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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
Georgia c'Olccliljj ffrlc cap -.
Co.N9Ui.AJt.—By Proclamation the President
has recognized llyncinthe Prevost <le St. Cyr
as Vice Consular agent of France at Glnvcston,
Texas, and Jules Philippi ns Vice Consular
agent of the same Power, at Mobile, Ala
bama.
ST We sec it stated that a Mr. M. L. Ma
son has invented what he calls an “ atmos
pheric telegraph,” by which dispatches can
bo sent through the air, without the aid of
wires or telegraph posts, from any point upon
the earth or ocean to any other point. This
sounds like the marvelous, hut so have many
inventions, which, nevertheless, have become
realities. Success to the “atmospheric tele
graph.”
BOOKS, Stationery, etc.—We are some
times addressed by persons who still imagine
us to be in the Book business, requesting us
to fill an order, or give information ns to a
store where books, stationery, etc., may be
bought. As to a general assortment of books,
and stationery, we refer our readers to J. M.
Boardmnn. on Washington Block, Mulberry
street. He has received a large, varied and
attractive assortment of Books, most appeti
zing to the mental palate. lie has a fine
lot of stationery, pens, inkstands, law books,
miscellaneous articles, blank books, etc., etc.,
including all things usually sold in book
stores, especially school books. lie will
always be found attentive and obliging, and
never sends away a customer discontented.
He fills orders by mail as well as otherwise.
The Weeki.y Visitor.—We have received
the first number of this excellent literary
weekly, published at Selina, Alabama. It is
an eight page paper, and filled with interest
ing stories and good rending matter from the
pens of some of our best writers. The Visi
tor is printed on good paper, at $4,00 per an
num, or $2,00 for nix months. It is got up
with taste, and the publishers and editors
seem determined toinnke it a first class paper.
We will welcome its regular appearances to
our sanctum.
Attempted Assassination.—By the latest
news trom the city of Mexico, we learn that
a conspiracy to assassinate the Secretary of
War had been discovered at the capital. The
would-be murderers were arrested with arms
in their hands at the very moment when they
intended to put their terrible plan into exe
cution. Among those arrested was a Colonel
named Mariano liico. lie at once made a
thorough confession, and gave the names of
others who took part in the conspiracy. They
will be tried by court-martial.
The Government and Blockade Run
ners.—It appears that the Federal authori
ties have inaugurated most summary meas
ures against parties who engaged In the busi
ness of blockado running during the war.—
Why they should be regarded as peculiarly
obnoxious we cannot exactly comprehend, yet
the Government appears determined to put
them to no little trouble, and even to deprive
them, if possible, of all the gains of their
successful adventures. The assets, it is said,
include several steamers now in British wa
ters, but claimed as property of the United
States. Mr. Theodore D. Jcrvey, one of the
officers of the Bee Company, has refused to
respond and has been committed to jail by
General Sickles at the instances of Mr. Culli-
cot Mr. Henry Corbia, President of the
Charleston Importing and Exporting Com
pany, and Mr. A. S. Johnson, President of the
Chicora Company, havo also been arrested^
and the latter committed to jail for refusing
to deliver up his books, papers. &c.
We hope tho President will see the injustice
and tyranny of these measures and order them
to he suspended nnd the parties to be releas
ed.
TIIE HOMESTEAD BIEL.
,Wc publish elsewhere a U\! introduced by
Mr. Strozicr of the Senate, to protect home
steads against all claims of creditors. It was
made the special order in the Senate for yes
terday, but up to this writing nothing has
been heard of its fate.
We hope the bill will pass, at least with an
amendment declaring that it shall not affect
the lien of executions or contracts created
before its passage. In such cases credit was
given on the faith of the property owned at
the time by the debtor, and it would be un
just for the law to step in and deprive him of
his security.
Somosuch measure is greatly needed in
order to place the welfare of families on a
substantial footing. Nor’wouhl it interfere
with the rights of creditors, for, then, every
man would extend credit with a perfect un
derstanding of the safety or insecurity of his
debt, and would be thrown for his collections
on the very resources upon which be volun
tarily depended. The power of thriftlessand
improvident managers to reduce their fami
lies to penury, has been a great evil in socie
ty, and the law should step in to correct it,
especially where It can do so without wrong
to any one.
Onooftho strongest arguments,‘however,
in favor of the security offered in this manner,
it tho valuable agency it will have in break
ing up the credit tytiem—nn evil in the land
that would justify almost any step for its re
moval. Buy only what you can pay for, is a
golden rule, nnd its universal adoption would
avert incalculable trouble and bring untold
Meetings and prosperity on the country. Now
is the time to inaugurate the Cath System,
and wo bopo to see the Legislature lend its
powerful aid for the inauguration of so val
uable a reform.
Disoustino.—Thirty years ago AVni. Loyd
Gnnison Martini the Liberator for the purpose
of extinguishing negro slavery in the United
Stato. and, after continuing it for that peri
od lie brought its existence to a close lately,
because the object for which it was origina
ted was accomplished. On the occasion he
received the following nauseating nnd blas
phemous dispatch from the disgusting editor
of the Independent:
Office ok the Independent, \
New York, Dec. 28, 1805. J
To tin• Liberator, about to ascend into hraren:
Dear, venerable, dying Prophet and Apos
tle I Your coming was greeted with curses,
bootings, and revilings. But your departing
is followed with benedictions, sweet memo
ries, and pi petr.al fame. Ilail and farewell!
. Theodore Tilton.
NORTHERN POLICY AND SOUTHERN
DUTY REGARDING THE NEGRO.
Whilst the Northern people have been
united on the subject of negro emancipation
in the South, they enlisted in the war for its
accomplishment with two very distinct and
different motives. The abolition party was,
and is still, composed of two wings, both
looking to the same object—the freedom of
the negro in the Southern States—but with
ultimate ends in view aot only different, but
seriously conflicting. The period, however,
for the conflict has not yet arrived; and
indeed, no little pains has been taken to
conceal all ideas of a disagreement.
One of these wings is composed to the
zealously religious or fanatical portion of the
party. They believe that slavery is a great
sin, a wrong against the black man, and
stain upon the national character. They
would free the negro, patronize him in every
way, elevate him in the moral, social and po
litical scale and carve out for him in spite of his
natural disqualifications, a great and glorious
career where he is. This class is generally
sincere, and if they act fbolishly, it is from
the want of knowledge. Garrison, Wendall
Phillips, Beecher, et id omnegenut are of this
school.
The second wing is composed of people of
a very different stamp. They ure the poli
ticians and the statesmen of the North, who
look at everything with an eye to interest.—
They have no fanaticisai about them, and
quite as little of humanity. They are cold
heartless calculators, who reduce every propo
sition to a question of political economy, be
fore which every moral consideration must
give way. They advocate the cause of the
negro none the less vehemently than the first
class, not that they love him, not that they
would promote his welfare, or do him any
office of humanity, but for the soli; reason that
they trant to get rid of him. They see the ini
inensc and fearful tide of population that is
pouring upon their shores from the Old
World, descry its dangprsto the public peace
of the North, if not to liberty itself, when
crowded into a circumscribed territory, and
they want an outlet for the dangerous ele
ment Their white population is press
ing upon subsistence and increasing
the supply of labor beyond the de-
mnnd, a condition of things that is obliged
to result in social convulsion. They would
therefore free the negro for the simple reason
that they leant hit place for a white laborer.
They know, as well as we do, that the slave,
accustomed to work under compulsion, will
not work when thnt agency is removed. They
know the unalterable law of nature that two
distinct races, one vastly inferior to the other,
and both endowed with freedom and equal
rights, cannot exist together in the same com
munity—that the former must give way- to
the latter. They know, furthermore, that the
negro, deprived of the protection of his mas
ter and the personal security resulting from
the relation of ownctship, becomes a friend
less member of society, without sympathy,
and nn easy victim for any hardship that the
interest or cupidity of bis superiors may think
fit to l>c placed upon him. Among this class
nre numbered the names of such'men as Sew
ard, Weed. Raymond, Chase, and, indeed,
nearly all the controlling heads of the Aboli
tion party.
Wc have watched the movements of the
political elements too long to l>c mistaken in
these views. There is already abundant evi
dence of the justice of our classification; and,
indeed, the signs of a movement for the cn
tire displacement of the negro race ot the
South, are beginning to crop out with un
mistakable indications. Already associations
nnd joint-stock companies arc formed at the
North to take charge of the importation of
white labor to the corn, cotton, and sugar
fields of the South. We seldom meet with an
intelligent Northern man who does not base
bis extravagant prophecies of our future
wealth and prosperity, on the influx of popu
lation and a change from black to white la
bor. The decree has gone forth that this is
a white man's country, and all else must give
way before the resistless march of the Anglo
Saxon race. Such we believe to be the temper
and design of the political economist of the
North.
The question arises, what part shall the
South act in this great and inevitable rcvoln
tion ? It is always tho part of wisdom to
leave labor, trade, and all other kindred sub
jects, free to take their natural direction, and
work out their legitimate results. If white
labor, all things considered, should prove
more available than black labor, this substi
tution will be made, in spite of all tlie pro
tests that might he entered against it. In
terest is the great law that governs man
kind. and, sooner or later, it will upset
its authority nnd control the government of
the world. There is, though, in this case a
moral question that addresses itself to the
former masters of the black man. The negro
has a claim upon the people of the South,
arising from his faithful service in the past
nnd the natural attachment that existed be
tween tbe two races. He is now a trust in
our li&nds, nnd though the advocates of Po
litical Economy should seek to cast him out
and deny him a place in the great vineyard
of the South, Southern men should stand by
him and protect him in the enjoyment of his
right. to labor to long a* he thall be true to h im-
taf. Every thing depends upon himself.—
The fields are to be tilled and the harvests to
be gathered, and so long as the negro will do
this work faithfully, it- is the moral duty of
his old master to retain him in preference to
any foreign laborer that may be sent here to
take his place. Humanity demands it, and
nothing but the bad conduct of the negro
can relieve us of the obligation. When he
refuses^) labor and perform all his duties as
a scrVant, there is no alternative: his place
mifst be supplied byjnnother and the current
of industry sweep on. The extermination of
the negro may be written in tbe book of
fate, but let it not be said of tho people of
the South that they contributed without a
cause to the cruel result.
Animus ok tid: Radjcai.s Towards the
Southern Peokle.—From a Washington !
letter in the Mobile Advertiser—written, as
we conclude from the initials, by the Hon. C.
C. Langdon—we take the following:
In listening to the debates in Congress, the .
first thing that struck,me was the extreme j
bitterness of the radicals towards the white i
people of the South. I expected to find hostili-:
ty, but I did not anticipate such deep-seated
hatred and bitter intolerance, as are daily 1
manifested. The debates to which I have
listened have confined, exclusively, to mens- j
ures relatingto the negro and the "rebellion.”
Nothing else was talked of while I. was pres-1
ent; and, in these debates you may rest as- j
!. ue ui. kid -rebels" land badly.
The sole object of all measures introduced, |
and the tendency of all the radical speeches,
are, to elevate the negro at the expense of the
white man of the South—to raise up the
former, and oppress and humble tbe latter.—
To accomplish these ends, the vilest, slanders,
and the mo-t glaring and shameful misivpre-
sentations of the motives and conduct of our
people, are indulged in with perfect freedom
and the most reckless audacity; and the
great misfortune is, not a voice is beard in our
defense. The slandered South has not a
single representative on the floor to repel
these assaults and vindicate her character.—
The few friends we have there from the North
dare not, or think it impolitie to do so.
Oh, how it made my blood boil to listen to
the sneers, the taunts, the insults and the
slanders that were so freely indulged in
toward tbe already oppressed and sorely af
flicted, but honorable and patriotic people of
the South ! “Oh, for an hour on that floor!”
I remarked to a companion sitting by ray
side. “Yes,” he replied, “and in about live
minutes you would be in a tight.” May be
ao. BuL were the South represented, these
things would not be. Outside of Congress,
the feeling toward the South is exceedingly
kind nnd liberal; but tbe Black Republicans
in Congress, under the lead of Sumner in the
Senate nnd Tliad. Stevens in the House, arc
as savage and blood thirsty as tigers. How
long these two madmen will continue to con
trol Congress, remains to be seen.
A Curious Question.
• * A daughter
Well; what brought her?
Kitty ai-kt—“How came -he here ?
Hall with joy, and half with tear.
Kitty is our eldest child—
Eight years old and rather wild—
Wild iii manner, but in mind
Wishing all things well defined.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Kitty savs—“How came she here?
Father, tell me—It’s so queer;
Yesterday we had no sister,
Else Panre I should base kissed her
When I went to bed last night!
And this morning hailed her sight
With a strange and new delight ;
For, indeed, it passes all
To nave a sister not so tall
.Vs my doll!—and with blue eyes ?
And—I do declare!—it cries!
Last night I did not see her, lather,
Or I’m sure I had much rather
Staved at home as still as a mouse.
Than played all day at grandma’s house;
She is pretty and so tiny—
And what makes her face so shiny ?
Will It always be like that 1
Will she swell up plump and fat ?
Like my little doll; or tall
Like my wax one ? Tell me all •
About ucr, papa dear,
For I do so long to hear
Where she came from. And who brought her.
Your’s and mama’s bran new daughter.
Gen. Mercer—How His Property war
Confiscated.—The New York correspon
dent of the Baltimore Evening Transcript
furnishes an interesting paragraph relative to
the confiscation of the property of Gen. II.
W. Mercer, now on trial in Savannah.
In 1868, a gentleman named Benjamin F.
Mudgett informed Mr. G. Deiafield Smith,
the United States district attorney in this
city, that the Confederate General Hugh W.
Mercer owned 612 shares of the stock of the
Minnesota Mining Company, besides some
$9,000 of dividends due upon the stock. In
accordance with the act of Congress of 1802,
the property was seized by tbe United States
marshal. The law in such cases gives the gov
ernment one-half and the informer the other
half, but it has just now leaked* out tliat the
district attorney refused to enter judgment for
the joint benefit of Mudgett and the govern
ment, unless Mudgett would agree to employ as
his counsel one of the district attorney's em
ployes, and pay over to him onc-lmlf of the
e rocecds due. This Mudgett at first refused,
ut finally consented, fearing that he would
not get anything stall. Smith finished up
the proceedings anil sold the shares, the moi
ety of which, about $30,000, were handed
over to the * United States government.
Mudgett, however, had to wait some time for
his money, and finally received $15,000, the
remainder being kept by Mr. Smith, as fee
for his employe, who, as Mudgett subsequent
ly ascertained, never did one moment's work
for tbe case. To recover the balance of the
money due him, Mudgett has instituted pro
ceedings in against the cx-Unitcd States dis
trict attorney. The hitter, I understand, now
is very anxious to settle the matter, and fears
that the case may be too much ventillatcd for
his own good. But it is time that the pub
lic should know how the radical office hold
ers lined their pockets during the war, and
this case is one in point.
A daughter!—another daughter.
And tbe question Is, “What brought her?’
Spence, our boy, but three years old,
Says the nurse did—ami is bold,
In deflance ofthem both—
Since to yield his place he’s lotli,
Aud, pouting, feels his nose’s point,
When I declare’tls ont of joint.
But though the childish explanation
Be food enough for child’s vexation,
We older folks must better find,
To feed the hunger of the mind.
To us, of larger Issues preaching
This link of life eternal reaching
From earth to heaven, this new-born soul
Comes fresh from where ever roll
Its countless years through yonder heaven,
Has deeper cansc lor thinking given.
TheSecretnry of War has issued an order 1
for the muster out often additional regiments
of volunteers, including eight colored organi-1
zationa
The important, correspondence relative to i
Mexican affairs and Maximilian’s efforts to ob
tain recognition by our Government, laid be
fore Ccngress, plainly shows that there is no
disposition on the part of our government to
Tariff*, Taxation nnd .Manufacturer*.’ Pro
fits.
On 'change in tbe Louisville Courier pre-
sents some facts and speculations on these
topics, which are interesting:
A very startling fact illustrating the profits
derived by cotton manufactures, which i.rc
known to be enormous, arises in the single
article of print cloths, which sell at 20 cents
per yard ; it takes seven and one-half yards
abandon tho Monroe doctrine,“and that the 1 to “ P 0 "™ 1 * hem* the value ot the■ raw
Franco-Austrian empire in Mexico has little : cotto . n m the body ot the goods is equal to
to hope for in Washington. on «: , <olar ; UK * >. mf - .
— 1 - b - - - - All standard prints can l
* * A daughter !—
And what brought her?—
No matter what—she comes to bring
A blessing In her life’s young spring,
“No matter, darlings!—she is here—
Our daughter, sister, baby dear!—
Open your hearts, and let her enter,
Open them wide, for God hath sent her!
Scraps from onr Exchanges.
There is a corps of Amazons on duty in
Hayti.
Ole Bull nnd his fiddle *are on another mu
steal tour.
A young lady has just died in London from
a broken h°art from grief at the death of her
sister.
A woman got drunk and froze to death in
her own house in Syracuse, last Sunday night.
A circus man died in Philadelphia from
mental excitement caused by driving forty
horses.
The opera house in Buffalo is to be built by
a stock company with a capital of $100,000,
A pneumatic railway under the bed ot the
Mersey is a Liverpool project.
Four convicts broke jail in Rutland, Vt,
held and l>eat the keeper and then vamoosed.
The telegraph wires all contracted under
the influence of the cold.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the lGtb, Mr. Chandler
called up his non-intercourse resolution, which
met the undeserving fate of being laid decis
ively on the table. The resolution demand
ing a military trial for Jefferson Davis and
Clement C. Clay was called up and ordered
printed. Mr. Howard offered a resolution
calling for the correspondence with the
Judges of the Supremo Courts respecting the
holding of civil Courts in insnrrectionury dis
tricts for the trial of offenders against the
United States, which was passed. Mr. Wil
son's hill tor the establishment of a Military
nnd Naval Asylum for totally disabled sol
diers of the volunteer forces, was amended
so as to apply exclusively to the army, and
then passed. Mr. Chandler gave notice that
lie should at an early day move the repeal of
all tho existing neutrality laws. The unfin
ished business of Monday, which was the
Negro Suffrage Bill for the District of Colum
bia, was then taken up, when Mr. Morril
offered nn amendment, including among
those excepted trom the right of suffrage ail
who had voluntarily left tlie District to give
aid and comfort to the “Rebels.” Mr. Davis
took the floor, and made a strong speech in
opposition to the bill. At the conclusion of
his remarks, tlie Senate adjourned.
In the House, Mr Conkling of New York
offered a series of resolutions, declaring the
condition on which the Southern States shall
resume their relation witli the Federal Govern
ment, his object being to send them to the
Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Raymond
wanted to know wlietbcr tlie gentleman
wanted them to go to the committee os instruc
tions from the House, or as his own individu
al views on tlie subject of reconstruction. If
the latter, os he presumed, he did not sec
their propriety, as tin gentleman ia mem
ber of that committee, and could present his
own views there as well as to have them go
through the House. Sir. Fink of Ohio ob
jected to their reception, and they went over
under the rules. Air. Denting reported
back from the Military Conunittc the bill to
revive the grade of General in the Army.—
The noose concurred in the Senate resolution,
authorizing the Committccjon Reconstruction
to send for persons and papers. The ronsid-
cration of the District of Columbia Suffrage
bill was then resumed, when Mr. Julian of
Indiana took tlie floor in favor of universal
popular suffrage as an absolute natural right,
tie was followed by Mr. Sitgrcavcs of New
Jersey, Mr. Randall of Pennsylvania, and
Mr. Thomas of Maryland, in opposition to
the bill.
The Bill-sticker’s Paradise—the Wall of
China.—[Punch.
A man in Bristol, Vt., chased by a cata
mount, was so frightened that liis hair turn
ed white as snow.
The citizens ot Chicago hare presented
Gen. Grant with Mayer’s picture “Consola
tion.”
Queen Victoria has sent £15 to a Scotch
weaver’s wife for producing triplets.
Lord Stamford has won $60,000 on the
English turf this season; the jltike of Beau
fort $80,000.
A lunatic in New York escaped from liis
asylum and starved himself to death. < lughtnt
to ha' done it
Tlie telegraph brings daily the announce
ment of the execution of a murderer. The
crop is a large one.
A domestic cookery book published in
London in 1800 has netted tlie owner $200,-
000.
The clown's motto—“Bismuth fust, pleas
ure aftewards.”—Punch.
The first choice of pews in broth Beecher’s
church in Brooklyn, N. Y., sold for a premi
um of $400.
A step-mother in Marengo, N. Y., starved
and froze a little boy six years old to death.
J3g^”Governor Parson Brownlow, in his
last Whig, “pitches into" certain Southern
clergymen as follows:
IMTCDKNCE ok Tin: Devil.-—The highest
standard of impudence known in the Eng
lish language is what is termed the impu-
denee of the Devil. This baa recently been
excelled in several instances by rebel clergv
„ . ** iL- l?V 1 .. 1 i__ *.
Arrival of Immigrants.—The Republican
notices tbe arrival at Savannah of a small in
stalment of thrifty and enterprising immi
grants from the North, some thirty having
been sent out under the auspices of tbe New
York Commissioners of Emigration. The
Republican says tlint the new comers arc in
telligent and skillful mechanics, from 26 to 40
Cara of age, and among them may be found
competent members of nearly every trade, in
cluding blacksmiths, carpcr.tcrs, wheel
wrights,masons,tinsmiths, plumbers, machin
ists; in fact all branches of industry are well
represented.
J-v ” The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette thinks it pretty certain
that Mr. Stanton will retire from the Cabinet
.Jurat tin* flist of February.
nun of the South going North and address
ing loynl assemblages or people, and asking
contributions to aid tlie Methodist, Presby
terian and other rebel Southern churches.
After preaching treason, praying treason, and
writing, talking and looking treason, and
getting most gloriously whipped out, these
ItnorenA traitors come hack, take the amnes-
:*r Governor Magrath, of South Caro
lina, is writing a series of letters to prove
that the -uccess of the Confederacy would
have been a misfortune to the South. This
is a very late discovery of the ex-Governor's.
though it will surprise no one who is well
acquainted with the cx-Govamor*s mental
adaptability.
The Radicals in Congress are directing
their hostility against Secretary McCulloch.
The late Robert B. Miuturn died from a
stroke of paralysis.
Three Englishmen have recently been cap
tured by Greek brigands and $5000 ransom
for each demanded.
In Sheffield, Eng., an old lady dropped
dead from excitement at seeing her son fight
ing.
Head Centre Stephens was seen on the
Paris boulevards the other day dressed very
nicely and looking as fine as silk.
The four State carriages built for the Duke
of Augustenberg when ho thought he should
be'a king, are to be sold at auction in Paris.
The late king of the Belgians by liis will
left his fortune in four parts—to liis three
children and to liis servants.
The climate of Minnesota is said to be ex
cellent for consumptives. A Pulmonary
Brigade of invalids from every State has been
formed there.
Frol* the scene ot hostilities between the
Mexican republicans anil imperialists on tlie
Rio Gmnde, we have intelligence that a par
ty of thirty of tlie former were recently sur
prised and captured by some of tlie latter, and
that tie execution of the prisoners had been
ordered, ill accordance with Maximilian’s de
cree. Tho imperial commander, on being re
monstrated with bv Gen. WeitzeL, said he had
no option in the matter, but must obey the
directions of his superior. The republican
General Escobedo, is said to be preparing tor
another attack on Mutamoras. Tlie American
General Crawford’s operations ot recruiting
in Texas u division of Americans for Escobe
do were making little progress, the United
States soldiers having been forbidden to enlist
underhini, and his recruiting office in Browns
ville having been closed. The Mexican re
publican officers recently gave a grand dinner
in Brownsville to Generals Wcitzel aud Craw
ford.
Later news from Chile, Peru and the other
South American republics was brought by
the steamship New York, which arrived in
New York, trom Aspinwall on the 1st inst.
The New York brought six hundred and
eighty-five thousand dollars in specie, nnd
among her passengers was Mr. Robinson, our
late Minister to Peru. No additional exciting
event in the war between Chile and Spain
had occurred. The Spanish admiral still
kept up his blockade of certain ports of the
republic, and tbe government of the latter
was quietly prosecuting its war preparations.
Till* (Mlilliin ilnnf irnu vnf ot ao-i nnrl lierl rent
The Chilian fleet was yet at sea, and had not
been heard from since its brilliant exploit,
recorded in the Herald of the 1st instaut, in
which one of its vessels, the Esmeralda, cap
tured the Spanish steamer Covailonga; and
it was expected soon to appear at some im
portant point. A party of eighty Chilians in
boats attempted to capture a Spanish vessel
in the harbor of Coquimbo, but failed through
dallying over the matter too long. In Peru,
Prado, the new President, had so far been
unmolested by any new revolution, and was
proceeding with his work of retrenchment
and reform. A declaration of war against
Spain and alliance with Chile, was looked
for from the Peruvian government. Little of
importance had occurred in any of the other
republics, all of them enjoying an unusual
freedom from revolutionary disturbances.
It is stated in a Mobile paper of the 8th
inst. that Gen. Thomas, commanding the
Military Division of the Tennessee, lias given
oflicin! information thnt all the national
troops are soon to be withdrawn from Geor
gia unrl Alabama, that arms and ammunition
will be furnished to the State militia, and
that the State will be promptly furnished
with provisions for destitute families.
A Galveston despatch of the 9th inst., an
nounces that an order had just been issued
there mustering out of service twenty-two of
the white and colored regiments doing duty
in Texas.
A New Orleans despatch reports that some
of the negroes on the Red river plantations
in Louisiana recently rose in insurrection, and
attempted to murder their overseers. They
were put down, however, by the militia, and
their leaders were arrested. Arms and amu-
nition have been found secreted on the plan
tations.
An extensive tire occurred at Matanzas,
Cuba, on the morning of the 5th inst., in
which eight persons lost their lives. A
steamship line from Havana to Aspinwall is
projected.
According to the official government pa
per of St. Domingo, peace and order have
>een completely restored in that republic.
made at a full
profit of eight cents per yard, after allowing
taxes, nnd everything that enhances tlie cost
of production. This is the manufacturers
gain ; but after obtaining an almost prohibi
tory tariff, nnd carrying prices so high as to
invite importations under this tariff, is it not
atrocious for such a class of men to ask Con
gress to further increase this tarifi* by prohib
iting imports altogther ? These manufactures
have amassed great wealth in the past two
years, and are now seeking a prohibitory ta
riff, regardless of the fnct that their wicked
policy is tending to destroy the interest of
others and oppressing the poorer classes with
enormous taxes for their aggrandizement.
The same class of protectionists are loudly vo
ciferating for the opening up of Japan to our
commerce, regardless of cost, while they are
as loudly demanding that America be “coop
ed up*’ exclusively to herself for the benefit
of the few at the expense of the many.
Indubitably tlie present high prices of dry
goods, as well as linen, iron, steel, machinery,
paper, and many miscellaneous manufactured
fabrics are increased in cost, to the people
who are consumers by the present tariff.
The manufacturers of dry goods alone,
have, during the past year, realized a profit,
under the operations of the tariff, aggregating
a sum equal to one-third of the public debt.
By the census of 1860 the value of manu
factured goods that year was $115,187,926;
since then, tbe increase will exceed thirty-
five per cent., which would make the value
for 1865 about $115,486,200. The importsin
18G0 were $32,558,116, which, added to tbe
domestic manufactures, gives the total con
sumption say, for 1805, to have been $187,-
994,816. Tlie cost of manufacturing was three
times greater in 1865 than in 1860, which
would make the gold value of tbe goods con
sumed in 1865 amount to $563,982,948. The
average price of gold, during tlie year, was
150, which would make the currency value
of the goods consumed $845,974,422. The
currency value of woolen goods consumed in
1865, is estimated, by a similar calculation
as thnt made for cotton goods, to have been
$279,093,861. making tbe grand total thus
Value of cotloa goods consumed, $815,974,422
Value of woolen goods consumed. 279,093,861
A New Italy.
Since our last reference to the ali'ni-
Italy they have assumed a much LrriV; 1 - ' f
trree of importance in Europe than ever!
fore. The speech of King Victor Emar> ,
to the Parliament at Florence is the bold"*
declaration of political views and n 0 u
mad® in the peninsula in many a long year
Weary of the endless and provoking
tiations with the court of Rome, the Kf
has at length acceded to the policy of hi s
end advisers, and pronounced fora senw,
tion of Church and State. Excommunicated
bv the Pope, his Bishops refused authoritvtl
exercise their office, the clerical influence' j
Italy wielded steadily against him as a ha^
of opposition, and determined not to alloy
the power of the church to become fully coi!
solidated into a formidable peril tohistiiron-
he has taken the initiative in a poliev which'
if followed up, will redound to the glory of
liis reign to the latest generation.
The Papal territory have been to Italy
since it became united, the refugee of all adk
Total consumed in 1865, *1,125,068,283
The tarifi duty on which would be 44 1-:
per cent, in gold, 65 3-4 per cent, in currency,
with the gold at 150. Tbe manufacturers
make not less tlian 00 per cent. al>ove the cost
of production, which results in the clear prof
it on the above amount consumed, of $676
040,969—in other words, the manufactures
sell $1,125,068,283 worth of goods tlirou
the agency of the tariff for $1,800,109,252.
must be recollected that these goods pass
through several hands before they reach the
customers. Suppose they pass through only
three, at ail average profit of 10 per cent, to
each, the goods first passing from the manu
facturcr to the jobber, nnd the account will
stand thus:
Goods cost the jobbers, $1,800,109,252
Add their profit, ten per cent, 180,010,924
An unsuccessful attempt was made on
Thursday night to assassinate Senator Wade,
of Ohio, in his room in Washington, by some
unknown villian who took or pretended to
take offense at the Senator's refusal to sign a
paper of some kind. Mr. Wade mastered
and ejected the would-be assassin, who
escaped arrest
■ James Stevens, the mysterious chief of the
Fenian movement, has been heard from at
length. In a letter to John O’Mahony he en
dorses the conduct of that official, appoints
him the American Representative and Finan
cial Agent cf the Irish Republic, and ignores
the existence of the decemviratc of Senators.
The document puts a summary end to the
dispnte in the American branch of the Broth
erhood.
Goodscost wholesale merchants, $980,120,177
Add their profit, ten per cent, 198,012,017
Goods cost retail dealers, $2,178,132,194
Add their profit, ten per cent, 217,813,219
Goods cost the consumers, $1,395,645,413
Deduct original cost ofgoods, 1,800,108,252
Showing profit of middlemen, $,595,836,101
If no tariff existed the statement would re
sult as follows, showing the value of the
goods at different stages while passing from
the hands of the manufacturers to the con
sumers, thus:
Goods cost jobbers,
Add their profit, 10 per cent,
$1,125,068.283
112,500,825
Good cost wholesale incr’ts,
Add their profit, 10 per cent,
$1,237,575,111
123,757,511
The people of Warsaw are now allowed to
go out without lanterns np to midnight.
This is styled an important concession.
At an elegant bridal party in St. Louis the
six bridesmaids appeared in an uniform cos
tume of blue trimmed with silver.
The Southeastern railway, in England, lias
been mulcted in $50,000 for damages to pas
sengers by tlie recent accident.
A man in St Louis asks for a divorce from
liis wife with alimony, she having property
to the amount of $60,000, wliil# lie lias but
$1,500.
A bell-ringer was cleaning tbe large bell in
Plessissur-Manie. France, when somebody
pulled the lever, the hammer struck the clean
er’s head, and he fell a corpse.
Among those who are engaging rooms at
the watering places for next summer, there is
some anxiety as to which establishment the
hospital sheets at the recent sale at Fortress
Monroe nre used.
Horace P. Tuttle, tho eminent astronomer,
discovered a comet on Friday night last at
tlie United States Naval Observatory nt Wash
ington. The comet is described as round,
about two minutes of air in diameter, with a
slight condensation in the centre.
The manager of the Theatre du Chatelct
has been ordered by the authorities to length
en the skirls of the ballet-girls in the new
piece, “La Lantemc Mngique,” and also to
make tlieir dresses* little less transparent.—
Paris Paper.
In 1709 what was long called “the cold
Winter,” when tbe frost penetrated three
yards into the earth. In 1716 booths were
erected on tho Thames. In 1744 the strongest
ale in England, exposed to the air, was cov
ered in less than fifteen minutes with ice an
inch thick.
* European News.
The Cunard steamship Scotia, from Liver
pool, December 30, and Queenstown, Decem-
>cr 31, arrived at this port yesterday, bring
ing seven days later news from Europe.
■ The resolutions introduced into the United
States Congress on the infringment of the
Monroe doctrine in Mexico, and tlie state
ment that the French Ambassador at Wash
ington was reeking fresh instructions, liad
caused considerable excitement in Paris and
London, and had sent down the price of
American securities. The London and Paris
papers were all devoting attention to the
Mexican question, and the London Times pre
dicted the speedy withdrawal of the French
troops.
The speech delivered by tboQuccn of Spain
at tbe opening of tiic Spanish Cortes indicated
no immediate intention of abandoning the
position taken upon tho Chitcan question.—
On the contrary the Spanish fleet in the Pa
cific was about to be reinforced. Meanwhile
there were rumors of suspected Chilean pri
vateers off the coast of Spain.
In Ireland events of a strange character had
happened in connection with the Fenian
movement, lly some Means the government
became impressed with a conviction that a
Goods cost retail dealers,
Add their profit, 10 per cent,
$1,301,33-2,622
136,133,263
Goods cost consumers,
Deduct original cost of goods,
$1,497,405,884
1,125,048,283
Showing profit to middlemen, $ 872,397,601
Comparing the profits ot middlemen shown
by the two statements we have—
Profits of middlemen with tariff, $595,836,161
Profits middlemen without tariff 372,397,601
Difference against tariff, $223,438,456
By comparing these statements still fur
ther,we find the total cost of cotton and wool
en goods to consumers as follows:
With a tariff, $2,395,945,413
Without a tariff 1,497,465,884
What the tariff costs the people, $898,479,297
In other words, the people are tayed $898,-
479,297 for the benefit and privilege of hav
ing a high tariff. Tbe most liberal calcula
tions possible exhibit that on tlie importa
tions of cotton and woolen goods the Gov
ernment does not derive exceeding $103,182,-
318 in currency, which, dcilncted from the
above amount, $898,479,529, shows wbat a
huge sum is pocketed by the manufacturers
by means of tho tariff—being no less than
$795,297,217 annually.
This sum is nearly equal to one-third of
the entire public debt, and equivalent to a
tax of $26 upon every man, woman and child,
including negroes, in the entire United States.
This is what tbe tariff costs the country in
dry goods alone, a tax sufficient to pay all
the expenses of the Government, and the cn-
gcncral rising was to takeplacc on Christmas t ‘ re public debt, in four and a half years, or
day, and the most warlike precautions were boy all the railroads in the country.
taken to meet the emergency. Nothing, how
ever, occurred to justify the fears ot the au
thorities. '
Advices from South America, received by
way of Lisbon, mentioned the probability of
tlie Paraguayan war being brought to a peace
ful termination by the mediation of European
Powers.
Troubles had arisen in Japan through the
Mikado, or Spiritual Emperor, refusing to
carry out the arrangements of the Tycoon, or
acting Umperor, with regard to the opening
of the treaty ports, and tlie fleets of England.
France and Holland had been put in 'mo
tion.
In the London money market, on the :>0tli
ult., United States fire-twenties closed at Gfin
65 1-2. American cotton had declined one
farthing per pound.—If. Y. Herald, 14th.
Father llyaeinthe, the latest religious sen
sation in Paris, dresses in monkish costume,
anil took several lessons of an opera singer
to improve his voice. It is tlie fashion to go 1
to Notre Dame to he
the Princess Mattemich
ety sit at his feast and think of piety as
promising a new sensation.
The Assault upon Senator Wade.—It
appears that the huge “man ip grey,” who
assaulted Senator Wade in liis own room
Wednesday noon oflast week, went immedi
ately afterwards to the quarters of Senator
Wilson and requested that gentleman to give
him (the “man in grey,”) a letter of recom
mendation to the Secretary of the Navy, re
marking at the same time: “I have just been
to see Senator Wade, and be treated me like
li—L” This shows tliat the reported attempt
to assassinate Senator Wade was all bosh.
We learn that Senator Wade was as much
surprised as any of his friends to see a double-
leaded statement in a Saturday morning print
that an attempt had been made to “assassin
ate” him. lie regretted that the statement
did not contain tlie main fnct—that he kicked
his assailant into the street instead of blow
ing out liis brains.—Star, 15tft.
Washington Items.
The Senate Finance Committee lias added
, • ,, A i two and a halt million dollars to the pension
:„i, na bill, to meet deficiencies, which will make
ten and all tlie gmysoci- ,
, ... , r •*. the pension appropriations for the next fiscal
pension appropn
year $17,944,000.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
BT If Andrew Johnson, as President of dismissed, on the 12th, tim proposition to ap
pr^aiL G. P. Marsh, our Minister at Tu
rin, lias forwarded to Washington the pro-
|> "A terrible affray occurred at Rich- ty oath, go North and solicit contributions of; position of a company of Italian silk "and
mono, Ivv., bet wen two families named Pur- the people they have been villil'ying and 1 grape growers, and wine manufacturer', to
ish and Kavanaugb, in which sixty partisans j fighting, to aid tln-ir rotten and corrupt I immigrate to this country in such force as
Mere engagi d. There wi"- one killed and churches. Tho devil has a great deal of brass would suffice lor the cultivation of a million
nine wounded, three of whom are supposi d in his old iron-clad face, but he could not do of grape vines and ten thousand mulberry
to 1 e mortally. this thing without a blush ! trees.
The Bath Pai*eu MrLLs.—We notice that
these extensive mills, situated at Bath, 8. 0.,
on the line of South Carolina Railoail, have
resumed their shipments of paper for the
journals of the North. Nearly every steniner
from Augusta brings large shipments of pn-
per destined for tic North.—Sar Paper.
the United States, upheld by the conservative
sentiments of the country, doesn’t succeed in
defeating the radical disunionists in Cou-
gres-, and their aiders and abettors in Ten-
see. it will be tin; first fight in which he
lias ever engaged that lie didn't come out
best, lie is a lio-t within himself, but, thrice
armed in a ju-t quarrel, he will prove invin- cf the navy,
cible. Mark the prediction, and stand from
under.—Hash. Union.
propriato throe hundred thousand dollars to
defray the expenses of a proper representa
tion of the products, manufactures and ma
chinery of the United States at the grand
Paris exhibition next year.
herents of the fallen jirinccs, from whence
bands of marauders were sent forth in all fli.
rections, to disturb the country, aud seek to
excite political outbreaks. All this was done
with the cognizance oft he Papal Government.
The refugee King of Naples received more
favor at Rome than King Victor Emanuel
did. and the Austrian Princes of the northern
duchies were in the same favor. To counter
act this pernicious influence, the Italian Gov
ernment lias labored most assiduously. Its
army has been large and active, and it has
been kept constantly in the field in pursuit of
banditti, of whom over six thousand have
been captured or killed.
The influence of Rome throughout Italy
has made secret friends for these banditti in
all quarters, and lender the work of the na
tional government very difficult. Nevertlie-
less, it has manfully fought down the robbers
at all points, and when the natural features of
the country afforded shelter for them, whole
forests have been cut down, swamps drained,
roads built, fortifications and irilitarv posts
established, to make sure the reduction of the
country to tranquility anil order. As . the
Papal government still remains hostile, still
makes its territories a source of danger to
Italy, still furnishes friends to the banditti,
still acts ns a means of internal discard all'
over the country, the King and Itis cabinet
boldly strike at the root of the evil, and
determine upon a separation of Church and
State.
Should this lie accomplished, the friends
of freedom throughout tlie world will have
reason to rejoice at the termination of the
long night of religious despotism which has
so long rested upon Italy. We trust that the
intentions of the King and his ministers may
prove successful, we are well aware of the
formidable obstacle with which they have to
contend, and arc inclined to fear a failure.
By the light of this proposition wc under
stand why the Italian government hesitates
to reduce the army to any great extent The
reasons heretofore given must evidently have
been delusive. The real reason is to be seen
in the peril connected with this extraordina
ry project.
Since Italy came into the hands of Victor
Emanuel, he has done fur more to develop its
internal resources and rebuild tbe fabric of its
prosperous industry and commerce than has
been generally known, and we regret that we
have not space to speak nt length upon liis
efforts in this way. In his hands, Italy is
striving to become a great maritime power.
She has a promising navy, and her position
being admirable for commerce, extended ef
forts have been made to cultivate foreign
trade. The prosperity of the interior has
hitherto been kept down by brigandage, and
hence the great exertions devoted to the sup
pression of that cause. Meantime roads have
been built, und corporate enterprises of all
kinds liberally encouraged.—Philadelphia
American.
33T* The Omnibus of Naples relates the
following story, of a man who found means
to turn to account the popular apprehension
of prisoners, which lias prevailed there since
the appearance of the oholera. The individ
ual in question, being exceedingly hungry,
and having only a, single coin of the value of
a sou, iaiil it out in the purchase of powdered
sugar, and as he passed by the stand of one
ot these open-air cooks who make, a kind of
pancake called frittale. he dropped, appa
rently by accident, some of the sugar into the
frying-pan. He was instantly seized by the
by-standers, as a prisoner caught in the act.
He denied vigorously the truth of the allega
tion, and at last, to prove Itis innocence, offer
ed to eat the contents of the pan. This prop
osition was accepted, and lie accordingly des
patched the pancake with great relish,’ and
then walked off well satisfied with the success
of his trick.
A rather curious instance of convic
tion by evidence from the mouth of a cod,
occurred in Scrabstcr Roads the other day.
Tlie Captain had had some fresh herrings for
breakfast, und some of those that were left
were thrown overboard by the cook, who was
either too lazy or too careless to put them
away as he was told to do. The herrings be
ing subsequently asked for. as the Captain
wished to fish for cod, the cook declared he
knew nothing ntall about them, but that he
was certain they had not been thrown over
board. No sooner were the words out of his
mouth than the Captain, who bad felt a pull
at his line, drew in a great lrauncing fellow'
of a co<l, and the moment the cod fell on deck,
one of the identical herrings in dispute fell
out of its mouth at the story-teller's feet, thus
convicting him by the mouth of a witness
whose stoitaach when taken out of his native
element was more tender than the cook’s con
science.—John O’Groat Journal.
To Make IIexs Lay.—The South Caroli
nian says, a neighbor states that hogs’ lard is
tlie best thing that he can find to mix with
the dough lie gives to liis liens.. He says a
cut of this fat as big as a walnut, will set a
hen to laying, immediately after she has been
broken up from setting, and that by feeding
them with the fat occasionally, liis hens con
tinued laying through the whole winter.
There is a boy down East who is
accustomed to go out on the railroad track
and imitate the steam whistle so perfectly as
to deceive the officer at the station. His
last attempt proved eminently successful: the
depot master came out and “switched him
off.*’
w According to Governor Andrew’s mes
sage delivered to the Massachusetts Legisla
ture, on the third instant, the war expendi
tures of that State, including the liabilities
incurred by cities and towns for bounties and
other military purposes, amount to about
fifty-six millions of dollars.
J3P“Authentic information lias been re
ceived at Washington, from the planting
States, showing that vigorous efforts are be-
made to produce a cotton crop the com-
veur.
j£gU"The total loss by fire the past year
amounted to over forty-three millions ofdol-
ars, against about twenty-eight and a hah
millions the previous year.
gTThe Seventh Baptist Church, Balti
more. of which Rev. Richard Fuller, D. D..
pastor, lias a membership of one thousand
nil twenty two, nearly one-fourth of the
hole number ot the association.
The House Naval Committee will report a
bill increasing the pay of all grades of officers
The House Committee on Appropriations
reported, on the 12th, an army appropriation
bill. It contains the appropriations asked for
by the War Department, with, reductions
which amount in the aggregate to nearly
three millions of dollars.
Cos.—Why is as much congealed water as
will fill a cart like a mean trick to impose on
one! Because it’s a low deeite (a loa<
ice.)
J-fi- t|| L . New York Evening Post thinks
“the leading Republicans will make a fatal
error if they imagine that class legislation,
unjust discrimination in favor of certain in
terests, mismanagement of the currency and
the debt, nnd, above all, a mistaken and un
successful policy on the great question of re-
f construction, will be endured by the country, the 1st of January, 1867. Such is th
even at their hands.” * nouncement of hi» confidential frienda.
Harlan will not resign liis
tion as Secretary of th*- Interior, until
ibout
BT The salary of Rev. Horatio Stebbins,
istor of the Unitarian church in San Fran-
.sco, is six thousand dollars in gold, anilb 1 '
people have rccentlv made him an anniver-
.arv gift of $4,000. *
A Puseyito church wa-recently opened
in New York City with burning candle*
and other Roman Catholic paraphernalia.
yif" It is stated that there
millions Roman Catholics i
States.
re now lout
the'United
up
wells had I
sort l>v the
water giv
;> the year 1860. no less than :
>en sunk in the great Sahara 1
French. The total quantity.
bv these \\ ells amount to Lf-
000 gallons per day.