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~ \v r . BURKE k CO. SiRGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER j VJ. BURSE & CO., Proprietors. , fKIcE No . GO SECOND STREET, MACON, OA. Ro<(K, the senior partner in the lste firm of Uii’rr continues hi* connection with the gate » p»i* r - „ %XKB OF SUBSCRIPTION. .. ni»r Annum 110 00 DJ i. rl, ' Sfx Month* 500 * Three Months ••••■•• 250 one Month 1 On Three Months 1 50 a'rrSLT,per Annum 300 GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. [From the Atlanta Intelligencer.] Monday, February .8 senate.— The .Senate met pursuant to aliouriunent, aud was opened with prayer hy the Kev. Dr. Parker. The Secretary read the journal of Hatur ll price’s resolution. Mr. Hungerford—That the joint resolu t:oD jn regard to the eligibility of colored members he taken up. Mr. Speer—Amends—'That we, the mem nf both branches of the General As nembly, pledge ourselves to abide by the <j<dsiou of tlie Supreme Court. This amendment was lost. On rnotiou, shall we concur with the resolution of the House, passed. mouse bills on third reading. To change time of holdiDg Superior Courts in Cherokee Circuit. To declare tiie meauing of section 3652 of Irwin’s Code. To change time of holding Superior Courts in Johnson, Washington, Eman uel, and Columbia counties. Tochauge the county lines of DeKalb and Clayton. resolutions. Mr. Wooten—That after the previous fjueMion is decided in the negative, the regular order of business shall go on. Passed. Mr. Adkins—To reinstate the colored members who were deprived of their seats at the last session. Amotion to postponeaction indefinitely was adopted. Mr Wellborn—That as the Senator from the l ull Distri >seems to he greatly dis satisfied with his present associations, that be be, and lie is hereby authorized to join that odoriferous body, which, in taking its departure from the Henate, not only "left a lasting perfume behind,” hut at the same time left at least one heart so bruised and wounded that it can never recover except under the influence of those kindred spirits, no longer to he found upon this floo r. Ruled out of order. BILLS ON THIRD READING. For selection of jurors in this State.— Laid on the table for the present. To regulate the duties of employers to employes in this State. Lost. To encourage tlie arrest of criminals by compensation therefor. Lost. Senate adjourned. House.—The House met pursuant to ad journment. Mr. Hudson moved to reconsider so much of Saturday’s journal as relates to tlie hill authorizing the Notaries Public and Justices of tlie Peace of tlie county site precincts of this State to appoint at torneys ut law to prosecute criminal cases, ami providing pay for the same. Motion to reconsider prevailed, and tlie hill was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Tunilin moved to reconsider the printing of tlie report of the Educational imm it tee. Motion lost. Mr. McWhorter, Speaker, moved to re consider tlie hill, lost Saturday, allowing Elisha Carter, a maimed soldier, of Greene county, to peddle without license. Motion to reconsider prevailed. Rules suspended aud the following hill read first time: A bill creating anew judicial circuit, to be called the Atlanta Circuit. Passed and transmitted to tlie Senate. BILLS ON THIRD READING. A bill defining the meaning of section 2,640 of Irwin’s Code. Lost. A bill changing the lines between the counties of Taliaferro aud Hancock.— Passed. A bill allowing Sherills in this State to solemnize marriage. Lost. .4 bill to protect more effectually per sonal property. Lost. .4 bill prohibiting the selling of spiritu ous liquors on election days. Passed. A bill to enforce the payment of interest on money according to coutract. I’endiug the discussion of this hill, the hour of adjournment arrived. Tuesday, February 9th. Senate.—Senate called to order by the President. Prayer by Mr. Hinton. Journal of proceedings of yesterday read aud approved. ■'li. Adkins changed liis vote from yea . nay, on ie adoption of Price’s resolu tion. RECONSIDERATION. -Mr. Merrell moved to reconsider the ac tion ot the Senate yesterday, referring the eligibility of colored men to hold office to tbe Supreme Court. -Mr. Wooten made a speech in favor of reconsideration. -Mr. Burns followed in favor of recon struction. •Mr. Candler opposed the motion to re- 1 consider, in a few remarks, aud moved to jfy ’‘le motion to reconsider on tlie table. ' t tie vote stood: yeas, 13 ; nays, 17. So the motion io table did not prevail. -Mr. Candler spok’e in opposition to re consideration, followed by Mr. Hiutoni in favor. -Mr. Brock favored reconsideration, hut was opposed to the resolutions. Mr. Wellborn opposed reconsideration. A message was received from the Gov ernor, announcing that lie had signed and approved the resolution appointing a joint committee on the memorial of JaneL. Mitchell. ; A messenger was received from the i Douse, announcing that that body had passed several Benate ami House bills. 1 be Judiciary Committee, through Mr Merrell, Chairman, reported on a large uuuiher of bills. Ihe Enrollment Committee reported several bills duly enrolled. Senate adjourned. House.—House met pursautto adjourn ment. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Crumley. Journal read aud approved. Mr. Carpenter, of Hancock, moved to reconsider the bill passed yesterday, j 'banging the lines between the counties ■ Hancock and Taliaferro. Motion pre vailed. * UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Ibe bill to euforce the payment of 1 crest, agreed upon, was taken up and “bussed. Mr. Hudson moved to indefinitely post pone this bill. Motion prevailed. Mr. Tumliu moved to suspend the rules ' take up the bill reducing the tax on reuses from SIOO to 25. Rules suspended Q J the bill taken up aud read. ‘, Crawford moved to indefinitely Postpone this bill. Lost. Ike previous question was called on the i of tlie hill, aud the yeas aud nays W bi c h resulted—yeas 56; uays6B. l ‘ lr ' Kelly—a bill to ameud the police P* ®f the city of Savannah. Rules suspended and the bill read first ,' n motion of Mr. Hall, of Monroe, the We . re SUs >peuded, and tbe geueral ap ** opri a tion bill read tbe second time, and ' erreii t° tbe Committee on Finance. tat/‘ Moved to suspend tbe rules to Up enate bills for third reading.— Motion prevailed. ? lu l ,t a certain number of tbe Bavann«V> fire companies of tbe city of addin., J 1 • fr i! )m J H, ry dut y- Amended by The Dhow ? lr , e Company, of Home. A L.,, > as amended, passed. in Chatham 6 s U * BU M m °ns of witnesses natuam bupenor Court. Passed. cultural l) "corporate the Atlanta Agri pauy. a “P lemeut Manufacturing Corn- Passed. eud ed by tbe committee and I-anlfanfi' 3 '^ 1 °- der ° f the being the U P. and imgratlon bill, it was taken ’ uu being an appropriation bill, tbe iferafgia Hotifwil awl House resolved itself into a committee of the whole to cousider it. Consideiable discussion ensued on tms tion to read and acton the bill by sections. Vote wastakenon motion, and the House decided to read the bill and act upon the amendments made thereto. Bill read. Mr. Saussey moved to amend by locating the office of Chief Commissioner at any place to be designated by the commission ers, other than the Capital, as in the origi nal bill. B Mr. Anderson objected to the amend ment. He said that the friends of this bill had prepared it carefully, and he hoped it would pass without amendments. 7 Mr. O’Neal moved to amend the amend ment by striking out the word “Capitol” in tlie hill aud adding "tbe city of Savan nah” for the location of the Chief Com missioner. Mr. Warren, of Quitman, said as the discussion had gone into the merits of this bill, he would state his objections to the hill. He was opposed to the bill from beginning toend, and thought it was dan gerous to go to this expense in our present embarrassed condition. He would not give one negro laborer for forty such as this bill would get. It was made for bene fit of men who wanted easy places, and if it passed, it would passover bis vote. Mr. Tweedy moved to strike out to be elected by the General Assembly and give the power to the Governor to appoint. Mr. Harper, of Terrell, said he was op posed to the bill. We ca,u offer no induce ments to immigrants at the present time. We do not know how long it will be before some General will be upon us with his bureau, aud the expense to support this bill is unnecessary at the present time, and I think Hi is hill should be indefinitely postponed. This Legislature voted down an appropriation to bury our dead, a few days since, and here, some who voted it down, want to appropriate ten thousand dollars to assist the very men, or some of the men who assisted to kill our people, to come here and live. He was opposed to it. When we are prepared to offer in ducements to immigration it will come. Let us, then, legislate our State into a condition that we can rid ourselves of our present burdens, and then we will be pre pared to go into uew enterprises. Mr. Phillips moved that tlie committee rise and report progress and ask leave to sit again. Motion prevailed and tlie bill made the special order for to-morrow, at 11 o’clock. House adjourned till 10 o’clock to-mor row Wednesday, February 10. Senate. —Tlie Senate met this morning pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Parker. Roll being called, and quorum present, tiie Secretary read tlie journal of yester day. Tlie question before tiie Senate was to reconsider Hie action of the Senate on passing the House resolution of Mr. Price. Discussed by Messrs. Wellborn, Merrell, Holcombe and Nuunally. Mr. Candler called the question—shall the Senate reconsider its action. Lost. Yeas—Adkins, Brock, Burns, Coleman, Dickey, Giguilliat, Griffin, of the 21st ; Holcombe, Jones, McWhorter, Nuunally, Shermau, Stringer, Welch, Wooten—ls Nays Anderson, Candler, Collier, Fain, Graham, Harris, Hicks, Hunger ford, Lester, McArthur, Moore, Richard son, Smith, of the 36th, Wellborn, Winn, Griffin, of tiie 6th, McCutcheu, Speer— -18. HOUSE BILL ON FIRST READING. An act, to amend an act, relative to taxes on circuses. RESOLUTION RECONSIDERED Mr. Adkins—To reinstate the colored members who were deprived of their seats at the last session. Laid on the table. BILL READ FIRST TIME. Mr. Nuunally—A bill in relation to the statutes of limitations aud for other pur poses, repealing certain acts of the Legis lature, aud certain acts of tiie Convention of 1865. Rules suspended to take up House bill third time. Mr. Wooten—A hill to provide juries iu this State, amended by Judiciary Com mittee. Passed. BILL FIRST READING. Mr. Moore—To create anew circuit, to be called the Rome Circuit. Senate adjourned. House. —House met pursuant to ad journment, at 10 A. M , aud was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Crumley. Journal of yesterday read. Mr. Crawford moved to reconsider so much of the journal of yesterday as re lates to the loss of the bill requiring the payment of interest on money according to contract. A message was received from the Gov ernor stating that lie had signed the fol lowing bills: Amending the charter of tiie Macon aud Western Railroad Com pany, increasing the capital stock ; a bill exempting from jury and militia duty certain persons of Americus ; a bill to con solidate ami amend tiie several acts incor porating the towu of Lumpkin, in the county of Stewart. Mr Crawford spoke in favor of his mo tion to reconsider, (there were no ladies in the gallery), which motion was lost. Yeas 52 ; nays 58 Mr. Tumlin moved to reconsider so much of the journal of yesterday as re lates to the loss of the hill reducing the tax on circus shows. Motiou to recon sider prevailed. Ou motion of Mr. Scott, of Fioyd, the bill extending State aid to the Georgia and Memphis Railroad, was taken up aud referred to the Committee on Finance. 'lhe bill regulating the tax on circus sh »ws was taken up, and tlie amendment of Mi. Sissou, making the tax SIOO in cities having a population of more than ten thousand; SSO in cities having a popu lation of more thau five thousand; and $25 in towns of lesser size, was adopted and the bill passed. Mr McCombs—A resolution tendering a seat in the House to Judge Robinson during his stay in the city. Adopted. Mr. Ellis, of Spaulding—A hill chang ing the line between the counties of Henry and Spalding. Rules suspended, aud bill read first time. Mr. Fitzpatrick, Radical, presented a memorial from theexpelled negroes of the Legislature, and wished it read. Rules were not suspended. Mr. Flournoy'—A resolution authorizing a loan of the State tax of the county of Washington to said county. Adopted. The House went iuto a Committee of the Whole on the bill to create a Land and Immigration Bureau for the State of Georgia Mr. Hudson, of Harris, in the chair. After much discussiou, Mr. McWhorter moved that the Committee of the Whole arise, report progress, aud beg leave to sit again, which motion prevailed. House adjourned “ THE TRUTH. THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NO I RING BUT THE TRUTH.” This caption admirably fits the follow ing words from the New Orleans Bulletin. They embody whole “chuuksof wisdom,” and ring with a sound that tells of ster ling metal beneath : “We have no hesitation iu saying that he who has built a grain elevator, started a steam plow, a cheap sugar pan, or a cot tou mill, has doue more for Southern so cial prosperity than all the politicians who have gone, or are going, to bend the knee at Washington. Such patriots are swift to make unnecessary concessions of the Southern past, iu exchange for pardons, or even offices for themselves. Let every Southern man vindicate the integrity of his past opinions by bearing his misfor tunes aud keeping his parole like a man. Let the future harmonies of the Union be based on a mutual respect of all that is good, aud a thorough contempt of all that is mean in both sections. Let us demon strate an honorable community of inter ests, and unite in all enterprises which promise mutual good. This policy will restore the prosperity of the South, per petuate the Union, and dissolve any ap prehension that those who once served shall ever govern us.” THE BEGINNING OF THE END. If the amendment to the Constitution adopted by the Senate, on Thursday, is agreed to by the House, and is ratified by two-thirds of the Legislatures of the va rious States of the Union, the doom of the Republic is sealed beyond controversy. It reads as follows: No discrimination shall be made in the United States among the citizens of tbe United States, in the exercise of the elec tive franchise, or in the right to hold office in any State on account of race, color, nativity, property, education or creed. This measure throws opeu tbe ballot box, without let cr hindrance, to every male in the United States —except such as are disfranchised by State action —no mat ter where he comes from, what his color, whether he owns more than the rags that cover him, or knows even the alphabet. Such a premium upon ignorance, vice and worthlessness—such a cheapening and degradation of what should be the most prized right of American intelligence aud worth, has never before degraded the re cords of American legislation. It will result, just as sure as it is tried, in the most fearful anarchy, or a despotism still more fearful. Still, if tbe North can stand it, we can. The ballot box down here has already beeu degraded to the lowest deep. There is no lower deep for us. What New York, with her property, and Massachusetts, with her intelligence and qualification will say to it, we shall soon know. Her Senators voted for it, but the Legislatures may reject it. As they were not elected with any such issue entering into the canvass, they may, at least, decline to act upon it, or if they do agree to it, the people may condemn their action when an opportunity offers. \Y T ith the occurrence of State elections in March aud April, iu New Hampshire and Con necticut, we can tell what the people of those States say to it, at auy rate. If there are auy lingering, smouldering embers of the fire of State rights in either, this blast will surely blow them into a bright flame. We are glad in oue sense, however, though sorrowing in another, to see it. It brings our oppressors face to face with what they have so remorselessly forced upou us. We shall see, now, how they writhe under tortures we have been forced to en dure, and at which they have alternately grinned aud sneered. Let the cup he pressed to their lips. If they drink it, ruin will come ; hut like Samson and the Philistines, the falling of the temple will crush them as well as ourselves. If they refuse it, they demoralize the organization that has pushed the country to tlie edge of the precipice, and open up a prospect for Hie restoration of our lost rights aud liberties. 4** THE LAST DISGRACE. The scene iu the House of Representa tives on Wednesday, while the electoral vote of Georgia was uuder discussiou, must have been singularly disgusting to every man who witnessed it, and who still preserves—a hard matter, we admit—any respect for the character aud position of the Nation’s representatives. Such a scene was never witnessed before, as the pot house, ruffiauly wrangle between Wade aud Butler. It belittles not them, for that were impossible, but the place, the occasion, aud the American people. In the days when virtue, honor, and dig nity were attributes of men holding their positions, such an occurrence would have been impossible. Neither in the charac ter of the men of that day, nor in the public opinion that, more or less, con trolled the action of the public’s servants, was there anything that tolerated such gross departures from parliamentary law, such indecent and shameless violations of legislative decorum. But the taiutof Radicalism really seems to spare nothing however grand and dig nified. It penetrates everywhere, aud wherever it goes carries with it the poison of public corruption, private demoraliza tion, and a brazen contempt, not only for laws and constitutions, but the amenities of official and private intercourse. Per haps siuce the days when the crop-eared, canting followers of Cromwell defiled the high places of England with their pres ence and policy, no set of men have lived so well qualified to bring the American character and name into contempt, as the Roundheads of American politics. They trample upon law and right, public and private; rob the treasury; bankrupt the people; stain and smear the National fame ; put premiums upon rascality, rob bery, aud jobbery of every description, and witkal don’t even know how to be have themselves. They are Jacobins in all their greed for blood and plunder, iu their cold, remorseless vindictiveness, aud Puritans iu their hate for everything and everybody who does not conform to their own ideas of right and wrong; but they neither have the polish of the one, nor the respectable fanaticism of the other. What will be the destiny of this country under such guidance, we shudder to think. If they even knew how, or would try to cover up some of their deformities, we should have some hope. While there is a sense of shame, a chauce remains for amendment. When that goes, though, tlie end is plain. Wade and Butler, we doubt uot, absolutely enjoyed the dis graceful exhibition in which they were the actors. Having long since lost all self-respect, it is not very strange that they should despise and defy the respect of others. The pity is that the gentlemen and statesmen of this country, aud the National character, itself, should be in volved in the eyes of the world in the shame aud disgrace of such conduct. Fancy the sneer aud shudder of disgust with which Derby, or Clarendon, or Bismarck, or auy other gentleman and public servant in Europe, when reading the disgusting details! THE PUBLIC PRINTER——HOW HE WAS ELECTED. The Augusta Tress asserts that there were some very ugly features in the dis posal of the public printing by the Legis lature. The editor of the Atlanta Era was, so far as the public knows to the con trary, declared duly elected State Priuter, hut the Press declares that by the terms of a combination entered into to secure the printing for the Era, Its editor had to bar gain away a large part of his expected profits to secure an election. The Press further declares that Bryant and Rice, carpet baggers from Richmond and Columbia counties, and Prince, a carpet bagger now in Congress from this State, were specifically named iu tbe con tract as the parties to be benefitted by it; and in less than twenty-four houre after it was signed, two of the parties voted money into their own pockets, by voting for the editor of the Era, and thus elected themselves ! With the Press, we denounce this con duct as a disgrace to the State, and as de serving prompt investigation by the Leg is’ature. Let this contract be brought to light, to begin with. MACON. GA.. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1869. “I SHALL DIE ALONE." When the rich gold and purple of Life** sunset Lies in its beauty on the silent sea; When on the shore I see the white-robed angel. And hear his whisper; “God has called for thee”— Eye* lit with love will watch me on the seashore. Warm human hands will fondly press my own; But can I bear them with me on my journey Out through the dimness of the world unknown ? And this great beauty of the earth and heavens, - The holy night whose glory fills mv soul, The softened amethyst of fading twilight, The gleaming stars on night’s emblazoned scroll— The rosy light of morning on the mountains, The tender purple of the distant sea, Things I love now, from henceforth all forgotten, What of their beauty can I bear with me ? “Alone, alone," sighed gentle-hearted Pascal, And yet I think that not alone we die; Though all this earth is dimly fading from us, Are we alone if one kind Friend is nigh? One who hath said: “Lo, lam with you always,” ■ The way-worn Man who sat by Galilee, Speaking good words and healing ail the people, Who lived and died for love of you and me. Oh, not alone, for this our Friend and Brother, Though Heaven’s great angels bow before His throne, ‘ . >- Shall stand with us upon the silent seashore, 1 His hand shall guide us to the world unkno m. TALK WITH AN ENGLISHMAN ABOUT AF FAIRS AT THE SOUTH, ETU. “Gath,” writing to the New York Tri bune, reports the following conversation with Mr. Everett, of England, whom he encountered in a railroad car. THE WAY THE ENGLISH GOT A CONSOLIDA TED LINE FROM NORFOLK TO MEMPHIS. I have recently made a gratifying trip through the South, investing some money, aud proposing to investigate more, in the Mobile & Ohio, and the (Selma & Dalton Railroads. I was almost thrilled, if an Englishman can say so extravagautly, with the beautiful lands of Alabama aud Mississippi; noble prairie, capable of raising graiu, tobacco or cotton equally well, aud as I rode in a special train fioin Chicago to Mobile, I met the leading peo ple of the country, wearing that incon solable look of despair which has been im pressed upon them by defeat, the loss of their slaves, and consequent poverty. "Great heavens, gentlemen!” 1 9aid, “you will make me sour as yourselves, if you dwell thus persistently upon your calamities. A people have uo business to concern themselves iu politics to the en tire exclu-iou of their private concerns. I have beeu an associate iu England cf Cobden and those w ; ho strove to release trade from imposition, and the work was earnest and enthusiastic with me; hut I would have been a fool to have engulfed in it all my private fortune, ceased my private endeavors, aud become the victim so set of politicians, such as excite you now to make politics yourentire subject of grief aud agitation. Go to work! Set your affairs right, and a happier politics will come. See what you are doing—pay ing in Illinois a dollar aud a quarter a bushel for grain and growing none your selves, though with land fully as excel lent. If you cannot cultivate all your estate, cultivate a part—certainly enough to raise food to eat. Keep every cent be side you and put it into railways. Estab lish for yourselves a consolidated line from the Mississippi to the Atlantic,so that you can send cotton and tobacco without tran shipment straight to Liverpool. The true theory of wise commerce is to buy iu the cheapest markets aud sell iu the dearest. Raise corn at home, instead of buying it where it is dear. Sell your products, not by hypothecation to New York, as you used to do, dealing like a bankrupt wiih a pawnbroker, but sell them in Liverpool.” “How?” they said vacantly. “Nobody will lend us money. The low tariff rate of freights between us and Norfolk cannot be attained. The Baltimore and Ohio Railway controls a small piece of the line between us and Norfolk, and keeps up tho rates and prevents oon-olidation.” “Will you help yourselves if I help you ?” “Yes, anything ; but how ?” “Raise money. Sell everything you have to spare, from a sauce pan up. There is a fine harbor, I am told, at Norfolk. The Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad’s steam ships to Liverpool stop there for freights Accomplish this consolidation and secure the low tariff’ by rail, and, mark my words, the Baltimore and Ohio will take off its Norfolk steamships. “ They promised to do their best, and asked me to go to New Orleans and Mobile and encourage the people in tlie same way. I addressed large meetings iu both cities. They cast off their grave looks aud became cheerful. Then I hastened to General Mahone, at Norfolk, who is at this moment, without approximation, the biggest, roundest and greatest man iu the Southern States. Personally, he is a lit tle, bullet-headed, black-eyed, sun-burnt fellow—a fighting tiger he was as a rebel general.” (“ They tell me,” Isaid, “ that he is now a half Radical.” “ I believe my soul,” he said, “ that he is mor? than three-quarters a Radical!”) “ To General Mahone I confided my de signs. He threw himself in my arms. “ ‘ God bless you !” hesaid. ‘you are the man I have been looking for!’" “ I found that the obstinate pieefe of road was that short connection between Knoxville, in East Tennessee, and Bris tol, on the Virginia line. “Will you raise half a million dollars if I raise half a million to buy this piece of road?” I said to Mahone; “a million will buy it.” “Yes!” “Give it to me in bond.” He did so promptly. With this I hastened to Knoxville and had an inter view with the President of the obstinate line “Js it rough or smooth ?” I said to him ; for this is the term used by a London po liceman arresting a thief, meauing Mo you fight or give in?’ Put down your rates, according to this consolidated schedule, or twenty-four hours your road passes out of your hands. Your stock is ou tlie market! I bold the money to buy it in.” He made it smooth ; tbe consolidation on the low tariff principle was a thing de facto, and iu the space of a few weeks there passed between Memphis and Norfolk 150,000 bales of cottou. As I prophesied, the Baltimore aud Ohio road took offitsships.” “Now,” said I, “we must have a Norfolk aud Liverpool direct line—steamers of tbe size of the Terifa. I have asked what you would do to save yourselves. Respond, not by promises, but in realities.” “Sir,” said Mr. Everett "they have produced SIBO,OOO. The steamers betwixt Norfolk aud Liverpool are being negotia ted for. We have made a certainty of the experiment of low speed and cheap rates. I have invested for myself and my prin cipals one million dollars in the Dalton and Selma road. The Vicksburg people are stirring themselves. In President Murdock, of the Mobile and Ohio Rail road. I find a worthy associate to Mahone, We mean to make Norfolk a permanent j shipping point, and tlie rentiezyous of tiie Southern railways. Our steamers will shortly be ready, and with them we will iudoctriuute the system of low rates of speed aud cheap rates of freight.” AN ENGLISHMAN’S RESUME OF THE TARIFF. “Do you think, Mr. Everett, that with the introduction of this system of low tariff'd' freights, the intere.-ts ofthe coun try will be developed toward ultimate or , immediate low tariff' of duties?” “Yts, sir. What this country wants is not tariff, but transit. Leavi g out your bounty, tiie cost of making iron in Amer ica is about that of making it in England. You are already the equals of Englaud at i the manufactory. The limited area of our island and the cheapness of sea tran- i sit are all that is in our favor. We have no such conglomerate mountains of lime, iron and coal as you have. Our materials for smelting are brought from different localities, at separate expenses. We de scend hundreds and thousands of feet into the earth for coal. You dig it from the hill sides. Your ores are generally better than ours. It is transit, 9ir, that makes cheapness or dearness. Transit i9 tariff, or free trade. American coal at the mine’s mouth is as cheap as English coal at the mine’s mouth. Freightage makes the dis- ference in cost between coal London and coal in New York. We lay extra rails on our railroads to accommodate and cheapen freight. Many of our railroads have quadruple tracks. “As your excellent commissioner, David A. Wells, has shown, that by reducing duties the poor will be better off—so by reducing freights I claim that your pro ducers and consumers will be better off. As he has shown that by reducing the whisky rax from two dollars to half a dol lar, more duty can be collected—so I claim that by reducing freights and running frequent slow trains, more freights can be collected, and both railways and shippers be better off.” “Ah, sir,” I said, “when we hint toward free trade,or even toward reduced duty in this country, the answer is that Euglaud got all her independence from protection, aud that only now, having duly protected herself, is she able to proclaim free trade.” “Ah, sir,” again said the British gentle man, "look at our sufferings under the dynasty of duties Famines, bread riots, the broad road of penance. We look back and see it all now, how blind and bigoted we were ; how, in the words of your revenue commissioner, the rich were ever growing richer and the poor poorer.” ERI ATORIALAFRIC A. \ Lecture by Mr. P. B. Du Chaillu. ~i Mr. Paul B. Du Chaillu, the celebrated !lave!er, the first and as yet known tbe only explorer of Equatorial Africa, de livered one of his popular lectures last evening at the rooms of the American Geographical and Statistical Society, Cooper Institute, before a very large au dience, the lecture room being filled to overflowing, and the ante-room having many occupants straining to hear the words of the lecturer. The occasion was the monthly meeting of the society, Mr. Du Chaillu, at the invitation of the socie ty. having specially traveled from Boston, where he is engaged in delivering a course of lectures, to be present to read before the society liis paper ou "Equatorial Africa.” J udge Daly, the President of the society, presided. The subject of the lecture was “Equato rial Afri* a, with an Account of the Race of Pigmies aud ofthe Cannibal Tribes.” Mr. Du Chaillu gave a brief description of his early desires to travel and i.is first start towards their accomplishment. After some time he reached the country of the Ashmangoes, an extensive and well peopled country in Equatorial Africa. ■ Here he became very intimate with the ; Kiug, who was exceedingly friendly to the young European, the first who had ; visited his country in the memory of the I oldest inhabitant. This was his point ! d’appui, from whence lie made frequent ; excursions in tlie surrounding country. Far to the eastward he came upon the : Bougauhoes—a people of very diininu'ive i stature, leading a gypsy life and living upon u erpents, mice and tlie berries of the forest. '1 hese people lived apart from all communication with the surrounding tribes, marrying within themselves, and moving from place to place as whim aud fancy directed. They are most expert trappers of the wild animals that roamed in vast numbers through the impenetra ble forests that stretched unexplored dis tances to the eastward. Ou the appearance at anytime of the people of other tribes these pigmies im mediately fled to the fastnesses and coverts of the forest, where it was exceedingly dangerous to pursue them on account of the innumerable number of traps set by them for the capture of game, from the elephant to the wild boar. He was very anxious to learn something of those peo ple, and though his friend, the King of tlie Ash mangoes, had doue everything to dissuade him from tiie attempt, he was not to be led from accomplishing liis pur poses. Seeing this, the King furnished him with some guides, and, attended by his seven followers from llie coast, he started on his journey. After sometime traveling to the eastward from the coun try of tlie Ashmangoes, he at last came unon oue of the temporary settlements of the Bougauboe pigmies. Upou the ap proach of himself and party,'however, the whole settlement fled, he pursuing. But they had got too good a start of him, aud they were in too close proximity to their safe and impenetrable retreats iu the dense forest, into which he could not pur sue them, and they got safely away. For tunately, however, a party of seven women and a man were not so quick as the rest of the tribe, or had not received the warning to flee in time, and before these could reach the forest they were overtaken and captured. From these specimens it was very easy to judge of tiie whole tribe. These people lived in huts made by tlie brauches of trees, one end of a branch not more than six feet loner stuck in the ground, and then beut over till the other end could be stuck in the ground in the same way. Other branches were fixed iu the same way, and over these were laid branches, and this formed their huts. He measured the women who had failed to escape, and he found their height to be four feet four inches to four feet seven inches, and one, a perfect giantess among them, measured five feet aud a quarter. Their heads mea sured from twenty-one and a quarter inches to twenty-two and a quarter inches around. These people were not at all as he expected they would he, apish in form and make. On tiie contrary they all pre sented the appearance of symmetrical, well built people, like such as lived such a life as theirs—the lives of gypsies. Their heads and parts of their bodies were cover ed with tufts of hair iu spots here and there, with no spread of growth. They lived ou serpents, mice anil the nuts and berries of the forest, aud the game they sold to tbe Ashangoes. They knew nothing of the marriage re lation, the sexes living promiscuously— the women being entirely independent and untrammelled in their choice or fancy. They had a curious custom with relation to the interment of their dead. When ever they buried auy of the tribe they would go to a stream, divert it from its course for a short distance, dig a grave deep in the bed of the river, then return the stream to its proper course. He did not remain long among these people, for he found it impossible to lure them back 'o the village while he remained, and as he beard of a gr> at tribe or a people of canni bals to tiie Northward he determined on visiting them. Here he found a race of very tall men. As he entered their vil lages be beheld numerous upright posts surmounted with skulls, and as he enter ed the vill ae the street was covered with skulls. The streets were very wide, 15d teet in width, aud from a mile to a mile and a half in length. These people were great warriors, hut greater cauuibals, the dead not being sacred fr<>m their ravenous maw. It was not considered right among them to eat tbe dead of their own family, hut a little subterfuge was resorted to by them to get over this little restriction. The liviug having a dead relative would go to a neighbor an I agree to leave their dead friend ou the table if the party would agree to return tbe favor the first time one of their friends diei. These manufactured the most splendid weapons—spears, ar rows, knives, axes and tomahawks, sharp ened like razors. They were a very for midable people and a terror to the tribes the most remote from them and the most difficult to reach. Dr. Du Chaillu kept the interest of his hearers alive to the end, and when he bad concluded a vote of thanks through the president was awarded him. — New York World , sth. Horrible Results of Religious In sanity.—St. Loui6,Februarg 6 th. —A man named Hoefer, living in the outskirts of Hannible, Missouri, murdered his daugh ter, ten yers old, yesterday. He first strangled her with a strap, then cut her body in two with ashoe knife, after which he tore her heart out, cut it open with his knife and swallowed the blood. He was arrested, and when asked why he commit ted the horrible deed, he replied that Christ died, that Christ was killed, and it was no worse for his Child todie than Christ; that he offered her as a sacrifice to Christ. Itis said that the man is insane on religious subjects. Big Damages.—A buck negro, named McCarthy, at New Orleaus, has just sued the Opera House in that city for $1,500 for being ejected therefrom. Just about his value before the war as a field hand. A REMINISCENCE. Col. Don Piatt, in a letter to the Cincin nati Commercial, humorously touches up a little incident which occurred in Wash ington when Col. Allen represented Ohio in tlie Senate. It is so readable that we publish k: I am under everlasting obligation to oue fair daughter of the house of Wood bury. I have acknowledged this before. Let me repeat my thanks. The undersigned found his way to Washington wlieu, fresh from school, a green, awkward youth, sadly annoyed by feet that seemed to have a malignant en largement, aed hands that were luggage on a railroad, “at tiie risk of the owner.” Bodisco, the funny old Russian Minis ter. who had fallen in love with, and mar ried, a sweet little Georgetown school-girl, made himself popular by brilliant parties, and one of these was about to come off when your neophyte to fashion fell into the bauds of (Senator Allen. The good hearted (Senator took his uonstitueut to the birth-night party. It was to be expected that the awkward youth would fall iuto a daze before the flashing lights that lined the street, aud grow confused amid the crash of carriages aud the cries of the colored servauts, who, the Africans I mean, make themselves heard ou such occasions. Be that as it may, was being pushed iu by the toll Senatorial representative of Ohio, when lie came to a full stop iu the presence of two elongated specimens of the human species, done up and decorated like Brig adier Generals on a general muster. Our youthful hero, deeply impressed, bowed profouudly, and the decorated specimens, looking somewhat puzzled, returned the politeness. “Don’t bow to these flunkeys,” snorted the Senator; “give them your cloak.” He had no time to obey this order, for tlie crowd pushed him ou, still clinging to his cloak At the door of the drawing room heencouutered a fat gentleman, also decorated, hut nothiug like the tali speci mens lately passed, and, determined not to he in the wrong again over the head, arms and body of Corpulence, tlie youth flung his cloak. Ttieu followed some smothered curses in French, English and Russian, as tiie gentleman thus assaulted, threw the cloak off', and a general, hearty, American laugh rang out from the crowd, who regarded thisaituck ou tlie diplomatic representative as coming from someone very drunk and disorderly. Senator Alleu was alarmed. He did not kuow what liis infernal youthful protege would do next, and so for hours shunned him as theeloquent Solon from Obioought to shun evil. He gave his young friend a wide berth. The poor fellow wandered about disconsolate turning over iu his mind the hope tiiatsomeday an lugeuious Yaukee would invent some heautifil arti ficial feet, so that tiie legs of very young men could he amputated, and thus relieved of a fearful burden. At last lie seized the reluctant aud alarmed Senator by the but ton. “I say,” he petitioned, “do introduce me to some of these girls.” The senator took liis young friend by the arm, and in desperation pushed him through the brilliant crowd and presented him to a young lady surrounded by ad mirers. Ihe presentation over, the poor fellow found himself unnoticed in a circle of gentlemen, kid-gloved, moustached, and at ease, who surrounded the belle. While thus engaged, more miserable than ever, a hluejay iu brass buttons, hurried up and said: “M iss Woodbury, permit me to tell you the joke of tiie season ;” aud to our hero’s horror, began telling of a drunken fellow’s attempt to suffocate the Russiau Minister. He listened for a moment in alarm and perspiration, aud desperately broke out: “I beg your pardon, sir, for the interrup tion ; but no one can tell that adventure so wellaslcm. lain tlie author ofthatin famou9 outrage. I was not drunk, but I was desperate. I assaulted tlie Russian under a misapprehension. I mistook his diplomatic excellency for the custodian of cloaks; aud so continuing, he related his adventure. The fair Woodbury’s laugh “like silvercoms dropped down a many-fathomed well.” “Come,” she cried, “I must take you under my especial protection, or you will do some one—or, what would be worse— do yourself a mischief. Give me your arm, and we will explain to tlie alarmed minister that uo one attempted liis assas sination, and save liis master a long dis patch, aud perhaps a recall.” SMALL POX. A Ualirornia Town Decimated. (From the Correspondence of the New York Sun. | San Francisco, January 12.— Early In December the small pox broke out iu this city. At first hut little attention wa3 paid to it beyond the ordinary course of vacci nation. But the disease grew virulent, and many deaths occurred. Through some fearful mistake, numbers of persons were vaccinated with impure matter, aud the ordinary medical treatment seemed to have scarcely auy effect upou the dis ease. So fatal were its ravages that public attention was immediately drawn to it. The people became excited, and a large meeting was held to devise means to stop the spread of thecontagion. Tbe proceed ings of this meeting were published in the San Francisco journals, but they were toned down to a moderate degree, through fear of affecting the usual winter and spring tide of immigration. People seem disposed to cover up tlie fearful ravages of the disease and to conceal its deadly char acter. Tlie streets are filled with funerals, aud the grave digger has his hands and graves full. In some cases burials are made by night. Despite every precaution, the contagion remains as deadly as ever, and, though it can scarcely lie said to be increasing, its decline is hardly peree; tihle. All the pest houses are full. Fathers and chil dren, mothers brothers and sisters expire daily, and nearly every person in the city has lost some acquaintance or relative. I he Chinese have suffered terribly. Their native doctors have neither experience nor common sense in the treatmen of tiie small pox, and as a natural consequence three out of every five of their patients run into eternity. But the ravages of the epidemic are not confined to San Francisco. Nearly the who e State is infected and some towns have been decimated by the pestilence Thus far Sacramento, Marysville, and Stockton have escaped the malignant iype of the disorder, hut it has run through tlie lower countie-* of the State like a murrain In Gilroy aud Los Angeles tiie disease has been fatal beyond precedent, aud San Francisco can be called reasonably healthy when its death rate is compared with those of tbe former towns. Some of those affected appeared to rot by inches, in spite of every available prescription. The phy sicians stand aghast. In some cases vac cination seems to have entirely lost its power, and men, women and children, with vaccine scars on their arms as large as twenty shilling pieces, have fallen vic tims to the epidemic. Hospitals have been hastily furnished, and every effort has been made in these towns to stay the progress of tiie disease, aud thus far with but little effect. Whole families have died. In one instance, a father and four children died within twenty-four hours, and in a hotel at Los Angeles nine per sons were buried within a week. But the plague-spot of the State thus far ha3 been the town of San Juan, in Monterey county, someone hundred miles from San Francisco. The town contains about a thousand persons. The alarming accounts of the mortality in San Francisco and Gilroy excited some apprehension, and an effort was made to- prevent the appearance of the epidemic in San Juan. A man came down from the grape-grow ing district of Sonoma county, and regis tered his name in the hotel. "When ques tioned concerning the small-pox in the North, be acknowledged its fatal virulence, and said that, fearing he might catch it, he had taken the precaution to be vaccin ated before leaving home. In twenty-four hours his arm swelled to the size of his body, and was covered with gangrenous sores. An examination by the physicians resulted in the discovery of the fact that tbe man had actually been inoculated with the most malignant type of the small-pox. He died, a sickening mass of putrefac tion, within forty-eight hours, and was buried at midnight. Steps were taken on the instant to prevent tbe spread of the disease. The dead man’s blankets, under- clothes, and outer garments were burned ; but unfortunately some school children j discovered the half-burued rags, and ! caught the infection. In oue week num bers ot them died, and the epidemic ob tained a firm foothold in San Juau. Out i °f a population of oue thousand, four hun dred were taken down with small-pox, and of these four hundred persous oue hundred and sixty died. This is a fearful rate of mortality, and I doubt whether the annals of this loath some disease can surpass it. In some country towus, away from the reach of skillful doctors, and where tlie proper medicines are scarce, two-thirds of the : cases prove fatal. Throughout the State ; the mortality has been unprecedented. I have thought it ray duty to give your readers this information, because of the disposition throughout California to keep the whole thing as quiet as possible. It is proper that people intending to come to l California from other (Stales should he made acquainted with the facts, aud 9eud them to you earnestly hoping that you will place them before your readers. The truth has beeu too long conceded. REMARKABLE CASES. | From the San Francisco Times. J We heard yesterday for the first time that post mortem examinations of bodies of patients who have died of small pox have beeu made with the view to ascer , taining the character of the disease aud ■ its effects upon the internal orgaus and 1 membranes. Hitherto, during the recent epidemic, physicians have had only symp toms for their guidance In making their diagnoses. The autopsies spoken of have been made during tlie past few days by Dr. Howell, Health Officer, assisted by Dr. Johuson, resident physician of the j small pox hospital. The cases examined , were of patients who had died of the most | malignant form of tiie disease. It was ; found, on examination of the brain, that pustules, well filled with matter, com pletely studded the coronal portion of the dura mater, the outer membrane of the hraiu. In several instances, the suppura tiou was of such a cliatacter as to and stroy tin? membrane where the pustules existed. Further examination repealed tiie fact 1 that these pustules existed on the mucous membrane of the mouth, sauces, trachea and oes iphagne. Iu the trachea tlie pus tules were found to-extend down the bifur cation, and not to the bodies ol the luugs. 'ln the oesophagus the pustules did *ot ■ exttnd iuto the stomach. Thesame char i acler of pustules had formed in the bind derand the low portion of tlie intestines In these cases, wuiie tlie patient was liv- | irig, he or she became insane from absorb- j tion of pus (p)semia.) Following is a case, one of tlie most virulent which has occurred iu this city, which was seen by our reporter in com pany with Dr. Rowed. A strong, middle aged working mau, vacciuated in youth, revacciuaied recently, with slight local results, was taken sick on Friday, with pains in the back and head ; worked all day ; worked till noon on Saturday ; when pains in the back and head compelled him to go to liis hoarding house; skin be came dry and harsh ; called a physician! on Sunday, who diagnosed tlie case as bilious remittent fever ; Monday, uneven ! and unnatural feel of the skin, witli ele i vations at points not sufficient to warrant a diagnosis of suiall-pox. Dr. Rowell was notified four hours after tiie physi cian’s call, and on visiting tlie natient found him covered wiUi dark livid spots, almost black ; lungs badly congested, with oppressive breathing aud spitting of blood ; involuntary evacuations from tlie bowels, that which passed being almost entirely blood; same in regard to the bladder ; violent retelling and vomiting of blood ; the patient soon became pulse less ; extremities cold; stimulants given freely, but they had no effect ; patient died in about five hours from the time Dr. Rowell was called. Dr. Rowell reports another very im portant case of a man who was frightful ly pitted by the small-pox which he had several years ago. This man was present iu the Doctor’s office when several per sons were being vaccinated, and for the novelty of the thing he had the doctor | vaccinate him. The* vaccination, to the | I astonishment of all who heard of the case i was a complete success, accompanied by all the local and constitutional symptoms of thegeuuine vaccine disease ; he had entirely recovered, the mark left was what physicians call “splendid.” About a month or more after, the man was again taken sick with tlie small pox aud carried to the small-pox hospital. The disease j assumed the confluent type, aud the man died in a few days after being admitted to the hospital. TO TIIE RESCUE. A Word Iu Favor of Other “Girls of the Period.” I BV FANNY FERN. I am inclined to believe that there are a great many kinds of women, both in ! England aud America. This idea seems i to be lost sight of by the writers of botli nations, who have undertaken to describe j the feminine elements, under such titles * as “The Girl of the Period,” or “Tlie Wo- | man of tlie Time presenting to our view monstrosities, which no doubt exist, but 1 which are no more to be taken as speci | mens of the whole, than is tlie Bearded Woman or the Mammoth Fat Girl. New York, for instance, is not wholly giver over to the feminine devil. Angels ! walk our streets, discernable to eyes that wish to see. Noble, thoughtful, earnest women; sick of shams and pretense; striving each, so far as in her lies, to abate both and to diminish the amount of phys ical and moral suffering Then, I never go into tiie country for a few weeks sum mer holiday, that I do not find large hearted, large-brained Women, stowed away among .he green bill-, in little cot tages, which are glorified inside ami out by their prese ce; women w in*, amid the press of tiou.ve ami garden work, find lime for mental culture; whose litue book shelves hold well read copies ol our best authors W m-u—sound physically men ! tally, morally; women, whom the Man of the Period, who most suiely exists. hu» never found Now and theu, some mao, | fit to be her mate, in hi* rambles m ihe * sweet summer time, is struck a-* I am by i the.»e gems hidden atnin the green hills and appropriates them for his own. But for the un.si part, the more -eligible a mao is, the bigger fool lie marries. This is especially true of hiogiaphers! What a wrong, then, to the great army of sensible, earnest women in either coun try to pick out a butterfly as the national type. Because a few men in New York and London ami Paris wear corsets—and dye their whiskers aud hair, and pan out their hollow cheeks aud shrunken calves, it does not follow that Victor Hugo, and John Bright and tlie great array of brave men who won our iate victory, are all popinjays. For every female tool I will find you a male mate. Bo when the in ventory of the former is taken, the roll call of the latter might as well be voiced Are women so “fond of gossip?” Pray, what is the staple of after-dinner conver sation when the wine comes on aud the women go off? Do women “lavish money on personal adornment?” How many men are there who would be willing to tell on what, and on whom, their money was worse than lavished? Do women “leave their nursery altogether to hire lings?” How many corresponding men are there, whose own children uuder their own roofs, are almost strangers to their club-frequenting fathers? And yet what good, notable men are to be seen for the looking ? Faithful to their trusts, faithful to themselves, unmoved by the waves of folly and sin that dash around them, as the rock of Gibraltar. I claim that justice be done by these writers on both sides of the water, to both sexes. Fools, like the poor, we shall always have with us ; but, thank God, the “just” man and the “just” woman “still live” to redeem the race. Men worthy to be fathers, aud large-brained women, who do not even in this degenerate day, disdain to look well after their own households. + » »-■ ■- - Poor Carlotta !— Those who have re cently seen this interesting young widow says that she never was better looking than at the present time. To all appear ance, she is scarcely twenty-five years old, j her complexion is very clear, and her eyes are unnaturally brilliant. Bhe her self seems to be aware that she is very good looking, for she spends by far more time in dressing than she used to do. “f’an It be—eh ?” VOL. LX., NO IS. Or. Altah Blaixirll. This name will be recollected by most I of our old citizens, as a resident here from about the year 1858 to 1862, practising dentistry; also in Taylor, Wilkinson, and perhaps other couuties. To correct an error in a brief “local” of yesterday, in which his name was omitted, we will add some further particulars of his present position and destiued locality for the next three years, with the loweringcloud of five more convictions hanging over him. Hut this will not disappoint any of our readers who have known him. When he came here, he hailed from New York city brought a Masonic diploma from Arcana Lodge, No. —, and united with Macon Lodge,No. 5, in 1859. From this Lodge he was expelled in 1562, for lyiug, swindling and rascality generally. He was also a member of one of our churches. He ascer tained that the reputation he had left be hind him at home had followed him here, as being deeply involved in the celebrated murder case of Dr. Burdell, and the widow Cunninghum, and concluded best to leave, after receiving a very uncomfortable ride on a rail by the citizens of Wilkinson county, for good reasons not now recol lected. He next turns up in Cincinnati, and had a long narrative published of his per secutions in Georgia, on account of his free-soil principles, aud that he had a tine plantation and negroes, which he was oompelled to abandon on account of them. The fact was that he never owned an acre of land ora negro, and the gentleman who gives us these facts says he could only col lect a debt from him by garnishment. In the New York Police Gazette, of the 6th iust., his full length portrait appears, as he stauds up, with his associate in crime (Eckel) to receive sentence by the Judge, which ail old acquaintances will recognize. We appeud the following particulars from that Gazette: WHISKY THIEVES AND THEIK CONDEMNA TION. On Friday, the 23d ult., two men con spicuously connected with the notorious array of whisky thieves, were convicted l>y a jury of the United Mates District Court of this city. The names of these distinguished personages are Dr. Aivah Blaisdell and John J Eckel. Their oHence was of the most aggravating char acter, and they had prosecuted tiieir vil lanies in the most impudent spirit. Hut ttiese men have another history apart from their whisky rascalities. They were painfully and susjnciously associated witii the famed Dr. liurdell murder, and with the trial for that startling homicide, which took place in the early part of the year 1857, and though they were finally discharged from all other threatening penalties, yet in the public memory they are distinctly branded as being somehow involved in that murder. The murder was committed on the 30th of January, 1857. The following is the substance ot the testimony elicited. At the Coroner’s inquest, held at No. 31 Bond street, on the 31st of January, John J. Eckel, who had been arrested on sus picion, testified that he had a room in the house in which the crime was committed, and occasio tally took his meals there ; lie knew Dr. Burdell by sight, and was not aware that any ill-feeling had existed be tween Dr. Burdell aud Mrs. Cunningham. Other witnesses proved the existence of a criminal intimacy between Eckel and the woman Cunningham, and that Burdell was very jealous of his rival. Aivah Blaisdell’s testimony was to the effect that he had been intimate with Burdell, and been asked by him to remain at his (Burdell’s) house on the evening on which the murder occurred. The Doctor ex plained that he made the request because he was in bodily fear of Mrs. Cunningham and Eckel, and others in the house ; they have used threats to him. Blaisdell prom ised to spend the night with the Doctor, but failed to do so. Subsequently a remarkable bit of testi mony was elicited, which cannot fail to be remembered by all New Yorkers, with regard to Blaisdell and Eckel. ’file foregoing reminiscences are irre sistibly recalled on the re-indictment and trial of these same men, this time for wholesale frauds on the public revenue. The justice that failed before, it seems, nevertheless has not slumbered. The culprits have been tracked through all their villainous winding, and at last have been overtaken, though with a milder penalty than that affixed to the crime of murder. On Monday of last week the condemned were arraigned before the Court, his Honor, Judge Blatciiford, pre siding ; and after a persistent yet abortive effort by the counsel for the accused to stave off immediate action, the defend ants, Including McLaren, their poor dupe and accessory, werecalled up for sentence, and Judge Blatcbford said : Aivah Blaisdell and John J. Eckel, you have been con victed, after a very fair and full trial by an impartial jury, upon testi mony that both jury and Court consider conclusive of your guilt. You have been couvicted on three counts for each offence of two different offences, and the circum stances as developed on the trial, show your case to be a peculiarly aggravated "tie. After the first seizure anil sale by the Government, you became again inter ested in some manner with the distilling, and continued to illicitly remove spirits. The Court then went over the law de finii g the punishment for tue offences committed. Blaisdell was then sentenced to time years’imprisonment in .Sing fSing on the first count of the indictment, aud -elite ce was suspended on Lite other five counts until he had served out his lime under this sentence. PJckel was sentenced in precisely the same manner aud for the same period, to imprisonment in the Al bany Penitentiary. McLaren, wbo bad been convicted on one count only, of sim ply aiding and abetting in tbe removal of whisky, and who bad been strongly re commended to mercy by the jury, wan sen tenced to four mouths’ imprisonment in tbe county jail. Tbe chief conspirators were awarded the highest sentence allowed by the law un uer which they were convicted. “Thus does the whirigig of time briog its re veuges.” A Hard Hit.—A few evenings since, hh one of tlie up town cars, pretty well filled—Gov Warmotb and “Col. Dean, of my staff,” being occupants—a ferna e in dividual of bright yellowish color hailed it and entered. Depositing her fare in the itox, she looked around for a seat, but found none. The gentlemen in the car did not see her, and not a woman would budge an inch to aecommodaie her; so sbe^ stood there looking and biting her lips' for vexation. Finally she said, in a sharp, snappish way, “Isn’t someone go ing to give me a seat?” No answer from the passengers. The Governor was very busy conversing with a friend, and the otiier passengers seemed absolutely deaf and blind. “It is my opinion,” said the mulatto, ‘‘that no gentleman would ’low a lady to stand up in a car.” “Madam,” said a person who was suspended from a strap, “here) is your Governor, I am quite sure he will give you his seat, for he owes his election to men of your race.” The Governor glanced up hastily, and an angry gleam for a moment was detected in. his eye ; hut he continued his chat, and the woman stood up till someone getting out made room for her. — N. O. Picayune. A Puff for Smokers.—Those of our fellow-pullers at pipe stems who are curious In such matters, may be lnter * ted in knowing that different kinds of tabacco contain very different amounts of nicotine. In that of Turkey, Greece and H„nrarv there is scarcely a trace of poison. In that of Brazil, Havana and Paraguay, the amount is two per cent. In that of Maryland 2.29; of Alsace 3.21 ; of Kentucky 8; of Virginia 6 87, and of France 7.30 cent. IK you don’t want your widow to marry get your life insured for such an amount that she can afford to live single.