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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1867)
THE WEEKLY OOHSTTTTTTTOHALTST Our New York Correspondence. New Yohk, February G. r J he superficial observer is confounded by the fact that the great daily journals of this city are oltcn presented before the people of the United States as utterly powerless to con trol or seriously Influence ,the people of this locality m any important concern. We have seen in the past ten years a man rnn for mayor against whom nearly every daily journal in this City was openly arrayed—denouncing him as a public robber—a man whose crimes ought to have consigned him to the State prison ; the one or two minor jonrnals which did not join in the crusade being awed into silence, and yet the candidate for mayor, so denounced, was triumphantly elected. In 1850 President Bu c“Man wa * supported by only two of the thir- papers, whose circulation was not than one hundredth of that of tlieir op ponents, and yet President Buenanan had his hugest majorities where the New York dairies had their largest circulation. These instances of the complete indill'ereucc of our people to what the “ leading journals say ” arc very numerous. Mbyte it? is a natural question. Here Is a solution that is usually resorted to by the apologists of the press, that te, the vast pro portion of ignorant and vicious among our local population, who neither read nor under stand, and who are governed by prejudice or passion, or, at least, by instinct. This is only particularly tru, in explanation. An equally potent reason is to be found in the neglect with which the subordinates of the editorial rooms are treated. There is no effort to stimulate their ambition or promote their self respect.— They tall, consequently, too much into the habit of writing “ by the yard,” there being so much space to fill they are too apt to think of only how that space may be filled with the least trouble to themselves. They are, as a class, very poorly paid. The compositors generally get much better pay, and are provided with more comfortable quarters. The reporters and correspondents are often obliged to eke out a livelihood by doubtful expedients, which bring discredit upon them, and upon those whom they represent. They are often unabjq to dress respectably or comfortablj’. The low wages paid to newspaper men in this city, is partly due to the mistaken aspirations of our own youth. It is imagined to be a.“ big tiling’.’ to begome connected with a New York daily, but ..Iter a few months of work, compared, with which hoeing cotton is pleasant pastime, the charm is broken, and the Sufferer seeks.new employment, or settles down a hopeless victim to tpe insatiate demands of the tyrant public. Recent publications illustrate' most forcibly the ill-considered character of many of the ful j mi nations of the New York press, and the in- ! iifferencq with which they are treated. I allude I lo the attacks upon the ferries' and the street- 1 cleaning contractor. Such a fall of snow in our streets, and such a formation of ice in the har ior, as we have suffered this winter, do not take place more than once or twice in a gene ration. But no sooner' are'the (streets filled j with snow than the daily press set up a clamor | for the contractor to remove it. The contract : sor keeping the paving clenn, and removing the accumulation of garbage, has been assumed by j a retired capitalist, for the sole purpose of ena bling him to serve the city by keeping its streets ] clean. He has done so until the late excessive ! fall of snow. His yearly pav is $400,000,, or about half the sum formerly expended, and the work not half done. To have re moved the snow from the streets would have cost half his yearly pay. Thus all went I lor nothing with these newspaper scolds. No complaint was heard in private circles, except of the extreme severity of the storms, and the people read the daily papers and deprecated their unfairness. Then as to the ferries —while the harbors of Philadelphia and Baltimore were closed with ice our ferry boats kept New York harbor open. Os course, the managers avoided all service that could possibly be dis pensed with, to save their boats for such times as when large numbers wished to cross.— Gangs of men were kept at work night aud | day repairing boats damaged iu the ice. But j the ferry companies have been pursued with systematic defamation, with how much founda tion may bo judged from the fact that but one individual has appeared as complainant before the Legislative Committee appointed to investi gate their management. I have thus endeavored to show why it is ♦hat the New York press is treated with so lit tle respect by its readers, l have not alluded to the course of the proprietors of leading journals in using them to promote individual j interests or gratify personal malice. These ! Motives have been repeatedly apparent, and not less than the want of sincerity and thought with which the miuor matter is written, contri butes to a very unfortunate result. Every little while the normal tranquility of !ho Episcopal communion in New York is rus tled by the reappearance on the surface of the “ Ritualistic controversy.” Ritualism,' as some of your readers may require to be informed, in the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual revolt against the liberal tendencies of the time which Ims carried some of the most distinguished divines of the mother-church of England back into the fold of Rome, and brought still others so near that fold as to be quite without the pale of Protestant, sympathy. The excesses of their movement in this pew phase of “Gothic mouldings and man—mil linery” have brought down upon it in England : the destructive wrath of evangelical mobs, who 1 have signalized their disgust at these dalliances ! with the scarlet women, by the desecration and ! despoiling of some of the chief churches where these extreme “rites” have been introduced. In New York, however, a more tolerant or a more careless public opinion has not gone beyond a languid and amused curiosity, which is yet sufficient to crowd, the unpretending chapel where the new lights shine. This chapel named of “St Alban,” a saint whose history is entirely dark to the general mfnd, stands in the fashionable quarter of Murray Hill, and it must be said that its regular worshipers are as intel ligent as respectable and to all appearance as devout as any other congregation in the city. Here every Snnday, aud on numerous week days, sacred to the momorj’of saints as obscure, most of them, ns St. Alban himself, may be seen the galvanized corpse of mediaeval mAnasticism. A stranger happening there would surely think himself in a Roman Catholic temple wore It not that the services are held in the vernacular in stead of Latin. There is a high altar, glittering with gewgaws and tipped with tapers of various lengths and signification, a crowd of choristers who resemble nearly enough the acolytes of the ‘ Koinish model, aud ft profusion 6l posturings, genuflections and invocations which even sur- the original. The clergy (there arc two of WeTn) n ear the white surplice of the Episco pal Church, but. It is decorated with a gay-col ored “stole”.or scarf, tied in a new-fangled way, and the black academic gown commonly ' worn by the clergy in preaching, is omitted al- i together. In every detail, in short, there is evi dent a tendency to discard the Faith and forms ot England anti to retnrn to those of Rome.— The rector of the chapel is a Youth ol flaccid appearance, “as mikl a mannered man ns ever” set out to overturn au ecclesiastical establish ment. But harmless as he looks, he has already caused a great commotion in the church, and bids fair to be the-occasion of a formidable schism. The “ upper ten thousand ” here are pretty much all Episcopalians, and most of them have a secret hankering after the gorgeous sensual accessions which add so much to the attractiveness of the Romish ritual, and this feeling naturally has its effect on their pastors. Already it is announced that the Innovation is gaining ground, and that its premonitory j are to be seen in several of the aris tocratic churches—Christ Chnreh, on Fifth Av- 1 onue for oue. The Bishop of the Diocese (Pot- 1 ter), an exemplary and inoffensive gentlemau, is placed hereby in a painful position. He runs the risk, on the one hand, of alienating ' the richest, and on the othe’-, the most earnest portion of his flock, and it is said he has his ! private doubts as to whether the Ritualists are ' not right according to the rubrics, and so he— ; without the slightest disrespect to him, be it said—he temporizes. He took advantage of the recent consecration of the Bishop of Maine to deliver an address on the subject, which, however, disclosed nothing but the skill of the orator Iwith the balancing pole. He coun selled forbearance and moderation to both sides, and, on the whole, left matters about as he found them. But matters Fill not be 60 !Wt Oil and water will not mix, and each wfil jind its own level t but how, and how soon, cannot be said. More than that, everything points to a serious breach in -the Episcoaal church in this city of New York, if even it be confined to that locality. , BUSINESS MATTERS. The debt statement shows that in falsification of the avowed policy of the Treasury Depart i ment the contraction pf the currency has been suspended during the past mouth. The con traction of four millions per month, involving a contraction of credits to the extent of twenty millions per month, has threatened serious dis asters, and at the last moment the Secretary of the Treasury decided to omit the contraction this month. It will not probably be re sumed trtl the cotton crop bits nearly passed into consumption. Cotton jias been greatly depressed by thecou tinued heavy receipts at the ports, amounting to Over eighty thousand bales last week. The foreign advices are also quite unfavorable. The famine riots in Europe are a solution to what otherwise seems au inexplicable result. Gold has been strengthened by Washington news of various sort ; but the heavy shipments of cotton and lower rates of exchange, have a depressing influence upon the premium, and have prevented, the greater advance that has , been expended. THE NEW RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME. The new seheme of reconstruction, presented by President Johnson-, and opposed by liis friends among the conservative Republicans, has been but little canvassed hs yet. So far, however, as opinions have been expressed among Democrats, they are adverse to it. Many Republicans regard it as a surrender to j them of the essential points of the controversy; but they do riot show much disposition to for- j give Johnson for the part he has played. Be it remarked, however, that it would have been ; very acceptable to the Radicals one year ago; just as Johnson’s position then would have been | acceptable the year before, arid so on. Where i is this series of ill-timed surrenders to end? 11 they cannot be stopped, the South had better j send their best citizens, with ropes about their ! necks, to Thad. Stevens direct, and not nego- ! tiafo with them through the treacherous agency of William H. Seward and his supporters. Willoughby. Our San Francisco Correspondence. San PranciSco*, January 10, 1867. ✓ , Arriving in San Francisco the new comer from “ the States,” and especially from the South, feels himself in a foreign city. Perched upon a succession of sand hills overlooking the magnificent hay, the buildings are uniformly fiat-roofed with high, square fronts, and of dark brown or other sober color, giving the city a ; peculiarly sombre appearance. Traces of for ! mer Mexican occupancy are plentifully found i in the continued use of Spanish names for per , sons and things. Probably no other Arnericau city of like size has so large a population class ed Under the head of “floatingand in none I have visited elsewhere appear such alack of ap preciation of all that the word “ home’’, express es. The French System of renting furnished | . ooms, and eating at restaurants, obtains almost ! exclusively among the married population and to no small extent among families who sacrifice the comforts and elevating influences of a real home at the shrine of economy. With a resi dent population of, say, 120,000, there are, in round numbers, two hundred hotels, one hun dred restaurants furnishing regular meals, an indefinite number of mere lunch stands, one hundred regular boarding houses and upwards of three hundred where furnished rooms only are let. The nomadic, restless spirit of early days has not entirely subsided. One is struck with the apparent feverish unrest that pervades the mass. Every third man wears the appear ance of having his trunks packed ready for in stant removal. The quieter portion stroll along with a "devil may care” sort of air, sugges tive of perfect satisfaction with themselves and j the world. Male and female alike group upon j the pavements to chat and gossip, or gather in l knots around the shop windows to examine and comment lipon the latest novelties on ex hibition ; and anon they hastily and erratically pursue their several ways, sublimely indiffer ent to the rule of “ keeping to the right, as the law directs.” Each man and woman (we have no boys and girls) perambulates like there were none other on the street, and appears conscious of the fact only when his or her equilibrium is suddenly disturbed by colliding with others equally oblivious. It requires a marvelous combination of quickness ot thought and celerity of action to enable one to navigate Montgomery street without involuntarily per forming a series of “ground and lofty tumb lings ” that would make tire fortune of a per former in the saw dust ring, but which sadly disturbs the equinimity of a sedate and elderly gentleman like myself. Every thing moves upon the high pressure principle. “Society” is a kind of social and moral Mississippi rivet steamboat, with pitch in the furnaces and the safety-valves fastened down. Fast horses, fast men and women are nowhere more plentiful and conspicuous. Nowhere is the fickle god dess courted more assiduously or relied upon with more implicit confidence. Every thing is staked upon a east of the die, and the result is ' awaited with a true gambler’s philosophical calmness. The ever-revealing kaleidescope o r time presents to view the most startling changes and wonderful contracts. Fortunes are won and lost with equal rapidity. Rapid accumula tions and prodigal expenditures go hand in hand. The millionaire of to-day is a beggar to morrow, and vice versa, Men mature early, live last, make hasty exists, and the rapid ex pansion of the city will soon drive them from their present tombs, to seek a resting place where the soil is not demanded lor the uses of the living. With all this there is a vast concentration of utilizing talent, well directed energy, publie spirit and earnest, far-seeing purposes. Gigan tic schemes of improvement are planned and execution scarce waits on conception. AH have “ California on the brain” and San Francisco is tliequintescence, so to speak, of California. They have a better harbor, a finer climate, brighter sunshine and, perspectively, a more brilliant future than can be claimed by other people; and no one doubts for a moment that the American eagle performs his loftiest circumgyrations di rectly over Telegraph Hill. Individually and collectively the City of the “ Golden Gate” is their soil, and “with more than Eastern devo tion they worship at the shrine of their idola try.” Briefly thus you have San FnulciGeo and San Franciscans, • GREAT EARTHQUAKE. • j Oregon is becoming ambitious, avjd soaks to ; rival San Francisco in the matter of earth- , quakes. Fort Klamath, situated lat. 42 deg. 15m., and some 150 miles from the Pacific! ocean, was visited by a terrific earthquake. A j correspondent of the Oregou Sentinel, writing j from the location of the phenomena, thus de-, scribes the cff&et: “The earth seemed rolling like waves Upon the oceau; every one was-1 thrown only, on regaining their ; feet, to be placed ip the same position again, j accompanied, with the rattling of dishes, the crashing of window glasses, cracking of tim bers of buildings, and the screams of the j frightened. The whoie heavens were full ol a very black smoke or cloud; the air had a sul phurous smell; aud ashes of a brownish color fell as List as I ever saw it snow.— We had to use candies in the mess room. You could not imagine a more perfect chaos. Some of us gained the door, and such a sight met our gaze as was probably never be fore beheld. The tail phies. around the fort seemed lashing themselves into fury ; the wa gon? in front of the stable were engaged in a pitched battle; horses and cattle were lying crouehiug upop the ground, uttering the most pitiful moans ; dogs were howling, and the un earthly cries of the Klamath Indians camped near the fort completed the scene. VVe Imagin ed we were amidst the 'wreck of matter aud the crush ol worlds.’ ” The shock lasted several minutes. Since the shock, lake Klamath has fallen six feet, and a large ereek In the vicinity has completely dried up 7 The whoie country along the Cascades aud Sierras denotes that it has been tne scene of past volcanic* eruptions. Many of the peaks are evidently extinct volcanoes. Mt. Hooff smokes at times, and ML Helens has for years been wreathed with smoky exhalations. THE SCHOOLMASTER ABBOAP. From the constant glorification of the “free . school system ” indulged in by Northern press ; es and speakers, one must infer that ignorance * had been banished from the Northern Eden and was to be fouud only in the benighted South; the j redtcnlousitess of this pretention to “superior education” lately received a forcible illustration iiu thi-: State. The fol’owing are given as some f ol tho errors in »», •’ . phy made by candi dates for certifi-r it - t-achers, at the State Examination; held Maysville: Sychology ; psf-ycology, phey - _v. cycology. -One-half tailed.to spell it a-. ;y. Eleven mispelted Nicaragua. Sixteen mispelled Cincinnati, one spelling it Stani-h: u_u. Chalybeate was spell ed caliberate, and nineteen other ways. A le gion of equally pitiable errors were made iu other branches. The same teachers (heaven ; save the mark) were equally fortunate in their definitions. Innovate was defined to enter, to unake inroads, to give greeting, to introduce, to invade, to reach ip, to'come by force; and several did not attempt a definition. Indige nous : secret, inward growling, not generous, and worthless. Gregarious : obnoxious, vege i table, traveling in fields, mixed, doubtful. Ir ! l igate: to nourish, to keep open. Recount: to balance the other way, to give back, to con j fess, to withdraw, to fall back together , to hard en into stone. . Eleven attempted to answer parricide; one who flatters a flatterer, the slay ing of an equal, to watch over, the murder of a ; President. Accelerate: to go forth, to retard. One bright genius, to. show how much he knew, added of his own accord, “velosipeed: : swift to run a race.” Only one defined every word.. Others could define one word in four. Really, it would seem that the schoolmaster had been a long time abroad. With such teach ers we cease to wonder at the claim to supe rior civilization so persistently proffered bv Northern propagandists. LEGISLATIVE INDEPENDENCE. The Legislature of Idaho Territory is a unique body, and is evidently in danger of being over sliawdo ved by Executive authority. The Legis lature is strongly Democratic, but Gov. Ballard, an Executive appointee from Oregon, is an in tense Radical. A short time since the Governor look occasion to send to the House a message indicating his vi%ws upon a law which had not been submitted for his approval of rejection.— A vigorous debate ensued, plentifully sprinkled with oaths more emphatic than approprite, and | the collective wrath of the assembly found ex pression in the following, which was at once : adopted : Resolved , That the message of recommenda tion received from Gov. Ballard, of this date, relating to Council Bill No. 2, be received with that contempt which it merits, and that any ; comunication of a similar nature in the future j be sent back to the said Ballard, with a comma* j ni cation from :he Council that when liis advice j is required it will be called for, and an addi j tional reminder that such officious intermed -1 dliiig by the Executive with matters pending in j this House will not be endured, j Idaho is a poor place for Radical aspirants ] for gubernatorial honors. MUSICAL.- Did you ever unwillingly listen to the efforts of a would-be musician, who succeeded only in I practically illustrating the “harmony of "dis cord ?” If so, I claim your sympathy. In- an adjoining room dwells a melancholic youth who labors under the unaccountabie delusion that nature intended him for a musician. His instrument is one abhored by me even in skilled hands—an accordeon. Nigiitiy does this de votee of the muses indulge in frantic but abor tive efforts to master “ Good-bye Sweet-heart, good-bye,” while my nerves quiver in exquisite agony. Music, skilled music, may have “ charms to soothe the savage breast,” but to listen to this accordeon and not feel moved to take the war path,argues insensibility,or the pos session of a pusillanimity equaled only by that of a Southern “loyalist,” so-called ; dern em, as Bill Arp would say. The inharmonious yells of two pugnacious Thomas Gats, who nightly combat in an adjacent yard, are “ linked s'weet ness long drawn out” compared with the unearth ly shrieks and quavers, drawn from the bowels of that asthmatic accordeon. Had Orpheus, at his descent into Tartarus, iu search of his lost love, possessed an accordeon, sure I am that old Cerberus would have abandoned his post; the Furies fled in dismay as the discordant notes penetrated their darksome abodes, and once within the shades of Avernns, a single pull upon the infernal instrument had sent Eurydice fly ing forth into God’s beautiful sun-light, casting never a fatal look behind. I have notified the owner of my rooms of my intended chauge of quarters. She asks the reason and I savagely answer in one word, “ Accordeon. To this she replied, in the choice dialect of her native Cape Cod, “ Jest what I knowod. The plaguey crit-' ter has tormented me nigh about ten death; and now my roomers air leaviu. I wish the tar nal thing wouid bust.” Without definitely understanding .whether it was the instrument or the player Which the irate lady desired should perform the tragic operation of “ bustin.” I heartily concur in the sentiment. I confess, moreover, to an inward hope that it will be a dual performance. The man who attempts playing the aceordeou deserves to be married to some of the he women who spout from Yankee rostrums ; or still worse, perhaps, to be seut to the Massachusetts Legislature MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A case of mutual and unmistakable inno- I ceuce occurred in this city a few days since. An officer had placed in his hands a bench war rant for the arrest of a certain party. Finding the person whom he was to arrest absent from home he left the warrant at his house to be de livered at his return, and wended his way back to court proudly conscious of hav ing satisfactorily performed his duty The richest part of the affair is that the party for whose arrest the warrant was issued,, upon returning and reading the document promptly reported himself and*was locked up. At the renting of pews iu the Unitarian Church last night competition was lively, enough to induce one gentleman to pay $1,350 for his choice. Several paid SI,OOO each and many SSOO. Verily it costs a large sum to obtain a small amount of gospel, “so called,” in San Francisco. Much alarm is afloat concerning the cholera visitation. The steamship America, from San J nan, nearly due, is expected to bring the dis ease, as there had been some 35 deaths among her passengers, while in Central America, quarantine regulations have beeu established. _ Smythe. Our Paris and Continental Correspondence. Parts, January 15,1867. To the Editor of the Constitutionalist: Sir : The opening of the legislative session iu France seems to be definitely fixed for the 11th February next. The Council of State is at present examining the different budgets. General satisfaction is felt at the foreign poli cy of our Minister for Foreign Affairs, “M. De Moustier. There seeni? also* some progress be ing made in the plan for reorganizing the army. Ilis Excellency is also honored with the unlim ited confidence of she Emperor. The Paris pa pers of the day asSurc hs that His Majesty treats M. DeMoustier more like au equal than like a subject. A few’ days ago, when the Emperor was driving out in the Champs Elysees, lie stopped at the house of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to pay him a visit, but His Excellency not being at home, His Majesty continued his drive. THE AFFAIR OF MEXICO. Affairs in Mexico are in a very singular con dition, and the most contradictory statements reach ns from that country. Thus, One day, -1 ax mnliun abdicates; the next, he resumes ‘ P°f er - There are very great doubts as to the stateof his relations with Marshal Bazaine. v hat support does he find among the Mexi ,’" u troops to prolong the adventurous reign he has begun. V hat is certain is, that our troops are abou to return. * Maximilian feeling that everything was slip ping from lam, refused to follow our retreating an L he a PP eals to the Mexican rni ?,?dden wheeling round is not de- U , L ™ I ! U ? rol , tne f s ’ from the moment he may s h°» a desire to leave, the Mexicans will be anx’.uu> t retain him. The Belgians fbund no thing more urgent in 184S than to shout “Long Live Leopold when he wished to go. The .Clerical party.in _ Mexico would willingly ad herc to Maximilian, being the party which in the first instance offered him the crown and he ought to have associated himself with’them from the beginning, in order to found anew i monarchy. * THE EARTHQUAKE in ALGERIA. !, Pab,ip intention in France is now much ta* an-Ve h!'the th Frf et H 1S b , rou « ht us ofthe cart hi qn .ke m the Fic-neh colony in Algiers We iuai.mit nine-tenths of the house? of Bli.hh are now evacuated. The first shock exper ed on Wednesday at a quarter past seven i' morning was most terrible. The j had true to fly to the 0p.,, spaccs ant. see their houses shaking -and tolteriuo- ou ■ tkdr bases The violence of the commotion j was so great that many persons were thrown ! down and considerable damage was done in i every house. Tne administration, informed bv ; telegraph, sent tents from Algiers, under which the inhabitants bivouacked lor the ni«-ht de spite-the heavy rain -The exterior of the houses were cracked in all directions; in the interior partitions aie thrown down, ceilings destroyed and gaps yawn in the walls, indicating the im ' mineuce of peril in case of a fresh commotion The nights of the 2d and 3d passed without : any sensible sock. Some inbabitnns decided ; upon returning to their homes, whc-n, on the night of the 3d, at a quarter to two o’clock, two | shocks caused new alarms, Since that mo ment all the houses have remained deserted, , and the. few persons who had been willing to brave the danger, resigned themselves tare main out of doors, and, in default of tents, they 1 collected in the public squares,- despite the drenching rain. Happily that'was the last alarm, after which calm was established. The first shock felt at Algiers and Bledah Caused a frightful disaster. Three entire villages were totally destroyed, Mouzair, Villa, Bon Rourm and El Aprouu. This is the point where the shock was so powerful, ilia disaster so instan taneous, that at the end of a few seconds the work of destruction was consummated, and all ; houses were destroyed, burying the inhabi tants in their ruins. At Mazour Villa, out of more than one hun dred and sixty houses, the church alone is standing, but it is so much injured that it can not be approached without very great danger, and the authorities have forbidden any attempt to enter it. The Deputy Governor has decided upon employing twelve hundred soldiers in the reconstruction of the village. NICE. This favorite watering place now presents the epitome of “ The Great Globe ” itself: On the Ist instant its foreign population con sisted of 123 Germans, 200 Americans, 486 En glish, 3 Brazilians, 16 Belgians, 7 Danes, 11 Spaniards, ,415 French, 2 Greeks, 8 Dutch,-1 Hungarian, 42 Italians, 7 Molde Wallaehiaue, S Turks, 11 Poless, 130 Russians, - 5 Swedes, 21 Swiss, altogether, 1,495. The British Parliament. : Sketch of an Extraordinary Member of the ! sousef ouse °f Commons—Arthur Mac Mur rouo h Kavanagh , M. P. for Wexford County— Question of Personal Privilege. The British Parliament, which met in session on the oth of February, contains on the roll of the members of the House of Commons the name of Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh, E-m representative of the county of Wexford, in 1 1 eland, a gentleman of refinement, finished education, the most untiring habits of busi ness, a fluent speaker and of great wealth, yet whose appearance at the bar to take the neces sary oath with his mode of reaching his seat, and attitude -when addressing the Speaker may give rise to a novel and" most deEte question of privilege, in -consequence of his wonderfu appearance owing to congenital malformation, or rather abbreviation Before introducing Mr. Kavanagh to our readers, as he appears at home, and in the shape m which he will enter the House, it may be well to say that he comes of a most illustrious a de3cent lrom tbe Princely house of MaeMorrough, of Leinster, which, in the person of Eva MaeMorrough, gave a wife to Strongbow, thus making &S3 Iri£ union with the “proud invader,” and seeking such means to efface the remembrance ofthe war, and effect a coalition or amalgamation of the two hostile races, the Celt and liis “foremn etiemy —a consummation which appears dis tant even to-day, to the groat anxiety of the statesmen of Britain. Eva MacMorrom-h however made a good and faithful, as she was beautiful, wife to Strongbow, and from her father s house comes Mr. Kavanagh, M. P. As if in contradiction to his name and ances try Mr. Kavanagh is a Protestant in religion and a tory of the most refined and unbending type in politics. He is the owner of very ex> tensive estates, situated in the counties Wex foid, Carlow, and Kilkenny, and rules over a numerous, very prosperous and contented teu antry, by whom lie is beloved for his system of fan dealing and liberality. Indeed bis return tw’tJr f affords ara l ,lc evidence of the fact that the Irish people, like others, know well how to appreciate justice and kind treatment and ai c not actuated by religious prejudice to WexTord t YHT ;fora u the reeent * election in Wexfot and Mr Kavanagh received a very law majority of Catholic votes over his opponent Mr. Pope Henuessy, a rigid ultramontanist a personal friend of Pope Pius IX. a “reoenenmi- Slafor and au KS VVith qua Iheatious of bias, inclination and fortune such as these Mr. Kavanagh makes a very eligible member ol Parliament, and will P, r °T e n a influential and able supporter of Fan Dei by s ministry, if imperious nature and the unbending “rule ol the House” do not bar the door against his entrance. ‘ruth is Mr. Kavanagh was born in an ! unfinished state, having neither legs nor arms ! and appearing in the world—iu the year 1827 j as the meie trunk ol a baby, to the great con- i sternation and grief ol his parents and the I astonishment of the excited and superstitious I people by whom they were surrounded. In ! place of legs Mr. Kavanagh has some inches of j muscular stumps ol thighs, the stump on oue | sine measuring about five and on the other six ! inches. Os arms he has about four iuehes off the upper portion on each side, which are 1 rounded off, without the appearance of any for- ! mation at all resembling hands. Healthy from its birth the infant remained strong and hardy, ' a blessing which was continued during boyhood, j and now the extraordinary little trunk appears id face and bust — iu handsome, manly mould, topped with a head showing forth very hand some, well defined features, eyes beaming with intelligence and reflecting a highly cultivated mind. Indeed, it appears that, as if to make mends 101 the curtailment of his person, Pro- J vidence developed Mr. Kavanagh with a brain lull, capacious and well developed, and “im parted to lmn” specially the wonderful energy, j power aud quickness of perception which he enjoys. He was easily educated, and is a very accom plished scholar, possessing much literary taste. The readers will no doubt be astonished to hear that Mr. Kavanagh is. an excellent penman, a i perfect draughtsman aud a fine accountant. When writing or sketching he holds the pen or pencil in his month, guiding its point over the paper with his arm stumps, which meet, with some dimeulty, across his chest, and this system he has perfected with elegant results,after much painful perseverance. There Is no peculiarity of character or mark in his handwriting; as an author he has lately produced a work entitled “The Cruise of the Eva,” illustrated by sketches taxon by himself during a cruise In his yacht of that name. The work is spoken of as vivacious and of very graceful diction. Like most of ins countrymen, Mr. Kavanagh is a keen sportsman, showing -himself a dashino horseman and huntsman, an almost unerrin” shot, dne of the most expert of Irish yacht men* and an accomplished driver of a four-in-hand team, H hen hunting he is seated in a sort of saddle-basket, invented for bis use. He man ages his reins with great expertness with his mouth and arm stumps, as he does when flying along behind his four fast horses. He is ear ried by a servant from place to place, but when in his own panor or drawing room he contrives to roll from one part of the room to the other even when engaged in conversation. ’ Mr. Kavanagh has been married for some years to a lady remarkable for her beauty! and beloved by her friends and the people for her amiable manners, charity and consideration. I Their union has been blessed with a large I family of blooming, healthy children, who are ; surrounded with every comfort which wealth, > used with judgment and refined taste, can supply. At one time Mr. Kavanagh’s family—about * the period of Lis hirtli—was not all so popular !in Ireland as he himself now is. The house re mained Catholic from tne days of the MaeMor ronghs to the proprietorship of the father of the honorably member of whom we write. His father became a Protestant in order to nlarry i into thd noble family of Ormonde, and from this house came «thr mother of the present members. This lady was very bitter in her prt-kidloes against the Catholics and very anxious that her husband should advocate the j same principle in the English House of Com mons. Mr. Kavanagh, Senior, became a candi date tor Parliament during the great election contest of 1826, whim the disfranchised Catho- i lies of Ireland, under the guidance of their newly elected leader, Daniel O’Counell, made ‘ the grand effort to bring their case before the Parliament and Crown of Great Britain in that i f°i - m and with the immense moral force which ' i ac ' b^ d tbdr , emancipation three years later, j m 1829 Excluded from the Legislature as a S th ey could, as in 1826, depend only for i justice on the liberality ofthe Protestam mem ! bers who might be returned after the general j election. Mr. Kavanagh, Senior, was* S mently opposed to the proposed emancipation measure, and it was reasonably considered bv i the Catholic body that the return ofan “ anos i fate ” from the faith, by an Irish county—Wex i ford or Carlow-Ailed with Catholics, as an on poneut of tlieir cause, would have a Very inin ; rious effect in England, and afford a still greater ‘ degree of strength to the arguments of their : powerful enemies, arrayed almost invincibly ! against them, under the Cabinet direction of | Wellington and Peel. Hence.O’Connell, with 1 j the. Catholic clergy of Leinster, was particularly : hostile to the pretensions of Mr.- Kavanagh I Senior, their arguments and electioneering tTic tics aggravating to great intensity the ill-feel ing borne towards both themselves and the cause of his wife, a haughty and bigoted and somewhat strong-minded woman. In the Cath olic band was a clergyman, a country pastor, who was very active in his district in opposing Mr. Kavanagh’s interest, and against whom, as a neighbor, Mrs. Kavanagh (mother of the pre sent member) was greatly incensed. A short time previous to the election, which took place in June, 1825, this clergyman was roused from liis bed to attend to the spiritual wants, as said, of a dying parishoner, residing iu a lonely spot known to him. He dressed and went forth.— He never reached the house named—in which bis ministration wis not required, as it did not I contain a sick person—but next morning’at daybreak his dead body was found iving by' the side of the highway. The public thought, as by intuition, whispered, “a murder instigated through election passion and by a lady,” but the almost servile condition of the Irish peas antry at the time prevented the utterance of the words, which were scarcely breathed. Mr. Kavanagh, Senior, however, went to Parliament and opposed the' Catholic cause, but lived to .see it triumph by complete emancipation in 1829 The priest died in 1826, and in 1827 his female opponent, Mrs. Kavanagh, of Ormonde gave birth to tjic subject of the present sketch! Mr. Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh. Devoted almost to superstition in the defense of their cause, which they regarded as a holy one, the j peasantry were not slow to believe and assert ' that God had manifested bis anger against the ■ Ormonde lady f#r her expressions against their late pastor and themselves by giving her a child | so formed; and it is only of late years, and | among another and more educated generation I that the belief may be said to have been extin- 1 guished. | Under every circumstance -personal, politi j cal, religious, educational, social and public— j oir Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh may be i regarded as a very remarkable personage, and j ' 2IS vetum to the House of Commons a few j months ago excited a very natural curiosity in the, minds not only of his neighbors and ; friends, but in legal circles both in Ireland and England, on the subject of his probable recep tion m thfit distinguished body, the members of which are held so strictly by “rule” both iu tlieir legislative association and form of debate. An English writer, speaking of his return and probable reception in the House, says : Ireland can justly claim the distinction of hav ing sent to Parliament the most extraordinary man that has obtained a scat in the Com mons of the United Kingdom during, at least, the present century. In his case the House will have to grant some indulgences. As his locomotion is effected by his servant carrying ; him, some other “person” than an “honorable member” must be admitted “ within the bar” ; whenever Mr. Kavanagh takes his seat—for I | opine the gallant whipper-in (Colonel Taylor) I would not wish, howsoever anxious he might be for “ a house,” to thus testify his anxiety to assist bis party and carry it safely through by carrying in a vote. Then, how is tiie honorable member for Wexford to record his vote? In liis home he contrives, hedgehog-like, to roll from place to place. This, I fancy, would not be practicable in the House; and, as “ stran gers” cannot be admitted on such sacred ques tions, I fear Col. Taylor will have to add the i duty of “locomotive” to those onerous ones : which, even with fully developed members, he | oftentimes finds it difficult to discharge. Again, I when Mr. Kavanagh succeeds in that very deli i cate and important oeculistic operation ol l “ catching the Speaker’s eye,” will he be privi leged to address her Majesty’s faithful Com : mops sitting ?—for, should he stand, he will be invisible. Or, perhaps, he will be allowed to stand upon his-seat, and thus obtain an emi nence and a commandifig position ? At all events, though his posture in addressing the House may be outre or ridiculous, I. may assure you that his manner and matter are sure to command attention ; for he is an. able aud fin ished speaker and brings to the consideration of every public question the resources of a carefully cultivated intelligence, guided and controlled by judgment ripe from experience and matured by attentive study. Mr. Kavanagh has not been noticed in our cubic rgperts of the proceedings of Parliament, lerhaps he has not yet pre ented himself to the House, or, as is most likely, perhaps all the technical difficulties alluded to in the above ex tract have been removed by constitutional ae tiou during the recess since his ejection. " r Liebig s Food for Infants. —The suffer ings of an infant grandchild .of Professor Lie big recently led the great chemist to investigate | the subject of artificial food for infant children. The child was pining away, notwithstanding] the care that was taken in the preparation of* artificial food from*cow’s milk, to supply the i place of the natural food of which it was unfor tunately deprived. During his investigations; Dr. Liebig found, first, that even the best cow’s i milk is slightly acid, while the mother’s milk ] is alkali; and the cow’s njilk contains different i jrropot'tiom of constituents, so that to get the same nourishment, the child has to take more ! and waste mote in order to get enough of the; one kind of substance it needs. Second,|tliat most artificial food, however carefully prepared, , is still more acid, and that the flour is never chemically dissolved, ant thafffnll 2Q per cent, of it never is digested, and she whole taxes the digestive system too severely. Third, that by mixing with the soluble parts of one ounce of wheat and one ounce of malt, ten ounces of milk, and sixty drops of a solution containing eleven per cent, of carbonate of potassa, the nearest possible approach is made to a food containing the nutritive qualities of the moth er’s milk. He has, therefore, published the fol lowing prescription for the preparation of what ihe terms rational for infajuts. This is said to , he sweet, pleasant, requiring much less of it than pure milk to satisfy them, while it nour ishes them far better. It requires no more ; sweetening, and should have none ordinary for infants. The following is the prescription : “In a small saucepan carefully mix, so as to avoid the formation of lumps, wheat ftoitr, y£ ounce : i milk, 5 ounces ; bring this mixture to boil i slowly, and keep it boiling for three or iour minutes, and then remove it from the fire. During the time it is boiling, mix in another l vessel malt, H ounce ; water, 2 ounces: and 80 drops of a solution containing 11 per cent, of carbonate of potassa. Then add thio imxtur ! to the hot contents of the saucepan, put on the fid and let it remain for half an hour undisturb ed in a warm place, where the temperature ! does not exceed 148 degrees. After the lapse of this time put the saucepan on the fire again ; t ;ji its contents begin to boil, add then pass the liquid through a fine strainer. The exhausted bran will be retained upon the sieve.” ai m . A Sign.— Sixteen hundred acres of land were [ sold at sheriff’s sale in Jones county, on the first Tuesday in last month, at fifty cents per ■\ acre. A portion lying on Cedar creek is said i to be very good. j iFro n the New York World. Tlie Grand Army of the Republic. ITS OBJECTS—ORGANIZATION IN SEW YORK. During the continuance of the late rebellion Democrats Were frequently accused of conspir | ing against the Union and the Government. It was n«*erted that vast organizations, such as , the u Knights of the Golden Circle,” were- in existence for the express { urpose of resisting the authority of the Government. These or ganizations were never proved to have exist ed, and certainly no such resistance as was spokeu ol was offered at any time to the pow ers that were. It is different with the Radicals, who, it ap pears, have been for some Nine organizing in military masses for tlie support of Congress and the restriction of the President as the loy ally constituted head of the Government. Just in the same way have they organized as have the negroes, whose work, has been sometime since referred to in the World. In view of the projected plan of impeachment, the movement now being made iu every State is being rapidly pushed on. By this means it is hoped that all the military-power of the country, irrespective ot the regular army, will bo at the disposal of Congress tor the furtherance of its revolutiona ry measures, and by this means to the view's of General Grant will be attributed no special im portance. V l ,® b ' cds w hich bear out this argument are as lollows : u s j nce anew organization, called lue Grand Army of the Republic,” waslorm ed m every city and State in the Union. It is composed exclusively of veterans who served ,!i!?! ar ' ,T b 0 formation of this army hl f.ii ? S aa bt,le ,10 ' se hi the country as' t t ?l a u7; flake ' 11 was not designed the nnblie tiii l take a P ro,n 'nont place before twa V . no £ reat necessity for its ser o. should arise. In addition to the main K was o s npp ort hig the Government, its ob jeet was of a hi nevolent nature, and bv this S? s “ srrfj ““Elions to the asl '°rttime, its ranks embraced OV rt “Y e hundred thousand men. New Sk wr rVvM 11 ) li -’ SI ti " le ’ Ule State of New fork was divided into military district.* by the Adjutant General of the organization as will appear from the following “-emei-il orders” published iu the Tribune of the following dlj : Headquarters Department op NY a Grand Army of the Republic ’ ( Adj’t Genl’s Office, N. Y., Feb 6 ’67 S General Orders, No. 5-1. The following named comrades are hereby detailed and an nouiieed as members of-the provisional staff of' tins Department, on duty at these Headquar ters: Major George T. Stevens, Aide-dc-Camp and Assistant Inspector General; Brevet Lieu tenant Francis W. Porsons, Aid-de-Cump. They will be respected accordingly, and are hereby authorized to establish and organize posts in localities uot under tho jurisdiction of District Commanders, announced in orders from these headquarters. I 2. The following named comrades are hereby I detailed and announced a.s temporary com i minders of their respective districts, which arc i designated as follows: District of Manhattan j comprising the city nml county of New York’ wth headquarters at the Bible House, Brevet j Brigadier General Rush C. Hawius; District of Oneida, comprising the county of the same name, with headquarters at Utica, Major David F. Ritchie. They will at once assume com- . maqd, and will be obeyed and respected ac cordingly. 3. To pi-evcnt informality in the mnatcr-iu of recruits in this Department, it is hereby an nounced, for the information of this command, that recruits will be mustered only in regplarly constituted posts and by District Commanders in the establishment of posts, except by the Grand Commander, an officer of his staff, or by special authority from these headquarters. The attention of officers is particulaYly called to articles 5, 9,11 aud 15 of flic rules and regula tions of the Grand Array of the’Republic aud the strict enforc ment of its provisions especi ally enjoined. Staff officers will be enrolled as members of posts and reported by the posts to which they belong as upon detached service. By order of the Grand Commander, j Official: Frank J. Bit am hall, Assistant Adjutant General. I D. Van Schajck, Aide-de-Camp. { In order to ascertain from an official source J the avowed objects and character of the organ ; ization, one of our reporters called last evening | at the. office of the commander of the forces of the District of Manhattan, m the Bible House, •and finding the apartment closed, proceeded to his house in Fifth avenue, when the following dialogue ensued, which the reader will find bears out the assertions which form the preface of this article: Reporter (handing the Colonel a copy of the above “general orders”)—There is a report to the effect that the Grand Army of the Republic, to which reference is made in these orders, lias ben raised for Radical purposes, and that it is designed to be used against the President and his adherents, should any trouble result from | his proposed impeachment. | Commander— If Congress should impeach I the President, I have no doubt as to which j side the Grand Army of the Republic will take. Reporter—Will you please tell me wlmt are ! its objects and when it was formed ? | Commander —It had its origin some time | since in portions of the* West where there is no | militia. Its objects arc of a benevolent charac ter ; ft aims to assist all Us mgmbers who may j be in need. ! Reporter—How many men are there-enrolled | in the organization ? Commander—Over five hundred thousand. All soldiers honorably discharged are admie |si file. We have Democrats and Republicans in our ranks, lmt all the leading officers are Radicals, j<o you can imagine how the army would be wielded in case of any national neces sity. Reporter—Then the army may he said to have a Radical character in the main ? . Commander —Yes, it is under Radical officers, and if there should be auy necessity for its ser vices I have no douot they would be rendered for the purpose of supporting Congress if it impeached the President. Reporter—Have arms or uniforms been lur uished to the men ? Commander—No. Reporter—Do they meet regularly ? Commander —Yes, bnt their meetings are se cret ; they meet in lodges aud only members arc admitted; we are particular about our mem bers ; all who apply for admission are obliged to. furnish papers showing their connection with the army and an honorable discharge. Such was the interview our reporter had with one of the military leaders of tne organi zation, whose replies show that this new army may he used at any time at the back of Congress to sustain its policy by force and to silence all opposition to the impeachment of the Presi dent. When the fact is realized that it is unne cessary to create “military departments ” for a “ benevolent ” organization, the object of the army, in the present crisis of the country, will be found apparent. Investor or Female X’nARMS.— It is not to be supposed tor a moment that ladies of the : prescut day resort to artificial means of increas ing that native loveliness which 11 when una dorned is adorned the most.” Their great grand-mothers, however, thought differently ; and so numerous.bad female falsifications be come a century ago, that it waj deemed neces sary to introduce an act into the English Pur ulent in 1779, which provided as follows : All women, of whatever age, rank, profes sion or degree, whether they be maids or wid ow's, that shall from and after this act impose upon and betray into matrimony any of his Ma jesty’s male subjects by paints, scents, cosmetic . washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iTon stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, or bolster ed hips,'shall Incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemean ors ; and the marriage, upon conviction, shall stand null and void. Stock. —Tennessee and Kentucky drovers have visited Warren county, says the Clipper, until it would seem the planters were pretty : well stocked, but we .don’t know of a single 1 drover who has failed to sell something, either 1 an old raw boned horse, mule, or perhaps a | saddle, “ Mexican,” of conrse. Drive In with your horses and mules, here’s the place to sell ‘ ’em,
