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ESTABLISHED 1799.1 favjgw THE CHURCHES to-day .<££■ i First Baptist Church, corner of Greene and Jackson streets. Sunday school at jv, o'clock. Morning service at 11 At 7% p. to., brief: Sunday evening talks by the pastor on “Cording fo one’s seif." __ First Ward Bapt st Church, Greene and Houston streets—Preaching in the morn ing at 11 o’clock, and at night at 7 o’clock by the pastor, D. Shaver, D. D. Meeting for singing at ®% o clock. a. m. Sunday school at 3p. in, Prayer meeting Tuesday night at 7 o’clock. Christian Church, corner Greene and Mc- Intosh streets— Preaching by the pastor. J S. Lamar, at 10% a. m. and 7 p. m. Sun day school at 9 a. m. Bible School In Templar's Hall at 3p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday night at 7 o’clock. German Lutheran Church—Eer. Theo Koeberle, Pastor. Services at 10:30 a. in! Sunday School at 2:30 p. m. Presbyterian Church— The following ser vices will be conducted To-day at 10 :30, a m., and 7:30. p. in. Bible class, 3, p. m. : Monday at 7:30, p. m., at Bethesda Hall subject by (special request) “An Open Bible” Tuesday, 7:30. p. m.. at Riverside- Wednesday. 7 :30, p. m., in Lecture Boom Thursday, 7 :30, p. m., up town mission—to be held at General M. A. Stovall’s; Satur day. 4, p. m., at Lecture Room, Sabbath school lesson expounded. f-t. John’s Church'—Preaching morning and evening by the pastor. Curtis Church, Broad street—Preaching by the pastor, B. R. Womack, at 10% a. m. and 7 p. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday night. Sunday school at 3% p. m. St. James' Methodist Church-Preaching at iu% o’clock, a. m., and 7 p. m.. by Rev H. 11. Parks. St. Paul’s Church—Service at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday scuool 3p. m. ?• M. O. A -4% p. m Hall, T. H. Gibson. Jail, Leo. Brown, J. P. Foster, Wm. Bekr inan. Hopital, Robert Thompson, W. J. Steed. M. J. Cofer. Widows’ Home, W. H. Warren, Boyken Wright, Jos. r. Derry. Hotels—W. M. Jordan. J. S. Bean Jr., F. H. NVwbery, J. C. Lee. The committee to visit hotels, in addition to inviting stran ger-to church, will make special inquiry after the sick. COLORED. Central Baptist Church, Rev. H. Jackson, pastor. Divine services at 11 o'clock a. in. and at 3 o’clock p. m., and at 8 o’clock p. in. Sunday school at 9 o’clock a. m. —— _— Important Charge, in the case of the Charlotte Columbia & Augusta Railroad vs. Wyley, principal, and Wyley and Gow, securities, tried in the Su perior Court a day or two since, Judge Gib son delivered the following able charge to the jury. As the matter is of some public importance we give the charge in full : Corporations are composed: of persons and, perhaps, many of them widows and or phans and public spirited meu who have contributed their funds for the public good, and in courts of justice are entitled to the same rights and privileges as individual suitors. The obligations of Wyley, the maker of this bond, to pay plaintiff, is very different from that of Gow, the surety. If the maker, Wyley, permitted goods to be delivered without payment of freights and loss oc curred therefrom and the plaintiffs knew of such delivery without prepayment, the su rety, Gow, cannot be charged with such Joss. One of the requirements of the bond being that Wyley should make daily settlements. * If the plaintiffs permitted, allowed or consented to weekly or monthly payments aud losses thereby occurred, the surely, Gow. cannot be charged thcrevviih. Any change of the terms and the bonds wiihout the consent of the surety, within the knowledge of plaint iffs or the superior oiliccrs of Wyley by which losses occurred, cannot be charged to the suret y. Hence, if the default of Wyley, was by reason of non-payment of freights before delivery, or non-transmis sions of collections daily, with the knowl edge, permission or consent of plaintiffs, he is not liable therefor, and your verdict should be for the defendant, Gow No delay, or non-action by plaintiffs in compelling payments or allowing freights delivered without payment,unless for a con sideration or benefit to plaintiffs, will dis charge the surety unless loss accrued there by to securities held, or it amounted to such conduct on the part of plaintiffs as to so change the contract, or bond, as to increase the risk of the surely. This is a bond tor the faithful per formance, by Wyley, of the duties of agent for plaintiffs aud in two of its most important stipulations, the in tuner of its performance specifically slated. Any change of its mode and manner of per formance by the agent, with the knowledge, or approbation of the plaintiffs by which the risk of the surety was in creased, or trom which losses accrued, will discharge the surety and you should so find. It no change was made by which the risk of surety was increased or from which the default accrued, you should fiud for the plaintiffs. • [communicated.] For Sheriff. Mr. Editor : 111 endorsing a communi cation in your issue of yesterday, com mending Mr. C . A. Fleming to the office of Sheriff, subject to the Democratic nomina tion, L would express my satisfaction at seeing Mr. Fleming a pronounced candidate, tic is a young man of abilii v and one emi nently qualified for tlio office to which 110 aspires. Sound in politics and popular with a large number, his candicaev will be supported by a great many voters, and il he be nominated we will have in him a man who will do his duty without fear, favor or compromise. * Citizen. — 5 ■* [COMMUNICATED.] Mr. Editor: The Richmond Hussars, wight before last elected to the office of Junior Seeond Lieutenant, Mr. C. A. Flem ing, and I cannot allow the opportunity to pass off without paying a just tribute to oiip of the most talented and enterprising of our young men. He is a model man in every respect, a perfect type of a gentle man. He combines ability with popularity, and if nominated by the Democratic Com mittee, will give satisfaction to the citizens °f Richmond county I have written this without his knowledge, and only do it to Put before the convention a name well W’orthy its consideration. Hussar. When Hamlet was trying to put up a job °n his uncle he thought everybody was a pawnbroker, or something ot thatsort. To a good soldier he said, “Holdyou the watch to-nigla ?" The man said ho did, and then thunlet began to question tuuj.“, and bicker over the witching hour of night. The other day a boy about seven years old c illed at a hou.se ut the West-end, and asked the lady for ten cents, saying he was the sole support of his mother. She reached after her purse and inquired : “How old :s your mother V” “She’s seventy years old 1” Promptly replied the lad, and ho wondered what made the lady hustle him out without giving him an y money. An old lady at Newark, N. J. claims that she possesses a lace handkerchief held ‘0 his hand by Charles I. of England when he was beheaded. It may be a success as a ' hriosity, but for an able-bodied cold in the head, a twelve-cent cotton handkerchief is more serviceable. We judge that Charles T "'as not troubled much with a a cold in the head about the time he lost it. —Norris tmn Herald. ‘/ < m H >' ®J)e Stngnnta Constitutionalist. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. he CRUSHES a lie. that He Favors a Friend °f Hayes FaiaeTh llw. Llberty 18 Obedience to the The following explains itself: Washington, December IG. the Editor of the Constitutionalist, The statement going the rounds of the paper that I am advising a friendly acceptance by the people of the South , the lna uguration of Mr. Hayes is utterly unfounded. I never have and never shall advise' them or any other people to give a friendly ac ceptance of any administration inau gurated by the grossest frauds and most palpable usurpations. While I might not advise forcible resistance to an administration thu3 inaugurated yet I never could give it the sanction of ray approval orjfriendly acceptance. For the overthrow of such a dynasty I should rather appeal to the peaceful Instrumentalities of the Constitution. These are the legislative halls, the ju diciary and the ballot box, the latter of which should ever be held as sacred as the ark of the covenant. (Signed) Alexander H. Stephens. CONGRESSIONAL. WHERE ORTON GETS HIS BACK BONE. Obstacles Thrown in the Way of the Investigation Committee— Action of the House—Grant A Cos. as Bulldo zers. Washington, December 16.—Speaker Piantiall lias received a dispatch from Chairman Morrison of the Louisiana Investigating Committee which says: “Every obstacle has been and will be interposed to hinder this committee in the discharge of its duty. Tho Re publican witnesses have been threaten ed and dare not testify without recur ring loss of position and personal dan ger. The production of papers and telegrams is refused. It is believed that this has been done upon assurance of protection from Washington. With out the power of the House to enforce obedience to its process the committee cannot discharge its duties. The House should remain in session.” House—After the passage of the post office appropriation bill, the Speaker laid before the House a tele gram received by him from Mr. Morri son, Chairman of the Louisiana Select Committee and that of Mr. Morrison from Mr. Orton, President of the Wes tern Union Telegraph Company, refus ing to produce the originals of tele graph dispatches. The dispatches have been read. Mr. Wood, of New York, rose to offer a resolution, premising it by the ex pression of his belief that the House would not be slow to vindicate its righto and privileges. Hoar, of Massachusetts, made the point of order that the question was not properly before the House, a3 a re port of the Committee could not be made to the House by telegraph. The Speaker overruled the point of order, anti ruled that it was a question of privilege, and was properly before the House. Wood’s resolution was then read as follows: Resolved, That the communication presented by the Speaker from the Hon. Wm. R. Morrison, Chairman of the Select Committee, appointed to in vestigate certain matters relating to the late election in the State of Louisiana, be referred to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to report at the earliest practicable moment what action the House should take in the premises to enforce its rightful au thority. Kasson, of lowa, again pressed the point of order made by Hoar, but the Speaker gadhered to his ruling and Hoar remarked that on reflection it seemed to him that the position of the Chair was entirely correct. The reso lution was then passed without discus sion or division. The House then proceeded to the special order, which was the delivery of eulogies on the late speaker. —■ NBW YORK. Crimes and Casualties- End of the Railroad War. New York, December 16.—Julia Deems, whose drunken husband drove her into the streets last night to beg, was found this morning with her dead baby in her arms. It had frozen to death during her wanderings. Mrs. H. P. Glattan, a well known ac tress, died here yesterday. The relief fund for the sufferers by the Brooklyn fire, reached §24,278. J. P. Perkins was fatally poisoned at Fair Haven by a drug clerk giving him by mistake hellebore for valerian. The Evening Post says the railroad managers signed a positive agreement this morning. There will be no dis criminations against New York save as regards local freights. This ends the railroad war. On Monday next there will be a general advance in freight rates. East bound freights from Chicago will be advanced to thirty cents per hundred on grain and flour, and to thirty-five cents per hundred on fourth-class and provisions. West bound freights will be advanced to fifty cents per hundred on first class and in the same propor tion on other classes—all thorough competitive rates will be the same on all the lines. On purely local rates, as between Chicago and New York, Balti more and Philadelphia, Baltimore will have ten per ceutum and Philadelphia about seven and a half per centum less than New York, on the local rates be tween St. Louis and Now York and Baltimore and Philadelphia. The dis crimination against this city will be about this ten per centum in favor of Baltimore and about ten per centum in favor of Philadelphia. _ ■ !'■ Advisory Meeting. Washington, December 17.—The World of to-dav says a meeting of some dozen influential business men was held last evening at the residence of Wm. E. Dodge, by his Invitation, at which the political condition of the country was informally discussed in its bearings on business matters. The meeting came to no definite conclu sion aud was regarded as initial to fu ture larger gatherings, where some plan can be devised, to submit to the country, to obviate present difficulties in the Interests of the business men of the country. LOUISIANA. Fight Between Police and Negroes—• Hon. Wm. R. Morrison After Mr. Orton—The Congressional Commit tee. New Orleans, December 16.—The mate of the Pteamboat Poudevente, otdered twoie >ro romd bouts .from the boat, ana they returned with a crowd of negroes, when the deck hand fired at the negroes, wounding three of them. He was arrested by the police, but was rescued by the ne groes, and again rescued by the whites and locked up. The police, when rein forced, attempted to remove the priso ner to a place of safety, when a fight occurred. Ten or twenty negroes and three whites were wounded. New Orleans, December 15. JFm. Orton, President Etc., New York: I have nothing to do with your mo tives for refusing to obey the process of the House of Representatives. My duty will be performed by invoking its aid in the enforcement of such process. Regretting your refusal or the inform ation necessary to ascertain the whole truth as to the Louisiana election, I am yours, respectfully, Wm. R. Morrison. Before the Congressional Committee M. S. Pleler, of New Orleans, Republi can, testified: He was United States Supervisor of poll 3, Second Ward. An attempt was made by the Republican Commissioner to prevent Democrats voting; the names on, poll lists being different from names on registra tion paper. The day arter election Mr, Heare, Republican Commissioner said to him, there was some trou ble about the poll; that the Demo cratic Commissioner would be ar rested and they would take the box and tlx it up to suit ourselves.— Later two deputy marshals called witness out and asked him ff he bad gone back on his party. Mr. Casey, tbe Republican marshal, said there was money in it; that if witness would let them have the box they would give him §500; witness declined, aud in formed the Democratic commissioner, who sent a force to protect the box! TheKepublicans finally made an at tempt to seize the box after it had been taken to Mr. Bain’s office, where they were to make affidavit to returns. The plan was to arrest Democrats and take the box to the Custom House. Hare, Republican, finally refused to testify to the returns, saying his in structions would not permit him to do so. The Friday after the election he met Deputy Marshal Casey, who said to witness : “You of a— you are a traitor to your party,” and knocked witness down. A colored man named George Dean then struck wit ness over the head. Witness ran and was pursued by Dean with a pistol to the corner of the block, where he met three men who protected witness and prevented Dean from firing upon him. The offense of witness was that he had certified to the returns as correct, and had refused to allow the ballot box to betaken possession of by the Republi cans. Cross-examiued. The election was peaceable, quiet and fair. Casey is an employee of the Custom House. Witness did not make a complaiut to the au thorities about the assault because be intended to settle it in a personal a fair. Mr. Donnelly came to his room and told witness that ir he (the wit ness) did not keep in doors he would be killed for going back on his party. The witness is still a Republican. He asked Col. Potter and others for pro tection from violence. Potnpey Stoots, colored, testified : Voted the Democratic ticket in 1874 and 1876. Colored people attempted to injure him aud used abusive language toward him all the time; had been twice assaulted. The colored people were afraid to vote the Democratic ticket. Marshal Taylor, colored Democrat gives similar evidence. He had been cut about seventeen times, and shot at four times by colored men who be longed to the Republican party. E. H. Flowers, who went to school in Philadelphia, but came to Louisiana in 1865, employed as a school teacher,and who has voted the Republican ticket at every election except the last, when he went with [the Democrats. He changed his politics because he desired a chauge in Government, and imagined the success of the Democrats would ameliorate the condition of affairs. He came out openly as a Democrat in the latter part of August. He made a proposition to the Democratic State Central Committee to canvass the State for the Democrats if they would defray his expenses,and was accepted. He made speeches in Rapides, Grant, Natchito ches and several other parishes. He conversed with a large number of colored men who affirmed that they would vote the Democratic ticket, and was told by a great many that they were afraid to vote the Democratic ticket owing to the threats which had been made regarding the colored De mocrats. He heard P. G. Deslande, Secretary of the State,remark to J udge Phillips, some time previous to the election, that the Democrats would probably carry the State, but that they would not affect matters—as even if they were successful, the Republicans would get in the colored men throughout the State who ex pressed an inclination to side with the Democrats. He said they did so as they were tired of bad gov ernment. They wanted more schools or better ones. There was plenty of money to pay the teachers, but some how it disappeared before it could be applied to its destined purposes. They were disgusted with the Freedman’s Bureau swindle and S. B. Packard, to whom some of them had given bounty claims for collection and they had been defrauded out of their bounty. The witness states that he was threatened by the Republicans, and was advised by friends to leave New Orleans, as his life was in danger from the Republi cans. He heard Anderson, Super visor of East Feliciana, remark that he could not get any colored man to run for office in his parish, and that some of them ought to be killed, as every colored man’s murder was worth fifty thousand dollars to the Re publican party. Witness never knew of any intimidation practiced by the Democrats, but knew the colored men were intimidated by Republicans. The Senate Committee commences its sessions Monday in the Custom House. Good News for Drummers. Montgomery, Ala, December 16. The Alabama Legislature has repealed the law taxing drummers fifty dollars. It goes into immediate effect.' The revenues of the general post office for the past year have been up wards of $29,000,000, and the expenses upwards of $33,000,000. A deficiency of four millions. AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1876. FOREIGN NEWS. The New Ministry—Abolishment of the Death Penalty—The Eastern Question - A Russo-Turkish War Inevitable. Paris, December 16.—The Eqpublique Francaise declares that the Simon Ministry is bound to satisfy Republican demands on the questions by which the Dutaure Ministry was defeated. Rome, December 16.—The Parlia mentary Committee on Revision of the Penal Code have unanimously voted to report in favor of abolishing the death penalty. London, December 16.—A special dis pajeh from Vienna to the Daily Tele graph says: “Serviajhas signified her willingness to make proper reparation for the recent insult to the Austrian flag, in the forcible detention add searching of an Austrian mail steamer by Servian police,” A special dispatch fram Berlin to the Standard says: “Despite all peaceful statements elsewhere,the news received from the conference in high political quarters here maintain that a Russa- Turkish war is inevitable.” FLORIDA. The Mandamus Casa—A New Canvass to be Ordered—The Congressional Committee at Work, etc. Tallahassee, December 16.—1n the mandamus case, before the Supreme Court, the defendants made answer, which the court deemed insufficient aud gave them till Monday to amend. Avery general impression prevails that the Court will issue a mandamus for u now canvass, which will operate directly on the State and Congressional vote,and have indirect influence on national; politics. The face of the returns on which the new canvass is ordered to be made, elects Drew aud both Demo cratic Congressmen. The Congressional Committee will give nothing official until the work is concluded. The Seuato Committee commences its session on Monday. Mexicauizing the United States. The Sun pithily says : “Gen. Esco bedo, Secretary of War of Mixico, was captured by the opposition party a few days ago, and shot down like a dog. It has just been announced that the Mexicans have the greatest admiration for Geu. Grant. Well they may have; for our present President is doing everything in his power to reduce this country to the condition of Mexico. He has sent General Ruger to South Carolina with orders to preveut Demo crats, at the point of the bayonet, from entering ths State House. We learn from our esteemed contem porary, the New York Times—indispu table authority on such a point—that no longer ago than the 10th day of De cember, current, General Grant said there were six or eight hundred troops id V\ ashiugton, and if more were re quired he would ordor them there. Required for what ? Why, of course for the triumph of Hayes over Tilden. Why should not' the Mexicans ad mire General Grant? He is trying to conduct the Government of the United States on the military and bloody prin ciples that rule in Mexico, and to re duce the United Stutes us nearly as possible to the condition of that semi barbarian country.” Attitude of the New York Germans. Avery large meeting of the German citizens was held in New York Friday evening, at whick|Mr. Oswald Ottendor fer, who was one of the prominent Democrats sent to Louisiana to watch the Republican board, made an impor tant speech. Referring to a dispatch which he sent from New Orleans to his paper, the Slaats-Zeitung, charging apathy on the American people in re gard to election rrauds, Mr. Otteudor fer said : “We adopted citizens have taken oath to observe and maintain the Con stitution of the United States and the laws promulgated under it, and we are determined to conscientiously fulfill the oath. Hundreds and thousands of our fellow-countrymen havegiven their lives in the recent war for the preser vation ofjthe Union; they have imposed the duty upon us not to allow this Union, maintained by their sacrifice, to be degraded to an arena of wild party passions, because such union were not worth the sacrifices brought, but to preserve it as a home of free and inde pendent citizens; and we are determin ed to carry out this sacred duty. Wo nave tho same interests as native born citizens to preserve the laws and con stitutional authorities, a disregard of which would spread misery and briDg ruin upon us, and we will be prevented, by the raging and noise of fanatical in triguers, from rousing tho attention of the American people to the dangers that threaten us, and, if possible, awak en thereby a storm of public opinion that would induce the conspirators against the public welfare to desist from their pernicious agitation. The time may come, and that at no distant future, when ths reproaches now made by narrow minded nativists will be credited to its merit that adopted citi zens of German nativity have recogniz ed, sooner than their native fellow-citi zens, the dreadful consequence .1 brought about by party fanaticism, and that they had the courage to raise their warning voices in time. What ever the attacks may be to which we are exposed now, the consciousness of having performed our duty will be suf ficient satisfaction to us. The St. Gothard tunnel, the greatest engineering work of its kind in the world, is being steadily pressed to wards completion. Work is progress ing upon it from both ends through the mountains—from Groeeohenen to wards Italy, and from Ariola towards Germany. Two thousand men are em ployed, divided into gangs, which labor day and nigbt. The work has been four years in progress, and it is thought four years more will be required to complete the stupendous undertaking. The funnel will be ten miles long. The St. Gothard tunnel will be the shortest route from England to Italy, and will doubtless be part of the direct route from India to England. Diet) Laughing.—On Monday, while August White, a well known New York news dealer, was sitting in conversa tion with his wife in their house on Broadway, his hearty laugh over some; joke suddenly changed to a look of. agony, and he sank to the floor dead. - Two hundred Georgia lawyers are applying for about fourteen solictor ships. THE MAN ON HORSEBACK! Respectfully Addressed to the House of Representatives, at Washington. (N. Y. Freeman’s Journal.) Oa November 9th, 1799, the supreme power, in France, was supposed to be lodged in two Chambers—a Senate, called “ Council of the Ancients,” and a House of Representatives, five hun dred in number, and so-called, for short, the u Cinq-Cents.” Napoleon Bonaparte, after his bril liant campaign in Syria, suddenly turned over his army, there, to the next in command, and hurried back to France, plotting as he travelled. A few days after arriving in Paris, he or dered a review of all the soldiers, aDd ex-soldiers, in Paris, for the morning of November 9th. Taking into bis confidence such of the general officers, and such of the Legislative leaders, as he thought safe, and best, on the morn ing of November 9tb, 1799, he entered with a few of his soldiers, the HH of tho Council of Ancients. Be low, we translate from JSardeau’s vivid volume the brief and studied ad dress he made to the French Senate; and the account of how he dealt with the French House of Representatives, It i3 nice reading for this cool weather: “Representatives of the people, you are not assembled under ordinary cir cumstances ; you are resting on a vol cano. Let me speak to you with the franknoss of a soldier. I was quietly in Paris when I received the decree of the Council of the Ancients, which told me of its perils and those or the Re public. In an instant I summoned and found my brothers in arms, and wo came and offered you the services of the nation, because you were at the head of it. Our intentions were pure and disinterested, and as a reward for our devotion of yesterday, we are to day overwhelmed with calumuies! There are rumors of another Ctesar, another Cromweil; it is asserted that 1 want to establish a military govern ment. “ Representatives of the people, if I had wanted to oppress my country, if I had wanted to usurp supreme author ity, I would not have obeyed your or ders, I ueed uot have received author ity from the Senate. More than once, and under most favorable circum stances, have I been called upon to take it. After our triumphs in Italy, I was invited to take it by the voice of the nation, and I have been invited to do so by the voice of my comrades. “Representatives of the people, the Council of the Ancients is invested with great power, but it is animated by still greater wisdom; consult only this, and the imminence of the perils, guard against ail disruptions. Let us not lose those two prizes for which we have made so many sacrifices, Liberty and Equality ! ” Here a member of the minority, cried out : “And about the Constitu tion ?” Bonaparte replied with anima tion : “The Constitution ! does it be come you to invoke it ? Is it, forsocih, any longer a guarantee to the French people? You violated it on the 18th. Fruetidor, on the 22d Floreal, and on the 30th Prairial, but tho sovereignty of the people, liberty, equality, these sacred principles underlying the Con stitution, still live, and we must save them. “Moreover, I declare that, this ac complished, I will be to the republic simply the arm that will sustain what you have established. If lam a trai tor, be ye each a Brutus. And you, my comrades, who accompany me, let those very bayonets with which we have achieved so many triumphs to gether, be turned against my heart! But also, if any foreign-paid orator dare pronounce agains; your General the word outlaw, the thunder-bolts of war will instantly annihilate him. Re member that the erods or War and For tune march by mv side !” The most enthusiastic "bravox” greet ed these words; the Ancients were electrified. Bonaparte left them aud hurried to the Saile des Cinq-Cents. Followed only by a handful of grenadiers, he enters the Hall, hat in hand; the grenadiers who followed him, and who are seen through the open door, remain without. On seeing them, more than two hundred deputies; still under the heat of the oath they had just taken, sprung to their feet with the terrible cry : “Sabres in this place! armed soldiers here 1” They rush upon the General, they bear upon him, aud drive him back. “Down with the Dictator ! Down with the Tyrant 1 the outlaw, the new Cromwell!’’ The grenadiers press forward, rescue their General from the crowd, seize him bodily, and escort, or rather, carry him out of the Hall, pale and excited. He had not been three minutes in the Hall, and he did not have the chance to utter a single word. It is said that in the affray some of the grenadiers received poinard thrusts that were in tended Tor him. It was then a little after four. He mouuted his horse in the garden, called his soldiers around him, told them that an effort had been made to assassinate him, and was greeted with the most enthusiastic ap plause. The most fearful confusion prevailed in the hall. On every hand cries of outlaw were hurled against the Gene ral. They summoned Lucien to put this proposition to vote. He refused to do so amidst the wildest clamors. “I,” said he, “brand my own brother as an outlaw ! I would rather resign my chair. Ido resign it.” He descend ed and tried to go out. Bonaparte, who heard all this tumult from beneath the window, was solici tous for his brother, and detailed ten grenadiers, who entered the Hall, seized Lucien and carried him off. Lucien took horse with his brother, and cried to the soldiers that the Salle des Clinq- Cents was full of assassins who op pressed the majority of tho Council. Bonaparte saw that his soldiers were ready to dare anything, and he gave orders to clear the hall by force. It was Murat who, at the head of a battalion of grenadiers, was charged with the execution of this order. Murat, followed by his grenadiers, advanced at a double-quick, crossed the threshhold and entered the Hall. At sight of this the Deputies uttered loud cries which were drowned by the beating of drums. The grenadiers at a “Charge bayonet.” keeping time with the drums, which beat a “Double Quick,” ffled the Hall and drove the Deputies toward the numerous large windows. Compelled to jump out of the windows, the Deputies fled across the garden and the park, strewing the walks and the grass plats with their Roman head-gear and togas. In a short time Murat and his grenadiers were in sole possession of the legisla tive halls. AT ARLINGTON. Leaving Washington—Crossing the Potomac—The Long Bridge—The Virginia Shore —Arlington. (Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.) Atlanta, December 11, 1876. I left Washington some days ago— raaklDg the fourth time this year I have shaken from my feet the dust of the city of magnificent distances. The earliest rays of the sun were kissing the blue waves of the Potomac as I rode slowly over the Long Bridge, and off to the right, on the Virginia shore, stood Arlington, in a flood of glorious, golden sunlight. How beau tiful it looked in the distance ! How majestically it towered on the wooded height, facing and overlooking the White House and the Federal city, and “the broken column, reared in air to him who made our country great 1” How it reminded mo of tho calm, grand man who trod its halls but a few short years ago—true typo of the Southern cftvallar.-and now lies sleeping in tbe bosom of Virginia, his mother. She gave him to the world ; ’twos meet that when life’s fitful fever was over, he should rest in her loving embrace! Beautiiui. queenly Virginia! Land of heroes and sages, of gallant men and devoted women ! Of till whose mortal remains are mingling with thy dust there were none nobler than this erst while kingly man of Arlington. "Never hand Waved sword from stain so free, Nor purer sword led braver band. Nor braver bled for a brighter land. Nor brighter land had a cause so grand, Nor cause a chief like Lee!” I visited Arlington once—and only once. It was a crisp and clear De cember day, now nearly two years ago. I walked through the halls of the old mansion, all bare ami desolate looking now—how unlike the time when they echoed the laughter of pretty Nellie Custis, I traversed the once magnifi cent grounds, now converted into a vast cemetery for the Federal dead, slain in the war between tbe States ; I found the littlo spot of earth where, “Almoct lost iu myriad graves, Oi those who gained the unequal light, Are mounds that hide Confederate braves. Who reck not how the North-wind raves In dazzling day or dimmest night.’’ ’ Until then I had never appreciated the vigor and exquisite beauty of the lines —“At Arlington”—written by the same hand which contributed “My Mary land” to the war poetry of the South. One who has ever read them cannot visit Arlington without thinking of, if not repeating those lines which tell how I Q that vast sepulchre repose lnethousands reaped from every fray: 1 he men in blue who once uprose In battle-front to smite their foes— X he Spartan Band who wore the Gray. lhe combat o’er, the death huar done Ia summer blaze or winter snows, they keep the truce at Arlington.” And as he stands in tho solemn still ness of that awful “truce at Arlington ” in the midst of “that vast sepulchre ” with the graves or the “Blue” aud the ‘ Gray on either side, ho will remember these words of the poet: •ri^edeadhaverest: the Dove of Peace Broods <j or both with equal wings; 1 o both haye Some that great surcease, The last omnipotent release From all the world’s delirious stings. 1° bugle deaf and signal-gun, They sleep, like heroes of old Greece, Beneath the glebe at Arlington.” What added much to the impressive ness and dramatic interest of my visit to Arlington was the presence on the grounds, at the time, of the ex-Vice President of the Southern Confeder acy. He had come over in a close car riage from Washington, and was riding slowly over the winding roadwav through the burial-ground, looking sadly at the graves so thickly dotting it, where “The victims of a grand despair In long, long ranks of death await Tir . 4he last loud trump, the judgment-sun, dome for all, and, soon or late. Will come for those at Arlington.” I shall never forget the scene at Ar lington on that December day. ALEXANDRIA. You aro not long in reaching Alexan dria from Washington. The distance is only eight miles. Alexandria is a highly respectable but very sleepy old town. It was once, and for many years, a very flourishing place, and might be such again but for the mortal apathy which has fallen upon it. It was here, in the beginning of the war, before the battle at Manassas, that Jackson, the hotel keeper, killed Col. Ellsworth, of the New York Zouaves, in the attempt to pull down the Confederate flag which was waving over Jackson’s house. The population of Alexandria is about 15,000. Among its citizens it claims a former resident of Georgia, in the person of Col. Foreaere, well known in railroad circles throughout the coun try. He is at present superintendent or the \ irginia Midland road, and bis management of it is marked with that ability for which he is so justly dis tinguished wherever known. J did not stop at Alexandria. The old town looked entirely too lifeless and sleepy to be at all inviting, and I had been there before. Besides, seme fifty miles westward, nestling under the shadow of the Blue Ridge, was a fa mous little town of which I had heard much and was curious to see. In other years WARRENTON was a place much resorted to in the summer time by the elite of this fair land, and, while the number of visitors during that season has not of late been equal to that of former years, it is still much frequented by summer visitors from Washington, Baltimore, Richmond and other parts of the country, who like the place on account of its accessi bility, the purity of its atmosphere, and its excellent society. A short dis tance from the place f.re the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, where Chief- Justice Marshall used to spend the time between the sessions of his Courts, Warrenton is a small town~-of big men. Its population is about 1,500 or 2,000. Such names as Hunton, Brooke Forbes, Payne, etc., make quite a gal axy for a little place like this. Hare, too, lives one or the most remarkable characters in Amerioa, in the person of ex-Gov. Smith (“Extra Billy”). He is now nearly or quite eighty, still hearty and spry, and as a talker Is perhaps unequalled by any man of woman born unless it may be Henry S. Foote, who, by the way, is a native of Fauquier the county in which Warrenton is situ ated. Ho made more speeches than anybody else In the Virginia Assembly a year or two siuoe, having the floor three times in one day, on as many dif ferent subjects, making a set speech each time. John S. Mosbv, too, is a Warrenton man, though ‘i believe b* has lately moved to Washington A NOTED OLD GEOBGIAN. About two miles from Warrenton lives another remarkable man, bet^r known in Georgia than in Virginia, on account of his loDg residence— extend iog over nioro than half a century in the former State, and his conspicuous connection with her politics during that protracted period. I allude to General Bethune, for so many years a promi nent citizen of Columbus, and so well known throughout Georgia as an edi tor and politician. I was his guest for a night, and richly was I entertained by his reminiscences or the past, from tnA aHrelnn* r.l A „ n * tne stirring old times in Georgia when Troup and Ciaike were the two great political antagonists iu the State, down tho fateful day of Secession. The old General seems as yonng and stout and is as strong-voiced as when I first saw him. many years ago, when I was a boy. He has been living in Virginia since the close of the war, but I think he has a yearning for his native State and shali not be surprised if he yet returns to her “red old hills.” I like Warrenton, and hope, in sum mer days to come, to catch many a de licious breeze wafted from the moun tain-tops that look lovingly down on that pleasant, old-fashioned Virginia town. A. railway ride of two days and a night brought me ATLANTA. And what shall I say of Atlanta? Built upon and surijpunded by hills, overlooked by mountains, cut up and traversed by railroads and ravines rugged streets ever resounding with the rattling noise of cars, carriages wagons, drays and eaits; no pleasant drives or walks, or places of resortand rest for the world-weary toiler, no city hospital, in wet weather the muddiest iu dry weather the dustiest, in all weathers the fussiest; headquarters of sensalionalism in Georgia, humbug’s eternal camping-ground, going to sleep later, getting up earlier, doing more devilment whiie awake, and dreaming of more while asleep than any other place of its inches under the sun—is this Atlanta ? Come and see T. K.O. FOR LETTER, OR FOR WORSE 1 THE SITUATION LAST NIGHT — FACT AND SPECULATION. A Suggested Explanation of the Con duct of the Senate The Democratic Plan of Campaign—Pay for the Bay onet House and Senate—The Demo cratic Senators Tane Their Share with the Rest, (Charleston News and Courier.! Columbia, December 15—11 p. m.— The action of the Senate to-day, in referring to the Judiciary Committee the letter or application of Lieutenant-Governor Simpson, means one of two things: First, that the committee propose to bury it and leave the matter unsettled; or second, that they propose to report that Simpson is a pretender, and that Gleavea is the legally elected Lieuten ant-Governor, and consequently Presi dent of the Senate. This latter will most likely be done, and then Col. Simpson will, under the provisions of the Constitution, notify tiie Senate that ho will be at a cortain place on a certain day and proceed to organize the Senate. The Democrats will follow him and, under the Consti tution, he will iSsue writs of election to fill the vacancies. There is no provis ion that a quorum shall be present; the single requirement is that the Presi dent of the Senate shall organize that body. If the judiciary committee un dertakes to decide that Simpson is not President of the Senate they go beyond their jurisdiction and attempt to decide who is Lieutenant-Governor, and if it is thought necessary Simpson may file a petition for a writ of quo warranto against Gleaves. The purpose is not to take any further steps until thp Judiciary Com mittee make their decision, unless, bv delay, it is showu that they intend, to smother the communication. Then, of course, Lieutenant Governor Simpson will proceed at once to carry on the above plan of action. It is understood, likewise, that a United States Senator will not be elected until either Simpson is recognized by the present Senator o he has organized anew Senate. Governor Hampton served notice to day on the Carolina aud Central Na tional Banks uot to pay out any public money, except on checks countersigned by himself. The members of the Bayonet House were paid two hundred dollars each to day. The Senate has not been paid yet, and all the Democratic Senators have accepted certificates. Some of them even presented the certificates Tor payment, and were informed by Cardozo that they would be paid in the morning. Tho money, it is alleged, has come from Corbin, who thus bought his slim onaneo for the United States Sen ate. lhe Democratic Senators say they were in the Senate to-day only in the capacity of hearers cj Jfimpson’s com munication, are divided on the quesUoq of going in to-morrow. If they do go in to-morrow in all proba bility the Judiciary Committee will re port against Simpson, and they will sanction by their presence the whole transaction. The Lunatics Starving—Mast be Dis charged from the Asylum Unless Provision is Made for Them at Once- ISpecial Dispatch to the News and Courier. Columbia, S. C., December 15.—Dr. Ensor, the superintendent of the Luna tic Asylum, to-day gave notice to the Board of Regents that he will be com pelled to discharge all the patients in that institution unless steps are speed ily taken for their further maintenance He stales that 829,000 of last year’s appropriation, and §5,000 or the ap propriation or I&7* are now due, which he is unable to collect, lie has had but SI,QOQ from the State since last spring, and has sustained the institu tion on his personal credit, and upon supplies advanced by Northern mer chants aud the Carolina Natioual Bank for several months. Without immediate aid from the State or ctharitable contributions he will b 6 compelled to oloee the Asylum. Notices Served on the Banka by Gov ernor Hampton. (Special to the Journal of Commerce.) Columbia, Deoember 15.—This morn ing Governor Hampton had notices served on the banks notifying them not to pay out the State funds on any alSh ; signature as governor ot 2°' Carolina. Childs and r-restou, Preaktentg pjr the Carolina and Central \ational Banks were duly *er yed with the said notices. Air. Clay Wheeler died near Mayfield in Sancodfc county of pneumonia, ‘ SIX DOLLARS A YEAR GEORGIA NEWS. Macon Is given over to social dances. Macon is also having an interesting time with burglars. Numerous marriages are projected in Griffin for January. Corn sold In Worth oounty last week at forty cents a bushel. Marietta has had a big meteor to pass over her town. The Mayor and old Board of Council of Newnan have been re-elected for 1877. The Knights of Honor of Covington, will have a grand supper Christmas night. The house of Mr. George Orr, of Dalton, was consumed by fire a few nights ago. The fine mill of Mr. Dobbins, near Griffin, was destroyed by fire Tuesday, in day light. J. M. G. Medlock retires from the Sandersville Georgian, aud William Park takes his place. Ben F. Bayly and Miss Emma Ogle tree, of Columbus, were married oa Tuesday evening. Tommie Wheeler and Miss Gus9ie Beddo were married near Mavfield on Wednesday night. Young Ben Hill is said to be a caudi date for the Constitutional Convention, provided there is one. The gm house <4 Park Arnold, and six bales of cotton, in Uoweta county, was burned last week. A horse ran away with Mr. E. A. Brinkley near Warrenton,and sTi m-sly hurt him about the head and fact-. Albany m acting On the old rr.otto • ‘The spirit .ff nf age is progression.” She is said to be the liveliest; town in the State. W “ m The board appointed to examine tho qualifications or West Point applicants are in session in Griffin. Prof. Orr is chairman. On Wednesday morning, in Russell county, Alabama, Mr. J. W. Nesbit, of Macon, was married to Miss Emma Abercrombie. Conyers has received and shipped t> Odd bales of cotton this season, aud McCalia will give a candy pulling in honor of the thing. A cowardly aoaiup at Newnan Satur w a t threw a rock and struck Mr. L. h. Buchanan over the eye, seriously fracturing the skulL _,The city editor of the Columbus Enquirer, T. D. Huff; has been elected wharfinger of that place. At last we begin to see port. Times ; Every day crowds of young men come to Adauta in search of busi ness, and nearly every one gets the same sad negative answer. Jack Wallace, who some time since absconded from Atlanta, has been ar rested in Texns, and is now on his wav baca in custody of officers of tbe law.' Mr. W. C. Mathews has sold tho Sandersville Messenger to Rev. J. D. Anthony, who proposes to enlarge ami otherwise improve his paper in a short time. Oapt. Medlock, formerly of the Sandereyllle Georgian, will commence the publication of anew paper at an early day at Swainsboro, Emanuel county. The young ladies belonging to tho collegiate department of the OoLyero Female College will have a sapper at the hall of the College on Thursday mght, 21st inst. 3 A runaway couple. Mr. Allen H. Reid and Mies Belle V. Thaxton. of Milner were married at the National Hotel in’ Atlanta, last Wednesday evening, and left for Texas the next day. e Messrs. .Tames B. West & Cos. have established a pew line of steamships from Savannah to Providence. Tho ship George Appold will make the first tup. She is a first-class vessel. Butler Brown, colored, shot in a Ma con melee on Thanksgiving day, is dead. Austin Brlghtaup, colored, who shot him, has delivered himself to tho sheriff. Both negroes are well spoken of. The Lewis High School, a eolored institution of Macon; was destroyed bv fire Wednesday evening. The loss on the school house and several adjoining buildings amounted to about §l4 OOU covered by insurance. A wild rabbit ventured out on Hill street, GrifflD, one day last week, and in no time some eight hundred’curs were giving chase. Gene Speer sa w and made for the cotton-tuil at. tho head of the pack. His meat was out. A young man, aged sixteen years, namsd Chariton H. ltussuiL fell acroJ a circular saw, at Malawi Miil uTr Smyrna, and had h* right arm split from his finger* to his elbow. It was amputated i\y physicians afterward Jo rnwib A young man of Marietta has caught seventy-five “possums in the last three months. They seem to be plentiful in this vicinity, a citizen the other night caught one in his parlor under the piano, while another caught one in bis chicken coop, and another in his yard. The gin houses of Reese Thaxton of Butts county, and L. B. Kirkiana of Early county, are numbered with the other sixty odd gone before since Sep tember Ist. That also of Abraham Sanders, of Pike county, has keen burnt. Also that of Mr. Willett or Marion county. All within ten dayk. The Augusta Chronicbis endeavoring to get at the cost of the canal This is a very small matter. The canal just as it stands, is worth uore to the city of Augusta than any work that has been accomplished m any American city during the last hundred years. This may appear to be an extravagant remark, but we depend on posterity to vindicate its truth.— timstitution. The CarterevUle Stress, in an edito rial on the Senatorial question, says: 'GovernoE Smith, in our judgment, is less fitted for the United States Semite than any other gentleman yet named We are not aware that he any of the peculiar qualities requisite in a man for the position. Mr. N' r -wood and Mr. Hill are the leading can didates for Senator. Mr. N. b j faithful and true, and we cannot find i? in our hearts to displace even r Ini Mr -fl^isbrUlLt seeh?m Vo Bbould likQ to we ™± Both gentlemen friends, and both are •alttuul to their trusts respect lv'£o\ Wo have no inclination to Ijoae the services of either in Congress. To elect Hill and misplace Norwood is to make two changes in Congress f whereby we may have a brilliant Sena tor and an inferior man in Hill’s place 'jh the House. This is the trouble. ; The power of a State in Congress ami in the government is to keep her best men as the representatives of the people.