal ho went to the young man, and without a word handed him his card. The card bore the name of a Lieutenant- - Colonel of the British army. The young man understood the moaning of this .action, and offered Ms own card in return, receiving wn«._ _ the stranger departed. On the next day the young gentleman received a challenge from the elderly gentleman, the note being accompanied with a melon seed. At the meeting that en sued the stranger shot away tho young man’s ear, where ho himself had been struck by the first melon seed thrown. A month after the young gentleman received another note, with another seed. Another meeting ensued, and the young man was shot in the elbow. Finally, tho same person who had handed the first two notes to the young man, on behalf of tho stran ger brought to him a third. It contained the melon seed, but no challenge. Surprised at this, the youDg gentleman questioned Ms an tagonist’s second upon its meaning. The answer came that the stranger was dead, and that, with that melon seed, he had sent Ms for giveness. ■ Swedish Immigration. Macon, Ga., February 22,1871. Editors Telegraph and MessengerThe peo ple of Jones county tender you many thanks for the manner in which you have thought pro per to speak of them in connection with tho introduction of Swedes in that county. They, and so does the whole country, need such la borers, and it is Mgbly gratifying to those who havo taken an aotive part in the matter, to see such an interest taken in the introduction of more of them. No help from abroad has been given the people of Jones and they have had much trouble in doing what has been, done, aside from some pecuniary loss. Not discour aged, however, they have determined to bring more of them and are now endeavoring to ar range their plans so os to bring among us next Fall quite a large number. Properly managed it is practicable and I feeTsnre of their success. My son, F. B. Johnson, Jr., accompanied by Mr. JohnMoreen, an intelligent and gentleman ly Swede who well understands men, and whose practical experience renders Mm entirely capa ble, aro now in New York arranging their plans. Mr. Moreen will proceedjo Sweden immediate ly and spend the whole summer in looking np emigrants, going among the peasantry and hunt ing only such as are proper ones to serve us here. He well knows onr people and our want* as he has been many years among ns, and judg ing from the character of those of his oountry. men he brought over last fall, we may expect ■ valuable acquisition to our laboring class. In about ten days, my son will return to Clinton, when he will let the pnblio know his programme. Having six Swedes in his employ and well know ing them he is determined if encourage met can be had, to supply the country with suoh labor as to make us all adopt it in lieu of that we have; and in conclusion, I will say, to bring from you hearty congratulations. I am, Messrs. Editors, Very truly yours, F. S. Johnson, Set. Serious Illness of Senator Sumner. For some time past (says a Washington tele-. — raid of T ~ ’ Masculine Juvenile (age uncertain, face twelve, dress twenty)-“Dovoudanoe the round dancec, Miss Ada?” Feminine Juvenile (aged eleven) “Ob, no, Mr. Graves, really; the ex ertion is so great that my physician has cau tioned me to give them .up. Two winters ago I completely wore myself out”—-iY. T. Evening Mail. gram in the Herald of Sunday) Senator Sumner has been suffering acute pains in the chest, and on Thursday evening, while at dinner, he ni suddenly attacked with a shortness of breath and suffered the most exoruclating pain. His phrsioian, Dr. Bliss, was immediately summon- ed and ^veMm remedies that relieved him very muoh, causing Mm to sleep soundly. Yes terday Senator Sumner was at the Capitol for » few hours, but had to leave the Senate before its adjournment and on returning to his resi dence was again prostrated. He reoovered from this attack, but this morning it waa renewed and the attendance of his physician required several times daring the day. Mr. Samner has an af fection of the heart, brought on by the assault made on him by Bepxesentative Brooks, years ago, and his complaint angina pectoris, is re garded as one of great danger. Dr. Bliss states that it will be absolutely neoessary for Mr. Samner to relinquish his Senatorial duties for the present and give himself up to perfect rest -and repose if he expects to folly recover hia health. There used to be a cant saying among the boys that “If you Mt a nigger on the «Mn it would make his nose bleed,” but we had no con ception that Senator Sumner was physically or ganized on so similar a principle, that blown over the head should give him disease of the heart. •
