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Georgia Journal & Messenger.
J. IV. RI MKi: & (11,. Proprietors.
A. \V. SiKStsK, )
S. KOSK, ) Kditors.
BATURDAY, Dfia 19, 1868.
LANDS l.\ MIDDLE GEORGIA.
From a recent letter in the Chronicle &
Sentinel, we make the following extract.
Quite u crowd assembled in Sparta on Tuesday,
the Ist inst., the day for Sheriff and Administrators’
sales t guess everybody was disappointed in the
estimate of property sold, lands only bringing from
>0 cents to L» 50 per acre, according to quality. A
lot of '2OO acres, with about 20 acres in woods and
the balance in old field pine, brought one hundred
dollars. These low prices, 1 presume, resulted
from an apprehension of defective titles, though a
gentleman informed me that a lot of 210 acres in a
mile and a half of Washington, only brought
twenty-two hundred dollars, and the residence on
it cost three thousand, l’erhaps most of the fann
ers have lands, and some of them would like to
sell, and those who are not farmers hav’nt got the
money to buy with.
in Taliaferro and Morgan counties, llrst class
lands brought from five to eight dollars per acre;
thought to be about their average value.
Such facts as these, while furnishing
much food for vengeful thought and com
ment upon the policy that has caused them,
at the same time show the great advan
tages offered by this section to settlers
from the North and West.
In no other part of the Union can equal
inducements he set forth. With a thou
sand dollars, a man from New York or
Ohio, can buy 200 acres of first rate land
even more than enough for his needs—and
set himself up as a large acred proprietor,
compared with his neighbors in his old
home. He may go West, it is true, and
get virgin soil much cheaper, perhaps, but
lie has to chop his way through it, with
all tiie discomforts, toils, and dangers at
tendant upon settling in anew country.
He finds the climate even more inhospi
table, probably, than the one lie has left,
with rough neighbors, few social, educa
tional or church pr.viieges, and a big crop
of. shakes and miasmatic fevers to he har
vested as matters of course. He gets rich
alter a while, Jt is true, hut at what sacri
ftces ! He is old and care worn before he
otghhto he, and by the time he should he
enjoying the fruits of his labors lies down
and dies.
No such discomforts wait upon him here
in this good old section of Middle tieorgia.
He finds his purchase a little worn per
haps, but only enough to stimulate the
Zealand pride of an active farmer to re
store it toils primeval fruitfulness. He
finds improvements all ready to his hand,
and inviting his occupancy, good schools,
churches, railroads and kind neighbors,
if he shows that he comes to stay and
be one of them in making New Geor
gia even more prosperous than Old Geor
gia was. He finds a climate unsurpassed
in mildness and equalibiljty ; good water;
seasons just suited to iiis needs and labors;
and exemption from diseases of a fatal
type unequalled in the hygienic statistics
of any other country. Earth air and wa
ter all combine to woo and win to its bor
ders a more teeming population than can
he found in any other portion of all this
broad laud. Nature has seemed to decree
it hut circumstances, as ordered, and eon- 1
trolled by man, have temporarily arrested
its execution.
The publication of such items as the
above we regard as the best means to set
the tide in this direction. Northern set
tlers will he scared for a time by Radical
lies as to their possible reception down
here, and the insecurity of life and prop
erty to men from their section, but not
long. The truth will push its way to the
van at last, and tlie temptations we set
forth to the pocket will overcome all fears
and doubts. We have but to bide our
time, and new neighbors, with plenty of
greenbacks, and used to developing re
sources, will soon begin to crowd ue. W»*
must be prepared to treat them so as to
make them our allies, politically, as well
as industrially. We cau do it as easily as
we have madeourown people of one mind
in their views of public policy since the
war. Meantime, however, we must not
abate our own efforts to make the old laud
new in every element of substantial pro
gress and tiirift. We must dig, and delve,
and economize, and learn from every ac
cessible source We must work as though
we never expected any help, and let the
world see that, unaided, we have it iu our
power to do for ourselves, and bg ourselves,
all that we are inviting aid from others to
help us to do. In this direction lies our
path out of the wilderness. A firm re
solve that we will neither he seduced nor
driven from it, is the surest guarantee for
our ultimate and triumphal advent into
the sunlit fields of peace and prosperity,
of financial and political power.
Well Answered.— -Some one recently
wrote to Gagby, one of the sharpest wilted
11 Bohemians” in the Old Dominion, and
editor of the JSalive Virginian, as follows:
By tiie way, what is to become of the ladies and
gentlemen of Virginia, born to affluence, with re
ttned tastes, hut now bereft of means? I wish you
would treat the subject, as you can so well, in vour
1 taper.
To which he makes pointed answer in
this wise: “ Thera is hut one way to treat
the subject. We know a young gentle
man in whose veins the best blood of Vir
ginia and South Carolina is mingled. He
was a good soldier, for he loves war and
hates farming. On the hottest days in
summer, we have seen him, hoe in hand,
sleeves rolled up, arms bare to the elbow,
working like a steam engine from dawn
until dark. This man, by pluck, by in
dustry, and by prudence will win back
what his fathers won before him by means
of the -aine qualities. Not the pride of
race, but tine strength of blood, will make
him a master again. Such a man will not
bo kept down. As for those Virginia la
die- and gentlemen who will not stoop to
conquer, (that fact alone throws a doubt
on the purity of their blood,) they will
live and die miserably.”
Cotton.
The tablet* of oar prices current this week, to be
fouuil on the fourth page of this paper, present
some inter*.-tine figures. They will enable the
reader to look into the future of the great staple
with some degree of certainty.
the receipts at all the porta up to the present
time amount to Thd.STl bales, against 017,4.% laat
year; showing an increase in receipts of 17(1 435
bales.
I'he receipts at Savannah to date, including sea
islands, are 100,189 bales, against 174,210 bale- last
year; showing a decrease of 24,021 bales.
The increase of exports to foreign ports, from all
the ports, is 80,284 bales.
Tim stock on hand at all the ports is 200,942 bales,
against 249,208 last year; showing an increase in
favor of tliis year of 17,7:14 bales.
The stock in the interior markets of Macon, Co
lumbus, Montgomery, Augusta, Nashville and
Memphis, is 48,514 bales.
I ilesc figures would seem to indicate that the crop
of this year will be but very little in excess of the
nop of 1807. Htwannah /fopubticuH, 18 th.
1 KRKIBLE EXCITEMENT IN THE SEN
rpTMwA u V, lo,t!d gentleman, the Hon.
laHiafem, who holds some office in
the Ahi bam a Beuate, Bergeaut ut-Arm-
Lieut. Governor, or something of the sort’
created a high excitement in the Benate
yesterday, A committee was appointed
i<‘ nit upon his case. It seems that he was
walking off with a pair of shoes from
Messrs. Newman & Bro., and had forgot
ten to pay for them, for which little piece
° mrgetfuloess, such as Governor Apple
gate exhibited at Hon Jacob Thompson's
residence, he was made (he subject of a
be oro,m!?°i ~it* m tioneOUltnittee He will
ness the V. ,e - rt ‘ ut *' r forget fu I
ness the better the Radical .-Mont. Mail,
AVIio “ Raised” That Cotton !
The question as to who “ raised” a bale of Cot
ton—not the matter of ownership—engaged the
attention of Justices Uranniss and Logan, and two
of our most astute members of the legal profes
session, all yesterday afternoon, without their ar
riving at a dcliuite conclusion at its close. The
testimony was of the most jumbled up and contra
dictory character, wa think, w e ever listened to.
The circumstances that gave rise to the case were
about these:
A Mr Hill, a planter of Baldwin county, lost a
couple of hales of Cotton from his gin-house,
sometime during the early part of last week, .anil
having reason to suspect that they had been
stolen, brought to Macon and sold, came here to
see if he could not follow up and recover his prop
erty.
Warrants were taken out for the arrest of three
freedmen, living at different points between Maeou
and Clinton, Jones county. This led to the dis
covery of and indentification of one of the bales
in the possession of a gentleman named Sweeny,
who promptly acknowledged to Hall buying the
cotton, and pointed it out.
Sweeny was arrested on a charge of receiving
stolen property, knowing the same to have been
stolen. He was represented by Judge O. A. Coch
rane, and the prosecution by Sam. Hunter, Esq., of
the law firm of Hunter & Harris.
It was agreed by counsel that both cases
should lie disposed of at the same t ime, as far its
Sweeny was concerned—as regards possession of
the property and participation in the theft.
The principal witnesses examined were the three
darkies accused of stealing the Cotton, and enough
elicited to show that the bale of Cotton was bought
by Sweeny from one of them named Janies Wat
son, who had paid Sweeny $5 for bringing the Cot
ton to town in liis (Sweeny’s) wagon. Watson’s
statement at fl ret was, that Sweeny had only paid
him #ll for it, but on giving a list of articles lie
had bought, they amounted in value to very nearly
forty dollars.
Sweeny was promptly dismissed on the criminal
charge with costs, by Justices Grannies and Logan,
who remanded the Cotton to the possession of Mr.
Hill, only requiring the latter to give bond iu dou
ble its value.
Further examination was waived in the case of
Watson, and he and Ed. Franklin were bound
over iu #250 each to answer the charge of burglary.
The case of Mash Jackson, the other freedman,
was continued.
——» > <■
A BLOODY l»t EL
Toe famous dueling ground on the Met.
airie Ridge, known as “The Oaks,” was the
scene yesterday morning of a sanguinary
duel between two young men of tills city,
which has rarely had its parallel in tiie
annals of the code either in this country
or iu Europe. The antagonists were, tiie
one a native creole of New Orleans, the
other a Frenchman by birth ; the provo
cation a blow in tiie face, at tiie hand of
tiie creole: tiie weapons were broadswords;
the hour day break. Arrived on th • field,
accompanied by their seconds, tiie com
batants stripped to the waist, and sword
in hand, in the freezing air of tiie morn
ing, sprung at eaeli other like tigers. There
was no hesitation, or playing to try each
other's skill A few lunges aud cuts were
successfully parried, when suddenly an
upeutfrom the Frenchman's sword wound
ed his antagonist in tiie right arm. The
riposte from the creole laid open the
Frenchman’s left cheek, laying open the
inside and exposing his teeth. Nothing
daunted, tiie wounded man stepped back,
had a handkerchief bound around bis face
and again put himself in attitude of of
fense.
His first lunge penetrated the breast of
his opponent, between the rib and the
skin, but it was made with such relentless
force that it passed ai-o through the off
arm. An attempt was made ai this mo
ment by the seconds to stop the matter at
that point, but the man with the handker
chief around his jaws rushed at tiie sec
ond who was most anxious to settle tiie
matter, sword in hand, asseverating that
naught should quiet his animosity except
a cut across his throat, ihe battle was
renewed and lasted until the creole had
received eight wounds and the other six—
ail severe and painful, out none, it is
hoped, dawrerous. Roth men displayed
extraordinary courage, animosity and en
durance; and during the course of the
bloody encounter, neither was willing to
give up the contest until both had to let
their hands fall helpless to their sides from
loss of blood and tiie pain of their wounds.
The parties were carried home, after
having their wounds dressed : and though
the creole had two more wounds, his sit
uation was more comfortable and less crit
ical than that of his antagonist.—A r . O.
Crescent. 1 nth.
A negro man was brought to jail hereon
Wednesday last for murdering two negro
women near Duncanville, in this county,
a week before his arrest. One of the ,
women was his wife, who he murdered for
her unfaithfulness in leaving him for an
other man, and the other woman was wife j
to the man charged witli giving asylum |
to the murderer’s wife. He confessed the
crime upon liis arrest, and related the hor- i
rible details of the double murder. He *
said he bad for some time intended to kill j
his wife, and sought toshoother, but find- I
ing her on this occasion with the woman
who had aided andencouraged her to leave I
his house, he changed his mind and struck !
her with the gun. The blow felled hell
insensible to the earth, and the other I
< woman now fled to give information, but |
he ran after her and felied her also with!
the gun, and repeated the blows until he
wassatisfled she wasdead. The infuriated !
demon now returned to his still insensible !
wife and with his pocket knife cut her !
throat and went his way.
The Superior Court being in session, he I
will probably be tried during the present I
week.— Thomusvilte Enterprise, ](> th
shocking accident.
A MAN ROASTED TO DEATH.
John Britt came to hi* deatli on Satur- j
day night under the most horriblecircum
stauces, having been literally roasted !
alive.
He was a workman at J. V. Rice & Co’s !
iron foundry, where he has been employ
ed seven or eight years. He has been a i
steady, industrious man, and not much j
addicted to drink, except that he would I
occasionally go on a spree on Saturday I
nights. He had charge of the stable and 1
of the foundry, carrying the keys.
Oil Saturday night a number of men
w’ere employed about the foundry later
than usual getting off some work that had
to be finished that night. \t about quar
ter before 10 o’clock Britt started with the
wagon to take some eastings down to the
Diamon State rolling mill. He had been
drinking, and a man who went with him
testified that tiiey took a drink together
there.
That was the last those about the foun
dry saw of and ceased, but be must have re
turned and put away the team, as it was
found all right next morning. At about
quarter before 11 deceased went to Robiu
sou’s restaurant, near the foundry, where
he got something to eat. He staid there
until about quarter past 11, and then went
out with a man, to whom he stood talking
until 12 o’clock ; h > remarked that lie
thought he saw a light in the foundry,
and would go and see what it was.
That was the last that was seen of him
until his children went into the foundry
on Sunday morning to hunt him, and
found his burning body; they ran for the
foreman, who went down to the foundry
immediately and found Britt’s body lying
in the trench, and against a red-not east
ing, the bodu in a blase, and oue leg partly
burned oil, so that there was no sign what
ever of the lower part except the sole of I
Ins boot.
T his trench had been dug the night be
fore around the rim of a large fly wheel
just cast, so as to expo-e it to the air and
let it cool fast. Deceased krew the wheel
was there, and saw the trench being dug
and how he ever got into the trench with
one side pressed tipagainst the red-hot iron
is a xn.vstery 1 hough he had been drink
ing, he does not appear to have been so
drunk as to be uuable to control his move
ments, while he was so familiar with the
foundry that he could go about it at night
without a lamp. The aftkir is as mysterious
as it is horrible.— Wilmington (Del.) Com
mercial.
Southern Credit.— The depreciation of the
credit or the Southern States, under their carpct
bag governments, tlnds a conspicuous offset lu the
appreciation of individual credit of the Southern
jH-ople. Ido not lind, in commercial eircles, any
thing so much talked about as the rapidity with
which the southern people are extricating" them
selves from their diltieulties, and getting, as the
> ankces say, “forehanded" with the world The
movement of gold towards the South, to supply the
demand from those who wish to place their savings
where they may he available in extraordinary con
tingencies, is regarded as demonstrating that the
pro tits of the late cotton crops have been lar<*e
Every just consideration dictates the prosecution
of this good work. It may be that the “love or
money is the root of all evil/’ but to be out of debt,
with a little cash on hand. Is a great promoter of
good feeling, and “charity,” the greatest of Chris -
tian virtues.
The “State debt” outrages can be dealt with in
their own proper time; “wait a little longer.”— X.
T. Car. Augusta ConstitHtionulist.
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GEORGIA J<>ITR NA I, AN D MESSE NGE R.
i'l RIOt S MAM’F \CTLREP.
|Front the Philadelphia United States Gazette.j
Pliny was certainly a trump. The more
we read him ihe more vehemently we as
sent to tiie assertion of Solomon, that there
is “nothing new under the sun.” We re
viewed, the other day, a work by this
ghind old gentleman upon the cultivation
of asparagus, and She horticultural mag
nates of to-day will c mfess, thatsixstalks
of that esculent weighing sixteen ounces
in the aggregate, are entitled to serious
consideration'at every fair on the part of
the committee on premiums.
Borne people differ from our friend l’iiny
as to llie original of felt clotb. They
claim that another grand old gentleman,
i-t. Clement, placed a bunch of carded
wool inside his -initials to protect his feel
from friction, when starting upon a long
and weary pilgrimage. The Westons and
other pedestrians of to-day do that lor
money which the saints of old did purely
ai acts of piety.
Alterßt. Clement completed his journey
the mass of loose wool, placed by him up
on the soles of his sandals, came out of
them matted into a cloth. This was the
first “felt” ever produced, providing the
Clementine theory stands like a waslitub,
upon the merits of its own bottom. The
f.ct is that wool possesses an adaptability
for working ttiat can he imparted to no
vegetable production. Under a microscope
every filament of wool or fur shows barns
along the entire length, and each of them
has a larger and a email end. They literal
ly fit into each other, and a felt cloth that
can thus be nmole from animat fur or hair
that, from tiie vegetable kingdom, can
never be produced. The microscope tells
the whole story, and a microscope issoitie
thing that, the head of every family, if he
has not already purchased one, should
immediately secure.
By the politeness of a pair of scientific,
and yet practical business gentlemen, we
were yesterday shown these remarkable
serrations tipou a single hair. The finest
wool shows under a powerful glass tiie ap
pearance of a continuous vegetable growth
wi h uumerous sprouts, ali pointing to
ward thesmallerend. As many as I wen'y
four hundred of them have been counted
under this glass, in a single inch of Merino
wool.
Felt, cloth is made by pressing together
tins wool or fur until it becomes a comnaet
mass. Patent after patent for its produc
tion has been taken out. The “ New
York Beamless Clothing Company ” was
one of the first and most successful to
avail themselves of tiie advantages of a
material of which garments could be made
in one entire piece. Felt lias peculiar
properties. Under ordinary circumstan
ce it is for a long time water-proof; it
does not wrinkle ; while to the eye it pre
scots tiie appearance o. llie very finest
! Melton. Having neither warp nor woof,
its surface is entiieiy even. From it are
made every article of wearing apparel,
leggings, piano and table covers, cloaks,
hats, slippers, mittens and other things,
| ail of remarkable strength and durability.
Bo rapid is the process of manufacture,
! that in twenty-four hours after a sheep is
| sheared, his wool may lie converted into
1 a garment ready for wear. If this is not
enough to make a sheep feel proud and
| fall back upon his dignity and his fleece,
i tiie question now comes in. what is? In
i Lawrence, Massachusetts, they make felt
j carpets that excite envy in the bosom of
i Brussels, while as to is value as a jacket
: for a defective boiler, tiie old city ice boat
will answer all questions propounded toit.
What Philadelphia has reason to be
proud of is this : that u wide-awake firm
of manufacturers at Germantown have
purchased and renovated an abandoned
factory, are giving employment to two
hundred and thirty people, mostly fe
males, and are maki from felt cloth the
grand duchess skirt, table and piano cov
ers, cloaks and various other articles of
apparel, by a process of which the patent
belongs (o Philadelphia, and which is to
a large extent revolutionizing the art of
embossing upon this particular fabric,
i The felt cloth is made in New England,
Its production is one of the few things
: in which Yankee laud has distanced us.
But we sell back to them the ski.ls and
other articles thus wonderfully beautified
by the work of our operative s in Gerinan
- town. The art consists in embossing
| upon the plain feltgarment most beautiful
I patterns in raised work, but so filled in
i with the materials as to be part and parcel
iof it. Heat and tremendous pressure are
| the only agents employed.
The art gives to the petticoat a wonder
ful degree of beauty. Our grandmothers
would have stared at the innovation, but
there may be nothing new under
the sun, there is a great deal that is very
strange. Our Quaker friends are alike
down upon embroidery*und semiquavers.
They look upon indulgence in either as a
waste of time. Philadelphia can now sup
ply the world with innumerable articles
of felt, all radiant as a flower garden into
which needle never entered, and upon
which paint or pencil never was applied.
The invention is but of a few* months’
standing. It struck our reporter as com
ing under the head of curious manufac
tures, and so it does. It gives light and
elegant employment to at lea-T two hun
dred young women of Germantown. The I
factory operations are conducted with all
the dignity and decorum of a young ladies’
semiuary. Like some new discovery in
heliograpby or photographing, tiie art is
at present meeting with great favor. At
the leadingcitiesofthe Union some people
now hear of Germantown, Philadelphia, j
who for the firs: time understand that it
is not in Germany, There are a great J
many things about Philadelphia that Bos- j
ton and New York only learn when they j
can’t help it. One of tiiese tilings is mat
Philadelphia has taught the world how* to j
produce in any desired colors, upon a ;
ground of gray, an artistic baso relievo
representing any design that may be de- j
sired.
HAIR VXD HAIR R\ MS.
The attention which we called some
time since to the new’ and perfect black
i hair dye which Dr. M’CalJ Anderson,
! lately incidentally hit upon, produced a
i long series of commentaries from accom
plished dermatologists and others well
qualified to speak on the not. uninterest
ing subject. Mr. Erasmus Wilson, a lead
er among the professors of dermatology,
now enters upon and discusses the whole
question in a aeries of very interesting
observations in the Journal of Cutaneous
Medicine. He observes that the hair owes
its property of dyeing to its porosity,
which ia evidently greater than its physi
ological structure would lead us to infer.
Another of its properties—namely, the
presence of sulphui m ils constitution—
renders it proue to darken under tlie use
of certain mineral substances ; for exam
ple, lead and mercury, whose compounds
wit ■ sulphur are black. Thus, if a weak
solution of lead or murcury be brushed
into the hair, a certain quail ity of the so
lution will penetrate the hair, and a dark
color will tie produced, in consequence of
the formation of a suiphuretof lead orsul
phuret of mercury. The depth of the
shade of color will depend upon the quan
tity of sulphur present in the hair; and as
red hair anddight colored hair contains
more sulphur than dark hair, the result
will in that case be comparatively greater.
But where the amount of sulphur is too
minute to produce the dye, science sug
gests the means of introducing more sul
phur, as is illustrated by a reversal of the
process, in the following quotation from a
paper by Dr. M’Cali Anderson, on FJczema
Marginatum:
“During the treatment laccidently ills'
j covered what promises to be the most per
fect black dye for the hair which has been
seen. Aft:' 1 ’ having u-ed tiie bichloride
lotion for some weeks, I changed it for the
lotion of hy posulphate of soda ; and the
morning after the tirst application thebair
of the part, which before was bright red,
iiad become nearly black. One or two
more applications rendered it jet black,
while neither tlie skin nor the clothing
were stained. I saw this patient a couple
of weeks later, and there was not the least
deterioration of color, although, of course,
as the hair grows the new portions will
possess the normal tint.” The reason of
the escape of the epidermis, while the hair
was so thoroughly dyed, is tliut it contains
no sulphur.
Ikon for the South Georgia and
Florida Railroad. — It affords us pleas
ure to announce that Mr. R. H. Harda
way, President of the aoove railroad, has
returned from the North, where he suc
ceeded in negotiating the bonds of the
Company and purchasing iron for the
whole road between Thomasville and
Albany. The first cargo will arrive about
the Ist of March. 7ho-masvilta Enterpri.se-,
1 iith.
+*+
A Point for Insurance Men.— The
America, one of the mail boats destroyed
in the upper Ohio, was insured (a si te risk
only) for $130,000. Through the humane
impulse of her captain she was run up
alongside of the burning boat United
States,-and she, too, caught fire and was
burned. Is not her insurance in validated ?
[Richmond JH*j>at«h, 15th 1
THK MTV BRITISH (’Alii YET.
LOWE.
Next to Mr. Bright, Mr. Lowe is proba
bly the most remarkable member of the
new Cabinet. He is fifty-seven years of
ai | accomplished scholar, a corrfium
mate orator—and, as a master of the dan
porous a lid glittering art of satire, he K
s- • yui only to Disraeli. He is a infill of
In illiaat genius, a writer for tiie London
Times, and a Liberal of a peculiar devejop
m -nte ii was his defection from the Lib
erals on the reform question that eaflWyl
the downfall of the last Gladstone Uajdn&Mf
and the elevation of Disraeli. He disrftus e
the people. Nevertheless, he is a mail of
progress and ideas, and is in favor of the
abolition of invidious disabilities on ac
count of religion, lie probably goe* into
tii- new Cabinet because lie would be too
iroubl' -.omo, if not dangerous out of it.
He is the new Chancellor of the Ex
chequer.
MR. GOSHEN',
President of the Poor Law Board, would
in- more a! home as President of the Board
ot Trade, or Chancellor of the Exchequer.
!i. is the youngest man in the Cabinet,
being only 30 years of age. But lie lias
ae, i ved bis position and reputation by
bund work, and entirely without aristo
crr.iieiaHuenee. He is the author of sev
er.-.d works on finances, and was a Director
of the Bank of England, a position li« was
obliged to resign a few years ago to enter
the Russell Cabinet.
THE DUKE OK ARGYLL
Is a fine example of an Eng! sii nobleman
of fortune and high ••ul'ure, devoting his
life to political and scientific studies. He
is ihe author of several metaphysical and
scientific works of standard authority, and
is a consistent Liberal. The Earl of
Hartington, tiie Postmaster General, may
lie still remembered in New York as the
English nobleman whogoenthu-iastically
manifested his admiration for the South
when in this city o.i his American tour
during i lie civil v, ar.
The chief merit of J£arl Spencer, the
Lord-Lieutenant of mffaTid, is bis gre at
wealth, which probably gained him the
position, as it is always an object wii.ii
every English Cabinet to dazzle the Irish
into admiration of England by the display
of second royalty.
EARL CLARENDON,
the Forigu Secretary, is an old bean, who
lias cultivated diplomacy wltii very super
ficial though showy attain men 18. He is a
friend of Louis Napoleon, tiie Italian lib
erals, aud Jeff Davis ; and gave Secretary
Seward and Minister Adams a world of
trouble during our civil war, by hi? con
nivance with tiie explains of Anglo-Con
federate privateers. He is tiie last man
Americans would desire to ste intrusted
with the settle me ill of i lie Alabama claims,
which Reve dy Johnson’s blunders hand
over to the Grant administration He
helped to precipitate tiie last war against
liu sia, and is understood to sympathize
with the “sick man” in Turkey, who cer
tainly never i ceded aid more than at pres
ent. Ear! ( Tale,.don is sixty eight fen:s of
age.
ETCETERA.
The other members of tiie ministry are
of no great : ccount. The most prominent
is Mr. Caldwell, u Peelite, who is
tury of War. If John Stuart Mill had not
lost is is seat in Parliament, he probably
would have received an appointment. He
is one of the very few men in Eugiaud
whose counsels the nation can least afford
to dispense with.
LAKE RUSSELL,
it appears, is to be iuid upon an nppershelf
of tiie Cabinet as a member without a de
part meat. This immunity from the active
duties of official life is due to his great
age. He is to viu the seventy-sixth year
of his age, and belongs to three generations
;of English statesmen. He .w .sa leader in
tiie first reform movement of 1832. par
ticipated in tiiatof 1808, and it was lilting
to assign him an honorary position iu the
Cabinet whi ,*h i» the latest aud oest devel
opment of modern progress in England.
[xY. y. (Joitinn ul Adw.rtiscr, 10 th.
IVOLHSVi, si El R AGE.
U Likely to <lo About tiie Proposed
\ tueiMbueni.
J Washington Correspondence Oil Enquirer.]
The suffrage ami naturalization issues
and tiie finance propositions stalk out in
advance of ail other propositions, aud
demonstrate themselves as the predomi
nant topics of tn • enuiug session. The
double aim on the voting matter seems to
be the happy thought of making it possi
ble for every negro to vote, nniT text to
miraculous mra foreigner to get a chauce
to become a citizen. How badly tiie Rad
ical party were shaken up, aud iiow they
concede a preponderance of all tiie actual
legal voters to tiie Democracy, are evident
from the intention to coerce uegrosutfrage
by amendment on ail tiie States, and so
revise naturalization laws as to make it
impossible for men indisposed to great
difficulty to take out tiieir papers. Tiie
last session of the Four tietli Congress is to
be solely engineered in the inu-rest of
securing tiie future of tiie Radical party ;
any such tiling as legislation is not to he
considered, apart from its specific political
value to tiie party in power. For the first
time in his to i y are laws to be made soieiy
iu behalf of the majority who have gerre
mandered themselves into Congress. Any
unpartisan effort iu behalf of our credit,
our commerce, our industry, ourinternai
improvements, looking toward Tie settle
ment of our foreign relations, or tliedevei- j
opment of our resources, may not be ex
pected. It is to in' a political session, and j
tiie open Legislutuie will only put into I
statute the decrees of the secret cause.
But this sulfrage business-is not to be
| consummated without serious opposition
j in the ranks of the Radicals themselves.
1 So influential a man as John Bherman, of
i Ohio, is committed to the intention of op
posing the proposed amendment, because
lie declares that it would lose to the party
Ohio, 1 ndiaua, Illinois and Missouri, to
the end of time. He says that the tradi
tion of the Government is to leave suffrage
to the States, except such as have put
themselves uuder the ban of rebellion.
Howard, of Mich, is toady enough, despite
his former violence, to fall in with the
new programme, for the wholesome tea
sou that his Slate stamped to the death
the idea of negro suffrage last spring.—
Likewise Caltell, of New Jersey, though
by nature of the most pronounced Radical
bent, has heard voices from Bergen to Cape
May, to the same effect as Howard. Here 1
aie three prominent and not uninfluentiai
Radicals who hangs lire, to say the least, !
and it is certain that if the Democracy in i
the Benate candidly andstrougly meet the !
issue in a statesmanlike and not in a par- j
tisau spirit, they can defeat the amend- i
ment. In the House it will probably pre
vail, because the identical two-thirds
hardly enough to impeach Andrew John- j
sou, are still available for any purpose. '
Returning to the Benate, it is quite certain !
Unit Fowler, of Tennessee, Renders n, of
Missouri, Ross ol Kansas, and very proba
bly Fessenden, of Maine, will decline to
precipitate the party on so hazardous an
issue. Their policy is to conserve and not !
to risk. Senator Pomeroy’s amendment
proposing universal suffrage in the true
sense of the word, including, as it does, ali i
the women will not secure more than a I
semi humorous debate.
A New Product.—At, a recent meeting
of tiie Btale Agricultural Society of Flori
da, in lallahassee, the Floridian suys :
Major White called the attention of the
society to an article of commerce hereto
fore overlooked. He stated that the Pal
metto of our coast contains a sap, which
by evaporation, becomes a superior glue!
The sap is obtained by tapping tiie tree
similar to the manner'in which the sugar
maple is tapped. One tree will run as
many two gallons. The glue produced is
used in shell-work, and it is thought that
if introduced it would supersede all other
mucilages with cabinet makers and book
binders.
—
Complimentary.— Donn Piatt, the cor
respondent of of the Cincinnati Commas
oial, jiays the following compliment to the
Republican party:
All the proper people attacked Butler. j
lam so sick of nice people—proper peo- |
pie in our party. I abhor the respectable
platitudes. Possessing more real rascality
than any organization ever known to hu
manity, we are dying of an over-dose of
propriety. Our thievish lingers areeover
ed with kid gloves, and we plunder the i
poor agriculturists and rob the Treasury
with a grace and refinement really beauti
ful.
...
Wonderful Case of Parturition.— The fol- j
lowing, to which we give publicity, is one of the j
most extraordinary incident- known in the annals
Os nature:
Some live weeks since, a cow in this city, belong
ing to John Rhodes, gave birth to a calf, which '
survived and is now thriving finely. Wonderful to i
relate, the same animal has just been delivered of •
another calf, which also lives and is doing well. j
Hany persons have visited this remarkable cow j
with her two calves, and the circumstance creates
no little surprise.
The facts are, attested beyond doubt. —Cnthbert
Appt<H, 18 th, ’
CTRIOSITIE* OF ICE.
In 1850, Mr. Farraday discovered that
two pieces of ire placed in contact froze
together almost instantaneously. Mr
Tyndall says: ‘‘One hot summer day I
entered a house on the Strand. On the
window fragments of ice were lying in a
lias in. The tradesman gave me permis
sion t.o take the pieces of ice in my hand.
Holding tiie first piece, I attached ail llie
other pieces in tiie basin to it. Tiie ther
mometer was then above sixty degrees,
and yet all the pieces were frozen to
gether.” In this way Mr. Tyndall formed
a chain of ice. This experiment may be
made even iu hot water. Throw two
pieces of tee in a paii full of almost hon
ing water, keep tiieni in contact, and tlitcy
will freeze together despite the high tem
perature. Mr. Farraday made another ex
periment of tiie same soft. He threw in
to a vessel full of water several smell pieces
of ice. They floated <ui the surface of tiie
water. The moment one piece touched an
other,there was an instantaneous freezing.
Attraction soon brought ail the pieces in
contact, so that i.i an instant an ice chain
was form and
An ice wheel turning on a surface of iee
refreezes at the point of contact; during
the rotation a series of cracks are heard,
which show (lie ear that successive re
freezing is constantly taking place. The
phenomenon of refreezing is easily ex
plained. At the surface of a piece of ice
Ihe atoms, which are no longer in equi
librium on the outside, tend to leave their
neighbors, as happens in boiling or evapo
ration. Meitiugensues. But if two pieces
of ice are brought t getlier, tire atoms on
the surface are restored to their equilib -
rium, the attractive action becomes what
it was, the atoms resume their relations
with their neighbors, and juxtaposition
en-uew. In consequence of this properly,
Ice is endowed with singular plasticity. A
rope and a knot or buckle may be made of
iee. It may be moulded. Tiie school bov
who tills his hands with snow and com
presses it into a hall, produces the phe
nomenon of refteeziug, and forms an ice
ball sufficiently hard to prove a dangerous
projectile.
This explains the extraordinary rigidity
of tin* bridges of snow which are often
seen in the Alps mui<pended over deep
crevasses. The Alpine guides by can
tiously walking on those snowy tm.--es
freeze the particles together and transform
tiie snow into ice. Ii snow be compress-d
in .moulds ice statuette* may be obtained.
Fill a hollow b ill with snow, pressed in as
hard as possible, and you may obtain
ice balls admirably translucid. Nothing
would t.e easier than lodine with a service
made of moulded snow—(dates, gla-s***,
decanters, ail of snow. A centicman in
Praia recently *i-rve<t sherry wine to his
friends before a hot fire in beakers made
of snow. Snow compressed in this way
does not melt so raj ldiy ns might bo
thought, ice requirt s a great deal of Lent
before it melts. A layer of iee often be
comes a protection against cold. If you
would prevent anything from sinking to
a temperature below thirty-tw > degrees
during the very severest fiosts, we know
you have but t<> wrap it in wet rags.
i lie process of freezing gives to the en
vironing bodies all tin* tieat necessary to
destroy it. Tiie water in the rags slowly
forms small piece <>f h*e on the rag, and
in tiie meantime disi ngages In-at, which
warms the object wrapped in tiie rags.
A tree wrapped in rsgs. or in moss satu
rated with water, d'-es not freez,- even
when tiie tlicrnionvT-r is - veral degrees
below the point. Tiie slowness with
which ice melts is well ' i-own. During
the winter <>f 17-hi Use Czar built at rd.
Petersburg a magnificent palace of ice,
which lasted several years. Since then
e*unnotis have been made of ice, and U;**y
have been loaded with b-lls and fired.
They were fired t- n limes without burst
ing. It is consequent’y indreputable that
ice melts slowly, and may be turned to
good account in the Polar regions. In
Siberia tiie windows have p-itics of ice.
The returnkabie property with which
particles of ice are endowed of moulding
themselves into different shapes by re
freezing. easily explains how glaciers
make the;: way through narrow gorges
and expand in valleys. Ihe ice is broken
into fragments which refreeze whenever
they touch.
Professor Tj udall says: "When two
pieces of ihe ice at the melting tempera
! lure are pi eed m contact with each other
tn y ireeze together, and even when two
i t -i-fs floating on water touch each other
they freeze t getlier. To this freezing to-
I gelher t e term regulation Las been ap
l plied. It ia by pressure and regulation
that glaciers arc formed; tin-snow grannies,
when powerfully squeezed together rege
late, and form a coherent ina-s. It is by
this property that a glacier accommodates
itself to tiie valley which it tilts. We can
thus out of small fragments form n sphere
of ice ; out of the sphere weean form a
len-: nut of the iens a cup. Two ice-cups
placed edge to edge freeze together and
form a hollow up here. In these cases tiie
ice i- first crushed, and then regelated; but
w*nen tiie passage is very gradual tiie
change is gradual, and tiie ice behaves
like soft wax Jr can be moulded into any
form. Rings, vases, statuettes, can In*
thus made of iee; and these once pro
duced may bo turned u> the following prac
tical use: Pour plaster of Paris into a v*—
sel, place on it an object moulded on i e;
then pour plaster over tiie ice. The j.lus
ter will get around it, aud the ice may be
melted, and the space it occupied left,
ill is in tiie simplest way we may obtain
perfect plaster moulds, from which nittul
castings can be taken.”
Ibis process is much like a very old one
used by sculptoig to cast in bronze; they
made tiie model in clay, coated with wax
of tiu- thickness intended fur the bronze;
tlieu coated outside with clay, or o.hei*
moulding material. When dry, the mould
w’as heated gently and Luked, tiie wax run
out or was expelled as gas in tiie baking,
and the cavity was left in a proper state t-i
receive tiie bronze.— Junar/c Journal.
It tllll tL DEM % \ 1)8.
The I’ltliDaliiin of Wendell Phillips.
There are three points to which we ask
earnest and immediate attention.
The first is, an amendment to the Con
stitution. Beveral members, in the House
and Benate, have offered forms for this,
while Mr. Btimner proposes a bill for the
same purpose.
A Constitutional amendment is prefer
able Blow ami somewhat uncertain as
this is, we dread Chase and his Court so
much that we hope the Constitution will
be fortified.
Meanwhile, every form that we have
seen is deficient.
Judge Kelly offers the following:
" Jlesolved, That, two-thirds of both
Houses concurring, the following article
be proposed to the Legislatures of the sev
eral Btates as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the United Btates, which,
when ratified by three-fourths of saiil
Legislatures, shall be valid as part of said
Constitution, namely:
“ Article —. No Btate shall deny or ex
clude from the exercise of any of theriglils
and privileges of au doctor, any citizen of
the United .Stales by reason of race or
color.”
We remember the example of Georgia,
! and hence we claim the insertion, after
the word “elector,” of tiie following—“or
j from eligibility to office.” This seems in
t dispensable.
We urge immediate action. The usual
law of political reaction learns to give the
Government to tiie opposition ia 1872.
There is no such loyal majority as guar
antees against it. Twenty-seven thou
sand votes, changed from one side to the
other, would have elected Seymour In
such circumstances the present: Congress
ought to anchor tliis great principle be
yond the possibility of ever being re
moved.
Secondly—ls Johnson goes quietly out
of ofiice on the 4th of March, it will be
proof that no President can be impeached
—that Republics cannot defend them
selves. If that be so, we shall advocate
the abolition of the Presidency. It must
not be possible hereafter for a Prince <>f
Assassins to hold the White House. In
behalf of the unsheltered loyalists of tiie
South wee aim the immediate impeach
nieutof Andrew Johnson.
Thirdly—The situation of Georgia de
j mauds tiie instant attention of Congress.
: She has swindled tier colored population
out of their rights to ofiice. The con
struction she thus makes of the iaw is
absurd; au houest Judiciary would set it
aside.
But Congress must trust to no such dep
uty. It must face the duty fearlessly, it
must- find, or make, some way to keep
sucli a Btate out of Congress. Tiie legal
acumen of the Benate will be sufficient
we doubt not. Meanwhile we venture to
suggest that, if no better way can he
found, both Houses lay the credentials of
the Georgia members on the table; and
leave them there until the 15th amend
ment is adopted. Then uuder the provi
sion, bar out the Btate until she complies
with it.
W© shall take occasion to present in de
tail the urgent reason for each of those. I
For the present we simply suggest the
points, and most earnestly demand action. 1
[From the Imb People. J fe
K Vi'HI.EK'. WITH TUB CiOLIKCA Iltjit.
BY JAMES KENAN.
Beside the limpid brook we played.
In childhood's happy, happy hours,
Or through the dells and valleys strayed,
Aud gathered bright and beautiful Mowers;
But noYrgrew flower in the dell.
That to my fancy seemed so fair,
As she ror young heart loved so well,
Sweet Kathleen with t letrbklcin hair.
Beneath the green and spreading oak,
That by the little streamlet grew,
One eve our rows of love we spoke,
And, parting, promised to he true:
For 1 must sail o’er ocean wide,
A sailor’s stormy life to (hire,
To win h guerdon for my bride,
hweet Kathleen with the golden hair,
I sailed afar o’er many seas,
In <{uict calm and furious storm,
But still her voice spoke in the breeze.
My dreaming eyes beheld her form :
At length returned to meet my love.
My gathered wealth with her to share,
But the willows droop and grieve above
Post Kathleen with the golden hair.
I sit again 'neath the old oak’s shade,
And the moonlight falls on the limpid brook,
As it shone on the eve when our vows we made,
And a parting kiss from her lips 1 took,
For her light footsteps I list once more,
But she ne’er again will meet me there;
She waits, 1 hope, by the heavenly shore,
Loved Kathleen v.-ltli the golden hair.
*•* ■
• LET I S il A VK PKAl'E.''
l-raiit** Intention* ai Kant Clearlv Refilled.
[From the New York Tribune.]
To tin Editor of the Tribune :
Do you know that you have a pack of
idiots in the Tribune Bureau here? I do.
1 can explain how anil why I know i!. I
came to the Bureau I hi l morning as usual,
putting myself to trouble and expense to
ilo favors lor people who have uot asked
them, and 1 . aid :
“Gen Grant is speechless.”
The head idiot said, “ Is t> is so?”
i replied, “ il is.”
T he First assistant idiot asked a similar
question, and received an t qnaily similar
answer. Then the Afflicted (meaning
your Bureau people; telegraphed it to you,
and shortly afterward sold it to thegeutle
men of the Associated Press at the usual
rates, viz: two doughnuts a line—for f
never have seen any circulating medium
among the Washington correspondents
hut doughnuts yet.
Then 1 went away. Now 1 am accused
of saying General Grant was dangerous!/
ill, ami procuring it to he telegraphed ail
; ovi-r the country. It is false. 1 simply
said he was speechless. I simply meant
he never made public speeches. I was
greatly surprised when they telegraphed
it as a matter of news I earn? near say
ing »o even at ti.e time. 1 couldn’t see
a y sense in making news of it, further
than as a mean<-> of acquiring dmnfhnuts.
All that put ii into my hum in the first
place was the fact that I had been up try
tug to get at General Grant's opinions aud
intentions c<> r-eruing certain matters,
and had found him in a mat.tier speech
less, I said to him:
“ :~ir, \vh :t do yon projjose to do about
returning to a specie basis?” To which
he made no reply. Then 1 sail:
“Sir, do you mean to stop the whisky
frauds, or do you mean to connive at
ihem?” T<> which he replied as before.
I now said :
“Do you intern! to do straightforwardly
and unostentatiously what every true,
high-minded Democrat has a right toex
|K.*ct you to do. or w ill you, wi’h accus
tomed obstinacy, do otherwise, and thus,
by your own act, compel them to res >rt to
arass-ination ?” To which lie replied :
“Let us have ; • ace.”
“Sir, do you comprehend that you are
not the President of a party?—that you
were not ejected by your own strength,
but by the weakness of Ibe opposition?
that, consequently, the Democrats claim
you, and justly and righteously expect
you to administer the Government from a
Democrati - point of view?” Riotous si
lence.
“Sir, who is to report the customary,
necessary, coherent, and inat.ru-: ivc “in
terviews with the President’—‘Mack’ of
ti e Enquirer, ‘J. B. 8 ’ of the World, or
myslf f r the Tri/iunr ?”
General Grant said: “Let us itave
peace.”
I resumed: ".Sir, do you propose to
exterminate tire Indians sudd -illy with
snap and education, or doom them to the
eternal annoyance of warfare, relieved
only by periodical pleasantries of glass
beads ami perishable treaties?” No re-
Spot)B n .
“Sir, a* each section of the Pacific Rail
road is finished are you going to make the
companies spike down their rails before
you p y ? Vi Lien is to say, are you going
to l>e n deliberate tyrant?” A silence in
distinguishable from the preceding, was
llie only response.
“Bir, have you got your Ca duet ail set?
What are you going to do with those
Blairs ?”
“Let us Itave peace!”
“.■sir, do you comprehend who it is that
is conversing with you ?"
“Peace!”
“Sir. am f to have Nasbv’s Post otlice.
or—”
“Go to the—mischief! I have a thou
sand of your kind around me every day.
I can’t stand it, and I won’t stand il—l
wilt have peace !”
If a man isn’t speechless who never
says anything but let us itave peace, pray
w hat is he ? And yet those Bureau peo
ple abuse me f< r reporting it. I w ill never
do a kind act again. Mark Twain.
Washington, December il, 1868.
iimmcE.
Old VMlliuriiie<» and ,\e» Fa**!ii«*n-.
7b the Editor of the ts mv York World:
Hi k— !n the J lit Episcopal Con vent ion
it was proposed that there should be no
divorce, exec pi for (physical) adultery.
Perhaps some of your readers might like
to know Abut some others of the wise and
great Ihv.i srid <>n this subject. I need
not quote what Jesus Christ .-aid about
heart adultery The following opinions
| are culled from anew reform book "Exit
of Caliban Khyioek.”
“Those wlio marry intend as little to
conspire their own ruin as those who
swear allegiance; and as a whole people
is to an ill government, so is one man or
woman toauill marriage.”—[John Milton.
“A condition requiring the continuance
i of marriage, notwithstanding a change in
the feelings of the parties, is absurd, shock*
ing, aud contrary to humanity.”—[Jere
my Bentham.
“Marriage having this peculiarity, that
| its objects arc frustrated when the feelings
| of both parties are not iu harmony with
it, should require nothing but the declared
will of either party to dissolve it, —[Alex,
i Humboldt.
"The subject of marriage is usually dis
cussed as if the interests of children were
everything those of grown persons noth
ing.”—[John Kluart Mill.
"He considered that every marriage in
which the purest love failed on either side j
was not better lhan a work of adultery.”
[Life of J. I*. Richter
"Monsieur, when a wife’s nature loathes j
t hat of a man she is wedded to, marriage
must be slavery; against slavery all right }
thinkers revolt; and though torture be the j
the price of resistance, torture must be !
dared; though the only road to freedom ;
be through the gates of death, those gates |
must be passed, for freedom is indispensa
ble.”—[Charlotte Bronte.
“I read in papers every sessions every |
’sizes how the impossibility of o’ ever
getting unclaimed from one another at -
any price, on any terms brings blood upon i
tiiis laud.”—[Charles Dickens. .
Divorce laws have but little influence!
on licentiousness. Italy, where there is i
no divorce, is more immoral than those I
parts of Germany where it is easily oh- I
tained. Reliance must he placed on the j
vast aggregate of moral agencies, of which
religion is chief. y p_
A New Kind of Cotton.—A variety of
cotton, called lace cotton, is being iutro
i duced in some parts of Texas, and is likely
j to be extensively raised.
It is said to be superior to any other
variety for poor soil or uplands, having a
1 strong, healthy growth, and yielding hea
vily. Its strength is equal to a strain of
: seven aud a half pounds to each thread
while a similar thread of the best Ameri
can cotton will lift only flve pounds.
Those who have examined it say that it
resembles Egyptian cotton, which is wortli
in England a quarter more than Ameri
can. Good results areatiaiued from a cul
tivation of this variety of cotton. If it is
successful, it may qui'te generally super
sede the poorer qualities, and largely in
crease the income of the Southern planter.
{Charleston Ifews, 17 Ih.
—The Dalton Citizen says that the State Road 1
is being inclosed with a fence to keep stock otf the
track.
—The work on the bridge over the (Jhattahoo- !
cliee river, at Fort Gaines, has been discontinued, !
and will not be resumed until next summer.
liOV. I!t LI.OC'K AMUVEBKI) BY OYK «i' Hl*
' party oboask
From the wWiiugton National Republican (Rad.)
We learn with regret that certain inoon
i siderate parties are Dbori ig to precipitate
the Senate Into a capital blunder —the re
i jectlon of the Hon. Joshua Hill, who
> claims a scut as Senator from Georgia. The
j pretext for this effort is that the Legisia
j tme which elected him was an illegal
body, because the members did not take
j the oath required of officers of the United
i .States, commonly known as the “iron
| clad” oath.
It is true that the stippleiueu'al recon-
I struction act o' July 10, 1807, enacted that
! tills oath should be taken by all persons
i thereafter elecled to office in the Southern
military disiriets “under any so called
I State authority.” But Gen. Meade, the
j commander of the district including Geor
gia, did not construe this as applying to
j officers chosen under t o new constitu
i tion ot the Southern Si des; for though
j the Slate govern men F was provisional at
| the time of their election, their official du
j ties wcic mainly to be performed after the
provisional character of the government
should cease, on the completion of recon -
j struction. And in this course Gen. Meade
was sustained by high military authority
at Washington. The omission to require
; tii s oath of tiie members of the Legisla
\ lure was, at the time —to-wit: July last —
j wel! known in Georgia, well known at tiie
• War Department aud army headquarters,
| and well known to Congress, then in ses
! sion. Yet no disapprobation was express
i ed by tiie General-in-Chief, by tiie Secre
tary of War, or by Congress On tiie eon
; trary, one branch of Congress—the House
j of Representatives— solemnly recognized
. this Legislature as a legal body by admit
ting six members from Georgia, which,
under the reconstruction acts, could uot Be
done until a legal Legislature had com
plied with certain fuinlame.dat conditions
; prescribed in those acts Therefore, it is
safe to assert either that no error was com
mitted, or that the error has gone beyond
I remedy by tiie default of those who should
■ have corrected it at tiie time. We support
j the former proposition. We are not pre
i pared to bring a grave Impeachment
! against Gen. Meade, Gen. Gram, aud the
House of Representatives. We believe
Uiat a rule prescribed for provisional ofli-
I cei's was not intended to operate on ofH
i cers chosen, indeed, under ti.e provisional
government, but chosen to serve under
ilie permanent government to which the
j provisional government was about to give
place.
The complaint of llie omission to re
quire the oath of the members of tiie
Legislature is formally made to Congress
by the Governor of Geo:gis, Hon. It. B.
; Bullock. In liw iiieiuori,.l lie styles him
j self “ Provisional Governor.” And it is
matter of history that he once acted in
that character by appointment of General
Meade. But it is also true that in July
last he was transmuted from a Provisional
( Governor under the reconstruction acts
into an ordinary Governor under the Cou
j etitution of Georgia. He went through
j the ceremony of inauguration. He cele
brated the restoration of Georgia to her
nlace in tlie Union by festive rejoicings at
her capital. He has commissioned liun
i dreds of officers in Georgia, requiring of
them no oath but that prescribed by the
J laws of that State. He lias approved of
i lav. s passed by tiiis same Legislature, aud
* is enforcing them as the Executive of Die
i State. He D«ued the very commission
which Mr. Hill produced in tiie Sen-ale
j last Monday a* evidence of his title to a
seat. Fie draws his salary from the State
j Treasury u- a Constitutional Governor,
| and not from the United States Treasury
! a.* a Provisional Governor under the re
construction acts. After five months'
dally recognition of this Legislature as a
I legal body, bv these and ,-imiiar acts, it is
| passing strange that he should now come
: to Congress with the complaint that the
i body never had a legal existence.
HKt*t ,MPTH» OK h!*K«'IK i* \ A »IE YT.
The following is the bill introduced by
Senator Morton in the Senate Monday,
for the r-'-.umption of specie payment :
Be it enacted, etc , Thai hereafter there
shad lie no ‘ales of gold belonging to the
Treasury of the United states, aud that
\ the surplus gold now in the Treasury, aud
that which may hereafter accrue, over and
auove tiie amount required to pay tiie
interest on the public debt, and for other
specified uses by law shall lie reserved and
set opart for the redemption of the United
States not- h and fractional currency.
2. That on and after July I, 1871, the*
j Treasurer of the United States shall pay
j in e-oin. at the Treasury of the United
States, at Washington.aud at such other
| points as may ' ‘ designated by the Secre
tary of the asury, ail United States
notes ami h iutial currency that may
: he presented f -r redemption.
3. That on and after January i, 1872,
j the national hanks shall pay in coin such
j of their notes as may be presented for re
; demplim, and shall, on and after July 1.
1870. reserve ar.d hold in tlu ir vaults ail
I the coin that may be received by them as
interest on their bonds held by the Gov-
I eminent for the redemption of their notes.
4. That until January* 1 1872. at which
j time they are required to begin the re
de m idion of their not: tiie national banks
! shall keep and hold in their banks the full
reserve of legal-tender notes, as now re-
I quired by law; and that on and after that
j time, the r. serve of legal-tender notes, as
fast as withdrawn, shall be replaced with
■ coin with a like amount; aud the said
1 banks shall hereafter be required to hold a
reserve in coin, to tlie like amount, and
I for tiie same purpose as now required by
law to be held in legal-tender notes: Pro
vided. That the Comptroller of the Cur-,
j reriey may. with the assent of the Secreta
ry, allow said banks to hold a portion of }
I said reserves, not exceeding two fifths of
j the amount required by law, in United t
States notes.
•5 That the Secretary of tHe Treasury
i may cause as n any of tHe United States i
notes that may be redeemed under the i
provisions of this act to be cancelled as,
may i.i his judgment be necessary to the !
proper limitation of the cun i, Y ; Pro- j
vided further, That ail fractional currency i
tnat may be redeemed shall be c, •.••died.
6 That on and after January 1. T-72 the I
United States notes shall <•• -. i.p ■»
legal tender in payment of deltail I
be receivable in payment of G.. meut |
dues, as now provided by law.
7. That she Secretary of the Y:easury j
shall have the power to negoti , e m<| sell i
bonds of the United States, parable in !
thirty years, and redeemable at the pleas- j
ureof tiie Government after ten years, 1
bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., !
principle and interest payable in gold, to
such an amount as may be necessary to j
bring info operation tiie provisions of the j
second section of this act.
An Earthquake Victim—Singular
Escapes and Death.— On the 10th of No
vember, died, in Valparaiso Mrs. David
son, < re of the sufferers by tiie terrible
| earthquake of the 13th of August. Bhe
| was a widow, and was living at Ariea with
| berson when this catastrophe occurred,
i tie finding her, after the first heavy shock,
partially buried under the ruins of their
house. With some assistance she was got
1 OU L hut so badly bruised that she could
i not sit up. While they sought further
| help she was curried away by the sea,
: which began to invade the' town a few
minutes he ore six. ISbe, however, had
| managed to get her arms through a broken
door, ami that kept her afloat. She was
| washed on to i small island hard by, but
the waters left her there only fifteen min
utes. A boat was despatched to her res
j cue by the Peruvian corvette America; it
I was half full of water by the time it piek
i td her up, and she hud been in the sea
| eight and three-quarter hours. The tur
bulent stateof the waters battled all efforts
| forts to return to the ship; so the men
i put their boat out to sea to wait till day
j light, and reached the shore about six
■ o’clock on the following morning. For
I three days she lay exposed to the scorch
ing rays of the sun, and the cold uight
dews, without auy other shelter than that
affbrded by a common blanket that her
son was able to get. After an unavailing
effort to get to Valparaiso by the mail
steamer, she reached there by the Esmer- j
alda on the 27th of September. Every
care was taken of the unfortunate lady, !
but. the shook aud attendant suffering had I
been too severe for her to bear, and she ;
died as above stated.
The Supreme Court.—The new bill
introduced into the Seuate on Monday by
Mr. Wilson provides for fourteen circuits
and for a chief justice and fourteen asso
ciate justices Also, that the chief justice
and seven associate justices, to lie annual
ly drawn by lot, shall hold one term an
nually at the seat of government, and
such adjourned and special terms as they
may find necessary for the dispatch of
business of said court; and the associate
justices not drawn to hold the term of >-aid
court at the seat of government shall an
nually bold one term in each circuit, and
such adjourned and special terms as the
business of the several circuits may re
quire.— Richmond Dispatch, 1 3th.
<\RI*KT-HVG!JKIis l\ J AIK si \\ IS .
How They LMh, ami What 1 Thought «*f Thru*.
“Mack” writes to l!>e Cincinnati En
quirer, from Washing: >:i, a* f*.-. revs •
Entering the galit-iy o' :.};•• Senate
Chamb r on Thwmlsy fFternr oh, fiber an
absence of tux mqnti. h .■« its. re.cno pre
ciuts the first fact that U retd it-eh upon
my notiee was that the prop i • uu cr
anes of Mr. r-ewurd as in vacant
chairs,” had been alnS(T«t fnßi.b-d. We all
remember with '-vhet tuuf liii i : dt the
venerable and variable Heetv y * u ‘b"
to these “vacant chairs” at an early stage
of the late “seotional com tie- - luy* now
he hoped tiie erring brethren wou.d • < ■■>-
back and fill them. W' and. Int iiriug
brethren haven’t come bacii to coy per
ceptible extent, but tiie A’aeant cimirs are
filled, nevertheless. And wl’.at a
is there, my country t ea •
There is no need of any s arching inves
tigation into personal Histories to reveal
ihe style of men these Carpet-bugger* arc.
It requires no very astute studeut of liu
rnau nature to pick them nut, bna h.Y on.-,
as they sit in seats to which tiu-.v b »vc no
more right than Gem ge Francis i raiu to
tic- iirit.ii throne. Gaddis tot lie kingdom
of heaven, or Ben But) r to liu- iie
atirß hi» coffee with. \oii <*an tell liiejn
at a gianc»» I>y tlu* took of out i*: jmi
ness of wtiicii they can not disposst-aa
themselves, let them ever .-■< hard.
They an* s.-aUere-.j on He ou'-r edges of
the Chamber—here arm there, wlierevcr a
scat could be found, or loom made to put
oneio. 'i’lie position wa* P* tlietii a gift
home, and ll’.ey l»‘id heard of th*’ jmu - -
tion against looking stch m an i in “.I in the
mouth. So Warner, of AI luma, squads
contentedly and obscurely on the extreme
right, and from there fechiy iießows aL< ut
••the people ot my State." Directly oppo
site, aud so near the and -or that fie > ' er*
tie mistaken fora tm-sscr.gii'. mu* of the
“honorable Senators from Arkaire-as” un
folds liimseifto public g -Ze, and very now
and then lists to pr.-sent a peiitiqn from a
constituency he nev- r - ;w, and in behalf
of a Stale be never lived in. And soon to
the end of tiie chapter. Bn: t life t arj cl
batrgers of the Senate wiJ *• o<n deserve
pity instead of contempt. W lien the first
flush of reconstruetionary entl.iishism ;s
over, they will cease to hav<* rise
even of tbe Radicals, whose political oti
spring they are. “ilow do you like the
Carpet-baggers,” s. iid I to u Radical Sen
ator yesterday. “Oh, they have behaved
as well as could he exj ected,” said lie,
patting into ins tone a goo-i deal more
than was in his words, and which I con
strued in tlx; form of an appendix thu*; :
“They must keep lie ir place, aud riot put
on any airs, or we’ll teach them good
manner*. It D said tha sumiwr make*
them keep a very re*;.:c;aii di-'uuc- from
him, ami denies them that freedom of
social intercourse which ’ ! ey uere led to
expect from the great a}*ostie of equal
rights, aud lhe inextinguishable yelper
for universal sutlrage. I'ue fact is, Sum
ner is disappointed and chagrined that
they art ail white—and it must, be agreed
that a slight mixture of black would lies
great Improvement on tiie oia*.- o. men
that have nteu chosen thin far. Gurreit
Davis said, a year ago, R 'i • thing would
reconcile him to negro suffrage so scon as
the election of a first-class ami intelligent
negro to succeed Mr. Sumner, and on the
same principle, i think the sub.-titution
of black Denature sot !die f 'a r ,•« t ggers
would boa sb-p in tbe right direction.
So much for the <'s.rpet-bagvcrs, but
what of the Senate as a body ? You will
search history in vain—tin -gh its ja.4cv
[ ful as well as is revolutim ary pag .* —n.
find a paralb 1 for the deg* nere.cy of that
body, in all lie attrilHttee ton’ tit it to
make Jaws for a great nat on, or that should
command for if the re-j,cut and v> iteration
of a great people Compare the S» cate of
ten years ago with the Sen-he of '•> day,
and the diffcrenc - is very great indeed;
date Die comparison leu years fur! in r bai'k
and there < trees to be any res mblauce,
i except in the name A fit in.-criptiou for
l tiie eutranc door of tiie Chamber of JMw
w as written long ago to expo -** ti,e decay
of virtue and gtealne-s :ii •.uerepresetifa
jtiveofoneof Rome'.- great hum: " >:at
magni nominu ewhra ” —lt site a- tic
i shadow of a mighty name. There is ex
tant an engravifj : entitled roe United
States Senate in 1800, wnieli t-eiis tiie
! whole story when vie*ed in tue light ol'
; to-day. It represents Henry ( lay in the
• delivery of one of those powerful speeches
! which always e.'raomndeu the attention
I of tbe lioor and liie wrapt udiuiialioi of
the galleries His associates a:e closely
gathered ab ut him as if to cf'tch every
word tliat fads fr. m his Tip--, it is easy
to recognize Oilman, Webster. Benton,
aud Douglas in the group. They are ail
gone bow, aud who have taken their
places? For Cal hoc u we have a Carpet
bagger, around whose name there is said
to be a halo unenviable to uone-d. men, ami
not unconnected with sheritls, peniten
tiaries and tiie like. For ti. grandeur an J
diguiiy of Webster wc* have the ela -ic
idiocy of Sumner, or the in elegant inanity
of Wilson ; for the culture and .-tate,-man
ship of Bunion v.e have the boreous and
sonorous niptiness of Drake; and for
Douglas, tiie bold (•'umipion of popular
right*, we have Yat- s in a const ire vibra
tion between temperance xnd tieuiUiis.
These arc* hut a few spec:men- which
the attempt at cotnparir.m forces into my
mind a* I write this hasty letter. Were I
to turn over tiie page* of some old Con
gressional directory, i in.uire. .-by ex
tend it to ncariy ever. Scale in tii Union,
as repr sented twerrey years ago. and now
in the Senate of the United i-oates. There
are exceptions, of course, hut scarcely
enough to prove the rule—which is the
inebriate brawl of < 'dandle; or the gilt
edged imbed lily of Sprague.
MACON AMI URi VeiUiCK KAIUiOAU.
The construction of this mail by New
1 ork capital is, we learn, be!.- pushed
with much vigor to a cbmpleii ;n, the
1 whole line having l»e- u placed us. hreon
! tract to be finished by Ist of Oct d>er, next,
j The distance from Macon to Brunswick
| is I*7 miles, of which 60 miles of the road
j is built.
For the purpose of tnaki; g available the
harbor of Biunsw ick, be Kta; ■ of Georgia
endorses ibc (Ir-1 mortgage bonds of lids
road for Kllt.OdOu mile, as the completion
of the Macon and Biutiswirk uuiroud will
plaee Brunswick iu railroad connection
with the leading mads of the Southern
States. Georgia has <i.>uc- well to fosieran
enterprise which will secure to the State
the immense advantage- of a seaport
scarcely inferior to mat of our owu.
With the at know! dge.l am aulages of
the harbor of Brunswick, a-' compared
with that ofanv other Southern ci v, the
wonder is that it should so long have re
mained isoltei from tin* i uteri or of Geor
gia.
Situated at the central paint of the great
1 inlandcurveof the Southern AiUmiec ci.-t
i Brunswick is nearer to the M:-si>.-dppi
I river than any other port in the seaboard,
i The construction of the Macon and Bruus
! wick railroad will bring Vicksburg within
j 300 miles of railroad travel of Brunswick,
| while the distance from Memphis to
; Brunswick will be hut httie mote than
half the distance between Memphis and
i New York.
The people of Georgia iook forward wiih
! much interest to the opening on the coast
of a harbor which they claim is equal to
i the harbor of New York, in respect of
| depth of water, ease of access and uniform
| healthiness.
We are pleased to record any evidence
of progress in the ma'erial interests of the
South and are gratified to perceive the res*
toralion of confidence by Northern capi
talists in Southern enterprises.— j\\ i.
Times, 14 th imt.
Direct Trade Between Brunswick
j and Europe.—The Brunswick Banner
isays:
We are glad to learn that our enterpris
' ing townsman, Mr. H. A. Kendrick, has
perfected arrangements by which he is
' prepared to make liberal advancements on
consignments to Liverpool ami Loudon.
I He is also prepared to order from those
! cities at a small commission. This is a
1 step in the right direction, ami though
j small it may be now, it establishes desired
! direct trade with our city aud Europe,
j Let us hope it may prove the entering
! wedge to a greater success in this limn
' We have been shown by Mr. K. a letter
from the large and well known house of
! It. M. Gary <Sc Cos., Loudon, appointing
! ” im [heir agent here. We are satisfied
[ from its perusal that our friends across the
water fully appreciate the de.-tined mari
timeimportance ofourenihryoeity. These
gentlemen have taken time by the fore
lock,and no doubt iu time will reap arid)
harvest from thus early establishing an
agency here.
Mr. K. intends shipping a lot pf notion
by the ship Nelson, now import. To hnn
belongs the honor of making the first
shipment direct from Brunswick to Eu
rope. We wish him success.
—Moses Collins, Assistant Supervisor of tiie
State Road, has been suspended or discharged.
Cause —Incampetenry, or a "miscalculation."