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Telegraph and Messenger MACON, JUNE G, 1871. miai I* * Slate •flawrrtfUon? Two montha ago Prosidoat Grant made pro*' lamation, on-the authority of Governor Soott, that South Carolina waa ha a atale of tasurreo- Uon, In which the civil authority of the was set at naught and defied. Vpcm «h« luform atlon. the Fxe»24eaS read the Carolina in Sargents an ted»*WMtk>» -»*d warning and pro ceeded to toward l asted States troops there to Buppteaa tho -atiUMerttoo. Eat within a few days Governor Scott has been to Washington—interviewed tho President and notified him that after all no insurrection exists in South Carolina. He has taken another good look and can't find the insurrection. It appears that an insurrection, is an affair which nan easily hide out and become lost. It i3 like 8 needle in a haycock—hard to find, and yon can’t be exactly certain whether it is there or not. Now yon see it, and now yon don’t In like manner every truly loil man knows it .was extremely hard to discover when the war ceased to exist It smonidered along for months and months after all fighting had stopped and every unlucky rebel had given up lil3 gun and signed a capitulation. There had to be a judi cial decision on the point, so hard was it to dis cover when the change took place, though tho Change was as great and' a3 sudden as that from a thundersquall to bright skies. So now we see that the Radicals are in con 8iderable doubt whether or not an insnrrection exists in South Carolina. Wo wonder whether the President and Gen. Soott would be in equal perplexity to know whether they were having a battle royal—a bont of fisticuffs—of bloody noses and cracked crowm, or were taking ’leven o’clock lunch together. Fate of tire Cotton Bearn, The cotton shorts in New York are in a bad case. They most ante up to the tune of a four cents margin and worse a coming. What is to become of those amiable gentlemen who have sold futures deliverable in July, August, Sep tember, October, November, and December next, atrate3varying from 14$ to 14 cents? What a long and melancholy road is before them! It is like old Pilgrim’s progress through the Valley of Humiliation or the Valley of the Shadow of Death. It is said that some dozen or more have already declined to prosecute the journey—handed in their checks and gone into liquidation. We are Horry for t£e shorts; but still it would be a blessing if something or other conld kill off the swarm of flies which buzz about every staple article of produce in the great American markets and make nominal transactions of mil lions, in which never a bale or barrel changes hands, but which are all settled np by paying or receiving margins. They are. the pest of legitimate trade, and all their influence goes to derange it They are simply gamblnro—as pure ly gamblers as if they were playing at chnck-a- Inck, poker or crack-loo. They are doing noth ing valuable to society, and if they find they irm accomplish nothing for themselves, they may tom their attention to honest industry. Who knows? The Chinese Bnmuana—Mr. Low, the American Minister to China, forwards very vo luminous dispatches in reference to the course of tho Celestial Government, towards the Chris tian missionaries. It seems that the difficulties are principally with the French Catholics, who claim that their native courts shall, if accused of crime, be tried by their consnlar court, and not before the Chinese tribunals. The order of the Chinese Government prohibits allfemales from teaching, and is not specially aimed at the Christian religion, though the actual situation gives it a& exclusive practical bearing against the Christian missionaries. A Veto Governor.—Governor Hoffman has vetoed upwards of a hundred bills passed by the Legislature since that body adjourned. Hi3 practice is to file a list of the. bills with a brief statement of his objections, witi.the Secretary of State. The best tribute to the ability and judgment of the Governor is, that nov one of bis vetoes has ever be seriously attacked. c 0 v. Hoffman is a man not only of high intellectna ability, bnt his fearlessness, independence, in tegrity and moral conragemake him a model Governor. The Harmonious in New York.—The morn ing .telegrams disclose a slight tremor in New York Radical politics. Schultz and Orton, head the Grant faction of tho Radical party, while the regulars are not in favor of hasty commit tals. The former have led of in an attempt to organize the party for the campaign, and the latter have put in an energetic caveat, in which they denounce the Grant faction as usurpers. -There may be the germs of a very pretty quarrel In that. Costs oy Liw.—The Columbus Sun sighs over tho vexatious cost3 of an old suit recently decid ed in that city—Coleman vs. W. A. Ransom & Co., in which an attempt was made to set aside an assignment on an allegation that it was pro cured by misrepresentation and fraud. The case occupied five days in court at a cost to the county of Si,000, and resulted in a verdict against Coleman of §5,593 93. ‘ The Southern Claims Commissioners in ses sion in 'Washington have published a list of those who have declared under oath that they remained loygl adhorents to the cause and the Government of the United States during the late war, and that they never yielded voluntary support to the Confederate Government. Tho list embraces 1,000 names, the greater number of which belong to Virginia ana Georgia. The Montgomery Advertiser says that Presi dent Grant in his late proclamation does not use the word “States," but alludes to them as “la. calities.” No State 1b mentioned os such in a proclamation that relates politically and geo graphically to the States. He is as careful not to use the word “State" as Napoleon was, be fore the usurpation in France, to keep ont of Bight the word “Republic.” Ship Ashore.—The Tallahassee Floridian, of Tuesday, learns that a large English ship, load ed with Railroad iron, was driven on a reef in East Pass a few days ago. lighters from St. Harks and other points have gone to her relict The cargo will likely be saved, bnt it Is thought the ship is a total loss. Her destination was not known. \ ' Hire, is Florida.—There was a hail-storm lately at Archer, in Florida, in which the hail- stoneB lay under the caves of the houses to the depth of seven or eight inches. The Btonn was less than half a mile in width. Twenty-Four Swedes arrived at Quincy, Fla., laBt Friday. Theyexpressed themselves pleased With the appearance of the country and did not complain of the heat A polar bear does not take the migration so calmly. Lake Fxm, Minnessola, it is said, is infested with a marine monster, between the size of an elephant and a rhinoceros, which moves through the water with great rapidity. Tree planting in Nebraska is a regular de partment of agricultural business. A compa ny of Swedes have just ordered 12,000 cotton wood trees for one of their farms. Farts—More Signs or Trouble. The terrible tragedy of the Commune is no sooner over than we sea that little or nothing has been done to settle the grand problem of government for Franco. The Thiers govern ment is merely provisional, and has no bold on the people. It was accepted, in the ontsst, as a were temporary arrangement to subsist only while the French people were in the act of do- termining,iheirfuture destiny. v . The Boardoanx and subsequently Versailles National Assembly, was not elected as a Con stituent Assembly to organize a government. It was elected to moke a treaty of peaoe with Ger many and to take the neoessary legal steps for ascertaining the voice of tho French people in reference to a permanent political organization. An attempt was made to induce it to declare itself a Constituent body, but the attempt failed- This fact makes the revolt of the Commun ists more atrocious and inexcusable. If they were only dissatisfied with the Yersailtists, and yet willing to abide by the will of France, they had. bnt to wait a few weeks for the formal ex pression of that will. But they were as hostile to the will of the people as they were to the Versailles govemm ent. Their movement was a coup d'etat—a, usurpation—aimed to foist upon France, by surprise and terror, a red-handed tyranny which she never would have deliberate ly sanctioned. Their action only protracted the dotation of the Theirs directory, and bnilt np for it a nega tive popularity as achoioe of evils. Bnt no sooner are the Communists gone, than all is at sea again. Rspublicanism, it may be assumed, after the bastard exhibition of it by the Com mune, is odions. The Orleanists and the Le gitimists seem to have come together on a movement in favor of the Count do Cliambord— the last scion of the Freneh Bourbons, bom after tho assassination of his father, the Duke do Ber ry, 1820, and grandson of Charles X, who was driven from the throne by the revolution of 1S30. If this coalition has been formed, the question rest3 between Count Chambord and a restoration of the Empire, and no doubt the straggle will be fierce. The sooner the National Assembly declares for a plebiscitmh, the safer and better for Franoe. Everything is now afloat, and discord and danger will increase until the question is finally settled. The aquatic sports of our Savannah friends, which promised to be interrupted by the falling rain on Tuesday, were a splendid success after alL The skies brightened and a spanking breeze filled the sails of the contesting crafts, and put them upon their metal. The start was a good one, and the excitement of the specta tors ran up to fever-heat. The Morning News thus gives the result: The'“Rainbow,” Captain Julian Myers, was declared the winning boat of the second-class, the “Eleanor,” though returning first, having lost the race by an allowance of thirteen min utes twenty seconds in favor of the “Rainbow,” in measurement of canvass. The “Otelia,” (fourth-class) Captain F. M. Cpx, won under the same allowance, and the ‘‘May Forrest,'’ (fifth-doss) Captain T. W; McNisb, won, having no competitor. The second class boats started at 11:34, and the oth9r classes at 11:39, running a course of fourteen miles, seven miles towards Osrabaw and returning. The following is the time and canvass measurement of the winning boats and yachts rounding the stadeboat: Time. ... Measurement. Eleanor ; 1:53? TC 1,823 square feet. Rainbow .' 2:054 G53~"! “ Otelia 2:11 ,....459 i; :;v •?. 378.1 *,«• Minnie..—..... 2:204 378$ Carrie 2:19* .. CIO May Forest 2:22$ — The End of the Commune. Is it surprising that a faction whoso avowed creed was no God, no Heaven, no Hell, no im mortality, should have subsided in blood and ignominy? Insensate wretches! they reduced the “human form divine” to the level of the brute; they profaned the temples of the Liv ing God; they slaughtered the clergy; dethron ed chastity and morals, obliterated the land marks of caste and property, destroyed the monuments of art and antiquity, and like vam pires and hyenas, rioted in carnage and death. Bnt vengeance swift and sure has overtaken them, and every telegram brings the tidings of the execution of hecatombs of these demoniac miscreants. Like dogs they are hnnted down and shot npon tho streets and in their coverts, and their festering corpses taint the atmosphere. Nor does it seem the work of destruction will be allowed to cease. Favre has telegraphed in the name of the Government to the varions powers, and demanded the extradition of the fugitives, on the ground that they are not po litical offenders, bnt malefactors and criminals of the deepest dye. In consequence, Spain is already seizing and imprisoning those who cross her frontier, and other nations may follow the example. The annals of the old French revolution with all its horrors, will pale before the enormities which have been enacted during the past few weeks. And now read the moral which may be plainly deduced from these frightful and chaotic scenes. Briefly summed np, it is this: When a nation ignores the cxlstenoe of the Snpreme Being, and deliberately tramples un der foot His laws and ordinances, when it gives Ioo3e reign to the depraved passions and in stincts of the natural man, when it dishonors virlne, and elevates vice, the inevitable result even from a human standpoint, 03 the disinteg ration and utter rain, socially and morally, of that people. Snrely even the infidel should re spect the Christian religion, which incnloates iustice, order, peace and good will among men. A Peanut Famine. ThbWorld says a peanutfamine is imminent. North Carolina, instead of sending 20,000 bags to market,m, £ ha did last season, sends only 2,000. Yirgini. jg short fifty per cent. The crop in Africa is i* a vy, bnt it will take a long time to receive shiyjients, and Africa does things leisurely. The o^ res3 ^ great. There is a corner In the market, t*a “peanuts is ris.” The peanut bears are like t*, cotton shorts— flat on'their backs—paws upp'nnost, clawing at nothing, and at the same time < catching it." We are sorry for the capitalists bnbarked in the peanut trade—sorry for the yonngcritios of the pit, who can’t prepare for the legitimate drama at less than double cost for piannts. The short snpply of peanuts from tie oldNorth State might prejudice her charactei for good order, if Virginia were not in the sime cate gory. Bnt Virginia has failed also, wd now what shall we say? Is free labor a n^thand a humbug ? Is tho abolition of slaver; to be the abolition of the great American peanu in terest ? Alarming thought 1 Testimony from one of the Beeches Family. A member of the Beecher family has just re turned from a visit to the Souls, and she frank ly gives to the Church Union an account of what she has seen and heard. She declares, she says, in all truthfulness, that from the time she left home until her retnra to it, Bhe, and the female friend who was with her, though trav eling by themselves, “met everywhere, and from all classes, only kindness and attention.” Everything that courtesy oonld do to make their journeying pleasant and comfortable was done. Two women—one an invalid—were regarded as having a «pecial claim upon people’s eare and politeness. Wanted by these personal expo* riences, she pertinently asks whether “it is well to talk of the continuance of Southern bitter ness, and animosity, 'and secret «omity, when two unprotected Northern women o>n pana through the States jnst emerging fiom yearsof war, and throngh those places where the deadly strife wa3 fiercest, not only without molesta tion, bnt with sympathy and assistance at every step?” .. '• .. Axotheb.—Alonzo Napier, from. Tennessee, Is the name of the new negro cadet that is to bo thrust into West Point in June. He has been educated at Howard’s school, at Washing ton, and is said to possess more than tho nsna share of insolence and hatred, of white people that characterizes the pupils of that school. The white cadets bad better begin to lay in a snpply of helmets to save- their skulls from be ing broken by Ibe water dipper when they hap- pen to come between the wind and Napier’s nobility. . ., •. > ; i A Kansas billiard-table is thus described: “First, in the middle of the floor, was a large goods box, on which was laid about a wagon load of sandstone, covered with about eight yards of blue jean3. For pockets they had old boots, about No. 10; for cues they csc-d old broken hoe handles: boiled egg3 for balls, and to count this lovely game they used dried apples on a clothes-line.” The yachts came In amid very enthusiastic applause, and the crews of the winning boats were the recipients pf much well-earned con gratulation. The race throughout was satisfac tory, and not a fault was found with tho regula tions, which is a well-meritod tribute in favor of.the gentlemen having matters in charge. Two races wore arranged for Wednesday be tween shell boats and canoes, for the first of which there were five entries, and for the other four. Both to oome off in tho afternoon. The Regatta is the sensation of the hour. The good people of Savannah are justly ex ercised at the folly of. upturning the soil at tiffs season,of the year, by the authorities, in the construction of new sewers, drains, eto. Ex perience has shown, that this is the prolific source of malarial diseases in hot climates, and a visit from yellow Jack may be. the conso- qnenee.. . » ... • o ■ The notorious burglar, Frank Winslow, cs caped from the barracks on Tuesday, and is again at large. . Important Decision.—In the case of Wm. N. Marsh et aL vs. Wm. H. Burroughs and others, stockholders of the Merchants and Planters Bank of Savannah, Judge. Joseph T*. Bradley, of the United States Snpreme Court, decided in favor of the complainants. The 'amount in volved was §435,000, and the Court orders exe cutions to issue against each of the defendants. The News, commenting upon the affair, says: It will be perceived that a very important point in the decision turns npon the political status of the Stato of Georgia at the time of the adoption of the Constitution of 18G8, dictated by Congress. The t Judge considers “this a political question, in which the courts must follow the aotion of the political department of the Government,” for the all-sufficient reason, that “to adopt any other course would be to Introduce the greatest confusion.” This is a new rale in equity practice, and maybe ac cepted as the only possible explanation of tiffs very remarkable decision. The Early County Hews is in ec3tacies over the fact, that the Southwestern Railroad exten sion from Albany to Blakely is a foregone con- olnsion—money raised, papers signed and the work soon to begin. The Wheat Crop.—The Atlanta New Era states that old farmers from several counties adjacent to that city, give quite favorable re ports of the wheat crop, which will make a very tolerable yield despite current statements. The house of Mr. Bettis, on Peter’s street, wa3 struck by lightning on Tuesday, and a lady slightly shocked. On the 31st instant, President J. E. Brown paid into the State Treasury §25,000 as the May rental of the Western and Atlantio Railroad. Hon. Dunlap Soott.—A dispatch to the Con stitution dated May 31st has the following con cerning the late election: “Scott’s majority, so far a3 heard from, is four hundred and six (400), and four favorable distriots yet to hear from. Rome gives him two hundred majority. Much rejoicing and considerable excitement.” H. M. Law, Esq., addressed a fair house in Rome on Tuesday evening, and was announced to speak in Atlanta Thursday, Jane 1st The Presbyterian Church at Forsyth was re organized by Rev. John Jones, after service last Sabbath morning. Wm. M. Anderson and W. It. Carmichael were elected elders, and A. H. Sneed, Deacon. Twenty or thirty members were enrolled. The Nownan People’s Defender says money in that community is exceedingly scaroA, bnt some men are trying to grind it ont of the neigh bors in the. mill of the Justice’s Court This mill is said to grind rapidly bnt not snrely. The Athens Banner gives the following coun sel in an editorial, npon the course of Adams and Vallandighain: To those of our fellow-citizens who are anx ious to have their views incorporated in the na tional platform, we wonld again repeat—“ Keep cool—go slow!” It matters not how correct soever your notions may be, the deoree has gone forth—and it is irreversible as the decrees of fate—that the Northern and WeBtem Demo crats, in order to achieve success, must con struct the platform and plaoe sensible men npon it. - The platform may not suit yon—it may not meet our views—but this much we may safely promise: Democratic success on any platform, or on no platform, is greatly preferable to four years more of Radical misrule, tyranny and op pression. The Hawkinsville Dispatch states that the cotton receipts of that town from September to date foot np about 12,000 bales; on hand, 121 baiea.. Guano receipts, 556 tons; showing a falling oiuearly 1000 tons from last season. The Stanawff gives an account of a Cotton Factory meeting at Gartersvilie, at which Judge Parrott presided, ana on motion of Gen. W. T. Wofford, books of subscription were opened. The meeting adjourned to the 3d os June: The Atlanta Son has this paragraph: * Attention, Kc-klux!—Three hundred Yam. kee soldiers will pa S3 here to-night,-on their way to Columbia, S. C. They have eleven car loads of horses and three or four of baggage. They will come by the State Road train. What it Costs to Open a Letter.—On the 25th Inst., John Harper, Wm. Bowman and Al fred Davis, of Carroll county, Ohio, were brought to Cleveland, Ohio, at the instanoe of special agent O. F. Baldwin, of the Post-office Department, charged with opening a letter ad dressed to JameB Noland, of Mineral Pointy OWo. It seemed by the evidence that Harper, who is * constable for Carroll county, had a warrant for Nolan’s father, who was charged with poisoning a boree belonging to Bowman, for the puipose of ascertaining oia man Nolan’s whereabouts. Harper demanded the letter ad- dressed to the son, whereupon the postmaster and himself proceeded to open-'and riadtbe same, Bowman being an r abettor. All three were held by United States Commissioner White In the sum of $1,000 each, to answer at the Oc tober term of the United States'Distriot Court. The case excites considerable interest. -■ ! New Yobs Cotton Mabset.—The Commer cial and Financial Chronicle of Friday remarks that the upward movement in the cotton market has been due in part to the improvement at Liverpool, in part also to the efforts of the shorts to cover their outstanding contracts due this month, but has found its chief support In the growing belief that ootton is cheap, that it has touched bottom, and that the little remnant of the crop can be easily held, and in case of a recurrence of bad weather at the South can be put npon the market at higher prices. Washington, June 1.—President Grant and family are gone. Previous to their departure, .George Bancroft, Minister to the German Em pire, also Wm. H. Bausons, of Texas, Commis sioner to the Centennial Celebration at Phila delphia, also Geo.W. Wood, Collector of the First Texas District, fififf Alei'H. WaHaoe, Collector Ftfth Texas District, were commis sioned. . . J» ' - ' ’• ’ _^The Secretary of tho Treasury has concluded to make no present change in tho Mobile col- Iectorship. — J x - - - - * ~ Louisville, June —A tremendous rain has fallen in Southern Kentncky#TheJKnoxvilIe Road was washed and suffered immense damage- St. Louis, June 1.—The Circuit Court Ins granted an injunction restraining the manager and agents of the Missouri Stateu’EoKeryjrfrom selling tickets. v 'JL A letter from Jaoksonboro, Kxns, EaySBb'ii on the 18th of May a bond of. one Eundriea In dians attacked Warner’s train, 20 ioile3 from there, and killed seven men Belonging to tm train and wounding one. Gen.: Sherman, who was at Fort Richardson a*f the. time, ordered four companies*! cavaliy in pursuit, with In structions to drive the Indians to Fort Sill,' say ing, if he found they were Fort Sill Indians^ he wonld stop In® an trade in that quarter. - New Yobx, Jane 1.—It is understood, that Geo. H. Munford takes the place of George Walker, as one of the Vice-Presidents .of the WeBtem Union Telegraph Company. The Special Committee of the Union Repub lican General Committee has issued a manifesto to the Republicans of Now York, in whloh they state that Jackson S. Schultz and Wm. Orton, have oalled on the Republican? of our pity to reorganize the party. Tho Special Committee advises-the Republicans of New York not to take part nor lot in this factional movement, adding that the regular organization, with Horace Greeley at its head, will not disband at the command of any usurping State Committee or other unauthorized body. New Yobs, June 1.—The wedding of Arthur B. McGinnis, a merchant of New Orleans, to the daughter of Wm. M. Tweed was largely at tended. The presents .amonnied to §700,000. London, June 1.—The Times’ special from Paris says the Versailles troops are not now as popular as when they entered Fori9, because of the severe measures taken by them against the population. A large number of Frenchmen and foreigners are returning to Paris to resume com mercial and manufacturing operations. A dis patch from St. Denis to-day says two regiments of guards have returned to Germany, and their places are supplied by other troops. Rumors of agitation and a Carlist rising in Spain are officially contradicted. The Times has a dispatch from Bombay that Herat fell into the hands of Yakoob Khan throngh treaohery, and the Governor was killed. Washington, Juno 1.—The debt statement Bhows a deorease of nearly §4,500,000; coin in the Treasury, §89,750,000; currency, over §8,750,000. The Treasurer has decided Jay Cooke & Co.’s offer for §130,000,000 of the new lean. Terms of offer unknown. Judge Miller, Collector of Customs at Mobile, returns home to-night. He retains hi3 place, over which there has been a desperate struggle. In the Bowen case, Judge Olin derided the New York record conld be attacked: First, for fraud; second, for want of jurisdiction. David N. Cooper, an expert, swore there were erasures under Chris. C. and Frances, and S. B. Cush ing. The witness found several other erasures, but no attempt to conceal arson. Herrick pro dneed files of his paper (the Atlas); found no such advertisement as a notice of C. O. Bowen to Francis Bowen. Referee of court swore that no such case was referred to him in 1855, nor was there any such case in Jndge Barrett’s docket. The negroes were turbulent to-day, threaten ing to prevent laborers from working at a dol lar and a quarter per day. They hold a meeting to-night. Danger is apprehended to-morrow. The negroes want two dollars and eight hoars a day.- The following cose was before theConrtof Claims to-day: Louisa Medway, an English woman, sojourning in North Carolina daring the war, had cotton seized and sold. She proved her loyalty, having famished supplies to Union; troops and otherwise treated them kindly. Bat towards the close of the war she wrote a letter to Mr. Davis, in which she expressed in warm terms her loyalty to him, with a view, it is snp posed to procure his assistance in getting ont of the country. This letter was among the cap tured Confederate archives, and defeated her claim! Jndge Feck dissented. Tho Cpnrt has adjourned to November. The Snb-Ontrage Committee met to-day. Several responses were received from the South in answer to the Committee’s ciroalar. Exam ination of witnesses commences to-morrow. Abont thirty are summoned. It is its intention to take a general view of affairs South and re port to the fall Committee in September. There was an immense bit orderly negro meeting at Union League Hall to consider the strike, whioh appears quite general. A com mittee was appointed to confer with the board of public works, and a mass meeting being called for Monday night to hear the report of-this ao. tion partially dispells apprehensions ot turbu lence to-morrow. 3?... New Yobs, June 1.—The- members of the Cotton Exchange met to-day, and decided to close the Exchange at 2 p. m. daring the sum mer months. The committee appointed at last meeting to nominate officers for the ensuing year reported, for president—Steven D. Har rison; vice-president, Jno. '.W. Earle'; treas urer, Arthqr R. Graves, and a -fall board of managers. An opposition ticket ticket has been pnt forward, with J. F. Wenman for presi dent, and a full board of managers. Columbus, O., Jane 1.—In the Democratic State Convention a committee of one from eaoh distriot, (inriuding Vallandigham from thelhird) on resolutions, were appointed. A motion to exclude the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend ments from the committee’s consideration was tabled. JohnT. McKinney was elected tempo rary chairman of tho convention. New Yosx, June 1.—Hon. John McLeod Murphy died to-day of paralysis, aged 44 years. Baltimore, Jane 1.—Detective Froadfdter was fatally shot, while preventing Thos. Good rich from shooting his brother, Washington Goodrich. , . ! .. . Paris, June l.—The French journals are greatly divided in sentiment as to the future of the country. The Opinion, Bleu, Publio Polit ique, Siecle and Constitutionel, favor the con tinuance of the Bepublio. The Temps, National and Pa’rie, are very guarded in their comments npon tba situation. The Opinion thinks the withdrawal of Thiers would be equivalent to revolution. The Steele says Thiers is as ener getic against the Bonapoitista as the Reds. The Figaro fayora monarchy. McMahon’s authori zation is requested for the opening of theatres. The sales of newspapers in the streets are pro hibited. The Siecle was seized tM« morning.' Executions have oeased. .The prisoners no won trial at Versailles and in the barricades in Paris MMtoMflfct «wjeoaiaO .kJuzMA ih London, Jane l.—The Standard of this after noon contains a dispatch from Versailles an nouncing the resignation of Favre. Two more members of the Commune, Frankill and Fon taine, have been arrested. Marquis Gabriao goes to Berlin on the 3d instant as French Am bassador. Interdiction npon ingress to and egress from Paris will be removed from the 3d instant. Nashville, Jane 1.—The Democratic State Executive Committee met to-day and adopted resolutions declaring their acceptance, in good frith, of the issues of the war, with all the late amendments to the Constitution, and their ac> quiescence in them as the supreme law of the the land, and also declaring their approval of the late Democratic Congressional address. At a meeting of the editors of the Democratic press, held this afternoon, the action of the Committee was unanimously endorsed. SanFbancisco, June 1.—The late cool and cloffci^weather, with slight rains, has had' an immense beneficial effect on the crops, in Cen- triU and Northern California. It is now esti mated that there will be at least 100,000 tons of whe at fo^ Exportation; of ; thia year’s .crop, and fullyse cargoes oflh&old crop-, are available for exphation. The British Colombia papers are greatly ex cited over the • prospaq^ of the loss of the island of San Juan—going so far as to advise theJBritigii Goverameat to neize it and hold it by force. Joseph Lerrilz, seaman of the British steam tug Princess Louisa, wrecked in the:Straits.of Magellan, has arrived henc on a sailing vessel. He reports all the rest of the crew killed or made prisoners. Louisville, Jnne 1.—A fire this afternoon destroyed four stores in the bloric occupied by Echsch & Hydes’ extensive bagging and rope factory. Loss $80,000 ; partially insured. It is supposed the fire was'caused by spontaneous combustion or friotion of hemp passing through thepicker. ' r 'di Memphis, June 1.—Gloomy reports of the crops have been received from Pulaski, White, Woodruff and-. Jackson .counties, Arkansas. Owing to incessant-rains and lato frost, the stand of cotton is very- poor and many plants; tionshave been plowed-np and planted with Presbyterian GvneraT7~r We oopy the following f rom fifth days’ proceedings of th e sembly at Huntsville, Ala.: . ener »l ^ The Committee on Bills an* rw, to the General Assembly? 3 0Tert &ie3 rep,;* over-tube’ Ko v-tt Is it nght to baptize a nerson U from the delirium of feverffs ^ h( ! 3ei ^ who, immediately before 'bftrf! S dehnnm, professed faith in ChiffiSi be baptized ? In other wor ’ baptize an unconscious means of grace and cannot state of anysgul “ ex opera Rev. J. M P. O-ts, of Committee matic Benevolence, reported as f 0 £L 05 REPORT ON SYSTEMATIC -JUr °" 3: The Committee on Syste^ 0 ^-"' beg leave to present (ha follcvin^ r ^ j' rjie -» Of the fifty-five Presbvtotia J^'' the Assembly, resorts from only Knnn nloAflr) In nn* n_ r ■t:a*:Rtf -n r *v rro r The trial of Yerger for the killing .of Colonel Crane is progressing in Jackson, Miss. De fendant’s counsel made & motion to dismiss on acoonnt of former jeopardy is trial by. a mili tary commission, which was overruled on the ground that such trial was unconstitutional. New Yobs, June 1.—The steamer Hausa, from Bremen, wa3 in collision at 2:30 yesterday morning, with a Norwegian Bark, Rhea, from Rotterdam, for New York. The Rhea sunk, and Captain Anderson and seven sailors were drowned. Both mateB and five seamen were saved. m t . - London, Jane 1.-—Prince Napoleon has writ-, ten a letter to M. Favre, censoring men who proclaimed decleanoe of the Emperor, and formed the Government of the 4th of Septem ber, and demanding of the existing authority a plebiscite, for the determination oft the future of France, i ’ It is now positively announced that General Lefto will go to St. Petersbnrg in the capacity of French Ambassador. The Times of to-day, while admitting it is hard for Canadians to yield their fisheries to Americans without the advantage of reciprocity in trade, expresses the earnest hope that Can ada will loyally ratify the treaty of Washington. Bonaparte’s Domestic Lift. German Translation for the Chicago Times. J Napoleon became acquainted with the guide of his destiny and the friend of his life, the widowed Countess Josephine de Beanharnais, nceTasoher de la Fagerie, in the salon of Hons. Chateau-Renand. In spite of earlier events, the young Bonaparte played a very important character in the brilliant assemblies at the house of Gen. Barr as. The handsome viconn- teas, “a fairy woven of laoe and gauze,” spoke to him several times in her large-hearted way in pity for the manner in which he had been neg lected, and, in very gratitude, the young hero fell dead in love with her. The vicountess could not have been more astonished than at tho offer of marriage which he made to her, and she wished to deoline the overture at once, re garding him as “intolerably ambitions,” and saying that “he smelt too much of the cloth and boots.” BntBarras wished to make the genius of the young Bonaparte serve him, and indaoed the unprotected widow to give him a favorable hearing. His words—“ The marriage with M’me Beanharnais will give this obscure little general a name in the world”—strike us asveryrifiioulons now, when no one is inter ested in M’me Beanharnais except as she was connected with Napoleon. Josephine’s friends (M’me Tallieu, tho fashion queen of that time, M’me Chateau-Renand, and the later Dnohess d’Abrantes, the loquacious M’lle de Permon) followed their womanly instinots of match making and brought all their influence to bear in favor of tho obscure general. Still, she heritated a long time before giving the final "yes, - ’because SHE FEARED HIM'. - *■' “I am frightened,” she writes to one of her lady friends, “at the power whioh Bonaparte wields over those around him. His searching look is full of riddles, and he even lords it over the directory. Just think how he could make a woman tremble. Even that which should please me most—the hotness of his passion for me—, is jnst what makes me hesitate; my youthful days are alreadypaat, and the question is wheth er I shall be able to retain this tenderness of af fection, which, with him, is more like the out break of a vulcan.” Still Napoleon oonquerred her prejudices by prayers and persistence, and the civil marriage contract was finished on March 9, 1796. In certain circles r Josephine was much blamed for this marriage; she was frequently called the' “ci-devast vlcomtesse” in ridicule; on one oc casion, & certain marquis refused to take a seat near her at a ball, because, as he said, she had “bartered away her misfortunehe could hot forgive her, because she did not mourn her first husband, who had been guillotined, like a Ro man Empress, all her life long. But for Napo leon this marriage with-the distinguished lady was a - * a*ji . t to walc . • . MIGHTY LEVER OF HIS SUCCESS. Her talent and her knowledge of hnman na ture pointed the way for the young adventurer. He had scarcely been first oonsui without her help. She became indispensable in his great ness—for in France Intrigue must always prop np merit—and, in addition to this, ahe was tho sum of a true wife, a. tender and self-saorificing friepd. v . There is scarcely a single beautiful, wifely quality which Josephine did not possess; her amiability has beooma proverbial—she was never known to say anything unpleasant to any one; she never drew tears. ■ She softened tho hardness of her husband; she secured amnesty for the exiles and freedom for the conctamneo, and Bhe made friend* out of his very enemiea. She had an understanding and appreciation of literature and art, and a lively sense for all that was beautiful. She was partionlarly partial to flowers. She transplanted the first camelia from her home In the Antilles to Europe, and also in troduced that peculiar poetioal bird, the black swan, among ns. NAPOLEONS LETTER* TO JOSEPHINE. The letters whioh Gen. Bonaparte wrote to his bride from Italy breathed forth the greatest passion. “Wife—dream, torment, bliss of-myBonl,” he wrote, “thy letters were cold—they have not the pulse-beat of the sonl. Thou lovest every thing more than nfe; thou dost not, on my ac count, forego the first representation of a new play in the theatre, nor give np thy dinner with the Barrases to write to me. Hast thou not a little bit of love, one drop of that great amiabil- ity which overflows from thy heart, for me— thy husband ? lenvy Fortune (her favorite eat) thy caresses!’’. On one occasion he sent to her from the seat of war this pretty acknowledgment: “While I am winning battles, yon are winning hearts for me at home 1” This love of Napoleon’s, however, had the shadowy side of a terrible jealousy. He set spies npon hi* wife in the persons of his adju tants and secretaries, and made even her ooacb- man and servants watch her. Her exeess of love frequently led him dose to that very step which he actually took twelve years later, under the inflaenee of an opposite feeling. He threat ened separation on several different occasions. “I will destroy the whole set of ourly-heads and blonde dandies that flatter yon—yes, I will have an eclat, an open breaob, a legal separation!” writes the jealous Napoleon. Once he had his wife’s things brought together .in the porter’s lodge, and made her own domestics refuse her an entrance into his cabinet; and it was only very reluctantly, in response to the prayers of his stepchildren, Eugene and Hortense Bean- bawmig, that he consented to take her to his arms again. As a pledge of peaoe, after some such, scene as this, he sent her the first Turkish shawl which was ever brought to Europe. It pleased Josephine so well that she ordered 15Q more of-them before the close of her career. EXTBAVAOANOX AND AVARICE. Napoleon also tyrannized over the poor Jose - phino with his avarice. She understood_per*. fectly how to dress herself well and toqplay the part of Empress with brilliancy, but she natiu- ally needed a large amount of money to do this. The proud and rich Emperor stormed and famed over the large millinery bills, as might a poor bourgeoise who was fearful of being brought to ruin by an extravagant wife. Still he gave her the command to appear at the court receptions so as “to sMne through her beauty and the brilliancy of her toilet. . .-If ber dress did not happen to suit him he wonld empty his InVatnruS nwr ft; bn wonld BendhigcrefHlnasB to prison instead of paying them. On one occa- been placed" in our hacdi and ^ ae ^ sion of his rage, a bill for three hundred hats are so imDerfeet that m sen in one month having been presented to him, he smashed a costly vase and a magnificent coffee service, which were, together, folly worth tho entire sum demanded of him. .He’.blamed especially her extravagance in the restoration of Malmaison, that magnificent repository of the greatest French culture, which French cannon tiaa recently destroyed. The walls of Malmai* son wore hong with Gobelin tapestry made by the hand of Josephine herself; in the hot house she cultivated a thousand varieties of the Bonapartea speeiosa, a wonderful South- Ameri can plant, so named in honor of the Emperor by the botanist Faliaot. No stranger ever dared enter Napoleon’s work-room; she herself cleaned the dost from his clothes, which were spread about over the ohaira—her “relics,” she oalled them. On his writing desk lay a historical work, opened at the very place where he had left off. It is re markable that Napoleon; spent the font days after the battle of Waterloo*—perhaps the most bitter of all his life—at Malmaison. From hero he went to Rochefort to giye himself np to the English. What may he not. have found in these halls, where the footprints of his once dearly beloved wife were still impressed, and through winch her sighs still echoed ? That wife who had been his good angel, to whom his cruelty had given tlia death blow, and who still could nnl mrrfrfl his TYilefnrfml»- 1 ■'- ■ are so : imperfeet that we canclihn.if 50 information.from them. From ivf° T1 ‘’ Uib » not survive his misfortune. THE SEPARATION. The first harsh word between hnsband and wife are apt to be the first drops, which after ward swell into-the avalanche of quarrels and criminations. Soon Napoleon scolded, not only about Josephine’s extravagance, bnt abont all .other disagreeable circumstances, even the ’weather. He always made her feel his bad humor; that powerful element discovered in his love wa3 changed into despotism and self ishness. He forced her into the duties of eti quette at the cost of her personal freedom and health. While he himself would refuse to at tend, he wonld compel her to use all her strength to be present at the brilliant entertainments given in his honor. On one occasion he actual ly dragged the sick Empress ont of bed, forced her to dress herself, and to make her appear ance in full toilet at a ball. It was in conse quenee of tiffs barbarism that Josephine after ward suffered from an. ugly cutaneous disease, Napoleon’s divorce from his wife.rem&ins a black spot in his life, from whatever side it may be regarded. It wa3 a wicked and un necessary piece of business. When the separa tion had been decided npon in council, the Em peror himself undertook to communicate it to the unhappy Josephine. Ho dined with her just once more, and the most painful scene ensued after the meaL Josephine tells of it herself, in the following words: “ After the coffee had been servi 3ent the servant away, and I remained alone with him. My God, what a look he had ! His whole body trembled, and terror a track to my heart. Ho took my hand, hud it npon ms breast, and then spoke these words: ‘My Josephine, you know how much I have loved yon. I have you alone to thank for the happi ness of my life, bnt my destiny is stronger than my will. I must even sacrifice my greatest affection in favor of France.’ ‘No more,’ I still had the power to cry out. I knew what it meant; I had expeoted it, and yet the blow was fatal. Suddenly T felt that I wonld grow mad from grief, everything swam about me, and I fell faintly to the groand.” HARK TWAIN. The Old-Time Express or the Great Plains.' From Mark Twain’s Forthcoming Book.] However, in a little while, all interest was taken np in stretching onr necks and watching f'nr fh« “nnnv .fhfl flAAf. moccATtc*ai» vrlin for the “pony rider”—the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacra mento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days. Think of that for perishable horse and hnman flesh and blood to do! The pony rider was usually a little bit of a man brim fall of spirit and endurance. No matter what time of day or night the watch came on, and no matter whether it wa3 winter or summer, or whether his “beat” was a level, straight road or. a crazy trail over mountain crags and precipices, or whether it led throngh peaceful regions or regions that swarmed with hostile Indian?, he must be always ready to leap into the saddle and be off like the wind. There wa3 no idling time for a pony-rider on duty. Ho rode forty miles without stopping, by daylight, moonlight, starlight, or through the blackness of darkness, just as it happened. Ha rode a splendid horse that was bora for a raoer, and fed and lodged like a gentleman, kept huff at his utmost speed- for ton miles, and then, as he came crashingnp to the station, where stood two men holding a fresh, impatient steed, the transfer of rider and mailbag was made in a twinkling of an eye, and away flew the eager pair, and were ont of sight before the spectators oonld get hardly the ghost of a look. Both rider and horse were “flying light” The rider’s dress was thin and fitted close; he wore s “roundabout'’ and a “skull cap,” and lucked his pantaloons into his boot tops, like a race rider. He carried no arms—he carried nothing that was not absolutely neces sary, for even his postage on his literary freight was worth two dollars an ounce, He got bnt little frivolous correspondence to carry; his bag had business letters in it mostly. His horse was stripped of all unnecessary weight too. He wore a Rule wafer of a racing saddle, and no visible blanket. He wore tight shoes, or none at all. The little fat mail pockets, strapped under the rider’s thighs, would each hold abont the hulk of a child’s primer. They held many and many an important business chapter and newspaper letter. JBat these were on paper as aiiy and thin as gold leaf nearly, and thus bulk and weight were economized. The stage coach traveled about a hundred to a hundred and twenty-five miles a day (twenty-four hours) the pony-rider abant two hundred and fifty. There were about eighty pony riders in saddle all the time, night and day, stretohlng in a long, scattering pro cession from Missouri to California—forty flying eastward and forty toward the West, and amon g them, making four hundred gallant horses earn ing a stirring livelihood, and see a deal of scene ry every day in the year. We had had a consuming desire from the be- gianing to see a pony-rider, but somehow or other all that passed us, and all that met ns, managed to streak by in the night, and so we only heard a whiz and a hail, and the swift phantom of the desert was gone before we oonld get onr heads ont of the windows. Bnt now we were expecting one along every moment, and would we him in broad daylight. Presently the driver exolaims: “Here becomes!” Every neck is stretohed farther, and every eye strained wider. Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the sky, and it is plain that it moves. Well, I should think so! In a seoond or two it becomes a horse and rider, rising and falling— sweeping toward us nearer and neaTer, and the clatter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear— another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of thw rider’s hend^ but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away tike a belated frag- meat of a storm! -. - . ..j - r.,? So sadden is it all, and so like* flash of un real fanoy, that, bnt for the flake of white foam left quivering and perishing on a small mail sack, after the vision had flashed by siMto. peared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all, may be. Thebe has been a baby show ih St. Louis. There were about a hundred children entered for the prizes, among them being what the re porter describes as a bevy of “ triplets.” The first prize was awarded to the “son of Ben Walker, the pawnbroker,” who is field to be a “healthy chub,” four months old, and weighing thirty-seven pounds. Another baby which re ceived the thud premium, “ has the look of a sage and the eyes of a poet,” so that we may expeot to see him cut a figure in the world by and by.' None of the female infanta were lucky enough to get a prize. twenty-five Presbyteries, from wl;l r6ports * any satisfactory statistics, n kii lowing items: ' One « objects ordered by the General hundred and'fifty-font to fonrVtv,” 1 ’ 0Ce hundred and sixty-seven to three 25’» 0! « hundred and thirty-fivato two nf a Q| CCs lunched and thMy-two to none anat7J proportion of the non-conwLi. E 5* Sh is nearly one-half SWSSsa? churchesm these Presbyteries 01 have reports, contoiningMy B i»i 5 f,“ tics and* from more KSSSfe** byterie3 we have no eatwfectorv do not believo that the reporia inotir cost ^ churches have done 'for ftTobieds benevolence last year: became <w G ' a6aI than half of the Presbyteries J? in onr hands do .not contain fullSnaaS tory statistics. While wa believe tbf.f dutches have done much better Ikia^* been sent np; yet we are afraid that faetuL we have no satisfactory reports from half of onr Presbytenes, and the fart-a (2 stated in the majority of the reports have, that many of. the churches fail to wm their Presbyteries reports of what they ing for systematic benevolence, indicate tS there is an alarming and deplorable donwl negligence in many or the Presbyteries ^ churobes in regard to this mo3t important m ter. Therefore, we would recommend that lb all their churches full statistical reports of trta they (the churohes) have done during ths eede siastical year for the various objects of t*ceai benevolence to be sentnp to their Bpring meet ings ; and, in order to facilitate this duty toth churches, that the Stated Clerks of Presbjteiw be recommended to furnish to allifceir resp« live churches blanks on which to mii« said re ports. 2. That all our Presbyteries be emcsllm ommsnded and enjoined to give, at their lea stated meeting, earnest attention and a tin. ongh examination to the vital subject clEjsfem- atic benevolence in all its bearings. 3. That the Presbyteries earnestly recoa- mend all their respective pastors, stitid ap plies and missionaries to give freqHsj u- s tractions to their churches as to their duty in thi3 matter, which is not only of prime aja- tones to the progress, but even indispensable to the continued life and permanent eristew* of the Church. - r 4. That the Presbyteries earnestly recoa- mend, and solemnly enjoin upon all tha Church sessions to afford to the people in cvey congregation an opportunity to contribute to each and all of the objects for whioh oolicetioa are ordered by the General Assembly. Kj. port adopted. A Solemn Meeting. The Pittston miners say: At 7: JO wa held i prayer-meeting. Some were cursing and other- singing hymns. We sang this verse: Before Jehovah’s tv, lal throne, Ye nations bow vrith eacred Joy: Know that the Lord » Gel alone, He can create and he ieatacy. Many were crying, and one little boy, Jama Jones, cried out, “I shall neves aee my da- mother again. ’ ’ Many were giving np at onot while others tried to cheer thro. lYe ted A GOOD PRAYER-MEETING. Many earnest prayers were made by Welsh and English miners, and several fcima prayed to the Virgin Maty to come csdaii them. We continued to pray and si:’m- oor voices gave out About 9 o’clock we tegu to prepare ourselves for the worst. IbeUrt damp was creeping upon us. We became sin;, and weak in the knees, and fell donas® the water, • rubbing onr nostrils, wsS, temples and eyelids. We also felt a load m or stomachs. - Father: and we three got together, and the last we knew of him he waaalive. Oa father and William R. Davis started the * the barricade. -We had no shovels, and ttm- fore had to .carry culm in our hats. little Jaws Jones carried culm in his cap. All the whua he was crying abont his mother. Scnebn?3 w thought we would be rescued, and at ottes toa we thought not. Father prayed for his fffii-J above ground; and when he ceased pn.r-fl-- told Q3 he was ready to die. Ha was onhiasr-* when death overtook him. When the so* became too much foru3we got over thejn and Martin Cooney tried, but wastooueflhCJ fell insensible. There was another mM*!^ dead at my feet. We felt very thankful tbitw conld not hear the screams of the women mp the top, as that wonld have added to onr aigR-i A HOYAE IRISHMAN. He Nonplusses tho True Bint** A very amusing anecdote is. ... „ man who happened to be in Paris a ago, while three crowned heads cf • there, on ayislt to his Imperial ^ ukon. ' ' ’ * ' These distinguished person! wem* Emperors of Russia and Austria asa . U III ijh rwrjj 111 JA Lio b A 8 ilUvl .A ti J t * . i -II of Prussia. One day, having thro™ ^ state ceremonial, they determined » , sights of tho beautiful city on tho beme,‘ their own delectation, and for that pmpo» | resolved to go inoog., so as not to by the people. However, in Paris they went astray, apd i mee ^§ 8 fibe £ manSy-lookiog.person, who tapped i^wcnH Irishman, they politely asked iuf * kindlv direct them to the Palau Bo^ aincuy uirecc iaem ro u» -v* ^ and that I will, my boys, ,ir e nuei time taking a mental photegraphof were conducted I was about bidding them ft* was. “ Well," rejoined theta guide, i ask you who you LJn^LlvE vea be- you, perhaps you will tell mo «q»s After some farther parleying, one ^ Alexander, and they call me Czir.OTi^ of all the Rrissias.” “Indeed, rogueish twinkle in the cornerotlj^y an.incredulous nod of tho head (s* a yj,) say, “Thisboy i3up to dmight I make bowld loss .. Tnuph. ‘And might ^ — "r«mcis jow" me flower?” “They oall me Eran ^ and the Emperor of Austna. ^ ^ to make your aoqnamtanoe, Fram^-J^ says the Irishman, who thinking n«' U in his despairing efforts to get me e ju he conceived, but of any of them, ‘r thelhird one, aadsald:' ‘‘Whoareyoo- ^ call me Frederick William, and lx Prussia.” They then reminded .y- !e i promised to tell them who ho v-ja, ^ some hesitation, and a mysterious a- oonl t. denoe, Pat, putting Ms-hand i° whispered, Vi am the Emperor o. don't tell anybody.” „ i; r .! . --yrr Was this Senator Gen. gt An honorable, grave- Senator, - recess, paid a visit to his married as bright-eyed. little grandson, s ®^JLhiad>* anxious to parade his spelling ,hT.ltss®- tingulshed grandfather, asked him ’ The following was the result! Senator—Spell president r Boy—P-r-e, pre; s-i, s-i; Definition— A man who takes prescot SlS-What ? What’s that ? Boy—Well, isn’t Gen. Grant 1 does he not take presents. sit ‘ Senator (to his soB-m-law)-^^ cannot see me use of instructing chu yean old in peff 08 - . , ;nk fbe?e knowrieti often the truth. • a flnltiou of the
