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General Early. —The Lynchburg Re
publican has the best reasons for saying
' that Gen. Early does not propose to re
turn to this country at all—certainly not
at present.
Exiled Confederates. —London, Jan.
4p, m. —In view of Johnson’s amuesty
proclamation Jefferson Davis, John Sli
dell. James M. Mason, A. Dudley Mann,
and other Confederates are preparing to
return home.
Dell Boyd, the famous Confederate
spy, so well known to hundreds of Con
federate officers, and so famous for her
book of adventures, has been playing an
engagement at the National Theatre,
Cincinnati.
Gen. Breckinridge. —The Louisville
Democrat says that tin* Hon. J. C.
Breckinridge is expected to return to
Kentucky in a few days.
General J.ckson. —Gen. W. 11.
Jackson, lute ot the C. S. A., (F« rrest’s
command) a most distinguished cavalry
officer, has recently led forward to the
altar the daughter of Gen. Harding, of
Tennessee. j
Gi:x. Hill— pen. D. 11. Hill, deliv
ered a free lecture in Jackson, one day
last week. Subject; Stonewall Jackson.
Gen. Showp.-Mjcii. F. A. Skoup, for
merly of Bragg’s Army, at present hold
ing a Professorship in the University of
Mississippi, was ordained a Deacon, in
the Ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, at St. Luke’s Church, Oxford, on
Sunday last, by Bishop Green.
Gen. Gordon.— Confederate General
Gordon is in St. Louis. He was an es
pecial favorite of Stonewall Jackson, to
whom he was indebted for rapid promo
tion. lie was wounded at Sharpsburg,
Antictam. A single shot passed through
both his legs, another through the knee,
and a tliiad broke his arm. lie held the
key to Lee’s position, and, bleeding pro
fusely, sat upon his horse, conscious that
his withdrawal would shake the confi
dence of his division. Another bullet
pierced his cheek, when he fainted from
the loss of blood and fell. The story of
Gordon’s conduct at Chancellorsville has
been often recited. When Hancock’s
corps broke through the Confederate lines,
and terrible disaster threatened Lee, the
Confederate General-in-Chief appeared
iu front of Gordon’s Division, and called
upon his men to follow him. Gen. Gor
don himself appeared, and told his hon
ored leader, very modestly, and yet very
decidedly, ‘‘You must go to the rear ; I
will lead my own command.” Two of
Gordon’s men caught the bridle of Lee’s
horse, and the commander of the Con
federate forces was borne away, when
Gen. Gordon led a successful charge that
turned the tide of battle.
Patriotic and —The following
is the conclusion of Maj. W. Sykes’ elo
quent speech at Selma :
We must not think of leaving the
country. We must not abandon our homes
and forsake the graves of our parents
aud children. Our heroic dead call to
us from their beds of honor not to fly
from the land for which they fought and
died. Let us stay here and try and
improve our country. Let us endeavor
by anew system, to build up our waste
places and regain our lost prosperity.
The long, dark night may be succeeded
by a bright and glorious day. There is
a silvery lining to the cloud, and the day
of our deliverance is at hand. False
hood and slander cannot always triumph.
Let us remain true to ourselves; and we
will yet see brighter days.
Hon. A. H. Stephens.— A very gen
eral satisfaction is expressed that Mr.
Stephens has signified his intention to
accept the chair of Belles Letters re
cently voted to him by the Trustees of
die 1 niversity of Georgia. Mr.Stephens
has always been a student, even when
immersed in the cares of State, and is
perhaps better qualified for the post than
any other citizen of Georgia. The proba
bilities of his return to public life is not
very great,even were it desirable to him
in view ot the condition of the country
and us his own feeble health, and lie has
set a good example in accepting a posi
tion wuere his talents and acquirements
may still be of benefit to his fellow citi
zens or the South. General Lee is engag
ed in a similar pursuit, and neither could
have selected positions in which they
would lm\e excited greater and more
li p ficent influence upon the public
inii.d.
And just here we would take occasion
express our gratification at Stephens’
rncecs: es in the field of political litera
tuie. Me are reliably informed that
he has been offered twenty-five thousand
dollars for his first volume of-‘The War
among the States,” and that the second
volume is rapidly approaching comple
tion.—Savannah Republican.
Monument.--We are indebted to the
courtesy at Mr. Gray, for the inspection
at his office, near the new Georgia Bail
road Depot, ot the beautiful and appro
priate design of the Confederate Monu
ment, intended to be erected in Atlanta,
by the Ladies Memorial Society.
It reflects great, credit on his taste.
M e understand the location of the
Monument is to be somewhere on the
open space between the Passenger Depot
and Alabama street.
It is a beautiful shaft, one hundred
feet high. Our readers are aware that
Mr. Gray has the contract for furnishing
the monument for the city of Rome.—
Atlanta Intelligencer.
Father Ryan’s Readings—Notwith
standing the inclemency of the weather
the announcement of a lecture by Rev.
A. J. Ryan,filled the Hibernian Hall last
evening with a large and appreciative au
dience. At the appointed time the distin
guished Lecturer was introduced in a
few eloquent and appropriate remarks by
M. P. O’Connor, Esq , and in a Lecture
of over an hour, fully sustained the high
reputation which he bears. The Rever
end Father read a Poem which ho stated
was suggested by the death of his brother
in the Confederate army, and which he
was confident expressed the sentiments
of many who had lost relatives by the
casualties of the war. The poem is
written in Alexandrian verse, beginning'
“Thou art sleeping brother sleeping,
In thy dark and lonely grave !”
and during its recital the audience
evinced their appreciation of it by a
marked attention.
At the conclusion ol the entertainment
repeated calls were made for “The Con
quered Banner,” but as Father Ryan had
neither committed it to memory, nor had
.in his possession a copy to read from, the
request of the audience of course could
not be complied with, and they were
forced to be content with the entertain
ment already offered. The eloquent
Father has completely won the hearts of
our people by bis undying devotion
to principle, and bis visit to Charles
ton will not be soon forgotten by those
whose fortune it has been to have heard
him.— Charleston Courier ,
History With a Vengeance.—Ed
ward Pollard has just unbottled his
malignity in a fiction which he terms an
“account of Jeff. Davis’ flight from Rich
mond.” The mis-statements are postively
disgraceful, and no attempt is made to
disguise the bitterness of the writer
toward Mr.Da vis, personally. The fellow
does not even comprehend the geography
of Mr. Davis’ line of retreat, lie refers
to Griswoldville as the house of Mr.
Stephens, where lie said Mr. Davis re
mained for several days, and was insulted
ed by the ex-Yice President, and
thence sends the fugitive Presi
dent North of the Chattahoochee,
from which section the Federal army had
retired. Heaven help the South if such
men are to be her historians.— Savannah
Republican.
IRELAND.
Our summary is condensed from the
Weekly Observer, of the 18th ult.
The National Petition for the par
don of Irish patriots, is being signed.
We learn from the Observer that on
Sunday, Dec 13, tho petition was nu
merously signed at the Chapel doors of
Dublin by the people of that city, calling
on the Queen to open the cell doors and
prison gates of political prisons. The
following is the petition: Humbly sheweth,
That there are at present a large number
of Irish, Irish-American, and other pris
oners suffering the horrors and mise
ries of penal servitude for political
offences. That, in the opinion of pe
titioners, and in the judgment of the
vast majority of the Irish people, many
of those prisoners were convicted under
circumstances calculated to bring dis
credit upon the administration of justice
in Ireland, and to alienate the loyalty
of thousands of the Irish people from
your Majesty’s throne and dynasty', in
asmuch as highly respectable persons,
devotedly loyal subjects of your Majes
ty, were ordered to “stand by” as ju
rors, because of their profession of the
Roman Catholic iaitli—the faith of the
great majority of your Majesty’s Irish
subjects. That, in the minds of your
petitioners, and of the great mass of the
Irish people, the political prisoners have
already suffered sufficient to vindicate
the power of the British law; and peti-
tioners most humbly and respectfully
consider that it would be more consouant
with your Majesty’s Royal dignity and
honor, and more conducive to the"peace
of the Empire to release the prisoners
than to permit them to remain longer
in a captivity the character and severity
of which is opposed to the intelligence
of the age, and the practice of all civ
ilized countries in relation to political of
fences. That after the late terrible
civil war in America, in which so many
lives were sacrificed, the United States
Government did not resort to the prin
ciple of severe and now almost obsolete
punishments on those who had been the
cause of so much national disaster; but,
on the contrary, sought by the exercise
of clemency to induce, thenceforth, obe
dience to the laws and Constitution.
May it, therefore, please your most gra
cious Majesty to exercise your Royal
prerogative of mercy during this holy
Christmas season by restoring to their
sorrowing relatives the political prison
ers, and your petitioners shall, as in
duty bound, ever pray.
G. F. Train. —That singularly Quix
otic genius, George Francis Traip, pub
lishes a card in the Irishman, announcing
his departure for America. He is pro
fuse in liis thanks to the people of Dub
lin and Cork for courtesies and kind at
tention during his imprisonment. lie
winds up: “No mere time. Good-bye,
God bless you all, and God save Ire
land.” Amen, say we, with all our
heart.
Tiie Sufferings of the Irish Fenian
Prisoners. —A letter from Charles Kick
ham, one of the Fenian convicts, was
published in the last issue of the Irish
man, containing a narrative of the suf
ferings endured by two of his fellow
prisoners at Pentonville—John Lynch
and Patrick Barry. Os Lynch, who has
been dead sometime, Kickham says that
while the hand of death was on him, he
“ had to undergo all the frightful rigors
of that severest of English convict pris
ons.- ’ “Fur our persecution,” the writer
adds, “would have driven criminals
mad.” It was only when Lynch one day,
after returning from exercise, fell exhaust
ed ou the floor, that notice was taken of
his condition and a doctor sent for. He
was then removed to the invalid prison
at Woking, but even there, it is alleged,
sufficient nourishment was not given him,
and he died. The narrative of Barry's
case contains numerous details of alleged
cruelty. Hardship ana exposure brought
ou him a dangerous illness, after which
he suffered acutely from an affection of
the stomach. lie could cat nothing, and
was tortured by violent retching. In
this state he was treated with cruel neg
lect, was accused of shamming, refused a
dietary adapted to his stale of health,
and before lie was quite convalescent,
was compelled to return to penal labor,
which brought on a recurrence of his ill
ness and sufferings. This, the writer
says, is not one-half of what he might
say relative to the ill-treatment expe
rienced by the prisoners. The Irish cor
respondent of the Times notices the letter,
and says it is right that such allegations
as those of Mr. Kickham should be
made known, in order that if there is any
truth in them the voice of the public
may be heard in favor of more humane
and compassionate treatment. With re
spect to Kickham himself, the Irish rtfem
publishes, another communication, in
which it appears that he has not changed
his views.
SPAIN.
Madrid, Dec. 14. —Yesterday morn
ing the insurgents offered to surrender
their arms into the hands of the Consul
of the United States, but General Cabal
era de Roda refused to entertain such a
pioposal, and declared that hostilities
would be renewed if the arms were not
placed in the military buildings. The
insurgents thereupon yielded to iiis order,
and the troops under the command of
General Roda entered Cadiz at 2 P.M.
The surrender of Cadiz has not altered in
the least the manoeuvres of the reaction
ary party. It is alleged that numbers of
the clergy ot Madrid are distributing
considerable sums of money, in order to
create disturbances. Yesterday the .Na
tional Militia was again called out to pre
vent a rising of working employees of the
municipality. Fearing a contact, the in
habitants continue to leave Madrid in
great numbers. Extreme distress pre
vails among the poor, and commerce is
paralysed. The newspapers Discussion
and Iqulldas are to be prosecuted for
having expressed approval of the insur
rection at Cadiz. The news of this trial,
which is contrary to the newly-granted
freedom ot the prbss, has produced an un
favorable impression, the penal code by
which they are to be tried being very se
vere. The Governor of Tarragona has
telegraphed to the Provisional Govern
ment that great agitation is being fo
mented by ihe Curlists in the environs
of Mont Blanch. An association, with
branches throughout Spain, has been or
gamzed here under the presidency of
the Marquis \ lluna, ostensibly with the
object of protecting the unity of Catholi-
CRun, but really, it is said, to propagate
absolutist principles, and pave the way
for a rising m favor of Don Carlos. A
decree, issued by Senor Lorenzana, ap
points Don Fernandez Ileredia to the
post of introducer of ambassadors. A
circular ot Senor Sagosta recommends to
the Governors of the Provinces to take
every measure in order that the approach
ing elections ol municipal authorities
nia ) absolutely tree. The subscrip
tions to the national loan amounts to
$418,000,000 reals (£4,854,166.)
FRANCE.
4he Momieur has published a report
to tiie Emperor from the Minister of Com
merce, concerning the employment of
childien in manufactories, and proposing
to substitute for the present local inspec- j
turn, which experience has shown to be
inefficient, the control of the Government
engineers, to whom the surveillance ot
establishments in which steam engines
aio employed is already confined, and
who are consequently better qualified,
from their competency in industrial mat
ters, to assure the strict execution of the
law. The Minister likewise suggests the
nomination ot a committee to receive the
reports ot the inspectors, to reoommend j
improvements in the present regulations, !
and decide in general on all the questions j
connected with the subject which the |
Minister may submit to it. The docu
ment is followed by a decree from the
Emperor, ordering these recommenda
tions to be carried out.
PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.
4 roubles seem to be brewing between
Prussia and Austria. The Vienna Even
ing I’ost, an official journal, contained in
its issue of Tuesday an article, in which
it takes note of the tone, full of hostility
and animosity, employed by the Prussian
semi-official press, when speaking of Aus
tria. The article proceeds to allude to
the news said to have been telegraphed
between Paris and Berlin, respecting the
i cpresentafions alleged to have been
made to the Austrian Government by
the representatives of the Western
Powers, on the subject of the Austrian
policy in Eastern affairs. This news it
stigmatizes as a malicious falsehood, lor
which there is not even the shadow of a
possible misunderstanding as a founda
tion, no steps having been taken either
by the Cabinet of St. James, or the
I uileries which could admit of an inter
pretation of the kind.
TURKEY AND GREECE.
Athens, Dec. 10., GP. M.—An ul
timatum given to-day by the Turkish
Minister, demanded the dispersion, within
five days, of the Volunteers; that the
Animation of other similar corps should
be forbidden; that ships for the revictual
ing of Crete should be dismantled; Cre
tans who had sought refuge in Greece
should be sent back; those persons to be
punished by whom a Turkish officer at
Syria was wounded; and, finally, that the
Greek Government should conduct itself
in conformity with existing treaties. The
Turkish Minister leaves on Wednesday.
HUNGARY.
Pf.stii, Dec. 6.—Accounts received
here from Transylvania state, that the
foreign emissaries who were detected at
tempting to seduce the Roumanian sol
diers from their allegiance, were furnish
ed with Russian Money.
ENGLAND.
The New Ministry —The new Minis
try is now almost entirely constituted.
The list of appointments, so far as it has
yet been filled, runs as follows : The
Cabinet—First Lord of the Treasure, Mr.
Gladstone; the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Ilatberley (late Sir W. Page Wood);
Lord President of the Council, Earl Do
Grey and Ripon; Lord Privy Seal, Earl
of Kimberley; Secretary for the Home
Department, Mr. Bruce; Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Clarendon;
Secretary for the Colonies, Earl Gran
ville; Secretary for War, Mr. Cardwell ;
Secretary for India, the Duke of Argyll;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lowe ;
FirstLordofthc Admiralty, Mr. Childers;
President of the Board of Trade, Mr!
Bright; Postmaster-General, Lord Ilart
ington; Poor Law Board, Mr. Goschen;
Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr. Chiches
ter Fortescue; Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster, Lord DufFerin ; First Com
missioner of Works, Air. Layard; At
torney-General, Sir Robert Collier; So
licitor-General, Mr. Coleridge; Lord Ad
vocate for Scotland, Mr. Moncreift ; Vice
President of the Council, Mr. W. E.
Forster. Under Secretaries—Home De
partment, Mr. Knatchbull—llugessen ;
Foreign Affairs, Mr. A. J. Otway ; Colo
nies, Mr. Monsell; India, Mr. Grant
Duff; Third Lord of the Treasury, Mr.
Stausfeld ; Joint Secretaries of the Trea
sury, Mr. George Glyn and Mr. Ayrton.
Ireland—Lord Lieutenant, Earl Spencer:
Lord Chancellor, Mr. Justice O’Haean*
Attorney General, Mr. Sullivan ; Solicitor
General, Mr. Barry. The Royal House
hold—Lord Steward, the Earl of Bess
borougb; Lord Chamberlain, Viscount
Sydney ; Master of the Horse, the Marquis
M Ailcsbury; Mistress of the Robes
Duchess of Argyll; Master of the Buck
houuds, the Earl of Cork.
Adjournment of the House of Com
mons.— I The Times explains the reason
tor he adjournment to 29th December—
unh twenty one days after the day fixed
foi the delivery of the return. Twenty
one ays have not elapsed since the
elect,.,,, for many of the counties, nor
since any of the Scotch and Irish elec
tions and consequently it was not possi
ble on Tuesday to move writs for elections
in the place of Mr. Adam, Lord Otho
I itzgerald. Lord Castlerosse, Sir Column
U LoghJen, and others. In order to se
cure their re-election befote February, it
will be necessary that the House of Com
mons meet again on the 29th inst., and
before proceeding to business the House
must be made—or in other words, Mr.
Glynn will have to bring together at
Westminster, in the very ben t of Christ
mas, forty out of the limited body of
members already Sworn in.
Leagal Appointmen ts— T 1 ic lega 1
appointments ot the new Governments, as
regards Ireland, are very freely canvassed
by the papers. Whig organs are, of course,
in a state of ecstatic jubilation, and the
Huy ones in a severely critical mood.
The Observer —which is supposed to be
Mr. Gladstone’s organ, writing of the
appointment of Mr. O’Hagan to the
Chancellorship, in a strain of warm
approval—takes a sly fling at Judge
Keogh. It says :—“The appointment ox
the Chief Baron, Chief Justice Monahan
Judge Fitzgerald, or Judge Keogh, would
be a little more than a shuffle of the
judicial cards, and, in the case of the lost
named gentleman, would be very
decidedly unp&qmlarT From which, we
trust, the eminent judge will take to
heart the lesson, that in doing Lis work
for the British Government in Ireland, it
is just possible to go too far—so far as ’to
offend even the delicate susceptibilities of
its supporters at the press. The Toiy
journals.regard Judge OTlagan’s eleva
tion with ill concealed aversion. They
throw out dark hints that “the new rule
of Ireland/ is to be one of “foreign
spiritual domination;” and that, in fact,
Cardinal Cullen and" Chancellor O’Hagan
are to be the real rulers of the country.
It is worthy of note, also, that Sergeant
Barry’s appointment, as Solicitor-General,
is hailed by Whig and Tory alike with
unbounded approbation. Even the Mail
says for him that, “he is not belived to be
a mere lay Roman agent.” And from ti e
Freeman to the Cork Southern Reporter ,
the Whig organs rejoice at the stop in
advance which his calumnies against
Irshmcn have earned for him from an
English Government. In fact the “mis
erable man*is no fool, he can be as “I I
tramontane” or as “Liberal” as any man
when occasion requires it. He is a
lawyer, whose conscience as wel* as bis
abilities, is for hire, and he can talk over
the Mail man, and “gammon” poor old
Dr. Hally with equal facility. Surely,
none so fit as he, therefore, to serve the
British. Government in Ireland. — Irish
man.
SCOTLAND.
Edinburgh, Thursday Afternoon.—
The following Peers were elected to-day
at Holy rood Palace to representthe Scotch
Peers in the House of Lords:—The Mai
quis of Tweedale, Earls Morton, Home.
Haddington, Lauderdale, Airlie, Levon,
Melville, Selkirk, and Orkney; Viscount
Strathallan; Lords Laltown, Sinclair, El
phinston, Blantyre, and Colville, Earl
Kellie and Lord Rollo.
Ages of the New Ministers - Tin
ages of the new Ministers vary from 6s
to 35. Lord Clanunion has attained the
first age and the Marquis of Ilartington
the second. The ages of the other Min
isters are as follow : Mr. Gladstone, 59 ;
Mr. Lowe, 57: Earl Granville, 53; Mr.
Cardwell, 55; the Duke of Argvle, 45;
Mr. Bruce, 53; Mr. Chichester Fortescue,
45; Mr Childers, 41; Sir W. Page
Wood, 67; Lord De Grey, 41; Earl °of
Kimberley, 42; Mr. Bright, 57; and Mr.
Goschen, 37. There are thus seven Min
isters under 50 years of age, and eight
above. The average is about fifty and a
half years, a far lower average than we
were accustomed to during the regime
of Lord Palmerston and Earl Russell.
Miss Adele Laville, the young lady
who was accidentally killed in New Or
leans, some timn siuce, lef t the bulk of
her property to the Sisters of the Iloly
Cross, on condition that they will give to
the Hospital or Asylum the name of C. F.
Laville; that they will pronounce a Mass
each month for the repose of the souls of
her parents, and will specially pray* fu
ller father, mother, brother, and herself.
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