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Letter from Xffew TTorb.
Naw York, May G, 1SG7.
Editors Telegraph : The mutterirtgs of the
thunder are beginning to be heard, and
flashes of the lightning to be seen, which tell
of the coming tornado which will be the i And, after awhile, they will begin to blame
besom of destruction to the New England i themselves for being such fools ns to be used
despotism, and is the bow of promise to the ! ^ on t \' on ? i tnow »
South. . /
European Correspondence.
Paris, 'April 30, 1SG7.
To the Editor of the Georgia Telegraph :
We shall know definitely in a few weeks
If the Government were out of debt and
the South in the condition it was-seven yearn
ago, the New England despotism might feel
itself secure, for several years to come, at
JOB PRINTING
•^rP.irtieular attention will be given to the I least.
, cation of JOB PRINTING of every descrip- As long as cotton, rice and tobacco,
jj- ' I furnished the South the means to come into
competition with the North and East for west
ern produce, the West aided by the bribes of
the public lands, so freely giveh by the North,
could stnnd the tariff and flourish, while the
Northern manufacturers would pluck the
South on the other side. But they have
killed the goose that laid them the golden
egg.
If the South had the means to supply her
self with every thing she needs from the
West and North, Western produce would in
crease in price fifty if not a hundred per
cent, within a month. Wc should hear noth
ing of the great depression of business intlio
commercial cities, nor should wc have heard
anything of a bankrupt law.
The West is now feeling sorely what she
has never felt before—the weight of taxation,
and she is destined tosufferundcr it until sho
will feel that it is intolerable. Not only is
she suffering from the oppressions of the tar
iff, but from other taxation, and she cannot
look to tho South for relief; on the contrary,
the South, from being a customer, must bo
come a competitor. It is not simply a matter
of policy but a matter of necessity, that the
South shall for some time devote all her ener
gies and resources to tlio production of pro
visions.
I am not one of those who hold that a
man should raise provisions when, with half
the labor in raising cotton he could buy the
provisions. If the South were well supplied :
Sonnv For. It.—Our friend Bard, of the
Atlanta New Era, Is much distressed because
rrc are of the opinion that Mr. Davis’ bonds
men should have been bis friends, and not
men who have been bitterly denouncing him
[efyears as a “traitor,” undsomc of whom
would have gladly seen him hung on a gallows.
Despite our friend’s protest, wc feci con
strained to think so still, and we do so on a
point of manifest propriety, not from bitter
ness, roTCUge, or even “ uncharitablencss.”
IVfc think tho chapter read to us from First
Corinthians admirable. Wc always liked its
sentiments, preached them to others, and
tried to follow them ourselves, so far as poor
humanity would permit, especially that verse I
which reads, “ Rejoiccth not in iniquity, but
rejoiccth in the truth.” You have mistaken
ul Doctor. Wc have no “ bitterness ” nor |
“malice" in our heart, except for truckling,
meanness and vice. With all our charity,
though, until times shall have greatly changed,
wc fear wc shall bo but poor imitators of
-the Master’s spirit.” Wo cannot love those
who would insult and wrong the defenceless.
...
Sound Doctrine.—About the only thing
we have yet seen in the Atlanta Opinion that
met our hearty approval is the following,
, m l wc aro glad to sec that in preaching it
the editor lias begun “at Jerusalem”:
If there over was n time when the interest
of the country demanded that the people
should disengage themselves from the meshes
of professional tricksters, assert their suprem
acy at the ballot box, and thus redeem our
State from the reign of demagogues, that
time is now at hand. Let the voters ot
Georgia turn their backs upon men who, lor
the sake of official position, have thrown
their conscience to tho dogs and entered the
lower depths of dissimulation and political
jugglery. _
On the 10th of May, 18G5, Jefferson
Davis was captured at Irwinton, Go.; on the
10th of May, 18GG, ho was indicted for trea
son by tho Grand Jury of Norfolk, and on
the 10th of May, 1807, be was released from
Fortress Monroe upon Habeas Corpus.
Signs of Convalescence.—Our brother
Suced, of the Macon Telegraph, having bc-
como thoroughly disgusted with the Demo
cratic party, is preparing to return to his first
love-to the old Federal Whig Principles.—
It was a sad day for the South, and the whole
country,, when wo ran astray after strange
-ods, and followed new and self appointed
leaders to the very gates of destruction. Lot
us now retraco our steps, and vow never
again to be deluded into the snares and pit-
falls of that party which has draped tho
whole land in mourning, and converted our
once peaceful and happy land into apolitical
bedlam.—Atlanta Opinion.
What is the man talking about! Who
represents “ tho old Federal "Whig princi
ples" in tho South at this day ? Their lead
ing principle was to stand by the Constitu
tion, and just there wo are to-day. If you
call your Wilson, Abolition, Mobocratic par
ty, who have thrown the Constitution to the
dogs, the exponent of “ Federal Whig prin
ciples,” those Southern men may follow it
who choose—they will have to travel without
our company.
Not Put Strong Enough.—Tho New
York Times, says the Columbus Enquirer,
takes a just view of the littleness of Senator
Wilson's attempt to intimidate Southern men
in their political action by threats of confis
cation. Our people nrc not to be moved by
such harmless thunder. But it does not put
the cose quite strong enough in suggesting
that the Northern practice of discharging
employed men for voting against the candi
dates of their employers is about as bad as
the act of Southern whites in dischnrgin
freedmen for voting the Radical ticket would
he. In the North, the employees never vote
for the disfranchisement and disqualification
of their employers, much less for tlio confisca
tion of their property. If they should do so,
what would tlio Times say to their discharge
on that ground ?
The 8ontliern planters arc not going to dis
charge the negroes for their votes. The very
fact that they have mode yearly contracts
which they cannot annul for .such a cause, is
* guarantee against that. And the fact that
they need all tlicir labor to make their crops
is another guarantee. Wilson was only play
ing the demagogue on a small scale. It was
t part of the Radical plan to make the ne
groes distrustful and inimical to the whites,
*®d thus to produce a state of things that
could hardly fail eventually to brin '■—*
the very thing deprecated.
Steve-.-' recent letter, which has been tele-
witli live stock, farming utensils and provis- i „ rnp ij C d over the whole country, has tended
ions, it would be well to raise cotton largely \ T strongly to reinforce the numbers who
even at low prices ; but destitute as she 13,; w j]j vo f e p or »»j^ 0 Convention,” because he
the attempt to raise cotton is, to say the least j d; st i nc ti y disavows that an acceptance of the
of it, hazardous. A farmer may, by resliD" ; tennso f t h e Sherman bill will be regarded
and grazing Ins1 stock, make a very good {, y Q OD gf CS3 a3 n final settlement of the qnes-
crop of corn with very little provisions, t j on Senator Wilson’s speeches, as published,
whereas In the attemp- to make com and : are ^0 very opposite of acceptable to the
cotton lie will lose bo . . masses in this State, and when his extreme
Besides this, the cost of transportation is ; radicalism is denounced by tlie great captain
so high as to make it onerous, nnd the the Radicals ns too lenient and considera-
who
restoration
people ot tncBouui cto not ctcvoic tuemseives ; 0 ff m | cpcn dcncc and cessation of military
to the production of provisions from choice, vemment, to comply with the Sherman
they will be driven to it from necessity, at least j Jro mmc now prefer non-action rather
for several years; and for years to come the i,, profitless sacrifice of'convictions and
The evil is, not that people work eight
hours or twenty, but that tlie business of the
country is in ;ucli a condition that they can
not get enough to support them for any num
ber of hours t hat they can work. They will
find, after awhile, that it was the fault of their , „ , , .. .
friends who have been using them as tools, whether we are to have peace or war between
France and Prussia on the Luxemburg ques
tion. The state of suspense which has been,
and is now, paralyziug confidence through
out Europe cannot remain much longer with
out a solution ; and whether that solution
be the signal of a straggle for supremacy,
the most formidable, in its probable results,
which lias been waged since the days of the
firstNapolcon, or the re-cstablishment of har
mony and good feeling as the consequence of
respect accorded to legitimate claims, it mu3t
transpire ere another month will have passed.
France demands it in justice to her own
tranquility and the wishes of her own peo
ple. She lias shown a spirit of conciliation
and disinterestedness by withdrawing from
negotiations for territorial aggrandizement,
which were spontaneously offered and in no
way sought by her. She now confines her
representations to the evacuationof the For
tress of Luxemburg by the Prussans, since
the unwarrantable occupation thereoi mena
ces continually the security of Holland and
herself. She renounces for the tine being
any idea of acquisition to her domains by
consenting to accept tbo neutralization of tho
Grand Duchy as a basis for settlement; and
far from seeking pretexts for war has encour
aged with the most loyal frankness oiertures
made by England, Russia aud Austria in or
der to maintain pence. She can do nothing
more but insist upon the recognition of (faints
which are regarded by every disinterested
European power as equitable and necesary.
Prussia feels the importance of the termi
nation of a state of uncertainty which, fnm
the expectant policy of the French Govern
ment in not abdicating its right, and beiig
at liberty to urge it at any moment, places
her in the necessity of either acting on the
offensive ami assuming tlie responsibility of
war, or delaying longer and longer, thereby
endangering still more her doubtful claims to
tbe occupation of the fortress, and engender
ing in the European Powers a moral senti
ment of disapprobation which would ulti
mately expel her from the Grand Duchy.
Delay on her part only renders a refusal to
accede to the requirements of France more
palpably unjustifiable, or a compliance there
with seemingly more compulsory. Hence ber
anxiety for the issue, whether it be peucc or
but they will come to it after awhile.
They thought it was glorious times when
they were getting large bounties for going
into the army to subjugate tbe South, while
those who sent them were staying at home
making fortunes; but when they find, ns
they are now beginning to do, and will soon
find to tlicir satisfaction, that they must work
and starve, and starve and work, not only to
pay those fortunes, but to pay their own
bounty, they will get somewhat out of tem
per anil “break things,” and take pay for all
their services. There will come breaking of
merchants nnd speculators and National
Banks, and fall of National bonds, and such
men as Ben Wade, Lyman Trumbull, Oliver
W. Weston and Charles Sumner, may look
out and will liavo enough to do to take care
ot themselves, without troubling themselves
to take care of tbe South.
Wayfarer.
Reconstruction in Georgia.
“ Quondam,” tho correspondent of the New
York Times, writes to that journal from
Tliomosvillc, in this State, as follows, under
date 3d inst:
The same purpose—to register and vote-
whiclil have found to obtain among the peo
ple I have seen during my tour, exists here.
There are many, however, who say that they
will vote “No" Convention,” aud prefer to
live under military rule rather than to be the
voluntary architects of a Radical Govern
ment for their State, and give constitutionali
ty to the unlawful acts of Congress. Those
who avow this intention are men of intelli
genco and influence, and belong, strange to
Say, in large numbers to those who opposed
secession and the war; while those who arc
resolved to accept the situation in its entire
ty and without any reservation belong prin
cipally to the secession party, and “wore the
gray” during tlie whole war,
The sentiments expressed by Gov. Perry,
of South Carolina, in his recent letter, arc
shared and endorsed by many; but I have
no idea they will be approved by a majority
when the ballots are counted. Mr.Thaddcus
of France. Of all the States annexed since the
battle ofSadowa, only Brunswick and Oldenburg
have adoptedihe Prussian arms and system.—
The former furnishes 1500 troops and the latter
3000. . . ;
In response to a demand for interpellation v i , . , . .
relative to the Luxemburg affair, signed by sev- j * r °niNew Orleans, which state that the Times,
eral prominent members of the Corps Legislatif, Crescent,. ancl Picayune newspapers of that
the Minister of State, Mods. Rouher, addressed a i,_,7 _ , , „ .
letter to the President of tbe Chamber.: stating ! P? lla ? :eCenccl ofhc.al warning not topuo-
that although the Government felt every incli- 1 loh articles reflecting on the Reconstruction
nation to expose to its legislators and tbecoun- j a ct the Mercury says'
try all the facts relating to the questio n of the • ’ _• . . ,
Grand Duchy, certain negotiations favorable to ! ** military authorities Iiftci determined
the maintenance of peace which wore now under that there should be no discussion either in
way, imposed tho greatest reserve on the part of j the press or in popular public assemblies of
the Goverment of the Emperor, which had to , the people on the Reconstruction act, no one
propose with regret the adjournment of tho dis- ; wonl d have a ri^ht ncrhaDs to comnlain
cussion until some moie opportune time. Assoon „ "“uL? "“ A ^ ’ t0 C0Q 'P la ‘ n -
as circumstances permitted it was resolved to 1 They were put over the Southern country for tion, to pay those who have been robbed by
treat the important subject fully before the Leg- ; ^‘ lli purpose ot seeing that this act should be j disloyal men,” savs lie immediately after his
islativc Chamber. The members realizing the ; carried out. Impartiality would be fairness, recovery from a severe illness J
importance of silence at present on the question, ! It discussion would produce dissatisfaction
.1^.1. it-,... - 1 * * or contention, then stop discussion—discus
sion on all sides—in tbe public press and in
political assemblies. But to allow political
emissaries from the North to traverse the
whole South, and to harangue the black pop
ulation at every village or muster ground, in
favor of the Reconstruction act, and to flood
it with political tracts, manufactured at the
North for the same purpose—and then to
turn round and say to Governor Jenkins, or
the New Orleans press, that they shall not
Siscnssionandthe Military Act. “Mild Confiscation.”
Under tbe foregoing heading, we notice | From the St. Louis Republican.i
the following in the Charleston Mercury of j This sweet circumlocution of the greatest
the 14th instant. Referring to the advices ■ infamy ev e r designed by any political schemer
— - - - - - is Tliad. Stevens’own. He uses it in a letter,
published in our telegraph columns, wherein
he assails his colleague, Wilson, who, on his
Radical, temperance and abolition spree in
Virginia, promises admission of their Repre
sentatives and general amnesty to the citizens
of every State who shall elect Radicals and
temperance fanatics as delegates to their con
ventions. “Who is authorized to travel over
this country and peddle out amnesty? I
would say the most guilty expect punishment
and then quietude. But first a mild confisca-
aceepted cheerfully the proposed postponement.
Before discontinuing my remarks on theLuxem-
l.urg difficulty, it may be well to add that Queen
Victoria has addressed a letter to tbe King ot
Prussia in which she appeals to his sentiments
of family, his Christian sentiments and his ieel-
ings of humanity, and exhorts him to preserve
tho peace of Europe by respecting the just sus
ceptibilities of neighboring powers. This per
sonal and spontaneous intervention does credit
to tin? good sense of tho Queen, and will perhaps
have a good effect upon the Cabinet at Berlin.
An English paper says that orders lor iorty thou
sand breech-loading muskets have been received ; discuss the merits of this act, is simplv the
by English manufacturers from ths French Gov-! w ro ssest tyranny
eminent, and that a large number have been de- : a g , o course "must take from the enforre-
livered, while the remainder aro being completed ouen ti coursemust take, irom tuc tniorce-
with the utmost expedition. Whether this order j nicnt ot t.ic ^Iihtary act, even the semblance
has been given in anticipation of trouble none can i of choice or approval on the part of the
say, but it looks rather suspicious. ! South. All its contrivances of registry and
There is much talk here now of a portable cop ; voting aro entirelv superfluous. A vote in
per cannon of extraordinary power, which was re- „ . ° -■ . .. A,, , , , ,
oently invented by an artillery captain in the man- i a barrack, at the call ol the dium, would be
ufitetory of firearms at 8t. Ulond. Great secresy I far simpler, and just as cthcacious, in its
has been observed in the experiments with this manifestation of popular opinion in its favor
arm, and ’tie evident that its construction, modus if t i ie object of tho act, and of those who
ojKrandl, <fcc., are things, to be withheld from the | are ifl tho g outh to administer it> is simply
price of cotton must ol necessity continue to tory j 3 not astonishing that many wl
decline and for year?, be very .ow. If the ■ might be induced, for the boon of restoratic
people of tllC South do not del OtC themselves f ?nrln,mnrInr.«-»#> nnrl r-pcr^ntinn nf militni
war, provided the former does not detract ?§&<£
from her exalted ideas of national honor, or
the latter compromise her peaceful relations
with other powers besides France.
Europe is particularly anxious for a solu
tion of this question, which has produced
supplie^lundslptcl liy tlieSouth 3 Wes ° will be ^ ^j^ice 0011 ' 33 sacrifice ofconrictions and such painful suspense in diplomatic circles
diminished. i ^Serai Pope’s explanatorv order of the since first introduction on the political ta-
Indcpcndcntly of be oppressive operation j parngrnph of £ hc former order forbidding " 1
of the tariff and the loss of the custom of the j offi c £7s of the State Government to give ad
South, the West must suffer from heavy ! v j Ce n g a i ns t compliance with the [Military Bill
taxation upon its productions. There is no : j 3 cons i deret i unnecessarily harsh, and a much
alternative but heavy taxation or the repudi- j i ouder cracking of the whip than the occasion
aUon of tlie public debt. j to call lor. I know it has angered a
The papers here have been filled with „ rca t many who were previously determined
boastings of our inexhaustible resources and tQ use a jj t | ie i r influence to promote the re-
tlic patriotism of the people in submitting to | cons truction plan of Congress, but who now
taxation. We have been deluded, too, with ' say t |, ey w jjj j lftve no thing more to do with
showings,of the rapid extinction of the debt, ■ t | ie matter since the freedom of thought and
and promises, of a reduction of taxes. „ That | speec ij j 3 denied to those who occupy offices
delusion will soon pass away. The debt is
now, and lias been for some time, on the in
crease, and it is no longer possible for Mr.
McCulloch to hide it. His reports for May,
just published, shows an increase, though
nothing like the real state of the case. What
he calls tho total debt has increased, during
the month of April, a little over five millions
of dollars. The total debt less the money in
tho treasury has decreased a little over two
and a half millions, but on that day there fell
duo over twenty millions of coin interest, so
that tho debt was really increased eighteen
millions above the money in the treasury.
The amount of interest that has accrued
upon the three year compound interest notes
was stated, by one of tho city papers throe
months ago, at twenty-seven millions and.
to which tbe people elected them. I do not
profess to pass any opinion of my own
only give you that of others. But I regret
very much that General Pope found it neces
sary to publish such an order, which wounds
every one’s pride, nnd promotes sullcnness
and "lukewarmness when thero was so fair a
prospect of good-tempered submission.—
When a team, which you fear may become
restive, is pulling well and going nlon
smoothly, it is not wise to use the whip at the
first indication of putting back the ears or
switching the tail.
“ Good Lord, Deliver Us.”
From the reports we hear from the North it would
th.it sVwitor Wilson i.» but the ht-.rbintrer ot
though it is not due until tho maturity of a whole swarm ot political mountebanks arid va-
thc notes, it is a part of the debt, and is it- grants, who intend to come South this Springand
w , _ , ASummer to enlighten our people upon the various
seif bearing interest, bcin 0 compounded . Q j- (] , e j,' 0 rtl.. Wc have been afflicted with
evory six months. Then, there is the interest | wari pestilence and famine, but neither of these,
which has accrued but is not yet due, upon nor all ot them combined, were more disastrous
nearly nine hundred millions oi'coin-bearing to our pi-aeu and happiness than tlii- inroad of
«d«F» »•>'!? ■“» ,””",71*1
six percent., and over five honored nnd forty- r j 0 ts to investigate; no negro wroDgrs to redress,
nine millions of seven-tnirty currency bear- as dead a calm pervades these Southern provinces
in" bonds, amounting, probably, to thirty or a3 that which rests upon the most highly favored
forty millions more. So that tho debt is provinces of Turkey or Russia. Why then, we
* aaa ■ repeat, should Senator Wilson and bis compeers
really sixty or seventy millions more than ap-1 j eave t ] lc ; r -n-ives and little ones, and risk their
pears upon the face of the report, lhe In- ! valuable lives among the bowie knives, the broom
tcrnal Revenue is evidently failing to vield j sticks and the bodkins or the South !• The love of
enough topav current cxncnses, as there is misebi J impels them. They have heard that
te current’la .bo Tro.iorj ,bnn «|
former report,
gone lo work .
were likely to live in peace and lriendshf
and
i with
millions <
longs m „
millions belonging to the Treasury. Deduct-
the twenty millions of interest due 1st j together in peace, if they did they c.
r leaves seventy-nine millions. As the depend upon the negro to help then
"— off ant l tbe expenses not ,n "«* he * et *° work, emr
May.
revenue is fnliin
about
Destructive Fire at Tuomaston.—We
Kgrctto learn, through a gentleman who
tune down the road yesterday, that a fire
broke out in the town of Thomaston, Upson
tounty, about 2 o'clock Wednesday morning,
inti before it could be arrested destroyed two
blocks of business houses in the heart of the
Pl*ce. Lewis & Bros., J. H. Betl !, G. A.
Weaver, B. D. Hardaway, Dr. T. R. Drake,
Btown & Hart afield, Sandwich and Thomas
i’outhron, are the principle sufferers. The
was stopped at day light, and the loss is
Climated at upwards of $50,000. Wc fear
tbere was but little insurance.
We sympathize with our Thomaston,
‘tells id tlicir great misfortune, which they
trie
be on the other side uud laborers will be dis
charged by the thousand, because employers
will nave nothing for them to do.
The eight hour movement is producing
trouble in the West, and will produce a great
deal more, or rather it will open tho wav to
Ut little able to~bcar with the rest of the ills , a more perfect understanding of the causes of,
... an d a more efficient remedy for, the evils
‘“<5 times. ( ronJ w hich the actors arc suffering, and will
continue to suffer. It is a misguided effort
to remedy the evil without removing its
immediately
would never do to let the whites and blacks live
could no longer
m . .cm to get office.
Mischief must he set to work, enmity and strife
V, , . , . „ .. (...ijA, i. | must begot np between blacks and whites, or tbe
diminishing, it is clear that taxation must in j..„j ica ] 3 would bo ruined. Hence, like a famous
crease, or there is danger that, before long, j Kadical mentioned in the Book of Job, they are
Mr. McCulloch will not be able to pay the J “going to aud iro in the earth, and walking up
interest It is my opinion that if he succeeds and down in it.” But there is a trait in the negro
^nnvprtir.rr the scven-'liil tics into five- character which will be a great impediment to aU
in coin erring Hie seven tin:cues mito uve- , ^ efforU t0 obtaln his vote . TUc negroes, as it
twenties lie will not pat the interest b \ oml b instinct, can tell a gentleman from atlunkeyas
next May, as it will require one hundred and • IOO nas they see hint. But If they can’t persuade
thirty-three millions of coin to pay a year’s the negroes to vote with them, the Radicals will
intnrpst " ' try to get up riots and fighting between the races,
rm I TIT ..1.1 It... |.|,,„.i I PVI.IIIIP tnvp* Senator Wilson’s speeches In Richmond and other
The tariff and the internal levenuc ta. es ]aces were well calculated to produce such re
lieve so impoverished the masses t.:at they 3U n 3i wc have reason to believe that they
arc becoming less able, every day, to pay would rather see the South another St. Domingo
taxes; and those who arc able feci it every than have it conservative nnd prosperous,
time more onerous. The people of the West | [Federal Inion.
arc beginning to feel that they are exercising • * *
more than tlicir due share of patriotism, in Difference in American Women’s Feet.
submitting to be ground to death for the The commercial editor of the Watchman
benefit of those who, while they laud the pat- and Reflector, in a report of the Lynn shoe
riot ism and endurance of their victims, arc market, notices as a curious fact the differ-
dcriving princely resources in gold from j enco in shape required by various sections,
thousands of millions of dollaia of projterty . The Southern ladies wear boots cut very high
paving no tax. in the instep ; the ladles of California and
The 3 movements of the laboring classes the Western States require a brond.wide boot,
show not only dissatisfaction but suffering. [ while for the trade of our New England
Wc have had strikes here and the bosses have cities a very narrow, deliente shaped boot is
been compelled to yield, because they had demanded.”
contracts they were obliged to fulfill; but; If. this be the fact, theNew Englanders are
this is only temporary. The strikes will soon no( . ^ tbe ]mbit of sefl ding their representa-
ly Tliad. Stevens talks about “a mild
^ofiscation.” Said an Irishman, while liold-
“8 his hand belore the muzzle of a gun
rtont to be fired, “ Pull it off aisy.”
tivc women South. Tlie idea of a Y ankee
schoohnnrm “with a very narrow, delicate
shaped boot” is a novelty in this latitude. It
is npne of our business to write about such
things, but ns a Massachusetts editor-lias
given us the text, we may be pardoned a
word of comment.
5^” A man has recently been tried, con-
pis. Commerce is suffering, international in
tcicourse is becoming embarrassed with cer
tain reserves, and gloom is prevailing among
all those mutually interested in the preserva
tion of peace between the disagreeing Gov
ernments. Anything is better than the pres
ent feeling of expectancy, and, be it peace or
war, all desire to know, and know soon, what
they are to depend upon.
Rumors of a possible pacific settlement arc
current now, and it is generally believed that
the negotiation? engaged in by the three great
powers, England, Russia and Austria, have
ended in a proposition for a conference to be
held in London, in which France and Prussia
will take part. Many think that Prussia will
submit to the demand, or rather judgment, of
this conference, which will in nil probability
pronounce the occupation of the fortress ab
normal, and therefore illegal. It is affirmed
by several journals that Prussia is disposed to
evacuate Luxemburg and agree to its neutral
ization, on the condition of a collective guar
antee being given to her by the powers sign
ing the treaties of 1839. Once in the way of
concessions, site will perhaps make others, so
that, after all her braggadocio and menace,
she may yet choose the better part and seek
some better cause for fight than the Luxem
burg question. It would seem that a natural
desire for tbe completion of the work of Ger
man unity would prompt Prussia not to un
dertake, at present, a struggle with a great
power having the moral support of nearly all
Europe, knowing, as she must, that failure
would be attended with the most disastrous
consequences to her cherished scheme of a
united Germany with King William Emperor,
Bismarck—anything he wishes, &c.
There can be but little doubt that both Franco
and Prussia are prepared for every contingency.
They have foreseen the possibility of a rupture
sinco tho battle ofSadown, and have been arm
ing and cquiping for it. The day Austria was
humiliated and German unity became a fact,
Prussia became a formidable rival of France,
and Frenchmen as well as Germans have looked
forward to a strugglo for the championship of
Europe. Where each power is jealous of the
othcr’a pretensions and efforts for extension of
territory, and constantly on the lookout for a
challenge to combat, it is no wonder that a“bone
of contention" has been found thus early. Prus
sia’s intolerance and presumption have afforded
Franco a long list of grievances, and given her
ample cause for quarrel. A less pacific Emperor
than Napoleon III would long since have accep
ted the defiance, but if war is undertaken, Na
poleon is determined that tbo responsibility
shall rest with Prussia. ‘‘They that take tho
sword shall perish with tho sword,” will very
likely be tho case if Prussia does cominonce the
fight. Diplomacy may succeed in averting the
struggle threatening at present, but a trial for
supremacy will surely come off at somo future
time, ere peace may be said lo bo durably estab
lished between tho two now rival powers. I
gave, in a previous correspondence, a statement
of tho actual strength of the French army at the
present time. I now gather,. Irom the Opinion
Nationale, a few items in regard to tho Prussian
army. This array is composed of304 foot battal
ions, 25S squadrons of caval
of artillery, in all 240,000 mei
public yet awhile. All that has been learned con.
corning It, is that it is composed of three barrels
manufactured separately and thes so arranged to
gether as by means of au ingenious tourniquet, to
enable the person handling it to fire as many as to
fifty shots per minute. T1iq projectiles employed
arc said to do murderous execution at two thou
sand yards distance. Prodigious results have been
obtained from experiments made, and its efficacy
seems to bo settled beyond all doubt. When
“wars and rumors ot "vars” are the older of the
day such a weapon derives additional considera
tion from the possibility of its being, at an early
day, brought into useful service against the ene
mies of France.
In the collection of cannons which decorate the
Prussian section, at the Universal Exhibition, is
now shown a monster specimen which weighs,
wagon included, over one hundred ancl forty thou
sand pounds. To prevent damage to the railways
a special wagon was constructed for its transpor
tation. After considerable detention en route it
has been safely landed, and is naw exposed to the
idmlriug gaze of spectators as aspecimen ot what
Prussia can do in the way of fabricating death
dealing machines. I lave heard some account,
almost fabulous, of the quantity of powder neces
sary to charge this immense gun, but have now
S)rgotten it.
On Sunday the Prince Toko-Gawa-Min-Bon-
Tarou, son of the Tycoon, Emperor of Japan, was
received in public audience by the Emperor and
Empress, surrounded by the grand officers of the
It seems that he has contracted a new lease
with the devil, under the condition that for
the balance of his life he shall out-devil Lu
cifer. To introduce confiscation in our poli
tics is a monstrosity. Yet, horrid as it is,
men before him have advocated it in other
countries. But, ransack history, rammage
all the records of mediatval torture, one will
not discover a parallel to his American Rad
ical’s mild confiscation. It is a load in a
cream saucer. It reminds us of the carpet
on which theRussiau noblemen are laid,when,
for au injurious expression against the Czar,
they are treated to the bastinado. It is a
capital sentence, pronounced by smiling lips.
Eight or ten years ago, some where in Illi
nois, a juvenile murderer ivas to be hung. A
stupid editor of a country paper, who was
present at the execution, entertained liis
readers with a description of it. He spoke
of the newly decorated little carriage in
which the culprit was brought to the place of
execution; of the nice white little cap which
the ladies had prepared for him. He could
not find the end of all the niceties of the exe
cution. Sweet Stevens is a match for that
nice editorial booster. The man who in the
same breath can speak of mildness and con
fiscation excels even the admirer of the nice
white little caps. He should take out a patent
on the invention of mild confiscation. It is
worth millions, and eternal damnation be
sides.
his preceptor, and different civil and military
offices of his suite. By the medium of an Inter
preter he assured the Emperor of the friendly sen
timents entertained by Japan for France, and an
nounced that he had came to France to witness the
Universal Exhibition and complete his education.
In response the Emperor expressed his high
sympathy for the Japanese Government, and
’thanked the young Prince for his visit to France.
A letter, enclosed In a leather box and fastened by
an enormous loop of red silk, was then presented
to the Emperor in behalf ol the Tycoon, and after
wards the party retired bowing, a rccnlons, out of
the room. The presents sent by the Tycoon, to be
delivered on this occasion, were far from princely
in their value or appearance. They consisted ol
three small houses, ono in wood and paper and
two in crystal drops or balls, tor the Emperor,
neces of silk tor the Empress, and a large sabre
or the Prince Imperial.
That tho World’s Fair is not a failure is proven
beyond all question by tha immense multitudes
that are daily flocking to the Vhamp-ilc-Marg. On
Easter Sunday 02,000 persons were admitted, and
on Monday following more than 100,000 were pres
ent. Considering that ’tis the opening month and
the weather has been exceedingly disagreeable the
greater part of the time, this is surely enormous.
What will it be when the crowds of foreigners, who
are to come, have arrived and the numerous pleas
ure trains from the provinces are in operation and
almost hourly landing their hosts in the Capital ?
The reserved garden of the exposition was offi
cially inaugurated a few days ago by the Empress,
who has taken this most charming and agreeable
part of tho park under her patronage. In this
garden are collected the most rare shrubs and
flowers from the hot houses of Paris, the aquari
ums o£ fresh and salt water, cascades, basins and
a miniature river. Concerts of military music are
to be given there every day hereafter, as also In
the central garden of the palace.
A series of official fetes given in honor ot the
exhibition commenced last Saturday, the Minister
of State and Vice-President of the Imperial Com
mission giving the opening one in his magnificent
saloons at the Louvre. About five thousand of
the elite ot the city were present, numbers of dis
tinguished foreigners, <Jcc. The next takes place
at the Minister of Marine’s to night, and from
May 15 to June 15, the Tuileries " will open its
splendid halls frequently on the occasion of th"
fetes.
The King of Greece is now on a visit- to Paris,
the King and Queen of Portugal are expected in
a few days, and the Viceroy of Egypt and Victor
Emanuel about the middle of next mouth.
These aro the only sovereigns whose visits are
looked forward to with certainty at this time.
Cubkax.
A Scathing Reruke.—A noted gentleman
and leading politician of South Carolina has,
under the pseudonym of “Justice,” attempt
ed the defence of Gen. Sickles and his Order
No. 10. This apology from a resident of our
lister State was directed at the National In
telligencer, which uncompromising champion
of the Constitution and true liberty had in
veighed against the usurpations of the mili
tary commander. The Augusta Constitution
alist says: “From the ear-marks of ‘ Jus
tice,’ we would suppose him to be no less a
character than James L. Orr.” Be lie whom
be may, the Intelligencer dissects him thus:
And now a word as to “Justice,” who has
chosen to institute a comparison between
“the writer for the Intelligencer” ancl the
author of Order No. 10. It is simply incred
ible that a gentleman who has so steadily ad
hered to the right of secession, and made
such heavy sacrifices in adhesion t» his ideas
of self-government, should be so revolution
ized as to endorse the arbitrary interference
of the military with the civil authority. We
say nothing about the eulogium of General
Sickles. That is a matter of taste. But it is
not the least painful evidence of the melan
choly state of affairs in South Carolina, that
one of her leading sons should have conde
scended to become the author of the article
signed “Justice.”
to get the act. through, to promote party
ends, perhaps this course may be just what
we ought to expect; but if the object is,
really, to take the sense for the people, and
to effect an actual, not a sham, reconstruction
of the Union over tho Southern States, dis
cussion on all sides ought to be permitted.—
Discussion on one side only, is the argument
of the bayonet.
As the Supreme Court of the United States
has thrown over the cases of Mississippi and
Georgia, lately pending before them, the At
torney General of the United States must give
his opinion as to the extent of the registry
required under the Military act, and it be
comes the duty of our citizens to prepare for
the elections which now arc inevitable. For
our part, we would have preferred "that tbe
whole matter, without discussion or agitation,
should have been left to the quiet adminis
tration of the Southern people. But the Rad
ical party of the North will not allow the
Southern people to manage tlieir own affairs
in their own way. Their emissaries are trav
ersing our country, in the fiendish enterprise
of arraying the black race against the whites
in direct antagonism. What will be tho fu
ture effect of this policy, they seem, not to
care. That, it carried out, it will destroy
the black race in the South, the experience of
all history declares. It will be the duty of
the Southern people, if possible, to prevent
fhis catastrophe.
Wendell Phillips and the Radicals.
The members of the auti-slavery society arc
having agiorious time, the present week, in New
York. Wendell Phillips is the great radical ora
tor, and the way he glorifies himself with Thad.
StevcDS and Charles Sumner, while denouncing
not only Gen. Grant, hut those “traitors” as he
calls them, Senators Sherman and Fessenden, with
“Henry Wilson and that race of trimmers,” is
sufficiently pointed, to bring him here again, as
the honored Phi Beta Kappa orator from the next
Yale College commencement. But before pour
ing out his abuse on those gentlemen, he takes the
occasion, to make a bitter attack on Henry Clay,
the Whig party.Jtfie New York Observer and the
men “who preferred the gospel, and practiced in
fidelity.” He said:
“It was to the Henry Clay Whigs, the so-calied
trimming and trading anti-slavery politicians of
Congress ; it was to the church members, to the
New York Observer, tc the American Tract Socie
ty class; it was the men who professed principle
and practiced trade, who professed the gospel aud
practiced infidelity, (applause), that the guilt of
the blood of the five years’ war is to be addressed.
(Great applause.) * * * It is their skirts
that are heavy and stiff with the blood of Andcr-
sonville and Gettysburg.”
He then went on to warn the Republicans against
being drifted into “incompotent aud unfriendly
hands, through heedless hero worship," and
said :
“When men tell me they arc going to nominate
Gen. Grant for President, because it they don’t
the Democrats will, it is time to talk as we did in
1S0O. (Great and prolonged applause.) * * *
With the Senate of the United States bartering
principle for patronage; with Sherman and Fessen
den bartering the leadership of their party for
family advancement; the Senate bought up by the
Executive, in such a day as that, whoever has his
tongue gagged, whoever choose his language on
the law ot modem conciliation, Ido not.” (Loud
applause.)
Further on he said in reference to tlie next
Presidency:
“Put in a half and half man, with no ideas, like
General Grant, and wc shall lose titty per cent.—
(Laughter and hisses.) Put up a traitor like Fes
senden and Sherman and we shall lose seventy per
cent.”
He spoke of “Henry Wilson and that race oi
trimmers,” and said:
“If you would manufacture public opinion
enough, so that Wilson would not care to come
home to New England with his present record, the
whole Senate would mount up like baboons to the
level ot Charles Sumner. The Republican party
sent Wilson to the South with a sugary message of
milk and water that means nothing. They then
sent Kelly to correct-him.”
Bitter and abusive, as all this is, it is not half so
bad as was his abuse of Gen. Washington and
Daniel Webster, a lew years ago, soon ntter which
Phillips was made the Phi Beta commencement
orator of old Yale; and why may ho not now, ex
pect a similar compliment from tho same source ?
—Few Haven Ryister.
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A Grand Newspaper Scheme.—Promi
nent Pennsylvanians are said to be canvassing
the project of having the State publish in
Philadelphia an enormous newspaper, some
thing on a scale hitherto unheard of in the
world of journalism. It is to be about three
times as large as any newspaper now pub
lished in this country, and is to be furnished
gratuitously to every voter in the State. It | crats deserve any credit for these acts ; but
is supposed that 400,000 persons cau be found j perhaps the negroes may think they do.
outside the State who will subscribe for it at j
$12 a year, and an income of over eight I Greeley Opposed to Confiscation. The
millions of dollars is expected from adver- j R°me Courier publishes tlie brief affair below,
rising. Tlie annual expenses of the paper are j written in reply to a business letter of J. R.
Stevens, of Rome:
The New Staple.—The New Orleans cor
respondent of the Memphis Avalanche says:
“ Your attention lias doubtless been attracted
to the new fibre that is destined to take the
place of cotton. At the Academy of Sciencti
in this city, there are fine specimens of the
ramie to be seen. I have examined it care
fully, and pronounce it superior to cotton,
hemp and silk in tenuity, strength, beauty
and excellence. There is no necessity to
rhapsodize over it. I only utter the opinion
of every sensible man who has examined it,
and who declare that it is destined to revolu
tionize the whole system and business of
planting. The parries who are introducing
it into this country are quietly working it for
for their own profit. It will doubtless require
several years’ time to have it well distributed,
but there is no doubt of its universal adop
tion in proper time.”
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Heavy on the District Commanders.—
Even the Radical papers have denounced the
petty tyranny of the military commanders at
the South. Schofield at Richmond, playing
the role of Louis Napoleon, in threatening to
muzzle the press. Sickles repeating the trick
of Gesler at Charleston. Pope at Atlanta iu
menacing Governor Jenkins with removal;
and Sheridau at New Orleans in removing
Mayor Monroe, are all condemned for exceed
ing their instructions in performing various
acts of tyranny. The New York Herald, es
pecially, is severe upon the role of these va
liant commanders who are now lording it
over a poor aud down-trodden people. It
says: “In assuming the right to make people
take off tlicir hats to a ] ja i r of trowsers, a
lioopskirt, or even to the Stars and Stripes,
these military commanders are assuming too
much. We would submit to the President,
the Secretary of War and General Grant the
propriety of a general order embracing cer
tain specific instructions to the five military
district commanders in the South and their
subordinates, to the end that a uniform, libe
ral and conciliatory course of action on their
part may prevail from Virginia to Texas.—
The rigors of martial law are out of place in
the midst of peace, and upon a people who
arc not only disarmed, submissive, and unable
to kelp themselves, but who are anxious and
doing all they can to fulfill the conditions of
Congress.”
Southern . Cultivator.—Wc had the
pleasure, yesterday, of taking by tlie hand an
old friend in the person of Anderson W.
Reese, Esq., of Athens, who is now on a visit
to this section of the State in the interests of
the “Southern Cultivator” and “Augusta
Constitutionalist.” Both these journals stand
at the head of the list in- their resiiectivc de
partments, and we have nothing to reserve
when we cordially commend them to the pa
tronage ot our people. The Cultivator, es
pecially’, we would recommend to all who are
engaged, to any extent, in agriculture or kin
dred pursuits. It should be in the hands of
every farmer and housekeeper in the South.
The Negro Legislators in Massachu
setts.—The Boston Courier, referring to Mrl
Wilson’s attempt to produce the impression
in the South that the two negroes in the Mas
sachusetts Legislature were elected by the
Radicals, say that one of them was elected
by the Democrats over the Radical nominee,
and tho other because the Democrats de-
clareel they would unite with the negroes to
elect him if the Radicals refused to nomi
nate him. We do not know that the Demo -
Early Corn.—The Gainesville (Fla.) New
Era chronicles the fact that several citizens
of that town are now enjoying mutton corn,
gathered from their own quarters. No dan- j
ger of starvation there.
Arrest of North Carolina Bank Officers.— j
W. B. March, President of the Bank of Lexineton,
set down at about twelve millions, and on
this basis the enterprise is exjjectcd to yield
a net revenue of nearly a million and a half
to the State. This is certainly a very im
posing programme'.
A Sad Occurrence.—We hear of an oc
currence in Crawford county, that is both
lamentable in itself and another commentary
I wish the South were as free front danger
in respect to famine, and other evils, as from
confiscation. Y ours,
Horace Greeley.
Codfish and Potatoes for Two.—The
telegraphic correspondent of tho LouisviHe
Courier says, that Joseph E. Browu dined
.with Henry Wilson, on the occason of the
recent visit of the latter to Atlanta.
causes and will, of necessity, not only be victed and fir.ed $16, in Maine, for selling
fruitless, but make the matter"worse. . glass of sweet cider.
are infantry. Supposing tha. !»■«»«£ vu, » i the surfender.' The complaint was made by J. W.
tho reserves and Kndwehrs would triple this j Thomas and others. The parties have had shear-
amount, we then have a tital of720,000 men;
but since much of this force would be required
for garrisoning the fortresses of countries aa-
cuickens with a gun.
The National Intelligencer says ;
for a car on a street corner recently,
_,. . . . . , i our ear was taken by a strikingly novel but
i.iey ian under the highly tapressive discrimination of classes.—
Am/uiua u UVA oiuvia. auv pumvo • v, ajaav* * uvuj ...... — n - JAltJUiV UAjMCSSUG lUlluaiiiUU A
ing and the evidence has been forwarded to Gen. house, and after them the two little brothers ^ couple of coloit-d women were exchanging
Sickles. Tlie accused will remain in chara-e of the _ ’ . . '•“*■1. _ - . . ..
Sickles. The accused will remain in charge of the
military until the General is heard trom.
nexed in spite of themselves, such a3 Savoy and ■ Vallandigliam will deliver the com-
Hanover, tho real fighting strength of the Pru3- t mencement speech at Oxford University,
sian army would not exceed, if it equalled, that 1 Mississippi.
of John, but without his knowledge. Com
ing up. he fired under the bouse, as he
thought, at the fowls, but,
killed one of his brothers
wounded the other.
id to relate,
aud seriously
expressions of surprise at the conduct of
some third person mentioned by one, the
other thereupon inquiring: “Was she col
ored or plain 1” “Plain !" was the satisfac
tory answer.