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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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"^Tcolumlms Enquirer makes a
"'light, but very perceptible frost
iocslitie*” >n that neighborhood, on
$ morning.
-Early riser* yesterday morning
dTeht frost >n this vicinity. Yester-
' ‘ >i . nml sitn nvnnot
^"lecidedly winterish, and we expect
I if**. „. t ...bout this time."—Mont Mail,
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Frost.—On yesterday, tire 24th,
' S *l ibe first frost of the season. This is
w gftcen days later than the usual
first visit. It was no very “kili-
I^Lr” we had yesterday, but just a gen-
r inderof what we may expect before
P**fo*OurUr,JU h .
0ur information from Southwestern
I *T or that portion of it lying between
^snd Albany, is that the frost was
^ Enough to confine the crop to what it
|‘ rtlt u rc sent time. There can be no
tiSu“ing of bolls.
First Frost.—The first frost of tho
H , visible upon the housetops yestcr-
r ooraing. and the early atmosphere had
sj)ioe of winter in it. Fires were
r* (W ] usc in-doors, while an occasional
: " ;i u: wss visible upon tho streets. As
Frost h»s presented himself at his ac-
aw period, we trust that no harm has
- ,ione to vegetation, and the “verdant”
I. generaliy.—Atlanta Intelligencer,
married MEN AND BACHELORS.
However it may turn out in a domestic
j 0 f view, we are glad to see that our
P a c»«oy, Charles Sumner, has abandoned
J^irr, and taken to himself a wife. We
I it may do him good as a public man.
Ljjmeral rule we were always opposed to
I ^ important public trusts in the hands
IjlucVl"*". and especially those of the con-
r, f l #n d case-hardened stripe. They nre
L »n>l cranky in their nature, and have
.. enough to connect them with hu-
latnitvand identify them with the social and
vii«l well being of the community.—
II. fl , ino t be denied that the bachelor
< I,.. t<> live for than the married man, less
lake in the country, and less character to
1-tsrTf, for lie has no posterity in which he
| ; pn» to live when he is no more. It is im-
I ,.jble that he should possess those sympa-
I . tor the world that nre felt by men of
limilics. an<l being without restraint, his life
Ijkr to become irregular or morose,
for these and other reasons we prefer a
man to represent us in all the res-
: jsihle relations of life, and, us 11 general-
->, we think the people would Iks wise to
[idopt it.
Look at Sumner, Stevens, Buchanan, John
[hadolph—always wayward if not positively
Watt Poetry of the Soum.—Messrs
Richardson & Co., of New York, will pub-
ih on the first of November, Mr. W. Gil-
iore Simms' collection of “War Poetry of the
outh." It is a source of sincere congratula
te!) that a Southern author of Mr. Simms'
pre-eminent and acknowledged ability has
injured such n volume, for by it the literary
tes ami talents of the Southern people will
rgely he measured. As soon as Mr. Simms’
trpose to prepare this volume was annonne-
1 contributions poured in upon him from
7 Southern State—contributions, many of
iich would not have been colled forth
;uy other author—and in the abundance
: arterial, lie has been enabled to select the
■stinevery case. We feel that this is no,
inarv literary work;—it is a book for every
t&em home—a book in which we cannot
io take a personal and patriotic pride.—
•c will be found the lyric which times the
ctb to battle; the slogan which inspires
charge; the rally which re-inspires after
«e: and the elegy which recites the vir-
the beloved one. It is a grateful,
;!• melancholy record, and although it
oi defeat and overthrow, and the for-
-re of confident hopes and ot proud antic-
:o ®*r it is still a'monument of pride, as it
of heroic struggle to the lost, and of a
me resignation even after tjio defeat of
7 liope. We are told that the book will
1* for sale in the bookstores, but will be
; °-'y by canvassing agents.
-< Editor• of tie Telegraph :
bar correspondent “ W,” in to-day's pa-
K ages upon the citizens to vote for no
the coming city election but those in
*’*°f building the Canal and extension of
* Brunswick Railroad.
K Mr. Editor, with all due courtesy to
-correspondent “ W,” I beg to say that
-citizens, in the present juncture of affairs,
*•'1 vote for those only who arc opposed-
mormons expenditure ot the city’s re-
^cc*. anti for divers good reasons:
The city has already issued bonds for
in the Brunswick road to the amount
I-jO.OOO, which is unrerounerative, and an
•citional amount of $250,000 would only
the heavy burden, as it is well known
M’italists that this Road will never pay a
‘riiltai
• ;J - To build the Canal, the city coaid
* l 'h her present'indebtedness, expect to
J-*«ver 50c. in the dollar for her bonds.
WIT AT A wniTE BOY CAN DO.
The Mnriannn Florida Courier says: “Lit
tleton Chambliss, aged sixteen years, son of
James II. Chambliss of this county, cultivat
ed 15 acres in com and five acres in cotton
has housed two hundred and seventy-tw
bushels of com and picked for the gin two
and a half hales of cotton. With the usual
appliance the crop was made by himself.
Com at $1.50 and cotton at 25cts. rather be
low than above the market price, his crop
would yield seven hundred seventeen dollars
and fifty cents. This boy has shown nn in
dustry and application worthy of all praise,
and our Farmer’s Club by its first act after
permanent organization should present him
an appropriate testimonial of the approba
tion of the Club for bis industry and zeal.—
This incident demonstrates that Florida only
needs laborers ot the right sort to develop
her resources and show her lands equal to any
upland in the same latitude.”
It develops another fact of far greater itn
portance, viz; that the hundreds of thousands
young men and boysin the South who spend
their time in idleness and are a tax upon
society waiting for what they are pleased to
term “ honorable employment,” in stores,
counting rooms, etc., could, if they would but
make up tlicir minds to go to work in the
most honorable of all employments, make
wealth for themselves and build up their
down-trodden country.
The youth of the South have been reared
with false notions of the duties of life, grow
ing, perhaps, out of our now extinct institu
tion of slavery. Negroes are nn inferior
race, and the idea has obtained that any
occupation in which they engage, is unsuited
to the capacity und dignity of the sons of
gentlemen. They must be educated to the
learned professions, in which not one in ten
can succeed. The consequence bos been, and
still is, that the large body of our Southern
young men are now adrift on society, pro
ducing nothing and living on the labors of
others.
The times have changed,' and the lesson
now to be learned is, that tee mu^t change with
hem. We must abandon false notions and
false practices, look upon life as a serious re
ality, in which every member of society must
perform a useful part. We must humble pride,
or rather that ridiculous and pernicious sen
t'ment that prompts men and women to avoid
labor, and thus ignore a great object of their
creation. We must come to con
sider that any employment tba*
is honest and profitable, is not beneath us,
and, above all, that as a people we arc poor
indeed, individually and collectively, and
must earn the comforts of life by the sweat of
our brows. It is due to ourselves as members
of society, undjduc to our country, which can
only regain its former dignity and wealth by
the earnest efforts of every citizen to support
himself and add something yearly to the gen
era! stock of surplus production.
There is nothing degrading in this. On
the contrary, it will elevate the character of
our people and inspire them with the sent!
ment of independence. There is no argument
so forcible as illustration. Take, then, the
case of the little Florida boy whose achieve
ments in one year arc set forth in the para
graph above. Tell us how he is degraded—
why he is not as respectable and in every
way as good as the idlers around him who
have spent the year in fruitless efforts to get
into stores and other places that they con
sider “ honorable.” Do any of these
latter stand so well in the eyes of the com
munity ? Throw him into a gentleman’s
parlor, amidst a gay and festive throng, will
any young lady think less of him or withhold
her courtesies because he has labored hard in
the field and laid up enough in one year to
support himself two ? Has he not the means
of making even a better appearance in socie
ty than the lazy, proud drones who have
done nothing and depended on their impov-
isbed papas to supply tlicm with respectable
raiment ? We -beg the young men of the
country to look at this matter in its true
light, and to banish from their minds those
false notions that will surely end in even a
worse degradation than that from which they
now mistakingly shrink as real. If they
wish to become honorable, respectable, inde
pendent, and influential men, they must show
themselves ready to fight the battle of life
with all the energies that Providence has
placed in their hands. They con never rise
on Idleness, for it is the parent of Poverty—
the hardest and most merciless of masters.
It is far better to shovel dirt than to eat it.
Let this be remembered.
And while on this subject, we feel that it
would not bo amiss,in the present deplorable
state of the country, to say a word to the
young women of the South. From the clos
ing of their school days until murriage and
the assumption of the duties of the family,
what ore they, and t? what extent do they
discharge that great command of tVe Creator,
“in the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread ?” Not taking the decree in its lit
eral sense as regards the tenderer sex, it is at
least legitimate to constrae it as an injunction
to labor, imposed on every son and daughter
of Adam, and in this light, during the period
mentioned, which with many covers a term
of years and the most active portion of life,
how do they improve the talent committed
to their care ? Beyond the manufacture of a
portion of their own apparel, is not the life
of that dlass a positive burthen, one round of
*3’be Canal is built were is the capital to Itrifling’and frivolity, without the first self-
^ factories ? It will take at least twelve 'sustaining effort,or the production of a single
thought or thing that would make the world
any wiser or better, Irom the fact that they
had lived? In their appropriate sphere, let
them, too, learn the valuable lesson which we '
have sought to impress in what we have
written.
. *** to secure water rents sufficient to
1 -Merest on the investment.
It u gaid the city owes but a small
c °mpared with her resources. If this
!** *by is it the city cannot pay interest
- • present debt ? This ought to be, of
, a satisfactory conclusion to the
°f “ IV ” against any further expendi-
^ right here, the tax payers would
, . ,0 *ee a statement of the finances of
published over the signatures of her
--anciai citizens—men who know what
^ about
A But the grand final objection to the
4 ltu res proposed, is the unsatisfactory
. j^tled state of the country. Corres-
m *J write, and citizens may talk
Plethora of money at the North,
i» obliged to come South to seek
Admitting the great abundanco
1 *bicli
'^tnt.
ij^ ^otth, I tell youitncNor will ohm
*^•8 w the agitation is kept up by
4 . ud our Representatives refused
i >0n] , “ Congress.
i; 0J , advise your correspondent “W.”
«, ofth. same way of thinking, to
■ a®*! let's wait future develop-
* are already over-hurt hem d with
Letter from Washington.
3Iaj. YYm. C. Anderson, of Milledge
villc, has taken charge of thc;Eatonton Ho
tel, as lessee.
Eatonton is a pleasant village situated in a
healthy region of country. Old Putnam has
been always famous for good living, and from
our personal knowledge of Major Anderson
and his wife, we can promise those who are
passing through the village that this house
will afford them, under the present proprie
tor’s management, every comfort. Whenever
we find a proprietor of a house who shows in
his person the evidence that he loves the
good things of life, we are always willing
to try his establishment. The Majorfillstbc
bilL
The Choi-eha.—This disease still lingers at
Richmond, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.—
In the latter place RobL Dickson, Esq., a
very wealthy citizen, died on Saturday. His
winter. Mrs. Boirart, of Mivammli, Ga„ who
*®<1 let us meet in council, put up a went on to attend him, has also fallen a v ic
° Ur heat citizens who will reduce \ tiiu to the disease, having died on Friday
look to our interests. • [ night. Last week there were sixty-seven
J. cholera deaths in Philadelphia.
Washington, Oct 21, I860.
The teachings of the Ben. Butler, Jack
Hamilton. “Dead Duck” Forney puritan ne
gro-worshipping Kelley, and other Jacobin
revelations promise in Maryland a culm'
naticn of their ardeDtly cherished purpose
of inaugurating a civil strife, and again sat
urating the soil with the blood of their in
fatuated hangers-on.
In anticipation of action by the Governor
to remove the Police Commissioners of the
City ot Baltimore for malpractices and illc
gality of proceedings with reference to the
odious registry act, a duty clearly and un
mistakably the prerogative of the Governor
by the plain letter of the law, the most dire
consequences are threatened upon the author-
ties of the State and of the Federal Govern
ment by the incendiary radical press and
politicians.
• Revolution and rebellion are not only
threatened, but promised in the eventrof the
Executive of the State deeming it his duty
after a full survey of the matter in dispute,
act as it is fully expected he will be required
to do.
At the instigation of several unscrupulous
and depraved “commotionists,” committees
have been appointed to enrol men who ex
press a willingness to take up anns to resist
the constitutional authorities of the State
executing the laws.
Governor Swann was here yesterday in con
ference with the President; nothing has been
revealed as to the understanding had between
them. Baltimore stands upon a volcano,
which a spark may cast into a condition
anarchy and chaos.
Charles Sumner, the Massachusetts Senator,
who, though daily and hourly ignoring the
requirements of the Constitution, is always
ready to swear to maintain and defend that
instrument as he “construes it,” has become
the lawful husband of a Mrs. Hooper,
Massachusetts. Of course, be will keep sac
red liis marriage vow, as he construes it.
Notwithstanding its official contradiction
the Radical press, with an effrontery and
brazen impudence unparalled, are still harp
ing upon the canard.bencc to thePhiladelphia
Ledger, hoping to convict tiie President
the minds of the skeptical of really contem
plating a purpose of ignoring flie existing
rump Congress.
The Jacobin faction, who have an inunedi
ate and direct interest in perpetuating the ex
isting chaotic political condition throughout
the country, feeling emboldened by the re
sult of recent elections, have become more
and more blatant as to their means in carry
out their, revolutionary and rcconstruc
tion scheme. Forney, Kelly, Julian, Bing
Lam, Wade, Wendell Phillips, Ben Butler,
and others of the Jacobin cabal, proclaim
that they are instructed by people in the re
cent popular elections to inaugurate a more
radical programme, which means to ignore
the wants, peace and perpetuity of the Union
in all legislation, and labor under the impulse
of prejudice, partizan hate and sectional
passion, to still farther alienate the sections.
Forney, who is a faithful oracle of the party,
now sowing the seeds of discord and disin
tegration, proclaimed in his speech to tlic
negroes of both colors last evening, that
Congress, upon reassembling, would immedi
ately establish impartial suffrage in this dis
trict, and attempt it in the States, by refusing
a participation in the legislation aad Presi
dential election to all such as would not en
graft such an odious feature upon tlieir stat-
utes. The impeachment question was also
alluded to, and favorably commented upon.
The impression is general here with the more
observing, that the attempt at impeachment
will follow early after the assembling of Con
gress. Their orators proclaim it, and their
presses advocate it.
Ben Butler, the great “corked-up” spoon
“adnptationist,” Jack Hamilton, of great re-
nown(?) and Wendell Phillips, the Alpha
and Omega of extremism, to whom the lesser
satellites, such as Greely, Sumner, Wilson
Kelley and that type yield so willing an obeis
ance, have combined to decry and defame
General Grant because of his refusal to lend
a helping hand in the crusade against the
peace and restoration of the Union. A very
melancholy and striking feature in connection
with this, is the indisposition of the radical
press, even of the more liberal cast, to
defend the General from their attacks,for fear
of encountering radical wrath.
A convention of officials connected with
the Southern railroads was held yesterday at
Willard’s hotel to concert measures to effect
faster schedule of time, and less rates of
fare hence to the several points in the South
Representatives Dennison, of Pa., Holman
of Indiana, and Morgan, of Ohio, have had
notices scryed upon them by their late com
petitors that their seats in the 40th Congress
will be contested. They had just as well fail
to appear, as their ejectment is a foregone
conclusion, although tley were elected by de
cided majorities.
Prominent Democrats from New York City
now here, assert that conservative reaction
and large accessions by naturalization, prom
ise a majority for Hoffman in that city of
55,000.
The Secretary of Navy has issued an official
notice to the working men of the Brooklyn
navy yard, numbering about 4,000, stating
that no one wishing to sustain the Union,
and desiring its full restoration, shall for that
reason beproscribed by any master or foreman.
If there are any such masters or foremen,
why retain them ? At the incipiency of the
Lincoln administration, workmen were pro.
scribed there because of Democratic tenets.
Potomac.
fST*Since the fire at Portland on July 4th,
there have between six and seven hundred
buildings erected, including fifteen three-
story brick and granite blocks, containing in
all twenty-four stores^ The total contribu
tions received by Mayor Stevens of Portland
for the relief of the sufferers by the fire, lack
but $12,000 of half a million.
Colony of Jews in Cjiina.—Read the let
ter to the Nerv York Times, on our first page.
A colony of Israelites in the heart of China for
eight hundred years, and isolated until their
litany and most of their traditions have be
come extinct, is one of the most remarkable
circumstances connected with that wonderful
race.
Gen. Thomas, commanding the De-
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.
A COLONY OF JEWS IN THE HEART
OF CHINA
Early Inquiries—Jlohammedane in lunjung
Destruction of the Synagogue-Distressed
Condition of the People—Decay and Threat
ened Extinction.
Correspondence of the New York Times.
Pekin, China, June, 1SGC.
The City of Kai-fung-fee, the capital of
Honan, is famous as an ancient capital of the
Empire, and the scene of stirring events in
the history of China. To the Christian
world, however, it possesses a deeper interest
as the residence of a Jewish colony.
Thev were discovered by the celebrated
Father Ricci; and early in the 17th century,
full inquiries concerning their usages and
manuscripts were made by Jesuit missiona
ries, who resided in that city. In 1850 a de
putation of native Christians was sent among
them by the Bishop of Victoria and the late
Dr. iledhursL Two of the Jews were in
duced to go to Shaughai, and some of their
Hebrew MSS. obtained ; but up to the date
of my journey, for more than a century and
a half, they had not, so far as we are inform
ed, been visited by any European. It be
came therefore, a matter of interest to ascer
tain their present condition; and, as I re
marked in my last letter, this was the chief
consideration that induced me to make Kai-
fung-fee a point in the course of niv inland
travels. What others may have published I
shall not repeat, but concisely as possible
lay before you a review of my own observa
tions.
Arriving in this city on the 15th of Feb
ruary, I inquired for the Jewish Synagogue^
but getting no satisfactory answer, I went for
information- to a Mohammed inn mosque, of
which there was no fewer than six. I was
well received by the Mufti; and the advent
of a stranger from the West who was believ
ed to be a worshipper of the “true Lord,”
soon attracted a large concourse of the faith
ful. At the request of the Mufti, holding a
New Testament in my hand, I addressed
them in relation to the contents of the Holy
Book of Jesus, whose name lie pronounced
with great respect as that ot the most illus
trious of their prophets, Mahomet of course
excepted.
The Jews he denounced as Kafirs, and
evinced no very poignant sorrow when lie
informed me that their synagogue had come
to desolation. “It was,” he assured me, “ut
terly demolished, and the people who had
worshipped there scattered abroad.” “Then,'’
said I, “I will go and see the spot on which
it stoodand directing the bearers of my
sedan to proceed to the place indicated by
the Mufti, I passed through streets crowded
with curious spectators until i came to an
open square, in the centre of which there
stood a solitary stone. On one side was an
inscription commemorating the erection of a
synagogue in the reign of the Sung dynasty,
A. D. 1163; in referring to the first arrival of
the .Tews in China to the dynasty of Hon, B.
C. 200—A. D. 200.
On the other side was a record of its re
building in the dynasty ot 3Iing, about 800
years ago. but in addition to these inscrip
tions it bore an unwritten record of decay and
ruin; it was inscribed with “Ichabod.” “The
glory is departed.”
Standing on the pcdastnl, and resting my
right hand on the head of that stone which
was to be a silent witness of the truths I was
about to utter, I explained to the congregated
multitude my reasons for “taking pleasure in
the stones of Israel, and favoring the dust
thereof.” I then inquired if there were any
of the Jews among my hearers. “I am one,”
responded a young man, whose face corrobo
rated his assertion, and then another and an
other stepped forward, until I saw before me
representatives of six of the seven families
into which the colony is now divided.
There, on this melanchoiy spot, where the
very foundations of the synagogue had been
torn from the ground, and there no longer
remained one stone upon another, they con
fessed to mo with shame and grief that their
“holy and beautiful house” had beeu de
molished by their own hands. It had long
been in a ruinous condition—they had no
money to repair the breaches of the sanctuary.
They had lost all knowledge of the sacred
tongue, the traditions of the fathers were no
longer handed down, and their ritual wor
ship had ceased to be observed. In this
state of things they had yielded to the press
ure of necessity and disposed of the timbers
and stones of that venerable edifice to obtain
relief for their bodily
In the evening some of them came to my
lodgings, bringing for my inspection a roll of
the Jaw; and the next day, the Christian
Sabbath, they repeated their visit, listening
attentively to all I had to say concerning the
relations of the Law of 3Ioses to the Gospel
ot Christ. They were very ignorant, but ans
wered, as far as* they were able, my inquiries
in regard to their past history and present
6tate. Two of them appeared in official cos
tume, one wearing a gilt und the ether a crys
tal ball on the top of his cap; but far from
sustaining the general character of their peo
ple for thrift, they number among them none
that are rich, and few who are not pinched
by poverty. Some, indeed, true to their
hereditary instincts, are employed in a small
way in bnnking establishments, (the first man
I saw was a money-changer,) others keep
fruit-stores and cake-shops, drive a business
in old clothes, or pursue various handicrafts,
while a few find employment in military ser
vice.
The prevalence of rebellion in the Central
Provinces for the lost thirteen years lias told
sadly on the prosperity of Kai-fung-fee; and
the Jews have not unlikely, owing to the na
ture ot their occupations, been the greatest
sufferers. Their number, they estimate,
though not very exactly, at from two to four
hundred. They are unable to trace their
tribal pedigree, keep no register, and never,
on any occasion, assemble together as one
congregation.
Until recently they had a common centre
a venerated synagogue, though their
liturgy and service had long been discon
tinued. Now, however, the congregation
seems to be steering the fate of their build
ing. No bond of union remains, and they
are in danger of being entirely absorbed by
Mohammedanism.
One of my visitors was a son of the last ot
their rabbis, who, some thirty or forty years
ago, died in the province of Kansuh. With
him perished the knowledge of the sacred
tongue ; and though they still preserve sev
eral copies of the Jewish scriptures, there is
not a man among them who can read a word
of Hebrew. Not long ago it was seriously
iroposed to expose their parchments to pub
ic view in the market-place, in hopes they
might attract the attention of some wander
ing Jew, who would be able to restore to them
the language of their fathers. Since the ces
sation of their ritual worship their children
all grow up without the seal of the covenant.
The young generation are uncircumcised,
and, as might be expected, they no longer
take pains to keep their blood pure from in
termixture with Gentiles. One of them
confessed to me that his wife was a heathen.
They remember the nnmes of the Feast
of Tabernacles, the Feast of Unleav
ened Bread, and a few other ceremonial rites
which were practiced by a former genera
tion, but all such usages are now neglec
ted, and the next bait'century is not un
likely to put a period to their existence as
distinct people.
On the margin of the Poyang Lake stands
lofty rock, 60 peculiar and so solitary
that it is known by the name of the Little
Orphan. Its kindred rocks are all on the
other side of the lake, whence it seems to
have been torn away by some violent convul
sion and planted immovably in the bosom of
the waters. Such, to me appeared that frag
ment of tlic Israclitisli nation. A rock reHt
from the sides of Mount Zion by some great
national catastrophe and projected into this
central plain of Chinn, it stands there an “or-
ble destiny seems to be resting upon them.
Poor, unhappy people! As they inquired
about the destruction of the Holy City, and
the dispefsion of the tribes, and referred to
their own decaying condition, what could I
do to comfort them but to point to Him who
is the consolation of Israel ? True, I told
them, the city of their fathers was broken
down, and their people scattered and peeled,
but the straw was not trodden under foot
until it had yielded precious seed for dissem
inating in pther fields. The dykes had not
been broken down until the time had come
for pouring their fertilizing waters over the
faco of the earth. Christian civilization, with
all its grand results, had sprung from a Jew
isb root, and the promise to Abraham been
already fulfilled, that “ in his seed all the
nations of the earth should be blessed.”
W. A. P. 3L
The Princess Charlotte.
Rumors that her Reason has leen Affected by
Recent Disappointments.
[Rome (Oct. 2) Correspondence of the Saint Public.
The Empress ot Jlexico is the subject of
much conversation here. Yesterday morning
at 9, without having requested audience, she
presented herself at the Vatican to sec the
Holy Father. She was immediately receiv
ed, and it is said she presented a peti
tion to the Pope praying His Holiness
to sanction everything that her hus
band had done as Emperor with respect to
relegious matters. The story goes that the
Pope positively refused, and that the Empress
then declared she would not leave the Vati
can if her request was ; ot granted. I can-
HOt guarantee the authenticity of all this:
bnt it is certain the Empress did not quit the
Vatican until 6 in the evening. She retired
to the private study of the Pope, and His
Holiness continued liis ordinary audiences,
he afterwards dined alone, according to etti-'
quette, and went out for his usual drive,
leaving , the Empress with her lady in wait
ing. She at length left and dined at the Ho
tel de Rome, where Her 3Iajesty is staying.
In consequence of this incident a rumor has
got abroad that her reason is impaired, and
we know beyond any doubt that Prot. Viale,
the Pope’s medical attendant, scarcely leaves
her.
[From tbe Paris Monde, (Ultramontaine Journal)
Oct. 7.
A day or two since, we received a melan
choly, statement respecting the Empress of
3Iexico, to which we hesitated to give ere
dence. Our private letters from Rome un
happily leave no doubt on the subject The
reason of Her 3Iaiesty lias given way under
•the shock caused by *so many hopes suddenly
.disappointed.
From the Avenir National, Oct 26.
Two days ago we had received very sad
news as to the mental state ot the Empress of
3Iexico ; but although the source from whieh
we received it was trustworthy, wc were un
willing to credit it. At present silence is
no longer permissible. At first her state of
mind was attributed to simply nervous ex
citcment^causcd by excitement and disap
pointment, but excesses more and more fre
quent leave no doubt as to the terrible mala
dy, nnd give no hope of cure. Count de
Flnndre has been summoned to Rome, where
lie is now witnessing this lugubrious and dra
matic episode of an enterprise which has pro
duced nothing but disasters.
A Paris letter, in the Independance of
Brussels, announces that Dr. Blanche, so well
known for his treatment of mental diseases,
has been sent for to 'Rome to attend to the
Empress : and the Nord, in mentioning the
rumor, remarks that “the statement made by
the Journal de Liegue, that the Empress
Charlotte will not he able to visit Brussels
on the anniversary of the death of Queen
Louise, seems to confirm the reports in circu
lation.”
PHINCES8 GETTING BETTER.
The Echo deo Parlemcnt of Brussels says
“News received here from Rome States that
the mental crisis in the health oftlieEmpress
of . 3Iexico lias greatly subsided. Her Majes
ty has been enabled to undertake the jour
ney to Miramar, accompanied by the Count
of Flanders.
Exciting News f om the Capitol.
Radical Scheme to Impeach and Depose the Presi
dent—Secretary Stanton Plays a Sharp Game
—lie Must Resign.
New Tori, Oct. 23.—The Herald’s Washing
ton special details an alleged discovery ot a
plot of the Radicals to impeach and depose the
President. A large force of the Boys in Bine
were to be sent to Washington to protect and
aid Congress in its schemes. A general dis
tribution of arms throughout the West has
been made by the Radical Governors. The
story is startling if true.
The Herald’s Washington special says:—
The facts regarding the rumored resignation
of Secretary Stanton are as follows: He is
now engaged in making out his report, and
as soon as it is finished lie will undoubtedly
retire. His resignation has been precipitat
ed by the discovery lately made that 3Ir.
Stanton has filled nearly all the vacancies in
the regular army without the knowledge or
assent of 31r. Johnson.
He has been for some time making out the
commissions, and forwarding them to th? ap
pointees, with orders to them to report to
General Grant for duty. General Grant sup
posing them, as appeared irom the face ot
their papers duly appointed by the President,
has assigned them to duty, and they are now
at service without the knowledge of the Presi
dent. On learning the fact the President was
very angry, and sent for 3Ir. Stanton and de
manded an explanation. The President was
favor of the retirement of 3Ir. Stanton ns
soon as he could make out his report, on
which he is now engaged.
The belief gains ground that Gen. Sherman
is to succeed 3Ir. Stanton as Secretary pro
tem. He cannot, of course, hold the office
and that of Lieutenant General at the same
time ; but at tho request of General Grant
who desires the hearty co-operation ot the
War office in the work of re-organizing the
army, Sherman will act as Secretary of War.
Proclamation of Governor Swann.
Baltimore, Oct 22.—The following proc
lamation has to-night been issued by Govcr-
nor % Swann:
State of Maryland, Ex’tive Def’jient.
WnEREAS, It lias come to the knowledge
of the Executive that military and other
combinations are now forming in the City of
Baltimore for the purpose of obstructing and
resisting the execution of-the laws of this
State; and
Whereas, There is reason to believe that
similar combinations arc attempted to be or
ganized in other States with the intention of
invading the soil of the State of 3Iaryland,
to deprive her citizens ot their just rights un
der the laws and to control the people of the
State by violence nnd intimidation:
Now, therefore, I. Thomas Swann, Gover
nor of the State of 3Iaryland, do, by this, my
proclamat[pp, solemnly warn the leaders of
all such illegal and revolutionary combina
tions against the peace and dignity of the
State, that in the event of riot and bloodshed
growing out of these revolutionary proceed
ings. they will be held to the strictest ac
countability, and the power of the State will
be exhausted to bring them to prompt and
merited punishment.
Given under my hand and thegreat seal of
the State of 3Iaryland, at the city of Annapo-
lisj this 22d day of Oct., A. D., 1866.
(Signed) Thomas Swann.
By the Governor.
John M. Carter, Secretary of State.
Negro Jnmnn Boston.—Negro equal
ity is making rapid strides in Massachusetts.
The Boston Commonwealth says:
“It is an interesting fact, and an evidence
of progress of the age toward equal rights
for all, white and black, that in the Superior
Court of this county for criminal business
there is, this term, one colored juryman, and
in the Superior Court tor civil business, first
session, one, and in the second session of the
Court there are two. No objection is mude
to them, but, on the contrary, it is said they
are an improvement on many white persons
heretofore drafted for this purpose. This is
the first term of these Courts where colored
men have been put on the juries, although
in a recent term of the Supreme Court, in a
trial for murder, as we have recorded, there
was one who served.”
Wc can see no sound objection to this.—
Every man is entitled to his own taste, and,
astlie Boston white people consider the negroes
as good as themselves, they no doubt are, and
nobody lias a right to complain, except that
they belong to the same political family with
the miscegenators, and this cannot now he
helped.
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Cuban Telegraph.—The Baltimore Sun
of the 22d says:
3Ir. Wm. II. Hciss, one of the oldest tele
graph superintendents in the country, has
accepted the position ot superintendent for
tlic building ot the International Ocean Tele
graph line, nnd will sail in a few days for
Florida, through a portion ot which State
the line is to be built. Several leading cit
izens and public men of Florida have sug
gested that the line he built from Femandina
to Cedar Keys, on the west side of the State,
thence by cable to Havana. This will be de
termined upon by Mr. Ileiss, if the practica
bility of the suggested route is made mani
fest by personal inspection and survey.
Whisky the Cause of the Quebec Fire.
—It seems that a drunken carousal was the
cause ot the terrible fire that recently laid the
beautiful town of Quebec in ashes. A jour
nal of that city says:
The fire originated in the criminal care-,
lessness attendant upAn carousing far into the
night. It broke out in a house on St. Joseph
street, facing the western angle of the Jacques
Cartier 3Iarkct Hall, the upper flat of which
was occupied by a man named Letartc. and
the lower by one Trudel, a sort of halfgrog-
gery, where numbers of low characters were
in the habit of resorting and card playing.—
On Saturday night a number of them had
congregated there, and, notwithstanding the
civil regulation for the closing of such places
at midnight, Trudel allowed them to con
tinue to carouse far into the morning. There
is but little doubt, therefore, that the awful
calamity owed its origin to drunkenness and
carelessness, as when first observed, between
half-past four and five o’clock, yesterday
morning, the flames were burning out over
the door ot Trudel’s bar-room in the lower
fiat. The police raised the alarm, the door
was burst in, and an attempt made to stifle
the fire, but it proved ineffectual, as the open
ing of the door only served to give vent to
the flames, and belore a few minutes had
elapsed the whole interior of the house, which
was a wooden one, was in a blaze—tbe in
mates having only time to save themselves.
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The Canvass in New York.—The Times,
which sides with the Radieals in the fight,
thus speaks of the prospects in its issue of the
22d :
Tbe Democrats are much more sanguine of
electing 3Ir. Hoffman than they were a fort
night ago. The number of names registered
already indicates a vote in the City which will
approach, if it does not exceed, a hundred
thousand ; and this fact is regarded as favor
able to a very heavy Democratic majority
here. A very strong effort has also been
made to array the entire liquor-dealing vote,
and especially the German lager-beer interest,
on the Democratic side. The existing license-
law is swccpingly condemned even by that
very class. of respectable and responsible
dealers to whom it is of decided advantage,
and as it was enacted by a Republican Legis
lature, it is easy to excite hostility to the Re
publican party on account of it. The natu
ralization committees of the Democratic par
ty arc also very active, and are naturalizing
and registering a very heavy vote, in addi
tion to~what has been hitherto cast.
OUR CnESS DEPARTMENT.
To Correspondents.
Irby, Knoxville. Ga.—Your problem is
faulty. Mate cannot be effected in three
moves.
“ A Friend.”—We did not allude to any
error you had made; but meant that we were
waiting to discover if there is any error in
the Problem itself as published, which wc
fear. The published solution was not cor
rect.
Solution to Problem No. 14.
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Q to Q B*< 3rd P takes G
J P to Q 4 (mate by dis with B)
Or,
1 IP takes P at K’s 6th
2 Q takes P on K’s B’s Cth—mate
Or,
1
2 Qto Q’s B’s 8th—mate
1 P to K’* 4th
2 Q to Q’s B’s 6th—mate
Respectfully,
Or
1 K to K’s 4th
‘A Friend.”
PROBLEM NO. 15.
HER HOFFMAN.
WHITE.
1 P«oK4
2 K Kt to B 3
3 K B to It 4
4 P to Q B 3
5 P to ll 4
6 P to K 5
7 K B to <i B
8 KxK Kt
9 K to his Kt3
10 OBxP
11 KKtto bln 6th
12 Ktx K1J P
13 K Kt x Q, and
VON PETnOFF.(«)
BLACK.
1 P to K4
2 Q Kt to B 3; .
3 K B to B 4
4 K Kt to B S
5 K PxP
6 Q Kt to K 5
7 Kt x K B P
s Q PiPdiich
9 It 2.1 f X P
10 Q Kt to K 2
11 Kt x K B
13 Castlea
WHITE.
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Blark announces mate in Eight moves.
NOTES.
(o) The “Philidor or the North.”
“Let Petroft rest! his noble brow
Is snowy as the pole;
To lake one laurel from him now
Would fc'rieve tby gallant soul.”
Blicin J. Weller to Paul Morphy.
. GAME.
ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE KING’S
KNIGHT’S OPENING.
The Ginocu Piano.
ATTACK.
lPtoKl
2 K Kt to K 3
3 K H to Q 15 4
4 P to Q. It 3
s P to O 4
6 P to K 5
7 K it to Q Kt 6
8KB takes Kt ch
9BP takes P
10 K Castles
11 G B to K 3
DEFESCI.
1 P to K 4
2 Q Kt to B 3
3 K U to O B 4
4 K Kt tcrB 3
5 K P takes P
« P to Q 4
K Kt tr. K 5
S Kt P takes B
9 K B to Q Kt 3
10 Q B to K Kt 5
11 Castles,
And the game is quite even.
“ Without the Royal Opening—no Chess.” Leading
games (as above) the learner should commit to memory
—thev arc the most pertcet models in Chess. Varia
tions (ns below) are given chiefly for reference :
J.ENISCll'S PERFECT GAME.
(Play nine moves as above.)
10 Q Kt to U 3 10 P to Q B *
11 PxP -
* * i t | .no spectacle io •* MIVU.U.M1 wuu. •....
quarters to Louisville the first of Novem- ( Jews themselves are deeply conscious of tlicir
i i^-r. : sad situation, and the shadow of an inevita-
General Lee accepts tbe notes of all
students who are unable to pay the fees at
Washington College, believing that young
men who recieve their education under such
circumstances will pay when able. There
have been eight hundred applicants for ad
mission to the college this season.
Rumored Death of the Tycoon of Ja
pan.—San Francisco, Oct. 22.—It is rumored
that the Tycoon died at Jeddo. A son of
Prince 31ilo is mentioned ns the most proba
ble sucvmsor He is an id to In- a man of
great energy m.d in favor of foreign inter
course.
Scott’s Monthly 3Iagazine, for October
though tardy in making its appearance, has
at length come to hand. It is well filled, as
usual, containing continuations of several
valuable articles and a number and variety, of
new ones.
Troops Ordered to Baltimore.—Fete
Tori, Oct. 23.—The Post’s Washington spe
cial says Gen. Brock, commanding the 4th
artillery regiment, has been ordered to Fort
3IcHcnry, Baltimore, with an additional com
pany of troops.
Cold Weather Coming.—The weather
since the last rain is becoming quite cool.—
On Wednesday morning there was a pretty
heavy frost, but not severe enough to injure
the cotton seriously.—Datcson Journal, 26th.
12 Kt P x Kt
13 K Kt to Q 4
14 Castles
15 P to O R 4
16 Q B to U 3
17 P to K B 4
18 Kt to q Kt 3
19 K R to K eq
11 K Kt X Kt
12 K B x P
13 Castles
14 B to Q Kt 3
15 P to G R 4
16 K R to K sq
17 P to Q B 4
19 Q B to It 3
19 q R to B sq
The game is even, and there U nothing lu Chess more
scientifically perfect. You will do well to lay here tbe
corner stone of the future edifice, your chess skill, by
committing to memory and mastering carefully the
whole game.
The English Admiralty has ordered
six steam gunboats, each one to be as well
protected as possible, consistently with speed,
and each one to carry one- or two powerful
rifled guns, capable of piercing the strongest
ironclads.
VARIATION.
(Play three moves as aliove.)
4 K Kt to B 3
5 K P x P
6PtoQ4-
7 q p x B
8 B to K 3 <b)
9 Q to her 4
10 q to K B 4
11 q to Kt 3 (r)
12 B P x Kt
13 K to bis B 2
14 B to Q 3, and
Defence has the better game.
(a) Brilliant, and very interesting. Given us by Her
Max Lange.
(b) Bat. and very mporiant
(c) Must not tike K B 2d P.
4 Castles
5 P to q 4 a)
6 P to K 5
7 K P x Kt
8 K R to It sq ch
9 K Kt to h's 0th
10 q Kt to B 3
11 P to K Kt 4
12 K Kt x B
IS K R x P ch
14 Kt to q 5
“At a late meeting in New Orleans, Mr.
Roselius stated that since tlic close of the
war, property in New Orleans lia3 advancad
to double its former value, owing to the sur
plus of Northern capital, and enterprising
people from the North who were not afraid
to settle."
A Washington dispatch says: The city
is at present crowded with Southerners, and
evory day brings a number of fresh arrivals.
A number of Southern ladies have also ar
rived. The tone of Washington society is
becoming gradually Sonthemized.
The Richmond Whig hails, as a cheer
ing indication, the large number ot Jews who
are coming South. They always go where
money is to be made.
DRAUGHTS.
As there arc so many more good Draught
Players in Macon than Chess players, we have
concluded to add a Draught department tem
porarily to our columns. If any interest is
manifested in it wc will continue it; and
will be glad to obtain games and positions
from any of the excellent Draught players-of
3Iacon.
Note.—We insert this Department again
because yesterday we omitted to give the
conditions of ths position, viz: Black to play
and win.
Why do not the Draught players of Macon,
who arc so numerous and excellent, establish
a club ? Let them do so and challenge the
players of any neighboring city. We'll back
the Macon players all the time.
Let it be berne in mind that the
squares on the Draught board are numbered
from one to thirty-two, beginning at the right
hand double corner on the bottom and going
from right to left all the way—counting white
squares only—until the last square on the left
at the top is reached.
Gen. E. Kirby Smith has been elected
President of the Southern Telegraph Compa
ny, in place of L C. Boyle, resigned.
Horace Greely is said to have already
made a hundred thousand dollars out of his
History of the Rebellion, and will probably
make a still larger fortune out of it.
’ We will be glad to obtain a solution
to the position published, from some of the
Macon players.
DRAUGHT POSITION NO. 1.
WHITE.
A boot-blacking machine has made
its appearance on the streets of Buffalo,
greatly to the indignation of the “profes
sionals.”
pWA cylinder printing press is said to -1
have been invented at Leipsic, which can
print fourteen thousand sheets per hour, and
costs less than Hoe's great American press.
^“Formerly by hand a pound of cotton
was spread into a thread about 108 yards
long, but since the application of steam it will
produce a thread 167 miles in length.
Thb Price Abroad.—A Parisian auto
graph-monger advertises signatures of Se
ward at ten francs, of Jefferson Davis at fif
teen, and of McClellan at twenty.
Hon. Charles Sumner was married to
Mrs. Sturgis, at Boston, on Wednesday last.
The happy pair are now at Newport.
|5§r“Mr. Peabody has written a letter to the
trustees, in which he makes a further gift to
the Peabody Institute of half a million of
dollars.
pyjOctwra? Lcrs tndi. Governor-General
of Culm, has Ik eti r catad.
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