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The Georgia "W'eekly Telegraph a,nd Journal &d Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MAROH 14, 1S71
Hm Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography
aht> lag Romance.—Sheldon A Co. have just
issaed a jeu O' esprit under this title—the first
sdiHea of which, one hundred thousand in num
ber, we are told was all sold before out of press.
It may be found at Burke’s book store.
XiuruBBZcrnoirABY Movement in Pams.—Very
late dispatches, dated yesterday at Paris, report
the first movement of the Beds. They have
entrenched themselves at Montmatre, a point
in the Northern suburbs, inside the line of for
tifications, and aTe said to present a very form
idable organization.
French Afpaibs.—'The Herald thinks France
can recover from the late war in twenty years,
but her great danger will spring from the move
ments of the Beds for revolution. For that
time the peace of Germany is seanre, and mean
time the progress and development of popular
rights «tiiS modern ideas may change the whole
faoe of things and bring Franco and Germany
in happy accord.
Sad Case op Drowning.—By private letter
from Fort Gaines dated 2d instant, we learn of
a Bad case of drowning that occurred there the
day before—last Wednesday. A youth fifteen
years of age named Perry Cinqnefield, the
only son of a widowed mother, and a negro man
were fishing in the Chattahoochee, when the
boatbapsized and both wero drowned. Vonng
Cinqnefield was a lad of bright promise, and
iiia death is greatly lamented. Up to last ac
counts neither of the bodies had been recovered.
Hancock is only a gentlemanly soldier, affect
ed with a thirst for office, which will not be
gratified.—Commercial. [Rad.'}
If Hancock had been an incompetent soldier,
like Banks, a spoon-capturing, woman-insulting
soldier, like Butler, a pious negro-robbing sol
dier, like Howard, a oonsort of harlots, like
Kilpatrick, a poker-playing demagogue, like
Logan, or a stolid butcher, like Grant, Badical
newspapers might have regarded his “thirst for
offioo" with more favor.—Louisville Ledger.
Check!
Govsbkob Bullock Appoints a Democratic
Judge.—A vacancy occurring in the Judgeship of
the Tallapoosa Circuit, by reason of Judge J. S.
Bigby’s membership in the Forty-second Con
gress, Hon. W. F. Wright, of Newnan, has been
commissioned as Judge of that Circuit. Judge
Wright was the Democratic candidate defeated,
by Judge Bigby for Congress, at the late elec
tion. We hope the Governor, in what appoint
ments he may make, will adhere to the prece
dent he has established, look—to capacity and
not to politics of applicants.
Good Advice.—The Sun thinks the sufferings
of poets when they fall in love must be some
thing tremendous, if one of them who writes in
the Home Journal is a fair sample. He begins
by averring that ho loved her ere he saw her
face—he loved her for her lovely namo; her
beauty and celestial grace have kindled in his
heart a flame that neither time nor tide can
tame. Now the man who is in such a condition
of mind is, we should think, much to be envied;
but that is not his opinion, for he goes on to
express the agony of woe in the following
verses:
"The arrow’s quivering in my heart—
. I strive to draw it, mad with pain;
Mine eyes grow dim, my pulses start,
Hot lava streams course every vein,
Delirium clasps my reeling brain.”
Our advice to this young man is to take a
strong dose of castor oil without a moment’s
delay.
Couldn’t Have Been Him.—One of the
parties to that famous game of eucher whose re
sult has been so graphically described in Brett
Harte’s “Heathen Chinee” to wit: Bill Nye,
has been confounded with a certain Badical
United States Senator from the rotton borough
of Nevada, “which Ms name” i3 Jim Nye.
The suspicion is set at rest by the Sacramento
Beporter in which a gentleman at Mud Springs
is made to say: “Bill Nye—Bill Nye; seems to
me I orter know that namo. But then it
couldn’t ha’ been him, neither. No—now I
think of it, his name was Jim Nye; and I’ve
heard, too, that he got to be Senator out in
Nevady. I’m quite sure it wasn’t Jim, ’cause
he'd ha’ stole the pot afore it come to a show
down.
Tire Cotton Surplus
Last Friday night, footed up 728,103—the total
receipts being 2,917,610 against 2,189,513 at the
same period in the last cotton year. From the
3rd of March to the 1st of September 1870, the
gross cotton receipts were 965,433 bales. With
equal receipts this year the cotton crop on the
31st day of August would foot up 3,883,049.
Six months of tho cotton year have expired and
show an excess of 728,103. If during the re
mainder of tho year the excess shonld be a
third of tins amount the crop would foot up
4,125,750 bales, and that, we guess, will not be
far from the actual figures. Bat we shall see.
Whatever may be the figures, planters will see
there is no necessity for increasing the crop.
Testimony or a Returned Liberian
Emigrant.
The local of the Columbus bon has been in
terviewing a man and brother, who has joat re
turned to that city—on money sent him by his old
master, mark you, Messrs, trooly loil—from a
very uncomfortable experience in that model
negro Bepublio on the west co3st of Africa,
ironically designated Liberia.
The M. and B. says the principal food out
there is rice—not the ghost of a chance for hog
and hominy, and ditto as to possum. Labor is
worth from one to two dollars per month in
government shinplasters, which is at a heavy
discount, five dollars, being only equal to two
dollars when yon come to bay anything, though
people are compelled to receive it from the gov
ernment at its face value. There are no horses
or mules in Liberia—the climate killing them
off very quickly, and in consequence when a
man goes to farming, it takes two or three years
to get the ground in order. For six months in
the year it pours rain, and the other six it don’t
rain a drop. Chills and fevers lay around loose,
and are to be had on the lowest terms and at
tho shortest notice. In fine,, the M. andB.
found Liberia everything else but lovely, and
the financinl goose hanging a great deal too high
for a “cullud pusson” to pick even a living from
it by regular work. Ho is very emphatic on
that point, and deolaresthat all the ships in the
world couldn’t carry him there again.
How They Guessed It.—The New York
Bun tells the following story:
In Terre Hanto last summer, at the house cf
a prominent Bepublican, a party of little chil
dren from seven to twelve years of age, were
playing at charades. The concluding sylable
of a word was wanted, and this is the way it
was given: A little girl entered, and, after
bowing to a little boy seated in the room, hand
ed him a package, saying, “Here is a present
worth ten thousand dollars.” Next came a lit
tle boy, who said, “We have just bought foryou
a very nice house.” Then came a third, not
more than eight years old, leading a bjg New-
. jS'v d ° B » ahnost a3 tali as himself, and
*5*2 * 1 br ° n Bht you a nice pup, and I
wmitto be Postmaster.” In an instant tiny
voices aU over the room were shouting “GranU
Grant! Grant!
Abkakbas politics furnish a new word in
“Brindletails,” which is applied to the members
of the Legislature who were elected as Bepub-
ioans, but who act with the Democrats.
Left Paris, and What Next?
The German armies left Paris Ust Friday, and
left the French in a very Implacable temper In
deed. This is not surprising, although the tele
grams of Sunday report that the German leaders
were disappointed about it. It would be very
strange, indeed, if the almost unexampled chas
tisement and humiliation which have been in
flicted upon a people so proud and vain as the
French, did not gall them to the quick and en
gender resentments too deep for words, and as
durable as the existence of that people. We
have no doubt that the declaration of the Jour
nal des debats—“silence and patience,” and, in
the end, “vengeanoe," embodies the unanimous
feeling of the French people to-day.
And, instead of ameliorating, this rancor
against the Germans must necessarily deepen
with the lapse of time. The terms of the treaty
were based upon suoh an assumption, and were
shaped so as to shut np the road to retaliation.
The German frontier has been protected by a
line of fortresses acquired from France, and
French power has been crippled by an exaction
in money which makes France very poor.
Thus, while tho people will stagger and groan
under taxation and beoome more envenomed
with every new demand of tha tax gatherer,
their power to inflict retribution will be dimin
ished every year. Every recuperative energy
will be weighted down by enormous taxation.
One of two damaging alternatives seems to
us now to await the French. If they ogranize a
government strong enough to enforoe these de
mands on the people and maintain the national
credit, Franca cannot carry the load. Trade
will be so seriously crippled and labor so heav
ily burdened that much of the productive pop
ulation of Franca will seek to escape by emigra
tion. On the other hand, arises the great diffi
culty of establishing and maintaining a govern
ment which is compelled to make such exactions
from tho people.
France has had no permanent government for
about eighty years. During all that time the
empire, under Louis Napoleon, which subsist
ed about twenty years, has been the nearest ap
proach to a permanent civil organization which
Franco has made. She is now, under this en
ormous pecuniary burden, remitted to the wide-
field of experiment and the general chapter of
accidents, for a now civil organization, which
shall command the assent and allegiance of her
people, not only iu the face of a violent conflict
of opinions about the character and material of
the new government, but also in tho face of tha
fact that whatever that government may be, it
is compelled to be poor, and to levy oppressive
taxes on the people for the benefit of a tradi
tional public enemy.
The chance of establishing a now government
in France which shall be strong, energetio, pop
ular and satisfactory, would be problematical
under more favorable circumstances; but this
one-obstacle renders it peculiarly doubtful. It
will, therefore, be no surprising result if France
is practically remitted to a series of political
and revolutionary vicissitudes, financially al
most as damaging as the war itself, winch will
so far impair her revenues and credit a3 to ren
der it impossible to moke these heavy payments
to the Germans—two hundred millions in 1871,
and four hundred millions in each of the two
following yeara.
This seems to us a very possible result of
the matter, but we shall see what we shall see.
In such an event, the war just terminated lays
the foundation merely for future interventions
and wars. Indeed, we question whether the
50,000 German troops, to bo quartered in one
of the French provinces until these payments
are made, is not a provision of the treaty
founded upon a judgment by Bismarck of the
probability of some such result, and of the out
break of civil war in France, in which Germany
would be called upon to interfere to secure her
own interests in enforcing provision for the pay
ment of this indemnity.
Tho Bed Bepublicans have already floated the
banner of no territorial cession to Germany,
and an easy and more popular addition will be
“no money indemnity and no taxes to meet it;”
and it is not difficult to presage a popular vic
tory at the polls by any party fighting on these
issues against the opposite propositions.
The treaty, therefore, immensely increases
the difficulty of establishing a strong and per
manent government in France which will be
ablo to keep the peace; and as bad and un
promising as the financial condition may bo,
the state of civil disorganization is perhaps the
most unfavorable feature connected with it.
In this view of the future this treaty of peaco
may be but tho precurscr of a new war osten
sibly for money collections, which will, perhapB,
find a quietus in more important acquisitions
of French territory. But in event of the ful
fillment of these treaty stipulations, the French
animosity to the Germans will, no doubt, settlo
down into a deep-seated and chronio national
rancor, ever on the watch for the first opportu
nity to inflict retributive injury.
Wby the Frencli People arc so Des
titute.
We find in tho New York World, of Friday,
a letter written by a French lady of noble birth
—the Countes3 de Montalembert—to one of the
managers of the late fair held in New York
city for the benefit of the French sufferers by
tbe late war. The following extract will explain
why it is that such destitution exists in France:
I have been written to from Villersexel, Haute
fiaone (where my maternal uncle lives,) that
after niteen days requisition in money and in
kind, the Prussians, overloaded with provisions
beyond that which their troops could consume,
threw into a river which flows near the village
all the potatoes, saying to the poor inhabitants
(who deprived themselves of aU in order to sat
isfy their exactions,) “Yes, our object is to ruin
France." At my sister’s, in the Ardennes, the
systematic wasting and squandering was equal
to that which was consumed. At Orleans they
exacted 9,000 rations per day for 3,000 men,
at the same time the population was dying from
hunger and misery. At six leagues from my
dwelling (Cote d’or) the Prussians entered the
littlo open town of Avallon almost without fight
ing. The officers allowed their soldiers two
hours of plunder. Is it not worthy of the less
civilized ages ? In the castlo of one of my broth
ers-in-law, they broke the doors, windows, shut
ters, eto., under the pretence of want of firing
for the solders, while at a little distance a wood
of considerable dimensions existed. The false
hood of such an excuse is proved by their break
ing the marble chimney pieces in their violent
rage. To annihilate our dwellings and our
hearths is their will in reality. The aged mother-
in-law of one of my friendsnear Orleans, seeing
all taken from her, and that what could not be
taken or sold was broken, tried to conceal abed
on which she might lie. A Prussian officer per
ceived it and dared say to her “I must have it.
You, madam, you may lie on the straw; it is
better it should be you than any one of my sol
diers !” Tho same may be heard from all sides
in other forms.
Gommont is unnecessary.
Out in Chester county, N. O., lately, a clock-
peddler was tramping along, hot, dusty, and
tired, when ho came to a meeting honse where
in sundry Friends were engaged in silent devo
tion. The peripatetio tradesman thought he
would walk in and zest He took a seat
upon a bench, doffed his hat, and plaoed his
clocks upon the floor. There was a painful
stillnes in tbe meeting house, whleh was broken
by ono of the clocks, which commenced strik
ing furiously. The peddler wa3 in an agony,
but he hoped every minute the clock would
stop. Instead of that it struck just four hun
dred and thirty times by actual count of every
Friend in the meeting, for the best disciplined
of them couldn’t help numbering the strokes.
Then np rose one of the Frineds, at the end of
the four hundred and thirtieth stroke, and said:
“Friend, as it is so very late, perhaps thee had
better proceed on tby journey, or thee will not
reach thy destination unless thee is as energetio
as thy vehement time-piece.”
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The residenoe of Mrs. A. M. Ward, about 12
miles from Guthbert, together with her furni
ture and most of the clothing of herself and
family, was burned last Sunday night.
Local freights on the Western & Atlantic
Railroad are to be reduced 25 per cent on and
after to-day.
The first strawberries of the season grown in
the open air, made their appearance in Sav
annah Saturday, and were sold at about 9f cents
each.
In an affray at Mallonysville, Wilkes county,
last Sunday, a citizen named Hannon Bell, was
killed by a North Carolina drover, name not
given.
Mr. G. H. Goetze, a merchant of Jersey City,
died last Saturday on the steamer Niek King,
en route from Palatka to Savannah.
The Savannah Advertiser says:
Blue! Blue!—The cotton men are scared
well-nigh out of their boots. They have passed
the four million bridge, and begin to talk about
the possibilities that the crop will runup to
forty-two, forty-three, forty-four and forty-five
hundred thonsand bales. They scout at all idea
of any falling off in production, and say the
crop will move onward and upward, in spite of
fate, until it is a mere drug, worth four penoe
in Liverpool for strlot middling and two pence
for common dogtaiL
This sounds precisely like the first paragraph
of on editorial in the Telegraph of last Satur r
urday, headed “Gossip with Planters.”
The Athens Banner reports the wheat crop
prospeot in that section as discouraging.
We clip the following Items from the last
Athens Banner:
A Bad Aitaib.—We learn that the wife and
daughter of a Mr. Crawford, in the upper part
of Oglethorpe county, were severely beaten by
a neighbor who went to their place, in the ab
sence of Mr. Crawford, and proceeded to take
com and cattle to satisfy a claim against Mr.
Crawford. They, of course, attempted to pre
vent the loss of their property, and were cruelly
and brutally beaten for interfering with the
Shot.—A man named Fleman was severely
shot in a difficulty with Mr. James Smith, of
Oglethorpe county, the latter part of last week.
We have heard various versions of the affair,
all of which we deem it best to omit for the
present. It is reported that Pieman’s wonnds
are very serious.
Bailboad Meeting in Jeftebson.—We leam
that a meeting was held in Jefferson on Tues
day, to consider the subject of a railroad from
Athens to Clayton. Hon. B. H. Hill made a
stirring speech, and awakened a good deal of
enthusiasm on the subject. Subscriptions of
about $15,000 were made on the spot, and an
interest awakened which promises to result in
liberal subscriptions throughout the county.
Mr. David P. Hutchins, an old citizen of
Bainbridge, died suddenly from heart disease
last Tuesday.
We quote as follows from the Columbus Son,
of Sunday:
Over Double.—Tho Western Railroad, since
September 1st, to Friday night, has brought to
Columbus, en route for Savannah, 53,17G bales
of cotton against 29,793 for the same time last
season. This is the result of President Wadley’s
enterprise. Some of the cotton came from
Vicksburg, between which point and Savannah
there is unbroken railroad connection.
Commuted.—A dispatch received yesterday
from Major R. J. Moses, who is now in Atlanta,
announced that Bullock had commuted the sen
tence of Anderson, convicted of murdering his
wife, from death by hanging to imprisonment
for life. Tho deed was committed some two
years ago. Anderson is about sixty years of
age. ^
The Banner or the South and Planters’
Joubnal.—The publishers notify the public that
among the contributors to the above named
weekly are Prof. G. W. Bains, Dr. E. M. Pen
dleton, ex-Gov. Bonham, Gen. Alexander, Prof,
Waddell, Dr. A. Means, Col. Charles C. Jones,
Jr., Prof. Leroy Broun, Col. B. T. Harris,
Henry Stewart, Esq., and other gentlemen of
repute and respectability.
In order to extend the circulation of tho pa
per it has been determined to mail it for 1871
for $2 in advance. On receipt of this amount
we will not only furnish the back numbers from
tho first of January, but wo will also give away
copies of the eleven (11) numbers issued prior
to that date, which will be equivalent to furnish
ing the paper for’nearly fifteen months for S2.
The back numbers contain valuable informa
tion to tho planters, and also & roster of general
officers, regiments, battalions,- eto., in the Con
federate service, during tho struggle for Inde
pendence, prepared with great care by Colonel
Charles O. Jones, Jr., which shonld bo read by
all who participated in or sympathised with the
the war for independence.
The Banner of tho South and Planter’s Jour
nal Is printed on book paper, and is in every
respect a creditable publication, and ono which
is worthy of a wide circulation all over the
South. It is certainly the cheapest and the best
paper for the money now published. Persons
who may wish to see a copy before subscribing
are requested to send their names to the Chron
icle Publishing Co., Augusta, Ga.
Literary Intelligence.
John Esten Cooke’s “Life of General Lee,”
from the press of D. Appleton & Co., is an elab
orate biography, including an accurate but dra-
matio and picturesque history of those military
transactions in Virginia, of which General Lee
was the distinguished leader. This “Life of
General Lee” was commenced five years ago, in
18G6, and the author then informed General
Lee of his purpose. The General, in reply,
assured him that the work “would not interfere
with any that he might have in contemplation;
he had not written a line of any work as yet,
and might never do so, but, should he write a
histoty of the campaigns of tho Army of North
ern Virginia, the proposed work would be rather
ati assistance than a hindrance.” As Colonel
Cooke, in his letter, had offered to discontinue
the work, if not agreeable to General Lee, this
reply is an obvious sanction of the author's
design. It is prepared by a man of large liter
ary experience, who served in the Virginia cam
paigns, and saw much of what he describes; and
General Lee’s sanction of his design arose from
his knowledge of Colonel Cooke’s peculiar fitness
for the task.' The General has died without
executing his at ono time contemplated labor;
and this biography must, iu a certain sense, fill
the place, as regards the history of the Virginia
campaigns, that Let's own history would have
done, had he lived to write it.
A Heavy "Weight.—The fioientitle American
office was reoently visited by. an individual who
is thus described: His same is Colonel Ruth
Goshen, and he resides at present at Algonquin,
IU. He is a native of Turkov, in. Asia, and
was born among the hills of Palestine. He is
the fifteenth of fifteen—ten sons and fivo
daughters—sired by a patriarch now ninety
years old, living in the vaUey of the Damascus,
and by occupation a planter. This venerable
sire weighs, at the present time, 520 pounds
averdupois, and his wife, aged sixty-seven,
weighs 560 pounds. The entire family are liv
ing, and not one of them weighs less than 500
pounds. The oldest son weighs 630 pounds,
and the .youngest, our huge olient, outstripping
them all, weighs 650 pounds. Not one of the
family is less than seven feet in height, and the
Colonel is a stripling of only Beven feet eight
inches in his stockings. He is not an unduly
fat man, is merely, what would bo caUed mod
erately portly, and is thirty-tbree years old.
His rank of Colonel was given him in the Aus
trian army.
The Next Cotton Oboe.—Speaking of the
next cotton crop, tho New Orleans Picayune
says:
We have closely examined onr country ex
changes for the last three or four weeks to as
certain the intention of the planters with regard
to the next cotton crop. From nearly every sec
tion of the South the reports agree in stating
that the acreage under cotton wiU be largely xe-
duoed this spring. In some districts it ia said
not half as much cotton will be planted as was
last season. On the whole, we may safely es
timate from twenty-five to forty per oent. reduc
tion in acreage.
Planters now fully realize the folly of their
action last season in entirely neglecting food
crops. They have paid pretty dearly for their
experience, and the cotton crop of the South
will henceforth be kept within the proper limit
of 3,000,000 bales.
Tmc Republican State Central Committee of
Pennsylvania have postponed the State Conven
tion of that party to the 17th pf May.
A supposed discovery of cinnabar has been
made in Nevada county, California. The ledge
ia thirty feet wide. <
BY TELEGRAPH.
Cotton Movement* for tho Week.
New Yobx, March 5.—The cotton movements
for the week ending lastnigbtshow a continued
falling off in receipts, although the total is still
very large, and indicates a crop greater in ex
tent fbgn general estimates have made it In
contradistinction to the decrease In receipts this
week, there is a very large inorease in exports,
and the total shipments to Great Britain and
the Continent are the largest for any week this
season.
The great accumulation of cotton at. the sea
ports and interior towns, notwithstanding this
enormous inorease in exports over last year, has
completely demoralized the trade, and caused a
marked depression in all quarters.
The decline in the prioe of cotton for the
week on the value of the total crop represents
a shrinkage of abont $18,000,000. The great
difficulty with the cotton trade is that the spec
ulators have been overtrading en the advent of
peace in Europe, and hence, when peace is de
clared, the market takes a sudden plunge down
ward, instead of advancing.
In tha cotton trade the great bulk of the
speculators were fortified against peace by hav
ing a large amount of cotton on hand, and as
soon os peace came some of them started realize,
which was the commencement of tbe present
depressed condition of affairs. In plain terms
there was too much compang on the bull
side of the market.
Tho receipts at all tho ports for the week
were 126,935 bales, against 136,661 last week,
141,957 the previous week, and 161,095 three
weeks since. The total receipts since Septem
ber 1, 1870, are 2,917,616 against 2,189,513 at
the corresponding period of the previous year.
Exports from all ports for the week are 141,873,
against 54,522 tho same week last year. The
total exports for the expired portion of the year
are 1,848,306 against 1,228,014 up to the same
time last year. The stock at all ports is 659,-
708, against 568,764 last year. The stocks at
interior towns foot up 123,285 against 101,384
last year. The stools in Liverpool is 764,000
against 292,000 last year. The amount of
American cotton afloat for Great Britain is 294,-
000 against 288,000 last year. The amount of
Indian cotton afloat for Enrope is659,708 against
5G5,764 last year.
At the South considerable rains have fallen
during the week, but they have not had any
effect on the movement of cotton.
Washington, March 5.—The wires are slow.
The reported evacuation of Paris on Friday is
confirmed by a Herald special, giving tho de
tails of the exodus; but tho event lacks official
confirmation.
Morton, Sumner and other extremists will re
sist an early adjournment of Gongress, on the
plea that it is unsafe to leave the Southern
loyalists and negroes unprotected until Decem
ber. A big struggle is pending.
The low barometer yesterday evening off the
Mid-Atlantic coast movod slowly to the north
east, with light snow and rain, and was followed
by very general fair weather and a rising bar
ometer in the Southern and "Western States to
day. The weather has beon clear and fair on
the East Atlantic and Lakes, and the pressure
has begun to fall. Tho Southern and North
western stations have not been beard from.
Probabilities: Fair weather and fresh winds
will probably prevail in the Middle and Eastern
States on Monday. No secure basis is at hand
for the probabilities regarding the remaining
coasts.
Paris, March 4.—Not a German soldier re
mains in Paris. Tho Saxons passed out at 10
o’clock yesterday morning, [marching in front
of the Arc de Triomphe amid the profound si
lence of the few spectators. By noon the evac
uation of tho city was complete. Tho German
Emperor afterwards reviewed 100,000 men in
theBoisde Boulogne. The Prussian leaders
are disappointed at the coldness and implacable
attitude of the Parisians.
Several journals resumed publication yester
day. They all say the impression produced by
the preliminary terms of peace is vory bad.—
They declare there will bo no real peace, when
obtained under duress, but they recommend
Calmness and Concord as the means of making
the country great and prosperous.
The authorities are preparing to disband tho
Mobile Guards in Paris. The city is quiet to
day. A number of persons suspected to be
spies, have been arrested by the people, and
several women seen talking with Prussians in
the Champs Elysees were severely handled.
Open air meetings are held day and night in
Place de la Bastille,” but no violence « reported.
The Minister of the Interior, in a proclama
tion, congratulates the inhabitants on their at
titude daring the occupation by the Germans.
The Journal des Debats, of Friday, chides tho
Parisians for their frivolity, daring the occupa
tion, over the couch of strangled France. It
pronounces the words, “silence and patience.”
It urges earnest preparation, so that our chil
dren may be able to pronounce the third word,
,{ vengeance !”
The Crie da Temple, in an artiole signed by
Jules Valles, incites the poor to a war against
the rich.
La Verite demands that merchants in good
standing be granted additional delay of one
month for the payment of commercial bills.
The press protests against tho continued oc
cupation of the suburbs of Paris. The forts
on the left bank of the Seine will be delivered
to tho French in n few days. One division of
the army of tho Loire will shortly reinforce the
garrison of Paris.
New Yoke, March 5.—Arrived, Gen. Banks,
Savannah.
Paris, March 4.—Not a German soldier re
mains in Paris. The evacuation was completed
at noon yesterday.
Savannah, March 5.—Arrived, schooner W
W. Pharo, from New York; brigTimoda, Prov
idence ; steamship Virgo, New York.
Chableston, March 5.—Arrived, schooner
Cynosure, Baracoa. Sailed, steamer Manhattan,
New York; snip E. C. Winthrop, Liverpool;
bark Elvira, Barcelona; bark Professor Schwei-
gaard, Gottenbnrg; sohooner Warren Sawyer,
Weymouth; schooner D. B. Everett, New Or
leans ; schooner Ripley Ropes, West Indies.
Formidable Insurrection in raris.
Washington, March 6.—The impeachment of
Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, has been aban
doned. Clayton has definitely declined the sen-
atorship. "»
Victor Emanuel, writing the Emperor Wil
helm, expressed surprise and indignation over
the hard terms imposed upon France.
The Germans allow trains bearing Frenoh
troops to enter Paris. Tho French prisoners
heretofore held by Germany and neutral pow
ers are returning to France.
Bobdeaux, Maroh 5.—Picard has arrived.
Tho transfer of the Assembly to Fontainbleu
is probable. Several members of the Radical
Left have gone to Paris. Disquieting rumors
are current regarding the state of Paris. A
council of Ministers was held at five o’clock this
morning. Private telegrams hence to the De
partments of the Seine are forbidden.
Paris, March 5.—The reports of disorders are
false. Quiet prevails. It is expected that ne
gotiations for a definite treaty will commence at
Brussels 10th March.
The Govemmcut is ready to pay 500,000,000
francs to free the vicinity of Paris from the
Germans. The regiments of the line will quiet
Paris. Forty thousand picked men will form a
provisional corps.
Versailles, March 5.—The second army has
commenced its homeward maroh.
London, March 5.—The Napoloonists ~3arf
that they are guilty of any intrigues. The Em
peror will wait the decision of the people.
London, March 6.—A Times’ VersaHU*
special says the prescribed limits of France are
being rapidly reached by the German. Tbe
movement was concluded quietly and orderly.
Mont Valerian and all other forts around Faria
will be evacuated by tha 7th, Rouen on the 12th,
and the left bank of the Seine on the 19th.
Forty thousand troops from the provinces are
now marching into Paris. The respective staffs
have arranged that the incoming French and
outgoing Germans shall move by different
routes, to avoid chance of collisions. Napoleon
is hourly expected in England.
London, March 6.—[Special to Telegram.}—
dispatch from Paris states that the city-is in
gTeat excitement, consequent on the determined
action of the revolutionists party. The revolu
tionists have entrenched themselves at Mont
"Martre with a battery of guns, and the govern,
ment has brought up troops of the line to resist
any attack the revolutionists make on the city,
The reports of the organization of the revolu.
tionists are very muoh exaggerated; but the
fact that theib is an organization of a very for
midable character is too obvious to be denied.
Washington, March 6.—Among the bills
which passed the Senate, but failed in the
House was one relieving some 6000 Southerners
of political disabilities.
Congress appropriated $160,000,000 over the
$4,000,000 subscribed to the national loan al>
ready reported.
The President has recognized Dennis Dono
hue, Consul for Great Britain for New Orleans
and the district comprising Louisiana, Missis
sippi and Arkansas, to reside at New Orleans;
and H. F. A. Ram&ls for Maryland, Tenffessee,
Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri,
to reside at Baltimore.
The Supreme Court of Virginia, versus West
Virginia, involving jurisdiction over Jefferson
and Berkeley counties, was decided in favor of
West Virginia.
In the O. Y.P. Garrett, a confiscation case, the
Court denied the right of appeal from the Su
preme Court of the District to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
In the case of MoVeigb, a confiscation case,
where the lower court excluded the defence be
cause defendant was in the rebel lines, the Court
holds that liability to suit involves the right to
defend. This decision was unanimous. Law
yers think this decision will open all cases
Wherein defendants, by reason of the war, were
beyond the reach of processes.
Army movements: The regiments longest on
duty on the frontier will be moved to the De
partment of the South, rendezvousing at Lou
isville. The seventh cavalry is also trans
ferred to the Department of the Sonth. The
sixth cavalry is transferred from Texas to Mis
souri. Charleston is made headquarters of the
third artilery.
Among the appropriations is $175,000 for a
court-house and postoffice buildings.
It is understood that the President opposed
the proposed early adjournment. He wonts
San Domingo settled. „
E. G. Rainford will bo appointed Collector of
the third Georgia distriot. Henry Glover will
be appointed Collector of the second Georgia
district, vice Morrill, who will resign April 1, to
take the treasurership of tho Western and At
lantic Railroad.
New Yobk, March 7.—The World’s special
from Versailles, of the Gth, says numerous
conversations, held at Bordeaux and Versailles,
with deputies to the National Assembly, includ-
-ingGrevy, Gambetta and Favre, compel the
belief that a civil war will soon occur, ending
in the Orleans restoration. Extensive emigra
tion from the ceded territory will occur. Large
bodies will come to America.
New Orleans, March 6.—Pat Sweeney was
struck with a brickbat to-day and killed. Jno.
Holland fell from a float and was killed. A
child of Mr. Girard was run over by a street car
and killed. The State fair building was burned
this morning. Loss $80,000—insurance $50-,
000. Power’s statue of Washington, belonging
to the State, was destroyed.
Boston, March 6.—There was an oarihquake
Inst night in New Hampshire.
Jas. Fisk gave $20,000 bail to answer the suit
of Gorham Gray for, an unfulfilled cotton con
tract in 1869.
Charleston, March 6.—Arrived, steamers
Georgia, New York; Fall River, Philadelphia;
schooner D. B. Everman, Philadelphia. Sailed,
shipMuscongus, Liverpool; bark Eulalia, Liver
pool.
Savannah, March 6.—Arived, steamship Liv
ingston, New York: schooners Grace Girdler,
Boston; Loretta Fisk, Portland; Alexander
Young, Baltimore. Cleared, steamship Vicks
burg, Boston; ships Alexandra, Bremen; Uni
verse, Liverpool. *
Washington, March 6.—Supreme Court
McVeigh vs. the United States; error to the
Circuit Court for the Distriot of Virginia.—This
was a proceeding to confiscate the property of
MoVeigb, and he appearing "by counsel and
filing an answer, on motion of the District At
torney, tho Court below struck out his claim
and answer, on the ground that he was a resi
dent of the pity of Richmond, within the Con
federate lines, and a rebel, holding that he had
no standing in Court. This Court aTe unani
mous iu tho opinion that this was error in the
Court below, and that when assailed there, Mc
Veigh had a right to defend there. The liability
and the right are inseparable, and a different
result would be a blot on the jurisprudence and
civilization of the country. The provision of
the Constitution that no one shall be deprived
of lifej liberty or property without due process
of law, is conclusive of the subject "Whatever
the extent of disability of an alien enemy to
sue in the hostile country, he is clearly liable
to be sued, and this carries with it the right to
defence. The right of MoVeigh to sue out this
writ was sustained, and the judgment was re
versed, and the cause remanded with instruc
tions to the Court below to proceed in it in
conformity to law. Justice Swayne delivered
the opinion of the Court.
Paris, Maroh C.—The Journal Official ac
knowledges that several battalions of the Na
tional Guards have retained their gnus, but
only to prevent their falling into the hands
of the Prussians. The anomalous situation
will speedily terminate. Passes to leave
and enter Paris are no longer required. It is
reported that Favre has gone to Versailles with
anarcluteotto prepare the palace for the re
ception of the National Assembly, in anticipa
tion of their early removal from Bordeaux.
London, March 6.— : In the House of Lords,
tho Marquis of Saulsbury attacked the foreign
polioy of the Government, showing that foreign
powers were all contemptuous in their manner
towards England. Prussia had declined Eng
land’s aid in negotiating peaco with France, and
Russia had repudiated obligations solemnly
agreed to at the end the Crimean war. These
insults he placed in contrast with guarantees
"which England was party to, and therefrom he
deduced the decay of her international influ
ence. He urged a reorganization of the army,
to the weakness of which he attributed much
of England’s loss of prestige.
Granville protested against the unreasonable
ness of the assault made upon the conduct of
foreign affairs. He quoted a distinguished
American officer who had expressed bis surprise
at the complete state of preparation for war in
which he found the British navy.
The discussion ended by the adoption of am
order for reprinting the text of the guarantees
glTen by Bngland in Continental matters. -1
In the House of Commons to-day, D’Israeli
gave notice that he should, at a future day, ask
the Government to inform the Honse whether
or not it was aware of last year’s treaty be
tween Prussia and Russia, when Odo Russell
was sent to Versailles to consult Bismarck.
Gladstone communicated to the House the in
formation received from "West Meath oounty,
Ireland, oonflrming the previous reported mis
chievous. tendenoy of affairs there. He said spe-
cialmeasures of precaution were needed, for the
lives of judges in that country were threatened,
and he urged speedy action.
The bill tor army reorganization was taken
np, and there was keen encounters over the
clause abolishing the purchase of commissions,
supporters of tho system predicting loss of mil
itary character and prestige, should it be done
away with.
London, March 6.—At the review of the
Prussian Guards at Long Champs, the Emperor
addressed the troops. He thanked them for the
heroism, endurance and devotion they had dis
played, and added they must thank Providence
for choosing them as instruments to bring to
pass events of such magnitude and renown.
Dresden, March 6.—The Journal Bays all the
Frenoh officers, and all privates in the Mobile
Guard who aTe prisoners in Germany, may re
turn on Monday to their homes, if they bo de
sire, at their own cost. Soldiers of the fine and
Imperial guard wall remain until arrangements
for their transportation are completed.
Queenstown, March 6.—Arrived, steamship
City of Brooklyn.
A Dog in Church—An Amusing
Scene.
He was a little flustered on first entering the
chapel—se many people there, and all sitting
so quiet. Iu this there was something awesome
for our dog, and when out this unnatural quiet
they rose suddenly to sing. Our Dog was fright
ened, and would have run out of doors, only the
doors were dosed. He soon recovered himself.
They were only folks after all—such as he saw
every day in street amkhouse.
He began to recognize one after another. He
tried to get up a little sociability with them, but
they took little or no notice of him. Everybody
seemed strangely constrained and altered. Our
Dog is a pet, and this cut him. But his is a
self-relian,t recuperative nature, .so he threw
himself on his own resources for' amusement.
He was delightfully ignorant of the proprieties
of church or church service. The choir is sep
arated from the congregation only by a slightly
raised platform. On this walked Our Dog.
Again there was singing. He smelt first of
the organ; he then smelt of the organist and
wagged his tail at him. The organist looked
with an amused and kindly eye, but he could
not stop. Our dog then smelt of the basso pro-
fnndo; he smelt of the tenor; he smelt them
first on one side and then on the other. Then
he went back and resmelt them all over again;
also the organ. That was a little curious. There
might be a chorus of dogs inside, and that man
at the keys tormenting them. To him, at any
rate, it was not melody. He walked around it,
and smelt at every crack and comer to get at
the mystery. He tried to coax a little familiar
ity out of that choir. They seemed to be having
a good time; of course he wanted a hand or a
paw in it himself. It was of no use. Be stood
and looked, and wagged his white, bushy tail at
them as hard as he could. But, selfishly, they
kept all their pleasure to themselves. So he left
the choir, and came down again among the con
gregation. There, sure enough, were two little
girls on the back seat. He knew them; he had
enjoyed many a romp with them. Just the
thing! Up he jumped with his paws on that
back seat; yet even they were in no humor for
play. They pushed him away, and looked at
eaoh other as if to say, “Did you ever see such
conduct in church?”
It was rebuff everywhere. Our Dog would
look closer into this matter. Tho congregation
were all standing np. So we walked into the
open end of the pew, jumped on it and behind
the people’s backs, and walked to get in front
of the little girls that he might have an explan
ation with them. Just then the hymn ceased.
Everybody sat low with the subdued crash of
silk and broadcloth. Everybody on that bench
came near sitting on Our Dog. It was a terri
ble scramble to get out.
Still he kept employed. There was a line of.
chairs in the aisle. In one of these deliberate
ly sat Our Dog. If everybody would do noth
ing but sit still and look at that man iu the pul
pit, so would fc“. But somehow he moved one
bind leg inadvertently. It slipped over the
chair’s edge. Onr Dog slipped over with it,
and came as near tumbling as a being with fonr
legs can. AU this made a noise "and attracted
attention. Little boys and girls and big boys
and girls snickered and snorted and strained,
as only people can snicker, snort and strain where
they ought not to. Even some of the elders made
queer faces. The sexton then tried to put Our
Dog out. But he had no idea of going. He
had come with our "folks, and ho was not going
until they went.
The strange man grabbed for him, and he
dodged him time and again with aU his native
grace and agility. This was something like; it
was fun. The sexton gave up the chase; it was
ruining the sermon. Our Dog was sorry to see
him go and sit down; ho stood at a distance
and looked at him, as if to say, “"Well, aint you
going to try it again!”
No; no more of that. Nobody was doing
anything save that man in the pulpit. Our Dog
would go and see what all that was about So
he marched up the main aisle, and as he did so
ho waved in a majestic and patronizing sort of
way hiabushy tail, and it seemed to say, “Well,
you can sit here, glum and silent, if you’ve a
mind to. I do no such thing. I’m a dog; I
need none of your preaching; I’m superior to
all that. Things go easy enough with me, with
out coming here once a week to sit silent, sad,
melancholy, and stupid, and be scolded at by a
man whom you pay for it”
Then, in an innocent and touching ignorance
that he was violating all the proprieties of time
and place, Oar Dog went boldly up on the pul
pit stairs while our minister was preaching, and
stood and surveyed the congregation. Indeed,
he appropriated much of that congregation’s at
tention to himself. He stood there and sur
veyed that audience with a confidence and assu
rance which, to a nervous and inexperienced
speaker, would.be better than gold or diamonds.
He didn’t care. He smelt of the minister. He
thought he’d try and see if the latter were in a
mood for any sociability. No; be was busier
than any of the rest. The stupidity and silence
of all this crowd of people who sat there and
looked at him puzzled Our Dog.
He could see no sense in it Some little boys
and girls did smile os be stood there: seem
ingly those smiles were for him. But so soon
as ho reciprocated the apparent attention, so
soon as he made for them, the smiles would
vanish, the faces become solemn; and so, at
last, with a yawn. Our Dog flung himself on the
aisle floor, laid his head on bis fore paws, and
counted over the beef bones he had buried da
ring the last week. Not a word of the sermon
tonched him; it went clear over his head.—
From Our Monthly Gossip in Lippincott's Mag
azine for March.
Supreme Court of Georgia—January
Term, I87J.
Sir Walter Scott’s Pictm-* „
“The dining-room contains as
of paintings, one of which at onc^H
tion. It is a painting of the i, t i T6, ‘ 5 itu
Queen of the Scots, on a » 2
few hours after her execution*$**2
Frenoh painter, who visited Foths*„ * *1
for the purpose. Bie head
centre of the dish and pla<*a in .
sition, with the ghastly necfcmJjffifeii
tor, so that the nose is foreshort^ 4 ke ^
nostrils front you. SuchTS^
been a very dfocultone forffi
with all tho disadvantages
achieved wonders. In spite of is* Wlti h
fag, to ££ of a.
ia superlatively beautiful, and in 1
one can believe any tale of the ,I £2!I1 8
loveliness.
chide the ghastly evidences ots ^
tion. The nose, of the finest Gredin
scenas from the broad brow. whi^TY 010 .*
“width of ridge” Lavato^d
kingdom.’’ The eye-brows are exq2L£*
ed above the closed eye-lids,
which you can almost fanev von j- "N
gleam of dark, melancholy'V e , ft*® &
is slightly open, and, though som^w'r?
by suffering, of most exquisite fomZ, 8 ^
whole picture is terrible, ' H
A youngster attending school in p sd . J
written his mother the —- u '*
letter:
Dear Mother : I got _
yesterday, but I had on three
it didn’t hurt muoh. I was lic£ed &JS
six pins in Mr. ’s chair. I knew feTi!
not stick him, and I made a bet they wr®
Mr. was so mean ana hard tkittvT
could not go in. I won the bet, which;
to bite old “Hardsides,” as we call SL
night when he comes home after dart n!
often out after dark, and, if Zack is --
after him as he is after cats, I won’t k:!,
any more. Zaok and I killed three oh
Sunday, though I was at Sunday-scW,
churoh all day, and it wasn’t a good a,
killing cats either. This makes the tt
ing I got this week. One was bec&useik
bottle of milk in my room, and the other
subject to write on. It wr £
dark African going down a darkest
dark night without a light to look for iij,
cat that was not there. Old Hardsides a®
me and then licked me for that. Sendnta
more of them pies. I made a good titkt
some of them. If you will send me fits ii
I will stop all my bad habits except cudu
swearing, and chewing and drinking, ti,
or two others. You had better make tfca
Give my love to Julie, and tell her to mki
that little fiddle I left in the old hut
Your affectionate son Esa
A Trades Union Outrage.—A man
Hoffman, who dared to work outs::
“Workingmen’s Association” at MonntCa
Pa, was shot in his bed Friday night, us
one end of his house afterwards blown kSi
powder.
PoiraoAL “Shysters.”—The KewTodCs
morcial Advertiser, a Republican paper, a
the election of Foster Blodgett by the Geca
Legislature the work of * ’political shystea."
strikes us the Advertiser is too complins:
County Board or Education.—Themes:
of this Board are again reminded that then:
be a meeting at the City & all this none;
10 o’clock.
'The reported sale of three quartersrf
Emma Silver Mine, at Little CottoitosJ
San Francisco parties, at the rate of $1"
for the whole, has fallen through.
Saturday, March 4,1871.
Argument No. 9, Macon Circuit, was con
cluded.
The only remaining cause on said Girouit is
No. 12—Thoa. N. Minims vs. J. B. Ross et ah—
Homestead from Bibb. John Rutherford for
plaintiff in error. Nisbett & Jackson, "Whittle
& G us tin, for defendant It was argued.
JSo. 1, Flint Circuit, was withdrawn. It is
Franois A. Cochran vs. George A. Cunningham,
executor—proceeding against tenant from Up
son. Thomas Beall, Cabaness & Peeples, for
plaintiff in error. Doyal A Nunnally for de
fendant *
James M. Pace, Esq., of Covington, Ga., was
admitted to this bar.
No. 2, Flint Circuit, was taken up. It is
Stephen Y. Walker vs. Elisha H. Walker. As
sumpsit, from Monroe. Cabaness A Peeples,
for plaintiff in error. A. D. Hammond, by A.
M. Speer, for defendant
Pending the reading of the record, Court ad
journed till 10 o’clook, a. m. Monday.—Fra, 5th.
In England a smoke-consuming apparatus
has been perfected, which has been tested with
highly satisfactory results. The Directors of
the Sowerby Bridge Flour Society state that they
expended X4G0 on this apparatus, which, not
only effected the consumption of the smoke,
but enabled them to grind a muoh greater quan
tity of flour than in the preceding half year,
and a saving in fuel of £123.
The New York Sun dubs Boston Little Ped-
lington. That’s contrary to the civil rights bill
and will bring Sumner down on New York.
IN MEMOIUAS.
Mrs. Sabah W. Williams, coneotlclSitll
Williams, and daughter of Qoorgo Eo*:t 'inf
and Marina Ross Wardlaw, was born in Huai
March 22, 1836, and entered into li/e sol
sunrise January 27. 1S71, in D.’ioa.Eui f
married to O. W. Wakefield, of Fort Glial
June 12,1852, was widowed in 1860, mins
ried to Rev. W. H. Williams July 9,1867. ■
the spirit May 10,1863, her conversion ini
and soul-satisfying, andshe connected benil
the M. E. Church South, at Macon. Gl j
quently to her marriage with Rev. W. E»j4
she was confirmed in the P. Episcopil Cr-iJ
died in the faith and hope of the gospel r
death she was embalmed, and
“Never in her loveliest on earth,
Of bud, or bloom, appeared eho lore!;u
She Bleeps in Jesus on tho banks oftfcO
hoochee, in her native State, until the1 ao
the resurrection. As the bereaved aw,
the history of the loved one, from her
hood, through every period of life, a dm: fN
rical character ia presented for contempt |
“What shall I say ? y
How speak of thee in language vo&Tq
My spirit is willing, but my fleBhuWJ
In every situation of life she seems t)
most beautifully the niche the Great
signed her. Well proportioned and
statue, blending sweetness of epiritirithw*"
Of intellect, she was well-nigh beanhni
so much beauty of mind, person, ana-
concentrate. Her lovelinosa anu *1
hearts, while her womanly delicacy
purity, diffused fragrance and bieeeea^j
with whom she came in contact were
with
‘“The true nobility of worth,
The aristocracy of gentleness
The power of goodness and ■
Her filial love was constantly
countless acts of devotion. Of ker a emajT
writes: “I look upon aU my F ul ’»ul
is not a year which fails to bear w® J
ing kindness to me; my eUttjJ* 1 *' r j1
brightened by the sweetest ewterly M 8 *1
ever was any one’s'blessed destiny « ^ J
have looked upon her from thseuj •
memory as a guide and mentor, u ^4
good in me she deserves the praiso.
ness, all her faith, all her joyful antof^l
blessed Teat cannot reconcile me.
teiial presence, the sweet voice ww S
the last hour, her sweet, *******S»|
she was the ideal of all beauty
onr bright, embodied blessing—Goa 1
to us. I am of tho earth, earthly,
get the silent sleeper to follow tc ^,$4
in all its disembodied b.Msedn^- ^1)1
of that hallowed death bed will ever I
me to j oin the redeemed* 1
Although childless, yet A
more than one orphan ' infloeejjJ
and felt the softness and salut
maternal guidance. Hex 6 ‘-taA
in the eyel of aU its inmates by ttose ,^|
courtesies of life” which she
q toSwDl not intruden^
of a crushed heart, but will
one her tender love made
space, a perfect Eden. £ts»
she was eminetly usefah With j
straints of womanly mcd. eBt l\2 “qc!
more enduring than any wsOTPb. ^{*1
marble. .Although an mvriidf *^ J
sue railed to occupy w ^"7^6«
sanotuaiy, and to mingle in
the voice of supplication anawora^ ,iH
atwhose altars she last received
so precious to her soul, bears amp- M j(f
her influence, quiet and nnobtrosi JYjj.
an impetus to pure and undefitee
mind became more and more
trines of her Saviour, herplewoM
citing in the hearts ot others a A^jteiiW
ties' She was a model Bund*! , j
the tendrils of the little ones
about her, and their love was a-
they wept at her departure;
like gems in thecrewn of of lojfl
ing of immortality. Her murines
ness, her charities and
volume, and will ever ba ® c f rl J n 4 flr e tl«5
grateful survivors. Called M oC f
ag ordeal that humanity could
elf-possessed, cheerful, resign®®’
. smatoble Christian dovelopmen
have Gleamed how sabhme » w i[In
and grow strong.” Shei died-JS'JffiorioO* ’
in goodness, and soon fulfilled*^ p,t
When the dark galley lay before
Derfeot composure: I fear no
in His beauty.
“And she, like Him m gW bol v t
No spot, no wrinkles on j^iiiaf*
No film upon her robes of. _
Most beautiful, most
jtadiant with the likeness o g.1
jptijj
Banner of the Cross, Atlanta,
Illinois, papers please copy.
