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MACON, GrA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1866.
!VOL. 2, NO. 1
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'Crt.-IIon* ttMb Rev. Mr. Warren for hi*
‘‘ r "jj 1e «ntl impressive aertnon. How many
SU-*!..—
p,t,»TRCTi')it offered to the Pope byPrna-
T,t opine to be nothing more than the protee-
' * hou ' 1 ' It be newaaary.
Ntr „, T wised the late change in the
, Timer, which itodls a “flank move-
jjjjnat the Jacobin* "—Jn»t a* we thought.
. oGood Opportunity.—A comfortable reai-
fine loti* offered for aale in Albany,
ae.ired. the furnitnre can aUobe pur-
U L »t one-half its coat Write to M Store.
J Ji Hobbi, Albany, in regard to it
Tr decline In'iJoid 'U making price* tumble
:,v Grain, provi.lon* and good* of all
^•'likely to fall greatly In prlceaand-onr
C .0 the merchant. 1* advertise largely end .ell
JjU«peclally do the advcrtUlng.
P „ DaT ,s Macos^—Yesterday waa gener-
l ol)sf ,ved, a* adsy or prayer and hum.l.a-
nur city. All tbe churches were open,
Zip* •»—*• »•
^ wore all closed, and busine*. generally
fUjrfDdcd.
rtTOn Mondsy night, the Columbus City
& reaffirmed it* action of giving 810,000 in
c tv bonds for tbe purpose or complcUng the new
Hidic. Tbe resolution provides that the new
r.rnclure shall, In all respects, equal tbe old, so we
impose that stone piers will be built.
.=»• It is denied that the army have been ab-
,-Adcd from tbe arsenal at Washington, and It Is
t,M that there were no arms in tbe armoiy, nor
* there been for some time, It being used forUie
norsj. of old tents and other military debris be-
iwgins to tbe government.
u.Timr.it*.—The Telegraph almost mates *
mOim diflerent stories about poor Max. From
Europe we learn that he U determined not to leave
Mciico, (vide correspondence of the London
N'twi) and our noon despatches of yesterday say
‘ to t his rule is virtually at an end. Qnel est
ml?
Taienr*? Jonxsox.—A London banker, lately
returned from the United States, aaya of Presi
des! Johnson :
•I hsd the honor," he said, “of having an
iu hones of him at the White House, and I aaaurc
ns that I have seldom seen a man of more r»'
doaauly address than President Johnson.
Lr Box Ton Journal de Modes, Monthly Mag.
u no of Paris fashions, imported from Paris by S.
T.Tsrlor, 319 Canal street, N. Y., Is Just received
it ii resplendent with beautiful fashion plates,
ind teems to be just what the ladies want, who
trek to know and to follow the fashions. Price
tf per year: ft lor 6 months.
VaLraau Plantation.—Mr. Robert 8. Lanier
fieri for sale or rant a very large and valuable
TUntation, in Pulaaki county, but ten miles
from Hawkinsville. It contains a good dwell-
iag, and outbuildings, and ev*ry convenience
tor tarrying it on. For particulars, see Mr.
Thomas Bagaley, at J. N. Seymour’*, or Col.
w rge M. Logan, nt the Lanier House.
Foa 8a«.—We ask attention to the sale of the
Ttiusble hous* and lot in the town of Hawkins
till#, with a valuable plantation near Coley’a
Station, on the Macon A Brunswick Railroad ;
ill of which will bo sold cheap lor cash by Mr.
Thos. R. Askew, Hawkinsville If not disposed
•f by the first Tuesday in December, they will
It sold on that day at public outcry. This is an
•r,'client opportunity to invest.
■ ■ 1 • ♦ * 4
Paktnbr Want«h.—The proprietor ot the Geor
ft Cltisen of this place, Or. L. F. W. Andrew*, i*
tiering to tell X, X, or evea the whole of hi* e»-
' Vuskmcnt, on account olhls anticipated absence
!r#m the city early next yaar, to attend to the
Mo.ccutioa of an important caae in the Law
Court* or another 8t*te. His preference will be
te retain an Interest and the position ol resident
or corresponding editor.
Ur. Thos. 8. GiLLasrin—of Atlanta—is now in
this city, and acting as authorised agent of the
Udiut Homs, newspaper, published at Atlanta.
Ur.Gillespie will eall upon our citisen* and en
deavor to aeeure aubaeribsr* for the Sonte. The
F»per is published by Dr. Powell, to aid in the
•rection of the Ladies’Home, •<> l° n fi ago pro-
jetted by him, and which is now being built.—
Swides being a good family paper the Somt
'Wales a noble cause, and we recommend it.
DT* We invito attention to the long article on
>r first page, by M. A. J. By nil those inter
it l in our Railroad enterprises, and especially
r those interested in the Railroad connections
the city of Maoon, this article shonli he read,
•pitslisu, too, who are seeking favorable in-
utments, may find In the article information
■petial value to them.
The importance to Macon of Railroad contee-
•a with Florida is very evident, and need* no
f»l|.
For the Telegraph.
The Georgia I.cgUlaf urc.
Messrs. Editors: Onr Legislature Is fast ac
quiring an unenviable notoriety. When it shall
have adjourned, all Intelligent lrlends of the 8tn‘e
will breathe freer and lecl easier. It will then be
a question which l.as done the more mischief to the
people of Georgia, 8hermsn and his army, or their
own Legislature 1 The invaders destroyed prop
erty and insulted women and old men. The Leg
islature 1* demoralizing the people and bringing
honesty and fair dealing Into disrepute. The in
jury done by 8hennan can be repaired. The inju
ry being done by tbe Legislature strikes at the
very foundations of our society, and will endnre
until tbe present generation ahall have passed
away. Such legislation as we now witness would
not bo out of place in New England, where the
people, like the fish of the sea, prey upon each
other, and think trickery and fraud and sharp
practice are more commendable than tm’h, hon
esty and candor; bnt in the South we bad a right
to expect better things. The truth Is, the Legis
lature la bringing discredit upon the people of
Georgia. Its whole action upon the question of
individual indebtedness proceeds upon the Idea
that poverty is worse than dishonor. It doe* not
seem to understand that a man who can pay his
honest debts, and yet will not do it, 1* no better
than a pickpocket.
If a man bought yonr land, or borrowed yonr
gold in I860, and is able to repay you now; bnt en
couraged by tke stay and execution laws proposed
by the Legislature, will not do it, baa he not pick
ed yonr pocket? Docs not the action of the
Legislature teach him to believe that an honest
man is net the noblest work of God ? And if so,
Is not the Legislature undermining the morals ol
the people, and destroying everything like coafi-
dence and credit ?
Premising that I do not belong to the creditor
class, and write in the interest of the whole peo
ple, I proceed to submit the following incentro-
TC 1!‘tit/creditor class in Georgia at this time are
just as paor and needy, and are suffering Just as
mnch as the debtor class. Indeed, many creditors
are in worse condition than debtors, because
while maty of tbe latter have their lands lelt, the
former, being dealers In money and public securi
ties, hive nothing. Under the execution law pro
posed by tbe Legislature, tbe debtor in many in
stances, will actually be better off than thelrcred-
lt< 2™'Witi» local exceptions, occasioned by the
inroads of the Federal army, the indebtedness
of the people of Georgia is less now than it has
been at any time within tLe laat thirty years.
3. The cotton crop this year, though small,
will net the people almost if not quite as much
money as did the average crops produced be
tween 1850 and 1860. This, with the habits of
industry and economy generated by the neces
sities of the late war, will render them fully as
able to manage their indebtedness as they have
ever been before. , ..
4. If the exemption Act which passed the
House a few days ago should become a law, the
property exempted will be greater than that
owned by a majority of the people of the State.
The measure, then, to the extent of over one
half of the people in the State is equivalent to
repudiation : To tbe same extent, it will destroy
tbe credit cl the people; ror no sane mnn will
credit another, all of whose property is exempt
ed from ell liability for his debts.
6. At no period in tbe history of Georgia were
creditors ever more lenient to those who are in
debted to them than they are at this time. A
majority of the suit* brought since the war arise
from a difference of opinion in regard to the
value of what aro known aa Confederate con-
then, should the Legislature lend its fa.
▼or to a aeries of measures, the real, though un
avowed object of which ia repudiation ? Nearly
every meaanre of this aort has its origin in the
anti-Confederato element still prevalent in the
country, or else in demsgognism. I do not mean
tossy that all these measures originate among
those legislators and eitiaens who were Unioniata
throughout the war. Many original secession-
iats, are now the most intense Unionist*, and are
ready, in order to show their new-born seal in
that direction, to brand everything done during
tha war, and even before, aa inaome way ille
gal and not binding. Without knowing it to bo
so, I nevertheless venture the opinion that every
repudiationist, open and secret, in the Legist*
turo, wa*a Unionist even when Sherman was
matching through the State by the light of our
burning houses, or has become ons since for self
ish purposes. There is also* desire, on the part
of some of the advocate* in the country, and
probably in the Legislature, of those wild
schemes of relief, alias repudiation, to punish
property holders and capitalist* for their sup
posed sympathy with the Confederate cause.
Will the Legislature lend it* aanction to such
unholv efforts T Will it aid any citixsn to avoid
the payment of a ju*t d*bt when he is fully able
to do it? Would not* bankrupt law be better
for all classes than any of tbe schemes proposed?
CoXraDBRATW.
Amnbitv and Pardon.—The 13th section olthe
asiof July 17, 1862, defining the penalties of
treason and insurrection, is in the following
terms:
The Ptosident is hereby authorised, at any
time hereafter, by proclamation, to extend to
(-'■aslxston and Savannah Railroad.—Ac
ting to announcement in the papers of the city
road, under order of the trustees, wss sold by
fftrs. Wardlaw & Carew, Auctioneers, at the
iort l» or the Exchange yeaterday morning, to
J. H. Taylor, asd other*, lor the anm of
*1,009, subject to existing liens, including the
lien of about $750,000.
Tbit sale needs no comment, a* nothing can bet-
<r evidence the effect ol the present political
'- 4 «a or the Sooth—a railroad of one hundred
cl three miles in length, that coat about three
u U*n* of dollars, connecting two of tbe largest
;:Ucs ol tbe South, sacrificed at about seven ihou-
*** dollar* per mile.—Char. Sirs.
lu EPRS3BYTERIAN GENERAL A SEMBLY
**«8 Memphis on the 9 th. Parliamentary
were adopted, similar in a great degree to
*Uick govern our Legislative bodies. They
I *** “tiered to be sent down to the Presbyteries
jj.‘ ‘^"i-tlon. Diflerent clauses In the “Canon* of
j ®*Pline” were read, dismissed aud adopted. Dr.
Wilson presented the Report on Foreign
j ! ° M - Lee* than $10,000 had t»een contributed
the year. The Committee has no Mission-
foreign lands at present.
“• T. Baird presented the Report on pnbll-
,' jn> - The whole amount received during the
^^*118,174.15. $15,000 were disbursed—the
"*7***» it wa* hoped, would pay all debts due
Wa *» the Depository.
don Ana iiddcu/» wi*h »
such time, and on *uch conditions, as ho may
doom ex pod ion t for tho public welfare.
SrAiN’s Otfxb to th* Popz.-I
that the offer really made by Queen Isabella toi the
Pope, in the f °recd ta cult
event of bi* being forced ta quit
Route, !* not the placing tinder hia temporel sov-
ereignty aprovlnce of Spain, which she has no
power to alienate, but simply a todAmeolii tte
City of Granada; end that the 8p*uleh vessels at
Civit* VeccbU are placed at hU disposal In case of
such emergency. It wenld bo curious to see the
ancient capital of the last Moorish kingdom in
Spain become the seat of papacy.—iurw (Aoe. 3)
Correspondence qf tho London Times.
Go ON WITH TIIAT Prxttt Talk.—“My dear
Ellen.’’ said a yonng man, “I have leng wished
for llAi sweet opportunity,but! hardly dare trust
rnrself to apeak tne deep emotion* of my heart;
but I declare to you, my dear Ellen, that I love
you most tenderly: youremUes would shed—would
shed—” “Never mlud the wood-shed,” said Ellen,
“go on with yonr pretty talk.”
tsy A gentleman was complaining that it cost
him (10 everv day he went to church, as he only
attended five'times a year, and his pew tax was
$50 per snaum. “Why don’t you go oftener,
asked a religious broker, “and reduce the aver
age ?" That was a poser.
rgy“ General Beauregard, who went through tke
whole ol the UU war without a wound, dyed re
cently in Paris. UU hair, when lie went to that
city, was ns white aa a grixly bear's, and when
he came away as black as a black be-irV.
GOOD luck for the Brunswick Road—vide tame
i-;iort*. We Joel sorry tor poor Mr. Owens. But
be was on the wrongslde and some do not regret
hU dUcorafiturc.
r^'Gen. Ilcnningsen, tho Hungarian, once a
nrominent officer in Kossuth’s army, and who
was in the Confederate service, is now distilling
whisky nt Richmond.
tM“ The Advertiser of 8avnn»ah eava that tbe
once notorious slave-trading vessel, Wanderer,
lately arrived In Savannah.
For the Daily Telerrarb.]
Tcoxxcmcated.]
TIIE SOUTH GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
RAILROAD.
It is not perhaps generally known that a
recent examination of the country between
Thomasville and Albany, of this State, has
demonstrated the fact that those flourishing
towns may be connected by Railroad at an
astonishingly small cot in an astonishing short
time, and that the construction ofsuclt a Road
has now become as certain as any future
event can possibly be. The experience of
railroads and railroad enterprizes, lia proved
the fact that investments by the original stock
holders do not, in the generality of cases, re
turn a fair percentage on the amounts sub
scribed, and consequently it has become the
generally recognized policy of individuals to
venture no subscriptions except upon such
roads as promise, directly or indirectly to ad
vance their general interests by the enhance
ment of property, the facility of markets, the
increase of population or all these combined.
All the Stockholders of newly projected Rail
roads have, therefore, been for the most part
found within certain geographical limits, and
we have yet to see any extensive work of in
ternal improvement, whose stock shall, in its
very inception, be eagerly sought by the
general capitalist on account of the n iked
merits of the investment. Such a case, how
ever, assuredly presents itself in the Tlionias-
villc and Albany connection the best evidence
of which is that those parties who are most
directly interested in the building of this
road do not appear to be anxious to share
with others the cost and profit ot the under
taking. The people of Thomas and the con
tiguous counties with those of upper ^Florida
are evidently determined, if possible, to
build the connections proposed by the use of
their owu money; thereby reserving the
earnings of the road to their own pockets,
and the management of tho road to their own
control. It is clearly to their interest to
avoid all entangling alliances. Hitherto si
lent, they arc now throwing off ail disguise
and putting their shoulders to the work with
zeal of conscious power. They will nt once
raise the necessary funds from their own sub
scriptions or—they will not. In the latter
event, not succeeding in obtaining the full
requisite amount from their own section, they
will then look and not in vain for ample sub
scriptions from other quarters, and in any
contingency the completion of thi‘ important
road must soon become an accomplished fact,
to be at once followed, if not accompanied,
by its own extension to Monti cello, Florida,
and the union thereby of the city of Macon
with the Gulf of Mexico. The advantage of
such a union of the great Railroad system of
Macon, with that ot the State of Florida can
scarcely be over estimated by the casual ob
server, and will appear very striking upon a
careful survev of the railroad “situation” on
the South. Florida, by an exclusive policy
which acted to the detriment of her neigh
bors, but reacted with more severity upon her
own interests, has until very recently rejected
all the friendly advance of the State of
Georgia, and refused to grasp the iron hand
so invitingly extended towards her by the
city of Savannah. Certainly no section of
this countrv of equal intelligence and wealth
with Middle and West Florida has been so
long debarred by a peculiar complication of
circumstances froth the attainment ot those
improvements which its location and the de
velopment of its resources would naturally
have commanded. The boundary line be
tween Georgia and her sister State, though
according to the parlance of Surveyors an
imaginary line, (so much so, in fact, that no
one has been able to locate it) has, neverthe
less, proven a most fatal line lor the interests
of Florida, a huge obstacle which has
dammed up tho floods of trade and travel
and forced them to escape by circuitous and
unnatural channels. .
The Florida Branch Railroad, which has
recently cut its way through this hitherto in
superable barrier, is now discharging towards
Savannah at the rate of six millions dollars
worth of preducts annually, and command
ing in exchange an equal transit in the op
posite direction; besides creating a new and
important passenger travel, which with the
establishment of a fast line of steamers be
tween St. 3Iarks and New Orleans, must ar
rest the public attention as the speediest if
not the most agreeable communication be
tween New York and New Orleans. Who
doubts that the Legislative mill-dam between
Georgia and Florida should be cut at a sec
ond point, and who does not know that the
Middle and West of the latter State have
thrown off the dictation of the East, and look
eagerly towards Macon as the proper point of
exit and of entrance I AVho doubts that the
South Georgia and Florida Railroad, once
arrived at Monticello, would empty the cars
of the Florida Railroad, and divert the travel
so confidently expected by Savannah, and
gained by her at such a cost of long contin
ued patient labor ? The bodily presence of
yellow fever is felt in Savannah only at cer
tain very uncertain periods, but the phan
tom of the all-destroying monster hovers
there alwnys. The national reckless
ness of the* American traveler does not
extend to an encounter of such a description.
Add to this that the interior merchant and.
parties of pleasure always prefer the land to
ocean travel and the variegated scenery of
the mountain routes to the monotonous pine
deserts of the Atlantic coast. That Macon
will become the gate of Florida is too plain
for proof and too clear to require illustration.
That the freight receipts of Macon, as well
as her passenger travel, would be increased
by such a road is equally true, though per
haps not so apparent on a cursory view. In
the first place, the very increase of passen
ger travel must greatly influence the direc
tion of consignments, for where men travel
there they form commercial friendship and
convenient relations, and these are not usually
ruptured by any except very marked attrac
tions in another direction. In the second
place, the direction of cotton is not always
influenced alone by the price ot cotton, but
may be equally dueled by the prices of oth
er commodities, and where :i planter may
obtain the highest price for his crop lie may
also be required to pay tho highest price for
his yearly supplies. There are minor centres
of particular lines of trade which do not con
verge to New York, and though cotton should j
take the shortest route to Liverpool in order
to find the highest market value, it may not
always take that route in order to obtain the
greatsst return for itself in other commodities.
How will Savannah and Macon compare from
this point of view ? In tho third place, al- j
though cotton has been and must continue
to be the most valuable of Southern freights
its great preponderance over other consign
ments will be diminished by the rapid in
crease of the latter from new sources of in
dustry, and there is no reason to suppose that
the influence of Macon upon such products
mav not be felt ns many miles ns that of Sa
vannah. In the fourth place, and finally, the
interest - of Macon and its railroads are ser.-
ously menaced in Southwestern Georgia by
the energetic management ot Savannah anil
the fertile schemes of Brunswick. They look
with hungry eyes upon Albany, and know ing
the value of the bait, aim with direct stroke
to wrench it from the grasp of Macon. They
intend no roundabout course, but will march
in a straight line upon it; her rich freights
will pay the exptn-es of the campaign. But
monev is nece—ary to conduct their opera
tions, and, unless aided b'J the State, they car.-
not succeed for many yesrs. The ccnnjction
of Albany with Tliomasvillo will deprive
them of every plea which could be made
upon the State, and all declamation
about “the development of internal re
sources” would become more twaddle,
when reterred to a town so favored with rai
roads as Albany uould then '•e. The construc
tion of the South Georgia and Florida Rail
road from Albany via Thomasville to Monti
cello, attended as it is with t«no questiona
ble advantages and many unqacstionable dis
advantages to the rivals of blScon, will ef
fectually checkmate all their attempts on the
public purse, for Albany thus supplied with
railroads could not with any pretext ot justice
receive the aid of the public money in the
farther development of its already favored
section. Observe that this is the precise point
at which you fulfill this end; less would be
inadequate and more would overthrow it. If
you build from Albany to Bainbridge your
measure is inadequate, for aid might then bo
justly required for Albany on account of her
crooked path towards the East. If from Al
bany to any point cast of Thomasville you
overthrow your own design, for you approxi
mate to that very line which the greed of
vour active rivals lias fixed upon with anx
ious gaze. The connection at Thomasville is
the “juste milieu,” the golden mean of all
the projected improvements of Southwest
Georgia, and when the map is examined it
will be at once perceiv.d that all the interests
of Middle Florida centre upon the junction
at Monticello.
The prejudicial effect of this Road upon
Savannah ami Brunewick is only remote nnd
relative; its immediate and absolute effect
will be beneficial. Though it will indefinite
ly postpone the accomplishment^ of their
cherished designs upon Albany, it will at
once add to their trade, though in a less de
gree than to that of Macon. Now, the A. &
G. Railroad is precisely in that situation in
which it prelers a present good to a future
greater good, and will take a pound to-day
rather than two to-morrow. It is evidently
the true policy of that Road to invite connec
tions only at acute angles, and that an effort
will be made to control the location of the
Thomasville and Albany Road may be natu
rally expected, but when this effort is over
come by the stronger influence of Macon our
sea-board friends will be glad to get what
we grant them and cease to strive for more.
This enterprise has been referred to above
as one which will attract tho general capital
ist, and tbe assertion is capable of proof. The
dividends of Roads depend directly upon
two things, viz.: the ’ number of shares and
the nett proceeds. Enough has been said to
indicate that the last will be large; it
is only necessary to show that the
first will be small. As strange as
it may appear this road may be built at the
extraordinarily small sum of $11,500.00 per
mile, and may require less than twelve months
for its completion. These results are thor
oughly reliable, are the demonstrations of
actual survey by a competent engineer, and
based upon thi/present prices of tools, mater
ials anti labor, exclusive of the bridge over
Flint ltiver, which need not be built in the
infancy of the road—this class of \vork is in-
significant; while the entire grading ot tbe
road bed, estimated at the liberal price ot
28 cts. per cubic yard, will cost only about
$2,000.C0 per mile. The entire cost of the
preparation of the road, to receive the iron
for 5ff miles, is estimated at $159,000.00.
This is unprecedented and fully establishes
the statement of this article that this road
must be built, and that if the people of up
per Florida and of Thomas and contiguous
counties arc not able, as they ardently desire
to build this road with their own money,
they should certainly bo able to command the
money of rival cities and rival Railroads as
well as the eager investments of general capi
tal. * M. A. S.
£5y”The following is fuller than tho dispatch
on the samessbject lately printed ia our paper:
A Washing:on special dispatch says it is con
fidently expected that the reconstruction ques
tion will be anicably settled early in the ap
proaching eesiion of Congress. Negotiations for
that purpose are in progress between tho Presi
dent ana the leading politicians of all parties in
the North and South. The basis of settlement
will be univeraal suffrage and general amnesty.
The President partially accedes to thia proposi
tion, but’ho insists, upon constitutional grounds,
that the question of suffrage properly belongs to
the respective States, and is so far averse to any
action of Congress upon that subject. If assu
rances can be obtained from Southern leaders
the speedy adaption of universal suffrage tbe
President will waive his objections. The pro
posed basis of settlement contemplates tbe aban
donment of the Constitutional amendment as a
condition to Southern representation.
Meteoric.—Rome has been more fortunate
than the rest ol us. She has had a peep at the me
teor, which, according to the Conrier’s account,
was magnificent. The Courier says:
“About four o’clock on the morning ol Tues
day, tbe 20th inat, a meteor that lighted the whole
heavens, waa seen in tbe vicinity ot Rome, mav-
rapidly in a Southwestern direction. It appeared
like a fire ball, and as large as the sun. It explo
ded in the direction of Cooca, apparently, eight or
ten mile* Irom here, with a tremendous report,
like that of a forty pound cannon, that shook the
earth so as to make the windows of tbe houses
rattle.”
We conld have beaten that, had we tried; bnt wo
did not choose to try.
Gratuitous Advice.—A New York dispatch
tars:
The World this morning counsels the Southern
States to offer some sort of an amendment of
their own. It says : We beltove that the tree way
out of the present difficulty is by the spontaneous
action ou the Sooth itself. When the Southern
States have all rejected the amendment, as they
certainly will, and have thereby demonstrated that
they arc masters of the situation, so far as that
measure is coaccraed, we trust they will, by some
method of joiat action, make a counter proposi
tion.
~-Dr- In ten States of this Union to-day tha
will of a general is the supreme law, and should
President Johnson strike hands with tho radi
cals to morrow, an order from him directing the
suppression of tho Philadelphia Age would be
an authority against which no constitutional
guarantees or safeguards ot law could offer pro
tection.—Chicago. Times.
And so you think we had better make friends
with the Radicals, and effect a compromise as
soon as possible.
Converted.—The following precious morsel is
toddling ronnd, credited to an Exchange :
N. S.-Msrse, the editor of the Bridgeport Far
m.-r, whose conduct < aused the destruction ol his
office by a mob in 1SG1, and who afterward went to
Georgia and edited a rebel paper, U at New Haven,
and has been converted into a Radical abolitionist.
Hesavs no one could live at the Sou f h six months
without undergoing the change he has.
J5y Tha Turkish Government has granted a
general amnesty to the Cretan insurgents. Why
do»sn’t the United State* Government grant a
general amnesty to the Southern insurgents ?—
Are we worse and more barbarous than the
Turks?
Good luck for friends Burks & Co.—see Lwr»s-
lature report*.
Letter from Washington.
Correspondence ef the Georgia Telegraph.
' YTashingto', Nov. 18, I860.
Numbers of Radical Congressmen have ar- j
rived fully surcharged with political venom,
and ready to be harnessed up to work in the
crusade against restoration just as it may be
marked out for them by Thad. Stevens, "Wen
dell Phillips, and the lesser satellites. When
it is proclaimed that the known decided op
position of thirteen States to the adoption of
the constitutional amendment will serve as
an estoppel to its adoption, they and their
henchmen who crowd the executive depart
ment and monopolize all the easy places in
Congress, answer by broadly intimating that
Congress will take early measures to remove
thatimpedimeut by declaring the amendment
binding and valid when endorsed by three-
fourths of the States permitted to exe rcise
State functions to the exclusion of the con
stitutional rights of the non-represented
States. Such is the programme, and without
means of conjecturing whether it be success
ful, it is unmistakably shown that the attempt
will be made.
At the opening of the Fortieth Congress,
an attempt (doubtless futile) will be made to
prevent tbe famous, or rather infamous,
“Corked-up” Butler, of Massachusetts, from
holding his seat, grounded upon the charges
made by a responsible party, that this official
during the war proposed to the Confederate
Generals Van Dorn and Bragg to exchange
army supplies lor cotton.
The steamer which has just sailed took out
from the State department a voluminous
budget of despatches bearing upon Mexican
affairs addressed to the Legation at Paris.
There is still nothing being done in the
way of extending pardons. The applica
tions from prominent sources still continue
to increase. Ex-Senator Hunter, of Virginia,
now here, denies the statement that be was
going to expatriate himself.
■ The press, politicians, and tbe anxious pub
lic generally, are groping about with the
view of ascertaining wliat could have insti
gated the audience between the President,
his Cabinet and Chief-Justice Chase. Many
imagined that they discerned a purpose on
the part of the Administration to take a for
ward step towards recommending the South
ern people to adopt the universal suffrage
proposition, and to receive as a consideration
therefor the extension ot universal amnesty.
There was no foundation whatever for tbe
impression. Tho whole and sole purpose of
the conference was to consider tlic defects in
the law of the last session which has so far
hindered a hearing in the case of Mr. Davis,
it being tlie purpose of the President in his
message t v ask a speedy action by Congress,
po as to give a finality to this long pending
case.
The President has been much. importuned
from unexpected sources to lend- the force of
his acquiescence to qualified suffrage. He
remains unmoved, and answers-all such soli
citations by referring to liis past messages and
his letter to Governor Sharkey. He regards
that, and all other matters, the peculiar pro
vince of tbe people to arrange and adjust
without dictation from any source.
It is gossipped through tjie city that the
message of Mr. Johnson will-rejcommend to
Congress an appropriation of fifty millions of
dollars to Mexico as a quit claim to the ac
quisition by the United States of Lower Cali
fornia, Sonora, Chihuahua and Coaliuilo.
IVm. T. Smithson, Esq., the banker, who,
upon a frivolous charge ot corresponding
with parties" in the South during the war,
was sent to the Albany penitentiary and par
doned after a few months detention, has,
through his counsel, Messrs. Hughes, Denver
and Peck, entered suit against Secretary Stan
ton for trespass, false imprisonment and dam
ages, assessing the aruoant at twenty-five
thousand dollars.
The prices bid by a city firm to furnish a
large quantity of stationery to the Internal
Revenue Bureau are so very low that the Sec
retary of the Treasury, influenced by the rep
resentations ot parties from the North that
the contract could not be filled except by
fraud, has concluded to investigate prior to
awarding the contract.
It is definitely understood that the attempt
to frame a tariff measure at the coming sess
ion so as to meet the demands of tbe New
EDgland monopolists who arc now declaring
semi-annual dividends of twenty per cent,
besides husbanding large reserve funds, will
prove abortive, whilst enabled to cohiman<2
a considerable majority of super-protection
ists it cannot receive a requisite two-thirds
vote, after encountering tbe veto which
awaits it.
Tbs extremists of the North, regarding the
late election results as indicative of a purpose
of the masses to still further press the South
era people to a condition of political inequal
ity and degradation, are instituting a new
and more definite Radical revolutionary pro
gramme. The advent of tbe season for lec
tures, political sermons and poar-wow con
ventions is quite propitious to enable them
to inaugurate a campaign of agitation.— !
Already a firm entitled tbe v/eiuletl Phillips, I
Lucy Stone, Horace Greely, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Frederick Douglas and Susan B. |
Anthony Company have “hung their banner
on the outer wall,” having inscribed equal
rights, irrespective of sex or color, impeach- \
ment and deposing of the President, stopping
of the wheels of Government, territorializing 1
the South, and acquiring Cuba so as. to> strike
the yoke of slavery from the stccks of its
blacks.
It is known that the message of the Presi
dent is in a state of forwardness. It is really
inexplicable to understand how he manages
give attention to it, in view of the fact
that his time is monopolized from ten to four,
and from eight to twelve at uight.
The report of the Secretary of "War and ac
companylng documents are in the hands of
the printer, and being vigorously pushed to
completion; those of the Secretary of the
nvy are all printed. They will all be ready
for transmission to Congress with the annual
message.
Intimations multiply fast that the assem
bling of Congress will disclose a less fierce
spirit of antagonism on the part of tbe ma
jority towards the President than has been
entertained during the post year. It maybe
that some relenting spirit may manifest itself
in certain quarters, but it is -unmistakably
foreshadowed that simultaneously with the
opening, a huge Radical movement will be
made to still further head off the President
and neutralize his functions as the constitu
tional head of the Union. The Republican
pwty, notwithstanding its unlimited success
in the recent elections, is ia great danger of
disruption. A failure to impeach and also
to depose the President, will rail forth an
avalanche of wrath from the IVendell Phil
lips"’, and Julians, and end in nn estrange
ment of that powerful numerical element
from the ruling power.
r Potohac.
Tiie Glorious Redemption of Venice.—
Recent events in Venetia have a romantic in
terest equal to anything in history. At the
beginning of this year the deliverance of Ve
nice from tbe Austrian yoke seemed as un
likely as the resurrection of Poland, the liber-
tion of Rome or the independence of Ire
land. The mode in which the deed was i 2-
complished, the circumstances that accompa
nied it, the fact that the sufle-ring province
itself made not an effort and shed not a drop
of blood to secure the freedom which ordina
rily comes as the reward of heroic struggles
nnd blood sacrifices—all mark it as one of
the most singular while it is one of tlic most
sublime triumphs of the Nineteenth Century.
Since its release by Austria, we have read
with intense interest of the transfer of power
through the Joint Commissioner to the Ital
ian authorities—of the exit of the Austrian
troops, the Austrian flag and all the emblems
of Austrian authority—ot the entrance of the
Italian troops and the Italian flag amid the
wild acclamations nnd frantic joy of the en
tire population—of the plebiscite, or popular
vote, in which over thirty-six thousand
votes were given tor union with
Italy to seven votes against it—nnd of all
the evidences of an appreciation of the free
dom which is now the happy lot of Venice.
Adorning Christ’s Doctrine.—That is
a striking passage of Scripture which calls
on us to “adorn the doctrine of God our Sa
viour,” and it reminds us of the promise that
the meek shall be beautified with salvation.
The two together teach us that there is a re
ciprocal adorning between the servants ef
Christ and his religion. The divine doctrine
first gives moral and spiritual beauty to its
keaity recipient, and then wears his gracious
life as a well-earned and gracefully-fitting
crown. In other words, the Christian doc
trines beautifully and strikingly correspond
with the Christian graces. The two must
never be practically separated. The profouncl-
cst theological learning without the inner
Christian liie is but the half of religion, and
therefore dead and uninviting, and even the
purest outward morality, unless it spring
from a living union with Christian doctrine,
is cold, possessing only an artificial beauty.
It is the doctrine of God our Saviour which
is to bo adorned, and nothing can legitimate
ly and truly adorn it but the pure and happy
life which its hearty acceptance produces.
Washington College.
Col. "Wm. Preston Johnson, of Louisville,
Ky., wason Thursday last unanimously elect
ed Professor of History and English Litera
ture in this institution. He is a son of the
lamented Albert Sidney Johnston, and is well
known in Virginia nnd the South as one of
the aids of President Davis during the lute
war. He is a gentleman of fine scholarship,
and great literary accomplishments, having
carried off the highest academic honors at
Yale, and graduated with distinction in the
law at Harvard. Ho will prove a great ac
quisition to the college and to the cause of
learning in Virginia.
The Faculty of the college, besides the em- :
incut President, now embraces ten professors
and five assistant professors—men of talent
and scholarship, and devoted to their work.
It is the determination of the authorities of
the college that tbe instruction shall be thor
ough and extensive.
The students now number about three
hundred aud sixty.—Rich. Dis.
Maximilian.
He isJBesolved Not to Leav£ Mexico.
Paris (Nov. 2.) Correspondence of .five London News.
It is reported in the Opinion, that n message
has been received from the Epsperor Maximil
ian in answer to the news of the Empress’ ill
ness. After expressing his deep sorrow for hei
malady, and approving all that has been done,
he adds that, being resolved, at every sacrifice
to surmount, if possible, his. bad fortune, he will
not leave the post which duty assigns him.. IT
ht adheres to this determination, so entirely
and
the
contrary to the wishes of his early patron,
to the instructions given, to Gtn. Castelna-j,
position will be strangely complicated, for ono
would think that the 5>ehch troops cannot in
honor bo withdrawn wtthouta positivoaasurance
of non-intervention on tbo part of the- United
States, and the plea at putting an end to an
archy in Mexico may thus only have resulted in
setting up a new clement of division.
Affairs in Rome.—"Writes, the Rom5:
correspondent-of the Independence Beige:
The Romans, thoroughly resolved to allow
their Government to die a natural death,,
have renounced annoying i* during its Inst
momenta. They know that causes ot disso--
lution are present, and they wait pationtly
the houa when the decrepid institution will
come to-a stand-still foi waut of a motive
power sufficient to mak» it go on. Tho mis
ery iu Rome is exesssive. The monetary
crisis affects everybody; tlic wirier season
does not promise irtl, and the receipts, ordi
narily levied from, foreign visitors do not
saem likely to l»considerable. Lastly, the
cholera has made-its appearance among us;
as yet it has seized on few victims, but the
enemy has gained an entrance.
The Oceax Txlkcraph.—In his speech at the
banquet given him in Ntw York, Cyrus TV.
Field said:
To show how delicate are these wonderful
cords, it is enough to state that they can he
worked with the smallest battery rower. Whe*
the first cable was laid in ISiS, electric atn
thought that, to somineurrent2.0rt0milej.it
muAt be almost like a stroke of lightning. Bnt
Qod was not in tho earthquake, but iu the still,
small voice. The other day Mr. Latimer Clark
telegraphed from Ireland across the oeean and
back again, with a battery formed h» a lady’s
thimble! And now Mr. Collett writes me from
Heart’s Content: “I have just sent my comple
ments to Dr. Ould, of Cambridge, who is at Va-
lentia, with a battery compose..! of a gun-cap,
with a strip of zinc, excited by a drop of water,
the simple bulk of a tear !’’ A telegraph that
will do this we think nearly perfeot,
jgy* The Rolling Mill, formerly established at
Atlanta, has been removed to Wilmington, N. C.,
and will soon be in pperatiop,
The Winter or the Heart.
A beautiful writer counsels wisely when
he says : “Live so tlmt good angels may pro
tect lrom this terrible evil—tiie winter of
the heart. Let no chilling influence freeze
up the fountains of sympathy aud happiness
in its depths; no cold burden settle over its
withered hopes, like the snow ou faded flow
ers; no rude blasts of content mourn nnd
shriek through its desolated chambers. Your
life-path may lead through trials, which for
a time seem utterly to impede your progress
and shut out the very light of heaven from
your anxious gaze. Penury may take the
place of ease and plenty; your luxurious
room may be changed for an humble one ;
the soft couch for a straw pallet; the rich
viands for the course food of the poor. Sum
mer friends may forsake you, and the unpity-
ing world pa.-.- you with scarcely a look or
word of compassion. You may be forced to
toil wearily, ^tcndily on, to earn a livelihood;
you may encounter fraud atul the base ava
rice that would extort the last lathing, till
you well nigh turn iu disgust from your fel-
low-beiugs. Death may sever the dear ties that
bind you to earth, and leave you in fearful
darkness. That nobie, manly Lrow, the sole
hope of your declining years, may be takc-u-
from you while your spirit clings to him with
a wild tenacity, which even the shadow ot
the tomb canuot wholly subdue. Amid all
these sorrows, do not come to the conclusion
that nobody was ever so deeply afflicted as
you are, (ind abandon every anticipation of
“ better days” in the unknown future. Do
not lose your faith in human excellence, be
cause confidence has sometimes been betray
ed, nor believe that friendship was only a de
lusion, and love a bright phantom which
glides away from your grasp. Do not think
that you are fated to be miserable, because
you are disappointed in your expectations
and battled in your pursuits. Da not declare
that God has forsaken vou when your, way
is hedged about.with thorns, or repine sin
fully when lie calls your dear ones to the
land beyond tho crave. Keep a holy trust
in heaven through every trial, bear adversity
with fortitude, and look upwards iu hours of
temptation and suffering. When youf locks
are white, your hours are dim, aud youclimbs
weary, when your steps falter on the verge of
death’s gloomy vale, still retain the freshness
and buoyancy of spirit which will shield you
from the winter of the heart.
Anecdote of Queen Victoria.
The London correspondent of the Presby
terian tells the following anecdote of the
Queen of England : .
Prince Albert was a kind, prudent and af
fectionate husband. But his prospects were
on a razor’s'edge at one time. About a year
and a half after their marriage, Albert became
very fond of playing cards, and staking sums
ot money on the result. Victoria remonstra
ted at bis tolly and-prodigality in vain. At
length, one day, when a number ot noble
men, hungry, and of the genus land-shark,
had Prince Albert at & table, .Victoria sent a
polite message, for her husband to come to
her room. The Prince paid-no attention to
the request. A more urgent-desire was an
swered—“Beg the Queen to excuse me a short
time, and I .will be there.”' A third time an
officer came, with : “The Queen of England
requires the presence of Briucn Albert.” In
stantly he hastened to. obey.. For not a sub
ject, however exalted his rank, dare disobey
such a summons, without being guilty of
treason.
When ner eldest son married, and had
been several weeks onsthe continent, he sent
a letter, saying -that lie expect'd to be h ime
in a few days, had requested: that he might
have a room. She wrote back that when she
desired him to visit Windsor Palace she
would send for him.- He, nor any one else
in the realm, dare disobev such an injunc
tion.
Justice.—In- this God’s world, with its
wild whirling eddies and mad-fonm oceans,
where men and nations perish os if without
law and judgment, for an unjust thing is
sternly delayed* dost thou think that there is
therefore no justice ? It is what tbe fool has
said in his he,irt. It is what the wise in all
"times. were wise bcuaxec they denied and
knew for ever not tu.be. I tell thee again
there is nothing else but justice; one strong
tiling I find here below—the just thing, tbe
true thing.. My friend, if thou badst all the
artillery of Woolwich, marching at thy hack
in support of an unjust thing, and infinite
bonfires visibly waiting ahead of iliee, to
blaze centuries to come for thy victory on be
half of it/I‘would-advise thee to call Halt, to
fling down thy baton and say, “ In tlbd’s
name, no 1*’ What will thy success amount
to £ If the thing-ia unjust, thou hast not suc
ceeded, though bonfires blazed from north to
south, nnd bells rang, and editors wrote lead
ing articles, and tho just thing lay trampled
out of. sight to all mortal eyes, an abolished
and.annihilated thing.—Thos. Carlyle.
Soccer or later negroes will-,vote—will
have a voice in their own government—will
share in that rightof making their ovrn laws and
choosing, their own rulers, which, according to
our republican, principles, belongs, inherently
and inalienably, to all who aro required to obey
the law. Lt depends wholly on tbo race now in
possession of power whether they shell como
into tho enjoyznent of this right peacefully, anil
as tbe tasult'of a friendly understanding with
the whites, or through commotion, turmoil, in
surrections and bloodshed—ruinous alike to both
races, and to the country which both inhabit
Ebnrr millions of free people cannot possibly be
excluded permanently from tbo opjoyment po
litical, power.—K. T. Times.
SSr~Tho Mexican Minister at "Washington is
inforaaed that Maximilian will not be allowed to.
leave Mexico until be ba3.Biencd a formal abdi-
catiso. In tbe Emperor!*. Inis excursion trip-
to Orizaba for his heaUh,.he is now said to have
b«en in reality en rw;!e for Europe, but was
slapped by General Bazaine’s order, who was
informed oMhe Emperrs,s intention through a
dispatch received tr in him (the Emporor) nt
Ycra Crux, ordering.his frigate to be reaiv for
immediate aailiag an his arrival in tbat oify.
wi&h. democrats to look tiro fact
squarely iu the- faco that negro suffrneo will
come. Within the pa-t week old slave! o'der.*
and leaders in.th* rebellion have waited on the
President nnJ have urged him tode-inro for im
partial suZragoapd universal nmnssty.—Chica
go Times.
And yat, i5 it comes it must ccaaa by the free
action tffthe Southern States.
Artsxvs Ward DEscrtini.t.TitR Puritans.
I tome off a very clever family. The Wards
is. a vory clever fnm'ly, indeed. I believe we
arc desccndid from the Paritins, who nobly
tied from aland of despotism to a land of
froedim, where they cvnjd not only enjoy
their own religion, 1 at prevent everybody
else from enjoyin his.
vvsst- :
Moral greatness, we apprehend, does
not consist in doing extraordinary things,
but in doing or.tinnry things with ;t great
mind; that i< v with a view to please hit i glo
rify God. “Win and wear it, ’ is tin motto
on the crcvA'u for which the Christian is
striving,
f-ei r "'Why, isn’t my shirt clean?" quoth one
Bohemian to another. “Woll, yes,” was tin
answer, “it’s clean for brown, but iflj awful
V \irtv to.r white.' 1