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MACON, FREBAY DECEMBER 4, 1868.
Book-k»Krwo.—We have just been hand
ed an African butter and milk account for a
•month, on aelif»«t paper as narrow and as
long as our pencil. Long marks, we are told,
mean quarts of milk and abort ones, in the
oame line, mean pounds of bntter. • Tbe ac
.coant shall be squared, and a receipt be taken
by throwing tbe bill into the stove. This
kind of accounting puts us in mind of tbe
Tar River merchant.’:: book-keeping. We dare
say some of our old readers can call tbe man’s
name, for the story is a true one. Tar River
did a heavy mercantile business for that coun
try—he was rich—beikcpt his own books, but
could neither read no®jrrite. His manner was
to pat the outlines-of ibis debtor’s face at the
top of the ledger and-, underneath were pen
pictures of the articles .purchased, or, where
that was impossible, .-some cabalistic sign
which the maker understood. - One day there
was a disputed accoeut.-Purchaser was charg
ed with a cheese, which he denied baying.
“What should I want with & cheese, when we
make more at home than w&can eat 1” It was
a poser, and Tar River- could only insist in
reply rypon the accuracy, of-his books. “If
there’* any thing I do oalue-ayself upon, it is
the accuracy of my books'.” “Impossible,”
says debtor. “It racist. be so,” says Tar
River; now think over .whai^ou have had
of me.” “Well, I have had.a-caddie, trace
chains, hoes, axes, aad—-.a grindstone.”
“ Good heaven,” says Tms River,- 41 is it posei
ble that in charging that .grindstone I forgot
to make a hole in the middle and so took
it for a cheese ? I can hardly credit such an
error in my books 1”
Falling off in the Receipts py-.Cotton.
The Milledgeuille Recorder says: In Colum
bus. more thaaJ5,000 bales trader lastyear up
to same date. -Up to 15tfc November, at
Macon, 8,978 bsles. The Telegraph thinks
there will probably be a deficit at the end of
the cotton year atMacoa of 30jQOO. Although
receipts have fallen off, the increased price
will more than make up for .reduction in
quantity. We are,gratified to sec that.plsnt-
ers are at last realising something like, a fair
price for the article..
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The Augusta Municipal EuscTipNdeok
place yesterday. The registration closed,
1908 whites and 18$S blacks—^L5 white .ma
jority. The opposing, candidates for-mayor
signed a card to the waters, exhorting them
to abstain from all violence. Our telegrams
will probably give the result.
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The French Atlantic Cable will have its-
terminus on this side .at Druxbury, .Ply
mouth county, Mass. The township has
given to the company a. Large lot situated on.
a high bluff for the station, and the deed has
conferred the .title to. Professors .Pierce and
Whitney of theCoast Survey as Trustees.
A Fine Hotel .at Ackbn.—A number of
Charlestonians ..are making ^preparations to
build a large and magnificenthotel at Aikeri,
South Carolina, as a summer resort for South
erners from the low country, tad winter re
fuge for Northern invalids, to .whom the cli
mate of Aiken has long provecUsalutary.
The Jefferson Davis Trial.—The Gov
ernment has decided to enter a motion for i
continuance of .the .Jeff.Davis case, for the
sole reason that.it -is held that the Chief
Justice ought to preside, which -he cannot
do at this term on account of the approach
ing term of the Supreme Court
Kiaroa topic*.
The arrival of three hundred German emi
grants at- Charleston, as announced in the
telegrams published to-day, is certainly very
chaering news. It is the real beginning of
the end. -We have plenty of work for them
to do, and-room for a many hundred more
shiploads.
Wa seem to have reached a point looking
to a finality in -the matter of the Alabama
claims. A'Board of Arbitration, consisting
of two Englishmen, and one American, is to
sit at Washington, before whom all claims
are to .be -seat within six months. Should
this board disagree upon any point, it is to be
referred to some..European Monarch, whose
decision is to be ; final.
The document in the New Orleans press
gives us-to understand that the Cuban revo
lutionists are- striking for nothing short of
independence. . At this distance it looks like
their eause is a hopeless one, unless they can
obtain some outside aid, which is not very
likely.
The Northern newspapers are very severe
in their criticisms upon the Grant-Pollard
tragedy at Richmond-Homing it forth as
evidence of the semi-barbarous condition of
the Southern people. And yet in all these
presses are details of the trial in the Cole-
Hissock tragedy at Albany. Cole shot His-
sock and killed him instantly without giving
him a minute’s warning for destroying the
peace of his family, for -which he is now up
on trial for his life. -For this very reason
Grant killed Pollard.
A Columbus editor has been to Atlanta.
He found it politically “much sounder and
sweeter than he had imagined.” The “radi
cal magnates sing exceedingly small there
abouts, are seldom seen in public, and never
in decent company.”
The Georgia correspondent of tbe New
York Times admits that “ the enterprising
individuals called ‘carpet-baggers,’ who lead
the Radical-party in Georgia, are not as scru
pulous as they might be, and it would not be
too rank injustice to say of them that they
are a leetle more selfish than patriotic, and
that if trouble pays better than peace they
would very generally prefer trouble.”
Forney’s Philadelphia -newspaper says
Georgia ranks New York city in election
frauds. “A lair election,” according to it,
‘would have given Grant twenty thousand
majority. As it is,-Seymour claims under the
returns forty-five thousand. The frauds
which have produced this result were syste
matic, wholesale and high-handed, and it is
not probable that, so far as regards the repre
sentatives elected, Congress will submit to
them.”
The SouthCarosina Immigrants.—Gen.
Wagener, the Commissioner of Immigration
for South Carolina, is endeavoring to induce
the immigrants 4>y the-Glauss to remain in
that State.
Fig and Banana Trees injured by
Frosts in Florida.—The Tallahassee Senti
nel, of Thursday lest, says.:
The heavy frost-of last .Friday, Saturday
and Sunday nights .effected serious iDjuiy to
the fig and banana trees-in this city and
vicinity. The leaves were all killed, and the-
supply of fruit was cat off for this year, un-’
less in cases where ps£ns was-taken to pro
tect them against frost and cold weather.
The Character an® Probaklb Course
of Gen. Grant.—Horatio has upon our first
page an exceedingly interesting paper upon
these points. Read it.
Quite a number of distinguished English
men were defeated at the recent elections in
their Parliamentary aspirations. Dr. Russell
and Mr. Trollope were of the number of de
feated candidates, and even Jobn Stewart
Mill, the great oracle of British Liberalism,
failed of an election at Westminister. But it
is said that he may still be chosen to fill tbe
seat for Greenwich.
JJJJSpain says .she is in want of a ruler, and
the Louisville Courier and Journal, with
characteristic liberality, offers her the present
Congress of the United States.
Marrying in Savannah.—One hundred
and thirty-nine marriage licenses were issued
from the Ordinary’s office in Chatham county
for the three month ending November 50th
—of which fifty-eight were for white parties
and eighty-one for colored.
Brevet Captain Charles F. Rockwell, who
was Gen. Meade’s Military State Treasurer,
is dead.
The Best Example of Georgia Plant
ing.—A friend, who speaks by the card, says
that David Dickson, of Hancock, will make
this year 800 bales of cotton on 800 acres of
land. Let us foot up the net results as we
have good reason to believe them to be:
800 bales cotton.....-..—— ...._.._... ; ..880,000
Less labor
Manure? - —•
Contingents —.—
Net receipt*——
- 420.000
10.000
6.000-J38.000
812.000
TnE Homestead and Relief Laws—Tbe
Atlanta New Era, of Sundiy, notices an im
portant decision by Judge^Parrott as follows:
Judge Parrott, during this week, in Dade
Superior Court, decided that the “Home
stead” provision of the new Constitution, so
far os it attempts to exempt land which, by
the laws of force at the date of the rendition
of a judgment, .prior to the adoption of the
Constitution, was subject to levy and sale, is
in conflict with the Constitution of tbe United
States, and to that extent, void.
He also decided that sections two and
seven of tbe “Relief Law,” which authorizes
a defendant, by affidavit and motion, to open
a judgment, and again submit the case to a
jury, under that law, for the purpose of re
ducing the amount according to the equity
of the case, are in conflict with section six,
article 11 of the new State Constitution, and
therefore void.
Must Stand Square or joe Set Aside.—
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Gazetto writes:
As soon as the Radical politicians of the
country shall hope assembled here, a tremen
dous pressure will be brought to bear upon
General Grant to force him into a full recog
nition and endorsement of their wildest
schemes, even before the meeting of the elec
torri colleges in the several States, and should
be fail to yield to their views, it is openly
threatened to have the electoral vote cast for
Schuyler Col/ax for President, Gen. Grant
has become fully aware of the designs upon
him, and be i 3 now absent from this city pre
paring himself to meet the issue. f *
Some one has recommended that the num
ber of cadets in the West Point Military
Academy, now limited to one to every Con
gressional District, we believe, be doubled.
To .which we demur. The worst use that
can be made of & man, it has been said, is
to hang him. Next to thar, in the scale of
unprofitableness, is certainly to educate him
to destructiveness. Some knowledge of mili
tary science among our people may be desira
ble; but the natural instincts of many lead
in that direction, and there will always be,
beyond a doubt, enough of them to preserve,
and cultivate from inclination, all that is
valuable in that sort of science.
Gen. Sherman has made an elaborate re
port upon Indian affairs. He acknowledges
that nearly every tribe on the plains is in
open hostility to the whites, and says he will
make a destructive war upon them this win
ter. But he fails to see a single cause of griev
ance on the other side. The Indian is all
wrong and the white man all right, accord
ing to these reports. The truth at the bot
tom of all these troubles is, the agents the
Government sends out to carry out provisions
of former treaties invariably swindle these
simple children of nature out of two-thirds
due them. Then come massacres, etc.
Retesdy Johnson has but one eye. A
North Carolina Congressman by the name of
Stanley many years ago challenged Henry A.
Wise to fight a duel. Stanley went to
Johnson’s residence in Maryland to practice
with his pistol before the fight. They went
out one day for this purpose, when a bullet
glanced off a tree, struck Johnson in tbe
eye, pnt it out, and nearly killed him. His
other eye has a cataract over it, and he is,
upon the whole, nearly blind.
On the first of October last, Chicago had
292,000 inhabitants in round numbers. It
has increased more than 60,000 inhabitants
in two years, since the last census was taken.
The personal property and real estate of this
young giant among cities, is in the aggre
gate over $230,000,-000. While the growth
of Chicago has been hasty, it has also been
solid.
Chief JU9TICE Ciiase did a good thing the
other day in dispensing with the test-oath in
swearing jurors. The time for the applica
tion of these detested oaths has wholly past.
But in doing so the Chief Justice has drawn
down the wrath of the Radicals. They jump
to the conclusion that he made the order for
the purpose of getting a jury which would
acquit Mr. Davis. But it’s now almost certain
that that trial will never come off. . .*.
For twenty years the country has expe
rienced no such lull in politics as is now.
There is nothing afloat upon which to base
those angiy, disgraceful- quarrels so charac
teristic of the American press and public
speakers. But Congress will meet next Mon
day, when all tbe old wounds will be re
opened and ample material put forth to
arouse “ tbe latent fire ” of pulpit, press and
forum. It would be a God-send to the coun
try if that body would devote its time and tal
ent to tbe development of the real resources
of the country and for one time iu forty years
let the negro alone.
The Boston Post says the Bussian Govern
ment paid members of Congress two millions
of tbe seven millions of tbe Alaska purchase
money by way of a bribe to get them to vote
the appropriation. Several New York jour
nals were paid ten thousand each to lend a
helping hand.
It is said, (gravely,) that the Brazillians
are “fishing” around to get a United States
General to command their army. They can
find the greatest number without any diffi
culty whatever. They can also find plenty
of Colonels, Majors, Captains, and as to
Quartermasters, they could get enough to
supply themselves for the next fifty years.
Thanksgiving day was well nigh univer
sally observed throughout the United States.
The papers are full of sermons preached
everywhere on that occasion. There was-a'
general suspension of business, and more ev
idence of the President’s Proclamation being
duly respected than any Bimiliar one for a
long time..
A move has been already made, by Tam
many Hall, looking to the Democratic nom
ination for President in 1853. John T. Hoff
man is the coming man. He is to make a
model Governor first—a national, a wise, a
fine Governor—then he is to be re-elected
Governor by an overwhelming majority, such
a majority as will afford proof conclusive
that he can not only carry New York, but
Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc. Belmont is to call
the Convention to meet in Tammany Hall,
and a pressure brought upon it which will be
irresiBtable. If Hoffman is really ambitiouB
of being President he bad hotter have just
as little to do with the leading local spirits
around Tammany Hall as possible.
A letter from Rome says the Pope is very
unwell, though his condition is concealed at
the Vatican. The journey to Civita Vecchia
gave him cold, which he inereased on All
Saints’ Day, by descending to the Sistine
Chapel, and he has since been tormented by
a cough, attended with fever at night. In
spite of these bad symptoms, he insisted on
going to the Church of San Carlo al Corso on
the 4th, the festival of St. Charles Borromeo,
and with difficulty was persuaded to give up
his State coach and go in a carriage earefully
closed. The exposure and excitement have
had a bad effect on the Pope, and his cough
becomes more and more distressing.
The election of a negro to Congress in
Louisiana will directly test the question
whether that intensely Radical body will ad
mit a man of color to a scat upon its floor.
Greeley vehemently denies he has any such
right So does a long list of lesser Radicals.
We will await tho result with considerable
anxiety.
In Tennessee there are 90,000 and in Louis-
iana00,000 white voters disfranchised. They
are men who “ gave aid and comfort” to the
rebellion, either byword or deed. A test-
oath is required in each State before a vote
will be recived, and tlii3 oath requires every
one to swear that he opposed the South du
ring the war. In Tennessee the negroes are
allowed to vote, and the whito people are
ruled and governed by their former slaves.
They are aliens in thoir native land, domi
neered over by tbe African.
There is an ungenerous, not to say fac
tious, opposition to the construction of the
great Pacific railway. It is charged that the
Company is cheating tbe Government by put
ting np poor apologies for bridges, that the
track is not good, that the iron is third class
and so on. At this distance it looks like
these charges are groundless, and that they
originate in a captious spirit. The road is
being built with extraordinary rapidity, the
ambition of the Company being to complete
it as quickly as possible, and afterwards to
come back and strengthen the work at leisure.
It may be some of the bridges are frail and
intended as temporary structures. Bat few
roads were ever built without such make
shifts, to which we never heard any objec
tions before. The truth is, this 1b the great
enterprise of the nineteenth century, and will
some day be so acknowledged universally.
Editing a paper in Franco is a ticklish
business. About once a month the police
marches aboutevery editor in town up to the
captain’s office where tboy are administered
regular reprimands and threatened with heavy
fines and imprisonment. Upon every third of
fence they are sent to jail to serve out a term of
imprisonment. The fourth results in banish
ment at least, and if tbe aforesaid editor is
caught trying to publish a paper again in
France his property iB confiscated, if he has
any, and be is imprisoned until further notice.
There has at last been a fight in Cuba be
tween tbe revolutionists and tbe government
forces. “As the prise ring would say this
looks like business.” As the dispatches come
from the government side, we advise the
reader to place about as much reliance upon
them as they did upon New York Herald
dispatches during the war. It is significant
that all foreigners in the Island are joining
the rebels. > (
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has reduced its rates to various points twen
ty-five per cent, with a view of increasing its
business. It does seem to ns that tbe tariff
upon dispatches has always been too high.
Reduced one-half, one-half more dispatches
would be sent than are now.
Dickens announces that he will not write
any more lengthy novelB. Charles Reade has
the honor of now coming forward as the
leading writer of fiction for the British pub
lic. He has produced nothing as yet to en
title him to a high position as an author.
The news from Spain, like Mexican blood,
is decidedly mixed. ‘From the demonstra
tions in various cities we are led to think
there is a strong Democratic party anxious
to establish that form of government. Bdt
a majority of the magnates now in power
and constituting the provisional government
favor a Republic, which renders the succes of
the former exceedingly improbable. One
thing is certain, however: the whole matter
will be determined by a direct vote of the
people.
The Fenian Brotherhood have held an
other meeting, (at Philadelphia,) elected
O’Neill President, made a good many speech
es and—adjourned. From tbe proceedings
we learn they are still divided and distracted
in their councils and in their plans of action.
President O’Neill alludes to the unsuccess
ful efforts to unite the wings, owing, he Says,
to the self-seeking ambition of -men who
have since shown that they saw in the cause
of Deland only a convenient platform for
their own aggrandizement and political ele
vation 1 The other side hold the same opin
ion of him, and so Deland goes on in chains
and slavery, and will go evermore.
The Mexican Congress has conceded the
Vera Cruz Railroad to an English Company
with an annuity of $560,000 for tho next
twenty-five years without interest. The
Company stipulates to complete the road by
December, 1872. But by that time there may
be six or seven revolutions in Mexico, and
this Congress, Company, Railroad and all,
rnn out of the country. Stock in that con
cern will sell very low. It will run through
a favorite camping-ground where guerrillas
are wont to lie in wait for silver conductas,
and as it will break them up that large
species of Mexican humanity will oppose the
road riemine contradieehte.
BY TELEGRAPH.
The Imperial schooner Levretto has left
Toulon for the Red Sea. She is to pass
through tbe Suez Canal, and her trip is to be
considered in some sort as the official open
ing cf that route. She is to head a proces
sion of yatchts and pleasure boats to the
number, it is said, of a thousand. Tho lux
ury of the decorations—a large number are
already collected at Pore Said—and the
richness of the fittings will make it a verita
ble royal fleet, and to add to the splendor of
the scene the Viceroy is expected to be pres
ent.
It appears from the abstracts already made
from the Postmaster General’s Report that
there will be a deficiency of $3,000,000. The
cost of the letter-carriers is nearly $1,000,000;
they bring no income. The report recom
mends a complete Government telegraphic
system in the United State* The vast growth
of our mail service is shown by the fact that
in 1808 tbe whole Southern mail from New
York City was carried from the PoBt-Office
on one man’s back to a small boat that was
rowed across the North River. Now it takes
four-horse teams to transport the same mail
to the three railway trains that leave Jersey
City daily.
The Government has had revenue cutters
cruising around the coast of Alaska ever
since it was purchased, fot the purpose of
getting up evidence that it was a good trade.
They have so far failed to do so. The last
steamer reports having “ discovered several
new and excellent harbors,” but what is a
harbor worth in a worthless country? We
are afraid the coarse old Russian Bear swin
dled the young and unsophisticated Ameri
can Goddess of Liberty in this Alaska busi
ness.
Wendell Phillips says the Democratic
party is still a power in the land not to be
despised. “ In numbers,” he says, “ the two
parties are about equal. It is most alarming,”
continues that eccentric, but bold-spoken
man, “to see that, with a mobocrat rebel
like Seymour for candidate, and a platform
dictated by Forrest and Wade Hampton, the
Democratic vote was not 800,0(K) les3 than the
Republican, in a mass of more than 4,000,000
votes, the Republican majority being about 6
per cent, of the whole vote. With such ah
enormous minority gravitating towards reb-
eldom the future of the country is-critical.
It is idle to suppose that Buch a state of af
fairs will not have a large influence on a man
like Grant. When we know who are- to
compose his cabinet we can divine something
of his policy. We have no fear that he will
give us a Democratic Cabinet. We have no
expectation that he will give us a Radical
one—the most that we dare hope is that he
will execute the laws impartially, and thus
give opportunity for the great civilizing forces
of the age to enter the South and remonld
it.”
Pennsylvania, journals are seriously dis
cussing a proposition to divide that; com
monwealth into two States—one east and
one west of the Alleghanies.
A writer in the Revolution thinks the
use o.f diminutives instead of the fnli Chris
tian name by ladies, degrading. She is par
ticularly severe on one who signs herself
“Lizzie Leavenworth, M. D.”
Mr. Harney, for ten years editor of the
Louisville Democrat, in retiring from the
editorial chair, says: “The worst sin I have
on my comcience is helping to make great
men oat of very small material.” -
James Grant, who killed H. Rives Pol
lard, was examined at Richmond on the
morning of tbe 27th and admitted to bail
in tbe sum of $10,000 to answer at the Feb-
nary term of Court.
The Bangor Whig tells a remakable story
of a man down at Tennant’s Harbor, who,
being ont in his dory, fell overboard, and,
not being able to swim, conceived the idea
of striking bottom and footing it ashore. Ac
cordingly, shutting his eyes and his teeth
firmly together, he struck out for shore, un
til, thinking be must be near land, he opened
bis eyes, and found himself near the middle
of a corn-field.
Bfain and the Jews.—It iB stated that
numerous Jewish families residing in London
and Lisbon, having asked if the Provisional
Government had abrogated the old laws
which expelled them from Spain, have re
ceived an affirmative answer.
Lorenzo Dow defined deathbed repent
ance as the burning outthe candle of life in the
service of the devil and blowing the snuff in
the face of heaven.
Bayard Taylor is now. in Rome writing
dull letters to the New York Tribune. He
is perhaps the most overrated man of letters
belonging to this country. He never wrote
anything that will live a day beyond liis
coffin. ■ - , .
The North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Church meets a Griffin to-day.
The Bible Society Record says, that in
more than two hundred different languages
the people of the earth are permitted to read
the word of God in their own tongue, in
which they were born.
Bryce & Co’s Cotton Circular of the 27th
nit. says:
With the present range of prices however
reduced production seeing almost a certainty
and will occur on the first pause made in the
advance of tbe raw material in Liverpool.
Spinners will keep running as long as spec
ulation keeps quotations advancing, but let a
panse occur, then many a spindle will stop
and many bulls be transformed to bean. We
are strongly opposed to any farther advance
in prices over the rates at present, because it
is evident that tbe reaction must come, and
that too at a time when a very large propor
tion of onr crop is to be sold; and that by
the advance to 12d., or above, only a few
will be benefitted, but a great number will be
injured by tbe decline; for it needs no skill
to determine that the world’s prodnetion is in
excess of its consumption with middling up
lands at 12d. per pound. ‘
The Fruit and YsaBTAnus canning busi
ness is said to rank third in point of im
portance in the business of Baltimore. We
’• »ve heard it said that the Peach Canning
establishment in Atlanta, last summer, made
forty thousand dollars.
From Washington.
Headquarters Aut UnitedStates. 1
Washington November 24,1868./
General J f M. Schofield, Secretary of War. .'
Sib: I hara the honor to submit the reporta of Di
vision, District and Department Commanders for the
past year. These reports give a foil account of the
operations and servioes ofthe army for tbe year, and I
refer to them for details. I would earnestly renewmy
recommendation of last year that the control of the
Indians be transferred to the War Department. I call
special attention to the recommendation of General
Sherman on the eubject. It has my earnest approval.
It it unnecessary that the arguments in favor of tho
transfer should be restated. The necessity for it be
comes stronger and more erident every day. While
the Indian war continue? I do not deem any general
legislation for the reduction of the army advisable.
The troops on the plains are all needed. Troops are
still needed in the Southern States, and further re
duction can bem&dein the way already used, and now
in operation where it is safe, namely: By allowing
companies to diminish by discharge* without being
strengthened by recruits, and by stopping appoint
ments of second lieutenants. It should be deemed
advisable that the veteran reserve regiments might he
discontinued by absorption and retirement of offloer*
and discharge of man without detrimentto the service.
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
U. 8. Grist, General.
Gen. Grant departed northward to-day.
Treasury Agent* seised in New York Hast Friday,
thirty-fire thousand yards of fine Lyons silks, and a
‘arge quantity of Frcnoh clocks. This is the largest
seizure ever made in the United States, aggregating
seventy thousand dollars.
Naval promotions: Capt. George F. Emmons to Com
modore: Commander R. F. Renshaw to Captaincy:
R. W. Meade to Commander.
The Indian Commissioners meet here this week.
Should the Indian war continue, its cost next year
is estlmated.ait 650,000.000.
- Revenue to-day 6788,000; for the month 69.500.000.
Meade’s report gives a detailed account of his ope
rations. He was applied to from all parts of the States
under his command, to remove occupants from offioe
and appoint others in their etead. He declined
making changes except where neglect of duty was
proved, or attempted obstruction was riven to the
reconstruction acts. He refers to the anomalous con
dition of affairs, and suggest? that more power be given
to department commanders.
The’suit of JohnNtgles vs. Stanton for injury to
Nagles’ farm, in Prince William oounty, daring the
war, was dismissed at Nagles’ costs.
Colfax has returned.
None of tho targets at Fortress Monroe were found
of the heavy ordnance used during recent experi
ments.
Washington, December 1.—Rollins has returned.
There was a full Cabinet to-day.
Rovenue to-day $092,000.
The cigar makers’ strike in New York has ended by
a compromise.
Grant, in a letter to the Mayor of Boston, accepts,
with thanks, the hospitalities offerod; but begs to be
excused from public demonstration. He will stop at
St. James’ Hotel' and he glad to receive perions who
may call.
Gen. Grant’s official majority in California is one
hundred and five.
The Tribnne says: The reported larcency of
68,000,000, is the latest sensation’in the records con
cerning the Erie Railroad.
The Government issued 61,920,000 in bonds to tho
Pacific railroads during tho month of November.
Gold in the Treasury amounts to about ninety
million dollars.
Washington, December2.—The Union Pacific Rail
road commission report that it will require 66,000,000
to complete the work already paid for by the Govern
ment.
There is to bo a grand army reunion at Chicago on
the 16th of December.
Rollins has issued directions for douhle-distUled
whisky, in accordance with Erart’s opinion.
It is stated at revenae headquarters that an unau
thorized synopsis of Hollins’ report shows an error of
660,000,000 in one item. It is also reported that a bogus
copy of the Secretary’s report is ^circulating in New
York. .
Revenue to-day 6653,000.
Custar’s victory over Black Kettle is confirmed by a
dispatch from Sheridan. The Indian women killed a
white woman and boy at the commencement of the
fight. Sheridan’s plan is to moro the Indians from
Six Prints and attack them in their winter quarters.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, November 29.—Judge Cooley, ofthe
Sixth District Court, yosterday ordered a quo war
ranto sued out by R. E. Diamond, chief police ap
pointed by the Mayor, against the Metropolitan po
lice. Tho Superintendent will be sustained. Itis or
dered that the Superintendent of the Metropolitan
Police mart not interfere with Diamond in tho dis
charge of his duties as chief of police. In his opin
ion Judge Cooley states that the Metropolitan Police
law docs not deprive municipal authorities of power
to establish a police force, and that it is optional with
tbe ity to accept- the Metropolitan police law—un-
cocstitntionarin many respects, among others in ma
king the Lieutenant Governor president of the Police
Board, tho Constitution prohibiting one man from
holding two offices. Itis reported that a new trial
will be moved. Lieut. Governor Dunn, acting as
president of the Metropolitan Police Board, has
taken ont an injunction restraining Diamond from
exercising the functions of chief of police. This in
junction is stiU before the Fifth District Court.
Jacob Barker has received a discharge in bank
ruptcy.
This morning's papers publish a communication,
dated Havana, 25th, signed AntonioTucre, Secretary,
purporting to be from representatives ofthe provis
ional republican government of Cuba, established in
tho town of Bayomo, refuting reports circulated in
reference to revolutionary movements in Cuba. They
■ay the proposition for delay, or to lay down arms on
condition of the Captain-General guaranteeing cer
tain reforms, were scornfully and unhesitatingly re
jected by the revolutionary chiefs: that they are not
fighting for reform but independence. They eonclude:
We, who are fully informed of everything going on,
and particularly well informed as to the plans of the
revolutionary leaders, with whom we are in commu
nication, beg to asBertmost positively that so far from
being disposed to lay down our arms, we are about to
strike a blow that will echo in the continent. We
will lay down our arms when Spain shall have rec
ognized our independence and not before, notwith-
standing Spanish assertions and rumors to the con
trary. By order of the Revolutionary Junta, now in
session in the city of Havana, this 25th of November,
1868.’’
Nxw Orleans, November 30.—Dr. Sonthworth pub
lishes in this morning’s paper a card containing his
correspondence with Gen. Rosseau, concerning the
paragraph in - the Herald’s version of Rosseau’s re
port to Gen. Grant, which does not appear in the copy
on file at army headquarters. Gen. Rosseau states
that the paragraph reflecting on Southworth, appear
ing in the Herald, forms a report of his annual report
to Gen. Grant. Dr. Southworth adds, that he never
visited Gen. Rosseau’s headquarters except on busi
ness and in the interests of peace and order, and never
uttered the expression attributed to him in the inter
polated paragraph. He denounces the paragraph as
false and malicious, and so far as it refers to him, en
tirely untrue. Tho publication of his report, in any
shape, by the Herald, without authority, from army
headquarters, was entirely unauthorized by General
Rosseau. " ■ - * *
A Great Outrage in Arkansas.
Memphis, November 28.—The Appeal’s Arkansas
corro?i'ondonee says on tho 10th inst. n body of two
hundred men, claiming .to bo military, entered tho
town of Centre Point, Sevier comity, arrested all the
inhabitants, marched -them out into an open field,
placed a guard over them, and then proceeded to sack
the town, after which they left. Next day the citizen
of the adjoining county flocked into the town, when a,
meeting was held to express the sentiments of the peo
ple in regard to the outrage. While the meeting was
progressing, the fame -men dashed into town, opened
an indiscriminate fire upon the assembly, shooting a
number, and arresting three of the oldest and best
citizens, named Heister, Anderson and Gilbert, whom
they carried to a field and shot. The band is still in
possessson of the town.
Eight companies of the 29th Infantry left on the
Ruth for the Texas frontier.
From South Carotin*. "
Charleston, Nov. SO.—Governor Scott to-day seat
his message to tho Legislature. He takes an encour
aging view of tbo position of afbirs in this Static and
rireswubeteotial -reasons for his belief that no State
Sf the Union is moro solvent or has a fairer j roe poet
of mooting all her liabilities.
The aggregate receipts oftho State Treasury for the
six months ending October 31st, have been 6435,572;
expenditures for same period, 6409,888.
Tho Governor recommends that thedonation of land
made by the United States Government be devoted to
the establishment of an edaoatioaal institute iu Char
leston for instruction in sgrioeltnre and mechanic
arts, and tbe higher branches of seientiflo and classi
cal studies. He denounces all turbulent and lawlees-
ness, and strongly deprecates secret political organiza
tions. In concluding his message he says:
“The general elections have passed and the politi
cal issue* involved, which so fiercely agitated the
country, having been determined for a considerable
period, it is devoutly to be hoped that the community
may be indulged in a much needed respite from tho
passions and exoitements to which it has so long been
suhiected, and that our people may be enabled to i
turn their attention to the development and improve
ment of their material resources which have been so
sadly Impaired and negleetod.
“It rives mo much pleasure to state that assurances
have been received, both previous and subsequent to
the election, from many of the most prominent men
of the State heretofore in active opposition to tho
Government, of their regret at the occurrence of these
outrages, and their detestation for their author, as
well as of their determination to yield a willing obe
dience to the constitution and laws, relying upon tho
peaceful exercise of their rights at the ballot box to
remedy whatever they may deem ohjectionable in
them. This determination has exerted, and cannot
but continue to exert with favorable influence upon
the prosperity of the State and the tranquility of it*
people, stimulating its industry, and giving character
and credit to its enterprises. Recognizing with pleas- i •“* ana placed it under th« nT" va 01
ure .these-evidences of returning good feeling, and j m<®t^of Jay Gould, which virtually leaves ev.Jt*?*'
wishing to reeiprocate every indication of an ap
proach to friendly relations, I would reiterate the
recommendations of my last measage in favor of a
liberal polioy on the part of the Legislature in refer
ence to the removal of all political disabilities.
“While upon the subject of onr past differences, I
wonld take occasion to express the hope that national j
politics will occupy hereafter a much less prominent i There were .‘nineteen soldiers killed
position in the affairs of the State, and in the minds wounded. Custin returns to recruit.
of the people, than heretofore. Political issues hav- | the principal chief was killed. The trib ■, v
ing been determined for years to comb at least, there crippled. e g badij
is but little propriety in keeping up political agita
tion."
Xallahamr. November 30 ”
the Supreme Court to-day thTr* *?**
ikm to qiu»b
continued to-morrow. Bn *uhed, and
tad to jail for passing counterfeit ten's**!? 1 ®*’*-
4rUnk * nne “ *■ «tenua«S Ut *“*•
The Albany comr* ia Col. HI«ca-l- ®
the evidence of adrttery * 8
St. Loom, December 1.—The is~i.
have passed a resolution favorinr tb*” 1 *
telegraph with the portal department * ^ ,l 8*
SraiHonuLn, III., December? 'a
was burned here last night. Lorn 10.000 ^
QtrsiNgTOwir, December 1 —Shin t l
Liverpool, for New York, put in hern
by a collision daring tho gale. . ’
Lisboh, December l.-Brig Gladiator a.
York, arrived to-day.. &»■
Tallahassee, Fla.* December 1.—1._
the motion last reported in the 8upre»I? ,,w ' t <*
tinned all day. It wffi doubtlem conX^? «*-
morning. <aBa# ‘o-uor^
Adgusta, December L—Thefinin».k-
Rriiroml is finished from S&S
mile, from Augusta, where it ^MecuSS
Carolina Railroad. Trains ran throush? ^
Nrw Yore. December
progressing quietly. The election ofBte,* < * h »h
is oonoeded. f « Mi> 0 .
The Government to-day gold *300 nor, •
351-10. * aW ' 000 Kid «
Fort LaFayetto in the harbor is bumin n
is apprehended from the explosion of th. » “ t *
containing thirty ton* of powder
Sub-Treasury balance, 687,509,000.
Haves Citt, Deoember2.—Qen Onwini.
the Cheyenne VUlage of Black KetUe’ fl
150 and capturing 53 fodtas. Wo 2^®*
mulee. Capuin Lewis HamUton wL kiL ?!, ?
Barenetz was wounded, and Major Elliott i,
Th*r» want ‘nifiataaw „«T4r .... _ .
crippled.
Dostos, December 2. - A committee of the Citv
Conned visited Grant at tho St. JamW'HeM a?
t . « . . afternoon. -Grant, accompanied hv th.u
Imporant Decisions. member, of the City Council, vi^he wl** 4
Ricbmoed,December 1.—Judge Chase decided sever- ! watch work*. ' 410
al confiscation cases to-day, sustaining Underwood’s • Albakt, December 2.—After casting the electo
previous decisions. Tho decisions involve the declara- 1 vote for Seymour and Blair, the electoral co!i«« \
tion, that , the confiscation laws are constitutional j body, visited Seymour, 1: '
and that where there was no appearance and plea by < Mobile, December 2.—Mils August* J. Evmi th
defendant’s admiralty the District Coart had fall ju- ! well known authoress, was married last night to Mr*
risdiction tp decree confiscation and sales. Judge ; L. M. Wilson, President of the Mobile and n e nt
Chase, however, desired the question to come before i goinery Railroad.
a full bench of the Supreme Court, and an appeal in _ . _
writ pf error was granted; Foreign. New*.
Richard H. Dana, of Boston, will represent the Gov- Wasbihqtom, November 30.—The Chiraqni reb Is
emmentinthe argument to quash the Davis indiot- j lost fifty-two killed, their arms and leader. The *
ment. : ernment lost three killed and eight wounded; «,mone
the latter Gen. Pedro Gaita. Tbia battle enda'the civil
war in Panama.
The Costa Rica revolution is successful. President
Castor has been deposed and Jiminez installed in hii
place.
Liverpool, December 1.—The crew of the ship
Atlanta Municipal Flection Postponed.
ATLAXiA.'DecemberL—The Mayor and City Coun
cil have ordered the postponement of the municipal
election until the assembling of the Legislature in
January, taking the gronnd that negroes are not en- _ ^ ^
titled to vota by tha legislative law granting the city I Fleetwing, of Quebec, wcenUyYbandoned auL'hu
charter, and that the election will be noil and void ! arrived.
unless the present Legislature strike ont the word | T he Harris printers, of this city, are on a .trike.
white” in the city charter. The Democrats riaim j Losdok, December L—Tbe present Liberal majoritr
that the Constitution and the Reconstruction Laws ! is 112. u
give the negroes the right to vote, the municipal laws | It is reported that Napoleon is suffering from dit
to the contrary notwithstanding, and propose a regu- ! hetis and that Eugenie is riving unusual attention to
laV election, allowing the blacks to vote, leaving leg-. pnblie affairs.
islation to decide as to its legality. Madrid, November 2.—The Republicans disponed
Y r . | the monarchist meeting at Orenze.
Augusta Municipal Flection. Humors are here that the United States recogniied
Acgcsta, December 2.—The election passed off . the Cuba insurgents as beligerents.
quietly. The People’s, or Democratic, ticket is elected ; Prim declares that the present government has so
by cloven hundred and thirty-six majority. j dealings with the Bourbons and indignantly ditavox
“* 1 the contemplation of a coop de ’tat.
From Florida.
Tallahassee, December 2.—The argument in the
Supreme Court, to-day, ou the motion by Gleason’s
counsel to quash the proceedings, for want of jurirdic- 1
tion, was concluded—the Court deciding that it has ■
jurisdiction. Attorney General Meek then offered a j
motion that the rule of nisi he made absolute; where- ;
upon farther argument began and lasted until ad- : „ ., , r t- i i xr mi
joumment. There is some prospect ofthe main qaes- . From the Appml ' 290
tion being reached before the close of the year. The absurd proclamation of martial law
j by the so-called Governor of Arkansas coaid
From South. Carolina. | hardly have other result than rapine and
Columbia, December 2. — Tho State Senate ; bloodshed. Toe Washington (Ark.) Tele-
decided to-day that it had no authority to elect a ; graph of Wednesday, the 18th inst, comes to
Lieutenant Governor in place of Booserreeigned: but us with an account of one of the most shock-
that the election most be made by the people. | ing occurrences of these troublous times,
George Williams, a leading member of the bar, died which we have noi space to reproduceentire
suddenly this morning, at Niokerson’s Hotel. The J this morning.
Court adjourned out of respect to the deceased. jt appears that on Wednesday, the 10th
From North Carolina. in8tant > a of between 200 and 300 armed
Raleigh, December 2.-The Electoral College of me “ e “ tered th f lltt 8 *°” n of
this State met to-day and cast their vote for Grant ™ Sevier county, about twenty-eight miles
and Colfax. Chas. Brogdea was President of the from Washington, and took possession of the
College. place. Taken by surpri3e,‘tbe citizens were
The House was engaged to-day on the resolutions entirely defenseless, and were marshaled eu
proposing to raise a Committee on Bribery and Black- masse in an open field, where they were kept
mail. Opposition was manifested on various grounds
to the resolutions as passed by the Senate. No action
on the resolutions will probably pass, and the com
mittee will go at once to work.
MASSACRED BY MILITIA.
A Bloody Episode In Arkansas—A Town
Socked and Plundered by Radical Bit
Horn—Unarmed Men Sbot In Gold Bleed
until four o’clock in the afternoon, not know
ing by what •authority or for what reason
they were arrested. In tbe meantime the
town was ransacked and plundered by the
Z " . . armed wretches calling themselves Clayton's
Prom Virginia. militia, of everything of value, and whatever
Richmond, Dooembcr 2.—Charles O’Connor arrived ' they could not carry away they destroyed,
this evening to participate in the argument on the Finally, one Captain Reeves addressed the
moticn to quash the Davis indictment to-morrow. | captive cit j zeh8 in following strain, as
The State Journal says On authority second only rel t orte( i v, v t v. e TelecraDh-
to an official announcement; that the stay Imt °f Vir- J ^TernVr Clay tof declared martizl
gima wiU not be extended beyond January first.” , , aw in gevier co ^ nty Tbey were thereto
From Charleston 1 enforce his proclamation. It was the first
Charleston, December 2.-One ofthe Republican : ^ they had made. It was only tbejnjtia-
Presidential electors for this State having resigned. tum w T hat would occur. men were in-
on account of disqualification under the 14th amend- i ra gcfi- It was with great difficulty he cou
ment. Wilson Cook, a colored man. has been chosen restrain them. They wanted to kill ten or
to fill tho vacanoy. twelve men any how. They want to hang
, some of you fellows. We are coming back
From Alabama. here again, perhaps to-morrow, etc.”
Montgomery, December2.—The Republican eleo- mu j , , V <■ mitra^e
tors met to-day and cast eight electoral vote, for ! The d^kestpart
Grant and Colfax. remains to be told. Next day a number or
The Legislature is engaged in the Senate indis- citizens from the adjoining country, hearin 0
cussing the Ku-KIux bills, and in the House are on it reported that jayhawkers had made a ae-
Revenue bills and hills regulating the collection of 8C ent upon Center Point, came into town,
debts. The Honse has passed a bill repealing all laws some of them armed. _ A meeting was held,
prohibiting the marriage of blacks and whites. j and it Was agreed, in view of the au-
!—- thority under which the raiders had pre
facing at New Orleans. j tended to * be acting, to appoint com-
New Orleans, Docemberl.—The second day’s races ■ mitteea to visit Murfreesboro and Washing-
came off to-day. The first race was mile heats, for {ton to confer jvith Clayton and the military
all ages for 6300. Joe Johnson wen the first two
heats, beating Jack Gamble, Junior and Larkin. The
horses holding the same positions in both heats.
Time 1:52?£—1:54J£.
The socond race wa* two mile heats, for a purse of
authorities. While they were still in con
sultation the horde of thieves and assassins
again suddenly entered the town and j 50 ®'
tuenced au indiscriminate onslaught, shoot
ing down a number and making prisoners of
blood. Tbe Telegraph thus concludes: (
i count of this most horrible fruit of Clayton s
j blood-thirsty brutality:
“ Three citizens of Sevier county, Arkan-
■ saa, noted for their respectability and stand
ing in the community, strong and nnwave-
ing advocates of peace, of law, of ora i
a large majority are Republicans. The effect will be
to oontinue in power the present city government
until anew election is ordered by the Legislature.
The Bremen bark Gauss,with 300 German immigrants
arrived to-day. She had a rough voyaga with eight
deaths en the passage, mostly children.
North Carolina Legislature.
Raleigh, November 30.—The House of Represent
atives to-day discussed a resolution petitioning Con
gress to remove the disabilities of all citizens of Che
State. The debate evinoed a bettor state of feeling on
the part of the majority.
In the Senate a resolution was adopted to investi
gate rumors of bribery and corruption against mem
bers and others. Mr. Sweet (Republican Senator and
Northern man) said that ha could pruve bribery to
accomplish the passage of certain schemes.
WOO. Fannie Cheatham. 121; Transit, 213.- Carrie i those who were not fortunate enough to es-
Ashenton, 4 32; Little Mack, 3, distanced; Bismarck, \ eann Thev afterward selected three citizens
5. distanced Time: 3:54-3:52-4:00. Larkin was not ggj amonc the old^t and most respectable,
m good condition but wm the favorite, by two to one | * Bt snd murdered them in cold
in the first run. Fanue Cheatham bemg the favorite | Telo<-ranh thus concludes its sc-
at two to one m the seoond ran.
New Orleans, December2.—Metairie Course, third
day.—First race, sweep-ettekes, for two years old,
mile heats, for a purse of 6400, five entries, walked
over by Richards and Kilgour’s chestnut colt by
Mickey Free. Second race—purse of 6200, mile heats.
Faro, 11; Tom Green, 22; Wisonhunt, 33. Time: | m<r advocates 01 peatc, 01 i®«, -- - , ■
1:0%—1:54. The day and track were fine. Wisen- ■ respected for their age and esteemed for “6
hunt was tho favorite at two to one. i virtues; Hester, Anderson and Gilbert oy
■py m **V- (name; living under a Government dee are
Havana. November 30.-The first battalion of voi-1 ou^to^the ^n^of'sla^h^r and shot
untoersSOO strong, leaves to-morrow for tho seat of j ^ JjJ, d< j^ by men acting imder instru^
It is reported that the rebels have burned the I tions from the executivo oftheta jeJ
plantation of Col. Acosta, commanding a battalion j were also some «*or k Ti led and
of volunteers. Also, reported, that Gen. Cespedez, j but how many of the militia were kn ^
of tho revolutionists, had three men executed; caoght wounded we Vjfide unable . _ . Point,
robbing and burning. nriliti* we still m porae«ion of Center Poirn,
Cespedez, previous to his attack and repulse at j and have all approaches to the t W g
Manzanillo, recommended that the women and ! They permit pentua to J™* ‘Theeiti-
ohUdren should leave town.
The confidence of the people and Captain General
in a speedy termination of the war is increasing.
Another battalion cf volunteers will inarch to
Halquin during the week.
Havana, December 1.—The official reports of the
fighting at Vila Delcobra say the revolutionist* lost
will'not allow them to pass ont. The citi
zens had all dispersed except those who
they still hold as prisoners.”
“Blood will have/blood,” an< ?., th8 ,?‘!r
geance of an outraged people bo
upon aud crush the miserable wretch
thus prepares a bajhquet of plunder
Municipal Affairs of Charleston.
Chableston, November 29.—The contested Munici
pal Election case, after a trial of two weeks, was con
cluded last night by the election being declared irreg
ular and void by a vote of 12 yeas and 3 nays. This 62'killed and many wounded. The Government; lost j mSderons minions.
decision was rendered by the present oouncil, of whloh 3 killed and 10 wounded. Many foreigners have joined SAaugq^ter uib
the volunteers now in tho field. Prominent Mexi- ■ ** T 1
here deny that any Mexican* are concerned in • RaSUnRSB.—Each people are to be avoiucu, 1
the wvoiuUcn. The only foreignera who held pram- ; i wt we tMnk a mrib thought so yesterday, wnen 1
inent position* with tho revolutionists are Domini- j ^ey^tallj having htraddtiefa traeejt* ownernew 1
oW ^tafoapaKdoiLhBdwlthhl^^b^y^
Commerce here it flat—merohaats preferring „ . .
Q*nsnl Sew*. j
Philadelphia, November 29.—Gen. Jobs O’Neil! ,w IT[Tf filtiMatri 11 about them.J
haa been unanimously elected fteeMeat of tho : . , * /"r,
Fenian Brotherhood. Tho delenraa aAantad Me DOOJ 6 PUC«^ob»,
plaaa eatir*.
■■»wtts3WSBfr56ii
Sing Sign. Nov. 30.—A kerace&e Map exploded
tho houso of 5- J-'IsmUe. in Stag flWeB?|rtsedaM^^£-iywi^
burning to death Mrs- Leslie and her two oUpMsa. ■ 'Bwttpfc.&f
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