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Newspaper Page TextWEEKLY INTELLIGENCER ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, August, 23 1865. O V P4<-R—Second Floor Crew's UuKiliu# entrance Wiilc Stairway, Alabama stre t. MEW UATKS. Daily for 3 months,.. I 3 00 Daily for ii months, ... 5 OJ Weekly for 6 months, 2 00 Single copies at the counter, 5 cents. Advertising, f 1 00 persejuare ol 10 lines, anil 50 cents oi each subsequent insertion. LEG AL ADVKRTISEMENT?. , u aleK of Land by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in each m nth, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in t -e afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the proi-erty is shunted. Notices of these sales m st bu given In a public ga- tette -todays previous. Notices of tlie sale of personal property must be given in like iiiauner, tiir ugh a public gazette, it) days previ ous to sale day. Notice to Debtors ami Creditors of an estate, must be published 40 days. Notice that application will irr made to the Court of Ordinary lot leave to sell laud must be publish dloi two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, Ac., must be published <XJ days—for dismission from Ad ministration, monthly six mouths—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Kales for the foreclosure of Mi.ilgae.-s must he pub lished tuuiilhiy lor four months—!.,r establisliing lost pa pers, for the full space of three months—for compelling lilies from Executors nr Administrators, where bond has I,eett given by the deceased, for the full space of three months. Publications will a ways Be c. ntinue.l according o these, the legal icqufrciueuts, unless otherwise ordered, at the following ■RATES. Sheri(Ts Sales i er levy of teu lines or less, $ 3o 0 SheriH's Mortgage U. la. sa es, per Lvy, Tax Collector’s Sales, per 1 vy, ( iiatlous for letters of Administration t'llatious for letters of Guardianship Nollcc of application for dismission from Adraltiis- Notice of application for dismission from Gttardl- Applicatlon to sell laud Notice to Debtors and Creditors Su e of Land, per square, Hales of perishable property, 10 days, INI ray Notices, sixty days, Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, For man advertising ids wife, (In advance,)... mam Z. v'- dfifi w-’ Jr WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. “ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. VOL. 8. ATLANTA, GA., AUGUST 23, 1865. NO. 4 & oo 5 00 8 00 8 00 6 00 4 00 C 00 8 00 ;sj 2 00 4 00 50 10 00 M irriage Notices 1 00 tyAll pers>n« wt'lllug to this Office wilK plosio addre»M tlicli* Loiters or CoiiiunuiilcutloiiN co “ Intelligencer, A tlautit, Ga ” duly 1 1305 • A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald oi the 12ih inst., says: “A long Cabinet session was held to-day, and report says a rather stormy one. The President's reconstruction policy is under stood to have been discussed in all itslength and breadth, and it is his determination to adhere to it and carry it out., regardless of all opposition.” We read the above intelligence with min gled feelings of sorrow and gratification. The true men of all parties, says the Louis* ville Journal, who appreciate the wisdom and patriotism of President Johnson, can but lament that the restoration policy an nounced by him, upon which civil govern ment is being re-established in each of the rebellious States, sjiould become, at this time, the subject of “stormy” discussion in the Cabinet. We had trusted that unanim ity of sentiment prevailed in the Cabinet, heartily sustaining the President, and that all opposition to him in the perilous task he is now required to discharge would be left to that noisy faction o( theorists upon whose impracticable schemes Chase and Sumner are endeavoring to build an anti-administra tion party. The policy of President John son, founded, as it is, upon the fundamental principles of the Government, is endorsed by more than nine-tenths ol the American people, and that man, or set of. men, who shall undertake to obstruct its successful operation must lead a forlorn hope against the impregnable judgment of the country The solemn and weighty duties now incum bent upon President Johnson render it vi tally important that all the departments ot the Government should be in harmony with eaeh other. The hopes of the nation now centre in the success of his administration, and the Cabinet council should be. firmly united in its support. Wo cannot doubt that the heads of the different departments, with but one or two exceptions, do sustain tbe President, and we earnestly hope, for the sake of harmony, that those exceptions will be removed by the substitution #f wise and true men, whose influence shall promote the existing measures of restoration. We have no fears as to the firmucsi of the President, and believe that he will carry out his present policy “regardless of all op position.’.’ When (he assassination of Presi dent Lincoln occurred we felt seme appre hension as to the wisdom which Andrew Johusen would cirry into the Executive chair, but weio couli Unt that his conduct would be controlled by his own judgment between right aud wrong. No public man- in the nation possesses more moral courage or a more stable character than he, and the tirat act of his administration demonstrated to us that his nurse throughout would be marked by the highest statesmanship. It is said that soon after his inauguration ho em braced a suitable occasion for assuring Sec rotary Sianlon lint Fie intended (o be Presi dent. himself, and the people may rest as sured that ht* will make nd the declara lion. President Johnson, born and reared in a slave holding S’ato, fully understands the character of both the black and white popu lations of the South, aud hence his policy toward both will be a practical one; and the lactionists and theorists of the Chase aud Sumner pariy, whether in or out of the Cabinet, will labor U vainto drive him from that policy, lie will carry it out "regard less ot all opposition.” The Richmond Whig, in a leading ar tide deprecating the position assumed by lli tse at the North who demand rigid meas ures, claim* that the punishment of the South is sufficient already. It says the sun does not look upon a civilized p H>ple whose lot is as deploiable as ours. In the first place we had to sustain the shock of disup poiniment and humiliation. Second; from the wealthiest people in the world, we be came the poorest. Third, bring raised to perfect political liberty, we find ourselves without selt-government and dr graded iulo a legal equably with oar own former slaves. Ex Governor II. V. Johnson.—Oar fel low-citizens will bo gratified at the intelli gence embraced in the following news item, which we clip from the Nashville Dispatch: Mrs Douglas.—The Associated Press weie treated, a few days since, to a worse than nonseti.-ieal dispatch, to the effect that Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas had applied for pardon. Tfie following is the dispatch as it should have been rendered : Her-ciiel V. Johnson, of Georgia, the can didate for Vice president with Douglas in I860, was pardoned to-day by the 'Presi dent, at the intercession of Mrs. Douglas. A Query Propounded.—We arc asked by an "assessor” io "be oo kind as to inform all interi sled, whether tax-collectors, assess ors or sub-acquis g tling up supplies fqr the late Confederate Government, come under the exceptions embraced in the Amnesty Oath ?” In answer, we ••«--f< r “Ahies on” to para graph the 1st, embraced in the list of « xcep- tions, to-wil: “Ail who are or have been pretended or diplomatic ofllcers, or otherwise domestic or foreign ngi-n's of the pretended Confederate States ” If a Confederate “tax coin dor, or assess or, or sub-agent iu gelling up supplies,” be cols'tiered a “domestic agent” then they are of the excepted clan, and must apply lor special pardon. If not, then of course, not. Wo know of no decision having been made iu Hus matter, but as many are interested in it, it would be well to pr< care Attorney General .Speed’s decision in regard to it.— The safest way, however, is for all so cir- eu nstanoed, to apply for special pard >n. TilK I>KESlD!BIVr FIRM PURPOSE. IN 11IS It is said that General Joseph E. Juhnstotf has been tendered aud will accept the p^si tion of Superintendent on the Danville Railroad. In. our telegraphic columns the reader will see it announced that the President’s reconstruction policy was understood to have been discussed in all its length and breadth in Cabinet session on the 12th in stant, and that his determination to adhere to if, and to carry it out, regardless of op position or consequences, was emphatically announced. Every patriot in the land will rejo'ee at this determination of the iniom- itable man who, regardless of vituperation and clamor on the part of the radical aboli tion party, or of all personal consequences, now sits at the helm of the nation, directing its affairs in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution which guarantees to each State in the Union a republican form of government. Of “the hour and the man” in history and song we have read, but if ever “noun” required the “man,” that hour in the political history of the country is now come, and the man stands ready, with purpose firm and fixed, to steer the ship of State safe into the harbor of National Prosperity—restoring to the “Union" that which, was lost, not with malice in his heart to degrade and impoverish it, but with a generous magnanimity to place it on an equality, in every political sen^e, with the unwavering in their loyalty to the Govern ment. God save the President in his stern determination to pursue the right, and to avoid the extremes into which fanaticism would hurl the nation! Commenting upon the same telegraphic report, it is truly said by the Nashville Union : “For some time past it has been made sufficiently apparent that the extremists, led by Wendell Phillips, Mr. Chase and others, were not content with Hie President’s plan of reconstruction, and intended, if they could not prevail upon him to readjust it, in accordance with their views, to make open war upon him. In pursuance of this policy they have, through their instruments, been busily employed in developing a public sen timent which would, they imagined, cause the President to swerve from his position. As a part of this programme, Forney put forth, some days ago, a charge of a conspi racy to get Representatives in Congress from all the reoel States, to repeal the war measures of Congress—especially the con fiscation laws—and to break down the pub lic credit. He added : The conspiracy has been duly organiz'd, and involves more elements than the people would at present readily believe. I regard it is the great peril ot the Republic. Thus it is Ihe duty ot art patriots, apart from their own interests, to be ready to meet it. Un der ihe most plausible and deceptive then rit s this infamous demand will be made.— It has already contrived to secure ihe sanction of what are supposed to he great names. It contemplates the com dete disgrace and the most asiouading repudiation in civil history. I do not fear that it will succeed, because it is only necessary to expose such a plot to bring it to shame. Now, under the President’s policy the ad mission of membra a of Congress Irorn the rebel Siat.es is contemplated, and no one would dream that a “conspiracy” wasattbe bottom of the affair, it be were not engaged in something ot the sort himself Bat, For ney’s letter Bhows in which quarter the wind is blowing; and white his barque will sai', if he is not induced to reset his sails Upon the heels ol the exposition of For ney's terrible conspiracy, the Cabinet meet ing was calledrit would seem and the Pres ident bvdgerert by members of his political household. It does not appear, however, that they accomplished anything, except to discover that he has a head of his own, and a little will with it. It these refractory gen tlenv n presume to instruct him further in his duties, he will be neither true to the country nor his own fame, if he does not make his Cabinet thereafter a unit. The O'-untry must expect no quiet so long as it can be agitated by ex'remis's. S x months ago, the men who are now clamor ing for negro suffrage, would have openly compromised on the security of freedom to the slave, aud would have sustained Mr. Lincoln in paying hundreds of millions of treasure to the owners of them by way of compensation. But, now they sec a chance to provide for their continuance iu high places, by a new campaign against tbe peace of the nation and against the constitution; and they will not hesitate to destroy An drew Johnson, if they can effect their pur pose. Failing to substitute their policy for the President’s, they will prepare’ for a contest in the next Congress. The policy of de claring the rebel S'ates to he territories and to treat them as such will be insisted upon in that body, aud if carried, will involve an •'tempt to depose President Johnson from his h ‘gh office. But these men will fail. The popular voice will drive them into obscurity. To misrepresentation, and, in many cases, to base falsehood, the assailants of the Pres ident’s policy, in the North especially, have resorted, in order to excite a political cru sade, by, and through which they desire more to benefit themselves, and attain pow er, than to restore peace, in the extended meaning of that word, to a distracted coun try. And who heads this crusade ? Not Grant, not Sherman, not tbe leaders of the armies nor the men composing these g. iant armies that overpowered the rebellion—no, not these—but men who never shouldered a musket, who never heard a gun filed, who kept out of the way ol'all danger, and fat tened upon the spoils of either public office or salaried stations—these are the men who now seek to mar the efforts of I he Presi dent. YV^hy ? we ask, in the name cf all that is jast, patriotic, and righteous ? The people of the South, the Louisville Journal truly remarks, “having been over thrown have evinced a willingness and tie termination to renew their allegiance iu good faith to the Government ol ihe Union, and we who, during the recent war, have sustained the Government should now ex tend the hands of cordial friendship to the vanquished. We are sure that the South ern masses have gained a wise and enduring lesson from the sufferings visited,upon them, and when they shall have fully arisen from Ibeir prostrate condition they will, with true and manly hearts, earnestly de vote themselves to the honor and glory of the na'ron. Lot in, therefore, help them to rise; let us watch every interest they have, and labor to identify it with the immortal life of tLe Union. We kuow that during the last four years the press, the forum, and the pulpit, in the loyal Spates, have too of ten served as the mediums for expressing Northern hatred for the South—a hatred which was naturally inflamed by the war; and, during the same period, similar means were used throughout the South for declar ing a hatred far more bitter than loyal men have felt. The time has come, however when the hatreds and prejudices of the past should be buried forever. Let all Northern men cease to abuse the South. Do not insult calamity ; It is a barbarous grossness, to lay on The weight of scorn, where heavy misery Too much already weiglts men’s fortunes down.’ But to “insult calamity ’ appears to be an end and aim of that organized and fanati cal baud, who would now control the Pres ident himself—not the chief end and aim, tor that consists in the attainment of the power, and the control of the offices of the Government. In this we predict their mor tifying defeat. A man ot iron nerve they .challenge to the contest. In him the people have abiding faith. _*By him the people will stand as well in the North as in the West as well m the States where rebellion did not rear its head, as whore, when they are restored fo the Uni m, It unfortunately broke torth. TITE COLLECTION DI3TRICT3 OF GEORGIA. We are indebted to Mr. W. H. Watson, recently appointed by the President As sessor of the Intcrual Revenue for tbe *4-h District, which, as will be seen, iLeludes the larger part of Northern Georgia, tor ihe fol lowing statement of the composition of the four districts of the State, established to fa cilitate the collection of the internal rev enue : The first district will consist of ihe coun ties of Appling, Berrien; %rooks, Bryan, Bullock, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Coffee, Colquit, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Glynu, Irwin, Johnson, Laurens, Liberty, Lowndes, McIntosh, Montgomery, Pierce, Tattnall, Telfair, Thomas, Ware, Wayne aud Wilcox. The second district will consist of the counties of B..*ker, Bibb, Butts, CGhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Crawford, Decatur, Dooly, Dough" ty, Early, Harris, Houston, Lee, Macon, Marion, Miller, Mitchell, Mon rre,“ Muscogee, Pike, Pulaski, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Spalding, Stewart, Sura ter, Talbot, Taylor, Terrell, Upson, Webster and Worth. The third district will consist of the coun ties of Baldwin, Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Glasscock, Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Jeffer son, Jones, Lincoln, Morgan, Newton, Ogle thorpe, Putnam, Richmond, Scriven, Tali' fero, Twiggs, Warren, Washington, Wilkes and Wilkinson. The fourth district will consist of the counties of Banks, Campbell, Carroll, Cass, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clark, Clay ton, Cobb, Coweta, Dade, Dawson, DeKalb, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Fulton, Gilmer, Gordon, Gwinnett, Habers sham, Hall, Haralson, Hart, Heard, Henry', Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Meriwether, Milton,. Murray, Paulding* Pickens, Polk, Rabun, Towns, Troup, Union, Walker, WaltoD, White and Whitfield. A GOOD APPOINTMENT. Among the many recent appointments by the President, we know of none more mfer- itonous than that of W. H. Wa'son, E-q., of -our city, one of the most courteous at taches of ihe Post Office Department, to the position of Assessor ot luferual Revenue in the Fourth District of Georgia Mr. Watson received h s official papers by the sleamer base Monday evening, and will shortly proceed to bis new fieid ot duty, where we wish him an abundance ot health, wealth, and general prosperity. Mr. Watson’s head quarters will be at Atlanta, aud .we bespeak for him from the Citizens ot the 4 Gate City” a ho?pitab!o reception, and the-most agreea ble business intercourse. From the Savannah Republican we clip the loregoing announcement. The gentle man so complimentarilv referred to by our cotemporary, Mr W. H. Watson, reached our city on Monday evening last. Immedi ately upon his arriva’, we had the pleasure of forming his acquaintance, and was much t leased in our brief interview with him.— Coming as he does to Atlanta, and making it his headquarters under appointment by the President, as “Assessor of the Internal Revenue” for the fourth district of Georgia, we trust the citizens of the*several counties in this dis iict, and especially of Atlanta, with whoni Mr. Watson must necessarily have much aad frequent intercourse, wiii make his lime pass as agreeably as possible, by extending to him all the courtesies due to an officer of the Government, and to an affable, urbane gentleman. E very property holder in the district is interested in the manner in which the duties of the “Assessor of Internal Revenue” are discharged, and each of them will be gratified to know that while all will be exacted by this officer due under the taw to the Government, nothirg unjust will be, nor will his official inter course with our people be otherwise than considerate and courteous. From the same paper, the Savannah Re publican, we copy the following article which' embraces the organization of oar S’ate into Collection District? : FUNISHJIFNT OF CBDIE IN GREAT BRITAIN. Crime is almost sure ol punishment in Great Britain. We wish we could say as mueh ot the certainty of its punishment ip the United States. R’cently we referred to the case of one Dr. Pritchard who was upon trial for the murder of his wife. This man was found guilty by the jury who tried him, and was hung in Glasgow on the 28th ultimo. When on the scaffold he britfly acknowledged the justice of his sen tence and met his fate in a calm ahd stoical mannner. Another case to which we re- lerred was that of Constance Kent, charged with the murder of her own bro'her. J3he, too, was tried and convicted of the revolt ing crime, and though her life has been spared, she does not escape punishment having been sentenced to be transported to FieeiiVtuildHu West Australia. It is said that the information that her life had been spared produced uo visible effect upon 4ier when it was communicated. Our Northern and Western exchanges come to us freighted every day with ac counts of “murders most foul, strange, and unnatural.” Husbands murdering their wives; w ves their husbands; lovers their mistresses ; mistresses their lovers ; broth ers their brothers; and sons their parent?, This is no overdrawn picture. And yet seldom do we read of an execution, or oi any punishment following the perpetration of crimes so revolting. There is something wrong in all this- something “ rotten Denmark.” It is not in the law, but in the administration of justice. Public sentiment too is vicious. It needs correction. The Pulpit and the Proas are surely derelict in their teachings; Courts and Juries no less so. We live in bad times, with little hope of seeing better. Licentiousness and ex travaganca is “the order of the day.” Mo rality is gone to the dogs, and Christianity has become a mere pretence. All good men should pray, for wickedness pervadeth the land. Literary on Dits.—The friends of the poet-laureate of England, Tennison, will be pained to learn that his health is rapidly de dining, and frail hopes of his recovery are entertained. Dickens is * becoming savagely stern as he grows old, probably because the world will not grow better in spite ot all his ef forts to improve it. Wilkie Collins is not so stern as his friend, perhaps for the reason that he is mueh the youngest man. * Years may im prove him, but the milk of human kindness they turn sour indeed. Thalbero, the pianist, has settled down a quiet cultivator of the vine at Pausilippo. JggT” The Augusta Constitutionalist has been furnished the following information : Wilmington, Aug. 11. loJ A. Brenner, Supt: We will run daily trains between Kings ville and Wilmington by Augmt 20 h.— There is daily communication North from here by railroad, weekly by s'eamer». At present travel g'H.8 via Goldsboro’, Raleigh, Greensboro’ and Petersburg. Wilmington and Weldon railrood will run direct to Wel don September 1 st. I understand the Ports mouth road is running through. I am not officially informed of this. IL M. DRANE, Supt. The question having been referred, it has been decided that the Revenue Act requires individuals who are members of firms to take*out individual licetise as well as license for the firm of which they are members. The question was raised between the internal revenue collectors and certain lawyers.—Augusta Constitutionalist, \bth. gy A Confederate soldier who bad fought fairly and squarely throughout the late war, when he was startled with the intelligence of the surrender of the three' armies of Lee, Johnston and Taylor, woke up to a reali zing sense of the stnpendousnessof the fail ure. His surprise broke forth in the excla mation *“D—n the thing, it didn’t even flicker, but went right out.” A PUBLIC DEBT A NATIONAL''* BLISSING. It has been said by English writers and statesmen that their public debt is a nation al blessing. It always seemed a fallacy to us on this side c f the water to assert that heavy taxes, rigid exactions and forced con tributions from the scaniy earnings of honest toil, could in any sense be considered a na tional blessing. We canrot conceive how the national wealth, the domestic welfare, and the comfort of society can be promoted by such means; and when we reflect that the great majority of the subjects - ' of that .mighty Empire^are the children ot toil, in moderate circumstances, whose daily labor is required to procure a comfortable subsist ence lor their families, the idea that they arc benefitted by such abstractions from their limited Incomes is simply preposterous. We cau very well conceive how the monied class, who hold the bonds of tbe Govern ment and are supported by the accruing in- ten st paid from the funds wrung from the scanty earnings of honest industry, may consider the existence ot the debt a blessing to them. It is a great fallacy, an arrant humbug,- put forth by designing and unscrupulous men to subserve their own private interests^ and to deceive and delude the unwary and the unthinking multitude, whose energies by such means are paralized, and whose efforts to better tlieiif condition in life are thus rendered abortive, and whe from year to year, and. whose children from generation fo generation, are kept toiling and strug gling to hold tb.eir own without being able to make any advancement in th3 scale of wealth, or any improvi meat, in social ccm fort. The legitimate effect of great natiorfal indebtedness was made;manifest in a recent debate in the English Parliament, when a member stated “that in England and Wales alone there were a million of paupers, and five hundred thousand more on the verge of pauperism.” The heavy national debt and the high taxes necessary to meet the interest upon it were assigned as the cause. An individual involved in heavy indebt edness is always hampered and clogged, and it is impossible for him to be as useful a citizen, or as good a member of society as he would be if unembarrassed. The truth of this proposition is confirmed by dai y observation; and wo hold that %ny thing that renders the Individual less useful as a citizen will also hold good when ap plied to the body politic. In other words, our meaning is that that course of conduct upon the part of the individual in reference to his pecuniary affairs, which would result in .disaster to him, or in impairing his use fulness a3 a citizen, will be followed by like results when adopted by the Government. The great ^American idea has been, and still i3, that the greatest good of the greatest number is promoted by the Government es chewing a heavy public debt; and hence, when heretofore, anything approximating what our people have considered a heavy debt has been incurred, steps have been ta ken to reduce it and finally to get rid of it, Thus our taxes in the past have been comparatively light, and the proceeds of labor have been left to benefit their possess ors. The unfortunate war of the last four years has involved the nation iu an indebtedness which a score ot years since, would hay been perfectly appalling, and it will require all the financial .skill and wisdom of the . whole country to prevent it from becoming a millstone about the neck of the nation and a dead weight upon the industry and enterprise of the whole people. But with the resources of this country and the energy, industry and enterprise of the people, if any people or country can support a heavy debt and still be prosper ous, then we may sufely conclude that the people of the United States will demon strate their ability to perform that exploit. Trial of Mr. Dayis.—A correspondent of tbe New York News says: “I am pre pared to put at rest all speculation con cerning the.trial of Jvff.jrson D ;vis, so far as it relates to a Military Commission, positively assert that President Johnson has decided that Mr. D ivis shall not fie tried by a Military Commission, notwithstanding he has been persistently urged to liiat course by the Radicals, who thirst for more blood. And moreover, I Pel perfectly satisfied that he will never be tried, but eventually will be permitted to leave the country.” The Health of Alex. H. Stephens, now iu confinement at Fort Warren, is rep resented as “very precarious,” but not from any lack of nourishing food or kind treat ment at the hands of those who have him in charge. Close confinement is undermin ing his cons itu’ioa, which has been feeble or several years. Interesting Items—It is a rematkable fact that electricity travels so rapidly that it may be sent through gunpowder without igniting it, and it is only when the current is retarded that an explosion Jakes place.— The progress of electricity is swifter than that of light, being about two hundred miles a second. A French chemist asserts that if tea be ground like coffee, bt fore hot water is put upon it, it will yield double ihe amount of exhilarating qualities. Another writer 3ays; “If a piece of lump sugar, the size of a walnut, is put into the teapot, you wiil make the tea infuse in one half theTime.” Sax, of Sax-horn celebrity has jast finished another ex'raordinary invention by which the sound of all brass wind instrumen's can be incteased to a marvelous extent, so that band of six instruments can make as much noise as sixty. THE EdfPIRE-IS IT PEACE ? The latest news from Mexico is of a char acter to excite the liveliest anticipation of what a few weeks may bring about. M. Eloin, who,»some months ago, was dis patched by Maxifhilian to Europe to learn the opinion of the French aud Austrian Eras perors upon the question of’the advisability of his holding on to his Mexican bargain or of giving it up altogether, has returned to Max with the conclusion that the next best thing to getting into a bad box is to get out of it as soon as possible, or, in other words, that the sooner he relinquishes his little Mexican job, the better will it be lor his temporal welfare. During the absence of Maximilian’s Commissioner, new and grave complications have arisen to disturb the im perial administration of affairs in Mexico. If we may credit reports that come to us, French officers have been fired upon from the Texas shore of the Kio Grande by Uni ted States soldiers attached to Gen. Brown’s command at Brownsville, and fierce letters have been written thereupon by the French commander on the other side. The bad feeling produced by. the, doubtless, daily quarrels of the members of the Imperial and United States armiest in that quarter has been heightened, and the situation has been seriously complicated by the ex* ploits of that soldier-oLfortune and mili tary turn-coat, Cortinas, who, Imperial iat to day, is Juarist to-morrow, and who, being now devoted heart and soul to the Republi can interest, is involving the whole question along the Texas frontier ia a belligerent fog by foraying oft the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and then seeking protection at Brownsville in the society ot Gen. Brown, the American commander. Whilst we do not credit the report that Geo. Brown had ordered United States troops across the Rio Grande to the assist ance of Juarez, and that Gen. Steele, com manding the Department, had countermand ed the order, it is not to be denied, never theless, that tins rumor may have some foundation in fact, aud that, it is far from im probable that some fine morning, under the quarrelsome and hasty influences that seem to prevail along the border, and as a natu ral consequence of the complications in that quarter, the singular spectacle may be wit nessed of a sec_>nd entry of the United State^flag' in'o Matamoras, accompanied with the dramatic episode of the French troops aud Austrian Legion at that point, fir ing on the new comers—thus inaugurating, in a quarter least expected, another irre pressible conflict,” growing out ol the doc trine of Monroe, wherein' the whole ques tion of American supremacy on this Conti nent will be brought to a sudden teat of heavy battalions, despite the skillful diplo macy aad evasiveness of President here, and King and E nperor there. - What with Cor tinas and Brown on the one hand to pro voke dispute, and tliat hot-headed and letter- writing old French Campaigner to preserve order on the Imperial side, the cpustiori of peace or war in the neighborhood of Brownsviile would seem to resolve itself in to a simple question of two or three more after-dinner glasses of wine. Practically considered, war, with its momentous re sults, between the United States on the one part and Max’miliau, his friends, backers, etc., on the other, 13 enclosed ia a bottle of whisky or Burgundy ; aud if the necessity should ever arise that Philip drunk on the American side should have occasion to ap peal to Philip drunk on the other, (or rice versa,) on & point of military eliquet'e, it scarcely admits of doubt to suppose that be fore either Philip would be sober euoUgh to understand the situation, the damage to the international relations would have been inflicted beyond repair. Ia the meantime what of France ? What ever may b? Louis Napoleon’s convictions upon the r»Iex'cau question—whether he has privately intimated to Maximilian that so far as ho is concerned the game is up, or not—he is as yet publicly committed, be fore hi a people and the w*rld, to an armed support of the Austrian Arch-Duke’s ven ture. T<5ra from the palace of his ances tors, where, in the et j lyment of a life of ease, he looked forward to the possible suc cession to the Austrian crown, Maximilian was hoisted on French bayonets to tin; throne ot Mexico. In that uncomfortable position, blessed with the presence of an Empress and a royal ciurf, he has been al ternating between victory and defeat for many months. He is supported in hij claim by-the seivices of French troop3, and upon his foreign auxiliaries his reliance must mainly be placed, and until, instead of send ing fresh reinforcements to Mexico, Louis Napoleon shall withdraw those already there, the sympi'htes of the French Empe ror may appear to be still with Maximilian. In tbi3 view of the case,. Mas and his pres ent and Fature hopes become of small ac count in the grand total of tbe picture The serious question that presents itself is not whether Maximili an will finally be Emperor, or Juarrz finally President of Mexico—whether that land of feuds and agitation shall continue to expe rience these blessings of the- Republic or shall settle down under the iron hand of au thority into ,a well regahated Government under tbe Empire—so much as whether a continued attempt on the part of the Mexi can Emperor to retain his shadowy dignity may not involve the United States in the incomi rc-hensibie entanglementsofthe Mcx ican question—whether indeed, the bantam tanntings that now find their exercise in the military amenities on the Rio Grande may not at some lime or other, resolve themselves into the fierce essay of two nations at arms. And in a consideration of the momentous interest at issue, we cannot but . consider that AL E ion’s mission to Europe has set tled the question, and (hat, in taking early occasion to relieve himself of the pressure, Louis Napoleon will aff jri another war ranty that time has not changed his convic tions, and that, in his opinion, Peace and the Empire are still synonymous terms.— Rich. Bui.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 186?-1865, August 23, 1865, Image 1