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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.
