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The GreoiMyja, ~W~eelgly Telegraph..
FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1869.
^^7gain call upon parties remitting
ft pa ' r5 to do so in registered letters, if
rf 10 . ^tain post office money orders.
^ WM we received a letter fromBnena
pfj* w iiich came to ns broken open
^.‘L’abstracted. «
* . - rTX s Wheat Chop.— All accounts
K. Y. Commercial, that, not*
**£_ tbc great severity of the winter in
wheat crop never was known to
re promising condition. The great
jjjow prevented winter killing, and
iif* * , jjjuoval by rains and moderate thaw
f rom bejng heaved up out of
ivedth* qui j e f orw ard, even although the
li**® 1 .t. e r respects is at least three weeks
C asual; and the present pros
it Tuning cut worms, weevils, smut,
mischances which may be in the fu-
^ mhlers included—the Western wheat
will be a very liberal one: and
extended facilities for marketing, the
and Eastern consumers would
p» fit _
‘ ’ urisobiosE's safety is assured,” says
viram. And how? He has left Zanzi-
^' txavcl by land to Cairo. Anybody who
Lis safety assured by taking that journey
• CJ We would none of it. It is only
two-thirds of the length of the African
'" t embracing its most intolerable
”!- utl takes in the way some of the most
|0S and ferocious tribes. If Livingstone
^“8“^ i, e needs no insurance in any fn-
may take. So says the Richmond
^ ,nd, we fear says rightly. Dr. Liv-
has been safe too long to be alive, we
*—
j n Iupeeialmt "Warned. ■—In its lost issue
-Imperialistspeaks of the “warning” which
Emperor Napoleon gives the journals of
' wM try when ho disapproves their opinions,
J complains that it, too, in this “free re*
f or flaring to print its opinions in plain
bas received official warning that the
jjjj^ationof the Imperialist will not bo per
il. L What does it want of an empire then,
la slight taste of the restrictions upon the
^ so essential to Imperial security, is so
I ^ m it ? Or does he expect while every-
vir else i 3 to be Impcrialized the pressistogo
!*?
IuSrcEET Mission to Cuba.—The National
IseHigencer says it is stated that tho President
is scot a certain gentleman, whose name can-
tot be divulged at present, to Cuba, on a secret
tsssoa. his object being to obtain full and im-
j-jrunt reports of the ability and strength of
t-c contending forces, and the chances for and
upjast the success of tho rebellion. He will
sale a report accordingly to the President, and
* his statement will probably depend the action
lobe taken by onr Government.
Warn is Gexesze County.— The Batavia
Spirit of the Times states that the prospects for
the wheat crop in Genessee county, look very
^ooay. The President of the Agricultural So
ciety informs ns that tho heavy frosts and
wna sun for tne past ten days have almost
mined the young wheat in many sections, and
nothing but early warm rains can save the farm
ers Am sn almost total loss of this important
crop. ■ •
IrciT.—New Orleans is now rejoicing in a
iro-Seaded woman, and a living ox, with three
eyeiaod three horns, the centre horn much the
largest of the three. This wonderful animal
Taj recently captured in Williamson county,
Tctat It is said to bo remarkable for its boau-
fyand symmetry of form; is about eighteen
months old, and unusually large.
Ma Charles Francis Adams is quoted as
having said that the treaty lately submitted
aboatthe Alabama claims was a good treaty,
creditable both to Lord Clarendon and Mr.
Johnson, and that it ought to have been adopted
with some slight changes. Moreover, he thinks
Sumner's speech on the Bnbject did more harm
than good.
Adventures or a Grindstone.—The Cuthbert
Appeal tells a capital story of the adventures of
an old grindstone which began its travels in the
centre of a bale of Georgia cotton, arid after
sojourning in the United Kingdom a brief space
returned to the old plantation in the centre of a
ctisjc of sugar. No doubt peoplo guilty of such
frauds think they are “smart,” but they are
great simpletons nevertheless.
Pious Consistency.—Henry Ward Beecher,
in one of his discourses, says that “some men
will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend
all the week in shaving their fellow men; and
many fools thmk it very wicked to black their
boots oh Sunday, yet they do not hesitate to
Lack H-ir noigbbor'sreputation on weekdays.”
The French printers are on a strike iuMon-
l r **l for an advance from 27 to 30 cents per
10W ems. Several papers have concecded the
advance but others refuse.
Canada Offset.—The Canadian Parliament
getting up an offset to the Alabama claims
in the shape of the expense of defending their
frontiers against the Yankee Finnegans.
Plantation Cigacs.—Freeman says he has the
only pure, imported plantations in Georgia.
They are some of the lot that Grant left when
The Kind ot Distinction Demanded.
The Herald says the reason why Clay, Basset
and other negro appointees refused missions to
Hayti, Liberia, etc., was simply that these were
negro countries, and they had no ambition for
eminence among negroes. In fact, they regard
ed it as a kind of slight and insult that such em
inence was tendered to them. Their whole am
bition is for prominence among whites; and this
is the case with the entire brood of sable poli
ticians. *
It is an instinctive and fatal concession of the
philosophic absurdity of mixing negroes in poli
tics. If the promotion of the negro to office
inspired him with increased respect for his race
and increased desire to elevate 'A, there might
be some merit in the pseud ^-philanthropic
maunderings of Wendell Philips, Sumner & Co.
But he seeks such distinction only as a means of
getting above the negro plane and figuring
among the whites. From the field negro, who
weekly wears his wool tightened in curl papers,
that it'may be straight like white hair on Sun
days, up to “science niggers,” of the stamp ol
Clay, : Bassett and Fred Douglass, they have no
pride of race and no real ambition to exalt their
own—no faith in its capacity and no genuine
hope for its future. With more or less admix
ture of white blood in their veins, their only
ambition is to increase their social distance from
the African, and they use him mnch as the fox
nsed the stupid goat in the well—as a means of
getting out.
Are Americans too stupid to see this plain fact
and accept its plain teaching ? The only possi
ble use of negro official appointments in the
United States would be to give the race a repre
sentation and inspire it to progress and self-im
provement. But the negro appointee values
office only as he thinks it confers n buckra dis
tinction and makes him a great man among
whites. He is no representative of bis race in
feeling^s soon as he gets his commission.
Brother Philips in Another Tronhle.
Brother Philips has found another trouble.—
He has discovered that the negro is pretty nigh
played out as a cause of discord and devilment,
and has now accordingly gone into convulsions
on the “Labor Question” generally. Like
baker who finds himself with a batch of stale
dough on his hands, he adds an equal quantity
of a fresh article in hopes to moke a general
average and work the whole off on the market.
The black labor as a potential appellant to popu
lar sympathy is becomming stale, and Philips
thereupon mixes white labor into the common
batch and pleases himself with renewed hppe of
popular agitation on the labor question in its
broadest development.
If “labor” in America could redress its wrongs
upon its great enemies, Philips would have time
only to write a “Last Dying Speech and Confes
sion.” He is a chief in the pestilent crowd who
have strangled it with protection and all kinds
of Treasury robbery, and finally burdened it
with a debt which will permanently enslave it, if
not thrown overboard. He groans about the
incxdHble drift of events to bloat the rich and
deplete the poor, and prophesies that when the
time comes in this country that “a permanent
laboring class shall exist the knell of republican
institutions will bo sounded.” He is one of the
foremost men who by perverting government
into an engine of intermeddling misrule and
finally of tyranny and oppression, has so darken
ed the future of labor, that all see it is bound
to be the slave of the tax-gatherer and bond
holder. He is a pretty fellow to sob over the
danger of class labor in America.
Rotten to the Core.
Diseased to the Core.—One of the divines
on Sunday, said this was the condition of so
ciety. He further said: “In mirny respects
its condition resembled that of the ]Wigan world
when Christianity was first established. Tho
law of God had lost, in a great measure, its hold
on vast numbers, and especially upon many who
control the movements of the social body."
[RersMj
That is a true diagnoses not of the social, "but
of the political condition. Tho latter is dis
eased to the core and we fear mortally diseased.
The eorrnpiieo of onr whole political system is
so patent and universal that no man cares to
defend it. Only a inr days ago we saw, in the
New York papers, a list of half a dozen legisla
tors in that assembly who it was believed were
not easily accessible to cheap bribery.
The Harrisburg State Radical organ, speaking
of the adjournment of the Pennsylvania Legis
lature last Saturday, calls it the most venal and
corrnpt body over convened there, and declares
that any measure could be got through with
money. We should be sorry to put on paper
what we beEeve is the common opinion of the
Georgia Legislature.
It would take the ugliest words in the Diction
ary to characterize the common opinion of Con
gress—and, in fine, to sum up the case, the pop
ular persuasion is universal that the day has
passed when the government is under the con
trol of virtue, intelligence and patriotism. They
believe that from a to izzard, it is carried on in
selfishness, corruption and perversion—for per
sonal aids and baser party uses—-with little or
no counsel or suggestion of reason and justice,
and little care for the future except as it may
subsorve sinister purposes and selfish objects.
Thus, in lass than a century the Ameaican
government has reached a point of universal
demoralization lower than known by any of
what we call the effete monarchies of Europe.
It is so low that it has been found impossible
to have anything like an honest collection of the
revenue. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island esti
mated in a late speech that one hundred million
out of four hundred million of internal revenue
is lost by rascality, and every body would say
he is under the mark.
A Nice Time in Die Senate—The “Era
oft Good Feeling.”
They bad a nice time in the Senate on Wed
nesday last, the briefest account of which we
find in the specials of the Louisville Courier-
Journal, as follows:
A good deal of the indignation which has
been expressed in executive session over the
nominations of President Grant, found vent to
day in open Senate in the presence of well-filled
—Meries. It arose on a resolution offered by
Carpenter, calling on the heads of depart
ments to furnish'at the next session the names
of all officials under them—when appointed, by
whom recommended, and the States from
whence they came, the object being to show the
geographical distribution of patronage.
In the course of the discussion, some of
Grant’s appointments were pretty roughly han
dled by the Republican Senators.
Cameron said that not one of the foreign nom
inations credited to Pennsylvania had been re
commended by himself or his colleague, and
that had some of them been referred to them
for endorsement they probably would not have
been made.
One of these appointees, he said was a drunk
ard,- afad the ofhfer a constitutional thief, and it
was with great difficulty thathe : had induced the
Foreign Relations Committee: to reject one of
these men and to have the other withdrawn.
Mr. Trumbull took occasion to lecture Sena
tors for banging around tho departments beg*
ging for government clerkships, and thought it
would be more dignified if they remained in the
Senate and let the heads of departments con-
sult them.
Quite a debate was had on the distribution of
patronage, and the Southern Senators complain
ed that some of the smallest Northern States
had received more appointments than all six of
the reconstructed States put together.
Sawyer, of South Carolina, got quite enraged,
and declared that the administration had sought
to confirm the declarations of the rebels, that
they, the; carpet-bag Senators, represented no
body." “Indeed," said he, “liras told within
twenty-four hours, by a high executive officer,'
that we need not expect much, for we only rep
resented a small white population." He pro
ceeds to inquire if the administration intended
to make a distinction between its white and
black voters. The Senator’s reference is under
stood to mean Secretary Fish.
When Sawyer finished, Sprague sought the
floor, and Edmunds, fearing a continuance of
the family quarrel, had the discussion cut short
by moving an executive session.
“Let us hare peace I” Is this the promised “era
of goed feeling,” and do these Senators fed good
when they talk in that way? Does Cameron
“feelgood?” Does Carpenter “feelgood?”
Does Trumbull “feel good?" and above and be
yond all, do Sawyer and his carpet-baggers
“feelgood?” We fear not. There must be
some mistake about the Era, or the Era like the
Ernes, has got out of joint.
Sawyer has, no doubt, tho right to feel worst
of all Various intimations and facts go to prove
that Grant has a slight estimation of carpet-bag
gers ; and, in point of fact, and not to put too
fine a point upon it, he holds them in contempt.
He does believe they “represent nobody,'’ not
even the Southern negroes; and what they say
or do, or recommend or propose, is of no more
account than the empty, whistling wind. It was
no more than candor when he told them through
“a high Executive officer,” that they “need not
expect much," for they have notgot it; cndblessed
are they who expect nothing, for they shall not
be disappointed.
The case alluded to by Cameron is a veritable
case of kleptomania—in which the victim had
donbtless become possessed of such a passion for
stealing that it was incontrollable. It was alluded
to in our press dispatches of that date, but is
more fully,explained in the following;
A Wealthy Director of the Philadelphia
Union League (a Newly-Confirmed United
States Consul) Caught Robbing Stores.—
Philadelphia, April. 19.—There was considera
ble excitement here in Republican circles to-day
by the discovery that a wealthy gentleman, a
Director of the Union League, and recently
confirmed to a European Consulate, had for a
long time been engaged in robbing stores, etc.
He was detected yesterday stealing a box of
cigars from a grocery-store.
He confessed his guilt and said he could not
resiWf'‘ine't3iiiiK rJjearti steal, and paid $500,
the estimated value of ftis goods taken from the
store. Shortly afterwards kg iesigued from tho
League, and it is supposed Je will never get to
his Consulate. He obtaiu.ii his appointment on
the recommendation'of jxipminens politicians.* 1
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Fracas in the Senate—An Excited Carpet-
Bagger.
Washington, April 23 Senator Sprague's words
which offended Abbott, (c. b. from North Carolina,)r-
were as follows:
Mr. President, in answer to the tirade of the Sen
ator from Nevada, and the Senator from North Caro
lina, I am reminded of a little illustration in my
travels from the centre here into the rural districts,
through the wobds and farms of the surrounding
neighborhood. Chance at one time brought me to
a farm-house, I discovered in looking up a large
mastiff and a mongrel puppy dog. The little dog
moved on me with rapidity from behind—bit at my
heels, and alarmed at his own temerity ran fright
ened and howling away, followed by his larger com
panion. The Senate will observe that the mongrel
whining puppy, encouraged by the mastiff, and em
boldened to make the attack from shadow of his
backer, ran rapidly away, alarmed at his temerity;
whilst the over-grown cur followed after with lopped
cars and tail between his legs, to a place of safety
beside bis menaced companion.
' During'yesterday evenifig Abbott threatened to
horsewhip Sprague unless he retracted.
In .the Senate, last night, Abbott said: When I
aroso in Executive session to ask that the doors be
opened some time ago, I said that I did not intend
to utter anything unbecoming on this floor. What
I did intend to do was to ask the Senator from
Rhode Island if he intended to apply the term “pup
py” to mo as is implied in the connection of that
language. If ho did intend to apply it to me, my
purpose wsb to ask Mm for a retraction as full as
the implication of tho language, and if he refused
that retraction my intention was to ask for satis
faction out of this chamber.
I now, sir, give notice, inasmuch as that Senator
has skulked out of tho Chamber, that I intend to
have satisfaction outside of the Chamber.
Sumner called Abbot to older, who, after much
confusion was allowed to say in explanation
I will state that I am not a duelist, I was not
educated a duelist and I did not mean that sort of a
thing, but I meant that the Senator from Rhode Is
land must make a retraction os broad as the asser
tion, “order” and that I shall have that satisfaction
outside of this Chamber in some way.
Foreign News.
Madrid, April 23.—Comadrio Cortes has consid
ered the newspaper laws.
An amendment, establishing a modified censor
ship, was rejected.
The provision, guaranteeing the liberty of the
press, freedom of meeting and association and the
right of petition, was adopted by a large majority.
It is expected that the Government will abolish
the duties on cotton and coal.
London, April 2i.—Tho Post, (conservative) in
an article regarding Cuba, says: Grant has a long
ing eye on Cuba. He would gladly attract attention
from internal affairs by a foreign war.
Paris, April 24.—A special Envoy has been sent
to England. His supposed object is to consider
Spanish and Cuban affairs.
Madrid, April 24—A bill was introduced in Cor
tes, excluding forever the Bourbons from the throne.
An amendment was offered confining the exclu
sion to Isabella and her children. The amendment
was adopted and bill passed.
Havana, April 21—A transport has arrived with
one thousand Spanish soldiers.
Error.—On the first page under the heading
—"Astounding Discovery” — read “sentient,”
“sentiment," Also put an “s” in that nii-
woscopein the next line.
The North British Review—Leonard Scott’s
Beprint, for March is at hand, and may be h a< j
K Havens and Brown's.
The addition of numerous suits of rooms to
•ie American House, Boston, renders it more
Lrn ever a deserved favorite with families trav-
*'Jing. Its central position and large, airy
fooais are unsurpassed.
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.—If you have a
t0 ®gh, do not neglect it; thousands go to an
timely grave by neglecting what they call “a
Lght cold.” These slight colds are very insidi-
They soon become deep-seated, and defy
remedies. Dr. Tutt’s Expectorant will cure
~ It can be had of any Druggist.
Facts for the TijtTvrcs,—My wife has used
Wheeler & "Wilson’s Sewing Machine ten
without repairs and has used one needle
* or tee last three years. Chas. J. Gray.
Newburgh, N. Y.
The New Regime.—South Carolina is under
*new dispensation. Some days ago a colored
‘Moan made a speech to a Legislative Commit-
jee, and a few days later a man delivered a
Hture on spiritualism in Columbia. The lec-
wer was a thirty years’ resident of the town,
ou he announced his belief in what all South
“lolina has regarded as “ humbugs.”
il e copy the above from the New York Com-
raercial Advertiser, and should like to learn that
P a Per s candid opinion whether the change is
An improvement.
The Wheat Crop.—Wo regret to note that the
-hfeat in this locality, which, a few days since
80 promising, is “firing up,” which is
te . P rodnced by the protracted dry
teat we have had for the past few weeks,
io ‘ n “ th ® ab ,°. T ® TO put in type, we have en-
lv'ars a re *f e *bing season, which was very time-
much needed.—Covington Examiner.
-3
A Member or the Georgia Legislature
Assassinated by the Kn-Klax Klan.
By telegraph to the Tribune.]
Atlanta, Ga., April l£.—Dr. Benjamin Ayer,
one of the Georgia delegation to Washington,
the oldest member of the Georgia Legislature,
and a Staunch Republican, was brutally and in
humanly murdered near his home in Jefferson
county by the Ku-Klux Klan, mi Thursday
night last. Ho was found on the public road,
shot through the head. This is the first Georgia
delegation who has “perishedby the wayside,”
according to the expressed wish of tho New Era.
The foregoing special dispatch fames in the
New York Tribune of the 19th instant, and will
doubtless figure as “history” in that paper till
doomsday, notwithstanding a court of justice in
Georgia shall decide that the “ Ku-Klux Klan ”
which committed this murder, was a negro man,
caught red-handed and laden with the spoils of
his slaughtered victim. The messengers of
falsehood and calumny—tho traitors to their
own color and race, are as swift as they are per
tinacious in their business. Let the public note
whether the Tribune ever recalls this falsehood.
Studying into the Business.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that Motley,
the new minister to the Court of St. James, is
now hard at work reading international law,and
“without a master.” Says the Enquirer:
It is significant that he does not go to the Sec
retary of State, Mr. Fish, for advice, and that
the time of his departure has_ been delayed a
month for him to receive his itetructions from
the Government. Grant perceives the mistake
he made when he omitted to call Charles
Francis Adams into the State Department.—
More any other man in the country be is
entirelv familiar with both the facts and the
law in the Alabama business, having for several
Tears managed it in controversy with the Brit
ish Cabinet Adams could frame a dispatch
immediately, without any previous study or
preparation. He world be of some assistance
to Grant as a counselor, which ndne of his pre
sent Cabinet are. Grant and Fish, even when
by Motley, will make a poor ngure in
polemical discussions with the veteran states
men of the British Empire.
, .Affair* in Brooks.
Tho Quitman Banner of Friday says:
Reports fyoin various portions of this city and
county, satisfy ns that the recent cold weather
did not materially injure tho crops. Planters
are of good cheer, and delighted with the situa
tion at present.
The same paper says the negroes of the town
are becoming more and more insulting, and de
fiant towards the whites every day. They bold
ly preach insubordination to all law ; and if ad
vised, of the error of their course, retort with
curses and threats.
Strawberries are abundant. Arrangements
for a May party were on foot A debating so
ciety was in high feather, but would not admit
the girls. In the matter of the homicide of the
little boy, the Banner says:
On last Sunday three little white boys and a
negro about fourteen years of age—(all residing
in the neighborhood of Tollokns, in this county)
—it apppara were engaged fishing in the creek;
a dispute arose between them about some trivial
matter, when tho negro picked up a heavy limb,
or bghtwood knot, and without the least warn
ing struck one of the boys (a sou of Alexander
Humphreys) a fearful blow over the head. Tho
little fellow dropped,inseniblo, and died tho next
day. The mnrdered child was about tea years
of age, and of a very inoffensive disposition.
The negro was brought to town, and after an
investigation of the facts in tho case before Jus
tice Mabfcett, committed to jail, to stand his
trial at the May term of the Superior court.
As a Punitive Measure.
Tho Constitutionalist says the Columbia (S.
C.) correspondent of the New York Times
(Radical) has something to say in explanation
of Grant’s negro mama. He avers that the
President-General has not appointed blacks to
office because he has an affection for them, but
because it is virtually a rebuke and punishment
to “scores of white men who have risen into
notice and position by means of appeals to the
lowest prejudices of the negro and making him
their tool, who would have been far more offen
sive to the community.”
That may throw light upon Sawyer's rampage
in the Senate last Wednesday, and the assur
ance ho received from “a high Executive officer ’
that the carpet-bag Senators must “expect but
little.”
Governor Bulloclt.
Wo leam that his Excellency, Governor Bul
lock, recommended Fitzpatrick, a member of
the General Assembly from Bibb county, for
Postmaster at Macon, Georgia. This was done
before he left Atlanta. Upon his arrival in
Washington it is said that he endorsed the same
papers as follows: “I do not want Fitzpatrick
appointed but I recommend J. Clarke Swayze.”
Republics are said to be very ungrateful institu
tions.
-We do not vouch for correctness of the above
statement. If incorrect, Governor Bullock can
set himself right in these columns. We intend
injustice to no man.—Atlanta Ifcio Era, of Sat
urday. .
The above is a reckless way of giving news.
If the Atlanta New Era knows what he states to,
be true, or thinks he knows it, then he has a
right to make a statement; bnt, a general
principle, it. is not right to make an allegation
and call for a denial if it is not true. One of
the parties in interest in this case has already
informed the public that the present incumbent
of the Macon Poetoffice* CoL Washington, has
not been disturbed.
Mrr r rR County. — The editor of the Bain-
bridge Sun, who has been in Miller county, says.
Notwithstanding the severe cold weather dur
ing the week, accompanied by a slight frost, the
corn and cotton looked welL The area planted
this year in cotton does, we think, exceed the
amount planted the past year. Her people have
From Washington.,
Washington, April 23.—In contradiction of tho
report that Sprague left town early {his morning,
and that Abbott was absent from his usual haunts.
It is known that Sprague has been at 1 homo all this
morning and has not heard from Abbfit.
Tho Senate rejected two of tho tirlvo . Quakers
whom the President nominated as Indian agents.
The Senate adjourned sine die at epe-thirty this
morning.
Boutwell goes to Boston till the raddle of next
week.
Senator Morton is better.
Col. Mix, for thirty years Chief Cljrk of the In
dian Bureau, has been displaced.
The customs from the 12th to the 17th inclusive
amount to 63,250,000.
Boris has issued an order authorising the com
mandants of navy yards to pay workmen for ex
tra labor, but not to pay full prices for a day’s work
of eight horn.
Boutwell will open and consider bids for gold, in
sums of not less than 65,000, every Thursday, un
til further notice.
The following are among unconfirmed nomina
tions: Cob Markland, Sd Assistant Postmaster
General; Jos. P. Morse, Pension Agent, North
Carolina; Addison Low, Inspector of Steamboats,
2d District; Geo. A. Houghton, Inspector of Steam
boats, 3d District. Postmasters—Roso, of Abing-
ton: Wheeler, of Eufaula, Ala.; Sirs. Livingston, of
Greenville, Ala.: and Ball, of LaGrango, Ga.
Sprague rode out as usual to-day. Ho has a din
ner party to-night.
There is no definite report of Abbott’s movements
or intentions. It is supposed the magnificent dis
tance and character of tho city, will prevent a dan
gerous proximity of the parties.
The expected interview between the President and
Wells’ whig of tho Virginia Republicans failed to
day.
There waa a full Cabinet to-day.
Washington, April 21.—Abbott’s threats against
Sprague are still without result
A Virginia delegation of negroes visiting the Presi
dent arrived too late yesterday. They’ hope for an
interview to-day.
Admiral Lanman takes command of the Southern
Atlantic squadron on tho 15th of June. His fi^g
ship is the Lancaster.
The President is out of town to-day. The White
House officials say to recruit and to escape importu
nities of office-seekers.
The present situation of the Sprague-Ahbott
affair seems to be that Sprague is waiting Abbott’s
demand to take back tho “puppy;” and Abbott is
waiting Sprague’s demand to take back the words
“skulked, from the Senate.” There is no fight in
sight.
Nothmg whatever new, under the law authorizing
the President to order elections in Virginia, Missis
sippi and Texas.
W. A. Richardson acts during BoutweU’s absence.
Tho sales of gold in sealed proposals, every
Thursday, uhtil further ordera, willnot be less than
half nor more than one million dollars.
The President returned to-night, from a day3
visit to the country.
The Internal Revenue Bureau forbids the Asses
sors, Collectors or District Attorneys to dismiss or
compromiso revenue cases. This authority is con
fided to the Solicitor of the Bureau, who is instruet-
ed to enforce the law vigorously, unless the evidence
shows absence of intention to defraud the Gov
ernment.
The distance between the termini, approcling
the Pacific railroad lines, is twenty-fivo.milea. The
gap will be filled by the first of ^lay.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, April 23 Tho Revenue Officers
have released all the whisky seized on Wednesday,
but will continuo their investigations of suspected
irregularities.
The jury to-day acquitted Auditor Wickliffo in tho
' first indictment for extortion. Nine others remain
to be tried.
Tho Austrian Minister, Jay, having received in
structions, sails on the 9th of Slay.
New Orleans, April 24.—Tho announcement of
Wickliffe’a acquittal on tho first indictment last
night, was premature. The verdict was not agreed
upon tfil six o’clock this evening, when the verdict
“not guilty” was returned. The next indictment
is set for Monday.
May coupons of the State debt will be paid by the
Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans, and the Bank of
America, New York, on presentation.
From Richmond.
Richmond, April 23.—A party, consisting of Col.
John W. Forney, of Washington, Ex-Gov. Marcus
L. Ward, of New York, Generals Ledne, and Van
dyke, of New York, and other prominent gentlemen
from the North, arrived this afternoon. They leavo
for Norfolk to-morrow, and go as far south as Geor
gia.
General Hews.
Boston, April 23.—The gunboat, Seminole, sailed
for Cuba to-day.
Buffalo, April 23.—Brig. Gen. Miles McAlister,
of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, is
dead.
Philadelphia, April 23.—Tho Beneficial Savings’
Fund received half a million of stolen registered
bonds by Express note. There is no clue to any
convertible property stolen.
New York, April 24.—Washington specials say
Gen. Sickles has been tendered the Spanish mis
sion.
The damages on the Hudson River and New York
Central Railroads hare been repaired.
Buffalo, N. Yi, April 24.—The trains are running
as usual.
Philadelphia, April 24.—Dr. George W. Howell
committed suicide to-day.,, Cause—pecuniary trou
bled '
From Cuba.
Havana, April 24.—Orders from Madrid direct the
proceeds of confiscated property to be devoted to
the expenses of the war. The captured passengers
of the Lizzie Major have been placed at the dispo
sal of the American Consol at Remedies.
Later advices from Mexico state that the Rebels
The Northern Floods.
Granby, Canada, April 22.—While a number
of .persons were congregated on tho principal
bridge at this place last evening, watching the
flood, one end gave way, precipitating eleven
persons into the water. The river being very
swift and the water unusuaHy high, no assist
ance could bo rendered to the victims of the
disaster, and the whole number were quickly
carried out of sight and drowned.
Albany, April 22.—There is the greatest flood
here since 1857, and the water is rising an inch
per hour. The Hudson River Road is submerg
ed at different points between here and Stuyve-
sant, and in some places washed away. Several
bridges on tho Central Road have been carried
away. Travel is entirely suspended. The flood
along the Valley of the Mohawk is the greatest
ever known. The Central Railroad track is un
der water for miles. No trains since Tuesday
night.
Troy, N. Y., April 22.—The flood in the river
here is the highest since 1857. The lower por
tion of the city is inundated, and several piles
of lumber ha3 been carried away from West
Troy. Railroad travel is suspended. The
storehouses of the Gleen’s Falls Lime Company,
at Green Island, containing about 1,600 barrels
of lime, was set on fire by water slacking the
lime and wholly destroyed, together with the
storehouse of Toles & Sweet, of this city. Loss
§50,000. The freshet north of ns is very severe.
The boom above the dam at Glenn’s Falls was
carried away this morning, and 40,000 logs set
adrift. The loss will be very heavy.
Concord, N. H., April 22—There is now tho
greatest flood in the Merrimac since 1SG2. The
Vermont Central and Northern Railroad trains
are embargoed and the mails and passengers de
tained. A raft of 915,000 logs, belonging to
Mr. Barrow, at White River Junction, was car
ried away.
From the Country.—The Greensboro Herald
of the 22d says:
In conversing with our farmers and planters
from various parts of tho country, we leam that
the recent cold snap has more or less injured
their crops, and that the fruit crop is materially
injured. The majority of our planters have
finished planting, unless it should be necessary
to replant some crops which have been killed
by the frost. As a general thing, our planting
friends have had “ cotton on the brain” to some
extent, and a larger area of land has been plant
ed in cotton than in com and other grains; and
though we believe that the most of our planters
have planted com enough to supply their own
wants, yet they will have but little if any for
sale. The wheat crop of the countyby no
means promising.
We are pleased to say that the freedmen are
generally working well, and we hear of but few
complaints of baa conduct on their part. This
is truly gratifying, but it by no means takes us
by surprise, for a largo majority of the colored
people of Greene have always been orderly, in
dustrious and faithful, and bad it not been fora
few unprincipled whites, our citizens would have
had no cause for complaints. We hope and be
lieve that the whites will appreciate this and do
all in their power to advance the interest and
comfort of our colored population and prove to
them that we are truly their best friends.
Senator Spsague.—The New Yolk Times
says:
We fear that Senator Sprague will have a hot
reception in Rhode Island this week—if he ven
tures back there at tho close of the session of
the Senate. The newspapers, if not the peoplo
of the State, are tremendously excited over his
personal assault upon those who have heretofore
been considered distinguished soldiers in Rhode
Island- In other times, Burnside would have
been compelled to challenge Sprague to fight.
But this would be against the laws of the State,
and Burnside will be satisfied with the “ova
tions” his friends propose to give him. It is
said that Senator Sprague is printing 100,000
copies of his speeches for distribution. He bad
better rovise the edition he intends to circulate
in Rhode Island. If he has determined to fight
out the war on the line he has already taken, he
has a life-time battle before him.
Death of an Old Resident of Cumberland
Island.—A correspondent writing to the Savan
nah News from St. Mary's, Georgia, under date
of the 10th inst, says::
Reports come from Femandina that Mr. Rob
ert Stafford, of Cumberland Island, is dead. He
was the wealthiest person in this section, and
probably one .of tho wealthiest in the State of
Georgia. He is well known not only to the
chief business men of your city, dint of New
York also. He launched his bark just in time
to take the tide of fortune, and fair winds fa
vored him to the end of his voyage. He was a
man of strict integrity and great industry and
economy.
bett^thanthej^dhHast i captured Lasario on the 2nd inst, but evacuated it
year. The freedmen are working wel}.
on the approach of Government troops.
The death of Mr. Fessenden, father of the
United States Senator fnsn Maine, recalls to
memory an inoident of his early life. He was
a noted abolitionist at a very early day, and be
fore abolitionism had become popular. On one
occasion he was invited to deliver an address at
a colored people’s celebration of the West India
emancipation. After the speech, which was
jery Radical one, a colored man offered resolu
tions of tiStnks, and proposed the following well-
meant but badly worded toast: “God bless
Massa Fessenden. He has a white face; but
we all know he has a black heart 1” The sen
timent was formally “adopted” with enthusias
tic manifestations of approval.
Hale.—The town has been somewhat exer
cised over the'Hale and Perry difficulty. That
Minister Hale should smuggle in goods was not
much, but that he "should be caught at it, indi
cated a lack of diplomatic ability that is really
disgusting. Hale must be in a failing condition.
When be was Senator in Washington he conld
steal with entire success. Indeed, I remember
the time when John P. Hale stood the foremost
man in the nation as a saint. It is enough to
make the devil laugh to see what material we
moke our saints of. In those palmy days of
Hale’s glory, to touch him on the score of pari
ty would have been as dangerous as it would be
were some fool to intimate that the martyred
Lincoln was not a saint—Don Piatt in Cincin
nati Commercial.
A Certain English Actress, who values her
self as highly as others do, was lately telegraphed
to in the West to know her terms for playing
the part of Miranda in the “Tempest* at the
Twenty-third street Opera House. She replied:
“One thousand dollars a week, third of the
house clear once a week, one thousafid dollars
to break an engagement in St. Louis, railroad
expenses for three people from New Orleans. '
The manager replied: “Madam—Your terms
are much too low. You shall have all that comes
in the house; Mr. Fisk will present you with the
Opera House, and two hundred miles of the Erie
Railway, besides what personal property he has
accumulated in fc life of toil and self-denial:
also, all that. he may make in the future
which, judging by the past, will be no in
considerable amount. If these terms should
not meet your approbation, it may be possible
to make-Gould give up what little he has, that
the tight of your refulgent genius may not be
lost to the stage.”
The Earl of Zetland has held the office of
Grand Master of the Free Masons. of England
ifor twenty-five years, and is now to retire.
A smoking Bishop dined with JMkaixfd Farra-
gut once upon a time, and after the dessert ten
dered a bunch of Havanas to the sailor, with the
invitation, “ Have a cigar. Admiral?" “No,
Bishop,” said the Admiral, with a quizzical
glance; “I don’t smoke—I swear a little some
times."
Mbs. S. N. .Fox’s diamonds are valued at
$150,000. _
The Brignoti Trouper had a rousing house in
Atlanta.
To the Press and People of Georgia.
From the Albany Newt.]
Knowing the anxiety which von have felt for
the welfare of our State, and the weloome with
which any intelligence concerning onr future
would be received, I have thought it my duty to
state, briefly, what I suppose would be impor
tant or interesting to you.
The story of Gov. Bullock’s appeal to Con
gress to subvert the Government of onr State,
together with the means used by himself and
his official and unofficial co-laborers to effect his
purpose, would be a long, sad and humiliating
story, which it is unnecessary now to repeat.
Suffice it to say, that we have been pursued by
an energetic, persistent and devilish malignity,
which can only be rationally accounted for by
the most selfish and evil motives.
Nor is it necessary to relate the long and in
teresting story of the means, or instrumentali
ties in the hand of Providence, by which we
have escaped, as if by miracle, from the calam
ities which were prepared for ns in the Bullock-
Butler bill. With the single weapon of truth,
wielded by friends in and out of Congress, we
have defeated the conspirators against _ our
peace, onr prosperity and our remaining liber
ties. But our enemies are again at work, pre
paring, by personal efforts and documents, for
another assault, through Congress at its next
session, upon the life of our Btate. In a paro
fillet, now being circulated, entitled, “The
Status of Georgia—Letter to Hon. John B.
Dickey, Senator 41st Senatorial District, npon
the status of Georgia, by Hon. Henry P. Far
row,” the refuted slanders of Governor Bullock
are repeated, reasons are given for the non-ac
tion of Congress at its late session, and assur
ance is given that Congress will reconstruct
Georgia at its next session. He denounces
General Meade and all who disagree with the
views of Governor Bullock, who is lauded for
the “ firm, decided, and bold stand taken and
maintained ” by him.
I do not mention these facts for present com
ment, bnt to warn the people of Georgia, and to
suggest the policy which I think ought to gov
ern us. My own opinion of Governor Bullock
and those who are co-operating with him for the
destruction of the Constitutional State Govern
ment which they have sworn to support, is, that
they are moral, if not legal traitors to the State,
and it does not lessen their moral guilt, that, in
stead of using personal violence, they seek, by
false pretexts and false testimony, to accomplish
their objects by a law of Congress, from which
there could bo no appeal.
How, it may be asked, should such a Governor
and such men be treated by the people whom
they have sought to betray. I answer: Treat
them with silent observation ; there isno alterna
tive which would not be worse. They will donbt
less hope to excite disturbance and violence
which can be used as pretexts to accomplish
their purpose. It will he our duty, not only as
good citizens, but to defeat the purpose of our
enemies, to see that the laws are strictly ob
served and enforced, maintaining, in all thing6, a
position of conscious rectitude and a patient en
durance of evils for which there is no present
remedy. Evils are sometimes permitted, to cor
rect, or prevent still greater evils. But as God
is true, so justice, with its compensations, will,
in good time, prevail
I believe that the counsels of our enemies
will come to naught. The back-bone of their
project is already broken. Many of their once
friends in Congress have been enlightened as to
their character, motives, and purposes, and will
not, even for partizon purposes, aid them.—
Among these I am happy to say is President
Grant, who holds that Georgia has complied
with the Reconstruction Acts of Congress, and
is entitled to the same rights as other States of
the Union; Representatives Bingham, Schenck,
Jenks, Poland, and other Republicans, and the
entire DemocraSo party. "Whilst mentioning
these evidences of hope and confidence, we
should not forget how popular majorities are
sometimes swayed by circumstances, and that
a two-thirds majority in Congress is practically
omnipotent. I am satisfied that in this rests
tho only hope of our enemies.
There is now really but one disturbing ele
ment be tween ns and a majority of Congress—
the right of colored men to hold office under our
Constitution and laws. It was represented, and
generally believed, that the Legislature acted in
wilful violation of law in declaring them ineli
gible. The opinion and decision of Judge Schley
in the case of tho State vs. “White, which w*as
printed in the National Intelligencer and distri
buted in Congress, modified, and in some in
stances changed, the prevalent opinion of the
action of the Legislature. The case will be de
cided bjr the Supreme Court of Georgia in June.
The decision will settle the law on that subject.
The people of Georgia will abide by it, Congress
will, in my opinion, be satisfied of its justice,
will admit the State to representation, and thus,
will end onr Federal troubles.
I take this opportunity to publicly return my
thanks to the one hundred and eight gentlemen
—judges of the Supreme, Superior and Ordinary
Courts, Mayors of cities, and others—who, in
answer to my circular, furnished the testimony
relative to tho condition of affairs in Geotgia,
which silenced the false witness and slanders of
our enemies, and destroyed one of the chief ar
guments upon which they had relied for the ac
complishment of their purposes.
In the trials and sacrifices of war, and in the
higher moral end mental trials and sacrifices of
their subsequent efforts for peace, the people
of Georgia have illustrated the highest type of
Christian civilization and heroic fortitude. Not
withstanding the afflictions which they have suf
fered, the provocations to disorders which they
have received, and the discouragements by
which they are surrounded, if we compare the
present condition with the past, there has nevar
been a time when all classes of our people were
more kindly disposed, when the laws were bettor
observed, when life, liberty and property were
Tmore secure, or when the entire energies of the
people were more persistently devoted to pro
ductive industry.
No people have been more blessed by Na
ture’s bounties than the people of Georgia—
situation, climate, soil, productions, mineral
resources, manufaturiqg power—these—if we
can hove assured pcaco and security for the fu
ture—with such a people, and with the aid of
capital and population which will flow into
share the rich rewards of industry, the future
glory and greatness of our State can scarcely be
conceived.
Our purposes and action will, in a great de
gree, dertermine onr future. Let us strive
to prove worthy of the blessings which we seek.
Very respectfully your ob’t serv’t
Nelson Tift.
The Siege of Belgrade. >
We are indepted to the Hayneville Examiner
for a copy of this celebrated poem, of which
we have been in search for yean:
An Austrian army, artfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Dealing destruction's devastating doom;
Every endeavor engineers essay.
For fame, for fortune, fighting furious fray;
Generals 'gainst generals grapple, grimmy great;
How hold heroic hosts hard haggard hate 1
Infuriate, indiscriminate in til,
Jereed joins javelin, jagar juvenile.
Kinsmen kill kinsmen, kinsmen kindred kill!
Labor low levels loftiest, longest lines;
Men march’mid mounds, ’mid moles, mid murder-
derous mines
Now noisy, noxious numbers notice naught
Of outward obstacles opposing ought;
Poor patriots, partly purchased, partly pressed,
Quite quailing, quaking, quickly quarter 'quest.
Reason returns, religion’s right resounds,
Suwarrow stops such sanguinary sounds.
Truce then to Turkey, triumph to thy train.
Unjust, unwise, unmerciful Ukraine!
Vanish vain victorv! vanish victory vain!
Why wish we warfare ? wherefore welcome were
Xerxes, Ximenes, Xantbeus, Xaviere? •
Yield yield! ye youths! Ye yeomen; yield your yell!
Zeno’s, Zaparrhe’s, Zoraster’s zeal,
All, all arouse 1 all against arms appeal
An Eastern Address to the President. "
The following is the address of Rabbi 8neersohn
to President Grant yesterday in behalf of the ap
pointment of an Israelite as United States Con
sul in Palestine, mentioned in our Washington
letter. The Rabbi said :
“Mr. President: Permit me to give my thanks
to the Almighty, whose mercy brought me here
to behold the face of the chosen by the millions
of this great nation. Blessed be the Lord who
imparteth from Bus wisdom and from His honor
to a mortal! I come to your Excellency from
the East, where the glory of your deeds of valor,
your candor and your justioe have penetrated,
to interest you in the name of God, to listen to
the prayers of your humble servant, standing
before you to advocate the cause of his op- .
pressed brethren in the Holy Land. The Israel
ites in Palestine possess no political or civil
rights whatever, and deprived of protection bv
the representatives of the civilized nations which
the Christians enjoy, are exposed to violence
and arbitrary rule. The only shelter the Israel
ites occasionally find is in the courts of the dif
ferent European consulates, where one of their
co-religionists is employed either as interpreter
or deputy consul, who conveyB their grievances
to the proper channel
This free republic alone, whose banner covers
the oppressed, whose foundation is based on
equahty, toleration and liberty of conscience,
has no Israelite employed near ihe Consul at
Jerusalem. I do pray, therefore, your Excel
lency to turn your attention to the deplorable
condition of my brethren in the Orient, that the
principles of this Government may be truly em
bodied iu its representative abroad; and I do
farther pray that your Excellency may show me
that mark of favor which would enable my
brethren in the Holy Land, in the hour of need,
to seek refuge under the stars and stripes, that
this free country and its exalted chief should be
blessed on the sacred spot of our common an
cestors.
President Grant replied briefly, but courte
ously, promising to examine into the matter re
ferred to, and do what he conld to remedy any
grievances which existed.
Before he left Rabbi Sneersohn said: “ Be
fore I part from you, Mr. President, allow me
to offer my fervent prayer from the depth of
my heart: Almighty God, whose dominion is an
everlasting kingdom, may He bless and preserve,
guard and assist your Excellency and your fami
ly. May the Supreme King of kings grant you
long life, and inspire you with benevolence and
friendship towards all mankind.”
A Rip Tan Winkle.
There is at present at Bicetre, France,
patient who has been asleep since the end of
August last—more than six months—and dozes
more profoundly than ever did the squire in his
pew from the effects of a benevolent appeal to
convert the Brahmins or civilize the Japanese.
This man is a native of Turin, and by profession
a shop assistant. He got up one morning and
threw his savings—some 1500 francs—into a
dustcart. Ho labored under religious monom
ania, but in this act put all the clergy into the
shade, for while they denonnee the filthy dross,
history does not record they ever threw it in a
“lafenetre.” On being remonstrated with by
his employer abont the peculiar manner he had
invested his money, he jnmped out of a window
and broke his leg' It was soon cured, and he
left the hospital for the lunatio asylum. Here he
was visited by the minister, who endeavored to
reform the patient, like those persons Sydney
Smith tells ns labor to expel sin from their con
gregation by putting them into a profound sleep.
At all events, since the cure left, the son of
United Italy has never awakened. The regular
heavingup of the counterpane shows that he
lives. He lies on his back, has an expression
half savage and half religions, the suavity of
the monk with the roughness of the bandit.—
Every known means have been resorted to stir
him up, but he remains as indifferent as Brob-
dinag did with the whole Lilliputian army
practicing engineering evolutions over his body.
Food is administered through the noee by means
of a sort of hollow probe, which duly arrives at
its destination. Some allege he is quite wide
awake, but it is his mania to appear sleeping.
After being nearly pulverized by blows and
shakes he is to be magnetized. If all fail they
ought to try the enchanted horn that waked up
the sleeping beauty in the wood.
Mrs. Candle on the Velocipede.
MB. CAUDLE ON THE DEFENSE.
“Caudle, I would like to know what makes
your face look so red. You look as if you had
been intoxicated for a week. I do declare this is
too bad. Was there ever a woman in this world
Mr. C. explains—“Now, my dear, don’t take
on so. You'know a new vehicle of locomotion has
been introduced in town. It is called the velo
cipede. I rode one of these at the hall to-night
before coming borne, and it is hard work, es
pecially for beginners. Been drinking! No, a
haven’t drank anything for six months.
“Mrs. C.—“There, Caudle, just look at that!
Tom the best pair of pants you had in the
house. Now, how did that come about?”
Mr. C.—“Well, you see I rode the veloci
pede this forenoon, and antother machine ran
into mine, and before I knew it my pants were
tom.”
Mrs. C.—“Ripped your coat, too, haven’t
yon? Youfdidn’twant me to see that tear?
And thero'sjk’orjr best beaver all smashed up 1
Forhaps yoa’U nay the velocipede did that ? It
did, did it. iui Mr. Caudle, what’s the mat
ter with your hands ? Why they are all blis
tered up!”
Mr. C.—“Three days riding the velocipede is
enough to blister anybody’s hands; but its noth
ing when you get used to it. Happens to all
beginners.”
Mrs. C.—“What is the matter now, Candle ?
Yon limp as if you had been horribly injured.”
Mr. C.—* ‘A slight bruise, only a slight bruise;
keep me in the house only a day or two. Yon
see Jack—and he. weighs 350 pounds—accident
ly drove my velocipede over his foot, and yet
one must endure these little things in order
to become an adept in riding the velocipede.”
Mis. C.—“Now I would like to know where
you've been all this blessed evening ? Here it
is fifteen minutes of midnight, and you just
coming home to your lawfully wedded wife.
No! You needn’t say that you have been to the
lodge, because I know it isn’t lodge night”
Mr.. C.—No, my dear, I haven't been to the
lodge. You see, in orderto become an&dept—”
Mrs. C. .. “Now, Caudle, I know what you
wero going to. say. You were going to tell me
that you must desert me every night for six
weeks while you leam to ride a velooipede. If
wives had their way they’d burn every veloci
pede in town. And what was the matter with
you last night? I couldn’t get a wink of sleep.
Your legs kept going up and down all night,
like pump handles. Velocipede motibn, was it ?
Fat your feet in the stirrups, and turn and throw
your knees up and down, does it? Now, don’t
tell me it’s nothing when you get used to it, be
cause that’s something I won’t get used to. It
is bad enough to deep with a man when he is
quiet, hut to have the bed-clothes flopping up
and down all night as regularly as that clock
ticks, is a little too much, velocipede or no
velocipede. If you ride the velocipede another
day, Caudle, I’ll leave the house.”
And with this conclusion the lady ceased,
finding her worthy spouse was already fast
asleep. __
The June Festival in Boston.
The building kpown as “The Coliseum,” in
tended for the Musical Peace Festival in June,
is going up iu St. James Squro, in Boston. The
Traveler says it will be the largest building in
America under one roof, requiring 1,700,000
feet of lumber in its construction, and covajng
between three and four acres of ground. Its
dimensions are 300 by 500 feet. There will also
be used in the work 15 tons of nails, and be
tween 4 and 5 tons of other iron work, such as
bolts, braces, etc. To cover the roor so as to
make it water proof, 30 tons of tarred paper
will be used. The appex of the roof is 86 feet
from top of silL At the height of 50 feet there
will be 1,300 feet of continuous windows, 5 feet
high, all made to run on rollers, for vitiation,
consisting of 6,500 feet of glass. Ingress and
egress are made safe and easy by twelve door
ways, each 24 feet wide. The building will have
a seating capacity for 16,300 spectators, and
standing room beneath the gallery and promen
ade for an imimense number. The height of the
roof pagoda will be 90 feet from the parquetto
floor; mat of the side walls 35 feet, surmounted
by 10 feet of perpendfrolar glass the whole cir
cumference. The building will be finished by
the 10th of June, or five days before the begin
ning of the festival thus affording ample tune
for general reheraals by the band and chorus."
The Emperor Napoleon is showing his usual
political shrewdness in his management of the
. .. , „ general election for the members of the French
A SiAVino Viidow. The New York Com- . Chamber of Deputies, which takes place in a
mercial Advertiser says: j few weeks. His. game is to put forward the so-
A distinguished preacher at the New York cialists and agrarians, or sworn enemies of his
Methodic Conference, at Sing Sing, was the 1 government They are allowed to launch forth
“widow Van Cott” She is the only licensed not only against the Emperor, but against all
r l i v wwmarfr* a#
female preacher in the State of Neva York, and
during the past Winter has created an intense
religions excitement wherever dhe has spoken.
A clergyman in the Conference states that she
has converted nearly two thousand persons dur
ing the past year. She ia represented aa being
people who - hold property of any description.
They are allowed to freely promulgate their
ideas that ell property iu individuals is theft,
and that there ought to be a general and equa
distribution of it among all men. The nature
effect of this idea is, of course, to away the sub-
HflBHffflftiiiliK
‘•TO.—’*.—•» -- ■ ■ .1 irSf T» . i„—
eloquent, impulsive and astonishingly earnest, j atantial and wealthy classes around the Imperial
One clergyman stated that “she is a real staver. ” i throne—around its candidates—from (he fear of
Some members of the Conference are in favor I the triumph of the Extreme riews of the Bepub-
of her continuing in the good work, while others b°an party. It is more than possible that the
are strongly opposed One of the latter asserts loading socialists harftbeen benefit, and are ae-
that if she be allowed to continue, he will look (Hotly in the ImperialMereat—Cincinnati En
upon the fact as a triumph of female suffrage, qtt&er.