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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY, OOTOBER 8, 1869.
The \fgro Labor Union.
Aocording to the American Union, (Swayze’s
paper,) the movement, fathered by Jeff LoDg,
to get np a Labor Union among the negroes and
pledge them to demand thirty dollars a month
for field hands and fifteen dollars a month for
women, is the work of J. E. Bryant, and Long
is the catspaw in the business. If these worthies
should succeed in bringing up the negroes to
that line, they will make ft case of them; for it
is needless to say they will all necessarily forfeit
wages.
Nor is it possible to fix upon a safe minimum
of wages for field hands, simply because that
some of them would be dear for their food,
while others, who are intelligent, • able, faithful
and honest would be comparatively cheap at
twenty dollars a month and rations. Piece
work cannot be applied to the plantation, and
therefore the common dead level of the trades
unions which is wholly unjust in respect to
them, would be impossible in plantation labor.
Unquestionably the price of labor will rise
this winter, but the demand of any such mini
mum by the negroes as thirty dollars a month
will destroy the wages system altogether.
Hands must then lie idle and relapse into va
grancy, or be content to labor on shares and
take risks with the landowner.
The Situation in Pennsylvania.
The Washington special of the 28 to ult. to the
Louisville Courier-Journal says that
“The Radicals are alarmed at the situation in
Pennsvlvania. As things now look, they freely
admit in quiet conversation that the Democrats
will carry the State in October. The Chairman
of the Republican State Committee, John Co-
vode, arrived here to-day, and with'Senator Wil
son, who has been making speeches m Pennsyl
vania, had an interview with the President, and
suggested various measures of relief for the Re
publican party. One is that Pennsylvania be
given the existing Cabinet vacancy, so that the
State mny not feel that it is ignored by the ad
ministration. Other requests mentioned in to
day's conference have not transpired. Of course,
it will be telegraphed hence that Wilson and Co-
vodo declare that the Radicals will carry Penn
sylvania, bnt their sudden visit to the President
to-day and their cry for help belie their words.”
The election in Pennsylvania, as well as Ohio,
occurs next Tuesday week, the 12 th instant. The
difference in the fair relative strength of politi
cal parties in Pennsylvania, in G5G,000 votes,
does not amount to twenty thousand—say three
votes in every hundred or thirty votes in every
thousand—so that neither party can be free
from much danger and anxiety in any popular
election.
Ohio has polled in the last three elections an
average of 498,765 votes, with an averago Rad
ical majority of G9,4G5.
John S. Reid,
John T. Dennis,
.Hast Have Honey.
The Mississippi Radicals have sent circulars
North making an urgent appeal to their political
brethren for pecuniary aid. They state their
requirements thus, in italics and capitals:
“To effect this in a way that the opposition
shall smart under it, and they shall yield peace
ful submission at the ballot box, wo shall have
need of at least TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS from the friends of our party else
where. The poor whites and the colored men
are the most numerous class in the State. Many
of them are starving, and our political enemies
are providing them with bread. Many are sick,
and they clotho them. Others are thirsty, and
they drink with them. Thus danger, fearful
and threatening, hovers over us, and to avert it
we MUST have money.”
If that is the way they are going to do, the
smart of the opposition, will doubtless be offset
by the satisfaction of the Mississippi darkies
over plenty of bread and whisky. A story is
afloat that this sad appeal from Mississippi for
money to buy whisky for the negro voters was
read in the Massachusetts Radical Convention
before that body took final action in utterly sup
pressing the liquor traffic. It moved the Con
vention to tears and meantime the hat was
passed round with an abundant blessing. Is
that so?
Delegates to the State Fair.
Eatonton, September 29, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: Herewith please find list
of delegates, from the Planters’ Club of Put
nam county, to the State Fair, in pursuance of
invitation from the State Agricultural Society:
James A. Etheridge, President.
Henry D. Capers, Secretary.
R. D. Little, William Little,
J. T. DeJaraette, A. S. Reid, Jr.,
Henry Lawrence, Dr. N. S. Walker,
Wm. Y. Young,
Thomas G. Lawson,
Reuben B. Nisbet.
Respectfully,
Henbv D. Capers,
Secretary Planters’ Club.
Thb Southern Cultivator for October has
reached us. We can do our planting friends no
greater service than to call their attention to
this agricultural magazine. It is the leading
representative of that revolution in Southern
farming, which has been inaugurated since the
war, with such happy results. Its editors,
though progressive, are evidently cautious men,
attaching great weight to experience, as is shown
by the large number of articles in every issue,
written by practical farmers in all the Southern
States. Its corps of contributors is unrivalled.
We notice that the publishers continue to furn
ish to new subscribers the letters contributed by
Mr. Dickson, embodying his experience and
practice. These alone are worth twenty years
subscription. If you have never seen the paper,
send a stamp to Southern Cultivator, Athens,
Ga., for a specimen copy, and examine it for
yourself. Price $2.00 a year.
California Trophies.—At a State Fair now
holding in San Francisco the Boggs Bros., of
Sherman Island, on the Savannah river, exhibit
a oouple of citrons, very large—one labelled 43
pounds; also, three mammoth watermelons—
one labelled 47 pounds. They also exhibit sam
ples of potatoes which yielded 454 bushels to
the acre, at a gross weight of 27,250 pounds.—
A squash is found in the vicinity which looks as
if it might weigh two hundred pounds.
Mrs. Stowe’s Conscience.—Aunt Tommy has
a conscience, but it is located in a strange place.
In her 11 Sunny Memories oj Foreign Lands,"
page 420 voL 2, she thus writes:
“Suddenly, so suddenly that it was quite mys
terious, conscience smote me. A profound,
deep-seated remorse developed itself exactly in
the deepest centre 6f the pit of my stomach.”
There—there! What can the chnrch do with
a hag who mistakes cholera-morbus for con
science ?—Augusta Constitutionalist.
Geobox Washington has just been sent to the
Virginia State Prison; Thomas Jefferson, Dan
iel Webster and John C. Calhoun were already
there, and Napoleon Bonaparte and Wade
Hampton have received tickets of admission.
The Cotton Receipts yesterday were the
heaviest of the season—689 bales. There is a
deadlock in the market—buyers demanding a
concession and producers determined to yield no
.more.
The campaign for the U. S. Senate in Ten*
neesee waxes hot. Emerson Ethridge made a
speech in Nashville, and a public entry into the
city last Wednesday.
September closed with cotton at 22$ in Mont
gomery.
Charles Dickens' son, a lieutenant in the
British navy, is at Portland, Oregon.
The Whisky Frauds and Tax j
’ The New York Times of the 28th ult., in ah.
editorial laudation of the fiscal economies of the
administration, mentions one or two very inter
esting facts. They are contained in the follow
ing extract:
Take the single article of whisky. The total
quantity on which revenue taxes were collected
for the year ending June 30, 18G8 (i. e. under
President Johnson,) was only G,709,540 gallons.
The revenue then was at the rate of two dollars
a gallon, and amounted, therefore, to between
thirteen and fourteen millions of dollars. On
the contrary, for the year ending June, 18G9,
the Bureau of Internal Revenue has had returns
of annual taxes on no less than G5,009,331 gal
lons of whisky!
Again, compare the revenue receipts from
January to June, inclusive, for 18G8, with those
of January to June, inclusive, in 18G9. In the
former period the tax on whisky was two dollars
a gallon, in the latter only fifty cents; and yet,
despite this enormous advantage in favor of the
former period, its revenue receipts on the same
objects of taxation were less by $21,500,000
than those of the same period in 1869!
The increased revenue is due, of course, sim
ply to the reduction of the tax. A tax of two
dollars on the gallon could not be collected. That
was the persistent representation of every news
paper and politician of any practical sense, and
here we see it illustrated by figures, showing
that whereas the two dollar tax was collected
only upon G,709,54G gallons, tho fifty cent tax
was collected on G2,009,331 gallons. But it was
a tax confessedly not for revenue but levied in
the high interests of morality and total ab
stinence.
The effort now is among the liquor dealers to
restore the old tax of two dollars, and it is easily
explained. Under it they really escaped with
an average tax of not more than twenty cents
per gallon, becanse, as the figures show, the
great bulk of the whiskey product escaped tax
altogether. But while thus escaping the tax the
prices of their liquors were to a g.'eat extent
fixed by the tax. They were not often much
below the two dollars per gallon.
The exorbitant tax, then, operated for the
benefit of the whisky makers in the nature of a
protective tariff of extraordinary efficiency. It
sent up their wares more than ono hundred per
cent, on prime cost, including the tax, and thus,
iD order to collect “between thirteen and four
teen millions of revenue,” for the government
from the people, the latter were fleeced more than
sixty-two millions for the benefit of the whisky
manufacturers.
It is not surprising that tho distillers insist
that the tax shall be raised again. They are
now paying thirty-one millions tax, when they
used to pay but thirteen. Whisky was then
about two dollars a gallon on twenty cents tax,
whereas it is now a little upwards of one dollar
with fifty cents tax. The difference is some
thing stupendous, and no wonder the whisky
men complain.
Bat it is a wonder that the New York Times
cannot find a better foundation for compliments
to tho Grant administration than the inevitable
result of the abandonment of a tax so monstrous
as to be absolutely uncollectible.
Affairs in Tennessee.
Special Dispatch to the Courier-Journal.)
Nashville, September 28.—The Legislature
convenes next Monday, and early in tho suc
ceeding week will elect a United States Senator.
At this early day the following events can be
predicted with reasonable certainty of their ful
fillment:
1. Andrew Johnson will be elected Senator.
2. The fifteenth amendment will not be rat
ified.
3. A constitutional convention will be called
at an early day, which body will effect the en
franchisement of every disfranchised person in
the State at the earliest practicable moment, bnt
will not interfere with the civil and political
rights of the negro.
4. The bonds of the State will not be repudi
ated, although earnest advocates for such a
measure will not be wanting.
5. The partisan legislation of the last few
years will be generally repealed.
These are the main questions to come before
the Legislature and the convention growing out
of it. The fight over the Senatorship will be
fierce, but the result can be told in advance.
The new Legislature will contain an abler set of
men than has ever been found in the Tennessee
General Assembly before.
The Press and Times, the Radical organ of
this city, will suspend in a day or two, leaving
not a single daily Radical paper in the State, as
Brownlow’s Whig has become qnite conserva
tive.
The collapse of Radicalism in Tennessee is as
effectual as that of a mammoth balloon bursting
from over-inflation.
Matters are quiet throughout the State.
That, it will be seen, is a very bold and con
fident prediction, and tho fulfillment of the
prophecy, as a whole, we believe, will be gene
rally gratifying to the Southern Democracy.
Whatever infirmities of temper may be as
cribed to Mr. Johnson, he is an honest and in
corruptible statesman—a clear and powerful ex
ponent of constitutional liberty—a bold and in
trepid advocate of law, order and official re
sponsibility, and he will find few or no compeers
in the Senate of the United States on the scores
of intellectual ability, experience and power as a
debater. We believe Tennessee will do herself
and the country a service by returning Mr.
Johnson to the Senate, and we do not compre
hend the influences which have thrown the
Nashville Banner in opposition to him.
The rest of the programme there can be little
division abont among Democrats.
Bushwhacking.—In the Pennsylvania canvass
the Radicals have a large force of spokesmen in
the field—Senators Wilson and Cameron, Phi
losopher Forney, Colnmbns Delano and a score
of others. On the Democratic side there’s not
an orator on the stamp, and Forney complains
that the Copperheads are bushwhacking. He
says, however,
Tho reports from the interior continue to be
of the most cheering character. Increased en
ergy and activity are shown in all quarters. A
close count of the vote is being made in many
sections so accurately that the result cau be de
termined beforehand. All that is needed for the
Republicans to sweep the State is to get out the
fall vote, and in many of the counties this im
portant work is being effectively done by the
various local committees.
Pennsylvania State Fair.—There had been
five thousand entries of exhibitors up to the 29th
nit.
ColninbuH Affairs.
The Sun and Times of Thursday has the fol
lowing:
River News.—Since the recent rains the river
has risen two feet. At 11 a. m. yesterday, it was
at a stand-still, and the supposition was it would
run ont faster than it had risen. Not high
enough for navigation. Below Eufaula boats are
doing a passable business. At least 5000 bales
of cotton are between here and Eufaula, ready
to be shipped to this point, and only awaiting a
rise in the river to be sent to market. Last sea
son at this time boats were running regularly.
Cotton by the Mobile and Girard Railroad.
—Yesterday's freight train on the Mobile and
Girard Road brought 220bales of cotton for Co
lumbus warehouses and G1 for Savannah. Thus
far this road has brought 1741 bales for Colum
bus and 255 for Savannah.
Heavy Load.—We saw last afternoon a wagon
on which were twelve bales of cotton, drawn by
six males, come to one of our warehouses. It
had been drawn four and a half miles. Good
team that.
Muscogee Manufactory. —This e stablishment
is daily receiving machinery from the North and
England. Operations will probably be com
menced about the first of January, if not at an
earlier day. Abont 4,000 spindles is the capac
ity of the building, and it will be crowded with
machinery.
They tell us of two negroes at the County
Poor House. One claims to be one hundred
and ten, the other one hundred and twenty
years old. Of course both know George Wash
ington and (he other noted personages who flour
ished before the late unpleasantness, and were
held in some esteem.
Steel Balls.
At a time, hardly three years-ago, when the
price of steel rails was £15 per ton, many of
the leading engineers of the kingdom, in dis
cussing Mr. Price Williams’ well known paper
on Permanent Way, expressed their general
concurrence in the policy of substituting steel
in place of iron rails, in all renewals upon lines
of heavy traffic. A little before that time the
American railway companies were paying £24
14s. ($120 gold) for steel rails delivered, duty
paid, in New York. So convinced did they be
come as to the advantages of steel over iron,
that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company bad
purchased nearly 12,000 tons of steel rails np to
the end of 1863, the Erie Company had bonght
large quantities, the Hudson River Line, 144
miles long, is being wholly relaid in steel, the
New York and New Haven, 76 miles long, is
being relaid in steel as fast as renewals become
necessary, and several other American compa
nies have shown, by their practice, that even at
the higher price of steel, they consider it cheap
er, in the long run, than iron.
In the meantime the price of steel rails has
fallen as low as £11 103. to £12 per ton, without
any corresponding decrease in the price of iron.
If steel at the higher price was preferable to
iron, it certainly is so at the lower price. The
price of steel, irrespective of patent royalists,
may yet fall still lower, but to defer its use in
expectation of such a fall would be simply to
incur the greater wear and tear and greater or
less danger of iron in the meantime. Should
the price of steel yet fall to nearly that of iron
the former material wonld, no doubt, from its
great and inccntestible advantages, be preferred
even on lines of moderate or little traffic, even
where iron rails might, of themselves, last per
haps fifteen or twenty years. But upon that
new extensive aggregate of lines on which iron
rails last bnt from one to five years, the adop
tion of steel would bo virtually compulsory.
To-day, to-morrow—every day in this year
and next—there will be found portions of lino,
here and there, which must be renewed at once.
Railroad companies are seldom, if ever, in too
great a huriy to renew rails. Nor should these
be renewed as long as they are reasonably safe.
But when once they begin to “go,” to laminate,
or to crush out at the ends, or at any point in
their length, the process of final destruction is
swift and sure. It is not only the business of a
permanent way inspector to discover what rails
are unfit to remain longer in the line, but to de
tect and keep his eye upon rails in an incipient
stage of failure. There are always thousands
of such rails in all old lines, and although they
may often be trusted for a few months, more or
less, especially in summer, it is akin to defying
Providence to leave them in any advanced stage
of deterioration, in the lino at the beginning of
winter. Renewed they must be, and in renew
ing them the engineer of any works will be
guided by his own judgment whether to lay
down iron or steel. He will consider the ques
tion in regard not only to their relative first
cost, but with regard also to the present and
prospective trafic, and with regard to the rela
tive durability and safety of the two kinds of
rails. If, in this full consideration, steel ap
pears to possess the advantage, after allowing
for its present cost, no engineer wonld either
defer his necessary renewals, or lay down iron
merely because steel would possibly be 17s. Gd,
or 20s. cheaper after February next.
The probable future price of steel rails is a
question of much interest to railway companies.
After February 15th next a royalty of from 17s.
Gd. to 19s. per ton will cease to bo levied on the
manufacture of steel rails, and, if other condi
tions remain the same, they will then be to that
extent cheaper than they are now. Further im
provements may also be made, although steel
masters see no chance of any at present: bnt
any reduction in price, resulting from such im
provements would be wholly independent of the
question of royalty, and it wonld be as easy to
assume that corresponding improvements would
be effected in the manufacture of ordinary iron,
in which cast iron and steel wonld still remain
upon their present relative footing as to cost.
Although such questions are to a great extent
matters of forecast and judgment, there are rea
sons of fair weight, which any man of business
can readily comprehend, why steel rails are not
likely to be as much cheaper, after February
next, as the amount of the royalty to be then
token off. First, the price of steel rails has al
ready been brought as low as the keenest com
petition has been able to bring it, and it is well
known that thousands of tons have been made
without profit Should railway companies or
der much more freely after February next, the
inevitable effect, as proved by all experience,
and inferable from the plainest principles of po
litical economy, would be to maintain or to in
crease prices. In nearly all branches of trade,
too, there has been long continued depression,
and this, at last, appears to be passing away.—
Should our manufactures and commerce attain
something like their former elasticity by next
spring, as there is reason to believe they may,
the effect would be at once manifested in on in
crease in the price of labor and materials suffi
cient to offset the abated royalty on steel rails,
a royalty now amonnting to from eight or nine
per cent, of their cost.—Engineering, June 4.
The Fire in Dismal Swamp.
A gentleman who passed along up tho Sea
board road on a hand-car, and had an opportu
nity to make a few observations, has been talk
ing to ns. Ho witnessed great trees, thirty or
forty feet, on fire up to the top, all their leaves
and branches burning np rapidly, and then a
puff of wind toppling them over the same as
they were but oat-straw; when, on looking at
their roots, you would find the ground under
neath them completely burned out, and nothing
remaining but coals and ashes. Large holes are
to be observed all over the swamp completely
burned out, and nothing remaining in or near
them bnt the charred tranks of trees. He
stopped for some time between the twelfth and
thirteenth mile posts, and had a good view of
tho surroundings. The fire has burnt the earth
or peat np to the ditch-bank of the railroad, and
in some places as far as the eye conld reach it
looked like a great waterless lake, where form
erly was dry land and vegetation. Great num
bers of cattle and animals of all kinds have
been destroyed by the fire, the bones of many
of which can be seen from the road-track.
These matters cannot be observed in passing
along on the cars, os they go too rapidly for ob
servation. It is his impression that nearly all
the space burned out by the fire will be a lake
from three to ten feet deep, &3 the earth or
vegetable mould which formed terra firma in
the swamp is all burnt to ashes. A singular
feature was mentioned by him in regard to
farms along the Dismal Swamp. Smoke conld
be seen issuing from underneath the corn fields
of the farms, which led him to believe that their
whole foundationwonJd bnm ont unless a heavy
rain interfered to prevent it.
This matter of the charred trees falling,
owing to the earth being bnrned from under
them, will account for a fact that there has al
ways been more or less theorizing about It
has long been a matter of snrmise with many
how it was that there were so many trees lying
prostrate in the swamp, many of them eight and
tenfeet belowthe surface, apparently uninjured.
I has been a business with lumber-getters to dig
these trees np heretofore. This fire explains
fnlly how they came in that condition. Long-
continued droughtsheretofore have enabled the
yearly-recurring fires to bnrn their soil from un
der them and lay them prostrate. It is said the
bottom of the great lake itself is covered by
trees in the same way, and it is the theory of
some that the basin of the lake was caused by
being bnmt ont. If so, it appears it must have
been from a greater and longer-continued
drought than this generation has witnessed.
[Norfolk Day Book.
Mrs. H. Waddingeb, a lady of high social
position and much intelligence, from Hanover,
Germany, haB recently made a tour of observa
tion through the Sonth. Her purpose was to
determine, in behalf of herself and others, the
question of removal to America, and her im
pressions are communicated in a letter to the
Memphis Appeal, from which the following ex
tract is taken: “The opinion entertained pre
vious to my visit, that the Southern States were
in many respects far better adapted to the wants
of my countrymen than the Northwest, has
been fnlly confirmed, and I shall not fail to so
advise them of their interests intheiqatter, and
to use whatever influence I may be able to ex
ert, both among my friends in Germany as well
as those in the States North and West of yours,
in giving suoh directions to emigration.”
The National Intelligenoer breaks ground
against the movement for .the introduction of
Chinese laborers into this country, and quotes
Hon. George H. Pendleton as follows:
‘‘But the Chinese will give us cheap labor.
Cheap human labor! I despise the word. It
signifies a crime and a shame. It signifies squal
or, repudiation, ignorance, vice. Are not la
borers men; our fellow-men ? They have bodies
to clothe and stomachs to feed, and minds to
educate and spirits to elevate, and old age to
provide for ? They have homes which they love,
and wives whom they cherish, and children
whom they hope to make worthy citizens—the
honest fathers and the virtuous mothers of a
succeeding generation. * * Labor is too cheap
Dow. Labor does not receive its just reward.’’
B3T
From Washington.
Washington, October l.—No Cabinet develop
ments.
Judge Richardson has resigned the Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury.
Among those named for Yirginia Senatorship is
Edgar Snoden, editor of the Alexandria Gazette.—
Mr. Snowden opposes the election of Senators until
Virginia ia restored, but if the election does take
place it is understood that Snowden will be support
ed by tho Potomac, Tidewater and Upper Piedmont
regions and a large part of tho Valley districts.
Commander Luce reports from Lisbon that he
reached that port in twenty-one days. His vessel,
the Juniata, is a success as a sailing vessel. The
Juniata found the Sabine at Lisbon. There had
been no trouble whatever on the Sabine.
Revenue receipts to-day $395,000.
PiBh and Delano have returned.
Fish and Creswell were absent from the Cabinet
to-day.
The Supreme Court convenes on Monday, with a
full bench.
Commandant of the Aaiatio Squadron reports the
health good, and American interests flourishing in
Chinese waters.
Delano thinks Geary will be re-elected by a small
majority.
The debt statement shows a decrease of seven
and a half millions; coin in treasury nearly one
hundred and nine millions; currency six and a half
millions.
The steamer Enterpe, of the New York and Gal
veston line, is under surreilanco, pending instruc
tions from Washington. She had a cargo of hnge
parrot guns, tons upon tons of solid shot and shell
The authorities suspect this cargo is intended to
arm the Spanish gun boats now ready for sea. The
account says there are just thirty of these gunboats,
and singularly enough there were found in the hold
of the Enterpe just thirty of theso hundred pound
parrot guns. There were also three tlionsand solid
shot and shell, which had been cast for these same
parrots. The Tribune says editorially of theEn-
terpe’s detention: The authorities have just laid
hands npon a vessel which, by all accounts, appears
to have been destined to supply with armaments
the Spanish gun boats at Mystic. The possibility
that great harm might have been and may bo done
thereby to the cause of struggling patriotism, na
turally provokes a most earnest desire that no want
of vigilance shall permit a wroDg to an neighbor
whoso comparative weakness and whoso noble as
pirations have onr hearty sympathies. Tho ploa of
tho Cubans, that they should have tho same right
to pnrehaso arms as their savago antagonists, must
be admitted in the light of menacing events to have
unusual force.
Beverly B. Botts has been appointed Collector of
Revenue in tho Sixth Virginia District, vice Sterling
suspended.
Tho Telegrafo, recently cruizing in West India
waters, is declared a pirate. Poor has been ordered
to capture her.
The steamer Hornet is off New York, supposed
to be there watching gunboats and also to intercept
the Enterpe, which was expected to sail with sup
plies far the Spaniards. ThqHoraet is daily receiv
ing supplies. Her Captain is in New York City, and
well posted regarding the Spanish Government.
Tho Captain’s name is withheld, hut it is -under
stood to he a noted Confederate. The Hornet has
been fitted out by parties in New York and Boston,
who have no connoctiOD with the Cuban Jnnta that
has been operating here. Tho Hornet is formidable
and very fast.
Washington, October 2 It seems certain that
new Cuban expeditions are engineered by parties
unknown, but much more potent than tho old Cuban
Jnnta.
Advices from Canada and details from New York,
especially as supported by the Herald's dispatch
from Key West, indicate formidable demonstrations.
Revenue to-day $850,000.
Advices from the East India Squadron are unfa
vorable to tho apprentice system. Many have de-
eerted, and those remaining are always under pun
ishment.
A delegation of Ohio steamboatmen, headed by
James H. Moorhead, is here before the Board, op
posing bridges over navigable streams less than 400
feet span.
Sherman opposes the further reduction of tho
army until the Indian tronbles are over.
Consul Plumb reports Spanish interference with
the mails at Havana, which ho believes will be fol
lowed by open seiznro unless the Government acts
promptly. The despatches were referred to Cress-
well. >.
It is stated that Delano has prepared a circular to
assessors, referring to incomes, which involves uni
versal domiciliary visits. Those who have failed to
report must all make oath. Delano demands ener
getic action from assessors.
Senator Bamsey reports much difficulty to tho
move in postal reforms.
In the correspondence between agents in Europe
and the State Department regarding the Hornet,
Fish takes the ground that he cannot, upon rumor,
grant a convoy; but should a vessel bearing the na
tional flag be unlawfully molested, prompt action
will be taken to prevent a repetition of the outrage
and punish offenders.
The special partisans of the Cespedes government
have unfavorable advices from the interior of Cuba
which seem confirmatoiy of the Havana reports of
Jordan’s desire to abandon the struggle.
Filibustering Rampant.
New York, October 2.—The Herald’s Key West
special says a Cuban expedition four hundred strong,
commanded by General Cristo, escaped from Now
York harbor on Monday, and reached the Florida
coast, where she was joined by the Cuban privateers
Sicilian and Teaser, with sixteen hundred men under
Gen. Goizara. The Sicilian fleet is freighted with
ten thousand rifles, five thousand sabres and twenty
guns, ranging from six to twenty-four pounders.
Another body of men under Steadman and M&gru-
der is about embarkiDg from a gulf port for tho
common rendezvous off the Cuban coast. The Sici
lian and Teaser sailed last night and will be joined
at sea by the Cuban privateers Hornet and Cuba,
carrying each fifteen guns, some of which are hun
dred pounders.
Volunteering is very brisk along the entire gulf
coast, five thousand men are waiting transportation.
Marshal Barlow denies that the steamer Alabama
is a Cuban privateer. She is a regular steamer be
tween New York and Fernandina. Barlow haB with
drawn surveillance.
Tho failure of Adams, Kimball and Moore, and
Pullisan & Raymond is announced on the Stock
Board.
The Dictator and 8evem has been equipped and
coaled in momentary expectation of an order for
Cuba.
From Texas.
New Orleans, October 1.—A Galveston special
from Houston says the so-called Democratic Con
vention at Brenham consisted of five editors. The
Democratic party, through its Executive Committee,
refused to call a Convention or make any nomina
tion for Governor. The Democratic party of Texas
has no sympathy or connection with this move.
Galveston, October 2.—Provisional Governor
Pease sent in his resignation yesterday, and will
take the stomp for Hamilton.
The action of Gen. Reynolds and the Administra
tion regarding Texas affairs, wOl cause twenty more
Republican speakers to take the field for the Hamil
ton ticket. Preparations are being made for a grand
Hamilton demonstration.
From Cuba.
Savannah, October 1.—Arrived, steamer Catharine
Whitney, from New York; ship Screamer, from New
York. Cleared, schooners Maggie McNeil and Coy-
nette, for Matanzas, and Jennie Trott, for New
York. '
Havana, Ootober 2.—The barometer indicates a
hurricane. The captain of the port has ordered the
vessels in harbor to be securely moored.
Foreign Hews.
Paris, October 2.—Loss by the Bordeaux fire, ten
millions francs.
The Vienna treaty between Austria and China was
duly signed.
London, October 2.—The potato crop is estimated
below tho average. It is stated that half the crop
in Cumberland is diseased.
Mexico City, September 1.—The Congress has as
sembled. Juarez made a congratulating address on
the condition of the Republic.
General Hews-
Philadelphia, October 1—In a political row two
Republicans were killed.
Norwalk, Conn., October 1.—The National Bank written while in Mexico. Here is one
of Norwalk has been robbed. The bank loees $30.-
000. Private parties lose immensely—amount nof
known.
Charleston, October 1—Arrived, steamer Charles
ton, from New York; Bteamer Key West, from Ha
vana for Now York, put in for coal, etc.; schooners
W. B. Thomas, from Philadelphia; S,- E. Woodbury,
from Baltimore; Ridgewood, from New York.
Philadelphia, October 2.—Another political row
occurred last night, and eleven persons are known
to beseriously wounded—viz: three Democrats, four
Republicans, and three citizens acting as policemen.
The Democrats drove the Republicans from their
headquarters and destroyed their transparencies.
Steady rain since noon. A new dangerous coun
terfeit $10 greenback bill has just appeared.
Norfolk, Va., October 2.—Sailed, United States
steam frigate Lancaster for Annapolis. The Lan
caster is a flagship of the Brazilian Squadron, under
Rear Admiral Lauman. Sho ia considered one of
the finest steam vessels in the navy. After the in
spection at Annapolis by the department, the Lan
caster will sail for Brazil to join her squadron. The
regular hay line steamer which broke Bhaft in the
bay last night was towed back to Baltimore,
It is rumored that tho military authorities will
take steps to prevent the contemplated Collyer-
Dougherty prize fight.
San Francisco, October 2—A heavy earthquake
with a loud noise, occurred at San Lorenzo to-day.
Indianapolis, October 2—The boiler of one of
two engines competing for speed at the State Fair,
exploded killing nineteen and wounding many.
Among the killed is Mr. Jackson, of Memphis.
Charleston, October 2 Vessels outward
bound, detained by heavy weather.
Coxcord, N. H., October 2.—Franklin Pierce ia
very sick. His disease has assumed a dropsical
form.
New Orleans, October 2.—Koopmanschapp is
here.
Tho steamship Siclian left Pass a’L’outro at 4:30
this morning' for Florida ports. The steamship
Teaser is still here with no preparation for sea. As
these vessels figured most conspicususly there in
tho Herald’s Key West special of this morning it is
regarded here os a fabrication throughout.
From New York-
New York, October 1.—Wall street continued
quiet to-day, except towards the close, when the
stock market was unsettled by rumors of the losses
of the Michigan Southern Company, by the late
panic.
No new developments on the gold question.
Many millions of Friday’s contracts were settled to
day, and the end of the complication is drawing
Fast and West—The Next Census.
The census of 1870 promises to open the eyes
of a great many people to the rapid changes
■which have taken place in this country. The
Chicago Tribune has been figuring on the sub
ject and demonstrates to the satisfaction of the
candid reader that the East is abont to surren
der the sceptre of power to the West. We copy
tho following tables of comparison between the
two sections, showing the difference of appor
tionment in representation between the years
1840 and 1870:
1840
Maine 8
New Hampshire 5
Vermont 5
Massachusetts 12
Connecticut 6
Rhode Island 2
Total.,
..38
1870
Maine 4
New Hampshire 2
Vermont 2
Massachusetts 9
Connecticut 4
Rhode Island 1
Total..
It will be seen, at a glance, from this tabular
distribution, that the six New England States
will lose no less than sixteen members of Con
gress.
The Western contingent is to bo regulated
thus:
Ohio..
Michigan.
Total.
1840.
19
Ohio.
1870
19
7
Indiana
11
, T —- a
Illinois
16
1
Missouri
11
2
Michigan
7
Iowa
8
32
Wisconsin
7
Minnesota
3
Kansas
2
Nebraska
1
Total
85
While the New England States lose sixteen
the Western States gain fifty-three members.
Counting the States on the Pacific slope as sub
stantially allied to Western influences and inter
ests, we have a farther addition to the quota of
the West of, say, eight representatives, making
the total Western gain no less than sixty-one
members.
The following tablo estimates the change be
tween the period named in the representative
strength of New England and the other Eastern
or Atlantic States combined:
1840
New York 40
New Jersey G
Pennsylvavia 28
Delaware 1
Maryland G
81
Add New England. ...38
1870
New York 29
NewJersey 5
Pennsylvania ...25
Delaware 1
Maryland 4
64
Add New England..22
Total 8G
Total
This table is valuable for showing that in any
solid combination in which the Eastern and Mid
dle States, including Delaware and Maryland,
would put forth their entire strength against a
combined Western coalition, the West wonld
still triumph by a majority of seven.
With the increased representation of the
South, which is not given by the Tribune, it is
plain to see that, unless some great cheat should
be concocted by the Yankees, the authority
which the East has so long used for the detri
ment of the country is about to be transferred
Westward, with the Sonth as a formidable bal
ance of power. The tremendous carpet-bag
movement Southward was no doubt intended to
emasculate this balance and checkmate the re
sults of the census of 1870 which favored the
West. The East evidently hoped by the jug
gleries of reconstruction, to preserve, through
its emissaries in the South, much, if not all,
of its ancient strength in Congress. This
little game has been only of partial suc
cess and is destined to ultimate disaster.—
Before many years have rolled away, the
Sonth will have genuine representatives in
the National Councils and she will have a favor
able vantage ground to make herself felt be
tween the rivalries and bickerings of her antag
onistic neighbors of East and West. Ont of
snch antagonisms and rivalries the opportunity
of the South will come. She will be sought by
both sections and made mnch of by either, the
one or the other, as the case may be. She will
have the casting vote perhaps in snch questions
as the removal of the capital, the revision of the
tariff, the taxation of bonds and free-trade.
The conntry has much to hope for in the census
of 1870, and its consequences will be as grati
fying to the South and West as they will be
doleful for New England.—Constitutionalist.
The Swiss in Tennessee.'
The consul-general of Switzerland recently
pud a visit to a Swiss colony or settlement in
Grundy county, Tennessee. The tract they
oconpy embraces nearly ten thousand acres of
land, producing an abnndant growth of yellow
pine, holly, laurel and other woods, which the
Swiss carvers delight to work np into toys and
domestic implements. Some of the colonists
have sufficient means to engage at onoe in stock
raising and grape growing. All like the climate
and natural surroundings, in which they find
mnch to remind them of their native country.—
The land they own was bought at fifty cents an
acre, is within twelve miles of Traoy City, and
the settlers have access to coal and water-power
enough to ran the machinery in Tennessee for
fifty years to come. The consul-general is
greatly pleased with the condition of the colon
ists and their prospects. He does not favor
their settlement in large bodies, as that wonld
tend to cultivate a clannish spirit and prevent
assimilation with the nativee of the State. If
the proper means conld be instituted it is
thought that from ten to fifteen thousand of
these ingenious, virtuous people could be set
tled on roe cheap lands, in this vicinity within
the next twelve months.^
A company has been formed In Paris to carry
ont a really novel idea in the way of advertising.
The company takes a lease of one window in
the second or third story of a house in a prom
inent street or boulevard. From dusk till after
midnight a transparency, brilliantly lit up on a
sea-green ground, sets forth the advertise
ment. Yon can arrange either for a display
onoe a week or a whole week, eta, alternately
in any of the windows in the several quarters
possessed by the company.
Maximilian and Juarez.
To-day’g Appleton’s Magazine contains some
interesting incidents from Princess Salm-Salm’s
■.•If.
concerning the closing hoars of Maximilian:
ThePrince88, on account of the important part
she had taken in thin plan to save the life of
Maximilian, was sent to San Luis Potosi as a
prisoner. There she made another last effort
to obtain the pardon of President Juarez for the
condemned. She says:
{ ' “The last day before the execution had oome
—the next morning the Emperor was to be shot.
Although I had little hope, still I determined to
make one more effort to move the heart of the
man who. alone had the power to prevent the
terrible tragedy. The pale, melancholy face of
him whose dear-blue, eyes had inspired with
compassion even the Indian Falacois, was ever
before me.
“ It was eight o’clock in the evening when I
went to the President, who immediately received
me. He was pale and looked careworn. With
trembling lips I pleaded for the life of the Em
peror, or at least for a respite. He said that he
conld not even grant a respite, that it wonld only
prolong the Emperor’s agony, and that he must
die the next morning.
“When I heard these terrible words, I was
wild with grief. I trembled in every limb, and,
sobbing, I fell on my knees, and pleaded with
words that came from the heart. The President
sought to raise me, bnt I dong to his knees, and
would not rise till he had granted my prayer; I
thought I must move him to compassion. I saw
he was deeply moved; he, as well as Senor
Iglesia, who was present, conld not restrain his
tears. He said to me; in a sad, tremulous tone,
‘It pains me, madame, to see yon thus on your
knees before, bnt if all the Ung3 and queens of
Europe were prostrate before me, I conld not
save his life. I do not take it; it is the law—
the people demand it, not I. If I failed to do
the will of the people, my life wonld be the pen
alty.
“ ‘Oh,’ I cried, in my despair, *if blood must
flow, take my life, the life of a usdess woman,
and spare that of a man who may do so much
good in another conntry!’
“All was in vain. The President raised me
to my feet, and again assured me that the life
of my husband should be spared. He said he
was very seriously compromised and would cer
tainly be condemned to death, bnt that, as I
had gained his esteem and admiration by my
efforts in behalf of Maximilian and my husband
ha would grant my petition so far as he conld.
He wonld pardon my husband, and was grieved
that he conld do no more. I thanked Mm and
went.
“In tho anti-room, I found more than two
hundred ladies of San Lnis, who had come to
plead for the lives of the three condemned men.
They were admitted, bnt their prayers were of
no more avail than mine.
“Later, Madame Miramon came, leading her
two children. The President conld not refuse
to see her. Senor Iglesia told me it was a heart
rending scene to see this poor woman and her
innocent little ones plead for the life of their
husband and father. The President, he said,
suffered terribly in these interviews to think
that stern necessity compelled Mm to take the
life of the nobles, Maximilian and his two‘broth
ers,’ bnt he could not do otherwise.
“Madame Miramon fainted and was carried
ont of the room.
“I conld not close my eyes that night, some
honrs of which I passed in tho church with a
number of ladies of our party, praying.
“In the course of the morning, the telegraph
announced the sad intelligence that the execu
tions had taken place and—that all was over.”
Tbe Macon Fair.
■While in Macon we gave ourself the pleasure
of a call on Ool David W. Lewis, who is manip
ulating so well the great Agricultural Fair, to
come off in Macon on the 16th of November.
He gave ns a good many items of information.
The Laboratory building is nearly finished.
The hands are patting the grounds in order. It
is about two miles from Macon to the building.
Trains will be ran every half hoar.
The articles for exhibition expected, are num
berless. From all quarters and all States appli
cations have been received for room. Asteam-
ship from New York, one each, from Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Richmond, fully loaded with
agricultural and stock implements, will come
out. Several large steam engines will be
brought. A number of large firms in Cincin
nati will bring whole car loads.
Tho railroads of Georgia, South Carolina rail
roads, Manchester and Wilmington railroad,
Memphis and Charleston railroad, Chattanooga
and Nashville road, East Tennessee, Tennessee
and Virginia roads, and others to be added, will
bring passengers for one fare.
Distinguished men from all parts of the Union
have promised to come. Among the guests will
be the following members of Congress: Thos.
L. Jones, Ky; Geo. A. Halsey, N. J.; Hamil
ton, Fla.; S. F. Cary, Ohio; A. H. Bailey, N.
Y.; Geo. W. Cole, CaL; W. P. Kellogg, DL;
John Poole,‘ N. O.; W. Mnngen, OMo; Jos. C.
Abbott, N. C.; Fred. K. Stone, Md.; S. N. Pet
tis, Pa.; Geo. W. Woodward, Pa.: John Co-
vode, Pa.; James A. Johnson, Cal; A. McDon
ald, Ark.; W. E. Niblack, Inch; J. A. Garfield,
Ohio; Albert E. Paine, Wis.; Wm. Luff bridge,
Iowa; Demos Barnes, N. Y.;. Geo. W. Julian,
Ind.; Austin Blaine, Mich.; J. F. Asper, Mo.;
D. J. Morrell, Pa.; P. Hamill, Ind.; Samuel J.
Randall, Pa.; Samnel 8. Bordett, Mo.; John
Scott, Pa.; John B. Donnelly, Pa.; J. Carson,
Fa. Among others will be present, Geo. A.
Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury; Professor
Holmes of Charleston College; David A. Wells,
Commissioner of Revenue; Gen. Horace Ca-
pron, Superintendent Agricultural .Bureau;
Henry Bastard, Commissioner of Education;
Brick Pomeroy, Editor of N. Y. Democrat;
Gen. A. B. Eton, U. S. Washington official;
Chas. A. Peabody, of Alabama; Gen. Beaure
gard ; Gen. Jos. E. Johnston; and Ex-Governor
Herachel V. Johnson.
Many have declined. Many have not been
heard from.
We saw a vastbnneh of letters, one of which,
Col. Lewis’ we publish. Among all the large
number of replies, bnt one exMbite any feeling
that seems unpleasant. All express a deep in
terest in the Fair, and welcome it as an occasion
for great good. Mr. Bontwell’s letter is singu
larly felicitous and right tempered. And let ns
hope that he may, by association with our peo
ple, lose some of his advanced Radicalism. Mr.
John Covode surprised us with his spelling, and
we are disposed to think the muddled specimen
of bad orthography creeping aronnd in the pa
pers must be waggish tricks upon Mm.
Ex-Gov. H. V. Johnson'R letter is a superb
one, and we look for its publication with eager
ness.
One gentleman, the Hon. Mr. Edwards, mem
ber of Congress from Vermont, says, “he will
rejoice when the security of life and property in
the South will let Northern people come.” This
astute gentleman must be a reader of Dr. Ful
ler’s Methodist Advocate and Swayze’s Union.
This gentleman certainly needs the mollifying
influence of a Press Excursion.
Many of the persons who will be there are
among the most distinguished men of both par
ties North. They have been invited, they have
accepted those unsought invitations in a kindly
spirit; Southern hospitality must do its duty on
the occasion, and the courtesy due guests of the
the State must be shown them. Let onr people
be polite without sycophancy, attentive without
obsequiousness, and dignified without hauteur
to these guests, whatever be their polities; let
us show them Southern character in its best
light—hospitable, conrteous, frank, energetic,
generous—warm friends and magnanimous foe-
men; chivalric and liberal; knowing what is
due self-respect, but not carping or prejudiced;
let the occasion be improved to fraternize with
the good, and believe that great benefit will re
sult beyond the mere physical consequences of
the Fair.
Mistakes may have been made in the extent
of invitations, and perhaps other things, but
we believe they were made honestly. Hence,
it seems unfair to rasp them. Less harm will
be done by letting them go than correcting
them.
We see by the Telegraph that, in response to
a letter from 0. P. Culver, of Washington, Gov.
Bollock says that he has no formal response
from the Committee in reply to his offer of a
train to go to Bristol to meet and bring visitors.
Mr. Culver wants the Washington Press invited
and brought on the train.
We think the railroads will bring the press
free. We doubt the propriety of any each move
ment on tiie part of Gov. Bollock. We are not
captions in this matter, bnt we think it tmneoee-
sary, unauthorized and extravagant.
We shall have more to say of the Fair here
after.—Atlanta Constitution.
Virginia Senators.
Special Dispatch to the Lynchburp Republican.)
Washington, September 27.—The Virginia
senatorship is warmly discussed. Bets are made
that John B. Baldwin and Alexander Rives will
come to the Senate from Virginia. The latter
gentleman has had Ms disabilities removed.
The President would present his brother-in-law.
Dr. Sharpe, and the husband of Mr. Dosglas’
widow, General Williams, bat he does not tshe
enough interest in the matter.
■■
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Lord Byron’s Fast Moments
Valet’s Account.
It is interesting, says the Pall Mall oUi*
September 9, at the present time
account given of the last moments of tZ? ^
ron by his servant Fletohor. Fletcher B - t
..his Lordship did not &ppear” y L.
his dissolution was so near, I ooffidheJ 0 ' 11 ^
was getting weaker every hour, andhe~ , ’*> I
gan to have occasional fits of delirium d 1 *
terwarda said, “Inow begin to think T 11
rionsly ill, and in case I should be taken
denty, 1 wish to give you several <£5-^
wMeh I hope you will be particular
executed. I answered I would in case Jr 1 *
event came to pass, but expressed a wfe?
he would live many yeaa to execute them U * t
better himself than l could. To thiT“ I
ter replied: “No, it is now nearW v «--“‘H
then added: “I must tell you all withonf 1 ^
a moment I then said, “Shall I R0 ' ^ ]
and fetch pen, ink and paper ?” “Oh m r’
no; you will lose too much time, and 1 {
not to spare, for my time is now short” ?
his LordsMp; and immediately after • « 1
pay attention.” His Lordship commmJ'j?’
flaying: “ Yon will be provided for ”
him, however, to proceed with thines
consequence. He then continued- unt***
poor dear cMld! My dear Adah! U/, 6 !
conld I have bnt have seen her 1 Give h ^
blessing—and my dear sister
her cMldren; and yon will R0 £T? ?
ron and say-tell her everythin*.
friends with her.” His LordshiD ^
to be greatly affected at this momem^^
my master’s voice failed him so ,1 , I
conld only catch a word at intervals- bnt li 1
muttering sometMng very serionsiy f 0 7jl pt
time, and would often raise his voi<« 1s
“ Fletcher, now if yon do not execute
der wMch l have Mven ■
hereafter, if possible.” Here I told his W?
in a state of the greatest perplexity that n i
not understood a word of what he had .7
wMch he replied, ‘ ‘Oh, my God! then aft?
for it is now too late! Can it be possible vc-
have not understood me?” “v.;
said I, “but I pray you to try and intern i
once more.” How can I? ’ rejoined my tZ
ter; “it is now too late, and all ia over ” ‘r
“Not our will, bnt God’s be doneaid hew
swered, ‘‘ Yes, not mine be done, bnt 1 will t>>
His LordaMp did indeed make several efforts j,
speak, but could only repeat two or three wo-l
ata time, such as “My wife! my child! m -2
ter! you know all—you must say all—you W
my wishes.” The rest was quite umntelfijiy.
Lord Byron shortly afterward fell into aW
argy, which ended by death—his last intelb>;
ble words being, “I must sleep now.” Thejf
lowing extract from “Medwin’s Conversance's 5 '
Lord Byron,” will probably interest ]h
Beecher Stowe. Speaking of Americans, k
LordsMp said:
Americans are the only people to whoa!
never refused to show myself. The Yaniee
are great friends of mine. I wish to be
thought of on the other side of the Atlantic
not that I am better appreciated there than
tois; perhaps worse. Some American review.’
has been persevering in his abuse and pets®,
ality, bnt he should have minded his ledger: h
never excited my spleen.
Speaking Oat.
The New York Tribane has lost all futleasl
with the engineering of the Administration a I
the “rebel States,” and speaks out as follou [
The votes of several States are still needed ,'ij
the pending Amendment; we have stood by nil
seen that of Tennessee thrown away, aadril
keep silence no longer. It was entirely pa* I
cable to hav8 saved that State, even its |
the insane quarrel which rent the
party; had the Administration been allowed to I
exert its influence and power to that end, i: I
might have secured a pledge from the rebels en-1
franchised by Senter that they would rafcfr the I
XVth Amendment. But it was virtaaIr.ciM.|
strained to favor Stokes after he wasdeadeitisil
any door nail can be; and the net resnlt 0! Ik I
folly is the loss of Tennessee’s vote on the Sri |
Question.
We insist that there be no mere of this; fot 9
as the lean boarder told his landlady touchis I
her bedbugs, “I really haven’t the blood a I
spare.” We have nothing to say as to the lil
erence of any Texas voter for Davis over Has I
ilton; that is Ms own affair altogether. It h I
vis shall be selected, very well; but if thelil
ministration is made to remove and appcil
Federal officers in his behalf, and thus to tio-l
perate the Hamilton party so that a goodpvl
of it shall be set against the Fifteenth Ameil
ment, and if that party shall triumph, mum
all the efforts made at Washington to defeat t|
(which are just as likely to help as to hamjats
the vote of Texas for the Amendment shall thnJ
be lost, why then we shall protest against fel
impolicy that finds favor in high places as litn- 1
short of idiotic.
We repeat that the decisive triumphs of ftl
Administration, if triumph it shall, must bedel
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment »l
the funding at low interest of the national dels*
Whoever favors the Fiftefenth Amendment hi
virtual supporter of Gen. Grant, and, with:
suspicious scrutiny of Ms motive, should he»
corned and treated as such. A Governs
cannot afford to narrow the platform on vtal
it stands, nor to count no one its friend rtT
does not love it for itself alone. Menrnk^
onr day by virtue of their common sense,*
cannot long rale in defiance of it
iutereatlug to the Disqualified
The Washington Republican, a quaswi
organ of the Administration, announces ia N
issue of yesterday that the Attorney Genenj
the United States has received notice of im
portant decision which has recently been *
dered by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. 1
decision ia that when a person has taken
oath of offioe before the war to support the Cij
stitntion of the United States, and during-
war held an office in a State in rebellion *>
required him to take an oath to support J
Confederate States, such • a person cannrt j
tois reason alone be said to have engs?M
insurrection and rebellion against the
States, or given aid and oomfort to the ene*
thereof, in the meaning of section three*'
fourteenth amendment.
The Republican adds—and thia is som *, :
cation .that the decision is not unfavorah.)
ceived at Washington-
“TMs decision will be found very imp
and of large scope in reducing and limiting®
franchising clauses of the Constitution u 1
of Congress.”
Interesting News and Relics from ^
John Franklin Arctic Expedition.—3<'
September 26.—The whalmg schooner 1
has arrived at New London from Cue
Inlet with three men belonging to Dr.
Hall’s expedition in search of Sir John R*
Dr. Hall is a passenger on the shipi Ansell Wy
for New Bedford. He has a number of
belonging to Sir John Franklin, s’* 1 ®
spoons and a chronometer box. Be *** ,
successful in finding skeletons of
men and the remains of several ol obt
Skeletons and other reties were fc®“
William’s Land.
The Cornelia brought an anchor,
extreme north, marked E. S., I* 1 ”’
supposed to have belonged to the fist e .
Dr. Hall found a native who claims to ■
about the party. He says the ship w ,
and toe crew, took to their boats a
ashore, where their provisions were t
and they died from starvation. Re
prevented Dr. Hall from making f°^ ”
tions. He will return next summer «”
prosecute the search. The Anseu 1
arrive in a day or two.
Napoleon’S Disease.
A late Paris lettter says:' “ The I
getting on, nearly got well this tin 1 ®
one of those ugly attacks under the t
reoorded of whioh he came so near *
in 1864. What definitely his chief®®“'
ady is, cannot be assuredly asserted Im
porter. His primary disease, inew*5i,
in the long run, is, of course, chrono
was born in April, 1808—can’t r ^’T
that Item. Has chronic rheum
sciatic and intestinal variations; n
more general and well-nigh universal .
troubles—if I may so express mT 8 *^
think I may, seeing that all
hesitate in that regard. The
the stone; more moderate Libert*^,
gravel; politioal indifferent*and ^
gossips hold to hemorrhoids, ds*
Bright’s disease.”
Rota.—The City Council of Bom® ^
the following resolution: .,.1,
Resolved, farther, That all °*P <
ehmery employed in toe manufactur®
and woolen goods, or agMejdtmm
in the limits of toe city, shall be f a
taxation ft* the period of tenyeam ^
of January next; provided the s*® ^ l
employed within toe space of two j
this date. — ^1
Gxxoul BataunmisD, it» *
tehe a wife from cdd Virginia.
