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MACON TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1871.
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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.
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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. •
