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The Cxeorgia Weekly Telegraph. and. Jonrnal JVTesseriger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
UCA.CON, MAY JC 1871.
Tins Georgia Railroad.
The atrnnal report of the Georgia Bailroad
and Banking Company shows gros3 receipts from
road operations for the year, ending 30th April
l^t, $1,500,093 57; dividends on stock, interest
ondrent, $15,338 30; bank earnings, $9,210 S3;
total, $1,501,003 70. Bess operating expenses,
taxes, etc., $1,086,702 74—showing a nett bal
ance of $467,951 02, $340,880 30 of which have
been paid to stockholders as dividends and
$127,064 02 passed to the the reserve fond.
There was an increase of $148,000 over the pre
vious year in gross earnings and of $39,000 in
net income. The road passed 218,774 bales of
cotton, against 170,207 the yoar before—show
ing an increase of 49,507 bales. The passenger
receipts fell of $04,530. Tho showing, as a
whole, was very satisfactory.
The annual convention on tho 10th and sub
sequent days was very largely attended. Cus
tom has made this the occasion of a general gath
ering of tho elite of the “Black Belt” counties
along the road. Papa attends the convention
to eeo about his property in tho road, and vote
on its general management. Mamma goes along
to do her summer shopping and see the fash
ions, and tho belles and beaux have been look
ing forward to it for along timo as a season of
general festivity and social enjoyment. Un
luckily this year much of tho fun was drowned
in torrents of cold rain.
Among the conventionists an unusual interest
and feeling existed. The great question to
come before the house, was tho roads’ endorse,
ment of the State Boad lease, and the opinion of
the street seemed to be that a vote directing a
withdrawal of tho endorsement, would prevail.
Mr. Toombs was the champion of the opposition,
while Mr. B. H. Hill headed the party in favor
cf sustaining the endorsement.
The Bangley Colton Mis.
The Langley Manufacturing Company was
organized March 22,1870. They purchased the
Kabnia Mills’ property on which had been ex
pended, we understand, about $400,000. The
present company pnrehased the buildings and
property for $75,000, and by a resolution adopt
ed at their annual meeting, increased the capi
tal so as to run the mill to its utmost capacity.
Tho working capital is now $400,000. The mill
will have in operation, whoa the machinery is
ail in, 9,600 spindles and 300 looms, and will
employ 300 operatives. It is located 8 miles
from Augusta, oa the South Carolina Bailrohd.
About 4,000 spindles and 100 looms are now at
work. They commenced manufacturing 29th
of March, 1871. They make standard shirtings
and sheetings 2.S5 yards to the pound. Tho
machinery is all of the newest and most approv
ed styles—manufactured in Lowell, Massachu
setts. Everything works admirably under tho
supervision of their agreeable, intelligent and
efficient Superintendent Mr. M. J. Foster.
We are satisfied the Company will be a great
success, and we hope will thereby encourage the
building of more factories, until all the cheap
and magnificent water powers of the South are
utilized by the surplus earnings of our people,
and wealth in this way opens new avenues to
employment and acquisition. So shall cities,
towns and villages grow—trade and population
increase—new markets be opened to farmers and
producers, and the foundations of a solid pros-
parity be laid on the broad basis of industrial
independence. Mr. W. C. Sibley, of Augusta,
a young gentleman of energy and thorough
business capacity, is President of the Langley
JIannjactnring Company.
Bath Paper Mills.
To onr friend, Mr. William Craig, President
of the Bath Paper Mills, located six miles from
Augusta, on the South Carolina Bailroad, and
Mr. W. C. Sibley, President of the Langley
Manfaetnring Company, and Major Hill and
ether officials of the South Carolina Bailroad,
the press was indebted on Thursday last for n
pleasant excursion to those manufacturing es
tablishments. A day with such hosts and such
a party conld not be otherwise than agreeable.
The Bath Paper Mills is a large establishment,
uud now in very active operation. Twice de
stroyed by fire, it has been as often reconstruct
ed, and in spite of all its losses and misfortunes
is an excellent property. We did not vex our
selves with facts and figures in respect to its
productive capacity. With ample water power,
however, and the favorable opinion of the
Southern press and public, it is making and sell
ing very large quantities of book, news, and
wrapping paper, and it finds a very efficient and
popular manager in Mr. Craig, the President of
the Company. Some day when the duties of
hospitality are less pressing upon this function
ary, wo will revisit the mill in quest of dry sta
tistics and technical facts about the paper trade.
Meantime, it i3 enough to say of this establish
ment that, unlike the fabled “mill of the gods”
it grinds very fast, and daily converts immense
heaps of worthless and unsightly rags into im
maculate paper.. Mr. Craig very handsomely
entertained his guests at the mill, for which
many thanks.
Brnnsvrlck and Albany Bailroad.
Tba contractors for tho entire western end of
this road, extending from Albany to Enfaula,
are Messrs. Brown, Smith & Co. All upright,
energetic and practical men.
Already have they placed nearly one thnnsonfl
able bodied laborers in the field, and in a month
about eight miles will have been graded, in the
direction of Cotton Hill. These gentlemen as
sure ns that they have ample labor resources at
command, to complete the road with"all possi.
ble speed.
Though opposed in the abstract to lending
State aid to private- enterprises, deeming such
a course equivalent to partial legislation, and
calculated to encumber the whole people with
debt and taxation, still as there is now no reme
dy, wo are glad at least, that th9 profits of con
struction will inure to our own citizens.
The road itself, as all railroads are, will bo a
benefit, if not to the stockholders, at least to
the section through whioh it Is projected.
We trust our friends, the contractors, may
may make a good tiring of it.
The Weather ana the Crops.
If a cotton crop is to be grown this year in
Georgia, we may say tho work is, to a very
great extent, to be commenced. Mnch of what
is up is in so sickly and perishing a condition,
and so obstructed by grass and weeds, that it
will have to be plowed up. This is particularly
true on low and level lands. On dryer locali
ties, it is badly washed, and the stand every
where is exceedingly poor. We have never
known a more unpromising prospect at this
season of the year, and have come to the con
clusion that 1871 will probably witness enough
of a cotton failure to produce,in connection with
the great cotton years of 1869 and 1870, a gen
eral average. With so poor a start and so mnch
of iU* gtvn Lu£ ooasuil lOStj IflG GGJICXEj tta uum*
pared with l&3t year, must necessarily be great.
A million bales will hardly cover it. Com is
better, but all plantation work is sadly behind
hand. In the past fortnight more than half
the working timo has been lost.
In excavating the ground for the new City
Hall, in San Francisco, the body of a man with
four aces and “kings full” up his sleeve was dug
up. Supposed to be an ancestor of Bill Bye.
Slaton and Augusta Bailroad.
With all his free tickets, the busy editor of a
daily paper can find little timo to ride. Not ono
of our staff, for example, has yet been over the
Macon and Brunswick lioaJ, although it has
been in operation for more than a year; and on
Thursday last ©ae of them was the first repre
sentative over tho Macon and Augusta Boad.
He wo® surprised to find it in such excellent
condition. Tho bed is, o! course, not as level
os it will bo when it has had timo to settle; but
being well laid with Fish bar rail, it is actually
far more pleasant than such parts of tho track
of its older neighbors, as aro not yet provided
with the Fish bar. The cars, too, were new and
unexceptionable—the ladies’ car being the most
elegant and comfortable we have ever seen in
Georgia.
Despite the weather, which was exceedingly
inclement for this season of tho year, the trip
was made in great comfort, and in seven and a
half hours. From Warrenton through Warren,
Hancock and Baldwin, tho route lies over fertile,
undulating country—naturally very attractive,
and needing only the hand of Industrious and
intelligent culture to make it one of tho garden
spots of tho world. It is, in general, a light,
friable, reddish clay soil, possessing much natu
ral fortuity and easy of culture and improve
ment. Good farming will cover it with verdnro;
and with a healthy atmosphere, fine water and
the easy access to market furnished by this
road, wo hope the day is not distant when it
will bo a fat land and a land of plenty.
In Hancock along the line of this road is
abundance of fino building stone—a granite as
handsome as that of Stone Mountain, and which
we are informed splits and works as easily. As
these quarries lie within fifty or sixty miles of
Macon, this is an interesting fact, and here is
the place from whioh to procure our granite for
flagging, facing, door and window sills, curb
stones, eto.
Mr. Frank Barnett, the conductor of the train,
placed ns under obligations for his kindness and,
courtesy. He is a faithful official who will win
golden opinions for himself and the company
by strict devotion to duty and polite attention
to passengers.
The Macon and Augusta Boad has been ope
rated by the Georgia Bailroad since its comple
tion, somewhere about six months ago. Gene
ral Superintendent Cole in his report to the
Georgia Bailroad Convention, makes: tho follow
ing exhibit of business:
RECEIPTS.
From passage .$22,294 06
From freight.. 45,178 40-67,382 46
EXPENSES.
For conducting transportation .$15,972 62
For motive power 36,70695
For maintenance of way 31,444 70
For maintenance of cars............... 2,917 63-87,03990
Excess of expenses over receipts... 819.657 44
In addition to this balance, he reports an ex
penditure of $32,975.36 for new depots, freight
on locomotives and machinery, extra wages for
grading, iron, spikes, bridges, culverts, new
passenger cars, etc., including 10,393,81 for a'
steam excavator. Wo heaid outriders say that
this did not represent, by somewhere about
$40,000 to credit, a correct idea of the business
of the road, but cannot tell how that may bo.
Wo do not doubt, however, that tho road will,
in a short time, develope a paying traffic of its
own and serve as a valuable feeder to through
lines. The South Carolina Bailroad wa3 repre
sented in Augusta last Wednesday with a prop
osition to lease this road, and the tight of way
over the Georgia Boad from Augusta to War
renton, but nobody supposed that the Georgia
Boad would permit tho line to pass from under
their control.
Ink and Paper Wasted.
Those people who aro disposed to write letters
to Northern newspapers contradicting the in
numerable lies that are being daily manufac
tured with reference to disorder and political
violence at tho South, are simply wasting their
ink and paper, to say nothing of their time. The
order has been issued from Washington that tho
“Ku-klux outrage” factory must be set going on
full time, and with extra hands, so as to save
the Jacobins from annihilation in tho next
Presidential election, and all efforts to neutral
ize its work are pretty certainly bound to fail.
It is only by making tho majority of Northern
voters believe that the Southern whites are in
armed rebellion agains t the la ws and aro murder
ing the supporters of the Federal Government,
that that section can bo carried for Grant next
year. This is absolutely tho only chanco and
they have so announced it.
Of what avail, then, is it, that proof is piled
like “Pelion upon 03sia" to negative these in
famous falsehoods? The proof, if put before
the Northern reader—which is very rarely tho
case—is given in silence and purposely stuck
away in an obscure comer of the paper where,
possibly, it may escape general notice. If an
incendiary scoundrel like Sturgis, the carpet
bag Mayor of Meridian, Miss., wipes a letter to
the Tribune giving an account of his persecu
tions, it is paraded in the editorial columns with
editorial commendation; but the result of tho
investigation into the causes of the riot there
winch was conducted under Badical auspices,and
which brand his statements as unmitigated and
villianons lies, if allowed a pla«e in the same
paper at all, is hid in tho darkest comer that
can be found for it. Wo allude to tho Tribune,
more especially, because that paper did this
very thing, and because it makos a peculiar show
of giving both sides a hearing in regard to dis
turbances in this section. Tho other Jacobin
papers in and out of Now York make no such
pretense. They industriously gather up all tho
lie3 they can find or forge, and print them.
They, as well as their sickly confreres down
this-way, aro paid to do it, and of course a cor
rection of any of these falsehoods would be a
violation of the contract under which they work.
These remarks are suggested by a communi
cation that appears in the last issue of General
D. H. Hill’s paper at Charlotte, North Carolina,
from Mr. Henry Newton, a Connecticnt Repub
lican, living near that place, and called forth by
a letter published in tho Tribune, of April 25,
from ono H. O. Luce, setting forth plaintively
enough, that he had been compelled to leave
North Carolina on account of his Bepnhlican
prlnaiples. Wo read Luce’s letter in the Tri
bune at the time, and the fellow told such a
plausible tale wore almoBttemptedto listen to,
and sympathize win* him. Luce swore that he
had been running some Won works near Char
lotte, and was doing finely until the Ku-klux
took him in hand for starting a pOujol for his
negro hands, and that being compelled to go
North on urgent business the “rebels” took pos
session of, and plundered his property. Here
is what Newton says:
Dear Sib—Having seen a letter in the New
York Tribune, of April 25th, from H. O. Iraoe,
stating that he had to leave the South on aoconnt
of the Kn-klnx, and that the people here at
tached his property and iron works as soon as
his back was turned, for a week’s trip North, I
desire to state that I, Henry Newton, a native of
Connecticut, had been working for said H. O.
Luoe at his iron works until they stopped, and
consequently am well acquainted with all of Mr.
Luce’s alleged troubles, and do not hesitate to
prononnoe-them false In the main.
Ur. Luce does not state the facts of the at
tachments correctly. The Iron Works were not
aUoulnnl, tUJ Ul. Xiuuo Bhllw, MU UOUJU BS hia back
was turned, but were in fall blast until Mr.
Luce wrote a letter here, in which he uses the
following language: “that all the Southern
creditors were nowhere, that they could hot get
a cent;” upon which Judge Shipp, who had
leased them to Mr. Ln$e, sued out an attach
ment, and I did likewise, ho owing ine about
$1,200, and which was finally compromised by
receiving fifty cents on the dollar. >
And I farther state that I, as a Northern man
and a Bepublioan in politics, am now and have
pie; that I am now carrying on the same iron
works which Mr. Luce did, and am not molested
in any way; on the contrary, I have made as
warm friends here as I conld have done in my
home at the North.
Now, conld anything be more conclusive as
against Luce’s wicked falsehoods? Bat will
those who gulped down the poison over have a
chance at the antidote ?Will the Tribune print
what Newton says? 'Wo trow not, and, there
fore, tho caption of this article.
fo
Georgia Bailroad Endorsement
the Slate Boad Lease.
At tho Stockholders’ Convention of the Geor
gia Bailroad on Thursday, a long and arduous
fight occurred on the question of condemning
the endorsement by tho Directors of the State
Boad lease. Fourteen thousand three hundred
and eighteen shares of the stock were repre
sented in person and fourteen thousand six hun
dred and ninety-fivo by proxy. The debate
arose on a motion to strike out all that part of
the President’s and Superintendent’s annual re
port, commending tho wisdom of the State
Boad lease. On tins motion the lease and the
endorsement were strenuously assailed by Gen.
Toombs and Hon. Linton Stephens, and del'
fended by B. H. Hill, Mark A- Cooper, CoL E.
W. Cole and Hon. John P. King. The whole sub
ject matter seems to have been pretty thorough
ly canvassed, but nothing new of a very mate
rial character is shown in the report of the de
bate.
Mr. Hill showed that, during twenty years of
administration by tho politicians, the State
Boad had lost for tho Stato twolvo millions of
dollars, and tho lease now effected was sixty
thousand dollars a year better than tho best pre
vious administration, and a million dollars a
year better than the worst. Mr. King said tho
Stato Boad was a wise project badly managed
from its inception. From 1853 to tho period of
its lease, it proved in no wise beneficial in re-
dneing taxation. He bad endorsed tho lease
simply to protect tho interests of the Georgia
Bailroad. He was not sanguine that any fu
ture large profits conld accrue to tho lessees.
In view of competing lines, tho building of the
Cincinnati and Chattanooga Boad was tho only
thing which conld guarantee’any considerable
profit; Ho regarded the endorsement as bind
ing, bat if the stockholders so expressed, he
would have it annulled, and he would then re
tire from the management of the Georgia Boad.
Finally, on motion of Major George Hillyer,
the whole snbjeot was laid on tho table.
Since writing the above, we have seen a par
agraph in the Atlanta Constitution, of yesterday,
to tho effect that the convention adjourned till
next May without taking any definite action on
the subject of the road’s endorsement of the
State Boad lease.
Swedish Immigration to Georgia.
A leading citizen of Jasper sends ns the fol
lowing copy of a letter received from Mr. John
Foss, a Swede, now in Sweden as the agent of
tho people of Jasper and adjoining counties, for
procuring immigrants from that country. Our
correspondent says that Mr. Foss has established
a high character for integrity, and his agent in
Monticello, to whom this letter is addressed,
Mr. N. B. "White, is one of thff most enterpris
ing merchants of that place. -
It will bo seen that Mr. Foss reports his
countrymen very anxious to make engagements
to come to Georgia. Ho will bring two hundred,
with him—has had five hundred applications to
come, and would like to bring a thousand im
migrants ; and we wish wo had them.
There aro no better "people than the Swedes.
Vi e think amongEuropeanimmigrants employed
in farm and domestic service in the United
States, they stand every where about No. 1, as
sober, industrious, faithful and trustworthy,
and there is no doubt that the great mass of
these Swedish immigrants, starting from this
humble beginning, will, in a few years, rise to
the position of prosperous landholders and form
a highly valuable addition to the population of
Georgia. There is not a man or woman among
them who cannot read and write, and few who
may not be called intelligent. Well grounded
in childhood in all mdimental moral, religious
and literary knowledgo, and exceedingly frugal
in their habits, the road to comparative wealth
will be found easy and their progress rapid. We
wish Ui6re were enough of these people in Geor
gia to-day to elevate the standard of labor by
their example, and to create by some small com
petition an appreciable value for a wages en
gagement. It has none now, and therefore we
are without the smallest means of enforcing
reasonable service for reasonable wages, unless
tho employe chooses to give it. Wo append the
copy of the letter in question:
Goteborg, April 11,1871.
Mr. N. B. White, Monticello:
Deab Sir—I have been in Goteborg a week,
and have been to different places. I can get as
many servants or laborers here in Sweden as
the Georgia people will send for. I think I
have had five hundred applications already from
young men and women. I wish I had orders
for one thousand. I am going to leave hero on -
tho 19th of May; will be at Eatouton about the
15th of June. I will telegraph from New York
to Eatonton as soon as I get there, wishing tho
Ja3per county people to meet me there. I am
not going to Covington. I am sorry that I can
not win the confidence of tho peoplo in Georgia
when I see that I have every prospect of success
otherwise. I have promised about two hundred
to take them along in the fall, hoping that the
people will patronize me. Nothing shall be
undone on my port. If I live and keep my
health I hope to carry many poor Swedes to
America. I will get the orders from some
where.
In conclusion, I beg to send my best respects
to all my friends in Monticello and Jasper
county, hoping we shall meet again in a short
time. I am, dear Mr. White, yours truly,
J. Foss.
The Gold Hill News says: “Poor Hinkler,
who died last week, had only five doctors to at
tend him. They each doctored him for a dif
ferent disease, and he was only sick a week.
One doctored him for consumption, one for
pneumonia, one for asthmetic diarrhea, another
for chronic inflammatory brochitis, and the last
ono went in on general principles against a for
midable combination of all these diseases,
crossed with several other undefined ones, and
the last dose he ordered from the drug store,
which was a teacupfnl of ammonia, laudanum,
sulphuric acid, tincture of cantharides and rye
whisky, equal parts mixed, arrived just ten
minutes too late. Hinkler was dead.”
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Savannah Volunteer Guards will celebrate
their sixty-ninth anniversary by a supper, to
night.
Mr. Charles Sloan, of Savannah, was thrown
from his horse, on Wednesday, and serionsly
hurt.
Beast Butler’s pupils are operating on the
valuables of the citizens of Savannah. . Spoons,
cutlery and liquors of every description seem
to be their favorites. _
The Savannah Advertiser, of Wednesday,
says:
Entered into Bond3.—Thomas Sweatt, who
keeps a store and runs a saw mill at Tebeau-
ville, Atlantic and Gnlf Bailroad, was arrested
on Friday last, by a United States deteotire,
and brought to this city upon the charge of
passing counterfeit gold coin. Mr. Sweatt, who
is represented to be an honest and upright man,
stated that be had received about $600 of this
bogus coin, which he did not know to be coun
terfeit, from a man named MoDonald, who, it
has since been discovered, was a counterfeiter,
and has fed for parts unknown. About $100
of this coin was passed upon Eliza Petit, as part
payment of a debt. A hearing was had in the
case before United States Commissioner Stone,
on Tuesday afternoon, and Mr. Sweatt allowed
to enter into bonds in the sum of $5,000. As
sistant United States District Attorney Sloan
appeared for tho prosecution, and Messrs.
Jackson, Lawton and Bassinger, and J. B. O.
Drew for defendant. There is no doubt, but
that this is a part of the bogus coin made in
Florida by the parties recently captured, with
their implements at Fernandina, and undoubt'
edly it has been extensively circulated.
Mrs. Dr. J. W. Pills, a most estimable lady,
of Columbus, died in that city Tuesday night.
There was a heavy rain and wind storm at
Columbus, Wednesday, accompanied by consid
erable hail.
The Sun says
Corresponding Weather.—Our daily cotton
book of tho past year shows that during the
month of May only three rains fell, only ono
of which was heavy, and was an afternoon
shower. May 6th to May 14tli is described as
attended by strong cool winds and cold nights.
Thence tho atmosphere was warm. This year,
already, in May, four tremendous rains have
fallen and the nights have been cool.
General Toombslectured on “Mogna Charta,”
at Augusta, Wednesday night. From a notice
of it in tho Chronicle and Sentinel wo extract
as follows:
Ho assured our people that though the assas
sins of liberty might be in power now, that a
reaction was rapidly approaching which would
hurl them in the dust, and re-establish all that
had been overturned. In order to bring this
about, ho advised them to .stand firm, and
make no compro'mise—having nothing to do
with men who talked of issues being dead, and
of accepting tho situation, for that was tho
shibboleth of rogues; have nothing to do with
“conservatives,” but push straight forward—
make a square fight with tyranny, and all would
yet be well.
The Brunswick “City Fathers” are going into
the business of issuing city change bills of from
one to five dollars denomination.
Two Brtiuswicknegroes named Blue and Bird
have each brought suit against tho Macon and
Brunswick Bailroad for $10,000 damages, for
patting them out of a car where they had no
right to ride.
Tho “devil” of the Brunswick Appeal makes
“Magna Charta” Maggie Carter, which is the
name of his sweetheart.
Messrs. B. H. May, John Thompson, John
L. Wilkes, T. H. Eemson, James Hope, J. D.
Butt, H. A. Underwood, W. H. Thorpe, H. H.
Gibbes, A. S. Thorpe, and C. H. Powell, have
been elected directors of the Augusta and Hart
well railroad, and A. H. Undorwood, of New
York, President, Jas. Hope, of Augusta, Treas
urer, 0. E. Abbott, Secretary, A. Grant Childs,
Chief Engineor, and Joseph P. Carr, Auditor,
Chapman, tho famous “developer,” was left out
in the cold entirely.
Another knob of tk3t pestiferous piece of
Badical furniture called the freedman’s Bureau,
has got himself into trouble down at Savannah.
His name is Holcombe, and he has been “col
lecting money on fictitious accounts."
Mr. David Barnes, from whom our neighbor
up the Macon and Western Kailroad takes its
name, died a day or two since.
Tho sheriff of Falton county has collected and
paid over to tho County Treasurer the sum of
$19,000 for delinquent taxes.
# We find the following paragraph in the Car-
tersvillo Standard of Thursday:
Keyence Cutters on the Kampaoe.—Three
men, Starnes, Martin and Sheridan, represent
ing themselves as assistant United States Mar
shals, took it into their heads to go rough shod
over some of our citizens last Tuesday night.
They amused themselves by shooting aloDg the
streets above town, taking a few cracks at a dog
in the yard of Mr. Miller Collins, and when he
remonstrated with them ho was cursed, and tho
most vulgar, obsceno and insulting language
used by them that the tongue of depraved men
can utter. They made efforts to oscape, bnt
wore arrested on Wednesday morning by Mr. Wil
kinson, one of onr policemen, at a house above
town of rather bad reputation. Tho town au
thorities imposed a healthy fine for the violation
of the town ordinances, after which they were
arrested on a warrant, and brought before Jus
tice Milner, and were bound over to appear at
tho Superior Court to answer the charges. They
are at present in the custody of the officers in
default of payment of tho flue, and making
bond for appearance.
Kissnosski will please make a note of the
above, to pat in as a supplement to his next re
port.
Tho La Grange Beporler gives a doleful ac
count of tho wheat and cotton prospect in that
section. It says:
Wheat.—Wo are informed by gentlemen from
the country, that the recent rains have very
mnch injnred the wheat crop. In many places
where the straw.is very heavy, the grain has
been entirely destroyed. Cotton in many locali
ties has been killed, while owing to the wet
weather, the grass has gotten such a start that
it will take donblo the labor and time to get rid
of it. Com looks well everywhere, ana from
present appearances large crops will be made.
Tho froit crop will be more abundant than for
many years past.
Butler addressed himself to the Boston ne
groes in a public lecture last Monday night.
He pronounced the Southern negro superior to
tho Southern whites, and warned the latter
beainst tho valorous vengeance of the blacks
parries, to desperation by exoess of outrage and
murder, butler, in this speech, gives ns a taste
of the quality w the next Badical campaign
for the re-election of Grant.
A bather serious joke was recently played
upon the North Carolina Legislature. One of
the members died, and it was resolved to oonvey
the remains home at the expense of the State j
and when they inquired into the matter, it was
found he resided in Vermont.
Mb. Joxnes, of Louisiana, has recovered three
dollars from a railroad for running over and
killing a rooster of his. He proposes to invest
the money in cocktails.
Woman suffrage is evidently near at, hand in
Wisconsin. At the last election a mere man
had most of his teeth knocked ont by a gentle
creatnro who didn’t like tho way he voted.
Mb. Fesste, of Fond da Lao, handed in his
. chips the other day because his wife presented
always been kindly treated by the Southern poo- him with another little blossom.
From "Wilcox County.
Wilcox County, May 10,1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: There has
been a large quantity of rain fallen in this section
of the country, and the planters have, in conse
quence, been much set back in their work. In
low, damp places, the orops have been injured
to some extent, bnt upon the whole, there is a
fair prospect for a good yield of cotton.* More
com has been planted than heretofore, and, as
far ob my observations nave extended, it is look
ing well. Should the seasons be favorable, this
ooonty will mak com enough to supply the de
mand for homo consumption.
Garden vegetables are fine and plentiful, and
yonr correspondent has boen regaled upon green
peas, Irish potatoes, eto., ever since reaching
this belt of country. On last Friday the good
peoplo of *Hawkinsviila had a Sunday school
pio-nio, and yonr correspondent bad the pleas
ure of participating in the festivities of the oc
casion. It was decidedly a fine affair, and the
children seemed to be as happy as the day was
bright and beautiful. Indeed, if there wa3 one
unhappy faoe in that large assemblage of peo
ple, I did not see it. Bnt I presame you will
see a full account of the pio-nio in the Hawkins-
villo paper, and so I forbear farther comment.
Mercer University is all right in this section
of country, and I am expecting large material
aid from the peoplo os sure as they see what
they may oxpeot from the growing crop.
. As ever, fraternally yours,
H. C. Hobnady, Agent M. U.
Thk yellow fever is very fatal on both the
Facifio.&nd Atlantic coasts of South America.
Advices from Buenos Ayres state that tho aver
age of the death rate from vomito is 250 daily.
Five thousand persons died in five weeks. Sixty
thousand had lied from the city. AdvioeB from
Valparaiso to the 17tb of April state that the
vomito was making frightful ravages there.
A Chicago paper says of a cotemporary that
“it has "doubled its circulation. Another
takes a copy now.” ~
BY ’TTCTj.KQ-R-A.IPEE.
London, May 11.—Fort Vanvres was captured,
bnt subsequently recaptured by the Commun
ists. The fort is in a delapidated condition.
Bossil has not gone to Versailles, bnt remains
outside of Paris. There was some excitement
in the Versailles Assembly where Thiers, in a
somewhat excited manner, demanded a vote of
confidence. The vote resulted 495 to 10 in favor
of Thiers. - , -
The grand army of the Republic elected Burn
side commander-in-chief.
Pams,-May 12.—The National-battalions ar©
thinning since Kossil’s resignation, which causes
discouragement among the Communists.
Delescluzo is incapable of activity, in conse
quence of sickness, but in a speeh just deliver
ed, he expresses confidence in the* future free
dom of Franco’and the successes of the Com
mune. A Versailles dispatoh says the insurgents
are unable to repair their works, and will prob
ably attempt to defeat the Versailliats by a
strong attack. The Mayor of Issy has been ar
rested. Floqnet was arrested en route for Bor
deaux.
The Emperor William is slightly indisposed
London, May 12.—air John Frederick Wil
liam Herschel, only son of tho astronomer, is
dead, at the age of 73.
Versailles, May 12.—The Government bat
teries maintain a terrific fire upon the ramparts
of Paris and the fortifications still held by tho
Insurgents.
Buenos Atces, April 14, via London, May 12.
—Business is entirely suspended, and the city
is to a great extent deserted. The custom house
and all the banks are closed; The ravages of
the yellow fever continue, and apparently will
only cease for want of victims.
Washington, May 12.—Coburn and Mace had
been sparring sby for a long time, when a mag
istrate and sheriff entered the ring. While the
magistrate was reading the law. he was robbed
of thirty guineas and his watch. No arrests
were made.
Little progress has been made in adjusting
the Pennsylvania coal mining troubles.
Buffalo, May 12.—Tho Mace and Cobnm
fight has boen postponed to Jane second.
Galveston, Texas, May 12.—A News special
from Austin dated, the 10th, says: By a resolu
tion of the House Speaker Evans wa3 removed
a vote Of 41 to 29. Mr. Evans took the floor,
and said: “The caucus lias issued its fiat and
the decree has gone forth that because I would
not violate the Constitution at the behest of its
party and join the majority of the Bepnblicans
in this Legislature, in perpetuating our exist
ence and usurping the power of legislating
for tho people of Texas, after the third of De
cember next, I must be sacrificed. Think not
to bind the people by the mis: presentations of
a party whoso principles you thus trample upon,
that yon can hurl at me the shafts of your hate.
Your envy and milignity fall short of their in
tended victim. For the ignorant and simple men
who are led in thi3 movement by unscruplous
demagogues, I have nothing but pity, while for
their leaders I entertain tho most profound
scorn and contempt. You deem this the hour
of your triumph; it is the hour of your sbamo
and open confession to the people of Texas
that submission to the Bepnhlican cau
cus is inconsistent with our oath to sup-
E ort the Constitution. Let not the Ropnb-
can party of Texas suffer for the folly and
madness of the irresponsible men in this House,
who aro its representatives in name only. I
have ever followed tho dictation of tho caucus,
but upon a constitutional question, which in
volves observances of my oath of office, I have
refused to follow the dictation of the canons and
violate my oath to sustain the Constitution of
the State. I have also denied the right of the
canons to make such a question partizan in its
character, and compel its members to abide by
the decision of the noon caucus, nor such action
aa tills midnight canons, which determined
to remove me from the position of Speaker of
this House. I know I invited this removal when
I espoused the cause of the people and Consti
tution. On the one hand was the decision of the
party caucus, on tho other was the Constitution
I had sworn to uphold, and between them was
tho Speaker’s chair. I conld not hesitate as to
my course. My fato be that of men of all ages
who have dared do right: temporary defeat,
succeeded by lasting honor in this matter. My
adversaries have erected to themselves a monu
ment of shame, which shall rise higher and
higher with increasing years, and tho fing?r of
scorn shall bo pointed at them whithersoever
they go.”
Sinclair was elected Speaker by a vote of 44
to 30.
A fire at Bryon, Texas, yesterday, destroyed
one block of buildings, consisting in part of
twolvo stores. The losais estimated at $190,000.
Insured for $50,000.
"Washington, May 12.—Tho census tables for
Louisiana shows 301,450 whites; 863,067col
ored ; 569 Indians; 2 Chinese, all bom within
the United States, and 61,827 of foreign birth—
the latter nearly all white. Birthplace of ne
groes in Louisiana: Alabama, 9,738; Arkansas,
1,G35; California, 3; Connecticnt, 12; Dela
ware, 30; Florida, 82G; Georgia, 8,093; Illinois,
69; Indiana, 42; Iowa, 2; Kansas, 1; Kentucky,
6,005; Louisiana, 263,956, against 237,453
whites; Maine, 23; Indiana (?) 5,485: Massachu
setts, 60; Michigan, 9; Minnesota, 93; Missis
sippi, 17,831; Missouri, 1,613; New Hampshire,
3; New York, 23; New York (?) 178; North
Carolina, 5,237; Ohio, 186; Pennsylvania, 157;
Khode Island, 8; South Carolina, 7,04S; Ten
nessee, 4,127; Texas, 2,335; Vermont, 4; Vir
ginia; 27,608; West Virginia, 65: Wisconsin, 10;
District of Columbia, 459. Number of citizens,
white, bom in Germany, 18,933, France, 12,336;
Ireland, 17,068; Italy, 1,8S9; Spain, 1,130.
It is understood that the sub-committee of
seven of the Outrage Committee will sit in
Washington to tako testimony.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Delations
reported progress in examining the treaty, and,
after appointing a committee to investigate the
premature publication of the treaty, adjourned
to Monday. . . *
Governor Genry, of Pennsylvania, in a mess
age to tho Legislature, urges compensation to
the border oounties for injuries inflicted during
the war.
Buffalo, May 12.—An emigrant train bound
west, collided with a freight train to-day. Five
children were killed, and fourteen adults killed
and wounded. The Sisters of Charity cared for
the wounded at their hospital.
Boston, May 12.—At the re-union of the army
of the Fotomao Meade -presided. Meade said
the object of the re-union was simply social and
congratulatory—not political.
Charleston, May 12.—Arrived—Brig EUen,
Maria, Baltimore; schooner Ella M. Bennett,
Baltimore.
Tho Taxpayers’ Convention, at Columbia to
day, adopted a resolntion requesting the Legis
lature to inaugurate a system of proportional-
representation—to retrench the State expenses
—to prevent any increase of the publio debt
npon any pretext, and to amend the election
law so as to prevent wholesale frauds. The
committee of eleven will probably make a re
port to-morrow embodying the practical result
of its labors. Tho convention will probably
adjourn to-morrow. Great political and finan
cial reforms aro expected to result from its ac
tion.
Southern Baptist Convention.
St. Louis, May 12.—The Southern Baptist
Convention met here to-day. Several hunrded
delegates were in attendance. P. H. Mell, of
Georgia, was re-elected President. Bev. Mr.
Williams, of the Theological Seminary at Green
ville, S. O., delivered the sermon. Various re
ports were read.
Gen. John B. Gray was mulcted in a $113,000
retained by him as commissions from $6,000,-
000, obtained from the General Government on
Stato aooonnt and for equipping troops. Gray-
will appeal to the Supreme Court.
London, May 12.—Cal. Brunei has been ap
pointed Commandant of Vanvres. A series of
batteries have been erected in the Arrondisae-
ment of Pantheven. Pestilence is apprehended.
Pams, May 12.—The Communists claim vic
tories, and deny the reports of successes for the
Versaillists. Fort Vanvres was retaken by the
Communists at the point of the boyonet. There
was a desperate engagement around Fort Isay,
and the Communists claim to have recaptured
the Park of Issy.
.London, May 12.—In the House of Lords
Bedesdale asked whether the United States could
ally raiso the question of remuneration for
isels and property destroyed by the Alabama ?
He argued that the Southern States of the Amer
ican Union were alone responsible for the dep
redations of the Alabama and kindred ships,
and that the Government of Great Britain could
not have legally detained the Alabama, for she
was not armed when Bbeleft the British waters.
The Earl of Lauderdale concurred in the view
pressed by Lord Bedesdale. Earl Granville
d he was glad the question had been raised,
as it gave him an opportunity of stating that the
adjustment made at Washington bad not turned
upon the point supposed by Lord Bedesdale,
and which the Crown advisers had not even sug
gested. He promised.that before the treaty was
ratified there should be ample opportunity for a
full consideration of its provisions; but in the
meantime he expressed regret at the occurrence
of desultory discussions.
pears to the committee thattwT^~'"'~'
aums of bonds described, have
gahty and force as obliggi T6
committee believe that
affected; and that it is the
escape from our. “
funded debt, and‘$1,200,
interest and all expenses, Tte°^
—excuses, TT-a ..
commend the adoption of the t 5
Resolved That it is the SSSP ’
tion thftt til© -s .< tllAs.
in the committee's report. h D „...
the honor and funds of the
pledged for the redemption
Kesoived, That a plan for fh e *
of the publio debt, suggestedbytu
be recommended to the favorahV
The Versaillists are cutting trenches in front
of the Maillot gate, and concentrating their
trpops in tho Bois de Boulogne. A eharp fnsil-
ade about Fort Bicetre to-day. Viotor Schoel-
scher.was arrested.
The Standard of this evening, has a dispatch
asserting that the Communists foroesare only than $600,000in gold will ml
12,000 strong, and the Versailles army conld go ftma-a «a isw; U
into Paris to-day if it would.
Beblin, May 12.—In the German Parliament
to-day,- Bismarck gave the particulars of his
"reoent visit to Frankfort, to confer with Favre
and. Ponyer Duertier. He said if the object
had not been accomplished, the Germans would
have taken possession of Paris and demanded
the withdrawal of the Versailles forces behind
the Loire. Tho treaty which was concluded
hastens tho payment of the war indemnity to
Germany. A half milliard of it is to be paid
by France in 30 days after the entry of the;Ver
sailles army into Paris, and a milliard more
before the end of December. Then, only, will
the Germans evaonate the Paris forts. A3 to the
abrogation of the commercial treaty, Bismarck
stated that the withdrawal of France from the
maintenance of that instrument was merely for
the purpose and hope of the receipt of increas
ed customs duties, with which to liqudate her
indebtedness. The ratifications of tho treaty
have been changed to the 20th.
Pams, May 12.—The committee of public
safety has issued a proclamation to the people,
whioh says the Republic and the Commune have
escaped a mortal peril. Treason had penetra
ted our ranks, and bribes have been distributed.
Kossil’s surrender of Issy was the first step of
the drama. The opening of the gates of Paris
was to follow. A majority of the guilty have I Hi ..
been arrested. A court-martial is now sitting, the interview with the Govem^tS ‘"W
and their punishment will be exemplary. Nu- of which is as follows: To -“****>
merous papers aro suppressed. The Commune
of the Governor.
Besolved, That, in order to m.
animation of th6 accounts .rPWe
. acoounts of iD'i 518
tho Committee of Eleven be
a sub-committee to New Yn»t
Besolved, That tho Governor k i .
quested to review various
to arrest extravagance and subffiSl
and accountability in e*»r*A»!I5* ec| Ssr
that he be earnestly solidte’d <
000 as tho utmost limit of expS*^
that he exert Ms power todinS? 6 !'
in the same ratio. —fa ^
Besolved, That the Governor be .
“S2S£l!S??S
i resolutions were i
The Committee of
has ordered religions instruction to cease, and
all crucifixes and Madonnas to be removed from
the schools. Delescle'nze reports the ramparts
sufficiently guarded to prevent surpri
The Siecle says a vast Bonapartist TUganiza-
lion exists throughout France. The Commune
emmissaries are arranging for a convocation of
a four municipal Congress at Bordeaux, Lyons,
Nantes and Lille.
Versailles, May 12, evening.—The Govern
ment troops made a determined assanlt npon
the Convent of Issy and carried the position at
the point of the baynot, though it was stoutly
defended by the Insurgents. Many of the enemy
were killed, and three guns captured.
Vienna, May 12.—The American Minister,
Jay, gave a banquet to-day in honor of-Childers,
nntil recently, first Lord of the British Admi
ralty.
Chattanooga, May 12.—There was another
meeting of the creditors of the Atlanta and Chat
tanooga Bailroad last night. The committee re
ported that the best that conld be done wa3 to
take one dollar in stock and one dollar in bonds
for each dollar of indebtedness, and so retire
all the floating debt in this country, thus to en
able Stanton to pay off tho parties pressing the
road into bankruptcy. A large amount of stock
and bbnds was subscribed in this way to-day.
A petition was also circulated to-day, and signed
by the representatives of a half million of the
floating debt, requesting the dismissal of the
suit in bankruptcy.
Tho heavy rains of tho past week will delay
the completion of the road until the middle of
next week.
Albany, May 12.—Drs. Gray and Vander-
pool, who were appointed by Governor Hoffman
to examine the prisoner Buloff, under sentence
of death at Binghamton, N. Y., have reported
that, in their opinion, Buloff is in sound phys
ical health and entirely sane.
"Washington, May 13.—Tho British American
Parliament, as far a3 heard from, are adverse to
the treaty made by the High Commission. Seve
ral Senators have amendments to the treaty, and
many are preparing elaborate speeches. A
three veeks r session, at least, i3 probable.
The Attorney General decides that Revenue
Commissioner Pleasanton erred in exempting
dividends from tax for five months ending 1870.
The decision will impose a tax of many thou
sands npon banks, railroads and other corpora
tions for the time named.
The Commune searched the Bank of France
for arms, but none wero found.
The Sooialo proposes the immediate execu
tion of alt tho members of the Central Com
mittee. It is reported that tho Central Com
mittee is about to retire. It is rumored that
the Communists aro retiring from Fort Vanvres.
A letter from ~
bid for the throne of France, is published in
Le Venguer. Reports aro rife of increasing
discouragement among the National Gnard, and
say an attempt was made to assassinate Dom-
browski.
A special to tho London Times says tho clerks
of tho Bank of Trance are armed, victualed and
prepared to stand a siege- Fighting is reportedat
St. Quentin, which shows that the sphere of at
tack is extending. The German commander de
mands the northern enoiente of Paris. A News
special reports a naval combat at Autenil Via
duct. One Insurgent gunboat was sunk. Fifty
thousand troops cross the Seine to-night to re
inforce the troops occupying Boulogne and Bil-
lanooart. A Telegraph special says a recon-
noisance nnder Dombrowski drove the Ver-
sailistsfrom Sablonville. A permanent conrt
martial has been established in Paris.
The Versaillists captnred the seminary of Issy,
and are actively pushing forward and approach
ing the walls. McMahon has issued an address
to bis troops apparently preliminary to a grand
attack. The Baron de Van Greyneuse, formerly
attached to the French legation in Washington-
is dead.
New Yobk, May 13.—W. M. Tweed was in
stalled Grand Sachem of Tammany, at. its 83d
annual meetiing last night The stallion Levi
athan is dead.
St. Louis, May 13.—Bev. J. D. Fulton, of
Boston, addressed the Southern Baptist Conven
tion urging a union of the Northern and South
ern Baptists.
Boston, May 73.—The House defeated the
female suffrage bill by a tie vote—68 to G8. The
Senate defeated a bill regulating the hours of
labor in factories by a large majority.
'Boston, May 13.—An attempt to read a letter
from Admiral Porter at tho banquet of the
army of the Fotomao, failed. The letter was in
response to a toast in honor of the navy.
Memphis, May 13.—Dispatches report heavy
rains and caterpillars increasing alarmingly.
Omaha, May 13.—The Missouri river is higher
than it has been for four years, and is still ris-
Ian Fbanosco, May 13.—Anxiety is felt for
the steamer Pacific, now long over due. *
Washington, May 13.—The following is
fuller statement of the Attorney General’s de
cision : A claim for refunding the tax nnder act
of July 14, 1870, was allowed by the Commis
sioner of Internal Bevenne, and presented to
the Secretary of the Treasury for approval, who
submitted the following questions to the Attor
ney General, who, in each instance, answered
affirmatively:
Is thetax on interest or coupons paid on bonds
or other evidences of debt imposed by tho 15th
section of the above act, applicable to the in
terest paid between August 1st and December
31st, 1870? The same question regarding the
tax on dividends of earnings, incomes or gains.
Also, should the officers and employees of the
Government, Senators and Members of Con
gress be taxed on their salaries for the five
months in question ?
The Secretary of the Interior has gone to
Philadelphia. The Secretary of War has re
turned. There is no change in Corcoran’s con
dition.
The Iroquois and Wyoming are ordered to
be fitted for sea immediately. Buloff is pro
noun oed sound in body and mind.
Ketums at the census office, with only four
counties incomplete, and these estimated, show
a colored populatlba of all the States and Ter
ritories, 4,857,000—a gain of 9 35.100 per cent
since 1860. The States stand in the following
order with respeot to the oolored population:
Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, South
— oa follows: To mien r~~
committeo endorse Ms ExeeSSS^
committed himself to the foiled
tions: L That he signed no other U&
those set forth in t>in
Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennes
see, Kentucky, Texas, Maryland, Arkansas,
Missouri, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Distriot
of Colombia, New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, Del
aware, West Virginia, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Connecticut, Iowa, Bhode Island,
California, Wisoonsic, Maine, Vermont, Ne
braska, Minneasota, New Hampahire, Nevada,
Oregon.
Charleston, May 13.—In the Tax Payers’
Convention last evening, Mr. Geo. A. Tren-
holm, from the Committee of Eleven, submit
ted a lengthy report on. the financial condition
of the State. The grand total of the debt is
fixed at$886,912; the sum total of unsold bonds
is $1,800,000. The report reoommenda that the
Governor do not sell any more bonds at leas
than 80 per oent., and to proceed to New York
to make the most economical arrangement for
holding the above mentioned $1,800,000 pledged
as collateral nntil the 80 per cent, bonds are at
tainable.
The committee farther recommend that, when
redeemed, a portion of this sum be applied to
the payment of the five loan debt The report
says it is qnite reasonable to expect from this ex
hibition of the exaot condition of the finanoes of
the State, an immediate considerable advance and
facilities for holding them off the market Itap-
illegal issues. 2.
county officers, both electivTS* ■ ,
have been unnecessarily multiplied
be reduced in number, and xsnrtL'*'
That many officials, charged viti fu^ 1 -
trationof justice have been fapoSS!
inaccessible to the people, ana
disorders complained of in the State w
created by this cause, and that he
them with competent persons wheneiaft
do so. 4 He is in favor of the cunahlk,
tern of voting and of minority recreate
and would be glad to see it made a
law of this State. 5. TheeffiH£J“
fective ana lead to fraud, and should
rially amended, and that he will use his in'
to that end. 6. That he would have lb
tion of the taxes for next November w-
until the 1st of March, 1872, and not
penalty for non-payment nntil then. |
Finally, the committee recommend fa
lowing suggestions: Ths Legislature ijn
tho fall payment of royalty on phosphates'
repeal of the act granting exduaVa franchkl
a stop be put to the drawing of money fcoa*
Treasury for alleged Legislative expenses. 1
the order of the Speaker of the Honss
President of the Senate; that all
tions and bills ought to specify tho items'^
each general head; the redaction of'far
ber of the State and county cEcers; fat
ment of a law limiting each session of tls~,
Mature to thirty day; a repealot thelavci!
ing a salary of $2,500 to the Adjntan'Gaii
to give each public officer but one alyy
to abolish tho commission to certify the*
The report was adopted.
Tho convention resolved itself into a „
mitteeof the Whole, with Gen. Chestnut in:
chair. A resolntion of thanks to the picsi
officer, and also to Gov. Scott and the Statei
ficials was passed.
The committee then" arose,and Preadefil
ter returned thanks, and said he seednt
ashamed of the convention. The remits m
speak an appeal to the country, and if fa:
ecutive Committee continue to act in the
spirit and avoid Federal and State pc’
and simply welcome to our micUj cm
oropose to do good, who advocate' vMi
aws and the just administration oi fa|
funds and honest officials, it will ecox
the great objeot of the people in peace,
convention has dono much to remove t
derstandings and inaugurate a period of
feeling and better conduct of public alia
The convention adjourned sine die,
to the call of the Executive Committee.
Jackson, Miss., May 13.—Just before the i
joumment of the Legislature a genenlT
road Aid law was signed by the Governor,
became a law, donating in cash four thou
dollars per mile to new railroads. Ibis hi
most liberal legislation ever had on «ihu
by*a State. It will give a great impetus toi
the roads in tho State. Among tteimpoit
acts passed this week, and approved by
Governor, is one giving all the State k&l
the Mobile and Northwestern Railioah
ally known as Mann’s road. The h.
ture adjourned sine die, and with general;
feeling. Governor Alcorn entertains the r
body this afternoon.
New Orleans, May 13.—Vincent t [
and Feter Abriel were hanged at 11 o’clock!
day for killing a sailor about a year agor
robbing him of $12, and throwing his K
in the river. Both men behaved with ca
to the last. After religions rites they W.
ioned, whenBayonna stepped on fla w*
He Iooke d at the crowd and ej aculated, 9ar*
and spat upon them. The execution fo:*
in the parish prison yard. A larga croxa
ered around the prison. The Spinish, il
Belgian and French Consuls petition^- 1 - 5
ernor to commute the sentence toimruaat:
for life, but tha acting Governor, Dza,
dined doing so.
Sobanton, Pa., May 13.—No progreaui
conciliating the mining troubles. ,
Boston, May 13—The Fifth Army
oiety, with only one dissenting votA K5I h]
to petition the President to reopen Gsa.
John Porter’s case. . ..u
Baltimore, May 13.—Tho steamer
Smith exploded to-day.. Several were
scalded and otherwise injured.
London, May 13.—A special
Paris says a levy en masse is experl*!'
La Oreicia becomes Generalissimo. - 1 "-V
mono has made a demand upon t£61; 1 -.
France for ten million francs. The rfc--
of Favre and Thiers have been destroys-
famiture of the FInoes Taillenes, I ■• .
Elysees were taken and sold to-day. in
of Yendome still stands. A’ YersauleJ
says 50,000 troops are enoampedat
and will join the forces of Donay m “*
attack npon Paris. , , n ,
Paris, May-lS.-It is supposed ^
has boen made to murder
stranger, on whom was found a rev - > ^
for the General and quarrelled with
nel npon a refusal of admittance,
killed Mm with his bayonet. , ^ dej
0. M. Brillierary replaces
gate andMinister of War to
Four members of the_National _ ^osaT
KSSsa&ssfa.ifi
have joined the Common Sant#
Havana,^^-^rKe last
de Cuba says Yalmazedo,
prieved Pillow, Hownilier ardo.ne , ^
ordered to be shot a * T 0 ,-thatYab
The Consul at Santiago hebevea^that
da’s clemency in tins arrested at YiE
hope for the keepers who were ane ^
del Gobre for oomplioity with the uhws -
London, May 13.—The Times ® ^ ^
convinced that the basis and e»ea
sions of the treaty agreed upon .mj-ricW 6 *
will certainly be adopted by the jjyit
ate, and therefore beheves ^\M&tvits®.
virtually concluded. As for the ■ ^ a
Is the result of mutual coneesmo“i j
Times finds in it nothing inconas^,
tional honor, or that England *?. jY.hreeat 1
sacrifice her pride to restore amity j*
branches of the Anglo-Saxon *® nUl T’„ n jsifl*
The health of the Emperor
better. _
Vbbsaillm, May 13.—Favie ^
to the Assembly to-day that tho . pnj
with Germany had been negoti»‘ ea
fort The hardness of the term*
much emotion among the Ot
nouncement was made by the •» m#
Federal gunboat was sunk ins „
fire of the Versailles batteries.
guns were captnred in a recent
and brought to Versailles to-day. -
Madrid, May 12.—TheSpani^fi rf*
ed, by a vote of 85 to 23, an add*** 8
to a speech from the throne. w
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