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History Repeating Itself.—A Bos
ton correspondent of the Nashville Press
and Times says history records no paralle
to the wonderful change in the minds of
men in favor of negro enfranchisement.—
'\Vho sees any change in Boston? The
.current of the “Revolution,” then, has
. been steady for the last twenty years, and
it- history lias been a daily repetition for
near a generation.
Fortunate Arrest.— All of the gang
(except three) concerned in stopping and
i robbing the train on the Louisville and
, Nashville Railroad, have been arrested
and are now iu durance vile. Fortunately
not a man of them was ever a guerilla or
“in the rebel army.” Their crime is one
of the most fiendish on record—the stop
page of a crowded passenger train by ob
structions ou the track, in the dead of
and wheu It was in rapid motion.
Jt is wonderful that many were not killed.
Mild Weather.— The Fall is, so far,
remarkable for its unusual mildness. Veg
etal i-in is even V’H tikis 19th day of Ho
vetuner, not completely killed in many of
the elevated and dryer localities. Very
little rain has, so far, fallen, and with eve
erv recurring shower the weather wise
predict a cold snap, hut it does not come.
Baltimore. —By last accounts the Bal
timore fracas had almost completely sub
sided. The new police‘commissioners had
been duly installed and the police force of
the city had, with few exceptions, reported
to them for duty. The old commissioners
had not yet turned over their books and
papers, but they evidently had that mat
ter under advisement. They were fast
settling down to that point. Bo ends this
atrocious attempt to perpetuate the dis
franchisement of three-fourths of the citi
zens of Baltimore. Universal suffrage
radicalism in these United States is a pe
culiar institution. Itoperateson a sliding
scale according to localities. Iu Maryland,
Missouri, Tennessee and some other States,
it means that from a fourth to a tenth of
the voters shall do the w hole business.
Importance of Advertising.
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:< trr, a sketch of a busines house iu that
city, admirably illustrates our views :
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most liberal patrons, a few days since, we
inquired his experience of the policy of
advertising. We regard his answer as
noteworthy, and commend it to the con
si dertion of other. He said the same
kind of business in which he is engaged
had been carried ou at the same stand for
ten years by one, and nearly three years by
another predecessor. That these men
gave diligent attention to their business,
were sober and frugal, but spent nothing
for advertising. They were just barely
able to eve out a living. That he bought
out the concern ten years ago, and begun
debtor for tlie whole establishment He
felt poor, and only expended fifty dollars
I*or annum in each of the business papers
the ritst year ; that subsequently he in
creased his expr uses to several thousand
dollars annually for advertising, and the
re- ill has demonstrated its marvelous
utility, and he is to-day worth $175,000,
! hia annual profits are constantly in
encasing.
Introduction of Shad in Southern
R; v;- Dr. VV. C. Danlell’ writing from
Savannah to the editor of the Southern
Mr.heal and Surgical Journal, says :
Tam gratified to say that I have fully
established the white shad in the Alabama
river, where they are as large and as fiue
as our own shad.
Now that it has become a fixed fact that
the shad prosper at the mouth of the Ala
bama river, we may readily infer that
they will equally prosper at the mouth of
the Mississippi river, and probably of all
the rivers discharging into the Gulf of
Mexico. I hope to test this another year.
5 would have done so this spring, but that
my fishermen disappointed me. As soon
as I was satisfied that there were distinc
tive, though minute, differences between
the shad of .-avannah and the Ogeechee
rivers, I felt confident of establishing the
white shad in the Alabama river. These I
differences were pointed out by our fisher
men iti 1846, and in IS4S I plauted the fe- !
eundated eggs in a small tributary of the <
Etowah, and in 1851 or '52 the fish were
taken in the traps at Wetumpka and Tus
caloosa.
Bie&~ A sweet potato, of the yam variety, >
raised iu Gordon county, Georgia, and
weighing, w hen first dug, sixteen and a
half pounds, is on exhibition in Atlanta.
BsaT'Ristori’s performances have realized
SIOO,OOO in two months. Her second en
gagement in New York commenced Mon
<lay night. 1
The Course of the President.
NO COLLISIONS A PPfcEHENDED.
The New York Times publishes very
conspicuously a special dispatch from
Washington, dated the 14th instant, j
which professes to represent the substance
of a communication addressed by a mem
ber of the Cabinet to a friend of the Ad
ministration in New England. The dis
patch declares that the President will not
quarrel with Congress for exercising the
same independence of judgment which
he claims for himself. He will veto every ]
bill which he may regard unconstitution- ,
al, “ but he will execute with scrupulous fi- !
delity all laws, and especially those to !
which he hat declined to give his executive
sanction .”
“He regrets the disagreement between
the Legislative and Executive branches of
the Government, and would, I doubt not, j
yield much to effect a reconciliation. He
will not, however, sacrifice his principles
nor violate the Constitution, according to
his interpretation of it, uo matter what
pressure may be brought to bear upon ;
him. He means to do right as he under
stands the right, aud will trust to time for
the vindication of his course. He will be
as true to the Constitution and the Gov- |
ernment as President of the United States !
as he was true and steadfast to the Union
in the darkest days of its trials.”
This leaves darkness still visible. For
illustration:
Should Congress pass over the veto a
bill abrogating the Southern State Gov |
ernments, what then would be the course j
of the President under this programme? I
Will he execute the laws in violation of
the Constitution, or will be refuse to en
force the law In violation of the Constitu
tion? Which horn of the dilemma
would he accept?—for in such a case he
must choose. If he “enforces the law
with scrupulous fidelity,” he must “evi
dently violate the Constitution, according
to his interpretation of it. Noradical, we
presume, would pretend any constitution
al justification tor the Federal Govern
ment in deposing the rightful govern
ments of the States. The radicals, how
ever, assert that these governments in the
so-called rebel States, are usurpations.
But if usurpations, they are executive
usurpations, because they have been cre
ated under the suggestion and direction
of the President, and have received his
official recognition and guarantee of pro
tection.
“Impartial Suffrage.”
If we may credit our exchanges “im
partial suffrage” has latterly found new
and unexpected advocates in the Boston
Post and the Chicago Tiroee? Tirod of
being in a minority, these prominent or
gans of the Northern democracy, by a
single leap have put themselves in ad
vance of the radicals (who are yet, as a
party, officially uncommitted to Degro
suffrage,) and propose to outcrow them
upon their own dunghill. This, to say
the least, is a lively political performance.
It beats everything in the way of the
j acrobatic which has appeared upon the
modern political stage. It is fairly start
ling—insomuch that the radical leaders
prick up their ears and begin to shy and
show symptoms of balking. The Times
j and Tribune both talk as if they were in
half mind to take the back track. They
declaim eloquently upon the evils of uni
versal, debased and ignorant suffrage, as
exemplified in the last New York city
I election, and feelingly whether the South
| ein plantation hands can be fairly expect
ed to make any better voters than the
“low and ignorant Irish” in New York
city. They explain that what they mean
by “impartial suffrage” is not by any
meaus "universal suffrage.” They would
have tests of intelligence applied. The
election inspectors should resolve them
selves into Boards of educational exami
nation—and no man, white or black,
should vote until he proved himself able
to lead and write aud perhaps to do a few
simple sums in arithmetic. This would
stir up whites and negroes to master the
rudiments of human knowledge, and
purge the ballot of a mass of ignorance
and vice.
But if the Southern negroes are allowed
to vote indiscriminately, what is to pre
vent their being controlled and brought
up by the Southern whites for the worst
of sectional purposes?
This is the current of thought awakened
among some of the radicals by the aston
ishing acrobatic performance of the Bos
ton Post and the Chicago Times. “Equal
Rights and a Common Citizenship and
Manhood,” have lost half their charms,
since these atrocious copperheads have
learned to pronounce the Shibboleth of
the faithful; and no doubt we shall hear a
a good deal that may pass for sober second
thought, when it becomes understood that
the game of politics is hereafter to be play
ed all round upon the broad radical princi
ple of anything for success.
The Charleston Mercury.— We are
authoized to announce that the publica
| tion of the above well-known journal will
be resumed on Monday next. The Mercu
ry was for many years the leading politi
cal paper, not ouly of this State, but of the
whole South, and under a succession of
able editors achieved a reputation as wide
as the Union, and as lasting as the history
of the great political contest that culmiu
ated in the late civil war. It was origi
nally published about forty years ago by a
Mr. Morford. but first came into notoriety
during the Nullification contest,under the
1 editorial management of the late Hon. L.
Pinckney. Among the names that have
since added lustre to its renown are those
1 of John A. Stewart, John Milton Clapp
and Vi m. R. Taber. The present proprie
tor, Col. R. Barnwell Rhett, Jr., conduct
ed the Mercury for some years before the
war, during the whole of that eventful
struggle, aud we doubt not that, by his ex
perience and ability, it will be enabled to
retain the prestige of the past, and secure
success for the future.— Charleston News.
Dawson Manufacture Company.—
This establishment is now iu thorough
working order, and we are much gratified
with the apparently good prospect before
the company. Orders are being constant
ly filled, from various sections, for all
kinds of castings, while the car-building
department may be considered one of the
institutions, cars having already been
purchased, of the company by the S. W.
Railroad, and tested with the most satis
factory results- We have inspected the
freight cars being manufactured at these
works, and are satisfied that they will com
pare favorably with any of the same class
cars now being manufactured intbiscoun-
This estabflshment Is a stepiu the right
direction, and with other evidences of en
terprise on the part of our citizens, bids us
look forward to the day that Dawsou will
be numbered among the manufacturing
cities of the South.— Dawson Journal.
J@*Two reporters have been elected to
the New York Legislature from Brooklyn
—John C. Jacobs, of the IForM, and Pat
rick Ready, of the News.
We may be happy yet.
Information W anted.— Benjamin
Smith, Company H. 40th Regiment N. C.
TANARUS., has not been heard from since the fall
of Fort Fisher. His father, H. H. Smith,
of Rockingham, Richmond county, N. C.,
would feel consoled to learn with certainty
be fate of his son. Editors please copy.
The Cotton Prices.
Cotton in sick. Within few days prices
have fallen about eleven cents per pound
—sss per bale—and what a fall is that, my
countrymen! Buyers too are sick over
the condition and prospects. They feel
very sore and are not expectiug relief
shortly. Indeed they prognosticate fur
ther decline and talk of looking twenty to
twenty-five cents in the face shortly.
There is nothing so weak in the back aud
shaky in the knees as the cotton market
when it gets into one of these ague fits or
collapses. It seems to have no reaction
ary force—no self assertion —uo sturdiness
about it—no solid ground beneath its feet.
Just in proportion as it is pert, brusque
and self-assuming on the rise—does it
slink, despond and whimper lhe moment
prices give way. It is said extravagant
estimates of the amount of the crop pre
vail in the Northern markets and there is
no telling until these are corrected, where
the decline will stop. It is true enough
there is no more telling what will be the
price of cotton than what will be the ver
dict of a petit jury. Meanwhile, the
wheels of trade are well nigh blocked all
round, and we need look for little move
ment, till holders feel forced to “submit,”
or buyers see reason to elevate their fig
ures.
A Singular Circumstance.— The Cul
pepper (Va) Observer says:
A Fauquier correspondent has written
us a letter, from which we give the follow
lug current facts: About thirty years ago,
a lady was intered at Elk Run Church in
a heavy black walnut coffin. The earth
wherein her body was deposited was dry
aud yellow, as it is for the most part in
that locality. Os two bodies buried in the
same grave, this lady's was laid deepest in
the ground, aud there being occasion to
remove the bodies, owing to the destruc
tion of the grave-yard inclosure by the
Federal atmy, thegrave was dug up anew;
but to the surprise of the digger, when he
had removed theupper coffin, he perceived
a quantity of hair that had made Its way
through the slits and crevices of the coffin.
The lid being takeu off, (here appeared a
perfect resemblance of a human figure, the
eyes, nose, mouth, ears and all other parts
being very distinct, but from the crown of
! the head to the soles of the feet it was cov
i ered with very long, thick and frizzled
I hair. The grave-digger, after examining
; it for some time, happened to touch the
| upper part of the head; but was more sur
| prised than before, on seeing the entire
body shrink, aud nothing at last remained
; in his hand but a bundle of rough hair,
i which insensibly assumed a brownish red
I color.
Professorfßawls is of the opinion that
hair, wool, leathers, nails, horns, teeth,
i Ac., are nothing but vegetables, and that
! it is not, therefore, surprising to see them
j grow on the bodies of animals after death.
| He goes so far as to say these productions
may be transplanted as vegetables, aud
j may grow on a different place from that
j where they were firs t germinated.
ISL. Ex-Governor Seymour, of New
York, is not only opposed to the amend
ment, but he spoke out, ou the subject, at
the Cooper Institute. Here is oue extract
from his speech:
We have more to fear from the South if
j it accepts the doctrine of subjugation
| than we ever had to fear from its armed
! rebellion ; we cannot enslave them with
j out enslaving ourselves. We cannot have
! a government whose northern face shall
i smile devoteon to the popular will, and
j whose southern aspect shall frown con
I tempt, defiance, and hate to the people of
, eleven States. The south has compara
tively little to fear from misgovernment;
I its lands have been laid waste ; its system
pf labor broken up; its homesiuproverish
j cd; aud its families thinned by the sword.
| It has seen and felt the worst. It can
! bide its time.
It is not wise or safe to trample upon
! those who for years with desperate cour
; age held their ground against the millions
we sent to the field, and the thousands of
millions of treasury we spent in the con
j test.
Queen Victoria Replies to a Suitor.
—Soon after the death of Prince Albert,
the sooty Emperor Theodorus, of Abyss
inia, hearing of that melancholy event,
aud moved probably by sympathy for the
unfortunate widow, sent to Queen Victor
ia a formal proposal of marriage. The of
fer was treated with silent contempt. His
sable Majesty, after waiting some time,
came to the conclusion that he was in
tentionally insulted, and, out of revenge,
seized the principle Englishmen then
within his dominions. By the latest ac
counts there is reason to fear that ail the
prisoners, as well as an envoy sent out to
j their succor, have beer put to death.—
j Queen Victoria has been induced to dis
patch to her savage suitor an autograph
letter, in the hope of securing the release
of the subjects, if they are not already
released by death.
A New Swindle.— The New Lisbon
(Ohio) Buckeye State says:
A newly married couple, in bridal cos
tume, recently stopped in this place to
spend a few days of the honeymoon. The
groom borrow-ed s2*l of an accommoda
ting gentleman, and then mysteriously
disappeared. The bride wept and tore
her hair at ihus being left without money
aud without friends, and the sympathiz
ing inhabitants of our town contributed
llberaliy for her relief, about one hundred
dollars being donated. She then disap
peared, aud it has since transpired that
the promiseing couple had played the I
same game iu eeveial other towus in the
State.
The Omaha Bepublican estimates
the present population of Nebraska Terri
tory at 60,000 and thinks that during the
past season at least 10,000 of them settled
in the Territory. The people are very
anxious for admission into the Union.
S& Eight-room houses, iu perfect or
der and in the nicest and most healthy
part of London, are rented from £250 to
S3OO per annum.
Horses and Mules.— There is a pretty
active demand in this market for good
horses and mules, for shipment Ssuth. i
Good horses range in price from SIOO to
$l2O per head; and large fine mules atslso
to S2OO per head. There is no demand
for small mules. —New Albuny Ledger.
Mr. Eben P'airchild died in Bridge
port, leaving a large property (some $90,-
OOOV of which he gave all, but $1,500, to
the Colonization Society. The heirs made
an outcry about it, and the matter has
compromise l by the society' releasing to I
them son e i 12,000.
Upwards of two hundred Roman,
coin have been turned out of a gravel pit
at Stalbridge. The greater portion of them
bear the head of Constantine ou the oue
side, and other various characters, such as
meu clad iu armor, supporting a bauuer,
a female on a shield, a lamb with a spear
and a variety of others, many of them be
ing in an excellent state of preservation.
York Tribune’s Wash
ington correspondent says that it is under
stood that Thad. Stevens, at the opening
of Congress, will move the appoiutment
of a joint committee, charged with the
duty of investigating the official conduct
of President Johnson, aud reporting what
action, if any, is required by Congress.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
REPORTED FOE THE JOURNAL ASD MESSENGFK.
Milledgeville, Nov. 19, ’66.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock, A. M.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Yarborough.
Mr. O. P. Beall moved to reconsider the
action of the Senate on Saturday in reject
ing the bill to modify the act creati 3 * 11
CourFy Courts. Ihe motion pre; RAT
and the bill was referred to a special, in o et
mittee of five of the Senate. r
The resolution requesting the Governor
to lay before the next session of the Gen
eral Assembly a statement of the amount
of land owned by the State, and what
price the same would bring, was laid upon
the table for the present.
The bill for relief of the people of the
State was taken upas the special order.
Mr. Gresham offered an amendment ex
plaining the law as it now stauds to mean
that if the fourth of the debt required to
be paid by the Ist of January next, is not
paid, the creditor should have no right to
collect more than the fourth of the debt.—
The amend met was lost.
Mr. O. P. Beall introduced an amend
ment providing that the first section of
the act be so altered that where the debtor
shall fail to pay the first installment he
shall have no right to collect the remain
der until the time prescribed by law, and
that the first installment be required to be
paid by first of January, 1866. The amend
ment was carried.
The bill was finally passed by a vote of
29t0 7, with provisions as follows: Pay
ment of one-fourth of the debt is deferred
till January Ist, 1868. The other provis
ions are the same as in the old act.
The sewn who voted against the amend
ment are, Messrs. O. P. Beall, Gresham,
Kenan, Redding, Strozier, McDonald and
Owens.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
November 19, 1866.
House met.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Brooks.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr. Russell, of Chatham, To amend an
act incorporating the Southern Insurance
and Trust Company.
Mr. Harrison, of Chatham, To repeal
an act pointing the mode of paying certain
fees of solicitor General iu eastern circuit.
Mr. Kirby of Chatanooga, To amend
| section 2132 of the code of this Stale.
Also, for relief S. Watkins.
Also, for relief ofC. A. Price, and A. L.
: McArbor.
Mr. Gartrell, of Cobb, To change time
! of holding Superior Courts iu Blue Ridge
! Circuit.
Also, for relief E. L. Litchfield.
Mr. Hill, of Fulton, To amend charter
of Atlanta Medical College.
Also, To incorporate Iron Manufactur
ing Company of Bartow oounty.
Mr. Braddox, of Fulton, To fix the last
day of May 1885 as the day and date of the
abolion of slavery in Georgia and to fix
the mode of settling equities of contracts
founded on Confederate money.
Also, to provide for the appointment of
a State Geologist.
Mr. Morris, of Franklin, To increase
the saliaries of the Secretaries of the Ex
ecutive Department.
Mr. Dart, of Glynn, To amend charter
of the city of Brunswick.
Mr. McWharter, of Green, To amend
an act defining court contracts.
Mr. White, of Hart, To exempt physi
cians from road duty.
Mr. McDowell, of Heard, To prescribe
mode of summing juries in certain cases.
Mr. Howard, of Lumpkin, To declare of
force the act to incorporate Dnhlonega.
Mr. Mallard, of Mclntosh, To repeal an
act relative to the road laws in Mclntosh,
county.
Mr. Simms, of Newton, For relief of J.
H Rakestraw.
Mr. Kibb e, of Pulaski, To change line
between Wiloox and Pulaski.
Mr. French, of Schley, To incorporate
the Grand Lodge of Kuights of Jericho.
Mr. Holliday, of Stewart, To authorize
Mrs. A. C. Grossman, to act as a feme
sole.
Mr. Shaw, of Stewart, To change mode
of impauneling jurors for trial of crimin
als.
Mr. Wilburn, of Terrel, To define and
regulate the setting apart of the 12 months
support widows and orphans.
Mr. Pottle, To amend the parole code
(Defines insurrection to be combined re
sistance to the laws.)
Mr. Glenn, of Whitfield, To relieve cer
tain consignees from liability.
Also, for relief of Fredick Cox aud Rog
ers.
Mr. Linch, of Coweta, To exemp from
State and county tax for 10 years all man
ufactures of cotton.
Mr. Humphreys,, of Lincoln. To amend
laws relative to disposition of certain fees
in Lincoln county.
BILLS ON’ PASSAGE.
To incorporate Steam Power Manufac
turing Company in Columbus. Passed.
To explain the laws relative to taxing
railroads, foreign msurance and express
companies (the laws in this particular to
be the same as prior to the war 1865.)
Passed.
To incorporate Octnulgee Banking,
Building and Loan Association. Passed.
The following bill was Introduced by
the Finauce Committee: To appropriate
money to reiuter Confederate dead at Re
i sacca.
BILLS PASSED.
To legalize certain acts of Inferior Court
of Wilcox county. Passed.
To prescribe the mode of electing May
or and Couucilmen in Atlanta. Passed.
To exempt millers from Jury duty.
Passed.
To prevent obstructions in Ocklocouee
river.
To increase fees of Jailor in DeKalb
county. Passed.
To compensate Jurors in Decatur coun
ty. Passed.
Adjourned.
A Hint to Law 7 Makers. —We copy
the following fro-m the Charleston News
and commend it to the atteutlon of the
gentlemen now at Milledgeviile :
A Hint to Liquor Dealers.—W
are informed by a gentlemau from Geor
gia that if proper efforts were made a large
liquor trade could be done by our mer
chants with that State. The State taxes
all liquors there twenty cents per gallon,
and this would give great advantage to our
dealers. A little exertion on the part of
some that we could name might increase
their trade enormously.
Sale of Land in Elbert.— The Elber
ton Gazette says: “Last Tuesday the lauds
of the late Mr. George Ganes were sold at
public outcry by his administrators. Oue
thousand one hundred and twelve acres,
sold in parcels, brought $4,851 00—au av
erageofsl3S an acre. The terms were
cash in currency Oue of the parcels was
much enhanced in value by be ng the
site of a mill. The rest is probably of
about average equality of Elbert county
lands.
Alaw 7 exists in Germany to prevent
drinking on the Sabbath during Divine
service. It runs thus: “Any person
drinking iu an ale house during service
on Sunday, or other hoiaday, may legally
depart without paying.”
Our Paris Correspondence.
Paris, Nov. 2, 1866.
To the Editors of the Journal and Messen
ger. *
INSURRECTIONS OK THE SILK WEAVERS
IN LYONS.
The pauper revolution of the silk weav
ers of Lyons now attracts our attention in
The Governor has promised to
'p'l TiSf! Hiorjtnoen of Lyons out of em
<v m a fe*. possible, but it i6
'■ v • of »n ..rdeffort. m, Cni. official*, and
tpnvatej wiil; t>e ineffectual in ame
liorating the future prospects of a ciass
.whose future existence is seriously men
aced by opposition and fashion.
The Caruts of Lyons (weavers) are not
the only ones employed in the manulac
ture of silken goods. There is another
class of weavers who inhabit the country
round about Lyons, whose expeases for
rent aud living being so much less than
those of the weavers living in the town,
work at a cheaper rate, obtain more em
ployment from the manufacturers. This
is, of course, a source of great injury to
the Caruts.
Another cp use of the present distress in
Lyons is that flguredsilks, which weretwo
or three years ago much the fashion, are
now seldom, if ever worn, aud the conse
quence is that a figured silks required
many more workmen than plain silks,
which are being very much worn,
the decrease in manual labor has been
very great indeed.
We bear that tire Empress, ever solici
tous for the welf .re of the working classes
intends setting the fashion of figured silks
and the several ladies of the grand monde
intend imitating her example.
His Majesty, the Emperor, is now ac
tively engaged io superintending the
works of the exhibition. He has also
uarned a commission presidid over by
himselt toreuder what should be doue to
place the national forces in a situation to
assure the defense of the country and the
maintenance ol the political influence of
France,
The Imperial Court will it is thought
proceed to Compeigne In a few days,
where the Emperor and the Empress will
do hospitality to a round of guests, chosen
from the different ranks of society in
France.
THE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.
The Monlteur contains a loug and very
; interesting report to the Emperor from
Mr. Behei, minister of public works, on
the subject of the late inundations in
France. This report coutaius six eol
; umns of the official journal.
The minister first describes iu detail the
; pr'. | ibis dreadful catastro
-1 pbe, which has caused such universal af
flictions in France in no less than twenty
departments. The extent of the loss by
; private individuals is not yet ascertained,
! but Mr. Behei shows that the injury to
public property, such as roads, bridges,
etc., amounts to not less than twelve mill
ion francs.
The great object to be sought was to de
lay the flow of the water by retaining
them in the upper part of the ba*iu, in or
der to avoid a coincidence of the rise of
the different confluents, with that of the
principal river, and thus prevent the rap
id accumulations of waters in the valleys,
which were the sole cause of the inunda
tion.
An attempt on the life of the Emperor of
Austria, was a few days ago made by a
young man, when coming out of the Tch
gue Theatre at Prague, in which city His
Majesty has been sojourning of late, the
arm of the assassin was happily turned
away by an Englishman of the name of
Captain. Palmer. We are at present with
out details of the diabolical act.
The Emperor of Austria, has at last de
cided upon taking into his service, the late
Minister Baron Van Beust, (pronounced
Bost.) This nomination has caused much
umbrage in Berlin,and the ultra—-Hoheng
altien Journal, the Kruiz Zeitung, consid
ers tbat the nomination of the Baron, wdll
be the cause of fresh bickering between
the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna. The
late Minister is considered to be a match
for Bismark.
Baron Van Beust was born on the 13th
of January in 1809. Secretary of Legation
for Saxony In Loudon in 1836, at Faris, in
1838, Minister Plenipotentiary at Munich,
1841. He has been Minister of Foreign
affairs for Saxonyever since February 1849.
To the time of the political reaotiou,
which followed that period, he showed
himself a bitter adversary of liberal aspi
rations and filled the cells of the famous
prison ofNatoheim with the political con
demned. He was the instigator of the
celebrated conferences of Dresden, which
remained without result aud contributed
much £o'iiie r dipl’omatic defeat of Prussia,
at Olmitz. The Baron and Von Bismark,
are as loving to each other as the historical
Kilkeuney Cats. Therefore one may ex
[>ect to hear of the doings of these gentle
men ere long.
The day of the Toursaints in Paris, all
those who have visited the Capital of
France, know that the Ist of Nov. being
the feast of the Toussain, or all saint’s day
is a great holiday, and that the cemeteries
are on this day tiffed with thousands who
repair thither to visit the graves of the
departed relatives and friends, aud for the
most part deposit a crown of immortelles
on the last resting place of the beloved de
parted.
PARIS AMUSEMENTS.
Geitorieus fcardau's play of Nos Erics
Wlagcurs (our good villagers) are being
performed at the Gymanare, is a great hit,
even a greater bit than his celebrated
FamUle Benartors ( the fast family.) Those
wishing to witness the performance of the
popular piece, must often wait a week be
fore beiDg able to obtain a place in the
boxes or iu the Fantinets d’ Oohestre.
Patti is continuing to delight crowded
houses at the Bade Ven Trailer Thegrand
Opera is still actively rehearsing Verdoe’s
Opera of Don Carlos, and the Theatre
Lyriguie, will bring out Gounod s Romeo
and Juliet as soon as a suitable Romeo
can be found.
St. Lazare.
B®.- The Boston Traveler relates that in
a prominent hotel in Nashua, N. H., a
few weeks since, a young lady engaged
board for two or three days, and at that
j time, when about to leave told the land
\ lord a young gentleman would be along in
a day or two and settle for her board.—
The oblging landlord toiu her she had bet
! ter leave her valise for security, which
she did, and took her departure. About
i a week afterwards the landlord opened
the valise, a? no young man appeared,
and found it stuffed full of sheets and pil
low cases that belonged to rooms in his
hotel, and were his own property. The
dady, had improved time during the
3tay* and over” some of the
articles into garments for herself
Trialof Jno. C. Rraine.— John C.
i Braine, of the late Confederate Navy,
was s>naigned on Thursday last before the
United States Circuit Court, in New
York, on the charge of murder and piracy
on the high seas, found, against him in
the iudictment, with the particulars of
which the public are familiar. In reply to
the usual question Braine pleaded not
guilty. He was remanded to jail. The
trial will take place before Judge Benedict
on the 16th iust.
The New Water-Propeller—A Curioai.
lty in Naval Architecture,
From tile London Times, Oct. 23.1
Though we have not been so enterpris
ing as the Americansin devising new mod
els for men of war, yet a report which we
published in our lastimpressiou contained
enough to show that our experiments are
not deficient in audacity, and that our au
thorities cannot be considered absolutely
the slaves of routine. When the Water
witch glides into a foreign port, under full
water, she will astonish the spectators as
completely as the Chinese were astonish
ed at first seeing ships under steam. This
last new plan of making a ship sea worthy
consists iu scutling her. To get a swift,
efficient gunboat of the very latest pattern
we now take a well built cratt and bore a
number of small holes in her bottom, then
fit her with a water-wheel, and so send
her to sea. * *
The Water witch, with all her novelty, is
still literally a steamer. t?he has engines
of 160 horsepower, which turn a huge wa
ter-wheel fourieeu-aud-a-half feet iu diam
eter, aud weighing eight tons. 'lhe water
required for her work is admitted through
holes in the bottom of a vessel to which is
attached a long iron box, somewhat anal
ogous to the “well” of a Thames punt, in
which gudgeon are kept alive. Then the
wheel, put iu motion by the steam-engine,
sucks in this w’ater, and discharges it with
immense force through what we may call
the water guns outside the 6hip. The
form and shape given to these pipes for
the generation of the required force will
be seen in the report, but what remains to
be ascertained is the comparative cheap
ness and general advantages of the force
itself. The advocates of the new system
say that It yields a greater power in pro
portion to the fuel cousumed than tne old
screw or paddle system ; that less power is
wasted ; that the vessels, which is what
the Americans call a “double-ender,” can
be driven either backwards or forward at
pleasure, without any stopping or revers
ing of the engines; and that, iu fact, the
officer iu command on deck can change
the ship’s course as well as modify her
speed instantaneously, without communi
cating with engine room at all. A still
more singular advautaae is claimed for
this extraordinary design. Supposing that
the Watenviteh, or any similar vessel,
when In action, should be struck by a shot
and have her side torn open, the incident
instead of producing any harm, would be
immediately turned to good account, for
the captain would simply shut off the wa
ter from the regular reservoir, and work
his ship with the supply conveniently ad
mitted through the shot-hole. Indeed,
one of the objections urged against the
plan is that the holes admitting the water
to the proper water-box might get choked
upor stopped In shallow water, iu which
case ail euemy’s shot or torpedo would be
a Godsend, and enable the vessel to get un
der way again at once.
We think this idea will bring us well
abreast of the Americans in marine novel
ties. Certainly the Miantonomah nor the
cigar ship can beat the Waterwjtch, with
her prodigious waterwheel, her heavy
guns, her iron-clad sides, and her propell
ing “jets.” As to her seaworthiness, the
guaranty now obtained seems unexcep
tionable. Bhe actually wants three hun
dred tons of water every minute for the
mere purpose of locomotion. How many
leaks or shot holes would it take to let iu
more? Seriously however, though the
success of Friday’s eqperiment appears to
have taken most people by surprise, there
is no reason, on the face of the story, why
the design should not answer, and it is
fortunate, at any rate, that the trial will
not he very costly. The Waterwitch is
only a small gunboat, and even if hydrau
lic propulsion should be found, upon the
whole, to be more ingenious than useful,
wa suppose it would take very little trou
ble to convert our “jet-propeller” into a
“twin-screw.”
Artisans as Heirs-acparent to Eu
ropean Thrones. —Probably three boys
out of four prefer to enter the counting
room, or find a place behind the counter,
under the delusive idea that they will in
this way stand higher iu the social scale
than If they became carpenters or painters.
There are probably hundreds of clerks in
this city, at the present time, who are out
of employment, and would gladly accept
situations at from twelve to fifteen dollars
per week, when, of they had taken the
wiser course of acquiring a trade, their
services would be in demand at double
these rates. Merchants advertising for
clerks or salesman are overrun with ap
plicants, even where the positions offer
only small pecuniary inducements. Why
one form of labor should be considered so
much more honorable than another, we
are at a loss to understand. In Europe
this distinction does not exist in so great
a degree. It is the custom in Prussia for
the sons of the royal family to be instruct
ed in some handicraft. The present
Crown Priuce, and heir to the Prussian
throne, selected the trade of a printer , and
probably, if In some unimaginable reverse
of circumstances crow ns become at a dis
count, he could earn a fair living as a
compositor. The young Prince Imperial
of France is being instructed in the same
trade, under the charge of adept iu the art.
Whether this is a caprice of the young
gentleman, ora partofthe imperial scheme
of education, it is certainly a very sensi
ble arrangement. The career of Prince
Eugene may be as eventful and chargeful
as that of his father; aud he may yet fiud
that the ability to do something useful is
not without its advautages. It would he
well if our rich men would display the
same good sense and foresight. Too often
there sons are brought up with no other
view that of spending fortunes which their
fathers have accumulated; and should
these be lost, by speculation or otherwise,
the heirs-expectant are throw a upon the
world with expensive tastes, and no means
of earning even the necessaries of life. A
good trade, thoroughly acquired, would
not only give a sense of security, but the
time spent in acquiring it would promote
physical visor, and employ time which
might otherwise be spent in some form of
dissipation.— N. Y. Sun.
86?* Boston agents bought up apples at
four and five dollars a barrel, iu anticipa
tion of a failure of the croy. As that
didn’t happen, they have kindly failed
themselves.
There is on hand now at the Post
office anew style of envelope, at 53280 per
thousand, with the privilege of printing a
card of two lines on the face without extra
charge.
The Common Council of Norfolk
have appropriated $4500 to purchase an
other steam fire eugine.
Os the durability of timber in a wet
state, the piles of the bridge built by the
Emperor Trajan over the Danube afford a
striking example. One of these piles W 2»
taken up and found to be petrified to the
depth of three-quarters of an inch, but the
rest of the wood was perfect.
Boston Nov. 12th.—Interesting and
impressive farewell services were held
this afternoon on board the missionary
ship Morning Star, a vessel built with the
means raised by one hundred and fifty
thousand children of the American Sab
bath schools. The services were witness
ed by two thousand persons.
At Bridgeport Conn., the Roman
Catholics are erecting a cathedral to seat
four thousand persons, at a cost of $150,000.
Who’ll be my Dearie.
ForTlie Journal and Messenger.]
I w r ant a lady young and fair,
With spirit ligh L and cheery
With glowing eyes and flowing hair,
To l>e my loving “Dearie.”
To bless me with her sunny smiles,
And cheer my heart when weary ;
To make my home an Eden here,
Aud be for aye my “Dearie.”
Who'll hear with joy my coming step,
Aud sigh to see me weary.
Who’ll lighten care with happy air,
And fondly call me “Dearie.”
When dark misfortune’s hour is come,
And sorrows clouds are near me,
And seeming friends forsake my path
To find her still my “Dearie.”
I ne’er should lieed what others say,
With some fair maiden near me,
Whose heart would beat with joy when I
Should fondly call her “Dearie.”
Then starless nights would turn to day.
And life seem glad and cheery,
Her smiles would light 1113' deary way
While 1 would call her ‘ Dearie.”
Now should this meet the eye of one,
And that oue deign to hear me
I'd gladly have her drop a line,
And she shall he my “Dearie.”
Louie Lagrange.
Macon Georgia, Nov. 14th, 1866.
Strong and Weak Characters. —
Strength of character consist of two things
—power of will and power of self-restraint.
It requires two things, therefore, for its ex
istence—strong feelings and strong com
mand over them. Now it is here we make
a great mistake ; we mistake strong feel
ings for strong character. A man who
bears all before him, before whose frown
domestics tremble, aud whose bursts of
fury make the children of the household
shake—because he has bis will obeyed,
and bis own way iu all things, we call
him a strong man. The truth is, that he
is a weak man ; it is his passions that are
so strong; he, mastered by them, is weak
You must measure the strengh of a man
by the power of the feelings he subdues,
not by the power of those who subdue him.
And hence composure is very often the
highest result of strength. Did we never
see a man receive a flagrant insult , and
only grew alittlepale aud then reply quiet
ly? Thai isa man spiritually strong. Or did
we never see a ruau iu anguish stand, as if
carved out of solid rock, mastering him
self ? Or on bearing a hopeless daily t ria'
remains silent, and never tell the world
what cankered his home peace? That is.
strength. lie who, with strong passions,
remains’chaste; he who, keenly sensitive
with many powers of indignation in him,
can be provoked and yet restrain himself,
and forgive—these are the strong men, the
spiritual heroes.— [Rev. F. IF. Robertson.
Pawnee War Dance.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, travelling with the Pacific Rail
road excursion party, recounts the follow
ing:
The agent of the railroad company, by
making sufficient inducements, had col
lected about forty Indians of the Pawnee
tribe, five or six of whom were squaws.
After a joyous supper, the excursionists
proceeded to their encampment, half a
miledistant, to witness a savage war dauce.
Collected around a blazing pile of faggots
were about thirty-five red skins, iu all
costumes, from au opulent array of em
broidery and eagle and turkey feathers, to
a mere breech-cloth and a collar of beads.
Surrounded by a circle of eager excursion
ists, and to the music of rude tambours
beaten by squaws to thewhining melodies
of their own voices, the braves struck up
their war dance, their hideous implements
of battle and murder in their hands, and
held threateningly overhead, Cruel very
cruel were their faces, and hateful the
savage emphasis of their dance, which is
rather a system of excited, angry aud
fiendishly significant sidelong stamps,
than a graceful exercise. Circling round
the fire with brandished tomahawk aud
pistol, and uttering a sinister guttural to
the barbaric cadence of the chaut, they
presented an impressive spectacle of how
near a tawdry ami heartless brute a man
can be.
The tawny bodies of the Indianssmoked
iu the keen, crisp air, aud between the fit
ful red light of the fire aid the peerless
brilliance ot the moon, every mean ex
pression on their faces was accented, every
bloodthirsty gesture intensified, and their
stature itself exaggerated. Now and then,
with a concluding how l, they paused in
the dance, and one or two would steal off
to a fire, and would seem to become human
again as they despondently warmed them
selves, and caughed. Then the squaws
would resume their nasal ulultation, and
their fierce circle renew their crouching
aud swaying stamps, atid slowly swing
arouud their savage altar of flame.
When, boweve, one drew near and stud
ied them individually', the terrors of the
war dance were mitigated. Their limbs
lack muscular symmetry, their feet are
small bat shapeless, aud their gait ungrace
ful.
The drums he-den by the squaws are
shaped like kegs. They keen good time,
but their melodies are barbaric to the last
; degree, and the discernible syllables in
i the songs are, "Hu ah, bi hi hu, hu ah,”
,or words to that effect. The dancers utter
a wild guttural at each stamp they make,
and at intervals tome of their number add
I to the hideous chorus the treble piping of
■ bone whistles. There they were, nearly
naked, while we were surrounding them
in overcoats and with pocketed hands, the
air being exceedingly frosty.
It w ould seem impossible to a civilised
listeuer, that the songs of the squaws were
anything more than guttural repetitions
of three or four syllables, hut the follow
ing was furui* bed by an interpreter, us a
translation of their savvage doggerel.
Here is one of a warlike flavor:
“We travelled down the stream (Row- j
der River), we travelled down the stream, |
and we found a band of the Cheyennes, j
The great brave, the captain ofourcompa- |
ay t was the cause of our finding them, j
We w>dd have gone back but for him.;
The Great Spirit stuiied on us, and we j
killed all our enemies. Twenty-seven
scalps vre hung iu our lodges. We took
thirty-three head of stock, and we did not
lose a man, or have one wounded —but we
lost five horses.”
The following has a fraternal and his
torical smack:
“We are travelling together—my broth
erandl. We went together on the war
path, and after returning from the war
path we were on, we still w ent together I
through the villag—for we are brothers, j
But there were different ones of the wo-;
men and weak hearts that made fun of us
for going together; they tried to make;
sport of us, saying they did not believe
we were what we pretended to be—that ;
we would stay together in battle. Let
them see if we do not, for we are
brothers.”
Cure for Hoo Cholera,— We have !
been informed by an Illinois farmer of !
large experience that he has for years ;
past raised and fattened many hogs, and
never lost one from cholera. He uses as a
cure or preventive stone coal, which in |
small quuntities he throws into his pens.
The hogs eat it without any mixture
freely. j
NEWS ITEM3.
The Madison (Wisconsin) Union
a man who purchased a can of oyster,. 1
that city, a few days ago in which he found
a genuine pearl valued at from $25 to
Mrs. Gladstone, with her own hand
has rescued hundreds of children from th’
pestilential alleys of Loudon, whom th*
cholera has deprived of pareuts and home 8
A monument to perpetuate the mentor*
of Rev. Robert St rawbridge, the f oun J r
of Methodism in Maryland, has just U
completed iu Mount Olivet Ceuieterv h i"
timore. ’ a *
It is stated in Washington that f’h 1
and the Liberal Government in Mexico
will immediately form a close alliance, thr
terms of which will not probably t*. niR /
known for some time.
A dry goods merchant, name James f
Chrisnian, at Lancaster,, Garrard county
Ky., was shot recently by his partner, W j t ' ( j
whom he bad quarreled about a piece *
silk.
The Sultan of Turkey is building him
self a magnifleeut palace on the lie!,
j phorus, with an immense hot house a! .
tached, which alone will cost Sioooon
Tiie treasury is suppoeed to he very fl ,
but the Multan must have his palace.
During the past fiscal year 4,000,000
ters were returned to the Dead Letter oi*
cein Washington.
There are fifty-five Protestant Cburcbc,
in China.
Fugitive monks and nuns from Italy ar
settling in the Tyrol.
Five American Episcopal Bishops w ,
now in Europe seeking health.
A lad of fourteen died in Taunton last
week from hard drink.
A financial crisis is considered immi
nent in New Orleans.
I he copyright of the Waverly Kovels
is just expiring.
The orange crop of Louisiana this year
is pronounced “magnificent.”
By the recent death of Colonel Hamue!
Swett, Mr Isaac Lincoln is left the sole
survivor of the Harvard class of Ison.
A colored preacher of Virginia, only ]|q
years of age, has just married a gushiug
beauty of eighty.
Elijah Hansbrough, of Hardin county,
Kentucky, raised four hundred bushels, of
potatoes to the acie.
English newspapers do not consider
American news worth paying tbe cable
price for. They wait for the steamers, as
before*
A French firm has offered S6,<XK),eOO for
the privilege of working the lately dis
covered guano deposits of Chili.
An American carried the first Kalian
flag into Venice after the close of the late
war.
The Fenian organization In Ireland has
increased fifty fold during the last three
months.
Mrs. Keenan, of Lowell, was divorced
at ten on Saturday morning last, and mar
ried Jones at foui in the afternoon.
A coroner’s jury in England gave a ver
dict for damages against a locomotive for
screeching too loudly.
A St. Petersburg letter notices about »
dozen railway enterprises already con
structed, aud other works prosecuted by
foreign capitalists or under the auspices of
the government, showing a remarkable
activity throughout the Russian domin
ions.
The Maysville (Kentucky) Eagle says
that the liog colera has been very destruc
tive in that vicinity ; so much so as to
sweep away almost all the swine iu
dial riels. Mauy farmers will have to buy
pork for their own use.
A French paper say's : The excavations
at Herculaneum are expected to be much
more productive than those at Pompeii,
where a great many persons had time to
carry away their chief valuable* before
the storm of ashes and lava overwhelmed
the place.
“My dear young lady,” exclaimed a'
gentleman, “1 am astonished at your sen
timents. You actually make me etart
upon my word you do!” “Well,sir,” re
plied the damsel, “I've been wanting to
start you for the last hour.”
Three men have been arrested in Idaho
for robbing a Ohinamau, and under the
civil rights bill the testimony of (,'bins
tuen against a white man will be for the
first time submitted to a court iu Idaho
Territory.
An English clergyman recently preach
ed a sermon in praise of newspapers. lie
said they had their place, not merely as »
pennyworth of passing go-sip, or for the
latest news of stocks and prices, but as a
part of life’s earnest self culture.
Beautiful Tribute to a Wife.—Fit
James Macintosh, the historian, was mar
ried to Miss Catherine Stuart, a young
Scotch lady. After lier death he depicted
her character, in a letter to a friend:
I was guided iu rny choice only by the
blind affections of my youth. I found an
intelligent companion and a tender friend,
a prudent monitress, the most faithful of
wives; and a mother as tender as children
ever had the misfortune to lose. I met a
woman who, by tender management of
my weaknesses, gradually corrected the
most pertinacious of them. Hhe became
prudent from affection ; and though of the
most generous nature, she was taught fru
gality and economy by her love for me.
During the most critical period of my
I life she relievd me She gently reclaimed
me from dissipation ; sbe p-opped my
weak and irresolute nature ; she urged niv
indolence to all the exertions that have
been useful and creditable to me, and she
j was perpetually at hand to admonish m . v
j heedlessness or improvidence. To her I
i owe whatever I am ; to her whatever /
I shall be. In her solicitude for my Inter
est she has hever forgot my fee bug* <'*
character. Even in bet occasions' f '''
ment, for which 1 but too often '
cause,( would to God I could recall n>i
j moments.’) she ha-J uo suit iu ness or a
j mony. Her feelings were warm, nay, im
petuous; but she was placable, tender and
constant. Such was she whom I b»v#
10.-t, w hen her actual natural sence
improving, after eight years struggle and
distress bound U3 fast together and mould
ed our tempers to each other; wheu ®
knowledge of her worth had refined my
youthful love into friendship, aud bafore
age had deprived it of much of its origin®!
ardor. I lost her, alas ! the choice of af
youth, the partner of my misfortunes, */*
moment when I had the prospect of f> !
sharing rny better days.
“The soul I sway by, ami the heart I tear.
Shall never sway with doubt, nor shake wlt-- ?e * r
Thus exclaimed the doughty Scottish
Chief w hen arrayed for battle; aud thus
may all cry who arm themselves again 4 '
the Legions of Dyspepsia., Headache,
Ague, Sallowness, Languor, Liver Com
plaint, and all their concomitant evils,
with a bottle or two of Plantation Bitters,
the original S. T. —1860.—X. This grea-
Tonic, which i3 still increasing in poP ular
favor, and is effecting more cures than
ever before, is emphatically The P 0"
man’s Friend aud The Rich man 's Blu
ing. Plantation Bitters are sold by ail re
spectable dealers throughout the habitable
globe.
8@“ Mary Knight 13 years old, die l '
cently in Topham, Mo., of a peculiar
ease. Her blood changed to sugar, a-
during herilloess, which lasted six boon f >■’
she would drink as much as a pail 0 v
ter nightly.