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HP¥UJP' i *« timm 7 • .*•'; >jtJ te] J -icBY & REID," Proprietors. 'tThe Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH, BUILDING bBLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1869. VOL. XUT.---U0.11 „j a Telegraph Building, Macon. .$1000 500 bitks or subscription : I *..»nt»rn- fl,ron8 y« ar . ; «■ bi months o 1* .sorter periods Ono Dollar per month. r ‘ i?ii-Wi:*Ki.TTRL«CRAPH—one year.. 4 00 srii-Wcsst-T Telegraph—six m’ths 2 00 u'tttLV TrutoRAPH—one year 3 00 LK't* ^tttur Telegraph—six months..... 1 50 r ,: IT Payable aheay »«i adtanee.“QX . „ic and .loh Printing |8 executed at reasonable prices. * • .jaert by mail with Postmaster’s certificate a ffroin a Georgian on his Travels. L /, ; )d Wts/ern Railroad—Low Fares— I , l - , , n t,+-Ii<fcru> r Hotels—7he Western and l^inCf Ryad-LouisviUe—Astonishing Pro- I Tradt-Pric*? of Produce— Cincinnati I ,Spenrcr • Jptvsc— State Suffrage Convention \"fr Women in Council—Orate as Owls— Yjtffr Can't Say. ftscnwwt, Ohio, September 19, 1869, I hew* Tdegrapk: Thinking that you would , lCC ept»bl« a few lines from your old friend, Doctor, I embrace a leisure hour to note few passages of public interest for the ] of yonr nnmerons readers. f|]eftyonr city a week ago to-day, per the • -a lid Western railroad, which I found to jis nmol excellent condition and manage- The only objection I bate heard nrged jj. the road is the high tariff still exacted -passengers. Other roads have found it to [frlr interest to reduce their fares, and I hope xliis wise policy will yet prevail with Col. ... He will, in my opinion, make money for ,:*i by a reduction of faro from §5.15 to ..thereby inducing donble travel between Bind Atlanta. [i&at* is still rushing ahead in all manner of cements, with one exception, and that is [Ul accommodations, which are not np to h»es by a good deal. The “National” is giblvtho best, but neither of the Atlanta ican compare with the public houses of Your city is blessed in this respect, as Ifarel-rs know who have ever stopped at the Lanier and other houses. At At- i the} want a hotel larger and superior to tin Macon, because of the greater population (j crowded travel through the former, and be ar, too, of its being the capital of the great tc of Georgia. JImtsenior has recently had personnl knowl- tyjt of the condition of the State road, under * wntgement of that princo of railroad men, IE. Halbert, and I only desire to add iny ony to the superior character of this State The road bed is solid and smooth, the talsiarioM and comfortable. The contrast ts o>ir road and others in this direction is rlin favor of the W. & A. Inputting through Tennessee and Kentucky ‘ling of interest presented itself, till my ar- lu Louisville. ,1 was astonished at the at improvements that have beon made in t dtj within a year past. The “Galt House,” ileadid Hotel structure, has been completed ! is now open to travelers. A now railroad «e, from Louisville to Covington opposite mty, which, in its transit only takes five os, is now in successful operation, enabling fEicn of oither city to visit the other, tran- S badness and return same day. This is a I convenience, and is properly appreciated Bjiie business public. ] In know something of the liberal character 14c merchants of Louisville heretofore. They i generally enterprising and wholesonled peo- \tnd they are now, wa ara happy to say, kg the reward of fair and honorable deal- An immense business is doing with the b and Southwest, so much so that, a faw 5 since, the railway men were obliged to cry old, enough!" for the present. The press ing however temporary, &3 the river is now rato navigation and the rush per railroad 3 not be so heavy. Ik would do your people good to witness the “^ense supply of all kinds of produce collect- lind exposed far sale in Louisville. Every rpartment (except that of tobacco and meat) swell supplied. AVholesale dry goods houses T np Main and other streets, and are now do- 1 a fine business. I have beon told by several khera merchants, that they can do better ere. all tilings considered, than to proceed to iw York. Louisville is also a great manufac- factoring place, and the country aronndispro- t® 4 *®.ngrienUnral productions. Think of it *• CU*by, a barrel of the finest Irish potatoes t ever saw, can be bonght for §1, out of the *nd $150 from dealers. Fruit of all i w now in season, and in splendid condi- reais, peaches, apples, plums, etc., are lerodin profusion and at extremely low rates. '. snort, in all that makes life desirable—good twtr, ample supplies, healthful climate and “"'ss facilities, no plaoe presents greater in- i a: , ents ^ an Louisville. • ' ! | , no * see our friends of the Press in Lou- but you know that 'they are “right side always. The Courier-Journal is too well i in the South to need a word of commen- i from me. I wived here (Cincinnati), day before yes- *%. and am cared for by my excellent host Spencer House, Captain H. H. Drown accomplished assistant,S. Johnson. Esq., •latter formerly connected with the Barnett of this city, for eleven years. This is a jjjfloent House on the comer of Broadway •front streets, with three Verandahs, and in of the far-famed Suspension Bridge 1^* the Ohio, and also in front of the steam- It 1 * hading. Abetter House or of more am- I - niuiodations cannot be found. It has I ^itmdrod rooms and can lodge several hun- I !* guests. The table is all that can be de- 1' • ud the bed-rooms as comfortable ns they I them anywhere. To families andgentlo- ri traveling with ladies, I commend the I %***'' as ne Pl ut ullraot a public House. 1 -}' sterdav, Cincinnati was in a turmoil of lament. A State Suffrage Convention of I clnmoring for woman's rights, was held l .tiks's Opera House, and a Political Conven- r ■ Republicans and Democrats, to nominate l?*4Mes for the Legislature and county of lu-t n ’ wero foil blast. The latter nomin- |rticket, or men of both parties, and h • ruu-r organized a State Association. I at- a meeting of the latter, and was pro- impressed with the strange character of IT '- It- moating. There was an immense au- I"®* 8 present, and it must be acknowledged I business of the Convention was done in I '- ■••'I order as if it were a Convention of |y' ! tuascnlino persuasion. Mrs. Livennore, IS**! Stone, Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, Miss y, and others, so well known to the coun- ISiaT ,! 6tron 8- m > n( led women,” were present , v , “-1 parts of the country, and’ made Mrs. Dr. Walker wears the Bloomer —dressed in a short black frock-coat and and wearing her hair, in braids, down ■ back. Her figure is pettiie and sylph-like, C\,. 8aw no indications of personal beauty or :’ ; ^ Me. Yet she was the “ observed of all t>. rTers ’" an< * was f°H° we< l by the boys in the f ;Und jeered even in the Assembly. the politics of the State I am not able to t’ • wit b any oertainty. Pendleton, you 0 13 the candidate of the Democracy for ern° r , Rn ^ his friends think his success is !(, ' n ‘ but I have my doubts about the matter, t’-i'e 68 are ’ °i conree i with him. He is a i |o ( an ^ gallant - spirit—every inoh a man— ! maa ®®burged views and a man of Nr ^ en ts and fine presence. It will be a R? ? ac b * man is “laud on the shelf” when ^ crvices are so much needed in the Chair of t(l of Ohio. i»la«t Yours, etc., L. F. W. A. fUiitT 1 ftoconn t* nearly four hundred emi- ii South Carolina, Georgia and Flori- ioia-jr * tioeeeded ixx landing in Cuba, and had wi: rovoliitioD&ry Th«r ««» «u in the Uu war. Case of Henrietta Greer. Editors Tdegraph : Having road your article on tho “Case of Henrietta Greer,” being great ly astonished at the statements therein made, and believing that yon havo, by being misin formed as to the facts elicited on the trial, un intentionally misrepresented Governor Bollock, I propose as an act of justice to him, to present tho case as disclosed by the official record on file in this county. Yon say that “the prisoner, according to her own account, sustained by the evidence, and repeated many times without ma terial variation to officers—to the Court—to ono of our own editors and numerous other par ties—on many occasions running through a period of several months—went ontwith her unfortunate little victim to gather lightwood for market, and while in the field conceived the idea of lading the child in order to get possession of a few cents which the latter had in her pocket. Accordingly she strnck her several fatal blows on tho head with tho axe—V</: the money, and Mill# to town and nptnt it in r.ik-* and candy.'' If the official record discloses the fact alleged in this quotation, or if snch an inference can be drawn from the evidence, then I think the pris oner deserved death, and I do not hesitate to say that the Governor should not have granted her a second reprieve, much less a commuta tion of the sentence. But the evidence discloses no snch facts; nor does it show that snch ad missions were made either “to the court, to ono of yonr editors or to any other person whatever. ’ ’ It does show that the deceased was going on eighteen years of age, that she was about the sue of the prisoner, and not a “little child” by any means; that but ono witness (and he the brother of deceased) testified about any money; and he states in the direct examination that “he heard deceased had S3 20,” but when re-called says “Prisoner knew deceased had this money, and that when deceased was found her pocket was turned wrong side out” Now, let us examine this point: Capt. Simp son, who came np to where the body of deceased was lying, immediately after it was fonnd, and who testifies that he examined it carefully, after giving a minute description of its appearance, fails to corroborate the very material fact as to the pocket—a circumstance not possible for him, as a police officer of large experience, to have overlooked, particularly at a moment when the character of the crime #as nndeveloped and the circnmstances attending its commission un known. The same witness, who was present in the room when prisoner was arrested, failed to find any “cakes or candy,” or money in her pos session, but did find some trifling toys. Now, if yon will give the prisoner the benefit of a fair and reasonable presumption, the pos session of the toys can be accoonted for as being purchased with the money she earned by her labor, subsequent to the commission of the crime, which tho testimony, corroborating her own assertions, shows that she performed. Tho evidence nowhere shows that deceased was struck from “behind, or on the back of the head;” the wounds being inflicted on the head, breaking the skull at the right temple. Several prominent and legal gentlemen of this city differ with yon, when yon say that pre- jndice had no influence on the case; they assert and it is notorious, that the public mind was much inflamed by the exaggerated reports of the affair; the press had thundered against her, and in public opinion, her guilt was established before she was brought to trial. In this remark I do not intend to reflect upon the integrity of any one, but simply state my own sentiments np to the time that I examined the evidence. The same gentlemen assert that prisoner’s counsel labored under many disadvantages for making a successful defence—among others, “that they were put upon trial with littio or no time for preparation.” Under these circum stances is it possible that she could have had the benefit of such a trial, as would have elicited all the mitigating circumstances of her crime ? Again you say, “that the relative strength and age of the parties preclude the idea of a strug- file.” The brother of deceased testifies that the par ties were about the same age and size, so that the idea of a struggle is not at all precluded— on the contrary, the confession of the prisoner, which was introduced on her trial, and without which she could not have been convicted, states distinctly that deceased cursed and strnck her with a stick: and, therefore, she, in the sadden heat of passion, retamed the blows with an axe. Her confession is the only direct evidence in the case; all the balance is pnrely circumstantial. Her confession must be taken in its entirety— it cannot be severed. The same evidence winch satisfies us that Henrietta Greer slew Nancy Wright, should satisfy us of the circumstances of the slaying. The position being true, and, in the absence of other testimony to the contrary, the conclu sion wonld be inevitable that the crime commit ted was not murder but voluntary manslaughter. So much, Messrs. Editors, for the main points made in yonr article. Now for the general facts in the case. The two girls wero on perfect terms' of social equality and intimacy—slept in the same room—worked daily together in partner ship ; they were friends np to the moment the first blow was struck. They were getting light- wood in an open field in the day-time; had gone ont together for this purpose; the place to and the object for which they had gone ont were known to the family of the deceased; arriving there, they commenced work; deceased hands prisoner her comb to bold, who, negro-like, sticks it in her hair and in pulling it ont breaks it; this naturally incenses deceased, who abnses and then strikes prisoner with a stick; prisoner in return strikes deceased with an axe, which she holds in her hand and with which she is entting lightwood, nnd kills her; leaves her lying there and runs off—so commenced and so ends the tragedy. Henrietta Greer did not attempt to conceal the body of her victim, and certainly did not pre meditate murder; Vie evidence fails to show that she did. Her confessions, while they bear the impress of truth, clearly establish her imbecil ity ; for, while she admits the crime, she tells, simply and child-like, all the circnmstances at tending its commission. With this view of the case, without attempt ing an argnment, permit me to ask if the facts presented wonld ndt awaken in the mind of any reasonable man, away from the influences which would affect the community in which the crime was committed, snch reasonable doubts as to the nature of the crime as to reoommend the prisoner to mercy? I think they would, and am only surprised that the commutation was not more extended. I think Governor Bullock is naturally humane and merciful; but do not be lieve that he will shield criminals from just and merited punishment, or that he will, through fear of public censure, withhold the pardoning power, when, in his opinion, justice and hu manity demand its exercise. ” A Generous Husband. From New York. The Fashionable World Returned from the Springs—Amusements—Ihe Ballet—Formosa —Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle—Booth’s la go —The Opera—English Opera a Failure- Par epa Rosa—The Fall Season in the Church, es—Sunday Concerts, etc. . New Yobk, September 18, 1869. Editors Telegraph: On my arrival in New Weekly Resame of Foreign Affairs. PREPARED POR THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH. - I Great Britain.—A violent hurricane swept over England and the whole European conti- j nent, disabling a great number of vessels and : injuring many seamen. It is hardly worth while to mention that the : British press is still lecturing on the disgusting J Stowe exploit. Tho London papers comment on the probabil- ■ ity of the recognition of Cuba by the United, States. I York some two weeks since, the city was pro- Comparing tho situation to that of England nounced unusually dull, though in the eyes of towards the Confederacy in 1861, which gave ono so much accustomed to the quiet of our birth to the Alabama question, they cannot find j Southern towns, the appellation seemed pecu- any essential difference between the two cases, i.... 7. 0 . av England will welcome with mischievous joy tho ’ harly inappropriate. Since that time, wove , recognition of the Cabans as belligerents by 1 * ‘fashionable New York” has begun to return America, the latter thereby forfeiting her moral I from its summer wanderings, and the streets right of enforcing the Alabama claims. j have begun to assume their metropolian air. Germany.—The 14th of September, in honor 1 . . ,, . . . of Alexander von Humboldt’s centenary birth- j n 18 1™ 6 ’ 1110 “^“ers and dry goods princes day, was celebrated by the whole German peo- j have not yet had their “fall openings,’! nor has pie. In Berlin, a grand procession headed by '■ the city yet donned its gay winter garbin which bands of music and waving banners, paraded ; it appears so peculiarly charming to the^ tranger; the streets. North and South, West and East , . .. . . were represented by numerous deputies who yet tho signs of the summer uiiicA^are fast had come from all parts of the German Father- disappearing, the change being apparent even lsnd to offer the tribute of gratitude at the to the inexperienced eye of y oar correspondent, shrine of the illustrious dead. The national Many Southern people ham already sought festival was concluded by laying the foundations their far-off homes,after leaving all their “spare for a monument to his memory. cash” behind them, though not a few still linger In Komgsberg the harmonious course of the ; at this, (the Fifth Avenue,) *nd tho St. Nicholas day was unhappily interrupted by a fatal acci dent. Under the heavy pressure of an immense crowd the breast-wall of a bridge gave way, precipitating many into the Niemen. Twenty- four bodies have been recovered. The panic on the Berlin exchange on the 27th of August, produced by a “baisse prononcee,” telegraphed from Paris was so great, that a spectacle has not been witnessed there since Hotels. Almost the entire company which one month ago, was assembled at the “White Sul phur Springs,” seems to have fonnd its way to New York, and the familur faces which one con stantly meets, forcibly reminds him of his re cent charming visit to that “ Saratoga of the South.” I will not, in this unsolicited favor, (?) trespass upon your time by attempting descriptions of Bibb. Perhaps fifteen or sixteen years ago, in a very good State, I saw a woman with a pleasant Quaker face, under a simple Quaker bonnet^— I rather liked it—and her Quaker husband sit ting by her with his broad-brimmed hat on. They had spent many years together, yon conld see by their faces. He was just bidding her good-bye as the train was starting, mid I heard her ask him lor a little money. I did not at all wish to hear what they said, but I heard that he had bought her ticket, and saw that be bad taken her satchel politely on his arm. Sho hated to ask him for the money; a good many other women have hated to ask for it, too. She began to say, “I wish I had a little”—ahe did not want to finish, thinking that he would think of it and give it to her; but he did not. So out it came all at once. “Maybe Til want a little money while I am gone.” The good, honest Quaker turned his face toward her with sur prise, and said, “What has thou done with the quarter I gave thee last week?” (Laughter and applause. ]—Lucy Stone’s Chicago Speech. a-^- * ’■ < 1 • rS . * I Gen. Oanby has been appealed to by a black man and white woman in Petersburg, Va., who want to get married and oon’t because they have been refused a license. r yhSBSSP -5!?' the eventful year of 1848. Thousands stood pi nceg a nd things, which havo been before so crowded on tho pavement, the carnage road often described bv your correspondents, and and toe promenade in wild excitement moving j witnessed by yonr readers, but will confine my- to and fro like toe waving sea_. Circulation was ; se if t 0 giving some account of the amusements stopped, ana even the carnage of toe King : now offered to the Metropolitan public. As toe coidd only slowly make its way through too j attendance upon the musical entertainments agitated mass. , .... i forms one of the chief attractions to the visitor Leopold yon Ranke, toe writer of History of here, j hope toe subject may not be uninterest- toe Popes, has discovered eighty-eight hitherto j n tT. unknown letters of Frederio the Great, written ; xto “ballet” has almost entirely disappeared between 1733 and 1747, to Prince William of f rom the New York stage, and, for the present, Orange, and his wife Princess Anna, daughter ; the ey0 of the lover of too “spectacular drama,” of George IL I as it modestly styles itself, can only be gratified A work of great importance for the history of the u Tammany,” where a monstrous mass of art: “Mural paintings of the buried Campanean j nonsense is nightly gone through with in order cities, ’ by Dr. Helbig, has been published in to give employment to toe ballet girls who once Leipzig. It is a careful and mmuto description j exhibited themselves with such eclat in too of the best Pompeiian and Herculean frescoes, | “Black Crook” and “White Fawn.” Why it accompanied by an atlas of illustrations and dis- ; has thus disippeared is to me a mystery unfath- sertations on too technical character of tho an- ouable, for as long as it reigned at Niblo’s and cient mural paintings by the artist Donnor. . the Olympic its popularity knew no bounds; and Professor _Max Muller is translating, in an even now its diminished glory nightly fills one edition of eight volumes, tho sacred hymns of , 0 f tho largest theatres in the city. But fashion- the Brahmins. ! able New York has deserted it, and, for toe Adelina Patti is staying at Homburg. After time, it is to all appearances dead. As toe ago, next season toe singer will be lost to too Royal however, seems decidedly progressive in de- Italian Opera in London, as she has signed a . pravity, may we not fear that it3 place will be contract with her brother-in-law, Maurice Stra- . filled by something more reprehensible ? kosh, for a tour in toe United States and Cana- j This question was partly suggested by tho da for ono year, whereby she will realize £40,- | thought that a substitute has already been pro- 000 or $200,000 in gold in eight months. j dnoed R t ‘^Niblo’s Garden,” too former temple The first steamer of toe new line between J c f th 0 “nude drama,” which has awakened a Stettin, on toe Baltic, and New York, will laavo j lengthy discussion among moralists. I refer to the latter city at an early date. Several hnn- , Boucicanlt’s new play “Formosa,” which has dred persons have already secured their passage I recently appeared in London, and almost simul- on board toe Fulton, for New York; also a part; taneonsly in New York, and with great pecuni- of the return freight is engaged. | ary success. To pronounce devoid of merit a Dr. Steinberg, toe Physician-General to toe ; play which receives toe practical endorsement Prussian navy, as a sequel to the Convention of ; 0 f nightly crowded houses, may be regarded as Geneva and the resolutions adopted by toe j presumptuous, and to criticize as shallow a pro- Congrcss held in Berlin, in April last, has sug- j Auction of toe gifted and popular Boncicault, gested a yellow flag with a red cross as an in-! may be pronounced heretical, but snch never- temational signal of distress, both in times of ■ theless must be my judgment. Merit it oer- peaco and ■war. _ | tainly possesses, if merit it can be called, to He observes that the excellent international ■ appeal to toe lower classes of society against code of signals, recently adopted by France and upper—to expose in toe most glaring man- England, works too slowly in cases of pressing , ner the vices of too rich in order to excuse the need, while on the other band, it is too expen- ] esa re fined, but not less heinous vices of toe sive for small ships. The Doctor also presented j poor . Tho author avows it to be his object to his proposition to tho French Government with ; d eter from vice by exposing its enormity. In toe request of publishing it in tho Jfoniteur de this he must most signally faiL It is far more English the absurdity of toe thing certainly de tracts from our enjoyment of toe music. Apropos of music, I may mention that toe “fall season” has opened atmostof toe fashion able churches, and toe music at some of them cannot be surpassed even on toe stage. The choirs are, most of them, heavily salaried—the one at Dr. Ewer’s church, which is only a quar tette, requiring $3600 per annum to support it. The Sunday afternoon exhibitions given by toe choir at St. Stephen’s Chnrch are truly grand, and large crowds attend them, ju3t as they do toe opera. The only apparent difference be tween these services and toe opera is, that toe former is in a chnrch and the latter in a theatre; for the whole service is a choral, and the music is of the same class as we hear at toe opera. I am an advocate of fine music in our churches; but I do not believe in making toe Honse of God a concert hall. Revolting as this custom appears, it is certainly not more liable to be held np for toe condemnation of the Christian world than is toe custom which prevails among toe fashionable churches of this city, of closing their doors daring the summer, just as toe the atres do, and opening toe “season” again in toe falL I am happy in toe thought that our South ern people are not yet so far advanced In civili zation. I cannot close this lettor without mentioning the important fact that President Grant took a ride in Central Park a few days since. Not having the opportunities possessed by the 'World reporter, 2 am sorry I cannot inform you how many cigars he smoked during toe ride. I hope to be able to inform you in my next. “Rep Van Winklb.“ Chinese Servants. A correspondent of toe Cincinnati Commer. cial writes as follows from Son Francisco: The problem which every housewife in the world has been watching with interest from toe beginning of time is going to be solved, so far as this country is concerned, by toe Chinaman. In toe capacity of house servants, he has not, according to toe universal opinion here among housekeepers, a serious fault or any disagreea ble habit from which it is not possible to break him in a very short time. They are very tidy, tooylike steady employment, uniform ways, and ask few privileges. They are honest, frugal, careful and industrious, and take great pride in toe excellence of their work, whether in cooking, or chimber work, or as body servants, or gen eral waiters or bell-boys. They do all classes of work that toe American servant girl does. Many of them in this State are even employed as child nurses and seamstresses. A lady with whom I conversed here, toe wife of a banker and a very prominent gentleman, says she has had many years’ experience with toe Chinese as house-servants, and that Eastern people can form no idea of the cleanliness of the Chinamen and their general excellence. She prefers them to any other class of help. Her servants bathed twice daily, and one of them, who was intrusted with toe purchase of toe family supplies and toe payment therefor, was in constant trouble with shop-keepers because he insisted npon the minnte inspection of arti- des, toe weighing or measuring of everything himself, and exacting toe precise change in money. There aro hundreds of servants here who have been in toe same family for ten years, which is tho best recommendation that can be given, considering how plenty servants are here. As to their wages, they charge, it may be, a little more than Irish help of a miscella neous character, but their wages are always reasonable and even low for toe work they per form. la Flotte, in order to elicit toe opinion of ex perienced French naval officers on too subject The Emperor of the French, promptly comply ing with this request, has already declared that France accepts the suggested flag as an inter national signal of distress. There is reason to believe that the other civilized nations will fol low this example. France.—Napoleon has recovered. He came likely to allnre to rain by its fascinations than to deter from danger by its warnings. The play is certainly deficient in literary merit, and wofully shallow as regards drarnat- io interest. Though les3 offensive to the eye eye than “Black Crook,” I cannot see that its successor ‘Formosa” is far bdiind in its bane ful influence on toe morality cf toe community. The only really first class piece of acting now to Paris from St. Cloud and drove, accompanied : on t b 6 New York boards, is Jefferson’s “Rip by the Empress, over the Boulevards. | y an Winkle." So many have undertaken to Pnnoe Napoleon is in Brussels. _ j describo the wonderful effect which this play A pamphlet _ just published in Leipzig gives ; produces and have as often ffilled to convey any toe secret articles of the convention of Mira- j adequate idea of toe power of delineation which mare concluded between Napoleon ana Maximil- , eyjnced in ©very movement of the actor's ian of Austria. i countenance, and every modulation of his in- According to article 2, the Emperor of France i comparably sweet voice, that I will not attempt binds himself up to send twenty-five thousand ; a description. troops to Mexico in the year 18UG, and another ; The one peculiarity about his acting which at- reinforcement of twenty thousand in 18G“— j tracts me more than allelic, is the exceeding When, therefore, France evacuated Mexico in qaj e { which runs through the whole. No rant- 18CG, Napoleon grossly violated his solemn . ing t no mad gesticulation or fiery declamation, pledge. I All is calm and perfectly natural, and you feel Spain.—Reinforcements amounting altogeth- [ as though yon were in the immediate presence erto twenty-four thousand men will leave for ; of tha ver j ta ble “Rip.” The play is better put Cuba. Admiral Topete shows a disposition to j npon toe boards than ever before, the scenery embark himself for the colony. j being truly magnificent—contributing in no A committee has been appointed to deliberate small degree to toe pleasure of toe audience.— on the question of abolishing slavery in Porto ^ Mian Bateman succeeds Jefferson at Booth’s .. . . . i Theatre on Monday next, when she appears as Peace seems to be re-established throughout j “Leah” a character in which she has acquired the land. • . _ . ■ her greatest reputation. I hope she may prove Cheap literature is fast increasing in Spam. ■ jjerself worthy so able a predecessor as dear old A new penny paper bearing the pleasant name j “Rip.” of “La Gmllotina,” has lately appeared. j On last Friday evening Edwin Booth appear- Italy.—The situation in Italy is growing : ed a t toe “Academy of Music,” in the charac- worse every day. The financial calamity is • ^g r 0 f “Iago.” The occasion was that of a increasing, and it will be difficult to negotiate a j benefit to toe family of a deceased actor, and new loan which is inevitable. ; we were consequently not favored with a repe- Russia.—Imitating France and Prussia, toe . As Iago, Booth is grand—almost per- Russian Government has decreed the formation fect . mdeed, I may say altogether perfect in a/ WA«f Anifl Vtl 4 Vl A 1? TICfilOTI Q mi IT ... • I • V 1? . • ..19 1 of railway detachments in toe Russian army, j big appreciation and delineation of this most The members of this corps will be instructed in j (jjfjjgait; of Shapespeare’s characters; but he everything belonging to this department, so as j f a jied in making himself heard, which was a to enable them to run trains as well as to repair ; sore disappointment to those who were so un- damaged tracks in times of war. | fortunate as to be beyond toe reach of his voice. The crop is gathered. The Southern pro- j This was in some measure owing to the nature vmces report a good yield, some of the Northern of tbe building, which is ill-adapted for a thea- provinces complain of a great deficit. . j tre, being intended alone for musical entertain- It is rumored that Prince Carl of Roumama, | mentSi a near relation of the Prussian House of Hohen- ! Mr.’ McCulloch’s “Othello” was good—in zollern, contemplates asking a daughter of toe Czar in marriage. Belgium.—The city of Antwerp, where Bn- some parts excellent. He has evidently studied Faust, and not altogether without success.— With this one exception the New Yorkers have bens, \an Dyk, Teniers and Sneyders reigned been for some months without the Shakspearean supreme in the empire of painting, has boned d rama, and at present have no prospect of an one of her most distinguished sons, the greatest immediate revival. of °® Baron Henri Jean ! To-night toe regular season opens at “Wal- ^ ’ p *>* -«»■*■»>I.™«y.aepuy- stronoEureT^aruSbdffi^Sist music dearth prevails, as is unusual at reason. It is true, English Opera has been forcing toe difference to extremity. Jabno. [ brought out under very favorable auspices at 1 toe “French theatre," the voices, many of them Spain and the United States.—The English being first class. Parepa Rosa's acknowledged papers continue to discuss the affairs of Spain superiority needs no oomment from me, while and toe United States. They assume that this - Castle's Tenor is really superb. Government has conclnded to recognize Cuba Bat some how English Opera never impresses as a belligerent, and find in that fact toe defeat an andience as does toe Italian or even toe Ger- of all onr claims for damages by the Alabama. ' man. Something is wanting, either in toe com- It is also stated, that a war with Spain wonld be posers or in those who have heretofore attemp- long and costly; our commerce would be de- ted to produce it, which has caused it to fail in gtoyed; our debt increased, and toe result arousing that enthusiasm so essential to sne- wonld not be worth toe means employed. It is cess. In “toe Fnritains Daughter,” the Opera added, “there is still ground for hope that chosen by Mad. Rosa, the music is good, and peace may be preserved.” Undoubtedly. The some of it grand, thongh I can’t say as much for t«illr of war is all on the other side, and tef most the general effect. It contains too much dialo- people here toe idea that any war is imminent gue, which is desperately tame, and which oonld is a novelty. The London papers are belabor- as well be spared. And then Parepa, though ing a phantom. faultless in voioe, is no actress, and in Opera, The London Star sayB that the Spanish Gov- something of both is necessary for complete eminent'is a boot to issue a proclamation guar- success. It may therefore be doubted whether anteeing freedom of election, and of religion to Mad. Rosa’s experiment will prove a success. Cuba. It adds, if reports are true, a merciful Perhaps the ’unpopularity of toe English Op- treatment of the Cabans is a necessary prelim- era may be in Some measure attributed to the inary. faot that the absurdity of singing common-place conversation is mnch more apparent when in toe Udolpho Wolfe, of “Schiedam Schnapps” vernacular tongue, than when in a foreign lan- of Virginia. years ago and engaged in the wholesale liquor business, in which ne accumulated a large for- , tune. -j . • * -A*■ ■ "\ - t j *, ,. .. IjIA; We clip too following items from toe Atlanta Constitution: Fire at Jonesboro.—We learn that toe ware house of T. Byrne, at Jonesboro, with fifty-eight bales of cotton, was consumed by fire on yester day. When the train passed by at noon, the fire was still raging. Old Dekalb Ahead.—Dr. G. K. Hamilton, of Stone Mountain, informs ns of toe birth of a male child in DeKalb county, a few nights since, twenty-six inches around, and weighing fifteen pounds. Both boy and mother are doing well. Resigned.—Eugene Davis has resigned toe position of private secretary of Governor Bul lock, and will return to New York to his “first love”—reporting for the press. H. O. Corson, of New York, has been appointed to the position occnpied by Mr. Davis. MadisoN.—The town of Madison is rapidly recovering from the effects of toe late disastrous fire. There are now fourteen elegant houses in process of erection, and Phcenix-like, Madison will rise from toe ashes of desolation with greater magnificence than ever before attained by it A Cute Trick.—We learn that one day last week, an individual residing on toe line of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, had the misfor tune to lose a calf. He regretted toe loss so mnch that he took toe body of the calf and laid it across toe track. The freight train ran over it The conductor stopped to examine it, and fonnd it cold already. The trick didn’t win. Heartless Wretches.—We learn that some unknown parties have of late, on several occa sions, placed rails, cross-ties and even iron rails across the track of the Macon and Western rail road about forty miles from this city. The heartless wretches, if caught, should be severely punished. From Crawford County. The Terrible Drought and Distress—Crops— Chinamen—Superior Court. Knoxville, Ga.', Sept 17, 1869. Editors Telegraph : The drought yet contin ues. We have had no rain since July. All veg etation is dying—toe streams are drying up- toe wells are failing—great difficulty in getting grain ground at toe mills. No pastures, no pea- crop—potato crop very poor. The forward com is about an average crop—late crop entirely cut off. Cotton crop will be all soon opened. As no cotton wasmade in toe cotton month, August, Crawford county will not yield one-half it prom ised on toe 10th day of Jnly. The river farms have suffered worse than any portion of the comity. As to the manures used, some few are of opinion they have been benefitted; others say not so—that it will not pay, as too cotton factor always controls too price of cotton until toe merchant’s drafts are liquidated; and as long as they pursue this suicidal course, they and their children must be toe hewers of wood and drawers of water, and they are murmuring to themselves, etc. We are like your Fort Valley correspondent, we are opposed to toe Chinaman. We are by him, like an aged divine that we have heard of once, when he was considered to be by his medical attendants almost beyond recovery with ady namic feveT, one of his brother preachers ap proached his bedside and asked him how it wonld be with him should he make his exit from this world, what wonld be his promised hopes in another world? His reply was that he knew toe people in this and he did not know them in the other world, so he preferred holding on here a while longer. I am much of his opinion as regards John Chinaman and toe negro. I know toe negro will steal my shanghais, kill my pigs and eat them, but that is an instinct in his ner vous system that oannot be eradicated; bnt with all these foibles I like him; he is useful I know his ways, and he knows mine. I was raised with him, and he with me. When toe white man's blood is not mixed with his, he is easily controlled, docile in his nature. He is not fit for a mechanic, bnt exactly suited for the corn and cotton fields. They don’t remem ber malice, as a general thing. History does not teach or inform ns of snch a people. John Chinaman might not treat my children as well as Aunt Bettie or Uncle Bob does. Our Superior Court was held here last week, Judge Cole presiding; one man tried for mule stealing. His Honor informed him by his sen tence upon him, that the way of toe transgres sor was hard. Evil doers stand a poor showing before him. Well done thou good and faithful servant, Judge Cole—we love and respect you. We noticed that many of Georgia’s ablest bar risters were present. It seems that several weal thy old gentlemen have made their demise in toe past few years and neglected to give off their property to their children whilst the lamp held out to bum; and hence we see Colonels Milt Smith, Sam Hall, Bob Trippe, James Pinkardj Dud Hammond, Washington Poe, John Ruther ford, Clifford Anderson, Simmons, Persons^ Best and a host of others no doubt to aid our friends, Culverhouse and Avant, in distributing these estates according to equity. Every body both black and white, thinks toe said Governor Bollock has abused toe pardoning power in toe Henrietta Greer case. No doubt toe Gov ernor wishes to hear of the Ku-Klux Elan. Yours, Crawford. Cannabalism. Some French soldiers were lately taken pris oners by toe Canaks, and one of them was killed and eaten. His comrades describe the process, The Canaks first decapitate their vic tim, a matter of no small difficulty, considering the bluntness of their hatchets. Ten to fifteen blows are necessary. The body is then hung up to a tree by toe feet, and toe blood allowed to run ont for an hour. Meanwhile a hole a yard and a half deep and a yard wide is dug in toe ground. The hole is filled with stones, and in the midst of them a great fire is lit. When the wood is burnt down a little and glows with heat, it is covered over with more stones. The man is then cleaned out and divided into pieces abont. a foot long, toe hands and feet being thrownjaway as worthless. The pieces of the man are placed on toe leaves of a large rose tree peculiar to toe tropics. The meat is sur rounded with oocoannts, bananas, and some other plants noted for their delicate flavor. The whole is then tied together firmly, the fire is re moved from the pit, the meat is placed in among toe hot stones, and tons, carefully covered, is left to cook for an hour. Women do not par take of this warriors’ feast Men alone are per mitted to enjoy so great an honor and so rare a delicacy. Mu. William Henry Hulbubt has reached London, and toe first of his long series of Eu ropean letters for toe New York World has been printed in that journal. The closing paragraph refers to Napoleon’s health, and is quite inter esting. He says that a friend, whose source of information are of toe best, has informed him that the Emperor has really been very ill, but with a strictly local affection—an affection pain ful always, in extreme old age perilous, but at the Emperor's time of life and to a man of his Bingularly vigorous constitution, in nowise pos itively dangerous. He has undergone an opera tion, has been relieved of the local inconve nience under which he suffered, and is in a fair way of going abont his business and his pleas ures again as freely as at any time within the last ten years. His condition was aggravated by undue haste in walking after the operation, bnt toe effects of this indiscretion are rapidly disappearing. It was proposed in Paris immediately , after the death of Lucas, toe lion-tamer, to prohibit all amusements, the excitement of which con sisted in the possibility that a man .might be killed in sight of the andience. Since then there has been a horrible occurrence at a Span ish bull fight at Jnras, in toe Gard. One of the bulls tossed a man, killed him in an instant, and ran about the circus with his entrails twisted about toe horns. Nobody thought of stopping the performance, whioh went ou for something in my eye.” This may all be very fine in Italian, when most of the audience would _ only understand the music; but when sung in three hoars afterwards. yrqi-g*fw iwstitni i How It Works or wrbat it Costs. The New York Express says toe Government is giving ns some facts' in regard to the tariff, bat omitting others mnch more important to consnmers, and it supplies some of toe omis sions. For instance, in 1868 it exacted of the people in gold, $190,000,000 on $396,000,000 of dutiable foreign goods. The consnmers paid all this and middlemen’s profits of not les3 than 50 per cent, or $95,000,000. The importer charged the profit on toe tariff that he did on toe first cost of goods; jobbers, importers, wholesalers, retailers, each also exacted his profit on the total cost of goods to him, and so when those imported goods are paid for by the customers, the accounts stand thus: Original cost of goods 8360.000,000 Cost of shipping (15 per cent.) 59,000,000 Duties on toe goods 190,000,000 8645,400,900 Profits of middlemen and transpor- tation’eompanies (60 per cent.) 337,120,000 81,034,320,000 Thus the first cost enhanced nearly three-fold by tariff and profits. The import tax averages 50 per cent., and the middlemen’s profits raise it 75 per cent From Washington County. From toe Sandersville Georgia of yesterday, we clip toe following : Saturday.—No ram yet Earth parched and dried. Fea crop an entire failure; potatoes nearly so, and no turnips at alL In a few weeks more cotton will be open, and picked out The estimate of a half crop is large. A friend from 'Wrightsville Monday, informs us that many of toe wells have gone dry, and people are moving from the place in conse quence of the scarcity of water. Revivals.—The meeting at Sisters’ church, mentioned in onr last, closed last Wednesday night Thirteen professed conversion and were added to toe church. The meeting on Wednes day night was one of peculiar interest and all regretted toe necessity for closing. We do not know when we have witnessed so much good feeling prevailing an entire congregation. We also, hear of a most gracious revival at Piney Mount (Methodist) church, seven miles South, at which some 16 were added to toe church. Our Christian brethren, as we learn, have been blessed with revivals in nearly or quite all their churches throughout the county, and many souls have been gathered in. In fact, toe various churches generally, have been revived and much good done, as we trust in toe cause of our blessed Master. To-day, Wednesday, the meeting hitherto announced, begins with the Methodist church in this place, and most humbly would we invoke toe blessings of heaven npon it. May many be brought from darkness to light ere it dose. The New York Times on Brunswick. Prom tie Times 0/ the Attention has recently been directed, and not for toe first time, to toe city and harbor of Brunswick, Ga., as a point of first importance on the Atlantic coast, in view of its new railway connections, since the war, with the interior of Georgia and Alabama. As long ago as 1886 toe United States Government surveys along the Atlantic coast of the Carolines, Georgia and Florida established toe fact that no snch harbor as Brunswick, for depth of water, safety of an chorage, and salubrity of climate, could be fonnd from Cape Hatteras to the uttermost coast of Florida. Looking back to the first settlement of Georgia under General Oglethorpe, almost contemporaneous with the Colonial grants of the two Carolinas, the snrprisq is that Wilmington and Charleston and. Savannah should have then attracted tho attention of oommerce along the Atlantic coast to the neglect of a harbor superi or in its essentials for shipping and more di rectly on the sea than either or all of them. It may bo said in explanation that these locations were selected because they were either upon or at toe mouth of considerable rivers, running from the interior of the colonies to the sea, the consideration of the depth and safety of harbor to foreign shipping being overlooked or deemed of secondary importance, whan toe depth of water was ample for the class of vessels then trading between the mother country and her colonies. Nor is it surprising that, for 50 or 60 years after the independence of these colonies of Great Britain was declared and established, the Cape Fear to Wilmington, and Cooper and Ashley to Charleston, and the Savannah River to Savan nah, should have been deemed important to these locations. Railways were either wholly unknown or in their earliest infancy, after steam or other navigation was established. The very idea that depth of water should suggest it self, or that the bars and the inlets at the mouth of the Cape Fear, or the bar and shoal water of Charleston, or the natural obstructions to naviga tion below Savannah, never occured to the pub lic of toe Carolinas and Georgia in connection with, toe importance of deeper harbors, until the General Government ordered the survey refer red to in 1836, when our great railway system and its connection with the seaboard were at tracting especial interest in the Southern States. This movement had been anticipated by Geor gia and South Carolina. They had made liberal appropriations and put in active force their railway project for the benefit of Charleston and Augusta on the one hand, and Savannah on toe other. And although toe result of the sur vey was, as we have stated, in favor of Bruns wick as by all odds the very best harbor on toe coast, the Savannah and Angusta influence was too powerfnl in Georgia to suffer either aid or attenton to be directed to ik - , Of late years, toe Georgia State polioy has undergone a sensible change. Before the war, certain New York capitalists took hold of toe Brunswick and Albany Railroad, in connection with their interest in Brunswick city property. They expended several millions npon it, and were in a fair way to make toe work complete to toe intersection of toe projeoted Florida Road, when toe rebellion broke ont. Everything they had done, including toe road, its equipment, etc., were swept away by the war. The rails were taken up; the rails arriving at Brunswick in 1861 were seized; toe equipment run off, and a general sequestration consummated by. the so- called Confederate authorities, the State of Georgia being a party to the spoliation and con version of this property. Since the war, the wrong has been acknowledged by the Legislature of Georgia. About three and a half mimons are acknowledged to be dne to the Savannah and Albany Road; toe importance of toe repair and revival of toe road recognized, and its extension to the State line of Alabama, or the means of such extension, guaranteed. The line is dixtoct to Eufauls, on the border of Alabama, mid thence to Montgomery and Vicksburg. Fifteen thousand dollars per mile, State indorsement, on six per cent, bonds, prinoipal and interest payable in gold, on 237 miles, is secured, the State acting as trustee to the general mortgage, and pledging the punctual payment of interest as well as the reimbursement of toe principal at the end of forty years. Nor is this all that Georgia has done, or pro poses to have done, for Brunswick. State aid aas also been granted to the Macon and Bruns wick Road—a line by all odds the shorter and more direct communication as between Macon, Atlanta and Chattanooga, and toe entire centre of the State and the sea-coast than the Maoon and Savannah Road. A reference to any rail way map will confirm this fact This road has also been taken in hand by New York capital ists, and will soon be completed. It will har monize with the Brunswick and Albany, and will assuredly be completed in all the present year. Both lines pierce the very richest cotton regions of Georgia ; both will contribute to the prosperity of toe city of Brunswick, and will to gether tend to establish at no distant day the snpremacy of that point as toe most eligible exporting mart for the Southern and South western States south of Norfolk, Va. Jay Cooke did a nice thing this summer. As toe world knows, he has a splendid estate at Pnt-in-Bay Islands. He invited a large number of clergymen to visit him and spend a few weeks in. boating, fishing and other recreations. He did not invite fashionable clergymen with large salaries and great fame. He selected lowly ministers—men who eke ont a scanty livelihood on starvation salaries, agents of. benevolent so cieties on poor pay, and city missionaries who cannot travel, and who have no money to spend at fashionable watering places. Mr. Cooke paid all the expenses of transportation, made these clerical gentlemen very happy, and put money into their purse when they left. War with Spain.—The London Spectator of toe 17th says war between Spain and the United States on account of Cuba appears like a moral impossibility, but is universally believed just now in Spain. The war enthusiasm there is gathering fast Minister Sickles’ proposal is inconsistent with preoedent and with the con duct of tho United States in 1861. What with Spanish pride and American sympathies the sit uation is very critical, It is diflkralt to believe that Spam, with a divided people, a bankrupt treasury, one colony in revolt, others to lose <md nothing to win, can seriously contemplate war with one of the greatest powers on earth. A Single lacifer match factory in this country is credited with using in a year 720,000 feet of the beet dear pine; 400,000 feet of basswood for boxes, 400 bands of sulphur, 9600 pounds of phosphorus. It also uses weekly four tons When Prince Albert, the midshipman, hap pened to be in some British harbor or other, he went ashore and inquired of a carpenter for a ; jiece of wood. “Don’t I address the Duke of Sdinborough ?” asked the carpenter, qnaking and removing his hat. “ Yes, I’m the Dnke of Edinburgh,” said Alfred, “ bnt I don't want any nonsense about it Show me wood.” The Bainbridge Argus learns that two farm ers of Decatur county have ordered a lot of Chinamen. They propose to make the next crop of cotton with their labor, thereby testing their capacity for cultivating that staple. Munchausen Literature.—Owing to pressure for room in the office, toe Sun’s corps of Cuban correspondents are reported to have moved over to an adjoining hotel [New York 1 Commercial. A Univebsalxst chnrch at Cavendish, Ver mont, has for two years had a Miss Damon tor a minister. Miss Damon proves herself to be mortal, and has found herself a Pythias for life by marrying herself to a man in Illinois. From toe herd of Mr. Creighton, now in the west of Kansas, an ox was slaughtered in Feb ruary last, whose net weight, dressed^' was 10,- 000 pounds—more than 12,000 gross 1 This monster was fattened on the grasses of the plains, and never was fed a spear of hay-or a grain of com. The Pittsburg Commercial thinks that coke made from bituminous coal meets every condi tion of th8 present coal problem, being free from smoke, faultless in combustion, whether for domestio or manufacturing purposes, and capable of being put into market at rates which will always bring anthracite to the proper leveL The rumors current of toe serious illness of Mr. James Gordon Bennett are quite unfounded. The following resolutions were passed by tha Democrats of Mercer, one of the strangest Democratic counties in Ohio : Resolved by toe Democracy of Mercer county, in convention assembled, That we are in favor of the repudiation of the bonded debt of the United States. Resolved, That onr members of Congress be requested to vote against appropriations pro viding for' the payment of the salaries of the Assessors and Collectors of Internal Revenue, or the interest on the bonded debt. Dried up.—The weather has been dry no long that everything in toe vegetable line has gone up. Sweet potatoes are very short, (the crop, as well the potatoes,) turnips have not come up, and “greens” are no more. If we don’t have rain soon, we shall request the city council to make an appropriation for- turning Flint river into our town and attaching a sprinkler to it. No doubt Judge Ransom would favor the ap propriation. —(Iriffin Georgian. “Arkindade,” one of the finest —in Virginia, lying along the Potomac River,-in Stafford oounty, and 2,858 Ji V •t. T • * » - \ ’ % J ' . / tfTfliiMirtir of pasteboard, 3000 pounds of paper, for small 1 by Messrs. Taylor, Buttle Jk Conway, boxes, and nearly 400 pounds of flour for paste. 1 “ Alexandria, an Friday itm. If employs 800 hands, and pays daily f1500 for Mr - Ydxkugh W the pnrthaaet, at revenue stamps. P 6 * *-ff-' Smt &***■:Z • « *<■•* • c »i lift '’.v * ■> • A e >’ . '' ** t ■ • • t. , .v i' e! • V»i -I . ‘ » • V viJj \ r *• > « .* * t »•