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The Greorgia, "W"eekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, I860. «Official Dishonesty no Bar to Pro* motion In Office. Under this head the New York Times (Re publican) illustrates the otter disregard of prin ciple and integrity displayed in the appointment of James M. Ashley to be Governor of Montana. The Times declares thatthe records of the House of Representatives contain ample evidence un der Ashley’s confession, of his corruption and venality, and that eight years ago he had sought for one Case a Surveyor’s appointment for the Territories upon a joint speculation in lands and town lots—and yet in spito of such facts as these, Ashley is nominated and confirmed. Where are Grant’s pledges to make honest appointments, ami where is the integrity of the Senate ? Col. Tift’s Address. We got Cot Tift’s address in the Albany News, of last night too late to read it, before placing it in the hands of the printer. Wo have no doubt, however, that the Colonels’ advice is judicious and safe. Lands nr South Carolina.—A Columbia cor respondent of the New York Tribune says: Lands vary in price, and the prices range from fifty cents to $15; that is, common and good ■■lands. A gentleman in Horry county offers 15,000 acres at prices making seventy-five cents rthe average. 'Thin is poor, land however. About Aiken, famed for its health, there are hundreds of acres, in lots of various sizes, offered now for sale at $2 per acre; far more at $3; and from these figures the prices range hardly even as high as $10 for good lands. In Oconee (Pickens) •county, the price of mountain lands is from $3 to $10, and I have seen four hundred bushels of potatoes, and a crop of beans besides, grown on one acre. The prices of land, however, are thirty per cent, higher than they were a year ngo, and are still looking up.” Tub Salt Lake Reporter says: “We never could understand why Brigham Young should ■take the eagle for an emblem. That royal bird is a strict monogamist; he has one mate and is noted for his faithfulness to her, defending her with his life. Now, if Brigham had chosen the rooster we could see the point at once. Wo venture Mksuggest the change even now. Spain and the United States.—The Herald’s -special says that the Spanish Minister called on •Secretary Fish on Thursday last and demanded ;that a proclamation against filibustering be is sued. The Secretary promptly declined, saying that as the insurgents had a provisional govern ment, he saw no reason from hindering persons f rom taking up arms in their service. Tho • punish Minister some days since promised full reparation for the insults to our flag by the Spaniards in Cuba. On Thursday last he in formed Secretary Fish that he had not heard from his Government on the subject, when the Secretary informed him that war would ensue if an answer was not forthcoming soon. May-Day Frolic.—The city of Atlanta is go- jingicm. a May-Day frolic to Cartersville on invi- r tation of tho latter. The invitation was signed by a. very large number of the citizens of Carters- > ville ami addressed by name to nearly a hundred . of the citizens of Atlanta. Colonel J.Watt Har iri s will deliver the address of welcome on the part of the citizens of Cariersvilla and Bartow county, and will be responded to by Hon. H. V. . M. Miller on the part of the Atlanta people. .Veloczpediso.—The NewEra.savs Atlanta is ■going mad on the matter of velocipeding. Much arduous toil takes place hourly in tho ring. Great drops of sweat trickling down the faces of ambifsous young men show how fearful is their agony. And yet they persevere, and some of them are able to attract some attention from those who have nothing to do but go there and look on. . ' White and Colored.—The last two days’ ope rations the Fulton Superior Court convicted five negroes and one white of stealing in some of the various shapes. A Beookdyn paper says that Senator Fenton intends to sue the Commercial Advertiser and Evening Post for libel, laying the damages at half a million. The suit grows out of the charge of accepting bribes to approve bills. The propossd bridge over East river at New York is estimated to cost $1,000,000, and to require six years for its construction. It will be a mile in length. The valuation of real estate in Rome, Go., thin year amounts to $1,152,800, an increase of $250,625 over last year. Contracts for the erec- tionof new buildings have been let out for about $100,000. This is a gratifying evidence of the prosperity of the Romans. Sr. Louis has 260,00 inhabitants. The in crease last year was S.OQO houses and30,000 per sons. It is estimated that 500 persons per day come to the State of Missouri to find homes. Kansas City, in tho western part of the State, which was, a few years ago, bat a village, has now 30,000 inhabitants. Mubdeb of a White Boy by a Negbo Boy.—A Quitman correspondent of the Savannah News, says: On last Sabbath (18tb) a little boy, aged about ten years, and son of Mr. Alexander Humphreys, erf this (Brooks) comity, went fish- ■ing with a negro boy about fifteen years of age. Daring the day the negro killed the white boy. and ran off. He was apprehended and con-* fessed the deed. The Indians—a New Movement. A Washington dispatch of the 21st says: Four Quakers left hero to-day for the plains, to look into the condition of the Indians and take measures to effect a peace this summer. The movement is looked upon here with a good deal of amusement. The administration contemplates the experi ment of entrusting the execution of the Indian treaties and the general management of Indian affairs in the hands of the peaceful followers of William Penn—“not to put too fine a point upon it"—the Quakers. The fact is, neither the politicians nor the soldiers can be trusted. The politicians swindle the Indians at every turn—furnish bad rations— mean blankets and discount their annuities at the rate of fifty per cent, or more. Furthermore, if they see a chance to make any thing by it, there is little donbt they often foment broils and troubles between the tribes in their own interest. The soldiers are too violent and sometimes pro voke hostilities. The Quakers, on the other hand, push their peace doctrines to the extreme of non-resistance and are traditionally honest. There is no case in American history of trouble between the Quakers and Indians. But the Quakers of the olden time dealt with aboriginees, pure and unsophisticated. They had learned by sad experience none of the crimes and deceits of the palefaces. They had neither been cheated, deceived, betrayed nor debauched by the whites, and were disposed to implicit re liance on the latter, as men of a superior race. The Quakers of to-day, however, will stand at manifest disadvantage as compared with those of the olden time. They will have to do with the savages who have been taught to get drank and who have learned by experience that whites are frequently unscrupulous, treacherous, self ish and craeL All this rubbish of hostility, and prejudice must be cleared away before our mod em Quaker can begin a foundation for the su perstructure of moral influence, founded on nn- doubting faith. Tho movement is in a right di rection but it must be slow in progress. We beg leave to suggest too, that if Grant will select his representatives in the unrecon structed South from the same class of men, matters may be improved here. There is no telling what might be the result, if the rebels, so-called, should see the authority of the gov ernment represented by men of integrity and virtue. The moral effect of so strange a spec tacle it would be difficult to overrate. Horrible! Horrible! Our blood “frizes" over the sanguinary atti tude of the North Caxolina-carpet-bag-Senator- from-Massachusetts-Abbott, in respect to the physically diminntive Senator from the physi cally diminntive State of Rhode Island. What do all these horrible threats mean ? We tremble at the thought! they can mean nothing less than may hereafter be set forth in the burning el oquence of the indictment that be, the said Ab bott, then and there with malice, aforethought, and not having the fear of God before his eyes, did, with a certain stick in his right hand hold ing of the just value of two cents, upon tho body of him the said Sprague, beat and strike, and divers blows did inflict to the injury of him the said Sprague, etc., and so on. Clearly, all these terrible threats can mean nothing less than some such sanguinary catas trophe, and in the bloody record of blows Ab bott intends to prove that he is no puppy as charged by Sprague, but a real human, who can beat and strike ; or at least as big a dog as Nye —for the offence seems to corftist not in being classed as a dog, (Nye was content to have been called a big mastiff,) but in being colled a pup py—a little, juvenile dog! And therein the ap plication of canine similitudes seems to differ from others. If you call a man a big dog he does not appear to take offense. The size of the animal operates -as a sedative to choler. But the case differs if you speak of bears, swine, jackasses, geese, calves and the like. There the application of an adjective of magnitude seems to increase the provocation. Bnt this is a di gression, and we leave the curious to follow out the thought at leisure. We call upon the carpet-baggers and Radicals in the Senate to abate their fury. This is not the pattern of civility and good behaviour they were to set us. A Pleasure Tbip.— The Pacific steamship America will sail between the 20th of May and 1st of Jane, on a trip round the world, and will return to New York by the middle of November. The charge for the entire passage will bo $1280, including tho privilege to live on board while in port __ Convention of the Pbotestant Episcopal Chubch.—The Forty-seventh Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in tho Diocese of Georgia will meet in St Paul’s Church, in Augusta, on Wednesday, May 6th, I860. • It is stated that Gen. Breckinridge will go into the Kentucky Legislature—that he is worth not less than sixty thousand dollars, and that his health was never so good as it is at present Complete returns from Michigan show the election of eight Democratic Judges out of six- •teen circuits. The Minister to Haiti.—Only five Senators -voted against the confirmation of E. D. Bassett, .colored, as Minister to Hayti. Reposted Reduction of Steamship Facilities Between Charleston a$!D New Yoex.—We find the following paragraph in the New York Star, • of last Saturday: Only two steamers per week leave this pprt for Charleston the coming summer instead of three, as in previous years. Onwabd.—Mayno Reid’s Magazine for youth, May number, was received yesterday. ViEUXTZMFe, the violinist, it is rumored, will visit this country this spring. Weathzb warm and fine for the crops. Litekaby circles in Brussels believe that Victor Hugo has a dozen complete novels in his desk, but publishes one at long intervals, in order not to glut the market Peace In Georgia. Liberty of the press and speech is not liberty to abuse, insult, slander and libel, and inflame the passions of the ignorant to acts of violence, incendiarism, and murder. Bat certainly the publication of a paper plainly devoted to these objects for neariy a year in Macon—not only without popnlar molestation, but without any 1 danger of it, is itself the highest evidence of forbearance and self-control upon tho part of our people and of a determination to avoid dis turbance at all hazards. Grant says there must be liberty of speech in' the Sonth—bnt here i3 liberty to perpetrato the fonlest crimes against the pablic peace and safety, and the existence and happiness of the colored race, by a paper claiming to be Grant’s organ, and yet weekly vomiting falsehood, ter rorism and foal counsels to the blacks, to bum, assassinate and mnrder in deadly revenge for falsely alleged crimes. This organ'rind advocate of pablic mischief, actually, in the face of the evidence of a black murderer arrested with the plunder of tho vic tim in his possession, has the impudence still to charge that Ayer was a victim to white political assassination, and invoke the blacks to acts of retaliatory vengeance. Is it possiblo thatthe blacks themselves can longer tolerate such remorseless villainy? Nominations by the Fbesident.—Tho follow ing is a classified list of the nominations sent to the Senate by President Grant since the begin ning of his administration. It is said that not more than one-half of the officers in the gift of the President have yet been filled: U. 3 marsbals25 Regs, of land officers. ..33 Rees, of Public moneys. 2G Pension agents 26 Indian agents 6 Surveyors general. 9 Naval officers 4 Cost, house appraisers. .4 Supt. Indian affairs... Officers of D. of O. 6 Bureau officers 13 Assistant treasuer. .. Total. .1,013 Cabinet officers, foreign ministers 27 Seo’ries of legation.. .2 Consuls general 4 Consuls..... 93 Governors Territories. 7 Sec’ries Territories....8 Collectors Internal rev.8 Assessors .....112 Postmasters 392 Collectors of customs.40 Survevors of custom..13 U. 8. and Ter. Dis. At torneys 23 The above list does not include military anil naval appointments. Referring to the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, the Livingston Journal says: The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad will soon be completed to Livingston, and it will not be long before the entire road will be finished from Meridian to Chattanooga. Capital and energy will soon “put it through.” From a brief «>nvernation with Mr. Anderson, the company’s engineer, on Wednesday, we learn that satisfac tory progress is being made on our railroad. There is now a considerable quantity of iron at York, and there are 160 hands employed on work between Livingston and that place. The bridges between York and Yellow Creek are all framed, and'the crossing ready to receive them. Workingmen will begin framing the bridge for this place during the coming week. The Chicago Times says: “The confirmation of Howard, an ex-Congressman from Michigan, as minister to China, vice Mr. J. Ross Browne, furnishes another case of sacrificing the nation’s best interests for the accommodation of Mr. Grant's favorites. Mr. Browne is a gentleman of intellect, culture, and extensive knowledge of the world, against whom, as a diplomat, there is found no ground of oomplaint. Mr. Howard, on the other hand, is a rSere pot-house politician, with nearly as much knowledge of diplomacy as a Digger Indian has of the Talmud.” last of the Joe Brown Pikes. The Chronicle and Sentinel gives an acoount of a sale of condemned property at the United State Arsenal, Augusta, last Wednesday: These sales comprised axles, cannon spikes, sword bayonets, sabres, carbines, artillery har ness, cartridge bags, horse-shoes, saddle-trees, gunboat plates, 360,000 lbs. Confederate gun powder, many tons of iron scraps, fire and cast, Ac., Ac. Bnt the most remarkable of all the articles sold was 1,000 JOE BROWN PIKES, gotten up expressly to defend the last ditch of State Rights under his Excellency’s own eye and under models designed under his immediate su pervision. These Georgia Pikes are of three models. The original model is after the fashion of the Roman dagger, placed upon a stout hick ory staff, some seven feet long, properly polish ed and ferraled. The second model was a com bination of the Roman dagger and the fanner’s brier hook—the design being in case the thrust of the dagger is parried, a hackwork pull of the pikeman would decapitate the infantry soldier or bisect a resisting cavalryman. The third model—mark the progress of invention—was a double-barrel spring-acting dagger, which shot out from between two oval sections of hickory, upon coming in contact with an unfortunate enemy. These terrible articles of warfare were bought by Mr. Morrison, of Sonth Carolina. Rumor has it they are intended to supply the wants of the loyal Governor, for supplying with the most approved arms his Sonth Carolina mili tia which is now being organized. We cannot say that this ramor is true or false by reason of the extreme reticence of the purchaser. Canada Annexation. The Radical organs are striving hard to kindle an excitement upon the acquisition of Canada, and are resorting to all known practices and arts to accomplish this object. One of these is to send Bohemians into Canada to transmit tele grams on the subject. One of them, in the em ployment of the Tribune, telegraphs as follows from Montreal: The desire of tho people of the new dominion to cut loose from their dependence upon the mother country has received a powerful impetus from one or two great events. Whatever course may finally be adopted, there can be little doubt that a great political change of some sort is not far distant. Several private meetings of influential persons have recently been held here for the purpose of considering the great question of a change in tho form of government, and the general dissatisfac tion with the present state of things is more openly expressed. The newspapers are at last beginning to meet the question face to face, and are giving utter ance to the sentiment which has long been widely dispersed among the people, although but few have had the courage to express it pub licly. There is a party in favor of independence, but a larger party, I believe are in favor of an nexation to the United States, and will soon make itself prominent. The acquisition of the Hudson Bay Territory has given additional force to the arguments of the annexationists. It is felt that such a magnificent domain as the new domain now promises to be, ought no longer to be dwarfed and kept down by dependence on a trans-Atlantic Government. The belief that Great Britain shall surrender her North American possessions as a set off against the Alabama claims, has created a deep sensation in certain circles. Not a few regard it with decided favor. Senator Sumner’s speech has been copied in full by the English and French journals, and it is of course the tapis of mnch discussion. MabriaoeExtbaobdinabt.—In consequence of the unreconstructed state of things in this part of Virginia, last week license to marry conld not be obtained, and a very respectable couple, who wished to have the knot tied, had to resort to reconstructed Tenngfsee for that purpose. Ac cordingly, on Thursday of last week, Mr. James Graham and Miss Sallie Hickok, accompanied by a large party of young friends, paraded on horseback, and moved down to Tennessee in military style. They were met near the line by- tho Rev. J. R. King and his staff, and immedi ately formed a solid column, the bride and groom and their attendants in front, when the happy couple wer& made one. When tho ceremony wan Over they countermarched to the rear and returned to Virginia without alighting.—Lynch burg Paper. _ Too Much. The Western Press telegrams of tho 22d, says: To-day a party of gentlemen who intend to leave here to-morrow for the purpose of visiting the Sooth, had an interview .with the President. The party consists of General Thomas L. Kane, ex-GoTemor Ward, of New Jersey, and Mr. Conger, his Secretaiy, Generals Ledna and Von Wick, of NewNork, Cobmel J. W. Forney, Wm. Prescott Smith and others. Colonel Forney started that they had deemed it proper to call on him previous to their departure for the South; their visit was purely a disinterested one, and entirely devoid of polftitcs; to do what they conld to promote good feoling between the two sec tions, and assist the development of the South. The President replied that he was very happy to hear that they intended to make the trip, and hoped it would be productive of the best results. Nothing would do more to properly reconstruct the South than white loyal emigration, and he had no doubt northern capital and northern men would readily avail themselves of the superior inducements offered, so soon as they could be assured of protection and cordial welcome. We hope Mr. Forney will permit us to sug gest that he is making too much fuss about a trip South. Jt can be accomplished very com fortably in a week—at small excuse, and with so little danger as to call for no extra premium on liia life policy. It was quitri uimeccessary, therefore, to notify the President—or have prayers offered in the churches—or nail a horse shoe to the stable door, or hang np any votive offering at the altar. Let him come along and a murrain on him for a fussy old humbug. Hancock County. A travelling correspondent of the Chronicle A Sentinel writes: Hancock comity, I have no doubt, is composed of scone of the most successful and thrifty farm ers in the State of Georgia. There are many Dicksons whose names have never gone before the public, who are not far behind if not equal to him, in their achievements, though I believe they all yield the palm to our friend David, which he deserves. There is more of scientific, systematic, and thorough development of the farming interest every way than is common in this country. Men of intelligence and moral worth instead of devoting themselves to manu facture,commerce and the various pursuits of the business of the world, have adopted that more honorable than all others, the cultivation of the soil. Judge Harris, Colonel Turner and many others, are among this number. By the way, the man that wanted to go where manual labor was honorable might move to Han cock. My friend, Dr. P., informs me that there was not a single loafer in the town of Sparta, and throughout the county the people were faithfully at work. This accounts for the peace and good order that prevails. Even the ladies have thrown off their jewels, diamond trinkets and costly attire and cone to work. The cook- kitchen and the table, the bed-room and the parlor, all exhibit their superior taste and re finement. What a noble example! What a trib ute to the memory of their chivalrous dead, and how worthy the objects for which the great sac rifice was made. With such a consecration of virtue, intelligence and energy, what may we promise the future ? While the curse of God is upon the slothful and sluggish, his blessing will rest upon the honest laborers who make their land bloom and blossom as the rose. Newnan Spring.—The Newnan's People’s Defender says: ‘‘Frequent notices of this valuable spring may cause some who are not aware of its real merits, its wonderful remedial powers, to think that we are playing a game of ‘brag.’ This is not really our object. We wish the people who are afflict ed with disease to experience its benefits and therefore write often. Dr. Ed. Smith, of this place, has permitted ns to see an order for sev eral dozen bottles of this water. Wher6 do you suppose the order came from ? Not from Atlan ta nor from LaGrange, for both of these places seem satisfied with their own waters. That or der came from the City of New Yqrk.” A Bridgeport child looking oat of the win dow Tuesday morning and seeing a well-dressed man passing along, exclaimed: “H^mma, see how nicely mat man looks. I guess God has just made him.” Book-keeping taught in one lesson—don’t lend them. Fredericksburg, Va—Now and Then. A writer in the Springfield Republican com municates the following: I have been in battle-stricken towns before, bnt Fredericksburg is the most remarkable one I have yet seen. The people have an Italian rapacity for monopolizing strangers, but they do not carry out the parallel by asking them for small contributions. Enter any public place, and broach the subject of the great battles, and you have touched the vital topic. The majority of the town people still move and think amid the frightful scenes of seven years ago. Their normal faculties are deadened to the present— The boys employ their time digging np bullets, and continue to find an unfailing store, although the ground has been pretty thoroughly dug over. There is a «knll, or a thigh bone, in almost every shop window. The church steep les show curious patchwork, which testifies that they were not spared by the shot. Every merchant who was there in 1862 has some dismal tale to tell. Those same Irishmen who could fight so gallantly, those" Americans who couldface death without blenching, behaved rather rudely to the towns people. One old man told me, with evident deliglit, howtwomenrob- bed his shop of its stock of tobacco, and threat ened to shoot him when he remonstrated. “In 'less’n an hour they was both back here on this very floor, shot through and through. One of ’em begged my pardon, before be died, for what he stole—he did." An old lady, who tells so com plete and graphic a story of the battle that I suspect she has posted up on it since the terrible day, to accommodate travelers, said that the morning after Burnside had attacked the rebel lines, one could go over the battle field, and pick np anything he might wish for. “Why,” said she, “one man fell dead inside my door here, with a four-quart jng of molasses in his hand” What did the soldier mean to do with so much sweetening ? Money had been dropped hilter-skilter in the streets, by tho inhabitants in tbeir flight; the kitchen utensils and parlor furniture strewed tho fields for miles. One old man, who has been in the town twenty years, and now keeps a little restarant on the verystreet comer round winch our troops, as they came up to the charge were compelled to appear, gave me a very graphic stcry of his troubles. Just as fast as he could bir up his saloon door, it would be knocked dfwn by new-come soldiers, who in sisted on “something to drink” before they went to the battle. He watched them start out, and said that id many cases they were not gone ten minutes before they were brought back, maimed and crushed, to be laid on ghastly doom, in the extemporised hospitals. The sight at the principal church, after the battle had been in progress an hour, was horri ble beyond description, and the whole village echoed to the wailing of the wounded. The old ferryman Who took us across to the hills oppo site Fredericksburg, gave a glowing picture of the laying of tho pontoon bridges, and alluded especially to the fact that the guns of our own batteries, too far off, killed many of our soldiers as they advanced np the slopes. Stonewall Jackson was his pet hero, and he regaled us with anecdotes of that queer but valiant Gen eral. He was in tho Wilderness when Jackson fell, and confirmed the accepted story that he was shot by his own men. How he knew I could not make him tell; he only responded by lean ing on the boat-rail, and saying, with mysterious intonation, “I was thar.” It was very hard to find any one at Fredericks burg who would acknowledge that he was not in the battle, either of December or May. The re pulse of Burnside’s attack was mentioned by al most every man with whom I had any conver sation. Old people delighted to go over the ground, and point out where such and such heaps of Federal dead had lain. One man told, with much glee, how he spent all the night after the battle in looking over a pile of soldiers, and tak ing out of their pockets the whisky bottles they had stolen from him on the morning previous. “I got back all but three pints," said ho, “and thorn helped swell the general courage.” Picket firing across the river at Fredricks- bnrg, say some historians, was indulged into a barbarous extent. Barksdale’s Mississippi sharp shooters are accused of having taken the lives of our soldiers on every occasion possible when it was directly in opposition to the laws of war. But the townspeople tell a different story. They say that no pickets ever fired upon each other save at the beginning of the December battle.— One old negro informed me that the above-men tioned Mississippi marksmen were wont to send invitations to our officers to cross tho river in the night, and disguised in Confederate clothes, attend the extemporized balls which frequently occurred in the town, and the invitations wero accepted. When the breeze was right the pick ets would trade tobacco for newspapers, by sending across little wooden boats with paper sails, and the officers used to send billets doux to the ladies whom they had met at the balls.— Tho sharpstooters didn’t so grossly their chances as they might have done, fvt- both Hooker and Franklin often appeared t-- the river bank, near the Federal pickets, excalient targets for even the poorest marksman. Cotton. The receipts of all the ports during last week are reported at 28,011 bales, against 32,000 the week previous, and 34,000 for the correspond ing week of last year. The receipts (exclusive of overland) are now apparently about 137,000 bales short of those of last year to same date, and the probability, we think, is that they will henceforward gain on the receipts of April and Slay of last year, instead of showing a further falling off. Tho following were the weekly re-' ceipts of last year for the dates given: SVeek ending April 22d, 18,000; April 29,18,- 500; May 6, 14,500; May 13, 11,000; May 20, 8500 : May 27, 5500. The prospect is that the receipts of tho corresponding weeks of this year will be fully as largo. Last year the correct overland receipts wero not given until the close of the season. They are this year estimated so for at about 122,000 bales, making tho decrease only about 15,000 bales. It is not improbable that the yearly re port Of overlandreceiptswillbe somewhat larger than the returns bo far indicate. At this advanced period ‘of the season, tho crop of 1868 may be estimated pretty closely. That it cannot vary much from tho amount of the crop of 1867, is apparent, and it is quite probable that there will not be a difference of 100,000 bales in the crops of the two years.— Columbus Entpiirer. Secretary Fish on Cuba. Secretary of State Fish is reported by the Herald's Washington correspondent to have given utterance to the following very sensible language in a recent Cabinet meeting on tho question of intervention by the United States in Cuban affairs: “Let her alone,” said Fish; “give her a chance single handed to work out her own des tiny, and she will gravitate towards the Repub lican Union in spite of every obstacle. Spain will soon tire af resisting the mandates of fate. Proud though she be, the old Castilian mon archy will find that she cannot afford to crash out the free aspirations of the Republican sen timent of Cuba. It is an enterprise too costly and must bo abandoned sooner or later. But let the United States interfere, and Spain will not only exhaust her own acquisition of tho island, but she will draw to her assistance the combined strength of England and France, and we will have to combat a coalition representing tho most powerful military and naval forces in Europe. Why tempt this contest unnecessarily! Why drag the republic into a formidable war, when it has just emerged from the most formid able civil strife in the annals of history ? What we need now is peace—peace, unless preserved at the sacrifice of honor, a sacrifice which is not even in question in the present condition of af fairs.” The. Sugab Sea^sn.—Contrary to the appre hensions of many, the maple sugar season is proving an exceedingly productive dne in this State (Vermont.) The freezing nights and sunny days, with the thorough soak ing of the ground from the melting snow, makes sap flow profusely. In parts of the State, where snow is deepest, the farmers are obliged to use snow shoes, to get about in their “sugar bushes;” but on the whole the snow is not interfering with sugar-making. In this county, the fanners are having a famous' time, the sap running as fast, and in some cases. faster, than they can collect it. On the whole, the prospect is that more sugar will be made this spring than in sev eral years, which, considering the high price of sugar generally, is a very favorable and fortunate state of the case.—Burlington ( Vt.) Press. “The password is Saxe—now don’t forget it, Fat,” said the Colonel, jnst before the battle of Fonntenoy, at which Saxe was Marshal. “Sacks! faith, and I will not/' said Pat, “wasn’t my father a miller?” “Who goes there?” cried the sentinel, after the man bad arrived at his post." Pat was as wise as an owl, and, in a sort; of whispered howl, replied, “Bags, yer honor." Hearing Spurgeon. IMPRESSIONS OF THE OBEAT PREACHER—COURTESY TO AMERICANS. From the special correspondence TT..Y.Evenino Mail.] London, March, 1869. It is quite a long distance from Langham’s hotel to Spurgeon’s church, and it required an early breakfast and a smart drive in a Hensom cab to bring ns one bright Sabbath morning; in August last (o the Tabernacle, whose pulpit is filled by that celebrated man, the fame of whose eloquence has reached all lands. Although we were early, a large crowd blocked up the whole of the front entrances to the church, but tho guard passed ns immediately because we were Americans, and told me to be sure and mention that fact to the usher and we would be certain of seats. A glance from the body of the church showed me that the best seat to hear and closely observe the speaker would be in the first gallery, so we ascended the staircase bnt were refused admis sion at first by the door-keeper because we were in advance of the honr; bnt, as if on second thought, he looked more sharply at us, and say ing, “You are Americans,” to which we nodded an affirmation,! he opened his gate and let ns enterf. . • . I never saw in any country the “open se same”-of Americanism so pregnant and power ful as in this church. What our countrymen have ever done to impress so favorably the Brit ish Baptists I cannot imagine, bnt I had no soon er mentioned to the usher who I was than he in the most polite manner imaginable (although many were then standing) conducted us into the front row of the gallery and in the very center of the house and gave us two of the choicest seats in all the chnrch. The church itself merits a word. It is called in London “the Tabernacle,” and is a very large structure, parallelogram in form, with three enormous galleries completely encircling its in terior. By my count the body seats held 2,000 people without packing, while the whole church would seat about 4,000 to 4,500. It is not unlike Mr. Beecher’s, except larger, while the iron sup- ports to the galleries detract somewhat from its effect, and it is not so pleasant in its aspect as Plymouth Church. This vast edifice was filled to overflowing, and at the appointed hour Mr. Spurgeon came down the stairs that descend from the second gallery into the pulpit There is a large platform raised at one end of the church like Mr. Beecher’s pulpit only much larger and projecting very much farther into the body of the house. Above this platform, one story, and on a level with the first balcony, is the pulpit itself, still further back, so that all the people on the platform can well see the preacher above them, while he is still sufficient ly advanced into the body of the church to be plainly seen by every listner, whether below or in any part of the galleries. He stands in what would be one of the foci if the building was an ellipse, and at least twelve feet higher than the speaker in Plymouth pulpit. Spurgeon is short, but has a very powerful structure. His head is broad and massive, while his whole frame is solid and strong. His hair and eyes ore dark, with large face, deep chest and powerful lungs. He impresses you as the personification of great strength and power. His opening prayer was massive. His words, thoughts, and gestures were wholly outside the stereotyped style of his sect, or of any school, and you felt ere he had uttered ten sentences that you were listening to no common man. His reading of the chapter was accompanied noth comments which occupied twenty minutes of that time, and in spite of his genius seemed prosy. He leads the singing of the whole con gregation after the manner of the early Method ists, lining each verse before the congregation sang it, in the singing of which he also joined. He preached from 1st Corinthians, where Paul says t “ I die early,” and his sermon was fifty minutes in length by my watch, but it did not seem long, and never for one moment did the interest of his hearers abate. They sat spell bound under the power of his words. His is a style copied after no living model of which I know or have read. He reminded me more of Beecher than of any of our divines, but they are not at all alike, either inmethods of thought- or in delivery. He uses the plainest, homeliest figures and illustrations, but they are of that ev ery day practical nature that seize hold on the hearts and the consciences of all men. His logic is inexorable and irresistible. He does not appeal to the fear; tho passions or the emotions. He seems to scorn all the tricks of tho pulpit, bnt his sermons are ever of the simplest truths of the Gospel, brought home with such enormous force to the minds of his hearers that there is no escape from his conclu sions. His congregation appeared to me to be mainly from the bettor ranks of the poor, and not from the higher or educated classes, very like the average Baptist congregation in Amer ica, bnt hardly such an audience asMr. Beecher addresses. His piety is bfith deep and fervent His words take hold upon and cling to you and cannot be shaken off. He preaches only Christ and as much as Wilberforce did or John Bunyan would. Ho made no middle work or compro mises, bnt insisted on the rugged faith and pi ous life of the Reformers, and was as strict and exacting as John Wesley, denouncing with tre- mendovs sarcasms amusements, and especially the theatre. He is the foremost man of the dis senting clergy of Great Britain. His influence must be enormous. There can be no doubt of either his heart or his head. Ho is a large- hearted Catholic and true, free from the bigotry which cramps many of the divisions of his school, and his infiuenco on London, England and the world cannot fail to be both great and good. Grand Catholic Celebration in \ew Orleans. The Now Orleans Times of the l."th inst, says: “The one hundred thousand Catholics of this city appeared to be all assembled Sunday on and around the old Cathedral of St. Lonis and the Jackson Square to participate in the grand celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Pope’s promotion to the sacrcdotal dignity, and the twenty-third anniversary of Ms Pontifical sovereignty. It was certainly one of the grandest popular manifestations ev«s made in this city. In point of numbers it exceeded any assemblage we ever witnessed. In the grandeur and sublimity ov the scene, in the earnest enthusiasm and devo tion of the multidude, in the vast array of wo men and children, in the tasteful and appropri ate ornaments, and the solemnity of the cere monies, everything combined to render the oc casion one wMch impressed all beholders with an awe, reverence and respect, for the sincerity and earnestness of those who had thus gathered in such a vast multitude, to testify their vener ation for the great father and head of the Cath olic Church. For half a century he has been engaged in fulfilling his priestly duties, and for nearly a quarter of a century the cares and responsibili- ■ties of the Mgh Pontifical office have weighed upon him with more than mortal force. Before the Claristian world he stands as a glorious ex ample of what sincere piety, devotion to duty andecclesiasticalearpestnesscffcacMeve. Never before, since the da of St. Peter Mmself, was the chair of St. Peter filled more acceptably, not only to the Catholic, but to the entire Chris tian world. Catholic in all his instinots, in the Mgher and grander acceptation of mat term, he has secured the love, esteem and veneration of all with whom he has been brought into contact, either as a sovereign or as a priest. Descended from a noble family, and intended for the army, he put aside the sword, as a carnal weapon, to become an hnmble follower of the Prince of Peace, and now half a century of usefulness has crowned Mm with more than earthly honors. Ex-Senatob Allen.—A correspondent writ ing from Chillicothe says: “This place, as your readers are already aware—if not, they should be, as it has been told in print one thousand and one times—is the home of the Hon. Wm. Allen, well known through the land as the ‘tall Senator from OMo.’ Mr. Allen owns some six teen hundred acres of land adjoining the city, and bears the reputation of being one of the most successful farmers in the State. He is now in Ms sixty-seventh year; possesses great activity of mind and body, and stated ‘to our mutual friend 1 a few days since that he had not been annoyed with a pain or ache for forty-five years. ‘That, sir/ said Mr. Allen, 'I attribute to out door life and coarse food.” Miscegenation—We understand that a good deal of excitement exists in the lower part k of the county, over the singular conduct of Pro bate Judge Ely, of New Hampshire, to-wit of Montgomery, who issued a license to a negro boy under age to marry a white {prl about four teen years of age, whom the negro had induoed to ran away from home with him. The story goes that Ely, for fear that he would miss a chance to help along the science of miscege nation, violated the law and issued the license. 'Squire Thomasson performed the ceremony, and thus an innocent girl’s life was blasted by the damnable dogmas of the Radical party and English View of a Southern States man, A. H. STEPHENS ON STATE SOVEREIGNTY. From the*London Saturday Eerie'w.] -Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, the Vice-Presi dent of the ill-fated Southern Confederacy, is perhaps of all American public men the best qualified fairly to represent and discuss the con flicting theories of State rights and Federal au thority wMch, after a political struggle of more than a quarter of a century, were at last brought to a decisive issue on the field of battle. It is true that there must always be a deficiency of practical interest in tiie re-opening on paper of a controversy so decided; for there is a feeling in both the reader's and the writer’s mind, that it is useless yet again to dispute with the pen the verdict once recorded by the sword. Never theless, in justice to a brave, Mgh minded, and most unfortunate people, and in due regard to historical truth and to the interests of political science, it is even now worth while to hear what a scolar, a man of deep political learning, of profound knowledge of constitutional history, of moderate opinions and temperate spirit, has to say in defence of principles wMch, however generally repudiated in 1866, were as generally entertained ten years, and wMch the Mouth deemed worth upholding with her whole wealth and her best blood. Mr. Stephens, if any one, maybe expected to speak and think fairly and impartially on the subject. He was more consistent than any Northern opponent of secession—nearly all of whom had, at one time or another, declared in favor of it; he is less embittered and exasper ated than.any Southern secessionist. He op posed secession from the first on Southern grounds; he upheld, on the same grounds, the right and duty of every Southern citizen to abide by the decision of his State : he was true to his cause to the last, yet the only part he took in the war was that of a negotiator and peace-maker; he is neither unpopular with the North nor dis trusted by M3 own people. The opinions and arguments of such a man are entitled, a priori, to respectful attention; when they are so jnst, so clear, so well-reasoned, so amply supported by authorities of the highest character and of every class as wo find them in the volume be fore us, they cannot but assist us greatly in forming a true judgment upon the nature and merits of the controversy. The plan of Mr. Stephens’ work is is simple and somewhat trite, but convenient for his pur pose. It is written in the form of conversations with Northern visitors at his Georgia residence; each of the three interlocutors, representing and stating, with great distinctness, and wo be lieve with perfect fairness, the idea of one of the principal Northern parties, and defending them by authority and reasoning, while the cMef part, of course, is played by Mr. Stephens Mmself, as the assertor of the defeated doctrine of State soverinty, to wMch subject exclusively the present volume is devoted. The argument is well arranged, with regard both to Mstorical order and logical sequence, and the propositions which the author undertakes to maintain are as well and as conclusively supported as any pro positions admitting of convroversy well can be. Mr. Stephens is superior to the common artifices of advocacy, or is too confident in Ms causes to need them.* Ho never stoops to weaken or mis state the opposite view: he takes the strongest points of his antagonist's case, as stated by its most eminent advocates, and meets them with arguments and facts about whose relevancy there can seldom be the shadow of a doubt. * * A sovereign can'have no judge; and the Fed eral Constitution provided no means by wMch one State could bring another to justice for wrong-doing or nonfulfillment of engagements. In likp manner there existed no legal mode by wMch the Federal Government could coerce a State wMch should exercise the right of sover eignty to redress its wrongs under the compact by denouncing the compact itself. A sovereign power is tho judge of its own rights. Its sub jects must obey k, and defend it, right or wrong. It follows, therefore, from the sovereignty of the States that they were entitled legally to se cede if they chose, and that their citizens were bound to follow and to fight for the choice of the State. This was the view on wMch Mr. Stephens acted; and in its support he quotes the authority of such eminent lawyers as Tucker and Rawle, and the conditional admission of Story himself. Ho shows that Massachusetts and the other New England States had more than once asserted the right of secession, and threatenecjlo exetpise it: that Mr. Lincoln Mmself assorted, Ai general terms, the right of any people or portion of a people, locally distinctj to choose its own gov ernment; and that Horace Qreeley, np to the very last, insisted that, if the Sontiyjliose, she had n right to go in peace. He himself disap proved the policy of secession, bnt asserted to tho fullest degr^a the absolute nature of tho right, and the sufficiency of ther provocation; and he calls Webster to testify, in very distinct terms, that the systematic violation of tho Con stitution in the case of fugitive slaves was alone a sufficient vindication of the total repudiation, by the South, of a compact wMfih the North ob served only as far as she pleased. It is impossible, within our limits, to give a fair idea even of the outlines of such an argu ment ; much more to convey a just impression of the lucidity, power of thought, vast and ap propriate reading, and vigorous reasoning by wMch it is sustained. It wonld be difficult to name a more perfect masterpiece ot constitu tional reasoning and political disquisition; a a work wMch might with greater advantage be placed in the hands of the young lawyer, who de sired to see how those high questions which are the common ground of the lawyer, the historian, and the statesman, can bo treated by one who combines the qualifications of all three. The book is perhaps hardly suited to the general reader, but it may be confidently recommended as indispensable to every one who wishes really to understand either the Federal Constitution or the Civil War; and it will be ranked among the most valuable of those materials wMch the wri ters of tins age are accumulating for the future historian of America. The Supreme Court of the United States has 0 r „ decided that Judges were not liable to suits by by the lawless conduct of a Radical carpet-bag private individuals for their official acts. * \fnit ........... — .— official.—Motttgomery Mail. Tbe Future Production of Cotton. From the Xeio Orleans Bulletin 1 That tho favorable results of last year’s crop of cotton have induced efforts towards a still larger production of the staple tho present year, is not to bo doubted. But it is very question able whether the actual increase will be consid erable, or appreciable. There is land for the purpose in nfflimitod abundance, bnt there is no proportionate supply of agricultural labor. In deed, there is reason to suspect that the re sources of the latter now at hand in the Sonth have reached the maximum of development, from wMch there will be more tendency to de cline than to increase. We refer especially to the freedmen hands who have constituted the bulk of plantation laborers in the cotton-grow ing enterprises of the past three or four years. Time is proving in this country what it has proved in Jamaica, in Hayti, in Africa, that the free negro has no more relish for continuous la bor in the fields in the long, languid summers of tropical and qnasi-tropical countries, than the free Caucasian; and by some judges be is regarded as havingmuch less, and as being par ticularly repugnant to plantation labor as long as there are open to Mm lighter occupations, or other modes of living more conductive to the dolce-far-niente existence of a big sunflower nodding in the breezes, which is poetically sup posed to fulfill the EtMopian’s dream of terres trial happiness. Turning to such elemqpts qtf white labor as are now m tho South, we shall find them tend ing to developement in mechanical and manu facturing directions, rather than agricultural Henceforth more and more of Southern industry will be devoted to the manipulation of cotton after it is grown, and it is not impossible that in ten years ono-half the value of the Southern ex port of cotton will be in the shape of doths or yarns turned out of Southern factcdRfc. The impending change will promote the substantial wealth of the South, but, as the situation now stands, it must necessarily diVeij capital and la bor from the cultivation of the was to a variety of home manufactures, and, therefore, most tend to limit the production of cotton. The Gbeat Conflagration at the Gu>e of Good Hope. —Some details have been received of the fearful conflagration wMch happened at the Cape of Good Hope last February, when a tract of country 400 miles long and varying in breadth from fifteen to 150 miles was swept over by fire. The weather had been unusually boj and dry for the previous six weeks. Oh Febru ary 9th tile temperature throughout the colony rose to more intense heat than ever previously known. During the morning scorching-hot winds blew from the northeast, and ib the after noon a fire broke out at .jeveral places and wrapped millions of acres is enormous confla gration, the cultivated la&ds, farm buildings, native forests, and bush farm stock, and wild nniniftlg sharing the same fate. Several persons were also burned to death,. Those saved had to take shelter in the wet ditches, where many scorakfd- The calamity -and vi destroying its produce, wates-dams, and than were badly after the, I For tie Telegraph Sly Faded Flewers. BY E. B. C. M Yea! close your crimson eyes. . Ye teach, Ye sadly teach of change. My heart Will gather dew and freshness—then With dew and freshness live apart, As ye are living now. Ye cannot feel that time is hard Or cruel, tho’ he steals your bloom No memory’s ghost from out the past Is gathering heart-joy to his tomb, No grave-damp on your brow. Ye see no night—no gloom that seems The darkness just before the honr Of death. You've never felt the need Of saving kisses, little flower, Or kissed a tear-stained face. No, no! You’ve never felt the proud. Bright, trailing purple of your love Turned to hope's winding sheet; you've lost No sweet, glad echoes—tones that move Our hearts throughout life's space. Nor know, (while o'er our saddened soul* Sweep memories wild,) our country's woe. Ye bloom! Ye wither! but we live! lave hopeless on—and meanings low. Still sweep our spirits’ chords. And little buds, yo do not know, (Ungrateful flowers), nor love the hand That placed you in my own. Yes, hang And droop upon my breast—yet stand Fit emblem of my words. Macon, April 21st, 1869. American Girls in Rome. flirtations in the eternal citt. From the correspondence 'of the -V, Y. Times.] A letter from Rome to a Paris paper contains these paragraphs : “ The 17th of January there was a splendid ball at Fisher's. All America was there. Out of twenty women, at least eighteen were fascinating. By the side of the hostesses, who are blonde and pretty girls, everybody ad mired a brunette with large and rather strange eyes—the rosy pearl among all these other pearls. She is known as the ‘red rose/ agra- cious nickname for beauty,' freshness, briUianev and distinction. The American colony is very numerous in Rome. _ There is sometMng singular in this current wMch draws the cMldren of Young America to the capital of the old world. It almost seems as if Providence sent the race of the future to rejuvenate the race of the past, and to place youth and hope near old souvenirs. Is the race of Romulus, already once regenerated by men of the North, destined to be unexpectedly cross, edby the youngest and most vivacious race o! the Universe? What is the attraction which draws women to Rome ? Some people say they come to get titles. I should like to know which is most honorable, to endeavor to become con nected with noble and old souvenirs, or to sell one’s title, name, ancestors and descendants for a given amount of dollars. Notice this: The men who marry American girls sometimes mar ry ugly girls; but you cannot' find one single American woman who has married a man, not even a Prince or a Duke, who is an ugly fellow. Look around you in Paris and you may observe the same thing. Now, tMs pursuit of titles and handsome men engaged in by the American amazons is a nobler and healthier exercise than that in which rained nobles are engaged who hunt les Miss Dollar. Rome is the city where flirtation reipri- as the favorite sultana. It is not easy to flirt successfully wjth our libertines and worn-out young fellows‘at Paris, on the macadam of the boulevards, and in the Champs Elysees. At Rome the young men allow themselves to be rolled like a cigarette between two pretty Ameri can fingers. More than one young Roman no ble has found out the day after Ms wedding that he had made a love-match. ■ TMs discovery raised Mm in Ms own eyes, without, however, allowing Mm to raise Ms ancestral palace. Here let me protest against manners and customs. The education of women in America is the same as in England and in Germany, and therefore is very far superior, to French education. May the'Sisters of the Sacred Heart and my anntia Heaven forgive me for this luminous truth. I know the most charming flirtations are to be had among the American girls. Btitlswearlkaow excellent and very scandalous flirtations whose heroines are little French angels, who neverthe less had the good fortune to try their rosy winp under the maternal wing of the very reverend mothers superior of the Sacred -Heart. Every good Roman goes daily on the Pincio. Here goes by Miss Conrad. She is an American, who is as proud as she is intelligent. She is engaged to be married to Marquis TbeodoH. Then comes the “Red Rose.” This American wak ing on tho grass is the Figaro of all native or foreign bachelors. . He stt^ta the game and cu ries the billets-doux. One evening he took it into Ms head I was engaged to a Roman prin cess. IfotmdMmatthedoorvnthmyovercoii in bi« hand. -As I did not know this exotic in dividual, I took Mm for a robber. Not a bit of it; all he wanted to do was to oblige me. Important Decision. From the Central Georgian.] During the sitting of 'Washington Superior Court, last week, Ms Honor, Judge Gibson, rendered the following decision, which beim one of interest to the pnblicgenerally, andjw- baps bearing upon other cases, of a simih-’ character, we give entire. The case was Thos. E. Brown, Transferee, Vf. A. A. Undp- WOOd. || tj ^ ,,;-y Fi. fa. levy, and claim by P, Happ. This is not a question between debtor s creditor; but between the creditor and ana- nocent purchaser for value, and the facts agw™ upon are that the judgment was obtained a 1858, and the levy in 1868, the precise timed the year is not mentioned, yet that too is tgmd upon. It is also admitted that the defendants this fi. fa. removed from the county of Vs*- ington in 1862, and that the claimant Happ P 1 ’' chased the land or realty claimant in 1862. Section 3525 of the Code of Georgia div* 1 the lien of this judgment in four years, the plaintiff was after the sale to the by the defendant in ft fa for four years of time, or a period sufficient to constitute sd^ possession in the claimant for four years. ~'- his purchase and possession, when he the P®7 tiff could not levy said fi fa. In other «:*• did the claimant have possession of said A-- four years under a bona fide purchase (Pr, valuable consideration, when the plaintiff/-*: have levied upon the same? The solnuo-_ this question does not involve the constimu^ ality of the Stay Law or any other law, >** terms. Would the admitted facts in th»®* have permitted the plaintiff to have leived-, had complied with its provisions, one of visions being that if the defendent removed' 11 ' the county? , . r ..- Did he remove ? and if so was the pj 1 '/ prevented from levying ? I think not. -h one of the provisions of the law was that a »•” dulent sale of the property, etc., wonld a fl * ize the plaintiff to proceed, and whilst t- 1 ;; may be no moral frand in selling the P 10 /'/ in question, yet the frand contemplated; ***£ act of sale that wonld mature into a P e “ e f by lapse of time, thereby divesting \ lien. Here then were two distinct and exceptions, acts, which permitted the to pursue his rights. It is true upon com 1 ' yet as they are now admitted to have bee" ^ then, the conditions were riot one» Q3 >,, therefore the plaintiff must suffer by his and not any innocent purchaser for value- For .if he had been moved against in wMch I think in all conscience sufficient'! and should rather be shortened, he nugd'^ , secured himself against loss. I do not necessary to inquire into the many poeihe ^ sumed by the learned oounseL Yet I tore to say in a question like ihe eno P r °-'j.,. —two parties in Court, one oiijL^auA. i/one—«nd'pipe tdiatMH.' ' ” p Mil I , ■!, positive, unquestioned, constitutional/»>. the other asserting that he was prohibit* 1 ^ law decided by our Supreme Court to stitntional from asserting Ms rights, the Court may not have been unanimous, assume that he who holds under a law is protected in preference to him ^ serts his inhibition under an unconsta/ " law. More especially will I do this at when one of the Judges, then, I believe, ^ Justice, is still on the Bench, who so “ ei °5 d the present Chief Jnstioe as Governor . State at the time of the passage of the similar bill to the second, vetoed it, I P* upon the ground of its unoonstitutiomjW^ Tho claim on acoount of four years and undisturbed possession by a b°na chaser for a valuable consideration ns sustained, and the plaintiff ordered to P*> costs of this proceeding. The late Rev. Danielhwwwas both* J wag and a great amoker. * j®* 1 JS 1 , cried * 3»dy, who surprised Mm % iMtt
