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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST [Special Correepor.dence Constitutional^. Mercer University Commencement. « Editors Constitutionalist: The Com mencement Exercises of Mercer University attracted a large number of visitors, includ ing many veteran Baptists, who came hither to pay homage to the benevolence of that gnat and, good man, Jesse Mercer, who, with Joslali 1 fen field, louuded and endowed the institution. President 11. 11. Tucker preached the Commencement bermon from the text, “To whom shall we go?’ The discourse was replete with interest—evinced that research which characterizes aU his sermons, and abounded with much good practical advice to-the young gfadnates and to the congre gation. declaitners in the Sophomore exhihi-" lion all declaimed welt, ami, in the language of the committee of award, each'deserved prizes, but as they could only Ik given to Were awarded to Albert W. Fos ter, of Madison, Georgia, and 11. Ligon McWhorter, of the vicinity of Penfleld.— We hoj>e not to be considered invidious when we remark that, in our opinion, the declamations of B. Ernest Reese, of Thom son, oa., and Alex. H. B.’ Moore, of White Plains, Ga., were very good, and that they, by perseverance, are destined to make shakers of no ordinary merit. Maj. Jos. B. Gumming, of Augusta, in truly a chaste and appropriate address, delivered the prizes. Time and space—as the address will be published—forbids further comment on it. / * .. By reference to the Junior programme it will be seen that there were fourteen speak ers in the exhibition of that class. OF this number not one even made the slightest failure either in the composition or delivery of their speeches. The exhibition reflected great credit alike on the speakers and the Professor of Belle Letlr&i. We omitted, in the connection of the ex ercises of Monday, to allude to the poem delivered by Mr. A. R. Watson, of the Home Gazette, published at Atlanta, Ga. His beautiful poem referred mainly to the im provements of the age as regards the arts and sciences in the practical uses of life. Re ference was made to the press, telegraph, railways, steamboats and the fashions of dress. It was to some extent a satire, and all of appreciation, for the beautiful appre ciated it. The poem contains 118 pages, and hut for its longth, containing nearly 700 lines, we would express the hope of its pub lication At 5 o’clock of the afternoon of the Junior Exhibition the Alumni Oration was delivered by Rev. E. A. Steed, of Thomson, Ga., on the subject of dignity, what con stitutes true dignity, &c. The talented and eloquent speaker very conclusively demonstrated that self control, self reliance, and withal, faith, were the es sentialq utilities to true dignity, and that the absence of these constitute false dignity. The oration bespoke in its composition and delivery, logic and rhetoric, together with general scholarship; and the Alunmi Asso ciation have reason to be proud of a mem ber, destined by his superior talents and at tainments, to become so prominent as an educator of youth as well as u„shining light in his “ still higher calling.” Commencement day was one full of inter est. The exhibition of the day showed that the standard of scholarship had not been lowered in the college. There were only five graduates, which js the result Os a suspension of the college classes during the war. Many others who contemplated graduating at this institution, by the casualties of the war fill soldiers’ graves, on the soil of Virginia and else where, victims to the war. A most touching, beautiful and well-deserved trib ute was paid their memories by the Presi dent of the college, in his final address to the young gentlemen graduating. The Latin, Greek, French and Spanish orations, by Messrs. Sanford, Sanders, Col ley and Keaton, were something new at a commencement. All of these .languages, wc believe, are taught in the college. The subject of Patriotism was well discussed by Mr. Colley, in which he showed his love of country. Mr. Beck’s 'discussion of his subject showed much research, whilst Mr. Sanford, by his logic, truly connected the past and the present. We had the pleasure of reading, in manuscript, Mr. Sanford’s speech. Its merit is a compliment to its author. Party spirit was treated aright by Mr. Sanders. His proposition was, that a blind, fanatical exercise of it is detrimental to Republicanism and its existence. Mr. Keaton, by his subject,“ Homo Naturw Min ister et Interpret” —translated, “Man the Minister and Interpreter of Nature,” —ex- hibited much beauty of style, and showed himself truly the master of his subject, as he was of that of hisjuuior spoech last year. “ ’Tm distance lends enchantment to the view, And rotes the mountain in its azure hue.” The valedictory addresses of the Presi dent and Mr..Beck were appropriate and truly feeling. That of Dr. Tucker was full of parental advice to these, his adopted sons, as he called them, and his allusions to those who,, but for the war, would have graduated in this class, but whose bones, arc bleaching at Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, and around Richmond and elesewhere, called forth many tears. The second Degree t was conferred on Jewett Desotie, A. L. Cherry, S. G. Hillyer, Jr., R. W. Everett, Ed. C. Everett, D. tl. Walker and Win. H. Baldie. Dr. D. C. O’Keefe, of the Medical College of Atlanta, was made A. M., and Rev. J. L. M. Curry, ex-member to Congress, of Alabama, was proclaimed L» L. D. The subject of a removal of the college to Atlanta was discussed by the Board of Trustees, and it was decided to submit to the Baptist Convention a report request ing its removal. It is not believed that the Convention will ratify the proposition of removal, for the reason, prominent amongst many others, that the sacrifice of property In the college buildings, &c., in these times of impoverishment, would be too great. The further* reason, that the founders of the college, who by their benevolence likewise endorsed it, contemplated no such thing, and would, if living, have raised their voices against, is evidence conclusive that the college should remain at Penfleld. Now to the finale of the commencement: Rev. Shaler •G. Hillyer's oration before the Phi-delta and Ciceronian Society. His subject—“ Learning and Piety, the hope of the country in the present crisis”—was ably and very practi cally discussed. The speech being concluded, the large crowd of visitors were soon “homeward bound,” and we too had to say— ■ Farewell! ye classic fields, unknown to noise and strife, ’Mid which we passed the halcyon morn of life; Y e shady grove* and sacred halls adieu. Youth’s loved associates, farewell to you. WooDYiLriiE, Ga., July 11,1867. Lo! the Poor Indian.—The Indians, it is said, will not And much favor at the pre sent session of Congress. A Washington correspondent writes that the Congressmen who have been out op the prairies return disgusted with the “ sons of the forest,” and the Indians will have few Mends in the Capitol when their claims are next dis cussed. , Maximilian. The following extracts recount the events tint transpired in reference to the trial and execution of Maximilian, and his appeal to Juarez for delay in carrying out the sen tence : [if tom La SoreUjra Zaragoza of Han Litre Potosi, June 10 ] TELEGRAM FROM MAXIMILIAN TO JUAREZ, RECEIVED at SAN LUIS POTOSI, MAY 27. Mr. President: With permission and authority of General Escobedo, I have sent a telegram to Mexico requesting the attend ance of Baron de Magnus, with two lawyers, in order that they may undertake my defense. General Diaz has replied by telegram of yesterday that he cannot permit my request to enter Mexico without an order from the Supreme Government. I de sire, Mr. President, that yon will be pleased to forward such an order, so that the per sons whom I desire, and who are indispen sable for my defense, may sooner come, and with them the representatives of Austria and Belgium, or in default of them, those of England and Italy, for it is neceasary that I arrange with them family and interna tional affairs which should have been ar ranged two months since. < [Telegram from Queretaro to Ban Luis Potosi, re ceived at 5.05 P. M., the 27th of. May.] SECOND TELEGRAM. Mr. President : I desire to apeak to you personally upon grave affairs, and very im portant to the country. Ido not doubt that you wfll grant me* an interview. lam ready to start for San Luis Potosi; notwith standing any difficulties. Maximilian. REPLY TO THE ABOVE. San Luis Potosi, May 27. Gen. Mariano Escobedo : The Presi dent has been informed of the request of Maximilian, in which he desires that Gen. Diaz will permit the exit from the City of Mexico, now occupied by the enemy and in a state of siege by the Said Gen. Diaz, of the Baron de Magnus, with two lawyers, in order that they may undertake his defense; also, those who have been near to the said Maximilian, the ministers of Austria and Belgium, or, in default of them, the minis ters of Italy and England, in order to ar range with them family affairs. Respecting the* said request, it has pleased the President to order, in case the persons solicited by Maximilian can arrive at Queretaro in time to satisfy his desire, with out interruption of the proceedings # of the court, and without transgressing the bounds' which tlie law has prescribed for its conclu sion, that no obstacle shall be placed in the way, and to that effect you will'transmit this indulgence to Geri.' Porflrio Diaz. In case the above persons cannot arrive in time, the case will take its course, and the prisoner must choose others to-defend him. In regard to tlie petition of Maximilian, relative to the interview which he desires to have with the President, as it Cannot be realized, considering the distance which separates them and the ends of justice, you will notify him that everything fitting will be done in the case, ’ In regard to the con sultation, as to whether the term of twenty fours hours is for the defense of each one of the prisoners or for all in common, the President has decided that the said term of twenty-four hours shall be for the defense of each one of those accused. This I communicate to you for .the neces sary ends, and in reply to the request of Maximilian, received at 5 o’clock this.even ing. • N. ‘ AN APPEAL BY MAXIMILIAN FOR MORE TIME. [ From La Sombra de Zaragoza, June 19. Queretaro, May 25,1867. Sir: Not being well enough acquainted with the Spanish idiom in the legal sense, I desire that in case my counsel arrive a little late, that you allpw me the time necessary for my defense, and to arrange my private affairs. Maximilian. REPLY TO TlfE ABOVE. San Ltrxs Potosi, May 28,1867. The President has to<lay received a letter of Maximilian) dated the 25th of tjiis month, specifying that not being well enough ac quainted With the Spanish language in the legal sense, h# asks that in case of the coun sel which he has called not arriving in time that he be allowed tlie necessary time fdr his defence, and for the arrangement of his private affairs. The President, on-sight of the said letter, has declared that if the counsel called by Maximilian do not arrive within the time wliic-h the law allows for the defense, or arrives at the close or near the close of that time, you may coufcede in either of tlie -three cases from then shall commence the term which tlie law allows for the defense, giving the benefit also of this postponement to tlie other two pri soners. You will please make know n this decision to Maximilian as a reply to his letter, THE LAST HOURS OF MAXIMILIAN. A corresi>endent of the Brownsville Ban-chew, writing from Fresnillo, Mexico, says *, I have seen a friend who has just arrived ! from Qucretaro, and who had an interview j with the Emperor. He was closely confined i in a convent,, with his general officers. Al though my friend is no Imperialist, he de scribed the calmness with which the Empe ror spoke of his probable execution, and his quiet, dignified bearing under his weight of misfortune, as having been deeply affect ing. It would seem his conquerors cared little for the personal comfort of their loyal pris oner. He had no change of linen, and a gentleman from San Luis supplied hjm with the contents of his portmanteau, which-was gratefully received. The Rancher » of the IBth adds the* follow ing as the prime cause of his death : A gentleman just in from the interior, who is well posted in Mexican matters, states *to us some rather startling facts in relation to the execution of Jlaxinrilian. From his intercourse with leading Mexi cans, this gentleman states most positively that it was Seward’s letter requesting the sparing of Maximilan’s life that directly caused his death. Prominent Mexican offi cials freely admit that there was no thought of executing the Emperor on his falling in to the hands of the Liberals, previous to the reception, by Juarez, of this request from the Government of the United States. On the reception of that, however, a deter- j urination to put the Emperor to death was J almost unanimous, both in the array and out of it, and it was worth Juarez’s' life to j have denied acceding to the clamors for his j execution. Maximilian’s efforts to esc ate. El Obserradar, of Matamoras, tells bow, after his condemnation to death, the Em peror offered a General Rivadensi a million dollars if he would enable him to escape.— The latter agreed to it, got the promise in writing, and then carried it to Escobedo. A LETTER FROM JUAREZ. The Boleton Ojidal, of Matamoras, of the 26th, publishes the following letter, which El Meeicano says is understood to have been written by Juarez himself to Berrozabel: i The trial of Maximilian, Miramon and 1 Mejia terminated, and, as was to be ex- ] pec ted, the council of war has condemned I i them to death. Notice of the sentence was ‘ given them yesterday at 1 o’clock, and Es j cobedo ordered the execution to take place at 8 o’clock- in the evening. The Baron Magnus, who had been Minister of Prussia, near Maximilian, and Benores Riva Palaeio and Martinez del a Torre, having received a telegram from Queretaro, Informing them as to the hour of-execution, made applica tion to tlie Government for a suspension, so that the condemned*persons might have time to make their, testamentary, disposi tions, for which the time was too short. The Government, which has been anxious ail along to temper justice with elemeney, suspended the execution until Mondaynext. so as to give Baron Magnus time to arrive before the execution. The sentence was pronounced, aud is irrevocable. . All means have been tried to procure the favor of the Government for the condemned, but in vain. To all such the Government has re plied with -a simple negative. All efforts are useless to avoid the law, which will be applied without remission. By the leisure ly course of the proceedings, and the various concessions nqy}de to Maximilian and his associates, the Government lpis tried to show the world that it has not been urged by passion, but by its conscience, to a t solemn duty, however weighty. The death, therefore, of Maximilian, Miramon and Mejia is decided upon, and they must ex piate their crimes. The whole world is about to be shaken, and Mexico will be raised to a lofty height in the consideration and respect of the world. European Intelligence. GREAT BRITAIN. THE RECEPTION OP THE SULTAN IN ENGLAND. London. Friday, July 12.—His Majesty Ab dul-Aziz, the Saltan of Turkey, who left Paris yesterday, after a pleasant voyage across the Chanuel, landed to-day on the shores of Eng land. . . He was received by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, acting for the Queen, and by His Majesty Ismail, the Sovereign of Egypt, and was by them escorted to the city of Lon don, where he met with an unusually brilliant and imposing reception. The London and Dover Railway Station, in which he alighted, was richly and appropriately decorated, and the streets through which he was to pass were covered with flags and stream ers, and spanned by triumphal arches and festoons of flowers. The. entire route of the procession from the railway depot to Bucking ham Palace was guarded on both sides by unbroken lines of troops. Behind these Vast multitudes of spectators were packed in solid masses on the sidewalks, and crowded eveyy window and housetop. When the Sultan, ac companied by the King of Egypt and the Prince of Wales, passed between the lines of soldiers, the people, struck by the novelty of the spec tacle, manifested the most unbounded en thusiasm, and the 6houts of welcome, cheering and waiving of handkerchiefs and banners did not-cease until the Sultan had eutered the gates of Buckingham Palace. This royal residence has been placed in a state of complete prepara tion for the accommodation ol His Ottoman Majesty, and will be occupied by him during bis stay in London. • AUSTRIA. Serious Disturbances in Galicia—The Troops Repulsed by the Insurgents. London, Friday, July 12.—Reports received here from Vienna say that serious disturbances have broken out in the Province of Galicia.— The Austrian troops dispatched to put them down have been beaten by the rioters. It is believed that these riots have been incited by Russian emraissarigs, who have worked upon the national proclivities of the Sclavonic popu lation, and created by their intrigues a feeling of discontent. . * SWITZERLAND. - No Minister to be Sent to Washington. Berlin, Friday, July 12.—The Federal Gov ernment has decided not to send a Minister to represent the Swiss Confederation,at Wash ington. [By Telegraph to the Press. The Indian War* Another Attach on Fort Wallace—Heavy Losses Sustained by the Garrison—The Indian Lead er Killed. , Fort "Wallace, Kansas, June 25, ) via Salina, Kansas, July 10. \ Yesterday four hundred Indians, the same band that were driven off a few da vs ago, made another attack on this post. Captain Borwitz, with G troop, of the 7th cavalry, went out and gave the savages battle. At first he was re pulsed, but after a desperate fight succeeded in driving the red skins away. Out of forty-eight soldiers who participated in the fiction, thirteen were killed. Besides this loss in men, twenty horse', were either killed or captured. The In dian loss Is uncertain, as they carried off their dead and wounded,, but it must have been large. The Cheyenne Chief, Roman Nose, one of the - most influential Indians on the plains, is re ported slain. All mail communication has been stopped, and I ahi only able to send this by a special courier. Gen. Wright is here waiting for further developments. ROW AT FORT LARAMIE—INDIAN DEPREDA TIONS—SOLDIERS MISSING. St. Louis, July 10. An Omaha dispatch says that on Sunday morn ing some soldiers from Fort Laramie went to Rafferty Ranche, five miles distant, demanded whisky, and on being refused, threatened to burn the ranche. A second demand being re fused, the soldiers attacked the storekeeper, and one of their number was 6hot. The sol diers then formed a liue and fired several shots at the ranche. Subsequently the provost marshal, with fifty soldiers, arrested the occupants of the ranche, and took the safe and desk out of the building. The safe was afterwards robbed and the ranche burned by the soldiers. The proprietor esti mates his loss at $60,000. A court martial at Fort Laramie was inquiring into the matter. Indian depredations are again reported on the Platte river. Lieut. Kidder and a guide, who left Fort Sedgwick on the 29th ult., with dispatches for General Custer, have not been heard from, and fears are entertained lor their safety. A Right Thing from a Queer Bourcb.— A benignant star has somehow risen upon Major General Sickles. The prince of autocrats, and recognizing no limit to his power or the duty of submission with the people, he has actually written a letter to a Radical Senator recom mcqdmg a general amnesty. Nothing could have been more unexpected. General Sickles was perhaps the last man to whom the people of the Sooth looked for such a movement. Wjs would as soon havetgexpected a sentiment of kindness from Thad. Stevens himself, though, to speak by the record, he puts it on the ground of local policy, and not npon any disposition to favor the Southern people. In any event, it is a right move, and we thank Mr. Sickles for. !*\i ri, even though the proposition should fall still-born, as it probably will, as we under stand it to be made to the Radical Congress. The statement of Mr. Sickles, that the disfran chisement has not left enough' decent white men in the Soqth to hold the offices, gives some idea of the Radical clemency, of which some people are disposed to boast. f Macon Telegraph. Information Wanted. —His anxious mo ther desires to know the whereabouts of Colum bus Garfrell, a bright mulatto freedman, for merly a barber in Rome, Ga., and owned by Mrs. Mary Choice. He left Rome ahont two years since, and when last heard from —in the summer of 1866—was in Nashville, Tenn Any information will be thankfully received. Address Mrs. Polly Hott, Rome, Ga. Exchanges please copy. Paragraphic, * thS^rare? 8 6t ° ck3 are changing Dr B ‘. The oW concerns hardly hold to late quotations, but the Merchants’Union has gone op in ten days 70 to 80 per cent Qommoj,, last week 10@ll. this w£L ! war continues, hut the Merchants^ “ « n “istakably able to carry it om V ith the business they are now doing and wealthy stockholders who will no doubt "stand the drafts upon their unpaid subscriptions to th e extent often millions, if „ should advise the old concerns to back down and compromise with the best possible grace’ If the stockholders continue to pay their ments, the Merchants’ Union will be able to fight the thing out to a success.—Day Book. A Michigan husband boasts that he can make bread and pies, wash, iron, and tend the baby • says he married young, still is young, and al ways expects to be young.;, and he believes in husbands being educated so as to be useful." It was a Dutchman who said his pig'had no ear marks except a short tail ; and it was a British magistrate who, being’told by a vaga bond that be was not responded “ That’s a good thing for your wife.” If a man sells a watch for fifty dollars, buys it back for forty dollars, then sells it for forty-.five dollars, how much does he make by the trans action ? It looks as if he made fifteen dollars, but he didn’t. . . A young gentleman J>r an elderly one, we disremember which, after having paid his ad dresses to a lifdy for some time, and popped the questiou the lady in a frightened manner: “ Yon scare me, sir.” The gentleman did not wish to freighten the lady, and consequently remained quiet for some time, when she ex claifned: “ Scare me again.” We did not learn how affairs turned ont, but shonld think that it was pretty near his tarn to be scared. Population of Mississippi—Negroes in the Majority.—ln the Jackson Clarion , of the 22d of June, we find returns of a census made for 1866, of the population of Mississippi, except the small county of Perry. The total returns are : Whites, 343,460 ; blacks, 381,258 ; total, 724,718. As compared with the census of 1860, the account stands thus : In 1860 the total whiie population was.... 353,899 In 1860 the total black population as 447,404 Making a grand total of. .801,303 Deduct total population of 1866 724,718 And we find a total loss of.* , 76,585 As follows: Whites 10,439 Blacks 66,146—76 685 Excess of blacks in 1868... ~i...... o. 37,798 Rev. Bishop Quintard is not Sick in Rome. —We see a statement going the rounds our ex changes that Bishop Quintard lying ill of gastric fever in this place. This is not so. He had a short illness some four or five weeks since while visiting his friends in Rome, but soon re covered, and so far his friends here know, is now in excellent good health. He preached iu Dalton on the 7th iust. and left Rome again on the 11th. — Rome Courier , 13 th. Melancholy Casualty.— The marriage of Dr. Robert P. Hunt with the beautiful Sallie Ward, the once “ Belle of Louisville,” will be recalled by a large number of the friends of the bride and bridegroom in this locality. Sallie Ward first married Mr. Lawrence, of Boston, whose father, at the time, represented the United States at the Court of St. James, and from whom, soon after the nuptials, she ob tained a divorce. The after alliance with Dr. Hunt was oue of the fashionable events of the season, and the early days of the marriage ap peared to foreshadow a life-time of connubial bliss. A dispatch received last night v from Chicago tells Us a sad and melancholy tale. A police man in that city going his rounds yesterday morning, found the dead body of a man lying in front of the basement of a house. Investi-. gaiiou proved that the deceased had fallen from an upper-story window while in a 6tate of in toxication. The unfortunate inebriate was the Once accomplished aud brilliaut Robert P. Hunt. By a course of reckless intoxication he had fallen' from his once proud position, and thus his most lamentable end. f Cincinnati Enquirer. , Would Disgrace the Radical Party!— We of a conversation iu our streets the other day, that may serve to “ point a moral.” A whife Radical was electioneering with some freedmen in behalf of his party, when a Conservative came up and remarked that it was very strange that the Radicals were so anxious to get the votes of the negroes, but never pro posed to give their votes 4o negroes for any officeg ; that for his part, if the blacks were to be allowed to vote, he was willing to give them offices too —would elect them to Congress. i‘Ah, exclaimed the white Radical, “ I see what you are after—ydu want to disgrace the Radical party Sun. Rapidity of Thought Dreaming.— There is great rapidity of thought in dreaming. A scientific writer says that a very remarkable circumstance, and an important point in .analogy, is to be found in the extreme rapidity with which the mental operations are per formed, or rather with which the material changes on which the ideas depend, are excited in,the brain. It wduld appear as if the whole series of acts that would really occupy a long lapse of time, pass ideally through the mind in one instant. We have iu dreams no true per ception of the lapse of time —a strange prop erty of mind—for if such be algo its property when entered into the eternal disembodied state, time will appear to ns eternity. The Russian Circular on Irish Affairs. —The New York papers published yesterday what purported to be a circular from Prince Gortscbakoff to the Russian Ambassadors at Washington, Paris and Loudon, calling for a joint convention'on Irish affairs. The circular is now acknowledged to be spnrious. The New York Herald characterizes it as the production of a “Fenian or fool.” It seems to have made its first appearance in an obscure English paper styled The Echoes of the Clubs, and from thence was copied into the Dublin journals. But whatever its origin, the Russian Cabinet had nothing to do with it. Among the stories told of the heroism of the Cretan women is the following: A Turk came to the house of one of them and asked for oil, etc. She said: “I have given you all I have.” “Well,” he answered, “if you don’t get me some, I will come to-morrow and kill yon.” “ Come,” said she, “you have taken everything I have; you have shot myShusband, what’should I live longer for ?” A young lady, who is a zealous non-intru sionist, and an active canvasser, in support Os the Free Presbyterian Church, called upon a poor man in the link# of Kirkaldy to solicit his mite; and, after in vain trying her ingenuity to find some means by which he might save a pen- j ny a week, to be given for the support of the 1 minister, who was about to be driven from his i kirk by the vile Erastians, she asked, “ Do you i shave yourself ?” “ Nae, mem. ’- “Row much j does your shaving cost, you ?” Tippence a week.” “ Could you not learn to suave your- j .self, and then you would 6ave the two pence, j whiah you might give to the sustenation fund ?” “’Deed, mem, I’m ower auld to learn, but I’ll tell ye what I’ll do; if your minister will come and "shave me, I’ll gie him the tippence.” The British brig Joe Gordon, Captain Anld, (196 tons) arrived yesterday morning from. Rio ; Janeiro, after a voyage of twenty-three days— ' seven days of which were calm weather. She ! brought three hundred and twenty-two bags of! coffee. As soon as she ' has discharged, will ; load direct for Rio with timber. She is only i eight months old, having been launched in August last, and is owned by J. F. and Alexan der McLennau, of Rio Janeiro. She is a fine vessel, and will doubtless have quick dispatch, being cpnsigned to the enterprising firm of e! E. Hertz-* Co.— Savannah Republican, Wth A young lady who had read of the extensive manufacture of odometers to tell how far a carriagejjhad been run, said she wished some Connecticut genius would inveotan instrument to tell how far husbands bad been in the even ing when they just step down to the post office. » Treasou doe* never prosper—what’* the reason » Why when it prospew none dare call it treason. "Mason Marks." They're traced in linos on the Parthenon, Disc ibed by the-subtile Greek, And Roman legions have carved them on Walls, roads, and arches antique ; Long ere the Goth, with Vandal hand, Gave scope to his envy dark, The saviour craft in many a land , Had graven its Mason Mark. The obel'ske old, and the Pyramids, -Ground which mystery clings jhireoglvphs on the coffin lids Os weird Egyptian kings ; . g*» Byria, Pompt ii, Buri, and, and strown. and stark, * -1i’ e , marble records, that will not die, Their primitive Mason Mark. Upon column, and frieze ; and capital, of the chaste volute, On Scotia’s curve, or on asfagal, in tr >'Slyph’s channel acute, a J?a m r^ ere on the entablature, * llk e a sudden spark, Flashing a light on a dat7obseure, fchine many a Mason Mark. ' T Th^°^K ?llen o! 1-H a « enial whim, *“;' t nothing could e’er destroy, Nothing was too complex to essay. In aught they da*ed to embark. They tnumph’d on many an Appian Way Where they’ve left their Mason Mark. * Crossing the Alps, like Hannibal, Or skirting the Pyrenees. On peak and plain, in crypt and cell, On loot or on bandaged Knees ; From Tiber to Danube, from Rhine to Seine, They needed no “ letters of marque Their art was their passport in France and Spain And in Britain their Mason Mark. The monoHth gray and Druids’ chair, The piliared towers of the Gael In Ogham occult their age they bear, That time can only reveal, ' Live on bid monuments of the past, Our beacons through ages dark, Inprimal majesty still you’ll last, Ertdeared by each Mason Mark. Affairs in Richmond.— The Richmond cor respondent of the New York Herald gives the following gloomy account of the condition of affairs in that city in a dispatch dated July 9: Rumor on the street had it to-day that three hotels In this city—the Powhatan, Ballard and Spottswood—are about being closed up or sold out. Neither of the three has been paying for some time, and even the Exchange, which has the name of receiving the lion’s share of South ern patronage, was unable a few days ago to meet a bill falling due on Broad street. Para lytic symptoms have attacked all kinds of busi ness. Two stores closed to-day, and the aver age number now along the street, either for rent or for sale, reckons three on every block. The city territory having been extended, six teen extra policemen were put on duty last evening within the hew acquisition. In con nection with this, General Brown, of the Freed mea’s Bureau, denied to-day the report giving him credit for issuing an order to the Mayor to appoint half of the additional force of police men from the negro population. He, however, advises the step to be taken, as it must inevi tably comb. A German gentleman furnishes the follow ing anecdotes of Bismarck, never before pub lished : A cl >rgyman in Schleswig-Holstein, who was a student with the Count Bismarck at Gottengen, had a son who wished to get a situation in the Prussian Marine. This induced him to write a letter in favor of his son to Bismark, though he scarcely hoped to get an answer. The difficulty with him was bow to addyess the letter without displeasing the count. Finally he thought “ His Highness ” the proper expression, and sent off his letter. To the surprise of the writer he. received an answer in a few days, of which the following is an extract: “ You old blockhead, you"; do you think I have forgotten the happy time when we studied and drank together at Gottengen, and when we 60 often waited on each other ? and now how can.yon address me in such a foolish way ? Please'don’t call me again S His Highness.’ We will remain on the same inti mate footing. Regarding your son, send him to me; I will take care of him.” Rossini has terminated the cantata, which was to be executed at the distribution of prizes of the Universal Exhibition, on the Ist of July. It is declared by musical authorities to be a magnificent production. It will necessitate the employment of a formidable orchestra, and of still more formidable choruses,; even the solo parts are to be sung by forty voices. This lat ter statement seems Hibernian, but it is cor rect. In the fiuale cauhon are'to be fired from the outside, and in order that they ipay be dis charged dl the right moment*an electric tele graph between them and the chef d’orehestre is to be established. Rossini, who likes lun, has, I am informed, written all sorts of droll directions on his score—as, for instance, “Make the chorus bellow here as much as possible 1” “Here let the women scream!” and so on. i Aud he winds up with the vulgar French i phrase, “Excusez pour si pen !” —, m 1 ■ Fasting and Prayed.—The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sojath have issued the to! lowing address : “We propose that Friday, 16th of August next, be observed in all our churches a6 a day of fastipg, humiliation and prayer—that God would be pleased to pour out his spirit upon us and qpon all flesh ; that he would show ns our sins and help ns, by a true repentance, to turu away from them; that he would sendtorth laborers into his harvest, who may serve him more faithfully and efficiently than we have doue ; that he would build up the Church add comfort her waste places ; that he would grant us all those blessings, temporal and spiritual, we have need of. And we further propose that this day of special fasting and prayer be pre ceded, wherever practicable, by religious exer cises, begun on the previoos Sabbath and con tinued day by day till the Sabbath following.” “ Madam,” said a husband to his young wife in and little altercation which will spring up in the best regulated families, “ when a man and his wife have quarreled, and each consider the other at fault, which of the two ought to ad vance towards a reconciliation.” “The beet natured and the wisest of the two,” 6aid tbef wife, putting up her mouth for a kiss, which was given with an unction. Bhe waa the con queror. Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Groans. —lt ia very seldom that any business furnishes ao good an example of true enterprise as the manufacture of the above celebrated instrnment, conducted by Messrs. Mason * Hamlin, of Boston, Mass. It seems but as yesterday that j the mention of 4 reed instrument suggested | naught but snarling, fine4ooth-comb music, ’ and yet such a vast improvement has been j made that the quality of tone is now hardly i recognizable as coming from a reed. If our ; musical readers will personally examine it, they will agree with ns, that the Cabinet Organ will lully bear out ali that is said of it. [Louisville Journal. Dr. Livingstone Alive.— An extra of the , Times of India, dated the 14th git., contains the \ following letter from 8. Thacker, conftnanding ; 21st regiment native infantry, Bombay, May 14, 1867: “ Sir: One of the missing Sepoys, 21st regiment, native infaney, or marine battalion, who accompanied Dr. Livingstone’s expeditioh returned this day from Zanzibar/ News has been received from the Doctor. Be was alive aud well; and the havildar, 21st regimefct na tive infantry, Or marine battalion, and the Nas- Sick boys were with him.” ' m A St. Louis horse that had become tired of , life walked to a pond near the station laid down, and deliberately thrusting his head un der the water, held it there until he died of strangulation. He had probably been driven to this extremity by starvation, COURT CALENDAR, f ßevised December, 1866, by Williams 4 H r eo5 #n ,.] SUPERIOR COURTB. BLUE R’DQB CIRCUIT. Cherokee—lst Monday in March and August Cobb —3d Monday in March and Ist Monday In Oet Milton—4th Monday in March and 3d Monday in Auk Forsyth—lst Monday in April and 4th Monday In Aug Lumpkin--2d Monday in April and Ist Monday in Sep Dawson—3d Monday In April and September Pickens—4th Monday* in April and September Gilmer—Sd Monday in May and October Fannin—3d Monday in May and October Union—4th Monday in May and October Towns—Thursday alter 4th Monday In May and Oct, u bus should the business of Union court require It, Towns court mav> by order of the presiding Jndge, be adjonrned to Monday thereafter. BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT. Appling—lst Monday in March and September Camden—Friday after 4th Monday in April and Oet Charlton—Monday after 4th Monday in April and Oct t'lioch—4th Monday in March and September CoftV—2d Monday in M-irch and September Echols—Monday after 4th Monday In March and Sep Hlyna—3d Monday in April and October Mferce—-Thursday before Ist Monday In March aud Sep Ware—3d Monday iu March and September Wayne—4th Monday In April and October ICBATTAROOCnSE CIRCUIT. Mond *y in March and Sept SSfn'ou 0 A fri> and October ,n A P ril and October M £! , y i* May and November TniwZsa l . n £P ril and October a'^!wTi a nd. Mond.iy In Mareh-and September Taylor—lst Monday in April and October CHRROKRI CIRCUIT. Bartow-2d Monday in March and September Catoosa—2d Monday in May and November 8t ] £on ! dfk L in &rch and September in May and November Aprti and October W-^/r'i2,£a nd v y A P ril and October I Vi be . fope lßt Monday in Mar aud Sept Whitfield—4th Monday in April and October COWETA CIRCUIT. D a ay I , n ay and November DeKalb—4th Monday in April and October Fayette—2d Monday in March and September FvUto»—lst Monday in April and October Meriw.theri-8d Monday \n snd August Troup—3d Monday in May and November BARTERS circuit. Bnran-tth Monday in April, and 2d Monday after 4th Monday in November Bulloch—Friday after 31 Monday in Maroh, and Fri day after 4th Monday in October Chatham—2d Monday in Janufry and May Effingham—Monday after 4th Monday ih March, aad 2d Monday after 4th Monday in October Liberty—3d Monday in April, and Monday after 4th Monday in November Mclntosh—Thurpday after 2d Monday in April, and Thursday after 4th Monday in November Montgomery—Thursday after 2d Monday in Maroh, and Thursday after 3d Monday in October Tatnall—3d Monday in March and 4th in October - - flint circuit. • Batts—2nd Monday in March and September. Henry—Sd Monday in April and October. , Monroe—4th Monduy in February and August. Newton—3d Mondayin March and September. Pike—lst Monday in April and October. Spalding—lst Monday in February and August’ Upson—lst Monday in May and November. v MACON CIRCUIT. Bibb—3d Monday in May and N^tembei;. Crawford- Ist Monday in March and September Dooly—lst Monday in April aud October Houston—3d Monday in February and August Macon—2d Mondayin March and September Twiggs—4th Monday in March and September MIDDLE CIRCUIT. Burke—Bd Monday iq May and November Solumbia— Ist Monday in March and September manuel—2d Monday in April and October Jefferson —2d Monday in May and November Johnson—4th Monday in Marbh and September Richmond—2d Monday in January and June Scriven—lst Monday in May and November Washington—2d Monday in March and September NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Elbert—2d Monday in March and September Glasscock—3d Monday In February and August Hancock—2d Monday in Apiil ana October Hart—3d M onday in March and September Lincoln—4th Monday in April and October Madison—lst Monday in March and September • Oglethorpe—3d Monday ia April and October Tallaf rro—4th Monday In February and August Warren—lst Monday in April and October Wilkes—4th Monday in March and September OCMULOEE CIRCUIT. , Baldwin—4:h Monday in February and August Greene—2d Monday in March and September Jasper—4th Monday in April and October Jones—Bd Monday fn April and October Morgan—lst Monday in Mareh and September Putnam—4tb Monday in March and September Wilkinson—lst Monday in April and Ootober PAYAULA CIRCUIT. Clay—4th Monday in February and August, after the next Court ' - ' , Early—lst Monday in April end October Miller—2d Monday in April and October Quitman—3d Monday in May and November Randolph—set Monday in May and November Stewart—6d Monday in April and October Terrell—4th Monday in May and November Webster—3d Monday in March and September SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. Berrien—Monday a'tcr Irwin Court Brooks—Monday after Londes Court Colquitt—Wednesday after 3d Monday in May and November Irwin—On Thursday after Telfair Court Laurens —2d Monday in April and Ootober Lojwndes—Mondays after Colquitt Court Pulaski—3d Monday in April and October Telfair—Friday after 4tb Monday in April and Oct Thomas —Monday after Brooks Court Wilcox—4th Monday in April and October SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT. Baker—3d Monday in May and November Calhoun—3d Monday in March and September Decatur—4th Monday in April and Oc.qber Dougherty—lst Monday in June and December Lee -4tb Monday ip March and September Mitchell —2d Monday in May and November Sumter—2d Monday in April and October Worth —3d Monday In April and October TALLAPOOSA CIRCUIT. . Campbell—3d Monday in February and August Carroll—lst Monday in April and October Coweta—lst Monday in March and September .Floyd—2d Monday in January and July Haralson—3d Monday in Annl and October Heard—3d Monday In March and September Paulding—let Monday in February and August Polk—4th Monday in January ana July wbstbrh omctriT. Banks—lst. Monday in April and October Clarke —Ist Monday in February and 3d in Aligns* Fasnklin—2d Monday in April and October Gwinnett—lst Monday in March and 3d in September Habersham—3d Mooday in April and October Hall—3d Monday in March and September Jackson—4th Monday in February and Auguat Rabun—4th Monday in April and October Walton—3d Monday in February and Aueost Wh'.te—Monday after 4th April and October. [Froth the Norfolk Journal. Admiral Tucker. In the official documents addressed to Admi ral Tucker, accepting the resignation.of h'.m-» self and Captains McCorkle and Butt, occurs the subjoined, which we extract as a matter of Lintcrest to our citizens. Admiral Tucker was formerly a resident of this city, where he mar ried, and Captain Walter R. Butt is a native of Portsmouth, is a son of the late Dr. Robert B. Butt of that city, where he has a large circle of relatives and friends. "Accepting the resignation of the officer* mentioned in the enclosed letter; Rear Admi ral, Commander'-in-Chief of the Allied Squad rons, Mr. John R. Tucker; Captain of Private Mr. David P. McCorkle, and Captain of Cor vette, Mr. Walter R. Butt—thanking them foe the valuable service rendered the country Cancel (heir commissions and respective con tracts. Communicate it to ail whom it mar concern and file a copy. J ‘“Rubbica dk S. E.—Bostamenti. *_ which I have the honor to communicate to Snnrpmp°rv? ieilCe 40 the instr “ctions of the Bnpreme Government. I give you thanks in the name of .the Government, and a“o to Messrs. McCorkle and Butt, for your dignified, behavior and valuable services to the country; and U gives me pleasure to avail myself of this opportunity of offering my respects and con siderations, with which I subscribe myself your most attentive and faithful servant. I Signed] Pedro Bcstamentb.” The resignation of these officers had been tendered more than once before, but refused. — Their object was to relieve the Peruvian Gov ernment ot all embarrassment on their account likely to spring ont ot the Dahlgren affair, as well as out of a cabal opposed to them in the Peruvian navy, it was for these reasons that their resignations were accepted. The proceed ings of the Peruvian Congress induced the Ad* mirai to forward » positive resignation,
