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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
pgr Gen. Forrest having sold his planta
tion, announces himself a cotton factor and
commission nieichant. He has also bought
a hotel.
pr a Cairo letter ot the 23th ult, com
plains of the rains and cold weather and says
the indications are that the cotton crop in
southern Illinois will be totally ruined, and
the injury to the com crop is already im
mense. { ( > ,
PTA dispatch from Louisville says tim 1
on Thursday there were three hundred and
seventy-five cases for treason before the
United States Court there, but the District
Attorney General entered a nolle prosequi, and
the cases were dismissed.
jgy Hon. Alexander II. Stephens, ns we
are informed by agentleman who recently had
an interview with him, says the Savannah
Herald, is in unusually good health. He does
not contemplate any lecturing tour, as has
been announced in some papers, but designs
remaining at home during the autumn and
winter, and devoting himself to his profes
sion.
Hon. J. P. Hale will be recalled from
Madrid as soon as a suitable successor can
be appointed. The rotary principle is to be
applied to him, as it will be soon to others
of our representatives abroad. Mr. Adams is
believed to be secure in his position at' the
Court of St James, as he is understood to
support the Administantion policy of restor-
tion. |
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Health or Columbus.—Wc regret
learn that our sister city is sorely afflicted
with sickness the present season. So much
disease was never ( known then, and the
deaths have been numerous, including many
of the most respectable citizens. Among
those who have recently died we observe the
names of Richard Burt, A. F. Brannbn, Win.
Y. Barden, James Boulter and Jere Gnm-
mell, all said to be well-known business men
of the place.
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THE MOST LIBERAL TERMS EVER OF
FERED TO SUBDUED REBELS/*
Such are 'the terms bv which the Northern
Republicans, both Radical and Conservative,
characterize the conditions of the Constitu
tional Amendment adopted at the last ses
sion of Congress and now submitted to the
Southern people for their action. Let us see
wbat is required of us bythat enactment, to
which we have not already given our.nssent:
1st We are to make our former slaves our
equals at the polls, or give up the right to
count them at all as part of our representa
tive population, the effect of which would he
the loss of nearly a third .of our representa
tives in the lower branch of Congress.
The second demand is that we shall dis
franchise everybody in the South who took
any part, directly or indirectly, in the late
war, and who had ever occupied an office.
State or Federal. ■»
The third demand is that we bind ourselves
not only never to question the payment of
the expenses ot the war in which wc were
subdued, with pensions and bounties perpet
ual to those who fought us, but that we will
never ask indemnity for losses incurred in the
Account ofnn Interview by a Sympathizer.
Oh, whv should the spirit of mortal be proud ?
Like a swift.Ueeting meteor—a f.ist living cloud—
A tlu.-h of the lightening—a break of the wave-
lie ]>H»>eth from life to his rest in the grave.
A correspondent of the Petersburg (Va.)
Index furnishes an account of a recent inter
view with .Jefferson Davis, from which we
quote the following:
Air. Davis was dressed in a plain, neat,
somewhat worn suit of black, which linng
rather loosely upon his person. His dres3
frock coat, especially, seemed too large for
him. As he leaned upon my am, I could
measure by my own muscular sense, with tol
erable accuracy, the great decline in his phys- uM
ique. All his senses seemed to he preternat- | The infant a «oth«r altendjsdandllojed.
[The author of tlic following touching lines
is unknow n.]
The leaves of the oak and the willow hnllsjfade,
Be scattered around and together be laid;
As the young, and the old, and the low, and the
high,
Shall crumble to dust and together shall lie.
' Hon. John Sherman arrived
home in Mansfield, last week, and was imme
diately called on for a speech, on pending po
litical issues, to which he responded in a
speech in favor of the action of Congress as
presented in the Constitutional Amendment.
He declared that if the South failed and re
fused to accept the Constitutional Amend
ment ns a fair settlement, they should have
unadulterated universal suffrage as the next
step. How are we to get it ?
A New Ireland.—A despatch from New
York announoes, relative to Fenian move
ments, that “important negotiations arc pend
ing which, when published, will astonish the
brotherhood.’' The subject of these negotia
tions may be inferred from the statement that
the plenipotentiaries on one side are Stevens
and Roberts, the great Fenian bead centres,
and on the.otber side General Santa Anna,
the great Mexican head centre.
Santa Anna, having purchased and equip
ped three resselsofwar, is about to commence
bis long-intended movement against the im
perial usurpers in Mexico. In this enterprise
he invites the Fenians to join kirn. He pro
poses to them to erect in the land of the Az
tecs the Irish republic which they lately at
tempted to erect in the land of the “Kanucks”;
to establish in the balls of the Montezumas
the capitol which was recently located at
Union square. This proposition, it would
appear, the Fenian head centres arc about to
accept.
Bex. Butler and Wendell Phillips.—
Both of these distinguished characters
have been nominated for Congress in Massa
chusetts. No two men, says the St. Paul Pi
oneer, ever differed more widely. The one is
a renegade secessionist, a dishonest pettifog
ger, a house thief, and arrant coward. The
ether a chaste and brilliant orator, an accom
plished scholar, an out-spoken, honest fanat
ic. The one exerted his powers to break up
the Democratic party, and to sever the Union,
and then donned the uniform of the United
States army, to disgrace it by cowardice at
Bethel, disobedience of orders at Fort Fisli-
«r, cruel and notorious incompetency at
“ Dutch Gap,” wholesale theft and midnight
robbery at New Orleans. The other has
headed, with uniform consistency, the cru
sade against the Constitution for tho last
twenty years. The one accepts the nomina
tion—the other declines it
For the Telegraph.
The Mncon Cotton HMnrUct.
Wo have no wish to y do our sister cities any
injustice, hence the correct quotations of their
(markets should be given. Taking the Mo
bile market, wc find deducting 8c. tat 3Cc.
the price there for middling cotton. It is
known that middlings are worth in the New
York and Liverpool markets generally about
lc. more than our middlings, which brings
the price to precisely (he Macon market. The
tame may be said of other markets. For a
week or more past there has been about one-
half cent only between Savannah and Macon,
Our planting friends should notice
and bear in mind that the quotations in New
York, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, &c.,
are given after tax is paid, or rather include
tax, and to make tho proper comparison be
tween those markets and curs, they should
deduct 8c. from tlieir prices, or add 3c. to
ours, as our quotations are given without the
tax’, purchaser paying th«*tax additional, and
theirs including tax.
Commission- Merchant.
Now, an impartial judge would think these
terms hard enough, in atonement for any de
gree of crime; and we doubt very seriously if
be would ever be able to discover the evi
dence of tbeir boasted liberality. But wc will
not discuss the amendment, as it has already
been fully considered in these columns, and
the opinion advanced that no people fit to be
free would hesitate to spit upon and reject it
with scorn.
But are those the only terms of our return
to the Union, and tho only atonement re
quired of the South for the crime ot strug
gling to be free and independent The
amendment is but one item in the long
catalogue of our punishment for that,un
fortunate effort There is nothing worse,
we grant, for the greatest humiliation that
can be inflicted upon a people, is the demand
that they shall degrade themselves, and do vi
olence to every noble impulse of the human
heart. But the Northern Republicans who
deem this amendment “ liberal,” leave out of
the count the sufferings and penalties wc
have already endured. They very convenient
ly forget that they have already changed by
an act, of violence the entire social and do
mestic relations of the Southern people.
They ignore the fact that they have already
confiscated, by the dash of a pen, and in de
fiance of law, millions upon millions of
our property held as slaves, which we bought
with our money and had as good a title to
os the Northern man has to the house he lives
in or the clothes he wears. They forget
that hy this act of confiscation they beggard
four fifths of our people, and turned out mil
lions of our women and children to starve.
They forget that tlieir army swept over these
States, destroying millions and millions more,
and leaving behind them a scene of devasta
tion and human suffering of which history
affords no parallel. They forget that these
confiscations and ravages have left our peo
ple crushed out and impoverished, with little
besides tbeir lauds to commence the world
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anew.
Let these things be taken into account,
and then say whether the new exactions be
“ liberal ” or tot
For the Telegraph.]
The ITVucon Orphan School.
Messrs. Editors: Please announce through
your paper that tho Orphan School has been
removed to a bouse owned by Dr. Thompson,
on Magnolia street He was renting this
house at $20 per month, but rents it to the
school at $15. Second-hand clothing and
books still solicited. Donations of any kind
may be sent to my house, opposite the school,
(I live in Miss Auna Ross’ bouse.) Material
for the work department thankfully received
—such as sewing cotton, silk or worsted, sew
ing or crochet needles, bits of broadcloth,
silk or morocco, or perforated paper, &c.
Should any destitute, homeless orphan ap
ply, I would take them in until I could
find abetter home for them—especially a sol
dier's orphan. Our noble solders fill honora
ble graves, and wc should do all we can to
cause their orphans to fill useful and honor
able positions in society and the church.—
It is our duty to attend to the education of
these. It is our duty to establish institutions
of charity and instruction. It is our duty to
do all we can to increase mornlitv.
A. E. C. Hucnus, P.’ M. 0. S.
EDUCATION OF ORPHANS.
We publish to-day, by special request, a
call for a meeting of the ladies of Macon
and vicinity, to organize an Orphans’ Educa
tional Society; and wc, in addition, present
a few views by which we hope to commend
the project to all our lady readers.
The enterprise is one that appeals most
warmly to every woman’s heart. Woman
herself is charitable. Full'of love and kind
ness, she ever desires to prevent suffering, and
to afford comfort and happiness. She is,
therefore, ever witling to relieve the dis
tressed. But when her maternal instincts
arc appealed' to, her charity gushes forth
with mighty force. In this enterprise, she
offers to take partially under her charge,
those whom the allotments of Providence
have deprived of father, mother and worldly
goods. And they] are children! “And,”
says the the true womanly heart, “ may not
such be the case, some day, with my chil
dren.”
Ah! Mother! do you not desire your chil
dren to be kindly cared for, when you have
passed from earth ? What guarantee have
you that your offspring shall not, some day,
need the kind offices of others ? Can you
then shut up your bowels of compassion,
while the orphans of Macon—poor, needy,
and hungering for spiritual and intellectual
food—are appealing to you for help l
“ Oh, who will care for my children!" sad
ly moans the dying mother, as her eyes^
about closing for the last time upon the
things of earth, turn wistfully, mournfully
upon her weeping little ones. “ Were it not
for my children, I would not care!” exclaims
the patriot, whose life-blood is oozing forth.
He has died for his country, and for his sad
fate sheds no tear, feels no regret; ’tis only
for bis young and tender children, cast upon
the cold charities of the world, that he cares,
in that hour of extremity.
Mother: that poor dying woman,
her last agony, committed her children
to you — did she rightly rely upon
that maternal love which burns in your bo
som 1 And that man who gave himself for
your cause—shall his shade look back re
proachfully from another world, as he wit
nesses an apparent manifestation of ingrati
tude on your part ?
If anything, woman is more patriotic than
man. And patriotism demands that the chil
dren ot the country be educated. The la
dies of Mocon, we know, are patriotic, and
desire to behold our city, society and the
country at large, elevated and improved
through the influence of educated men and
women. The orphans of Macon are to be
come, one day, men and women, and this in
fluence is to be felt in society and by the
whole countiy. A. H. Stephens was educa
ted by charitable women. TJiinkye that
they have ever regretted that good work i
No more is demanded or expected of any
woman or man than they can acconfplish in
their own immediate sphere. The sphere of
the Macon ladies is the city of Macon and
the extent ofinflucncc they are able to wield.
They are asked—they are expected to do no
more than to come within that sphere: but
within that sphere they can do much. Let
them, then, organize a society, whose special
object shall be to educate the orphans of Ma
con. Undertake that much and it will lie
accomplished. Already a fair start has been
made, and a school prepared to their hands
is already in successful operation. Enlarge
ment or improvement is by no means objec
tionable ; but, any Bow, cany on tbe goed
work, and tbe blessings of dead mothers—if
such can be—and the blessings of handy or-
thans, and the blessings of God, will rest
upon you. In another column may be seen
the call for a meeting, alluded to by us.
urally acute, especially bis hearing,
To a suggestion that perhaps the ill-will
manifested toward him by some public men,
might be caused by an unforgiving spirit on
their part, in view at some offense given by
him, he said: “That is quite probable. I
have often been too angry. Though gencr-
allv thoughtful and cautious—even tender to
the failings of others—yet when they crossed
my path in the shape ot pretence, talscliood.
craft or cant—then these faults aroused
bitter anger for the moment) sometimes utter
alienation. This was all wrong. Oh ! how
public life blunts our perceptions os to the
hisher delicacies—tenderness, forbearance-
putting tbe best construction on things, words
and persons they are capable of. I have erred
in this particular, but I had often great pro
vocation—never, however, have I uttered an
angry, undervalucingor denunciatory senti
ment without believing I had good cause for
so doing, and. in most cases, my country has
already, or will hereafter, find that I was right.
I now feel and acknowledge that I was some
times wrong as to the tone or coloring of a
phrase while under the excitement of debate,
as, for instance: wben Mr. Johnson, after the
Mexican war, made somi remarks derogatory
ot tbe West Point officers, I thought it strange
that any man of sense shonlrl think that the
training of officers for duty, by a thorough
military education, would rather disqualify
them for that duty, or what was tho same
thing, that untrained officers did better than
the West Pointers. In the course of reply I
made use of this remark: “who would select
a tailor to shoe a horse, or a Wacksmitli to
make a coat ?” This gave personal offense to
3Lr. Johnson, who regarded it as a sheer per
sonality. Nothing in the world was further
from my thoughts.
To the query, whether he hud anything to
complain of in his present treatment, he re
plied that he had not. The present command
ant of the fort was a soldier and a gentleman,
who, while diligent and faithful in the dis
charge of his duty to his Government, was.
also forbearing and considerate as to all the
minuta: of his prison life.
The Government may have been deceived
by tbe testimony which has since turned out
to be sheer peijury, tending to implicate me
in the assassination of President Lincoln; or
it may have been subject to one ot those ma
nias which occasionally, like plagues, seize
Governments and communities; or, what is
most likely, a few unprincipled men, seeing
dn opportunity in the excited condition of
the nation for obtaining wealth and position,
through the instrumentality of villains, sub
orned for the purpose, really did impose up
on tbe Government, and led them to believe
for a moment, in the whirl of excitement, the
statements put forth id tbe proclamation for
my capture. But, gentlemen, my heart is a
stranger to that plot These hands are un
stained by innocent blood. No unrighteous
gold lias ever, during the Confederacy, ad
hered to these palms.”
He uttered the lost sentence in a most sol
emn manner, bolding up bis hands and rais
ing his lace to Heaven, and with such a holy,
cliild-likc simplicity, that it is impossible for
any words, however weird, to convey a halt
idea—not an adequate one—ot that touching
scene.
The coming of the little child into the in
ner casemate, and climbing into his father’s,
arms, who htu^just leaned upon t)iesafa,guve
occasion to Mrs. Davis to make some remarks
about her other children, particularly those
in Canada. Bishop Green then remarked
tliatTie would not have ventured to introduce
the subject, but as Mrs. D. bad done sobcrself
be felt bound to say, os a Bishop of hor own
chosen Church, he did not think she acted en
tirely wise in sending them to a convent to be
taught. Mr. Davis replied: “I was in Geor
gia, and had no money. No institotion of
my own Church offered to teach my poor
children. One day three Sisters of Charity
came to see me, and brought me five gold
dollars, all the money they had in the world;
they almost forced me to take the money, but
I did not; they then offered to take my chil
dren to tbeir school in tbe neighborhood >of
Savannah, where tbe air was cool, and they
could be comfortably cared for during the
Summer months. Then came an offer from a
convent school in Canada, whither, when I
got permission from the Government, which
was not without great trouble and difficulty,
I took them. It is true, I do not wish them
to be Roman Catholics, but, then, persons as
good as they can possibly be and become,
are and have been, and, doubtless, will con
tinue to be Roman Catholics. These good
people were the first to oiler me theit help.—
I will never cease to be grateful to them for
it.” Mr. Davis then added: “Bishop, there
never was more unanimity in any nation of
the world than there was in the Southern
Confederacy. It would be invidious to single
out any class otour people for special praise.
The churches and ministry were all, or nearly
all, entirely devoted to our cause; but, as I
said before, it it would not be regarded as in
vidious, I would say that the Catholics of
the South were conspicuously devoted to our
cause. I could relate to you cases of great
suffering and trial to which they were sub
jected, and in no case did any of them ever
flinch. Besides, Bishop, Fio* Nono was the
only Prince in the world that really wished
well to our cause, and sent us his blessing. I
cannot help liking the Catholics. The
happiest hours of my life were once
spent in a Catholic monastery. By
the way, Bishop, I see out Church in the
North is establishing sisterhoods in imitation
of the Catholics. How do they work f’ “So
well,” said the Bishop, “that 1 intend intro
ducing them into my own diocese as soon as
posable. Indeed, there are many good
things and good people among tbe Catholics,
but I think, Mr. Davis, that our Church is
good enough for us.” Ourself, “Gentlemen,
it issto me incredible how to reconcile it to
reason, in a madhouse world like this, where
not only physical disease afflicts, more or less,
nine-tenths, of the whole population, but
where moral and mental depravity affects the
whole race, and when the Heaven-sent heal
ers, sealed and anointed for their mission, are
so few. Oh ! it is terrible that they should
waste their strength by imposing one on an
other, and worst of all, stir up strife and
bloodshed in carrying out their great com
mission. Let us love one another, dear
Bishop, and bear each other’s infirmities, and
particularly and especially at this great junc
ture of our country’s history, let our modera
tion be known to all men.”*
The mother, that infant's affection who proved;
The father, that mother and infant who blest—
Each, all are away to their dwelling of rest.
Tho maid on whose brow, on whose cheek, in
whose eye, « •
Shone beauty and pleasure—hertriumphs are by,
And alike from the minds of tha living erased
Are the memories of moitals who loved her and
praised.
The hand of the King, that the Scepter hath
-borne, , .
The brow of the Priest, that the nnter hath worn;
The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap;
The herdsman, who climbed with his goats up tho
steep
The be.
Have
ir, who wandered in tearch of his bread,
away like the grass that we tread.
like the flower or the
So the multitude goes,
weed,
That withers away to let others succeed ;
So the multitude come, even those we behold,
To repeat every tale that has often been told.
For we are tbe same our fathers have been,
We see the same sights our fathers have seen r
We drink the same stream, we see the same sun,
And run the same course our fathers have run.
The thoughts we are thinking our fathers did
think;
From the death we are shrinking our fathersdid
shrink;
To the life we are clinging our fathers did cling,
But it speeds from us all like the bird on the
wing.
They loved—but the story we cannot unfold ;
They scorned—but the heart of the haughty is
cold;
They grieved—but no wail from tbeir slumbers
will come;
TLey joyed—but the tongue of their gladness is
'dumb. ,
They died—ah! they died—we, things that are
now,
That walk on the turf that lies over their brow,
And make in their dwellings a transient abode,
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrim
age road.
Yes, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
Are mingled together in sunshine and rain,
And the smile and the tear, and the song and
the dirge,
Blill follow each other, like surge upon surge.
Ia writing these letters I do not pretend to
f ive words or ideas just as they were uttered.
only give their substance, with such addi
tions of my own as will serve to make them
intelligible, and especially to give such an
idea or Mr. Dans’ character as may serve to
remove some hateful prejudices entertained
against him in the North. In the South, I
believe, ]ve are nearly unanimous in our esti
mation of bis moral worth and high stand
ard of intellectual excellence. We also know
the mercifulness and benevolence of his dis
position. Many of you, good people ot Pe
tersburg, know wbat a great number of Con
federate soldiers, liable to be shot for deser
tion, but having some mitigating circumstan
ces in their cases, he spared. Some of you
know the case of a foolish young officer who
made a proposition to assu—inatc President
Lincoln, which, after reading, was marked
on the back, in Jefferson Davis’ hand
writing, “Atrocious,” and referred to the
Secretary of . War, who had the officer court
martialed and dismissed the service. This
poor boy, to expiate bis folly, fell, as au un
recognized volunteer, at tbe head of a brave
band; at the first Wilderness fight.
John D. Kelly.
'Tis the wink of an eye; ’tie the draught of a
breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of
death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the
shroud;
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ?
Berlin Cor. London Times, Sept. 8.
Prussian Opinion or Napoleon’s Inten
tions Towards the Enlarged Kingdom
TOE ATTITUDE OF PRUSSIA AND POLICY OF
RUSSIA.
The change of Ministry in France had al
ready been regarded in Prussia as indicative
of a peace policy pn the part of the Emperor,
and the hope of there being no likelihood of
any interruption of friendly relations between
tbe two governments has been lately strength
ened by a letter wliicb has been written by
the - Emperor Napoleon to 31. Lavalette, anti
of which there is much talk in political cir
cles here, although it has not been noticed by
tlic French press. This letter contains direc
tions ns to the news which is to be published
in tlie French journals, and orders them to
disavow the existence in the Cabinet of the
Tuileries of any intentions of war or territo
rial aggrandizement. The concluding sen
tence—which runs thus, ‘‘Thu*real interest
of France is not by any means to obtain an
insignificant increase of territory, but to sup
port Germany so that she may form her con
stitution in the manner most advantageous
for her own interests and those »t Europe’’—
taken in connection with the whole letter, and
as a sequel to the retirement of 31. Drouyn do
L’Huys from the 3Iinistry, is a proof that the
Emperor has no intention at present to push by
arms the claims which were advanced by his
lute 3Iinister for foreign affairs. As such it is
accepted here.
But some importance is attached to private
letters from good authorities in Paris which
say that 31. de 3Ioustier’s tenure of office is
regarded as only very temporary arid trans-
sient; that the present French 3Iinistcrfor
Foreign Affairs will hold his portfolio only
until the excitement aroused by late events
has subsided; that then, though probably not
until after the close of the Paris Industrial
Exhibition for 1807, when the French army
will have been provided with Cliasscpot’s
breech-loading arm, and will have obtained
what is quite as important as the arm itself—
skill and aptitude in its use—the real feelings
ot the French government with regard to the
new state of affairs in Germany will be de
clared. It is curious to notice how politi
cians and diplomatists of the present day
without any eye to treaties of commerce, ob
serve and weigh the worth of mechanical in
ventions and the manufacturing capabilities
of a nation, so recognizing that “kingdoms,
dominions, principalities and powers” are
made and unmade, raided or swept away, al
most as much in the offices and workshops of
engineers as on the drill ground orithe battle
field. The theatre of modern war has pene
trated into factories and foundries far remov
ed from tlie scene of actual strife, but where
the snorting of steam engines, the whirring
of machinery, and the clang ot hammers,
which are regarded as the bustle aud proof of
a flourishing and peaceful industry, are in
reality but the precursors or concomitants of
the roar of battle and of the thunder of an
gry artillery.
It is believed that 31. Bencdctti, the late
French ambassador here, and representative
of the Emperor Napoleon at Nikolsburg, is
to be appointed 3Iinistcr at Constantinople
—another signal, according to Prussian in
terpretation, of the immediate continuance of
friendly relations between the two Cabinets,
as 31. Benedetti was considered to be rather
too strongly anti-Prusaian at the Nikolsburg
Conferences.
Altogether, people are well satisfied here
that there is no prospect of any disturbance
with France/or a good year, and in a year so
many changes may take place that many con
sider all chance of a quarrel as a thing of the
past In the meantime there are jilcnty of
political matters which form abundant sub
jects ol conversation. Besides the numerous
questions of internal German politics, there
area variety of external events which prom
ise* to keep the diplomatists busy, although
the warriors are allowed to rest The mis
sion of General 3Ianteuffel and the subse
quent lenient treatment of Hesse-Darmstadt
have given rise to the idea that Russia does
not look with the most favorable eye on tbe
consolidation of Northern Germany.
Then there are thcDanubian Principalities,
where Prince Charles of Ilohenzollern is lying
latent The interminable Eastern question
seems likely to crop up again in some form
or other from the insurrection in Candia, and
to-day an article has appeared in the North
Deutsche Zeitung, the official organ of the
government, which has led some people to be
lieve that a Belgian question may possibly
arise. There is no doubt that many wise heads
have been shaken seriously to-day over that ar
ticle, which, commencing by adrerting.to
the hostile tone of tke Belgian press has late
ly adopted towards Prussia, points out that
in Belgium n Flemish or French speakingmi-
noritv oppresses and keeps down a Walloon
majority, which speaks a language kindred to
Dutch, and finishes by advancing the theory
that the right of freedom of the press does
not exonerate a nation from the responsibil
ity for what appears in its journals, and ad
vises the Belgian nation to recognize this
fact.
General Grant aud tlic Chtca
can Correspondent.
3Ir. Benj. C. Truman, who travelled in the
same car with General Grant and party on
tbeir late Western tour, and who was present
wlieij the conversation occurred ot" which a
report was made by the Chicago Re
publican’s enrrespondent, > in a letter
to the N. Y. Post, denies in toto, the whole
story. He writes as follows:.
Well, to return to the Republican reporter,
ho did what no other gentleman did on board,
and that was to bore General Grant on polit
ical affairs. Gen. Rawlins, Senator Patterson,
3Ir. W. W. Warden, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Mc-
Guinhess, 3Ir. Spofford, General Custer, 3Ir.
Galdwallcr (and myself) were in tlic same car
and witnessed his impudence, and will in
dorse what I here say: Said the reporter,
“General, is that speech ns reported in tlie
Cincinnati Enquirer true ? did you make any
such remarks?” “Well,” said the General,
“to the best of my knowledge, the substance
of my reply to the committee is as has
been published.” “Word for word, as was
published in the Enquirer—for you know,
General, that’s a nasty, rebel sheet ?” impu
dently remarked the reporter. “3Iav be not
word for word,” said the General, “but tbe
substance is as bas been published;” and
Grant turned partly away from him in his
seat. “What inference shall we put
upon, it, General ?” continued the bore.
“That’s altogether your own matter—you may
place what inference yon please upon it.”—
At this juncture the reporter turned around,
and witnessing the displeasure of the entire
party, and especialiy of General Rawlings
and Senator Patterson, he carried on the*
balance oi the convcrsatian in a lower tone,
andcut it short; after which lie retired to
the end of the car, and wrote vigorously for
half un hour. lie again approached Grant
and asked him a question, and again retired
and put himself vigorously at work. Grant
did not beckon to him, as he falsely writes,
but gave him the cold shoulder throughout.
Whether there is any truth whatever in his
statements, will probably never lie broughtto
light, as General Grant will not even be urged
into politics through the process of contradic
tion. Nobody who was aboard of that train,
however, believed a word of what appeared
in the Republican, but they do know that
General Grant was exceedingly annoyed by
this^impudent reporter, and that he was or
dered off the train in consequence.
In conclusion, I will state, that he who at
tempts to give this and that as the political
opinions of General Grant is an impostor. If
he will not “open” to his chief-of-staff, (who,
by the way, is an uncompromising Johnson
man, and cares not who knows it,) and oth
ers, w,ho are associated with him upon terms
ol the closest friendship and intimacy, is it
likely that he would unbosom himself to a
newspaper reporter, whom he has never seen
before and knows nothing about ? I think
not. Wc may entertain our own impressions
of General Grant, however, and withoutimpo-
sition or disrespect. I have my own opinion
of General Grant, and feel quite sure that he
has rid himself of politics totally and forever.
In fact, we may rest ourselves forever on that
score.
Our only comment on the above is, that
whether tbe Republican correspondent’s state
ment be correct or not, if Gen. Grant keeps si
lence and allows his reported declarations to be
used in the Pennsylvania election against3Ir.
Clyracr,it will be morally tantamount to tbeir
endorsement by biinsclf. No honest man will
question this position.
“ Dctul l>uck” Forney on tlic Spit.
General W. Patton, formerly an a-sociatcof
John \\. Forney, having for some reason be
come embittered against him, lias published
letter in the Philadelphia Sunday
FINANCIAL AND
lone
I ran-i-ript., iwii-wing th<- political eonr.-e of
the “ Dead Duck” in n manner that must be
anything but agreeable to him as a candidate ]
lor the otlice of United States Senator from
W.C. WATTS A CO.’S WEEKf..- ,
REPORT.
COT rox.—In our
reporter Fri£?^
T, Gcn - pa . tton >.f ro , m i,is for . me r i
past week a small burinesa 1
chased only to supply immediate
demand was 1m than for some wc .j7,
some .measure to prices in Havre T
lower than those current here.
In our report of 24th ultimo
that a very considerable pronoriin* T” 1
particularly East India desei^thlZ.°l ?
controlled by London and Liror/b’,
creditors, and that suchcottonwuh,
; market. This process has been on*?
HOW FORNEY MAKES $10,000 OUT OF A COX- ! sequence has been a dull and irrSnrif G
TR ACT FOR SUFI-LYING M. C.’S WITH HOOKS. mWdlSg < Orte« 1 i'£j
As financial skill is a valuable qualification ' Veaterday the Bank rate w»sre2j u
----- - 1 I »wnt, but this was fully anlieraatpu
anv effect unon tho ..V. 1 u i
intimacy with Foruev, is entirely competent
to lay bare his plots and counterplots, his
friendships and trickeries, and he docs it tho
roughly, and as far as can be determined,
without any scruples of delicacy. The letter
is addressed to Forney, and "the following
specimens/will give an idea of the character
ot its contents:
SmI
in a United States Senator, especially if ho ,f >n y effect upon the marker
should be placed upon the Finance Commit-' To-day a fair business has been uon
tee, I will state some facts to show your pos-. JSSfiKS£ft*
session of it in a pre-eminent degree. ; American. Tnia indicates a decif 011 ^
Soon after you were elected clerk of the !
has given way Jf.l to Id andE^S iiS’?!*’ ^
In Sea M^the bitf nessT®*
House of Representatives, 3Ir. Morrison, of
the firm of W. 31. Jlorrison & Co., booksel
lers, on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington
City, said to me one day:
“ General Patton, you and Col. Forney seem
to be on intimate terms, and I want you to
do me the iavor to negotiate With him togive
us the contract for supplying members of Con
gress with the books to which they are enti
tled. As be will probably expect a bonus for
it, you may tell liim that wc will give him
$5,000 for it.” •
I said I would do it with pleasure. I in- _J| Q |
formed you of this request and the amount of i Rowing crop, but tiiese" ifave'hadno
bonus he offered; but you said lie must do ! nnp'ro^cmem. 1 ^
better than that; you must have §10,000 for i evening *nd quote middling Upland,?, l *L
Said I, Colonel, that seems to be pulling 8°J3» t14 ®-
mor. kinds close Id to 2d lower
The advices from America in refer**
crop continue to be watched with ,*!!”’ 01 -,
for upon the result in a great
ture course ot prices. Some Iim™, ^
popular estimates here ranged'
two million bales, but latter?y w e W° n ,
York and other American markets 1
rangins from two to three million hST
of cotton in the Southern States at th/li, -
having turned out so much la err
tunates at thrtime, the trade mthfcS?
rat y inc'ined to attach undue
estimates.
Within the past day or two sevens
per the Atlanuo Cable, have reported
irrmtintr orntv but I *• . u
Prints
it.
• LETTER FROJI ARKANSAS.
Cottox Plaxt, Woodruff Co., Ark., )
. Sept. 25th, 1866. (
Editors Telegraph: Amidst discouraging re
ports from other portions of tbe South, it is
gratifying to note tlio fair prospect of tbe
cotton crop in this, tbe magnificent Valley of
the White River.
As ’far [up as the present head of naviga
tion—Jackson port—and -even above that
point, on land once cbnsidered as lying be
yond tbe northern limit of profitable cultiva
tion, cotton is looking well.
Field after field may be seen with stalks
breast-high, and loaded down with bolls.—
A moderate estimate of the crop now licing
gathered in this vicinity, would place its pro
duct half of that of 1860. .Should nothin
unforeseen occur, the yield, p roportionate to
tbe amount of land planted, will, in many
instances, very nearly attain tbe average of
times byegone.
The principal difficulty to be apprehended
during the present picking season, is a lack
of labor. The freedmen generally arc work
ing faithfully, and giving little trouble, but
even with tbe best of managers, not more
than three-fourths of tlic former amount of
labor can be obtained from them, it matters
not what inducements are offered. Wages
are high, two hundred and fifty dollars per
annum being readily given for the services of
able-bodied men.
The evidences of returning prosperity arc
everywhere to be seen through* this State, in
the repair of public works, and tbe building
up ot property laid waste by war.
Railroad enteprises have, of late, received a
fresh impetus, and numerous meetings have
been bcld* to aid in the accomplishment of
tbe important objects aimed at. Two new
lines of considerable importance are now un
der discussion, the one westward, from Des
Arc through Dardanelle to Fort Smith, tbe
other northward, from Helena to tlie iron
mountain in Missouri,there to connect willi the
railroad already in operation from St. Louis.
At a meeting held in the recently named
town of Cleburne, the organization of the
company of the latter road was completed by
tbe election, as President, of Col. D. C. Cross,
oi Cross county, an able man and one quali
fied to push forward the scheme to success.
The capital required for building will not be
large, as the famous Crowley^Vftidge furnishes
an easily graded natural road-bed for the
greater part of the distance.
The work of rebuilding the 3Icmpliis • &
Little Rock Railroad, is progressing satisfac
torily. It is expected that, by next summer,
trains will be enabled to run regularly through
To complete the connection it will be necessary
to relay the track from 3Iemphis to Madison
on tbe west bank of the Sk Francis, thence to
continue it over a road-bed as yot but par
tially prepared to Duval’s Bluff, on White
River.
From the latter point, situated upon one of
I the most navigable streams, and m direct com
munication by water with 3Iempliis. The
road on to Little Rock was kept in constant
use during the war and in good order.
!. The result of the late elections which dis
played the unanimity of her people, has
placed Aikansas once more in her true posi
tion. With the exception of the representa
tives from Sebastian, and two or three other
mountain counties, the coming Legislature
will be almost entirely composed of men
whose interests have been identified with
those of the “lost cause. - ’
As for the “greybacks”—whose counter
parts will long be remembered in Nortli-
Georgia as “mossybacks’’—but whose official
designation must here be considered too ex-
pressive for utterance—their day of power is
ended, and their occupation gone.
Though called upon to bear for two years
longer with a Murphy as Governor, ‘bow
much superior are the p:o~pccts of this State
over that of Tennessee, with Jier rebel-ventil
ating paraon Brownlow. Au revoir.
Yours, ' Vnr.
it up pretty steep, and I doubt whether they
can afford to give it Well, you said, I don't
care whether they can or not, there are other
parties competing for it, and I can get it. I
reported to 3Ir. Morrison wliat you had said,
and he said that the bonus was larger than
be expected to pay, but that he would risk
it. You gave them the contract and they
gave you the $10,000 in cash. Now, Colonel,
as the only injunction of secrecy imposed up
on me in this matter was not to let P. Barry
Hays, your chief clerk, know anything about
it, and as be has gone to that “ bounic from
whence no traveler returns,” I do not, there
fore, consider this disclosure a breach of con
fidence.
JUDGE DOUGLAS’ PRIVATE OPINION* OF FOR
NEY.
When you went over to the support of
Judge Douglas, I have good reason to sus
pect that your devotion to him was warmed
up by a bonus of some $5,000. This may be
no news to you ; but as tlie Judge has gone
to his long home, I will now* tell you a little
gossip that will be new to you. The Judge
and I were confidential friends, and he talk
ed freely and familiarly with me. On one
occasion, when you were the subject of our
conversation, lie privately said to me: “ For
ney is a regular Cossack, without principle,
and will fight best with those who pay best”
If you bad known tlie opinion the Judge en
tertained of you, Colonel, I hardly think you
would have been quite so lavish of your en
comiums upon liim.
BUCHANAN THE TRUSTEE OF FORXEV’S WIFE'8
PROPERTY.
I omitted to mention another incident that
hail its pro rata share in turning you against
3Ir. Buchanan. He was appointed trustee
for your wife’s property on Eighth street,
Washington, which I am under the impres
sion he gave to her. You wanted him, in
violation of his trupt, to sell tbe property,
and give you the proceeds to invest in
some enterprise of yours. Ho peremptorily
refused to do it, which refusal greatly exas
perated you against him; and although lie
requested that some one might be appointed
in his place, and even suggested the name of
your special friend, 3Ir. Plitt, he is still re
tained in his fiduciary capacity, in the face
of all tbe abuse you are daily heaping upon
him.
From Egypt we continue to recti;, o*
Accounts of the growing crop. This,ln ~
tho causes afore referred to. b..TjT ( *
sion of our market. From Bombay 10
advieea to the 28th ultimo, which
prices ° f COtton ’ * fair wr "5^
Our Manchester report of Unlay av..
“The decline in the Hank rate^ha/ti.a
effect. The finer kinds of goods and uii
jM“K3".!rS ffiXSip
been at tbe lowest prices of the we*k?® WM
The sales ot the week closing U»t
of which 810U0 were W
12,000 declared for export, and 2SS0 on
actual exports were 23,Wl, which **
taken by the trade makes the outgoing oil
6159 lessthan the average of the I
year. The importa of tbe week vct«
bales, but of this 11.774 were America
I
If
1
■li
lit
;l
lea, but or this 14,774 were American ,
stands at 650,006 bales, (a decrease on* u.-
160,) against 361,140 last year, an lucrew?
f V lltstmrr tko Pliinn Mioast. _ « , m , .
Counting the China picuisas half bnEo.
at sea adds up 447 000 bales, against act
increase of 61,0:0, which added to the \
makes tho total apparent excess, a
year, 609,910 bales. The total apparent
:it sea now adds up 1,197.050 bales: py
than shown by eur report last week,
ply for about twenty we ks, at the a
ent year to date.
Referring more particularly ioAmfrWn.J
notwithstanding the liberal import th.
stock was reduced 3580 bales, and no*
bales, and the supply at qgp is now 18,000, i
.ply at seal
last week. The total appfifcnt snppl;
indicates About 14 weeks consumption ft f> 4
the present year to date.
QCOTATIOXS FOR COTTOX THU Cl,
Ordinary. Middljng. Fair
26 £
18 %
13!Z 15V
Sea Island 24
Stained Ditto 16
Orleans 11u
Mobile j:j4
Uplands ll£j
1312
15
Estimated stock, 850,050 bale,., of wh di
American. >6
Imports of the week, 27,334 bales, ol«
are American.
Exports of the week, 23,654 hales, of slud i Al
American. ^
Photograph of President Johnson.—
In statue. President JoIiusqu is squure built,
broad chested, not over tall, compact, manly;
in dress, decently clad in a sober, and some
what worn black coat, bis body seems merely
a suitable pedestal for mounting his massive
Siead. A broad brain, hair originally black,
but now sprinkled over with a thin intermix
ture of white, making what is called an iron-
grey; complexion dark, and a face ot grave
aspect which strikes the beholder at once—
making the whole figure a mere appendage to
it—as that face on which public responsibili
ties are deeply engraving tbeir lines With
tbe sober strength of bis care-tveighcd lace,
there is combined a certain hardened expres
sion, as if he were deficient in the softer hu
man sympathies. But this is perceptibly re
lieved as soon as he speaks, his voice having
a quietness and ease not expected from the
square-built, liard-visaged, cold-eyed states
man. But still the predominant impression
is that he is a resolutely honest, resolutely
ambitious, strong-fibred soul, to whom noth
ing is so congenial as the cares of state. He
greatly resembles Senator Douglas.
The Cotton Crop.
From the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion.]
As an example of the failure of the cotton
crop in a portion of the Sonth, wc give an
extract from a private letter to a friend, which
was not intended for publication, and from a
source entitled to tlic highest credit:
New Orleans, Sept. 16,1866.—* * * *
Throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Ala
bama, the accounts are very gloomy. On Red
river scarcely anything will be made, in Rap
ides Parish particularly. Not only did tbe
overflow destroy the crops of a great many,
but the heavy rains and the army worm have
Exports taken by tbe trade this wetk. 3.
of which 14,660 are American.
At sea, 18,000 bales American.
Bullion in Bank of England, up to lit V-
£16,195,212—Increase £363,192. 1
Present rate of Discount 4 per cent.
Very respectfully,
W C. Tin
The i
'he
Charleston Cotton MarktL
CHittzras.*
The sales yesterday amounted to about9
follows: 31 at 2G. 29 at 26U, 4 at 28,
31, 22 at 82.0 at 33, 23 at 35X- « at 36, un- u
mostly re-packed cotton, at 20 to 25cy t
actions which took placo in the find a
thought to be at better rates than had p:,-
vailed; bet while noting th s irregulantt, i
our previous quotations, say—
Ordinary •
Good Ordinary ...j
Low Middling
Middling j
Strict Middling 3
Good Middling
iy\
Richmond Tobacco Haritt
TOBACCO EX T _
Ricbwosd, Vi.. Sept r:- •
There is a decided improvement in f ■
for shipping and manufacturing, while infer
teat are but little sought after, and pri.etni
favor of the buyer. Extra fancy wrapper:
very high. One box was sold toTl.y ty I' i
and bought by Kewdecker t Brother it tkl
dented price of One Thousand IkllnrsPst
the highest price ever paid for leaf totuw I
any other market. Below we give the train ,
hogsheads and 32 tierces and boxes optnn
auction as follows:
Lugs, common working and shipping ii 1
‘ medium “ “ •• ....
“ good <•**«• .... |
Leaf, common “ “
“ medium «...
“ good “ “ “
“ tine u u u
Manufacturing, common to medium "J
“ good to fine H
“ extra
Fancy Wrapper, common to medium...
“ “ good to fine $**
“ “ extra flO®
Col tun bus Market
Cotntxu
'IThe Cotton market was rather active. <*
yesterday at 30 to 31c; generally at *7 to B#
mand for ordinary grades; all orderseref-’
commands a little less than new, thou,,
are superior.
Receipts 149 bales—59 by river, Si by t*^
wagons. Shipments 234 bales.
that of 3Ir. , who is planting himself,
and is just down from a visit to tbe parisb.
What the planters are to do God alone
knows. They make no corn, cotton, pota
toes or peas—those at least who were over
flowed. They have no gardens, no sheep, no
hogs; and what they and their families, with
out taking the laborers into account, are to
live on is difficult to see. A great manv
mortgaged their lands to raise money with
which to carry on their planting for this
year, under the hope, at least, that they
would clear their farming utensils and mules,
if they did no more. The result has been
that they lose everything.
It is heartrending to hear the accounts
from every quarter. I do not really think
the crop will reach one million boles. The
effect will be, while it disgusts the Yankee
lessee and drives him hurling back to water
lots, wooden nutmegs, quack medicines, and
sliam stocks of all kinds, the price of cotton
will rise, and tlie industrious, economical and
experienced cultivator will do something
with his next year’s planting.
COLO!* 1
WEEKLY STATEMENT.
Stock September 1
Received pant week
Received previously
Total
Shipped past week.
Shipped previously..
Stock Sept 29.
Death of .ax Editor.—Gcore^
for over twcutv-two years comoe^
ot the New York Tribune died
New York on Thursday,"of hearts
the fifty-fifth year of his age.
vertised to take place to-day and: -
at Atlanta. Over one hundred t*-*
lots, on the outskirts of the d?
sold.
V
It has been shown that in •
city the street rail reads haverere 1 ^'
six months, $100,000 illegal pro£--’’ (
ing six cents instead of 5 1-8
vided by law,) for each passengu
If you put two person -
bed-room, "one of whom has t* ;
and the other is in love, yoB’V; ■
the person who has the tooth*»‘’
sleep first.
C3T" A negro being asked ho*
by Ins watch, replied— ...
‘‘Sixty tree minute pas’ haf >
Why you no keep a watch yotu* ■
The Reverend Blasphemer.—The Her.
J. W. Hunnicut, one of the “ intensely loyal”
Southerners, said in his speech at Schenectady
that “ if tlic next Congress does not give us
universal suffrage wc will roll up our sleeves
and pitch in, and we’ll have the d—dest rev
olution the world ever saw.” He urged all
persons not voters to go to the polls and.
squeeze one in, and swore he would go to
he—11 before ha would ask a rebel to pray
for him.
This is a specimen of the men who are ad
mitted into Northern pulpits to instruct the
people in religion and morals.—Albany, 2i. I",
Argus.
Captured.—Adolphe Bernari- '
of the 3rcmphis and CbarleiW 3 •
recently fled with some ten tao®^
belonging to big employers, h**Ti
ed and carried back to 3remp c -
overhauled at Chicago.
C3T The Washington Chro^
that Got. Swann, of Maiyl^- s * ! ^
disturbances at the coining e ^ ecC ^|
said has Atsked to Lave five^tliciv
stationeefin Baltimore for thep :c
order. _
Worth Knowing.—A poison of any con
ceivable description and degree of potency,
which has been swallowed, intentionally or
by accident, may be rendered almost instant
ly harmless by swallowing two gills of sweet
oil. An individual with a very strong con- :
stitution should take twice tho quantity.— j
This oil will neutralize even form of vegeta- j
hie or mineral poison with which physicians I
and chemists are acquainted.—Jjynchbury :
Neics.
Sheriff's Sale.
GEORGIA, QUITMAN C0L\’ I
i I - I
fore the Courthouse door iit
4t mil hows of sale, the folio***) pi|
W.C 1.U-. U’.,d, No. -I, an.:
all in the eutiith Ui-triet,
Quitman County. tv>nl ■>-
niiali Thompson, to satisfy -
fijas; Henry XV. Brown, and 1 '- • '
Thompson—property levied
in me I'V bailiff. ,
tha same time ano
llor.-e V»’:i_.ui, - ■’ •>* 1
Cooper, in luvor of ii. J. U.u 5 ;.
property pointed ouj by
sepSS-tf)