About Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1871)
' —- Tlie Cfeoreia "W eekly J onrnal &c. Telegraph and Messenger. Cokobws.—The President yesterday sent a verbal request to both houses of Congress, not to adjourn this Week dr assign a day for ad journment. On Jobs Shown, of Michigan, having been convicted for stealing wool, the Chicago Times pleasantly remarks that “this Brown family always had a penohant for wooL’ As it is said that “when rogues fall out honest men oome to their own," the Courier-Journal wants to know why the people of New Orleans don’t get back their spoons, jewelry, plate, fur niture, pianos, etc. Twmm Mails.—In oonsequenoe of assaults upon a negro mail agent on the Louisville and Lexington Railroad, the PostofHce Department hn ordered mail service on that road to be dis continued. See dispatch. Longstreet & Sedgwick.—The attention of Georgia and Alabama merchants is invited to thin old, popular and well-known clothing house, 466 and 468 Broadway, New York. It is among the largest wholesale establishments in the United States, and none sustains a higher char acter. The Coax. Strike.—All the parties to the Le high coal mine strikes were at last accounts, further at tea than ever. The General and Subordinate Miners’ Councils had voted to hold out to tha bitter end, and the operators had de termined to make a decisive starvation issue of it. Through Passengebs.—A passenger states that ho came through Macon from Mobile with a train of five car loads of through passengers from New Orleans. The time from New Or leans to New York via Mobile, Montgomery, Columbus and Macon has been reduced to sev enty-four hours, and the ronte is monopolizing the through travel between those points. Shall Pox is prevalent now over a large part of the world. It is vary virulent in Prance, iu London, in India, in Germany. It is spreading in the Northern States and is very bad in New Brunswick. After war comes pesti lence. When mankind have done showing how fast they can kill each other, Heaven takes np the case and shows that men can die fast enough even if they let each other alone. Pbess Expenses.— 1 The New York Herald of Friday says: “Since the war in Europe began we have expended not less than a hundred and fifty thousand dollars on cable news.” That is heavy, but after all not more to the Herald than the four to five thousand dollars annually expended by us in telegrams is to the Telegraph. A newspaper is an institution pre-eminent for its capacity to consume money. Coming Home.—Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, seems disposed, like the prodigal son, to come home from his wallowing with the Radical swine in this State. We wish him a safe and speedy arrival there, and a thorough cleansing from the filth in which he has been revelling since “reconstruction.” Alcom in old times was a gentleman, with all a gentleman’s in stincts, tastes, and antipathies, and these, we judge, begin to assert themselves again. He can do his State and race great service if he will only “push things” in the direction he ap- appears to be heading now. We wish him God speed in the work. A Funny Affair.—A Unitarian clergyman named Hatch was last week taken before tbe municipal court of Boston on a charge brought byoertain members of the Young Men’s Chris tian Association, to-wit: “Standing in Tremont street for the exercise of a certain calling, viz: the distribution of traots, he not being licensed by the Mayor and aldermen-” They alleged that he drew a crowd and obstructed the en trance to the Association's rooms, and the char acter of his tracts was objectionable, as expo sitions of the Unitarian Faith. The Magistrate, however, objected to inflict the punishment un der the ordinance for so slight an offence, and so the effort to bring the city government down on Unitarianism, while (he evangelical tract distributors pervaded the city harmless, failed. The 42d Congeess—The World in cataloguing the present Congress, pats a Democrat in the Senate from Georgia along side of Joshua Hill, but adds in a note that Foster Blodgett claims the seat, and the Democratic Legislature eTnimn the right to choose. We presume the Senate will settle the question one way or the other be fore adjournment. Counting Vance, from North Carolina, and two Democrats to be elected in Virginia and Georgia, the Democrats would muster seventeen out of the seventy-fonr Senators. The Haase stands 97 Democrats, 130 Republicans, and 16 to be chosen. There are five negroes in the body—B. S. Tomer, of Alabama; Rainey, DeLarge and Elliott, of South Carolina, and Walls, of Florida, all yellow but Elliott, who is black. Of the nine territorial delegates five are Radicals, two Democrats and two to be elected. Impatience! One ef the most costly of our foibles is im patience of slow prooesses and moderate results. This costs Georgia a fortune every decade. It infects and damages, or pervades and mins our whole agricultural policy as a people. It betrays us into imprudent ventures leading generally to damaging results, which cripple ns with debt so that we work under constant pressure and at great disadvantage. The man under a pecuni ary cramp is never master of his own business, whatever it may bm Instead of controlling it, it oontrols him. He is compelled to be governed in his management, not by his judgment, bnt by his necessities—not by what ho would do, but by what he can do. He works in hand cuffs and shackles, and this is the reason why a good many people miscarry in business. They do not lack the necessary judgment, or energy, or applica tion ; bnt they are unfortunately controlled all the time by financial exigencies and cannot al ways follow the suggestions of experience and the dictates of jadgment. This is one evil result of impatience of slow gains and tardy progress. It is tux individual result, bnt so common as to bear disastrously on the general welfare of the planting community. But impatienee has been still more disas trously manifested in those prodigious efforts to swell the cotton crop, which have, in so short a time, culminated in the practical rain of the cotton growing business. Had we been content to do very well—to pursue a business which would have enriched us in a very few years— the road before us was very direct and plain. We had only to moderate our rage for cotton and devote a part of our energies to the produc tion of food crops. This we could have done to great advantage. In October, 1846, cotton in Macon was priced at 45 cents, bacon at 35 and com at $1 25. Certainly here was a good margin for profit in raising com and bacon; bnt in those days everybody could show by fig ures that it was such a suicidal business to raise com and meat, with ootton at 45 cents, that few farmers had the moral courage to oommit Buch a folly. Everybody was impatient to realize at once the grandest results from cotton growing, and to inflict as many hales as possible on the market. And, although, every successive year’s mar keting since that time has remonstrated with us trnmpet-tongued on the utter folly of this course, yet we have persisted in it with increas ing ardor, so that now wo find the business ut terly mined, and no balance in hand as the profits of the process- Onr impatience to be rich has spoiled the finest ohance to make money we ever had. Odr agricultural oper ations, instead of filling onr pockets with the incomes from seven successive ootton crops at high prices, as they might have done, have simply transferred all onr earnings to the North and West and left ns poor. If we had moder ated onr thirst for gain and contented ourselves with reasonable cotton crops, while producing onr own food supplies, we should have been rich to-day, and cotton would probably be twen ty-five cents in tbe market. But we display our impatience in owe manner of farming as well as in its direction and re sults. We seek to accomplish too mnch with inadequate means. We are in too much of a hurry to get fairly ready for any thing. We lack thorough and timely preparation before we begin, and system and steadiness after wards. Wo are perpetually verifying experi mentally, the old saw that “haste makes waste.” We need plan and system, looking for time as necessary to foil fruition. In the pres ent ont look of agricultural interests in Geor gia, it seems to ns oar farmers are uncondition ally remitted to the pursuit of some systematic agricultural policy. They must look ahead for years to the getting their lands in heart by the cultivation of food crops and rearing stock. They must provide a long way in advance for their supplies of animal food, and, in order to do this there most be similar prevision for grasses and grain. An impatience which must realize every result of the year’s labor before Christmas, is fatally at war with sueh a policy, and will, therefore, prove rninions to the plan ter. As costly to ns as tins impatience has been in the past, we fear, it may be worse in the future. A man can do very well without being rich. It is not at all necessary or often bene ficial to anybody to be rich. But we cannot do well without plenty of wholesome food, com fortable clothing and the means of providing properly for onr families. We cannot be hap py annoyed and'baxrassed by debt, and liable to be sold ont by the Sheriff; and that questionin the f attire must hinge npon onr abandoning past follies and adopting a system of systematic and independent farming. Georgia Shad.—The New York Commercial of Saturday Bays fresh shad from Savannah aic. in good supply here at fifty cents a head. That is lower than Georgians buy them at in general. The supply of shad this winter, in the interior, however, has been uncommonly heavy. The receipts of one house, that of Felix Gorput, amounted in one day to 1,700, and we suppose has frequently approached that number. Mr. Corpnt’s fish are caught in the St. Johns. Other houses, the Walkers, Ells, and several more, have received heavy daily supplies from the Savannah and Ogechee riven, and some very fine shad have been brought from Charleston. We jndge that the rivers are becoming much more productive of shad than they used to be in ante-bellum timeB. So much of the surface of the country is now reverting to its original wilderness, that probably the streams are be coming less tjirbid and in better condition for nurseries of the fish. New Books.—Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co. send us au installment of new books, three of them fresh from the press of Carleton, New York, and the fourth from a Hartford publisher. Carleton Issues “Crown Jewels,” by Emma L. Moffett, of Columbus, Ga.; “Out of the Foam,” by John Baton Cooke; and “The Fran- oo-Prassian War,” by M. L. LaindoD, a well known journalist. John Esten Cooke’s book is noticed elsewhere. “Crown Jewels” is an- sonnoed with confidence that the cultivated taste of the reading putflio will make it a suc cess. The author has taken for a subject a page of history on whioh is inscribed the names of Frinoe Maximilian and; tbe Frinoess Garlotta has gathered information from the most authen tic and official sources, and avoiding tiresome details, indulging in no sentimentalism, yet tilling the volume throughout with pure, ele vated sentiment—has completed a work full of poetry and romance. Ur. London's book is the late war In a nut sheU. It is abundantly furnished with mapfl.apd adorned with numerous portraits, engraved on steel, of French and Prussian com manders ; it is eminently readable and instruc tive, and full of promise of a wide popularity. The “Widow Goldsmith’s Daughter,” pub lished at Hartford—is Tery readable, and a lady friend—who has read it—prononnoes it mnch above the average. Messrs. J. W. B. & Co. have all these books for sale. Hie Meridian Riot* The riot at Meridian, on Monday last is a lively indication of the perilous condition of af fairs in Mississippi. The town bad been fired by inoendiaries the previous Saturday night, and seventy-five thousand •dollars’ worth of property destroyed. A negro was under ar raignment for the orime before a magistrate, when one of his partisans deliberately rose in the oonrt-room and shot the Jndge through the head. A general melee followed, in which two negroes were killed in the court-room. Tyler, tho negro who killed the Jndge, then jumped from the oonrt-room window in the second Btory of the house and fled, bnt being pursued by the sheriff and-posse, was shot and killed. Subsequently, another conflict followed an at tempt to disarm the negroes by the sheriff, and three more were killed, making seven persons in all. At night the negroes recommenced the work of incendiarism and burned a church and other buildings. There would never have been any trouble with i the freed negro in the South, but for tho effort of the Badioat party of the United States to make him a mere political catspaw of that organ ization, and engineer him for party benefit. The relations between the races which subsisted du ring slavery, were generally of a kindly charac ter, and hence it was essential to the Radical purpose that suspicion and ill-feeling shonld be implanted in tbe negro mind. All the instru mentalities of “do buro”—of earpet-bagism— of the press—and of peripatetic politicians were sedulously and successfully employed- to this end, and the work has been and still is pursued with great ingenuity and untiring energy. Its effect upon the negro is appalling. If he iB ever to lay the foundation of a solid and en during prosperity in the South, it must b9, to a very large extent, under the tutilage -of the Southern whites. By them, in the way of both precept and example, he most be taught how to manage the farm and workshop, and almost every facility for the- successful prosecution of labor must necessarily oome from the whites. So, also, must the essentials of legal protection —the maintenance of order—and the institu tions of education and religion. The whites hold all the land and capital of the South—pay the taxes and support the governments, such as they are. Northern contributions cannot do tins, and Northern immigrants are few and far between, except those wretched political adven turers whose depravity has proved a plague spot in American politics, and brought shame to every Northern mind capable of tbe emotion. But, nevertheless, in this state of affairs the work of poisoning the negro mind and sowing discord and dissention between the races goes steadily on. Congressional committees labor night and day to prove by exceptional cases that the negro has no security among tho South* em whites. The most ridiculous and inflam* matory statutes are passed on this absurd hy pothesis, in which the liberty and property of the Southern white, is put at the mercy of any negro who will perjure himself. Every foolish and wioked device is put in operation to antag onise in interest and feeling, these two races, who in the providenoe of God most either dwell together oh terms which will admit of comfort and advantage or inflict mutual injury in the effort to supplant each other. The result is easy to be seen and anticipated in such occurrences as the above, and many others whioh figure as “outrages.” The negro is easily excited by the machinations of a supe rior race to acts of insubordination and violence. Jealous of Ms “freedom” and instructed to oount every Southern white as its enemy, he is easily arrayed against law and the administra tion of justice. Flattered and cajoled by the Radicals, he is easily made very offensive and overbearing in Ms demeanor—very absurd in Ms pretensions—very idle and wortMess in con duct and character. In a word, be is in danger of being converted into a public nuisance—rec ognized as such, not only in the South, bnt all over the country; and as snoh is surely des tined to abatement by the people, unless he has the good sense to detect and despise these Rad ical machinatora. The people of the South and of the whole country, are willing to give the negro every fair chance to work ont Ms for tune; but they will not be annoyed andhar- rassed by Ms idleness, lawlessness and rowdy ism, or the absurd plots to f orce Mm into social admixture with themselves. He must be or derly, industrious and valuable to society, or he will be Speedily repressed by competition and the stem demands of public necessity. Furnishing Ammunition to the Enemy. We have information from Atlanta that the editorials of certain Democratic papers, and the 'utterances of oertain Democratic politicians of this State who vaunt themselves as peculiarly the exponents and champions of “pure” Democ racy, are affording Bollock and other leading •RfldirtMla great gratification. These utterances are being sent on for republication at the North, and for pasting in the scrap books of the Radi cal stump orators all over that section. Espe cially are they being utilized, just at present, in Connecticut and New HampsMre, where the Demounts are making a gallant fight on live issues and witn ry prospect of success—pro vided these zed hot folnuastions in the hands of the Radical stumpers do not prove sufficiently potent to alarm the people into giving a vordict against the Democratic party as the party of revolution. If English is beaten in Connecticut and the Democrats make no gains in New Hampshire, we shall be able to approximate the extent of the miscMef accomplished by publish ing these utterances as the expression of (he feelings and sentiments of the Democratic party of Georgia and the South. Our advice to the Georgia and other Radicals is to make hay while the sun shines, with this atop. The next crop to be sown and harvested in Georgia and the South, will be under authori. tative sanction. It will be the work of those anthorized to speak for the Democratic party, under the broad seal of the harmonious delib eration and conclusions of a Democratic State Convention, where the people, who are tired of Radical domination, and favor the shortest and most practicable way to overthrow it, will be heard. When thafState Convention speaks, the Radicals will be welcome to all the capital they can make ont of its declaration of principles. They will find nothing in it that will not con front them from Maine to California, and wMch the American people will not endorse. It will bo only onevoioe in the mighty chorus whole thunder tones will chaunt the requiem of cor- ruption and tyranny all over the land. The American Democracy are going into the next fight to win, and all whostandin the way either as open enemies or injudicious, impracticable friends, will be swept froth their path. The Difference.—The Radical majority in the House on the last day of the last session of the 41at Congress, voted to pay Beard, the mu latto ifom Augusta who contested the seat of Corker, Democrat, $1000 to defray his expenses in contesting the seat; and on the same day voted OoL Tift only $500, to pay Ms expenses in contesting WMteley’s right to a seat. When we consider that Beard had no oase at all, having been defeated by a majority of mbre than five thousand, and that Col. Tift had the strongest sort of a case, having been aotually elected to the seat WMteley is usurping, we can readily understand of how little account a white man is at Washington. Well, we will just put that down among the otherscoresthat the Dem ocrats intend settling in 1872. Curiosities o» Photogbafhy nt New York.— The World of Sunday, has a long and inter esting artide on photographers and photogra phy in New York, from wMch we extraotthe following: A photographer was visited some ^Beksago by a lady who wished a full length picture with her dress lifted so as to show her ankles. The gentleman who accompanied her was altogether the most difficult to suit in the matter, and some six or eight attempts were made before the ankles were properly shown, and then the photographer discovered that he was a fasMon- able shoemaker, and this lady had made some arrangement with Mm to receive boots in re turn for pictorial advertisements. Doubtless there is now exMbited somewhere on the Bame street, a pair of well-tnmed ankles and trim walking boots, with the manufacturer's name rudely plastered under them. Rev. B. J. Coulter, in Ms recent anti-woman sermon in CMcago, “mixed it rather sonr,” He said: “The race will not die out or degenerate for lack of blatant stump-speakers, platform termagants, and scolds. The sort of women who are clamoring for ballots and rights are of the type Of our men-lobbyists and intriguers, and dead-beats generally. And, ha plain words, what is the'scheme in its last analysis, stripped of its flimsjr rhetoric, bnt free love and liber tinism?” A Quick Trip.—The New York Commercial Advertiser, of Friday, the 8d inst., says: “The steamship Charleston, Captain Berry, of Mor gan & Go’s line of Charleston packets, wMch ■ arrived yesterday, made the run from Charles ton in forty-eight hours—one of the quickest on xeoord.” The Coal Tariff.—The Senate talked the resolution repealing the duty on ooal to death. The discussion lasted np to the moment of ad journment, and this Is the way this judicious body took to kill a measure of relief to the poor against the outrageous extortions of the specu lators. Goal pays a duty of 47 per oent, esti mated at foreign cost, and tbe receipts from it last year amounted to $1,103,968. To realize this pitiable sum the Government places'the fuel of the poor at the mercy of rings of sharp ers who raise the price from six to twenty-eight dollars In the course of a few months. The comedian, Harry WatMnB, is honoring Sparta with a visit. - A great deal of farm and garden work was done lost week in Hancock county. A recent trip in the country satisfies the edi tor of the Sparta Times that almost ag much guano is being used tMs season as last. The Atlanta Sun,.of Monday, says: A Robber Jumps from a Railroad Train and is Captured.—A short time, ago, two men named Foster and Oaferand robbed a man on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, between Oartersville and Atlanta, of a large sum of money, and jumped from the train, calculating to make good their escape. Foster was killed by the force of the fall, but Oaferand escaped with some severe bruises. He went through to Chattanooga, and then went on to Nashville on the 1st. On Friday, Col. Cole, of the Nashville and Chattanooga Road, received a telegram from Chattanooga asking him to pnt an officer on the track. The depot police started ont after Oaferand, of whom he heard at the Maxwell House. Thence he followed him to the Na tional Hotel, and thenoe to the City Hotel, where he arrested him. Oaferand accounted for Ms face being bruised by sa^g that he had been thrown from a baggy. answered the description sent fully, and was accordingly lodged in jaiL The Banner says a witness has been sent for, and Caferand will *be taken to Atlanta. His wife is still at the hotel. None of the stolen money has been recovered. , The Era of yesterday says: The Second Baptist Church Sunday.—The congregation of the Second Baptist Ghuroh, cor ner of WasMngton and Mitchell Btreets, occu pied their new house of worsMp for the first time on Sunday last. The auditorium is one of the largest in the oity, and was literally jammed. Every pew was full, and yet there were those present who had to occupy improvised seats, so great was the crowd. At the conclusion, it was announced that the congregation was in arrears $7,500 for the new building wMoh they occu pied. A collection was taken np, and in less than thirty minutes the entire sum of $7,500had been made np. We quote as follows from the last Gainesville Eagle: Sale of Real Estate.—During the last week thareal estate business has been quite animated, and a number of transfers have been the result. Among the most important purchases, we may mention several lots by Messrs. Brown & Law- she, of Minnesota, and Mr. Bondorant, of the firm of Scott, Bondorant & Adams, contractors on the Air-Line Railroad. All of these gentle men contemplate building immediately, and preparations to that end are now being made. Several other persons from a distance are in the city, negotiating for property with a view to locating here. The editor of the Newnan Defender wants two aores of Jew David’s Hebrew plaster to draw Ms Norway oats ont of the ground, where they have been two weeks. The Albany News says: Corn Planting Over.—A large.majority of onr planters are through with corn planting, and we regret to learn that they have increased the area bnt a small per centage. Each one thinks everybody else will plant largely of com and reduce the cotton area, and thinks so—or rather selfishly hoping so—greedily pnts in heavily for the staple, afid depends on baying the cereals. Fatal mistake! The work of preparation for planting cotton is going ahead vigorously, and we learn of many who intend planting early to make up for the non-use of guano. We clip the following from the Augusta Con stitutionalist, of Tuesday: An Old Penitentiary Convict.—Informa tion received from Biohmond, Va., warrants the conclusion that the burglar who robbed the money drawer of Messrs. George T. Jackson & Co., on last Tuesday, is old in orime, though apparently young in years. He gave Ms name as Lee Whitehouse when arrested here. A let ter from Richmond speaks of a Lee WMtehurst, a notorious tMef who left that city in the spring or anmmer of 18C6, in company with a like eharaoter named Curley, (the latter known in the Virginia penitentiary) for Atlanta. In the latter city WMtehnrst commenced operations by entering a bank in broad daylight, from which he stole several thousand dollars, but was caught by a clerk in the bank, while at tempting to escape through a window. He was tried by the court and sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes and be imprisoned in the penitentiary, it is thought, for five years. He reoeived the stripes prescribed, and was after wards haadouffed to a negro convict and started for the penitentiary at Milledgeville. On the way the negro and himself jumped from the cars and made good their escape, since wMch nothing has been heard from them. Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. Stock.—In Columbia, S. O., at public sale on Saturday, 1,000 shares of stock in the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, owned by the city of Columbia, were disposed of, and brought Mgher prices than any that has recently been disposed of. Two hundred and fifty shares brought $40 75, 750 $40 a share. Comptroller Neagle was the purchaser. Tbe bidding was very spirited, Messrs. John J. Cohen & Sons, of Augusta, being represented by Captain F. L. Cohen. Savannah sMpped 7,375 bales of cotton, val ued at $508,079 10, to Liverpool and Bremen, Monday. Mrs. W. P. Fleming, wife of Hon. W. B. Fleming, of Savannah, died very suddenly of heart disease, Monday afternoon. Henry Speights and Jim Lewis, the two ne groes who attempted to rob Mr. Adams, of Wil kinson county, at Milledgeville, week before last, have been sent to the penitentiary for four years each. Says the Southern Recorder, of Tuesday: Bishop Vanderhorst, colored, of the African Methodist Ghurob, preaohed a sermon Sunday evening, that in the opinion of several gentle men who heard him, was a masterly effort—one that stamps him a man of sound sense, and also sound polities. He advised Ms colored brethren to keep polities and religion separate, denounc ing in strong terms that religion nph9ld by the bayonet. The leading theme of Ms discourse was that peace, love and harmony Bhould prevail in place of mobs, kn-klux organizations, etc. Fifty-nine persons joined the Presbyterian and Methodist Oharohes at Columbus, last Sun day—33 of whom connected themselves with the former denomination. J e Columbus Enquirer chronicles another ent, Sunday, on.the Western Railroad, be tween that city and Opelika, Alabama: Four box oars were thrown off—two of them were badly smashed np. The accident was caused by the breaking of a truck. We hear there was considerable damage to freight by the run off. Wheat and corn were scattered fore and aft; bottled liquors were rudely wreck ed, and tobacoo ground to snuff. Total loss estimated at $10,000. ’ Mr. W. A. Hemphill, ene of the proprietors of the Atlanta Constitution, was married on Tuesday, at Covington, to Mrs. E. B. Luckie. The Constitution of yesterday says: The Western and Atlantic Railroad transports from Chattanooga to tMs point, large quanti ties of baoon, lard, eorn, eto., and from Dalton large quantities of East Tennessee produce. The amount received from tha Nashville and Chattanooga, and East Tennessee and Georgia Railroads, is largelyin excess of thefreight they carry back to them. The cars return back com paratively empty. The average amount paid every week since January first has been fully $30,000 to the Nashville and Chattanooga and $7,000 to the East Tennessee and Georgia Bail- roads. This is what is meant by payments made to connecting roads. Mr. David Castleberry, of Batts county, had Ms tMgh broken last Thursday by Ms horse falling in a ditoh. A Panic which Might Be.—A friend who has just returned from the West says there would be a mighty panic there if there could be. But seeing the currency Is irredeemable and there is no pay day, there is no panic. It is fortunate for the oonntry that the schemes of the imme diate resumptionista of a year ago, misoarried. Thz whites of South Carolina have memorial ized Congress, through Cox, of New York, for a decent government and protection against the hhcc^^a tteyMive'^ven’Mm a friendlygreet- Irish Affairs.—The World says the Rev. Dr. Bing, who opened the Senate’ lately with special prayer for the High Commission, and preached in the Metropolitan Ohnroh on ''National Christian Brotherhood,” has been exoiting in terest in WasMngton by a lecture on Ireland, pleading for “Catholic Christian Union and Universal Peace.” He maintains that there is now no jnst cause for Irish discontent; that the British government iB incomparably the best in Europe, and secures to all Irishmen perfect civil and religious liberty, with impartial ad ministration of the law. Mr. Bing is an Irish man, and claims to* be an Irish patriot, though not a political partisan. Many of Ms fellow- countrymen, the . Fenians, have flocked to hear carpet-baggers and negroes. That is a queer] j ngi while they oonfess their hostility to the plaoe to go for a dedent government British government. Foreign Notes. PREPARED FOR THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. Humanity rejoices that the carnage in Franoe has ceased. No longer will the sound of the clarion summon thousands of human beings to death and destruction, nor will the setting sun illuminate another ghastly battlefield. Cannon and mitrailleuses, chassepots and needle-guns, have done their work. Paris has already been evacuated, and the hated invaders are wending their way homewards, leaving only an army of occupation behind until the whole war indem nity shall have been paid. As the French are straining every nerve to shorten the stay of the detested foreigner on their soil, the last Ger man soldier will, probably, be soon gone, for Bismarck may be induced to accept sufficient financial pledges in order to escape the compli cations threatened by a continued occupation. Franoe, freed from the conqueror, has the great task of restoring her prosperity before her. Under a wise and stable government she would recover quickly; but there Ib danger of anarohy and civil war af ter the departure of the con queror, against whom all parties had united. Ever since 1789 Franoe has been in a chronio state of revolution; will the overthrow of the empire and the establishment of therepnblio be the last? We fear not. An adventurous love of military glory seems to have seized the Italian and Spanish Govern ments. While the Cabinet of Florence- is still engaged in a delicate diplomatic correspondence with the Bey of Tunis, Spain has become in volved in a difficulty with the Viceroy of Egypt. It appears that an attache of the Spanish Con sulate in Cairo has made a complaint to the effect that he had been ill-treated by the police. The Egyptian authorities having very reasona bly proposed to have the matter thorougMy in vestigated, the Government of Bing Amadeo insists on immediate satisfaction for the insult offered to a Spanish subject. TMs difficulty will hardly affect the peace of the world; but, really, Spain had better turn all her energies toward developing her material resources at home than picking up a quarrel wMch might lead to a costly foreign expedition. The CorteB null be opened on April 3d. The Opposition to the new monarchy have formed a coalition em bracing not only the adherents of Alfonso, but also such hostile elements as the Carlists and Republicans. Though the alliance is rather a strange one, eaoh party oonnta npon superseding its confederates, their common enemy being ex pelled. The Republicans, Castelar, Figures and Margall, have issued a proclamation vehe mently attacking the “foreign dynasty;” they declare that they had resolved to force it to ab dicate, and would, in case of need, first direct their attack against the Bing. A decree of the Italian Minister of War, sets tMrty-one former Papal soldiers, belonging to the French, Swiss and German nationalities, at liberty. They-were.deserters and had been sentenced to several years’labor at the galleys by the Papal authorities. Recruiting with a view to the proposed intro duotion of compulsory military service com menoed in the Russian Empire on January 27th. The new system, abolishing many ex emptions, will also compel baptized Jews who were Mtherto exempted from military service, to fight and die for the Czar. Popular educa tion promises to be greatly promoted by the re form of the army. All young men liable to .ser vice who possess a certain degree of education prescribed by law, will enjoy privileges regard ing the term of service and the facility of ris ing from the ranks, while fnrionghs will be granted to such soldiers only as are able to read and write fluently. After a long period of suspense, a new ad ministration has lately been formed in Austria. Scarcely were the names announced before the great majority of the Austrian German journals began to criticise the ministers with extraordi nary acrimony. The charges brought against them most appear to a foreigner very frivolous. Count Carl von Hohenwart, the Premier, is charged with being an Ultramontane, although he did not display very strong elerioal sympa thies in dealing with Bishop Ruediger, of Linz. Two are reproached with having Czech names, yet Giskra, Tsohabuschnigg and other leaders of the constitntional party can hardly boast of bearing German sounding nausea. All are spo ken of as entirely unknown, though Dr. Albert Schaeffle, the Minister of Commerce, occupies a Mgh position iu the soience #f political econ omy, while the others are well known ia their respective spheres. The fact is, political life is still in its infanoy in Austria. When in other constitutional countries "the ministers are no longer supported by a majority of the deputies they will resign their office for tbs time being, without scrupling to Step into power again shonld pnblio opinion torn in their favor. But the Austrian politicians are condemned to inac tivity for years as soon as they are compelled to resign their placeB on the ministerial benches. Whenever a change of administration becomes necessary, it is therefore very difficult to find statesmen of. experience desirous of placing themselves at the head of the Government, and many men whose' talents might be nsefnlly em ployed in the service of the Empire shrink frota accepting a position wMch will finally bory them in oblivion. In England tbs ministers are chosen from the members of Parliament; this rale is not observed in"Austria, it being almost impossible to find in the-Vienna Riechsrath men who would subordinate their party inter ests to the weal of the State. The Southern German States will send a large contingent of liberal elements' to the German Parliament The cMef parties whioh were rep resented in the North-German Richstag were the conservatives, the free conservatives,, the national-liberals, the progressists and the social democrats. The last of these are divided into the followers of Schweitzer, wha favor a cen- tralistic, aad the followers of Babel, who favor a federal form of government Outside of these parties stood the particularists who have now adopted the title of the federal constitu tional party, and the Poles. It seems probable that in the course of the coming elections, the latter will split into two factions, ene of wMch will be more exclusively Catholio and the other one more distinctly revolutionary than they have Mtherto been. In North Germany two new parties are endeavoring to seat candidates in the Reichstag. The first of these is the party of the fattue. Its organ is the Berlin Zukonft, and its leader Dr. Johaun Jacoby, the same who was lately imprisoned for protesting against the forcible annexation of Afcwce and Lorraine. The opinions of this party agree In all impor tant respects with those of the Volkspartei and the democrats of the South. They are of a federal and democratic character. The Catho lics who have succeeded in forming a body of some importance in the present Prussian Land tag, will also endeavor to gain a place in the Reichstag. The patriotic party of Batyria has divided into two faotions whioh are knflrfSf as the center and the old patriots. 'The former have accepted the new federal constitution, while the latter oppose it Some of the great Germans of Wortemberg, as well as the ministerial party, have also an nounced their intention of taking part in the elections. ;In Baden there IM besides tho Na tional Conservatives and the Catholic “Volks partei,” whose members have frankly accepted the constitution. : The debates of the-Prussian Landtag have been of little interest to any foreign reader. A proposal of Lasker, calling on the government to suspend the state of siege in oertain provinces daring the elections for the Reichstag, was ac cepted by the chamber with 213 against 1Q8 votes, though tbe Minister of the Interior de clared that the state of siege wonld not prejudice in the least, the freedom of the electors. A bill was brought in by Hagen, paeviffing that mar riages contracted by military men, without the consent of their superiors, whioh, at present, are considered as null and void, may be legiti matized by an authorization subsequently ob tained. As the government offered no opposi tion, the measure passed without debate. Jarno. The Romantic Story of a. Switch.—A piece of human hair may be seen. at 17 Essex street, with which is oonheoted a most romantio story. It weighs seven ounces, is sixty-four inches in length, of dark brown hue, and as soft as silk. This is probably one of the finest specimens that has ever .been publicly exMbited in Amer ica. It is from the nead of a Swabian peasant girl, of whom it is said she bad two snitots. One was rich, the other poor, The rioh one (a miller, who owned the Cottage in wMchthe fair one and her mother lived,) threatened to drive his tenants from the roof unless he was ac cepted. They had already paid a portion of the price demanded, and only desired time to meet the remainder. A hair meretomt at this junc ture appeared in the village, aad being offered an uncommon prioe, she determined to part with her flowing looks. These were taken to Leipaio, and soft at tb* MunM 4** tor $175 to an American dealer; and from thence the mag- nifloent specimen found it way to this country. It is valued at $300.—Boston Port. Washington, March 7.—The President sent a verbal message to both housek- that he does not want them to adjourn this week or fix a day for that purpose. A Republican senatorial cau cus has appointed a committee to arrange the standing committees and report at a future meeting. Boutwell has intimations from Eu rope that large amounts of the new bonds will betaken. Louisville, March 7.—Mail service on the Louisville and Lexington Railroad is stopped. Important letters, meantime for points bn the road, should go .by express. The mails are ac cumulating here. London, March 7.—Tho London Times an- nounees the following changes in the Ministry: Right Hon. George J. Goschen succeeds Right Hon. Hugh O. E. Childers as First Lord of Ad- mirality; Right Hon. James Stansfeld succeeds Goschen as President of the Poor Law Board; W. E. Baxter succeeds Stansfeld as one of the Joint Secretaries of the Treasury, and George J. Shaw LeFevre, at present Secretary for the Home Department, succeeds. Baxter as Secre tary of Admiralty. Bordeaux, March 6. — Evening.—In the National Assembly, this evening, Louis Blano, Victor Hugo and Qninet made a demand for the detention of members of the September Gov ernment until they shall have returned an ac count of their acts until the capitulation of Paris. Deleschusee submitted a demand for their impeachment and arrest, on the charge of Mgh treason. A motion was made that the As sembly will not retain to Paris, bnt sit else where. At the request of TMers the Assembly immediately went into committee npon the question, a decision upon wMch will be made to-morrow. London, Maroh 7.—The Daily News says a special convention has been entered into, under wMch the German occupation of Versailles is extended till the 19th Maroh. Paris, March 6—Noon.—The Minister of the Interior has assumed control of the police. Thiers declines to receive resignations tendered by Favre and Simon. Bangor, Me., Maroh 7.—The municipal elec tions in Portland and Bath elect Republican mayors. Rockland, Lewistown and Saco elect democratic mayors. Bloody Blot In IHissimippl. Meridian, March 7.—Yesterday, during the trial of three negroes charged with riotous con, duct, one of the prisoners, Finlay, alias Tyler, colored, shot and instantly killed Justice Bram lette, presiding: Indiscriminate firing ensued. Two negroes were killed in tbe court-room. Tyler jumped from the second story to the ground, pursued by the Sheriff and Ms posse, and was shot to death. The citizens assembled in large numbers armed to assist the officers. The Sheriff ordered them to disarm the negroes, and in doing this several were killed last night. The total number thus far killed are six ne- .- gross and Jndge Bramlette. The wMte Mayor, Wm. Stnrgess, long obnoxious to good citizens, and the planner.of .much, mischief among the negroes, was, 'on Ms own motion, given safe conduct to the cars this morning by the citizens, on a pledge to go North and never return, after tendering hisresignation, Jackson, Miss., March 7.—There was a riot at Meridian, Miss., 95 miles east of here, yes terday, daring which Jndge Bramlette, of the City Court, a wMte man, and eight or ten ne groes were MUed. A number of wMtes and negroes were wounded. A fire occurred bn Saturday nigbt, destroy ing seventy-five thousand dollars’ worth of prop erty. Loften, a negro who was arrested as an incendiary,was being tried before Jndge Bram- ette, when Tyler, a negro, rose in the Court room, and shot Judge Bramlette through the head, hilling him instantly. A general melee ensued. Tyler and Loften were killed. J. Aaron Moore, negro, and member of the Mis sissippi Legislature, who was also a prisoner as accessory to the burning, was shot and, it is supposed, mortally wounded. Last night another fire destroyed the church and other buildings. A meeting of the citizens was held, and a safety committee, to oo-operate with the sheriff in preserving order, was appointed. All is now quiet. Stnrgess, the Mayor, from Con necticut, who has been a fermenter of Btrife in the to wn, took the North bound train last nighty promising never to return. A committee-arriv ed here this evening to confer with Governor Alcorn in the matter. The Legislature have been trying to evade the enactment of a law preparatory to holding an election this fall. Yesterday Governor Al corn informed a committee that he would order an election for all offices to be filled under the Constitution, whether they enaoted the law or not. He also informed the committee that he would not occupy Ms senatorial chair until the election would be held in November. By this bold stand the Governor has shown Ms inten tion to work in the interest of the people, and not risk the State Government in uncertain hands. He is making stannch supporters of what, a few weeks ago, were Ms political ene mies. ■Washington, Maroh 7.—The Senatorial Re publican caucus for re-arrangement of commit- i ees, placed the matter in the hands of Sher man, Merrill, of Vermont, Howe, Poole and Nye. The session of Congress is indefinitely pro longed. CoL J. J. Reynolds has been ordered to re turn without delay to Ms headquarters, as oom- mander of the Texas Department. Senate.—Petitions for the relief of the old spoliation matter have been renewed. A bill was introdneed abolishing the increase tax. Robertson introduced a bill relieving from disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amend ment all except members of Congress, offioers of the army and navy above 21 years of age, who abandoned their places to aid the rebellion, and members of State Conventions who voted in favor of secession. A joint resolution to adjourn on Wednesday was tabled. Joseph G. Abbot has sent a memorial to the President, claiming to have received a majority of legal votes in the North Carolina Legislature [or the Senate. Those east for Vanoe being il- egal and null. A bill was introduced by Carter to incorpo rate the Tehuantepec Railway and SMp Canal Company; also a bill by Blair to remove all disabilities from people of the Southern States. The Senate then adjourned till Thursday. House.—The credentials of Duke, claiming a seat as Representative from Virginia at large, was referred to the Election Committee, under a resolution instructing the Speaker .to appoint the committee. * J Butler urged Congress to stay and pass some law for the protection of the loyal people of the South. The resolution was tabled. Adjourned, to Thursday. . Washington, March 7.—Two cases, one from Georgia and the other from Mississippi, suits on notes given on the sale of slaves, are before the Supreme Court. The Constitutions of these States contain provisions forbidding their courts from taking jurisdiction of such cases. These oases were argued by Mr. Pf Phillips, who maintained that these provisions -took away 11 remedy affeoted by the obligation of a con tract, and were void nnder the proUbition of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits States from violating the obligation of contracts; that even when a warranty is given that the slave sold was a slave for life, this did not inolnde the act of the sovereign in emanci pating the slave; that no such warranty ever exists. But, then, it is expressly stipulated that loss by emancipation, like the loss by death, fire, flood or war, must fall alone on the owner of the property. The maxim of the oommon, as well as the civil law, being res peril domino. New Yore, Maroh 7.—A special telegram from Versailles, says the news from Paris con firms the rumors that the inhabitants are grow ing suspicious, and aoting in the belief that every man’s hand is against them. Foreigners are generally looked npon as spies, and in many instances Americans and Englishmen are in sulted and rudely handled in the streets, several barely escaping with their lives. The mob in Paris at present is almost wild with excitement, and the authorities appear powerless to prevent the spread of the threatened revolutionary spirit. The mob ia friendly to the government, and is In possession of a large quantity of arms and ammunition. . _ Charleston, March 7.—Arrived, steamer Champion, New York; schooner Mary Miller, Norfolk. Bailed, steamship Jas. Adger, New York; steamer Maryland, Baltimore. Nxw York, Maroh 7.—The officers of the sUp Neptune have been discharged by the United States Commissonor. Paris, Maroh 7.—Gen. D’AurelledePalladine has assumed command of the National Guard of Paris. In his first order of the day, he in vokes the co-operation of Frenchmen iu the work of maintaining order, and declares that tranquility alone will restore the prosperity of Franoe. Meanwhile, all disturbances will be ~ and their promoters sternly Hi ordered say affairs Bordeaux, March 7.-Th e session, waiting the report of thl on removal from Bordeaux. 9 London, Maroh 7.—The bIudM;**. -flea, founded in the ocean. were lost. ^-Miteen London, March 7.—A curred red on the 27th at Augrea ber of Bretons and frano-tireuw. 1 5 1 were praying in the Champ de p-i® franc-tireurs came along and se ' votion took occasion to mock with stones. The Bretons chart's „ - killing three and wounding a lari,. „ Bp011 4 Ro^, March 7,-The PopeZ ^ consistory, in wMch he delivered of considerable length. The his address to the Cardinals atfJv tives and acts of the author « W Italian events, and particularly tb., of . 3""“ 5 and ejects the gWan!« 1 £ spiritual power proposed by a bin o! 1 passed in the Italian Parliament, n, meats the occurrence of the Fm*?-tT* « war; and expresses his gratitude lion to himself and Church of the *1 Jr' lie world. Bismarck Scolds Great Britain Ho “ c - So ^ur^' Washington, March 8.—BmmarcVj „• to diplomats, narrating the events of a* and the changed condition cf Germv,^* mentswith severity, almost amount r mosity, npon the offensive and erasi™ of England during the war. * It is rumored at Havana that heavy I ments have occurred at Los Tunas. tOT surgents had two guns. The Span;,a. 1 victorious. The Radicals of Porto Rico have Deputies for the Cortes, the Conserving voting. T * 11 The Democrats at Des Moines, low a, their Mayor, Treasurer, and MariM usual Republican majority is 500. In the New York municipal (. Republicans cany Elmira, Rochester! keepsie, Auburn and New Harjlfori The r erata carry Utica, Troy, Waterville, ] Oswego. Wendell Phillips, in a lecture for the b of the French, in New York, denounce; marck as the bigot of Europe. The Paris J onrnal Official invites the \ of Paris and the Communes to address iu mand for part of the funds sent by citiresl the United States, and urges that'the dde» of the American Government be addedt^ commission for the distribution. All the theatres are preparing to reopei J soon as gas can be got. The Bank of France will commence i balance sheets on Thursday. A letter of Joles Simon is placarded e where. It announces the depositioc of i Ieon and declares him responsible for thin and invasion of France. ! The appointment of Palladines hu ^ offence because of his acknowledged f and talent. He has a plan for the re tion of the National Guard, approved l. _ The National Guard for the future is the a difficult problem. The disgraceful Paris will soon be pnt down. Staunton, Va., March 8.—At BafhloG last night about twenty-five negroes ait® to mob another named Jackson Norvill of the mob seized Norvill, when the latterk his knife and vigorously commenced to ecj them. He killed one instantly and no wounded the other. He then made hie a into Ms house, where the mob could not; Mm. A few hours later he was arrest," brought to this place and lodged in jail Paris, March 7, evening.—The Prasaii day delivered to the French all the forts r the left bank of the Seine. The Emperor William and staff left Yet for Furieres. The Prussians will completely evacuate ?i sailles by the lltb, and the neighboring the 19th. It is hoped the present difficult*! Paris will pass over without serious f ances. London, March 8.—Bismarck! Ms homeward journey. The National C of Paris is excited over Gen. Palhdiatij poinment. Paris is otherwise calm. Washington, March 8.—Chase is her health is mnch improved. Ferris, of New York; Aldridge, of 1 and Howell, of Iowa, are appointed! sions to examine into Southern claims. ' Synopsis or Weather SUtemat War Dep’t, Office Chief Signal Ont® I WasMngton, March 8,187L f Tbe Department receives now the fc'Ji* j reports from the stations reached by the F lin and Union lines. The pressure has i ished, with threatening weather on the i Atlantic, and less so, with clear weather, c South Atlantic. It has risen with threat weather on the East Atlantic. The centalu of the lowest barometer, which wasyi evening in Nebraska, has moved very a the Southeast, and now covers Iowa, ] and Illinois. Its influence has extended a rapidly to the Golf, and less so toward, li Ontario. Heavy rains are reported froo* Mississippi Valley, with high and brisk* 0 erlv winds from the Gulf to Lakes i and Huron. High northerly winds in h fresh winds prevail on the Atlantic, Probabilities : A severe storm is indicate to-night and to-morrow for the WiJ winds for Thursday on the lakes jtlrMw weather on the South Atlantic, winds. . Charleston, March 8.—The Sonth t Legislature adjourned sine die at 12 o c> night. There is general satisfaction an people -at the fact that the new railroad a involving an addition of $4,000,000 orB«'l the State debt, have finally been defeKW‘*| a hard straggle. There has been bo** of any Mnd'to the State debt during tie w Thig result is mainly due to the firm P tent opposition of Governor Scott to urea of public extravagance. It is es” that taxes for the current year wifi be « meet all financial needs of the State t ment, and the taxes for the next year» somewhat reduced. The ordinanro app ations were largely cut down. In tM , of the session the Governor vetoeaaoui appropriation for legislative eI P a f;, s ground that it included a franduleu nearly $100,000. It was sustained w ' fund all existing liabilities of the State “ j sterling loan, and proMbiting W., w ;- the public debt until said loan be ( such Increase be authorized by a ^ thirds vote of the people of the btaw, oome a law. , . The Germans of Charleston conclusion of peace to-day, by " j air gathering, orations, patnouo The city is profusely decorate "city is profusely ^^ewYork, March San Domingo. The steamer K L. $500,OOCb Arrived out: Columb.a Of, Manchester. . 0 f Paris March 8.—The proposes a great reduction to t*\e / Minister of War proposes a comply ^ zation of the army, and the ere e_ ^ cations on the new German fron ' of the Loire will occupy the forte a Savannah, March 8.-Cleared, L. Simmons, Darien, to load io , fg Loretta Fish, Jacksonville, to i°»“ Richmond, March Republican organ here, has been ^ stock company of leading Repobu^ State, and changed hands to-day. ^ p London, March 8.—A dispate ^ over, of the 8th, says the French have been held in various partsoj tbe^ nave ueea ueiu w j of Hanover have been forwarde _ Boston, Maroh 8.—-At a meetmg^r^ stockholders of the Union Pacro following Board of Diroctora was 0We iM mouslv: Col. Thomas A. Sco t, ^ G-j John Duff, Elisha Atkins, Oak^^ Gj Martin, B..B. Samis, Jan«» Dodge, Sidney Diilen, G. &■ Edgar Thompson, Andrew Carnag^^ Palm an, F. Gordsn Dexter. was elected President of the Berlin, Maroh 8.-B vras „ j ed to-day that the Empire® * -“* The press approve the Generals. no* Deen naou, pointed. The Emperor in pe®°“ Beistadt on the 2let met New York, VuebAasembrf f. Parts the 8th wys that the Bordeaux Saturday and meets a M P^,' Merch 8.—The Roans Of Mont Martreto ^ . demonstranoes or force wuj ^ fm^L 1 oom plain that by Republican government me “j*. Igl is hoped the Seat mwf 1 Ration is condemnedtb« good citizens. In oanseqnecoe
