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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
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Marriage of a Minister.—General Kil
patrick, our Minister to Cliili, is improving
the morality of his private life. W:U mar '
rled, on the 21st ultimo, to Senorita louisa
Valdivieso. a mtive of the couuty to , ■.finch
he is accredited. Gen. Vickers, atbi^te )t llic
legation, has married Senorita Amelia, a sis
ter of the former bride.
Supper.—-Wo understand that the ladies
havo in contemplation the preparation, at an
early day, of a handsome supper, the benefits
of which will accrue to the destitute orphans
of our city. It is well, wo think, in the hali
day seasons, hot to forget God’s poor, b at in
our mirth and enjoyment to engage in plans
for their benefit.
‘•Tire Child’s Delight,” is a neatly print
ed and beautifully illustrated child’s paper,
published in this city, the advertisement of
which appears in onr columns. It is a South
ern Sunday School paper, “not denomination
al” in character, and should ho taken by the
Sunday Schools of our city and of other
cities. Its price is 25 cents per annum, when
a number are taken.
Warning to Trad. Stephens.—The
Cincinnati Commercial, a Radical paper,
commenting opon Thad. Stevens’ course in
Congress, says: “It becomes Mr. Stevens to
proceed with modesty. Ho will find before
tho session has far advanced, that he is not
the leader of the House, and that its practi
cal men will refuse to follow him in an antic
dance of rampant radicalism.”
“The Young Mj* hookers.”—The author
has laid on our table a new edition of this
excellent story, which is too well known to a
large majority of onr readers to require a
word of praise from the press. The Maroon-
cra is the prince of Christmas Books, and if
there is a family of children without a copy,
K should bo immediately supplied. It will
bo found on sale at Mr. Boardman’s and J.
W. Burko & Co.’s. It is not tpo late for
country dealers to send in their orders. For
a small sum a familycan be supplied with the
very best story for the young that has appear
ed in tho present generation.
Christmas akd Christmas Gifts.—Wc
stepped into Havens & Brown’s, yesterday,
and were delighted with the many elegant
and beautiful books, suitable for Christmas
and New Year’s presents, that we saw. Old
and young, male and female, can there Hud
something handsome to suit them, or to suit
some loved one on whom they desire tr be
stow a heat gift. The children’s toy bcoks,
books of illustrated poetry, splendid edit ions
of the Poets, elegantly bound, are especially
worthy of notice. Let those who contem.
plate bestowing books upon the little ones,
and gladdening their hearts with toy btoks
gorgeously illuminated, give Messrs. Havens
& Brown a call.
Christmas Gifts for the Little Ones! say we.
Southwestern Circuit.—The voters o!
hi9 Circuit will see, from the announcement
n this day’s Telegraph, that Hon. David J.
fason is a candidate for Judge ot the Sipo-
■ior Court at the election in January. Mr.
Phson is now discharging the duties of the
jffice under Executive appointment, and, we
ire pleased to hear, gives universal sati dae
mon. It could not well be otherwise; for to
i mind well stored with legal learning, long
’amiliarity with the forms of law, high moral
sense, and winning suavity of manner, theic
ire few men in onr State better qualified, as
x whole, for the administration of justice
imong his fellow-citizens. "Without design
ing to disparage the claims of any candidate,
ivc can say of n truth that the Circuit would
lionor itself in bis election.
Mexico akd Maximilian.—It is a rarity
to get the truth about affrirs in Mexico, ( spe
cially through Northern journals. Our read
ers will, therefore, enjoy, as we have done,
the interesting letter copied elsewhere from
the New Orleans Picayune. That journal, in
onr opinion, speaks truthfully when it says
the people who elected Maximilian Empjror,
and still support him, are the only people in
Mexico who arc worthy of being called civil-’
ized. They are naturally, from feelings of
patriotism and self-interest, the firm advocates
of order and good government. In Maxi
milian thty found a man who, by his lank,
executive ability and education, was peculi-
ly fitted for the place, as acknowledged by
all. He is a gentleman of comprehensive
mind, elegance of culture, and rare political
sagacity and tact, as he proved himself to be
in the government of Lombardy. If, prompt
ed by a high and honorable ambition to give
a good Government to Mexico, he has been
willing to sacrifice ease, and society, and rank
in his own country, and take up his residence
in far distant land, we think the Mexisans will
consult th ir own interest and honor in sup
porting him by every means in their power.
THE TELEGRAPHIC QUARREL.
It is known to our readers that two Asso
ciations are dow in existence proposing to
furnish the press of the country with tele
graphic information—tho “New York Asso
ciated Pre**,” which has been in operation
many years, and the “ United States and Eu
ropean News Association,” at the head of
which isMr. Craig, who, fora longtime,con
dneted tho affairs of the former. Mr. Craig
quarrelled and split with the New York As
sociation, and formed the new concern. The
strife has been fierce between tho rival estab
lishments, each saying many hard things of,
and promising to out do, tho other. Their
present service is nttendod with immense ex
pense, extending far beyond their receipts
from the press ot the country, and, as a nec
essary consequence, without a compromise
ooe or the other must go by the board.—
Neither can stand the present heavy drain
upon its coffers long.
Our own course in the mutter has been to
stand still and trke no part in the quarrel,
though we observe that several of our con
temporaries have not been able to resist the
temptation to become the champions of their
choice, respectively. Wo have been served
bv the New York Association for a
long time, have been generally content
with their work, and considered
it had policy to change upon nothing better
than a promise of a better service. Thus far,
upon comparison of the reports of the two
associations, wc have seen no reason to re
gret our determination. Tho reports of the
New York Association please us, and w#
hope they are satisfactory to our readers.—
We are very sure they would not be bettered
by a change. This is a matter, though, of
taste and judgment; wc have exercised our
own and have not the slightest objection to
every editor of the South enjoying the same
privilege.
MAXIMILIAN IX MEXICO.
RE-ESTABLISIIMENT OF THE EMPIRE.
THE
CLERGY GIVE TWENTY-FIVE
MILLION DOLLARS.
THE MERCHANTS TEN MILLION DOL
LARS ANNUALLY.
Rejoicing at Vera Crui-BcIIi Runs and Bonfires
Lighted—Tho Susquehanna off Vera Crax—The
French Flar Not Sainted—Pass Asked of French
Admiral—Terrible Fear of the Americans—R.ail-
road3, Tdesraptu and Guerrillas.
[Special Correepondenco of the N. 0. Picayune.]
Vera Cruz, Dec. 2/1896.
I have not long ago arrived here from Bra
zos dc Santiago, and venture to pnt my«;lf in
communication with you. It appears to me
needless to mention the late occurrences on
the borders, since you bavo such facilities lor
information thence; but here it H quite dif
ferent, and there is, I believe, a small risk in
sending communications to a periodical of
your standing, influence and merit: fpr these
reasons I write to you.
The Empire bas just passed throuch a se
rious crisis. Maximilian has proved himself
a clever gold seeker. He bas done more than
draw blood from a stone—lie has got money
from bishops. The clergy of this country a
few days ago placed at the Emperor’s disposal
twenty-five millions of dollars lor immediate
use, and promise a similar sum annually to en
able him t« keep up an army.
The merchants of Mexico pledged them
selves at the same time to give him ten mil
lions annually, and on these representations
he has decided on retaining his crown, and
“ shedding the last drop ot his blood in de
fine* of the nation.”
Last Saturday mominsr. •» a o’clock, Vcm
Cruz was aroused from its slumbers by a furi
ous ringing of church bells and a prodigious
pyrotcchnical display. Nine-tenths of the
people, knowing that it was no feast day. im
mediately concluded that the Liberals were
trying to tnke the city, and consequently eve
rybocly was speedily out of bed.
' Meanwhile a brass band made its appear
ance, parading tlie principal streets, accom
panied by a band ot eight or ten others scat
tering Chinese crackers along tlie route, so
that the folk might not be disturbed by the
music! This had the effect intended—to
draw every one to the “plaza principal,”
where, under the portals ot the municipal
palace, the partisans of the Empire were en
gaged in signinga seriespf resolutions thank
ing tlie Emperor for his just condescension
in consenting to remain thoir monarch and
preserver. A little later, a proclamation was
published by the Prefect Politico, of which
the following is a translation:
“ Long live the Empire,
Long Tiro the Emperor.”
Vera Crutantt—One of the most fortuitous
events for true Mexicans has just taken place
in the nation. His Majesty, the Emperor,
who has made so many sacrifices for the wel
fare and happiness of our dear country, has
given the last proof of the regard which it
claims. When borne down by the natural
sentiments which conflicted and yet strug
gled in Iris soul, because ot the indisposition
of his august and noble wife, our beloved
sovereign, it may have been believed for a mo
ment that be had temporarily abandoned the
country in devotion to the sacred duty of
rendering to his meritorious consort the care
which she so much n<;cds in her present deli
cate condition. Tlie Emperor nevertheless
sacrifices himself for us; defers his duty, as a
man to that which his honor as a ruler di
rects him, and in these critical moments
through which the country is passing, solemn
ly declares that he will be at its hsa 1, and
fight without rest, even to shedding the iast
drop of his blood in defence of the nation.—
Vera Cruzanos—Let us congratulate our
selves. Let ns give thanks to God for having
preserved the integrity ol our territories; and
with all the power of our hearts let us hail
the resurrection Jay of our nationality, which
was about to disappear.
D. Bureau.
The immediate causes ot this rescue to
Maximilian are no secret whatever. Tho gen
eral rumor circulated in the American press,
to the effect that Juarez bad sold part of the
Mexican territories to the Government of the
United States, raised an alarm in the minds
of the “Fathers” that nothing could dissi
pate, Meanwhile, there were not wanting
ugents, particularly among the officials of a
certain army, to circulate industriously the
talk of the Americans having agreed to pur
chase thedebt of France in this country; and
the arrival of the Susquebsnnah with Gen
eral Sherman and Mr. Campbell, to arrange
the negotiation with the authorities here,
was confidently predicted, but much doubt
ed. Other agents there were, who talked
to groups of Mexicans in these words:
“Who took from you one-third, the richest
part of your territory, in 1848 ? Who chased
you from Texas, gave you tho name of
‘greasers,’ and called you ‘a nation of hooded
whores and blanketed thieves’; who even,
in your own country, treat you like slaves—
pushing you from the side-walk of your own
streets? The Americans.” And in this way
many of those who dislike Maximilian, and
hate the Empire, have been induced to dread
the advent of the Americans much more
than the French occupation. In this state ol
things, Maximilian remained apparently un
decided at Orizaba, and each day tbe rumor
ran: “ The Emperor will embark to-morrow—
the French will leave in December.” On the
evening of the 29th of November, the much
talked off Susqnchannah made her appear-
nnce ofl tbe harbor, and anchored about five
miles out, by a little island southeast of San
Juan de UUoa. This appeared to put the cap
on the movement in favor of the Empire, and
on the 1st instant, Saturday morning, Maxi
milian having received the promise of the
money, telegraphed his resolution. The Sus-
quehiinnah's arrival has clone nothing toward
strengthening the good feeling of the French
for the States. The French officials here are
very angry because tho French flag was not
saluted, and they say: “Although the Amer
icans do not recognize the Empire, they re
cognize France, and wc are slighted by the
omission.” Consequently, when a lieutenant
from the Susquchannah landed on Saturday
morning, the 1st instant, he was stopped at
tho gate of tho custom-bouse by the Port
Captain, a Mexican, who informed him that
he could not pass into the town without
permission from the French Admiral.—
The lieutenant then made his way to tlie
French flag-ship, and after a delay of a cou
ple of hours, returned with tho permission
required, and was allowed to enter. He re
turned to his ship very shortly, with papers
and letters, apparently, escorted by Mr. Saul
nier, tho American Consul, the observed o
all observers. The Susquehannah remained
at her anchorage until 12 P. M., Sunday,
when she left, by report, for Tampico, and
has left all the world surmising if, on her
next visit, she will not come somewhat closer
to those guns which bit so feebly in 1846,
and salute with shotted guns, that flag, which
hitherto was accustomed to fly beside the
stars and stripes—a brother and ally. Maxi
milian’s resolve, and tho much talked ot thir
ty five millions, appear to have very much
brightened up things already, and it is said
we aie to have more railroads, telegraph
wires, etc., etc., while an army is to be in
stantly raised and sent on to Tampico, under
“ Duping who at present, rides with a squad
of five hundred contra guerrillas, between
this city and Paso del Macho, capturing some
few unfortunates every week, who are imme
diately fusil ad ed. . The last capture was tlie
famous Capt. Norris, of Matamoras celebrity.
He was brought into Vera Cruz on the night
of the 28th, and shot the next morning. Norris
was a Canadian of Irish descent, and a re
markably cool uud determined, freebooter.—
After having sold his accomplice to “Mejia,”
at Matamoras—the affair is no doubt fresh in
your memory—he came over to Vera Cruz as
Captain in tha contra-guerillas, and was ar
rested with a Doctor Baber, and a Mexican
called Sanchez, for conspiracy with the Libe
rals. Dr. Baber committed suicide in prison,
Banchez was shot, and Capt. Norris succeeded
in making his escape, joining the Liberals at
Medellin, where he was last captured. “Sic
transit gloria guerilla).” The latest “on (lit’"
(La Ere Nouvale is responsible for it) is that
Porfirio Diaz has given in his adhesion to the
Empire, and that Ortega’s partisans, as ii
whole, are following suit If such be the
ca«e, you will soon have Mejia on the border
again, and it is certainly remarkable that the
chieis of the Liberal party have exercised un
usual moderation of late towards their cap
tures. “Delatorre” holds Jalapa undisturbed-
up to the present Vera Cruz is very quit
and very dull; but sickness is on the decline,
and the' folk are venturing out a little and
trying to be entertained by a second class
opera company, which bolds the theatre at
present. We shall have the water of Jalappa
in the eity probably before the beginning of
tlie year, the work of laying the pipes being
rapidly carried on.
I am, dear sir, ycur obedient servant,
L. S.
Washington Correspondence Boston Poet J
Mrs. Surratt’s House Haunted.
■ There is a three-story brick tenement, in
tbe middle-of a block, fronting upon one of
Washington’s lesser thoroughfares, that is
making itself peculiarly obnoxious to timid
people, and ridiculous among tbe stouter-
hearted. The buildiDg in question is none
other than that belonging to Sirs. Surratt, ex
ecuted as one ot the conspirators of the a«s ag
ination. and in which she was apprehended
and led forth for accusation and tlie gallows.
In tbe coarse of settlement of her estate, the
house in question was offered for sale, and
even then 'the public seemed shy and in
different to the purchase, and so it came that
a property worth, by moderate comparison,
$10,000, fell under the hammer at the ins’g
nificant sum of $4,600. Tlie new landlord,
therefore, instituted such improvements as
completely changed the aspect of the prop
erty, and all bnt transferred its site, and in
the course of time came a tenant; but not to
remain. In less than six weeks the lessee had
flown from beneath the roof, forfeited his
year’s rental, and vas ready to swear with
chattering teeth, that his nervous system was
shattered for a lifetime.
Others succeeded in the occupancy of the
house be had vacated, in turn, to make
hudering exit. Mrs. Surratt’s house is
naunted. There can be no reasonable doubt
tpon the subject. 8he herself persists in
reading its halls, and perambulating thes
premises, in the dead of night, clad in those
self-same robes of serge in which she suffered
the penalty of the law. In costume, she dif
fers from the “woman in white” unmistaka
bly, but that the general effect is none the less
thrilling and altogether fatal to the compo
sure of the observer, is positively averred by
each successive occupant of the mansion.—
People who reside within adjoining walls are
not troubled with either sights or sounds, but
they begin to have a wholesome dread of the
mansion in their midst, and have actually
procured a reduction of their rental upon the
ground of an exposure to an unabatahle nui
sance. Thus the whole of a very common
place neighborhood is infected with a fancy
that keeps them within door? of nights, and
causes the local juveniles to abandon their
games in the court-yards with the sinking of
the sun.
Senator Doolittbb Hopeful.- Senator
Doolittle, of Wisconsin, was at New Orleans
last week on a professional engagement, and
was invited to speak. In a note declining, on
account of the brevitj of his visit, he says
I have secu nothing to change, but much to
confiitu, the views expressed by me in the
Senate last winter, in the National Union
Convention at Philadelphia, and at other
places during the late canvass in the North
era States.
While the time ot their full recognition
may be postponed by the result of the recent
elections longer than I could have wished,
my faith is still unshaken that, at no distant
day, the people of the Northern States will
recognize, as the President and the Supreme
Court have already recognized, these States
of the South as States of the Union, under
the Constitution, with “ all their rights, dig
nity and equality unimpaired.”
It i9 just as certain, in iny judgment, as
that the people of the Northern States are
capable ot maintaining republican govern
ment for themselves.
William Penn.—At a banquet given re
cently in Philadelphia to the eminent Eng
lish author and essayist, William Hepwortb
Dixon, editor of the London “Athensenm,”
one of the speakers gave some interesting de
tails in relation to the family and descend
ants of the illustrious founder of the Key
stone State.
It appears that there are now living but
two representatives of the great Quaker
statesman—I. Granville Penn, who visited
this countiy a few years since, and a brother
who is insane. Mr. Penn, in his trip to this
country ascertained that tlie estates he ex
pected to recover here bad either passed be
yond his legal control, or we e valueless;]
and the only remaining representatives of the
founder of the great commonwealth which
bears his name, have become reduced and
are in need of assistance to relieve them from
the actual pinch of poverty.
Steps are to be taken in the State Legisla
ture ot Pennsylvania, looking to the speedy
relief of these tfhlbrtunate representatives of
Penn, and it is thought that a handsome pro
vision will be made for them.
The Lanier.—Mine host of Urn favorite
hotel is out this morning in a card to the
public. The metamorphosis oftlie establish
ment under the hands of carpenters, plaster
ers and upholsters, is as pleasant to look up
on as it is complete, and the table is now
surpassed by none in the State. With neat
and well furnished rooms, the fat of the land
to feed upon, and an obliging landlord to
look after his every want, the visitor to Ma
con will find the Lanier a hotel in the best
sense of tbe word. Try it.
By good right, our Senior has taken a
short recreation trip to Montpelier, to witness
the Commencement exercises of the Montpe
lier Female Institute. Those who know some
thing of the continued strain of editing, and
of the exhausting night work of an editor,
will understand how an editor appreciates
such a trip, consequent upon a kind and
pressing invitation.
An act has been passed, and signed
by the Governor, protecting the right of mar
ried women. It provides tuat all tho prop
erty of the wife at the time of her marriage,
whether real or personal, or chosen in action,
shall be and remain the separate property of
the wife; and that all property giveu to, in
herited or acquired by the wife, during cov-
eture, shall vest in and belong to the wife,
and shall not be liable for the payment of any
debt, default, or contract of the husband.
United States Law Suits in France.
- -It has transpired that the Government has
pending in England and France suits amount
ing to about $20,000,000 for tbe recovery of
Confederate property claimed by other par
ties, and tbe House of Representatives on the
13th inst;, granted the State Department a
considerable sum of money with which to
prosecute these suits to a conclusion, and also
to defray the expenses of hunting up and
capturing John H. Surratt.
Arrival of Fruit.—The schooner James
A. Brown arrived on Saturday morning last,
from HaTannah, (eight days voyage,) with a
cargo of 80,700 oranges, 87 dozen pine-ap-
plef, 65 bunches of bananas, and ten bunches
of plantains, all consigned to Messrs. J. A. &
J. F. Brown. This is the first arrival of fruit
from that port this season.
John Morrissey is said to support
four pensioner*, three disabled soldiers and a
hunchback. He imposes two conditions up
on them—that they shall neither drink nor
gamble.
THE MANIA OF THE DAY. required, it miglii have been endurable. As
Every 'period ef history.hos been marked ] it is now, it w ill bring to the polls somfc five
thousand negroes wlio are little better than
cattle, besides a few dozen really respectable
colored men, whom nobody would object to
by its specific folly or mania—the prevalence
of some particular idea that, in all other pe
riods, is considered pernicious or absurd.
There is no accounting for this erratic idio-
syncracy of the human mind. It must fly off
in a tangent at tames, if only to give cvfdufce
of tbe humanity that is an element of its con
stitution. It may be that there is some truth
in Shakspeare’s idea, when he spoke ot “er
rors of the moou,” though it must bo con
fessed that the “Queen of Night” has changed
very often of late years not to have lost its
maddening effect upon the human brain.
The great and fatal mania of tbe presept
day is the delusion that, in order to liaVe
good government, everybody mutt tote. Our
Democratic friends took the mala/ly years
ago in a modified form, but the Radicals’ of
tho present day have borrowed their views
and greatly improved upon them—if a prp-
gress in error can be said to be an improve
ment. A year ago, tho idea was that every
body in pants should be entitled to a vote;
now, Wendell Phillips and Henry Ward Bee
cher, who dictate the principles and policy ot
this country, have gone a stride further, and
propose to include petticoats / Others are
for abolishing all naturalization laws, and
giving everybody a vote who is on our soij
and says he intends to remain lit re. The hex,
step will be to include hovs and girls of six
teen and over, and it would be far wiser than
some of the reforms already inaugurated' and
in full operation in some portions of the coun
try. There is not a white boy of sixteen, and
with respectableadvantages,who is notfar bet
ter qualified, mentally and morally; to take
part in the selection ot our rulers, than our
former ignorant plantation slaves, who never
hod a thought beyond what they slioui duat
ancf wear.
What a prospect is here opened up for our
country! What manner of nation are We t°
become when all these odds and eqds of cre
ation shall be mixed up with the decent and
enlightened portion of the population, and
together attempt to establish and perpetuate
free institutions on the American continent 1
Who does not turn away, even from the (Urn
vision now vouchsafed of the future, with a
heart sick and failing within him f God
help us, we say, and deliver us from onr own
folly!
The government of the mob has but one
practical solution, and that is, military or
elective despotism. Power will be required'
to bring tlie jarring elements of society back
into form and order, and we may add, in the
light of all history, terrible will be the pro
cess of transformation. The mania, though^
must have its day and run its course. From
everybody voting, we shall rapidly reach the
period when nobody will vote, and the abuse
of a great privilege shall reap its harvest of
woe in the overthrow of every vestige of
liberty, and the substitution of despotic rule
in the place of our own free and glorious ia
stitutions.
Such is the progress of our country in the
road to ruin. Is there no potent voice that
can recall us from the maelstrom into which
we are plunging—no arm to turn back this
tide of human misery that is about to over
whelm us in one common disaster ? None
tha: we can see in the wide, black, barren
moial waste before us. Heaven alone seems
able to stay tbe march of the destroyer; and
may not even the Great Kuler of the Uni
verse have given us up to self-destruction as
a just punishment—“ to believe a lie that we
may be damned ” ?
Yet, we may at least hope for the best.
True, we cast our eyes in vain over our un
happy country for a man who is equal to the
demands of the fearlul crisis. All power is
in the hands of the destructives, and even tbe
great and good who, in other days, could
win the popular heart and control the popu
lar will. have either passed away from earth
or retired, appalled, from the terrors of the
storm. But, there is a greater than man.
Perhaps He, in His own good time, may lead
us triumphantly through the wilderness.
have vote.
A resolution to take a recess from the 20tli
instant to the 3 1 of January, has passed the
House by a two-third vote, 51 members voting
against it. The-Senate will probably concur
in tliis.
The position ot the Supreme Court on the
Test Oath case is now said to be as follows:
Additional argument will be heard, but the
decision is made np, and will not I e altered.
Efivj) of thp Judges are said, to be firefly qon
vniced of the unconstitutionality ot the Act,
and to have plainly expressed that conviction
Jn written opinions,. Four of them, includ
ing tho'Chief Justice, are in favor ct tlie con
stitutionality of the Act; and the influence
of tlie lntter will be exerted to prevent any
decision at all from being rendered at this
term. , ' 1 « " ■’’
The bill providing for the meeting of tbe
40th Congress on the 4th of March, which
has already passed the House, will most with
uo opposition from the Senate, ao far as the
Republican senators are concerned. The
radical readers are determined to make a sure
thing of their programme, and If any of their
measures fail to pass this Winter, they will be
brought up and pushed through next
Our Washington Correspondence.
LETTER FROM “WARWICK.’'
PROGRESS OF THE RADICAL PROGRAMME IN
THE HOUSE—N EURO SUFFRAGE TO 1)8
FORCED ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—
THE SUPREME COURT AND THE TE8T OATH—
WHY SURBlTT WAS NOT ARRESTED BE
FORE—WHAT HE IS REPORTED TO SWEAR TO.
Washington, Dec, 14.
Congress has shown itself to be in earnest,
in its detcrminatior to pass the measures
composing the programme adopted by the
Radical caucus. Ous of these measures has
been already passed by the House, viz: the
one tnat provides that the ten Southern
States shall not be represented in the Forti
eth Congress. The bill for this purpose was
introduced on the 11th inst., and was rushed
through the House in a few minutes, under
the operation of the previous question. Not
one word of discussion upon the measure was
allowed. Tho Democratic members attempt
ed to protest against the wicked measure, but
they weio not allowed to do so. They at
tempted to protest against the unseemly haste
of the passage of the bill, but they were not
allowed to do that. Tho bill is now before
the Senate. There, at least, Mr. Doolittle,
Mr. Cowan, Rcverdy Johnson, and Garrett
Davis, will expose its unconstitutionality nnd
its gross injustice towards the South. But it
will pass that body too, and, after being ve
toed, will pass both Houses by a two-thirds
vote.
The next measure on tho programme—the
bill to prevent the electoral vote of the ten
Southern States trom being counted at the
next Presidential election—is now before the
House/and will undoubtedly be passed by a
two-thirds majority.
The bill forcing negro suffrage, without any
qualification, upon the District of Columbia,
against tho unanimous wish of tho inhabi
tants, has passed the Senate by the following
vote:
Yeas.—Anthony, Brown, Cattcll, Chand
ler, Conness, Creswell, Edmunds, Fessenden,
Fogg, Frelinghuyscn, Grimes, Harris, Hen
derson, Howard, Howe, Kirkwood, Lane, Mor
gan, Morrill, Poland, Pomery, Ramsey, Ross,
Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Trum
bull, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson—33.
Nays.—Buckalew, Cowan, Davis, Dixon,
Doolittle, Foster, Hendricks, Nesmith. Nor
ton, Patterson, Riddle, Saulsbury, Van Win
kle—13.
Reverdy Johnson had paired off with Mr.
Yates, of Illinois. This bill will also pass
the House and be vetoed, and then what its
fate will be is uncertain. The House will
again pass it by a two-third vote: but there
are some faint chances that tbe Senate may
not do so. It will be a dreadful calamity for
Washington. Had a property qualification,
or a proper educational qualification, been
The Probj-terinn General Assembly.
In the General Assembly of the Presbyte
rian Church, in session at Memphis, on Mon
day, after the transaction ot some routine
business the discussion on the subject ot “ The
relations of the Church to the freedmen ” was
resumed. Dr. . Baird ' submitted a series ot
.•resolutions by way of a substitute lor the
resolutions already before tho Assembly.—
'Afur discussion tha whole subject, together
with both series of resolutions, was recommit
ted. to the committee, with instructions to re
port at the ensuing session.
At tbe evening session the committee re
ported the following, which were adopted;
1. That .this Assembly entertains for the
rmI pt'oplfc the'sinccrcst sentiments of good
will and affection ; that it earnestly desires
and prays for their salvation, and would en
courage the carrying out of every legitimate
means for the promotion of their spiritual
good.
■ _ . ■ Spring
or Summer. It is intruded that tbe 40tli
Congress shall sit till the end of July, and
then reassemble on-the 1st of November!
According to theauthority at present vested
in the Secretary ot the Treasury, the national
paper currency is being contracted at the rate
of $4,000,000 a month. Congress is disposed
to take this authority away, and to make no
provision lor any reduction in the volume of
the currency. But it is very difficult to get
the attention of Congress upon any subject,
except legislation for the negro.
The arrest of a person supposed to be a son
of the unfortunate Mrs. Surratt, excites a
wonderful degree of interest here. It seems
that when John H, Surratt left here, after the
murder of Mr. Lincoln, he went to Canada,
arid Remained there several months; that the
government knew lie was there, but retrained
from demanding his arrest under onr extradi
tion treaty with England, for a very singular
reason. The authorities both of England and
Canada regarded the offence with which Sur
ratt was charged, it is said, as being a politi
cal one, and would, therefore, have refused to
give him up under the extradition treaty.
Wherefore the government refrained from de
manding his surrender, in order that he might
not be seen by nil the world to be reposing
under the shadow and protection of the Brit
ish Lion 1 From Canada, Surratt went to
England; and on the 13th of October, 1865,
the acting Secretary of State wrote to the U.
S. Consul at Liverpool, that “on consultation
with the Secretary of War and Judge Advo
cate Holt, it is not thought advisable to take
any steps for the arrest of the supposed Sur
ratt at present.”
In other words, our consular agents in Eng
land were ordered not to attempt to arrest
Surratt. Why was this ? When poor Mrs.
Surratt was arrested, a perfectly innocent
women, it was Stanton and Holt vilio “got
up” the evidence that sent her to the scaffold.
That it was evidence of the Conover kind,
every one in Washington, who knew Mrs.
Surratt’s lady-like and Christian character,
believes. John H. Surratt knows all about
this “evidence,” and his mother’s innocence;
and it might be unpleasant and inconvenient
for Messrs. Stanton and Holt to be confronted
with him.
Conover has confessed that he swore to
whatever Stanton and Holt ordered him to
swear to, because they paid him for doing
so. When Surratt arrives here, ho is to be
threatened with the gallows, but Ills lite is
to be promised to him, it he will make a dis
closure of all that he knows about the assas
sination conspiracy, under the direction of
Judge Advocate Holt! A pretty disclosure
this will be! Holt made Conover swear that
Jefferson Davis was an active accomplice in
the murder of Mr. Lincoln. He will no
doubt make Surratt swear that Jefferson De
vis and President Johnson are both implica
ted in that, tragedy. Warwick.
Vew England—Past and Present.
The Puritans of New England, in their
early history and up to the time ot tlie Amer
ican Revolution, both held slaves and encour
aged the slave trade from Africa. In fact,
nearly all the negro slaves in the then colo
nies were brought from Africa in their ves
sels and for tlieir’ profit. Not only that, but
they took Indians and sold them to distant
slavery in the West Indies. Among those
wliom they thus transported were the wife
and children of the celebrated King Philip,
an Indian chieftain ot Tcmarkablc sagacity
and bravery, who had been the leader in the
war against them. A less magnanimous and
more brutal outrago than this, upon the de
fenceless family of a fallen foe, does not stain
or disgrace our annals. The cruelty of the
race wa9 well displayed in their warfare up
on Indian towns and villages, to which they
set fire, then, forming a line around them,
they involved all in one common destruction,
shooting those who endeavored to. escape
from the flames. They burnt people for be
ing witches—they hung nnd pressed Qua
kers to death—they banished Baptists from
their midst—and enacted the most barbarous
and cruel criminal code generally that is to
be found in any history or in any nation.
In addition” to being the patron of the
slave trade and tho sustainer ot negro slave
ry, they early became the promoters of in
temperance and drunkness, by manufactur
ing and exporting large quantities of a delec
table liquor and vile compound known as
New England rum. Such being the antece
dents of the ancestors of the present inhabi
tants of New England, how singular it is
that the latter have been able, by tlieir
skill in the art of falsification, to create a
wide-spread impression that there is some
thing about Plymouth Rock and the Slay-
flower in reminiscence that is opposed to
slavery, and intemperance, and inhumanity,
and which is in harmony with the now pro
fessed ideas of New England upon these sub
jects. Tho orators and writers ot the East
ern States—especially those of the Radical
persuasion—are never weary of repeating, in
eloquent strain, their eulogies upon the po
litical merits of the men of Plymouth Rock
and the Mayflower, as the great champions
of human 'freedom and morality! They
were, indeed, in favor of civil and religious
liberty for themselves, but opposed to any
body else having it. So far as it can be
gathered from its political nets and doc-
frines, that is the New England idea to-day,
one to which it has ever besn faithful, and
which it vigorously enforces and maintains
with all its power. ,
The change of time and circumstances has
modified the expression of public opinion;
but the same harshness and severity, the
same intolerance and bigotry which charac
terized the early Puritaus, still abides with
their descendant?. Neither the ancestor or
the successor ever had a glimmering notion
that there could be such a thing as men liv
ing together in amity, nnd agreeing to dis
agree upon subjects of political or religious
concern. They have a narrow, Procrustean
bed, and everybody must he trimmed or cut
down to suit it.
As an illustration of this spirit it is worthy
of note that when the Puritan was oblige!
to flee from England into Holland, where he
was hospitably received, he made grave com
plaint and abused the Dutch, because the
latter did not adopt his religious notions!—
This they set forth as one ol the causes that
led them to seek refuge in New England.—
This spirit, transmitted to tlieir descendants,
has been ono of the great causes ©f the late
civil war in this country. Tho disposition to
interfere and meddle with the affairs of other
peoplo and other States embroiled them with
the South and ultimately led to an armed col
lision that desolated and impoverished the
country.—Cin. Enquirer.
Why are circus horses like windmills?
Because they go round and round.
SCANDALOUS.
We turn the author of the fo]|o, v ; n
-erel over to the Under mercies & 4
We make no apologies for him ~
neither youth nop ^
clemency. We have
ibis ac
oration. Hero what he lies t
MUtteud 1
fliis was the result of i
ev e tu
„ ure (W
As alon” the streets I blu/u’erul
Mach 1 marvelea, much I noridiL
Soeimr fichu andUlags that men,.
Never saw or dreamed before •
On the pavement came arapphU
As of foot-tails gently tappim- '
And I heard .« musll a—flapp/IL
Which my eye would fain explore
“•Tis some female,” then I mutter.’,.
I had seen the thing b*for»—
. Only this and nothing more.
That this Assembly believe In(Tpreseat con
dition of tho colored race in this country to
be one of alarming spiritual jeopardy, end
that it is binding on us as Christians to do
all that lies in our power to save them from
the calamities by which they are threatened,
and to confer on them the richest blcssingH of
the Gospel.
2. That it be recommended to all ministers
and Churches to evert themselves to the extent
of their ability to continue to give the gospel
to.these people; to church sessions, to urge
upon parents among them the importance qt
presenting their children for baptism, and of
bringing them up in the nurture and admo
nition of the Lord; and especially to. pastors,
evangelists and" missionaries, to devote a por
tion of tlieir labors to the promotion of the
salvation of tbe freed people.
3. That, in the judgment of the Assembly,
it is highly inexpedient that there should be
an ecclesiastical separation of tlie white and
colored races; that such a measure would
threaten evil to both races, and especially to
tlie colored, and that therefore it is desirable
that every warrantable effort should be made
affectionately to dissuade the freed people
trom severing their connection with our
churches, and to retain them with' us as of
old. Should they decline the fellowship of
ordinances, and desire a separate organiza
tion, then our sessions are authorized to or
ganize them into branch congregations. In
such cases, the '"Assembly recommends that
such congregations shall be allowed, under
the sanction of the Sessions, to elect from
among themselves every year such number ot
superintendents, or watchmen,as the Session
may advise, who shall be charged with the
oversight of such, congregations. ■ ltese su
perintendents shall report to the Sessions, for
their action, all matters relating to the wel
fare of said congregations.
4. Whenever Presbyteries may find it ne
cessary to organize separate colored congre
gations, they shall appoint a commission of
elders^ who shall discharge the functions
committed to tbe Sessions in the preceding
resolution. y ,
.5. That nothing in our standards or in the
Word of God prohibits the introduction in
to tlie gospel ministry ol duly qualified per
sons of any races, yet difficulties arise in (lie
general structure of society and from provi
dential causes, which may and should re
strain the application, of causes in the church
of this abstract principle. Holding this in
view, the Assembly recommends that when
ever a Session or Presbytery shall find a co
lored person who possesses suitable qualifica
tions, they are authorized to license hint to
labor ns an exborter among the colored peo
ple under tlie supervision of the body ap
pointing him.
6. That the Assembly recommends that
wherever it. is practicable, Sabbath schools
for the benefit of tho freed people, especially
the young, be established in connection with
our churches ; and that the sessions of the
churches take these'schools into their charge
and provide suitable teachers for them.
7. That the heads of families, are exhorted j
to encourage the freed people in their house
holds to attend family and public worship,
and that they provide for them’hs tar as pos
sible catechetical instruction in the doctrines
and duties of the gospel.
6. That tile General Assembly earnestly dc
sires the intellectual and moral improvement
of the colored race, and hereby tenders to all
persons suitably qualified who may labor iu
tlie work its hearty encouragement and sup
port
Caqae this female swecpiBc by
Fearing she s .on’.d chance to m* J.
Suddenly I stepped info a
Friendly, waiting, open door-
Thence I.tfu. tlie lovely n,. .l en L_
being from some distant Aden-
All perfumed aud dry couds laj,..,
Paas me and go on before • ’
Nought had It© do bnt foils.vr
.And note down the things she
’Twas a mystery to explori 0l ®»
And I lound—by close impection-
That her bangbty upper section
Something chance had called a bor u
On its pericranium wore -
And her bosom was heaving slowK-
’Neath a garment fashioned lowly 0 ’
And 1 knew the movement whnii’_
) movement wholly
1 bad never seen belore; *•
For 1 knew ’twas “patent heaver*”
That this radiant maiden Wore
Only tjieiu and uothing more. ’
And her cheeks were lull and tost
I could tell you, inter not a
8eeret that a druggist told me
Of the color that she wore-
Yet her checks were very pleasinr
But her look at me waa ireeziug
And she showed a sign ol sneering
As she swept along before-
i swept along before;
And she sneezed a pair of
Out a yard at least belore; 1
Ouly this and nothing more.
Then I noticed an uncertain
Lifting of the. muslin curtain,
That her feet had defily hidden
From my errant eye betorc;
With each lilt came a desire
That 'twonld lift a little higher
And at last it did aspire ’
Higher than I had seen before-
Andl knew it was a “tiiter” '
1 That this saintly maiden wore
Just a “tllter’’—Bothingmore.
And the tilting and the rocking
Up and down the splendid stocking
Gartered by a bluisn ribbon, *’
That I enanetd tosee she wore
Showed me—twas a sight lor weeping
That a pair ol calves were creeping ’
tint of place, as she was awetpin “
LlkO a statfch queen before; 3
Calves that she had lately purchased
From a fancy dry goods store,
Patont cafvea—and not much more
And the fluttering and the flipping
Of this maiden’s gundy trappier °
Showed me sights' that never mortal
Eye had dared to sec before;
Sights revealed by •/very lilting
Of tbe folds of muslin drifting 3
Bound her, which the winds were shiltki
Eye ward, hitler, more and more •
Sights that onto mortal vision
Never were revealedbetore,
Nameless here forevermore.
And while thus her Tigging flattered
Much I wondered, ana I muttered, '
“And yon call *hm thing a woman
That is trouncing on b-fore;
She the brazen doll of fashion,
Wrapped in one tremendous paaiioa •
Sunken from her noble station, '
To ttie thing that goes before;
Oh! that ever mortal visien
should snch mystery explore.”
This 1 muttered—nothing more.
And the thought came o’er me gushing,
“Where has gone the art of blushing
That we loved in wife or maiden,
In thesaintly.days of yore?”
Call me, if you wilt, uncivil,
While I name her “thing of evil,’’
Andl wish the very devil
Had the toggery she wore,
Aud again she were arrayed in
Dresses like her mother wore.
Vanished now forever more.
Now Yorii Newspaper Gossip.
Correspondence of the Richmond Examiner.
WHAT IT COSTS TO 8TART A PAPER.
Fora new morning paper an enormons
capital would be necessary. Haifa million
would not lie a dollar too lnucli. The Tri
bune started on one hundred dollars borrow
ed money. Tlie Times absorbed one hundred
thousand dollars before it yielded a dividend.
Blit these were days of small things compared
to tlie present. The cost of every branch has
increased prodigiously, and branches of ex
penditure now exist which a few years ago
were unknown. Tlie item of telegraphing
alone would consume a fortune, us may he
supposed, when I tell you that,for sometime
after the opening of the Atlantic cable, its
dispatches alone cost the Herald, Times and
Tribune one thousand dollars each per week.
Telegraphing and corresponding constitutes
a terrible drain upon the proprietor’s puree.
Salaries, too, have taken a jump upward, and
the staff is legion. Young men remember
when two thousand dollars were esteemed a
large salary for the editor of a morning pa
per; writers and other editors were lucky
when they received fifteen hundred dollars,
and reporters and local men plodded on for
one thousand dollars. Now the managing
editor of the Tribune receives’ five thousand
dollars; the salaries of writers vary from twen
ty-five hundred to three thousand dollars;
scissors men and local paragraphists from
twelve hundred and fifty to seventeen hun
dred and fifty dollars.
THE STAFF OF TUE MORNING PAPERS.
I have said that the name ot a moruiDg pa
per’s staff is legion, and a visit to any one of
three offices in this city would satisfy you
that I do not exaggerate. Jot down the list;
managing editor; four to six editorial wri
ters; reviewers; one foreign news editor,two
domestic, commercial editor and market re
porter ; local editor, and from nine to twelve
local assistants, exclusive of phonographers
on special occasions. The Herald’s stall is
numerically the largest, the Tribune's the
most thoroughly organized, the Times doing
its work with fewer hands. The Herald en
joys the reputation of being the most liberal
to its casual couespondents; the Times pays
its contributors well, furnishes the best law-
reports, and uses its exchanges diligeutly,
hut lacks enterprise in tlie matter of foreign
correspondence. The Tribune, on the other
hand, is niggardly to its correspondents, of
whom it lias a most efficient corps. The oth
er morning papers—The "World, Journal of
Commerce and Daily News—are conducted
more economically, the Journal of Commeree
being, perhaps, the only one that can he call
ed profitable. The expenses of the evening
papers are slight in comparison.
It will be seen that Colonel L Ui
dan offers for sale his -residence, kaoncl
‘ Westover,” formerly the home of thehvj
Colonel Benjamin S. Jordan. It is dm
the most desirable residences in MhldleGtfi
gia, the Jato Colonel B. S. Jordan taringkj
stowed upon it much labor to beautify i
make it attractive. We hope that so mi
our seaboard friends may buy it, as it vifl
make a delightful summer residence ^
advertisement.
A New York dispatch says that Wa
dell Phillips is out in this week’s Anti-Skt
Standard, in favor of the negro Fred. Dot
lass as United States Senator in place of t
Harris.
Phillips objects to Greeley on accoa:
liis notorious weakness and cowardice, n
bis periodical attacks of the old Whig o
case ot compromise.
Cost" of Fun.—The amount of bo
done in the aniusement line in Now ToAc
ceedS the 'calculations of the most tunt
gant, who are uninformed of the
of the case. Three hundred and *1
enty-four thousand dollars per week is j
average revenue, and tlie winter campa?^
in with a tremendous flood of theatric n
operatic prosperity.
The Riverside Magazine, fob W
People.—This is , the first number of »*^|
and handsome Magazine for young P ! ’-
pnhlished by Hurd & Houghton “
Riverside Pres3, and sent tQ usbyt-r ]
lisliers. Its price is $3.50. and it i* *d*f-
to children of rather advanced ag*- “ 1
neatly printed, well filled, and it* 2- 0 |
tions are fine.
The Louisville Courier coi
its readers upon tlie prospect of ii*
meeting in Louisville of a national* 01 "'*
tion of patriots, and says: “We inf 0
national convention of next Msy f“
as fortunate for the National Democnt-
ty as the convention of May, 18Gdi ***
the Democratic party of Kentucky.”
Americus Crrr Election.—At an el* 0 ®
Saturday last, the following
chosen for the ensuing year:
Mayor.—T. M. Furlow.
aldermen.—A. S. Cutts, A. A.
W. Lewis, D. A. Mavo, A. R- Broff*i **
Cobb.
Ouekk and Treasurer.—John T inCT '
There will be no trial even, it is
of President Davis, as Thad. Sn ooI15 .J
I
come out boldly against making a
DC*'
Revolutionary.—The Radicals
revolutionary measures as follows:
1. To reduce teu States to Territories,
propose
under which he will be convicted. s : ' I
proving even of a trial, under th* P i
laws, by which he cannot be CO*!* 1, I
punished.
tob*3
i iS?" All Southern postollices ar® - ^
2. To deprive one-fourth of tbe people of | continued in the South where the
the Union of the right of representation. ters have tailed to make returu* ^
3. To forbid the counting of electoral, and “ one - v in their baiul3 be rEielztf
votes.
4. To punish persons for accepting office. Thu-, we suppose, t
5. Requiring unconstitutional test oaths, j pushed tor t
I j ffiir ^
To carry out these measures, they assume !
supreme powers for Congress, propose to make
the sessions of that body perpetual, and to
deprive the President of his appointing
power.
[Ext
people ® r * ’ .
faults of their pus---’
The New Orleans Times welcomes the
investigation by Congressional committee of
the New Orleans riot, and hopes that it may
he open, thorough, complete, unbiased.
■
EdgTThe Ilev. Mr. Bcynton. » j
prayed the other day in tho S° u?e 0 . p
sentatives. A Washington corr^P
says that he “made a stump spec® 1
eyes shut."’
The Charleston News
burnt distriet as being gradually bu*
ter lying waste for five years-