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Newspaper Page Textmss '/V ^ L 33 GEORG-IA JOTJiiNAL. & MESBENGrER. ■E rature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING RUSHED 1826. MACON, TUESDAY, MARCH 28,1871 The Bawl’s Nest. {Sierra/.') JIT beet haute. c nr pace—the red road sharply round- ohv^deptbof phiea, resounding ,*Mialf £6t be low : ^.betomnUof the canyon, lifted, #*®L h»wk breathless hung, JgfiuUjrf ‘^"drifted ^furzo and thom-bnsh dung; f ,.. 0 jjiif.jray, tho mountain side was far- JS^asMmsndfcw, rtos abandoned innnel dimly borrowed— solebiUecea so far; brkcd in eilenee down across tho distant ^°”ok;n by the guide’s consistent jjreilistic speech. vitr. of Slotphy’S; blew a hole through Peters JrSW bim ho lied, , n j daated out of South Homites ' [jibe long Divide. out of Strong’s, and up throughEden, j>oed the ford below, Lnttis mountain (Peters’ brother leadin’) 'al ae and Clark and Joe. •f'j'tuagame; somehow, I disremember tie thing kem round; ’njtns wadding, some a scattered ember u’jirce on tho ground. -j cue moment all the hill below him luittst one sheet of flame; is'the crest, Sam Clark and I called to him, the dog was game. kMdenoeign—the fires of hollwere round him, a, pit of hell bell below. [Jltisl waited, bnt we never found him, ii then we turned to go. i then-yon eoe that rock that’s grown so bristly a Apparel and tan— p ont—it might hey been a grizzly, Lev been a man— i that howled and gnashed its tosth and ihouted •jaoie and dnst and flame; a that sprang into the depths abont it, sale or man—bnt game! Ciill. Well, yes, it does look rather risky, ilhnder makes one queer iny looking down. A drop of whisky ta’Ud thing right here!” IChicago Art Review. Sonnet. .tie he kissed me, he bnt only kissed inters of this hand wherewith I write; uer lince, it grew more clean and white, D world-greetings—quick with its “Oh, list, a the augele epcsk. A ring of amethyst ii cot wear here, plainer to my slight Bitat first kiss. The second passed in height ibt, ami sought theforehead, and half missed, iMliog on the hair. Oh, beyond meed, {ns the chrism of love, which lore’s own i (acetifying sweetness, did precede, third upon my lips was folded down ■feet, purple state; since when, indeed, nheeu proud and said, “My lore, my own. A FATAI, PHOTOGRAPH. Ml’anis of Mr. McXcnn's alias Mr. JIc- urlilin's Goins to See tbc Procession m,000 Defaulter Nabbed, tier this head the Son, of Saturday, says: Sectivo oflioer Eostioe, haying yesterday tieformed that John W. McLean, who was ted at Atlanta, Ga., for a $5,000 fraud on jostoffice, was on tho Bowery looking at the itsion, arrested him and took him to head ten. He said that he was not tho xnan, bnt proprietor of a billiard saloon on Elm and «e streets. CoL Whitloy was sent for, bnt «that officer’s arrival Detective Walling iced a photograph of MoLean by which the was identified. Isat is very like mo,” said tho man, “but I at McLean.” oiosel Whitley telegraphed to Atlanta for Scalars, and when they arrived McLean made 2 confession. He said that his real name L A. McLaughlin, and that ho had been fckrk of the money order department of ilhnta Postoffice, and acting Assistant auter. Ho admitted embezzling the *J, with which he says he went to New us, and thence to New York, where he Kd the saloon in Broome street, which km about §2,000. He had formed the ac- auoce of a girl in this city, and believed hd betrayed him. ' prisoner was last -evening sent on to At- Before leaving, he gave Colonel Wnit- l powcr of attorney to dispose of the saloon benefit of the United States. w the Herald Thinks of the Prospect. M Herald, of Saturday, says: * general prospect is very encouraging to aterrifled Democracy. They are morally *3. from present appearances, of their old _lj«n Democratic balance of power in the Presidential contest, and their chances ** Mason and Dixon and the Ohio, East MSt, for a sufficient number of States to t«m the election appear to bo good. Their *st danger is the danger of another sop to , titihem fire-eaters of 1872, like that of '•declaring all the reconstruction doings of “unconstitutional, revolutionary, null !*■;" or liko that of 1864, declaring the the Union “a failure.” Upon this rock Jteaocraey, it rash enough again to try the ^at, will again be dashed to pieces. ® Parmors’ Home Journal, of Lexington, kys: “Mr. Wm. Hardin, of this county, d, about four weeks ago, one of his fat He supposed it had been stolen. A few ! *«o, as ho was hunting in one of his fields, were attracted to a Bink-hole, and on "iuion the hog was discovered at the bot- ia which thero was a quantity of water, t'^wss drawn ont and afterward wall fed, ii sow doing well, though it lay 28 days *tfood. ** York critics have found out that Booth ‘•ctor. I!* deal with an undertaker if yon can avoid it. They are a mean set, always ^ to screw you down. Johnson, of St. Louis, applied to a ‘J'the other day for the arrest of Brown- jdason. He said he “done went on the ‘‘ Johnson’s house jistto frow some bricks •«c'nimbly to scare a young cullnd gal dat d* house, and Johnson don lock the scrit- --sado him stay up dar till 8 o’clock do He didn’t get the warrant, idea of the inorease in the value of in Chicago may be obtained from the 'T®6 etory: Some years ago a man bought ground there for $15 and a mule, it shortly afterwards. To-day the worth §1,000,000 and the unlucky > 8 not worth a cent. —Tho Wilmington Journal of Sun- J-Mn from well authenticated rumor that '" : J. Vance resigned the United States . •je^ti-rday. We are, however, with er information. A eit. ' •‘•'fhow'* 0onMonnt "Washington the past - that periods of intense cold are felt jl’f- twelve to twenty-four hours sooner - country below. ?• Beown, a retired mariner, claims that ;wJ Ct termine his latitude and longitude by sunrise and sunset Vi*? 01 of paid schoolmasters are being ap- • ' ‘? r the London police. Hitherto city “*«es have in many cases performed the frjhutonsly. ^y^g-whcel was invented in 1330. O!^* 18 Ea Ys most men prefer little wives, first planted in England in 1505. f St Joseph, is in jail. YOI. LXIV—fftf 37 Tire Bntler-BIalne Affair. From the Journal of Commerce. 1 The fiery passage of arms between Speaker Blaine and Gen. Butler is much more than a trial of fence between two cool heads and prac ticed bands. The General stands for tie undis ciplined radicalism of the House and of the country; the Speaker for the more rational and politic wing of the Republicans. In parliamen- tary tact, no less than in the give-and-take of debate, the member from Maine has proved himself more than a match for the man of Essex. Nothing neater has been done for a long time than the drafting and passage of the Southern committee resolution and the putting of Butler at its hood—all the work of Speaker Blaine—ex cept it be the cool and masterly manner in A Winter Journey Over Blount Cents. As the track wlndsupward the cliffs grow sheer and beetling, the peaks are higher, the gorges deeper, the fiat bits fewer and smaller, the re moteness from all human life is more solemnly felt. Day was declining and the sunlight crept higher and higher, lying first across the sombre face of the mountain as it looked forth from its hood of snow, then on the brown woodlands which clothe the steeps, then on the stretches of dark- green pine forest on colder heights, and last oh the white summits Until they glowed with a color which is like no sunset, but tho dawn of. an eternal day. Sometimes the road ran between walls of rook which almost shut ont the sky • over these hung frozen waterfalls, that spring down in summer with a single leap—now one which the skillfnl handler of tho gavel, stepping j huge icicle, fluted Hke a Doric column. The down upon the floor for the first time in two years, discomfited his antagonist with tho sharp sword of dialectics. A man of General Butler’s audacity and ready resources does not easily g ive up. He wiU be heard from again and often; ut the swiftly moving events of the past three or four days indicate that his sceptre in the House is so broken that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to mend it. For it is not merely Speaker Blaine and a majority of Republican representatives that are sick of his dictations and bis ruinous radicalism, but also the reflect ing men of his party throughout the country. Among tho many teachings of the New Hamp shire election is this—that an important portion of the Repnblican party want peace. They are tired of the everlasting dragooning of the Sonth which General Butler would make the sole occu pation of Congress, to the exclusion of all prac tical and beneficent legislation for that and all other parts of the land. Speaker Blaine, being something of a statesman, takes this lesson to heart, and fifty-eight other Republicans are wise enough to share his views; and hence their sudden substitution of an exploring and inves tigating committee for Butler’s hasty and venge ful Ku-Klux measure. Nothing could be more reasonable, justerand wiser than the appointment of such a committee to inquire—for the first time!—on the ground exactly what the state of society is at the South, how much real truth there is in the Ku-klux stories, what can best be done to remedy evils that exist. General Butler calls for action with out investigation, without thought, without re flection. Speaker Blaine is willing to act with Butler so far as action is necessary, but wants to do so inteUigently, effectively. No Republi can in his calmer and better moments can deny that the Speaker is right, and if he considers for an instant the critical situation of hispartyp he must admit that the provision for a traveling investigating committee is also in the highest degree judicious, as a party expedient alone. If such a committee returns from its Southern trip with sufficient evidences that Butler's Ha< klax bill is warranted by the situation, it can be passed with good hopes of receiving a general party approval. If the committee are convinced tbat it is not needed and the South can take care of herself better than Congress can take care of her, the party would be relieved of a load of trouble, and would thenceforth become more united and stronger. On every ground of policy, a3 of morality and fitness, tho Blaine plan is the better one, and, if the whole Republican vote could be polled to decide between him and But ler, we feel quite sure Blaine would carry the day. . . ' » ‘ : Badly as the Speaker damaged his antagonist. General Butler inflicted far more injuries on himself by his circular letter addressed to his brother Repnblican members and to the public. Some of the gross misstatements in this docu ment have been sufficiently corrected by Mr. Blaine, as for example the assertion that only from twenty to thirty Republicans voted for tho investigating committee, when the tally shows the names of fifty-eight. But the most impudent portion of the letter is where the wri ter admits in advance that a traveling commit tee through tho South would find only peace and quiet there, and that Butler himself could jour ney through that region without fear of moles tation, and gives those as the best reasons why the committee should not have been appointed, and why he (Butler) will not serve upon it. Of course he assumes that tho South, while under going inspection, would only refrain from mo tives of policy from those pastimes of hanging, whipping and general terrorism, which he claims aro her normal occupation. Bnt if tho South were- in as lawless a condi tion as he says, who believes that the Kn-Eluxes would suspend their murderous games out of delicate consideration for the feelings of the committee and of General Butler ? Would they not rather string up all the radical members of tho committee, with the chairman at their head, on a sturdy limb of the first oak ? Surely they would, or their sanguinary and reckless propen sities have been much over-pictured! We agree with Gen. Butler that the committee_ would not discover that horrible state of affairs at the Sonth whichha is so fond of portraying, bebauso, except in isolated districts, it does not exist, and not because it would be suppressed when the committee made their rounds. The whole argument and tone of the letter betray to every impartial reader Gen. Butler’s confession of the exaggeration which he and others like him ha bitually practice in their speeches about the South, and an unwillingness to face the light of the truth. The truth is what they do not want, for its utterance would put a quick end to their plot to keep the South and the whole country continually in hot water, for the gratification of their private revenges and the supposed (though mistaken) benefit of the dominant party. We hope that Speaker Blaine will speedily fiU the vacancies in the committee with men who will fairly represent the conflicting sentiments of the House, and we are willing to' leave legisla tion for the South to take whatever coarse their impartial investigation and report may suggest. Tile Democratic Caucus. Special Telegraphic Correspondence of the Cou rier-Journal. Washington, D. G., March 17.—The Demo crats of the House.of Representatives had a cau cus this afternoon for the purpose of consider ing what coarse to bo pursued on tho Senate proposition for a joint committee to investigate affairs at the South. A number of speeches were made, Messrs. Beck, Kerr, Yoorheos, Campbell, and MarshaU favoring the policy of assent to the Senate resolution upon the ground that it was the interest of the Democratic party to court the fullest investigation of the charges made against the Sonth; that this was the only way to disprove those charges, and that unless this course was pursued and the com mittee appointed, there was' great danger that Congress would remain in session and pass some diabolical measure of oppresssion. Gen eral Young, Mr.' Eldridge, Mr. Van Trump and streams that food them are-frost-bound imtheir rocky beds: we saw no living water except the torrent which rushes sparkling and foaming be side the track, its clear waves looking bright and black between the snow-covered banks. Some times the road crossed a bridge where we hung in mid-air, and looked*' down into the heart of the mountains rent with gorges and chasms, a mere chaos of crags and abysses, and the snow lying over all. At long .intervals we saw perched on a ledge overhead a village in its solitary squalor, a mere huddle of miserable cottages, with a little'church; in an another in stant we were looking down upon its spire. When the last of these was left behind loneli ness became supreme. Evening came down upon a prospeot which was growing stem and awful; the huge boulders on the banks and in the bed of the stream looked like blocks of solid ice; the masses of rock rising ab ruptly amid the snow-covered slopes were as white as the barriers of the Arctic world. For a while the horizon was wrapped in tho the gray of twilight, and objects were indis tinguishable ; then by degrees the moon gained power and prevailed, and showed a wonderful scene. There was not a tree, a shrub, a rock in sight; we were crossing a plain sheetedin white, Close above it were the high peaks of the moon' tain, and stooping down overthem the dark, blue midwinter night sky and its great stars. Tho uni versal snow around ns lie3 there for half the year; the snow above us is tho snow that never melts. The moonlight shed a silvery sheon over the whole; there was only the snow, the mountain top, the sky, and the lights of heaven. As wo sped silently along we passed a large bailding in this frozen wilderness: it was the Hospice, half of it stiU occupied by the good monks, and half used as barracks. It stood np dark against the snow, for it was nine o’clock and every light was out. It was soon out of sight and nothing remained but tho railroad traok and the tele graph wires to remind ns of man’s existence and of his constant warfare with the tremendous powers of Nature. Suddenly the train stopped, and, whence nobody conjd guess, came one in authority and demanded our passports. The ap parition of Davy Jones in mid-ocean is not more startling. It was like waking from a dream, and was the step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Had wo been spies and traitors of the worst sort, wo could have done no mischief up there; and had we been proved to be such, we could not have been turned adrift where we were. However, these precautions may be in- dispensible to a monarchical government. We now began to pass through the snow-sheds which enclose the road for miles together, and answer the purpose of tunnels for depriving one of sight and hearing, and driving in aU the steam, smoko, and fonl air. There 'is a long chain of these from the summit of the pass down the southern side, and as wa rushed ser- pentwisa downward through the dark the effect was bewildering. One felt as if one had a cork screw in one’s brain; one felt as if one were drunk; one felt as if one wore spinning head foremost down the circles of space; one grew giddy, sleepy, stunned, unconscious. When horizontal motion and a breath of fresh air brought back the senses, we were down in the pine woods. By and by we came to the deciduous forests, and then we ran into the fog again. At length there was a halt, a great, dark arch, some feeble lights, and a smell of thaw. We were asked Ibr our tickets; we had taken them in the morning at a place called by its inhabitants Genf; it was now spoken of to us as Ginevra. We were invited to descend, and once mpre open our trunks. .One of the ladies, a little numb and dazed perhaps by the journey, was rather slow to comply. La maud line qui ve tent pa a obeir ! (“Tho she-maudlin who won’t do as she’s told!") growled one offi cial to another. The room where we underwent this process had been called Zoll when we stoppedin thomoming; atnoonitwasDowane/ now it was La Dogana. The place was Susa. We were at the foot of the pass; it was Italy, and everything was in a warm slop.—From Our Monthly Gossip, in the April number of Lip- pincott's Magazine. 'I The Mannebs and Appearance of Rcskin.— Never BhaU I forget the first, last, and only time I ever saw John Ruskin. His piotnre had hung for many years just over my study-table —that sweet almost angelic face, which in some what coarser execution, still the same in char acter, - fronts the title-page of some of his works. Who that has seen it has forgotten it? It is almost a child’s face, and has not a little of the charm which Invests one of Raphael's Shistine cherubs. But the real Ruskin, how different! I think he is the plainest man I ever saw ; at any "rate no face has ever impressed me with so mnch ugliness. And as if to inten sify nature, his manner of wearing his hair and his rudely fitting dress only emphasized the natural want of charms. Raskin’s face has neither fineness of feature nor winning expres sion. His eye, it is true, is large and eloquent, bnt not enough so to off-set the rest of the face. He read a paper to a few friends that evening— not with much eloquence, but with a jerky, un natural flinging out of the words, quite unlike- the flow of a good Amerioan reader. Bnt the charm was underneath, in the thought itself, which, like everything of Raskin’s, was orig inal, paradoxical, stimulating. The paper was afterwards printed, and forms the first half of his Sesame and Lilies. He is a good American- hater, lives in great seclusion on Denmark Hill, one of the suburbs of London, is princely-in his generosities, gracious to all young art-stu dents who seek his advice, and, with all feudal tendencies, incontestably one of the noblest spirits of our age.—From Our Monthly Gossip, in the April number of. Lippineott’s Magazine. Sumneb on Gbantj—In an interview with a reporter for the New York Heraldj Sumner said; We have never had a ^President before who usurped the war power. 'Grant has done this. He has been making war for months past with out any shadow of consideration fbr the legisla- eral Young, Mr. Jtsionoge, air. van xrnmp ana ^ authority. He has conseqnently.beon in- Mr. Bird opposed the resolution on the grounds footing the Constitution In the gravest manner, that Congress had no right to interfere with the administration of State affairs and local justice, and further that the investigation would be unfairly oonduoted. The former views, how ever, largely preponderated. It was voted by four to one to pass the resolution when it came to the House, but with an amendment that the committee, instead of reporting at any time, shall report in December next. It was stated expressly in the caucus that this decision was not binding on individual members, and it is probable that some who voted against a similar committee of the House will vote against the and his conduct is totally indefensible. The Senator made the above remarks with deliberation, devoid of excitement, but evi dently meant what he stud. As he concluded your correspondent said: * Correspondent—But, Senator, do you think President Grant looks upon this matter as a vi olation of the Constitution ? Do you think tie knows bis views of ttie question are so widely different from yours? Sumner—He? What does Grant know ? He doesn’t know, anything, sir. I do not accuse him of any knowledge whatever. He is not a Senate resolution. Mr. Campbell having ex- ! man capable -of understanding principles or pressed the opinion in the caucus that all the , grasping anything in a comprehensive view, members of the committee should be. Northern ; jj a does jjot understand the primary elements men, Mr. Beok, of Kentucky, at once proposed - c f the constitutional requirements of war. All to decline serving, but Gen. Young, of Georgia, he knows is how to execute. Put him on a and others insisted on his remaining on the horse and he’ll blunder along somehow in the committee. The representation of the South There’s whore his vocation ends. on the committee is aeemed important, in order j b.r.-.h.,o.f i to have tho proper interrogations put to the ^ white pine tree measuring seventeen feet witnesses, so as to elicit the whole truth end in ciroamfereece, was recently cut on the “Kim- expose perjurers and misstatements. ball place” in Dover. It was draiyn to the lum ber mill, but was too large to bo sawed, and Thebe are now about 250 postmistresses in the W as split with powder, but the halves are still country, and the number steadily increases. too large to be made available. When a man’s business is rapidly running Punctuation marks were first used fit litera- down it is time for him to think of winding it tore’in 1520. up. tMe- We are told there is nothing made in vain. A eecentey wedded pair in New York received But how abont a pretty young girl? Isn’t she as presents, four pianos. maiden vain? .• -awi 1 Successful Mechanics in New York. The New York correspondent of the Roches ter Democrat, groups these facts about wealthy mechanics in this city: The late George M. Tunison, a builder of some note, left a fortune of §200,000 for his j heirs to quarrel over, which duty they fulfilled to the best of their power. Richard F. Carman, once the prominent landed proprietor at Wash ington Heights, commenced life as a house car penter, and even within my own day his sign was to be seen at his shop in New street, “Rich ard F. Carman, builder.” It was at this trade that he made a large part of his enormous es tate, which amounted to a million.' William Bruce, the late distinguished type founder, also made a large fortune. He was an enter prising man, and was disposed to assist young printers by selling them materials on credit. Richard Hoe was another successful mechanic, and the saw and printing press establishment which he founded is now worth a million. Wil liam Bogardus, a boss painter in Cedar street, although not, strictly speaking, a money-making man, has made not far from §100,000 in the course of his business career. Luke Terboss, another boss paintc-r in the same neighborhood, made a fortune, which he left to his Doys, who soon scattered it by the usual dissipation of city life. George Law himself laid the foundation of his great wealth while working at the tra ' of a stone mason, and is probably the most si cessful man which the trade has ever produced. The printers come in for a share of fortune’s favors. Greeley, as every one knows, served as “jour” for two years in this city, and was glad to get a job on a Greek testament, which tried Ms defective eyes as well as his more enduring patience. I have sometimes thought that his subsequent turn for theology may be due to this practical induction into holy writ. But Greeley’s case is outdone by Bonner, who has five times &3 much wealth, and the latter set type for the Hartford Gonrant not over twenty years ago, and afterward read proof for the Mirror in tMs city. Alvord, the master printer in Vandewater street, is rioh enough to spend half his time at his residence near Hartford, where he has a small but valuable farm. John F. Trow, another master printer, looalod up in Greene street, has also become rioh, and so has Sam Green, of Frankfort street; Sam is the son of the worthy Beriah Green, of WMtesboro, who was for tMrty years one of the foremost Abolitionists (in the pulpit at least) in Central New York. tv.- , “John,” .... - ^ ..... I stand behind bis elbow chair, • My soft hands rest upon his hair— Hair whose silver is dearer to me. Than all the gold of earth could be; And my eyes of brown Look tenderly down On John, my John. ■' ' Luther and the Germany of To-day. It will be remembered that Luther had by “the profoundly learned lady, Catherine Luther, Ms giaoious housewife,” whom he valued!‘above the kingdom of France or tho State of Venice,” six children. The eighth generation of Ms de scendants was represented, in the male line, by Joseph Carl Luther alone. This Joseph had seven children, of whom all except two daugh ters,: Maria and Elizabeth, were in 16G7 living in Halle or its vicinity. None of them were at all distinguished, and nobody in Eisleben op anywhere else knew anything concerning them beyond the simple fact that they existed. “Sense becomes nonsense, welfare a plague; alas for thee that thou art a grandson!” says Goethe. The memory of the mighty monk is not cher ished as it deserves, either by the Prussian gov ernment ,or by the German people. Not in all the city of Eisleben, with its two daily newspa pers, could I find a photograph of the Reformer, and it was with difficulty that I discovered in ah obscure BucJJiandlung one of Ms house. The stone step of his humble dwelling is little worn now by the tread of reverent pilgrims, and the cobwebs stretch athwart the stairs. Germany has erected a few statues in honor of genius—to Guttenburg, Faust and Jchoffer, to Goethe and ScMller; but most of its statues are in apotheosis of sashed and ribboned idiooy, bestriding the horse wMch the Germans, of all men, sit most ill, and only great “by the grace of God” or the titular additions of flunk- eyism. France writes on' her July Column the names of all her -immortals; Italy fashions from the imperishable marble, with the long patience of centuries, and places in her Pan theon at Milan, the shapes of all her illustrious sons; but Germany, wMch is full of bronze kings who in their generation were tyrannic idiots, plants no worthy statue to Humboldt or Luther or Beethoven, princes of science, of re ligion and musio in all onr Christian world. Peaceful as she is, in all practical matters, Ger many is the youngest of all civilized peoples, and, like a young girl, her imagination runs on military brass and spangles.—From Student Rambles in Prussia, in the April number of Lippineott’s Magazine. ~ Baez—Who and Wliat He is. The Tribune, with all its. zeal for Grant, is obliged to print the following from its Santo Domingo correspondent of "Baez: “Senator Sumner spoko nothing but the truth when he called Baez ‘a political jockey.’ He jockeyed bis people, and he has done Ms best to jockey the Commissioners. He completes the thing by dressing as much like a jockey as any man can in the tropics. "When he came aboard the Tennessee, he reminded me at once of a horse racer. Tho Dominioan flag was run up to the mast-h^ad of this beautiful frigate, the officers grouping themselves on dock in fuli dress uniform,' with swallow-tailed coats, epau lets,'white trowsers and cocked hats; a salute was fired of 21 guns, and the man for whom all this parade was made came on board in a bril liant jacket, light pantaloons and a crimson vel vet jookey cap trimmed elaborately with gold lace, and looking, to tell the plain truth, like a shrewd and rather tricky ‘sport.’ He has" no wife, but scores of children. He has no salary,, but he livesin luxury while the soldiers starve. He has neither character nor courage, and he cannot quell a contemptible insurrection, though Ms nominal power is almost absolute. In a re public he rules like a royal despot.” TMs is the man and these the people to whom an American Commission has been sent, and to whom the Commission has been paying court. A word, now, of the people, on the same au thority i"- “If the United States determines to buy this Republic you must not be surprised to find Baez himself pocketing most of the purchase money. All the Dominican officials are said to be heavy creditors'of the State. None of the mare paid at present. Soldiers beg in the streets, even be fore the headquarters of the army, bifii you may. be sure there are heavy arrears of back pay. If we vote $1,500,000 for Santo Domingo, and let Baez disburse it, the first debts paid will be the salaries of office-holders. That will be a fine thing for the President’s family. The Deputy Collector and on'e other officer at the capitol are the President’s sons. The Governor of the oity is Ms brother. A second brother is a Genera). A half-brother is Governor of Azna. A brother- in-law is Secretary of State.” Why, tMs is almost np to Gen. Grant, and perhaps accounts for the fellow-feeling and sym pathy between the two. It was of this man, and before this man, that Commissioner Wade said, February 22d, at Azna: ■-a v a r. do . • -y t ‘The members of the commission and the gen tlemen connected with it have traversed a great deal of your Republic, and we believe we have truly ascertained the sentiments of the great majority.of your people. We are-encouraged to believe so because we find that your’Presi dent seems to be a true representative of yonr sentiments, so far as we have gone.”—Tf. T. Express. -■ > The firelight leaps, and laughs, and warms, Wraps us bath in its ruddy arms— John, as he sits in the hearth-glow red, Me, with my hands on his dear old head- Encircling ns both.',... •' , Like a ring of troth, Me and my John. ,v m. . ‘ His fotm has lost its early grace, Wrinkles rest on his kindly face; His brow no longer is smooth and fair, For time has left Ms autograph there; But a noble prize In my loving eyes Is John, my John. “My love," he says, and lifts his hands, Browned by the suns of other landB, In tender clasp on mine to lay; “How long ago was onr wedding day?” I smile through my tears And say, “Years and years, My John, dear John!” We say no more, the firelight glows; Both of us muse, on what—who knows ? My hands drop down in a mute caress— Each throb of my heart is a wish to bless With my life’s best worth The heart and the hearth Of John, my John. A Terrible Fifty Minutes. FROM THE FRENCH. An Excuse foe “Thawing Oct.”—The Wash ington correspondents amuse themselves by.get- ting off such anecdotes as the following : Speaking of John Sherman reminds me of a colloquy which I heard in one of the Senate corridors yesterday, between a oouple of mem bers of the House. One of them bad just emerged from the lobby of the Senate: “Come, let us go down stairs,” said Mr. Noggs, “I want some good brandy.” “Why,” rejoined Mr. Boggs, “I thought had quit drinking? ’ “I have in a manner,” was the reply, “but I have just been talking to that d—d iceberg, John Sherman, and I’ll have to take a oouple of swigs of brandy to thaw out” you In August, 1859,1 arrived at Chamounix with one of my friends, a traveler like myself. For about five weeks we had been exploring Switz erland, so that we had plenty of time to get used to snow and glacierce. We had made sev eral ascents, one of 14,000 feet. I well remem ber the sensation I felt when I first saw one of thoso orevicos wMch seam the surface of glaciers. Holding firmly by my guido’3 hand, I leaned over the yawning gulf, and tried to gaze dowh into iis terrible depth. The two perpendicular walls of ice appeared to meet some 300 feet below, but I believe it was only the effeot of perspective, the rent being proba bly prolonged as far as the solid rock. “A man who falls there is certain never to come out alive,” said ono of my guides. “True,” replied the other; “but I know one who was rescued. A narrow escape indeed, it was; he still lives at Grinlewald. He is a cha mois hunter; he was returning home, and in descending t^e crevasse he fell. 'His fall was broken by projecting blocks of ice, wMch yield ed, however, beneath Ms weight when hooking to them. When he reached the bottom, a dis tance of some hundred feet, he had a.leg and arm broken. Between tho earth and ice he found a hollow place into whioh a stream was running. Crawling along, suffering terrible pain,’he followed the course of the water, and in three hours he was out of the glacier.” Crevasses vary in breadth from two to six feet at the mouth, but the sides approach rapid ly as they descend, so that a man may find him self jammed in between two walls of ice a long time before he reaches the bottom, and then, if ropes long and strong enough are at hand, it is possible to save Mm from a dreadful death. But generally the ropes are not long enough, and the traveler perishes of cold, or falls lower down into the crevasse dating, hours wMch elapse while some of the party have gone to the nearest village to fetch longer, ropes. Thus an unfortunate Russian nobleman perished in a glacier near Zermatt some years ago. We had ascended the Brevent, we now had only the Mer de Glace and the Jardin to visit. We slept at theMontanvert in the solitary little inn at the foot of the glacier. Next morning we were up at dawn. Famished with some provisions and two bottleBof wine we started with our guide. It was a splendid morning, and augured well for our excursion. For half an hour we followed a rough pathwMch skirted the Mer de Glace, whioh displayed below us its surface riven with crevasses and covered with rocks and fragments. Our road ended at the glacier, upon whioh we now began to descend, and to traverse in zig-zags in the midst of nu merous fissures. The Mer de Glace is not. con sidered dangerous, and it is quite the exception to take axes and ropes when crossing it. , Alert and cheerful we hastened oh without taking no tice of the guide, who, some way behind, -cried out tons several times to be cautious and wait for him. -We were obliged at last to halt before a vast crevasse which barred up our passage. It opened with a length of some sixty yards, and ended upon our left in a slope of ice, some what steep, batwMchl'-thotightrcQuld easily mount. Using the iron Spike of my alpenstock as a hatchet, I began to cut holes in the ioe, large enough to put my feet in k ' At this moment our guide rejoined us.' He'lookedat the slope and at the yawning crevasse below it, and said in a grave tone, “It is dangerous, let us go roundit.” , r . . , With the aid of my alpenstock I had already got half way np this ioy hillock, and was .mow quite convinced that it was too steep and slip pery to be crossed without an axe. The guide’s warning confirmed my opinion. I was cau tiously lowering my right leg, seeking, for the hole that I had made in the ice; my foot pass ed it; I felt that I was sliding down ; there was notMng rough to stop me, not the least projec tion by wMch I could hold myself in. The de clivity became perpendicular,.andI fell into the gulf. ' . - idol I heard the cry of despair of my companion and my guide. My own sensations cannot be described. I was giddy and half stunned, sent backwards and forwards from one wall of ice to tiie other. I felt myself - descending to a great depth, condemned to be dashed to pieces, to die a horrible death. Suddenly sometMng stopped me. I felt:inyself. suspended. I tome-breath again, and could cry out, “A rope 1 a rope 1 By.God’s mercy I:h&d fallen upon a narrow ledge of ice, which formed a sort of bridge aoross the crevasse. TMs fnfil support, as foe as I cpuld.judge, was about! font inches broad and eighteen tMck. My head , hung from one side of it, my feet from the other. I inBtinot- ively and immediately, by what means I know not, raised myself np and stood upright on this projection, where there was a hollow just large enough for me to plant one foot. Then I heard my companion say above me: “We never hoped to hear your voice again; trust in God and take courage. The guide has run to Montanvert to seek men and ropes: he will come back directly.” “If ibe is long,” I replied, “Lshall not come' up alive. . - ... D : ' sM ,uo My position was a terrible one; the tMn ledge of ice was so narrow that I could not place both feet on it I could only support myself on one.leg, half resting against one of the ice wails, and pressing the other , with my hand. The ice was smooth a3 a mirror, and. there -nas nothing to grasp. A stream of ice waf«*' flow ed down upon my shoulders, pier«mg to the very bones: above my head I the long and narrow streak of tho sky round which the mouth of the crevasse forru®>i a frame. The ice, wMch was of darkest blue color, encircling me on all side*, looked threateningand gloomy.- The two walls seemed as if they were abont to meet in order to crush me, rather than to re- lease their grey. Numerous water-courses streamed down their sides, but in this extent of more than sixty yards I could not see any other protection or obstacle except tMs ledge on which I had so miraculously fallen. I risked looking, for one second omly, down into the terrible abyss, above wMch I was sus pended.- At the spot where I.was, the crevasse was not more than two feet wide, lower down it narrowed rapidly, and a hundred yards below the two sides appeared to touch each other. I believe if I bad fallen but a very few inches on either side from the narrow bridge which had arrested me, I should have been buried and jammed np at a depth where no rope could have reached me. I had remained about twenty minutes in my perilous position, nerves and muscles stretched to their utmost to keep my- to glance into the gulf below. The blood was flowing from a .wound I' had received in the cheek, and I felt that my right leg, upon which fortunately I was not resting, was severely bruised; the left leg, however, pained by the effort of standing and the oold, was beginning to give. way. It was impossible'to'’change my position without the risk of loeing my balance. The cold of the wall of ice against which I was resting fhore and more benumbed me, the water contiDed to fall, and I dared not stir. I called my .companion; no one replied. I called again. Nothing 1 notMng 1 Not a human voice being within reach of my voice. I was seized with giddiness as a terrible thought crossed my brain. “He has gone to see if help is coming, and he. cannot find tho crevasse, again; there are hundreds such—I am lost!” - ■ iffijo.; c I commended my soul to God. My strength was exhausted. I had never yet given up all hope. I was seized with a desire to let myself fall, and thus put an end to this agony. ' ■! At the critical moment, I hoard myself called. My friend had ran to look for the guide, but when he wished to return he was horror-struok on perceiving that the surface of the glazier was rent by countless crevasses, all so similar that there was not a single sign by wMch he could recognize the abyss in which I was puried aUve. In this cruel perplexity, God guided Mm to see a little knapsack whioh the guide had left at the edge of the gulf. I cried to him to look at his watob., Five minutes more had elapsed. The cold was coming moro and more intense; the blood was literally freezing in my veins. I called; I asked if there was any one in sight, The guide had started .thirty-five minutes ago, and not a soul had yet appeared. It was scarcely probable that he could return so quickly, as wo had taken three-quarters of an hour to get to this spot, and he had to go and return. I felt-that I could hold out but very little longer. The support on wMch my safety alone depended might yield at any moment and break beneath me. -1 remembered that £ had a strong knife in my pocket, and resolved to make use of it to draw myself out. I informed my com panion of this project; he implored me to do notMng of the Mnd; but my situation had be come intolerable. I made a notch in the ice, high enough for me to reach it, and large enough for me to insert my hand in; then about two feet above the littla bridge I dug out a little hole sufficiently large enough for me to put my foot in. I succeeded, and grasping these two points of support, my back resting with all my strength against the opposite wall, I was able to raise myself and keep, myself firm in this posi tion. I descended again upon the bridge, and began another notch above the first. I flattered myself that ! Should thus be able to escape from my prison, bnt a single slip, a false step, would precipitate; me into the abyss. '■■■■> : I was working -diligently at my second step, when I heard a joyous cry above mo. “Here they are! Three-men with ropes—they are running as fast as their legs can carry them.” I steadied myself as firmly.as possible upon the narrow and slippery bridge, so as to be able to seizo the rope they w ere about to lower and tie it aronnd me. I saw the end of it swinging about two yards above - my head, 4 ‘ May God have mercy upon me! it i3 too short!” “ We have another!” That was fastened to the floor and let down. I seized the end- of it. I bound it strongly aronnd my waist, and grasping the rope with both hands I gave the signal for them to pull up. : They began—I was saved. A minute after ward I was standing upon the glacier. I had passed fifty minutes in the crevasse, during which time I had happily lost neither my confi dence in God nor my presence of mind. When I placed my foot upon firm ground again, an overpowering feeling of deep grati tude to the Almighty who had delivered me in so great peril filled' my breast; I fell on iny knees and fainted. When I again beoame conscious, onr party was preparing to start for the Montanvert. Before leaving I wished.to oast one last lookinto the crevasse where I had nearly been buried alive. I saw how com pletely impossible it would have been for me to get out of it as I had projected. The open ing at the top was too wide to have allowed me, as I reached it,to lean against the opposite wall, and without the support the most agile of Climbing animals- -would have. found' it im possible to scale this perpendicular wall of ice. ' ' - ' The guide had run to the inn, where ho could not find a single rope suitable for thepnr- pose. In despair he started for Ohamounix; when on the way he met two muleteers.. Their animals were laden with wood, tied on with ropes, whioh he implored them to give Mm to save a poor traveller who had fallen into a cre vasse. These good people at once unloaded their mules, and came with the guide to my as sistance. Tying them together—there' were three—the ropes reached the depth of thirty to forty yards, where I had bean arrested in my falL now FASniOSABl* WOMEN ARE MARE , -'.rap. ~ - Startling; Revelations by Madames Wood, (mil and Clailla—ArtiUcial Women—The Secrets of the Toilet. From Woedhull and Olaflin’S Weekly.) We premise that - a fashionable woman in a .state,of nature is no. more than any Other wo man—often not a tithe as beautiful as many thousands Of other women—although she does look so like Juno and Hebe and Yenus and the rest of the pretty goddesses when she has put on her best set-offs, and goes blazing with jew els into society. It is dreadful for a bachelo* to tMnk what humbugs these women are. Here is a lady of questionable age—say twenty-seven; she is in. her'morning- wrapper, although if Is post high noon, and she is going to A great eve ning party. She looks into the glass and sees there a yellow, brow-wrinkled, dull-eyed face; a mouth full of gums, and no teeth; in-falling cheeks; thin, doleful hair; neck no more like the “ Tower of Lebanon” than I like Hercules, but thin, scraggy and not to be named where beauty is. The sight is anything but agreeable and the cost of remedying it is very expensive; and she wishes she. were reaBy the pretty, gay: woman t£at she is taken for in the glare of the' chandeliers. a' unm'T «+* - GOES TO THE TURKISH BATH. But, as wishing avails nothing, she rings the bell, orders;her. carriage, and‘drives to the Turkish baths. Here she is boiled for half an hour in steam, and when well done «ae is douched with cold water until her skia assumes sometMng like the glow and color of health. In another how^tf ter.dxeBainft *Bd then drinking a cup of coffee and smob*°g a cigarette, as she Isy at full length upon a tempting sofa—she resumes her bp° 4 in the carriage, and then drives to No- —Broadway, “where that hand some chiropodist’s store is, who enamels us so beautifullyand in a few minutes she is in the presence of this nice .young man, whom she sails of coarse as an old and most intimate friend, who knows her exteriors, even the most sacred of them', like a book. She has oome this time, as she informs him, to be done thorough ly ! It is such a nuisance, she says, to be com pelled to go through all that weary process of enameling once a week; and so she has made np her mind to have hei face and bust done for six months. Then there is a good deal of chaf fering about the price. Oar handsome chiro podist insists upon his full fee of three hundred dollars. If the lady had been pretty, why he would have thrown off sometMng for the pleasure it wotxld give Mm to make her still irettier; but as this particular lady is anything jot good-looking, he wifi not abate a dime of his charge. x- 1 ' vaiwuretfi to „ , f "THE MAN WHO ENAMELS THE LADE. So my lady agrees, and retires Into an ele gant parlor, where there are long, luge mirrors set into the walls, with an easy chair opposite the largest of them, and in a position where the light is fullest. As there is no need of any dis play of modesty in this purely business affair, she unrobes herself to the waist, regardless of the gentlemen artist’s presence; and gets him to help her, first of all, to weed out of her pro- and then she clips the soft hair aronnd the tem ples and forehead, to give to the latter an arch ed appearance, and, not being quite satisfied with her handiwork, she gets her gentleman, whose hands drop with perfumes, to shave over the parts where she has been with her scissors. NECK, ARMS, SHOOED EES AND BUST. All being now ready, the serious business be gins. The artist applies a very powerful mag- nifying glass to all the beauties of her faoe, neck, arms, shoulders, and—Mack, alack! her bust, ^lso, down to her waist 1 If he finds any hair there or gossamer fuzz, he exoisea it with washes, soaps, liniments or tweezers. Strange to say, the artist’s hand very rarely trembles over Ms work—he is not afflicted by any short ness of breath, palpitation of the heart or sMv- ering of the nerves; and it seems to us that ha must be a particularly enameled man Mmself, with a cuticle as tMck as a rhinoceros’ Mde, or that he is a wax man, and has no flesh and blood in Ms composition. All being now ready, he begins to overlay the skin that nature gave to her with a skin of his own composing. Heap- plies the. enamel to her yellow faoe, and then to her bust. The enamel consists cMefly of wMte lead or arsenio, made into a semi-liquid paste. It requires a good deal of skill to lay it on so that it BhaU be smooth, and not wrinkled; and two or three hours, and sometimes a much longer time, are consumed in making a good job of it. • A THREE HUNDRED DOLLAR JOB. In this instance the lady was very exacting, for she had to pay three hundred dollars for the artist’s work, and it was a long time before Bke was completely satisfied. But presently she rose from her making-place in all the glory of her regenerated body, and, again looking into the glass, she beheld a vision of suoh suprising loveliness—compared with the old body under neath the arsenic outiole—that she fell upon the artist’s neck and kissed Mm in the exuberance of her gratitude. Radical Talk in Washington. A Sun reporter interviewed, a prominent Radical Congressman in "Washington last Wed nesday with the following result: I had an interview to-day with one of the old est and most prominent Repnblican members of the House. The conversation was purely ac cidental. I regret that the public cannot have the benefit of Ms name, but it would be a gross violation of confidence to give it. I cannot re sist the temptation, however, to state the sub stance of his views, because they reflect the feelings and opinions and hopes of a large number , of the Republican members of both houses. Correspondent—How does the action of the Senate with reference to Mr. Sumner strike you? Republican Congressman—Most unfortunate. Correspondent—Will it split the party, think you?,... Republican Congressman—The fear of split ting the party is not so great as that the disas ter will weaken the Administration, and defeat it at the. next Presidential election. ‘ Correspondent—Do you think Mr,; Sumner is strong enough to be a candidate for the Presi dency ? Republican Congressman—Ho is not a man who conld be nominated by the Republican party proper, because he is not popular enough with the masses. Besides, to get it he woiud have to contend with Grant’s enormous amount of federal patronage, wMch he applies lavishly. Correspondent—Do you believe that,Grant is to be the next Republican nominee? Repnblican Congressman—Why not? Haa he not dictated to the Senate his wishes, and has it not ignominiously obeyed? Did not every Republican Senator vote for the packed Committee? Grant don’t care how many speeches. Senators make, if they vote right. Henry Wilson, who declared in the Senate that Massachusetts would not submit to the indig nity heaped upon her oldest Senator, submitted himself. He dared not remain in the Senate and stand by. Charles Sumner and Massachu setts. ' Grant forced the San Domingo Commis sion through Congress, and has now removed the, do him, obnoxious Chairman from the head of the Committee before wMchhe will bring the proposed treaty, and THAT COMMITTEE ZS PACKED to report favorably upon it. When the ques tion gets intoj open Senate, Sumner, may be able to obtain one-third of the Senate to go with him. If so, he will defeat the measure. But if Senators would not give a vote in the preliminary step to force San Domingo upon the . country, how can they be induced by Mr. Sumner to do it on the main question ? Not withstanding, he may succeed. Correspondent—If he shonld succeed,, how will tbat relatively affect Grant and Sumner ? Republican Congressman—I don’t think it would defeat Grant’s nomination, but it would probably defeat his election.' - . Correspondent—How so ? Repnblican Congressman—In the first plaoe, it would lose Grant strength, and probably put Sumner in the field as an independent Republi can candidate. Sumner, while he could not be elected, would secure the support of a large number of the most influential, intelligent and wealthy voters in the country, and would not only canvass the country Mmself, but would call into the field the finest array of speaking talent ever known. This would be taken ad vantage of by the Democratic party, whose can didate, if an average, fair, man, would be eleet-" ed. | On the other hand, if Mr. Sumner should - not desire to render such aid to the Demooratia party, the silence of Mmself and friends would give the Democrats the next President, unless the leaders of that party are everlasting fools. Correspondent—Have they not thrown away victories twice—once in 18G6 and again in 1868 ? L -Republican Congressman—True, but I under stand that they have grown wiser. You know the saying is that “the third time wins.” Correspondent—Do you think that Judge David Davis, of Illinois, Assoeiate Justice of ~ the Supreme Court of the United States, would make . ' , ' ' - A GOOD FBESTDEKT?. ... , , Republican Congressman—Yes, Judge Davis would make a good President. The oo tin try is more indebted to him than the people are aware. Borne suoh man, or Charles Francis Adams, if nominated by the Demooratio party, woald settle the question of the Presidency quick. Ihe trouble with a large number of the active men now in public life is, that if they leave the Republican party there is no plans for them to go. They are therefore waiting a&x-o t iously, not so much to learn the movements of Grant or Sumner, as to ascertain what the Democracy and Conservative men of the country intend to do. . zr.siijirUaKt Jta Correspondent—What kind of a platform do you think they ought to adopt ? Republican Congressman—Platforms aro of little consequence. The condition of the coun try changes too rapidly to rely muoh upon plat forms. One upon which a campaign could be fought tins fall might be useless on the 4th of next March. We don’t want platforms; we want a man of some experience in public affairs, of good ability, who is capable and honest; a- rrtflTi in whom the public.wifi have confidence. Correspondent—If the Demooratio party doei not nominate such a man, what then? Republican Congressman—Then Grant will be re-elected, and the one-man military power wifi" sway the country another four years, amid turmoil and disgrace. The Demooratio party, if its leaders will show themselves equal to the • • wants of the nation and the vital questions at issue, will rise to the magnitude of ita Jaekaon- ian greatness and nominate a mi>H hijrifc.itnjhlW A MAN, sib; that is what the country requires—A MAN. Thus ended the conversation. What is M- markablo abont this conversation is that tha Congressman referred to is a recognized leader of the Republican party, but like many desire* to see a reorganization of parties, and is dis gusted with the military rule of the sod dental men who have been thrown to the surf see by the upheavals of the war. (HR — — ductive skin the dabble of hair whioh ha* shot self there, looking at the dry above my head | up sinoe the last weeding time, wMeh done, the A New Yobs merchant absent-mindedly copied _ _ _ __ ^jflove letter to his “heart’s idol* in tho letter and at the’ ice around me, but not daring again' superfluous hairs are pluoked out by the roots; hook ‘of the firm before sending it.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880, March 28, 1871, Image 1