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A]\rr> GKEORGETA, JOIJRKAL '& MIESSEJNTGKER. flSBYi JONES & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agbioultube—Domestic Affairs. Established 1S26. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING MACON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30,1871. Yoltjme LXY—No. 15 i;cor^‘ l1 Tolesrapli Ilnildlng, Macon 100 4 00 2 00 ger, one year $10 00 ffSfSSZ* and Messenger, i jjii aon^"_j|jholograph and Messen- l^afcotamns, iyear 3 00 1 0 W ^d«aysfa advance, and paper stopped ‘Wr. (to woney runs out, unless renewed. ,.. s - iKBAXOEMENTS WITH 3. W. BUSES & c ’- rtS *‘ co.’fl rCBLICATIONS- I m Telegraph & Messenger and F«m J^^jegraph and Messenger and "r«iaa<l Home ............. 4 00 Jj5f«Sl,y Telegraph and Messenger c Christian Advocate with Weekly 5 Oo SS?. 00 The Glove. From morning time to night time, Dark time and bright rime, I haunt the pleasant places jjy lore hath rendered sweet, by wood and meadow, la the aim and shadow, I follow the sweet traces Of fairy hands and feet. Though I love her dearly, We ate neighbors merely, She boweth to me daily, In a distant way; Then while I am staring. Dead to my despairing. Trippetb past me gayly, Smiling on her way. In the woodland shady Walks my little lady, And botanizes tinder The pines that sigh above. There are sweet green places I follow in her traces. And one glad morn, O wonder 1 I found a little glove. So tiny, so tender, So silken, so slender. Still moist and warm and scented, From fingers warm and white, I found it softly blowing, Where ferns and flowers wera growing, Ar.d like a man demented I seized it in delight. And while the warmth within it Grew fainter every minute, "I lore her.’ how I love her!” I cried with burning eyes. “0 sweet as rose-scent lingers, • Its touefi of rosebud fingers!” ! sighed, and ten rimes over I kissed my little prize. From morning time to night time, Diik time and bright time, I kept it thrilling through me, In guilty sweet delight. AU day its sweet touch fired me, All day the joy inspired me, Sleepfng I held it to me, Ami dreamed of it all night. Three days my bliss possessed me, Three days and nights it blessed me, Anion tbefonrtb mad moraine 1 wandered o’er the grass. And as I viewed with rapture The sweet spot of the capture, Suddenly with no warning I saw my true love pass. With distant bow and stately, She would have passed sedately, When red as fire advancing 1 held the prize of love; And while my low voice muttered Wild wandering words, she flattered, Washing and brightly glancing, Apd took the little glove. Then she with self-possession, Blind to my eyes’ confession, Said, “Thank yon, sir,” and pondered, A moment, adding low, ‘‘My annt, who lost it lately, Will also thank you greatly, She missed it while we wandered, A day or two ago!” WAKEFCLXESS. How to Promote Bicep. From Once a Week-] The primary cause of wakefulness is ah in crease ip the quantity of blood circulating in the brain; hence, any condition or cause capa- t>of mincing this state of the cerebral circu- ittion may give rise to it. As these canses are Bare or less under the control of the individual, jt ia important that they should bo generally povn. l. Excessive and long continued intel- kclnal action, or powerful mental emotions. 2. those po-itions of the body which tend to im- N® the flow of blood from the brain, and, at ««same time, do not obstruct its passage to ! ?lte brain. Many physicians have noticed cannection existing between bodily position asi wakefulness. It is evident that the recum- kat position is more conducive to a state of ingestion of the brain than the erect or semi- *»eet Dr. Forbes Winslow, Dr. Hammond and J !her physicians have noticed an increase in the aamberand intensity of hallucinations of insane Wheats, or persons suffering from delirinm itemens, as soon as they assume the recumbent tuition. These pHnn have been found to j**P quietly for some rime in an arm chair, |jt to bo annoyed by hallncinations as soon as ^1 lie down. 3. Certain substances used as yicino or food. The chief agents of this -ta are alcohol, tea—especially strong green ■li-coffee, opium, belladonna, stramonium. Indian hemp or hashish. Opinm in small '^s is often especially potent in inducing *ri*tuin esa- A single dose of half a grain has known to keep a patient awake for three M asccmivo nights. AU the so-caUed narcoclics, l ® saall doses, induce wakefulness rather than }**p. 4. To the above, Dr. Hammond adds a joarth exciting cause of insomnia—namely, ‘ttnetional derangement of certain organs of body, whereby an increase in the amount blood in the brain is produced. As, how- such cases as these are beyond the con- of the sufferer, we need not discuts mem tere. In all those cases of wakefal- **• dependent upon severe and loDg con- utaoat mental exertion—and these are the to which we especially wish to draw the •(Motion of our readers—all means of relief *111 be utterly useless until the patient consents tvi?‘ Ve k‘ s brain entire relaxation for a time, nneoever it is possible, a course of travel mrough a romantic country, or a visit to the **-8ide, should be regarded as imperative. An '*ny dinner, followed by a hearty supper of flam and nutritious dishes, is preferable to a ~f.* v y, Ute dinner; and a glass or two of good •Me at both meals, or a glass of good whisky ' brandy and water after supper may often be M»en wim advantage. The value of physical «cise—and especially riding—in the open ■ ’ can . scarcely be overestimated, and should I 6 Juried on to the point of incipient fatigue. slower bath in the morniDg, and a warm bath som J et ’ring to rest, are useful auxiliaries; a vhat high and no t too soft a pillow should be !»iii ’ “ tbo feet are very cold, a hot-water Wi J'bould be placed at the bottom of the JT, 1 * the preceding means—all or most of conr ,be P & tient can try for himself—fail, ro- ste 6 ®“ 0I Hd at once be had to professional years 5 . ^ ,’ WQ bad been asked a couple of There is now roason to believe, from tion ^°® tc bes of Dr. Glouston, that a eombina- tba . bis salt with tinoture of Indian hemp, in drenh^P 0 ?* 011 of Half a drachm of the salt to a iar, ®the tincture, is more potent in allay- »cd bSS! «zcitement in cases of insanity, even , y generally than the bromide alone, u m a far larger dose. President or the Senate and Speaker of the House of Represent atives or the Next Legislature. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Although I have never been elected to any office, nor have been a candidate for any either before the people or the Legislature, or any other political body, still for the last twenty years I have taken much interest in the politics of Georgia, and am tolerably well acquainted with the actings and doings and standing of most of the promi nent men of the State. The 14th amendment has kept many of these out of public employ ment for years past, and the result has been that the Democrats, not having very able and experienced men in the Legislature, Bullock and his thievish crew have had things pretty much their own way, and have nearly, if not quite, bankrupted the State. The present Leg islature, to assemble in November, having a large Democratic majority, can do much to wards rectifying the errors and rascalities of the pa9t Legislature, jf proper presiding officers are elected. In looking over the names of the members of the Legislature lately elected I find two mem bers—one in the Senate and one in the House— who I think can pre-eminently fill the positions of President of the Senate and Speaker of the Honse, and I trust yon will give mo a chance in your paper to suggest their names for the con sideration of members of the Legislature, First, then, I weald respectfully suggest the namo of Hon. Wm. M. Reese, of the 29th Sena torial District, (including the counties of Wilkes, Colombia and Lincoln) as President of the Sen ate. In days when giants were in the councils of the State, Judge Reese was looked upon as one among them, and shortly after the conir mencement of the war was elevated to the posi tion of Judge of the Northern Circuit, which position he filled with marked ability nntil re moved by the present ruling power, on account of his adherence to constitutional law, and to the rights and privileges of the white people of Georgia. The people of his Congressional District not desiring that the light of such a one should be hid nnder a bushel, nominated him lost year for Congress; but his immediate constituents wishing to send him to the State Senate, and the Judge no doubt thinking ho conld be of more service to the State in being in the State Senate where he conld examine into and rip up Bullock’s rascalities, declined Con gressional honors and wa3 elected to the State Senate. Besides being able and dignified, and calculated to mako a presiding officer, his fine knowledge of men, their adaption to business, and other qualifications, constitute him just the man to preserve order and to appoint the proper men on committees to discharge the various duties they may be called upon to perform. In addition to this, it is more than possible that Bullock may be impeached. If half of what is said of his venality and corruption and viola tion of the law bo true (and I hardly think the half ha3 been told), he will surely be impeached. In that event, the President of the Senate will be the Governor for the next year—and who is there in the Senate so well qualified to fill the office of Governor as Judge Reese ? I know of none in the Senate, and few in Georgia, so well qualified for that office as Judge Reese. As speaker of the Honse, I would also most respectfully suggest the Hon. J. Milton Smith, of Muscogee. .This gentleman is one of the ablest, if not indeed the ablest man in the Honso. Having lived in Upson county, and al ways being a strong Democrat, be was conse quently largely in the minority, and although his great ability, even upon first entering the bar, was acknowledged by all, and though his party, many years ago when Col. Smith was quite a young man, selected him on one or two occasions as its candidate to bear its banner in the Congressional contests, yet being in a large minority, both in bis county and' district, he was never elected to the Legislature or Congress, except during the war, to tho Confederate Con gress. But since the war, having removed to Columbus, and in the Court-lionse having shown that ho was a man of marked ability, taking the front rank with the ablest in the land, and pos sessing the most sterling ’qualities, although comparatively a stranger to the people, he was, I learn, literally pressed into service by the Democrats of Muscogee, and was elected by 900 majority, when two years ago tho party was beaten five or six hundred. Possessing extra ordinary ability, with a fine and commanding person, he would not only make a fine speaker of the House of Representatives in our Legisla ture, but would makes splendid presiding offi- cer in any body, where intellect and genius pre vail. I have then, Messrs. Editors, given some of my reasons for desiring to see these gentlemen elected to the positions named. I might go on and give other reasons-why it would be best to select these gentlemen, but I have said enough to cause others to inquire into their antecedents. This being done, I think their election sure. Monbce. For the Telegraph and Messenger.] Music. The midnight hour, darkling and still, is ap proaching, to be sweetly dispelled by the soft light of the rising moon, when, with a sudden thrill, the enchanting notes of several stringed instruments come gently “stealing o’er our senses,” and, led by the mystical power of the mnsic, we find ourselves glidieg down the won derful river of time to its magical “Isle of the Long Ago,” when we reach a radiant fairy pal ace, and, touched by a holy spell, the long, lonely years that stretch between what was and what is, vanish, and keeping time to the music’s flow, tho phantoms glide in, with which mem ory’s chambers are peopled; we recognize each loved form with whom wo once so fondly hoped to treadlife’s pathway, and, wrapt in the blissful dream, wo forget all our trials and buried hopes, our bitter pains and withered joys, until the dy ing tone of the magical strain molts away in a sad, plaintive moan, and, breaking the dream of our brighter years, tho fairy vision vanishes with tho failing of the last sweet note of that exqnisite melody, known everywhere, sung in every land, in the grand German opera, in the soft strains of Italian music, on the splendid Cathedral organ, the sounding bugle, the tink ling guitar, ’round the fireside of Prince and peasant,—the song that will never grow old, of “Home, Sweet Home!’’ This world conld not exist, and the great Creator never intended that it should, without music. A11 nature is full of melody, and earth and Heaven are qnickened by its spirit. Its cadence is heard in the grand bass notes of the thunder and the cataract, and the soft murmurs of the voice—harps of tho wind, as they moan through the pines or rustle through the leafy boughs of the forests, when stirred by tho sum mer breezes, in the gentle rivulet and the crys tal streams, as they sweetly gurgle on in their rocky bed to the untrodden shrines of Ocean. There is muaie in the bleat of the distant sheep on the mountain side, and in the tinkle of the bell as the cattle graze in the quiet mead ow, or drink at the water’s edge; in the breeze calling from its “blue air throne,” to the birds of the summer valleys, and in the midnight rains, sounding their low, monrnful dirge over spring’s perishing flowers! And there’s mnsic, sweetest mnsic, to the young mother’s ear, in the first plaintive cry of her new-born infant; and in those faint melodies that seem to float over us in moments of great agony and crash ing bereavement, from the Land of the Blest, like echoes of harps touched by angel bands, the golden cords that “ in rapturous sweetness bind man to the angels, and the angels to God.” There is mnsic, sad and sweet, in the murmur of our own Ocmulgee as we watch it glide past the home of oar childhood, and with touching eloquence it whispers to our hearts of those pre cious ones sleeping their dreamless sleep near its banks on beautiful Rose HiU, and we can, in fancy, hear the murmur of their loving voices above the rolling of the waters, awakening rec ollections of bygone and happier years, and the dear images of those gone to “that bourne from whence no traveler ere returns’—recalling thoughts of childhood when the sweet strains of music were first heard from a mother’s lips— strains which can never be effaced from memo ry’s page nntil it is Swept by the hand of death. And when we remember the exquisite melody of those tones when she sang her soft lulaby to her little ones, and taught them the sweet hymn, in the Sabbath twilight, how the thought will come of its surpassing melody in the glorious song of triumph, with the redeemed, in the City of our God. There is music in the murmur of the shell, and in the tempestuous roar of the winter hur ricane, and what more calculated to raise the mind from the cares and trials of this life to higher and holier things, than the sound of music heard in the country on a quiet summer evening, as the village chimes pealed out tho vesper hymn, as the glorious sun sank to rest beneath his mantle of clonds tinged with gold and tipped with silver, and the perfume of flow ers was wafted on the breez9. 'What can be more touching or sublime than the magnificent diapason of a grand Cathedral organ poaling forth a Te Deum under a master’s touob, echo ing from aisle to aisle, from crypt to dome or arched roof, sounding and resounding through the massive pile. And it has been onr privilege to hear all that mortal ear conld be blessed witb, in sweet and glorious sounds, the queens of song and kings music, whose names have become houshold words, and whose brows have been adorned with laurels, and the glorious works left behind those whom genius had claimed as her own and in spired to write such celestial melodies. How we lovo to recall the magnificent “StabatMater” in Saint Eustache on the Holy Friday, ere war’s desolation had swept over beautiful Paris, and the grand old master, whose genius composed the heavenly strains, himself sat there to drink in the music. Here we love to wander in fancy on tho borders of tho world renowned Scottish Lakes, and watch the different parties enter the boats and glide along as the boatmen sing ont their wild highland airs, and echo answers with her thousand tongues, that most wonderful of all ventriloquism. Now we hear the Swedish nightingale wail ont the lovely air from the Messiah, “Come unto mo,” and then burst forth in the glorious straiu “I know that my Re deemer liveth,” then the splendid notes of Giulia Grisi, who now sleeps so peacefully in her magnificent coffin, are wafted to our ear, and the angelic notes of one of the sweetest singers whoso pure and guileless spirit ever warbled forth rich melody (the Swan of Erin) comes tons, and lingering by we would dream on thus, and wish we could only impart to those we love some of these delightful memories. Who has ever disputed the words of the great poet, “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast?” And we all know howlthe most ac complished commander that ever led his troops to battle regarded music; how ho prohibited some airs and knew how to use others—and even in making his fearful “passage of tho Alps,” ho knew when to make his buglers sound their liveliest notes, just when his fainting troops most needed it. To musio wo aro indebted for our most ra tional enjoyments and refined amusements, and while it touches all the better feelings of our nature, it can e’en make ns forget at time3 “the ills which all flesh is heir to;” and we cannot bo too thankful to the all-wise Ruler for having bestowed on ns His sweetest gift of melody. Memohia. Foreign Notes. PREPARED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. The Paris Liberte, alluding to the rumored alliance between Austria, Germany and Italy, contemptuously observes that an alliance with the last named country was anything but seduo- tive, as it not only wanted soldiers, bnt also rifles and material of war; that, in short, it was deficient in everything. The Roman journal, La Riforma, after having severely rebuked the French paper, in conclusion, thus addresses the Liberte: Mr. Adams. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, never writes a letter intended for the public eye which is not worth reading. Here is an extract from his letter accepting the Democratic nomination for Governor: ‘ Now, as formerly, I think it wise to use calm and moderate methods in dealing with questions of State, to adhere scrupulously to constitutional forms in enforcing the will of tho people, and to make haste slowly with revolu tionary reforms. But I may bo pardoned if. in view of a hesitation which lingers hero and there, I declare my especial satisfaction at tho position adopted by the convention in respect to tho later amendment to the Constitution of the United States. I am heartily glad to see good citizens who have disputed the plan of ad justment required by the party in power, so long as it was debateablo, acquiesce cheerfully when once it has becomo irrevocable. “It seems to me to be the part of patriotism now to accept honestly and without mental res ervation theso amendments as the final settle ment and pacification of the oivil war, and then to turn resolutely away from the irritating and painful memories of the past to the pressing daties of the future. That future, if we wisely improve it, may be made to redeem, and more than redeem, all the sufferings and all the errors of the past. It may warn us to guard jealously the invaluable habit of local self-governments, while we yield to the irresistible instincts of national unity. It may teach ns to alleviato oppressive taxation by economy and skill in fiscal management, so that a tariff may no longer strangle trado. Universal amnesty and equal rights may once again demonstrate to the world that tho people at their homes may be trusted to preserve'the peace and maintain the principles of liberty withont soldiers to make them afraid. And, above all, a kindly and com siderate policy toward vanquished citizens may make us again a prosperous and happy people, cordially united in a friendship based upon mutual esteem and cemented by indentical in teresis.” Baling Cotton.—A Savannah correspondent asks ns if there is any likelihood of legislation by Congress to compel or induce planters to cover cotton bales completely, so as to leave neither the sides nor ends partially exposed. We answer that such legislation has already been adopted, and published in full in our col umns. The act of February 28, 1871, pre scribes “That no loose hay, loose cotton, or loose hemp * * shall be carried as freight on any steamer carrying passengers; nor shall baled cotton or hemp be carried in snch steam ers unless the bales are compactly pressed, and thoroughly covered with bagging or similar fabric, and secured with good rope or iron band3; and every bale of cotton or hemp that shall be shipped or carried on any passenger steamer without conforming to the provisions of this section shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars, which bales shall be liable to seizure and sale to secure the payment of such penalty.” This, we think, ought to be a sufficient induce ment to planters to cover their cotton as well as to pack it properly. This act is now in force and as the penally is easily collected, and half, as we infer, goes to tho informer, our Southern friends will do well to stir up all their packers on this subject. Every bale of cotton packed this fall and winter ought to be carefully covered in conformity with the provisions of this law. This is the third time we have referred to it, and wo hope it will now be generally understood. —N. T. Journal of Commerce. \ m If there ever was a fisherman who loved eels it was old Job Stuart. They were, in faot, the summum bonum of bis existence, and he never was so happy as when he drew in a great wrig gling monster, and nothing made him so mad all over, or fight so quick, as to insinuate that they in the slightest degree resembled snakes. And for fifty years the old man reveled in his favorite dish. Then fate, or the death of a brother, called him West, and he was sorely troubled in spirit at the thought that he should be deprived of his accustomed luxury. Very great was his surprise, therefore, to find the breakfast table of the prairie tavern loaded with fried eels, and the old man ate with even more than his aocustomed gusto. But he thought it strange there should be suoh a boun tiful supply, as he had seen neither river nor pond any where in the vicinity; and so he ques tioned the landlord as to where they were ob tained. “Wall, stranger,” was the reply, “we always have ’em—just as many as we want.” “Bnt, where do you catch them ?” ‘ ‘Anywhere on the porarer; and the woods am full of ’em. We call'em bush eels.” Job left the table hastily. “Jupiter,” a celebrated leaderof the Demo cratic negroes out in Texas, is fall of metaphor. He said the other day, in a speech at Waxa- hachie, that if he had his way he would give the Rads the stripes in the old flag till they saw the stars, and then knock them out of doors with circumstances, there are evidently no limits to “Italy lias, no doubt, made great sacrifices without reaping from them all the advantages expected. We have disbursed several hundred millions, bnt onr armaments are neither com plete nor perfect. Our administration which, is a bad copy of a French pattern, has simply created a confusion from which we will never issae until we have returned to Italian laws and Italian traditions. All this is true, and we may add, that no man of genius has yet appeared in our coontjy, capable of supplanting our vain glorious mediocrities and reorganizing the State. Cavonr himself, regarded ont of Italy as a great statesman, had skill enough to induoe Europe to accept the results of the Italian revolution, bnt he wa3 incapable of reforming or laying down a basis for reforming the publio adminis tration. “In spite of all this, Italy has progressed and accomplished her unification; and in the penin sula so often subjected to foreign invasion, there was no example of such savage confliot3 as those whioh occurred at Paris in June, 1818, and May, 1871. Among us the government, though entrusted to weak and unskilled hands, was never disquieted; and we may therefore assume that we will continue to advanoe without being exposed to those violent shocks that drive a people from coups d' etat to insurrections.” “Let us tell the truth. In 18GG the commanders of onr army and navy were not equal to their tasks, but if Lissa and Cnstazza sent a pang to every Italian heart, they were of service to onr ally, for by occupying Austria in Lombardy and the Adriatic we lessened her chances of con quering at Sadowa. Our alliance had its value and onr soldiers might have marched to Vienna and shaken hands with the Prussians in the ancient capital of the Hapsbnrgers, had a dif ferent man been at tho head of the army on the Mincio. In 18GG wo had soldiers—who fought like heroes—and we did not want for either material of war or rifles. “The ‘Liberte’ knows little of its neighbors, and likes to season politics with pnns. Has it ever tried to discover how Italy, with no bril liant ministers, with limited means of war, in the midst of administrative disorder and popu lar discontent, has come to be a united nation ? It is certainly owing to the good sense of the population, and to a liberal patriotism unaUoyed with solfish ambition. This sound sense, this genuine patriotism, has saved us in every crisis, has conducted us to Rome, our goal, and will give us that liberty and progress to which we aro entitled. It is exactly these qualities that are not to be found in France. “No sooner has France escaped from a dis astrous war than we see her groat cities rent asunder by factions, and her rural population stirred up by the clergy. She is unable to col lect and recover herself, or to found a stable government. Isolated in Europe, she threatens Prussia with revenge, and Italy with interven tion in favor of the Holy See, while at tho same time she insults England with her unreasonable sympathies for Deland. “ The Liberte should understand the present circumstances better. Franco haff need of friends in Europe, and she follows an unwise policy in awakening the distrust and suspicion of her neighbors.” The German troops havo evacuated the four departments contiguous to Paris. A misunder standing between the German commander and tho French government threatened to delay the complete evacuation, but the difference has been satisfactorily explained and settled. The Bonapartists are very active to prepare the way again for the man of Sedan. The Italian government has recalled Nigra, its representa tive at Paris, who is said to have secretly in trigued for the restoration of Louis Napoleon. This act is interpreted as a friendly courtesy of the Roman Cabinent to Thiers, with whom Ni gra was no persona grata. Marshal McMahon’s declaration before the committee of investiga tion on the conduot of the war, has greatly aided the cause of the Bonapartes. The Marshalis said to have stated that he assumed the whole re sponsibility for the disastrous results of his march from Chalons to Sedan. He declared that he did not act by orders of the Emperor Napo leon, who had exeroised no influence whatever upon his resolution. His plan which was op posed to that of concentration of the army nnder the walls of Paris ought not to be abso lutely oondemned, as it had equal chances of success. But two days had been lost, the troops being too fatigued to continue their march, and because he was ignorant of the movements of the other commander-in-chief which was the principal cause of the disaster.” On the other hand the Count of Paris is said to nrepare a manifesto, adopting the programme of the Count of Chambord. These reactionary principles are not shared by the Dake d’Aumale, and dissensions are said to have sprung up be tween the different members of the Orleans on that aoconnt. “The German Correspondent,” a semi-official Berlin organ, states that the Roumanian Gov ernment has sent a note to Berlin relative to the railway question. The Imperial Chancellor has, in consequence, inquired of Turkey wheth er she is prepared to support the note. From this faot it is clear that the matter has not been negleoted, bnt forms the subject of a constant correspondence between our Government and the parties conoerned. Indeed there is every reason to believe that the question will not be treated with coldness or indifference, shonld the Roumanian' Government fail to do its best to solve the question with fairness and justice. The German money market being conoerned in the transaction to the amount of from forty to fifty millions, it is easy to understand the in terest the Imperial Chancellor takes in the matter. Bavaria, which had succeeded in retaining a still somewhat exceptional position among the Confederate States, is renouncing, one by one, the prerogatives she had reserved for herself. The Government is about to abolish all foreign embassies, and Bavaria, being a State of the German Empire, will, in future, be represented by the oentral government. The dogma of Papal infallibility, which is as cribed to the influence of the Society of JeBus, has given rise to bitter attacks on that order in Germany, and a protestant league is forming for the purpose of expelling the Jesuits from the country. King Amadeo is stiff continuing his tour through Spain. The London Times, after hav ing paid a proper tribute to the personal char acter and exterior of the King, proceeds as follows: “But, after all, there is something of far greater consequence than even the King’s oersonal qualities to stir up the loyalty of the Spanish population at the sight of one who, elected by their representatives, must be re garded as the Sovereign of their ohoice. The aoceBsIon of Amadeo was the end of a revolu tion. Great political ohanges may startle, eleotrify, and even interest the multitude at the outset, but in the long ran they are wearying, disappointing, and disheartening. Next to the Moon and to the Inquisitors, the Spaniards, it cannot be denied, must look to their politicians, no matter of what party, as the very worst soourge of the land; and they must hail the Government, no matter what name it may bear, whioh holds ont the best hope of rest and peace. The race is naturally sober, laborious, and intelligent; and the great mass of it being agricultural and pastoral, is conservative to the backbone. In suoh a country, and nnder saoh the pole.” Go in, Jupiter, and win. a unanimous Ministry and a well-organized Parliamentary majority, may hope to exercise.” There comes a rumor from Vienna that the Emperor, Francis Joseph, is seriously disposed to abdicate, the periodically reearring consti tutional experiments whioh have still failed to bring peace and harmony to the realm, making him despair of the fnlnre of Austria. Jabno. Something More About Colorado. Denver, Col. Territory, ) September, 1871.) . Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In my letter a few days ago I promised to write again and tell you what I saw and know about Colora do and the Rooky Mountains. DENVER. is the the largest and finest town in the Terri tory. At present it has a population of abont 8,000 souls, and has almost doubled its popula tion in the Iasi twelve months. Fine houses are being erected on every hand, and stores are filled with godds that present a very fine appear ance. But goods are very high here, compared with the East, of course. Her trade extends all over the Territory—north to Cheyenne and south to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Last year’s sales footed up to the large amount of $8,- 500,000. There are five railroads centering here—the Kansas Pacific, Denver Pacifio, Col orado Central, Boulaw Valley and Denver and Rio Grande. The latter is constructed on the nRrrow gauge system. Work on the last three named is progressing very fast. The track of tbo narrow gauge railroad is about three feet wide—a perfect show to persons that have never seen one before. The engines and cars are not more than half as large as they are on the other roads. The population of Denver as well as that of the whole Territory, is chiefly German. They are all flocking to the plains to buy land cheap and havo a country almost to themselves. But Denver has also Americans, and some of the best, too. There are a good many Ameri can merchants here who do a heavy business. But the Germans and Jews have the dry goods and clothing trade to themselves nearly. Sa loons and restaurants pay here better than any thing else—they being crowded all the time. They all keep sleeping apartments to accommo date their customers. Board is very high, being from $15 to $20 per week in first class houses, and from $7 to $10 per week socond class, and poor at that—small rooms and hard beds.— There is one hotel and saloon kept in this place by a negro named B. L. Ford, and largely pat ronized by the whites. He is said to be rich. The farming interests of Colorado have not been developed very much yet—mining taking np all the attention of tho people nntil the last two or three years they havo gone to the old standby—“farming”—and some are making it quite a success. On one farm near this place there was raised, without irrigation, 38 bushels wheat per acre, 25 bushels corn, 35 bushels bar ley, oats, rye, etc., in proportion. That is a pretty good showing considering that it never rains here except in the winter, and not often then. Old settlers say they would rather it would not rain at all, as it does not come when they want it. Tho knowing ones say they are looking for a six inch fall of rain this winter. Colorado has the finest climate in the world— diy, clear and bracing—never cold but about two weeks in winter, or hot longer than one month in summer. Tho weather at this season is delightful, something that a Georgia man has no idea of. The nights and mornings are cool and pleasant,and the days clear and extreme ly pleasant. Denver is in full view of the Rocky mountains, winch, these clear, pretty mornings, look like just ont on the skirt of the town; but the nearest point is twelve miles. We see from here three peaks that are perpetually crowned with snow and look like great, hnge lumps of marble in the distance, and nothing can excel tho beauty and loveliness of the scenery from this point of the mountains. I would ! recom mend some of your chill and fever people to come to this climate and get cured. It is much better than calomel or quinine. You see I know, for I have tried it myself. Below this place eighty miles is the Saratoga of the West, COLORADO STRINGS. This 'place is near the foot of Pike’s Peak, which rears its head 15,000 feet into space. There are five different snringa already far famed for their medioinail properties—soda spring, hot spring, snlphur spring and two oth ers, and the “garden of the gods” is also close there, as well as the petrified forest, in which yon can see some monster trees from 19 to 25 feet in 'diameter and from 25 to 50 feet high stumps. This, they think here, is destined to be a great place of resort for strangers in some future day. It is oertainly a place of interest, and one that has as many natural curiosities as any other place on the globe. The country, too, is just the place for a city—having beautiful villa sites that command a view of the country for hundreds of miles around. There is now a colony started at that place that have a large tract of land for sale to settlers at the following rate: For $60 you get 160 acres land and a life membership in the colony. They have already abont 100 settlers, and'more aro coming in all the time. This colony is a Southern’ one, too, being from Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, and is called the Southwestern Colony. They have one irrigating ditch 20 miles long, and one loj miles long, both being capable of irrigating 15,000 acres of farms, with plenty of capital to to improve more; and my advice to the poor farmer in the cotton States is to sell his land there and come to the new garden spot, where land is cheap, and good crops, by the irrigating process, sure, and health and climate not to be excelled anywhere in the world; no doctors’ bills to pay; and yon can have yonr own smoke house, with plenty of bacon and beef, antelopes, deer and buffalo, if you want. No more smoke houses in Illinois and Kentucky, and oorn cribs in the same place. Hero they make it all, and don’t have to be eternally buying. Come, there is room for ail, and don’t think, because this is a long ways from home and away where the Indians are, that you can’t live, and make plenty, too. Come and see! The agricultural fair of Colorado has just onded at this place, and it wa3 quite a success for so young a country. Fine horses, fine mules, fine cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, tnr- kies, duck and babies; the finest display of frnit ever seen here and in almost any place; vegetables of all descriptions, from a pumpkin np. They had one pumpkin on the gronnd that weighed over one hundred pounds, sugar beets as large as half a bushel measure, eta, etc. So you see Colorado is some pumpkins, sure. There are a great many mines in operationin the Territory, and most all of them are success ful, too, but they aH complain of too much tax, and a good many are leaving their mines to find something more profitable. So farming will soon take the Territory in good earnest. John P. Walt, of Georgia. the influence whioh a well meaning King, with The Price of a Consulate.—Mr. George Roosevelt, a clerk in the Interior Department at Washington, D. C., appeared in the Criminal Court on Thursday last, as a witness in the case of the Government against Dennis Darden, and testified as follows: “I am a olerk nnder the Government in the Iuterior Department; have been so for abo»‘ five years. * * * I was seeking for a posi tion, and was introduced to John McO**thy as a lobbyist; I wanted a consulship. ant I had not money enough; I had only i** 0 * one hun dred and fifty dollars.” “Judge Fisher. How r-aoh money does it take to get a consulate ?” „ “Three hundred dollar 8 - “What consulate did yon apply for? “Pernambuco, Brazil. “That is a small consulate.” “It is worth #2,000 in gold, a year.” “How muoh did yon lend him ?” “Two or three hundred dollars.” A Herald Reporter Interviews Gen. Han- cook—What He Says Abont Being a Pres idential Candidate. • A Herald reporter has recently interviewed Gen. Hancock at Brainard, Minnesota, at which point aro located, we suppose, the. headquarters of the department Gen. H. commands. He has this to say of the General’s personal appear ance, at present: ^ s ii-rD ; I think he has grown stouter since the days of ’64, when active service and daily artillery and infantry drills gave ns but little opportunity to add to our avoirdupois. The respite from constant anxiety and incessant toil in the tented field has told with good effect in the person of General Hancock, and to-day he presents every evidence of sound- health and a contented spirit Discipline, I believe, will not allow of discon tent, and soldiers must, perforce, be contented whether they will or not Tho jaunty goatee and mnstaehe of olden days—slightly frosted now—still adorn that rather heavy face, and he reminds one more of the Third Napoleon— minus the French cunning and doll, treacherous eye—than any man of eminence that I can call to mind. I judge his age to be fifty, possibly fifty-two, and his weight above two hundred. Upon the point of being a candidate for Pres ident, he delivered himself as follows: Reporter—You are, of course, aware that your name has been freely mentioned as a can didate for the Presidency. General Hancock—Yes; lam alive to what is transpiring around me; but, to be frank, it does not possess that interest that people probably suppose. My position in the army is assured. I can confidently look to the future, I think, for farther honors; for it is possible that in the due course of events my turn will come. I have been in the army thirty years, and at my time of life it is a little late to seek a new field of action. To be snre I would be complimented by any evidence of partiality on the part of Pennsylvania; it is my native State, and I am glad to be honored at her hands; it is a matter of State pride. I would deem it a compliment —nothing more. Reporter—Am I wrong, then, in supposing you have no aspirations with regard to the Pres idency? ‘ * • General Hancock—Well, I think that there is no man in the country to-day that can afford to ignore such a gift, coming from the people. Reporter—You have, I believe, expressed your political views on different occasions? General Hancock—Yes, I have; bnt not be- 1 cause I had any desire to mingle in politics or be thought a politician. Whatever views I may have expressed were my sentiments with regard to the situation; I was a war democrat; I am now a conservative. I was anxious to retain the esteem of the republicans—radicals—bnt my course in New Orleans, unfortunately, made me lose it. I was forced into a position there in which I had to assume a course of action that was bound to make me sacrifice the esteem of either party. I did not succeed in pleasing the radicals. Wesleyan Female College—Meeting of Executive Committee. At a meeting of the Execntive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wesleyan Female College, attended by other Trustees who were casually in the city, E. H. Myers, H. L. Jewett and B. F. Ross were appointed a committee to draft resolutions expressing the sense of the Board in respect to the recent bereavement of tho College in the death of Dr. John M. Bon- nell, which d-ity was performed as foilsws: We are bereaved, indeed. The loss to our selves is that of a cherished friend. Bnt not onrs alone the loss. The community has lost a pattern of domestic, civil and social virtues; the State a wise eminent, public-spirited in structor ; the Church a faithful minister, a lofty example of Christian purity, one of her most gifted and highly honored servants. The sud den, stunning blow has fallen on many hearts, and we are left to marvel at that Providence which thus removes at a stroke, and in the zenith of his nobly endowed life, one so useful, so beloved, so seemingly needful to society and to the church. But God is good; and he never sows evil bnt that it may grow and blossom into good. So we accept this dispensation. One more pure life is ended—one more triumphant spirit is added to the victors over earthly eviL We weep and we rejoice. We see tho way he went—we mark the sorrow with which the honor and love of a community committed “dust to dust, ashes to ashes,” and we interpret the tribute as given to a life whioh, in Christian humility and unosten tatious goodness, was devoted to Christ and His church—and seeing this, we take courage and follow on—hoping for a life as pure and an end as hopeful as those of our departed friend. In this testimonial we express onr sympathy with the college of which he was the honored head—with his sorrowing oolaborers in the work of education—with the community that loved him—with the church of which he was an ornament, and especially with his bereaved wife and children, towards whom we would express our tenderest sympathies, and for whom we wonld supplicate the sustaining communion of the God of the widow and the Father of the fatherless. On the representation of the Faculty to the Exeontive Committee that the interests of the Institution demanded some action immediately on the part of the committee, to give the col lege a fuU board of instruction, after due delib eration, the following resolutions were nnani- mously adopted Resolved, By the Executive Committee of the Wesleyan Female College, that nnder the power to fill vacancies conferred upon ns, by the statutes andregulations of the college, we fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late la mented President, Dr. John M. Bonnell, by the eleetion to the Presidency and Professorship of Mental and Moral Science and Bhetorio, of Dr. Osborn L. Smith, of Coiambus, Ga. Resolved, That we congratulate the patrons, pupils and friends of onr college, that we are able to secure the servioes of an ex-President of the Institution, and one so w ell fitted by expe riences, attainments and character to fill this va cancy. E. H. Myers, Ch’m. H. L. Jewett, Seo’y. Macon, October 3,1871. The Advantage of Hair Dye. A clergyman in Massachusetts, who has seen his three score and ten, was oomplimented on his hale and youthful locks the other day. Sow ing, he touched his handsome brown hs~ ft Q d replied, “You know they have a way o^nelping old men a little these days.” “Wb<* ! ’ friend, “have yon been oolori*(f J°, ur THE GEORGIA PRESS. We dip tho following from the Columbus Son, of Tuesday. The Fact Ascertained.—The question of the P. G. in G., has been settled by the follow ing announcement: Mr. L. J. Hill, of Atlanta, was married on the 28th inst, to Miss Mary Both Henderson, of Covington. We congratulate Mr. Hill on having won the handsomest lady in Georgia, and the brilliant bride on her conquest. There’s crape on more than one door knob in Columbus. The “Slip per Club” is very sad. Two Pianos fob the Publio Schools.—Col. W. L. Salisbury and Mr. J. M. Estees, while in New York, purchased two excellent pianos for the Publio Schools of Columbus—one to be placed in building No. 1, for the boys, the other in No. 3, for the girls. They are now enroute to Columbus. The Central Railroad charges nothing for the transportation. Means. Saulsbury and Estees are members of the Board of Trustees, and purchased the instruments with money obtained by the exhibition given by the scholars last spring. Of the prospect and present status of the B., O. and 0. Railroad the Ban of same date, on the authority of Mr. J. O. Kimball, reports as follows: He informs us that this ride of Cuthbert, on the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus Rail road, the surveying party has finished the loca tion to a mile of the Stewart county line, and the graders are directly behind. The party run ning the experimental surveys have reached Lumpkin. Below Cnthbert, the two working parties from above and below, are in tea miles of each other, and iron is being laid from the Bainbridge end. The rails may not reaoh Lumpkin by January first, bnt the grading by that date will oertainly be finished to that pout. Stewart county will grade through her borders. Track laying is going on rapidly between Albany and Cnthbert. Letters for Daniel Dunn and Col. A. H. Sand, of Forsyth, are held for postage in the Savan nah office. A chap named Harmon Stinok illustrated his ugly name and uglier nature on Tuesday, at Sa vannah, by hitting a little girl on the head with a brick. It is very soothing to know that he now reposes in jail. Mr. Brinkley Babb, an old and honored citi zen of Baldwin county, died suddenly last Sun day, aged G4 years. We clip the following items from the San- dersville Georgian: An old farmer of this county, and a success ful wheat grower, tells us that he always sows his wheat when the gronnd is so dry that he can scarcely plow it in, and he never has blasted wheat. One year a near neighbor sowed when the ground was wet. He sowed in dry weather, in an adjoining field, only a cross fence separa ting. His neighbor’s wheat was blasted badly while his was perfectly sound. He never soaks his wheat before sowing. He has been pursu ing this course for many years with perfect suc cess. . ; A gentleman from Wilkinson county informs ns that one of the best and most extensive planters in that county will not realize more than an average bale of cotton to eight acres. The crop, he says, is woefully out off. A gentleman of this connty, assisted by some of .his neighbors, measured an acre of land on his farm last week, gathered and measured the corn accurately. The yield was 4l£ bushels and three quarts to the aore. He is a corn and bacon man. Stevo Smith, for burglary, is Monroe oonnty’s last contribution to the penitentiary. Monroe connty juries put rascals of all grades through, in short order. The Monroe Advertiser says: Mr. Isaac Fearlstin arrived at home Wednes day evening from Charleston. He informs us that “outsiders” have no idea of the terrible effects of the yellow fever upon the business in terests of the city. The streets are nearly de serted, every one having left who found it pos sible to do so. He thinks he saved 100 per cent, in purchasing his stock in Charleston instead of New York. The same paper has an interestingletter from Randolph county,' from which we extract the following paragraph. Much speculation is being indnlged in as to the prospective yield of onr present crop of cotton. And it is really amusing to see how far men may be misled by their interest. While same place a fair estimate upon the crop, others are deeply interested in making the manufac turers believe the present crop will equal, if not exceed that of last year. Well, I do not pre tend to know more abont this matter than oth ers who have taken like pains to arrive at the truth, but I hazard nothing in saying the pres ent crop is the shortest that has been made since the boll-worm committed snob ravages from 1840 to ’45. I have visited lately several of the surrounding counties, and talked with intelligent and trnthfnl planters from other sec tions, and all agree in saying that not even a half crop may be expected. The Augusta Constitutionalist, of Tuesday .. . ^ "T v~ S-S- - w l, fl A T XUA-JVUiOAIimil 11 • AUUWWUU, VA AUMI once^though t^no thin g * wo- 1 <1 induce me to do. j lying ill with a severe attack of paralysis. Wesleyan Female College.—The Executive Oommiltfee of the Wesleyan Female College yesterday elected Dr. O. JU. Smith, of Colum bus, Ga., to the Presidency left vacant by the recent death of Dr. Bonnell. Dr. Smith aocepts and will at once enter upon his duties. I have been taming mr 8™y hrir brown, and I wiU tell you how T vas brought tott. After leaving my po?* 101113 ’• \ P ro P<»ed to go back into t^ 5 ministry and become a parish minister -Accordingly, as I had an opportunity, I prep« J ® d to some few destitute churches, and ws* gratified to hear, at the oonolusion of my jervices, that the people were well pleased with my preaching, and bnt for my gray hair wonld gladly have me for a pastor; but they conld not think of so old a man. Well, while I was going through this experience, an old friend suggested to me to color my hair, and thus remove from the eyes of the people the reproach of being an old man. And I consented, finally, to make this experiment. And what do you think? The very first time that I preached with brown hair upon my head I was greeted with a call to settle in the ministry, and have ever rinoe been the happy pastor of a united and apparently per fectly satisfied people. So much for the color of one’s hair—so muoh in proof that looks are something after all, notwithstanding the old proverb that looks are nothing and behavior is all.—Commercial Advertiser. »*ys: Shooting Affair on Bboad Street.—A diffi culty occurred on Broad street last evening be tween Messrs. J. J. Browne and James Neal, in which the latter received a severe wound in tha back from a ball fired from a pistol in the hands of the former. It appears, from what we conld learn, that a quarrel has existed between the parties for some time, Mr. Neal having used some opprobious language abont Mr. Browne. Yesterday evening the latter called upon tha former for an apology, which was refused. The parties then walked up the street together, and when at the corner of Broad and Jackson streets, stopped. Mr. Browne again demanded an apology, which Mr, Neal declined to give and walked off. Mr. Browne thereupon drew a pistol and fired at Neal, bnt withont effect. A second shot, however, struck Mr. Neal in tha baric, and Mr. Brow** was preparing to fire a third time when ie was arrested by polioeman Shaw and ce^ed to police headquarters. Mr. Neal's wc*tid is quite serious, the ball not hav ing been extracted up to a late hour last night- in the ease of the State vs. O. P. MoOalla, late General Book-keeper of the State Road, charged with embezzling public funds, Justice Butt, of Atlanta, rendered a decision on Tues day, discharging the accused. Ex-Alderman \f. O. Anderson, of Atlanta, is He The Prinoess Mary, of Holland, who was re cently married to the Prince of Wield, made her own wedding cake. The law ought to require 0 t , this of every young woman, and a bad cake upon the whole procedure aa a high-handed .11 1. tha ...li.ll i .tl I is speechless and withont use of his legs. The last brilliant wedding at Atlanta was Mias Mary Clayton to Mr. O. W. Henderson. We clip the following items from the Atlanta Era of yesterday: Society News.—The New York Home Journal contains an elaborate acoount of an elegant ra- ception recently given in honor of Mrs. Maria Jourdan Westmoreland, of Atlanta, by Mr. Fore- paugh, of No. 56 West Twenty-fourth Street, New York. Many literary and other celebrities, including some of our most noted Southern writers, were present It is stated to have been a very pleasant and brilliant affair. The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says: Released on Bah-—The friends of the par ties who were lately arrested in Gwinnett oounty, brought to this city, and lodged in jail, in a somewhat mysterious manner—a notice of whioh has heretofore appeared in onr oolnms— came to this city day before yesterday, gave bond for the prisoners, who were thereupon re leased. Among those thus summarily arrested are some of the best men in the country, who never did anyone any barm, against whom no charge of a violation of taw or morals was eve* made. The affair has created much indigna tion among the people of Gwinnett, who look ought to stop the nuptials. outrage.
