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The Greorsra "W'eekly Teloe:rar>h.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5* I860.
Tbe Paraguayan War~4jfall' of Lopez.
After one of the- most heroic straggles re
corded inthe annals ofjblood, the Paraguayan
Republic has at last succumbed to overpowering
numbers, laiddown its arms/and its great lead
er, Francis Lopez, fled from his country. Four
years ago, the comparatively powerful Empire
of Brazil formed an alliance with the. Argentine
1 Confederation and Uraguay for the deliberate
and avowed purpose of destroying the weak little
State of Paraguay. Soon afterwards the war
commenced, the little State bringing into the
field S7,000 men, and putting in service ten gun
boats. The allies brought forth four or five
times these npmbers, but they were defeated in
several pitched battles. In each successive en
gagement the resources of poor little Paraguay
wore away, while those of the enemy were in
exhaustible. The war thus became a question
of exhaustion, the allies hoping to wear ont the
Rcpnblic by mere force of friction. '
The contest went on. Lopez defended his
country as gallantly as Palafox and his immor
tal band did Saragossa. The male citizens ral
lied under his standard en masse. The women
went into the fields—into the workshops, into
every position filled at home by men. Never
was love of country, never was patriotism,never
was truer heroism shown than in this struggle,
All personal property^— jewels, plate, church
bells,the communion service, indeed, everything
was freely brought forward and laid upon tho
altar of the common country. The world deep
ly sympathized with them, and had individuals
the power of controlling governments, the most
ample aid wonld have been extended Tbe
courage and resources of the leader and the de
votion of his followers in the prolonged and
sanguinary straggle jnst closed, challenge the
admiration of every man who sympathizes with
the weak when defending themselves against
the strong. Lopez has been defeated and his
country lies at the feet of the enemy; but he
has carved a name which should live in history
along with Mithridates, Hiltiadcs, with Themis-
tocles, and Tell, and Frederick. The work of
the conqueror has been consummated, and tbe
brave little State is at the mercy of the Con
federates. But the memory of their gallant
straggle will be a household word with the pos
terity of the men who fought and bled in de
fence of their nationalty.
Manhood Suffrage, etc.—The letter-writers
say the great difficulty in settling the form of
the 15th amendment grew ont of the hostility of
the West to anything which looked like extend
ing the suffrage to the Chinese. Thus “man
hood suffrage” is reduced, in its latest analysis,
to endowing the ignorant and besotted Afripan
with suffrage and denying it to the oldest repre
sentatives of civilization on the globe. But if
nigger votes, so will John Chinaman. Let the
Radicals rest assured of that.
Colorado.—It is said that one of the first acts
of the 41st Congress will be the admission of
Colorado into the Union. It has not a popula
tion of 30,000, unless we include grasshoppers
and buffaloes; and owing to tho peculiar nature
of its soil never will have enough people to en
title it, under the law, to the position of a State.
But its admission now will secure two more Re
publican Senators.
A Steatler fob one Day.—According to
Washington letter, Speaker Colfax will resign
his place in the House as soon os the journal
has been read on Wednesday, the 3d of March,
and leave that body to elect a new speaker for
twenty-four hours. He does this because ha is
required to be in the Senate Chamber on tbe
4th of March, ten or fifteen minutes before the
expiration of the present Congress, in order to
take the oath of office as Vice-President It is
believed that the House will give Mr. Pomeroy,
of New York, the honor of serving one day as
Speaker. His term expires with this Congress,
and he is popular with his associates.
Safe.—Tho New York Tribune threatens to
“print in conspicuous type, for the contempla
tion of their constituents,” the names of the car
pet-baggers who vote themselves full two years
pay for six months’ work. To which tho World
responds, that fortunately for these “Senators”
the constituents are people to whom type of all
kinds are indifferent matters.
Dawson Journal.—By the last number of this
paper we see that Mr. J. R Christian has trans
ferred it to our old friend Capt. S. R. Weston,
who, in a nervous editorial,announces important
improvements. Mr. Christian joins his brother
in tho publication of tho Americus Courier. We
bid Capt. Weston a hearty welcome to tho fra
ternity.
A Bad Sion fob the 15th Amendment.—The
Jacksonville (Florida) Union, the leading Radi
cal paper in that State is ont against the 15th
amendment, and believes that the Florida Leg
islature will refuse to endorse it.
The regular expenditures of the Government
amount to abont two hundred million annually.
Of this, sixty go to the navy, and seventy mil
lion to the army. Of what earthly account are
either to the country at large.
Lincoln’s Monument.—The State of Illinois
has given Meade, the yonng Vermont sculptor,
the contract for Lincoln’s monument, to be
erected at Springfield. He has gone to Italy to
commence operations. It is to be a very su
perb affair.
Secretary Seward writes to a Philadelphia
firm that one-half the Home Squadron is now
cruising in Cuban waters under Admiral Hoff
for the purpose of protecting American ship
ping. -
Tart.—The Louisville Courier-Journal re
ports General Grant as saying, on the 23d, that
no one wanted the tenure-of-offico bill retained,
except thieves and scoundrels and their friends.
From Cuba.—The Savannah Republican of
Wednesday says :
Among the passengers by tho schooner So
phia, from Baracoa, was Colonel John Lafltte,
lately in command of a portion of the insurgent
Cubans in Baracoa, but was defeated and es
caped. He was subsequently allowed to leave
the island by the Spanish authorities, upon con
dition that he should not return. He represents
the situation thero as awaiting tho interference
of the United States—all Cabans desiring onr
government to hare the Island. He also states
that there are twenty thousand men ready to
spring to arms in the Eastern Department, the
moment Unde Sam shows his hand. Tho Colo
nel at one time had fourteen hnndred men under
his command. He is as modest and intelligent
as he is brave. _*
The Buckson Case.—The reader will find this
& sketch of thrilling interest. See fourth page.
Tm Hebrew Sabbath. —The Israelite, the or
gan of the Jews at Cincinnati, in a late issue,
makes the following suggestion :
In order that we may have a day of rest, a
real Sabbath, which can be observed by all Is
rael, we propose to adopt that day which is set
apart by hundreds of millions, nay the whole
civilized world, for physical rest and the wor
ship of God. Let our prayers and thanksgiv
ing with theirs ascend to His throne on the same
day, Sunday.
It is stated at Washington that the Govern
ment haspositive information of the presence
of Gen. Heningsen in Cuba, at the head of a
body of revolutionists.
mrmtn
BY
; FROM ATLANTA.
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More of flie Mitchell Claim.'
Several Bills Paswd In the Senate.
Bill Exempting Foreign Capital from
— Taxation Passed.in the(House.
mns BTirPHiH np^n.~
Nothing Definite as to Adjournment.
Special lo the Macon Daily Telegraph. 1
Atlanta, Fcbruraiy 25—Nfeht.
Senate.—Tho Senate occupied most of tho morn
ing session in discussing tho Mitchell claim for the
city park. Parties who aro in favor of.the bill claim
that the property is not now nsed for tho purpose
originally intended by tho railroad, and has not been
used as such since 1859. Pending tho discussion,
Senate adjourned.
The report of tho Committee on the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, is voluminous.
Fivo hundred copies of the report were ordered to
bo printed for the Honso and one hundred for tho
Senate.
Tho general impression of tho report is not abu
sive of any officials. It is commendatory, bowover,
of tho Iato Superintendent, C. Wallace, and predicts,
by prudence and economy, unprecedented prosperity
in future.
The Senate, by resolution, held an evening session
to consider House hills.
Many of a local character were passed.
Tho bill to appoint three County Commissioners
on roads and revenue was passed.
House.—A motion in the House was lost to re
consider the motion to exempt foreign capital en
gaged in tho manufacture of woolen and cotton fab
rics. :
The bill encouraging immigration was taken up
and its objectionable features stricken ont
Mr. Shumate announced his withdrawal in oppo
sition to the bill and advocated it in an able speech.
It provides that a foreign and domestic commis
sioner shall be elected by the General Assembly, at
a salary of $3,000, tbe sum of $10,000 only to bo
expended under the provisions of the hill.
The bill was amended on several points, and final
ly passed—yeas 76; nays 58.
Tho bill in reference to allowing the hire of a
specified number of convicts was referred to a spe
cial committee.
Notification from the Senate was received that
that branch of the General Assembly had taken no
decisive action in reference to adjournment.
The bill to erect a new State House in the dty of
Atlanta was, by unanimous consent, withdrawn.
It is reported here that all the troops in Georgia,
except a few companies, are to be withdrawn.
W.
Report on the Postal. Telegraph.
Washington, Februarv 25.—Tho House Com
mittee on Fostoffices and Poet Hoads have rendered
an adverse report upon tho several schemes of
Messrs. E. B. Washburne, G. G. Hubbard and Jas.
F. Hall, for the establishment of some system of
Postal Telegraphy.' The-committee begin their re
port by a careful analysis of each of the three bills
under discussion and follow it up by tho genera]
wa'
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consideration applicable to the
tho special objection to which each of tho proposed
messages sent in Europe, in 1866. was 18,683,000,
and the sum received was $10,320,000 in American
gold, or $14,460,000 in currency at 140. This makes
tho average cost of each message Ti% cents.
The Western Union Company, which does about
nine-tenths of the American business, and which
alone furnished statistics to the Committee, for the
year ending Juno 30th, 1667, transmitted ten mil-
__ o lions and sixty-eight thousand messages and re-
ole subject. and ceived for the same five millions seven hundred and
W — - thirty-nine thousand dollars—equal to fifty-seven
'bat numbi
Mr. Waelibume’s schemo is to establish a four
wire experimental lino from Washington to New
YoVk. "to be operated in connection with the post-
office by persons wholly in the Government's em
ploy. The bill fixes a uniform tariff of one cent a
word, exclusive of date, address and signature, with
five cents additional for postage and delivery. It
appropriates for the construction of the lino the sum
of $75.000—'which, in an accompanying paper, Mr.
Washburne thinks ample to construct the fine and
sustain it till it becomes self-sustaining. If success
ful and remunerative to tho Government the lines
aro to be gradually extended into all parts of the
country.
Mr. Hubbard asks for the passage of a law which,
by an act of legislation, shall create a new branch of
tho public service to the postal telegraph system,
and also grant a charter to himself ana his asso
ciates as the United States Postal Telegraph Com
pany; authorizing them to erect and maintain lines
of telegraph all over tho States and Territories, with
right to enter upon andoccupy post roads and routes,
cross the public domain, navigable rivers, etc.
The bill fixes tho tariff of messages at a maximum
of twenty cents for twenty words, including date,
address and signature, for each distance of fivo hun
dred miles or fractional part thereof: fivo cents to
be added for postage and delivery. Tho Postoflice
Department is, however, to do everything but sup
ply tho wireB and other telegraphic machinery, which
are to be supplied and operated by private parties,
under contract with tho Department, at rates not
exceeding those specified, Receipt and delivery of
messages, office room, fuel, light, blanks, stationery,
bookkeeping and reports of lines aro all to ho at tho
cents a message; and in that number is not included
tho vast amount of railway business nor the regular
dispatches to the press, in which the number of
words delivered were two hundred and-ninety-four
millions, equal to fourteen million seven hundred
and twenty-five thousand messages of twenty words
each. In Europe the press didp&tclies aro not a
tenth part of thoeo of this country. The number of
offices and population is vastly greater here than in
Europe. In Prussia thero is an office to every33,000
people; In France one to every 32,000; in Great
Britain one to everv 14,000; in Belgium ono to every
12,000; in Switzerland one to every 10,000; and in
the United States one to 7500$ and in the Pacific
States ono to every 2500. So, too, in tho use made
of tho telegraph America stands pre-eminent.
THE BUCKSON CASE.
{From an article upon the question, “Will
Murder Ont ?” in the Galaxy for March, we copy
the following—Ed.] i ^
In the year 18.71 Captain John Buckson lived,
with hi3 wife Nancy, in a handsome cottage in
the village of Seakonk, near Providence, Rhode
Island, in the enjoyment of a competence ac
quired by many years of frugal industry. He
-was,-however, often absent .from home, as he
still pursued his vocation, and was master of the
sloop “Oregon,” plying between Providence and.
Norfolk, "Virginia.
He had then reached his fiftieth year, and his
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hard seafaring life had not made him look
younger than he wais. He was tall, gaunt and
angular, weather-stained and storm-beaten. His
short, stiff hair was grizzled, and his long, nar
row face furrowed by deep lines, but his phys
ical powers appeared to be Still untouched, and
ho seemed assured of a long continuance of ac
tive life.
In France, the number of messages'sent is one , His temperament !was favorable to a lusty
to every thirteen persons, in Prussia one to every longevity. He was patient, and apparently so
ninn /> A T*_A •— An . Gvn i'n T>nV • * «no<n'nnlnnn 4lin4 l.n clorfld nf InO f»OrPQ fiTUl
nine, in Great Britain one to every five, in Belgium
and Switzerland, ono to every four, and in the
United States, ono to every two and a half.
Mr. Hubbard’s schemo is not for the establish
ment of a strictly Governmental line. He asks for
a charter to enable bim and his associates to op
erate, and command a branch of the public service
which is to be created by the same statute?. He
proposes to do the work of sending messages by
contract, likening it to the carrying of tho mails.
He avers that he expects to mako a profitable busi
ness out oi it, and hopes the Government may
make something also. Wliat right or propriety is
there in granting him a charter ? Congress decided
against all siich grants in 1866, and there is no new
element in tie situation which would justify the re
versal of tlijt decision. Thero are no petitions
passionless that be stared at the cares and
troubles of life, as at strangers with whom he
could not possibly have dealings'. He avoided
quarrels and all unseemliness with ecrapu
Ions care, and was known on his vessel and
in his village only as a sedate, God-fearing
man, kind-hearted and even-tempered.
But he had positive points in his character,
and the requisite friction would produce the nat
ural glow. As in all equable men, his anger
burned with dim light but intense beat, and
hence, with him a knitting of the brows or
twitching of the hands, meant more than the
wildest signs of passion in other men, and his
word of wrath.was weightier than the brawler’s
io poojle, no legislative resolutions, and the 1 uiow. jjuu no su iovea peace, anu so seuuious-
expense of the Government. The contractors are to j voice of tne press is not pronounced in favor of any j ly courted it, that his most intimate associates
' ' la' MU ” 1 ’ ’" 'iiem.A part of the press is dissatisfied j remembered as memorable epochs the rare oc-
be required only to establish lines and do business J such scheme., u. pm. H Hi iucon u, u»»uaucu
at towns having a population of Ato thousand or with existing‘arrangements for the collection and
over; though the Postmaster General may open of- transmission of news, but it is not claimed that tho
flees at railway stations and at smaller intermediate I prices charged by the telegraph companies are un-
• daces. Both the corporations to be created under, satisfactory; on tie other hand, many influential
ihe acts and any existing companies may bid fortho [ journals are openly opposed to any meddling with
contract, and in case no"
United States company i
tract at tho rates established
casions when his temper had given way.
The only trouble of his life brooded upon his
own hearth-stone. Mm Nancy Buckson wan
many years his junior in age, and in important
respects his opposite character. To her youth
she added comeliness of person. Though a
thoroughly good woman at heart, she yet embit-
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by the Postmaster General within six months from j telegraph scheme. The constitutional right of Con- ! tered her life and his by constant efforts to do
tho passage of the act), on penalty of forfeiting I grees to grant a charter to a private company to -more than her duty. Nervous and irritable, she
their charter. | build telegraph lines within tho States without their - became fretfully voluble in her assertions of her
From Washington
Washington, February 25.—The Senate has re
pealed the bill reqniring the General of tbe army to
have his headquarters here, and orders from the
President to issue through the General.
The Conference Committee od the suffrage amend
ment have agreed—points of argreement have
not transpired.
The Reconstruction Committee is still engaged in
considering disabilities, and will report to-morrow.
The House is considering coinage.
The Senate is on private bills with a perpetual
struggle for precedence.
The resolntion of the Senate Judiciary Committee
to consider no more political disabilities this session,
does not affect the bills pending, of which thero aro
three, with however many points of disagreement
between tho two Houses.
General Sickles is hero.
E. B. Washburne rode ont-this morning.
The customs for the week ending the 20th arc $3,-
500,000.
The President has nominated E. D. Townsend for
Adjutant General, in place of General Thomas, re
tired. and has sent in quite a number of military
promotions.
Dawes has written a letter to Blaine, withdrawing
from tho contest for the speakership.
Both parties have issued calls for caucuses regard
ing the organization on Tuesday.
Grant is said to consider Virginia, North Carolina
and Alabama as practically the best reconstructed of
the Southern States.
Bath Houses are in session to-night.
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Congressional.
Washington, February 25.—House.—The bill
thorizing nickel cents was passed.
The report of the Conference Committee on the
Consular bill was considered. It provides for com
missioners at small salaries. Butler advocated the
report warmly, but it was defeated by 45 to 102. A
new Conference is asked for.
The Conference Committee on the suffrage amend
ment reported that the House recede from its
amendments and agree to tho Senate proposition-
adopted, yeas 143; nays 41. Tho following is the
resolution:
Resolved, That tho right of the citizens of tho
United States to vote shall notbe denied or abridged
by the United States, or by any State, on account of
race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Tho consideration of the Legislative Appropria
tion bill was considered until recess.
Senate—The bill relieving manufacturers of naval
machinery for the Government from taxation was
passed.
The joint resolution that Congress shall meet at
3 o'clock instead of at noon, on tho 4th of March,
was passed.
Tho army appropriation hill was considered to re
cess.
Osborn introduced a bill granting lands in Florida
for the construction of a railroad from Pensacola to
Louisville. - __
From Louisiana—More Fires in New Or
leans.
New Orleans, February 25.—The House having
receded from its amendments to the bill enforcing
tho 13th article of tho State Constitution, it has re
ceived the Governor's signature and become a law.
It differs from the bill vetoed last session, in making
infractions a cause for civil action instead of crim
inal.
Two heavy fires occurred last night, destroying a
plaining mill on Rampart street and seven dwelling
houses on Bienville street. Inaur anco $30,000—loss
twice as much.
From Virginia.
Richmond, February 25.—In tho case of James
Grant, on trial for the murder H. Rives Pollard,
icversl hnndred citizens having been qsestioned&nd
only two fonnd who had not formed an opinion, tho
Sheriff was directed to summon citizens for the jury
from Alexandria and Norfolk.
In tho Circuit Court to-day a charter was granted
Jos. Finnegan and other citizens of Georgia and
Florida to build telegraph lines through and in Vir
ginia. The capital stock not to exceed $1,500,000.
From Cuba.
Havana, February 25.—The resignation of tho
United States Consul-General has been accepted.
Commandant Kressel, a Cuban, commanding tho
sixth regiment of volunteers has been superceded.
A transport from Spain arrived to-day with six
hundred Cliassoara.
Attention is called to tho Spanish law which makeB
people who have been residents for fivo years sub
jects of Spain.
After capturing LaGuanay an expedition left to
r&iso the seige at Puerto Principe.
The Insurgents concentrated around Puerto
Prindpo aro well armed and equipped. A severe en
gagement is expected.
Santa Cruz advices of tho 17tli report the Insur
gents as having attacked Guayabal taking provisions
and a number of horses.
Advices from Santiago do Cuba report that out of
eighty plantations in that district only ten are grind
ing cane. There are neither laborers nor cattle in
that valley.
A dispatch"from Manzanilla reports that a large
body of Insurgents attacked tho convoy at Java.
Reports of tho result aro contradictory and unsatis
factory. yj. . - , |Jt ~ 1
General News.
CmcAoo, February 25.—Foley, of Chicago has
beat Fr&wley, of Cleveland, in a match game of
billiards. " • v ‘
SanFrakosco, February 25.—Four hundred Chi-
nose women havo arrived. Rival parties fight over
them. Thero is great exdtcment at tho Chinese
quarters. ^
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Hall and his associates, over and upon any line
or route of travel by post road or otherwise by rail
road and bridges of all kinds, over streams and
rivers, and rivers used, or that may bo used, as mail
routes, of tho United States. That said party or
parties shall bo protected in the construction, erec
tion, preservation and use thereof upon the lines
or routes above designated. Said line or" lines to
bo built of metallic poles and air cables. The
tariff between any two points on tho lino to bo ono
cent a word, counting dato, address and signature.
Tho owners of the lino are to have the right to
import any material suitable for the construction and
working it, including poles, wires, instruments, etc..
free of duty. After three years successful opera
tion of the line, tho Government is required to buy
it at its cost with seven per cent, interest.
With regard to the general subject of assuming
the telegraph, tbe committee advert to the fact that
in the infancy ot the invention, Professor Morse of
fered it to tho Government, and an experimental
line was established between Washington and Balti
more and operated by the Postoffice Department;
that upon the working of this line and the propriety
of assuming the business, tho Postmaster General,
at the request of Congress, made an adverse report .....
and the business was thereupon remitted to the the usefulness of the service and transform it into a
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his associates the right of eminent domain, a right and tho inroads of the wife upon tho domestic
which tho Federal Government never exercised if it : quietude were noticed as of constantly increas-
possessesiti Even when it desires to acquire land j ing frequency and bitterness. Captain John,
’— “ 1 however, bore the infliction with Ms accustomed
patience.
and for aYransfer of jurisdiction. If the ItateS j .E^eendw^ at hani One evening in the
Bents it passes an act which not only transfers the i 1331 ^week ofJuly, a ne^jhbor, James Pauls, m
jurisdiction, but also provides for tho appropriation j passing the house, heard Nancy s tongue going
of the land under its right of eminent domain. In at an unusual rate, and glancing through the
case the owner will not consent to sell Congress is { window saw Buckson standing before her. Ho
not likely, in behalf of and for tho profit of private ; seemed roused at last, and although Pauls could
parties, to exercise powers which are not exercised j no t bear his words, ho saw the knitted brows
for the most necessajy public ptuposes. j and twitching hands, in one of which a stout
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corporation^because it is designed to aid to tlieper- ! ™s indelibly stomped by after-events upon
formance of a public service, it lias no title to bo so • tno memory of tne accidental witness, and no
called, as the business is essentially a private one i could always see, even to the most minute de-
not hitherto been done by the Government, and to i tails, the enraged woman, confronted by that
be still shared by private companies. An extremely I quiet concentrated man, struggling with his pas-
objectionable feature to the proposed postal tele- ■ —* -»*--»**-- «-= a
graph system is the right to secure priority to the
transmission of messages by paying an extra price
for it. Tjie rule of all American companies is “first
come, tost served.” Any other rule would destroy
terms, but he was never the llr^wjo broach the
subject, and it was especially noticed that be
never made any inquiry for the details of the
murder.
When the officer and his charge arrived at
Seakonk, the latter seemed amazed to find him
self the object of universal execration. "When
ha reached the village and while he walked bo-
sidehis captor through the street to the jail, he
was surrounded by a hooting mob, that pelted
him with opprobious epithets, and with difficulty
was restrained from doing violence to his per
son. He bore himself bravely and undismayed
through it all. But his conduct was noted only to
his discredit, and the citizens could not remem
ber any hardened wretch who had ever so flaunt
ed his crime in the face of an outraged people.
In due time the grand jury was convened and
his case considered. There was no more doubt
of his guilt in that official body than in the com
munity at large; and he was formally indicted
for the murder of Nancy Buckson.
"When the news was taken to him in his cell,
he only said, “ God's will be done!”
His perfect resignation had, by this time, won
slightly on the jailer's heart, and he inquired if
he did not wish to engage counsel to defend him
at the approaching trial. Buckson’B face bright
ened with this first faint sign of sympathy, bnt
he answered:
“I thank you, friend, but I don’t need a law
yer. God bows I am innocent of this crime,
and He will prove it in His own good time.”
The day appointed for the trial of the prison*
er was close at hand, when the quiet village was
startled by a new terror. One pleasant Sep*
tember morning a ghost descended from' the
eastern coach, and walked leisurely, and with
every semblance of life, up the street toward
the long deserted cottage. It was a horrible
ghost, for it nodded familiar greetings to sev
eral persons it met upon the way, and once tried
to pat a shrinking child. It almost seemed en
dowed with human passions, for many .were
ready to make oath that they saw its cheek
flush with anger when it found tho entire town
avoiding it in unconcealed terror. But it wua a
persistent ghost, for it walked steadily on until
it reached the gate of the cottage garden, which
it found nailed up. And it became a talkative
ghost when it discovered the pigs running riot
in the garden. In the very voice of tbe dead
Nancy Buckson, it said, in a peevish tone :
“That John Buckson ’ll be the death of me
yet! Just see how he lets these pesky hogs
root up things!”
It was, indeed, Nancy Buckson herself.
It is needless to prolong the story. On tho
night of. the quarrel Captain John had left, as
usual, to take out his sloop, and Nancy, smart-
pernicious engine of speculation. Mr. Hubbard’s
schemo violates a radical principle to respect to tho
Government working. Whatever service falls with
in the proper fnnetions of the Government, should
he performed by it immediately, and not through
the intervention of private parties. Reaping an im
mediate profit, it is ar.ropersubject of taxation, and
the whole revenue which it yields belongs to the
Treasury. No company looking for a ten per cent,
dividend can bo allowed to intervene.
The contract system for carrying the mails does
not violate this principle. The postal service does
not consist only or chiefly to carrying locked mail
bags, that is merely and entirely mechanical and a
subordinate part of the system. The Government
lias no occasion to build railways for the transporta
tion of its mails, because they already exist for the
much more important business of carrying freight
and passengers; but the transmission of a telegram
over the wires is the essential element of that ser
vice to which all the skill and all the responsibility
attaches, and it cannot be done successfully except
under an immediate responsibility to the party send
ing. This responsibility tho servants of a contractor
would never feel.
Mr. Hubbard's scheme leaves the services and the
servants of the contractors, and of the Government,
to such a manner that the public will fall between
two stools. How is this system to be made profit
able to the contractors ? It can only be byputting
nearly all the cost upon the Government. The cost
and maintenance of lines and the wages of opera
tors aro all that faR on the contractor; all the rest
must be bomt' ter tile Government. When it is con
sidered that to the laige cities the telegraph occupies
much more space than the postoffice; that to New
York alone there are nearly a hundred offices, it will
be seen that tbe rents of offices alone will be no
trifling matter. How these numerous offices aro to
be run by employes of the postoffice is not easily
seen. If they are to be dosed the public will
seriously suffer. The scheme of Mr. Hubbard offers
a very partial and imperfect substitute fer tho neat
in lines now to operation. He
net work of telegraph lines now to operation,
is to be required to go only to towns of 10,000 inhab
itants and over, and is to bo allowed five years to do
bands of the people and the legislation of the States,
After a lapse of more than twenty years, when tho
system had grown to vast dimensions under the au
thority and protection of Stato laws and by force of
private energy and capital, the subject was to 1866
again brought before Congress by an application for
a private act to incorporate a telegraph company
and by the introduction of a hill to create a postal
telegraph systems. These propositions received the
fullest attention and debate, especially to tho Sen
ate. The opinion of Postmaster General Dennison
was again invited, as to 1845, and he reported against
the *♦ inauguration of the proposed system of tele
graphy” as a part of the postal system: not only be
cause of its doubtful financial success, hut also its
questionable feasibility under our political system.
The result was a denial of all legislation of a private
or personal character and the passage of a general
law extending to all telegraph companies then exist
ing, or to bo to future created by State laws, rights
or way over tho public domain over post-roads and
routes and across navigable rivers, on condition that
they should grant priority of use of the lines to Gov
ernment officers, on public business, at rates to bo
fixed by the Postmaster General, and also agree to
sell their entire lines and property to the Govern
ment, at an appraisal, at any time after fivo years.
All the leading companies accepted this act and
are now subject to its obligations—and to two years
from Julv, 1869, the Government will have the right
to take die lines and property of any or all of them,
at an appraisal of their fair value, at the time of
appraisal. The purpose of this act was obviously to
set at rest the controverted question of telegraphic
control and management by it. Congress refused
to interfere with the legislative control of the busi
ness heretofore uniformly exercised by the States,
for the reason that if both Congress and the States
legislated about it there would bo an unavoidable
conflict of jurisdictions. On the other hand, they
extended to corporations controlled by the States
certain valuable privileges on condition that the
Government might at a future time, if it desired to
assume tho business, obtain possession of the prop
erty by paying a fair price for it.
The act, when accepted, created a compact be
tween the Government and the corporations, and
tho reasonable construction of that compact is that
during the period of tho obligation, the Government
should do no act which would impair the valuo of
the property over which it held the suspended right
of purchase. Such a compact as this, if between
private parties, would be enforced to its spirit and
in its letter by the Courts and Congress will not
deal less justlv with citizens than tho law requires
them to deal with each other. This mode of acquir
ing the telegraphic property and business is pre
cisely that pursued by Belgium and England, which
acquired it by requisition and purchase of private
companies.
Mr. Washhume’s plan is not calculated to succeed
for several reasons. The appropriation for it is en
tirely inadequate. Tho Bankers' and Brokers’ Lino
is a substantially built four-wire lino between Wash
ington and New York, and therefore exactly corres
ponds to tho proposed experimental line of Mr.
Washburne. The capital stock of that company is
$1,000,000, of which $750,000 has been paid by tho
stockholders. The President of the company, to a
communication addressed to the committee, states
that with the exercise of tho strictest economy and
diligence, and with tho very best class of customers,
tho lino cannot at existing rates be mado to pay
more than its operating expenses, and has never
paid either dividend or interest on its cost.
Thera aro already three lines between Washington
and New York and a fourth is building. When tho
Government enters the field it will encounter a com
petition of not less than thirty wires, and to that
competition its line cannot go to the wall, for how
ever unremunerative tho may-be private companies
may make up their losses out of other lines which
they ran to other territories, while the Government'
must meet its deficiency out of tho public purse, the
effect would be to make low rates between Washing
ton and New York at the expense of higher rates
everywhere else. Short experimental lines compet
ing with sections only of great and ramified private
systems cannot bo otherwise than failures. Tw&
systems, ono public and the other privato, cannot
work together with success to either or with benefit
to the public. The functions of Government aro
necessarily exclusive, and when once assumed pri
vate parties cannot bin allowed to exerciso them, hut
must be rigidly excluded, as was the case with tho
privato expresses which attempted to carry the
mails. .
Both Mr. Hubbard and Mr. Washburno rely on
tho examples of Belgium and Switzerland, bnt there
is no similarity between the condition of thoso
countries and that of the United States. Belgium
has the densest population of Europe, nearly four
hundred to the square mile, while tho United States
has but ten to the square mile. Belgium is less than
a quarter part as large as New York, and yet its pop
ulation is donblo that of Ohio. It lies midway be
tween England, Franco an-l Germany, holding the
closest relations with each. Its business is largely j At tlie late term of tho United States Dtstrict
manufacturing. It owns and operates the railways. Court, held in this city, the Grand Jury brought
ia tills Of indictment against A. A. Knight,
eatabUshed'aver^ towta^for suchol to | of the Fowth Judicial Circuit.of this
home business as requires no extraordinary dis-i“tate. • One indictment was for opening and
patch, of half a franc, or about fourteen cents of I secreting letters—tho other for perjury in
our currency. There aro, however, instances of as ! making a false return to the Bankrupt Court.
* * m TT1A n ,1 CAaAaa IPt. i, Al, a AaliIY 1, a ITT A * J A* — 1-2— — A 1_ 1X *
it to. In 1860 there were only three hundred and
thirteen towns with that population. How are the
rest of the three thousand telegraph offices to bo
served; are they to be abandoned or left to the for
bearance of private companies, whoso most profit
able territory has been invaded by the Government ?
The Committee see no such middle ground be
tween the Government and private telegraph system
as Mr. Hubbard proposes to occupy, and if such a
contract system was desirable, it is not necessary to
charter a new company to render the service. Old
companies can do it, or new companies can be or-
K ed in tho Stato and brought within tho privi-
and obligations of the law of 1866. If new
inventions are desirable, private capital will much
more readily embark to them now than when Prof.
Horeo offered his discovery to an incredulous public.
Mr. Hall's hill has for its object the introduction
of iron poles and air cables. Tho former aro now to
use to those European countries which have a lack
of wood, tho latter at present an untried experiment
everywhere. He asks that these and all other ma
terials necessary to construct his line may bo im
ported free of duty. In a business so well estab
lished as that of tho telegraph, the introduction of
improved machinery may safely bo left to the stim
ulus of competition—seeking to avail itself of the
latest and best instrumentalities. And whenever
iron posts and air cables commend thcmsolvcs to
tho management of telegraphic managers American
mechanics will probably be found ready to make
them. Tho obligation which would bo imposed on
tho Government by Mr. Hall’s bill, to buy his lines
at cost and interest after three years, is sach as
CoDgress ought not to sanction.
Foreign News.
Madrid, February 25.—Tho vote of CorteB thank-
tog tho Provisional Government and authorizing
Serrano to form a Ministry, stood 180 to 62.
Berlin, February 25.—Tho German Parliament
meets on tho 4th of March. The Russian Diet ad
journs on the 6th. .
Marine News.
Savannah, February 25.— Arrived — schooner
Donna Anna, Cardenas.' Cleared—steamship H. Liv
ingston, New York; ships Mary Dunks and Lida
Havelock, Liverpool; barkTeto, Liverpool; Lamp
Lighter, New York.
“Where the Wicked Rule the People
Mourn,” saith Holy Writ, and we think Florida
has as much occasion for a general boohoo as
any place we know of. The Floridian of the
low rates to tho United States. .Thus, the tariff be
tween Washington and Baltimore has for a consid
erable time been only ten cents, and the distance is
fully equal to the average of Belgium distances.
This is not supposed to be a remunerative rate, nor
is tho inland tariff of Belgium thus far remunera
tive. In 1866 and 1867. the Belgium telegraphic ser
vice showed a loss of 309 francs, and this would
have been much greater if it had not been for the
receipts from international and transit business hav
ing ono or both of its termini out of the country,
which yielded a revenue of 1,147,000 franca against
890.000 francs from domestio messages. There are
only 374 offices to Belgium, and if all the domestio
messages sent 1867 were divided between them, it
wonld give only six messages to each for each day
to the year, and at half a franc these wonld give a
gross revonue of 84 cents to onr currency, or less
than the wages of the lowest class of American ope
rators. _ •
Switzerland is smaller, both to occupied territory
and to population, than Belgtom, but it is annually
invaded by an army of pleasure-seeking travelers
who use the telegraph for their various wants as it
is used nowhere else to the world. The Govern
ment controls the expresses as well as tho telegraph
and with quite as much propriety. Both in Switzer
land and Belgium labor is cheaper than anywhere
else to Europe and does not average half tho price
of the United StateB. Labor constitutes sixty per
cent, of the cost of operating American lines. A
fair, justor comparison would bo with tho wliolo of
Europe, where distances aro shorter than to this
country, and although the linos travereo tho terri
tory or many nations thero are no national bounda
ries on tbe telegraphic map. The whole number of
Warrants were issued for his arrest on both in
dictments.
Town Burning.—The Nashville Banner re
ceived the following at 1 o’clock Wednesday
morning: •
“As I am about to close the office the opera
tor at Gallatin has come in and tells me Gallatin
is all on fire, and the prospect is good for the
burning of the whole town.”
Fly, Fly, Fly.—We advise all moderate and
well meaning Democrats to fly to the Grant
standard at once. - “Hasten sinners,” etc., etc.
The doors are now open. Come along, for if
you tarry till you aro better you will nover come
at all Sing, brethren, sing.—Atlanta New Era.
Tho New Era has a terror of an empty house.
A Remarkable Family or Immigrants.—On
her way here, says the Nashville Banner, the
Emma Floyd landed yesterday at Bell’s Mills,
about eighteen miles below Nashville, a German
family consisting of a mother, eleven sons, all
“old bachelors,”and six daughters, all (wo beg
pardon,) “old maids.” They have purchased a
tract of 1,600 acres for $64,000, cash down, and
brought with them, from their lato home above
Cincinnati, all tho live stock, wagons, machine
ry, implements, etc., necessary to farming on a
most extensive scale.
sion and fidgetting with a whipcord. At tbe
time, however, Pauls gave no especial weight to
the circumstance, and stopping at the village inn
on his way home, only casually remarked to the
inevitable lonngers, that he “ reckoned Nancy
would keep on a naggin’ of Captain John until
she riled him.”
The next morning tho cottage was closed and
deserted, but the circumstance did not excite re
mark. Buckson, it was presumed, had gone to
Providsnde to prepare his sloop for sea, and
Nancy had a habit of making sudden pilgrim
ages to the neighboring towns. The event, then,
was so far from being suspicious that it was not
even unusual.
In those days a magnifieient forest stretched
to the northward from the little town, inter
spersed with patches of open land where the
blackberry grew in great abundance. This won
der and delight of the American glades had fully
ripened under the hot July sun, and the children
of the village were busily employed in gathering
the fruit That afternoon the patches were un
usually crowded. One group of children started
home jnst before sundown, taking their way di
rect through the woods without regard to beaten
paths. They had gone but a short distance when
the Iittlo dog that was with them stopped, and
began to sniff eagerly at a spot of ground which
appeared to have been recently disturbed. Giv
ing a long mournful howl the dog scratched furi
ously withhis paws in the sand, andin a moment
had uncovered a human hand. Howling more
mournfully than before, he bounded off a couple
of feet, and tore at tbe ground with redoubled
energy. He soon completed his task, and the
children saw a woman’s face, pale and rigid, im
bedded in the moist, clayey earth. With but
one glance at the horrqr, they dropped their
pails and fled to the village. The dog detective
remained yelping over the crime he had un
earthed.
Every village, probably, has its. sensation at
some time, and that of Seakonk came with the
story of the children. As the tidings spread
from house to house the people gathered at the
inn, and eagerly discussed what should be done
and who should do it. At last, all the. male in
habitants, beaded by the Squire, bearing a lant
ern, and piloted by the children, started ont to
investigate tbe matter. But the pilots were not
needed, as the dog still maintained his watch;
and with his moumfnl bowlings echoing through
the dim woods, tho party cofid not go astray.
Reaching the spot, they gathered around it, and
the Squire advanced and, kneeling down, wiped
the dirt from the face of the dead woman with
the skirt of his coat Then he held the lantern
over it
“It’sf Nancy Buckson 1”
He fell back a few paces with the exclamation,
and his companions turned to imitate the con
duct of the children shortly before. They
rallied, however, at his summons, and fell vig
orously to work to exhume tho body. A few
sbovelsful of earth, and the body of a woman,
without shroud or coffin, but fully dressed in the
ordinary garments of life, was exposed. About
the body a white substance was .plentifully
sprinkled^ and was found to be chloride of lime,
doubtless placed there to insure speedy decom
position.
Every one recognized poor Nancy Buckson,
and sawthe ridged and livid mark uponthe neck,
pointed out by tho ’Sqniro. It was plain that
she had been murdered by strangulation, and
tossed, dressed as she was at tbe moment of her
violent death, into the rude grave where the dog
had found her. . .
The neighbor, Pauls, now recalled tbe quarrel
of the preceding day, and told how Captain John
had stood before the angry woman, playing with
the whipcord. The cottage was searched, and a
cord was found lying on the floor of the room,
which when tried upon the woman’s neck, fitted
exactly the ridged and livid circle. In the cellar
was a quantity of white substance precisely sim
ilar to that found in tbe grave, and those articles
belonging to Mrs. Bnckson fonnd upon the
corpse were missing from the house. There
could b& no more doubt as to the criminal than
the crime.
Captain John Bnokson was not found in tbe
village or in Providence; bnt it was ascertained
that he had sailed with his sloop, and the pre
sumption was raised that ho intended to touch
at New York, and there, leaving tho vessel, seek
to elnde the officers of the law in the labyrinths
of the great city. A messenger was, therefore,
dispatched in great haste to reach the dty be
fore bim, with a requisition for his arrest.
His authority was placed in the hands of Po
lice Captain Leonard—the officer referred to in
my preamble—who searched diligently among
the shipping, until he found the sloop “Ore
gon,” moored at an East River pier. Going on
board, Captain Leonard greeted Bnckson, who
was seated on tho deck. •?
“ Good-day, sir.”
The sailor scarcely looked np, as he mechani
cally returned the salutation.
“ I’m sorry to trouble you, but I’ve a warrant
for your arrest."
‘ ’Arrest! For what ?”
The exclamation and succeeding question
were those of a phlegmatic man slightly aston
ished.
“For the murder of your wife.”
“Murder of my wife i Squire, that can’t be.
Nancy isn’t dead.”
‘Yes, she is—strangled with a cord.”
Buckson rose to Ins feet and, looking the
officer steadily in tho face, said slowly and
solemnly: ' ‘ .
“ Squire, if Nancy’s dead I don’t know it I
had a quarrel with her the night I loft, and gave
her a piece of my mind, but God is my witness
that I didn’t put a hand upon her!”
The officer looked with some interest upon a
man who could thus deny a crime with which
he was so clearly linked by circumstantial evi
dence, but without further parley" took him
from the sloop and placed him. in a oell of the
station-house. Ho made no resistance, and did
not trouble himself to again volunteer any pro
testation of his innocence. "While in the station-
house, and during the - journey to Providence,
whenever the question was directly put to him,
he always denied his guilt in the same emphatic
an awful consternation among the poor brutenfl
ing under the severe censure ho had, for the of whom, more or less, tried to break from their
firof fima ornrocond Tva/3 rrnviQ nff nn : /Y_ 1 - t. it.
The Next Cotton Crop,
Three million bales of dotton this Year if
season be favorable, yielding, at present*
fltKMKX'.iKKJwtil be the contribution of
ton States to the material wealth of the Unio n U
Here is a prize worth contending for bv tu
great commercial cities,' and New York. f«T
present indications, will secure so large a U
as to make up for the dullness of ihe la* seasT
Freights to Europe will rule high, as a matter of
course, and were it not for the insane policv of
Congress, ship-building would immediately” r«
vive. Our great mercantile inaiine before ihl
war was mainly built up by the cotton trade. Tt
leg'tiEtion^lt ^ enlar 8 ed now by judicious
We dip tiie foregoing prognostication from
an exchange, but we find the opinion very g en .
eral among Southern cotton dealers that the
crop of 1S68 will show the mA-rimum no
what may be the efforts to produce a larger
yield. A heavy and universal falling off of labor
in the field is reported. On the other hand, We
think no due allowance is made for an increase
in the strictly white labor product of Georgia.
This, wo believe, will be very considerable
Then we must also allow for a considerable in',
crease in the crop resulting from the diminution
in the com culture. This will be large and
general. The reports from all points in Geor
gia indicate that very little com will be planted.
On the whole, with a good year, we expect to
see three million bales produced.
An Elephant Attacks a Locomotive.
The following account of an encounter be.'
tween an elephant and a railway train in ^
is taken from the Bengalee of January 2d, an
intelligent native newspaper, published in Cal.
cutta, in English:
“A correspondent writing to the Indo-Enro-
pean correspondence from Monghyr, states that
a very serious accident, brought about mamas,
ner unknown, and perhaps unheard of since the*,
establishment of railways, not only in Indiai
bnt throughout the world, happened to a train
on the evening of the 20th of December, at
half-past 8 o’clock, between Sahebgvmge and
Mirzapore, about two miles from tho latter sta
tion. At that time the number 5 down goods
train was approaching a mangoe tope, in which
seventy elephants were stationed. The red
lights glaring in the distance, and the noise and
smoke of the engine would seem to have caused
_ . . — . —-— - — - - ■—ffi ■ .1. ■■■..i ■■ ■ —— i IpJH ...... rushed
to begin a journey to Maine to visit a sister. I forward to intercept and encounter the supposed
Her absence from _ the cottage was not known | enemy. He had scarcely placed himself on the
until after the finding of the body, and its iden- ■ line when the train was down upon him. He |
tification was so absolute that of course no j encountered it with head and tasks; but nnin^i
search was made for a woman known to be dead, i strength proved no match for steam and machir. I
On the other hand she had heard nothing, in a erv—ihe poor brato was knocked down an] I
retired spot of a distant State, of her supposed . killed on the spot, and the engine, reboundicc. f
death and the subsequent events; and her re- ■ ran off the line and it and eleven carraiges mr* I
turn, timely as it was, had been purely acci- i capsized into a ditch. The fireman luckily mm. I
dental. She was horrified when confronted with : aged to jump off in time, and tbe guard did the I
the results of her thoughtless freak, and, al- same, but the poor driver, named Smith, re. I
though she made no noisy demonstrations of re- mained in his plai * ----- 1
gret, and was not profuse in promises of amend
ment in the future, it is pleasant to know that
this terrible experience was not without fruit.
Buckson was, of course, immediately released
from prison, the legal proceedings against him
at once dismissed, and thereafter be found in
his home a haven of rest that was a recompense
for tho suffering by which it had been pur
chased.
But a mystery has always brooded over the
cottage, and the murder always remained an in
soluble enigma. Eighteen years have elapsed
without any second identification of the body
unearthed by tbe little dog, and, as a conse
quence, without any detection of the murderer.
The clothes in which the body was dressed, and
the ear-rings and articles of jewelry upon it,
were undoubtedly tbe property of Mrs. Buck-
son, for, upon her return, she found these arti
cles missing from the house. A close scrutiny
of the cottage showed that the woman had not
only been there, bnt had probably been mur
dered there during the night, after Buckson and
his wife had left. The cord found in the room
had fitted the neck, and the chloride of lime in
the cellar had evidently been disturbed. Many
articles of value, too, were gone, and the house
generally disarranged. Upon these circum
stances a theory was founded that a woman was
one of a party of burglars that had entered tbe
cottage, and finding it deserted, had leisurely
ransacked it. The woman had arrayed herself
in the property of tho absent mistress, and af
terward some quarrel bad arisen, and she had
been murdered by the other members of tbe
party. Subsequently this theory was, in part,
thoroughly established, when a complete femalo
outfit of coarso material, was accidentally fished
ont of an old and unused well in the cottage
garden.
Detectives are apt to attach the names of
noted criminals to extraordinary crimes, and,
many years after the events narrated, a rumor
was prevalent among the police of Providence
that the murdered woman had been the wife of
an English burglar named Collins, then living
in Providence, and celebrated all over the Union
for his success and recklessness. The rumor
had no better foundation than that Collins and
his wife disappeared at abont the time of the
murder, and it only lived because theories al
ways thrive when facts are impossible to obtain.
The case yet remains among unfinished po
lice business. No human effort has ever
learned more than was discovered by the brato
instincts of the dog when he pawed the secret
of the mnrder from the shallow grave in the
dark forest.
Assault ou Mr. Geo. C. WilFong, tUe Lo
cal Editor ot tbe Morning Sews.
Yesterday morning about twelve o’clock an
unprovoked assault was made on Mr. George O.
Wilfong, tbe local editor of the Morning News.
About the time mentioned, Mr. J. Potter Wil
liamson entered Mr. Wilfong’s room (which is
situated over the business office) and asked bim
if he was the author of the following article,
which he pointed ont in the local column of
Monday’s paper:
“ Several yonng men of Savannah fell volun
tarily in love with Frederici, the opera singer,
during the past week. She was too much at
tached to her husband to reciprocate.”
To this, Mr. Wilfong replied that ho was, and
some further conversation ensued, after which
"Williamson retired, but in a few minutes returned
and knocked at the door. Mr. Wilfong admitted
him and Mr. A. A. E. W. Barclay. He then re
sumed his seat at his desk. Williamson again
asked him who was the writer of the article, and
if he (Williamson) was the party alluded to in it.
Mr. "Wilfong, replied that he was the author of
the paragraph, and stated that it had no refer
ence to any one in particular. Williamson then
struck him in the face, felling him insensible to
the floor, and then inflicted other serious injuries
upon him. The disturbance attracted the atten
tion of parties in the office below, who, upon
going up stairs, found SR. Wilfong laying on
the floor, bleeding profusely, Williamson and
Barclay having retired.
Dr. J. G. Thomas and Dr. "W. N. King were
called in, and upon examination, it was found
that Mr. Wilfong’s nose was broken and he had
received a severe cut under the right eye, be
sides several severe contusions about tho face
and head and bruises about tho body. As s5on
as he had_ sufficiently recovered he was conveyed
to his residenco in a carriage, whore he now lies
in a vory critical condition. Mr. Wilfong is
woll knoim in this city as a gentleman of unob
trusive manners, and as one of the best local
editors that has over been connected with the
press of Savannah. He has been suffering from
an affection of the lungs for a number of years,
and several times during tbe past year has been
confined to bis bed for woeks. His attending
physician stated last evening that ho was in a
very critical condition, and the worst results
were to be feared.
We return thanks in his behalf to his many
friends for the solicitude they have shown for
him, and trust that his injuries may not prove
as serious as anticipated.
As the mattor will undergo judicial investiga
tion, we refrain from any comments.—Uaoa-n-
nah News, 241/t.
If that is the whole story, it is a most extraor
dinary outrage, and we hope will be severely
punishi
mained in his place, and received injuries fnc |
which it is not expected that he will recover.
tied.
OoNDuenko to Fortune.—George Clough, a
conductor on the Concord, New. Hampshire,
Railroad since 1842, contrived during the twen
ty-three years ensuing, to make himself the
fourth richest man in Concord. He built and
occupied the finest residence in the city and
was known as a large stockholder and real estate
owner. Previous to becoming a conductor he
was an ostler on wages of $650 per annum. In
1865 the company conceived that he was getting
along much too fast for a salaried employe, and
brought suit against him. Clough undertook to
account for $3,200 of his property as the profits
on peanuts sold on his train by a small Irish boy
in his employment. The referees finally awarded
that Clough make restitution in the sum of $15,-
500.
A Joke on Horace Greeley in Ike Xn
York Legislature.
The Albany correspondent of the New l’off
Democrat, writing under date of tho 19th inst,
relates the following joke on the “philosopher"
Senator Mattoon’s resolution, recommending
Grant to appoint Horace Greeley as Minister to
England, was the occasion of unrestrained mer
riment in both the Senate and tho House. The
Democrats, of course, felt that the joke was i
huge one, while Mr. Greeley’s friends in both
Houses were sorely chagrined and insulted, u
they affirmed, by Mattoon’s action, in going sc
far out of the way to hold the “great philoso
pher” np to public ridicule. More bitter sar-
casm could not well be uttered than is expressed
in the language of the resolution, nhicli is a<
follows:
"Whereas, in the present delicate state oi on
relations with Great Britain, the most momer-
tons consequences may hang upon the choice of
a representative of the Government at the
British Court; and,
Whereas, the position is one that calls for i
rare union of qualities, such as firmness cf pur
pose with suavity and evenness of temper, grex
knowledge of international law with court)
manners and polished address, long practice ii
the habit of conducting controversies vithci
heat or excitement, with a fastidious and id
eate regard to the rights arid feelings of oppe-
nents; therefore, |
Resolved, That the Senate earnestly renc-
mend to the President elect the appointment
that model American gentleman and sfatesarl
Horace Greeley, to the position of Minister .1
the Court of St. James. ’ jj
The resolution lies upon the table, and is
be printed. j
The Press in China.
Among tbe Chinese at Pekin, the capifcl >1
the empire, a newspaper has beenpubli-iedlf
centuries—for how long, in fact, nobody d
tell. It is older than their earliest tradiiiwj
and its founder is as unknown as the disc-jTtri
of the tea-plant is, or the first weaver of rij
The name of the newspaper is King Chat •
the Court Record, though foreigners call it»
Pekin Gazette. It is compiled from official H
pers; the most of the news, even, that it «
tains being in tho form of official reports of a
authorities in the various cities and prov
It has been published every morning since i
time to which human memory does not rex
backward. It is printed and then placarded j
such public places as the city walls.
Couriers convey copies to the most <
parts of the Empire, and in remote cities,
sands of people are employed in transcriber a
in reprinting its contents for the — 1 ' ,: '
The intelligence and expression of <.
it contains, are prepared in the Emperor's C
cil, and revised by him, before they arep
It is the official organ of the Government-j
the agents of which it is industriously circ"-^'
The official edition ift issued gratuitously 11
large subsidies are granted to pay the er “
of publication. Anybody may freely 1
copies for sale, and it is the channel by 5
the people communicate with each otbe-’-^
the Government with the public.
Lost Bottom.—The Columbus Sunloa-sj
sponsible for the following: “The roadss^
county were never in a more execrable n
tion. The excessive, slow and frequent«
of this year have produced a mireness aft- 5
diness beyond description. Some routes -
lost bottom altogether, and travel b >
ground. A darkey, the other day, in cl * c
along a rail fence, saw an excellent hat 3 1
mud. With difficulty, he reached the
was about picking np the article, when a
from below called bim to stop. The
darkey did muster up courage to _sUmm c ‘ -
“Fore God! massa, lem me prize y° 3 J
“Oh," replied the voice, “I’m doing veff
I have a splendid horse below me.” |
ger left that region instanter.
We have further reports from Aflan^l
of what seems to be a disreputable s-yi
among professed friends of the inconel
ministration. At this distance it_
that the real friends of the admin'-( tri, r f
Gen. Grant in Georgia aro not suffici_ eE .;l
morons to form two successful partk**)!
State, nor, as it would’seem, to ku®j? ']
trollinc wisdom into the councils of I
INcw Yorker
Respectfully referred for inquiry an! - _
gation as to who are the ‘vwl” fc*®*" I
incoming administration.
The Comino Extra Session.—
re-elected are unanimously opposed to
ing business at the session of the ^
Congress to commenoe on the Itb
next. The ninety-odd new members wi f
bly think differently upon the matter,
get themselves well in harness as soo
sible. The old members believe th»
administration should be allowed t° F ,L
under way ere being compelled to
icy upon any important question. A J
be likely to ward off considerable e ^
ment, it is by no means unlikely tna-
President will favor a recess, to h*
mediately after the Forty-first Coeg rE 1
izes, until Ootober next.—jSavannoo - |
Eloquent Extorts.—The speeches^-
Sparks, of Bibb, and Duplap Scott-
yesterday, on tho hill to ©xenapt fr'r
ell capital, foreign and domestic, ^
manufacturing enterprises within tn
years, were able, impressive an
'they are both energetic and live me»'
House, and reflect honor npon then
enoy.—A tUmta Constitution.
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