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AND GEORGrIA JOURNAL <Sc MESSENGER. llSBY, JONES & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Jodrnal..—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic.Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING STABLISHED 1826. MACONT, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1871. Volume LXIV—No. 46 ^rs;i;j Telegraph Building, .llacon and Messenger, one year $10 00 fj rjonth*. non 0jc month.._ 500: 1 oo • Wcekiv Telegraph and Messenger, 1 400 200 ye ,r — v^oth Weeisiy Telegraph and Messen- jg columns, 1 yoar j Dioutbs.. the money runs ont, unless"renewed. 300 1 50 : fA always in ndvanco, and paper stopped Sen the money runs ont, unless renewed. j Arr . iN T,ntE\-TS WITH J. W. BURKE & ' ■"*' ' “ c0 ’g PUBLICATIONS. jOy Telegraph i&Wqq \ fSWS'W and J j-eetiy * ‘7 ‘ 4 00. tolSlA^itphand Messenger safe/a Weekly. 4 5 00 i 00 i 00 1 “Words and Their Uses.* jjY A MYSTIFIED QUAKER. New York, 4th Month, 20th, '71. v.r, t ;< / \V>fe: From these few lines, my wherc- licds tbee'il learn— »«.wer I impart to thee my serious concern; rSn-ma^o of this people is a riddle unto me, ai“or.ls. with them, are fisments of a reckless *” Bcckcrv! Blonde Bebeccn. Rebecca stood beside the well. Many an age since she of old, Of whom the sacred scriptures tell. Had ceased to keep her father’s fold. Another ago, another land, Dark splendor changed to golden glow— Her face was what a master hand Might cat upon a cameo. I brought a cup onto the well And held it forth; I wanted drink, Bnt life’s great passion cast a spell— “Give me to—love!”—Her eyes did sink. Her eyes did sink, yet spake she clear. Marking my goblet’s narrow rim, “Whatever vessel cometh here, Love can but fill it to the brim. It is a law thou most not donbt, Man’s love’s tho vessel held below. Wo pour our hearts like water out, And fill it to the overflow. And be thy vessel great or small, So great or small the draught must be; Bo, too, thy life, for love is all, Tho first, the last, of destiny. He liveth long who loveth much, For love is lifda true measurement; Who liveth not by love—to such • Life is bnt thirst and discontent. Slacou Conniy Agricultural Fair. Harsh alvelle, Ga., May 8,1871. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I came hero on Saturday to visit the Fair of the Macon County “Agricultural Association”—Major Jas. D. Frederick President; Judge S. C. Bryan Vice President; Colonel TV. H. Reese, Secre tary. The Fair was a charming little matter— a triumphant success. * These farmers are a working, energetio sot of men; they are determined not to succumb to the super-incumbent financial pressure upon all the people, weighing down and paralyzing tho whole country. The committee expected General Browne and Colonel D. W. Lewis, of your city. These gen tlemen had promised to bo present and make them a speech. We heard one or both were sick; and so they were disappointed. In the exhibition, the field, the garden, the dairy were . represented, and, over and above them, were to tu inn I some magnificent flower contributions in tho libido is doubtless meant to carry folks about f orm G f wre aths and bouquets by the ladies. Only think of a bouquet containing 250 varieties of flowers and evergreens, in the composition and arrangement of whioh the canons of asthot- ics were consulted by the geniu3 and cultivated taste of woman, and yon will agree with me that it was magnificent. „ .. In this department Mrs. L. M. Finon, Mrs. W. H. Felton and Mre. Marshall Hatcher were j* Instance: As I left the caraanimp with smutty -. /•shine?” “Nav, I’ll not shine,” I said, “ex cept with inward grace l” r.•inward grace’ a liquid or a paster” asked tins r/uilJy^'wiiat h ‘inward grace?’ How does Cue o!il thing work ?’’ TitoV said I to a Jehu, whoso breath suggested jp'ihos convey me straightway to a reputable £• mawer'a gross irrelevance I shall not soon for- astfad of simply yea or nay, he gently said, “Yon let:” J ir . niy: I shall not bet,” said I, “for that would rt/i'ot/i thee answer plainly: Can theo take mo “Now THE DARWINIAN THEORY. Tito Monkeys Hear of It anti arc Agitated In Consequence—They Hold an Indigna tion Meeting. Written for the Cincinnati Times.] Darwin’s theory concerning tho descent of man is creating a tremendous sensation among the monkeys. They have just heard of it, and are terribly exercised. They repudiate the whole theory. That man descended from them they consider a slur on the entire monkey race. A cage of John Robinson’s monkeys held an indignation meeting over the matter the other day, after the performance. A venerable chim panzee, whose gray hair entiled him to the dis tinction, was made chairman, and, sitting in a swing, presided with the utmost dignity. Ho got a little excited in his speech as he took tho chair, but this was pardonable under the circum stances. “What,” exclaimed this venerable baboon; “Man descended from us! I repudi ate the Jdea with scorn. True wo have our faults. “We are accused of cutting up monkey shines sometimes, and not without cause, but this attempt to make "us father tho human race i buixock. is altogether too much. Is it not enough that condition of Georgia poverty requires us to travel around the conn- ° * »*■ BIU _ try in this manner to make a livelihood; to ex-1 ;®* 0 P a r °“°niinmbus-Thc Ponce Ele- lacat. why prevaricate ?” Bald ho, perversely, ver shout in!” . , , ,, , ;\:y. verily, I shouted not!” quoth I, “my speech i- miM: !r. tliiae—I griovo to say it—with falsehood is de- "_:e ought to bo admonished to rid tby heart of guile.” Kiss Me Before Yon Go. Your way lies over the hillside, Out in the rain and sleet, Oat in the world’s wild turmoil, Where bustle and business meet; But mine by the noiseless fireside, Where the fancifnl embers glow With a changeful life-like motion: Kiss me before you go. My quiet way will be haunted With visions none others can see, Glances more precious than diamonds, Smiles full of meaning to me; The Eounda of a welcome footstep, A whisper thrillingly low, Ah. thought mil clasp memory closely, Kiss me before yon go. For this world is full of mischances, Andouo of thosochanees may fall, That we two ne’er again in the firelight Make one shadow upon the walk O, thee, once more in tho parting— Alas! that it must be so— Leave me a fond benediction: Kiss me before you go. •too thin;” more- .. I iv m £ cllUll UU iuia. *u.»ac**w»* >; litre! my lively moke, ’ said ho, you s.ingon J C0 ‘ et j torg _ 'f 0 Mrs. W. H. Felton, for the toe much stylej grea j est variety, a premium was awarded. To Ive ’ ad those plain drab garments twenty years j Mrs. M. Hatcher a premium for the most beau- , 3 ,l more,” eaid I, 1 tiful bouquet; and to Mrs. L. M. Felton a pre- v.h n theo ears I ‘sling on style,’ thee tells a ■ m j nm f or tho largest single rose, willful lie.” . . | From the dairies some of tho finest butter I ,! that ho pranced around as if a beo were in Ins , bayQ ey6r seen in Georgia, or Goshen, was on bonnet, . . . I exhibition. The contributors in this depart- al, with hoctilo demonstrations, inquired if I waa | mentwere Mrs. L. M. Felton, W. H. Felton, cnu! ” • Mrs. John Pharr, Mrs. James D. Frederick, and Mrs. G. H. Slappey. Mrs. James D. Fred erick took tho premium. . , From the gardens English peas, Goodrich and Rose potatoes, beans, tumip3, onions, pars nips, carrots, lettuce, celery, cabbage, etc., were in abundance. There were cabbage heads weighing twelve pounds, sent from Thomas- villo by Mrs. Hardaway, and some fine heads from Mrs. Davenport, of Americas, and one cabbage measured four feet across, grown in the vicinity of Maishallville. Who can beat ^Premium to Dr. John D. Wado for tho largest Ihee knows I cultivate the peaceful habit of our Irish potatoes; J. M. se ^ on £^ e ®^ eo iid soct, , Largest onions, Dr. John D. Ware, second Cut this man’s conduct wrought on mo to a singular largest, L. M. Felton; largest bests, L. M. bel- cffect: . „ . . i ton: spring turnips, Charles A. Walker; largest for when he slapped my broad-brim eff and asked, | .. N T Johnson; headof lettuce, (twen- ‘ How’s that for high?” a ! tv-four inches') L. M. Felton ; best English luonsed the Adam in me, and I emote him lnp and , Y James D. Frederick; beans, Dr. John W* 1 1 D Waro ; largest strawberries, Mrs. Charles A Walker • for the most deliciously prepared strawberries, Mrs. W. H. Felton ; largest single strawberry, Mrs. Charles A. Walker; largest wise rasnberries. Mrs. James D. Frederick; fortno Although I solemnly affirm! did not hwhair, dli ®’ ionsIy prepared raspberries, Mrs. S.riUdlwok his poultry-for he fiad no poultry ^ ea ^Frederick ; largest cherries, J. A. 1 Sperry. fine art department. Mrs. L. C. Cornwell had on exhibition some fine specimens of common hair-work, and some beautiful specimens of mounted hair-work; also some fine specimens of embroidery. From the field there were some fine speci mens of different varieties of oats, wheat, com, Ifcte can conceivo that, by this time, I was some- I clover and grasses. ,what perplexed; „ , j Mr. G. H. Slappy, known as a man of great lea. the placid spirit in mo has seldom been so j cc- .— y an( j enterprise, deserves special men- vexed; _ , . , j tion for the kind and number of articles con- I tarried thero no longer, for plam spoken men | t r i bu ted seventeen varieties from tho field and Ou what? Till thee explains thyself, I cannot to!!,” I said. 11} swore that something was over it was “played;” „ Eat ail liia jargon was surpassed »a wild absurdity. I?tl.roats, profanely emphasized, to put ahead onmei •Xo ton of “Belial,” eaid I, “that miracle can do!” Whereat ho fell upon mo with blows and curses, too, Uat failed to work that miracle—if fcuch was his cc- Instead of putting on a bead, ho strove to smite off The throng thon gavo a specimen of calumny broke AsdeaUI’d “snatched him bald-hoadcd,” and like wise “cooked liis goose hibit ourselves to gaping men, women and chil dren, at so much a head, (when two-thirds of. . , .• T i them haven’t any head at all to speak of,) with- Cincinnati Commercud Atltmta Lotter. 1 out having it flung in our faces that we origina- I me. the Governor on th ted the pack of fools styled men ?” coming into tho oily from .is farm in the np- His remarks were received with every ex- country. The Governor h . . pression of delight possible to the mo4ey. place” ho raDsit. and Some stood on their pyramidal heads, others gave I should jndgo that - Gove — or hung by their tails, while others threw flipflaps there some tune and n°t_ “a*“J 1 from one end of the cage to the other. I Ho surely wouldpot fixit A monkey who had traveled much and seen a ways expected great deal, and who had probably used the cat’s the Democrats will do tow ? from rlw lo puil more ctetonl. out A th, firo Ihm to bn >™1 to™’,3SSS«Shl!S6*S Kuow “■ aatoS “ J S’fto »”. P 4.&tl.. y tatia to do „ liltlo from, us what a fall was there, my countrymen!. 1n ,... . . 5 [Prolonged howls of derision.] If I had this the peaceful condition of tas • base slanderer of onr race-this Darwin, who “Yes,” repliedho, we re getting along qiien- fame by traducing us-I would Vr-r-didly. At no UmeiMwtan'*££& rend him in pieces with these pentadactylous been so intent °“ lm P r ° v ‘°B “^®, nal m hands, and whip him to death with this prehen- terests as now. Everybody m at work, sile tail!” [license cheering.] “More work than pohtics, then? Tho chairman interrupted the speaker to re- “YMjbut P^cs hmro only beon la d^ ^ mind him that no puns would be allowed. No- for the time being. who had tho least respect for JnvwU. The ^eady got it,” rophed ho laugh- speaker promised to be more guarded in tho fu- ig quesli onable whether the Repub- lure, and proceeded with his remarks. I -t u i.i, e Dacamber election “Look at the follies men perpetrate every ^a^ can regam it [UhR December eieeuon day. Did you ever know a monkey to make tie Democrats gaimed thie two-thirds, such a fool of himself as they do ? Did yon ever oao way that Grant can carry know a monkey to bay a ticket to a menagene J-xt year, and that depends not so head by a detestable rmg master), or sue fw a " for material, and it is Grant or no divorce, or la oo, or color hm whiskers or go into strongest man, notwithstand- bankruptcy, or cheat the printer, or get elected j J- riettv onposition to him in certain councilman, or _run a bar account, or eat hash, It’sdying out *■ ' now, anfl coming to the point that every man . S ' . '. t /I L —~ n Tlnin " and screeches of assent.] “Man descended from the monkey, indeed! If wo were descended from man it would be sufficiently disgraceful. I get ashamed when I think thero is a possibility of a connecting link. I Look at them in their political conventions. took™* to'ltablmdeS'rf lta“Sy.‘°S'Se erieona drunk couldn’t behave worse. And reconstruction acts th? i Grant will whore did they get it ? They didn’t get it from J^^®^ 0 J to Twill tell you why. The peo- us, that is . sure thing. Tho hoy to their cussed Xof Goorcfa aro lIterally worn out by tur- nonsense is not the mon-key. [An admonish- plo of G or& a y nQ more of ILev'crilod mo “Bully boy!” although I’ve seen nicli three-score years; And Baid that I was lightning when I got np on my car! _ . Aai when I asked if lightning climbed its ear, or dressed in drab, Von know how ’tis yourself 1” said one inconse quential blab! like me— , With such perverters of our tongue can have no unity. . Yinevllle Ntimluy-scliool Celebration. his pet patches of oats, clover, grasses, etc. Mr. M. E. Spivey exhibited some fine cotton sweeps and other plows. Mr. N. T. Johnson tnso exhibited some fine veel itVas mv eood fortune to meet with the | This Farmers Club hasi the best organization Vict'ville SabbMh School in their annual Ma y *? its working Pewer and am rijp* celebration at Mount Zion Church, and never ; plated of any club I know of. They have tneir hvo I met a brighter happier group than I ' monthly meetings for discussion of the various found thero assembled. It is true, the weather | gebjects of interest to ws unpropitions and the rain fell in torrents, instance, as tho labor question and diversified tut tho good old church was amply largo to crobs—so as to make ns, by raising—notcot^n akield all® ftom tho rain, and the bright and -but onr own “hog and hominy. _ independent of tho giant West and the balance of manldnd. Their monthly fairs will bo held at Marshall- villo, on the second Friday in each month, and I am requested to invite one and all of you down, as well as Gen. Browne and CoL D. W. Lewis. Yours truly, B- H. J. b. The Collapse or the Paris. Grandeur of Edward Dicey writes in Appleton’s Journal Of all the changes in the aspect of Paris which most strike a visitor who hv not seen the city happy faces within plainly told that tho dark clomls without did not shut ont the sunshine of their young hearts. I was forcibly struck with the eager, delighted faces of tho orphans there Assembled from the Bibb ConDty Orphan Home. A pleasant home, kina treatment, and that sympathy whioh all hearts naturally crave and which is so often denied the orphan, had oblite rated from their faces all signs of early care and sorrow, and hope pictured as bright future to their youthful minds as it did to the pampered child of fortune. God bless the noble founders of the Bibb County Orphan Home, and may | f hn clwyi, of the Empire, the greatest is one they never tire m tho noble work they havo , wbicb it ia easier to appreciate on the spot than undertaken. ,, , u Q describe at a distance. I know not how The speeches of the yonlhfifl orators, Masters , to ospres3 it than by saying that the life Robert Nottingham and Jackie La “ ar ’ J!“° i has somehow gone out of Paris. It is not only delivered with an ease and grace which would Btree g, are half empty, that carnages have done credit to much older heads and gave .j nJ - b disappeared, that the shop win- promise of a bright and useful future. As each | - — are ba ° Q of W are3, that trade is obviously concluded, their respective friends and admirers , “ -[and still, that house after house is shut strewed the stage with flowers, and earnest were ^ ther0 iB no bmlding going on, that beg- the congratulations of aU. ^ are to be met with everywhere; there is In response, Master Damar delivered one of * * — the most appropriate impromptu addresses, it has been my fortune to listen to; there was an ease, a grace, a dignity in all he said which is seldom found in one of his years. With such a representative as Master Lamar, promises to RCOTeanllu „ r a _ ^ be, the prestige of the Lamar name cannot die , f ^ r600very of p fl jj s will be a very rapid, or out in Georgia, and we have ©very reason to be-. eyen a y thorough one. lieve that tho Lamars of the future will equal B enea th the Empire Paris was developed by in ability their honored predecessors of tne , , meana . xh 0 wondrous aggrandise- pask The rich repast prepared by the friends | ^ 6m b e llishment of the city were out of and patrons of the school was enjpyed by an, j „ orom> rtion to the natural growth of the tod judging from the quantity of rich viands j eonatrv mar velIous as that growth was. Ana ot every description left on the floor, and artificial stimulus afforded by the imperial benches of “Mount Zion Church ono would j . being removed, tho grandeur of Paris naturally infer that provisions were not scarce i r think collapsed for many a year to come, jn Georgia, and after all the editorial fraternity j Ex ’ t in t improbable event of a Napoleonic have been mistaken, and bread and meat will i resto ‘ ation a ny Government likely to be estab- no longer be “the burthen of their song. we , - - F ranc o must rely more upon the pro- Pity tho “Committee on Arrangements, —their | tbarL upon the capitah The desire ex- wsk has but begun. Cariosity prompted us to • . b _ tIie g iea t majority of the Bordeaux •tok out tho oommittee in question, they look- | . .uf elected ns it is by universal suffrage, resolute, but sullen In the extreme, and each j. _ 6m0 Ye the seat of Government from the CXDrOSV-fl (Vu.io JnlnMnineil/sn Tlrtf f/1 RfilTA flCfUlQ . m il ».nn OVuTlf ATI aLtIIII* besides all this an unavoidable impression forc ed upon yon as yon wander about the city, that Paris has outlived its prime. Much of thiB im pression may be owing to the circumstances of the moment, bnt still oven when order is re stored under a settled government, I question expressed their determination not to serve again >n that capacity, unless they are favored with bright skies, and genial sunshinarcin which event we hope this deponent will bo remember ed. Traveler. ■ 8:1,000 Bail.—We are informed by the conn- Vfho appeared for the State versus J. T. Snead, at Milledgeville, on Taesday last, that cuead waived an examination, as stated in a tcle- |r&ui to us, and which we noticed in yesterday’s ' «toe, but that an investigation was had by tho “kgistrate, i a order to & the amount of bail. banks of the Seine, was not merely an ebnlli' tion of provincial jealousy or reactionary parti sanship, bnt was the expression of a wide spread, popular conviction that the virtual supremacy of Paris is fatal to the wSltae of France While France remains a nation, Pans must in my judgment, remain its permanent capital. Bid the Government of the future will have no motive to maintain, still kjistoaug ment, the importance of Pans; ond therefore l see no prospect that in our days e *f! recover her pristine grandeur. ®iat her loss mav prove tho gain of France, must bo the wish must support Grant or a Democrat. _ there is one way^Cxeorgia canoe saved to Grant. How is that? “Why, the Democrats can give it to mm, ana I look for them to have no more sense than to ing shake of the head from the president.] Mr. i «, have settled down, and tlmy want Darwin must seek for his ancostty elsewhere, • settled. There aro thousands and and let tho monkey alone. He might perhaps! the ? „ ; T ,State, who, while they trace it to the beasts of the field or tho birds of w£mt to be ca [[ 6( i Radicals’and consequent- tho air, "or (what is more likely) the jackass. nffiiipto with onr party, yet will sup- Tremendous applause followed his speech. pZform that dedaro the After some further remarks on the part of dis- port noitiier men n »P ^ an issn0 Qn tingnished monkeys of like tenor, tho meeting amendments. I know the sentiment of the passed a series of resolutions utterly repudiating “ 0 f Georgia, and know that the class of the Darwinian theory, and adjourned. | po y £ ]arf , 0 enough to turn the scale. A Comnnce—An Episode «» Beal Lire. 0 f the Democracy. If they indorse Blair and Thero died yesterday on Music street, in this the Brodhead letter, and go in on that, or some- city. a remarkable woman. Her name was Jonet thing like it, we are safe. . . Maria Lafoux, a creole of singular beauty and “But suppose they should nominate Adams or fascination. She was educated in France, and Chase ?” , ^ . , . .. . possessed aU of tho elegance and courtliness of Well, if they do that, and put their candidate manners, the piquancy and ensouciance which on an aeeept-the-issne-platfonn, they wfll carry distinguish the ladies of that country. It must the State. There is a large conservative element have been however, that some evil dreg was in in Georgia that will never submit to have all her nature, for sho soon after returning to her these questions torn open ogam it tnoy eomo abandoned tho innocence and elegance of avoid it.” ,, _ .. .... her home for tho vicious lifo of a cyprian. At “What do you think of tho Ku-klux bill? the timo of the Federal occupation she wa3 in “Oh, its a farce and a humbug. Congress zenith of her beauty aud soon brought around seems to havo exerted itself to get it up m such her a coterio of admirers. So infatuated dia a shape as to bo a powerful campaign document young lieutenant becomo of her that he made in the hand3 of the Democracy, ^thout doing . . - r»•_ 1 j Wai41i intwnJnaoJ I aLa T^w lrln^ mnfih hRTHl. Tll0 Will U6Y6X CUtCll ^oold^lTS&Sl^:^«ndal R^f^Bh the Demean sho caused in a Northern city if is needless to paign dooumenl:, evenibetter the godhead renpnt here s I letter famished us in 18G8, ana ao no gooa Suffice it "to say her husband in dispair com- whatever. There are just two ways to deal with mitted suicide, and infinite distress was brought the Ku-klnx—let them alone,.and leave.thei evils upon his family. She went to Washington, to be corrected by an onUghtoned pubUoMi^ and was notable there for her fascination and ment, or pas3 a Ku-klux bill that amounts to coauelrv, and at one time exercised a control- something.” ,, ling influence in one of the Departments of “You don t need any Ku-klux bill m Georgia, State To obtain her favor was almost equiva- then?’’ ... . lent to having any measure passed through the “No more than what wo have got. Thatthing National Legislature. But after awhile she dis- passed by Congress wiHamonnt to nothing here ~~ <* ‘ass:t s She" was a taU, slender lady, of splendid phys- the mark where the Ku-klux actu^Y ical development and imposing presenoe. She not a general piece of patchwork that win ao no had full black eyes and hair that fell around her good anywhere. In this State I am satisfied we shoulders like a shower of golden fleece. Her need no Ku-klux bill at present. I am glad to face was fair and fresh, and vied in its beauty notice a healthy public sentiment growing np with tho lily and the rose. Her hands and arms here whioh will frown them down, vvny, up m were models of elegance and symmetry. She Chattooga county, not long s So, two of tHem waa fascinating, alluring and accomplished, of were actually caught by the violent passions, impulsive and headstrong, and tried and sentenced to twenty years m the pen- vet. when shechose to be, as wily as the ser- itentiary. Since then there has been no more pent. Such was the beautiful fiend that is Ku-klnx in that county. That is the way to dead.—Ncio Orleans Picayune. deal with them. Some of the beat citizens in. T - the county were on the jury, and since the sen- Xhe Fastest Trotter in the World.—The tence there have been do .petitions for pardon, chances are that the eelebrated home Dexter 11 call that a healthy sign. Tc ” p "- Th, New To* CommMcial h-JJ-jgW eharee The first half mile was trotted over some figuring on whisky making and drrnkmg at a ^derate speed.but on the last half mile in the United States, Smith let bim out, and he crossed the score in temperance folks feel decidedly better. Acoo ■R’pnninfr rioUan &fc slowor trot, tlio I ing to its calculations there arc 303 groin dis- last half mUewas reached, tho wonderful horse tilleries in tho oountry, and they can make 210,- was aj^in'^e^o Ms s^ed) and made the last 283 gallons a day. half mile in 1-07^. His time was noted by sev- j and thero is % production of 216,354 gallons. . .I reliable and experienced parties, among! The consumption iB 230,000 gdlons per day, or thim mav be rnemmned Charley Shear and 16,000 gallop more than is produced. Imports- Georco Gilbert Loland Stanford, tho owner tion and tho snrplosfrom former production of the hmse was Mm on the ground. There is account for this. The consumption appears no donbt about this time having been made, large, bnt it is iess imposing than it would at and it ia the fastest on reoord._ A weU-known fiat seiem. A. iSXffi" Forcfgu Notes. (PREPARED FOE 'run TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.) Monsieur Thiers assured ns four weeks ago that the end of the insurrection was near at hand; and yet tho empire of the Commune still continues and the direful work of carnage is still going oil When wo examine into the laws recently passed by tho Paris Democracy, wo need not be surprised at the powerful support the Commune finds in the masses of the popula tion of Paris. A decree lately issued orders that all debts should be paid in twelve instal ments within three years and in case of non payment each single instalment is to be sued by the creditor. Verily, for the thousands in Paris who have nothing to lose, tho golden age has come back again. The Berlin Cabinet gxowing tired of the protracted struggle whioh imposes great sacrifices upon the nation, is said to have ordered tho occupation of Paris on Sunday next, should the Versailles government not suc ceed in the meantime to put down the insurrec tion. Thero are still five hundred thousand German soldiers on French soil, the greater part of whom might return to their peaceful pursuits, a strong government being re-estab lished. As Thiers is not adequate to the diffi cult task of restoring order, the prospects of Napoleon are brightening again, and Ins early restoration is not improbable. . Princo Bis marck will meet Thiers at Fontaineblau to dis cuss the situation and tho final treaty of peace. In the Gorman Reiohstag, the bill extending the German Federal Legislation to Bavaria wa3 read for tho third time. A draft, concering the liability of railway and mining companies for compensation to persons accidentally hurt, or to their families in cases of fatal injuries, pass ed the second reading. And finally the new constitution-for the German Empire was passed by the House. The government is pushing the work of re-organization in Alsace and Lorraine. Two seminaries for educating teachers have been established after the Prussian model, a Catholic one at Strassburg, and a Protestant on6 at Colmar. Nothing has been decided yet as to the recruiting in these provinces, bnt it is probable that from the end of the present year the army organization of the Empire will also extend to Alsace and Lorraine. Count Bis- marck-Bohlon, the Governor-General of Alsace, has issned an order to all the inhabitants of tho Province, who have hitherto been prisoners of war in Germany to lay aside their French uni forms as soon as possible after their return homo. The position assumed by Prof. Von Doellin- ger in regard to the dogma of infallibility still forms tho leading topic ia Germany. The King of Bavaria has assured tho eminent scholar of his sympathies and protection. The Bavarian government has refused the Archbishop of Bim- berg the “plaoet,” whioh is needed to proclaim the decrees of the late Ecumenioal Oonnoil in Bavaria. The reasons given for this decision are that the Ministry cannot consider those de crees of a purely theological character, but think them calculated to bring about an essen tial alteration in the relation of Church and State, and to be fraught with danger for the political and social basis of the government. Three professors of the University of Munich, who were abesent when the address to Dr. Von Doeilinger was signed, havo publicly announced their approval of it. The Augsburg “Allge- mine Zeitnng” contradicts the reports of the ultramontane press that Bishop Hefelo, of Rot- tenbnrg, has reconsidered his position. The paper has good authority for asserting that ho still finds it impossible to reconcile his con science to the new dogma, and the greater part of his clergy agree with him on this point. Prof. Friedrich has replied to the theological faculty of Munich in tho Vienna Press. . He de clares that ho cannot accept tho dogma of tho infallibility of tho Pope, as by doing so he would violate both his ecclesiastical vow and the oath he had sworn to respect the constitution. Every Catholic, ho acknowledges, is bound to accept the deoisiou of a general Council, but he de nies that tho sitting of the 18th of last July bore the character of ocoumenicity, and considers the mode of voting “per majora” then put into practice illegal. The subsequent submission of tho Bishops did not suffice to render the decision binding, as the invalid acts of one council can only be remedied by summoning another. Prof. Friedrich concludes with 'the following words: I now placo the matter in your hands. Should your Excellency feel compelled to decide against me, I shall still hope that God will be merciful to me.” A large meeting in-Munich, headed by the leading men of the city, adopted an address to the King, rquestinghis Majesty “on the ground of the prerogative he possesses as protector and overseer of the Church, to prevent the spread of so dangerous a doctrine, thus securing the rights of the State and its citizens.” The King is also petitioned to instruct the Minister of Home Affairs to use all the means in his power to forbid tho theory of Papal infallibility from being taught in public seminaries. In tho British Parliament, the debates in the budget continued very excited. Tho Govern ment finally obtained a majority; bnt the situ ation onco seemed so grave that there was a passing rumor of a change of ministry. Complying with tho demands of tho Italian Government, the parish priests in Rome have furnished the lists of the Roman youths liable to military duty. They protest, however, in the name of his Holiness, that the recruits were Papal subjects. Among the archives of the Church San Fernando, in Naples, a hitherto un known “missa solennis,” written by the cele brated Neapolitan composer, Giovani Battista Pergolese, has been discovered. Pergolese, who died at the age of twenty-two, when he had just finished his celebrated “Stahat Mater,” was one of the most interesting among the Italian com posers at the beginning of the eighteenth cen- The Spanish Cortes is oxaming the validity of elections, while the Republicans are looking to ward Paris. The Government has been strength ened by a so-’called “Liberal-Conservative man ifesto,” issned by former adherents of Alfonzo, who declare their allegianoe to the new order of things. Many partisans of the Duke of Mont- pensier who aro beginning to despair of his prospects, will probable follow this example and support the Government. The new election for the Roumanian Cham ber wiU take place from May 14th to the 20th. Prince Carl, declining Turkish aid, has notified the Sublime Porte that he hoped to remain mas ter of the situation. That he had the intention of leaving the country has been officially denied. An address from Moldavia was covered-with the most aristooratio names of the land. The Padishah and his unruly vassal, the Khe dive, are not on the best of terms. Ismail Pasha is slowly preparing to proclaim himself independent of Constantinople. Jabno. and now, Messrs. Editors, where is the remedy? Of the various suggestions and plans that have met my observation, none seem to me feasiblo, and I must confess that after mnch re flection, I admit my inability to solve the prob lem. That some stringent law should be en acted making it penal to interfere with labor contracts, and to violate them by parties enter ing into them, with much more efficient vagrant statutes, appear to be at least worth the experi ment, and if we could be blessed with an Exec utive whose clemency would not pardon every violation of law for petty larceny, committed by that class of people that the God of natnro in tended should earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, we might experience a change for the better. I was amused at a freedman the other day, who offered to send his wife to hoe cotton for ■ He asked what I was willing to give, my reply was whatever was right, and stated that I had heard of men hiring in the neighborhood at a dollar per acre for ohopping cotton, the hand feeding himself. He became indignant, and hooted at the idea of working on such terms. I asked him what was a usual days work for a good hand in chopping cotton. He replied that an acre a day was usual, he believed. I then enquired his price per day for his wife. He said fifty cents, and I feed her. And this is bnt a fair example of their arithmatio and notions of financiering. His wife might make a dollar a day, and feed herself for. fifteen cents, leav ing eighty-five cents net, instead of about sixty- five cents that she would earn by the per diam contract. Bat my object in the outset of the communi cation was, and is, to call yonr attention to the important and absolute necessity of this subject, and suggest the hope that yonr common prac tical sense may be directed to devising some remedy for the evils that surround us, and some means for averting the calamitous results that have attended all countries where slavery has been emancipated. I fear that history will but repeat itself in the ruin and desolation that await this once happy and prosperous land. Randokfh. May 9,1861. The Labor Question. . Editors Telegraph and Messenger .’—The railroads in process of construction in this sec tion having deprived me of some of my best hands, I made it known that I would pay cai= v for hands to chop cotton by the day, an* “t 8 morning just as the breakfast bell raiw ® B ~u > fierce-lookingnegro feUow walked “ and proposed to work at fiR^f^/t tA find him. I agreed tq^« ** 8T,a Be “ l ™ 40 the kitchen with *“^‘ on8 4416 °®? k * to fnr : nish him his breakfast; after^partaking of which ha i-atched off np the public road with- n .f C 6 „fl so much as “thank you,” and will per- wager SLOOO that he could take the horse for a I arts, probably week and drive him a mile in 2:15. The horse remain only 115,000 gallons_ a day for thirsg haB asomewhat romantic history, and, like souls.ThereawW: druitarta many bipeds in tins country, his elevation from would give a total of 7,860,0001 aim ? ft hardworic and obscurity to fame and ease has or about one five and a half of ^ n ^ P tliere aT3 been rapid and remarkable. Not many months a clear case of famine. There is the ago he ^dsemceinabntcher^cmtUiiscity, some^P^Pje wbo ^ n^^^Them^the and was sold for the paltry sum of $150. Btan- very respeotaDie a® ... a Vu- «‘ SWO re ford paid $3,000 for hbn, and could probably get There anthe iSo of whom! $30,000 now for his bargain. The peffigree of off,” S horse isindispntebut those whohavethe « ^^’S-Snffinsof this Great Re best reason to know state that he is a St. Clair. | gSr tods” with more or less regu- —Sacramento (Cal.) Reporter. larity. Onr figures then give them two drinks pocket in the sleeves of gentlemen s OTueoatsf u . f T be sure they would be better So that a lady can slip her tolhM£Kit, tat'noNation on two drinks takes a gentleman's arm, in case her hand snould | pu be a nattanof drunkards.” happen to be cold. .. same terras. Is +big not a commentary on the labor system of the country, and its present deranged and uncertain state well calculated 40 prehensions and considerations of every think ing mind? We are in the anomalous condition of finding capital dependent on labor, and ttus has caused the laboring class to feel tRM they are conferring a favor to perform very indiffer ent and unsatisfactory service, at their conve nience, and on their own terms. It is evident that the future and permanent prosperity of an professions and yooations are dependent, to a great extent, on the snocess of the planting in terest. H this fails at the South, the lawyer, physician, editor, merchant and evety other caUingmust suffer; and undorthe present sys tem of labor the planting interest must fail, The Vulgar Little Boy. BY BRET HABTE. The subject of this article is atpresentleaning against a tree directly opposite to my window. He wears his cap with the wrong sidebeforo, appa rently for no other object than that which seems the most obvious—of showing more than the av erage quantity of a very dirty face. His clothes whioh aro worn with a certain bnttonless ease and freedom, display in the different quality of their fruit stains, a pleasing indication of tho progress of tho'seasons. Tho nose of this vul gar little boy turns up. at the end. I have no ticed this in several other vulgar little boys, al though it is by no means improuable that youth ful vulgarity may be present without this facial peculiarity. Indeed, I am inclined to the belief that it is rather tho result of early inquisitivenea —of furtive pressures against- window panes, and of looking over fences, or of the habit of biting large apples hastily—than an indication of scorn or juvenile sapercillionsness. The vulgar little boy is more remarkable for his ob trusive familiarity. It is my experience of his predisposition to this quality which has induced me to write this article. My acquaintance with him began in a mo ment of weakness. I have an unfortunate pre dilection to cultivate originality in people, even when accompanied by objeotionable character. But as I have not the firmness and Bkillfulness, which usually accompanies this task in others, and onables'them to drop acquaintance when troublesome. I. have surrounded myself with divers unprofitable friends, among whom I count the vulgar little boy. The manner in whioh he first attracted my attention was purely accidental. Ho was playing in the street, and tho driver of a passing vehicle cut at him sport ively with his whijfc The vulgar little boy rose to his feet and hurled after his tormentor a sin gle sentence of invective. I refrain from re peating it, for I could not do justice to it here. If I remember rightly, it convoyed in a very few words, a reflection on the legitimacy of the driver’s birth; it hinted a suspicion of his father’s integrity, and impugned the fair fame of hi3 mother ; it suggested incompetency in his present position, personal uncleanliness, and evinced sceptical donbt of future salvation. As his youthful lips closed over the last sylla ble the eyes of tho vulgar little boy met mine, Something in my look emboldened jiim to wink. I did not repel the action nor the complicity it implied. From that moment I fell into the power of the vulgar little boy, and he has never left me since. He haunts me in the streets and by ways. Ho accosts mo when in company of friends with repulsive freedom. He lingers about the gate of my dwelling to waylay me as I issue forth to business. Distance he over comes by main strength of lungs, and ho hails me from the next street. He met me at the theater the evening, and demanded my check with the air of a young footpad. I foolishly gave it to him, but ro-entering sometime after and comfortably seating myself intheparquette, I was electrified by hearing my name called from the gallery with the addition of a playful adjective. It was the vulgar little boy. During the performance he projected spirally-twisted play bills in my direction, and indulged in a run ning commentary on the supernumeraries as they entered. To-day has evidently been a dull one with him. I observe he whistles the popular airs of the pe riod with less shrillness and intensity. Provi dence, however, looks not unkindly on him, and delivers into his hands, as it were, two nice little boys who have at this momentinnocentlystrayed into onr street. They are pink and white chil dren, are dressed alike, and exhibit a certain air of neatness and refinement which is alone suffi cient to awaken the antagonism of the vulgar little boy. A sigh of satisfaction breaks from his breast. What does he do? Another boy would cont»ut himself with simply knocking the h»*« off then: respective heads, and so vent his superfluous vi tality in a single act, besides propitiating the flight of the enemy. Brit there are {esthetic con siderations not to be overlooked; insult is to be added to the injury inflicted, and in the strug gles of the victim some justification is to be sought for extreme measures. The two nice little boys peroeive their danger and draw closer to eaoh other.QThe vulgar lit tle boy begins by irony. He affects to be over powered by the magnificence of their costumes. He addresses me (across the street and through the closed window) and requests information i/ there haply be a circus in the vicinity, 11 ® makes affectionate inquiries after th£ iaa “U_ 01 their parents. He expresses a matenai anxiety in regard te their welf-*®- H ® 0 “ era4 ° conduct them home. On' «“ c ® h4 °® feekl 7 retorts, bnt alas! hi' , ^ orreo4 pronunciation, his grammatical ex p ' atnd ® 8114 hw moderate epi thet onlv ry-“*° ke3 a Boream of dension from the vulA “ ttIa bo* wko uow rapidly ohanges hja *»otios. Staggering under the weight of his .ituperation, they fall easy victims to his dexter mawley. A wail of lamentation goes up from onr streets. But as the subject of this artiole seems to require a more rigorous handling than I proposed to give it, I find It necessary to aban don my present dignified position, seize my hat, open the iront door, and try a stronger method. Enormous Shipment of Silver.—The London Standard, of a late date, says: On Sunday, March 15th, there arrived in the Mersey one of the largest importations of sil ver that has ever taken plaoeat Liverpool. The Guion company’s steamer Wisconsin, Captarn Williams, which arrived that day from New York, had on board the enormous quantity or t>o tonsand 5 cwt of silver coins, principally Span ish and Mexican dollars, a large wn°u°t ot which is intended for this coimtiY, and_the_re mainder for different parts of the continent. As soon as the Wisconsin was secured to her moEsTn dock, the work of getting the spe- ria boxes ashore was commenced, and in a short time safely completed. Wagons were in readiness, and the specie was conveyed to the London and Northwestern railway station, where it was placed in 14 closed railway vans, and despatched to Londoq by an early train on Monday morning. County Agricultural Societies. Office, of the State Agricultural Societt^)' Macon, Ga., May, 1871 J ; Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The con tinuously active and working condition of the County Agricultural Societies, were deemed a matter of so much importance that the last Feb ruary convention engaged the services of Mr. •' Barnett, of Wilkes, to visit the County Societies and to advise with them upon the ways and means best calculated to secure tt at important result. Of those interested in the efficiency of County Societies—and it is from their efficiency alone that the members can derive pleasure and profit —let me call the attention to an artiole by Mr. Newman, of Hancock county, published in the Plantation, and one in the forthcoming number of the Farm and Home by Mr. Barnett on this subject. These two articles leave but little to be said on the importance—the advantages of active working clubs and the means and mode of keeping them active and at work. As a profitable auxiliary, in addition to the suggestions of these gentlemen, allow me to ask the publicaiion in yonr widely circulated jour nal of the subjoined letter from ono of our most successful planters, giving an account— bnt too short—of a monthly fair held by the Agricultural Society of Macon county, at Mar- shallville. The letter speaks for itself. Bat the main feature and fact to which I write to call the attention of county societies, is that monthly fairs of county socioties daring the flower, fruit and vegetable and harvest months —say April, May, June, July, and August—will accomplish as much good to the organizations and to the communities in which they exist as any other one instrumentality. Why should notEatonton and Milledgeville and Forsyth and Fort Valley—to say nothing of more important centres, like Macon, Americas, Atlanta, Albany, Athens, Griffin, havo their monthly exhibitions of garden, orohard and farm products? And yet we only hear of such things at Marietta, Marshallville, Augusta and Columbus. It is needless to say more. Mr. Felton’s let ter makes the argument by his facts. And, at the same time, decides and settles tho question of tho policy of monthly county fairs; bnt I will not forbear quoting a sentence from a for mer letter of his, in which he states “that the announcement that the Society would hold a monthly fair, and give premiums upon flowers, fruits and vegetables had createdinoro enthu siasm among the members than any other means heretofore adopted.” Perhaps I should have addressed this note, through yonr paper, to tho Presidents and Sec retaries of County Societies. I hope they will so consider it. I ask the weekly press of tho State to copy and to give the policy tho weight of their ap proval. Very respectfully, Dav. W. Lewis. P. S. — Since writing the above, General Browne informs me that the Bibb County and Ocmnlgee Agricultural Societies have united in arrangements to hold a monthly fair at tho State Fair Grounds on the 20th; at which liberal premiums are offered for vegetables, fruits, flowerp, and samples of field crops—and espe cially for the trial of all plows, turning, sub sol, cultivators that may bo presented. A trial too of bread and butter, for which premiums arc offered. AU members aro expected to cany their baskets, and spend tho day in discussion or talk about farming in any easy, sound way. This Bibb County premium list will he publish- in time for general information. Marshallville, Ga., May 7,1871. Col. B. IF. Lewis, Macon, Ga. : Dear Sib—I regret your aud G eneral Browno’s inability to be present at our little monthly ex hibition on yesterday. It was a complete suc cess in every particular. It was a most excel lent display of vegetables, and the spirit and display was not confined to such articles as were only included in tho premium list, but to all other kinds; and the exhibition of clover and grasses was really good. Fifty cents per capita upon each member of the club raised the amount of premiums offered on yesterday, and the admission of twenty-five cents for each male over twelve years (ladies and children free) raised more money for premiums for next month’s exhibition than was given for premi ums on yesterday. Thero were at least two hundred in all out on yesterday. Wo had two very appropriate impromptu addresses from a couple of gentlemen from Houston—one of whom was so mnch pleased with the working of the affair that he promised to report as fnUy as possible the exhibition to the Telegraph and Messenger. We agreed to repeat the exhibition on the second Friday in next month, but to keep np onr usual monthly meetings on the first Satur day in each month for the discussion of agri cultural subjects and the transaction of snch business as is necessary. A committee of five members were appointed yesterday to arrange all matters necessary for the next monthly ex hibition. Hoping you will have a full report of the affair in the Telegraph of next Tuesday or Wednesday than I can here furnish you, I remain yonrs, etc., Il M. Felton. tVliat the Blost Respectable Radical Newspaper in the Union has to say of the Beast. We clip the following .from tho New York Nation, the most respectable. Radical journal in the United States: When we consider that there is probably not a man in the United States that would say he respected Butler, or had the slightest confidence in Aim, that his attempts at legislation have all displayed wickedness and folly in about equal proportions, and that he has probably done as much to debase the tone of publio life at Wash ington as any ten of the worst men who have ever made their appearance in Congress, the tender indulgence with which the press treats him is highly discreditable, and very miaohiev- ons as well. It is bad enough, in all conscience, to have snch a man returned by a Massachusetts constituency, bnt when the leading papers of the party of moral ideas always treat him as a simple 4d»ty» aud his tricks and dodges as the playi” 1 gambols of a rich and exuberant nature, t&ey help greatly to lower the publio standard of statesmanship, and open political life to charla tans and rogues of all degrees. If the respecta ble Republican press would only gtVe him his due, the task of finishing him might apparently be left to Mr. Farnsworth, who is evidently too much for him, and rejoices in hunting him with a savage joy. _ A Monument fer Slmrl Row, E*q. [The editors most heartily endorse tho sub joined communication, and oommend it to their city readers. A very little effort will cany this exodlent suggestion into effect:] No man who ha? ever lived in Maoon, has devoted more of his time and means, or effect ed more to adorn and beautify the city, than the late Mr. Roso; he was the real founder of onr beautiful cemetery, which properly bears Ms honored name, and where sleep so many of thMO dear to us alL His own grave, in this cemeta- rv is simple and unadorned, as much so as ha wi modest and unpretending,—no marble shaft lifts itself above his remains. The citi zens of Maoon should not allow this longer so Mr. Rose was a devoted and prominent 2b- m son; indeed, outside of his love for his family, his affections seem to have been oenteredon the Order of Free and Accepted 3Iasons and the city of Maoon—especially upon the cemetery. Will not the Masons, who, itwould seem, should take the initiative in this matter, at once ap point proper committees to canvass the city for subscriptions to erect a monument suited to the man, so that the people generally, as welLas tho Mason3 and other societies to whioh he be longed, may all have the privilege of contribu ting to this object, and let us all ereot a taint monument to his memory. . -.
