About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1869)
The Greorgia, Weekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1869. The Natural Alliance between the West and Month. We are glad to see the Western prints re minding their readers that there is anatnral alli ance between the West apd the South, and their present combination with the Eastern States to degrade and destroy ns is equally unnatural and suicidal. The very soil of the great States of the West was the free gift of Old Virginia to the Federal Government—given in the liberality and magnificent patriotism of her great heart to aid the infant Hercules who afterwards strangled her. The West, so far as the larger portion of her American population is concerned, is the child of the South; but if we say nothing of the ties of oonsanguinity, the West is bound to the South by her interests so closely that she can not cripple us without crippling herself. We are the best customers of the West, bnt she must back us in our efforts to recover wealth, if she would have us as useful and valuable as we can be. We buy of. the West annually just as much as we can pay for; and we pay her in money, and not, liko New England, in manufac tured gimcracks, on which we have compelled the West to pay sixty per cent, bounty, in the shape of a protective tariff. New England is greedily monopolizing the bank circulation and the bonded wealth of the country which is exempt from taxation. She has contrived to effect an almost equal absorp tion of the power, patronago and influence of the Federal Government. She dictates the en tire policy of the consolidated machine, and controls the political power of the great West, in opposition to the vital interest of that section. Why should it be so ? Why should the West permit he.rself to be used to her own injury for the oppression and degradation of the Southern whites—her natural allies—her best customers —having a common agricultural interest, each of which is bnt the supplement of the other, and both of which aro essential to a high degree oj wealth and prosperity ? Let the West ponder over these questions. “Distinction' on Account of Colo a.”—The Boston Courier is informed that the Indians on the plains refnso to scalp negro soldiers killed in battle, while they never fail to take that ad vantage of the whites every time. The Courier says this distinction is not founded on capilla ry reasons, bnt is in contempt of the negro. The Indians themselves say “niggerno brave— no warrior.” The Courier therefore denounces this conduct on the part of the Indians as in flagrant violation of the new amendments and the whole reconstruction policy, and calls for its condign punishment John and Joseph.—John Forsyth, of the Mo bile Daily Register, has been hob-nobbing with Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, who is on a visit to Mobile. Forsyth leads the Alabama Democrats, and Medill is the fugleman of the Illinois Radicals—oil and water, one would sup pose, and yet they commingled freely. The Register says Medill has agreed to take back some of those rebel atrocity stories; and he ought to do it 1 Power op the Whale,—The Savannah Re publican reports that the steamship America, on the inward voyage off Cape Henry, on the 27th of March last, while going twelve knots, two large whales were discovered, one of which rose under the bow, shaking the steamship and breaking seven feet off the stem, shivering it so badly that it had to be cut off and repaired. The whale came to the surface on the port bow and sunk out of sight. The other whale was half a mile off toward shore. State Tax on Liquor Sales.—We have copied on our outside a circular from the Comptroller General of Georgia to the Tax Collectors, di recting them to collect upon all sales of liqnor in quantities less than thirty gallons, since 1st January, 18C9, a tax of twenty cents per gallon, to be devoted to educational purposes. Sold.—The Montgomery Mail says the Radi cals sold the “old flag” at public auction,.in that dty, last Tuesday. It brought three dol lars, and was purchased by a Conservative, who 1 perhaps, will send it to Mr. Greeley, with the inquiry whether this is the identical “hate’B polluted rag ” he used to write about. Eleven States have now ratified the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. They are Kan sas,West Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Maine, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Pennsyl vania. On the other hand, Georgia and Dela ware have rejected the amendment. Combinino Business and Pleasdre: The Barnes- ville Gazette says the stockholders of High Palls Cotton Manufacturing Company will again meet at the High Falls on May Irt next, at which time and placo there will also bo a May party. A large crowd is expected. Fbost in Floyd.—The Rome Courier of the Cth says, that on Monday morning there was a do nothing. Georgia in Congress. On Wednesday, as appears from a press tele gram, Butler's hill for tinkering Georgia, was introduced and attempted to be carried through under a call, from the author, of the previous question. This call, however, did not meet with a second, and a general debate upon the bill fol lowed, in which it is stated that Mr. Bingham made an elaborate constitutional argument in opposition to the bill, and the House adjourned without action. We shall, in all probability, get more light to day ; hut if there is to bo a contest on the bill, it is at least doubtful whether it gets through Congress this session. Only two days remain before adjournment, and there is too much other work indispensable to be done, to permit much time to be expended in discussion about Georgia. . The dispatch, moreover, inspires the belief that the opposition to the bill is serious and weighty, and likely to bo pertinacious. Bing ham, who takes issue with it, contests with But ler the position of leader of the administration party in the House, and probably carries with bim a larger personal influence. It is said, too, that he opposed the bill “in an elaborate con stitutional argument.” The reader might, in ordinary times, with no great effort of the imagi nation, anticipate the line of a constitutional argument against a purposed act of Congress which should undertake to purge the Legisla ture of a State and to annnll its legislation. If the Constitution were considered, in fact, any thing more than a dead letter, it might well be conceived that such a proposition, (if there could possibly be a serious division npon it,) would excite as earnest, searching and protracted de bate, as has ever been heard in Congress. Bnt in the present political demoralization of Congress and the country, one cannot pretend to speak with any confidence on such a point. The Senate has spent daysindiscussingwhether Gen. Longstreet shall be confirmed in his ap pointment to an insignificant office in Louisi ana, while they have not found time to recon struct that unfortunate State. The aspects in the House, however, do seem to warrant the hope of a division upon this bill serious enough to be fatal to it at the heel of a session when there is so mnch other business that must he done. The President's special message also gives ns some hope of escape in what it fails to recom mend. It does not recommend any action in 'the case of Georgia. There is nothing in it which lends color to the reported assurances he has made of support and cooperation in Geor gia reconstruction. He omits to make any recommendation or suggestion at all in relation to Georgia; and it is worthy of remark that those which are made as to Virginia and Missis sippi are entirely harmonious with the views of the conservatives in those States. On the whole, we still live in hope that Geor gia will be passed by, and escape a third recon struction this session of Congress. If so, we shall have a breathing spell of six months or more. But two days will tell the tale. Political Proscription. Much editorial thunder and lightning has been hurled at the heads of “unreconstructed and disloyal Southern planters,” because, as is said, some of them have been guilty of political pro scription by discharging or threatening to dis charge from employment noisy and quarrelsome Radical negro politicians. There was mnch complaint about this matter, although the occa sion for it was very inadequate; for we do not believe that a score of negro laborers in Georgia have ever been turned out of employment for political reasons. The practice never prevailed to any extent—for two reasons: One of these is the scarcity of labor itself, and the other is that the practice itself is revolting to the liberal minds of our people. Bnt we have in the papers of the day the meanest development of political proscription by tho Secretary of the Navy which we think the country has ever yet seen. The Philadelphia, newspapers print the following, from the Com mandant of tho U. S. Navy Yard, at Philadel phia, to the Superintendent of the Yard: Commandant’s Office, U. S. Navy Yard, \ Philadelphia, March 31, 1869. ) Sir : By direction of the Navy Department, yon will see that no person hostile to the pres ent administration will be employed in the yard department under your controL Preference should in all cases be given to those who have belonged to the Union party. Tho Secretary of tho Navy particularly de sires this shonld be done. Very respectfully, (Signed) * J. B. Marchand, Com'dL Hero then are orders to throw every demo cratic mechanic and laborer in the Philadelphia Navy Yard out of employment—but, then, what business had they to be democrats and white men ? From Lee County. Please, Messrs. Editors of the Telegraph, al low mo to say in your paper a few words in re gard to the planting interests of Southwest Georgia. I have got about fifty hands, and some of them as good as can be found. These fifty represent (including themselves,) about 150 of all sizes and sexes, including also twenty- five grown able-bodied and healthy women who If every place is like mine, not Foote on the Administration. The irrepressible Henry S. Foote is out again in a three-column letter of counsel and admoni tion to the Tennesseeans. He has just return ed from Washington, and so far as his discove ries aro of general importance, we find them in tho next paragraphs, from a letter of three col umns, printed in the Nashville Union and Amer ican, of the 7th instant: THE PRESIDENT. ^ ^ I am snre that no man of discernment can visit Washington City and cooly survey the scenes there in progress, as I have just done, without coming to the conclusion that an indi vidual is now in tho Presidential chair of the sonndest intellect; of a firm and inflexible will in regard to concerns of moment, yet most bland and conciliatory in reference to till mat ters of trivial import; of a calm and considerate temper; possessed of much knowledge of men and of the gt leral motives of human action; frank and confiding, yet watchful and circum spect ; with a generous and affectionate temper; a soul exempt from all low prejudices ana all stormy passions; a hero, a patriot, and a true philanthropist. I have seen and known more or less of the various occupants of the White House, from the days of James Monroe to the present moment, and I aver before Heaven and my countrymen, that it is my deliberate opinion that there "has not been yet, in the long list of onr Presidential Chiefs, a man mor o happily fitted for the performance of executive duties of every kind, that the illustrious personage who, against the wishes of many of onr most enlightened and meritorious citizens was elected in November last to the highest office in the gift of the Amer ican people. All men of sense whom I met in Washington most freely admit that, however high may be tho abilities and virtues of Horatio Seymour, it would have been altogether impossible for him successfully to meet tho multiplied difficulties which General Grant is every instant encoun tering and overcoming, in part, by the aid of his nneqnaled personal popularity, and in part, also, by reason of his enjoying tho full con fidence and respect of almost every leading man in Congress. Some of the members of his Cab inet I have formerly known, and known most favorably, with others I formed a most gratify ing acquaintance during my sojourn in Wash ington, and were I now called npon to name one of them in place of whom I shonld be in clined to wish some other individual to be sub stituted, as being probably better suited to the duties to be performed, I really should not be able to do so. I was mnch gratified at finding tho general temper and spirit of Congress greatly improved of late. There is a prevalent inclina tion to sustain the President and his Cabinet in all their efforts to promote the national welfare; nnkind and discourteous collisions in debate are seldom known to occur, and I am confident that there is now an almost universal desire for the speedy removal of civil disabilities in the South, in accordance with the known and constantly expressed desire of Gen. Grant him self and of his Cabinet advisers. THE SOUTHERN STATES. I am personally cognizant of all that has re cently occurred in Washington touching those Practical. Thoughts for the Month. From the A uffutta CofutitutionalUt.i ' Augusta. Ga. , March 31st, 1889. To the Planters of Georgia: It is a well established maxim of political economy that any country, or section of coun try, to make itself the most prosperous, must make itself independent. It is also a well es tablished fact that the prosperity of a country depends upon the prosperity of tho producers. Upon the planters of the South, then, depends the prosperity of this whole country, and it is a question of the greatest moment, both to pro ducers and consumers, what course shall make tho planters most independent, and bring the greatest prosperity npon the country. It is not necessary to allude to past times, or to the po litical situation to-day. We must_ accept the “situation” as we find it, and if it is not what wo desire, i3 it not easier to chango it by com pelling attention to our wants and needs, by making ourselves able to depend upon onr own resources ? If we pay more attention to onr fti nancial prosperity, shall we not sooner be in a position to demand all our political rights, and demand them with success ? for financial power is quickly felt. Anything, therefore, that will make the plant ers prosperous will make the whole country pros perous, and will bo tho earliest and quickest solution of your political troubles. The question then arises, under the changed labor system, will not a great change in the method of carrying on plantations be most ad vantageous!^ Can tho planters of Georgia afford to devote their entire attention to cotton, to tho exclusion of com, wheat, rye, oats and such other products as they must themselves con sume ? What advantage have they if the whole amount they receivo from their cotton crops must bo expended for labor and supplies, with perhaps a small balance to invest in foreign or artificial manures, on which to make the next crop? The system of. raising all that crop which brings in tho most money has been tried over and over again in the North, and every time has S roved a failure. For the past few years hops avo brought and extravagant price. From 10 to 75 cents per pound has been realized to the hop grower, and when it is remembered that a good crop yields about 1000 pounds per acre, it need not be wondered at that those sec tions in which the hop thrives should pay their attention to hops. Thousands of additional acres have been set within the last three years, and farmers have neglected to raise com, oats and wheat enough for their own wants, depend ing npon their sales of hops to supply them. With such a great breadth of hop gardens came the reaction in the market. To-day many of the hop growers have two years crop on hand, and the quotations of the market are only two to seven cents per pound. The money received for the crops of previous years came easily; it went quickly. Such pros perity induced extravagant habits and depend ing upon the next crop to meet their future wants they freely expended, and to-day, with plenty of hops on hand, with no market, they suffer tho penalty of their foolishness. As it has been with hops, so with various oth er crops, until it is found that it is poor policy to devote all attention to one crop. As a rota tion of crops is found to be necessary for the States of the South not at present represented j proper tilling of their land, so is a division of in Congress, and though I am not at liberty to j their attention to the various crops as necessary disclose all that I know upon this interesting s to their financial success. subject at present, I feel justified in declaring j Will the planters of tho South learn by the that the action of both the president and experience of Northern farmers, and, I doubt Congress in regard to those States has been j not, by their own experience in former years ? just in all respects as the most enlightened and If they will depend upon themselves to raise heavy frost in that vicinity. It cut down all tender vegetables, such as Irish potatoes, beans, etc., and probably killed a considerable portion of the early peaches. Colquitt & Baggs.—Our friend Gen. Alfred Colquitt seems to be leaving politics as a bad case. We call attention to his card—Colquitt & Baggs, Cotton Factors and General Commis sion Merchants, Bay Street, Savannah—that is the ticket now, and we have no doubt it will be well supported. We are indebted to onr young friend, S. H. Dessau, M. D., for a copy of the Anmml State ment of the Guardians for the Relief and Em ployment of the Poor of the City of Philadel phia, for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1888. It is a magnificent testimonial to the lib eral charities of that great city. Connecticut Election.—Jewell, the Republi can candidate for Governor, has a majority esti mated at abont 500. The Senate will be com posed of fourteen Republicans and seven Dem. ocrats, and the Republicans will have abont twenty majority in the House. A large number of the prominent citizens of Tallahassee address a very complimentary note to Colonel F. F. Flint, of the 4th United States Infantry, for the impartiality and justice of his military administration in Florida. Cotton Seed Oil Manufactory.— 1 The Mobile Register says that CoL W. D. Mann, of that city, is patting up extensive works for the man ufacture of Cotton Seed Oil Gen. Morgan, Representative of Dougherty county was in the offioe yesterday—as natural as life. The native Cubans entertain the most intense hatred of Spaniards, who for the most part aro shop-keepers, and do not regard the island as their permanent home. A beautiful senorita, daughter of untold wealth, moving in the most aristocratic circles, and yet in "the brilliancy of whose eyes might be seen that inevitable line of blue which indicates the blood of Africa—no diagxao# in Cuba—remarked to an American: “ I may have the blood of tho negro in my ▼•ins, hot, thank God, not one drop of Spanish.'’ Ms. J. M. Jackson of Catoosa county has a son with six fingers and six toes; at six months he ^Jj^hgdttforssTap porafr sad now St woe half the negro labor in the country is at work, and we cannot moke a largo cotton crop at best. Pamplico. A Republican Loose. The late “personal explanation” of Senator Sprague, repudiating tho slander that his speeches were inspired by the wine cup, etc., seems to have been called out by an editorial in the Providence Journal, containing that insinu* tion. The Journal publishes the following note to that paper by Senator Sprague: To the Editor of the Journal, Providence, R. I.: Sib—I am in receipt of a slip from your pa per of the 25th, referring to me. The most outrageous insinuation that you set forth, will be answered by me in my place in the Senate. As you reflect the sentiments, and arc tied in ser vitude to the overshadowing power that attempts to control both the politics and public senti ments of Rhode Island, I shall give to that in fluence the setting forth it is entitled to. As I strike directly at the power of which yon are the lickspittle, yon and those who control yon will find that I am indeed in terrible earnest. Take, therefore, as yon now have, the position in public that I have long known was your pri vate sentiment. Your present is far more hon orable, if honor belongs to your nature, than your past dastardly and cowardly one has been. Show this to Ives Co. I am, etc., Vi. Sprague. Speaking of female lobbyists, the Washington correspondent of the Boston Herald says: “They have advanced on the Capitol of late in greater force than ever, and have even com menced to lay seige to members and Senators at their boarding-houses. The other day I asked the doorkeeper of the House, who is opposite the ladies' reception Aom, how many women had sent their cards in one day to members, and he replied, ‘three hundred and eleven!’ The notorious Mrs. Cobb is a daily visitor, cir culating in the corridors and lobbies of the Sen ate and Hoime, and plying her vocation at pres ent” ■ . - w i A Glorious Country.—The Shreveport (La.) Southwestern says Buffalo gnats aro very bad in that vicinity, particularly in the river bottoms, where the stock is suffering very severely. A gentleman just below that place received one day last week eight mules from that city, and before the next morning these little pests had killed four of ■ them. Old citizens inform ns that they never saw them in such quantities there before. On Wednesday, July 14, 1869, the next Penn sylvania Democratic State Convention will as~ uniiBTi tftmraiMtoaifiattt reasonable persons resident therein have them selves desired and asked. In none of them is a harsh and oppressive government to be es tablished and upheld by military power against the ascertained will of the people. I will here state, by way of illustration, some facts which I personally know in relation to the policy adopt ed by tho President, with the undoubted appro val of Congress, in reference to the State of Mississippi. I chanced to meet the Commis sioners recently sent from that State whilst in Washington, and had the honor of conferring with some of them (Messrs. Brown, Watson, and Sinunral) more than once in regard to the grave matters which they had in charge. These gentlemen will all avouch what I now as sert, that General Grant very promptly granted them in behalf of those whom they represented all that they asked at his hands; that the House of Representatives, in voting down Gen. But ler’s bill a week ago, by an overwhelming ma jority, placed themselves in perfect accord with the position of the President: and that leading Radicals in that body, on the most kind ana confidential terms with the President (Messrs. Dawes, Farnsworth and others), made manly and eloquent speeches, in support of the great principles of constitutional freedom, and against the proposition to reinstate the defunct Conven tion there in the powers which it has already so cruelly abused. ' It is no breach of confidence for mo to state that worthy and patriotic Sen ators of the dominant party in Congress gave the most emphatic assurance to some Of those commissioners, jin my hearing, that if even the bill of Gen. Butler shonld pass tho House of Representatives, it would be defeated in the Senate by a very decided majority. LIBERALITY OP THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS. I am justified by these and other facts in as serting, and I am sore that I can do so without the hazard of contradiction, that, at the present moment, the President and his Cabinet, and a large majority of both Houses of Congress, are in favor of pursuing such a course, generally, in the delicate concerns of our section, as will bo consistentwith justice, with the Constitution, and with a wise and providing statesmanship. Important to Distillers and Dealers In Liquors. From the Columbut .S’un.J Mr. Enoch Wile ft, Tax Collector of Muscogee county, has received circular instructions from the Comptroller General’s office, dated April 1st, from which we make the following extracts for the information of liquor dealers and distil lers: “ Yonr attention is called to tho following pro visions of the Tax act approved 18th March, 1869, levying a specific tax, for educational pur poses, of twenty cents per gallon on every gal lon of brandy, gin, whisky, or rum, whether for eign or domestic, sold by any person in this State, in quantities less than thirty gallons. Un der theso provisions, every person who has sold, or shall sell, since the 1st day of January, 18G9, and before tho 1st day of January, 1870, any of the above named liquors in any quantity less than thirty gallons to the same purchaser shall bo required to retnm the same to yon in yonr respective counties, under oath, as soon as practicable after the dose of each quarter of the year. The first return to be made as of the 1st day of April, the second as of 1st July, the third as of the 1st October, and the fonrth as of the 1st day of January, 1870, and so on through each succeding year. The Tax Collector of each county shall administer an oath to each and every person making a return, solemnly swearing him or her to make a just and true re turn of all liquor sold by such person during the preceding quarter in quantities less than thirty gallons, and shall then and there collect a tax of twenty cents per gallon in lawful money of the United States. Sec. 2. Par. 8. There shall be levied a speciflo tax for Educational purposes of twenty cents per gallon on every gallon of brandy, gin, whis ky or rum, whether foreign or domestic, which is sold by any person in quantities less than thirty gallons, in this State, and tho amount sold shall bo given in under oath. Quarterly returns shall be made on tho first days of April, July and October and January in each year, by all the persons within the county who shall sell liquors in quantities less than thirty gallons, of the arnonnt sold the preceding quarter. Said returns shall be made to the tax collector of the .county, who shall demand and collect tho tax due when the return is made. It shall be the duty of the Tax Collector to require all persons selling said liquors to make their returns and pay the tax thereon; and if any person shall fail or refuse to make his return andpayBaid tax, he shall be assessed by the Collector a spe cific tax of one thousand dollars, and the collec tor shall proceed to oollect the same by execu tion, ' as in other cases of other taxes due and unpaid, to go into effect from and after the first day of January, 1869.” You will call npon every person liable to pay fax under the foregoing provisions, to make his return immediately after the reoeipt of this Cir cular, for the first quarter, and in like manner at the expiration of each succeeding quarter. You will particularly observe that every person who sells, the quantity being less than thirty gallons at one sale, is liable to the tax. This includes regular dealers, as well as distillers and farmers who distil their fruit and sell the pro ceeds. Every one who sells, no matter whether he has license or not, is liable to the tax. For your “further information and conveni ence, the following provisions of the same Act are inserted to-wit: “See. 2. Par. 7. All vendors of Patent Medi cine, Liniment or other articles of like character (except regular merchants and druggists) shall Mm He was teMd*. to A ^Pf J^ toLWhPQW^ift whioh [ large crowds. first those supplies which they know they re quire, and for which their land is well adapted, devoting all their further energies to the great staple of the South, they will soon be indepen dent and their prosperity secured, although the golden stream may not be so quick and violent as it might be if they could be assured that high prices would always rule for cotton, and they devote all their attention to that. Again, does not the system of tillage pursued by a majority of the planters of the South re quire a change? Can they afford, with labor they have to pay for, to raise but one bale of cotton, or ten or eleven bushels of com to the acre, when they see so many examples amongst them where those crops have been trebled? Can they afford to render sterile three or four inched of ,tha top of the soil, and then forsake the land and clear up new, when a heavy team and a subsoil plow woald turn up an almost ex- hnustless fertility? Can they afl'ord to buy ar tificial or foreign manures, and pay so little at tention to the means of fertilization close at home ? Can they afford to pay from $40 to $80 per ton for phosphates and guanos and leave that bed of muck so near their broad acres un disturbed? Eighty dollars expended in draw ing and composting muck, I certainly believe will produce twice the effect that eighty dollars’ worth of foreign manures will; but true policy and scientific tillage demands that both these sources of fertility shonld be used together. I merely throw out these hints that you may think npon them, and perchance benefit your selves by seasonable action. If you adopt a ro tation of crops and a system of saving and making the most of home fertilizers, as well as a more thorough and deeper tillage of the soil, some time is required to put them in practice, and you may bo prepared another season to make the experiment. I see no reason why this country, which is blessed with a native soil as fertile as any in the country, and a most pleasant, delightful climate, may not become, as it were, the garden of the world. That it may be ihus blessed is the sin* cere wish of your friend, __ A Northerner. An Ancient Dattle. Free from the smoke of a modern engage ment, a Hellenic battle must have been a gallant sight In purple tunics and burnished armor, the men stood ten, fifteen and twenty deep, be neath a glittering forest of spear beds. Those who were well to do had no lack of gold abont their greaves and breast-plates, and were dan dified in plnmes and sword-belts: while even tho poorest citizens wore a hermit fashioned by the exqisito taste of a Greek artificer. It must have been a trial of the nerves of tho bravest to stand biting his moustache, humming a bar of tho piean which he was to sing within the next quarter of an honr; wondering whether his widow would marry again; hoping that the cobler on his right might not turn tail, or the teacher of gymnastics on his left shove him out of the line; dimly conscious meanwhile that his colonel was exhorting him in a series of well-tuned periods to bethink himBelf of tho tomb which covered those who died in Ther mopylae, and tho trophy which stood on the beach at Artemesium. And then the signal- trumpet sounded, and the music struck up, and the whole army moved forward, steadily at first, but brenking into a run, when only a few hundred yards separated the approaching lines. And, as the distance between them grew shor ter, and the tramp of the enemy mingled with their own, the front rank men had just time to try and imagine that the countenance of tho peo ple opposite looked light flinching, and that the notes of their war chant had begnn to falter, and the next second there wonld he a crash of pikes, and a grating of bucklers, and a clutch ing of beards, ana those who would fain be home again, were pushed on by the mass be hind, excited at hearing others fighting, and with no steel at his own throat; and, after five minutes of thrusting and shooting, and fierce straining of foot, and knee and shoulder, tho loss determined or the worst disciplined of the two hosts wonld leam, by more cruel experi ence, what the old learn^: that life, as well as honor, is for those who retain their self-respect and their shields. The New King op Spain.—The Duke of Mont pensier, who, tho cable says, is to be King of Spain, is the fifth son of Loois Phillippe, for merly King of the French. He was bom at Nuillv, near Paris, in 1824. His cunning father married him in 1846 to the Spanish Princess Louisa, the sister of Queen Isabella II and at the same time brought about the Queen’s marriage to her imbecile cousin, Francis of As sisi.' Louis Phillippe supposed that this would be a childless marriago, and that the children of the Duke of Montpensier would aooordingly in herit the Spanish throne. His calculation has proved erroneous in every way. He himself died in exile, and for more than twenty years none of his familv havo seen their native coun try. Isabella K has a number of children, and y_ot fhe old King’s principal end will be essen tially gained when Montpensier himself puts on the crown of Spain, with a reasonable chance, as things go, of transmitting it to posterity. The new king will he known as Antonio L A Detective’s Experience—Behind the Scenes. I will tell you,” said Mr. F——, “ of an in cident that occurred here many years ago. It possesses me now, aa I' think of it, all the vivid interest it had then. It was among the first-class cases intrusted to Mr. I and myseif, and we devoted to it an unwearying patience and assi duity that fitted us for their exercise many a time afterwards. It was in mid-winter that the circumstance to which I allude occurred. Tho theatrical season was at its height. The St. Oharles was nightly thronged with the beauty and fashion of the city. A new star had ap peared on its boards, exciting an interest preva lent and absorbing. Her beauty, grace and ac complishments were the topic of every club room—the one subject that engaged the atten tion of all the youth in the city. Her name was Adele Larondin. Very young—scarcely twenty —and very beautiful was this young girl, aronnd whom a web of mystery was woven that seemed to defy human ingenuity to unravel. I say she was beautiful, but that word does not convey an adequate idea of her exceeding grace of mind and person. Petite in form, tho slender figure was exquisite in symmetry. A wealth of bright golden- hair shaded a face rosy with health and brilliant with genius. The clear, hazel eyes flashed with intelligence, and the delicate curve of the erqnisitiy chiseled lips expressed hatred or scorn, or intensified emo tion. Night after night the theatre was filled with her admires. Passion in every phase—the very well-springs nnd impulses of our nature—seem ed to find m her an interpreter that never erred. Her analysis of character was perfect; it was true to nature, and therefore perfect. The night of which I speak had witnessed her greatest triumph. She seemed inspired, and the feelings and emotions of her audience ap peared as absolutely under her control as if she wielded tho wand of an enchantress. The cur tain fell on the last act of tho tragedy and the audience dispersed. Some mesmeiio power held me to the spot and I lingered around the en trance to tho theatre. An honr must have passed by and the last of the company crept out of the narrow aisle lead- ing to the stage, and sought their homes. Still the actress lingered; her carriage at the door— the driver impatient. Suddenly from behind the scenes—echoing along that narrow aisle— came a scream so piercing that it cut to the heart like a dagger. It chilled my blood, stood rooted to the spot; anguish, horror, grief, wore in its tones. • In a moment more I dashed open the door and rushed into tho theatre. Closo at my back came Mr. I , the driver, and the porter of the establishment. The light in the green room was still burning. The largo mirror that hung from the wall reflected from the opposite sofa the tinsel and mock jewelry of a queen. I no ticed this as I dashed open the narrow door that led to the dressing room assigned the actress. It was empty. I called her by name. I shout ed until tho walls of the vast building echoed back my voice. We searched everywhere, un derneath and above the stage, even among the rolled curtains in the loft, and the narrow aper tures between tho scenes—in vain. The actress had disappeared. The screams that had so startled us were not repeated. There was no avenue of escape, still she was gone. Mr. I visited her apartments at the hotel. She was not there. The gas was relit in the theatre and our search resumed. She was not to be found. Her friends were visited; the most transient acquaintance called on, with a like result Each hoar, instead of revealing tho mystery, only deepened it. In the light of the morning we continued the search. A singlo object was discovered, which could possibly afford a clue to the missing girl On the floor of the dress ing room was a diamond ear-ring. It looked as if it had been torn from its place. It was not such an one as was worn by the actress. It estab lished beyond question the presence of another person in her room, and that person a female. | This was all The mysterious interview and its termination were shronded in a veil of darkness onr ingenuity could not penetrate. If the earth had opened and swallowed her, her disappear ance could not have been more utterly unac countable. What was to be done ? We knew she was a native of France, brought thence in childhood. Her relatives had died; her friends knew noth ing, save that sho was an orphan. Genius had aided her rise; industry had secured her fame. The architect of her own fortunes, she had climcd alone the steep whoso ascent is devious and hard to surmount. Days went by. Friends interested themselves in the search, and large rewards were offered for any intelligence of the missing girl All was ineffectual. Not even a trace of her could be found. Still I had not given up; at my heart I felt that we would yet succeed in findingher. One day I stood leaning negligently on the counter of a fashionable jeweler. I loved to gaze npon tho brilliant gems that strewed the case, and filled it with a weird, flashing light. My attention absorbed in viewing them, I did not notice the entrance of a lady—her foreign accent in addressing the jeweler caused me to turn around. She held an ear-ring in her hand, and was inquiring the cost of one if made to match it. The first glance I had of it made the blood leap like fire in my veins. It was the counterpart of tho one fonnd in the theatre. Yon may imagino I did not lose sight of that woman. I knew I had struck on the right clue. I traced her home. The panther never stole on his victim more silently thanl in the footsteps of the dark-browed stranger. I scarcely knew how I got back to the office. I seemed to havo triumphed over space and time. More like a maniac than a detective, I rushed up to Mr. I and imparted my intel ligence. Ho was not less excited than I. Wo both felt an interest in the beautiful girl as strong as if she had been a sister. But we know that our steps mu^be wary, and our movements secret as tho grave. We £ad no common crimi nal to deal with. If not tho arch fiend himself, we knew sho was almost as cunning. The mys terious abduction of the actress disclosed a quickness and sagacity at onco ingemus and profound. The same snbtlo spirit we did not doubt we shonld have to encounter again. It was not, therefore, with a feeling of assured success that we prepared to enter the residence to which I had traced the foreign lady. It was not as officers of the law usually go, that we went on that occasion. We employed rather the snbtle conning and perfect skill of a man brought up to the business. For once his nefarious art helped him to a noble deed. A life of crime was whitened by a single virtue. Before the skill of this man the door sprung back upon its hinges, and we stood within the portals where the issues of this strange mys tery were to be decided. Silently we ascended the stairs. A gas flame, burning from a globe, suspended from the ceiling, flung a mellow light along the stately corridor. At the further end of the hall a door opened into a large apartment. We moved toward this, and as we approached it sounds of weeping struck on our ears, and then we heard a voice of supplication. Sorrowful and sad the strange, sweet voice floated out on the air. It was like the wail of a broken heart, that cry of one in distress. “ Oh, God! is there no help; no help! It thrilled to my heart. Even in that pitiful cadence I knew those well-remembered tones. Burdened with anguish, I knew them well. In another instant the door flew open before onr impetuous weight, and there, in the gloom of a luxurious room, her young limbs fettered, and a single garment shrouding the wasted form, was the young actress. We were not a minute too soon, for the next instant, furious as a demon, the dark-browed woman entered the room. It took but a moment to secure her, and then the mystery was solved. She was the aunt of the actress. Her neice was heiress to a fortune in France; she removed, her own child would inherit the wealth. Itmnst be done, however, secretly and silently, so that no clue could be found. She had secreted her self in tho passage way of the theatre, and ta king advantage of a momentary delay, had se cured her victim. In the struggle an ear-ring was tom off. A powerful narcotic, suddenly ap plied, drowned her senses and stopped resist ance. She was behind the drop curtain as we rushed in. Leaving while we were yet in the green room, she made her escape along the aisle that led to the street. This was the end. It made a sensation at the time, bnt it was, until now, an unwritten history of the world of crime in New Orleans twenty years ago.—New (Meant Picayune. BY TELEGRAPH. From Washington. Washington, April 8.—Gen. Young, Representa tive from Georgia, Informed the delegation from that State to day that Butler’s Georgia bill will not' probably be resumed this session, and if taken up it would certainly be defeated. 8Jaj. Jeff Wofford, Chief of Artillery in the army of the Mississippi, has been confirmed postmaster at Corinth, Miss. It is stated that the Territorial Committee have decided to report adversely on the confirmation of Col Crow, of the 24th Ala., as Governor of New Mexico. A Georgia delegation, headed by Col Atkins, had a private interview with the President to-day. Tho following nominations were made to-day: Postmasters: Thoe. P. Jackson, Farmville, Ya.: James Rogers, Knoxville; J. D. Lewis, Pulaski, Term.; Peter Casey, Vicksburg. Marshals: Wm. E. l4rmer. Eastern, and Jno. H. Lippard. Western District of Texas. District Attorneys: J. W. Pur veyance, Western District of Tennessee: Geo. R. Scott, Western District of Texas. Assessors: A. B. Clarke, First District~of Georgia; D. M. Nelson, Second District of Tennessee, Chas. H. Pettingill, First District of South Carolina; Cyras H. Baldwin, Second District of South Carolina. Congressional. IMPORTANT ACTION UPON VIRGINIA, MISSIS SIPPI AND TEXAS. Washington. April 8—House.—Tho House is fili bustering on a motion to seat Hoge, a minority c. b. candidate from South Carolina. Hoge, tho minority candidate from the third South Carolina district, has been seated. Reed, who re ceived a majority of the votes, was unable to take the test oath. The bill authorizing the submission of the Consti tutions and the election of State officers and mem bers of Congress in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, was passed by a vote of 125 to 24. It authorizes the President to order elections at his discretion, and also authorizes bim to submit the entire Constitution, or separate provisions, and forbids an election in Texas until authorized by the President. Tho Commanding General may, with the approv- al/)t the President, suspend any existing State law in either of theso States deemed oppressive, until action by tho Legislatures, which shall assemble on tho fonrth Tuesday after tho ratification is promul gated by tho Commanding General Mr. Sheldon, of tho Second Louisiana District, was seated. Senate.—In tho Senate, Gov. Morton introduced a resolution making the adoption of the fifteenth amendment an additional condition precedent to admission of the representatives from Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas. The Reconstruction Committeo has unanimously agreed to report a bill authorizing the President to order elections in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, and submit to the people, on a separate vote, tho objectionable features in tho Constitutions of those States. Senator Trumbull from tho Judiciary Commit tee, reported a resolution postponing action on tho President’s messago till December. Mr. Trumbull stated that ho personally disagreed with, the committee. Mr. Edwards could seo no reason for delaying adjournment. Tho President, without further leg islation, had the power to order tho elections. He thought it better to leave those States under mili tary control, which protected life and property bet ter than they were in those States which had been reconstructed. Howard expressed the same views. A long discussion ensued, and no action. The bill amending tho taxes on whisky and to bacco was resumed, when Sprague spoke till the ex ecutive session, after which tho Senate adjourned. Terrible Disaster in the Nevada Mines. San Francisco, April 7 Tho Yellow Jacket Mine, at Gold Hill, Nevada, took fire at 1 o'clock this morning. The fire extended to the Kentuck and Lower Point shafts. Eleven bodies of miners have been removed so far, and others are to l>o seen at the bottom of the Kentuck shaft, but it is impossible to reach them, in consequence of the intense heat. According to the latest accounts from Gold Hill thirty-six were known to be dead. The mouth of tho mino will be dosed to smother tho flames. Three mines aro burning unconnected with each other under ground. Virginia City is deserted, all the people having gone to the assistance of the sufferers. Tho scene at the mouth of the mines is fearful They are crowded with the frantic wives and chil dren of the miners. Tho confusion is so great that the rolls of tho miners cannot be called to ascertain how many aro missing. Suicide of Twitcnell Philadelphia, April 8 Twitcholl, convicted of tho murder of his wife’s mother, and under sen tence of execution to-day, was found dead in his cell this morning. It is supposed that friends who visited him yesterday, left poison with him. Seizures in Alabama. Montgomery, April 8.—Several seizures were mode hero to-day, for violation of the Internal Rev enue law, by order of Supervisor Saffold. Tho seizures consisted of seveial hundred packages of whisky, tobacco and cigars. General News, Philadelphia, April 8 Gerald Eaton was hung to-day for tho murder of Hoenan. Twichell’s death was caused by strychnine. As for myself, I shall never bow down to this thing. It would, as I have juat said, keep th e powers of this Government where our fathers placed them as the best for your safety, for the safety of your children, and also for the safety of the black man. These men who propose ne. gro equality are the worst enemy of the colored race. As for myself, I would throw aronnd the negro, by our own wise legislation, the safe, guards of the law. I would not put him in the schools with your children, nor upon the jury bench, nor into the Legislature. I would to God that I could be heard all over my district, and all over the State, upon this question. j would to God that there was to be a genera canvass, and then that the people might be el lowed to decide this issue at the ballot-boi Then-we shonld know whether they wish the ne. gro in the public shoots, in the Legislature, &ni beside them in the jury box; foi that is what negro equality means, and nothing else. Do not make mistakes in this matter. Yon are a great powerful nation, tho greatest that the world has seen. You have forty millions of people, and you are the strongest nation th* sun ever Bhone npon. The rivers of Sont>> America are broader and deeper than oars' Their groves aro spicy and their fields groa- with the riches of the earth, yet they have no rank among the nations. They made the s.na e mistake which the Repnblioans are now making and incorporated an inferior race into the body politic. It led at last to an admixture, and finally to equality, and those great countries are inhabited by mongrels, and yet they are con*, trymen of Columbus and the descendants of tie followers of the great Cortez. The Critical Condition or Europe. From the Herald, of the 3d inrt.J Our correspondence and onr telegrams frg* Europe for some time past have been singnlir> suggestive, and, in spite of peace desires, rathe* bellicose than otherwise. We have had inthnjj tions of the most contradictory kind. One dar we ore told of army reductions; another davv’j are told of army mobilization. We are ag-^ informed that officers and men of the Frenc army on leave of absence are suddenly sm. moned to join their respective regiments. \f? have not yet had any high official annonnceitei: that war was imminent, bnt studious silence it oftentimes as suggestive as unguarded speed We do not exage rate when we say that sinceti.- outbreak of the German war in I86G there hi been nothing in Europe similar to the preset condition of things. There is a cautious eri determined measuring of strength. Allth European nations are armed to the teeth. Ever one of them believes that the timo for actioni close at hand, bnt no one is certain where oris what connection it may ho necessary to tj. sheathe the sword. We describe the situafia when we say that Europe, burdened with injei erable armaments, is sick of peace, which is ru without the excitement which naturally bekej to it—war without the consequent honors-; glory. The Emperor of tho French presents in l single self the key to the European situafo All that he now is and all that he has been she lri.1l he owes to success. Of all successful l . for the last quarter of a century ho lias beeno questionable, until very recently, tho mostw cessful. Fortune has favored him. The fit have been on his side. The tido so often xi ten about, which occurs in the affairs of me seems to have arrived in the affairs of lei Napoleon. His schemes and plans are no lore necessarily successful They sometimes ft Some of the failures have been disagreeable him and hurtful to his prestige. For years i Franco alone, bnt Europe and the world t lieved him infallible. He was the great te poral Pope. HLs sword swayed destiny. I so no longer. He can make 'mistakes, "and i mistakes are so palpable that France and c the outside world can see them. A repute, built upon success, deriving all its worth f: supposed infallibility, cannot snrvive rep::: failure. Such is tho condition of Louis Ik leon and such is the situation in Europe. France is no longer tho conrtolling po nor is Louis Napoleon any longer the arfc The power has passed away from the coi and is now in other hands. Bismarck, n< poleon, commands the situation. Proof of is everywhere. We see it at the present ment, particularly in Spain. The arrang abont toi.be come to in regard to the S; throne isone which, to tho French Emperor, be extremely distasteful It Is au arrange however, which he cannot resist. As n gone by the money of England, this tine and justly used, has been too much forFre: wit, and more powerful than Corsican gi Prussia and England together have been to for Napoleon and his Ministers. Spun i an election which snubs Napoleonic as well French pretension. Italy, tired of the Pi angry about the approaching Ecumenical C. cil and sick of tho temporal power, rejoice? the hopo of freedom. If Bismarck wonld bnt say tho word it * be the easiest thing in the world to uniteI and Spain against France. With the ul English gold, which is already worKne » peninsula, it would be all the easier. Fnc- thus losing her position. The French ft are grieved: Napoleon, his mind AM thoughts abont his successor, bites his Ep rage. But France has a fine army, fully < ped, well officered and ready for action, vigorous campaign might give France W cicnt position and make Napoleon gresKj more powerful than ever. Why should a army be let loose ? This is the European tion of the hour. When France is c tho world is at rest. But France is nol ed. The trouble is all here. Mexico. New York, March 5:—The Heralds! correspondent says the civil war in t Tamaulipas continues to rage with ' fnry. A party of rebels near Vergas t Escobedo's troops near Villa Grossa, o his equipage, archives, and $27,000 The same party attacked the city of I hut were repulsed with heavy loss. Escobedo's policy toward the rebels most bloody and relentless character. . bnt extermination satisfies him. He • orders to have shot all foreigners wl* provided with passports. Two America1 on their return from Saltillo to the H-' ,jr were robbed by the military, then shot* bodies hong on trees. ; there H Andy Johnson was in Chattanooga on Tues day evening and addressed a large crowd in front of the Burns House. He spoke half an hour. He said he was not a candidate for offioe, bnt would do what he could to relieve the burdens from the people of Tennessee. [Cheers.] He said he had a good deal of life in him yet, and wonld spend the remainder of his days in vindi cating himBelf from the calumnies heaped upon v *— * r met rtt the principal stations by He left m the Rooming tot A singular oaae is reported in one of our ex changes. Forty years ago a blooming young girl of sixteen married an old n-»n of sixty for his money, expecting that he would soon die and leave her a wealthy young widow. “ Hope de ferred makes the heart sick,'' and last week the lady died at the respectable age of fifty-six, leaving a husband aged one hundred, and four children to mourn her tan. A Town Burned up.—Nearly the entire busi ness portion at the town of Rodney, Misstasip- wuf burned oi», the night of the 31st uU. A Japanese Novel.—A publishing house of Yeddo announces th6 issue of the one hundred and sixth, and last volume of an interesting Ja panese noveL This work, which has been thir ty-eight years in progress of publication, is said to depict faithfully the social life of Japan in all grades and in every quarter of tho empire. We have not yet, in this land, reached the en cyclopedia stage of novel-writing, although we have some writers who are nearing it. Beautiftil Extract. Hon. Dan. W. Voorhees recently left his seat in Congress to stump his district in Indiana, on the fifteenth amendment. He made a capital speech in Terre Haute, last week, from which wo extract the following: A government could not l>e built up of such materials. The race has had every opportunity for advancement, bnt had never risen above barbarism. They had had fruitful land, a land of fertile soil and mighty rivers, where the wealth of nature was boundless, but it had been all to no purpose. The Saxons, the Anglos and the ancient Britons were once savages, but when the day dawned for them they advanced upon such a career of greatness as adorns and ula- minates all history. Tho negro has had the same advantages, bnt the result has been entire ly different. The people of Indiana want no such partner to assist them in their government. The career of the African in the past is an illus tration of what his future experience must be. The speaker said ho felt no bitterness toward tho negro, who was a being brought into corro ding contact with the white race, which was his superior, and the inferior race must gradually diminish, and finally become extinct It is not prejudice, but wisdom, to preserve the white race in its purity. I would keep the powers of this government in the hands of those men to whom onr fathers gave it How great has been onr career under their wise precepts. When I look back I feel as Adam and Eve must have felt when driven forth from Paradise; they looked back and through the half open gates caught a glimpse of the beautiful flowers, the shady groves, the sweet fruits and all the luxuries they had lost forever. So we to-day stand amid the distrac tion of the elements, and see around us the ef fects of the course of civil war, of mixing races, of jarring jurisdiction everything m con fusion, as when the curse came upon the world, and the clouds swept low along the tree tops: the birds flew shrieking through the air, and the beasts fled affrighted across the plain. To- is, he has the “money to wj* night, in the midst of this confusion and die- and the Democracv ready to b*®* turbance of political principles, with the clouds lowering over our heads charged with thunder, flaat-ing with the lightnings, and ready to burst with fury upon us, as I look back into the beau tiful past, where our fathers’ precepts adorn the gallery of our glory, it seems, (hough we had been drives from Paradise, and I long to go back and one more deep draught from the fountains of their wisdom. , It is enough for me to point oat whpt has been achieved by their great doctrines. It inclines jam tq tarn away from these modem innovators who hall them- Columbus Municipal GovernJ£E >t mayor and city administration on Monday. The Enquirer says: Mayor Mott, in retiring, deliv some and well conceived valedictory which he briefly reviewed the conu city affairs as ho found them, as he ed them, and as he left them; wm by declaring that if in the past F " any differences between himself citizens, that on his own part he u*' buried them alL The inaugurw Mayor Mcllhenny was appropriate tive of business. The new city government has s t; most rigid economy. The salary of * fixed at $1,000; clerics $1,200; and two bridge kepere $1,000 each: * $600; city physician $800, and so The Old Intelligencer—I* 1 Humor. A dispatch to the New York Her**^j It is whispered about in certain circles that Senator Sprague _co n j® purchase of the old National Int®*®*! completely run to seed, and that o give it a new lease of life in en S lD j di l political movement, on an indepeo*^J behalf of Chief Justice Chase for ^ How the old Intelligencer app* r ® D |’ j under Andy Johnson is a marvel i ated. and the solution of the mJjXji j ably involve some very rema 1 I ments. Let it suffice, for the , losing the sops of the kitchen l ( hard up, and that Senator Spi*#^ cheap for cash. Looking ( independent course in the have the air of plausibility, something m them. Unquestu»^_^| ington newspaper under Spraga 6 ing off on the line of his late P create a political sensation; *■* ^ ■ is, he has the “money to m»* e . and the Democracy ready i It is sqppoaed that the in Virginia and North Carofin* ^ dotted. 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